Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 21, 1892, Page 15

ON “AFRIC'S CORAL STRAND” Wakeman Describes the Oharming Oity of Palma and Its Environment. LEGENDS OF ANCIENT PIRATES BOLD cts of Interest Shops Wierd and Grotesque Ob) in Palma, Its People, Archite Detail, \Copyrighted 102 by Edgar I, Wakeman.] Pirsa, Majorica, Jan Correspondence of Tur Bee: In these days of strong and swift steamers plying between Bogland and all Mediterranean ports, it 18 but A VOyage of twonights and a day from Gibraltar to the city of Palma, the capital of the Spanish dependency and province of Balearioa, com- prising the Bolearic isiands; or, if you aro wintering in sontwestern Spain, you may journey in a night from Valencia or Barce- tona to this least visited and most beatiful of all Mediterranean regions. Your steamer is seldom out of sight of some huge or tiny Mediterranean craft, and there 18 always consciousness of ploasant nearness of other human interests and & quiet and restful sense of companionship upon this great land-locked sea, although it is longer than the Atlantio is broad between New- foundland and Ireland, I have ever known or felt on othor waters, However treacherous the Mediterranean has veen to othors, I have nover seon its face save in its blandest, sweotest mood: when its skies wers fair, the sunshine above 1t mild and loving, its airs zophyrous and dreamful, and its face as blue and smillng as a rift of June-day heaven, “Afric's Coral Strand, ' Then, 100, before the tropic night settles softly upon the sea and land like a perfumed, translucent cloud of darkening pearl, there 1s spreaa before you such a reach of grand aad glorious coast line—the roal ‘‘Afric's coral strand”’ of transcendont beauty,and not the dread coast of the old missionary hymn— as renders true picturing impossible; the whole changeful panorama of head land, beach, forest, gitering village and noble bay, backed along the ragged southorn hori- zon by the eternal peaks of the Atlas beights. which seen under tropic suns soar above the clouds to the region of silences, ghostly and phantomful with their crowns of snow and ice. The very air voon this sea is odorous as with thyme and balm. Tho fancy, quick- epcd by tradition and oriental mysticisios, builas wondrous creations, surpassing the wildest and most fabulous tales of the “Arabian Nights.” Snug in a steamer chair, one reclines and dreams. Subtle essences as from lotus flowers mingled witn subtler rose attars touch the sense and bind in sleep. The deck stewards must be sim- flarly onthralled, for you are never rudely disturbed as on the Atlantic liner; and through all tho careful night, while the stars grow and glow above, and the silont phos- phorescent sea pulses aud throbs in pale flames beneath, you near this radiant huven of this radiant, storied sea. Then for a time all is still. Tho night and sloep and laoguorous tropic airs enfold and hold until the dawn has come. The groat steamer, with her now silent enginery, softly tugging at her anchor chain,nas drifted with the tide until her stately prow nods grace- fully to the quaint city upon the heights. Your chair happens to stand amidships upon the port side, There are sweotest zephyrs playing throughout the riggings of the curi- ous craft upon the bay. These kiss vour face until your eyes open lazily, as one who awakens in regret at the dispelling of a pleasing dream. And yot they open as though you are but knowing another dream. ‘They awaked upon morning in Palma; morn- ing 80 realiy a dream, so dreamful a reality, that no painter's art has ever caught a single recognition of its glory. Here, just as the sun is rising, between the sea's bed of crimson and the awakening city are swaying ou the gentle tide hundreds of strange und curious craft, a wild cong- lomerate of the marine architecture of the Mediterranean, their yellow spars but a mo- ment since like giant reeds above the gloam- ing of & shadowy marsh, now pinked from tlg to socket with the glorious sunlight, which hints in its play upon their gaudy en- signs of the far lands where their home havens lie; while fur out on the water's horizon, rounding Cape Wiguera behind, comes the morning fleet of fisher-boats, their suils of every striking hue, and the songs of the fishers stealing across the distanco in faint but melodious rhythm. Rare Old Tubs, Here and there are Turkish vessels with tremendous single sails, square built fore and aft liko a settler's log cabin, Scores of the clumsy feluccas from Crete and the Tonian Islands, the chebecs of the Arabs, and the identical great-boats of tho olden pirates, lie low fn the water round-about, their half naked Greek or Arab sailors, lithe of limb aud nut-brown of face, vividly recalling thoso glorious days of Barossa, booty and blood. But quainter than all are the ra~e old tubs from Chioggia and Venice, with the same high prows and sterns they had in the daps of the Doges. They come with tue ginss’of Murano, and carry back the corn, oil and wine of Soller and Valdemosa, and on the bow of each craft is palated an ofigy of the Virgin, an endléss supplication to the wuves against every form of evil aud peril at soa. And there, facing the shining sea and colorfui harbor scene, rises from tho shoro more gracefully than Naples, as fair as liiors, as tropical in type and seeming as Tavaus, the ampitheate: like city of Palma; once the brightest pearl of the sea girt Isles; still, stately, silent, beautiful; with tone and tint of the orient in its pinnacles and minarets, its dome shapea belfries, and its weird and shadowy paims. Lovingly contemplating the ~ exquisite picture, 1is romantic history old and new flutters from the hiding places of memory and troop clear and distinet into your musings: even as tne morning doves of Palma sweep from the thousand shadowy boming niches of its massive cathedral, and, alighting on but- tress, peak, battlement and spive, form pro- cessional silbouettes of burnished pace and blue against the eastern sky. “The Balearic Slingers,” Outof the mythio days come brave old tales of the folk™ that flourishea here. The luhabitants, a heroic race, fought naked with slings; and from the dexterity of the war- riors the islana became known as Balearica, country of-the strong armed slingers, The old legends have It that their marvelous roficiency with this weapon was attained hrough the mothers refusing their children food untll *‘they could sling it dowu'' from beams or branches on which it was hung. Ttis very city of Palma is built upon tho aruins of the old Roman towun founded by Quiney Cecilius Metellus, who con- quered the island with galleys *plate Witb ox-hides and skins as a pro- tection sgainst the fatal strokes ot the Baleario stingers.” Ruled In turn by Vandals and Goths, the klhunll eventually fell into the haunds of the 1oors, shortly after southern Spain became rey to the hordes of Gobr.; rts and cruelties of piracy, until the Balearicans became master of and spread terror over the entire Meal- Yerranean. The islands were thus merged futo a clear yet terrible commonwealth, whose wer was often courted and em- ploved by neighboring sovereigns. Thoe Beoumulation of Lreasure was enormous; so great as to fuvite ocupidity of invasion aad ven 10 “*holy’ crusades, until Do, Juyme L, ing of Aragon and count of Bircelons, in ptomber, 1220, saled for Pama with @t of 150 galleys and 18.000 men, Prlno& all |Catalunisn peasant warriors. Palma fell, The ales of the mixed race of pirate Moors and Balearicans were butchered, sold slaves or banished to the African coast. he women became the slaves and wives of Catalunian v warriors, The lunds were partiti 2 uned off among the fol- wers of Don Jayme 1., founding a titled land- holding aristocracy, existing to this day, #s proud, rich and “noble blooded as Europe sver knew. The then independent kingdom of Halear under eventual vassalage to Pedro IV of Aragon, was tinally merged with Qnton into the Spanish dominion. With wothors of pure Balearic acd Moorish blood THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: and fathers from the sturdy, singeish and over-contentad Catalunian stock, tinged and tempered by a matchless clime and fruitful #0il, the 700 intervening years have moulded n race fine in physique, supple of limb,cheery of temper and heart, melodic of spesch and tongue, fair to look upon and truly good to find and know, The Clity of Palma, Having left the beantiful, sleepy, sunht bay for Palma's streots, you buve entered a city of nearly 70,000 souls, whers Italy, Spain and Algeria seem to tave formed a charming composite in arcaitocture and veople. The hugeness of walls is evervwhere romark- able, Kverything is constructed as if for eternal lasting. No street is beautitul, but not one fails of a picturesqueness that is often weird and grotesque. Kvery structure posseses in some portion,and frequently in the most unexpected position, some wonderful and ornate ornamentation. Tiny squares with wimpliog foantains are set in all sorts of odd corners, A huge church may tower on theone side of each of these. At a corner may stand, or project from & ocu rious and seemingly unnecessary wall, massive carved facade or gargoyle from which the water is endlessly flowing. At another side a mass of vines and verdure, capped to the sight by far domes ur spires, is only visible, Outjutting at another spot, tho angle of some huge building seems to have pushed its way hulf across the plaza and with its galleries, balcounies and tremendous over- reaching roof is ready to pitch headlong into the open space beneath, While another sunny s1de shows only a roof of red tiles sloping tike & tent cover, unpiercea by a single aper- ture, from an interminable height wholly to the edge of a stone cloister-like porcn be neath, The Lonesome Palm Trees, In all open spaces are palm troes. And these, rising from courts, lifting their sproading fronds high above roofs from darkened thoroughtares, ofton leaning, like the tower of Pisa, out of quaint old courts, and hers and there belug preserved by an entire building constructed around them, lond a dreamful, mystic, almost lonesoms and pathetic coloring to every massing of structures upon which the eye may rest. To mo,the palm,whether I have seen it in south- ern Spain, In Sicily, in Morocco,in Algeria, in Cuba, or here in Palma, whose name had its origin in the former extraordinary number of palm trees upon the istand, has always been an emblom of dolorous isolation and in- expressible loneliness, It hints of the camel, the Bedouin, tho desert. In art, in story, in fact, it ever suggests the onaloss hope lessness and impassibility of the barriers be- tweeu the races that subsist upon and rest beneath it and those who know and lovo the muple, beech and oak. It is & city of steep ascents and 1ll-paved streets, Dut of witcling old bits of curious architecture, and perhaps as lovely and splendid interiors as any Moorish or semi- Moorish city can show. All tho bhouses re- in features of Moorish taste and evide: medieval forms of habitation and liv Tbey are not bigher than three or four stories at bust. More have but the grouud floor with an uppor one, and an attic called a porcho. Invariably the entradas to the in- tevior are studies in carved arabesques and fanciful Moorish designs. Balconies are as universal and huge or as lace-like and fragile as in Granada or Sevilie. A marked peculiarity of all structures is their hugo projecting roofs, spread out 1nto pent hou and frequently most fascinatingly wo d out and decorated. And the lowliest nome 1 all Paima is charming in its patio or court ~-that lovliest of all interior arrangement around which Moslem or Chbristian home can be built. Beauty, Sunshine and Song. Every one of these courts is a place of beauty, sunshine and song, In every one there he melodic sound of water from runving jetty or fountain. In every one, whether glittering with slender marble col- umns and daintily wrought arches or soft— ened 1n tones with mossy sione and cruwb- ling tiles, there are waving ferns and flowers. Vines clambor wantonly over entablature, arch and balustrade. The alcobas of all liv ing in these abodes are within the sound of friendly calling voice. And not one is witi- out birds of gay plumage and birds with end- less songs. I ofter wonder why the rich of our own land do not build their homes hke these. A dome of glass instead of the blue Mediterranean sky, is all the change re- quired. Banish the pall-like hangiogs and withering shadow-pluces trom your stuffy homes, and learn to live in the life-giving light like the Latin and the Moor. Put your great New England firoplases opposite your arched entrances; and make of these sunlit open courts places of beauty, lighisomeness, melody and homeside joy. Only when the feast and processional days come is Palma a gay and briiliant city. At all other times it is sunny, resuful, slumber- ous and almost silent. It< strect folk aro the samo as of any other southern Spanisi city. There is greater content hore. No one is in ahurry. Among the lowly folk thero is less oxcitability; greater good nature, and the latter is of the gentle not the uproarious sort, Here, as in Madrid, is your lechero or milkman who drives his cows in from the country and milks for you befors your door. The ‘dulcero or seller of sweets, with his songful call by day and his tink- ling bells by night, is here. The cochero or cabman ‘with comfortable lancaulet and prety diligence will serve you faithfully without guite. The mercanchiste or notion peddler, the aquador or water-seller, tha regatero or huckster, who has the sociable habit of entering shop or bome with his donkeys and paniers; the zapatero or arch- way shoemaker and the latonero or nker whom I have found to be Svanish Gipsy, are all here in their lazy, pleasant and pictur esque way A Soft, Drean: By day Palma seems to the stranger to be continuously experiencing something like a soft, dreamful buzz of activity in all human affairs. Perbaps 1t 1s the reaction aftor some groat business tension, you rumi- pate. But no; each day is as the day before it. Everytning is gently done. No one is asur before 10 in the morning. Toen the pretty market attracts bevies of beautiful women and maids. This 1s followed by the noontime siesta. The shops aro bright and brilliant until evening; but every- thing 15 quiet and restful within, In the evening the cafes are ablaze with light; the parks and passeos are thronged with gay caballeros aud lovely senoritas, Still there is @ hush and tranguility io all sounas and seemings. As the night advauces in every quarter of theolden city is heard the mandolin and guitar, trewmulous, pathetic, sweet: like the echo of real tones rather than tha vibrant notes themselves. Zopyrus breezes pulse from Afric's shores. The ship- ing rocks gently upon the star-mirrored bay. 10 where you will all is life until long atter midnight, but tender and subdued as if the witchings of the tropic airs lullea to repose yet withheld from sloep. And at last the centinelas of the fortresses upoun tha heights have chanted answers to their challengers with: ‘‘Ave Maria Purisima!—La una, y todo sereno!’ you seek your couch in sweet old Palma of the Isies, your heart giving the centinela’s unswer that “All is well!" Epaar L, WAKEMAN, e Forty'years on the market. Sales increas- g every day. Cook's Extra Dry Imperia Champagne. Remember forty years. Buzz, —_———— Not Profane at Flrst. The phrase, **The devil to pay,”is not 80 profane in its origin nor so illegiti- mate as some might suppose, asserts the New York Ledger. In evor{ printing office is a youthful specimen of humanity who cannot be understandingly designa- ted to the craft without borrowing the Plutonic. appellative; ~ The phrase in question doubtless originated in a print- ing office on the dccasion of the Satur- day night’s settlement of weekly ac- counts, The publisher, with a scant purse, receives the ominous call of his oreman. **Well, John, how is it? What must I pay tonight?” Typus wants 85, and Shootingstick wants 84, and Columurule says he must have $7.” “You'll clean me out entirely. My subseribers haven’t done a thing at pay- ing up this week. But—But let’s see, Yes—here's the money.” “And, sir—1I should ke a tew dollars for myself,” “That’s bad. But here you have it— all I've got.” “But, sir, you (orget—there’s the devil to pay.” And can we wonder that thereafter, when the poor publisher wished to par- ticularly emphasize what he deemed to be a perfoct erusher in the way of busi- ness, he borrowed this sigunificant phrase? MYSTERY OF THE SOUTH SEAS Suooessful Bearch for Wreoked Treasure On the Braail Ooast. LIVELY BATTLE WITH HUNGRY SHARKS. A Moeting Whick E; of 1 on and Stranded Sallor Stambled On A Snug Stake, ded In Disaster—Chests amonds — How & [Copyright, 1892, by Charles B. Lewis.] In the year 1867 I found myself at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, justoutof hospital, not a dollar in my pocket, and ready to ask the American consul to send me to the United States 1n the name of charity. I had been out with an Amsarican whalor, and had been left there so broken in health that no one supposed I coald live two weeks. As the ship hid taken no oil there was uothing coming to me. Indeed, [ was in deot to ber, and but for the few dollars raisod among the men [ should have beon & pauper on landing. One afternoon, while [ was on my way to the consulate to ses what nelpI could obtain, Iencountered an Englishinan, whom 1 at once identified as n suilor-—captain or mate. He stopped and inquired my name, nativity aud occupation, and when I had given him the information he slapped mo on the back #nd exclaimed : “It's a bit of luck that [ met you! I've got a place for you, and we'll drop in somewhers and have g glass and a talk.” He was a blunt spoken nan, but a cautious one. Ho did not unfold his plaas until he had pumped me pretty dry and appareutly satisfied himself that I wasa man he wanted. Even then [ only got a part of the story, and am sull in the dark as to many particulars, The stranger’'s name was Captain Rooerts, and he had given upthe comaund of un English brig on purpose to enter upon a hunt for treusuve. I'wo years befors, as he in formoed me, a coasting schooner which was carrying £00,000 worth of diamounds, besides a large sum in rough gold, between Itio and Montevideo,had been wrecked about soven miles below Porio Alegre. Why this treas- ure had been intrusted to asailing vessel and whether 1t belonged to church ov state or some individual i never learned. ‘T'no captain had nothing to say about. that, aua I bound myself to secrecy regaraing the whole affair. How Captain Roberts had 1 wreck was a matter Idid not as I did hear 1t said that all tho crew w I was a sailor and a diver, and he of stand all tho expense of the search and me $10,000 in gold if we recovered the dia monds only. 1t we got the wold as well 1 was to have a lurger shave. He bad char tered a coasting schooner for three months, and was then getting nboard whatever ho thought would be n od with him that afternoon as mate, o davs aftor we had picked up all ot Fortunately for us a ship came in with twelve seamen rescued from a burning vark at sea, sud we ok eight of them and a cook. This gave us eleven hands all told on the little cratt, but wrecking s a thing demanding plenty of muscls at the cranks, windlusses and tail ropes. The crew proper were not let into the secret, but signed for a voyage to Buenos Ayres and return. Thay were 8o huppy at securing a borth that no one cared which way we sailed or what the object of the voy- age. banker behind the expe- ntly discovered, but he did not come near the schooner, and Capta RRoberts visited him only by night,” W were so well provisioned and proviaed that it must ien a suug sum ol money to tit us out. This the banker no doubt ad- vanced and took his chances, - At the custom houso we cleared for tho La Plato in ballast, but some of thav ballasy Lad been taks aboard under cover of dariness. We diver's outfit, Limbers, planks, spa extra rope and chains, and about the lost package received contained a dozen muskets and a lot of fixed ammunition, We slipped out quietly one night with tho tide, and be- fore daylight came we wer Captain Roverts hada b ar the ueighborhood of the wrack, and after a speedy run down the coast we reached it one forenoon about 10 o'clock. Woen we came to work inshore we got a sight. of the wountain peuks laid down on the chart, and in a couple or hours were satisfied that the wreck was within a mile of us north or south. Just there was a reef about four miles off shore and exteuding up and down the coast for thirty miles. Behind this reef in many places was deep water right up to the shore line. It being summ weather, with the winds light but bolding steady, we anchored off the reef, and then the men were told that we bad come to search for a wreck, It was ull right with them, and after dinner two boats were lowered to begin the search. Taking the schooner as the center, we pulled both ways, runving close to the reel. 'The treasure craft had been dismasted in a squall and driven shoreward, and wo confidently expected to find her null, if it had not gone to pieces, on or near the rofe, Bofore sundown we had made careful search for three miles either way, but with- out finding the slightest trace of her. Next morning wo tried it again, but nouning was brought to light. In some places the roof showed avove the surface at low tide, in others there was plenty of water to carry us over at auy time. The treasure craft might have hit the reef at a favoravlespot and been driven almost to the beach; but before ac. cepting this theory wo got out the drag and explored the deeper waters seaward from the reef. We spent three duys at this work, grappling only at tbe rocks hidden away from thirty to sixty feet below, and using up the men with the hard work. The schooner was then sailed over tho reef and anchored in asnug berth of thirty feet of water, and we began the search of Lthe shore waters, Our process of search was this: Each boat took certain shore bearings and coverod certain territory between the reef and the beach, The water was so clear thatono holding an umbrella over his head to shut off the light could see the bottom anywhere at thirty or thirty-five feet, and there was no deeper spots iuside the reef. In fact the average depth was oniy about twenty-five feot. The shore was a rocky bluff crowned with a dense forest, with & few vards of shingly beach at long intervals. We had searched this bay for four days without luck when I had the good fortune to discover tho wreck with my own eyes, She lay within half a mile of the beach in twenty- two feet of water, sud was bottom side up against 8 big rock. She had probably passed the reef in safety, but had struci this rock, whalch thrust its head within Lhree feet of the surface, and in going aown had turned turtle. It seemed now that nov a soul of her crew had escaped, and how anybody had after- ward locatea the wreck and made & ohart of the locality was a greater mystery than ever. Our first move was to bring the schooner as near as possible, and then we began prepara- tions to lify the wreck. She must be turned over, so as to float on her keel, if nothin more, Lying bottom up, there was no po: ble way to get into her cabin, Next day, after the discovery, | went down in my diviog dress and attached cnains to her starboard side. These were spliced out with stout ropes leading aboard of our schosuer, and after half a day’s work we were ready to haul. We could lift her a bit, but not more than a foot, and after working one day we «ave up that method for auother. Casks were sent down to me and atiached wherever possible, aud but for the presence of we would have had her over in a day. As if one moaster had communicated with another for miles up and down the coast, they h- ered about the schooner and the wreck, and Thad the closest kind of & call from being seized by & man eater that was fuily fifteen feet loug. Standiog om our decks Lcounted dition, as L aco SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGE eighty six dorsal fins mdving about us at one time, and I don't beMeve that was half the number of sharks within a circle of & quarter of amile, There coWd be no more diving whilo they wero hnnfl‘)fi about, and we sot to work to get olear of {Wéir company. Captain Roberts nad foreseensuch an emergency and had come provided. s 1 doubt if a ship's oféw ever had deoper rovonge on Sailor Jackls 1mplacable enemy, The muskets wero browght up and four of the men toid off to ysa them. A fifth man was given charge of & whale lance, and the rest of us were kept busy administering a punishment which fifight be cailed barbar- ous by humanitariank, Woe heated bricks red hot on the galley stove, swiftly wrapped them up in cloths, and they no sooner touched the water than \hv_v\vn'ro gulped down, As soon as o shark was wounded by ball or 1ance so us to leave a trail of blood he was at once savagely attacked by others, and our hot bricks soon turned a dozeu or more big fellows belly uppermost. 1t was a regular circus for about three hours, during whick at least fifty of the mon- stors were slaughtered, and then those that were left alive suddenly drew off to the Iast one, and we did not sight another shark dur- e our stay. I did not go down again for twenty-four bours, however, not fecling cor- tain that some big fellow was lying in wuit behind the wreck. When I did descend 1 found the schooner lifting to the casks, and after attaching two or three more sho slowly rose to the surfuce. We then zot the boats out and towed her into adepth of fonrteen feet and then swayea herover until sho righted. She went to the bottom again, of course, as the casks no longer buoyed her, but we expected that. It was now a comparatively easy job to get at tho cabin of the treasure craft. "She had been dismasted and most of her bulwarks swept away, and her bows had beon stove in as shostruck the rocks. Evervthing ap voared alt right aft, howover, and we had yawl anchored over the and [ was all ready to go down when we had a second interruption. A coasti schooner, woing down the coast and standing woll in shore, espiod us, and either supposing wo were in distress or actuated by motives of curiosity, sho lay to off tne reef anu began to signnl us, asking what was tho matter. Wae answered that we were all right, but he was not satisfied. She lowerad a bout to pull to us, but wo got ahead of her. The eaptain handed mo dowh a box of cigars and a dozen bottles of wine, and [ met tho boat a mile away. The captain himself was in tho stern shoets and he seemed considerably put ont whon told that we had not beeu driven over tho reef and wers not in need of assistance. I toid nhim that our schos partered by a nuturalist, who collecting tish from the d birds from the forests ashore, and roed to his Whea I cams to go down in my suit 1 found almost a clear d She had been schooner nd both wasts had baen carried sway ok, Beginuing at the heel of the and _runnivg alonz the port side about twenty-five fest of her bulwarks were loft standing. . Capstan, windiass, hateh covors and tho skylighi of tho eabin had been swept away. This latter fact was greatly in my favor, as I could drop directly to the cavin. 1 was told (o look for ths reasure in the captain’s stateroom, but my had no sooner touched the civin floor than my outstretehed hands encountered something which I knew by the feel to be a dead man. My finding him in the situation I did stiil furthor deepaned the mystery of tha whole expedition. He_was tied fast and | As soon as vele sed the body floated upy and the man told me that it ffldated out to sea with the tide, riding on thé surfiuce hie a cork. iivening was now diawing near, and further search was abandoned nuntil another day. After breacfasf he norning 1 de- scended again, and within two hours had the treasure out of the wreck. 1 found ir, not in the captain’s stateroom{ but on vhe iloor of the main cabin—the diymonds were in a cast iron hox avout as largaas a child’s savings bank and the wold instou. wood boxes, and I left nothing bebind. From the treasure being founa where it was I argued that théks had becn a mutiny before tho storm. and that the captain Lad been tied in the cabmand the crow was making ready to divifipup *he spoils. Por- haps after driving over the recl and striking the rock one had beon cast ashore to tell the story, and it \Was on Higinformation waacted, If so, however, the fach:was not admitted. 1 learned no more than I' have told vou. Not onoof the ¢ f our find and, sailorlike, I When the vas safe aboard we re turned o Roo. our days 1ot & man was perinitted to leave the vessel. Then I re- cerved the sum agreed npon, with a consider blo incrense, the men were made happy with a snuz sum of mwoney cou down 1o cach, and we were all bundlield avoard of a steamer boand for Cuba, cach giving his promise to say nothing of the wrecking ex- pedition 10 uny one. 1 learned later on that wovernment vessels searched for weeks for and that the Rio bunker had o 1l 3 for safety, but that cnly addea to the strange the adventure instead of clearing up the many mysteries. Van i{outen’s C thest."” -~ V—Bast, and g)3s fae- The Episcopalians of Philadelphia are going to build a diocesan house to cost §100,~ 000, of wich about one-fifta bus already been raised. The youngest of the prominent clerzymen of America is said to Rev. Samuel A, fliot, son of President Kliot of Harvard and suc- cessor to Rev, Brooke Herefold's pulpit in Boston, r. Gillespie, one of the secretaries of the vigrinn Board of Foreizn Missions is on a visjt to foreign lands, When last heard from bo was in India and expects to return in April. Rev. Dr. Nelson, Episcopal, will be conse- crated bishop of Georgi . Luke's church, Atlsnta, on the 2ith inst. The ser- mon will be proached by Bisnop Rulison of central Pennsylvania. Cardinal Manning left no autobiographical notes, which, while much to be regretted, 1s something that might well be imitated by lesser lights who bope to shine move aftor death than they are able to do while living. The oldest Unitarian minister now living is probably RRev. Thomas Treadwell Stone, D. D., of Providence, who completed his 01t vear last week. Ho is vigorous enough to address a meeting of ministers, aud aid so last Monday, Mer, Gilbert of Moorfields, Cardinal Moran of Sydney, N. 8, W., and Bishop Clifton of Bristol aro regarded as the men baving the best chance of appointment as Cardinal Mannwg’s successor in England, Th2y areall home rulers and considered “'safe” on labor questions, ‘The great organization, the Association for the Propagation of the Kaith, received in 1500 the sum of $1,412,562, which was nearly all distributed directly among the missions 1 Europe, Asin aud Africa, Novth and § America, the Autilles, fid Oceanicu. the United States it regeived 839,092, and to thom it gave $40,040. dan. Thero are forty-nine societies organized for Christian effort on behalf of the Jews, at present expending together nearly $500,000 a vear, Of the sums exgended these are speci- The London soeiety, $180,220; the society, $44,0887 the I'ree Church, $14,945; the Church of Scotland, $25,700; the Irish Presbyterian choroh, $18,435. Spurgeon's church sdgfns to be seeking an- other Spurgeon. The,choice of & successor is said to lie between jtbvee men who most nearly approached the)7late preacher's dis- tinctive powers. Beeéfiet's church in Brook- lyn made no attempt danotber Beecher, for the simple reason he could not be founa, The wisdom ofeecher’'s church has been amply demonstrafed in the great suc- cess of Rev. Dr. Abbotdas In the two Methoaistopnferences of Maine last year seventy-two churches, with $271,550 worth of property and paylng saluries aggre- gating 830,779, gave $1,505 to church benevo- lence and $195 for the support of superanoua- ted pastors, while the 23,544 Methodists in the state contributed for the support of veteran ministers the sum of $2,704—a frac- tion over 11 cents each. Chicago finds itself confronted with the same oconditions ow the chul question which vex the souls of good goopl- in every large city—not haif enough churches to hold the population. - On the other haud, Chicago is no worse off provably than Bostou—tiere are ot half encugh chiurchgoers to fill the pews already awaiting them. In short, the rrnblam is not how to build more churches, or money enough is always provided to do that when needed, but how to fill the churches we bave already. Chicago has 290 Protestant churches and sixty chapels, with & total seatlng capacity of about 300,000, The Catholic churcnes will seat 400,000, and that ;uvu 600,000 persons, at least, uuprovided or, Don’t say this is too cheap to be good. Come in und see our specimens. This is our 5th year in Omaha—plenty long enough " to demonstrate that we do as we advertise and we refor to THE BBEE, by pormission. Hundreds of peo- ple to are wearing our teeth and they re our 85 teoth too, Not one per- son has evercome back dissatisfied with a $5 full set. [EETH WITHOUT PLATES AND REMOVABLE BRIDGE WORK. This is one of the greatest inventions in dentistry With these teeth there is nothing in the roof of the mouth to ob- struetthe voice; they never drop down, ) A FULL SET OF TEETH FOR always firm, enabling you to bite any. thing you wish; strong ns natural teeth- Public speakers, singers, ete., should have these teeth. 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The queen has it among her most priceiess possessions. Mrs. M. D. Young, a daugnter-in-law of the Mormon prophot, Brigham Young, is now visiting the eastern states. She is ar editorial writer on a Salt Lake ty paper and a strong and caustic oppoaent’ of Mor- monism. The New York Women’s Press club has ninety-five members, each engaged in literary occupation. Its objact is to gain for women the advantages arising from unity,fellowship and co-operation with those engaged in sim- Alar pursuits. “Mrs. Hotchkiss, widow of the inventor and manufacturer of the Hotchkiss gun, has wiven a tract of land, a buiiding fund of £150,000 nnd an_endowment of $500,080 for the purpose of building a preparatory school for Yale collego, Mrs. Nancy Allison Frost, probably the o'det woman 1n Ohio, died last Tuesday near Marietta, aged 108. With the exception of & slight deafness, she possessed all her facul- ties to the end, and both read and sewed without the aid of elasses to the day of her death. 3 Caroline Eschard, oue of the loaders of the movement for school suffrage in Uaio, pays more tazes than any other per- son in the county whera sho lives, is a di- rector of a bank and is connected with nearly all of the important things on foot in ner Jocality. India has sent a_missionary to Eneland, Miss Sconderbal Powar, u native, high casta Hindoo, who comes to point out the evils of the opium traftic. o gvears an oriental costume, but speaks English fluently. Hor oratory is sunple and direct, and she” excites the sypathy of her heare —_— IMPIETIES. New York Morcury: Bishop Haro of South Dakota is fond of telling stories about bhimself to illustrate the points which he playfully maies that a man who lives on tho plains comes to b a good deal of a barbarian. Once ho had the misfortuno while entering a dining room to step upon the skirt of a lady's Jress. Apologizing Lo said: *“You know that I havo becn living with the In- dians lately and have grown somewhat awk- ward.” The lady auickly replied: *T don't think that, bishop, but I am surprised at one thing —that after liviug so long with the Indiuns vou shouldn’t be better at followiug up & trail.” e Yankee Blade: Dobows—Do you know, my friend, that when Rev. Gouger ofticiated here [ folt that he never would bo appre- ciated. In fact, I don’t know where he would be, Jobvins—Well, he seemed to have sense enough to koow that, Dobbins—Yest Jobbins—Indeed he did, for he went 8s a missionary to South Africa, The natives there not only appreciated but relished him, oy Texas Siftings: Rov, Wangdoodlo Baxter somewhat bawildered his congregation by saving: “Sistern and breddren, dar will be a called meetin’ 10 dis buildin’ tomorrer ebenin’.’” “What's de hour?" called out @ member, “You ocan come s soon or as late as vou please, provided yer all get heah at 7 o'clock perzackly." . A Elizaboth Cady Htanton tells an amusing story of how, when she was 8 young girl, the women of her church raised money to edu- caton younk man for tho wiaistsy., Wien he had finished at the theological achool the young divine returned to his native town and preached his first sermon on the text, “Let Your women keop silance in tho churchies. 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