Lost And Saved ; Or Nellie Powers, The Missionary's Daughter.

their advance for a chance in the Sparkler . She always made the quickest trips , and at square sailing beat any vessel of her tonnage out of New York . And it is for this reason that Ave find the man called Tommy so emphatic in his remarks at the beginning of our story . He hadon the morning

, before , after having become discouraged Avaiting for the long expected " Sparkler , " shipped on a down-easter , and Avithout any advance . Having just returned from a long voyage , and having spent all his dues , he Avould consequently have been obliged

to sail Avithout many needed necessities , but for the Avay he emphasized his remarks his companions knew that he intended to forfeit his agreement with the down-easter , and ship on the " Sparkling Sea . " While the "Sparkling Sea" is furling her

sails , we will give the reader a description of the man Avho entered the shipping office in such haste , and after leaving the door open , and then shutting it , gave the sailors there congregated the first information they had of the arrival of the " Sparkler . " His Avas the sublime and historic name

of Peter , Peter Dibble . He Avas a man verging on fifty years of age , of English parents , medium height , well built , had black hair , black eyes , and a heavy black beard . But he had a white heart , as his shipmates Avould say , for a better seaman ,

in all the particulars that go to make such a man , never trod a deck . He was an out and out sailor , one Avho had followed the seas all his life . His father had been second officer on the old emigrant ship , " General Putnam , " and he Avas born while

his mother was on the voyage from Merry England to the NBAV World , in the vessel on which his father was an officer . So as Peter often remarked he Avas born a sailor , aud from the first took to it as naturall y us a duck takes to the water . Tho

longest time he had ever remained on shore at any one time to his knowled ge , was when on the voyage from London to Calcutta he Avas cast away on an island in the South Seas , and was ashore tAvo months . Then he Avas very willing to be taken off by a passing vessel , having been ashore long enough to suit him . He had doubled the Horn times

Avithout number . H e had sailed the seas over and over from pole to pole . He had been on whaling voyages in the South Seas , and on

voyages of discovery in the North Seas He had been captured ancl had escaped from the cannibals of the Fee Jee Islands , and he had fought bears on the ice in Blieiln ^ Straits . Once on a Avhaling voyage , the boat iu which he happened to bewas struck

, by a bull whale and "knocked into splinters , ' ' he being the only man of the crew that was saved . The others became entangled in the ropes and boat ' s tackle , and were drowned .

He was a seaman who—Had sailed across the raging main To foreign lands aud back again . The adventures of his life he ahvays took great pleasure in relating—and a forecastle Avas ahvays lonely after Peter Dibble

had left the ship . The short , chunky man Avith the Irish tongue , ancl Avho answered to the name of Tommy , was no other than Thomas Mooney , Esq ., at least that Avas the way he always gave it out among his shipmates .

He , too , followed the occupation of a sailor on the billowy sea . In appearance he was a remarkable individual , short and stubby in stature ; his figure-head , which was large , Avas dotted with a pair of little round eyeswhich peeped out from under

, a pair of long sanely eyelashes ; a turn up nose figured prominently on his face , Avhile a beard of reddish hue hid his mouth from the curious gaze of a criticising world . In consequence of having been too smart Avhen he Avas young , and walking

before his time , his legs bowed , his shipmates used to say , as much as any pair of legs had a right to do . But withal , he was a large-hearted , straig ht-forward , squareacting seaman , and one who could hold Ins OAVU and stand the brunt of the jokes that are often thrown recklessly around in a

forecastle , and keep his temper . When from the shipping office Avindoitr our new acquaintances saw the " S parkling Sea " fairly docked , they drew their coats around them , pulled their hats firmer OA-M their ears , and laying well against the Avindsoon made their appearance on the

, deck of the aforenamed vessel . They Avere recognized by her jo'v captain , ancl immediately shipped for the return voyage , the date of the shi pment to be on the clay the vessel began to unload . "Now , if I wasn't to sail on a tim-