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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.