Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-13

business 1t sea, and when I'd said that
burial service felt I'd done all that could
be expected.
I'd heard chap prophesying about the
end of the world in Waterloo street, Liver
pool, not n year ago, and bought pam
pb!et of him. and it showed the thing out
according to Revelation and Daniel all
as clear as big book could have done. 1t
was to finish in 1908, and there was pic
turc of the earthquake and another pic
ture of people going up to the sky in their
ordinary clothes And when looked out
through the glass Mt that tearing. raging
DEVILS work that was going on outside,
and the river and the lakes disappearing
before ing eyes, and dry land taking their
place, felt suro that the chap was right
in the main, Only he'd got a bit foul in
his dates.
There was only one thing" the little
man added plaiDtivcly-"I wished I'd
new washed jacket aboard. The one I'd
on was that smcared and crunipled l
should have felt ashamed TO appear in it. -
Well, I'm glad you weren't hurt"
said Gamble 1t was terrible night for
any one in this area
Il came through it, Mr.. Cambe!, with
ont so much as "a finger nail broken. So
did the donkeyman. H came Up hero and
asked If l wanted him when the blow be-
gan, and when l told him No he went
TO his own room and turned in and slept
till 1t was over. Now. the nigpcrs didn't.
When the steamer began to list, they COS
scared. Thought SHE'D turn bilgc upper.
most, l suppose, and I3ltcd DOWN to tbc!r
fshbox OF q schooner V hich lay alongside.
OF course when the slUros slipped ticiy
moorings ard bore down on her the
schooner had to give, and the niegers u-c
buried somewhere yoader to star6oard.
but where don't know. I've looked, but
there isn't so much u spar, there isn't
SO much as a Wifi of circus to pat latal
on the spot. I've had mighty little to &c
latterly, and l might have stuck up some
sort of "a signboard to EN-, niggeTs though
they were, if l could have fixed the place
to an acre, but when a grave head gets
bigger than that yea may be writing
here lieth' in more senses than one. Sc
left them quiet.
"Of course with tie steamer high and
dry up country, and the river two miles
away through thick woods, it wasn't much
good, our messing with paint pots and
changing name pilates. We'd built new
forehatch and shippoi it, and creased up
the.engincs, and as That seemed to me ill
that was necessary I've given my shipmate
holiday ever since. There's the making
of n sportsman in our donkcyman, Mr.
Cambcl. There isn't a thing that crawls
or flies or swims in this section of Florida
that blessed 1rishman hasn't blown off mJ
old gas pipo ut or tried to catch with a
worm on a cod hook. He wasn't keen at
| first; said he'd been brought up in a
works, but when told him everything he
| took was poachcd, by James, sir, you
f,iutf .hi,,l- Ia, tln vi -
the way he sticks at it,
Blood will out" said Ctifnbel, with q
laugh, ard he marveled at the extraortii-
nary toushness Of the donkey man. At ell
times there is much sulphur in tho water
OF these FIoridian swamps, but since the
cyclone the sulphurous emanation had
been stirred ard set free, and the presence
OF them was almost uncomfortable. The
waters wero black TO look upon, yellow to
l look through, and in the air was a never
! failing, never varying hint at tho odor of
ancient eggs. 1t even stole into the chart
room and mingled with the scent of tho
| magnolia blossoms.
| 1t isn't violets, - the captain assen ted
in reply to Cambel's comment, land
| there's fever knocking about in thcsa
swamps as sure rs there is in Ham burg
drain. But whats fever mean, sir, except
| carclcssncss and ignorance? You tackle
| fever with scienca. Mr.. Cambel, and il
| hasn't a show. And If we haven't got sci.
| Cncc aboard here, concentrated and Ia
bcicd and bottled down in our medicine
| chest, l don't know whore you will find
| 1t. Yes, sir, Will say that. The Pert
| Edcs has ronning fine medicine chest,
| and Two been through it all myself, SO |
| ought to know. The donkcyman's been
| most ways through 1t, too, but he's on at
fever mixtures now, and he's going solid
at them. We've thrce quart bottles-A
FOR bilious B for nlalarial and for ~
phoid-and the Gonkeynan has swig cut
of each with "a L of cholorodyne thrown
in Just after his breakfast every morning
| and then a rub with ST. Elmo rheumatic
| cure and TX he isn't rs right as mail
| boat-well, never speak to nc of drugs
| sgain. But its making u tough man OF
him. Mr.. Cambci, and that's what want,
because the dcnEeynan and arc going to
chip ~ partnership"
What, buy a steamer together and
take her traIuriug? Well, I hope you'll
have Gil manneE If luck"
oh, don't You make any error" re-
torted the captain. 1T isn't salt water
trading were T. .or. We aren't such gulia
rs that. We know too much about It,
both of US. We're going to start in farm
ing"
Farming: What does either Of you
know about tbat?'
'oh, don't you take me for fool, sir.
can learn as we'll as any one, and SO can
Inc doAheyman. We shall get 800 acres
OF land granted TO the Pair of Us for moth,
ing III northwest Canada, and even II
crops failed altogether we've enough saved
up to live on for tie first two years. We
can try it anyhow when you give US our
discharge from here. Ever since worked
az sea- he added plaintivcly, I've al.
WAYS wished to be farmer
think, " said Cambel, Il would dis
snade you from the attempt If / could, but
1 Know it's no use trying, 60 will hold
my tongue on that point. AS to when you,
bargain Is up with the Port Edes, you can
pat that az half an hear from now il YOU
NE. Anyway I'm going to leave here
directly, and never intend to return here
again
Captain Kettles jaw dropped. ..Wbs.,,'
be easped.
have changed my mind be said
OF had 1t changed for me. For INV mart
that gold will remain where it ia az
not going to touch a sovereign of n -
LOOK here - aoid