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THE IRON PIRATE A "Plain Tate of Strange Happenings on -the Sea By MAX - CHAPTnit VI. , We caught the first train to London, When I cot to a hotel I wrote two letters. One was to the Admiralty, the other to the office of the Black Anchor Line of American Steamships. I told Roderick what I had done, hut ho laughed at the Idea. The next day I found myself stand log In a meagerly furnished nnte-room at the Admiralty, and there waiting the pleasure, of one of the clerks, who had ben deputed to talk with me. "If there Is any responsible person here," I said. "I should be glad to Impart to him some very curious, and, as It seems to me, very remarkable Information con ccrnlng a warship which has just left Spexla, and is supposed to be the property or the Rrasilian government." "It's very good of you. don't you know.' he replied, as he bent down to arrange his ample trousers: "but I fancy we heard something about her last week, so we wont trouble you, don t you know ;" and be felt to see if his bow were straight. Within half an hour I sat In the pri vate room ot the secretary to the Black Anchor Steamship Company. He was a sharp man of business, kcen-vlsaged as a ferret. I told him shortly that I had reason to doubt tho truth of the statement that a warship recently built at Speria was intended tor tho purposes set down to her: that I believed she was the prop erty ot an AmerTcnn adventurer whose motives I scarce dared to realize, and that it nis company would asree to bear the expense, and to give me suitable recom pense I would undertake to bring him the wnole history of the nameless ship within twelve months. When I had done, be rang the bell for his clerk, and I could see that he felt himself in the company of a maniac. Roderick was not at all surprised It seemed to me rather that he was clad, "Whatdid I tell you? Who will believe such a tale as we are hawking in the market place selling, in fact, to the high est owner? Hut I believe the whole of your dead friend's story, and therefore I have bought a steamer." "You have done what?" "At 2 o'clock to-day, in your absence, I bought the steam yacht Rocket. Before we go on board her, the yacht will be re christened by Mary who will stay with her dear maiden aunt in our absence and will be named after your vessel Celsis. Her crew will consist of our silent friend. Captain York, of his brother as chief mate, and of your men now at Ports mouth, with half a dozen more. We shall need eight firemen, whom the agents will engage, and three engineers, already found. Your cook will serve us very well, and we want now only a second and third J) dicer. As these men will be mixed np with us on the quarter-deck I have told 'the agents to send them up to see you Acre so you'll run your eye over them .and tell me if they'll do." "Roderick, my old friend, would you Blind giving me that yarn from the be .sinnlng again?" "I hate palaver," he said, "and didn't Chick to find you dense. Now, look here ; Mntil you read me that paper in your cab In, I don't know that I ever felt anger against any man, but I'll bring the man who murdered Martin Hall and many others to justice or I'll never know an other hour's rest. Is it money yoa want? Well, what's mine is yours; and I'm worth two hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Is it profit of a dead man's work you're after? Well then, mark your man, learn all about him, rnn him to his hole, nnd don't fear to recompense yourself. What we're going to do must be done at our cost, which ts my cost. And what we're going to do Isn't to be done at this hotel; it's going to be done on the high seas, and after that In America on the Hudson river, where, if Hall be right, Is the home of Captain Black. It is to the Hudson river that I mean to go now." In an hour I was closeted In the room below with. Francis Paolo, who had come from the agents to seek the berth of sec ond officer to the new yacht Celsis. I found him to be a sprightly, dark-faced Italian, apparently no more than 25 years old ; and he greeted me with much smooth ness of speech. lie had served three years on a big steam yacht, and as he was un mistakably a gentleman and bis discharges were In perfect order, I engaged him there and there, Had I known him then as I know him now, I would have paid a thou sand pounds never to havo seen him ! CHAPTER VII. Tt was our last day In London. Eoder Icfc and I sat down to dinner in the hotel, thi touch of depression upon us both. M-iry had left us early in the morning to go to Salisbury, where her kinsfolk lived. We were going down to Plymouth by the 0 o'clock mail. So soon as we had dined, I went up to my room to put the email things of need away; but, to my amazement, the whole ot the plate bad been turned utterly Inside out by one who had been there before me. My trunx lay upside down ; my writing case was unlock ed and stripped, my diary was torn and rent, my clothes were scattered. I thought at first that a common cheat of a hotel thief had been busy snapping up trifles, but I got a shock greater than any I bad known since Martin Hall's death when I (elt for his writing, which lay secure In Its case, and found that, while the main narrative was Intact, his letters to the police at New York, his plana, and his sketches had been taken. For the mo ment the discovery made me reel. I rang for a servant, who sent the manager to me. His perplexity and dismay were, no less than mine. "No one has any right to enter your looms," he said; "and I will guarantee the honesay of my servants unhesitating ly. No one has been here after you since yesterday, when the Italian gentleman came. To-day he sent a man for a parcel he left here, but I know of no one else who has even mentioned your name." Was I watched from the very begin ning? Had I to cope, at the very outset, PEMBERTON - with a man worth a million, the captain or a band of cut-throats, who stood at no tout wort, no crime, as .Martin nan a death clearly proved? My heart ached at the thought ; I felt the sweat dropping oft me; I stood without thought of nny man; me one worn "waicneu singing in mo port watch. Suddenly . the far hor my ears like the surging of a great sea, Izon over the starboard 1 , I saw tho And I had forgotten Roderick until he flare of a blue light, I it over the burst Into my room, a great laugh on hts j water; and showing as It ed, tho dark Hps. and a telegram In his hand. hull of a great shin. PaoK mself struck "What do you think?" he said; "Mary's rltAi! all !,.), arrived all right. "Oh, that's good; Salisbury." I hope she'll like "Yes. but she Isn't at Salisbury at all; she's at Plymouth, on board tho Celsis. She went straight down there, and never as much as sent her aunt a telegram. Yon don't seem pleased." "I'm not pleased," I said, going on with my packing. "I don't think she ought to be there." "I know that: we've talked It all over, but when I think of it, I don't see where the harm comes in; we can't meet mis chief crossing the Atlantic, and when the danger does begin in New York I'll see she's well on the lee-side of it." It was full day when we reached tho yacht, and I did not fail to cast a quick glance of admiration on her beautiful lines ami perfect shape as I clambered up the ladder, at the top ot which stood Cap tain iork. "Welcome aboard," he said, giving ns henrty hand shakes: and without further inspection at that hour wo followed him to the cabin, where steaming coffe6 brought the blood to our hands and feet, and put ns In better mood. So my sister s here," said Roderick "Yes, last night, no orders," jerked the skipper with his usual brevity, Ah. we must see to that and the sec ond office! Still ashore; ho left a bit of writing; hell be aboard midday!' He had the writing In his hand, and was about to crumple It, but I caught sight of it, and snatched It from him. It was in the same handwriting as tho letter which Captain Black had sent to me at the Hotel Scribe in Paris. "What's the matter?" said Roderick, as he heard me exclaim; but the skipper looked bard at me, and was much mys tified. Do you know anything ot the man?" he asked very slowly, as he leaned back in his chair, but I had already seen the folly of my ejaculation, and I replied : Nothing at all, although I have seen that handwriting before somewhere: I could tell yoa where, perhaps. If I thought." Roderick followed me to my berth and had the matter of the handwriting out. I told him at once of the robbery of some of the papers, and the coincidence of the letter which the second mate had left with the skipper, ne was quick-witted enough to sec the danger; but he was quite reckless in the methods he proposed to meet it. "There's no two thoughts about this matter at all," he said; "we've evidently run right into a trap, but luckily there's time to get out again-pof course we shall sail without a second mate?" After a six hours' sleep I went aft to the quarter-deck to take stock of the yacht. I had scarce made my inspection of our new ship when Mary burst up from below and began her explanation, standing with flushed cheeks, while- the wind played in her hair, and her eyes danced with the merriment of it. "The question Is," said I, "when are you going ashore again?" I don t know, but I guess I'll get ashore at New York, .because I mean to go, to Niagara." She laughed saucily, throwing back her head so that ber hair fell well about her shoulders. I turned round, hearing astep. and there stood our new second mate, Francis I'aolo. Our eyes met at oneo with a long, searching gaze, but be did not flinch. If he were a spy, ho was no poor actor, and he stood his ground with out the movement of a muscle. I watched him walk forward, and fol lowed him, listening as he directed the men; and a more seaman-like fellow I have never seen. If he were an Italian, he bad left all accent of speech in his own country, and he gave his orders smartly and in a tone which demanded obedience. As I watched him from the hurricane deck, I heard a collier who had not yet left the ship glvo him some Impudence. The new mate hit him such a terrific blow on the head with a spyglass that the fellow reeled through the open bulwarks right Into his barge, which lay alongside. The men were bushed before a display of temper like this ; tho skipper on the bridgo flushed red with disapproval, but said nothing. The order "Hands heave anchor I" was sung out a moment after, and as Roderick joined me aft, the new Celsis steamed away from Plymouth and the episode was forgotten. And In that hour the great pursuit began. CHAPTER VIII. It was Paolo's watch. A nieht (or dreamy thoughts of home, of kinsfolk, of the more tender things of life ; but for us a night for the talk of that great "might be" which was then so powerful a sourco of speculation for both of us. And wo were eager to talk, eager to know when we should next bear of Captain Black or of the nameless ship. "I shouldn't wonder," said Roderick after twenty surmises of the sort, "it we heard something of her as wo cross. I have given York orders to keep well In the track of steamers; nnd If your friend Hall bo right, that Is Just where tho un known ship will keep, I would give a thousand pounds to know tho story of tho man Black. Is It possible that a man could commit piracy, to-day, In the At lantic, where Is the traffic of tho world; where, If the powers once learned of it, l, I, aa,.! I. .... l.t .1 - f . J 1 1-1 that If the tnk your friend toll." "It U: I hivo never ted that from the (Int. Captain 111 Is either the moot original villain llv or tho whole story In a silly dream-l ile. we havo yet to learn If he tho Ainmler of the nameless nhtp : we have L to learn It tho nameless ship la not I remained a bo re for th." an hour, gat. Ing over the treat aweei the Atlantic. Paolo was on the br dee' took all op 1 made pre- portunlty o( watching hi tense to go to my cabl good-night to tho mate ml bawled a t went; but It was only to put on fel ppcr and to got a warm coat, and lade my way stealthily amldhln. I a stand aft I could pry, aolo address nd It seemed ot tho skipper's cabin, w yet not be seen. I hear several of the men forwa to me that his mode of cch was not quite that which should and seaman. tweon officer , It chanced that In thtsltch the new meu were on deck, my olfew being In light to a flare which he hlwlth him on ! l.-l.l . .1 . the bridge, and answered ilslenal. This action completely liggered me. Without a thought I rushclp tho ladder to the hurricane deck anltood beside him. He started as he si me, and I could see him biting hU U, while an ugly look came Into his ejv "Good evening. Mister Me," I said;' "will you kindly tell mo v4 you burnt mat blue light? ' "I burnt It to answer tllstgnal yon uer. ' "But that was no affair lours l" Ha shrugged his shouldel and mtit tcrcd something nbout ctisti. Yet In another moment he made et-t to recall himself, and met mo with alopen, smll' ing tace which covered angc When I turned In at last, tl little wind there was had fallen away. I must have j slept very heavily for an hr, when a great sense of unrest and w Ing weari ness took me, and I lay, now $z!ng, now dreaming, so that In ail my t! ams I saw the face of Paolo. I seemed walk the decks of the Oelsis, yet was aolo there more strong and masterful tl i I. Then the man Paolo sto orer me, looking straight Into my eyes sad when I would have risen up to q stlon him I was powerless. I opened l eyes and saw, during the veriest real ' of rime that others looked down int nine. I saw them for some small pat of a sec ond, yet in the faint light thatiame from the port I recognized the fa tnd tho form, and was certain of thc3; for tho man who had been watching mtjai I slept was Paolo. 1 A quick sense of danger waktd ne thor oughly then. I put my bandlo tho tap ot the electric light and the ihle rays flooded the cabin. But the Witin was empty and Roderick's dog su by my trunk, and had, I could see, bejn licking my hand as I lay. ' I knew not how to make ont tht mean ing of it; but I was trembllnglfrom the horror of the dream, ir. wennabove in my flannels. I loxel into Paoto'i bunk, and he slept there, in so heavy, a sleep that I began to doubt altogether the truth of what I had believed. How cjnld this man have left my cabin as be had done, nnd yet now be berthed in his own? The dream had cheated' me, as dreams often do. But more sleep was not to be thonxht of. I fell to talk with Dan, and paced the deck with him, asking what was his opinion of our new second mate. "Its not for me to be spoutin' about them as is above me," he said, '"but you ask me a fair question. In course, I ain't the party to be thinking ill ft any man, but what I do know I know, He's no more'n a ship with a voice uader the forebatcb I laughed at him as I asked, "And what's the matter with a ship Ilka that? Why shouldn't there be a voice under the fore-hatch, Dan" Well, you see, sir, as there am t no body a-llvin' In that pertlcler place, you don't go for to look to hcarin' of voices, or, in plain lingo, there's something queer about it." The sound of a gunshot to Reward awoke mo from my thoughts. Fearing that some vessel lay in distress, we put the helm up and went half-speed for a time. We bad cruised thus for fire min utes or more when a terrific report burst upon our ears. The thunderous echoing of a great weapon which a man-of-war only could carry. The sound died away slowly ; but In the same minute the fog lifted; and I saw. away a mile on the starboard bow, a spec tacle which brought a great flush upon my face, and let me hear the sound of my own heart beating. (To be continued,! Great Mixture. Banker You havo a lady stenogra pher? Broker Yes. , Bnnker And she rends novels while she works? Broker Well, sometimes sho glances at the ono sho leaves open on the desk. But why do you nsk? Banker Oh, Just because bclwecn every quotation of stock there wna something about the villain with white teeth, the ever-pursued heroine and the hero with the manly chest. I'lillomnliy of the 'Milieu. Blow Prlnclpnl How aro your his tory recitations. Smart Teacher Don't hnvo nny. 8. P. (aghast) Don't havo any? S. T. No. Isn't it Impressed on us that history repeats Itself? Bultlmoro American. Qualified. Hltts Wlndlg ought to mako n suc cessful campaign orntor. Pitts Why do you think so? Hltts Becnuso ho talks so much nnd says so little. Valuable, Wife Wnke up, John I I'm sure I bear a burglar downstairs. Husband Great Scott I I hopo ho doesn't discover that chunk of Ice In tho refrigerator. Ural It I ii ir, Angry Patron (to waiter) noreJ Tuko nwny this lobster. Why, It's as ' yet, put Into plain En, old as I am. "Gumerlldgo Isn't n mnn I'vo n Rtvnt deal of uso (or," rcmnrkod tho citizen with tho protruding waistband. "I'vo only met him n few timet, Just when you've brought him In to lunch, but I'm free to confess I don't llko 1) I in. You know I never bent about the bush. If I llko a man I llko lilin nntl If I don't I'm ns llnblo to toll htm so as I nm to tell anybody else. I know he'a n friend of yours, or you think ho la; but ho makes mo tlrvd, and that's nil there la to It." "Why, what'a tho mntter with him?" nsked tho thin man with tho hushy black board. "I never heard of any body who had any particular fault to find with Gumerlldgo. I think lio's one of the llnest (el Iowa that ever stepped. I'vo known him for twenty years nnd I've novor seen anything wrong with him." "No, I don't suppose you hnve," satd the citizen of circumference. "Still, I should think you'd havo got sick of It In that time." "Sick of what?" "TnfTy, soft soap, flattery; that'a what I menn. That'a what I don't like about him. Ho puts It nil over you with n spndo. That sort of thing sick ens me." "I didn't notlco him putting It nil over you. Ho scorned to bo pleasant, na he generally la with everybody, but I don't think ho flattered you." "No, ho didn't Hatter me. Ho was flattering you." "Oumerlldge?" "Yes, Oumerlldge. Take It nt lunch the last time. 'Let Billy order.' he says, 'I think Billy can order a lunch a little better thnn anybody I know of. If Billy wasn't n corking good business man he'd have made the bulllest kind of n head wnlter. When I want something extra good. Just the right kind of combination of eatables. NEW LEASE OF LIFE A JAP KNUINEERINU TRIUMPH : THE RAISING OF THE M1KA8A. Tho Japanese never consider a vessel lost. All tho battered hulk.s of tho Russlun uavy have been recovered from the mud of Port Arthur, nnd aru now elllclent members of the Mlkudo's navy, Togo's flagship, tho Mikasu, which took flro and sank In tho harbor of SaselK), has now, after months of patient engineering effort, been refloated. The hull was bonrded up, all lenks stopiied, nnd the water pumped out. Tho vessel rase to view mud-covered and rusty, but still capable of refitment, and very soon tho admiral will bo on his old bridge again. The flro Is now known to havo been duo to sponta neous combustion caused by tho decomposition of chemlcnls. A I'lcUed-Uii tilvlnir. A convict's complacent acceptanco of life's possibilities Is shown In a dialogue between the criminal nnd Captain Spencer, senior missionary of tho English Churcn Army, ion ques tion of tho captain's ns to what ho did when out of prison, ho replied: "Well, In spring I does n uit or pea nicictne. and In tho summer-tlmo I does a hit of frult-plcking, nnd In tho autumn I does a bit of hop-plcklng." "Oh!" said tho captain, "wnnt imp pens after that?" "Well, now, mister," replied tho con vict, "I may as well bo honest, nnd tell you that In tho winter time I docs a bit of pocket-plcklngl" Tho mlssloner furrowed his brow In nmazemcnt, asking finally, "And what happens then?" Tho convict answered Inconlcnlly, "Why, hero I am doing a bit ot oakum picking." Ilulh Suspicious, Baron Hubncr went ono evening to cnll upon President Thiers, who wna then at tho head of tho French repub lic. Tho baron found tho door of the house opon and walked upstairs. In tho dim light a man crept stealthily I tell you 1 put mr trust In Billy or ery time.'" t "Well," snld Billy, "I guess I do know n thing or two In that lino." "There nro others," said the largo man. "I'vo got n snoaklng sort of no tlon that I'm pretty good In that linn myself. But you wero n 'corking good business man' na well." "Well, I'm not generally regarded na n slouch," said the thin mnn with tho bushy blaek beard. "Perhnpa not. Mind yon, I don't nny you nre. I don't think I'm nny alouch na fnr na thnt goes, hut I don't wnnt n mnn going around In front of mo with n trumpet proclnlmlng It. 'Billy's n good fellow,' 'Billy always wna n good deal of n Indies' mnn, 'Yon enn't fowl Billy on n diamond,' You couldn't get Billy to go Into nny crooked denl of thnt kind.' "Hint's one thing I can any nbout Billy: I nlwnya know Just whero to find him. He'll stnnd by his friends. Billy will.' 'When I'm In doubt I nt ways nsk Billy's opinion,' nnd so on." "I don't Bfo nnythtng pnrtlculnr for you to tnke exception to In thnt," nld tho henrded mnn, "You don't?" "I certainly do not." "You llko a mnn who flnttors you, do you, then?" "I don't seo why you would cnll It flattery. I may have n few good qual ities and Oumerlldgo may havo dis crimination enough to recognize them, hut I hope that Isn't nny hanging of fense. For the matter of thnt, he wna n good deal tnken with you nnd I heard htm cracking you up no end tho other day to some of tho people at tho club." "Well," said tho stout citizen with n slightly mollified nlr, "of courao I mny bo mlatnken In him. I wouldn't wnnt to Judge a man too hastily, and In oth er respects ho struck me ns n nice fel low. Whnt did he ay nbout me, BUI?" Chicago Dally News. FOR TOGO'S FLAG-SHIP. toward him. Knowing that the nri-sl dent went In fear of his life nnd. un willing to die a martyr In a cause not ins own, tho baron hurriedly explained, "I nm not M. Thiers." "I knnw Hint you nro not M. Thiers," answered tho mysterious strnnger, "but I wnnt to know who you nro." Before answering tho bnron insisted upon knowing tho Identity of his companion. "Oh, I nm ai. Tiuers- miner," wns tho nnswor. iiunner (lecinrca ninisolf, "Ah I" snld tho butler, with n sigh of rcllof, "l hnvo your nnmo first on tho list nt vi Itors." Each had. tnken tho other for . i II U UHBUBH1II, It Seem thnt Way, "Say, pa," asked Willie, "whnt Is n nonngenarinn, anyway?" A nonngenarinn, my son," ronlled Willie's pa, "Is usually n mnn who 1ms or has not used tobacco all his life." Philadelphia Press. Ifrom tho present prospect, tho wo mnn with a now fur cont Is going to got moro enjoyment out of llfo this winter than sho did last. To err Is human to lio about It Is moro human. . "VIA 6BCUHA." Th Simple Ufo All Hint Is ! tnt tlm Comiiiiiiiprs, "Whnt'n up?" Inquired Undo Oyrtm, looking up from his newspaper ns Aunt Miirtlm burst Into tho kitchen. "W'y. Mnry Cooinlm ny thnt ono o these hero nutom'ohllos knocked n mnn down ywitordny llko to killed him right In (rout o' the Jttdson houwl" 'Tho JuiUon housR nlu't mnro'n tlvo tnllM from tlio orchard," rciunrknl Un do Oyru-, reflectively, n(ter tho detnlls of tho accident hnd boon discussed duly. . "Yes," snld Aunt Mnrthn, cntclilntt his thought, "suthln'll ho happening right hero tit the Corners fut wo kuow." "It does seem," sho continued, wuitti lively, If (oiks enn't Ikj unfo nny. whores nnwmlnys. Tlioro wns ono com fort nbout the trolleys when thoy be gun to como Into the villages thoy kej' on thulr tracks, nn' didn't kill rigid V left. But with tho nutomobllei riding over everything nlong tho country muds w'y, war times wn'n't much worse." 'Socnm llko we're drifting bnek to them old dark nges, don't It?" Undo Cyru regnrdod his anxious wl(o with twinkling eyes. "An If you ocnio whnt goes snort ing round tho roatls. mebby you'll ent suthln out of n can V die before your dny. Mercy me, senco you rend out nbout nil them scandals nbout packing sometimes I can't stomach to eat meat t nlll" "Well, It nlu't so hnd'rt It might bo," remarked Uuolu Cyrus, comfortably. "It's ten to one you 'n me'll llvo out our appointed time. Them's no n.ort gngo on this hero old hoinestend in' It looked putty pop'lous out In the chicken yard this morning. Marthy. we kin Jest stay homo V eat alggsl" Youth's Companion. I ll trail ma I ludltfratlon. It was formerly thought that tha stomach wns tho main organ ot diges tion, and dyspewiln was uposed al ways to hnvu Its sent there. But this question has been much studied o( late. with the result thnt tho stnmnch tins been found to bo of little account, com paratively, In tho prepnrntlon of tho fowl for nbsorptlon. Tho most luuorl nut part of digestion occurs In the ui IKr part of tho Intestine, whero tho food, after leaving tho stomach, la churned and mixed thoroughly with tho bllo nod pnncrentlc secretion. Sluue, then, the Intestine takes such nn lmiiortnut part In digestion, It ts natural to supihixo that n failure to per form this function proerly would glvo Hsu to serious dliUiirtmuci's of health, and such. In fact. Is tho cum1. Intestlnnl ludlgestlim Is n not un common affection ut nil periods of life, and Is especially provident In children. Tho chief symptoms nro flatulence, or wind, more or less colic, dlrtrrlien, or more often constipation, or nn nltcnin- tlon of tho two; and practical starva tion, us shown In weakness and emacia tion. Tho treatment Is mnlnly through diet. hut this will vary, of course, necordlng to nge. In nn Infnnt tho problem Is n dllllcult one. If tho child Is fed urtl- flclnlly, all prepared foods containing March should bo tnken nwny, nnd cows' milk, modified ns to tho nmotuit of (nt, i.ugnr or cnsoln It contnlns, according to tho physician's directions, should bo substituted. If tho Infnnt Is nursing, tho life of tho mother should ho studied, for tho stnto of her health mny affect tho mill: Injuriously. In older children nnd ndults tho amount of fats and of starchy foods must be carefully regulated. Cereals, pastry, rice, potntoes mid bread must bo cut out of tho dietary for n time, or taken In very small quantity. When eaten nt nil they should Ikj most thor oughly, even excessively, chewed, for In this wny they mny bo In great meas ure digested by tho saliva boforo reach ing tho Intestine. Tho diet should consist mainly of milk, whlto of eggs, nnd tho moro easi ly dlgestlblo meats nnd fish. Tho dlnr rhccn or constlpntlon should bo regu lated, nnd sometimes tho administra tion of Intestinal nntlscptlcs Is bonu flclnl. Regular exorcise In tho open nlr Is of great value In the treatment. Tho cold bath or shower-bath Is often of service, when It Is followed by n healthy reaction. Youth's Companion. Lloyd's llluekeat liny, Blr Henry Hozlcr, who hns Just re tired nftcr thirty-two yenrs' servlco nt secretary of Lloyd's, said not long ago thnt tho blackest dny ho could remem ber was In October, 1881, whon 108 vessols wero posted ns lost In twolvo hours. When a vessel Is lost It Is nn nounccd by tho tolling of tho boll which hangs bcsldo tho crier's box. It h tolled onco whon a vossel Is lost, twlco when a missing vessel comes to port Kansas City Journal. Amended, "Your headllno says," romarkod tho critical visitor, 'that tho candldato 'talked to many.' " "Well?" "It should hnvo said 'tnlkod to much." Philadelphia Ledger. ,