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 atioo« fo, and the \ccident "y. 3.000 '^^ w the ludence liss ]larrable's Elopement. â€" CHAPT.R I. I â- i. at to drink briefly „1 • ii.oa â-  29,J .3 ,529 10 038 85 'J'Ki 50 388 CG â- U 22 ^9 95 6.25 i.ioj â€" 80,15i 4'J,t 24.S1 il trket ck lut 'â- *j,' (li-i- i'5 57 109 55 103 ri 2.i 3«, :«. 73,2 292 39, 25, 13,4; I«0 CHAFTKi: iJjr.-ab'e, a ppinster lady of t !â-ºâ-  l.i-t of hr race. Her Mr. Clrineat Marr^ble, never jj'died tweaty jeari ago u.ilen whither he had gen' M'°: 'nd her two sisters, Miria and Ijf »,*-"lt'f,cu='h they 1 i 1 marry, did not "'\ecome'm:dd leaded women. Th" F '%taria afcu- becoming the wife of m\ "Ln I.arki-pur, ot the firm of S. Tip, r 'â- '°» ,j3rtC"3npanv, bankers, of Thread- ""i"';trett g^ve birth to a tingle child, h-eT who was tamed Lucy and the â- ^" Li- itia, having; been led to the '^^"^Mr S-ptimus AUerton, of the firm i'Utoi i;.td, ar.d Benedic!;, brokeis, of b I ine, prefented her husband with '"'Vfl/ of w horn one onlyâ€" aad she was •*[°"'^j,'._tuivived her extreme infatcy. '^fl^^re•io^l: not astouishing that Mies " Marrable, a well-io-do woman with- ties ii ' xceedingly fond of *he '"' h-"ers" of her two deaa tisttD. She '^lly has tbeir. to itay with her at least " lvfa.r â€" cnce in the early summer at house iu Gro^vecor r^.reet and once in I autumn at the seaside, c in Italy, she aofs occasionsilly, accompanied great wonder of ills foreigners â€" by a man servant, two maids, eleven anil a green parrot. And as she is â- juJ to h( r nieces, and denies them iivii. ' '3 ^°^ surprising that they are r|.yj^'t\nd of her a5 she is of them. Bat '° Mirtha Marrable is growing old cereaa Mis? I-ucy Larkspur and Miss Amy [,r[cnare both youn|, and intend to re- use for some years to come. It is not, refore, to be 1 xptcted that the three 1(3 should invariably think txictly alike jlUubjttts, And indf ed, I am happy to that ttiere are not many women who do ee with M iss Mai rable upon all questic ns; although she is as goOd hearted an old jjjter as tver breathed, she is, nnfortuna- ijv, a man-hater. lliTtha fiUllly â- â- â€¢oer '.the l-csrifr. 1: 43r,5i â- â€¢* 1,173,41 ".2K 2t; 124 23 ' JJ 49 948 82 -â- B25,: 9,' 12,*: 3; 3, 631.99 33,W 500 00 117 J much lar was pain ;re83 is k ;he past and a h i' m. e before I 1, has bi neone-tei morcga, iected tJ imes for I I. ^t fail to lends of I their atM account leeting it hese aga weri irontoOh i. late wu jmhii Ian hour befi S3 Corn I t in acti' id thereti )einiioffef ir. See li â- h wrapp* ers, onlr ranee iw ler, the; Stomach iliciiie. " hey all. Tf ans abrca eft at boi -ced to a 16 Triani 36 cornel 10c. man as cent lit' iinct3 of and coi not ff button 1 article ^ense S^ to, wbi5 ty, '» nts. thi sss jbave looked into the dictionary to see 33t the verb "to hate" signifies, and I find itit means "to despise," or to dislike in- iely," Let it not, however, be supposed (uttae word "man-hater" is a stronger one a ought to be applied to Miss Marrable :Iim really not quite certain that it is Kjetccr strong enough. She regards men ji'ierior animals, and Icoks down upon [;:ir. Fith lofty contpmpt. "Who," she once sjii to her niece L it^y, "has turned the wrldnpbide down, filed it with poverty ui anhappiness, and deluged it with blood 1: is Man. Lucy, If woman had always trerned the earth, we should have had no -ijr Borgias, no Judge Jefferise, no Bon- ipirtes, and no Nana Sdhibs." And yet hi Martha Marrable can never see a jgaiant besreing in tb^ street without giving malms, The truth is, that although she kesti and despises man, she pities him as she pities the poor idiot whom she inetimes sees grinning and gibberinsr by ;f wayside in Italy. These being her sentiments Miss Marrable iHcot, of course, many male acquaintances, :e is on good, but not affectionate, terms 35 9(«Titn her widowed brothers in-law, Mr, .mgton Larkspur and Mr. Septimus AUer- iL She cnoeayear invites her man of KsiDess, Mr. John Bones, of Cook's Court, I tine with her and them in Grosvenor STeet and she is civil to the rector of her ash, add to the medical man whom she 'oalJ call in to attend her in case of illnt^s. let Mr, Lwkspur once told Mr. Allerton tx this feminine dragen had had a violent :te-afFair when she was nineteen and Mr, !ertonâ€" whofe connection with the Mar- 's 'e family is of much more recent date ::2th£t of Lucy's father â€" actually declM- :thithe c-uld well believe it. If, how- ler, Mies Marrable did have a love- afiair ::.er jonth, I am rot inclined at this time -IE ot (lay to cast it as a reproach in h(r «th, ,ys will be boys and girls, I sup- â- ie, will be g'rls, though they may live to i"hu error of their ways, and be none the 'Jtse for their follies. One thing is certain, 'â- i that is, that at the present time, arid :i:lean five-and-twenty years past, Mies iitiia Marrable has ceased to dream of the â- ^Mer passion. She still occasionally talks "ijiiely of go ng up the Nile, or of visiting ~i Yellowstone Region, ere she dies •â- â-  she never contemplates the pes â- "i'i'y cf getting married ana I •'iieve that stie would ai soon think of 'Cwing a man to believe that she regarded -31 with anything but polite aversion, as â- â- ! would think of goirg into bus'ness as a ~=fple-jack, and learniug to stand on one â- s"n the top of the cross at the summit of 'â- â-  i'dul'a dthedral. -^nii jet Miss Martha Marrable was laat '" thf heroine of a terrible scand? 1 and i^iy of her niisD nthropic female friends have jf'Cr snce been able to completely believe i't professions of hatred of man. The affair i»"8 lise to many whispers, and was even, I "•^^erstaud, guardedly alluded to, with just jEiiJituous deprecation, in the columns of •^^^ 'rman' Svfra'je Journal, as a terrible ^st happily rare instance of womanly weak- "8 and trivolity and s nee the true story never been told, I feel that it is only '•f to tell it, and by telling it, to defend =^3 -Miij-al^lg from the dastardly changes f ' have been made against her established 'pntation for good sense and unflinching â- "ctempt of tho rougher sex. ioffards the end of August, Miss Marrable nieces left London for North nore the id \f^\ piam c^ ,vf« !on s 3St P?i,il 1 rhen*^ rer es» â- ^^kertwo ^«3, and after a long and tiresome jour' •i"^^^*^'^^' -^'^^'â„¢a^. " Merionethshire, •»^t«)k rooms at the CorsyGedol Hotel. â- JJ ^f^s accompanied, as ufcual, by the ;,^ ""aids aad the green parrot but the iud'tv ^^ ^^^ man servant, being males, •i'J V ^^â- '^â- â- 'CPS not being imperatively ;i«rea, they w( re left behind in London. lirtL "" celebrated her twenty-third '•naay, and Amy was just about to cele- ,orr,^ 'ferity-first andâ€" although I am aatnn- u ,^ '° reccrd itâ€" I am by no means wTa "^^^ ^^^y were both in love. n k i°^ the whole of the previous 1 de •' '^^^° determinedly flirting with fihodt'f°'°^ young arts' named Robert ^^Wed^K^^ "y- younger and less ex- 01 ev " '" cousin, had been oarymg â- '«llicw """J^ **" imentally,with Mr.Viviau loundth 7 ^^'°S heir to a b»ronetcy, tiutij/T P-^sitiou s J arduous and fatiguing, otpjtion ^^^^ unfitted for any active oc- M ss V °' laborious character. Of course Had jijg""' khew nothing of these affairs. :4veQ.j*"P-cted them, sue would pariaps "law • ff, .*° *!«â-  nieces with her to Abtr- »Jtenn„[^,' l^^PPeDed that at that very xu Viv, P"**^®' *^ii" Thomas Jellicoe and his "^^ Were staying when the three ladies the two mai's anl tk.. arrived. Bat no for,s g TtolM J^^w'** TfaS'id^.^t*°^°'^« '•^y »° North wi:r Ihat adveoturots anisS had made tp h s mind to spand ttie autumn in M s/l.»^. T-f « nejg ibortiood aad even it M ss M '" K.ble had carried oflF her eld.st niece to T^" bactoo the Society Islands jT." ^hldTs would have g n, aft«r trie pair by theTxc ti^io, steam.oa.. dil g..ee, ^r car^vSTa^a" Upjn the morning. thtr,fore, after Mss Mm able s anival ac Aberm»w, she and her mecs were comfortably its-ailed at the Z;: l^'t^ ^f ' ' ^^"« ^t the Bed Oo.t clcs,by b.r Thomas J.lhcoe and Vivian oce^p ed r^ms on the first floor, and Mr Khoa, s had a bed room on the third \T .v^'^r.^^uV^ *^^' afternoon. M-s, Martha Marrable occupied by her Elects and f. 1 owed at a re pjc.ful distance by the two maids, walked in the auisiine np,n the hard sanr s that stretch, for 1 do not know how many hundred yards at low water between the roc*y hil s behind the httle town aad the maigm of Cardig m Bay The weather was hot and sultry, and the un- npp.led s.a looked like molten lead in the gUre. Much exercise was therefore out of ihe qu. s:ion and ere long, tho three ladies sit down ou the seaward side of a rush grown sandhill to read, leavirg the two n aic s to stroll farther if they ch( se to do so and to explore at their leisure the unaccus^ tomes woader* of the seashore, Mss Mirtha having arranged her sun- shade to her satisfaction, opened a little yolame on The Rights of the dlavs of Eng- land, while Lucy devoted heiself to one of '_Ouida's",noveli,and Amy plunged deep into Keals, In five minutes The RighU of the Slaves of England fell heavily to the sand and m three minutes more, M'ss Marrable was emitting sounds which, but that I know htr to be a woman who has no weakness, 1 should call snores From that moment, Lacy and Amy, as if by common consent, read no more, "Lucy," said Amy mysteriously to her cousin, â- â€¢! have seen him." •'So have I," Slid Lucy. "Wtiat a curious coincidence " ••Not at all. He told me that he intended to follow DS " "What Vivian told you " "0 no Bother Vivian You are always thinking of Vivian, 1 mean Robert." "He here too!" exclaimed Amy. "I meant Vivian. I siw him half an hour ago, with his father." "Well, I advse you not to let Aunt Martha know too much," said Lucy. "If she srspec's anything, she will take os back to London this aiternoon." M'ss Marrable murmured uneasily in her sleep. A fly had settled on her chin. "Hosh," exclaimed the girls in unison, and th«*n they were silent. Not loijg afterwards, they caught sght of two young men who were walking arm- in- arm along the sand, a couple of hundred yart's away. "Look 1 There they are I" whispored Lucy. " Aunt must not see them. We must; go and warn them." And, steathily accompanied by h^r cousin, she crept away from Mi's Marrable, and ran towards the approaching figures. I need nut dt scribe the greetings that en- sued. Such thing! are the commonplaces of seaside encounters between young men and young women who have likings for each other, and they have been desjribed a thous- and times. Suffice it to say that, a few minutes later, Lucy and Robert were sitting together under the shadow of a bathing machine, while Amy and Vivian were con- fidentially talking nonserse a dozen yards off. More than half an hour f l»psed ere the gills returned to M ss Marrable; but fortu- nately the excellent spinster was still mur- muring sleep ly at the fly on her chin and when bue awoke, she had no s'splcion that she had been deserted by her charg s. As she walked back with them to the hotel, nevertheLs*, as if with a strange intuitive comprehension of danger in the air, she held ftrih to them up m her favorite topic â€" the unfathomable bas3ne^s of man and gravely warned them agaii st ever oil )win»4 them- selves even for a single moment to entertain any feeling, save one of polite aversion to the hated sex. Thus matters went on for a week or more, Lucy and Amy meeting their lovers every day in secret, and M S3 Marralle sucpecting nothirg, Althonga she knew Sir 'Xhomas Jtllicoo and his son, she treated them when- ever she encountered them, with s ich freez- ing courtesy, that they did not seek htr society. As for Robert Rhodt s, she did not know him and he therefore tsjaped her lofty slights. Bat in due time a crisis arrived and in order that the full bearing! of the situation may be properly understoi»d, I must briefly explain the character of Miss Martha Mar- rable's undutiful nieces. Lucy Larkspur has but little romance in her compositiejn she has strorg feelirg-i, not mncn sentiment; and she is one of those g rls who are perfectly e p n with their heart. She lovea (Robert Rhodes, and, as she knew quite well that he also loved her, she made no secret to him of her affec- tion for him. Amy Allerton, on the othe' hand, is, and always hai been, sentimentally inclined. She believe?, rightly or wrongly, that it is a very charming thing to Let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek and she would ts soon have thought of per- mitting Vivian Jellicoe to think that she loved him, as of attempthng to win and woo the Saltan of Turkey. The consequence was that Mirs Marrable, who fondly loMgia- ed^that she knew ail the thoughts of ner elder niece, trusted her much more than she trusted her younger. She regarded Lucy aa an open book that might be eis ly read, anl Amy as a kind of oracular voice that, while saying and appearing to say on^ thirg. might mean exactly the opposite. Miss Marrable was destined to discover that she was to same extent wrorg in her estimate, so far. at all events, as Lucy was concerned and her discovery of her error was. I grieve to say, accompanied by a good deal of pain and mortification. j ii.„ *„.» „,, Ten days had passed and the two pur of lovers had made considerable P^-s^ Amv it is true, had not declared hers If to v"L.. who? being a bashful yonrg in«.. had. perhaps not pressed her suficently j Kt Lucy an^Robert understood ane wiother completely, and were secretly engaged to be i^H**I!t"*i'*^ '"â-  lo^edanyonehather- N^tarea like Amys when they once take fire^ often bur. rapidly. Qa MondaylEe for the wedding, aau s e refuscl and on Wednesday, V.vian. knowing the pecoliaS^ sentiments of Miss Martha ll .rrabte!*^" doubtful ,1*», p=rh«ps,whethe.- his fachlir wool 1 not thnv,r m pe liments ia the way of his early mair age.l pr poaed an elopameat and Amy. with som= ho-itation, cols -nted. "'It? V "ipt^ned from her secret meet- ing with her lover, she of coune confided her plan to her cousin. 'How fooliah you are said Lucy -you know that your father would not hav« you do that for the world: and you will m»ke an enemy of Aunt Martha, who is like a mother to us girJs "But she would neve- agree to our marry- 1?^' T® 1'°°*"" "'â- â€¢" o^^jected Amy; and If she knew anythir g of our pi ans, I am sure that s-.o would ma-.ag, to frustrate them. She is a dear oil thing but We 1, she is peculiar on thi s^ points." ••; have tell you what I think," said Lucy, with an assumption of wisdom that w ai perhapi warranted by ter s -p jrior ase "Don't be foolish. " ' But Any was already beyond the influ- ence ot couDsel. She persisted in her in- tention, and even claimed Lucy's symp »thy and as-is'-ance, which of course, Lacy could not ultimately withhe 1 1. Ere an ebpsment can be sucoessfolly car- ried out, in tne face ecpecially of the jealous watchfulaesa of a mau-nating spinster lady of middle age, numerous preparations have to be made and in the case of Vivian and Amy, the makieg of these p-eparations in- volved corretpindence. Amy, therefore, bribed one of her aunt's maios to act as a go-between and the maid in question, with a fidelity that is rare, and at tho same time a treachery that, I fear, is common in her kind, promptly carried Vivian's first letter to her mistress. Mi«s Martha Marrable without scruple tore open the envelope and angrily peruaod its contents. " My own Amy," ran the audacious communication â€" "Let ns settle, then, to go on Wednesday. At nine o'clock in the evening, a cairiage and pair shall be ready to take ns to Harlech, where you can stay for the night with the Joneses, who are old friends of ours and on Thursday by' mid-day we shall be married, aad, I trust;, never afterwards parted again. We can arrange the detaiU between this and then. But write, and tell me that you agree. Your ever devoted Vivian." (to be continued.) A Whale Yrith Fine Whiskers. A whale measuring fifty feet nine inches long and twelve feet four inches through the body from back to breast, and with a tale nine feet across, got ashore recently on the south inside shore of Fungoteague creek, Accomac county, Virginia. Five fishermen attacked the monster oy shooting and chop- ping it. They secured it with two anchors, which were fastened to the leviathan by ropes passed through holes cut in his flesh. Its captors were at work about the whale for several hours, during which time the whale remained motionless, and it was thought to be dead. When the tide came in at sundown it floated and displayed re- newed vitality. A desperate struggle freed the animal from its captivity, and it moved away, carrying the cables and anchors with it. No more was seen of it until the follow- ing Monday, when it was discovered in the channel of the creek, dead. The fishermen towed it to the beacon north of Pungoteague creek, where they recommenced their opera- tions of stripping ic of the blubber. The proprietors of the fiah factory on the creek offered to boil the blubber for one-half the oil, but the lucky captors refused to accept those terms. It will rrobably render seventy-five barrels of oil. Tnis is the second whale to get ashore m tho same vicinity within one year, and afford a source of revenue to the hardy fishermen of the neighborhood. The whale is now in charge ot Capt. Crockett, who VI ai moat persistent in his capture. When its jaws are fully open an ordinary man can stand erect in its mouth. The monster was driven into the Chesapeake from the ocean by therecent easterly storms, and, keeping along the leeward side of the bay, entered the deepest water, which took it into Pungoteague creek. It is of the male kind. Behind each jaw, under the ear, it has a beautiful dark mane, much coarser than that of a horse. The whale is lying near Martin's point on his side, where crowds visit it from the country. Pungo- teague creek is a distinguished locality. It was there Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, ren- dezvoused his oyster pirates i s year, and net far from the whale is the ghost-famed Millstone point, so well known to old sail- ors and citizens. It is the only creek on the peninsula visited by water- outs, there being three experienced ere in thirty years. More people have been drowned in Pungoteague creek than in any other water on the eastern shore. Cremation on the Continent. On the continent, as in England, crema- tion is making progress. The French cham- ber of depntiea has before it a bill, introduc- ed by M. Casimir-Perier, giving French citizens the option of being inhumed or cre- mated as they may prefer, and it is expect- ed that the bill will pass. The Belgian chamber of representatives h*8 before it a petition from the town council of Brussels praying for the legalization of cremation. The International Cremation association, which has its headquarterj at Milan, is at the same time carryicg on an active propv gandain France and Belgium. The agent whom the society sent to Be'gium la a near relative of the late papal nuncio at the 'court of Brussels; and he is charged to obtain per- mission to erect an experimental cremator- ium in the 'gay city ot Brabant," at the ex- pense of the association. In Italy a consid- erable number of priests have been cremated. On the continent, where funerals nsually take place within forty-eight hours of death, there exists a morbid fear of being buned alive; and this feeling may, perhaps, explain the favor into which incineration is rapidly rising on the other aide of the channel « •â- â-  â-  ~^ A New Yord oar-driver when he wants to clear the track shouts, "Hi. there, hi. A ChioMO driver strikes his beU and shonta, T^ShX 'em up there. wiU you?" A R«tc« driver says, "Deviate from the direct Une these equine appendages, accelerate, acceler- ate, exhilamtion, lively now. THE BED SEA. ItaP»latBortatwMt.Htstorteat aad To- PvKTsphlealâ€" Tbe Site of MedUeval BoouuMeâ€" Seenes AlvBS tlia Cmut. By whatever name we may call thd nar- row atrip of ae% that separatra ^r)tba /rom AV.ci,â€" the "Weedy aea" cf the Hebrew, tne "Erythrsea" of the ancient, the ♦ Galf cf M^icca" of the Mohammedan or Ked sea" of moderit pa-l\ncd â€" there U no doubt that it has at all timet commanded a special interest. Memorable, of course, in hcly writ, it has also been fn qaently aelectei ad the site of meliae -ral and even later romance, aad no traveller either before cr after the Suez canal who conSded his impressions to type ever failed to devote some page to thb famous sea. It abounds with sucn obviius points of interest, historical and topographi- cal, from the Twelve Apostles to the Gulf ot Suez, that even the Peninaular and Ori- ental p isseoger reclining ander the awnings, languid with the excessive h»at. evolves sulfiiieat energy to a«k qaestioni of the offi- cers or to listen to dissertations of more ex- perienced voyagers opon the spots of note or national curiosity which the steamer is passing. Not that, as a fact, much comes actually into clear view, but still there is eaoogh shadowed out upon cither horizon to pique cariosity and arrest the imagina- tion. Is not Arabia on the ooe hand and Abyssinia on the other? And have not these been from all times lands of romance and travt I To the ♦ravtUer from India, therefore, the straits of B tbel-mandeb mark the commence- ment of tiie more stirring haif of the voy- age. Even a rook is a vast relief to eyes that have grown hlaae of sea water and wea- ry of speculating on sails seen on the hori- zon. And immediately on entering the straits the "sights" ot the Red sea com- mence. That island yonder is Perim, upon which Anglo-Indian wags delight to crack their jokes â€" a sun-smitten four miles of rock, where two wretched solliers are popu- larly 'ppposed to KEPKESKNT THE POWKE OF ENGLAND. Life, they say, is dull there. There is not even the diversion of throwing stones into the sea. Triey have all been thrown away long ago. So the private, it is eaid, chips the rock for the sergeant to chuck at toe water. A fly once set led on Perim, and the private got a day's leave from his su- perior officer to go out shooting it. Sach and a hundred others are the waggeries in- tended to convey a notion of the dreaiiness of P. rim. Yet the French woull Idie to have the rock very much, and for that rea- son Great Britain keeps it. Close to Perim is Oyster rock, so called fcr the abundance aid excell mce of the oysteri which at some remote period are said to have existed there. Forty miles up the sea brings the Toyager abreast of Moncha â€" a city that il- lustrates conspicuously the virtues of white- wa"h. The shtlh of houses and mosques, with crank) minarets, are all whitened, and when the sun shines upon the town it stands out from the sea with a beauty which ia moat immora'ly deceptive. Meanwhile on the other side the steamer has passed the Six Brothers, a group of vclcsanic rocks, one of which, in compliment te its superior sta- ture, or perhapi a reflection upon the di- minutive proportions of the rest, is called the High Brother. Tae coast 1 ne broken by rome remarkable irregularities away toward the interior of the country ia seen rigid with successive ranges of hill'j. Oa this, the African side, the course lies past Asaab bay and Raa Billore, with num roas islands, steep and paaked, scattered along the coast, with reeta that make navigat'on dangerous, and except for chance Arabs ccl leeting sharks' fins or tnr; le fcr trade with Yemen, most inhospitably uninhabited. Tnirty miles or so north of Ras, or Cape, Bi I )ul islands recommence, some of them the resort of myriads of sea fowl, and many of curious shapes, volianic. And so to the villige of Edd, a hamlet whence the flock- keep ng foil? of the interior export their produce, and where cattle thrive. The next sign of ta'oitation is Amp la, a jlice of ghostly solitude, between a storm swept desert and 'jhe swelteting sea and then come more isl mds, some of them coral and with a scanty vegetation, and next Dissee, or "V Jmtia ifUnd," with its one group of stone huts and small herds of cattle, and thus to Massowah. The ihl ind, half a mile long by a quarter wide, holds the town, the ' name of which is again becoming f am liar to British readers. The better bu 1 iings tre chiefly of coral, and a languid trade is car- ried on with the Arabian coajt opposite. B Jt the anchorage in Massowah bay is good, and a mile further north is Dahalaa bay, AN EQUALLY USEFQL HARBOR. A jangle- grown shore now carries on the coast line, abounding in reefs and incon- siderable islands. Daalac island, with some half dozen hamlets, is, however, a spot of comparative interest, having a trade in peaila and other sea pioiuce, and fairly sup- plied with cattle, and abundantly with good water. Some of the other islets are inhabi- ted, the honaea built of Madrepore coral roughly hewn into blocks, and the rocka af- feirding just sufficient subsistence for small flocks 01 goats, which, with fish and shell fish, form the cbiaf food of the peop'.e. Norawat bay, paat which the ateamer may now be supposed to be making her home- ward-bound way, is the finest bay in the Red sea, but the islands that fcr m it are bar- ren and inhospitable, so that, excep for its excedent anchorage, the harbor is of no val- ue. The coast line becomes monotonous to a degree, being low and sandy, with noth- ing but occasional tufts of arid tamarisk acrub to break the dreariness. Bit it changes again soon, and the names of vari- ous elevations, "Chimney hill," "Sugar- loaf hill," "Hummock peak," and so forth, describe the various bi li contours they as- sume. And so to Suakini, the little town built of coral on a coral island that is now so famous and so often described of 1 tte. From Suakim northward the coaat b are few traces of pjrmanent habitation. Jtzl- rat AoduUa, Saeik Birad, and Daroor are haroleta without prosperity or natural re- sources to temps any but the piorest Arabs to reside there, while the same abnndaice of reefs and rocky islets, makmg navigation dangerous, continue. Eighty miles north of Saakim is Salaka. a wretched v. 11 age in a wretched bay, and except for curioas peaks and hills, tho coast line possesses no interest up to D^hana bay, on the rocks beyond which more tnan one ah.p has been loat. Anl so, northward, to Dalao bay, and thence past a dangeioas ah^ra, studded with sunk- Sreefa, to Helaib, with an excellent little harbor and an Arab aad Nabiaa colony in comforteble ciroamstances St. John s is- land, once famoaa fcr ita emtr«Hs, and still H-jaeed with a profuaicn of turtle; Enerad island i'^Pfllf, R« B nas, wherj the mini of ancient B renioe lie aJoiost overwhelned in the shifting sand, and many another lit- )1) cap) and ialand to Ciaaeir, a town of some thtee thouaand people and a oonaidera- ble grain trade, and wniofa, under better government, might attain to some proa- perity. Northward lie aome Bdouin vU- lagea â€" and then, after a tract of uninhabited coast, broke a by numeroua fa'ands, Jubal, and the G*ulf of Suez Oi the Arabian coast, if the coarse of the steamer would p^rmic, a view of these na- merous s nail v.lliges could be seen soon after leaving Mocha, on the northward voy- age, and then Hodeida, a town ot onsider- »hie p etenuuas, a coflF^re p rc, and fortified; C imaran islanH, with its colony of p larl- tishi rs and turtle- hunters; the Three S isters, Loheia, a walled and fortifiod pace with lar 46 trade with the desert ft Ik; the Z jbayr gtoip, Gheesan, with its crumbled fort and junijie-grown surrouniings: Zinler, where aatelopea abound; the Faraan group, with their curious bluffs; Jezvrat Djeaan, mhabi- ted within the century, but now a deoolate ruin with a large cemetery Ras Tarfa; C omfida, with its garrison and bazaars well supplied with food; and Jaddah, the famous poit of p'l^image. Here is the tomb of Eve^o the faithful say. A few Bedouin hamlets, inhabited only cccaaionally, lie Along the coast above Je'dda, and then Zembo, the pirt of M dina, is sighted. An- other Buccesdion, at loog intervals, ot small Arab settlements bring up the coast line to the pilgrim's halting place of M li'lah, and so on nortlward to R»3 Mo'^a'n.Tied an 1 the Gulf of Suez agBia. The Gnlf cf Akabah. which the Arab fears with suca a surpassing a«re that he will not sail on it, and even passinj; near it off'ers up a prayer for protecticn; the distant glimpse of Scai, the headland near which tra lition states the Hebrews crossed the Red sea, the wells of M ises, and many an- other sight of interest or ep culation are present m imaginatioa to the voyager down, this famous sea, while those who have ex- plored its shores can tell of great ruins that strew the land, and strange fna'is of na- tU'" B it to-day it derives its chief interest from the fact that her majesty's government huva notified their intention of occupying the por.s upon its Egyptian coast, and that our gallant troops are fighting on its shares. Great Engineering Work. One of the wonders of marine engineering is tae Bhip canal through the Fialand bay from St. Petersburg to Cronstradt, in Rus- sia. The bay betweem the two cities is so shallow that formerly only veasels of very light draf 5 cjuld come to St. Petersburg, and in coniequence an enormous amount of lighte rage was necessary, the cos!; of which, some $5,000,000 annually, becoming alio- gether too burdensome for the S' Peters- burg trade. S^nce the completion of the canal mentioned, the largest vessels em- ployed in the BUtic trade can reach St. Petersburg. The canal is seventeen miles long, aad is formed by two enormous break- waters running parallel to each other 275 feet apart. Between them a channel of the uniform depth of 22 feet has been dredged. About half way between the two cities the caaal is widened to a harbor of refuge about oae mile square, also formed by breakwaters. The latter are almost entirely constructed of cribs filled with stone, which were gener- ally sunk in winter time when the bay was frozen over solid. The cribs were mostly built oa the ice, which was aa muoi aa three feet thick, a id sank througa holes cut ia the ice. This wor' wai by no means free from danger, for frequently the water would suddenly rise through the hole made and flood the camp of the laborers, woo had thea to work standing knee-deep in freezing cold water. At other times a sadden fcnow-itorm, in which it was impos- sible to stand erict, would force the labor- ers to win the oast, crawling a distance of three miles or more over the ice. To com- plete the canal it was necessary to sink about twelve million cub'.c feet of rocks and stones, while to deepen the chaaael 230,- 000,000 cubic feet of earth had to be remov- ed. Of course such an undertakiug waa possible ouly ia Rissia, an i at a time when her popul itiou was still largely made up of serfd, whose labor could be had for the coat of board and clothing. Oiling the Waves Wm. J. Card, captain of the schooner Turban, reports some interesting particulau-s of his use of oil to break the force of waves, on a voyage from North Carolina to Nova Sjotia, in September last. The schooner was of 163 tona registered, with a cargo of 300 tons railroad iron, which loaded her down until her gunwales [were not more than two feet above water. O i the thircl day out the weather became boisterous, and on the following morning, soon after day- break, the vessel ran into a gale. The wind was varying about from southeast to north- east, and blew up a heavy sea, caused by the hurricane that had prevailed for some days to the southward of the vessel's posi- tion. The schooner, by reason cf her deep loading, was completely at the mercy of the seas, which broke over her with terrific force. Soon after noon Capt, Card stationed a man in the bow of the schooner â€" it being unsafe to venture 01 th£ jib-boom, which was in danger of being earned away by the seaa â€" and directed him to throw over from a small can a little o'l at the approach of every " comber." Tae oil was poured out through the spout of tho can, and the Cap- tain estimates the quantity thrown over each time at rather less than an ordinary tumblerful. Aa the Eupply on board was limited, it was thrown out only at the ap- proach of very heavy seas. At first petroleum burning oil was used, and while this had some effect, it was not heavy enough to thoroughly break the wave, and linseed oil â€" some ten gallons of which had been laid in for painting pur- poses â€" was then employed. The result was in every way satisfactory, and the use of the oil was oontinaed for aboat fifteen hours, by which time the supply was ex- hausted. The fury of the gale hal. how- ever, subsided, and the schooner reached port in safety. Capt. Card says that with- out the use of the oil the vessel could not have lived out the gale â€" the effect of the oil having been to level the comb of the wave and prevent its breaking over the vesseL "WiU you haye a small pieoe of the light meat or a saoall piece of l^e dark?" aaked Bob's uncle as he carved the turkey at din- "f r "I'll have a large piece of both," sa'd Bob. 'A :) ;l i i II! .1 hi i i Jl %v m