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ITHE MORNING JPOST:; BUN1Y;?"CT0BER 2 1 , 1900 lA ECHANICS m& INV BUM 9 it ES10RS UK ON Pa- . A Successful Investment Company, ; Which was organized May 1, 1893, with headquarters in . Raleigh, operating only in North Caro'ina and loaning only on Bond ,nnd Mortgage. The company has during the past two years averaged one real estate loan per week, which means the erection) in that time of one hundred dwellings. These loans are being repaid by one hundred monthly payments of amounts about :e ,aal to the renlal ya us of the property. The Company issues two kinds of Investment Certificates; one is a monthly pay ment certificate, designed to meek the wants of (wae earners and for. the safe and profitable investment at six per cent, per arnum of monthly savings. These certificates are issued in amounts ranging from 100 to 1,000, and require a monthly pay lir.ent of e ghty cents ior each one hundred dollars. The principal and interest are payable after one hundred monthly pay ments have been made. The other security investment is a Full Paid Certificate of $ioo, payable ten years after date, with twenty Semi-Annual Dividend Coupons, payable at Commercial and Farmers' Bank, Raleigh, in June and December of each vear. This certificate is redeemable at any time after one year, and it is being sold for a cash payment of $90, at which price it pays the owner six per cent per annum, free of taxes, which are paid by the Company. All of the certificates are amply sev ered by First Mortgages cn Improved Real "Estate;-which mortgages are registered at the Court House, and are held in trust by 13. S Jerman, Treasurer, for the security and filial payment of the certificates issued by the Company. The officers of the -Company, who were also the organizers and original stockholders, are John G- Drewry, President; J. S, Wynne, Vice -Preside:. t B. S. Jerman, Treasurer; J. N. Holding, Attorney; W. S. Primrose and C G.Latta, Directors; George Allen, Secretary, ; OFFICE OF THE COMPANY, 22 PULLEN BUILDING, RALEIGH. bounty's rmous J reprint of Lieutenant Bligh's .f thf mutiny on board II. M. S. . which has just been issued by Hinkside Pros.- of London, tells in -ail-T fashion tho ory of one :! nwst remarkable cruises cwr :: a small boat, says the New t::i. N mutiny in naral history far-reach ins consequences as whit h oriurred on hoard the Bounty :. -uh seas more than a century William Bligh was a skilful uavign was lrn in Ioudon in 175. i i'UT'nant he accompanied Captain . :i his luino voyasres. He was :..iioued by (Iinrge ill. to Import ::rui: trees and other vegetables . the South sea islands to the West and placed iu command of the :.ty. i A ( ' . Ir r. I :: Umiuty reached Otaheite at the season of the year and couse- . : had to remain there or six i. to secure her cargo. Associa- :s with the native women' corrupted .- crew, and it is evident from Lieu : : tut Bitch's diary that to this ho at :r. .'cs the mutiny. He says: The women at Otaheite are hand- u-. mild and cheerful in their man-i.- r arid iimvcrsntion. possrssd of great "ibility, and have sufficient delicacy : tuake them admired aud leIovcd. Tie' chiefs were so much attached to r ;t -fpie that they rather encouraged th-ir i-ray among them than othtrwix a:. I even made theni promises of large l i.as. Under these aud many :er attendant circumstances, equally ';. irj!!e. it is now perhaps not so much - '-.' woadrel at. though scarcely poi i ' to have been foreseen, that a set -t:!o:s. most of them void of cnuec huld be led away: especially v r... n in addttion to such powerful jn ! vm-.nts. they imagined it in their I r to fix t!: -mrl e- l' ihe midst of I -r.-r, o the tine-it ida::d in the world, v i:e they nel not labor and where "i .i!:ireK.e!it- of dissipation are bo : .. I aa.. thing tint can be conceived." 'her writer. who have dealt with t , i",n-.tiMZ tTy of the sea havo t ..-d that Lieutenant Bligh's exacting i - . i " i 1 1 - was the chief cause of the : r.1 which broke out on loard his ;v UliglTs .cubequent career as gov- - r ..f New fouth Wales ended in hisJ t- c arrested for tyrannical condnct. 1 "'". it has Ken accepted as a partial ir-ari-.n of the mutiny. Lieutenant I" -'" st-ry of it gives no indication ' '::.r.' -charily severe discipline on his ' i t. The Uounty sailed from Otaheite Apti! 4. 17K). The crew mutinied ;r.l and after setting Lieutenant l i -;i and his eighteen loyal men ail: if t i w n boat with only l."0 pounds rv.ol. thirty-two pounds of pork, six c--.-.r: r.f Mini, six bottles of vine and ::ry-.-:-rht gallons of water for provis i " t!o-y Mire away to Otaheite. Four '. - of the mu tiners who remaioed there nrr-'-t.Hi.in br omcers of tho h:p landora. V ir of theso -st by ship wrick on the x-t" ri'in' thf romnirifle were tried. of t'liin being execu ed and the .?ci!::i?ted or pardo3il. . t r '!uistian. one of the mnti the IJonnty, with eight of r.. ;:ine rs. nine native women and : itive men. left Otaheite on the -y :n sailed to PItcairn Island. th" Hounty wa wreckiil. that : -.s.. .f ijor might be destroyed. hi Iv'nr.d is only abant two and -'' m:!."s long and one mile broad, ' l it not been for this mutiny !'!-!v would have been unsettled All traces of Christian aud his -r w- re lost until 1S0S, when .. n r.ic:T, of Nantucket, called at i:n I-hi'id, thinkins it uninhabited. ' "urprie two men of light -brown enrne oit in a canoe and greetetl a finli-h. They were descendants riirir.al mutinecrK, the only sur- r the party at that time being '!'! r Smith, who afterwards as- I the name of John Adams. Smith Mrp ! a role for the jrovernment of '-!ni.d and acteii as governor and He was apparently a man of '1 ability. In ISkS the Pitcairn were moved 1o XorfJk Island '- it wa btHieved that they would I : i r there. Two families of them, ";; pg seventeen persons, became 'k an' returned to Pitcairn .. uh re they and their descend - "v, livd since that time. ''"'"'Mat Irish's narrat1v of the I r "i the Bnuntv is told in the . ; r:nnnr of a logbook. Ills de ' of the mutiny is told as fol- r Won MinnMnjr. Mr. Christian. niaster-at-arms, gunner's mnte, . nM Ilarket. seaman, came into " while I wa asleep, and, seiz- tl my hands -with a cord be "y back and threatened me with b-ath if I spoke or made the ! I. however, called bo loud n irm ovcrv one: but they had y -ronrod the -offlcers .who vere . : ie!r part v. by placing sentinels r ..ors. There were three men v. -n ,Aoor- wp! the four . ' nristlan had only a cutlass ........ oiucf jiHa mnsKeia bayonets. I was hauled out of MUTINY RECALLED bed and forced n deck in my shirt, suffering great pain from the tightness with which they hnd tied ray hands. I demanded the reason of such violence, but received no other answer than threats of instant death if I did not hold my tongue. Mr. Elphiuston, tho master's mate, was kept in his lerth; Mr. Xelson, botanist; Mr. Peckover, gunner; Mr. Led ward, surgeon, and the master, were confined to their cabins; and also the clerk, Mr." Samuel, but he soon obtained leave to come on deck. The fore hatchway was guarded by sentinels; the boatswain and carpenter were, however, allowed to come on deck, where they saw me abaft the mlizen mast with my hands tied behind my back, under guard, with Christian at their head. "The boatswain was now ordered to hoist the launch out, with a threat, if he did not do it instantly, to take care of himself." liligh attempted to stem the tide, but Christian, who was apparently the most detewniued man among the mutineers, threatened to kill him jmmediatoly if he would not be quiet. The men who had been loyal to Bligh were forced over the side into a small toat which had bcH'n equip;ed .with hardly enough provisions apparently to last them a week. It was apparent from the re marks made by the- mutineers that they feared to give IMigh much 4n the way of cqiiiiuisent for his boat, knowing him to be a man of resources and sus pecting that if he had a ghost of a chance he would make his way back to civilization. As it was, his boat was loaded with -men ko deeply that she sunk low in the water. Among the oJicers of the Bounty who were cast adrift were John Fryer, master; Thomas Led ward, acting surgeon; David Nelson, botanist: William Cole, boatswain; Hay ward and H.nllctt, midshipmen, and Wil liam Pureell, carpenter. The most able lucu iu the chip's company remained on board the Bounty. As the Bounty under command of the mutineers, pulled away. Biich heard them yell, IIuzza for Ota better In commenting on the mutiny. Lieu tenant Bligh says: "The secrecy of this mutiny is beyond all conception. Thirteen of the party who were with me had all lived forward among the people, yet neither they nor the messmates or Stewards Henry or Young had ever observed any circum stances to give them suspicion of what was going on. The possibility of such a conspiracy was. ever the farthest from my thoughts. Bligh's first determination was to seek a bt'.j p!y of breadtruit and water at Tofoa, where the Bounty had been bound after leading Annamooka, one of the Friendly Islands. The boat in which he found himself was the ship's launch, without shelter. It was provided with oars and a sail. On the night of the day following the mutiny Bligh reached Tofoa and kept hi boat under tho iee of the i-iand iintil daylight. Tofoa is the nerthwesternmost of the Friendly Islands. Here he obtained a few quarts of water. On Thursday, April 60, a strong wind made it dangerous to go to sea and Bligh's men ci imbed to the cliffs and secured about twenty cocoa nuts. On the day following a few na tives appeared with whom Bligh made friends and from them he secured a small addition to his stock of provisions. Two chiefs appeared on Sunday and to them Bligh gave an old shirt and a knife. They knew that he had been with Captain Cook and they were curi ous to rind out how he happened to be cruising in a small boat. Bligh's plain narrative of what followed reads: "The beach was now lined with the natives, and wa heard nothing but the knocking of stones together, which they had, in each hand. I knew very well this was the sign of an attack, it being now noon, I served a cocoanut and a breadfruit to each person for dinner, and gave some to the chiefs, with whom I continued to appear Intimate and friendly- They frequently importuned me to sit down, but I as constantly re fused: for it occurred both to Mr. Nel son and myself that they intended to seize hold of me if I gave them such an opportunity." The ttn was setting as Bligh gave the word to his men who were ashore with him to pick np their coods and rush for their boats. The natives kept knock ing stones together. "We had now all but two or three things in the boat, when I took Nageete by the hand and we walked down the "beach, every one in a silent kind of horror. . When I came to the boat and was seeing the people embark, Nageete wanted me to stay to speak to Eefow; but rinding I. would not stay. Nageete loosed him wlf from my. hold -and went off, and we all got into the boat : except ' one. man. who, while I Avas getting on board, quitted it, and ran u the-beach to cast tlie stern fast off, notwithstanding the master and others, called to JAm to return, while they were haulms me out of the water. '.- ' , v 'I- was no sooner in the ooat than the attack began by" about two hundred men. The unfortunate poor man who j had run up the beach was knocked down ; ana - the stones new like a shower of shot, Many Indians got hold of the stern rope and were nearly hauling us on shore and would certainly have done it if I had not had a knife in my pocket, with which 1 cut the rope. We then hauled off to the graphnei, every one being more or less hurt. At this time I saw five of the natives about the poor man they had killed, and two of them were beating him about the head with stones in their hands. "We 'had no time to reflect, before, to my surprise, they tilled their canoes with stones and twelve men came off after us to renew the attack, which they did -so effectually as nearly to disable all of us. They paddled round us, so that we were obliged to sustain the attack without being able to return it, except with such stones as lodged In the boat, and in this I found we were very inferior to them. At dark they gave over the attack and returned to ward the shore, leaving us to reflect on our unhappy situation." After this experience Bligh decided to look for assistance at the island of Timor, where there was a Dutch set-J tlement. This was a distance of 1,1:1 K) leagues. His boat was only twenty-three feet long, he had no chart and only a general knowledge of the situation of places, assisted by a book of latitudes and longitudes. The men agreed to live on . an ounce of bread and a quarter .of a pint of water a day, and away they sailed. Lieutenant Blieh's diary for the few following days confines itself to the. details of sailing ms small boat, wuicu proved unexpectedly seaworthy, and his careful division of each day's provisions. He mad? toward the Foejee Islands, and each bit of land which he passed lie charted as well as he was able. He landed at none of them for fear of hostile natives, having no arms for defence. Wednesday, May 0, was nota ble because oue of the nren hooked a fish and was miserably disappointed by it -leing lost in pulling, it into the loat. Bligh descriles the conditions on his boat in this fashion:' "I now directed my course west by" north for the night, aud served to each person an ounce of the damaged bread and a quarter of a pint of water for supper. It may really be supposed that; our lodgings were very miserable and confined, and I had only in my power to remedy the latter defect by putting ourselves at watch and watch; so that one-half always sat up while the other lay down on the boat's bottom, or upon a chest, with nothing to cover us but the heaveus. Our limbs were dread fully cramped, for we could not stretch them out, and the nights were so cold and we so constantly wet, that after a few hours' sleep we could scarce move. At dawn of day we again discovered land from west southwest to west north west, and another island north north west, the latter a high round lump of but little extent; and I could see the southern land I had passed in the night. Being very wet and cold, I served a spoonful of rum and a morsel of bread for breakfast." Occasionally canoes filled with natives chased his boat as long as it was in sight. Bligh says very little about the suffering of his men and himself. He entertained his men by describing the situation of New Guinea and New Hol land so that in case any accident hap pened to him they might know how to direct their course. Day after day they sailed or rowed on, sometimes fiercely storm-beaten. Bligh found that he had to reduce his allowance of bread to one twenty-fifth of a pound for each man three times a day. After severe storms he served a teaspoonful of rum to each man. This is a sample of his diarj' during this part of the voyage: "Saturday, May the lGth. Fresh gales from the S. E. and rainy weather. In addition to our miserable allowance of one twenty-fifth of a pound of bread and a quarter of a pint of water I Issued for dinner an ounce of salt pork, to each person. I was often solicited for this -pork, but I considered it better to give, it in small quantities than to use it all at once or twice, which would have leen done if I had allowed it. At noon I observed, in 13 degrees 33 minutes ,S, longitude made from Tofyba, 10 de grees 27 minutes W.. course N. 82 de grees W., distance 101 miles. The sun gave ns hopes of drying our wet clothes. "Sunday, May the 17th. -The sun shine was nit of short duration. 3Ve had strong breezes at S. E. by S. and dark loomy weather with storms of thunder, lightning and rain. The night was truly horrible and not a star to be seen. Our situation was extremely miserable; always wet and suffering extreme cold In the night, without the least shelter from the weather. Being constantly obliged to bail to keep the boat from filling was perhaps not to be reck oned as an evil, as it gave us exercise. By this time every man was suffering from extreme hunger, and Bligh' savs: Thursday, May the 21st. Fresh gales and heavy showers of rain. - Wind E. N. E. Our distresses were now very great. and tre were so "covered with rain and alt water that we conld scarce ly see. Sleep, thongh wei longed for it, afforded no comfort. For mr own nart. - I almostjived without it. We suffered extreme cold, and every "one dreaded the approach of the night, . About 2 o clock In the morning, we were over-, whelmed with a. deluge of rain. It fell s heavy that we were afraid it would fill tho boat, and we were obliged 'to i .1 bail with all our might. At dawn of day I served a large allowance of rum. Toward noon the rain abated and the sun shone, but we were miserably cold and wet. the sea breaking so constantly over us that notwithstanding the heavy rain we had not been able to add to our stock of fresh water. The usual allowance of one twentjr-fifth of a pound of bread and water was served at evening, morning and noon." On May 20 he cautiously landed on an island where he secured a 'few, oys ters and a fresh supply of water. lie named it Restoration Island, and af ter twq days left it just as the natives had discovered his presence. His course led him through island channels and whenever he landed it was with fear of the natives. On Thursday, June 4, he steered out Into the open ocean for Timorl An occasional small fish or a bird was caught to add to their stores. Writing in his diary on June 11, Bligh says: "I, however, "hoped to fall in with Timor every hour, for I had great ap prehensions that some of my people could not hold out. An extreme weak ness, swelled legs, hollow and ghastly countenances, great propensity to sleep, with an apparent debility of under standing, seemed to me melancholy pre sages of their approaching dissolution. The surgeon and Lebogue, in particu lar, were the most miserable objects. I occasionally gave them a few tea spoonfuls of wine out of the little I had saved for this dreadful stage, which no doubt greatly helped to sup port them. . "For my own part, a great share of spirits, with the hopes of being able to accomplish . the voyage, seemed to be 1113' principal support; but the boat swain very innocently told me that he really thought I looked worse than any one in the boat. The simplicity with which he uttered such an opinion di verted me, and 1 had good humor enough to return him a better conTTaimenr." This indicates the kind of a man this English navigator was. He sighted the island of Timor on the following day and then began skirting the shore' ton0ts of it is but doing wnat he was put find the Dutch settlement. On Sunday, June 14, he found a settlement of friend ly natives and secured a guide and some dried turtle, aud two days later he reached the Dutch settlement of Con pang. The governor did everything pos sible for his crew and Bligh. now that his vovage was ended, indulges in a little descrintive writing, painting the condition of his men, who were ragged and nearly dead. The inhabitants nursed them back to life, with the ex ception of David Nelson, who died. "When I reflect," says Bligh, "how nrovidentiallv our lives were saved at Tofoa bv the Indians delaying their attack, and that, with scarce anything to support life, we crossed a sea of more than 1,20 leagues, witnout sn-ei- -i --- . ... ter from the inciemepcy when I reflect that in an open boat, with so much stormy gather we es- caped foundering, that not any of us MK"nAkSi of ithe, : countries with- out accident, and at last nappiiy to meet with the most friendly and best of people to relieve our distresses; l say. when I reflect on all these wonderful escapes, the remembranc of such great mercies enables me to bear, with resig- it . 1 v.rt-i.-Ti-iltiocc the fmlnre of nn p-rnedition the success or wnicn 'l 11 CAurauiuu, li . . , i i i. had so much at neart, ana wmcu I I PHOTGGRAPlj x , .-. . ' . , .... , . '" f , T I i - - i X. HAVE YOUR PICTURES WHARTON ; Both ' Phones . , was frustrated at a time when I was congratulating'' myself on the fairest prospects pf being able to complete it in a manner that -would fully have an swered the intention of his majesty and the honorable promoters of so benevolent a plan." Bligh died, in London, an admiral, in 1817. , Money (Monroe inquirer.) r ' . Did you ever hear a man ranting and raving about money making and putting all efforts towards getting on in the world, making money, if .you please, out of dispute?- If you ever did yon knew that fellow was nothing more than a big mouthed hypocrite and did not believe what he was preaching. Just try him, with a dollar arid see aiow quipk he will take it and put on a "give-me-another" look. It is no harm to make money. If a man rises early and works until the late hours of the night, making money, honestly of course, he is serving his God and his fellow man better than does the fellow who in indolence sits and whines about the greed of man in mak ing money. Poverty, young man, is no virtue. Some mighty good men have been poor, but i their poverty did not make them good., Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because he was poor, nor Dives to hell because he was rich. The fellow who does the most whining about the awful evil of money and of money getting the fellow who could not make the first payment on that prop erty if the court house was sold for a .dollar, to be-paid in four installments. We heard a man boast from tne pulpit a number of years ago that he had no home and thank God for his poverty and he actually declared that he wanted to remain poor. That man was not natur al, or he lied. God .nut in every man's breast the desire to accumulate, in fact made it a ruling passion, and so long as man does not abuse that attribute, Jie irlorifies his Creator in the exercise of it, The man who toils, who plans and uses nverv honest means to make money and here to do. Of course he will be held to strict account as to how he uses that money, but we are not speaking' of that just now. Monev and what money will buy is what we are an worKing tor. me i teacher may tell you that he likes his work- the nhvsician that he is interested in his practice, the author that he loves to write, the farmer that he takes'prids in his farm, but take away the hope of making monev and every teacher would walk out of the school room, the physi cian would leave his nraetice, the author would drop his pen, the farmer stop his nlow in the furrow, ave many sanctua ries of the living God would be deserted by the minister if the hope of monetary I n v Tfif pd were taken away. Not a jnoth- er's son of us works for the love of work J . -fc everlastingly tired to kSypUctrftSa VeflSw, wht is ,Znd salarv and wan-tin - a ae Iw " Jkioney has its nower and is a mighty good thing1 to have about you and no man, save a fool r the first water, is goin to denounce that friend in need, money. . ... . . Mone what a misrntv power it nasi j nauuiui LUiU1iaCu -" Tm. V. ;4-rr -nlnnac si cilrm a email j iv uj, i" " K - rite. 119 Fay handful of money, compassed the cruci fixion and death of the Holly Nazarene and sent to the cross' the .son of God, whose life for thirty-three years on earth had given to man the highest and grandest conceptions of life. And on the other hand money from, the hands of men has sent the gospel and has presented to the heathen world the life of Him whose character nas been for all the ages the model of good deeds and righteousness to the millions of earth. Money has gone into the famine and pestilent stricken portions of this earth from the hand of charity like an. angel of mercy sent from the courts of heaven, has bought food for the hungry and remedies for the sick, .a, you may decry the American's greed for money, but India is blessing the American dol lars which have gone to help her starv ing millions and every stricken spot of earth cries out to those who have been so fortunate as to make money. We may deplore the great power of wealth in the hands of few men and the rapid concentration of wealth in our land and pause to ask what the end is be and what will be the finel end of its power, but we are not discussing, that point. The individual and money is what we are talking about. You may rave i and rant about Rockefeller, the , dnder bilts and Rothchilds and what a menace to the governments such Treat concentra tion of wealth is, and vet if you could by some stroke of good fortune make your self as rich as all the multi-millionaires of earth combined you would be the rich est man on earth, and you know it. As to how much money a man can make Jhonestly1 we do not know. Sonw say that a million dollars cannot be made honestly by any man in a life time, but those who claim that have never, made a million. Others claim that a man can, by the proper exercise of judgment, make a million dollars honestly, they have made that amount, and there you are. Pat In Your Bible . (Exchange.) .... Here !s a handy table, furnished by The Christian, World, which it would be well to cut out or copy for reference ia your Bible studies: A day's journey was about twenty three .and one-fifth miles. A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile. - ... A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches. A hand's-breadth is,equal to three and five-eighths inches. - A finger's-breadth is equal to one inch "A sheckej of silver was about fifty, cents. A sheckel of gold was $8. A talent of silver was $538.30. A talent of gold was $X3,800. A pieee. of silver, or a penny, was th!iN teen cents. A farthing was three cents. . A mite was less than a quarter of 9 cent. A geraph was one cent. An epah, or bath, contained seven gal Ions and five pints. . , A bin was a gallon and two pints. An omer was -ix pints. 7 Aunt Marcia No, Ethel; I don't sea how you can ever trust a man again af ter he has once stolen even a kiss from you. A theft is a theftt " Ethel Why, yes, auntie; but there's honor among thieves, you know. Fhila- delphia Bulletin. MADE BY etteville Street ... ,; v
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