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VOL. I.
THE CALLEONS OF SPAIN.
King Philip had vaunted his claims:
He had sworn for a year he would sack
us;
With an army of heathenish names
He was coming to fagot and stacls us;
Like the thieves of the sea he would track
us,
And shatter our ships on the main;
But we had bold Neptune to back us—
And where are the galleons of Spain?
His carackes were christened of dames
To tho kirtles whereof he would tack us;
With his saints and his gilded storu-frnmes
He had thought like an egg shell to crack
us; '
Now Howard may get to his Flaccus,
And Brake to his Devon again.
And Hawkins bowl rubbers to Bacchus—
For where are the galleons of Spain?
Let his Majesty hang to St. James
The axe that he whetted to hack us:
He must play at some lustier games
Or at sea he cau hope to out-thwack us;
To his mines of Peru and he would pack U3
To tug at his bullet chain;
Alas! that his greatness should lack us—
But where are the galleons of Spain?
„ ENVOY.
Gloriana—the don mav attaok us
Whenever his stomach be fain;
He must reach us before he cau rack us—
Aud where are the galleons of Spain?
—Austin Dobson.
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• f OHVLU CAWCn I FROM nUlll PIR&TF^ I lllniLUi l
$ a Tiff, of ihf, spaxish ,n a i ^ f
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In the beginning of the present cen¬
tury the Gulf of Mexico swarmed with
pirates, preying on the commerce of
every nation. One has only to refer
to the newspapers previous to 1826 to
recognize how great were the perils of
a seaman’s calling in those days. Ships
disappeared at times with their officers
and crews, and it may be years after
that some desperate sea rover brought
to the gibbet told the story of capture
and destruction. The worst locality
in the West Indies was the south side
of the Island of Cubji. Here lies the
Isle of Pines aud a succession of low
keys that afforded the pirates excel-
lent opportunities for concealment,
All merchantmen went armed in those
days, bnt the pirate schooners, carry-
ing one heavy 24-pounder, could cut a
vessel’s spars to pieces aud thus make
her defenseless.
In 1824 an English brig from Ja-
maiea, bound borne, was taken off St.
Antoine, her crew massacred and tbe
vessel beached on the coast of Cuba,
Her cargo was valued at over $209;-
000. The British government started
an investigation, and it was found to
be the work of a Spanish Irishman
named Cain, who had a fast topsail
schooner called the Esmerelda, with a
crew of 200 men of all nationalities,
among them two Philadelphians also
named Rreut and Supplee. It was
found that in disposing of the plunder
a Spanish coast guard vessel had con-
veyed most of it to Havana for sale,
and that many Spanish officials were
interested in the affair,getting a share
of the plunder.
The British government went for
the Spaniards in a very vigorous man-
ner, demanding indemnity for the
past and security for the future. The
Spaniards yielded and agreed to equip
a force to cruise on the south coast
and search the keys for marauders,
A fast sailing brig of-war, El Toridor,
carrying ten guns, was put in com-
mission, under Captain Hernani. He
was a fine sailor and an honest man,
and soon made it very unpleasant for
the pirates about the Isle of Pines and
Cayo Largo. At this time the United
States had a fleet of small vessels
doing police duty in the gulf, one of
which, the Enterjmse, commanded by
Lieutenant White, was very active and
had daptured several pirate craft and
cut up their crews. It was on the
same station as the Toridor, and ar¬
ranged with Captain Hernani to co¬
operate with him, and if in want of
assistance at night to show a light at
the mainmast head as a signal.
Information had come to the
Spanish captain that a consort of the
Esmerelda, a very fast sailing schooner
called the Bonita, commanded by a
negro named Pinto,would try and get
into the Largo Key at night, Bhe
had beeu on a cruise, away south and
■was reported full of plunder, The
negro captain was a bloodthirsty ruf¬
fian about 50 and was badly wanted
by the Spanish authorities, as he had
murdered a brother of Captain-General
Galviz in one of the raids ashore. So
the Toridor lay out about three miles
away from the pas's between the Isle
of Pines and Cayo Largo, tossing and
heaving and keeping her cqpper bright
under short sail. It was said by Eng¬
lish captains in those days that you
might make-Spaniards fairly good sea¬
men, but it took constant hazing to
make them stand a decent wateh. No
TRIBUNE
“Don’t Give Up tlie Sliip.”
BUCHANAN, GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1898.
sooner was the watch set than one-half
went to sleep and the other half to
play cards and gamble, leaving tbe
ship to itself. Such must have beeu
the case on the Toridor on this uight
of the 10th of August, 1822. Even
the officers on the quarterdeck were
dozing while the captain was below
asleep. The man at the wheel v a 9
the only one on the alert. Suddenly
from the northwest came a bright flash
aud then the boom of a gun and a
shot whistled through the rigging,aiid
then a cry from the helmsman, “Ahoy,
there; here’s two boats alongside.”
In those days muskets were kept
in racks under the break of the poop
overhead, covered with tarpaulin, and
the boarding pikes’were lashed to the
mainboom. To these the startled crew
rushed, and the sides were alive with
men coming aboard yelling, “Kill!
kill!” There is no want of courage
among Spaniards, aud the crew fought
desperately. The captain was on deck
aud at once sent a man to the mast¬
head to light the signal lantern, and
with his officers and marines pitched
in; but the shore party had got first
blood and they fought like tigers,
while the heavy shot from a big
schooner not over 300 yards away
came fast. The Toridors retreated to
, the quarterdeck aud encouraged by
their officers made a desperate fight,
but it was evidently a losing game.
The schooner had her sweeps out and
in a few minutes would board the brig
with a crowd of |resh assailants.
Fortunately the Enterprise was not
more than twelve miles away, iu the
southwest. The watch had been
changed and the new lookout had
just gpne aloft when he called out:
“Deck ahoy! There goes a gun right
nor’east off the starboard bow.”
In a minute all was commotion.
One of the officers sprang into the rig'
ging with a night glass and hailed:
| boom.” “There it goes again; I hear the
The commander was on deck.
“Thank fortune, here comes the wind
from the west. Make all sail, Mr.
Hamilton. We’ll run down and see
what it is. That’s a heavy gun. The
Toridor has only eithteen-pounders.
I They would not make a flash light like
1 that. Beat to quarters and cast off
j -the starboard battery. Ram in a
round shot over grape!”
The breeze had freshened and the
j Enterprise of fairly walked. from The the deck, flash
: guns was now seen
i and the lookout hailed that he saw a
mast headlight,
“The Spanish brig is in trouble. I
hope nothing will happen to my friend
j Hernani,” said the officer. remember. A tropic
dawn is something to
Long before the sun rises there comes
a beautiful rosy light, making the
sea a sheet of gold, and thus every-
thing was made plain to the Enter-
prise and her crew. The Spanish
brig was enveloped in smoke and the
noise of the conflict was plainly
heard. The schooner was sweeping
up to board her deck alive with men.
The American was 200 yards away,
right across her bows, and then came
the order, “Give her two divisions—
; rake her fore and aft”
1 The effect was tremendous. A
chorus of yells and
from the pirate and down came her
foremast and maintopmast. “(iive it
to ’em again,” and her decks were
clear. Backing her mainsail in a
minute more the bowspirit of the
Enterprise w as forking over the bow
' of the Toridor and 'the cry was,
: “Boarders away,” The man-o’-war’s-
j men made short work of the pirates
in the waists, aud, all escaping, got*
into their boats and pulled for shore.
Priming a carronade with a pistol
cartridge, the Yankee sailors dis¬
charged it, cutting one boat iu two,
and in a moment the water was alive
with sharks, taking care of the crew.
The schooner was at once boarded
by three boat crews. Tbe decks were
deserted, but all at once there came a
deadly- volley of musketry from the
cabin, killing three men, and then a
rush, headed by Pinto, a tall,grizzled
African, powerfully built. He shot
Lieutenant Hamilton through tbe
body and was attacked by the ward-
room steward of the Enterprise, a
giant mulatto from Baltimore. He,
too, got a bullet, but struck Pinto’s
right arm off with a cutlass stroke,
and the villain was taken alive, the
only survivor of his crew.
In the waist of the Toridor lay sixty-
two dead men over forty being of her
crew, and Captain Hernani admitted
that in an hour more the pirates would
have owned his brig.—Philadelphia
Times.
Great Britain has 294 torpedo boats
and torpedo boat destroyers.
ALFONSO XMrS JEDUCATION.
The Boy King u» Apt Scholar^Hls Blit-
guistlc Attainments, ,
Alfonso XIII must begin to feel
finite his first a big examination boy. He and has obtained now passed the
small green and \\hite paper diploma
which allows tho average Spanish
youngster to enter a university. The
examination took place last week, m
oue of the saloons of the palace. The
Queen-Regent was present, and so
was the Princess of the Asturias, while
a goodly numbei of court hangeis-on
danced attendance upon the royal
ladies. The Infanta.Isabella came in
and went out from time to time, and
smiled encouragingly at her nephew.
Not that he uanted much encourage-
m ®?. t *
His mother „ watched the proceed- ,
ings with eager interest, smiled at the
boy, and nodded approval at some of
his quick answers. The Princess of
the Asturias was, possibly, even more
profuse in her display of admiration,
In addition to the usual subjects, lie
has passed in elementary algebra,
geometry, physics, chemistry, botany,
zoology mineralogy ethics, psycolpgy,
Latin, A, Greek, French aud agriculture.
French, in i,:„ his „„„„ case, was pmeh..a,.mat- Qrnnf
ter ot form, because, like bis -ail'd. sisters* Gei^
he speaks French, English
recent %£ his‘ goVemeT’f™
=sa ss
In glaring distinction to this comes
other morning. From the document
it appears that the sums due to these
long-suffering people for arrears, of
pay extending over several years
amounts to the enormous figure of
$2,000,000. If we were indebted for
elementary education to the same ex-
tent our liabilities would reach into
the millions in round figures. Of
forty-nine provinces into which Spain
is divided only seven are quite free
too, debt to tH, respect—London
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Materials for a Skyscraper.
An idea of the amount of material
required in the construction of a mod-
ern office building can be gotten from
the following figures furnished by Mr.
McCaul, who has charge of the con-
strnctionof a sixteen-storv skyscraper
*
in Philadelphia.
About 8000 cubic yards of excava-
tions, 4000 yards of concrete and
stone masonry, 4,371,555 pounds of
steel, 300,000 pounds of ornamental
iron, 36,000 pounds of ornamental
bronze, 10,000 cubic feet of granite,
weighing 900 tons; 260,000 square
feet of fire-proofing, weighing about
3600 tons; 1360 tons of patent mortar
used in plastering, to cover 42,000
square yards of plastering; about the
same amount of cement mortar used iu
briek and stone masonry; 40,000
square feet of Pevonizza, Numidian
and Italian marble; 15,000 pounds of
nails, 10,000 cubic feet of terra-cotta,
weighing about 290 tons; 325,000
face brick, 1,500,000 common brick,
24,000 square feet of glass, weighing
about 73,660 pounds; about thirty
miles of electric piping to encase the
electric wiring throughout the build-
ing, and about ten miles of plumber
and steam fitters’ piping. There were
on an average 200 men working on
this structure from the start until the
finish.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Most Antique Military Order.
The order that claiirik the greatest
amount of antiquity is the Military
Order of St. Constantine, which used
to be bestowed by the king of the two
Sicilies. This order, if its historians
are to be believed, was founded A. D.
317, by Constantine the Great. Eight
hundred and seventy-four years later,
in 1191, the Emperor Isaac Comnenas
renewed it. One of the I’alaeologi
confirmed it in 1261; in 1637 the last
Palseologus gave the order to the
Duke of Parma, aud the Emperor
Leopold confirmed it in 1691. Un¬
fortunately, the iconoclastic Victor
Emmanuel annexed the kingdom of I
the two Sicilies, and let this aged
order drop.—New York Sun.
Fungus Carvings. .
Ornaments of a variety of fungus
found in the Adiroudaeks are in de-
mand. Pictures are carved upon
them, the dark coating surface of the
fuugus forpiing the background aud
the figures appearing in white. The
dark surface is cut away to form the
drawing. Touched with a kuife the
coloring of the fungus becefcnes a
darker brown, so that all depths of
shading are possible.— Trenton (N.J.)
American.
2,500 MILES FROM ANYWHERE.
81l , pwrecUe ,, 8aUo ,. g K „|oy tl.e Hospltal-
Ity.ot Kanakas.
Wbeu tbe steamship Cottage City
arr i ved at San Francisco from New
York to join the Klondike trade it car-
i*jed three shipwrecked sailors, picked
up a t Valparaiso. I
Th wert} Jack O’Neil of Safi Fran-
c j go0) 'william Walsh of New* York
and Jolm DalI> a Norwegian. They
had been aeame n on the bark Monan-
tum wrecke d seven months ago.'-
“We were on the way from Ncwvcas-
tle> Australia, to Pauama wjseu tbe
bark sprung a leak,” said. O’Neil, at
tbe Sailors’ home. “Captain Newhall
t U8 at the u and ho SOOI1 con .
eluded that we would have to *r\in for
Easter island. This island, jniud, is
off the coast of Chile?- about
2500 miles from anywhere. *
« T h e captain > 8 i dea w 'as to run the
bai . k ’ so he Vasfl’t £
what cour8e he took ; and;a3 ard luck
WQuld haye it> we b n&e d into ‘ ttJ -eef.
That 8ettled itj and we trarely sd6’
ded in ge e ttiug ashore with ,our y
j. •
r.a. ter lsiauu is at out t en y mues
long . and eight or nine miles wide. It
J s 1 inhabited la ‘! d bva b y simule p and ” hosnitable ta
-M oLKanakas^about , , . 180 of them in .
f '° —• "> »“<* ^ **
unceiemomously r conducted * r? ? me to has
J' est ot the crew had to put up with
J he homes of the ordiuaiy citizens
but we a! 1 had about the same amount
o* beef a “ d 9weet potatoes to eat.
These aie the only foods we saw on
the island, and as the cattle inn wild
and haye scant pasturage the beet is
Pretty a da > .<£} lean. th f They ^^? d have only^pneTneal C ? B ^ 8
five > -
abput , q^lock the
m
B y one of those ftfttn.y fi e«SA TO
I painted tbe king’s house for him red,
1 white and yellow, with trimmings of
tar. His barefooted highness tnought
- that w as out of sight. He had an
extra dinner that day, just as they do
a t weddings and funerals, and he
never stopped chuckling.
“We bad been there six months
when a sailing vessel landed and took
us to Valparaiso. The king aud all
the subjects—men, women and chii-
dren—shouted in lamentation as we
came away.”—San Francisco Exam-
“
iner.
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Advertising in Germany.
German ways of advertising are
considerably different from the push-
ing methods of the Americans. j u
the electric streetcars in Leipsic what
few r advertising cards there are find a
place on tbe ceiling, instead of around
and below it. In the theatres per-
mauent signs appear above the stage
setting. German ideas of the fitness
of things are better than the Saxon’s,
in this respect, at least. Window dis-
plays are popular, aud many of the
windows of the large stores extend
down to the floors of the basements.
Perhaps the chief mode of street or
public advertisement in Leipsic is tbe
use of a large number of circular col-
unins, about four feet in diameter and
twelve feet in height, which are sta-
tioned throughout the city in conspic-
uons places. On the cylindrical sur-
faces of these iron columns advertise-
ments in great variety are displayed.
The form and style are modest, and
are usually only small paper placards,
of a great variety of colors, annouuc-
ing the name of the article, its merits
and uses. Here also are posted the
opera aud theatre programs in type
not much larger than the ordinary
newspaper size. These advertising
posts correspond, in a measure, to tbe
fence display advertising so much
used in American cities, but are really
not much more than public bulletin
boards.
A Prehistoric Mine.
In the southeast corner of San Ber¬
nardino county, Cal., an expedition
from San Francisco has recently dis-
covered a rich turquoise mine appar-
ently worked many centuries ago by
prehistoric people. The mine is 60
miles from Manville.iu a mountainous
country, and had been disturbances. partially oblit-
erated by volcanic Stone
hammers and other implements were
found in numerous old pits,
The Bavarian quarries, which fur¬
becoming nish the best exhausted, lithographic aud this stone, are is
stone
consequently getting high priced.
NO. 32,
INGENIOUS INSURGENTS.
Novel 1 »k of IMioxplioru* In the Firinjf
of Cnhiin Plantation*.
Professor Marshall, who is head in¬
structor of chemistry at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, in the course of
a recent lecture on the action of phos-
phorus* read some extracts from a
letter lie- had received from Cuba,
which told of a novel use the insur-
gen* had'made of this chemical. In
the summer live(j.in.>&. 'dfj»1096 t»» provHl .writer where of the
letter had ce
the raising of sugar crop'was wasfftJie principal
.industry. The just ready
for harvesting, when the Spauisli - ol-
diers took possession of the district
a nd proclaimed martial law. • The
i fields throughout the - district yere ,
covered withmje sugar-cane, whir'll is^
very irfflamj^Ka:^ the’presence spldiers
Definite of the
flelS. thkkisurgents managed to fire several
* The Jbrce of sentries was
dttfibled, but although n'd insurgents liTore
were seen the fires became fre-
quent, it Vas concluded that the
firing was being done by strategy, and
all suspicious togj've cllpvaifters Vere there-
after forced 4u account of them-
selves. au out ld f iaimei ariaei . carrying cariyiug -a ».
large basket, who was m tbe habit stopped' oj
naasinsr “f the linesre"ularly was •
r.
awftre of hw•surveillance,* the 8US -
He wa8 at onee an . es ted
anJ CQ l lfeS8ed to tbe bm . u i ug c f the
tta i d JT j t see -* mg that each of those
> bntter contained a quantity of
i j* hospborU8i w hi'ch, as is well known,
, ^ spontaneously ‘ when exposed
j to tbp heat of tne sun would
melt bntt „' aUd .expose the phos-
phorus. J The length'of time it took to
! uelt the butter allowed the incendiary
.. out of the neighborhood before
‘ he «*— br » k » o«l.-PhiM c lphi.
Record -
i Electricity and Health.
The London underground railways
a j' e , . arrangements . o supp , y
electricity in place of steam, w lie
lias tor many years been tbe motive
, Where
P°"’ e1 ’, \ Cst> /? tea lueb \.,
i stea ™ ha9takeu , the place , of ho ls ® 8 a
j. ^noity 8 l '. eat P has oint at baa \ an , beeu ages 8 auiet o\ei , » a . + o e nei ec ‘ ,
j P° v>ei 111 il 1 oes no 1 a e e
atmosphere, and , is . not , only clean , , y
i but according to many persons,health
hie giving. The atmosphere it
is claimed, becomes peuneated with
electric fluid w ue 1 is a ouu,
goi'miade and geneiai res la lie.
All underground roails wull be grea y
tbe 8 aul el ' 8 oy adopting his means o
propulsion. . It will,
owevei, lenei-
essary to put all wires under grount,
aH dangerous results when ue
. become coated with ice has been
made tragically appuren in some o
our large cities. New lork Leigei.
Growth of Telephone Business.
Twenty years ago the telephone w as
practically unknown to mankind,
w’lnle today there are said to be about
1,500,000 telephone subscribers in tue
world, ot whom the larger part are.in
the l nited States. lteceut figures
put the details of this total as follows:
The l nited btates leads the list with
about 600,000; then comes Germany
with 140,000; Great Britain with 1 5,-
000; Switzerland, 50,000; trance, 35,-
000; Austria, 20,000; Russia, IS,000;
Sweden aud Norway 16,000; Baval ia,
15,000; Denmark, 15,000; Italy, 14,000;
Holland 12,000; Spain 12,000; Bol¬
gium, 11,000; Hungary, 10,000; Wnrt-
tern burg, 7000; I inland 6000; Japan,
3500; Cuba, 2500; Luxembourg,2000;
Portugal, 2000; and Australia 2000.
The remainder are divided among the
smaller, countries,from Roumanin with
400, down to Senegambia with 100.
The Manufacturer,
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AVater-Cress.
According to analysis by M. Clmtiu,
director of tlie School of Pharmacy,
Paris, water-cress contains iron, iodine,
phosphates and other salts. As a medi¬
cine it has been vaunted for its efficien¬
cy in all cases of weak digestion. For
food it ought to be used in its green
or uncooked state in the form of salad
or without any seasoning.
Popular Wood Shops.
It is estimated that there are no
fewer than 70,000,000 Europeans who
wear wooden shoes. Basswood is or-
’ diharily employed for sabots, but wil¬
low is tbe best material. Poplar,
beech, walnut aud birch are also used.