Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04

And the golden ,scade's streaming
from his head upon my bosom. and h.
sleeps without annoy,
Then kiss the lips of laughter.
finishing that the great hereafter
Fui be cheerless ii l cannot frolic with m,
baby boy.
>Wm. T. Dnmns, in Atlanta Combination
2Ved From Old Ocean, Nav.
On the 10Th Of January, 1885. tbe
shooner Alfred Vittery, Captain Boor.
tas lying becalmed in the South Pacific
hcan. She was eleven days out from
bio Solomon Group and was bound for
marlborough, Queensland, Australia,
|sith ninety-seven Polynesians on board
hat had contracted to work for a term of
Fears on plantations. 1t was q glorious
Jay from IN artists standpoint. A
parne painter might have drawn inspira-
ion from the deep, dark blue Of the sky,
he translucent tints of the evor-changing
ca and tho radiant splendor Of the sun.
Captain Boor, however, was no marine
Rrtist, but shrewd common-sense skip
Der, who hated u calm and had no appre
Siation of the beauties of Old Ocean at
sest. What he chiefly dotted on was q
Eipins breeze. especially when he had a
hundred hungry Polynesians on board, as
Nas then the case.
The skipper strobe tho deck impatient
The sails tapped idly Us tho schooner
oso and fell in the gentle swell of the
Racific. Tho Polynesians wore clustered
picturesque groups on dock, some Of
en singing the low, monotonous and
3srbaric chants OF their race, others on
aged heart and soul in the calm delight
chewing betol. A queor lot they
Esomed to the sailors, with their dark
kspper-ceiored skins, their heads we'll
PATCHED with moss Of woolly hair and
Reir deop-sunk eyes aud short noses.
During the eleven days that had passed.
ince they embarked on tho schooner
Fom their crescent-shaped and beauti-
&ully-caryed canoes many malediction
pad been hurled at their hoads by the
eamen, whs were unable to get any
eIocp in their watch below owing to tho
easeless singing and tho perpetual
drumming on bamboo drums much re-
embling the so,n-toms Of India. Nobody
T. look at thom in their scanty but neat
fringed girdles-their solo attire
Gould imagine them to DO cannibals,
,hose highest ambition was to feast on
old boiled baby. Butsuch was the frozen
ruth.
The spectators, however, wore getting
wonged ON them for many missionary
murdered and digested. Those ninety
even Polynesians were going into
tavcry us pronounced and cruel as ever
gisted on the island of Cuba. The
santntions of Queensland arc noted fol
acir horrors. but the Government winks
It them. The innocent islanders, men
md women, ohewed betel, sang songs
aud beat the drum Us though there were
no such institutions" in existence as the
sesh-destroJins thongs attached to the
Ehips Of burly and brutal overseors.
Ihoy made their acquaintance later.
81 fear those copper-colored devils
will cot their heads off before VIC get to
Aaryborough, If this weather lasts, OBJ.
served the captain to the mate. You
500 he had contracted with tho speoula-
tors to carry them to their destination al
much head, for each one delivered
alive, the ship supplying them with then
tsod, consisting chiefly Of rice and salt
ish.
The skipper was capital follow. HI
had no s7Inuathv with the business il
shich he waa engaged, but his owner!
pad chartered the schooner, and he nat
uvalty wanted to make US much money AZ
y"ssible. So all that golden Afternoon
be was in rather bad temper, pacing
The quarterback inpaticntly and casting
bis eyes all around the horizon in thu
cope of seeing welcome catspaws indicat
ns u brcczo.
Something all at once caught his eye
Eciaing the telescope that was in Its &C
Tustomed place on tho skylight. h,
climbed hallway up the main rigging ane
lad hook at an object broad on thu
rtarboard beam. The sheets were hurlet
ut on the port aldo and the vessel wa
Reading southwest. He remained alof
bout ten miAates and then came down
le tod the mate that there was ship
"ut in sight With sail set and appar
Hitly In DISTRESS, and said that he va
y"ing to seq If there was anybody OF
board Of heY. If possible.
\ faint breath of wind came alont
rom tho no!rthward, just sufficient to I'll
ho topsails and the main topmast stay
(ai
Haul Of The main and fore sheets
rim down the head sheets. luH all yo'
AN" sang out the captain in one breath
AND 80 Nhs schooner was headed q
aose as possible for tho boat, which va
pot yet visible from the deck. ~
Tho pre|senee of SO small craft 10
niles from tho nearest point Of land =. -
athcr 90 uprising, and oil hands Iol
nsious about her. She was now abou
even mil les dead to windward' ana q
chooncr made number Of short tack
'ward heIr. The wind was so light tina
", va, ding and tedious task to come u
As length, about 5 o'clock, she wa