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Show ' i CONDENSED CLASSICS , vtl a Eagliah ' WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR THE By W. CLARK RUSSELL Condensation by James B. Connolly ft ST?. I . ' The aataer af Tee Wrwk of lh waa Groevraer" I V ' Pra. la Irw York 14, 1M44. He Beya, (, "Caeer, Caeer." Ho Bora waa the eaa at Hr 7 Html!, aa laer af Ike aoaa-- ' ; Ur '.' k waa rduralrd at er the faaioaa Hta-raeat- Ial5a-la- a gator. itrvti Sret-fcaa- . , v tea-eth- XK1 ten-penn- t -- outao. ..drive.. iierWe..Kere .rushing long under a press of canvas" when we ran over a small craft of some kind. J got a glimpse In the dark of a mast and a sail before' they vanished un - - t- 7 der na. : No word came to bring her to. I asked Captain Coxon, who was on deck.' If he was not going to try to save the possible survivors. "Save be hanged I Why didn't they keep out of the wayr 1 knew what I wanted to say; but It Is In the power of a ship's captain to Inlure. even to ruin, the future of an officer under him. I held my tongue. We ran Into a three dnys" gnle. We ksd a terrible time, but managed to .Ire through it. Aa It was moderating we sighted a wreck, a most mournful It ,wa In my and piteous sight r"-- ' . and I ordered ih Wp luffed. to have a better look at her. What I saw was an arm projecting through - her window. - I at once called the captain and asked for In ' . struct long. "Keep her away ws his order. I called him a murderer and ap- to the men. They cried to save the lives on the wreck. The captain then allowed me to take a boat's deck-bous- e tCopyrte-Bi.- ) There'a never apytellln how far your nerve wlljcarry you nntll you get lute aiiglit place and give l good try. tiai Leary goodness only knows Is name may have been original! tilted his stein and took a deep diaH before he continued. "Take my own case, for instance." "Twas this way," Leary went on. when the replenished, steins, were before us. "There was a dhiky little county fair back In a town among the bills, three years ago this fall, and as there didn't seem to be.nothln' dom' Just about then, I packed up a "wheel of fortune' one of them kind with concealed brake on It and hiked to the bills. When I tit the town l found I'd got the field pretty ' much to myself, for the only other thing iu the way of educatln' entertainment thimble-rigger- s was two broken-dow- n and' a outfit. "First thing when I struck the grounds 1 fell In with a bewbiskered limb of the law who was fioatln' round dared-likwith a big nickel star on his coat-fron- t. , : " 'Fine weather,! says J,. off ria Win a cigar. " 'Dncoramon.' says be, bltln off a third of It and lightln' the wrong end. "Tve brought up a little, show,' says L It's entertainin', harmless and educational. I a'pose there's no objection to my setting up oyer by the fence T "'Well er ' says he, his little eyes narrowio' lo a try at bein' shrewd that waa funny. "'How muchr says 1, com In' to the point at once. s'pose I ought to have about twenty-five.'- " says he, Tbafs what . the other gents give me.', " Sure,' says I. passln' out the stuff. 'It's s pleasure to do business with such sn Intelligent man.' "And off he goes, puffed up to near the bustln' point "I opened up. business next door to the thimble-riggers- , snd In ten minutes I owned the crowd. Those other outfits was bit by a drought Immediately. Would y' believe It, most of the yaps hadn't never seen a wheel of fortune before, and after the first four or five of 'em had won aomethln' like fifty, the rest fairly fell over one another tryln' to get a chance to have a whirl ! r!ng-'em-o- n one-hor- 'chlef-of-polic- e, "l ; ;....:J It ' r pi-sle- crew and see what I could do. After a hard struggle our boat made .. "In an hour 1 took In a cool four hundred. Then a yap who'diost)letF ty dollars In one nlng set up a, yen 01 Robber P and 'SkinP The crowd took It up end began to shove In close, lookln' ugly. I tried my best to pacify 'em, but it wasn t no use. ' "Right In the middle of the trouble the chief of police come pusbln' through the crowd. " 'What's wrong heref says he, look. In' like a villain in a melodrama with a bad attack of stage-frig"'He's got our money with s skin gamer yells one sucker. f " This here wheel Is crooked I sings out another. ' .3 "Ilia Whiskers lays a hand on my shoulder. .y-"See here,' he says, throw! d' out we cant bis chest most virtuous-likhave nothln' of this kind goln' ou here. Too come with me I' an' he lends me toward the gate. I kept mum till "the crowd'd all . trailed off and we was alone; then I turned on him. 'Look here, 1 says, "where do fit?, D'yer think I coughed up to hsve -- ht e, J buttln' Inf 1 - ... l , 1 Col-onl- World-renJwne- ' d ' - . T I F 1 "l f I I h F was one of them psychologlcat motha tore wni prAWt. v V UJtrUl9 cause the balloon ascension had fl tied, and Just the minute it was sorest 1 makes a mess of my tittle dip act, which gives the push a good excuse to get rid of their spite on me. Sav, when they closed on me, yellin nd eussin', with the old buck scream- Ston thief r just behind me. "ey didn't look so dead easy as pey had n hour before when 1 first coutem- pluted workln the dip on them. "It was up to me to do a hurnea fade away. 1 tripped up one man. nd gave two others the straight arm. Theu 1 jumped the rope and made for that restless Talloon with the pock elpin' cJohi at my heels. An' as I ran. a crazy scneme nasneo imu wj mind and I whipped out piy knife and the biggest blade. opened -Honest, to this day I don t Know bow I had the nerve to do It, but when reached the balloon 1 Jumped onto which was swlngin' the trapeze-bar- , low, and with one slash of the knife cut tha nioorln' rope. "Something gave me a fierce yank up ward. "Then I looked down. The fair ground, "Holy smoke the crowd, and the whole earth was droppln" away from me so fast my heart stood still. I didn't look. down again, but put all my effort in a desperate attempt to stick to the bar. It whipped about, and swayed and twisted, while that crazy old balloon lad over In n fashion that made me shut my eyes and bite my lips until 1 could taste blcod. I don't know bow long this lasted. It seemed ages. But by and by we must have risen higher, for the balloon righted itself and sailed along easy and gentle as could be, . "After a long time I screwed up my courage and looked. down. Miles and miles below" me was the little old earth, lookln' like a kid's toy village laid out on a table. - Then the sun went down and It grew cold. "When I. looked down next I could see the toy village comin' up, and J I honestly knew we was sinkln', b'lleve If Td 'a' known bow to get that parachute loose I'd done It an' taken my chances then an thereTAs It was, 1 cbuld only hold on with sbakin knees and chatterin teeth, and hope the earth wouldn't biff me too hard when It got up to us. "It grew dark fast now. and we must have sunk into a layer of wind again, for the balloon began to switch about In - scandalous fashion. Talk . about ! I felt as if 1 your bucklo'TH-onco" cduld take my ctumcef with any of 'em after that. We went lower still, until we was just clearln' the tops of the trees. All at once I noticed on the above my head a coll of spread-ba- r rope and a dinky little grapplln' an chor. Five times I tried before I had the nerve to reach with one band and loosen that roil of rope. When finally I did get It loose and drop the anchor we was tearin' along above a stretch of pine woods, and just as I let go the anchor we came upon a clearln" all lighted np with All around was gasoline torches. rows of benches with a lot of people on them, listenin' to a tall roan who was wavln' his arms and lellowln' a hymn. Say, I'd never been to a camp meet in" In my life, but I knew one scon's I spotted It I let out a yell as the anchor caught beneath the rear seat, ripped it npLand spilled three good sisters Into a promiscuous heap. The hymn stopped sudden. There was yells and bawls. Then that meetln". scattered's If a cyclone had struck It "Everybody seemed to lose his head 'cept the tall man, and be made one dive for the anchor rope and hang on -- Hsd" After Every , " That crowd was gettln' ugly.' says he, sort of apologetic. i "Oh, stow It says I. Til look out for myself. I got to make iuy-e- ipenses, ain't IT "'Well, what do you w'ant to doT saya he. " Til tell you.' I says, droppln' an eyelid at him. . Til make It up mi the "dip." What's the matter with my weedln' out a few leathers. Just to get to get home on? . enough . t u.. . "tie springs uis wise look on me again. " Til have to have another twenty1 ' five for that says he." . M It , oure, cuu, snys 1. nd .If lheteis.any irouhle 1 ain't tor none or tne consemain chalna we took to the boats; responsioie he goes on. They tinptfy quences,' we we believed and it was then, when near killed a feller that got aiughl were doomed to die. that Mary Robertplckln' pockets up here last year.- - If each love for son and I confessed our there'a any trouble, you'H have to look other, she the daughter of a wealthy out for yourself. sailor. man and I a poor, penniless "That's sll right.' says I. It's time The sun was setting; the ky, far to enough to worry when the trotitle' Is the north and south, a golden color; here.' And I chuckled to myself, for the sea was a purple glare,' the heav those yaps sure did look easy. ens a tender green and blue; and "It was about four o'clock when the while we were gating on all this glory, crowd and that Jay cop between tm the. ship went down. broke up my. game, and at five a bal that night, before the rough seas loon ascension, and a parachute drop could swallow us, a iteamer picked was goto' to take place. Already the ua up and' took us home. balloon was filled and was swnuu' to In nn enclosure. and fro, lazy-likCopjrlKht, lW. by tha Port Piibllshlna Co. (The Rcaton Port), copmsni in mt as near the ropes squeezed just Ita I'nlted KlnsJom. tha Dominion. a man shouted at the of his voice top under the - opy. and dependencies, Mrht act,' by the Port PubUihlng- Co..- that owlngto the extreme velocity of Doeton, Uua., U. & A. . All rlfbU ra- the wind the balloon ascension nd parachute Jqrhp of the Professor Angelone would have to be It Happens, until the following ailec-- . ' postponed J ' "What nowr noon at four sharp. "Just been to the theater, and the "While the crowd was growlin' ita song sad dance team could sing my right band wa iiftln disapproval, well as dance." . .' the leather from . .. the Inside pocket of a .. Nor aobeMookln' old Codger beside me. ,It "Tea." would have been a neat little Job, If "Well, rve always said ft might some one behind hadn't butted ea!nf happen, but I didn't think It would me and rammed my band Into tha old happen in my time." Kansas City ceva'a -rib. Ha looked down n,,i..t; 1 , ' Journal'" . j ana nw dis learner leavin i nts pocket. -- i times people jL$ you """v mi ?1 roDeTpose csllit By JOHN B. OXFORD at a-- If if . a 'Frying Pan cjth 5. fast-sailin- -- M 'Ia men-Baatme- a r Out qf the - . - . 1 J"7' an fl at I was having my supper In the cnbln ' Fraaee. the new regime when 1 felt a under A1 IklrUta he on I looked up. It touch my arm. aklppod ea a Britwas Miss Robertson, the rescued girl. ish for Before I could prevent her she took aad rlffkt yeara, walca ray hand and kissed It. She told me e! ava aim latormattoa then of the wrecked ship. Her fa- for (be atorloa ther, a wealthy Liverpool merchant, which have for e was the owner of the ship, which bed loag , kea a de- been bound home from Cape Town. all who. light lava tale af the After the storm, the officers and crew, era. , Hie ftrat kook waa "Joha HeMe fearing the hlp would sink under werth, Chief Hate." It waa followed them, had taken to the boats. She kr rapid aad leagih aaeealoa af and her father had spent a terrible tale af tka era la a clear aad alctar-tae- aa atria with akaadaat dramatic three days on the wreck, and now bet kUL Tklo (rat kook waa fctat a de father, already a nervous wreck, war ated aadleaea. taereaaed the aext year shaken anew by the frightful threat kr tka eterr which readera will Moat of here. She trusted to mutineers the "Tk "haaaelate with kU aaate, reality Wreck mt tka Greereaer." Ia addltloa me for the safety of her father ane la helac a treed eterr It eteada far Bet herself. ter treataieat af Eaa;ltah Ballon, eaae ' Her trust lnsnlred me with a nev. rtally la aaatlere af fee4.. Tka praaer To save them I was now eare af tka aa lloraua kaa alwara keea energy. aaa af tka Ihlara aeedlaa; attealtea. la ready to play any game whatever with addltloa to aelac a' areUSa writer af kaaka ke waa alaa a ae we paper ait, Stevens, who was the leader of the. Our boatswain, who had wrMlag "leaaera" ar edlterUI artlclea mutineers. far tka Leadoa Dally Telegraph. Tkeae not wished to Join them, but to save. ." were af eaeagB laiportaace ta ke cat t- his life had done so, was on my side. arred U Roaae! the Galley Fire aad elhef valaaiea. Ha died la It was he who told me that Stevens was. Intending to scuttle the ship beItlU fore taking to the boats, and so leave E WERE bound out of Lon- - me and the passengers to our fate. a on wim a genera cargo. We planned to frustrate him; By The wind dying out. we had this time we had taken Miss Robert to come to anchor In the Downs. The son Into our confidence. One night crew hid been grumbling about the our boatswain apparently fell over-imb ; and were now grumbling yet board and was drowned ; but he had 1 was second officer, and to not fallen overboard more. It was a box of y me came the cook saying: "Mr. Royle, pails, which I had thrown would yon mind testing thisr and over the" side. This was the night be- handed. me bit of a ship's tiscuit fore that day when Stevens went be-"Sugar, molasses, tea and pork if low and bored the auger holes which they call 'em that they're all the were to do for the ship ; but as fast as Stevens bored a hole, the boatswain. lame rotten mess, sir." The biscuit was bad, and though it who had been hiding below for that waa not my place to do so, I took It very thing, followed and plugged It op. to Captain Coxon, but got nothing Thinking he had scuttled the ship, from him except curses and the cold Stevens came on deck and led the crew advice to mind my own' affairs. Mr. to the boats, grinning evilly at Miss Duckling, the first officeradded s few Robertson and myself as he did so. obsequious remarks on his own ac- Tney had not rowed far from the ship count The result was that the crew, when the boatswain showed' himself getting no redress, refused to make on deck. Stevens aaw him. "We've sail on the ship, and were put ashore. been tricked P he cried, and beaded Next morning a crimp came down from back for the ship. The wind waa risLondon with a fresh crew. ing at the time, but there was not A fair wind sprang up, the ship was enough way yet on the ahlp to outran got tinder way, bnt we were not clear the boats. They tried to board us by of the channel when the new, crew the main chains. -- ' As they did, the were also complaining of the grub. boatswain .with a - handspike 'and I Hot words were passed between them with a revolver killed or hurled back and the captain, so hot that the cap- Into the sea all but one of them. That tain had to take notice. lie finally one waa not' so bad as the others, and promised to put Into tome handy port we f&ved him to help work on the in Spain or elsewhere along the route, ship.' Throughoat the fight Miss Roband lay In a fresh supply of ship's ertson, who hsd been gaining strength tores. every hour, held the wheel so that the "What injustice in the meanness of I ship should not be caught aback ana owners and captains P I thought Here the spars come down oil us. were good sailors and ordinarily harmWe had now to work the ship to the less men who might be made Into crim- nearest land ; but the Increasing wind inals, and all to the end that our made it dangerous . with our meager banking balance might be kept large crew, to keep sail on her. We worked and our national power supreme. With- - Ukft Aogt to reduce sail, but the wind out the British sailor there would became too much for us. It came on be ' no British empire, and what us like a solid wall; the seas rolled treatment Is meted out to him I He to our tops. Spars cracked and hung submits to hardships and danger, down over our decks. Only after the and receives low wages, poor food and most exhausting toll did we manage mean living quarters; even should he to clear away the most dangerous of be granted a hearing for a grievance, the broken spars. In the height of ft nineteen out of twenty persons ap- - poor Mr. Robertson died. I read the pointed to investigate the trouble are chapter -of StJ John over his sualined neitner ny xprenf, nor 1 venue. -a 10 render tn In hated: but the tlme ijmpatny lnd just The Grosvenor, of which 1 was sec- . continuing to tumale and roar. full-- 1 ond officer, was a .tra.ined our ship so that she sprang a little ship of 600 tons. The cap- - j ,pafc Ther- - were not enough of us to rigged -lain; Mtiter owner"! orders lo" make keen" her pumped out We pumped what time he could to Valparaiso, was till our arms fell to our sides; bnt of oT uTEKLY PRESS; BEAVEK. UTAI, to -It. i fifiSOTIwun bit right hand attached He irrabbed roe by the collar ana loud squealed Thief! Pickpocket! so mile. have aeard,tolm job could t. a. J .lion "I broke away irwn mm, anu own into my leather pocsei, pin the tried to harftbrougn the crowd to the i aW- -. wrpcfc jBhe At bo little feril I ran along the deck to her house, where 1 found a young girl and her old father. Another man waa also there, alive, but Insane, Se lingua pannikin of fresh water, tlil man grabbed It, draining ii ana dropped dead. Wlk?Bi we were back aboard the Groavenor, I for my part In the rescue was put In Irons. Thla wreck Incident, added to further needless abuxe of he men and the further failure of the captain to live op to his promise of putting In for better food. Inflamed the crew beyond endurance. Thejrwatched their chance, rushed the poop m the night and killed the captain. They thM killed Mr. Ducklln& They migbt killed me. too. nwltbstandljyrlhat had Bhown sympatny minpra, dui somebody hnd to navtgate the ship to within fifty mHes Of the Florida coast, which Jiras where they Intended to abandon her and row ashore. na-fh- j? the safety of the young girl imcl her father as well as ray own life to. think of, I agreed to act as navi 1 . TITE BEAVER COUNTY over the 'world use this coody people All for Its benefits, as well as its pleasure. . . CHICftCO : Keeps teeth clean, breath nsweefe" throat coothed. x r Vflik y v-s- v s CALCUTTA 1 foe dear life. " 'Keep hold 1 I yelled. 'Keep bold 1 Don t let me loose r was "Ana tnat 01a psaim-singdead-gamHe got hoisted up, banged Into trees, dragged through underbrush, but still he hung onv yellin' to the others to come and help him, and catlln' 'em all sorts of variations on white-livere- d and chicken-hearte-wen, aner a Dit some fifteen or twenty got hold of the rope with hlui and managed to pull me down to earth er f if!S aPrJCtlte T digestion. ; PARIS ) Aly4 Jr Sealed Tight Would Take a Chance. The school teacher was' explaining the meaning of "B. C." and "A. D." and to see if his lesson had got home he asked the boys what they would do If they found an old Roman coin stamped with the year B. C 68. "Ignore It as a forgery," said one boy, whose experience as a stamp collector had sharpened his wits. . "Very good," said the master. "Ob would minters viously know nothing of Christ" "I'd pick It up, though," said a black-haire- d boy with a prominent nose; "It might fit a slot machine." , pre-Chri- st Still 5c Kept Right Disarmament never forget" said Cactus k "111 "the time Crimson Gulch decided tL all us citizens ought to disarm." "Did the boys aTeer eTes. It worked out fine till male Tom found out where the esf ons were cached and took possess The recovery of our rights to V preservation waa one. of the most r longed and agitating events in C j son Gulch history." ' Movie Theaters in China.' j There are about half a dozen mot, picture theaters in Tientsin, of the leading foreign hoase has a ar Thinking abundance will open up Ity of 000, and the Chinese ones the mind and set the thought currents froms 500 to 2,000 persons sad r toward Increased supply. two shows dally. Films from n the large American companies an Eccentricities can beborne if peo hlblted, the popularity of the ra ple are not vain of them and always being about the same as in the TeI states. boasting about them. , I Many a man who claims to be the Knowing things to be true that i architect of his own fortune worked not so, makes lots of trouble ! without a blue print misery In this world. , : . A man who scolds about gossips Is be on the. level. Don't look 4V usually the burnt child that dreads on a fellow Just because he hir:-t' the Are. . fV be in a hole. o The coming man doesn't reallv Many a bored man' has wished amount to much unless he makes a be could get Interested In .some. go of It ; i8h.gauie., v iUUUaUUUUUUUUOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOUUUUUeu e. . ! POSTUM CEREAL; the better it is of-'er- a when I found solid ground beneath me once more. I was near crazy with Joy. 1 was laughln and eussin' all at once, and between times I was slappln theaircove on the back and tellln' him what a dead-gamsport he "was, Then 1 pulled out my roll every last dollar of It T 'litis the collection been tookf says I 'Because If it hasn't. J wa'utto put iu9 in or me Tou should 'a' seen their eyes stick out I There wss sotnethlu'v like nV hundred in the wad. I wasL after that, all right. -uiu ny ana iy 1 .calmed down enough to find out the way to the nearest railway station, and while they were scttiin down to their camp- meetlng business again 1 managed to sneak off through the woods. VWtien at last road I took out the wallet I'd lifted from the olt chap back at the fair grounds. It was good and fat. and I chuckled as I struck a match to see what was in It And say. what do you think was In Itt "A bunch of receipted tax bills, two ami one of those blr. old feshloned coprer cent with a hole In It. Not another thing. 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