The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-26
GIVE EN- UP Or
pLL Run YOU DOWN.


As the Rose overhauled the bark-and
had she been a steamer she could not have
overtaken her more swiftly-the black
board was held on high by a couple of sea-
men so that it could be read on board the
stranger. Captain Jones on the forecastle
head watched the chase through his glass.
The words Martha NJ. Stubs, Windsor,
n. S." were written in large white letters
upon her stern. Nothing was to be seen
of Mr. Chips and the Only Mate. A man
wearing fur hat, resembling Robinson
Crusoe's, paced the short poop of the bark.
He carried glass in his hand, and to judge
by the frequent glances he directed at the
Rose it was to be guessed that he had in
terpreted the handwriting on the black
board.
The breeze freshened. Sheets and tacks
strained to the increased pressure. The
Rose, with foam midway to the hawsepipe,
went steering alongside the bark within
pistol shot
Hard upr' shrieked the man in the Rob
inson Crusoe cap. and the fellow at the
helm made the wheel spin like the driving
wheel of locomotive.
Hard up and into himp' roared Captain
Jones, and round fixed the wheel of the
Rose in true firework fashion.
For the next two hours the Rose was oc-
cupied in endeavoring to run down the
bark, the bark on her side cutting hun
dred nimbIe nautical capers to evade the
Bhearing stem of the enraged Jones. But
st the end Of two hours it had become plain
to the man in the Robinson Crusoe hat
that the Rose was in earnest. He then
gave up, backed his main topsail yard and
sent the Only Mate and Mr.. Chips aboard
the Rose in a boat pulled by two men.
Captain Jones at once put Mr.. Chips into
irons aGd sent the Only Mate to his cabin.
He then called to the two fellows who were
sitting in the boat under the gangway:
Are ye undernannedw
"Fearfll-ly," was the answer.
II thought So" said Captain Jones.
'Step on board, my iivelies, and have
glass of grog afore you return"
The two men cheerfully crawled over the
side, but instead of giving them glass Of
grog apiece Captain Jones ordered them
forward 10 turn to with the rest of the
crew, and with his own hand let go the
line which held the bark's boat to the Rose.
Sail was then trimmed, and in less than
three hours the bark was hull down,
The Only Mate admitted, with a coupte-
nance OF hate and loathing, that he was
sick of the Rose. sick of Captain Jones;
that he hadn't any intention of working =
big vessel of nearly 700 tons single handed
with Old Chips, the carpenter, and that
when he boarded the bark aud heard that
she was very short handed he accepted the
captains handsome offer of a number Of
<f..fT e. L., r al. n
Is did Mr Chips The Only Mate added that
both he and Mr.. Chips were IN debt to the
Rose as it was, and that Captain Jones
would have been welcome 10 their clothes
and nautical instruments had the Nova
Scotiaman succeeded in getting clear off.
Captain Jones troubles were not yet at
an end. He wished TO put into Lisbon, but
the crew refused 10 work the ship unless
he returned 10 England
We're not going 10 be convayted into
blooming distressed mariners" said the
crew OF the Rose. No consuls for Us. We
know them gents They'll find everything
ali right, stores sweet, crew plentiful, ship |
tight, and we know bow It'll be; a bloom
ing Portugee Jail, then a trip home and a
blooming maglsterial inquiry and sx weeks !
o quod," and so blooming, they forced |
Captain Jones 70 sail his ship home
He arrived at Swansea, and handed the |
Only Mate and DIR. Chips over into the /
hands OF justice. He offered the ship two 1
more hands II bis old crew would sail with /
him, but they said no not If ne shipped |
% more hands, and 50 they were taken |
before the magistrates, who found the cap |
tain in the right, and punished the men by |
a term Of imprisonment far In excess of /
any penalty il jail and hard labor which /
they would have inflicted upon man /
who had merely broken his wife's skull 1
with his heel, or who had only been sys-
ternarically starving and cruelty treating \
his child Of ten ever since Zee neighbors
could remember
Captain Jones shipped fresh crew and /
another Only Mate and q new carpenter,
bus though re stopped bis Leak be did not
ship fresh stores lie sailed cut Of Swan
sea bay Oct Il, ISp aud has not since
been heard CIV. Clark Russell In Neg
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