Pittston Gazette

              tafelUhed USO, » 'OL. XLIX No. 43. f Oldest Newspaper in the Wvomine Vallev P1TTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. I •l.OO * Tear ; Id AdvuM. sive, insistent. Be con Id fix hit) mind on nothing else bnt them. tknnerthing clattered on the deck planks and lay glistening in the moonlight. It was a nickel plated revolver. Mrs. Jelly rushed across and picked it up, while Guthrie slammed to the doors of the companion and swung over the bar which lay ready to fasten them. either, if they wants to, that 1 can see We shall just have to make a fight of it when they come." '''They'd left a crosscut saw lying about, and that gave me the idea. Henrietta and I did it between us, and it took us the better part of an hour." come, i. day, jouajg wuiuuii, that's rather hard lines, isn't it 1" expostulated the pilot. The eight negroes managed to scramble into the boat one by one, while Captain Colepepper leaned,over the aide and covered them with the little nickel plated revolver which was one of the trophies of the former encounter. The negroes' own pistol* were half way to the bottom of the ooean by this time, so they were powerless. MATRON AND MAID. "Give that clod a kick and wake him!" he cried irritably. "But we can't fight them I We have no firearms and they have, but we can stop them!" cried the undergraduate. "You see that saw? Well, we'll stop them with that I Here, Cain I" he shouted. "Can you keep that white haired old ruffian safe for another half hour?" "Not a bit of it, doctor!" was the indignant answer. "They richly deserve that we should crow over them. Besides, I've no sympathy with pirates!"Mile. Calve's hobby is gardening. "After a bard season," shir says, "I recuperate among my turnips and potatoes." The farmer was roused and stretched himself noisily. "Slackened up the port rigging, tautened the starboard, and then laid into the atarboard side of the stick with the »aw, I suppose?" cried the eager captain."Perhaps Cain might give ns an idea." suggested Mrs. Jelly, though without much hope in her tone. Mme. Walter, a Paris music ball favorite, traveled from San Sebastian to Madrid, 400 miles, in an automobile. She is the woman who danced a skirt dance in a lion's den. Cain was standing beside him, swinging his arms about like flails and bawling a throaty challenge to any one who cared to hear it "Shade of Nicholas the First hear your descendant I" cried Dr. Tring as he signed to the skipper to give her another point Henrietta began in a low voice to give the farmer an account of the situation, but bis ears seemed at the moment to be preternaturally dull and he constantly interrupted her with a hoarse, whispered "What?" that boomed through the hold like a rain squall. The woman cut her tale as short as she could. "Try him," said Quthrie. "No; the other way round." was the answer, "but it's the same thing, of course. That mast was a piece of the best Memel pine, I may tell you. and I shouldn't say the teeth of the saw were good for much when at last it did come down. The heel of it cut the bulwarks to the deck level as it fell." "I think I can, mr," returned the farmer confidently. "I'll just set here quiet, like thikky. I suppose he'll have to boide too." . "Now, you black vermin," said the captain savagely, "if a single man Jack or you so xnucn as maces a more to cast that painter off, I'll put a bullet The Duchess d'Uses, one of the pronounced French Royalists, has perhaps started a Hobeon kissing erase in Paris by publicly kissing Captain Baratier, companion of Marchand in Africa. "Htow that bellowing." cried the young man, "and see no one gets out here! I'm going forward." The Enreka ran ont through the reefs under easy canvas, not by the way she had come in, bat by a shorter and channel to the leeward, and'tk a fresh, whole sail breeze fill sails, made onoe more for the coned spot of the ocean where, safest of all banks, the balance Spanish gold was waiting for them, the third day oat from Piper's captain announced that, accord his observations, she was ar might be lying dead over the foundered galleon, the old Santa Catarina. kecth therefore was once more _ ed into a diving bell and dropped on to the floor of the ocean. They did not, However, hi* precise spot again at the first In fact, five journeys back ant the surface were required befort. found even a part of the sea floor they knew. But on the sixth _ sank almost directly on to the top oi their Goloonda, and after that the rest was easy. No one grumbled at the tedium of their work in the bowels of the sea now, for each one knew that the reward, was sore, and that knowledge made them find a pleasure even in the turning of that awful crank which in the earlier search for the sunken treasure had been to them such a work of woe. It had occurred to him that there might be others of the schooner's crew in the fore peak, and as there was no immediate use for tbem on deck just now he pelted forward and Mrs. Jelly with him. As it turned out, they were "Have you managed to arm yourself with anything?" was the next question. Kate Delougherty of Kansas City la perhaps the only woman switch tender In the United States. Her position is an important one, as she throws the switches for all passenger trains which enter and leave the Union depot in that city. CHAPTER XX. THE BCHOONXB'8 BOLD. Spanish galleon." At this the rabble broke out into a noisy chatter, but the white headed old mulatto raised an authoritative hand tor silence. "No," admitted Cain, "but I'll coon do that, zur." With a great effort and with the deliberation of a man to whom harry was a vanity, he straightened out a yellow traitered leg. dived deep down into a long trousers pocket and produced a clasp knife. He opened it with bis teeth and showed a blackened blade some four inches in length. Then he spat copiously into the hollow of his palm, gripped the knife handle and extended hia arm with a slow, rawing motion. "Which mast did you tackle?" asked rhe doctor. Her steersman chot the whaleboat cleverly up alongside the schooner, which was moored fore and aft to trees on the shore. The lug sail was run down and the painter caught by a couple of men who appeared on the deck, negroes, too, like the others. The gangway was unshipped and passed out, and Uw people from the green cave boardea from the gunwale of their boat "Who've yon got there, cap'n f aa^. "Now, Cain, what are we to do?" asked Quthrie when she had finished. "H'm! Then I don't see that we're lafe from them yet. They can bend a foresail in front of the mainmast and be nearly as good as before." "Foremast." Mne. Emma Barnes Story, contrary to her usual custom, will spend almost all the summer In her home on the Place des Btats Unis, Paris, where her husband Is at work on two large pictures. Marlon Crawford will spend a month with the Storys. "It's no use all gabbling at once," be told them. "We have got to set about making a plan, sharp, or we shall have this haul slipping through our fingers. I don't suppose they'll be staying on at Piper's indefinitely. Well, I'm sorry for 'em, but"— He finished his sentence by a movement of his pipe stem across his throat. The farmer shook his bead slowly from side to side, yawned heavily, but did not answer. "Think, man!" exclaimed the undergraduate testily. "Yes," said Guthrie, with a laugh, "I daresay that's what they'll do eventually. But it won't be today or tomorrow or for a good many days to oome. You see, after we'd got the mast overboard Henrietta went round with a hatchet and cut every rope and stay that would go through. It'll take thcHnTgood week of ijiore honest toil than they're used to before they can set so much as a pocket handkerchief." "I can't. Eur." said the man in such a whisper that the turtles began to rustle afresh at the sound of it By the will of Mrs. Lucretia A. Wildner of Boston an estate of about 116,000 has been equally divided between the Winchester Home For Aged Women in Chariest"®, the Massachusetts General hospital and the Boston Homeopathic hospital. Florence Nightingale k in her • • • nD Then Mrs. Jelly took him in hand and tried Jrim with Zusan Pierce, She reminded him that Znsan would take it badly if he never returned to her and none of the Santa Catarina'a treasure fell to her share, and then, with the cunning of one who knew, she drew a vivid picture of the lady's sharp tongued wrath. There was an inconsistency in this somewhere, but that he would not be there to feel his sweetheart's wrath did not seem to occur to the farmer. He roused himself from his habitual lethargy and shook bis big head pitifully to the tune of, "That 'u'd be tarrible, 'Enrietta, tarrible!" "I be dang'rous man to tackle, aur, when I got blood up," said he solemnlyad one of the men on the schooner, as the Eureka* stepped np on to the deck. The tall, gaunt captain leaped to hie feet and brought his black fist down on to the table with a bang. "Oh, some blundering fools," replied the lean captain, "who must needs above themselves in our way when they weren't wanted! Now, you three," he continued, addressing his prisoners, "I haven't staterooms to give you and the fo'c'atle'a full, so just turn down into the hold for the present No, young man, yon needn't bother to argue the question. Just ahut your bead and go quietly. You'll only get your skulls cracked if yon make fools of yourselves over it" Guthrie burst into a langh. The notion of any one being tardy enough to let that knife be stuck into him waa funny, but then be remembered the oxlike strength of the fist at the back of it, and came to the concluaion that he pitied the man who fell foul of ita blow. "No!" beshouted. "Not that! There may be two skippers aboard here practically when it comes to a job of this sort, bat I'm rated master of this schooner's books, and whatever else I may give in to I'll bold ont against that. I've told yon before that I'm not overkeen on the stealing part of it, bnt the air of the islands seems to have made pirates of tbe whole lot of yon, and so I can't help myself there. Bat— take it as yon like—I draw the line at murder." _ .* wealthy mn right She owns a house in London but spends most of her time in Bucking hamshire, at Claydon House, the country seat of her sister, Lady'Verney. Despit* her poor health, she still keeps up i large correspondence. After lengthy negotiations and somC dispute the Jewels of the late Fannj Davenport hare been sold by the exec utors of the estate to Blanche Walsh, tlx actress, for $10,000. When Miss Davenport died, her Jewelry alone was thought to be wdflh $100,000. The Countess of Warwick, after creat ing a sensation by floating the Warwid Estate company (limited), now announces that she wiH personally attend her ston in New Bond street, where she sells thi product of school needlework, on Tues days during the summer. The new departure of a countess behind a counter it expected to bring swarms of customers. Mrs. A. B. Paul, who was inspector of street cleaning in the First ward of Chicago during the previous city administration, has been appointed by Mayor Harrison and Commissioner McGann as superintendent of streets in the First ward. 8he has taken full control of the street and alley cleaning, the removal of the garbage and the paving and street repairs."Young man," said Dr. Tring, "you're not half the fool that I've sometimes thought you!" Captain Colepepper leaned over the tide and covered them. tbroagh him. Threatened to shoot my daughter, did yon t Now, I'm joat going to give yon a free tow for half a dozen miles and then cast yon off to the best of your way back to that pirate ship of yours. I'll have to make yon a present of my boat to do it in, unfortunately, bat as the farmer has smashed np yonr own, which was a better one, I won't grnmble at that All hands make sail on the Eureka I I'll see to these gentry myself." Half an honr later the captain gart orders to cast the boat off, and a couple of' oars were thrown overboard to the negroes. By nightfall the single remaining mast of the schooner was dropped below the western horiaon, and the Eureka's people were done with her and her piratical crew forever. This was the second occasion during the trip on which Cain Laversha was known to have lost his temper, and the occurrence waa dnly noted * in the ketch's log as one of the phenomena of the voyage. At thia the undergraduate rose and bowed, and Misa Colepepper gave a strange little laugh, which caused the doctor to glance at her sharply and then "Come on, Henrietta," said be. "Cain's all right, I fancy. Now I'll ihow you what a crosscut aaw will dot" CHAPTER XXII. the balance or the gold. "It would; yoa're right," said the undergraduate, stifling his inclination to laugh. "Just think of it! Your throat cut, and Znsan's purse unreplenisbed and her marriage finger still unbooped! Now come, Cain; pull yourself together and tell us a way out of tbe difficulty!" ▲ couple of abeath knives were out on the instant, gleaming brightly in tbe moonlight. The negroes were six—all big men and armed—and how many more there might be below there was no means of guessing. The undergraduate aaw that resistance was hopeless and did as be was told. He picked the man up as any one else might have picked up a doll. just in time. A sleepy fellow had just poked otit his head and was gaping with astonishment at what he saw. With the impulse of the moment Henrietta popped the small end of the nickel plated revolver fairly into his open month, and the man tnmbled back whence he had come, yelling murder at the top of his voice. Captain Colepepper waa pacing the deck of the Eureka and watching anxtonsly for the daylight to coma. The captain waa nervous and irritated and showed it in the nnwonted jerkineaa of bis gait. His crew had certainly been giving him a good deal of trouble lately by their various adventures on Piper's cay, and a kind of superstitious dread of the sinister influences of hia piratical ancestor's island headquarters bad taken hold cf the skipper's mind. The run of ill luck which bad dogged the Eureka's people ever since their arrival seemed to him more than the chances of the game warranted. When once they had located the treasure room again, three joyneys were all that were necessary to empty it, and when tbey pumped their way to the surface for the ladt time the Eureka carried in her bold and on her decks gold and silver to the value of a milHnn and a half of English money. The dismantled masts and rigging were set np again, and Captain Colepepper gave the joyful order for the sails to be bent once more for home. The work was nearly finished when a sharp cry of dismay from Henrietta made all hands look up in sudden alarm. At this the babel broke out again. It seemed, indeed, to tbe anxious watcher that tbe black captain had some support, but it was obvious that the majority was with his white headed antagonist.There was a fixed iron ladder at the after combing of the main batch, running straight up and down from the deck to the hold beneath. By this be descended and tbe other two after him. Tbe schooner's people slid on a heavy grating and fixed it in its place with wedgea. Then four pairs of shod feet and two ahuffiing pairs of bare ones Coald be heard making their way aft over tbe deck to tbe companion, and presently tbe murmnr of voices in the cabin came to the prisoners in a doll drone through the quietness of the night. "As for stealing," said the mulatto fiercely, "who says it's stealing at all T Who gave tbe Eureka's people tbe old Spanish hulk to plunder T Tell me that! They've no more right to her treasure room than I have. In fact, if we come to that, not so much, for I've got good Spanish blood in me. Of course they won't hand over peaceably if they can help it, and it seems to me that tbe best plan would be to get the stuff under our own hatches, quiet them for good and then scuttle their clumsy ketch in deep water. She'll never be inquired for. If she isn't report? again, their friends in England wi just say: 'Mad scheme. Come to grie.. Served 'em right. Amen'.' " "I reckon, zur,"said tbe farmer with awful deliberation, "us ought tocloimb up atop of the zeilin first" CHAPTER XXL ON DECK. As no less than three other voices were heard asking, "What the blazes is up 7" there was no time for dawdling. Over went the hatch. On went the two hasps over their corresponding staples. And then, to make sure that no hard negro skull repeated the Cain Laversha trick and burst the hatch up from below, they lugged over a heavy kedge anchor on to the top of it and added about a score of fathoms of chain cabft, which happened to be ranged on deck, till that small entrance way to the depths below was bnried under fully half a ton of rusty iron. By "cloimbin up atop of the zeilin" Mr. Laversba implied that they should commence operations by getting out on deck—an excellent piece of advice no doubt; half the battle, in fact, if only they could do it But, with a view to doing just that thing, Guthrie had ex amined and tested the grating over the hatch half a dozen times already and bad satisfied himself of nothing but the unbreakable strength of their jail. Tbe farmer's suggestion, therefore, did not rouse tbe enthusiasm which be seemed to look for. "Confound that farming lontl" be muttered as be leaned on the bulwark and watched for the signs of the coming morning in the sky. "Ten to one he's got himself into a scrape with his poaching foolishness, and Henrietta and Outhrie with him. Confound Piper and bis island tool There seems to be a blight on the place." "The pirate schooner I" The captain took a long look. A strange looking vessel, a schooner with bat one mast, was rapidly coming np before the wind. Captain Colepepper gave one glance at her and then bawled to all hands to harry for their lives and they'd escape the rascals yet. Bat the negroes were bringing a strong breeze ap with them, and before the Earefca had time even to slip her sea anchor the schooner had hanled her wind a cable's length away. A boat was lowered—the whaleboat whid they bad left on the beach at Piper's cay—and eight negroes tumbled into her, leaving only the helmsman on their esseL And now the Bristol pilot waa in charge, and the Eureka waa standing board and board up the great estuary of western England. THE VERDICT. to exchange a smile and a sbrng with the yonng lady's father. Dolly, becoming suddenly conscious of this tele graphic demonstration, blushed. It can truthfully be said that wireless telegraphy is still in the air.—St Paul Pioneer Press. If the Philippines ever get a congressman, will he be from the east or the west T—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. We ahall have to acknowledge the corn now that Indian malae forms an element in smokeless powder and furniahea a very excellent substitute for rubber.—Beaton Advertiser. In view of the fact that golf is played preaumably for toterdae it to rather strange that the players alwaya have a small boy to do all the hard work.—New York Journal. "Dolly,'' remarked the undergraduate presently after a short pause, "have yon forgotten a bargain which we made some weeks ago!" "There be something live in this yer box," announced Cain, aa a faint, rustling noise made itself heard in tbe bold. "Why, Tin's tortoises," he exclaimed after a brief, stertorous inspection, "same as Zusan Pierce, her father get far black beetles in tbe kitchen, only bigger." "What did yon do with Cain's prisoner, the white beaded mulatto V' asked Captain Colepepper. "I will have no murder done, I tell you," repeated the other firmly. "So, if that's your game you go/without me. But scuttle their craft and maroon tbem on Piper's if you like. I won't say no to that." As tbey were in the middle of this handiwork • sharp yell of pain came from astern. Outbrie sang out to ask if Cain wanted any help. The farmer bawled back, deliberately enough, that be was all right ; that they were to go on with what they were doing till It was finished, and then to come and see something "cnr'ons." A faint brightening in the east showed where the day was coming. The clear parts of the sky took on a thin blnsh of pnrple, and the scattered clonds canght fire on the horizon and bnrned like fnrnaoes on the water line. Then the conflagration of the heavens spread np and np. while the stars still winked down nndimmed from the zenith. Then with a rash the light came, and it was day. The girl shot a shy glance at him and then looked away. "Doan't you think that there be a good plan, zur?" asked the plotter proudly, fumbling for Guthrie's arm and imprisoning it in his huge paw. "Shoved him down where he came from and then pnt the scnttle butt on the top of the skylight to take the place of Cain's 20 stone pressure. Cain wasn't at all keen on letting him go, mind yon. and, when I asked him what he wanted to do with "No, Alan," she whispered in the softest little tone of shyness. "Well, are yon ready to ratify itt" "How?" •♦They're turtles, you oaf I" corrected Mrs. Jelly contemptuously. The lean captain's eyes were gleaming like black diamonds. The mulatto evidently knew his man. He dropped tbe throat cutting scheme and started on another tack. "Beautiful!" replied tbe young man; "if there was any way of doing it" "Be my wife." Tbe whole hold was paved with them, lying helplessly, belly uppermost Some of tbem were quite still, but others, feebly waving their flappers in the air, were giving rise to the faint whispering sound which bad attracted tbe turner's attention. "Ob, as to that" said tbe farmer, with an unconscious tightening of bis grip, "let me zee what I can do. I once lifted tbe trapdtor of our straw loft wi' a truss of hay zettin on the top of un." Then be started a ponderous chuckle, which seemed to pass through his huge frame and up Guthrie's arm in slow, heavy jerks. )im, gr*y«dy suggested that I own ▼ tf»« PHta- «D)»-D. - V farmer's _ ibe doct^ :be w*f JW* "»8 UP if raid that wplnther my Id *x lmitted Qattrie. "After we'd ' Dolly laughed gayly. "Your memory fails you, I think, Mr. Guthrie," said she. "That wasn't the bargain at all!" (here were ider six ours the boat came rapidly The lean, hot eyed captain and 'te headed mulatto were standin her stern, with pistols leveled r hands. Half a dozen boat's iff the rowers rested on their So wbenjkhe forecastle vaa secured tbey west and found Cain sitting squarely on a corner of tbe after skylight. The other corner of the lid was cockled np and, peering down throngh the gloom, Gnthrie made out something white and round. It was tbe head of tbe old mulatto whose eloquence bad fired tbe others and who had proposed that they should leave no living witnesses of their villainy. "That nounced Alaaka has had ita first bank failure. In courae of time the territory may alao be expected to catch up with civilisation in the matter of defaulting bank cashiers.—Baltimore Herald.  Some of the seashore bathing suits this year are said to be so loud that the roarlug of the breakers on the beach sounds as gentle as a mother's tender lullaby in comparison.—Denver Post The fulsomeness with which the foreign nations are flattering Columbia would lead one to believe that there are several princes anxions to court her favor.—Baltimore American. A 4 gallon punch bowl for the battleship Kentucky falls far below the measure of hospitality required by the name. A 48 gallon capacity would be about the proper caper.—St. Louis Republic. "I daresay you're right," he admit ted sulkily. "Maybe it's best after all, boy.4, to leave tbe white folk alone, as the cap here wants us to. Little games of that kind, so I've beard, stick in tbe memory afterward and sometimes spoil a man's night's sleep. So we'll just manage without We'll get what we want, maroon the white folk on Piper's cay, where npbody's likely to disturb tbem in a hurry, scuttle their ketch and then just up stick and be off ourselves. We can run across to Para. Not You're shaking your bead, George T Tbe Amazon, then? We can run right up into tbe heart of tbe Brazils. No questions asked tbere. boys, and with all tbe dollars yre shall have the spending of there'll be as fine a time ahead aa a Cnan could wish tor." Dr. Tring came oat from the companion way and took his stand beside the skipper. hurt, by "Not What was it. then. I'd like to know?" "I'm fault," aC "Father's in the cabin—alone, 1 think," murmured Doily inconsequent?"We'd better have tbe boat out soon," said he, "and go and look for them." "So that's what tbe schooner is doing here!" exclaimed Guthrie. "That explains it; she's turtle catching Well, that's a harmless enough trade surely." "If they sticks to it," added Henrietta significantly. "But this kidnaping of us three ha'n't nothing to do with turtles tbst I can see." left the schooner it suddenly occurred to me that I'd heard that turtle soup was pretty good feeding and I thought I'd like to taste it So we rowed back again, and Cain went down into the hold and lugged a big fellow np in his arms and tumbled him into the bottom of the boat Now this didn't take very long, but it was just long enough to give the niggers time to finish the job they'd been busy at for the last half hour or so. We were about 80 yards off for the second time when the side of the companion burst out bodily, and the mulatto whose head Cain had been looking after was the first to make tbe deck. He had a pistol and he just biased away at us. Most of tbe shots went wide, fortunately, but one of them took the tip off Cain's ear. I don't think it hurt him much, but when he saw the color of bis own blood—well, you should have heard his yell I He just rolled down into tbe bilge and moaned that he was going to die and that Zusan Pierce would never zee bim no more. Henrietta and I could hardly stick to our oars for laughing, though we weren't by any means out of range oI the mulatto's popgun yet The funny part of the thing is that the man's no coward really; his behavior on the schooner's'deck proved that But that warm, gory trickle down the side of his bead seemed to upset him completely," "He's not the only one of you that has bad a lucky escape, in my opinion," said the captain seriously. "Now you go to your bunk, young man, and take your watch below. I guess you want it" "Ketch ahoy I" shouted the mulatto, showing his white teeth in an evil grin. "We've come for our share of that gold you've got Now, gentlemen, if you're sensible you'll band over quietly and we won't hurt any of you—except the big, fat chap; I owe him one on my own account. If you're foolish I'd point out to you that there are two of us here with pistols and tboee pistols are leveled straight at that pretty young woman's heart at the present moment and. aa we haven't forgotten how she dipped tbe ensign to us the other day, I shouldn't trust too much, if I were you, to the chance of the said pistols missing fire. You were precious funny when you thought you'd got the better of us, weren't you f Well, I guess it's our turn to do the «ntHng basin ev now I" J' But the young man understood. He imprisoned the girl's hand for a brief moment and gave it a squeeze. Then he turned away and marched boldly down into the cabin. "You're amused!" said the undergraduate testily. "What's the joke nowT" Captain Colepepper nodded and then made an impatient gesture. "Yes," be grumbled Irritably, "and likely aa not come to grief oaraelveal Tbe spirit of that blackguard ancestor of mine seems to bannt tbe place like a malevolent genius. There's no other wsy of accounting for it I begin to think the whole island is accursed." "Abel, be tried that there trapdoor, and he couldn't ahift un an inch. Tarrible hard man, my brother Abel be. zur, but not zo strong ss I!" "Nipped nn like a ratten 1' a gin!" qnoth Cain, with a cbnckle. What Captain Colepepper's answer was likely to be may be gathered from a recollection of a certain conversation between him and Dr. Tring on the lust morning bot one at Piper's cay. The steady drone of the conversation In the cabin was making itself beard through the after bolkhend, and at this moment it swelled oot to a louder volume. There was some sort of dispute going on among the turtle catchers. (Jutbrie skirmished along the floor of the hold among its impotent occupants till be came to the bulkhead. He found a lashed cask amidships and fcrambled on to the bead of it Inamediatelv in front of bis noae was a faint glow of ligbt. It came from a seam is the boarding from which the oakum had been started. Gently manipulating the calking with his fingers, be enlarged fbe slit to a hole two inches long by three-sixteenths wide and found that be could not pnly hear plainly, bat see tq a pertain extent as well, although, pa the bulkhead Ranking was tbipk, h U yieV jraa necessarily ii restricted one. A white beaded mulatto was reading from a scrap of paper. To the listener's The mulatto bad been making a dash for the deck through tbe skylight and had got caught by tbe sudden sitting down of 80 stone of flesh. That was what the yell of pain had meant. . Guthrie shook off tbe farmer's band with an angry gesture. "Confound your reminiscences I" he exclaimed. "Bring tbem out at another time if you like, but heave that grating off the trapdoor firat if you think you can manage it" Dr. Tring did not answer. Hia gaze was fixed on a point of tbe reefs about a mile to tbe eastward. THE END. It was an uncomfortable position, no doubt, but there was no time then for moralising about the appropriateness of tbe retribution. Some one Tvss pounding vigorously from within at tbe folding doors of the companion. The fellows would be out again in another minute if they were not stopped. Re-Tease. If that fellow who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge simply to show his faith in theoaophy will now tackle the right hind foot of a Missouri male and come off unscathed, theoaophy will get us sure. —St. Louis Star. 1 The word "automobile" ia an unhandy mouthful, and' while it might do for something with which we seldom hare to come in contact and have little occasion to talk about It will not do for a machine that will soon be in universal use.—Pittsburg Times. "Got your glaas with you, Colepeppert" he asked presently. He—I only married 700 oat of pique She—I knew it That «u why I aooepted yon.—Philadelphia North American.Cain rcae clumsily to bis feet and stood still for a minute irresolutely. "I hope," he said slowly, "you doan' take what I zaid about Abel in bad part. I meant no offense, zur." The captain handed him hia binocular, and the doctor, after a minute's close scrutiny of the moving thing in the distance which had attracted his attention, returned the glass to his companion.And then with ready negro eloquence the old man drew a picture. It was a luscious tale of sensual delights and the speaker used the most lurid pigments in painting it. The old scoundrel knew his audience, and he depicted a black man's earthly paradise. MEN OF MARK. Asked If he played cards, Russell Safe the other day replied, "No; I'm too rioh to afford It." Furious though he was at the man's slowness, Guthrie found this appeal altogether too much foThis gravity. "Sharp here, Henrietta! We must take them m they come out!" cried Guthrie, Tbe captain took along look. "It's a boat, "said he, "with two people in it" "What do you make of It J" he asked. CHAPTER XXTIT HOME AQAIX. General B. F. Tracy was a schoolmate of John D, Rockefeller at the Oswego (N. Y.) academy. "No more turtle turning," he told them; "no more work, unlimited grub and unlimited rum. The days to be spent in basking in a grass hammock under a tropical sun, the nights"— And ad he went on until all the waver era of his audience were won over and even the hot eyed captain himself allowed a faint smile of longing anticipation to flicker over his skull-like face. And as be listened to tbe old villain's eloquence Guthrie realised that the men would have been bigger saints than they looked if they bad been able tq resist it- Afte* tbe pith of the cabin council was over tbe young man slid down from bis perch and reported to Henrietta in • low tone all that be bad heard. "No, yon idiot, no I" he laughed"But you are wasting time, and every moment's precious. That's ail; now bustle I" 0e looked round for a handspike or something heavy with which to hit the first head that got through the splintered door, bat his eye lighted on an object which made him change his mind. It was a huge barrel, with a sawhorse lying beside it and some sawed wood. The barrel was full and not easy to move, but with frantic efforts the two Enrekaa managed to get it over Qn to its bilge and roll It athwart the entrance of the companionway just as one of the panels splintered ont completely. Then they got the saw horse and laid it on its side, chocking the barrel with it so effectually that no force from within could dislodge it. "Yes; Guthrie and Henrietta, aren't they? But I don't see the farmer." The Eureka was in the Bristol channel once more, flying for a pilot off Cardiff. Dolly and Guthrie were on deck, standing side by side and watching the press of shipping in the channel They had many things to say to one another just now, these two, for the great adventure had been carried through to its hoped for termination at last and now the future was calling for its plana. Commodore W. W. Meade, who baa been placed In oommand of the Brooklyn, Dwaa one of the designers of that ship. THE TROTTING RECORD. "There's something in tbe stern," pronounced the captain. "Looks like a man. Yes; he sat up Just now. It'B that lubber Cain, and he's got a white thing round his head." A brother to Airship, 2:11)4. pacing, has been named Tugboat. "Muster Guthrie. I be glad"— The undergraduate put his shoulder unceremoniously under tne apoiogisx s ribs and gave him a heave toward the foot of the ladder. General Miles has received an Invitation to be preaent at the oomlng military maneuvers at Windsor, England. A mare with a glass eye is being driven on the road at Mansfield, O. a ma lenient it was an accurate account of tbe foundered galleon enterprise, or, rather, all of it that could be known at the time when tbe Eureka left Bristol —flie promoters' aims, the supposed "Moat of my blographiea," says Sir Henry Irving, "prefer to say that I waa bora in Glastonbury, but I wasn't. Keinton was the place." Alcaxar, 2:24%, by Alcantara, ia polling a plow at Taunton, Masa. Norvin G., driven by Jack Bowen, has stepped a mile in 2:15 this year. "Goon," he said, "and talk afterward.""Sure?" asked the doctor in a tone of relief. "Certain. Wonder what's the matter with him I" liayershq steered his way with stolid (iaution among the turtles, reached the iron ladder and put one big hand on a rung. Then he bent his head back and gased upward for such an unconscionable time that Guthrie felt like kicking him from Bbeer impatience. But at last be began to ascend, testing every rung before he trusted bis weight upon if, and, in tb? course of what seemed to liis two watchers ages, be reached the top—that is to say. bis bead came up against the grating with what would have been a bump if his speed had allowed of such a thing. Then he detached one band cautiqusly nod laid it •gainst obstruction, \ He did not appear to use force, but tbe part of the grating which be touched began to bend slowly upward. But it was evidently too strong to break.-for after a minute the strain wp« taken off. What, then, had become of the turtle schooner and her thievish crew T Mr. Jean de Reszke Is, unlike moat opera lingers, afraid of the camera, «nd it waa not until last season that he had aa American photograph taken. Bing Rose, 2:14, pacing, by Penrose, ia going without hopples this year. "Tumbled over a pebble and broken his crown, I dare say—the lumbering idiot 1" For the second time Cain Lavaraha had routed them, and by the mere force of his enormous muaelea bad saved the situation when it seemed to be most desperate. While the white headed mulatto was uttering threats of vengeance, the drift had carried the whale boat within a short 80 feet of the ketch's side. Cain Laveraha had been below when the schooner was first sighted, busy packing away the few remaining cylinders of oxygen, which, sow that all the undersurface work was over, would no longer he needed. The com- Leopold Rose, sp. m., 2:15)4. has a yearling by Hesperus, 2:11%, that ia said to be faat. Thomas B. and Frederick I. Proctor of Utloa, N. Y., have bought a plot of land in that city for 185,000 and presented it to the olty for a public library site. "But where, in thenameof all that's unaccountable, have they got a boat from?" Charles Taylor, 88 years old, ia still training horses and will be in the sulky again this year. After this was done they gave themselves a moment's rest to decide what was to he done next, for events had moved so quickly and in such an unexpected course during the last few crowded minutes that there had been no time to form any definite plan of •ctiQB- Now that the schooner's people wet-e oaged there was no immediate hurry, but the interval during which they might hope to keep the negroes out of the action must necessarily be short. The furious assaults which were being made upon their various barricades from the inside told them that Put in the meantime Guthrie thought that something more might be done in the way of retaliation and so cast about for a way of doing it. Cain Laveraha was still sitting com- ElacenUy on the end of the skylight, olding the old mulatto's head in its trap. He was enjoying the situation thoroughly and looked aa though he would be quite happy to sit there till it was time to go away for his next meal- Put the unwonted excitement of a few minutes back seemed to be producing a reaction—in fact, the farmer looked decidedly plethoric. The captain and the doctor went on deck and for some little time paced the planks in earnest conversation. The skipper made no secret of his fear that the schooner's people would find some way of attacking them if they remained much longer at Piper's cay, and his partner agreed with him. If they had not bad Dolly on board, they might perhaps have felt inclined to let the negroes make their attack and do their best to give them a warm reception when they came. But without firearms and with the girl to think of there waa no disgrace in running away from an encounter if they could do so. "Did tbey say when they mean to make the attempt?" asked Mrs. Jelly. "Tomorrow night" "Can't say, but I dare say the man with the blood blister may have something to do with It, Colepepper, doesn't it strike you that they may have had a skirmish and that the farmer may have got damaged in a fight with the owners of the boatt" General John B Gordon haa made considerable money aa a lecturer in the past year or so. He intends to invest a good share of it in a sheep raising venture on his Georgia plantation. The Csar, by Chimes—Frederica, 2:20)4. by Almonarch, is said to be one of the fastest green trotters in George West's stable. "Oh, they do, do they? I somehow don't seem to tbinlc that they will, sir." "What do you mean?" asked Guthrie eagerly. "Have you a plan?" "No; can't say that I have. But We'll find one I dessay." Francis B. Thurber, the former merchant prince, who last his great fortune in the panic of 1898, haa been recently admitted to praotioe law in Mew York. Mr. Thurber is 67 years of age. A green trotter, The Spaniard, handled by Charles McDonald, is credited with a quarter in 82 and a half in 1:06)4 at Beadviile this season. Lee, ch. g., 2:12)4, pacing, by C. F. Clay, had the tendons of both hind lega severed in a collision in Cleveland recently, and it was necessary to destroy him. The last foal of the great brood mare Bontag Mohawk, a yearling filly by Mendocino, has been appropriately named Never Again, his famous mother being dead. "By Jupiter, yes!" cried the captain excitedly. "We'll take the jolly and go to meet them. The others may be hurt too. Here, you Spiedernichel, just go and tell my daughter to come and steer usl" "If we don't," cried tbe young man, VI don't see what's to stop them from forking tljeif will on the Eureka I They fcnow we don't set an anchor watch." M. Camilla Krants, who has succeeded De Freyoinet aa the French minister of war, was sent to this oountry in 1898 as the commissioner general of the French ssotion at the Columbian exposition. unusual was afoot, that did not strike him as giving any cause why he should not go on with the piece of work on which he was engaged. Mrs. Jelly chuckled. "They know that, do they?" said she. "Well, it strikes me that that may turn out a fortunate bit of knowledge for them as is aboard the ketch just PQW- You don't eeu bow? Now, look here, sir. Dr. Tring ain't no aort of fool, be he? Well, and didn't you bear what be said When we showed him that blood marked oar on tbe beach a dozen or so of boor* ago? No there'll be an anchor Fatph set aboard the Eureka tonight fight enough and every other night, too, till she sails clean away from these murdering islands. Now, tbe schooner's folk expect to catch the doctor and the cap'n flapping, but I'm thinking they'll get a of a surprise when they try." •'Maybe, but I don't aee that that mends tbe matter," objected Guthrie; "in fact, it makes tie case worse if anything. If there is resistance, there will be bloodshed- There «re no firearms on board tbe Eureka, and every one of these cutthroat niggers is armed to the teeth. Besides, now that that hoary headed old mulatto has worked them up to tbe proper pitch, they won't be in the mood to stick at trifles. The gaunt captain tries to restrain them now, but if bis blood was up in a fight I wouldn't trust even him very far." "That's right, Colepepper." commented the doctor, with a »age nod of bis head j "thoughtful of you. She has been just as anxious as any of us about the truanta She waa out of her bunk an hour ago asking if there was any sign gf then. Quite right that she should have a chance of welcoming them." "How much longer will it take to get the ketch into trim!" asked the doctor presently. Now, It so happened that there was one cylinder more than would go Into the cheat into which Dr. Tring bad told him to put them, so Chin took this one in bis arms and made his way up on deck with it, to ask tot further instructions regarding its disposal. He emerged from the hatch just as the mulatto had finished the speech with which the last chspter ended. Harry Tabrar, author of "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow," "Ting, Ting, That's How the Bells Go," "Oh, You Little Darling, I Love You I" and other ballads, is now in dire poverty. His aoags number 18,000. vjt's too much for him I" exclaimed the undergraduate, and the gleam of jiope that had been brightening in him fled again. It is said that Star Pointer, John R. Gentry, Joe Patchen and either Anaconda or Searchlight are sure starters in the free for all pace to be given by the Detroit association. rWWW 1W WW*. "She's most ready now," answered the captain. "If we're not interrupted today, I can heave anchor by noon tomorrow."amount fit tbe treasure and tbe mean* by which it was hoped that it might be recovered. The extract hqg been copied from the Bristol Times and Mirror into some local West Indian paper whose pame tbe undergraduate could not gather, "fbis ia clear enough," said tbe mala tto, when be had read tbe cutting through, "but are yon sure, cap'n, that the ketch at Piper'a yonder ia the same ope r Th« leap negro with the horning eyes (Mid, "Ym." "You asked that fat lubber her name, flidyour "*ea, and be said b« didn't know, MDd | beliefs b« spoke tb« tmtb i ba looks fool enough lor anything- But it flidn't matter. I went down, night be* 'tfttg'ttfo The fools had no anchor watch set, so I didn't have to hurry." And then be W«Jt on to give aa minute a description pf the little iron buijt ketch m the as tonisbed eavesdropper himself cop)d have furnished. But Cain was not discouraged by one failure. With slow deliberation be placed both bis paws on the becket, inside tbe oombing, and raiaed his feet another rung to get a stronger purchase. Christian Kerr, who made a tow 40 year* ago that he would not work (or a living, died reoently In Newark, N. J., at the a«e of 70 year*. Since making the tow he lived at begging continuously, at which he worked as hard as he might have at any other means of livelihood. "What about the ftoatt" j.ne phenomena. Bert Sheldon, Jr., Warerly park on Decora day an added three more heats better than 2:31 _ to hi* long Hat.—'Turf. Field and Farm. SCt f RHEUMATISM,! ■ MA»u itATiftIA mai iw~».w ■ ax-Sena- ■* a* preprnd under the strt3«t M outJ3£ k«Hi»iHimunJ ,1DwS n| DR. mCHTER;s |fl intonation* ■£/ 64 IIIAIIAD Hinted word ANbHUfl " fPAIN EXPELLERl ■ Wertd renowned! Remarkably succeed 1! ■ ■Onlr tannine with Trade Mark " Anchor,"! ■r. li. Uckter *0»w, «1* Pearl St., New Tetk. ■ | 3i HIGHEST AWARDS. I ■ 13 Hons**, Own Olassworka ■ *t*«4S0rl,. bluwl Hi nnaliHM ■ 'tuu a FBI'S, N Umm inw, A a. C. SLICE, M R«rU a»U StrMt, J. a. HOCCK, 4 I*rU lata St. MTTCTOB, N. DA RICHTU'I I WiltCTOt" MffUOBU. twD for I a ctivk HOUcaTOBs wanted bvbby- A where for "The Story of the Philippine*," by Marat Halstead. commissioned by the Government a* Official Historian to the War Department The book was written In army camps at San Francisco, on the Pacific with Gen. Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolola, in Hong Kong, In the American trenches at Manila, in tn* Insurgent camp* with Againaldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and In the roar of battl* at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agent*. Brimful of original pictures .sea by Eoreran-eat photographer* on the tot. Large book. Low prices, fig profit*. Freight Sv3?vfi»i and perennial trotter ▼on another race at -♦.ion A "I'll give that young man a piece of my mind, though," declared the captain fiercely, "if I find he's been playing the fool again. Hia talent for getting into scrapes is juat a trifle too pretty for my notions of discipline." ' *Tbe schooner people's boat, yon mean t I don't feel like taking ber away. My ancestor of the cay did enongh stealing for one family, I take It- We'll knock a hole in ber aad leave ber on the beach here- Then. If they like to bring the schooner round to fetch her. they can. Now I'll go and aee about forging ahead with ont repair*- I'm getting anxioua to be bock again at the rifling of the ganta C'atarina's money box before we drop into any more scrapes." That put him in a somewhat bunched up position, with his fat peck bent forward and the crown of his skull pressing against the woodwork. Be took a big, sighing breath and straightened himselfi "Lock! Look I" cried Mrs. Jelly, in a loud whisper of admiration. Now, this mulatto, unfortunately for himself and for hia companions' hopes, was a man of qnick temper. No sooner, therefore, did be catch sight of the burly farmer than in a flash of ungovernable fury he remembered the uncomfortable night which he had spent on board the schooner, with hia neck pinned in the skylight by the immovable mass of Cain's 90 stone of flesh. With a hot, rasping oath, he diverted the aim of the pistol which he had told the Eurekas was pointed dead at Dolly's heart, and fired instead at hia old adversary, point blank. Secretary Gage baa introduced Into hla lepartment a custom which he first lugurated In a Chicago bank. Thlr save luncheon served in the bm that all the clerks can meet eaoL. table and discuss the affairs of These gatherings are oalled "Mr cabinet meetings." Somebody the other day askef tor Oorman why he never gave i tarvlew. "For this reason," he "Everybody who has ears oar what one means by a spoken cause everybody oan catch the of the speaker's voloe. But r everybody reads In a tone tc and nearly everybody reads It wrong. Henrietta went aft to the taffraii The whaleboat was riding to a alack painter astern- The woman drew ber lip and paased her along to the gang'•We'd beet be getting away now, sir, I'm thinking," ahe said to Guthrie. "It won't be healthy aboard this schooner when the niggers get out" But when the tale of the night'a work came to be told in "the little cabin of the Eureka half an hour afterward the captain forgot all about this intention of hia. The three auditors heard Quthrie's account of the conflict with the schooner's negro crew with different feelings, tt is true, but the idea of blaming any one of the actors (except perhaps the big farmer, for having been the first cause of the scrape) did not occur to them. And even Cain Laversha was freely pardoned in view of the good work which he had done on board the schooner. Captain Colepeppsr followed the tale with an appreciation of the telling points of the conflict so keen and sympathetic that there was no room for any thought of blame. Dr. Tring sat with wrinkled brows and bunched rip shoulders weighing the chances of peril still to come from the turtle catchers, and Dolly hung on the narrator's every word with an interest which, in its perfect want of self consciousness, forgot how much of her heart it betrayed.A ripple passed along the thigh* of the farmer's trousers and up the back pf the tight fawp colored overooat. The grating bent and aometbing splintered. Then be drew back, as if to gather his strength for tbe supreme effort "So am I," agreed Dr. Tring. "And, by the way. Colepepper, I don't know exactly how closely you have been watching your crew lately, but I venture to prophesy that when it comes to the dividing of that Spanish gold there are two of our junior partners who will want to have their shares lumped together."A clumping of booted feet WM heard coming along the dpck above. "Wait a minute," answered the young man. "We haven't finished our job yet, How long do you think it will he before the vermin eat their way out again T" With unflnshed deliberation tbe strong man returned to tbe charge, and this time the grating gay«. Guthrie caught a glimpse of a dim outline approaching along the deck and shouted to the farmer to hurry. One of bis massive bands was clapped out on to the oombing. The pegro saw it, lifted his heavy boot and stamped on it For all the damage he did be might as well have trodden on a ooi) of rope. But be brought about a phenomenon whicb no member pf tbe Eureka's crew bad ever witnessed before. He roused tbe Somerset man's slow temper and made him (ihow what waa real activity- The bullet whipped off Cain'a cap. The farmer felt the wind of it, looked up in surprise, saw the white headed old ruffian whose shot tome days ago had shredded off *hla ear, and with a roaring bellow of rage hurled the heavy iron cylinder he was carrying. Colonel Daniel F. Hltt of Ottawa, Ilia, whose death at the age of 89 is announced, was a famous pioneer of La Salle oounty, Ilia., and was widely known throughout the state. He wan tbp father of Andrew J. Hltt, sujDorlntendfeut of the Chicago, Rook Island and Paciflo railroad, and an uncle of Congressman Robert R. Hltt. He served with distinction in (he Black Hawk and civil wars. "Happen an haur^-happen leas if they use axes. But. asking pardon, sir, is there anything to gain by waiting to aee'em get out? We can be half way to the Eureka in the time, and seeing aa how we shall be making use of their pnly boat they can't follow ua," mSDte«e dma$ n&8 hH$ turned sharply to his companion. "Well, sis, we must do something ourselves to keep 'em busy," said Mrs. Jelly decidedly. "The trouble is I can't think of anything. Can you ?" "And." concluded tbe negro captain, "J found her daily obaervstions, too, •crawled up in pencil on the side of the companion. The reckoning showed that OP the way out she bad lain for 43 days in exactly the same spot. Hand me over the chart, George I There, that's thC place where sbe put in tbe time. See i It's plain white paper; no land within 100 milea or mora Top tumble to nrhat that meansT" "You think so. doctor?" said be. "Well, d'you know, the same notion has occurred tome tool And I don't think." he added slowly, after a short pauae, "that I shall say no to it either. Quthrie's a good lad, and I'll admit that I've taken a liking to him." The cylinder struck one of the thwarts of the whaleboat exploded with a dull ahock and blew the bottom out of her. In three seconda the eight negroes were struggling in the water. "Lower away the jolly I" cried Captain Colepepper. "If we bad powder, we might blow a bole in tbe schooner." "But we haven't got the powder nor nothing else either, barring live turtles, and I don't see that we could make much of an explosion with them. Think of something else, sir." "That's just it," was the eager reply. "That's just what I'm thinking of | We shall have their boat, of course, and swimming's fortunately out of the ques tion because of sharks. Cut, don't yoq see, they'll have the schooner) What's to hinder them from laying her up alongside the Eureka aa soon aa she puts to sea, or, for that matter, even before she leaves Piper's? Now, that's what I should like to prevent." THE PUNSTER. Lots of men who have an aim In life lack ammunition. On the next day the shore fssts which held the Eureka were cast off, and she was towed out into the open lagoon. Then the doctor turned pilot again, and abe stood out with a fair wind toward the opening between the reefs. As she passed the other island Tom Jelly pointed out a couple of dark faced, white clad figures watching her progress from a headland. Dolly promptly ran the red ensign up to the peak and dippedjt three times ia salute. It was done, and Tom Jelly and Henrietta were just going to tumble down into her. Statues and characters are molded with little touches. "I wanted to cripp* them aa effectually as possible," the young man was laying, "and I didn't see that I could do so better than by relieving them of one of their masts." It'a easier to sit upon forms than it la to stand upon ceremonies. Guthrie kept silence for a moment pondering, but po plan would come to bim. Tbe quiet of tbe bold was broken by the loud breathing of Cain Laversba, who waa Jying on bis back among tbe turtles snoring like a steam force pump, and under tbe circumstances the undergraduate found thoae healthy snores wildlx irritating Thas were asarea- He was oat on deck in four seoonds and went for bis negro assailant, bel- Jowipg (ike an angry ball. He picked tbe man up, as any one else might have nicked up a doll, and flung bim like a full corn sack at one of his dusky mates. Who was just popping up through tbe companion to see what all. tbenoiae was •honk _ _ . . "Not" roared the captain. "Stay on deck. Bend a rope to the painter and push her out to them with a boat book. They can all swim, it seems, and the explosion doesn' t appear to have stunned any of 'em, strange to say. Let 'em scramble into ber themselves. Hold on to the rope, though. Don't let ber get Mfcdt JME haadfc whatever joq Cka" "Well, cap, what doea it mean T Let's have your idea," said one of the negroes.' t?Jt means," answered the black skip: par slowly, "that they've got what they want lor. Those 48 days were spent in JBMML thp gold from, the foundered It'a their crooked ways that enable some men to make both ends meet. If a man objects to undraped figures, he can use a canvas covered ledger. "You did that?" exclaimed Captain Colepepper admiringly. "How the thunder"— "It's a fact," admitted the woman. They'll have the schooner, and ten to lane they'll do just what you say, air, 'andwe can't prevent 'tuu bnm doimt it The man who is afraid to face the light will never get ahead of his shadow. "Sawed it through a couple of feet above the deck." eiahlnart UnibrW The womati who hesitates at an auction aale aometimea wioa bj loaia*.—Chi-