THE FLIGHT OF THE “AKA STRONG" PRIVATEER ~ 11 the story t the 9 YOoursons gallant days of yors! Lon the brig of se nght the eet of seven sco From the set of san till morn, thr ugh Reptember night Ninety n against two thousand, a von the fight barbor of Fayval the Azore, irée lofty Dritish ships came a-sailing to Faval; One was fr Nelson's + 1 wm of war, a lin f-battla ship, brave as Britons © Mannod the hov sarved so wellat Al Lord Dund AWSY Waited ie at their There was w shat And the , fretted sore There were Home in And the settir the 1 Came the v pot And tho is 85 As if fifty st Out the 3 th And th fray, nt for the ward patie re wh ark and ready (hey hacks BWarmns ut the Lor 3 v au - the grape-sh hat ART ike and pist and cutlass, and hearts that knew 1 Sulwarks Otis pri And aves 1 Lver wher: juick sword nee | But « A dying sail His pistol to R “Now riddle the lubber's hide!” But the | weapon And he dr foemsn gasped and died the be took laden with hurt and dead, But little with gl battle lad, rivateersman laughs 3 AGH, ve his blade to the hilt, and the Chen ariders to Sow the tide was st flood again, and the nigh Was simost done, When the sloop-of-war camo up with her odds of two to one, And she opened fire; but the Armastr mg ane swered her gun for gun, And the gay Carnation wilted in half an hour of sun. Chen the Armstrong, Inoking seaward, saw the mighty seventy-four; With her triple tier of slowly to the shore, And the dauntiess Captain said: “Take our wonnded and our dead, Sear them tenderly to land, for the Arm. strong’s days are o'or; But no foo shall tread her deck, and no flag above it wave — Co the ship that saved our honor wo will give a shipman's grave.” fo they did as he commanded, and they bore their mates to land With the figurehead of Armstrong and the good sword in his hand, Chen they turned the Long Tom downward, and they pierced her oakensida, And they cheered her, sad thay blessed her, and they sunk hor in the tide, Tell the story to your sons, cannon, drawing When the haughty strangor boasts Of bis mighty ships and guns And the mustor of his hosts, How the word of God was withessad in the gallant davs of yore When the t of the waonty fled from one ore the rising sun tl In the harbor of Faval the Azoras! ~={Jamos Jeffroy Roche, in June Century. NOT WANTED. “So youdon't want me?” said Jaeque- said Grandfather Gorden, 1 in the sunshi smok- iscolor wl brierwood pipe. ed herself on the ral} on the porch, swinging one slim, ill-shod i d hard at her ancestor, | get off that sot | ab- » old man sat quelina balan 3 . foot as she 100K “1 wish vou'd rail an’ nanded Jacquel ik it down.’ 1 short lang, * suid she, “Why!” ina. “You'll b Jacquelina “I'm not so very “P'raps not, bu ler brok it rail is a hundred | years old,” crisply spoke the old man, | “And if I did break it I « ; Hiously added the gi In answer to this ly uttered an jueling, i \ reboe OWES irtable as the Grandfather meadows, po 1d ‘I don't know wl n Fam Grandfather of ‘I earned t I'm hotel r311 47 pull (FW iret eats protes i to supper,” Molay just ‘nuff cold I was goin’ out ou mush an’ milk.” “Mush milk's Silas’ darter, { guess man Ani he wert bas k ff proe f Jacyueling KOTYVH mrsimoni nature, ** : Id Qqreeta for yo i an’ tn tha or pari $ e. nowe i ! The lvown, clear yes, the dish braids, h cheery, | mouth we Jaczqueling, reaticss with the unrest of { youth, had started + er, was emi h i tawny read laughing m a journey of i oid orchard, where | he gmarled trees were garlanded in pink | bloom, snd a host of tall red lillies | | swayed to and fro in the May wind i Next she peeped into the huddle of | | bar is and stables, under the hill pattes] i the shaggy pony and fed a big-eved ealf with a withered vellow carrot which she | pick ed of of a bin “HU I were a farmer,” said Jacqueling, 7 | wouldn't Yet things go to wrack and ruin | like this.” With business.like intentness, she | reached down a huge old-fashioned pis. tol from its rusty hooks on the inside of | tae barn door. “Trigier bent,” she said, to herself. “Barrel all dented in, but IT think it sould te fixed. Anyhow, the charge cught 5 be drawn." Jacqielinn’s father had been a gun. smith, and she had acquired somewhat of Lis skill in the craft. She oyed ths sncient weapon with scornful amuse. ment, “Yen couldn't fire it off if you were to try,” thought she, And suddenly straightening wu slim form, she held the ently at arm's length. “Don’t fire! For heaven's sake, don't fire !™ There was a rustling in a mass of dried corditalks in the corner of the barn. A hollow-eyed man, dressed in rags that were tied loosely about him with strings, crept out almost at her very fact, The pistol dropped to Jacquelina’s flade, in apection dywn in the t { her pistol belliger. “Get me something to eat.” he sid, a day and a night hoarsely, He been f am I? Turn the without f Who barrel of that pistol the I'll tell you, I used to have some its Don't fellow that eteaped from Casanova jail day "fore yes. terday, I'm lavin' low until thm first alarm's blown over, but 1 can't starve ood once, but all fire, I'l LONe NOW, surrender! I'm the " Get me something to eat for God's sake! Jacquelina held tight to the pistol. “You're sure a burglar] said she, a little tremulously, “I'm no burglar.” he “1s I was sent up for. Can] Will you?” know," said Jacquelina, fn | great impulse of pity springing up in her heart she noted the r-gwlaring CYS, gaunt choo unshorn What have iothes cellar, things $ 1 Diteous Mm f 4 y you're not inswered, was forgery you help me? ua!’ “1 don't ins rq the You don : 3 “Buried found them em barn old alls and the harness closet,” he add “I'll try and find you something " said Jaecqu H8top!” 3 NA maxing sie rasp at her as Was turning away, some dyspeptic and it was eas remained, ink-black sky man, t i ¢ where | was born, place where [ cals I should ha’ died Ia if it hadn't been Your shoes and yo . J80- Where soaked as whit been my girl? h the wet Kross, cath.” “Only to the anid “to seo if all was right th pon y is safe, and the little calf and all. Now. grandfather, good by? The stage goes at x, vou know, and’ “Well, let it g said Gordon. “You ain't goin’, You stom by me when B ‘taey Poole would ‘a left the old man to die like a roasted rat in a You saved my life. D'ye think I'm goin’ to let you go now **Oh, grandfather, then—then you want me after all 7” sobbed Jacquelina, “Yes, do want you. An’ [ mean to keep you always, I've got more money in the bank than folks know anything build up the old house nice and comfortable, and live there an’ be happy, you an’ 1." ‘* But grandfather, I must first...” A full confession was trembling on Jacquelina’s lips, when one of the neigh. bors came running up the hill, ‘Heard the news? said he, “There's been a big landslide down over the rail- road at Cooper's Bend, and the express would ‘a been wrecked, sure as guns, if it hadn't been signaled with a red silk hangkecher tied round a lantern, and the lantorn’s your old barn light, Squire Gordon! An’ the feller that signaled it an’ saved all the lives in the train was that runaway chap from Cazanova jail; an’, as it happened, the warden hisself was on the train, an’ he says it'll bes queer thing if they don't get the gov. ernor to sign a pardon for him. For he might ‘a took to his heels an’ run away; but he got recaptured savin' the express train, An’ he saved it, too-yes, he barn,” ui Grandfather oro tell you “Why, who are you!” she cried. “From Cazanova jal!" repeated Grand- father Gordon, “What runaway chap?” And then Ja queiina took fresh cous. age and told him all the 8 mj ‘My girl,” said he, stroking her red. brown hair, “you done right. You're a girl, Jacquelina, Ain't there something in the Bible about ‘him that is ready to perish? Yes, Jacuelina, I vant ever now," And so, in the storm of that May night, slike to and the wreteh who had been condemned to ( He story, good ir vou more than 8 NCW carcer was opened inno cent Jacquelina Gordon guilty AN was vet al ’ hey Saturday Night. Truly y ther world for them A FRENCH TELEGRAPH STORY. mans During the Franco<German War, inco-German war of 1870 the } } French Mall Bud would vor with the A Thief in Calfskin, ing n Idaho, from wap anh. an Idaho i y of Lu ner Cann i in 1 amalgam val! nibblin atid drinkin trickled over the he paid no | attention to it. The the of amalgam continued, and one ni ht last week, when | the calf appeared, the miner sheer | wantonness, fired a charge of bucksnot at | its flanks 1 he supposed animal uttered | a ery, tose upon its hind legs, staggered | and fell. It proved to be a young woman who nad been living on a neighboring ranch disguis d as a man. William sent thirty miles for a surgeon, but the girl bled to death before he arrived. — [New York Witness, 1 £ @ water that but t= in Rabbits to Reap th ass —— e Oat Crop. ss— A syndicate of Blakely (Ga) gentle. men is forming for the purpose of reap. ing the oat crop around Blakely. long drought on this crop has made it grow extremely low, too low, in fact, to be cut in the ordinary manner. Some enterprising genius has suggested the idea of tying reap hooks to the tails of rabbits, then turning them loose in the oat fields. At first this idea seemed im- practicable, on account of the bouncing motion of these animals when running; but by an ingenious appliance devised by Messrs. Buchannon & Rish this willall be obviated and the hooks will cut sm oothl and the rabbits be made to run in a uni- form circle or straight lime as desired, The plan promises grand results, though we are opposed to it on purely personal grounds, —[ Atlanta Constitution, ———— A stove that has become rusted from disuse will be restored by rubbing it thoroughly with land. may also be preserved the same way, |THE JOKER'S BUDGET. - w— | JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN | OF THE PRESS, Process bo Happy Improving How to Ete., Ete, | Rare Alrs—An Told Him Why Though Married HOW TO ne Bankins i man, I like von sar, SOWING AND REAPING Oats ““No, he is now r« ping “How do you make that out?” “1 saw him yesterday make several un successful attempts to borrow i ha oran the cron SOME DIFFEREXCE Druggist--There you are, sir. twenty-five trade, Druggist—Oh, I beg pardon. cents, WO HE 18, | When one talks of hereditaments, prisions, and indentures, and debentures, trespass and attainders, and remainders, Of attaching and conveyancing, of sign. ing and indorsing, rating and divorcing, Of words of twenty letters, which you'd think would break his jaw, begun to study law, wee Life, HE COULD SER, ou find in Miss Flypp to admire,” said rs, Bloobumpar to her son, neither sings nor plays the piano.” “What more could 1 desire!” said young Bloobumper, APPR CTATIVE, to be an Mr. Nicefello—Have patience. You'll grow. (Street & Smith's Good News, WAR BAVE. i not afraid with 7 HOURE Are y THE Mrs. Tomdik Mr. Hojack sway so much? Mrs. Hojack-——0, not at The po. orn on this beat ia engaged to my t F Pross, UTHAIGHT TO Til! all 1 Detroi red MARE. ay POTCinDd yanght f the best dicted M iif ye man in t} to strong drink ther (gent ney you aw? valk Bave check rproo] } he i ” said the woman suffering onded spite Y., “‘vours troit Free Pr XEVER IN A PROPER CONDI Mrs. Trotter to the in “have Kill people. Yn g % In { . s “Captain,” said commander of an o Til over 1 L steams B ’ oy n the Sd i serpent : “No, madam.” re plied we old sead Ze “" + +} i i SIGHT. i Miss Blossom didn't sex | Bare lay ball Miss Budd-— It was probably be | I was surrounded by men all the time. You ¢ TEMPORARILY He-Will you be mine ? She--Yes, until we are married. | you will be mine, Thee POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES, A new method of im [regnating logs with zine chloride in on er to preserve known as the Plister process. The tim. ber is preghated in the forest as soon as possibie after it is felled. It i= said that an excellent cure for lameness in horses is to put them into a swimming tank. In swimming the horse takes the same or even more violent ex. ercise than he would trotting on the track, while there can be no injury to feet or limbs, According to Lord Rayleigh, if the heat engines of the future are at all analagous to our present steam engines, either the water, as the substance first heated, will be replaced by a fluid of less inherent volatility, or else the volatility of the water will be restrained by the addition to it of some body held in solution, itn the object of avoiding the dil. culty experienced in of obtaining a distinct ol a Tt ground at the same time, a leading French photographer fits his camera with two shutters, one for the fore reground and the ther for the backgrou ving tho former a greater a pe
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