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like the roar of wounded wild beast IL
it had not srticulated terrific blssphemy.
"Unorna is quite SAFE" the Wandersr
hastened to say.
"Safe-where?" shouted the little man,
his hands already on his furs. The Indi-
vidual, too. had sprung across the room like
cat, and was helping him. In FIVE sec
onds Keyork would have been out of the
house.
SIN convent. took her there and saw
the gates close behind her."
Keyork dropped his iurs and stood still Q
moment. The Individual, ALWAYS unmoved,
rearranged the coat and cap neatly in their
place, following all his masters move
ments, however, with his small eyes. Then
the sage broke out in different strain. He
flung his arms around the Wanderers body
and attempte to embrace him.
"You have saved my liie-the curse Of
the three black angels on you for not saying
so frstP' he cried in an agony of ecstacy.
Preserverl Whatcan I do for you-saviour
of my existence, how can repay you? You
shall live forever, as will, you shall have
all my secrets, the gold spider shall spin
her web in your dwelling. the Part of For
tune shall shine on your path, it shall rain
Jewels on your roof, and your winter shall
have SHOWS of pearls-you shall"
"Good heayensl Keyork." interrupted
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houses and the artificial gardens. The crab
is good eating; possibly SO is the rat; I have
not tried.
Pandanus fruit is made, in the Gilberts,
into an agreeable sweetmeat, such as man
may trihe with at the end OF a long dinner;
for substantial meal have no use for it.
The rest OF the food supply, in q destitute
atoll such as Fakarava, can be summed up
in the favorite jest of the Archipelago-co-
coanut beefsteak. Cocoanut green, cocoa
nut ripe, cocosnut terminated; cocoanut
TO eat and cocoanut to drink; cocoanut raw
and cooked, cocoanut hot and cold-such is
the bill of fare. And some Of the entries
are no doubt delicious. The germinated
nut, cooked in the shell and eaten with a
spoon, forms a good pudding; cocoanut
milk-the expressed juice of ripe nut, not
the water of a green one-goes we'll in
coffee, and is valuable adjunct in cookery
through the South Seas; and cocoanut salad,
if you be a millionaire and can afford to
eat the value of field of corn for your
dessert, is 3 dish to be remembered with
affection. But when all is done there is
sameness, and the Israelites of the low
islands murmur at their mama.
Life Down in the Sea.
The reader may think l have forgot the
sea. The two beaches do certainly abound
in life, aud they are strangely different. In
the lagoon the water shadows slowly on
bottom of fine Shiny sand, dotted with
clumps of growing coral, and, in the morn
ing hour, belted with the shadows of the
shoreside palms. Then comes q strip of
tidal beach on which the ripples lap. In
the coral clumps the great holy water clam
(Tridacne) grows plentifully; little deeper
lie the beds of the pearl oyster and sail the
Respondent fish that charmed US at our en-
trance; and these are all more or less vigor-
ously colored. But the other shells are
white like lime, or family tinted with lit
tie pink, the palest possible display; manv
of them dead besides and badly rolled.
On the ocean side. on the mounds OF the
steep beach, over all the width of the reef
right out to where the surf is bursting, in
every Granny of the cutting coral, under
every scattered fragment, an incredible
plenty of marine life displays the most won
derful variety and brilliancy of hues. The
reef itself has no passage of color, but is
initiated by some shell. Purple and red and
white and green and yellow, pied aud striped
and clouded, the living shells wear in every
combination the livery of the dead reei-if
the reef he dead-so that the eye is continu-
ally baffled and the collector continually de-
ceiVed. have taken shells Tor stones and
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begin with the significant words: "The ex-
igencies of the occasion demand" etc.
AS we shall not revisit Northern Chile,
may as well tell you something about the
country we passed through between Tacna
and Valparaiso. Pisagua has about 8, 500
inhabitants, and two daily papers are pub
lished-one of them a society journal. A
railway connects the town with Iquique and
the interior. But the great drawback is the
lack OF fresh water, none being found any
where in the neighborhood. Much of the
supply is brought in boats from africa, 65
miles away, and stored in public reservoir;
and there is also machine in operation for
condensing sea water, the product of which
sells for thres.fourths of centavo per gallon,
and is considered much better than that
from AFRICA.
The City That Was Wasted.
Before its recent destruction by the rebels
Iquique had the most foreign aspect of any
of Chile's coast cities. having broad,
macadamized streets, wide sidewalks, and
shop signs in English more numerous than
those in Spanish. Though grotesque archi-
tecturally, with huts of mud and bamboo
sandwiched between more substantial houses,
it was we'll lighted by gas and exception.
ally clean. Besides the preponderating
English element, there were more French
and German residents than Chileans to the
manor born.
Having been several times destroyed in
the past by earthquakes and confagrations,
it had been almost entirely rebuilt of pine
wood and plates of galvanized iron, and had
the general look OF San Francisco. Cal, in
the early DAYS of the gold fever. There was
fine new Custom House, all of stone. sew
erul churches, schools and colleges, theaters,
banks, clubhouses, hospital, gas works, ex-
tensve mills, machinery for making thread,
condensing sea water, amalgamating metals,
etc.-alI of which, together with most of
the private residences. were reduced to ashes
the other day by the causeless revolution
A few weeks ago the population of Iquique
was something over 1900, and out Of that
number 5000 were killed in the recent bat
ties. FANNIE 3. WARD,
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AN ISLAND CAPITAL.
Sights That Greeted Robert
Louis Stevenson on Arrival
at Fakarava.
FISH OF RAREST C0LORS
Swan in the Crystal Waters of the
COral-BOttOmed Lagoon.
ONLY A DOZEN PLANTS ON LAND.
Cocoanut Is to the Natives What Mama
Was to the Israelites.
FISH OF RAREST COLORS
ONLY A DOZEN PLANTS ON LAND.
Cocoanut Is to the Natives What Mama
Was to the Israelites.
STRANGE FACTS ABOUT POISON FISH
rwRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
Letter No. 9.

A little before noon we were running down
the coast of our destination, Fakaravai the
air very light, the sea near smooth; though
still we were accompanied by a continuous
murmur from the beach, like the sound of a
distant train. The isle is of huge longi-
tude, the enclosed lagoon 30 miles by 10 or
Il, and the coral towpath, which they call
the land, some so or 80 miles by, possibly,
one furlong, That part by which we sailed
was all raised; the underwood excellently
green, the topping wood or cocoa palms cou-
tinuOus-a mark, if had known it, of mans
intervention. For once more, and once more
unconsciously, we were within hail of fell
low creatures, and that vacant beach was
but pistol shot from the capital city of the
archipelago.
But the life of an atoll, unless it be en-
closed, passes wholly on the shores of the
lagoon; it is there the villages are seated,
there the canoes ply and are drawn up; and
the beach of the ocean is place accursed
and deserted, the fit scene only for wlzardry
and shlpwreek, and in the native belief a
haunting ground of murderous specters.
Sometimes Filled With Mighty Floods.
anu D9 We perceive u DEedCU III
the low barrier; the woods ceased; glitter
ing point ran into the sea, tipped with an
emerald shoal, the mark of entrance. As
we drew near, we met little run of sea
the private sea of the lagoon, having there
lis origin and end and here, in the jaws OF
the gateway, trying vain conclusions with
the more majestic heave of the Pacific.
The Casco scarce avoWed shock; but there
are times and circumstances when these har-
Dor mouths of inland basins vomit floods,
detecting, burying. and dismasting ships.
For conceive a lagoon perfectly sealed but
in the one point, and that of merely naviga-
bic width; conceive the tide and wind 10
have heaped for hours together in that coral
told superfuity of waters-and the tide to
change and the wind fall-ths open sluice
Of some great reservoir at home will give an
image of that unstemmsble ef1uxion.
We were scarce well headed for the pass. be-
fore all heads were craned over the rail. For
the water, shOaling under our board became
changed in a moment to surprising hues of
blue and gray; and in its excellent trans
pRreney the coral branched and blossomed,
IDLY below us, stained and striped, and even
beaked like parrots.
A Curiosity Money VIII Not Buy.
1 have paid in my time to view many
curiosities; never one so curious as that first
sight over the ships rail in the lagoon of
Fakarava But let not the reader be de-
ceived with hope. have since entered some
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dozen of lagoons in different parts of the
Pacific, and the experience has never been
repeated. The exquisite hue and trans
parency OF submarine day, and these shoals
of rainbow fish have not enraptured me
again.
Before we could raise our eyes from that
engaging spectacle the schooner had slipped
betwIxt the pierheads of the reef, and was
already quite committed to the sea within.
The containing shores are so little erected,
Rnd the lagoon itself is so great, that. for
the more part, it seemed TO extend, without
a check, to the horizon. Here and there, in
deed, where the reef carried an islet, like
siguet ring upon finger, there would be
peucilliug of palms; here and there the green
wall of wood ran solid for a length of
miles; and on the port hand, under the
highest grove of trees, few houses sparkled
white-Rotoava, the metropolitan settle
menu of the Paumotus. Hither we beat in
three tacks and came TO an anchor close in
shore, in the first smooth water since we had
lett San Francisco, five fathoms deep,
where a man might look overheard all day
at the vanishing cable. the coral patches,
and the many colored fish.
In the Deserted Capital.
About all these conveniences, when we
landed there that afternoon, not soul was
10 be seen nor any sound of humanity
heard. But for the thunder of the surf Cd
the tar side, it seemed you might have
heard pm drop anywhere about that capi-
tai city. There was something thrilling in
the unexpected silence, something yet more
so In the unexpected sound. Here before
as reached sea to the horizon, ripping like
an inland mere; and behold close at our
back another sea assaulted with assiduous
fury the reverse Of the position,
The alleys where we walked were smoothed
and weeded like a boulevard; here and
there were plants set out; here and there
dusky cottages clustered in the shadow,
some with balconies. A public garden by
night, a rich and fashionable watering
place in by-season, offer sights and yistas
not dissimilar And still, on the one side,
stretched the tapping mere, and from the
other the deep sea still growled in the night.
But il was most Of all on board, in the dead
hours, when l had been better sleepiug.
that the spell Of Fakarava seized and held
me. The moon was down. The harbor
lantern and two of the greater planets drew
vari-colored wakes on the lagoon. From
shore the cheer. ul watchcry of cocks rang
out at intervals above the orgau-point o
surf Aud the thought o. this depopulated
capital, this prOtracled thread Of anuular
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stones for shells, the one as often as the
other. A prevailing character of the coral
is to be dotted with small spots of red, and
1t is wonderful how many varieties Of shell
have adopted the same fashion and donned
the disguise Of the red spot A shell had
found in plenty in the Marquesas I found
here also, unchanged in all things else, but
there were the red spots. A lively little
crab wore the same marking. The case Of
the hermit or soldier crab was more conclu-
sive, being the result of conscious choice.
This nasty little wrecker. scavenger and
squatter has learned the value OF
spotted house; so it be Of the right color he
will choose the smallest shard, tuck himself
in a mere corner of a broken whorl and go
about the world half naked; but I never
found him in this imperfect armor unless it
was marked with the red spot.
Two Parts of the World In One.
Some 200 yards distant is the beach of the
lagoon. Collect the shells from each, set
them side by side, and you would suppose
they came from different hemispheres; the
one so pale, the other SO brilliant; the one
prevalently white, the other of q score IF
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WAR TIMES In CHILE.
Foreigners Must Have No Opinions or
Get Their Threats Cut.
PRICES ARE ABSURDLY high.
Volunteers Must Be Chained to Keep Them
From Running Away.
UNCLE SANS NAME SAVES AMERICANS

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.i
VALPARAISO, CHILE, March 15.-In
these days of war it is not an easy matter to
get into this mis-named "Vale of Paradise"
from either direction, by land or sea-not
only on account of the blockade in the bay,
but because of the infrequenoy and irregu-
larity of railway trains, but because of the
uncertainty Of coming events and the direful
certainty that revolters are everywhere, liza
BILE at any moment to perpetrate unheard-of
atrocities under the guise of revolution.
Should one come by sea Just now, he would
not be permitted to land; and the only way
to get here from the direction of Santiago is
by rail, or in the saddle from the north and
east.
Have you ever reflected how much of
everyday comfort and safety is due to the
enforcement of established laws? 1t re-
quires some great upheaval, like this in
Chile, to remind one of his obligations to
good government-as health is best appre-
ciated during an illness. The foreigner in
Chile who values life and liberty will do
well to entertain no opinions concerning the
questions at issue, or to keep them relig-
iously to himself.
They Kill on Slight Provocation.
The landlord whose guest you are, or the
untidy man who pretends to set your room
in order (there are no chambermaids in
South America), is as likely to resent your
rash expressions, with a dagger In your
heart or a razor-edged curvo at your throat,
as the soldier is with his bayonet. Every
where in Spanish. America your personal
property is much safer from thieves than in
most parts OF the United States; but human
life is rated very cheaply and taken on
slight provocation.
Regarding the unhappy situation in Val
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island with its crest of cocoa palms and
fringe of breakers, and that tranquil inland
sea that stretched before me till it touched
the stars, ran in my head for hours even
with delight.
ADeep Sense of insecurity.
The sense of insecurity in such
thread of residence is more than fanoiful.
knew one who was then dwelling in
that isle. He told me that he and two ship
captains walked to the sea beach. There
for while they viewed the on-coming
breakers, till one of the captains clapped
his hand suddenly before his eyes and cried
aloud that he could endure no longer to be-
hold them. This was in the afternoon; in the
dark hours of the night the sea burst upon
the island like foodj the settlement was
razed, all but the church and presbytery;
and, when day returned, the survivors saw
themselves clinging in an abattis Of uprooted
cocoa palms and ruined houses.
The surface of that narrow strip is for the
more part OF broken coral limestone, like
volcanic clinkerS, and excruciating to the
naked foot; in some atolls. believe not in
Fakarava, it gives fine metallic ring
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certainly very liberal with the contents of
the cash box, though they are dwindllng
low and lower. Naturally, frequent re-
ports are ahoat to the effect that he is
about to abdicate, or has been assassinated;
but neither is likely to occur. He has
hardly shown his head outside the Moneda
(or Treasury building, portion of which
serves for the Executive residence), since
the dawning of these days of danger, ap-
pearing to find life safer, if not more agree
able, under shelter just now. with an armed
guard In every doorway and angle OF the
wall.
Balmaceda Holds His Own.
It is certain that the wealth and aristoc-
against the President, as we'll as many of
the lower class. But whatever his faults
and shortcomings, all concede that he is
wonderful organizer, and that he still re-
tains the best of the situation. ''The situa-
ton" is briefly this: The rebellious navy at
the North has murdered thousands of peo-
pie, destroying millions of dollars worth of
property, and crippled the revenues of the
country to an appalling extent; but have
really accomplished little to their own sd-
vantage. Balmaceda retains the army and
the treasury, and the capital is compara-
lively safe. But the country is in most
ueplOEdDlG COuulLIOus OIOPs bc
harvested for lack Of laborers, and business
of every kind is completely paralyzed.
Exchange has been as low as 16H pence,
and to-day it is at the ruinous rate of 18
pence On letter OF credit which calls for
American gold or its equivalent one may
now receive here three times its face value
in Chilean currency. But that circumstance
in the travellers favor is offset by the abb
surdly steep ''war prices" that prevail.
Fancy paying from 81 to S12 per diem for
scanty food and Indifferent lodging in one
of these decidedly unpalatial hotelsl
Kept by Sarah Bernhardt's Uncle.
The Hotel Colon is the best in Valpa-
raiso-as good, perhaps, as a fourth-rste
house in New York. But the charges are
tremendous. 1t is kept by an aged Hebrew
named Kerbernhardt-an uncle, so he tells
me, of the illustrious actress, Madame Sarah,
who dropped the Ker from her cognomen
when she went on the stage in defiance OF
the wishes of her family.
The Chilean elections have been set for
the last Sunday in this month-church 60
ing in the morning. politics in the after
noon, and maybe numbering and rioting by
moonlight Congress has been called for
April 20, instead of on May 1, as the Con-
expressly provides. That vener-
ated document, the Constitution, does not
receive much attention in these unsettled
days. but frequent edicts and proclamations
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The Prince of Monaco,s scheme.

Monte Carlo has never bad so brilliant
and successful season as the one just past,
says Count Victor D'Archi, and believe
the Prince of Monaco has made more money
than he ever did before Ia any two seasons.
The reports OF great winnings made by sew
eral ganesters described at length in the
newspapers were very ingenious advertise
ments, calculated to attract adventurous
persons to Monte Carlo to be feeced.
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The Wind Harp Played Out.

People nowadays buy @oIan harps mainly
an curiosities. Tue wires are strung SO as 10
produce harmony, and while to some the
general effect is about like the wailing Of
the wind through telegraph wires, to others
it is dreamy, mysterious and pleasing. Some
people like to hear the wind i'll the chimney,
and others don't, aud it is much the same
with the wind harp.
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CHAPTER XXI.

present juncture was Keyork Arabian.
Had he been at liberty to act in the most
natural and simple way he would have ap-
piled to the authorities for a sufficient force
with which to take Israel Kafka into Gus
tody as dangerous iunatic. He was we'll
aware, however, that such proceeding
must lead to an inquiry of more or less
public nature, of which the consequences
might be serious, or at least extremely an
noying, to Unorna. OF the Inconvenience
to which he might himself be exposed he
would have taken little account, though his
position would have been as difficult to ex-
plain as any situation could be. The i'm
portant point was to prevent the possibility
of Unorna's name being connected with an
open scandal. Every present circumstances
in the case was directly or indirectly the re-
suit of Unorna's unreasoning passion for
himself, and it was clearly his duty, as
man OF honor, to shield her from the conse-
quences of her own acts, as far as lay in his
power.
He did not indeed believe literally all that
she had told him in her mad confession.
Much of that, he was convinced, was but
delusion. 1t might be possible, indeed, for
Unorna to produce forgetfulness of such
dream as she impressed upon Israel Kafka's
mind in the cemetery that same afternoon or
even, perhaps, of some real circumstance OF
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Stylish Suitings,

Overcoat and trouser material, of the
best quality at Anderson's, 700 Smithfeld
street. Cutting and fitting the very best su
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FURNITURE packed, stored and shipped.
HAUGH & KEENAN,. 3-34 w ater street. su
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1t was Cen. Corse's bravery which led
to the origin of Sankey's famous hymn,
Held the Fort" lie was on Sher-
mans staff. was one Of his fire-catcrs in
daring ana won an affection from old
Tocunsch hat lasted till death. You,
perhaps, have heard the story Of his de
fence of Allatoona Pass; how with Il
mere handful of men he held the place
most stubborniy against tremendous
odds; how he persisted, even after every
commanding officer was wounded and
he himself thrown Senscless for an hour
by rifle bullet in the face; how the
signal finally waved from Sherman to
''hold the fort and how the plucky
Corse replied in language more en-
pilatic than religious that he would do
so, and how he lived up to his word
They could not put the soldiers Ian
guaSc into the hymn, but they en-
bodied his sentiments there 1t is, by
the way, somewhat Of Il coincidence
that the signal officer who waved that
historical message from Corse to Sher-
man passed away a few days before the
great figure in the storr-BoSton Let
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Icela1.a,s Hot Snrinrs.

The h9t springs ii, Reykjad;l, though
not the most magnificent, are perhaps
the most curious among the numerous
phenomena OF til : sort in Iceland. On
entering the T;ssley you see columns OF
vapor ascending from different parts Of
It. There are Il number of apertures
in sort Of platform of rock The
water is zig Fahrenheit, and it rises
two CT three feet into the air A river
flows through the valley, in the midst
OF which a jet of boiling water issues
with violence from a rock raised but a
few feet abo-c the ice cold water of the
river.
Not far from this is the grotto or
cave Of Surt, which is 50 large that ne
one l:;,s penetrated to its inner end -
Nurray's Magazine.
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lie Nude u Eiy l2istnkc.

a few days ago man raised his hat
to a lady in a prominent retail store.
The lady stared at him for his imperti
hence and turned her head. His face
flushed, and after hesitating moment
he went up to her and said: You really
must excuse me, madam, for l mistook
you for a l;uly whom l met but once a
short time ago. l saw my mistake at
once. but still there is 4 very great re
semblance. Her name is Mrs. -.
The resemblance is SO remarkable you
may have heard of her.
The lady, with an amused smile,
finally said:
Yes. the resemblance is remarkable
| myself am Mrs -"
The man started. BY the time he
had discovered just what the ''nlistake'
was that he saw the lady was gone. -
Chicago Herald