Telegram-herald., 1890-11-07

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cocoznEss.
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low yoa woald md pleesy O. ADMIRE, Tor
ne mats tA3t form hsr cSrgo--woven
oar ef rushes b. the Aaldive ladies
are vsry neatiy and prcttaly worked, and
often raaeh more elaborate IL pattern
thala one would have expected. Eut yOa
aal better avoid tie sftb, which. loaco4
with something that lcoks ike decaying
leather, though Is Is reaay dried hsh-is
not 70 Do rashly approached. unless you
wish 70 learn 70 yoxr cost why hun
ired scents make enc color.
should yoo wish 10 DC presented ct
court (as lrany people are curiously
anxious 70 be who denouace all courts as
haunts u elTete luxury You have net
ar 10 20. ESslernmoss of the grU9p lies
10 isle Of Male (frola which tAe Nal
lives Jake their name Of "Maie-Diya" or
dale islands) tiny Kingdom Of 2.O00
souls. nlile long by half mile broad,
IA which reisrs the royal Tenn Thumb,
who holds the rank OF sultan Of the
Aaldive isles His majesty is accessible
enough, and ell that you have 70 do IS 20
send him gift of knife or hatchet,
and express your wish 10 LAY your hoEn-
ago al his sublime feet"
But YOU viii lind ~ his court mighty
little ''effets luxury" of any kind. Con
lGcted by native lord in waiting (whose
otliclal dress appears TO consist chiefly of
q turban and a shirt you march up TO
high mud wall and halt before clumsy
gate Of moldering planhs, 1anked by two
sma I iron ship guns. Within hes vast
court yard, at tho far end of which, in
kind IF alcove roofed with palm leaves,
squats on reed mat a stout, heavy old
man. with u broad. unmeaning face, who
IS DO other than the sultan himself he
will ask you many strange questions
upon your own country and people, po-
htely express his wonder that ''hnr-
barian unbeliever from the ends of the
earth should be 60 civilized, and finally
Gf he happens to DO pleased with you)
viii pop into your mouth with his own
august fingers squeezed up pile of
greasy rice from the dish before him, or
else offer you some one Of his wives of
whom he has get tired.
The isle Of Male itself is brisk and
bustling little place IN tho trading sea
son, the sultan having been ''cute"
enough TO ordain that his own island
shall be the only one where any business
shall be transacted with foreigners. It's
people are for the most part a quiet, easy
,cing set, the men being chiefly en-
ployed II fishing and the women in
making mats.
It is hard for any one to realize that
this quiet, beautiful, prosperous little
settlement Las within the memory of
living men been the scene of one OF the
most fearful tragedies on record. Yet
such is actually the case. To the older
islanders who can remember it, the very
name Of the terrible spring Of 1S47 still
carries with it a weight Of horror ez-
ceeding that with which South Austria
lia recalls her fatal BLACK Thursday"
In truth Dante himself could hardly do
justice TO the horrors Of such a storm
among these defenseless islands, most of
which are low and fiat enough for the
sea 10 sweep right over them. Whitser
were the doomed wretches to fy with
the devourihg waves all around them
and the whirlwind howling above? One
can fancy them looking forth over the
wild waters on that grim April morning,
with the same dumb despair that crept
over the giants of the elder world when
they raw tho coming of that great day
of wrath, long delayed and long disbc-
lieved, when the fountains OF the great
deep were broken up and the windows
of heaven were opened"
Down comes the destroying hurricane,
and before the blast of its fCry tall
palms are torn away like grass, and
large boats hurled far up onto the
shore, while the light native huts melt
away As If they had never been. Prone
on the earth lie man and beast. made
equal in this hour Of universal doom.
Women clasp their children to their
breasts With unarsiling shriel1s Of agony,
for their cries are lost amid the hellish
din Of that eky rending uproar, in which
even the cannon Of Gettysburg would
have been unhssrd as an infants wall
Crash on crash, the great billoTs come
foarning mp the land. each in turn sweep
ing away its tale OF human victims, and
the narrow space Of dry land which is
still left amid that roaring ocean Of ruin
sroSs sraallsr and smaller every mo-
msrt, as the white crested armies Of
death.coEDe marching onward.
And now, far in the distance. Almighty
wall of dark water is seen towering high
above the whits hpped wrath Of the sea
On 1t comes, swift and merciiess "a a
pursuing tate. One shock. ono deafsn-
ing crash. one boiling whirl Of foam.
and Ell isover. The once happy and beau
tsfui island Is shapeless, vaicclses waste
of rufn. Ead / $50 Truman lives lie
buried fO-sver in the fathoroless yvh be
low.
A similar catastrophe overwhelmed
the West indian island of st. ThOaas ia
1865. DAVID KEa
Ont of rs-hss. 7. Ont ef the world
Aunt Kate severely Penelope. saw
Tom Barry kiss you last evening. You
should not let him do SO until you are