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Show Tcrhaps this storm was sent with healing breath. From distant dimes to scourge disease NEWS SUMMARY. DICK RODNEY; Former President Grover Cleveland la confined to liis house with an attack of rheumatism. M. Numa Droz, the distinguished Swiss atatebinan and former president of the confederation, died recently It his 56th year. The big at eel steamer. Arthur Orr. has been wrecked on the rocks at the entrance of Georgian buy. The vessel cost JL'L5,000. The Iustoilice department has authorized a trial of an automobile mail collection service in certain sections of Cleveland, Adventures of An Eton Boy... or. The 517,-300,0- The war department has arranged to send about 1000 recruits to Manila to fill the regiments which are running short on account of death, disease and Afri- ca, reports the island was swept Sunday by a terrific cyclone, which did immense damage, destroying many houses in Mozambique. Thirty meinlers of a Filipino theatrical troop brought to this country last July, are stranded in Seattle after a six months' iinsuecessful tour of the principal coast cities and tow us. The Inter Island Telegraph company which intends to use the Marconi wireless telegraph between the Hawaiian islands, has incorporated for 8100,000, with all the stock subscribed. Caption liauueson disp.itciied t lie transport Grant from San Francisco to Manila on Sunday with Forty-eight- h infantry, the last regiment now under orders to go to the Philippines. The report of the Texas state tax commissioner seeks to readjust the entire taxation system of the state, and is rather severe on railroads, telegraph corporations, raising tax assessments materially. Many thousands of loyal Britons have been calling at the Brittsh consulate in New York City in the last few days, offering their services to their mother country in her struggle with the Boers. Representative Elliots of South Carolina has introduced a bill for the building of a new cruiser to be named the "Charleston, to take the place of the cruiser of that name recently lost in the Philippines. In Reading, I a., the jury in the case of James E. Morton, a printer, charged with counterfeiting international labels, returned a verdict of guilty, and recommeudod him to the mercy of the court Commissiunes Hermann of the general land office decides that tide lands in the district of Alaska are not public lands subject to disposal to individuals under any of the existing land laws of the United States, and that the department has no statutory authority to make concessions to individuals of any mining rights pertaining to such tide lands. The Mexican authorities are contemplating sending more troops into the Yaqui Indian country at once, as it is thought that the present force will not be able to cope with the situation. General Torres now has some 5,000 men. The president has commuted to rs im- prisonment to twenty years the capital sentences imposed by upon four American soldiers, members of a Washington regiment in the Philippines, for criminal assault upon native women. Walter T. TTeber, arrested in Cliicago yesterday charge with using the mails for fraudulent purposes, confessed before Unitea States Commissioner Humphrey that he had grown wealthy through his swindling operations. There will be a strong effort made to have the next Democratic national convention held in Cincinnati. The building erected for the International Saengerfest last spring is still retained in expectation of having the national convention there. Fire destroyed the factory of the Duluth, Minn., Boot and Shoe company Sunday morning. One fireman, B. MoVitt, was killed by falling walls, and two others, John Twaddle and Captain John Walsh, were serionsiy Injured, Loss, 840,000, court-marti- al Hurricane Drives car-rac- w capons. cigar-make- CHAPTER VI. Ug to the Fortunate Isles. Some days after this we passed a cnrraca, as the Portuguese name those large and round built vessels which they send to Brazil and the Indies.and which are alike adapted for burden, fighting and sailing. On exchanging the bearings which, when vessels pass each other, are usually chalked on a blackboard hung over the quarter Weston and Ilislop found a considerable difference between the Portuguese and ours; but, never doubting that we were correct, a, they bore on without hailing the as we passed each other on opposite tacks under a press of sail. The weather continued cloudy, and an increased difference was found on exchanging the latitude and longtitude with another vessel next morning. Then, after an observation at noon, Weston found that for more than fifty hours the Eugenie had been going several miles to the southeast of her due course. The compass was immediately overhauled by Ilislop, who found that the standard of the needle was loose. On that night there commenced a long course of head winds and foul weather, during which the compass never worked properly, and the captain and mate found, by the solar observation, that we had drifted so far to leeward as to he somewhere between the parallels of 28 degrees and 28 degrees 35 minutes north. Tattooed Tom and old Roberts, the were superstitious enough to give me the entire blame of all this, in consequence of having fired one day at Borne of Mother Cary's chickens; an action, they averred, which never failed to give the craft of the perpetrator a head wind for the remainder of her voyage if she ever finished It at all. If this foul weather holds for another day, said Weston, as he trod the deck with a sulkiness quite professionwe shall al under the circumstances, see land sooner than I wished. Land!" I reiterated, brightening at the idea more than he relished. Yes, some part of the Canaries Santa Cruz de la Palma, most likely; but we shall have very rough weather before another sun rises. I know well the signs, Mr. Rodney. Dont you see what Is brewing yonder, Hlslop? he said In a low voice to his mate. You say just what old Roberts, Tattooed Tom, and I were observing forWe have not ward, replied Hlslop. all of us Been a hurricane off the west coast of Africa, a tornado in the Windward IsleB, and a regular roaring pampero off the Rio de la Plata, without learning something eh, captain? I hope not! so remember that this gloomy weather, with the wind lulling away and then coming again in hot gusts with a moaning sound in my part of England we name it the calling of the sea' are alwayB signs of a coming squall. As the night closed in, the canvas on the brig was reduced, the royals were struck and the yards sent on deck; the dead lights were shipped on the stern windows; the quarter boat was hoisted within the taffrall, and there lashed hard and fast, for there were Increasing tokens of a coming tempest, and ere midnight it came with a vengeance. The sky at flr,.t was all a deep, dark blue, wonderfully dark for that region, and the stars, especially the planets, shone with singular clearness and beauty; but In the northwest quarter of the heavens we could see the coming blast. From the horizon to the zenith, there arose with terrible rapidity a mighty bank of sable cloud, forming a vast and gloomy arch, at the base of which a pale and phosphorescent light seemed to play upon the heaving sea. This light brightened and sunk alNow it would shoot downternately. ward with a lurid glare, steadily and brilliantly, under the flying vapor, and then it died away with an opal tint. Sheet lightning of a pale and ghastly green, extending over ten or twelve points of the horizon, flashed and played upon it. Then we heard the rush of rain, as if a great lake had been (ailing from a vast hlght into the sea, and the next the roar of the mighty blast; while furrowing up the ocean in its passage, the tempest came swooping down upon us and around us In a tpecleB of whirlwind. Bravely the Eugenie met It, for her captain and men handled her nobly. She had her topgallant Balls furled her courses up, the topsails lowered upon the cap, and the reef tackles close out; but she swayed fearfully when careening beneath the hot breath o! the mighty blast and riding over those A ). lartugucse East With thee, great Lord whatever Is, is Just, Faith, you are right, sir, said honest Tom lmmbuiirne, touching his lurry hat in respect to the mate, mingled with that piety which, in his own rugged way, a seaman is never without. lb ib lb 6 lb BV JAMES GRANT. i lb lb lb black mountains of wu'er. which in fierce succession it iniiillel toward her. High she went over a sloping sheet of foam one moment, and the next saw her plunging into a deep, black valley of that midnight sea; so deep that the wind seemed to pass over us, the canvas flapped to the mast, and we only caught its weight and power when riding quickly on the crc.--t of the next mighty roller. d Meanwhile the lightso flashed brightly that at ning times we could see every rope in the vessel, our own blanched und pale faces, as we held on by ring holts and belaying pins to save ourselves from being washed overboard hy the blinding sheets of mingled foam and rain that deluged the deck, over which the sea was also breaking heavily every green-forke- CHAPTER VII. I Oo Ashore, The wind lulled away Into a gentle breeze, reef after reef was shaken out until a full spread of canvas once mure covered the spars of the Eugenie; and to repair some trifling damages of the night we crept in shore. As day brightened through clouds half rain, half mist, and wholly gray, or obscure, we saw tbe land looming high and dark. Beyond it In the distance there was a space of vivid light; in the foreground, surf white as snow was breaking on the beach, and high over all. In mid-atowered the wondrous Peak of Adam, on the eastern side of which the sun (as yet unrisen to us) was Bhlnlng brightly when we came to anchor In the harbor of Santa Cruz. We moored in thirty-thre- e fathoms water, about half a mile from the shore, which in most places is steep, with green and lovely slopes rising high above it. As Capt. Weston proposed to weigh next morning, he allowed me to go ashore, but sent with me, to be a guide and companion, Tom Lambourne, the tattooed sailor, who had been frequently before at tbe Grand Canary, aud in whom he reposir instant. Each time the Eugenie rose in her buoyancy, her decks wert half full of water and the long boat amidships filled so fast that a man with a bucket could scarce keep it baled. Following the whirlwind, we went round five times in thirty five minutes, with the afteryards squared and the headyards braced sharp up. Then the black mass of sulphurous cloud In which we were enveloped seemed to ascend, and with the same rapidity with which it approached, passed away into the sky; The chamber of the thunder, as the bard of Cona names it, became agc.in clear, blue and starry, though marked by occasional masses of flying vapor. The rain ceased, and the Eugenie heaved upon a foam covered sea, over which there passed, from time to time, short squalls, compelling us to lower the double reefed topsails and run before the wind. Now a stiff glass of grog was served round to all, and by turns we contrived to get some dry clothing. In the end of the middle watch about four oclock a. m. there was suddqr.ly visible upon our larboard bow H faint and vapory light that shot 'jfpward In the'Cy from time to time, like jets of steam. This singular appearance was high above the horizon, and first caught the anxious eye of Capt. Weston. Hah! do you see that? said he to me. What Is it?" "The Peak of Adam Teneriffe. The great volcanic peak in the For- ed spiracles. Tom means what the Spaniards term the ventas, or nostrils, of the peak, through wh'cli the aqueous vapors come with a buzzing sound, and these cause a species of light, said Ilislop. Well thank heaven, though we are far out of our course, that blast has done no more than wet our storm jackets and scrape some of our paint off. er some provisions, a flask of spirits, and a telescope; and thus provided, old Tom and I, with such emotions of pleasure as two newly escaped schoolboys might feel, landed on the shore, which seemed to heave, sink, under my feet for after the late stuiia I still felt that which is termed the roll of the ship. It was in this harbor of Santa Cruz that the famous old English Admiral Blake encountered, and within bIx hours burned and sunk seven great Spanish galleons, though they were anchored under the protecting cannon of seven forts and a strong castle, In the walls of which some of his shot were shown imbedded for many years Cape Bojadore, dreary ren promontory of Africa, ninety miles distant, is visible from its summit Did the waves of the sea ever overflow that mighty peak? At such a question the mind becomes lost in conjecture. As I am not writing a descriptive book of travels, but merely a plain narrative of my own very recent adventures, I need not detail at great length, either the magnitude or the asof pect of thiB great the Atlantic. n From cliffs of basalt, against which the ocean pours In vain its foam and fury, we ascended the steep slope of the volcano for a few miles. Then at our feet, as it were, we could see that fertile island, where a perpetual spring seems to smile, anil where the fragrant myrtle, the golden orange trees, and the dark funereal cypresses form the mere hedgerows of those plantations where the sugarcane, the broad leaved plantain, the luscious Indian fig, the trailing vine, the fragrant cinnamon, and the pretty coffee bush, weu all flourishing in a luxuriance that filled us with wonder and pleasure. Further off was the boundless sea, of that deep blue which it borrowed from the Bky above, and mirrored In its depth were the shipping In the roadstead, with their white canvas hanging loose to dry in the sun; the green woods and dark rocks reflected downward, and the old turreted castle of Santa Cruz, with the scarlet and yellow banner of Castile and Leon on its in dark-brow- ribbons, and the ship was canted over on her beam ends, almost The mainsail was blown right out of the mens hands, and flapped in the sky like thunder, while the craft a five hundred ton ship she was and all was just on the point of capwith a crash that made when sizing, our hearts ache, snap went the jibboom and topmasts off at the caps, just as at the bowl. youd break a barra-pip- e She righted after that; but four of our best men were swept away to leeward, n ramparts. and never seen again. And now. MasThe summit of the great cone, on the willi all your book learnter Rodney, clothed sides of which we never tired ing, or you. Master Hlslop, with all of gazing, soon became lost In vapor; yours, can you tell the why such things far above the dark green belt of many as tornadoes, hurricanes, pamperos, and mlleB, named the Region of Laurels, the like, are sent to torment the poor and that other belt or forest of timber, fellov.s such as me?" where pines, chestnuts, and oaks of I can, said Ilislep, turning his vast size mingle their varied foliage handsome, but wpI aud weather beattogether, the mountain seemed all of a en face to the steersman. violet tint, which paled away Into faint You can, sir," reiterated Tom loudly blue as Its apex mingled and became and Incredulously. lost amid the gossamer clouds. Listen: (To be continued.) Yes, In four lines. copper-fasten- ed Tirli'tf of IokiNa hiiI Orlglnitl fsihftH und Ironies -- Jrtimiu fruiu tli Piiitnaiu and Tulo of II uuior WUty Miylug Tlie ll:iahlorN ('nuipliilnt Returning home at dose ui day. Who gently chides iny lung ileiuy, And by my side delights to stay? Nobody! Who sets for me the easy chair, Spreads out the papers with such rara And lays my slippers ready there? Nobody! When plunged in deep and dire dis- tress. When anxious cares my heart oppress, Who whispers hopes of happiness? Nobody! When sickness comes and sorrow twain, And gritf distracts my fevered brain, Who sympathizes with my pain? Nobody! Im resolved, But so help me fate. at once my single state, At Hymens altar I will mate To change Somebody! Thomasvillo (Ga.) Enterprise Cm. Ills First great trust, island-mounta- have come out of it uncommon well, sir, said Tom, as he stood with his feet planted firmly apart on the deck, his hard brown hands grasping the wheel, with the helm amidships, as we were still before the wind, and the light of the binacle flaring upward on his weather-beate- n face, with its stripes at least, on strange zebra-lik-e so much of his grim visage aB the peak and a scarlet cravat of his his throat and jaws was round that see. The last time I to us permitted was In such a breeze was a pampero off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, but then we had our foresail split to We A GOOD JOKES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. lie gave me a courier bag containing after. I cast longing eyes to the summit of the mighty Peak of Adam. It seemed to rise Bheer from the sea, over which, i literally piercing the clouds, it towers to the height of more than twelve thousand feet; but the idea of attempting to climb it within so short a space of time as we had to spend on shore never occurred to me, but what a feat it would have been to relate when I returned to Erlesmere! The morning was early yet; the sun tunate Isles?" was barely above the now cloudless Old Tenny Reef in the Canaries, we horizon; so the shadow of this stupencallB it, sir, Bald Tattoced Tom, who dous cone was cast not only over the was at the wheel. It aint a volcano whole which seems to form island, now; but it can't give over its old merely its base, but to the far horizon, trade of smoking altogether, and blows perhaps beyond it; for there are writor a screw Bteam like propeller up just ers who assert that in clear weather as a whale does water through his that and bar- sou-west- SOME tiust; A lb Lieutenant Iiolterts, son of Lord Roberts of Kur.dabar and Waterford, and who was wounded in the engagement r.t Tugela river, ia dead. The slatislieian of the department of Agriculture reports the wheat crop of the United States for lrt'J'J at bushels, or 12.3 bushels per acre. Another lot of concealed arms lias been captured near Guantanamo by the rural guards. A party of colored Cubans was preparing to distribute the discharge. Mozambique, and death; Tls ours on Thine unerring laws to OUR BUDGET OF FOJ Doctor My first case was a child who had been eating candle ends. Assistant What did you do? Doctor Recommended a changt of diet tflfi tho World. Sandy Pikes Tings aint fair In dla of wurld, Billy. Billy Coalgate Whats de matter, now, Sandy? Sandy Pikes Why, I'se jest bln doin a little Finkin'. d Heres dese fellows dat git a good dinner fei jest tellln a funny story after dess tro eatln'. We has to fill a woodshed before we kin git a little cold lunch. II aint right. Chicago News. high-flute- After-Dinn- Clint. er said Indianapolis Journal'"Well, Hungry Higgins, here is the first good thing I ever read about them college dudes. "Wot is it? asked Weary Watkins, with little interest. Wy it says a lot of 'em had a can rush no, It ain't eitlir. It's a can rush. They was a bit of gravy coverin' up the e. Then She Culletl the Dor. Baltimore American Miss Sourfaca (to tramp) Did you ever have a romance In you ife? Tramp Yes, mum; I had a sweetheart oncet dat looked like you. Miss Sourface (setting out another piece of pie) And did she die? Tramp No, mum. Me fadder wanted me to marry her, so I run away from home. Chin of the Old Block. "Ah, your son's a smart fellow got his father's head, eh? chip of the old block! time-wor- hard-worki- Ml Tocelhm Htnnif Chicago Tribune: Katie Dont yon think the white goose Is ever so much prettier than tbe others? Bessie No. And if I did think so I wouldn't say so. He's the gander! Ill CliMrnrfrrHtlo. believes In short engageremarked Mrs. Snaggs. ments," Yes, the Spaniards who were at Manila last year can testify to that Dewey Pitts l',nnicle-Telegrap- h. |