his crew into activity. He gave his'or dera, and tho ship yore slowly round before the wind and began to pay away on the other tack. Great bills of sea deluged her in the process, and her people worked like mermen, half of their time submerged. But by degrees, as the vast rollers hit and shook her with their ponderous im pact, she came upright again and after a little while shook the grain level in her holds and assumed her normal angle ef heel. Dayton-Philipps struggled tip and hit Kettle on the shoulder. "How's that, umpire?" he bawled. "My faith, you are a clever sailor." Captain Kettle touched his cap. "God bore a hand there, sir," he shout ed through the wind. "If I'd tried to straighten her up like that without his help, every man here would have been fish chop this minute." Even Dayton-Philipps, skeptical though ho might be, began to think there was "something in it," as the voyage went on. To begin with, the leak stopped. They did not know how it had happened, and they did not very much care. Kettle had his theories. Anyway it stopped. To go on with, al though they were buffeted with every kind of evil weather, all their mis chances were speedily rectified. In a heavy sea their unstable cargo surged about as though it had been liquid, but it always shifted back again before she quite capsized. All hands got covered with salt wa ter boils. All hands, with th© exception of Kettle, who remained as usual neat, grew gaunt, bearded, dirty and un kempt. They were grimed with sea salt, they were flayed by violent suns, but by dint of hard schooling they were becoming handy sailormen; all of them, and even the negro stone mason, learned to obey an order without first thinking over its justice till he earned a premon itory hiding. "It's a blooming Flying Dutchman we're on," said the coal trimmer, who acted as mate. "There's no killing the old beast. Only hope she gets us ashore somehow and doesn't stay fooling about at sea forever just to get into risks. I want to get off her. She's too blooming lucky to be quite wholesome somehow.'' In Bristol channel a little spattering tug wheeled up within hail, tossing like a cork on the brown waves of the estuary, and her skipper in the green pulpit between the paddle boxes waved a hand cheerily. "Seem to have found some dirty weather, captain," he bawled. "Want a pull into Cardiff or Newport V "Cardiff. What price?" "Say £100." "I wasn't asking to buy the tug. You're putting a pretty fancy figure on her for that new lick of paint you got on your rail." "I'll take £80." "Oh, I can sail her in myself if you're going to be funny. She's as handy as a pilotboat, brig rigged like this, and my crew know her fine. I'll give you £20^pto Cardiff, and you're to dock me forahat." "Twenty wicked people. Now look here, captain, you don't look very pros perous with that vessel of yours, and you'll probably have the sack from owners for mishandling her when you get ashore, and I don't want to ixnbit ter your remaining years in the workus, so I'll pull you in for 50 quid." "Twenty pounds, old bottle nose." "Come now, captain, 30. I'm not here for sport. I've got to make my liv ing." "My man," said Kettle, "I'll meet you and make it £35, and I'll see you in Aden before I give a penny more. You can take that or sheer off." "Throw us your blooming rope," said the tug skipper. "There, sir," said Kettle sotto voce to Dayton-Philipps, "you see the mar velousness of it. God's stood by me to the very end. I've saved at least £10 over that towage, and, by James, I've seen times when a ship mauled about like this would have been bled for four times the amount before a tug would pluck her in." 4' Then we are out of the woods now ?" "We'll get the canvas off her and then you can go below and shave. You can sleep in a shore bed this night if you choose, sir, and tomorrow we'll see about fingering the salvage. There'll be no trouble there now. We shall just have to ask for a check, and Lloyds will pay it, and then you and the hands will take your share, and I—by James, Mr. Philipps, I shall be a rich man over this business. I shouldn't be a bit sur prised but what I finger a snug £500 as my share. Oh, sir, God's been very good to me over this, and I know it, and I'm gratefuL My wife will be grateful too. I wish you could come to our chapel some day and see her." "Skipper, you're a heap better man than I am, and if you don't mind I'd like to shake hands with you. Thanks. Hello I There's Cardiff not 20 minutes ahead. Well, I must go below and clean op."

Lightning and the Eyes.

One night during a thunderstorm of rare severity, in which brilliant flashes, Single, double, triple or quadruple, fol lowed one another at intervals often of not more than a few seconds of time, I was surprised to see with great vivid ness on a suddenly illuminated sky two nearly vertical lines of darkness, each of the ordinary jagged appear ance of a bright flash of lightning. I remembered to have seen two real flashes of Just the same shapes and relative positions and concluded that r the black flashes were due to their residual influence on the retina. I turned my eyes quickly from the dark sky outside to an illuminated wall in- Bide the house, and I again saw the fiame double dark flash, which verified tny conclusion in an interesting man- Bet. The fatigued part of the eye fail ed to perceive the sudden brightness of the sky in the one case and of the wall In the other.—Lord Kelvin in Elec trician.

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