The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22

anu uoin ylSG WnaS they liked. W6T. the
snip had laid in San Francisco about six
months, and then goin' down into hot
weather the riggIn' got all stretched out and
needed settln' up, and the mate be goss
Ior ard and tries for to git the men tor 10
turn TO and set up the riggin', and they tells
pm, they'll see hlm--hrst, and bein' pretty
nppy, at Last he gifts mad. and he does
what he'd ought to have done long afore.
ne shows fight. But you see, sir. he
were too late; he had allowed the
crew to git the upper hand, and
when once they do they can generally keen
IL. Then this Lere mate ought for to have
been prepared for the fight, and had his
second mate ready to Jump in. and mayhap
the cook and steward, and the old man
handy with his shooting irons. Instead or
TINS ne went in alone, and of course the
crew piled on TO him and beat him badly.
wen, then the old man comes a runnin'
for'ari on top Of the house with his re-
volver, and he fires the whole six shots over
the heads of the crew; he said afterwards
ne done 1t purpose to brighten 'em, and he
was sfeared that he might hit the mate if he
hred into the crowd, and so he fired over
their heads, and when they seen his pistol
were empty compile OF 'em
Jumped up on to the house aud
captured him. And now they
had full charge of the ship, and a chap by
the name of Bill Johnson, one of the worst
OF the lot, he took charge, and allowed thst
he were the captain, and he made Jack
Adams, him as spun me the yarn, CHIEF
mate, and little WEIGH chap, named Jones:
second mate. They didn't hurt the old
man, but they put him and the mate and
the second mate into the torecastle and put
q guard over 'em, and then all hands went
ait and took possession OF that end OF the
ship. The ship were a runnin' across the
Pacific afore the northeast trade wind and
there were little sail trimmin' required
The carpenter they left loose, with the I'M
derstandin' that if he didn't do list what
they wanted him to they would
HEAvE HIM OVERHEARD.
The cook and steward was frightened half
out of their wits, and jist obeyed orders.
Very luckily there wern't much grog aboard,
for If there had been there is no knowing
what these chaps might have done, but there
wernt only about gallon and that were
gone in no time, and were hardly enough for
to make the crowd booZy. While they had
the rum in 'em, however, they tormented
the old man above bit. He were bald
headed old cnap, and they mixed some slush
with the SCOT out of the cooks funnel, and
rubbed his bald pate with that, tellin' him it
would make his hair grow, and there was
many other indignities they put upon him,
some OF 'em, like Pats dream. too bad
to be told The other officers also come in
TOR their share of abuse, and the mate were
badly hurt with the p0undin' they had Civ
him. We amt made our minds yet,' says
this Johnson to the old man, arter he'd had
charge about day. we amt made up our
minds whether we'll make you walk the
plank or hang you at the yard arm: but one
thing or the other you'll have to do And
that were his idea from the first, to put the
old man and mates ont of the way, and then
to go on to some CT the islards where there
weren't nothin' but natives, and
spend the rest of their lives
there, destroyin' the ship. If there had
been rum enough aboard this might have
been done, but what there was soon died
out of 'em and then some of 'em begin Tor
to think that mutiDy were bad enough
without addin' murder to it. This here
Johnson were already beginnin' to draw
g pretty taut rein over 'em, and had turned
'em all out of the cabin, assertin' that that
part of the ship were for him and his mates,
and they thought as how he had found
more money and appropriated it to himself.
He hadn't, however, for the Old man had
sewed it into
THE MIDDLE OF HIS MATTRESS,
and they never thought to look there.
Things went on this way for about week,
the new skipper CROWN more domineerin
every day and not hesitatin' to use his fists
neither when anybody didn't go exactly to
suit him, and finally him and his mate fell
out and had a regular rough and tumble
fight, in which Jack Adams, him as spun
me this yarn, got the worst OF it. That set
tied this Johnson's hash at once. Jack said
as how he'd been thinkin' for some time
of some way of gettin' out of the scrspe
they was in, and so the night arter
he had this row he goes for'ard and he tells
the old man that il he will take q
solemn oath on the Holy Bible not to prose-
cute the crew for what they had done they'll
put him back agin in command and will
obey lis orders to the end of the v'yage.
Well, he were glad enough for to do this you
may be sure, and so Jack then spoke to the
rest of the men and they was glsd enough
for to agree to this, and they goes aft and
overpowers this here Johnson he was
a sleepin' and they puts him in irons and
gives the old skipper full charge agin. From
this time out, Jack said things went along
well enough. OF course the crew didn't
do nothin', except jst what were neces
sarv, but they was civil, and there weren't
no further trouble. After the pilot
come on board in the Hoogly, the skipper
let this johnson out OF irons, ON his promis-
i'm to behave, and the crew left
the ship when she got TO Cal
had happened. The old man didn't care to
have it know'd that he'd been prisoner in
mis- own forecastle and had his head anointed
with slush and SCOT, and the men didn't care
Tor to peach, for fear of prosecution for mu-
'iny. When they presented their due bills
20 the cOnsignee, payment was refused. Jack
says they went to a lawyer, and he, arter
nearin' their story, advised them for to say
lothin' about it, and to thank God that they
rot off as well as they did. They took his
advice, and nobody in Calcutta ever know'd
anything about it; and it were not till
FEARS afterwards that Jack Adams told it 30
ne."
Albert Rhodes, in his book about the
French, says that when at forty the Eng
ish woman has become heavy necked and
rowsy. and the American society belle pale,
Tried up and withered, the French woman
,lides into an embonpoint with an un-
yrinkled face and good complexion. He
attributes this to the extremes of American
life, its fastness and its asceticsm, both of
which are unfavorable to healthy growth,
md laments that, with all der knowledge
md intellectual activity, the American .
woman lacks that which made the Greeks