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A BALLADE OF PARTED LIVES
Princess, a song above the tides,
Above the wintry winds that blow,
Above the wave that quickly glides
And dashes madly to and fro,
Sing me of other days to know.
Of souls tlxat in a garden reap
Their wage of duty done below.
Loose thoi* these memories in sleep!
Tell me what dark, eternal idee
Across that gpaee their shadows thrown
Clouding the happy light tha* rides
TJnto these lands of pain and woe.
Brother and sister gone, foregc;
Fairy hilltops and valleys deep.
Conte,* or, if this be never so,
Loose ye these memories in sleep!
Ah, well, a splendid city hides
The little boy of long ago!
Beneath a village church wall bidee
A slender mound above the snow,
And thus the fleet years come and go.
~Foor bands of mine that cannot keep
Backward the water’s ebb and flow.
jm theee memories in sleep.
anliness in place of the almost childish-
upss. She is, in fact, improved by them,
and so tiiiniis Dick of today. ■
Dick of 1Si2 dances three times with ;
•‘my little sister Kitty, '’ and the th«rd j
time she is carried array from him by ;
a very tall, dark, haudsoine man, witu
a small pointed black board, He wat .li
es them, and a voice at his eibow sa; s:
“What a jolly couple they make! He- 35 .
Old Lord Easton’s nephew, and they av--i
to be married next week, yon know.
Dick of 1872 gees home, and in the
morning comes to the conclusion that
he had taken too much champagne, foi |
he had dreamed all night that his room j
was of gold hung over with pink moss
A SEA DEMON.
BYXHALLES B. LEWIS.
tadno door to eaoapetrom the heavy About eight feet tack of the Ww
them, which maddened him, ofawateM»ri.aBdth,.
and the touch of them, which thril^
fcin» with joy and sorrow, pleasure
Princess, for nil the world besides
Guard yet the vines that softly ereep
Over dead childhood's loves and brides.
Looife thou these memories in sleep! *
—John James Meehan in New . York Sun
THE REASON WHY.
»«I always wondef why it is yon have
never married, Dick?”
It was Emily who had said these
words some half anghour ago, and Dick
had found no answer for them, and he
sits by the fire and ponders over them
mightily, trying to find if £here be ax
answer. Dick is five and forty, tall, ro
bust, with a rather handsome face and
florid complexion, and with bright gold
en brown hair, but just where it makes
little c-rinkl s above his ears it has tiny
silver inroads running through it—an
even race now between the gold and
silver, but in these days of bimetallism
wkc shall answer for the future?
Ho is a very personable man, a true,
honest, good fellow, rather slow at
grasping an idea, but when he has
grasped it it is sure to become a service
able, clean idea. Dick’s grasp, firm and
strong, would always purge it of any
vice or vulgarity it might have possess
ed before. He now sits quite alone in
the comfortable library of his sister’s
house. He smokes a pipe and thinks
over tha6 sister’s question, ‘ ! I always
wonder why it is you have never mar
ried. Dick?’’
Then a curions thing happens. Ai
the smoke of his pipe rises up in thick
black clouds he looks quite through it
back to the year 1867 and sees himself
again as a boy of 20, just before he first
sailed for India—such a jovial* noisy
sort of boy, with a ready smile and
pleasant w<: rcl fer every one, just noW
much excited at tne prospect of the new
life which is to begin with the voyage
tomorrow.
He is just entering a ballroom with
a friend of about ids own ago. (“Jack
Dufford, who cued in China, ” nmmiuri
Dick of today.) I* is a very large ball
room, brilliantly lighted and decorated
with flowers and evergreens. It must
be a regimental ball, for there are col
ors stacked at one end. Dick of today
tries to make them ont, but quite fails,
and so turns his attention to what Jack
Dufford is saying to Dick of 1867.
“I want you to dance with my little
sister Kitty. It is her first dance, and
she’s the dearest little thing going.’’
And he puts his arm through Dick of
18ffT’s and takes him across the room
to where there stands a girl in white
muslin, such a dainty, fresh white mus
lin, with little blue bowknots dotted
over it, and this is all that Dick of 1867
sees as he makes his bow, but when ho
raises his head again he meets such a
sweet* dancing pair of brown eyes look
ing at him from such a pretty, bright
face, with a whole mass of light fluffy
hair above and around it, and later
when he puts his arm around her and
they dance and he looks down into the
hair he sees a wee wreath of blue for-
getmenots half lost and very tightly
imprisoned in its glittering meshes. It
is almost Dick of 1867’s first ball, too,
and he thoroughly enjoys it, but none
of the figures are plain to Dick of today
save only the white muslin and blue
bowknofc one. Talking and dancing
with it seem to fill np the whole even
ing. and then, when the end conies, Dick
of 1867 rolls it up, oh, so tenderly, in a
warm, white shawl, and Dick of today
feels his heart beat quicker as a little
hand is put into that old Dick’s hand
and a low girlish voice says:
“Well, good night and goodby, Mr.
Kenneth. E hope you will like India.’’
Then Dick of 1867 goes home, and be
feels nervously excited and cannot sleep
and thinks it must be from the uncer
tainty cf liking India.
The tobacco smoke clears off and our
Dick wonders why such an old, quite
buried memory should revive tonight,
but he has not much time for wonder
ing, for as fresh smoke rises up he see?
fresh figures forming themselves behind
*£t. Still himself, but older, browner and
more manly Dick, this time of 1872. A
ball again, evidently in a private house.
There is a wide flight- of stairs, off it at
one side a conservatory filled with flow-
gave m n dden dart and disappeared tm
a time, but fire minutes later he was
back in his old position. He was thus (
fired upon and driven away three sue- j
cessive times, but when he came back !
the fourth time he took up bis position i
astern of the skip and swam so low :n !
the water that the shot failed to reach J
him. * |
He hung by the ship from 7 o'clock j
in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, j
At that hour the repairs werq about
complete, and the men were laughing
and joking over the persistency of the
demon, when one of them fell from the
yard as they were making sail. He turn
ed over and over in his descent, but
struck -the water / teat, first and was out
of sight a long xnisut*. When he came
naftoo, he shot hie full length
eicroBtnw w*. milk wbjte ft eqlsr
IN THE NICK OF TIME.
AN INCJCINT OF THE WAR Hi’
TO NOT PUBLISH ZD.
HER-
One morning in the year 1863 as tbs
English brig Fair Hope was to the east
of the island of Ceylon, bound for the
strait of Malacca, a man who had been
sent alpft hailed the deck with the in
formation that a monster shark was ly
ing alongside. The craft had high bul
warks, and the fish might not have been
seen but for the man going aloft as - he
did. This was the first authentic meet
ing with a shark which afterward took
Story of tKe First Expedition to Fort Kish
er—The Sailing; Master of the Ella
Knight Tried to
the Enemy.
Yellow Yerer.
Yellow fever now belr*.
western hemisphere, from
it should be extirpated, as ^3
if the proper kind of interr--, X ,^1
lie opinion be brought to , -a
subject. While the diseas*
cnous to the United Sug ^
'2«
The smoke clears off again, but Dick
of today has ceased to wonder, and only
waits, expecting mere, uncomprehend
ing, however. Very soon more comes;
still Dick, still, a ballroom; Dick of
1880, and quite a different ballroom
with quite .a different atmosphere, and
different tone about it; many men, few
er women than heretofore, but all the
latter are most beautifully dressed, and
most of the former are in uniform.
* ‘Government House, Calcutta,’*
thinks Dick of today, and he instinctive
ly looks about him for the well known
figure which he now expects to come,
but it is not there. Dick of 1880 is talk
ing to Cranter. (“Poor old Cranter!
Went under just ten years ago,’’ com
ments Dick of today.) Cranter says: “I
am going to introduce you to the most
lovely little woman, clever, charming,
everything desirable. Her husband nev
er looks at her, passes all his time in
England with jribvi Ruby, and all his
time here with Mrs. Major Golightly. ’’
Dick of i860 and Cranter make their
way through the crowd into ano^aei
room where there is no dancing, ar.d
seated in a low chair, in a listless atti
tude, is a lady in white, Dick of 1880
goes straight up to her and says, “I
hope I don't need an introduction to
“Mrs.” — and then pauses — “Mor-
tonn,” she finishes for him.
He sits beside her. She is much more
splendidly dressed than ever before, all
in white satin, finely embroidered with
silver, and there are diamonds scintil
lating in the burnished gold cf her hair.
But, oh, the change, think both the
Dicks. "The face is thinner and less
bright, the mouth is sweet and red, bnt
has a pitiful droop at the corners, and
the clear brown eyes are sad with un
shed tears, but they look very kindly on j
Dick of 1880. And Dick of 1880 talks a
long time to her: his heart is filled with
a deep, passionate pity.
Finally they are interrupted by the
fall, dark, handsome man with the point,
eu black beard, who is noc perfectly so
ber. As he comes~up the lady says:
“-This is Captain Keim-tK Deyereux. I
met him at my first ball. ’
Dick of 18S0 only bows ana moves
away, and Dick of today looks at the
fading mist of tobacco smoke, and even
when it has cleared, for the good reason
that his pipe is out, there is a little
mist, as of an autunm evening, between
him and the fire. He is not uncompre
hending any longer and knows now the
answer to his sister’s question. He rises
and takes up his candle, saying: “And
I never knew it till tonight. Verily I
am a slow man. ’ ’—Daughter.
IV^wm no donbt the result of an injury
u d wu a mark by whieh the shark wat
known for several years after.
It is £be custom aboard of a merchant
vessel when a shark appears alongside
and the work aboard is not pressing to
give- the men a chance to destroy theii
enemy. In this instance, owing to the
unusual size of the fish, the captain was
anxious to make a capture and carry
the specimen into Singapore. Hooks
were got out and baited, and for two
hours they tried all sorts of tricks to in
duce the monster to take hold. He was
very wary, however, and refused to bite.
There was an old harpoon aboard, and
when it was seen that the fish could not
be captured alive the carpenter got out
the irons and tried to harpoon him. In
the effort he fell overboard, and the
shark seized him and disappeared so
quickly that the dozen men who wit
nessed the affair could scarcely believe
they saw aright. The incident was re
corded in the log and reference was
made to it in Lloyd's Register for the
first week in September cf the year
named. So far as is fc/jowu this sailor
from the Fair Hop* ivas ti:
just grasped 41 when Iht shark seized
him by the legs, aad those who were
looking saw both man. and the life pre
server disappear in.the maw of the znon-;
cam* to tbs raffae*. bat nothing far-
tber was seen.of the shark. ?Tfcuincident
was logged and duly reported in Hew
York.
Hews of strange things at sea passes
about in maritime circles with wonder
ful celerity. The various adventures
with the demon were soon knows far
and wide, and every craft sailing for
India or China kept a sharp lookout for
him. ft he was seen between January
and April, 1864, there is no record of
it, but on the 15th day of the lattes
month, when I left the port of St. Luis,
in the inland of Mauritius, bound for
Bombay, in tiie brig Charleston, the
monster appeared alongside before we
were 50 miles ont of port. This was the
first time he had been seen so far to the
south and was a distance of 3,000 miles
from the spot where he bad snapped up
his last man. The demon appeared to
first wkito j ns suddenly, aa in all other cases. Whey,
Deliver His Charge to ways an importation, its "A ^
; ertheless so regular that cj, )p ' r ari i
! ?inumg c f the century
only nine years in which it , ^
peared here. Its natural
ground is furnished by the
Thackeray's TKLnSrieas.
Payn knew Thackeray intimately,
and has some entertaining reminiscence*
of his editorial troubles when Thackeray
presided over the fortunes of The Corn-
hill Magazine. Communications from
his contributors, and especially tha
would be ones, annoyed and often dis
tressed him. Payn recalls his complain'
ing of one of them with a vigor and ir
ritation which amused him exceedingly.
A young fellow had sent him a long
story, for which he demanded particu
lar attention “from the greatest of nov
elists” upon the ground that he had a
sick sister entirely dependent upon him
for support. Thackeray was touched by
the appeal, and, contrary to his custom,
wrote his correspondent a long letter of
advice, inclosing also—which was by
no means contrary to his enstom—some ,
pecuniary assistance. “I feel for your i kim and tow him ashore. No sooner had
-erm* ! they rounded Ihe stern of the whaler
and taken a repe from one of the sailors
position, ” he said, “and appreciate you*
motive for exertion, but I must tell you
at once that you will never do anything
in literature. Your contribution is
worthless in every way, and it is the
truest kindness both to her for whom
you are working and to yourself to tell
you so straight. Turn your mind at
once to some other industry. ”
This produced a reply from the young
man that astonished Thackeray a great
deal more than it surprised Payn. It
was couched in the most offensive terms
conceivable and ended by telling the
“great novelist” that, although he had
attained by good luck to the top of the
tree, he would one day find himself
where he deserved to be, at the bottom
of it. “For iny part,” said Thackeray
(upon Payn showing some preliminary
symptoms of suffocation), “I see littla
sharks are around, their dorsal fins caE
| be seen cutting the vfater here and there,
i and they seldom come near a moving
craft The first thing we knew the mon
ster was running with the ship, and so
1 clofee that one could have tonebed him
with a ten foot pole We measured his
length by the rail, and then a tapeline
gave us exactly 38 feet 3 inches The
only weapons aboard were two navy re
volvers, and the captain took one and I
the other, and we fired 12 bullets fair
into the body of the fish. I am telling
you the plain truth when I say that he
did not swerve an inch or seem to feel
the slightest pain. The bullets certainly
went into him, bnt when an ordinary
shark can have two or three feet cut off
his tail and still continue to swim about
unconcernedly there isn’t much hope of
pistol bullets ending his life.
Knowing that the presence of the de
mon meant a horrible death tu any man
who fell overboard, the word was passed
for eveiy one to be very careful of him
self while aloft. The shark picked us
up of a Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock.
We had a fair wind for the north, and
up to Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock he
had not secured a victim. No matter
whether the breeze was strong or weak,
whether it was daylight or darkness,
the demon kept his place alongside.
We tried him with baited hooks, we
stuffed an old suit of clothes and threw
the figure overboard, we put more bul
lets into him and worked all sorts of
schemes to drive him off, but it was not
to be done. If he sheered off at some
demonstration, it was to return aft after
a moment and take np his old position.
His presence was such a menace and
peril that all felt uncomfortable and
nervous, and by order iff the captain
the men were kept out of the rigging
except when it became positively neces
sary to- go aloft. When Friday came
and no accident had happened, we be
gan to take heart and hoped to see the
demon leave us. In all those days and
nights he had eaten nothing, and so easy
was it for him to keep pace with us that
one might watch for an hour and not
notice a movement of bis tail* • While,
we were hoping that hungfer* and the
long swim bad about exhausted him the
cook got upon the rail on the opposite
side from the shark to draw a pail of
water. A sudden lurch of the ship sent
him overboard. I happened to be watch-
iEg the shark at the same moment.
With the quickness of thought he was
gene from under my eyes, aiid, passing
cinder the brig, he seized the* cook be
fore the latter had time to cry out and
before a man bad advanced to the rail.
Four or five sailers got there just in
time to see the victim disappear, and as
tkero was no tinge of blood on the wa
ter they could well declare that the
shark bad swallowed him whole.
A month later, 300 miles to the east
ward of Mauritius the demon'arose
alongside the Scotch whaler Albatross
and followed her two days and got a
to frighten the shark away from his sec- 1 man who fell from the bowsprit. Three
ond victim, but he could not be turned 1 months later. * '* "
This incident was not logged, as ! car, ho got a
man who fell a victim to too demon,
but others were to follow in quick suc
cession.
Three days later and ICO miles to the
south of Ceylon the American ship
James F. Bradwell, tea laden, was
caught in a calm which lasted for six
hours. Of a sudden men who were
working in the rigging discovered the
big shark alongside. He was at first
taken for a small whale, and great was
the amazement when it was known that
he belonged to th6 man eating species.
As in the other case, it was determined
to capture him alive, and the men put
in three hours’ work seeking to tempt
him with pork and beef. The big fellow
simply refused to take the hook, and
his actions were so sluggish that it was
at last believed he was almost dead. A
boat was lowered in hopes that a noose
might bo clipped ever his tail, and it
was while the man with the rope was
trying to perform this feat that a trag
edy occurred. Ke was bending over the
bows of the boat when he lost his hold
end plunged into the water. With light-
iiingliko sv.'iltness the shark turned and
seized him, dived under the keel of the
ship and was seen no mere. Five men
were close at hand when the shark grab
bed the man, and they were unanimous
in declaring that the victim was bolted
down as if he had been a five pound
pieco of pork. That incident was also
recorded in the log. and thus made
authentic, but I do not think it was
ever published. I got it personally 15
years later from the captain of the
BradwelL
The third appearance of the demon,
so far as the record goes, was about two
weeks later, and in the bay cf Bengal,
many hundreds of miles distant. An
English whaling ship named the Two
Sisters was lying off the Andaman is
lands at anchor while making some re
pairs aloft. At 10 o’clock in the fore
noon, without the fin of a shark having
been seen, the demon suddenly rose
alongside and lay waiting for his prey
Everybody was astonished at his size.,
but as the repairs were urgent the men
were not allowed to knock off to effect
his capture. They did call to three fish
ermen, however, who were in a boat
near at band, and the natives responded.
The shark prayed his old game and
appeared to be scarcely able to move,
and the idea fif the men was to noose
■inoo we have such neighbor/,!.!
either bring about a refonaKth^j
itaiy conditions and practices!
tinue to run the risk of an auc J J
■ion of this terrible disease. nJLJ
of the visits of yellow fever to tlSj
try since 1800 are known deSj
have been from Cuba, andof^]
have been clearly traced to tCll
Havana. Europe', protect** £?
Cuba in this particular lies iiH
moteness. A disease which kS
vessel starting across the ocean
to develop and nutfeit itself «> C J
that the quarantine officials on tied
night—into the broad ? fer side can discover it on the si
1 " Tal A Dt A th Cl *» t=ralAbl
from Key West, there will J
percentage of danger, kov^
the quarantine regulations ■ j
the conditions remain as A 7 ,
less indeed we assume a - a'y of/
lute non intercourse with the island dj
ing the summer months.—Dr Wd
Wyman in Forum.
On the first expedition to Fort Fisher
a captured blockade runner called the
Ella Knight was used as a government
transport The cargo of this vessel was
Light Battery E, Third United States
artillery, and the Sixteenth New York
Independent-Light -battery. About 146
homes, A* field pieoe*, 11 ouisso— and
12 limber charts made a valuable cargo.
The failing master’s name was Ad
ams, but as we sailed ante sealed or-
gan, -teUbe opened off Cepe Henry Hght-
house, the ranking military officer
aboard, who held these orders, became-
ranking or commanding officer of the
ship..., Thisq^S^a^was Fwrt Lieutenant
J. a Myrick of Light Bkttery E, Third
United States artillery.
Adams, a Baltimore man having some
influence, was appointed sailing master
in the United States transport fleet. He
was a genuine Confederate at heart and
bad in his mind a way to help tbs Con
federacy, which was to await his op
portunity and run the first good cargo
in his chaige into the Confederates’
hands. -
As a signal the flagship fired a gun
over the'waters of Hampton Roads, and
j the transport fleet of the first expedition,
' without outside lights, sailed out into
| the darkness of
Atlantic.
. The Ella Knight was not the last to
reach Cape Henry lighthouse, but when
she did the sealed orders were opened
and Adams was advised of the ship’s
destination—Fort Fisher.
; Soon after turning southward from
Cape Henry the wind began to blow
strongly from the south. The sea be
came extremely rough, the decks were
wet and slippery and the horses’ stalls
gave way. The horses began to slide
back and forth on deck, so heavy were
the lunges and rolls of the ship. At the
same time the guns began to roll on the
upper deck. Ropes were procured and
the guns lashed through the wheels to
prevent rolling on deck and knocking a
, tole through the transport’s sides. Then
I ropes were stretched lengthwise and
j through the center of the deck, and sev-
| eral times crosswise to help support the
horses, but many were killed and many
disabled.
Some time past midnight Adams
quietly turned the ship to the north and
scudded with the wind. Then at the end
of a few hours he turned the ship south
again. His orders were to keep within
sight of tha transport fleet, but when
daylight came no transport fleet was in
sight. He gave as his excuse that the
ship’s engines were weak and that he
could not make the speed required of
him. We knew that the Ella Knight
was a fast ship, and from that time on
we knew that Adams was a man who
would stand watching.
By the middle of the day the storm
had passed over a::d Adams took a reck
oning off Gape Hatteras, North Caro
lina. Then we continued our journey
without much of interest until nearly
daylight the next morniDg.
All was quiet aboard the transport.
As she rode through the darkness there
was a report of a cannon, and the next
instant a shell burst over the deck of
the Ella Knight. From the short inter
val between the report of the gun and
the shell’s explosion the battery officers
knew that we must be near the shore.
Besides, the sound of the breakers from
the heavy ocean swells could be heard
lashing the sandy beach.
• J
o- iumihucu uy tne hp-i.
lure and filth of tropical seauor- 5
conditions are found in certain ^
the Spanish main, which, l a <£?®
** regulations, haveT 3
if iM wont cf thexn. m. “
prerwl, dnrlag tb« ^
toRpIr ojtoel fcrU,
-k wen, twiag frani** SJW
owner* The Mtive. gneiiu,
Bono to It, having njnallThid rt?'
ip.<J#U.oon
us tbu position is a
Mtcdj's Narrow K-sp*.
“Au hoo’s the guid
said one farmer to another, a; ,
in the market place ana exeha
snuffboxes
“Did ye no hear that she’s dadj
buried?’ ’ said Sandy solemnly. j
“Dear me!” exclaimed his trij
sympathetically. “Surely it nttk \
been very sudden?”
“Aye, it was sudden, ” returned 1
dy. “Ye see,' when she turned ill
t bad na time to send for the doctor!
I gied her a bit pouther that I ha
ing in my drawer foT a year or tsi|
that I had got frae the doctor m
bnt hadna ta en What the
was I dinna verra weel ken. but shei
soon after. It's a sair lo> to me. Il
assure ye, but it’s semet
thankfu’ for 1 didna tak’
mysel’- ”—Spare Momenta.
Tiro Przyers.
Bishop Leslie, “the hghtinghisb|
before a battle in Ireland thus ]
“O Grod, for our un worthiness we ai
fife to claim thy help, but if we are]
our enemies are worse, and if thou
not meet to help us, we pray thee j
them not, bnt stand thou e-ntel
day and leave it to the arm
The United Service M : ~.ai
pares with this the supplivj
an officer offered before oue of 1
ties for Hungarian indepeude
1849: “1 will not ask thee,
help us, and I know thou wilt noil
the Austrians, but if thou wilt
yonder hill thou shall not be as
of thy children. ”
Health of Plants.
It
than the demcti turned and made for
the boat. Tht> native craft was a frail
affair, used cni>* for fishing on the reefs,
and the shark struck it head on and
stove a great hole in the side. * Ropes
were thrown to tho meq floundering iij
the water, <ut only one of them wa9
safely hauled aboard the whaler. One
was seized and bolted down, and a seo-
ond, who hung to the ship’s rodder,
Was picked off a moment later. What
ever came handy was hurled overboard
to laugh at. What a stupid, ungrateful
ers and at its top a wide landing, with ! b^ast the mall must be! If ever I waste
the ballroom n-n&n-.na hriahf. nn-.sv mid i — — half hour in writing to a crea-
the ballroom opening bright, noisy and
joyous behind it.
In the doorway stands the hostess,
welcoming her guests. Dick of today
tries to distinguish hsi features, but
they elude him just as the colors had
a few minutes before. He passes on in
to the room. Again all the figures are
blurred, until he comes quite to the up
per end, immediately beneath the big
hanging lamp, where there stands a
very distinct one in white silk and a
quantity of soft w;kite tulle, who has
her back turned and displays a very
.fair head with a bunch of pink moss
roses at one side. Dick of 1872 speaks,
and the figure turns and looks at him
with a little uncertainty at first, and
then a gradual, pleased look of recog
uition conies to her face—that same
sweet face, with its warm, brown eyes.
Dick of 1872 thinks five years have
passed very lightly, leaving* behind
only a touch of dignity and worn-
another
tuie of that sort,
Worsve!”—People.
call me a horse or
Not In the Same Class*
“Don’t yon speak to Mrs. Brown any
more?”
“No, indeed. I’ve found her out a*
last. ”
“What’s the matter?”
“Her talk about sprockets and handle
bars wjis all put on. She has no wheeL ”
—Chicago Post.
How to Make Skin Food*
Melt together 2 ounces of lanoline, 0
ounces oil of almonds, an ounce sperma
ceti, three-fourths of an ounce cf white
wax, half an ounce of glycerin. While
cooling stir constantly, adding 60 drops
of benzoin.
Constantinop) e
about 23 time*
has been besieged
aside.
it aid not concern the ship, but was
published at length in the Bombay pa
pers later on.
For the next three months there is no
record of the shark’s doings, though he
might have secured many victims from
native craft and the incidents escape
public notice. Early in the year 1864
the bark Speedwell, bound from China
to her home port of Philadelphia, had
just cleared Acheen bead, at the en
trance to the strait of Malacca, when a
sudden squall carried away her main
and fore topmasts and several of her
sails.' This was early in the morning,
and while the crew were repairing
damages and the ship proceeding on her
voyage big shark came up astern
and took up a position on the port side
and only about 20 feet away. His length
was carefully measured by the officers
and recorded pt 38 feet 3. inches He
bad been heard cf through the papers,
and the crew were warned to be careful
in their work aloft. In hopes to drive
the monster away Captain Taylor
brought out a heavy shotgun and fired
charges of buckshot into him at short
range. The leaden missiles must have
penetrated to some exteat, as the demon
to the south cf' MadagaS-
man from a Boston ship
called the White Wave. During the
game year, when the English ship Cape
Horn was wrecked off Cape Town and
some of the crew took to a raft, the big
shark followed the raft for seven days
and nights and devoured nine different
men who fell or leaped into the sea.
1865 the demon cruised in the route of
ships between Cape Town and Australia
and was seen a dozen times. In 1866 he
was back in the bay of Bengal. The last
seen of him was off the Lakadive islands
in the Arabian sea. He arose alongside
of an English gunboat "one afterndbn,
and, after taking his measure/ one of
the guns was loaded with shell and
trained to bear on him. When the smoke
cleared away, the shark could no longer
be seen, and as he was nevET met with
afterward by any craft which made a
record of the circumstaace it may be
safely argued that he was put out of the
way for good and all
is impossible for piaa»
Each commissioned officer quickly j unless they have plenty \
reached for his side arms, and they were ™^tt> ir
soon on deck. J. R. Myrick (now major
Fifth United States artillery) was the
first to reach the pilothouse. Adams
was at the wheel.
Myrick asked him, “Where are we?”
Adams replied, “I reckon we are pret
ty nigh Fort Fisher—that was the or-
| ders, wasn’t it?”
! Quick as a flash Myrick’s revolver
swung under Adams’ ear, and he order-
i ed him to turn to sea. Adams turned
deathly white as he remarked:
s '^TWe are in the inside channel. If we
turn to sea, we will have to ride the
t reef. If we ride it, we will be caught
by the pirates outside of it,” meaning
] the Union fleet. But at the same time
he gave several fast torus to the wheel,
and the transport swung half way round
and headed for the reef. As we gained
it there was a roaring and hissing
sonnd and the waves shone with phos
phorescent light. Soon we were in the
line of sissing, glowing waves. Qna
K sudden bmnp of the vessel, and she bad
crossed the reef unhurt and was sailing
| in the old, Atlantic.
Soon we saw the dim outline of a , . ,
swift steamer approaching us from tha most give up the idea —
larboard side. A challenge name through ing or your conyictioo=- J
must be ample room in^ P of£ ,
for the expansion and sir^aace oi j
roots. __
fngiUli Recruit*.
Every recruit must be a
ject. The enlistment of as aJ*
course, contrary to inrernatic
1 He must be unmarried fcnrew^
• bare driven many men wto
but not with the consent of tbert
ties. The married man w bG frj
bimstlf a bachelor is
years’ imprisonment with L-
They v- or. net £0 particubr^ 1
delicious piece of doggerel
that year represents a r ^ a '
leave cf his wife and i2W ; -5 •
Farewell to you. dear
Likewise my cin--- rt -
f - Beheld, i come to ta* 8
Of frienua anu
Nancy suggests sehmgj^™
i 4he furniture to pay bis
i But Jack replies that
i ed. Smart money won
! cross the main: |
t t» You will see me rc« 01 ^ j
i . When 1 return agu-i .
Have you views on ’■.q^ a .s4
Variable Height*.
“How tall be yon, Henry?”
“’Bout six foot, I guess, with my
boots off. How tall be you?”
“ ’Bout six foot when my bair’s cut ’
•—Harper’s Bazar.
| a trumpet:
“Lay to, or we’ll send a shot through
I you!”
Adams rang the eDgine bell. The ship
soon lost its headway and swung idly
in the seas. A few moments later a
Union*ensign appeared on deck. After
learning the name and character of our
ship he informed Adams that be had
been under the guns of Half Moon bat-
j tery, one and a half miles above Fort
| Fisher. Then he continued:
“I am Ensign of dispatch boat
] No. 2 of the blockading fleet. The bal-
] ance of the transport fleet is 20 miles
| due east at sea. ”
Again our engines were started, and
■ in a short time daylight began to creep
i over the ocean and we could see the
] transport fleet steaming toward land.
Nothing was done with Ad*ms, but
] I have always believed he intended to
i beach the Ella Knight under the guns
ing to be vaccinated or q
| the interrogatory runs. q‘ .
is reached: “I, ThomasA .
oath that I will be
j true allegiance to her
and successors, and ^
duty bound, honestly
I fend her majesty, her Ct '’m
crown
™ d w"!
sors. m person,
against all enemies, ^ ^
1 and obev all orders of
heirs and successors and <-
and officers set over me-
God!”—Good Words.
71 a Oo« j- %
— *
said
< “Mirier, - $
“ would you like to n*
you wanted?”
“Of course I would,
reply- , ,.
“Well, than, I
man to man an tell you - ^ g
_ Tt'g a good deal to kejs *
of Fort Fisher.—Eugene Scott in New j -apathy an co-opem'/^g
York Commercial Advertiser. j jjj the money I
At the defense of Thermoovlse the ! without
ing ton Star. -
of Thermopylae
shower of Persian arrows was so dense
it cut off tha light of the sun.