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A PRISONER’S RUSH
- HOW ROC ESCAPED FROM THE BP/ N
ISH PRISON BY A TRICK.
A. Clever Firnte Who Won Freedom For
Himself and His Companions by Forcing
a letter and Playing on His Captor’s
Fears.
Mr. Frank R. Stockton, telling St.
Nicholas readers about “The Buccaneers
of Our Coast,” describes the clever es
cape of Roc, the Brazilian, a famous
pirate, from captivity among the Span
ish at Oampeachy. Mr. Stockton says:
When he was coming into the bay,
Roc had noticed a large French vessel
that was lying at some distance from
the town, and he wrote his letter as if
it had come from the captain of this
ship. In the character of this French
captain he addressed his letter to the
governor of the town, and in it he stated
that he had understood that certain
companions of the coast, for whom he
had great sympathy—for the French
and the buccaneers were always good
friends—had been captured by the gov
ernor, who, he heard, had threatened to
execute them.
The French captain, by the hand of
Roe, went on to say that if harm should
come to these brave men, who had been
taken and imprisoned when they were
doing no harm to anybody, he would
■ swear, in his most solemn manner, that
never for the rest of his life would he
give quarter to any Spaniard who might
fill into his hands, and he moreover
threatened that any kind of vengeance
which should become possible for the
buccaneers and French united to inflict
upon the Spanish ships, or upon the
town of Cajapeachy, should be taken as
soon as jxissible after he should hear of
any injury that might be inflicted upon
the unfortunate men who were then
lying imprisoned in the fortress.
When the slave came back to Roc,
the letter was given to him with very
particular directions as to what he was
to do with it. He was Ao disguise him
self as much as possible, so that he
should not be recognized by the people
of the place, and then in the night he
was to make his way out of the town,
and early in the morning was to return
as if he had been walking along the
shore of the harbor, when he was to
state that he had been put on shore from
the French vessel in the offing with a
letter which he was ordered to present
to the governor.
The slave performed his part of the
business very well. The next day, wet
and bedraggled from making his way
through the weeds and mud of the
coast, he presented himself at the for
tress with his letter, and when he was
allowed to take it to the governor no
one suspected that he was a person em
ployed about the place. Having fulfilled
his mission, he departed, and when seen
again he was the same servant whose
business it was to carry food to the pris
oners.
The governor read the letter with a
disquieted mind. He knew that the
French ship which was lying outside
the harbor was a powerful vessel, and
he did not like French ships anyway.
The town had once been taken and very
badly treated by a little fleet of French
and English buccaneers, and he was
very anxious that nothing of the kind
should happen again.
There was no effective Spanish force
in the harbor at that time, and he did
net know how many buccaneering ves
sels might be able to gather together in
the bay if it should become known that
the great pirate Roc had been put to
death in Campeaohy.
It was unusual for a prisoner to have
powerful friends so near by, and the
governor took Roc’s case into most ear
nest consideration. A few hours’ reflec
tion was Sufficient to convince him that
it would be very unsafe to take risks
with such a dangerous prize as the pi
rate Roc, and he determined to get rid
of him as soon as possible. He felt him
self in the position of a man who has
stolen a baby bear and who hears
through the woods the roar of an ap
proaching parent. To throw away the
cub and walk off as though he had no
idea there were any bears in that forest
would be the inclination of a man so
situated, and to get rid of a great pirate
without provoking the vengeance of his
friends was the natural inclination of
the governor.
Now, Roc and his men were treated
well and, having been brought before
the governor, were told that in conse
quence of their having committed no
overt act of disorder they would be set
at liberty and shipped to Spain upon
the single condition that they would
abandon piracy and agree to become
quiet citizens.
To these terms Roc and his men
agreed without argument. They de
clared they would retire from the buc
caneering business and that nothing
would suit them better than to return
to the ways of civilization and virtue.
There was a ship about to depart for
Spain, and on this the governor gave
Roc and his men free passage to the
other side of the ocean. There is no
doubt that our buccaneers would have
much preferred to have been put on
board the French vessel, but Roc made
no suggestion of the kind, knowing how
astonished the French captain would be
if the governor were to communicate
with him on the subject.
He Told Them.
, At a general election in Victoria a
candidate who was making a speech ex
claimed, ‘‘What is it that has made
England what she is—mighty, revered,
feared and respected?” And every one
was trying to think, when a voice with
a rich, sonorous brogue in the back part
of the hall answered, “Oirleand.”
3 f
An old Georgia darky, on being asked
if he believed the whale swallowed
Jonah, replied: “Yes, sub. Jonah didn’t
have nowhars else ter go, ’kase bouse
rent wus due an de bailiffs wuz artar
him!”
HUMAN BRAINS.””*
How toksce View. the INff.rance
Hea and Womb.
The weightier brain would seem also
to indicate, a priori, the greater intel
lectual power, and this, too, is borne
out by undoubted facta Women, it has
often been said, have yet to produce
i their Newton, their Dante, their Aris
totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The
assertion is very feebly met by the con
tention that women’s education has
been for centuries neglected!
It was not education which enabled
Pascal as a child to see his way through
problems which not one man in 1,000 can
understand after prolonged mental drill.
It was not education which gave the
race its great men poets. “They lisped
in numbers for the numbers came.”
But where are their feminine equals?
We will, however, take an art in which
women have enjoyed far more training
than men—the art at music. There are
some excellent women pianists and vio
linists, but where are the female Bachs,
Beethovens, Mozarts and Wagners? Na
ture only can explain the absence of
great women composers as of the femi
nine compeers of Titian and Raphael,
the technique of whose art seems pecul
iarly fitted to women.
Nature tells us that she cannot form
the matrix out of which commanding
intellectual geniuses of the female sex
would proceed. Why this is so we may
partly guess, but cannot wholly know.
We see that nature has divided the
world into sexes for her own purposes,
and that to each sex peculiar functions
arc assigned. We see that the physio
logical functions of woman necessitate
a different anatomy from that of man,
and we infer that these functions and
this structure preclude, speaking gener
ally, the kind of effort which we call
supreme genius, as also that kind, of
effort which we call sustained executive
power. While women are not so far
differentiated from men that they can
not enter with pleasure into men’s
works, and, often in a great measure,
share in their production, it remains a
fact that it is man's particular organi
zation which is alone capable either of
the highest manifestations of Mmius or
the most sustained exhibition of energy.
Whether it will always be so we do not
know, for we cannot peer int<> the fu
ture. It is sufficient that it not only is
so now, but that it always has been so,
and that science does give us some good
grounds for believing that the fact is
deeply rooted in the very structure of
sex.—London Spectator.
THE HEALTHY PALATE.
It Doea Not Crave Condiments, bat the
Food Must Possess Flavor.
While a perfectly sound and healthy
palate does not crave for condiments,
even prefers to do without them, yet
the majority of digestions require to be
humored and kept in order, and their
peculiarities must be studied. Dr. Brun
ton says:
“Savory food causes the digestive
juices to be freely secreted. Well cooked
and palatable food is therefore more di
gestible than the unpalatable. ■ If food
lacks savor, a desire naturally arises to
supply it by not always
well selected or wholesome. ”
As commerce brought them within
reach of the people condiments, in sim
ple or complicated forms, came greatly
into favor, and foreign spices were add
ed to the wild herbal growths of the
fields and hedges. In our early history
the “spicery” was a special department
of the court and had its proper officers.
In the fourteenth century spices were
both costly and rare, most of them com
ing from the Levant Chaucer mentions
many by name—canella, macys, clowes
(cloves), grains of paradise, nutmegs,
caraway and spikenard. The ancients,
especially the Greeks and Bomans in
the luxurious period of their history,
used condiments very freely.
An old English historian, referring
to the earlier Roman court, says, “The
best magistrates of Rome allowed but
the ninth day for the city and publick
business, the rest for the country and
tho sallet garden. ” From this it would
seem as though the education of taste
was accounted of some consequence in
those day a —Exchange.
“Profe»»ors.”
The misuse of the title “professor,”
when it is applied indiscriminately to
musicians in general, finds an amusing
example in the following story, credited
to Bandmaster Sousa and printed in
The Musical Age:
Some years ago Sousa was leading a
band. at a small country festival. The
advent of the band had been awaited
with intense interest by the audience,
and when they arrived the bandsmen
were quickly surrounded by a surging
crowd which hemmed them in so that
it was difficult for them to keep on
playing.
Sousa appealed to one of the commit
tee to keep the crowd away and said
that unless his men had more room they
could not play. The committeeman
shook his hand warmly, and, turning to
the asembled multitude, bawled out:
“Gentlemen, step back and give the
purfesser’spurfessers a chance to play!”
Aggravation Below Stairs.
Mrs. Greene—Really, I think that
girls in domestic service have a pretty
comfortable time of it
One of Them—But we have our
trials, mum. Just as like as not when
we have got a bonnet or a gown that is
particularly becoming, first thing we
know our mistress comes out with
something exactly like it—Boston
Transcript
French billiard tables have six legs
instead of four, as in America. There,
are no strings for marking; score is
kept by chalking the figures on a slate
set in the side of the table or on a me
chanical reckoner inserted in the same
place.
Nearly £500,000 worth of artificial
flowers are sold in London yearly.
OUTPUT OF TWO FORESTS,
The Altaeal leeene*iva'ble Aaacnnt of Lam
her Cut la Wisconsin uad tluUMOt*.
“The Story of a Pine B< trd” is the
title of an article by W. S. 1 larwood in
St. Nicholas. Mr. Harwood says of the
lumbering in Wisconsin and Minnesota:
About 4,160,000,000 feet of logs
were cut in the season of 1895—that is
to say, what is equivalent to 4,160,000, -
000 pieces of board 12 inches square and
1 inch think. I wonder if even the lum
ber men themselves, and the log cutters,
and the manufacturers of lumber in the
great mills, realize what an enormous
amount of lumber this is. Why, it
would build a house around the globe,
with a main room ten feet high and a
large attic, ceiling up the inside walls
and roof with sweet, fragrant pine. It
would put down a matched floor, and
then, when the house was all com
pleted, there would be left enough lum
ber to build tight board fences on either
side of the house 3 feet high the whole
distance around the globe. Besides all
this there would be shingles enough for
a good portion of the house, and then,
if the mighty builder of such a globe
girdling house wanted to fit it up a lit
tle more neatly, there would be a large
•apply of laths, and, I suppose, the I
plasterers could furnish him enough
stucco and lime.
Or if he wanted to construct a roof
shelter for all the people on the globe
our mighty builder could accommodate
them all, allowing to each man, woman
and child a clear space of two square
feet in which to stand, and still have
room left over for 500,000,000 men
with the same room in which to stand.
And, to look at it in still another way,
this same bdilder would have material
to construct a bicycle path of pine, a lit
tle over two feet wide, from the earth
to the moon, for there would be nearly
800,000 miles of board a foot wide and
an inch thick. In sawing this lumber up
into the required length and thickness
there was a great waste in sawdust—so
great, indeed, that the sawdust pile
would stand 112 feet high on a city
square and 500 feet square at the base,
and this is saying nothing about the
vast amount of pieces of slabs which
are split up into kindlings.
This enormous quantity of lumber
represents merely the output of two
forests—one in the northwestern part of
the state of Wisconsin, and the other in
the northern part of the state of Minne
sota, and at the rate the logs are being
cut up there will not be a piece of pine
forest standing in all this vast region at
the end of ten years unless something is
done by the government to put a stop
to the ravages.
MR. LAMAR PAID TWICE.
General Lee Tells a Story of the Justice’s
Absentmlndedness.
General Lee tells this story of ex-Sen
ator Lamar, while the latter was a
member of the United States supreme
court.
“He was in a herdic one day, ” said
General Lee, “and, as was not unusual
with him when not actively employed,
was almost entirely oblivious of his sur
roundings. He was a deep thinker, you
know. Well, he forgot to pay his fare.
The driver rang his bell, and finally an
other passenger called his attention to
it.
“ ‘They’re ringing for your fare, I
think, ’ said the man to Judge Lamar,
touching him on the knee.
“ ‘ls that so?’ asked the judge, start
ing up. ‘I had forgotten all about it.’
He then pulled some silver pieces from
his pocket and selecting a dime dropped
it into the box.
“The passenger who had observed
his action, said to the judge as he re
sumed his seat: ‘Didn’t you make a
mistake? The fare is 5 cents. ’
“ ‘Why, so it is. Excuse me, ’ replied
the jurist, and again making his way to
the cash box he put in a nickel, after
which he took his seat, confident that
he had discharged all his obligations, as
he had, indeed, and more.
“And so far as I know,” continued
General Lee, “he never realized his
mistake. The best part of the story is
that it is true. Goodby. I get off here. ”
—Washington Star.
A Quaint Scotch Wedding Custom.
A quaint wedding custom still pre
vails in many of the little country
towns and mining villages in Scotland.
When *a wedding is held, the contract
ing parties make their guests pay in
full for the eating, drinking and danc
ing facilities which are usually provid
ed on such occasions. The practice still
seems to survive even in Glasgow. A
correspondent observed a notice posted
up in the Cowcaddens —a low class
Glasgow thoroughfare—informing the
public that a soldier would shortly en
ter into the bonds of wedlock, and that
twopence would be charged for admis
sion to the ceremony and an additional
sixpence imposed for attendance at the
wedding feast. The practice seems to be
peculiarly Scotch, but sixpence certainly
seems moderate enough for a marriage
•upper. —Westminster Gazette.
The VaeleM Men.
“Married life isn’t what it is cracked
up to be, ” remarked Mrs. Grimesleigh.
“When I married Daniel, I thought it
would be so handy to have a man about
thehouse; but, Lor’, that’s all it amount
ed to. He’s never at home when he’s
wanted for anything, and if he is he’s
tired or bufiy or something or other, and
so I have to go to work and do the thing
myself. ’3 far as I can see, men are
only in the way when they are in the
house and out of the way when they’re
wanted. ” —Boston Transcript
The sciara, a wormlike insect of for
ests of Hungary and Norway, is only a
tenth of an inch long, yet in migrating,
in July or early August, the creatures
are said to stick themselves together in
a serpentlike mass often 40 to 50 feet
long and several inches thick.
In Derbyshire county, England, there
is a subterranean rood seven miles long.
It connects two mines.
FORMER DUELS.
•omo of tho F. moo* Affair. of Honor of
the Put.
General Benedict Arnold fought a
duel near Kilburn Wells in 1701 with
Lord Lauderdale, who, after Arnold
missed him, refused either to fire or to
apologize, saying that if the general
was not satisfied he could keep on firing
until ho was. In 1804 the turbulent
lord Camelford, the symmetrical ar
rangement of whose whips and sticks
over his chimneypiece is described by
Byron, “From the thick bludgeon to
the taper switch,” lost his life in a
duel h<f owed to a vengeance de femme.
Captain Best had caught a sharper
named Symonds in tho act of cheating
and kicked his face to a pulp, The
man’s wife wrote Camelford an anony
mous letter to tell him his friend Best
had slandered him. A duel was fought
with pistols (they were the two best
shots in England), and Camelford fell
with a mortal wound. “You have killed
me, Best,” said the dying man, "but
the fault is wholly mine. I relieve you
of all the blame. ’ ’ But men of mature
years and established reputation risked
life as recklessly as the wildest young
guardsmen or London rakes.
Charles James Fox fought a duel with
a cabinet minister, M r - Adam, in 1779.
Four shots were exchanged. Adam
missed, Fox fired in the air and apolo
gized. "Sir,” said Adam, “you have
behaved like a man of honor. ” In India,
toward the end of the last century, a
duel was fought between Warren Hast
ings and Sir Philip Francis, the latter
being dangerously wounded. Shortly
afterward, in Bombay, Lord Macartney
and Mr. Sadler quarreled at the council
board, and in the duel Macartney re
ceived a dangerous wound. The Earl of
Talbot and John Wilkes, fighting a duel
at night in the garden of the Red Lion
inn, at Bagshot, and discussing the
conditions of it beforehand in a private
room over a chop, is a tableau de mceurs.
George Canning was seriously wound
ed when he and Castlereagh met at Put
ney in 1807 to exchange four shots. In
the duel between Henry Grattan and
Mr. Corry a bullet shattered the latter’s
arm. As late as 1885 Mr. Roebuck
fought a duel with Mr. Black of The
Morning Chronicle, when two shots
were exchanged without result. Tho
fighting parson was then as well known
as the fighting editor. The Rev. Henry
Bate, editor of The Morning Pqst, was
both. A dead shot, and with what his
contemporaries call "a profligate
tongue,” he was most successful as a
duelist. He "pinked” “Fighting Fitz
gerald,” a Mr. Temple, a young barris
ter who was his assistant editor, and
several others, but met his match at
last in Captain Stoney Robinson, who
gave him a severe wound, but whom
he also wounded.—Cornhill Magazine.
The Number Thirteen.
The superstition that 18 is unlucky,
which is traced back to a sacred, source,
meets with as many contradictions as
confirmations. The fact that the horri
ble fire in the Paris bazaar started at
booth 13 was telegraphed all around the
world, whereas little notice is attracted
by Nansen’s success with 18 men. At
one time 2 was a dreaded number in
England, owing to the dynastic disas
ters to all monarchs second of their
name from Ethelred II to George IL
Yet Napoleon’s number through all his
life was 2, and who could wish for
better luck than came to Goody Two
Shoes or than that which results at
times from having two strings to your
bow?
Three, which since the days of Py
thagoras has been the divine number,
shows that it is not invariably fortu
nate, for, though the fates are three, so
also are the furies. The graces axe
three, but so also are the judges in
hades and the heads of Cerberus. Then
there are the records of three disloyal
tribes in Welsh history; there are the
three robbers in Orion’s belt; there
were the three tyrants at Athens, and
3 in mythology is as unlucky as it
is divine. Just so clearly as it has been
shown in time that the unlucky 2
can be lucky and that tho pleasant
8 can be unpleasant the followers of
the late Captain Fowler would show
that the unlucky 18 can be the luckiest
number there is. So wo may as well
regret his departure, while we wish
success to his associates.—Boston Jour
nal.
Hi* Authority.
Daniel Webster’s oratory was not al
ways of the ponderous order. Occasion
ally he would introduce a bit of hqpiur
very effectively, an instance of which
The Green Bag gives as follows:
Daniel Webster when in full practice
was employed to defend the will of
Roger Perkins of Hopkinton. A physi
cian made affidavit that the testator wax
struck with death when he signed the
wilt Webster subjected his testimony
to a most thorough examination, show
ing by quoting medical authorities that
doctors disagree as to the precise mo
ment when a dying man is struck with
death, some affirming that it is at the
commencement of the disease, others at
its climax and others still affirm that
we begin to die as soon as we are born.
“I should like to know,” said the op
posing counsel, “what doctor maintains
that theory?”
"Dr. Watts,” said Mr. Webster, with
great dignity. “The moment we begin
to live we all begin to die. ”
Religion Verna Politics.
Clerk—Man wants transportation to
Chicago.
Railroad Official—Confounded cler
gyman, I suppose. Well, I hate to do
it, but you may sell him a ticket at
half fare.
Clerk (a minute later) —Man says
he’s not a clergyman. He’sa member of
the legislature.
Railroad Official—Ah! Tell him we
take pleasure in handing him a free
pass.—Brooklyn Life.
Smaller, bat More Active.
The tongue of woman is smaller-thin
that of man. —Exchange
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that has borne and does now y/f/? , j’""' on
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