The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-19
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iSew UrieenS Tnex-p<Docrxt We were sifsing alone in the twilieht ieassrely pufang q our ciEAEs when one of the hcspltAl nurses canne ous and whis- pefed so the doctor that Sailos Iehn wss
 agoin.' The passing away of . mortal IS an event about which tAeEe is always something cf the myssesions, and e VI walked down the loag cussidor and en- tered Ward i2. The nurse was righl John was agoin.' Like an alto relievo, out of the crumpied pillow rose . face that vas Roman in its rugged outline, and even the pinched nose, sunkea eyes and compressed lips did nos ebliseraie the dug up among the ruins of early itAly A student sad Il looked hks Seneca, and truly there vas much to recall the old philosopher in the wr.nkled features.
 The man in bed .-. restless with fever, turned over so as to fAee the couch ef the dying man. and with wild staring eyes watched every sinking respiration Of the old sailor
 An awkward piethoric beetle husred around ,he gas Jet in an irregular orbit, iis hum being the only sound 10 break the silence which the faint bFeathings of the sufferer softly punctuA,ed. The doc tor lifted the sheet and telt the pulse ot the patent It's about over" he re- marked, and he laid dowu the helpless arm.
 There was . rattle in the throat long drawn ssgh, as if all the sorrows of lite time were relieved As II died away, and then the eyes opened. They locked into the doctor s, and seeming to find comfort in the returning glance of compassion. they closed slowly Then there was a tsi,ching ot the muscles around the mouth, and in supreme elimaA of eiior, the lips moved and fa.ntly came forth, " Hard port It ls sir" A sligh, tremos sh ook hts frame, and all was over.
 John had reached haIbos.
 Then there vas a tread of teet in the corridc. and the carriers Qf the dead came in. and John was taken out to the dead house and laid beside other siorm-tosscd barks that had tha, day found last mooring place, whishef the whole armada of humanity drift a, last. The hospital bell gave one stroke to announce the de. par,nre of another soul, and then the nurses looked over the ward book 10 see who mex, should receive his dose of med ioine, and hospital life resumed its quie, current.
 We wen; back b the portico and re- sumed our cigaTs. "A curious feilos. that" said the doctor this is his hfth visit here, and he knew il would be hts last. He was always begging me to be al his s,de when the end came, and by good luck chaneed here to-nighl
 Strange as i, may seem 10 you. this same man was once a king. You smile. but, nevertheless, Il IS true. He was cast away tn the Pacific and reached one of the small islands out there, where he lived and became the ruler of a little kingdom. He longed for white society and aedic&ted and went back to he sea
 But that IS not what wanted to speak about, the doctor vent on lighting a fresh cigar. "i It's hls curious ideas oi his ability to come back from the other world He has talked to me by the hour on this sub)ec, until put him down as a l spirltuaiist of the most orthodox kind. He has promised me 10 make his pre,- enoe known on the night of his nativity, i June 70. and has excited my curiosity not i little"
 II he could only do that" sad l. it would be the solving oi all our doubts. r Yes, replied the doctor, no mes sage ever came from beyond the Stys. and good sailor zs John was. he cannot, believe, reoross that inky aooA.'
 The above little episode happened in the Charity hospital about the middle ol May. 1869. and the doctor spoken of was one known and beloved throughout the city and state. It is but little over year since he. too, crossed the Leshean stream but before his death he told the writer the facts given below, speaking of them as curious coincidence. and not for q mome..t looking a, them in a supers,i. tious light.
 He vas a man of remarkable nerve, was as brave as Ceeur de Leon and would be as little daunted by the appearance ol simon-pure ghos, as he would by the approach of an old friend. It was bu, a shor; time before his death and whilsi Canal street was a pandemonium oI sound, and horns and hrecraekers were making Christmas Eve hideous. that, seated in his office, the conversation turned on things supernatural The trep. idatiors of youth over spooks and the fears of the superstitious H older growth were laughed al, and i, vas not till aiiei the subject drifted to hospital life that the doctor exclaimed
 "Tha.'s fact; l don't believe eves told you my experience in the dead-hous< of the hospital after Sailor Jehn's death. never cared about saysag anyshiss regarding il, for if 1 have to oonfess # for the first time in my life l was a little weak.
 "Ysu know the de&d-house as Charity hospital and its interioF9 Well, had had case of aneurism that puxzied all of us, and, being . young physician thea 1 had a natural pride in my diagnosis which did not agree with that of the oehes surgeons. So ! determined that when the patient died, as he was sure 10 do, l sUosalA held 1a arfe.x,~x sz.,xsaH WtAI