Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-04-19
4 QUEER RACE.
By WILLIAM wESTEL.

les, L1e caIlDeFOeS would make Splenulu
soldiers"
Have You any present reason to fear q
risingS"
"No, / don't think we have; still, there
is no telling what may happen. But we
are well prepared. Our young men are
regularly drilled. You shall see parade
OF our archer-guard one of these days"
"Archer-guardI Are your soldiers armed
only with bows and arrows, them"
Necessarily. Our store of gunpOwder,
being very limited, is reserved for the ar
tillery, which consists of half dozen brass
pieces, part Of the Santa Annals arma-
ment. That is why | inquired whether
you had any gunpOwder on board the 'Di-
ana But our archers would make no de-
spicable foes, even when opposed to men
armed with muskets."
Mr. Field spoke of the 1int-Iock muskets
of the previous century, and when / saw
the archer-guari and examined their
weapons, was quite OF his opinion. None
OF their bows, when unstrun,;, was less
than six feet in length; and their arrows
were even longer than the clOth-yard
shafts which won for England the battles
of AgncOurt and Crecy and did such dire
execution among the Scots at FlOdden
Field. The Fair Islanders, moreover, were
easily hi bull's-eye at three hundred and
fifty yards, and rs easily kill deer Tor a
MANI at four hundred Compared with
theirs the native bow was a very inferior
weapon; and felt sure, rs / told Field,
that the five hundred Archers Of the Guard
would be more than a match for three
times their number of Calibaus or Carib-
eroes.
After some further conversation, ! ven
tured to suggest that the danger he appre-
hended might be avoided by abolishing
slavery altogether. II 1 had proposed to
abolish the island and declare the memory
of DenZil Fame accurscd, he could scarcely
have looked more Lorrined.
abolish slavery What on earth put SO
prepostcrOus mn idea into your headS
Slavery is n bencficient institution Script
ure nowhere condemns it; the Jews prac-
ticcd It; the Apostles approved of it; and so
far as we are concerned my dear sir, the
remedy would he worse than the disease.
II we liberated these people. they would of
surety COnspirc against our common
wealth, and cndravor to overthrow it, for
they nrc fierce and truculrnt. Moreover,
we should all have to become hewers of
wood and drawers Of water, because once
they were free they would work only for
themselves"
This was conclusive. and ns could not
have answered Mr. Field without the risk
OF giving serious UfTcnse, | allowed the
subject To drop.
In the meantime, the "Diana's" cargo
was being unloaded and brought up to
Fairhaycu. bat rather iitfully and slowly;
for the ship contained an immense guam
tity OF merchandise Of one sort and anoth-
or. and the warehouse accommodation at the
queens disposal was decidedly limited.
The bales and cases had to be slowed any
where and everywhere, and there bcingnO
drnught animals in the island, the labor
of shifting and carrying the packages
about was very grrat I'm these CrCum-
stances | suggested to Nab and the Coun-
ell of Nine that it would bc better TO let
the remainder Of the cargo stay where it
was
You have landed the bulk of it," said;
what there Is left can he brought up as
you want 1t, and when you want it. The
ship being securely moored, it is quite safe
where ID Is"
"a hnppy thought, Mr.. Erie" exclaimed
Nab. "Lrt it bc So Tomorrow we will
go down to the DIANA and see for our
selves what there is left; we may perChance
find some more books, and you will per
haps be SO obliging ms to take out the re-
mimi z mirrors Morris shall 20 with us"
Morris was a carpenter, and he had fixed
up one mirror in the queens bed room SO
much to her satisfaction that she wanted
to hive all the remaining mirrors taken
out Of the saloon and fixed up in like man
ner As for books. she was simply insatia-
BILE. She read anything that came 10 hand,
but liked best something scientific, or a
novel with plenty Of incident and II com
plirated plot. When once she became in
tcrcstcd in "A story Of this sort, she would
neither sleep nor attend TO business until
she reached the end, ana woe hetde the
councillor who at such n time vcntured to
trouble her with affairs of State. When
MIR. Thomas, arathcr timid old gentleman,
secretary Ia the council, brought her some
papers Ia sign while she was reading
Monte CriSto," and did not go away the
moment he WAS bid, she half frightened
the poor man To death by threatening to
set her puma Mt him.
We went down 10 the Diana" as ar
ranged. by water of course In addition
10 the boats crew and the carpenter, we
were accompanied hy Marian Lester. one
OF the queens maidens, and youth of the
name of Buttercup, who was half page,
half crrand- boy
On reaching the ship. looked over the
manifest, ON which had licked off the
packages already landed. and, in consuIta-
ton with Nab decided what others we
should take back with us in the boat, and
told the men to hoist them out of the hold
Then, while Morris was removing the
mirrors we took n turn round the ship,
and made nm inspection OF the cabins, on
the chance of finding anything likely to be
useful and worth carrying away; for we
did not intend to make another visit to the
ship for some time.
In the captains cabin were a thermome-
ter and n barometer
1--WE will have these" | said, looking Mt
them. This Is sclf-rcgistering Their
mometer. and want To ascertain the aver
age temperature of Fairhaveu; and the
barometer may prove very useful. 1t gives
warning of storms. Do you ever have
storms''
Sometimes, and very bad ones But
they don't often take us by surprise |
have nearly always premonition of them;
80 have others"
81 suppose You can tell by the look of
the sky and the direction and force of the
winds"
The queen laughed.
The look of the sky and the force of the
wlnul she Sald. W ny, when the clouds
gather and the wind rises, the storm has
begun. These are signs which children
may read. What mean is. that before
any sign is visible, while the heavens are
still clear, the sea still calm. something
tells mel know not what; il is "a feeling.
n forehodiuc-tha within a few hours the
weather will change for the worse"
That comes from increase OF pressure"
conditions"
IL don't know how that is dare say
you are right" she returned. pcnsively.
but have exactly the same feeling when
people are thinking evil against me-"
But that Is not possible. Nobody can
thirtk evii against VoUr'
Yet such Il thing has happened, nv
friend. Fair Island is very beautiful, and
its people are happy. but they are not all
good And iately-the last few days-I
have had a forebodiug For three nights
past, Cato, who. rs you know, sleeps al
ways at my chamber door, has growled
fercely. as if he scented danger; and this
morning was Weakened by DenZu Fane's
sword falling from the wall and clashing
on the floor; and worse still, it broke Off
at the hilt Nothing could be more omin-
Gus of evil-and then this forehodiuS, the
like of which fpr intensity haya neyar az