Evening journal., 1899-09-22
ON THE BLACK PEARL
Jolly Freebooters Plan Another
Raid.
DUPONT MUST WALK THE PLANK

NO QUARTER TO BE ASKED AND
NONE GIVEN IN THE FIGHT OF
DIFFERENTIATION AGAINST REG
ULAR REPUBLICANS - BLOOD
LUST PREVAILS FROM CABIN TO
FoRECAsTLE.
scene-Luxurious Cabin of ]. Edward
Addicks' Rakish, Piratical
Schooner, the Black Pearl. Place
Harbor OF Philadelphia. Time
Midnight. Dramatis Personae-
Certain Rare Old Blades and Po-
litical Freebooters Of More or Less
Renown on the Seaboard. Unin-
Yited Guest and Terrified Stow
away-The Wayfarer.
Jenkins-Mr. Addicks, hain't this
yachtin' business kind of expensive?
Addicks-Yes, 1t comes high, but it's
a good advertisement. I've got to keep
myself before the people, you know, or
they'd soon forget me.
Kittinger-But we don't mind few
thousand, more or less, Uncle Jabez.
With me and Mr.. Addicks money
comes easy and goes easy. We specu-
lators and manipulatOrs have to spend
big money to make big money. A dol
lar don't look as big to us as it does
to you staid old people down in Cam
den.
Jenkins wish I'd brought my fid-
die along-we might have had some
music if I'd only thought. Things is
gettin' kind of dull.
Allee-Miff, get up of my cutlass, or
you'll cut yourself.
Wilson-Aye, aye, sir!
Allee-Let us have song-some-
thing rare and rollicking smelling OF
the sea and limiting of carnage, for the
heavens are red, and ] smell the bat
tie from afar of. Mr.. Addicks we are
all attention.
Addicks-
/ am the all in all, the altogether
Ny sway is absolute, no man fear;
The black flag fiutters from the mast
head tall,
Let foemen tremble, for the rover's
near.
love to see the red tide hide the
And choke the scuppers till the food
OF gore
Bedecks the good, stout masts with
crimson patches
And shows its redness on the cabin
floor.
Allee-Now, shipmates, all together
with the chorus:
Then ahoyl ahoyl ahoy for life SC
The skull and the crossbones float
aloft
And blood on the moon l see!
Then ahoyl ahoyl Three cheers fol
the gallant crew,
Which can slit throat
With any afioat-
For men who are tried and true.
Addicks-My hearties, that was in
Wilmington Coal Gas meter. will
now show you what / could do If the
Board of Directors of the Street and
Sewer Department would permit me tC
lay pipes and put the xy-Hydrogen
meter to practical use:
I'm leader of men and king oi
kings
Then ahoyl my hearties, ahoyi
people my dreams with most horrible
things
Then ahoyl my hearties, ahoyl
Ny hands wash in the damp dews o.
death;
II blood isn't flowing, 1 can't get my
breath;
It makes me feel queer,
But l never know fear
Then ahoy! my hearties, ahoy!
Allee-Once more, shipmatee, with (
will:
Then ahoyl ahoyl ahoy for our leade
bold
He's a lover Of blood, and the dew
OF death,
And hands that are stiff and cold
Then ahoyl ahoyl Death turks in tn
good Black Pearl.
It's ready to spring!
It's ready to sting
It's ready the dart to hurl.
Blakely-Mr. Addicks, Who got tha
up?
Addicks-It was written especiall
for me by the head butcher OF one o
the big slaughter houses out in Chi
oago.
Frizzell-It's so all-fired bloody tina
I guess he did it without washing hi
hands.
Taylor-That's just what he did. Blu
it's all right, Ned. What we want nol
is something that will scare people.a
you're on the right tack. II we wer
to 60 out and serenade Colonel Du
Pont with that song he'd commit sui
eide in self-defense.
Allee-Shipmates, we have with III
this evening, ex-Mayor Stansbury ,
Wiley. He's more or less OF literar
fellow, and, as our party is now striI
ing to reach a more elevated plane b
divers means, think that we shoul
inject into these proceedings a certai
amount OF educational excellenc
Therefore, feel that l express the sen
timent of the entire ships compan
when l suggest that our noble col;
borer in the field of purer political e
fort contribute his share to the ever
ing's entertainment.
Willey-Well, really, gentlemen
excuse me, shipmates, mean-this
a total surprise. / did not know tn;
there was to be any formal speecl
making. In fact, l presumed that v
were 10 devote Our tina m an in form