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Exeter Times, 1898-5-19, Page 6ETER TIMES LAST VOYAGE OF MARTIN VALLLANCE SEA STORY OP TODAY BY JOHN ARTHUR BARRI', Author of "Steve Browu'e Buenilen "In tne Greet Ineeet'' ennegeeneeteenneelWaaaanannananee$enneaneene$$$$$WV .n.aenene, eon. eontee, eneen to. CHAPTER IL—Continued. In an hoer the storm had one, the Often thole out, and a naety tumble a soa.. .got up, one {of Unmet Drina -cross seas that seem toothee from all latter - tens at once—ii sea that speedily made U. half-tide mac of my renu.ge, and threatened, to fell it oompletely n an- other noun or two more. • As to wind, there was none to nether ranch about; aced I was getting the benefit: a the Antenna(' sea, heid so long miller by its iron hand. Presently, to avoid being swept off, I nod to change my position, and, now 1 stood on the bottoni le,g up to ray waist in, water and hang an to the top onea-a precarioun business, to say nothing of sharks, Every tew minutes a couple of chopping seas would make a rendezvous of the pen • and, meeting-, break clean over t hale smothering me, and, as 1 could plain- ly eeel, each time putting mare water • inside, At this rate on going, 1 eon- sidered that less than an hour would, finish matters, unless the wreto ealo Wild sea went down. I had been strarning my gaze to the horizon, when, gradually bringing it round, I elite something_ over my shonlder that made me actually yell with the surprise and, delight a There, not two hundred yards away, noading and danoing to the chop, was a fine big lump of a, cutter -rigged boat, • leer foresail hauled down and partly bunging in the water over the bows, tb.e 'mainsail and gaff heaped along the boom. Over the latter spar leaned a coupls of men clad in blue oot ton dun- garee, looking straight at tne, but giv- iug no sign. Their features were dark, and as their arms hung dean over the sail the sunshine glittering on some bright objects, apperently held in their grasp. Climbing on to the pen, I shouted at the top of pay voiee and waved. my arms. B,ut they never stir- red, and I thought I could make out, even at that, distance, a sneering ex- pression on their livid. faces, Again I yelled; ay, and oursed Melia, and shook my fiet at them, for the boat was pass- ing me. blown along before the wind— passing me at right angles. a beautiful model of a craft, her white side, with its narrow gold beading. glistening wet to each heave of the straight stem. a., • regular dandy of a boat, never built, it struck me even at that moment, to be carried. on shipboard, My God, how swiftly she was getting l away from me I Evidently there was only one thing to be done, bet I hesi- tated,. The stolid cruelty of those dark faees scared me. Would not such villains be apt to take pleasure in repulsing a drowning man who came to them for resuee ? Then I laughed atouci.. What could it matter how the end came, when come it muet if I stayed.' wbere 1 was? And without turther thought I stripped., plunged in, and swam. for the boat. I was weaker than thon,ght ; and. the cross see took et lot of getting through. Also, the boat was further away than I sup- posed_ her to be, and had It not been for the sail acting in great measure, as a drag, I doubt whether I should ever have done the swim. As it was, when at last 1 grasped the sodden can- vas, all I could do was to hang on to it, -panting convulsively, ana not knowing when boat -hook or hand -spike might descend on my heed. A minute or so's rest. and the patnaelly crawling over the bows mother -naked as I was, I staggered_ aft. The pair still stood in the soone position, close to each other, staring steadfastly seaward., their banes towards me, in the natural, easy posture of men resting, Were they drunk, or blind, or deaf 8,nd dumb ? I wondered, as I stood there, on the break of the little half -deck, staring down at them. And then, my eyes travelling along their bodies, a great hot sweat brake out, tingling like prickly heat all over me, and 1 reeled back in dismay as I 'sew that, from the hips down.veards, they were the col- our of saplings charred by a bush-firel Black as Lnk, withoat a stitch of clothing. ran four straddling. shape less stumps that had once been Lhighs an. legs—black as ink they ran into the, foul rain -water that washed. be- tween them in the boat's bottom. A_ truly desperate and awful sight, and e one that mune me feel siok and ill as e I gazed alternately at the burnt sup- t • ports an.d. the fleshy trunks above theta. • Tbe horrible spectacle took all the f stomach out of me, perhaps because f that organ. was so miserably empty just. at the moment. Anyhow, it was 0 some, minutes before I mustered. cour- age to step across and face that grisly 0 pair. God oaly knows what colour their skin had originally been, but now it was a horrid pterplish blue. They p had stiff, scrubby black hair and beards, k ana were so math alike they might f have been brothers. In more than one place on breast and i arm. caught sight.. through the slash- s ed dungaree, of scarce -healed wounds, telling of wild woek not long since. On non hip lay, in its ourved sheath, a . tourderouselociking knife; and from a s stall cuff on each of then. wrists hung a small chain—sorne of the links fused i and melted as if in a furnace. These s were tbe bright objects I noticed, And. a they doubtless formed, a key to the tragedy, or et least to part of t it. nnugging their boat in the ter- 0 rityle storm of the morning. the pair had been sti.unk by lightning and. in- 1, stoutly shattered and withered as a now beheld them.. But; before that e I e • could not 'give a. guess even—intatin- eers. pirates, cenvicts? Wen, here wan d romance at lase, ef a sort, good Mean - tire, heaped up, more than enough to 0 sandy me for these banner= years e that had passed! The, boat -'was wan Major than 1 imagine s ed. Teethed better than half -way tier i length giving her a cabin with hand- some doors, faeln.g span aft—neon, of well, wherein was a email binnaele, t and around whith ran lookers—t should s ' have taken her for a pleasure -boat, s built for use and rough weather; or 8 • one belonging to some government of- firial who had to run out to sea. or a down a harbour to meet ships, C'er. faintly: no sort or vessel that I was 24 acquainted with carried such a eratt s on her deck. But, vetterever she heeled 8 from, she looked a eound, fast, whole- r sonie boat, and wore than a handful h forsny ottp ante, to manage; alan dee oinedly not the propellor of those two silent ones. All these thouglets peen et:lea:trough my brain in least num tan Lt takes, ee pot them down, Indeed, whilst teeinking,'I waS belay leauling the foreeaal deok, not without, I must oortfees, more than one or two nervnue glanees over my. shoulder, Then step- ping gingerly att. I looked around for the pen. having no idea, of deserting a siliennate in distress. For sculls min- utes could not see it; and when at length pecked it up. was astonish- ed to find what a destanee away it was, and what a mere spe,cee it appeared, on the sea. Tenzing its bearings by the compase, paused, reluctant with dis- gust, at the job on hand. But it bad to be done, I wanted th,at =dandle and yet 1 hated to touch those for- bidding figare,s gazing silently over the sea with lowering, hideotte nom Easing off the mainsheet, thrust the boom to leeward. But they were not to be got rid. of in tnat fashion, and they hang on with a terrible ten anity tb.at disialayed' me, As I stood watohing in half-hearted fashion, the boat ,gave a eadden swerve, bringing the boom back again, and. causing the bodies to hit the side of the cutter violently; and, to nay horror, the lower parts of each of them snapped. store off carrotwise, whilst the trunks swayed to and fro like pendulums on the span Thrs sort of thing was not to be borne, and, with despetate energy, I picked up the halves—they were as light as corks —and hove them overboard. Then, grasping' the body nearest me, draga ged at it, haying to exert all my strengen to make it at go its hold, and served it the saan.e way, the belt and sheath slipping over the exposed hip- bones as I did so. Tackling the othee one, I pulled too hard, and. it came away with e swing, and, turning, flew to me, resting on my bare breast. Shaking anyself free with a shout of terror, I pitched it overboard, was tiembiing- all over, and the sweat ran down my bony in streams- Never, in me- worst nightmare, could I have im- agined such a, gruesome contract as the one mhad just finished. With a fev- esh eagerness to be gone, I cast the gaskets loose, hoisted the mainsail, rat- tled, the foresail up, got the cutter be- fore the wind, and kept away for Nara and the pen—bearing a good couple of miles abeam, She steered like a oleok; and though the breeze had. dwindled to a mere light air, she slipped through the easing tumble at a rate that soon brought me alongside my first refuge. 'Hurrah, Nan, old woman ' I shout- ed, whilst I, queekly got into my clothes; "here we are anain; never say die• for neither of as was bo t b drowned t ' "Ma -a -a -a," bleated pooe Nan as I rolled. back the tarpaulins and, with some trou.ble, threw open the Lig barred. door. On my calling her, she was out on top of the cage in a second, and after just one sailor -like stare around, watching her chance, she hopped into the boat as clean as a whistle, although it stood full four feet above the cage, and bad footing both ways. A rather dilapidated -looking goat she was too, with chafing sores on hips and shoulders, and her coat all brine -roughened. and matted. But there was lots of lite in her still, and she imacle the deck rattle as she scamp- ered fore and aft, bleating at the top of her voice. Dowsing the sails. I made east to the pen for a time whilst I did a little ex- . plortxtg with a view to food and drink, w-hich, Heaven knows, we both needed badly. First, with a. bucket, I baled the wa- ter out, not liking the feel of the greasy splashing between my legs, any more tb.an the suggentive dark colour of it. Then, opening the door of the little cahin, 1 crouched in, closely fol - towed by Nan. The interior was low, end dimly lit by a couple of glass bull's-eyes in the deck. There were no hunks, but all around an a cush- ioned seat, covering, as soon found, lockers full of odds and ends. On tho floor were some rugs and blankets; an erapty demijohn. smelling of rum; sante tin pannikins and plates; mats of In.dian manufacture; long blaole Trichinbpoli cigars; woven bags of grass, containing beLelnut and. with - red arecaneaves for chewing, togeth- r with many more signs of dirty na- ive occupation. But everything was scattered about in the wildest con - lesion. A handsome little lamp swung roan a liracket, and, lighting it with a match from a big tin boxful in one f the lockers, I was enabled to see more clearly. And now noticed minous black patches on the brown eather of the cushions, and the floor was simply piebald with them. Also, I icked up a couple of groat sheath- nives covered with rusty -brown stains ram haft to point. Undoubtedly here had been murderous work clone u that little sea-rootn. Opening ones of the lockers, 1 famed. pieservede meats, a few bottles of rum, a greet eig of cabal. biscuits, a lump of cold salt junk on a tin dish, a jar of some ort of wine, another of inolasses, more igars, a whole cheese, a string of °m- ons, and one locker was nearly null of weee potatoes, at whicla Nan sniffed. pprovingly. Perhaps what, pleased me most of all was, la,shed lien in he eyes, a big cask of water, which, n sounding, found over half -full. Carrying an armful of previsions, t e-ent out, glen to breathe the fresh ir after that of the Catin, which smell - d stifling with an odour of ruta, stale igen-smoke, murder, and sudden eath. Bat Nan seemed uneasy, and in place f eating the potatoee and biscuit cove red with minuses, one of her special ntaktlesees, she started to butt Me and beg out complainingly, At last, 108 - ng penance, I was about to tie her 0, when my eye fell upon her uddera, wollen near to bursting; and sailor hough I was, 1 tett that something vented easing, So, taking a benin, et to Work, awkwardly enough 1 dare ay, but effeetually ; and, Nan, re - sieved, presently made great play with sr food. And whet a meal that west ever have IC eaten ono like, it ince I Nor, I sappeen Shalt 1 ener eat well another 1 mean with the same elish and appetite, For twenty-four OUrS nothing had passed my lips but% nugget dr two of I:wine-sodden, weevily, Mamie, AtId now, cold ,jonin Potted °a -tone -me, white Peak and lerean'a beee elinee nread, raw mantels, and cheese, all washed down by oopeone drenfehts oe Nn s miena, weal a „tittle hon uever drunk sab. a brew before, int r argued thee winet Wes giant for • the skipper, couldn't very well hurt a second uotte. Aud very oapital teen, ton 1 amend it. Aftee stotelna, tier 'Won tier, suet] feed an one never gets the Owen or etetban iu the earn° style twine in at lifetimen1 eietened away the things, moored terreeh •on a bight, ready to go at a, momenVe no- tice; and feteihing the eleanest •emb- lem 1 could find it or, the, cabin, end Plaalig nu a grating cease to tbe Liner, I lay down, fleet drawing the nmenteati aye); the boom, to foriri a sort of awning. But for a while, tired as. I was, I couldn't alone 1 WaS ereann and thoughtless, and, like moss seaa men, although •ter from irreliaioue, still extraordinarily shy of making my show of devotion, openly or otherwise, As 1 lay there, hbwever, ima there Passed through my mind the wonderful series of what one might almost fair- ly ealf miracles by which C had been preeerved and brought to my present hopeful and comfortable position, when destruction seemed so inevitable ansl so neer, 1 all at mule felt impelled to get up On my knees and thank God hettreily in as suitable words as Icould muster, for the mercies 1 bad eapern mixed at His hands since plunging ov- erboard in that dark middle watch. am sorry to say that, notwithstanding the stook I came of, it was an !unwont- ed exercise. But I felt all the bet- ter for it and lying down. again, went off at once into a sound i but not alto-. gether dreamless sleep. teEPAPTER 111. I had slept slong indeed, for when I awoke, mightily refreshed, the stars Were paling before the approach of a new dawn, creeping up the eastern sky. A cool and gentle breeze. was blowing from the south.and I put on my coat and vest that bad hung up to den After atLending to Nan 1 had a biscuit and a cupful of the warm, milk, whine ever since, by the way, I have in perferred to cow's. As yet I was rather undecided what to do, although now with ai good boat under my feet. Soutawatd lay the ships. But there, also, lay the bitter 'weather and the. high seam, necessitating such con- stant vignenee as with so sc.ant a crew mean end in mishap dire and com- plete unless very speedily some ves- sel were sighted. The boat, too, was rather large for one man to manage with comfort in anything like a sea- way; and the lighter the wind and warmer the weather, the better, 1 judg- ed, would be the chance of eventual escape. Of my position I was, of course, un- certain; nor, though I overhauled the cabin again more carefully, could find any instrument that might en- able me. to take an observation. My one thameat seemed to me, was to get far enough northso as to cross the track of Australian steamers, I would The last voyage of Martin Valiance. have given my little finger for a sex- tant. But the boat evidently had car- ried a 'family native. crew, wherever they had come from, rued 1 must think' myself lucky to have e compass even. And, m any case, I could hardly keep going night and day; so, actually, as lona as I anade 1 tf northing, it mattered little about a degree of drift one wan or the other. As the sun. rose L cast off from my moorings and made sail on the boat, waving my cap to the pen, heaving gently on the swell, a, black spot in the red pathway of the orb, never doubting .I should see it no more. It had served me well, and 1 felt like parting from an old friend as we headed away nearly due north with a flowing sheet, the cutter leaning ov- er to it like a dog at a bone, and Nab standing. under the foot of the foresael—a fine figure of a, goat, now with well-filled sides and ajossy hair, chewing leer eu.d apd keeping a. sharp lookout to windwaird. Without a doubt I owed ray lefe to her, ao but for the sound of her calling to me from the sea 1 had never seen the pen, swim- ming away from it as I was, and taezerty at my last gasp. Once, when the water began to come in so aa - pally, just after the storm, the thought had crossed my mind of how Mach lighter the pen AS outd float if Nian was out of it. ,But the notion was no 60011- er conceived than nut aside, with the conviction that no good fortune could ever attend soch te miserably ungeate- ful action, either in this world. or the next. • In my runirnaging I had come across a, couple of short clay pipes, quite new, also a stick or two of ship's tobecco, far more to my mind than the rank agars. And now, as 1 sat at the till- er and smoked, whilst the boat ripped throtigh the blue water, 11 _telt per- vade me a joyous sense of leope and ex- d hilaration indescribable, setting me to eehistle and sing to the mere thrili- ing of it. Noe did my imagination 6 play me any trieles concernieg those 0 two grim and blasted ones. 11 1 had not, by any ,reason, been 'able to get rid of them, ie alight have been other - TIIE 1)IfILIPPI1E ISLANDS, zspoRmATIoN ..ABOUT SPAIN'S PEARLS OE 'THE OCEAN, the Poesetaion or Spain Ortr Then ' ellendrett neenaniteentitett Seenery "140 itundt'ed 'Degrees te the ehade nest N() IM vela sRttlel7eePtIllele,-7,:140:41"iteeranntete 'Earthquake% Cholera. Eptdonteie ft Inver are IPIT(011.411 VIS11011}. The Pbilippine Islauds, one ot: the points of deepest interest in the war, have been in the possession of that ne- cadent monarchy since SteLanarus day, lani. They were discovered by •Her- nando• de Magellan, who had sailed westwand in search, of the Molucca Is- lands, which at that time were elaina- ed by Portugal. Following the cheer- ful Spanisn custom, it Aras Magellan:s intent to find the Moluccas and •pro- claitu. Spanish sovereignty with thee aid of a few round shot, Tbe Anne ippinee proper compriee inure teen 600 islands. • They are a part of the chain which separates the Pacific. Ocean from. the China Sea. In length they are 1,000 aniies from north to south and, their extreme breadth es 400 mites. Their riehnes.s has caused their carters to name them "Perlas del Ocenno," or Pearls of the Ocean. The principal islands in the nrder of their size are Luzon, evbica is bot little smeller than Cuta, Mindanao, Paragua or Pala:wan, Sawar, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Negros, Cebu, Bojo]. and Masbate. They are mountainous, well wooded and well watered. They containnio beasts of rirey, except an undersizedwitd oat. The other wild: fauna are buffaloes, deer, Pigs, monkeys and the mysterious "tu- =area," a cross between the buffalo and deer, an inhabitant of the slightly explored Mindoro. Owing -to their length .north and south these islands possess a consider- able diversity of climate. Their up- per end comes, within a few miles' of reaching the northern edge of the tropic zone. Scenically they are .EXTRENIELle BEAUTIFUL. Sailing. among their thousand passages elle traveler is greeted by intensely 'blue waves, white coral beaches, mas- sive mountains wooded to the summits, handreds of leaping cataracts, flowers of every imaginabee form and color and a sky on deep arid serene loveliness. :Prom Luzon one of the world's largest ol canoes rears its s earre I head,. crown- ed for months with fire. Some of ate mountains are more,. than 8,000 feet high. Thee interior is composed. of mighty avers, large lakes, hea,ve fora' este and wide alluvial plain's. The soilis of the kind. which, tickled with the hoe, laughs into harvest. The climate is equable, varying not more than 10 degrees in the twenty-four hours. Off Manila just. no, -with the rainy season two wee.ks distant, 'it is at its hottest. One hundred degrees in the shade is its average. in Janu- ary th.e thermometer has been known to go as tow as 60 degrees above zero, but usually it. ranges during the dead of otu• winter en.oeths from 65 to 75. Manila, the capital of Luzon, is sixty hours' sail from HongoKong, and five' days from Singapore. It con t a ins, with its suburbs, a population of, 350,- 600, of whom. 10,000 are European. These include the soldiery, clergy, of- ficials and. foreign business and pro- fee:stone!. men. The English speaking residents do not exceed 600. The city proper is surrounded by A MASSIVE STONE WALT., more than 200 years olel, and it is :sparsely mounted with obeolete can- non. The people living inside of the E1A. I not*number more than 25,000: It is, however, for le tropical city, an extremely eusy plane. It ' is thepeitt- cipat port of. export, .and the exports lost year amounted,' to$40,n60,000. Next Lo Cuba the Philippines are Spain's most precious colonial possession and are capable of being Made even more valuable than Lhe wonderful pearl of the Antilles. They are the third. .sugar-prod.ucing region of the -eared, the crop being 400,000 tons. The other products are _hemp, tobacco, coffee, copra, dried cocoanut, frona which fine soaps iire made, sapan wood and indigo. Phitippine eoffee pays its producer a et profit of $150 a ton. The islands s yet; are in the initial stage or their evelooment, though they have been under the influence of a- eupposed eivi- Lancet for more than yeas. Roe very acre iti cultivation there are 10,- 30 tuitouchect by the plow. -Among the other products of the Pearls of the Ocean" are earthcettakes, holera, epidenues, ' insurrections, tyh- cons axed typhoid fever. The earth- ua4ce. shocks, indeed, in the course of decade are fairly innuenecalele. The rchitecture of the islands has been ade to confotmto this saw -Ilia condi- ion. THE NATIVE HOUSES, re ball, on bamboe poles and. cocoa hatching, and if three of them fell ,ca a man he:wouldnot know it. The Dates of the Europeans are made of rick stone ooly as high as the first tory is of light woe& The roof is of h.atch, built upoei pillars erected in- ependently on the walls ol the !Arne - are. The firet part of a Philippine europeten'e house, to 66 Wilt is the roof, terng eheltered, from the sun, the worknien take their time in. finish- ing the 'rerneender. The typhoons are noteneroas eseeecal and. diestardotive, '.they blow with' unexampled ferocity and fatalleine ane many m then timber- ed distriets. The Jeeuits, members of that Marengo ortlet niways first to brava he terrors Of new coantries, have bane earthclutlice axed typhoen observatory on Etieh dweller ire thinnanteliwireorY in a loan ot Science, psttnUyseleeted ror 'fitness, They ha,ve not yet needled. the point. Where they are able:tie predict 'earthquakes, althofigh they havii hopes, but they do prediat'typhoone with re tritiakii bl oe tainty and etieh season save thousands or. lives, by dispatches' to the various eise. Bat then, yards away, glisten- h • ing wet with spray, was the boom to; o whin] the fie.ry holt had. fastened n them, the good Rand pine of it buck -1 a, ling to the lug of the sail, and all arouni the warm steady breeze arid the L ibialueit.. sky, and the waterand the life 1, Vint see, r was young and 'healthy, n wilab perfeot digestion ; end had e company, also plenty of good food. and c drink, All the same, shunned the LI! darkestoine little den of cabin, close and -vile-smelling. Nor wos there any need for inn shelter, the weather keep- ing gloriously fine; the wind through a. the day steedy and light, dying away e' at: sundown, adt giving place to soft airs, which scarce rippled the water heaving gently to the dark blue over- head studded with great constellations that gnawed and bternea and Palleiton- ed with a, nearnese arta beillianOn had riever even 0(110118d. (Tri be Continued) A MAN TO Bo TRUSTED. ' How did you happen to trust that man for groceries, Spdtio? Tem had to asik his name. yes, I know him for, a conritgeously honerit man, 1 sat :behind hint at the theater the other night and, heard him tall hie wife lie was going out to et a drink, That faked, Moral 4timinit, poen and neuiteplioring the inland etaltiOnti. Oet011er is the typheola twain, in the Amine eeetiolt, and. the Anon:leen fleet; is safa freitet. them. THE NATIVE POPULA.TION of the Philippine lalands—or rather the population now known oes native— Is of Malay extrooeion. The aborige ines, who. ore new ne number, and leave been drineu to the interior, ere anin to the Palatines, with woolly hair and rues of the neg'roici type. The lenalane ens have Lae eastonatery yellow sldn, blank eyes end sera:ante hair of that znee. They are peaceful and lazy, de- • voted gen:Oilers and passionately ad - dieted tot coc)x-fighting. They make good accountants, good sailors and are expert etertm.en. They are brave ennagla but their lack of national co- hesion and inconquerable sloth make them an easy people to rule. Their insarrections have been frequent, but resentless. They so far outnumber the Spanish that there has not been a time within the poet 300 years when a single united, intelligent ,effort woela not bane swept every vestige of their mas- • ters from the islands, but it has not been made, and, unless dominated by Antericans, never will be made. An- other reason for their tong vassalage is to be found in the fact that their priests come from Spain, and they are all intensely Catholic. On Good Fri- dayontheSatitrdaf fo11o:,ingtind 00 Bastrl.sundaytlieris:)us tness 10 vanllaandnovehiletany kinct is ieritteaotthesteets. Because of experiences in South Am- erica, and because there was neither goldnorsilver 10 paying quantities in ttareeatPeaditlihpepiniaetsivesenewiteharmlyuoShprroitaertdest, clemeney than was their custom. With- in a few years after the disoovery tei- bunals of appeol were established, which checked the powers of the gov- ernors. Indeed, comparatively speak- ing, the inferior races have had. little of which (o complain. They have not, at eleast, been exterminated, as hap- pened to the subjects of the Incas and to the aboriginal Cubans, as happen- ed, in fact, to, nineteen out of every twenty off our own Indian tribes. KITE TELEPHONE, Perfect Communiteetteet netween Ships Ill the British Navy. The English naval authorities have just tested with great sucoess a sug- gested novelty in the wae• of com- munication at sea which promises to render obsolete the present method of signalling. Commander R. G. O. Tupper, or the Royal Navy, experitnented with a "kite *telephone," The kite nsed• was of the regulation sort, except that it was minuie a. tail. It was six feet long and three feet wide at the broadest point. In place of the tail the kite carried - nee lines, one of which was re- tained on board the Daring, the in- structional torpedo boat destroyer., from -which the experinients were con- ducted. With the wind between the two lines referred to, it was found that e kite. was so easily managed that it wee no trick at all tie deep letters or even a hawser into another ship, and in this way establish communication. Following this experiment came one with a wire. Tha end of the wire which the kite bore away frotn the ship was 'dropped upon the deck of 11. M. S. Dauntless, where it was secured by the eleattioien of Lhe ship and at- tached to a telephone apparatus in waiting. The other end, which had remained aboard the Daring, was al- so attached to a teleph:one, and as soon 08 tbis •task was completed, the two ships were in perfect coMmanication. The kite remained suspended, secured by two lines, for more than four hours, during which time communication be- tween the Daring and the .Dauntless was uninterrupted. The experiment that was made by the officers of the Daring and the Dauntless had another valuable re- sult. It showed that it is possible to arrange for a new syntem of signals from one ship, to another that would be greatly- superior to any flag systera which could be conceived.. If the tele- phone wire can be arranged in this manner there is no reason why tele- graphic toirtinu,nie.ation cannot be ettade in a similar fashion. nt this cane an operator aboard the flagship. could carry on a conversation with his fellow operator aboard one of the fleet, with- out difficulty. As a means of signalling the kite is firmly believed, not only by na.val on ficers but by thbse of the army, to be fraught with great importance when the future is considered. It is of course very much easier for it signal to be seete-that is elevated to a consid- erable height than one tthich may float at the top of the mainmast or be waved frorn the summit of a. hill, AN EDITOR'S-RENSION. There is a rum.or that Mr. William Mutford will shortly resign the editor- ship of the Daily Standard, the leading conservative organ of this oountry, says a London letter. He ha.s been re- ceiving a eatery uf 25000 a year, toed hear that it is the intention of the proprietor to allow him that Saline sum as a pension. M. anutford is about 65 nears ef, age, He is a bachelor and 18 credited with ha,ving refused knight - /mod and a baronetcy. 'Ile began life on the Standard about 30 years age as a jollier repeater and, succeeded in tot cony becoming, its editor, but mek- ing it a most powerful And wealthy or- gan and perhaps the most' respected newspaper in all the 'British .realm, none are some people whet State that Mr. Sidney :Low will be Mr. Mulford's Successor, but he will not vegeloe. SO large a salary, Mr. Low is the Son 0± a naturalized Ilumettrian eitizen. RAISER WILThILMs REVOLVER. • Raiser. Wilhelm carries with hint a small but Serviceable revolver, either in his pocket or in his 'belt alien in tulifotm. ,the: threats of the Anarch- ists hone caueeci Item to Imva reeeurtse to this tneentere of seat:Irian His man catty is extremety skilful: in the use ef the weepoet aad the chtteeduen.Wild aceeruPantes hien enerYwhere has had orders to inspeet it ever' morning in order to make sure that it is in. Work- ing Order, • BRITISH COALING STATION$. il4s,0110044leto:it:tovlhel(late174's el -we The tremendoete iniportanee wilioli the Posseeetote of well-placed coaling stations is now seen to lee when Spain is crippled, on this side of the Atiantie fer the lack of them and the 'United Stats wound be eimilarly handicapped were she to try to fight her fleet on Ute European, coast, gives as an idea' of the sagacity of the British Govern. - Mont which has pue'sued an a steelier policy for many, a year the estabeish- Meat of coaling stations in all Parts of the world. Coal is the life of the modern fleet; and -it can no more. live toed fight without it than au artny can advance witalout food: Yet there is nomtd Ooolliyr ay e ofntheposwsinbrilidi ;hebee'ecomen iilateain. o tangled M a naval conteet. in ,which or closeto which she has not ample coaling facilities under the flag. Can- ada herself contains two excellent coaling stations, one on eiteh of ' the great oceans. The mines of Cape Bre- ton on the one leant! and those of nine ish Columbia on the other, are reedy to fitsriaolhdirklwadnaeisamLsIbri tie!Py-sf. 11114ht bin atliblauetntskm6atrbeste YoOffsilt rtaihttue- DO'UTED wrru SENTILAR POINTS which, means that Britain °nein sus - Labe a naval conflict of the longest duration without ever calling the fleet home, for own. , No other power even remotely approaches the British ellnieneent in this respect; and, more- over, thie is not a lack to be supplied in a day. We are frequently told neat 'money will not bay a fighting fleet— that a nation must have the sailors to man and fight it. This is undoubt- edly trete and is not a fact to be safely underestimated. Bat it would be no harder for a new rival of the British naval power to find sailors for its fleet than to find coaling stations to enable it to live away fain home. This would mean that in' a prolonged contest, the enemy of Britain must either capture several of her fortified coaling bases or else collapse for sheer lack of fuel. In the time of lance the casuele ob- server does not notice this tremendous advantage of the 'British navy When no war is in progress the ports of all the world are open to any eattle ship -which may come in eeeking coal; and the result is that we see the vessels or every power which possesses cruisers disporting themse(Ives on every sea, and are apt loo-ely to imagine that they could fight as well as play there. But the sailing of .the, American, squadron front Hong Kong has nem an - IMPRESSIVE 0(1-Cte, LESSON to the ooiu(trary. The moment war Intake AO it became impoesiblet for any neutral potver, no matter, how friendly, to permit the American navy to ride at anchor in its harbors. Con- sequently the American fleet found itself turned out on the high seas with the choice of capturing a base of; sup- plies from, the Spaniards or steaming hoene to San Francisco.The British fleet, had it Leen nailed upon to figkt, oould have stayed at Bongo Kong as long as it pleased, striking its blow at the enemy when it. liked; and in case of failing to entirely crash the enemy Pit its (first attempt, could. have re- turned to Hong Kong to repair and recoal. And as witb Hong Kong, so with all strategic points on the neven Sees. The -builders of the British Em - Tire have plannect their work admirab- ly, not only in scenting contentment; and prosperiLy among their colonists, but inl providing for the defence of that Empire against any that may at- tack. LIFE OF PREMIER THREATENED Head of Augiktlan Colony in Danger From Angry Milner*. New Is brought from Australia by the steamer Warimoe of a serious riot at Kalgoorlie gold fields, in which Sir John Forrest; Premier of 'Western Ausn trainee:latest lest his life at the hands 'of ,i-onnunitt bed 'miners: Abent the be- ginning of 'March 'regitle+ions Were paseed limiting surface nights a al - layette diggers to ten feet. Miners im- mediately rose in arras, a.nd in a riot which ensued four were arrested and imprisoned. Mantle 21, while ret.u.rning from the opening of: the new railway to Menzies, Sir Sohn norrest returned by way of Kalgoorlie. When his Crain arrived felly 10,000 miners were at the etation. The "Premier went direct to the 'Wilkes Hotel, %there en appeal was made to the Premier to repeal the re- gulations. The Premier listened patiently to the 1 demands from the miners for a time, but on their getting more pressing he lost his temper, and telling them the ' men imprisoped must remain so, and t that the Cabinet would coesider the n GREAT ,IRISH LEADERS FOREMOST IN EVERY COUNTRY SAVE. THEIR OWN. namone telellinnen 10 AU the Civiiiattii . -Nations or the WOrtit—Settiotiong 00 the illeteetten Prom a British Anatol:, ny, The patrietism of t1a4 Irish to the land of their adoption, leaniatter whev narisuirtnYeibleerbea.esoytakelveinC ebie:Ine Ocreetsntri7lalena' n tleey (never hesitate to demonstrate that fact. Irish brains have done much to win battles, AS has been thetenn time and, again during Intter Ugh* Great Baleen's indebtedness Co the Irish is remarkable enCerigh to deserve a special artiele all to itself. A. Britain eatitority on the subject, among othe things, nays; "Indeed, 11 a foreign were to read through a list of the chief men in every profession in this ceettletery he weaned come Ito' the conclinsion that . all the, pro - Cessions were "bossed' bi Iriihmen," And there would In seine excuse for this conolusiou, too- tleAMOUS HUSH GENERALS. Take the army first of all, Not only; is the Commander in Chief a native of treated, bat the two must famous G•tanerals of the present day, Lord Ro- berts and Sir Bindon Blood, areIrish- men, too. and, of counse,.it's needless to mention the tact that Britain'eanost go-ahead Admiral, Lord Charles Beres» foe& is Irish to the backbone. As Irishmen have always been renowned fighters, this fact may only be hi the nabural order of events—but if' wen look at the lists of a diametrically op -4' posite pinfesston, and turn from. the art of killing to the art of healing, we find the self -stone story. Sir Richard Quoin, who ,died the oth- er day, came to London as an unknown Cork lad, 60 years ago, without any friends to help him or any eids to alto - cess except. his own genius and tier - severance. For 401 yeztrs before hie death he was regarded as the greatest authority in Beitain on all diseases of the lungs and beart, and was cer- tainly one of the first half dozeu phy,- sicians in the world. But if one wants' to see how thor- oughly Irishmen have leet their mark on every profession in this °bleary it is necessary to turn to the hen. The Lord Chief: justice of Ragland is, as every one knows, an Irishman but possibly what every one does not know ie that three of the best kaown lumi- naries in. other branches of the legal profession are compatriots of Lord Itu8se101: S31E NOTED IRISHMEN. Of the four Lords of Appeal indisput- ably the best knowneis Lord Morris, WIIGSB wit and brogue would proclaim: hie nationality half a mile off. There there is Lord ;faience Colltns, and last, but not least, 'Mr. Carson, Q. 0., who migrated from the Irish to the Ena- lish bar a few years ago, and who is now popularly supposed to be making,. O bigger income than any other bar- rister in •London.„ • We aro continually hearing from our German orilics that we are not a mus- ical nation, but one trembles to think what their verdict' wouldbe if we were to lose our best known composer. Sir Arthur Sullivan, our hest operetta singer, Signor Fon, and our most fam- ous platform singer, Plunket Greene. be too subtle a game for the fiery tem- perament ot the Emerald Isle. But it. is 0 fact that England's, greatest diplomatist is Lord Dufferin, an Irish- man, from the top of his head to the sole of his foot. SMART IRISEI SOURNALISTS. But if Irishmen are supposed to be weak in diplomacy, even their worst enetines give. ?them credit' for their smartness in journalism. It is hard- ly too much to say that more than. 30 per cent of successfut journalists in England at the present dee- are Irish- men. One of the smartest and earliest e ha'penny newspapers in London was et started by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, whose tome, oe comae, explains his. nation- ality; ' while a:nal:bee 'Irishman: Or'. Conan Doyle, was partlye et an tate, reseponsible for the gigantiG success ef the Strand an agazine, by his creation of nherloak Holmes -' and then, of coln lee there's Mr, ,Tustin McCarthy. • Among scientific men there are no names Whi.V11 stand higher then the late Prof, Tyndall and Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer, both of them Irish- men, who made England their home. There is an old saying that every Irishman is a politician, eleiLhout in- queriag into the truth or otheraviee Of this proverb there is no doubt about, the fact tha t in Lord Ashbourne and the late Lord Rosmead, better known xs Sir Hercules RobiesonoIrniand has supplied two statesmen of thefirst ak. Onf course, in this article we have nentioned only those Irishmen who have not confined their talent% to heir own country. °atomise our list nald have been indefinitely lengthen, ecl. regtelnLions he attempted to leave the hotel. As he came down the stab -s, the miners, who had become most; turbu- lent, meshed at him,. Thousands pres- sed on him, toed he was hit in the face and bruised. The Premier was much knocked about; and the warden, ine- ing that Sir John's 'life was in danger, read the It iot Act. elate tuou,nLed troopers in etteedance thereupon rode the crowd down, n rid galloped away for nattskets. By the time thy returned, the door of the stittion had been fenc- ed, and the Premier, having get tairough, the door was barricaded, a,glain. nehe Prentice having enteredi his carriage, the train steamed, to- wards the border, hut, hearing that the rails had berm torn up, the train returned to Peith, The riot wag the melee serioue disturbenee in Australia since the fatnona, Eureka stoekade 'af- fair at Ballarat in 1854. AWAY UP, Mistress—Are you up in Ereneh dress - trigs? , Cook—All my best; gowns is PariS glade. Mum, HARD ON HIM, YOU ran alwaya judge a man by' the comPany isa eeeepe mat' peony tough On the warden of the penitentiary,. AT A MATINEE IN HAVANA.. - a. carious custom of the Havana terS is the throwing of doves 8,1 the performers ray the anclienee, The birds Java thenfeet tied wieh ribbons, and the people beep become so dexterous in tossing. tue,m, Oat they go steetighb to the person tor whom they are de- signed. So great is the deStirlition there now that rich people paeeting in- to the thearet with (hes inekons to be- stow upon their favorite artiste, are frequently entreated by the streenina populace, who crowd aboet the doers, to give the Intent to theeenfor aood for the sick ones at home, IPOBOITTNES LN 'INVENTIONS. A patent for fastening kid gloves hes yielded a fortame of several hund- redsiietrh,ouaenadind dollars tor ite ofOrtaxuato the inventor Of a, collar clasp enjoys $20,000 royaltY a ear att the reward for' his endeavor, A itiov kind of sleeVe 'Melton has made, $50,000 ic five years for its tettenine, and the fx.Sirog.1; traitettiveogroofiseanfoeitros8piiii.)etsolotemelatsec;111, of the pointisticking in the eliflti :ern- mises to enrich: its owner beyelid rt of Is early dreams et wealtmii„