Mpftt> t ? t ? I ii l ii' ii 11 f i i ?* *?*?!? 1 i A WOMAN CRUSOEI <i ? - I ? t * <> W.e Was Cast Upon a Desert <> Island and Lived There < | For Four Years. | ?< i_ ? On the 26th day of October, A. P. 1871, the trading schooner Little King sailed out of the port of Sin gapore, bound for the Kinderoon is lands, to the north, and only one of her crew was ever again met with. For five years before the schooner had belonged to and been command- : ed by Captain Ezra Williams, an American from San Francisco, lie traded between Singapore and Su matra, Java, Borneo and the smaller islands of the Java sea, and in May. 1874, died at Singapore of fever, lie had then been married for three years to an English woman, whose maiden name was Danforth, who had been a domestic in an English family in Singapore. She had ac companied him in all his voyages and had secured much experience and information. As she could not readily dispose of the schooner, she determined to continue in the busi ness, acting as her own supercargo. Mrs. Williams secured an Eng lishman named Packer as captain, another named Hope as mate, and with three Malays before the mast and a Chinese cook and with aboul $7,000 in specie in the cabin slu 6ailcd away on her first voyage, and it was four years later before she was again heard of. The purpose of this narrative is to chronicle her adventures in the interim as I had | f Irnm ^ i?nm 1> on nn'w 1%*-,^ iuv i.i iivm uci una iips. While it was a bit queer to star; on a voyage with a woman virtually in command of the craft, Mrs. Williams had nothing to fear from her crew. The officers were good navigators, and the men were will ing, and all were anxious for a profitable voyage. She had no com plaints to make until the islands had been reached. The group lies between the Malay peninsula and the island of Borneo, about 100 miles off the coast of the former and from 250 to 300 miles from Borneo. There are 19 islands in the group, covering a length of 120 miles by about 40 broad. There are only seven or eight which are inhabited, and at the time of which 1 write the people were a lawless set and a share of them out and out pirates. The products were dried fish, sea shells, cocoanuts, dyestuffs, various herbs and roots for medicinal pur poses and several sorts of spices. The schooner had been there once before and made a profitable trip of it. She had clothing, powder, shoes, axes and a great variety of notions, and where none of these was wanted ahe paid cash. On this trip the schooner worked to the northward and made her stop, at the island of Quewang, being the third one from the northernmost is land of the group. She met with a cordial reception and at once began bartering for and receiving cargo. She was anchored in a sheltered bay within 500 feet of the beach and had been there five days before anything occurred to arouse Mrs. Williams' suspicions that all was not right. She then observed that the entire crew were drinking deep ly of a native liquor which the na tives were supplying in a liberal manner and that some of the fel lows were becoming impudently fa miliar. W hen the captain was spoken to, lie laughed at her idea of trouble and promised better things, but the drinking continued. On the after soon of the seventh day several wo men came off in the canoes. One of them who could speak English pret ty fairly was presented with 6onie ornaments by Mrs. Williams, and in return she hinted to her that it was the intention of the natives to cap ture and loot the schooner that night. They had disaovered that there was a large sum of money on board, and they had found the crew an easy one to handle. The nntive woman hadnt time or opportunity to say much, but no sooner had the crowd of natives left the schooner art dusk, as was their custom, than Mrs. Williams set out to sound the alarm. Imagine her feelings when she discovered that every single man on board, from captain to cook, was so much under the influence of liq uor as to be unable to comprehend her words. She doused them with sea water and pounded them with belaying pins, but all to no purpose. The entire lot were stupidly drunk. Just as the natives had planned for. It was a perilous situation for the woman to be placed in. If the na tives captured the schooner, they would murder every one of the crew as a natural sequence, and the first step toward capturing her had already been taken. The step she took showed sound judgment. The schooner's yawl was down, having been in almost hourly use. The na tive Tillage was about 40 rods back from the beach, and as the schooner swung to the ebb tide she presented her broadside to the village. Wher i the yawl was pulled around to tl.< port side, she was out of sight. Mrs Williams' first act was to step the mast, her next to supply the craft with provisions and water. There were an unusual number of lights burning in the village, showing that something was on foot, but she had no fear of an attack until a later hour. The natives would wait until certain that all the people were helpless. Mrs. Williams had determined t< slip away from the doomed craft in the yawl, although she had no expe rience in the management of a 'smal boat. After water and provision she brought up all her money which was in boxes she could ban die. Not a penny of it was left be hind. There were a rifle, revolve: and double barreled shotgun be longing to her husband. These t!.. took, together with powder, sho and fixed ammunition. Then sin- | gathered up all her bedding and clothing, took three or" four spar blankets, two suitg of clothes be longing to the officers, and whet, these were in the boat site took pots, pans, dishes and cutlery and bun : died up a lot of carpenter's tools, se cured two axes, a lot of small rope several pieces of canvas and, in brief, loaded the yawl with whatev er was portable and handy, includ ing, the clock, compass, quadrandj sextant and a lamp and four gal Ions of oil. She worked for upward I of two hours getting these thing- j into the boat, and the last article- ! taken aboard were meat, flour, j beans, tea and other provisions from the lazarette. ? I It was about 10 o'clock when Mrs. Williams took her seat in the yawl and cast off from the schooner, and the tide at once drifted her out of the bay to the north. The only thing of consequence She had for gotten was a chart of the Java sea. which she could have put her hand on at a minute's notice, and it was the want of this which made her Crusoe for several years. As the yawl went to sea after its own fashion, Mrs. Williams lost the points of the compass at once. In deed, had she kept them in mind ii would have been of no benefit just then, as she had not studied the chart and, could not have told which way to steer to reach another group or the mainland. She heard noth ing whatever from the natives, but several years later it was ascertain ed that they did not board tin schooner until midnight. The men. all of whom were still drunk and asleep, were stripped and tossed overboard to drown, and then the absence of the woman and her mon ey was discovered. Five or six na tive craft were at onoe sent in pur suit, while the people who remained looted the schooner of everything of value to them and then towed her out to deep water and scuttled her to hide the evidences of their crime. After drifting three or four miles out to sea the yawl got a light breeze, and after a few trials the woman learned how to manage the sail and lay a course. She had no idea which way she was heading, but ran off before the breeze and kept going all night and until midafter noon the next day. She must have passed the island of Upnong in the early morning, but so far to the westward that she could not see it The wind, hauling at mklforenoon. altered her course by several poiuts. and the northernmost island of the group, named I'oillo, was thus brought in line. The island is seven miles long by three in width at its widest part and well wooded and j waicitu. The woman landed on the east side at the mouth of a creek which forms a snug little harbor. She was convinced that this was one of the islands of the Kinderoon group, but she did not know that it was the most northerly one. By ecu suiting the compass she got the car dinal points; but, not having stud ied the chart, she could not say in what direction any other land lay. She had seen the sails of two trad ers that morning, but as they wen native craft she had every wish to avoid them. The boats which were sent in pursuit of ber must have taken another course, as she saw nothing of them. When Mrs. Williams landed on the island, she had no idea of stop ping there for more than a day or two or until she could decide on some plan. She had scarcely gone ashore when a gale came up which lasted about 30 hours, during which the yawl was so damaged that she must undergo repairs. She unload ed her goods on the shore, covered them from the weather and then set out to explore the island, pretty we!! satisfied that it was inhabited and hoping, if it was, that her monet might secure assistance. Before night she was satisfied that 6he was all alone, and she made a shelter out of the blankets and slept the night iway as peacefully astif in her cabin an the schooner. Next day she ex changed her apparel for a man's suit and l>e(ran the erection of a hut. In a prove about 200 feet from the beach she erected a shelter 10 by 20 feet which withstood the storms of almost four years. While the side consisted of canvas and ]K>les, the roof was thatched with a long grass which she found on the island in abundance. It took the woman about a week to construct her hut and move her stores into it, and this had scared, been done when her boat, owing to carelessness on her part, was carried off by the sea, and she now realized that she was a prisoner until su h time as the crew of some trading vessel might land- and discover her. After hei house was completed sin made a more thorough exploration of her island home. There wen parrots and other birds, snakes of i. harmless variety, Borneo rats and ? drove of about 300 Java pigs, " hi ' are about the size of the America: peccary, but are wild instead n fierce. The woman had clothing to last her five or six years, but the provi sions she had brought from the schooner would not supply her needs more than a few months While hoping and expecting to In taken off almost any day, she wiseh prepared for a long stay. She hard fish hooks and lines in her outfit, and with fish from the sea, meat from the woods and bananas and wild fruits from the groves she had a variety and a-plenty. Six month after she landed a native craft pu: in about a mile from her hut; but. creeping through the woods, she saw that all were Malays and so savage in appearance that she did not dare make herself known. Soy en months later a second craft sent men ashore to fill two water cask-, but she was also afraid of these She lived very quietly from thai time until nearly two years aftei her landing, having remarkably good health all the time, but natu rally lonely and cast down at times. One afternoon as she was in th< forest, about half a mile from home, having her shotgun with her, a Bor neo sailor suddenly confronted l:cr. He was entirely alone, and whether be had been marooned or cast awr.; she never learned. As she was dress ed in a man's suit he naturally took her for a man, but his first move ment was a hostile one. He ad vanced upon the woman with a club in his hand and uttering shouts of menace, and to save her own life she was compelled to shoot him. Now and then, all through her stay, trading vessels were sighted in the offing, and sometimes a crafl known to be manned by English men, but signals made to the latter by means of smoke were never heed ed. Her main hope was that the loss of the schooner would in some way reach her friends at Singapore and that a searching party might he sent out to her rescue. One day, when 6he had been 0:1 the island four years lacking about 50 days, the British survey ship Sa hib, then engaged in resurveviny the group, dropped anchor off the mouth of the creek and sent a party pshore to explore the interior. 1 had the honor not only to head this party, but to be the first man to see and to speak to Mrs. William?. We found her in excellent health, although tanned and roughened by exposure to the weather. When she had donned her own proper apparel and had time to tidy up, no one could find fault with her appear ance. Alter a lew days we sailed lor Singapore, where Mrs. Williams was safely landed, and a few weeks latei a man-of-war was dispatched to the island where the schooner had been seized. Natives were found who gave all the particulars, and the re sult was that eight men were brought aboard, tried, convicted and swung up at the yardarm, while three more were shot wliile trying to escape from the island. Wordy Coleridge. Coleridge's verbosity is illustrated by himself in a letter among the Blackwood correspondence. While in the company of his friend and faithful host, Dr. Gihnan, he had a fainting fit. His first words on re covering from it weie: "What a mystery we are 1 What a problem is presented in the strange contrast between the imperishability of our thoughts and the perishable, fuga cious nature of our consciousness I" Then he heard his friend say. "Thank heaven, it is not apoplexy!" Conceive a man's pouring out this stream of words?and Such long ones?on recovering from a fit! On the Bench. "Your friends call you 'judge,' do Ihey not?" asked the lawyer, frown ing heavily at the witness. "Yes, 6ir," the witness replied. "No particular reason for calling you that, is there ?" "Well, sir, you may not believe it, but before I came to this state I held an honorable and responsible position on the bench for 18 years." "Where r "In a shoemaker's shop, sir."? Exchange LABOR OF LUNATICS. Uaeful Work Performed by Inmate* of Inaane Asylum*. To find a land where lunatics are successful artisans, tillers of the soil and builders of railways one | needs to travel v.o farther than to Willard, in Seneca county, N. Y. In the Willard Statu Hospital For the Insane tile inmates make their own clothing and shoes, manufac ture brooms and tinware and per forin much of the ordinary labor of the institution. They work the farm of 1,200 acres which is con nected with the institution and rai e all the food necessary for the hun dreds of patients there, besides pat ting up enough canned fruit to sup ply all the other state insane asy lums. But the greatest work per formed by the patients at Willard was the building of the railroad which connects it with the Lehigh Valley road, six miles distant. Nearly all of the actual work in the building of this railway was done b the lunatics and done well. Tit i idea of giving to the inmates of th institution steady work, and a much of it us possible outdoors. 1: had a Ik neficie.l clTect upon them. In the Pennsylvania Hospital !'? the Insane the inmates do sc... creditable work in modeling in cl {iroducing pottery und busts of real v good workmanship and art is: i design. In Great Britain and son: other European countries a svstei of reasonable work for the inmate of insane asylums has been intrc duoed with excellent results. The first institution for the treat ment of insanity as a disease was es tablished in this country throng' the efforts of Benjamin Franklin in 1751. England had no such insti tution until 41 years later, and France followed 43 years late; Great changes have been made ii: the treatment of the insane in t!i last 50 years. Half a century ago ! per cent of the patients were und.. physical restraint. Xow it is said that there are or.lv about 1 per ceni so restrained.?New York Press. Ea>t Indian Cupcrstitions. Hare's Hood useful for young in fant. When your.g one attacked with ague, the blood and son; mother's milk mixed together and given to drink to the infant the sickness will go. Black monkey is useful for magi: The monkey will be killed on Sun day. Drink a little blood, take oil the skin and make to cap. The magic could not touch that man. Peacock's leg useful for deaf man It may be boiled with oil, and when any person could not hear the sous the oil will be dropped a little in; the ear, and man will be cured. Owl useful for a woman. Th.. will be killed on Monday. Take o;.: both eyes. The left will be burn, and the right as well. Keep tie. dust of the right, throw some of the dust on a woman's garments, and she will love you, and when vou want to be clear of her throw dun of left eye. and she will leave o(T by pronouncing some magic words ?Oriental Sporting Magazine. The Turk and His Beard. The Turks esteem the beard a-; the most noble ornament of the male sex and consider it more infu mous for any one to have his beard cut o,7 than to he publicly whipped, pilloried or branded with a retiho; iron. Almost any orthodox Turk would prefer being put to death rather than have his beard removi , from his face. In that country pull or irreverently handle the beard is an insult which can only b< avenged by taking the life of tin person who is rash enough to com mit such a crime or for the Turk to lose his own in making the attempt to call the offender to account. Turkish wives kiss their husbands' beards and children their father's as often as they come for the cus tomary salute. Hand* In Repot*. One of the roost common signs of want of good breeding is a sort of uncomfortable consciousness of the hands, an obvious ignorance of what to do with them and a painful awk wardness in their adjustment. The hands of a gentleman seem perfect ly at home without being occupied They are habituated to elegant re pose, or if they spontaneously move it is attractively. Some of Queen Elizabeth's eoivri iers made playing with the swore hilt an accomplishment, and tl:< most efficient weapon of the Spailisi torpiette is her fan. Pure Wat*r. Comparatively few persons have ever seen absolutely pure watet Even rainwater, which is the tu-.n est common approximation to it. i far from reaching the absolute standard, und. though it is good fot washing, not many persons would care to drink it. Spring water is popularly supposed to be pure, but jt always contains more or lees of earthy or saline substances. Indeed the value of most springe is doe to this fact. r ??-??. Every cotton planter should write forourvaluable illustrated pamphlet, "Cotton Culture.'' It is sent free. Send name and address to GERMAN r.ALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., N. Y. Bill Files Letter Files. You file your bills? Then you need a Bill File. We have them in two sizes?for long bills and for letters. You wish to Keep Letters You receive? Then buy one of our Letter File Books. With one of these books you can keep every important: letter where you can Find it in a Moment, Without any Trouble All the above goods 011 hand at reasonable prices. \Ve also have a few Single Kntry Ledg ers on hand at low prices. MEATY, HOLT & LASSITLK, S.MITHFIET.I), N. C. NOTICE! The undersigned having qualified as Ad ministrator of the estate of Auuilla Narron. deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to me duly verified on or before the36th day of April, 1W12 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery and all persons in debted to 6aid estate will make immediate payment. This 20th day of April, 1901. CLAUDE L. NAKRON, Administrator. Jno. A. Narron, Attorney. Apr2tf?Ow-pd. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Admin istrator on the estate of Patsey Jones, deceas ed. all persons having claims against said estate are hereby nctilled to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 19th day of April, 1902, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 15th day of April 1901, W. F. GERALD. Administrator. Apl9-pd. NOTICE! The undersigned having qualified as admin istrator on the estate or C. K. Pearce, de ceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 10th day of Mav 1902 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 7th day of May 1901. D. H. Wallace. Administrator. May 10-6wp. * NOTICE OF INCORPORATION. North Carolina. 1 Johnston County, f Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of State on the Hilth day of April 1901 issued a certificate q/ incorporation to W. M. Sanders, W. L. Woodall and others under the name and for the purpose, etc. as follows: 1. Name: Smithlield Improvement Co. 2. Place of business: Smithfield, N. C. 3. Purpose: To erect hotel and buy and sell real estate. 4. Existence: Sixty years. 6. Capital stock: $40,000 to commenoe when $5,000 is subscribed. fl. Value per share: $100. W. 8. Stevens, C. 8. C. ?? | NOTICE! The undersigned having qualified as execu tor on the estate of George B. Bridges, de ceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 17th day of Mav 1W12 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery and a'l persons indebted to said estate will make immediate pnj inent. This 15th day of May 11)01. Andekson Gowcr. Ex. P. O. Lemav, N. C. M 17-6w. THIS IS The New Number 8 ; Domestic Sewing Machine, FOB SALE IT J. M. BEATY, 8MITIIFIELD, N. C. If you wish to buy ladies', misses' and children's Oxford Ties and Strap Sandals cheap 1 call on W. 0. Yelvin?ton. Prices from 40 cents up. Southern Railicay. THE STANDARD RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH. The direct line to all points. Texas, California, Florida, Cuba and Porto Rico. Strictly FIRST-CLASS Equipment on all Through and Local Trains; Pull man Palace Sleeping Cars on all Night Trains; Fast and Safe Sched ules. Travel by the Southern and you are assured a Safe* Comfortable and Expeditious Journey. Apply to ticket agents for Time Tables, Kates and General Information, or address, R. L. YERNON, F.R.BARDY, T. P. A. C. P. & T. A, Charlotte, N. C. Asheville, N. C. NO TROUBLE TO ANbWFR QUE8TI0N8. S. H. HARDWIGK. G. P. A. WASHINGTON, D. C. WILMINGTON & WELDON RAILROAD And Branches AND FLORENCE RAILHOD. (Condensed Schedule.) TRAINS GOING SOUTH. i ? . I "A . 99 J ? . ex Dated January! ^ ?.??? i is is ~>.i is is pfl_ AM PII;AXT> LvWeldon 11 5?? 8 SB ! _ Ar Koiky Mt.... 1 UO ??? | ?? Lv Tarboro 12 21 (SIX) _ Lv Hocky Mt ... 105 1002 637 5 15 " 12 62 Lv Wilson 150 1U10 7 1U 6 57 2 40 LvSelma 855 11 18 Lv Fayetteville 4 3d 12 35 ^ A r Florence 7 25 2 40 k. P M A M ArGoldsboro 7 551 ?. Lv Goklsboro 8 45, J 30 Lv Magnolia 7 51 4 3c Ar Wilmington 9 20i 6 00 TRAINS GOING NORTH. * Dated July * ^ 5 >? 4* 22, 1899. ?- .3 ^ Zt 5C -c ^ 5C>c A M jP M Lv Florence 9 50 7 351 Lv Fayetteville 1215 I 9 41 Lv Seiina 150 | 1135 Ar Wiison 2 36 12 131 ~P M|A M Lv Wilmington ? 7 OOf 9 36 Lv Magnolia 8 3D! 1110 Lv Goldsl?oro...- 4 50 9 37. 12 28 PM AM P Mr? M Lv Wilson 2 36 5:13 1213 10 46 1 18 Ar Rocky Mt 3 30 0 10 12 45 11 231 1 53 Ar Tarboro j 7 40' Lv Tarboro 2 31 | Lv Kocky Mt ... 830 : 12071 ArWeldon 4 32. 1 1 00 PM 1 lAM Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Yadkin Division Main Line?Train leaves Wilmington 0 00 am, arrives Fayetteville 12 06 p m. leaves Fayetteville 12 25 p m, arrivesSanford 1 43 p m. Returning leave San ford 3 0f>*p m, arrive Fay etteville 4 2l(j> m, leave Fayetteville 4 3U p m. arrives Wilmington 9 25 p m. Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, Beunetta ville Branch-Train leaves Bennettsvilfe 8 06 am, Maxton 9 05 a m, Red Springs Parkton 10 41 a m. Hope Mills 10 no a m. arrives Fayetteville 11 10. Rcturnining leave* fay etteville 4 46 p m, Hope Mills 5 00 p in Ked Springs 5 43 p m. MaxtoD 6 18 ?> m, arrivewlJen nettsville 7 15 p in. Connections at Fayetteville with train No. 78, at Maxton with the Carolina Centr^Qtail road, at Red Springs with the Red Springs and Bow more railroad, at Sanford with the Sea board Air Line and Southern Railway, at Gulf with the DuiiimU) and Charlotte Railroad. Train on the Scotland Neck Branch Road leaves Weldon 3 56 i> ni, Halifax 4 17 p m, ar rives Scotland Neck at 5 08 p m, Greenville 0 57 p m, Kinston 7 56 p m. Returning reaves Kinston 7 50 a m, Greenville 8 52 a m, arriving Halifax at 11 18 a m, Weldon 11 33 a m, daily except Sunday. Trains on Washington Branch leaves Wash itigton 8 10 a m and 2 30 p m, arrives Parmele 0 50 a in and 4 00 p m. Returning leave Parmcle 0 516a m and 6 :*> p m. arrive Washing ton 11 00 a m and 7 30 p m daily except Sunday. Train leaves Tarboro daily except Sunday at 5 30 p ra, Sunday 4 15 p m, arrives Piytpouth 7 40 p m, 5 10 p m. Returning leaves Plymouth dally except Sunday, 7 50 a m and Sunday W a m, arrives Tarboro 10 10 a m, 11 00 a m. Train on Midland. N. C.. Branch leaves Goldsboro daily except Sunday 5 00 a in. arrive Smithtield 8 10 a m. Returning leave ^mith tield 7 00 a m, arrive Goldsboro s 25 a m. Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky Mount at 030 a m.3 40 p m, arrive Naaftvilie 10 20 a m. 4 00 p m. Spring Hope 11 00 afc, 4 25 p m. Returning leave Spring Hope 119 am. 4 56 i> m, Nashville 11 45 a m, 5 25 p in. arrive at Rocky Mount 12 25 a m, 8 p in. daily ex. Sunday Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw for Clinton daily except Sunday 11 40 a m apd 4 2fi p m. Returning leaves Clinton at 8 45 am and 2 50 p m. Train No. 78 makes close connection at Wei don for all points North daily. All rail via Richmond. H. M. F.MMERSON, Gon'l Passenger Agt. J K KENLY, Gen'l Manager. T. M. EMMBKSON Traffic Man'r. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and a Us Nature In strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive oj tuns. It lethe latestdiscovereddig-st ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach tt In efficiency. It In stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea. 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