A NIGHT AT SEA. Just off the ¢ astof New Hampshire piae miles out at sea from the charm- ing sleepy old town of Portsmouth, the Isles of Shoals lift their grand, storm-beaten granite ledges alike in elear and cloudy weather, enduring with unmoved serenity all the changes of calm aud tempest. Io winter the snow mantles the only too well gray rocks with the purest white, ai d they lie there, eight white spots in the | dull, gray winter sea, under a gray winter sky. Then they are deso late indeed cut off from the great, busy world around even from one ossed waves that beat upon | storm- their rock-hound coasts as they have of the anxious] women who stand beaten for ages, But in summer, when the had his way and boand ledges, and warmed up each | prove too strong for the cabes, little crevice and nook, then the stern | destru tion is sure, as granite breaks forth into a smile of | flowers and tender green. Wherever a handful oF earth—a pinch there shines gome ULeX pe i beauty. And best of it is, that when they have once started the island flowers don’t know | can find a lodging place, even-— | 8 | | | the richt on in glad, hearty fashion, til] | winter ends the show with his sharp They eount of seasons and the The e rocks, the sal d 1 rod and aster, in utter breath, make no ac and cruel ha fashions of | their inland sisters. ild rose runs rioting over th deli hobnobbing in with shy ht in t sea air, easy good fellowship with the golde: ignorance that her pale faced sisters | of the main land are dust Ago and ashes, and that she ghe cared at all to Down in the narrow cl sea washes in, ¢ grow the most brilliant lovely with br sht brown and and crimson tin Bat weather on and my st calm comin On a 8! ¥ & Man into the athe gatn sea-faring cl calling. Over in had been pili ing, and the that eve ry Dan Ri gull” est high keen and w and rapidly thickeni the *Seagull’ at her cables. } as 3 the into heed that swept across ther the waves into a fury, the wind grew str h nger ea and huge drops of rain cams beforeit. A small hand slipped un der his arm, 4] gaw the Are the Dan threw one arm round lithe of the girl ho clung close to him as struck them, threatening th sturdy fisherman of Seagull come in, Dan boats all in?” the tall, form a fierce blast to carry even his feet. girl gathered her shawl her head, roared and shrieked, asif al as the wind h wled ad | the fiends of the air had been turned loose to the of The dashing waves lifted their work destruction. raving y crests of foam and hurled themselves against the granite clifts with an ever increas ffury. ander and through all ing avalanche ¢ And over and the roar and i of thun “Hog afternoon, rush came a dull ne der, girl land was cryin The shuddered and or a (Girans says storm, there's poling 10 be ight Are the hoat ‘W hy d Is father in v that was turned to all in?’ sharply. Dan ? The the fisherman was vy girlish face ung and pretty, though browned and freckled with the i sun and wind, but there was a strained anxious look in the clear, gray eyes, and lines of eare too deeply indented in her forehead to be accounted for by the trouble of the moment. And was there not caunse? she not a fisherman's fisherman's sweetheart? Was | apon the shore and strain eyes and | dex ) upon the shore. | desol groups Ip ] he ore thawed out the ice the strain of wind and wave may | | whitehaired and old be blushing | winged schooners that fly { them in Star island may rest lb ' Dan up for | “ gull, L and, |. | hearts too, watching for a father and brother, sweetheart, husband and son, und to pray that the white sails, which come flying in before the dreaded | northeaster may reach the little har- bor before the waves run too high tor them to enter—that is the common Jot of the women of Star Island Poor wives and mothers! they know what it is to watch the an- [swaying masts of the schooners | chored under the lee of the island dull | when the waves form an impassable | barrier to the safe shelter of the cove. Tossed by the rough cea, cold, | them, sometimes | hungry and sleepless, the men ride another by the wild [out the storm, while the night blots out the slender masts from the sight | in| They | sun has | cannot tell from hour to hour whether not then | the treacher New coast bear ample evidence, ous rocks of the Hampshire The women cry out in despair and wring their hands, and the wind roars | and drowns their cries, and the rain | drives them in doors watch and | pray till day comes and shows them when to stop blooming, and keep | th their treasures. No wonder they are fore their time i) the terror of the } oceall 18 always fore them. the love their boats, their graceful white and they But the men love BOA, rippling, sunlit waves, tough it out” in storms, and brin: “fare o their daily But to-night the pe AC ats are all riding safel: Dan turned from watching “I don’t erate drawl know,” he said with Yankes sherman, “wher orn She's A pretty she won't never ride her, {short.” “O Dan wR Nabby ea hal hurric ane, and and whirled it away f 1s blown over ys a dead lea e hor plains ror-striken people who rushed tages, an sheltered ue In wt as he was so beyond their sight. | bors drew the sol The closer round | { ab | that he e | to billow { with every wave—tossed from Two or three Nabby them, and the storm drove their bh that Dan's The pretty lot AWAY even » men to the shelter of mes all the sod pe Fhuys n th ner lived up ion of Nabby Varney's cast family » main land, attract ¢ had led him to his in with the Shoalers. What over that whirling and tossing sea, he | himself up lost, Still a strong man will struggle for life even And and roar and terror f Dan? Driven and tossed gave for when the struggle is hopele 9, ve the tumult yanded even in his ears a cry, and that ery nerved him to efforts, when failed, Deen th and courage his they ars had rn ir If he had been useless, m had them uld have Alone in a tle hoat { to the task angry #ea, he set no easy the or oer tain one-—of keeping dory afloat and right side up, Tying himself ype that was aboard so he he night, whereedrenched billow lured and bailed, The blackest night ends at last with a loose r tossed It terrible auld not he out bailed for dear lite was all could do. All driv knew that en not he en in! , corning, snd to the involuntary voy- daughter and a | ager the sun came up, and the wind | To stand | went down and there before him the | early sunlight was gilding the steeples of his native town of York, the coast of Maine, Dan Ricker, drenched and haggard walked into his father’s house in time for breakfast, on Hungry ? The Ricker family just stood around with open and empty mouths, while the mother piled Dan's and again, The home folks devoured his tale that day, ana Dan made away with the breakfast, This world fares on in a prosaic fashion after all, and people the The train rolling through York way of the world. morning | took Deu, dressed in dry clothesand show [ig no signs of this terrible experience, | and dropped him at the station | Portsmouth, going out on the morning trip with the dally crowd of excursionists land ed him at Star by dinner time. Somehow real life is not so roman tic as the story te ller would have us to believe. It would be more “artis ie” to overturn the dory, and Nabby’s heart, and de pict a heartrend Ing scene when a ghastly Corpse was There s to such Nabby, strong to kill washed upon the beach. were two strong obj finis, lithe, and A ot ‘ LS S19 | Sunburnt and was far Loo tough easily, strange as it may seem, the true end ing really pleased her She was very well | Dan strode into het iather 8s followed the Dy at command | hieaj HSILY ACCOUNTED FOR The ancress of Hangh's $25 Phosphate as anexcellent crop producer and permanent improver of the soll, is easiiy accounted for It is made of the bones of animals, and with apecial regard to a general adaptae bility ax an plant food.” Every particle of which hanes are come posed, Is an direct food of vegetables, We render thin food Immediately available hh fie $25 PHOSPHATE Which we claim to he a very special ad. vantage, as it gives the crop an early start and sustains It anti! fully matured, be. sides permanently Improving the soil, Monexa Pa Jan Jet, 189 woughly tested BAI GH'S 825 ode with ot yer makes cont * Having th PHOSPEIAT FE, nde by ing £5 and $40 per ton an satisfied thet Haugh's is the best for first evap as well os permanent reslta I had better wheat and cul more grass for two pears where | used Lhe B25 Phosphate, 1 will ase no other kind and advise all farmers to buy Maugh's 2h Phosphate and see results for themes eos in heir ows ground. 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