SEWARD W.: BOPKIMI.

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sssassaa CHAPTER IV.

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“WonM I keow him Again?” I -r*elied rather warmly. "Why. hie ugly (ace hasn’t been out o( my eight ainee I saw it. Would I know him? Well fast let me get my fingers on his aosursed throat. His own (i|ther would

oot know him then!” '

Mr. Snell's litUe eyes opened at my warmth. He was about to reply, when

Ralston returned, fully changed the st On January 9th ’ tance a long, shadi

'reply,s Snell i

b we saw in the dis-

tance a long, shadowy fringe on the horizon. It looked like land. I asked the captain if it was such. He re-

plied:

"Tea, that is land. It is the Island of Formosa. We are now enter-

ing the China Sea."

The China-Sea interested me onlj as the stretch of water that then sepa ated ns from Hong Kong. As we be gan to drew so near to the end of ouj journey, I felt a feverish anxiety to hasten through with our'affair.. _ It had become my habit of late te meditate on deck at night. Sometimes Langston and f Ralston went. Sometimes only one or_ the etbei would be with me. Sometimes I went

alone.

On the night of the day we passed Formosa, I went on deck as usual. Ralston was reading, and Langston was busily engaged in conversation with an Indian army offioer. They said they would be np later. 1 did not object to being alone. My thoughts kept me company. I liked to stand by the rail and mnse over the possibilities of what was before ns. I knew they were wide and various. Knowing that my two friends were coming to join me, I did not turn when I heard a footstep behind me. "Fine evening, thees,” said the voice of Mr. Qambok Snell. "Ars u enjoying that moonlight, Me ester

-thing that promised hope of i but I saw nothing. I thought sharks, but, as none were in sight

yon

Creekmore?" ! am enjoying the pro«pecta ol ing much more," I replied. "Vary good. But have yon notis, wr light

itastropne at once, 1 wae so qntcKiy irried out of their reach that they onld give me np. I wondered how angston and Ralston wonld learn ol ly loss, and if they wonld suspect Qambok Snell. I did not think the

the rock like a .mollnsk. I was saving my own life. A man performs wonderful feats of strength nnder those cirIf?stood on a flat table-rock. 1

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ty so when that | he gias< of a lingering illcged

The Island of Formi

- ' ' ' froi

tosa could not bt

seen. I judged from the direction ie which I lay from the ship, that For tnoaa was on the other side of her. 1 Bid not know north from south, but J knew that wnan wa had passed For moss we had been eouth of it. This led me to believe that I had been carried aouth by the current. Later erenU proved this, although I greatly mis calculated the distance, and was prob ably mistaken in anpposing the smok«

I saw .to be from the 1" ’

1 fully recovere mned the borii

mised

ship I had left 1 s time on my back,

my in, f<

shelter,

hoped to escape those dreaded men etersof the deep. 84 far as swim mlng any distance was concerned, ! had no fear. I could without diffi

culty rei— : ~

whither

a resting-place, but no more. Not s I Oyer the State. sign of sustaining food. I could not 1 .

eat rook, and I aaw nothing else. I j A c | mc f or a fivc-dollsr bill made saw in my future nothing but a linger- tiling, lively in Woodbcrry Benjamin ing death from starvation. Had I any Carpenter was in the act ol paying Ex kind of a contrivance with which I pressman Locke sonic money when a could flab I would gladly have do livc-dollar bill fell from a roll unnoticed roured some of the finny Inhabitants by Mr. Carpenter until his grandson

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I bad nothing. j pcre( j up and down the street until I began to despair. 1 there were a hundred chasers, but none It is not a pleasant thing to loos , mana g e( i to ca tch the arfimal until andnath in the face at any time. It it 1 .,jh er canine came along, when the first mply horrible to aee it ataring you ; log stopped and was grabbed by the

at of countenance when you are in | owner of the money.

' rear fxcitcment prevailed among

' is strikers at Minotola over the

made to bu^ down ds, a wooden structure stone’s throw from the ompany's works. The

fozen or more strikers slicpin;

iuilding were awakened

ing

at rei doing elven

loroughtly 1. He has

eatly

onable prices. Me has been business in Cape May fot n years. Rips in uppers sewe^

oy machine with *>lk to match. Lost or broken f velets or hooks replaced.

ont of countenance .

full possession of health, strength and |

: »—ilties, and especially

' shooting pains of kind through tha

body,

>st violi a fright

id throng! mtal exc‘ tuelf, tbes this I thoi

came Bind

rock hud destroy my*

suffering was too great to bear. Bui I was calm, wonderfully calm, as it seems to me now as I look back

1 the awful situi

mental excitement and even rasdnesf itself, then exhaustion and death. All

it of,

ra J

tha

>n and death. All

:>ught of, and resolved, if it came io the worst, that before lipd gave way I ♦ould leap, from Thud destroy myseir oeiure tn*

heir headkjuai

•ocatcd about a si fonas -Glass C01

light by a loud explosion, and instantly he building was in flames. , After hard . work the strikers extinguished the fire I ictore much damage was done. It i? j iclicved that the firebugs used gaso-

ine.

irber. Councilman-dcet of d. Camden, ikho has been

itner. : the

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Stephen Thurb lie First Ward,

im blood p

amiled, with s grim sort of ghaatly sp | Kfter ffi he llad subscribed his name predation of my predicament. | yj ayor handed him a letter from an ex"If I can't eat," I said to myself >crt penman in Philadelphia. The aloud, my voice echoing from the high , vriter requested the Mayor 10 get him rock behind me, “I can at least rest— 1 he job of engrossing suitable resoluand I will." ' | i n ns »« the event ol the Councilman's I stretched myself on the fist rock, ' leath. Mr. Thurber smiled as he read with no covering but my wet clothes ] > a» d s *' d: ..." T . ha ! fe,,ow lu *.. a n ' nc

and the brilliant stars above ipe. I was exhausted. I fell asleep. When I woke the sue was high

dried and I was covered with a coating ^Tobd^* The arrest* of salt. My arms and legs were stiff, hc „f W. S. 1 and I ached in every inch of my body, ipector of the State Boat

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Three milk dealers near Woodstown lave been arrested charged with having

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on top and propel myacl dried and I was covered with a coating 1 Tilk so | ids The arrest* were made at I wanted to go. Bnt my grea' of salt. My arms and legs were atiff hf i n , tancc „f W. S. Townsend, indanger was exhanstion from hunger ; and I ached in every inch of my body. ; ipector of the State Board of Health. I did not know how long I wonld b. The rough stone had not been a com-I. T | lc Hudson Navigation Company, elled to sustain myself in-<hi ! fortable bed, but the long sleep had ’ :a pj la i $4,000,000. was incorporated at made me its vio refreshed me—mentally, at least. T Trenton to operate a steamship line

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water, and if hunger mi tint I knew I was lost.

The thing to do, then, was to mak« the best speed whiTe I could. I started off with a long, easy stroke. The water of the China Sea is veri salt and gives great buoyancy to 1 floating body. My only work waa tr

propel myself.

Without stopping I swam forward lot about an hour. I was a rapid swimmer, but the distance covered was bnt s dot in the vast expanse of water. Then I rested a moment and raising mj head as high as I could I took another survey of the horixon. To my joy, I saw far away—in th<

1 which I had 1

got up and in my join!

great joy direction

goingoould

vegetation

this

was, it afforded hope; and 'ed courage I swept tl

my vigorous Strok ... - Th,

newed courage again with my _

started toward the speck, may have been two mile may have bean five. T “-

‘ ed in -

most annihilated in the oil light of this refrion. All th of the distance is that I sw four hours before I got nes to tell what it really was.

I saw the barest rook, rearing its bald head )tigh above the water. Rook —nothing but rock. But even that was something, and I gathered myself a[ for a final effort. Carling myself np fii in a knot I succeeded in getting off ; l e

my aboes. Then

.me.

1. Then my coat I flung from rould have liked to save

retard my

distance

I had a long

swim. I was fighting for life.

n the China Sea when dance in its leetle wave#?” I had not noticed. I leased over th« rail, and there surely was a peculiarity in the emerald sheen that was reflected from the water. I bent low, admiring the pretty effect. In an instant I was seized from behind in an iron grip. I turned quickly, but was at a disadvantage. Before I could cry out, Ireeeived a stunning blow on the head. Only half conscious, I felt myself lifted and shoved over the rails. A hatefuV voire sounded in my ears: "Now you can’t identify anybody, can you, Criekmore?” The wind whistled past my face; I fell. I ffllt the waters close over n I had been thrown overboard by Qa

bok Snell.

I was powerless to utter a sound aa

I went down. I struck the water head first as clean as though I had

taken a dive for sport. ( The momentum ol the ship and the um6 . 1 W t - height from which I had fallen sent j 00> t. but me deep into the' see. Down—down ! progress, I went, until in a half-conscious way j y e t to swi

indered if I was ever going to k, the coat went with the shoes.

I do not know how far down I - 1 did not aeek to inert

r how long it took me to get

there—probably not many seconds— •then I felt a rush of cold water. Tha

coldness of the water restored my _ sense#, but I was absolutely power- great joy of being near enqugh to less. The rush of the water was (be greenish-white foam from tremendous. It whirled me and j waters that broke upon its base,

turned me upside down, rolled me over and over and swept me away like a piece of paper. It flashed over ms

ta in one of those swift sub-

1 common in the of these inde-

nts an

a greater rate of sp<

minute. The one that had me in grasp was not the slowest of its kind. What has ever since seemed to me a most remarkable thing, but which did not seem at all strange then, was the fact that I did not lose my presence of mind. I could do nothing, it is true. I was helpless in the grasp c.1 the waters. But I so folly realized, ’.his that I held my breath and let the great force sweep me along unresist-

ing.

Since boyhood I had been a'good swimmer. Honrs and hours I had spent in the water, floating, diving, 1 halfi ■wimming under water, and I had, in that

:nton to operate a steal

_ the Hudson river. The incorpora , tors are Theodore L. Hermann, ol New

I was very hungry. I Y’ ork : Wro. C. Taylor, of Brooklyn. This was the beginning of my slow 1 Charles N. King, of Jersey City, death. I realized this, and the bitter- j Irwin, the jo-year-old son of WO Ham nets of despair was upon me. I even Bo.ce of Pleassntr.lle. while teasing rrrF'Er” 8 mi “ u u ‘' i—s"'” “ SI had road of Robinson Crnsos. Hit j ^juries“ma^resJtUTaUdly! ^ ^ do man Friday to keep me company;, j^. division while on his way home, j no goats to give me refreshing milk;: 7 wo r ;i, s , vcre broken, and his shoulno grain to sow and reap in the future; dcr fractured. Hc was taken to Cooper ground to sow it iti if I did. Here ! Hospital. Camden, -His condition i c !

■ none of the good fortunes of the 1

r“,

lone of the good fortL

s Swiss family Robinson, who j Lybrind Sills, proprietor of the ;»st away on a supposed desert ^ Grand’ Avenue Hotel, and one o£ the

na trees or evidences ol island, and found ready for their ! pioneers of Asbury Park, it dead. Mr. ,».a Out tin.™, mmr ..d, o« ; br. to nrr, n,. I wonld find no ! J_n,n Sfd

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wept the water 1 intents and purposes

itrokes and Jfothing known of ie island Bnt even a dy

ven a dying man abandons

Ips away or it hope grudgingly. I determined before Distance is al- the end came to thoroughly inspect clear moon- the rock, hoping I knew not what— that I know possibly to find some food swept there about (rom a passing ship; possibly to find

the

the rock,

possibly _

xmt [rom a passing ship; possi

ugh something left by a wayfarer uxe my

self; possibly to penetrate and solve the mystery of the preMnoe of the

iron rings.

I picked my way from the flat rock xm which I stood, over a ledge of nestone leading aroand the little in-

ted hew

ling aroi

let of water. The ledge seemt by hand, bnt not of recei

1 above

e liked to save tho was above high'

it wonld retard my | Uon of the tide had done it.

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A tunnt ronstructc

Cooper Hospital ariy completed 1

ixty feet

om the main .

Camden, irscs" dor

The International Bleachini fining Company, capital $1.00

being

entrance oi

to the

litory.

and Rc-

.300 filed the County

articles of incorporation Clerk's office at Camdcf

Joseph Dere, aged 5 years, of Cam- | den. had his upper lip split and several | teeth knocked out. A man threw a brick at a dog that was trying to bite

him, but hit the boy instead.

No soAnd it

, boy ii

Judge Garison fixed January 19 (or I the trial of Nathan Humphreys, col- \ ared. charged with the murder of John 1 Campbell, at Woodbury, after a quarrel )

over'a game of crap.

Benjamin F. Archer was elected -esident of the Camden National !

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stop,

went <

ease mystrol

wished, rather, to husband 1

ength. - J

k prori

imagined. But,

,to husband my in t

strength. It waa well I did so. The joy!rock proved to be farther away than I : " imagined. Bat, at laat, I had the I

water! that broke upon its base. I bad met with $0 greater danger than the water itself. I had no doubt

50.

rock, doi

tde hie

nd<

( interior of the pit was securely s

the j the'waves, sheltered by the high *ur-

J; — v * ~ v. wa ]|

Dine

Down into this _

the i my heart bounded with hope, see I interior of the pit was securely shove

pit they led, and . onn , y coum . The i with hope. The lv jn respond later in tl

had no doubt that swarmed with

ie he

-hanging

Now I began to

11 v •ine

south seas. Borne o; tueee tnae- tne, for I saw not one. pendent currents are said to travel at. ( 1 reached the rock,

a greater rate of speed than a mile a j My heart sank within me, for ita

sides were aa smooth and s

penMcular as the si There was no handhi The frowning stone 1 me, cold, inhospitable, p started to swim around it.

The rock

if redneed to figures, about four acres, but it waa like a Wimming around 1

rounding rock, kept ont the rain,

think of Monte Oristo. What found there vast treasures in gold or

man-eating monsters, but the help of | silver or precious stones? Well, what a Higher Power must hare been with I if 1 did? I asked myself again. I te, for I aaw not one. | would simply die in the midst of it all

high ab pitHeas.

The rock covered, I should judge, reduced to figures, about four acres,

t it waa like awjmining aror ilinent to me, so hopeless lome. There was no other li

sight My hope of life hung ou thii

rock.

At last, having

innd^ I

s had ?] land it I

my library in San Francisco, several medals that I had. token in college aquatic contests, '.'his training now

stood me in good stoad.

[way room

that surprise 1

formed by t opening led

swum more that found an openinf A gateway waf

Thii

me. A jutting

into an tnciosnre—r it inland sea, not mor< ctent, or perhaps r the water was per

'onjd simply

" lawful or unlairfnl owners 1 there and snocored me. greater danger of them 80 the discovery of what e to be the hiding-place of and feared pirates of the

Booth Seas was not going to help me. Qingelrly I went down the stone steps. There were at least one hi

dred of them, and I knew, reached the bottom, that I v

the level of the sea.

CHAPTER V.

A csnsrsi koxtx cbieto.

I was in the bottom ncl-like pit, with a soli

aroand me. I could Si

whe^I

ras below

im of a great, fantolid wall of rock

I could see no opening, not ere hole -large enough to put a fit through. What, then, was the ]

pose of the stairs! bottom step and t

on, waa too purI cat don on the

I had

d be bad

_ _ . the wind. I went through th» ! ^ «“> It was probably just about five min- gateway, which was about twelve feel i ° f where fame fad bees spent in utes before that icy current let go its wide. Inside fate inclosnre I found, he wtug stone stops thstled to nowhere, grasp. Feeling the warmer and calmer on one side, what appeared to be s H might be that the pit waa used for waters around me, I shot upward with rough stepping-place in the rock. rforifK goods by the pirates of the a mighty sfaoke. I.felt, rather than On each side was an iron ring securely coastvsndat tbi* hme happened^ to •aw the light through the rapidly shal- fastened. The glimmer of towing water as I neared the surface. | The eight of anything that betokened i f e * 1 ^ben I discovered th I also felt the decrease in the pres- the presence of a human being in '°f l m 7 hunger came oaca sure. A few more strokes and I that waste was something of a shock. ; panga, breathed again. < But there was hope in those rings lot Wha a miserable fato! ToMiathere I looked arenad me. : me. i »l°ne, 1 '« Tin « E ° « **8 E that The good ship City of Rio de Jane- By a great effort I reached one of «>*«<*• ever reachmy fnende to tMl iro—or what I supposed to be her— the rings and drew myself upward, of “F onhsp^y end! was visible in the far distance, just a It was no light task to scale that rock ** to die eo No one to dark streak and a cloud of smoke even by aid of the ring end the rough- 1 «“* ™ m 7 last momente; no marking her course. It was plain that hewn step. I put forth my entirt I •«ootb pUlow for aty wwry head when no help coaid be expected from her. strength. I stretched, reschel. ot *««wae upon me I Even if they had been aware of my climbed, crawled and glued myself to Nothing but stocs—stone—.tone!

will be sum- | ening of the i

. uining sixty j

ispond later in thc/term By tbi* j method $120 will be saved each term of court. .,—x In a raffle for a turkey. Aquilla Giles. , of Salem, won a ten-pound foyl for i

one ccnL /

A new bell will take the place of Ihc I fire alarm in Clayton, and the old ap j paratus will be moved to North Clay- j

-The large) und Glasi

ightered weighed yH poupdi. Pennsrille is still 1

the huge wood piles t tiful some time ago are dwindlii

rapid rate.

A hen belonging to Mrs. B. M. Carll.

of Lower Alloway, stole her nest and

was found sitting on ninetec

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sitting on nineteen eggs. : time brought off nineteen

While the men (oiks of the Harrison- . Jle Methodist Church chopped down trees and cleaned up the church yard on Friday the women prepared a line dinner, and all declared it was a day

well spent

It begins to look as though the Pcnnsville powder works'would be op-

'orct of men than

tnsvilie powder woi crated by a smaller fo for years this winter,

night men are laid off. _ getting work at Fort Di

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tho merchants, who sit in their

inveterate

rchi

and drink

ay. it

.peelallj

a . re,™ .heir ba .

zaare and drink coffee continually dur j Ipg the day. It has been noticed that j almost invariably when these coffee drinkers reach the age of 40 or 45

is to fall, and by

50 years -old

[oreibly

Mind

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men that are aseu about th* streets of

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