Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1894 — Page 6

THE IXDIAXA STAT Ii SKNT1XEL, WEDNESDAY MOKNIXG. SEPTEMBER .26, I8)l.

?IHT0 Away on the northernmost coast of Australia lies a little world all by itself and unlike anything else to be found in the whole immemorial East. Its chief center is in Torr1 straits, where the majority of the inhabitant employ themse'.ves In pearl-Ashing, gathering beche-de-mer and tortoise-shell, and generally in accumulating those gigantic fortunes of which one hears so much and see so little. 'Walking: the streets of Thursday island, the smallest of the group, yet the center of cotnmerc in the seat of such government as the colony of Queensland can afford It. you will be struck with the number of nationalities represented. Dwelling together. If not in unity, certainly In unison, are Caucasians and Mongolians. Ethiopians and Malayans. John Chinaman living cheelc by Jowl with the barbarian Englishman. Cingalee with Portuguese, Frenchman with Kanaka all prejudices alike forgotten in the one absorbing struggle for the unchanging British sovere'Ti. On the veranda of the hotels sit continually men -who talk with the familiarity of old friends about the uttermost parts of the earth, and whose lives are mainly spent in place to which the average man never goes nor dreams of going. If you are a good listener they will tell you many things worth knowing; and toward midnight you will feel stealing over you a ha;fy conviction that the nineteenth century is as yet unborn and that you are listening to th personal narrative of "Sinbad," the sailor, in an un?xpur?ratei form. One afternoon, as I was sitting on my veranda -watching the China mall-boat teaan to her anchorage, and wondering if I had ewrgy enoug-h to light a third oheroot, I felt my arm touched. Turning, I discovered a little Solomon boy about ten years oil attired In an ancient pair of hunting1 breaches and grinning frwn ear to ear. Havln? succeeded in attracting my attention, he bandet me a letter. It was from my friend, McRain. the manager of a pearling station on an adjacent Island, and e-L forth the welcome fact that he would be pleased to st-e me on a matter of some fcrporunce, if I could spare the time to dine wl't'h him that evening-. There was nothing I could ppare m.re easily or more willingly. Once comf.Tt.ihly seated en the veranda, MeBaJn explained h!s rea-son f-r sending to me. "You'll think ma mad. but I've got a. curiosity here that I want you to examine before any -'"'- else gets hold of him." "BLvk or white?" T afeked with but little- interest, f-r we livtd in a land of human cuiio.-itk-.. "White." "Nationality?" "CosmoiM;tan, I should gancy." "Profession?" "Adventurer, with a marvelous big A." "And hailing frtm ?" "Well, he tiuean't seem to know himself. One of my lu.;ers took him out of an oien -boat abo'.u two degrees west of the Ladron'es." "Rut he mrely knows how he got into the lxat? Mtn don't g.i pleasure trips across oceans without knowing whence they started. Hasn't he anything to say for himself?" "That's just what I want you to hear. Either the man's a suicrhuinan liar or els he's got the secret of the biggest thin? on earth. We'll have him up tonight, and you Fhall judtre for vourSelf." Wh.'D dinner was over, we took ourselves ami our cigars on to th? -oni vuranda, and for half an hour or so sat smoking and talking of many things. Then a footstep crunched upon the path, and a tall thin man stood before 113. McIJiln roe and wished him "Goodevening." as he did so pushing a chair Into ?uch a. position that I could see his face. "I be? your ptirdor., but I don't think you told me your name last night." "Sir. my name is Nicodcmus U. Patten of Sacramento City, state of California, U. i. A. most times called Sacramento Nick." "Well, Mr. Patten, let me introduce you to a friend who is anxious to hear the curiou3 story you told me last night. Will you smoke?" Uravely bowing- to me. he seleefd a cheroot, lit it. and blew the smoke luxuriously through his nose. The hmp-lig-ht fell full and fair upon his fae. and instinctively I bean to study Jt. It was a remarkable countenance, and, in spite of its irregulirity of feature, contained a dignity of expression which rather disconcerted me. There were ev-JJent truce of bodily and mental suffering in the near past, but It was neither the one nor the other which had stamped the lines that so much puzzled me. After satisfying myself on certain ether poin'3, I begged him to begin. . He did so without hesitation or previous thought: "Gentlemen, before I commence my story, let me tell you that when first the things I am going to tell you of came about, there wre three of us: Esdras W. Dyson, of Milwaukee. Wis.. U. S. A.; James Daoce of London. England, and Nicodemu3 B. Patten of Sacramento City, now before you. I reckon most folks would have called us adventurers, for we'd ferreted Into nearly every corner of the globe. Snakea alive! but I've seen things in my time that would falny stag-ger even you, and I guess mv story of tonight ain't the least curious of 'em. "Perhaps you don't remember th"! junk that fell foul of the Bedford Castlo nigh upon three years ago, when she was four days from Sir. papa re?" I remembered the circumstance perfectly. It was an act of flagrant piracy Which had made some noise at the time; land I had also a faint recollection of having been told that white men were suspected of "being mixed up in it. On 'being asked If he knew anything of the master, he said: "Well. I don't say we did. mind you, but I suspicion we were in China waters at the time. Put. bless you. in those days there were few places ajid few things that we hadn't a finger in. Understand, I am telling you this because I don't want t sail under false colors, and also because such work is all over now; the firm's smashed up. and we'll never go on the long trail again. "Two years ago, for certain reasons not necessary to motion, we wanted to lay by for a while, so bringing- up at Rata via fixed right on to the Nederlander. Java's a one-horse place for business purposes, but if you know the ropes well, there's not a better place in the world to hide In. "Now. gentleman both, you may take it from me that there never was such a chap for browsing about among niggers, finding out what was doing and if fhere wa3 anything to be made, as Esdras XV. Dyson of Milwaukee, U. S. A. In the first place, he could patter any , lingo from Chinese to Malay with a tongue that'd talk round the devil hlmfelf; and when he suspicioned a nigger hid anything worth knowing well, he'd Just freeze to that charcoal sketch till he fairly got it out of him. Rlei out In native dress, and properly colored, he could pass in anywhere. It was he who found out the thing that ruin-M us, brought me here, and left Jim and himself feeding the fishes a thousand fathoms deep. "Directly we arrived in Ratavla he bep-an hanging around the native quarter, making himself mlphty agreeable for some particular information he wanted. lie was awayyfo-r two or three days; then one night, as Dance arid me were smoking on- the piazza, hi cime striding up the path in the devil's own hurry, 'liys' says he in a whisper. 'I'm on It, up to the hilt, the biggest and th all-flredcat stroke of good fortune we've hit yet. I'm jrolng fan'te tonight, so keep your weather eyes lifted, ami when I say come, com? right away!' With that he went t hU room, anl wa could hear-him r um nagln 3: about In his trunks. "A bit later a native fruit-hawker came round the -corner bowing and scraping towaxd us. "We told him' to clear out.

SAGRA

NICK'S SECRET.

but he commenced a pitiful yarn, all the time pushing his baskets closer to us. 'Fline Durlens and the sweetest of Mangos teens, if the Presence will only buy! But ;the big night watchman had caught sight of him, and came trundling down ths piazza. You can reckon our astonishment when the hawker said: 'How ia it. boys? Do you think they'll savee. Keep your kits packed and be prepared to trek directly you get the word frn me Here the watchman came up. 'On the word of a pour man. the Durlena are freshly plucked and the Mangsteerw hung upon the trees this morning. We refused to buy, ar.d he went away cryinghis fruit toward the native quarter. "for two or three days not a shadow of a sign came from him. Then one of those . Chinese hawkers came into the ouare with two coolies carrying his g-ods, and as we set tyes on the second nipger we recognized Milwaukee, and stood by to take his message in whatever form it mtght come. Pulling up at our chairs, the Chlnkey told his men to set down their loads, himself coming across to as with a tray of fans, scents and what not, but seeing Milwaukee had a packet of slippers in his hands, we only wanted slippers. The merchant sings out. and he brings 'em over, handing one pair to Dance and another to me. We stepped inside to try them on, and. as we expected, in one of the shoes was a letter neatly stowed away. I forget now how it went, but it was to the effect that he had f und out all he wanted to know, and that we were to meet him at 8 on the Singapore wharf at Tanjonk Prlok, bringing no kit save our revolvers. "After squaring things at the hotel, and destroying what was dmgeruu in our baggage, we trekked for the Pri k juit as dusk was falling. Sharp at 8 we were wilting on the wharf where the Message rie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen. Inside of ten minutes a native boat came pulling up the river and as It passed us the rower sneezed twice very sharp and sudden. It was an old signal, and Dance give the return. The boatman hitches right onto the steps and comes ashore. " '(Jood boys,' says he very quiet and careful; 'up to time, that's ri.iht. Now to business! D'ye fee that schooner lyins outside the breakwater? Well, she sails at daylight. I put the skipper and mite a-shore not ten minutes ago, and they're to return in an hour. There's only three chaps aboard, and it's our business to cut her out before the others com back. D'ye understand?' " 'Rut what d'ye reckon to do then, Milwaukee?" I a-kfd. for It seemed a risky game, just for the s.ike of a mensy Dutch trader. " 'Never you mind, now; when I do tell you, you'll say it's worth the candle. Come, Jump in here, and I'll pull you a boa rd." "Toe harinr was as quiet as the se.i out yonder; a Dutch man-of-war lay under Lhe wing of the breakwater, 'and a Sourabaya maii-b-xat to the left of h. r. We passed between then:, down toward the lighthouse and out into the open. Outsi ie there was a bit of a s-'ea running, but Milwaukee Wis always 'hard to beat, anj at last we manage i to pet al-mgslle. Sccnebody. most likely the am-h -r-wuU-h, caught our painter, ar.d t k a turn in it. saying In Dutch, 'You're back early. Mynheer.' lly the time he twigged his mlK.tke. we were aboard, and Dance had flapped a stopper on his nrnuh. T-lie others were below, and I nvk n you'd have laughed If you cn have s.en tj.e l'ik on thtir fares wlit n, ;if;er Milwaukee's thumping on the fj'e'sle, they turned out -to find their craft in other hands. However, they sxn saw whatwas up. an l reckonel it was no us making fols of themselves. Then Milwaukee went tj the wheel, ringing out t g-:; sail on her and s;and by to slip the cable. We knew our business, and in less tlian twenty nilr.ates were humming down the coast a gJ.'l ten knot an hour. "As soon as the course was set and everything going smooth. Milwaukee made tight aft to where Dance was steering. I aruess it's time,' say3 he. 'to let you Into :ha secret. You know me and I know you, which Is enough said between partis. We've been in many good things together, but this is going to be the biggest we've ighted yet. It doesn't mean hundred? of pounds, but thousands, millions maybe; anyhow, enough to set us three up as princes all the world over!' " 'Sounds we!!, but how did you come t) know of U?' we asked, a bit doubtful like. "Before answering he took a sauiot at the card and then aloft. 'Keep her as she goes, Jim. How did I come to heir of it? How does a man hear anything? Why, by going to the places and among the folk who talk. I got wind of it months ago, but never came across anything straight out till I went fantee among the niggers. Losh, boys, tf you want yarns to raise your scalp, go down and smoke among the darkles; I've done it, and you bet I know. T2ere was one old chap who used to drop in every night, and emoke and chew and fcpit and lie till you couldn't rest. From his talk he'd once done a bit in our line, and his great weast was about an island he'd been to fifty year3 ago where there's an old Portugee treas-urv-shlp aground, chock full of gold, diamonds, rubles, and pearls, all waitin' for the man as'll go to gtt 'em. At first I reckoned he lied, for how he got there he didn't rightly remember; but he swore he found the ship, and was in the act of broaching her cargo when the natives came and sent him ba k to sea again. What he did get, except a bloomin' old dagger, was stolen from him ir. Saison. Directly I sighted that Lns'trumeit, I began 'to guess there might b? something in his yarn ifter all; for wherever he got It, It was a genuine Portugee weapon of a couple of hundred years back. Well, as any lubber knows, the Portuguese sailed these seas two hundred years ago; why shouldn't one of 'em have been wrecked with all her cargo and never been heard of since? Answer me that! Anyhow, you bet I froze to that nigger. " 'At first he played cunning and seemed to suspicion I was after something. So one night I got him alone, and d'ye remember Hottentot Joe In the Klmberlfry? well, p'raps I played the same game on this old cove, and when he was sound off I began to pump him all I knew. The old t-hap had been sailing pretty near to the truth, but still he'd kept a bit up his sleeve; however, I got that bit, and here's his chart as near as I can rix it. "So saying, he drew out a paper and held It to the binnacle. Then, putting his finger on a colored mark, he went on: 'It's a bit hazy steering after we get here, inasmuch as beling a nigger he couldn't keep proper reckoning. But once among thee? islands, I gue.-:3 we can't be far off the right one, and to find it by God, we'll search every mudbank In the Pacific! Accordin' to his Hxln" it has a big mountain climbing from Its cen'U-r, with a monster white rock half way up. shaped like a man's fist. In a bee-line with the rock there's a creek running Inland, big enough to llat a seventy-four; follow that cr?ek up a mile or so and you come to a lake, and on the other side of that lake's where ths old barge oufkt to be. Now, what do you think?' "'What do I think? Why, I think. Milwaukee, you are a fad to have brought us on such a rotte;v char-?, ar.d we're bigger fools to have followed you. The island, I guess, never existed, and we'll get stretied for thU boat by ths first warship that sights us. Hut now we are here, we'd better make the best of it. Whit do you say, Jim?' " 'I atand with you,' said Dance, and that settled It. "To mtk? a long stary short, w? sailed that hooker rignt on enn ror n:j,'a upon J three weeks. The wind was mostly favorable, the boat had a slippery pair of heela. and the st r?s. consid?rln.jj they were laid In by Dutchmen, w?r? non toi bid. Oti.y one thins wis wron,?. tj my thinklr.p. and that wa th Supply of grg aboard. If I'd had my way there'd have been a glmt through the lot; but Milwaukee was skipper, and wouldn't hear of it. "Tuesday, the 12lh'of January, saw the tetheref the old darky's chart, so v9 hsld a bit of a paUver. and settled to

go on cruising about the Islands, which we were picking up and dropping every day. "You folk who live lns-ida this rotgut reef don't know whit island are. Out there you re them on all sides, pushing their greea heads up to watch the ships go by, with the air so warm. th: sea so green, and the sky so blue that it's like living In a new world. Birds cf every color fly across your bows all day, and in the huüh of th" night, lying out on deck, you can hear the waterfalls trickling ashore, and now and again the crash of a big tree falling in the jungle. "One forenoon. whi!e-I was at the wheel. Milwaukee and Jim Dance fell to quarreling. It started over nothing, and would have come to nothirg but fr that tarnation liquor. I fang oat to them to stop, but It was ro use; so. leaving the hooker to look after herself. I went fcrrard. He fore I cou!d reich him the skipper had drawn a revolver and I heard Jim cry. 'For Oiwd's Bike don't shoot'.' Then there was a report, and sure enough Dance fell dead. "Can you picture it? Overhead, the blue sky. a few white clouds, and the canvas Just drawing; on the dek. poor Jim lying as if asl??p, and Milwaukee l?an!ng agdnn the foremast staring at him. Ketin there was no use In keepln the b"Kly abonrd. I called one of the Dutchmen aft and fH him to fix it up in a bit of cinva. Th?n t:gether wa hive it overboard; It sank with a dull plunge, and s"" we lost the first of our mes. "Milwaukee being too drunk to take hi3 trick at ta whe?l, I stood it f jr him. A bit before sundown he comes on d?k loking terrible fierce and haggird. Holling aft, he sy. with a voic? s lamn as a judge: 'Sacrament Nick, you're a grod man and true. On your bible oath, may God Strike vju eWd If ym He, did I sh-ot Jm?s Danc mariner?' "Seeing what was pissing in his mind, I siid simply, 'You elid." " 'W.n I elnink. heir.,? in charge of this wss.-l at the time? " 'V"u were!' " 'That H yur word and ded, so help you ; d?' " 'Ay. ay!' " 'Well, that being s n" more need be raid. It's tli? sentence of the court. Shipmate, your hand.' "We sh W hands and he turned to the tlfffiil. I??f.'ie I knew whit he was ab-ut. he hid leaped upon It and plunged lnti th? sea. He only r"? on-e; th?n the whit belly of a shrk showed uppermost, and never again did I ?ea Esdras W. Dys in of Milwaukee City, Wis. "Thre days later, when I wns too dogtir?d t) keep watcii, tins? cutthroat Dutchmen mutinied and ?nt me adrift In the l ng bnat with on week's provisions and a small beaker of water. "Ftrin-rs. have you ever been cast adrift? I can se? you haven't: well, hop- that your luck don't run that way. Fortunately it was fair weather, and I was able to rig a bit of a sail; but how long I was cruising among thoe Islin Is, draft me 1 I know. Being Ignorant, so to tpa-?k. of my position, one way was as another, and when short of provisions I'd jusT go ashore, pick fruit, fill my beaker. ?nd then st sail again. One warm afterncon I found myself abreast cf the largest. island I'd seen yet. From lis center rose a high mountain, and. strike me d?ad If I lie, half way up that Ia?t was a big white rock shaped like a man's fist! Whetv I saw it. I was clean staggered; I stood up and stared till I could stare no longer. It was jut as if I'd stumbled by mistake on (!ie very island we'd s?t out to seek. Ity talking I minaged to pel right und-'-r Its le, and there, sure Trough, iftween two high banks ws thD entrance to a fairish rlvr. Furling the sail, I tok 'to my oars and pulled inside. The so was close or down by this time, and I was dog-tired: -so, as pothirg could be gained by bursting the 'mller?, when, as far as I know, all the future was afore me, I anchored whwe I was, and stayed In my boat till morning. "You bet as soon as it was light I pushed on again, bringing out on a slapup lake perhaps a mile long by half a mile across. The water was as clear as crystal aid as smooth as glass. Making for a plain of dazzling white sand at the furehest en I. I "beached nay brat and prepared to start explorations. Th?n. just as her nose grounded, my eyes caught 6ight of a b'.j? creeper-covered mass lying all alone In tho center of the pliln. May I never know a shleve-hols: from a harness-cask aealn if it wasn't an oil gaJleon of the Hr-ntleal pattern to b seen in the Columbus plcter-books. Trembling like a palsied monkey. I Jumped out and ran for It. "She may have been close on a hundred tons burden, but it was Impossible to calculate her fize exactly for the heap of stuff that e.y.ed her. How she ever got on to that plain, and why she hadn't rotted clean away during the two hundred years or more she must have lain there, are things I can't explain. Anyhow I didn't stay to purzle 'em out then, but set to work hunting for a way to get laside her. From the main deck seemed to be the best course, and to reach that I started hacking at the blooming creepers. It was harder work, than you'd think, for they'd ep'.iced and twisted 'emselves into cables, and a jack-knife was about as enu?h use on 'em as a toothpick. "When night cam?, I'd done a big day's work, ard had only Just got a footing on her deck. "Next morning I went at it again, and by midday had the satisfaction of standing b?fore the cuddy entrance. Again I felt the same dod-dratted funk creeping over m?; but when I remembered the treasure, I said good-by to that, and placed my shoulder against the door. It crumbled away and fell in a heap upon the d?ck, and when the dmt had passed I found myself at the entrance of a small alley-way leading Into the saloon. 1 entered It, stepping gingerly, but had only gme a few steps before the dck suddenly give way, and I found myself disappearing with a crash into tha lower regions. Tae fall was a darned sUat bigger than I liked, but it served a purpas . fDr my weight on landing started a plmk and brought a glimmer of light into the darkness. "Finding I was not hurt, I feil to groping for a way out again; then I nDticed th3 rottenness of the timbers, and determined to enlarge the light I had Just made. Two kicks and a shove brought a flJod of sunshine pouring in, and a horrible sight met my eyes. I was standing be3ide an old-fashioned bedplace on which lay (you may believe me or not) tha mummified body of a man stretched full out and hanging on to the stanchions like grim death. He was not alone, for in the center of the cabin, clutching at a heavy table, was another chap, al30 perfectly preserved, half standing with his feet braced against the thick cross-bars and hi3 shrivelled pirchment fac?, with its staring ey:s turned toward me, grinning like a poisoned cat. My scalp 3eemed to hit and my innards to turn to water. Letting out one yell, I clambered f jr the open air. "Outsid3 all was sun.-hine, blue sky, and "bright color, and, as If to set off what I1 had Just left, a big butterfly came hovering toward me. In- a few minutes my presence of mind returned, and I began to laugh at the idea of Sacramento Nick being afeared of dead men; so back I went in ficarch of further mysteries. Again' I entered thj cuddy and lowered myself Into the ün-der-ca-oln, but this time I was prepared for anything. The treasure-guard stared, hut said nothing. "While I was wondering how I'd best set about my search, a smart breeze came whistling in, caught the figure at the table, disengaged his hold, and brought his old eircaas with a dry rattle to the floor. With his fall a small piece of metal rviled to my feet, and picking it up I found it to be a key of real curious shipe aid workmanship. Fired with discoveries. I slipped across to try it on the first of the chests I saw ranged round the cabin, when, to my astonishment, I fourol it open. Somebody had been there before me; perhaps I was too late. All of a sweat I looked In. but it vT5J too dark; I tried to pull the whole eh.et toward the llrrht, but It was a main siKht too heavy. Then I p',ung?d my hand la and great Jehoshaphat, how I yelled! Clutching what I could hold I dashed across the cabin, up Into thft li.ht, and, throwing myself upon the ground, spread what I had brought before me. It took less than a second to se that they were diamonds, and, by all the stars and stripes, diamond of the fhvt water! There they lay, winking and blinking at me and the sun, and for

the firrt time I began to savee my amazing wealth. For the minute I was clean staik staring mad. I closed my eyes, and wondered If whep I opened th-:m again I should find it all a dream; but no. 'the beauties were -there looking brighter and even larger than before. "tJentlemen, it's strange how the habits and precautions of civilization linger with a man even in the queerest placts. For while not twenty yards from where I etood was greater wealth than I or fifty men could ever spend. I found myj?lf fearful of losing one, picking each grra up with scrupulous care, and securing it inside my Jumper. The next box v:s locked, so I tried the key. In spite of age and rust the wards shot back and the cover lifted. Again I felt the touch of etones, and again seizing a handful, I werft back knto the light. This time ffrey wiere rubies; Burmese rubies, my experience told me. and not a tarnation rlaw in one of 'cm. For a second time I carefully picked them Up and was hiding 'em as before, when I happened to look round. Dafh my buttons, if I was alone! On all fides were nigger regarding in-e with considerable attention. I sprang to my feet and teil for my revolver. Fool that I was, I had left It in the boat! Seeing that I was aware of their presence, thy closed in on me, and as they did so 1 took wtock of 'em. They were unlike other South Sea natives, being of better build and but little darker than myself. True, they were rigged out In a short loin cloth not unlike tappa, but they carried neither epear nor shield. When I saw this, I was for showing fig n't, but so .in gave that Idea up; they were too many for me. "After a few minutes' inspection they began to march me through the f;re?t in a westerly direction, all the time talking a lingo that seemed curiously familiar. Just upon sunset we entered a large clearing on which stood a falr-.iz?d native village, and I thought as I looked at it that, if ever I got out of this mess and turned to blackbirdinjr, I'd knowwhere to come for niggers. It contained perhaps fifty huts, all built of wood, and with conical-shaped grass roofs. A trim garden ran down the center, at the furthest end of which stood the larges; and most slap-up building of the In. As soon as we hove in sigh: a crowd came out to meet us. and in the middle of hundreds of yelling darkles I was marched up to the big house. The old chief, who had been bossing affairs with th? swagger of a New York policeman, told me to wait while he carried his carcass up some steps and disappeared. After a little vhlle he returned and signified that I should follow him. "When I got inside I had plenty of time to look about me. for it must have been full half an hour before any one came. Then some grass curtains were drawn aside, and what looked like a man entered. I say looked like, because I ain't really clear in my mind as to what he was; anyway I shouldn't be far from the mark In sayin he was quite a hundred years old, and Just about a deformed as he could be. He was as white as myself, and from the antics of the chief who had fetched me to his presence I could see that he had a great hold over the niggers. Throwing himself upon the ground, that old fool of a chief feebly wagged his toes till told to rise. Then he started explaining where he had found me and what I was doing. "Durltvg his yarn, 'old granifer,' whose name I afterward formt was Don Silvio, ndiled me into augur-holes with his evil little eyes; then, having ordered the chief out, he started to examine me himself. He spoke the same Lingo as the niggers, a sort of bastard Portugese, and still looking me through and through, asked. 'Stranger, how came you to this island?' VI reckoned f: best to keep the real truth from him, so said, I am a shipwrecked mariner, senoro, and fetched here tn an open boat.' "His eyes blazed, and his long, lean fingers twitched round his Jeweled stick. 'And had you no thought of what treasure you might find?' " 'Senor.' said I, looking him square In the face, "-let me put It to you. Is It likely that a shipwrecked mariner would think of treasure?' "A storm was brewing in his eyes, and I guessed It would break on me. Suddenly he yelled: - 'You lie you dog, you thief--ytm lie! 'You came for' what you could steal, but nothing shall you take away, nothing, nothing not one stone. The fat3s that consumed those who came aforetime fhall consuma you also. Shipwreck or no shipwreck, you shall die!' "He fell to beating a gong with his stick, and a dDzen or so natives cime tumbling In. They seemed to know their business, and before I had time to get in a word I was being dragged away dDwn the street to a small and securely guarded hut where I was pushed In and the door closed. Disliking the look of things, as soon as I recovered my breath I started hunting about for a way of escape, but that was no good. Added to my other troubles, I was Just famishing, and was beginning to fix it that my end was to be starvation, when footsteps approached, the door opened, and .a native girl appeared bearing on her heid two wooden dishes which she ret dDwn b?fore me. Being a favorite with . the sex. I tried to draw her into conversation, but either she didn't understand my talk or fear had taken away her tongue; anyway, not a word would she utter. After she had left me I set to work on the food, and never before or since have I enjoyed a meal so much. Then stretching myself on some dry reeds In a corner. I soon fell asleep. "I was awakened in the chill gray of dawn by the entrance of the same beauty, who put down my breakfast, saying as she did so, 'White man, eat well, for at sunrise you die!' For a moment the shock cleared me out of speech; I could only sit and stare at her. She seemed to see what was going on in my mind, and as if in comfort added, 'Stranger, why do you fear death? It can only come once!' "Her reasoning, though logical enough, wasn't of the kind calculated to meet my trouble, and wCien she had left me I started wondering if anybody in Sacramento City would ever hear of my fate, and bitterly cursins the day I set out in starch of this villainous island. As I sat with my head upon my hands, the Jewels I had stuck In my Jumper fell to the floor and lay ithere taunting me with their sparkling' splendor. Howsomever, It was no use crying over spilled milk; I had brought the situation on myself, and, whatever happened, must go through with it. Suddenly my ear caught the pat of naked feet outside the cell. Then "the door was unbarred and the chief entered. 'Come, white man,' he said, 'all is made ready, and the ax waits for the bare flesh!' How would you have felt in such a situation? As for myself, I put a good face on U, and resolved, since I could no longer live a free and independent American citizen, to die as such. Pity, I thought, there wasn't a band. I was led up the village to tha open plot before Don Silvio's house. It might have been the Foufrh of July for the crowd that was assembled. In the center, for my special benefit. wa an object which held an awful fascination for me; a curiously carved block of wood, dull brown in oolor, and on two sides much stained and worn. It didn't take me a year to understand what it meant, end you may think it strange, seeing the nature of my position, but true as gospel, I fell to wondering how my, long neck would figure stretched across ft. "When I was halted, I took it for granted that the work of despatching me would commence at once, but I was mistaken. The execution could not take plica until the arrival. of Don Silvio, and the 3un was a good hour up before there was a stir In the crowd, and the withered monkey-ficed littls devil came stepping toward me. If he had appeared a hundred years old in the half dark of his hou3ft he now looked double that age, but the fire In his eyes was as bright as ever. Hobbling to within a dozen paces of where I stood, ha tmk thorough stock of me. Then, tapping the block with his stick, be said: 'Senor, you are about to hunt treasure In a golden country, where I tru3t your efforts may meet with better success. I Wish you farewell.' After relieving himself of this, he went to his seat; two natives raised a great grass umbrella, above hi-: hsad, and, all being comfortable, he gave orders for the per-, frmanctj to begin. A nigger stepped from the Crowd and approached me, carrying lh his tand an. ax. Reaching

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Jungle then at the great mountain push ing itself up lnto the blue sky. After' that my eyes returned to the block, and, gentlemen both, a wonderful circumstanca happened. Understand me clearly! Standing on either side of it were two thin columns of palest blue smoke, may be six feet In night. As I stared at 'em they gradually took the shape of mn. till I culd make out the features of old Milwaukee and poor Jim Dance of London town. They seemed to be gently beckoning m? and telling me not to fear. P'raps I kind of understood, fr I stretched my long neck across the block without a sign of funk. I heard th? cackling laugh of Don Silvio. I saw the headsman draw a step closer, his ar.ii3 go up, and then I shut my eyes, and renumber no mere. "When I came to my senses I was lyins on the 'bed of rushes in my old o.uarters, and t.ie native girl, before mentioned, was seated beside me. On putting my hand to my head to sort of fix matters, she laughed merrily, and said: 'Stranger, it is still there, but tomorrow, it will certainly be gone!' Why they hadn't killed me I couldn't undersand. unless it was to put me to the torture of waiting another day; anyhow, the following morning I was prepared for the guard when they came to lead me out. "Once more the crowd was there, once more that villainous old don kept me waiting, and once more the ax went up, but failed to strike. I was respited for another day. Well, , this sort of thing happ?ned every blessed morning, till I nearly went mad with the strain of it. On the eighth day, instead of being kept ir. the squire, I was marched straight to the don's house. The old pirate wa3 waiting for me, and as soon as I arrived fell to questioning me about the out-:r world, seeming to take an a!l-fired interest In such parts of my own life as I thought fit to tell him. When he had found out all he wanted, he siid: 'Go now. for the present you are free; but remember. If you bat approach that ship by so much as half a mile, that same momtnt you die!' I stumbled out of his presence and down the street like a man dazed. That he had some reason for sparing my life was certain, but what it was for the life of me I couldn't then determine. Arriving at my hut, I threw myself upon the rushes and tried to think it out. "Taat evening, a little after sundown, while walk.ng outs.de the village ant racking my bra n for a chance of escape, an event happenei which change! a.l my thoughts anl plans. I wa3 passing through a tlt of Jungie. where the hrttlirs were beginn. ng to play to and fro, when I came face to face with the mc-st beautiful g rl I had ever en. and well, I'm a freeborn American citizen, and as such the equal of any man living, but I reckon that young woman took the conceit out of me. irhe couldn't have been more than eighteen years of age; her sk.n was as white as milk, her hair and eyes of the deepest .black: and when she walked it was hke the sound of falling rose leaves. Seeing nie, sho started w.th surprise, and was half Inclined to run. but something seemed to teil her I wasn't part-cularly harmful, so. overcoming her fear, she said, "Senor, I am my grandfather has given you your feelom!" Her grandfather! Not being able to make It out, I said, 'Surely, miss, Don Silvo ain't your grandfather?' .No. senor, he was my father's grandfather, but I call him because the other is so tedious.' Perhaps my manner, as I say. didn't appear very dangerous; anyway, after this her bashfulness seemed to vanish, and we waJked back to the v.llaete as comfortable as you please. She told me that It was she who induct! the old rascal to spare my life, an-i I reckon the look I gave her for that had something to do with the flush as spread across her face, She also let me into the risk I had run by breaking into the old galleon, which, accordin' to her teltin. was a sacred th:ng upon the island. She did not know how long it had lain there, but susspected her great-grandfather had commanded It as a young man, and that all the rest who came with him were dead, a fact which, you br. I could quite believe. "The moon was full up before we Ftghted the village, and when she left me I went back to my hut in a numux of enchantment, as much in love as the veriest schoolboy. Somehow after this I never thought of escape, but set to work Improving my quarters and laying out a garden. Every day Don Silvio came to question me. and you'd better guess I did my best to corral the old chap's confidence How I got on you'll hear hortly. "Well, each evening, as soon as the run was down. I visited the grove beyond the village, where, sure enough, I always met the den's great-granddaughter. Her beauty and amazin' innocence so held me that 1 was nearly mad to make her my wife; and when 1 found that she reckoned to have me same l.k.ng tor me. I could bear it no longer, so went right off to ask the old man for her hand. Not having the least hope of being successful, you can judge of my surprise when he promised her to me straight away, and, what's more, fixed it that tho wedding should take place the next dy. He kept his word, and on the following morning, in the presence of all the village, she became my wife. "The, year that followei topped everything I ever knew of happiness. It slipped by in a rosy mist, and when our boy was born my cu was run. 1 prociamea n:m American, according to the constitution of the United States, and the old don announced a great feast in his honor. It was spread tn the square, and all the village sat down to it. I can es the sight now the Shadowy outline Of the mountain beyond, the great flaring torches of sweetsmelling wood, the long rows of tables, the shouts and laughter of the niggers, and at the head, between my w.fe and her great-grandfather, the boy in his cradle. When the feast was right at its hight the old don rose an-i handed me a silver mug filled with some sweet liquor. He told me to drink to my son's health, and. suspecting no treachery. I did so. Next moment a. change ttle over me: I made a try to get on to my feet, but it was no use; everything seemed to be slipping away. I could Just see my wife start toward me an3 the old don pull her back, when my head sank on the table and my senses left me. "The next thing I remember is finding mvself lving pree ous sick and weak at the bottom cf my own txnt. with noth.ng but the tlg greeh seas rolling around me. The island had vanished, and with it my wife and child. At first I reckoned I must have been asleep and dreamed the last year; but no, the food with which the boat whs stocked was clear enough evidence of its truth. For an eternity I sailed these cursed seas this way and that, seeking for the land I had lost; but I must have drifted Into different waters, for I saw no more island. My food ran out. and I had given up all hope of being saved, when one of your luggers hove in sight and picked me up. "Now, gentlemen, you've heard my storyWhether ywi believe It or net. of course I don't know; but I take my alfidavy that all I have told) you is true; and, what's more, if you'll fit CAit a vessel to search for that is'and and Its treasure. I'll take command of her. Should we find lt. I reckon I can make you the richest men on earth; and when I get my wife and child, I shall be the happiest. In proof that the treasure's there, and as my contribution toward the expenses, I hanc you this," From an Inner pocket he produced a leather pouch, from which he took what at first appeared to be a small piece of crystal; on inspection it turned out to be a diamond, worth at least a hundred poum "That stone," said he, h ldim .t at the angle which would best show it fire, "came from the coffers of the treasure-shrp, and is the only one left out of all I saw and took. I will leave it with you for the present. Rememter. there's thousands more about the old galleon, biggfr and better nor that. Say, gentlemen, will you adwnture for such merchandise?" It was too late to go Into the question that night, so we bade him come up for a lur.hr talk 'ja the mrn!ng. Jt'.sing, he gravely bowed to us, and without another word withdrew. Next day he was not to be round, ncr has he ever made his appearance since. Whetfhfr he lost himseif and fell Into the eea, or whether he was an impostor and feared detection, I haven't the remotest WVa. I only know that I have a valuable diamond in my possession v hlch I am waiting to restore to its uncommonly curious owner. Guy Boothby in Ma;rnillan's Magazine. The Milkman's Ltfhter. "Did you attend the wedding of Miss Chalkley? You know her father Is a milkman, and she married his partner." said Col. Yerger to Judge Pennybunker. "No. I didn't go," said the jude, "but I heard U was a grand affair. There was a great deal of pomp about it." . "A great deal of pomp? I should think that there would be more pump than pomp about It." Tammany Times. Knew Ilia Position. "Remember. witness." sharply exclaimed the counsel for the defense, "you are on oath." x "There ain't no danger of my forgettln' it," replied the witness sullenv. "I'm tellln the truth for nuthln', whev I could -have made fifteen shillings ' by lyin for your elde of the case, an' you know It." Pearson's Weekly. . . -

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THE WORLD'S KF.COni) OK 112 1-2 .M1LUS A HOI II. Fastest Trains In nngland. fiermitny a ad the In tied Stute Long 4ind Short I)ita.nre Runn Olal und ev lleeord V Mile In Thirty-Two Seconds. No country ir' the world enjoys sa'h facilities for fast railway travel as dM." the United States. England, th? h-rme the first railway. Ytxi continuously up to the year 1SD0 led the w rld in s.ped. ar.d is today still a competitor Ter the hnc r of having the most rap!1 trains. Germany, too, has end?a.vr red to establl.-ii a record for fpeed or.' hv-r railways, but at the present tlnv America !s ahii b)ih for long and short d'..---tan-e sp?el. It Ls an astonishing fact, h-v.ever, that comparatively llttl? progrri? ha been male by railways in the matter of .-peed in the past forty years. As far back as lv"0 th;-en-Tine Governor Palr.e ran a mile In for-ty-Chrea second?, ar.I in 1S73 a train c-n the Pennsylvania railroad covered a mile in fifty and one-fourth s?a nds. fhre; miles in two minutes and thirty-six ar.d one-fourth, seconds, anl five miles in four minutes and fifty sc-onds. In 1S65 the Irish mail train on Lh London & Northwestern railway regularly covered the distance f r ;m Ilu-ton Station to Holyhead. 2iZ miles, in six h urs and forty minutes, or at an average spe?i of a trifle over thirty-nine ana one-half miles an hour. The running time of this same train seventeen years liter, after all thprogress tliat is generally supposed to have been made In railway spee-i, is s.x hour3 and five minutes, or an average spetd of forty-three and thirty-six hundredths miles. The "Scotch flyer" on the same railway, running from London to Edinburgh, 4)0 miles, in required ten and; one-half hours to accomplish tr.e journey, that bMng at a speed of arout thirty -eight, and one-tenth miles an hour. In 1S91 the timi of this train had been reduced only two hours in thts four-hundred mile run. ai.d the average speed increased to a little over forty-seven miles. The rim newspaper train in Unfelatid (Nov. 24. 1S47.) ran over the London oi Northwestern froTn London o lieaiiock. a distance of about three hundred and forty miles, in nine hours an-i twelve minutes. After forty-five years of railroading the time cf Lhe fajst newspaper train between these two points has only been reduced about fifteen minutes. IVrfore the middle of th present century had been reached the Pennsylvania Central railroad had ai least three locomotives tha. could attain a speed of four miles in three minutes, or eighry niile an hour. But notwithstanding these old-time records of speed, both in England and the United States, the present list of specially fast train's is long enough and the trains themselves speedy enough to make traveling 011 some lines interesting and quick. The fateMt train in the world is the Empire State express, which runs daily from New York to Uuffalo. a distance of 440 miles, in t.04 minutes. This gives an actual sped, deducting stops, of f2 1-3 miles an hour. The New York Central and Hudson River railroad, which runs this train, has also the honor of being the first, and, in' fact, as yet the only, railway in the world to run a train at the rate of sixty miles an hour over its entire length. A special train consisting of an' engine and three cars, the tot'al weight being 23') tons, started from New York Sept. 14, 1S31, and covered the distance to Kast Huffalo. 436 miles, in 425 minute.?, deducting time lost in stops. This was at the rate of 61.44 miles per hour. At Fairport there was an unexpected delay on- account of a hot driving box. Up to thait point the distance (311 miles from New York) had been covered in 3C0 minutes, including all stops. The Koyal Blue line train between Jersey City and Va-hing-ton. 23G miles. Is the second fastest regular train in the United States. The actual running time of this train, including i?tops, ts 47 miles a. hour. On' a recent trip, "being delayed, the train covered the distance not including stops in 260 minutes, or at the rate of Ll.fi miles an hour. This train has been run for certain distances at the rate of ninety miles an hour on more than one occasion. It has a record for six successive miles between Plainfleld and Elizabeth' of 47. 46, 47, 50, 54 .and seconds, and an average speed for eleven miles between Wayne Junction and Yardley of 731-3 mile? an hour. The "Boston flyer," on the New York. New Haven & Hart'ord railroad, covers the distance between New York and Boston, 230 miles. In five hours, or t the rate of forty-six miles an hour. There have been a numb?r Of wellauthenticated accounts of high speed for Bhort distances in the pat ten years on both sides of the Atlantic. Under favorable circumstances speed equal to 7.". 80, 90 and even over 100 miles an hour have been made. The world's record for a single mile was mad? Hay 11, 13, by engine 9'9 ("drawing the Empire state express between Rochester and 13uffal-) in 31' seconds. This is equivalent to 112'2 miles an hour! Previous to that performance the fastest time in th -world was made with a light engine, without cars attached, on the New York Central road, in 2S seconds. A special train on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad recently covered a mile in SS'i seconds, or at the rate of i'0.5 per hour. A most remarkable long-distance railway Journey, and the fastest time for its length and time consumed in the trip, was made in 1S.H. On the 2Sth of August the steamship Empress of Japan arrived at Vancouver, British Columbia, after a quick trip from Yokohama. A special train on the Canadian Pacific railway, consisting of one mail, one baggage and one sleeping car, started at 1 p. m. with thirty-three bags of mail, and ran to Brockville. Canada, a distance of 2.7'.,2 miles in 76 hours and SI minutes, the average speed being 35.22 miles an hour. From Brnkville th? train was ferried over to Morristown from whence the run was made to New York, 301 miles, in six hours and 5S minutes, or at th rate of 51.81 miles an hour. The mails which came by this train were put on board th? steamship City of New Yrk, and were delivered In London Sept. it by ?p?cial train after the arrival of the steam ;-r, the whole distance from Japan bing under twenty-one days. Boston Transcript. Our Mute Platform. We want to compliment the authors of the platform adopted at the state convention last week. We have seldom, if ever, read one so thoroughly satisfactory. It Is strong from whatever standpoint it is considered. It is good as literature, profitable for doctrine, admirable for reproof, effective fur correction and most acceptable for instruction in good politics. It so Ftrikingly and truthfully presents the Issues and features of this canvass that by a study and comprehension of it the average man may be reasonably perfect in the duties of citizenship and thoroughly furnished unto all good works in tl.e affairs of government. Spencer Democrat. Com I uk Hark tt Tuivn. The Rack. Bay mansions soon again Will know the ones they long have known. And signs of life will break the chain Of silence In the summer shown; The cook will dominate below. As h has done in times btfore. And the police aga.n will know The rear and hospitable door. Dost.n Traveller.' !Vo Ca Dae fur Joy. Wobbley Wlbbles "You don't teem very cheerful. Wig. Wiggley WafCKtes "r should say not. To think Of $5U,0M),0?9 worth of whisky being taken out of the government hrtckBhop In a week an u laikln" the dime necessary for celebratln' the passage o' the new tariff bill. Ugh! Drook'yn Eagle. ......

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