The Batesville Herald. (Batesville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 23, 1904 Page: 2 of 8
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The Two Captains
By W. CLARK RUSSELL.
C«W‘i«ht. 'H ■ Vr f I . Collor.
Copyright. IS'*", by Podd Mextl A Co.
almost
of the Down*. There was a spirit in
I the freshening of the wind, and the
' Oak snored as she drove through if.
within ! All along the horizon to port w>ere the
• (ioodwln Sands. They were brilliant
showing him ! now with creaming lines of yeast,
and the yellow shoal showed u firm
surface upon which you could have
played football.
'They’re bonnd to give up; that
puce’ll break their hearts,’’ exclaimed
Crystal, after a few minutes of silence
during which he had been watching
the chasing boat astern.
"If they don’t mind,” said Steve,
"they'll bo foul of that there Dutch-
man.”
"By heavens! Steve’s right,” cried
Pope, flushing up with sudden excite-
ment and wresting the glass out. of
Crystal's hund. "What does the idiot
mean by holding on?”
He applied the glass to his eye. The
Dutch frigate, under a full press wras
the stem glanced like a needle into ! sweeping through it grandly. Could
the wake i it he imagined that the pursuing boat
The Downs now lay plain, but very ' would attempt to pass tinder those
distant But one large blue shadow thunderous bows! The naval officer
loomed formidably thn Kamillles— ! steering the boat might have been in-
and as Pope looked a puff of white ' sane with resolution not to deviate
smoke, tiny in the far-off sheen, broke j front the path of pursuit. The rowers
CHAPTER IV.—Continued,
"Northern”
Sloop 'n sight?”
"Bight ahead, sir,
hall.”
"la Captain Crystal
self?”
"I see him in the bows of the sloop
waiting for us.”
Pope lifted his head, and a minute
later the little fabric was alongside,
the hull of the sloop putting her out
of sight of laud. The bundles were
handed up, the men sprang aboard
after them
"Lively my hearts!” shouted Pope,
"and make sail.”
He sprang to the tiller, and Crystal
put his weight with the others, upon
throat, peak and other halyards. The
great sloping sail fluttered languidly
then rounded silent as tho big jib
bora the little vessel's head off. They
were under way and the ripple from
from her starboard broadside; which
set Crystal swearing horribly.
"It in her signal,” he shouted "The
news has reached her; we are sue
pectefl and ahull be chased.”
"The breeze means to freshen,” ex
claimed Pope coolly; "sen the dark
line of it yonder; let me get behind
the Sands and I shall be happy. 1
never designed to go Margate way
We'll hug the South Sand Head clear
of the Kamillles. and go straight for
the French coast and then for a shift
of helm for Hamburg."
"The Captain's right." said Bobbin.
The whole line of coast was now
risible from Sandwich to the South
Corel and. The ripples flashed, white
water fled in feathers from the weath-
er bow and Pope looked astern at the
land well pleased.
"I'll tell you the whole stoi? in a
had their backs upon the danger; the
others were not there to deliver com-
mands; so that ail in a second it ras
loo iate. The six oars sparkled as
they rose in tragic arrest under the
bows of the sweeping ship. On board
the Oak they saw a number of men
running on the frigate's forecastle.
Through the glass Pope spied her peo
pie struggling for life in the frigate’s
wake.
"That," he cried, pointing with the
telescope to the white water astern
of the frigate, "was her reason for
bringing up in Margate Roads Iasi
night.”
"Ay” said Crystal, "hang me if
there isn't even a Providence for
pirates," and ho and Pope laughed
with nl their might.
The Dutchman measured a score of
Iter own lengths before she backed
they produced the effect of flying
scud. and all on high seemed to re-
volve as the weeping shadows poured
away into tho horizon on the breath
of the shouting wind.
in the tuidet of this scene a little
brig was sailing. She was the Gypsy.
The captain was Richard Pope, her
chief mate was Jonathan Crystal, her
second mate and boatswain was Mat-
thew Grindal, and !u her forecastle
and about her decks were thirty sea-
men. counting several idlers, such as
the gunner, the carpenter, cook, cabin
servant, and the like.
She was bound to the Bay of Cam-
peachy to load with logwood, and to
trade with the West Indies.
To the Bay of Campeachy! So it
was said. So her papers showed.
She had sailed down the river armed
with four c&rronadcs of a side, a long
gun on her forecastle, and a stern
chaser, a twelve pounder. She was
therefore a little formidable with ar-
tillery. But the pirate then continued
as fixed a condition of the ocean life
as the gilded and gulleried West In
diaman she plundered. There were
other risks, moreover, which made the
cannon a necessary feature of a ship's
deck.
They had dined in the < abin. Cap-
tain Pope bad coxnc on deck. It was
Crystal's watch, and the two men
stumped the planks together. Pope
came to a stand at the little skylight
to survey the scene of hts ship, and
Crystal, on wide legs, rocked beside
him.
“She lifts with splendid buoyancy.”
said the commander, ”! never could
have believed that she possessed these
heels. 1.00k how she throws the sea?
away to leeward! That fine Dutch
frigate which saved our lives would
not leap in loftier graces.
Certainly the litlte craft just then
RUSSIA SEEKING POWERS’ OPINIONS
She Is Interested In the Outcome of Her Volunteer
Fleet Passing Through the Dardanelles.
St. Petersburg. July IS.—The newsjtttion. The diplomats think that some
that the Russian volunteer steamship of the powers might insist that, honee-
Smalensk and St. Petersburg, now
was a heroic picture for a commander cruising in t e e ea, an nc
who was also her owner, to content Pin» ships of neutral nations an
plate. Her four black dogs of war at searching them for contraband is caus-
a side crouched in the scupper? and
her tarpaulined forecastle gun looked
like a dead giant stitched up awaiting
burial. The twelve-pounder aft was
bra?6; a sullen glint broke In it when
the sun shone. It made a formidable
show on that little quarter-deck clear
of the wheel, then grasped by two sea-
men, one a colored man. the other as
black as a gypsy with hair like snakes
crawling out of his hat down his back.
ing the liveliest interest in ail quar-
ters. Russia has evidently weighed
the question, believes herself to be
within her rights and neither fears nor
anticipates international complica-
tions. Indeed, some of the powers
have been sounded by Russia on the
subject. Members of the diplomatic
corps are beenly anxious to ascertain
the views their governments will take
I iwr t ir n a iiir'ti niu iut\c
They looked a ptyr of beauties, but of the pasglng lhrough the Dardanelles
were indeed In perfect keeping with
the rest of the crew now visible.
X*
C" \
It was they who gave the little fly-
ing ship her wild and savage aspect.
The most formidable of them for ugli-
ness and bulk was Mattnew Grindall
the boatswain, who had likewise
agreed to serve • as
Though an Englishman, he had been
a pirate aboard a Frenchman, had
also served us able seaman in a
scoundrel Spanish piecaroon. and
scarce a memory of*this man's for
of these volunteer vessels as mer-
chantmen and their subsequent con-
version into men of war. The general
view in diplomatic circles, even where
sentiment is not particularly friendly
to Russia, it that, while the passage
second mate. <,f the Dardanelles might bo consider-
ed a piece of sharp practice on the
part of Russia, ft. is an accomplished
fact and the powers will not. now re-
gard it as a violation of the treaty of
j year after year but was red and dread- Paris, but will guard against its repe-
| fill. ------------
He wras overseeing some work a TWO KILLED,
cluster of seamen were upon in the j ——
waist, and Captain Pope watched him Rear Coach Derailed and Pulls
i Assuredly the Campevdown had been press and Smoker.
Ex-
'Lock!'' said he in h<* hoarse notes.
shelled to some purpose. Those of
the crew who were at odd jobs about
the deck, or who were gathered into
groups about tho galley and longboat,
were as completely piratic in face and
garb, in the sound of their desperate
laughs, in their ceaseles oaths, in their
postures, and motions charged with
the brutalest spirit of defiance and
recklessness, as the heart of man or
boy could yearn to read about, and
thirst to attend to the gallows.
"Crossman has done our purpose
minute Crystal, said he, and he was
proceeding when Crystal intirrupttd
him.
•Look!” said he. in his hoarse note,
pointing.
"The Dutch frigate of last night.”
exclaimed Pope, after turning his
head.
She was coining down Channel on
a taut bow line, and made a flue figure
a* she drt-w clear of the Foreland.
"What's that?” suddenly exclaimed
Crystal, and Maddison, who hod come
»n deck, cried out. “They re a chasing
M us! ’
Both he and Crystal looked toward
Broadstairs. and thither Pope directed
his eyes, where, without aid of a glass
he might see what should prove a
six-oared galley sweeping from the
little pier end. Her oars sparkled
i* iftly.
' The glass! ' he roared.
Maddison grasped the tiller while
the Captain looked. There were others
In that boat than those who pulled
her. Sho seemed full of men. Pope
caught stsht of the glint of bayonet?
Bhe was coming along ns steadily
swift a? the rapid determined pulse
of the long and bending lines of flash
ing ash could drive her. The brine
stood like frost at her bows, and the
foam rushed aft ns though she had
keen driven by a propeller.
A revenue boat," says Pope, with
her top. ail and lowered boats Five 1
men only were picked up, and they j
were too exhausted to explain the er- j
rand they had been upon. In fact, it |
was doubtful if the Dutchman would j
have understood them. The frigate
remained hove-to. while one of the j
boats put the English seamen ashore 1
at Broadstairs; by which time the
Oak. unnoticed by the seventy four,
had fetched tlie southern limb of the ;
Goodwin Sands, when, easing off her |
sheets, she went away for the French j
coast.
justice,” said Pope with a smile, with , was running at usual speed when the
his eyes fixed on Grindal. “I expect rear coach was derailed, pulling the
that most of these men have seen express and smoking cars with it.
CHAPTER V.
The Crew of the Gypsy.
At Hamburg tho three hired men ; picion. d'ye think, of
were discharged with their hamlker- :
chiefs liberally tasseled; aud they left "None. Four hundred pounds in
their turn as pirates.'
"They’re here as privateersmen. ’
exclaimed Crystal.
"They shall be undeceived.” said
Pope, turning suddenly and beginning
to walk the short deck, Crystal beside
him. "And what’s the difference?”
"The hangman knows,” answered
Crystal.
"Was never a privateersman
hanged?” cried Pope.
•‘A letter of marque is as good as
a pennon.” said Crystal. Then seeing
irritation in the commander's face,
he said, "Has Mr. Staunton any sus-
the nature of
this voyage?”
consenting to meet Captain Pope in j caah an<i the remainder in bills; that their little one was placed in a cofflD
forth all vounteer vessels shall be con-
sidered an warships within the mean-
ing of the treaty.
One of the most interesting ques-
tions in this connection, the diplomat#
believe, will arise out. of Russia’s de-
claration that coal is contraband of
war. The prize crews on board tho
captured vessels could be sent to Rus-
sian Baltic ports, but if short of eoaJ
they could not be put into a neutral
port to replenish their bunkers. This
same question may embarrass Russia
when the Baltic squadron sal's for the
Far East.
In view of the protest made by Ger-
many in the case of the stoppage of
the steamer Buudesraib (sized in Del-
agoa bay December -P. 1S9M» during
the South African war as the result
of which Great Britain had to pay dam-
age, much curiosity exists as to what
Germany will do in ease of the confis-
cation by the Smalenak of the mails
on board the North German Lloyd
steamer Heinrich, especially as a largo
portion of the mails seized was un-
doubtedly of a commercial character.
Injunction Granted.
St. Louis: It was learned Sunday
night by telephone from Belleville, 111.,
that Judge Holder of the St. Clair
county court had issued an injunction
restraining Thomas Morgan and John
Smith, strikers, and members of every
union affiliated with the Amalgamated
Asocialison of Moat Cutters and Butch-
ers’ Workmen from interfering with
the operation cf packing plants In East
St. Louis and the non-union workmen
who may be engaged to take the places
of the strikers. The injunction was is-
sued at the instance of the Armour,
swift and Nelson Moris Packing Com-
panires.
Given Revolvers.
Sioux City, la.: For their protection
in case of an attack by strikers, the
Cudahy Packing Company Sunday dis-
tributed revolvers to ail its non-union
employee. Matters at the plant were
quiet, no violence being reported. The
plant will resume killing with a fair
force of men Monday mot tling.
On the mayor's return, after an ab-
cident physicians were dispatched j eence of several weeks, the Cudahy
front both ends of the line. ! Packing Company appealed to him fov
Everything was done by the railroad ; additional protection at the plant,
officiate for the comfort of the Injured.
Mr. and Mrs. Gosnell were on the way
to their old home, and the body of
Lufkin, Texas; Regular mixed
freight and passenger train No. 2 on
the Eastern Texas railroad, running
from Kennard Mill to Lufkin, was
wrecked Saturday evening near Druso,
about seventeen miles west of this
place, just over the line in Houston
county, killing two persons and injur-
ing several.
The train was in charge of Conduct-
or Snow and Engineer Roberts and
The engine and freight cars remain-
ed on the track. Both coaches toppled
over, throwing eeveral passengers
through the windows and falling upon
them. Several uninjured passengers,
ipon extricating themselves, procured
an axe and heroically went to work to
rescue those beneath the ears, who
were all more or less injured.
Upon receipt of the news of the ac-
l.ondcn on such and such a date at the
sign of the Oamperdown.
When Pope had settled his affairs in
Hamburg, he manned the Oak with
four Dutch seamen and sailed to the ,
Thornes. 1 am not able to give fur- '
(her particulars of the Hamburg ex-
pedition than these, because 1 never j
could get to hear Mho had taken the
plate off Popes hands; how it had
| been got ushore without detection;
the sum ef money it had fetched, and
tho like. But this part, though it was
j doubtless full of excitement, is not
: material to the interest of the story.
one of his oaths handing the glass t$ ‘ihich may be said to begin with this:
Crystal "and she’s after us.” { September the 30th. some time be-
clouds. white and swift with the fore 1820.—It was blowing a fresh
light of the sun and the life of the breeze of wind in the English chan-
wind, were overspreading the western nel; dark clouds spitting rain as they
seaboard, and they mingled w ith many sped, gave a look of flying wildness to
loantftg abaft? of can\as» heading out , lb*1 dun spaces of dusty bius;
sufficiently appeased the curiosity of
a man who had a ship which was rot-
ting her bottom out in the Thames.
Crossman acted well; he held as mute
as a skull!”
“Crossman is a man you may de-
pend on.” exclaimed Crystal. “When
do you reckon upon taking the crew
into your confidence?”
"This afternoon, Jonathan." said
Pope sternly.
Crystal looked away to sea.
There was now too mnch wind for
the royals; they were clewed up to
the shrill measures of the bosun’s
pipe; the flying Jib was hauled down,
and the taut weather shrouds aliook
as some seamen ran aloft.
"Sail ho!" shouted one of them out
of the fore top
"Where away?" roared Pope
iTo be continued.
here and shipped to Missouri for inter-
terment.
One of the coaches was bn?tv torn
up and will probably be burned. A
force of men are clearing the wreck
and traffic was resumed Monday.
Another Fatality.
Another fatal accident occurred on
the same road this morning. Track
foreman Kramer secured a railroad
Return to Havana.
Mexico City: George B. Dariere. a
Cuban embezzler arrested in Vera
Cruz, will be returned to Havens. His
defalcation amounted to $83,000. Mex-
ico and Cuba have no extradition
treaty, hut the present exchange of
prisoners may lead to negotiations to-
ward the establishment of a treaty.
Dead in Pulpit.
New York: Very Rev (Stephen K*»
ly. provincial of the Pas-sion order of
tricycle Sunday morning and started i United States, dropped dead Sun-
from Kennard for the scene of the ^ay celebrating masa in St Mi-
wreck. Later bis dead body wa* found s rhapel at West Hoboken. He
beneath a trestle. was stricken with appoplexy and fell
-------— ion ^e altar steps, dying Immediately.
Huntsville, Ala.: Sd Jackson, a res- ji Father Kealy was born in Ireland on
ldent of Inka. Miss., a brakeman on September 22. 1848. and celebrated the
the Southern railway, was killed at the silver jubilee of hta ordination
Tennessee riser bridge, being struck ago. He was elected to the i
on the held by a beam as ho stood oa
• car.
a year
elected to the head of
the Pa?sionists August 2, 1899,
was re-elected two years ago
and
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