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~~,,..4 ._vav47_-f ‘ '1 ~ vhf v” “"."" TERRUR UF LAN STRAITS. Fuegnn Wreckers of Late Becoming More, Daringâ€"I'M 'l‘hclr Trade In the Crudest of Craftsâ€"Throw Flrebrnuds Through l'orlholes. In the track of multiplying com- merce with the Far Eastâ€"their boldâ€" ness growing. with the number of the ships that pass, and holding the doorway from the Atlantic to the Pacificâ€"is a pirate tribe as treach- erous and cruel as the worst of the rovers who sailed the Spanish Main. Worse, indeed, they are than the Maâ€" lay matrauders of Oriental seas. They find their shield in darkness, yet fire is their most potent weapon. Mariners who have shunned the wild waters that meet at Cape Horn and sought a more peaceful passage from ocean to ocean through the Straits of Magellan for more than a. year have been bringing to San Fran; misco- wil-d tales of savage cutthroats and robbers. 'Morc like the yarns of tlhe fonecastle Ith-an narratives .of of truth they have sounded. ‘ Dark brown linen, with matted hair, and argued with" huge spears and knives; lights that flitttyd about in dark coves an don] the face of the Waters like the willâ€"o’â€"the-wisp in) the bog, have been. the visions that vigilant lookouts have reported. Men disappearing from decks who're they had been. set to watch, and with them all that could attract a savage | eye, have been phenomena of peace- ful nights in the still waters under the shadow of the mountains that line the Straits. . - Mixed in 'with‘ these tales, too, have Cthilian .guinboat, armed with modern light, was mysteriously set afire there not morelthan a year ago and all the members of her crew were slain. Some of the bodies found afterward bore evidence to the Work of man in this catastrophe. ' Schooners and ships have disap- peared in late years after leaving Sands Point, in the Straits, and af- ter having (been at anchor further along under the' hills, and partly burned hulks have been reported to indicate how they have met their fate. rowly escaped similar burning brands have. been thrown into port hloles while the creWs were asleep, and when the men have rushed to fight the flames on another part gums and bearing a modern search-l of the ship wild men of the woods. have appeared and attacked them from behind, and, besides loss of proâ€" perty, left death and wounds as, a remembrance. "Dynamite Johnny” O'Brien, pilot of a score of daring filibustering exâ€" peditions in the days when the Cub- ans Were receiving arms from the United States wherewith to continue 5 their fight against Spain, learned to respect the terrors of the Straits a few Weeks ago. He entered the sheltered waters in the steamer Dolphin, on his way to San Francisco. When. he was at Sands Pout, after entering the Straits, he was warned to beware of perils further along, and an accident and delay to his vessel introduced him to them. One dark night when the lookout was vigi- lant, he saw lights glimmer all about the ship, but far away. He could detect nothing in the “'3.â€" ter alongside, but suddenly a burnâ€" lug brand was thrown on the deck, and it was found that another had been thrown into a port hole. Fire started in both places, and while one part of the crew was engaged in fighting the flames the other part had its energies fully employed in beating off a score of invaders who were hurrying to the slide of the ship Ln craft in whose progress could be traced by the lights they bore. The invaders were beaten off, and then modern appliances were used to protect the ship. All the iron railing on it was connected with the dynamos in the engine rooms, and .I. shalt-pl cry the next night told of a discovery by a savage of the cur- rent which protected the vessel un- til it was ready to proceed. â€"’.l‘he schooner Carrier Dove, recent- Vly arrived in Seattle after a journey in which the crew suffered hardships for lack of food, supplements the tale! of pirates. The vessel had an acciâ€" dent to 3361‘ rudder while trying to beat out of the Straits during one of the storms that sometimes swaep down from the Pacific and lash the waters around the Horn. She was compelled to put back and lie in one of the sheltered coves of the Straits until she could be repaired. No less than. three attacks were made upon 'ber during the nights she remained under the mountains and DARING PIRATES OF THE MAGEL- I taboard Even {big steamships have na'r- . fortune, for . B NEWâ€"- t; 5‘ CEYLON GREEN TBA Tuna flavor as Japan, only more delicious. W once the crew were compelled to fight fire andsavages at the same time. It is the Fuegan Indium: who are responsible for these terrors of the only doorway to the East pending the, construction of a Nicaragua canal. In the bleak mountains and valleys of. Terra del Fuch and on the islands that stretch along the west, cut up by scores of channels, they have liv- ed as far back as the memory of the mariner extends. It was not so many years ago that they were still uuacquainted with the white men and that the white men were u‘nacquainted with them. In the olden times mariners would now and then see a canoe hurrying across some channel or catch a glimpse of a moving light on the waâ€" ters at night, or an arrow would come a small craft as a Sign of hostility. But the people weresel-dom seen, except by those who might be ship- wrecked on the islands, and they never lived to tell about their dis- coveries, Scientists went there to study the phenomena of nature and tried to learn'about the denizens of the place. But they found they would best approach one of the tribesâ€" mecn. with a gun ready to shoot and keep a sentinel over their camps : at night, at the same time being ready l 1 t r 'd 'n defence. been. others of more dire import. ‘A la ways to use a gun“ to an 1 They could get no information from the. Indians. Civilization, however, finally came to the bribesmen in one way. Some lot the holder ones found they could 'ventu-re out to the ships that came through and could appeal to the generosity of the white men so ef- . fecltivlely as to get food and trinkets of which they had never known be- ! fore. . With their success others ventured, and now no ship can cast anchor in i the coves west of Sandy Point: with- lout being surrounded in daylight by icanoes filled with dishevelled brown. 'watrriors and their squaws, all cry- : ing out plaintivcly, "Yammer schoon- er I" lit isa plea for bread, or beads, .ou‘ money, or anything else that could i take the eye of untutored man. Woe to the mariner who lets the ‘motley crew send representatives on Eboard his ship, for when the night lcomes he will receive a visiting card lin the shape of a firebrand that will 6 Show him his visitors have used their .‘eyes well and have learned what is 1the most vulnerable part ofhiseraft. And be he ever so generous, he will find plenty of others added to his 2 first visitor ready to clamber up the l side of the vessel and add whatever is loose to the store of articles gained by gift. It is in the c‘rudest of crafts that these pirates of the end of the nine- teenth century ply their trade. Logs burned out in the fashion known to I the lindian, whether he lives in Alaska! Olr holds the last of lalndilon the point Off Cape Horn, bear the Fuegans through the water. craft, but their crew-s can shoot lthem through the water and turn land twist with them as though they lwetre made of lightest bank. In: them loan be bonus five and ten warriors at a time, men clad in this scantiest of clothing, haste to the waist, and showing muscular strength won from the. struggle withnature for generaâ€" tion after generation in the forbid- ding hills of their native land. In these rough b1 rlkS is found perpetual fire. Rough stone pan- nie-rs always contain beds of glow- ing coals, fed from hour to hour, cov- ered at nighit and blown to flame in the morning. “Then the fatherl hands the canoe to the son the fire ' goes with it, and from generation to generation tlhese fires have been kept aliglht, until Terra del Fuego has become known as “The Land of Fire." The flames can be smothered when a, deed is to be done in the dark, and They are ugly I ashes can protect the coals. But when signalling is to be done or secrecy is to ‘be thrust aside, the light flashes out from these canoes until they become veritable firebrandsof the water. No other people would 'live where they do. There are settlements along the coast where chips can get coal and supplies and where whalcrs make their headquarters. But these are only outposts of commerce. None of the inhabitants care to venture inâ€" to the country beyond, and the Fue- gans hold undisputed sway in the val- leys, covered with forest growth, and in the mountains, where hardy brush- and trees vainly try to cover the ledges of rock. ' The winding channel of 'the Straits and sometimes the sea itself furn- ished them place for range for their craft of logs. How many of them there are no white man knows, but when the channel, leaving Sandy Point, ends its southward course and turns to the northwest, they are found and almost to the mountains that guard the entrance to- the Pa- cific their canoe fires can be seen burning. Tales have come of a white leader in this savage foldâ€"one in whose {veins‘fl-otws this blood of the Can.- casian, but who has turned his mind to savagery and led his companions to more cruel work than. they had ever thought of doing. "Black Pedro," Spaniard, once a trader of the coast, but murderer and outlaw, is known from. one end to the other of the Straits. Sometimes he approaches the ships of the white men and remembers his Spanish again, and sometimes his long mat- ted beard has been seen among those who have sought to slay and .steal in the night. He, it is believed, is now leading the new pirates in desperate attacks, and the mariners hope for the time when a gunboat will go down among the savage Fuegans and blow their leader and a few score of them out of the water as a warning to their fellows. “.4...â€" COOKING BY ELECTRICITY. A builder in New York State has just put up a block of flats in which the only arrangements for cooking are s‘upplied by electricity. The kitch- en furniture consists merely of three round platters or so-called stoves,an oven and a broiler, which are mere- ly placed din an ordinary kitchen ta- ble. :VVhen the cooking is finished they can be put in a convenient cup- board. Not only is space saved but the room can be utilized for other purposes, and in summer the servants are not overheated. is Rheumatism ofthc back. I The cause is Uric Acid ‘3‘ in the blood. If the kid- " neys did their work there *3 would be no Uric Acid and no Lumbagc. Make the .f‘ kidneys do their work. The _' sure, positive and only ‘1 cure for Lumbago is "‘ “m .._f,__ MUSICAL FISH. Many fish can produce musical sounds. The triga can produce long- drawn notes, ranging over nearly an octave. Others, notablytwo species of ophidlu’m, have sound-producing appar- atus, consisting of small movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. This curious "drum- ming" made by the species called 'um- brivas can be heard from adepth or“ 20 fathoms. .5'y1/‘":\‘-’-â€"W, , » MHMA~..._M..-......-._...._...;__.__.................._.,,. _ , U, ‘ i--.,...;:“- CEYLON TEA. on... __.__._.__.___... m-__ I A F mghuofillgzldglinlggfigocauu of its excellent quality; In Land Packets 25, 30, 40, 50 and 800.« ‘_ What Will Paint D0? it .' '4 z; neither to thy self, nor It is for) cowards to Lie not, man, nor God. lhu â€"Hcr‘be r‘t . There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is every- body.â€"â€"Talleyran.d. The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life. â€"-TIheodoure Parlker. Unbecouning forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than im- pndecwe.-â€"Greville. Spanking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish in. words is a! niggard indeedâ€"Sir W. Raleigh. Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny, are little thingsâ€"JR. .Smlith. ' Every evil "to which we do not suc- cumb is a benefactor. We gain the strength of the temptation we re-‘ sighâ€"Emerson. The man. ‘who is deserving the. name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for 'himself.WScott. A brave man. knows no malicei but forgets, in peace, the injuries of war, and gives his direct foe a friend’s embraceâ€"Cowper. 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