Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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UP AND AWAY IN THE MORNING- Ti'le’* at full: th« whv<- breaks wblte (Oh. upnml away ia tho morniug). Blue Is the blown grass, red is the height: - Washed with the sun the sail shines white (Oh, up and away in the morning). Wide is the world in the laughing sun (Oh, up and away in the morning). Work's to be done and wealth's to be won Ere a man turns home with the homing sun (Oh, up and away In the morning). Long is the heart's hope', long as the day (Oh, up and away in tne morning). Heart has its will and hand has its way Till the world rolls over and ends the day (Oh, up and away in the morning). It's home that we toil for all day long (Oh, up and away in the morning). Hand on the line and heart in the song, The labor of love will not seem long (Ob, up and away in the morning). —Charles O.D. Boberts. t Pirate and Whaler, i Q HY OKOBOK E. WALSH. f Wlien Captain Ned Low, one of the most formidable pirate leaders in Colonial days, committed his depreda- tioi.s along the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Panama, he took special delight in wreaking vengeance upon the crews and captains of New Lngland vessels. The reason for this is found in the accounts of his exploits by an old historian. The sturdy colonists would not permit him to perform his out rages without some sort of retaliation. So formidable a foe did they send after the noted pirate chief that more than once he was cornered and nearly cap tured. In June, 1723, Captain Low formed a partnership with a successful pirate of lesser note known as Charles Harris. The two uhited forces and directed theit energies toward the New England coast. They soon aroused such indignation in the New England coast towns that the warship Greyhound was sent out after the pirates, and, disguised as a merchant man, she soon fell in with the enemy. The warship was manned with twenty guns and one hundred and twenty men. When she sighted the pirates her captain pretended to be in great consternation, and the vessel stood away for two hours, with the pirates close at her heels. When Low and Harris were in gun shot the warship suddenly turned around and delivered several broad* sides into the chasing vessels. Dur ing the conflict which followed Cap tain Low escaped on his fleet vessel ; but Harris and his crew were captnred and hanged near Newport on July 10, ,1723. This incident created a feeling of relief and rejoicing throughout New England,-irtt it was of short duration. Instead of being frightened away by the fate of his partner and his crew, Captain Low increased his activity and soonred the seas after New Eng land vessels. At that time New England was send ing ont large fleets of whaling boats, and the sturdy, innocent seaman of these were bothered by the pirates probably more than any other class. They carried very little merchandise that was of any value to the pirates, but out of a sense of revenge Captain Low took special delight in destroying the whaling vessels and in setting their crews adrift in small boats or killing them. Matters went on this way for a few months, when the noted pirate chief either became frightened at the num ber of warships searchiug for him or he felt that he had been sufliciently revenged for the hanging of his part ner,for after the winter of 1723 there is no record to show that he ever again visited the American coast. His opera tions thereafter were confined chiefly to the African coast and among the Canaries and Cape Verde islands. But one incident of his career among the New England whalers be fore he left for southern waters will illustrate the plnck and ingenuity of the sturdy seagaeu of that day. The Carrie Bald, of Boston, sailed from that city manned with a crew of fifteen sailors, and after ten weeks of successful whaling she turned her prow toward home loaded down with blabber and whale oil. Her crew were in the best of spirits, anticipat ing large profits from their cargo and a hearty welcome home by their wives, children and sweethearts. On July 10th she sighted land, which proved to be a rocky headland on the Maine coast. With this guide-post telling the captain and cretr that they would be in Boston harbor in a few days everybody began to make pre parations for landing. Everything about the vessel was put ship-shape, and the old sailors even got their be longings together and packed them in bags and old sail-cloth. But before Mount Desert island was sighted a sail was seen heading toward the coaftt, standing np from the sea like a great, white cloud. Captain Bald of the Carrie grew anxious as the sail approached nearer and dis played a flag at the mizzen masthead which he could not make out. One reason for his running so far ashore had been to escape the notice of any piratical craft that might be cruising Up and down the coast. Most of the trading vessels stood well ont from the rocky Maine shore. Half an hour later Captain Bald felt reasonably snre that the approaching ' sail meant mischief, and that his whaler was in imminent danger. “We’ll rnn in a bit,” he remarked to his first mate. Long familiarity with the New Eng- lang coast now stood him in good ser vice. He ran his craft so close to the shore that it was dangerous for one not familiar with the channels to fol low. “It’s no use, Captain,” the first mate said after a long pause. “If that’s Captain Low he knows every inch of this water. He’s better ac quainted with this coast than any whaling captain from Portland to New Bedford.” “Well, if it ain’t Ned Low, we’ll give him a chase among these rocks that he won’t forget very soon,” re plied gruff Captain Bald, pulling his long whiskers nervouslyj In a short time the black flag of the pirates indicated even to the crew what mission the ship was bent on. There was a short time of general fear when si out hearts quaked and rugged faces turned pale. Every sailor knew the cruelty of the pirate captain and his horde of savages. Then Captain Bald called the crew together and addressed them in these words: “We may as well face this little difficulty bravely, my men, and not mince matters. Thut’s Ned Low's ship, and we know what he’s after; he never shows mercy to anybody, espe cially to a New Englander, and we’d better die fighting than be strung up to the yardarm or have our lips and noses cut off for a fry. We’ve got harpoons and axes aboard, and every one of ye knows how to use ’em. So just get ’em and stick together and tight until ye’re dead. Just remem ber that it’s better to be killed than to fall in Iheir hands. I’ll use my wits to get away from them, but if worst comes to worst, we must fight. That’s all.” The stout words of the grim old whaling captain lent new courage to the crew, and they gave a little cheer that meant more than the loud huzzah of a crowd. Every man felt that he was about to face death, and he was determined to do it with a brave front. Nearer and nearer approached the threatening boat, on whose decks black swarms of armed men could be seen. A small swivel gun sent a ball ricochetting across the waves toward the whaling schooner, but the latter continued to thread her way carefully among the »unken rocks. The pirate craft, when she reached the ontlying fringe of rocks, hove to and beat np and down like a duck uncertain which way to go. “It’s dangerous water here if you don’t know your way,” mattered Cap tain Bald, and I gness vou don’t know it,” He was scanning the ship through his sea glasses. “Aha! Now Captain Low takes the wheel. His pilot don’t know the way. Now we’re in for it!" There was a change noticeable on board the pirate. Then she directed her course once more toward the rocks and plunged boldly between them, following the narrow, tortuous chan nel. Captain Bald watched her in silence. Then his light bine eyes, shaded by thick, shaggy eyebrows, grew worried and restless. He scanned the sea and the shore, and then he returned his gaze to the pirate. “We can’t lose them here,” he said finally to his first mate. “They’ll overhaul us before night, and then—” He shuddered involuntarily. “We might run her aground and swim for the shore,” he ejaculated finally. “No, we’ll rnn her up the river. This is Maehias Point, and we might reach the river ahead of ’em. ” It was late in the afternoon when the Carrie sailed np the mouth of the river against a strong tide, with the pirate craft less than a mile astern. The coast at this point was bleak and deserted in those days; and it was al most as certain a death to land and desert the ship as to face the pirates. “still, we’ll do it,” Captain Bald said. “It’s better to fall among the Indians than among these human fiends. I’d rather be eaten by wolves than have my tongue and eyes gouged out.” The pirates were so certain of their prey now that their loud shouts could be distinctly heard by the whaling crew. Suddenly Captain Bald started, and, knowing that the best wav to keep his men brave was to find ej^iloy- ment for them, he gave orders quickly. “Get the whaleboats ready for action!” he shouted, There were four of these, two on either side, and each one was manned with a crew of three sailors, and an officer. When the men had unlashed them from the davits the captain shouted: “Form a water-bucket brigade for a fire in the hold!” , This strange order made some of the men hesitate, but explicit obedi ence in their captain’s words had be come a habit with them. When the men were in line armed with their buckets, Captain Bald went below and in a few minutes the men were passing the buckets from one to the other, emptying their contents first into one whaleboat and then into fire to • handling lie whale Ihigsheads it into the another. But there turht, and the men were water. They were dipp oil from the great tanks in the hold and pouring small boats. “Enough!” shouted the captain a little later. “Every man on deck!” The novelty of the orders made the men now obey with alacrity, and they had partly forgotten their danger in their exertions. But when they as sembled on deck again and saw the pirate only a short distance,off their faces paled once more. T But Captain Bald realized that the moment for action had come, and he gave his orders in quick, sharp com mands. “Lower the boats and tie them to gether with a rope twenty feet long!” He fastened one of the lengths of rope to the first boat himself, and threw the other end to the first mate. The pirates saw the launching of the four whaleboats, and prepared to do the same with their boats. But they little realized that the brave seamen were not making ready to escape to the shore, but were planning for their destruction. “I want four brave men who are wil ing to risk their lives for the rest of us,” Captain Bald said in his usual abrupt way. “Will you please step forward. ” Instead of four men every one of the crew stepped forward. “That’s enongh, my brave men,” the captain said, while his eyes grew moist. “I’ll select my men.” Then taking four of his most trust worthy sailors he gave them brief di rections what to do. The sailors nod ded their heads, and jumped into the beats, each carrying a life-preserver with him. The last words the captain said to them were: “Remember the right bank! Swim toward it and I’ll pick you up.” What could he mean? The sailors on board the Carrie asked this, and the pirates must have been curious also to know. They stopped a mo ment in their yelling and watched the peculiar proceedings of the men in the whaleboat. The four boats shot out from the Carrie and were rowed directly to ward the pirate, the strong current of the river helping them in their speed. The pirates did not notice at first that each boat was fastened by strong ropes to each other’s prows. They were too intent in watching the strange proceedings of this attack. It might have dawned upon their obtuse minds that part of the crew of the Carrie had deserted, or that they were com ing to plead for mercy. But the four rowers were silent and active. When they were wit yards of the pirate the men away their ciars simultaneously and bent over something in the middle of their whaleboats. There was a tiny spark of light, a flash and then a sud den upward blaze. The four brave men slipped over the side of their boats and disappeared, but the flames which they had started burned furiously. The whale oil in the bottom of the boats famished fuel that made a fire hard to extinguish. The tide was carrying the.boats rapidly down the river toward the pirate. Then for the first time the pirates noticed that the boats were tied together,forming a wide line stretch ing half across the river. Instantly there was a commotion on board the pirate ship. In the con fusion everybody forgot the prey they had so neatly hemmed in the river. The guns were aimed at the approach ing oil boats of fire, and one was actu ally blowu to pieces, but the oil floated on the water and only spread the flames. In a few minutes the fire boats struck the pirate ship, and the ropes holding them together drew the end boats around toward the ship in snch a way that flames were soon spreading through the rigging and hull. A few priates climbed down and cut the ropes, but before they floated away the ship was a huge mass of flames and smoke. Meantime Captain Bald had not been idle. Just as soon as his men dropped into the water from the fire- boats he crowded on all sail, and, helped by the tide, he went, bowling down the river close up toward the right bank. While the pirates were fighting the fire and trying to avett the dodm of their ship, Captain Bald was leisurely picking up his four brave sailors who hail caused the mischief. “Now we’ll stand out to sea,” he said, “and let ’em chase us again.” But the last he saw of the priates, as his schooner rounded the point of land at the mouth of the river, was a cheering sight. Most of them were' seeking safety in the water. For more than two hours a dense wreath of smoke could be seen curling up ward, and as long as it was visible Captain Bald chuckled softly to him self on the forward deck. “What wouldn’t Captain Low give to catch me?” he said over and over again. “He’d cook me alive and feed me to his men.” But no one was more joyful over the outcome of the encounter with the celebrated pirate chief thou the sailors of the Carrie, who ever afterward told with great glee how they helped to burn Ned Low’s best ship. No.m. Tblsquar- tersnwid oak writing dei-k la pol- iabed like a plana It baa a S-inch beveled plate slam in top and a deepdrawer below. Ar- tivtlo French leg»j also On if bed iu mahogany. $3.95 is our spec ial pi Ice for this HOdeak. (Mail orders filled promptly.) We will mail anyone, free of all chanre*. our new lit pyae Special Cata logue. containing Furniture, Dranerlea, Lamps, Stove-, Crockery. Mirrors, Pictures, tieddlnp, Refrigerators. Baby Carriages, eta T Is is tbe most com plete book over published, and we pay all tvostage Our lithographed Carpet Ca alogue. show! tg car|>eta in colors, la also yours for the asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mall us 8c. In damps. There is no reamn wbv you should pay your local dealer 80 per cent, profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a lino now to the money-save: a. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. SAW MILLS. A Blessing in Disguise. The Montgomery Advertiser says: “The Selma l imes, usually very cheer ful, gets blue and says that ‘with 5-cent cotton and dollar wheat staring us in the face the year 181)8 does not look hopeful to the South.’ “Of course, the situation is going to work some hardships, but the bulk of them will come from the lack of home- raised food supplies rather than the low price of cotton. Those farmers who have raised plenty of bread and meat are not lying awake nights worrying over 5-cent cotton or ways of getting along next year. “Looking at the situation from what we believe the true standpoint, the low price of cotton and the high price of br$ad constitue a most hopeful outlook for this section. The disadvantages and discomforts of the present are the stimalus that will bring about a happy future. The bulk of farmery aro not going to make the mistake next year they have just made. They are not going to plant the earth in cotton on the hazardous speculation of making a big crop, getting a fine price and using it to bay bread and meat with. They are going to set their pegs to raise a living at home and have some cotton as a surplus crop. “If cptton would stay at 5 cents for five years in succession it would be the greatest blessing conceiva! 1 < to the youth. It would educate our people out of their bad habits of all cotton raising and make the farmers money lenders instead of borrowers. The present situation is really most hope ful. It is a blessing in dngaise.” It you rood » ssw mill, any slue, writ* me hofor* buytuK elsewhere. I bavw the most complete line of mills ot any dealer or manufacturer in the SonUk. CORN MILLS. Very highest grade Stones, at unusuab ly low prices. WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY, Pinners, Moulders, Edger-, Ue-Saw>k band Saws, Laths, etc. ENGINES AND BOILERS, : Talbott and Liddell. Englelverg Itiee Huller, In stock, quick delivery, low prices. V. C. BADHAM. No. 1320 Main St, Columbia, 8. C. XVI a lie Home i Attractive! The mellow tone of a good Piano or Organ will 'efresh and rest the parents, amuse the Inldreu and keep ihem at home. Do you " ant one? 1 him prepared to supply >ihi vJUi lie most desirable P.ano or Organ the mar. kei a (fords. Don’t say you can’t afford ?*_. intil you know my liberal terms and low ■ T'ces. Only a postal card Is ne, essary to ask >ne for catalogue, terms and prices. Addraatt M. A. Malone, COLUMBIA, - SOUTH CAROLINA. C ONVERSE COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, eiiarlanburg, •. HARLESTON COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, t'harlealen, K. <\ , equipped and most un-tu- late BUSINESS COLLEGE In the St.kt ore positions open to our graduates than w* ■m nil. Write at once for catalogue. fl- W. f.K rr>i\Ublt. Business Msnager, partaubiirg, ....... s. A Beautiful Sight. A Detroit philosopher says that ab solute confidence and trust between man and wife Is the most beautiful thing ia the world to observe, and then be goes on to state that the most per fect illustration of it can be had by watching the expression on the faces of a man and his better half when the arrives at the depot from her summit trip purposely one day earlier than sho telegraphed she would arrive, and finds him there watching to. see if she came In. Child Sent by Post. A novel parcel for delivery by express post was recently handed In at a Bir mingham postofflee. A workingman, who had been out of town with his 3-year-old child, arrived at Birmingham in time to reach his place of business, but not In sufficient time to take bis child home. He therefore walked Into the nearest postofflee and tendered the youngster as an express parcel. The authorities, under the rule regulating the delivery of live animals, accepted the child and delivered it at a charge of ninepence.—St. James’ Gazette. “Rust,” the dread of the cotton grower, can be prevented. Trials at Experiment Stations and the experience of leading growers prove positively that Kainit is the only remedy, We will be glad to send, free of charge, interesting and useful pamphlets which treat of the matter in detail. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nusan St., New York. ALABAMA TO THE FRONT. fjQ. COLD-BREAKERS WILL CURE YOUR COLD In 8 to U hours. 28C. fl BOX at Druggists or THE COLD-BREAKER CO., AIKEN, - . 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