The Carlisle independent., 1910-06-02

hostile land too, for the gendarmes
 in front of the office eyed him with
 disfavor. He desperately lone felt the grip of circumstance keen upon him. AS andered about the strange streets he discovered. in the lining of his coat an envelope until then eed Its contents were four one-hundred-doar bills lis note:
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 -o'iS PETER SHERMAN
 The friendly faces of Uncle sams greenbacks gave him courage. He made plans and acted on them then and there. Meeting that English mate In the street, he gave him most artistic beat ing, paid a fine, and took the next boat for Lon- don town. Incidentally. he forgot all about his de- sire to travel six thousand miles and kill the sailortown kings What spasm of virtue caused them to give him back his money he never knew. They were not noted for doing such things
 That the kings continually escaped punish ment was small wonder. The men injured never had chance to tell their stories until they ashore in foreign land. Consus in foreign ports could not libel ships detain captains their unsupported word. The ships papers always straight, at any rate the face of them. The most that could be done to report the case and there 1t ended. The Sherman boys on the other side of the earth never heard echo of it. The witnesses against them scat
 
 not touch them
 The United States district attorney and his staff did their best to keep the Shermans within the let ter, at least, of the shipping laws, but they had hard sedding. In one the kings indicted Charlie Marsden, the star witness for the prosecu tion, was locked up in jail for safekeepng. Charlie Marsden disappeared. The jailer told a story of masked men, guns and general confusion. but could identify no one as having taken part in the jail delivery. With the witness gone, prosecution halt ed Long afterward Charlie Marsden came back and told moving tale. He had been bound, gagged and carried aboard ship just as she sailed. When released at sea- he told that he had been regularly shipped and was led a sorry life aboard In foreign ports he appealed in vain to consuls, who showed him his name-forged of course-on the ships articles and laughed at him. When he finally worked his way back to Irvington his story awakened interest and prosecutions were begun The Sherman boys had well-pad lawyers who dragged out the cases with adjourn. ments and legal tangles. Irvington too busy to be long excited the wrongs of few sail. Prosecution faltered and paltered along it's usual dismal way and what at last brought the saortown kings up with round turn the united public opinion of Irvington directed against them
 Irvington suddenly walked up to find itself a blot the map. Unexplained dead are no good advertisement for any town; neither mysteri- dsappearances of strangers within it's gates to be desired if their friends make fuss about them. Captains who refused to be held up for extrava- gant blood money, and to play villain at small profit, avoided the port Business falling off. Upper Irvington hit where it lived and the Sherman boys were notified to quit
 The kings of saortown have abdcated. Steam vessels make voyages short that advance notes" no longer prizes Seamen's unions have given a of protection even to deep- water sailors, who to have fewer rights and more hardships than most men. The bullying cap- tain. the bucko mate and the boarding master have all been snged by the feeble and tardy fire of United States maritime law. The railroads had their share in the revolution. But what really caused the Sherman boys to become private citi- the wrath of upper Iryington When it was hit in its pocket and it's self-esteem-that u. set the kingdom of the sailortown tyrants.