A Successful Clew By SARAH LAXTER L An ocean Mourner wus going to piece« on the eastern coast of Canada. She had struck during a storm and too far out for u line to he shot to her by the men o f the life saving station. And now that the storm wus abating and there was a possibility of a boat reach­ ing her it was too late. Persons were struggling in the water, but few were reaching the shore. The life savers suc­ ceeded, after a number of futile at­ tempts, in iauncbiug u boat and mak­ ing a trip toward the wreck and at lust brought hack several persons, among whom was a little boy about five years old, who had been secured to an improvised raft. The child's identity was never dis­ covered. lie was adopted by a family of country people living on the coast, and when eighteen years old shipped on a steamer as deckhand. But he had some education, and it was not long before he was made a subordinate offi­ cer. The steamer on which he was wrecked was called the Alexander Hamilton, and the boy took this for Ids name, lie knew nothing of the great statesman o f tliut name, there­ fore Ids act was not Immodest It was evident front young Ilninil ton’s personality that he was a child of aristocratic Ifcicage. Those who knew how he lmd been picked up from the wreck wondered why those connected with him by blood had not found him. Before going to sen he had been ad­ vised to hunt up his origin, but more than a dozea years bad elapsed since lie laid been brought ashore, and lie knew not where to begin. The young man's idea o f going to sea was that lie hoped for an oppor­ tunity to visit points o f interest in different countries. When lie drew Ids pay lie would invariably use It for tills purpose. During a voyage ills ship re­ nin hied some time at Tangier, opposite (Jibraltar, unloading and taking in Arab goods. Hamilton obtained leave to visit Seville in Spain. H aving ar­ tistic tastes, lie visited a gallery con tabling some pictures, works o f the old masters. Stopping before a Mu donna and child by Murillo, he stood looking at It. a feeling growing up within him that lie had seen it before. Presently lie felt assured that lie had not only seen it. but that it had been very near to him. The face o f the Madonna was associated In his mind with some loved memory. "It may be.” lie said to himself, “ that the picture is a key to my childhood." If this were so it might lie possible for him to find the look. An object had come to the young man. The clreuiustiinces attending ills having been taken bv shipwreck from his natural surroundings had east a gloom over him. Now he brightened up and resolved ttint he would follow the elew on detective principles and never give tip the search so long as there was n ray o f hope. Sitting on a bench before the picture, lie gave him­ self up to a mental investigation. Tilts was the result: Either his parents had brought him to Seville, where lie had seen the picture, or he had somewhere seen a copy o f it. He went to every hotel in the city, got -|Hwmlk.?Uui.-lu Took at the records previous to tin* time o f the shipwreck and asked every landlord whether lie remembered lien ring o f any one who had boon at Ids house being lost on the steamer from which lie had boon saved. But this investigation lev I to no result. He next turned his attention to the matter o f any copy that might have been made o f the picture. A fter much questioning lie found that but oue copy had ever L'*eu made and that was for a bishop of the Homan Catholic church. Hamilton discovered who the bishop was and went to the episcopal palace. The bishop was dead, but u priest told the searcher that the copy was intend­ ed for a rich Englishman, who as a price for it gave a large sum to the church. Hamilton s next move was to learn the nume o f the Englishman. The priest examined papers back for more than twenty years und found letters written eighteen years before from the man for whom the copy had been rnude, one letter giving directions as to where it was t" lie sent. The name was John N. Boyington, ---- Harley street, Loudon. Hamilton had money enough to take him to London, but no more. He de­ cided to make the journey, and if he discovered no relative he would ship on some vessel bound for America. On Touching London he found that John Boyington had been an eminent sur­ geon, but was now an old man and re­ tired. The sailor went to his residence, was ushered into the drawing room, ind there on the wall hung the copy * f the Murillo “ Madonna and Child.” When Dr. Boyington came down to see him aud Hamilton told his story the old man sat sileut for a time, then snid: “ I believe that you are my grandson Your father married an American lady, and a son was born in this house That picture was placed in my daugh­ ter-in-law’s room shortly before you were born that the mother might have a fitting object before her. When the boy was four years old my son aud his w ife visited America. They were lost on the return voyage on a ship called the Alexander Hamilton.” “ That was the ship from which 1 was saved." Hamilton, or rather Boyington, is now a wealthy Londoner. Two Kinds of Emulsiono. Milk and butter are both emulsions. Professor F. G. Don nan of University college, London, defines an emulsion as a distribution o f one liquid In another. 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