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111CK11;L 11011 A11IB1011,11 ELATES,
THE CANADIAN SOURCE OP SUPPLY
FOE, TIIR AMERICAN NAVY.
Trod01'7'itta ate belled ll.el states 110,8 Awaken-
er) 10410 Expert, fe Metre an lrtvcal l•
ga t)on.
A oorreepondent writing from Sudbury to
the Now Y ork Tri&ene says : -'Phi+ is the
place whore the United States Navy De-
portntOn t obtains Its nlolcol lar t110 men Mae -
lure of nickel•steel ermer•plates. The town
is n o (ly a aloaring in the wood0, hub it
Mande of the Canadian Pacific main line, is
the junction from which a branch runs to
the Sault canneethie with the Minneapolis
and Duluth linos, and is the centre of the
richest Mu ing district in Cauarla.
Copper was discovered hero daring the
construction of the Canadian Pacitio, A
number of Cleveland and Akron capitalists
became iuloreet0d, and on molding samples
of the ore for analysis to the Orlorll Corn -
pally, of New York, it was found that
nickel existed hi large quantities. This
"trot " Was confirmed by the analysis of
the Vivian Refining Works, et Swansea, in
Wales, and before long Secretary Tracy and
Commodore Voleer was put in p ,o.tcesil n of
specimens of nickel steel, Up to this
TOM W'ORLD'S SPP19.V.
of nickel, used principally in making nickel
silver spoons, forks, coins and plrttod ware,
had come from the Lanenster Gap ut00, in
Pennsylvania, and from the mines in the
French penal colony of Now Caledonia. The
New -Caledonia niekpl is found 111 hods of
aerpent00, lilt the veins are shallow, awl
in miner's parlance: not persistent. 'Lim oro
is miood by prim 1i. lye methods, 0onviet fah.
or being employed as well its native and
Chinesn labor, and carried massy mitre to the
blast furnaces, which are fed with Austral-
ian cube and anal. Tho coee of trensper•
t0tion alone is a heavy item amt the fuel 10
clear. "The object in smelting the oro is to
produce a malts. Nickel matte bears (ho
sumo relation to refined nickel that pig•iron
Metre to refined iron and steel. In 188e the
average price of nickel in the United States.
was about Pi a pound 1 The American pre.
dilation was ender 000,00)) pounds, The
price in England was somewhat less, the
English supply miming from New Caledonia,
the 'n(ne,0 of which were opened in 1070.
The development of the Sudbury deposits
has reduced the price 00 cents, land when
appliances for treating the matte have been.
established on a large scale, refined nickel
can probably be bought for 2.1 Monts 1'e less.
Specimens of wrought and forged nickel
wore exhibited by 111r. Wharton at the
Philadelphia Exhibition in 1870. The metal
was discovered in 1751, but had seldom
bean seen in its pure etat0 1111111 non Wind -
ton took hold of it, The ase of nickel as
an alloy of steel gave it groat economic im-
portance, The compelled is tougher and
much more ductile and elastic than steel it-
self, and does not rust under water. Eng-
lish metallurgists employed (tin the manu-
facture of gun barrels. The experiments
with armor plates instituted in 1110 St.tes
soon attracted attention in England. In a
memorandum prepared by Lord George
Hamilton for the guidance of Parliament in
voting the appropriations for the Navy it
Wall stated that the armor plates of nickel.
steel " combined resistance to perforation
with freedom from serious cracking," and
that extensive orders had been given for
nickel armor as the secondary defence of
new battleships. Lord George added that,
while nicltel•ateel was
at•r011100 TO ORDINARY STEEL
when used in thicknesses of three or four
inches, " the experiments with greater
thicknesses do not at present place it in so
good a relative position"; but itis understood
that his successor has found a 10 1. -2 -inch
plate, superior to a 10 -inch plate of o•din•
cry armor steel. Admiralty agents have re-
cently visited Sudbury to consult with the
Vivien people, who have a mine and smelt-
ing works.
The McKinley tariff admits nickel oro
and matte free, repealing the old duty of L5
cents per pound. Nearly the whole prod•
met of the Sudbury mines has thus far
gone to the United States for armor plate
purposes. Seven mines have been opened
and others worked to a limited extent.
Niokel-bearing ore has also been found near
Ottawa. The experts say that the supply
in the Sudbury country is practically inex-
haustible ; they speak of six or seven hun-
dred million tons being in sight, and pro -
diet that in a few years 20,00(1 tons of nickel
will be produced annually. Muth depends
on the Dominion (government.
The ore is both roasted and smelted, In
buildings a roasting heap n layer of fine ore
is placed on a bed of clay and gravel, and
covered with eighteen inches of dry pine.
Another layer of ore i8 put on, and then
more pine. There are openings for draughts
at the sides and ends, and sticks set upright
throughout the heap servo as flues. Each
heap is knptburningfor a month. somebimes
for two, those oontaininp the largest pro-
portion of sulphur and Iron regmirmg the
longest and fiercest combustion, The for.
news are of Lhe Herrosholf patent, They
are made of rolled steel, with a water space
of two inches between the outer and inner
plates, and cast-iron bottom protected by
fire-briok. They aro elliptical in form, with
n diameeer ranging from three foot or
so to six feet and a half, and are nine fent
in height to the charging door. A square
opening on one side is fitted with fire•olay
t0 a norrospanding opening in the furnace,
through which the molten mass flows into a
water -jacketed settling pob that rests on
wheels. A charge consists of 2,000 pounds
of ore and coke -eight parts of ore to ono of
coke, The matte bubbles out, causing a
dories of sharp reports, and is cooled in the
pots, and shipped to refining works. From
five to eight tons of ore go to the making of
e, ton of matte. The matte oottains from
10 to 20 per cent. of nickel, the other Dom•
ponents being copper, iron, sulphur, cobalt
and slag. Experiments aro being made
with now furnaces in the Hope of increasing
the richness of the matte, so as to save ex-
pense in transportation,
0711 001TI0AOT
between the United States Goverment and
the Carnegie and Bethlehem works, whore
The artnor.platos are mode, calls for 3 1.2
per cent, of nieltel in the steel. Thus an
ingot of sixty tons of niokol'sbeol, ruliioient
to make two plates of the regulation size,
contains about two tone of nickel. The
plates aro forged. under steam hammers,
bent to shape with hydrettlio presses, and
out with saws and planes to tit the flare
designed for them on the warship. There
aro no refining works in Canada, in all
likelihood Cleveland will bo the seat of the
industry. Tho 'nether will bo mend by
rail to Lake Huron, which is not, very for
away, and shipped on vessels to Cleveland.
All the untallo)1 mineral lands in Ghia re.
Bion belong to the Crown, and the Crown
1ne10na the Governmottt of Oho Prov'inoo of
Onterie. Until lately the land, (»chid'
in) everything on the snrfa00 and OVbry
thing below, was sold ottt•and•out at $2 per
sere, without any «0nd1tiene ns to working
being imposed eu the purehasar, this led
to 1(1)1 whelusa'e grabbing of land by einem-
Intone In 18111 an act pined attaching
working eonclil.(nus to alt conveyanCen from
Lith 11'OWII from that darn and emoting ra
royalty of 8 per omit on nirknl, The royalty
dues not take effect until seven yea'o after
the 100110 of the patent. Lemma can be had
ata low figure, and 0good deal of land is
being taken no by lease. Proepeteors have
found gold, sliver nod platinum, but elekel
and coppo' aro and will continue to be the
older 00110000 of mineral waaide The ever•
age assay value of the ore ie about 3 per
wont of nickel, but a certain amount is lost
In 8molt11lg. Labor is cheap and there 18 an
abunda•nue of water and of wood for roasting.
Connellsvitlo enko ie used in the furnaces,
1L la limn [ht in by the Canadian Paui00 and
the cost is -heavy. There is no coal hi any
part of Ontario.
iheniekel Ore-•nickel'fel'Ona pyrrhntlta
is the t001,ulcal name -is found m the midst
of rocks of di Ire runt ohaments belanging to
dif'oronbhorieens, but jjroelsLono seems to
be the parent rock, The n(okel 0feck in
seventy miles from southwest t0 northeast
by fifty from eontheass to northwest. All
through, nickel and copper are mixed to•
gothor, end it is supposed that the deposits
are actual in point of depth to rho horizontal
extension. But this (a only gnees•work.
There appears to be no ee0enn why nickel -
steel ehould not be used in the making of
0anuon, e111ai1 arms, cutlery, boilers and
other articles inwhielstrnngth,lr.alleabillty,
capacity to take a polish and freedom from
meting are valuable properties. For the
present, However, armor plates occupy the of the tea ship Onward. That craft ole0,r•
Held. ed from Shanghai in. 1080 with a cargo of
FINE SCENERY AND BAD COLOR. telt, She bada L•rew of eighteen men and
five prteetingeds, and the Captain's wife was.
A 110e:duce of the Glaciers a1 G:rindctwitiai with. hit"' 8110 wan almost down to the is". -
mac lien Gnalde 000.11n eines. and of Formosa when elle was dtsmasted',
inn squall, A few hours later she was at
Beane( 1 hill of all sorts of devices for packed by two C0100081unks. The ship had
endangering and undermining the health of a dozen muskets, and there were throe
travellers. Tho hug buildiega, ohurchos, rifles muting the passenger's. They n110de a,
palaces, 1411d the like where the huge ouolns- toed fight my it, But were outnumbered
oro keeps the temperature of the air at the five to one. They made a fo(r surrender
sante cool level all the year round have M Ile. before the pirates got aboard, and up to
0ds(01'1088a tl d0eAh wibout n1in600. Far that time had lust four men killed and
travellers coming into them from the heat of three wounded. On taking 'Amnion the
the summer cloy without do not think that: plratPM killed every man as feat as they got
this agreeable coolness messes a *Riddell and to thein. Tho captain's wife had been se•
unhealthful ream:Mon of the temperature of wretod below. While the fellows were
the body until a chill or a su0110101on of ovehauling the ship, and le ire they had
snerzce tells them that the mischief 11 done, discovered the woman, an American man•
But there is one place which is responsible of -war appeared and drove them oft
for more eickues1 than any score of barge The Eng'ish Government not only de.
buil liege. The glaciers at Orindelwlahl,1'a- handed a (urge sem as indemnity, but gave
peoially the largo upper glacier, is this thin- 1110 Chinon Government duo notice; that if
gerladen spot. Nearly every one who goes it did not slake a 0ig0rnn0 attempt to pen•
to Switzerland, and that meals nearly every 0th the pirates an Iinglish war vassal would
one who travels in Europe,oes to see the lege, a cruise ant. blow every suspicious
glaciers at Grnudelwald, although fete, in- craft out of water. There could ho no 1 WENT To 1'10)118
deed, do not regret having gone, because the dodging this. Tho Government hadn't just before the smoke fairly blow away, leaving
and dangers are but slightly re- the sort of craft needed nor the men to roan
paid by the rather disappointing scenic
etfecls, And nearly all who go carry away
with them a cold which may pass away, and
again, may make then linger in ted at Inter•
Laken to curse the day they ventured to
Gri n rlel weld.
'l'I,e glacier is tan hum's walk or horse.
nick ride up a steep and winding mountain
road, narrowly shut in because of the en-
croaching mountain farms nal either side. agreed to pay all expenses for a 8111 months
If you have goue horseback they set you oruiso of eight men and give the agents of
down at a mountain inn with a little pnvil- tho bark $10 per head extra for every pirate
ion overlooking the valley 01 the glacier, killed or captured. if a junk was seep or
with its vistas of perfect Swiss soonery. brought in, she was to be paid for at se
Then one goes through a gate and walks touch per ton, and a Chinese otliciel was
down a winding road, arched with trees, placed on board to repre0ene the Govern-
erosses a stony valley, through the midst of men t.
which rnehes a clear, pure, lee cold stream, The Queen had dropped down to Ince
11.00)1 Irom Oho baso of rte glacier, which Choc, when five of us, all sailors from the
the summer sun is melting. 1'ho gl74aer 10 Hattie (\lilward, deserted ship to go on her.
before you, shilling the air witch was of We signed at 1:30,1 month, and were to hart
summer heat a few yards away. extra for all captures. It was a crew made
You must have walked down to it, be- up of English, French, Germans, Ameri.
cauee there is no other way, and you are cans, Spanish, Italians, and Lamers. About
therefore heated. Yon stand near the gllwi- Liirty of
or and instantly you are cool. Perhaps you
go into the ice cavern, for the wonderful THE MEN WERE DESERTERS
olio's of the hewn i00 are tempting. Ice from then-of•war. We rat into the mouth
wider is dripping upon you and your feet of Chang -Te river for a couple of weeks'
aro soon soaked from the wet boards under- practice with the guns and to get things
heath. You go out and start away, and ship-shape with the crew and then started
before yon have again reached the little out on a cruise.
cote near the inn you find that you have On the east side of the great Island of
the worst cold you ever had in your life. If Formosa are 11011 a 111000 smaller islands.
you are oversttsoeptible, you will have chills On one of these a pirate named Wang -Hoa
and fever. had his headgnnrters. He had sax junks
llut it is not necessary to go down to the and about 800 men. Had Wang -Hoa been
glacier. Ton any clave heartier these perils. aeon by any circus agent or dime museum
So you decide to view it from afar. You manager previous to turning pirate he would
sit in the little pavilion with the superb probably have been placed on exhibition and
panoramabefore, above, and beneath you, lived outhls clays on the fat of the land end
with the long, striated back of the serpent• $50 per week. 'Fre was a veritable gia»t,
like glacier and the street guohing from its standing 81)0110 seven feet high and weigh -
icy jaws as the central point of your land- ing 300 pounds. Ho had been a pirate for
scope. You order something to eat nod a Ove or six. years when tlleQ000n started out
bottle of wino, and life seems to be an ax- ou her avulse. Piracy had become so legiOi-
traordioarilygood thing. For all around mete a business with him that he sailed into
you is summer, hot, intense, hlx0ria01, Ole port of Foe -0110o regnla'ly e'Ory throe
while abnvo you and down in the valley months and paid over to the authorities a
them is winter, eternal winter of snow and " whack" of lin plunder. b/verybo(W knew
ice. But ns you sit enjoying, ravelling es on, why he was there, but he w8a lever molest.
blissfully onaonsoious of danger. You be- el. On one occasion he went aboard of a tea
girt to feel an icy chill, gentle and plenaing ship, looked her all over, and then said to
lit first, bob gradually inereasinqq until yon the Captain through an interpreter :
look about for furs, and thou take to flight " You have a fine craft here, but when I
with a bad cold, pushing sorfineeward with- capture her only the cargo will be of any
in you as a memento of the glaciera. Off use to me. 1 ahmll take that out and sink
thea huge river of ice blows a wind that is your ship 1"
always wintry, that is felt in its full lilted. Our instructions from the Government)
city a mile away through the heat of the wore very broad and liberal. Any Chinese
hottest summer day. You may escape the craft winch did not " hands up " at cone•
wiles of the score of curio venders urging mand tuns to be considered a pirate and
you to take away it carving 0r something of treated accordingly. It was desired to
that kind a8 a memento of Grindolwald's capture as many pirate0alive es possible, so
glaciers. But the thermos are that you will as to produce a proper moral elfeab when
not escape that unpleasant or perhaps dap- they were beheaded before a crowd on land;
gerous little memento in rho shape of a cold but we were not to go to any uuueo0801ury
which the glacier will force upon you. trouble about it, 11 ang•Hoa's funks seldom
- ^ cruised farther south than Cape Cambodia,
Death of a Distingruehed Cavalry Officer• or farther north than the Steads of Corea,
The loath has been reported of Major and we knew pretty well whore to look for
p 1 them. Of course the news had gone abroad
Conceal 0. Vanbrugh Jenkins, who joined of our flaring out, and there was no doubt
the lion tee Light Cavalry a 1.8$0 at the age that friends had carried the pirate full par.
of nnteeu, W'hilo still a 1oroneb, he toot- Uoolars. Therefore, on reaching the north
part rt in rho Afghan war of 1842 under Gan- coast of Formosa, we ran into a bay and
oral Pollock, being at the forcing of the (hanged the 00100 of the paint mit the bark,
Khyber Pass, the relief of a reoccupation
and in replaced her new sails with old, and made
all the fighting up t0 the moccuparge of such other changes as to completely 0is-
Cabal, and including two rnGalry charge (n guise her. Hero also a false stem of free
the'Pezeen Valley, the war in the Gwalior oo belted on, and rhe Queen was prepared
Campaign of 184$•4, and was present at toWstall right into roti over any junk in
the battle of 1vIeharajo ora in the Sutloj an •TIoa'e fleet.
Can n owa
1s$ ai f 1846, including Alil, and in g
On leaving the bay we cruised to the
the i nulanb War of 1$4$•0, taking garb in north almost to the coast. of Japan, and it
Ole 1800(0 of Ohillian, W0,l111I1, and 000je)0t. truettpouoarreturnandaborttwentymiles
Becoming iien0ouant•colon0l in 1.802, ho had to 1,110 oesb of the "eland of Salbolt throe we
command of the "%eget European Cavalry, full in with a couple of junks whiob were
transformed into the 111111 hussars, rotirmg set down as
from the regiment 111 1877, whet) Ile was
granted the rank of major general. General 0080/0001(0 CnARAOTERS.
Jenkins, who was in receipt of a reward for They were coming up front the eouth,and
distinguished service, died last Saturday at 011' first reeve was to mance things nlotb
Cruekton Hall Salop, at 011w ago of seventy' look as if we wore amorolan0man,aud short
handed at that, lvlost of the met were sent
She Was Used to It below, the steering was purposely wild, and
"So," snarled the father, "yeti hove ask- as the junks drew near enough to Mateo us
ed my daughter to merry you, and having nut it was evident they meant to attack,
gained her consent, you come to me for plait fay us,Oued rOur coarse other to
uslo`slo in
t nod
elite? That's 011'10 the dimensions of
wn
11, " responded the yq0u11g man, bravely. between them, each being within rifle.
" Do you know, sir, that I have n0 money 81100.
and can give hot nothing?" The young mel The follows lad detarm)nod not to give
patted the old ono 00 the book encouraging- es the slighteseabove Pet opetted011 the
Tha4'8 all right, a1d follow," be sail, wort- at once with their brass five-pumnders
noisier hove I, ao the entege will not
prove a 00rieu0 shook usher. What do you
atty.? To it to go ?" .I6 went
TEM BRUSSELS POT. "7
H'UNPIIIG 0HINBBB PIRATES, Our guns were loa1'o,l will Hnli,l 0001, loin
warmly tired n enupl0 rrf brnarlsidnu. Neither
junk was over lintel shot Ru1'ay, oumwg up
The O'lile or O10 Giant 11'5 n(.11na runt Ms to 1117 110 7)1,0ard, and the I ails neatly Lara
Mal Men, them to pieces. in four (ninnies front rho
A great deal has been axil and written ,1i1Alarg0 bosh wore out of sight under
about the pirates of Maley and Borneo, but 11'r°te1', an"1 th"ro most baro hear fifty mon
forilnwarightoold•binnded!l1011(1 13)0011' (1(1'ingmho%011thewreckage. Welower-
n±Ha pilaw laid over everything ave' in the
ed lova hen1.8 to pick them up, Int only got
business. The I'Iuht08 0(80(1 'spare life, 1hu'ly, The others deliberately drowned
the Chinamen itiways made u clown 1110118clv08 rather' than be teemed and Lure.
imam. 1 meads in the past tense, bora ee 1'd av00 011 0110 ex001310no
Chinesn waters are cleat' of Rea rovers, From amen of those brought aboard it was
though it carts lose than ten years ago that learned that 1110 junks were commanded by
twentyeiglt of them were beheaded in Tali -Yon and 1'uug•C1lwol, two Captains
suce00eion one Fine morning at the execution under \Vang•Hoa's orders. Hach 0r0W num-
grounds in Hong -Kong, Up to the year 1807 bored oixtytive men and so the (lorernment
piracy was looked nj)on tainted n0 o regular official hoard ureditod the bat k with $1,110
bushing 0100g the China Qwest and up and for pirates killed end raptured, and with
down its prrnepal rivers, Nike the brigands per tot for the 0100880 sent to the bottom
of Sicily, they "stood in" with the author!• of the sea, None of the pren:era would at
ties and were protected instead of bning tlrst give any info'metion about the rest of
hunted down, As in Reseda, so it is in the fleet or in regard to Wang•Hoa's hiding
China -11 thing ran be done withou bbrib- plow, butthe Oovermnentalined knew how
ing officials, and if the brine is largo enough to deal with then. Ho selected his victim
anything can be accamplishad, and administered the baslinedo until the
When complaints were made to t1,n (111• fellow was willing to tell all he knew. Two
naso Government by English or French other junks were then cruising, he said, to
0Onanle they wore referred baric to the Gov the smith of Tsee-14071 Island, about 300
unmet of reviews, and by them to the au- miles to the southwest of our positnr:, and
thoritics at different porta. That ended it. the 0007810101 two of the fleet had gone
Even if urdorecl to seed out. expeditions south la the inlf of Tuuq lin. We laid our
aga1ust the pirates the rovers would be first 0000110 to overhaul the lust two, and on the
notified, 00 that ue harm ever name to them, fourth day after Dar fight we sighted them,
Every nation filed its protest over and over Hlelp :lever came at a more eilytieal Rlo-
twain, but. the English were the tdrst to act. nn'nt, A SOOt0h brig yelled the Ahoyne,
What precipitated the oriels was conning down through the Strni10 of Cone,
'ru 1. sa.01)010 had met disaster and been forced to the
oast among the Lno-Olioo lslanda, Th': junks
bad discovered her and were overlmnliug
her after la chase lasting ten home when u'O
sighted the three craft at once. We were
heading to tho west and they were homing.
down from 111e north. We were 81•(11 in dis-
guise, and the pirate, must have yelled for
joy when they sighted us. Instead of one
prize they would take teen. One of the
,junks hulled off the track of the other
veesol and bore down upon n0, and the were
called to quarters to give her a fitting recite).
(ion, The brig or300ed our bows about a
mile away and showed us a signal of 3010008,
We were b.lxhanliug 000 reds :demi as if
half seared to death, and the 8001011man
neat have groaned in dwspnir as we paid no
attention to his flag.
The ;hank which came clown upon ns was
aline with mel, and they began yelling
while yet a, mile away. She had no ansp(o•
ion of us until almost withiu rifle range.
Then she suddenly sheered ofd', and the bark
gave chase. In fifteen minutes we had hot
on our starboard side, right under that
wl•olo broariside of gine, and rho Order was
given to fire. The junk
(t, and so it made a singular bargain. There
was lying in the port of Hoei-Ngan, in the
Yellow See, an English bark named the
Queen. Her charter to the Chinese Govern-
ment as a survey boat had just expired. She
was a fast, stanch craft, and oho was re -
chartered to go on a hunt for pirates. She
was fitted for five runs on a side and a Long
Toni on a swivel, and the Government
forty or fifty men struggling (n the water.
They did not represent over half the crew.
The Government olflaitl credited us with a
fell ltoodrod, and he was not fat: out of the
lvay.
The other junk was within a cable's
length of the brig and preparing to sheer
alongside and board when our broadside
betrayed the trap. She hauled her hind
and stood away to the hest, but we were
after her at once. The pirates floating among
the wrenkage were left to take care of them-
selves, and in forty minutes Long Tom be•
gen to pay his compliments to the fugitive
craft. After she had been hit twice she
hauled down her flag in token of surrender,
but the Government official would not have
it that way. He ordered the bark to run
alongs'de and give her a broadside, saying
that he did not leant to bother with any
more live pirates. The junk had come up
unto the wind to wait for us. She must have
also had a full hundred men aboard, and a
more villainous lot of fellows were never
gathered together.
Nearly all were stripped to the Waist, and
they hero fighting among themselves as Ave
swept down upon them. Our broadside
grins were ready, and we even not over 200
fee+ away when she get the fire, Before we
bad touched a brace to Dome about the
junk was out of sight and half au acre of
surface covered with her wreekage. Some
of us felt conooienee stricken until the boats
were lowered to pick up the elan floating
abort. Every one who was armed made a
fight for it, and such a, were not deliberate.
ly drowned themselves. We got about
twenty aboard, end every one had to bo tied
hand and foot aid closely guarded.
The two junks belonged to Weng•IIoa's
fleet right enough, and from ons of the sur-
vivors it 5111.8 lesrned that the old boss pirate
would probably have
RETURNED TO IIIS LAIR
by the time we got there. We remained by
the brig twenty-four hours to finish her re.
pairs, and thou sailed south in her company.
\Ve 110w 11101V ox00tly where to find Wang -
Hon, and on the morning of the fifth day
aftertho fight we ran into a het- on the west
side of an island in the 1'"0mora group
called Ko -Ban, The island Was about two
miles long by ono mile wide, and the bay
almost split ib in half. The junks hail come
in the day before, and besides being loaded
down with plunder had brought in a small
trading brig owned by an Englishman in
the Philippine Islands, Every one of her
crew of six mon had been killed.
We had a lair wind into the bey, and the
pirates al first supposed we had come in to
refit. They were making all preparations
to attack us when the bark came to anchor,
got a spring oft her cable, and without any
waste of tuns opened fire on the junks,
sampans, rata, and storehouses. Tho fellows
mese be oreditecl with having made a good
light. They had several six ,11,11 nine•pound
places of artillery, besides their gingals and
muskets, and we had four 11100 hilted and
seven wounded in the first half hour. There
were about 250 of them, and after we had
driven them to the Dover of the demo woods
we landed a party and set fire to their
storehouses. While we wore thus engaged
the big gnu aboard wes throwing hob shot
into the woods on both sides of rho bay,
and before noon the whole island was ablaze.
Every Ohng woe dry, and the oonflagre•
Mon raged for three clays before it burned
out. A few of the pirates no doubt escaped
to the other islands, though lv0 picked up
about a dozen floating of rate, but we got
a telly for 250 captured and (tilled. The
dead body of Wang•Hoa was found on the
hulks, and his head was cut off end sent to
Poking. Wo carried sixtyfivo prisoners
into Foo-Ohoo, We got, into port on a Tues-
day morning, and on Fritloyafternoon every
man of 1110111 was beheaded, I don't know
what sort of 0trial they had, but 110110 of the
was called as witness. The doelnration of
the Government, clHsiols was probably eon -
allotted all that was necessary, That was
the beginning of the e111. While piney is
praotiood in Chinese waters even to this
day, it is no longer a busineee or profession,
and all attacks ere confined to trading joules
of their own nationality.
He Oeuld Then.
"Do y011 think you oar, support me
George?" she asked, at hour aftor he had
and gingals and sheeted to us to haul down proposed.
our Rag, They were 0108iug in when our "Yes, if you'll get on the other knee,' he
Brew jumped to quarters and opened fire. said.
WANDERERS OF THE SBA.
A Pleating Wend tlr sty0te'y and n ell lin.
4011'4110 Inert..
The prose 01 +train has done moult to rob
the ocean of ate 01',115000, but there still re-
mains a little to delight the lover of sea
tales anld lnyenel'1.', fit (hied ,lull times of
peeceful enmmerce, when ships are not
eotiten1 with 111811it1)3 from Onntil,elt
to continent at railroad speed, but
even turtle the tamely sea to R10011111h
by the ignoble polrulg of oil from
rubber bags hung at their bows, 1t 0 like
hearing en echo from the gohlon days of
Captain lvlarryat's heroes to 4e told that in
the Atlantic Wolin, almost in the steamer
track, there his Lee) for some Menthe a
floating inland, with tree branches wed great
reeds, thirty feet above the surface of the
sea, That nt really exists, or at least olid
exist till Sep. I0, the day on which it was
last slighted, there can be no doubt, for four
eteomshipe btee reported it, and the hope -
tersely matter of feet United States IIydro-
graphe Office has made a report of it, and
traced the wandering 1010101 of the pilot
chart for November. With their ua0a1 out-
line solemnity the hydrographere have man-
aged to prawn the story in the dryest way
31050lbie. 1's them the ocean is only agreat
blank elude on the mop, neatly covered
with carefully measured squares end figures,
Tt10. 11001.1(1(011' ,'OILY
of tine drifting Island 10 told by thein in one
sentence tilled with latitudes and 10ngi•
mien. They don't concent themselves with
speculations as to where it tame from or by
what ebene0 it started on its etramg0 voy-
age,
nyage, The captains of the steamships which
passed it also gave but meagre 111.0rriptions
of it, but when their reports were all put
tog ether a fait' idea of the island 1 uuid Le
getnere,h It was far out at sea `.011011 it
way seen 101' the first time. '1 he naptnin of
the Britian steatneh(p blue .1erO,.i sighted
it o1 .iuly 3s in latitude 00:12 and longi.
Ludo Gd 00, about 70111niles east of 110111,1x.
It covered half tan acre, and seemed to be
tidal wooded, with reeds extendieg thirty
feet above the sea level, 10 was visible for
distauee of seven miles, Iasi looked so I
much like solid land that it deecie "1 the
10okolt at tdrst, Not long afterward, of
Angnst 8, the steamship 00tintln•O passed it
in letitlule 30:20 and longitude 05, a few
miles south of where it 4(00 first seen. The
eapta(u of this ship got it better view of it,
and toned that it was covered with a dense
th1010t of reeds, most of which were thirty
feet high. On August 26 the steamship
Ronan Prince, a ship, by the way, which
is making a record for sighting wrecks and
unusual things at sea, sighted the island in
latitude 4L:40 and longitude 57:30, almost
1,000 miles northeast of Nov York, The
last ship to sight the Avenge waif was the
steamslup Ebro, which paned the ielan d in
latitude 45:20 and longitude 41:30, about
1,000 miles northeast of New York, heading
for the steamers' track.
Plotting on the map the course taken by
the floating island, it is found that since
July 28, when it wras first observed, it has
drifted east-northeast about 1,100 miles.
This was an average of about 008 mile an
hour, and it may yet drift to European
shores, if it can withstand the buffeting of
the sea. Where it canto from, by what odd
fortune it was torn from 'Laplace to start on
its wonderful journey, no owe knows, and
probably no one ever will.
There is another bit of romance in the
shape of a masterless bark. a\'itih all sails
set, but without a soul to man her or hold.
her helm, the Capella, a Norwegian bark
and:DON1oo to 1(1DOCRAJ•,
has been cruising the was alone for a month,
like a lost soul. With the wind for her
captain and the seas ell her own, with never
a port to nuke, she has roved idly about,
doubling on ani crossing her tracks, as aim-
lessly as a seabird. But with all her idle
ticking to and fro, site has never gone far
from one place. She has haunted thestoam-
ers' track. Mau standing night watch on
ocean steamships racing over the curling
seas have seen her suddenly appear from the
gloom, like a great phantom, with her sails
bellying before the wind. In the daytime
she has been sighted forging slowly 00, now
headed this way, now that, as the shifting
winds blow her. So she has wanderedsince
she was abandoned on October 22. Her
crew was taken off by the steatnship Blake -
moor, and it was reported then that she
was loft in a sinking condition. The Blake.
moor left her lurching as if she would go
tlolvu any minute, in latitude 52 and longi.
tulle 31. That was about 2,300miles north-
east of Halifax, duo east of the northern
extremity of Nowfoandland, and about
seventy miles north of the steamer track.
But she did not founder. On October 30
site was sighted by the steamship Charle-
mont, with furo lower topsail and main top.
galiont sail set. She 1008 then in latitude
50:35 and longitude 31:58, seventy utiles dis-
tant from where she head been abandoned.
She was directly in the steamer's track.
She was again sighted on November
what the steamship Lhuulatf City passed
iter, The deserted ship was in latitude 51 and
longitude 28, 150 miles northeast of Ole
place where the Charlet-tient sighted her.
She 1(000 north of the steamer track thou.
Her rudder was gone, bub her sails were set
and drawing, and site was on the starboard
track, heading again for the main steamer
tack. Seven days after she had been pass-
ed by the LlandafF City she was passed by
the City of Berlin. She had sailed almost
clue east and was in latitude 01 and longi.
buds 24,240 miles from the position where
she had been last sighted. The sto..mahip
Catalonia passed her on November 13, in
latitude 50:00 north and longitude 21:30
west, 180 miles further east, and again in
the stammer track.
This danger to navigation is being looked
out for by every ship which plies that part
of the sea. Sho was apparently in fair
condition whenever she was sighted and
may sail the oaean for a long time before
oho sinks or is broken op by the tenses.
Perhaps some shift of the wind blowing
steadily for many days will drive her in
some unfrequented part of the ocean where
she may drift, 0lonely ghost of a ship, for
many years, She may disoover the dream-
ed of open sea around the pole, or, going
south, sail among islands of spine and ever-
lasting summer, peacefully and dreamily,
mita other generations cone upon her, a
olio of a forgotten past.
He Wished lie Could,
Principal Smith is ono of the wieest and
kindest of toaaohors, but :now and then his
watchfulness makes him over-800pncdons.
In the 'geography class the other day his
nye fell upon a bay who seemed to be eating
something.
"Jacl: Willianw,"said the motor,
"take the& piece of candy out of your
month at once."
To his astonishnlolnt a giggle went round
the room, as the next instant poor Jack
answered ; " 1 can't, sir ; its a gent -boil.
Ono value of cold 80orogo is in keeping
potatoes for seed front sprouting. lion
when planted they sprout at once, and the
sprouts ere much more vigorous,
USING OIL TO STILL THE SEAS.
tutus of 1'4ms/de Make Hope rix t Aunty
1o1se to l+tarrn,
When theIlov'a ti,eh,111 n he:rett Montreal'
worked her clew way into her the other
o• ' O'117onl iweadi0bet, lie•nt10r8
morning, , n 1
haviu g Leen ripped from herr 01111811: a howl-
(ng gale, her skipper reputed that she wait '..
only saved from bnmg 8lvausped by the use
of ell poured through the forward cl,,e0te.
after they had p1 avi eiely 1,001, 0111111 lvieh
(10110111 ark that the nil eoull triekhe slowly,
en the 0011. Thr oute1 Wass deseribud as
something wonderful, in which particular
the report tallies 11(0111l 131000 colleOted by
thr liydrographir ()Mee sink•, last August.
Big steamships hale b, gee lo Ilse oil us a
1(1000er of tmeree now, bu t l here are still some
old "shollhae:ro " W110 Pearn the notion and
believe more in hauling and belaying. They
wouldn't use oil sur more than (3ulliver's
old captain an the Adventurer, whose method
was weird, " First he tools in (110 spritsail,
and stood by to hard the 100001)1 ; but lilak.,
ing foal weather, lie handed 1 he in Wen. TI10
ship lay breed olf, so he thought it better
0pounieg before 11,0 sea thein trying or hull-
ing. ile reefed the ('',000,1 and set him,
and hauled o0' the Pore. Loci. The helm was
herd a -weather. lie 1,•4,/;yell the fore down -
haul." And then be i,:u;i0,i 1. 1 upon the
l:n,y,.rd of the whip -'tali ' 'l in=I;r' 1 thematic
at, the leltn. But 01101 was 1'.,033 ago and rho
poor eepte1100 nhe u.ai:e re11,13111 history
now, hardly get s deem to reef even the
,'vein siren or inlay eewsepipe. And
when the st00108 do haw i v generally go
below and seek :lie 1•d,ef th',t Lege of oil
hong over the 1 -ass )11.1,1.
Tim list of big "ieaicsh(p`7 which have
used oil with st1lre<^ i•, 0011iu_ longer with
Over uiro,Oi. In thaw ''11 ,�1 one ship, the
Rod Star 1:loat11".11ip .' a,r,Il8nd, it helped
the .•rens to rc ue t(:, men on the 0(1111(1)
l,.rk Oa -:::r 11. Caelitin :rickets, of the
Noo•dland reported , '( eel e1•Yli, Iutitinfo
47:1(1 north, lon3Audr .111:1'1 west. After
midnight, rescued C.'1' a'n'1'+n+nu)us0eu and
crew of the Nnrwegi:'.n rook Kong Oscar Il.
The nee wee high end Lrrak(n; at the time,
and while lowering the boat and tit1111(3 the
sllipwreekwcd Brew ale ard NIe Waal oilfronr
both s1d10 of the ship with much recces.'
The lirltislt al eae($I ip Nessn"u e, Captain.
Jepson, ran intra 0cceese10n 01 h,avy gales.
"The ship ran before t.lie ee,o," was report-
ed, "using nil from the tnrwerd pipes and
from mors. projecting ten feet ever the rail,
at the fore rigging, in this way the nil bags
totve: 1n see vn,ter and spread the o(1 bet-
ter then when elos0 aiwlgeidr. On October
toreonon, With melnitalnons seam fellow-
ing in our wake, all nil hag 5.100 towed over
the taflrail and proved a great seems, as
for two hours previously nearly every sea
had broken on hoard oft. The good result
watt (011110111ate : we shipped no more water
died ug the gale. At first ire used fish oil,
then a mixture of fish and culzo oils, the "
latter being mucl, the more e0'eotive."
When the British, steamship Francisca
ran into heavy gales en November 3, in
midooesn, and was hove to for four hours
in the trough of the sea, Captain Jenkins
ordera•i oakum stalled into the pies of the
forward and m(1101(131 closets and hulled theta
with oil. He reported t hat it had ra marvel-
lous effect on the sea. Along the ship's side,
for a good long range to windrvard, the sea
became smooth, the big waves seeming ter
melt to nothing, and not a drop of water
name aboard after that.
The steamship \Verloondauy of theNether-
lauda•American Line, on October 10 used
oil for sixteen hours with good success. She
had been shipping largo quantities of water
until an oil bag wras 111111p over the weather
side, when no more waves cameaboa•d. The
\Yaesland an October 25 had the seine es- -
perien00. Other ships which repotted emelt
success in the use of oil recently were the
steamships Teutonic, Virginia, Britieh Em-
pire, Prodano, Thuringia, Ohio, Plessey, '
Lord O'Neill, British Bing and the sailing
ships Wilhelmne, Lord Canning, Rebecca.
M. Walls and H. J. Libby,
TOu WITTY.
A Grover who ;.est try rtullndinee.
It is not profitable for a merchant to bo.
too witty ; at any rate, he should not try to
be witty on every occasion. Not long ago,,
in a country town where there are two
groceries in the same street, a very green- •
tow -headed, timiel.loOki)g young country.
man came into one of thein one afternoon,
at One when half a dozen villagers were
grouped around the store. The storekeeper
was waiting upon 00111e Ono, and paid no at-
tention to the new comer,
Presently the timid youn0 man !mid, in a`
faltering, half -frightened voice :
"Do -yon -keep --sweet p'10000 ?"
" No," said the storekeeper; " we don't..
keep 'em. We sell 'eta jest as fast as we
can 1"
Then be winked at the company around
the stave, who snickered appreciatively,
The green young man said, "011 ! and went
up to the stove and spread oat the palms of
his hands. The storekeeper went on wait.
(ng out his other customer, and nsod np...
about fifteen minutes In doing so.
Then he stepped toward the green young.
man,wio was still warning his hands at the
stove, and said, brusquely 1
"Did you say you wanted to buy some
street potatoes?
The young man turned slowly about and
answered, I -didn't -say -I wanted -to'
boy -none 1 I jest -net-ye-if ye kept'
'em."
He then warmed his halide a few Inmates
longer. Then ha walked slowly cut of the
store, remarking as he went :
T-goose-I'll-q1'-ldaown the street
an' -buy-mo-some-sweetp'tetters 1"
The laugh around the stove was not ab
the expense of the greenhorn this time.
Another Irish Victory.
Over the door of a eereain Denntry public-
house is pninted the picture of two asses,
under which ie inscribed : "When shell we
throe sleet again?"
Pat, who was just returning from work,
scythe over shoulder, happened to notice the
picture, end gazed intently at it for some
time.
ThelendlOrd, seeing him from the window
above, put his load out and asked what
wail the matter.
"Faith, ata Oi say (see) it now," Pat elo.
claimed, "I say it. I wondered where
the third ass had got to 1"
His`Pinal Encl.
He had worried through the cholera,. the
mashie end 11101111110110,
And had attempted milord's -been saved by
stomach -pumps t
Alta then to cap the climax, he wed A
w0mtn Vain,
Who 80110 11111 out to match:same sills- lino
0180 never soon again.
4.
A tree in Africa resembling the Hnglislt
oak, furnishes oxcollent butter that will,
Imp the year round.