The herald., 1896-01-24

at RedOndo; ~ am gradually pulling my
self together after very trying experience.
During my last year l was so much occu-
pied with the study of occnltsm, the en-
deavor to discover those wonderful secrets
of life the Rosicrucians sought to disclose,
to be able to accurately view the relations
existing between mind and matter, that
my health gave way, and acting ON medical
advice 1 determined to seek out some
quiet spot for mental rest. Ono bright
spring morning, walking along one of San
Francisco's whsrves, I saw beautiful
yacht-like schooner taking in cargo.
found she was bound for Tahiti, and at
once engaged passage. We sailed the
same day, and when things had settled
down found was only one in crowd of
men, many unkempt and vicious looking,
who said they were also tourists. To be
brief, we never saw Tahiti. One lovely
Sunday morning we we're in latitude de-
gree south and longitude 172 degrees east.
In the distance, very indistinct in the
sunny haze, saw low lying coral reef.
In short time under smart breeze we
stood in close. and in less than half an
nour were snugly anchored in a natural
harbor. The desire was universal to go
ashore. and it was Gratified with alacrity
by the skipper. We had quite picnic
under some palms, and am afraid there
was too much joviali.y. Anyway, woke
and it was pitch dark, except from the
blazing stars overhead. Near by / saw
pile of what looked like baggage.
I had drank but two glasses of California
claret. and therefore knew that the awful
throbbing in my head was the result OF
drugging. Raising myself on my elbow,
saw no sign of the schooner. soon fell
into troubled sleep, and awoke aching in
every limb. 1t was now light, and close to
me 1 could see twelve men lying in stupor
and pile of stores close by. l tottered to
the beach and had a bath, which revived
me, and then knew l had been marooned.
A paper was found in which it was said
that the schooner would return for us as
soon as possible, and giving instructions as
to the cultivation of this tiny lslet. was
elected captain by the boys who were, with
myself, in a common predicament; we had
a capitally jolly time, not quarrel OF a
serious nature occurred and we reverted to
a very primitive sort of life. Many vessels
called, we claimed sovereignty of the
island, and made them pay i'll cash or gold
for all they got, even charging harbor dues.
This we could do. as we were all robust
men and pretty we'll armed. At last. how
ever, we got SO tired of Plutarch 's lives,
Pride and Prejudice and even of Horace,
that we made bargain with half-rotten
old whaling bark, loaded her with our
products and left. We got safely to New
when we realized on our merchandise. L
and three others of the marooned are going
to try to cultivate the date palm and cocoa
nut in Southern California"
Kentucky is not to be judged as having
holt b<,s
adherence to pure Democracy, in spite OF
all the loud talk indulged in by Col. Henry
Watterson, the erratic star-god of the
south. Our people, said F. j. Arbuthnot
of Covington, are not all fools. Their
quiet avocations give them much time for
reading, after the labor of the day is ended,
when the back log is lifted and fresh wood
thrown on the glowing, open hearth; plain
men and women, not ungifted with COM
mon sense, discuss the great political prob
lens of the day with keen insight, with re-
markably accurate knowledge of the great
landmarks in our past political history, for
which many fairly wel)-read people would
have to consult some encyclopedia. Sit
ting in the dim freight in a cozy corner,
it is wonderful sight to watch the atten-
tive faces of the lis s'eners as some ven-
erable dame or grandsire talks of those
past leaders in American polity whose
names are undying, and with what nice
courtesy tnSy COTFects duu OF dIuoLu Vie
statements made. Old Kentuck is DEM
ocratic through and through, and if SUBJ
sidized monopolies do not corrupt the coal
and iron workers and buy outright those
who are dependent for daily bread on
these modern despots, we shall vote the
Democratic ticket in spite of the corrupt
COurier-J ournal.
1t is we'll known. said an old friend of M.
Marcy, at the Hollenbeck, yesterday, that
deaf mutes are capable of being taught to
speak, and to read what another says by
watching the motion of his lips. This
latent talent has been wonderfully devel-
oped in France during the last twelve
years, especially in the Grisons and in
Switzerland, in those dark valleys where
goitre is endemic and deaf mutes are so
many. By photographs of the speaker 3
face and bust, which are taken at the rate
of twenty five per second, and then COM
bined in the zoetrope, the separate photo
graphs pass before the eye SO rapidly that
they appear to the observer as one single
picture, endowed with life and movement.
The everchanging expressions of the face,
and motions of the lips are so minutely
reproduced that deaf mutes are able to
read with an enjoyment SO pitifully intense
as almost to bring the unbidden tears to
the beholder's eye. am now in this won
derfully clear desert atmosphere, endeav-
oring to improve an apparatus for the in
stanteous photography of the heart and
other vital organs in the circulatory sys-