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" MB WOBfUSD A.BOOT If. fflutt the weather vu murky,he !«•<* »t tfcssky And he worried about It? He watched tho gray cloud lot* go flounjlag hr. And lw worried about ttj "TO bat It wIU rain," ha would ny to a Maud, All manner of din disaster portendi Hia Ufa waa one tret from beginning to end, __ For he worried about it Be had a few trouble*, aa human kind will, Aad he worried about It, The good ha belittled and magnlflad 111, And be worried about lt| Els health vu nigh parts*!, bat then, if you plea**. He fancied he had mostly array disease, And aartlalad bla all meals la columns of tfeseaat Aad ha worried about It ' * Wo doubt when be entered the world long ago, Be worried about it; As a matter at Hast, when ha married, you know, Ha worried about It, Aad when ha departs from this ssaae of do apalr, Aad mounts on light wings thro* ethereal *l*. When ushered right up to a heavenly chair, He’ll worry about ft. —St. Paul Dispatch. THE LOST ISLAND, in the afternoon ol a bright day, and the ah ip was not making above four knots an hour. What son there was on would not have bothered a quarter boat, and the ship lilted to a wave only at long intervale. The seoond mala and I were superintending some wofk forward, while the captain waa alone on the quarter dealt. All of a sadden, and without the slightest warning, the sea began to boll and heave under and around ns in the most violent manner, and for five minutes every man had to hold on for his life, la her pitching the craft chipped three or four green sees, which cleared the decks of everything movable, bnt wo were congratulating ourselves that all had eeeaped when the oaptain was found to be missing. The man at the wheel had had a nar row escape from being swept over board, and for two or three minutes had lost eight of Osptain Graham. The lest sea we shipped had no doubt carried him away, and by the time we had oome to this conclusion it waa too late to make any move. The sea had been disturbed by an earthquake. Just where we were when the agitation began the chart showed the depth to be a foil mile. Three months later, when soundings were taken by a French vessel, it was found that a mountain, two miles in circum ference at the base, had been, heaved up until its crest was only forty feet below the enzfaoe. The set of wind and wave before and after the agita tion was to the westward, and ten t minutes after the ship had come bade to a level keel the wind obanged to the east and blew half a gale for the next seven boom. Asa matter ol record, the ship punned her voyage and made the port of Bombay without farther adventure, and the remainder of the story relates to the captain. He was swept overboard by the Inst wave, Just as we concluded, and pres ently found himself far to leeward ' among a lot of spars and casks which the same wave had taken from the main deck. While the man seised a spar and passed a ladling around his body, he had no hope of rescue. Almost before he realised his posi tion the ship was a mile away, and he felt sore that no boat would be low ered to make a search far Urn. The spar to which'he was lashed drifted away to the west and evening came on. Between five o’dook and sunset four ships passed tht drifting mad, bnt all too far sway to see or hear, and when night same down ha felt that there waa no longer the slightest ebsnoe for him. He drifted to the westward, as I have told yen, but how far haa never been known. Hight pseud and another day came, and toward the dose of that day Qsp tein Graham lost ooneeionancm. He mar hove drifted a day after that— perhaps two days. When he came to hie senses again he waa Mag on n sandy beach, with hb feet In the water. He i had bean east ashore on an isiand. It was rarely an Island to the north and west of Madagascar, bnt for reasons which will ha explained later on it cannot be more definitely located. Fox an hour of tar opening hie eyes the an ooold not nnlaeh him* aslf mas the spar. When he had finally accomplished' ***** object he bod to etawl on hands andkneeato taiahtho abode of the bashes. It was high neon and the weather hot, and the OStitain was so exhausted that If he had not found fresh water end wild ’E had called at Mauritius os our way from Liver pool to Bombay in the ship Fare well, and wen five days out from the island whan the ad venture occurred by whioh we lost the captain and laid the founda tion for this story. Xt was three o’olook fruit at hand he mnst 'have perished. He ate and drank his fill and than slept, aad the ann was just rising nut morning when he awoke. Tbs island, when thaoaateway name to survey it, waa about two miles and e half long by one mile in breadth, and its average height above the sea waa not over fifteen feet, It was of voloanio origin and waa entirely cov ered with verdure, end there were six or seven different aorta of wild finite. Along tho beach were oysters and aboil fish in ahondanee, and the Cap tain eoon assured himself that starva tion would not be one of tho perils of his situation. What struck him <raii ouely waa the entire aboenoe of life on the island. There wee neither animal nor bird, reptile nor insoot. There ahonld have been a dosen varieties of birds and aa abnadanos of insect life on so fair a spot with its tropical cli mate, haft it was simply tcnanftless. And yet there was life there, aad where the oaateway least expected. He had been on the island a week or so, end had twice walked dear around It, when one da; aa he was gathering fruit in an open not he was suddenly and fiercely attacked bye naked man. The surprise waa great, and the Cap tain had not yet reoovered his strength, but, shaking the man off, he sailed Ja dab and laid about him eo vigorously that his assailant ran away. It was a white man, end from the marks on h)« hands he must have been a sailor. How long ha had lived there end how he reached the island in the first place are maters for conjecture, bat the faet of his being node want to show that he had been there long enough to wear out bis oloihes. In breaking- away from the Cap lain he van fox the beach. The latter followed at his heelsii shouting foe him to atop, but the unknown ran to the water, plunged it;, and swam straight out to sea, looking book now and then and seeming to be in a terrible fright. He held to his course until he could no longer be seen, and there was no doubt he went to his death, aa be did not re tain. In * dense thicket the Captain found a rude shelter which the man had need, and among the dried gram forming his bed were e few fragments of doth, whioh had onoe been a pea* jacket There wae also a sailor's pipe and an empty tobaooo box. laving there alone for years and years, with neither the note of e bird nor the ehtrp of a cricket to oheer him, the man had loet his mind, and, looking upon Cap tain Graham as an intruder, had meant to taka his life. When the cutaway had been e month on the island without sighting a sail, he made up his mind that the fate of the poor fellow who bad dashed iulo the sea would some day be his. Only the surf beating on tha shore and the wind sighing through the trees broke the maddening silence brooding over the island, and the man shouted with delight when a gale swept oat of the west and blew down scores of trees about him. He felt that ha would soon lose his mind unless he mad* a great effort to divert it from the gloomy situation, and he began a closer survey of the island. The oentre of it vu considerably higher than elsewhere, and exactly in the middle was a single tree, surrounded by a thicket which he had never yet penetrated. In carrying out his ex plorations he entered tills oopse, find ing e hard beaten path, evidently made by a or sir man. Filed up at the roots of the tree the Captain found a great stock of small, iron-bound boxes, and it needed but ode glance to satisfy him that they ware treasure boxea There vu the cavity where they had onoe beta buried, end the boxes were weather beaten as if long exposed. Two or three large shells lay about, whioh had doubtless been used to dig Out the dirt, and one of the boxes had been opened. The Captain shouldered this box and carried it down to the spot be oailed “horns," end there inspected it* contents. In contained about §6OOO in gold ooin of all nations, but prin cipally English, and not a coin among them wee of recent date. In fact, there ware some which no longer cir culated in England or India. From the material and oonttrnotion the Captain judged that the boxes had been made by a ship’s oarpenter. In th* pile at the foot of the tree were fifteen other boxes of the seme use. One wss broken open, and ita contents found to be tho seme as the. first, and tha amount very nearly the same. There was a total, aa the Captain figured, of 1100,000 more or less. This was based on the supposition thee all the boxea contained gold, but aa he looked into only two he could not be sure of the contents of the others. How came the treasure there? Cap tain Graham believed it tobeanireto’s cache, and that the gold ban been there long yearn before he was thrown on tha beach. Perhaps the mad sailor had been on* of thajpiratc crow. It was oartain that he had ns earthed the treasure at any rate, aad it wss hardly pcobabl* that he stumbled updn it by aoridAtti. Well, there was a big fortune there, and it belonged to the finder, but it might have been eo much send for ell the good it oould do him. Days and weeks aad months passed away, and* ana day the oastaway counted the peb» bias he bad laid in rows along tfcci beach to mark the end found that ha had been eleven months oatßS 1 island. On that day-thara seme a furi ous gala from tha east, with a very high tide, and from some wreck at sea the waves brought in a vast quantity { of stuff, There was nothing to sat or i to wear among the wreckage, but there were planks and spars and a carpenter's tool chest, and as soon as tha storm had abated tha castaway went to work to build him e raft. He had datarmlned to leave tha island at any hasard, and after four ox five days* work hs had his raft completed. It was a rnde hat stout affair. Wild fruit* wars taken for provisions, and fresh water waa taken in a wins keg which had come ashore with tha wreckage. From one of the boxse the Captain took 8600 in gold pieoes, and on* morning whan tha wind waa from the wset he lauaobed hia raft and drifted off before it. By Us reckon ing, which Is probably oorreot, it waa seven days before he was picked op by the John J. Speed, an American mer chant vessel, homeward bound. The raft had made good weather of it, drifting most of the time to the east, and the oaptain judged hat total drift to have been one hundred miles. His loss had been alluded to in the newspapers and talked of among sailors, and hs vu given a hearty welcome aboard the American. He related his adventures in full, exoept aa to the treasure, and in do* time wae landed at Cane Town. He had figured out the latitude and longitude of his island to his own satisfaction, but the chert on board the Speed failed to show any snob island. Cap tain Graham at onoe set about finding a ship to bring tha treasure oft A brig waa finally chartered, bat after a ornise of months she felled to find the island. Where Graham said the island ought to ba lead found bottom at forty feet, end in the immediate neighbor hood a mass of trees and bushes was found floating about But far certain things the whole ctoxy would have been put down to sheer imagination. It was a fact beyond dispute that Oaptain Graham was swept overboard. He was picked up off* raft eleven months later. Where bed he lived in the interval if not on an island? There was the raft to prove his story, and how abont the gold pieces? Borne of them were so old as to have an additional value as souvenir's, and boo re* of people at the Cepe handled them. Where did he get the money if not from one of the treasure boxes on the island? In tha space of two years he made three different voyages in search of his island, and when the story leaked ont three or four other expedition* were fitted ont, hot in all the sailing to and fro no human eye oould find the looked tor spot. It had been raised from the see by a voloanio distur bance. Had a second disturbance canoed the sea to swallow it up? There ere many reasons to believe that this waa the fete whioh overtook it. About ton years after the cap tain’s last voyage a volcanic island, which was simply a barren rook about a mile in oizoumfarenee, was pushed above water about where his island was supposed to be, and it is there to day with a kings of trees all around its outer edge, it has been searched inch by inch'for treasure, but note a single gold pleoe baa yielded up. Flowers Delivered by Win. U you wish to send a bar of Ameri can beauties to soma person in Baa Franeiaoo to-night yon can buy them in Chicago and have them delivered freah and fragrant within half an hour. ’ It you fair one resides m Hew Orleans, Boston or Philadelphia, or any other large American city, yon do the seme *bing |q the seme way. It oen be done even iu the Eu ropean capitals. Florists of the United States axe in a pool for tha rapid delivery of blos soms. The pay tor the service is ef fected by a system of trade balances through a sort of clearing house. You go to a florist in Ohiosgo and tell him {on want to send two down American eautias to eo and eo in San Franmsoo. He makes out a bill, pine the dost of a telegram, takes the money, aad the flowers are in the hands of the reci pient almost as quickly as it delivery were made in Chicago, The telegraphic delivery of flowers i« called into play frequently. If n friend is to be married end some one who hoped to attend the oeremony cannot do so for any reason, It is q pleasure to know that a vase of rossr takas the place of the absent one. V he likes, his card may be attached to the white ribbon that binds the long stem* loosely together. When death comes suddenly a tri bote may be plaoed upon th* casket of the departed almoet as if laid then by th* loving hand* of the tender. In PlooadUly aad Bsgaat street, London, there are two French florists who carry on a eort of International floral clearing house. There is no agency or member in Chicago. But from Hew York one can order flowers sent to friends in London, Brighton* Paris, Berlin, Nice, Borne, Madrid, Alexandria, Constantinople, Vienna aad fit. Pctonbarg. ■ Chicago Tribune. • m Me , Always Hungry. v it tots greatest living authority on In* rifikb statistics calculates that from tMPQ.OOO to 40,000,000 .people , soar paly over loon the- sensation of lUfgsr—trf fact, da not know tha fast ing es a fall stomach except in the fIUDQET OF FUN. HmKOBOOT SKETCHES PROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Ineffable Joy-Reward of Bravery- In Coastanttaowle—OoalOn't Rein It—Tha Difference—Conelnstv* Proof—The Impression, Etc. On* day I found s diamond loth# gutter And ouos a MlWlasd wall* I ploked up. My bosom beat with Joy I soars* scold utter The joydrnjn o’erth* edges of my oup Jot did ImH Ah. Isas thea nothing wartt Compered to that grant thrill when, yas- I took yssri* top soat from the fllOfift And In th* lining found, long hid* way— An,ok * < * -Jtew fork World. oocuui’i nor n. Beatrice—" Did you notioe the loud color of that blonde young lady's gown at tha nosptlon last night?" Benedick—"Notioe 111 Do you think Pm deaf.”—Truth. uiwabd oar muvanr. She—“lt must have taken*greet deal of persistence on your pert to learn to play the violin so well." He—“lt did. I had to go con stantly armed lor five years"—Life. QUID mo QUO. The Junior Partner—" Did yon see Grinder about extending that note?” The Senior Partner—“ Yes He said he waa willing to extend the time If we would extend the sias.”—Cincin nati Tribune. THU OftOdtAX. TEST. He—“ Why shouldn’t w* be happy together? Our tastes are similar, our friends the same, sad—and—we rids the same make of wheel, too." Bh«—“Yea, bat what make of saddle do you as#?”—Judge. nr ooxuxAwmroma Official— "Wo have caught tha •oonndred who plotted against your Majesty’s life." The Sultan —“Keep him safe, until I decide what punishment befits n seen who would her* made so many widows.’’—Pock. a csss or momaixx. First Chappie—-“My dear boy, yon should never laugh at your own Jokes." Second Chappie—“Oh, contonud it all, I’ve got to! I could never stand the everlasting dienes that corns* af ter them.”—Truth. OOXOLtiSXVn PH OOP. “But papa says you owe every where—that you are not a man of honor." *T aware you, one of the strongest feelings that animate me in entering into this match Is th* desire to pay my debts.”—Lila. .m mmsaitm. Little Coke Blackatone—“l think a doctor’s patients get off easier than a lawyer’s clients; don’t they, Pa?" Lawyer Blaokstona—"Think again, my son! Did you aver hear of a law yer killing hia olieat after he bad oleanad him eat?"—Pack. “How," said one of the members of a woman’s organisation, “tha secre tary la going to read tha minutes of the last meeting." “Yes," responded Mias Cayenne; “she calls them minutes. But they always seem like hours."—Washing ton Star. BAD OatASOBD COWPnBXKXn. It waa the seventh time she had triad on the gown. “It doesn’t seam to me," she said, “that itbeoomaa my complexion.” “Madam forget*/' said the modiste, “that she baa not tha same complexion she wore hot time she was here.”— Chicago Journal. OOTILim’T STAND TBK THOUGHTS or IA Weary Walker—" Say, I'm a-goin’ tax strangle meelf tar death 1" Dusty Bhodee (in amazement}— “What far?” weary Walker—“ Just Hsian what it aays in die paper: “Every time wo breathe ono hundred muscles of our body are act to work."—Pock. an saw hu. “I wants tor sea,” arid Ohimtnia Hadden, coming aboard the big oosan steamer, “da main seraw of die float. Be*?" “All right,” said on* of the sailors, picking him np and dropping him over tha stern, “take n look at th* propel ler."—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib- WM»** LOTS OX BOOH. Boat*—"Well, how do yon ilka your n*W flat?" Boaratoote—“lt’s aD right Wa * E— ALm*A utMABSI 68 OATI UIT66 rooms. . Spats—“ls that room enough f" Sooratoots—“Yea, wa go ont in tho front room whan wo amat to ton round in tho hook parlor."—Pittsburg ***”' . , *' ' on' m Mount. HelUs Ohaffie—"Why, Mr. Ou**- snekar, what haa oauaad th* change | Tour appearance?” Dudley Csnesuoker—“l pwssut ft’s my glawsas, donobar know., I*u begun to wsah them." 1 Nall!*—“Wall, you should alwey wear thorn. You’ve no idaa how Intel ligeaft they make you look. I soaroel; knew you." FRUIT XJUBIODFT UlTitmhACTft “Jones is greatly surprising mo. Ha hasn’t touched a drop of strong drink sines tha first day of tha year. “Indeed? Ha must have sworn ti good and hard this lima" “Ho, ha mo that ho didn’t ■wear off at all. In fast, ha says that’* tho roaaon why ha haa anaosodod a wall in keeping straight You sat there was nothing to tempt him."— Cleveland Lsadar. a mnow-muoia. “Thera’s no doubt,” said Mr. Moakton, "that the bioyole haa dona much to promote .the happiness of mankind.* "In what way?” “It makes people more sympathetic. It was not until sh* had a bioyole that my wife ever expreesad any sympathy with me when I lost a oollar button. ” —Washington Blar. am mnnowß cam. A traveler, who put np for tha night at the leading hotel in a small town, had before retiring loft explicit in structions to ho eaUed for an early train. Ha was very mueh in earnest about tha matter, and threatened tho elork with all manner of punishment If that duty vn neglected. Early in tha morning tha guest was disturbed by o lively tattoo npon tho door. “Wall?" ho demanded, sleepily. 'Tragot an important massage for you.” replied the boy. The guest woo ap in an instant, rind tho door aad noeivad from boy a large envelop*. Ha ton open tha envelope hastily, and iaald* founds slip of paper on whioh wa# written in large letter*: “Why don't yon gat up?" Ha got ®P POPULAR SCIENCE. Spain haa more sunshine than any other country in Europe. Tim yearly average In Bpain is 8000 boon; that of Italy, 3800; Germany, 1700; England, 1400. Sediments, or stratified rooks, an invariably then whioh have ban laid down under water. They an always recognizable as such, because divided into these layers, whioh the action of th* water always prodsoe*. One of tha small varieties of huckle berry is fertilised by a bee, which, coming underneath tha flower and fill ing his proboscis np in order to got tho honey, tho flower throws a shower of pollen in hia face, to ba carried to the next boat I%* long undulating folds in whioh th* Appalachian* wan produotd whan first thrown up on characteristic of mountain range* the world over. The Alps, tha htsitoi the Ouwhr Himalayas, Andes and Bookies an boil! in just that w*T*. They an floor monily thick beds or masses, sad they an all ridged up into than folds; Professor Nobbe, tha well-known plant physiologist of Saxony, says that na be* produced, "on a commercial •oats, para cultures of the different bacteria, which an efficient in affixing the nitrogen of tha sir in a form avail able for plant food, and ha ha* them for ml* in small glass bottles.” It Is said that soil can bo inoculated with these organisms for the modest sum of 81.35 sa sen Th* flowan of all the pumpkins am monoesioua—haring tho stamen* and pistils in drittnet flowers, but hoik growing upon tbs same individual plant; they also bear perfect flowers containing both organs. Nsverlhetem. the pistils and stamens not developing at tbs asm* time, it is impossible for the flowan to fertilize themselves. This same necessity for insect aid In tha fertilization of flowan is wall known in Australia, with both th* md clover and tha apple. Th* bate past the winter in ear#*, the attics of booses and bams, or In hollow tnc* hanging downward by their hind claws, eating nothing and moving not. All tho oarnirona, or flash eaten, aa tha mink, skunk, opossum, fox and wolf, an u winter active and voracious, needing amah food to supply tho necessary auimal beat of th* body. Hence they an much men bold than in summer, and the henyard or sheep panel th* farm er is too frequently oailed upon to supply this extn demand. Bon «a Waterloo Fieri, The English dty of Birmingham n* esatiy lost a ritfaua who waa born on tha field of Waterloo, where hia father was among tha kilted. His mother aoeompenied the Seventy-hinth Ohm erou Highlanders, and when her son was born tha corps* of the father waa lath* asms tank Spain la tha lew World. Eighty yean ago Spain's territory in the new world anointed to 6,000)- 000 square milaa. Os tbte ampin Oabe and Forto Brio an it only remnants, 60,000 aquaremOak
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