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* ¥ * wm. the 'Seu Francisco of Junuaty 2¢ 1904: SEESCUR AT SEA: Bg Fhe passepgers yesterday on e incoming Ocennle Steamship Mariposa were Captalo and wine south sea island. sebioner. North Star, eap- B84, longt f is ascribed do the care OF the Kanaka crew, who were ISU ut the moment the squall 'k the vgssel, which was lying be med with ber sails up. "contrived to perch themselves on sbip's bottom, and after four days Anteuse suffering were picked up by the AV. 11. Hall of (lis city, in lumber ir Sa Fiji. 'I'he Ball, in ber turn, | Aranst sd them to thé mail steamer, | 'which ves fortunately intercepted a week ater. "*Eaptaln Broughton cannot speak too highly of the extreme kinduess of Cap- fain ilnyward, Purser Smith, and the officers und passengers of the Mark ! pose toward Limself and bis crew. A | Concert was given In aid of tbe ship- | pected marivers, and the sum of lized on their bebalf. ar was of seventy-four H or, built at Bath, Me, in | 883, und car 8 . ! Seatoed from Captuin Broughton that Sghie hail been employed io the copra #yade for wang years, and was ou her yay 'to this port for drydocking and |! repairs. Western bound ship masters are warned to look out for the derelict, | Li was sul afoat when last | ss of {he North Star, together coin In the ship's safe, cost | full between $18,000 and $20,000. The wossel had not been Insured, owing to * 'the troublesome and prying questions | a that would bave been asked, which, if fruthfolly . answered, would have In- | atidated the policy. Had it not been | for the ruby ring on Lis finger and his portiun of (he small sum raised by tbe passengers of the Mariposa he would | {have Janded 1n San Francisco utterly niless. As it was bis crew and be ieame dependent on a seamen's char | ible institution. While others bad { and. telephoned and re | | Faving. " awspaper men and photogra- 'Shenk, It was tho Rev. John Thompsan, 'erisply English and bustlingly practl- eh], who descended on them, checked ' off their names in a notebook and led {them away like so many sheep. ! After a night under this kindly but Somewhat austere roof Matt sneaked | away*in the morning to try to pawn Abie ring. He hated to part with it, yet what else' was he to do? He had mo [even an overcoat, and here it was Jan- nary and ptercingly cold. He had noth- gng-not a toothbrush, not a spare 'shirt. . His chief preoccupation, however, 'spas more to avold being chested in '$he disposal of the ring, for, though be had little knowledge of Juwels, 'the 'stone seemed to him of unusual fire' | imba purity and evidestly was very val | 'fmable. | He determined to pik out the bigs gest and most fashiomable Jewelry. | and, explaining his position, ask | the favor of thelr expert advice. They | ight be obliging enough to tell him hat thegrem was worth and thus Ip. Bim materially. Matt knew San @eisce well and accordingly chose Snood & Hargreaves for his objective. "| oi Fis entrance, which be attempted to {Snake as inconspicuous as possible, © eafided an undercurrent of commotion | this shiendid establishment. As he used ut a case of napkin rings, nerv- & tilfuanl? for 8 further advance into ghttering stronghold, be was | ipod futo Ly a passing gentleman, ds he was receiving the apologies the passing gentleman a bund from dud feit for a possible revolver or 5b in bis rear pocket. It was all so ly and cooliy done that Matt bad y. time to realize he was under HN i#e. Imposing wirror gave him w, for there, at full length, he Lat a deeply tanned, wild haired, 'desperado he appeared and saw Afi the tall of his eye & scurry | some celebrity in the newspa The principal of Hoyt, a genial, fat old pever altogether sober, of New York and San Fra Drink had been his ruin, and hi pow doing reporter work for Manaswan paper, the.Banner, Sbab- by, jolly and always with a flower in | bis buttonbole and a pleasant (if often "We'll advance you $4,000 en it" He held me in very great esteem and made me a present of the ring on my departure." "He's a very rich man--this em ployer? "Oh, yes; very rich indeed." "Then you have no reason to doubt that this ring was--er--legitimately ac | quired? "No one who knew him could ever ! doubt that. Why, it would be utterly Incredible." | "You must pardon me for askipg these questions," went on Mr. in a kinder tone. "It's a good plan to be careful, you know. After all, it ts to your own Interest as well as ours, isn't 1? "Quite so," assented Matt, hoping that Mr. Snood would soon come to the ' point. "I'll tell you what I'll do," said the latter, hesitating and examining the ring again with evident admiration. | "Mind, I'm not saying you mightn't get a better offer elsewhere, but this is tho best Snood & Hargreaves can do for you. We'll advance you $4,000 on it at 7 per cent interest, and we'll engage to buy it outright, now or later, for $5,600." This was so much more than Matt bad ever dreamed of that he comid only gasp. Fifty-five hundred dollars} He had thought vaguely of a couple of thousand, trembling at his own pre- sumption. Fifty-five hundred dollars! Why, that was a fortune--not that be wished to sell the ring except in the lagt extremity, nor, as he bewlideringly considered the proposal, did he care to take so large an advance as $4,000. The interest charges would soon grow beyond his powers to meet them, and the ring would be irretrievably lost Explaining his .perplexities to Me. Snood, it was finally agreed that be avas 10 be advanced a thousand dob. fars only, with the privilege of selling the ring at any time he wished for the larger Sum. A little later he left the store with fifty twenty-dollar gold pleces weigh ing down bis pockets and the follow- ing memorandum pinned carefully in- side his waistcoat: San Francisco, Jan. 34, 1904 Messrs. Snood & Hargreaves hereby ao- knowledge the receipt of a solitaire ruby | ring, of an antique, oriental setting, from | its owner, Captain Matthew Broughtom, | who, In consideration of one thousand ($1,000) dollars advanced to him today by Messrs. 8. & H. on security of said ring, and receipt by Captain Broughton hereby | acknowledged, agrees to pay 8. & H. 7 per cent interest semiannually on sald loan. GEORGE H. BNOOD, For Bnood & Hargreaves. MATTHEW BROUGHTON. Matt returned to the windy street in far better spirits thau he had left it He had $1,000 in his pockets; $4,500 ! more to draw on if need be; and best | of all he could now "go home." It was a strange instinct that called him back to Manaswen, in the east, for thers | was not a single tle that bound him : to the place unless it were bis parents' graves. But alter years of wandering, | of contented axlle, of acquiescence in the life he had made for himself, something within him had at last re- volted. Homesick, heartsick, weary of palms and reefs and naked savages, | Mapaswan appeared to him as the so- lution of this subtle malady of the soul. At Manaswan a miracle would | happen, and he would be bappy. The first use he made of his money was to buy bis ticket. ; He gave the clergyman $500 to as sure the safe return of the natives to | thelr various islands; and that after noon the honest, devoted fellows, im charge of nine-year-old Master Thomp- son, accompanied him across the bay to cheer his departure on the Overland, | Standing there in a Mue of nine, mar | shaled by that little white boy, they presented a singular spectacle the platform, what with t Jostle of trunks and passengers _own eyes were (im as (be © | away, and there was a very r in his throat. Why wns he Mansswan while everything b 'behind him? Why was tnarticulate) word for everybody, Boys was ope of those irresistible nuisances who are popular when better men are oot. He never pald Mrs. Sattane more than half his bill; bis engagement with the Bapner was almost in the nature of alms to fallen greatness; the liquor fealers allowed bim to fine them am calculable number of bottles of whis- ky. Even the flower he was 80 par ticular about was vever paid for, exe sept by an amiable that Signor Tony Frendo perforce Flunter, Hoyt took an instant fancy to Matt snd in many ways, some of them pathetic enough, sought to win tis regard. In spite of his decadence there were often times when Hoyt could be both clever and entertaining. When with the right level of whisky in bis sodden old carcass he could re galn his former powers and astonish one with his mocking, humorous, brile Mant flow of talk. It was them that contempt changed to admiration, and intimacy followed. Except in regard to Jobn Mort, Matt kept back trom the old fellow, who was insatia-- ble lo his questions and as fascinated by the younger mian's past as any boy. Matt had po conception of what a picturesque figure be was to those wa. tery, bleared old eyes, mor how slime cerely Hunter Hoyt adored him. Ae for his own looks, he bad long ceased to give them much thought. At thirtye one most men have outgrown that He was scarcely aware that bis fine, sensi. tive face was recovering the eolor i had lost in the tropics or that his vig- orous frame and broad shoulders and wary, clustering black hair were like- ly to attract favorable attention. The key to bis whole character and the un derlying cause of bis charming mane ners could be found in the modest es» timate he had of himself. The princk pal endeavor of the naval academy i to teach the midshipman be is a pes son of very small Importance, who i8 to do what be is told, keep his mouth sant and respect the flag, and Matt bad not wholly outlived this youthful training which had been put in hig booes to stay. In contrast to Hunter Hoyt the rest of Mrs BSattane's boarders seemed commouplace indeed. Ono of them was too bumble a creature to eall him. soif 8 boarder af all Malt lived & week at Mrs. Sattane's before he even discovered the man's existence--a grave, elderly mulatto of a kindly, open face and ingratiating manners, who was scmething in the nature of the boarding house skeleton. His name was Daggancourt, a possible eorrup- tion of De Concourt-- Victor Daggan- court--who, although he paid $7 a week, while the others paid only $5, bad what might be called a furtive po- altion in the house. He would wait pnobtrusively about the porch until the rest had finished their meal, when a second tinkle of the bell would sum- mon him to the disordered table. Here color prejudice forbade that he should be served by Bridget, who placed the dishes near hig plate and left him to shift for himself. The sitting room was, of course, forbidden to him, though he might linger for a moment fn the doorway without impropriety and listen to the superior race. He wag the owner of a small garage and machine shop--*"Victor's garage" it was called--and was a widower without children : . «This is a bard world for a colored man, sir," he said once to Matt, "spe clally it he's better educated than the most of his race and is given to think- ing a little, like 1 do. The majority of them are no company for me, with thelr common ways and cheap ideasy and, of course, I am personum DOR grata to white folks. Here 1 am, stock middlewise between the two." .. _ 170 5g CONTINUED] -- SHARES $ OFFERS THE INVESTOR OPAL HARD TOZD This Compa {ORANGE = AND GEAP! section of Florida--a Grog hearing, some twenty odd failure. In addition acquiring a large acrea surrounding the grove thousand dollar to the and bear in mind that hops per annum. This is proven about it. The Company, was other and independent nf pany's project They: corporation management, The Company will Fad vere {No waiting for long d Harvard university is to bave a kin dergarten: After all, it is the little things In the world that count. Kansas Olty has established 'a night i of gardening. Some college may yet open & day class jo burglary, 0 dispateh Informs us that 3a. preseut crop on the trees does = Loni ga azar 8 ei