The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-16

Every day he cut q notch below this, with a longer notch for Sundays and a still longer notch for the first day of each month. He had pens. ink and pa per, and kept, a journal, while they lasted, but when, the ink ran out he could not devise a way to make more, try as he might.
 Although he had savedh so much from the wreck, he lacked pick, spade and shovel and had to make them from ironwood which grew on the island. These tools wore out fast. despite the exceeding hardness of the wood, and 1t was nearly a whole year before he had finished his little habttations
 Tn time, however, he completed, 1t. when 1t was done his cave was bur rowed almost through the hill. and con- taiTied many little rooms and was well titted with shelves of earth. Finally he succeeded in covering his paiisade with a roof of logs. matched with tree boughs to make 1t water tight.
 Until he was cast ashore he had new CT handled a tool, yet he found that if a man will but use reason he can make anything that he may want. He made boards by cutting down a tree, hewing # on either side tili he had made it as thin as plank and then smoothing 1t with an adze. He could make only one board out of tree. But he had plenty of time and plenty of trees. So he managed to make himself chairs and a table and shelves, which gave him the greater delight and com fort for the huge labors that they had cost.
 Every morning he went out with his gun for few hours. Then he work ed till noon. Then he slept through the heat of the early afternoon. In the evening he worked again.
 One day he wounded young goat. of which there were many on the is- land He took 1t home, cured It's wound and tanned 1t. This gave him the idea of breeding tame creatures that he might have food when his powder was all gone. He built anoth- CT stockade and in the end succeeded so we'll that he had forty-three goats. Thus he was sure of meat always; but after a while he became greatly disr tressed by the lack of anything to make bread.
 One day great gift came to him from Providence. He was rummaginF through a bag that had contained chicken food, and finding only husks and dust, threw 1t on the ground. The great raips came on soon sfterward. A month later he saw green stalks shoot ing up and discovered. to shis unspeak- able gratitude that barley was growing there. Eagerly he searched and found some rice growing near by. A deep religious feeling took possession of he thanked mercifui God with streaming eyes.
 He saved the grain as no one ever had saved gold. lfI the following sea- son he sowed 1t again. In four, years he had good crops, and needed no long CT to fear starvation.
 As time passed and his personal conn aM C.. -N. fear of savages and wild beasts, but he did not neglect certain precautions. still feeling that natives might come some day from a great land which he had sighted in unusually clear wealth CT lying far to the west. whether Is- land or continent he could not tell
 His clothes wore out and he made himself garments of the, skins of small animals and goats. together with a prodigious hairy cap. which he needed to ward the rays of the sun. for he never could harden himself to it. For this reason he made himself q great umbrella finally, covered with skin hair upward to shed the rain.
 He made many journeys around the island, save to one part, which was difficult of access. In valley in the interior he built stockaded bower and pleased himself with the reflection that he now had a country house as well as 6 town house. Ills pets in creased. He had saved 6 dog from the wreck, and the faithful animal was excellent company for him. He had saved two cats also, but in the end they increased too much for comfort, ana their descendants became so wild that he had to hunt them down like vermin.
 After he had that one glimpse of the great land in the distance he could not rest, although he told himself that he was better off on his island than he would be In a strange land where no hope of succor and probably only dan- ger awaited him since civilized men new