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BY AUNT SUSIE.
(This is » corner set aside for the Little Fo.ks of The Cirxtitution for their enter
ttiMMt an-i development :. :?'• art of let tef-wiiting’.)
The Moral l.ittle I»<«C
“Ob. come with me." sai l the bls doggie.
As he winked with his eye that was
dotted;
H • had. they say. a fascinating way
Os scemi’g to be kind when he plotted.
The lit’!* dog goo-1 said he wished he
eouhl.
But mamma “No. no” had told him.
Ke was very much afraid, if away ha
strayed.
That mamma would surely scold him.
"If only you yield and come out in the
lie*.-.”
Said the big dog. whispering low.
“'i’i.i .-v’-i -t v-e little mouse for you to
An i a bird to chase. I'3 show.”
Xt ith a yearning risk, and a soft ' oh. mj!
Th-.- link ->o< pri- ‘:«4 up Ids ears.
Ti-’-re w;.- f.at alive, could he contrive
To ei>.-le his mothers fears.
The t-mp'-r wily Ms chops licked slyly.
Arda ide-I. in accents thick:
“iMwn by the Mono there’s a great, big
For you and me to pi-de.”
Then tiie little dog moral he scented a
“Oh. no: t.:y ma.” eaid he,
”T<! 1" ».»• I • '-ht to 'void him who sought
•fa .i bone with me.”
S-. wise dog stayed and his ma obeyed,
; .t 1- truly had found the reason
doe's Uribe, who was one of that
That delights in tights and treason.
\ ; • ’tl' -log sa'.e H* '’ a good vid age,
"A aile he f •! on pie and liver;
( UM t
. . r...ri.g river,
t’harks I-.. U Wingate.
.♦- -
Five llollnr*.
. \ i : : • • • iv
nd Helen Davkisoa and her great
•n r tatatas ahoat a
.. . . x ■ they had been tnvtted.
•At II.” .-ai-t It i n. “if Aunt Vera does
- nd n that ■ (in time) she p ■•n-
. i- i •.- || • •>. ns ! du mt
lik ’to go it. my old white dress.”
•til.; tii-i’i :• ns •«•,“ s-.il Aim*-*. “your
x.bi:-- dr ■ ; looks v -ry niet-.
Ku: I-- 1.-n cviiH not be convinced. The
tv. j girls w«‘*c anxious to look their liest.
:s tiny a a- they Would be criticised by
most of tl • girls.
It iv . ed and Ihlen had not re
... n... j. - - and sh«- was very sad al*Mit
It. s-he > her moth r couldn’t afford
to buy ;■« r •: new dress.
“XV-iL k t‘: r.” said l.«!en. “it’s only
w---*: i- :■< th (tinner. and it looks as
though has fm-tottwi h-r promise.
s-> I th; ■ had «» Iter write and tell Marion
that I w'!l not nuend her dinner.”
“Why -t in your white dress. Helen?”
said h« r nio-.hvr. “It is neat an I nice, and
Icm y.-ry sorry to e you so dbmpp 'tilt 1.”
“I am •■. :j» no i.t.-d, t,. liter, ami I intend
to stay at h< m
H-.rdly h.. : she finished speaking when
the • «i •'a: a:.d it was the t-tslni.in.
■nd 1 ' r ior h. r. It contained the
|o:.r I eii-d-for - Sb- pat on her hat and
wnt «1-v. n to buy her -iress. <»n her way
■ •own r met a little g’rl, pooily elnd and
I -I,- -1. Tie Lit-,- girl ask. I Helen for
: : I voice. Helei
h art v n>o»- . to pity, and she a !.• d Ike
.fad, w . H.ed stud if she had a
n --th . 1 lr «»n<- said she had a moth
er, but th nd co ltd r.-’t
v-rk. Tn- thought !• sh.-d through Helen’s
r !i-l to ■_ • h me w;:!t th«- little girl, and
-lid. :! <i found in r mother ill tor want
off« -wl. Tii pl;-- - was . lean, but showed
gi.-at j -.- rty. I’- l--n talked a little while
t » !;• r. ani said she must go, but she
w< iil-; s ;-l l.'-r something. Helen went to
tl gro-.-r and ordered groceries tu the
a-. -> u.t es C. and then she ln»u"ht the little
gi I -h-- « .nd a dress, as well as the
ruetlur. She t Id the man to Send the gro-
•■> •- riviit aw;-y. She then went home,
and her mother said:
A\ 1 y. -I. I- ii. you have been a long time.
I • -ii . i.t you v. -i I-st. What kind of a
dr-. • i you buy"’
>'l •• t . r mother that she had npent
l -1- i y in a ixih r way. Then she told
*. ■ all a-• it it. H--r mother was v< ty
•- ' i■■ ■ :t- tr; f. r lift-- girt so tend.-r-
L-i.if ■ .i I pr -mi. »-d t go and s< e her
pr- -t« .
I’el-u went to tie >ini:er in her white
nr- --, i-’i-l I am glad to tsgy she had a
t, -I tan WAHREN V. STONE.
New Orhans, August, 15-31.
lot M. f Os K S< OIHtEsPONUF.NCE.
loiter- of | xehawge Among Ihu Conati
tntion’n l.ittle 1 oiks.
Anna K X -r-l. c.imil. n. S. t*.—l will answer
the -,iw—tn-ii- asked by iLvt-iya Lamar:
th >tUii was Samson's tn: -.
t.-rar., -i I. : ■ -n uas called the Cincinnati!* of
tl- • west by Ou- repubhcatis.
I Aii«r- - I! -al- -ii.1.1 I enjoy reading rhe
y- -z • - l-t’r-i* and i*lnnkctt's • ver m* rnm-li.
hat Ila- I -•<-■■ ot “lb»y \!i i;u of tin- Girls?”
< •■me. writ . am. w«- lilt yoi.r letters.
(.•adn t amusement. I approve <>f
g-»nl . I i. -tiikv nun-ais-c, lut good nov
el- ar*- uiten-tiug.
How many language* are spoken in the world?
How i.-.uiv -li.lvrt lit religions do tlicv proles*?
’» h i*. i-» Un iiHs-t (•■odest guecr of Inruiturv?
< --rre»|Kn>deuts solicit! ik Age tiftacn.
'I. oi Ma-i«. n. <• rtes, S. C. I live on a ts-auti*
ful larut. situ-:e«i *;-ren miles south of Pickens
r-»>irth«-r <- . a;-*l < ii unit * north of central sta-
tion. Uc have a good Sunday m-li<s>l, alsiut
••igbty I believe on the r»»ll. I am teadn-r ol the
seni-r da—at the .Methodist church.
i have not mi—ol Sunday school since it was
org-ni/cii this year, ilow mr.ny ot the cousins
read a chapter each day? It is a very easy task; i
fa.; ve not i--i—--d a i.ay this year.
I am exte-vting to go with a crowd to the mottn
ta iis in a’-mt a week; it will be my lirst trip there,
t. urtentaiudcuta solicited.
Portis Mathi«. I nion, Ga.—l am a boy fourteen
years «»t age. I live one mile from I'nion. a snudl
•tatmn. My father is deadband my inoUier.brother,
si-tcr and I live with my grandfather; he is a
farmer, and has a great i >any bogs. «lw-cp and
cat» e. He lia'l-rci: taking "ihe Constitution tor
ten years, and I read it all the spare time I get and
injoy it very much.
Our e--uniy ant democratic by a small majori
ty. The p»pu> st' in «nr< o<ii>ty are mostly negroes.
lam a d«-n. .cTat —no popnlist m me—l was born a
denim rat and expect to die one.
W. Shelter. «|nin«-y. Fla.—l have lieen absent
frot.i yoitr < ir« -two years, havtng l-ecu «»rt on a
t«mr in H“-i-oitn. I a". >n take great delight in
Hading Thet’onstilotmn.
It i« ill • net tr. - an old acqnaintancn to read
the interesting iettet* i-ut !:->ln-d in the Vonng
I oA- < orte r. - meof which are very t-toiitaldc.
■-.wet *dy tlie ue-cripiive ones, ilescnlung as some
• t’tiir •-•m-iiis d--. the many places of bistorie.ii
interest, the resources, p-ople. etc., ol their
home*.
11.unk etieh letters as Arthur A. Mosher’s.of
\rt 1 ::y. Kan.. wril«— are ihiUi interest.ng
a- -l i-rotu lirtr a» a -.eography lessen.
• •uinev i- a l-> mtitul nil!- town situated on onn
of the highest hili, in Gadsden coutiiy. It has
. v .ur-.li-.-, «m c-g.ir favtviy
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER
. which employ* ■ ever.il hundred cigar rollers, and
’ tw.< |-übiic st ii-Md*.
'l'ti.- >i:rr< iiimiug eoiintrv is peculiarly adapted
f-'i lli-,r’-»tli of talKo-co, sugarcane, and other
pi di:-*- lor th- market.
I wiii a-'.; • lew historical questions;
\t I■ n. and nt wh.ll price did tt>« Hutch buy
i H inh.ittan isl.ind Iror.i the Indians?
Who-.-.i-t M.Hi->ns lor del. ns-., but not one
rent lor tribute? '
It hat di<! the I'nited >tat< s pay Spain for Flor
ida?
W.uiid like to c-.ncs.HUi-l with some of tin
' cousins who are lover.* ol books, either sex.
I.nmile .1. Ford. Milledgeville. G-t. I have long
bin :i i:y|i-r o! ti c Vonng • oik.-* Corner, and
think it v-n ii t« r tin;;.
i ■:< !-.-i Miiiv..:y. tw • rule--, from the Untiring
l-ttiecityof »; ,ii< I I<. Hi- have one church,
• o.i- Sundav *c!i tol. i-no school. li-.<- -tores, the bi
ll. i'. a -.i.iiiiami Hr. A leu’s invalid home is also
la •ett I. tie villcge.
In. Vh-ii’s bon-, is bi-autihilly sittritcd; the
io-m,- th. t siiriound it are b-vely. He has a
.-•~.<i iu.:i y parents. iot:a ti -iu othei states.
to it.< Uidw it •• l ..»i|. V» 11! some ol lie coiis-
. “Nobody's I'.irl-.im
In -a., it year dot V. i-li.ngtoii retire?
What .va- Gem lai Waytic '-.illcil by the Indians?
. I'lh'-l Smith ami Ma lte llitelico -k, Sparta, Ga.
I Will you I • »t«u l-'in y'Hr happy
ei.•-!-■? \ • !,,u- l-e- ii r.-tol.ng t i- dear old Con
st It ten !.-r a lot-L- while, ami tin tile that it is the
, l« -t •• i; e; prin'e I.
I •-! •ttie, lite at ;:--n.., Ga.. but am spending
' awhile with cousin I-. nd.
I. Ftliel. g„ to s«-|iiH t ; tn Sparta and like to go
I very much, .n.didi. what a jolly good time I have.
■ We hate IM pupils. I ocy are building a new
sd.oolhou •• v. iivhwill lie quite an idditton to
1 Simr.a wlie.i eo-tt, Idl'd. .My botiu- is situated four
mi -s un s ..rt i.
i M e will answer tu-n ot Hattie and Lizzie Wil
' linuis -quest I >Us •
; Kl* liL< a tail IH-catisc it is the last letter
1 in i 0r...
To.u .* Hick s granfather.
Mi Mould lite lo i.ive a few correspondents
■ Ourag-s arc •hiiteen amt fourteen.
, 'i.; iIC t.-licrott. Collyer. Kaii«.—l am a Kan-
sas ;ri. asking lor admission to tin- happy ha nd of
- <-•iisiiis. laui.i'su.i ti-.'lclivr in Gtaliani county
-: '.I-: J -.. 1> i<- to 'il l ( umtn ■!-■:•. which « IS
! alm >ut two year* ago.
i t can such marked improvement in the
young folk- letters, amt tli:i-l. that a great ir.aiiv
lot tie in will pl.-lit by t'.e 1 iiowlcilgc imparted
then lam living tiie.ifli-ati-nils.-It for a teach
er, aud lam ti-.t.-l-iiig my fitst term which is of
> Im- months' lir.mti’Ui. I inti nd to protit by cx|ie
• in n e. and h. v pii'.lyid time art 1 am bow six
. te- ii ye.il-* ol agi
I have only foul pupil* now but will have more
i alter auin!*-.
1 I agree with Mone swain, of Blue monntain.
| Mis».. that to rlis •!«-.* “How to • .irn a livvlliood,”.
• v .mlo l.<--. i-i i interertiiig. I also tliinK teaching
is very proi t .b.e, aitiio-igli in othei states it may
n<-t Im- so u.m-t, so a* here.
1 wi-h toei< iituige some «ongs. Write for list,
“Ili-.'.;>p.»i-.itcd Hoy,” Box M, Banana, Fla.—
lie II < •|--.!I- 1 s:ip ( -.-se you i-m by my
name w lat iiapixned to me. If you can't
, 1--..|S|. Xiint 5t,... .-lie . ,1! t'-’l you.
i Itn an orphan, my father lieing di ad nineteen
I yi its. i’lthips \i.nt Susie will dose the door
ag.du-t n.i- the it:i '. lam sure she until lit She
. .uld sra- «m-, for t have advanced in Mize as well
I was irised n ! irn • > and taught t> '-•• contented
with my lot. ilioiu-'.i I < anno; say illat I live hi the
I i'-toaitot the w.c Id i liavc a'w i»* laia ed .Ma
ryland and the \ itg liias to be Ireautili ! Countries
ami ph ..-.'.nt to live in. My grandmother on
H I , - , l-.c Was V.l-s 1.11.’l \. Il.i’li- ' M”l‘h V,,
ot I.oiii-.i - oe.iity .\ ii gmi.i. I would like to hear
fr- tn a- y toy'relative* that may sre tins.
I would like correspol.dents wl <> do lint use tO
l-ai-eo ot wiiisky, and uave good characters.
Addr- -• xa all ire.
Olive I’. Grace. Citn ui-lle, Fla.—Some cousin
» -.--d a very instniciive subject: “Which
ibc- more tow nd t!u-to-ni itioii ol character, eti-
I m .rii-ii orenvirorimei.t'?”
I d t sis I; «u |aople get along that can't read
1 tu t write. I think they w- tild have a very lone
-1 k.i-n - time. I l.io-w I would.
| s-Hie n-iys ami gr-Is don't appreciate the oppoi
i tnmtti s they Juveot going to scUimi*.
lin v alowi’heir 111 Ilia- land id Howers. The
wnaial'ata- cola led with yellow, blue and White
llaawets.
1 Hunk I had rather live in Florida than any other
part ot lie- I ia.la-.| “tate». la-iany ol tile cousins
like tli-wei»? To any one that will write to mt-, I
wlll MIMI them some Hower sei d. 'Ur Ims.'ithat
' tia- sreal e line from |, very larg-- and tall and lias
i a !••:.' th it Iceis like velvet. Its Hower* are lage
• | ink one*.
Mid some of the amtisin* p!ca*e sa-nd metho
Vi : ite -Bai , a: d■ • 11. ■ll iri ll■ . . P-
. hind?”
“Cot-.tdry Girl.''Jona. Mi«s.—This lovely after
noon, wnli tm- autumn w .nd* starring among the
tn-i's ard toblnng them of tl.etr golden foliage, I
will step in. have a short chat with tin- cousins.
.'u-et of the c -.:sins have some IH-autitul scene
rj | o .i. .; .! • I• . t I - h lioi - I ■ d an >' lung I>u I a
ii* pp* coiiiitr* lioux-, s’irroumled bv l-> >utilul for
est ot to es. and that is almost al! that heart could
> wish.
Hai-y T’ -ii. you are mistaki n in thinking win
ter in rhe i ounirv -•«• lonely. M country buys and
girls en.ii v omseives as hau.u in winter a» we do
in 'rniiiK r.
s.tllie <IWI lls. Ili'W delighted 1 -v.itlld Iw to Step
oti-i rear the coast and view tin- broad Atlantic
asv->U'.iy.t must be onc‘ol the most beautilu,
things in'n.i.ure.
V.o i.tiuu davs w ill scon !<c gone and I will lx- so
; glad. lorl am real anxious to .’tt nd schiml. Mo
should all strive v< ry hard t>. - ■ -ute an education.
lam saving st:;’iip' lor our little friend. Edna
Blow- r. “A good <!• cd i- never lost,” and 1 think
'' we should all try t > help her.
Cuiresj-oiidenbs solicited.
' “What's left id George.' Tuskegee. Ala.—l have
long Irreii re rding the t< nth page ot The Consti-
I Hiti.-it alii; I'l.-I .. *i IT mb ii -' uig.
I live in Macon county. Alabama, jnst one mile
■ from Tuskegee. I have been worsing ill the sum
, mer so a* I can go to schiMil Hus w inter. I love to
go -o -i-hool. <mr school iqa-us the Stith day of
' Septeliila r.
I love to read “l.ittle Mr. Tliiniiiletiuger.” Also
• Surge riunki tt. M i:en- i "Bov Aiiaid ol the
Giiis?" He I, is not written lately; I love to read
i his letters, ai ii also- l.ively Youiigtin,” what has
i ■ Kofy "U ' 1 ■*". M like t>> inn irom yon
r | will clo-i- by asking some questions:
V. ii:»t man i- it wl.o never was a boy?
What was Hie ii. st thing that Adam planted in
the garden ol Eden?
Why d ■« a v'la kiu walk across the street
thi ■ mm
M hy <i« s a laraii r bu.ld hi* hog j>en near the
crib?
Nit.-l Lenox. Isaca, T-x. Xnnt Susie, here comes
a little I- xas girl to join your happy band it she
hi- ptiu! >u. Me have not been taking 'I lie
* 'oust 11,it ton l>nt it slnirt film'. It iMiugfa we tliink
it is lie- Im— t pa|H r printed.
I Mill .ii'-a -i II i tie and i.izxie Williams’s ques
tion* : --Muyi'-i drawn to >tli like a thing for
got?” i'a I isc it is out ot tin-head.
tio-'eu l.ii/i.-th bed* het pills in color (side heri.
‘■M hy i< tl*.- leiter k like a pig's tail?” Because
j it is at tin-cml of |huU.
> **H lin k >. :h< iis T>-tn's son, what relation is
1 OicktoTom?" *l«m Is Hick's gramlfatlier.
I will ask a lew eii--s'ioiis :
When w.cs the tu t s’ -.iiuslup built?
In w-lmt yx-ar did ttie tirst ucws|u|ier advertise-
• ment ap; eat in?
I will ex* hauge ‘l'll Be All Smil * Tonight,
Ilae.c." -I'.uiiiiie lllura.” and tor
“Itou't You'l liink l*m i'retly,” and “Tmu l.ittle
Girls !n Blw
I will elose by asking ior correspondents frutr
ten to twelve years of age.
8. <’. Berry, t'a'tlelie: ry. Ala.—l have long lieen
a reader of the Young Folks' t'orm-r, but this is
my t:r-t attrmpt to inter. The Constitution comes
to'o’ir house every Tuesday, anil I always go to
Hw* young iolks'liepartiueiii first alter glancing
ov -r the latest new# li-u-i all tliroiigli Hixi.-.
I have i-reii itupii-ss- u with Hie tact that most
ot the cousins live in the country away from’the
railroad -, and Mill tell Ito- vmisins that I am an
exception to that rate, as ! live ne.ira*iii.illrail
r»a«i town among the yellow pines id' south Xla
liaina.
i Tins is a •'-• lightfid i nuntry to lire ia. i -|M-eially
in rhe summer, when we Isiys can go to the lienit
ttlul stleatllH of en-ar I Ul-ning Hater and bailie
and throw rocks; that is w. n*cd to take a dvligiit
in throwing racks when we were small boys but
now we are grown we leave the rocks lor the small
boy*, not that the rocks are at all scarce but bc
cam*e we do not eare for them now.
M e have a great mauv tilings livre that would be
interesting to the cousins of sotno other parts of
tin- < onstiluiion s territory. The sawmill men
hue dithes ent fifteen miles long amt walled
up on Hie sides with plank, amt they put their logs
in these ditches ami tlo.it th in to their mills
where tln-y are ent into lii’iilmt. dried and dressed
and shipped oil to market, principally to north
ern cities.
All the large logs are cut into square jimber nntl
floated down the river to Ferry i’ass. Fla., and sold
i to the timl er inert hants of I’en-aeola.
t astleberry :s on the Louisville mid Nashville
• railroad, ami all passenger trains stop for passen
> ger*, and we have eight train* a day.
M e have -piemiid fishing l ere on Murder creek,
Which is al-o'.ita halt mile Irom town.
t'oriespi'iuients solicited.
C. M'. Bareiunre. Attic. M'.isli.—l ,<m older than
nu st of you seem to lie. from your letteis, but as a
teacher, nn inner ol Hie i'.S.C. E.aud LO.G.T.,
I am much with voting people, ami am interested
in everything which seek* to ulevato and please
them, -o I am pleased with :h>- Young Folks' t'or-
; lie;. and admire Aunt Su-te and her work.
.My In.me is l.n away from the sunny south,
alHiut ten miles tmm Gray'.* harbor on the J'aeitic
coast, aiming tiie enormous trees lor winch this
region is f.nuon*.
How many < I ym ever saw a free 2">o feet high,
, and < igl>l feet 111* d.ameur ut Hie ground I There
• are M-vei.il hundred i nch on my ••claim.”
I live near a small stream -'.died iiorth river, and
just n-»w f!;-> salmon ami trout arc beginning lo
ruu up from salt waler, so for the ntxt two or
three monilis Hie w iter w.'i lie alive witli the f.i-
is < .ililorin i -aiinon. wa-i: hmg irom twelve to
l t*uty pounds, and we can catch them by the hun
dreds ; d-o : li>- trout weighing 1 rom 1G too pounds
and very -amey.
I should lik • to tell vou about my visit to M'cst
pi it Beach tliis rummer, and inv summer witli a
govei O" io - rveying crew, and how I killed my
tii't Ih-o .but un afraid the hobgoblins will get me
ii I don't !oolnut I
So I will close, asking any of yon who wish to
hear about my adv ntures id write tome and 1 will
I try lo iiuetest you a little while.
Byspeptfcs, naturally enough, are afraid
of hoi cal..-, bis.-utf, pastry, pie crust and
inulliim. Hot f>> i may l>> eaten with im
punity when in ide with Dr. Price's y'reain
linking Powder.
A Ml sit tl. <*»\VERSATTON.
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Bl .
SW/
t—Professor, vs bo lire some of your
fnvoriti- com posers noil |ier for icci-s t
ProfcMsor: Well, there’s Vaiterrwxki,
l.esi-ln-l izl* > , tloszkim ski.—
Ve-k'l '<•
r i
g— .Tni-liii IKo-.vsk s , XX I eninvv.sk I, Slit-
X inski, *-t rc’zk 1.-
1 ' ! -
’ lev. \
I .. ■''*
i i 1
i' 11 I
3—’/.-iremhski, Tnrnowski and Kow
nlski.
I -B. Is
ii'egt ,rir
I— Dear me! I wonder w lint's the mat
ter with her?
• .
Lively Time*!
Now, all tiie country's full o' fun
By ev< r* field an’ ntutnp;
You eat di the rabbit on the run,
or eaii'h him on the jump!
In fields of gam. the "pointers” stand—
The hound-dogs bay the buck.
You're solid with your rifle, and
Your rabbit's loot for luck!
In the New Diwuin’s-
Tourist (in new town)—What’s all that
hi rrahing for? , , ,
'JooTaer- Just r<>t a bttrrol o whisky an
they’re Koin’ to hold an election.
Tourist-Ami what’s going un where all
that dirt’s Hying? , , .
Boomi-r That * a Florldy mosquito bortn
I an artesian well.
THE PIRATE TREASURE.
PIERRE LE GRAND AND THE SPANISH TREASURE SHIP.
BY HOWARD PYLE.
Pierre Je Grand, buccaneer and pirate.
Such was the name and title of the first
of the great freebooters of the West Indies.
There were others who came after him
as famous, and even more famous in their
time than he-Mansv. lt, Bartholrtnew Por
tuguese, Roch Biai’.ilianous, Lolonoise, and,
finally, the gre.it and always to be r-nicm
bereil Sir Henry Morgan, the conqueror of
Panama and the king of the buccaneer
pirates.
Hut just now it Is to be told of Pierre
Grand, <>r Peter the Great, as wc would
call him in Eiigiish, and of how he enp
tured the great Spanish treasure ship, the
vice admiral of lite Spanish llota, ofi i'ap<?
Tiburon, down in th hot West Indies, some
where about the year 1665.
The word "buccaneer” does not itself
mean pirate. Tiie buccaneers were really
curers of neat by a process of drying in
the sun, called "buccanning.” or “bui ca
neering.” The man who first invented this
process of preserving r.ieat was a Seotch-
Englishtnan, by name Buchanan; hence the
name “Imcane- r,” or “buceanei r.”
The men—the bucean* ers—chiefiy center
ed in the neighborhood of the northwest
coast of th” island of Hispaniola (afterward
called Santo Domingo), and in the n> ighbo' -
ing island of Tortuga, or Tortoise, so called
because of its shape, which was lik" a sea
tortoise floting upon the water.
In this part of the West Indies there were
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"Heaven Bless Us! Are These Devils, or What Are They?”
great herds of wild cattle, which had be-n
brought over to the Americas during toe
previous century by Spaniards, an*
I wliieh now roamed at large over tin- pam
i pas arul through the tropical foiests of
these two islands. Thi se tiie buecaneoi s
hunted and killed, cutting up th’ ir tlesh.
drying it in the sun and sellin-- it to the
Spani-h ship captains who sailed in »nd
out along the gn-ut Bahama charnel on their
way to America or home again.
The West Indies were at that time the
vast treasure house from which Spain drew
all her wi iltli. Ever since the discovery ot
the new world by Columbus. Spain hid laid
claim to all that finin'nse part of tiie world
—to all those thousand b-aiititnl islands
scattered over the wonderful I'aribbean sea,
to all the northern cons' of South Aniori -u
and the isthmus of Darien and Panama,
and to all of the west coast of the continent
| bordering tin- wide J’aeitic ocean.
I Now Central, am! i-“i c< ially South Amer
ica, are perhaps the richest spots for gold
panel tiiver in the world. There in the tath-
I ornless and tangle 1 forests are rivers whose
I surds daily sparkle with particles ot the
I precious metal rocks seamed and honey
ombed with yellow veins of treasure Lx -
i ' where Spain had her agents gatheiiag
and gathering ami gathering from this vast
storehouse treasures of the precious nr lais
which were carried across the ocean in
i those queer old higii-pooped ships and pour
■ cd. a golden stream, into the coffers ol the
Spanish king.
of course, all this enormous treasure
I emptied out front the new world into Spain
I -tilde the Other nations of Europe very en
yious Os b-r. Nobody f-lt that all that
■r> at western world really belonged to one
people ami to one king. Other nations felt
1 that they had just as much right to bring
‘ iway from the Americas some of that na
j tive silver and gold as had Spain. Spain.
.' ipon li t' part, striving to keep everything
I tor herself, sent thither great wa-ships to
' keep other nations from taking rrotn the
' great mother earth tnat which the Spanish
| peopli- claimed belonged all to tlr tnselxes.
So Spain, trying to keel’ all the rest <>f
the world out of the West Indies, ami all
the rest of the world striving to get gold ami
silver for itself, it came about that for two
centuries, even when the nations of the
earth were nominally at peace, there was
war. war in the West Indies, ceaseless war,
bloody and cruel.
Now. when the buccaneers firs’ came to
the Spainish M.’in, as It was called. :i <y
. atm- there, as was said, not to rob Spam of
her silver ami goM. but to gain money 111
another way. Ship captains that came to
America had no means of obtaining pro
visions to victual Ih.-ir ships for the r
turn voyage. Th r> was no flour and no
grain. There was no meat, and if there
had been meat there was no salt wh. r. witli
to cure it. A ship captain had either to
victual a ship for the round voyage to the
West Indies and return, or else run the
risk of falling short of provisions. Some
times a ship’s crew would almost starve be
fore they got back to their own coun
try. When Buchanan first invented his pro
cess of curing meat, and when ship cap
tains began to supply th. iselves there
with, he made an enormous fortune in a lit
tle while—such a great fortune that nearly
every one that had nothing else better to
do began to turn his attention to curing
meat as Buchanan had done.
These buccaneer curers of meat were
nearly all English. French and Dutch. But,
as was said, Spain did not allow any ot ■
the other nations to come into her parts ot (
America. So she tried to drive the buc
caneers out of Tortuga. The buccaneers, j
upon their part, gathered together into a ,
little army and fought the Spaniards. So ;
be'ran a war; first favorable to the Span
iards, then to the buccaneers, which did :
11,,t cease lor over twenty years, and only .
terminated finally when the buccaneers I
took possession of the Isle of Tortuga in the
name ot’ France, and drove and kept tl.o ;
Spaniards out of that island.
After tliat they buccaneered their meat ,
in comparative peace and quietness until ,
so inanv men were hunting wild cattle and .
drying their meat that the business was no ■
longer profitable to anybody.
It was just about this time that Pierre,
of whom nobody heretofore had ever heard,
became Pierre le Grand.
He was at that time living at Tortuga.
He had been, it was said, a native of
Diepi’c, in Normandy, and from this faint,
distant glimpse w<- catch of him in a queer
little Dutch history published m Anister- I
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caensche Zee Hoovers, ' we may see Pierre,
a wild, desperate, roving Frenchman, prob
ably the chief of a band of buccaneer meat
curves as wild and as desperate as himself.
It vras to Pieri'-- le G and that it occur
red to carry the war with Spain out into the
waters of the Caribbean saa.
Th.-" old ! ;:< i atici’i s were not only hunt
ers of wild cuttle ,h.l outers of wild cat
tle mi at; they v.i»n also skilled and ven
ttircsonn sailor ■'. rfo one day Pierre le
Cmii’l ; -t sail in a little open boat with
twenty-eight nn it and ventured out into the
Bahama channel in quest ot' adventure
against the Spamaids.
liuvcaiiecr towns in Tortuga must have
been just s iidi little scattered villages of
huts, come of stone, but mostly ot wattle,
smeared witli mud, as they now build down
in tiie West Indies. The houses stood
facing th. naked, dusty streets along which
they stood. There were cocoa palm trees
evorywnere. and bananas and all that
thick, luxuriant vegetation which overruns
everything with great, thick masses of
gtc.'ii foliage. I'p and down the hot, baked
streets uni clustered around the "orui
narv,” or drinking houses, were the__ bue
i-au. -rs thems; Ives—wild, desperate, shag
gy men, with wide brimmed hats ot' woven
grasses; with great, baggy breeches and
I'lrt coats, with belt and badnalier and
nr.ist ! sword, and a musket almost as
heavy as a little cannon. A couple of
pistols hung from a sling about the neck,
and .*> knif" was thrust in the belt.
Such were the buccaneers, and it was
with such a crew that Pierre le Grand set
sail ia a little open boat and skimmed
away out of tiie great wide waters of Ba
hama channel in search of a Spanish boat
to tight.
It was not until they had reached off
Cape Tiburon, on the west side of Hispa
niola. that Pierre and his party fell in with
any adventure.
"The boat.” says one historian of this
adventure, in h's quaint English of King
Charles’s day—"the boat wherein Pierre le
Grand was witli iiis companions had now
been at sea a long time without finding
anytJiiug, according to his intent of piracy,
. iiitabb to make a prey. And now their
provision beginning to fail, they must of
necessity starve. Being almost reduced to
despair, they espied a great ship of the
Spi’nish tlota, which has separated from
the r: st. Tiiis bulky vessel they resolved
to set upon, and to take or die in the at
tempt.”
This ship was the Vice Admiral of the
Spanish tlota, or fleet, and it was loaded
witli gold :i id silver plate.
It was about evening when the pirates
sight’d her. The shin was th n nrobably
ri>!ing at anchor: a huge, unwieldly struc
ture. rising and falling on the slow ground
swell of the hut. smooth sea. big and black
again t the western evening sky. Far
i away in tiie distance was the scatter’d
;!>• t, al.■•■> riding at anchor. The little open
boat witli th’ buccaneers in it sail'd to
war ! her. "That very day." says the hls
tor’an. "the captain of the ship had been
told by some of the seamen that a boat
which was in view cruising was a boat of
pirat--.-. t'nto whom tiie captain, slighting
th-’ir advice, made answer: "XV iiat, tiien:
must 1 be afraid of such a pitiful thing as
that is? No; nor though she xvere a ship
as big and strong as mine is."
S > now Pierre ip Grand an 1 his pirates
were rowing silently toward the plate ship
through the dusk of the evening that fell,
as it falls in the tropics, swiftly and sud
d> nly. They drew rearer and nearer, and
th Snaniards did not see them, i’ierre
made all of Ins men swear a solemn oath
to stand by him in the hour of coming
darner: th.'u he ordered the surgeon to
bore holes in. the bottom of t’te little boat
in whi ’h they were, so that it wotibi sink
beiwatii th>’iu ami they would have no
means of escape, so that it would I” either
to tight and to c mquer or else to die.
Thee came nearer and nearer the Span
iards. Now they were very .dos,, aboard,
and the great bulk loomed up almve them
big and still in the gathering darkness and
the murmuring silence of the tropical night.
Pierre and the others reached out and
stopped th<‘ oinimr th *ir little boat.
Tiie surgeon had done his work, and it was
already filling under them, the water pour
ing gurglingly in’o it. There was no
longer any Hine for delay. They must
leave their boat or it would sink beneath
Hi in. i’p the side they swarmed in the
darkness and over lb<‘ rail of tiie big ship.
"This.” says tiie historian, “was perform
ed accordingly and without any other arms
than a pistol in one of their hands and a
sword in tiie other.”
The next moment there was a patter ami
a scuffle of bare feet on the smooth, still
deck <>f the Spanish vessel; a dark rush pf
men's tiginis hither and thither. Pierre at
the head, with three or four men. ran
swiftly through tiie darkness across tiie
ite.-k and into tin- great cabin: others ,ran
to tiie gunroom ami took possession of the
gens a.id ammunition.
In the cabin the .-iptain of the ship was
sitting with some friends playing cci'.is by
th.’ dim light of the lantern swung over
head from tin- deck ai.ove. i’ierre burst
the door open with a kick and a blow ami
rushed directly tip to th- captain, thrust
ing out liis pistol and pressing it against
that officer's breast, “commanding him,”
says tiie chronicler, "to deliver up the ship
unto I heir obeiHem-e. The Spaniards.”
says he. “seeing the pirates alniard their
ship without scarce having seen them at
one.’, cried out; ’Heaven bless us! Are
these devils or what are they?’ ”
They were i.either “divils” nor men. They
were the first buccaneer pirates of tiie
Spanish main.
Thus at a stroke and without a drop of
blood having ln-tn shed, tell the Spanish
vice admiral, the treasure ship, with, no
man coak! tell, how great a treasure
tilioard, and v.ithout a single other one of
t.i>> Spanl-h fleet knowing that there were
pirni> s r.ear at hanil.
Pietro le Grand set the captain ami a
number of th- crew of the \ ice Admiral
ashore In the darkness, the rest being kept
on board the boat to man her. Then with
out waiting tor morning they slipped the
cables still sailed away toward France.
How great was the treasure they gain
ed, how vast the amount of gold and silver,
there is no record. It must have been
enormous.
I’ierre reached France in safety. “Th. re,”
sacs .he el'.roniclvr, “he eontimutl without
ever returning unto the pints of America.”
Such is th” famous exploit of Pierre le
Grand the first buccaneer pirate who, at
a single bold dash up the side of the great
Spanish ship, gained inestimable wealth
and fame in live minutes’ time. It was
the first spark that set all the West In
dies into a blaze, that of piracy ami ra
pine, that did not cease for over twenty j
years.
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