The Captain's Story.

j A KOMANCE PEOM THE LO& OP A BRITISH SHIP NOW IN SAN FRANCISCO HARBOUR.

December 9fch.— Weather hazy, wind E. N. E. at 2M^ck P.M., James 'Hanlon, able sea man, \P : rJ|oins7ging out a main top gallant Btuddirij,'Ak&ir J'o6m,-feli from the yard over board. Ship was hove to and port quarter boat lowerej, but Hanlon never came to the surface.

December 12th.— Weather still hazy, wind N. E. William Fodd, ordinary seaman, while mailing up a gasket on the port cross jack J'-ird arm fell overboard Hove ship to, but lie never came to the surface. —[Extract from the official log of the British, iron ship on her passage from Melbourne to San Fran cisco.] The captain of the vessel,' now in this harbour, from whose log the above extracts were made, and the name of which, by his request, we repress, related the following curious narrative to the writer :— "I had," said he, "almost finished taking in a stiffening of coal for my trip to San Francisco, when two young men came aboard my ship and told the mate, Mr. 8 ~ that they would like to see the captain. I Tfftß at lunch at the time, so the first officer directed them to wait a few minutes. During this period, as Mr. S—< afterward told me, they conversed earnestly and loudly in French, one seeming to urge, and the other object:, to some plan or project. At last, Todd, the youngest, put his foot on the gangway plank, when Hanlon pulled him back, and at this moment I came on deck. Hanlon touched his cap and said : "Please, sir, I would like to ship with you for San Francisco." He was a tall, handsome, lithe looking fellow, with a thoroughly seaman-like air. "1 can only take yoxi for the round trip to Liver pool," I amwered, " What do you want to ship as ? Able seaman, I suppose ?' 'Yes, sir, able seaman. Here is my kst discharge.' I examined it, and found it all correct. I glanced at his companion. He was of small stature, had fair curling hair and looked like an English school boy. I thought, " This> fellow has run away from home, gone to sea, and now wants to get back again.' "Do you want to ship also ?" I said to him. " Yes, sir ; I'd like to ship as ordinary sea man. I can furl and steer, but I lost my last. discharge." Well, I took them to the shipping office and they signed the ship's irticles as James Hanlon/A. 8., and William Todd, O. S. The writing was not in the usual scrawl of ignorant men. Hanlon's was a bold, eood hand, aud Todd wrote his name in small, fine characters, which I have observed customary with those educated in continental schools. We got to sea, and the first day out an incident occurred which afterwards made an imp-ession on me. T'-dd was coiling down ropes on the poop, and Hanlon was at the wheel. Observing a slight squall sweeping over the water, I gave orders to let sro the mizen royal halliards, and sang out to,,Todd to jump up aloft and furl the sail. He sprang into the mizan rigging, and,had proceeded up a few ratlins, when he 'hesitated, and looked, as I thought, nervously at. the flapping canvas above him, and 'hen at Hanlon. He, holding the wheel with one hand, stepped forward and said something sharply in French, or may be Italian, I could , aot tell which Todd continued his w»y, got out on the yard and made the sail fast in a very creditable manner. I was about to ' reprove Hanlon, but on second thoughts I • concluded, as there was some mystery about ; these two men, I would keep quiet and find . it out in some other way. . . Todd became an immense favourite in the forecastle. In the dog watch, from 6toß, he ased to sing to the men pretty English and ( French songs, and when Hanlon, his chum, l Wio was always with him at these hours, ] shimed in, the effi-ot was delightful. Todd's s voice was of a feminin9 character, sursh as I , tiave often noticed with young boys, and Hun- ' ,dn had a really fine baritone. One day I ' sent forward for Todd to have him disen- ' tangle some fishing tackle. He came aft, and just then the mate called me to inspect some work going on in the fore hold. You see this piano of mine. Well, it is not a very fine instrument, but it has helped me to while away many a dreary hour of a long passage. -, Wavn I returned I heard a few chords of the instrument sounded. Then the accompaniment to a plaintive little English melody which has ' ' llways been a favourite of mine, " Little If ell" I on the heroine of Dickens', "Old ' Curiosity Shop." The first verse was sung with ' a pathos and tenderness I had never heard i equalled. At the close of the second verse I < entered the cabin and found, as I expected, { Todd' seated at the piano. He blushed and . s apologized in a manner that astonished me. < [fc was never acquired at sea, or even at. Bchool. 1 " Where did you learn to sing, Todd," I , asked. I " 'At home, sir," he said. *■• I have the fish- i ing lines all clear now." . " Never mind the fishing lines ; finish that song." . J lie did so, and then, as if quite carried away, ] sang song after song —airs from operas and "' ballads—until the mate's call of "Where's that boy, Todd ?" aroused me from the plea- < ■ure and astonishment in whicl-1 had listened I to the. performance. The next day I called f both Hanlon aud Todi aft, and had them J ling together. But every attempt I made to ] unravel the history of the previous career of ] either was met with silence or evasion which ( it was impossible to break through." i "I shall now," said the Captain, " refer you to another portion of the ship's log." j November 27th. —Weather thick and rainy, Hanlon was brought aft this morning. . The , second mate stated that he had ordered him ' to furl the fore top gallant stay sail, and he . had refused, telling the officer he might lay ( out and furl it himself. Asked Hanlon whaf. { he meant by this insubordination. He '' touched his cap civilly aad answered " that he 1 did not feel well, had been ill for some days ' ' and' could not tell what was the matter. I: < sent him forward after rebuking him sharply ; i for his conduct!" , " *, jj After this I noticed that some coolness had j | «rown up between Todd and Hanlon. The ■ sailors remarked it, too, and chaffed them about it a good deal. One fellow's chaff brought him a severe drubbing, fir Hanlon knocked him down, and thw joke" oamj aft for sticking plaster with as mangled a mug as I have ever seen. This stopped the ohaff On the afternoon of December 9th tha mate sent Hanlon aloft to rig out a t:>p gallant' studding sail boom. Todd was mtk ng sennit on deck, and just before Hanlon went aloft he touched him on the shoulder and as the car penter told me whispered something, in his ear. Hanlon bent down a^d touched the boy's hand with his lips, then jumped aloft, and the next thing was the cry of " Man over board!" Nobody saw him fall. As the log you, everything was: dona oooly and promptly, but fee neyer'came to the'surf tee. After the boat was hoisted--to the dari's again, Todd was found lying,atithe foot of ihi main masr., in a fit He was. carried to his bunk and well oared for./• December 12 h, lie ea ac on deck and walked afcto .ooil-do-trd the m\intbraces on the pboß. The wea her <w is hazy, and the atop going t aboiitn four knots: an; hour jflirougb, the water. I ordered him aloft to / nwk« up a gasket oathe cross jack yard. The I «»n tt th« wawl told me h« watched him lay

out along the yard and get hold of the gasket. When he looked again the boy had struck the water, and lie put the helm hard down. We never saw Todd again." Here the captain helped himself to a glas3 of brandy and water, and I remarked, although he tried to conceal it, that he was very much affected.

" Did you find anything in their chests," I asked, "to give a clue to their history ?" The captain opened iis writing desk and handed me two bundles*of letters.

"Read tliPtn yourself," he said. The first that I glanced at was dated "Ant werp, May, '73," in a female hand.

"That is Todd's writing," said thfi Captain, It ran as follows :

DiEMNfi Jack : Can't see you to-day VTadame Celine is fcarribly strict, and insists that the girls shall not be allowed to walk ilone. Try to-morrow evening at the poatern £ate. He will be away, and his wife does not forget that Napoleon you gave her. Alice. The next was some months later on : You ask me to make a fearful sacrifice. 1 cannot make up my mind. Give me a little time. Aiice. ,

" I have gone over them all," continued flic captain, "and find it is the old story over and over again. Hanlon, as I found from liis papers, was a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. His right name was Marston. Alice, far I found no other name, was the daughter of some English merchant, a banker, at school in Antwerp. He hud met her at home and they renewed the intimacy abroad, as I judge from these letters. For some offence or other he w^s ti-ied by court-martial and dismissed the service. He pursuaded her to ran away with him to Australia. This is all the information these papers give me." " As his wife, do you think ?" I asked. "I found no ring, no certificate. God only knows tlie relations between them. I imagine

they had some serious quarrel a few days before Hanlon's or Marston's death, and he became despondent."

" Do you think he committed suicide ? '

"Thai, ia only known to One," replied the oaptaiu. " I give you this Jittle romance for all it 13 worth. 'Tis a sad bit of history, is

it not ? Some fellows would be able to twist a novel out of it I suppose. Hallo! here is more wheat on the wharf. I must look after it. Q-ood by, old man: bnsiness is business, you know."

A Loving Couple.

Last week a loving couple were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock in Salinas City. They were married in the morn ing, and immediately stepped on board the cars for a bridal tour t San Francisco. They attracted attention on their way to this place by their honeymoon ways, and created a good deal of quiet fun among the goodly number of ladies and gentlemen who were passengers. In duo time the cars entered the tunnel a short distance from this place, and all for a few moments were enveloped in darkness. All too soon the cars emerged into the broad glare of the noonday sun, and our loving bride and groom were dis covered locked in each other's arms and exchanging kisses at a rate seldom seen in public. The passengers took in .the situation in about a second, and a shout went up that nearly threw the train from the track, and brought the conductor to the scene on the double quick. ' Pass it around,' yelled a big man who was- on his way East to get his wife. 'Go back to the tunnel' said another man to the conductor, and as the newly-made husband settled back in his seat he was heard to say ; ' tfarah, I thought tunnels were longer. Darn a railroad company, anyway.'

A Modern Guy Fawkes.

Michael Fennel died recently in San Francisco. He was a remarkable man, and we suppose his life-history is not generally known there. It certainly is not to the press, as may be inferred from the several notices of his death. Some four years ago, it was our fortune to be associated with Mr Fennell as a journalist, and one evening, when he was in a retro spective mood, we were entertained by a sketch of his younger life, which may now be related. He was an Irish patriot of the resolute and enthusiastic sort; himself a Protestant, his wife and beautiful daugh ters Catholics. His eldest always seemed to us as nearly a saint as woman can be come this side of heaven, though not vowed to the church. Daring the rebellion in Canada, about thirty-seven years ago, Mr. Fennel was one of the leading spirit! of the insurrection, and was detailed for the most dangerous work. He travelled the Dominion over, and went back and forth to Ireland as a spy. When it had been dec:ded to blow up the Parliament house, he was chosen to perform the desperate enterprise, and, his associates failing at the critical hour, he undertook it alone. A large sewer ran under the building, wnich, at low tide would admit the entrance of small boats. Fennel ascended this passage, arranged his fuse along the wall upon hooks and staples, and on the following night was re-entering with a load of powder, when the alarm was given and he was compelled to abandon the enter prise and fly with the utmost expedition. The town was alarmed, the boat-load of of powder was discovered afloat in the sewer, and the British government was amazed and confounded at the audacity of the unknown colonial Guy Fawkes. In the meantime the daring young Irishman was on his way to the United States, and we believe he never thought proper to return to Her Majesty's dominions. So far as we know, this is the first publication of his agency in that daring and revolu tionary undertaking. Like Carl Schurz, he was a revolutionist and reformer by nature ; a man of desperate conscientious ness, and wholly without fear. Gigantic in' stature and strength, gentle in demeanor, affectionate, generous and devoted in dis position; yet to redeem Ireland from English domination, we are almost per suaded that he would have blown up the city of London. In San Francisco, where he has lived some twenty-five years, Mr. Fennell was almost universally known and respected.—[Salem,(Or.) 'Statesman.

A lunatic from the Hertford, Conn., Retreat who was, taken out to have, a tooth drawn, liked the. operation .bo well that he insisted on having the rest of his teeth extracted, and it took half-a-dozen police* n*a to get him back to the asylum; ...'.,.

Captain Murderer.

HOW 11Y NUKSE INSTRUCTED MY YOUNG MIND.

By Chaeles Dickens.

The first diabolical character that intruded himself on my peaceful youth was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an offshoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinitj' in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's uiifsion was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides. On his marriage morn ing, he always caused both sides of the way to church to be planted with curious flowers; and when his bride said, "Dear Captain Mur derer, I never saw flowers like these before : what are tney called?" he answered, "They are called garnish for house-lamb," and laughed at his ferocious practical joke in a horrii manner, disquieting the minds of the noble bridal company, with a very sharp show of teeth, then di.-playod for the first time. He made love in a coach and six, and mar ried in a coach and twelve, and all his horses were miik-white horses with ono red spnt on ths back which he caused to bo hi iden by the harness. For the spot would come there, though every horse was milk-white when Captain Murderer bought him. And the spot was young bride's blood. (To this terrific point I am indebted for my first personal ex perience of a shudder and cold bea is on th > forh' jad.) When C ipttiin Murderer had mud^ an end of feasting and revelry, and had dis missed the noble guests, and vvaa alons with his wife on the day month after then- niarriiigi), it was his whimsical custom to proJuco a golden rolling-pin and a silver pie-board. Wow, there was this special feature in the Cuptaiu's courtships, that be always asked if the young lady could muke pie-crust; and if she couldn,t by nature or education, she was taught. Well. When the brido saw Captain Murderer produce the golden rolling-pin and silver pie-bou.rd, she remembered .this, an I turned up her lftced-siik sleeves to make a pie. The Captain brought out a silver pie-dish of immense capacity, and the Captain brought out flour, buiterand eggs andall things needful, except the inside of th« pie j of material* for the staple of the pie itself, the Captain brought out none. Then said ihe lovely brido, "Dear C-utain Munierer, what pie ia this to be?" Ho replied, "A meat pie." Then said the lovely bride, "Dear Captain Murderer, ■ sec no meat." The Captain hutnorou-ly retorted, ."Look in the glass." She looked in the glass but still she saw no meat, and then the Cap tain roared with laughter, and, suddenly frowning and drawing his sword, bade her roll out the crust. So she rolled out tho crust, droppiug large tears upon it all tha time because he was so cross, and when she had lined the dL-h with crust and had cut the crust all ready to fit the top," the Captain called out, "I see the meat in the glass!" Aud the brido looked up at the glass, just in time to see the Captain cutting her head otf; nnd be chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sont it to the baker's, aud ute it all, and picked the houes. Captain Murderer went on in this way, prospering exceedingly, until he came to choose a bride f-om two twin sifters, and ai first didn't know which to choose. For, though one was fair and tho other dark, they were both equally beautiful. But the fair twin loved him, and the dark twin hited him, bo he chose the fair or.c. The dark twin would have prevented the marriage if s le could, but she couldn't; however, on the night before it, much suspecting Captain VTurderer, she stole out and climbed his garden wall, and looked in at his window through a chink in tho shutter, and saw him hiving his ceeth filed sha'-p. Next day she listened all day, and hearl him make his joke about tho house-lamb. And that day month, he had tha paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones. Now, the dark twin had had her suspicions much increased by the filing of the Captain's teeth, and again by the houso-lainb joke.

Putting all things together when he gave out. that her sistor was dead, she divined the truth, and determined to be revenged. 80 Bhe went up to Captain Murderer's house, and kaoekud at the knocker and pulled at the bell, and when the' Captaain came to the door, eaid :

" Dear Captain Murderer, marry me next, for I always loved you and was jealous of my sis-

ter." The Captain took it as a compliment, and made a polite answer, and the mm-ringe was quickly arranged. On the night before it, the bride again climbed to his window, and again aawhim having his teeUi filed sharp.

At this sight, she laughed such a terrible laugh, at the chink in the shutter, that the Captain's blood curdled, and he said. " I hope nothing has disagreed with me !" At that, she laughed again, a still more terrible laugh, and the shutter was opened and search made, but she was nimbly gone and there was no one. Next day they went to church in the coach and twelve, and were married. And that day month, she rolled the pie-crust out, and Captain Murderer cut her head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and pub her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.

But before she began to roll out the paste she had taken a deadly poison of a most awful character, distilled from toads' eyes and spiders' knees; and Captain Murderer had hardly picked her last bone, when he began to swell, and to turn blue, and to be all over spots, and to scream. And he went on swell ing and turning bluer and being more all over spots and screaming, until lie reached from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall; and then, at on 9 o'clock in the morning, he blew up with a loud explosion. At the sound of it, all the milk-white horses in tke stables broke their halters an 1 went mad, and then they galloped over everybody in Captain Mur derer's house (beginning with the family blacksmith who had filed his tee'h) until the whole were dead, and then they galloped away. Hundreds of times did I hear this legend of Captain Murderer, in my early youth, and added hundreds of times was there a mental compulsion upon me in bed, to peep in at his window as the dark twin peeped, and to re visit his horrible house, and look at him in his blue and sootty and screaming stage, as he reached from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall. The young woman who brought me acqminted with Captain Murderer, had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember—as a sort of introductory overture —by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination With this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet. But she never spared me one word of it, and indeed commended .the the awful chalice to my lips as the only preser vative known to science against "The Black Gat"-rr a weird and jglaring-eyed supernatural Tom, who was reputed to, prowl about; the' world bj night, sucking the breath of infancy, i and who wm endowed with a special thirat I (as I was giren to understand) for mine.

Mr. Cain as a Candidate.

John Cain was a quiet, unobtrusive citizen. He didn't long for fame and renown, and lie didn't care two cents wether this great and glorious country was ruled by a one-Worse Bepublican or a two horse Democrat.

HIS TIETUES. He liad a pew in church, save sixteen ounces for a pound, and when a man looked him square in the eye Mr. Cam never took a back seat. He was home at a reasonable hour in the evemn ? , never took part in the discussion, ' Is lager healthy I 1 and many a man wished that his life rolled on as evenly and peacefully as Jonn Cain's

BUT, ALAS ! the tempter came, in an evil hour John Oaia allowed the politicians to get alter him and to surround him. They «aid he was the strongest man in the country; that he could scoop out of his boots any man set up in opposition ; that his virtues were many and rhat his faults were 0000 ; that it was his duty to come out and take a nomination in order that this pure and incorruptible form of Government be maintained pure and ineorruotible. All this and much more they told him, and John Cain BECAME PUFFED UP. It surprised him some to think that he had held his peaceful way alone for forty odd years, like a knothole in a barn-door, without any one having discovered what a heap of a follow lie was, but he conclude 1 that there was a new era in polit is .and that it was all right. THEY ISAMBOOZLIS HIM. The politicians covered John Cain with soft soap. They told him that the canvass shouldn't cost him a red,and that he could still retire at eis>ht o'clock every evening and rest assured that his interests would be properly cared for. It was to be a still hu-'ifc —a very quiet election, and he would hardly know what was iconic on. John was an honest, unsuspecting idiot, and he swallowed their words as the con fiding fish absorbs the baited hook. TJlfi PLOT THICJtEXS John Cain was duly nominated and the band camo out and serenaded him With the band came several hundred electors-, who filled the Cain mansion to over- | flowing, spit tobacco all over the house, ;ite and drank all they could find, broke lown the gate, and went off with three sheers for John Cain. WANTED SUGAR. Before the canvas was ten days old half i dozen men called on Cain, and gently liuted to him that he must come down Kith the 'sugar.' Ho didn't even know ivhat 'sugar' was until they explained. They wanted money to raise a pole, to ivy beer, to get slips printed, and to do ifty other things with, all for his parlicu ar benefit, and he had to hand out the noney. TIIE COMBAT DEEPENS. Tn the course of another week they drew Jain out to make a speech at a ward ueeting. He tried to claw off, but they old him that the opposing candidate vould run him out of sight if he didn't :ome out, and he went out,. When he ;ot through speaking the crowd drank at iis expense, and Mr. Cain was astonished it the way the liquor went down, and nore astonished at the way the bill footed ip. Ha didn't reach home until midnight md for the first time in his life was going o bed with his boots on. His wife wouldn't speak to him, tho lired girl left the house to save her iharacter, and John Cain wished that the )oliticians had let him alone. INCREASE OF CURRENCY More men came and crooked their fin jers at him and whispered ' Sugar ' They vacted money to buy some doubtful votes md to hire four-horse teams, and to mail lis slips, and ho had to come down. He lesitated about it, but they told him that ,he opposing candidate felt sure of vic ,ory, and that acted as a spur. WAEM-HEABTED FRIENDS. There was hardly a night that from burteon to two hundred and forty friends lid not call on Mr. Cain to inform him as ;o the 'prospects.' They drank up the mrrrant-wine Mrs. Cain had laid by for sickness, emptied her preserve jars, and , :here wasn't a morning that she couldn't ' sweep out forty or fifty cigar-stubs and a seek of mud. They all told Cain that he ;vould beat the other man so far out of sight | ;hat it would take a carrier pigeon to find aim, and he couldn't very well refuse to go jver to the corner grocery and ' set 'etn ap' for the boys. | THE CRISIS finally came. On the eve of election Mr. Cain^s friends called for • sugar' again, md he had to sugar 'em. A big crowd 3alled to warn him that he would certainly be elected and the saloon bill was £10 more. .Thirteen or fourteen men shook hands with his wife, a hundred or more shook hands with him, and he had to get up and declare that he didn't favor woman's rights and that he did ; that he was down on whisky, and yet loved it as a beverage; that he wanted the currency inflated, and yet favored specie payments ; that he favored the civil rights bill, and yet didn't; and in his brief speech, Mrs. Cain counted twenty-seven straight lies, besides the evasions. Mr. Cain wanted to hold popular views, and he had to be on all sides at once, ELECTION DAT. On the day of election they dragged him from poll to poll, stopping at all the saloons on the way. He had to make 256,000 promises, pull his wallet until it was as flat as a wafer, drink lager with some and cold water with others, and when night came he went home and tried to hug the hired girl, called Mrs. Cain his dear old rhinoceros, fell over the cradle, and went to sleep with his head under the stove. HOW. HE SCOOPED EM. When Mr. Cain arose in the morning and became sober enough to read the election returns, )ie found he had scooped 'em as follows : Opposing candidate 36,420 John Cain ...; 31,380 Cain's majority (in a horn) ... 5,040 JEOLIAN HAEPS, Mr Cain went out and sat down under an apple tree in his back yard,, and he gave himself up to reflections and ?o forth. Through the leafless branches sighed the November winds,,and in the house sighed Mrs. Cain, and both sighs murmured gently in his ear : * John Cain's a perpendir nlar idiot !' —/ merman Faper

Advice to a Baby.

3 Don't come into the world in cold 1 weather. If you are the heir of a 5 branch of the house of ttrnith, by no ! means permit your parents to christen you Howard, or Stanley!, or Clinton. or Spenser. Ii you are;a lady-baby, don't let them call you lljvlary Ann or Mary Jane, or ophonisba, or c-o phronia. Think of your'future bus baud's misery under such conditions. 8e intensely cross to everybody. No body asked whether you wished to entei the world, and you have j a right t< protest against being brought into it. Cry lustily. It is good forj the lungs and it generally results in jsomethin-i nice being produced to qUiet you. Allow no one to talk politic,^ in you) presence. It cannot be of the* slightest consequence to you at present who may be the leader of the Liberal Party "When you are grown up (if a ILiberal Party should still exist) the qjuestioo will have been settled and unsettled a i dozen times. You are recommended Ito scream at the name of Jfio I JNono. Howl when you are smacked, anil resist all attempts to put; you to bed e|arly.

"Oh! What a Muisance."

Tins exclamation fell from th^li ps of a mother, a« tho patter of man}-little feet went romping over the sfcoo\p and the merry shout and laughter of I iappy voice;-) rang through the house. V'l/illie had found his chums, and Susira had gathered her playmates to hide a/nd go seek among the shrubs and bushes of a luxurious home. But the mother had forgotten for a moment^ that the brightest joys of her beautiful home were the bright and beayatiful little boys and girls who wen/t rollicktng across the piazza, and wjfio had called forth that thoughtlesg'v^expression. Children! God bless the'm\' % G-ive them a chance; their pursuits, M;heir play, their ambitions, their trou^leK are neemingly vary trivial to maiky grown people, but to them they are as* stern, as real, as hard to endure, as are the many burdens that come to us in our manhood struggle. Then gladden their young hearts with a kindly word and a pleasant look. Let memory photograph upon their minds your face framed in bright wreath of loving smiles, and there will come back to you a heavenly compensation of happiness, welling up inio your heart a living spring of joy. God bless the children !

Jottings about the Ladies.

The Chicago * Tribune ' says it's sham pooing which makes so many men bald headed. The occasional handsful lost in family disturbances are provided for by nature.

On Thursday night when a sixth-street saan had to go to Wyandotte on business which detained him all night, liis wife hardly slept a wink from tear that he would get hurt, yet lie had not been home over an hour yesterday morning when it took two policemen to unclasp he* fingpra from his hair and pry her teeth off his ear ,—« Detroit Free Press.'

A lady, mentioned by an exchange, is mother of a large family of children, and they are all rather diminutive. A few days after the birth of the youngest, not long since, a little niece of the lady called to see the baby. After looking at the tiny specimen for a few minutes, the little girl said: ' Aunt Maria, don't you think it would be better to have less of 'em and have ' em bigger ?' A Philadelphia man says that when his wife gets up in the morning with a jerk, and neglecting to do up her hair, goes silently about her work, she is materiali sing a domestic row which before night will shake the house in its foundation. He went out between the acts and re turned vigorously chewing a clove. His wife asked him where he had been, and he said, 'To see a friend,' She calmly replied that she thought his friend must be dead, as she could smell his bier. Home Attractions.—Some one writes both gracefully and forcibly, ' I would be glad to see parents understand that when they spend money judiciousiy to improve and beautify the house, and the grounds about it, they ai*e paying their children a premium to stay at home as much as pos sible to enjoy it; but when they spend money unnecessarily on fine clothing and jewellery for their children, they are pay ing th> m a premium to spend their time from horne —that is in those places where they can attract the most attention and make the most display.'

A Spanish proverb says: ' A kiss without a moustache is like an egg with out salt.'

The Family Album.

Theeb is a sort of delirious joy in looking over a family album, especially if it is a very old album with a sprained back, which occasionally and unexpectedly drops through your fingers, leaving a couple of cousins in one hand and three aunts in the other, and the balance of the family under the chair. The first picture is of an old gentleman with an expression of wai'y cautiousness in his face as if he was engaged in dodg ; ing a wild bull, and was somewhat doubt ful of the result. Opposite him: is the grandmother, a patient looking lady in a black dress, with a book in one hand and a pair of spec tacles in the other, There is a feeble but well-meaning effort to look safe in her face. On the next leaf is a middle-aged man, -looking as if he had been suddenly shot through, the roof of a starch-factory and '•ad been landed in the middle of a strange country. Opposite is the picture of his wife, who. -having heard a rumour of the catastrophe, .has made up her mind to .be prepared for the worst. Then follow the children—little girls ooking so prim as to make you squirm,

xnd little boys witlvi ie ir ejes tv woed on heir noses, and ,w% aa iP reS:' "ion on ' beir faces of earthly Solemnity- Then follow uncle- taken io >M^ coats with a spreadii incVm^ 0? -fceir :lothes, hair and. fafta as "■ , t^-/ ffere oound to »et their moneys w° and muts with warts on ' eir n°^' "d var nish in their hair, 3 i preposterous lace .-ollars about their n(. Then there is the j,sh&' 7QUag man oenned op josite an at' e s3Ye 7 oung lady whom heaven and s< i tarried women have designed for ca1, »r« There are also th< "es of Cousin Alex, and his wift. ">PPed here when on their tour ">ung man looks at him withoin id regis erin^ a terrible vow Then there are two . _ noting ■jorsairs of no parti atity, and •several broken-spiriteu * with their babies "in their arms indi-1 rectly related to the owners of tae album ; and the exhibition closes.

Printed and published by the proprietors, Gbirgb "MoOcrL.ioH R«k»; of ftt lieorgd's Bay. audH*j«ar Bkett, of Parneil, at, their General Steam f rtntlug Office, Wyndham-street, in the City of Auckland, New ealand :— Saturday, May £& 18 tl,-^^^^^^—

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>n "^"AIWERA, HOT SPRINGsJ r _ , TO THE SICK ANtToERtIitaTED. I • JFollow Shakespeare's advice, "Throw Physic 1 if the dogs," ana visit the Waiwera Hot Springs V I pc healing virtues of these famous springs border* I i the miraculous, scores of persons afflicted JJ.'i S^ lyßls> ■Kbemnatism, Eruptions, Contracted aS 1 r- Miff Joints, Gout, Lumbago, Skin Diseases &* I , Heads, and varieties of painful diseases have ££ 1 restored to perfect health through bathing in S 1 marvellous springs, and drinking the mineral yniS 1 . in J™° gratefully bear testimony to the fact. ThewaS I ; iias been pronounced the most remarkable healta, 1 J water in the world, and effected most -wondS I in cuVes. ? I T(j THE TOURIST OR PLEASUEH I n SEEKER IN LUSTY HEALTH I ' c the Waiwera Hot Springs will be a source of amaze. I a ment and delight. The scenery in the neighbourhood 1 . is diversified and picturesque, and affords abundant B j" material for the Botanist, Geologist, Painter, Pm 1 U or Recluse. ,-; 9 ? | THE FAMILY HOTEL | 1! is fitted with every convenience for comfort. A Tfe] |- r supplied table is provided, and this, coupled with I I excellent accommodation, attention, civility, and I j moderate charges, leave nothing the most fastidiotu I ; can desire. 'I A Yacht is kept for the use of visitors. There ij I 0 fishing, shooting, and other pastimes for the strong W i ! or convalescent. K> ' Steamers leave Auckland (which ia only 24 mfleg W; 5 distant) for the Hot Springs twice a week, and there V) are two conveyances twice a week overland. Vp AVakefield-street, Aucklana, \f< December 14,1874. I Sir, —Having derived much benefit from bathing f in your Hot Springs, Waiwera, I think it is a duty 1 that I owe to the public—especially suffering 1 humanity—that my case should be made known.. p; Before I went to the Springs I suffered for more I than a month the most excruciating pain from rheu- • I matic gout, had to be lifted in and out of bed, in j | fact was unable to walk without the use of two sticks, f" It took me an hour to walk from Wakefield-street to t the ' Lady Bowen.' After getting to the Springs I I bathed twice a day and drank freely of the mineral I waters, at least a p^t taeh day, and after six dajßl 1 'fdit quite ,veil, iree from pain, and can walk as well " I as ever I did. If is now eleven days since I left and r have had no return of pain. If this should induce B any person suffering as I was to try the hot baths, I ji feel sure they will get cured, and if so, serve the I object I have in writing to you.—l am, sir, yonr s obedient servant, Thos. WbavisS. # Robert Graham, Esq. | Auckland, January 5,1875. ■ ■ -il llr Robert Graham, | . Sir, —Understanding you are the proprietor of tha '. I Hot Springs at Waiwera, I think it is only due to you I to give a short account of my successful experienpe I of the efficacy of the Springs in the cure of Bheuma- I tism. I had been suffering from Rheumatism since 1 the year '69, contracted through cold and wet -work- | ing on the West Coast, and from that time until I I left the Springs I had suffered periodically from the 1 same. The second bath I took brought hack all tha I rheumatic pains I had ever experienced in different I parts of my body. At the end of a fortnight I was iree from all pains, with the exception of the ankles (which was always the worst part affected), and ■with .. the exception of my feet being very tender from so much hot bathing lam quite a new man; I have not j the slightest pain of Bheuznatism about me, not even . ! in the ankles. To parties visiting the Springs I should advise them not to feel alarmed or disap pointed if they find themselves worse the first day or two; according to the general opinion it shows the action of the waters. Also I would recommend the drinking at least two or three glasses of water both on entering and leaving the bath; also, sweating in the blankets, for which accommodation is provided in each bath'; and to parties affected with acute Rheumatism I think the more they use them the more speedy will be the cure. ■ ■ . I remain, sir, Tours respectfully, C. H. 'WILLOIIGHBT. Auckland, 10th January, 1875. Dear Sir,— In the interestg^f-ihose who "may be similarly afflicted, and ii^ recognition of the benefits I derived at your sanai^, r i urQ the Waiwera Hot Springs, a desire to J£c6' r d the efficacy of the baths and water in the ci| re of Dyspepsia, from which I had suffered man >' jnonths. Thanks, however, to the virtues of the n# neral waters, together with a free use of baths, lysis relieved of the distressing symptoms, and have Bi6ce enjoyed the best of health. / " Yours truly, 1 John Bent. Eobert Granain, Esq. Robert Graham, Esq. Dear Sir, —Having suffered from rheumatism lor some time past, on the recommendation of my medical adviser, Dr. Turnbull, of Christchurch,l visited your Hot Springs. After three weeks' bam ing and drinking the mineral water, I am restored to perfect health. In fact, I have not felt so well for years as I am at present. The trip altogether has been a most enjoyable one, I found the hotel com fortable, excellent table, attendance good, civiland obliging, pleasant for the invalid seeking health, or the man of business requiring laxation. I know of no place in.New Zealand where a person could pasß a few weeks more agreeably than at your Hot Springs. Yours faithfully, J. J. FrrzGiBBON. Postmaster, Christchurch. New Plymouth, 27th April, 1875. Sir,-I desire to bear testimony to the efficacy of the Waiwera Hot Springs, and as my case is a peculiar one, I shall briefly state it. About four years ago I had the spine of my back dislocated in consequence of "Which I lost the power of my limbs from the back, downwards—lost aU feeling in them; also, wasting and loss of flesh on my legs. I was quite unable to walk, and was in this state for about three years could not turn in my bed without assistance. Last October I went to the Hot Springs, Waiwera, and bathed twice eacli day, and drank at least l^pintis.of the water daily After six week's bathing I found the symptoms of life return to my legs. I could lift and use my legs as well as ever; got strong anl healthy; all pain and weakness left me. OwingtD the dislocation of my back I still use crutches, but I have no doubt I shall shortly be able to do without ■ them altogether, as I can now walk 100 yards at a i time without them. I consider the cure a most miracuious one, and feel sure thousands would visit the Springs if they only knew its valuable properties I take this opportunity of expressing my grateful thanks to Miss Home for the great kindness I received while at the Springs, also Mr Home for the kindness and attention paid to me by him. I am, Sir, yours truly, S. T. JOLI» Robert Graham, Esq. Auckland, 18th May, 1875.. Sir. —I desire to give publicity to the wonderful cure I had while at your Waiwera Sanatorium. I was suffering from Rheumatic Fever, was six weeks in the Hospital under medical treatment for same. I suffered great pain with swellings and stiffness in my joints. I was unable to take off my Own boots, i and had to employ a cab to take me to the steamer when I had made np my mind to try your Springs. After one week's bathing, and drinking the water, I got as well as ever I was,- and have had no return of the pain, although it is now two weeks' since my re» covery, which I look upon almost like a miracle I am, Sir, Yours respectfully, Geobge Beveredge. To Eobert Graham, Esq Thames 19th May, 1875. Robert Graham, Esq., Auckland. Dear Sir,—l feel great pleasure in testifying to the benefits I derived by my visit to the Hot Springs at Waiwerawera in the year 1868. For years prior to that time I had been subject to attacks of .RhejjMgwjigg tism, which would lay me up for weeks -AWnew"™"" Tbe nse of the Springs prctf alter tttitf lapsb Oi time to have taken the d&e quite out of my system, having had no relay-tince that time. For three months before going ISrf Springs I had been totally unable to move mix assistance from an attack of sciatica. My obt in writing to you ib that you may make this me, for the benefit of ■others who may be similar 'tected, without know ing where to obtain relief ./Iy experience leads me to believe the Waiwera Spgs more efficacious for Rheumatism, Lumbago, oSjciatica, than all tne medicine the Doctors can gi\and only requires to be made known to become the^i^sa-natorium for the South Pacific. ;. „*» ",,_-*f~^""" I am, dear Sir, 1 Yours very truly, Edwd. Honks.



ON^ SALE, to arrive ex Agnt p Excelsior, Vairie, and Lastiua, 100 tons Oamaru ikmr 500 bags oats 10°SiCfaOatm^G., Up^ QN SALE, EX 'MARY ADAIR.' Expected to arrive about the end of the present month, a Cargo consisting of about 00 TONS SUGAR (assorted expressly for this market) GEO. W. BINNET.