The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-22

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 that they had left Angostura miles be-
 hind, and they realized that the sup posed island was mere isla anclada-
 an anchored" or snag-moored accu- mutation of driftwood. Favored by an
 abundance of heat and moisture, the vegetable mlseellanles of these drift piles soon begin to sprout; deposits of deluvium form a soil, and in the course
 of few years brushes and trees take root, but rise of the river is always
 apt to dislodge the aggregation and
 start it on its way to the coast, where
 1t may happen to get side tracked In
 lagoon or else drift out to sea and pug
 gle sailors with visions of St. Brandon's isle.
 The Angostura smugglers had lost
 their boat, but were well supplied with
 provisions, and their consternation on
 realizing their predicament probably did not begin to equal that of little
 Tommy Arbuckle (now leading mer-
 chant of Adelaide, Australia) when for
 the first time in his life he found him
 self forty miles from the shores of his
 native land. In a Liverpool boarding
 house, where he picked up penny jobs
 now and then, a sailor one day offered
 him shilling to help him remove his traps and belts from a ship of the
 Black Ball and Eagle line; but even
 with the boys assistance Jack was un-
 able to carryoff all his knick-knacks at
 once. They had to make second trip,
 and by that time the ancient mariner
 had got under the influence of Birken-
 head gin. "Je-just sit down here and wait till I put those things in a bun dle," he hiccoughed, and shy little Tommy sat waiting hour after hour, still expecting the return of his en-
 ployer, who had been bundled off by his
 captain under the escort of mess
 mate At last the boy fell asleep. He
 was sitting in a corner of the steerage, where nobody noticed him, and when he woke up the Black Ball and Eagle liner was on her way to Austalia.
 Long before his world changing en- terprise Christopher Columbus is said to have had an interview with the rela- tives of two Spanish fishermen who had been carried across the Atlantic by western gales, and after refitting their 1 little boat on the shores of some un- known island had contrived to cross the ocean once more, but at the cost of
 their lives, as both soon after suc- l cumbed to the after effects of the ad- venture.
 | What luck may do for voyagers of that sort was illustrated in the sequel
 of the stange episode known as the 'Mutiny of the Bounty The mutt
 neers, under command of First Mate l Christian, set sail for the lubberland of 1 Otaheite and after hesitating between the plan of shooting the "captains s
 men" or taking them along willy-nilly, l finally agreed on a compromise and put | them in an open boat with a keg of water and one hundred pounds of bis
 cuit The captain begged hard for a | compass, but was told to shut up on
 pain of instant death. Christian had
 whispered consultation with one of | his fellow conspirators and the doomed boats crew were ordered to sheer off, without compass or compassion, and 1 with the remark that their lives de-
 pended on the faithful observance of their pledge to keep westward course. Their chance of survival was about one in a thousand, but they took that chance and actually succeeded in | reaching a British settlement near the | city of Singapore
 Loyalty, after all, turned out the
 best policy in the case. but strict ob- 1 obedience of orders came very near
 proving the ruin of an old soldier who 1 took a hand in holding an excursion l balloon on a meadow of the Lacken park Brussels. The rope holders had
 all been warned not to slip their grip, | but by some mistake or other a lot of
 ballast got spilled before the aeronaut
 had mounted his car, and the big bal loon suddenly shot up, sending it's hu-
 man incumbrance sprawling in every l direction. Let go! It's got beyond
 control!" shouted the manager, but the
 old and deaf soldier held on, and the first thing he knew he found himself
 dangling midway between the church steeple and the region of the clouds. The last stentorian Let gop' reached
 his ears, but his reply is unfit for pub- l lication. At height of half hundred 1 feet the proposed change of program was already out of the question. There seemed no doubt of 1t, he was gone up in perhaps more than one sense of the word, but fortune now and then favors | unavoidable bravery as we'll as pre-
 meditated heroism The involuntary aeronaut was saved by the accidental l existence of a knot at the end of one of the ropes, and the. equally lucky cir cumstance that during the swaying of the balloon the dangling ropes got punched. Just before his strength gave way he contrived to effect his transfer to the knot rope and survived the trip in sedentary composure-St