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} THE LAST CRUISE. I • ________________ I On the day when Ilanded at Annobon, L o f the natives particularly attracted ■ v attention. He was a man past mid age, his woolly iliair sprinkled witk ■Ly," lie was of ‘Commanding stature Ij ver v erect. He spoke excellent Eng- K, and liis conversation showed that rv'.KS.-ssed some advantages of educa ted which placed him far above the plane E)j s semi barbarous fellow islanders. ■ p history had been an eventful one. ■bee he was 1G years old the captaimo? (British vessel had taken him to Lon (,Q| where the ship’s owner gave him Kp’joyiaeot as a porter in his warehouse, E boy, who was bright and active, re- K'ved the name Albert Johnson; he be- Bmff a favorite, and oe of the clerks (,ght him to read and write. He re tried live years in London, and then Burned to his Island home. L 1 looked through the open doorway ■ his dwelling, before which we stood Bile he told me the story of hin early B, 1 saw what 1 at first thought was tin §l, but a second glance showed it to be ' Bfigure head of a vessel. Btlmd represented, in high relief, a fe- ! Bfe clothed in a flowing robe, with one j B folded across rite o.’C ast and the other I Bntwl upward. The lower limbs were I Bm ii, the hand-of the uplifted a,. *- * ■ Hsing. and a portion ‘ ... was | ■ e V- the nose was ■ . ..ere was little left of thcgildiug j Btonce embellished it, but the lines | Be gracefully drawn, and it liad evi- Btlv been executed by an artist iu wood Bo mean pretensions. B\Vhat ship did that belong to?" I asked. ■‘That was the figurehead of a schooner B was lost on the island many years B," Johnson replied. “It'sa long story |a sad one, too," lie continued, as lie B<l wistfully toward the mutilated ■lreliead, He hesitated a moment, asid then mo ■ned me to a seat upon a palm log ■ich served the purpose of a bench in ■it of his hut. He seated ‘himself by B side, lighted his pipe and told me § story: ■‘One morning, just after sunrise, in Bober, 1847, about a year after ray re ■: from England, a sail was seen Baling in toward the island from the Bt'vard. Soon afterward one of our Bple, who had climbed to the top of a ■oanut tree to have a look, sung out B>s that it was a topsail schooner. The B<l was fair and she came along at a ■ely rate until she was. quite close, ■hi she clewed up her topgallant and topsail, threw her topsail aback and B to not alxive four cable lengths from B beach. ■A Iteautiful craft she was; her long, hull lay low in the water; her §**, tall and tapering till they looked B bigger than this pipe stein, raked B v ufb they weren't stuck forward as Biiey wanted to tumble over the bow, ■s the fashion nowadays. Her rigging B as trim as any man-of-war’s, and ■re was a crowd of men on her deck. ■ ‘A slaver,’ said I. ■ ‘Yes,’ said my father, who stood at I side, ‘and she’s got her cargo aboard, , BAs he spoke, a boat was lowered from |■schooner, and pulled for the shore, ■ill. longfaced man, whom 1 took for • ■ankee, and who was evidently one of 1 ■ mates, sat in the stern sheets. When ■ boat touched the sand, the crew Bngout, while the mate rose to his * and looking at our people, who B<l in a great crowd on the beach, said Bortuguese: ‘Who's king here?’ ■All looked toward my fatner, and I teed hack a little, leaving him standing i Biost alone a foot or so in front of the ■ers. ■ ‘We have no king in Annobon,’ said II father; ‘what do you want?’ ■ I ‘Ha!’ and he ripped out a big oath. ; |e heard of you Annobon niggers,’ he ■lied; ‘what we want is water.* i ■ 'How much water do you want?* ; V'd mv father. , ■‘Enough for our crew and passen * ■ ’ | ■ ■ ‘ Passengers 1’ exclaimed my father, 1B' U S believe he was astonished, Bb r b he knew all the time what the B !!l cant. pß'Yes, passengers; we have a lot of Wcmen and ladies alxmrd there, who # * lave baken passage on board our ijxmer for the Brazils, and we hain’t fßenough water to last ’em the voyage.' father hesitated, and then said, sAgo on board and see the captain. I y ? ou ain’t him?* vJo,’ was the reply, ‘l’m seoond gB of the craft.’ TMy father stepped into a canoe, beck 's®! to "ie and half a dozen others/and off toward the schooner, my •cr calling out to our people in their JB language not to leave the beach un ■J* came back. Passing under the stern to get around on tlie 28,’ oar( l, I read her name, Clelise, of "■dwtux. f..— IBP 1 me starboard gangway stood a slender built man whom we found ) a y captain. He wasn't more than Sjfret and a half high, and his face "■as smooth as a woman's; he had a nose and light gray eyes. Dressed k. B^ ne cloth jacket with white duck ■■scrs, and a jaunty little cap on the rB of head, he looked more like a i young naval officer than the cap- IHof a slaver. |Hts we drew alongside he sung out to |W°t to come on lx>ard, and asked in Bugnese, Vhich he spoke with a i Bch accent: ‘ls the chief in that •llM You can s P ea * £ to me,’ replied my "Y 1 ". ‘what do you want?’ want Wilt -er for my schooner, and you natives to help my men get jf beard. Where is the best place to wßorr Phe decisive manner in which the g captain spoke made it clear that he ' have his way. and my father >3 jCd to help till the water casks. But rewsked how it was that the vessel on way across the Atlantic came to •"B without a supply of water. , a f he captain then told us that as his JJ e * had lain in a lagoon near the jjpth of the river Lage, with only part of-war Wa n er 01 ! ‘T rd ’ au Enlish uian ’ a t* n S. had been sighted, and he tod Wn obliged to shjp the‘catt-l^’^ led l ! 1e b KKjr creatures in the hold, f .° r , lt ’ behind over a hundred °f the ‘cattle' in the barracoon. S i I PP? out of the lagoon at night. ■nd Just before the day broke there fell ‘ WUh the ‘ infernal ’ brig, as he •called her. not more than four miles •away. lie expected that she wou.u at tempt to capture him with lier boats, but wffh the sunrise a light breeze came off the land, and the brig being to leeward he managed to crawl off, keeping a wav to .Sf nrth " ard as the breeze increased. Ihe brig stood after him with all the canvas she could swing, and she sailed eo fast as to worry the captain of the Clelise, who had never before met any thing he couldn’t run out of sight in four or five hours. But when the sun went down a fresh topgallant breeze was blowing from the southeast, and the brig was seen from the masthead just a speck on the horizon, “He stood on his course until mid night, then kept dead before the wind two hours, an* ‘hen hauled away on the other tack to the south’ard alld west'ard. At daylight nothing was to be seen of the brig, and lie shaped his course for the island. “The schooner had been drifting a lit tle since she first hove to, and my father told the captain that he was in as good a place to anchor as he could find. The captain then gave the order to clew up the topsail, the anchor was let go, and the craft swung with the tide very handy to the watering place. “ ‘Send two men aloft, Mv. Silva,’ we heard the captain say to the first mate', ‘and mind they keep a good lookout to seaward.' “My father having agreed to help with our canoes to tow the water casks from the beach, hoisting tackle was got out, a raft of six casks was dropped over the side and, towed by two of the slaver's boats, was soon making good headway toward the mouth of the fresh water creek. “The party was in charge of the sec ond mate, and hearing him speak to one of the crew in English, I addressed him in the same language, which seemed to surprise him. He told me he was born in America, in Maine, 1 think he called the place. He talked a good deal, and from him I learned much about the schooner and her people. “lie said she was of 170 tons burden, had been built only about a year and a half, and had just got back from a run to Cuba, where she had landed nearly 400 slaves in good condition. They now had 300 slaves on board, and had intended to take on a hundred more, but the English brig had scared them off. “One hundred and seventy of these slaves were men, and the rest were wo men. with the exception of two boys, five or six Years old. One woman, lie told me, bad u young baby. “The crew numbered forty-two, all told. The captain, he said, was a French man from Marseilles, named Glanvil, the smartest sailor and the most daring fellow he had ever been shipmates with. All these particulars turned out to be important. “My father told me he should like to have the slaves detained as long as pos sible, as it might happen that the Eng lish brig or some other man-of-war would come along. He had sent one of our people part way up the mountain above the town to keep a lookout, and let him know if he saw a sail. “It was past 9 o’clock before the first raft of filled water casks was alongside the schooner. The water was pumped from them into empty casks in the lower hold. “The poor black people between decks kept up their cries, praying to be let out. None of us were allowed on the schoon er’s deck, but 1 could see from the canoe that a sentinel with a musket on hie shoulder, and a cutlass stuck in his belt, stood all the time by each of the hatch ways ready to shoot down any slave wlio should succeed in reaching the deck. “The heat was oppressive; the wind had died away and the air was heavy. A little after noon a light breeze sprang up from seaward, and with it came a heavy swell that made it difficult to tow the casks filled with water from the beach to the slaver. “It was perhaps 2 o’clock when, just as we were about to push off from the watering place, the man whom my fa ther had sent up on the mountain side to keep a lookout came running along the beach and spoke to him. My father, who was with our people helping the slaver’s men to fill the casks from the creek, said to me, in our language, ‘He says there is a sail iu sight.' “ We had got within about three ships’ lengths of the slaver when we heard the voice of the captain singing out to Mr. Smith, the second mate, to let go the casks and hurry on board. 1 looked aloft and saw tiiat the recall signal was hoisted, and when I turned my head over my shoulder toward the shore I could see the men getting into the boat and starting to pull off. Two bands ran aloft on the delise forward, and soon loosened the top-gallant sail and topsail, which had been furled when she dropped anchor. “As the mate let go the casks he cast off the line by which our two canoes were towing, and the one I was in pad died alongside the schooner. “The vessel's crew were working livelv, I can tell you. There was a gang at the windlass and the anchor had al ready broken ground; the topsail was hoisted and ready to be sheeted home. The schooner swung with the wind, and a man took the wheel just as we got abreast of the gangway. “The little Frenchman was walking the poop furiously, looking toward the shore from which the boat was coming, then out to sea. When he saw our canoe he took hold of the main rigging with one hand and leaning over the rail said, in a low voice, like a hiss: ‘How close in can I go to there?’ pointing to the large, high rocks that we call the sail rocks, at the northeast end of the island. “ ‘With a steady breeze you can run in so you can throw a biscuit ashore,' said L ‘There is plenty of water there, but ;he tide is running you want to allow lor it,’ “Then he asked, very sharply, if I was a pilot. No, I replied; ‘but why so much haste, captain? “He cursed me and yelled; ‘You ask why I hurry—look yonderf “As he spoke he pointed seaward. Coming down before the wind, with royals and stuns'ls set, was a vessel. Shfc was not more than six miles away, and was no doubt the English man-of war brig. It was the sail my father had told me of as I was leaving the beach. “The second mate’s boat was hoisted, and when the flying jib was set the top sail and- topgallant sail were sheeted home, and the schooner began to move slowly through the water, but not so fast but that the other boat, which was now alongside, was hooked on and hoisted up, the crew clambering out by the main chains and on to the deck. Capt. Glanvil had got somewhat cooled down, and was giving his orders in a clear and quiet tone. The fore and main sheets were slacked off, the gaff topsail get, ami the slaver headed a little West of nortii, \7“h the wind abeam, a course that took her along the of the island and at a right angle to the course steered bv the brig. - we paddled to the shore as fast as we could., and had just reached the beat'll and turned to have a look at when what should \ ve see but the bng' which had now come quite near, headed up into the wind. “Her yards were alive with men, and what but a moment before had been a beautiful, trim pile of canvas from deck to trucks was now a mass of flapping sails and flying cordage. Everthing had been clewed up and let go, and the crew were trying to hand the sails, though they flopped so loud that they sounded like a volley of muskets to us on shore. “I looked over to the schooner, but she was holding on to everything, though she keeled over so far that her lee rail was under water, and her crew were hanging on the weather rigging and fife rails like so many flies on a ceiling. “The wind now began to come in gusts and the air grew cold, and it chilled me as the fog used to do in London. There was a dash of rain, and it got so thick that we could not see either vessel. “There was a flash, then a crash of thunder, and it lightened for a moment. Then we saw that the slaver had taken in his flying jib, his topgallant sail, and his gaff topsail and was settling away his topsail, and a crowd of men were crawling up the ratlines to reef it, though how they could expect to hand the sail in such a gale I could not understand. “The brig, under close reef topsails, was standing away from the island and steering nearly south. Her yards were squared, and then 1 saw that the wind had shifted round to the nortivard and that the slaver was close hauled and dip ping her bow under so that it seemed as if she must be buried every plunge she made. “Then came another squall of wind and rain, and the air grew almost as black as night. “ ‘The wind is heading him off,’ my father cried, placing his voice close to my ear. ‘He will never get past the rocks.’ “Again there was a flash that almost blinded us, a crash that seemed as if the world had come to an end. Then the air lighted up so that we could see the poor Clelise. Her mainmast was gone and had carried with it the foretopmnst. I thought I could see the men that had been on the topsail yard struggling with the wreckage to leeward, but there was little time to think of them. The craft was not a ship’s length from the sail rocks, and headed right between them. “A great sea came rushing toward her. Oh! I shut my eyes. There was a crash that we heard above tbe roar cf the storm. “There was another volley of wind, of rain, of light, of thunder. Then it cleared again. The wind blew a steady gale, and the rain fell more regularly. We could see the rocks and the ocean, but that was all. The slaver had disappeared and the brig was not in sight. “The gale continued until the sun went down, but with the rising of the moon, which was at its full, it subsided, and by 8 o'clock in the evening the 6ky was as clear and tiie stars shone out a* steady and bright as if all the world wae at peace and all its people happy. “The storm had done much damage on the island. More than half our huts liad been blown down, a number of the canoes bad been dashed to pieces on the beach, and many of our finest ooooanut trees were lying upon the ground. “All that night our people spent in go ing back and forth upon the beach, and many a terrible sight they saw. With the flood tide, which began to turn a lit tle before midnight, the bodies of the black people and of the slaver’s crew came floating in with the wreckage of the vessel. We looked for some signs of life among them, but all In vain. “About 8 o'clock in the morning one of our people found the body of tle cap tain. His heart still beat and be breath ed faintly, but he died before we got him upon the beach. He had a fright ful gash in his forehead and both legs were broken. “Just after tbe finding of the captain I came across tbe body of a woman with a baby in her arms. The little tiling had its face against her breast, and when I felt it 1 found that it was warm. I took it up and gave it to my wife, who car ried it to our hut. She rubbed it and held it by the fire and in a few moments it gave a low moan, then opened its eyes ana began to cry. “My wife and I took good care of the little thing; it was a boy, and we brought it up. You saw him on board your snip this morning. Surf Johnson, for so 1 christened him, and that figure-head you see in there, are all that is left to remind us of the Clelise, of Bordeaux. “The next day we buried the bodies of ninety-eight persons, black and white, that were washed ashore. The rest were swallowed up by great Father Ocean, and, as the Good Book says, we shall never see them till the judgment day. “We heart aftei ward that the brig rode out the storm and reached Sierra Leone in safety." —W. A. Boyce in Youth's Companion. A SONG OF HOPE. Sunny days are fleeting. Happy hearts are beating. Smiling lips repeating: “How cheerful is this earth." Fearing not the morrow. Seeking not to borrow Fro-a another's 6orrow A tamper for their mirth. But other hopes are dying. And other heurts nre sighing, And other lips are crying: “Oh, welcome, tardy Death! Our life is but a bubble; Our lot is pain and trouble; We’ve gathered only stubble. And felt the tempest's breath." Alas! some lives are tearful. And others bright and cheerful. But be not sad nor fearful. For heaven is just and fair. The miser dies for treasure, Tlie monarch sees no leisure, And they who seek but pleasure Soon And that castle air. And they whom life oppresses Find heaven doubly blesses And soothes their sad distresses. And all will rightly prove. For heaven's smile is o'er us And heaven's bow before us, 6o join the. mighty chorus Of praise. For God is love, —C. K. Stewart THE OFFICE BOY. How He 2' u , ” " May Get 1 Other Tiling. Are office boys never promoted, then? Certainly, I have known several cases, and will give a free translation of three. I wrote a note to a book house that ran after this fashion: I want you to try as n boy Fred . He is plucky, means business, will not whine üboirt pro motion, will work as early amt late as you wish, will hold tiis tongue, and will earn $- for every one you pay him. He will be content with a week. I received this reply in substance: I have no vacancy among the Ixiys. but such a boy us you mention will always pay twice over. It was a loud commendation you gave him If you dare stand by it, send him nlong I shall keep your indorsement for ready reference. Fred reported for work the next morn ings He began at the bottom, sweeping, dusting, clearing up. taking away books, carrying off waste paper, etc. In a short time the store looked as it never did before. He was the first there in the morning and the last at night. He never asked what to do next, but found something to do until new work was assigned. lie kept his .mouth shut., his eyes and ears open, and his feet and thoughts active. The fifth week they raised him to §5 and gave him work above four other youths whom he found there. At the end of four months he was raised to §l2 a week without ask ing it. Ben went from the high school into an office at S3 a week. They told him plainly that there was no probability of promotion, as no boy had been promoted for twelve years, but there was a possi bility. There was nothing about him that was promising. He bail not stood high in school, was not a good penman, was not strong physically; but he went to work with the full determination that he would “get there." A few days after the senior member of the firm saw him going to the postoffice, and was so delighted with his evident intent to boom the mail business that he said to his associates: “I wish there was some way to label Ben ‘This boy is from the house of & It is worth something to have such an exhibition of busfness on the street.” In the course of a few months another boy was secured, and Ben was given §6, until, in less than three years, he was having §2O a week, making a place for himself by the way he did everything. In those three years a thousand other boys in Boston had changed from place to place, and were still working for §3 or §4 a week. The boy who is merely an office boy will never be promoted, neither will he who is above being an office boy; who is lazy, indifferent, talkative, sulky, moody, meddlesome, envious, jealous, afraid of doing more than his share, and bound not to earn more than he is paid for. He will be promoted who makes himself equal to every emergency; who loves work, learns bow to work, bow to be cheerful and loyal, lending a hand every where; who puts brains into liis work; who lets his "bead save his heels;’’ who will work anywhere, at any time, at any thing, without complaint.—A. E. Win ship in tiolueu Rule. The Endurance of the Catuel. Admiral D. D. Porter, who once went to North Africa to secure camels for in troduction into America, said in a recent interviews “In their campaigns against Algiers, the French were surprised to see their camels, al though reduced to skeletons, making forced inarches with their loads. Mules in their condition could not have carried even their saddles. A camel's flesh is as good as lieef. You can hardly tell one meat from tire other. Camel’s milk is very good, oh I can testify, because I used it in my coffee. A camel generally drinks once in three days, and besides his four stomachs lie carries a sort of reservoir in which Ire stores water. 1 have been told tiiat even ten days after the death of a camel this reservoir can be opened and ten or fifteen pints of clear drinkable water taken from H "On one occasion six camels carried 2.648 pounds of oats and made the jour ney in much quicker time than two wag ons, each drawn by six mules, and to gether carrying aliout the same weight of load. Ou a very heavy rood a caravan of our camels carried from Ban Antonio nearly two tons of outs, making about twenty miles, a day. Tbe rohds were such that wagons could not have been used at aIL I believe this is an exj>eri ment worth trying again. 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