Part 18 (2/2)

Curfew shall not ring this evening.”

(”The Ballad of the Tempest”)

=TOT'S FEW WORDS KEEP 117 SOULS FROM DIRE PANIC=

=Babe's Query to Parent Saves Storm-Flayed s.h.i.+p's Pa.s.sengers Crowded in Cabin=

FEARFUL THING IN WINTER

BOSTON, Ma.s.s, Jan. 17--Cheered by the faith of little ”Jennie” Carpenter, the 7-year-old daughter of Capt. B. L. Carpenter, of a steamer whose name could not be learned, 117 pa.s.sengers on board were brought through panic early this morning while the storm was at its height, to sh.o.r.e.

George H. Neb.i.+.c.h, one of the pa.s.sengers, told the following story to a COURIER reporter:

”About midnight we were crowded in the cabin, afraid to sleep on account of the storm. All were praying, as Capt.

Carpenter, staggering down the stairs, cried: 'We are lost!' It was then that little 'Jennie,' his daughter, took him by his hand and asked him whether he did not believe in divine omnipresence.

All the pa.s.sengers kissed the little 'girlie' whose faith had so inspirited us.”

The steamer, it was said at the office of the company owning her, would leave as usual to-night for Portland.

(”Plain Language from Truthful James”)

=AH SIN, FAMED TONG MAN, BESTS BARD AT CARD TILT=

=”Celestial” Gambler, Feigning Ignorance of Euchre, Tricks Francis Bret Harte and ”Bill” Nye into Heavy Losses--Solons to Probe Ochre Peril=

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.--Francis B. Harte and E. W. Nye, a pair of local magazine writers, lost what is believed to be a large sum of money in a game of euchre played near the Bar-M mine this afternoon.

There had been, Harte alleged, a three-handed game of euchre partic.i.p.ated in by Nye, a Chinaman named Ah Sin and himself. The Chinaman, Harte a.s.serted, did not understand the game, but, Harte declared, smiled as he sat by the table with what Harte termed was a ”smile that was childlike and bland.”

Harte said that his feelings were shocked by the chicanery of Nye, but that the hands held by Ah Sin were unusual. Nye, maddened by the Chinaman's trickery, rushed at him, 24 packs of cards spilling from the tong-man's long sleeves. On his taper nails was found some wax.

The ”Mongolian,” Harte said, is peculiar.

Harte and Nye are thought to have lost a vast sum of money, as they are wealthy authors.

The legislature, it is said, will investigate the question of the menace to American card-players by the so-called Yellow peril.

(”Excelsior”)

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