The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-26
A SAILORS RETRIBUTION.
[From Collfer.s Weeklv.l


The crew of a ship with the exception
of one man, are moonstruck with blind
ness in the Pacific. The captain partially
| RECEIVERS. his sight and finds the sailor
sailor that retribution is TO follow A half
blinded captain n in a blind ship carries out
You won't do it,, capt 'n-you can't do
it. The men won't have it. They re with
me- suffered the man
Possibly they are, heard you ell
growing down the hatch the other
morning. You're pack of small-minded
ours III get another crew Mr. TODD
he said to the listening mate, stewart
told me he was out of coffee. so We II
preak ek a a e pag out o the 1azarette- u 8 q
weight of a man. So Wen hoist her mp
Let Tom here rig a whip to the spanizer-
''Ay, ay. sir answered the mate. Get
line out o the bo's'n's locker. Tom
Is it all right captn2' asked Tom low
I did what seemed right, You know
Rig that whip said Swarth, turning
his back and ascending to the poop
and oIIt the Paf7 fasfenei ne 49,
diIctiyC o,,fI. tl ii-,s7s4f t4, ~ j -
ward of the pinnacle. Then he overhauled
the rope until it reached the deck, and de-
Come up. here on the poop" called the
'ishan 1 go down and hook on. sire-' he
asked, zealously and anxious 10 please
Make a moose in the end of the rope
EhEwhat? A runnfn' bovIine2. A tim
ber-hitch? No no. he yelled as he read
the captains face. You can't do it. Ths
men
Make a hangman's knot in the end Of
the rope" Numbered the captain, his pis-
With a hageard face he tied the knot.
Pass it around your neck and draw IL
Screams burst from the throat of the
man MAJ, ended enc by blow Of the captains
and lay quiet while Swarth himself ad-
justed the moose, and bound his hands
with his own handkerchief. The men at
the wheel strained their necks this way
and that with tense waves of conflicting
faces ana the men forward, aroused by
the screams stood about in anxious ex-
Lay aft, here. the watch. -
They came, feeling their way along by
"Ciap on to that gant-line at the main
hferaH and lift this bag Of coffee out o.
Thex found the loose o f roPe e'Rsai9d Fsated IT,
hooked the blight into an open sheave ia
hoisted the unconscious Tom to the @aes
Swarth ordered: 'Belay; coil up the tan
and go forward"
They obeyed. listlessly as ever, with no
wondering voice raised to inquire WIN
they had not lowered the coffee they had
Captain swarth looked at the square
flgsed snip, now on the port quarter
ion. Fine chance we'd have had" he
muttered, If that happened to be a bull
drew near. hot coffee is good for moon
blindness, taken externally as a blister
hy-blister in the medicine chest. but
smoking not greese must be just as good.
II not better than either Have the cook
heat up q potful, and you get me out .
nice, small paint brush.''
FOrty-eight hours later. when the last
Weakening vision among the % men had
taken cognizance of the grizzly obiect
aloft the gafr was guyed outboard, the
rope cut at the fiferan and the BODY ~
Tom Plate dropped feet first into the sea
A Mark of Superiority-'rVV Wherein
does man differ from the lower ami
mals?" asked the professor. And tha
youth answered without hesitation
He can ride a bicycle.''-Washingto
Star.