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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, 3. homeward bounder; but those were the ambling days of trade; no fuss was made over what we now call prompt desplltch. It was mere- ly a question of how the wind sat; and asix weeks' detention in the Downs was accepted as a common- place incident in a voyage from the Thames to foreign parts. A few minutes after the brig's un- ohor 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 flutterâ€" lng 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 pendu- lum-like from, the fore-stay. A tall young fellow of some three or four and twenty years of age stood in the gangway of the brig, impatient- The scene was full of light and life. Standing on Deal beach, so quiet was everything ashore, so still this hour of sundown, you would have heard a blending of innumerable sounds soft- ened into music by distanceâ€"the strains of fiddles in the nearer craft, the voices of men singing, the pleasant noise of bells, the clanld and rattle of winch-es and capstans and windlasses. the chorusings of lungs of leather stowing the canvas, the shrill chirpâ€" ings of boatswains' whistles. Then on a. sudden broke the sudden harsh thunder of a gun from the line-ofâ€"bat- tle ship. It was instantly followed. by the graceful drooping of the many- coloured brunting to right and left de- noting the hour of sunset; and now masthead and gaff end showed bare of the bunting that had but a little before made the mass of shipping appear like a floating city of banners; and high above the congregation of masts the towering fabric of the three-decker loomed grim and forbidding upon the darkness of the evening stealthin creeping like some dark curl of breeze out of the east. Aln old-world scene of this kintl 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 tilled 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 topmust and top- galla-nt-mast and royalâ€"mast into mir- acles of airy delicacy, from whose cen< tral spire languidly floated the pew non 01" the ship of the state. There was the East Indiaman. outward bound, newly brought up, scarce- ly less regal in her way than the first-rate, with John Com- pany‘s houseâ€"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 uniâ€" forms upon her quarter-deck, and rows of liVely hearties aloft upon her topsail yards snugging 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 highâ€" 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 piratical look, with a maligant fancy to follow 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 vest deadly marine insect subtly though swtftly stirring to the impulse of its antennae. gold to the zenith, and thence pale as amber to the eastern seaâ€"line, with a hot crimson head of cloud hpre and there vaguely defined upon tho, deliâ€" cate radiance, whilst the horizon ran with! a line an: clear as though scored with the sweep of the leg of a pair of compasses. lt- was an evening in the month of September. There were scarce fewer than three hundred sails of cvesaels gently straining at their hemp callnes to the easterly set of the water. They had come together as it by magic. for that morning the historic tract of waters had steeped bare to the white ternacw of the h'orelands; whilst now the multitudinous shipping showad like a forest upon the sea, gay with fluttering pennons, delicate as a hit of penciling with the wondrous inâ€" tricacxes of 1118 rigging. brilliant With the red sheen of the waning luminary upon glass and. brass; upon the writhâ€" ing of gilt-work upon quarterâ€"galler- ies and oastellated stems: upon in- numerable figureâ€"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 Vessels. A The colour. the apparel, the quaint brewery of the ships and mariners of the last cen- tury. uncle 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 gmle headland. went in a tincture of dark gold to the zenith, and thence pale as amber to the eastern seaâ€"line, with a Jeremy York. and with host any and this ,uge vast ugh its life. was r of 'd a loft- ains the . by my- de- now e of Eore like iigh the :ker the hily aeze It was now dark; the western hecâ€" tic was gone, the stars floated in a showering of brilliant points to the li- (Quid dusk, that hung glunmerless ub0ve lthe horizon, with here and. there a round-brewed cloud with a sheen upon it like the head of a snow-cloud rise to obscure a narrow space of the sparkling dome. The Forelund soared wan and massive from the white wash of the water at its base, then swept darkly to the flat 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, or a dim illumination in places of small lozengeâ€"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 apâ€" ' i preached the beach, he would catch a noise like to a rush of water upon fshintgle, 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 gGoodwins with her hold full of silks, 1tea, and spirits, to be “run” before the ‘morning, and under the noses, too, of 3the lookout aboard the first-rate. 21nd Ethe revenue people. trudging, solitary vand austere, along the tall ciffs‘ edge :or the long low line of beach. “Many people in Deal just now ?” York inquired of one of the boatinen. “Town choke full, oi allow," was the answer, "Take them there ships," with a nod in the starlight towards the phnntasmal huddel over the stern of the bout: "one person from each craft ‘ud be more‘n enough to over- flow us. and you’d say that oneâ€"third ‘01 every ship's company out yonder had come ashore." "A bother I” cried the young fellow, ‘21 little petulantly; “small prospect of my hiring a bed, if it be as you say.â€" D‘ye think there's a chance of my getâ€" ting a night's rest in your town?" “A bother I” cried the young fellow, ‘21 lijtle petulantly; “small proapect of ‘my hiring a bed, if it be as you say.â€" D‘ye think there's a chance of my get- ting a night's rest in your Luwn 2" "Whey not ?" avnswea'ed the other boalman gruffly. “Ye‘re a seafaring “nan beioik, and there ought L0 be )morefn soft punk proper for sailor’s [bones to be found vacant at Deal." “There are inns enough, anyway," said one of the men. “Troy Mother Puddell's first. She keeps the sign 01 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, ’soides high tarms. 'Tuin't that I name her 'cause I love her; but when. a sick gent wants a bed, he ain't going to be hindered by a shilling too much. let alone a qulaity o' liquor there's no call for him to drink." As the 1mm spoke, the boat’s keel grounded on the shingle. and the lit- tle craft swept broadside to the beach. man beloik, and more’n soft plmi bones to be foun "N0 planking it a mattress to be bones to be found vacant at Deal." "N0 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 mur- Iowless. that it might, give over ach- mg.” little stoop ablu The [all young fellow, named Jeremy York, lowered himself into the boat; a smallbundle_â€"apparenily allthe lug- gage he hadâ€"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 foremstle and some aloft, gave him a cheer; and in a moment or two he was being swept shorewards by the vigorous arms of a bmce of Deal boatmen. bmch. "Here comes something that looks like. a punt, at last, Mr. York," ex- claimzd the skilpr of the brig, ap- proaching him ~‘1 broadâ€"beamed, bul- letâ€"headed bit of a man, standing on oval shanks and carrying a face as red as the flag he sailed under. "Hope as the flag he sailed under. "Hope you‘ll pick up ashore, I do. Rememâ€" ber my wordsâ€"if you feel able to ship along witthe 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." "1 am heartily obliged to you, sir, for the offer, said the other; "and I think 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 aâ€"sailoring again by December, you may reckon me already, sir, as upon the ship's articles." They continued exchanging compli- ments after this pattern whilst the boat approached; presently it was alongside, and the tall young fellow whom the captain had addressed as Mr. York prepared to descend. “I shall endeavour to be in London the week after next," he exclaimed, as he swung a moment: 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 to me, who am now in a condition to view even a Sixpence as a very serious thing.’ ' “ frust me. trust: me, Mr. York, the captain exclaimed with a cheery wave of his hand. ho had not ye maelf out of .Lng‘ sickness In India, the standard time for the whole of the! peninsula is the mean time of the Madras Observatory, and this time is used on through lines of rail- road. and in recording the time of send- ing telegram to foreign countries. Local time is, however, used in most towns and villages, and it is announc- ed by clocks striking, gongs. bells and guns, and signals being given from churches, treasury buildings, forts and telegraph offices. The local clocks are set daily by the time telegraphed from Madras, and each telegraph office has a closely printed table. filling about “Tall enough for a Maypole," said. one of them. “What's his sect?" exclaimed an- other. “Looks as if his hair growed from a Woman's head," “Smite me," cried one of the two boatmen who had pulled the’ young fellow ashore, “if ever I takes a job again without first agreeing with} the party as to tarms. A dirty four shil- lin l But what's a man to dew? He outs “litll his halfâ€"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 tewz But that's Billy Tucker’s consarn, who's got the coin.’ He spat with disgust and. lurched off, cm which the group broke up, and. nude in sevâ€" eral detachménts for the various public- houses or inns in Beach; Street. An altercation followed; York was resolved. the boatmen importunate and Glamorous, and presently offenâ€" 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 [or shillings, then. and. you shall be paid." The oLhers agreed; the half-guinea was changed into silver; and York walked away, followed curiously by the eyes ol the group of men who had assembled. Last :Dpcemher was the time when all the towns in Colombia were expect- ed, thereafter, to use the time u! Bo- gota, the capital, With this respon- sibility upon them, it is hoped that ihe public clocks of that city will improve in their timekeeping, [or visitors at B0- gota Sly it is nuthing unusal for the public clocks to disagree by fully a. quarter of an hour. York, picking up his bundle. ‘stepped out, and inquired the (are. The boat- ma.n demanded six shillings. “See here," said be. pulling out a half-guimea piece, ; “this is all the money I possess, and. I shall have no more until I can beg, borrow or steal it. [if I deduct six shillings from this what does it leave max?" “Give us foive," said the men. “Three,” he answered; "for God's sake, sallor 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 ingos and the Gold Coast, \Veat Africii, the local time is Checked daily by telegmph from Green- wich and transmitted to all the tele- graph offices in the colonies. The time at Accm is only forty~six seconds slow- er than that of Greenwich, and is the time used ' Most any sort of time is kept in Chin'i. As a rule, the Chinese use an appar- ent sun time obtained from sundinls. The foreigners at the ports on the coast use an approximate local time calcultited from, the Shanghai time, supplied by the telegraph comp_:nies. In the great city of 'l‘ientsin, with a million inhabitants, the time is deter- mined by the municipal chronometer, which is the town-hall clock. It is sup- posed to be regulated every Saturday, when the community may set their watches, but it he been known to be in error at lemt three minutes. WAYS 0F REUKUNING TIME 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. bACkW'ZlI‘d 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 :tBevâ€" 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 end 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. THE DAY BEGINS AT SUNSET IN MOHAMMEDAN COUNTRIES. “ring :I Noon Gun :1! TI-hm'an. I'm-slaâ€" "('I‘)’ Gum] TII r In Afrlrn If There li a Telegraph m to ln-ocnwlrhâ€"Fonr Klmh of llallra-ul Tune In El l’neo. THROUGHOUT THE GOLD COAST Elbli't take advantage of a. To be Continued 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. Don't keep parrots. rabbits. rats, cats. mice, pigeons, flies. dogs, hens. These are the conclusions of Dr. A. Tucker \Vise, M.R.C.S., Eng” L.RAC.P.. zLond., Diploma Stiisse cheral, given lin an article in the Lancet. Cagad ii 6.5 and domesticatsd animals are particularly liable to disease be- cause of the unnatural conditions un- der which they are kept. Tuberculosis is common among cageâ€"birds. Parrots are also attacked by tuberâ€" cles. Psiitacosis, an infections disease of parrots, gives pneumonia to men. Nocard described its bacillus in Paris in 1893. fifty pages, giving the difference be- twaen Madms and local time for all the Government telegraph offices in India. MERIDIAN 0].“ EACH LOCALLL‘Y. Throughout Russia, St. k’etersberg time is used for telegraphic purposes, and each place has its own local time besides. In Portugal the country Lowns keep their local time very roughâ€" ly, but Lisbon and the railroad and telegraph services have the time of the Tapuda Royal Observatory. There is considerable confusion in the Nether- lands, and if one’s watch does not agree with the town clocks as he travels through the land it doesn't follow [hut he has a poor tiinekeeper. In the railâ€" road stzitions, telegraph and post £0- fices the exact time of the Greenwich he has a poor tiinekeepei‘. In the railâ€" road stations, telegraph and post £0- fices the exact time of the Greenwich Observatory will be tound. In mmy towns Amsterdamtime is in use, Lnd it is about twenty minutes faster than reliable clocks in m_.ny other towns that use Greenwich time; and still other towns use their own local time, so the Netherlands do not lack for var- iety in time standards. , Every place in Newfoundland use St. John's time, {or all purposes, except- ing Heart's Content, which has spe- cial privileges as a cable station. For local purposes this little town employs Canaries are more commonly tut]- erculous than other cage-birds. The symptoms are a husky uougn, inability to moult and gradual emaciation. Hens suffer in the same ways. “Pip” has not yet proved contagious to human beings â€"though it may be â€" but “rickets” and. "scrotula" are tuberculous and infec- tions. Gilbert, Roger and Cadiot have infected ialJbits 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 diveloped in this family. There was only one death â€" that of an athleâ€" tic young man who had birds in his bedroom. The others yielded to treat- ment or change of climate. But the most remarkable case deâ€" scribed. is that. of a family in Silesia. The four grandparents hztd lived to an average age of seventy-eight years and none had consumption. The family kept many birds, and father and moth- Not a few countries coast-an two standards of Lime. Railro: telegraph; throughout Sp‘lin u: rid time, but for all other p1 the official time is determined John's time, i ing Heart's C cial privileges local purposes local time. E signal from L‘ er and nine sons and daughters died of consumption one after another. Two daughters lived, but enfeebled. Probably there is no danger iu'keep- ing perfectly healthy pets, but cage life is prejudical to health, and sick birds can poison a whole household by tuberculous dust, either breJthod into the lungs or settling upon milk, but-t ter, cheese, jellies, pastry. IN GREAT BRITAIN Greenwich mean time is the standard, and is used for all purposes nearly ev- erywhere. Among the few exceptions is the city of Canterbury, which uses a time about four minutes fast on Greenwich, and clocks at a few rail- road stations are kept one or two min- utee fast. Ireland uses the time of Dublin, and so all the clocks in the island are 25 minutes 22 seconds slow on Greenwich time. The official time throughout Argen- tina is th-it of the city of Cordova, which is telegraphed every day, to con- trol the timepieces in the various cities. It is used everywhere in the railroad and telegraph offices, but many citi- zens in the provinces prefer to use 10- cal time to doubtful accuracy. The peo- ple of the Hawaiian Islands try to keep their timepieces 10 hours 30 minutes slower than those of Greenwich, and call this standard time. At Belize, British Honduras, the clock over the Court House, which furnishes the time for the town is usually regulated by the time kept by the ships in the bar- bor. The town of Nukualof'i, which fur- nishes the time for the entire Tonga group, is in west longitude, but be- cause :.ll business relations, except with Samm, are with places in east longi- tude, the east longitude time for the day of the week and month is kept. Tuberculous dogs and cats spread infection by nasal and other discharges and by sores upon their bodies. Pa. What is an extreme optimist! An Idiot w‘ho fancies he'll find his Wife asleep at 2 mm; local purposes this little town employs local time. Every day it receives a signal from London giving the Green- wich time, and as the difference in time between the two points is 3 hours, 33 minutes and 33 seconds, it is only ne- cessary to keep the local clocks that much slow on Greenwich time to have the exact local time. But in the cable office all foreign. business is transmit- ted with Greenwich time. local til signal f wich tin between minutes 0n the othér hand,â€" pets' readily catch tuberculous diseases from human pa- tients, so that honors are easy. Notml Physician Says Consumption Como» Frnm (‘ in and Birth. THE EXTREME VARIETY DOCTOR’S WARNING. oonatanlly use Railroads and Sp‘zin use Mad- purposes, :d by the . lL is relared that ugvall-known doc- ltor was once present in a public place lwhen an accident occurred, and seeing 'a wounded, man, went about calling: rA doctor! A doctor! Somebody go and [fetch a doctor! A friend who was by his side ven- tured to inquire, Well, what about yourself? She Was Flril Atlacked WI": Acute Ilhou lllutlsm, Follnwrll by St. \llus' Dance In 1: Severe i-‘m-m wiler I'm-cuts Thought 5 c t‘uuld Nut Recover. From rthe Enterprise, Bridgewater, “'m. McKay. Esq, a well known and much respected farmer and mill man at Clifford. Lunenburg 00., N. 8., relates the following wonderful cure effected in his family by the use of Dr. \Villiams' Pink Pills :â€""About three years ago my Little daughter Ella. then achild of ten years, was attacked with" acute rheumatism. It was a terribly badcase; for over amon-Lh she was confined to her bed, and during most of the time was utterly helpless, be- ing unable to turn in bed, or in fact to move atall without help. She could not even hold anything in her hand. All power or use of her limbs had en- tirely gone and the pain she suffered was fearful. By constant attention after a month or so she began to gain alittle strength, and after a while im- proved enough to be taken out of bed and even walked around a bit after a fashion by means of a support. But now she was seized with aworse ail- ment than the rheumatism. Her ner- vous system gave way, appeared completely shattered. She shook vio- lently all the time, would tumble down ’in trflng to walk. In attempt- ing to drink from a cup her hand shook so as to spill the contents all over herself. She was a pitiable ob- ject. The doctors were called to her again and said she had St. Vitus’ dance in the worst form. She took the medicine prescribed and followed the instructions of her physician for some time, but without apparent bene- fit. She wasted away almost to a skeleton and we gave her up [on lost. About this time I read in a paper an account of a great cure of nervousness effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and. resolved to try them. I bought six boxes and the little girl began using them. The good effects of the first box were quite apparent and when four boxes were used. she seemed so much improved ,that the pills were discontinued. She kept on improving and after a few weeks was as well as ever. We were told that the cure would not last, that it was only some powerful ingredient in the pills which was deceiving us and that after a time the child would be worse than ever. All this has proved false, for now nearly three years she has had. unbroken good health, nerves as strong as they are made, and stands school work and household work as well as a mature person. We have no doubt about Dr. Williama' Pink Pi.ls restoring to us our little girl, whom we looked upon as doomed to an early grave." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills area specific for diseases arising from an impoverg ished condition of the blood or shat- tered nerves, such as St; Vitus‘dance. locomoLor atrixii, rheumatism, paraly- bis, sciatica. the after effects of la grippg, headache, dizzineis, erysipelas, bCI‘Ulula, etc. They are alsoaspecifio for the troubles peculiar to the female sysLem, building anew the blood and x‘esioring the glow of health to pale and sallow Cheeks. Protch yourself against imitations by insisting that every box bears the full name Dr. VVil- liams’ Pink Pills for Pale: people. If your dealer does not. have them they 948,000,000.000,UUO,UUU tons. The Al.- lanllc averages a depth of not quite three. miles. its waters weigh 3.‘5,000.< 000,000,000.L00 tons, and a tank to con~ Iain it would have each of its sides 430 miles long. 1119 figures. 01] the other}. (means are in the same startling pro- pol‘lionr]. It would take all the sea \xaer in th‘ worlvl $000000 y\ars to flow over Nizlgzlr'l. A tank L0 hold it would have to measure nearly 1,000 miles lung each at its. sides. An observant min once remarked that. most mcn seem to be as ignorant about the size of the sea. as they are of the distance between the heavenly, planets. Here are a few facts: Tha Pacific covers 68,600.0JD miles; the At. lanLic, 30,000,000, and the Indian Ocean, Arctic and Antarctic. 42,L00,UGO. 1‘0 stow away the contents of. the Paciin it would be necessary to fill a. tank; one mile long, one mile wide and one mile dleep evetv u.u._y lOI 440 years. Put: in figures, the Pacific holds in weight stow away it would b one mile l¢ mile dleep . MR. WM. MCKAY. CLIFFORD, N. S.. TELLS OF HIS DAUGHTER'S CURE. Few 5 while: Ahqu How Much “'ater 'l n- l. In Ihv Dll'l'ert-nt sens. Oh, dear. answen denly recalling lb longed to the ma didn‘t think of tha Absentâ€"minded p frequently mJE amo fessiun, who of all have their wits ubo Because; she replied. I like to some one to blame when thing wrong. NVhy is it your ’husba everything? A Child’s Sufi’er'mg. METHOD IN HER LEle SIZE. OF THE OCEANS. sband ORGOT 1 persons are not in- nuuug the medical pro- all men should always about them. ey asked. that have his own IE I id. MSELI“ that he profession