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Stljc men, Nctu Blaomftclir, Ja.
THE SAILOR'S STOltY.
WK had a very good crow on tho Livo
ly Sally, and then was no prettier
fellow over walked a deck than Dob Small,
who was a sailor from a lovo of tho pro
fession, and who had run nway from his
homo in New-Hampshire three years before,
from which ho had not heard a word since,
and which ho had resolved to return to af
ter tho picsent voyage, IIo was in my
watch, and often, under tho lee of tho long
boat, ho would open his heart to mo regard
ing his hope nnd fears.
Wo were, ono night, walking tho deck in
tho moonlight; the sea just moved to a rip
plo beneath tho tropical air, when he
caught my arm suddenly, and cried:
" Look there 1"
" Where?" I asked.
"There," said he, " in tho wnke of tho
moon. Don't you soo?"
There, sura enough, swam an immense
shark, just above the water, within a boat's
length of us, and wo felt that his evil cyo
rested upon us as we stood there gazing on
him. I felt a senso of uneasiness as I
saw the monster so near us, and thcro was
sensible tremor in Hob, as his hand rested
on his arm.
" Jack," said he impressively, "that chap
is after mo. I can read my fate in every
ripple of the water as it plays around him,
a id I know very well that ho will be my
tmb."
"Nonsense," I said; "what is tho use of
indulging in such a feeling as that? It is
no unusual thing to seea shark, and what
if every sailor should take it into bis head
that wo was to bo eaton, do you think he
would be?"
"You seo that, Jack," said ho; "he
knows what wo are talking about, and it's
a settled thing. His mind is made up to
have a pick at me, and he will do it."
" Why do you believe so?" I asked.
" Oh," ho said, " I hava been too happy.
These joyful anticipations of seeing home
again, and getting the forgiveness of tho
old folks, if they are alive, and seeing my
little sister My ra, have filled me full. Jack,"
he continued, turning around and looking
me square in the face, " do you believe that
a man who disrespected his father so much
as to shut him down the cellar and run
away, has a right to anticipate happiness?
I serve i mine so, See that shark; he seems
to bo laughing at what I say, the infernal
beast, if I may be allowed the expression."
I comforted him by telling him he had no
reason for his gloomy fears, but he mourn
fully shook his head. The calling of the
" larboard watch" interrupted our conver
sation, and we turned in. 1 laid awake
but a little while, and could hear Bob sigh
deeply as he lay in his berth.
The next day the shark was not visible,
but night found us again looking over the
loe rail, and, as before, tight in the wake
of the ship, was the huge llsh swimming
along with his fin out of the water, a boat's
length from us.
"lie's after me," said Bob in a whisper.
"Nonsense," I replied; "he's after mo
as much as you."
That night Bob turned in his berth, and
hia sighs wore piteous. He looked so hag
gard and worn the next morning, that Mr.
Goodeuough, the mate noticed it.
"Ah Bob," said he, " what's the matter.
You look like a sick man."
Bob simply replied that he did not feel
well, and turned his attention to his du
ties. "Time's most up, Jack," said he in a
whisper; " and look there I"
Sure enough, there,' scarcely a boat's
length from the brig, was seen the ominous
tin, the black flag of the buccaneer of the
tinny tribe, and I was for a moment shock
ed. " This can't last another day," said he
seising the rail; "and you believe it; I see
you tremble. You must go up and see the
old folks, Jack, and tell 'em how patient I
iliod, and that my lifo was not thrown away,
though I was a runaway. Give them my
'.best and give little My rathe sea elephant's
tooth, with the carving upon it, to keep as
a memento, nnd Hoaven bless you, Jack."
The poor fellow wept like a child.
Tho whole crew were now attracted along
tho vessel's sido, to see the great fish that
was so desirous of our company, and vari
ous were the comments made upon it, none
of which were of the sombre character of
loor Bob's though they all looked upon it
with a feeling of dread.
Oar cook finally soemud to arrive at a
very decisive, though comical, conclusion.
He darted into his caboose, from which be
reappeared again in a few moments with
something rolled up in an old red shirt,
that seemed to Bend out a steam.
"What have you got there?" asked tho
mate. '
"Brokfus for shark, sir!" was the reply,
with an expressive grin. '
He said no more, but 1 threw his bundlo
far out into the water, before tbo nose of
shark, which, waking from his suplneness,
darted forward, and immediately swallowed
Uie object. For an Instant the monster re
sumed his place alongside the brig, but
this was succeeded by an evident feeling of
uneasiness, and a moment after he leaped
his length from the water, fulling upon the
surface with a crush that sent the spray
Hying in our foreyard. Then he swam fu
riously in a wldo circle about the vosscl,
leaping occasionally from the wator, and
turning upon his back. Soon' his motions
ceased; and, rolling over, ho lay a silent
mass upon the water.
"Golly?" said Curacoa, "ho got his
brokfus, shur. Hot brick wurmoo tnm
mak." " Did you give him a hot brick?" said
Mr. Goodenough.
"Yob, massa," said blackoy with a grin,
"and guess ho don't 'grco wid 'cm."
Thoro was a laugh at tho cook's cxpori
mcnt, and turning to speak to Hob, I found
ho had loft my side.
"Where's Bob?" I asked.
" D'on't know. I saw him here a minute
ago."
I went around to tho other sido of the
boat. Ho was not there. Wo called him
and searched for him, hut he was not to bo
found. Then it scorned sure enough that
poor Bob's misgiving had been verified, and
I mourned his loss, thinking of my own
melancholy mission into Now Hampshire
to inform his weeping friends of tho loss.
It in fact cast a gloom over all tho vessel,
and wo could never understand how ho dis
appeared so suddenly, supposing, however,
that his mind, becoming morbid, had lost
Its balance, and ho had leaped overboard
while wo wero absorbed by tho cook's ad
venture with tho shark.
Tho vessel arrived in about eight days ;
and after I had got clear of her, I set about
the performance of tho duty that had been
charged upon me by Bob. I had embarked
for New Hampshire, having stowed Bob's
chest in the baggage-car, and thought all
the way, what I should say to the mourning
friends. It was something that I was not
accustomed to, and I went on tho voyage
with much misgiving.
I stopped at tho pretty little station of
Sprucoburg, among tho hills, at which a
coach was waiting to carry passengers to
Itimmer, a town some four miles distant,
which was the place of my destination.
Upon this coach Bob's chest was hoisted,
but when I attempted to entor I found it
full, and the driver's seat was also occupied
by two besides himself. I therefore look
ed for some other means of conveyance.
The depot master proved my friend, and
after a few moments informed me that a
young lady from Iiimmer was in town with
a wagon, and would return alone in a short
time, and that she would be happy to ac
commodate him with a seat. So I gave
directions that the chest should be left at
the hotel, as I was informed that there was
one, in order that Bob's friends might not
see it, and waited for my fair companion.
The wagon was pointed out to me, and
the young lady soon came along, to whom
I Introduced myself, and helping her in, I
sat beside her; she insisted upon driving,
of which I was very glad, as I was more
familiar with a hawser than a horse. She
was exceedingly pretty, about seventeen
years old, and was in all respects interesting
being one of those bright and sparkling
little fairies that are continual surprises to
those who are predisposed to believe that
all country productions of the kind are awk
ward and disagreeable ; one of which,
however, I was not. I found her chatty
and pleasant, full of piquant remarks, in
which sho did not spare me, and 1 was per
fectly delighted with her. . The ooaversa
tion at last turned on Rimmer. .
" Do you reside there ?" I asked.
" Yes."
"Then of course, you are acquainted with
all the people there. Do you know a family
by tho name of Small?"
"Oh yes, very well."
" Is the name of one of its members
Myra?"
" Yes, Myra Small and myself are very
intimate ; we sing in the choir."
"She had a brother?"
"Yes; Bob Small. He was a wild fellow
and went to sea, a year ago."
" Have they mourned him ?"
" No, not much; he locked his father in
a cellar when he went away, and this rather
set him against him."
"Well, I havo sad news for them. I
have just returned from a voyage with hlin,
and he was lost at sea,"
"Bad news indeed that will be. But he
will never shut the old man down in the
collar again ; nor torment poor Myra, will
he?"
" No, but he thought of her at the last,
poor fellow, and I have a parting gift for
her, from him.
1 inquired about the old folks, and about
Myra, and the conversation lasted until we
arrived at the hotel, where she was to put
me down, which I chose rather than to go
te the house of Bob at once. I waited until
evening before I went on my melancholy
errand. . It was a fair day in September,
the air was beginning to grow a little chilly
and I walked very slowly, almost reluct
antly, ' to an encounter that I very much
dreaded. My duty to Bob alone sustained
me lu the effort.
'. The homestead was a substantial funn
bouse, with a lano loading up to it, and
turulng Into which I proceeded on my er
rand, my heart beating a loud alarm on my
ribs. . The wiudows wore all ablaxe with
light, aud a strain of musio floated to me,
from the house, auguring a scene of hap
piness and peace within, that I, fiend like,
was going to interrupt. Should I go on?
Yes, duty to Bob Impelled me.
I approached, and rapped upon tliu
door. All was still and nobody enmo. I
rapped again, and fanclod I beard iu re
sponse a titter on tho insldo. This time,
however, there was tho turning of a key
or removing a bolt nnd the door swung
opon, and thcro, in tho light of two blazing
lamps hold iu tho hands of my fairy of the
wagon, who "sang in tho choir with Myra
Small," stood my old shipmato Bob in ap
parently excellent condition, nnd an ex
pression on his faco altogether unlike
that which any ghost wears that I pver
heard of I . .
"Bob Small, by all that's rascally 1"
snid I, for a moment regretting that he
w as not in tho bottom of tho soa.
" Yes, Jack," said ho, after I had enter
ed, " the very samo I hid away in tho run
on board the brig, ashamed of my wild
prognostic whon tho cook killed tho shark,
and I determined that even you should not
see me till you saw mo here, as I knew you
would, because I know you would comply
with my dying request. So Myra has been
down to the depot every day for a weok to
watch for tho big chest, nnd tho fellow
along with it, thanking her stars to-day at
tho fortune which gave you her company,
81 To knew you from my description and tho
chost."
"Well, Bob," I said, "I supposo I ought
to rejoice that you are alive, though hang
mo if I would undergo so much disquio
tudo on nny account again. Ami Miss
Myra must accept my apology for not re
cognizing her by instinct."
Then the old folks came in, and we had a
good time all around ; tho old gentleman
informing me of tho trick put upon him in
shutting him down cellar, which ho
seemed to relish, as lie recalled it, and tho
old lady looked as pleasant as an October
evening, whilo Myra beamed ineffably on
all.
Perhaps I ought to finish my story by
falling in lovo with Myra and marrying her,
but I found no chance for that, because
she had a geod-looking printer who was
booked for her good graces, though sho
liked me as tho friend of Bob ; and I gave
the elephant's tooth, which, years after, I
saw her youngest baby cutting its teeth
upon.
Bob is now ono of the most successful
shipmasters out of New York, and I am
tho reader's very humblo servant.
Humbugs Exposed.
The Davenport Brothers lately gave
some of their psychic exhibitions at Ithaca,
N. Y.,but their tricks were sadly disarrang
ed by some of tbo Correll Univeisity fellows
A private letter tells us that some of tho
students, having a scientific turn of mind,
provided, themselves beforehand with phy
rotechnio balls containing phosphorus,
so made as to ignite suddenly with
a bright light. During the dark . uaneei,
whon the Davenports purport to bo, and as
the audience supposed were, bound hand
and foot within their closet or cabinet, and
when the guitar was floating in the air and
playing musically around, the ' aforesaid
students struck their lights all of a sudden,
when the "spirits" wore found to be no
other than . the Davenports themselves,
who were dodging about the stage, brand
ishing the guitar, and playing the tunos.
The music suddenly ceased, the committee
declared tho performance a humbug, and
the players departod from Ithaca by the
earliest train.
tW Some time ago a man in Sussex
county, Delaware, died suddenly and mys
teriously ; and a jury was summoned by the
eoronor for the purpose of holding an in
quest. No light was obtained upon the
the subject until one of the friends of tho
doccased testified that he had "Indulged
lu R great many idiosyncrasies, and that he
never saw a man whose head seemed to be
so full of chimeras." Each of the jurymen
drew a long breath and said to his neigbor
that it was all plain enough now. A man
afflicted in this manner couldn't reason
ably be expected to live more than an hour
or two. So the doctors attacked the corps,
and searched around among its internal
economy to ascertain whether the chhnoras
had burst or not ; and presented to the
jury a report decorated with so much Latin
that the foreman's hair stood on end, and
the other jurymen insisted upon bringing
in a verdict of "death from too liberal in
dulgence in strong drinks, which produced
chimeras on the bruin," as a warning to
the youth of the country to cling to the
beverage of their forefathers. Is it any
wonder that such people as theso send a
man named Biggs to Congress ?
HTTwo men own nearly theo millions
acres of land in the San Joaquin valley; the
traveler may ride 45 miles in a line upon it,
and may follow a fence around a single
pasture for 05 miles; while one other man
monopolizes 850,000 acres.
tW A maid hearing un old bachelor ex
claim ' A lass !' Immediately replied by say
ing Ah Men I '
CST What Is it that bus throe feet and
cannot walk, sixteen nails and cannot
scratch. "A Yard stick."
RXKIMA IIKPAHTMKNTi
Answer to problem of last week as teut In by
a friend Is as followst " lie gut the ludy out
by angling," Unit li be placed one plank scroti
the angle of the outer wall and from that plank
plsced tlio other to the angle of the Innor wall.
SUNDAY BEADING.
; J ( an yon Afford It f .1
Can you afford to smoke and chew tobac
co, thus spending from three to thirty dol
lars a month, and injuring your nervous
system, nnd perverting your whole consti
tution, nnd thoreby transmitting to chil
dren a weakened constitution, thus making
them puny invalids for life ?
Can you afford to burn out your nervous
system and dcmoralir.o your whole charac
ter by tho uso of alcoholic liquors?
Can you afford to indulge in habits of
speculation, gambling, and other tricky
nnd mean modes of making money?
Cau you afford to make money tit tho cx
penso of your manhood, your morals, your
health, your just respectability, and your
Integrity ?
Can you afford to gain even tho whole
world and thereby make of yourself a mor
al wreck ?
Can you all'ord, for tho sake of momenta
ry amusement, to wasto your youthful pre
paratory years, when by study you should
bcoomo a scholar, or by industry either a
tradesman or a useful artizan ?
Cam you afford to rob your mind to
clothe your back with silks and satins, and
gratify a mere lovo for display ?
Can you afford to bo tricky nnd thereby
defraud your employer of the just services
you owo him, even though you do get your
pay, thus making yourself a moral bank
rupt ?
Can you afford to bo otherwise than up
right, truthful, faithful, temperate, courte
ous, and in all respects correct ?
The Earlier, the Easier.
An old man ono day took a child on his
knee, and talked to him about Jesus, and
told him to seek the Saviour now, nnd pray
to him, and love him. The child knew
that the old man himself was not a Chris
tian, and felt surprised. Then he looked
up Into the old man's face, nnd said: " But
why don't you seek God ?"
The old man was affected by the question,
and replied, "Ah, my dear child, I neglec
ted to do so when I was young, and now
my heart is so hard that I fear I shall never
be ablo."
Ah, my readers, believe him 1 "To-day
if yo will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts." It will be more difficult to hear
to-morrow. And weeks, and months, and
years hence, even could you be sure of them,
how high and strong a barrier will gradual
ly be rising between you and Christ 1 They
that seek mo early shall And me."
tW I once heard a minister say ; Sup
poso some cold morning you should go into
a neighbor's house, and find him busy at
work on his windows scratching away, and
ask him what he was up to, and he should
reply: " Why, I am trying to remove the
frost; but as fast as I get it off one square
it comes on another;" would you not say,
" Why, man, let your windows alone and
kindlo your fire and the frost will soon
come off?" And have you not seen people
who try to break off their bad habits one
after another without avail ? Well, they
are like the man who tried to scratoh the
frost from his window. Let the fire of leve
to God and man, kindled at the altar of
prayer, burn in their hearts and tho bad
habits will soon melt away.
HP A Connecticut clergyman recently
announced from the pulpit that he had
beard a man say that ho had read the
Bible through in 00 hours. Determined
to ascertain whether the individual told
the truth, he set about it himself, aud read
the whole of it aloud to his wifo in 159
hours and something over 80 minutes. He
read sometimes an hour nnd sometimes two
hours a day, keeping the exact time, with
the result indicated.
The Way or the World.
Wo were traveling through Canada, says a
correspondent, in the year 1883, and after a
hard day's ride, stopped at Lion Inn, and
the contents of tho stage (number about
nine persons), soon gathered around the
cheerful fire. Among the occupants of the
room we observed 'an ill-looking cur, who
had shown his wit by taking up his quar
ters iu so comfortable an apartment. '
; After a few moments the landlord enter
ed, and observing the specimen of the ou
tline species, remarked:
" Fine dog that I Is he yours, sir?" ap
proaching one of the passengers.
' No, sir."
"Beautiful dog! Yours, sir?" addressing
himself to another.
" No," was the blunt reply.
" Come here, pupl Perhaps be Is yours,
sir?" '
" No," was the reply.
"Very sagacious animal. Belongs to
you, I suppose, sir?"
"No, he doesn't," was the answer.
" Then he's yours, aud you havo a treas
ure," throwing tho animal a crackor.
"Nothing of tho kind."
"Oh! (with a smile) ho lathings to you as
a matter of 'course?" addressing the last
passenger.
" Wouldn't have him as a gift."
' "Then you infernal, diity, mean con
temptible whelp, git out?" and with that
the liost gave the poor dog such a kick ns
sent the animal yelling into tho streets
amid the roars of tho company.
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THE CAUSE All CUUB OF .
CON HU M 1? T I O N !
rpnE primary cause of Consumption is de
L rangemcnt of the digestive organs. This
derangement produces deficient nutrition nnd
assimilation. By assimilation, I mean that
prscess by which the nutriment of the food Is
converted Into blood, and thence Into the solids
of the body. Persons with digestion thus Im
paired, having the slightest predisposition to
pulmonnry discaBo, or If they take cold, will be
very liable to have Consumption of the Lttngs
in tome of its forms and I bold that It will be
Impossible to cure any case of Consumption
without first restoring a good digestion and
healthy assimilation. The very first thing to
lo done Is to clcanso the stomach aud bowols
from all diseased mucus nnd slime, which Is
clogging theso organs se that they caunot per
form their functions, and then rouse up and
restore the liver to a healthy action. For this
purpose the surcBt nnd best remedy Is Schcnck'it
Mnudrake Pills. These Pills clean the stom
ach nnd bowels of all tho dead and morbid
slime that Is caiHng disease and decay In the
whole system. They will clear out the liver of
an diseased nun that lias accumulated there,
and rouse it up to a new and healthy action, by
which natural aud hcaliby bile Is secreted.
The stomach, bowels, and llvor sro thus
cleuused by tho use of Schenck's Mandrake
Fills ; but there remains In the stomach an ex
cess of acid, tho organ is torpid and the appe
tite poor. In ths bowels the lucteals are weak,
and requiring strength and support. It Is in a
condition like this that Schenck's Seaweed
Tonic proves to be the most valuable remedy
ever discovered, ft Is alkaline, and Its nse
will neutralize all excess of ucld, making the
stomach sweet nnd fresh i It will give perma
nent tone to this Important organ, and crcute a
good, hearty appetite, and prepare the system
lor the first proccBB of good digestion, and, ul
timately muke good, healthy, living blood
After this preparatory trcutinent,whut remains
to cure most cuse of Consumption Is the free
nnd pcrseverclng use of Schcnk's Pulmonic
Syrup. The Pulmonic Syrup nourishes the
system, purifles the blood, and is readily ab
sorbed Into the circulation, and thence distrib
uted to the diseased lungs. There it ripens all
morbid mutters, whether in the form of absces
ses or tubercles, and then assists Nature to ex
pel all the diseased matter, in the form of fret
expectoration, when once It ripens. It is then
by the great healing and puryfying properties
of Schenk's Pulmonic Syrup, that all ulcers
and cavities are healed up sound, and my pa
tient is cured.
Tho essential thing to be done in curing Con
sumption is to get up a good appetite and a
good digestion, so that the body will grow In
flcBh aud get strong. If a person has diseased
lungs a cavity or abscess there rue cavity
cannot heal, the matter cannot ripen te long ss
the system it below par. What It necessary te
cure Is a new order of things a gosd appe
tite, a good nutrition, the body to grow In Uosh
and get fut; then Nuture Is helped, the cavities
will heal, the matter will ripen and ba thrown
off In large quuntles, and ths penon will regain
health and tturength. This is the true and on
ly plan to cure Consumption, and If a person
It not entirely destroyed, or even If one lung is
entirely gone, If there Is enough vitality left lo
the other to heal up, thsre Is hope.
I have seen many persons cured with only
on tound lung, live and enjoy life to a good
old age. This Is what Schenck's Medicines
will do to cure Consumption. Tbey will cleaa
out the ttomach, sweeten and strengthen It, get
up a good digestion, and give Nature the sys
tem of all the diseases the needs to clear the
system of all the diteate that is in the lungs,
whatever the form may be.
It is important that while using Schenck's
Medicines, care should be exercised not to take
cold i keep In-doors In cold and damp weather i
avoid night air, and take out-door exercise only
in a genial and warm sunshine.
I wish It distinctly understood ihet when I
recommend a patient to be careful In regard to
taking cold, while nslug my Medicines, I do se
for a special reaton. A. man who has but par
tially recovered from the eU'cctt of a bad cold Is
far more liable to a relapse than one who has
been entirely cured and It Is precisely the tame
in regard to Consumption. So long at the lungs
are not perfectly healed, just to long It there
Imminent dsugor of a full return of the disease.
Hence It Is that I to strenuously caution pul
monary patients sgainst exposing themselves
loan atmosphere that Is not genial and pleas
ant. Confirmed Contnmptlves' lungs are
mass of sores, which the least change of at
mosphere will Inflame. The grand secret of my
success with my Medicines consists in my abil
ity to tnbdue inflammation instead of provok
ing It, as many of the faculty do. An Inflamed
lung cannot, with safety to the patient, be ex
posed to the biting blasts of Winter or thechlll.
lug winds of Spring or Autumn. It should be
carefully shielded from all Irritating lnfluuces.
Ths utmost caution should be observed In this
particular, as without It a cure nnder almost
any circumstances Is an Impossibility.
The person should be kept on wholesome and
nutritions diet, and all the Medicines continued
uutll the body has restored to It the natural
quantity of flesh and strength.
I was myself cured by this treatment of the
worst kind of Consumption, and have lived te
get fut and hearty these many years, with one
lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands
since, and very many have been cured by this
treatment whom 1 have never seen.
About the First of October I expect to take
possession of my nrw building, at the North
east Corner of Sixth snd Arch Streets, whert I
shall be pleased to give advice to all who may
require it.
. Full directions accompany all my Remedies,
to that a person In auy part of the world can
be readily cured by a strict observance of the
tame. J. II. 8CHENCK, M. D.,
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This well known and pleasantly located hotel
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enl proprietor. soil he will spur no pains to ancom
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I lie table well furnished with the best in Ihn inur
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A good livery "table will m kept by the proprietor.
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