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SAN JUAN BARRACKS, WHERE THE U. S. TROOPS MAY SOON BE QUARTERED. The view shows that interior or yard of the Spanish barracks in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The quarters have lately been remodelled and brought up to date in a Spanish way, and are probably comfortable. _ When the U. S. expedition lands in San Juan, and if the Spanish troops do not burn their barracks in evacuating, it is probable that the United States soldiers will have quarters within these walls. or by the ear. My situation appeared doubly horrible, when I reflected that I bad just been within call of human creatures, who might bave saved and assisted all on board, had not an evil destiny_nrried us along, and made us the m: 8Â¥ of injuring those who alone were capable of affording us relief. About midnight our foreâ€"topmast gave away, and fell upon deck wilth a tremâ€"nlous noi e. ‘The ship immediateâ€" 1y swung round, and began to labour in & terrible manner, while several waves broke over her successively. I had just resolved to cescenct the gangway for sholter, when a white igure rushed past me with a wild ghrick and sprang overboard. I saw it struggling among the billows, and tossâ€" ing about its arms distractedly, but I was filled with dread lest we snould strike upon rocks, or rua ashore, and often imagined that the clouds which bordered the borizon were the black cliffs of some desolate coast. At last I distinctly saw a light at some disâ€" tanceâ€"I anticipated instant destrucâ€" tionâ€"I grew irresolute whether to reâ€" main upon deck, and face death, or to wait for it below. I soon discovered & ship a litile way aheadâ€"I instinctiveâ€" ly ran to the helm, and loosed the rope thit tied the tiller, which at once boun:ded back. and knocked me over. A bortible crashing, and loud cries, now broke upon my ear, and I saw that we had got entangled with another vessel. But the velocity with which we swept along rendered our extrication instanâ€" taneous; and, on looking back, L saw a ship, wilhout a bowsprit, pitching irâ€" regularly among the waves, and heard the rattling of cordage and a tumult of voices. But after a little time, noâ€" thing was distinguisbable by the eye. I stood alone near the stern of the ship. Nothing could be heara anove or below deck, but the dashing of the surges and the moanings of the wind. All the people on board were to me the same as dead ; and I was tossed about, in the vast expanse of waters, without acompanion or fellowâ€"sufferer. Iknew mnot what might" be my fate or where L should be carried. The vessel as it careered along the raging deep, _ uncontrolled by human bands, seemed under the guidâ€" ance of a relentless demon, to whose caprices its i‘lâ€"fated crew had been myâ€" steriously consigned by some superior power. About an hour after sunset almost every person on board seemed to have become worse. I alone retained my senses unimpaired. The wind now blew very fresh, and we went through the water at the rate of ten miles an hour. The night looked dreary and turâ€" bulent. The sky was covered with large fleeces of broken clouds, and the stars flashed angrily through them, as they were wildly. hurried along by the blast. The sea began to run high, and the masts showed, by their incessant cracking, that they carried more sail than they could well sustain. WOR PCT ReRITT M NTNCSCY I found the mate stretched upon the top of the companion, and addressed him, but he made no reply. The man at the bhelm was tying a rope round the tiller, and told me he bhad become soblind and dizzy, that he could neither steer nor see the compass, and would therefore fix the rudder in such a manâ€" mer, as would keep the ship‘s head. as mear the wind as possible. On gOinE forward to the bows, 1 found the crew lying motionless in every direction. They were either insensible of the dangerous situation in which our vessel was, or totally indifferent t9 it; and all my representations on this head failed to draw forth an intelligible reâ€" mark from any of them. Our ship carâ€" ried a great deal of canvass, the lower studdingâ€"sails being up, for we bad enâ€" joyed a _ breezo directly _ wSâ€" tern, before the wind headed us in the way already mentioned. CR RTUUT BM MAUIM NTIUEUCC Comeepincel, While thus .occupied, _ 1 _ heard the steersman‘ call out, "Taken all a~ back here." A voice, which I knew to be the mate‘s, immediutely answered, "Well, and what‘s that to us? Put ber before the wind, and lot her go whore shs pleases." I scon porseived, by the rushing of the water, that there was & Ereat increase in the velocity of _ the ship‘s progress, and went upon deck to asceriain the cause. ues MucR . (Continued.) I was compacatively but little affectâ€" ed, and thersfore employed myself in assisting" olhkers until they 8e@D~ ed to be past all relief, and _ then rat down, anticipating the horrid con~ sequences which would result from the death of the whole ship‘s company. _ ainetommaib THE FATAL REPAST. sunset aimost About ten at night we began to comâ€" mit the bodies to the deep. A dead calm bad prevailed the whole day, and not a cloud obscured the sky. The sea reflected the stars so distincily, that it seemed as if we were consigning our departed companions to a heaven The day passed gloomily. We regardâ€" ed every cloud that rose upon the horâ€" izon as the forerunner of a breeze, which we above all things feared to enâ€" counter. Much of our time was emâ€" ployed in preparing for the painful but necessary duty of interring the rit‘g'}~ Th carpenter soon got ready a suffiâ€" cient number of boards, to each of which we bound one of the corpses, and also â€"weights enough to make it siuk to the bottom. Four of the seamen were dead, but ths mute and the remaining three bad so far recovered as to be able to waik across the deck. The ship was almost in a disabled state. Part of the wreck of the foreâ€"topmast lay upon her bows, and the rigging and sails of the mainâ€" mast had suffered much injury. The mate told me that the soundings, and almost everything else, proved we were on the Bahama banks, though he had not yet ascertained on what part of them we lay, and consequently could not say whether we had much chance of soon falling in with any vessel. _ cover Mr. Dâ€"â€" anywhere, and thereâ€" began to court how many there were fore concluded that he was the Pe"â€"|of them. I inquired what was the son who had leaped overboard the Pr€â€"| matter, and the mate replied, " Why, ceding night. only that we‘ve seen the worst, that‘s On going upon feck, I found that|i!l, master. I‘ve a notion we‘ll fall in everything wore a new aspect. The SKy| with a sail before twenty hours are was dazzling and cioudless, and NOt| past." "Have you any particular reaâ€" the faintest breath ot wind could b¢[son for thinking so?" said I. " To be felt. The sea had a beautiful brigbht; sure I have," returned be; "aren‘t green colour, and was calm as a $M@|thom there birds the spirits of those lake, except when an occasional SWell | brave fellows we threw overboard last rolled from that quarter in whncl:: thein:ght? I know we never would be wind had been the preceding mshnxable to quit this place till they made and the water was so clear that 1 81W | their appearance above water. However, to the bottom, and even distinguisbed | I‘m not quite sure how it may go with little fishes sporting around the keel| us yet," continued be, looking anxiâ€" of our vessel. ,ously astern; "they stay rather long _Four of the seamen were dead, but/about our ship." "I have always unâ€" When I awaked I perceived, by the sunbeams that shone through the skyâ€" light that the morning was far adâ€" vanced. The ship rolled violently at intervals, but the noise of winds and waves had altogether ceased. I got up hastily, and almost dreaded to look round, lest I should find my worst anâ€" ticipations concerning my companions too fatally realised. I immediately discovered the cart‘ lying on one side of the cabin quite dead. Opposite him was Major Lâ€"â€" stretched along the floor. and graspâ€" ing firmly the handle of the door of his wife‘s apartment. He bhad, I supâ€" pose, in a moment of agony, wished to take farewell of the partner of his heart, but had been unable to get beâ€" yond the spot where he now lay. He looked like a dying man, and Mrs. Lâ€" who sat beside him, seemed to be ¢xâ€" hausted with grief and terror. She tried to speak several times, and at last succeeded in informing me (hat hor sister was better. I could not disâ€" cover Mr. Dâ€"â€" anywhere, and thereâ€" fore concluded that he was the perâ€" sen who had leaped overboard the preâ€" ceding night. _ _As the sea continued to break over the vessel I went down to the cabin, after having closely shut the gangway doors and companion. Total darkness prevailed below. I addressed the capâ€" tain and all my fellow passengers by ame, but received no reply from any of them, though I sometimes fancied I heard moans and quick breathing. when the tumult of waters without happened to subside a little. But I thought that it was perhaps imaginâ€" ation, and that they were probably all dead. I began to catch for breath, and felt as if I bad been immured in a large coffin along with a number of corpses, and was doomed to linger out life beside them, The sea beat against the vessel with a noise like that ‘of artillery, the crashing of the bulwarks driven in by its violence, gave startâ€" ling proof of the danger that threatâ€" ened us. Having several times been dashed against the cabin walls by the violent pitching of the ship, I groped. for my bed, and lay down in it, and.j notwithstanding the borrors that surâ€" rounded me, gradually dropped nsler‘p.‘ had no means of affording it any assistâ€" ance. I watched it for some time, and observed its convulsive motions gradâ€" ually grow more feeble; but its form soon became undistinguishable amidst the feam of the bursting waves. The darkness prevented me from discoverâ€" ing who bad thus committed himself to the deep, in a moment of madness, and I felt a strong repugnance at atâ€" tempting to ascertain it, and rather wished that it might have been some spectre, or the offspring of my perâ€" turbed imagination, than a human beâ€" for certain not," answered the mate; "and nome but the sailors that are drowned or thrown overboard _ after death. While in the form of Carey‘s chickens they undergo a sort of purgaâ€" tory, an?. are punished for their sins. They fly about the wide ocean.far out of sight of land, and never find a place whereon they can rest the soles of their feot, till it pleases the Lord A!â€" mighty to release them from their bondage and take them to himself." . derstood," said I, " that these birds inâ€" dicate bad weather, or some unfortunâ€" ate event, and this appears to me to be true." * Ay, ay,‘ replied be, * they say experience teaches fools, and I have found it so; there was a time when I did not believe that these creatures were anything but common birds, now I know anoth«r story. Oh, I‘ve witnessed such strange things!â€"Isn‘t it reasonâ€" able to suppose that these little creaâ€" turcs, having once been such as we are, should feel a sort of friendliâ€" ness towards a ship‘s crew, and wish to give. warning when bad weather or bad fortune is ahead, that every man may be prepared for the worst ?"â€"*"Do you conceive," said I, "that any people but seamen are ever changed into the birds we have been talking off"â€"*"No for certain not," answered the mate:; In tho exening a stroug breeze sprung up, and filled us with hopes that some vecsel would soon come in sight, and afford us relief. At sunâ€" set, when the mate was giving direcâ€" tions about the watch, one of the seaâ€" men cried out, " Thanked be God, there thy are." And the other ran up to him, saying, * Where whore ?" He pointâ€" ed to a flogk of Mother Carey‘s chickâ€" ons that bad just appeared astern, and We were now exempted from the ravages and actual presence of death, but his form baunted us without inâ€" termission. We hardly dared to look over the ship‘s side, lest our eyes should encounter the ghastly features of some one who had formerly been a companion, and at whose {funeral rites we bad recently assisted. The seamen began to murmur among themselves, saying that we would never be able to leave the spot where we then were, and that our vessel would rot away as fast as ths dead bodies that lay beneath it. ie Tepec itc ht Satoodtiet dat _ 1 wus roused early next morning by a confused noise upon deck. When I got there, I found the men gazing inâ€" tently over the side of the ship, and inquired if our anchor beld fast?â€" * Ay, ay," returned one of them, "raâ€" ther faster thain we want it." On apâ€" proaching the bulwarks, and looking down, I perceived to my horror and esâ€" tonishment, all the corpses lying at the bottom of the sea, as if they had just been dropped into it. We could even distinguish their features glimâ€" mering confusedly through the superâ€" incumbent mass of ocean. A large block buppened to fall overboard, and the agitation which it occasioned in the sea produced an apparent augâ€" mentation of their number, and a horâ€" rible distortion of their limbs and countenances. A bundred corpses seemâ€" ed to start up and struggle wildly toâ€" getber, and then gradually to vanish among the eddying waters, as they subâ€" sided into a state of calmness. Next morning I was awake About midnight, the mate ordered tha men to put down our anchor, which, till then, they bad not been able to accomplish. They likewise managed to furl most of the sails, and we went to bed, under the consoling idea that, though a breeze did spring up, our moorings would enable us to weather it without any risk. Mamcs scene and in our situation. Iread the funeral service, and then we dropped the corpses overboard one after anothâ€" er, The sea sparkled around each, as its sullen plunge announced that the waâ€" ters were closing over it, and they all slowly and successively descended to the bottom, enveloped in a ghastly glimmering brightness, which enabled us to trace their progress through the motionless deep. \When these last ofâ€" fices of respect were performod, we reâ€" tired in silence to different parts of the ship. 1 as resplendent as that above us. There was an awful soleranity, alike in the Lh ed by the pened to break upon her side, she seemed, for a moment, to be encircled with jems. The dews bad just begun to fall, and that composing stillness, shedding a dazzling radiance upon the sea, which stretched in stillness to the borizon. Our vessel lay at a little distance; and when a small wave hapâ€" Those only who have been at sea can conceive the delight ‘which the appearâ€" ance of trees and verdurous fieldsâ€"the odours of fruit and flowersâ€"and the sensations of security and f{reedom that arise from treading on the earth, produce in the minds, at the terminaâ€" tion of a long voyage. Every step we took seemed to infuse additional vigâ€" our into our limbs Our host met us at the door of his mansion, and imâ€" mediately introduced us to bis wife and family, and likewise to several persons who were visitors at the time, We were ushered into an airy ball, the window curtains of which had just: been sprinkled with water and the juice of limes. The odour of the fruit, and the coolness produced by the evapâ€" oration of the finid, exerted a most tranÂ¥uilising influence upon the mind, and, made the distressing scene I had recently witnmessed pass from my reâ€" membrance like a dream. â€" We were soon conductei into another apartâ€" ment where an elegant banquet, and a tasteful variety of the mos* exquisâ€" ite wines, awaited us. Here we conâ€" tinued till evening, and then returned to the hall. From! its windows we beâ€" held the setting sun, curtained by volâ€" umes of gloriouslyâ€"colored clouds, and The arrival of our vesset, and all the circumstances â€" connected. with this event, were soon made known upon the island ; and a gentleman, who reâ€" sided on the plantation, sent to request our company at his house. We gladly accepted, his hospitable offer and imâ€" mediately went ashore. Having said this, be leaped into the boat, and ordered his men to row toâ€" wards his own vessel. Whenever they got on board, they squared their topâ€" sail, and bore away, and were soon out of the reach of our voices. We lookâ€" ed at one another for a little time with an expression of quiet despair, and then the seamen bezan to pour forth a torrent of invectives and abuse against the heartless and avarâ€" icious shipmaster who had inhumanly deserted us, Major Lâ€" and his wife, being in the cabin below, heard all that passed, When the captain first came on board, they were filled with rapâ€" ture, thinking that we would certainly be delivered from; the perils and diffiâ€" culties that environed us; but as the conversation proceeded, their hopes gradually diminished, and the conclusâ€" ion of it made Mrs. Lâ€"â€" give way to a flood of tears, in which I found her indulging when I went below. asyel The mate now endeavored to encourâ€" age the men to exertion. They clearâ€" ed away the wreck of the foreâ€"topmast, which bad hitherto encumbered the deck, and put up a sort of jurymast in its stead, on which they rigged two sails. When these things were accomâ€" plished, we got up our moorings, and laid our course for New Providence. The mate had fortunately been upon the Babama seas before, and was aware of the difficuities he wouid have to encounter in navigaiing them. . The weather contioued moderate, and after two days of ngitating suspense, we mude Exuma Island, and cast anchor near its shore. !agxd. are as lazy as bell, but keep fiogâ€" ging them, misterâ€"keep flogging them, I say,â€"by which means you will make them serve your ends. Well, as I was saying, I will let you have them blacks to help you, if you‘ll buy them of me at a fair price, and pay it down in hard cash."â€""This proposal," said the mate, "sounds strange enough to a British seaman ;â€"and how much do you ask for your slavest"â€""I can‘t let them go under three hundred doilars each," replied the captain; "I guess they would fetch more in St. Thomâ€" as‘s, for they‘re prime, 1 swear," â€" ‘"Why, there isn‘t that sum of money on board this vessel, that I know of," answered the mate; "and though I could pay it mysel{, I‘m sure the ownâ€" ers never would agree to indemnify me. L thought you would have afforded us every assistance without asking anyâ€" thing in return,â€"a British sailor would have done so at least, â€"well, I _ vow, you‘re a strange man, said the capâ€" tain. . "Isn‘t it fair that I should get something for my niggers, and for the chunce I‘ll run of spoiling my trade at St. Thomas‘s, by making mysel{ short of men? But we shan‘t split| about a small matter, and I‘ll lessen ; the price by twenty dollars a bead." | â€""It is out of the question, sir," cried the male, "I have no money."â€""Oh, there‘s no harm done," returned the captain, "we can‘t trads, that‘s all. Get ready the boat, boysâ€"I guess your men will soon get smart again, and then if the weather hbolds moderate, you‘ll reach port with the greatest of ease."â€"‘*"You surely do not mean to leave us in this barbarous way?" cried I; "the owners of this vessel would, I am confident, pay any sum rather than that we should perish through your inhumanity."â€""Welt, mister, I‘ve got owners too," replied he, "and my business is to make a good voyage for them. Markets are pretty changeable just now, and it won‘t do to spend time talking about bumanityâ€"money‘s the word for me." in about an hour hove to, and spoke us. When we had informed them of our unbappy situation, the captain| ordered the boat to be lowered, and ; came on board of our vessel, with three of his crew. Hs was a thick, short, | darkâ€"complexioned man, and his lang~| urge and accent discovered him to be ; a native of the Southern States of Amâ€" | erica. The mate immediately proceod-i ed to detail minutely all that happenâ€" | ed to us, but our visitor paid very | little attention to the narrative, and | soom interrupted it, by asking of what our cargo consisted. Having been saâ€" tisfied on this point, he said, "Secing | as bow things stand, I conclude you'll‘ be keen for getting into some port." | â€"‘"Yes, that of course is our earnest | wisb," replied the mate, "and we hope to be able, by your assistance, to acâ€"| complish it."â€""Ay, we must all asâ€"| sist one another," returned the captain. | "Well, I was just calculating that your plan would be to run into ,\’ew' Providenceâ€"I‘m bound for St. Thomas‘, and you can‘t expect that I should turn about, and go right back with youâ€"neither that 1 should let you have any: of my seamen, for I‘ll not be able | to make a good trade unless I get slick | into port. I have three nigger slaves | on board of me,â€"curse them, they don‘t know much about sea matters,| joyful intelligence that a schooner AAAm S M o P uit es e iadacre w d in sight, and that she had boisted her flag in answer to our signals. She bore down upon us with a good wind, and profits among the world‘s great mincs is the Calumet and Hecia copper mine, of th> Lake Superior District, which has paid, to July 1, 1898, no less an amount than $53,850,000 in dividends. THE MINE WAS OPENED in 186 and is therefore less than a third of a century old. It is paying at the rate of $4,000,000 annually at present, and its net profits are varâ€" iously estimated at from five to six millions per annum. On Juane 30, 1898, its shares were sold at $565 each, placâ€" ing~ibereby a valuation of $56,500,000 on the mine. The largest producer of copper in the world is the Anaconda Mine, of Montana, It is credited with dividends of only $6,750,000, but this sum has been paid within a short period, about two years, since it passed underâ€"Euroâ€" pean coatrol. Its shares are selling on the London Stock Exchange at the rate of about $30,000,000 for the entire mine. J ‘Th> Boston & Montana is another copâ€", per giant, which has paid divdends of $7,625,000 and on June 30, 1898, its shares were quoted at a figure placing the total value of the mine at $30,750,â€" 000. The fourth among the quartet of the world‘s greatest copper imines is the Rio Tinto, of Spain, controlled by an English corporation, the value of whose preference shares in June was $140,250,000, while its common shares were $10,250,000 additional, or $50,500,â€" 000 for the mine, thus closely approachâ€" the Calumet & Hecla in valuation, &ug‘ h its dividena rate is much lowâ€" er. There are no four gold fields in 09,00) to The cre amount < given the Virginia . disbursed »10Ck 1898 mous value mines \u(u ng the ot A little kn th wise King, and the modern diamond mines of Kimberley in South Africa, are infinitely richer than those of Goiâ€" conda ever were. The colossal treasure of the Peruvian Incas, which aroused rang And the Profits They Pay Their Foriunate 1 Ownersâ€"Single Nines That Yieid Many Princely Incomesâ€"Tales of the Fabulâ€" ous Rickes of Ophir and CGolconda Disâ€" counted by Later Discoveries. Since that time in the dim past when ths first epigrammatic philosopher set forth the fact that money was the root of all evil the desire of mankind has been to get riches quickly. Of the many means employed to achieve this end, mining, if not the surest, has certainly been the speediest, and tales of rich mines possess as great a fascination for those of the present generation as did stories of like strain told at King Soloâ€" mon‘s court by returned adventurers from the gold fields of Ophir. There are probably a score of gold mines acâ€" tively working toâ€"day which are disâ€" counting amything ever nccompl'mbed“ at the mines of Ophir in the days o(‘ SOME OF THE RICHEST MINES IN * THE WORLD. WEALTH FROX THE EARTH Majpt Lo SERneersend When the night was advanced, we retired to sleep, lulled by the pleasing consciousness of being secure from those misfortunes and dangers, to the invasion of whick we had of iste been so cruelly exposed. all nature at such a time, was undisâ€" turbed by the slightest murmur of any kind. Two young ladies sat down to & barp and a piano, and a gentlieman acâ€" companied them upon the flute. The barmony was perfected by the rich gushing voice of one of the females of our party, and the fiushed cheeks and trembling eyelids of the charming Bahamians, showed that the music afâ€" fected their bearts, as much as it deâ€" lighted their ears. which, in tro world whose aggregate value is mes is ihe biack diamond, baving THE SAME CHEMiCAL FORM the purest white diamond, but of ingy black color, and vailuable soleâ€" becuuse of its use for cuiting oihâ€" minerals. It is used extensively in THE END. Mammaâ€"You dear. «weet little cherâ€" ub! Do you want to give away all of that money your uncle gave you$ There was over a dollar. I spent some of it, mamms. Did you? How much is there lefti There‘s a twentyâ€"(ive cent piece left, but th‘ candy man said it was bad. Little Boyâ€" Mamma, may I give what‘s in my savingsâ€"bank to that begâ€" gar manf _ ‘The gold mines of been not only wonderfu highly profitable. In dends the list is beaded Hill Proprietary Comp credited with baving . or, with the profits of : panies, which should b Among American mines, besides those already noted, the Ontario, a silver mine in Utah, has paid dividends of 13.439,000 in Granite Mountain, also & silver producer, has divided profits of $12,120,000. The Quincy copper mine has paid $9,770,000,. and has declared diviâ€" dends of $1,000,000 in a single year, the Homestake, a South Dakota gold proâ€" perty, bas returned $6,806,250 to its owners, and bids fair to pay many times that amount in the future, as it is probably the largest gold mine in the world. although excelled in the avâ€" erage richness of its rock by nearly ALL THE OTHER GREAT MINES. The Standard and Consolidated, a California gold mine, is credited with profits of $5,654,940; the Horn Silver has paid $5,190,000, and the Tamarack Copper Mine has divided $5,330,000 with sharebolders in a little over 10 years. ‘The list of American mines which bave paid $1,000,000 or more in profit is so long that its reading would prove monotonous to all except those directly interested in mines and minâ€" ing matters. Spain, and Austria, which we opened in theâ€"mists of antiqu are still large and profitable ers. The California quicksilver m New Almaden are deciining in but have earned millions fo owners within the past 40 yea The Mexican silver mines of Guanaâ€" juato, Zacatecas, and Pachuca and the South American mines of lPotosi, Cerro de Pasco and others have produced bilâ€" lions of dollars‘ worth of silver ince passing into the bands of the white miners, 300 or more years ago, but their total production and net pref* it would be impossible to estimate, even if all existing records were ransacked. The same rule applies to the quicksilâ€" ver mines of Almaden and Idria, in Spain, and Austria, which were first onened in theâ€"mists of antiquity, and equal to these four copper mines, or which PAY 6UCH LARGE PROFITS A LITTLE CEERUB vidends of rin, also & profits of r mine has lared diviâ€" e year, the gold proâ€" 50 to its pay many ture, as it d mine in in the av» y nearly ° MINES. lidated., a rines at output r their REYIE TERZS Brick building Jots. Al Townsh ing Tow I» the ALL J%. 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