TLEXTT OF TIME.
rirnty nf Tlme-Plotity of Timet
( i what a foull.-Oi and trenclierniischlmpl
With so much to so, and sn muc h to br tmitrlit,
Anil the battle with evil rarhctnjr to he fought;
With wondrrs above us, beneath. and around,
Which saucs are seeking to mark and ex
pound; With work to be done In our fast jiasslnn
prime.
Can ever there be for us "plenty of timet"
Our schooling at most lasts a few score ol
years,
8pent in sunshine and shadow, la smiles or In
tears;
While none are quite equal, howo'er they b
classed,
And Judgments too often are faultily passed.
'Twixt Eternity past and Its future to stand
Like a child sea-surrounded on one speck ol
land.
There to work out the duties that mako life
sublime,
Ob, surely there ran not be "plenty of time!"
Camilla Crosland, in Chamber's Journal.
ON LAND AND SEA.
CLEANING OCT A OANO OF PIRATES.
During the year 1808 no less than three
trading vpssols fitted outat Singapore foi
trail ic in the Java Sea mysteriously dis
appeared, and no trace of them could bo
discovered. Two more were added to the
list early in 1369, and about July 1 it was
whispered around that a neat of pirates
had been discovered on an island off tho
north coant of Java. If the newt was
true the chieftain of the gang must be
bold fellow indeed, and needed looking
after at once.
The merchants at Singapore were talk
ing of fitting out a ship to investigate
when II. M. cruiser The Shark arrived.
She was one of the old fashioned 10 guu
brigs once so numerous, and at that timo
was engaged in a survey of the south
coast of Borneo, or about to be. As I
was one of her crew I can relate what
happened during the next two weeks first
handed.
i It seemed that the story of the pirate
was accepted as a fact, for we overhauled
our armnnieut, took in a lot of ammuni
tion, and strengthened our crew by 14
men before sailing. These men wer
drafted out of a crew belonging to a uiau
of war which had been wrecked on tin
Malay coast, and all were old hands. The
captain got his bearings from some
cource unknown to us, and when we left
Singapore the brig was headed to th
oast. We jogged along down the coast
of Sumatra for a week without any un
usual incident, and though we spoke a
score of crafts none of them hod any in
formation about tho pirates. The crew
had begun to ridicule the idea when
somethiug occurred to open our eyes very
wide.
One morning, about an hour after day
light, we came up with a Dutch trader,
which was taking care of herself. All
her sails had been cut away, ropes wero
flying iu every direction, and she was so
low in tho water that we wondered why
she didn't go down. When a boat pulled
off to her it was to find the captain mor
tally wounded and his wife and two
sailors stiff and dead and horribly mu
tilated on the deck beside him. We got
him off, but had no time to give tho
bodies burial before the little craft went
down. The captain was a man about
40 years of age, and though hardly
alive when we found him he rallied
enough to tell his story. '
The trader had been trafficking along
the Java coast and had finally completed
his cargo and headed for Singapore. Just
nt sunset on the previous evening he had
been overhauled by a native craft carry
about 40 men. He was then about
10 miles off the coast and about fivo
miles south of an island known as
"Queen's Bower. " He had no suspicion
whatever of the natives, and the first
thing he knew they boarded his craft and
began to cut and slash. When they had
finished the crew they began to plunder
and strip the vessels, and were with her
until midnight. Before leaving they
bored her full of holes, and we had
reached her just in timo to rescue tho
captain. The first craft was joined by
two others later on, and the three curried
at least a hundred desperate fellows.
The captain heard and understood enough
to satisfy him that they were an or
ganized gang of pirates and that they
were also well equipped for their bloody
business.
The island mentioned wag not over 20
miles away, and as the Java Sea was and
is a great highway, it did not seem possi
ble that men would take such a risk as
those pirates had. The trader said that
no less than three friendly sails were in
sight when he was attacked, but all too
far away to signal, even if he liad been
warned in time to do something. Owing
to the 6hoals surrounding the island out
craft could not approach near enough to
use her guns and shell the fellows out,
and we were not strong enough to land
from our Iwats and deal with them. The
Bight of an armed vessel nosing around
would put the pirates on their guard,
and so it was resolved to play them a
Yankee trick. We ran into a bay on tho
coast and set to work.
You are probably aware of the fact
that an English man of war, no matter
how large or how small, is a pattern of
neatness and regulation, and the cut of
her sails will alone establish her identity
while her hull is yet below the water lino.
We had, therefore, to undo and overhaul
a great deal. We put everything in
deeming confusion aloft, disguising her
hull as much as possible, and when wo
left the buy The Shark had the look of a
merchantman which had been through
typhoon and was too shortlianded to
make repairs. The Dutch captain died
on the day after we found hiin, and hit.
last words were prayer that we might
(all in with and punish the pirates.
It was just at daylight that we ap
peared off the north coast of the island
and anchored on a bank about three
miles from the beach. Men were sent
aloft as if engaged in repairs, a boat was
i?ot down as if to work on the hull, and
the bulk of the crew remained in hiding
below. No doubt the fellows ashore had
n lookout in some tree, and provided
with a good glass he could see every
thing going on aboard. It was hardly
sunrise when a small native craft with
four mea iu her came out to within pis-
tolshotof us to make an Investigation.
Our captain hailed them and they re
plied with gestures to signify that they
would return to the shore for help. They
evidently took us for what we pretended
to lw, and we were piped to breakfast
feeling that our ruse would succeed.
About 8 o'clock, with the wind bree
ing up lively, three native sailctaft put
out for us. A man aloft with a glass re
ported that each craft was crowded with
natives, and it was now our plan t
weigh anchor and make a little sail and
protend to be standing away from them
ns if alarmed. Tho object was to draw
them as far away from shore as possible,
aud we had addod a mile or more to the
distance when the foremost boat came
within hail. She hadn't a gun of any sorl
in sight, but she had 48 desperate look
ing villains in plain riew, and every one
of them had a cutlass and pistol. While
her captain was hailing us in a langunge
no one could understand, she was slowly
edging along down upon our starboard
quarter. At the same time a second
craft was drawing ahead on the port
side, and the third kept in our wake.
Only seven or eight men were In sight
on our decks, and the natives seemed to
have no suspicions of a trick. The hreoze
was a little bit too strong for their ma
neuvering at first, but after we were
about six miles off shore the two suddenly
closed in to board us. Our captain had
been closely watching them and waiting
for this move, and of a sudden the drum
beat to quarters, and our decks were
alive with men. I m captain of No. 3
gun crew and had the honor of firing the
first shot It was a solid ball, and it
struck the craf ton her port bow and went
clean through her and dropped into the
sea beyond. This opened the fight) the
natives instantly realized that they had
caught a Tartar, and they saw, too, that
their only means of escape lay in captur
ing the ship. Therefore, instead of run
ning away, as we had looked for, each
craft bore down on us to board. They
were handled as easily as an Indian ma
neuvers a canoe, and it wasn't five min
utes after the first gun was fired ere they
were on our quarters like wolves seeking
to hamstring a deer. I fired anothersolid
shot, and then loaded with grape, and
this last charge was fired right into a
mass of natives waiting to clamber up the
side. The gun next to me fired a solid
shot, which tore through her bottom, and
two minutes later she foundered right
alongside of us. The second craft got
near enough to grapple, but the irons
were thrown off, and two guns played
solid shot into her hull until she went
down stern foremost, leaving 30 men
struggling in the waves.
The third craft had forged ahead, sail
ing five feet to our one, and would have
boarded us at the bows but for the sud
den destruction of the others. Their fate
frightened her off, but she had scarcely
laid her head for the island than it was
brought around, as if her crew had made
some desperate resolve. Now occurred
a curious thing. She had about 80
men on board, and sho camo down on us
with every one of them shouting and
screaming and tried to lay us aboard.
We could havo sunk her with one gun
even, or we could have picked off the
whole crew with our muskets before
they had crossed the rail. Word was
passed to give her a full broadside at the
word, and when the smoke cleared away
she was not to be seen. There were over
20 of the pirates hanging to tho
wreckage around us, however, and a
boat was lowered to pick them up. You
can judge of their desperation when I
tell you that every one of them fought
like a tiger against being picked up, and
that we got only five out of the lot. The
others we had to kill as they floated
about with the sharks snapping at them.
Two of the five leaped out of the
boat after being pulled in and were
seen no more, and the others gave us so
much trouble that the captain swung
them up to the yardarm. Thus not one
single man of the hundred or more who
caine out to attack ns escaped with his
life. I was in one of the two boats after
ward sout ashore to see what sort of a
lair the pirates had made themselves.
The only human beings ashore were an
old native woman, a one armed Javanese,
and a white boy about 14 years of age.
This boy was off an English trader capt
ured the year before, and had been held
prisoner ever since. He said there wer
107 men in tho gang, and we found
enough plunder on the island to load our
ship. They had captured about a dozen
dilferent vessels, large and small, and in
every cane had plundered and sunk them.
They did not always kill all the crew.
Soon after the boy was 'captured they
brought in an American sailor off a spice
trader. The boy know him only by the
name of William, but remembered that
his home was in Boston. It turned out
that they had spared his life to make use
of him as a blacksmith, but whon they
found he had no knowledge of that work
he was put to death. By order of the
chief he was huag in chains on a tree
about a quarter of a mile away, and
was 11 days in dying. The boy went
with us and Bhowed us his bones still
bunging.
The one armed man and the old
woman, assisted by the boy, were the
cooks for the gang. They at first seemed
very much alarmed, and protested their
innocence of any complicity in the crimes
of the pirates, but when they came to
understand that all the villains had met
their fate, and that we had come ashore
to clear the island of its last bale of
plunder, they suddenly ran into a rude
storehouse, blocked up the doorway
with boxes, and opened fire on us with
pistols. We had two men wounded be
fore we could dislodge them, and they
were thon hanged to the same limb and
their bodies left to the birds. What
plunder we could not bring off we burned
on the island, and before leaving we set the
forest on tire in a dozen places, and the
flames did not die out until the whole
length and breadth had been swept clean
of vegetation.
The Bright Side of It. Mrs. Glim So
your husband was blown up by nitro
glycerine. How awfull Mrs. Shotter
Well, it might have been worse j I didn't
have to go to the expense of a fuaoral,
you boo. Epoch.
REMEMBER I
Hemcmber, when tho Dawn sets open wide
Her bright enchanted palace to tliu Kun;
Romembor, when the Night, the pensive
eyed. Conies dreaming tinder veils nil silver
spunt When thy bosom beats high with a pleasure
supreme,
When the twilight allures thee to brood a4
to dream;
Hnrk 1 the forest profound
lias a voire In Its wiund
"Homombnrl"
Remember me, whon fate has drawn our
ways
Afar, forerermore afar apart;
When sorrow, exile, and the fllht of days
Have withered like a flower this breaking
heart.
O forget not our parting, my love, and Its
toars I
Lovo laughs at the malice of spare and of
years)
While my bosom shall boat
Will Its pnlsos repent
"Remember I"
Remember ma, when, nevermore dlstrest;
This heart of mine shall slumber In the
tomb;
Remember, when above Its honse of rest
tatty a solitary flower shall bloom.
Thou wilt see me no more, but my spirit
shall be,
Like a sister beloved, forever with thee.
When the midnight Is nigh
Thou wilt hear a voice sigh
"Remember I"
Temple Bar.
The ramorrlsta In Naples.
The wholesale, cruel, mean pillage of
the emigrants who arrive in Naples to
embark is one of the proofs of the des
picable character of the sect. They meet
thein on their arrival, mulct them of
their clothes and cash, take them to
tho vilest lodgings, make them pay three
or four times the proper price for shelter,
food, or any articles they may require,
even of the poor provisions, homo made
bread, wine, the cheese, and the sausage
which is to be their sole compauatico ou
the voyage. This is the legitimate spoil
of the Camorrists. But often an inter
loper despoils the cmigrauts of all they
possess, even of the money which they
pay for their voyage at tho moment of
departure. .Soniet.imps t.hn lw inn. tt
Cumorra refunds the passage money, and
it.. . - . - - -
me iai.se camorrist pays for Jus poach
ing on their manors. Hornet i mf Hip rvil ien
track them j but though one gang in one
quarter uetests mat m the next, they all
protect each, and each protect all.
The worst feature of tho relations be
tween the Camorra and the emigration
is that they have an organization for
"shipping merchandise" which defies tlw
police and the special agents employed
by the eovernment to detwt tw .
criminal escaping from justice or a fugi-
ue irom mo leva one or their own
number who has made the place too hot
for him seeks assistance). Tnrm -lot
Greco used to-be a famous haunt The
Camorrists have friends everywhere
among the "expeditioners," the carters,
the cabmen, and we quite believe among
uie emigrant agents, the skippers, and
the dock authorities. If the
afford it, the Camorrist procures him a
passport unuer a raise name, keeps him
in hiding to tho last
compantes him on board, making him
pay very ueany tor tnose services. If he
has no means thnr rum hi m na n aw
away. When he lands in the United
States, or even elsewhere, it is more than
likely that the aawiation has adepts at
the lauding places warned by cablegram
"So many bales will arrive by such and
auch a steamer. "
The late law on emigration, one of the
many beneficent laws which Francesco
Crispi proposed and succeeded in passing
in 1889, is extremely severe on the emi
grant agents and on clandestine emigra
tion. Heavy penalties are inflicted on
companies, on agents, on ship captains
who contravene the regulations, and
certain it is that if the captain of the emi
grant ship does not do so, fugitives and
crimnals, ns such, can not land from Italy
on foreign shores. But there are other
transports than emigrant ships, and the
Camorra probably avail themselves of
those. Mrs. Jesse White Mario, in the
Nineteenth Century.
How Names Grow.
It is currently related in New Bedford
that several generations ago a ship was
wrecked near ..there and only one boy
saved. As they did not know his name
they called him Johnny Crapaud, and
the descendant of this boy was Congress
man from- Massachusetts, Hon. Mr.
Crapo.
To these may be added the case of
Judge Poland, of Vermont, of whom the
story is told that his family were Poles
aud bore an unpronouncable surname;
they were called the "Poles" and the
"Polanders," so that the name gradually
crystallized into " Poland. " There is also
the namo common in the South, "Dab
ney," which is supposed by the aristo
cratic owners to be a corruption of the
French "D'Aubigne," and probably first
imported by some noble Huguenot exile.
All readers of Walter Scott are familiar
with the village of Lasswade, near Edin
burgh, the homo of his early married life :
When there was nae brig to cross the Esk
river,
On Jenny's braid back they a (taod theiflther;
For Jenny was honest, stout, sober, steady,
She carried the I.nlrd, she carried hlr Lecliiy,
When lie was rluht souted, the doguie flint
gaed.
Then waving his stick be cried "Jenny, lass
wade 1"
American Notes and Queries.
Arsenic for Warts.
Dr. Paul Muller, of Hamburg, writing
In tlieAUyemeiiie Nedicintihe Central
Zcitung, "can not sufficiently recom
mend" the internal use of arsenic in the
treatment of warts on the hands. Ho
has employed it for more than two years,
and always found the warts disappear
within three weeks.
Another practitioner, Dr. Pullin, who
seems to have used arsenic for the same
purpose somewhat longer, Bays that he
has known it to cure warts in eight days.
The dose ordered by Dr. Muller is only,
at the beginning, two drops of liquor ar
sonicals three times a day for adults, and
a quarter of a drop for children. These
quantities are gradually Increased.
There are 83 national cemeteries in tho
United States, and they have 817,171)
graves, about one-half of which are
marked unknown.
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