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The two particular ‘the west of the island. ‘for forty miles around, and then came ‘such a boiling and upheaving of the sea thousands of trees, and "in placc of it was "her rocky cradle, and during the next days later, when the brig had worked u ayn of inst ' Till I met you: But the white flame leaped to its height, And the terrible shadows fled, ! . When met you; . Bo ended the strange wild dread; Life grows unto peace, in the light, Since I met you.” & —William P. McKenzle. Cantain Jack's Adventures. MONG the relies I have gathered. to- gether during the last quarter of a centuryis the log of the brig Hopewell while mak- ing a voyage on the - China Sea. = She was 3- owned and command- == ed by my grandfather, = who ‘was famiharly = g—>=— known as Captain Jack, and the log in were written out in his cramped and old- fashioned chiography was left behind adventures I am to give you are pretty’ fully recorded, but so far as I know have never been published. Ishall take the liberty of changing the language here and there, for Captain Jack was no scholar, but shall stick to the facts as he wrote them down ‘in ink which has scarcely yet begun to fade. The Hopewell was an English brig, which had been chartered on this occa- sion for & voyage up ‘the Gulf of Siam with two objects in view. One was to secure the cargo of a vessel partly de- of the gulf, and the other was to fry to learn the fate of the ship Viking, which belonged to a trading company at Binga. pore and had been mysteriously missing for many months, English men-of-war had cleaned out many piratical haunts along the Malay coast, and so many piratical crafts had been destroyed that merchant vessels no longer had any fear of being overbauled.. The Hopewell | carried a crew of ten men, all of whom were provided with small arms, but she had no cannon. The log says that she had a fair run up the east coast for five days, though the winds were light, but on the sixth day, when she was six miles off the isl- the charts, it fell a dead calm. This was early in the morning. Before noon there was cause forieverybody aboard to feel alarmed. The atmosphere was close and stifling, the sky had a brassy look, and water around the brig as if terribly frightened. » The water was full of bub- bles and ‘many degrees warmer than, they could detect the odor of sulphur as they sniffed the air. Captain Jack was satisfied that the state of affairs would lead up to a calamity, but was perfectly helpless in the case Some of the men were for taking the yaw! and making for the island in sight, but this the Captain would not listen to, though he: wished himself anywhere else than where he was. Kt about 5 Pp. a, just after what ened the sky, a great sheet of flame sud- denly leaped out of the sea two miles to The flame was followed by a report which was heard that the brig was tossed about like a chip, and was given up for lost, She continued to beo®pitched and banged about in a terrible way for half an-hour, and the sea did not grow quiet for more than two hours. All knew what had happened. A submarine earthquake had taken place, and a new island had been created.” Four great waves followed each other down the gulf, clear to Sing- apore, while the Natuna Islands, off the west coast, of Borneo, was almost swept clear of inhabitants. No breeze followed the earthquake, but the night continued calm, and the crew of the brig were al- most choked with the fumes of sulphur. When morning came Captain Jack loooked for theisland of Alangoin vain. It had sunk out of sight with all its a rocky reef or key, black and barren, about three miles long by a mile broad. At no point was it more than five feet above the surface of the sea. The island of Alango was seven miles long by four BOO inhabitants. It had disappeared, and not even a dead body was found floating, though some of the forest trees were carried 300 miles down tle gulf. But this was not the only strange sight which greeted the eyes of the crew when daylight came. On an even keel in the middle of the newly created reel was a ship with all her masts standing, and when the brig had been worked in on a light breeze and a boat lowered it ‘was discovered that she was the missing Viking. Captain Jack boarded her and brought off many things to’ exhibit as proof of his report. She had been captured in those waters, and by pirates from the jsland. They had taken out her cargo, stripped her of sails and running rigging, and then scuttled her. She had gone in water about half a mile deep, and her decks and sides and masts were encrusted with shells and fungus. She lay about half a mile from the water's edge, and of course there was no hope of floating her. Captain Jaek loft her resting in two years she was often sighted by European ships. Tor some reason she was set on fire, mably by natives, It was on this same voyage, and four head winds to the group of isi- the Sang- Wat group, a ke on this occasion, but Captain Jack was wor- ried about something else. These isl- ands had been a piratical stronghold, and “§ he did not feel sure that all the rascals had been driven out. He went aloft “{ himself to inspect the island with his .| glass, and he presently discovered some- thing to bring him down in a hurry, He ‘reported that he could make out several huts on the shore, and that a natiye craft was evidently making ready to pull ont and pay the brig a visit. He must have had a chicken-hearted crew with him, for the log reports that he had to threaten some of them with shooting to prevent them from taking the yawl and leaving the vessel fo her fate. The arms were brought out and distributed, each man served with a dram to raise his spirits, and when the prahu was seen it was agreed to defend the brig to the last. The sun was still two hours high when the native craft was within a quarter of a mile of the brig, which was being slowly set in shore by a current, but was in too deep water to anchor. = Captain Jack had made good use of his time. There being only one prahu, and the brig being high out of water, the ras- cals would doubtless seek to board at the bows, All the grease and slush which could be found aboard was used there to. make the boarding more. difficult, while the cook got hot water ready and trains of powder were laid on deck. It was meunt to fire these in case the pirates got a foothold and drove the crew aft. Just out of musket shot the pirate craft rested on her oars, and Captain Jack counted thirty of the rascals, each one well armed aud ready for desperate work. He hailed them and asked what was wanted; but no reply was made, He then warned them to keep off or take the consequences; but his loud talk did not bluff them. They were simply looking the brig over to note her strength and what preparations she had made for re- sistance. After a delay of ten minutes the oars of the prahu fell into the water, had just got under way when a mysteri-. ous thing happened. No one aboard the brig had an eye on her just then, as they were making their final preparations, and so what actually occurred was never looked up was the prahu sinking below the surface, which was very much agi- tated. She went down slowly, "and seemed to fall apart as she went, for the smface wag soon covered with wreckage. You will perhaps not agree with me when I say that Captain Jack now did a good thing for mankind. All the pirates were afloat, supporting themselves on the wreckage and they were ‘makjug ready to swim for the brig and attack her, when the crow were ordered to open fire, suspicion and detestation to every Euro- pean sailor, the blood thirsty pirates of those days could expect no mercy. continued until the last pirate had been such numbers as to fill éverybody with astonishment. There was much specula- tion as to what caused the loss of ths _prahu. As the sea was clear of rocksand reefs, it was the opinion of Captain Jack that some great tish, perhaps a whale ing else could have wrecked her so quickly or shattered her so completely. The brig continued to drift in toward the island with the current, and at length the anchor was let go ia five “fathoms of water half a mile from the beach. ‘With his glass: the Captain could now make out five or six huts and a large storehouse on shore, and only a single native ‘appeared in sight. He made signals with a flag, but as night was coming on further investigation was postponed till the morrow. = Not know- ing but that another force of pirates would come out under cover of darkness, Captain Jack kept the crowd under arms all night and was prepared to give them a hot reception. The night passed quietly, however, and next morning the lone man renewed his signals so vigor- ously that a boat was sent off to investi- gate. She had no sooner come within hailing distance than the man cried out in good English that he was a captive and the only living man on the island. The boat thea landed and he proved to be William Tripp, an English sailor, who had been eaptured three years bs- fore on a small trading schooner. While the rest of the crew had been murdered after capture, he had been spared for some reason unknown, and had been on the island ever since. He was treated like a slave, and on .one occasion, when he had planned to escape, they had sliced off one of his ears as a cau- tion not to attempt it again.” Every man of the gang had embarked to attack the brig, and Tripp was overjoyed at their’ fate. It would have been a feather in Cap- tain Jack's cap had nothing further been accomplished, but the best of all was yet to come. That storehouse was full of plunder, and they worked the brig into a cove, where she was fairly safe, and set about discharging her ballast and load- ing her with a cargo. During Tripp’s stay with the pirates they had captured two trading schooners and a German ship. Most of their cargoes weré in the storehouse, with a miscellanequs assort- ment of stuff picked up at other times— flour, sugar, coffee, tea, clothing, hard- ware, dry goods, shoes, cutlery, wines, and almost everything else ever carried in a cargo. Some of the stuff was badly damaged by rot and mildew, but they had plenty to pick from, and in a couple of weeks had loaded the Hopewell with the richest cargo she aver. carried. As the better to get at the goods, what was was converted ino a bonfire, and all traces of the pirates thus wiped out. The brig. then sailed for Singapore and reached that port. y. A claim was there sok up by the German Consul group, that the and others, | must have amounted to » larg her entire crew uttered a cheer, and she’ known. What Captain Jack saw as he If the Malay of to-day is an object: of} The log of the Hopewell says that the firing’ picked off, and that sharks gathered in’ struck the craft as it breached. Noth- | ‘his “place of business "in the village of they tore out one side of the storehouse left after the brig could take no more after 3 his share of the sale Cap- tain Jack decided to give up the ses and its perils and become a ship chandler. of the humane societieties made a great ado over his heartlessness in picking off the Malays as they floated about, but every sailor would have voted him a gold tobacco box for doing that very thing as thoroughly 4s he did.—New York Sun. To Wipe Out the Chinch Bug. Enthusiastic entomologists believe that the devastation of the faraiers’ crops py the chinch bug will be stopped forever, The bug is to be exterminated by the spreading among the species of a deadly infectious disease. Within four days of infection the bug ceases from its work of destruction, and at the end of eight days lies cold in death. Professor F. H. Snow, of Lawrence, Kan., who has long been experimenting with this mode of ex- terminating chinch bugs, will shortly write an exhaustive report on the subject. He says Eo $:As long ago as:1865 it was observed that chinch bugs occasionally disappeared from infected regious’in‘a moat mysteri- ous’manner. Careful search would re- veal that on the ground myriads of bugs torzologist of excellent repute, called attention in 1865 to such a disappear- ance as I have described. He. declared it as his opinion that this marvelous dis- appearance was due to the existence of an epidemic disease among the bugs, comparing this disease with the cholera among human beings. Professor 8. A. Forbes, State Entomologist of Illinois, in 1882 began his ovseryations upon the ‘bodies of chinchhuge taken from the ‘regions where one of these marked dis- appearance oeccurred, and - soon an- nounced his discovery of a bacterial or- ganism, undoubtedly the usual agency in ‘the production of an epidemic among chinch bugs. The disease proved to be ‘one of the fungus affections, the result of ‘the growth within and on the bug of a parasitic microscopic plant, aphidis. I was found that healthy, living bugs when placed in the jar: with the bugsifrom" Morris County were sickened and killed. It soon ap to methat the disease could be successfully communicated from diseased 'to healthy bugs. Field experi- menting in 1891 was conducted on a large scale. During the season infection was furnished to about two thousand farmers, chiefly in Kansas. - I received in all 1400 reports from farmers stating the results of their experiments. Of these reports 1072 indicated: successful results from the use of the infection, 181 unsuccessful, and 147 may be classed as doubtful. ‘Thus of all experiments over 76 per cent. were succesaful.”—Chicago Herald. : 7 Heroes Yet Live. It is a great mistake to suppose, be- cause it is many centuries since Leonidas fought with the Persians at Thermopyl® and brave Horatios kept the bridge at. Rome, that deeds equally heroic and equally worthy of celebration have ceased to be done. ‘Though warfare is now less a matter of personal prowess than it was in ancient times, the cimpaigns’ of the present age have produced many in- stances of heroic sacrifice as remidrkable 4s any of those of antiquity. ; an exchange, is well worth relating. The story of it is told very simply in an ¢‘or- der of the day,” issued by eGeneral Reste, Indies... A detachment of the Ninth Ragiment of the Marine Corps had been sent so subdue and capture a band of Chinese pirates which had been operating on the . coast of Tonquin. The pirates took refuge in a battlemented pagoda. Here ‘they were besieged by a party of the French, under command of Lieutenant de Vatharies. Attacking the pagoda with axes and other implements, the French succeeded in’ effecting ‘a narrow breach in its walls; but vhis breach was sufficient to admit only one man ata time. ; ‘Within the pirates awaited the onset of their assailants, Whoever went in first was sure to meet death at their hands, but if the remainder of the French pressed in after him the pirates might be overdone. ari himself at the head of a line of his men he bade them follow him and forced his way into the breech in the pagoda,shout- ing, *Viva la Franca!” 5 "He was shot down and died on: the spot. But the attack succeeded, and ths pirates wers captured. — Louisville Courier-Journal. j General Putnam's Plow. The most valuable and historical relic in Connecticut, perhaps, is General Israel Putnam's old plow, which a hard- ware dealer uses for a siga iu rront pf Danielsonville, Windham County, Itis the identical plow, so the merchant when the news reached him that the British hud attacked the Americans at Lexingtou. ~ Putnam unhitched = his horsesund drove them to his barn, un: harnessed one, mounted. its baek, and rode away to Boston. He got there in time to lead the Conticentals when the British stormed Buaker Hill. The plow is a clumsy old imptement. Its frame and mold board are of wood, it ig plated with scraps of iron, and it has a’ joint and cutter of forged iron. ' Shade Around Houses. Neither fruit nor ornamental trees should be grown so that their shade falls at all times on the house, shutting out the sunlight. It does not matter so much while the trees are small, but as they grow large they render the living-rooms damp and unwholesome, The tendency of vines especially to. which they grow in theif h | safety with less hesitation. lay dead. ‘Dr. Henry A. Shimer, an en- | A recent qccurrence of this sort, says | commanding the French forces in the De Vatharie did not hesitate. Palting:| avers, that ¢‘Old Put” left in the furrow Mrs. Power O'Donoghue, in her “Ladies on Horseback,” quotes a let~ ter which ‘appeared in a certain jour- nal, containing the following remark: abofit her: Ireland—if one—worth being called down their own lives rather than im- peti the safety of one so universally loved.” Whatever the men would do, a boy in Ireland imperilled her The hounds ran over a bog, and he called out to her to “go on” as it was “hard at the bottom.” She had not gone her “struggling steed was momentar- ily sinking lower,” she shouted to the boy in tones of bitter remonstrance: “You told me this was hard at the | bottom.” : “So it is; but you’re not half way to the bottom yet,” replied the boy." 1.YNOH law has been established in Tane ia, the innovation having been troduced through the lack of judgesand gendarmes. Eight Arabs have been lynched. 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