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lhe scene was full of light and life. Standing on Deal beach, so quiet was every thing ashore, so still this hour of sundown, you would have heard a blending of innumerable saunds soft- ened into music by distanceâ€"the strains of iiddles in the nearer craft, the voioes of men singing. the pleasant noise of bells, the (lankt and rattle of “inthes and capsttns and “1ndlasses the chorusmgs of lungs of leather stowing the canv 1s, the shrill chirp- ings ol boatswains' whistles. Then on a sudden broke the sudden harsh thunder of a gun from the line-of-bat~ tle ship. It was instantly foiloxsed. by th graceful drooping of the many- coloured bunting to right and left de- nating the hour of sunset; and now masthead 1nd gaff end showed bare of the hunting that had but a little before made. the mass of shipping appear like a floating city of banners; and high above the congregntion of masts the towering fabric of the three-decker loomed grim and forbidding upon the darkness of the evening stealthily creeping like some dark curl of breeze out of the east. An old-world scene of this kind is not to be matched nowadays- The iron craft has entered the soul of the marine, and all is dull, flat, prosaic. Ships of fifty fashions filled the Downs that evening. There was the towering three-decker, grand as . a palace abaft. with handsome galleries and spacious windows trembling to the lustre that rose to them from off the running water, the red coats of marines dotting the white lines that crowned her adamantine defences. shrouds as thick as cables soaring to huge round tops, from which, higher and higher yet. rose topmtist and top- gallant-mast and royal-mast into mir- acles of airy delicacy, from whose cen- tral spire languidly floated the pen- non ot the ship of the state. There was the East lndtaman, outward bound, newly brought up, scarce- ly less regal in her way than the first-rate, with John Com- pany's house-flag at the main under the dog-vane that glanced likea streak of fire to the raining of the splendour beyond the line of coast, the red flag at her peak, the grinning lips of can- non along her sides, the glitter of uni- forms upon her quarter-deck, and rows of lively hearties aloft upon her topsail yards snagging the spaces of white cloths into lines of snow. There were the little bilander bound to the Medi- terranean, rigged with a long lateen yard upon her mainmast; the high- sterned pink; the round-bowed sturdy snow; the gallery of a hundred and fifty tons, whose long low hull, with ports for sweeps, gave her a most pll‘8‘it‘til look, with a maligant fancy to foilow on of a breathless calm and a stagnated vessel, towards which this same galley is impelled by her huge oars. as though she were some vast deadly marine insect subtly though SWUUS stirring to the impulse of its antennae. A few minutes after the brig’s an- chor had been let go, a signal was made to the shore for a boat. The twi- light was yet abroad; the line of the land dark against the rusty crimson of the west; the flag- was to be read- ily descried. and there was a flutter- ing of air still to make a conspicuous thing of the bunting, amid the con- gregation of colourless spars and masts, amid which. here and there. you already saw the twinkling of a cabin lamp or of a lantern swinging pend“. lam-like from. the forest”. , Whilst the sullen explosion of the gun was echoing along the Sandwich plains. a large. exceedingly handsome brig, that had been quietly pushing her way into the heart of the shipping, helped rather by the tide than by the faint fannings aloft, hauled up her courses and let go all halliards; and a minute after her anchor fell from the cathead and she swung quietly to the drag of her cable. She was from down Channel. a homeward bounder; but those were the ambling days of trade; no fuss was made over what we now call prompt despatch. It was mere- ly a queSLion of how the wind sat; and a six weeks' detention in the Downs was accepted as a common- place incident in a voyage from the Thaxnes to foreign parts. "A tallvyoung fellow of seine three or (our and twenty years of age stood In the gangway of the brig, impatient- It was an evening in tne IDOULLI u; September. There were scarce fewer than three hundred sails of evessels gently straining at their hemp cables to the easterly set of the water. They had come together as if by magic, for that morning the historic tract of waters had steeped bare to the white terraces of the k'orelands; whilst now the multitudinous shipping showed like a forest upon the sea, gay with fluttering pennons, delicate as a bit of penciling with the wondrous in- tricacxes ot the rigging. brilliant with the red sheen of the waning luminary upon glass and brass; upon the writh- ing of gilt-work upon quarter-galler- ies and castellateci sterns; upon in- numerable figure-heads of fantastic device; upon yellow spars where the expiring flames in the west trembled in veins of burnished brass. A light westerly wind had crowded the spacious waters of the Downs with anchored semis. s'l‘he colour, the apparel. the quaint bravery of the ships and mariners of the last cen- tury. nude a noble and sparkling show of the marine pageant. The hour was a little before sundown, and the gush of warm red glory past the giant headland, went in a tincture of dark gold to the zenith. and thence pale as amber to the eastern sea-line, with a hot crimson head of cloud here and there vaguely defined upon the deli- cate radiance, whilst the horizon ran with a line as clear as though scored with the sweep of the leg of a pair of compasses. - ‘L' â€"-â€"A“_‘k n‘ II. to betoken a considerable spell of ill- ness. His eyes were large, dark and lus- trous, full of intelligence, and, as one should say, of softness also. He stood a little above six feet, but with the fst00p of a man who had am yet been iable to stiffen himself out of a long 3 term of prostrating sickness. His hair was long and abundant and curl- ;back; an oddity in him, to engage at gleast a shoreâ€"going eye, accustomed to ' the perukes and bags and ‘tyes” of the ‘streets. He was habited plainly in a coat with vast cuffs and pockets and gmetal buttons, crimson breeches, ; coarse gray stockings, and shovel-shap- led shoes heavy with large plate buck- ; les. His hat was a three-cornered af- efair, and from time to time he fanned {his face with it, whilst he continued gto watch steadfastly and anxiously the approach of a boat from Deal The tall young fellow, named Jeremy York, lowered himself into the boat; a small bundle ,-â€"apparently all the lug- gage he hiidâ€"was handed down to him by the skipper; he flourished his hat; the crew of the brig, some of whom were at work upon the forecostle and some aloft, gave him a cheer; and in a moment or two he was being swam shorewards by the vigorous arms of a brace of Deal boatmen. “ Tyust me, trust me, Mr. York, the captqm exclaimed with a cheery wave of hlS hand. Wu\lu- “Here comes something that looks like a punt, at last, Mr. York.“ ex- claimed the skipper of the brig, ap- proaching himâ€"a broad-beamed, bul- let-headed bit of a man, standing on oval shanks and carrying a face 3:: red “ I shall endeavour to be in Londoni the week after next,” he exclaimed, as he swung a momenb by the man- ropes; “and I trust, captain, you'll not forget to put in a good word for me, with the owners of the Coelia. It will! be a matter of twenty-eight pounds toi me, who am now in a condition to View even a Sixpence as a very serious! thing.’ ’ g as the. flag he sailed under. “HOpe you’ll pick up ashore, I do.‘ Remem- ber my wordsâ€"if you feel able to ship along with me by the time I am ready to sail, and that’s giving you from now to December, why, all that I can say is, there's a berth ready for you." It was now deu‘k; the western hec- tic was gone, the stars floated in a showering of brilliant points to the li- quid dusk, that hung glimmerless above the horizon, with here and there a round-browed cloud with a sheen upon it like the head of a. snow-cloud rise to obscure a n-irrow space of the sparkling dome. 'l‘he Foreland soared wan and massive from the white wash of the water at its base, then swept darkly to the [left land upon which were grouped the houses of the town of Deal, whose foreshore at this mo- ment winked with its row of oil lamps, They continued exchanging compli- ments after this pattern whilst the boat approached; presently it was alongside, and the tall young fellow “I am heartily obliged to you, sir. for the offer, said the other; “and I thank you from the. depths of my soul for the kindness you’ve done me.-â€"In- deed, Captain Settle, I shall never for- get you; and if I am equal to going a-sailoring again by December, you may reckon me already, sir, as upon the ship’s articles.” ”There are inns enough. anyway,” said one of the men. “Troy MOther Puddell's first. She keeps the sign of the Cat 0’ Nine Tails, Snadown way. There should be a chance there; and oi’ll tell ye whoy; her liquor’s oust bad. She's beknown for that, ' ' high tarms. ’Tain't that I name her I hindered by a Shilling too much, let alone a qulaity 0'. liquor there’s no call for him to drink." or a dim illumination in places of small lozenge-paved windows, and a brighter streak of light striking through an open door. High and dry upon the shingle rested groups of boats; and at intervals, as York ap- proached the beach, he would catch a noise like to a rush of water upon shingle, and mark some little fabric newly launched, swiftly making off on a small buccaneering cruise of its own amongSt the shipping, or maybe to in- tercept some shadow hovering past the Goodwins with her hold full of silks, tea, and spirits, to be “run” before the morning, and under the noses, too, of the lookout aboard the first-rate, and the. revenue peOple, trudging, solitary and austere, along the tall ciffs’ edge orthe long low line of beach. “Many peOple in Deal just now ?” York inquired of one of the boatmen. “Town chokefull, oi allow,” was the answer. “Take them there ships,” with a nod in the starlight towards the phamasmal huddel over the stern of the boat: “one person from each craft ’ud be. more’n enough to over- flow us, and you’d say that one-third of every ship’s company out yonder had come ashore." whofh this captain had 'addréssed as Mr. York prepared to descend. _ “A homer!" cried the young fellow, a little petulantly; “small prospect of my hiring a bad, if it be as you say.â€" D'yc think there‘s a chance of my get- ting a night’s_rest in your town ?" I n"‘ “No planking it for me, not if there’s a mattress to be hired!" cried York “Suffer such a fever as has kept me wasting for six months in Valparaiso, and you’ll wish your skeleton mar- rowless, that it might give over ach- As the man Spokge, the boat's grounded on the shmgle, and the tie craft swept broadside to the be "Whey not ’3" answered the other bonunan gruffly. "Ye’re a seafaring man beloik, and there ought to be more'n soft plank proper for sailor’s bones to be found vacant at Deal.“ “No planking it for me_,__not if there’s _ ~-LAâ€"Aâ€" boat's keel be lit- beach, THROUGHOUT THE GOLD COAST. Most any sort of time is kept in China. As a rule, the Chinese use an appar- ent sun time obtained from sundials. The foreigners at the ports on the coast use an approximate local time calculated from the Shanghai time, supplied by the telegraph companies. In the great city of 'l'ientsin, with a million inhabit;.nts, the time is deter- . ! which is the town-hall clock. It is sup- posed to be regulated every Saturday, when the community may set their watches, but it has been known to be in error at least three minutes. Last {December was the time when all the towns in Colombia were expect- ed, thereafter, to use the time 0! Bo- SdLLUl 3 ' An altercation followed; XOI‘k was resolved, the boatmen importunate and clamorous, and presently offen sive. Other boatmen were attracted by the noise, and soon there was a crowd of Deal men listening to the shouts of their two brethren and the cold. de- termined remonstrances of Mr. Jeremy York. . At last the tall young fellow cried out, “Make it. for shillings, then. and YOU shall be paid." The others agreed; the half-guinea was changed into silver; and York walked away, followed curiously by the eyes ol the SPOUP 0‘ men who had assembled. “Tall enough for a Maypole." said one of them. _._‘ “What’s his sect?" exclaimed anâ€" other. “Looks as if his but growed from a woman's head." “ 1 ,- ‘OVm w ‘â€"'â€"vâ€"' w â€" “Smite me," cried one of the tWO boaimen who had pulled the young fellow ashore, “if ever I takes 21 30b again without first agreeing with the party as to tarms. A dirty four shil- lin'! But what’s a man to dew? He outs with his half-guinea piece, and says ’Lis all the money he’s got in the world; and who’s to know that it ain't a forg- ed bit tew? But that's Billy Tucker's consarn, who's got the coi’n.’ He Spat with disgust and. lurched off, on which the group broke up, and made in sev- eral detachments for the various public- houses or inns in Beach Street. Flu-lug at Noon Gun at Telwmn. Persiaâ€" Very Good Time In Africa If There Is a Telegraph lime to Greenwichâ€"Four Kinds of Railroad Time In El l’aso. The ordinary method of reckoning time in Mohammedan countries is from sunset to sunset. Twelve o’clock is at sunset, and this is the beginning of the day. Two periods of twelve hours then pass till the next sunset, where- upon everybody sets his watch, if he has one, backward or forward, accord- ing to the season. Of course, accur- ate time is impossible under such a system. The telegraphs and railroads in Syria, for example, keep anything but exact time, though it might be procured from the observatory at Bev- rout, which uses its mean time. In Teheran, Persia, a midday gun is fired by the time shown on a dial, and this in spite of the fact that the correct local mean time might be procured at the telegraph office, which is regulat- ed daily by a time signal from Green- wich and is the time standard for all telegraphic business. But the mer- chants and the street car company keep gun time, and the railroad trains do not seem to require a time table at all, as they seldom start until full or required to start by a Government order. WAYS 0F REUKDNING TIME THE DAY BEGINS AT SUNSET IN MOHAMMEDAN COUNTRIES. There are out of the way parts of the world that keep very good time, because their clocks are regulated by telegraph from Greenwich and then the Greenwich mean time is reduced to lo- cal time according to longitude differ- ence. Thus, at Lagos and the Gold Coast, West Africa, the local time is checked daLly by telegraph from Greenâ€" wich and transmitted to all the tele- graph office-s in the colonies. The time at Accra is only forty-six seconds slow- e-r than that of Greenwich, and is the time used York, picking up his bundle. stepped out, and inquired the fare. The boat- man demanded six shillings. “See here." said he, pulling out a half-guinea piece, , “this is all the money I possess, and I shall have no more until I can-beg, borrow or steel it. if I deduct six shillings from this what does it leave me?" “Give us foive,” said the men. “Three," he answered; "for God’s sake, don't take advamage of a suck sailor l" _ ‘ " ‘ "A-‘r ‘(rac To be Continued" er and nihe sons and consumption one aitc daughte-Iis hved, but Canaries are more commonly tubr erculous than other cage-birds. The symptoms are a husky cougn, Inability to moult and gradual emamation. Hens suffer in the same ways. “Pip" has not yet proved contagious to human beings -â€"though it may be -- but“rickets" and “scrofula” are tuberculous and infec- tious. Gilbert, Roger and Cadiot have infected rabbits with bird tuberculosis. Dr. Wise gives some startling in- stances. In one family, living in a large, well-built house, about twenty or thirty birds were kept, partly in the house. Eight cases of tuberculous disease developed in this family. There was only one death â€" that of an athle- tic young man who had birds in his bedroom. The others yielded to treat- ment or change of climate. v--“u UV. But the most remarkable case de- scribed is that of a family in Silesia. The four grandparents had lived to an average age of seventy-eight years and none had consumption. The family kept many birds, and father and moth- n- 4-â€" _. â€"- u, ULLD Probably there .is nc ing perfectly healthy life is prejudical to h birds can poison a wh: tuberculous dust, eith the lungs or settling ter, cheese, jellies. m Tuberculous dogs and cats spread infection by nasal and other discharges and by sores upon their bodies. Parrots are also attacked by tuber- cl-es. Psittacosis, an infections disease of parrots, gives pneumonia to men. Nocard described its bacillus in Paris in 1893. A Noted Physician Suys Consumption ('omc's From (3.43 and Birds. If you want to avoid consumption don’t keep canary birds. If you will keep them, don't let them “kiss" you with their beaks. These are the. conclusions of Dr. A. Tucker \Vise, M.R.C.S., Eng.. L.R.C;P;, Loni, Diplome Suisse Federal, given in an article in the Lancet. Caged Li; ds and domesticated animals are particularly liable to disease . be- cause of the unnatural conditions un- der which they are kept. Tuberculosis is common among cage-birds. Don't keep parrots, rabbits, rats. cats. mice, pigeons, flies, dogs, hens. am tween Madrus 8 the Govermnelilt India. . V cm 11ved, but enfeebled. ably there -is no danger in keep- rfectly healthy pets, but cage prejudical to health, and sick on “A:~-â€"-â€" '- DOCTOR’S WARNING. 7v vâ€"vws Lange of climate. most; remarkable: case de- w-v- a whole household by ., either breathed into mption. The family and father and moth- and daughters died of after another. Two pets rqadily catch miLk but-I Few Statistics About llow nun. .. 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