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A PIRATICAL CREW.
A Scrap
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Sailor's Log
BY STLVANL'a COBC, JR.
For the following I m indebted to my
old friend Hall good old Captain Ben,
of blessed memory. I read the account in
his well-kept Log ; and I also heard the
narrative in all its mLnutia, from his own
lips.
Late in the autumn of '41 I sailed from
Boston in the ship I had commanded for
four vears and more the " Clark VJiit-
ney." She was a heavy ship for her day
and generation, and heavily sparreu and
rigged ; and I believed in having a good
crew. I had four-and-twenty hands be
sides myself and otlicera ; but they were
not such bands as I would Lave selected
had 1 been at liberty to select
The truth was, while the ship ws be
ing loaded and the crew shipped, I was
on my back, sick with the measles. It
was the second time I d had them, for I
am very sure that I took them in course
with the family in my childhood. How
ever, mv wife explained it. She said only
very handsome people had the measles
twice. And I was very giad she thought
so.
Jack Brackett, my first mate, had tak
en the new men sixteen of them and
tough, hard set they were. Never a
better man, nor & better sailor trod a
ship's deck than was Jack Brackett ; but
he was an ea.y going body, very apt to
be imposed upon and altogether too ready
to belive what others told him without
bothering himself to think and consider.
He hated a wrangle ; and yet, for all that.
let him be fully aroused let somebody
trample on him, and reach the;magazine
of his temper and I think he could be
the most savage, the most terrible man,
in his wrath, that I ever saw.
But never mind that. The men had
signed the ship's books, and were a part
of the crew : and when I saw that they
really wished to sail with me, I tried to
be reconciled. They had come from two
of the very worst boarding-booses in Bos
ton, and Brackett had taken them on the
recommendation of a certain shipping
agent on Commercial street, who, for his
on and family's sake shall be nameless
here
We made the run from Boston to Can
ton, China, direct, stopping only at con
venient ports Cape-Town, Eatavia, and
so on for supplies. So far as I was con
earned. I had but little trouble : but
Brackett bad a great deal. He was easy
and good-natured, and the rascals put
upon him. They didn't know what they
were doing. By-and-by it was after we
had left Cape-Town they aroused the
tiger in him, and he turned on them
with a vengeance. His first essay in the
new character was during the mid-watch
on the second night after passing Good
Hope. He knocked down four of the
men off-hand.and twoof them he knock
ed down a second time.
Still, his berth wasn't an easy one. He
... . . i i
was obliged W goarmea conunu&uy, mu
it fretted bim, and made him morose and
nniust- Bat it isn't my purpose to tell
of poor Jack's trials, further than this
By the time we had let go onr anchors in
the Canton river, the majority of the
crew were in a state of rank insuboidina-
tion. They never refused to obey me
but they would bey nobody else. The
result was. the sixteen men who had
shipped w hile I was sick, deserted
nr man of them and Brackett begged
me not to try to find them.
From Hong Kong I was to proceed to
the Philippines the port of Manila, but
I couldn't sail without a crew. At length
however, with the assistance of a friend
lv aL-ent on shore an English gentle
man whom I had known many years I
succeeded in engaging fourteen Coolies.
They were the best I could get, and
was really glad to take them. I made the
run to Manila in two weeks, and there
.nv Tnnlie ran away every mother'
snn of them : and I aftei wards learned
that they had shipped for the sol , par
pose of reaching the Island of Lu a.
Thus my ship was left with rnyself,
three mates, a supercargo, and eight men.
who had beeti with me several years and
upon whom I could depend ; bat I couU
not go to sea with that crew. Id the
event of battling, changeful weather, the
work would wear them down quickly.
made my want known to oar consul, and
he promised to do what L could to ant
me.
One day a Malay, giving bis name as
Palana, came on board, and informed me
that he had sailed in three different Eng
lish ships, and that he had twelve com
panions, who were good sailors, and that
thev would like to go to America, l list
ed Palana .looks. He was a tall, mus
cular fellow, somewhere about 30 years
of age, and spoke Eng lush so as to be
readily understood. Like all his kind he
had a look in his eye and about the
heavy lids that plainly said : .
- Dont tread on me."
But I didn't think him dangerous. I
told him to bring his comrades aboard
and let me have a look at them.
' Towards noon on the following day
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they came thirteen of them all Malays
though with something of the Tagaloc
tone about them. That is, there seemed
enough of the Tagal blood in them to
take off the harshest of the pure Malay
character. The Tagals are the Luzon In-
ians. Of the thirteen three, besides Pa
lana, could speak English. They were
called, respectively, Tolo, Seelah and
Wala-Wal. They all wanted to go to
Americano." They had heard grand
things of that country, and wanted to see
it.
I looked the men 'over, and led them
about the deck to see how much they
knew of her ship and rigging. I found
them far more proficient than I had an
ticipated. Good sailor ! very good ! all V de
clared Palana, emphatically.
I called Brackett and Dan Sampson,
the latter my second mate, aa J the result
was we engaged them ; and on the very
next day they joined the ship, bag and
baggage. Very soon we were glad we
had secured them. At the work of lad
ing they took: hold with a will, not only
working faithfully, but intelligently. And
further, when we came to setting up the
standing rigging, they proved themselves
used to the work. In short, we my
mates and myself felt that we had been
particularly blessed in securing the Ma
lay seamen.
We left Manila on a c!ear morning in
for a run to Batavm, on the Island of
Java distance, as we sail, ot about eigh
teen hundred miles. The Malays work
ed splendidly ; they were really good
sailors. A few of them were awkward
at first on the fore-ropes of the yards, but
thev could hand and reef a sail with the
best. Three days passed, and I could
not have asked for better men ; but On
the fourth came a change, and it came
curiously enough.
One of my oldest and best men was a
Scotchman named Sandy Mclkmgald. He
was over three-score, and as active and
enduring as any man I had. I think he
was the most skillful helmsman I ever
knew. In his long years of vayaging to
all quarters of the globe, he had contriv
ed to pick up a knowledge of almost eve
ry language he had ever heard ; and be
sure, if he came in contact with a foreign
er whose language he understood, he
would never let on that he knw it. He
had a fondness for being master of the
situation.
The Malays of our crew spoke a lingo
of mixed Spanish and Malay, closely re
sembling that of the Tagals of Luzon ;
and Sandy understood it, and could speak
it ; but never a hint of the fact had he
let fall before Palana or his compan
ions. On the morning of the fourth day out
Sandy McDougald bolted into my cabin
wituout so much as a tap on the doer.
His eyes were wild, and I really thought
his 'stiff gray hair was starting up all
over bis head. He swept the place at a
glance, saw that we were alone, and then
came op to ray side.
"Cap'n! Dyou know what you've got
aboard this ship?"
What is it, Sandy. Don't keep me
in suspense. Here, taste a drop oi mis
brandy."
I saw that he was much shaken ; so I
took from a locker over my table a bottle
of brandy and a glass.
He drank ; and then I motioned him
to a seat beside me, And then he told
me :
Palana, and six others of the Malays
were in his watch. During the night hut
past they had had the mid-watch he
had seen Palana, about an hour after the
watch had been set, go to the forecastle
companionway and rap gently a pecul
iar rap on the trunk ; and shortly after
four of the Malays of the other watch
came up, and they all sat down under the
lee of the long boat. Sandy had remem
bered a place, close abaft the forward
chock, where he could easily crawl under
the keel of the boat, and, as he suspected
mischief, he resolved to know what these
fellows had to talk about And be did
hear.
" Cap'n ! They're a regular piratical
crew, it is Uieir business. Ana iney ve
shipped aboard the old "Whitney" for
the sole purpose of catting yoar throat,
and the throats of all your old crew, and
taking the ship ! And I heard the chief
that's Palana say where they'd take
her. He means to run her into a little
river, where he has a lair, near Tringano,
on the Malay coast To-morrow night's
the tiuie set He has the first watchj; and
the blow is to be struck at midnight,
when the watch is relieved."
Of the entire truth of Sandy's story.
and of his opinion, I had sot a particle
of doubt. Many things which hal thus
far appeared strange were now made
clear. Things which had puziled me
puzzled me no more. But that was not
all ; on that morning, after the men had
one op to breakfast, Sandy had run his
hands over Palana's clothes bag, and had
plainly felt a brace of large pistols, ad
two long knives. And two other bags
hich he bad ventured to handle be
had found to be suppplied in like man
ner. After a Utile further conversation I
bade Sandy to keep a close watch, and
we would confer again before the coming
night had closed in. When I went on
deck I found Palana on the quarterdeck,
but he left it when he saw me. An hour
later I saw him standing where ha could
look down into the cabin ; and as he
turned to move away, I detected that pe
culiar look and nod which a man gives
who sees something that he is fill sore
will one day be his own.
Suffice it to say, daring the day I saw
enough to assure me that Sandy was right
ia every particular. The Malays seemed
to be treading on air. They were hope
ful and happy ; aye, they were jubilant,
Their black eyes sparkled, and their
strong cordy hands worked very expect
antly. During the second dog-watch, shortly
befote sundown Sandy beckoned to me
from the wbeeL
Cap'n V be whispered, as I came up,
" it's to be at midnight, this werry night !
Palana is to kill you, Tolo is to kill Mr.
Brackett, and Seelah is to kill Sampson,
and one of the others that don't speak
English, he railed Baui-Bam. is to kill
Mr. Gould. Ah, it's all laid out The
moment the starboard watch has gone
below, the companionway of the forecas
tle ia to be secured, and the work com
menced. Of course, the Malays of the
off-watch won't go down."
lie had heard it all talked over, Pala
na and his companions having had no
fears of his hearing, since they -were sure
he could not understand.
I was now positive that the piracy
the murder was contemplated ; that it
was as sure to come, if not prevanted, as
was the coming of the midnight hour,
and my plans were arranged. The course
I had resolved to adopt was not original
with me. Captain John Baker, of the
barque " Florentine," had once resorted
to the same thing in case of mutiny.
As soon as my plans were matured I
took my officers into my confidence, but
Lnot ontil after the first watch had been
set, and the time for work was drawing
near.
At eight o'clock I'alana came up from
the forecastle to go on duty. He was to
stand the first watch. Ha bad put on a
loose-fitting Guernsey frock, and I plain
ly saw the impression of two pistols be
neath. And the other Malays had done
the same.
The starboard watch was on my own
and I stood it, with Mr. Sampson, as I
had often done before. At nine o'clock I
set myself to watch my opportunity. I
knew tb"i Brackett wa ready in the cab
in to ccie up on the instant he heard
the word. Sandy, also, was on the
rite.
Ah ! Upon the stroke of ten o'clock I
saw my chance ! And here was the situa
tion : The wind was west-nor'-weat, which
gave us the wind on the beam, with the
starboard tacks aboard, and the breeze
was fairly fresh. We were carrying full
topsails and topgallant sails, the royals
furled.
The M-lay ch ief, ralana,had been con
versing in the lee gangway with two of
his mates. At precisely ten o'clock he
lid them, and came aft as far as the main
topgallant backstay, just abaft whicn he
stopped and looked over the rail. He
leaned both his elbows on the rail, and
appeared to be looking over into the wa
terthinkingand not one of his com
rades near hiuu
" Xow or never !" I said to myself, as
I crept swiftly but noiselessly towards
him. I had taken the precaution of put
ting a pair of cloth slippers oa my feet.
I came up behind him, grasped him
around .the thighs, and, with a very
quick, ctrong lift, hoisted him overboard.
It was all done in a moment He sent
forth a sharp, wild cry as he went, while
I, starting back towards the wheel, cried
at the top of my Toice :
" Man overboard ! Man overboard !
Men to the braces ! Lay the main topsail
aback! Quick! Lively, my men V Then
Sandy took np the cry, and announced
that Palana, the Malay, was the lost
man.
By the time the ship had been hove to,
and whilj the stern-bout was being low
ered, the whole of the Malay crew had
gathered on the qiarterdeck, and were
wildly shoutingjabbering and gesticulat
ing. Sandy said they were eager to save
the chiefj and I very quickly saw that
they were eager to go in the boat. While
the boat was being brought to the gang
way, Brackett shouted that he could hear
the poor fellows cries for help. The Ma
laya heard him, and were frantic ia their
eagerness to be ofT.
I let them go over into the boat every
one of them and they went without a
thought of anything, save their sufler
ing chief. I was to lose my boat, but lit
tle I cared for that. Better lose a thous
and boats than one human life given into
my care. Aye, ana Deiter lose vne ooai
than lose the ship and all that was in
her.
The Malays went into the boat, and
put otT ; and when they had got well as
tern I gave the order for tilling away.
and very shortly thereafter the ship was
on her course again.
Whether the Malays in our stern boat
ever found their chief or not, I never
knew. For themselves the weather was
fine, and they probably reached shore
in safety. If thev suffered from hunger
and thirst, I could not help it.
We reached Batavia without difficulty.
doing double duty with grateful hearts.
And there we Were particularly blessed.
We found fifteen men, the crew of a
Nova Szotian bark, hailing from Halifax,
that had been wrecked during a severe
Btorm in the Straits of Sunda. They were
eager to get home, and glad to ship with
me : and I need not sav how glad 1 was
to welcome them on board the " Clark
Whitney." They were good men, every
one ; and that we reached home safely
may be known from the fact that I am
here to tell the story.
How to Boil an Egg.
"Isn't it strange," said a short, foreign
looking man, the other day to some com
panions while lunching together in one
of the restaurants, "that not one cook in
fifty, nor housekeeper either, knows how
to boil an egg? And yet most people
think they know this simple matter
They will tell you to drop it into boiling
water and let it remain three minutes.
and to be sure the water is boiling. Here
ia where the mistake is made.
"An egg so prepared is indigestible and
hardly fit for a well person, let alone one
who is sick, to eat The moment it is
plunged into boiling water the white
hardens and toughens. To bod an egg
properly put it in a vessel, cover with
cold water, place, over the fire, and the
second the water begins to boil your egg
is done. The white ia as delicate as
jelly and as easily digested, and nutritious
as it should be. The information
worthy consideration, since the speaker
has occupied the position of chef of sev
eral of the largest hotels of the country.
anil is now the proprietor of a restaurant
in Denver.
Cleaning Oil Barrels.
The question is asked if coal oil barrels
can be cleaned lor meat A friendly
farmer writes to the Mining and Scien
tific News : bI have used them for fifteen
years with perfect success. Knock out
the head, set fire to a piece of paper and
put it in the barrel. The fire will burn
with a loud roar. Roll the barrel roand
so it will barn out even, and when it is
burned one-eighth of an inch deep pour
ia about a pint of coal oil, roll around
until it is spread all over the inside, then
fire again. Scrape off most of the charcoal
and wash it oat It is not necessary to
burn over one-eighth of an inch deep.
witl guarantee there will never be the
slightest taste of coal oil ia the meat I
have used the barrels for bam, pork, beef,
lard and honey. Have treated linseed
oil barrel the same way.
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PIOLLETS LAST WORDS.
Why Pennsylvania Farmers
Should Support the Re- .
publican Ticket
A Philadelphia special to the Pittsburg
Commtrv'uil-Gazttle says :
A letter which will be read with inter
est by the grangers throughout the State
was written by the venerable Col. Victor
K. Piollet a short time prior to his death.
Its publication was delayed, it is under
stood, by reason of the colonel's sudden
taking ott While th fact of the exist
ence of the letter was known to quite a
number who figured prominently at the
granger's picnic at Williams' Grove last
week, it was not deemed proper, out of
respect for the memory of the deceased
granger, to circulate it among the thou
sands of farmers there assembled. It is
now made public and follows. It was
written to Colonel Thomas, secretary of
the State grange and editor of the f'tnn
er't Fr'u-rxt :
Dear Bkotheb: As I have often said
to you in private conversation, I am ex
ceedingly interested in the present po-
itical cainpaign in this State. At no time
since the war, it seems to me, has there
been such aclearly defined issue between
the political parties on matters particu
larly relating to the interests of the farm
ers, which are those supported and con
tended for by the grange.
It seems to me that this year the Ke-
publii-an party come- nearer furthering
hat we have so long been demanding
thsn any other, and in Senator George
W. Delainater I find a candidate far more
acceptable to the farmers than in Robert
E. Pattiion, the Democratic nominee, for
the reason which I shall endeavor to set
forth clearly.
At the close of the late rebellion, in
addition to othef provisions for putting
the public domain in the hands of the
people, the government passed a law giv
ing every soldier or the heirs of every
soldier peculiar faalities for getting a farm
in the west This opportunity was seized
by hundreds of thousands of them, and
the result was a strong tide of emigration
to the west, not only of foreigners, but of
Peniisylvanians and other eastern tinn
ers. The enect upon trie agricultural in
terests of the east soon became apparent.
By reason of this emigration and existing
tariff laws, very soon the east began to
import agricultural products from Can
ada, from the West Indies and from Eu
rope. As a result the eastern farmer
found himself ground between the cora
petion of free land in the west and the
importation of foreign products. Every
farmer knows whether or not he has
been able to get a fair price for the prod
ucts of bis farm, and he can readily ex
plain why he has not On taking his
produce to market he has been confront
ed with imported agricultural products
on which there was either no duty at all
or duty entirely inadequate to protect
the American farmer. Many a farmer
has let large quantities of produce rot or
has sold it for less than the actual cost of
raising it, because the markets were al
ready filled with the same produce from
foreign countries, which sold at a far less
cost than he could possibly produce them.
I am a life-long Democrat, but I am a
tariff Democrat, and I find that in this
campaign that means to be a Republican.
I am for the Republican party because
of its superior position in national and
State matters of vital interest to the
fanner. I am for the so-called McKinley
bill because it protects the American
farmer, and particularly the eastern farm
er, who has to bear the brunt of foreign
agricultural importations. When this
bill becomes a law the farmer of Pennsyl
vania and the nation at large will get
every dollar that is paid out by Ameri
cans for farm products. Xo more hay and
barley from Canada. No more Bermuda
onions ; in short, nothing but American
products for American consumers. This
is what the grange has been fighting for
these many years, and it seems to me
farmers are blind to their own interests
to support any other policy.
Again, I am in favor of the republican
party in this campaign because of its posi
tion on the question of taxation, which
is one of the most important issues which
the farmer has to meet I quote from the
republican platform adopted at the Har-
risburg convention : "But the depression
under which our agricultural interest now
suffer nas made the present system of
taxation bear too heavily npon them,
and we therefore pledge ourselves to
lighten that burden, and as far as possi
ble to equalize taxation. To that end we
recommend that the surplus revenue de
rived from state taxation be used to les
sen thj taxation now laid cpon real es
tate for local purposes by applying it, so
far aa it will in their legislative wisdom
avail, to the increase of the appropriation
for the support of the common schools,
for the supply of text books for use there
in and to make appropriation for the im
provement of the public roads, for the
care of the indigent insane, for the ex
penses of the jury system and the hold
ing of the general elections.
"If thereby there should be necessity
for enlarging our surplus revenue, we
favor a just and equitable increase in the
taxation of property of corporations.
"We recommend that the local system
of taxation be so reformed as to admit
the taxation of m neyed capital for local
purposes to such an extent as to enable
the local authorities to reduce the rate of
taxation upon real estate to an equitable
basis."
This is what we have so long contend
ed for, and if carried out, as I verily be-,
lieve it will if the republican party wins,
it will go a great way toward mitigating
the dilliculties under which the farmers
now rest With good prices for farm pro
ducts and reduced taxation and an in
creased volume of currency, the Ameri
can farmer will enter npon an era of
prosperity never before known in our
history.
And this leads me to speak more par
ticularly of the recent silver bill, passed
by the present republican congress. It
requires no skilled philosopher or politi
cal economist to see that much of the
farmers' troubles arises from a scarcity of
the circulating medium liable to be con
trolled by a clique of financial sharpers.
The government has come to the relief of
the people by compelling the issue of
over $.,000,000 monthly of silver. This
means a relief for the creditor classes and
bigber prices for farm products.
Now a word about the candidates. The
WHOLE NO. 2042.
farmer has nothing to eipect from Patti
son. He told me personally when gov
ernor that he would not sign the present
tax law, of which we have so much to
complain, without a clause were intro
duced to bring about the equalizations,
we are still seeking. Shortly afterwards
Attorney tieneral Casti !y came up from
Philadelphia to see hiai and th govern
or signed the bilL
I think that Senator Iielamater can be
safely relied upon to carry out his promi
ses I think you now see clearly why in
this campaign, although formerly a dem
ocrat, I am a republican. If all this I
have written be Qoayisui, then by all
means give ns 'joavifm in preference
to Bill Scoitism, as exemplified in the
Scranton democratic platform, which is
nothing but a collect.-ui of glittering gen
eralities ami meaningletw phrases. In
this campaign the farmer should consult
his own best interest re-iardlcss of party
alliliations. and it is my candid convic
tion that his le!t interests will be served
by supporting Delaaiater for governor,
and republican candidates for congress
pledged to the policy of protection.
Yours fraternally,
Vmtok E. Piollet.
Cod s Messengers.
The warden of the State penitentiary,
situated in a seaboard city, recently re
lated a singular incident which hail come
within hu knowled.p and on which a
long story has since been founded.
A respectable mechanic fell into bad
company and was led to commit a 'heft
He was convicted and sentenced to five
years' impri.ionment When he was
taken to prison his wife and child, with
his dog, a fine Scotch collie, were waiting
at the gates. He bade them farewell,
and the great iron door shut him away
from them. His sobbing wife carried her
baby home, but the deg remained.
The faithful creature hung about the
gate for days, whining for its roaster, and
at last took up its abode with a poor bak
er who lived near by and who had now
and then thrown it a bone. It made a
visit occasionally to its old home, but
always returned to watch the gate be
hind which its master had disappeared.
After two years tl.e convict's wife died
suddenly, ana the little girl was adopted
by strangers ; but the wretched man in
hU cell knew nothing of all this, and
thought himself forgotten. In his long
solitude be bail repented, and by the
grace of God was revived to lead a new
life when he should return to the world.
The day came for his discharge. A
smail sum of money was given to him,
and in the clothes which he had worn
upon his entrance ho was led outside the
iron gates.
Where should he go? He was home
less, without a friend on earth. Among
all the crowds of the great city not a
kindly hand was held out U welcome
him. He stood trembling and weak,
then turned to a neighboring gin-shop.
The doors of vice are always open, and
inside is a cheerful greeting. But as he
turned an old dog leaped upon him, lick.
ed his hands and face, and gambolled
about him, barking wildly.
The man took b.sone faithful friend
in his arms ana sit do w a on toe curo
stone, crying with j.y. He was not alone.
God had sect him a friend.
The collie lea him to his daughter ; he
claimed her, took her to the far West
and began life anew, honest and happy.
God's nieswner had done His work.
Bernard do Clairvaux, we are told, was
reminded by the chirping of a robin of
his mother's house, which he had for
saken, and the wild youth returned
home, to become the great teacher who
should help to make savage Europe
Christian.
Every day our Heavenly Father sends
messengers to bring us closer to niin
self ; the familiar field flowers, which re
mind ns of our innocenschildhood ; the
old songs which we loved when our lives
were simpler and truer than now ; the
nnseltish deed of some modern hero ; a
line in a poem or a newspaper ; a chance
spoken word, or even the face of a
etrancer.
There is no creature of God so lowly
that he may not u.e it as His interpreter
and messenger, filling our hearts with
sudden tendernesa, and steadying oar
souls with new faith and a brighter hope.
Yuulli't Com)xin!. )n.
Superstitions About the Apple
In England and Scotland
In Scotland and in England the apple
is a very popular divining medium in
love matters. Part of this popularity is
probably due to the common notion that
the tree of knowlxlge of good and evil
was an apple tree. Horace mentioned
the use of apple pies in love affairs. A
lover would take a pip between the fing
er and thumb, and shoot it up to the
ceiling, and if it struck it his or her wish
would be accomplished. Nowadays
maiden tests the fidelity of her beloved
by putting a pip in the fire, at the same
time pronouncing his name. If the pip
bursts with a report it is a sign that he
loves her, but should it burn silently she
is convinced of his want of true affection
for her. This is often performed with
nuts instead of pips.
Gay mentions the very common amuse
ment of paring an apple without break
ing the peel, and then throwing the strip
over the left shoulder, in order to see the
initial letter of the lover's name formed
by the shape tha paring takes upon the
ground. This is often one of the many
divinations duly practiced on Halloween
or All Saint's eve. Another way at the
same season is for the curious maiden to
stand before a looking glass combing her
hair with one hand and eating an apple
held in t!.e other. The face of the future
husband will then be seen in the looking
glass looking over her left shoulder. Mrs.
Latham, in her "SaaBex Superstitions,"
gives another apple charm. Every per
son present fastens an apple on a string
hung and tirled round before a hot fire.
The owner of the apple that first falls off
is declared to be upon the point of mar
riage; and as thy fall successively the
order in which the rest of the party will
attain to matrimonial honors is clearly
indicated, sinla blessedness being the
lot of the one whose apple is the last to
drop.
Count Von Mcdt.ke's ninetieth birthday
is to be celebrated in November. Prep
arations are already being made. The
whole German army will tae part, and
special exercises
rill be held In the
schools.
More Than a Century Ago.
From the New York Mail and Expnaa.
One of the very first measures! that
came before Congress afb-r the establish
ment of the government was the tonna-
act, framed for much the same purpose
as that which has passed the Senate and
is now awaiting the action of the Hon1.
Tke purpose was to restrict the trading
between ports of the United States to
"ships or vessels within the I'nited States
and belonging wholly to citizens there
of." In debate in the Senate in June,
17S11 more than 101 years ago the ne
cessity of protecting and encouraging the
building of American ships was urzid,
and England was pointed out as an ex
ample to be followed. The British navi
gation act was originated in the six
teenth century by Cromwell in a fit of
spleen against the Dutch, who were then
the rulers of the sea. Its good effects
were seen before the restoration, and it
was re-enacted in I6V0. A howl of anjer
went up. It was argued that the bill
would increase the cent of all freighting
for the benefit of the merchants at the
expense of the landed part of the com
munity, The Scotch, especially, thought
themselves in danger of ruin, and sent
peers to protest against it but in vain.
What was the result to Great Britain?
The tonnage of England at that time
was less than li),00t tons. In fifteen
years it had doobled, and in twenty yer
more it had trebled.
Curiously enough the bill was fought
most energetically by the Southern mem
bers, who were then, as they have been
since, devoted to free trade, and Srnat're
Lee anil Grayson, of Virginia, and Pierce
Butler and Izard, of South Carolina, were
nnceasing in their attacks upon it. n'y
the week before, when the import hill '
was before the Senate, Butler hail darned
like a meteor, arraigned the w hole act,
and charged Congress with a design of
oppressing South Carolina. He wanted
to encourage the Ihines, the Swedes and
foreigners of every nation to come anil
take away our produce. He was in favor
of a navigation act re versed. Ha threat
ened a dissolution of the L'nion, so far as
his State was concerned, "as sure as God
is in the firmament," that his Stale
would live nr die glorious, and so on.
These southern Senators were opposed tt
the whole principle of drawbacks, anil
to quote from the diary of Senator Mac
lay, th6 first Senator from Pennsylvania,
they battled the bill "with less order, less
sense, less decency, too, than any ques
tion that I have ever yet beard debated
in the Senate. If I had stood in need of
any proof of the instability of Lee's po
litical character, this gave me a frenh in
stance of it" Times have not changed
so much, after all.
Curiously enough, Senator Maclay's
calm argument in favor of the tonnage
bill is as pertinent to-day as it was then.
The spirit of the bill, he said, was to give
the monopoly of our trade to our own
shipping anl sailors. In a solely mer
cantile view this might be wrong, for it
would tend to make our foreign art.sles
dearer and our home produce cheaper.
But the object was a national one. Slip
ping and sailsrs were the object, and.
though the landed part of the communi
ty was not, perhaps, so rich, the nation
was safe, and national power was of far
more consequence than individual
wealth. We might possibly help the
manufacturing and agricultural popula
tion a little, but it would be at the cost of
our shipping and our sailors, and without
that protection the foreigners would have
complete monopoly of the whole train c
both foreign anil douestic.
This was in the infancy of the nation,
more than a hundred years ago, and we
have seen this forecrst proven correct.
We have succeeded in prtecting our
coasting t"de from complete absorption
foreigners. That we have, and now
we want to get our snare ot trie iorein
trade. We can only do that by encour
aging our own marine as otrier nations
encouraged theirs, and it is high time
that we made a beginning.
One Legged Newsboys Fight.
Amobg the hundreds of newsboys in
New York city there are six with only
one leg apiece. It would naturally le
supposed that these maimed little fel
lows would be meek anil inoffensive.
)n the contrary, they are among the
most truculent and vicious of street Arabs.
Each one of the boys carries a crotch.
anil in case of a quarrel the crutch is
ielded with skill and vigor. Fights are
frequent among the boys, and the maim
ed ones receive and expect no favors. A
duel occurred the other day near the
Franklin statue in which the weapons
were crutches and the contestants hail
two legs between them.
One was known by the nickname of
Tiropsey, and the other bore uncom
plainingly the title of Crutchy. Tbey
were equally matched as to size. The
crutches were used both as bludgeons ami
rapiers. A sounding whack on the sknll
knocked Timpney to his knees. While
ir that position he retaliated by shoving
the end of his weapon forcibly into
Crutchy's stomach, which evidently in
terfered with his digestive apparatus, for
he dropped his crutch, placed both hands
over bis ragged vest an 1 began to cry.
Between sobs he blurted out :
'Dat ain't fair, Timps! I wouldn't
try to make no hole in your dinner 1"
New York Journal.
The Exile Petition Movement.
A Siberian Exile Petition Association
was organized in Philadelphia some time
ago, which has for its object the present
ing ot a petition to the Czar of Ru.-sia,
calling bis attention to -he intense inter
erst the citizens of the United States are
taking in the system of punishment in
vogne in Russia, and very courteously
saying that i.nis system is not in har
mony with the humanizing sentiments
of the age. Over thirty thousand petition
sheets have been sent out and thev are
now being mailed at the rate of from five
hundred to a thousand a day, while from
twelve to eighteen hundred signatures
are being returned per day. After the
work of securing signatures has been
completed the immense petition will be
presented to the Czar. Jxst what eiTect
this movemen will have upon the Czar
it is impotsible at this time to predict.
The petition is couched in such friendly,
courteous terms that the Czar cannot
justly regard it as an interference, and it
has the sympathy of the highest Russian
officials, aa one of them has lately writ
ten : "Tlis movement will do more to
bind the hearts of the Russian and the
American people together than a wholj
century of diplomacy."
A Father's Mean Trick.
Enamored Youth I beg you, sir, for
the hand of your daughter. I can not
live without her.
OldGrumps Glad to hear it I can't
live with her. Name the day, young
man and have it soon.
Enamored Youth (backing offi U. it
er please give me time to re tied. .V. i.
Wetkly.
"Why so cast down T
"Hosts magnificent umbrella yester
day." "Leave it in the car V
"No ; I met the owner of it on the
street, and he recognized it at once."
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