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Show THE SHIP'S CREW. There was once a great ship, bigger than the Gedric or Baltfc, out at sea. All the owners were aboard. The ship had been in thick weather after leaving port, for many days. Two or three times the barometer indicated very heavy weather and more than once the ship had rolled a good I deal being caught in the seas that hajl been thrown up by a storm that had been beating upon a distant shore. But now the ship was on an even keel, her engines working perfeotly and making magnificent time, and old salts declared that they had never before seen so brave a ship or one so splendidly handled. The sun, too, was bright over head and as the beautiful ship rose and fell gently on the heavy swells of the deep sea, and the passengers promenaded prome-naded her decks, they declared that the voyage was simply delicious. The ship was so ample of size that the owners had a cabin of their own where every day they met. The more aristocratic aris-tocratic were accustomed to drink champagne and fine French brandy and soda and for luncheon had green turtle soup and caviar and English mutton chops and smoked Henry Clay cigars, while other owners, and the richer ones, it may be paid, ordered Wienerwurst and Welsh rarebits and and Bavarian beer and smoked pipes. They got along fine. But one day a passenger from the Second cabin came in and approaching the owners', said: "Gentlemen, do you know that this ship is liable fto go down at any minute?" The owners in chorus answered, "Why what is the matter?" The passenger replied: "Everything is the matter, the captain, the mates, the engineers, the sailors, even the coal passers are all Incompeent and I know the captain especially is trying to get the ship Into trouble and wreck It." "Why bless my soul," said one of the owners, you astonish me beyond expression. "In the first days of this voyage after our captain was killed, I noticed as the weather came down thick that the first officer, who had assumed command ivas on the bridge all day and all night as though ifunconscious of fatigue. And the second officer was by his side a great part of the time, and the - chief engineer seemed always at his post. And when at noon day the first officer takes the sun, the second offioer does the same, and then they compare reckoning and whenever I pass their cabins cab-ins I see them studying their charts, and the lookouts and quartermaster are more vigilant. The crew keeps the ship as clean as a parlor, and there Is order and quiet everywhere. What has glveji you such a scare?" 'SWell," answered the man, "the captain every 'day makes the fu.ll round of the styp, on deck, v in the saloon, in the steward's pantry, down in the engine room and I heard him tell the cook the other day if he did not sew hi dinner hotter h$ would thro.w him overboard. He seems to me a dangerous man." "Well, said the owner, that is pretty bad, but suppose we wanted to make the change you pro- P0B8, where would we find the men?" "They are right down in the second cabin, they are anxious for the places," was the reply. "All on board, are they?" said the owned. "They are all competent I suppose?" "Competent, you should just hear them talk," said the man. "What do they say?" asked the owner. "They say that it is just shameful the way this ship is run," answered the man. "What are the names of some of these men?" asked the owner. "Why the one we have picked out for captain is named Parker" said the visitor. "He is a thorough seaman I suppose?" was asked. "Well, no," said the man, "this is his first voyage voy-age and he looks sea sick most of the time, but he says that he ran a row boat once on the Hudson Hud-son and he knows that he can beat this skipper that you have." "And the first officer, who would he be?" asked the owner. 'He is a daisy," was the answer. "He ran a canal boat once at Elmira aad he says he knew more about a ship twenty years ago than your captain could ever learn." "What about a second officer?" was asked. "The man for that is named Sheehan," answered an-swered the visitor. "He knows that he could run a ship for he has landed more primaries safe in port than any other mariner." "What about a chief engineer?" was asked. "We have just the man, his name is Davis," said the visitor. "He ran a locomotive on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad the year before Column-bus Column-bus discovered America." "Any more fine seamen?" was asked. "Well," aaid the man, "there is a man forward, between docks, in the steerage, on the port-quar- i m ter, who would make a prince of a steward. HIS ' '- name is Bryan and he says he could run this 1 1 ship at half the present expense." ! f "Any more?" asked the owner. H "Plenty more," said the visitor, "but there is ' fl one in particular I want to recommend. He H could serve both ' as a lookout and fog-horn in H thick weather. His name is Cockran?" fH At this the owner arose and said, "You are H vory kind, we will consider the matter. Coma H around on the 9th of November, and we will give H you an answer." H Then more brandy and soda was ordered H but no toasts were drunk to the new crew. H |