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him by the hand, and Clive jumped up clapping lis, and saying that it was the greatest wish of his heart that J. J. and he should be companions in France and Italy. "But I did not like to ask my dear old father," he said, "who has had so many calls on his purse, and besides, I knew that J. J. was too independent to come as my follower."

DOCTOR PABLO.

A YOUNG ship-surgeon who had made several

voyages, set out about thirty-five years ago, on board a rotten old three-master, commanded by a worn-out captain. The ship was named Le Cultivateur, and the young surgeon was named Paul de la Gironière. He came of Breton race; feared nothing, and loved adventure.

After touching in sundry ports, the old threemaster reached the Philippine Islands, and anchored near the little town of Cavita, in the bay of Manilla. There, the young doctor obtained leave to live ashore until the vessel sailed again; and having found lodgings in the town, he began to amuse himself in the open air with his gun. He mixed with the natives, and picked up what he could of their language, increasing at the same time his knowledge of Spanish.

At the end of four months-in September, eighteen hundred and twenty-cholera broke out at Manilla, and soon spread over the island. Mortality was terrible among the Indians; and, as often happens with Indians, and used to hap

more ignorant than they are now, the belief arose that somebody was poisoning the wells. No suspicion fell upon the Spanish masters of the island, who were dying with the rest; but there were several French ships in the harbor, and it was therefore settled that the wells were poisoned by the French.

The Colonel's berth has been duly secured ere now. This time he makes the overland journey; and his passage is to Alexandria, taken in one of the noble ships of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. His kit is as simple as a subaltern's; I believe, but for Clive's friendly compulsion, he would have carried back no other than the old uniform which has served him for so many years. Clive and his father traveled to Southampton together by themselves. F. B. and I took the Southampton coach: we had asked leave to see the last of him, and say a "God bless you" to our dear old friend. So the day came when the vessel was to sail. We saw his cabin, and witnessed all the bustle and stir on board the good ship on a day of departure. Our thoughts, how-pen often among Europeans when people were ever, were fixed but on one person-the case, no doubt, with hundreds more on such a day. There was many a group of friends closing wistfully together on the sunny deck, and saying the last words of blessing and farewell. The bustle of the ship passes dimly round about them; the hurrying noise of crew and officers running on their duty; the tramp and song of the men at the capstan bars; the bells ringing, as the hour for departure comes nearer and nearer, as mother and son, father and daughter, husband and wife, hold hands yet for a little while. We saw Clive and his father talking together by the wheel. Then they went below; and a passenger, her husband, asked me to give my arm to an almost fainting lady, and to lead her off the ship. Bayham followed us, carrying their two children in his arms, as the husband turned away, and walked aft. The last bell was ringing, and they were crying, "Now for the shore." The whole ship had begun to throb ere this, and its great wheels to beat the water, and the chimnies had flung out their black signals for sailing. We were as yet close on the dock, and we saw Clive coming up from below, looking very pale; the plank was drawn after him as he stepped on land.

Then, with three great cheers from the dock, and from the crew in the bows, and from the passengers on the quarter-deck, the noble ship strikes the first stroke of her destined race, and swims away toward the ocean. "There he is, there he is," shouts Fred Bayham, waving his hat. 66 God bless him, God bless him!" I scarce perceived, at the ship's side, beckoning an adieu, our dear old friend, when the lady, whose husband had bidden me to lead her away from the ship, fainted in my arms. Poor soul! Her, too, has fate stricken. Ah, pangs of hearts torn asunder, passionate regrets, cruel, cruel partings! Shall you not end one day, ere many years; when the tears shall be wiped from all eyes, and there shall be neither sorrow nor pain?

On the ninth of October a horrible massacre began at Manilla and Cavita. The old captain of the Cultivateur was one of the first victims. Almost all the French residents in Manilla were assassinated, and their houses pillaged and destroyed.

Monsieur Paul the doctor, who was known on shore as Doctor Pablo, contrived to escape in good time to his ship. As soon as he was on board, his services were wanted by the mate of an American vessel, who had received a poniard wound. That having been dressed, the doctor next heard from several French captains that one of their number, Captain Drouant, from Marseilles, was still on shore. There remained but an hour of twilight; he might possibly be saved. The bold young Breton therefore went ashore again in a canoe, and, when he landed, bade the sailors abide by the boat until he or Captain Drouant should come to them. He then began his search; and, at a little place called Puesta Baga, perceived a group of three or four hundred Indians. Among them they had the unlucky captain, pale as a ghost; whom a wild Indian, with a kris in his hand, held by the shoulder. Down rushed Doctor Pablo on the group, thrust the wild Indian to the right and Captain Drouant to the left, and pointing out where the boat was, bade the captain run and save himself. The captain ran, and the Indians were too much surprised at the presumption of his rescuer to take immediate heed of the departure of their victim; so the captain reached the boat, and pulled away from shore.

But how was Doctor Pablo to escape? The Indian whom he had thrust aside, ran at him with

uplifted arm; him the young surgeon met by a blow on the head with a little cane. The man ran back to his companions, amazed and wrathful. Knives were drawn on all sides, and a circle was formed about the mad white man; one would not strike alone, but a score or two would strike together. The circle was closing, when an Indian soldier, armed with a musket, jumped into the midst. Holding his musket by the muzzle, he swung it violently round at arm's length, and the revolving but-end soon cleared a wide space. Fly, sir!" the soldier said; "nobody will touch a hair of you while I am here."

In truth a way was opened, by which the young man was quietly permitted to depart; as he went, the soldier cried after him, "You cared for my wife when she was ill, and refused money; now you are paid."

Captain Drouant having taken the canoe, Monsieur Paul had no course left him but to go to his old home in Cavita. On the way he met a crowd of workers from the arsenal. who had set out with hatchets to attack the ships. Among these, too, there was a friend, who pinned him to a wall, concealed his person until his companions were gone by, and then urged him to promise that he would not go on board the ships, but hide on

shore.

The Doctor's case was little improved when he reached home. There came a knocking at the door, and a whispering outside, of "Doctor Pablo." It was the friendly voice of a Chinese storekeeper.

"What have you to say, Yang-Po?" "Doctor Pablo, save yourself. The Indians intend attacking you this night."

Doctor Pablo would not save himself by flight; he thought it best to barricade his doors with furniture, to load his pistols, and to abide the issue. Wearied by a day of anxiety, excitement, and severe physical labor, the beleaguered Frenchman found it difficult to keep awake and watchful, through the first hours of the night. At eleven o'clock there came again a knocking, hurriedly repeated.

"Who is there?"

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We are friends. The Indians are behind us. Escape through the roof at the back, and you will find us in the street of the Campanario."

He took this good advice, and had not long escaped before the house was searched and pillaged. His new friends sheltered him for the night, and were about to convey him to his ship on the succeeding morning, when one of them brought him a letter signed by all the captains in harbor, saying that being in momentary fear of attack, they had determined to heave anchor, and stand out to sea; but that two of them, Drouant and Perroux, would have to leave on land part of their provisions, their sails, and their water, unless he would send those stores off by means of a canoe which was sent with the letter, and was subject to his orders.

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The safety of two ships," said the young surgeon, "depends on sending off this water and these stores."

"Your own safety," his friends replied, "depends on getting off yourself, and that immediately."

"I am resolved to see after the stores." "Then go alone, for we will not escort you to destruction."

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Doctor Pablo did go alone, and found upon the shore a crowd of Indians watching the ships. He believed that by not fearing them he would remove nearly all cause for fear, and therefore went boldly up to them, saying, "Which of you would like to earn some money? I will give any man a piastre for a day's work." There was a silence. Presently one said, You do not seem to be afraid of us?" Why, no," he replied, drawing his two pistols; "you see I stake only one life against two." The men were at his service in a minute; two hundred were chosen; a note was penciled and sent off by the canoe to summon all the ship's boats to convey the stores. A quantity of money belonging to Captain Drouant was taken to the beach secretly by the pocketful, and deposited in a corner of one of the boats. All went well; there was only one unlucky accident. When Captain Perroux's sails were being repaired, one of the men engaged in the work had died of cholera, and the rest, fearing infection, had wrapped him up hurriedly in a small sail and run away. The Indians, in moving the sail-cloths, uncovered the body, and were at once in an uproar. This was, they said, a French plot for poisoning the air and spreading the infection. "Nonsense, men!" said Pablo. "Afraid of a poor devil dead of cholera ? So be it. I'll soon relieve you of him." Then, with a great display of coolness which he did not altogether feel, he wrapped the body again in a piece of the sail-cloth, and, lifting it up in his arms, he carried it down to the shore. caused a hole to be dug, and laid the body in the grave himself. When it was covered up, he erected a rude cross over the spot. After that, the loading went on without further hindrance.

He

Having paid the Indians, and given them a cask of brandy, Doctor Pablo went to the ship with the last cargo of water, and there-as he had taken little or no refreshment during the last twenty-four hours-his work being now done, he began to feel exhausted. He was exhausted in more senses than one, for he was near the end of his worldly as well as of his bodily resources. All his goods and the small hoards that he had made, were either destroyed or stolen ; he owned nothing but what he had upon hima check shirt, canvas trowsers, and a calico waistcoat, with a small fortune of thirty-two piastres in his pockets. When he had recovered from his faintness and had taken a little food, he bethought him of an English captain in the Bay who owed him a hundred piastres; as the vessels were all on the point of departure, he must set off in a small boat at once to get them. Now this captain, one of the perfidious sons of Albion I am sorry to say, replied to the young doctor's demand that he owed him nothing, and threatened to throw him overboard. So, in sooth, he

with just one piastre in his hand, and the whole world of the Philippines before him.

was obliged to tumble back into his boat, and | tres, so he came out into the streets of Manilla return to the Cultivateur as he could. But then, how could he?-for the night was become pitch dark, and a violent contrary wind had arisen.

The night was spent in idly tossing on the waves; but, when morning came, and he got on board his ship, other difficulties disappeared. The Spanish authorities had quelled the riots, and the priests in the suburbs of Civita had threatened excommunication against any one who attempted Doctor Pablo's life; for, as a son of Esculapius, his life was to be particularly cherished. The French ships remained at anchor; and when, soon afterward, an Indian came on board the Cultivateur to invite the doctor to his home near the mountains of Marigondon, ten leagues off, he had leisure to go, and went.

For three weeks, he lived happily as this Indian's guest, and then an express messenger came with a letter from the mate of his ship, who had commanded it since the death of the old captain, informing him that the Cultivateur was about to sail for France, and that he must make haste to come on board. The letter had been some days written, and when Doctor Pablo reached Manilla, there was his vessel to be seen, with its outspread sails, almost a speck on the horizon! His first thought was to give chase in a canoe, the Indians saying that if the breeze did not freshen they might overtake the ship. But they demanded twelve piastres on the spot, and only twenty-five were then lying in the doctor's pockets. What was to be done? If they failed to overtake the vessel, what figure was he to make in a town where he knew nobody, with nothing but a check shirt, canvas trowsers, calico waistcoat, and thirteen piastres? Suddenly, he resolved to let the Cultivateur go, and keep what money he had, to set himself up as a practitioner of physic in Manilla.

But Manilla, as the world knows, is a gay place, in which there is much display of wealth and carriages, and of Spanish colonial frippery and fashion. How should he begin? His stars provided for him in the first instance. Before he left the shore on his way back into Manilla, he met a young European, with whom he exchanged confidences. This young European was another ship-doctor, who had himself thought of settling in the Philippines, but was called home by family affairs; he confirmed Monsieur de la Gironière in his purpose. There was a difficulty about his dress; it was not quite the costume in which to pay physician's visits. "Never mind that, my dear fellow," said his friend. "I can furnish you with all you want: a new suit of clothes and six magnificent lancets. You shall have them at cost price." The bargain was settied; the departing doctor turned back to his inn, out of which Doctor Pablo presently issued fully equipped. He had a most respectable and professional set of clothes; only they were too long for him in every respect, and every where too wide. He had six lancets in his pocket, and his little calico waistcoat packed up in his hat. He had paid for his equipment twenty-four pias

A triumphant idea presently occurred to him. There was a Spanish captain, Juan Porras, known to be almost blind. He would go and offer him his services. Where did he live? A hundred people in the streets were asked in vain. At last an Indian shopkeeper observed, "If señor Don Juan is a captain, he will be known at any guard-house." To a guard-house Doctor Pablo went, and thence was at once conducted by a soldier to the captain's dwelling. Night was then closing.

Don Juan Porras was an Andalusian, and a jolly fellow. He was in the act of covering his eyes with enormous poultices.

"Señor captain," said the young Breton, "I am a doctor and a learned oculist. I am come to take care of you, and I am sure that I know how to cure you."

"Quite enough," he replied; "every physician in Manilla is an ape."

"That is just my opinion," said Doctor Pablo ; "and for that reason I have resolved to come myself and practice in the Philippines." "What countryman are you?"

ice.

"I am from France."

"A French physician! I am at your servTake my eyes; do what you will with

them."

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Your eyes, señor capitan, are very bad. If they are to be healed soon, they ought not to be left a minute."

"Would you mind making a short stay with

me?"

"I consent, on condition that you let me pay you for my board and lodging."

"Do as you will," replied Don Juan; "the thing is settled at onee. Send for your luggage."

Doctor Pablo's canvas trowsers had been thrown aside as too ragged to be worth preserving, and his whole luggage was the little white waistcoat packed up in his hat, and his hat was all the box he had. He adopted the straightforward course, which is at all times the sensible and right course; he told the captain the plain truth about himself, and that his lodging could be paid for only out of his earnings, say from month to month. The captain was on his part delighted. If you are poor," he said, "it will be the making of you to cure me. You are sure to do your best."

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Doctor Pablo and the captain got on very well together. An examination of the eyes next morning showed that the right eye was not only lost, but enveloped in a mass of cancerous disease that would ere long have destroyed his patient's life. Of the other eye there was still hope. "Your right eye," the doctor said, "and all this growth about it has to be removed by an operation, or you must die." The operation was undergone. The wounds healed, the flesh became sound, and, after about six weeks, the use of the left eye was recovered. During this time Doctor Pablo met with a few other patients; so,

at the end of the first month, he was able to pay punctually for his board and lodging.

The captain was cured, but nobody knew that, for he still refused to stir out of doors. "I won't go out," he said, "to be called Captain One-eye. You must get me a glass eye from France before I'll stir abroad."

diligent in his attendance on the boy; and six months afterward Madame de las Salinas-Anna was his wife. She had a fortune of thirty thousand pounds, expected daily in galleons from Mexico.

One evening while they were at tea, news came that the galleons were in the offing. Hus

"But that will make a delay of eighteen band and wife had agreed that when this money months."

came, they would retire to France. Don Pablo had then a splendid practice at Manilla, and held several official situations, kept two carriages and

"You must wait eighteen months, then, before you get the credit of my cure. Worry me, and I'll keep my shutters closed, and make peo-eight horses; also a fine table, at which all Euple believe that I can't bear the light, and am as bad as ever."

ropeans were welcome guests. It was not ruin, therefore, when the tidings came next day that his wife's money was lost! It had been seized on its way through Mexico by Colonel Yturbide, and paid to the credit of the independent cause, in a civil war then and there in progress. The only difference to Doctor Pablo was, that he could not quit the Philippines.

If Captain Juan Porras would but show himself, then Doctor Pablo's fortune would be made. Was Doctor Pablo to wait eighteen months, until a false eye could be received from France? Certainly not. He would turn mechanician, and get up an eye at Manilla under his own superintendence. He did so, and the captain (though it Among other situations, Doctor Pablo held the did not feel as if it were a clever fit) found it post of surgeon-major to the first light battalion not unsatisfactory. He put on spectacles, look-of the line, and was a warm friend to its captain, ed at himself in the glass, and consented to go Novales. Novales one night revolted, the regiout.

ment began an insurrection, and the surgeonBut what, somebody may ask, is all this story major rushed out at three o'clock in the mornabout? Is it true? I only know that it is all ing, not exactly knowing what to do. Tumult seriously vouched for by the person chiefly con- and cannonading followed. Pablo did not return cerned to wit, the doctor himself. Monsieur to his wife for twenty-one hours; he had given Alexandre Dumas having included the ad- his service to the Spaniards, and returned safe. ventures of Monsieur de la Gironière in a ro- He found his wife upon her knees; she rose to mance of "A Thousand and One Phantoms," receive him, but her wits were gone. The terror Monsieur de la Gironière considered that it was she had suffered cost her an illness that deprived time for him to tell the naked truth concerning her, for a time, of reason. He watched over her, himself and his adventures. This he now does and she recovered. A month afterward, she rein a little book called Twenty Years in the Philip-lapsed, and it soon appeared that she was subject pines; of which an English translation has just to monthly relapses of insanity. been published by Harper and Brothers.

The return of Don Juan caused a great sensation in Manilla. Every one talked of señor Don Pablo, the great French physician. Patients came from all parts; and, young as he was, he leaped from indigence to opulence. He kept a carriage and four, but still lodged in the captain's house.

He took her in search of health to the Tierra Alta, a district much infested by bandits; but he did not mind bandits. He had sundry adventures with them, and the result of them all was, that these people thought Doctor Pablo a fine fellow, and liked him. With much care, Anna's health was at last perfectly restored.

Then the young couple, devoted to each other, At that time it happened that a young Amer- returned into Manilla, where, soon afterward, ican friend pointed out to him a lady dressed in Doctor Pablo considered that he had been insultdeep mourning, who was occasionally to be seened by the governor, who had refused to discharge upon the promenades-one of the most beau- a soldier on account of ill-health on his recomtiful women in the town. She was the Mar- mendation. Pablo suddenly resigned every office chioness of Salinas, eighteen or nineteen years that he held under the state, and asked his wife old, and already a widow. Doctor Pablo fell how she would like to go and live at Iala-Iala? in love. Any where, she replied, with Doctor Pablo. He bought therefore with his savings, the peninsula of Iala-Iala; and, although the governor behaved courteously, refused his resignation, and appeased his wrath, he held to his purpose firmly, and set out to inspect his new theatre of action.

Vain attempts were made to meet this charming señora in private circles; but she was not to be seen within doors any where. One morning an Indian came to fetch the French physician to a boy, his master. He drove to the house indicated-one of the best in the suburb of Santa Cruz-saw the patient, and was writing the prescription in the sick room, when he heard the rustle of a dress behind him, turned his head, and saw the lady of his dreams. He dropped his pen and began talking incoherently; she smiled, asked what he thought of her nephew, and went away. This made Doctor Pablo very

It proved to be a peninsula divided by a chain of mountains which subsided in a series of hills toward the lake. It was covered with forests and thick grassy pasturage, and was full of game; Doctor Pablo held himself to be a mighty hunter, great in the chace of the pheasant or the buffalo. There were no animals on the domain more noxious than civet cats and monkeys-men except

WHAT IS A CONGREVE ROCKET?

ed. The peninsula was a noted haunt of pirates and bandits. Doctor Pablo went to the cabin of

WHOEVER has stood upon a fortification

the person who was pointed out to him as the near a cannon when fired, will have no

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most desperate pirate, a fellow who would do his half-a-dozen murders in a day, and said to him, 'Mabutin-Tajo"-that was his name "you are a great villain. I am the lord of Iala-Iala; I wish you to change your mode of life. If you refuse, I'll punish you. I want a guard; give me your word of honor that you'll be an honest man, and I will make you my lieutenant." The man, after a pause, vowed that he would be faithful to the death, and showed the way to the house of another desperado who would be his sergeant. From these, and with these, the doctor went to others of their stamp, raised a little army, and by evening had, in cavalry and infantry, a force of ten men, which was as large as he required. He was captain, Mabutin-Tajo was lieutenant, and the business of the men was thenceforward not to break order, but to keep it. He got the people of the place together, caused them to consent to assemble in a village, marked the line of a street, planned sites for a church and for his own mansion, set the people at work, and masons and master workmen to help them, from Manilla.

The people of Manilla thought the great French physician had gone mad, but his faithful wife heartily entered into his scheme; and, after eight months of constant passing to and fro, he at last informed her that her castle at Iala was erected, and conveyed her to her domain.

ticed the recoil, or backward movement of the piece on its wheels. More feelingly the force of the recoil will manifest itself to the rook-shooter, who, firing skyward many times in succession, often gets punished for his wanton destruction of corvine-life, by a bruised shoulder, or occasionally even a broken collar-bone.

Now, in all ordinary cases, it is the object of the gunmaker-understanding the term gun in its generic sense, including cannon as well as small-arms-to deaden or diminish this force of recoil. As concerns small fire-arms, more especially rifles and pistols, any considerable recoil is most injurious, as it throws the barrel out of the due line of aim; and this is the chief reason why so great a weight of metal is put into such barrels. In the case of pieces of ordinance, it will be found that the force of recoil, when it goes beyond a certain extent, not only disarranges the aim, but renders the piece unmanageable, more especially on board ship.

Let us suppose now, that the cannon on the fortification is charged-is discharged-and recoils. The explosion, however, being instantaneous, the recoil soon comes to an end. If the explosion were susceptible of prolongation, and if the mouth of the cannon could be maintained by some device in its original position, then the Doctor Pablo begged from the governor the best way of attacking an enemy, supposing the post which we should call in London, that of Po- expense of a cannon to be no object, would be lice Magistrate of the Province of the Lagune. to turn the breech of the gun toward him, and This made him the supreme judge on his own allowing it to take flight through the air like any domain, and secured more perfectly his influence other projectile. This notion may cause a smile; over the people. From the Archbishop Hilarion, but we do not know in what manner the general he begged Father Miguel de San Francisco as a theory of rockets could be rendered so intellicurate. This priest was denied to him, as a per-gible, as by commencing where we have comson with whom no one could live in peace. Doc- menced-with the recoil of a gun. A rocket, in tor Pablo persisted and obtained his wish. Father Miguel came. He was a fiery, energetic man, a Malay, who got on very well with his new patron, and was appreciated by his flock; not the less because he labored much among them as a teacher and in other ways, and preached only once a year, and then it was always the same sermon -a short one in two parts-half Spanish for the gentlefolks, half Tagaloc for the Indians.

point of fact, may be described as a gun charged with a slow-burning combustible, so that when discharged, or rather ignited, it recoils, first a little, then a little more, and so more and more, until the force of recoil imparts to the mass a power proportionate to its weight multiplied by its velocity. Most people have seen a sky-rocket; many have examined it, perhaps; still more have traced the fiery course of the beautiful pyroIn this way, Monsieur Paul de la Gironière technic ornament as it mounted aloft with arrowsettled at Iala. There he lived many years. He like velocity, then watched its graceful bend and reformed the natives, taught them, and human- final distribution of variegated stars. Lastly, ized them. Without a cannon-shot, he put an most persons are cognizant, we presume, of the end to piracy. He cleared woods, and covered fact, that each rocket is furnished with a stick, the soil with plantations of indigo and sugar- serving the purpose of a rudder, or a tail. Now, cane, rice, and coffee. The end of his history the sky-rocket is propelled in consequence of its was that he left Iala-Iala when its church con- own recoil. Were we to retain the idea with tained the graves of his dear wife and of his two which we commenced our description, we should infant children, of a favorite brother who had say repelled, in consequence of this recoil; but quitted France to dwell with him, of his wife's inasmuch as recoil becomes in the rocket the sister, and of other friends. Doctor Pablo went primary or chief force, we had better, from this back, a lonely man, to his old mother, in France, period to the end of the paper, turn our ideas of in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, recoil upside down. As for the stick-tail, or rudafter having passed twenty years in the Philip-der-the reader may denominate it as he pleases pines.

-its use is to keep the mouth or aperture of the

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