St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-09-24
BOSTON WAS SAVED.
Daughters E0lleA the Spanish
Mea-Of.WaP.

Daughters FoiIea the Spanish
Mea-of-WaF.
There had been sounds all day-dulf.
1eep, booming sounds-from various
directions. True. there were enough
sounds on previous occasions, but none
quite SO emphatic. And now Boston
realized that the worst was at hand.
The Donna Ipecachuana and the
Donna JingG > Sarsapareelah were an
nounced of the harbor, and at any
| moment the bombardment might COM
mence. Everywhere people could be
met hur-ying toward the interior of
the state. loaded down with family
trees and Puritan Bibles, and all the
minor household gods. The gilded
Goldfish cleaned DULY on the state
house. The grass on the Common
turned an aShen brown.
At $3.50 ante-meridian the Donna
IIpecachuana yawned heavily and drop
ping into position fired 4 steen-inch
shell from her bow gun. The pro-
jectile entered the city at the fish
wharf, and chasing itself up the mar
row street that suggested convenient
opening, speedily found itself in diff
culties. In following the tortuous
course it curved here and there and
left and right, and in zigzags and
obliques, until it reached Washington
street, where it was too tired and con-
fused to explode.
The shell was simply warning. 1t
had the desired effect. Mayor Quincy
and the city authorities moved quick
ly. They had the Spaniards' terms. A
ransom of $4,000, ,000 to be raised in
six hours, 500 tons Of coal and five on
hand shots at Bunker Hill shaft.
There was only one more condition.
Twenty Boston maidens, the flower o.:
the hub, were to be Immediately sent
aboard the enemy's ships as hostages.
to be held in testimony Of Boston's
good faith.
At ten o'clock the maidens left the
wharf in two barges. ten to barge.
The suns rays touched with fire their
cleaning spectacles and yellowed the
texture of their reconcentrado necks
Their ages aggregated 73s years
They did, not weep. There was a
look of high resolve upon their CHS
eled features. A moment later they
were speeding away over the ripplins
waves.
A chill breeze swept over the decks
ns the two instaIlments boarded the
respective warships. Each captain in
voluntarily looked at the barometer.
Then he looked at the ten maidens.
After that he cheerfully looked back
a, the barometer.
The fair hostages. statuesquely cold.
sat In . row of chairs on the after deck.
They were not disturbed. The hand
some Spanish officers who strolled by
with smiling eyes and cleaning teeth
did not come back. The marine whS
with chattering jaws-patroled the
deck kept his eyes resolutely fixed on
an imaginary point six PAGES in front
of him. And all the time II grew cold.
ef.
The captain OF the Don Jingo in his
great coat consulted the executive OF.
hcer in an ulster. They couldn't un-
derstand the ever-increasing chill
Nor was. the puzzle lessened when the
chief engineer sent up word that ice
was rapidly forming in the starboarc
draught condenser. and that the
pumps were clogged with icy needles
And all this time raw, offxhore vino
swept the decks. The captain, who
was an affable man as we'll as darh
and revengeful enemy, approached the
II a.
II they had brought their wraps with
them. when they turned upon him such
a chilly stare that he felt the marrow
of his bones grow cold
With difficulty he moved away or
his benumbed feet and was immedi-
ately confronted by the boatswain.
"Sir," said the latter, in choice Bis
eayan, Eve won't do any bombardine
to-day. The powder is frozen 50 hard
that yon cant cnt it with an AK"
Don't try!" roared the captain.
"WeIl get out OF this as quick as the
Lord will let us. don't intend to bt
frozen up stin in this internal eli
mate. Send those gi-girls ashore and
we'll up anchor and away!"
Twenty minutes later the warships
were steaming rapidly southwark and
the maidens were on shore telling their
overioyed friends how they had frozer
out the dread invaders.
And the captain of the Donna Ipecac-
huana and the captain of the Dor
Jingoy Sarsapareelah may never know
how they converted their ships into
floating refrigerators by taking or
board those coldiy chaste Boston dam
seh.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cold Chicken In Cream.
Cut the remains of cold roasted OF
l,roiled chicken into small pieces
Cracl the honeS and nlace them in a