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By CYRUS TOW Author of "The Sou I of Country/* "The i 1 COPYRIGHT. 1905. BY G. W ev CHAPTER VIII. [WO days later they made a landfall off. ?he terrific coast of j Caracas, ^where the tree clad mouhj&ins.soar into the clouds noruptiy from the level of the sea, | v-here the stirf beats without intermis ?sion even in the most peaceful weather -pon the narrow, strip of white sand "inch separates the hine waters of the Caribbean from the massive cliffs that tower above them. Ia. the mtervening time the south sea buccaneers had picked up wonder? fully. These men, allured by the hope bffurther pnrnder~Tmoer~?"captain who had been so signally successful in e?e past and in the present, constituted ? most formidable auxih?r^ tb Mor? se's original crew. Indeed," with the j exception of the old hands, -they were j :he best of the lot ?bllonois'had " :jeen admitted? among the officers on a suitable footing, and there was little orno friction among the crews. They "7ere getting hammered into shape, too, -under Morgan's hard drilling, and it xvas a vastly more dangerous body of : jen ;than the drunken gang who had sailed from Jamaica. Like a politic capfainj.^lorgan had cone his best to get' the: men whom he had sobd7?ed by his intrepid cour? age and-consummate address info good Lumor. Hum and spirits were served liberally, work was light-in fact, none j except the necessary, seaman's duties t vTere required of the men, although j r. a hour or two every day were em- j ployed in hard drill, with swords,; j small arms and great guns. In martial j {^ercises the veterans : were perfect^ und they assiduously endeavored to trapart their knowledge to the rest. It was Morgan's plan to run boldly : uto La Guayra under the Spanish flag, ?ve one could possibly take the Almi? rante Eeealde for anything hut a Span? ish, ship. There was no reason for sus? pecting the presence of an enemy, for Spain had none in these seas. If there ' v^ere other ships in the roadstead-for th? barber of La Guayra w; s really r-othiag nure "than an open oad-the neeaneer could easiiy dispose of them - - .? their unprepared condition. Indeed, v.loigan rather hoped that thc might ?e otiiers. for after ho captured them tie would have a greater force of guns io train upon the forts of the town, wnieh he expected to take without much difficulty, and then be governed In his maneuvers toward Caracas by i?rcmnstances as they arose. i Two days after the capture o? the ca??eon,/then, with the wind fresh from the; northeast, on a gray, threatening stormy morning, she was running to the westward along the shore. A few hours at their present speed would tring tBeru opposite La Guayra, whose location at the foot of ths mighty La Snia of Caracas was even then discernible. Morgan could see that t?ere were two or three other vessels opposite the town straining at their anchors in the heavy sea. Every pr?p? aration, for action had been made in sr ood time, and the guns had been load? ed. The sea lashings had been cast off, although the gun tackies were careful? ly secured, for the wind was plowing fresher and the sea running heavier ---'ery hour. The men were armed to the teeth. There happened to be a goodly supply of arms on the Spanish ship, in addi? tion to those the buccaneers bad brought with them, which were all dis? tributed. Everything was propitious for their enterprise but the weather. The vet? erans . who were familiar with local conditions in the Caribbean studied ?ho northeastern skies with gloomy dis? satisfaction. The wind was blowing | .ead inshore, and'as the struck boils : denoted the passing hours with each : half hourly period it grew appreciably . stronger, if it continued to blow or ; .'c. as. it was almost certain, the' strength of the wind increased it would be impossible without jeopardising the v>?p to come to .anchor in the exposed roadstead. They would have to run for Nay, more, they would, have to 3 iat out to sea against it. for the coast - * iiae beyond La Guayra turned rapidly to the northward. Morgan was a bold and skillful mar ir. er, and he held his course parallel to the land much longer than was pru aat He was loath, indeed, to aban ?j-m even temporarily a design upon " hich he had determined, and as he *-ad rapidly run doxvn bis southing-in lids brief cruise his determination had been quickened by the thought of his. growing nearness, to the Pearl of Ca? ricas until for the moment love-or - "hat he called love-had almost made fcim forget the treasure in the ship be ; oath his feet, for the Pearl of Cara? cas was a woman. Mercedes de Lara, daughter of the iceroy of Venezuela, on her way " ome from Spain, where she had been at school, to join her father, the Count Alvaro de Lara, in the vice regal pal? ie a?- St. Jago de Leon, sometimes tiled the city of Caracas, in the fair . iDey on the farther sitie of those tow ir ing tree clad mountains-the cor- 1 .1 lleras of the shore-had touched at . tmaica. There she had been received - ith due honor, as became the (laugh- 1 :-r of so prominent a persona ar?. bv e vice governe: ' ' . ei bed fra -Mnv<*fV<i U*nvt ??,vi l;^> ;_in- H rNSEND BRADY, therners,** "For Love Srip of Honor/* Etc. . DILLING H AM COMPANY lamed by de dark, "passionate Ti?a?ty of the Spanish maiden. It was only by a severe restraint enjoined upon himself by his position that he had re? frained /rom abusing th? hospitality he extended by seizing: her in the old buccaneer fashion. The impression she had made upon him had been lasting, and when he found himself alone, an outlaw, all his dreams of the future centered- about this woman. He would carry out the plans which he had outlined to his men, but the Pearl of Caracas, for so Donna Mer? cedes was called, must accompany him to the south seas to be the island queen of that buccaneer empire of which he was to be the founder. That Donna Mercedes might object to this proposi? tion, that she might love another man, might even be married by this time, counted for nothing in Morgan's plans. He had taken what he wanted by dint of his iron will and the strength bf his right arm in the past, and he should continue the process in the future. Consequently he was most reluctant that morning, for his passion had in? creased with each o'errun league of sea, to bear away from La Guayra, ? which was the port of entry for Cara? cas. But even his ardent spirit was 'at last convinced of the necessity. It was blowing a gale now, and they were | so near the shore, although some dis? tance to the eastward of the town, that ; they could see the surf breaking with tremendous force upon the strip of ! saud. The officers and older mea had observed the course of the ship with growing concern, but no one had ven? tured to remonstrate with Morgan un? til old Ben Hornigold as a privileged character finally summoned his courage and approached him. .'Mark yon shore, Captain Morgan," he said, and when he made up his mind ; he spoke boldly. 'The wind freshens. .' Newer had that villain appeared to better advantage ^ . We're frightfully near. Should it come on to blow we could not save the ship. You know how unseamanly these Span? ish hulks are." "Right you are, Hornigold,n answer? ed Morgan, yet frowning heavily. "Curse this wind! We must claw off, I suppose." . "Aye, and at onee!" cried Hornigold. "See, the wind shifts already! It blows straight from the north now." "Hands by the braces there!" shout? ed Morgan,. following, with apprehen? sion, the outstretched finger, of the old boatswain. "Ease down the helm! Brace up! Lively, lads!" In a few moments the great ship, her yards braced sharply up, was headed out to seaward on the starboard tack. The wind was now blowing a whole gale, and the masts of the ship were bending* like whips. "We'll have to get sail off her, I'm thinking. Hornigold," said Morgan. "Aye, aye, sir, and quick!" "Aloft" yelled Morgan, "and take in the to'gallant sTs! Close reef the top sis and double reef the courses, then!" The shaking shrouds were soon cov? ered with masses of men, and as the ship was exceedingly well handled the canvas was promptly snugged down by the eager crew. Hornigold, with young Terell to assist him. went to the holm. Morgan gave his personal attention to tho maneuvering of the ship, and the otilar officers stationed themselves where they could best promote and di? rect the efforts of tho seamen. Th??T during tho "long morning they endeavored to claw off tho lee shore. Morgan luffed the ship through the heavy squalls which rose tu the yio lence of a hurricane with consummate skill. Absolutely fearless, a master of his profession, he did all with that ship that mortal man could have done, yet their situation became more and more precarious. They had long since passed La Guayra. They had had a fleeting glimpse of the shipping in the harbor driving helplessly on shore as they dashed by finder the gray clouds which had overspread the sea. That town was now hidden from them by a bend of the coast, and they found themselves in a curious bight of land, extending far into the ocean in front of them. The mountains here did not so nearly approach the water line, and from the look of the place there ap? peared to be a shoal projecting some distance into the ocean from the point ahead. Some of the buccaneers who knew these waters confirmed the indi? cations by asserting the existence of the shoal. In spite of ni! that Morgan could do it was quit'- evident that they could not weather the shoal ou their present tack. There was int sea room to wear and bear up on th" other tack. The j hall a tendency io go to .lee war" h'ke a I barrel.- and only Morgan's resourceful I seamanship had saved thom from the . fatal embraces of the shore long since I The canvas she was carrying was more than she could legitimately hear in such a hurricane. If there had been ; sea**room Morgan would have stripped . her to bare poles long since, but under ! the circumstances it was necessary for ! him to retain full control and direction j of the ship; so. although he reduced j sail to the lowest point, he still spread j a little canvas. j The men were filled with apprehen ! sion, not only for their lives, but for ! the treasure they had captured, for they stood, about a hundred chances to one of losing the ship. Each squall that swept down upon them was hard? er than the one before. Each time the vessel almost went over on her beam ends, for Morgan would not luff until the last moment, since each time tha he did so and lost way temporarily he found himself driven bodily nearer the land. The men would have mutinied had it not been patent to the most stu? pid mind that their only salvation lay in Morgan. "Never had that villain ? appeared to better advantage than I when he stood on the weather quarter ! overlooking the ship, his long gray hair I blown out in the wind, fighting against ? a foe whose strength was not to be j measured by the mind of man for his I life and his^ship. I Hornigold and Teach, grasping the wheel, assisted by, two of the ablest seamen, were steering the ship with exquisite precision. .Sweat poured from their brows at the violence of the la? bor required to control the massive helm. The men lay to windward on the deck or grouped in clusters around the masts or hung to the life lines which had been passed in every di? rection. At Morgan's side stood Vel sers and Raveneau, prime seamen both. "What think ye, gentlemen?" asked Morgan, at last pointing to the point looming fearfully close ahead of them. "Can we weather it?" "Never!" answered De Lussan, shak j ing his head. "Well, it has been a short cruise and a merry one. Pity to lose our freightage and lives." "And you, Velsers?" "No,'- said the German, "it can't be done. Why did we ever come to this cursed coast?" "Avast there!" cried Morgan, think? ing quickly. "Gentlemen, we'll club- J haul the ship." "The water's too deep, my captain, to give holding ground to the anchor," urged Raveneau, shrugging his shoul? ders. "It shoals yonder, I think," answered Morgan. "We'll hold on until the last minute and then try." "'Tis wasted labor," growled Vel? sers. j "And certain ?c..th to bold or?/" add- : ; ed the Frenchman. "Have you anything rise to propose, ; j sirs?" asked Morgan sharply. "We ', I can't tack ship against this wind and . sea. There's no room to wear. Wfc&i'a to do?" The men made no answer. "Forward there!'' cried the old buc? caneer. And it was astonishing the force and power with which he made himself heard in spite of the roar of the wind and the smash of the sea. "Get the lee anchor off the bows there! L'Ollonois?" ?JAye, aye!" ? "Run *? "hawser from the anchor In aft here on the quarter. We'll club haul the ship. See the cable clear for running." "Very good, sir!" cried the French? man, summoning the hardiest hands and the most skillful to carry out his i commander's orders. "Ready it is, sir," answered Horni? gold, tightening his grasp on the spokes and nodding his head to his superior. "To the braces, lads! Obey orders j sharply! It's our last chance." The water was roaring and smash- j ing against the shore not a cable's ! length away. Usually in those lati- j tudes it deepened tremendously a short l distance from the low water mark, and there was a grave question whether or not the anchor, with the scope they j could give it, would reach bottom. At any rate, it must be tried, and tried now. Morgan had held on as long as he dared. Another minute and they would strike. "Down heirn!" he shouted. "Flow the head sheets! Round in on the fore braces thi-re! Show that canvas aft!" The lateen sail on the crossjack yard had been furled, and Morgan, to force ! her head around, directed the after j guard to spring into the mizzen rig- j ging with a bit of tarpaulin and by ex- ; ! posing it and their bodies to the wind ! I to act as a sail in assisting her to i head away from thc shore. "Helm a-lee! Hard a-lee!" cried Hornigold, who. with his men, was i I .grasping the spokes like a giant. j Slowly the old galleon swung up into ! - the wind, the waves beating upon her ! 1 bows with a noise like crashes of thun- j ; der. A moment she hung. She could i ! go no farther. "She's in irons! Swing that yard!" j roared Morgan. "Cut and veer away j j forward!" ; There was a splash as the anchor i ! dropped overboard. "Hands on that hawser!" he shouted. ? j "Everybody walk away with it!" Tho whole crew apparently piled on ' to the anchor hawser in the hope cf i The men came rushing aft, baring their weapons pulling the ship's stern around so that i the wind would take her on the other | hawser cam? "a "boart! through ???e? hands willi a readiness and ease tha showed the anchor had not taken ti: ground. The drag of the cable to th anchor, however, and tho still nnspeu impetus of the first swing turned th* galleon's stern slightly io windward Her head bogan slowly to fail off. "She stays! She makes it!" cried tia captain. "Meet her with the helm! Le* go and haul! Cut away the hawser!" It had been a tremendous feat of sea manship and bade fair to be successiui It was yet touch and go, however, anc the breakers were perilously near. They were writhing around her fore foot now, yet the wind was at last com ing in over the other bow. ""We're safe!" cried Morgan. "Flat? ten in forward! Haul aft the sheets and braces!" At that instant there Was a terrific crash heard above the roar of the tem? pest. The fore topmast of the Almi? rante Recalde carried sharply off at the hounds. Relieved of the pressure, she shot up into the wind once more and drove straight into the seething seas. The men were as quick to see the danger as was Morgan. They came rushing aft, baring their weapons, pour? ing curses and imprecations upon him. He stood wi til folded arms, a scornful smile on his old face, looking upon them, Carib watching and ready by his side. In another second, with a con? cussion which threw them all to the deck, the doomed ship struck heavily upon the sands. CHAPTER IX. ! APTAIX DOMINIQUE ALVA . RA.DO stood alone on the plaza of the ancient castle which for over a century had been the home of the governors of La Guayra. He was gazing listlessly down over the parapet which bordered the bare sheer precipice towering above the seaport town. There was nothing in his eyes, but a great deal in his heavy heart. Captain Alvarado, who filled the hon? orable station of comandante o? the port, was a soldier of proved courage. The protege and favorite officer of his serene highness the Count Alvaro de Lara, grandee of Spain and viceroy of Venezuela, he had been honored with great responsibilities, which he had dis? charged to the satisfaction of his mas? ter. From a military point of view the office of governor of La Guayra, which he then filled, was of sufficient impor? tance to entitle him to high position and much consideration in the vice re? gal court of Caracas. . Of unknown parentage, Alvarado had been received into the family of the viceroy when an infant. He had been carefully reared, almost as he had been Dc Lara's son, and had been given abundant opportunity to distinguish himself. In the course of his short life he had managed to am?ss a modest fortune hy honorable means. He was young and handsome. He had been in? structed, for the . iceroj hud early shown partiality for him, in the best schools in the new world. His educa? tion had been ripened and polisned by a sojourn of several years in Europe, not only at the court of Madrid, but also at that of Versailles, where the Count de Lara had been sent as am? bassador to the grand monarch during a period in which, for the sake of su? pervising thc education of his only daughter, he\had temporarily absented himself from his beloved Venezuela. That an unknown man should have been given such opportunities, should have been treated with so much con? sideration, was sufficient commentary on the unprecedented kindness of heart of the old hidalgo who represented the failing power of his most catholic majesty of Spain, Carlos IL, the Be? witched, in the new world. "Whatever his origin, therefore, he had been brought up as a Spanish soldier and gentleman, and the old count was open? ly proud of him. With assured station, ample means, increasing reputation, with youth, Captain Alvarado -%J\^>^ & health and personal good looks, the young governor should have boen a happy man. But it was easy to soo from the heavy frown upon his sl?ny face-for he was that rare thing in Spain, a blue eyed blond, who at first sight might have been mistaken for au Englishman - that his soul vvfis filled with melancholy. And well it might be, for Alvarado was thc victim of a hopeless passion for Mercedes de Lara, the viceroy's daughter, known from one end of the Caribbean to the other from her beauty and her fa? ther's station as the Pearl of Caracas. Nor was his present sadness due to unrequited passion, for he was confi? dent that tile adoration of Iiis heart was met with an adequate response from Its object. Indeed, it was no secret to him that Mercedes loved him \ with a devotion which matched his ; own. It was not that, but her father j had announced his intention to be? troth the girl to Don Felipe de Tobar y Bobadilla, a young gentleman of ancient lineage and vast wealth, who had been born in America and was the reputed head in the western bemi spbere of the famous family whose name he hore. The consent of Donna Mercedes to the betrothal had not been asked. That was rlAt"r"?i1 v?-"hi<-li M-?.- n*>f ...."> ? ia? aw m^mamaa rim- mn wwiisac by~Spanish parents. "Tna'Pshe sao j object to tho engagement or refus? j carry our her father's plan ne j crossed the viceroy's imaginati : That she might love another was ! idea to which he never gave I thought It was the business of '. well brought up Spanish maiden to j a passive instrument in the carry: i out of her father's views, especially ! things matrimonial, in which, inde I love found little room for entran ) But Donna Mercedes loved Capt: : Alvarado, and she cared nothing : ? Don Felipe. Not that Don Felipe v; ! disagreeable to her or to any one; was a Spanish gentleman in eve sense of the word-handsome, dist I guished, proud and gallant-but s I did not, could not. love him. To co plicate matters still further De Tot was Captain Alvarado's cherished co ? panion and most intimate friend, j The progress of the love altair 1 j tween Alvarado and Donna M?rcec j had been subjective rather than < . jective. They had enjoyed some i I usual opportunities for meeting on ; j count of the station the former fill in the viceroy's household and t ! place he held in his heart, yet the < j portunities for extended freedom of ; tercourse between young men and w ? men of the gentler class in those da: ! and especially among Spaniards j high rank, were extreme''- limited. T : old count took care to ^>ee that 1 j daughter was carefully watched a: i shielded, not because he suspected h ; of anything, for he did not, but I : cause it was a habit of his people OJ ! his ancestry. The busy life that '. ; led, the ni any employments whi j were thrust upon him. his military d ? ties, had kept the days of the vom S soldier very full, and under the mc j favorable circumstances he would ha j had little time for lovemaking. I But, though they had enjoyed bri j opportunity for personal intercours ; the very impossibilities of free coi ! munication, the difficulties of meetin j had but added fuel and fire to the ? affection. Love had ilained into the; I two hearts with all the intensity < j their tropic blood and tropic land. A j varado's passion could feed for da] I and grow large upon the remerabram j cf the fragrance of her hand when 1 I kissed it last in formal salutatioi j Mercedes' soul could infold " itself i i the recollection of the too ardent pre j sure of his lips, the buming yet r< spectful glance he had shot at her, o others unperceived, when he said fan j well. The situation was complicate ; in every possible way for Alvarado , Had he been a man of family, like hi ? friend, De Tobar, he would have gon i boldly to the viceroy and asked fa I the hand of his daughter, in which eas I he thought he would have met with n ! refusal; but, being ignorant of hi j birth, having not even a legal rigfy; t .*v?(\ rt^ir*^ hore b^ ku^w th ? tb ; proud old hidalgo would rather see hi ? daughter dead thau ?v V;e i to ni:: 'Ox all the 'ancient: splendors ot ch Spanish people there was left thor but one thing of which they could h j proud-their ancient name. De Lars j who belonged to one of the noblest am j most distinguished families of thelbe ! rian peninsula, would never consent t j degrade his line by allying his onl: daughter to a nobody, however worth; j in other respects the suitor migh I prove to be. j Again, had Mercedes' father beei j any other than the lifelong patron ant j friend to whom he literally owed ev j erything that he possessed, such wai j the impetuosity of Alvarado's disposi ! tion that at every hazard he woulc : have taken the girl by stealth or foH< \ from her father's protection, made bei J his wife and sought an asylum in Eng ' land or France or wherever he could j So desperate was his state of mind, sc ; overwhelming his love, that he woulc ? have shrunk from nothing to win her : Yet just because the viceroy had beer i a father to him, just because he had loved him, had been unexampled in his j kindness and consideration to him, ! just because he reposed such absolute j ly unlimited confidence in him, the : young man felt bound in honor by fet ! ters that he could not break, j And lhere was his friendship for De Tobar. There were many young gal i lants about the vice regal court who, jealous of Alvarado's favor and en? vious of his merits, had not scrupled in the face of his unknown origin to ! sneer, to mock or to slight-so far as it was safe to do either of these ; things to so brave and able a soldier. ' Amid these gilded youths De Tobar, ? with noble magnanimity and affection, . had proved himself Alvarado's stanch friend. A romantic attachment had sprung up between nie ;\vo young men, and tiie first confidant of De Tobar's . love affairs had been Alvarado him? self. To betray his fri. ntl was almos, as bad as to betray his patron. It was not to be thought of. Yet how could he. a man in whose blood-though it may have been ig? noble for aught be knew-ran all the passions of Lis race with the fervor and fire of the best, a man who loved, as he dui. the ground upon which the Senorita de Lara walked, stand by tamely and see her given to another, no matter who he might be? Spain under the last poor, crazed, j bewitched, degenerate descendant of ! the once formidable Hapsburg* had reached the lowest depths of ignominy and decay. Alone almost under her flag Venezuela was well governed , from the Spanish standpoint, that is. From the native American point of view the rule of even the gentlest of Spaniards had made a hell on earth of the fairest countries of Tho hew con? tinent. Of all the cities and garrisons .which were under sway of the Viceroy de Lara, La Guayra was the best ap? pointed and cared for. But it did not require a great deal of time or at? tention from so skilled a commander as Alvarado to keep things in proper shape. Time, therefore, hung heavily on his hands. On the ether side of the mountain ; of the low latitude into" a s?o?bn?hs and delightful climate. lay the palace of the viceroy and the city which sur I rounded it, St. Jago, or Santiago de ; Leon, commonly called the city of Ca? rracas. Many a day had Alvarado turned backward from the white walled,' red roofed town spread out at his feet, bak? ing under the palms, seething in the fierce heat, as if striving to pierce with his gaze the great cordilleras, on the farther side of which in the cool white palace beneath the gigantic ceibas the queen of his heart made her home. He \pietured her at all hours of the day; he dwelt upon her image, going over again in his mind each detail of her face and figure. (To Be Continued.) VITAL STATISTICS. \ ;' _ Health Officer Reardon Behind With Kis Annual Report. But Has a Good Excuse. Health Officer Reardon is behind in winding up his annual report of births and deaths and sanitary statis? tics, owing in a great measure to the failure of some physicians to prompt? ly report. People die and the attend ing physician is out of the city, or very busy, or sick, and as the official cer? tificate of death cannot be obtained, (he health officer, after investigating the cause of death, makes a note of the case with the attending physician, and later gets the certificate from the physician in order not to delay the funeral or the shipping of the body, as the case may be. Eut towards the end of the fiscal year there are a num? ber of death certificates short, and also a greater number of certificates of birth, and all of these must be ob? tained and checked up before a com? plete tabulation can be started. Now any man who ever had business with a physician knows what a herculean" task it is to get one of the medical fraternity to write out a certificate, but first you have got to find the doc? tor and almost tie him down and put a revolver in his face and make him write it cut. And after he starts the telephone begins to ring and ring, and the door bell whirrs to beat the band, and somebody gets shot or run over, or some body's baby gets the colic, and the hard-worked, good natured doctor jumps up, grabs his hat and his case and goes out and you hear *4a chug, chug, toot, toot," as his auto? mobile goes off and a little later as it; gets out of the gate you hear a pleas? ant "excuse *:.e. I will see you later." j from the doctor. And thus it govs with j doctors. But all of thc- death eer ' ?Sca?c? get in, ii a. rkxh? lato. But ! there are many births never i?ported a? the health officer has no way to check up the number of births in a city except as reported by physicians and midwives. Some physicians are very prompt in reporting, but the physicians with large practices are hard to manage about reporting cer-. tificates of birth and death. In regard to reporting serious con? tagious diseases for quarantine, the Sumter physicians are perhaps among the best in the world. They not only promptly report contagious disease, but they insist upon the proper sani? tary precautions benig taken and back up the health officer in every way they can. One of the .chief reasons why Sumter never has an outbreak or ep? idemic of contagious diseases is be? cause our local physicians in lending their efforts and their knowledge to the prompt suppression of any conta? gious disease. Any physician in Sum? ter, will, no matter how busy, stop to sro with the health officer to consult in regard to any suspicious case he is in doubt about, and they never think of charging thc city for their .services, if the patient is not able to pay. Then again the amount of charily work cheerfully done by Sumter physicians annually amounts to hundreds of dol? lars. So taking it ali in ali Sumter / physicians are the greatest backers the health department has. an 1 li they do some times fail to rep ?.: a few j statistics on time they more than make up in a thousand other ways. Deafness Cannot Bc Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only way to cure deafness, and that is taused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to iti. normal condition, hearing will be de? stroyed for ??ver: nine cases out of ten are caused ?>y Catarrh, which is noth? ing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) tn-^i cannot be cured by Hall's Cata/ th Cure. Send for circu? lars, free F. J. CHEXEY & CO., Toledo. O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti? pation. 12 IS-lm ?One Minute Cough ?"ure contains lot an atom ol" any harmful drug, and t has been curing coughs, colds. :roup and whooping cough so lons