The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-12
OUELLING A MUTINY.

New York Evening Sun.
 You remember that little old Cap tain Thomas I was telling you about the other day. I suppose?" remarked the former marine interrogatively. as he pol ished his highly colored short-stemmed clay on his coat sleeve, and then turned 1t this way and that in the bright rays Of the sun to note the effect.
 T mean the old fellow 1 met at Para who shot the boarding house runners at Baltimore" he continued
 His auditor. the captain of the Swift, nodded fffirmatively, and he settled him self comfortably in his cabin chair. af- ter dexterously sliding the square bottle the water pitcher and a ships tumbler halfway acros the table.
 T remember about hfm-sail ahead" he urged. as the formermarine helped himself iberally and smacked his lips.
 Well. sir. as I remarked the other day. Captain Thomas was one of the most curious characters I ever saw afloat or ashore. He was a reglar puzler, and no mistake. That man wasn't more than five feet high and he couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds. and he must have been at least sixty on account of a habit he had of sitting well forward in his chair with his hands clasped acros the head of his cane after the fashion of very old men, but he cer- tainly was caution.
 Why, that man had voice as soft as a bashful schoolgirls, and his blue eyes were as mild as a cherub's In fact, his whole appearance was that of ven erable pillar of a country church.
 Well, sir, that old man had a big four-masted schooner anchored out there in the river ,and after we had got ac- quainted through talking over the Bal an evening with him aboard the Foam. whic hwas the name of his hooker. It gets pitch dark down in those lattitudes at 6 o'clock. and the night we happened to pick out for our visit was as black as ink. so that when we pulled out from the Trapicho Gram-Para at o'clock there wasnothing visible along the river front except the twinkling masthead lights of a fleet of anchored craft and the green and red side lights of the little police launch that darted in and out among them.
 We were all in one boat. and had got out pretty near where we thought the Foam ought to be, when al at once there was a tremendous rumpus raised on craft right off our port bow. First there was a crash like the sound which might come from collapsing hardware store and we thought the cooks galley must have turned itself inside out. As soon as the din had subsided a little we could hear the angry voices of two men, fol- lowed by the shuffling of many slippered feet acros the deck. There must have but whatever was going on was for gotten the next instant, when the most terrific noise that ever emanated from q human troat fell upon our ears.
 ''The black pail of the murky night seemed literally riven asunder by that full throated volume of raucous sound We backed water and sat motionles with our oars suspended over the side It was not until the first long drawn crash had died away that we realized that some enraged giant must be giving vent to his pent-up feeling in articulate speech But such! Most of us had done -lNo O. t{.NY, but none of us had ever listened to the like of that before. Awe-struck, We awaited the next outburst. It came and lasted for five minutes and then there was silence. From the half dozen vessels within earshot we could hear subdued murmurs of astonishment and admira- ton. We soon saw that the exhibition was over. for the present, at least, and some one yelled:
 :" on board the Foam there"
 "'Ay, ay.' called a voice from the craft where the disturbance had been going on. and we pulled for the spot ladder, each wondering to himeslf If Cap tain Thomas had a lunatic aboard. We were soon in the schoner's big cabin, and the old skipper seemed to imagine that we were awaiting an explanation Of some sort. He was very red in the face but his eye was calm as he said mildly:
 The mate wanted to throw the cook s monkey overheard for some of his shines, and was OnlBcu to Sp@dh SoiileWn'tt firmly to the men to prevent trouble. You may have heard something of the dis turbance as you pulled out.
 Heard something of 1t! Well, should say we had!
 After We had thawed out a bit over a social glass of first rate grog the talk fell to mutinies. Several yarns had been spun when this little old Thomas all lowed that we might be interested in something of that nature in which he had had a hand.
 "I had a little trouble with my crew going up the river one time he began, meekly, nothing to speak of. you know, but osme of them got dlsagreeable-like. and they had to be punished. They took fl to heart so that every man Jack of 'em deserted at Rosario without so much as asking for cent or saying good-by. Of courst l had to ship a new crew, and we had to bring some of them aboard by force. All but four or five of them were drunk-like. you might say. when we started. and when they did come to they put their heads together and refused to go to work 1 tried to reason with them, but it didn't do any good, so l had them tied up to the foreyard by their thumbs. They all begged in less than a minute, and said they would go to work if they could have something to eat When, 1 ordered 'em cut down and told the cook | to feed 'em.
 As soon as they had slowed away a square meal apiece I'm blest if they didn't refuse to work again. Up they went to the yard again. and one of them had the grit to stay there fully five min utes before he yelled. There were half a dozen of them. and I had them all cut down and the two ring-leaders spent the next two days below in irons,
 "'Well, after that we had no trouble for a long time The men worked as faithfully as any fellows whot ever droped into a mess kit until we werd around the Horn and well up toward Valparaiso, where We were bound for. One night, just at dusk. while we were driving along with fair wind under q full spread of canvas, the after compan- ion was suddenly closed. and l could hear someone fumbling with a bolt on top. While I was springing to my feet, the door leading to the main deck from the front of the poop was slammed. and be- fore I realized 1t I was a prisoner in my own cabin. A laugh in answer to my demands to be released clincehed my suspicious.
 "."Now. skipper. be reasonable" called out the first mate. we've got the old sinner and you've got to do as We say. If you'u give us your promise to do what we ask we may be able to come to an un- derstanding don't say we will but we may. you know
 '"Take that and be damned to you, yelled. and I discharged my revolver twice through the cabin wall aiming as near as could toward where the mate must be standing. The crowd moved off in hurry cursing and swearing. and -ao,, Enpw hy the sounds that