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F TOU board a "wind Jammer" at
Valparaiso, Chile, and tall almost
due west, on the eighth day oat
yon will light an Island that hat
been read about by more people than
hat any other little island to the
world. It It Juan Fernandei, Rob
inson Cnisoe't Isle.
Strangely beautiful la this Island.
Climbing 8,000 feet up from the tea.
Its woody rtdget lie wreathed In fan
tastic lacy patterns of silvery fog. As
one rows ashore, the landscape rolls
down like tome giant theater's drop
curtain, Itt green ferns, forest! and
streams painted by nature's own
band.
Now, where Crusoe bunted, had.
dies a hamlet of Chilean fisher folk,
with the boats and theds of a lobster
catching Industry. Delicate, delicious
lobsters they are, but the men who
catch them will clamber over a whole
boatload to quarrel about ' can of
American salmon 1
Maj-a-T!erra (Landward) Is the
correct name of this Island on which
Alexander Selkirk, reputed hero of
Defoe's romance, was put ashore.
Near by Is Santa Clara, or Goat Is
land, and about 100 miles westward
Ilea Mas-s-Fuera, or Further Out Is
land. These three form the Juan
Fernandei group, named after the
Spaniard who discovered them In
15G3. Now they belong to Chile In
law; but In Imaglnitlon every school
boy on earth claims proprietary In
terest here.
High np the side of Mnt-a-Tlerra
stands tablet which reads:
"In Memory 0
of
Alexander Selkirk
Mariner,
; A native of Largo, In the eoatit)
of Fife, Scotland, who lived on this
. Island In complete solitude for four
years snd tour months. He was
landed from the Cinque Ports gal
ley, 90 tons, 10 guns, A. D. 1704.
and was taken orT In the Duke, pri
vateer, 12th Feb., 1709. He died
Lieutenant of H. U. S. Weymouth
A. D. 1723, aged 47 years. This tub
let la erected near Selkirk's lookout,
by Commodore I'nwell and the offl
cers of H. M. 8. Topaxe, A. D. 1S08
To day on this, Island one hears
mnch talk about lobsters, but little of
Rohlnsoo Crusoe. The easy-going.
Spanish-speaking Inhabitants, shut off
from the world and the scores of books
describing their Island, do not sas
pert bow famous It Is. Nearly all Its
2S7 people make living In the lob
Iter trade.
Hug Lobster Industry. ,
Here Is on of the most extraordl
nary ahelllilh Industries In the world
tn one year 80,000 or more lohsters
are caught, not counting the small
ones thrown back. Time was when
these creatures s wanned the shores
In such armies that the Islanders hail
only to strew bits of meat along the
bench, then walk shout with s stick
and tip the lobsters over on their
backs.
Due to wise conservation method
Of the Chilean government, Island
waters still shound with lobsters; but
now they are caught with hoop nets
set off shore and baited with stale fish.
The fishermen go nut, long before
dawn to tend the traps. Over s char,
coal stove astern they mnke coffee and
broil fish for breakfast, but nobody
ever eats s lobster.
To keep the catch alive, huekets of
ses water ar dashed over the enisl
ing eresturei and a tarpaulin la used
to shad them from the sun. No lob
ster reinnlns long In good health and
spirits nut of salt wnter. So, usually
within 24 hours after cutchlng them,
the Crusoe Island flnhennen try to get
their lobsters to port and Into the
"live cars." These sre scows muile of
fluts. flouting hulf-suhmersod III Cum
herliind bay, In which the lobsters are
held captive.
Twice a month a boat sutls from the
Islund. It carries the scant mail, any
passengers, and a loud of Inhsters,
which ar often two and a half feel
long and weigh as much as from ten
twelve pounds. On the Hand the
price paid the fishermen Is hut noml
unl; yet In the mnrkt at Valparaiso
live Cruxoe Island lulcter may bring
the equivalent of from three to five
dollars. On a cufe tnhle In Duenna
Aires the same lobster, after his trans
Andean trip, sells for more.
The lobster of Juun Fernnmlet
(I'allnustui frontalis (Milne Edwards))
Is minus th large clnws which dis
tinguish (lit lobtter of our North At
"WVfiSW $
Fernanda.
lantic waters (ITomarus amerlcnnns).
It Is a close relative of the American
crawfish known as the spiny lobster
In Florida.
Besides wild goat shooting, fishing
around the Island's rocky shores af
fords all the amatlng luck that an
glers' tales are tpun from. Here are
the big morays, or wolf fish, fierce and
voracious; then the fighting vldriola,
or what we would call amber Jacks,
or yellowtalL which occur all up this
coast Around Juan Fernandei the
latter often weigh 100 pounds or more.
Many kinds of sea bass also abound,
with no end of delicate pan fish the
furel, corblna, weakflsb or croaker, the
pampanlto and palometa, the smelt,
the jergullla. Here, too, the flying flab
Is eaten.
Storehouse of Fiction.
There Is probably more excuse for
fiction about Juan Fernandei than
about any other place Us size on earth.
For 800 years pirates, earthqunkes,
whalers, penal colonies, battle, and po.
lltlcal storms have swept this now
calm and dreamy Island. In the hill
side above Cumberland bay one sees
the tiers of cells, like the Roman cat
acombs, dug to hold prisoners when
Chile nsed the Island as a penal col
ony. Out In the harbor ties the hulk
of the German cruiser Dresden, sunk
during the World war.
Once vast packs of sea Hons haunted
the Island rocks. Anson, English buc
caneer, wrote home that there were
so many of these creatures here that
he couldnt move a ship's boat with
out putting a man In ber bows with
an oar to drive them aside. Traders
slew them for oil, and wild dogs killed
their younj on the beaches; so now
the sea lions seldom frequent these
waters.
, To kill off the wild goats, and thns
cut off the fresh meat supply for the
English and Dutch pirates who plagued
the coast, Spanish rulers of Chile long
ago sent bands of dogs to this Island ;
but the plan failed. The dogs couldn't
catch the goats among the rocks.
There may be burled pirate cheats
on this Island. Quien saber Rut
priceless treasure. Indeed, was left by
Anson and other early explorers. They
planted vegetables snd fruit seeds, and
let loose pigs, rows and horses.
It waa an nnwrltten law, tradition
says, that every ship calling here In
old days, whether merchant, whaler,
or buccaneer, should leave animals or
plants, and thai help stock the Island
for the common good. In consequence
the variety of useful plant life here la
unparalleled la the Pacific. Cows,
pigs and horses are plentiful also.
Boys chase wild horses around the
grassy canyons where Crusoe and Fri
day hunted goats.
In a single gurden, a spot of due
lling beauty, belonging to a French
man shipwrecked here more than thlr.
ty yenrs ago. Is sn astounding group
ing of exotic' and native plants and
trees. Here grew, among other thing,
the hotnntcully famous chonta palm,
of which highly polished walking
sticks are made. The creamy-white
wood feels like satin and la marked
with glistening black lines.
Many Wrecks en Itt Shorts.
Far up th moist Island slopes are
jilunt green ferns, bltarre and out
landish, like the fantastic plant life
pictured to us ae ihadlng the earth
In the time of mud and reptiles. Ex
cept where trails have been cat or
fires have burnt them off, these ferns
tire so big and thick that It It hard to
wnlk among them.
Junn Fernandei has a few good
beoches. hut mostly Its shores are
rocky, rough, or steep, with swift cur
rents whirling past towering volcanic
cliffs. Many s stout ship has piled
up here as can be seen from moss
grown remains of forgotten wrecks.
Long ago Captain Sbetvocke's Speed
well went to pieces on these rocks. At
that time cats, multiplied from a few
left ashore by earlier ships, fulrly
overran the Island. Shipwrecked sail
ors fnim the Speedwell lived for weeks
on cjit meat. Their hunger found
more substantial relief from one men I
of cut meat than from five meals of
scu! or fish, wrote Shelvocke In bis
Journal.
There are no wheeled vehicles on
the Island, and nowhere op Its whole
40 square miles Is s road only paths.
There Is s school and a seldom-attended
church, but there are no places of
amusement. No stores; Just on room
In the lobster factory at Cumberland
bay, open twlc a week, where natives
may buy articles from the mainland
through an agent of the lobiter-ratca-Ing
compuny.
An Adventure
Pimpernel
www
By ifu BARONESS ORCZY
Copyright Baruneu Orciy
WNU Servlc
CHAPTER VIII Continued
13
"Never mind about your mother
now. What happened after tbiitl"
"He said to me, 'You go and get on
the lent of the cart which la up the
road. It Is my cart You can drive
It back to Mantes and leave It and
my horses at the posting Inn, where
they know mo. I'll look after these
horses for you, and when the lighting's
over I'll drive the diligence to Purls.
No one will he any the wiser and I
don't mliKl a hit of a tight. I can do
a btt of fighting myself.' Well,"
Charles-Marie went on dolefully,
"there didn't seem much hurm In that.
1 could see he knew kill about horses
from the way he handled them; but
1'ui no fighting man, and when I was
engaged to drive the diligence from
Molsson to Paris I was not told that
there would be any fighting."
"So you turned your back on the
diligence, like a coward, and crepi
along here"
"1 didn't creep, citizen. 1 followed
you when"
"Pardli" Rnffet broke In with an
oath. "Another of you that will not
eacape punishment If I had my way
the guillotine would be busy lu Mantes
for doya to come."
CHAPTER IX
Discomfiture
There was nothing for It now but
to allow Charles Murle to drive tit
cart back to Mantes, since Its owner
had probably seized an optmrtunlty
by now of taking to his heels. Poor
Raffet was worn out with the excite
ment of the past half-hour, and be
wildered wltb all the mystery (hut
confronted him at every turn. Vague
ly be felt that something stnlster lurked
behind this last Incident recited to him
by Cbarles-Murle, but for the moment
be did not connect It with the possi
ble maneuvers of the English spies.
He thought that chapter of the day's
book of adventure closed. It would
be an extraordinary piece of luck If
In the end they should still come
across the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Chauvelln had not waited to hear
the whole of Charles Marie's tale.
Throughout all the adventures which
bad befallen blm this day, he had seen
the hand of hit enemy, the Scarlet
Pimpernel. Now he no longer had
any doubt Almost at the first words
ottered by ('bar let .Marie he had
Jumped to his feet, all the ttlffnesi
gone out of hit bones; snd despite
the darkness, the mud and the rain,
be turned and ran up the slushy road,
round the bend beyond which he had
beard the fight a quarter of an hour
ago. To laurel he had shouted a
curt. "Come!" and l-ouxct had fol
lowed, olx.lent. understanding, like a
dog, only vaguely scenting danger to
himself, dnnger more serious thnn any
that had threatened blin during this
eventful day.
Chauvellu ran throngh the darkness
with Lauzet at his heel. Inspire the
cold and rawness of (he mlai. he was
In a bath of perspiration ; though his
veins were on lire, his teeth chailered
with the cold. Lauzet. behind him
was panting tike an apoplectic seal
Soon be fell with a gnmo by the rd
side. Hut Cnuuvelln did not give In
Stumbling, half dazed, he went round
the bend of the road; then he ton fell,
exhausted, by the roadside, exhausted
and trembling aa with ague.
The Irene which greeted his aching
eyes had finally unnerved blm. There,
on the crest of (he hill, he saw three
bones tethered to neighboring trees,
and beside the horses, hound to the
ssme trees, three soldiers with their
hats pulled down over their eyes. Of
the diligence there was not a sign.
Chauvelln stared and stared st this
scene. He had not strength enough
to rise, though his every nerve ached
to go np tn one of those pinioned fig
ares by thr trees and In ask what had
happened.
Thus Raffet .found him five or ten
minutes Inter. He came with his ml
dlers and a lantern or two. Chauvelln
co:ild not do more st first than point
with trembling linger straight nut be
fore him. snd Raffet snd the men
swinging their lanterns came on the
spectacle of the three men and the
three horses tied to the forest trees,
the animals, culm as horses are won I
lo be when nature and men are silent
around them; the men Inert and half
conscious
"Question them. Citizen Captain,"
Chauvelln commanded feebly
Th nien'e statements, however,
were somewhut vague. It seems that
after their comrades had gone off.
some with their ruptnin, others with
the prisoners, the three who were left
behind busted themselves at first with
their horses, examining the saddle
firths and so on. when one of them
apled something moving underneath
the diligence.
"It was gating dark by thai time."
Peacock Tail Skirts
One of the most workmanlike of the
American designers believes th eve
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like a peacock tall In the buck, will
continue popular throughout the win
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The deiuuiid of fashion, thai the belt
aow be worn tightly, is lending to the
use of elastic belts for sports wear.
Women who play polo have found the
touifort which exists lu a broad elas
of the Scarlet
th man explained. "However, I culled
to my mules, and w stooped lo ace
what It was. We were much sur
prised, you mny be sura, to see two
pairs of feet In rugged shoes. V
seized hold of them and pulled. Th
feet were attached to two pairs of
legs In tattered stockings and breeches.
Finally there emerged from under
nealh the diligence two ragamuffins
with mud up to their eyes and their
clothing tn rugs.
"They were a sorry looking pair.
We put them down for two poltroons,
not worth powder and shot, and were
Just wondering what we should do
with them when suddenly, without th
slightest warning, they turned on us
like a couple of demons. Not they
only, for a third fellow seemed to
have sprung out of the earth behind
us, and come to their aid. A giant ha
was."
"A giant t" Rnffet exclaimed, for he
had suddenly remembered Citizen
Chnuvellu's warning about the Eng
lish spy who wus lull above the aver
age.
"Ayet A giant, with the strength
of au ox."
No one tald anything more for th
moment There was, Indeed, nothing
to say. Reproaches and vltueratloiis
would come Inter; punishment, too,
perhaps. The soldiers and their cap
tain hung their beads, broodlug and
ashamed.
"Epone la not more than four kilo
meter, citizen," Raffet at last ver
"Ay! A Giant, With the Stitngth of
an Ok."
tured to suggest, "and we liave the
lanterns."
And to the procession itnrtud. trudg
ing down the Incllue In the darkness
and the rain; Chauvelln sn6 Laurel,
Rnffet tnd his corporal with s couple
of troopers rsrrylng the lanterns. Two
hours later they reached Epone, hun
gry, tired, spattered wltb mjd up to
their chins.
At Epone Raffet's courier Inst no
time In recounting at full lesgth the
adventures that had befallen him and
his comrades. Thus the story was
all over the district by the time the
laborers of ElHine had gone tn Iheli
work the following morning, and the
chief of tectlon in the department of
Seine H (Use. Citizen lauzet, be Am
the laughing stock of the countryside,
together with hit wnnderfij friend
from Pnrls. Late that sum day a
horseless diligence, which at first ap
lienrrd deserted and 'derelict, waa
discovered half a dozen kilometers to
the north of the forest of Mer.lerea,
In the mud of the stream tint runs
southward Into the Seine. A group
of laborers going tn their work were
the first lo see It II had been
drugged Into the stream and left axle
deep In the water behind a clump of
tnll reeds. The Inlxirer resided
their find to a patrol of Raffet's
troopers, whom he had sent nut lo
scour the countryside, Tim wheels
had sunk deep Into the mint, and It
was only after a great deal of exer
tion that laborers nnd soldiers to
gether succeeded In dragging th
mnch over the flat bank upon firm
land.
"Truly, fnte tins been against na,"
Lauzet sighed dolefully. "Satan alone
knows where the English spies and
the prisoners are at this hour."
"Well on their way to (England,"
I'liuuvelln remarked. "I know 'em.
With their long purse and their Im
pudence, they'll work their way to the
voat, aided by fools and traitors
Such fools srd traitors," he added nn
dor hi breath, "as helped tl.em las
night In their latest adventure."
(TO Dt5 CONTINUED )
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this Is now being adapted to golf ami
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Tack-In Dresses
On and two-piece frocks are shown
slightly bloused at the wuistlliiH and
trimmed with narrow belts which
sometimes cross the front and add to
the tailored Interest of th model. The
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Kllda. the little group of Islands In
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