The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-29

FOrtunately the coast steamer was not
struck, and at the top of her speed re-
tired to greater distance, whence the
syndicate officer on board communicated
with the crab by smoke signals.
During the time in which Crab @ had
had charge of the Adamant no commu-
nication had taken place between the
two vessels. Whenever an air pipe had
been elevated for the purpose of using
machine gun on the Adamant was
poured upon it, and after several pipes
had been shot away the director Of the
crab ceased his efforts to confer with
those on the ironclad. It had been
necessary to place the outlets of the ven
tilating apparatus of the crab under the
forward ends of some of the upper roof
plates.
When Grab @ had received her orders
she put about the Prov Of the great war
ship, and proceeded to tow her north
eastward, the commander of the Ada.
mant taking a parting crack with his
heaviest stern gun at the vessel which
had brought the order for his release.
All the way from the American coast to
the Bermuda islands, the great Adamant
blazed, thundered and roared, not only
because her commander saw. or fancied
he saw, an American vessel, but to no.
tify all crabs, repellers and any other
vile invention of the enemy that may
have been recently put forth to blemish
the sacred surface of the sea, that the
Adamant still foated, with the heaviest
coat of mail and the finest and most
complete armament in the world, ready
to sink anything hostile which came
near enough-but not too near.
When the commander found that he
was bound for the Bermudas he did not
understand it, unless, indeed, those ISL
ands had been captured by the enemy.
But he did not stop firing. Indeed,
should he find the Bermudas under the
American flag, he would fire at that flag
and whatever carried it, as long as shot
or shell or charge of powder re-
manned to him.
But when he reached British waters,
and slowly entering st. Georges harbor,
saw around him the British flag floating
as proudly as it fioated above his own
great ship, he confessed himself utterly
bewildered; but he ordered the men at
every gun to stand by their piece until
he was boarded by boat from the fort
and informed of the true state OF affairs
But even then. when weary Crab &
raised herself from her fighting depth
and steamed to a dock, the commander
of the Adamant could scarcely refrain
from sending couple of tons of iron
into the beastly sea devil which had the
impertinence to tow him about against
his will.
No time was lost by the respective
governments of Great Britain and the
United States in ratifying the peace
made through the syndicate, and in con-
Guiding military and naval alliance,
the basis of which should be the use by
these two nations, and by no other ma
tiOnS, of the instantaneous motor. The
treaty was made and adopted with much
more dispatch than generally accompa-
MES such agreements between nations,
for both governments felt the importance
of placing themselves without delay in
that position from which, by means of
their united control of paramount meth
ods of warfare, they might become the
arbiters of peace.
The desire to evolve that power which
should render opposition useless had
long led men from one warlike invention
to another. Every one who had con-
structed new kind of gun, a new kind
of ar1nor or a new explosive thought
that he had solved the problem or was
on his way to do so. The inventor of the
instantaneous motor mad done it.
The treaty provides that all subjects
concerning hOstilities between either or
both of the contracting powers and other