Pittston Gazette

              eiUbllthAi 1850. ( ▼OL. XUX No. I. \ Oldest Newsoauer in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1898. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. ) *1.OO • Ye»r lli AdTIDl S. than he did his Nona's epitome. He showed himself quite a gentleman, too, in the way he left the Shah's medicine chest to my discretion. "Wade in," he said, "and help yourself, Ma& I'd not Kive that leave to everybody, but you're a man that knows what he's about, equal to a doctor in a hospital ashore. " \ head about things of that kind, und 1 just slipped on a pair of boots and ran to the engine room in pyjamas, just as I was. me credit for a child's sense. Of course this ship's got papers, a brand new set of papers, and she's got to be altered to suit them. Her name's the George M. Washington, her engines were built at Liverpool, her port—but you'll hear all that afterward. At present there's work to do, and I guess all hands have got to sweat this night as they've never sweated before. Come out now and bear a hand to get the water out of her." However, Blake or whoever it was, I'm going to lay information so soon as ever 1 get ashore to the custom house. I'd a good berth on that ship, and I don't think much of the man who kicked me from there to come and be skipper of this stinking old dunghill here." not a living man lett in signt, duv whether they had been washed overboard or had gone away in the boat 1 conld not tell. I never saw any of them again. the other side." ana snort oreatn, ana oroKen neart, you need something more than human sympathy. You need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. He knows it all, and he loves you more than father or mother or husband ever oould or ever did, »nd Instead of sitting down, wringing your hands lu despair, you had better begin to climb. There are heights of conaolatlon for you, though how "there la • iharp rook on one side and a sharp rook iu the other side." Sunlight of God's Vtror, Mow, what Is such a man to do? In the name of almighty Qod, I will tell him what to do. Do as Jonathan did—climb; climb up into the sunlight of God's favor and consolation. 1 can go through the churches and show you men who lost fortune and health at the same time, and yet who sing all day and dream of heaven all eight. U you have any idea that sound digestion, and »toady nerves, and clear eyesight, and good hearing, and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man happy, you have misoaloulated. I suppose that these overhanging rooks only mads Jonathan scramble the harder and the faster to get up and out Into the sunlight, and this oombined shadow of invalidism and financial embarrassment has often sent a man up the quicker into the sunlight of God's favor and the noonday of his glorious promises. PIRATING OF THE J/Wi BVWrailTE HYNE. COPYR/GH X1898, BY CUTCUFFE HYNL The chief and the third were hard at work at the broken bilge pump, but it wasn't easy work, because every time she rolled down that side a good ten foot of water soused over their ears. The water was gaining, there was no mistake about that; you could feel the steamer grow more sodden with every roll, and it was clear enough that with the one steam pump we had working we could not keep her afloat another two hours. The stokehole was full of steam from the ashes falling into the water, and presently the splashing begau to hit the bottom of the fire l»rs and the steam grew worse. Theu the fires started to die, and the gauges fell so that you could not see them. We did not stop the engines. They slowed by degrees and brought up of themselves. And theu, like drowned rats, we went out on deck. The chief and I were the last to go. There was nothing else to be done. The door I was holding to went with the next sea, and there was I in the surf, 200 yards off the dry beach. I can swim like a rat or a Krooboy, and I had to do it then. That Pacific surf is something awful when one of those big ground swells is on. I was awake enough by this time and had recognized Knowles and was beginning to wonder why he had not recognized me. But then I remember that, first of all, I was sitting in deep shadow, and, secondly, I was wearing a five weeks' beard, so I lay still where I was till the guano bark had dragged slowly past over the swells, and then I got up and slipped into the charthouse. There was no need to tell my news. Captain Blake had heard every word that had been said through a port above his bed place. It wan while we were having this talk that the propeller stopped. He gave me a curious look, and "I reckon,"said he, "that means we're on the ground." But he didn't offer to move from his seat. It was difficult to stand on deck, for every roll sent her down to the rail, and the foredeck was afloat half its time. She lay helpless in the trough, and the water inside her sobbed like crying women. Of course the steam pumps below were useless, but by a meroy she had a hand pump on deck, and we manned that, watch and watch abont, tor half hour spells and picked the water out of her by gallons to the minute. The sea cocks had been turned off, so we'd no further leak, and we got the trysails and the two topsails on her and shaped a course almost free for the Cuban shore. We hadn't got her clear by daylight or anything like it, for the hand pump ha-' its limits, but we'd Clled the water down below the fire rs of the furnaces and were able to get lit up again and see the steam rise in the gauges. But I got spewed up by the sea at last, bruised as though I had been beaten with sticks, and there I lay on the sand and watched the surf smash my beautiful engines till they weren't fit to put on the scrap heap. The cruiser had done her work and was steaming back for Callao. The naphtha launch was out of sight; the lifeboat, if she had survived, had slipped far away from view, and the Bea lay empty. Tho Sharpest of All Rook*. Again, that man 1* In the crista of tb« text who has a wasted life on the one aide »nd an anillumlnated eternity on the oth»r. Though a man mar all his life have sultured deliberation and self poise, If he gets into that position all his self posseilion is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words—strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. That rock I call Boms. On the other side are all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long deflanoe. That rock 1 oall Seneh. Between these two rocks 10,000 times 10,000 have perished. O man immortal, man redeemed, man blood bought, climb up out of those shadows! Climb up by the way of the onw Have your wasted lite forgiven. Have your eternal life seoured. This hour just take one look to the past and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what it threatens to be. Ton eaa afford to lose your health, you can afford to loss your property, you oan afford to lose your reputation, but you oannot afford to loss your souL That bright, gWmtng, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must oarry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens bunt. You see from my snbjeot that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. Thers s nothing in religion that leads to meantess or unmanliness. The gospel of Jesus "Well," thought I, "the ebb's making fast, and if we don't get off quick here we'll stay for another tide." But as it was not my place to aay anything I held my tongue. f CHAPTER L 1 Now, I'll not deny I guessed there was something fishy about the Shah from the very first minute her skipper talked to me, but I was not in a position to pick and choose. In fact, I was that pushed it was a choice between taking the berth I was offered or going to sea as ordinary flremun at £4 a month. you're not intended to see. i can get the ordinary type of inquisitive idiot cheap anywhere. My last second engineer was that brand, and I had no use for him, so I just fired him out. You can bet I'm not offering big pay for nothing. No, sirrea I want a man who can keep his head shut." "Dangerous things, those Mississippi bars," said he. "Very likely to get some plates started over this game." "Oh, no," said I, "there's no danger. It's all soft mud underneath. Why, we never felt her going on. There was no shock whatever." He looked at me as coolly as though everything was smooth. "It's a beastly nuisance, isn't it, Mac, just when we were so near fingering our dividends too?" It Is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when he has 110,000 in the bank, and 960,000 in government securities, and a block of stores and three ships. "Well," the man says to himself, "it is silly for me to pray, 'Give me this day my daily bread,' when my pantry is full and the canals from the west •re crowded with breadstufTs destined for my storehouses." Oh, my friends, If the combined misfortunes and disasters of life have made you ollmb up into the arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you will bless him that in this world "there was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side." Day sprang up over the water, and I got up stiffly and walked north along the coast. A dozen miles brought me to an Indian village, where I must say that, niggers though tney were, they treated me like a king. I staid there six months, and might have staid a lifetime, but I was a fool and got restless. The sea always drags me. And I went along to a little port and found a ship. The sea always does drag me like that It is my luck, I suppose, to be that kind of a fool. "I'm that way, captain, if the pay's big enough." He leaned across and whispered in my ear: " But I say there is danger, Mr. McTodd. I tell you that this ship's bottom has very likely received such damage here that it is quite on the cards she may sink when she gets into the seaway outside. If you let news of that slip out among your grubby crowd in the Btokehole, I shall be your debtor. Now, sonny, don't stop to think. Go right now and do your bid." "Then shall I lose my wages?" I asked. "Suffici- uk siller will make you concentrate your thoughts on that and not see anything else? I quite see your irk**. Well, Mr. MoTodd, there's £13 a month for you so long as you're second engineer and £80 when you're chief." It was my weakness that had got the There was a snoring breeze, with a stiffish sea running. It wasn't cold, because we were in the thick of the gnlf stream, bnt the night was as black as coal with driving rain and not a bit inviting for a boat cruise. However, there waa no help for it. Knowles and the two other mates and the carpenter had got the two lifeboats swung out, the stewards and the cook were victualing them, and the hands were bidden to tumble in without any more delay. A tailor could have seen that the old Shah had not got very much longer to float. "I guess, Mac, yon can earn nothing more out of this cruise at present than a hemp necktie." better of me, as «suaL I had carve into New Orleans on one of the (Vest Indian Pacific boats, and the berth was good. I was third on her, and, though I ought to have been second, the berth m third "Oh, I'm clear of that, at any rate. Man, do you not remember I was forced into the business against my will?" ••Me, chief!" . "That's what I said." "Will you tell me if there's any chance of that happening?" It was an anxious time then. If any other steamers saw us drifting about there under Rail alone, they would oome up to offer assistance, find ont who we were, and the game would be up. The spot was likely to be crowded, too, because we were in the ship track between the gulf ports and the ilorida channel. But the thieves' luck held, and we got her under steam again, kioked out the balance of the water with the bilge pumps and stood across for a lonely bay in Cuba, where we oould alter the poor old Shah's appearance undisturbed. was distinctly good. We engineers bad a messroom, with a steward all to ourselves, and bread was baked on board fresh three times a week. There was no stint of anything. Even pickles were to be had for sticking ont your fork, and any one but a fool would have staid on that ship and read up textbooks and won promotion. I was a fool. He was a very nice, quiet, gentlemanly fellow, the one who got me to go ashore with him, and be could play hymn tunes on the accordion like an organ in a chapel. I did see him laughing and joking with some of the others, but then, as he explained to me, a boarding house master had to suit himself to his guests He admitted he wasn't Scotch himself, but his mother had come from Kilmarnock as a girl, and he'd a strong liking fur the north country in consequence. He wasn't wanting me to go and stay in his house, he explained to me, but only to come and have a cup of tea just for the sake of the plaoe I came from. It was not to cost me a single sixpence. It seemed he was a member of the free kirk of Scotland himself, and that explained it. My father bad once been minister to that sect at Ballindrochater. "Quite so. Go ashore and tell that to the authorities. They're certain to believe your bare word on the subject." Of course Captain Blake treated me badly, and I worked a long time and very hard without a sixpence of wage, but somehow I don't wish that man evil. I've never come across any one with a nicer knowledge of drugs or a freer hand in giving them ont to his engineer officers. Why, I mnst have taken eight boxes of those Cody's pills at the very least. "Every chance. With decent luck you ought to be chief engineer of the Shah by this day week." I said, "Aye, aye, sir," by force of instinct and went away below. The third engineer was standing by the reversing gear and asked me what was amiss. I told him we were on the ground and said I'd a fear we might have some of our bottom plates started. He cackled at me with laughter, and I felt my face grow red. "Why, what a blessed scary Scotchman you must be," said he. "She took the ground like butter going on to a bar of soap. It would not have cracked the glass in a greenhouse. " "Phew!" I whistled. It hadn't struck me that way. Of course I had got no sort of a tale that would be believed when it came to putting it in bare words. Ways of the World. Again, that man Is In the crisis of th« text who has hotne troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treats a man well just as long as it pays to treat him welL As long as it can manufacture success out of his bone and brain and muscle it favors him. The world fattens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of the world, then every bush is full of horns and tusks thrust at him. They will belittle him. They will caricature him. They will call his generosity self aggrandizement and his piety sanctimoniousness. "But how"— He cut me short with a laugh. "I'm not going to talk,"he said. "Here's the offer ready, packed up and waiting for you. Take it or don't" I wasn't going to lose the things I had bought out of the slop chest, so I had it in my mind to go below and put them together. I had got to the head of the companion to do this when Captain Blake came out of the charthouse with the light from inside shining full on his face. He was as cool as a fish and smiling. "No, my son," said Blake. "It's a oase of all sticking together yet, and with luck we'll not only save our necks, bat we'll realize on the ship." Christ only asks you to climb as Joutbu did—climb toward God,climb toward heav en, olimb into the sunshine of God's favor. To beooma a Christian Is DOt to go meanly down. It is to oome gloriously op—up into the oommunion of saints, op into the peace that passeth all understanding, up into the companionship of angels. He lives upward; he dies upward. Oh, thai accept the wholesale invitation which I make this day to all the peoplel Come upborn between your invalidism and financial embarrassments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution. Come np from between a wasted life and an an illumined eternity. Like Jonathan, olimb up with all your might Instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow and in the darkness—"a sharp rock on the one side and a (harp rook on the other side." "I'm coming with you, captain." "Very well. We'll go right now and get you signed on, and then we'll be off to the ship There's a tender running down to the quarantine station half an hour from this. You don't want any advance or you might be tempted to go on the spree again. You can fill up your kit from the slop chest when we get aboard. The Shah's got a line slop chest." "We've only two days' more coal." "I know that" THE END. We were at anchor there by early afternoon, and a rough, wild place it was, walled in with tropical trees and closed from all view to seaward. Sea fowl were the only living creatures which met the eye, unless one could count the sharks and the sawfish which cruised around us in the water. As a pirate's harbor no better spot oould have been found in all the world, and that is what we were then, just pirates—all, that is, exoopt Chips and myself, who were forced into the business against our will. "Then what's your plan, captain?" "I'll tell it you later. For the present go away right now and make steam again. I guess we've little enough time to waste. There's a cruiser over yonder that can put to sea in two hours, and they'll send word to her directly Know lea gets ashore with his news. Away with you now and make your sweeps hump themselves, or else they'll KOCKS ON BOTH SIDES The very want penetration will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to be Christians. "There are snags in this Mississippi mud," I said. "We're down in the pass now. If you go on deck and look over the banks, you'll see the sand outside in the gulf regularly sown with tree trunks. They're as dangerous to a ship's bottom as coral rock." "Ah, Mac," he said, "glad to see yon are keeping your head. I'll remember this in your favor afterward. Say, just slip into the chartbouse here, will yon, and take chargo of a bag of bullion? Carry it with you to the port lifeboat, and if yon get it safely ashore you shall have 10 per cent as salvage for your pains. Come right in." DR. TALMAGE ENCOURAGES PEOPLE WHO ARE IN TROUBLE. John Milton—great and good John Milton—so far forgot himself as to pray in so many words that his enemies might be eternally thrown down Into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell, and be the undermost and most dejected, and the lowest down vassals of perdition. And Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to say In regard to his theological opponents, ''Put them in whatever sauce you please, roasted or fried or baked or stewed or boiled or hashed, they are nothing but asses!" Ah, my friends, if John Milton or Martin Luther oould oome down to such scurrility, what may you not expect from lees elevated opponents? Now, sometimes the What We Are Taught by the Triumph of Jonathan Over the Philistines—Inspiration In Persecution and New Life In Adversity. "How do you know I've no kit, captain?""McTodd," said he, "get away to your bunk and sleep it off. Your nerves are a bit joggled up still." And off I went, feeling pretty foolish. But I had noticed one of the firemen listening to our talk and judged that I had done what the captain intended. He laughed pleasantly. "Never you mind how, but you can take it from me I do know. I know all about you— yes, sirree, every blooming thing, or the pair of us wouldn't be talking now here. And I say also you'll find me a good shipmate. Finish up your beer, Mao, and let's be going. Here's good luck to you!" bant." Tliere was every inducement for hurry, and every one knew that. Legrand was down helping me, and so was the carpenter. We coaxed the steam up by every means we knew, and when at last Legrand was able to go on the foredeck and heave up it was none too soon. The cruiser astern of us was bustling with life, a naphtha launch was coming to ua from the inner harbor as fast as she could pelt, and it was plain that all Oallao was alive with Knowles' tidings. I stepped into the charthonse, the door closed behind me, and I fonnd myself face on to a curious sight The carpenter was sitting on the captain's sofa, and opposite him was one of the deck hands, a fellow who had joined from New Orleans when I did, fingering a nickel plated revolver. fCopyrtght, 1898, by American Press Association.]The work began at once. Stages were rigged over the side, and the black paint was changed to gray. The names on the boats and the life buoys were altered. The funnel was tnrned from red and white to black and bine. The yards were taken off her forrard, the two topmasts sent down and two ten foot stump topmasts put on end in their place. The Clyde name plates were shifted from the engines, and the wheelhouse was knocked away from the upper bridge. She looked a different ship. The gray paint and the stamp topmasts seemed to make her half as big again as the British steamer Shah that had sailed out of the Mississippi river. I could have sworn that her own builders wouldn't have recognised the ship, even if they had stood beside her on a dock wall. Washington, Aug. 14.—This disoourse of Or. Talmage is full of enoouragement for those who know not whioh way to turn because of aooumulated misfortunes; text, I Samuel xiv, 4, "There was,a sharp rook on teone side and a sharp rock on the other side." We did not get off that tide or the next, but staid there stewing in the heat and gnawed at by the mosquitoes, while the engines ran ahead and astern in half hour spells alternately, and the captain on the bridge talked to the pilot for trying to rip the bottom out of her. Indeed when we did get off the bar at last and slowed down off the lighthouse on the Port Eads spit to drop the pilot into his boat I thought then that he must have been glad to see the last of us. But I have guessed since that the fellow must have been paid to let us ground on the bar, so as to pave the way for what was to happen afterward. 8ar*d th* Doctor's Bill. Ia a Massachusetts seaport town then Is • retired sea captain who makes a frequent boast that he baa the "smartest woman alone shore." New instances of her enterprise are constantly oomiaf to notioe. The last one refers to an exploit by which she saved herself a doctor's bill. The oaptain tails the story with great relish. We had a bit of a social after tea, and there was hymn singing to the accordion, and I sang too. They seemed to like it, and they drank my health. I just had a tot to drink theirs book. There was oorn whisky in a demijohn on the table, and you oould help yourself, with nothing to pay. It would have looked unfriendly not to taste. We got down to the Shah that afternoon, and I must say she was a vessel that pleased the eye. She was a fine world take* after them, the newspapers take after them, publlo opinion take* after them, and the unfortunate man la lied about until all the dictionary of Billings- Rate is exhausted on him. You often see a man whom you know to be good and pure and honest, set upon by the wo rid and mauled by whole oommunttiee, while vicious men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him, as though Lend Jeffreys should write an essay on gentVeness or Henry VIII talk about purity or King Herod take to blessing little children."Hello," said I, "what does this mean?" The cruel army of the Philistines mnst be taken and scattered. There is just one man accompanied by his bodyguard to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of the soene. I know that David cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles well ilung, and that 800 Qideonites soattered 10,000 Amalekites by the crash of broken crockery, but here is a more wonderful sonfliot Yonder are the Philistines on the rooks. Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard in the valley. On the one side is a rock oalled Bozez; on the other side is % rook oalled Seneh. These two were as famous in olden times as in modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They were precipitous, unscalable and sharp. Between these two rooks Jonathan must make his asoent. The day oomes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan on his hands and feet begins the asoent With itraln and slip and bruise, 1 suppose, but dtlll on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one side, Seneh on the other. After a sharp tug and push and ollnging I see the head of Jonathan above the hole In the mountain, and there is a challenge, and a fight, and a supernatural oonsternatlou. These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign whioh demolishes the enemies of Israel. I suppose that the overhanging and overshadowing rooks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only roused and filled them with enthusiasm as they went up. "There was a sharp rook on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side." "It means," says Blake from behind me, "that yon've got to stay right here on this ship, Mac, and be her chief engineer whether you like it or not. Now I've got a knife in my hand this minute"—he laid the cold blade lightly upon the back of my neck for an instant and then whisked it away again —"and it would annoy me very much to kill yon. I've no time for long argument. Will you stay alive or will you stay dead?" The skipper bad got the upper bridge alone and held the steam steering wheal in his own hands. He was heading her for the northern channel between San Lorenzo island and the land, and as usual he was taking matters qnite calmly and with a smile on his saintly face. He neither swore nor shouted. He was the most unaccountable shipmaster I ever came across in that way. "She's getting pretty heavy," he begins, "and now and again she'll miss her footing. Well, not many months ago she missed It on our stairs and fell all In a heapdown three steps on to her side. Well, I'll admit that night was a bit thick when it got to the finish, and where I slept the guid Lord may know, but I don't I'd a thirst on me like Welsh coal ashes next morning, and the whisky was still there, and by midday I was full up to the eyes again and inclined to talk. I went back to the ship, found the old man on the levee cursing some nigger roustabouts and forthwith told him what I thought of his conduct I wasn't content with telling him quietly either. - I must needs mount on a cotton bale and preach aloud to all the niggers and loafers who would hear that any skipper who would use language like that was no sort of oompany for Qod fearing men like us, and finally while I was advising them to duck him in the Mississippi a policeman came and lugged me off to the calaboose. There was no foolery about that policeman. He drove me before him with the small end of a revolver, and I had to go. Policemen are valuable in New Orleans, and drunks are not. They don't allow their police to go scrapping with madmen in the public streets, and if a drunk won't come when he's told he's shot, and there's good riddance of him. "When I got to her, she said just as brisk as usual: 'Don't ask me if I've hart myself, oap'n, for of oourse I have. I reokon I've unjolntod a bone In my left leg, falling on It. Now don't try to poll me up. Let me scrabble round a minute and you go for the dootor.' "Well, the doctor's our next neighbor, so it didn't take long to get him. He looked her over and said there was a bone somewheree round her left hip that waa oat of kilter. D' Is an Inspiration. Only one other conversation did I have with Captain Blake before the Shah was pirated, and that was the afternoon we were off Key West. Now, a oertaln amount of persecution rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle and makes him 60 times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was with the great reformer when he said, "I will not be put down; I will be heard." And so It was with Millard, the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. When Louis XI sent word to him that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, he replied, "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach it by fast horses." A oertaln amount of persecution Is a tonic and inspiration, bat too much of It, and too long oontlnaed becomes the rook Bocei throwing a dark shadow over a man's life. What Is he to do thenf Go home, you say. Good advioe, that. That is just the plaoe for a man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for oar quiet and sympathetic homes I But there Is many a man who has the reputation of having a home when he has none. Through unthlnkingness or precipitation there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes In which there is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The olamor of the battle may not have been heard outside, but God knows, notwithstanding all the playing of the wedding march, and all the odor of the orange blossoms, and the benedlotlon of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes men have awakened to find on one side of them the rook of persecution and on the other side of them the rook of domestic Infelicity. What shall such a one dor Do as Jonathan did —climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation, from whioh you may look down in triumph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being sllenoed by the magistrates and having his name written on the board fenoes of London in doggerel, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could—acting as though she were possessed by the devil, as 1 suppose she was, never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: "I did not forsake her. 1 have not dismissed her. I will not recall her." Planting one foot upon outside persecution and the other foot on home trouble, John Wesley climbed up Into the heights of Christian joy, and after preaching 40,000 sermons and traveling 870,000 miles reached the heights of heaven, though in this world he had it hard enough—"a sharp rook on the one side and a sharp rook on the other." "I've got to save my life," I said. But it was the naphtha launch that destroyed us. We started slow, and she Dearly boarded, but as steam got np so did our pace improve till at last she could do no more than keep her place. If lie could once have shaken her off, I believe Captain Blake would have found tome plan for escape, but as it was that was out of the question. There was not • breath of wind. The long Pacific ■wells came rolling in from the westward, so that when we were in a trough we oould not see where they broke in thunder on the beach, and all the time that naphtha launoh hung doggedly in our wake. "You're a sensible man, Mac. Just ■it beside Chips, ou the sofa there, and talk to Mr. Legrand. Oh, I forgot to lntrodnoe you. Legrand is the new mate. And now I must be off to see that all the members of this ship's company I don't want go off cruising sociably together in the lifeboats.'' Well, there was no time lost after that work was done. We were not there pleasuring, any of us, and we upped anchor as soon as we had finished transmogrifying her and set ont for the Horn and the Chilean coast. Legrand was for patting into a Brazilian port to stay and pick up a few more hands, but Captain Blake said " No." He was not a nervous man, but he was no fool to stand in the I met him, as it were, by accident, in the port alleyway, and he asked me to ooine along to the charthouse and see if I could find out what was wrong with nis hanging lamp "The carpenter has tried his hand," said he, "and made no sort of a job of it at all, and I guess my room stinks of kerosene like a Pittsburg tool shop. But you're a man of ideas, MoTodd, and you'll see what's wrong at a glance." "At that mother rose right upon her feet and toppled over the opposite way from what she'd fallen down stairs, and we heaad a kind of a crack. He went out in the dark, closing the door on his heels, and I found myself sitting beside the carpenter, looking at the big, sallow faced Creole who held the revolver. way of The George "She looked up at the doctor with her mouth kind of whitish, but the same old twinkle in her eyes, and she says, 'I believe I've set that bone myself, dootor.' And she had!"—Youth's Companion. M. Washington was to keep oat of all human night till she made her Chilean port, and then no one could connect her with the Shah which had been lost in the Mexican gulf. She was to get a cargo from there to China or else go across in ballast, and in China she was to be sold. That was the programme. He waB quite aware it would be desperately hard work for all hands, but the pay was big to match, and they oould have free run of all the grub in the ship Besides, he was not sparing himself. "I can smell no oil just now, captain, '*• said I when we got inside the charthouse, "but if you'll just let me handle the lamp a minute or so"— "Man," I said, "the skipper's gone mad. I've just oome from below myself, and I know what it's like. She'll swamp in half an hour. You're just holding us here to drown." The hands were making steam for everything they were worth, and all I had to do was to run about my machinery with a hot oil kettle and keep everything lubricated It said much for my keeping of those engines the way they bucked up to work then. They couldn't have run smoother if ten men with chief's tickets had been tending them every day since they left the shops. I wish the beastly board of trade examiner* oould have seen me then. The Truth About Convict* la Siberia. The most conclusive evidence aa to what the life of the average convict really is is furnished upon the best evidenoe by the convicts themselves, who oertainly ought to know when and where they are well off. Not more than one-fourth of the exiles when their time has expired elect to return to Russia, whither they are attracted by that love and attachment to home so strong In every human breast, so particularly-strong in the Slav. The fact Is that they have found life in Siberia pleasanter, the road to ease, a competency and even to wealth leas ragged, less crowded with competitors. So they become colonists and of their own free will and oboloe remain in Siberia, throwing their fortunes in with the destiny of the new land, and I, knowing something of the conditions of life whioh obtain In Russia, think they do well.—Stephen Bonsai in Harper's. I must needs mount a cotton bale and "Shacks," he Bays, "let the lamp •lone. That was only a blind, because I didn't care to say below what I wanted yon for, in oaae somebody wu listening. Sit down on the sofa, Mao, and your pipe. What do you think of the chief engineer?" new ship, bnilt and engined on the Clyde and owned by a Liverpool firm. She was some 1,600 tons burden. Her last skipper had died of yellow jack in Peusacola, Fla. Mr. Know lee, the mate, had brought her across to New Orleans, and Captain Blake had been engaged by cable from England. He bad to sail in two days from getting the billet, and he certainly made good use of his time, for in those two days he not only planned how to ran away with the Shah as she stood, but had also got together the men who were necessary to help Mm. Bat about that of ooarse I did not know till later. "Shucks!" said he. "That's only part of the game to get the ship to ourselves and to scare off those we didn't want." Sharp Boeka of Trouble. My friends, you have been or are now, some of you, in this oriais of the text. If • man meets one trouble, he can go through with it. He gathers all his energies, concentrates them on one point and in the strength of God or by his own natural determination goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble oome alone, he might endure it, but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him I '' There is a sharp rook on the one tide and a sharp rook on the other side." Well, of ooarse I was sacked from the West Indian Pacific after that. The British consul wouldn't look at me, and after the boarding house master had mopped np my pay and what he lent on my chest he showed me the door too. He wouldn't keep me on in hopes at getting his dollars oat of my next advance. He said straight he didn't think I'd get another ship. He said my tongue when I got it oiled was enough to frighten G rover Cleveland. " Why, there have been a couple of sea cocks opened, that's all, and if you "What do you mean?" "It's no for me to speak evil of my superiors, but—I'd call him a very careful oftioer." He was all civility in his talk; he'd a good word for everybody, but Captain Blake was not the man you'd care to be across with. He quite giAe you the notion that he'd as soon stick you as look at you if it came to refusing to do exactly what he wished. The excitement was too big for me to keep myself below all the time. I just had to pop my head out of the engine roam door every now and again to look astern. But if for a moment the naphtha launch was out of sight, she'd roll up again high against the horizon over the next swell, and if we dropped her at all it was only for a few fathoms to the hour. Still it wasn't her duty to board. She was only acting as jackal to the bigger craft, and presently the masts and smoke of that showed up against the sea line. Landsmen might have chucked up the sponge then, but we hung on. Everything was possible in a stern ohase at sea. Besides darkness would be down in another hour, and we might slip away under its cover. We felt cramped about the throat, I can tell you, then. It didn't take much imagination to see the gallows ready rigged. "He's an old woman, a nervous old woman, that's what the chief is. And he's no idea which Bide of his bread's margerined. Now, I guess you have, Mac. There are no flies on yon—and—I believe you could keep your head shut if a secret were told yon?" CHAPTER HI. Now, the end of this pirating business came in a way which no one had quite foreseen, and though the underwriters did not get back the insuranoe they had paid on the Shah the George M. Washington was never turned into a tangible profit by those who had stolen her. "That depends." I'd $8 left when I got shown the door there, and with $2 a man doesn't starve all at once In New Orleans. There are free lunch counters everywhere, and with a 10 cent glass of beer you can have a very tolerable fill oat of fish pie, dry hash, cheese, and so on, bat it doesn't do to go to the same place too often or the nigger behind the bar will forget to fill your plate when yon pass it on. Bat $2 won't last long, and when I'd got down to my last 96 cents and this berth on the Shah turned np I'd just got to take it and hold my tongae. Steam was ordered for daybreak, and so I was pretty fall ap till then finding my way about and getting the hang of the machines. The chief was a nervous man, and he seemed to have a small opinion of my capabilities. I wondered much what he would think if he got to know I was to step into his shoes. Of oourse, though, I said nothing about that, but just followed him about and listened with a puckered face while he gave me tips about his enemies. While they were getting up steam he even thought good to blow off a test can full at water and show me how to use litmus paper on it. "Oh," said the old man, "if you can't give me a promise, I can hold my tongae." In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants capsize In business before they oome to 46 years of age. There Is some oollision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as If every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man is who risks all his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as If a man must have a large amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much easier It Is to buy than to selL It seems as U every ■nan must be oompletely burned out before he learns the Importanoe of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snag in case of a sudden euroolydon. Let's Wife Islaad. Lot's Wife, perhaps the strangest island In the Pacific, is in latitude 89.41 and longitude 140.88.80 east and is southeast of the Island of Nlppar, the largest of the Japanese group Metros, the explorer, ran aoroes it in 1788 and at first mistook It for a ship. He called it Mearee' rook, bat it had very likely been discovered In advance of that time by Spanish explorers, who charted it as Vela rock. The United Statee steamer Macedonian passed it in 1864, and she, too, mistook it for a sail. Its ragged peak rises nearly 800 feet above the sea, and it can be seen for 86 miles. There la a great oavera in the baee of the rocky pinnacle, and the sea roars .through it with avoloeof thmnder. Its diameter at the water line is about 00 feet, and it stands m an tapmsUve monument to the force of nature in oonvulslon.—Hongkong Cor. Loots Globe-Democrat. "Well," I said, "I'm pinning myself to nothing, you'll understand, but I'll not repeat any matter you choose to speak upon." It seems that Mr. Knowlea, the former first mate, had taken the starboard lifeboat safely enough into Key West, had found himself out of a berth, was given the offertrf a captaincy on a guano bark then in Panama, whose late master had died of coast fever, and had jumped at the chance. He got a cast down to Aspinwall in a freight steamer, crossed the isthmus by railroad, and left Panama for the south the very day we pulled our anchors out of that bay of Cuba. It was not much of a coincidence that he should be coming Into Callao roadstead through the north channel past San Lorenzo island when we were steaming in through the south- "That's good enough for me," says the skipper, and he started in to reel out a tale which made the hair tickle on the top of my soalp. He was not very long about it. He told me his scheme in 40 words, and then he asked my opinion upon it. It was her skipper himself that lured me into it He was a smallish chap called Blake, American-Irish, I think, and the biggest thief in the two Atlantic*. He'd a faoe on him like a saint in a stained glass window and a reputation that would have spoiled a gallows, bat he could talk polite fit to make an actor of. "Man,"Isaid, "it'sapiracy; no less. "Oh," he says, "it's that." "You are going to take the ship and her cargo at one steal?" Night came down when the cruiser was five miles astern, but it did not help m The sky was lit like a theater; the swells full of speckles of phos phoresoence, and where they broke upon the beach you might have thought there was a line of bonfires. The cruiser followed us and came up as though she had a line to our stern and was heaving it in on her winches. At daybreak punctually we got under way, with a Port Eads pilot on the bridge to take us out through the southfast pass. I was free after the watch was set and went out on deck for a whiff at air. The river was smeared with a three foot layer of white mist You oould hardly see the yellow water as it scrubbed along the steamer's side, and the trees on the shore were cut off clean by the whiteness half way up their trunks. There was a smell to the mist like new turned earth. It was just the smell you get up the Kongo and the west African rivers, and it as good as aaid to me, "My lad, you take precautions, or you'll have a dose of fever coming back to you." So I went below to rout up the cabin steward to get a dose at qalnine out at the medicine oh est, when who should oome in there bat the old man himself. "It would annoy trie very much to kill you." "At one steal, Mac. No ose taking four bites at a persimmon." want to know who did it, here's the man standing before you. I did another thing too. It was me that smashed the bilge pump." When the calamity does oome, It la awful. The man goes home In despair, and he tells his family, "We'll have to go to the poorhouse." He takes a dolorous view of everything. It seems as if he never oould rise. But a little time passes, and he says: "Why, lam not ao badly off after all. I have my family left." "But if you're caught?" "To begin with, we shan't be. There's no chance of it And supposing we were, we'd get it no hotter for taking the whole ship than we should for annexing one of her boats. Now, are you going to be sensible and bear a era. Despairing Woman. Woman's Troth. What does It matter if others are fairer? She possesses a virtue that makes her far rarer Than professional beauties, cold hearted and rain. So far no Jail had ever olaimed him, because he had always kept to windward of the law or hadn't been caught, bat be was considered a baddish toagh, even in New Orleans, and, goodness knows, they're not particular down there. He came across me sitting on a cotton bale on the levee at the foot of Canal street. He had just come down river in a big "stern wheeler," and I was the first person he spoke to after he walked down her gangplank. "And who's going to work the ship when the crew have gone?" We were in first and had brought to an anchor, waiting for the health officer. I was half dead with work and heat and had oome up out of the engine room and was sat in a chair under the bridge deck awning, getting a spell of rest. There was a glare from the water which hurt, so by way of ease I kept my drowsy eyes on a little old bark that was coming in under lower topsails, with just enough breeze to give her steerageway. She was heading so as to pass within a dozen yards of us, and I watched her with eyes that did not see. Presently the sound of voices came dully to my eara. Again, that woman stands In the crisis of the text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah, It Is a hard thing fof a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart Is not troubled, and she has a fair eheek, and the magnetism of an exquisite presenoe. But now the husband or the father Is dead. The expenses of the obsequies have absorbed all that was left In the savings bank, and, wan and wasted with weeping and watohlng, she goee forth—a grave, a hearse, a coffin behind her—to oontend for her existence and the exlsteooe of her children. When I see suoh a battle as that open, I shudder at the ghastllness of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered slippers and write heartless essays about women's wages, but that question is made up of tears and blood, and there Is more blood than tears. Oh, give woman free aooess to all the realms where she can get a livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit 1 Let men's' wages be oct down before hers are out down. Men have iron in their souls and can stand it. Make the way free to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand the cold, bitter cup of prl ration, and give me nothing but a wlndowless hut for shelter for many years rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my home into the pitiless world a woman's arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Austerlitc, the Waterloo of life for bread I And W man* wnman thtm h#- tween the rock of bereavement on the one aide and the rook of destitution on the other I Bozez andSeneh interlocking their shadows and dropping them upon her miserable way. "There Is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rook on the other •lde." "Oh, we'll have eight of a crew all told, oounting in you and me and Chips here and the skipper. Two of them stowed away in the forehold and two signed on as coal trimmers." At a mile and a half she began to ■hoot, and I'll not say her practice was good. I stood outside my engine room door when I could spare a moment to watch and saw the shots plow gutters in the swells and send fountains of flame far toward the sky. She would give him her all and care not to Blessing of a Family. "Captain Blake," I said, "you're talking to the wrong man. My father was a minister in the free kirk of Scotland, and if I'd gone straight I might be living in his manse even today. I've a failing and a taste for the sea, which has brought me down to what I am now, and I'm fond of a good wage, but neither the one nor the other can induce me to do what you ask. Man, it's most immoral, besides it's not as safe as you seem to think.'' hand?" Before the Lord turned Adam oat of paradise be gave him Eve so that when he lost paradise he oould stand It. Permit one who has never read but a few novels In all his life, and who has not a great deal of romance In his composition, to say that if when a man's fortunes fall he has a good wife—a good Christian wife—he ought not to be despondent. "Oh," you say, "that only Increases the embarrassment, since you have her also to take care of." You are an ingrate, for the woman m often supports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith In Qod. Aught but a smile, a low "I lore you," Which thrills her whole being away through "I'm shipmate with some very clever scoundrels,'' I thought and wished myself far enough away. But as there was no means of getting clear I thought it was best to save my throat by doing as I was bid. Legrand seemed to guess what was passing through my mind. "Be a sensible man, Mr. McTodd," said he, "and do as we want you and draw your £80 a month, and then go ashore and spend it when the time comes. About the right and the wrong of the business you have no concern. That lies between us and our rnuwtences. You have been forced into it against your will." and through, For die's true. Then all of a sudden the motion changed, the roll gave way to a steady pitch, and I knew what had happened. Captain Blake had starboarded his helm and was going to put the stolen steamer on the beach. Well, there was a poor enough chance for us there in all that surf. A minute later there was a whistle down the voice tulDe, and he told me in words what I had guessed already. He said also we'd be on the ground inside a dozen minutes, and we were all to come on deck, so as to get the lDest chance of reaching shore. Days may be dark; days may be fair- In sickness. In health, in Joy, in despair, She proves In each crisis that her love is real. It shiner on serenely, come woe or weal. The world oounta for nothing. What can It do If she belongs to him utterly all through and through "You're Mr. Sandy McTodd, ain't yon?" And is true? —Philadelphia Times. "Nell Angus McTodcL" "Same thing. Still out of a berth, •sonny?' " "Quinine?" said he. "Certainly, Mac, my lad. Wade in and help yourself. Say, you'd better take a couple of Cody's pills to ram it home." "The color of her sides is different, the funnel's different, those stump topmasts are different and the wheel house is unshipped from the upper bridge. Still she's remarkably like my old ship for all that." A Tragedy. "I haven't decided yet which to take." men uiHti mine or i reoaon you it "Well, Mac," he said, "if we don't trade we don't, and there's an end to it Only remember I bold your promise not to repeat what's been spoken." ffcte took his measure. Thus far could he go, And, knowing well the talent hid within. Meekly he wrought at uncongenial tasks, Thongh by them honsat bread oould scarcely win. Well, this man of whom I am speaking looks around, and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light oomes to his eyes, and the smile to his face, and the courage to his heart. In two years he is yulte over it. He makes his financial calamity the first chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that one trouble— conquered it He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Boeez, yet he soon rose and tDegan like Jonathan to olimb. But how often is it that physical ailment oomes with financial •mbarrassmentl When the fortune failed, |t broke the man's spirit. His nerves were •battered. His brain was stunned. I can •how you hundreds of men In our cities whose fortune and health failed at the •ame time. They oame prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day sinoe the hour when they called their ored I tors together for a compromise. If such men are impatient and peculiar and irritable, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of whloh they oould have met successfully. If when the health went (he fortune had been retained, it would not have beeu so bad. The man oould |iave bought the very best medical advice, and he pould have had the very best attendance and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to his welfare. But poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their shadows and drop them upon the poor man's way. God help him I "There is a sharp *ock on the one side and a iluioisekiHi "Li that stern wheeler yourg, captain?"starve." "Cody's?" said I. "They're new to me." "Beet pill that was ever rolled," said be. "Tour English pills make me tired. I guess a man might as well swallow shot corns for all the good they do. Now, Cody's are regular twisters. It doesn't matter what a man has the matter with him, Cody's get right there and let him know they're attending to business. Are you interested in drugs, Mac?" "No, sirree. I'm Captain Blake of the Shah. She's down river at anchor by the quarantine station, waiting orders, and I want a new second engineer. My last skipped. If you think you'd like the berth, come and liquor." "Right O," said I, and 1 walked with him down Canal street, and we turned off and went into a "saloon." It waa on the French side, and I'd seen more respeotable places. We went into an up stairs room, and a nigger brought as two schooners of beer, and when he had gone we were alone, excepting for the flies, which wouldn't repeat what they heard. "I'm not likely to forget," I said and took my cap and left the charthouse. "But she's got a starboard lifeboat. It was the starboard you went off in, wasn't it, captain?" I said, "Aye, aye," and told the hands, and they went willingly enough. But, for myself, I staid. I'd got my engines to look after. It was pretty tough work waiting, though. I marked off 12 minutes on the engine room clock and lit my pipe. But I had to fill it twioe before time was up. The tobacco seemed to burn quicker than usual somehow. But had there come to him, as often comes To men, a fir* his deepest soul to try. Bow grandly had be burst those slavish chains And soared above his dull obscurity 1 "Weel," I said, "Mr. Legrand, yon's a very sensible way of putting it You'll go to hell when the time oomes. I shalln't, and £30 a month's a very pleasant wage to Anger. " CHAPTER II. Now, although be had told me he intended to steal the Shah, Captain Blake said nothing about bis method, and when he got to work that very night I had no idea that what waa happening came from his hand and was the outcome of his knavish ingenuity. "That's not a lifeboat in those starboard davits. That's a quarter boat they've shifted from aft. And the after davits have been unshipped. Look, you can see the sockets of them. By gum, matey, I believe it is the Shah and no other.'' Unsung perhaps, but honored, not unmourned. Beneath the sweet earth s daisied rest he Ilea. "Bonny Scotland," says Legrand, With a laugh. "Hello, here's the skipper again. Well, sir?" That white atone gleaming through the churchyard trees Marks one of earth's most cruel tragediee. —Alice Gray Cowan in Mew Orleans Times- Democrat. Blake came into the charthouse, his face glistening with the wet. "They're off," he said, "all in the starboard lifeboat, and they blew out of sight in a dozen minutes. Knowles is steering, and the old chief has manned the bailer. They expect that the balance of us are following them in the port boat to rendezvous at Key West, and as we shan't turn up by tomorrow or the next day, we shall be reported as lost. Nothing could have happened better. That crowd will be ready to swear, all of them, that they saw the Shall founder before they had left her neighborhood, and so the lot of us can start fresh with purser's names on a fine new steamboat which hasn't cost us a cent." "No man more so. I've been in the west coast trade, captain, and drugs just keep me alive. I fairly lived on them and no expense spared. " I was beginning to wake up. The conversation went on. I bad gone off watch at midnight, had turned in and had been sleeping some hour and a half when the fireman cam* to rouse me. At last she did it. She took the ground somewhere forrard and jarred fit to knock one's teeth out. Then she lifted on a swell and lit the whole of her length ou the ground, till you'd have thought the footplate would have risen up through your cap. Then she lifted twice more and began to make a noise like a meat tin does when boys kick it along a paved street. Ha who by any exertion of mind or body adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, Increases the sum of human knowledge or gives to human life higher elevation or "Can't be, captain. Look at the name all over her—George M. Washington. That's no name for a British ship. I can't say, though, oome to look at her, that she does look like a blazing Yankee." "Sit down right here," said he, "and put that cigar in your face. We must have more talk about this. I need a great deal of drugs myself, and what I don't know about them isn't worth knowing. Bear a hand, and we'll pull out the medicine chest and go through it right now." He said: "She's half full of water, sir, and one of the bilge pumps is broken down. It's two foot deep over our footplates already and coming in like a mill race. It'll reaoh the fires directly, sir, and then it'll be a case of golden shore for all hands if we don't look out. She must have started a plate as you said, sir, when she took the ground in the pass yonder." greater fullness Is in the large mesning of the words a ' producer," a "worklngman," "Now," said the captain, "let's get to business. Item the first—you're stone broke." And is honestly earning honest wages. But he who, without doing aught to make mankind richer, wiser, better, happier. Lives on the toil of others, No matter by what name of honor ha may be called Or how lustily the priests of Mammon stay swing their censers before him, Is in the ltd analysis bnt a beggar man or a thief. —Henry OawgaD What are such to do? Somehow let them pllmb up Into the heights of the glorious promise: "Leave thy fatherless children. I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust In ma " Or get up into the heights at that other glorious promise, "The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow and the fatherless." O ye sewing women on starving wages I O ye widows turned out from the onoe beautiful home! O ye female teachers kept on niggardly stipend I O ye despairing women seeking in vain for work, wandering along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves Into the river last nil ib* O ye .women oft weak MrocD j&a&aidMt "Yankee be hanged) Look at  main shrouds. I rattled them down my•elf in Pensaoola, and we put in wire for every third ratline." "I'm no Jay Gould just for the min nte," I said. "And you'd like to earn treble wages even with hard work?'' "I'm with you there all the way." "And could be content to ask no questions?'' By that time she had broached to, and she was on her beam ends with the engines racing badly. I shut off the throttles before the poor things rived themselves clear of their bedplates. Then I opened the escape valve to the full apd climbed put on deck- The sens were making a clean breach over her by that time, but I did notice that the port lifeboat was gone, and the falls been '{her* wee Well, I have got to tell a good deal against Captain Blake later on, but I will say he was a man who was splendidly informed with regard to medicine. I never met his equal. It seems he always read carefully all the papers which his bottles and pill boxes were wrapped in, and that's a thing many people omit, and besides he'd a book on "Whatever for?" "Sure I can't say. Some crank the old man had. Perhaps he was off his nut. He died directly after of yellow jack. But wire it was. and if you look there you'll see it for yourself. By gum, it is the Shah, sure as death. She's been run away with, and for a bet It's that Biealy moatked Blafce that'* dope}! Of course the yarn about the plate being started when she struck on the bar ought to have given me a hint but it did not When a man is woke out of sleep with news that the ship is settling under him. he has enough to think at in the nraaani witfeoat bothering bi* More than twenty million free samples of DeWltfs Witch Hazel Salve have been distributed by the manufacturers. What better proof of their confidence in its merits do you want ? It cures piles, burns, [scalds, sores, In the shortest space of tiakK ftoBck'aPhamaej. "About what, captain?" "Oarrajo f There you are, beginning already. You've got to ask no quests n— whatever, my son. if yon ootue "And being without papers," I said, "you won't be able to get into a single port to sell her or to look for freights or to do anything." that |s knew better by heart ''Mi dnaa.Mao." sauiBlak*. "do