The Conshohocken Recorder, December 15, 1893

              THE WEEKLY RECORDERi
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VCL XXIV NO. 41- CONSHOHOCKEN, DECEMBER 15, 1898. $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
AUTUMN ON THE HALF SHELL.
As usual, the loaves arc drown.
And all tho meads are yellow.
The mossy boughs are bending down
With apples red and mellow.
Along the winding orchard wall
Thebreeses bear the tblrtle.
And round the wayside button ball
The quail begins to whistle.
A breezy curtain blurs tho sky
And makes It sad and murky.
And now we dream of pumpkin pie
And contemplate the turkey.
Tin ro Is a pnihosin the ulr,
A pathos sweet and tender,
That m: ■ the teaman with despair
And charms the CheatDttt vender.
The land ii purple with the grape
And with the cornstalk tawny.
Whirl. - the small Isiy all agape
And grinning like a Pawnee.
The popcorn's popping with a pop
That's musical and pleasant.
And luscious is the lush porkohoy
And lush the upland pleasant.
Oh, season of the cloth of gold.
Whoa all is sweet and stilly.
And blooming in the ashen wold
Is neither rote nor lily;
O season calm, whose blooming star
Is e'er the lilac gentian.
Indeed your subtle beauties are
Too numerous to mention!
i: K. Munkittrick in Pock.
wake. A p~i~ of v *.'■'■ J eToiuT occasion-ally
broke from hw bow, anil the black
ball, ill aimed, went skimming ahead of ;
the cutter in the direction of the Bristol
merchantman like a parched pea along
' a table.
Before the cotter had measured half a
mile the pirate was alongside and lash-ing
the vessels together for boarding as
a spider revolves a fly in its web before .
trotting aloft to dine off it in its hole.
There wis some small crackling of
Blunderbusses and pistols, shouts faint
in tho distance and a little lifting of
white smoke. The business was then
ended, and with true pirate celerity the
schooner was making for the blue heap
ly ,i\ii uf the harlKW tfironjrli the narrow
passage before a weak offshore breeae,
The vessel was :il unit live ami 1 W i 11 ly tons !
burden, rigged with one mast and had
been lately employed in carrying sugar
along the coast. She was unarmed.
Her flnsh deck swept clear from thetaff-rail
to the "eyes."
The night that followed sundown was Jumping overboard, while the rest were
one of rich tropic beaaty. The moon
cnantmen except some half dozen able
seamen.
Never was there a deadlier, more he-roic
boarding rush. It was an affair of
about five minutes only—howls and
yells, cuts and thrusts, the gleam of
brandished steel, the crackling of pistols,
followed by some dozen of the miscreants
was at her full. Her wake flowed in a
river of greenish splendor across the
black surface of the water, but the night
beam was so clear and piercing that the
eye easily followed the hard, firm sweep
of the line of tho horizon.
When the sloop had gained an offing
of about two miles, the weak breeze
of coast, with the unhappy cutter towing Bcantadi then fell dead> and the hngh of
and rolling and flashing in her wake. tfae . ht 8olemn with ito beauty, came
This thievish piece of work had keen d the^
A CLEVER RUSE.
It was in the days of the black flag, and
of the nimble keel OOppered to the bends,
and of that square of blood red bunting
which when run «loft to the maintop-mast
head signified "No quarter!" A
round bowed Bristol trader, a bark of
about 400 tons, throe months ont from
the Avon find bound to Savanna la Mar,
lay helpless off that Jamaican port in
what is known to sailors as a "sheet
calm."
watched with helpless wrath by Captain
Rogers and his ship's company and with
no small alarm by the passengers. The
captain said he could swear to tho
schooner. She was the wickedest of all
the picaroon pests of those waters. Ho
pronounced her name, and his face was
full of blood with temper as he did so.
An hour later an inshore breeze sprang
rip. The anchor was swiftly catheaded
to a cheery chorus, and the Bristol trader
was steered for the narrow passage to
receive a pilot for Savanna la Mar.
By sundown the ship was moored in
harbor, and everything was made snug
The sloop let go her anchor, but kept
her sails hoisted, and the whiteness of
the cloths in the light of the moon was
like a beacon of white fire delicately
burning a long way off on the ocean. It
was remarkable that though about mid-night
a light breeze sprang up, the sloop
showed no disposition to get her anchor
and make a second start for her destin-ation,
wherever that might be.
Her sails trembled in the wind. They
were useless, yet she kept them aloft.
Seeningly lua"_notion was to be under
command so as to gat away at any mo-
INDUCEMENTS
for the night. A considerable number ment by slipping, as the cutter had done
of vessels happened to be assembled in
the port, and the picture was one of
beauty and color when, on the sinking
of the sun and to the blast of a heavy
piece of ordnance, some score or two of
radiant streaks of bunting descended
fluttering to the deck from peak and
masthead.
before the picaroon walked off with her.
Sometimes a single figure stumped the
deck; sometimes three or four. Time
after time one or another of those fig-ures
would carefully sweep the sea line,
more particularly in the direction of the
land, with a binocular glass. But all
remained silent and motionless out upon
The water floated like abreast of liquid1 ashore to smoke a pipe in a hotel that
At 8 o'clock Captain Rogers went the sea. Nothing stirred but a few shreds
glass, and a solemn, long drawn heave
or awell ran thrrnigh it. The Bristol
trader, in strict correspondence with her
proportions, rolled wary uncomfortably
indeed from side tte> side, bringing her
wide spaces of canvas into the mast with
many savage sounding whacks, until tho
atmosphere all aboit seemed filled with
the noise of esploding artillery.
The heat was iniwis«; the hour about
2 in the afternoon. The dark blue land
about Blewfield's baj iwam In the
steamy haze and writhed as though it
lived.
Seaward the junction of heaven and
water •was scarcely distinguishable in
the parched and brassy air. The land
went-sloping into mere films, and noth-ing
showed upon the face of the ocean
save a large cutter 'rigged vessel, lifting
and sinking upon the swell at the dis-tanoeof
about two.miles away from the
Bristol trader in tho direction of Blew-field's
bay.
"Mr. Jenkins," said the master of tho
Bristol ship, "drop tho hand lead over
the side and observe.the vessel's drift."
This was done and the rate of drift
reported.
"Sir," said Mr. Rogers, the captain, to
his mute, "it is not my intention to
founder upon a bottom-of coral or go to
pieces on St. John's point. Clew up and
haul -down everything tight and let go
the anchor."
These orders were duly executed. The
seamen made the decksbnsy with their
fingers in 'Vivo motion, and the chain
cable roared hoarsely as the weight of
the big .anchor swept it smoking through
the hJMrseprpe.
Some half dozen male passengers—
women then were none—lonnged upon
the little po»p in the sultry shadow cast
by the awning. It was disheartening to
aee tlte m ranee to savanna la
Maraluii^i •. liin reach of a 34ponnd-ert
throw of its ball, and to lie as little
able to enter il as to walk to it.
"How long is this going to last? ' ex-claimed
a planter,
"Perhaps a mask, sir," answered Cap-tain
Rogers, H largo, short, purple faced
man who bat id to bo asked questions.
The plainer rolled the yellow "whites"
of his eyes to the heavens and tossed his
hands, with a malediction betwiit his
teeth.
"What's that yonder, coming round
that corner of land?" exclaimed another
passenger, pointing to the Use of coast
which the rolling cstter lay becalmed
abreast of.
Captain Rogers went to the.companion
way, picked up the ship's telescope and
leveled it.
"A picaroon!" be exclaimed, and the
roar of his voice went in thunder along
the decks as he bawled to his livelies to
tumble up and load the carronadea, and
to see all ready with the small arms, and
to stand by to sink the scoundrels should
they dare attempt to board the ship.
But it was speedily evident that the pi-rate's
quarry was the cutter, and not the
Bristol merchantman.
The picaroon was a long, black schoon-er,
setting very low in the water, heavily
rigged, showing not an inch of canvas
as she stealthily crawled over the bur-nished
blue heave to the impulse of her
long oars, or "sweeps," as though she
were some gigantic marine reptile forg-ing
her way through it with movements
of her antenniB.
The cutter rolled helpless, with an oc-casional
blazing flash sunward as she
lifted her wet, sparkling copper out of
the water. On a sudden, however, and
as though the men aboard her had but
lust waked from sleep, down dropped
ner swinging, big mainsail, oars were
thrown over, and she made in the direc-tion
of the Bristol trader, slipping her
cable as she rounded, without stopping
to buoy her anchor.
. But tho picaroon buzzed fast, in her
driven, bleeding and shrieking for mer-cy,
down the hatch.
There are aged men who still talk of
this memorable capture. By 8 o'clock
in the afternoon the little sloop and her
prize, the schooner, had floated safely
through the narrow passage and en-tered
the harbor of Savanna la Mar,
where, their arrival being confidently
expected and eagerly awaited, they were |
received by thunderous salvos from the |
guns of the numerous merchantmen.
Seven of the captured pirates, the most
desperate cutiliroats of the gang, were
gibbeted along the coast and dangled in
chains for many a long month after-ward.
The I est were variously disposed
of.—W. Clark Russell in Youth's Com-panion.
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Sores. Ulcers, Halt Khenm, Fever Bores, Tettert
Chapped, Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
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no pay required. It li guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For Bale by Thome F.
MoOoy. 710 lr
UNHEARD OF
was much frequented in those days by
seafaring gentlemen. He entered a hot,
long room in which already a number
of captains, mates and such folk were as
sembled. The atmosphere was thick
with tobacco smoke.
Much was made of Rogers as a man
newly arrived from England. One thing
leading to another, our captain presently
referred to the picaroon incident he had
witnessed outside the port.
"That schooner was undoubtedly the
Santa Margarita," exclaimed a ship-master.
"The cutter was from Kingston," said
another. "All the owner has in the wide
world was in her. He is a ruined man,
I fear," and he fetched the table a mighty
of steam white vapor sailing athwart
the stars, and the water wrinkling un-der
the delicate brushing of the breeze.
Thus passed the night. The dawn
broke in a violet gleam along the eastern
seaboard. Presently up rose the sun,
and the wide scene of ocean and distant
shadow of land was flashed out blue and j
brilliant into the tropic day.
It was then that the stout, red faced j
man, dressed in a wide straw hat aud an |
old monkey jacket, ceased in his walkto
and fro on the sloop, and picking up a
telescope knelt down and pointed it.
"At lastl" he excluimed, addressing
another stout, red faced man alongside
of him, clothed in a. plain sleeved waist-coat
and an old pair of Wellington boots.
There they are, Perren.and about time.
Never before in the history of the Furniture trade
has there ever been offered such tempting induce-ments
to purchase,
FURNITURE
CARPETS
or WALL PAPER:
as are now being offered at our Mammouth Warerooms
we could quote prices but whats the use, call and see
us, and be convinced This sale will continue for but
three weeks. Our loss your gain.
ROBERTS & MEREDITH,
FAYETTE STREET. CONSKQX0CKEN, PA.,
Mr. O. 31. lMiLt-r
thwack rwith his great fist as he heaped toot A pretty long job of waiting this
a variety of sea blessings upon the pirate has been certainly!"
schooner.
"The impudence of that Santa Mar-garita,"
exclaimed a mate, a quiet, sober
faced man, "goes beyond till invention!
She walks off with the droghers as a boy
with apples out of a field, uu£ stoops to I
such filthy, mean work as plundering the ]
poor Johu Canoes."
"She was playing just tho same pranks
when I eras last here." snid Captain1
Rogers. "Has there been nothing with a number of long oars, which rose and
"Nerves Shattered
Generally breken down; at tinea I would fall
over with a touch of the vertigo; was notable
to go any distance from the house. I was a
■auerablci num. The day I commenced on
'bottle No. t of Hood's Sarnaparilla, I began
■o foci better and 1 now fe& like a new man, ' Hood's5***Cures j I am WOTking again, and io not have any of
Tho other man took the glass, directed ' any bad spells. I have a perfect care."
it and stared long and keenly through i'CHA8-"• LALKB-650V
the lenses.
"Yes," said he. ^There they are, right;
enough."
Tho object at which ho pointed the
telescope was a mere black speck as yet
In the thin, blue haze upon the sea un-der
the land. But she developed her
bulk apace as she came along, urged by
are the best nfter-dlnasr
26a.
a pennant at its masthead wanning about
these waters of late? How is it that the
epaulets are allowing this little cruiser
to have it all her own way?"
"The firefly was down .here on a
cruise three or four weeks age," said one
of the captains, "and chased the Mar-garita
for six hours. I'd have thought
she would have loitered till she'd snug-ged
the gang of cutthroats under her
own hatches."
"She was called away to carry dis-patches,"
said some one.
"The Firefly's not a patch on.the Mar-garita
in sailing," exclaimed a shipmas-ter.
"I'm junked if shedidn't scandalize
her mainsail out of sheer bravado when
the Firefly was winking at her with a
bow chaser a couple of miles astern dead
in her wake!"
"That's where it is!" cried Captain
Rogers. "If it was not for the greased
lightning of the beggar's keel. IM offer
rry ship to chase her with and toko my
chance of ashindy.at home for detention
if I was long in catching her. Dm bless
me, gentlemen'! Tin re'; nothing is this
port, there's nothing commanded by any
of you, that's going to look at her iu a
blwaia of wind, while in a dead calm—
why, she came buzzing ent this after-noon
from round the corner like a 10
oared galley to the thrust of her long !
sweeps!
"\et we ought to nab her, friends," he
.concluded, "we ought to nab her. Her I
existence is a standing degradation to '
the red flag of our country. A thought'
occurred to me this .afternoon while I
was watching her walking off with the
cutter. Aro we all true men here?"
He rose as he spoke the words and
took a critical survey of the people round *
about him. Indeed he had need to be
wary, tor often it. happened that the pic-aroons
of those days were secretly I
owned or employed by persons who were j
esteemed of good standing ami credit in j
the West Indian colonies.
But all the peoplu in the long room ,
this night were Englishmen and sailors.
man could have named the ship !
ho belonged to. Being satisfied on this
head. Captain Rogers communicated his I
scheme.
It was very warmly received. Tho of- i
/era of assistance were far in excess of
the requirements of the little conspiracy.
For an hour or so the matter was debat- ,
ed, and the company then dispersed,
with the understanding that all was to
be in readiness by sunset the next even-1
ing.
At the hour when the sun sank the
next day a large sloop, hoisting her
malnsaU andjitay foresail^ floated quiet-fell
at her Bhloi like hairs of gold.
She was a low, long, black hulled
schooner, unquestionably the identical
picaroon which had excited the wrath
of Captain Rogers. She sin iwed no color,
and her sails were furled, for the weak
draft of wind that now blew was right
in her teeth us she came heading direct
for the slo
The two ' red faced men walked
the 'leek tog ithei Bud seemed to give no
heed to the approaching craft. They
were the only persons visible and might
for the matter of that have formed the
entiro crew of Hie little vessel. The
8chooiu r or alongside, and when she
WU within a half dozen cables'length
some 20 o tuo tumbling up out
of her main batch, and in a trice her
decks were full of people.
Beauties they werei Never had the eye
rested upon a choicer assemblage of'
scoundrels. Tlury wero black, white and '
Hood's Pills ar
iPiifo, itMlBt fligfffluoa, cum heauacho.
THE GQKSG MAi
Having purchased over 100 dozen of samples, in men and boys
cloth and pluah winter caps of Hir.-hberg & Co , New York, (maker*
of fine caps only | at 50 cents on the dollar, I have placed them for sale
i the same, one hall the retail price Now is your opportunity to buy a
'fine cap at the price you will pay for a common one You have the
advantage of making a selection for a stock equal to all the hat -tores in
Noiristov.n. ,
Ourlineof8tiffHatsat Sl.25 and $1 ">0 are the kind sold a
$1 50 and $2 00 at other store*, the $2 and 0J.5O Stiff Hat can t be
equaled for the price.
Boys' ASpincs, in brown and black, at 75 cents, are sold else-where
at $\. .
Men's Alpines, 75 cents to $2 The $\ 50 Hat is the best in the
marlart for the price. Our wholesaling enables us to sell at the lowes
price
TRACEY, Leading Hatter
ft EAST MASX STREET NORRISTOWN
mul what aro his antlcedentB f are questions
heard on the rltreet. in the car and lintel daily.
It ID reported that he comes FROM THE
GREEN TREE KINGDOM. He has
risen from a long line of misfortunes ami ad-versities,
superinduced and directly traceable
to what Is known in the medical world as
DYHPKT'MlA, of which HEGUIN an eminent
French Physician once said. "Find me a
Dyspeptic, and I will show you a life barren
of all pood works—a Dead Sea within a Uoi«
yellow; negroes, chocolate colored span-; verse."
iards, renegade Englishmen, tawny with THE GREEN TREE REMEDY
fierce usage of the «un, draped in as
many costumes as tliere were men—in
red and blue and wliitetshirts, in colored
breeches, iu grass bats, with sashes round
their waists, deadly weapons strapped
to their hips aud the butt end of pistols
gleaming on their breasts.
In perfect silence, without the prelim-inary
courtesy of so much as a hail, the
schooner approached. The motions of
the rowers were directed by signs by a
tall, scowling desperado who stood near
the main rigging. The long sweeps were
tossed inboards, the helm put down, and
the vessel in tragic stillness ranged
alongside the sloop. Then the hush was
broken by the tall ruffian shouting or-ders
to lash the two vessels together.
At this instant the stout, red faced
man, who was indeed no less a person-age
than our friend, Captain Rogers, put
a whistle to his lips and blew shrilly.
Both men then whipped off their clothes
to their shirt sleeves and sprang for a
couple of cutlasses concealed behind tho
nuwti
In a breath, in response to the sum-mons
of the whistle, a whole mass of ■
powerful men came pom ing out of tho j
hatch of the sloop. They were armed
to the teeth, aud as they rushed up they
delivered one of those vast, hurricane
"hurrahs" which, -udelivered by British
throats, have been known again and
again to paralyze the enemy.
"Now, my friends," roared Captain
Rogers, "now we have them I Total
submission or no quarter 1"
The fine old fellow sprang for the rail
and was followed by the mass of men—
ajl of them car/tams BJUA uiatej ol mil-
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CONSHOHOCKEN, PA.
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WHOLESALE DEALER iN
PORTER, ALE, BfiER, Domestic
WINES and LIQUORS,
YOENLING :-: & :-: SON'S :-: BOTTLED :-: PORTER.
ram street, toelow Harry, Conshohocken.
EMU SI OF HOLIDAY GOODS
trade (as far
In aider to avoW the crush Incidental to our usual Christmas ' un-as
possible) we have decided.to open thiB department earlier than "ercto'ory. it >s
necwiarre.o state perhaps A>" EARLY SELECTION HAS ITS MAN Y ADVAN TMM.
Maay.ar Icles caniw. be duplicated, and again, first choice always the best, Furthermore,
we well set aside any article you may select lor a later delivery. ,,_«-m
Aurjiuc. tic many novelties now on exhibition arc Hand Painted t.lassware, Celluloia
Glove am' Handkerchief. Boxe-, Whisk Holders, Hair Receivers, Mirrors. Combs, »J."';h.es.
etc., Pluah velvet andMarooco Albums, many designs, Leather, Plus and Inlaid writing
Desk*. WoA Borxes, Manicure and Shaving Sets, Traveling and School Companion!,
Inkstands, Nut Crack*™, etc., Purses, Pocket-books, Jewelry, etc.
Dolls ! Dolls 5 Dolls !
^Multliuctos.oT them. Blendes, Brunettes,
. _ ItojT. aud Ullis, lllg and Little, Dressed
*nd otherwise,
FROM lo .cents to f5
'•3i' \ Handkerchiefs !
Jewaest, dalntiea". and cheapest. Thousands
of them. We sell more Hainlkerchiefa
than any other house In Norrlstowu. th»
same may be said of
Urrbrellas.
Every conceivable Novelty in Handleav
etc , carried in stock.
PRICES 50 cents to I*
Presentation Umbrellas n Specialty.
New arrivals,
tells the story ;
COAT DEPARTMENT
Many Novelties among them. Coat Buyers should see them. TLe following
Ladle's Black Melton Cloth Coat.douWecol-lara.
.with four row* of Braid. Full Coney
Edge, Pearl Buttons, A c,
STi. 98—Elsewhere *".50.*
Ladier"- Mack Fcnteh Cheviot Cape, neat
Cut Collar, Fur Edge, suitable for Elderly
Ijidlea.
MlBB—Elsewhere 16.50.
Ladies'Heavy Black Diagonal Cloth Coat,
Doable Collar, Wide anil Narrow Braid,
Edged \* t.; i oney Fur,
. tt.98-Elsewhere 110.00.
Ladies' Black and Blue Beaver Cloth Coat,
Full Long Skirt, Double Collar, Combrr.a--
tion Brain and Fur Trimmed Collar and,'
Waist, etc.,
VJ.9S- Elsewtn rc|12.C0.
Brown, Black and Blue Beaver,
Cloth Coat, Full Braid Trimmed, Double
Collar and Waists, Full Edged Coney
Fur, LOUS Skills, etc., *•
■St $11.C0—Elsewhcic*14.00t
-1-] i I.\L"—Children's Eiderdown Long
(feats, Angora Fur Trimmed ColinT
4, 6, s,
11.98—Elsewhere tM&
TR 7 THEC0BAHAY-FEVER
App article l»appllcd Into each nostril and
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regbrtercd 60 cent*.
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MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
Trimmed Hals In mnnv shape;, neatly
trimmed with combinations of Vel
vet. Ribbon, Tips, Jets and Aigrettes.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
FINE -:- MILLINERY
IN NORKISTOWN.
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