Show J UNKNOWN GRAVE G j AN r 4 1 Four men seated upon a traders trader's veranda at Maduro one of the Marshall islands island The Tho night was brilliantly moonlit moonlit moonlit moon- moon lit and aud tho the hull and spars of a- a little a-little V white brig that lay anchored in the tha J lagoon about a mile distant from frolD the tho traders trader's house stood out as S. S clearly and distinct as fiS if she were but bat 50 60 yards away from where they eat Bat Three of the men present were visitors visit visit- ors ors Ned cd Packenham th the captain Harvey Haryey Har Ear vey the mate and Denison tho the supercargo supercargo super super- cargo of the Indiana The fourth was Vas the trader himself a grizzled old wan wanderer derer of past 60 0 It was vas long past midnight and the theold theold old traders trader's numerous half caste family V had turned in to sleep some hours beV be be- V- V tt fore It so happened that the old man had had bad just been talking about a stalwart son son of his who had bad died a few months y previously and Packenham and Denis Denis' Deni- Deni s' s f VV son Bon to whom tho the lad had been well known asked his father where the boy V V had Jad been buried y In IQ there replied the tho old man tV t t j pointing to a small white walled inclosure int in- in t t. t closure about a stones stone's throw from from- itt tir t L where wO vo were were sitting Theres a good 1 1 i many graves there now Let me we see 3 There is Dawney tho time skipper of the 7 AK Maid cf of Samoa and three of his hig cre crew i ir T r Peterson the Dutchman him Dutchman him that got a bullet into hi him for fooling around mound too much rauch with a pistol pistol- in iu his hia IIi hand baud andt and t challenging challenges natives to fight when lier ho lie hovas r was vas drunk two or three of my wife's relatives who wanted to be buried inlay iti iu ny lay boneyard bc because ause they thought tomake to tomake tomake make me tte r f me return return for keeping their families a niter after ter they sere Ere dead cloud my boy Tom and aud tho bite women White Whito tho t bo mate of the brig II Did a whito bito woman die lie I I here berc Il all aU I co do and nud d Ill lr tell teH you yon a 1 it is i j too la In those queer yarn duns days daysI I r I 9 tho only hito v L uan utin Lere ere I Get I cn very ely well 1 te natives natives cud and was i n a bj big u There er tot oi I many hips h be here e tileD then but vet every I I ten en er orpo 1 po fO e came ramo hero bere bereI from flOID d r I was owns making money hand over list f The house in ill which t I then lived li tood farther away aj n toward tord tb V point in iu rather r n a clearer than this You Yea can an ace seo the place from here flere find cud also see ste that thai a n house standing in sucha position would be visible not liOt only from all nil parts of the inside beaches benches cf ct the lagoon but t from the sea ss 13 well lly My wife wife not not the present ono one you I t was wag know WES a Bouin Bonin island half balf bred h Portuguese woman and as she generally general general- ly talked to me mime e in English and had no native ways to speak of we used need to sit sit 2 o outside outside-in in the tho evenings pretty often and watch our oar kids and tho the village people f dancing and otherwise amusing them them- salves salve on ou tho beach bench w the head bead chief of this lagoon la la goon one told night us that a canoe canon fad fiad 4 d f- f come from Hilli Milli an island ab ju three days days' sail to the tho leeward pf of r Wallers Waller's pla place and Dond reported t that i pl C bip h hadt had had d t p passed quite Guite close to island about f- f I before i K 5 II After we ve vet had sat eat talking talking for awhile r f my tny wife called the tho children in and put them to sleep and Rotan and I and his wives Eat outside n a bit longer smoking It was was a moonlight night almost as VV V bright as it is tonight night r and the sea was rs is si as n a I mill pond pond so so smooth smooth-in fact that there was not even evena a break upon the reef reet and the tho trade j j wind avin died away there was not nott t t 1 the tho sound of a leaf stirring in the palm VV VV J grove II Wo We Web had ad been si sitting ng like this for about half an hour bour when Nora Norn my wife just as she Rhe was coming out of the door to join us us gave a n cry 7 I f Look at the ship I jumped up and looked n and acid d there sure aura enough was a n big ship just showing show- show lug ing round tho thu point and close in not more than n a mile away from the reef reet s 5 V For Fora a n moment I was a bit soared re re- 1 r mem boring that there was not a n breath l of wind ned and yet peeing her ber moving Then I remembered the current and t knew that she must have run up to the v u land from the westward before dark t f V v perhaps and ond that as soon as the tho breeze broeze breezer current carrent which runs r t x had bad died away the tho t. t about four knots had caught her and w J-w J. J W was 3 now moving her ller along I I took her herto 5 to be bo either elther n a Yankee or British North r 4 1 k I American Just as I lied had asked to get one of his bis women to hunt up a n boats boat's crow he sang out ant I Listen Ted I hear a Q boat b at T In another moment or two I heard I it myself plain enough click enough click clack t click and clack and at the tho same time saw 4 l. l that the tho ship was heading away from the landI lendi land lend I knew the ship was right enough and nud could coald not get into any danger as ns the current would take her clear clent of tho the laud land in another hour or so so wo wa all nil Went vent to tho the point to sea seo where tho the boat bont was coming II As As soon as sho was waa witHin V yards ot the beach I bailed hailed them than t tE to tonit V V E nit seep leep a bit to starboard as there there was was a n abig abig big coral bowlder right in front of too the spot they were steering for Aye nye aye ayel l' l answered the man mau steering steering steering steer steer- ing nn and he be did as ns I 1 told him In Iu another another an an- mother m- m other minute or two the boat shot up on the beach bene and we ve crow crowded ed round them Stand Hack back please says the officer speaking in iu a curious hurried kind of way and then I saw that he be had bad a pistol ol in his bis left hand and that the themen themen themen men with him bim looked white and scared and seemed to tako no notice of If ns us Two of the men jumped out and then wo we saw that there was another person in the boat boat boat-a a woman She he was sitting Bitting on the bottom boards lying against the stern sheets and seemed to tobe tobe tobe be either asleep or dead The Tho officer helping them they lifted Jilted her up and out of tho the boat and carried her ashore Then the officer turns to me and I 1 saw that thou though h he tried to speak quietly ho was in a flurry over something all this I said the matter What h have ve you yon got this pistol in your hand for and what is the matter with this woman He put the tho pistol out of sight pretty quick and then speaking so rapidly I could hardly follow him bim said that tho the lady was the captains captain's wife and she had bad been taken ill very suddenly and be her husband seeing my house so BO close to had bad determined to send her ashore and see i if anything could be done for her queer I eaid said Why didn't he come como with her himself Look here here I I dont don't believe all this How did he know even though tho house bouse is here that a white man lives in it And I want to have lave a look at the womans woman's face faco She uhe might bo be dead for all I know t By this time my wife and one of wives had gone up to the tha woman woman wom wom- an and I saw that although she wasn't dead she sho l looked very like it for her herey ey eyes g were closed and sho unconscious of all that was going on She was young about young about 25 or so and so-and and was rather pretty Please take tako her bel to your to-your your house says the tho officer and rind as sOon as we havo have towed the ship out oat of danger the captain will come ashore and see you Hold on oni says I and I grabbed him by the arm Do you mean to say youre you're going off in this fashion without telling mo me anything further Who are you anyway STat is tho the ships ship's name He hesitated just a EI second and aud then said The Inca Prince Price Captain Brough- Brough ton tou But I cant can't stay to talk now v. The captain himself will tell you yon about it in inthe inthe inthe the morning II And then before I could stop him he ho jumped back out of my reach into tho the boat and anti the tho four sailors two of whom were of somo sort shoved off and away they went aga again n. n Well we vvo carried tho the woman up to the house n and aud d placed her in iu a n chair and the moment my wife took tho the woolen wrapper that covered her head boad and shoulders she sha cried out that there thero theros ws s blood running down her ber neck And nd it didn't tako take me lo long to discover that tho tiro woman V was s dying from a u bullet in the back of her ter head bead We did all that we ve possibly could for tor the tho poor thing but lint she never regained re re- gained consciousness and toward sunrise sunrise sun suu- rise she eho died quietly There e Va wet was noth- noth Il noth nothing th ing fug about her clothing to show who she was but she be wore rings Ra such sach h ws ns as would belong to a of of somo V position That she eho had hul been becu murdered I could not doubt and come orne da day even after fter all these years tb the crime may como come to light the ship asked the mate mato of the tha Indiana Out Oat of sight by 8 o'clock in the morning As Aa soon Goon ns as I saw caw what was tho the matter with the tha woman I knew that we need not exp expect ct to to se see any one ana from the ship ba back k again I III won wonder er what the true story of that woma womans woman's death Eath c was said Packenham thoughtfully as ns ho bo looked toward the pla ewh esho sho was buried Heaven only knows answered theold tho the I old trader Whether it was a mutiny and md her husband was murdered or whether r tho the officer who came came ashore with her was the captain himself and her ber husband as well I cannot tell Anyway Anyway Anyway Any Any- way I have since learned that there never was a ship named the Inca Prince Ive I've told the tho toy story to every shipmaster Ive I've met since that night and and it was written about a good deal in iu the tho English Eng Eng- lish Ush and American Then the tho affair was forgotten and like liko m many n Another another such thing the tho secret may never London corn out London Chronicle Steel Plates Plate For Tor Boilers The progress made mado in engineering is notably exhibited in ia the fact that of late years iron plates for the time construction tion of boilers have- have been almost entirely entirely entirely entire entire- ly superseded by homogeneous steel plates these having a n greater tensile strength than iron plates and a tS f greater elasticity and ductility The standard tests teats now require a f tensile strength of from to OOOO pounds pound per square inch that inch that is is the quality of the steel plate is required to be such that a bar barone one ono inch square would necessitate a force of of pounds to pull it aSunder asunder asun- asun der and iu lu such process the ductility of tho steel would causo cause it to stretch somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what BO so that at the point of fracture there would be a marked reduction of ot area aren in the bar the amount of this re- re deciding ia in a n tho the quality of ot the steel a as adapted to boiler construction In making specifications for boilers therefore especially for high nigh pro pressures it has come to be bo a condition condition condition con con- that the steel plates shall be of the above named tensile strength per square inch and that the thEl reduction of area at nt the point of fracture under a test like the tho above shall be bonot not leas less than 60 50 per o cent cent- that Bout that is ill the metal stretched under the test or strain so that on breaking break lag ing it was lees than one-half one t the e original fuel inal area of the bar Such tests deter cleter- mino rnino tho the quality and ability of the steel plates when wheel made up into a n boiler to adjust themselves to th the expansion and contraction of time the metal caused by the varying temperatures to which the tho boiler boiler boiler boil boil- er is subjected when it it is set up and nud in use uso put i. i t 1 |