Show Vl ' ? PIRATES AHOY! - I ! I r-::- - THE OGDEN : STANDARD-EXAMINE- Hero Worship Hade a Pirate of Hiram Beakes BEAKES waa a boy and xnisrht have turned out to be an honest and obscure merchant captain had he not played the hero and played it well at the- age of 22 That was in 1767 and Hiram was mate of a small vessel trading- between Amsterdam and the "West Indies A sale coming on suddenly Maze Beakes ordered Oscar Johnson a Swedish sailor to go aloft and help with the reefing of a salt Johnson was a green hand and was seasick besides which he wasn't any too surefooted even in a moderate swell The sick sailor looked accusingly at the mate as only a sea- sick person can look and clam-bered aloft "When the vessel gave a sudden pitch while Johnson had both hands engaged in 'Useful labor the greenhorn dived ungracefully into the choppy sea DIVES INTO WATER Beakes fet for havtn? sent the poor fellow aloft in a gale and that accusing face with the greenish pallor rather made an impression on him Unhesitatingly the mate dived into the water where he had seen Johnson disappear and presently cam© up with one hand gripping the Swede's collar The vessel was driving before the wind and the rescuer found himself far astern with a heavy bur-s- elf already far' astern with a heavy burden to manage and a bad sea to fight It was an hour before Beakes and his prize were hauled safely aboard and during that hour there was much anxiety on the part of the captain of the Dutch vessel lest he- lose a very capable mate in What the caotain considered a fool ish effort to save a sailor-whhap pened to have very little actual value ajboard a ship at sea RESCUE ACCOMPLISHED ""hen the rescue was accomplished and the dripping mariners had been warmed to life with hot rum nobody was more surprised than Beakes at the feat he had accomplished The captain a kindly little Dutchman was aglow over the heroism of it all and soon Beakes found that he was actually being looked up to and respected by the whole crew and the captain He Returned the Signal With Round 4hjt too By the time the ship got back to Amsterdam even Hiram Beakes Captain Beakes and his men fa- to the fact that misbehave over they go! Open was convinced that he was really miliarized themselves with the wrong when tfee somethingwas was al"Rosary'f the hatches! andiJet first-ratthem comA im e a hero He had begun Spanish vessel and its crew H ready almost iout lof range one at a time The he had been that afraid denying At midnltrht three hontlnnrfa f "Adventure" sailed after her prize The first man up was the Span-H- e of drowning at any time during the the pirates boarded "Rosarv" engagingf the £?rta bV the jway ish adventure although earlier he had silently They foundthe one unf ortunnteli? captain man SAIL IX COMPANY declared that he nearly died of asleep constituting thought it his duty to contribute a the two ships sailed in company little oratory Speaking in his own fright as soon as he realized that They cut his throat before- lie to The the Bayonn© islands before he had been so mad as to plunge awoke and f then fastened thie the tcjngue" which was nicely translatinto that sea while his ship was hatches and besran to trenar for hatches jpf ther"R©saxy"- were op- ed for Captain Beakes by one of his " ened Sianish men the captain of the running before the gale immediate The "Rosary" "Well! At Amsterdam his native town slipped her sailing now" said "Jl08ary began: Captain enable and was presently Beakes to his mate who had Beakes found his heroism even makinsr for ithe onen ea tHtVi I can hardly let this mom en r Ithe 1'Adyenture" along olls occasion more enthusiastically appreciated smart breezej to brought pass without offering her speed passage while he had handled the Span- than it had been at sea There was ij lease a lew Drier remarks upon The tWe forts whose under a certain slim little woman Mrs jsn vesse suppose we have a look trje subject of piracy I think I Hans Sneyd with whom Beakes ship had been 'anchored woke' up ina apaninrrts miw box V ui — had been pretty friendly before he I A v I t : sailed for the Indies and she made i i '"11 so much of the adventure that the iwiu iuuna 10 nis aeugnt mat a :rV-hero who has risked his life spectacularly may indeed live joyously for some time tereaf ter The friendship with Bella Sneyd almost led to the undoing of the young hero Her husband an army officer learned of certain strolls v" ' 1 " by moonlightand one evening announced to his pretty wife that he'd like to go She urged him now winning Even to do so andalong 1 I they went to a certain one place along the top of of the dykes where there were two trees ' i that obscured the moonlight most romantically Next morning the army officer's b6dywas found under one of tTies ireeswnn a stab wound that pene trated jthe heart The widow and Hero JBeakes were arrested and tried for the murder but the evidence was not sumcient to convict HIRAM - : was UVA V - S Sedm Charles B TEST FREXCH TX'ELS Twenty auto trucks and cars toured France for over 1000 miles in a demonstration of the Economy 'of using French fuels as 'against imported gasoline Only gases produced by French firms' were used ILVER TO W N S — imrrti o llltl V - to cnansre worn tire — History rl r 1928 Briscoll) A "" jtmjuixl ivu xire jqnees in e and the Quality Guaranteed for j Life against Defect! you know you can save Make! your winter change-ove- r from tires worn' smooth by summer long driving to the safe sharp traction of Goodrich Silyertowns now The principle of Silver-town- s — provided by the famniM trinl- t — jtunged center lays dgwn on a glassy pavement the greatest margin of driving hoijhktt r I ! 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':: me mai oedhea went to nea again ana worked on many ships He was an excellent sea a or a time he traded be man tween Holland ports and Lisbon in a small vessel of which he was in juisnon he became incapiam volved in several fishts over wom en and he became such a notor- ana juus that ballades gcinant and sonnets tighter were written in commemoration of his prowess as xuu o uan ana a uyrano 1 I i- iivci —— on Beakes strove for an orderlv and pious sort of piracy Although he had not permitted the Snanish con tain to preach a sermon on the sins or pirates he did Insist upon daily prayers aboard shin and on Sun days he read the prayerbook on the quarterdeck before the assembled crew and preached a suitaM homily upon some timely text WAS GAY FELLOW He was a gav fellow withal ani was never known to be dull or aownnearted His buoyant onen saved tne flav when thespirits era was discouraged because of bad fortune and wicked weather rvear Gibraltar he ran hi ev(n on a rock and it took good sea- moors to get uittusiup itna her off badly mignty damaced i n twelwa nours xi e sailed ' into Oihraitnr - I92S?N -- STABS CATAIN' A French vessel laden with fcuit ht in t s J x' -- — ? o OCTOBER had her repainted ni to heae to Beakes opened fire and Jn he ensulngr battle the Span JT v lard wan mmlr nritv ma ivo V4 vur entire Crew uno-Hit?- - - -- PATHETIC PICTURES i i 1 SUNDAYHORKlNg Majesty will inflict summary pun- isnmeni upon any and all pi rates — " "That's enough!" roared Beakes "Overboard you Captain go my finer orator! J Toss him quick boys! No time for sermons on this v Snip!" TEROWJT OVERBOARD And overboard went the captain The mate qi me came next ttosary" and was asked n r f rain from f oreUsics and quickly pwm out wneretne treasure from Peru could be found' The frightened mate directed his captors to the hold and: showed them a pile oi smaii oars or pure gold Each bar was about the size of modern railroad spike and there were in an iwo nunarea thousand of these pars "Not bad!" commented Beakes "Now Where's the rest of the loot?" "That is all Much of the had been unloaded at Vigo before you came aboard and stole our snip "Stole? Is that the translation for the word he right used? Ask him if he means I stole ome thing! Captain Bake addressed the interpreter He was assured xnat trie interpretation was literal me mate was strunr uo in wire hammock above a clotrinfr cnarcoar rirei on deck He was unable to produce any more treasure howeveri and after roastlns? for two hours he was thrown overboard MASSACRES CREW "We'll not fool away time with the rest of them" snifl nonVs "Kill them Throw them into tha water after you've shot them and then get the ship cleaned up This is gping to be our boat from now on She has twenty guns to our ten and is a faster sailer" The thirty-efermen of the crew Mole and had made not a were massacred and the 'Adven- whit afraid of repairs capture ture" was sent back to Lisbon and Beakes sent rowboata Into the there sold at a good price for Cap tain BeaKe'S account The Ranlr harbor of Majorca to raid a half of Portugal accepted the account dozen small Spanish vessels! Find and Beakes felt altogether safe ing tnat tne owners of the Vessels while his funds were on denosit were poor fishermen and Email there He soon sent in his share merchants who were barely! makf of the frold bars for dennslf- nin and thereafter he was well received B DRISCOLL By CHARLEfS — -1- R DUCT G EN ERA L- M OTORS Grant - |