Connecticut western news., 1890-09-10

looked for all the world as if it were made of solid turquois. The fish that darted under the keel also looked like turquois fish. Never on the coast of
 England had they seen any such lovely effects in the water as one sees at Ma deira.
 Tenderly they assisted the sick and
 careworn lady over the ships side into the boat and rowed her ashore. She
 was, perhaps, the first woman who had stepped foot on that most witching of all the isles of the sea. They were,
 perhaps, the first human beings who
 ever trod on the yellow sands of that solitary paradise.
 A clearing was soon made amid the forests that came to the shore, and a tent was soon spread out of an old
 sail All were exhausted with anxiety, hardship and despair. But at last they seemed to have found haven of re- pose where they could rest, gather strength and collect provisions to en- able them once more to set sail for
 sunny France They soon found that there were no savages, that in fact they were the only souls in that insular soi- tude, and that neither wild beasts nor poisonous reptiles were there to disturb them.
 Anne dArfet, with her maid and Roger Machim, remained on shore with part of the crew; the rest of the crew kept on board to look after the ship. Everything promised well, and all went
 merry as a marriage bell. It seemed as if the lovers had found an ideal haven for their retreat, such as the | poets sing of in their romantic dreams. Generally it is like that the year round at Madeira. But the fates seemed against poor Anne and her devoted lover, and the season seems to have been unusually inclement. On the third day after anchoring at Machico their hopes were sadly dashed when
 they saw another storm gathering and heard the wind moaning among the woods and rolling great rollers on the shore.
 When the men on board of the gal ley saw the peril in which they were they slipped the cable and ran out to
 sea, hoping to come back with the re-
 turn of fair weather; but they never
 returned, nor was the galley ever heard
 of again.
 It is easy to imagine the terror and despair which came upon the fugitives
 left on the solitary island when they
 saw their ship driven to sea- The lady
 immediately began to droop again. In
 vain poor Roger attempted to cheer
 her with hopes that the galley would
 yet come back and take them home
 again.
 She saw too well in the wan face and
 lusterless eyes of her lover that he had
 And there she died with his name on
 her lips. Scarcely had they laid her
 away in a grave little removed from
 the shore than poor Machim also yield
 ed to his doom. His heart was broken,
 and in two days more the survivors
 folded his hands on his breast and laid
 him beside Anne d'Arfet
 After waiting long in vain for the
 galley to return the three or four sailors
 who were left on the island fitted up the small ships boat left with them and
 started on the desperate undertaking of finding a way home, at least by fall ing in the track of some ship. The
 wind waited them to the coast of Af-
 rica. There they were picked up by a Moorish corsair, which was cruising to attack Christian ships. The English
 sailors on arriving at a port were thrown into prison, where number of other Christian captives were already lingering in chains.
 Among them were some Portuguese
 mariners, who learned from the English
 captives of the island which they had discovered in so unexpected way. After years the Portuguese marin ners
 were ransomed and returned to Portu-
 gal. At Lisbon they met Zarco, brave
 navigator at that port. To him they
 related the strange story learned from
 the English sailors. It was period oi
 discovery, and the Portuguese were
 among the foremost in leading the
 search for new lands.
 Zarco at once fitted out ship and
 found the island of Roger Machim,
 which he took possession of for the King of Portugal and called the island
 Madeira, because of it's remarkable
 verdure. A chapel was built over the grave of Anne d'Arfet and Roger
 Machim, which still stands at Machico
 The discovery of the island of Madeira
 has been of great use to the world, and
 thus we see again illustrated in it's
 history the great fact-that man pro poses, but God disposes. G. w.
 Benjamin in New York Independent. A Saratoga man has in his possession 1 a monster fish somewhat resembling a sturgeon, but having long, sword shaped ] jaws, which was taken from Lake | Champlain. It is called fresh water
 swordfish. This specimen weighs eigh-
 teen pounds, and is four feet three inch
 es long, eighteen inches around the body and six inches across the back. The Love of Novelty and Change. The residents of old Athens gained an