The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-23

carries her unfailing sign Of healthful-
ness on her head, in the shape Of
blood.red, bright and full comb. A
vigorous cock or cockerel will carry
the same sign, though not, perhaps, in
so eminent degree as his harem.-
Aaaeyiicttn Poultry YdrR.
Didn't Understand the Language.
Mr. Hunks, retired sailor, lives in
our village, a few nights ago related a
remarkable adventure that befell him.
He saidi
"About twenty years ago I was
shipwrecked on the coast Of Cuba; and
I got TO land without anything on me
but a pair Of trousers. The people
were kind enough To me, but you know
/ didn't understand their lingo, and |
had the awfulest time you ever heard
of trying to make EN- understand me
by signs and gestures. Howsomever,
I made out somehow, and after stayin
there for few weeks I weht to Ha-
vana and shipped for New York
aboard d small schooner. A day or
two after we were out, violent storm
came up, and the captain and mate
were washed overheard, and the
schooner was driven out to sea, and
the rest Of us couldn't tell where we
were. A few days later the craft
drifted on to a coast and went to
pieces. I was the only man that got
safe ashore. I didn't know where |
was, but I felt pretty certain it was
one Of them Spanish islands in the
West Indies. Not long after l landed
[ seen a hut near the beach, and l
went to it. There was man inside,
and I says to myself:
Here's another Of them furriners
that can't understand the only decent
language on earth. There's no use
talking English to him, that's GER
tain.
'sI was scand'lous hungry, and l
thought would let the feller in the
hut know I wanted something to eat.
So I opened my mouth and p'inted to
it with my finger, and said:
WAw-aw-aw-awr Made o noise.
something like that to attract his at
tention.
"He looked kinder cross-eyed for
minute, rs if he didn' t exactly under
stand. Then it seemed to strike him
all Of sudden like that [ had the
toothache; SO he went to the closet
and fetched a pair Of pincers and
monkey wrench and motioned to me
that he thought that he could extract
that tooth. But I shookmy head, and
still pointing to my mouth; remarked
again:
"sAw-aw-aw-awP or words to that
effect, and then be seemed to think
maybe I'd swallowed something disa-
greeable, for he pulled my jaws apart
and began looking down my throat.
"As that didn't appear to answer, l
begun rubin my stomach with my
hand and said:
"tOw-wow-wow-wowp or somehow
that way; and then smile broke over
the feller's face, and he let me know
he understood me at last. He must
have considered had collie or some
thing like that, for he went to the
cupboard and spread mustard plaster,
and then came Offering it to me to put
on. But Of course I only shook my
head and put my hands on my stom,
ach and groaned little despairin'
like. Then happy thought came to
him. He imagined [ was p'isoned,
and he fetched out a syringe and some
Injun rubber hose, and tried to rig up
some sort of stomach pump to bail me
out.
"By this time I was getting pretty
mad, and l pointed to my mouth and
run my finger down the front Of me to
my stomach to indicate the route l
wanted the food to take. He thong ght
what 7 expected him to do was to cut
me open; so he. got carving knife out
of the closet and begun sharpening it
on a brick. He was an accommodating
man. He was willin to oblige. I
never see man more anxious to help
a suffering fellow creature than that
chap was. But I was pretty nearly
wild, so in order to let him know l
was hungry, I began clapping my
teeth together and gruntin'. He con-
clnded then that I had hydrophobia,
and that a bad attack was coming on,
so he rushed bucket Of water outen
the room, and then he began feelin' of
my leg to ascertain where the dog bit
me. Then forgot myself, and ex-
claimed:
IT wish this magnificent jackass
would scare up something to eat.
soThen he say: why in the thun-
der didn t you say so, then? l been
thinking all the time that you was a
furriner.'
"And that's what I've bin thinkin'
of you. I didn't know you could
speak English.
"aWe don't speak anythin' else in
Jersey, says ne. .., >.
"HJersey?' says I. "You don't
mean to say this is the State Of New
Jersey, do your
"Jes' so, says he Atlantic coun-
ty, New Jersey, and you've bin max
in fool Of yourself all this time for
nothin'.
"Then he stuffed me full Of vittals,
and the next day got in waggin and
come up home. But if ever | git
wrecked again, I'm goin' to try on my
native tongue the fust thing. That
feller might have riyped me up with
that carvin' knife If I hadn't been on
my guard.
Repairing an Ocean Cable.
It has always been matter Of spec
ulation and wonder to most people as
IN bou - n,or;no ooh1o onne hroken in