THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, OCTOBER TWi. s$ jt tlie English oolors afloat, own. She Is all in the wind, Her people don't seem to with her.' plain enough to the naked clack brig ot about 180 tons j ballast, as she Seated high on e, like ourselves, carried short -t masts, but the canvas she showed J ot no more than topsails, and . I took the glass from the Captain, jelieved I could make ont the heads of or three people showing abort the bul wark rail abaft the mainmast. ' 'What's their trouble going to prove?' said the Captain. I " 'They're waiting for us,' said 1, They f saw us, and put the helm down and got ; their little ship in irons instead of hacking ' their topsail yard. No sailor man there, I ; doubt.' " A small colonial trader, you'll find. said the Captain, 'with a crew" of four or ; five Kaaakas. The Captain's sick and the I- mate was accidentally left ashore at tne last i island.' 'It blew a fonr-knot breeze four knots, , I mean, for the Swan. Wrinkling the water under her bows and smoothing into oil a cable's length of wake astern of her, the I whaler floated down to the little brig with- , in hailing distance. We saw but two men, f and one of them was at the wheel. There , was an odd look of confusion aloft, or f rather let me describe it as a want of that I sort of precision which a sailor's eye would ; seek for end instantlv miss, even in the commonest old sea-donkey of a collier. , I Nothing was ritrhtly set for the lack -of hanling taut. Banning gear was slackly , belayed, and swung with the rolling of 'the i little brig like Irish pennants. The craft ' was clean at the bottom, but nncoppered. , She was a raund-bowed contrivance, with a spring aft which gave a kind of mulish, kick-up look to the ran of her. "One of the two visible men, a broad- . chested, thick-set fellow, in a black coat nnd a wide, white straw hat, cot upon the bulwark and stood holding on by a back- . tay, watching our approach, but he did not ofier to bail. J tliou-ht this queer: it struck rce then that he "hesitated to hail us as though wanting the language of the sea in this business ot speaking. "Brig ahoy!" shouted the captain. ' " 'Kallo, answered the man, I " "What is wrong with you? " We are shortnanded, Bir, and in great i distress,' was the auswer. " " 'What is your ship, and where are you . from, and where are you bound to?' "When these questions were put the man looked round to the fellow who stood at the brier's little wheel. Jt was certain he was not a sailor, and it was possible he sought counsel from the helmsman, who was prob ably a forecastle hand. He turned his face cgam our way in a minute, and shouted out in a powerful voice: " 'We are the big Cyprus, of Sydney, New South Wales, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, and very much out of our reckoning, I dare say, through the distress we're in." "The captain and I exchanged looks. " 'Heading as you go," the captain sang out; 'ycu're bound on a true course for the Antartic circle, and, anyway, it's a long etretca fsr Agulkas by way ot Cape Horn cut o! these seas. How can we serve you?" " 'Will yon send one of your officers in a boat?' came back the renly, very promptly, 'that be rnav put us in the way ot steering a course for the Cape of Good Hope? He'll then guess our plight, and if you'll lend us a hand or two we shall be greatly obliged. "We can't send a boat ourselves we're too lew.' " 'He's no sailor man, that fellow,' said the captain, 'and he han't got the colonial brogue, either. I seem to smell White chapel in that chap's speech. Is he a pas eenjrer? Why don't he say so? Looks like a play actor, or a priest? But take a boat Grainger, and row over and see what you caa make of the mess they're in. There's something rather more than out-of-the-way in that job, it I'm not mistaken.' "A boat was lowered. I entered her. and was rowed across to the brig by three men.' 2 o attempt was made to throw us the end of a line, or in any way to help us. The bowman got hold ofd clain plate, and I rcrauibled ia to the main chain, and so got over the rails, bidding the meu above oil and lie clear of the brig, whose rolling was somewhat heavy, owing to her float ing like an egg shell upon tne long Pacific heave. "I glanced along the vessel's decks for ward and saw not a souL I observed a little caboose, the chimney of which was smok ing as though coal bad within the past few minutes been thrown into the furnace. I saw but one boat; she stood chocked and lashed abait the caboose, a clumsy, broad beamed longboat, capable of stowing per haps 15 or 20 men at a pinch. I also took notice of a pair of davits on the star board side, past the main rigging; they were empty. "I stepped tip to the heavily-built man who had answered the captain's questions. He received me with a grotesque bow. pinching tne brim ot bis wide straw hat as ::e bobbed Ins bead. 1 did not lite bis looks. He had as hanging a face as ever a reaicactor carried. His features were heavy and coarse, his brow low and pro truding, his eyes small, black and restless, bed his mouth of the bulldog cast. " 'We're much obliged to you for this visit,' said he. 'flight I ask" your name, tir?' " 2dy name is Grainger Mr. James Grainger, I answered, scarcely wondering r.. the irregularity of such a question on i ach an occasion, perceiving clearly now that the fellow was no sailor. " 'What might be your position on that thip, Mr. Grainger?' taid the man. " 'I'm mate of her,' said L " 'Tjen I suppose you're capable of car rying a ship from place to place by the art ot navigation?' he exclaimed. '"Why, I hope so.' cried I; 'but what is it jou rant?' and here I looked at the man who was standing at the helm, grasp ing the (pokes in a manner that assured me he wa not used to that sort of work; and I was somewhat struck to observe tbat in some respects he was not unlike the fel low who as addressing me that is to say, he had qi itc as hanging a lace as his enm paaiou, taough he wanted the other's breadth and squareness and rufhan-likc set ot figure, but his forehead was low and his eyes binci and restless, and he was close-cropp-a, with some days' growth ot beard, cs r-a the case with the other. He was Jress-d in a bottle-green spencer and t rou ters ('. a military cut, and wore one of those caj.5 which in the days lam writing of were the fashion amongst masters and mates. " 'If you don't mind stepping into the cabin, said the young man with whom I was conversing, 'I'll show you a chart, and' ask you to pcni.il out a course for us; and with" your leave, sir, I'll tell you over a t'lass of wine exactly how it's come about that we're too few to carry the brig to her domination unlets your captain will kindly help us.' " 'Are you two the only people aboard?' said L " 'The only people,' he answered. "Anywhere else, under any other condi tions I'might have suspected a treacherous iutention "in two men with such hanging countenances as this lonely brace owned.but tthat could I ima;ine to be afraid of aboard a 'ing holding two persons only.with the wnaier's boat and three men within a few strokes of oar, and the old bark Swan, lull of livelics, manj- of them deadly in tho art of casting the harpoon, within easy hail? "The man who invited mo below stepped into the conipanion-wav; I followed and de scended the short flight of steps. The in stant 1 had gained the bettom of the ladder I knew by the sudden shadow which came inio the light that the companion batch had been closed; this must have been done by the fellow standing at the wheel. It was visely contrived! Assuredlv, bad the way been bpen, I should have rushed upon deck and sprung overboard; because alter de-srrnrfin- the stens I beheld five or six men standing in a sort ot waiting and listening osturc umler the sKyiignt. xnsianwy my e!t arm was gripped bv the man wiio naa asked me to step beloiv; another lellow, equallv powenul and equally ruffianly in appearance, grasped me by the right arm. " 'Now,' said the first man. 'It you make the least bit of noise or c" anv trouble, we'll cut your throat, 't intend to do you any harm.but we want your services, and you'll have to do what we require with out any fuss.' If not, you're a dead man.' "So saying, they threw open tho door of a berth, ran me into it, shut the door, and shot the lock. I had been so completely taken by surprise that I was in a manner stunned. I stood in the middle of the cabin just where the fellows had let go of me, staring around, breathing short and fierce, my mind almost a blank. But I qnicklv rallied mv wits; I understood I had been kidnaped; by what sort of people I could not imagine but beyond question be cause I understood navigation as I had told the man. I listened, but heard no noise of voices, nor movements of people in the cabin. Through the planks overhead, how ever, came the sound of a rapid tread of feet accompanied by the thud of coils of rope flung hastily down. The cabin port hole was a middling-sized, circular window. I saw the whaler in it as in a frame. I un screwed the port, but Kith no intention to cry out, never doubting for a moment from the looks ef the men that they would silence me in urns bloody fashion as had been threatened. "Just as I palled the port open a voice overhead sang ont, "Get back to your shin you three men; your mote has consented to stop with us, as we're in want of a navi gator. " "Let him tell ns that himself,' said one of the men; let him show up. What ha' ye done with him?" " 'Be off,' roared one of the people in a savaze, hurricane note. "There was a little pause of astonishment on the part of the bust's crew; I could not see them the boat lay too far astern; but after a bit I heard the splash of oars, the boat swept into the sphere of the porthole, and I beheld her making for the barque. " INSTAXTLY MY LETT "I was now sensible, however, not only by observing the whaler to recede, but by healing the streaming and rippling of broken waters along the beds, that the people of the brig had in some fashion trim med sail and filled upon the vessel. We were under way. The bark slided out of the compass of the porthole. But now I heard her captain's voice coming across the space of water, clear and strong: ' 'Brig ahoy! What do you mean by keeping my mate?" "Xo this'no answer was returned. Again the captain hailed the brig, but owing to the shiit in the jiostures of the two vessels, and to my having nothing but a circular hole to hear through, I could only dimly and imperfectly catch what was shouted. The cncs"from the whaler grew more and more thread-like. Indeed, I knew this brig must be a very poer sailor if she did not speedily leave the Swan far astern. "And now as I conjectured from the noise of the tread of feet and the hnm of voices, the brig en a sudden seemed full of men, not the eight or ten whom I had be held with my own eyes, but a big ship's company. And the sight of the crowd I reckoned, as I stood harkenine at tho open port-hole amazed, confounded, in the nt mct distress of mind, was probably the rcaton why the captain of the Swan had not thought proper to send boats to rescue me. Be this as it will, I was thunderstruck by the discovery the discovery of my hear ing, and of my capacity as a sailor of inter preting shipboard sounds that this little brig, which I had supposed tenanted by two men only, hail hidden a whole freight of human souls somewhere away in the exe cution of this diabolical strategem. What was this vessel? Who were the people on board her? What use did they design to put me to, and when I had served them what was to be my fate? "Quite three hours passed, during which I was left unvisited. Sometimes I heard men talking in the cabin. Over my head there went a regular sw ing of heavy feet, a pendulum tread as of half a score of burly ruffians marching abrea.t,nnd keeping a lookout all together. The door of my berth was opened at last, and the villain who hod seduced me into the brig stepped in. " "I was sorry,' said he, 'to be obliged to use threats. Threats aren't in onr way. We mean no mischief. Quite the contrary; we count upon you handsomely serving us. Come into the cabin, sir, that I may make you known to my mates.' 'His manner was as civil as a fellow with his looks could possibly contrive, and, an ugly smile sat upon his face whilst he ad dressed me, and I observed that he held his great straw hat in his hand, as thongh to show respect. "About 20 men were assembled in the cabin. I came to a dead stand on the thres hold of the door of the berth, so astounded was I at the sight of those fellows. I ran my eye swiftly over them; they were vari ously dressed, some in the attire of seamen, some in such clothes as gentlemen ol-that . period wore, a few in a puzzling sprt of a military undress. Xhey all had cropped heads and masy were grim with a few days' growth of beard and mustache. Thevbad the felon's look ami there was somehow a suggestion of escaped prisoners in their general bearing. A dark suspicion rushed upon trie with the velocity of thought as I stood on the threshold of the door of the berth for the space of a few heart-beats, gaz ing at the mob. "The cabin was a plain, old-fashioned in terior. A stout, wide table secured to stanchions ran aciidships. Overhead was a ikylight. There were a few chairs on either hand at the table and down the cabin on both sides went a length of lockers. Some of the men were smoking. A few sat upon the table with their arms folded; others lounged upon the lockers and in chairs. They stared like one man at me whilst I stood looking at them. " 'Is be a navigator, Swallow?' said one of them, a wiry, dark-faced man, who held his head hung and looked at you by lifting his eyes. ' " (Aj, jnata of the whaler James CtraU- ger by name.' answered the fellow who had opened the door of my berth. 'Salute him, bullies. He's the charley-pltcher for to handle this butter box.' "Tne voices of the men swelled into a roar of welcomes ot as many sorts as there were speakers. One of them came around the table and shook me br the hand. " My name's Alexander Stevenson, said he, 'come and sit down here.' "All very civilly he oondneted me to a chair at the head of the table. And now, happening to glance upward, I spied seven or eight faces peering down at me through the skylight, " 'Swallow, he'll do the jawin', will 'ee?' said the man who called himself Stevenson. "UVhy; yes,' answered Swallow, posting himself at the top of the table, and address ing'tne through the double ranks of men on either side. 'This is how it stands with us, Mr. Grainger, clear as mud in a wineglass, and we're all sorry it should have come to it for your sake. "But do your duty by us faithtullv, and we'll take care you shan't sutler, we re 31 convicts in ail. we were 32, but Milkliver Poppy took a header, and went for the land and the lickspittle; if he lives he'll get bis liberty for a rewar I. We were bound from Hobart to Norfolk Island. You'll have heard of that settlement?' "I said 'Yes,' and an odd guttural laugh broke from some of the men. " 'Well, mister,' continued the man Swal low, 'Norfolk Island was a destination that didn't accord with ourviexs. And what more d'ye want me to say? Here we are, and we want our liberty, and we mean to get it without any risk, and you're the man to help us.' " 'What do you want me to do?' said I, speaking boldly and looking about me steadily, for now I perceived exrctlyhow it was with the brig, and the worst had ABM TVAS GRIPPED. been explained and tho whole mystery solved when Swallow told me they were convicts; and likewise I had had plenty of time to screw my nerves up. "Several men spoke at once on my ask ing the above question. Stevenson roared out: 'Let Swallow man the jaw tackle, boys. One at a time or you'll -addle the " 'This is what we want to dot' said Swal low. There are scores ot islands in the seas and i. e want you to carry usiothem; heaving-to off them one after another that we may pick and choose, some going ashore here and some there, for our game is to scatter. That's clear, I hone.' " 'I understand you,' said L "Swallow seemed at a loss. Stevenson then said: 'Bat we shall want nothing that's got a white settlement on it; nothing that's likely to have a pennant flying near. We've got no fixed notions. We leave it to you to raise the islands, and it'll be for us to select and take our chance.' " There'll be charts aboard, I inppose? said L "Instantly one of them stepped Into a cabin and returned with a bag full of charts. I turned them out upon the table, and promptly came across charts of the North and South Pacific Oceans. These charts gave me from the Philippines to Cape St Lucas, and from the Eastern Australian coast to away as far as 120 west longitude. The men did not utter a word while I looked. I could hear their deep breathing mingled with the noise of a hard sucking,of pipes. One of them who looked through the skvlight called down. Swallow silenced him with a gesture of the fist, " 'Have you got what's wanted here, Mr. Graineer?' said Stevenson. " 'All that I shall want is here,' I an swered. A low growl of applause ran through the men. " 'Will you be able to light upon the islands that'll prove suitable for us men to live on without risk until the .opportunity comes in the shape of vessels for us to get away?' said Swallow. ''I'll do mv best for you, said L 1 see your wants, and you may trust me, provid ing I may trust you. What's to become ot me when you're'out ot the brig? That's it now." " "You'll stay on board and do what you like with the vessel,' answered Swallow. 'She'll be yourn to have and hold. Make what they call a salvage job of it, and your pickings. Mister, 'ull be out and away beyond the value ot what we have been obliged to make you leave behind yon.' " '.Ain't that fair?' said the man. " 'Is my life safe?' said L " 'Ay,' said Swallow, with a great oath, striking the table a heavy blow with his clenched fist. 'Understand this and com fort yourself. There's been no blood shed in this job, and there'll be none, so help me God! you permitting mister.' "When this was said a fellow, whom I afterward heard called by the name of Jim Davis asked ii I was willing to take an oath that I would be honest I said 'Yes.' He stood up and dictated an oath full of blas phemy, shocking with imprecations, and grossly illiterate. The eyes of the crowd were fastened upon me, and some of the ruffians watched me in a scowling way with faces dark with suspicion till I repeated the horrid language of the man Davis and swore, after which the greater bulk of them went on deck. "Swallow put some beef and biscuit on the table and a bottle of rum, and bade me fall to. He ttld me to understand that I was captain ef the ship; tbat I wai at lib erty to appoint officers under me, and that, though aone ef the cenvicts had been sea faring men, they had learned how the ropes led and how to furl canvas, and would obey any orders for the common good which I might deliver. I ate and drank, being de termined to put the best face I could on this extraordinary business, and asked for the captain's cabin that I might find out what nautical instruments the briar carried. Sn allow, Stevenson, and a eonvict named William Watts eon dueled me to a berth right aft ea the etaraoard alia, Thar taMi me It had been oceupied by the captain and should be mine. Here I found all I needed in the shape of navigating instru ment?, and went on deck with Swallow and the others. "I could see nothing of the Swan; she was out of sight from the elovation of the brig's bulwarks. All the convicts were on deck, aud the brig looked full of men. Those who had been above while I was in the cabin with the others, approached and staired at me, but not insolently, merely with curiosity. They seemed a vile lot, one and oil. With Rome of them every other word was an oath; their talk was almost gibberish to my ears with thieves' slang. ) I wondered to find not one ol them dressed In felons garb; but on reflection I concluded that they had plundered tho crew and the people who had bad charge of them and of the Cyprus, and had forced all those they drove out of the brig to change clothes before quitting the vessel. "However, it was my immediate policy to prove my sincerity. I valued my life", nnd 1 had but to look at the men to reckon that it would ni be worth a rush light if they suspected I was not' doing my best to find them a safe asylum among the islan Is in the Pacific, Accordingly, I fetched one of the charts, placed it upon the skylight, where these who bad gathered about me could see it, and laid off a coarse for the Tonga Islands, telling the men as I pointed to the group upon the chart that if no island thereabouts satisfied themueoould head for the Fijis or cruise about the Friendly or Navigator gronpi, working our way as far as the Low Archipelago, be twixt which and the first island we sighted we ousht certainly to fall in with the sort of hiding place they wanted. My words raised a grin of satisfaction in every f'ac: within reach of my voice. "I stepped to the helm, and headed the brig on a northerly course, and stood awhile looking at the compass to satisfy myself that the convict who grasped the spokes understood what to do with the wheel. He managed fairly well. I then asked Swallow to serve as my chief mate, and Stevenson to act as second, and calling the rest of the' felons together I divided them into two watches. My next step was to crowd the little brig with all the canvas she could spread, and to set every stitch of it properly. Thus passed the first day. "I have no space to enter minutely into what happened tilt we made a small point of land in the neighborhood of the Friendly Islands, There was abundance ot provisions on board, plenty of fresh water and a stock of npirits intended for the commandant and soldiers at Macquarie Harbor aud Noriolk Island, but though the convicts Ireely used whatever they found in the brig's" hold, never once was there an instance of drunk enness among them. I guessed them all to be as desperate a set of miscreants as were ever transported for crime upon crime from a convict establishment; yet they used me very well. Saving their villainous speech, their behavior was fairly decorous. They sprang to my bidding, sird me as though they bad been seamen and I their cantain, and indeed, by their behavior so reassured me that my dread of being butchered van ished, and I carried on the work of the brig as assured of my personal safety providing I dealt by them honestly as though I had been ou board the old Swan. "We sighted several vessels, but, as you may suppose, we bad nothing to say to them. Oil the first island we eame across I hove the brig to; the convicts got the long boat out, and a dozen of them went ashore to examine and report Five returned; the remainder had chosen to stay. We made three of the' islands; the natives of two of them were threatening, and frightened the convicts back to the brig; the third proved uninhabited a very gem of an island was this; and here 15 conviota went ashore, and thrice the boat went be tween the island and the brig with pro visions and necessaries for their main tenance. "But it gave me a fortnight of anxious hunting to dibcover such another island as the remaining convicts considered suitable. This at last we tell in with midway betwixt the Union group and the Marqunsas: and here the rest ot the felons went ashore, after almost emptying the brig's hold of provisions and the like. They kept the long boat and left me alone in the brig. Some ot them shook bands with me as they went over the side, and thanked me for having served them so honestly. "It was in the evening when I was left alone. The sun was setting behind the island, off which a gentle breeze was blow ing. My first business was to run the en sign alolt, Jack down. I then trimmed sail as best I could with a single pair of hands, and, putting the helm amidships, let the brig blow away southwest, designing to make for one of the Navigator Islands, where I might hope to fall in with assist ance either from the shore or from a vessel. Bat shortly after midnight the brig, sailing quietly, grounded upon a coral shoal, fell over on her bilge and lay quiet. I was without a beat and could do nothing but wait for daylight aud pray for a sight of some passing vessel. All next day passed, and nothing showed the wide horizon round, but about 9 o'clock that night, the moen shining clearly, I spied a sail down in the south. She drew closer and proved a little schooner. I hailed her with a desperate voice, and to my joy was answered, and in less than ten minutes she sent a boat aud took me aboard." The South Seaman's narrative ends ab ruptly here, but it is known that he was conveyed to Honolulu, at whioh place, strangely enough, the Swan touched alter he had been ashore about a week. He at once went on board, related his strange ex- Eerience to bis captain, and proceeded on Is whaling career with the easy indiffer ence of a sailor accustomed to traglo sur prises. The brig Cyprus went to pieces on the shoal on which she had grounded. It it on record that of the convicts retaken on their retnrn to England two were hanged, namely, Watts and Davis; two others, Bev eridge and Stevenson, were transported lor life to Norfolk Island; and Swallow was sent back to Macquarie Harbor. Copyright, 1892, by W. Clark RanelL OBIOOT OF THZ LUC1F.SB MATCH. A Member of Parliament fWas the First to Slake the Invention. Pan MU Gsxette It is not generally known that It la to Isaac Holden, member of Parliament, that'we owe the invention of the lucifer match. The discovery was, he has told us himself, the reult of a happy thought. "In the morning I used to get np at 4 o'clock to pursue my studies, and I used at that time the flint and steel, in the nse of which I found a very great incon venience. "Ot course I knew, as other chemists did, the explosive material that was neces sary in order to produce instantaneous light, but it was very difficult to obtain a light on wood by tbat explosive ma terial, and the idea occurred to me to put sulphur under the explosive mixture. I did that and allowed it in my next lecture on chemistry, a course of which I was de livering at a large academv. "There was," said 'Mr. Holden, "a young man in the room whose father was a chemist in London, and he immediately wrote go his father about it, and shortly after -lucifer matclfes were issued to the world. I believe that was the first occa sion that we had the lucifer match. 11 was urged to bo and take out a patent im mediately, but I thought it was so small a matter' and cost me so little labor that I did not think it proper to go and get a Eatent, otherwise I have no doubt it would ave been very profitable." American Ilats In Spain. An American traveler in Spain sayt that Yankee notions and the ingenious little in vention sold by our street peddlers are ap preciated there. While walking in Malaga he saw women shying across the street to get awar from something. Makin- haste to .ascertain the cause, he saw a man with a string tied to a tiny mouse, which sought in vain to get away from its tormentor at it glidedoverthe walk. He repeatedly jerked it back, however, and the tourist was hocked until he heard the man calling out, "Baton aiecaalee Americano!" (Amefloan weeeanteal wa4 A GARDEN IN THE SEA. Fen Pictures of the 45 Square Miles of the Island of Jersey. ENGLISH, BUT FKEHCH SPEAKING. The Jersej Cow and the Cabbagei TVhOM Stalks Hake Good Canes. CUSTOMS HANDED DOWN BY KOEHAHB cORBisroNocircz or nrx dispatoh.1 St. Hemes, Island op Jersey, Sept 21, F all the snug little kingdoms of the world there is none prettier to see, more comfortable to live in, more closely packed with Interest- Iti&USgjMJ C ig history and more customs than the "tight little Island of Jersey." I stepped into Jersey after a year of Franoe. JtT'ty Coa'. of Arms. The change in manners and morals was positive. In spite of its Norman traditions, in spite of the fact that "Jersey French" is still spoken, and that modern French 1; the official langnage and is taught equally with English itt all the schools, the Island of Jersey is E'iglish all over. The children In the streets sing "Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay." Pen nies and shillings take the place of sons and francs. There are English things to eat, and potatoes and meat are served together. On Sunday the shops are closed. People go to church. There Is oven a Salvation Army band abroad singing "Pull fer the Shore" in eood ca-np meeting style,and there are loaf ers. If there were no other reason for knowing you were In an English-speaking country the sight ot loungers on the street corners would be a conclusive proof. France knows nothing of this great English insti tution. Jolly tittle Brgsjnrs ot Jersey. The absence of some things emphasizes the changes of soil as muoh as the presence of some other. Perhaps the most conspicuous absence is the beggar who saddens the life of the tender-hearted in France. The only begzarg one sees In Jersey are such fat, jolly, interesting little specimens that one would not miss them any more than he would the famous cow; they are children who spring suddenly from behind the hedges and follow your carriage sometimes for miles crying in monotonous tones: "Perz, perz, penny-o-kop-perz," which, be ing interpreted, means, "Coppers, coppers, pennies or coppers." There is nothing on the surface of Jersey which would allow anyone to think that begging was ever necessary there. It Is an ideal picture of prosperity. Alrdost the entire 40,000 acres whioh make the islsnd are under cultivation. The land is divided in to 8mall.field. surrounded by high hedges ami the care with which every inch of these fields is made to produce is an eternal les son to the American farmer who neglects rosdsides and earners and complains of not having lami. enough. The hedges form one of the great de lights of the island. Hawthorn, mock orange, even thistles on stone walls are used. Every laue. every roadway Is lined. At every turn a narrow path shut in by green banks entices you. The winding roads where often high trees are used for hedges, are a succession of the most ravUhing.pic ture. To the delight of the beauty of inland Jersey is added the comfort ot the hard, smooth roads, such roa is as make Ameri cans blush with annoyance when they re member how at home, in the richest of countries, they are obliged to stay in doors something like a third of the year or lose their patience and money wading through mud. Srawoed TJsad as a Fertiliser. The crops of Jersey fruit, vegetables and crralns are famous in Europe for both qual ity and quantity. Much of this is due to the great harvest of seaweed which is gath ered each year and used as a fertilizer. The time ot harvesting of the seaweed from the rocks is limited by law, though, throughout the year, the loose weed torn off by the sea is gathered. One of the most picturesque of sights are these seaweed gatherers follow ing out the receding tide and snatching from its clutches the heavy dark masses it has robbed lroni the rocks. Of all the vegetable products of Jersey none is quite so famous as the "cow-cabbage," a species ot cabbage whose stalk grows six or seven feet high, and forms a tough wood. A "cow-cabbage" cane with a Jersey penny set into the head is quite tho thing for tourists to carry awav as a souvenir of the island. Not all that Is fold abmit the size ol this peculiar vegetable can be believed, however. Tourists are always more or less gullable, and guides love to feed their lolly. A 30-foot pole of locust wood was pointed out to onr party as the "highest cabbage on the island." Only past experiences made us investigate the state ment. No doubt, however, that particular pole figures in the repertoiie of marvels -of more than one tourist. The Jersey Cow at Hor Home. After the cabbatre omen the Jersey cow. If she is delightful to see in America she is doubly so in her native land, where, won dcrlul to say, her merits are fully appreciat ed. Extraordinary efforts are made to keep the blood pure. Strict laws forbid the in troduction ot ioreign cattle for breeding.and the Herd Book is said to be most faithfully kept. The Jerseyraen complain that Amer icans buy up all the best animals as soon as their value is evident, but at the prices re ceived it is probable that the Jerseyman' is not the loser. One peculiar feature in the herding of the cows I have never seen elsewhere. They are almost always tethered. It is done to' pre vent the animal trampling aad wasting the grass. Only one-fourth as much pasture is required, Jerseyraen say, for a tethered ani mal as lor one which ia, tree. The milking as it is done on the island is quite in harmony with the style ot the cow. Nearly all farmers use instead oi a plebian miikpail a large brass or nickel jar holding 15 or 20 quarts. On one side is usually stamped the Jersey coat of arms. During the milking the top of this can is covered with a fine cloth so that the strain ing is done on the spot. Twelve btat.s in 45 Fqnare Hl'es. But mere interesting than Jersey cows or cabbage is Jersey government. Here in the space ef 15 square miles are 12 States, each with certain rights and all .interested in the general whole. A parliament ot SO member? does the legislating. In this body each Slate is represented by a jurat elected for life, by the rector ot the parish, by a constable and by a deputy, each eleoted for three yean. The State contain ing the largest town, Si Helier, baa three deputi Wllf. deputies. The president of the body is the eleoted br the orown for life aad La)I IJ?1 W The Jmey Bocks. Itfcarean urm tsTMefa, tha Uwtetnit 1 ?overnor and the solicitor-general who sit n the body, though neither has a vote. The, task ot execution is in the hands of committees! The island is, as everybody knows, one of the British possessions but the Queen in terferes very little with the affairs of the "States;" not that she cannot if she wishes to. The lieutenant governor has the power of veto, a law passed bv the little parliament must be sanctioned by the Queen within three years or it is a "dead letter," and the acts of the British Parlia ment can be put in force in the Channel islands if that body has a mind to say so. Bat, wisely, England lets her small "jewel" take care of herself. This treatment has developed great independence. I heard a spirited woman say: "England belongs to ns, not we to her. Did we not conquer Th VdbU From Jersey to England It JlVi tert (hi Sea. ? her?" And true enough they did In 1060L When William crossed to England he took forces from the "Normandy of the Sea," as the Channel Islands were then called, as well as from the "Normandy of the Seine." The former Normandy is all that now re mains attached to the British crown. A Custom of the Normans. The ancient connection of Jersey with the Normans is still very evident in many customs. One of the most peculiar is the "ery of Haro." When a person finds any one encroaching on bis property in any way, as by the building ot a wall, he goes to the spot with two witnesses and throw ing himself on his knees he cries, "Haro, Haro, Haro, 'a l'aide, raon Frince" (O, Bollo, Jtollo, to ray help, my Prince), then turning to the trespasser he orders him to quit his wort The latter must immedi ately drop his tools and leave the premises, since from the moment the cry Is uttered the land is supposed to be under the pro tection of the crown and a refusal to obey can be punished as a contempt of the King's authority. The person availing himself of the "cry of Haro" must appear at once be fore the bailiff and made a declaration ot his case and from there the matter goes to the courts. This odd way of stopping tres passing is quite as old as the Northman Bollo, 'and some authorities claim for it a still more remote origin. Middle age land customs still exist, thai the feudal system is alive in Jersey, there being several fiefs and lordships. Most of the peculiar customs of the system have fallen into disnse, though there are still tenants who are obliged to pay to their su periors, at certain intervals, a hen or a dozen eggs or a spotless goose. The Nor man law of succession exists, and to it is due the extraordinary way in which land in Jersey is subdivided. The farmers rarely have more than 50 acres, frequently under three. Most Furnish Horses Shod With Sliver. Several families hold their lands rent free, and have other special privileges. These are rewards for favors which these families showed to Charles IL ot England, who was for some time in hiding here. But with the privileges often go queer requ.-. ments. A man m the family of my Jersov landlady is obliged, whenever a British sovereign visits the Island, to furnish six white horses shod with silver shoes for meeting the royal party. He has the "sil ver shoes" on hand, and as for the horses according to the landlady he "gets them." The old customs crop out in the street life, too. Perhaps the most striking is the newspaper seller, who goes about ringing a big bell and crying "Evening Post." The fame of Jersey as a place of refuge tor the oppressed is also of long standing. In the old days the parish churches were all built near the sea (the sites are still occu pied). From there to the beach ran a path 24 feet wide. Now, if a fugitive, whether guilty or not, could gain this perquage, as the path was called, he was sale from pur suit The memory which is the greenest of ail. perhaps, is that of General Boulancer. They tell pleasant stories of him, of his de votion to his mother, his kindness to his servants, his cordtalty to his neighbors. When he left Jersey for Brussels he gave to each of his tradespeople a souvenir. The green grocer man received a gold coin which he is said still to wear on his person as a sort of charm. Ida M. Tabbeli. IHE SPEEAD 07 ENGLISH. Its Superiority to Others Becojrnlxed Now All Over the World. lUcmllUn'i Mtgazlne. In a hundred years the United States will probably have as many inhabitants as China, and it is not likely that Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Cape will fall much short of half their total, especi allv if England be reckoned with them. Some have indeed been found to maintain that English will not be the language of the whole even of the "United States, while others point to tho vigorous vitality of the French spoken by the French Canadians and the recrudescence ot Welch in the British islands; as hints that languages die hard. But it is impossible to suppose that such considerations can affect the main ques tion. ' There are already signs that English ii becoming the literary language of Eu .ope. Professor Vambery, a Hungarian, pub. iished his autobiography first in an English dress; the Dutch author of "The Sin of Joost Aveling" wrote his novel, "An Old Maid," In English, and the author ot "The Crustacea of Norway," himself presumably a Norwegian, frankly owns in his advertise ment that, to obtain the largest possible circulation for his book, It will be written in the English language. FATE OF IVAH VL Sad Termination of the Young life of tho Bussian Boy King. Detroit Ncw.: Ivan VL, who descended from the elder brother of Peter the Great, could claim a right of inheritance to the .Russian throne, but when old enough to possess his rights was, through tyranny and treachery, thrust into prison, where he passed his whole life. Said he: "I have hardly any idea of the distress which assailed my infancy, but from the moment that I began to feel sensible of my misfortune I never ceased to mingle my tears with those of my father and mother, who were wretched on my account; and my greatest misery nas to see. the barbarous treatment they suffered as we were hurried from one prison to another." He had been guilty of no crime or mis demeanor, but he was the rightful heir to the throne, and the usurper Catherine IL was determined tbat the people should not see the boy king. After years of imprison ment he was murdered in his cell, and, dressed in the garb of a fisherman, was bur tM it a eaeearc gear MBMlMiMk LIVING IN ENGLAND. What Workingmen There Actually Pay for Their Sent and Food. BETTER FIXED AS TO CLOTHHIG, While la ETerythlnsr ELe tne Pricei Are as High aa in America. WAGES HALF WHAT THE! ABB HERE rCOBBZSFOlTDXXCX OT TBI DISPATCH. IrfHTOOir, Sept. 2L "England is the paradise of workingmen," was what a Britisher observed to us the other day. But he was not a workingraan himself. This was not the verdict of the recent Trades Congress. In that body, which rep resented not far from 1,780,000 of British workmen, the view seemed to be unani mously held that tinder the social and in dustrial system oi Great Britain working men are placed at a serious disadvantage and are grievously oppressed. Some of the complaints emphasized In that gathering are wholly unknown in the United States. Our own country may be far as yet from the ideal condition of a worklngman's paradise, but so is It also very far from being a pur gatory to that honorable guild; and the lat ter half of this proposition, according to the findings of the recent Trades' Council, cannot be affirmed with strict accuracy of this class ridden mother-land. Things aro far better here than they used to be, and the trend in every department is to ward improvement. But a long distance has yet to be traveled and no end of stu pendous obstacles must be removed En glish workmen themselves being the judges before English conditions of life can be compared favorably with those prevailing in the American Republic. The Corse of Caste In England. One of the long standing and still exist ing curses of this staid old nation is tho iron-bound system of caste which obtains in t. An American Consul of marked intel ligence and unusual facilities for observa tion observed recentlv that in this contest for the maintenance of social dignity the workingman was nowhere, and had no chance of getting anywhere. To be sure he is a man for all that, but it can hardly be compatible with a sense ef manly inde pendence to be mnde to see and feel all the time that his lines are cast among people who hold him to be their natural servant and whose invariable attitude toward him, ex cepting when they want a favor at his hands, is that of undisguised contempt. In civil life it is substantially the same. To be eligible for service on Boards of Guardians and on those local boards called Vestries, a man must pay rates to a certain amount, and the same qualification seems to be necessary in the case of jurymen. This means th.it candidates for these posi tions must own property and be fairly well off in life; a requirement, which, as things bo in England, leavesthe workingman, in regard to local administration, to the care of the poor and to the ordinary safeguards of the law, in virtually the same position ot ostracism in which he stands with refer ence to social matters. His Vote Doesn't Amount to Much. It serves no good end to remind us that he has been invested with the electoral franchise; for, in the first place, he is not equal to the so-called gentry, even in the etijovment of this privilege. In thiscomv monest boon of citizenship he is discrimin ated against in England. Besides, the most that can be made of the vote which the ma jority of the workmen are allowed at gen eral elections is to cite it as an evidence of improvement in their condition; it can in no sense be held to justify even the least of the civil disabilities under which they labor. And tbat the disabilities noted are held br the workmen themselves to be irksome and unjust is shown in tho strongest possible manner by the condemnatory action taken upon them at the recent Trades Congress. It would seem, too, from the proceedings of that body, that the British workman has grounds of complaint, such as could hardly arise in America, against numerous oppres sions inflicted upon bim by the Govern ment. At a public meeting recently it was declared that the late Government bought paper from factories on the continent, and in the Trades Congress it was charged ti.at pencils used in the postal and other branches of the civil service came lrom Bavaria. Miss Hick, representing the London tailoresses," said that in the East End Government tailoring work was given out io a machinist who paid girls from 2d to 4d (4 cents to 8 cents) for making a'-coat. By Mr. Asucrott, ot Nottingham, it wasallezed that the militarv pads made for the War Office were 'allotted to sub-contractors in Nottingham and Leicester, and that the men making them were paid 5 to 10 per cent less than trade union rates. The fact that in London the Government pays less than the standard wage to men engaged at its great arsenals and dockyards is adverted to almost daily by the London papers. The Cost of IJvIn In England, To estimate correctly 'what ground there is fcr complaints made by the workingmen of this country in regard to the wages they receive, it is not enough to look merely at the wage scale itself, but one must also glance at the prevailing price of the neces raries ot life. The poorest must have cloth ing, and we cheerfully admit that in this department the British workman can lav out the little money he gets to good advant age. Both in ladies' and in men's attire, prices especially when one wants some thing nice and "good range considerably lower, as a rule, than in the United States; though even here the difference is not nearly great enough to atone for the lower average of wages. To make the latter con dition possible, clothing would have to cost fully one-half less than in America, which, for such goods ami making as working men put up with, it certainly does not at present. In regard to rents, the constant complaint we hear in London is that they are high, and this complaint we are compelled to in dorse. Such rents a3 workmen have to pay would not be high if wages here were what thev are in the United States, or if the workman's income were anything approach ing what it is on our side. But they are surely hieh when expenditures are compared with receipts. Bents Are Up Very High. Mr. Cooke, editor of the Post, says that the ordinary run of postal employes, whose wages will average less than $10 a week, will be paying in London from 52 to $2 50 a week tor three rooms. Mr. H. B. Taylor, of the London Trades Council, says that bricklayers, whose income for full time does not exceed ?9 75 a week, will have to pay from fl 75 to 52 lor three rooms. Mr. E. A. Atkins, Secretary of the United Committee of Carpenters and Joiners, pats it at the same figures for three rooms. From .the Shop Assistants' Union wo get similar fisures. Mr. Quelch, ot tne uocters Union, declares that houses of four rooms and a kitchen in the east and south east of London bring about ?2 75 a week. In the southwestern part of the city, four miles from Charing Cross, we knowa work man's street with abont 60 hbnses in it, all built on the same pattern, with four rooms only, the rent averaging f2a week, and all beirie ocenpied by men whose wages as laborers, mechanics or clerks, will range, when full time is put in, from $7 50 a week to $10. In provincial towns, rents, of course, are lower; but so also are waces lower in these smaller places. Take Shef field, for instance, where cutlers, many of them, arc earning less than 57 for a full week, and carpenters $7 92 against 59 or more in London, and, what advantage have such people at the week's end, even though thev pay bat SI 25 or $1 50 for houses which would cost here S2 or 52 75? What Workmen Fay for Meat. All kinds of rood meat, not exeestinc the beet has ( moa, man t tha retail buyer in England than In the great middle and middle-west of the United States. 7or our own table we pay 30 centi for beeS steak, and from 20 to 25 cents for Joints of cither beef or mutton. Of course, the work ingmen can tret an inferior duality for 14 or 16 cents a pound, but numerous representa tives of this class have assured me that they never go below 18 cents in buying, because, beneath that, they have no assurance of quality, and for themselves, as they say, "they prefer a little thatia good to mora that might not be good." Flour is quoted to-day in retail ftorei at 21s 6d per half sack of 140 lbs. An Ameri can barrel has in it 19G lbs, and that quan tity at the rate quoted would cost $7 50. This is for what is called Best Whitea, For the best American flour the quotation is 89a per sack to the consumer, the sack having in it 280 lbs. Given the American barrel of 196 lbs the price would be 56 80. Now. with American flour at 56 80 per barrel and English flour at 57 50 a barrel, and that just after harvest, where is the advantage of the Englishman over the American as regards the staple ingredient of what ia called the staff of life? Baying Bread by the ItoaX. Bread costs in London to-day 13 andlJ cents a quarter loaf, whioh loaf Is sup posed to contain a quarter of a gallon of flour. In the provinces the same sized loaf will sell usually at 10 cents, but never less, or hardly ever, and we have been particular to give the price of bread as well as flour because the English people incline mors than we do to patronize the trim, dean looking bakeries which abound in their midst. Within a stone's cast of where I am writing are branch offices of a half dozen of London's leading coal merchants. I have watched their quotations for weeks. The lowest I have ever seen has been for cob bles, or kitchen coal, at 54 25 a ton, and the scales have invariably ranged from 54 23 or 54 50 for the poorest up to 56 25 for the best qualitr. All this is for soft coal, and for those who have to buy it by the hundred weight the price wonld be higher rather than lower. In the south of England these same coals sell at a still steeper rate, Dut in the north and nearer to the collieries the rate is, of course, somewhat lower. Sugar ranges uniformly from 3 cents to 5 cents a pound. For coffee we pay only a little less than in America, but tea la cheaper. The best is quoted at 70 cents a pound, which is about what Americans par forthe best, but you can get a fairly good article here tor half that price. Good but ter we find to cost In London about what it does in American cities, from 29 to 34 cents a pound. Wages of Carpenters and Joiner. Having now cited the principal items of weekly expenditure In every well regulated family, and having shown that in reference to several of these the advantage rests with America as against England, I leave the reader to his own opinion npon this subject. Perhaps he will be assisted to just conclu sions by the following table illustrating the difference in the wage scales or the two countries. It is made up of figures afforded in the last annual report of the United Trades Committee of Carpenters and Join ers. This society has branches In tha United States, and its American figures are obtained by correspondence with these. Tha shilling is counted at 24 cents, and the table shows the wages per week ot carpenters and Joiners in ten large cities of Great Britain and the United States: ENGLAND. UJOTZD STATES. Hours. Waxen. New Torlc.13 ilOO Chioatra....M 11C0 Brooklyn ...63 1950 Boston 53 15 90 Philadelphia: 18.20 St. Louis.. ..13 17.50 Pittsburg...! 16 i7 Cleveland.-! 1350 Buffalo M 13.50 BauFra'clsoolS 21.00 Hoars, wages. London . .51 Liverpool.. 55 Birm'ham.,64 880 9.10 8.67 800 7.M 7 63 8.10 7.42H Glasgow.. ..M Leeds 50 Sheffleld..19i E linlrargh.Bl Belfast. ....51 Bradford.. .9 Dublin-. ..At a io HESET TrjCXLZT. FATE 7A.CZ3 IN THK HOOK. Two Tonns; Women Bald to Have Takam the Place of ttas Old Man. Chleaeo Tribune. The man in the moon la e. longer in ft, His reign is over. It goes without saying" that any trouble that he may have had waa directly or indirectly traceable to a woman. Oi course. In this case there are two, and both are pretty. Judging from the expres sions on their pale faces they are well satisfied, and are not worrying them selves about the poor old fellow whose place they fill so well The Two Faces. Last evening when the moon was at the full two young ladies took a peep at it through the glass "just for fun." One looked a moment, rubbed her eyea and looked azain. "Why. how curious!" she exolalmed. There are two lovely laces in the moon to night." "Nonsense," said her companion. Bat she insisted she saw them and after de scribing their location handed the glass to her friend. She saw them at once and waa enthusiastic over their beauty. The follow ing night a dozen glasses were brought to bear by neighbors who bad been told of the discovery and the whole village was soon singing the praises of the celestial beauties. The news was brought into the city by one of the suburbanites, and the entire neighborhood on the North Side sat np late to see the beauties. An artist was inter ested in the matter and did a little looking on his own account. The sketch he made will enable anyone with an ordinary opera glass to see the faces. One is partly hidden by the other, but both are very sweet. "The profe:or," who is supposed to be on speaking terms with all the celestial eel ebrities, was asked what be thought abont the discovery. H said he believed that the discovery was first made a good many year ago, bnt that it attracted no attention in tha scientific world. But then the professor baa no sentiment in his soul, and doesn't Ilka women. Latest Importation In French MHIiiMrT Inclndlng the most select styles from the leading houses "In Paris and New York, aa well as the prodnction of my own French, designs. Mourning millinery a specialty Mllb. E. Dretzk, Ui Venn avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. i :gn'rKAjrjBAjBOZ I. HmFT ff Complying with general re- quest, RPCr.H A M'C D1I I Q will in future for the United oiaies De coverea wiin A Tasteless and Soluble Coatincr. completely disguising the!! taste of the Pill without in any ! ! way impairing its efficacy.;; met m r unit a aix. 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