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SCCCONER ICATICO
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AND ITS CRUISE.
ADVICE to tb person who ii jostbe-1
grinning a residence in the South '
ess: Never be surprised at anything, 1
no matter how extravagant or nnex-1
pected or erven Un possible it may be,
for it is in the South seaa that the un
expected is most certain to come to
pass, say an exchange. Furthermore,
never believe the men on the beach
who are moved to tell you of a precise
ly similar happening somewhere else,
for that is the beach-combing instinct
of romance. Chance plain, unaided
chance may be better counted onto
bring about more marvelous things
than were ever told in any story of the
beach-combers beginning, "When Sir
Arthur was governor over yonder in
Fiji," of "When Shirley Baker was run
ning thing down in Tonga." No
where but in the South Tacine would
you find an expensive excursion, pas
sage 110 a head, with hundreds of
excursionists from all over the world
attracted by the idea of a cruise among
the islands, yet not allowed to land at
a single island just because they had a
solitary case of measles aboard.
So when a strange schooner was
sighted up the coast running down the
trade wind for Apia, nobody really ex
pected that it would be a common
place trader or even a yacht, but no
body could have Invented the compli
cation which it brought, not even If he
had cudgeled his brains for a day and
a hulf. Yet Apia felt that it had pretty
well sounded the depth of schooner
possibilities when it had studied the in
flammatory intricacies of the San
Francisco schooner yacht Tolna of
Count and Countess Fcstetlct, who will
be ever remembered on the beach as
the titled Hysterics.
The pilot duly displayed on his flag
pole at Mntautu the proper signal for
a schooner sighted, and started out in
his whaleboat, manned by Savage Is
land boys, to meet the Incomer. Apia,
being interested in .coming ships, met
to take a drink, and figured it out that
no vessel was known to be under chur
ter for the beach except one of the
firm a copra barks, last heard of In
Dclogoa bay. As soon as the Btrnnpe
sail appeared in sight around the point
spyglasses were brought to beor.
As each glass was coaxed into work
ing order and leveled on the newcomer.
it was confessed that no one had ever
seen the schooner before, and even the
flag was In dispute, some saying It was
Italian, and others Greek, and there
was no way of settling It nearer than
by going to one of the consulates and
asking to look at the colored flag pic
ture In the dictionary. As she came
coltlng in through the pass, and an
chored well in toward the shore. It
was easy to read her name, Adrtatlco.
This left the dispute about the flag
at balanoed as ever, for if one of the
geographers at the bar could prove
her flag Italian, because Italy was
washed by the Adriatic sea, another
could employ the some argument In
favor of Greece.
Very soon another flag went up, the
yellow flag of quarantine, and the
health officer's boat was seen pulling
to the landing stage. lie was met
with questions about the schooner,
and the disease.
"She's the Adriatlco, and I dont
know where she comes from or any
thing about her. There are b1x peo
ple aboard, and they all have a very
high fever; in fact, they are fighting
mad. They surrounded me as soon as
I got aboard, and the only thing I
could make out was: 'Cspltan del
puerto!' which was the burden of their
cry. So I ran up the yellow flog, be
cause I have known that fighting fever
to be contagious, and I guess the pe
nce will be needed aboard.
With the chief of police the collector
of customs went off to the schooner.
The six men renewed their hubbub,
nnd it neemed that very nearly every
tongue was current aboard the vessel
except the English and German, which
ure needed in Apia. A very little
broken English showed the chief of
poli that there had been no end
of trouble aboard, and arrests were,
therefore, needed. One man seemed
to be skipper, and he was the man
who had the shattered English.
Of him the chief of police asked
which of the party were the Bailors,
for when there is trouble aboard ship
the crew is always arrested. lie point
ed ont two men, who were promptly
passed over the rail and into the boat
alongside. Then for the first moment
they became quiet, possibly simply
exhausted, possibly awed by the three
fat half-castes who wore clubs and
German silver stars with the inscrip
tion "M. P." Next the man with frag--mentary
English pointed out another
angry disputant, and he, too, was
paseed over the side and suppressed
himself. With his prisoner the chief
was just about to pull oft to the ca
boose when two of the three who
were left aboard jumped into the boat
and Into arrest, leaving only the man
who had the few words of English to
transact the necessary business with
the collector of customs. The yellow
flag was hauled down, the ship was ad
mitted to pratique, and five-sixths of
her company to jail.
When the collector of customs asked
the survivor of the crew for the ship's
paper that remarkable Individ uu did
not lead the way to the cabin compan
ion and produce hi paper after the
regular sea fashion, with s cigar and
a drop of something to keep the cold
out. Instead ha made a headlong rush
to the galley forward, from which he
promptly emerged, waving a document
in one hand and in the other band the
empty buking powder tin from which
Le had evidently extracted it. This
document he spread out upon the main
bt-h for the inspection of the collect
or of custom. That official learned
tost It was written in Spanish and had
several seals, bat It corresponded to
bo ship's papers ever seen. Finding
that h could make no headway against
the lock of common speech the official
departed, leaving orders with the tide
waiter to keep strict watch over the
cargo of unknown character and value
beneath the hatches, which hs had
taken the usual precaution of sealing.
The next morning the whole party
was before the municipal magistrate,
to whom the chief of police explained
that it had been engaged in s riot on
board the schooner Adriatlco in the
harbor, thst on complaint of the cap
tain he had arrested three members of
the crew and that others had volun
teered to go to the calaboose and had
been accommodated. Be did not know
the name of the prisoner nor any
thing about the disturbance which
could be understood. The court
looked toward the five prisoner and
the one who had .been in the position
of captain and complainant ; the court,
in fact, was distinctly in a quandary
and wa plainly seeking a way out. But
the people of the Adriatlco loosed
upon this as permission to state their
case or case, which they did at once
all six simultaneously. The uproar
was immediately intolerable, and it
took all the effort of the police and
bystander to bring the party to or
der. To add to the trouble the com
plaining witness got mixed with the
prisoners and the chief of police could
not Identify him again. In the last
commotion only one man seemed to
catch a glimmer of what the trouble
was, a local character of Apia, Tortu
gee Joe, who was n one-armed boat-
i. rortugce Joe had never given
evidence, of very much sense, and hia
Englinh was not onlydlalectlc, but, like
most dialect, generally Incompre
hensible, lie saluted the court with
the stump of his right arm, and an
nounced that one, of the prisoners wns
a very fine gentleman, and that he
enme from the Atores, the western
Inlands o! the kingdom of Portugal, and
the Algarves, and that he spoke Portu
guese, and therefore he, Joe Perelra,
would vouch for him.'
The Judge employed Joe to establish
communication with the party and in
particular to ask why they had been
arrested. Putting his little gray hat
between his bare feet Portugee Joe be
gan an address, presumably in his na
tive tongue, punctuating it by wild
sweeps of his amputated arm. As soon
as he finished the six began a simulta
neous clamor. When the police hnd
reduced them to the speechlessness
from which they were so ready to
break, Joe picked up his hat and
tucked It under his arm. Then he drew
it out and made a low bow to the court
and sard: "The Portugee gentleman
he says he not know."
"Ask the captain why he bod them
arrested," continued the court.
Joe repeated his former perform
ance, the same clamor arose, and out
of It came Joe, with the answer: "The
Portugee gentleman he say cap'n he
not know."
On this showing, and particularly as
no prisoners' names appeared on the
docket, no charge on the charge sheet
and the complaining witness had been
mixed up with the prisoners, the court
turned them loose.
Learning that the humble Portuguese
was recognized as official Interpreter
for the Adriatlco, the collector of cus
toms sent for him and gave him order
for the captain of the schooner to
bring hi papers ashore. Nothing ever
brought such delight to the heart of
the poor, feeble-minded Joe a to be
asked to do a service to some one in
authority; a command from a consul
was a thing ever to be remembered.
In this case Joe managed to combine
both, as he got the consul's approval
of the collector' order, and had two
9amoans to pull him oft in state to
the schooner. Returning, he ushered
a party of three into the presence of
the oollector.
"The Portuguese gentleman, he my
interpret. I bring the cap'n, also the
cook. They bring the pape', pape' of
the schoon' Adriatlco."
"What did you bring the cook for,
Joe?" asked the collector, who was
not used to doing business with that
functionary on vessels. "Fetoh a chair
for the captain, and let the Cook and
interpreter stand."
"But the Portugee gentleman he
; tells an the oook very big man on
the choon same thing be bos all
over."
Bather slighting the importantcook,
the collector motioned hi acquaint
ance of, the night before to take s
hair, and told Joe to ask for the pa
pers. But it was another who pro
duced the flat tin case In which these
important documents are commonly
carried. This developed the fact that
it was, after all, the cook on whose
complaint captain and crew had been
arrested on the afternoon1 previous.
These papers showed that the
schooner Adriatlco wa owned lu
Ecuador; that she had been employed
in trad a up and down the west coast
of South America, and that her pres
ent voyage had begun in Valparaiso,
with Papeete, In Tahiti, a her destina
tion. Jler complement consisted of
captain and cook and two able-bodied
seamen,, and she carried two passen
gers. Uer cargo consisted, of wines,
liquor and cigars. Here the cook
produced hi baking powder tin and
presented the paper which hs had
shown the evanlng before.
Anywhere else it would have made
a great stir if a vessel should put into
a port 2,000 mile dead to leeward of
ber destination, but Apia, it ha been
said. Is accustomed to the unusual,
aud doe not feel surprised at being
a port of call between Valparaiso end
Tahiti.
Meanwhile the schooner lay in the
harbor, a tidewaiter aboard to see that
none of the cargo passed the tariff pro
vided by the Berlin treaty to press
heavily on just such luxuries a were
under tHose sealed hatches. The pri
wsts report sf t&s tttewsJter was Our.
H was mighty good stuff. - The peo
ple from the schooner rarely came
ashore. They bought little or noth
ing from the butcher and the baker.
There was no apparent reason why
they should prolong still further thst
voyage from Valparaiso to Tahiti,
which bsd already been extended 1,000
miles beyond Tahiti. Still their an
chor bit coral until the days measured
weeks. The tidewaiter reported that
they did nothing but talk all day, and
oil st once. At lost, when they bad
been In Apis nearly s month, it be
came known that they had no money
to get swsy with, snd that they hope
lessly disagreed as to raising money
by bottomry or by sale of a portion
of the cargo whloh was consigned to
order. ,
Therefore the municipality of Apis
levied upon vessel snd cargo as securi
ty for port charges. This brought the
case into the supreme court, and ahed
upon a remarkable transaction as
much light as it i ever likely to re
ceive. The eourt and Apia in general
were never quite clear as to several
points, but thst is only to be expected
when one has to depend upon Portu
gee Joe a one of what proved to be
s chsln of interpreters.
When the voyage of the Adriatio
opened in Valparaiso there were on
board, as shown by the papers. lx per
son, bound for Tapeete, In Tahiti
They were the captain, the cook, two
sailors and two passengers. It chanced
that these six persons were of six dif
ferent nationalities. It further
chanced that each one knew only hi
own speech and one other, so that
when they all talked together, as irom
choice they did, only two people st
s time understood one another. One
of the sailor understood the captain
when he gave an order; to get that
order to the other sailor, who was,
of course, in the other watch, it was
necessary for the starboard watch to
translate It to one of the passengers,
who translated it again to the other,
and he in turn translated it to the port
watch. Thst are the difficulties of
navigation added to. It will easily be
seen from this how they got into the
habit of all talking together, trust
ing that in the babel some one would
understand. It suited their peculiar
conditions, even though it was apt to
lead strangers to think a riot was in
progress.
Then something happened to mar
the placidity of a voyage which should
have been an idyl. The precise detail
are lost in the inability of Portugee
Joe to interpret. Ills account was:
"Mr. Cap'n he call Mr. Cook the bad
name. Then they become both angry."
This must have been a Bad time on
the rnclflo. One can Imagine a Yankee
skipper blackguarding bis cook over
the hounds of the foremast. But this
vituperation on the Adriatlco muBt
overpass the power of any ordinary
imagination. But the result i known.
The cook swore to carve the captain,
the captain swore to shoot the cook.
Each was unarmed, but the captain
leaped into the cabin companion a
the cook jumped into the galley. In a
trice both were armed. The eoptain
called on the watch below to arrest
the cook, but he did not make himself
understood until the watch on deck
had started the order trickling
through the two passenger. The
cook retaliated by calling on the
watch on deck to arrest the captain.
The two orders balanced. Then all
hands and the cook talked in a wild
bunch until the two watches and the
two passengers had let off their steam.
Then they were prepared to discuss
what should be done. The captain re
fused to apologize to the cook, the
cook refused to be placated with an
apology. The captain next would not
be content until the cook should be
put in irons. The cook deposed the
captain from hi high place. That a
sea cook should do such thing aa those
wa a trifle too much for even the re
markable two passengers and two
watches of thi very remarkable voy
age of the Adriatlco.
Here first appear the baking' pow
der tin. The document which it con
tained wa a bill of sale duly executed
and conveying to the cook the owner
ship of the vessel snd rather more than
hulf of the cargo. In a general way
it Is a prerogative of the captain to
damn the cook; in foot, s cook un-
damned would feel that something
was wrong; but a circumstance which
clearly alter the case is when your
cook turns out to be your sole owner
and principal shipper. It becomes a
trifle awkward to learn these fact
just when you bave been taking a turn
at damning that cook. Ilowever.'a
peace was contrived, and the cook'
owner agreed to lay aside hjs knife,
the captafn hi revolver. The cook
would oook and tne captain , would
captain until . they reached port,
neither Interfering with the other,
Unfortunately the cook wa the only
one aboard who could read the
chronometer for the captain st the
morning time sight, but a owner he
would not serve one of his own serv
ant. Naturally the captain never
knew bis longitude, and be reached
Apia, only 2,000 mile out of hia way, 1
by getting on the parallel and run
ning it down until it bit something.
While these foot were brought out J
in the supreme court at Apia, it wa
decided to end the venture at that
port. . The wine, liquor and cigars
of the cargo vyere landed and sold st
auction for what they would bring
above the doty.
The cook discharged the captain and
crew in Apis, shipped himself ss esp
tain, snd the two passenger went a
the two watches. The late captain of
fered to ship a' oook, and wa prompt
ly put on tba articles, thus showing
thst no permanent ill-feeling bad been
engendered, snd thst hs bad been eon
tending for the matter of principle
that a captain has the right to damn
hi own cook. And the crew? Ob.
they wept back s port and tsrbosrX
1 passenger. Cleveland Leader.
... CZZTEL EJDULCETC3.
aater sefceel Utm la ke latev
MtteMlSeHeeteesepteaihee
' V' 11, 10 An. Sil-S. '
'(Based upon Peloubet' Meet Kotee.)
GOLDEN TEXT. They also have erred
thrbusn wine, and throufta strong drink
are eut of the wr. Ia. xtff.
THE SECTION Includes the study of
the prophet Amos sad his work.
TIME. About the middle ot tne elshth
century, B. C. WO. In the reurn ' Jero
boam IL (Amos lot. sad from the cir
cumstances it must have been the latter
halt, 7V0-7T1. oo m. chroa or Ttt-Ttf, rev.
PLACE-Amoe was a native of Tekoa,
alz miles south o Bethlehem. The scene
ot his labors was Bethel, a royal and
reuslous oeater, 11 mile north of Jeruaa-
lCm" EXPULNATORT. '
L The Situation After s long pe
riod of decline and partial subjection
there cams a period of great outwsrd
prosperity sod extension. The three
victories over Syria which Elishe had
promised Jossh from hi dying bed hsd
been gslned. ' Hi son and successor,
Jeroboam II., extended hi conquest
till the kingdom, resched to the Leb
anon mountain on the north (2 King
14:25); and together with Judah the (
two occupied nearly the extent of ter-
itory that belonged to the united
kingdom under David and Solomon,
from Lebanon to the Bed sea, God
through 111 prophet gsve great vie
tories, an enlarged country snd un
told wealth snd peace with the sur
rounding nations, in order that the
goodness of God might lead them to re
pentance. Wealth accumulated, but
men decayed. , Society from the high
est to the lowest became corrupt. God
sent various warning to the people.
"Some were physical famine,
drought, blight, locusts, earthquake;
and some were political battle, de
feat, invasion, captivity." Kent.
II. Denunciation f of Sins. 1. "At
caseinZlon:" "Those whose prosper
ity has made them insensible to dan
ger." Mitchell. Like Jonah in the
etorm, they are asleep and dreaming
beautiful dreams, unconscious of their
danger. Zion. Jerusalem, the capital
of Judah. "Samaria" The capital of
Israel. "Chief of thAatlon:" Israel
and Judah.
2. "Pass ye" over the Euphrates "un-
toCalneh:" A lmge city. "Hamath:"
A city of Syrin. on the Orontes. north
of Lebanon. -Vt.tli:" A Philistine city
on the soiuliu tot. "Be they better"
than you? God has greatly favored
your nation, yet how you hare requited
God's goodness.
3. "Y that put far away in your
thoughts and expectations "the evil
day" and act as if you did not believe
God's Word.
4. "Beds of Ivory," etc.: Expressing
luxury and selfishness.
0. "Drink wine in bowls:" Because
they were larger than the vessels or
dinarily used in drinking. ilitchell.
"Not grieved:" As long as they had
their luxuries they had no patriotism,
no care for country or for the poor.
7. "Uo captive with the first:" Since
all lesser troubles had failed to lead
them to repentance, there was noth
ing left but captivity, which wa hast
ening on apace. Within about 30 years
this was fulfilled.
8. "Will L" the Lord God, "deliver
ap:" The Assyrians could have done
no evil unless God had permitted it.
Had the people been brave, moral,
united, full of religious zeal, Assyria
could not have conquered them; and
God' providence would have watched
over them.
God trie many ways to keep back
people from going to their own ruin.
Temperance means self-denial, self
control in the presence of temptations.
No one is good without self-denial in
something, self-ontrol in all things.
Yielding to luxury and appetite at the
expense of higher things always means
decay and ruin.
' Take Pains.
Life principles lie hidden in our
commonest phrases. Nothing is more
common than for us to admonish one
another to "take pains." Now there
is a difference between getting a
thing by laying hold of It, and by hav
ing it thrust upon us. We get most
of our pains by the latter process, al
though we advise each other to get
them more often by the former proc
ess. The word "take" means not so
much a passive receiving as an active
seizing or grasping. All good woqk
soste. In reaching out our hand for
great reeults, we must understand
that we are also reaching out for gTeat
pains; for the one goetwith the. other.
If we are willing to get benefits acci
dentally and at haphazard, it is well
enough to get our pains is the same
way. But if we want tobe themakers
of our own fortune, we must take
pains. S. 8. Times.
Beta? One's Self.
To be our beet selves should be our
imbltion not to be somebody else. A
tarver needs tools of different sizes,
snd temper, and shapesof cutting edge.
The perfection of hi work depends
on their not being all alike. So God
may use u to help conform humanity
to the image of III Son, We owe. it to
that work to respect oar individuality,
and to keep ourselves at the highest
point of efficiency. Tobe usedtn the per
fecting of one line In that work Ik re
ward enough for any tool' being lt
telf, and being worn out in the work,
-fi. S. Time.
s Vim and Thistles.
The least man i an essential part of
God's great plan.
The soul of man is never sent bock to
tarth for a new trlnl. '
The fruits of the Spirit ere not wind
falls, but hand picked,
A penny tin buys a good a tlU to
leitruetioo, a dollar sin does.
Those who prefer the serriee of sin,
nust be satisfied with tba wage of
In. ,
Because a sin doe not instantly
fiaim a man, he Is apt to think his soul
i escaped unscathed, Ham's Horn,
liiit . i
ports aj i at
AtaalrataM Iterk Twi
It is one great source of t-J
orB power that ha knows nets?
not merely all his brother soti
but every man of official import
hia own country. There u notsIi
ince In Germany with which kt 5j
familiar, and his memory for '
I,
ana xeces is so great that
see a tnan once Is to know hi
of his Ufa. In this knowled.
AAnntn Ha nimaiiai anw j v
r v ul BUDrtf
eessore on the Prussian throna
ot bis contemporary sovereignT
safe to say thst Queen Victoria K
less of Great Britain than her cn,
son knows of bis country, and
case of Austria and Bussia Hiseoia
ly true. This Is not such tr&
matter ss M might appear. i
In spite of much evidence to the
trary the emperor is not a tyrant?
has he manifested a desire to )!
power for the mere purpose of a.
ing other people uncomfortable. ,
takes a positive delight In heariiir,
good things said or done by 0tU
Ue does not fail to read what lib
against him.
When the late William VTih.
Phelp was the American repi..
tive in Berlin, "Mark Twain" k
pened to be -in town. Mr. Phelpsh,
ing informed me that he bed taken,
steps to let the emperor know ot u,
I of course pointed out to our taig
ter what I knew to be the case-n,
the German emperor knew brio,
the work of our great humorist a
would bo most happy of an orm
tunlty to talk with him. Mr. Pheu
however, persisted in thinking that
was not his bueinesito do anything
the matter, seeing that Mr.'citntj
wa not present In any official cap
ity. Next day I was leaving f,
America, but that evening I hj
opportunity of telling the empN
that Mark Twain wa in town, n
moment he heard thi he clapped Q
hand at the good new, and called J
to his wife, who was at the other sj
or toe room: "Auguste, AumJ
here Is good new I What do you thitlf
Mark Twain is in townl " and then J
eagerly inquired about him. BuUtJ
he learned that Mr. Phelps hid ie)
seen fit to arrange a meeting at ot
ne irownea in a signincant maom
Of course Mark Twain was immeii
etely invited to meet the emperor a
luncheon, and both enjoyed the me.
Ing.
It would be, 1 think, within tU
mark to say that in the last ten Ten
the emperor has conversed at lenrd
with every eminent American or M
Ushman who has passed through lie
tin. I have never heard of such a mtrv
ing but that the visitor hns bee
strongly impressed by his imperil
host' specialised knowledge. In tit
midst of the rush of festivities at Kit
In 1805, the emperor found time to fiat
on board the flagship New York oitk
American squadron. Tier captain ki
me afterward that their imperial kc
stayed until two o'clock in the mm'
Ing, and durlnghls stay extracted fni;
them every manner of informatioi
Tie closed his visit by testing the
pacity of the crew for manning ity
and putting out fire at the short
possible notice. When Mahan p
lished bis first book on the "luflooe
of Sea Power," the emperor at out
read it, and sent him a cordial ts
gram acknowledging the indebtedna
of himself and his officers for thekr
sons taught therein. I hove no dot
that the strenuous efforts now B(
made to strengthen the German uiy
have received great encouragems
from the study of thi American m
Personal government can be eult
abused, but it is distinctly adwtr
geous for a state so dependent upoin
military prestige as Germany, lot
century at least the foreign rtlr
tions of RusbIs and Germany hi
been modified, even controlled, tk
occasional personal conference of
two sovereign immediately Inter
ed. With the Russian czar the emje-
or can speak distinctly and with
fear of his words being nullified byes
greases or parliaments. He 1
achieved alone, by a few words Vtl
the czar, important concessions
China which will lead to other eooce
slons more important still. If he co
arrancro his relations with En?l
through his grandmother alone, Ih"
no doubt he would once more rerw
himself as bound up with English in
terests. As it la, he is bound to
misunderstood: for personal go
ment in England disappeared slonf
with the head of Charles I. Two.W
ngo I published my history of "I
German Struirsrle for Liberty," "W!
wo regarded by the German corner
tive paper as an Impious ottoeknp
monarchy in general and the tup
or ancestors in particular.
.vi ,.m I.U4 V..,t merelrt!
..oln noil ntabliU"k
fnnla imm en American nolntof
Xfv fi-Unrla nrArlirtml that thoemPi
would drop the book Into his iH
paper basket with a ourse upu
author. , Instead of this be read it.
nrdlnir tn his own statement.
beginning to end, pointed out f'
from his point of view, ana odi-
thought no worse of me for my I")
orthodoxy. Next year I publish
-White Man Africa," in which I
to apeak of hi relation to the Tr
voal in a manner far from cot
mentary. Again ho sent word tf
that he hsd read the book with "
est and pleasure. These two lltuej
laodes dispose of the Prpctun!T)
peated slander that he con
nothing but praise and 'quarrel Q
anyone who oppose him. Tow
Blgelow, in Century.
, Ummm mt AAA namb"
v The Siamese hsvs a great t"5
odd numbers, and were never w&T
put five, seven, nlns or eleven wu'
house or temple. N. V. Son.
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