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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1891)
ME THE HEART IS NEVER OLD. T know the smell of the cool night wind As It creeps from its bed in the blackberry vice, Where the sweetbricr roses with thorns are pinned, And th' dew dripping spider webs sUh ;-r and : 1 know t lie yawn __ of t he mousy Htono, . Where thealoepy brook washes th©sand from its ores, Whe-.-. t ho water lmn l.idi si nil.-weds alone, And Ho i.Ulft fish leap ut the Wjf UrnfWi flu*. 2 know the field where the swallow-, d.-trt. wny^ ®y Die hutiches of brasli where the bob whites start. And the jrrras hidden nests where the mea¬ dow lurks lay; J te»«w the thrash of the rain wet weeds _ tiie tore, brown lotto of the wandering. lad, In the strawberry patch where the runaway feeds On ids way to where turkey-toe roots may ho had. I kite ." f ho spring and the shady pool, Tl«>- greet elms on the hanks whore the Al dorueys rub, And the oow buntings shriek in their summer school, To the valiant woodpecker’s t*ub-;#-dub-(lnb. 1 kno w the road to the swimming holo. Through cornfields and strotchos of syea moro shade. To the sandiest bar whom the youngsters roll, And the shallowest bend where the herons wado. 2 know the call of tho crows and jays, *..When they wake in the tops of the slumber¬ ing trees; Round the mul bottomed pool where the green frog plays, And pokes fan at his cousin, tho hoptoad's knees. I know the path through the orchard grass IJo the tree where the earliest apples fall; Wliat if wrinkles do corue aa the flying years pass? I am only in» overgrown boy after ail. —-.Tuck Bennett in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. FREEBOOTERS AT SEA. On the morning of Sept. 1(5, 17.18, with the sun half way to the zenith, tho trim schooner Dolphin forged southward. A gentle southerly breeze rippled the smooth Caribbean waters, find St, Thomas, her port, lay only twenty-four hours’ sail away. Here she was to discharge and load cargo, and thence shape her homeward course toward Boston. Captain Archibald Knowlton walked his quarter deck briskly, for he was -beginning to enjoy the relief from anxi¬ ety felt or; nearin p •-•t safe from disas¬ ter by storm or pirate. Tornadoes and hurricanes were less to be dreaded than tho tierce outlaws that in those days jhaunted the seas wherever merchant vessels sailed. “Dead men tell no tales,” was their maxim with prisoners, and every merchant, captain knew well that t he capt ure of his ship by pirates meant that those of his company taken alive would bo made to “walk the plank.” Tho Yankeo skipper whistled cheer¬ fully as ho looked to windward, where » long, sharp rigged schooner which the morning had brought Into view was mailing in the same direction as the Dol |>liin. From he? course and appearance ho took her to be a trader from some American port. Tho stranger was larger and faster than his own craft kind slowly crept up on her w eat tier quarter. Another more distant sail was in view, a brig off the port bow, coming on with a bur breeze. Both schooners were cl so hauled on | the starboard tack, and the strange schooner was now nearly abeam of the I Dolphin. Five or six sailors and an j t»tii«*er it; plain clothes were in view j tip. ci her decks. j “Wliat do you make her out to be, Abel?” said Captain Knowlton. He spoke to his first mate, with whom he had sailed since they wen' l>oys. “A shiver makin for the west, coast, i luore’n likely." answered A he! Forbes. | •‘She's a good one; (Hills ahead of us j on tin' wind, and not many craft can I do The t hat." breeze, which and J I came went fitfully, was dying wholly away, mid tho stranger, which had come very near, now fell off a little, keeping on the same .tack, as if trying to make the most of wliat wind was left. “If that fell nv doesn’t mind what lie’s a-iloiu ie ’11 run afoul of us," said Captain Kuo “I’ll hull him.” i Lifting his si h ig trumpet, to shout *ed “S almon ihov! What's you name and where are you bound?” “The Piroqua, of Havana,” called had; the officer; then gave a command in Spanish" to his helm; .pan. who sud deuly Shrew up tho wised; the stranger shot aiic.td ;uid laid her pert bow on tin' starboard quarter of the Dolphin. As the vessels pitched and ground together, the Piroqua’s men. preter 1 lag to help in clearing them, passed a hawser about the Dolphin’s main shrouds, fastening the schooners to fpet'uw. A gorgeously dressed n ail up peace,!, sword in hand, on the straui igwr's quarter deck, shouting commands. About tar lee rail rose a crowd of des per.de looking fellows who in a mo uh at more, with flashing weapons and ferocious jvlb, were swarming upon the Dotohin's decks. Before an attack sudden the merchantman's com »J were easily overpowered and made prisoners. and The pirates were of many nations Colors, hi motley dress and armed to the teeth. They ransacked the cabin and forecastle, knocking their captives about and compelling them to assist in the plundering; then gathered with I j their booty * and prisoners in the Dol phm TT Lpop , u ^ P P * -t . rJ-u. 1110 ^ > j 8 \ bearded * their captain, a tail, black w p), a fierce eye and resolute, ’ ' tlun . bps. . He rT cocked . . cruel, wore a j ia t an( | over Ilia shoulder was slung a wide, crimson sash in wjuiCfl wore stuck geveral heavy pistols, and his hand rested on the richly ornamented liiit of the sword at liis side. He put some questions to Captain Knowlton concerning his cargo, the sailing of other vessels from Boston, and tin; measures that the British au¬ thorities were taking against the West Indian pirates. Then he turned to his lieutenant: “We’re wasting time,” he said. “Run a plank out at the lee gangway and walk them overboard.” The pirates, with brutal jests and laughter, began to tie the elbows of the Dolphin’s company behind their backs and to tear up strips of bunting with which to bandage their eyes. The gang¬ way was thrown open, and from it a plank run out two thirds of its length, its inner end secured to the deck by the weight of a large spar. The unhappy crew silently watched the preparations for their cold blooded mur¬ der, while there rose unbidden in their minds last memories of home and friends who could never know their terrible fate. The pirate captain, looking off im¬ patiently toward the brig, saw that with the tail of the breeze puffing her upper sails she would pass them two miles away. At the same time a ripple coming from the west promised wind for his own vessel. “Avast there!” lie shouted to his men. “It’s no time to drown prisoners with that prize slipping past us. Four of you stay with the schooner and work her down in our wake while we give chase. ” The pirates, except four men whom he designated, hastily returned to their own deck and, casting loose from the Yankee schooner, the Piroqua spread her wings to the rising breeze and swept like a gull toward the brig. The Dol¬ phin’s crew dejectedly watched the pirate vessel swoop upon its prey, which, seeming to realize the danger, had turned its course so as to give tlie schooner a stern chase. At this move tho black flag came up to the Piroqua’s peak and, in her true colors, she trowded on sail in pursuit. The pirates left in charge of the Dol¬ phin, in ill temper at being left behind, drove the officers and crew, nine in number, into the forecastle and fastened the door. They shaped the schooner’s course into the wake of the pirate craft and then, while one of them handled the wheel, the others began a search for liquor. A bottle partly filled with rum, found in the cook’s locker, only whetted their appetites. They came the forecastle arid asked the prison¬ ers where the liquor—in those days a regular part of a vessel's stores—was kept. The mate informed them through the airport that there was a cask of rum among the stores in the forehold. They open 1 (he forecastle door, “Come out of there, two of you,” they called ; whereat" Abel Forbes and Jack Dutton, the ship's boy, climbed the ladder to the deck. The pirates pointed to the fore hatchway. “(ret down there and break out that cask of rum, and be quick about it,” they commanded. Very unwillingly Abel and Jack went below and tried to pull aside the barrels ol beef and pork stowed about the cask, The pirates rigged a fall, and by the aid of t his some barrels were hoisted out and others swir g aside until the head of the coveted cask was in sight. But so much stuff 'till was wedged about it tlmt the thirsty ruffians be¬ came impatient. At their order Jack Dutton brought an augur from the car pouter’s room, ami seizing it one of the pirates jumped below. A holo was qu'ckiy bored into ihe cask, and with a I mg reed pipestem ho was able to reach the liquor, which he sucked up greedily until his eager companions clamored that he come on deck and al low them their turn Ottoe started to drinking, tne pirates continued it at i lively rate. They kept Abel and Jack on dock to help the ropes, but at tlmt took the precaution that i' ol the!" number should remain above while the other drunk But. unused as thc-v wore to respond"! ••.'•tv or self control, as th - yaor showed its effect, presently two >f them were at the cask at the same time, and they refused fo leave at the call of the third one, who at last joined them, and slng swearing, laughing, the three caroused w ithout care or precaution. The man at the wheel was a scarred and swarthy ruffian, with gold rings in his ears, a red handkerchief knotted about his head and two large pistols and a cutlass at his belt. Missing his comrades he gruffly called Jack aft “What are hiy mates doing forward?” he inquired. “They’ve tapped tlie barrel of rum in the forehold,” said Jack. “That’s pretty work for ’em to be at, with the craft to sail and prisoners to guard,” growled the pirate with an oath. “Here, you young hellhound, catch hold of the wheel and watch your steering!” forward With cutlass in hand, he ran to the hatchway and shouted to his contraries to come on deck, but, reck¬ lessly drunken, they replied only by in¬ viting him to join their carousal or go to a place warmer than Havana. While they exchanged threats and curses, Abel, standing by the foresheet, saw that the vessel, through lack of skillful handling, had fallen, fully a mile behind the pirate craft. H e por eeived a chance to make a bold stroke for the lives of himself and his com¬ rades, and knowing that as math s stood their doom was sealed in any event, he acted promptly and reso; lutoly. hatchway alter¬ As the ruffian at tiie nately cursed his comrades and im¬ plored them to come on deck, Abel, under pretense of pulling in tiie slack of the jib sheet, contrived to get near him. The pirate heard his movement, turns* 1 , and, instantly raised his cutlass, “So you were trying to steal on me,” he snarled. “I’ll put you out of the way.” The steel flashed down as he spoke. Abel instinctively dodged back atVthe mo 5 on, but that would net have saved him bad it not been for the dangling tackle that had been used in moving the barrel in the hold. It swung in the way of the falling blade, catching and turning the blow, so that the edge of the cutlass sank deep into the wooden block. Before his enemy could disengage it the mate sprang for¬ ward, and his heavy fist, landing squarely upon the jaw, knocked the pirate backward into the hold. With a strength and quickness he could not have shown in a lesser emer¬ gency ho flung the hatch down into place. Quickiy as it was done he caught a glimpse of the three pirates grouped about tho cask, half sobered by the sudden alarm, starting up and grasping their weapons. Directly beneath him the fallen wretch, as he lay on his back with his, head bleeding where it had struck tiie edge of a barrel, had pulled a pistol, and with the slamming down of the hatch there came from below a flash and report that in the confined space was deafening. A whistling ball tore upward through the woodwork and cut a long swath through Abel’s beard and a thin smoke wreath curled along the hatch’s edge as the mate forced the clamp on the staple and secured it. He sprang to the forecastle and opened the door. “Come out, come out, Captain Knowlton,” he cried; “I’ve got the pirates under hatches.” “Steady,” he shouted to the im¬ prisoned crew, eager to rush out. “One at a time, and only two of you. If too many of us are about the deck we'll rouse the suspicions of that fellow ahead; and if do we’re ’ off we worse than ever.” Captain Knowlton, with two men, handled the ropes, and with Abel at the wheel, still keeping tho Dolphin headed for the pirate craft, they con¬ trived to spill so much wind and to so steer that the vessel should make the least headway possible. The distance between the two schooners steadily in¬ creased until they were two miles apart. Tin n the wind fell, leaving the Dolphin rolling on the swell with flapping sails. The last puff, dying away to leeward, carried tho Piroqua along some distance farther, and the three vessels lay be¬ calmed at equal distances apart. In anxious suspense the Dolphin’s crew waited for the next rise of wind, for upon its direction would depend their fate. At four bells in the afternoon the captain and his mate still stood anx¬ iously at the wheel, their gaze turning from the pirate on the east to the west¬ ern water, smooth and glassy to the horizon line. At Nest a little eatspaw from the west ruffled the surface, and coming after it. growing and deepening, a dark r. pie showed that there was wind be¬ hind. The mainsail swelled out, and there came beneath the bows the gur¬ gle of water cut by the Dolphin’s prow. “Ail hands on deck,” cried Captain Knowlton. “Haul aft the sheets. Head her southwest by south, Abel.” The schooner rounded up into the breeze, end the becalmed pirates saw LL::':. .**■’* ' ■" * omd X the Piroqua ‘‘fff? k..\e her cause of the bng to pursue her when the wind came ? This .was soon revealed. With his spyglass Captain Knowlton could see a commotion on Uerdwks.and » the bw reached the pirate and gave her steerage way she headed eloselritoled toward the es eaping scliobner. But tue Dolphin had the first pul] of the freshening wind and drew farther and farther away from her pursuer. The merchant schooner ha d gai ned a fine start, but as the wind became steady the Piroqua, hanging on her quarter, held her own, and began to creep closer, and a change or falling of the wind might again throw the Dol phin into her cruel enemy’s clutches. As tiie pirate, crawling up into the wind, drew nearer and nearer, a sail ffir ahead gradually lifting into view re¬ vealed a great spread of canvas, a union jack flying at the peak and the black and white portholes of a British man-of-war. The pirate quickly recog¬ nized the character of the coming ves¬ sel, and wanted no closer acquaintance. Tacking, she spread her sails free and went off like a shot abeam of the wind, and was soon huh down in the dis¬ tance. At Captain Enowlton’s signal of dis tress there came off to him from his majesty’s cruiser Terror a boat manned by a dozen blue jackets in command of a lieutenant. The situation was quick¬ ly explained, the hatch thrown off, and the pirates, at the sight of the man-of war's men, surrendered without .a strug¬ gle. Justice in those days was swift for freebooters of the sea, and before the Dolphin left St. Thomas the four pirates Jay under sentence in prison awaiting the day of their execution.— TruePlag. Tiie Ivory Nut Grows Wild, The grain of the ivory nut is white and even of texture, so that it is easily carved, sawed and worked into any desirable shape. The ivory nut tree is not formed or raised artificially, as is the banana tree, but grows in its nat¬ ural state and after its own manner in the forests, the same as the hickory, or the chestnut or walnut.—New York Telegram. A Physician in Every Menagerie. All keepers are supposed to study the needs and ailments of the animals un¬ der their charge, and they understand the best methods to coax their dumb friends into submission; but in addition to these keepers eyery circus and me¬ nagerie has one or more physicians who prescribe for the sick animals. An im¬ ported wild animal is too valuable to lose without an effort to save its life, and ail that science knows is brought into requisition to cure it of any com¬ plaint.—New York Epoch. Mosquitoes Not Afraid of Alligators. It lias been said that!'mosquitoes ob¬ ject to the strong smell of the alligator, but if this be so they can overcome their dislike when there is a chance of a draft of human blood, for Humboldt relates that while dissecting a large al¬ ligator, eleven feet long, the odor of r.iiieh infected the surrounding atmos¬ phere, he and his assistants were fear¬ fully stung.—Knowledge. Two Peculiar Springs. In Corea there are two springs, situ¬ ated at a considerable distance from each other; in fact they have the breadth of the entire peninsula be¬ tween them. They have two peculiari¬ ties: When one is full the other is al¬ ways empty, and notwithstanding the obvious fact that they are connected by a subterranean passage, one is bit¬ ter and the other pure and sweet.— North China Herald. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castorla. Consumption retired Cured. 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