been fatal! Just what happened was never known. Whether the rolling casks hammered the planking loose, or whether the little schooner was swamped by a wave, her bows were thrown suddenly under, and she sank like lead, carrying down with her, it is supposed, a number of the passengers who were lying in the hold. But some thirty people were thrown suddenly into the ocean; the sea was running high before the northwest tradewind, with long, ocean billows and surging whitecaps. Thompson, a white man, was writing in the little cabin when the schooner foundered. He had just time to escape from being carried down with the vessel. An account of the time from which I quote, says, "he was hanging from part of the stern still above the water, while Mauae, the native convert, in the water, called the natives around him and implored help from on high. Having asked help from God, they then looked about to see what they could do to help themselves."

Is there not something impressive in this picture of a company of Polynesian converts holding consultation in the open, stormy sea, and praying for guidance, as they clung to frag. ments of the wreck, with the sharks doubtless not far away in the water beneath them; for these creatures are common in the Hawaiian waters?

Kahoolawe; but on Monday morning he died, and, she swimming upon an oar, landed in the forenoon on that island A young man and his little brother seized the cover of the hatchway as a float. The boy perished toward night, but the youth reached land at seven or eight on Monday. Still another Hawaiian, a youth who had been weakly, started out with no other help than his skill in swimming, and got ashore before morning. These persons were favored by the tide; but their survival over night in a heavy sea was remarkable enough.

The greater exploit remains to be told. "Mauae and his wife Kaluawahine took a covered bucket for a mouo, or float, and, tying some of their garments around them, they swam for Kahoolawe. They had three young men with them, who disappeared one after another, either by drowning or by going in different directions. Some were in sight on the Sabbath, but during the night all disappeared and left them to pursue their way alone. Monday morning Kaluawahine's bucket came to pieces, and she swam without anything till afternoon, when Mauae became too weak to proceed. They stopped. She lomi lomid (rubbed) him until he was able to swim again They now went on until they had Kahoolawe in full view. But Mauae became more feeble than before; so she took his bucket; he held to the hair of her head, and she dragged him onward. But soon his hand slipped. and she tried in vain to rouse him even to such an effort. She told him he must pray. He began, but could utter only a sentence or two. She put his arms around her neck, held them with one hand, and made for the shore. When as near the shore as where small vessels anchor at La

haina, and after they had been swimming for twenty-eight or thirty hours, she found he was entirely dead.

Leaving him at last, she reached the shore near night. But she was much exhausted and was on the opposite side from the only settlement. Her eyes were affected; she could not see for a while. She was a stranger there. Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday she looked around in vain for inhabitants, having nothing to eat all the time, and she would have perished but that there had been considerable rain, and she found water standing in some of the brooks. Friday morning she found some water melons growing, and after eating one, was discovered by some fishermen, and was by them conducted to the village, and the next day brought here. The young men were as lively when they reached here as before they were wrecked, the women somewhat exhausted."

Such was the exploit of this devoted wife. Can we find anything in the annals of heroism more touching than the devotion of this poor woman through those long hours of varying struggle in the ocean? There is something peculiarly pathetic in the way by which, with each new disposition of the beloved burden, she took still greater risk and danger to herself. This brave woman lived a good

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many years after her wonderful escape, and it made her noted even in a nation of swimmers. I remember seeing her pointed out in the streets of Honolulu when I was a boy. It was, indeed, a wonder of skill and endurance that she bearing the burden that she did, should have been one of the five out of thirty that were saved. To swim from twenty to thirty hours in the rough sea, even in the comparatively warm waters of the Hawaiian islands, and in constant fear of sharks, means a strength and skill that could hardly be found outside of Polynesia. But far beyond her endurance and courage, what love, what heroism, were here! Mauae's wife, towing her husband by her long. black hair; then, when his hands lost their strength to hold, stopping in midocean to lomi lomi his chilly limbs, restoring their strength a little, clasping his faint arms for the last time about her neck, and straining shoreward with one hand until he died-this is a figure to rank with that of the most devoted souls. Faithfulness like this is something more than a mere instinct of the savage. It ennobles its possessor, though her skin be dark. It renders her worthy of a page in the records of the noble feats of woman. Whence it

came

"He knows, who gave that love sublime! And gave that strength of feeling, great; Above all human estimate."

TITUS MUNSON COAN.

WE 'UNS.

A MOUNTAINEER and his wife had come down out of the mountains of Kentucky to go to some new location in Tennessee. They had a little jag of household goods, and both were dressed poorly. After he had paid

the freight on his goods he lacked a few shillings of having enough to pay their fare. I heard them talking it over as they sat on a baggage truck on the platform.

"We 'uns will hev to go back, I reckon," said the man.

"And the Lord has dun sent us five."

"Then we 'uns is no longer in a fix?"

"Yere it is, and our troubles are over. Tillie, we 'uns orter hev come down yere twenty years ago. Up thar when we 'uns axed the Lord for a dollar we 'uns sometimes got two bits out of it. Down yere when we 'uns ax fur the same He piles it on ten times over, and doan' even want to know whar we cum from or which church we belong to!"

DEATH AND RESURRECTION.

A WORKMAN of Faraday, the celebrated chemist, one day by accident knocked a beautiful silver cup into a jar of strong acid. In a little while it

disappeared, being dissolved in the acid as sugar is in water, and so seemed utterly lost, and the question came up, could it ever be found again? One said it could, but another replied that being dissolved and held in solution by the acid, there was no possibility of recovering it. But the great chemist, standing by, put some chemical mixture into the jar, and in a little while every particle of silver was precipitated to the bottom, and he took it out, now a shapeless mass, and sent it to the silversmith, and the cup was restored to the same size and shape as before. If Faraday could so easily precipitate that silver and restore its scattered and invisible particles into the cup, how easily can God restore our sleeping and scattered dust and change our decayed bodies into the likeness of the glorious body of Christ!

J. M. ANSPACH.

FOREBODINGS.

When Woman's Rights have come to stay.
Oh, who will rock the cradle?
When wives are at the polls all day,

Oh, who will rock the cradle?
When Doctor Mama's making pills,
When Merchant Mamma's selling bills,
Of course, 'twill cure all woman's ills,
But who will rock the cradle?

When mamma to the court has hied,
Oh, who will rock the cradle?
She has a case that must be tried,

But who will rock the cradle?
When Captain Mamma walks her decks,
When Banker Mamma's cashing checks,
When all our girls have lost their sex,
Must PAPA rock the cradle?

DON'T flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates On the contrary, the nearer you come into a relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.-Holmes.

FEBRUARY 25, Woman suffrage is discussed at the Women's Triennial Council in Washington. General da Fonseca has been elected President of the United States of Brazil.

FEBRUARY 26, high water in the Colorado River threatens to destroy the town of Yuma, Arizona. The Woman's National Suffrage Two Association meets in Washington. hundred women and children perished at Iquique in the ruins of buildings wrecked by the insurgents, who also pillaged all the prin cipal houses. General da Fonseca takes the oath of office as the President of the United States of Brazil.

FEBRUARY 27, nearly every building in Yuma, Ariz, has been destroyed by flood. M. du Boisgobey, the French novelist, is dead.

FEBRUARY 28, the passport regulations affecting Alsace-Lorraine are to be strictly enforced against the French; great exitement is caused by this intelligence in Paris The political situation in the Hawaiian Islands is critical. A rebellion against Portuguese rule has broken out on the island of Bissao, off the west coast of Africa.

MARCH 1, enormous loss to property has been caused by the floods in Arizona, and it is feared that hundreds of lives have been lost as well.

MARCH 2, reports of great loss of lives in Arizona from floods are discredited. The state of siege has been resumed in Buenos Ayres; business in the Argentine is at a standstill.

MARCH 3, part of the Chilian government troops near Pisagua have shot their officers and joined the insurgents.

MARCH 4. a conspiracy to capture the government has been discovered in Hawaii; there is a deadlock over the appointment of a Cabinet by the new Queen The governor of a province of Madagascar has caused the massacre of 278 persons.

MARCH 6, Baron von Wissman has punished an African tribe, killing 200 men. wounding sixtv, and capturing much property. MARCH 7, the President appoints James H. Beatty to be district judge for Idaho.

MARCH 8, six hundred natives were killed by a French expedition on the Niger. MARCH 9. troops at Pine Ridge agency are hemmed in by show-banks forty feet high.

MARCH 10, Brazilian newspapers have been

received at the Department of State, containing a decree by the President of Brazil declaring the ports of that country free and open to the imports from the United States included in the recent reciprocity treaty.

MARCH II, three hundred pirates and rob bers were recently beheaded in China.

MARCH 12, a number of vessels were lost off the coast of Devon during the blizzard in England; at least seventy persons were drowned.

MARCH 13, the city of Denver, Colo., is without a mayor, the election of Wolfe Londoner having been declared illegal. Only four members of the crew of the steamship Mirama, wrecked off the Devon coast on Monday, were saved.

MARCH 14, eleven Sicilians, accused of the murder of Chief Hennesy, are lynched in the parish prison of New Orleans. P. T. Barnum has closed a contract with architects at Bridgeport, Conn., for the erection of a building to cost $125,000, as a gift from him to the Historical and Scientific Societies of that city.

MARCH 15, Baron Fava, the Italian Minister at Washington, called upon Secretary Blaine to-day and protested against the killing of his countrymen in New Orleans, and demanded protection for the other Italians in that city; after consultation with the President, Secretary Blaine sent to Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, a dispatch, calling attention to our treaty agreements with Italy, expressing the hope that the governor will co operate with the President in maintaining our obligations towards Italian subjects who may be in peril, that further bloodshed may be prevented and The Italian offenders brought to justice. Government has instructed the Italian Minister at Washington to protest vigorously against the action of the New Orleans mob.

In a

MARCH 16, the Rev. Howard MacQueary, of Canton, Ohio, is found guilty of heresy bloody battle in Chili on March 6th the Government troops were defeated; the losses on both sides were heavy. Much indignation is felt in Rome over the New Orleans tragedy; Premier di Rudini announces in the Chamber of Deputies the receipt of President Harrison's regrets. About one hundred dervishes are killed by the explosion of an arsenal at Omdurman. The British steamer Roxburgh Castle is sunk in collision off the Scilly Islands, and twenty-two men are drowned.

THE father gathers his dollars in cents; his son scatters the cents in dollars.

TEACHER "Freddy, how is the earth divided?" Freddy-"Between them that's got it

and them that wants it "

HIGGINS "I've got a new idea for a book. I'm going to write the autobiography of a horse." Tiggins "You could write the authobiography of a donkey better, I think."

POET (meekly)-"I should like to leave this little poem for your inspection. I suppose a great many poems are left here" Editor (gruffly)-"Yes and so are the fellows who want us to buy them."

"DID any man ever kiss you before, darling?" "Before-to-day? No Edward, you are the first." And the recording angel didn't need to drop a tear to blot out the fib, for he was the first that had kissed her that day.

EMACIATED INVALID (just arrived at the springs)"Is it true that drinking these waters produce fat?" Native (weight 250) -"Produce fat? Why, stranger, when I came here I only weighed eight pounds, and look at me now!"

THE late Dr. Bethune asked a morose and miserly man how he was getting along. The man replied, "What business is that of yours?" Said the doctor, "Oh, sir, I am one of those who take an interest even in the meanest of God's creatures."

ANXIOUS YOUTH "Here's a letter I want forwarded right off. It contains a proposal of marriage to my dear lady." Postmaster"Very sorry, but we cannot permit it in the mails. Marriage is a lottery and we forward no letters pertaining to that business."

"IN THE spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." O, it does, eh? In the spring a young man's fancy doesn't do anything of the sort. It turns to thoughts of how he's going to get in about five thousand hours of four-hundred-dollars-a-week fun into fourteen days of ten-dollar summer vacation.

MRS. O'ROURKE "I wish yez would give me an order for some medicine, your riverence, for little Jimmy here. He's been ailing for two wakes." Father Reilly-"I think a little soap and water would do him as much good as anything." Mrs. O'Rourke-"Would yez give it to him before or afther his males, your riverence?"

SHE "Riches take wings." He-Yes, and the wings you wear in your hat take riches."

GREEN-Gibson is fond of ventilating his opinions, isn't he?" White-"Yes; and the Lord knows most of 'em need it!"

"WHAT did they do with Joseph's coat of many colors?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "Cut it down and made it over for Benjamin," hazarded a pensive little boy at the end of the seat.

PROFESSOR "Admiration is a form of love. Now, Mr. R., you may name the highest degree of admiration." Mr. R." I am not certain, professor, but I think it must be speechless admiration."

GADSBY-"Those three dude sons of Van Nostrand cost him about $5.000 a year." Miss Caustique "Then he has been putting a good deal of money into real estate." "How's that?" "He is spending $5,000 a year on a vacant lot."

DR. JOHNSON was once seated in the midst of a large dinner party. He inadvertently placed in his mouth a hot potato, but, suddenly ejecting it, he turned to the hostess with this remark: "Madam, a fool would have burned himself."

"My object in calling this evening." he be gan, with a nervous trembling of his chin, "was to ask you, Katie-I may call you Katie,

may I not?" "Certainly, Mr. Longpipe,' said the sweet, young girl; “all of papa's elderly friends call me Katie." And he said nothing further about his object in calling.

"GENTLEMEN of the jury," said a Tuscarora lawyer, "what kind of swearing has been done in this case? Here we have a physician, a man who, from his high and noble calling, should be regarded as one who would scorn to stain his soul with perjury, or be guilty of giving utterance to an untruth. But what did he testify, gentlemen? I put the question to him plainly, as you all heard: 'Where was this man stabbed?' And what was his reply? Unblushingly, his features as cool and placid as though cut from marble, he replied that the man was stabbed about an inch and a half to the left of the medical line, and about an inch above the umbilicus, and yet we have proved by three unimpeachable witnesses that he was stabbed just below the Young American hoisting works."