Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-11-08


the subject is asleep. So he said moth
ing, nor did the other lascars. Their
faces Immediately dropped all express
sion, as is the custom of the orientals
when there is killing on the carpet or
any chance of trouble. Nurkeed looked
long at the white eyeballs. He was
only an African and could not read
characters. A big sigh, almost a groan,
broke from him, and he went back to
the furnaces. The lascars took up the
conversation where he had interrupted
it. They talked of the best methods of
cooking rice.
Nurkeed suffered considerably during
the run to Bombay from lack of fresh
air. He only came on deck to breathe
when all the world was about, and even
then heavy block once dropped from a
derrick within foot of his head and an
apparently lashed grating on which he
set his foot began to turn with the inten-
tion Of dropping him on the cased cargo
10 feet below, and one insupportable
night the sheathknife dropped from tho
fo'c's'le, and this time it drew blood.
So Nurkeed made complaint, and when
the Saarbruck reached Bombay fed and
buried himself among 800, 900 people
and did not sign articles till ths ship
had bee, a month gone from the port.
Pambe waited, too, but his Bombay
wife grew clamorous, and he was forced
TO sign in the Spicheron to Hongkong,
because he realized that all play and no
work gives Jack a ragged shirt. In the
foggy China seas he thought great
deal of Nurkeed, and when Elsass-Lo-
thringen steamers lay in port with the
Spicheren 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 Spicheren met
her by the More Light. Nurkeed was
going out with her to the Calicut coast.
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"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
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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 eteraally 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 funnels the Red
Dot smokestacks, the Yellow Streaks
and the nameless dingy gypsies of the
sea that loaded and unloaded, jC-sled,
whistled and roared i'll the e.~." lasting
fog. When money failed, l. - gentle
man told Pambe to become Christian,
and Pambe became one with great speed,
getting his religious teachings between
ship and ships arrival and 6 or shil
lings week for distributing tracts to
mariners. What the faith was Pambe
did not in the least care, but he knew
if he said, "Native Ki-lis-ti-an, sar,
to men with long black coats he might
get few coppers, and the tracts were
vendible at little public house that
sold shag by the "dottel," which is
even smaller weight than the "half
screw" which is less than the half
ounce and q 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 grieved 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, !" said the kind
gentleman, and going out he called
"Nurkeedp' at the top of his voice,
and an excessively colored man in a
raspingwhite shirt and brand new slops,
shining hat and breastpin turned
round. Many voyages had taught Nur-
keed how to spend his money and made
him citizen of the world.
eli! Yesf' said he when the situa-
tion was explained. Command him
black nigger-when was on the Saar-
bruck. Ole Pambe Good old Pambe.
Dam lascar. Show him up, sar," and
he followed into the room. One glance
told the stoker what the kind gentleman
had overlooked. Pambe was desperately
DOOR, Nurkeed drove his hands deep into
his pockets, then advanced with clinch-
ed fists on the sick, shouting: "Hya,
Pambe! Hya! Hee, ah! HULA! He'll
Takilo! Takilo! Make fast aft Pambe!
You know Pambe. You know me. Dek
no, iee! Look! Dam big fat lazy las
carl"
Pambe beckoned with his left hand.
His rig.t was under his pillow. Nur-
keed removed his gorgeous hat and
stopped over Pambe till he could catch
faint whisper. How beautiful" said
the kind gentleman. "How these orien-
tails love like childrenP'
} "Spit him out, said, Nurkeed, lean
ing over Pambe yet more closely.
Touching the matter Of that fish and
onions" said Pambe--and sent the
knife home under the edge of the rib
bone, upward and forward.
There was a thick, sick cough, and
the body of the African slid slowly from
the bed, his clutching hands letting fall
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