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GREAT er and commandM+a great criminal was Henry MnrKan. He lifted ,j piracy to a height it never reached PjBZ' before or since, and f IB he became such a Jl power that an lish king madeEngohim W a knight. But 90k knighthood «l'd not * &> vtv^1^^ satisfy his He dreamed and he plannedambition.to make himself emperor of the West JBvj BUWmtI to levy toll upon all the commerceIndies, of the gulf and to break the power of 8paln in the western world. If Morgan had any virtue other than courage there is no record of it. Not one >?BB9HHMKliLi«y/''^D^^^^ deed Is credited kindly act. not one good was a joy and all a man had to do when other hand, there are he ry and infantry alike. The pirates to him. On the needed money was to got to sea and > atrocities, more rob a IP ^» i_^to|J&r up this advantage, but it was onlyfollowed charged against him more ship. after three hours' fighting that the horrors. more terrible crimes against retired defeated, leaving WO Spaniardsdead and defenseless men than .% . and wounded on the field. The women against When reached Jamaica loss pirate other man In history*. The Henry Morgan uILtjVVmi afi&b 1 was heavy. perhaps any the business had to such heard a body of i Panama at that time had were of his stripe and kind. piracy developed had perished Morgan to Ha|A 2.000 flna men he led an sea tu en route from 8anta J ago seven monasteries, two vicious, savage and extent that it spread out from the troops short and MMnSR residences. No more lawless, to the land. Some of the pirate captains relieve the city. His food being one convent, one hospital.cathedrals.SM> creatures could be found In the there no prospect of more plunder, warehouses and a lot of handsome debauchedwhen they or their crews got Impatient being city if world. were the offscourings of he agreed to leave the unhappy merchandise worth a great sum. The buildings. To terrorise the peoplepublic They waiting for a treasure ship, would swoop beeves. These were at at once set lire to men in whom conscience was he received 500 of Panama was so astonishedGovernor s^f-*.> Morgan the larger all nations, down on a violence and blood Spanish city and sack it. This and he departed. furnishedMorgan's success that he asked for a buildings. The fire burned for four dead and to whom of cities seems to have * of the arms the used. Morgan weeks. Immediately after setting the sacking appealed ' pirate pattern meant little. to as the surest and * * sent a pistol and a few bullets, and said %:. principal buildings afire he sent looting arrived In particularly Morgan them one year parties the these men It was In IflP" that Morgan most remunerative branch of had a contempt for the If the governor would keep through city. Had He had been born In piracy. Morgan Morgan would go to Panama and take paid strict attention to the duties to the West Indies. It was not until he had taken three as a soldier and on his next not raid he threatened to burn every out bullets. He sent some of his which a trips Spaniardthem away. they were assigned a rich treasure father was well-to-do be held as to insure good Wales and his out of Jamaica and served apprenticeship which was against Puerto Bello, * building in the city. to hostages lieutenantshis would have fallen into their hands, but but agr culture had no charm exped'tion. The admiral vax so the faith on his part. Morgan carried out farmer, thirsted for as an ordinary flghtinr man that Morgan Costa Rica, the strongest place held * * Impressed by all nine forts they gave themselves up to debaucheries, for the young man. He audae ty of Morgan that while he refused part of the fomnat t, and and before turned their attention to stories he heard of th* won the confidence of his fellows. Then in America except Havana and Goaded with booty the pirates returned were with 30.000 they and the adventure,led bySpain to agree to ransom the city he offered if surrendered, together looting again the king's plate and the the ocean nine boats and there was an immense wonderful new land across four or five of them Joined him in buying Cartagena, he had only to Jamaica. For a few weeks the .pirates surrendered all their plunder pounds of powder and jewels and wealth of the richest men in had a pleasant a altirt a f wIiIaK ha ViAoama />u ntfl in Q nrl him to leave home They vi w IIIV41 IIC L/vvame vajiiaiii! WIU Two castles, almost a of there, and then their and prisoners lie would allow them to of guns. number In order to swell 400 men. riot dissipation leave Panama, together with a vast amount of habit In those days. he started out. He had a very successful and garrisoned by 1J00 men. hundreds of thousands of dollars of without molestation. gold ingots and the gold and valuable to the colonies and provide impregnable Morgan did not believe in giving up * * ornaments Immigration the rich factors, voyage and brought several prises in to the entrance to the harbor. To were gone and they had to consider of the cathedrals, had been servants and laborers for commanded plunderanything Putting his eight ships in Morgan at once sent, his vice admiral, loaded on a in which also sailed young men In British Jamaica. His success was so pronounced attack this place from the front would new schemes. By this'time Morgan's for he to orderhis galleon, of shanghaiing for that departure prepared fight Brodely, to attack the fort at the mouth the women of the convent. By charging fabulous prices Mansvelt, who at that particular be folly, so Morgan, effecting a landing h:wi p;«in.>ri a irreat name for him,exrtinitaway out. But lie soon saw it was forcingseaports.time a of the river, and so clear the food and clothing and had great reputatioa as pirate to narrow Chagres passage, new some distance away, marched his men when he railed for buccaneers to get through the mpossible * to work out the debt in the chief, and who was organising an afid so as the fort's to Panama. But again the pirates * them of the overland and made a night attack. So at Coro Isle, south of Santo long guns channelway world they practically made slaves ofTered to make him vice admiralexpedition,if rendezvousthe harbor. Unable to copecommandedwith the had more on their hands than they For three weeks Morgan practiced en up he would him. and nezllrent were the Spaniards that the another campaign a great unfortunate youths. Morgan, picked join Morgan accepted, for Domingo.fort from the waterside he resorted to a The fort was defended the unfortunate people of Panama all the seaports, was with a fleet of fifteen vessels and 500 without the alarm there. There Chagres expected. In one of the English sentinel was captured number of pirates flocked stratagem. In the daylight he never have all the tn and there had to work men Mansvelt down and so valiantly that it might inhumanities, terrible crimes he Rarhados swooped, fightingbeing given. The castle was surrendered was one big English ship of thirty-six most of his men and arrangeddisembarked had before he had cleared his captured St. Catherine, Costa Rica. It a them as if to attack the fort at in been had it not been for visited before upon the people of the for two yearn the after a short struggle and then Morgan, in the fleet. There was another, night captured debt and won his freedom. Maybe was Mansvelt's plan to hold this place as guns the rear. Admiral Del t'ampo promptly luck. One of the buccaneers had other cities he had sacked; then, when maybe the a base from which lie could the to terrorize the troops in the other castle, French one, of equal size. The French shifted pirates' Injustice of this kidnaping, ravage a'l the and soldiers in one the fort's guns from the harbor been wounded in the back by an arrow, some of his men threatened to mutiny of servile toil turned Mexican and Caribbean coast and prey shut up officers were of the English, side to the land side of the structure. of the years bitterness room and blew the great building. pirates suspicious dart out of his side. He and sail the Pacific in search of the venom. the rich came up the coming all that was good in Morgan into upon freight that across the the time who made up the bulk of Morgan's force, did not attack that night, but MorganJust the day he wan freed isthmus. a force to hold St. Paying no attention for being at dawn he started down the channel the arrow out, and then, wrapping treasure ship, hs fathered up all his .At any rate, from his leaving to the other castle, into which the and when Morgan invited them to join pulled In Barbados until the day he died Catherine, Mangvelt returned to Jamaica sorrow with a fireboat leading the way. The a bit of cotton around it he put it in his plunder, and. with about 000 prisoners, crime. and to the British to had gathered all the fighting forcegovernor refused. Morgan expressed life was one of unbridled proposed governor a of they Spanish vessels were at anchor. Before musket and shot it back to the fort. Tbe mostly women, he left what had been send recruits to garrison the fort. The of the city, Morgan turned loose part and invited the leaders of the French realized the the men to Another force he sent they danger great ship cotton was the powder, and Panama and started back for governor refused, but after Mansvelt left his pillage. his vessel for a banquet. of tire admiral was ablaze. The second Ignited by Chagres. * * to the and convent. He herded party aboard on the The to recover the he secretly sent the troops. When they monastery in his cabin he made ship was sunk by Its commander to the arrow falling palm-thatched only way prisoners From Barbados he went to Jamaica, the all the monks and nuns together and after When he got them was by ransom. Some were got there, however, Spanish had had been from and then lie seized it from being capture#* The thirdpreventroof of one of the buildings within the ransomed, w hich at that time was one of the the fort. all the plunder gathered all of them prisoners had no so but not Mansvelt, meanwhile,recapturedthe houses he formed the religious men later there opportunity to escape and fort, set it afire. The blaze spdead'ouid many. stations of the buccaneers. Not had died suddenly, and the whole the French craft. A few days In the shin that was sunksurrendered. Near principal was a failure. The and women into companies. He had aboard gut to one of the magazines. Tbife was Chagres halted his pirate had been scheme ofexpedition was a there was a great amount of r'ata and Morgan many years before buccaneering made, and these he forced the monks general JoJllflratfon was an thai wrecked a part- of the army and divided the spoils of Panama. buccaneers were appealed strongly to Morgan, however,Mansvelt laddersthe boat. In the midst of it there to.oon pin es of eight. Morgan got aiost explosion respectable. The original and he laid a plan before the merchants and nuns to carry and place against boat was blownMorgan'sof the out fort. Even after that the d&eailprs The part that each man received was far cattle fort so the could a terrific explosion. The money of the sunken warship the men who slaughtered the wild of Virginia and New to go back wall of the pirates and then he sent an below and were England climb them. With the religious men and to pieces and .'loO English pirates, ultimatum to Don fought heroically. When the pirates-'flnajt- expectations, there open of the West Indies, cured the meat and to St. Catherine, recapture the town and with the French prisoners in the Alonzo. who still held the fort. If he did the fort only thirty of the charges that the master pirate had hold it if the merchants would women leading the way and acting as a together ly raptured his old It. equip to the hold, were killed. not get pieces of eight he would garrison of 314 were living- The pirates fellows. According to the piraterobbed ships and several hundredseveralshield, the pirates prepared attack was not burn the code there is no The of the number of supply castle. The nuns shrieked to the As luck would have it. Morgan city, he said. The residents, lost 170 killed and wounded. higher crime. So grave Spaniards, jealous men. The merchants refused. second did not disturb him hopeless, and no other to of St. Catherine did the situation become that when and French in the business, and governor, begging him to surrender and aboard. The disaster for knowing way With the garrisoning English * the monks added and he proceeded to push his plans get rid of the terrible man and his and Chagres and the loss by death, reached Chagres he did not tarryMorgan to control or tax the Industry, did * save their lives, and nothing had was but unable their appeals and lamentations, but the the campafgn Just as if band, paid the money. savagewounds and disease, Morgan's force long, getting aboard his flagship the usual stupid thing of trying to break He expected to start with fifteen reduced to 1.200 when he set out from sailed away. Only four of the other With no spoils from the Costa Rica governor, begging God's forgiveness, arrive in time,happened.so for followed him. The It force of arms. The butchers, his men to shoot. of the ships, but seven did not a * Chagres. early in January, 1071, remainder ofvesselsthe up by the pirates were in a desperateexpedition, Many ordered His destination was across the isthnws armada back across the reason of this wrong, nuns and monks were killed, but some, he sailed with eight. That march Panama. straggled gulf and vindictive by bitterposition. They had to do and is on a lake and After this exploit nothing seemed too remarkable in within the next few some of the wherever could. something, prodded in the back by the knives of the Maracaibo. The city was one of the most months, made reprisals they Morgan, as the new leader, was eager there was a fort at the mouth of the big for Morgan. When his men, after a The the pirates had to follow vessels halting at unprotected toa'ns wasn't good pirates, reached the fort and put up their the path andhistory. the When the reprisal business that it should be an undertaking that ladders. When the pirates gained the Much to Morgan's surprise, harbor.frightful orgy in Jamaica, were eager had been stripped by the Spaniards along seacoast to pillage. went to sea and * after a brief engagement, the Indians of everything in the way of on the land they would bring to him not only profit, but walls the defenders throw down their Spaniards, able to for another expedition, he promised them the Into but the brave He died abandoned this fort and he was foodstuffs. Day after day the pirates * * buccaneers developed graduallyfame. He got together a fleet of twelve arms, all governor. Into the lake. He found the greatest one the gulf ever had known. maddened hunger, but t Not only did the French lighting. take his fleet tolled along by The of Panama was a serious pirates. fullfledgedvessels with 700 men. To his captains he the city deserted and little plunder left He sent word to all the pirate centers unable to And grain or meat. Several sacking and the English authorities wink at this * with anger, he in the West Indies for the buccaneers to men were on the of blow to Spain. For a time It proposed an attack upon Havana, but * * behind. Furious times the point paralysed piracy, but they sanctioned It. France that it was the country' round for fugitives. gather, and in response to his summons mutiny. They became so reduced that Spanish trade and commerce along the they protested foolhardy. ransackedof * war with the first Some found In a and England were at Spain Havana at that time had 10,000 families The struggle over, pirates gave brought in the day. Thirtywerethe biggest fleet of pirate craft that ever they ate leather bags they Pacific coast. Morgan, who went from constantly, and as the buccaneersalmost themselves up to the most horrible these he crucified to make tl»em disclose storehouse up the mountain side. For on craft and was strongly fortified. It was not Others were assembled under one captain was placed without food Jamaica to London, was received as a centered their attention Spanish Next came the torturing of the retreat of the people. six days they were any they saw in the pirates' activity only the largest city in the western debaucheries. having flaming palm leaves under his When he sailed whatever. After nine days of such hero and was knighted by King Charles. the to make them reveal where tortured by were command; for the common enemy. harassment but the richest. prisoners applied to their bodies. Matches away It was at the head of thirty-seven as they never had known beforesufferingHe did not remain In England long, but *11 nt'M mrmm airalnat Rniln lust hemisphere, were hidden. For fifteen toes of was Insecure in tilings days burned between the lingers gnd vessels and with 2,silver that came from Peru and the fleet neared the landing place eight Spanish GiDraltar. an inland town, were hidden. years before, it was plain to his * * him after the division of the loot of whole Pacific coa>t of South America and ashore in the night and alarmed the burn the city. Panama was men after the Instead of the deeply Morgan sent 'JO.) plunder then what the master piratesubordinates two to recruit their Panama, and when, finding that piracy loaded on galleons bound for Cadiz. From surprising cityinhabitants.in Puerto B#llo's fate, as many of and went himself .with 250 to attack Tt took them days mines of Mexico the metals and his men had a four-hour concerned on had in view. He planned to put in j advanced toward was waning, owing to peace between the precious Morgan the Panama merchants had warehouses at Gibraltar. He was gone twelve days strength. Then they were carried to Vera Cruz and there before they overpowered the battle a little plunder, but the great scheme of the man executionhe The had ample warning England and Spain, he became Deputy was won Puerto Belio and stocks of goods there. this trip and got Panama. people shipped to Spain. What did it matter to Once the victory inhabitants. women or bring on had served under, and incidentally to sack was Governor of Jamaica, he took a fiendish * failed to capture any of their approach, and it supposed the buccaneers if the treasure ships were herded all the men. women and The messengers brought back word that with the people of i'anama. But found that he had delight in hanging, and hv of war? the and also all the negro slaves InMorganthg an engagement for Morgan the garrison of 400 cavalry. 2.4O0 infantry bastinadoing guarded Spanislt ships If childrenthe Governor of Panama was sending an they fleeing to the mountains more on his hands than he the most excruciating punishmentsvisiting were while his men busied Gibraltar, bargained for. braves would be enough to odds too great the buccaneers might churches, and be and 00 Indian such as came did not army to relieve Puerto Bello. Instead of safety. Disgusted enraged, The Spaniards had Improved the upon pirates before him be loath to attack, but in rase of storm or looting the city. They themselvesget to Maracaibo and then was overwhelm the pirates, but to make for trial. Terrible aa he was as a the were as expected, for the seeking safety in flight. Morgan set out returned of St. Catherine decidedlyfortificationssince pirate, disaster pirates like sharks. as much they to And that thre<» Spanish warships sure the of Panama hid a he was almost as terrible as a Some of the made the had received the warning In time at on< e to meet the advancing force. He startledMorgan's previous visit. There now were governor victory governor. captures by residents in his absence. They blocked Never did he seem so as In the most of their valuables. To make struck the advance guard and defeated it. had arrived nine forts and the garrison was ample, herd of wild bulls, which he meant to happy when twenty years of theirbuccaneersto hide the mouth of the lake, and the admiral. inflicting on others. There are

THE GENEVIE WHO SEL]LS HERSELF A. GOLD BRICK not think of having her away from me sort you may end by learning to love for so long. Suppose you wait till I can him, like they tell about. go with you. And we'll choose some Otherwise you will probably elope with place where I can run over everylittle the Young Brute around the corner.and jENEVIEV Sunday." never regret it but once afterward. . "Very well, James." says Genevieve, Copyright. 1809, by the Associated Literary Press. j« WFWWiii,,. J_ | and her heart sinks down, down Into her little suede boots, because she has been lKNOl counting on a month's breathing spell where there wasn't a sign of her Janjes. or any other woman's James, or any Worth a Trial. James as yet unattached. For, to the heart of her. she is sick of Jameses. H. CHOATE, at one of the "I'll be able to get away and help you JOSEPHmagy Hudson-Fulton dinners, said of their choose your spring suit," says this most American prosperity: [aIso fatuous of husbands. "Just run alone a Jami "In our country frugal and this afternoon and I'll meet you."downtown man need never want. In our active » * * * alone destitution can be Imputedcountryonly lie dearly loves to help his wife select to faults of character or constitution. her clothes. They get the frock and then "Investigate your destitute, and they HELEN begins the dicker for a*hat. James will always prove unfit for some reason or £7 Is other to the paymaster, and Genevieve curls succeed. up "Thus a friend of a IIF. woman who ally glad enough to get Genevieve at any to 1st him kiss her good-bye. anyway. with disgust because he likes such mine, philanthropist, Because, with the natural said one to a marries a man she price. but she day well known village r the ha* worn of man. these are the things, cannot deny himunutterable love And by the time glamour preciselywroug-hcadedness veteran: fOT 'Iocs not |a off time left from under which James never (he exercise of his taste, because, if she " and he ha* enough circumstances "Well, uncle, I haven't seen you st n selling herself a h|* own emotions to think about hers he to kiss his little girl good-bye. forgets does, she Is going to have to coax him. has "Has little been church for several Sundays past. Why quit thinking about emotions and got my girl lonely And to coax James! Because the back on the Job. coos James, with a piece of soottoday?" by is ttr N Heretofore. the time she has lived a voar or two with " This Is when Genevieve is going to be on his nose, his bald spot showing, and The fact Is, boss.* the old men «. D pronunrtam entns In need of a as he hurries into an unloved very, very lonely. If she loves James shave, James he gives her the 'I'm so tarnation I kinder have all been the she can think about him with all sorts Genevieve's boudoir-or kitchen, as the shabby replied. circumstances worse than even at first. horrors hate to appear before folks to few other say. It has of comfortable little thrills and family permit. take word for It. the respectable all his ntreness and forget anremember "Has my little girl been lonely? 1 And. you just my rags." W been declared by ** hasty word. It is endurable occasionaleven brought her such a hie box of candv this James she doesn't love is having a fine "Ah. uncle, uncle,' said my friend. And the how-to-make to read the lucubrations of the happy time. Do I get the kiss that's coming lime. Beeause the other kind, the he added significantly. 'Suppose I should home-happy homers in the household column, when to me?" sort, would have had sense enoughsensitive tell you to come home with me, uncle, and and the womenwritersshe does so by the Hsht of her love for « 10 know from the start that she had no teke your choice between a bottle of beer James. * * I've on the sideboard and a coat v Ito coo through n few columns to tell use for him. got good But she does not love James. is Jatnes. and a trifle Think this, dear girls, when you I've got in a closet upetairs. Which w Ives all about meeting him with a smile suppose Very bristly about Then what has she got, after the new all of which counts r.ot at all eie looking at the diamond that James would you choose?* - and always a rose in your grotesque, James? Not "The old man smiled and shook his wearing pink of the trousseau has worn off. except when loves but when she is offering. Do you love hair and never being caught with a ashes and dust and such Genevieve hint, does love you? It la to he head. Then he said with a winning unpleasant all the James not on after 8 o'clock in the things? Kven if James has quantities of doesn't it counts whole, wide that he does, or lie would be smile: wrapper "Has My Little Girl Been Lonely for diamonds, supposed"She Cannot Him the Exercise " that's a hard nut to that the woman who wedded money she has to put up with a man world. But. of course, he gets his kiss. expending good money Deny 'Well, boss, crack morning;who her the shivers There is such a thing as a sense of you have a million or two of His Taste." But I reckon If I had that bottle of beer was brick to gives every evening duty TodayP" indeed, unless. love handing the gold withoutfor dinner and every morning for and fairness in Genevieve. And James in your own right. fust I'd be so perked up I'd be inore'n the man. and if she ttie Issue ami is Hood cash for those kisses. all Do love .lames? Because, if h cold brii-k. not to James, but to able afterward to argufy you iiUo givia' ' dodges paying away stimnidr." murmurs this you breakfast. are are one the me ** Kot at all, not at ail. James is usu- doesn't come down to -breakfast she has "1 can't bear to iiav* my Uttia wifie James. "1 simply can-foraaken-of-tiie-Lordlilm, not loving him, you sellingyouw«d It you of submissivetienevieve.the coat, too.'