The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1907-01-04

ami through il runs the story u5 q
ruined life-a life going out in shame
and darkness with none If the love
or hope 70 ligbt the way between the
worlds 4 human derelfcr without an
,chor or undertaking close TO the
shoals of death
The letter WRITTEN from prison head
quarters is IN part as follows:
Your DNceI.ency.--n most re-
-su4"ts,l.v asking goa 10 accept ny
sincere thanks for your characteristic
kindness IT, Granting a man as deeply
involved III degradation as I am The
privilege OF writing 10 yDG-an aci
which my heartfelt respect for you
personally. and the respect due TO
your high official position would not
otherwise have permitted me- to do
lit uen10VCs me To say that ! did
not AS the favor for the purpose Of
wearing your patience with a volume
after the order of the Lamentations OF
jeremiah, tho as the wings of ap-
preaching night cast SHADOWS on the
face of the earth. 50 may a combina-
ton of age, disease and imprisonment
cast shadows on this hierglyDhcal
land--or paper-scape spread out be
fore you.
My first passage around Cape Horn
Z cr-,,,,..J.,,., Oh l..
of the last century. The ship | was
in, the largest one aflOat in those
days. had a cargo for the Peruvian
government. Her cargo among which
was guns, solid shot and shells was
SO reckleSsly stored that all the heavy
material was put into her ',Wcen
decks. making her cranky. We were
four months getting from New York
TO the latitude of the Horn. our shin
SO cranky we could not. in "A fresh
breeze, unless it was aft. carry but
very little sail And when in the lati-
tude of the Horn we fell in with hur-
ricanes which lasted for a week at
time. throwing the ship on her
beam ends. causing her as she wallOv-
ed in the seas To make such lce-Way
that we soon found ourselves in the
Antarctic ocean. II was the middle
of the southern winter, and such =
winter Freezing hurricanes. snow.
ice-mOSt of the twenty-fOUr hours
dark. The Horn. when We cited il was
covered with snow and ice. aud il va
a harbinGer. Of freedom from the
gloom We had enveloped in that frigid
zone shall never forget the indies
cribable depression the sight Of it re-
moved from NY spirits.
Alas History repeats itself Last
February | got clearance papers and
clean bill of moral health from Il
certain custom house of mercy. well
known 20 Your EXcellency. The skies
were fair, nor was Storm signal in
sight. | took in cargo, purpGseiv
to trade along the coast of what |
presumed TO he prosperity. And it
proved 10 be prosperous, not for ne.
but for pirates, who boarded me and
depleted my cargo. In making my way
south toward the Antarctic OF dis
tress. fen in with such gales of mis-
fortunes. such buccaneers. who 50
Dlundered my cargo as 10 make my
time and weather beaten barQue
cranky. cranky for want of ballast in
point of fact and III short. the old
harqUe became so cranky, and the
seas Of adversely so mountainous as
to throw her upon her beam ends OF
despair, and she made such lee-way
in seas Of temptation that instead Of
rounding The Horn OF Prosperity, she
drifted into moral desolation. the
cheerlcss-aDd 50 far as human sym
pathy is commemorative Arctic ocean
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