The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-22
THE JURY DIsAGREEs.


eyes shet and still azhofding her hand
says. More, more! lets have some more
Em'lyp So then Emily Smith starts II
on the fifteenth verse, and as she drawee
/ to the end of it, Cap'n Scllnitt who
heard her spell-bound. stepped over an6
] kicked the bucket from underneath Van
derwerken. dropping him on the deck
| Then Cap'n Schmitt turns to her and
he says:
Which verse was that, Em'ly7'
The fifteenth, says she.
Now, give us the sixteenth, says he
and SO Emily, who always was good ma
tured, begun on the sixteenth.
when she stopped Cap'n Schrniti
| drawed me over to one side and says
he. I think maybe we can make trade,
William, Emily wouldn't be jus my fus'
choice, but still there's a charm about
| her, particularly about he singing. I'm
a little shy with girls says he, because
I'm so much out O. practice. Would you
mind opening out the subject to her for
mer
so / sets down along side o. Emily,
on Vanderwerken's bucket, whilst Cap'n
Sch1nitt goes to the bulwark and looks
over; and whilst Emily was good deal
set up by Cap'n Schmitt,s offer, she felt
she was obleeged TO decline it. She said
she was already engaged to Arcturus
Williams, the President of the Sons and
Daughters and Brothers and Sisters of
Aaron of the Tribe of Levi of Rising
Sun, Philadelphia, and that, anyhow,
even if she was willing to throw Arctu-
rus over, she should feel like going a
little slow about marrying; a man who
seemed to her to be half scepter and half
pirate,
"Of course, I daresnt say this to
Cap'n Schmitt or there'd be trouble
right off, and the Barnegat Bay treas
TIRE would never come my way, so
had to resort to duplicity.
Calling .Cap'n Schrlitt over by the
forecast1e scuttle I says to him
Emily says she prefers Vanderwerken.
''fIe was pretty mad. I'll have to.
keel-haul VanderwerlSen yet, says he
But Emily has a kind heart, says
I continuing, and she's willing to sac
rifce her own feelings to lift the cilss
from you; and in my opinion that's
handsome, only she must have condi-
tons
What conditions says cap'n
Schmitt
9 She promised her ma afore she left
home that if she ever got married she
wouldn't have any parson marry her
but Brother Wiley of the Brick church,
and if you're willing to wait till she
can git him, she'- yourn with love and
kind regards.
sssThat's not unreasonable, says
Cam Scl1nitt but what ! want to
know is how's she going to git Brother
Wiley and how am / and Brother
Wiley and Emily Smith going to come
together
$50 we talked it over fur while
and finally Cap'n Schnitt agreed that
me and Emily should try to git ashore,
and hunt up Brother Wiley and meet
Cap'n Schnitt's ship three miles off
Barnegat light on the fifteenth of
March at twelve o'clock midnight, ez-
zackly.
"Then we shook hands all around and
Cap'n Schmitl tenderly kissed Emily
goodbye. AS / helped her over the
side into our boat / handed the Bar
negat Bay chart to Cap'n Schnitt to
hold for a minute, and when all was
ready, he put the chart at me and
Promise me now, William, that
YOU viii divide fair, but don't cross
your breath to it, for that won't go
herep
"Weil. sir, don't know what made
me do it, but afore could take the
chart out of his hands, | crossed my
breath and that very minute there was
loud Bangi and / was whirled round
and round in the air and become un-
conscious.
when / come to. / found myself
laying in one end o. the boat, whilst
Emily Smith set in the other end sing
ing softly to herself the nineteenth verse
of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The
sun was jus a-gitting up and the food
tide was a-sweeping the boat into Della
ware Bay
''We1l, the short of it is that we run
ashore at Cape May. and Emily and
me come Up home on the train But
both she and Brother Wiley backed
dead out on the fifteenth OF March.
and en- the sixteenth she married Presi-
dent Arcturus Williams of Rising Sun.
"As for that Barnegat Bay treasure,
there it's a-iaying and there it'll go on
a-laying, whilst William Potsherd, who |
might've been a millionaire, can't rub |
two dollars together
Then William Potsflerd arose and
went downstairs to help FIX the chairs |
for the evening meeting at the Mission;
and the Chaplain came into the room.