PIRATES OF THE PKESENT.
CHINESE COAST.
They are Desperate and Difficult to Cateh,
Efforts of European and American War-
ships to Drive Them From the Sea.
The thrilling stories of the pirates
sible for a vast amount of sensational
literature, and even to-day, says the
Detroit Free Press, the imagination
loves to recall the scenes of daring
bravery and reckless adventure that
the buccaneers of the Carribean sea
participated in during the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. The desire
te hear the stories of their wild life
recounted is made more conspicuous ve-
cause of the absence of any such adven-
turous life to-day, and because of ihe
gradual disappearance the pirates
from our North American coast. In
the age of iron and steel gunboats,
when swift cruisers are built to over-
take the fastest sailing craft launched,
the opportunities of pirates in leading a
law ess life on the high seas are limited
indeed,
nd yet
considerable
thirsty and carele
ever followed a louis
Kidd, or a greater Morgan.
Chines in Mal
weoll-org
Re On a BCale
the value
carried on
of
to-day in
as blood-
any who
Captain
Along the
and off
-y
we have pirates
numbers
of life
Scott,
men
as
88
ay waters,
anized
e coast,
the shores of Africa,
pirates
commensurate with
tent of the commerce
thosd watars Anieric
warships have re
wipe out
the irregula
the numero
rivers the
ed
dosperate oper
and
in
and European
tempted
owing to
line, and
in the
0
woated to
these |
rity
1s sci fe ir gD aces
bays and have suc-
elud
Riffian
openly at
the high seas
apd after tal
cemsinlly
The
have
upon
Africa
vessels
North
fling
pirates of
tacked
hundreds of miles
Ing avery-
th
from the shore,
thinz of value
have maroo
gers or
in the
and Chi
the Chinese j
fall thelr
in num!
rivers of C
+}
if
Carr
interior
into
ors at
straits
even these Orier
schoo! of
times to attack
Ameri
the and
bloodthirst
an merch
sy #
en
Insuran
‘ial fees for thi
gleamers
the Chi
same danger
cape the jun
the pirates, sion however,
slow steamer is caught 1 1d the
pirates swarm over her deck with the
ferocity of wild beasts One of the
chief duties foreign men-of-war
to perform in the Chinese
keep down the and
navigation for the ntrymen
safe.
The Chinese take to pirating
duck does to water. The extreme
erty of the lower classes many
to this bloody work, and they generally
make the worst sort of corsairs. It is
estimated that there are thousands of
Chinese pirates along the coast who
have confederates in the towns and
cities to keep them apprised of the state
of affairs, and that scarcely a sailing
vessel or a stenmer leaves port
out having on board a number of
agents. Shou’'d the vessels
at any time by pirates
ready to lend assistance, and to handi
cap the craft in a race for life by cutting
ropes or salls or by injuring the
machinery. So well known is this dan-
ger that the hardy captains of those
waters keep the strictest watch and dis-
cipline, and they never employ a new
man for a sailor unless his past history
is investigated,
The Chinese pirates are united by
racret oaths ang signs, and the organi-
zation is so extensive that when a for-
eign war vessel starts off after somo
of the piratical junks that have been re-
ported in a certain latitude the news is
generally conveyed to the outlaws be-
forehand. In order further to avoid
capture the junks are built In wuch a
way that they can be beached at anv
convenient point. They are simply
tied together uy heavy thongs and
when beached they can be rapidly taken
apart by simply cutting these thongs.
The pieces of wood, the saila, and other
parts of the queer craft can then be
carried upon the beaches and hidden
from view. When the war vessels ar-
rive upon the scene there is not a sign
of a pirate. Under such circumstances
it is very difficult to corner and capture
the corsairs,
American war vessols have done good
service in the last dozen years in ex-
terminating nests of these nirates along
the Chinese coasts, but with the com-
bined fleets of the English, German,
French and American navies the pirates
cannot be totally destroyed. Their war-
fare is like that of the American In-
dians. They hide behind islands and
headlands, or run up into rivers and
straits where no heavy vessel can go, !
and then rush out suddenly upon a
helpless vessel before assistance can
arrive. The best sort of vessel to fight
them with is not one of our modern
battle-ships or crack cruisers, but the
old steam tubs that look more like an-
cient safling vessels and merchantmen
than men-of-war, :
Several of our old wooden war vessels
have been stationed in Chinese waters |
for years. and their racall to make room |
for tho later products of our naval,
architect's skill may not be entirely |
satisfactory from one point of view,
145 ar
ng
\PDINE,
waters is
makes
more
pirates, to
ir cou
as a
POY
drives
with-
these
tr orl
be attacked
the they are
foyer
these old tubs
rendered
The ease with which
could deceive the pirates
By covering their sides with painted
tarpaulin the character of the vessel
could be quickly changed, and from
they would steam along
sowly in a dress of jet black, white,
brown or some other color. The pirates
invariably chose the old steamers for
lumbering merchantmen, and they
would swarm around them in great
numbers.
But suddenly the tarpaulin sides
would be drawn up by means of ropes
and pulleys, and broadsides of guns
would reveal to the frightened pirates
the true character of thelr anticipated
prey. Before the junks could change
their coarse a broadside of shot and
shell would be poured into them, and
many of their number sent to the
bottom of the This method of de-
celving and fighting the Chinese pir-
ates has been emploved so many times
that they are more particular than ever
in attacking a steamer. A sailing ves-
sel they know is safe, butsteamershave
such an unexpected way of changing
from an ordinary merchant into
a dangerous man-of- * that pir-
ates avoid them entirely,
It was a Yankee captain who
taught the pirates of the Barbary
and fear the American
heen
their
succesafially
be
sea,
vesase!
most
first
states
Pag,
who
Lo respect
and it has
have fo
SUcCCes
the
SOrs
full Chinese
and made
amer
rsairs in their own waters
em di
this has
genuity
t} st ful of every ste
been mplished
than
courage
ned
more
acts of
whether
ovat Tey
question !
they
will
incapable of disguise,
ao Hrd
as oi aj
are,
ace much in keeping
the pirates the old
gunboats that we have so long
ymplish as
down Chinese as
wooden
kept in China.
A Bird Whips a Cat.
Recent! singu’ar fight between a
at Chula
While
fing descriptic
stand these
jown
its tormentor
and held on like
lHsappeared from
shed The road
the tall
Ian
conqu
back
Mr
the
feather
and that
beautiful
no more
Henderson
ond
declared that it was
war betwesn
he had ever soon,
most ably 1eted
3 and fur that
y would never forget the mos
bir
(Cal.,) Trib-
and the most pugnacious
in California.—8San Diego
une
Fishermen Overturned by a Sturgeon.
11
river about
resulting
morning about o'clock
on the r
other
dent
oecurred
of
an acrei
three town, in
Indians, John
ifams and Jim Walters, who were
in sturgeon fishing by
They, with an Indian boy
about 9 years od, were taking up a
sturgeon line, when in some manner
the boat swung in the current and one
or more of the hooks caught over the
gunwale of the boat. A sturgeon on
the line pulling hard and assisted by
the current, turned the boat over,
throwing all the occupants out. The
two Indians were carried down by the
current, and soon succumbed to the
chill and the whirling waters. The boy.
more fortunate, managed to secure
three oars which floated out of the
boat, and with their aid reached the
shore, and from him the particulars of
the accident were learned. The boat
was caught a short distance above
town, ¢
Jake Andrews, for whom the men
were working, offers a reward of $20
for the recovery of each of the bodies,
~~Dallas (Or.) Chrouicle,
His Joke Saved Mim.
A man was up before a judge the
other day for stealing coal. The rail.
road detective said, he caught the fel-
flow in a coal ear, but the man said
that he was only sleeping there because
his wife had locked him out and hs bad
no money to go to a hotel,
“Pretty hard bad, wasn't 17 asked
the judge.
‘Oh, no, sir,” he answered,
soft coal.”
And the judge was so struck with
the joke that he let him go.—Buffalo
Enquirer.
miles east
the dros
Wil
engaged
Andrews
Bing
of two
Jake
“it was
Exploring with Tin Cans.
Captain HH. H. Deasy,
Sixteenth Queen's De Deu left Kog-
lund some time ago for a journey
the London Times. He intendson the
way to throw soldered-up tins con-
taining parliament notices in English '
Teanpo and into the other large rivers
which he may meet with, in the hope
that some of them may be picked up
far down stream, possibly in the |
Brabmaputra, Salween and Mekong, |
and thus help to solve the vexed
problem of the origin and connections |
of these rivers
The notices will be consecutively
numbered, and the tins in which they
will be enclosed will have a brass label
soldered on the outside bearing the
words, ‘Please open this,” in English
and French, and Captain Deasy’s
name. ‘the parchment inside bears
the request that it be forwarded with-
out delsy to the Royal Geographical
Society, London, with as accurate a
statement as possible as to where it
was picked up
Captain Densy is trying to render
an important service to geographical
knowledge, and it is hoped that the
officials, English and French, in the
neighborhood of the rivers alluded to
may be able to arrange for a lookout.
s0 that the tins may be secured and
the parchment delivered to the proper
quarter.
Boredom Banished.
‘If you are studying French or Ger-
map, and happen to attend a stupid
lecture, try to translate it into the lan-
guage yon are learving,” says the per
BON who does not like to be bored “14
18 fascinating, and an excellent prae-
tice. As the speaker proses on, you
turn over his words in your mind into
as good, say, French, as yon ean. Yon
follow his words with avidity; you lose
a sentence here and there and hurry
to catch up. Yon are excited, inter-
ated, Your mental faculties appear
to be feeling the effects of a glass of
champagne. Your fridnds ask yon later
why you should follow that dall talk
with such eager, absorbed attention.
But you do not te 11 the story of your
mental gymnastics
The Best Salad Plants,
According to a bulletin issued from
the Vermont station, the best salad
plants for general culture in this
conuiry are garden
tard and corn salid in the order
named. Garden cress way be sown in
any soil, at any season, between severe
frosts, and will give plants fit for the
table within three or four weeke. As
runs to eced quickly successional
SOWings are ne cessary at intervals of
ten to fourteen days. In hot weather
sow garden eress in a half shady place.
White mustard is better known. Corn
alad is but little known here, It will
Fund copsiderable freezing and may
be sown in the fall.
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Nelly Gwynn's First Love.
The following anecdote of ‘‘the
| pretty, witty Nellie,” ns she has been
called, writes our contributer, G. B.
Gi., was discovered in an interleaved
copy of Downe's “Roscius Angli-
(eanus,” with this note prefixed: “An
account which Basil Montagu some-
where read of Nell Gwynne when a
child.” We do not think it has been
printed in any or the productions of
this literary civilization, “My first
love, yon must know, was a liuk-boy.’
| “A what?” “Tis true,” said she, “‘for
all the frightfulness of your what; and
a very good sonl he was, too, poor
| Dick! and had the heart of a gentle-
{man. God kpows what has become of
him; but when I last saw him, he said
| he would humbly love me to his dying
day. He used to say that I must have
been a lord's daughter for my beauty,
and that I ought to ride in my coach,
and behaved to me as if I did. He,
poor boy, would light me and my
mother home, when we had sold our
oranges, to our lodgings in Lewkenor's
Lane, as if we had been ladies of the
land. He said he never felt easy for
the evening till he had asked me how
I did; and then went gayly about his
work, and if he saw us housed at night
he slept like a prince. I shall never
{ forget when he came, flushing and
| stammering, and drew ou! of his pocket
| & pair of worsted stockings which he
brought for wy naked feet. It was
{ bitter cold weather, and I had chil-
lains which made me hobble about
till I eried; and what does poor
Richard do, but work hard like a horse
| aud buy me these worsted stockivgs
{ My mother bade him pnt them on; and
80 he did, and his warm tears fell on
my chilblains, and be said he should
be the bappiest lord on earth if the
stockings did me any good.”
prsctsmmemili——
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