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'tbVijJ' 'i.J !" "iong IWh or ''ki 'A y-'y itiat-d tb.nir-. kn..w O-:-.- I win. ii u. ti, iif.. " 1- y - - Kila for the lime being II tl'TKK VM. "Ki:v KAIVT ' l.l'h, "Tl i you . .j at M):n 1 1 o t . some eh. .!! if "Mitt'," i i rifil at tast, too.un; ;i'o 'In- i; t- i : i'i and mas tering his inol nn "What now is that hope.' ( nn a not 1j ) nr (rem tne '' "Monsieur," the Fi en hina.i an swered, shrugging his shoulder with an expression of utter ot'n . "I have hm giMxi reasons for wishing to find out alljtha'. as eve.i jou ran have. Your secret is my secret; but with all my paiiut and astulenes 1 have boon unable todiseover it. Ttie natke are mill out, very reticent indeed, alsjut all thine matter. They tear taboo; and thej foar Tu Kila-Kila. The wo- men tu be sure, in a moment of expan-j sion. might possibly tell one; but, then, the women untortunately, are not ad mitted to the mysteries. They know no more of these th.ngs than we do. The most I have been able to gather for certain is ".his that on the uiscov ery ol the secret depends Tu-Kila-Kila's liie und nower. Kvery iioupari koows this (.reat Tatsxj. it in commu nicated to biin in the asaemhlv of adult wben ho reaches manhood. gets tattooed and , Hut no Boupari j mau ever communicates it lo strangers; and for that reason, iierhai a, as 1 be lievn, 'l'n-iila-Kila olten choones lor Korong. (ar un K-.fible. those kt ona bo a. o cant by liiam-o ukju the Ixianil. It bay always been the custom, no !ar art I can make out, to treat ca.it- Or pr.aonet-H taken in war aa goda, and then at the end of their torir to kill them ruthlessly. Tnia plants Onular with, the people at large, Iioiause it aavna themselves trom the dangerous honors of deifica tion but it also nerves Tu Kila-Kila a purpiwn, b icuuse it usually elevates to lleaveo th(e inruxtent iMirsotis who aro uniin jiiaiuted with t bat fatal secret which ia. aa the natives say, Tu Ki a Kilan death his word of dinrniHsal.'' "Then tf only wo could lind out this -cret ' r'olix it od. Hia new friend Interrupted him, What hoio l there of your llnding it, out, nionalour,'1 he exclaimed, "you, who have only a few months to livo when 1, who have spent n.no long years of exile on the island, and seen two Tu Kila-ti:as rirfe and fall, have Isx-n unalilo with my utmost pains, to discover it? Tenu.: you ha e no idea yet of thojtupn Htiiiona of these peo ule. or the ill ..cult es that lie in the way of fathoming thcin. Come this way to my aviary; 1 will show you aonnUbing that wi.l belt) you to real ize the complexities of the a.tu.iliou." lie rosu and led the wav to another cleared upaee at the back of the but, where several birds of gaudy plumage were f.U ned to perches on sticks oy leathery lashes o.' dried shark 'a hk n, tied juat aUive their talons. "1 a n the King of the hirda, monsieur, you must remember," the t renrhman said, fondling olio of his :reaming proteges. 'I heso are a ew ol my subject. Hut I do not keep them for mero curiosity. Ijfc'h of theui ia the noul of thetritie to which it (Hikings. This, for examulo - my t.'luuseret is the Soul of all tho gray parrola; that you ace yonder Ikuiliiiruo . 1 call hi in ia the i-xjul of tho hawKs this, my Mirni, is tho Miul of llie little voilow-crestod kingfisher. My taak aa King of the birds is to keep a representative oi o ten or tlieso al ways on hand; in which endeavor 1 am faithfully aided by the w hole jKip.da lion of the inland, who brins; mo eggs and nests, ami young birds In abund ance. If tho S ul of the lit le yell w kinglishor n w were tu die witho.it a uccosMor Iniing fjund ready at once to recoive und ombody It, then the whole race of little yellow kinguahera w uld rauish altogether; and if 1 myself, the King of HirdH, who am. as it were, the mul and life of ail ol thorn, were to dio without a micccHjtor being at hand to receive my sp rit, then all the race of bird, with one aoe rd, would become extinct forthw.th and forever." He moved anions his pets easily, like a king among his subject. Most of them seemed to know him and love his presence. I roi-ontly, bo came to one very old parrot, quite different Irom any I'elix had ever soon on any treea in the Hand, it w-n a parrot with a black crest and a red mark on it throat, hal. blind with age, and totter ing on its pedestal. Ibia aoleuin oa l.ird sal apurt from all the olhera, no .ding ita ho d oracularly in tne sun light, and blinking now and again with ita white oyelidH in a curious senile fa n on. The frenchman tnrned to I'ollx with an air ol profound mystery. 'lhla bird." he aoid. so.einn y utroking lis head with h a hand, while the parrot turned round to h m and hit hia linger with half-doddo. ing af fusion "thi" bird i the oldest of all uiy birds ia it not ho, Methuselahr" and illu t. ates well m one of its as pects the auiiers.it on Oi these peotilo. Yim, my friend, you aro the last o.' a kind now otherwise extinct, are you not. rnon vieux' No.no, there gen tly! I iico Usn a time, toe natives Veil mo. dozens of thoae parrots ex-laU-d in tho island: they flocked among trees, and were held very sa cred but they wore hard to catch and din nult to keep, and the Kings of the Hlrds, my pi edecessors. failed to se cure an heir and toad ulor hi th s one. Koas the hotil ol the specks, which von ,iio here be'ere you, grew old and feeble, the whole of tbe .ace to which It belonged grew o d and feeble with it. One by one they withered away and died, till at last th's lita, y speci men a lone remained to vorcn for the former OAlsU-nce ol tho me in the island. Now, the islanders say, noth ing but the soul Itself in loft and the houl dies, tbe red throated parrots will 1 gone forever, i no of my pred ecoason. paid with his life in awful torturos lor his lemlssnesH In not pro- .1.11... f. llj ano, nxaion 10 the SOUl- hip. 1 te I jou these things In order .t,.. .J whether they cast any light for you upon viu" pn poal .1.' .i .tu l.M.ad tbe oldest and nuLlvea aa that una nr irds or unm- the wiTi't on of tho Tu-KLa fan the parrot s eak?''I"ilix asked, th profound motion. Mon-ieui-, he ran speak, and he t-peaKs Ire iiently. Hut no! one word o; an ho says i-comirelii.sib:o either to mo or toany other living i i n; . Hi tongue ii that of a forgotten nation. The islanders understand him no more than I do. Ho has a very long sermon or poem, wbirh he knows oy heart, in Home unknown language, and be re-p-ata it often at lull length from time to time, on ociallv when ho hat) eaten well arid feels fu 1 and hatpy. The olden, natives tell a romantic legend alxiiit this slrange recitation of the gixxi Methuselah - 1 call him Mcthuso lah because of his great ago b t 1 do not really know w hot ber their tale U truo or purely fanciful. You nover rail truMt these Polynesian traditions." "What is the legend?'' Felix ask -d. with intense interest. "In an inland where we lind our elves so girt round by mystery within mystery, and talxxj within tatxxi, an this, every key in worth trying. It ia weil for us at leant to learn everything we can atxiut the ideas of the natt es. Who known what clue mav sunnlv us at last with tne mixsing'link, w hu h will enab e us to break through this intolerable sorvi- tudo "Well, the story they tell us is this," the frenchman replied, "tho igh I have gathered it only a hint at a time. from very old men, who d?. dared at tho same moment Unit some religious fear of which they have many pre- j vented them from tolling me any further alxiut it. it seems that a long j time ago - how many years ago notxuly 1 knows, only that it was in the time of i the thirty ninth Tu-Kila-Kila, liefore the reign of I Jivit't, tho son of ."-ami . a strange horong was cast up upon this island bv the wa.es of tho sea, much , as you and 1 have been in the present j generation. By accident. sn,s too story, or else, as others avor, through ! the lndisci etion of a native woman who fell in lov e w ith him, and who worried , the talioo out of her husband, tho stranger became acquainted with tho secret of Tu Kila-Hila. As the natives thomsi'lvos put it, he learned tho death of the llitrhdo', an J wherein tho world his soul was hidden. There upon, in some mysterious way o other, he Imji arne Tu-Kila-h ila himself, and ! ru ed aa High (iixl for ten yuant or ; more h re on the island. Now, un to that time, tho legend goes on, none but the men of the island knew the secret, they learned it aa soon as they were initiated in tbe great mysteries which occur liefore a boy is given a spear and admitted to tbe rank of com p ete manhood. But sometimes a woman w .s told tho secret wrongfully i v her husband or hor lover; and one such woman, apparently, told the str.ingo Korong. and so enabled hfm to become Tu K ila-Kila.'' 'But where does the parrot como in'.'" Felix naked, with still profo.uider e citoment than ever. Something within him seemed to toll him in st nclive y he waa n iw within touch of the special key tiiat must sooner or later unlock tho mystery. "Well, ' the l renchman went on. still stroking the parrot a'toct onatoly with his hand, and smoothing down the feathers on its ru e i back, "thu strange Tu-Kila-kila,wh th is ruled in the isian I, though ho learned to apeak Polynesian well, hal a language of his own, a lan age of the birds, w hich no man on earth co ild ever talk with him. So, to txsgui e his time and to have someone who could con verso with him in his native dialect, he taught this parrot to spea t his own long e. an I spent most of b s i.ays in talking withitand fond ing it. At last, after he had instructed it by Blow degrees how to rex:at th's loni? sermon or xoin which 1 haye often hoard it re cite in a sing-song voice from begin ning to end his time came, as they say, and lie ha1 to give way to ano hor Tu-Kila-rvlla. for tho Bouparose have' a proverb like our own about the king, "Tne High Go i Is dead may the High , (Jo i live forever 1 But before ho ga e up his houl to his successor, and was i eaten or buried, whi I) ever is tho custom, bo handed over his petto tho Kin oi the Bir.ls, strict y charging all f tu e liearers of that di.inoo.me to caro for the ) arrot as they wo i d care for a son or a da ghter. And so tho natives make mil h of the parrot to tho present ay, saying he is great er than any, save a horong oragol, lor ho is tho Soul or a dead race, sum ming it up in him elf, an i he knows the so ret of tho Heath of Tu-Ki a Kila " ' But yo'i can't tell mo what lan guage he spook;'" Fulix asked with a despairing gest ro. it was terrible to stan 1 thus within meas iring distance of the secret which might, erhaps, save Muriel's life, and vet be perpet ually balked by wheel within wheel of more than Kgyptian mystery. "V ho can tuiy ? ' the ; renchman an swere., shr gging his shoulders help-loi-sy. "It Tsn t Polynesian that 1 know wo I, 'or I speak liou ares" now llrfo a native of lioupuri and 1' isn't tne only other language srxikcn at the resont day in the to th Seas - the Malanesian of New ( 'aledoma - f r that 1 earned wel from the Kanakas whi e 1 was serving my time hh a con vict among them. Ali wo can say lor certain Is that it may, ierha:B. Iio s .rno ancient toiig' e. Somo oi them, it is sa d, o eel thu r cent r. is it not so, eh, my friend Meth aa ah?" CHAPTER XVIL FACINU THE WOKST. Muriel, meanwhile, sat alone In her hut, Iritrhtoned at Follx unexpected disappearance so early in the morning, and anxiously awaiting her lover's re turn, lor she made no pretences now to herself that she did not really lovo Kelix. Though the two might never return to Europe, to be husband and wife, the did not doubt that before the eye of Heaven they were already be trothed to one ano her aa truly aa though they had pliglfted their troth la solan n fashion. Fells hal risked w bis ll'e for her, a&4 bad brought all in s ml i rv uxn himself in tne at tern; t to Sim her. 1 e'ix was now ill the world that was left Oor. W.tti i nix. i-he w.is happy, ev n onthishor r. i e islanJ: wrhnut him, she was iij's-ti-a.'leani lerruied, no matter Uat happened. '.Ma i.'' sde ried to her fait hful at ten laut as (j io'i as .-he fo-ind rciiiwai uiinain from hi- t nt. "w iia 's b.-co ,e of Mr. 1 hurt.'in- Where tan he lie goue, I wo.i .er, t.'iis morning.-" " ou no h ar. Miss,- i u -nie," Mali' an-werod. wi; h the chi'ili-h con 'den.-e ff the native I olym-sian. Mistau Thurstiin. him gone to see iiian aoni oni, the l-.iiig o' the Hilda. Mouth of Hirds linisii ul niflit; m in-a-oni i ui iio taUsi any longer. linir of the Hirds keep very oiJ parrot, Boupari I foik toil me and old i al io,, very wine, know how to make 'i'u-K ila-Kila. ! Mihlah i'hurstan, nim (rone to find I man aoni oni. J'arrot tell him )iienty I wise thing. 1'arrot wiser tha i l'oupari I people know very good me liciuo: wise I like (ueenshiDd laoy and gentleman." And Mali se herself vigorously to work to wah tho wooden plat'.er on which the served her nuatreaa yam for tireakfast. It was curious to Muriel to see how readily Mali had slipped from savagery to chill ation in iueensland, and now easily she had Bliuoed back again from civlii.aUon to savagery in 'ioupari. Id waiting on hor mistress she was nist the ordinary trainel native Aust alian servant in every other repjetaho was the simple unailul erated heathen Polynesian. Khe reeognUed in Muriel I a white lady of tho Knglish sort, and treated her within the hut as white laoies were in.ariably treated in Queensland, but she lonsidered that at Boupari one must do as Boupari docs, and it never for a moment o -curred to her simple mind to doubt the omnipotence of Tu-Kila-nila in his island realm any more than she had doubted the omnipotence of the white man and his lo al re lion in their proper place 'as she thought lti in Queensland. An hour or two passed before Fo'ix returned. At laat he arrived, very white and pale, and Muriel saw once bv the mere .00; on his fa -e that he had learned some terriblo newi at the Frenchman's. ' Well, you found hira?" she cried, taking bis hand in hers, but hardly daring to ask tho fatal ijues'.iou at onco. Ami Fe:ix, sitting down, a-i pale as a ghost, an werod, faintly, "Yes, Muriol, I found him " "And he told you everything?" ''Kverythlng ho knew, my ; oorchild. Oh, Muriel, Muriel, don ta.sk mo what it is. It is too terrib e to tell you.'1 Muriol clas ed her white hands to gether, held blooiless i.ownward. and looked at him lixedly. "Mali, you can L'o," she said. And the Shadow, ris ing up with childish confidence, glided from the hut, and left them, for tho first lime since their arrival on tho central island, alone together. Muriel looked at him on. . more wi'.h tho same dealt fixed look. "With you, Felix," she said, suiwly, "1 can Isiar or dare anyth ng. leol as il the bitter. .oss of death W1T0 past, long ago. I know it mus' co.ne 1 only want to do quite sure when. " And be sides you must remember, I have your' promise. I elix clasped his own bands de spondently in return and gaeJ across al her from his seat a low foot otf in unspeakable mii-cry. "Muriel " he cri.id, "I couldn't, haven t tho hoar,,. I daren t." Muriel rose an 1 laid her han I solemnly on his arm. "You will!" she an-wered, txil ily "You cm! You must 1 know I can trust your prom ise for that This moment, if yo i like. I would not shrink But you will never let me fall all e into the iian iso those wretches. I'elix, from your hand I co Id stand anything. I'mnota.rain to die. 1 love you too dearly." Felix held her white little wrist in his grasp and sobbed like a child. J I -p very b avery and confidence seemed to unman him utterly. she looked at him once moru. When ' sin? ask d, quietly, but with Hi s as pale as death. " n alxitit four months from now, Fe'ix answered, eudeavcring to bo culm. "And they will kill uh both?" "Yes, both. 1 think so." "Together.'" V "Together.'' Muriel drew a deep sigh. "Will you know tho day before hand?" she anked. "Ve. The Frenchman told me it. He has known o.hers killed in the self same fashion. " "Then I e Ix - the night before it comes, you will pr.iiuiso me, will you?" "Muriel. Muriel, I could nevor dare to kill you." I TO UK CXINTIMUED. A l'0;onou Monarch. A mona ch among poisonous snakes Is the enormous hamadryad, which grows to be as much an fourteen feet in length and is so llcrce that il will sometimes attack and even chase any o e wtio ventures near to Its nesu :' alive snake channels, who wl I handle the fiercest cobras fearlessly, are usually loath tu touch a ham adryad, though I have occasionally seen a specimen of this venomous reptile 111 their hags. It lavs its eggs in a heap of deralng lea,. en, wh.ch itcolloct-s lor the purpose, and sin upon the top to ke p 0 r iniruders A road through the Jungle will some times be closed agains . all comers by a pair of these, snakes, and w ,e la), t de the unfortunate traveler w.io stumbles unawares upon the nest of these replbes. The hamadryad leedi largely upon other snakes, but it Is fortunately somewhat rare. Curiously enouir.i. it Is not always agg tsdve Indeed it sometimes hup;s3ns that It Is quite uuwl ling to strike Supe'dclallv it is not unlike a harmless r ck snake, and not very long ago In liuriuah a man U ought one in from the Jungle an kept It loose in his house lor some days under the Impression th it It was one of these creatures. Dur ing the whole of Its captivity Itoever attempted lo bite anyone, and Hi captor, who bad lieen inmlllarly pul ling It about by t e tall, waonly a; nrlned of his mistake bv a forest of- Oser who happened to turn up and who knew a good deal about sna at It la eaa to I mag toe the hwte wlib which the amateur make charmer 1 p oceeded lo ditpnae of hla captlva. LIFE, IAt U srsluti'JW lo vi-u'jr U.ri-t, .-uii iu :r mi' mid ;.ru d t )h-marai. Dtiolii.g. I' sT un Irom tli n.Ut AUll ;.l.,r Ii 1U tMii ii ' rbaotaaiJ'!. iji r mu 1 r,i!.- k iu 1 i nt . t r I .ir.iirl. (1 mifii .'i ! Joy, tfrrum. Uiv . m et, fnu.. friui0 aud all Moment on . vto e'Uj ' Till l slows Un-v tsi ..n li iil.liviuu'a imll, Aii-i desii. t'iiph s jri,ie' Vain bnj tbai a'e fu e 1 i-vor.d "i:r nsll. I I'll i'U ul m il ti&m ! All pi astire ar rlf-iiri but sorrows inPt ln In i;Eily.lii; ilu. And u.inglt-1 wub s ti.. i l hi- H'n.U'l of a lonK W. OSf h i'tir-i t; l-ftBIti liei-al'l 'b- da JKt wli-r. i-wh. ilrt-nia Ultas urei, tliroiik'. lr ai.ii il '. , -r H.a u ' Ab. life In io l.-iii-.r i.e.. a dav l done Aud L'le -ii ii f ' . pnt.i. An 1 is tbe )ia .iiilil of ib ta.t fauni.' him, . bii.k l.iw nim b him. IA bun cvfn t 1m t'l.a o hkih mice is ou, lo liiutbu and tulite. -Atlanta Junrnal. A WAUL OF THE SEA. It wai the second "dog-watch," from i. to u'cliH'k in the evening, and the irew of the bark. Beatrice, were gathered upon the main de k, Indulging in that ever pleasing pas time of sailors, yarn-spiriirig. The vessel was homeward bound from (Uo Janeiro, after a very pros perous voyage. 1 "ark ness wan approaching as the chief otli er rose to his feet and cast a searching look about the borison. When his eyes roamed toward the West they rested for some moments on a small bank of If ii'lpri cloud. which seemed to be wo, hint; up liuiu the water. "Ah, we'll have a change of wind before midnight, and, if I make no mistake, it will bring nasty weather witn It." "We're nearing Cape Ilatteras and must begin to took out for squalls. You might clue up and furl the light sails so that we will be prepared for whatever comes. If it looks loo bad, give tne a call, I'm going below." The order which the mate had re ceived regarding the sails w is soon executed, and the loftier pieces of the bark's canvas wjre i-nugly stowed. As the sallo.s were coming down to the deck the v ssel's bell struck eiht, the time for changing "watches." The second mate with his men sought their bunks U have a few ho .rs' needed rest, while the ch ef 0 i cer, with his portion of the crew, took charge. The seaman who came aftto relieve the wheel was a mere hid iu years but as fikllllul a mariner as any on board, and a prune favorite with all. as could be seen by the kuirlly tone of the mate's voice as he addressed the youth. "Wat -h her close Harry, my son. If we have a shiit of wind it'll come quick, and we don't want to get taken aback." "Ay, ay, sir " was the respectful reply of the boy as be laid his hands on the spokes of the wheel. Copie -hued, feather-shaped clouds dow Ix2ifan to chase each other across j iie -tairy cano, y of Heaven. Aa t Iio aAn n the hp! mttinarl nltr. nated between the com pan, the sails, and the horl on, he was alarmed to see away upon the slarimaid Imw I something that appeared like a heavy I I black shaft, reaching up from the wa,ter, in the share or a tunnel until It met another similar in formation, which seemed to drop rom the kies. "There's a spout, sir." he said to the mate. "Ay, av. I've been looking at it. It's a heavy one, too. As they al- I ways w-irk to wiud'ard, I'm afraid j she'll come uncomfui tably near. Keep I the vessel's head noi'west for awhile, ' and I'll speak lo the skipper. I'd rather he'd lie on deck when those I fellows ire about." I Obeying the ordor, Harry threw j the wheel over, ami the bark swung o'l until the clan 'erous column of ; waier seemed to be a little lorward 1 or am id -ships. Mr. (.orham, the olllccr, hurried to the 1 oniiiinion-way and called "Captain Bruce, there's a heavy waterspout making down upon us. 1 erha s you'd like 10 take a look at her." "Ay, ay," came a voice from the cabin, and the next instant the mas- ter was on deck. j He took one hasty glance at the danger Impending, another at the compas, before he -aid quickly, ' el I he go west " Then shouted: 'Check 1 lit the yards about four points to I port. Wc must work out of its I course. 1 will get my rife, if it comes too ne.ar 1 will try to break It," and with that he hurried below. I Tne wind, whiihup lo this mo ment, had been reasonably st. ong, now died out to a "start calm." I The sails were trimmed, hut tho headway of the vessel was slacken ing, fo she had lost her propo ling power. The soecd of the terriblo volume of water power which was approach ing ihetu, was not checked, and when the captain reappeared on deck with rl e in hand, the heavy black clouds hung over the vessel like a pall, and the whirl of Iheangrv. seething ele ment was borne to the ears of the frightened hu i horrified seamen as they watched the outcotulng of the merciless circling shalt! lul kly I he weapon of the com mander was bro ghl to his slioi.liler. and was Instantly followed oy a flash and report! Then came the neluge. Tons Usn tons of watu mingled with sand fell upon the drck, wh ch threatened to subuie.gi! the ve-sel and crowd her down Into the fr ght ful vortex which yawned 1 lo e under the stern. Sails and spars hung a wreck from aloft, while sky-light and bulwarks were cushed like egg shells In the grasp of a ghint. Th s latter calamity, however, proved to be a b ess Ing, as It allowed the vast volume of water to How off Into the sea. Harry had been knocked senseless over the wheel, and there lay mora ,ded than alive. Hut the captain; wbara was he? Hla voice was silent. Tha second malt, who with bla wat'h had been t!iiw. rushed iifTrubted from ihf catun, through the after Son.pauioii-wav. lur dud's sake, what has hip reied?" he exclaimed. "have we Ii' en in collision ' 1 ui he re eived no answer, for there was no one to reply. Bv tbe feeble light o! I he stars, which now began to twinkle forth, the nicer observed the bov where he had faileu. and easting a hasty glance at the pallid uatures of the lad was convinced that he was past all boj es of recovery. The second mate then crawling along the star oarj . rail to trie 'break of the poop,' Jo iked down Uion the main deck, and to his hor lor, saw several bodies washing back and forth among tbe wreckage, to be swept one after another, out through the riff in the bulwarks. 'A eyi.u all deuu?" he at length found voice to exclaim. Am 1 left alone?" .But he was instantly glad li ned by a reply from lorward: "The start d watch is safe, sir!" "Thank Heaven." Then louder the sec did orlicer called out: "Take a look at the long boat, and if it is not stove, cast the lathings adrift, and make ready to launch her. We may have to leave the bark." Jn a few momenta the welcome re Kjionse came back: "she is all right, sir." "That's good. Bold her ready un til 1 sound the pumps and see if we have sprung aleak." He hurried to his room and se cured the sounding roC and line; as most of the water had now rolled olTf om tbe main deck he su ceeded in reaching the pump. guickly dropping the iron down the tube uotil it reached the keel son, he soon drew it up again. 1 "Six feet ot water in the hold," he i exclaimed. "She'll go down under us. Launch the boat," ana as he again hastened to the cabin, this time to procure what provisions might be bandy, one of the men an nounced. 'The n.ain hatch is stove in, and tbe cargo Is all a wash." Th s report had the effect of accel- ; crating the ofllcer's movements, and sei.ing what few eatables were at hand in the pantry, he hastened to Join his shipmates who had succeed ed In getting the boat afloat wilhout damage. rearing to be In too clo e pro ami ty to the bark when she should foun der, they pulled rapidly away in the darkness, and as cav broke they found themselves alme upon the ocean, but ere the sun was an hour high the b ark smoke of a steamer was descried upon the horizon, and before the great luminary had reached the zene th, they were safe on board a large vessel which was bound to Halt. more. Tne captain heard their story with feelings of sadness, and extended to tbe ship wreck d ma iners all Ibe hospital ty that lav in his power. When ihe steamer reached po.t the news of the loss of the Beatrice was Hashed from city to city throughout the cont tient, and many were the hearts ruade sorrowful by the terrible tale. But did the bark founder? Alwut I'll hour after the second mate had so hurried y abandoned the supposed sinking cralt, tne boy, Harry, began to return to conscious ness. : lowly he raised his head and looked araund. The night was clear now, htit strange sound-; fell upon his ear. It was the thrashing and chafing of the tattered sails and broken yards that still hung Irom aloft Tottering to his feet, the lau be came aware that he was suiTc.ririg most intense painahout the body and limbs. But as e took a few steps he was overjoyed to find that 110 bones had been fractured and the pain was only from external bruises. As the youth was endeavoring to recall the terrible scene through wh ch he had passed, he heard a feeble moan iss.iing from the port side ol' tho after-bouse, and stagger ing to that portion of the vessel, he was delighted to see tne beloved form or his benefactor, tbe captain, who was vainly striving to (Pag himself along the deck towards the wheel As the master looked up he mur mured fceb y: "Ah, Harry my boy I Has the good Lord spared us?" "Ve-s sir. But I do not know how many more are ie U" "tio and see, bov, go and sec. f-onie may be suffering and need as sistance." Hut, vou yoursel', sir can 1 not do something for you, sir?" "Never mind me. Look to your shipmates," was the brave reply, though the master witli dl.iiculty suppressed his groans. Obeyltu the order, Harry searched the vessel, but returned w th the mournful repiy that they two were abute "Well, my lad, we must do the best we can," was the response of the captain. When mornl g broke the prictlced eve ol the captain discovered the ab scnc.2 uf the long boat. "Co forward, Harry, and see if the craft has been slovc In or launched clear." The hoy hastened to obey and re turned with the report that the lash ings had li en cut. "Thank heaven." murmured Capt Itruc.:. "Some of our companions have escap.ru and have taken to the boft feaiing that the bark would lounder. " All th ough the day the captain and the lad strained their eyes In search of a sail, but none appeared to giadden their sight, and again night enshrouded them in g 00111. pon tbe fourth morning Harry, who was early astir, sta tied the cap ut n by calling, "Come on deck, air. There la a iaige tow boat not more than Ore mi es H"-:iV." ei Hie ensign union down. It will no! do to let him piss us." iiielmy bid no need to disilav tin- si';.;.l of di i.es-, lor the tdiurp eve- of the captain of tbe tug bad cs;,ie the bark lo g aefoie tbe youtn had seen the steamer As the re-cinn' era t rounded U'i under thf" stern of the I eatrice, the w ndows in the pilot-houe went down, a head prutuded, and a voice called. How many of you are aboard?" "Only two sir!" replied Harry. "Are you able to lend us a hand in getting a line out?" 'No, si ! We are too badly bruised. " reiurned the liy. All right. I'll come alongside, and send some men to you;" aid the tow boat teamed up close beside fie bark while a portion of her crew sprang over the rail. In a few moments the heavy haw ser was made fast to the forward "bitts." the steamer started aiiead, and the dismantled vessel was again on her way for the mouth of the Chesapeake t.reat was the re dic ing when the Beatrice was brought up to the City of Monuments where the vessel w s obliged to retuain sev eral months to repair the damage done by collision w th the watei spout, and when she did again put to sea the boy, Harry, salle I in her cabin, Capt. Bruce asserting that he couid not allow a lad to live forward, who had so nobly stood by him when wounded and helpless, drifting at the mercy of the elements, on Ixiard a dismantled crait, , ankee Blade ABOUT r-OOTWEAH. Loaz Tori and Hbort Totm and How m Kerp Thfini lo Shape. "Yes," said a man in a shoe store the other day, "1 1 ke that shoe first rate; it fUs well, it feels well, and it looks well, hut 1 don't think it will do for me." "Why not?" asked the clerk, some what su piised at the man's apparent contradictory statement. "Because." replied the customer, "the toe is too long. It Iooks very nice now, but I have a short font, and in a week or so the foe wdl have wrinKled or caved In, and it will not onlv look shab'jy, but will wear out much sonner. 1 like the looks of a long toe fact is, 1 hate a globe toe or anything else iu the stubuy line, but 1 have tj wear thetu. that's alL" "Beg your pardon, tiut you dou't," said the clerk knowingly. Tliis time it was the buyer's turn t be su prised. 'And why not?" he asked inquiringly. "Because it is just as easy to fix a long toe if your foot don't fill it out as 10 take a drink. 1 ul cotton in it, that's all. Fill up the end of the toe with a su 1 cieni amount of cot ton, and the shoe will preserve Its shape perfectly, seemyshi e? Now, I'll wager dollars to toothpicks that I've goi as short a foot as yours, but my shoe looks all light because it has cotton in the end of it. ou say you have a short foot. Well, so do half the people wbo walk ibis earth, nut they either do not know this simple trick, r a e too la.y to try it, and so buy shoes that, they don't lUe 0 go around with a shoe all creased and broken In at the toe. Not only will cotton keep the sha e of your .-hoe, but it's a good thing to ha e in them, anyway. It keeps your foot from getting dialed iroru getting too much crowding into a narrow point, and, besides, it saves to a great de gree the wear on 011r stocking right at the place where the holes usually come, you know, or, rather, your wife does. Yes, s r; cotton in one's shoes is a big scheme it's a big racket " Days of the Week. It is often necessary to know on what day of the week a certain date occ rred. With the following table auy one will be able to do this lor the years of the piesent century. The days 0 the week are designated with the 1 gurcs o to , beginning with .-sundair. The following table of numbers is used for tbe tweive months: -,ro, u, 1, :', , 1, -J, 0, 1', 6, 0. Take then the year irrespective of the hundieds, as of Pvio lake only the . I), divide this by 4 and add the result to in. The number corresxud ing with the noitth, as per above table, and the dale o the month as given are then added to t and the wnole divided by 1. The remainder, not the result, will give the day which corresp iiids with the tlgures that designate the da s of t ne week. For example: What day of the week was the . h of A pi il, i .'4. Add to '.M one-quarter of its sum, which is .H, then 1. which stands for April, then 7, the given date, which uiako- a total of i2; Divide this by 1, and your remainder will l (i, which is . atuid.iy. In order to find the davs n a leap year take the day before the day wnieti the calculation gives from Jan. I to Felx z ; after that do as stated bclore. St Louis l'ost-i-ls-patch. Ijontlon'a Memorial to fax ton. A window in memory of Caxion In the Stationer's Hall, London, was unveiled the other day by the Lord Mayor with considerable ceiemon '. It is the gut of .rosbua W. liuner worth, tbe 11 a-ter of the com, aov, acid represented Caxton submitting a proof of his Hist pilnting In the Al monry, in Westminster Abiy, to Mug Edward I . The ueen ia standing by Ihe King, with the 1 '1 1 nee at her side, and the group la completed by a lady u waiting. I a the foreground a youth Is busily en gaged grinding the materials for the Idk and a comiMwItur Is setting tvp& Ad exact reprodu Hon of laxton'i printing preea, tbe loalgnla or the stationer's Company, and the colo phons of some eminent prlnUrs 00 piM Um window.