Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-11-23

-G h1fn month gone from tho port.
Panho w'ited, too, but his Bombay
VIC grow clamorous. All ha was forced
TO sign in the Spichci.n IL TO Hungkong.
because he realized that all play and no
work gives Jack a ragged shirt. In the
toggy China seas he thought great
deal Of Nurkeed, and when Elsass-Lo-
thringen steamers lay in port with the
Splcheren inquired after him and found
he had gone to England via the cape
on the Gravelotte Pambe went to Eng
land on the Worth. The Spioheren met
her by the More Light. Nurkeed was
going out with her to the Calicut coast.
Want to find friend, my trap
mouthed coal scuttle?" said gentle
man in the mercantile service. "Noth-
ing easier. Wait at the Nyanza docks
till he comes. Every one comes to the
Nyanza docks Wait, you poor heath
en-. " The gentleman spoke the truth.
There are three great doors in the world
whereat, if you stand long enough, you
shall meet any one you wish. The head
Of the Suez canal is one, but there death
comes also. Charing Cross station is
the second-for inland work-and the
Naynza docks are the third. At each of
these places are men and women look
ing eternally for those who will surely
come. So Pambe waited at the docks.
Time was no object to him, and the
wives could wait, as he did from day to
day, week to week, month to month,
by the Blue Diamond tunnels, the Red
Dot smokestacks, the Yellow Streaks
and the nameless dingy gypsies of the
sea that loaded and unloaded, jostled,
whistled and roared in the everlasting
fog When money failed, kind gentle
man told Pambe to become Christian,
and Pambe became one with great speed,
getting his religious teachings between
ship and ships arrival and or 7 shil
lings a week for distributing tracts to
mariners. What the faith was Pambe
did not in the least care, but he knew
if he said, Native Kills Ian, sar,
to men with long black coats he might
get a few coppers and the tracts were
vendible at a little public house that
sold shag by the "dottel, F." which is
even smaller weight than the half
screw" which is less than the half
ounce and most profitable retail trade.
But after eight months Pambe fell
sick with pneumonia, contracted from
long standing still in slush, and much
against his will he was forced to lie
down in his two and sixpenny room,
raging against fate.
The kind gentleman sat by his bed
side and grieyed to find that Pambe
talked in strange tongues, instead of
listening to good books, and almost
seemed to become benighted heathen
again, till one day he was reused from
semistupor by voice in the street by
the dockhead. "My friend--he, whis-
pered Pambe. "Call now-call Nurkeed.
Quick God has sent himP' He want
ed one of his own race" f" said the kind
gentleman, and going out he called
"Nurkeed" at the top Of his voice,
and an excessively colored man in a
rasping white shirt and brand new slops,
a shining hat and breastpin turned
round. Many voyages had taught Nur-
koed how to spend his money and made
him citizen of the world.
"Hil Yesp' said he when the situa-
tion was explained. Command him
black nigger-.when l was on the Saar-
bruck. Ole Pambe. Good old Pambe.
Dam lasoar. Show him up, sar, and
he followed into the room. One glance
told the stoker what the kind gentleman
had overlooked. Pambe was desperately
poor. Nurkeed drove his hands deep into
his pockets, then advanced with olinoh'
ed fists ON the sick, shoutiDgi Hya,
Pambel Hyal Hee, ahl Hullal He'll
Takilol Takilol Make fast aft, Pambel
You know Pambe. You know nae. Dek
no, jeel Look Dam big fat lazy las
cart"
Pambs beckoned with his left hand,
His right was under his pillow. MUIR
keed removed bis gorgeous hat and
stopped over Pembe I'LL he could catch
faint whisper How beautiful !" said
tho kind gentleman. How these orien-
tails love Ike ohildTenW
"spit him out, said Nurkeed, lean
ing over Pambe yet more closely
ihAiNlNH NAA NHAAhA ~ Nt"f NNH NH'
onions" said Pambe--and sent tho
kufo homo uudeT tho edge of the RIB
bone, upward and forward,
Ihue was thick, slok cough, ana
tho body " tho African slid slowly from
the bod bio oluiobing hands letting fall
shower u silver pleoes, which ran
acr0sa iho room,
"Bow I ean die" said Paulhe
But ho did Roi dle 40 Was nufaed
back to 80 viii sll fle skill which
munoy could boy, for lhe law wanted
him. aud iu ibs end he grow sgineieni
b oonyalasauni 90 b. hanged 10 dne alla
m1paf fum
ganilio did n0i care panieglaFly bai
Il was 4 sAd bl0g to ihe kina lhlisiian
galilnnAu ga JRul0s hafHsis
a.l..l.,ltsis si,ls siFalH.