The Beaverton enterprise., May 13, 1927, Page 4, Image 4

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I. T H I S
GENERATION
YOUNGER
su y event, he rem a ined erect at hi-
post, an d th e S hark continued to gild- When Giand-pa was a high school
down th e e n ti ince o f th e idiannel.
!ad
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And now, s t this second miss,
Way back in Sixty-two,
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realized. for the first time, th a t tie He sorely vexed hu poor <<M dad ?
n egro’s w as not the only life In dan
By things he used to do.
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ger. T h e c a p ta in ’s d a rk face turn*'«
He used to smoke and even play £
actually livid, a n d q u 'ck as a flash I,,
pool
whipped a pistol from his belt anil lev­
His
conscience
never pained £
eled It at my head. “ Von kill tfca
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man on y our next shot." he said In i
And smoked instead of going to w
tone of the most d rea dful an d omlrtoii
school!
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calm, “or so help Tne Hod. I’ll scatt«
your brnlns over this deck.”
Great grandpa thus arrainged J
At th e sam e liisfuni P u rf o rd hande.
him.
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me my rllle. Once more I «Implied B
(Chorus)
my k n e e ; once m ore I took a morion:
to c a lc u la te distance, velocity- of vviml. ’This younger generation
the allow ance thut rt.n t he m a d e f«
Is going to rack and ruin.
* the different angles a t which vv-
They’re headed for damnation,
sailed; und then, acco rd in g to n r
They don't know what they’l
custom, I banished from m.v mind a!
doin'!!
thoughts of ships, of aen Hnd shy. ane
of ev e ry th in g In the world suve that But Grand-pa came to man's estate
When time had duly flow n;
broad brown b-ick, gleam ing In th«
sun, s a d forming, a g a in st th e back­ i Got broad of paunch and bald of
ground of the w hite m ainsail, a mag
pate
nlflcent t a r g e t “ Ills life or rn'iie.” '
And two kids of his own.
th ought grimly, and presse d th e trig
ger. T h is tim e th e re was no m i - With yells he made the whole house
rock
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[lease; sim u lta n eo u sly w ith th e rep«iri
And reason he had plenty.
the n eg ro 's h an d s loosened th e ir grl|
, on the wheel, his a r m s Hew upwaril
The kills stayed out 'till ten o’clock
and then In a crum pled h e a p he slh
And they w e r e not quite t-M -x* “X “:“XX''XXX“X>':'':»XY':''XX“XXX'':'':''i'X">'XxxW “XX“X''H.j
headlong down the deck.
twenty!
“ Well s h o t! " r o u n d th e capta'i.
(Chorus)
“ Well shot, my b u lly !”
And then
savagely and exultantly, ‘W'uvv lei Now dad's wild oats have all been
them Hn<! th e c h a n n e l ; they won''
sown
have tw o men on b oard th a t know Ii
And reaped, aye, long ago.
In five m inutes by my w atch, th e y ’l He’s found a wife and settled down
be agro u n d "
And has a son named Joe.
He did n >! e x a g g e r a t e ; In fact, thi N'ow dad’s a pillar of the church
But doubts and fears assail
c a ta s tr o p h e occurred sooner th a n any
him.
one anticipate«!. T h e r e w as confusloi
on the decks of <ur a n t a g o n i s t ; n< Lest J*>e the family name besmirch
one, I d a re say, In view of w h a t he.
When for some crime they
jail him!
Just huppened, ca re d to he th e nexi
to stuiul a trick at the wheel, lirlvei
'X -'X X X X X X '^X H 'X X '4 ■H "K “H " K 4,T
• • ♦ ♦ <~X~X~;- d
(Chorus)
with good headw ay, and with Just suf
Old Noah sang the same old song
flclent d epth of w a te r not to checl
Before he built the ark,
her too s<M>n. we saw her bow list
If Ham did not take dad along
suddenly, follow* d hy half th e lengtl
And stayed 'till after dark.
of h e r h u ll; then, all h ea dw ay ceas
Mayhap his stout heart quaked the
lug, she hung poised for an in sta n t
while
settled slowly to leeward, und th e n
The fear he pondered over,
hung fast.
,
That he might lose, thru boyish wile,
T h e c a p ta in ’s face w as transfigure',
His stand-in with Jehovah!
STORES
with an unholy Joy. "Look at her?’
STORKS
No. 1, 104 4th St.
(Chorus)
he cried. “Look at h e r ! H e r s ta r
No. 0, 1453 Sandy
No. 2, 151 Gra-nd Ave.
board guns pointed at the bottom of
Lewis T. Poole ’29
No. 7, 1069 Division
No. 3. 1043 Belmont
the sea, und her port guns p ointe d a:
Say it with Flowei
Cut Flowers, Pot Plants ¡ q |
fine Variety
Co
TERWILLIGER GREENHOUS)
Terwilliger Boulevard
tin* S hark, and at once o rdered the
SYNOPSIS
w hite Hag. with Hie sabl# p a n th e r , to
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be displayed at the peak.
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in i'i New j.r -
Presently, however, the wind In
r»> vlllaK of
M .1 u !i in the year
1 » 4II, KU l.anl tiu iU a y , wHu telili the creased to a s te ad y whole-sail bree/.e,
■lory. U a lit ire , utli when* chief
activities tre ti-im-g aliti h unting und I. being totally Ignorant of our
I’i >uit of hi» n arhm anahlp, he gtv«-» a r surroundings, th ought of the old ada ge
e x h u i i t i n ' " t r e o. . . o t n u i c r i u n t i a thut a s te rn cha se is u lung chase, und
s'.ran g .r, tvitli art. tin they a fte rw a rd
dine a t the tavern. The cun vei nation expected >»',ery in stan t to see the cap
t u r n i on a nu'orloua titrate, whose
ship, the lilack i aiilhar. Is th o u g h t to ta in 's mood change again. P a t to my
surprise, he rem ained ns cheerful as
t s in the vicinity.
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ever,
and us s«>oii as the opportunity
f’HAI’T KR II — Next m orning I.lnd-
say. u d i r wild ducks, is sittin g in a iiflered I asked P u rfo rd the reason for
' b l i n d ' wh-n three s tr a n u - r a land on
a beach litar him Kurprised. he m akes the c a p ta in ’s good humor, und learned
no sound 'Ih r men bury a • heet while th a t d irectly to the so u th ’ard, In the
he wulchea. 'I'he work ttnlehed. he e-es shape of a ert'seent moon, stre tc h e d a
two of the s tr a n g e r s kill the third
The ac tu a l slayer Is the 'nan with line of low hunks, resembling th e fu
whom I.Hulsey had talked the day be­ n o u s Caymans, so close to the su rfa ce
fóle. Lindsay s presence is discovered
After a p p a ren tly d e term ining to kill th a t to he once am ong th tin m eant cer
the youth in prevent hta talking, the
tiuestlon of his shooting ability seems tain shipwreck. Into tills buy we were
to be of importance, and he gives the now driving the S h a r k ; it was uo
tw o men proof of his skill.
Ills a c ­
quaintance, whose name he learns Is longer possible for her to escupe u s;
Iiurford, tells LlinNuy the third man she would have to tight.
Is i uptaln Barclay, ..ml Ills ship, off
“ P u t why did she walk Into such a
shore. Is the LHack Banlher. 'I'he three
go aboard.
trupY" I asked.
P u r f o r d shrugged Ills shoulders.
C I l A n 'K R I I I —On the ship L ind­
say meets a youth whom he resembles “P e r h a p s ," lie answ ered, “they counted
In a rem ark die m anner The youth
Is itobert McAllister, whom Barclay on th e ir fuse burning true. Pci haps
has captured on his way to his uncle's all bunds, from th e ca p ta in down, w ere
plantation n Jam aica. The pirate tells
a story of wrong done to lit in by An­ rouring drunk. And th e y have one
drew .Mi .Mili n I and adm its lie hu* c h a n c e yet, though It’s a long one.
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to kUI bll i
lie would use
young MeAHlater as a spy in his u n ­ T h e r e Is a channel through the banks,
de
household
The > nth refueea
to be a puriy to l he treachery, and but th e re n i v a l th r e e men In J a m u ic a
who know It, and it's not likely that
Barclay and Burford kill him
they have one of those th r e e on board
CHA PT Kit IV llcallzlng hla help- the S hark now.”
lesaneHs and under th re a t of a lin g e r ­
All lids lime we were d raw in g closer,
ing death, Lindaaj agrei
t.. as-ume
young McAllister nar. e and ta k e his and now at last we m ade ready, In
place In Andrew's household.
anticipation of o u r a d v e r s a r y 's s u d ­
c i i A P T i m V.—The Black P anther denly alte rin g his course anil showing
comes upon a plundered ship, with all tight. Surely, 1 reflected. I w as to have
cm hoard murder« (1 Barclay telle Ills
followers (lie deed Is the work of a a t a s te of r«-ai lighting n o w ; and at
pir.it« ship, l i e Shark, owned hy Mc­
Allister, mid the B l o k t ’mitliri s ta rts the th ought of the women an d chil­
Iti pursuit.
Tile S hark Is overtaken dren I had seen lying dead on the Sea
and destroyed, with all her ere « .
(«till's deck, I welconn'd the conflict.
iilfii o f rue Hpcclui'.cj (Tie a ir wus My com panions, to he sure, w ere vile
flliv'tl w ith ii sh o w er of ilehrla which enough, hut they could not he worse
struck, Indeed, till aro u n d o u r boat, than th e ir foeman, and 1 was ready to
hut fortunutely w ith o u t doing us serl- risk my life to str ik e one good blow
ous harm . W ithin two m inutes the In revenge.
vessel liiul d isa ppea re d. ami only hit*
^ et still the S hark did not a lte r her
of w reckage and the bodies of the niur- co u rse ; still she bore on to the s o u th ;
d e le d crew w ere left to m ark h e r last and I could s«'o, from the look on the
r estin g place.
ca p ta in 's face, thnt he did not u n d e r ­
I titil we h ad reached the schooner s ta n d her m aneuvering. “ She c a n 't be
going to try the channel,” he cried
and the c a p ta in hud changed Ids drip
"Look a t the color of the w a te r ;
I'lng garm e n ts, he still spoke no word
Then, w ith an expression on Ills face th e y ’re utmost on the shoals now."
at once somlii r and determ ined, he P u t th e next moment, leveling his
Mimmoucd the crew a f t an d ad d re ssed glass, he e xc la im e d: “T hey a re going
them. As If he and Ills follow ers were to try It. I know tluft nigger at the
(he gentlest and most benevolent of w h e e l ; It's Proven Moso, th«» h«»st pilot
men, lie denounced the m u r d e r e r s of In J a m a ic a . D—n them, th e y ’ll give
.
fh e crew und p as se n g e rs of th e Sen os the slip nfter all."
Cull us c u t th r o a ts and villains of the
H e w as h a lf f ra n tic with the vlo
deeiiest dye. Then, showing them tlx
lence o f Ills rage. Ills sw a r th y face
knife he had picked up on the Sen wus Hushed almost purple, and he
Cull s deck, he told them thut the ves
ground his teeth In ihe ex tre m ity of
■cl whleli had done the deed wug the Ills passion. Then, hy ill luck. Ills eye
happened to fall on me. "H ere, you
vvvll mimed S hark, th e p ir a te brlgun
flue belonging to Andrew McAllister
sha rpshooter,”
lie cried
suddenly
“ H e re ’s the End of the Shark, Lads
And
an d cnptulned h.v A nthony llollldge. a* ’pick me off th a t helmsman.
We Can Knock Her to Pieces as We
bloodthirsty a scum of the se as as Ills quick, »oo, or w e’ll be agro u n d our
Please."
m aster. Hut when la- spoke of the net selves."
«if their fellow p ir a te s I ii leaving ns n
1 hnd my rlil«> In my hands. In rendl
the sky. H e re ’s the end of the S h ark !
welcome for the (Hack I‘a n t h e r a ness for the expected buttle, nnd th m la d s ; we can knock her to pieces a>
burning fm-v, ru n n in g s tr a i g h t to the ha«! no a lte r n a t iv e hut to curry out, oi we please.”
pow der milgu/.Ilie of tlit* Sen Cull, the r a th e r to try to c a rry out, th e cap
It was evident th a t he spoke the
eaptulii's luiiguuge becume u n p rin ta b le . Iain’s com m in d .
At once, th e re fo re
truth. Heeled over ns she was, tier
an d tbc h o arse m u r m u r s ««f the crew I stepped to ill«' rail, Hropp<‘d on on* guns w ere rendered useless; It only
w ere evidence thut th e ir disapproval kn«'t\ and milking. In (Ids novel sltun
rem ained for us to begin, at o u t ,
w as us strong us his own. And linully
tloli. the best alii WKltce I could fm leisure, w h a t would he ihu a battle
playing skilfully on their pride as sv.t
Hi«' d iffe r e it courses the tw o vessels but a slaughter.
1 tea ring down a
men. the « uptuln a d m itte d that we had were steering, I ca lc ulated my distance trifle closer to m a k e su re of our range
h«vii caught mi| ping, an d th a t In our and let drive. And .vet. as I did s«». I and paying no more heed to h er scat
excitem ent over sighting one sail, we <vas conscious thnt som ething hindered tered m u sk e tr y Are than to the huz
had not kept th e p roper lookout for my a i m ; an d while at the time, per
rin g of so m any hornets, we gave her
tw o ; while th e S hark, w ider uvviike. haps, I could not have put It Into o u r port broadside, then luffed, came
hud detected our upproiteh and had wurds. I know now w hat the trouble about, nnd followed suit w ith our sta r
song hi h.v the setting of this carefully was. W hen I alin«><l at a s«pilrrel In board guns, while Iiurford Incessantly
Hint'd i m p . lo hlovv al least a |M>rtloi> n tree top, or at n black duck d eeding handled o u r long T om with deadly
«•f us Into eternity
T h e r e was only In the sound. I alined to kill; every aim. Both m a sts c a m e cra sh in g dow n. 1
one way lie told them, to wipe out the nerve and sinew w as hent to th a t one sp lin ters flew from h e r r a il; huge
sta in upon our h o n o r : To sight our p u rp o se ; all w as co ncentration, and holes gaped through her expos d and
a d v e r s a r y at daybreak, lo follow mid I w as r w a r e o f nothing else In the u nprotected h u ll; w hat a few mo
en g a g e her. an d to give «»r ta k e in w«»rl«I. Rnt now shooting at a negro m ents before had been n trim and
«inarter until one or the oth e r of m who had never done me harm . In ».pile beautiful vessel w as now u hopeless
b ad Joined the hapless Sea Cull ut tlo of myself I almi'd h a l f h e a r t e d l y , n«vf wreck.
bottom of the ocean.
rwalljr wNhing to lilt the murk. And
P resently Iturford came running aft
T he men, a f te r vociferously signify th u s | scored a clean miss, though the "T hose th a t a r e left," lie cried, "are
lug their a c ce p ta n ce o f this plan went bullet. Indeed, could not have got.p «■> m anning the boats. T h ey ’re going to
forw ard, while the ca pta in und llur
f a r a s tra y for the pilot, i ot la.-klng run for It.” And to prove the tru th «if
ford, desc. ndiiig Into the enbln. tiegnn courage. Instantly tu rn e d and waved n his w ords almost at once we saw Hirer
poring over their c h a r t s of the C a rrlb
hand lit us, while holding the Shark boats put <»ff from the ShHrk. endeav­
benn, debating wlietlier to lay to. or to trn e to her e«nirse.
oring, as best they could, to kc«'p the
ke«'p way oil the schooner d u ring the
T he ca pta in exploded In angry hulk o f the wreck tx'tween themselves
flight. 1 n r rea sons which they did not w rath. “ I*—n you. 1 thought you w ere and us. Yet with each succeeding
reveal, they sei'ined sure Hint the « m a rk s m a n .’ he cried, nnd s«'lxlng a slro k e th a t they t«H«k the difficulty of
S h ark had heatitsl south, and accord
rifle from llu r f n rd ’s hand, he made n« avoiding o u r Are becam e grt te r Itur
Ingly we laid o u r u v u course In thti' If to shivot In his t u r n ; then, ns If not fo rd ’s deadly aim w ith o u r long Tom
direction
f a r in g to m d a n g t 'r his h«dd over his sh a tte re d one. leaving tin ««. of its In
With the Amt daw n o f day, the look
men hy exposing him self to th e ir d e ri­ mnt«»s not klth-d outright struggling
out at the m a sth e ad lustily announced sion If he nil«si>i|. he thiuight b e tte r of In Ihe w a t e r ; while n whole broadside
t h e pre se n c e <»f a sail. I had never It nn«l handed the piece to me. “T ry tralneil on the s«s-. nd red u ced her to
b efo re M-en th e CMptuin a«* excited «« again," he M id ; a n d to H arfo rd he a like plight.
T he third, how ever
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a ir ao commanded: “ I .»«<1 the boy’s rifle as m anaged to get out of reach, and I
\«-ngt-f«il nnd so sa v a g e t h a t | w as giml qalck ns you can "
Imagined th a t th e captain would !e!
to stay a* iiir from him a s I could
I couhl not hat ailinlre the quick
h e r go, tr u s tin g to the elem ents or to
Yet as the day ad v a n ce d Ills irnvod e
rival freebooters to finish them In a
gradually altered to one of grim loa>^ my own arm aga in w as the liest fitting manner.
But I had not yet
o
PMWW* I'M- 'lit. for in delicate plum bed the d epths o f bis h a tre d for
Mir o u r fortunes, nnd to Injure thus# work like this the thor«»ugh knowledge McAllister «>r any one ronni'cted with
•>f the enemy. \\ hvn th e h re e re sprang of one’s piece Is essential. Ami ac­ him, nn«l to the shout of "B o a rd e rs
ill», s« It |>r."..'iitly did. It c a m e light cordingly, though 1 helit ns tru«* as I s w a y ” o u r fast«st b>ngl«oat was i.,w
a n d puffy from th e no rth an d «'list, and could w ith Ih irfo rd 's rifle. I had no ere d ami mann«*«l. r!gg«-d fo rw a rd with
w*\ In the sailor's phrase, "brought the great «'xpcctatlon of dn<pi«ing my m an
a m ot r lra n e e * n e w to »tie, a V sh a p ed
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W hat the result of th«’ shot really was
plis-e o f w ood, narro w r n d f.irwurd
i.e.ir«*r in..I n> ,rer ........ ir fi»,-, until llu
I shall never know. If th e negro were and with an open n r like a loophole on
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Mt. he gave no s ig n : but I have a l­ e ith e r sl«!c • f the !»••« r Wh it th 's was
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