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Raise the Curtain.
Raise the curtain—let the brightness
Of your cheering light shine forth;
To the passers in the darkness
It may be of vital worth;
Give a glimpse to lonely wand’rer3
Of your household full of joy.
It may rou c e to new ambition
Some poor friendless, tempted boy.
Raise the curtain—we are kindred—
Each to all is bound by ties
Which forbid a selfish shutting
Of ourselves from others’ eyes,
Share your light and share your blessings,
God hath made the whole world kin,
And his love so universal,
Takes the weakest sinner in.
Raise the curtain of your window,
Raise the curtain of your mind;
Do not let possession make you
To the wants of others blind.
Helping others we are strengthen’d,
Giving, wo are richer made;
And no one so strong or pationt,
But seme time hath need of aid.
—[Flora N. Candoe.
A MAN-FISH.
At 1 o’clock in the afternoon of June
21, 185!*, i was in the crow's nest or
lookout on board the New Mnglaml
whaler Yankee Land, and wc were bear
big up for Valparaiso from the Juan Fer¬
nandez Islands when I caught sight of a
floating human body on the lee bow, and
half a mile away. Wc had only a light
breeze and the sea was scarcely dis¬
turbed, and from my perch aloft I could
see even the fish as they played about us.
1 had scarcely bailed the deck when
the . floater „ raised . , , his . , head, kicked Jus
feet under . the, , surface, „ and, , utter .
waving
, ins . as signal, , , he , began swimming
arm a
down , to , I he sight . . . of , at , :
us. a man oiu
sea, provided . , , with ... nothing ... whatever . . to .
float , linn, queer enough, , hut - , there ,,
was
was something much , more queer in store
for , us. , 1 have ,' seen the natives ol al- I
most- every country m the ., water, . , but , T I ,
,
anything . ... like the speed tins .
never saw
floater made as lie came down , to , us. He ,,
just smoked through water like a ‘ vavvl :
with her sail set to a still breeze. All
the men mustered forward to get sight of
him, and as he came alongside he cheeked
his way, took a long survey of our craft,
and coolly called out:
“What ship is that?”
“The American whaler, Yankee Laud,"
answered the mate.
“Want any hands?”
“Yes, we will ship you,” replied the
captain.
* t Very well, sir- I'll come aboard.”
They threw him a rope ami he soon
stood on deck, the only unconcerned
person on the ship. He asked for a
cliew of tobacco, wrung the water out of
liis clothes, and when the cook brought
him some grub he did not appear over
hungry. He refused dry clothes, saving
that he felt better when damp, ami when j
he had finished eating lie explained; i
“My name is Tom Finch. l quit the j
English brig Saxon two days ago. 1 I
ran steer a boat or fasten to a whale with
the best of you. Give me a lay and let j
me turn to.”
“You quit the Saxon two days ago?”
queried the captain.
“Yes, sir.”
“Where was she?”
“A matter of fifty miles to the north¬
west, sir.”
“At sea?”
“Yes, sir.”
‘‘How did you quit?”
“Said good-by to mv watch and 1
jumped overboard, and have been float
ing ever since.”
There wasn’t a man in _ the ship who
believed his story. Indeed, what intel
ligent man would believe it? And yet
it was Gospel truth, as we discovered
when we reached Valparaiso. The Saxon 1
was there, and half it dozen of her crew
had seen him go uverhoard as stated.
A man fish had come aboard of us.
There never was a mermaid, hut he eer
taiuly was a merman, lie uas next to
amphibious. Ho was with us fer sixteen
months, and during that time was the
wonder of our crew and of < very other
crew we met. lie was a stalwart, good
looking chap of 35, hut his interior may
have been built on the fish, priueipie. lie
swam as swiftly as some kinds of fish,
and that without seeming to tire him
He could not be drowned, and no shark
would bite him. 1 said he was a tjuoiT
man. Tlie reader prohihlv aifrees with
me. my word and honor that
every statement I shall make is true, and
can Ik- proved true.
Our carjH-ntcr was laid up with a
broken leg. and when Finch announced
that he could use tools he bxWo rar
.• pen ter temporarily. After wu Vt't Val
•.pnraiso, no longer doubting tha swry of
; his two days' float, he gave us • mlrvel
..t. *1 c »>;.> v Viji
'
In running back to the south wc struck
the fag end of a cyclone, and got a ter¬
rible sea. Our big ship was tossed about
like a pea, and the waves walled up on
u.s now and then until their crests
seemed to tower fifty feet above the rail.
Everything was lashed and double lashed,
and the cook couldn’t make even a cup of
coffee for twenty hours. While we w ere
lying to and hanging on for life Finch
stripped to his shirt and pants and went
overboard for a lark. The best man
among us would have been drowned in
five minutes. He was in the water two
houis, and when he came out he did not
puff as heavily as a man who had run
across the street. A hundred times in
those, two hours we thought he was lost,
but he had no more fear for himself than
as if he was on dry land. In the sixteen
months I saw him go overboard as many
as fifty times, in all sorts of weather,and
by day and by night, and yet he never
met with an accident.
i stated that no shark would bite him.
ife proved this fact a thousand times
over. Harbor sharks, for reasons best
known to themselves, will sometimes
pass a swimmer by, but they are small
fry compared to the hammer heads and
white sharks of mid-ocean. The true
man-eater is not a shore fish, except in
tropical waters. When a whaler is en¬
gaged in cutting in and trying out, and
is drifting off before the wind, your real
man-eater appears. I have seen them
twenty-five feet long, barnacled up and
moss-grown like ancient whales, and evi
dent!y , , hundred , , years old. , , these are
a
the demons of the deep, who will rush
upon 1 a raft and upset 1 it or tear it to
-pieces, and who seem
-
from the prick 1 of a lance. vve got a
whale to the southwest of Conception, a
hundred miles . off shore, and Finch gave n
us his first exhibition. We had an
eighty-barrel J lisli lashed head and tail . to
our starboard side, and were just hook
•
ing on to the first blanket piece to hoist
whcn tllTC0 or fouT monstcv sharks
ftppoared. The one xvlio came up astern
was of such size that the men called out
in amazement. He lav with his dorsal
tin above water, and we could see every
inch of him. It was enough to give you
:i chill to note his wicked eyes and his
awful mouth.
When Finch saw this shark he said he
would drive him away. The Captain or¬
dered him to go about his business, not
wishing to loose a mail,hut Finch waited
until the officers were off their guard,
mid then went overboard off the lee bow
with a great splash, There was a wild
cry from the crew and a rush with ropes,
lmt Tom looked up and laughed and
swiun around the stern of the ship. The
big man-eater lmd backed off about 20
feet at the splash, but two others, almost
ns large, had come up on the quarters,
mid there lay three of the wickedest fish j
in the Atlantic Ocean. Everybody j
shouted and gestured and hull a dozen j
ropes'-onds were thrown to Tom, but he
would not mind us. lie suddenly sank
below the surface and made a bee line
for the big fish, and, to my surprise, the
old fellow darted aside to escape the
collision.
It is truth to the letter that Tom Finch
drove every one of those monsters away
from the ship, and for an hour he pad
died about in the water and was im
harmed. In the course of a couple of
hours the l»ig shark returned. A piece
of blubber was tied up in an old coat
am] tlropF(1 overboard, and he made a
dash of a hundred feet and bolted it
clown like a flash. He then took up his
station off our quarter, and not over
thirty feet way, and the sailor mounted
the rail and made a long leap right at
him. The shark went off like a streak,
and we saw him no more.
Once, when wo wore in tho harbor of
Honolulu, Tom gave a public exhibition,
and at least 5000 people saw him swim
about among the sharks just outside the
surf. Several dogs were thrown to them
to be devoured, and gallons of blood
were poured on the water to excite them.
but never a one came within five feet of
tho sailor. He had no peculiar odor
about him that we could detect, and
why the sharks feared him was as much
a puzzle to himself as to others.
Among Tom's adventures was his os
from the Gt ok pirates of the \i
Sea a couple of years before he joined
our ship. 1 give this because everj* par¬
ticular of it is a matter of official record,
lie was one of the crew of an Italian
l>ri;g making a voyage to Constantinople,
and on the return, while becalmed among
i ho bland* at the mouth of the Arehipel
r. a i ouple of boats, carrying - men
each, -pulled out from one of the islands
atul attacked them. There were 13 men
.... ,r... livl.r thousrh f»orlv turned,
they gave the pirates a hot fight before
the vessel was carried by boarding.
When Tom saw that all was lost he hid
himself away, and was not discovered
until the brig had been towed into a
cove. The Greeks had cooled off then,
and instead of cutting his throat they
took him ashore to make a slave of him.
The island was the rendezvous of a bad
gang and it seemed that a portion of
them were away on an expedition. For
this reason the brig was pulled into the
cove, which had very deep water, an¬
chored stem and stern, and her overhaul¬
ing was deferred until the other party
should return.
Tom was the sole survivor of the
crew, and he was treated like a dog.
He had a smattering of the language,
and ho was told that any effort of his to
escape would be rewarded by burning
alive. Nevertheless, on the second
night of his stay lie stole away from his
hut to the water, swam off to the brig,
boarded her by the fore chains, and find¬
ing the two men on anchor watch fast
asleep, he brained them with a capstan
bar. The cable at the stern was of hemp
and easily cut. The other was of chain,
and Tom managed to slip it just as the
tide turned. The brig was outside of
all the small craft, and, as the night was
dark, no one saw her drift away, Drift
she did, however, aided by a fortunate
breeze, and next morning she was
sighted and boarded by a British man
of-war heading up from Crete. The
Italian government made the Greeks pay
a good round sum for the outrage, and
Tom got money enough out of it to have
kept him all his days had he been a
landsman.
lie quit 1 our ship , 1 witn more fuss than
he had entered it. For sixteen months
he seemed perfectly 1 J content, and was
well up 1 to his work. Then the owners
at home got H into trouble and had to sell
out, and we hauled into Rio . Janeiro . one
day to find a new deal on hand. \Ye
were paid off and a new Captain put in
charge, and such of the men as wished
to go were shipped for a new cruise in a
clean ship. Must of us signed articles
though none of us liked the new Captain.
It was curious that he and Tom Finch
took a strong dislike to each other at
first sight, but the sailor had signed and
would not desert. We had only got
well outside when the new Captain made
us a speech. We had made an average
cruise up to this date, and the ship was
in good condition all the way around,
but he would not have come up to the
mark had he not insulted and abused us.
Wc had a call aft, and I remember how
ugly he looked as he surveyed us for a
moment, as an overseer looks over his
slaves, and then said:
“You infernal lot of sojers and lob
semises, there’s a new deal aboard this
ship and I want you to understand it on
the go off! There's to be no more sojer
ing and picnicking. Tliere’s to be no
more gamming between cabin and fo'eas
tie. lf we have a man aboard whom the
sharks won't bite he'd better look out for
me; I will bite him if he doesn’t walk
chalk! There’s got to be discipline
aboard and the quicker you come to it
the better for your lazy carcasses! Go
forward and go to work or I'll be among
you.
We had been five days out when the
row came. Several of the men had been
brutally knocked about without excuse,
atul one day as we were on whaling ground,
and Tom was placing his boat in order,
Gant. I.oeke took occasion to find a deal
of fault. It was plain to all of us that
lie was seeking a fuss, and that he was
bent on stirring Tom up. lie
kept at it until he roused him¬
self to fury and struck the
sailor. We knew Torn would never
stand that, nor did lie. He squared off
and felled the Captain like an ox, and
durino - the confusion he took refuge
the cabin and barricaded the door and
armed himself, Wasn't the old man
howling mad when became to! lie
issued all sorts of orders, but took
precious good cure not to expose him¬
self to Tom’s fire.
The sailor held the cabin for three
davs, allowing the crew to move about
as they pleased, but watching to fire
upon the Captain if he exposed himself,
Oil the third night, when we were a good
hundred miles off Cape Frio, he dropped
out of one of the stein pc>rts into the
open sea. and the first we knew of it we
heard him laughing as he swam away.
<ix months later we had a “gam" with
the Scotch whaler Janei, and the men
told us that they picked Tom up when
he had been afloat three days, and landed
him three weeks later at Bahia.—[New
i York Sun.
Youthful Burglars.
Three boys arre nd in San Ftancisco,
Cal., are of Italici parentage, and their
ages range from 10 to 14 years. Re¬
cently, the safe in a large shoe store in
that city was robbed of $280 in coin, and
the three boys, who had Deen looking at
slippers, were suspected. From the de¬
scription, detectives finally identified
them as th 1 * boys who had been arrested
at Pleasanton for making a target of a
school bouse and firing pistols in the
street. They bought two rifies and a
quantity of ammunition, but th ir guns
were stolen before they had them one
day. Then each bought a pearl-handled
revolver with several hundred cartridges.
They began practicing with these, uud
one boy was wounded and another had a
narrow escape. They bought all kinds
of articles, from cigarette holders to
rings, sheet music and dime novels.
They spent all, except $38, of the stolen
money in four days.
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Our Forests.
The destruction of our forests is in
progress, and the lo-ses incurred are in¬
calculable. Not only for their own pro¬
ducts are the foiests indispensable, but
it is in them th it streams and rivers have
their origin, and upon their preservation land,
depends in flue nee a that affect the
the water and the air of the entire conti¬
nent, and contribute to the wealth and
welfare of every inhabitant. The elabo¬
rate scheme of a permanent Federal for
restry service managing the forests as a
source of revenue, is as repugnant to our
principles ol government as any other
form of Federal control of commercial
enterprise, and is subject to the same ob¬
jections as the assumption of by the gov¬
ernment of the management of mines
and ranches and all else that is embraced
in the resources of its domain.
A Pood Appetite,
How many answer the breakfast bell, by cim
ing to the table, only to find it impossible to eat
a mouthful of food. Such unfortunates are
surely going into decline, and if they continue
to grow worse are not long for this world. It is
hard to name the many curses of a want of ap¬
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boarding house keepers object to lieartv.
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’Tis true one grows strong and robust from its
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by its strengthening effect on the entire
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healed up the broken out places on my limbs,
and my general health never was better than
now. My appetite is good, and all I eat agrees
with me.”
Invent or Beil testified before a committee
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IIo>v in Cii’ii Ftcislt mid Mrcnsth.
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Now is the time to prepare for spring, anil your
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