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Tota Wil on had eaten his dinner
with ono eye on the restaurant clock
all the while. It was tweatyfive
mitustes past six.' That would give
hint time to catch the omnibus which
would convey him to Bayswater,
where he had an important engage-
ment -all engagements of that kind
are most importaut, and demand extra punt tuality,-with Miss Clara
Hunter.
He toolthe top -hat on the peg
beside him, • and, having hurriendly
settled his bill, and tipped the wait-
er, sat off, his brain busily oectipied
with pleasant anticipations of a
meeting with her, who had promised
to be his very own as soon as -Torn
Wilton's. finances remelted the hun-
dred pounds necessary for the launch
upon the matrimonial sea.
, Fiftyesoven pounds eighteen shill-
ings and ninopence That was the
s sum that yawned like an awful
• S chasm between Tom and bliss unut-
terable t
"Tom, dear, what is tile matter?"
cried Miss Clara, as she advanced to
meet him in the hall, and noticed
the gloom upon his face.
"Nothing, dear -nothing !" he re-
plied. "I've only been 'thinking how
horrible it is we cannot:marry bee
cause -because----" •
She stopped, him in the usual man-
atee when. he uttered that old lament.
"You are a great goose, Tom I"
she declared --"a great goose? 'Why,
hundreds of men would be only too
glad to marry when they've got a
hundred pounds !"
"Well, there's an a.wful barrier !"
he almost groaned. "Why can't a
man marry when helikes ? It's too
• 'bra t
She stopped him again. Tom as
• in the dumps.. He was often. like
that. It rather flattered her.
"You've brought the song with
you which: you were to 'try to -night,
havenyou ?" she asked a little
later.
"It is fn my overcoat pocket," he
replied; "but I caimot sing it to-
night, dear. Not a bit -not for
worlds I" he added gloomily.
It was all nonsense, she declared.
Ho could, and he should, sing. And
she tripped from the room and. down
the stairs to the hall, where his coat
was hanging, to get that song from
his poeicet.
What a nice hat Tom had got!
She lifted it from its place on the
stand. Why ever did the foolish boy
carry letters in the lining, she won-
dered, as her eye caught one stuck
there, no doubt to prevent its gett-
ing crumpled in his pocket on its
way to the post. Possibly Tom had
forgottea to post it. Love does
• make a man forgetful at times. Miss
Clara determined to take it to him
and remind him of it:
"Miss Ada Breegrave, Wilbrook
Mansions, Kensington, W.
A little chill of terrible premoni-
tion passed over her as she read that
direction. The letter was not sealed.
Had not Tom often declared that he
had no secrets -none from her -that
he only wished she could know his
very heart, and read his secret
thoughts? What harm, then could
there be in her reading the letter?
She was ffirishing it when she heard
his voice from the landing above.
"Have you found that song yet?"
• Crushing the letter together in her
hand, she thrust it into her pocket.
He must not see her reading it -not
for worlds.
• Tom Wilton was not to sing that
night. A. few -minutes later the house
maid came to tell 'hint that Miss
Hunter had been seized with such a,
violent headache that she had had
to retire toe -eller room, and it was
not possible she could see him again.
The next evening when Tom called
he was informed that Miss Clasa's
headache was worse than ever. The
next morning the post brought him
a letter and a little registered par-
cel.
In the note Mr. Thomas Wilton
was presented with Miss Clara Hunt-
er's compliments', and informed that
all was over between them for ever!
The last two words were underlined.
"Dear Kiss Breegraves-Oh, that I
might dare to call you my own
But now I take the step which, if
you will agree, shall grant me that
ecstatic privilege. Do not turn 'a
deaf ear to it, I beseech you, Dear
Miss 13redgrave, can you have been
insensible to the feelings which have
surged in my heart, devoting it and
its owl= to your worship ? Your
reproaches have brought me fully to
realise that I adore you, and you
aloe°. The other lady I thought
loved I don't. She, I find, possesses
nothing of my heart.
"I cannot understand how I can
have been so foolish as to imagine
that I really loved her. Only say
the word -yes -and I will be thine
for ever, and. you shall have no fur-
ther° cause to reproach me for the
sake of a girl who is to You as a
buttercup is to a, fairy. -Yours, in
anxiety and trepidation,
9he would dearly love to ewe this
mieerable woman who had coMe bee
tween thera with her wily art. "After
a night of tossing and sleeplessness
Miss Clara rasolved to deliver that
note personally. She would eee the
creature, at least.
11.
"Well, this fair takes the cake,
that Tom shounld write to me like
this, and Send his letter by a girl
like you !" esealimed Miss Breegrave
when she had finished the epistle.
She was a tall and considerably
carerdreseed young lady, with a pro-
fusion of gaudy ornaments in the
shape of very ostentatious' jewellery',
Her little flat was full of things
Which. Miss Clara Hunter mentally
condemned as in the most atrocious
and vulgar taste.
"Well, pop will be delighted," she
went on. 'He's been wild that I
didn't get hitched on for a long
time !"
"And you really -really think he
will marry you ?" asked Miss Clara.,
forgetting that the question betray-
ed an indiserect acquaintance with
the contents ot the letter. Fancy
Tom marrying a "fairy" like that .1
"Marry me ?" exclaimed Miss Breee
grave, not noticing the admission.
"Rather I I guess it'll be a bad days
work for hini if he doesn't. Didn't
you ever hear of such a thing as B.
0.P., my girl -breach of promise?"
And that was the "fairy:" l Oh,
Tom ! Tom! Toad What a fool you
must be, and what a fine prospect
of happiness you have before your...
For a month It is probable that
there had been no more miserable
man in the world than. Mr. Tom Wil-
ton. The inexplicable cenduct and
cruelty of Miss Clara Hunter he.d
plunged him into the profoundest
gloom and misanthropy. • Men and
women were all his foes.
"But I'll be hanged if I'll please
them by starving myself to death!"
he muttered to himself grimly. "I'll
be hanged if I don't live just to
show Clara -Miss Hunter -that aa
man's got grit in him -which defies
the cruelty 'of an unfeeling and -and
`11031.''
That was the letter Mies Clara
Hunter found in that hat, and With
which, in her terror, when Tom Wil-
ton Called to her, she rushed off to
her room. It was written itt a fine
Italian handwriting, very unlike
Tom's sprawl. That showed how
easeful Tom could be when Writing
to a
Who and what could the creature
. bo?
She heard the housemaid. deliver
her message to Ton), and his foot-
fall as he passed down the stairs,
and the closing of the hail 'door be-
hind hiin. Of CoUrse, ho Must have
diseovered that the had taken that
letter out of his hat, but he did not
dare to Claim it I She wondered
‘ItOW he must feel now that he knew
' the had found hint out. She was
etell rid of such a wretch, and MisS
'Mkt Breograve was welcome to him_
That letter should go .to ite cleetiaa-
tien !
Be how 9 't'tet wits .a gtieeielon
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He did not finish, but took his hat
down and set off tothe restaurant
where he had dined that fatal night
-how well he remembered it _all 1 -
when he had last seeu her. fie *took
his seat at the table, and begati to
scan the menu card, when he started
with astonishment.
"Ze gentilman who took ze hat!"
cried an excited waiter. And in an
instant he was surrounded by three
gesticulating attendants, who eyed
him with intense curiosity, and ap-
peared to be carrying on a heated ar-
gument in Italian, French and Ger-
man.
"What ort earth is •the matter ?"
About the
....House
FOR THE FARMER'S WriT'E•
• Plan your • work systematically.
Don't arrange to do all of your hard
Jobs in ono day, but on the days
is, rivalled by the woman who Was
challerigeil to make herself 8, Wirt
waist out of a pair of her husband's
trousers. This she actually did,tis-
ing'
veliret for collar and cuffs, yoke
and Straps to hide. the necessary
pieeing. ribose not la tbe secret
complimented her and inquired where
he found her "beautiful suiting,"
There is no better proteetion for
the hands when sweeping than mit-
tens made of extra heavy .canton.
flannel, fleeced side in. The mater-
ial is ixuPervions to (lost; the mit-
tens are easily slipped on and oft;
When you wash, iron and awn plan the long wrists protect the dress
that the rest of the hoasework may sleeves and they, are cheep and easily
be as light as possible. If you vale washed,
ue the health of your family, serve Half a dress shield fastened to the
as little fried food as possible, and ander side of the baby's bib pre -
don't waste your time and strength vents the moisture from, wetting his
making rich pies, cakes and dough- dross and underclothing.
Inds. Cook a different- vegetable A new style of apronand one that
each day to serve with the .potatoes is recommended as very eonvenient is
and meat. Have. whole wheat bis- made as follows: Get a yard and an
cuits or rolls at least °nee a day, eighth of percale or any wide• weeds.
and cereals well cooked and served Tear off eleven inches aerose the
with milk or cream and sugar may
well take the place of more compli-
cated food. Use plenty of fruits in
their season and dried or canned
fruits out of season. Make out a
bill of fare for each day in the week
You may have, to make variations
sometimes, but it will prove a help.
Have regular hours for work, mat
and recreation. Don't say you.
have no time to rest. 'Unless you
are stronger than the average wom-
an you must find time to rest or yoll
will Suffer the consequences soonor or
later. In the economy of life,
health is of a thousand tinaes more
value than wealth. •• Take a bath
every morning upon rising. 'If you
have no bathroom and it is not al-
ways convenient to take a sponge
bath, use a good flesh brush. Re-
move your garments and brush back
and forth until the entire surface of
the body glows red. Try this and
see how much better you will feel.
Twice a week at least take a warm
bath with plenty of fine soap. Al-
ways have your sleeping room win-
dow up two or three inches at least.
If you fear a draft, have a piece of
oilcloth or heavy, cloth the Width
of your window 'frame and reaching
from the bottom half -way up the
sash. Sew a small brass ring in
each corner and have corresponding
nails in the side of the window frame
to slip the rings o•ver.
Clothe yourself comfortably, and
neatly when about your work. Try
a union suit, light weight in sum-
mer and heavy in winter, stockings
drawu up over the knee and faste.ned
with a safety pin, broad low heeled
shoes, tho corset discarded if possi-
ble, and the next garment a comfor-
table waist of white cotton made in
the simplest fashion. . It should
come just to the waist line, where a
row of eyes permits the attachment
of the skirt, which should be of
washable cotton goods and have a
corresponding row of hooks on the
un.der side of, the band. A neat
wrapper, such as can be -purchased
ready-made quite cheaply, excellent
values Wag. in dark pretty percale,
should be the next garment and with
an apron of bright percale, made to
hang in ,straight folds , from bands
at the shoulders, and a pretty tie
et wash silk at the throat ono is
heatly and comfortably dressed with-
out a constricting band anywhere.
Now remember that housework is
the best possible exercise if one goes
about it as one should. Maintain a
correct standing position always,
even when at the sink washing dish-
es. You do this when you have
your shoulders and hips back, chest
up and • chin in. Remember that
while this adds more than elegant
clothes' to your personal appearance,
it also adds to your health, for it
is a well-established fact that im-
proper standing and sitting crowds
the internal organs, thereby, causing
disease.
If your sink and cooking table am
too low, try placing a dry: goods
box under the mice board and dish-
pan when in use, to bring them
high enough so that you can stand
correctly. When you sit do not
slouch down itt your chair, but sit
upright. If too tired to do this-, lie
down fiat on your back without a
pillow and rest, ,relaxing every mus-
cle and thinking of nothing at all -
just rest. •.
• If possible, take a test of this kind
every forenoon•if not for longer than
five minutes. Have a longer nap in
the •afternoon. It will keep you
bright and fresh.
When n3.aking dresses, aprons, etc.,
for the little ones, use a, good qual-
ity of percale, it 'costs almost twice
as much as print, but lasts ttvice as
long and washes bettor than ging-
ham. Lastly remember that tbe
happiness and comfort of your fam-
ily depend in a large measure upon
yourself and the better care you take
of yourself the better you cart • do
your duty by your husband and ehil-
deem • • •
gasped Tom.
"Zis is ze gentibnan as the hundred
pound reward is for offered !" ex-
plained the most excited of the wait-
ers to the proprietor, who came
bustling forward. "I -Te took zo hat.
Ile sit here at zis table opposite
Monsieur Tom Selbury. He ze hat
take. ,I svare it on my .soul and
honor i" And he waved his 'napkin
eloquently towards the ceiling.
"I will explain it suffisament,"
said the proprietor, bowing low to
Tom. "The monsieur is in the dark.
He understands not that on the hat
bangs a tragedy . of hearts. The
Monsieur Tom Selbury is distract.
He wring his hands; he atter the cry
of the heartbreak. Ah, ciel ! Is
it the digest his food he can do?
No ! He is the ghost that walks and
cry perpetual, 'My hat ! My hat!
Where is the gentleman with my
hat ?" Ila ! Here Monsieur Selbury
himself come I Angelo has found
Ah ! It is d happy day that
the hat has come again !"
Mr. Tom Solbury was a young gen-
tleman who possessed better qualifi-
cations for explaining things than
the proprietor.
The night Tom bad dined there
last he had departed with Mr. Sel-
bures hat:
"It wasn't the hat that was so im-
portant, you know," Mr. Selbury
said., "as what was in it -a con-
founded letter in the lining, which I
had written and put there while /
dined and thought it over. It was
a proposal of marriage to a Miss
Ada 13reegrave, of Kensington., I
must have been the biggest fool on
earth," he went on emphatically,
"to .have ever thought a scrap about
that girl, but I did, and I wrote
that letter. But I never sent it.
determined I wouldn't. Well, I din-
ed, took your hat, and strolled orf.
When,I looked in the hat the letter
wasn't there, of course."
"I never found. it itt the hat you
left," declared Tom.
"Then how on earth did it get to
Miss flreegrave 9" asked Mr. Sel-
bury with a groan. "She got it
sure enough, and wrote accepting
me. I was never so startled in my
life, Now she's suing me for breach
of promise -ten thousand pounds
damages. She's turned out awful
when she thought she'd got me fast.
ivful ! 'A perfect demon!"
He wiped the perspiration from his
face.
"She declares it was delivered to
her by a tall, handsome lady, who
gave no name -dark hair, large blue
eyes, pink dress, umbrella, with mot-
her-of-pearl handle, and—"
"Why, that's Clara ! Ahem! I
rocan--I mean--"
Tom Wilton sank back with a gasp
in his chair as it flashed across him
what bad happened.
"Look gere," exclahned Mr. Sol -
bury, "if you can flncl that young
lady, it'll knock all the bottoin out
of that breach -of -promise case. That
cat" -it was thus disrespectfull he
spoke of tho "fairy" -"won't have a
leg to stand on ! 1"l1 give you a
thousand pounds -a thousand pounds
-if you can lind her." ,
"I think I can," said Tom. And
he did.
The threatened sensational breach-
bf-promise case, Breegrave v. Sol -
bury, never mine to trial. Tho
"fairy" went nearly mad with rage
when her solicitors advised her that,
tinder the circumatanees, no judge
would say that Mr, Selbury had
really sent her that document She
had thought as good as cash.
Clara, .Thintee is Mrs, Tom.
Wilton now; tor why should the mar -
siege be delayed when everything was
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;ik,4,07
SLATESformation from some of the sailors,
of the murderers, who will dio
OF GRAN BAN1 witielt led to the arreSt and convictior4
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F:LSENCH FISI-IERNEN OFF the giiillotine,
NEWFOITNDLAND coAsT,. • Atrecities of a similar kind awe
Crews Are Brought Out rsTillifslge•ciseQsyseorr rert,ciajo' edLtilostS5t11,111"1Mieert.
Ifrom France very
re trout the Baul‘s with the skipper a
Year,
raving maniac, and in irons, lie hav-
, The llaegve and Breton fishermen lugs while in a drunken frenzy, rttri
are being ferried across the paean to aanusk and murdered 'three of his
begin their annual trawling min- crew.
PGarlagund andt°o(111:11:ci tsillx° loSstollalleicitiollYbtestv%r°°tilit14°t 11.
writes a, correspondent at 5`t. John's, ken slcipper Stood at the rail with a
because the di.en-
months' of mieerst end wretchedness, four num PseePod,
Newfoundland.
Francis' little colony of St. rioloaded revolver and would not allow
rre_
the hands to shorten sail. The pre -
l onooto
,t to le an, hicisouth iloakft
fthisi:l es:, vious year a skipper was sentenced to
sthe s
lile imprisounaent at St. Pierre for
ery industry, whieloccupies 40ves-
so ill-using• two boys on his boat that
l 0
sels and 10,000 men, and is regarded tliey died.
by her as the mainstay of her navy. But those couvictions artt only iso -
To this end she subsidizes it with lated. instances of punishMent; in the
cent. Sre4.tt majOrity of eases the scoun-
drels escape. The reason for this is
The
bounties equal to seventy per
goods for the rale. Then from the
of the value of the fish itself and by rest of the length take front each her conscription forces into it the
side e, striag three inches wide. Take youths of the provinces fronting on
i
off a strip nine and a half Malice. her Atlanticeaboard.
On the Grand Banks also gather
wide to form the pockets, and a nett -
every aummer the fishing fleets. of
row strip for the binding. The piece
Massachusets, Nova Scotia. and New -
that is left is the body a the apron.
foundalnd, but of all the thousands
Hem the ruffle; gather 'and sew to
of tratylmen who frequent these ocean
the apron with the seam on the right
side. :Eleni the strip for the pockets ledges the lot of .the Frenela is un-
uestionably tho most miserable. Tbe
across the top, stitch this at the
lower edge to cover the seam of the business at best is arduous and tree.-
trutle ap
eanroduhem in with the sides of twosome, but the crews of other na-
hStitch through: the tionalities have this in their favor,
strip and the apron twice, forming that they are free agents, the arbiters
three pockets. , of their own destinies, free either to
join ship or to stay ashore, whereas,
DOMESTIC RECIPES. the Frencli are the slavee o•f the ofworetrslefsosr tthoomosbotivaietst
con -
Cinnamon Bread. -Take a cupful of
Bel,e1"0.1: foic5rdniaaati:tyd comP
bread -sponge; add one-half cup of
not to speak of more sabstantial
brown sugar, one-thiad cup melted
lard; level tablespoonful. ground chi- rights.
namon, a pinch' of soda, knead once St. Zierre, the sole harbor of the
and put in a loaf; let rise, grease Miquelon group, France maintains as
over with butter, bake slow. an outfitting base for the fishing
• Oatmeal Cookies. -One and one- fleet. The ships, except a few owned
third cups sugar; one cup 'shortening in France, aro kept there all the
(half lard, half butter); two. eggs;
one teaspoon soda in one-half cup
sweet milk; three cups oatmeal; one
teaspoon cinnamon; one cup chopped
raisins, and flour enough to toll. I
make them a drop cookie. Splendid,
Graham Pudding. -Ono egg; one
cup molasses; one teaspoon soda in
one-half nutmeg; two •cups Graham
flour; one cup chopped raisins floured
and. a pinch of salt. Steam one and
one-half or two hours. To be eat-
en with pudding sauce. Splendid.
Pocketbooks. -Warm '1 qt. new
Milk, add 1 cup yeast, 2 well -beaten
eggs, 4 tablespoons melted. butter,- 8
teaspoons sugar, and our sufficient
foe a moderately stiff batter; let rise
over night. In the morning stir M.
all the flour you need, as for bread,
and let rise again. Then. roll in a
sheet half an inch thick, cut in
squares, butter one' side and fold
over like a pocketbook. They will
rise in a, very short time, then bake,
and they will be pronounced delic-
cions.
Garnishing for Boiled Fish. -Mix
with 2 cups dried bread crumbs a
little salt and essence of anchovy
to tate, also a •few drops of cochi-
neal sufficient to .color crumbs. Rab
a/le:well together between hands until
crumbs are evenly dyed. Place on
a dish and 'dry in oven until crisp,
then. bottle. These sprinkled over
any boiled fish, such as cod, look
very pretty. 'Add green parsley al-
so around the fish.
'USEFUL HINTS.
A 'pretty way to trim a shirt
waist with embroidered dots scatter-
ed' Over it IS to take an occasional
dot as the center for a daisy, and
week the. petals out from it. The
daisies May be so embroidered as to
twin. a band down the front and for
cuffs,. or employed at intervals .all
over the waist.
When making the loops so much
used in place of steel eyes, draw the
silk over a match. This makes the
loop jitst right size and bolds it
firm while the buttonhole stitches
aro being worked, . .
It is• not everyone who can have
a closet lined with tar paper as • a
discourager to 'moths. Bet aImost
ssysne ass get a large packing box,
bave a lid with hinges and hasp put
de it, and then line it with tar • pa-
per.,
China silk waists, says some orm
Who lins experimented, should be
starched in. a thin. starelt and thn.
e
ironed whitn damp, In this way
that all the.se fishermen e.ee borne on.
the' naval rolls and the fishing
ground is patrolled by the warships,
whites have summary powers of in- •
quiry and puniehment. The cretve
will not venture upon anything that
looks like insubordination unless for
the. very best of causes.
I-III31,1AN LIFE IS CHEAP
on these French: bankers.; Tim death
roll of the fleet runs . into hundreds
annually, and it is asserted by the
American, Canadian and Newfound-
land bankers that the French' skip-
pers, ia many instances, will not
trouble to search for driftaway dory -
men, manifesting absolute indifference
to their fat. • •
Certain it is that. the most unsea-
worthy craft aro used in the fishery
by Min; for when vessels are con-
demned by other nationalities, they
can always be sold at St. Pierre and
are outfitted for the Banks from that
port. -The consequence is that when
the region is beset by storms the
winter, the crews being brought out losses to the French througli these
for them every spring, and taken crazy craft and their rotten gear is
back at the •
END OF TITE SEASON. grTloaitu.e, when the hurricane which de-
nte fishermen are made auxiliaries vastated Galveston in the auttimn of
for the warships. At sixteen thev 1900 ,swept up the Atlantic seaboard
are liable for service, putting in two andsspent its. last rage on the Grand.
years as beach boys at St. Pierre, to
handle the fish in the drying process,
and then three years with the traw-
ling fleet on the banks. From this
they are drafted into the navy, if
PhYSic,ally fit; if rejected, they con-
tinue at the fishery.
Every year, about the middle of
March, these marine conscripts ao-
semble at St. Marla, and after being
enrolled and inspected axe herded like
so nincle live stock aboard the trans-
ports, which convey them out to St.
Pierre to be 'dispersed among the fish-
ing vessels in which they work for
the summer.
During this period their lot is
hard. . They observe no Sabbath aud
enjoy no relaxation. From daylight
till dark and oftentimes for hours af-
ter, they toil without ceasing, sub-
ject to the capriceor brutality ok
drunken or heavy.handed skippers,
and living amid the most squalid sur-
roundings. They sleep in foul-smel-
ling, ill -lighted quarters, without san-
itation or cleanliness, sheaves of
straw their beds and salt bags their
coverlets.
Their fare is the coarsest, their rai-
ment the scantiest, their recompense
the smallest. Living as they do
amid vice and 'drunkenness, their finer
instincts are soon blunted; and unless
tliey can desert to Canada, or New-
foundland, as many do each year,
they are all soon reduced to the com-
mon ino
levelr.
No
repulsive place could be
imagined than the forecastle of a
French banker, where twenty -men
or more are gathered. Kipling, in
his "Captains Courageous," drew a
rather forbidding picture of the
Frenchmen cod fishing on the Grand
Banks, but be did not exaggerate the
REALITIES OF THE CASE:
To understand these one would
need to search the archives of the
French Ministry of Marine for por-
A SHARK OE BOARD.
Terrible Hand -to -Fin Struggle
With a Monster.
Among the incidents of shark -fight-
ing, narrated by J. F. Keane, is the
following, which occurred in it smell
bark on the holm voyage from. India.
A shark was sighted astern, and the
second mate, immediately lowered
hook for the big fish. In less than
a minute ho had secured the shark,
and with the aid of the man at the
wheel, had landed it, "a gyrating,
flourklering, somensaulting, slapping
and banging creature on the monkey
poop." -
Gratings, coils Of robe, man at thc.
wheel, second mate, and everything
not built into the ship were slashed
round in a mad jumble. The cap-
tain CaMe on deck filled witli wrath.
"I'll soon run ban for'ard!" cried
the mate, jumping down from bis
perch. on the poop. His first haul on
the rope produced an ominous snap-
ping of the shark's jaws. The next
pull brought a writhe of the body
that so Jammed the shark into the
narrow passage that the second
mate's only prospect of moving the
fish was to take hold of it bodily
and attempt to :turn it round.
Then ensued a hand -to -fin combat.
Tlie man's first attempt to carry his
antagonist bodily auoss the ropes
turned out abortive. In. les than
ten seconds the shark had dashed
him into a Mats of red paint just
laid on. rubbed him across tbe
kaoeteed hiin among the blues,
and then wiped hini all over about
ten square 'yards of the white side
of the Nouse and bulwarks, also new-
ly painted. •
A scientific attempt, to collar the
shark by the tail was met with ,a
sounding smack across the second
mate's face. Then followed a heels -
over -head splashing, 'dashing struggle
which was sustained' on both sides
with fury. At one tiine both combat- n.ccidents caused by machiner3r. used
ants anPecired to be hooked by the over the corpse, •Later it was muti- for industrial purposes, such 08 Man-
ia:WS to the aftiCe hook. !triad and thrown into the sea.: ufacturing, were due to defects in the
• ITow the man kept his leg or arm The amatent sailor, having declar- onachines and to lack of proper safe -
oat of the shark's mouth no 000 can ed I1C wOuld report this atroCious • guards, On the other hand, over 40
explain. Foot bY feet, Straining, murder to the authorities, the skipper ' per cent. of the accidents occurrieg
spring up and down. and tying
Imola in themselves, they came to-
ward the end cif the passage; and
Banks the Gloucester escaped with the..
loss of one vessel -the "Cora Se
lticKay"-and twenty-three men; the
Nova Scotian fleet, with three ves-
sels and forty-oae men, and the New,
foundland fleet with two bessele; and
twenty-two men, while the French',
fiect lost twenty-four vessels and 289
men -blotted out of existence in one
night.
• A contributive cause to this. Ilasi
of life among the French bankers is
the fact that intoxicating liguors are
carried in quantities among the stores
of these French vessels and each man
is allowed to lia,ve a dram of brandy
with every meal. In addition, they
find the liquor supply easy of access
at other times, and in their half -tipsy
state they arc .unable to handle either
the vessels or the dories, and, death
overcomes them; either in ones and
twos or in ,
WHOLE SHIP'S COMPANIES. •
Many a, mishap to 'clories of the oth-
er fleets is caused, too, by their men
boarding French ships and obtaining
spirits while away on their trawls.
On the Banks Ilse other fleets try
to keep clear of the French vessels,
for one of these in the 'vicinity is a
cantinual menace. In the suramer of
1901 a 'drunken Malottin set fire to
his vessel, then in the midet of a
score of others, and as the flames
spread. some frightened wretch cut the
cable and the burning craft 'drove
down on the other vessels, forcing
them to cut and run also, to escape
disaster.
The crew of a Newfoundland vessel
lying to windward rescued the im-
periled men -all except the one 'who
started the fire, and who, armed with
an a,xe, beat off all. who mune near
hint, and danced with glee on. what
soon became his funeral pyre.
• Frequently during storms the rot-
ten gear on a French smack gives out
and She drifts down on other vessels,
destroying their trawls, if elm does
tions of the report of a commission
not collide with .and &image then).
of inquiry into the accompaniments
Often, too, in the height of a gale,
of this fishery in 1897, suppressed 1)0 Often,
erews have to put out thole
cause of the horrible details it set
dories and, at the risk of their own
forth. Even the parts of the report
lives,' save a mob of shrieking, panic-
whieli obtained publicitY contained
stricken Frenchmen from a crazy,
such revolting facts that much more
stringent rules for ' warship inspec-
tion of the fishing fleet were promul-
gated'. In February last a revelation
leaky. stormsbeaten hull sinking un-
der their feet.
All in all, then, this French fishery
.the Grand 13anks is the nearest
of the savageries perpetrated on board °n
approach to an ocean inferno that
these fishing. craft was furnished by
the public prosecutor at St. Maio.
The skipper and the inate,- brOthers,.
were charged with the murder of two.
sa.ilors.
One of these, a Writer and traveler,
had joined the vessel for the purpose
of studying the life of the .fishermeri
and exposing horrors currently re-
ported to be pre.cticed among them.
The Skipper, learning ptirposei
persistently .persocated him during the
cruise, eventually coming his death.
Because he Tirotested against the flog-
ging of a. boy, 110 was stripped, .tied.
to a mast and .1Iegged himaelf, and
left bound and . naked on. deck fom.
hours at night in the piercing. cold.
Then. another of the • crew died of
the ill-treatment he received,. the
skipper Having torn off both his ears.
After ho. died the body was pickled in
a cask of salt, and orgies were bold
can well be imagined. Tlie whole
theory of its maintenance is that the
hurnans engaged in it have no rights,
no liberties, no title to consideration
of any sort and that' any brutality
short of anurder itself is excusable so
long as a good rettuti in cod is se-
cured.
Hence, the most 'depressing phases
of hannan , existence are witnessed
there, and the business is one Which,
in its every feature, sliocgs even the
man of ordinary feelings. Thus it
occurs that the crews of tlie other
fleets are always .ready to shelter
maimed or beaten. IPrenchman who
rows to them fOr shelter.
DANGER OF MACHINERY.
Statistics collected n ei'many
have shown that 25 per cent, of the
and the met 0 threw him overboard. with gr cu I t l mach i pry Were,
He wee rescued by epme of the sai- traceable to those causes. Accord-
lors, but e few days later' was ingly, there- is a Call for. the use of
when at last they reached the open I tacked by the mate and his skull was bripeoved safety devices upon all
1
inaehines used 'pa the term, Feede
deck the.ole had become alinoet in- crushed in .
INTITT' A BELANTING PIN. . cutting inachiaciry is found to be
• particularly liable to etritee taeldente,
distinguishable from the Other, so
siolile.rly and completely W'' they A 1 as again flogged by the id stial tna' r't • Of ih Is in. -
We heard the other day of a tvo- blnations and shades of the various. joirod Inam
they look OA they did when new. besmirched and besmeared with corn- skippor
eno the lawn: was left Mr.ed by agricultural. Machines are
for attetnpting to attend the • ,
Man Who ' cut up a tablecloth to colors among which .they had tvallows to die ott .deck, He expired 111 a foe • ..
children and youths,
hours. The- skipper had the body
hoisted to the. Masthead for tatenty-
low hours before casting it Sato the
make herself- a shirt wa.ist. Her feat ed and fought. .
• Horrified Mother -"T just this
A schoolmaster inquired of one of minate saw Mr. NicefelloWe arni
on paying that thousand pounds, what wag the ea-, tea wega fop t,eate.,0 1 .
osean, as a warning to the otre• arvand your wabsis !EL 8 Terreetbr
inn Is who mi id le tem it 1 t s "
miss in ss , ,and Tom F,4e3hUry hiShited his pupils on t cold day in winter
0 s• ) .i et o imr.n. .... ,
aWfttl.", stepentent isaughttor s-
and would i able no denial'? . : "1 can't remember it at the moms ss-i-s'cr, . "x -e -s, another, but it Would ble • a
As to Tont Selbury,. he married the , ea," replied the bo', "but r have '" --11".
"buttercup," -London Answerts - 'it at my fingers' ends."- around seine other girl's WalSt.",
good deal More awful to. $ee his. srus
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The dead man's relative •seetwod in- .
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