Evening star., 1901-02-01

man-of-War. Now, Robert was thirsty soul
and had a weakness for beer. Capt w.
Lake, the commander Of the man-of-war,
had barrel of beer on board, which he
had designed to drink himself, but Robert
slyly tapped the barrel and had still on
for several days much to the wonder OF
the officers of the ship, who could not m
agine how he got It, Finally the captain
examined his barrel of beer. and found
that a large portion of its contents was
missing. He did not wait to go through
the formality of a court-martal, but i'm
mediately ordered Jeffery to be fiogged.
Jeffery took the fogging. but threatened
to report the matter to the naval authori-
ties-as was his legal right.
Capt. Lakes anger having cooled, he per-
ceived he had got himself into a scrape. If
Jeffery reported the matter the captain was
In for court-martial. He foolishly deter
mined to make bad matter worse by get
ting rid OF Jeffery. The ship was then
cruising in the West Indies. AS soon as
she was ordered home the captain sailed to
the uninhabited island of Sombrero, one OF
the small outlying islands of the Lesser
Antilles, and there "maroOned' the thirst y
sailor. After undergoing fearful privations
on Sombrero, Jefery was rescued by an
American trading vessel which saw his sig
mails and taken to the United States. From
New York he worked his way back to Eng
land and laid his case before the naval au-
thorities. His cause was taken up by Sir
Francis Burdett. father of Baroness Bur
dett-Coutts. Capt. Lake was made to pay
to Jenery $1,000 damages and was, more
over, tried by court-martial and dismissed
from the service The So 600 was a small
fortune to the sailorman Jeffery, but it Is
not recorded that it grew to any such giant
proportions as the compensations of Magee
and O'Brien.
In 1884 William Henry Barber, London
lawyer, was convicted of forgery and SEN
fenced to a long term in one of the British
fc
sentence he was fogged for some trifling
infractfOn of discipline. He never held up
his head again, and though after four years
hds innocence of the crime for which he had
been transported was established, 1t was
but the wreck Of a man who returned to
England to. receive the ratulations of
his friends. 1t was the flogging that had
broken his heart. Parliament, as a slight
compensation for the chasusemsnt to which
he had been subjected, voted him SIS 900.
Innocent Convict Rewarded.
Within a few months after the Barber
case had been made public another inno-
cent convict was found working in the
chain gang on Norfolk Island. He was a
former shopkeeper named Dunno. He was
at once pardoned, but that did not satisfy
him, for he, like Barber, had been f1ogged.
AS salve for his sore back the Australian
colonists raised $4,000 by subscription and
presented 1t to him. Dunno said that he
never again wanted TO see England. and SO
settled down as a sheep farmer In Aus
tralia. He invested his $4,000 so well that
when he died. twenty years ago, he was
possessed of a large fortune, all of which
he left to charity.
There is no wealthier family in Russia
than the Lapukins of Ustillich mine own
ers and bankers. A fiogging with the knout
bestowed upon the beautiful and accom-
plished actress, Nine. Lapukin, the ances-
tress of the family. laid the foundation for
the immense fortune of her descendants.
Nine. Lapukin fell under the displeas-
ure of the cruel and indolent Czarina
Elizabeth, the last of the direct line of the
house of Romanof. Elizabeth had Nine.
Lapukin publicly fogged in the market
place. Then the unhappy lady's tongue
was torn out and she was banished to 81
IBERIA. Elizabeths successor, Peter III, re-
called Nine. Lapukin from her banishment
when he ascended the throne, and be-
slowed upon her over $500, 900, besides giv-
ing to her husband enormously valuable
estates and mining rights in the then little
developed mountain regions lying between
ustillich and Pass Nier.
Among the British peers is Barnaby
Fftz-Patrick. Lord Castletown. The power
and affluence which Lord Castletown's
family have enjoyed for centuries is due
almost entirely to the fact that one of
their ancestors was whipping boy" to Ed
ward VII. In the days when Henry VIII
was having his son Edward educated 1t
was not considered seemly for a royal