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J A MYSTERY,' Our baby boy one day Folded his violet eyes, And from his waxen clay His white soul flew away To far off Paradise, His little hands so fair, We crossed upon his breast And standing by him there We gave him to the care Of one who doeth best. And when to final sleep We laid him soft and low. We could not help but heap Upon him lilies deep And roses pure as snow. And then, with courage great, His mother faced the years; But oft, when it was late, Among his toys she sate And fondled them with tears. Hut now another child, With wondrous violet eyes, Rests on her bosom mild, And smiles as he had smiled To-day in Paradise. And something seems to say To her, so sad before; "The soul that flew away Is back again to-day,' Sweet mother, weep no morel" Georijf llorton, in Chicago Herald, Cleaning Out Pirates. During the year 1868 no less than tli ret; trading vessels fitted out at Singa pore for traffic in the Java Sea mysteri ously disappeared, and no trace of them j could be discovered. Two more were added to the list early in 18G9,and about July 1 it was whispered around that a nest of pirates had been discovered on an island off the north coast of Java. If .the news was true th' chieftain of the gang must be a bold fellow indeed, and needed looking after at once. The merchants at Singapore were talk ing of fitting out a ship to investigate when II. M. cruiser The Shark arrived. She was one of the old-fashioned ten gun brigs once so numerous, and at that time was engaged in a survey of the south coast of Borneo, or about to be. As I was one of her crew lean relate what happened duriug the next two weeks first-handed. It seemed that the stcry of the pirate was accepted as a fact, for we over hauled our armament, took in a lot of ammunition and strengthened our crew by fourteen men before sailing. These men were drafted out of a crew belong ing to a inau-of-war which had been wrecked on the Malay coast, and all were old hands. The captain got his bearings from some source unknown to us, and when we left Singapore the brig was headed to tne east. We jogged along down the coast of Sumatra for a week without finding any unusual inci dent, and though we spoke a score of crafts none of them had any information about the pirate. 'The crew had begun to ridicule the idea when something oc curred to open our eyes very wide. One morning, about an hour after day light, we came up with a Dutch trader, which was taking care of herself. All her sails had been cut away, ropes were flying in every direction and she was so low in the wat';r that we wondered why she didn't go down. "When a boat pulled off to her it was to find the cap tain mortally wounded and his wife and two sailors stiff and dead and horribly mutilated on the deck beside him. We got him off, but had no time to give the bodies burial before the little craft went down. The ciptaiu was a man about forty years of age, and though hardly alive when we found him he rallied enough to tell his story. The trader had been trafficking along the Java coast and had finally complete 1 his cargo and headed for Singapore. .Just at sunset on the previous evening he had been overhauled by a n stive craft carrying about forty men. lie was then about ten miles off the coast and about five miles south of an island known as "Queen's Bower." He had no suspicion whatever of the natives, and the first thing he knew they boarded his craft and began to cut and slash. When they had finished the crew they began to plunder and strip the vessel, and were with her until midnight. Before leaving they bored her full of holes, and we had reached her just in time to rescue the captain. The first craft wa3 joined by two others later on, and the three car ried at least a hundred desperate fellows. The captain heard and understood enough to satisfy him that they were an organ ized gang of pirates and that they were also well equipped for their bloody busi ness. 'Jihe island mentioned was not over twenty miles away, and as the Java Sea was and is a great highway, it did not seem possible that men would take such a risk as those pirates had. The trader said that no less than three friendly sails were in sight when he was attacked, but all too far away to signal, even if ho had been warned in time to do some thing. Owing to the shoals surround ing the island our craft could not ap proach near enough to use her guns and shell the fellows out, and we were not strong enough to laud from our boats and deal with them. The sight of an armed vessel nosing around would p it pirates on their guard, and so it was re solved to play them a Yankee trick. We ran into a bay on the coast and set to work. You are probably aware of the fact that au English man-of-war, no matter how large or how small, is a pattern of neatness and regulation, and the cut of her sails will alone establ'sh her iden tity while her hull is yet below the water line. We had, therefore, to un do and overhaul a great deal. We put everything m seeming confusion aloft, disguised her hull as much as possible, and when we left the bay The Shark had the look of a merchantman which had been through a typhoon au I was too short handed to m ike ivpdrs. Tiv Dutch captain died on the day alter we found him, and his last words were a prayer that we might fall iu with and punish the pirates. 1 It was just at daylight that wo ap peared off the north coast of the island nnd anchored on . a bank about three mite3 from the beach. Men were sent aloft as if engaged in repairs, a boat was got down as if to work on the hull, and the bulk of the crew remained in hiding below. No doubt the fellows ashore had a lookout in some trees, ami provided with a good glass he could see every thing going on aboard. It was hardly sunrise when a small native craft with four men in her came out to within pistol shot of us to make an investigation. Our captain hailed them and they replied with gestures of signify that thev would return to the shore for help. They evidently took us for what we pretended to be, and we were piped to breakfast feeling that our ruse would succeed. About eight o'clock, with the wind breezing up lively, three native sail-craft put out for us. A man aloft with a glass reported that each craft was crowded with natives, and it was now our dan to weigh anchor and make a little sail and pretend to be standing away from them as if alarmed. The object was to draw them as far away from shore as possible, aud we had added a mile or more to the distance when the foremost boat came witnin hail. She hadn't a gun of any aort in sight, but she had forty-eight desperate-looking villains in plain view, and every one of them had a cutlass and pistol. While her captain was hailing us in a language no one could understand, she was slowly edging along down upon our starboard quarter. At the .same time a second craft was drawing ahead on the port side, and the third kept in our wake. Only seven or eight men ware iu sight on our decks, aud the natives seemed to have no suspicions of a trick. The breeze was a little bit too strong for their manoeuvring at first, but after we were about six miles off shore the two sudden ly closed in to board us. Our captain had been closely watching them and Waiting for this move, and of a sudden the drum beat to quarters and our decks were alive with men. I was captain of No. 3 gun crew and had the honor of firing the first shot. It was a solid ball, and it struck the craft on her port bow and went clean through her and dropped into the sea beyond. This opened the fight; the natives instantly realized that they had caught a Tartar, and they saw , too, that their only means of essapa lay, in capturing the ship. Therefore, in stead of running away, as we had looked for, each craft bore down on us to board. They were handled as easily as an Indian manoeuvres a canoe, and it wasn't five minutes after the first gun was fired ere they were on our quarters like wolve3 seeking to hamstring a deer. I fired another solid shot and then loaded with grape, and this last charge was fired right into a mass of natives waiting to' clamber up the side. The guu next to me fired a solid shot, which tore through her bottom, aud two minutes later she foundered right along side of us. The second sraft got near enough to grapple, but the iron3 were thrown off, and two guns played solid shot into her hull un til she went down stern foremost, leav ing thirty men struggling in the wave?. The third craft had forged ahead, sailing five feet to our one, and would have boarded us at the bows but for tho sudden destruction of the others. Their fate frightened her off, but she had scarcely laid her head for the island than it was brought around as if the crew had made some desperate resolve. Now becured a curious thing. She had about thirty men on board, and she came down on us with every one of them shouting and screaming and tried to lay us aboard. We could have sunk her with one guu even, or we could have picked off the whole crew with our muskets before they had crossed the rail. Word wai passed to give her a fuli broadside at the word, and when the smoke cleared away she was not to be seen. There were over twenty of the pirates hauging to the wreckage around us, however, and a boat was lowered to pick the n up. You caa judge of their desperation when I tell you that every one of them fought Hko a tiger against being picked up, and that we got only five out of the lot. The others we had to kill as they floated about with the sharks snapping at them. Two of the live leaped out of the boat after being pulled in and were seen no more, and the others gave us so much trouble that the captain swuug them up to the yard arm. Thus not one single man of the hundred or more who came out to attack us escaped with his life. I was in one of the two boats afterwards sent ashore to see what sort of a lair the pirates had made for themselves. The only human brings ashore werj an old native woman, a one-armed Japanese, and a white boy about fourteen years of age. This boy was off an English trader, cap tured the year before, and had been held prisoners ever since. He said they were 107 men in the gaug, and we found enough plunder on the island to load our ship. They had captured about a dozen different vessels, large and small, and in every case had plundered and sunk them. They did not always kill all the crew. Soon after the boy was captured thev brought in an American sailor oft a spice trader. The boy knew him only by the name of William, but remembered that his home was in Boston. It turned out that they had spared lm life to make use of him as a blacksmith, but when they found that he had no Knowledge of that work he was put to death. By order of the chief he was hung iu chains on a tree about a quarter of a mile away, and was eleven days in dying. The boy went with us and showed us his bones still hanging. The one-armed man and the old wo man, assisted by the boy, were the cooks for the gang. They at first seemed j very much alarmed, and protested their innocence of any complicity in the crimes of the pirates, but when they came to understand that all the villains had met their fate, and that we had come ashore to clear the islaud of its last bale of plunder, they suddenly ran into a rude store-house, blacked, up the doorway with boxes, and and opened fire on us with pistols. We had two men wounded before we could dislodge them, and they were then hanged to the same limb aud their bodies left to the birds. What plunder we could not bring off we burned on the island, and before leaving we set the forest on fire in a dozen places, and the flames did not die out until the whole length and breadth had been swept clean of vegetation. Xeio York World. Artificial Minerals. Attempts have been made, not with out success, to form minerals. Artificial ultra-marine has loug beeu au article of commerce, ine iormaiion oi iut? um mond is said to have been actually ef fected, but, in the opinion of the in- veat0r, the process ia so difficult and dangerous that the diamond merchant need not feel uneasy. The ruby and the j j sapphire have been largely reproduced in Paris, and, curiously enough, the color ing matter in both is found to be dup to one and the same chromium in differ ent slates of conbination. Bed and blua stones, or an immediate violet form, which might be likened to the rare an 1 beautiful oriental amethyst, have been obtained in one aud the same operation, from the same lot of material. The jewels thus produced have so far all been small ; large enough to form the pivots of superior watch works, but not large enough to rank as rare and costlj orna mental objects. Sm Frauds?- Hxa:i incr. The new silk: crepous are really beau tiful, and great use is made of them as ' frills and fichus. Entire toilets of pink, i lilac, c:-eam and gray chiffon are im Jporrted. The fabric falls in most artistic r folds, and, while resembling crepa proper, are altogether devoid of the wiry stiffness ;of the black badge of sorrow. LADIES' COLUMN. noop skikts comino in aaix. 'Ladies are to be afflicted with the old-time hoop skirts again," said a fashionable modiste the other day, 4 just as surely as they have been emancipated from the thralldvm of the bustle. They have already become fashionable in a modified form. If you will take the j trouble to watch the lower part of the skirt of any expensive spring costume you will perceive that it stands out stiffly. That effect is produced by a 'band skirt,' which is nothing else than a very narrow hoop skirt. Soon it will get wider, however,, and grow from its present limit of a foot until the hoops multiply on each other and form the old fashioned cone reaching to the waist. Fashion has no compassion on us wo men; we might as well submit with a cood "race." XashriUe Atnerltutn. queen Nathalie's beauty a mistake. A royal person about whom London gossips are busy just at. the moment is Queen Nathalie. She ha !eeu seen j driving in Piccadilly and it is reported J that she is stopping at the Savoy Hotel. It has been customary to repreieut this modern Mary Stuart as the most beauti ful woman iu Europe, possibly in order to carry out the resemblance between her and that unfortunate queen whose beauty, like that of Helen of Troy, has become a recognized standard by which the claim of loveliness mry be judged. Perhaps in the case of Nathalie the. wish to make her appear beautiful has been the father to th? thought that she is; and beauty in a woman against whom the fates war is, we know, the most potent element in inciting a ro mantic feeling iu her behalf. Sooth to say, Nathalie is a big, black-browed, red-cheeked dame with large black eyes, and her general appearance is so far from that of the womau to whom she has been likened that she is decidcdlj coarse. lioston Transcript. PIN MONEY WELL INVESTED. Twenty New York shop girls will hi sent to Stamford, Conn., for two weeks' vacation every fortnight during the re mainder of the summer. Their vacation is provided by the self-denial of the voung ladies attending Miss Aiken'i Stimford Seminary. When Mis3 Aiken's pupils returned to school after the Christ mas holidays she suggested to them that instead of spending their pin money for confectionery and trifles dear to Hie heart of school girls they contribute it to a fund to be accumulated for the pur pose of sending some of the New York shop girls into the country in the sum mer. They readily consented, and, be sides, gave two entertainments, by which several hundred dollars more was raised. The visitors will be boarded in a farm house about two miles from Stamford village and all expenses will be paid. Twenty girls will be accommodated at a time, and after remaining two weeks will be sent home and t wenty more will come to take their places. Miss Aiken pro poses to establish a penuaueut society among the 2000 ladies v. ao have at tended her school during the thirty-six years she has kept it in Stamford, each one to pledge $1 a year to a fund to send New York girls into the country. The Stamford society will work as an Mixil iary of the New York society, which will have charge of sending the girls to Stam ford this summer. Chiaij Post. FASHION NOTES. Shirt waists may be fashiouable, but they have a "servant girlish" appearance. Fans made up to diplay the college color., new last season, have reippeared. Little bib pins come in blue enamel and gold, with here and there a small diamond. A style of collar now fashionable looks as if it had been insufficiently starched and then wilted. The sheath-shaped skirt continues to I prevail, and all skirts are inconveniently j long at the back. All sorts of fancy waistcoats are being introduced as a part of the bodice, and the very swellest thing is to have these fancy vests fastened with exquis itely wrought gem-set buttons. Stylish shoulder capes have undergone a complete change. For the summer months the designs are more lengthy, covering the entire arm aud extending a quarter of a yard below the waist. Rich black faille wraps, studded with cut jet or dull gold ornaments, are among the latest importations. There are many of them combined with odd patterns of K i lack lace, with high Medici standing collars elaborately braided and bright ened with jets and handsome braided de signs. The Ilk-helieu shoe of velvet is a re cent novelty, and either matches the dress in color or is of Venetian brown, with silk hose to match. These shoes are not ornamented cither with buckles or beading, and are simply fastened with flat silk lacings r narrow ribbon with a corded cd-re. "Admiral of the Blus." When v.'e read that the Hon. Johu Byng, Esq., Admiral of tai? Blue, wao shot on hi3 own quarterdeck by sentence of a court-martial, w. think, after tho first feeling of pity, that his rank wa a queer one Admiral of the Blue! What did it mean? It was l:0 years ago that he was executed. Of course the rank doesn't exist now, and anyway, it was an English rank; history will explain it. But the rank does exist now, aud, what is more, it exists in the United State3 Navy. The senior rear-admiral flies the blue flag with two stars, the next in rank the red, the i'.iiid the white flag. Ad miral Kimberly i:; rear-ad mi nil of the blue in our Navy, Admiral CJhcrardi is admiral of thy red, ;:iid their juniors are admirals of the w'uice. When only junior admirals are together the senior of them flies the blue; but let Admiral Oherardi's ship appear, and do wn goes the blue, to be succeeded by the red, while Vdtniral Gherardi'.s vessel flaunts the blue. And then let Admiral Kimberly happen along. Down comes the blue aud the red, to bo succeeded by the red and the white; aud behold, it is Admiral Kimbeily's craft that displays the white starred blue en sign. JuVt, tills happened at the Wash ington Centennial two years ago, when the junior admiral '.va! first on the ground, and had, unwillingly, it seemed, to go down one peg-very time a senior appeared and broke his fnsign at his fore. l'h ili'lcli'li it Tdynq-h. A Strange Fossil Discovery. Our otherwise quiet little community was thrown into a fever of excitement on Saturday last when (I. T. Suttle, while excavating for a levy, unearthed a mam moth foot supposed to be of the ostrich species. The leg was disconnected at the knee joint; the leg from the knee down was intact. This relic of ancient times (and it is undoubtedly such) was found about eight feet below the surface of the ground. The entire length of the limb from the joint to the end of the middle toe is six feet nine inches, the length of the toes arc, respectively, nine, seven and six one-quarter inches each. It is thoroughly petrified and heavy as rock. Mr. Suttle has vainly searched for the balance of this wonderful creature, but as yet has been unable to find it. It I is the opinion of old-timers here that this mammoth bird was killed by Indians j and left on the bank of Little Cotton iwood creek, after being stripped of ' meat, where it became covered by sliding earth from the mountain side. Ellt (till.) Iiulciendotl. The game of baccarat, remarks the Boston Tramcrijft, is not the first game of cards that has brought disaster to the fortunes of the (Jordon-Cumming family. The present Baronet's grandmother had a weakness for whist that led her to play for stakes as high as $5000 a point. In one ni.rht, during a run of ill-luck, she m said to have lost thirty-two points, and her husband was compelled to part with a large property to settle the debt. PfOKR Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all ia leavening strength.. atet U. S. Government Food Report. S1BI
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