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THE SEA ROBBERS
Plfght of the Ship IUdJah Lord
North Island
Becalmed five days within hall
ef a fleet of sea robbers and -without
no much as a weapon except one pis
tol on board -was the plight of the
Inll rigged Bhlp Radjah on -which I
was first mate some years back
tald Henry Walllorf now first offi
cer of the German steamship Llch
tenfels as he watched the bamboo
being discharged from his vessel
We had left Cardiff England for
Hong Kong with coal by way of
Cape Horn and the Southern Pa
cific Both the captain and I -had
heard many tales of the sea robbers
Of Lord North Island who came to
calling vessels and steamers as trad
ers but who are the bloodthirstiest
sea pirates that ever climbed aboard
A ship
It was high noon on New Years
Day thirteen years ngo when tne
Radjah was in south latitude five
degrees eas longitude 138 We
were then due east of the Philip
pines and slightly north by west of
the Caroline group We ere scud
ding along under a fair breeze when
X noticed a vessel bearing down on
us I called to the captain that I
did not like the looks of the boat
and suggested sea robbers The
skipper who had the gout and
whose avoirdupois did not permit
him making rapid headway In any
direction looked troubled As I
looked again within ten minutes of
the timb when I had noticed the
first craft there were thirteen boats
apparently making for us t
I talked to the crew twenty In
all most of whom were for going
below and barricading themselves
I told them that we hadnt any
weapons except my pistol aboard
ship and that every man might have
to fight It out I told them that If
any one balked at fighting the sea
robbers I would shoot him on the
spot
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SIGHTING THE SEA ROBBERS
Then I ordered tho men to gather
tho largest lumps of coal they could
get out of the hold and to place a
sood supply of tho lumps all along
tho rail and at the bow and tho
stern of tho Radjah I Intended
that wo would repel boarders vth
tho coal if that was the only thmg
we could do and I determined that
wo would light the blnck pirated off
to the last ditch
Through tho glasses wo counted
at least twenty dark skinned bandits
In ench boat and I knew wo were In
for It If they ctor got to ub Luckily
wo were to wlndwnrd of tho crew of
cutthroats and wo woro hoping that
wo could maintain tho distance be
tween them and ourselves when sud
denly tho breeze died out and wo
wero becalmed The cani cawe
Just as we lost sight of tho no rest
of the pirate boats and as darkness
set In we found that the sea robbers
apparently had also been uecahneJ
For five mortal days and h rIips
wo Btayed there not moing an Inch
The sea robbers fortunately il d
not know of our plight since tiy
could not see us so they did not
our way In which case thoj
would have bad us completely at
tholr mercy
With the captain In a state of
collapse and the crow on tho vcr
of a crazy senseloss mutiny I had a
hard time maintaining disi plliie on
board the Radjau The vigil endJ
on tho night of tho fifth day v in
a breeze spruug up and by morn -
we had put many miles between is
and Lord North Island
I left the Radjah on our return
o Europe and got married Tvo
months after I left her in the fall
of the same yoar tho ship turned
turtle during a gale two days out
from Cardff on an another voyage
to Hong Kong and all but two of her
crew two sailors were lost
GTIogerool dollar watches at Car
pjntera
We Give
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THE DOCTOR
An Important Functionary on Mer
chant Vessel It tho Cook
There Is one functionary on mer
chant vessels of all kinds who has
very much more to do with the peace
and dignity of the floating common
wealth than shore folks usually Imag
ine I refer to the cook who Is some
times called the doctor Why he Is
given this cognomen Is not altogether
plain for his handiwork seldom has
any therapeutic value and In the past
at least has had much to do with
sending poor sallormcn to a doctor If
not to Davy Jones locker In fact
there was a time In nautical history
when the presiding genius of tho gal
ley was In such bad repute that to
call a man a son of a eca cook was
most opprobrious epithet and one
that would be emphatically resented
In those days and to some extent to
day the cook was covertly despised
by the occupants both of the forecastle
and tho cabin though the men for
rard outwardly professed affection
for him and apparently were never so
happy as when they could wash his
clothes or do him various other favors
with the hope of getting sundry leav
lns from the cabin table or being
granted such privileges as hanging
out In the galley when rough weather
nt night made tho watch on deck
grateful for such shelter In other
ways It was found highly salutary to
keep In good graces of his culinary
majesty who frequently was a more
powerful person In some respects than
tho old man himself It is almost
needless to ndd that the more skilled
ns a cook the cook was tho more pro
found was his Influence both fore and
nft But he wasnt often much in the
way of skill nil the same Shipping
Illustrated
BOUGHT OFF THE BURGLAR
An Old Cankers Bargain With His
Unwelcome Viiitor
William Wlnslow Shermnn the old
banker had tho coolest nerve of nny
man I know said a man who knew
him Some years ngo when Sher
man was nn old mnn and partially
crippled by reason of n fall from a
horse he entered his bedroom late nt
night to And a masked burglar ran
sacking It
Tho thief had a big gun trained on
Sherman In a minute The banker
just waved It asldo with a tired hand
Put that away he said Irritably
Let us discuss this matter like gen
tlemen The burglar was so sur
prised he laughed Now you could
hurt me If you wanted to and might
get away with some littlo knlck
knncks said Sherman But you
might be caught and theres n slight
probability that you could dispose of
my toilet articles profitably What
would you consider a fair cash propo
sition to go away They talked It
over In all peace
The burglar thought ho ought to
havo 10 but Sherman after Inquiring
Into the mans habits said S was
enough You 6cc ho said youre a
known thief If this were your first
offense Id pay your price but now
the police havo your plcturo you
ought to be glad to accept any fair
compromise mid run no risk
Tho burglar finally agreed to tnko
J8 Sherman pulled out a ten dollar
bill Glvo mo 2 change said he
And he got it beforo he paid Kansas
City Star
American Humor
American humor exists It distin
guishes the national character It per
meates all our affairs It Is not ot
aboriginal descent It was not brought
from England or nolland by tho fa
thers Its saving grace was lacking
under Puritan rule Tho humor of
DIedrlch Knickerbocker is all the
more taking because of the absence of
all sense of humor In tho subjects of
his chronicle If our humor came over
from Erin In the first rush of Immi
gration It was quickly adapted to its
new environment It was modified
and changed by new circumstances
nnd conditions geographical ethnolog
ical ntniospherlc Wherever It camo
from It Is a boon which saves us from
a lot of needless trouble and worry
New York Times
Why Wero Ahead
A curious explanation of the reason
why Canada has but about 7000000
people against Americas 80000000 Is
given In n review of the world s pro
duction of coal and Iron Canada pro
duces but 0000000 tons of coal against
370000000 tons produced by the Unit
ed States and that Is why ns long as
the coal age lasts Canada 13 not like
ly to grow to anything liko the dimen
sions of her southern neighbor This
Is an English view nnd It Is not open
to the charge of bias Boston Globe
Try the Dispatch 1 a year
THE MAHOKING DISPATCH FRIDAY DEOEMBEK 4 iVo
QUEER BKUMUDA FISH
Ilrlllnnt Hues and Peculiar Shade
Among Their Characteristic
Tho aquarium which Is one of
the most Interesting places in lh Ber
muda occupies the old Imperial
magazine on Agars Island opposlto
tho Soncy hills writes Lucy Elliot
Keeler in tho Indianapolis News
The underground chambers ana
vaulted passages afford excelent
opportunity for the arrangement of
vail tanks where one may observe
the fih comfortably on a level with
ones eyes The fish are all from
Bcrmudlan waters and though the
numbers are far less than those In
the New Yoik aquarium the collec
tion Is the most hrilliatly colored of
any It has been my fortune to see
Indeed many of the colors are or
the kinds called Impossible Noth
ing but tho rainbow Itself can rival
the angel fish with its flashing
blues and greens and yellows as it
swims lazily Its slow motions In
stinct with grace It Is broad often
weighs up to four pounds nnd sur
passes ll other local fish In the
flavor of Its flesh as well as in its
lovely hues
The lour eyed fish small and de
Ightlng In sheltered coves has
Its true eyeBhlddcn in a long blnck
stripe slanting cress Its body
while two black spots In Us tall
are sufficiently realistic to de
ceit c nny casual enemy Into mis
taking the fishs tall for Its head
The hog flsh Is very common here
Its popular name beng derived
from its swinelike profile and denti
tion The long streamer like exten
sion of Its fins gives it a singularly
graceful appearance Specimens
often weigh twenty pounds The
Spanish hog fih has a coat of much
splendor about half blue and half
yellow
Hamlets and groupers are the
same thing the young fish called by
the first name and those longer
than twenty Inches by the second
Hamlet suggests a dual person
ality the fish changing color rap
idly representing when dark tne
gloomy Prince of Denmark and
when palo and gloomy tho Princes
fathers ghost Wo went to the
Devils Cave one day a natural cavo
open above where the fishermen of
ten keep their catches and over
which an ancient Neptune looking
notivo with bis trident presides
At feeding time the groupers many
t them four feet long rushed up
i ely for their food making a
t pmendous splashing and the ar
ny of their great open mouths was
aliucst terrifying These fish pas
tens tne protective device of chang
ing their color rapidly
Sergeant mnjors with five back
cross bands upon their yellow sides
like the chevrons of that
officer tho doctor fish
with lanccllkc processes on tho side
of its caudal peduncle and with pro
fessional Instnct keeping Its noso
clcse to tho plpo down which fresh
water was brought to tho tank tho
squirrel fibhcB brighter than tho
gold fishes of our fresh water aqua
ria and the bonlto and amber fisn
so highly prized for tablo use tho
ecacat less than six Inches long old
Kold In color elevating at will a do
Mp1 coronet nnd tumbling gently
ii lodge to ledgo as It worked its
n down tho tank nnd tho Boap
ih which makes a lather when at
nrrod to conceal Itself from Its
iiemy how different all tho cre
tures are from tho fish of our north
ern waters
Among tho other forms of flsh
ver blnck eels and morays some
tiped morays weaving themselves
hi and out of a drain plpo and about
each other until it seemed as If they
oould never get untied Tho green
mornys wero solid moss color six
Inches thick and possibly seven feet
-long I was told that theso crea
tines coil themselves and strike llko
n robra up from a depth of thirty
frit of water but I cannot vouch for
i lie truth of tho statement
One tank was devoted to small
ortopl sticking llko inert masses
ugalnst tho sides of the tank fasten
ed to Its glass wall by hundreds of
uuttoulike suckers As the keoper
poked them with a stick they chang
ed color unwinding their vicious
arms recalling to the spectator tho
monsters In Victor Hugos novel
Toilers of the Sea A dead octo
pus uncurled on a neighboring
beach measured fourteen feet
spread No less fantastic though
far less nendish wero tho era fish
such as wo eat for Sunday suppers
a dolielous white flesh with gor
geous colored shells whcli okp a
joar split down the back nn 1 fire
immediately crawled out of bv I r
erstwhile inhabitants Mt niiida
hiMrnn have a debonar farhon of
fishing for crayfis n with a die ot
red flannel tied to a stout string
Only the fisher must be patient and
allow time for digestion to begin
before Jerking the victim Out of the
water Theso creatures havo more
legs than 1 could count very long
whips pointed almost to a hair and
they propel themselves with their
tails moving through the water with
startling rapidity
Can I nc Kxcrclse
Justin said Mrs Wyss
Yes replied Mr Wyss
Will you speak a kind word to
Fldo and make him wag his tall He
hasnt had one bt of exercise all
day Llpplncotts
Army Kducntlon
lhp conditions confronting ofllcrs
and tipn who ha e children to edu
cate are simply pitiful Many an
ota 3 is at this moment In debt and
pamg Interest on borrowed money
so that bo may send his son or bis
dnmhter to a good school or keep
hum in some lty where their educa
tion wil be continuous and unlnter
riipea No matter of domestic
i omy touches ofneers mole drei
lv i nn than this of tho chlldienP
t Is true that the public schools
of o city If the post be near n r ltv
ntv pnerous In taking boys and git s
Hi fnd some do so for a tuition fee
but 1 is nevertheless a fact that an
nnnv nfllrpr cannot demand loal
r j serlce as n r ght because f
his profession and his residence n
rllltary resenntlon Even vvhn
irr a rity the po3t Is outsilp oT t
aril the children spend from two to
four hours dally travelling bnhln 1
army mules to and from the
The so called post schools nov
ci llshed and to which childri n
are som times sent through absolute
necpcslty because of Isolation are a
trio for tho officer halng the hlih
i uilng title of Supprlntcn lent if
rost Sch ols Is generally fo fully
ticcupleti with other engaging military
duties that he can give little or ah
pttinllon to the school development
iiitt system while tho man who i
teai hot has usually never acted in
tit capacity before
Agtln ofllcors and men are eo
chanec about that the education of
dildren Is subject to sad and
jostlt Irterruptlons as they frequent
fj go back one grade n their trans
fer from one locality to another
is there not a remedy for this
West Point represents hundreds of
similar though smaller cases and
there children are as lusty as loyal
and as American as any tho nation
protlncoB Army and Navy Life
Iati oliiieii In Various Odes
I IHrllns patrolmen aro 1 to 340
Live pools are 1 to 449 Loudons 1
to 4C nnd Philadelphia has 1 patrol
mnn for eer Cll citizens On
Manhattan Island there Is but one po
liceman to every C43 inhabitants
Words of Praiso
For tho several Ingrodlonts ot which Dr
Plcrcos medicines aro composed as given
by leaders in all tho several schools of
modiclno should havo far tnoro weight
than any amount of non professional tes
timonials Dr Plcrcos Favorlto Prescrip
tion has tub badge or uonkstt on ovcry
bottlo wrappcr in a full list of all its in
gredients nrlnted In nlaln English
If yon aro an Invalid woman and suffer
from f reoticnt headache backache gnaw
ing aisira in stomach periodical pains
dtsagrcwhlc catarrhal pelvic drain
dragglifcdown distress In lower abdomen
or pclvji perhaps dark spots or specks
dancing beforo tho eyes faint spells and
KinatisymKtoms caused by femalo weuk
ncssotthderangcnicntofthofemlnlno
organs W can not do better than tako
Dr Plerefe Favorlto Prescription
i Tho hsiltal surgeons knlfo and opera
ting taUrany bo avoided by tho timely
uso of Uavorlto Prescription In such
cases Thereby tho obnovloiis examln
Btlnns nnd 1hmI troitmnnij nf ih family
physician can he avoided and a thorough
course ol successful treatment carried oiitj
urn icy OI liomp fKaynrlln
Prescription i composed ol the very best
native medicinal roots known to medical
science for tho cure of womans peculiar
ailments contains no alcohol and no
harmful or habit forming drags
Do not expect too much from Favorlto
Prescription it will not perform mira
cles It will not dlsolve or euro tumors
Wo medicine will It will do as much to
establish vigorous health in most weak
nesses and ailments peculiarly Incident to
-women as any medicine can It must bo
given a fair chance by perseverance In ita
use for a reasonable length of time
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blck women are Invited to consult Dru
Pierce bv letter free All correspond
ence Is guarded as sacredly secret and
womanly confidences aro protected b
professional nrivacv Addross Dr P
Pierce Iluffalo N V
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Dr ilorcea bleasant Pellets the best
laxativo and regulator of the bowels
They invigorate stomach liver and
bowels One a laxathe two orthrca a
cathartic Easy to take as candy
NATURES WARMG
Canfleld People Must Recognize
and Heed It
Kidney Ills come quietly mysteriously
But nature always warns yon
Notice the kidney secretions
Bee If the color Is unhealthy
It there ore settlings nnd sediment
Pasmges frequent scanty pnlnful
Its time to use Donns Kidney Pills
To ward oft Brlghts disease or diabetes
Mrs Kate Gehret BJ N Park Ave Alli
ance Ohio says I have no hesitation In
recommending Donns Kidney Pills ns I
know from experience thnt they nre n most
reliable remedy for kidney dlsense They
cared my husband of a kidney weakness
nnd banished the pains In his back Beelng
the good results effected In his enso I used
the remedy myself nnd was cured of kidney
complaint That happened over five years
ngo nnd I have bad no serious trouble with
my kidneys since My husband Is also
quite free from kidney complnlnt We both
use Donns Kidney Pills occasionally how
over nnd they serve to keep our kidneys In
n healthy condition
For sale by all dealers Price 60 cents
Foster MlltrarnGo Burfnlo New York sole
agents for tho United Btates
Itemember the name Donns nnd tnke
no other
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Ladies5 Flannelette Night Robes
Why take the time to make Night Robes when
you can purchase of us ready made Robes made of
good mrterjal and full sizes at a price you cannot afford
to make them for
Ladies Flannelette Gowns plain and fancy colors noo
Iadies Flannelette Gowns fancy stripes 75c
Ladies FlanrJelette Gowns good material and large sizessoc
Childrens Flannelette Gowns pink and blue stripes 25c
HvArt SHrfs
We have a few Hy Art Heatherbloom Skirts for 250 and
275 eacn that are worth 100 more Black mercerized Skirts
for 100 to 250
Christmas Shoppers
We have our Holiday Stock ready for your inspection and
would be pleased to have you call and look it over We have a
large assortment of useful gifts at prices that will suit all Do
not put off your shopping till the last week but come early
KIRK ARNOLD
General Alerchants CANFIELD O
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The Most Practical of Gifts
A Heatherbloom Petticoat
The woman isnt to be found who wouldnt onlhuse over
tho gift of a Heatherbloom Petticoat Wo are now showing
our special Holiday assortment and you aro advised to make
your selection early
All Our Standard Makes of Petticoats Are in Heatherbloom
Such as the
ARLINGTON VICTORIA N0VENT ELITE
Some are plain tucked others acordion plaited shirred or
embroidered In black white and every desirable color
Atany Are Boxed Separately in Beautiful Holly Boxes
for Xmas Giving
Of one quality only but ranging in price according to tho
elaborateness of the work
Priced at 250 to 450
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What Ma Says
Ma says that you can never tell
what a man is going to be like after
hes married any more than you can
tell if a dress is going to fit until you
wear it
Truth Kept Busy
Truth crushed to earth will rise
again says tho Philosopher of Folly
but It seems a pity that she has to
cpend her whole time la a continuous
performance of resurrections
A Magnificent Showing of Womens Wearables
We have purchased for the Women of Mahoning County an immense stock of goods which will be sold
at the same small margin of profit that for years has made our store the popular trading place for sensible
women who desire full value for their money We want every lady to see our lines of
Ladies Misses and Childrens Coats Ladies and Misses Suits Skirts and Waists Hosiery
Underwear Wrappers Corsets Millinery and Furs of every style
Childrens White Bearskin Coats ages 2 to 6 years 125 All Wool Long Coats ages 6 to 14 148
Ladies All Wool Black Coats half satin lined 50 inches long 298 All above offerings are worth double
as inspection will prove Your early call is solicited
The White Front
262 Wf Federal Street
Dont make a mistake Be sure and find the right place -THE WHITE FRONT across the street from Deibels Meat Market
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YOUNQSTOWN
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Public vSale of Live StocR
Having decided to quit farming I will soil at my
residence ono half milo south of GREENFORD
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Tuesday December 8 08
Cojnmenciner at 1 oclock P
12 HEAD OF HORSES
Consisting of two pure bred Belgian Stallions
Monarque DeDick imported and Little Monarouo
bred In thisreountry 3 pure bred Belgian Marcs
7 Belgian and Porcboron Colts from Bucklers to
three years old These colts aro all flno drafts
bred from Belgian and Percheron stock A finer
lot of draft horses cannot bo seen in the sfato
8 HEAD OF CATXLE
Consisting of 4 pure bred Shorthorn Cows regis
tered and 4 pure bred Shorthorn Bull Calves
mis uuu sujck snouia De seen beforo day of sale
S B PARSHAL Auctioneer tbrms mad known on day of SAMt
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Little Meat Good Health
Italians of the poorer class generally
enjoy good health This is partly at
tributed to the fact that the work
ing class of Italy eat less meat than
those of other European nations
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