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Running the
Blockade
By DONALD CHAMBERLIN
THURSDAY DECEMBER 10. 1914.
“Stop all durn Ki-o-tee howling,
Chaw some sand and git some grit;
Don’t sit in the dumps a-growlin’,
Jump the roost and boost a bit.”
—McClary’s Wireless.
Darn It AIL
The Regional Reserve banks opened
recently and floaling around the coun
try somewhere are about 9400,000,000
in emergency currency—that
if we have the dope right. That would
make about four dollars for every man
woman and child in the country. All
this is in addition to the money that
was alleged to be in circulation before
the regional banks opened. Now we
have been looking forward to the
release of all this money, expecting
that we would, of course, get our four
dollars. But where is it? We said
nothing about this last week because
we wanted to give William McAdoo
and Paul Warburg a chance to get on
Met and attend to the distribution.
But two or three weeks have gone
by and yet there is nothing doing
This places us in an embarassing posi
tion. We had learned that the Rock
Island Railway was to have-been put
up for aale at auction and we expected
to be able to buy it. Now look at the
hole we are in! Any day they may
decide to put up the railway and here
we are without our four dollars. We
have made up our mind to one thing.
If William McAdoo ever runs for pres
ident, we will refuse to support him
and will leave him flat on his back.
‘‘Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Here we have been planning to buy
some new type and machinery as soon
as times get better and our dear delin
quent subscribers come across with the
shining simoleons, when lo and be
hold! one of our exchanges announces
that its “office is equip*ped with all the
up-to-date type and printing machin
ery.”
One of the worst errors we have
come across in several moons appeared
in the esteemed News and Courier
Monday morning, the headlines to the
announcement of a marriage reading as
follows: “Timmonsville Marriage:
Miss and Mr
Dead.”
“The British Government is trying to
make young Englishmen marry before
they go to war. The idea would be to
make them desperate.”—News and
Courier. This scribe has evidently
been attacking a Charleston waffle
made during the absence of the cook.
Judging from the number of pistols
fired here when a fire “breaks out,”
there are numbers of men who, like
Italy, are maintaining armed neutra
lity.
Of all the unpronounceable names
that we have seen so far in connection
with the little unpleasantness across
the pond, Szczerczow takes the cake.
“King Comes Back from Battle Line.”
—Headline. Well, that’s more than
some steen hundred thousands of pri
vates are going to da
Many farmers in this section will have
tnongh hog and hominy neat year to
thefr own wants and some to
Port BoyaL South Carolina, is S fine
harbor. In that region are many is
lands lying between the mainland and
the ocean on which la produced what
.Is called sea island cotton, an article of
very superior grade. When the war be
tween the states opened and the south
ern ports were blockaded this was a
favorite point for running the blockade
with cargoes of this valuable cotton.
Where It was grown it was worthless;
beyond the Yankee blockading squad
ron it was often-worth more than a
dollar a pound.
The United States government sent
a naval and military force to Port Roy
al to occupy the harbor, and adjoining
the Islands, some fifteen or twenty
miles from the mouth of the harbor, is
the town of Beaufort, and one day
during the early part of the war a
steamer lay at the wharf taking on cot
ton. A man on the deck was watching
a gang of negroes rolling the bales
aboard. A long, thin man with- lean
cheeks and a tuft of beard on his chin
and wearing a butternut suit came
sauntering along and stood looking at
the loading.
“Are yo’ the cap'n o’ this hyer ship?"
be said to the man on deck.
“I am.”
“I’m lookin’ fur trnnspo’tntion. 1
want to git out o’ thla dod rotted.
Yankee ridden country. I’ve sold out
my little plantation and put the money
into cotton. I got twenty bales.”
“Don't you know that the Lincoln
government won't let any cotton leave
the Confederacy?”
“You don’t say sor
“Yea. I’ll take your cotton for you.
hot there’s a big chance of Its being
captured by a Yankee gunboat lying
off the mouth of the harbor. If so It
will be confiscated.”
“Waal, now, I reckon that’s Inter
ferin' with a man's nnferal rights.”
“But If you git It through. If It’s
sen Island cotton, you'll make a small
fortune out of It”
“Welir
“If yo’ want to take the risk I’ll
carry It for you for 20 per cent of what
yo’ sell It for."
“Yo' goln’ to carry over this what
yo’ tnkln’ a bon’d 7”
“I’m goln’ to try.”
“I’m nfeard I motight lose my cot
ton.”
“In that case yo’ bette’ not risk It"
“But yo' say yo' goln’ to risk It with
yo’ cotton.”
"I am.”
"What yo’ paintin’ yo’ ship that colo’
fo’r
“That’s the color of a fog. I shall
not go to sea till I can git a misty
night That gray paint is exactly the
shade of a misty mo'nlng Just befo’
day."
A bargain was struck between the
two. the captain agreeing to take the
lean man and his cotton to England
for 20 per cent of Its value In Liver
pool provided the blockade could be
run safely. The twenty bales were
taken to the wharf and rolled aboard.
The owner remained ashore till a fog
gy night should enable the ship to get
to sea. there being five chances of
success to one of capture.
Finally an east wind brought In
mnrky weather, and the captain told
hla passenger that there was a pros
pect of her getting out early the next
morning. Tbs latter went aboard wltb
his baggage, a balr trunk, a bandbox
and a leather case evidently contain
ing a musical instrument But the
captain, who was busy superintending
getting the ship off. bad no time to
inspect the passenger's baggage.
8teaming down on to the broader
waters the ship cast anchor between
two Confederate forts on either shore
to wait for an opportunity. There were
considerable wind and rain during the
night, but nothing to conceal a ship.
About 7 o’clock In the morning the
wind lulled and a dense fog settled
down. The captain concluded to try to
slip out betweeu the gunboats outside
the harbor. Just before the fog shut
everything from view be took his bear
lugs from bis compass and, with speed
only snffleient for steerage way, aided
by an outgoing tide, drifted to the bar
bor’s mouth.
On passing out a dim hulk appeared
on his port quarter. He knew that it
was a blockader, but he bad the ad
vantage of his ship’s being the color of
the mist and he passed safely. Half
an hour passed, and he was congratu
lating himself on having cleared the
blockading sblpe, when from below
there arose the resonant sound of a bu
gle. Dashing down the companion-
way, he followed the sound, which led
him to his passenger’s stateroom. The
man was practicing on a cornet The
captain with a blow sent It scurrying
ho the floor.
“You Idiot P’ he exclaimed. "What
«o you mean r
"What do yo* mean yo’self? 1 al
ways practice at this time o’ the morn-
In’."
"Fool! Do you want to lose your
cotton f*
Through a porthole they beard "Ship
ahoy!” then “Heave tor and the
captain knew It was all over. They
were la possession of a Yankee gun
boat
The lean man waa a Connecticut
Yankee, and his prise money for hla
fervfcea amoonted to 910000a Hq bed
V*
tart to ‘prevent blockade ruflnthg
had heart famished wltb mesne that
enabled him te carry out fals pwpoes
In hla ewm way.
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