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Feb. 1895. Kelley's Illustrated Magazine. o. aDout tne miaaie ana try to breaK mm in two.

Just before I reached him I saw another man by his side, whose glance so fascinated me that I forgot all about the blow I had received. The man had large lustrous eyes that charm- was ner cnier officer and 'thfse men. Acting under orders from Johnson, all of us but one man were sent below, and as the boat reached us he called out that the two of them constituted the crew, and the bark was leaking badly. The stranger mate and his three men came over tho rail to render temporary assistance and hear the story. Johnson and a pair of compasses, ana getting a boat compass from a locker I made up a package, secured it with a towel and placed it in the boat unquestioned.

I could not have done this if our crew had been larger or the mate a more suspicious man. While the two of us were stocking the boat he was talking to the captain and Mr. Doty, and the men were crowding around to hear what was said. When the boat was finally ready for lowering, Johnson looked her over and found no fault. The mast and sail and a couple of oars had been put in, and though I expected to see him remove them he let them remain and made no comment.

The man was not a great villain. This' was probably his greatest crime, and he was more or less in awe. Either that, or he didn't care how soon the boat made land or was picked up. Not a word was said by the captain, Mr. Doty or the woman as the boat was lowered and they took seats in her.

There was a stiffish breeze blowing, and of course the bark was laid to. A minute after the boat was down it was cast off, the bark put on her course, and in half an hour the little craft was but a speck on the heaving waters. It was a full hour before Johnson descended to the cabin. When he had sent ed me, as a snake charms a bird. I could do nothing but stand there and look at him.

I learned afterward that it was Webster, and the man who had tapped me with his cane was Thurlow Weed. The latter had supposed, svhich was true, that I was the son of Judge Bright, and he had stopped me to ask me if my father was in town, as he wanted to see him. I saw Webster frequently afterward, but I never forgot the incidents of my first meeting." Washington Post. Rock of Ages. or Ages known hymns.

Replying to a query in a northern contemporary as to where Toplady got the expression "Rock of Ages, the Rev. J. Noyes writes that he must have taken it from Isaiah xxvi, 4 (see the margin of the authorized version). It may interest some to know that the hymn was first published in The Gospel Magazine in 1776, edited at that time by Toplady himself. This, the oldest of the religious magazines, is still in existence, and, what is more remarkable, keeps to pretty much the same lines as it did a century ago.

Westminster Gazette. TURNING THE TABLE. If Sbe TJTas a Jfew Woman, He Would I5 New Man. The husband of the advanced woman was strangely quiet and thoughtful, and for some time there was no sound in the room save the scratching of her pen. she remarked as she paused a moment to rest her hand, "I have joined a new club, the aim of which is the advancement of woman in ward politics.

Our first meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon. "That makes six clubs now, doesn't it?" queried her "Seven, Chesterfield, seven. How -forgetful you are growing! What would be come of you if you had as much on youi mmd as I have?" "I don't know, my deaivf Still too, have just joined a new clunk anJ" "Yes; I am now preparing for a debate on tho silver question and a discussion on woman's plae in. the ancient Egyptian civilization. As soon as I have prepared myself on these topics I must begin a pa per on the ethics of tariff legislation.

I am a very busy woman, Chesterfield. Perhaps you can ah give me a little advice on the subject of the tariff and the view I ought to take. "You aro indeed a busy woman, Hypatia. Your activity quite puts me to shame, and in future I intend to emulate it. Yes; my old fashioned ideas shall no longer be a drag upon you.

He took out his notebook and consulted it." "I see that my Darning club meets at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and I am down for a paper on the true art of threading needles. Monday my Noonday club meets, and I am to participate in tho open debate upon the question, 'Shall Men Become Expert Milliners? "Chesterfield, aro you crazy?" "Not at all, my dear. I am also requested to prepare a paper on chafing dish cookery for tho next meeting of my Domestic Science club, and" "Chesterfield, have the men lost what little sense they had?" 'Certainly not. They have newly awakened to the fact that they must advance with the spirit of the age. Shall we sit quietly by ind see the new woman" "Oh, Chesterfield, do be nensible.

1 really wish to ask your advice in regard the paper on the tariff, which, I confess, 1 do not quite understand, and" "I'm awfully sorry, Hypatia, but the fact is that I shall be so busy with my paper on chafing dish cookery that say, Hypatia, could one really learn to use one of those things without burning his fingers every time?" "Don't try to talk or write of what yon don't understand. Now, about the tariff. Do you think" "I think nothing, except that chafing dish cookery is" But she evidently did not hear. She had fallen into a deep reverie, and there was a long silence in the room. "Chesterfield, dear," she said finally, "don't djon't you think that I had better prepare the paper on chafing dish cookery and you the one on tariff legislation?" "Perhaps that would be better, replied her husband thoughtfully.

"1 hadn't just thought of that myself." Chicago Tribune. i took the officer to the cabin for a drink and there struck him down and secured him. When he returned to the deck, I where the three men were already at the pumps, four of our men rushed out, and they were quickly made prisoners. Their boat was then cast off, and the bark made sail. Johnson's idea was to increase his force, and he took this bold way of doing it.

As we sailed away the 1 stranger sig-raled us and followed after, but she had been left short handed, and we ran away from her. The three fo'mast hands were dagoes, and after their first surprise they had no objections to a piratical but the mate kicked up such a row that he had to be ironed and locked in a stateroom. Johnson's scheme as he unfolded it a point at a time was to cross the ocean to Brazil, picking up what men and plunder he could on the way, and then sell the ship and cargo and make a fair divide and all scatter. He planned like a fool, as you have doubtless decided, but sailors have planned even more foolishly after a mutiny. Next day we encountered a brig named the Scud, bound from Charleston, U.

S. to the cape of Good Hope. We signaled her that we were in distress, and her second mate came off to us, with two men. They were tricked as the others had been, but all had to be ironed and guarded for several days. The Scud did not pursue us, but great must have been her captain's astonishment and indignation to see us sail away with his men.

We now had a crew 6f 15, including the cook and myself, and the bark was simply kept full to the west as she went. For three or four days the captured mates continued to raise a row, but finally decided to turn to and act as mates to Johnson, though under protest. The two American sailors also turned to, and so things went on fairly well for many days. After leaving the Scud we did not sight another vessel for 15 days, during which time we had three heavy but short lived gales. Early on the morning of the sixteenth day, being then several hundred miles off the mouth of the Amazon, we sighted a British man-of-war.

Johnson foolishly cracked on sail to get away from her, and this action brought her after us and resulted in our capture. While our craft was headed for a Brazilian port by a prize crew every one of us was conveyed to England for trial. Captain Heames, his wife and Mate Doty were there before us, having been picked up two days after being sent adrift. Their testimony cleared the carpenter and myself-, and our testimony cleared the men who had been forcibly impressed. As no one had been murdered, the jury were inclined to be lenient, but Johnson got 15 years at hard labor and all the others 10.

Our capture by the man-of-war probably saved our lives, for the Dolphin, with her seven men aboard, was never heard of after leaving us. In approaching the coast she met with a storm and went down with all hands, as did several other craft which encountered the same weather. Fascinated by Webster. "I shall never forget the first time I saw Webster, said Sergeant-at-arms Bright. "It was at the Astor House in New York.

I was but a boy and had gone to the city with my father. I was going down the old steps that used to lead out on Broadway when I felt a stinging blow upon my shoulder from a whip or a cane. Boylike, I was mad all over in an instant and whirled around to see who struck me. On the top step was a man about 6 feet tall, as slim as a ramrod, and holding in his hand a small bamboo cane such as were commonly carried in those days. I knew instinctively that he had hit me, and I started up the steps to have it out with him.

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his victims adrift, he made a long and JOHNSON STRUCK HIM DOWN. rambling speech about the equality of i i nn i -t men ana me sunermgs oi sanors ana ended up by declaring for a roving life. He didn't go into details just then, but promised to give them later on. It was not until the mate entered the cabin, that he found out the trick I had played, and then he of course laid it to the captain's wife. I don't think he was much of a navigator, but the loss of the chart and all the instruments left him perfectly helpless.

He came rushing on deck to make pursuit of the boat. We were headed south, and she had gone off to the east. As the bark's course was changed a man was sent aloft, and after a few minutes he reported the boat under sail and rapidly running away from us. We stood on after her until noon, Johnson hoping for the breeze to stiffen and the sea to get up, but she simply ran us out of sight. The men were greatly alarmed when they found themselves adrift, and more than one of them wished he had not taken a hand in the mutiny.

Johnson was at first as badly knocked out as any of them, but he rallied after awhile and assured the men that he could take the bark anywhere by dead reckoning and a trick or two of his own. If you have wondered why the carpenter or myself made no attempt to go in the boat, being as we had no hand in the mutiny and favored the captain, let me say that both of us asked to go and were savagely answered that we must stop with the bark. When the carpenter protested, he was knocked down, and had I opened my mouth I should have been rope's ended. When we had given up the chase of the boat, the bark was headed for mid-ocean, and Johnson announced that she was now a pirate craft. There were only seven of us aboard, and we had not so much as a pistol among us, but he proposed entering into business at once.

A sail was standing down to us from the northwest, and when it was made out that she was a merchantman the mate laid the bark to and set a signal of distress. When the stranger came up, she swung her yards and lowejre.d a baat-in.