The daily Alaskan., 1905-05-19
4 FEMALE
 SKIPP K R

Inc bric Ncptune, bound from Liver pool to Charleston, and Captain Doyle was married and brought hls wife on board on the day of our sailing. He was an easy going man, and from the hour of her coming aboard she took matters Into her own hands. After we had sailed she was an over the ship. giving orders here and there and dc. manding obedience, and lt wasn't day before everything was at loose ends and the brig n nokody's charge. She had never been to sP, but she announc- ed that she was boss and would have things as she wished, and the week that we put In before anybody dared head mutiuy was a strange episode in a sailors life
 We were eight days out when the ell. max came. Every man Of us went aft and demanded of the captain that his wife be suppressed. He certainly real lzed that everything was at loose ends and that never had a peaceful ship had greater confusion aboari, but he had no promises to make He was as clay in the woman'S hands. When we had stated our case she let fy her temper, and of an the tongues posseSscd by wo- men hers waggcd the fastest and pour. cd forth the most bitterness. She even went so far as to bring the captains pistols from the cabin and beg him to shoot us down.
 What we finally did. though the wo- man threatened us with a revolver ev- cry minute, was to lower away the longbOat. stock her with water and provisions and abandon the craft The mates and the steward refused to leave the brig. and if the weather held pleas ant the four men left could work her into port or hold on until some passing craft lent them aid,
 Twelve hours after our leaving tho ship and heading for the Azores a gale came down on us from the south, and we had to turn and run before it. At daylight next morning we found our selves within mile of the Neptune. Short handed as she was, she had been obliged Co run before the same gale, and she had lost a topmast and been otherwise banged about As soon as she made us out we were signaled Ca close in and come aboard. and in the course of half an hour we found our. selves on her decks again. The cap, tain met us more than halfway. say. ing that his wife should have no moro Co say and that he would not enter the Incident in his log book, and, though the woman was on deck with him, shc had nothing Co say. good or bad.
 We turned to after breakfast and got things shipShapc and put the brig on her course. For three days we made fine runs and everything went well aboard. On the morning of the fourtb day, however, the captains wife broke loose again. She gave her husband a long and vigorous blessing and then turned on the mates, and before ShC got through every one on board had come in for a bit of her tongue. HeJ languace Co the first mate was resent cd, and what did she do but bring out a pistol and fire a bullet into his leg.
 IL was mutiny over again. When wC saw that things were worse than be fore and that there was no hope foi hettcrment we took Co the longhoot again. The second mate and stcvar, were with us this time, and the chiei officer would have been but for hl' wound We got a piping gale from th' cast and went drifting on before it Our drift continued for over fifty hours and at times we gave up an hope, but the gale broke at last, the sea wonO down. and after a run Of four hour what craft should we fall In with bu the brig we had twice abandoned w ran down to her, scarcely able to be Iieve our eyes. and walking her quartet deck as coolly as if nothing had hap pened was the same termagout ot woman. As the captain was not h siSht we lay of and on, not seeing oui way clear, but presently the woman came Co the rail and called:
 Get aboard here you villains, and get Co work, The captain Is ill and th, mate laid up with that bullet | gav' him, and. though I'm a determined wo man, | cannot sail this brig to Charles ton by myself"
 The sea looked mighty wide and th' brig very inviting, and the result wat that we tumbled aboard. We got th' brig on her course, cleared up th' a,,l-s sr,a fbor rorop fhe uuCctiOn O