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Wi T. BEA ^%-HAVE JUST K Royal Worcester Bia K <fc *if I ' V \ V / / vvi? -- \ aoc. Royal ^ 81.OO. WE ALSO HAVE THE, Sold only hy ^ xxxxj&cxrxxcs y? 1 JOHN Ti *?? : J By Weatherl X ; OOPTBIQBT, 1000, IT MBB Xfc xxxxxxxxx: IIt? went forward, and Willie lion, the other.two ottteers and down to the enbiu for our meal we were shortly Joined by Ah reported that the crew were all ry as pipers at the prospeet of another step toward our golden When the ineal was over, tl came and whispered In my earon no other view can I explain i In taking up the dice, satac bonen, they say?and proposing apiece to sample our luck, sin dexter. Alec, saying with n laugh tha not believe in such omens, m less humored our folly, lie rat box first and flung on the tab! ace. One of the officers threw ft deuoesi The other threw a pair of act Willie Treballon threw deuce )The beat bad worn off, and tl was full of cold, clammy mist, perspiration streamed from my though the sun were high ab mastheads. My hand tremble palsied dotard's as I took up 1 ful leathern box, and for a ful! I rattled the box without di turn them down. The others waited In breatl lepee and watched Intently. J took a deep breath, clapped th of the box down on to the ti then slowly withdrew it. ' Aceu (IBflln!" cried WUlle Ti ' The Lord Lave mercy on ine, mariner!" Willie's cry was followed b terra! of dead silence. We st< Ing at one another as tbouc bound. A shout of laughter from 1 castle broke the charm, and in of sudden frenzy Alec threw dice together through a port! the fog without and began to for our superstitious fears. "Cheer up. Jack," he cried, ine hard on the shoulder. ,U1 hasn't got us yet." I shuddered and drew back \ answering. \ "Come, come," said Alec, w show of anger. "Don't let any more of this nonsense. M fool to take any part In yot f* game." I * 'The Roman admiral th*tft W? TY&. COMPANY ECEIVED A BIG LINE OF THE is Gored Straight Front Corsets aSvl Royal Worcester ^ Sl.OO 82.BO TO 85. hese are the Corsets that stand out e-eminently as the best values for the oney ever offered . Absolutely the Best . . ot only in quality of material and 5rkmanship are these Corsets way ead of others at same price, but in I other essential features they far t shine their closest competitors. 91.00. SE 5TYLES IN $3.50, $3.50 and $5.00. W. T. B CATV ^ 00. mrrm^rrrgyy OPP, PIRATE |1 i*?? by Chesney and Alick Monro. ! ^ ?? ? ??? mmmma WKATIIKsdr UttMJIlf AND 1UCK trdlBO. I X BATIONa DT H. 0. OOUI.TAA. j a: a: v:var :v.ar:vaf arar afar ar afar ar . giving etuetsens overboard." si .. rrekn- jfiooinlly. "and two-tliinls of itls tl<-> 1 ul was destroyed." ^ 'fj,e A lot* turned to tn?> sharply. and t li<>: c. wlia was n taunting smile on Ills face. 08 l\Cl" "Turned |it-iliint. .Inok V I dldii'tikinr making you were such a scholar. Pertis1 ?oa ' you'll favor us with an account io de\ 1 eircuinstanoos; The foolish ! ' r*\i 'used their corn. If I remember rightly, ny o y correct uie if 1 am wrong." 18 own "I'm no scholar." 1 answered angrily, a irow ^or klg tnuut jjunoyed me. "Aloe lies er or land was the goody lioy that did bi> . ... lessons." t lie aid "While his friends amused them p vert lie, .. selves with tap weuclies and tmstry tied the , , . ? * . 4 cooks lasses. e t euce "Maybe." said I with u sneer. "I?ui . Jack Topp is gallant enough to prefi t pgll of ^ pre^ty ins8 (W n (jivek root auy daj*.' T "Both good tilings in their way. I?u' ace! come, Jack, stand up. put your hands tie cabin k?klnd J'ou uut^ ,l'" us a" about tlii: but tlie heathen fellow. Iiou't tremble so, man r There's no school master behind yoi acc as with tlie birch. I'll correct all stuph d^Uke a errora y?u u,a^ Ha, ha, ha!" ,. . . How long this unseemly wrangb nft rate- ... , . , would have coutluued I do not know . probably till It came to blows. Th< g ? two other officers bad been Usteului . . , with silent dismay, and bonest Willi' .. . t Treballon bad been looking from on M to the other nud pulling the skin cn] I about over bis smooth head till hi j'j sconce fairly shone. What it was a! ... about he knew no more than a powde . f j tub, but he thought It about time t break into the quarrel, and maybe h in. wms noue too soon. >od star- "Masters, masters!" be cried. "Ha h an in done with this unseemliness! Thequai * rel on deck there might be excuse foi . - . the quarrel down here none. Her e. 01 e. you'ro going at It tongs an hammei ' urs. hammer an tongs, fathom o' one, si box ami foot o, t.otherf t,u tliere balnt a ^ lo e_n 0 to choose between you. And this, to< chaff us wben we ougbt an to be knit togetbe by reason o' common enemies." m /f "u ^lec turned away impatiently, bv he did not Interrupt the boatswali ... llt who went on: wunoui "Captain Ireland, many a good ship' been cast away through her captal some q^rrellng with his officers. Mastc us have Topp an offlee,. ^hQ can't keep a civ . tongue for his superiors ofttlines gel ir chua s hanged. Job, you graceless loon, whi cause la come grinning down hei f forr' "Glass run out, uncle. My watch over." "Captain Ireland, then It's your next watch, an I hope you'll pardon an old mariner for plain spcnklug when It was needed." Without a word Alec left the cabin and went on deck. Through the whole of that watch 1 lay in my bunk brooding, brooding, brooding. To quarrel with my sworn shipmate, and about such a trifle too! Fool that 1 wng! That we had had a serious wrangle and one whose consequences might easily bode 111 for the success of our venture there was no doubt, but on looking back on what had passed I was almost as much fogged as Willie Trehnllon to know what the cause of It all was. Fool, I called myself, and. again, fool! Nep came to me and shoved his cold nose against my chock, and I rubbed nis coarse, scrubby coat and coaxed hlni to lie down. I was grateful to him. for I felt less wretched with a companion, though lie were nothing but a cat. Rut then Nep was not ns ? other cats. After his wntch wns out Alec came below, nnd by the dim light of the horn t lantern which hung to the beams 1 , could see him pacing the other side of the cabin thwart ships, lie could not , see me, nnd I gave no sign of being awake. Presently he bo gnu to smile to himself, nnd then, turning his gait, made straight for my bunk. "Jack, old boy, I was the bigger fool of the two." "No, Alec; I was by far." "No, I. -It was my throwing the dice box through the port tlmt started It." "I proposed the dice." "Cotue, come; we won't dispute again. I'll test you with jaeks of ale." We tied; 1 won, and from that moment the quarrel was never mentioned. Next morning nine men were down with fevers, several others were undoubtedly sickening for them, and the rest were so scared that they were pretty sure to cntch the 111 on the first opportunity. There wns no wind to drive the fetid mists away, nnd so we had to get a i ? * ?? - **?* ? * 1 * " ouu iuw me onsioi Merchant up stream by our own exertions. Anything was better than letting tho men n stand trembling In Idleness. But It was not till past midday that the stew- ^ Ing air was tempered with a breexe ^ from the sen. which tilled our sails and gave us headway against the sluggish * current. li For tive days did we tow, pole and 8 sail through this awful canal. Nine 1 men died. Almost all were sick, and 8 but for the promise of the pagan and ' the dread of Alec's pistol In the magu- ^ *Ine they would have turned the ship's benk to the sea again at any hazard. * On the afternoon of the sixth day '' we opened out Into a bread, clear flow- ' Ing river, and before nightfall we were n anchored In a snug little bay with a w UUfcJif tae * men to brave a sudden death from * overeating. None, however, was any the worse c for this change of diet, though the surgeon shook his head and suggested a n good bloodletting all around as a pre- * ventive of possible evils. The sick men, except one who was too far gone ? to recover, mended as though under a peH. During our voyage up the mighty stream we were able to revel in fresh ? meat, too, for the forests abounded In game, and the Devon and Somerset men, who had poached scores of noble | stags on brown, boggy Exmoor, sent J j their clothyard arrows and the crossbow bolts Into many a fine water buck mm he came from the deep covers to gase wonderlngly with his great eyes on the strange craft that was furrow- ^ Ing the surface of his unfilled river. | So fat venison stews smoked In the 1 mess kids, 'and tough, brine fosslled ^ beef became but a distant memory. The navigation was easy, but slow, j lee was cautious about going too fast for fear of picking up a shoal and getting tightly imbedded on it, so he kept 1 the ship under easy canvas, very often * broiling up our courses altogether, un- ' less there seemed every prospect of a 1 i deep fairway. ! Thirty-four days of this easy progress brought us to the groat cataract which | barred our farther advance. The pagan had told us of It beforehand, and We heard the thunder of the waters a full day before we rose them. Anx lous, However, to sntlsry ourselves tliat ' the barrier really was impassable, we * ! held on until the current grew too * ; strong to force the ship against it uu* der sail alone, and then we bore away 1 Into a vast lagoon on the northern * hank, formed by the back swirl from the fall, and dropped our anchor In the - midst of it. e CHAPTER X. S Next sunrise saw 50 of us ashore. e We took nothing with us but our arms e ' and accouterments, trusting to the l> wealth of the forest to provide us with " all necessary provender by the way. " Of the 101 men who bad sailed out of r Bristol river 24 had died, and the rc0 malning 21, who were all weak from e various ills, were left behind to guard , the Bristol Merchant till our return. [ "You will be quite safa," said Alec to them as they stood about the ship to * watch our departure, "If ycu keep a e bright lookout. There's small chance r' of men disturbing the Bristol Merchant x In her present berth, and callers won't n be so frequent as to be a nuisance. If I Jj you do have a visit from any one of f ik. I.Ik.. 1.1 - .?.! vuc uiuv*! UJ Biuuursn urv*, ?xmi, If that falls, cannon. How lone we 1 may be gone I cannot say, but wait for * us here three years at the leant. You are In a land of plenty. The shores 8 teem with duck and deer, the waters n ripple with fish, the trees of the forest 'j are bending with their load of fruit. ' Take, then, God's gifts that are offered, H bold peace among yourselves, keep year culverins loaded, and no ill can * fcalril n? er yeur ship save old aae $ jj Have You# \ Backache ? Tired Pains Across the 1 \ / j of an Unnatural < /: | They ?He The most su ; j Complaint, one th . J ~ fl j vmsqm ^ This is a pure \ c in use that v.-ill efl v\ i triptic acts directly , normal healthy co m RE&D wei Or* TL"*rx :? l.j% I n iv? ixjeu sufT?* i\.,a c"it?e?l from the llvfr nml jJajV t-? lit*down oxer-pt shortly , Tvik fiulil. Tlireo quartcra of a - - Ty I wan c<ini|iUielr fllln g ifjbi Iork terribly lur'aimd ami Influence or oh optar*. lit able and able to atteud ti I'tR Drurl.tr two veara. .* Yon may imbllah aa mu fL raay be benefited by It. Since then this pontlcmi Vnuebn'a I.lib raRj ao far. nuil out now i-nj If you have any of || LYON MANUFACTURI And he will ad> (Eg; Of all druggists or sent o ud the ordinary maladies of life." The men on the ship raised a cheer. Ve answered them from the shore. 1 tnd so we parted. There was no path through these vlr;ln forests, for the wild beasts that leld them never retrod their own foot- i tops, and man had net as yet pene- ! rated their solitudes. To force a pas- ' age was a work of time and infinite- 1 y hard labor. It was hew and hack, J aek and hew, wherever the big trees , ourished, for the llanos which every- j rhere abounded had woven themselves I lto one solid mass of interlacing net- a rork. It was like breaking-througl^g. c ever ending wall of the strongest 1 rlckerwork. and I rather think that 8 f led the lazy lot of the 21 who were \ ;ft behind to guard the Bristol Mer- t hant. e On the second day out a piece of c ilsfortune befell us which left ua rlthout the guide on whom we had re- . led to lead us to the golden city. Our ( >agan allowed himself to be bitten , >y a venomous serpent and so died, j t was like breaking our compass at | ea, as without this brown fellow for 1 ;ui(le we could only drift, wandering ' kither, wandering thither, up inounalns whose tops were capped with a lood of glistening snow, through rarlnes where the surging waters hardly eft us standing room, now making irldges of felled trunks, now twisting ropes of tough lianes, now killing a deer tor dinner and now taking a great dellght in rolling over a spotted Jaguar who had marked one of us for his own meal. Tt* waq won pv wnrlf thnnrrli nnrl Horo were times when we almost gave up the quest In despair, for often after a long day of painful hacking and hewing we had to go all the way back igain to get round a swampy morass >r a precipitous ravine. The disheartening almlessness of our toll went very near to quenching the fires of the golden beacon which each man's hopes held up before bis eyes. ^ _ (*o n ooiranm] To Philip Sober. When a woman who asked Philip of Macedon to do her Justice was snubbed by the petulant monarch, she exclaimed, "Philip, I shall appeal against this Judgment." "Appeal!" thnndered the enraged king. "And to whom will you appeall" "To Philip aober." was her reply. SALT RHEUIV Johnston's ! QUART E JUST SKEr Might MMa XroptloM are a Warning The Only Bare Way la to tfee<l the is the Ko?t Powerfnl # Mature, in her efforts to correct mis oareleu living, or it may be from ance? other imperfections on the skin, as a wa hape tumors, cancers, erysipelas or pulu you neglect to heed the warning and cor Many a lingering, painful disease an simply because these notes of warning pure by a right use of JOHNSTON'S S/ Mias Abbie J. Kande, of Marshall, 1 " I was cured of a bad humor after doctors and my friends said it was salt r and oars, and then on my whole body, suffered duriug those five years, is no us I did. I tried every medicine that war enough to buy a house. 1 heard JC praised. I tried a bottle of it. I began finished the third bottle I was complete] since. I never grot any thing to do me t 8AR8APARILLA. I would heartily ad or akin disease of any kind to try it at o trouble, and was run down and miaerab made me all right." The blood is your life and if you keej 1st Uniiim or face contagion fearlessly, falls. It la for sale by all druggists, in f HfcMwaawr onvo COM FOR BALE BY DA F. I wmmwmmwm ley of These Sy 1 Feeling ? Dizziness ? Nervousness -oins, or in the Bladder?Slecplessnesslolor or Scalding Urine. li\adsiey 1 ccessful remedy 'or all forms of Livci at has effected some rcma.kahle cures, sjD ytjionl !y vcsrct-L!s preparation and the only cctual!/ cut.:. Dropsy and Gravel. Vat 0:1 the Liver and Kidneys, restoring ndition and eradicating all disease. J? 9A7C Cross ICkys ring forthr?c f*nr* frc.-n Anrr?rrn or r?*>errl [>r??p?y< M.< pli.v>ii,iiiiiKiutiil .?<n 1 imilil lunt Ixn ? . <>rt after f>Hng tapped. Kvcry ll.su.> wi * . omjiletcly llll.u ration ivu rtrnwn from rrri'tiiiii .eveinl time*. i>f tln> tl?n> I bwnn 11-lnu Ynuulin'* l.ithnnfripttc exuding lluld. 1 wag unable to p i nny re.i or kIh ii ex< iavo u.ed ctglitbottlesof Vnnclni'g l.lilioiiirlpflc hi > my butlucsR. 1 cuu now ride my horse, a llilug I had t eh of my statement ? von desire. I am glad to give It, a Yours trul.. 11. J. nF.TSIT.L, MaJ. 19th T.cj ?n writes under dato r.f Am?. II, 10W>: nntrlnlle hti? rlfriii'd n |>ci'inniier.t cure. I iiu' oyiuu liiioil l.eultlt." the above symptoms write to the Medi NG CO., 45 So. Fifth Streel rise you by letter in regard to your csp n receipt of price to any express of Wl.w WOMAN IS LIKE A DEUOATE in MUSICAL INSTRUMENT wl In good condition she is sweet and lovable, lir and sings life's song on a joyful harmonious fit string. Out cf order or unstrung, there Is iiscordance and unhappiness. Just as there s one key note to all music so there is one key Otl lote to health. A woman might as well try yp o fly without wings as to feel well and look t veil while the organs that make her a woman ire v/eak or diseased. She must be healthy po nside or she can't be healthy outside. There to ire thousands of women suffering silently all iver the country. Mistaken modesty urges heir silence. While there is nothing more idmirable than a modest woman, health is tt.lhs S ??? vomen'sills. It is \V hesafest'andquick- Mam*. ist way to cure leu- |\ "8" lorrhea, falling of WW-J j\ v,u hewomb, nervous- 2K JI HI an less, headache, e I |1 /K an jackache and gen- M l rf/St&i ir; sral weakness. You 11 I I v vill be astonished i i|j'\ Kt pecially if ycu have 'If i Mmwoff Deen experiment- Klfuyjftlfi . Ing with other so- \ jiKJWh called remedies. j jjillbyw mi We are not asking 1 j\[J of ^outotry anuncer- | U8 happy thousands of ItJRv has done for others \WffJ /f^K&VXp as It can do for you. Wf v Sold in drugstores W ^ book win be /AnJn ,?! hi to all who write to gj/ HI - THF. braofield (1 " ' n How many pooplo understand the real meaning of the wonderful export t0 figures of the United States? How ai many realize that the high prices P1 charged by the trusts in the United ^ States have enabled them to send g, their surplus goods abroad and sell p them at a minimum of profit there? b; How does it benefit this country for our manufacturers to sell to Euro- \ peans at half the price they exact fi from us at home? l( b n CURED BY Sarsaparilla IOTTLE8. ? IN TLUB. c of Soiuelblne ITIore Aerlons to Coasts > Warning. Johnston's SnrsnpnrlHa t Hood Purifier Known. ( .takes, which mistakes hare come from .tors, shoots out pimples, blotches and minf* that more serious troubles (per- t lonary diseases) are certain to follow if f reot the mistakes. ? <1 many an carl)'death has been avoided have liven heeded and the blood kept c LRSAPARILLA. i iich., writes: , suffering with it for five years. The , heurn. It came out on my head, neck 1 I was perfectly raw with it. What I { >e telling. Nobody would believe me if ] > advertised to cure it. I spent money > HINSTON'S SARSAPARILLA highly 1 to improve right away, and when 1 had ly cured. I have never had a touch of it he least good till I tried JOHNSTON'S vise all who are suffering from humors nee. I had also a good deal of stomach le, but JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA > it pure and strong you can positively reJOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA never nil quart bottles at only one dollar eaoh ^ irt, dbtroit, aaj.ua* C. DUKE, UNION, S. 0. mptenss? i ? Headache ? V#? -Chills?Urine 9^} Voubie" | r an J ILJney triptac 1 medicine now ^-V ughn's Lithon- fiLf tlicxn la their ^gf 'GUT ST F J? . S. C.. July 21. 189^. ^SSTnf the cr'lular tl--?ii<\ JBfJf time. 1 hi s tii.til Id and saturated win "r\ , . perfccf'y hplr'pf, rep' wiille in iiri > -S& ml am m-w comfortici'u Uliabio to do for ffllv a some poor su ITorcr c.s.c. Vols., :8io. 2V* re lint! no return J^Li cal Director of ^7^._ t, Brooklyn, N.Y. W ecial case. fice, S I .OO a bottle. nT kkmXkm. General News Notes. The need of extreme haste in passg the thip subsidy bill is evident ben it is stated that ihe American ie is building two ships, which, if lished after the bill passes, will ve it from the necessity of building bers to enable its foreign built ssels to draw subsibies. If finished fore the bill becomes a law, the or poverty staicken line will hare do some more building. J.a Grippe Quickly Cured. ' In the winter of 1898 and 1899 I Hewetf, a prominent druggiat of infield, III. "The only medicine I ?d was two bottles of Chamberlain'i iugh Remedy. It broke up the cold d atopjred the coughing like magic, d I have never aince been troubled th Grippe." Chamberlain's Cough smcdy can always be depended upon break up a severe cold and ward ' any threatened attack of pneumoa. It is pleasant to take, too, which akes it the most desirable and one the most popular preparations in ie for these ailments. For sale by . C. Duke. Victoria will go down in history i the Good. That is better than eing called the Great, although posirity may also award that title to er also. 4,Not once not twice, in er fair island's story, The path of uty was the path to glory." How to Care the Grip. Remain quietly at home aud take bamberlaiu's Cough Remedy as irected aud a quick recovery is sure i follow. That remedy counteracts ay tendency of the grip to result in aeumoaia, which is really the only irious danger. Among the tens of lonsands who hav9 used it for the rip not one case has ever been re* orted that did not recove--. For sale y F. C. Duke. - m The Committee on Coinage, Veights and Measures sent an inviation to Mr- Bryan to appear before t and give his ideas on a pending ill and then, without waiting for an nswer, reported the bill. This is he sort of thing that the Republians term fair and courteous. Pneumonia Can be Pi evented. This disease always results from a old or an attack of the grip and may >e prevented by the timely use of hambetIain's Cough Remedy. That emedy was extensively used during i ! j - r t _ n_! r ne epidemics 01 vjrnppe 01 me past, ew years, aud not a single case has ver been reported that did not re:over or that resulted in pneumonia, vhich shows it to be a certain preventive of that dangerous disease, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has gained a world wide reputation for its cures of colds and grip. For sale by F. C. Duke. How is Cleveland the benefactor of the South, as some people assert* The South elected him President twice, enabled him to become a millionaire and to reach social station to which he could never otherwise have attained. His return was to split it into two factions and to throw his weight against it in two aleetio&a*