The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21

yers have discovered, he makes up for
chances withheld when he returns to
shore an affidavit in either hand.
The Aglaia figured with distinction
In the great Mackinaw salvage use. TT
was her first slip from virtue, and she
learned how to change her name, but
not her heart, and to run across the sea.
As the Guiding Light she was very bad
" waEted in a South American port for
the little matter Of entering the harbor
at full speed, colliding with a valuable
coal-hulk and the states only man-of-
war, Just as that man-of-war was going
TO coal She put TO sea without ex-
plantations, though three forts fired at
her for half an hour. As the Julia
M'Gregor she had been concerned in
picking up from a raft certain gentle
men who should nave stayed in Nou-
mea but who preferred making them
selves vastly unpleasant to authority
in quite another quarter of the world;
and as the Shah-in-Shah she had been
overtaken on the high seas, indecently
full of munitions of war, by the cruiser
Vi du hklOdbCu DOntI Nv iSouC Win us
ncighbor. That time she was very
nearly sunk, and her riddled hull gave
eminent lawyers of two countries great
profit. After a season she reappeared
as the Martin Hunt, painted a dull slate
color with pure saffron tunnels and
boats Of robin's-egg blue, engaging in
the Odessa trade till she was invited
(and the invitation could not well be
disregarded) TO keep away from Black
Sea ports altogether.
She had ridden through many waves
Of depression in the shipping business.
Freights might drop out of sight, sea-
mems unions throw spanners and nuts
at certificated masters. or stevedores
combine till cargo persisted on the dock.
head, but the boat os many names came
and went, busy. alert and inconspicu-
Gus always. Her skipper, who in a
spasm of pride had compared her to a
servant girl In "a house of illfafne, made
no complaint of hard times, and por.
officers observed that her crew signed
again aboard her with the regularity
of Atlantic liner b~oatswains. Her name
she changed as occasion called; her
well-paid crew never, and q large per-
centage of the potts of her voyages was
spent with an open hand on her engine
room. She never troubled the under
writers, and very seldom stopped 10
talk with a signal station, for her bust.
ness was urgent and private.
But an end came to her tradings. and
rhn narscHa1 ~ fbfu ,,nnnA. H..
peace broodedove Europe, Asia, Africa.
America, Australia and Polynesia. The
powers dealt together more or less hon
estly; banks paid their depositors to
the hour; diamonds of price came safe
~ to the hands of their owners; repub.
lies rested content with their d~ictators;
diplomats found no one whose presence
In the least incommodcd them: and
monarchs lived openly with their law
fully welded wives. II was as though
the whole earth had put on it's best Sun
day bib and tucker; aud business was
very bad for the Martin Hunt. The
great, virtuous calm engulfed her, slate
sides, yellow tunnels and all, but cast
up In another hemisphere the steam
whaler Haliotis. black and rusty, with "a
manure-colored funnel. n litter OF din.
Ky white boats, and an enormous stove.
or furnace. for burning blubber on her
forward wcll-deck. There could be no
doubt that her trip was successful, for
d lay at several ports not too well
known. and the smoke OF her trying-ou.
Abe Aeaelr%---
Anon she departed AT the speed OF the
average London four-wheelcr, and en-
tered a semi-island sen, warm. still and
t're which = nerhnps. The most strict
m. prcerrvcu wafer IN the world. There
she stayed for three months. under
esN for the most part. and tho great
nfors OF those mild shies behcld her
playing pussin-the corner among IL