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“BECAUS S' I I-OVE ’you."
"I cannot bringf you wealth,” she said;
“1 cannot bring you fame or place
Among the rioted of the race,
But I can love you,
“When trials come to test you, sweet,
I can bo sunlight to your feet;
My kiss your precious lips shall greet,
Because I love you.
“When daylight dies along the west
You will come home to me to rest,
And I shall sleep upon your breast,
Because I love you.
“If sickness comes, beside your bed
I will bend low with quiet tread,
And pray God’s blessing on your head,
Because I love you.
“As dew clings to the violet,
Making the fragrant chalice wet
So my life into yours is set,
Because I love you.
“Only myself, my all, I bring;
But count it, sweet, a precious thing
To give my life an offering,
Because I love you. —
“I bow before no other shrine;
If I go first across death’s line
I will return to claim you mine,
Because I love you.”
—Sarah K. Bolton.
CHINESE PIRATES,
From the year 1852 to 1854 the Chinese
Sea, from shanghai in the north to (Sing¬
apore in the south, was infested with
pirate craft. As for that matter, this
sea had been- the cruising ground of
pirates fora score of years previously,
but I men non these two years for par¬
ticular reasons. One was that I was en¬
gaged in a vigorous warlare against
them, and the other that the close of
185 1 w.tuessed the deaih of ihe leading
spirits In those and broke up piracy as a trade.
far hack days comparatively
nothing was known of l hina outside of
a few seaports. Treaties were of little
account, and Consuls were few and far
between. Every merchant ship was ex¬
pected to defend her.se f, and the Cap¬
tain of every man-of-war had authority
lifirnbq.d his any town which refused to
renew water anu piu.
nations were trading with China, but,
aside from a few few seaports, all ( hina
hated all other people. At the docks at
Chinese Hong t.ong I couid drink tea with the
merchants. Half a mile away
the people would have cut me to pieces.
While the country wanted to sell its
products, it h ,ted the men who bought
them. While it wanted the goods of
-other countries, it despised the makers
and shippers. There is no doubt that
the Chinese Government tactily en¬
couraged piracy, and could the great
mass of the pop lation have had its say,
not a single foreigner would have been
allowed to land on the coast.
In the year ’54 there was an associa¬
tion _ at Canton caLed “The Loreign
Traders.” It was composed of Ameri¬
cans, Englishmen, Germans, Frenchmen,
Spaniards aud Kussians, and numbered
over sixty representat.vcs. -The
represented amounted to millions, and
the ob ect was threefold. We ha! more
power with the Chinese Government
than any foreign Minister. We had
rules and regulations regarding the tea
trade. We could carry a point by pro
tests and threats. Every pound of tea
from a district 500 miles square had to
pass through our hands. \V e tiled many
protest against the pirates and the laxity
of the government in hunting theta
down, and were finally officially informed
that we were at liberty to take any steps
we deemed best in the matter. That
meant we could fit out a craft and go for
the rascals right and left handed. We
h;d been anticipating this, and had a
-craft ready at Hong Kong. She was an
American schooner of excellent model
and large spread of sail, and we knew
that she could outsail anythii g, native
or foreign, v we had ever seen in thore
waters. We aimed her with a Long
Tom and four 24-pounders, havino
salvage bought of the guns from the sale of the
a French man of-war. Then
we picked up a crew of fifty men—ail
foreigners and sailors—and when we
•weut out of Hong hong we were pre
pared to give the pirates Hail Columbia,
I was purser of the schooner, which was
called tho i evenge, and her captain was
had an Englishman named Wetheruee, who
served aa a commissioned o.ficer in
the regular service. The first lieutenant
was an American, and the other oificers
were divided up among the other nation¬
alities. We tiew the association flag,
and while we had liberty to go for
pirates, we were warned that any m : s
takes would be ma le to cost us detrly.
The two boss pirates of that date were
had Shung-Wongand Chin-Lung. The first
a fleet or seven or eight craft, and
haunted the sea from Singapore north to
the Tong-Kin Islands. The second
cruised from thence as far north as
Formosa Shanghai, liaviug his headquarters at
Island. He was reported to
have a fleet of nine craft. That both
were monsters we had a hundred proofs,
and that both had grown rich and power
ful it was easy to show by the long list
of missing vessels hanging in the head
qua; ters office. While we had kept our
movements as secret as possible, we had
no doubt that Government officials had
given us away, and that the pirates
would be on the watch for us. To de
ceive them as far as possible, we ran to
the south for three days, and spoke and
reported to four ships bound for Can
ton. 'I hen we ran over toward the
1 hilippine when Islands headed until we had a good
o i ng, we up for Formosa
to get tiring acquainted with old < hin-Lung.
H the next three days we did
not sight a sail of any sort. Then early
one morning we fell in with a lot of
had wreckage which showed us that a trader
been overhauled and burned. We
were now to the east of Formosa, and
fifty miles otf the coast. Men were set
to work to give the schooner the appear
ance of a vessel in distress, and under
light bree/e we made slow headway to
ward the island. It was about 4
in the afternoon before anything ap
preached us, although we saw a
of native craft at a distance. Then
small junk came out from a bay
five mites otf, and headed directly
us. Every thing aboard of us seemed to
at sixes and sevens. A man
lashed to the mainmast, to repre
sent the Captain, everyth ng aloft
a-kew, and the seven or eight men on
deck we.e seemingly drunk and
a high old time. VVe had a man
to play a part, knowing that we should
be hailed in Engl sh. Both of these boss
pirates had Americans and Englishmen
with them—rascals who had deserted
their ships and voluntarily adopted the
li e of a pirate—and one of them was al
ways put forward to hail a ship. The
junk came steadily forward to within
hailing distance before she came up into
the wind. This was proof, whether she
honoat or not, that our
deceived her. The men on deck yelled
and shook their fists, as drunken
m ght do. but at the first opportun.ty
voice hailed us.
“Schooner ahoy! What schooner _
tb at?”
“The Revenge, Capt. Thatcher,
to Shanghai,” answered the man aloft.
» . What’s the matter aboard?”
“Crew in a state of mutiny forthe
three days. They have lashed the Cap¬
tain to the mast and driven me aloft.”
“What’s your cargo?”
“General merchandise.”
“Any aims aboard?”
“Only a few muskets.”
There were a do en men aboard
junk, board.- but they dared not attempt to
They chattered away
themselves for a while, and then
spokesman called out:
“V ery well, we willbriDg you help.”
With that the junk headed back for
tb e b: >y> accompanied by the yells and
curses of the apparently drunken crew,
We Lad a native aboard called Shin
Tee. He Lad been in the headquarters
for several years, and could be de
ponded upon. He gave it as his opinion,
*Lat the junk was a spy boat sent out
b E ,be pirates, who never attacked a
ve3sel Ly daylight without taking all
due precautions. He said we would see
*Lo pirate fleet come out, in case no sail
appeared on the horizon, and his words
gradually w ore s vedily verified. We had been
edging inshore, and were not
over five miies front the land, when we
caught sight of five junks coming out
after U9 - There was a good woiking
Lree-e, and now, aa was only natural,
we began to crawl ol5: - B y seeming to
want t0 get away very badly, but by
carefully manipulating the helm, wo
were seven miles off the land before tne
fleet reached us. Vie were satisfied of
th eir intentions long enough before. It
was nol; t0 help a vessel in distress, but
^ b> rakc advantage of one almost help
ess -
The junks kept pretty well together,
and when within rifle shot each one
raised Chin-Lung’s flag and uttered a
c. eer. Each had a couple of howitz.ers,
wiih wh ch they opened fire upon the
schooner, buts-no haim had been done
when we were ready to spring the trap.
At the word of command every r.an was
on deck, the and gun things crews jumped to their
stations, aloft were ship-
shape in a moment. Then we wore
round to get between the pirates and
the bay, and opened fire. A Chinese
junk is a mere shell. One solid shot
went through them as if they had been
paper. The poor chaps were unnerved
as they soon had as they saw the trap into which
their fallen, and devoted all
could energies to getttng away. We
outsail any of the junks, but it
was quick work wi:h four of them,
They were sent to the bottom one after
another, and as we came up with the
fifth we ran her down. Our stem struck
her full on the starboard broadside and
cut her almost in two. She had at least
thirty men aboard, and there was one
long, despairing shriek as they went
down to watery graves. A few came up
to clutch at the wreckage and beg to be
taken aboard, but not one of them would
the Captain lend a hand to. Such as the
sharks did not get hold of drifted out to
sea with the tide. It was a fearful ret ri
bution, Inside of but these men were monsters,
thirty minutes from the time
we opened fire the fleet was at the bot
tom and at h ast a hundred pirates had
paid the penalty of their crimes,
Our Captain was lamenting the fart
that he had not picked up one or two in
order to secure information when there
was a row forward, and it was an
nounced that a pirate had been found
hanging to ready the chains. When brought
aft he was to do anvthing to save
his life. His name was Mung-Hang, and
he had good cause to believe that we
would reverse it. He was the Captain
of the junk we had run down, and was
ready to tell us all about old Chin-Lung,
The bay was his rendezvous, but his
plunder was hidden on the coast near
Foo ( how. There were barracks for the
men up the hay, and thirty or forty
men there at that moment. They had
captured a French brig several days in be
fore, and she was then at anchor the
bay waiting for Chin-Lung’s return. He
was then up among the I.ioo Kioo
Islands with four junks to capture a
large shin which had drifted into shoal
water, but was not abandoned. If we
would spare his life he would pilot us
anywhere and prove his gratitude in
anyway. Shin-Lee took him in hand
fora few minutes, and then announced
that we could depend upon him. We
ran into the bay, brought up alongside
the brig, and sent forty men ashore to
clean out tH® place Not a pirate was to
be seen, all having bolted forthe woods,
Everything which would burn was
on fire, and a prize crew was put
the brig to navigate her to Hong Kong
She reached that port safely,and our sal
vage money went far to reimburse
company for its outlay.
When we sailed out of the bay it
to look for the boss pirate. He
nearer than we thought for. At 8
the next morning we saw his fleet ahead,
on its wav back to Formosa empty
handed and by 10 we had the
underfire. These were a braver lot
men. Knowing that they could not
sail us, and seeming to suspect that
were fight. an enemy, they closed right in
a It did not last long, however.
We had one man killed by the fall of
block from aloft, and three or
wounded by the bullets from their an
cient firearms, and in return not a man
of them escaped. In less than an hour’s
fighting aud altogether destruction. we sent nine funks
20o men to Bui chary,
wasn’t it? Well, call it so; but rernera
her that in the previous twelve months
the fleet of this old pirate had captured
no less than ten foteign craft and six
traders, and that every man, woman,
and child aboard had been murdered,
There was no sentiment about Chin
lung He thought of nothing but
blood and throat plunder, and smile ho would cut a
child's with a on his face.
We were now ready to sail in search
of Strung Wong, who had less power,
but was just as great a villain. These
two leaders had divided up the tc ri
torv, and compelled a 1 lesser pirates to
join them, and come under their control.
So, then, we had only two men to strike
at to down the whole lot. At the close
of the third day after heading
for the south we came upon the track
and of the dyestuffs piratical had fleet. been A overhauled trader in woods a)
out
a hundred miles north of the north
era group of Philippines, called the
Little Philippines. and The boy, crew and ten
sisted of three men a the
ves-el had only part of a cargo
Shu g-Wrong hail boarded her himself,
and although the crew were native Chi
nose, he could not restrain his bloody
hand. Hc demanded a sum equal to
§;500 in American money. There war
ouly about $10aboard, audliepersonallj
cut the Captain's throat, had the others
flogged, aud went on his way to the
Bay of Luzon, wh’ch i3 on the west side
of the island of that name We spoke
the trader and received from her terri¬
fied crew the incidents above narrated,
and then shaped our course for the bay.
As luck would have it, an American
ship called the Jo-eph Taylor was ahead
of us, and as she passed down the coast
was attacked by the fleet about seven
mi es off shore. We heard the rumpus
about an hour before dayl ght. There
was little breeze, and though greatly
outnumbered, the crew of the Taylor
beat the pirates off. At daylight the
wind freshened, and we si d in between
the junks and the shore just as they
were preparing for within a second attack. We
were no sooner range than we
opened opon them and, seeing escape
cut off, the fellows tried hard to lay us
aboard. In thirty minutes from "the
opening of the fight we had sunk or run
down every junk and disposed of every
pirate, and only had four men wounded
in doing it.
Our work had been done so promptly
and well that it struck tenor to tho
hearts of all evil doers in those seas,and
it was several years before another a t of
piracy was committed. The Chinese
government returned its thanks to the
Association, ship owners sent in contri¬
butions of money to express their grati¬
tude, and when we came to sell the
schooner to the Chinese government as
a cruiser, the company was financial y
ahead. It was probably the hr efest
cruise and attended with the greatest
results recorded .of an armed vesrel.—
Nem Yoik Sun.
Amphibious Japanese.
Like a fertapin which the rain kills,
although they live in water half of the
time, the Japanese afford contradictions
on the water question. They never
drink water, and the men who have
been working in the lotus ponds at
bliibi, grubbing out the o d stalks and
leaves from the muck in which the
sacred plant grows, standing meanwhile
in water up to their waistsand shou.ders,
wit! not work in the pond on rainy
days.
In Yokohama harbor on the nicest
days, the Coolies who load and unload
cargo lighters and are in and out of the
water continually, begins often refuse to work
if rain to fall. The little boys
and girls and the unocenp’ed women,
with babies tied on their backs, who are
always aimless gadding about the streets with the
unconcern of hens, take no ac
count of the weather and en !oy the open
air regardless of the barometer. Jin
rickisha Coolie3 pay no heed to the rain,
1 and, although they draw the hoods aud
tie tbeir passengers in snug and dry
wlth 0l1 P a P er or rubber aprons, they
^ rot a ' on ” themselves in their two scanty
cotton garments that a e more abbre
viated than ever, iheir substitute for
a:l umureila is a huge fiat straw plate of
a tbe hat, and instead of putting on goloshes
.V take olT evea tlleir straw saudals
aD< ^ r,ln barefooted. They show some
consideration . for the big toe by tying
thilt honorable member up with a bit of
ra g nothing or wisp of straw, but. this amounts
to more than a decoration,
Those pedestrians who wish to be
stately and dry shod turust their bare
feet into a balf slipper arrangement of
wooc ^ an d paper that is perched on
two wooden rests three inches high,
This atl,ls so much to their statue that
&ne °^ e!1 thinks . that he has been fa
vored by passing an unusual number of
stat concludes e1y and that dignified-looking the men, and
Japanese are not such
a race of pigmies after all. — Globe-Demo¬
crat.
Blnestone as a Disinfectant.
I have come in the course of some ex¬
periments, says a writer to the New Vork
l ribune, to regard sulphate of copper
otherwise known as biuestone—as a more
effectual disinfectant and germicide than
sulphate ol iron by more than ten to one.
It seems to mo that for disinfecting
sinks, drains, etc., one ounce of blue
stone will do as much as a pound of cop
peras, while the stains of the latter are
almost entirely wanting in the former.
Id fact, bluest-one seems to approach in
power as a gentle germicide and corrosive and disin
fectaut that dangerous poi
son,the bichloride of nt rcury, otherwise
corrosive sublimate, while possessing no
more poisonus properties tho salts than copperas,
The popular the fear of of oi aud copper, bra*s
as seen in has green c good opper
utensils, little or no reason to
bo; a truth demonstrated by a coramis
siou appointed by the French Govern
which reported pickles might and “coppered” other pre
served vegetal .-s he
within certain limits without making
them unwholesome.