People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Page 8

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TELEPHONE SYSTEM.

The following' is the list of subscribers of the Rensselaer Telephone System as connected up to January 1, 1896. The switch boards are now all full but anewone will soon be added, and it is expected that by the fifth of July next, (the end of ihe first year’s business.) there will be 200 instruments in use. The telephone system of Ret sselaer and connecting points is spoken of under another heading. 38 Alter. Or M B residence ? 14(1 Alter & Bust wick resfdenc e 21 Austin. \V B residence 4!) Austin. Hollingsworth &Co office 60 Auditor. County court house 113 Babcock.W C residence 109 Bates. N S residence 1 Bean., W 11 residence 117 Benjajiitn, It 1* residen e 126 Berkley. Dr A 1, .office 68 Brown. Dr 11 L residence 76 Burnham. J A residence 151 Churchill. W II Justice Peace office 39 Craig. F D People's Pilot office 36 Chicago Bargain Store dry goods 50 C ilcote. M F. ..law office 132 Cleveland, A W residence 131 Coen, C W residence 7 Coen. C W grain office 82 College. St. Joseph's college 112 Cole, A W residence 35 Commercialtale Bank hank 60 County Officers court house 102 Creviston Bros meat market 78 Crosscup Clias ...saloon 60 Clerk, Countv court house 147 Duvall. W (' residence 149 Dean & Antrim hardware 27 Day. Hiram residence 3 Depot. Monon ticket office 124 Dexter.ll J : „...grocery store 54 Eger. John grocery 51 Eger, W 11 hardware store (i 3 Eigleshach. .1 .1 meat market 127 Eigleshach. a .1 residence 91 Electric Light Plant station 9s Ellis, J II S residence 49 Electric Light Plant, Austin. 11. A C 0... 46 Ellis a Murray dry goods 67 Fcndig. It 1' drugstore! 16 Ferguson. BF residence i 31 Furguson. Wilson ACo office 1 90 Glazehrook, Isaac residence' 66 Goff. G W restaurant and Itakcry 145 llopklns, Eldon residence 59 Hardman. .1 P residence 30 Ilartsell. Dr W \V office 1 134 Harris. II O residence 1 118 llaus. T W restaurant 77 Hollingsworth, E I. residence 1 13 llollingsworilt. G K residence 94 Hopkins. Mrs M K .residAtice 137 Hopkins. Mrs .1 M residence 106 Horton. Dr .1 \V residence 28 Huff, W A residence 57 Huff, W A jewelry stoic 32 11 iIT, .T 1' residence 43 Hi IT. .1 F livery stable 83 Indian School. e 143 Irwin, J F residence 138 Jones, Mrs I,eoTa residence 144 Count v Jail. . . 4 84 Kannal. Dr II .1 residence 57 Kannul. Dr 11 .1 office 72 lv el Icy, II e leti residence 64 Kellner. Cooney. residence 142 Kinney, Mi's. resilience 40 Lullin' sit rot hers ... grocery, lit) Laltiie, 8. ,\f residence 111 La It ue. AS icsiilen e 33 Leopold. A residenc e 129 Leopold. Simon n-.iilencc .53 Long. A F... drugstore 87 Long. A F ic-ddcm-e 48 Longhliridge. . r. \ K office 44 Loughhridge. Dr V K residence 76 McCoy. A residence 42 McCoy A Co bnn!< 75 McCoy. T J residence 107 Makecver I louse. 2 Maloy. I-'ran I; grocery 18 Marshall, ti II print ing office 52 Meyer. Flt drugstore 89. Meyer. F. It residence 10(T Mills, rl* .. ....residence 340 Mills C E office 56 Model Store dry "nods 122 Moss. Mrs LA resldenci 99 Mossier. Win residence 86 Murray. Geo K residence 72 Murray. II I! residence 5 Noweis A Babcock grain office 79 Noweis, (' I) drygoods 12 Noweis. A S residence 120 Noweis* W It residence 159 Nowles House j P 6 Osborne. Frank .tesidence i 152 Parker. Mrs Isabel residence 95 Paxton. J. \V residence 6 Paxton. J W A Co illmher office JO Perkins. W T residence 39 people s Pilot office 00 Phillips. UP ....'.residence 101 Parks. W. T residence 58 Porter & Wishard grocery 119 Porter A Yeoman di-v •ohmu 123 Paradis. Key M K 7. reside!,!!?. 13t> Parkinson. A .residence 146 Khoades. Kd E residenee 15 ltandle. Kohl residence I® Recorder, County court house ih o CCVI ' I‘S 1 ‘ S residence 18 Rensselaer Kupuhlican office 133 Rensselaer Bank... h-ml 29 Koherts-C A residence 4 Robinson Bros lumber A coal 9 Robinson. \\ allace residence Uobinson. Warren reside net* 17 Rosenbaum. A..., residence 41 KosenbiiUfii, A saloon *<t) Bayler. 1 J. . residence 92 S iyler A Collins ...in IT. County cojirt bouse s «'”• residence 2.3 sS* a“cV-° residence 62 htarr.UC 81 Shields Morgan livery stable r- oP lt el ;, <S: laundry C.> Stock Farm. J ca S to ."V; r t A ; residence 45 Strickfaden, Goo A saloon 88 Thompson Alfred residence 55 Thompson & Bro- la w office 93 -1 hompsoii. Delos residence mi Jhonipso". S I* residence 108 Thompson. Thos residence 14 Thompson & eoman farm 41 Tufceur. I saac “ ‘ < V' ! .* o( . erv 60 Treasurer’s Office court house 135 \ anatta, J K residence 61 Warner. N & Sons hardware 97 Washburn. I)r 1 It residence Wasson,.) !• rpslrltMiiT. w righl - T unciert aii'ing ™ arrun £ }?V. n office 19 \\ arner A Collins store II Walton, Ellis residence 73 Wright. C P es e e iu Earner DG 7. ikmoside^e 3?? Es?, VC D H - V residence 141 white. Bruce lesol.-nce 130 Williams..! W-...., .residence 29 \ eoman. D M residence ini v. a f es ‘m 1 grocery stoic 1(9 Yatei, Mrs. residence 22 Brookston toll line 22 Chalmers toll line xf? Lat'iiyette toU line 181 Marlboro toll line 120 Porter. Walter toll Hue 121 Pleasant Ridge toll line 22 Remington toll SI 22 Reynolds .. toll line 22 Wolcott . . .toll line TOLL LINE CONNECTIONS. Remington, Wolcott, Reynolds, Chalmers, Brookston, * Lafayette, Goodland, Kentland, Fowler, Brook, Forsman, Lochiel, Marlboro, Pleasant Ridge, McCoy & Porter Farm, for which the tolls are twenty five cents, and b.y January Ist or before will have connections with Surrey, Parr, Fair Oaks. Kniman, Demotte. Wheatfield, Stoutsburgb, Roselawn, Lake Village, Shelby. Thayer, Lawler's Ranch and Otis Ranch, for which tolls

are seventy five cents. Also connections with Crawfordsville, Attica. South Raub, Romney, Linden, Wingate, New Rich mond, Shodeland, West Point Odell’s 1 for which tolls are thirty five cents. No charges are made unless the party gets service and for the toll he has five minutes use of the line and longer without extra charge if others are not waiting to use the lines.

THE PINKAMINK DRAINAGE.

One of the most important features of the industries of Jasper county is the work which lias been in progress for the last three and a half years, in the north eastern portion of the county, known as the "Pinkamink marsh" or the basin of the Pinkamink river. This tract of land embraces about GO.OOO acres and was probably one half subject to overflow, while much of the remainder was inaccessable by reason of the adjacent marshes.

in the summer of 1891 Benjamin J. Gilford of Kankakee, a man of some wealth, and energy and administrative ability, visited the city of Rensselaer, making inquiries touching the swamp landsof Jasper county. He was unknown in this city. He had been informed that there was a large body of land* in the north eastern portion of the county “'that had no value except to trade to some one who had never seen it” owned or controlled mainly by Thompson Brothers. He called on Simon P. Thompson, but found that gentleman engaged in giving directions to an Engineer "who was about to make a survey of the Wakarusha” and therefore "could not see him.” Mr. Gifford said he “was in no hurry and would wait." The next day Thompson Bros, offered to show him the Pinkamink marsh, but he said "ho,” he only wanted their "price and a plot of the lands", he did not "wish to put them to so much trouble." He drove around the marsh and through it (where lie could) and observing bunoak and shell hark hickory growing on the east, west and south and "nigger heads" or boulders scattered around promiscuously. He at once began to eon aider the question of drainage. He observed that the natural outlet was through the Pinkamink river over a very circuitous route and a lelge of rock for several miles: that the distance could be reduced one half and the rock avoided by making a new outlet, through the Helvis ditch with very little work. Keeping his own counsel he began the purchase of the Haddock marsh and the Hel vis marsh, in a way that led many people to believe that he was but an agent in disguise for the Standard Oil Company, which had for some time previously been prospecting.in these regions for oil. This he denied but such denials only continued the suspicions of some people. In May 1892 he started his lirst steam (boom) dredge at Boston's bridge. This was followed by another like dredge in October same year, in the "Buckhorn branch;" the firmer dredge sprung a leak and sunk in March 1894 and was p 'rmanently laid olf; the latter is still at work. Tli -sc dredges were operated night and day and each employed about twenty men. They have now -constructed about sixty (60; miles of dredge ditch and supplemtal to this work has been con stnicted many miles of small laterals, both open and tiled. On the land was found considerable timber, and saw mills were started in the fall of 1892 and from one to four have been running since and have madeover two million feet of lumber, which has been utilized in houses, barns, corn cribs, bridges, etc. The tops of trees have been utilized for fuel to run the dredge boats, which have consumed over 10,000 cords. The "nigger heads” have been utilized for foundations to buildings. The building of houses was commenced in 1893, and as high as twelve gangs of carpenters have been employed at one time. 110 houses have now been built or are under construction and a like number of barns.. We give a view of a standard house and barn elsewhere.

These houses are main part, 16x30; wing 16x16, both parts 16 feet high. Divided (below) into living room 16x15, kitchen 16x16, bed room 15x9, pantry 15x1, 1 2 ; stairway with closet underneath, off bed room. Second story two bed rooms 16x16 each, and one 9x12. Closets and hall, stairway and all lower rooms wainscotted three and a half feet high, balance lath and pi s er. These houses are covered with sheathing and lap siding and painted (two coats) white. The barns are 28x40, fourteen feet posts; capacity, 16 horses and feed bin for four hundred bushels and mow for 25 tons of hay. At each of these building sites will be found a rock well from which can be obtained a drink of white sulphur water, cold, cleafnand pure. And which is beli ived to be very healthy. As there has been practically no sickness among this entire population now numbering over 6)0 and are passing through the fourth year. These wells average about one hundred feet deep and from one to four’ gangs aji-e kept constantly at work in their construction.

This land bids fair to become one of the finest agricultural regions m the state. Results so far have been as follows: 1893, crop oats 500 bushels, corn 3000 bushels; 1894, crop oats «2,000 bushels, corn 20,000 Imshels; 1895 crop oats 10,000 bushels, corn 100,000 bushels. A few farms were started in 1893, which numbered 20 in 1894 and 60 in

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND,. THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1893.

1891, while 110 are ready for 1896. Nearly all of which are rented, on terms mainly for of grain but. where land is near railroad the rent is 2-5 of grain.

The tenants on this tract of land are mainly from Boon county, Ind., and are a class of people of which Jasper countymay well feel proud. As a rule these people are poor, but seam to he sober, honest and very industrious. One may visit this region of country any day and find little, or no loafing, but Jill at work doing something. Wagons may be heard on th * roa 1 as early as half past five o'clock in the morning, and as la.t j as nine o'clock at night, while the dre lge boat whistle marks the time the rema rider of the night. All seem to know thenwork, there is nocqnfusipn, no wrangling or contentions, ancl crime isso uncommon, and law so little use 1 that one justice of the peace (Esp lie Abbit j serves the t iree large towi ships of Gi 1 an, Walker and Bark'ey, and he has so little to do as to be hardly familiar with the ordinary forms of legal'proceedings, but devotes more of his time to the]study of and expounding of biblical questions than to the acts of the legislature. Recently a gentleman traveled twenty miles before he could find any one who could "direct him to a justice of the peace. H • wanted to acknowledge a deed.

These Boon county people all seem to be friends to Mr. Gifford and he seams to be to them (using their language) "the best frion ] on eirth". He says give him a small army like these and a few dredge boats to serve as "heavy artillery", and he can build up an empire greater than "Caesar’s". And it would seem poss !lie. Hi s holding now in real estate is over 30.01)9 acres, an 1 n - gotiations are pending touching large additions. His dredge bo it. is now in position where it can break “into the Kmakee marsh containing its million acres of swamp land almost any day wit out

Hon. Robert Parker, Banker, Remington, Ind. See sketch.

going out of the water. And his recent purchases in that direction may have som% significance. He believes that you can help the poor man more by giving him a home and employment at. fair wages, and a little direction (where necessaryi than you can by founding any number of charitable institutions, churches or colleges which require the abandonment of manhood before aid is given. And his only regret is that he did not commence this good work sooner or had more years left in which to work for the prosperity of his much loved tenants, friends and their children, who show themselves to be worth}' of consideration.. And hopes that every industrious poor man now on; his farm, will some' day have a farm of his own, the rich fruit of his own industrious efforts. And would be glad to be permitted to see such day.

DORA’S RESOLUTIONS.

It is so warm and cozy here in bed, I’m going to lie here and think up lots of good resolutions for Jhe new year. Then I can write them out after breakfast. Why don’t you make some resolutions, Agnes?” “I don’t know. I hadn’t thought about in," replied the little girl. “I have been hurrying to get dressed, for I was afraid mamma would want me; Freddie has been crying all the morning.” “Fred is such a cry-baby!” returned Dora. “Well, perhaps I’d better get up, seeing you are all ready to go down. Tell mamma I am coming right away,” and she crawled out of bed as Agues closed the door; . —J Dora reached the dining-room just !

ISH YOU A HAPPY New Year!” called Dora, from her pillow, to her sister Agnes, who stood before the dress-ing-table, brushing her curls. “What makes you get up so early? It isn’t breakfast time yet.

as her mamma and sister set the breakfast on the tible. Freddie had been restored to good humor, and everybody seemed happy as they gathered aretand ..he first morning meal of the new year. Bright faces, merry voices and good wishes made it a charming family group. Dora and Agnes cleared, the table when the meal was finished, for there was no servant in the house, aDd the two sisters helped much with the work, that mamma might get more time to sew. ‘‘Shall I wash or wipe the dishes?” asked Dora. “Oh, I’ll wash them, and you can wipe them,” said Agnes, “for you’d rather, and I don’t care.” “Well, then I’m going up-stairs to write out my New Year’s resolutions; I’ll be down by the time you have the dishes ready to rinse,” and Dora ran up to her room. Dora spoiled several sheets of paper before she had her resolutions written to suit her. Finally, she read them over with a certain degree of pride:

New Year’s Resolutions of Dora Buckingham Prescott.

“I will get up early in the morning and help mamma with the breakfast. “I will go to bed at night without

making a fuss about it: “I will dress Freddie every morning. “I will take my turn at washing the ' dishes, even though I like better to wipe them. “I will dust the parlor every and i not leave it for Agnes. | “I will not forget to make the beds ! when it comes my week. “I will take care of my bird every morning. “I will amuse Freddie, and not be cross to him once this year. “I will sew on my buttons without 1 being told. i “I will not let Agnes do my share of the work, just because she is obliging. l ‘l will always be pleasant to everybody ” s . “Dora, mamma wants you ” “Oh, don’t come bothering me now, Aggie!” “Mamma wants you to see to Freddie.” “Oh, dear! Why can’t you?” “I’ve got to go down to the postoffice.” “Oh! Why, have you finished the dishes?” “All done,” said Agnes, with a little smile that had not a mite of superiority in it. “But I meant to come and wipe them,” said Dora, with a flush. “Never mind,” said Agnes, “I knew you were busy.” Dora followed her sister down-stars, thinking she would put the rooms in order and feed the canary before Agnes returned. But to her surprise, the parlor and sitting-room were dusted. Diok was eating fresh seed,with great relish, and it was 10 o’clock. How long a time she had spent oVer those resolutions! After making Baby Fred happy with a big block house, Dora slipped upBtairs and brought down her paper of “New Year’s Resolutions” and quietly laid it on the parlor fire. “I’ll keep my eyes and ears open, as Aggie does, and do everything I see that needs to be done, and try to be as pleasant as she is. That will be better than writing out a thousand reso- —' -- ' ' - ' .-t- ■-A 'ii rations!" •'' " • f\ I ' '. '

IN ARCTIC REGIONS.

A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL. AMID ICE AND SNOW. How the Members of the Peary Expedition Passed the Day—Teaching the Eskimos American Manners—Loath to Quit the Dinner Table.

fm\ rg. RS. PEARY, who spent so many tej dious months with |) her husband in the Mjfl rJjUi Arctic regions, was * - determined that the » holidays should not 5V pass her by unnoh l —v. ticed; and so , though she was livP ing in the most primitive fashion,

with a frozen world all about her, she made hearty though simple preparation for festivity. They spent, she says, a day in decorating the interior of their Arctic home for the Christmas and New Year festivities. In the larger of the two rooms the ceiling was draped with red mosquito netting. Wire candelabra and candleholders were placed in all the corners and along the walls. Two large United States flags were crossed at one end of the room, and a silk sledge flag was put up on the opposite corner. I gave the boys new cretonne for curtains for their bunks, and we decorated the photographs of our dear ones at home with red, white and blue ribbons. We spent the evening in playing games and chatting, and at midnight Mr. Peary and I retired to our room to open some letters, boxes and parcels given us by kind friends, and marked: “To be opened Christmas eve at midnight.” On Christmas day we had what we considered the jolliest Christmas dinner ever eaten in the Arctic regions, and then we invited our faithful natives to a dinner cooked by us and served at our table, with our dishes. I thought it would be as much fun for us to see them eat with knife, fork and spoon as it would be for them to do it. After our meal had been cleared away, the table was set again, and the Eskimos were called in. We had nicknames for all of them, and it was,-the “Villain” who was put at the head of the table, and told that he must serve the company just as he had seen Mr. Peary serve us. The “Daisy” took my place at the foot of the table, and her duty was to pour the tea. The “Young Husband” and “Misfortune” sat on one side, while “Tiresome” and the “White Man” sat opposite. It was amusing to see these queerlooking creatures, dressed entirely in the skins of animals, seated at the table, and trying to act like civilized people. Both the Villain and the Daisy did their parts well. One incident was especially funny. The White Man, seeing a nice-looking piece of meat in the stew, reached across the table and endeavored to pick

“It was amusing to see these queerlooking creatures.” it out of the dish with his fork. He was immediately reproved by the Villain, who made him pass his mess pan to him, and then helped him to what he thought he ought to have, reserving, however, the choice piece for himself. They chattered and laughed and seemed to enjoy themselves very much. Both women had their babies in the hoods on their backs, but this did not hinder them in the least. Although at times the noise was great the little ones slept through it all. The Daisy watched the cups very carefully, and as soon as she spied an empty one, she would say: “Etudo cafee? Nahme? Cafee peeuk.” (More coffee? No? The coffee is good.) Finally at ten o’elock the big lamp was put out, and we told them it was time to go to sleep, and that they must go home, which they reluctantly did.

The Coming Event.

Now Santa Claus hooks up his teams, Among the snow-girt dells, And happy children hear in dreams The jingle of his bells.

They watch the lofty chimney tops With eyes of eager? youth, And seldom ’tis a young one drops To whai is really truth. The only wholesome bread for us Is that we take from God’s hand as his gfft.

A CHRISTMAS TURKEY.

How an Old Tar Came Near Being Cooked For Dinner. “I never think of Christmas turkeys without remem her in the time I come near to bein the turkey myself,” said an aged sailor to the group of seamen who surrounded him as he • sat upon the end «f an old spar on South street, New York. The ancient mariner's name was Jack Brown, and as he had followed the sea fuf " man and boy for over 50 years and had cruised in every part of the world the group listened in respectful silence, well knowing that when old Jack Brown started to spin a yarn it was sure to be well worth hearing. “It was away back in 1640, and I was little more than a youngster then—only about 18. I had bunked aboard the Jolly Rover;' but, mates, she didn’t prove to be what her name indicated. We left this port for Melbourne, weathered Cape Horn as safe from Davy Jones’" locker as a mountain a mile inland, and all was smooth goin until we were a week’s sail into the south Pacific. Then a storm struck us that sent us scuddin along under bare poles like a Mother Carey’s chicken afore a cyclone. “I’ve run afore many a gale, mates, but that hurricane could give points to any of ’em. One minute the Jolly Rover would plunge out of sight into a big wave, and the next she would seem to be perched like the ark on a Mount Ararat of water. The gale blew nearly all night without a moment’s pause. All we could do was to let her run. Suddenly she struck with a shock that made every timber creak. I was below, but I rushed on deck, expectin the ship would go down. An instant later a big wave came over the rail, washed me overboard and swept me on and on. I | kept my head above water part of the time, j every moment expectin to be dashed agin j the rocks. To my joy, I was washed up on a sandy beach. Luckily I had strength ( enough left to get up and run inland a few ' feet before the next wave caught me. | “Day was just breakin, and as I looked i around I saw' Captain Stout, Second Mate j Bill Pry and Jim English crawlin out of * a big wave and helped ’em up the beach. “ ‘Look!’ yells Pry, sliakin the water ! from his eyes. ‘There she goes!' “As.y?e glanced in the direction of the Jolly Rover she staggered like some giganI tic animal with a mortal wound and sank ! beneath the waves. We watched the beach : for an hour, but not another man came ! ashore. Every Jack Tar of ’em was 1 drowned. Then we started inland to cxI plore the place. We didn’t feel at all at ease, mates, because Captain Stout figured I as how we must be on one of the smallest I of the Solomon islands, which we knew was inhabited by the toughest lot of cannibals and head hunters in the Pacific. “We realized that we were dead men if 1 wo were captured, and we kept a sharp j lookout for the cannibals while we were ; takin in the lay of the land. Wo saw | many cocoanut and breadfruit trees, but | the island was apparently uninhabited. I say apparently because about half an hour | after we lauded a dozen ugly, tattooed 1 savages leaped upon us from the bushes. I knocked one of ’em off his legs before a big warclub brought me to the grass, and Stout, Pry and English had no better luck. The savages were armed with clubs, bows and arrows and bone pointed spears, and their hair was thick and bushy and was stuck full of sticks for hairpins. “We were all bound hand and foot, and then the savages carried us to a village near by, where we were thrown into a hut and guarded by two big black fellows armed with clubs. “ ‘Mates,’ says English, ‘did you notice what was liangin up agin the hut next to us?’ We all said, ‘No.’ ‘Well,’ says he, ‘it was the flesh of human bein’s, and, as Captain Stout feared, these fellers with clubs is cannibals.’ “ ‘lf they are, our goose is cooked, and —and so are we, ’ the captain says with a hollow sort of a laugh. ‘Blast my eyes,’ he says, ‘if tomorrow ain’t Christmas day too! Perhaps these blacks are goin to have us help ’em make their turkey dinner a success. ’ Wo all shuddered, and Jack Brown for one thought ho had seen New York for the last time. We lay in the hut all day and the followin night. The savages fed us very well, and while we enjoyd the moss wo couldn’t help thinkin that the black villains were giviu it to us to make us more fat and eatable. Next mornin wo heard agreatyellin and poundin of tamtams, and Fry, who could look through a crack in the hut, said that a big party of blacks had just' returned from somewhere in largo war canoes and had with ’em a dozen native prisoners. “ ‘lt looks,’ says Fry, ‘as if our captors have been makin war on another tribe that lives in this village. The prisoners they have with 'em evidently got away when the village was attacked, but were chased inland and captured. ’ “Pry’s guess proved correct, and tie soon found that our captors did not live on the island, but on another largo one about five miles away. Just after sunrise Christmas day we were loaded into big, handsomely carved war canoes along with the dozen native prisoners, and the savages paddled across a wide channel to their own island. On the shore was a native village, and about 1,000 dancin, yellin drum beatin blacks of both sexes welcomed the return of the war canoes, loaded down as they were with Christmas turkeys. “Well, mates, the savages carried us up the beach a short distance and dropped us near an ugly idol 20 foot high. Several hundred fires were built near by, and then most of the savages gathered in a circle around the idol. Pretty soon a dozen of the tallest blacks, all armed with long, sharp spears, danced around the idol to the music of a hundred tamtams, and then they ranged th'e dozen native prisoners in a/line facin the idol and spcarfcd the poor <blacks through and through. “I won’t describe the horrible scene that followed, except to say that we lay there expectin every minute would bp our last aud saw tho cannibals cook and devour their victims. “ ' They’re savin us for dessort, ’ says-the .captain. “But they didn’t save us long. In a very few minutes the 12 big savages were leadin us toward the idol, and we were sayin goodby to one another. Death seeinod very near when suddenly we heard the boom of a dozen cannon. An instant later shells exploded right and left among the cannibals, killin scores of thorn. The remainder took one look at the British man-o’-war, lyin in the channel half a mile away, and then fled, panic stricken. “We sailors were soon tackin for the beach with every sail drawin, you can bet, and when the warship’s boats picked us up Jack Brown for one was heartily thankin heaven he’d saved his wishbone!” Earle H. Eaton. What folly it is to pray, “Give ua our daily bread,” if we have devoured widows’ houses, and go to church with the cash in our pocket.