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KERSHAM MANOR. CHAPTER XLIII. But Nine wuld have MO nothing. Ex- citement and f aiique had been too much for Mr ; *h* wai lying upon the aofa almoit fainting. Bobbing pitifully for very weak nea*, and utterly incapable of noticing or commenting upon Ksthrr's appearance and behavolr Esther prevailed upon her.after mncli difficulty, to iwallow wine and lood ; and thru, whan the exhausted woman lay back and oloted bar eyet begging only to be left in peace for a little while it waa thus ihe phrased it Either wae free to write a few word* to her hueband ; in her heart the could not Jo otherwise than call him her hueband (till. She ntver could remember what ihe laid to him. In plain itraightforward guise ihe told him the truth that Nina had come home. She did not need to dwell upon the f a . She had read of stranger things than t thie etranger reappearance* of people who ' had been numbered with the dead in newi- paper* and in noreli; bat no printed mstter- of fact report, no wild romance, had ever eeemed ao utterly incredible, eo terrible, ao unheard -of. aa thu thing that had happened I to her, with whom life had hitherto been ' commonplace indeed. It would hare be- wildered her if *hs had had time to dwell upon thii aspect of the matter ; but the need for action wai argent and deadened i her santibilitiea a little for the time. f " She knowe nothing yet. " Either waa . afterward told ehe had written. " 8he it too ill to be told to night. I can do nothing , without you. I can not leave her till yon are here. Come quickly ; and aee me, ipeak to me, before you talk with her." ,' She heard the servant enter by the back door, aud went out to her with the note in her hand. "You muit go with thii to Prince'i Hall," ihe laid to the girl. "Mr. HUt will be on the platlorm. You muit at somebody to fetch him out- tell him there n important nwi for him then jive him the letter. Mind, Christina, the letter ii not to be delivered to him while he ii on the platform; you muit give it into hiiowb hands outside." "Ii't ill cew mem ?" Chriitina aiked, with the habitual freedom of a Scotch maid Mr van t." "I aaid important newi. I did not eay bad newi,," Either aniwered dryly. She could not aoiwer otherwiee. " On your way home call at Dr. Urqnhart'i bouse and aek him to come here ai ioon ai pouible. There ii a lady in the itudy a itranger eheiiilL- Chriitine went wonderingly on her mil- lion, and Either returned to Nim, who oertainly teemed to be alarmingly ill and weak. Kit her dared not leave her again; aha eat beaide her, wailing, with nervei on the rack, for the servant i return and the arrival of the doctor. Nothing eUe could be done, for Nina rejected all proffered remediei with scorn, and absolutely refuted to liiteii to Kither'i propoeition that liie hould go to bed. What ! before ihe bad Been Sebastian ? Mont aaiurediy not. Chriitiiu returned in courae of time with the anurance that "Mr. Malet hail gotten the nettie, an' wad be hame in half an hour." Either dared not ask whether he had shows sign* of emotion when he re- ceived the letter. The ttolid.vonsy, Scottish laaiie had probably notice! nothing wrong. "In half an hour." Why that delay? Either thought the kn-w. He wanted to gather hit force* together, to be able to control himtelf before he came to her. She aid nothing to Nina of either her letter or hit menage in return. The doctor cam* almoat Immediately. Nina had seemed o ill that Either did not dare to delay tending for him, but when lie came, it itruck her that her position was exceedingly difficult. She did not know how to tell him the truth, nor hew to remain quite lilent. He commented on her look* ai he ihook handi with him in the hall. " My dear Mr*. Malet," he aaid kindly, "you don't look at all well." " Oh, hnih, hi>ih I don't ipeilt to me in that way," the cried, recoiling ai if the had been ilrnok. The doctor stare. 1 at her in amazement. What had lie aaid to oauae thii cry of pain ? Either recovered herielf in a moment. "I did not mean to be rude," he laid gently. " You <lo not know the fact*, an>l I do not know how to tell them. But you will hear in time. If you ipeak of me to to the lady in the study, will you oall me M'is Mention ai you used to do? She doei n_>t know that I am married." " Oh t" aaid the doctor uncomfortably. " And why ibould the not know? An old friend of your a, I tuppoie ?" " Yet, a very old friend. She would be hocked by the news." " Anil her name?" He heard her catoh her breath. Hut (he answered quite calmly, " Mr*. Malet." The doctor looked at her iharply. He did not like to aik queitioni of a woman whoee face waa drawn and pallid ai if with mortal agony. She read the queetion in hii yee. " Don't aak me anything jmt yet," the aid. " You will know in time. Help me, that ii all." "I will do whatever I can to help you," aid Dr. Urquhart iu lowered tone*. "But I am very much in the dark, remember. I may blunder." "You will not blunder if you name no name* and contradict none uf .Mrs. Malet'a statement*," aaid Either (irmly. "Let u. go to her. I am afraid that ehe u ill.' Yei, Nina wat ill. The doctor reported to Either, when hit examination of the patient WM over, that Mr*. Malet wanted very careful nursing. She muit have had a lever* bronchial attack rather lately ; her lunpt were affected, and her heart wa* very weak. "She muit be kept quiet,"he laid, eyeing father attentively. "Shi can bear no agitation." Either itarted. "There i* lomethiog tin fur in n*te -agitating to be told," the laid. " Net for a few day*. You muit give her a little time flnt lime to get over the fleet* of the journey. Ii it anything im ad nurae on the morrow. Then he took hii leave. " It't a mere queetien ef time," be aaid to himaelf ai he went down the tlepi " Hot I did not care to lay *o to poor Mri. Malet. who looki to distressed about her friend. What U the mystery,! wander ? Sjme brother'! wif* turned up unexpectedly? It oin't be anything disreputable? But there'i no knowing." And the doctor hook hi* bead aagaoiouiiy a* he went upon hii way. " Call no man virtuou* uutil he U dead," he added, with a touch of cynical humor. She tried to perinade Nina to go to be d. It would be ao much easier, the thought, to manage matter* if Nina were aaf* npetair* oat of the way. Hut Nina flatly refilled to move. She *aid that the wa* ethauated by the doctor'* examination, and mutt lie still. If Hither would kindly *ee that her room wu ready Nina took upon henelf air* of mittress-saip at once the would go up- tain very coon, perhaps when Sebaitian cam* in. Either ha<L very reluctantly, to yield to go away aad^seek Chrittiua, who wat already preparing the ipare room for lady." The bodroomi were the new arrangement the " strange all upstairs now, In of the home. To the chocked and amazed Chriitina, Either then gave a few wordi of needful, though bitter, explanation, exacting from her in return a solemn promise that the would lay notning, du nothing to cauae dis- covery of the aecret which ihe wished to keep at present from Nina'* eart. Suddenly the Utcli-key cliuked in the front-door lock. Esther (topped thort in what she wat laying. Sebaatian had come in; ihe heard him in the hall, oh, how fooliah ihe had been to come upetain ! She iped not upon the landing; the began hurriedly to descend the tteps. She even tried to oall him, but the wordi were itifled in her thruau He entered loftly ; he did not want to make hi* pretence known too ioon. He looked round at if lacking Either, and created the hall, turning down the passage that led to the iteir*. "Christina," he aid, but in low, cautiou* tone*, " where U " He never finnhed theaentence. He caught ight of Either hastening toward him with hau'lt outotretchid. He itarted toward her, and then what happened oext ? There wa* the sound of an opening door, the ruth of a woman'* garment, a gasping hysterical cry : " Sebaatian I I am here ! Sebaitian !" He caught her in bit arm*. She fell actow hi* shoulder a* if half-fainting, and he car- ried her b*ck into the itudy and shut the door. Etthrr was ihut out. She wa* atp- arated from the man who had been her hus- band, from that time forth. Thii other woman had claimed him the, who had the right ;not by word or look muit any third person intervene ; the, Kather, leait of *1L If only the could have teen Sebattian alont for ono minute before h went iut.> that room ! Too late now. Ho wai there, thut in with hii wif* ; the man that Kither loved. She knew what hii tender wordi, hii looks of love, were like ; they all belonged to Nina, and not to her. If ehe had never known the manner of hii wooing, the felt that the could have better borne the con* eciouiaem. Nobody had ever been able to tay that he wa* not fond of Nina, He loved her ilill, no doubt. What would he do ? what would he aay ? Would he keep hi* own couniel, a* in her letter ihe had warned him to keep it ? He mutt be holding Nina in hit arms, kilting hir lipt, looking into her eye*, telling her, per- bant, that he had never changed, that he had Invert her all the time. . . . Ah ! he turned lick, the writhed with a fierce agony at the very thought. Christina cunt running npatsin with a menage from her matter. Would ihe go down to the iludy ? " The Uddy' thu* Chriitina apoke of Nina "wanted her." Yee, the would go down. She miMt face them both. She mutt face the man who had been Ii i lover, without letting Nina guett that there wai any secret between them. In thii case deception wai a holy "That if the wont of all," ihemurmured sorrowfully. "Kether," he laid at lait, almoit in a whisper, "do you not love mo too?" "Better than all the world," ihe aaid ; "better than life; better than my own aouL Oh, Sebaatian, I have loved yo ever since we were boy and gill together lince the day you kissed me in the lane. Do you remember? I have never aaid to much to yon before. Hut now I want you to under- stand, becauM became " "became what, my darling?" he asked, a* her voice died away in u-art "Heoaute I can not bear you to think that I do not love yeu that I do not care even though we have to part. " "Tart ! we can not part." "There ii no other way." "How can you leave me, Either? How can I do without yon now?" " Dear," the aaid again, " there ii no other way." "It wai a miserable failure before, Kuther," he aaid in a low tone. " What will it be now? I can t go back." " You loved her ; yoa love her ttilL" " Bather I" " And I loe her (till. Poor Nina) It it it not as though it were her fault. She bat suffered terribly. I* it for a* to inflict on her one pang of luffering more ?" Sebastian tighed heauly, and turned away hi* head. Esther raited herielf, put her annt gently round hit neck, and looked traight into hii face, not dreamily now, not longingly, but with a clear, questioning gaze which he teemed diipoatd to avoid. " Sebaitian," the aaid softly, " we both leve Nina. You are her her huibni" - the Humbled a little at the word "and you will care for her bappinea*, will you net ?" "How about our*, Etther?" he asked, looking miserably into her eye*. 'Our bappinete ? I don't know I can't tell. I know that mine mine it gone. Rut we could not aecure it, darling, by murder- ing hen. It w mid n't make thing* better for either of u* if you broke Nina'* heart by telling her that you did not love her. For you do you do I" " It i* ttrange to hear yon tell me thai," Mid Sebaatian, ilowly and heavily. " I hould have thought anything for her ; aaytaing in the world t *a\e her p-u ." She heat Ler head and kimed him aoftly tenderly opon tiie lipt. " Yon brought o great joy," abe aniwered. "I think i\ women have ever been to happy a* I hav been. I shall never low the memory o that htppinei*. It i* aotnethiog, surely. U have known what love it. Remember tha 1 laid ao when I am gone. And yon yon will be happier by and by. She drew henelf gently away from hi and turned toward the door. He aprani up and followed her. "Not yet! not yet !" he cried. " If i mutt bo BO, it mutt you were alwayi right ; but oh, my love, my loul ! not yet!' There wa* not a lign of yielding in her eyet, lut tlie let him kill her once again. And then softly and tadly aha aaid "Good by." He looked at her with a mute anguish in hi* eyet, dropped her handi suddenly anc turned to the mantelpiece, where he laiH hi- head upon hii folded artnt. Thii time ahe did not dare to linger the could neither watch nor comfort him ; and to, with eye* blindod by tears the turned away. Hut he felt a* if ahe had left half her life be- hind her a* the arept upetain. (TO UK < Him inn.) WAIFS OF THB OCEAN. MANY ABANDONED 8HIP3 AT SEA. that you would rather not have thought 10 if you loved me " " All, my darling, don't doubt that I love you, unless you want to break my heart !" "In God'i tight yon are my wife," he aid ; " ray helper, my consoler I I have not known how much you were to me till now. Mutt I go back to the barren dayi when every hope and aspiration within me wai thwarted at every tarn? Think what you are condemning me to, Etther. It 11 impoatible. I can not give you up." " My dear ! my tweet !" the murmured. " You can not be cruel to her, dear. You moat think of her a* well at of our- selves." " I love you and you love me," he laid ; "and till the end of our live* we belong to each other." " That i* true," aaid Bather. " Wethall love each other, I believe, all our live*. Our love my love would not he what it it, if it could change. But we have not to think of ourselves only. Our love and happiness muit be *et on one tide. We have to think of Nina. Vrellet Teasels Ten Final far Vsara. Kr.rrlrd by Tkelr Crews, a < unlanl Neaaer la blppi. ; . *ll.r> > >m<- iBlcrettlBC rr.l.lrv The lait effective isrvice performed by the ill-fated K ear targe wai the blowing up of a derelict or abandoned Hup, which the had discovered drifting on the outer edge of the gulf ttream off the coatt of Florida. Commander Heyerman'i report of this oc- currence wa* interesting became it indicat- ed the dilli .-vlty of destroying theee danger* to commerce by the ordinary method*. The vowel which tlie Kearaarge dettroyed wa* a hark loaded with lumber, which had be- come thoroughly water-logged. It had been vlrift at probably for month*, driven h.thcr and thither by the current* and wmdi and ever a menace to vetteli into whoie path it might drift. Commander Heyerman aayi he tried to link the ihip by firing ihelli into her, but that wa* of no avail. Then he tent men on board to cuttle her, but then wa* no place to (cut- tle for the soaked and iwollen lumber filled the frame of the snip almost to bunting. The only thing left to do wa* to tplit the hull of the ahip by tome terrific explosive force, and Captain Heyerman did it with gun cotton. He put a charge of gun cotton in the peak of her forecastle, and another at her rudder head, and with a time fuse fired the two charget simultaneously. The hull of the ihip tplit apart like an egg- ahell and tank, while the water-toaked cargo disintegrated and floated away piece by piece. DAXOXROI-" uiB.ii.n-n. It may toe in it range that ao insignificant an object a* a wrecked ihip at tea, still J floating, should be considered to important i an obstruction to navigation, but in fact " Nina I Nina !" he laid, almost irritably floating wreck ia of greater danger to the with the old frown showing iteolf upon hi* mariner than a aunken rock, for the latter brow, "alwayi Nina? lam thinking of once di*oovered ii permanently located and you, not of Nina What an yoa to do? promptly in ncatea on the hydrographic What U to become of you? Yon shall not charts ; whereas the floating wreck it ever leave me, Ettliir. It it no use to talk of ihifting ite position, and a ihip under full headway might juit a* well strike a thing. She arranged her lips in a (tiff *et mil* at the looking-glass before the went downstairs. She entered the itudy. Juit 10, in olden dayi, went martyrs to the stake. A glanoe bowed her that Sebastian ^had obeyed her ' injunction* to the letter. Ha had told Nina nothing ot the put. In hii praeenoe her strength seem-d to have returned. He sat betide her on the iota, and ahe clung to him, half-laughing, half-frying, till, her fevered cheek against hii ahuul- dur, hit arm about her waist. She did not (lance directly at the two at he went iu. She knew by inttinct how they were tilting, what they looked like. It took her a little time to get her eyelid* I up. She walked to the table where Sebas- | tian't mamucript wat lying, and closed the book. She had not read hii paper ; iht never should read it now. The interview wu not protracted ; to 1 Either and Sebastian it WM unendurable. Nina waa half-led, half carried to her room; and Kttber remained with her for a time, undressing he.r, coaxing her, like a child, to eat and drink, lulling her to ileap with gentle words. Wheu the long laahee lay quietly on the fair cheek fair still, though waited with disease and car* Kither roae toga. "Shall I ttay with yon?" the had aaked ; and Nina had aniwered, quite lim- ply, "Oh, no. Sebaatian used to be a very pood nurae. He will do anything I want, (iood-nighu" Esther went out of the room and closed the door. Then the went softly downitair* to the study. She knew quite well that Sabailian wa* waiting for her. She went to tay good -by. And the found, a* ihe had expected to find, that ha had liven way. Hiitelf-poewi- sion was gone. Hit head wat bowed up>n the study table among the papers and hooks, which had been hastily thruit aside, and when ahe laid her baud upon hi* arm he itarted nn with a face 10 white, and VIIOVl* IJI VIIO JUUIUBJT. il Ik llyllllllg till I porteat? I toll you frairkly that a sudden ,07*1 to haggard ami despairing, that nor hock might kill herjat once in her preicnt i Ile4rt 'toocl ttill within hr for dismay, late. Her only chance of recovery lies in I " ' * >u ' t b " r this," he broke out hoarse- perfect calm. Vou are a good nun.., I 'l- " ll ' **> a n"" 5 "- What can we Jo ?" know ; can you not piomiavi that lor her ?" " w n on| y '' "hat ii right," ht> an A look of strong determination was wrd gently. dawning in Esther'* face. Sl.o answered teadily, "I will try." "It would be cruel to agitate her now," the dtftor went on. "If you have any re- card for hi-r at all, keep her quiet and give her everything the wanta." H>> gave aoma What it" right'" he asked, suddenly rii'ng up aud gathering her m'o hii arms with piaaion which he had scarcely ever shown before. " That I should be parted from the woman that I love?" ' You love Nina," she said, very quietly. direction! about her treatment and prom- I "I did -once," he responded, with a break in hi* voioe. " liut never never q urnrlaad liunj from Esther, to nend a train- as 1 love you.'' conventional laws conventional sanc- tions ; in thu case we muit make our own law." " We will nottpeak conventionally, "ihe said slowly. " I am ready to do what I think ricBt, whether it ii in accordance with inan'i law or not But if I itayed with yon, what would become of her?" "Sheu not like you," he eaid. "She hat no depth of natun no itrength of attention the would be happy ; the would forget." " She would not have time to forget. The doctor aayi that the mutt not have the slightest agitation for the next few dayi. And bar affection for you can you call it weak when it hat lurvived all that the hai endured ?" " I am a brute," laid Sebaitian, setting his teeth and turning away. " Yes, the loves me, as you say. I mutt cure for her welfan in a fashion I must I " Hs > opped for a moment and resumed in a tone of bitter anguiah, " I do not know what to do what to lay. I love you, Esther. You are my life my very soul and y.t-' "We are itrong, We cm help her. Oh, Sebaitian, it it pouible that for one mo- ment either of ut cau have dreamed of put- ting our burden on her ihonlden I Cau we have been to telrith, dear?" "Not you I have been telQih not you. " 'We will not be selfish any longer," taid Esther, her eyet tilling with tean, "we will remember her happineti before oar own; and I think, Sebastian, that w* you may find peace happiness even in doing so. She twallowed down a rising iob, ana went on bravely. " You loved bar onoe ; in your heart you must love her itill. You have alwayi spoken tenderly of her yon could never be cruel to her, Sebastian. She it Muriel'* mother Hollo'* mother the wife whose love you gained when iha and you wen young and happy " "Esther, you are torturing me !" "My darling '" "Thii mast not be," she said at latt. "Thtee are thing* that you must not think now, Sebaitian." "I can not help but think them." "Then you mnit net ay them. Oh, my darling, help me to be itrong don't make me seem ao hard and cold. You want to do what it right as mush as I do i help me." "Nay, you an the atronger," said Sehat- tian, aliuott bitterly. "Tell me what 1 am to do. She must know the truth some time." In a few days, when ihe it stronger. Then tell bar all I lhall not be hen ; I shall be far away, bat you " " Where an you going? What do you mean?" " I do not know when I am going yet : I have not thought. But I mutt go. And you will tell her all ; and tell her, dear, that we did not forget her ; that you never to love her when you sunk- en rock a* one of these water-logged ob- tructioni on the deep. Either collision would be fatal. So serious has become, in these dayi of fait iteamen and multiplied commerce, thia special danger of the ocean that the governments of Great Britain and America nave united in an effort to de- troy them. The matter recently came up in the Rritiih parliament, and with Borne how of deprecation the lord high admiral announced to the House of Common* what the United State* wa* doing to diapoae of these danger*, and he aiked the authority of parliament to join with the United States naval authorities in their efforts to locate and destroy the derelicts of the deep. DIFFICULTIES Or DIRIUCT CHASINO. The latt chart published ahewt that in the Atlantic Ocean alone there are known to beinorr than fifty derelicts floating about. There are several which are supposed to have been navigating the seas in their gloomy solitude for more than three years, and not long ago one which was thought to have been abandoned for mor; than five yean wat destroyed by a French gunboat. Her hull was covered with ocean slime and a sea-weed growth, and she waa the most abandoned of her class. It will be difficult and perhaps impracticable for any but the combined na*iee ot the world to hunt down these irresponsible rovers of the ocean. It ia even doubtful if the charts published by the navy department are of any real value in helping steamship captains to avoid the derelicts, though, of courie, they are of value in putting ship captains on their guard when they are in their vioioty. There are several peculiar elements of danger in these abandoned vesseli when they are in the track of ocean steamen. Happily the- windt and currents are such that there are not many of thess dreaded obstructions in ths path of the translantio liner*. There are a few knocking abnot on the coast of Ireland, and alao in the neighborhood of the Azores, but the bulk of thoae indicated on Captain Clover'* chart* are on oar own coast, extending from Bermuda on the north to I'ernambuco, South America. This ia accounted for chiefly from the fact that most of t he derelict* are lumber laden and the luBiber trade between the North and South American coaiti is quite heavy. A DB30LAT1 sKillT. A denliot i* chiefly dangeroi* because he ii not viiible even in daytime until an approaching vea*el is almoat upon her. Whan a vessel has been abandonsd at sea he is usually dismasted, her bulwarks are atove in and her dsoks an awash. It any- thing of a sea ia running it is almoit impos- ible to make her oat until ihe is right imdiT your bow. At night this peril is in- finitely greater. I here i* perhaps no more dismal, gloomy and Ciod-forsaken object in the heavens above, in the earth below or in the waters under the earth than an aband- oned hulk at sea. Then is not even the thought that the wa* dead. It is true ; I am sun of it j . Mid by-and-by you will be sure. You have I poor nlief of a hungry bird twirling above loved me; but you love Nina too. And 10 it ; it ii alone absolutely. Every sign of do I. ... Tell her so. We would both do human life long since departed. There U the work of man exhibited ia MSI structure, n lie iron work, in its trailing owdage, bat ike whole it covered with th.t pecaliar action of the sea which means long abend* OB men t. What teles these peer wreck* could tell were they animated. Their names have long been obliterated, their ownership and the port* from which they tailed are long forgotten, their hiitory it unknown, they are friendless, lost, aband- oned, and the only fate possible to them is final destruction and obliteration from the surface of the deep. Some yean ago the United States steam- er Fort Jackson, Captain James Alden, after passing through one of the most ter- rific hurricanes ever known off the Bermu- das, encountered one of these lone wander- . Tne Fort Jackson herself had come cut of the storm bruised, battered and half wrecked. She wai a tide- wheel thin with a walking-beam engine. Both wheelhousei Had been carried away, and her walking am was sprung. While laying to under a close-reefed storm staysail and spanker for the purpose of repairing the walking-beam the leokout descried what he thought waa a raft. The sea wa very high, and it wai y occasionally that a glimpse cjuld be got of the object. Of course the flnt im- suite was to watch for signs of life, and .he chief engineer hurried up hu npain on the engine. 8IOHTTNO AN VB l VtiOSKD SHIP . In a couple of houn these were sufficient- y accomplished to put the engine in motion and the Fort Jackson steamed away for the spot indicated by the lookout. Sometime* minutes would elapse before the object aid appear again and then only for a moment. The ship steamed slowly toward he supposed raft whenever the latter could >e teen. The ttorm had not wholly abated and the atmosphere was anything but clear every officer had hi* glass watching for what waa uow fully believed to be the life aft of some wrecked ship. All at once the ookout shouted : "Starboard your helm; he under our bow f The man at the wheel instantly obeyed and it was the sal- alion of the Fort Jackson, for her bow uit grazed the aid* of the derelict and her ort wheel itruck her, smashing several iaddles and sending a thrill of horror h rough the ship. So suddenly dotu even veaael on the alert come upon these angerous obstructions. What was tup- losed to be a life raft proved to be a dis- antled schooner loaded with ootton, and i all probability a wrecked blockade unner. The sea was too high to lower boat and so it was impossible to do any- ling to destroy her, even were then *p- liances at hand, so the Fort Jackson .end away on her course. of derelict*. at tea after the nature of There are many oil heir powers of endurance undonment depend upon their cargoes. & vessel loaded with lumber will keep afloat for yean. Those loaded with cotton will likewise float indefinitely unless something occun to iplit their hulls and scatter their cargoes, ana the asms may be (aid of ships loaded with any light tex- tile commodity ; for instance, a ihip from Australia loaded with wool would be a* long-lived a derelict at one laden with lumber. In fact, any (tout wooden hollow, onoe diiBiantled, will keep afloat for a long period. But the derelict* of the ocean are doomed to extinction. Modern appliances, modern seamanship, better facilities for the prevention of disaster, all tend to decease abandonment of ships at sea. There is really no need, except under particular ciroumatanoM, of quitting a ahip ao long aa ahe can float. Of courts, where a vessel ii dismantled, has lost every mast and every sail and is hopelessly disabled, it would be foily for her captain to decline the service* of a friendly Bail to remove him and hi* crew from inch a vessel ; but in these days it is almost impossible to con- ceive why in ordinary circumstance! a (hip ihould be deeerted. Sailing ships are rapidly diaappearing from the ocean. Thoae that remain are now supplied with double uitt ef everything. They have extra tills, extra span, even extn rudden, and it it indeed a competent captain and an ineffi- cient crew that cannot bring a vettel into port in tome kind of ihape if her hull U sound. A WIMtilJta At)l KDl'lT. BKailltn Canal Carries! stress AI en a Drawbridge. The recently opened thip canal, which connect* the city of Manchester, England, with the sea is of commercial rather thau engineering importance. There were few difficulties to be overoome in its construc- tion, yet one of the novel features of the enterprise is so curious that it deserves pasting notice It is a very common occur- rence for one railroad track to bt carried over another ; muuh leas frequent we see one canal conducted across the line of an- other, but to have the intereeotion of two water routes provided with a drawbridge intill more unusual. Ibis, however, was found the most satisfactory way of dealing with the problem presume 1 where the route of Manchester's new highway to the Mersey ran up against the old Bridgewater canal, leading southward from Wigan in Lanca- shire. Juit what reason! existed for not having a grade crossing do not appear, but it does appear that luch a cheme waa not deemed feasible, and hence the amaller channel wai borne over the larger. But a fixed aqueduct would have interfered with the masts.if not the amokentackii, of big ships, nod therefore a twinging span, like that of an ordinary drawbridge, waa reaorttd to. Obviously, the tationary ends of the severed waterway seeded to be, and they are, equipped, with gates which must be closed before the swinging span is opened. The latter struc- ture 11 similarly furui*hed,*o that it ii poa- tible to open the "draw" with a floating barge on it. Tit the accounts of a side-door saloon that are kept up by a double- en try system. "Can you define profanity, Katie? 1 ' Katie It'* what i* alwayi nied in putting up picture*." " De trouble wid too many ob you nig- gers," says Uncle Mote, " is dat you wants to lib sinner* an' die Christians. ' She "So you went to lee Hamle. I>o yon think Uanilet was mad ? " He " You bet he wat. There wasn't over $25 in the house." Meekison " Why did the policeman club Yoke*?" Banghart " For getting in, his way when ho wai getetug: away from a fight"