The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17

years ago. and began 70 30 to pieces. An Amer
that neieh6orhood, sighted the Wicked sealer,
and. though the sea was terrific, a boats crew
under the lcndership OF The chief 6o,suP 1b. mat,
man notable for nerve, He had. In fact, shown
h%Ssd T b@d WITH lfdsnS oth Ig CHEF petty s%6So OdicSrs q q
lis ship, and he. had lost prestiSS, among
man .o'war bout got within a hundred feet or
so Of the sealer. which was rapidly going TO
considerable disgust, that ali hands aboard. the
aealer. including the, skipper. were boiling
SPoISe;r AND %n THTs i stsa tSa 1SSst n 1aTGE 81 tRsiT TO sS SRs
6oats q the davits. i was I%poSsible for the
S S%e3sSf ?n a @sfe, S6 90 i had Ri Riths sTes' lacked exc TIL TIE
S RtSs; SsPn he t1' ,is%Pps9 sadddHlys into t6s;
fI atc tho Ssq bosom ono q Pa lis @ust R@fS shirt S,frF, when ef1 he
leaped. When he drew near TO the distressed
sfcSSisr the seas slammed him SfaInst. ths sS slhiP},s
clutch at a rail chain, TO pull himself aboard.
He succeeded In climbing aboard ,nnaIlyi
and mates. were huddled around Q rum cask,
hopped,i into the middle, OF tho gang, OF drunk
f fGdfbi l TsRi 6PIP ED en- III h's T R,S bInT w P,st3l' ana made
Cut awny the boats. ye .sQts, and take a
chance qrI1i nut an ounce Of lead into every
drunken dog OF yer ne yelled.
He covered the crew with his gun as he spoke.
bered out OF the %fo'c'sle. and. despite their. half
clear ithe davits. and all hands. nineteen men
In all Of the %sealer's crew. got at the oars in the
IN one Of the longboats, and. followed by
the man-o'+war's boat, they all made for the
th er eF ) mile Ea nMnP. % fba s %aS move went Il 10 a pieess
crew vas taken to Horolulu BY the ,warship.
The chief bo'sun's mate was afterward regard
ed by his shipmates as q man who. could only
be carried along a certain number Of knots
Remington. had his life saved aboard that ship
by a Cingalese mess attendant in an odd sort of
berth deck. aft, one afternoon when the Exeeu-
t t,;er 0 GnSth d Of the 1n chip cam m to the head son OF the tn
low to anybody within hearing:
lis the Captain below there?"
G9S R aSe pay any Sfid seP foE tho f. th fSdd fHefIt ntsnd ffaEte 20
go aboveto the main deck to see what the First
of the ladder had beer. carelessly left open by a
seaman who had gone forward for a Bit Of gear.
n %Sp i Tf had af Eis on sy tso r SfEsa g fbs h ThS & sp ne
ladder. anyhow. as he approached the ladder,
and l had h he t made hot 9noth oI t step he would have
been manGled to bits. He was arrested by hear
ing q piercing voice behind him exclalm:
Damn the shippers eyesl Damn the skip
With his foot still raised to take the step that
Moulu HdNb DluDReu Dlul lDIO Ine 0hIrn, OOI0-
mander Thomas turned his head suddenly.
who's that 2" he asked.
Then the CinRaleSe mess attendant, leapinR
out Of the darkness, had the skipper clutched
by the sleeve. and jerked him, back from the
open hatch by. main force, Thomas couldn't
csc, who had fortunately picked up English on
hatch, The Cingalese explained in his broken
dialect that the exclamation he had used was
his head when he. saw the Captains danger.
He couldn't remember the English equivalent
OF the word stop, soon enough. he said. and
so he had damned the slippers eyes as the best
And SO the first thing that crops into your
head Is to damn |ourskipper,s eyes, isit?'' asked
Thomas OF the Cingnlese. The man got all Of
the best OF it on the Bennington after that.
An Ordnance Sergeant stationed at one Of the
Pacific coast artillery posts went suddenly in
turbed for some time by the hard-heartednesS
Of q young woman who declined to marry him.
On the, day that his wits went completely awry
he made for the magazines with the intention.
recruit whom he met on the way, OF blowing
them up. The Swede's eyes stuck out at this.
but he was one Of the tribe Of quick thinkers.
"Ay tank Ay,ll go alang an hair" said he to
the crazy Ordnance Sergeant, whose eyes
The Sergeant made no response and the
Swedish recruit walked after him. The Ser
geant opened the dooro Of one of the main maya
zines. that held, many thousands of pounds Of
break out a Big box Of It. The SWeds saw that
the crazy man actually intended to blow up the
magazine. When he was convinced OF this he
picked up a shellbar. waited for the insane man
to turn his, back and banged him over the head
Sergeant on his back to the guardhouse. The
Swedish recruit was a Corporal the next day.