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aT/BEATY v^yi AVE JUST RECEIY1 Roya! Worcester Bias Gor tstrf coc. These ai Royal Worcester Hi. so. / Royal wotuiUvWlflPu 31.00. WE ALSO HAVE THESE STY1 Sold only by W k^ k^ k^ 11 JOHN TOP: K-?&1 I By Weatherby Chesn I OOPTBJOBT, 1900, BY TTEATITERI X I mjgiuiiom b xl ~~? xxxxxxxxxxxx "Perhaps. An'i you or tne kiiik?. errant. Well, fortunately we cnu end of us sail with our own particular Ideal In front or us and still keep to gether nnd work together. I tight fo gold, to win wealth for myself nud my sweetheart: you light for glory, to win your country's thanks. Perhaps In the event neither of us may, get what he hopes." "Perhaps not. Anyway, we can do no more than try. Where can we get a ship?" "Peter YVnlthnm's brig, the Bristol Merchant. Is nearly ready for sea. lie will he glad enough to let us have licr for such a venture." "Then let's go and see him now. We have had no sleep tonight: but, never mind, we can make up for It tomorrow." And so It happened that Peter Walt* ham, who had given us our supper the night before, was called upon to furnish a breakfast also. Manoa, whose wealth had lured the father to his grave, was now summoning the sou. Heaven graut that our fortune bo I better than that of Captain Harry Ire-1 bind, who had gone before us. CHAPTER VIII. The stout ship Bristol Merchant.-118 tons burden. Alexander Ireland, master, has dropped down the channel iu iiiree tides, has taken her departure from Lundy island and is now well out of domestic navigation. Asteru Is a thin black wary ilno rising above the waste of waters, the last we shall v see of the iron bound coast of Devon tor piauy a long day. Ahead, uow {ilogkcd put pf sight by t]iV sitralpiug fprltsfti) bppufltlt the boltsprlt. uow Anexvllnr? Aim n t'ua ivltli Itu tlnfiliintf Hftflff tttf? WM. v? ? ? glory. In the burning yellow suu, Just diving over the edge of the world, luring us on, as it were, with visions of a land where everything Is bright and golden us ldinself. What a hot ppn fpr n crew of eager gold hunte^i WqrtlJy Iflqster. l<otpr Woltbaw. bad gladly availed himself of our proposal. Kitting out began less than 12 hours after the pagan had told his tale, and In a fortnight we were ready for sea. Ninety-three meu were lying about the decks, drunk as lords, when we first loosed our two topsails to drop down the river and three sober oms and five officers, 101 all told, and a arcw of which we were nroud. -M-* " &, COMPANY ED A BIG LINE OF THE ed Straight Front Corsets. I WCKtSfg 81.UO $2.50Tu 95. *e the Corsets that stand out lently as the best values for the ver offered solutely the Best . . ' in quality of material and r* isnip are mese corsets way others at same price, but in r essential features they far ; their closest competitors. 81. OO. ?ES IN $2.50, $3.50 and $5.00. K T. BEATY & CO. yyrvyyyyyyry P PmATF.ll L , 1 HbXlliJ \ x ' *.?? i ey and Alick Monro. ^ mm?m ? 11 IT G1DCSKXT AND AMOK MU5BO. \X , flLC. OODUUI. A ? ?i??J X , aaaaaaaaaaaa; , P ? ? * / M We marie ? liari Until to wit!, fettlug 11J> past the I .reward ishin ! IQd Into the great golf Wi.ieli '.?'s he yond thetn before the west war. I eottrsi was glveu up. Theu. being eonviueei that we hntl overshot our murk and that the rivi?r of our search was be hind us. Alee gave the word to 'bout ship, and we lande our way slowly back again In t,.e face cf n tensing suecession of easterly winds. The heat at times was awful, and crowded as we were the atmosphere 'tween decks was anything but restating to our unfortunately numerous sic! men. Scarcely three days passed with out some poor scurvy rotted corpse be tag throwu to the sharks, whose black fins never stirred from our wake. Matters got worse and worse till the grumbling of the crew came to n head tn open mutiny. The sultry heat of the day was ulmost killing. Not a breath of air tarnished the brazen sen. but over the mangrove bushes which fringed the low shore to westward hung a sullen white steam which shut out the country from our eyes. Ono would have thought tlint the weather was too hot for any exertion that conld possibly be 1 avoided, but discord, like tbe devil, cau live in any clime, aud on this broiling d?v the sound ones of the crow made their way aft in a body. I 1 A little Irishman whom Alec had , ' taken in pity from the streets of Wrls- j { tol, where he was starving, was their i ' spokesman, and his election to that ( post was no* undeserved, as he had by ( his vaporing* stirred up the whole > 1 touting The^bronn faced crowd surged { against the break of the poop on which there were only us five officers and < the steersman standing beside his idly swaying tiller. * "Stop, meal FW anOMghl" oried Alec In authoritative tones. "What Is It yon want?" "Many things. Masther Captain." . said tbe Irishman, with an Insolent ( laugh; "everything a man can wanthealth, comfort and wealth. There's senrvy marks on Ivery wan av us, an 1 no wondher, seeln that the only green * food that has passed the lips av us 1 .since leavin Bristol river Is the slolme off the wather tputta. A daclnt pig i would, turn up his moo a$ our qoar* 0* a triers. And ns for threasurc. ycz might as well seek it In the great hog nv lkillyvore as here. So, savin yer honor's prisenee, all hands forrnd menus to take a jaunt nsliore 011 the ollund we dbropped ycstcre'en nil thin to cruise for what we can git higher up on the Spanish mainJ' There's no call for throublc or head brenkln." he added, turning to the rest of us. ''though sure it would be a plisnut diversion, but whin a score nv nonest lads lias died like sheep wld the rot it's toimc for the rest to spake. An so my mates here has Insthructed me to say that nv they doesn't git their way given, why. thin they'll Jlst take It." All eyes turned 011 Alec, who had heard the fellow out with a patience which surprised me. Ho went a step or two farther nft, leaued on the rail or me liuie stairway which led to the cabin below and then answered them, speaking quietly and without allowing a tinge of annoyance to show Itself In Ills voice. "You make matters far worse than they are," lie said. "A few man have died,- and that I grieve for, but scurvy always hoards a ship on a long voyage like this, and not a man of you but kuew that when he pocketed his bounty on Bristol quay. Now hear what I have to say. XV6 must be very near the mouth of the river we seek, and we shall find It. For six days the Bristol Merchant will sail southward. If by that time the pugan has not pointed out the river's mouth to you I shall steer north again and harry the Spanish towns. Now hack with you to your own end of the ship!" A sullen murmur rose among the crew, and several of the holder spirits began to climb the poop ladders, headed by the spokesman. Without moving from the cabin stairs Alec held up his hand for silence. The fools thought he was going to give way and halted to listen. "Hear me!" he cried in ringing tones. "You think to take possessiou of the ship by mere weight of numbers. Well, "Choose for yourselves. Mutineers shall never command the Krlstol Merchant." you may do It, and if yfcu do you may hold her for perhaps 30 seconds?not more. Before a hand can reach me shall be down this ladder and Into the powder room, aud one shot'from this" ?and he drew a wheel lock pistol from bis pocket?"will blow us all Into eternity together. Choose for yourselves. You know what my word Is worth, and 1 swear to you that while Alexander Ireland lives mutineers shall never command the Bristol Merchant. Nowcome on If you will!" The mob of men wavered a moment and then drew back slowly to the waist. "Good!" said Alec. "You think better of it But I am going to make an example of the arch mischief maker. Send that man aft." Half by persuasion, half by blows, the Irishman was forced up the poop ladder. "Boatswain, heave him overboard!" "Aye, aye. sir." Willie Trehalion's knotted left hand grasped the little IiHshman by the neck, and his iron book slipped into the band of his breeches. A struggling body shot through the air, bumped on the bulwark and slid with a splash into the warm sen beneath. There was a icurrylng of black triangular fins, a shriek of agony, a few ruddy bubbles rising to the oily surface, and the greatest enemy to the ship's peace was sifenced forever. A hush fell on tlie crew. Each man ooked at his neighbor, and then they ill stole quietly forward again and had the caltn continued more mischief night have been hatched among their whispering groups. But Alec's keen ?ye detected a rutlllng of the glassy wa- i ters to the northward, and that was >ur salvation. "Trim sail, the watch!" he cried. There was not a pause. The men iprang to their stations, braced round the yards to catch the first of the coning breeze, and In ten minutes we were xiwllng merrily along. The mutiny** was a thing of the past The wind lifted the mists from the ihore, and before we had way on the ihlp an hour the pagan, who was staudng In the beak, began to dance and gesticulate In the most extraordinary nanner. laughing and pointing with his finger to the land on our bow. Half a losen of us climbed into the round tops and thence aloft tHl we perched in the yards, from which eminence we :ould sec n long steellike ribbon of water stretching away through the dark forest till It was lost In tho haze of the nm instance. i That shining thread was the river of 1 iur search. Up Its windings lay the I Kingdom of El Dorado and Mance, its capital, the city that was built oCgold. CHAPTER IX. At the sight of that band of shining rater a spontaneous cheer arose from very throat on board. Discord and i lissenslon fled discomfited before tho advance of the visions of wealth that ?ur hopes saw mirrored la the glassy inrface of the river. We hauled our wind somewhat and tailed tfc the mouth.. Job Tfthalkm * ^ ,ai . i y .y #" Backache ? Tiro > } Pains Across the r . j of an Unnatural * \ Tr^rzil KZm i a hey me ) v ? The most st f i Complaint/ one tl y h *. ^ a a /r? <* v'.-4 vcmxpsa *'** - Tii m "^Iri i TT I* - ,J ir -%*j? Thh lz a pur f :,.i h ujc that will cf tripixc acts dlrccth normal hcaliay c; 1I ?????? EYfi v<? Or.xr^Mrv r? r 3?. I u.iv? b?ci? surf 's'i? cr?n?f>?l from the llvur uo-l . vaj\ to lie Uown exc? pt khorfl ^ :7V lluld. Throe quartos of i - %g I was rompletciv n<!< (kitj Ions terribly Inllameri an . Influence or no oplnte. 1 ni>ie nnil nl>le to attend I ? AliS. nearly two veara. * fo? Von mny publish ? m //i^r mny be bonofltcd by It. t 3Hgf Since then this mention -'" Vnuirhn'o I.It I VVM no Car, ami nut now en *W < . ' y* If you have any of S| LYON MANUFACTUR 1 and he will ad Of all druggists or sent c (grinning till his soar jagged up like a saw) was sent with an eager boat's crow to sound, and before the first star of night had thrown its reflect ion in the water round us we were anchored, and the ripples that lapped against our wooden walls had not a grain of salt in them. We hail left the trackless ocean to follow where the river should lead us. Nets of mangrove roots formed au impenetrable thicket on either bank, though it was no easy task to tell where the slug flowing water ended and the liquid mud of the shore began. Loathsome reptiles?which some of us took to be dragons, till the knowing ones told us they were only crocodiles ?lay half In and half out of the evil smelling brown water, winking their lazy eyes at us and taking charge In a slow, cumbrous way of every scrap that was flung overboard. Tree toads barked, beasts of prey howled In the distant forests, foul night birds cronked from the thickets of the shores, and from the evil smelling stream there arose a putrid yellow tnlst thick and rank enough to choke one. "It's a fever trap we've got Into," growled Willie Treholion, shifting his tangled black wig from the pocket where he had carried it during the heat of the day to his head, "an if we've no more'n half a seore o' men down by morning's light we'll be uncommon lucky, say I." "Don't croak, you unsatisfied old raven," said Alec lightly, but he looked grave none the less. "The pagan," put in Job, with his usual grin, apologetic in meaning this time, "says this Is only one o' the mouths, an we s'U open into a great, broad river soon, where you can't see both banks at once. An there bain't any o' these yere mists on It, he says, but Ummlns on the trees an other fruits enough to feast an army, an all for the plucking of them." "Go to the forecastle and tell them that, Job," cried Alec, "and serve out a good, stiff dram to all hands and say that they can kill the stench by firing a few grains of powder now and then. Stay; I'll come with you and tell them ' that he who keeps a stout heart may I laugh at fevers. They only attack cowards." [*o n ooirnxtJKDw] Ancestors of Presidents Tyler, Lincoln, Hayes and Cleveland were among Major John Mason's band of 35 pioneers who founded Norwich, Conn. SALT RHEUft .Inhn?tnn'? ! V AS m QUART B JUST SEEN Hlfht Mn Eruption* wr? Warning The Onljr Safe War la to Heed the I Is tWaVosS Pa^^rfs! B! Nature, in her efforts to correct rnisl careless living, or it mar be from ancesl other imperfections on tne skin, as a war haps tumors, cancers, erysipelas or pulm< you neglect to heed the warning ana cori Many a lingering, painful disease ant simply because these notes of warning pure by a right use of JOHNSTON'S SA Miss Abbie J. Rsnde, of Marshall, M " I was cured of a bad humcr after doctors and my friends said it was salt rli and ears, and then on my whole body. . suffered during those five years, is no use I did. I tried every medicine that was enough to buy a house. I heard JOl 8raised. I tried a bottle of it. I began t nished the third bottle I was completelj since. I never got any thing to do me tn SARSAPARILLA. I would heartily adv: or skin disease of any kind to try it at on trouble, and was rnn down and miserable made me all right." The blood is your life and if you keep slat disease or face contagion fearlessly, fails. It is for sale by all druggists, in fu "*OK SALB .a>Y DR F. ( *' A | toy of These S d Feeling ? Dizziness ? Ncrvousnc Loins, or in llic Bladder?Slecplcssnc Color or Scalding Urine. jan "Kadstey' scccssful remedy fjr all forn-.s of Li iat Las clfcclcd some remarkable cor 9 R O - its iJtSiosi ^<srr:T.-.:-nr~r-r~: :.v r-nvr <Ay vc?;claHi preparation and the ci fccttiul^ cure Drop?y and C ravel. ^ jr crt ti c I.'vcr and ICiuncys, rcstcrii oiidlti-jn and eradicating; all ctsc-cc. 'JST A3 4L CPOK9 1 i lii iii.v>. k..t i>iii?tclui.Mtnul ti-nt 1 cou..t l??t l??ti n ' > nrror brim; tanpcil. Kvrry <l*s'in \vm? >oin;>letoly t. a Million wop ill awn trotn si'mtinn several time*. il f?i ?'<?> tlnii-1 b??:iii u-Iiik > initrlin'ii l.ltlioitfti I <>xu<l;nc llulil. 1 \ tin uruMe l<> pot nnv ri-st or sln j h.'.y iiHrii e: :tit bnltlrs of A':: ui: li it" w 1 .it liontPlpt I to my builoi I yini now rulu my Iioi lip, a thing 1 li ucL of ray &i..ter.icnt s<< run di-slrp. I am e'ad to K'v? Vuars tri.lv, n. J. EZTSIf.L. MoJ. 19tt tan Tvrito.t under date of Ait?. U, l'.ioo: liantfioili- linx rdi'rlril it pcriitaneut cure. I joyiiic pooil licnliii." ' the above symptoms write to the M ING CO., 45 So. Fifth Str? vise you by letter in regard to your < n receipt of price to any express Woman's | I inc.... 1 is hard enough as A it is. It is to her that / Vl we owe our world, [ \\ and everything should be made as easy as possible for WJ^ her* at tue time of y ... $\ \ childbirth. This AV T*,A \ \ is just what ^"""x mother's yj Friend will do. It will make \\/ baby's coming easy and painless, and that without taking dangerous drugs into the system. It is simply to be applied to the muscles pf the abdomen. It f>enetrates through the skin carryng strength and elasticity with it. Jt strengthens the whole system and prevents all of the discomforts of pregnancy. The mother of a plumb babe in Panama, Mo., says: " I have used Mother's Friend and can praise it highly." Get Mother's friend at the Drug Store, SI per bottle. The Bradfield Regulator Co., ATLANTA, GA. Write for our free illustrated book, " Before Baby is Born." Some reflections as to Republican mettudsare aroused by the passage of the bill putting Mr. Boutelle, of Maine, on the retirtd list of the navy on the ground that he was practically insane Yet, Mr, Boutelle has been elected to Utngrtss since his affliction maniftsted it?3lf, au election, which, in tha1 case, was manifestly illegal. How then can he rtsign an office to which he is not entitbd ard'why should ^ot h's Democratic opponent be entitled to his seat? 1 CURED BY 5arsaparilla OTTLES. in ti.vb. of Horaethina; .Tlore Serious to Coma* iVarnliiK. Johnston's KarMparllla !w?d Putificf Uuvuu, :akes, which mistakes have come from tors, shoots out pimples, blotches and 'ning that more serious troubles (perjmiry diseases) are certain to follow if rect the mistakes. 1 many an early death has* been avoided have oeen heeded and the blood kept RSAPARILLA. ich.. writes: suffering' with it for five years. The icum. It came out on my head, neck I was perfectly raw with it. What I i telling. Nobody would believe me if advertised to cure it. I spent money INSTON'S SARSAPARILLA highly o improve right away, and when 1 had r cured. I have never had a touch of it e least good till I tried JOHNSTON'S ise all who are suffering from humors ce. I had also a good deal of stomach >, but JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA it pure and strong you can positively reJOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA never II quart bottles at only one dollar each >Ajnr, DDTiiorr, bbzoBP ), DUK?, ONION, B. 0. i ymptsasP i :ss ? Headache ? *?; as?Chills?Urine j8? rsP! * a as! 0 roisole f ivcr and Ivldncy zsf is ffLitsiptic 1 nly medicine now S^l /aughnf3 Lithonthem to their ttt B&MT /Tf$ Csvs. 3. ('., July 21, irn j?y of the ee'lulr.r tissue, 4A ni t time. I u?-s iii.rI to H ilka cud saturated with pile. perfect'jr helpless, TjRB i> except wl tie under tli* '4^7 Ic ?nd am now comfortad been unable to do for It, titsomo poor sufferer t Reg. S. C. Vols., 1860. flflV linvc hn?l no return -s?v> edical Director of tK set, Brooklyn, N.Y. Sr especial case. office, SI .OO a bottle. hk General News Notes. / ha Grippe Quickly Cured. "In tho winter of 1898 and 1899 I was taken down with a severe attack ot what is called La Grippe" says F. L. Hewctt, a prominent druggist of NVinfield, 111. "The only medicine I used was two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It broke up th9 cold and stopped the coughing like magic, and I have never siuce been troubled with Grippe." Chamberlain's Cough Remedy can always be depended upon to break up a severe cold and ward off any threatened attack of pneumonia. It is pleasant to take, too, which makes it ihe most desirable and one >f the most popular preparations in use for these ailments. For sale by F. C. Duke. The South bus oue re as in to be thankful that.McKin'ey was reelectedif any Republican had to be. A new man wou d try to strengthen himself with the negroes in the north by appointing men of that race to office in the s iuth. McKinley, having on need for delegates four years form now will ?vii<\Un kl?? '1^ "" ^fiuunwijr uut uu B'J. How to Care the Grip. Remain quietly at home and take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy aa directed and a quick recovery is sure to follow. That remedy counteracts any tendency of the grip to result in pneumonia, which is really the only serious danger. Among the tens of thousands who have used it for the grip not one case has ever been reported that did not recover For sale by F. C. Duke. * Quarantined. Quarantining Uu on on account of smallpox made an unpleasant episode in the career of at least one citizen, and 1 e is inclined to think the regain* tions are a nuisance. A young man was sent by a magistral to Union to escort hack a gentlen an of color who bad collided with 'he law. He got the man but forgot the health certificate, and b aided the train at Union wi h the negro and \ gad leirt. Mear the city the health officer put a policeman o\er liein to keep them irorn suffering for witer. Last night the train to Union w?sao hour and a halt late, but the officer ar.d ti e ne/ro manfully got on and they will spend a while at Union.? 8partangurg Free Lance. Pneumonia Can he Pievented. This disease always results from a cold or an attack of the grip and may he prevented by the timely use of ChamheiIain's Cough Remedy. That remedy wa* extensively used during the epidemics of La Grippe of the past few years, and not a single case has ever been reported that did not recoyer or that resulted in pneumonia, which shows it to be a oertain preventive of that dangerous disease, Ohamberlajn's Cough Remedy has gained a world wide reputation for is cures of colds and grip, For sale by F. C. Duke. Subscribe for The Times and Bryan's jwper. The Commoner. Ton get them both for 91.76,