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Show I QUEER HONEYMOON OF MRS, DOWNS She Shot Pirates and Shacks, Saw Mutiny and Felt Typhoon. TNJTIIEN a bride on her honeymoon yy shoots pirates, puts down n mu-tiny, mu-tiny, catches a, few sharks, gets catiRht In a typhoon and sails half around tho world Bho inay surely bo said to have had her full sharo of adventure. That's what pretty little Mrs. Nel-llo Nel-llo Carter Downs, wlfo of Captain Frank Downs, skipper or tho Standard OH our masted steel bark Juteapolls. did, and she really ei joyed It !"5 She landed home In New York after & '" her year's absence brown as a berry, !i I TABUH MK8. DOWNS SHOT ONLT TO BILI 1 hard ns nails and. In fact, In such rail ra-il dlaut health that every one who greet-W" greet-W" 1 1 ed her had to heave an envious sigh. 1 -1 Tle voyage across the Atlantic and R;I2---!. . nrouu t0 China was slow, but un- HE fcfflfiPit3lvnP jwunied tbntVCaptnln Hr Wm1own snd Ms crew of thirty-four, fol-E"'" fol-E"'" lowing usual custom. nnd loft tlio ship K "a to see tho slght, stole up to tho bark 1 at midnight. They caught tho prong 1 of their curious bamboo ladder on tho M J deck rail ami quietly Hcnmpcrcd 3a aboard. B flj A terrific fight was the result, and BvJI lu it Mrs. Downs took a prominent li part. She is adept with the rifle, mid, I m armed with one, she ran up on the M deck. Captain Downs, fearing that a sho would bo killed, ordered her below. H jl but hIic paid no attention and plunged Hj m Into the molee H fl Downs had the steam pump manned I 1 and with thN elTwtlvo weapon the B 9 snllors drove the pirates over the side. 8 1 Two days later the first mate went 1 swimming. The cry of an Infant ar-Wt' ar-Wt' m rented his attention, and he saw that jgfll n girl a year old bad fallen from a jBfl tampan Into the water. Symnnds 53 fl quickly swnra to the child and. holding Hs the baby with one arm. started for the W f bamboo houseboat from which It had fl I tumbled. fl As he approached the sampan, from jfl ' which he expected to hear cries of do- K light, his ears were assailed by shout m of rago and his face by long bamboo flj All along the line of sampans Ry. B ' nionds and his passenger were turned away. At length be swam with It to B the Juteapolls. There he turned It B over to Mrs. Downs, She enred for It H for several days, but Captain Downs IS ' was opposed to bringing It home, so It flj was given Into the charge of the Chi jfl I nese sailors on the Standard Oil float. Si, "I don't know whit they did with Hi It after we went away." Mrs. Downs 9H I' sny. "hut I shouldn't be surprised to BB 1 learn that they had tossed It back Into ijflj 9 the water. I didn't learn that they arc BB1 capable of such a thing until we were Hgjl several days out on the wny home." Just after leaving ITongkoiig the fll' Juteapolls ran Into a typhoon that cost BK her two masts and most of her dei-k 'fix fittings, tint the rest of tho voyage B was henutlful The hark Just breezed Wfj straight home. ntHklng the Journey In Mm 115 days. It was then that Mrs Kg Downs got her sharks, one of which I' mm was nlue and one-half feet long. She I m shot them 'from the deck and has I X '' enough pieces of skin cut from them to supply everybody she knows with tin-1 tin-1 M real thing In pouketlMioU.s. |