Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1890, Page 14

THREN 1 NOT IN ORIGINAL PACKAGES. Bmiles foissored From ths Funuy Columns of The Bee's Exchanges, WHAT IS REQUIRED IN BOSTON, A Sure Sign of Blue Blood at the Hub Ohollie the Lamb—The Groom Wanted Change—An 1i-Mannered Canir to Pue : Interpreter — Chief Wanbo wants no more beads and brass wire; he annot cross his country unless sroo to pay his pr 1 Explorer he does want? Interpretor ties on your next hook. Two-thirds of the royal- An Til-Mannered Canine. A boy jumped into a horse car and be- fore long discovered that his bull tefrier yas frotting behind. *Go back sirl” he eried: *go vack!” But the dog kept on revealiag at once bis fondness for his master’s socicty and his poor training, “Oh, well,” said the boy finally, *1 #'pose you can go if you want to so bad, but you ain’t fit to be seen—all dirt, and no collar on. For the Night was Waning, Whitgside Herald: George—I don't know what ails me this spring—I seem 0 have such a sort of a gone feeling— yuwning)—I would never have believed it. Couldn't Phase Him. Whiteside Herald: st citizen— Hello, there goes the editor of the Night Cap fullagain. 1 declare it’s a mystery to me how that man stands it to be drunk 80 often—should think it would kill him. Second citizen—Oh no you can’t kill him with drink—he uses ‘‘patent in- gid Necessary to a Cholce. The Bostonian: He (tenderly)—To- morrow, darling, T shall ask your father consent to our marriage. She—Very well, dear; but be sure to wear your highest collar aind_your cane. Papa, you kuow, is a stickler for blue blood. Couldn't Humbug Her, Washington Sta “Room for one move,” called out a conductor on the Seventh street line last evening, with his eyes on a large fat lady. glaved at him. hoveup alittle please,” he contin- ued. ““There’s room for one more.” “No, there ain’t necither,” she ex- claimed indignantly, *“There ain’t room for no more, The fare is ’u,-wn)s for one sl Sh person, fat or lean, and you n't get any extraout of me, I can tell you, even if I do take up room for two. So there!” and with a puff and a wheeze she glared at the conductor again, and he retired in confusion, Practice kes Perfect, Texas Siftings: Simpson—What ave yeu going about for grinning like a coun- v poorhouse idiot? Have you been taking laughing gas? De Smith—No; but I'm promised a position as a hotel clerk at a seaside re- gort and I'm getting the bland smile well in hand. His Aunt Was Visiting Them. Figaro: Teacher—Why weren't you at school yesterday, Johnny? Johnny—We've got a new baby at our house. Teacher—Ah! brother or sister? Johnny—Neither. Teacher—W-h-a-t? Johnny—No. Cousin, An Afiiiction to Be Horne Cheerfully. ‘Washington Post: **Herbert,” she said, with a melting mellifluousn in her voice that sounded like the ripole of an orange ice as it thaws, *‘Herbert.” “What is it?” asked Herbert. And the cold firmness of his tones showed that he meant ¢ word of it. “Would you lo just as well if you knew that I ar y near sighted.” “Why, why,” he Stammered, of course I would; but are you?” “Yes, I am afraid so. Just as a test 1 can’t vead a word of that sign across o the street. Can you?” “Yes,” resignedly, “T can. It says, i ‘Ice eream, An Ignoraut Oculist Optician. Jewe'ers’ Weekly Occult—My dear sir, the strabismus of your daugh- ter’s right eye is of no consequence and glasses are not needed for its correction, since the left is_irreparably opaque and the optic nerve is disintegruted. Seth Grubb—Let’s go, Molly. The durned fool don’t know your right eye is crossed and the left one blind as a bat! Have you anthing t Druggist—Yes, siv. Heve is a prepara- tion thut I put up It's a sure and quick cure. Why, I've got a corn that I've been putting’ it on for nearly two years, and I wouldn’t think of using any other remedy The Rescue of Emin Pasha, Life: Owing to a delay in the mails on the Umgagi & Mbawa Northern rail- road, the following from Life’s African correspondent has just come to hand. It is, however, the ‘first authentic re- port of the meeting of Emin and Stan- Stanley approached Emin’s head- quarters about § o'clock in the afternoon softly whistling *‘Little Annie Roone He rapped at the door of Emin’s tent, and Emin himself answered the sum: mons. “How do you do, Emin?” said Stanle, *1 beg your pardon,” said _Emin. “You have the u([\'uuln,-.:u of me.,” “Tam Henry M, Stanley——" “Idon'teare. I don't” want any sub- seription books, and I read *The Dar Continent’ a long time ago.” *But I have come to rescue you,” “I don’t want to be rescued,” “Well, you've got to be rescuod. on your coat and come along.” Put Ye Cannibal and Ye Missionaire, 3 Harvard Lampoon A cannibal lived on a cannibal isle, And was thinner than thin could be; His legs were as lean as the tail of a rat, His head ruttled round in his number fiyo Andheleftno n O, & wolul s t, ark on the sand where he sat. ight was he! 50 he was— A dismal sight was e, Now, thero came to this island from over the main A landable missionaire; His weight was three hundred and forty three pounds, unch and his jowls and his tonsure wero round, And he Just two and a half feet by th So he did Just two and a half fect by three. His But the moral I'm trying to teach in my song, You soon will be ablo to se For the Christian proved docile and teach- able quite; He learned from the heathen the thing that was right, And one Sunday morning, as soon as 'twas light, He to'up tho canuibalee! Yes, he did— He ate up the cannibalee, That Was Different. New York Sun: ®here were twelve or oft & mark when he sat on the ground | | where the ora fifteen men gitting around in a Buffalo galoon, when a stranger to all entered, etood by the door, and asked in & loud voic “Gentlemen, is there one among you who will help a poor, discouraged man, to— He appeared to choke up right there, and while clearing his voice two or men slid out of the back door, others turned their backs, and one man suddenly went to sleep. Each one assumed an attitude or demeanor caleulated to discournge the stranger, but he presently got his voice and con- tinued: “Who will help a poor, discou man, to drink a dollar’s worth of be ST will!” yelled every man in the place in chorus, ind a grand rush was made for the b A Cold-Blooded Groor weastle you brought any witnes “‘Have the (Eng.) Chronicle: ] asked Rev, Mr. Wood of Bathgate of a middle- aged couple who had come to be mar- ried “No: we ne'r thoeht o' that, Is't nee- essary “0) certainly,” should have ‘n maid as witnessc “Wha can think?” The bride o addressed suggested a female cousin whom the bridegroom had not previously seen, and after consulta- tion a man was also thought of. “Step ye awa’ alang Jean, an’ask them, an’" I'll walk aboot till ye come back Jean set out as desired, and after some time returned with the two friends, the cousin being a blooming lass, somewhat younger than the bride. When the par- ties had been properly arranged and the minister was about to proceed with the ceremony the bridegroom suddenly said: “Wad ye bide a wee, s “What is it now?” asked the minister, “Weel, I just gaun-to say that if it wad be the same to you, I wad raither hae that ane,” pointing to the bride- maid. b “A most extraordinary statement to malke at t} gel I'm afraid it is too late to talk of such a thing.” *Is it?” said the bridegroom in a tone gnation to the inevitable. 1, then, ye maun just gang on.” e A Girl Worth Having. A few weeks ago Tread in your paper Mr. More experience in_ the plating busi- ness, in Which ho cleared $1G7.8 1n b ionth; but I beat that if [ am a girl. I sentas he directoggand got a Plater, and cleared $208.17 in one month. Can any of your readeis beat this? You can get spoons,” forks or jewelry to platé at e house. Send $ to W. H. said the minister; Qv you omsman and brides- we get, Jean, due ye Griftith & Co., ille, Ohio, and they will send you a and you can make money enough in three hours o p: Ther is pl addréss them for cireul 3 try: then work to do_in_both city and co vy should any person be poor or out of em- yment with sach an opportunity at handt Liope my experience will help “others as much as Mr. Moorehead's did me. Lauvia B, ——, B SINGULARITIES. dford, Pa., built a nest rment that had been hung ve of a gi up in the yard to d led by as found near Yuma, A, ad men, who were digging ha sand bill. 3 Bellevue owns a calf with heads. Onc it uses for eating pur- poses, as the other two are purely orna- ment A Crawford county, Penn: cow took a fancy to the fresh paint on the fence in which the bovine was pastured and licked off a sufficient quantity to kill her. A St. Louis man_has a rooster with a horn growing from cach si its head, i above the ear, extending downward, y similar in_appearance to the horis of thie male sheep. Mrs. Hobbs of Albany, Ga., was ann by English s fied homin strychnine with which to poison them. They ate it and relished it apparently. It did not kil them, but every one of them turned snow whit A curious freak of nawure is exhibite the_person of *Alf Nicholson, a 0ld” colored boy living at Mil miles from Pensacoli, Fla, Hi red as a carrot and he s said to be ble weather prophet. John Drew Fishe an infalli- the actor who died ia Brooklyn on the 25th ul s his family to die at the same hourof the same day of ghe ne mouth. His mother, brother, two sisters and himself died in m. on Sun- different yeu day in May. A farmer's wife living near Dove broke a duck egg in a frying pan a few ago, when out rolled an egg of smatler The larger g was of ordinary and contained aperfect yolk. The inner ége was about one and one-half inches long, with u perfect shell and normal in every w AW (Pa.)” man found a hen’ cgg which ved 1 inch in eircumfer- ence one way uand G the other. The in- equalities in its make-up gave it the exuct ap- pearunce of of 4 moccasin, showing the open- ing for a foot, the broad heel, contraction at op, and expansion at ball of foot. The petrified jaw and tusk of some mam- moth_prehistoric unimal have been found near Petaluma, Cal. The Jaw is two feet long and weighs forty pounds. In it are two molur teeth, the largér of which weighs two and one-half pounds. The tusk or horn is nearly three feet long and about five inches in digmeter. The remains were exposed by a huge landslide, No worm or insect is ever found upon the but always af N. eucalyptus tree, orin the earth where the roots” penetrate. A row of trces planted through an orchard or vineyard will cause in- sects, worms, and caterpillérs to vacate that region. Two branches of the cucalyptus Lin the rooms or windows, or as décoru- tions in dwelling rooms, will cause mosqui- , moths, tleus, and fiics to leave the prem- ises, and when the leaves are placed beneath a carpet arouud the bovder of the room when the carpet is lid, is an insurance against the moth, and branches pl; 1 beneath the bed pillows & protection against fleas. Two and a half miles south of the little Mexican villay f Las Hummettas, i ern Arizona, 1 a low, sandy valley, by tall mountains, there is w hole about three feet in dinmeter and of unknown depth, from which a dense cloud of smoke and steam is constantly arising, For 100 feet on each side of the hole the ground is moist and heated. Water colleeted in the holes which have been dug.in this moist ground has the tende to muke one very wakeful, besides giving the face, hands aud feet a paralytic numbness, Every evening at 7 o'clock lirge volumes of sandare shot from the hole, preceded by a roar that can be heard for miles, Pat McGrath of Woodford, Ky., possesses a vemarkabte feline, His cat was born with only three legs, aud as soon as the kitten be- came large enough to leave its mother, Pat constructed w wooden leg and successfully adjusted it to the little stump that W olit where pussy's fourth leg ought to have been. Pussy now t muck ease and comfort. appar as though the wooden limb had becn there U nature. But here is the wouderful part of the sto Iustead of Killing rats aud mice th her' claws, as cats usually do, pussy has learned to use her club leg for this purpose, and it is said to be a very amusing sight to see her run up to a rat and knock him into insensibility with her wooden leg. e Tureka. The motto of California means, I have found it. Only in that land of Sunshine, lemon, olive, fig and grape bloom and ripen, and attain ‘their highest perfection in mid-winter, are the herbs and gum found that uro used in that pleasing remedy for all throat and lung troubles Sunta Abie, the rulerof coughs, asthma and consumption, the Goodman Drug Co. has appointed agent for this valuable Cali- fornia remedy, and sells it under a guarantoe Three for §2.50. 'y California Cat-r.cure, the only guaran- tee cure for catarrh. 1, by mail, $1.10, New Coates House, Kan, City, Absolutely fire proof. - Finest and largest hotel In Kansas City. Unexcelled i its ap- pointments, itly ts aloug on four legs with as | ABSED Written for The Rer, 11 death should cgmo—cruel, relentless death— And cbill the light from out your happy eyes, Taking from you all life, and warmth, and breath, 3 Wafting your pure, white soul to Paradise; 1 know that I should mourn, should grieve for you As sighs the zephyr for the sun-kissed Should long to hear your voice, so fo true, But could not lose you from my memor But, if in life you turned away from me, Cho path that led you from my sight; 1f mocking coldness in your glance I'd sce, i rme be lost in night. e sunshine would for. Sgdy ik s The fowers—frail pansies and forget-n | tion of his .1'\:::-7mf-‘":.‘».:.'.'v:ll\\in'h .'vlr the 7 | Kind. That detentioh, however, he was Would droop and die, if thus, by love forgot, | resolved upon, for he did not hesi- Withered for lack of love's own holy dew. | te to avow that he was in love You einpty chalr todny this losson taught: | With Miss Flovenco, and could not bear “That life without you would be durk and | I A e AT ey That all the world wonld be to me as bt | and Mr. Baynes, they were to take the If never more I felt your presence near. .3 | long-boat, which should be provisioned, You are to m s sunshine nin and they would have no dificult in As summer after winter's darkest hours reaching land in o day or two. 8o said, a sense of For even short absence pain To prove powe K AT AN High Creek, lowa. HOW THE SHIP WAS SCUTTLED. New York Ledger: Robert Baynes had made a fortune and lost his health in Indian commerce, and his doctor had how! great your influence and EANOR REYNOLDS, told him that hé must return to Europe | or die. He had also been advised to make the homeward voyage in a sailing vessel instead of by steamer, for the ad- vantages of the and rest and quiet. So he wound upor transferred his business, collected outstanding ac- counts, and took passage on the Fulmer, a ship of twelve hundred tons.which was about to 1 for Liverpool with a mi laneous cargo, of which rice in bags con- stituted the basis. Mr. Baynes took two | state-rooms, for he ccompanied by Aaughter Florence, o brig but rather too pallid girl of nincteen, The greater portion of his capital was of cou put in the form of drafts and bills of exchange, but one not inconsid- erable part of it he cavried on board the Fulmer. He had alws been a lover and a collector of fine gems, and in the er in In- was course of his long business e ] dia, he had brought together a very fine and valuable colleetion of diamonds, ru- alds, sapphires and other pre- Thesc he kept in o pecul- + kind of pocketbook, having sev- eral thick leaves, both surfaces of each of which were composed of a heavy layer of black wax. In this wax the stones were embedded, and the yieldin substance held them flrmly and The money value of the colleetion wis estimated by the owner at from £15,000 10 £20,000. "No exact estimate could be made, because some of the stones were uncut, and the cutting might diminish their value consic Buyne was in the habit of « précious pocketbook about with him all times, and he was not 50 cautious « veteran merchs > been in vegard to it. His enthusiasm as o con- noisseur frequently led him into impru- dence, such as exhibiting his treasure to people concerning whose e | was ignorant; and, as will be seen in this nareative, he had reason to regret his carelessness. The Fulmer was well officered, manned and found, and she left the Sand Heads in fine weather and under gencrally \ble auspices. But, when three out of sight of land, the scourge of da, cholera, broke out in the foreeas- dnd before the end of the week the | f mate and five foremast hands had consigned to the sharks that now ntly in the ves- sel Thus suddenly made sho handed, Captain Morris considered it unsafe to prosecute the voyage, and an- | nouncrd his intention of running into | Mauritius to piek up new hands. But, on arriving at Port Loui there was # al dearth and, af which his way, he was, in a manner, w number of hands whose looks bies, eme cious stones. been o ¢ swam steadily and persis seamens during he not like and concerning whose caj he was more than a little dubiou: was necessary to obtain a chief mate, also, for the second mate voung | fellow making his fivst voyage in that position, and Cuptain Movris 1 not sufficient confidence in him to promote him so rapidly. Fortunately, as was thought at the” time, u mate Was found without trouble, and one who' was im- mediately a thorough scuman; while his personal appearance was decidedly pleas- ing, His nume was Foster; he was ap- parently thirty-five years old, tall, ath- letie, blonde, well-bronzed, with bold eyes and rvegular featur He soon proved a man of wide information and engagin man nd, though some- thing of & martinet, the crew med satisfied with him. rom the first, he mis of ingratiating him, ence Baynes and her father, and many hours had not passed, after leaving the Muuritius en route forCupctown, when | Mvr. Baynes had exhibited his gems to the new chief mate, who displayed a | ite remarkable knowledge of precious and the famous dinmond mines of It was not until afterward that any one recalled the fact that scemed to know all the to the erew 1t he v eral times the talking with one or another of them on the topgallant forecastle. Meantime he failed to make much headway in his ad- | wces to Flovence, who, from the first, | had experienced an instinetive distrust | | | ed no opporti- olf with e nit of the mate despite his glib_tongue and gentlomanly manne Women have these antipathies, and more often thun not they turn out to be justified. Flov- ence, however, was quite alone in her suspicion, and knowing that she wd no tangible ground for it, she kept it to herself. Her father was much taken with Foster, and Captain Morris like his ways and his close attention to to duty, while the hands worked well and cheerfully under which, though sharply deli were ungar- nished by the foul lungunge too com- | monly used by offlcers at sen. Foster | was not long in realizing that Miss | Baynes sheank from him, and the fact evidently annoyed and angered him, He drew off from her, however, us though in deference to her unspoken wish, and affected to be absorbed in hi vegular funetions. ilmer had 'n end of Mad- sear when a catastrophe, like a bolt of the blue, changed the peaceful T'h nearly reached the south out situation to one of deadly peril. One fine nightas the second mate came on deck to change the watch, he wa knocked down with a hand-spike and | bound hund and foot before he came to | his sense At thesame time the five | men, shipped at Port Louis, fell upon the sleepy watch on deck and ove powered then while Foster, who was the leade of these mutineers or pirates entered the captain’s cabin and | made him also a prisoner. The mun at the wheel was threatened and made to change the ship’s course, and ball an hour after the first blow was struck, the ht and pretuy | turbed that night, but when the old merchant stepped on desk early next morning to got hijsghower bath, he was startled by finding the barrel of a_revol- ver thrust agnin<tHe8 temple by the ur- bane chief mate, whey forthwith entered into a little explangdion. He was a cool and callous scoundrel, who at least made no pretense of being better than he was \\‘hvn once the magk had been thrown off, He informed the ;amazed merchant that he must have the pocketbook gems, and, also, whatever” easily negotinble urities Mr. Baypes had on hand. It not his purpose, he said, to do his Wy personat injury, unless in- 0 done. Remonstrance was useless, pro test and pleading in vain. The miser- able father was not even allowed to his daughter again, She was locked in he bin, and there she remained until the ship was hove-to, the long-bout hoisted out, provisions and water put in her, and the prisoners passed over the side, one by or At the last moment, several of the crew, fearing to face the risks of exposure in an open bout, or per- haps lured by the hope of plunder, cast in their lot with the mutineers,who were glad of this reinforeement, being too few to work the ship by themselves, Then the Fuly vards were hauled round, she filled away and sight of the in the long who—so swiftly had the whole tr sce soon passed out of bout, tion passed—could hardly persu: themselves that all was not a bad ulated that when Fior- ence Buynes realized her position she would lly be brought to submit herself to him., and he gave her plenty of time to ponder the situation after he had explained it to her suceincily. His own purpose was to make for the Comoro Islands, in the northern part of the Mozambique chaunel, scuttle the ship a few miles from land. talte to the boats, go nshove in the guise of shipwrecked men with arefully fabricated stor and then, after distribut the spoils, send the men away to Natal or Cape- town by such Arab or French vessels ¢ might offer, and himself remain in hid- ing until the storm had blown over. He knew the danger, that,once n the settle- ments, his men would get drunk and be- gin to talk: but he did not mean to let any of them know where he was going v they left him, and his plans with egard to Florence required that he 1ould be entively froe from observation. The scheme was carefully arranged and cemed to promise well, but there n incaleulable factor in it. and that w wirl of much real rence. She was courage, strong principle, high spivit and steadfastness of purpose. 11 she had disliked Foster at first, without app: ent reason, she hated him heartily now having ample reason; and she resolved that so long life remained to her, she would employ every s mon faculty in thwarting ti Of course she p iess, but she refie was unlikely to 1 if only he cvil pur- olence, v course would ex- tinguish all hope of winning her love Perhaps she gave the man credit for more sensibility thani he was possessed of, but hi certainl cerned in oy her resi gentie meit When, after hours peared in Florence’s cabin, he w nd mortified to'find that solitary medi ation had wrought no change in the irl’s boaving. She clearly loathed him ind she took no Puttir he told hér that probably on the following day she would have to prepare to o ashoreand as she made no reply 1o this annou ment he left her ag discouraged and decy i On the third d s setting ‘the peo- ple advift in the hout the Comoro Islunds were found 1o be close at hand, and the boats were lowered. Foster shared the valuables (not including the precious pocketbook, ‘of which his fol- unong the men, 1 but two of them and—the nearest some eight miles f remained on | lowers knew nothing and gave ovders that should proceed to island being then awiy—while he hin ‘0 the ship to superintend the scut- tling and to bring away the givl. These orders were «d out, and presently Foster set the two men he had retained at work boring auger-holes in the bows, while he under to do the same for the stern. But first he sought another interview with Florence, and told her to et ready 10 leave the ship. She refused todoso.” He then informed her of his the vessel and assured that, if neg he would have her ied over the'side and put in the boat. He would come for her, he said, when he had done his part of the work, and so saying, he turned away, made his way through the luzaretto into the batween decks, worked a passage through the 1rgo to the ship's side and in a few min- utes had bored a hole through which a heavy j hed into the hold, To repeat this operation on the other side was his next movement, and having thus sealed the fate of the Fulmer, he went on deck and passced forward to'sec how his men at the bows were getting on, As he over, he st angway and water alongside. purpose to sink reached the side and glanced nto the other scanned the result of this in- paralyzing, The hoat was gone; no explanation was needed by Foster. He realized instantly that the vascal who served or rather fol- lowed him had either got tived of wait- ing, and with the indifference common to such criminals, had gone off, careloss what happened to him: or that they had deserted him from u of revenge f some discipline inflicted on them, either case the fact was the sume. sinking ship unde¢ his t, the woman he loved drowned swith him, and no pos- sibility of escape. " Suddenly it ocemrred to hi edl hur The spection was almost In A m that he haard no sound of rush- ing water at thg Hows, and this sug- gested the idea that the men might have gone without | carrying out their orders. He ranto the fovecastle and | huvried below. It wiis as he had ex- | ted. That end of the ship had not n scuttled. The,w - evidently only waited until ho was below deck and had pulled off without giving themselves | any further trouble. Then it flashed | upon him t he might be able to stop | the two leaks aft, ‘and acting instantly upon this possibiljty, he rushed to the carpenter’s voom, secured two stout ouk treenails and a heavy calking wmallet, | w and plunged once more into the after hold. This part of the ship was stowed with the rice bags. In making his way to the side to bore the augur-hole, he had been obliged to move many of these bags, and in his haste, he had piled them up cavelessly on either side, leaving u narrow gangway affording just room enough to work,” He found the water pouring in in astrong jet, but with a vigorous blow of his mallet, he drove a treenail into the hole, and had raised the Fulmer was heading for the Mozambique channel, and everything was quiet aguin, Neither Baynes nor Florence was dis- mallet for a second blow, when the force of the water drove the plug Inward so violently that it and the cold stream struck him full on the breast. The shock made him stagger,and losing his balance he fell back heavily against the rice bags which were piled above his head. They were 80 loosely heaped that the hard push he gave them thrust in the lower tiers and in o moment the upper ones fell upon his back and ghoulders, driving him forward to the ship's side, and pinning him there helple He could not turn round. He could not get any leverage for working him- He was literally “spread 18t the side with his arms while the weight of the | bugs pressed him almost to suffoca- | extened, and rice tion, the cold stream gushed against his body in front, chilling him to the bone. Foster was a man of resource and cool- s, but this situation was t00 much for nerve, He tried to call out at fivst, thinking that Florence might hear him | and come to his though the chpnce was almost hopeless, fivst because she would not know_how to reach him, and second, bec » did reach him | her strength would be une il to mov- ing even one of the I bags | which held him_ down, Still, it | ne that he #hould make her of w happened, if ossible, for even if she could nOt sive 1im, she might be able to escape sinking with the ship. So he husband ©Chis strength and continued to call hep a8 loudly us he could, but to no purpose, There was no response, no sound of any movement save the monotonous gush and swash of the water pouring into the hold on both sides, He began to grow deadly cold. The jet striking upon his breast, moreover, affected the action of his heart; his vespiration became broken and convulsive. He could no longer shout. Paralysis scemed erceping over him. Every fresh attempt to struggle only revenled inereasing weakness, The deidly cold spread to all his limbs, Ho could no longer feel his feet or hands. Caught like a rat in a teap, he w doomed to the death of ped i indecd, his present sufferings should leave any live in him for the mounting es to extinguish as they rose above his mouth and nostr Meanwhile Flovence 13 ignorant of the fact t been deserted, and s ing to think out som the fearful erisis reseu use if sk s remained it the ship had in her cabin try- vuy of eseape from which ‘saw approach- ing. How long she had been so engaged she could not tell, when she was startled by the report of & cannon, apparently close at hand. Foster had left her cabin door unfastened, and she made her way upon deck, and, after a moment of amazement at the absence of all life, looked around for the source of the fir- ing. Thenshe saw a gunboat which had just been placed across the bows of the Fulmer at a distacee of some few hundred yards, and, at the same instant, her figure on the poop evidently caught the attention of two people” on the stranger, for a ringing cheer vose from her crowded deck, and, as if by magie, three boats were dropped and instantly manned by avmed men who pulled for the sinking ship with such a will that | their cutters fairly smoked through the | water. As this unlooked-for deliver- nee appeared, the revulsion was too eat for the poor girl’s sorely tried and she sank fainting upon the she they she seemed to be Iying in her father's avms, while Captain Morris, the second mate’and a number of the old crew were grouped about, an iously observing her. Their story was soon told. They had been picked up the very day they had been set adrift by a steamer bound for Capetown. Arriving again, st believe w could reported o her, for not at fi there they had at once sought the aid of the authorities, and a gunboat, which happily was lying in the havbor, had 1 uit of the nized Foster 7 orde heen promptl Pulmer. Thé nreco from their description as a despe outlaw, who had made hi lquirters in one of the Comoro islands for some time, and had eluded all efforts to cap- ture him: and this knowledge led him to cxploring the Mozambique The fact that the mutine abandoned the Fulmer at fivst puzzle the rescuers, but while they were dis- it one of the boatkeepers hegeed leave to remark that he thought the ship was very low in the water and getting lower all th > Upon this sev 15 then that the trath 1L supposed that Foster had gone with his companions and had deliberately left Miss Baynes to go down | with the ship, until Mr. Baynes, in pass- | ing through the cabin had” picked up a :ont which was flung on one of the set- | tees, and, feeling something bulky in the | pocket put in his hand and grasped his own precious pocketbook. This discovery scemed to point to the | certainty that “Foster had not left the | vessel, after all. But if so, where could he be, and why had he alone remair behind? In the meantime, the boatswain | of the gunboat, with some of his mates, had been sent below to find the position | of the leaks, and to ascertain whether it | was possible to plug them. These men had been away but a few minutes, when a loud shout was heard below, and the, came climbing out of the hold, dripping t and with white, scared f heir sy was brief, but it cleared up the had made their way rice rs 10 near in wus groping, | ill light of a lantern, for the | leak when his hand fell upon a cold human face. He called for the lantern, and then it was scen t quite dead and with a terrible ex sion of nguish fixed on his features, had bheen wedged in them by the shiftin the cargo, It was found that to e the body would take half an hour’s hard work, and us the water was by this time within couple of feet of the bewms in the lowe hold, it w decided not to attempt the undertaking. All the prin- cipal sceuritics stolen from Mr. Buynes were found in the cabin, Foste huving kept them to be dis- posed. of by himself, After vemoving from the ship what- ever could be convenienily gotat, she was reluctantly abandoned. e gunboat stood off and on in the neighborhood Lo sce the last of her. 1t was near midnight, the moon and sturs shining brightly, th just vufiled by a s0ft breeze, that the good ship Fulmer began those movements which presaged the end. Fivst, she volled heavily, eich time showing her power of recovery; | then she sank slowly on her side. As | she did so, the weight of water in her rushed to the bo The wh fabric o which dipped deeply. ddered visibl tho stern rose in tho and, with an in- drawing and an awlul tinglo, the vessel | went down, carrying with h the wreteh whose own hand had destroyed | her | FRENCH TISSUE PAPER We carry every color t immuginal | 160 in all. 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