IXTIIELASE. sail, slacked off his head sheets, and THE BLACK PRINCE. little wasted, but not putrid. The Soon there was a bright flash of lightningthen then descended with the fury of an aval "hove the vessel to" for us, and we body of Canute, who died in 1017 anotherand finally the anche, in ash ingthe deck and bulwark: soon boarded her. was found fresh in 1766. Those And art thou then, my heart, too old ?ly sky ahead was almost a continuous of the Helen Mar as though they wen JoM Alexander, the Leading Segro Gambler of Ever to leap with love again, Jf We then made sail again, and I had William the Conqueror and his wift bla^se of light. Apprehensive of an approaching of paste-board. Grasping my precious i*0 the United States. *$? feel the strong blood-torrent rolled $ the satisfaction of seeing that my Malay were perfect in 1522. In 1569 thretj squall and knowing that to spar, I was borne by the billow fai M* Through heaving breast aud teeming From the Detroit Tribune. T^^Jl was a practied seaman, and as active Roman soldiers, in the dress of thei: oe taken aback by one with a full out to leeward. I managed to chn| brain? A colored man stood in the front as a cat about the rigging. After country, fully equipped with arms# spread of canvas on the vessel meant to my frail support until daybreak, Jfe it no more, my heart, for thee we had been three days out, one of were dug out of a peat mass neatffc, door at Whitney's opera house, gazing destruction, I hastened below to consult when, as by a miracle, I was rescued Xife' one unquestioned ecstacy? the foremast hands came to me and Aberdeen. "They were quite fresbg the captain. I descended in to the absently at a three-sheet poster on by the crew of the Danish brig "Rollo," .Are faded quite those dim, far days reported that the Malay was so ill as and plump after a lapse o^^. cabin and found him bu3y over his bound for St. George. After my re the stand in front of the theater. He When music mothered every sound, to be unable to go on watch, adding about 1,500 years. In 1717 the bod-ft^ log at the dining-room table. He was covery from the fever into which I was formed altogether a remarkable picture, 'When up and down youth's happy ways that he thought he had the fever. ies of Lady Kilsyth and her infantg^"^ seated directly under the binnacle so thrown by the events of that night, Fared glories on eternal round? and one that was duplicated up* Alarmed by this intelligence I proceeded were embalmed. In 1796 they werer^ that the light from the swinging lamp told my story in substance to th .Has chill of years killed every joy on the bill board. A closely clipped theyj-v immediately to the forecastle to examine found as perfect as in the hour above shone directly down upon him. That blossomed for the wandering boy? ship's owners as I have told it here the man. I found him stretched were embalmed. Every feature and^ beard covered his face. A magnificent I spoke to him of my apprehensions They naturally concluded that mj These are the trees once known so well out upon a couple of sea chests limb was full. The infant's features^" as to the threatened* reason was unhinged by suffering sealskin overcoat, reaching nearly to _We felt to them all but beknown directly under the open scuttle and were as composed as if he had only squall, but he did not seem to and exposure hence, to my incompe the heels,was carelessly thrown open "Their very shadow we could tell saw from the ghastly color of the been asleep for eighty years. His col- -J*-*- heed me. Raising my voice I repeated tency as a seaman, rather than to th .From others by the forest thrown, in front. The diamonds that blazed man's face that he was seriously ill. or was as fresh and nis flesh as plump -T* what I had said, and as he looked up real cause, have they ever since ascrib 'The same gladsongs from bush and bough from his shirt bosom and fingers were He showed marked symptoms of the and full as in the perfect glow of health. I saw that he had been drinking heavily. -As once we heard, we hear them now. ed the "Loss of the Helen Mar." as large as the eyes of the street gamins yellow fever, which is often prevalent The smile of infancy and innocence He forbade with an oath my suggestion E. G. J. And these sweet flowers beneath my feet, in Pernambuco. I immediately reported was on his lips. At a little distance it to shorten sail, adding that he who stood gaping at the man in Their young eyeB greet us as of yore. the case to the captain was difficult to distinguish whether meant to be "on the whaling grounds the doorway. The man, too, had eyes The hope, there! Still they think to meet A Spool of Thread. and the mate, who ridiculed my Lady Kilsyth was alive or dead. The or in hell by the morning." Her glance that shall not answer more piercing and restless. He wor6 a silk fears, declaring that "the lazy nigger question is, "What preservative waa Seeing that it was useless to argue Few people ever stop to think of th( To us alone it cannot be hat and carried a gold-headed cane. was only shirking duty, and that used and how applied?" 'They're looking up so tenderly. with him in his then condition I turned twistings and turnings and the vari Two men passed by the theater. the taste of a rope's end would soon to go, when an impulse that I cannot ous processes that cotton fiber goes "Say, look at that overcoat!" said 'This is the same gray path we took bring him round." They both went explain caused me to glance upward. through after it is taken from the pod OVER THE GREEN CLOTH. Behind the slowly-going day one. "Minstrels here this week?" for'ard and in a few moments, to my Peering down through the before it is wound up on a spool and As they do now, the light leaves shook "Yes," replied the other. anger and disgust, I saw the unfortunate glass-roofed binnace I distinctly saw When evening breezes blew this way ready for the housewife's needle. Th "That fellow is the star of the company, Maly dragged up the companionway Lock of Three Well-Known Gamblers of Chlcag* a human lace. The hands were curved And there's the glow upon the dome, whole story is told, however, in a mebbe." by these two brutes, and ordered Town. And here the cows are coming home. round each side of it so as to small space in one of the cases in the "No, he's the manager. The company aloft to assist the men who were Gambling flourishes in Chicago as it concentrate the light upon the hall in the National museum, given uj -Ah, no, good heart, thou still canst stir, is not a colored one." bending a new foretopsail. I ventured never flourished before. Now and then captain as he sat at the table, to an exhibition of textile fabrics Still lives the love fust bid thee leap: "Please give me this with discretion. to remonstrate with the captain, but we hear of a raid on a poker game, a and a pair of gleaming eyeballs Still are we at the side of her This is one of the many object lessons Colored man run a minstrel show? was roughly told to "hold my negro craps game, or a Chinese bung glared wolfishly through the finaers They laid away 'neath yonder steep. in the museum, which combined, are in Ain't that a little strong?" jaw." loo joint, but the big faro banks, with Though clods be on her and a stone, into the cabin below. I gazed fixedly tended to tell the story of man "Maybe, but it is a fact. His name their incidental conveniences for roulette, In the dear old lane we're not alone. Seeing that I should only prejudice upward for a moment, thinking that as he exists on the earth. First is is AlexanderJohn Alexanderone John Vance Cheney in the March Century. chuckaluck, stud poker and short the cause of the unfortunate man by perhaps my imagination was playing shown a specimen of cotton in the ol the best known and cleverest men cards are allowed to run along undisturbed my advocacy, I said no more, but resolved a trick upon mebut no, there was pod just as it is picked without in his line in America. Some call him by the police. Some rather The Loss of The Helen Mar. to make it as light for him as I the face, distinct, uncanny, motionless. having the seeds removed. Next Alexander the Great, others the brisk adventures are recorded in connection could while he was on watch. He Deeming it an intrusion on the is shown a specimen of the same Biack Prince. Call him what you with the experiences of the managed to go on duty for the next part of one of the men upon our privacy, cotton after it has been ginned and will, he is a bright man just the same." Before entering upon the strange great throng who seek the bubble fortune two days, being assisted by kindhearted I hastened to the door and the black seeds have been removed. "Theatrical man?" even at the tiger's jaws. Into a shipmates, but on the third, -narrative which the entreaties of a few sprang up the companion way, eager The Sea Island cotton is used foi "Gambler mainly, theatrical some- Clark street resort, a day or two being overcome by the intense heat, to surprise the intruder. I was on the ^friends, already cognizant of the facts, thread on account of the length of the what." ago, came old Dywer Smith, a grizzled dropped exhausted upon the deck. deck in an instant, and to my amazement and a strong sense of duty have finally fiber A sample of the sacking in Mr. Alexander was found behind the veteran oi the field of the cloth of green, Convinced at last of the genuineness saw that, except the man at the which the cotton is baled is also shown. scenes at' Whitney's in the evening. impelled me to make public, I wish to who is part proprietor of a faro bank of the man's illness, the captain had wheel there was no one abaft the Then the cotton is supposed to have He was smoking a fragrant flavored on West Madison. Smith had a roll ol say that I am not now, nor ever have him carried below, where a close examination mainmast. I approached the wheelsman been baled and shipped to the thread cigar right in the face of the yellow $900, the joint property of himsell revealed beyond a doubt and, with assumed carelessness, jK^SKibeen an unduly superstitious man. factory. Here the first thing that is card on the wall that prohibited the and partner, and he had come over that he was dangerously ill of the yellow asked who it was that had just left p"*5*43till I am convinced, both from certain done with the cotton is to subject it use of tobacco on the stage. the river to "make a play." Having fever. He soon became deluious the binnacle. With a look of surprise events within my own experience, to the ''picker" process by which th "How did I become a gambler?" flashed his bundle and announced hia and his ravings were most horrible that was evidently genuine he answered cotton from several bales is mixed to laughed Mr. Alexander. "Why, my intention, Smith requested that the And from others that have been re- to listen to. He remained in this condition that since I had gone below not secure uniformity. During the pickei boy, I was born one. Now you might table be cleared and himself left to enter during I he rest of the trip. a man had been aft but himself. I i**\ lated to me by persons of undoubted process much waste, in the form o! like to know just where I was born. the jungle single-handed and alone. rt When we were within 24 hours sail strolled for'ard, but the men were veracity, that the ordinary sequence dust, dirt, and short fibers are separated Well, I came to life fifteen miles below This was done and he sat down with of Bermuda I was summoned to the lounging about as usual, some spinning of natural cause and effect is someimes from the good fibers by the picker. Cincinnati, on President William casekeeperandtab, and the duel began. captain's room, where I found the yarns, others gazing listlessly Henry Harrison's plantation. I used Smith, who is a cool, daring, desperate Next the "picked" cotton is violated in a manner totally inexplicable rest of the officers assembled. The over the side, but apparently just as to match pennies with the Harrison player, after three hours got up from wound on a machine, in sheets or laps, captain then informed us that, in his they were before I had left the deck. to human reason, youngsters, and there I first discovered the table with a little over $9,000 ol into a roll. The next process illustrated haste, he had neglected to take I remember that one of them, an Azore following particulars of the my fortune in risks. Later on I became the bank's money. His next move by a practical exhibit is the carding out our health papers at Pernambuco, Islander, was crooning away in a low foundering of the ship "Helen Mar" a cabin boy on a New Orleans was to go back to his own place and by which the sheets of cotton are and that consequently voice at one of the chants peculiar to packet\steamer. Everybody gambles report the results to his partnerHagan A "Off the Bermudas are facts that came combed, or run out into long parallel we should not be allowed to land at his people, and I never heard that air on Mississippi river boats. I was no by name. fibers. The cotton is next seen drawn Bermuda in the usual way. He nroposed in after days without being reminded j0, under my own personal observation, exception. My good fortune continued, that we should "lay off and on" through a trumpet shaped opening of the horrors of that night. and I relate them in the hope of therein and when we reached Cincinnati near a portion of the island that he which condenses it into a single strand "Now," said Smith, "how shall we Concluding that the mysterious face fey clearing myself, as officer of the on one of our trips I found I had $80 knew to be thinly settled, where we or "sliver." Then eight such sliveis divide the stuff?" at the binnacle was a creature of my *g| ideck at that time of the ill-fated ves- clear. I left the river and started a should probably "be able to purchase are run together into one, six of the "Why divide it at all?"said Hagan. own imagination, I again took my small gambling room for the benefit of our vegetables from the farmers and MM Isel, from the charge of mismanagejment strands thus produced are drawn into "What's the matter with playing seven seat on the vice bench, determined to people of my own race. I was getting take them aboard in the whale-boats one, and again six of the strands from which has been laid at my door. up for the whole business?" keep a shaip eye upon the weather, along finely until one day a man came before the government authorities the last drawing are combined into And this is what they didold which by this time had grown, very M. iBeing the sole survivor of the disasfpp in and broke the bank, which meant were aware of our presence. I then one. Then conies the slubbing or fast sledge, best three games out of five threatening. A darker night I never |ter, I am the sole witness as to the $900 to me. Then I bushwhacked ventured to suggest that we had a man "roving" process, which consists ol games. Dwyer Smith lost three saw. The ship was rushing through the about the country for a time a aboard who was dying of yellow fever, estrange cause of it, and lam well aware winding the strand and bobbin. Two straight games, and inside of ten minutes water at the average rate of about rather impecunious condition. When 4 and that it would be necessary for humanity's strands are twisted and again that my attempt at explanation will he had not a dollar to show foi eight knots, leaving a long trail of I could earn a dollar I played the sake to get him into the hospital. wound on a bobbin. After a his big play, while Hagan was $9,000 jff be received by many with incredulity phosphorescent light th atgleamed far bank. Sometimes I had hundreds and The captain, with a somewhat number of twistings and windings, during richer. Hagan took the first train foi in her wake. The wind was no longer -and derision. occasionally thousands, and lost it all sinister look, shortly informed me that which the strand is gradually reduced New Orleans, and is now having a gorgeous steady, but rose and fell in irregular the next day. the case would be provided for, and in size, until it begins to assume winter picnis. On the 15th day of August, 1869, the gusts, causing the vessel to run almost the conference broke up. On the 29th "One night I cleaned UD $1,700 in a a thread-like appearance, two strands An odd episode occurred recently, upon an even keel at timet, and .New England whaling barque Helen day of May we sighted the light-house Cincinnati bank. I went to Columbus of this fine "roving" are run together in which a "skin" gambler named then to keel over and boil along with -Mar, of which I was then second tower of Bermuda, and the wind being and determined to open an establishment and twisted under considerable tension, Sanders made a remarkable plunge. chain plates dragging in the water. "mate, put into the port of Pernambuco Jip-e fair and strong were soon for myself, A crowd followed on a bobin that makes 7,000 He had just finished a modest meal in Great flashes of light lit up the scene to take up letters which awaited lying within easy distance of the me up from Cincinnati to break me. revolutions a minute. Two of the Boyle's chop house, and had paid hig at intervals, showing a massive cloud shore. The captain gave orders us in the hands of the ship's agent. I got $1,000 from a Cincinnati friend, cords thus produced are then wound last nickel to the cashier, when he noticed bank risingrapidly almost dead ahead. that the mate's boat be got ready for now a Detroit sporting man, to help We expected to run thence to Bermu*da together on a spool, and then twisted a counterfeit silver dollar which My boat steerer, who had been anxiously lowering, and prepared to go ashore me out. We had it hot and heavy, to receive our supplies, and therefore from that to another spool. The had deen taken in during the day. looking out for'ard foi some to arrange for the purchase of our but I came out $9,000 winner. lafterwaros did not come to anchor but wind two cord thread thus produced is time, came up to me and said: "I "What's that dollar doing there, all stores. As I was going below at eight started a second bank in Columbus, &'. -and weather being favorable, laid "off think we're going to get a heavy squall transferred thence to another spool, by itself?" he asked. bells, I saw the mate walk for'ard and and both are running now." out there before long, sir it looks and three threads of two cords each "'Cause it's a counterfeit," said the -and on" outside theharbor. My boat descend into the forecastle. Suspecting "How do you play?" mighty black." I had about made up are twisted together, forming six-cord cashier. was told off to convey the captain that something was up. I determined "Only big limits$100, $200, or my mind to get in the light canvass, Sanders asked for and obtained the thrpad. One who has followed the ashore, and we lowered from the ship to remained on deck. After a $500 to call a card. Detroit banks and clew up the fore and main-sails, worthless coin, and with it steered process sees the cotton gradually just after sunrise, intending to finish while I saw a couple of the foremast pay $25 limits, but it is mere tomfoolery despite the commands of the skipper, straight for the nearest faro bank. transformed from a wide band or hauds lift a small sea chest on deck -our business so as to get aboard and to play such a game. I have always when a loud exclamation from the He put it on the ace tray, and those sheet of loose cotton to a compact and go below again in a short time made it a principle to break or mrake sail again in the afternoon. Our boat steerer of "'fore God it's comin' cards won four times for him. The thread that will pass through the eye they again appeared, bearing between breakthat is, to dean out the bank -supply of vegetables had run short, sir!" caused me to spring to my feet. dealer had failed to notice that the of a needle. The six-cord thread is them the sick Malay. The poor or myself. That's the only true way jand the captain was anxious to make dollar was bogus, and in a very short at last taken from a bobbin and reeled First there was a prolonged rumbling watch was indeed a pitiable object as to gamble. My advice to any one .Bermuda as soon as possible to replenish time Sanders cahed in $121 and quit into a 8kein,m which form it is bleached sound like a distant roll of musketry, he was borne aft between the two who engages in it is to stop forever it. On arriving at the whari, playing. For the odd dollar he received or dyed. Then it is wound back followed by a terrific peal of men. His thin, hot hands clutched the minute he makes a decent pile." back the identical coin with which *he captain directed me to leave from the skein upon a big spool, from thunder that seemed to rend the ocean wildly in the air, and his rolling "Have I ever broken banks? Only he had started to play. With singular a man in charge of the boat, and, which it is supplied to little birch to its very depths, then a furious eyeballs seemed to appeal for one or twohundred. I have played fatuity he refused to receive this spools upon which it is wound in regular taking the rest of the crew with downfall of rain rattled upon the deck mercy as they glanced from the highest game ever performed in particular piece of money because it courses,and is then ready for the like a shower of falling buckshot. The me, to go into the town and endeavor one to another of the crew. I stepped this countrycall-card faro for $1,000 was a counterfeit. The result was to market. The machine that regulates squall was upon us in all its fury, and up to him, and as tenderly as I could a crack. Remember this was not a to find three or four men willing draw attention to the fact that he the last winding measures the number struck the ship right forward as if it helped to place him in the mate's boat combination arrangement. I simply to ship, to fill the places of th^se had won $120 without risking a cent, of yards wound on each spool. The had been a blow from some gigantic his chest (a light one enough, poor fellow), played my money alone. My largest ^ho had deserted at our last port. and the irate dealet and his assistants arm from heaven. The worst had spools are made of various sizes to was placed beside him, and in a cleanings have been in Saratoga, Long We accordingly separated soon after forthwith jumped on ths young man happenedwe were struck aback. The hold from 200 to 12,000 yards of few moments the boat was manned, Branch and Chicago. In Saratoga a landing, and I proceeded up the broad and took every penny away from him, vessel leaping forward on her course, thread. The labels that decorate the and, with the captain and the mate in few years ago I broke a bank for $30,- not even letting mm get away with the .street that fronts the harbor, knowing had met the shock of the furious gald the stern, set out for the beach. end of the spool are last put on. They 000. That was the largest bank I original counterfeit dollar. that my chances of success were greatthere that drove her sails flat back upon the aie cut and pasted on by machinery ever broke, though I have made more owing to the proximity of the At about 4 in the afternoon the splintering masts causing her to rear with great rapidity. money than that at one sitting." boat came alongside again, and the her bows high in the air, almost bringing Matrimony a Science. -shipping and numerous boardinghouses "What do you think of the career of captain informed me that satisfactory the taffrail under water. I shouted and rumshops frequented by a gambler?" From the Toronto Week. arrangements had been made with a to the men "Haul up the foresail!" "Nine out of ten die poor men. I They Meet and Stab and Kiss and seamen. I soon succeeded in finding We had heard of the English Matrimonial dealer in provisions on the island and then seizing hold of the rail, clambered have known of afew who stopped playing Part. A$WO men, deserters from an English News, but we never before happened that the boats were to be cleared of up the slanting deck, and laid hold of when they had something, but the ?3erchant-man and dispatched them so see it. When seen, it beggars SceneMadison square. Miss Fannie their whaling gear at once in order to the main clew garnet to get up the rule is the reverse. The fascination all description and defies caricature. to the office of the American consul, get our supplies under cover of discovered gazing into a confectioner's starboard clew. The sail was fast is something indescribable. There is Here are twenty-two long and closely where the captain was employed at darkness. Wind and sea were in bound back to the mast and rigging no use in a man gambling in light window. Enter Miss Sadie. set columns full of advertisements for .that hour. our favor, and by 3 in the morning by the force of the squall, and I might games. The principle is to make or Miss Fannie- Why Sadie Mel ones' husbands or wives. The advertisers the vegetables were safe under as well have tried to lift the ship. Desiring to find a third man I lose. Have I superstitions? None. state precisely what they want, and Miss Sadie: Why, Fannie! Where the hatches and the boats swinging on There was a boom like the roar of a turned into a garishly furnished I have made enough money- without at the same time accurately appraise the davits again. In the hurry and have you been this age? I never see cannon, and 1 saw the jib, blown clear grog-shop that seemed a likely them. The only thing that induced themselves. "Bachelor, age 36, goodlooking, bustle consequent upon the work out of the bolt-ropes, fly away like a place tor my purpose. me to enter the theatrical business you anywhere. good appearance, very effectionate, in hand I had forgotten to white cloud to leeward. I shouted to Upon entering I found myself in a was that I might divert my attention "I've been thinking the same thing steady, salary about 150 inquire as to the fate of the unhappy the helmsman, "Put your wheel to ^spacious hall "at the farther end of from the gambling table. I am using a year wishes to marry a lady, medium about you. I expected to meet you Malay. A little close questioning of starboard therehard a starboard!" which stood a bar, presided over by a the minstrels only as an experiment. height, rather short than otherwise, one of the mate's crew convinced me There came no answer. at Mrs. Hungerford Gunn's reception sinister-looking Portuguese. To my If I like the business I shall enter into small hands and feet, loving nature, that our inhuman captain had conveyed .surprise the walls were hung round legitimate management and speculation. last week. Didn't you get cards? The "Starboard that wheel there: quick, good temper, good-looking or the poor wretch to an unfrequented with, cages containing parrots, macaws I am coming here next summer for God's sake!" Still there was Gunn's are so exclusive. well-tormed features, domesticated, part of the island, and left and other native birds, and the air to christen the new trotting association. no reply. Believing that the man "Why, you poor dear, were you with means, age from 18 to 30." "A him there without food or drink to was filled with their discordant cries. I bet on races bet on anything had been carried over-board, I there, too? Nowenevergoto Gunn's." man wants a woman for his wife who die a death of untold agony. In the centre of the hall was a stout and everything that invites a turned hastily and looked toward "No? Sir Maimaduke Flat was there. has or will have her first or given nameonly Iarge, chance for making money." rillar at the base of which was tied a All that day we bowled along under the binnacle. A prolonged glare of I suppose you never met him?" as Jane, and has good heal th, with Mr. Alexander had recieved invitations ferocious-looking baboon, that the stiff nor'west breeze, with every sulphurous light lit up the scene as I "Dear me no. Of course you've all her natural and sound teeth included." from local gaming houses to visit tugged at his chain and gnashed his sail set and drawing, and Bermuda gazed aft, and I saw as distinctly as I heard the rumors that he's no more a The ladies are equally precise. their place, and on Sunday morning long, sharp teeth in a way anything was far astern when I came on deck to ever saw anything my lifea man baronet than I am. Ma says he never "An attractive, handsome.young he walked into Howard's place. He 4u reassuring to customers. Standing stand the early night watch. The at the wheelnot the man I had spoken could have imposed on anyone but looking widow lady would like to meet pulled out a handful of change from listlessly over this uninviting brute, wind was still fair, but somewhat to a few minutes before, but him the Gunn's/' with an honorable gentlemanly maa his trousers pockets- and bought a ^and apparently quite heedless of its lighter than during the day. The they had left to die upon the beach at "What a dear, satirical creature of high social position seeking a wife small stack of chips. Soon Alexander teeth and claws stood a tall, glass was falling somewhat, but Bermudathe Malay? He stood there, your mamma is, Sadie. By the bye, with refined pleasing manners, religious had $25 on his end of the table. swarthy-looking fellow, evidentTly not rapidly enough to warrant his hands grasping the spokes, the have you seen Charley Van Smith principles and unusually cultivated A minute after it was $50, when he a Malay, who regarded us in shortening sail. It embodiment of avenging fate, and I lately?" mind. Cara is musical, fond: ol intellectual began playing a double gamethat is, -*ne with looks of eager interest. He was a very dark night, and the sough saw to my horror, that he had "Oh, dear, yes. I went with him to pursuits, fully capable- of against the blonde gentleman and the was a typical specimen of his race, and of the water along the side of the ship put the wheel hard to port. This the Crushers' musicale last evening. being mistress of a good establishment, bank. He would copper for $50 every was clad in a loose whilsea garment, con- red sash a as she rushed along under the press of meant destruction to us all, and, Such a pity you were not invited. Of etc." The fortunes of some of by play of the bank and the little man jfined at the waist her bellying canvas, made a mournful despite the icy terror of my course you've heard that Charley and the advertisers is surprising* if the standing against him. It took more sort of turban was wound about his accompaniment to the solemn booming heart. I again shouted in my I are engaged?" statements are genuine. Oae has than two factors to beat the "Black Jhead.and from his ears dangled a pair of the wind through the rigging. despair, "Starboard your wheel! hard "Dear me, not I'm so glad, Sadie, 4,000, another has 8,000 a year. Prince." Luck began to turn against large silver crescents. Seeing me in The men were scattered in groups of a starboard!" Back upon the gale was darling. I've really been worried One lady*has 250,000. Imagination the blonde, and he sensibly withdrew Tronversation with the bartender, he two or three about the deck, talking f- borne the answering cry, a cry of about Charley ever since I refused him fails to paint the hideousness or disa- from the game, cashing in $750 in gradually sidled up, and after learning in undertones, and occasionally glancing doom, "Ay, ay, sir! Hard a port!" I last mont h, and I'm just awfully,, greeableneBS, of whatever kind it may chips. Alexander, smilling and good that I was an officer of the whaler at the weather, which had* begun then knew full well that the Helen pleased to think that he has found be, which compels a lady with 250.000 natured, wrestled with the tiger alone. asked me if I wished to ship any men. to look a trifle threatening. I was Mar was lost. Held firmly in the teeth consolation so soon." to ad\ ertiee in the newspaper for a He proved a good athlete and cost I said that 1 did,and finding that time lying upon the carpenter's bench thinking of the furious squall by the hand of "You're so lovely Fanny." %%& 'Jfe* husband. One lady of large property the Bengal $1,000. was growing short, agreed to take him over the events of the day, when I :K%^ the ghostly helmsman," the doomed "And you're wearing the xery same wants a nobleman, and she need not i#- 'cwnthout further parley. We proceded noticed a faint flash of lightning far vessel reared her bows high in air solitaire that he begged me to accept, altogether despair of getting him. *-t the consul's office, and he was there out ahead of the vessel. The wind like the head of a frightened steed. I ain't you darling? Isn't that too There is no reason that we can see Preservation of the Dead. /^enrolled as a member of the ship's astern had been dying gradually, and, drew my knife and cut loose from its nice for anything?' Well, I must be why marriages made in this businesslike & tySfitexr. The captain being anxious to aware of the squally tendency of From GaillarcTs Medical Monthly. lashing an extra spar that had been going. Good-by. Now do come and way should not be happy. They *l%8t aboard again, led the way to the the weather in those latitudes, I Edward I., who died in 1307 was made fast to the bulwarks. Looking see me very, very soon." cannot be so 'uappy as genuine love 'ifaoat, and, with our new men, we were mounted the rigging and stepped into seaward 1 saw a huge billow rising found not decayed 463 years subsequently. "Yes, I will dear. Good-by." marriages, but they may be happier -*oon under way to the vessel. The the larboard boat to take a good observation mountain high over the stern. For a than marriages of mere impulse* "Good-by." (Thev*kiss and p*rt.) The flesh ou the face was a ornate, seeing us approach, shortened sT second it hung curling above us, and the horizon for'ard. -Tid-Bits. ^mmnMa