The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-27

mUNiU Z 10 GloOsdEh, NW " NUu tUElUca
will 90 oyAr to tho hand.gear the proba-
bility-l'm only saying its proba.
bility-the chance is that they'll hold
up when we put steam on her"
"llOW long will you take 10 got
steam" asked the skipper,
"God knowsl -Four houra-a day
half week, II can raiGe sixty pounds
III not complain"
"BO sure Of her frat; NO can't Afford
to 20 out half milo and break down."
saiI tho skipper,
"My soul AMI body, man. we're ono
continuous breakdown lore and att
We might fetch Singapore, though"
"WO'il break down at PYgang- Watai,
where We can do good" was tina answer,
in voice that did not allow argument,
"She's my boat, and-pYe had eight
months to think in"
No man saw the llRllolis depart,
though many heard her, She left at
o'clock in the morning. having cut her
moorings, and IL was none OF hor crows
pleasure that the engines should strike
up a Numbering half'seaEover-chantY
that ECHOED among tho hills, Mr.. Mar
drop wiped away u tear as he listened to
tho now song,
"sbe'S glbborin'-aho's just gibber.
ip'," no whimpeTed. "lt's the voice OF
u maniac"
And II tho engines have any soul, as
their masters believe, he was quite
right, There vera outcFies and clAmors,
Sobs and bursts Of chattsring laughter,
silonces where the trained car yeArnod
for tho clear note aud tortur-
ing redupUcalious where there should
have been ono deOp voice. Down the
screw shaft ran murmurs and warnings,
while u hoart.disuNsod lutter without
told that tho propeller needed relieving.
"iow does she mako itS said the
skipper
"She moves, but-she's breaking my
heart The sooner wO'rO at PyRang'
WN,ai the better. She's mad, and we're
waking the town"
"ls she at all near SaieP
"Whst do ! care how snfe she Isl
she's mad. Hear that nowl 10 be
sure, rothing's hittln' anything, aud
tho baarln's arc fairly cool, but-can
70 henri"
al she goes" said the skipper. ~
don't caro- u curse, and she's my boat,
too"
She went trailing a iathom oil weed
behind hOL From o slow two knots
M hour sho crawlel up TO triumphant
four. Anything beyond that made the
STRUT, quiYer dangerously und flied the
onging room with ateam. Morning
showed her ont OF sight Of land, and
there was visible ripple under her
bows; but sho complained bitterly In
her bowels, and, "a though the noise
bad called il, thore ahot along across
tho loyel sea q swift, dark prau, hawk
like and curious, which presently ranged
alongside aud hailed. wished TO know II
tho HOliotIs were helpless. Ships. even
the steamers OF tho white men. had
been known 10 break down in those
seas, and The honest Malay and Javanesa
traders would sometimes aid them in
their own peculiar way. But this ship
was not full OF lady passengers and
well.dressed officers. Men, white men.
naked and savage, swarmed down her
sides, some with iron bars r0d.hot at
iub bUud1 uuh uNutlu "Ahh AaAkV hNM
mers, threw themselves upon those in.
nocent inquiring strangers, and before
any man could say what had happened
wcrO in full possession Of the prau,
while the lawful owners bobbed in the
water ovorside. Halt an hour later the
prau's cargo Of sage and tripAng, as well
as doubttul.mindcd compass, was In
the Haliohs The two hugo triangular
mat sails, with their seYenty.ioot yards
and booms, had followed the cargo aud
were being fitted TO tho stripped masts
Of the steamer.
They rose, they swOlled, they filled,
aud tile empty steamer visibly laid over
rs ihU wind took them. They gave her
nearly three knots an hour. and what
betIor could q man ask. But, II she had
been iorlorn before, this new purchase
mado her horrible to see. Imagine a
respectable charwoman in the tights Of
a ballet.dRpcSr rolling drunk along tho
streets, aud you will come TO some faint
notion Of the appearance Of that nine.
hundred ton well.decked once schooner