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THE DECK HAND.
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PURE ts ,
YOWDERED OOP
Jity Charles Klug,
0HAP3.OR IL
Contrary to Geath Burley's expectations
Tom Harrington took the berth offered him.
A week after the interview in the office, he
saield in the Comet for the flailing -ground&
of the North Sea. Bight weeks, long and
dreary to those ab sea, soon pan ashore.
To Genth, in the office, time ilew, The
morning the Coniet was due again found
hien nervously pacing the quay. Be had
made his plans. This trip would prove
Tom's salvation. Be had found a desk for
him in the Mike, and under his own eye
Harrington should commence the new life.
Though Gentles mind was busy, his eyes
kept straying dowa the harbour; and at
last he heard the taunt, pant, pant of a tug,
and saw her red -banded funnel passiug the
lower ferry. Astern was a dandy-rigeed
trawler. Scores of smaoks andluggers were
already moored at the quay -side, and what
with scandalised sails, masts, shrouds, and
dangling halliards, it was a minute or two
before he could make her out. When the
snake -like coil of the towrope wascastoff Dad
the tug sheered out, Genth saw the new-
comer was the Comet. He made a step for-
ward, then stopped as if he had been shot,
His eyes were glued to her rigging. She
was flying her flag half-mast high 1 It was
not the first time Genth had beheld that
orainous sign, but now it turned him faint.
In his mind ran one thought-suppese it
was flying for Tom Harrington ! lie stood
for a minute fascinated, then walked gloom..
ily baok to the office. He eat there with
his faee buried in his hands, when the open-
ing_ of the door, the sound of sea -boots, and
and the voice of Holmes, aroused him. "I
ken see, owner," he said, you ha' been on
the quay."
wren me," said Gentli with dry lips,
"whom you have lost ?"
The skipper of the Comet passed a large
band through bis opletemetextured hair.
"Well, owner," he said slowly, "I'll speak
She truth. 'Twor this way : the wind were
east"—
"In God's name!" cried Genth, "who is
it ?"
"To sail straight to the pint, owner, 'tis
the new deck chap,"
Genth looked at him helplessly. Barring.
ton I He had made all his little plans, anti
a greater Hand than his had swept them
away. "When did this take place?" he
asked.
"The night afore lamb. We wor agenda'
home," aaid Holmes, directing his gaze to
a nautical almauacs and tolling his tale to
it as it hung on a nail, " wr the wind east-
nor".east ; I. had jest fixed the port an' star-
board tights ate wos taking a spell at the
tiller. All a a auddent I sees a great green
sea acomin, which I knew we'd ship, an' I
sung out to the chaps to keep below. Jest
as tho werds passed my lips, some one pop-
ped out o' the headway (companion). The
sea an him must ha' touched the Cone's
deck at the same time an' afore I could
clutch him, he WO3 swept over the starboard
rail. I hulled a belt at him, an' put the
tiller up. A'most as sune as we gat about,
our boat, was litunehed, an' the chaps were
in her. They pulled like madmen; but
you known, owner, bow fast it drawnin man
drifts to wind'ard. They could never git
nigh him; an' when I picked the crew o'
the boat up, they wor dor e for. They
couldn't ha' pulled another stroke for the
Indies. An' the deck chap wos gone. All
we picked up wos this' -he held tip is soiled
sote-wester.
"You must report it," said Genth heav-
ily-" it's all you can do now."
Holmes nodded, and slouched away.
When he was gone, Genth went to his desk
and drew from it a. sheet of roto -paper; on
it was written the number of a
"And I must break the news," he said.
On a bleak January afternoon'two years
later, n man came through the tollgate. To
save is mile or so, lie bad reached Herring -
bourne by is cheerless, treeless out called
the New Road. He was thin and bearded.
His clothes were shabby, and his steps un-
certain. As he tendered the halfpenny toll
his fingers burnt like fire. The sun went
down as he came through the gate, and the
traveller shivered. Au easterly wind was
blowing. It lay in wait for him as be
rounded a corner, and it roaring gust
brought him up gasping for breath. But still
he wearily plodded on. At last he stop-
ped before a "row," went up it, mid
then stopped again, in front of a
house with the shelters closed. On them
wes chalked -"To Let." In a dazed sort of
way he looked at the letters, then made bis
way to the quay. Here he halted at the
office of Hurley's Fleet. With a trembling
hand he tried the door. It was locked.
Then, indeed, he seemed. to loose heart, and
sat a. incenent on the doorstep. He was
looking at the black bough of it tree that
flapped noisily against a lighted lamp, when
a smack:m-9.n ca.me past. The weary object
stopped him and asked Min where 'Hurley
lived. Re was told ; and with a sigh went
on again, this time towards the Drive. The
sky grew darker, and it began to suow'
first in light flakes, that he feebly tried to
brush away, then faster. Soon he heard
the roar of the angry sea,_ and saw the
• flaming eye of the Floating Light as it rook.
ed inside the Scroby. Here the wind blew
fiercer: it gathered the white flakes together
and hurled them into his fate till they
blinded him. Staggering, clutching at iron
rails, and turning his face to them when
the strong gusts swept off the sea, he went on
till he reached the gate of a house where the
blinds wereparted and the remit illumined by
gas jets and a merry leaping fire. By that fire
a mau sat reading. It was Genth Hurley.
The stranger outside opened the gate; the
wind drove him up to the door, and he pull-
ed the bell. It was answered by a servant,
who gazed at him curiously. He asked if
he could see the smack -owner.
"05 course you can," she said sharply.
"But shake some of that snow off I"
He tried, but his fingers seemed numb.
She impatiently beckoned him in, and left
him on the mat while she informed her mas-
ter it man wanted him. Before she could
speak, the visitor had stolen up behind. As
she drew back, he and Genth came face to
face. The attitude of the shabby figure
was humble, and his knees shook.
"Come in," cried Genth eheerily--" come
in, my man. Ybu wanted. to see me ?" •
In a hesitating way the other stepped
forward ; particles of snow had melted on
his beard and hung in glistening drcpa.
" Den't you know me, Hurley ?" he ask,
ed, in a, trembling tone. ."I wonder if Nell
will know me? . I'm Tone n. arringten 11'
With a strange, gurgling cry Ceenth fell
back and clutched at the mantel piece. He
seemed turned to stone. The visitor looked
wistfully at the bright fire, Ind caressed
his thin hands as if he were warming them.
"No, no l" gasped Gentle hoarsely, " not
him a not Tom Harringtan He was drown.
nd I had the fever." He drew a. little
nearer the fire, and put his hand 00 5110 tit A
tete% -antic ; then with a smile, he looked
at (lenth. Plurley'e face wore an awful
frozen look. ]Ie appeared cowering hack.
"I'm very tired," said the wanderer
feebly. "May I sit down ? I have been to
some straege place, but I'm home now ;
and, I want to find Nell. I have been to the
old house, bat she was not there. Bub
you'll help me to 'find her, won't you ?
You'll tell me where she is?"
His voice VMS eager, and again he looked
at Genth. The door of the rooni was only
partly closed, and through it there came a
faint cry; then a soothing sound; then
cry louder than the first. - The rescued man
pricked his ears.
"A baby 1" he said, "So you are married.
Perhaps -perhaps," he added timidly,
"you don't want me hero. I had better go.
I bad no right to cone; but 1 thonght you
could tell me where Nell was." He gazed
again at the fire and his shaky fingers stray-
ed over the buttons of his threadbare coat.
With an effort he staggered up.
It was only Gentles lips that moved.
"Yes, yes," -he said, in a hollow tone, "go!
And in the name of God, go quick! To-
morrow -I'll see you to -morrow. "
A gust of wind drove the snow against
the window. Before the fleeting patterns
of the flakes were off the glass, another
gust made them afresh.. Harrington shiver-
ed. "It's very cold," he said; "but
walk quick, and you'll tell me where to find
Nell?"
As he put the question there
sounded it rippling laugh; then the
joyous snatch of • a sung, as some
one tripped down the stairs, The wander-
er's face grew bright. Ht) held up his hand,
"Listen 1" he cried breathlessly. "Thetis
Nell'a voice My Nell That is the song
she used to sing, long ago! Why, shale here,
Hurley -she is"—He turned wonderingly
to Genth. The smack -owner's jaw had hall -
on; his teeth were chattering; and tremb-
ling in every limb, he barely holdup by the
mantel piece.
A puzzled look stole over Harrington's
face. It cleared; and he too began to trerre
ble. "Your wife !" he whispered. "You
have merried karl You thought me dead I
I am going -I am going." He put his hand
out to feel for the door. He was trying to
find the handle, when it swung epee
and Nell stood on the threshold.
He gavea low sob, aud with bent head
sought to pass her. She tried to see his
face.
"I am going, Noll," he mumbled--" I
am going." Ho was quite helpless now, and
blinded by tears,
At the sound of his voice, at the sight of
the shaky figure grown suddenly old, some
memory stirred her, and she clutched, him
V the arm. Re lifted his head; their eyes
met, and with a wild scream she sank to
the floor,
An hour later, a doctor came. He looked
at Harrington, who had been put. to bed,
and shook his head. " no use," he mid.
"Cold, exposure, is debilitated constitution.
The man has been dying forweeks. He may
last the night otte ; I doubbit."
The doctor was right. Harrington
gradually grew walker. Ilis brain wander-
ed to strange scenes, the River Plate, Costa
Rica; then home, paid Nell, When his
mind .partially cleared, sho was bending
"Not drowned," said the other; ani his
_ PURESTo STRONCEST, DEBT. voice sounded so gentle, so unlit e the lIttr-
Bria4y fors:se in en), cieenttity-. Por =Mpg Son rington of old, that there was plenty of
Softening Water, Disinxecting d enal-candy:di otbe
uses. Apse equals 2.9 pounde 'ii.lfiodn. room for mistaking his tdentt ty ; but
--JAC .!.:7 .X.-._ i Vrocers and Druggists. picked up by a schooner, when be had lost
ass, vet.• cgezeseraeseentio, ,asseeseeseeteso all hope. 1 was carried to a strange place,
over hun, and Genth sat holding his hand.
Like a child he put up his face, end sho
kissed him. He looked, smiling, at Genth;
then els head fell back on the pillow. "1
am going," he said, softly-" I am going."
There was is faint flutter of breath, aud his
eyes clo.ed. Tito Deck Haud had gone.
(ono Exp.]
Remedy For Potato Rot.
To the Editor. •
Slic,-There are few diseases of field crops
which are the direct came of more loss to
the farmere of Canada than that which is
known under the different names of "pre.
tato rot," "blight" or "rase" My object
in writing this letter is to draw the attere
tion of your readers to the fact that is prac-
tical end simple remedyhas been discovered
and that the best time for applying it is
during the latter half of this month.
This disease of tho potato is due to the
attacks of a perasitie fungus, known by the
name or Phytophihora imieNtans. The life
history of this fungus is briefly as follows
The fungus passes the winter inside the
potato tuber avid is planted with it in spring.
As soon as the potato throws out its shoots,
the parasite grows with it, running up
through the tissues of the stems aud
frotn abottt the end of July produces
beneath the leaves oe: abundance of spores,
or seed -like bodies. Them are exceedingly
minute, but are produced in such numbers
that they frequently give a frost -like ap-
pearance to the under sides of the leaves.
When these spores are produced on the
leaves, the appeerance known as "rust"
allows itself in the shape of small dark
brown dots, which are caused by the dry-
ing up of the tissues from the parasite hav-
ing used up their cantents. From the rust
stage all future infection takes place.
Some of the spores are carried by the wind
and falling upou the leavesof other adjacent
plants, produce more rust spots, while
others falling to the ground are washed be-
neath the surface and reachbsg the forming
tubers produce the rot stage. The wetrot,
as seen in autumn in the tubers, is the form
of this disease which is best known'but po-
tato rot is really a dry rot which kills the
tuber, and in autumn the wet rot follows
as a result of decay. In winter the disease
°calms in the tubers as patches of hard
whitish diseased tissue.
In this district the rust stage does not
generally appear until about the first of
'August and this is the first evidence that
blight is present in the field. As a rule the
black spoto appear only on a few leaves at
first, but if the weather be favorable the
disease spreads rapidly from spores carried.
by the wind from these centres of infection,
so that a large field may become diseased in
a few days, and as a result the crop of pota-
toes will be ruined.
REMEDY.
to prepare the mixture some time before re-
quire& but it must be kept covered to keep
out all dust and rubbish.
To appiy thismixture to the foliage un-
doubtedly the best and cheapest way is to
use a proper sprayiug pump aud nozzle, but
if these are not ou hand., good results which
will well repay the trouble, maybe obtained
by applying the mixture withwatering cans
supplied with fine roses. There are several
different kinds of spraying pumps in the
nutratet. Perhaps the most convenient for
this work is a force pump attached to abfc.r-
rel on wheels to be drawn through the field
by it horse. Smaller machines, known es
Knapsaok Sprayers, consist , of a reservoir
containing a small force pump, which can be
carriea upozs a man'a back, Both of these
kinds of pumps can be purchased for about
$15 to $20. It will be necessary to spray
the fields two or three times to proteet the
crop thoroughly. There is no danger of in-
juring the foliage with the above mixture,
as it is only half the strength of the origin.,
al formula which is most generally used.
A great advantage of this mixture is that
Paris green the only practical remedy for
the Cetera() potato -beetle, can be applied
at the same time. To do this, mix from it
quarter to half it pound of Paris green with
a little water so e,s to make a thick past
and then add it to the 45 gallons of Bor-
deaux mixture, that is, it is used in exactly
the same strength as with plain water,
These mixtures must be kept constantly
stirred ivhile being used, as both the lime
iu the Bordeaux mixture and the Paris
green sink quickly to the bottom of any
mixture if loft undisturbed.
J4t3139 FLETCMIllt,
Eat. and Bot. to Dominion Expert'. Farms,
Ottawa, July 19, 1892.
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A BOAT WITH A HISTORY.
WlrslllITrad lug Fess—el, then a Slave Dhow,
and Malty an Explorer's Craft.
A little vessel having is remarkable his-
toryyika. leer story illustrates the progress in
that region from savagery voward civilize.
tionhas plied for years on Lake Tangelo
.
The best boats on Tanganyika are obtain-
ed from enormous trees in the vast forest
which skirts most of the shores of the lake.
In this forest the boat long after known a.s
as the Calabash was origiuelly a huge tree
trunk, out down by the axes of the natives
with enormous lebour, and then, with axe
and adze and fire, moulded into shape.
Boats like the Calabesh are excellent sea
eessele, though in their liues they suggest
rather it clumsy hippopotamus than is swan.
Scores of natives dragged the finished
boat down the mountain slopes to the lake,
where it was launched with much ceremony
The medicine man madean offering of beads
to the gods of the lake, so that they should
take the vessel under their protecting care.
Then as e. netive trading canoe the little
vessel, still unnamed, began her career with
it crew of stout black paddlers, who took her
from port to port laden with grain, fruit,
salt, oil, dried fish, ivory, and other com-
moditees that are exchanged among the
tribes.
On ono of her voyages, after she had
served as a trailing canoe for two years, she
entered the pore of Ujiji, where she was
bought by an Miwehili slave trader. Re
drew her on the shore, deepened her by
building pla.nks twoend her sides, atrength-
<wed her with thwarts and a half deck,
rigged ber with is mast and sail, and then
launched her again as is slave dhow. For
three yeirs she plied back and forth across
the lake bringing onrgoes of wretched men,
women, and children to the Ujiji slave
market. One day a load of slaves had just
been landed on the shore when "nr. Hore,
purcha.sing her, drew her up on the beach
craft, and decided that she was just:
ages around the lake, succeeded in
in
hnwleiaril pl tteE0
who had rueently come to Ujiji aa au agent
of tho London Missionary Society, saw the
about what he needed for exploratory voy-
ages
more, repaired and altered her, rigged
sails, christened hor the Calabash, and the
little boat was once more launched upon
Tanganyika as the first missionary vessel on
she became known in time to every tribe
thelake. Consecrated to tho cause of peace,
around the lake as the harbinger of good
in‘ganligsalinfyaisichali with two masts aloe
.day, is the result of these surveys,
as it appears on our
which Mr. Here carried out on ,the Cala-
bash. His survey is the best that has yet
been made of the lake. He paddled and
sailed along the shores, every day seeing a
grand panorama of unknown lands and new
tribes. By careful measurement and ob-
servation month after month, the outlines
of the lake and the names of the bordering
countries were marked on the map of
Africa. It was about two years before
Capt. Hore completed his survey.
The Calabash was 32 feet long, and its
crew consisted of eight natives of U'
jiji all
of them skillet' ceramists and fishermen. The
vessel was big enough to carry a large
quantity of supplies and merchandise, so
that CapL Hore was able to be away foam
home for months at a time.
Careful experiments have shown that by
spraying the potato haulms at the time the
rust first appears with is mixture of sulphate
copper and limeknown as the "Berdeanx
Mixture," the rust or blight on the leaves
can be stopped, and as a consequence a large
proportion of the rot be the tubers can be
prevented.
• BOGDEADX MIXTURE.
Copper sulphate, 6 pounds;
Lime, ,fresh, '4 pounds;
Water, 46 gallons.
To make. Bordeaux mixture. -Take six
pounds of copper sulphate (blue vitriol) pow-
dered, and dissolve it in one gallon of hot
water in a wooden tub (iron must not be
used, as the vitriol would attack it). Slake
four pounds of lime in sufficient water to
make a thin evhitewash. Strain this
through a fine sieve or a sack to remove all
lumpse When both lipids are cool, pour
the lime wash slowly into the copper sul-
phate solution, stirring it all the time.
Now add enough water to make 45 gallon
and the mixture is ready for use. It is best
They Were on the Make.
One day in my rambles among the hills I
came upon an old fellow hoeing corn in front
of his house, and in the course of our talk
he told me he had five sons.
"That's a fine family," I remarked.
"Mostly," he responded briefly.
"Are they all at home 2"
"No, riono of them."
"They are all growu, then ?"
"Yes, and has been fcr it long time."
"What do they do -farm ?"
" No ; Dill, he mattes shoes ; Jim, he
makes staves; Sam. he makes tinware; and
Thomas Henry, he makes pills."
"Do they all make a living?" I asked,
following out the " make " idea, but not
uotioing that lie had skipped one of the
five.
"Yes."
"Do any of them make. money?" I con-
tinued.
The old fellow flushed a little I thought.•
"Yes -no," he hesitated, "that is ter say,
Hiram, he mad a money, but he don't no
more now Bence they &sat him te the peni-
tentiary far counterfeithe " 'and there was
such a look of pain on the old man's face
that I woo ashamed of myself for having
unwittingly made the father disclose the
skeleton in his closet.
Lilith, Adam's First Wife.
According to the Jewish Talmud, Lilian
the fabled " mother of demons, " was taken
to wife by Adam, our first parent, prior to
the appearance of Eve upon the scene. Be.
in the legendary mother of all evil spirits,
one would quite neturally accept the story
as, a fact when told that she benme unman-
agea.ble and tried. to supersede Adam az
lord of all creation. Thwarted in these,
her evil. designs, she took to the regions of
the air, where, as it spectre in the guise of
a beautiful woman, she lies in wait for and
pounces upon defenceless children. Some
ignoraut European Jews believe that the
beautiful murderess still iuliabits the air
above our earthly abodes, waiting with the
patience oi is demon for a chance to mute
der their little ones. It is said that the
word "lullaby" is a corruption of the
words " Lillia,abi, "or "Begone, Lilthti,"
words used as a charm by the superstitious
mothers of the Middle Ages. See article
"Eve" in Baring.Gould's " Patiarchs and
Prophets."
Curiosities of Inseot3.
The markings of the "death -head" moth
are so ermined as to form a striking pic-
ture of is human skull.
In Australia there aro three species of
beetles which have the extraordinary power
of reproducing their eyes if it so happens
Viet those useful organs get destroyed.
Earwigs are hetched from eggs in exactly
the same way that a hen hatches her young.
The smallest known insect (outside of the
amcalled microbes, bacilli, ete„) is the pter.
atomus putnamii. It is is parasite of the
ichnenmen, and is hut one -ninetieth of au
limit in length.
The largest insect that has yet been cata-
logued bythe entomologests is the Erebus
Strix, a night -flying moth of Central Amer-
ica, which has from eleven to eighteen
iuohos of wing expanse,
The luna beetle of Ceylon seems to be
more nearly identified with the moon than
with the things of the world. It has two
.phesphoresceut spots on each wing that wax
and wane just as the moon does, and during
the "dark of the moon," they tre wholly
invisible.
CONSUMPTION CURED,
An old phyeician retired from practice. hav
mg had placed in his hands by an East India
m.sisionary the formula of a simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for
Coneuvaption, Bronchitis, Catarrh,Asthma and
all throat and lung atIections, also it positive
and radical cure for nervous debility and all
nervous complaints, after having tested ite
wonderful curative powers in thottitands of
cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and is desire to relieve human suffering. I will
send free of charge. to all who desire it. the
recipe in (lerman, French or English with ful
diractiens for preparing and using. Sent by
mail by addressing with stamp, namingthis
paper. W. A. NOYES, 83) Power's .1.110ek
iteliester. N. Y.
A Chance Tor a Sore Tongna
Um. Foots -What aro you looking so
glum about?
Poots-Oh, there's a confoundedly tender
spot on my tongue from resting against a
broken tooth,
"Bumph 1 Yotero always grunting about
something. Funny I never have anything
like that the matter with my tongue."
"Nothing funny about it. Your tongue
is never at rest."
People who write poetry "just to kill
time," will find that time will not be mur-
dered by measure without retaliating.
It is said that an acre of good fishing will
yield more food in a week than an acre of
the best land will yield in a year.
Railway hennaing is still popular in Can-
ada. Recently Hamilton voted $275000 to
the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway.
and a few days ago Vancouver, B. C., de-
cided to bonus the Burrard Inlet. and Fra-
ser 'Valley railway to the extent of $300,000.
Most of the Municipalities in the Pacific
province have placed a safeguard around the
boraising power by providing that a by-law
to be adopted mest receive sixty per cent.
of the votes cast. Tf this rule had been ap-
plied to Vancouver the bonus would have
been defeated, but through the absence of
it the railway receives the gift.
-Children Cr' for Pitcher's Castorie4
When Baby was sick, we rave her Castoffs.
When she was a Child, oho cried for Castoria.
When the became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When slushed Childres,thegave them castoria.
The religion of to -day is the pocketbook.
The more there is in it the stronger the
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