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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. ■n 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¬ petite. It is easy to name a sure cure. Do you ne..-d it ? Will you use it ? Well, then, the sure cure is B. B. B. (Botanic Blood their Batin). boarders Some boarding house keepers object to lieartv. using B. B. B. It makes them cat too ’Tis true one grows strong and robust from its use, but then a delicate boarder is more diseases profita¬ ble. B. B. B. cures many distressing physical by its strengthening effect on the entire organization. William B. Talley, Neal’s Land¬ ing, Fla., writes: “Four bottles of B. B. B. 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 that his profit on tiie telephone is $10,000,000. IIo>v in Cii’ii Ftcislt mid Mrcnsth. Use after each meal Scott’s Emulsion with Hypophospliites. It is as palatable as milk, and easily digested. The rapidity with which delicate people improve with its use is won¬ derful. Use.it and try your weight. affections Asa remedy for < onsumpfion. Throat and Bronchitis, it is unequaled. Please read: “1 used Scott’s Emulsion in a cidld eight months old with good results. Regained four M. pounds in a very short time.” —Tho. Prim, I)., Alabama. Cornell University, N. Y., lias made expul¬ sion the penalty of drinking,gambling,haz,ng. A Itnd'cal {'ilia- liir Epileptic. Fils. To the Editor —Please inform your readers that 1 have a positive remedy for the above lamed disease which I warrant, to cure the worst cases. So strong Is my faith in its va¬ lues that I will send Lee a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer wlio will give oie his P O. and Express address. Resp’y, fork. H G. ROOT. M. C , 163 Pearl St.. New Olhgnsiing llmip. 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Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. “I wish to state the benefit I derived from Hood's Sarsaparilla. I have used it in the spring: for tlnv< years for uebi ...... ny and , can say that ,. x I^a.nedin : ', A flosii .. and strength after using: one ottle. It has also cured me of sick headache. ” -MRS. Mb a p 1 . i? iw 'iv-Tm-.-u-c ANDRES, South Woodstock, Conn. **I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla for less of appetite, dyspepsia, and general languor. It did me a vast amount of .coed, and I have no hesitancy in reccm mending it"— j. w. wilu^ord, Quincy, in. HOOCi’S §2r52 pcifilSS Scidby ail SI: six for rs. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD X CO., Apothecaries, Lou’eil, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar ---- DIAMOND rfiAkUi-.iWF VERA-CURA ''*•"*** FC*S DYSPEPSIA. Atx Yovr Dvvg£?t 4*’ or a’-> General in Denier sfoek, trill gri trill Vera■ be C a for i/c.u id*' (ti: or it ' "giitp r-b' !in * ; ? c , i2r!e5 Vegehr Co.. Bait-ore, Md. - ISUB -K - A IMS’ HERE makesCKiLI BHTHiMY IF USED BEFORE CONFINEMENT. 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