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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1903)
July 19, 1903. TOE ILLUSTRATED BEE. 15 face there is from treacherous undercur rents m hidden nct aod at imiafi boats men of Lo.Ua bios bravs as Um bast. But when it eomea to fighting straggling cutu on Jofty ee coated pares they feci and show the fear of an unfamiliar danger. Observation has led me ta heKevn this. The best deep sea sailor, the most daring men aloft, are of Norse crllo-IUislan, Finn, Dune, Swede, Norwegian. Amrto Saxon. These men. espedaUy the Scandi navians, whose ancestors sailed the stormy Baltic and North hps. are universally ac knowledged to He the boldest seimcn. Daring aloft Is a form of bravery most keenly appreciated by seamen. The man who will crawl out on a yardarm la a howling sale of wind to paaa a reef curias bbout its extremity ts more admired than a man who wouVl divjjiay coolness und'T fire. The latter is considered a passive kind of courage, while the other Is actual daring by a man lht knows his dancer. Alroort all greenhorns show signs of four upon going aloft the first time. Fo-e sail ors never get over a sense of Bnneaiiiig uneaidness when aloft, even when la port. I once met a strange esoeption. lie wis a green boy who bad never before been to sea. The first day out be climbed aloft, showing not the slightest signs of foar. lie shinned up bare poles like a monkey, plld dowa stays and buns about la mid-air from ropes that were never Intended for climbing. Finally, he reached the very top Of one of the masts and deliberately sit on the truck the flit gilt ball through which the Hag halyard in rove. Without holding- 00 he comfortably coniempUtei the horiron about him, danglins hU ftet against the bare mast uideci.e.th bis perch. Meanwhile, all hands were watch ing htm breathlessly fnim deck. But the strangest tiling of all was the fact that this boy was Swiss, coming fro n a country whose people never have beea sailors. Perhaps absence of giddiness In his case eould be attributed to bis moun tain climbing ancestors. It is proverbial that sailors lore fighting, especially of the rough and tumble order. Ordlnirfly this Is only true of them when they are drunk. Still, tome tough cases are farad on American ships. The average mate of a Yankee vessel ts ready and even anxious to fight against any odds nt any moment. Some of them will even tackle a whole ship's crew nt once, and their very audacity often wins them their battles. This is not because they are Americans, for many are foreigners, but for the reason that American ship owners demand that sort of officers to control the crews picked up in American porta, usually made up of the toughee eases In the maritime world. On the other hand, these bucko officers usually accept defeat as gracefully as they deliver K. afterwards asking those by whom they were vanquished bow they did it. One of these fellows, a notorious bad man, beeame stranded in Manila during tho late war. He was at but driren by want to join a company of cirilias scouts. He "made good. became the bully of the com pany, and was feared even by the officers Until he had to fane the enemy's fire. Then he turned tall and ran so far that be was never Rgain men that side of Manila, Nearly all sailors are easily awed by mysterious natural phenomena or appar ently supernatural manifestations. Earth quakes at sea, especially at night, will strike terror in the heart of the bravert seaman afloat, not no much on account of danger, which ts never great, but simply because he feds himself In the presence of a great natural force againvt which he Is perfectly bripless. The danger from wind and wares Is a familiar one against which he has been trained to tight, bat when a calm sea a I tout hm begins to lviil and froth and form into whirlpools he stands conquered. I was once aboard a large shin, the crew of which were at! thorotgh seamen, mnst of them reckless west coxnt adventurers and several well known Honolulu s-naggbn, desperadoes. One night in tbe tropics their courage was tested and found wanting. The sea was calm and a full moon hung high in a deep indigo cloudless sky. Suddenly, over the creamy expanse of the sails, mysterious shadows appeared, which, to our excited Imaginations, uasumed the mast horrible shapes. The men were panic stricken and crouched under the break of the poop in a frightened heap, too benumbed by terror even to exchange exclamations of wonder. Yet none of those men would have owned up to any superstitious belief, and they laughed over their fright next day. But the nerviest case 1 ever heard of was that of a Norwegian sailor aboard tbe big American four-anasUr Shenandoah. It was ermmuMfed by Captain Murphy, whose r'u 1 itatkm extends all tier the world among seamen. One day be ordered tbe Norwegian ap to tbe royal yard to do khm duty there. "lUit, cap'n." protests! the sailor, -it's not safe until the foot-rope's fixed. Let mo fix that first." ...V" 1 " toar or-o te captain, "he foot -rope's all right." The man wet alert. Ten mOuMtr later all hands herd a y.Jl aM nw tno Nor. weglan come tumbling down through the rlpgir-s, a distance ot over Wo rftet Hm ronvii tarpaulin of ft boat bounded off and rolled over onto the main Ki.ii.ii. kji course, trervhiviu u.. j wtvuui ms man dead, but when all hands gathered aunsuud him he showod signs of Ufa. Ths CaB mm the boat hod saved htm. Presently tba rose to a sitting position and mbbed Ins head la a daaed fashion. "How dy fee, Johnson V asked the cap tain, anxiously. Tbe captain's voice seemed ta bring Johnson's sienscs back to Mm. He rose aflowly to bis feet, glaring wMly at the cap tain and at a piece of the foot-rope be still held fast In Us hand. He deliberately pulled off hhi Juniper and threw It upon deck. "Cap'n." he said slowly, "you said that foot-rope was all right. Cap'n, you was a damn liar. Now. you come on and I smash your Jaw. I give you all tbe fight you want. Come on. bow." Rut for tbe first time on record Captain Murphy took water. He wouldn't fight that kind of a man. f alike thts i-tu ticaler Korwerlan. few sailors, no matter how reckless, will defy the anthority of an olScer. That fear is deep bred. In one forecastle I was In there wao a big six-foot (Swede who had spent all his life at sea on coasting schooners, and con sequently was not much of a seaman on a square-rigged vessel. This caused trouble, and It was not long before the Bwede had a fight on with bis watchmatea. He beat oaa entirely and fought another to a stand still and was severely mauled himself. A week later the irmte railed him dorm for incompetence. The Bwede nswerd back, whereupon the mate, a small man with a stiff log, slapped his face. This the 8wede accepted meekly and afterward was kicked several times by the same mate, but never made any show of resistance. And the man the Swede had prevtotnJy knocked out was twice the mate's sine. An incident which occurred in a sailor's home In England further illustrates the seaman's fear of authority. A new arrival at the home was walking up and dom n the corridor when he swung suddenly around on a man who had passed "Her." be shouted, "ain't your nun Sam Smart 7" Tee." replied the other. Waa you ever second male on Typhoon?" "Yes." "Remember me?" "No." "Well, I am Tim Smith that sal'ed with you four years ago on Typhoon. You licked me four times that trip; now I am going to lick you once as good as those four." And before anybody could interfere Ties Smith had knocked out his old bocko mate. In such a rase Interference would bars been considered unsea manlike Over the liorder (Continued from Page Eleven.) "The truth! The truth, at Ust tbe truth?" shouted Aamsirong. as If a weight had fal len from his shoulders. "Tbe truth has a ring like bonost steel and cannot be mis taken when ouce you hear it. He lied to me about you in Oxford, and I called him a liar, and would have proven It on him. but that be told me you were in danger. I sbouid have killed the whelp this morning, but that he could not defend himself." "Tba truth, yes; but only part of it. Ha did not rob you last night." "Nonsense. He did." "I robbed you. I stole into your room and robbed you. I carried the original of that document to Cromwell himself, and it la now la bis hands. It was the price of my brother's life. My brother was set on your tracks by Cromwell, and. being , wounded, I took up his task. Do you un derstand? That was my mission to Oxford. ' To delude you, to rob you, and I bare done It." "Giri. you are distraught.'" "I am not. Every word I tell you fa true." You are saying that ts shield someone." Lab. Willlnm Armstrong. For two hours or more last night you held me by the wrist. Tlwre is the brfteelet with which you presented me, black proof of the Llack guilt I confess to you." She held her hand aioft and the sleeve fell away from the white and rounded arm, marred only by the dark circles where his lingers had pressed. "Do you nay I did that?" "Yes. If still you do not believe ano, measure your fingers with the shadow they have east." She reached out her hand to bhn, and bs took K in his left, stroking tha bruised wrist with his right, but lookiug Into her eyes sJ! the while. "Frances in It this secret thai stood be tween us?" "Yea." "Is this afl that stood between us?" "All! Is it net enough? AU! It h mountain of sin that bears me ts the very ground." "Why, dear mas, did you not tell me?" "Tell yoa? It was from you. of all the world. I must conceal It until stew." He laughed very matetiy. fandMng her hand. "Filess me, how little you know! What Is quarrelling king or reltellious country to me com(utrd with you? No wonder my beat ing heart did not awaken me with your hand upon it. for it was co-eon spira tor with, you, aud wholly your own. Heaven mend my broken patrotism, but If you had naked ana I woufcl hav ridden saysoif to Cromwell with the king's angnatora." "Do yon can you forgive me. then?" Tergrve you? Tou are the hi a est lass la all the land," and with that, before nhe was aware or eoaU ward 0 Ma attack, it she had wished to do en, be reached hn pubavely forward, caught her off her home and brid her In his arms as if sbe were a. obi Id. kissing her wounded wrist, her eye, her hair, her lips. -And bos, do you forglre me. Frances?" Oh. wttllngty. willingly. Trespass for trespass. As we forgiw tbeni that treajiaas against ua. But eel me on ray horse again. 1 beg of yota. "1 can hardly h-ere you are here yet." "Cease this fouling. Tbe moments are too prerirnis for It." This Is no fowMng. I never was In earn est all nay life before." "Will. Wm. I ImiAore you. t you not understand? You are Jesting on the brink of tbe grave. IV Cowrcy has crawled to Cromwell ere this, and that grim man la lighting tbe north against ua. They are now on our track." "The way Is car. There Is no one In sitrlit and we can outride tbem when tbey ccsne." Tbey are riding across country to Inter cept us. Oh. let not my arms hold you back for destruction. Cromwell hiraarir told me be would haug yoa if be had to take you openly."" "He dare not. Have no fesr." "He dares anything. You do not know that man, and your condemnation, this document, rests now on the heart It would slIH. Crcjua-ell wOl move the wortd to tear it from you. If you love me as you say. let us to the north at once." Weil be knew tbe truth of her warning, now that be understood tbe case, but was rel-jctant to Set ber go. The last appeal bad Its effect, and be placed her once more on her horse. TVnselher tbr-y set off effain. through a land that seemed silent and at peace, but it was only seeming. (To be Continued.) Flat Dwellers (Continued from Page Five.) may be addressed by, turns on her tormen tor. '"Shut upV she snaps and walks on; and the mashers refrain from merriment. Nor Is it Infrequent for several young girls out in company to stop and talk with these boys, wht-o such sonlenceu are caught: TSirfca, don't believe tbem. Tbey ain't tellln us thetr right names." "My name? Oh'a, H"s say, girls, what are our icameu?" "We'd treat 'era to sod water If we had tbe money, weuldnt we. Billy?" "Aain t that a fine walla? I Just dote on uanciag." "Dur-r-rr. sbe gave me a frost. feJhws." as tbe girts walk off. Foch Is tbe park on a summer's nifcht while the band plays. But when the music ceases and the rarneUat puts his Instru ment ra Its case and the bars bnrn dtanp peats In a big black bag. then the mothers and fathers aruuso sleepy ai-d sleeping children, tbe awtUary figures on tbe edf:ea of the park break tbir reveries and slip back m-henre tbey eanc and bthind Ib-m nurds the shufTUnc of many feet pointing homeward of parent and child, of Incipient maaiher. nf all the peiple withra the gloom of tbe trees evcept the lotva. In the words of a polioemaa whose bent takes In one of tbse metropolitan trysting places, "They sit and npnno and look at tbe moon rill all hours, and you can't drive 'cm - out with a uightlrfc. Iwd. Tve heard so much Mo-iu-lve-ue-dearie" a!V airvce rvc been on tfciv beat that 1 dream of It and talk R in my sfeep cve-y nght. "Yes. sir. that's true Imstwaya, thst's what my wife sirs. And before she go on to the cauw of it site was Inditing Jealous. Thought may guilty conscience was giving ine away while I slept. Yes. sir; but now she known bettrr. and when I talk pnrtic ulnr bad she says next day: " 'Must have born an meommon lot of spoon ers In the nark lust ..iK't?' "And I don't say a word, but just wearily liod my heiid." Handling a Liner (Continued from Page Four.) of tbe heavy hamwrs which held the ves sel alongside the dock, la a word. If he Is to be of much use on the li.icr he must be a seaman, though his opportunities for the use of seamanship are not such as they used to be when be trod the deck of the skys"l-yarder and was obliged to "hand, reef and stonr" la very lrith every day of his life. Yet the otd-thsw crew survive on the Tah HALFTONE PLATES FURNISHED THB HLVSTRATBD BBI Are EnraVedby the BARER BEOS. MGRiMiG CO. OMAHA. m mmiT.m liner today; the old-time seamanship Is there, hns, though oh erf St ts shthl Uta stew tiBsiflrasasa. havs brought lata play, Imew, 4 SMnutashlp that ta s-awrsedmc the oM that requires as bold, as brainy avud mm aWvt snen as did the other. 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