Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-04-13
CHASED BY A CHINESE JUNK.
A Pirate Tries to Lay Aboard the Ship
Siam OFF the Coast of BOrneo.


Oriental wares, got up to her pier Sat
urday night, 218 days out from Hong
Kong. The big clipper, after passing
out of Hong Kong, had a dreary drift
through the China sea, with the mon
soons just changing from the southwest
to the northeast,
One night in September, while the
Siam was off the Borneo coast, Second
Mate Schnack had the watch, when q
Chinese junk came sneaklng up on the
wind. The mate raised signal, to
which the junk made no reply, and in
stead shaped course to strike the Siam
head on. Quick as a flash Mate Schnack
OWNED that she was a Chinese pirate
and, yelling to the man at the wheel to
stand steady, he sang out an alarm to
Capt Garlichs and the crew.
Before the skipper could respond the
black junk, with her lights doused, swept
along towards the Siam and was nearly
alongside when the mate sang out to
the man at the wheel. AS her helm
fell away, while the junk, missing her,
ran by, barely a fathom clear of the
side. There were at least fifty men on
the pirate, the second mate says, and as
the junk rushed by the Chinese rascals
could be seen crouching in the shadow
of her rails. They seemed to be grasp
ing what looked like bamboo spears. !,
under the Slams forecastle head was
emptied of rusty water and loaded with
slugs, but the junk kept on before the
wind and was not seen again.
On December 5, when the Siam was in
the Indian ocean in latitude 21.16 south
and longitude CLAP east, a baby son
was born to the captains wife. In hon
or of the event Capt. Garlichs presented
to the crew square face" holding
about gallon of the best Holland gin.
The baby was named Diedrich Gun
Their. All the captains three children
were born at sea. Little Hannah, who
is ~ year old, was born when the ship
the youngest saw the light. The eldest
of the sturdy little ''sea dogs' is Ger
hard. He is 4 years old.
At eight bells, on the morning of
March z, when the Siam was forty-five
miles off Sandy Hook, Marks, the bo'sn,
ran aft to First Mate Petersen with the
information that boats crew of ship
wrecked sailors were pulling for the
ship.
A gale of wind and an awful sea was
on at the time, and in this a boat could
hardly have lived. Closer inspection,
however, disclosed the supposed boat
was only an overturned schooner with
the wreck looked like man reckoning.
At a. M, March 16, when the Siam
was rolling in bowling gale, First
Mate Petersen sighted the portlight of
a schooner hove to and unmanageable.
The Siam kept off, but the schooner again
ran down before the wind, and as she
came on her spanker boom nearly raked
the clippers port quarter She cleared
her by about two feet.
AS the three-master like specter
ship rushed close by Mate Petersen
yelled: ''Hows President Cleveland,
cap?'
The unknown schooner's skipper
growled a reply:
''You're forty miles nor of Sandy
Hook, partner. Another nor'wester s
comm. Take my advice and anchor
when you get into ten fathoms."
But the clipper kept on, and before
long was safe inside the Hook.-New
York World.
Cheap journalism.
In the Cosmopolis, the new European
magazine, Jules Simon of France writes
on ''penny journalism
Even with the lower cost of material
and production in his own country and
in it's neighbour England, Mr.. Simon is
nous change wrought in journalism by
the 1-cent movement, to point out that
no money can be made at that price by
the advertisements drawn by the circula-
ton which supply the profits.
To the advertiser, Mr.. Simon correct
ly thinks, ''it is of no Importance that
you are listened to by diplomats, studied
by fnanciers, discussed by the newspa-
pers of every party. The only thing the
advertiser cares about is the number
of your readers; it is your publicity that
he buys.
of bankruptcy, or on pain OF death, to
make large sales. In order to make
large sales of a penny paper-that is, a
paper which goes to workingmen, fur
nacemen, messengers, and so forth
what do you need to be? A savant
No. Wise, far-seeing, rational? By no
means. Nationality is tiresome. 1t is
passion which dominates; it is scandal
which attracts and holds; it is hatred
which is contagious; it is folly which ex-
cites the Imagination
''It is to whatever is silly and danger
Gus and unwholesome that such jour
nal must address itself, because, instead
Of receiving from on high the mama of
life, it is obliged to go down low, very
low, and howl with the wolves and fiat
ter all bad passions in order simply to
live"
Resembles It's Parent.
"It is generally supposed that family
resemblances are confined to the animal
world said j. l.. Hagans of Salyers-