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A GROWINI in READY MA The constant growth i garments has been th< considerable time and lar line, and we are n< yon as large and Intel READY Ml As can be found any w fled if you will call in note our underselling edly And it to your in Buy Your W. L BE JOHN IP, HUE By WEATHEBBY OHESNEY and ALIO MUKBO. (Otpyrlfht, 1000, by Weatherby Ckeaney and Alii Kuarow] Wot a man of us heeded pr staid b ftrpkp. \ dozeq more Spaniards fe dlfp poleaxed bullocks. 'Surrender, and you shall bavp qua torf* piled the captain again. The Spaniards, such of them as lip had time to seiae arms, dropped the weapons at the word and scurried b low out of harm's way. Our men 1 them run?nay, even hurried them wli the flat of & sword blade when tin were too slow. And thus In the space of a few mi utes we had made ourselves masters < the galley and bad not lost a man the doing of It. "Get her baled clear. Jack," crl< Alec, "and then come aft to me!" "Aye, aye, captain! And the Spn lsh galley slaves? Shall I set the drift from their moorings?" "Will they Join their countryme think you? Remember there are senre kly two dosen of us all told." p 11UI liltTJ. X UCJ ? t* BUUCIITU t much to want their heels In the bilbo again." "Well, knock the Irons off them ni Mt them to bale. We must have sh! P*d a fearful weight of water to ma ua float so deep. See they don't p hold of any arms, though," lie add anxiously. "Where's the old man7" ' "On guard over the forescuttle. II< l|k4 'a'fury, gnashing his teeth wl fRI? gghinst the prisoners and cursl tiietp uritfi a pretty assortment of t piei^ ^listlllnii oa^jis. He wnuts th'e whole lot overboard." *Aye. captain," bawled Pengony. w was standing near, "an be says tin Spaniards Is like Jonnses an we'll cast away afore day If we keep V high us." "Does be say that?" 1 exclaimed dismay. "What If be does?" snld Alec en tessly. "Never lieed what the old ui ar?. They distorted his mind, Ji Worn they crlpple<l Ids body." "The old nmn prophesied true one growled Jan In his deep occnu vol "telled that we should be nt liber which we are. an after a scuffle w them hounds, which we had." "And," said Alec, with a laugh, might haTe prophesied as much, i jet jou wonld not call me a wizard.' "Aye, captain, but he telled me name, me, Jan Pengony, as he'd ne seen afore. These baln't Idle wo he's speaking now. An Master T< there thinks as 1 do, captain, I w ' rant." "Whj. jeo." Mid L "1 think It wo .jte&V'Jj |?tg & " ' G BUSINESS, i c t i & ! kDE SKIRTS. I b ti of the demand for these J b cause of our devoting T attention to this particu- [J ow in a position to show J Lligent an assortment of f, a] (DE SKIRTS S 8 b here, and we are satis 1 a and see our Sfeirtej and u prices you will undoubt- * fcerest to CI tz b Skirts From I r\ ITY&CO. : A be safest to strike tkp cargo over- h board." "It would be sbeer murder," said f< Alec warmly. d I laughed. "Would It?" said I. "TUeu tl I'll do It and never expect my con- * science to trouble me for It after. They K are only Spaniards, after all." a "Only Spaniards!" cried Alec fiercely. "They're men, nnd to kill men In cold n ;k blood is murder, 1 tell you. Mark me, a Jack Topp, I've killed half a score of tbe breed In fair flclit. nnd. Owl will ? lng. shall serve my country by killing d several score more before old Kins v Is Death gets to windward of me. But g lj this?never! So to your duty. Master t Topp, and I to mine." Tr Jan Pengony looked after him as he walked away along the gangway, and c id I then, turning his weather beaten face a lp I to mine, growled out: f e- "Captain's heart's an honor to him, <! et Master Topp. but It'll work him 111 yet. th Ills father was so afore him: spared >y the Spaniards when he could ha' crushed 'em. so I've heard tell, an they forn got it an crushed lilni Instead when of their turn en me. Mark n?e. Master In Topp. the fewer Spaniards there be cumbering the seas the safer be they ' *d for Hugllsli mariners." And I believed he was right, but said n- nothing and went to see to the baling m of the galley. We got her dry after much hard lan. bor, and leaving the balers at their 'e- work, for every now and then a big sea would come overboard. I went aft <x> to the poop. Alee was at the tiller himself. "Whereabouts ore we. Alec?" 1 nsked. 'P' "I'm not sure." he replied anxiously. Ke "None of those dolts In the ooneh knows 'e* In the slightest. They are nil soldier e<^ officers and far too fine hidalgos i trouble themselves about a ship's reckn * oning. The pilot busied himself with that, and he's with the sharks now." "Ah. well." snid I. "It's blowing too bord to Inst. \Ve shall get a glimpse at to the stars soon." "Yes, I expect to be able to get our '10 latitude soon, but we'll have to guess 1>m at longitude. The lubbers have let the l>(! glass run down." L>m "How are we by the Windward Islands?" ln "Can't say. There's no chart on board of anything east of Margherlta, rc" but I know that the reefs la these narnn row seas are as thick as pickpockets ln tendon streets. Bo gat yon for I ward. Jack, with your best eye wall e>" skinned, and If we seem likely to pick co: any of them up let me hear a good ty. north country hall. There's a dead line It'1 In the blttacle there. Take It forward with you and put a hand In the chains to try for a sounding occasionally." ind i WPDt forward. "Here, Pengony an ' Trehallon." I cried, "take the deep sen my lead to the chains. Don't let It go to** ver deep while we're scudding at thlr **<18 rate." >PI' "Aye, aye!" cried the men, and ' ar* want forward myself to the forecast)* head. uU1 The galley waa jlaagtig igjinlilr, ipplng np the sons with bor lire ?enk. dipping Iter stem Into tin* Rrcc >ulk nuJ -ndlng great masses < earning wn*or curling over the for nstle deck. All our hulwnrks had fo unatoly b?'eu torn away?else w 11 lift have foundered with the she? relght of \v .or thoy hold?and I foun t no easy w>rk to keep tuy post. Statu ng wns Impossible, so I sat down n ho streaming planks, holding on to tl reaching of a gun, and. straining in >yes Into the howling darkness abea rbooever the Interval between tb raves left my ik?I1 uncovered. Now ould feel that we were rushing up [quid hill, now tearing down into aging valley; now the galley, bad se ont tl?at she was, would rip through rest and settle down sluggishly, uo> he would shake herself clear and rac orward afresh, hut not ft fathom 1 rout could I see. We sped cut of ink light astern into Inky night ahcat 'he darkness of Acheron was ou us. uust trust to my ears alone. Hut It was a very Ihibcl of sound liat tilled the spume sown air?th running of timbers like to part wit! tielr straining, the fury of the wim nioug the rigging, the roar of the sea s they ground against one auotlic kt> liquid millstones, the terror shriek f the (Spaniards, the duty bawls o ae seamen, made up a din imlescriha le. I might just us well have heeu af jr all the good I could do, hut whil .lee stuck to his post at the tiller -ould stick to mine at the bows. Heavens, what a turmoil there was be spirits of the storm were out am usy, taking vengeance ou us for dis >gnrdlng the old man's words wliei p hade us surrender the Spaniards t< telr grpsp, and In their heavy ange lOV tossed our nrniv tinrL- nlmm jo wqv08 like a chip of wood lu i nice run. I feared much that Alec'i tilvalrous generosity would cost tli< cs of uiore than one of those nude !m. But avast moodlng! What Is that urf? Breakers? A reef? A set roke over me. and Its crash drowuei II more distant souuds. It clearei way- Yes, the shore Is close ahoari s! I had just opened my mouth to lini 'hen down plunged the galley's hem gain, and souse I went under in ful ry. The next mlnuto, when that wave so le free, I yelled as I had never yelle< efore. Down went the helm as fa 9 Alec dare press It, and over lieelei je galley's leo gunwale till the wavi eads came pouring In among the tor fled slaves. "Breakers still ahead! My God. the; re all round us!" All hands could hear them now. W< iw their white, curling crests beckon lg to us. and In a moment we weighing a.nong them. There Is one clear spot on the Ic ow. "Hard-a-larhoard. Keep her way lee, for your life!" Now we are through the channel nm eading to the uext line of surf. Th rater Is smoother. Can we round ti or an anchor? No; she would onl; rift Into the rocks broadside on. A hem, then, straight, and. please Coil re may he carried over somehow! Crash! She struck upon the reel nd then crash again and crash! Every timber shivered, ami the fori last came down within an Ipch of m rm. The terrified soldiers below burst u he fore hutch and streamed on to th eck. The waist was full of foamln rater ^ml struggling men. The lieav eas were making a clean breach ova be poop. Crash,crash, crash! We grouud aud bumped upon tli ruel rocks, and, for aught we coul ee In the gloom, the' reef might be lood washed rock In the midst of * ? vvvaM* CHAPTER XIV. A cold graj' dawn at length lighte ip the wreck, and as the chilly raj uddled and grew warmer the violent >f the gale began to moderate and tli irested sens lost their cruel whltenes rhe stern half of the galley had bee orn away by the heavy surf and crun >led up like a sen urchin's shell, nu vlth It most of the heavily nriuorc Spanish ottlcers had disappeared. I'e laps a score, too. of the slaves ha icen washed away and drowned nr with them three or four of the soldlc: who had rushed Into the wnlst whc we struck. Of the English, liowcve not a man was missing. Used to true "ftl xualcr'a shallow," taid Job. "Sh* we go athoreV log with the ocean, they had ecrambl to what Instinct said was a coign safety and now clustered, a brawi well armed group, on the focoeas head. A abort cable off from whsso 1 were wedged the land rose high a dry?a small Island, so far as we cot make out In the as yet uncertain llgl "The water's shallow." said Job T halloo, with his broadest grin. "8h we go ashore, captain?" "We can wade most of the wn; aid 1, "and. for the rest, those ? can't swim can raft themselves h I i f*I I .. J. \ ? Have You ^ ^ Backache?" Ie M Pains Across J cifit of an Unnatt I 1 They M j| The mo >v RR Complaint, 01 i Vaunt h I? This is a ^ y?> in use that w r JB} triptic acts dii s ^9B normal healti ; I READ M , UKR Okktlkmicn:? 1 (K- 1 htrt be< caused from thellv to lie down except l| fluid. Threequarti , I was complete 3 gmMf lees terrible inflair TjB: Influence or an opli Jpl able and able to at j nearly two years. QW You may nubile D Tmfr may be benefited b; r Mr Since then this ft< ? " Vauihn'i { eo far. and am n p tfr I' you have ai r 8? LYON MANUFAC1 SB and he wl 1 ^ W all druggisU or s< l 1 1 planus. There are pieuty or tn floating about." t "What about sharks?" obscr 1 Alec. r "Oh, ho. ho!" chuckled the old iu 1 "Never fear the sharks. They've [? Joyed a good meal of fat Spanla - they won't be hungry for lean E lishmen. See, I'll give a lead." / r Into the water he flopped and padd with his arms to the shore. l? The rest of us followed, some sw i- fcdng, some on fragments of wrecks l' and In a short time all got safely land. 0 It was a small island about i miles in girth that we had been c on, and the myriad sea fowl elrcl around our heads showed us there \ 1 little danger of starvation. But p there was no pond or stream in si " half of us scattered In search of fr v beater, while the rest busied th 1 pelves on the shore or In the surf, 1 ' !ng hold of any bits of wreckage t might drift within reach. Span bandit and Spanish soldier wor cheerfully beside the English sai and no one could have told thn y dozen hours ago they were flying one another's throats. But, though had by no menus ceased to regard ? Spaniards as prisoners, the press " need of the moment thrust party i ' core into the shade. We were all s r wrecked, and for the time everytt else was of minor moment. The blazing sun quickly dried w ever we were able to rescue from ( water, so we were soon In a posl a to light a fire with which to cook a pea fowl which some of us had cau Before nightfall we had n goodly ai of these hanging on spits before 4j huge Arcs and scores of fresh t * roasting in the embers. I SGROFULfl AND ;' Johnston's ^ QUAR |.'s A. MOST WC mi A Grand Old U r. Mm. Thankful Orilla Hurd 11 k- Livingston Co., Mich. This venci the jear 1812, the year of the gr York. She came to Michigan in too." All her faculties are e*cel Sntive memory, heir mind is fyll fie, of the early day* pf the Sta markable people s$p has met, am ness. But nothing in her varied \ veious and worthy of attention i. JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA disposition to scrofula, that terrll ' and Is cursing the lives of tbousa i^uim of the death augei. TranSi found in neary every family in pearance in dreadful running s goitre, or in eruptions of varied i may be known as catarrh in the and often Is, the prime cause of Speaking of her case, Mrs. E with a bad skin disease. My ar sores, discharging yellowy n^atter unsightly in appearance. My b< My eyes were also greatly \ntian much. %lj blood was iq a very fit frequent Intervals, and I had all was In a miserable condition, I I mended, and doctor after doctoi rit the state told me I must die of 0f were beginning to form. I at lee |V his famous Sarsapariila. I tried . ' thing else, as I had no faith in began to grow better. You can many bottles. But I steadily In we sores healed up, all the bad symp nd and I have never been troubled ild' of 88 years Is not a young woma it. since then, and I firmly believe rc-i greatest Wood purifier and the b< all scrofula and as a spring medlcln not lok to be more than sixty, fil f ? life was saved by JOHNSTON! bo mowToajr ? ?j FOR SALE BT DR mmmmmmmm i Anv of These & V I nred Feeling ? Dizziness ? Nervousne: the Loins, or in the Bladder?Sleeplcssncj jral Color or Scalding Urine. lean "Kidney 1 st successful remedy for all forms of Li ne that has effected some remarkable cur< in s Lithon purely vegetable preparation and the 01 ill effectually cure Dropsy and Gravel. ^ rectly on the Liver and Kidneys, restorii ly condition and eradicating all disease. mm n m ? - ? ? 'ff/ii #a> Mfu vii Cross f in sufTprln," forthr-r frcr.*. Anasarca orgeneral Oroi er and Kidneys. My phytdcliitiseald that I could last but a t shortly after being tapped. Every tissue was completely f era of a Ballon was drawn from scrotum several times, ly filled at tho time 1 bettan using Vaughn's l.ltbontri led and exuding fluid. I was unable to get any rest or slee He. I have used eight bottles of Vnushn's l.lt liontrlpi tend to my business. I can now ride my horse, a thing 1 h h as much of my statement as you desire. I am glad to rtvo r It. Yours trulv. It. J. BF.T8II.L, MaJ. 18tl :ntleman writos under date of Aug:- 11,1000; s l.lt bout riptle has effected n permanent cure. 1 ow enjoying good health." iy of the above symptoms write to the M AIRING CO., 45 So. Fifth Strt III advise you by letter In regard to your Hit on receipt of price to any express lire Every woman in the country ought to know about i wo Mother's Friend I :ast |Ug Those who do know about it ivns wonder how they ever got along 1 without it. It has robbed childbirth of its terrors for many a Eht young wife. It has preserved her esl) girlish figure and saved her much em- suffering. It is an external liniIny ment and carties with it therefore, luit absolutely no danger of upsetting 1|sj, the system as drugs taken intcrnuod are aPt to ^ *s to .v rubbed into the abdomen to soften or* and strengthen the muscles which 1 a are to bear the strain. This means at much less pain. It also prevents we morning sickness and all of the the other discomforts of pregnancy, iing A druggist of Macon, Ga., says: rau. "I have sold a large quantity of I*. Mother's Friend and have never 1" known an instance where it has failed to produce the good results claimed for it." hat- A prominent lady of Lamthe berton, Ark., writes: "With my tion first six children 1 was in labor the from 24 to 30 hours. After using ?llt Mother's Friend, my seventh was ' born in 4 hours." Get Mother'* Friend at the drucr tWO etore, 91.00 1 i r bottle. gffs THE BRADflELD REGULATOR CO. A1UNTA. GA. *1 Writ* for our fro* llln.'r.lr.l book, "BXTORI BABY . IS BORM." ITS AWFUL HORRORS npp.n nv . Sarsaparilla T BOTTLES. >NDKBFUL CURE, idjr Glrei Her Experience. Vt's ia the beautiful village of Brighton, rable and highly respected lady wits born id eat war, lu Hebron, >Vashlngtcn Oq., New 1840, the year qf "Tippecanoe and Tyler lently preserved, and possessing a very roof interesting reminiscences of her early te of Mlchlgau and the interesting and reft the stirring events of which she was a wit. and manifold recollections are more marthan are her experiences in the use of ~ Mrs. Ilurd Inherited a tendency and pret)ly destructive blood taint which has curaetft inds and marking thousands more as v!cnitted from genera'tlou to generation, !t is one form or another. It may make its apores, in unsightly swellings la the neck or forms. Attacking the mucous membrane, 1$ head, or developing In the lungs It may he, consumption. [urd says: "I was troubled for many years ms ana limbs would break out In a mass of My pepk began ta swell and became very >dy was covered with scrofulous eruptions., ted and weakened, and they pained me very ' Dad condition and my head ached severely no appetite. I had sores also In my ears. I tad tried every remedy that had beep recom? bad failed. One of the best physicians In scrofulous consumption, as internal abcesses igth was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and I a bottle, more as an experiment than anyIt, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, I be sure I kept on taking it I took a great lproved until I became entirely well. All the itoms disappeared. I gained perfect health, with scrofula since. Of course an old lady in, but I have had remarkably good health that JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA is the est medicine In ^he wide world, both for e." Thlt remarkably interesting old lady did Dd she repeated several times, "I believe my i SARSAPARILLA." F. C. DUKE, UNION, 8. C. & ymptoms? 1 is ? Headache ? ?s?Chills?Urine 3? Trouble" | m*t a rtA KMn#v ^Kr. tSf is flE triptic 1 r?ly medicine now jWjj /aughn's Lithon- jfe, ig them to their BOUT IT ? 1 :kt?. 8. C., July 21,1899. >?y of the cellular tlsnua, *9l ixirt time. I wan unaMa tiled and saturated with pile, perfectly helplcaa. jkI l> except while under tho Ic and am uow comfortiud been unable to do for It, as sodo poor sufferer j|h*t Reg. S. C. Vols., 1S00. httvo had no return Led leal Director of K jet, Brooklyn,^. V. S especial case. "flr , office, 3 i .OO a bottle. General News Notes. ha Grippe Quickly Cured. "In the winter of 1898 and 1899 I was Uktn down with a severe attack ot what is called JL#a Grippe" fays F. L. Hewett, a prominent druggist of Winfield, 111. "The only medicine I used was two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It broke up the oold and stopped the coughing like magic, and I have never since 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 tho most desirable and one of the most popular preparations in use for these ailments. For sale by F. C. Duke. There is some gum game afoot in regard to the Nicarauguan Canal. Dispatches from Ion don say positively that the british have made counter proposals to the United States on the subject, while the State Department denies all knowledge of these, Secretary Hay will find that he is nlaving it a little two fine if he isn't careful. The country is determined on this canal question, 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 thons&nds who have used it for the grip not one case has ever been reported that did not recover. For sale by F. C. Duke. m - rr? Somebody whose words carry weight alike with ehuroh people and gentiles ought to investigate the Chinese raifsionary scandal. If Christian missionaries have turned into despoilers, as is asserted on good authority, we ought to know it, if they have not, their skirts ought to Kn <1 nfi n \tftl\T aT iVin nkaw/vAO uv U^UIllVVJiJ vtvu* VU V/A bUU VUttlgOO* Pneumonia Can be Pj evented. This disrate always results from a cold or an attack of the grip and may be prevented by the timely use of ChambeiIain's Cough Remedy. That remedy was 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 recover or that resulted in pneumonia, which shows it to Ire a certain preventive of that dangeroi.s disease, Ohamberlain's Cough Remedy has gained a world wide reputation for its cures of colds and grip, For sale by F. C. Duke. + m After all our talk of the good of humanity and the obligation resting on us to abate a nuisance at our doors. Tho (Cubans are a good deal astonished at the high price we are asking for the job. The poor fools actually believe that wemean what we solemnly declared. '#> Subscribe for The Tunes*