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Freights Br W. W. JACOBS False Colors (Copyright, Oodd, MMMJ Compeey.) "JOf course, there is a deal of bully­ ing done at sea at tiroes," said the night-watchman, thoughtfully. "The .men call It bullying an' the officers call it discipline, but it's the same thing under another name. Still, it's fair in a way. It gets passed on from on® tc another. Everybody aboard a'most has got somebody to bully, ex­ cept, perhaps, the boy; he 'as the worst of it, unless ho can manage to jjet the ship's cat by it so if occasion­ ally- "I remember, * good many years Ago new, I was lying at Calcutta one time in the Peewit, as fine a bark as you'd wish to see, an' we 'ad a fust mate there as was a disgrace to 'is sects. A nasty, bullying, violent man, who used to call the hands names as they didn't know the meanings of and what was no use looking in the dictionary for. "There was one chap aboard, Bill Cousins, as he used to make a par- tikler mark of. Bill 'ad the misfortln to 'ave red 'air, and the way the mate used to throw that in 'is face was disgraceful. Fortunately for us all, the skipper was a very decent sort of man, so that the mate was only at Is worst when he wasn't by. "We was sitting in the fo'c's'le at tea one arternoon, when Bill Cousins eame down, an' we see at once 'e'd 'ad a turn with the mate. He sat all t>y hisself for some time simmering, an' then he broke out. 'One o' these <dayB I'H awing for 'im; mark my words.* "'Dont be a fool, Bill,' see Joe Smith. " 'If I could on'y mark 'im,' sea Bill, catching his breath. 'Just mark Mm fair an' square. If I could on'y 'ave Mm alone for ten minutes, with no­ body standing by to see fair play. But «' cource, if I 'It 'im it'a mutiny.' " 'You couldn't do it if it wasn't, tiilV ses Joe Smith again. " 'He walks about the town as though the place belongs to 'lm,' said Ted Hill. 'Most of us is satisfied to Bhove the niggers out o' the way, trat he ups fist and 'its 'em if they comes within a yard of 'Im.' *"Why don't they 'it 'im back?' sea Bill. 'I would if I was them.' "Joe Smith grunted. Well, Why don't you?' he asked. ""Cos I ain't a nigger,' ses Bill. "•Well, but you might be,' sea Joe, very softly., 'Black your face an' *aods an' legs, and dress up in them cotton things, and go ashore and get In 'Is way.' "'If yon will, I will, Bill,' sea a chap called Bob Pullin. "Well, Bill was a bit flattered, the carpenter being a very superior sort of a man, and quite an artist in 'is way, an' Bill sat down an' let 'im do 'lm with some stuff out of a can that made 'im look like a Hindoo what 'ad been polished. Then Bob Pullin was done too, an' when they'd got their turblns on, the change in their appearance was wonderful. "Well, the two of 'em went ashore arter dark with the best wishes o' all on board, an' the rest of us sat tig Made Im Look Like a Hindoo. down in the fo'c's'le spekerlating as to what soft o' time the mate was goin' to 'ave. He went ashore all right, because Ted Hill see 'im go, an* he noticed with partikler pleas- «uy that he was dressed very careful. "It must ha' been near 11 o'clock. ( was sitting with Smith on the port side o' the galley, when we heard a 'abbub approaching the ship. It was the mate just coming aboard. He was without Is 'at; 'is necktie was twist­ ed round 'is ear, and 'is shirt and 'is collar was all torn to shreds. The sec­ ond and third officers ran up to him to see what was the matter, and while he was telling them, up comes the skipper. " 'You don't mean to tell me, Mr. Flngall,' ses the skipper, in surprise, that you've been knocked down like that by them mild and meek Hin­ doos?1 'Hindoos; «UT roared the mate. 'Cert'n'y not, sir. rve been assaulted like this by five German sailor-men. And I licked 'em all.' • 0 » t h e m a t e ' s p r i d e . ' s e s t h e o a r - penter. *He didn't like being knocked about by Hindoos.' "We thought It was that, but we had to wait nearly another hour afore the two eame aboard, to make sure. There was a difference in the way they came aboard, too, from that of the mate. They didn't make no noise, and the fust thing we knew of their coming aboard was seeing a bare, blacS feet graving feebly at top of the floWsfte ladder feelin* for the step. " 'Well, you done it, Bill,' ses Joe, after waiting a long time for them to gpeak. 'Tell us all about It.' "'Nothln' to tell,' ses Bill, very surly. 'Wo knocked 'lm about.' '"And he knocked us about,' ses Bob, with a groan. 'I'm sore all over, and as for my feet--* " 'Wot's the matter with them?' ses Joe. " Trod on,' sea Bob, Very short. If my bare feet was trod on once they was a dozen times. I've never 'ad such a doing in all my lifet He fought like a devil, I thought he'd ha' mur­ dered Bill.' V " r wish 'e 'ad,' sea Bill, with a groan; 'my face 1? bruised and cut abcit cruel. I can't bear to touch it.' * 'Do you mean to say the two of yo'i couldn't settle 'im?' ses Joe, star­ ing. '"I mean to say we got a hiding,' ses Bill. 'We got close to him fust start off find got our feet trod on. Arter that it was like fighting a wind­ mill, with sledge hammers for sails.' "I was awoke rather early in the morning by the sounds of somebody talking to themselves, and a little splashing of water. It seemed to go on a long while, and at last I leaned out of my bunk and see Bill bending over a bucket and washing himself and using bad langwldge. '"Wot's the matter, Bill?' ses Joe, yawning and sitting up in bed. " 'My skin's that tender, I can hardly touch it,' ses Bill, bending down and rinsing 'is face. 'Is It all orf?' "'Orf?' ses Joe; 'no, o' course it ain't. Why don't you use some soap?" "'Soap?' answers Bill, mad-like; 'why, I've used more soap than I've used for six months in the ordinary way.' " 'That's no good,' aes Joe; 'give yourself a good wash.' " 'Well, the carpenter put It on,' ses a voice, 'make 'im take it orf.* " 'I don't believe as there's any­ thing will touch it,' he says, at last. 'I forgot all about that.' " 'Do you mean to say,' bawls Bill, 'that we've got to be black all the rest of our lifer '"Cert'nly not,' aes the carpenter, Indignantly, 'it'll wear off in time; shaving every morning *11 'elp it, I should say.' "'I'll get my razor now,' ses Bill, in a awful voice; 'don't let 'im go, Bob. I'll 'ack 'is head orf.' " 'It's no good, I tell you,' ses the carpenter, 'it's the most lasting black I know. If I told you how much that stuff is a can, you wouldn't believe me.' " 'You see, it's this way, BIO,' aes Joe, soft-like. 'As soon as the mate sees you there'll be trouble for all of us.' "'For all of us,' repeats Bill, nod­ ding. "'Whereas,' ses Joe. looking 'round for support, 'if we gets up a little collection for you and you should find it convenient to desart.* "' 'Ear, 'ear,' ses a lot O* voices. 'Bravo, Joe.' "'Oh', desart is it?" ses Bill; 'an* where are we goln' to desart to?* " 'Well, that we leave to you,' ses Joe; 'there's many a ship short-'anded as would be glad to pick'up sich a couple of prime sailor-men as you an' Bob.' "'Ah, an' wot about our black faces?' ses Bill, still In the same sneering, ungrateful sort o' voice. '"Ship as nigger cooks,' aes Joe, slapping his knee and looking 'round triumphant. "The mate'U half murder 'em,' ses Ted Hill. "'He'll 'ave 'em sent to Jail' that's wot he'll do,' ses Smith. 'It's a seri­ ous matter to go ashore and commit assault and battery on the mate.' " 'You're all in It,' ses the voice o' Bill from the floor. 'I'm going to make a clean breast of it Joe Smith put us up to it, the carpenter blacked us, and the others encouraged us.' "A'moat the fust person we see on deck was the mate, an' a pretty sight he was. He'd got a bandage 'round 'is left eye, and a black ring 'round the other. His nose was swelled and his lip cut, but the other officers were making slch a fuss over 'im, that I think he rather gloried in it than oth­ erwise. '"Where's them other two 'ands?' he ses, by and by, glaring out of 'is black eye. "'Down below, sit, I b'lieve,' ses the carpenter, all of a tremble. " 'Go an' send 'em up,' ses the mate to Smith. " 'Yessir,' ses Joe, without moving. " 'Well, go on, then,' roars the mate. " 'They ain't over and above well, air, this morning,' ses Joe. "'Send 'em ufr, confound you,' ses the mate, limping towards 'lm. "Well, Joe give 'is shoulders a 'elp- less sort b' shrug and walked forward and bawled down the fo'c's'le. # «"They're comin", sir, 'he ses, walk­ ing back to the mate Just as the skip­ per came out of 'is cabin. "We all went on with our work as 'ard as we knew 'ow. The skipper was talking to the mate about 'ia injuries, and saying unkind things about Germans, when he give a sort of a shout and staggered back star­ ing. We just looked 'round, and there was them two blackamoors coming slowly towards us. "Good heavens, Mr. Flngall,' ses the old man. *What's this?* "I never saw such a look on any man's face as I saw on the mate's then. Three times 'e opened 'is mouth to speak, and shot it ag'in without saying anything. The veins on 'is forehead swelled up tremen­ dous and 'is cheeks was all blown out purple. " That's Bill Cousins' hair,' ses the skipper to himself. It's Bill Cousins' hair. It's Bill Cous--' "Bob walked up to him, with Bill lagging a little way behind, and then he stops Just in front of 'Im and fstctum up a sort & Bttto smite, • • ;-W. .. • " 'Don't you make those faces at me, sir,' roars the skipper. 'What do you mean by it? What have you been doing to yourselves?" " 'Nothin', air,' ses Bill, 'umbly; 'it was done to us.' "The carpenter, who was Just going to cooper up a cask which *ad start­ ed a bit, shook like a leaf, and gave Bill a look that would ha* melted a stone. '"Who did it?' ses the skipper. " 'We'se been the wictims of a cruel outrage, sir,' ses Bill, doing all 'e could to avoid the mate's eye, which wouldn't be avoided, " 'So I should think,' sea the skip­ per. 'You've been knocked about, too.' " 'Yessir,' ses Bill, very respectful; 'me and Bob Was ashore last night, sir, just for a quiet look 'round, when we was set on to by five furriners.' "'What?' ses the skipper; and I won't repeat what the mate said. " 'We fought 'em as long as we could, sir,' sea Bill, 'then we was both N E W S O F I L L I N O I S An' a Pret^jjr 8ight He Waa. knocked senseless, and when we came to ourselves we was messed up like this 'ere.' "What sort o' men were they?" asked the skipper, getting excited. " 'Sailor-men, sir,* ses Bob, putting in his spoke. 'Dutchies or Germans, or something o', that sort.' " 'Was there one tall man, with fair beard,' ses the skipper, getting more and more excited. "'Yessir,' sea Bill, in a surprised sort o' voice. " 'Same gang,' sea the skipper. 'Same gang as knocked Mr. Flngall about, you may depend upon It. Mr. Flngall, it's a mercy for you you didn't get your face blacked, too.' "I thought the mate would ha* burst. I can't understand how any man could swell as he swelled with­ out bursting. "1 don't belief* a word of tt,' he ses, at last. " 'Why not?' ses the skipper, sharply. " 'Well, I don't,' ses the mate, his voice trembling with passion. 'I feve my reasons.' "'I s'pose you don't think these two poor fellows went and blacked themselves for fun* do you?' ses the skipper. "The mate couldn't answer. " 'And then went and knocked them­ selves about for more fun?* aes the skipper, very sarcastic. "The mate didn't answer. He looked 'round helpless like, and see the third officer swopping glances with the second, and all the men look­ ing sly and amused, and I think if ever a man saw 'e was done 'e did at that moment. "He turned away and went below, and the skipper arter reading Us all a little lecture on getting into fights without reason, sent the two chaps below ag'in and told 'em to turn in and rest. He Mj^as so good to 'em all the way 'ome, and took sich a interest in seeing 'em change from black to brown and from light brown to spot­ ted lemon, that the mate daren't do nothing to them, but gave us their share of what he owed them, as well as an extra dose of our own." FEW LEFT-HANDED BARBERS. Can Do Just as' Efficient Work, But Peculiarity Makes for Awkward- neas in Shop. Of course, left-handed persons are scarce any way, said the man who carries his habits of observation even into the barber's chair, but they are mighty scarce among barbers; in fact, I have seen but two or three in my experience. But you are sure to notice it when you do find one. He does just as effi­ cient work, but it 1b the way he does it that attracts your notice. The barber, as a rule, stands at the right of the customer while shaving him, making little trips to the back and to the left only when necessary. Naturally, I suppose, the left-handed barber does just the opposite; he stands most of the time at your left. For that reason you won't find a left-handed barber in the middle of a line of barbers. His chair has 4« stand at one end or the other so that h* won't bump into the right-handed one next to him. Like most left-handed persons, his right hand is more dexterous than the left hand of right-handed persons us­ ually is. He shaves you with either hand, but prefers the left. He strops a razor just as a right-handed one does, however, and that is atyout the only point of similarity. 1 SAVING PAINT MONEY Largest University. Cairo has the biggest university In the world. There are about 9,000 stu­ dents and 200 professors. The chief subjects taught are MohaisdB&dan law and matters connected with tJhi ,, •% -h' Chicago.--William O. Clark of Dry- town, Cal., for 75 years.a leader in the temperance movement, called at pro­ hibition tieautiua iters in Chicago, aad issued a challenge as follows: "1 here­ by challenge to debate on the question of prohibition any advocate of license or the liquor traffic of my own age who has been known to be up to his , ninety-second year, a lifelong 'moder­ ate' drinker and user of intoxicants. I stand ready to meet such a champion pf whisky, at any plaee which may be chosen." Kankakee.--Edgar Geitzch, a Chi­ cago patient being, brought to the Illinois Eastern Insane hospital with a party from Chlc&go in charge of F. J. Allen and F. M. Martin, Of the sheriff's office, jumped from a train going 30 miles an hour near Riverdale. Geitzch was picked up unconscious and was still in that condition upon the arrival of the train here. Geitzch's act was a complete surprise. He suddenly ran to the door of the car and in a moment had leaped from the car platform. Springfield.--Attorneys for Rev. James R. Kaye, the former Oak Park minister who was convicted in the United States district court in this city last May on a charge of counter­ feiting, have succeeded in getting his case continued in the United States court of appeals in Chicago. The time was given by the court to allow the defendant's attorneys to file briefs in the case. Chicago.--The appeal of John R. Walsh from the conviction and five years' sentence in the United States district court before Judge A. B. An­ derson. for alleged misapplication of the Chicago National bank's funds, will not be argued in the United States circuit court of appeals until May 20. The original date set for the a r g u m e n t s w a s M a y I I . Ziegler.--Miss Mary Mattes made efforts to collect on the judgment for $25,000 granted in her suit against Hugh Crabbe of Chicago, former con­ fidential secretary for the Letter es­ tate, for breach of promise to marry The girl denies that she will spent the money on a iioneymoon trip t: Europe and says that she will use it in starting a business in Ziegler. Jerseyville.--A petition was filed iu the Jersey county court at Jerseyville, prayfng that the local option election held in Jersey township April 6, be set aside and declared null and void. The petition is signed by William H. Beecker, Ed Burns and George H. Haushalter, Jerseyville saloonists, and August F. Mitzel and John M. Shortal, also of Jerseyville. Anna.--The dedicatory ceremonies at Psycopathic hospital building at the Illinois Southern Hospital for in­ sane, were largely attended. Gov. Charles S. Deneen arrived from Cairo, having addressed a deep-water­ way meeting of the Commercial club. He spoke on "The Charities of 111! nois." Paxton.--William V MacGill, secre­ tary of the Red Cross Company, has been in the city several days settling up the affairs of Royal E. Hutchens, who sold about 45 outfits and paid the company nothing. MacGill swore out a warrant for Hutchens' arrest charg­ ing him with embezzlement and grand larceny. Lovington.--Three hundred sat down at the banquet given by the business men of the town, "to certifl cate holders, stockholders and min­ ers" at the Lovington Coal Company The tables were spread in Red Men's hall.. The event was in celebra­ tion of the recent coal find. Joliet.:--Hanging head downward from his buggy, the body of Joseph Lawlor, 45 years old, a prominent farmer of Manhattan, was found by C. K. Smalley and D. C. Matheny just over the I. I. & M. tracks in the Joliet- Manhattan road, about a quarter of a mile northwest of the village. Robinson.--Gov. Deneen issued a requisition upon the governor of Indi­ ana for the return of Chesley Lockett, wanted at Robinson, on a charge of robbery. Lockett was under arrest at Evansvllle, Ind. He Is said to have robbed George Ward of $10 at Rob­ inson. Chicago.--Lives of two well-dressed women and a cab driver were saved when Henry A. Joyce, driver of truck No. 31, 2724 Wallace street, at the risk of his own life, stopped a run­ away horse attached to the vehicle of which the women and driver were oc­ cupants. Onarga.--L. J. Riser, president of the Iroquois Canning Company of Onarga, was taken ill on the street in New York and died In a hospital shortly after he had been taken there. Heart disease was given as the cause of the death. Pana.--J. F. Hargraves of Hillsboro has purchased 12 acres of land from Fred Fiken of Rosemond township and will immediately commence sink* ing a coal shaft on same. The land lies near the town of Rosemond, four miles west of Pana. Springfield.--Plana for installing a poultry fattening plant in this city were discussed at the chamber of commerce rooms by a joint committee af the chamber of commerce and the Sangamon County Poultry association. Springfield.--The Illinois supreme court has granted a stay of execution until May 7 in the case of David An- derson, who was convicted of the mur­ der of Policeman Michael Callaghan and sentenced to die Friday. Bloomington.--John Louis Orendorff, the first white child born in McLean county, died, aged 87. He-> was the best-known pioneer of central Illinois. Springfield.--At the arsenal build* lng the Illinois State Museum of Nat? ural History gave the first public view of a newly mounted group of deer which has just been added to the museum as one of its chief treasures. Pana.--Mattoon presbytery was held feere with about ninety delegates pres­ ent. The opening address was given by Past Moderator Rev. A. H, Brown of Toledo, 111. Elgin.--Alfred W. Craven, lawyer, with offices at 204 Dearborn street. Chicago, was elected president of the H Cannot Be Done by Using Cheajr Material and Cheap Painthrs. In arranging for painting, a good many property-owners try to save money by employing the painter who Offers to do the job cheapest--or try to save money by insisting on a low- priced paint. But no property-owner would run such risks if he realized what must be taken into considera­ tion in order to get a job that will wear and give thorough satisfaction. 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