Pittston Gazette

              P "1 Established 11IBO. I VOL. XIOXNo.Sl.1 Oldest Newspaper in the Wvomine Vallev PITTSTON LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., RRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1899. A Weekly and Family Journal. J SI.00 a Year : in Advanea. | fortunes jidrift. | I By CUTCLIFFE HYNE. I /T Copyright, 1898, by the author. T\ Has it knocked over oiie of your passengers?"beyond tbe ken of man, and indeed those lower decks were scoured clean to the naked rusted iron. The port lifeboat hung stove from bent davits, and three of the cooly crew had bee.u swept from life into tbe grip of the (•.rnal sea. gradations, aua tne arut or tne steamera grew more slow; it eased to a mere gale, and they held their place on the lip of tbe boiling surf, and then with a gasp it sank into quietude, and a great oily swell rose up as if by magic from tbe bowels of tbe deep, and the little Saigon forged ahead and drew tbe helpless passenger ship away from the perilous beach. Those tropical hurricanes of the eastern sea progress in ciroles, and this one bad spurned them from its dutch and let them float on a charmed ring of employment, and Mrs. Kettle and her family must continue to drag along on such scanty doles as he could contrive to send them. All these were distressing thoughts, but they were things not to be remedied, aud he took down tbe accordion and made sweet musio, whioh spread far over the moving plains of ocean. HER NAME ATTHE TOP THE PRICE OF PEPPER. A DRAMATIC CLIMAX. A large, bearded man made reply: "We baf seen a slight mishap mit der 'machinery, oaptain. My ingeneers will mend." "U. 8. S. BROOKLYN" WENT ABOVE It Helped to Ckuc« the History of the Old World. The Effect of One Woman's Pathetis "H. M. S. SPHINX." In the sixteenth century all the pepper oonsumed in England was bought by the English merchants from the Dutch, who brought it from India. Owing to raoial jealousy, the Dutch traders iii 1599 raised the cost from 8 shillings to 6 shillings per pound. This petty display of ill feeling oaused considerable annoyanoe to the English merchants and aroused in them that feeling of independence which has always been so characteristic of our race. That juries are affected by handsome and languishing eyes is proved by a remarkable experience of the greatest advocate at tbe New York bar, the late James T. Brady. He was counsel for a young woman in a case involving an attempt to break a will. Eyea on a Jnry. "Ob, that's all right! Thought it might be worse. Well, I wish you luck, captain. But I'd harry and get steam on her again if I were yon. The breese ma; come away any minute now, and you've the shore close aboard, and "you'll be on it if you don't get your steamboat under command again by then and have a big loss of life. If you get on the beach, it will surprise me if don't drown all hands." Oortolvin fought his way up on to tbe upper bridgo step by step agaiust the frantic beating of the wind  being bidden relieved at the lee spokes of the wheel. Oaptain Kettle nodded bis thanks. The Saigon bad no Bteam steering gear, and in some of tbe heaviest squalls tbe wheel threatened to take charge and pitch the little shipmaster clean over the spokes. A Heroic Feat at Hmca( by Some of Uncle Sam's Old Time Jack TarD That Thrilled tkcHeuta of a Whole Shlp'a Crew. But Mr. MoTodd had visions of more immediate profit. He washed with soap until his face was brilliant, put on a full suit of slouchest serge, took boat and rowed over to the rolling Germau liner. It was midnight when he returned, affluent in pocket and rather deep in liquor. He went into the obartbouse without invitation, smiled benignly and took a camp stool. There was once another Brooklyn, the forerunner of the present armored cruiser, but the old Brooklyn, which, during tbe civil war, gained tbe name of the "Butcher Shop," had no resemblance to tbe floating fortress that hurled destruction into tbe fleet of Admiral Cervera. Bis client sat by his side. She was a very beautiful young woman whose eyes seemed always to rivet the attention of those upon whom her glanoe fell. There was a pathetic expression whioh affected every one. She safe watohing the jury during tbe course of tbe trial, and at last there was some oompiaint that she was attempting by means of her glanoes to excite the sympathy of the jury. Then Mr. Brady arose and in one of the most touching and beautiful of all the addresses he ever made in court he spoke of the blessings which every one who had an appreciation of beautiful things and oould see them enjoyed, and dwelt for some moments upon tbe happy lot of tbe jury who oould see the budding of the flowers—it was then springtime—and tbe charms of nature; then, suddenly turning to his olient, he said, "That blessing is denied my client, for, though she has eyes whioh seem to look upon you, gentlemen, there is no vision in them, for her sight haB been taken from her." Cortolvin bowed over the wheel in silent thankfulness, but the shipmaiiter rejoiced aloud. calm Amid tbe bellowing roar of tbe tornado speeoh, of course, was impossible, and vision, too, was limited. No human eye could look into the wind, and even to let it strike the face was a torture. The sea did not get up. The crest of any wave wbiob tried to rise was cut off remorselessly by tbe knives of the hurricane and spread as a stingiug mitt throughout tbe wind. It was hard indeed to tell where ooean ceased and air began. The wbite sea was spread in a blur of wbite and green. They determined to import their pepper direct from India in their own ships, and for this purpose formed a company, called the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading to the East Indies, and whioh in latter days became eventually known as tbe East India company. Their first voyages embroiled them in almost innumerable quarrels with tbe Dutch and Portuguese, and for a time the venture proved a financial failure. It was not until 1610 that tbe company became suooessful and obtained lucrative treaties, owing to their decisively defeating the Portuguese. From this time on their possessions gradually increased, slowly at first, and then very rapidly, until, by tbe wise and benefioial management of suoh men as Clive, Warren Bastings and Oornwallis, they exercised sovereignty over the greater portion of India. down a purple face from the head of the upper bridge ladder. "Aye, aye!" Oaptain Kettle put a hand on the telegraph, as though to ring on his engines again, but the bearded German, after u preliminary stamp of passion, held up his band for further parley, but ior the moment the opportunity of speeoh was taken from him. The passengers were either English, or, for the most pait, understood that tongue when spoken, and they drank in every word that was said, as Kettle had intended, and now they surged in a writhing, yelling mob at tbe foot of the. two bridge ladder* and demanded that assistance should be hired, let that cost wbat it might. There was no making a hail oarry above that frightened uproar, but the German shipmaster raved and explained and reasoned for fully a dozen moments before he quelled it. Then, panting, he -came once more to the end of his bridge and addressed the other steamer. • "How's that, umpire?" said he. "By .Tames, wasn't it worth banging on for? I've got a wife, sir, and kids, and I'm remembering this moment that they'll always have full bellies from now onward, and good clothes, and no more cheap lodgiugs, but a decent bouse semidetached, and money to plank down on tbe plate when they go to cbapel on Sundays. The skipper of that Dutchman will be ruined over this last half hoar's job, bat I can't help that. It's myself I have po think of first. One has to in this world, or no one else will, and, Mr. Cortolvin, I'm a made man. Thanks to MoTodd"— Cortolvin came out under tbe bridge deck awning, up through tbe baking beat of tbe oompanionway, and dropped listlessly into a deck chair. He was dresaed in slop chest pyjamas of a vivid pattern and bad a newly shaven chin, wbiob stood out refreshingly wbite against the zest of his sun darkened countenance."Get all tbe awnings off ber," the shipmaster ordered. "Put extra grips on the boats and see everything lashed fact that a steam crane oonld move. We're in for a bad breeze directly." "They tbooght they would get me down into the messroom over yonder," said he, "and I'll no' deny it was a temptation. I oonld have telled those Dutch engineers a thing or two. But I'm a' for business first when there is siller ahead. So I went aft to the saloon. They were at dinner, and there were pnir appetites among them. But some one spied me standing by the door and Ingged me into a seat and gave me meat and drink—ohampagne, no less— and set me on to talk. Lord, onoe I got my tongue wagging, ye should have seen them I There was no more eating done. They wanted to know how near death they'd been, and I telled 'em, and there was the old man and all the brags edged offloers at the ends of the tables fit to eat me for giving the yarn away. But a (bio) fat lot I oared. I set on the music, and they sent round the hat. Loshl There was £24 English when they handed it over to me. Skipper, ye ■bould go and try it for yersel'." The old ship bore a great spread of canvas and had but auxiliary steam power. Her lofty masts and creaking yards would seem singnlarly out of place today, but they served their purpose in their own time. Her open deok, with double row of muzzle loading, smoothbore guns, looked like a soene from a mediaeval drama, and when she went to sea tbe flapping of the sails and the snap of the cordage were not an unwelcome lullaby to those who slept beneath her cool wbite decks. "Aye, aye!" rumbled the mate and clapped a leaden whistle to his month and blew it shrilly. A minute later be reported: "A big steamer lying to just a point or two off the starboard bow, captain. I hadn't seen ber before because of tbe haze." He examined her carefully through the bridge binoculars and *arve his observations wJVh heavy deliberation: "She's square rigged forrard and has a black finnel with a red band—no two red bands. Seems to me like one of tbe German Mail boats, and I should say she was broke down." "Well," Hid Oaptain Kettle as he shoved across tbe box of cheroots, "are we any nearer getting under way?" Tbe big helpless liner astern plucked savagely at tbe Saigou's tail, and the pair of thwu ware moving ooastward witb speed. Left to berself and steaming full speed into the gale tbe little Saigon wonld have been able to maintain ber position, neither losing ground nor gaining any. Witb tbe heavy tow in charge she was being driven toward tbe roaring surf of the African beaoh with perilous speed. "I looked in at tbe engine room as I came past," said the tall man, with a laugh, "and tbe chief had a good deal to say. I gathered it was his Dun that the fellow who last bad charge of those engines ought to die a cruel and lingering death." This old Brooklyn sailed one day from New York, bound upon a roving cruise and came in time to the Azores islands, whence she sailed for Lisbon and Gibraltar and, passing through the Mediterranean and the Suez oanal, (teamed slowly down the soorching Bed. sea. A stop at Aden for a day or two made her ready for a journey to the Persian gulf, but when the gulf of Ormaz was reached the skipper thought to take a look at Muscat, and so the coarse was shaped for the capital of the son of Abraham, whose forefathers for hundreds, nay, thousands, of years, had been sheiks of the desert From below there came a sadden whir of machinery, as though the engines bad momentarily gone mad, and then a bumping and a banging which jarred every plate of the Saigon'ft rabrio, and then a silence, broken only by the thin, distant scream of a hart man. Presently the boom of steam broke ont from the escape pipe beside the funnel, and a minnte later the chief engineer made his way leisurely tip on to the bridga He was bleeding from a ont on the forehead, and another gash show ad red among the grime on hia stubby cheek. He was shredding tobacco wil'.h a clarp knife as be walked and seemed from his manner to be a man quite divorced from all responsible occupation! He halted a minnte at the head of the btidge ladder, replaced the tobacco oale in the pocket of hia ooat and rolled op the shredding* in the palms of hia crackled hands. Then he filled a short briCir pipe, lit it and surveyed the available universe. "It's a »ore point •with MoTodd when ■be breaks down. Bot did be eay bow long it would be before be oonld give ber steam? I'm a bit anxious. The glass is tumbling band over fist, and, what with that and this heat, there's small doubt bot what we'll have a tornado olattering about oar ears direotly. There's the shore close aboard, as yon can me for yourself, and if the wind comea away anywhere from tbe east'ard it'll blow this old steamboat half way Into tfce middle of Africa before we can look around us. It's a bad season just dow for tornadoes." Captain Kettle rose springily from bis deck chair and swung himself into the upper bridge. Cortolvin followed. "Dose bassengers vos nervous," said be, "because dey thought dere might be some leetle rain squall. So I ask you how mooch vould you take my rope und tow me to Aden or Perim?" In this manner it happened that an increase in the price of pepper momentonsly affected the history of mankind. —London Standard. She had been, in fact, the victim of total paralysis of the optic nerve, which had not impaired the beauty of her eyes, but had given to them that singular pathetic expression which she waa thus falsely charged with employing that she might secure the sympathies of the jury.—Philadelphia Press. It was possible to see dimly down the wind, and when Cortolvin turnod his face away from the stinging blast of the tornado be could understand with clearness their exact position. Close astern was the plunging German liner, with her decks stripped and deserted and only the bridge officers exposed. Beyond was the cotton white sea, and beyond again were great leaping fountains of whiteness, where the tortured ocean roared against tbe yellow beach. A mist of heat shnt tbe sea into a narrow ring. Overhead was a heavy purple darkness, impenetrable as a ceiling of briok. Tbe only light that crept in came from the mysterious unseen plain of tbe horizon. From ev&ry point of tbe compass uneasy thunder gave forth now and then a stifled bellow, and, though tbe lightning splashes never showed, sudden thinnings of tbe gloom would bint at their nearness. Tbe air shimmered and danced with tbe baking beat, and, though lurid grays and pinks predominated, the glow which filled it was constantly ohanging in hue. . Abe scene was terrifying, but Kettle regarded it with a satisfied smile. The one oommercial prayer of the shipmaster is to meet with a passenger steamer at sea broken down and requiring a tow, and here was one of the plums of the ocean ready to bis band and anxious to be plucked. The worse the weather the greater would be tbe salvage, and Captain Kettle could have bugged himself with joy when be thought of the tropical hurricane's nearness. He bad changed the Saigon's course the instant he came on tbe bridge and bad pulled tbe siren string and booted cheerfully into tbe throbbing air to announoe his coming. Tbe spectral steamer grew every moment more clear, and presently a string of barbaric oolors jerked up to tbe wire span between ber masts. There was no breath of wind to make the flags blow out. They hung in dejected cowls, but to Kettle tbey read like tbe page of an open book. "Phew!" said Kettle. "Aden! That's wrong way for me, captain. Red sea's where 1 come from, and my owner cabled me to hnrry and get to Zanzibar." "Veil, how mooch?" "Mr. McTodd, "said the little sailor, "I am not a dashed mendicant." A Iklaiac Mark. A lady, grievously tormented with a oorn on her toe, was adviaed by one of her friends to anoint it with phosphorus, which in a weak moment she did, but forgot to tell her husband before retiring at night It had just turned 12 when the husband awoke, and waa startled to see something sparkling at the foot of the bed. The engineer stared with a boiled eye and swayed on his camp stool. He had not quite grasped the remark. "I'm Scotch myselV' said he at length. NO STOVES IN KOREA. "Well, say £100,000, as your passengers seem so anxious." In all her journey the good ship had entered not a port where the proud cross of St. George could not be seen from the staff of a British man-of-war, but here at Muscat it was thought that at least our flag would be the only token of western civilization inevidenoe. But it was not so, for, as the Brooklyn rounded a high promontory that shut in the little harbor, there, lying at anchor, was seen the English gunboat Sphinx with her milk white flag floating above her. "Same thing," aaid Kettle. "I'm neither. I'm a common low down Englishman, with the pride of the Prince of Wales and a darned ugly tongue, and don't you forget it" • Imitni Flaps Are Laid Cain th« Floor», Wklek Arc This Heated. Stores are not used to any extant by tbe native Koreans. The Korean method of beating is excellently adapted to tbeir resources and conditions. In building their bouses they lay down a system of fines where the floor is to be. These fines begin at a fireplace, which is usually placed in an outer shed or oonneoting closed alleyway. From this fireplace the fines extend in a more or leas curved direotion, like the ribs of a round fan, to a trench at the rear of tbe room, whioh in tarn opens into a chimney, whioh is usually placed some distanoe from tbe house. Flat flagstones are then placed carefully over these flues, and the whole ia cemented over and finally oovered with a thick oil paper, for wbioh the country is noted. This paper keeps smoke from entering the room, and a little straw or brushwood, used in the fireplace for  cooking tbe rice, serves to heat tb« stone floor and givea an agreeable warmth, which lasts till the time of tbe next meal. Two beatings daily tend to give the people a nice warm floor, upon which v they sit in tbe daytime and sleep at night By leaving their shoes at the door the inmates preserve tbe paper floor, wbioh from constant polishing takes on a rioh brown color.—New -i York Press. "Hondred t'ousand teufels! Herr Gott, I haf not Rhodes on der sheep!" !; Tbe olattering of iron boot plates made itself beard on tbe brass bound Hep of tbe oompanionway. "That'll be tbe chief ooming to answer for bim«elf," said Cortolvin. "Well, captain, take the offer or leave it I'm not a towboat, and I'm in a hurry to make my passage. If you keep me waiting here five minutes longer, it'll cost you £120,000 to be plucked in anywhere." Thirty minutes passed, each second of them brimmed with frenzied straggle for both man and Machinery. The tornado raged and boomed and roared, and the backward drift was a thing which could be measured with the eye. He bad never beard of a firefly in tbe locality, nor did be ever remember seeing such a terrible looking object as tbe toe presented. Reaching carefully out of bed till be fonnd one of his slippers be raised it bigb in tbe air and brought it down with great forae upon the mysterious light McTodd pulled aoharred cigar stump from hia pocket and lit it with care. He nodded to the accordion. "Go on with yei noise," said he. Mr. Neil Angus MoTodd always ad ■ vertised bis oalliug in tbe attire of bis outward man, and tbe eye of an expert ooold tell with soreness at any given moment whether Mr. McTodd was in employment or not, and, if so, what type of steamboat be was on, what was bia official position, wbat was bis pay and wbat was the last bit of work on which be bad been employed. Tbe present was tbe fourth occasion on which the Saigon's machinery had chosen to break down during Captain Kettle's two months of command, and after bis herculean efforts in making repairs with insufficient staff and materials. Mr. Mo- Todd was unpleasant both to look upon and assooiate with. He was attired in moist black boots, gray flannel pyjamas trousers stuffed into bis socks, a weird garment of flannel upon bis upper man, • clout round bis neck and a peaked cap upon bis grizaled red bair anointed with years of spraying oil. His elbows and bis forehead shone like dull mirrors of steel, and be carried one of bis thumbs wrapped up in a grimy crimson rag. Hia conversation was full of unnecessary adjectives, and be was inclined to taka a cantankerous view of the universe. "They'd disgrace the scrap heap of any decent yard, would the things tbey miscall engines on this rotten tub," said be by way of preface. "Tbey are holy engines, and that's a fact," said Kettle. "How long can you guarantee them tor this time?" The shipmaster on the other bridge went into a frenzy of expostulation. He appealed to. all Captain Kettle's better feelings. He dared him to do his worst. He prayed him to do bis best. But Kettle gazed upon tbe man's gesticulating arms and listened to his frantic oratory unmoved. He lit a and leaned bis elbows on the white railing of tbe bridge and did not reply by so innch as ■ single word. When tbe other baited (brongb breatblessness, even then he did not speak. He waved bis band toward tbe fearsome heavens with their lurid lights and pointed to the bumping thunder, which made both steamers vaguely tremble, and he let those argue for him. The clamor of the passengers rose again in the breathless, baking air, and tbe captain of tbe liner had to yield. He threw up his arm in token of surrender, and a bush fell upon tbe wene like tbe silenoe of death. Then the old mate heaved himself up tbe bridge ladder by laborious inches. His clothes were whipping from him in tattered ribbons, his hat was gone, and the grizzled hair stood out from the hack of his head like the bristles of a broom. He clawed his way along the rail and put his great red faoe close to Kettle's ear. "You'll be the tornado, way ahead there, I'm thinking," said he. Captain Kettle's fingers began to twitch suggestively, and Cortolvin, to keep the peace, offered to escort McTodd to hia room. "Are those blame engines broke down again?" asked Kettle sharply. "Aye, ye may put it they've broke down." Muscat had muoh that was strange and weird to interest the Americana, but neither the palaoe of the sultan, with its double wall, between the two parts of which are kept the tigers whose duty it is to guard the palaoe at night, nor the imperial harem's grim exterior, nor tbe gorgeous apparel of the sultan himself had half the attraction for the westerners that the grim, sheer face of the promontory that ahuts in tbe harbor bad; for there upon tbe bleak wall of this towering height were painted tbe names of many ships, and bigb above them all, in a plaoe that seemed inaccessible, were tbe words, "H. M. 8. Sphinx." A shriek and an avalanche of bedclothes, and all was over. When at last he released himself from tbe bedclothes, be discovered his wife groaning in i corner of the bedroom, but she had not got that phosphorated oorn.—London Answers. "I thank ye," said the engineer. "It's the climate. I have malaria in the system, and it stays there in spite of all that drugs can do and affects the perambulatory muscles of the lower extremities. Speaking of which, ye'll na doot have seen for yersel' "— "Then away with you below again, Mr. McTodd, and get them running again. You may smoke when we bring up tbe Aden." "We can't hold her!" he roared. "She's taking us ashore. We shall be there in a dozen minutes, and then it will be 'Jones' for tbe lot of us." McTodd puffed twice more at his pipe and spat on the wheel grating. "By James I" said Kettle, hear me?" "Do yon "Oh, come along to bed!" said Cortolvin.Tbe first attempt at scientific forecasting of tbe weather was the result at a storm which during the Crimean war, Nov. 14, 1864, almost destroyed the fleets of France and England. As a storm bad raged several days earlier in France Vaillant, tbe French minister of war, directed that investigations be made to see if tbe two storms were tbe same and if theprogreae oj the disturbances oould havid bees-foretold. It was demonstrated that the two were in reality me storm and that its path oould have been ascertained and tbe fleet forewarned in ample time to reach safety. Captain Kettle glared, but made no articulate reply. If he could have spared a baud from the wheel spokes, it is probable that Mr. Murgatroyd would have feh tbe weight of it. . "My lungs are a bit muzzy, but I ct.n hear ye for a' that, captain. Only thing is I can't do as ye'd like." "Bide a wee, mannie," said the man in the blue serge solemnly. "There's a thought come to me that I've a message to give. Do ye ken anybody called Calvert?"Captain Kettle stiffened ominously. "Mr. MoTodd," he said, "if you foroe me to take you in hand and phow you bow to set about your work you'll regret it." Tbe old fellow bawled at bim again: "Tbe bands know it as well as me, and tbey say they're not going to be drowned for anybody. Tbey say they're going to oast off tbe hawerr." "Archie Calvert by any chance:" " 'Ercbie' was the name he gave. He ■aid be kenned ye weel." Tbe men of tbe Brooklyn stared at that name day after day, until it seemed burned into their brains, and the spirit of emulation grew within them. "Man," said tbe engineer, "I oan do some kind of imposaibeelitiea. Ye've seen me do tbem. Ye've aeen me keC»p those palsied rattletraps running iJl through that blow. But if ye ask me to make a new propeller out of rod iron and packing cases I'll have to tell ye that yon kind of meeraole'a beyond me." "We were at Cambridge together." "P. B. Q. I" be cried, and clapped tbe binoculars back in tbe box and snapped down tbe lid. "P. B. Q., Mr. Cortolvin, and don't you forget having seen it. 'Have broken my machinery'— tbat means 'I want immediate assist- Tbia time Captain Kettle yelled back a mply. "Xou thing 1" he cried. "You "Cambridge were ye? Weel, I should bare been a D. D. of A berdeen mysel' if I'd done aa my fatber wished. He waa Free kirk meemster or isamndrocbater"—"My gompany shall pay you hondred t'ousand pound, captain, und you haf der satisfaction dot you make me ruined man." The night before the Brooklyn was to sail for Persian waters there were evidences of a secret movement among the crew, and after the night bad fallen still and black a boat pulled off from the vessel's side, and with muffled oars made rapidly for the share. Et carried many things of various fort* and among them a lantern, whose tiny glimmer those on the ships watched with bated breath as it reached the shore and slowly began tbe asoent of the promontory. Now it would disappear and then glitter again like a star of hope and comfort, and so it went slowly on, ever up and up tbe face of tbe outlined precipice. putty man, g«4 back to your post f If you want to live, keep tboae niggers' fingers off tbe shackle. By James, if that tow is cast off, I'll turn the Saigon for the beacb and drown tbe wbole crew of you inside of three minutes! By James, yea, and you know me, and yon know I'll do it too! You ham faoed jellyfish, away aft with you and save your blooming life!" "I have been ruined myself," said Kettle, "heaps of times, and my turn for tbe other thing seems to be come now. I'll run down closer to you, cap- "Yea, but abou» Calvert." Maori Woasea. The Maori women of Australasia hav* tbeir rights—flourishing ones. General- ■ ly they have little voice or oboioe in the selection of their first husbands, bnt they may, and frequently do, change them. A woman may trade her fans band without so mnch as a comment from the pnblio, without the slightest smudge on her good name, and it, is nothing to his di sored it either. Courtship is always brief and does not often preface marriage. The Maoris, however, love to re-  peat oriental love tales and sing love songs. Maori widows not infrequently , oommit suicide on the graves of tbeir husbands and are honored for doing so, as in Ohina. Divorce is simple; it needs no revenue, employs no officers, He turns her out of doors, and both are free to remarry. This is aiL Girls are of tec betrothed irrevocably from infancy. ance.' " "On aye, Calvert—Ercbie Calvert, aa ye say. Weel, I said we'd ye aboard, and this Calvert—Erotrtw Calvert—said he'd newa for ye about yer wife." 4ulU«4 «• Do It. "Did yon know," said the tooth ear- " Yon seem to know it by heart,'' said Cortolvin. "There's not * steamboat officer od all the seas that doesn't. When things are very down with us, we take oat the signal book and hunt np P. B. Q. and tell ourselves that some day we may come aoross a Cunarder in a broken tail shaft and be able to give np the pea and be living politely on £200 a year, well Invested, within a fortnight It's the steamboat officer's .'dream, sir, but there's few of uft-itoomes true for." "My greet James!"' paid Kettle. "You don't mean to tell me tbe propeller's gone?" ths Indiana practiced dentistry in the earliest times?" "All right; never mind that now. She's dead, I know, poor woman t Let me help yon down to yonr bank." "Either that or else all the blades have stripped off the boss. If ye'd been below on my footplates, ye'd hare kenned it fine. When It went those ptnir engines raced like an auld cab horse trying to gallop, and they just got tied in knot* and tumbled down and sprawled 15 ways at once. I was on the platform oiling wben they jumped, and that nigger second of mine tried to get mi the throttle to close her down." "I didn't know it," replied the man who had onoe aat in * dentist's chair, "bnt I am not at all surprised. The Indians have always been a brutal and cruel race." The man winoed under the little captain's tongue and went away, and Captain Kettle looked across the wheel at his assistant The engineer mopped -bis neck with a wad of ootton waste. "Ten revolutions, if ye wish me to be certain. It'a a verra dry ship, this." "Dinna be so offensive, man, and bide a wee to hear ma' news. Ye're no' a widow, after all—widower, that is. Yer guid wife dinna dee, as ye think. She'd a fall from a horse, which'11 probably teach her to leave horse riding alone to men in the future, and it got in the papers she was killed, bnt it seems a shaking was all she earned. And, talking of horses, now, when I was a bairn in Ballindrochater"— Then he langhed gleefully, forgetful of the fact that there was still time for the dentist to add 915 or $20 to his bill —Ohioaso Port.  "And how many more? We shall want them. There's a tornado coming on." Cortolvin shrugged bis shoulders and glanoed backward at the beach and nodded. Kettle leaned across and shouted: The hours dragged slowly by, and it was far into the night when a tired boat's crow clambered slowly over the Brooklyn's side and dropped exhausted into their hammocks for a short sleep before the call of "all hands" in the morning. "I know it, sir, as well aa you do; I know it as well as they do, but I've got a fortune in tow yonder, 4bd I'd ratber die than set It adrift. It isn't one fortune either; it's a dozen fortunes, and I have jnst got to grab one of them. I'm a married man, sir, with a family, and I've known what It was to watch and see 'em hungry. You'll stand by me, Mr. Cortolvin?" QUEER MIST FREAK8. "I'm no' anxious to perjure mysel', captain, but they might run on for a full minnte or they might run on for a day. There's a oapricionsness about the rattletraps that might amuae some people, but it does not appeal to me. I'm in fear of niy life every minute I stand on the footplate." * "I'd not have taken you for a frightened man." "Skipper," said Cortolvin, "I need not tell yon how pleased I'll be if yon oome into a competence over this business. In the meanwhile, if there's anything I can do, from coal trimming upward, I'm your moat obedient servant." 4 Fob WUek Mo-ret, With Psryw "Weel, be didn't; that's all. Ho'a lying in the low pressure crank pit this minnte, and tbe top of bis sknll'll be to seek somewhere by ash lift. Man, I tell ye, yon second of mine's an uncanny sigbt. So I bad to do his work for him, and then I blew off my boile rs and came up here. It would have been verra comforting to my professional conscience if I could bave steamed ber into Aden. But I'm no' as sorry as I might be for what's happened. I have it in mind that yon Parsee owner of ours in Bombay'!! lose siller over this break- " Well, get on man, get on I" ilealw Walls, Llk* m Ie«fe«rg. Cortolvin shook him savagely by tbe arm. "My God!" he cried. "Do you mean to say she's not dead?" . The Brooklyn sailed away just aa the ran began to show above the eastern horizon, and aa she swung upon her oonrse and stood for the waters of the open gulf a cheer burst from the throats of the whole ship's company. For there, in great letters of white that caught the warmth of the rising sun, far above the name of her majesty's ship Sphinx, far above the highest name of all, oould be seen the legend "U. & S. Brooklyn." Seafaring men have often described meeting with a fog bank at sea the llmlta if which wan so clearly defined that the forward part of their vessel would be in bright sunlight, with the after portion enveloped In dense fog. That the phenomenon is not misstated any of the many people paselBg the brink of the decline leading down Pacific avenue from the city hall at 10 o'clock Satqtday morning oould readily attest This hod cleared ao that the ships at the elevators woe plainly visible. Suddenly there came from the straits a bank of fog whloh Instead of unfolding and drifting over the surface of the bay, oame solidly on. This formation waa kept up until the fog struck the rise on Paoifia avenue leading to the wharf. Then It broke, the mist drifting up in trailing slouds. The spectacle of this marching wall of fog, as clearly perpendicular as the side of a building, with the sun's rays striking against It, was indeed grand. Several shipping men notioed It and fog was made the subject of conversation in a number of offioee on the water front, bringing forth the narration of similar instances."I thank you, sir," said Kettle, "and if you'd go and oarry the newa to the chief I'll be obliged. I know he'll say his engines can't hold out. Tell him they must. Tell him to use up anything be has sooner than get another breakdown. Tell him to rip np his soul for strnts and backstays if he thinks it'll keep ibem running. It's the one ohance of my life, Mr. Oortolvin, and the one chance of his, and he's got to know it, and see we aren't robbed of what is put before ua. Show him where the siller oomes in, sir, and then stand by and you'll see Mr. McTodd work miracles." Cortolvin passed a hand wearily over his eyes. "And a minnte ago," he whispered, "I thought I was going home." His hand dropped limply to hia aide; his head slid to the charthouse deck in a dead faint. "Aren't I telling ye?" Sfuatc sad Eatlig. I dined the other day at a restaurant where the dinner is served to the aocompaniment of an orchestra. We had "King Cotton" with the oysters and rag time with the soup. Then the orchestra slid into that always beautiful intermezzo of "Oavalleria Rnsticana." They played it much more slowly than 1 remember ever to have heard it before. The head waiter fidgeted and gnawed bis lip. There waa misery in his eye. At last be disappeared in the direction of the musicians, and a moment later the intermezzo began to gallop along,, presto, prestissimo, and at the end of it the orchestra struck up a two step. The head waitei oame baok relieved. "I'm not that as a usual thing, but the temperature of yon engine room varies between 120 and '130 degrees of th« Fahrenheit scale, and it's destroying to the nerves. All the aqueous vapor leaves the system, and I'm verra badly in need of a tonic. Is yon whisky in the black bottle, oaptain?" "It seems I promised. You kmw I've been long enough with Mohammedans, skipper, to be somewhat a fatalist So I say Qod is great and our fates are written on our foreheads and no man can change by an iuoh the path which it is foreordained he should tread. Bnt they are queer fates, some of them. I went away from England because of my wife; I step out of tbe middle of Arabia and stumble across yon and hear that she is dead; I look forward to going home and living a peaceful oountry life, and now it appears I'm to be drowned obscurely, out of the touch of newspapers. However, I'll be consistent I won't grumble, and you may bear me aay it aloud, 'La Allah illab Allah.' " MoTodd swayed on tbe camp stool and regarded him with a puzzled eye. "Losh," he said, "here's him drunk as well as me—two of us, and I never kenned it It's a sad, immoral world, skipper, verra sad. Skipper, I say, here's Mr. Cortolvin been— O Lord, and he isn't listening either!" "We cnn't hold her!" he roared. And there today, looking down upon the tiger guarded palace and the harem of the sultan, ever before the Arabs and the Belooohistanese of the tiny sultanate, still gleams the magio name that Sohley and Cook once again made famous and that shall endure in history when Muscat itself shall be forgotten. —Washington Poet tain, or do you bid your nanus neave me a line from the fo'o's'le head aa I oome past. You've cut it pretty fine. You've no time left to get a boat in the water. The wind may come away any moment now." "Take a peg, Mao." "I'll just have a sma' three fingers now ye mention it." He laid the thick- p—/ est part of his knotty knuckles against the side of the tumbler and ponred ont Cortolvin went below, and Kettle turned to the old mate. "Mr. Murgatroyd," said he, "get a dozen bands to rouse up ths t new manilla out of the store. I take you from the foredeck and give yon the after deck to yourself. I'll have to bargain with that fellow over there before we do anything, and there will be little enough-time left after we've fixed upon prices. So have everything ready to begin to tow. We'll use their wire." Captain Kettle was changing into an other man. All the insoucianoe bad gone from him. He gave his orders with crispneas and decision, and the mates and the lascars jumped to obey tbem. The horrible danger that was to oome lay as an open and they knew that their onhr way to pasa safely through it—and even then the chances were slim—was to obey the man who commanded them to the uttermostCaptain Kettle had gone out of tbe ohartbouse. The thud of a propeller had fallen upon bis ear, and he leaned over the Saigon's rail and sadly watched a triangle of light draw up through the cool purple night. A cargo etoamer, freighted with rails for the Beixa railway, was coming gleefully toward them from out of tbe north to pick up tbe rich gleanings which the ocean offered. How a Fro* Hibernates. Acoording to Simon Henry Sage, the frog does not hibernate in leaves or the trunks of trees, but in a dry hole in the ground not likely to freeze He scratches the hole with his hind feet and enters backward. Once inside, there is apparently no trace of the fact outside. Frogs found under frozen leaves are still able to move about Mr. Sage has found hibernating frogs with their extremitiea and skin frozen, but their vital organs were still intaot, and they reoovered their activity on being liberated.—London Globe. "We oan't have slow musio here, madam," he said to me when I asked bim about it " We'd never get through, and I wanta to get off early. People eaU too slow when they plays slow musio." Captain Kettle made no reply. Through tbe infernal uproar of the tornado he did not hear muah of what was said, and part of what did reach bis ears was beyond his comprehension. Besides, his mind was not unnaturally oocupied with more selfish considerations. Astern of bim, in tbe German liner, were some thousand passengers, who were all assets for nalvage. Tbe detail of buman life did not enter much into bis calculations. He bad been brought up in a school wbere life is cheap and not so pleasant and savory a thing that it is set much store on. Tbe passengers, were part of tbe ship, just as much as were ber engines and the bullion which he hoped she carried. Tbe company which owned ber was responsible for all; their oredit would be damaged if all or a part of ber was lost, and be, Owen Kettle, would reap a proportionate reward if be could drag ber into any oivilized port. And when he thought of tbe roaring beacb so terribly close astern he bit his beard in an agony of apprehension lest tbe fates should steal this fortune /rom him. One of these oame from Captain Mo- Cabe, who said: "The strangest combination for fog to take on that has come under my observation occurred here on the sound same months ago. I was traveling by steamer from Port Townshend to Seattle. As we rounded Admiralty head there loomed up before us what appeared to be a waterlogged steamer. From her bulwark rails up everything was perfectly visible. The lookout on the forecastle head, the offloer on the bridge, the deckhouse, masts and smokestack were all aa plain to our sight as Is the Northern Paoiflo warehouse across the railroad track from we now sit "But below the bulwSb line nothing could be seen of the vessel. It might have been some Puget sound Flying Dutchman for all we knew, or possibly a craft seeking a beaching point before sinking. And when £ looked around I saw that knives, forks and spoons were moving to the tempo of the twostep. Everybody was hurrying. The bead waiter knew what be was about—Washington Post "Aye, aye!" said the mate. "But it won't do to tow with oaptain, through what's coming. There's no give in wire. A wire hawser would jerk the gnts out of her in 15 minutes." Wfcei Insects Sleep. The connection between the steamers bad been made, the snaky steel wire hawser had been hauled in through a stern fair lead by the Saigon's winoh, and the old mate stood ready with the shackle wbioh would link it on to the manilla. • • • • • • There is no doubt that all insects except those like the May fly, which die very soon after they are born, take rest. Some of tbem take from 10 to 20 hours' rest at a time, as, for instance, butterflies, which remain fixed to certain spots for days together. Some caterpillars and moths like rest during the day, appearing only at night; while insects of the bee and wasp tribe do their work by day and slumber at night. I OUIU. If to be youac Is to be glad at heart, To lore the birds, to love the wayside flow Kettle tightened his lips. "Mr. Murgatroyd," said be, "I am not a blame tool. Neither do I want dictation from my officers. I told you to rouse np the manilla. Yon will back the wire with a double bridle of that." ■*1 era. To leap with Joy in springtide's breeay hours And find a bliss in nature's every part- In things that creep, in fleh that dive and Sweethearts. Mr. A. Ballard, B. A., LL. B., sends us the following from Oxford: "Your tale of the Italian prelate reminda me of the negro student who of our great missionary colleges was conducting family prayers, and in an outburst of enthusiasm prayed, 'Give us all pure hearts, give us all clean hearts, give us all sweet hearts,' to which all the congregation replied, 'Amen.'"—London Chronicle. The heaven* yielded up an overture like the eoho of a Titan's groan. "Hurry, there, you alow footed dogal" came Kettle'a voice from the bridge. Then In the playground of delightful bowers " Aye, aye!" grunted the mate. "But what am I to make fast to? Them bollarda aft might be stepped in putty for all the use they are. They'd not tow t rowboat through what'a coming. I believe they'd draw if they'd a fishing lln« wide faat to tbem." "By Janus!" mid Kettle. "Do you hear I bear a youth that shall not loee its powers, Nor dread the strife of eager town and mart. met" _ „ down, and I want that beggar punished for all tbe work be's given me to do on a small wage. Mr. Cortolvin, hate ye a match?" The lascars brought up the eye of the hawser, and Murgatroyd threaded it on the pin of the shackle. Then he cried, "All fasti" and picked up a spike and screwed home the pin in its socket. Already the engines were on the move again, and the 8aigon. was steaming ahead on the towline. It waa a time for hurry. Beetles may often be found during tbe daytime with their legs drawn up under their bodies in a condition suggesting repose; while it is well known that they make their depredations principally by night If to be young is to be full of hope D And buoyant lite, longing to cast away The petty cares that make us stoop and grope And be a child again with mirth and play- "It v aa weird and for several minutes deceiving. The morning had opened so thick that the fog had driven down ao clow to the surface of the channel aa to form a blanket for all but the lower part of the vessel. Yea, so It waa. Ahead of Mm the great slate colored liner lay motionless. some half gill of spirits. "Weel," aaid he, "may we get aa good whisky where we're going to," and enveloped thedoae with a dexterous turn of the wrist, after which ambiguous toast be wiped bia lips with ootton waste and took bimaelf off again to the baking regions below, abd presently a dull rumbling and • tremor of her fabric announced that the Saigon waa once more under way. The little steamer bad coaled at Perim island, in the southern mouth of the Bed sea, had come out into the Indian oeean through the strait of Bab el (Mandeb, bad rounded Oape Ouardafui and was on ber way down to Zanzibar In rnanonse to the cabled orders of ber Pfcraee owners in Bombay. Oortoivin was still on board as passenger. His excuse was that he wanted to inspect the island and oity of Zand bar before returning to England and respectability. His real reason was that be had taken a fancy to the little rufiian of a skipper and wifbed to see more of bim. "Cheerful toast, that of McTodd's," aaid Oortoivin. "Tboap-wigineB are enough to discourage antf^njan," said Kettle, "and the beat down there would sour the temper at an arobangel." Such is the youth I strive for, strong to cope With time and all his terrors, day by day. —A. L. Salmon tn Ofi'lfmnn's A bail came from tbe liner astern. "Saigon, ahoy! Keep our hawser taut!" "I should have thought you'd been long enough at aea to know your business by this time," aaid Kettle unpleasantly. "D'you think that every steamboat that tradee baa a brand new Harland & Wolff?" Some insects, again, take a long period of rest daring the winter months, and it is certain that insects, like any other family of animals, enjoy periods of repose, thongh, as they cannot close their eyes, it seems hardly right to call this sleep. of the Globe tor [RHEUMATISM,! H NEURALGIA and Oocpi&ijjti, I and prepared under the stringent M A,GERMAN MEDICAL LIWS,^ by eminent phTsiciaiuj^M Knt DR. RICHTER'S (Kj W?" ANCHOR SPAIN EXPELLERl I World renowned! Remarkably successful I ■ ■Only gen nine with Trade Mark " Anchor," ■ ■F id. BickUf "Co., 215 Pearl St., New York. ■ 31 HIGHEST AWARDS. ■ X9 Branoh Houses. Own Glassworks. ■ H a 9m4 so «ts. laiwwi maS hnmmW kf S B naaia a raca, so LnnC im», A «. 0. SLICK, M Rwtk B»l. Stract. 1. a. BOCCK, 4 PITTS TOS, rA. DRBmcMT«ir« I "ANCHOR" STOMACHAL. W for I I OoltejPyyplmASt—m.ji "You're all right for the present," Kettle shouted back. THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND. "We came near enough to hall and were Informed that the steamer waa doing finely, all well on board, and, beyond it being a trifle damp on the lower decks through the fog falling to rise, everything waa lovely. "Der vtud might return onless you get in middle of him I" Its Abolition !■ a Grievous Wroo( to The air thickened and grew for the moment, if anything, more hot, and the tornado raced down upon tbem as a black wall stretching far across the sea, with white water gleaming and ohurning at its foot It hit tbe steamers like a solid avalanche, and the spindrift in it out tbe faces of the men who tried to withstand it as though whips had lashed tbem. the Children. "Well, "said tbe mate sullenly, "I'm waiting to be taught." And meanwhile the line of surf was growing ever nearer So close indeed were they to the hateful shore that when for a moment the fountains of white water subsided where the breakers rased upon the beach they could see dimly beyond through the sea smoke palm trees and ceibaa and great silk oottnnwoods whipping and crashing before the insane blant of the tornado. All hands on the Saigon's deck bad many minutes before given themselves up for as good as dead. Their only chance of salvation lay in casting off the towrope, and no one dared toach the linking shackle. They quite knew that their savage little skipper would fulfill his threat if they disobeyed his orders. Indeed old Murgatroyd himself sat on the hatch coaming with an open ed clasp knife and vowed death on any one who tampered with either shackle or manilla. The clumsy mate had swallowed rough words once, but he preferred drowning to living on and hear ing Captain Kettle address him as oow ard. "Then, if it does," retorted Kettle, "you'd better tell your passengers to say their prayers. Yon'll get no further help from ine. I'm broken down myself. Lost my propeller, if you want to know." This is an evil which baa crept in with the tendency to centralize the schools. When in any plaoe the school a begin to overflow, a movement to put up a larger building takes place, accompanied by an effort to create a high school department, not so much the need of the community as the ambitions dream of some principal who would be superintendent or some sort of central sun to a group of satellites. "It was a strange sight, however, to sea that steamer plowing on toward us with every part invisible but its upper worka and with passengers and crew walking un concernedly about the decks." "Pass the manilla round the oombing of tbe after hatch, and you won't oome and toll me that's drawn while this steamboat staya on tbe water top." Proof of Reuoi. A scientific journal says, "Crows undoubtedly have a language and to some extent exercise the reasoning process." We are a little skeptical about the language of crows, but they certainly never pnll up corn without good caws. —Chicago Times-Herald. J* "Aye, aye!" said the mate and stepped into his slippers and shuffled away. Oaptain Kettle walked briskly to the center of tbe upper bRfge and laid a band on tbe telegraph. He gave crisp orders to the lascar at tbe wbeel, and the Saigon moved in perfect obedience to bia will. "Ilerr lieber Gott!" "How do you account for such freaks of fog!" Was asked "1 shouldn't swear if I were yon," said Kettle. "If the breeze comes this way again, you'll be toeing the mark in the other place inside five minutes." He turned and gave an order. "After deck, there. Mr. Murgatroyd, you may cast off their rope. We've done towing." "It is simply some odd combination of air and elements taken by the weather, just as the atmosphere along the water front fought against the approach of the fog Saturday morning last, and only yielded when the fog bank found its advantage in the Pacific avenue Incline."—Taooiua T .rt—r Tbe cooly quartermaster clung on to tbe Saigon's wheel spokes, amerewhisp of limp humanity, incapable of steering or of doing anything else that required a modicum of rational thought. The little steamer fell away before tbe blast like a shaving in a dry street. The tonnage of tbe tornado heeled her till ber lee scuppers spouted green water, and she might well have been overturned at the very outset. But Kettle beat the helpless laecar from his hold and spoked tbe wheel bard up, and tbe engines, working strongly, brought her round again in a wallowing cirole to face the torrent of hurricane. This dream is too easily realized, because it flatters the people. Then there rises a preposterous structure of stone and brick. A house of many gables, out of keeping with everything, either publio or private, in the place; a temple of vanity. Now is rung the knell of the school playground, for the new "high school," although it will bouse all the children from 6 to 15, must needs be surrounded by a fine lawn, studded with shrubbery and threaded by bluestone roads. The janitor has to employ an assistant to keep the grounds in order.A shut in, penitentiarylike place has been evolved by the architect and school committee, gratifying to their pride and a deep wrong to the ohildren. There are many wrongs about it The one insisted upon here is the abolishing of the recess, that time honored joy of the American schoolboy and schoolgirl. —Isabella G. Oakley in Popular Science Moathiv. Little Dot—Mamma, 1 was playing with your beet tea set while you were away, and when you bring it out for company you'll be shocked, 'cause you'll think one of the cups baa a hair in it, but it isn't a hair. Aa Explanation. Ahead of bim the great slate colored liner lay motionless on the oily sea. Her rail was peopled with tbe anxious faces of passengers. Busy deckhands were stripping away the awnings. On the bigh upper bridge were three officers in sun helmets and trim uniforms of white drill, talking together anxiouslyNow, after this, a variety Of things might have happened. Among them it was quite possible that both § teamen, and all in them, might have been spewed np as battered refuse high upon the African beaob. But, as Providence ordered it, the tornado oircled down an them no more; a light air came off tie shore which filled their scanty canvtia and gave them just steerage way, and they rode over the swells in oompany as dry as a pair of bridge pontoons and about as helpless. AH immediate damger was swept away. Nothing but another steamer could relieve them, and in the meanwhile it was a time for philosophy. Nephew (from the oity)—Why do you have those lightning rods on your house and barn. Uncle Josh? Don't you know the theory tbat they afford protection has long sinoe been exploded? Protection. Mamma—What is it T Little Dot—It'a only a orack.—Pick Me Up  Uncle Joeh—Waal, I kin tell you they dew act as perteckters, the'ry or no the'ry. A Handicap. The little Saigon curved up from astern, stopped her engines and then with reversed propeller brought up dead, apart. It was smartly done, and, as Kettle had intended, tbe Germans noticed it and commented. Then began tbe barter of words. Corson—Do you think trained nurses should be pretty? ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVEBY- whore for "The Story of the Philippines." bv Marat Halstead, commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department. The book was written in army campsat San Francisco, on the Pacific with Oen. Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolala, in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tne insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, en the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brlnifnl of original pictures .sen tar, SoQ'y, Star Insurance ButtHag, Uhteaquy Oortoivin loosened a couple of buttons of bis pyjamas and bared bis obest "It's bard to breathe even here, and I thought I'd learned what heat was in tboae Arabian deserts. There's a tornado coming on; that's certain." Nephew—Do you mean to tell me yon believe they protect you from lightning?She took five minutes to make that recovery, and when she was steaming on again, head to tbe thunderous gusts, the tale of wbat she had endured was written in easy lettering. On both fore and main decks tbe bulwarks were gone level with tbe covering boards; tbe raffle of crates, harness casks, gangplanks and so on that a small trader earriea in view to tbe sky bad departed Hiilebrand—Not if they are expected to follow their calling permanently.— Philadelphia North American. The shore lay steep to, but the backwash creamed far out into the sea. Already tbe stern of the German liner was plunging in tbe whitened water and destruction seemed a question of seconds Then a strange thing happened. It seemed as though the finger etf God had touched tbe wind; it abated bj visible Uncle Josh—Mebby not, young un, mebby not, but they perteckt me frum them pesky ligbtnin rod peddlers.— Ghioago News.  And Ministerial Too. "It will clear the air," said Kettle. "Bat it will be a sneezer when we get Mwrgatro? d I'Mae called. The Bachelor—Well, how did your battle with the ooquette come out? Tbe Newly Made Benedict—It was a "Howdy, captain!" aaid Kettle. "I hope it's not a fuswral you've brought an tor. Ttkia bcal'a been vary great. Captain Kettle did not grumble. Hit fortune was onoe more adrift and beyond hi* grasp. The Paraae Id would for m oertaintj disjpiaa bin two* S^ulldig—"Battleships are not the only ship* in command of Dswey." MoSwilllgon—"Nn1" Squildig—"No; he 0*0. use the on ,o«a»ioov" Herald iMab ?ell tatte 18b. K. E Williamson