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Pains and debility are symptoms of a
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Both will disappear when the kidneys
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GRAHAM'S ISLAND.
BT CIIAKLES B. LEWIS.
We had called at Mauritius on our
way from Liverpool to Bombay in the
ship Farewell and were five days out
from the island when the adventure oc
curred by which we lost the captain and
laid the foundation for this story. It
was 3 o'clock in the afternoon of a
bright day, and the ship was not mak
ing above four knots an hour. What
sea there was on wonld not have both
ered a quarter Loar, and the ship lifted
to a wave only at leug intervals. The
second mate and I were superintending
some work forward, while the captain
was alGne on the quarter deck. All of a
sudden and without the slightest warn
ing the sea began to boil and heave un
der and around us in the most violent
manner, and for five minutes every man
.had to hold on for his life. In her pitch
ing the craft shipped three or four green
seas, which swept the decks of every
thing movable. We were congratulating
ourselves that all had escaped when the
captain was fonnd to to missing. The
last wave we shipped had no doubt car
ried him away, and ty the time we had
come to this conclusion it wa's too late
to make any move.
The sea had been disturbed by an
.earthquake. Just where we were when
the agitation began the chart showed
the depth to be a full mile. Three
months later, when soundings were
taken by a French vessel, it was found
that a mountain two miles in circum
ference at the base had Leeu heaved up
until its crest was only 40 feet below
the surface. The set of wind and wave
before and after the agitation was to
the westward, and ten minutes after
the ship had come back to a level keel
the wind changed to the east and blew
half a gale for the nest seven hours.
As a matter of record, the chip pursued
her voyage and made the pcit cf Bern
Lay without further adventure, cml the
remainder of the fctory relates tor the
captain. He was Ewcpt c crbcard by
the last "wave, jpst as we concluded, and
presently found himself far to leeward
among a lot of spars and casks which
the same wave had takeufrom the main
(leek. While the man seized a spnr and
passed u. lashing around his body he had
no hope of rescue.
Almost before ha realized his pesirien
the ship was n mile away, ano Le felt
euro that no beat would Lo lowered to
make a search for him. The spar to
which he was lashed drifted away to
the west, and evening came cn. Between
6 o'clock and sunset four shijs passed
the drifting man, bet all too far away
to see or hear, and when night came
down he felt that there was no longer
the slightest chance for him. He drift
ed to the westward, ca I have told you,
. .but how far has never been known.
Isight passed and another day came,
and toward the close of that day Cap
tain Graham lost const icusness. He
may havo drifted a day alter that per
haps two days. When he came to his
senses again, he was lying on a sandy
beach, with his feet in the water. Ee
had been cast ashcre cu an island. It
was surely an island to the north and
west of Madagascar, but for reasons
which will be explained later on itcan
nct be more definitely lecated. Err an
hour af$er opening his eyes thWrnan
could not unlash himself from the spar.
When he had finally accomplished that
pbject, he" had to crawl on hands and
knees to reach the shade cf the bushes.
It was high noon and tho weather hot,
and the captain was so exhausted that
if he had net found fresh water and
wild fruit at hand he must have perish
ed. He ate and drank-his fill and then
slept, an$ the sun was just rising next
morning when he awoke.
The island, when the castaway came
fo survey it, was about two miles and
a half long by one mile in breadth, and
its average height above the sea was
pot over la feet. It was of volcanic orir
gin and was entirely covered with yeiz
flare, and there were six or seYen differ
ent Eprts pf wild fruits. Along the
beach were oysters and shellfish in
abundance, and the captain soon assured,
himself that starvation wpuld not be
one of the perils pf his situation. What
struck him curiously was the entire ah?
gence of life on tho" island. There was,
peither animal nor bird, reptile nor in
sect. There should have been a dozen
varieties of birds and an abundance of
insect life- on so fair a spot with its
tropical climate, but it was simply ter
antless. And yet there was life there,
and where the castaway least expected.
He had been on the islan3 a week or so
and had twice walked clear around it
when one day as he was gathering fruit
in an open spot ho was suddenly and
fiercely attacked by a naked man. The
surprise was great, and tho captain had
Jiot yet recovered his Etrength, but,
shaking the man off, he seized a club
and laid about him so vigorously that
his assailant ran away.
It was a white mail, and from the
aaarks on his hapds ho inust have been
a sailor," How long he had lived there,
and how he reached, the island in the
first place arV matters for conjecture,
but the fact of his being nude went to
show that he had been there long enough
to wear put his clothes, Jb breaking
away from the captain he ran for the
beach. The latter followed at-his heels,
Ehouting for him to stop, but the un
known ran to the water, plunged in and
swam straight out to sea, looking back
now and then and seeming to be in a
terrible fright He held to his course
nntil he could no longer be seen, and
thero was no doubt he went to his
death, as he did not return. In a dense
thicket the captain found s rude shelter
which the man had used, and among
the dried grass forming his bed were a
few fragments of cloth which had once
been a pea jacket. There were also a sail
or's pipe and an empty tobacco box.
Living there alone for years and years,
with neither the note of a bird or the
chirp of a cricket to cheer him, the
man had lost his mind and, looking
upon Captain Graham as an intruder,
had meant to take his life.
When the castaway had been a month
on the island without sighting a sail,
he made up his mind that the fate of
the poor fellow who had dashed into the
sea would some day be his. He felt that
he would lose his mind unless he made
an effort to divert it from the gloomy
situation, and he began a closer survey
of tho island. The center of it was con
siderably higher than elsewhere, and
exactly in the middle was a single tree,
surrounded by a thicket which he had
never yet penetrated. In carrying out
his explorations he entered this copse,
finding a hard beaten path, evidtntly
made by a crazy man. Piled up at the
roots of the tree the captain found a
great stock of small iron bound boxes,
and it needed but one glance to satisfy
him that they were treasure boxec
There was the cavity where they had
once been buried, and the boxes were
weather beaten as if long exposed. Two
or three large shells lay about, which
had doubtless been used to dig cut the
dirt, and one cf the boxes had been
opened.
The captain shouldered this box and
carried it down to the spot he called
"home," and there inspected its con
tents. It contained about 6.000 in gold
coin of all nations, but principally Eng
lish, and not a coin among ihem was of
recent date. In fact, there were somo
which no longer circulated in England
or India. From the material and con
struction the captain judged that the
boxes had teen made by a ship's carpen
ter. In tho pile at the foot cf tho tree
were 15 other boxes of tho same size.
One was broken open, and its contents
found to be the same as the lirtt and
the amount very nearly the same. There
was a total, as the captain figured, cf
$100,000 more or less. This was based
on the supposition that all the boxes
contained gold, but as he looked into
only two he could not be sure of the
contents of the others. How came tba
treasure there? Captain Graham believ
ed it to be a pirate's cache and that the
gold had been there long years before
he was thrown on the beach Perhaps
the mad sailor had been one of the pi
rate crew. It was certain that he had
unearthed the treasure at any rate, and
it was hardly probable that he stum
bled upon it by accident.
Well, there was a big fortune there,
and it belonged to the finder, but it
might have teen so much sand for all
the good it could do hini. Days and
weeks and months passed away, and
one day the castaway counted up the
pebbles he had laid in rows along tho
beach to mark the time and found that
he had been 11 months on the island.
On that day there came a furious gale
from the east, with a very high tide,
and from some wreck at sea the waves
broughtin a vast quantity of stuff.
There was nothing to eat or tx, wear
aa:ong the wreckage, hut thero were
planks aud spars and a carpenter's tool
chest, and as soon as the storm had
abated the castaway went to work to
build him a raft. He had determined
to leave tho island at any hazard, and
after four or five days' work he had his
raft completed. It was a rude but stout
affair. Wild fruits were taken for pro
visions, aud fresh water was carried in
a wine keg which had come ashcre with
the wreckage. From one of tho boxes
the captain took 500 in goldpieces, and
one morning when the wind was from
the west he launched his raft and drift
ed off before it. By his reckoning, which
was probably correct, it was seven days
before he was picked up by the John J.
Speed, an American merchant vessel,
homeward bound.
The raft had made good weather of
it, drifting most cf the time to the east,
and the captain judged her total drift
to have been J GO miles. His loss had
been alluded to in the newspapers and
talked of amcng ciilors, and he was
given a hesity welcome aboard the
American. Ho related his adventures in
full, except as to the treasure, and in
due time was landed at Cape Town. He
had figured cut the latitude and longi-
tude of his island to his own satisfac
tion, but the etart cn board the Speed,
failed io skoy? any such island. Captain
Graham at cnee set about finding a ship
to bring the treasure off, A brig was
finally chartered and sailed with him
aboard, but after a eruise of months she
failed to find the hlaud. Where Captain
Graham said the island ought to be lead
found bottom at"Q feet, and in the im-r
mediate neighborhood a mass of trees
and bushes was fcuud floating about.
Village Overran "With. Skunks.
Clinton, 27. Y., furnishes good trap
ping ground for fur hunters. On and
near the premises of one residence m
Prospect street six large skunks were
y recently killed. In fact, the whole vil
lage seems to be OYtrrun with the nui
sance. Pedestrians avoid some streets al
together in fear of meeting the odorous
noctural travelers. It has been suggest
ed that the Tillage fathers offer a boun
ty on every one killed. The skin brings
a good price; and those who care to
make a little money could find a chance
Vn trapping Utica Observer.
Tho eights.
Thoughts are certainly able to spread
themselves without the aid of looks or
language. Invisible seed that floats from
the parent plant can root itself wher
aver it settles, and thoughts must have
some medium through which they sail
till they reach minds that can take them
in, aud there they strike root, and whole
3rops of the same sort come up .just as
if they were indigenous and naturally
belonging o their entertainers. This is
iren more tnie in great matters than in
mail. .tean'ingelow.'
So Sisterly.
J 'I like the way Miss Sprightly talks.
She. makes herself so pear.'r
"Yes, Ehe's taking something for her
complexion all the time." Cleveland
.-lain Dealer.
LINEN MAKERS.
Ireland and Holland Cave Most Women
Engaged In This Work.
Though Ireland today holds the first
place, eo far as America is concerned, in
regard to linens, Holland occupied that
position everywhere in the past and
holds it today in many parts of Europe.
The very word Holland is employed to
designate a fine linen cloth or a linen
and cotton cloth and Iilh been used for
this purpose from time immemorial. It
is hoth glazed and unglazed and used for
wearing and household decoration. Flax
grows well in that part of Europe, and
the sunlight is said to be brighter and
to have more power in bleaching in the
Low Countries than elsewhere. The linen
industry is carried on in Holland more
by women than by men. In the fields
there are almost as many female as
male cultivators. In the harvesting
there is an excess of women.
In the many processes, such as liming,
hackling and spinning, the women out
numbered the men three to one. In the
mills the women are" in the majority.
The men preponderate when it comes to
the making of darrmsks and fancy de
signs. For at least four centuries it has
been an honored custom in the Nether
lands for young women to begin making
their marriage portion in linen when
mere girls. Some go so far as to start
with the sowing of the seed ; others be
gin with the spinning, while those bet
ter off buy the finished cloth. All do the
cutting and sewing. A wedding outfit
consists of petticoats, nightgowns and
other underwear, several suits for sum
mer wear, sheets, pillow cases, bolster
cases, pillow shams, shirts for the hus
band to bo and a number of rolls of the
uncut material for future emergency
or use. Nearly every girl of marriage
able age has a stock cf these goods rang
ing from a iruukful to three or four
times that amount. Philadelphia
Press.
MATTER OF PRONUNCIATION
A Father Who Seeks to Enlighten Hi
Son on a Small Point.
There is a certain man who by the
sweat of his brow in summer time
earns his bread as a government official,
with an office in the big state, war and
navy building. He also earns bread for
a wife and three likely children and a
servant, who manages to carry a slice of
pie along home with her bread about
three evenings in the week. But that is
the cook's privilege always.
This official has a son aged 13, who
is very nearly as sharp as the father
thinks himself to be, especially in those
things that everybody ought to know
and not one person in a dozen does know.
About three times a week the father
comes to the office loaded with some
new information which he seeks to im
part to his fellow clerks by the induct
ive method that is, he induces them
to show how little they know; then he
springs it on them. His strong point is
words and their pronunciation, and he
thinks he is an authority.
The other evening while he was en
tertaining three or four of his office
friends at a small supper the eldest boy
spoke up from the far end of the table.
"Say, pop," he inquired, "how do
you pronounce N-e-w-o-n-e?" spelling
it out slowly.
MI presume," replied the father, with
the courage of his convictions, "that it
is .an Indian name, and by the rule I
would pronounce it Ne-wo-ny. "
"But that isn't the way, " dissented
tho boy.
Tho father was never more surprised
in his life.
"I dou't quite see how it would be
euphonious any other way, "he said,
with a mild air of offended intelligence.
"What's the matter with pronouncing
it new one?" inquired the boy, with a
loud, irreverent ha ha. And the blow
almost killed father. Washington Star.
A Collector of Hook Plates.
An interesting collection of book
plates is owned by Mr. Howard Sill,
head draftsman at the ofSce of a firm of
architects in this city The collection
consists of some 2,300 specimens
American, English, French and Span
ish, modern and antiqus? belonging to
the various periods known as Jacobean,
Chippendale, Wreath and Ribbon, etc.
Mr. Sill has collected many examples of
the work of Dorkins, Johnson, the Mav
ericks, father and son, famous colonial
book plate engravers; also some speci
mens pf the rare and valuable work of
Nathaniel Hurd, a New England en
graver, bom in 1720, a duplicate of one
of whose book plates owned by Mr. Sill
brought $G0 in New York a short time
ago. Mr. Sill has also one of the six
book plates engraved by Paul Revere,
which is of great value and inter
est. Among the colonial plates are those
jf William Byrd of Westover, Bushrod
Washington, John Randolph, William
Smith, president of William and Mary
college; Charles Cam U, Thomas Hey
ward and Samuel Chare, signers of the
Declaration cf Independence. There are
also many examples of modern book
plate making, the work cf French, Hop
sou, Spenceley and orhtr well known
modern engravers. Baltimore Ameri-
Ked Men So Love to Drink.
"I was down in the Indian Territory
a few weeks ago," said a St. Louis man
the other day, "and business took me to
; the capital of the Chirokee Nation.
There is no country in the world where
prohibitory laws are as strictly enforced
as in the five civilized tribes. It is
' against the law to import any sort of
intoxicating liquors under severe penal
ties. The result is that it is a common
thing for people to drink camphor, per
fume, hair tonics and any old liquor
that contains the faintest suggestion of
alcohoL . '
"I actually saw one- fellow drink a
large swallow of red ink and learned
that this carmine fluid was a most pop
ular beverage. A good sized bottle of it ;
could be had for 50 cents, and it was
warranted to 'make the drunk come.'
It seemed to me that when the Indians
were willing to go to such extremes to
indulge their craving for fire water that
j it would be just as well to let them
' have the genuine article, which couldn't
at the worst be half us baneful as the
vile compounds they habitually use-"
Kansas City Journal.
Well Trained.
Old Lady (imprpving the occasion
Ah, my popr man, you would not be in
this position if you had received an early '
training $ some trade or calling I
Tramp Don't you tork too sudden
about wot you don't know notion about,
missus. No traiuin. indeed 1 W'v. I was
in prison afore I wgs U! London Fun. 1
PURE TOBACCO.
Tlie oHdas Lancet Say It Is Ket IiJarl
eu to Smokers.
Referring to the agitation started in
France by a society which acts on the
principle that "tobacco is always use
less, often harmful and sometimes homi
cidal, " The Lancet says: "Wo agree in
so far that we allow tobacco to be some
times very harmful. It is, of course, a
poison, but so is tea, as also coffee
two vegetable products which are con
sumed by nearly every inhabitant of
either England or France. All three can
be aud very often are abused, but this
does not do away with their reasonable
use. In these days of rush and hurry to
bacco has often a most soothing and
restful effect The tobacco sold in
France is, to put it mildly, not good,
and although in England it is possible
to buy fairly good tobacco it is next
door to impossible to get impure.
"That is to say, it is nearly always
scented or treated in some way so as to
give it an artificial flavor. Cigars are
beyond the purse of any but a rich man,
and as for cigarettes the filth sold as
such is beyond description. A pure to
bacco society would be an admirable in
stitution, and, as for the traders saying
'customers like scented tobacco,' the
customer seldom gets the chance of
smoking anything else. The truth is
that, as in the case of highly scented
tea or soap, it is cheaper to 'fake' infe
rior qualities of stuff than to supply the
real thing. To be unsophisticated an
article must be of good quality, but the
craze for cheapness is ruining every
thing, and when people buy cigarettes
at 36 cents a hundred it is not to bo
wondered at that they get well, an in
ferior article. "
In view of these dicta it is interesting
to note that cigarettes are turned out in
large quantities by firms of repute at a
retail price nearly a third less than the
price mentioned by The Lancet. Lon
don Times.
Melting Iron.
The working and works of the great
furnaces in this country are interesting
in the extreme to those who are fond of
knowing the processes byjvyhich famil
iar articles are made. At one of these
establishments 2,000 tons of iron ore,
coke and limestone are consumed each
day. Long trains bring this mixture,
which is known to the workmen as
"burden," into the works. The cars
are brought up cn trestles and emptied
into long bins. The furnace is kept full
and burns continuously. The gases rise
and are carried off, and the eolid mat
ter, gradually dissolving taud softening,
steadily descends, when the space thus
left vacant is immediately filled by the
"burden." An examination of the inte
rior of the furnace would show a top
layer of crnde material with a tempera
ture of about 500 degrees F. A few feec
below this the temperature of 1,000 de
grees F. has decomposed the limestcne
and formed carbonic acid and lime. Be
neath this there is a stratum with a tem
perature of 1,500 to 1,700 degrees. In
this the iron is rednced from the ore
aud is taking up carbon. Below this the
iron is melted and fills the receptacles.
Above the iron is the slag, which es
capes through a hole at the top of the
hearth. At thevbottom of the hearth is
a narrow opening1 from which the cast
iron is taken. A furnace is tapped six
times a day and furnishes about TOO
tons of iron -daily. Wheiiihe. furnace is
empty, the tap hole is closed with clay.
When it is again filled, this clay is
broken out, and the melted metal at a
white heat flows down through the
channels, spreading to the right and
left into the smaller depressions pre
pared for itsTeception. These are so ar
ranged that the molds at the extreme
edges fill first, and those near the fur
naces are the last ones to be completed.
New York Ledger.
The Dread of Death.
To look upon the face of a friend a3
he goes away; to be one of a group
whose tears will not cease, while the
one who is dying is calm, confident and
triumphant; to listen to lasting good
bys spoken as if only a short and beau
tiful journey were ahead; to see pain
soften itself into peace and a tired and
worn body go to sleep like a weary
childrr-that takes away the dread of
death as nothing else can. When a
strong man or frail woman looks upon
such a sight, he feels, "Well, I, too,
dare go along the pathway that has
been so light before the feet of the one
I love." It may seem as if meditation
on death were not wise, but that is a
mistake. Brooding over it no doubts
leads to fear; but, on the other hand,
more fear and suffering result from the
surprises of those who have been too
carefully guarded from the face cf the
guest who "knocks at the palace and
the cottage gate."
We should not stay long in the char
nel house, but it is good now and then
to look in, at least often enough to seo
that it is not always a place of chills
and glooms, but for many a mansion of
peace and rest. Look upon the face of a
good man who is waving his farewell
to the earth, and you will understand
that he is embarking on no wild sea.
Listen to the goodbys of those who have
loved you, and it will not be so hard to
speak your own when the moment to
speak them comes. Rev. Amory H.
Braddon.
Fireproof Sheet Iron Curtains.
One of the regulations in certain
European theaters was that every thea
ter be supplied with a sheet iron cur
tain, by which, in case of necessity, the
auditorium could be completely isolated
from the stage. This curtain, which
was enormously heavy, had to be coun
terbalanced by massive iron weights,
but so evenly was the weight distributed
that the screen could be raised or low
ered instantly by the pressuro of a but
ton controlling an electro magnetic ad
justment. The first theater in Europe
to use the electric iron curtain was the,
Comedie Francaise, in Paris, and the
installation was made by an American
electric company. This curtain is worked
by a twq horsepower motor aud can be
powered, at a maximum rate of four and
pne-balf feet in a second. In many the
aters the iron curtain is now superseded
by one of asbestus, which is infinitely
less cumbrous and equally serviceable.
-Chautauquau.
The pldest specimen of pure glass
bearing a date is the head of a lion in a
collection at the British museum. It
bears the name of a Egyptian king of
the eleventh dynasty.
The milky secretion" exuded by the
toad is the invariable specific for shin- j
gles'in South America.
THE ARGONAUTS.
Roa east asd west we gathered in ono crew
Tke restless and tmnuV of. the world.
Tfee stars laughed from the banner vro un
furled. We were stoat hearts, boon spirits, tried and
tree.
Then lightly from tho mast thronged port we
drew.
For it was ottth. from utmost isles impearled
la stormy sea, where wave and tempest
swirled, .
To fetch for man a lest and priceless clew,
And still, for many a day, our mighty bark
With roaring sail flies onward e'er the deep,
And we, at dawn, with anxious vision scan
Each new horizon, lifted from the dark.
For islands which have liberty in keep
The Golden Fleece which we must win fcr
man.
William Frescott Foster in Century.
TRUMPS AND PIE.
The Way the Kev. Mr. Gately Played
Hand at Whist.
One evening, the evening after Christ
mas, we were seated at the whist table
in our room. Henry and I had had our
Christmas dinner with his people, and
Mr. Gately had had his at the rector's
house. Mr. Gately was assistant at the
parish church. The major, poor man,
had had no other resource than to sit at
Mrs. Buckingham's table.
"What kind of dinner did the duchess
give you on ChristmasS" asked Henry
of tho major, who was dealing with
quiet precision.
"Colossal," replied the major 'colos
sal, sir, and familiar."
"Do you mean," said. I, "she gave
you the samo old things, onlv more of
them?"
"Precisely, madam. It is your lead
and hearts are trumps." The major had
turned the queen. " We had five kinds
of pie," he added.
I led some small card of a plain suit.
Mr. Gately took tho trick, playing a
king second hand, and led the king of
hearts. I saw the major looked puzzled
and frowned.
"Five kinds of pie!" Mr. Gately ex
claimed mildly as the hand went round.
"Dear me! What ill judged benevo
lence!" Then, his king having taken,
he led the ace and smiled.
"What infernal carelessness!" burst
from the major. His queen had fallen
upon his partner's ace.
"Oh, hardly that! Surely the intent
was manifest not that I defend tho
practice, but one could hardly or"
Mr Gately leaned forward as ho spoke,
still smiling, his cards clasped against
his breast and his head slightly to one
side.
"Confound it, man, I turned the
queen when I dealt!" said the major.
"The queen? Oh, yes, to be sure! I
fear I am very stupid." Mr. Gately was
the acme of devout contrition. "A
Guilty Conscience," by William Mayua
dier Browne, in Scribner's.
Small School.
A bright answer is put down to the
credit of Dr. Fitchett, brother of the ed
itor of the Australian Review of Re
views. He was ?. member of a colonial
parliament, wherein one day a certain
eccentrio and elderly member named
Taylor insisted on making a speech on
education. The oration consisted of a
hyperbolical eulogy of the board of
schools in Mr. Taylor's constituency.
Dr. Fitchett interjected some jocose ex
pression of doubt. "Why, sir, " said the
irate Taylor, turning upon him, "at i
this very moment I have a school in my
eye" "No, unlj-jmo pupil. Mr. Tay
lor!" retorted the doctor, and the ora
tor's eloquenco was drowned in laugh
ter. London News.
A Quaint Epitaph.
The following epitaph is over a grave
in the Caroline islands :
Sacred to Wilm. Collis
Boat Steerer of the HHIP
&iiNT george of New BED
ford who By the Will of
Alnxitey god
was sivirihery mjurdbya
BULL WHALE
off this Hand on
18 March I860
also to
Pedro Sabbanas of Guam
ith JJIuTE dronwned on
the SAME Date his
Back broken by WHALE
above
MeXTioned
Not Satisfactory.
"Our sexton doesn't like the new
f.'cman preacher."
"What are his objections?"
"He says she isn't strong enough to
xeep the dust pounded out of the pulpit
:ovcr." Chicago Record.
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