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In September, 1904. He lived there for four
years aud four months, when the English
pr1Vateer Duke was attracted by his watch
hre and came to anchor at the island and
carried him home to England.
During his stay Selkirk had many of
the adventures described in De Foes book
although De Foe having better knowi-
edge of the islands north of Brazil in the
Caribbean sea has made much of his story
correspond to these, in Ats descriptions OF
scenery, products and cliNates. II the first
place, the terrors which assaulted SelNrk
when he found himself. all alone on this
wild spot were the same ras those of Crusoe.
He wished for a time that ne had chosen
to be hanged rather than fhave come ashore
Well, when SelkEk Was found accord
ing to the narrative of captain Rodgers,
who took him to England, 'he was clad
in goat skins and swas cunning about as
though crazy. bl !, III
How the Island Locks in 1898.
The island Is only twelve miles long by
about seven miles wide, but parts OF 1t are
the picture of desolatiop. 1t is a great
mass of rocks, which rises upward from
the waters for more than thousand feet.
1t is made up of bills end mountains, OF
little ravines and valleys. The northern
half of the island is covered with dense
vegetation, as Mr.. Spencers photographs
show, but the southern half is as bleak and
bare as the western slopes of the Andes
in the rear of the Peruvian desert Inc
most OF the shores are inaccessible. Inc
best landing place is at Cumberland bay,
at which point there Is now a hshing
settlement which includes about all the
people of the island. There are, II Is said,
only fifteen people now living tnSre. BACK
of the settlement on the bay there are cot
tages, or straw huts, which once formed
the homes of quite number OF settlers
who lived here. These huts are made OF
cane waited with straw There are gar.
dens about some of than, and at one time
there was an agricultural colony here. one
man attempted to start a stock-faisfng
as &c, 600 head of cattle and an equal num-
Der Of sheep grazing in the valleys on the
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there years ago, when the place was used
as penal colony for Ecuador.
A Billion Dollars From DunghiIi.

there years ago, when the place was used
as penal colony for Ecuador.
A Billion Dollars From DuughiIi.
Other interesting islands are found in the
great archipelago which lies between here
and Cape Horn. These 1 shall travel
among on my way around the southern end
of South America. The most interesting of
all the Pacific islands, however, are the
Guano Islands. They are. in proportion to
their size, the richest Islands of the world,
for they have already added more than one
billion dollars to the worlds wealth. Think
of pulling a billion dollars out of dung
hill. That is what Peru has dug out OF her
guano islands. Her creditors are getting
something out of them today, although
nothing like the enormous sums realized in
the past These guano islands are scat
| tered all along the coast of Peru. 1 first
saw them north of Lima, near the shores
of Salavary, and at Pacasmayo n guano
ship from the Lobos Islands came In for
mail and provisions. OF the Bay of Pisco,
Peru. saw the famous ChIncha Islands
which have produced more than twelve
million tons of this bird manure and have
brought into the Peruvian treasury millions
upon millions OF dollars The shipping of
guano is going on from these islands today,
although the deposits are to a large
tent exhausted. / am told that the ship
ments of the current year will not probably
exceed 10000 tons.
On the Guano Islands.
The Guano Islands are merely masses of
volcanic rocks which have risen UP out of
the ocean. They have not blade of grass
nor any green thing them. and are
merely rocky islands covered with rag
ged white deposit. 1t never rains upon
them, and for thousands of years the
manure upon them lay and grew in quanti-
ty from age to age. For some reason or
other, the pelicans, sea gulls and other
birds which feed by the millions in the wa
tiers of these parts of the world have
chosen these islands their nightly roost-
ing places They pick out certain of them
and age after age, year after year, and
night after night. they fly to them by the
thousands and there rest There are often
other islands near which to all appear
ance are quite desirable, but which are
untouched. Even the disturbance caused
by the removing of the guano does not
seem to prevent the birds returning to their
roost On the Chincha Islands. which We're
supposed to be entirely exhausted, fresh
deposits of guano have recently been made,
and in 1894 80. 200 tons of new guano was
actually shipped.
Where the Guano Comes From.
Nearly every one knows that guano is
the excrement of birds. A sea gull, which
is one of the smallest of the guano-pro-
ducing birds. will drop from four to six
ounces of excrement a day and in the
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\ BLESSING IN DISGUISE,
The New Zealand Rabbit In a New
Role.

The New Zealand Rabbit in a New
Role.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
A new phase has been given to the rab-
bit scourge in New Zealand by the SUCCESS
which has attended the experiment of
freezing the rabbits and exporting them
1t would appear that out of what has hith-
erto been an apparently ire mediable curse
an important industry may be developed.
One exporter is said to be in the receipt Of
between $4,000 and 10000 rabbits per day.
and is paying to traprers and in wages be-
tween $4,000 and 5000 per week. He has
24,oo0 traps out, giving employment TO
about 800 trappers. His export of rabbits
last year about 100000, and this year
he will increase it to 100000 The scale
on which this eaterprising exporter is lay
ing out mis- plans is further seen in the fact
that he works up into boxes, in which the
frozen rabbits are shipped, about eight
truckloads of timber week, and he pays
over 5000 month for freight. 1t is esti-
mated that this seasons expectation of
rabbits will run to between 100000 and
100000. This. at the low price of six cents
per rabbit, will bring in more than 5000, 900
to the trappers, and the total amount re-
ceived in the colony, the proceeds of
the rabbit export industry for this season,
will be- at a moderate calculation, $4,000
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NO LET-Up IN ARSENAL WORK.
still Going Full Speed to Turn On
Rifle Cartridges,

still Going Full Speed to Turn Out
Rifle Cartridges.
From the Philadelphia Record
Notwithstanding the cessation of hostil-
tiles. work at the frankfort arsenal is go
Ing on as theoretically as ever. The daily
output of ammunition is $50, GOO rounds of
S0-caliber cartridges for the Krag-Jorgen-
sen rifles, and 200 shrapnel, with some fuse
attachments for the artillery. The work of
renovattng the old rolling mill and putting
1t IN shape for the manufacture of cart
ridges is also progressing rapidly, a small
army of mechanics and laborers being con-
stantly kept busy. When completed the
arsenal will have a daily capacity of 300 600
rounds of small-arm ammunition.
About thirty of the extra night Watchmen
who We're employed to guard the powder
Rouse and magazine Were laid off yester-
DAY, and 1t is very probable that more will
be laid Off in few days. This reduction
IN force is not, however, expected to affect
those working in the shops, as no orders
nave been received to reduce the output of
cartridges, but, on the contrary orders
have recently been received to increase the
number. This will probably be kept up in
order to provide an ample reserve stock to
be drawn on in case of emergency. The
present supply was heavily drawn on a few
days ago, when 2,00000o 30-caliber cart
ridges were shipped to the front
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Joseph Hatton in Chicago Evening Post
The prince is not what commercial men
| would call wealthy. but he has plenty, and
his establishment is managed on strict and
careful principles. 1t has been asserted
that members of the royal family travel
free of expense. The truth is quite the
opposite. One Of the Prince OF Wales
heaviest items of expenditure is the cost
of travelling. Wherever they go both the
prince and princess are very lavish in
tips"
The idea prevails here and there that
the prince has special privileges in regard
TO his visits 10 the theater. The only priv
ilege he has is that of being royal patron
though there is hardly any privilege man.
ayers would not grant to SO constant, kind
ly and sympathetic a supporter of the
stage. When the prince desires to go TO
theater a box is booked for him through
an agent in the ordinary way. If what is
usually understood to be the royal box is
already booked then the previous pur-
chaser is politely asked to waive his right.
that is all. Whichever this is done the
waiver is always specially thanked In
letter from the princes secretary. Years
ago, wherl the prince was known 10 have
booked box, II he did not arrive in time
the curtain was kept down, and his ap-
pearance was made known by the band
playing the national anthem. When this
came to the knowledge of the prince ne
was very much annoyed, and requested
that both he and the princess should be
treated exactly the same as any other
playgoers. Their royal hignesses invari-
ably arrive in good time, and where 4
separate exit is provided always remain
until the fall of the curtain There are
theaters without a private entrance; at
these houses the prince leaves few min
utes before the fall of the curtain simply
that his carriage may not disturb the ordi-
nary arrangements at the principal en-
trance. Nobody, in fact, can be more cour-
teous and considerate than the prince and
princess on these and all other occasions.
1t ought, of course, to be unnecessary to
say this. and IL Is so as regards most OF
my readers; but once in a way. the time
being apropos, IL is worth while to puncuu-
ate a few ordinary facts in regard TO the
life of royalty.
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Another dissoyerer of some of the guano
Islands was treated IN the same way by
the Peruvian government. This was q nat
uralized American citizen named Lam
dreau. He discovered guano deposits which
were worth about $500 600, 900. and, accord
s13S, 100000 from them. It was, It Is said,
through his discoveries that Peru was able
to get a loan of Europe Of two hundred
million dollars, but when 1t came TO the
Question Of paying Landreau he was cut
OF without cent. Just before the war
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to me. though all were most cordial IN their
praise of the manner In which they have
been received and treated as prisoners, and
all whom we met expressed desire to visit
Washington before returning to Spain,
Another thing that especially interested
ne was the affection which all expressed
for Admiral Cervera-as II speaking of q
dear father.
AS for me- exclaimed Captain Euiate.
with enthusiasm, Je Paine au fond du
eeeufl Il love him from tho depths of my
hearth
There was much more of interest that
might be mentioned concerning my visit to
Annapolis, but / am constrained to say
ne more until all our Spanish prisoners have
left the country, when the rest may be
told"
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IN PAWN
was Mary Grace Barker for Two Hair
Cuts and shave

'N ~
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
When Terry Barker came home from
work the other night all the children
around Water and Race streets were run
ming up and down in front of his shanty.
Phwat the civl is goin' on here?" was
| the first thing Terry asked
"Oh, Mr.. Barker your Mary was kid
mapped his morning. and they haven't
found her yet" said Mrs. Dryers daugh-
ter Maggie.
Barker went back in the yard where his
wife was sitting at the kitchen door. CRYING
There WAS crowd of women around her
and all were talking at the same time.
"Phwats this hear about Mary
On. Terrence stint her TO the corner
this mav1rnin' for bread. an diviIs the hair
fave seen uf her since"
Did yez surch fur herg'
AN over the ward"
I'VE did"
And the stoneyard?"
I'VE did,
Maybe she's In the cellar of the Old
warehouse. Wbere'C me cane? OPu 90
down and look
The children wur all over and oonder
She wuz a purity thing with her golden
curls, and maybe SOON rich man stole
her said Mrs. Riley, who lived next door
oh, 1 furgot to tell yez." said Mrs.
Burke, but seen a tramp in frunt of the
house this mawrnin', ana maybe he carried
"Phwat koind of Iookin' FELTON,, ,,,,, h. .,
asked Terry.
He had face on i'm Ioike Spaniard."
min Oh IL lind him." said Terry, and ne
took his blackthorn and went down Race
street toward the river. He dropped in an
the saloons and asked every one If they had
seen his daughter Mary, the wan with
the golden curls.' No one had seen her
II was about O'clock when he was pass
ing along Water street, near Plum Kratch
the barber was just closing up, and Barker
stuck his head in the door to make inquiry.
when ne let out yell and bounded in the
shop.
'kratch. phwat in the name Of God are
yez keepin' me Mary here frum mawrnin'
I'LL noight, an have me and her mither
Git out. Barker. That girls waitin' fur
her father to come back
faint me daughter"
Yes. he is" said little girl sitting in
the corner.
And where's your curls?"
Mr.. kratch cut them off"
Barker, you're crazy. That amt your
daughter. Her father was here this morn
ing and he got hair cut and shave. Then
he told me TO cut off his daughters curis
and he would be back in few minutes as
nc wanted to get drink, and he never
came back"
ana me daughter Is in hoch Tor two hair
cuts and a shave is she?" said Terry
Then he and Barber kratch mixed Gp and
went TO the floor. The girls screamed, a
crowd gathered. and il was soon known all
over the ward that Mary Grace Barker had
been held in pawn for two hair cuts and a
shave. Mary was taken home, and the
next day the truth was learned. Jimmy
Kelch, the bully of the eighth ward was
drunk and out of funds. Taking little Mary
down to kratch's he got hair cut and a
shave. Then he ordered his daughter >"
hair cut while he went out TO get drink.
He never came back. When Terry Barker
heard who had done il he simply said:
IF OF didn't know his muther Ord use
me stick on his good-for-nothing head fur
hayin me Mary's golden curls cut off"
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without ventilation and were as dark as
Egypt at the time of the plague. Some of
the cells were far underground and were
SO small that their occupants could not
stand Upright within them. The prisoners
at one time murdered the guards and 300
OF them escaped and landed on the shores
were taken to Valparaiso and shot The
other prisoners who had been left upon the
island escaped, and by different ships
found their way to other countries.
Alexander SelISirk's Monument,
There is monument to Selkirk on the
Island of Juan Fernandez. 1t is a marble
tablet set in the rocks at the Lookout
1t was placed there by some English naval
officers about thirty years ago. The in
scripdon reads as follows:
In Memory of
Alexander Selkirk
Mariner.
A native Of Largo, in the County of Fife,
Scotland, who lived on this Island, in
complete Solitude, Four years and
four months.
He was landed from the Cirque Ports gal
ley, SO tons, IS guns A. D. 1904 and
was taken off in the Duke privateer,
18th February, 1903.
He died Lieutenant of H. NJ s. Weymouth.
A. D. 1873, aged Al years.
This Tablet Is erected near Selkirk's lookout
By Commodore Powell and the officers
Of H. NJ. S. Topaze, A. d. 1868.
The uninhabited Galapagos Islands off
the coast of Ecuador have more recently
had an Alexander Selkrk This man was
deserted by his COMPANIONS and when
found years afterward he was quite naked
and was carrying a pig on his back He
had lived upon fruits and roots, and had
caught wild cattle in traps and had killed
them with spear made Of a pocket knife
tied to stick. His hut was made of the
hides of such cattle, of which there were
a number on the island, having been left
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A Last Request.

From the Chicago News,
He-"And am 1 to understand that your
refusal is finalf''
She--'.It is"
He-"Then life no longer has charm 70,
me; shall hang myself"
She--"Wili you grant me favor?"
He-"Certainly. Name it."
She-"Dfscontinue your existence else
where; papa objects to your hsSg!nf
around here"
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u AN Il IN N AN JEL
Island is to be col
onized. The govern
ment of Chile h a S
just adopted resolu-
lions to that effect
and by the time this
letter shall have been
published an inspec-
tor will have been
appointed and in all
probability a number
OF new inhabitants
will have been car
riel to + n q island
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Second Sight Best.


From Truth
singleton-"They say Meekton fell in love
with his wife at first sight"
Benedick-"Well, I'll bet he wishes he
had been gifted with second sight now''
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Juan Fernandez to Be Colonized bv
Chile.
ALEXANDER SELKIRK'S HOME
The Great Value of the Guano
Islands.
A BIG AMERICAN CLAIM

Copyrighted, 1893, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
VALPARAISO Chile, July u, 1898.
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Within the past few weeks the president of
Chile has visited this island on a tour of in
spectiGn, and both himself and his officials
report that 1t can he made of grea. value to
the country. 1t has been decided to give
each settler house and certain amount
CT lahd, and the ldea Is to make a large
iisfhhs colony there. Theicodt!sh which are
caught off the shores Of Juan Fernandez
are especially fine. HcThey swarm about its
shores, and, in CONNECTION with Ioosters and
other sheIlfish, might form the basis of a
great industry. There are also manv seals
Walruses and other marine animals in the
waters near Ky, and the mainland has in
its woods many wild goats, Wild sheen and
wild mules. There are parts of the island
which are very fertile and it is thought
that they can really DC made valuable
property. t ~
The Real Robinson Crusoe.
The Island of Juan Fernandez lies just
ABOUT 100 miles west of Valparaiso, in the
South Pacific ocean 1t can only be reach
ed by special steamers, which make excur-
sions there once or twice a year. and If will
not be possible for me to visit it at this
time. l have, however, met members of
tne PRESIDENTS party who have just return
ed, ana nave also had the assistance of Mr.
spencer OF Santiago an American pnotog-
rapher, who accompanied the expedition
and from whose photographs this article is
Illustrated. Before [ describe the island
as 1t Is in this year of Lord 1898, let
me tell you something OF It's history. The
story dates back u !114, almost two hun
dred years AT that time an English ship
OF ninety tons, known the Cinque Ports,
was sailing through the South Pacific
ocean. Upon her was the first real Robin
son Crusoe. He was a Scotchman, named
Alexander Selkirk. He was the sailing
master of the ship, but for some reason or
other fell out with the captain and one
story Is that he headed a mutiny and was
given the choice of being hanged at the
yardarm or of being placed on this desert
island of Juan Fernandez. He accepted
the latter alternative, and. with small
supply OF provisions, he was landed In what
is now called Cumberland bay. This was
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He died Lieutenant of H. M 8. Weymouth
A. D. 1923, aged Al years.
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This Tablet Is erected near Selkirk's lookout
By Commodore Powell and the officers
Of H. M. S. Topaze, A. d. 1868.
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Whit They Passed Through.
There was something pathetic, indeed
almost tragic, in the thought these men
represented TO my Imagination. was
constantly reminded when with them of
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USE AND ABUSE OF BRoOMS,
GOOD care Should Be Taken OF Them
In Order to Insure Well
Swept Floors.

An old broom well kept will swee o
clean for a long time. In the first
place, have broom pocket and keep
your broom therein. 1t will pay for it's
cost many times in the saving before
its life Of usefulness is over. \ broom
not in use should always be kept up
side down, SO that the straws fall out
ward. This keeps it in shape. In
sweeping, use first one side and then
the other. If you sweep always on
the same side of your broom it will
soon grow one-sided and have to be
cast aside. When, however, broom
is not badly worn, only mashed out
CT shape, it can be Strengthened by
wetting, pulling into shape and drying,
bottom upward.
On sweeping day have pailful of
warm suds, made by Gissolving table
spoonful of pearline in pail two
thirds full of warm water, and rinse
your broom off whenever it becomes
dusty. \ damp brooms sweeps a
dusty surface much better than one
which is bone dry. Have a bag of
heavy cant on flannel to fl your broom
with drawing-strings to tie around
the handle, and use this over the
broom for shellacked hard wood floors.
In pursuance of this idea a clever
woman has patented sweeper for
such floors, fashioned something like
a miniature garden roller, with the
cylinder covered with canton flannel
In several thicknesses Highlv-pol-
ished floors cannot be treated too ten
DERBY. When done sweeping, pick up
all the lint, etc, from the straws of
the broom and rinse it before setting
1T away. 1t seems superfuous to say
that separate brooms should be kept
for different purposes-that the
kitchen broom should never be used
either for the pavement or for up
stairs, yet most servants must be
watched lest this be done.
Exact that your carpet sweeper
shall be thoroughly cleaned on every
sweeping day, and never put away
dirty. Unlock it over a newspaper and
take out every bit of dust, lint and
dirt; then rinse the brush in soap suds
and dry before setting aside.-Chicago
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Picked MushrOOms

The delicious field mushrooms which
begin to spring up in the pastures as
earl y as the last two weeks of August
and continue throughout September
and part of October, make good
pickle. The old southern rule for put
ting them up is as follows: Take two
quarts of small button mushrooms.
Peel them and throw them into salt
and water for five minutes, and then
drain them. Add to a quart of good
cider vinegar an ounce of bruised GIN
ger root. Green ginger is the best. but
the dried root will do in this case. Add
also half an ounce of mustard seed and
the same amount of white pepper. Add
tablespoonful of salt and sprinkle
in about a saltspoonful of CAYENNE
pepper. Let the vinegar boil for min
ute, then add the mushrooms. and sim
mer them five minutes. Put them in
bottles, dividing the space. They are
an excellent pickle to serve with boiled
fish.-N. Y. Tribune.