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as THE SECOND WIFE. the noxt was buried fathoms deep In the liquid blue. Rising' quickly to the surface with a Hhake of his curly head Through yonder window draped with lace, The wintry sunbenms fall, And gild anew the frame thut holds Hor portrait on the wall. 1 often stand before It here And murvol at her grace, But she is dead and gone to duat, And 1 am in her place. AT THE METROPOLITAN (iood Hoard can be obtained tor S4.00 PER WEEK And MoalTlokets at reduced rates' Jaltf N.

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1 Emboldened by his confidence, several more began taking1 off their clothes i to join the merry band who were soon tumbling about under the bow or i Never!" thought 1, the whole current of my feelings changing at the tone of his banter, and, suiting tho action to the thought. 1 made ready to divo. I drew in my breath, and gathered for the plunge. In another moment I should have been overboard. I was in the very act of springing, when the startling cry of "A shark! a shark!" came from the forecastle.

Come out of the water, all! Come out, Billy! iiurry, there's no time to lose!" cried half a score of voices. Most of the few men still' in the water were close beside the vessel. They crowded to the ladder, and scrambled i TTE LYNN WILDER, joO-llHO SAUNA, KANSAS. up in great haste and excitement. For mo the cry came just in time.

She leans toward me In her 1'ofw Of gold-embroidered blue, With eyes thut read my very soul She looks me through and through. She gathers all the dying day Upon her milk-white breast, Her red lips part, and seem to say: Ho loved lite, loved me bestl" Within the shadowy mirror sot Above the mantel high 1 turn and see my pallid face, No stately dame am I. lily childish form is slight and small, lu eruy demurely gowned. The yellow curls above ipy brow With simple ribbon bouul. Bui.

on the oanvas at my slcio Her royal figure stands. With pearls about her lily throat. And roses in her hands. Your beauty wins my jealous heart. Sweet lips, my love has pressed.

Ah, me! I do not wonder, dear. That he should love you best." grasped a shroud and saved mvself splashing- water up at the lookers-on above. I was delayed through having to put some guys to' the ladder, until some seven or eight had gone over the side. Their shouts and laughter and the fear that I was losing half the fun hastened my movemonts, as throwing i my clothing into my bunk I ran out and clam tiered into the fore-cliains for i a dive. As I paused a moment to take breath and cool my perspiring body I slightly before going in, I looked down upon the merry scene of which I had I been the chief instigator.

Below mo, clinging with one hand to from going overboard, though I had already gained such headway that my body swung clear of tho side before I iper of Central ui lint! raraiiiiiure could regain my footing in the chains. tlTZSZXSZZl! 3 IT stem We 1 'w m- Upon the lonely hilltop, erowaed With mournful pinos a-iw, Her headstone to the rising moon Is gleaming from the snow; And down the long and ghastly road Between his two young brides The living and the dead apaco My lover-husband rides. Once secure, I' looked down for my shipmates, too anxious for their safety to think at that moment of the peril I had been in myself. The last swimmer, save Billy, had gained the ladder, his feet just clear of the water, a round the bow, with silent speed, came the monster of whose presence old Briton had given such timely warning. Heswam close to the surface, his sinuous tall gently waving from side to side, and the unfailing pilot-fish at their stations on either side of his dorsal fin, and just ahead of his nose.

His small, vicious eyes glanced upward at the ladder, and ho seemed to say as plainly as if he spoke: "Aha. it's well for you chap3 you made yourselves scarce! A little more, and 1 would some ropes ends thrown over to them, and actively spattering water upon I each other, were two of the less ex-j perienced swimnfers. Further on to-! ward the bow were three or four oth-: ers more expert, who were vying with one another in feats and pranks; div-! ing under each other, catching hold of feet and pulling some other down, and ducking one another unawares. Away out, some hundred yards on more, Hilly Dipton was leisurely swim- ming about, rolling over and over por-j poise-fashion, floating and enjoying I himself hugely. As soon as he saw His steed Is stamping ou the stone.

His hand is on the door, I hear the muBio of his foot Along the marble floor; I run to meet his kiss and hide My race upon his breast t'The queeuly doad she loves you well, iiut I shall love you best!" -Minna Irving, in N. Y. Mercury. Full Aaciai Press Disjtts! i me ready to dive he called to me to join him and see how handsome the MY LAST SWIM AT SEA. i No.

123 South Santa Fe Avenue. 1889. ship looked from a distance, thai "Stay where you are, Billy, and i see if I can't 'fetch you' before I rise," Hair-Breadth Eacape from Jaws of a Shark. have had one of you!" Had I dived as I intended I should have struck directly in his path. Ho seemed unaware of Billy's being still in the water, for his attention had been first called to those nearer to the ship.

Tho mate and all who could were I U1UUM II IU i i I cried, raising my Hands above my I can not recollect ever learning to I bead for the plunge, swim. I swam naturally, and in boy-! "All right." cried Dill, treading hood was almost as much at home in water; I move. Come ahead." Interesting Editorials! as out of the water. Diving, an art in general only acquired by long practice, was to me easy from the beginning. My skill in aquatic sports passed into a proverb, and now that hard at work' lowering one of the quarter boats, and shouting to Billy to keep olf and not come any nearer the vessel.

With much presence of mind he obeyed, rolling on his back and floating as lightly as possible upon the surface. Several hands had rushed to the forecastle and gallev for bits of Groceries, Fruits, Nuts and Confections. Newspapers and Periodicals. Eastern Dallies and the SALINA GAZETTE ALWAYS. Wm.

HOCBEN. Shute feHaskell. DEALERS IN Overboard 1 went, several of the lookers-on expressed their doubts as to any one's ability to swim so far under water, and watching my progress the while. A cheer greeted my appearance at tho surface where I rose beyond him. Crying to me that he could beat that, Billy struck out for the ship to prove his words.

years have passed and I have reached beef or pork with which to try to coax the shark to remain alongside 'until i their shipmate could be picked up. i The shark nosed at the various tidbits thrown out to him, but he seemed mistrustful," and to have an idea that 1 we were trying to hoodwink him. He still, however, remained by the shij middle life, the renown of my boyhood's feats cling to me yetln my native place. But I am a swimmer no more; the love that was so strong has given place to such a loathing hate and horror of the water that when I think of it a cold shudder comes over me until the tide of thought i-t turped. An adventure in tropical waters was the Fresh MeatLiveiy Locals! ATT L'TTVTT-C' He soon gained the chains and jokingly calling to me that he belioved had doubled the distance by going farther out, took in his breath and shot overboard like an arrow.

So cleanly did he enter tho water that the slightest possible ripple ruflled the OF ALL KINDS The boat was down, and pulling rap- We te mhpst PrIws fort.atU(1 idly toward the boy, when the noise of the oars attracted tho shark. Ho at I HT Mt-. Oono Ct Aw ivsi iiui ill uauia i ni once set off toward her and followed in the wake. Then began our worst bus- pense. If he kept behind the boat i all Kansas Point surface of the deep as it closed over him.

I waited with watchful eyes for his reappearance. 1 expected to see him rise between me and the ship, for the distance was so great that it had taxed my own powers, and I thought 1 had him beaten. Even as I was thinking this a cheer from the forecastle warned melhat he had come up, and turning my head I beheld him some five or six yards beyond me, a cheery smile upon his face and his head cocked on one side as if to say: "Beat that, my boy!" Billy might be reached in time; but if he should put forth his speed and pass her, there could bo no hopo of saving hiin. "Lie still, Billy!" shouted tho captain, as he wrung his hands, deploring his carelessness in permitting us to go i into the water at all. "Lie just as still as you can, or you are lost!" It was but a short pull, but the time cause of this.

It happened thus: 1 was on my second voyage. The ship lay becalmed amid the Molucca islands on the passage for China- It was near mid-day in tho forenoon watch. The sun's hottest ray were pouring down upon the deck with scorching violence, and vainly did I seek for some cool spot where momentary comfort, at least, could be found. The panting, half-uude forms of the crew were spread out beneath the shade of a canvas drawn over the forecastle capstan, which they tried to porsuade themselves yielded some shelter from tho heat Above, not a cloud could be seen in the broad blue expanse of the sky, which seemed a heated caldron turned above us. Against it the state SHORT TIME Grand Central Building, Without a word I Struck out to the vessel again, not a little vexed at being outdone, and determined to go so far outside him next time as to deter him if possible from trying again to beat me.

HOUTIl UOOM NOV. 118. I But Never Fo KANSAS. SALINA, seemed long as the men gave way with I a will. Behind the swiftly moving boat, and keeping pace with her mo- i tion, a dark-pointed' tin cleaves the water.

A moment more and the boat is by the swimmer, her bow gradually turning away as she nears him. The fin draws closer in her wake. As the 1 boat swings within reach a man rises in the bow. and, leaning over, grasps the terrified boy by the hand, while the I. SNYDER, Liyery, Feci Sale Boarding Stables.

J'IKTH AND ASH 8TKEETS, One blork Kast of tne National Hotel. Jr-Telephone jaS-lmo KINGMAN SON, North Seventh St. mate loudly shouts: "Hold water, all! The boat's way is stoppod, and Billy is being drawn in over the bow. An exultant cheer rises from the ship, where, breathless with suspense, all Advertise In It--We Have a Cir Reaching the ship I clambered up the side and took my place in the upper chains ready for the plunge. The captain and mate being doubtless as hard pushed for amusement as we poor fellows forward, were leaning over the quarter-rail and watching our sport with interest.

Go it, Gus!" cried John Butler, as he climbed out of the water to got a bettor view. "Beat him this time so he won't want to try again." Then as he surveyed the distance at which Billy-lay, he added: "My stars, but that's a long dive! eh. turning to the old sailor who had warned us against going into tho water. "Yes." returned he. "a 'deal too long.

If John Shark was to come along now, what chance would Billy-have to get on board? The old man must be loony to let you youngsters go into the water in such a shark's paradise as this. If I had my way I'd mast Good Coal. All kinds of Coal ati i Reasonable Prices. I hands are watching the terrible race. The rejoicing comes too quick! High above tho cheer is hoard a shriek that none who hear ever forget.

Tho fin has passed around the boat's stern, and instantly there is a sudden and fearful commotion alongside. As Billy is being lifted into the boat the shark i so long deluded and misled sees him. He is then scarcely twenty feet dis- tant With a lightning-like dart he ly spars and heavy white sails swayed with the roll of the ship in royal idle- ness and majesty. Too hot to work or to read, uneasy, praying for a breeze which it seemed 'would never come, I lounged about the deck vainly seekin relief from my discomfort. Gazing over the side down into the deep blue waste boneath, my eye sought some object by which to note the vessel's progress, however slow it might be, but nothing could I see save water, dark and unfathomable.

Tho polished coppered side of tho ship shone brightly out upon the surface for a few. feet, and as I gazed upon its quivering beauty, and remarked how very still we lay, the thoughtstruck me: "What a chauce for a What a relief from all this broiling, sweltering, oven-lik heat. To think was to act. 1 turned to the boys. Here John! Billy! Jimmy! Let's go in swimming.

Neyor was such a chance!" cried springing down from the rail. "Let's sling the ladder over from the fore-chains so we can get up the side easily, and we'll have a good time; 6he isn't moving a bit; come, bear a hand, and lot's see who'll be overboard first." The ship's officers made no objection. culation In 120 Towns! KINGMAN SON. C'OXrOKP, N. H.

1 SALINA, RAH. UKN VRH, OI rushes upon his prey just as he is al- most clear from the water. Horror! He has his victim! head the whole bilin of you. Go it, you old growl you! retorted John. 1 suppose you never had a swim in your life, and now you're too qld.

You've got the rheumatism yourself, and you don't want to see anybody else enjoy themselves. Talk about sharks whe you're where they are. We haven't seen one since we got among the islands, and I'm blest No! He has missed the body by a hair's breadth, but has caught the calf of Billy's leg, from which, not quite grasping the bone, he has torn half the flesh and nearly dragged him from the hold of his rescuers. With this he sinks beneath the waves, the boat's crew driving at his tough carcass with oars and boat-hooks, but making no impression. The boat was quickly alongside the ship, and Billy, limp as a rag and bleeding, passed on board.

He had fainted as soon as taken from the water, and just as the shark seized him. Carrying him into the cabin, his wound was dressed, and restoratives applied which brought him to life once more. Not for several weeks I i Money to Loan! i ON I SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GAZETTE! Real Estate did he fully regain his senses, and it was many months before his log was well enough to admit of his walking. and 1 was quiclcly joined, by lour or Ave of my shipmates, each as anxious as myself for something to vary the monotony. The fore-hatch ladder was quickly slung and lashed to the side, and we stripped to go in.

The rest of the crew had gathered upon the topgallant forecastle to watch ur antics. Only one old fellow, an inveterate growler known as Briton." cautioned us as he took bin seal near the rail: You young rascals had better keep out of the water or the sharks '11 gobble up some of you. There's plenty of 'em round for all you don't see em." "Oh, you're' always croaking, you web-footed old barnaelc-back!" cried P.illy Dipton, mounting the rail and poising himself for a plunge. We never can do any thing but you must throw cold water on it." "Oh, go ahead! go ahead! I don't care what you do; you're not obliged to take my advice, but if you were a if I thick there are any hereabouts." Standing there in tho chains, with one hand upon the sheer-pole already to let go and plunge, I heard Briton's remark and John's reply. Something in the old felloyr's manner struck me more than the former warning had, and as I listened to John's answer, I could not help feeling that the oldct sailor had all the reason on his side.

The swimmers had begun to come ot. board and dress. I almost made up my mind to stay on board, -and yield tho palm of diving to Billy. But they were all watching mo, and pride whispered: Pshaw! Don't show the white feather now! There are no sharks about. It won't tako three minutes to get outside where Billy is, and swim back to the ship.

Then you needn't go in again." Still I hesitated, while my shipmates waited to see what I would do. "Never mind," thought "let 'eta wait J'll stay on board the ship." I turned to call Billy in. Before I could speak he sang out to me: Come, Gus, I'm tired of waiting! If Billy sailed the deep until ho went, years ago, to his long account It is needless to say that while he lived he never tempted the sharks by under- -AND- IT IS THE CHEAPEST taking swimming exploits in salt water. For myself, I have not swam since that day when I was on the point of leaping into tho jaws of a bhark. Clarence Pullcn, in Youth's Companion.

"I declare, Robert." said the old man irascibly, "you are the most stupid boy I ever saw. 1 wonder at your ignorance. It Beems to me I'll da APER son of mine you'd not go overboard in i ODD FELLOWS' BLOCK, you re going to give it up, say so, and never be able to learn you anything." these waters." growled Briton. Well, as I'm not your son, and as you don't care what I do. here goes!" naid Billy, and suiting the action to the word, he sprang lightly to the rail, rlanwd in mid-air for Snstnnt inr1 uo you mean teach me any thing.

Til come out I've been in long enough." SALINA, KAS.i IN THE STATE! pa? asked Hobby, calmly, picking a iin ooth-nick. Enoch. Thnt otlod ifc. "'Jiv it.