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A GROWIN READY m The constant growth garments has been tl considerable time an lar line, and we are i . you as large and int< READY M. As can be found any fled if you will call ii note our undersellinj edly find it to your i Buy Your W.T.BE IIIM By WXATHERBY 0HE8NEY and AL MTJNBO, {Ospyrlfffct, 1KM, by Wcsthcrby Cbcsncy and ., Munro.] "Better food this than you've accustomed to of late," cried tlx man, as he threw down a carcass jwhlch he had been tearing the t< [fishy fiber with his teeth. "Bu Jaea fowl will soon become scary stay here long, and then we shall jto take to barbecued Spaniard, ho, ho! A Juicy morsel. Indeed!" I I turned from the old ghoul u gesture of horror. He noticed it jl thought he winced. "Ah, ha, ha I Jack, how do yo ithe prospect?" he Inquired banter {"Oh, ho! I'd give another toe n ithe torment chamber had left in to see those great jaws of yours J>llflg f>Y*r # r*b Of ffit Spanish ! ^Peace, cannibal," said I. "T1 fowl will last us for many a Ion and when they're gone we can I shellfish." "Nay, but the old man's right ,ter Topp," growled Jau Peugony' ' olce. "Gulls soon gets 6cary, i Is bad to depend on, let alone l>eii sort o' food to fight on at the 1 times." "Then," said Alec decidedly sooner ire set away frotu liere t ter. There are sijc other island tared near us. One Is a mere washed cock; fqnr Qrc, 1 t|i!uk, UlP ?|S,P qf this, end one. wlil tome league and a half to the east, appears to be of const else." "Aye. captain. If we had n I reach It," put .u l'engony. . "We have what's as good?t teriel for a raft." replied Alec. I think that the Qrst thing to 1 Is for a suiall party of us to Qffoss {o that island, i \phnt prospect it offers. If bad, off than before, and ci back and make a larger raft 01 we may attempt the voyage Spanish main Itself. And one and In the neighborhood of towns, we shall be able to impi fortunes by a sufficiently genei of our English muscle." "We'll help ourselves and s leered one of the men. "But to be our venture what call to to the large island at all?" "Because 1 hope we may fln there, or even a town. I hm that the Spaniards have pearl hereabout, which ought to j agar qo*nr for uq, while t i pia* pur mean a long, iireac larrtar for months." IG BUSINESS. ' \DE SKIRT of the demand for these le cause of oar devoting d attention to this partioaiow in a position to show Diligent an assortment of ADE SKIRTS where, and we are satisa and see our Skirts and ? prices you will undoubtnterestto ' Skirts From ATY & CO. 1 , y i ' A rlnrr vmir nnnlnn PflntflilLM 8?ii<l 'I* ano<facr,B "'iut woufifft Tf_bo (Wit to L ' build tbc bigr raft straight away? If I there's Spaniards on Hint there island. | why, then, the more of us as there is to tackle 'em the better, an If tl:*re bain't, why, we can Just go straight ' 101 on." "No," said Alec; "a raft large enough to carry all of us would be heavy to lick handle and far too conspicuous. 1 propose to build a light vessel, just big enough for four, without being cumbersome. In this we could go across been quickly by night and land unobserved, p old while a larger raft, sluggish In Its from movements, would certainly be seen If ough, the Island Is Inhabited, and an arquot the busier or a couple of archers could If we pick us off one by one before we got a ha vol chance of landing." Oh. "Oh. ho, bo!" put In the old man at this point. "The youngster's got some rlth a sense In him after all! Do as your cap:, and tain tells you. 3*ou dolts, and If he lands you all lu heaven you can say it's the u like old man's fault!" Ingty. The men sold no more, for they yieldall, If ed to the old dotard's counsel when ane one, other, and lie u man of unimpaired mutq- brain, plight not have succeeded In inut- persuading them. Kven I felt more comfortable now that the plan hat] lie sea been approved by this uncanny authorg day. Ity. Ive oa The discussion was closed, for 110 one had nnything more to say. We set t . Mas- watch to guard against itossible at m deep teihpts on the part of our prisoners ant in fisli addressed ourselves to slumber, ig thin During tiie next tiny a sninl' raft wai best o' made, and when night fell four of ui embarked on It. Alec and myself, wltl , "tiie Jan Pengony and another?the two ins lie bet- being enormously powerful inen?form is clus- ed the crew, and after we had cautious wave ly paddled out through the reef we oe , about a rag of sail and steered a course b cli lies the stars. The sea was smooth, tb south- wind was dead nft, and. sllppln dcruhle 'through the water at about n knot an a half an hour, we made the island bout to little before midnight. The surf brol ' -* ??rhiiiiiin? ellfTs. an | mi lue iwi ui ~ lie ma- mm there appeared no place for a lam "Now, lag we lowered the sail and. taking i l>e doue our paddles, worked round to tl raft It southward, ind see in about a mile we came upon we are scrap of shelving beach, upon wlilc in come after much trouble, we drew the ral a which and then set out to explore. to the it wns might)* hard work scaling tl e there, cliff, and oil our ulinblcness was nee Spanish ed to keep clear of falls. But we reac rove our ed the top at Inst and at once foui rous use ourselves In a tangle^ Mnnp bound f? cab through which It was furlout poll the pnrd work to press a passage. It d In." ob- not, however, extend very far, a If that's presently we canio out Into the op< go over The sea fowl were not quite so i merous as on (Jalley Island, but th< d a ship were gay plumaged parrots gqd otl ,*e heard land birds In abundaqcp. There w< fisheries traces, too^ of four footed beasts, s trove aq presently we flushed from a piece be other swamp a fine drove of plga, wit >m? hunt made our mouths water and our b? Itoh .to give chase. This, however. A forbade. saying that liuutiug t^rlv uilglit Ih? dangerous If there were Spat tarda In the uelghlHirhood. lie bail rr walk pruriently, therefore, rove 01 eyes nnri keunel our tongues. "Why all thla caution*:" aulri I wit a laugh. "There'* uever tive tped fot trodden these thickets sluce rieluu time." "Very possibly. Jack. But have ye BO sense besides those keen eyes < yours? Turn your nose up wind, man "Well?" "Now sniff." "There's notliiug but n smell of hen d marsh and rot t Inn- leaves wltli sprinkling of pungent flower odors e ?ry now and again." "Yes? And what bush do yolt tlili those same rlowera grow on, Jack?" "How should 1 know? I never looted Ihelr outlandish names. Flretn perhaps. It smells something 111 moke." "Something like smoke?" replh Alee dryly. "Why, it Is smoke!" "Aye, smoke sure enough. I saw thin bine wreath of It floating up nbo< the clump of hushes ahead there uot minute since*. Look! There goea n other!" "Phew!" said I. "PhHlstlnes, for r mperor'n ransom!" "Exnctly," sn!d Alee, "and therefo R seems to me we had better ndvnn< carefully and reconnolter their posltlo They may be only one or two. or tin may be hundreds. So forward to tl bashes. Keep the cover of the lot grass as much as possible and be rea< xo uucii down your sconces smartly any one puts In nn appearance. There no uae in bringing the whole rookei round our ears by carelessness." "Aye. nje. captain." said .Ian Pe irony, with a grin. "Trust me nu Garj here for that. We haven't forgottt how n Dartmouth deer's poached yc an we've got the wind o' this tin, i It's as easy aa making a riled Spanlai rear." We went on again through the rat vegetation, startling more pigs at keeping a bright lookout for cli&n< puikea. but not a trace of Spanlan did we see. and In a very abort spai we were peering through the Earth ml of the copse. Neither hou6c tt re was lu sight, but the thin trunk i moke rising In front of us could me? nothing but that there was a Arc bur hag somewhere out of our sight. 11 ro from a rocky fissure In the opt ground, circled listlessly Into the n and was carried away on the wings the gentle breere. "The I/ord be good to us!" said 01 01 tne inen in rw?i tones: "we'se gc ten on n burning Island tlmt'll l>el< out fire nn melted rooks, like the v< canoes they tell of on the Peru coast.' "Sniff it, Garge; sniff it," said Pe gony. "Smoke like that hain't cou from the devil's stithy. There's lirli tone In hls'n, an this be honest woo reek or I never smelt uty mother's fit Lift up your bottle nose an snl Garge." ?? fault and as he sniffed pondered at son length. "Aye, woodreek sure enough," 1 rumbled out at last nud relapsed In puzzled silence. ?. Meanwhile Alec and I had ndvnnc to the Assure and tried to look down but the pungent vapors made nil t air In the shnft to dance, and at t same time bit our eyes so smartly tb wc were glad to draw our heads l>^ out of their reach as quickly as pos We. Wc could see nothing at all. . "I have It. Jack," said Alec In a wi per. "There's a cave somewhere beb as, and Its occupants are cooking tb breakfast; that's the meaning of i ataod smoke." "A cave? Then It must have so other opening besides this chimney there are men In It." "Of course; at the foot of the cliff, we go to that knoll In front there, anght to command a view of It." "Forward, then, and we'll And ou' "Cautiously, .Tack; cautiously! don't want to bring the whole horn nest about our cars. We had be tell the other two to hide lu the cc and All their bellies with plants I while you and I reeonnolter." Wc did so. aud then crept cautiot forward to the brow of the cliff. ' > sight that met our eyes when we g k ed the crown of the knoll and loc out from among the graceful I ' fronds which sheltered It was on< make a sailor's lienrt sad. ? There before us lay a landlocked frnm nntsldc VlCW " DVT, vimtci VII ?... ' every side. yet capable of giving * chorngc to an armada If need be. '* a vessel floated on Its smooth wa '* and n solitary' ***nl was swlnu I about near Its upper end, now fls y for his breakfast beneath the surl 9 now erecting Ills head and starlug K lously about him. We paid bnt I ' heed to him. however, for at the II ber entrance wo saw that which to :o trne mariner H the saddest eight h 1,1 whole world. ' A finger of rock rose, uiacK mn<i ,c from the soft blue waters and, we * ' Into a cleft which divided it to tb< tor's edge, lay the corpse of whs I a once been a stout nnd stately ah snowy plumaged carrnck. Now. ft. ber foremast snapped like a c above the round top, a great, ynv chasm in her waist and rivers of <1- water hissing into the retreattai h- from a score of starting seams i Ad sides, she was but a battered ft >r- ghastly wave racked wreck. >ly A hundred different slgno tto lid of cordage on her deck, the strsi nd of fluttortng canvas banging on m. shattered bulwarks, the taayled ?u- of brokeu spars and sea torn j *r? floating like fallen leaves a round >cr all made It easy for a seaman's ere judge that she had not lain then nd and the great storm of two daj of gave an exact date. Ich sign of life showed upon 1 ?ls tared flacks. The sun was high Asc MMM ***** tot tor. * %8 ? About twe K ,, all the bloc )i by your kii neys are no ? poisonous i ?t 11 ess and m once nxore These syrr v* when your \*nn Imvp ache, Ner\ n- Bladder, S ^ color or Sc and you ca ' Vauarh Lithori in This is a p ually cure pp # J n. Liver and ?* condition , 10 i.v Twi if Lyon Manufacturing ( " Dear Sirs:? ney complaint which i n- ontrlptle ami it ?lirl i je and I went to my (loct ,n Vaughn's Lithontripti swollen, have come ilo *? hail drojisy anil used \ so 1x1 Sold by all Druggis ik Send us your name and addn ? Address LYON Is re ?MggiBM??^??i cr ^ wt'io not rurinsinng up nor cuivorlus and falconets iu the waists. No caudle in trimmers were in the poop lanterns u. cleaning the glasses and retllilug the se sconces; no cooks were busy heating ?n the great ship's kettle to boll the moriilr ins meal. The last sentry hnd left his 0f post without calling relief. The silence of deatli was over till. llo In the open channel which lay lie,t_ twecn the carrack tind the laud spit there flonted something over which a >1- soa fowl wore screaming and > ftghtlng. A glance was enough to show what It was for which they fought; it Ut? was the ill starred lover of a tnermaiden?some stout mariner swept .1 from the decks hy n huge urecn wave e. sclxed by snowy arms and ff, carried away to u beauteous home among the branching sea shrubs. *c happened rroiii TtK. wind's eye all that was loosed from his trance. Lie t ^. t*o mm oesrrnrusB.) to F?t the Foe of Coaitmptlon. Consumption is most prevalent among those who ore stinted or who ',c stint themselves In the use of fat 1>? foods. Everybody has learned and emiat ployed the knowledge, usually when It is too lute, that cod liver oil is good IS'* for consumption. Few seem to have learned that food of the same charils actor suitable for the table Is preventow ire of consumption. In the whole elr oourse of my professional observation, covering a period of nearly 00 years, I have known but rarely a family or au o* Individual that was brought up on a > " liberal supply of butter and bacon who became tuberculous. Moreover, such I' food fortifies the system against other ** diseases as well as consumption. It eatabllshea stamina.?Dr. Bell in the h" Sanitarium. We ? eVf ' | iter SCROFULA AND ITl iDB- CURB n',:. Johnston's ?Inj QUART fero MOST WON t to A Grand Md LUy ICn. Thankful OriUa Hurd lives bar- Livingston Co., Mich. This renerabl on tha year 1812, the year of the great nu. Tort She came to Michigan In 184 v- , too." All her faculties are exceilen ' tentlve memory, tier mind is full of tern. af the early days of the State < rtlug saarkable people she has met, and tl liing nees. But nothing in her varied ar fnoe. velous and worthy of attention tt nnx- JOHNSTON'S SAR8APARILLA. little disposition to scrofula, that terribly l,nr and Is cursing the lives or thousand , a|lv Ams of the death angel. Transmit ^ found in neary every family in on gearance in dreadful running sort goitre, or in eruptions of varied fori ugly. say be known as catarrh In the he dged aad often is, the prime cause of co > u n- Speaking of her case, Mrs. Hur t hn<) with a bad skin disease. My arms tip. ;i sores, discharging yellow matter. vvi,< unsightly In appearance. My bodj MPri,i My eyes were also greatly Inflamed u" ?? in m very d tnlnk at frequent Intervals, and I had no olea: waa In a mlserablo condition, I had I ebU mended, and doctor after doctor h n her the atate told me I moat die of aci atn, a were beginning to form. I at lengt hla famoua Saraaparllla. 1 tried a Utter thing elae. aa I had no faith In It mu,, , began to grow better. You can be h many bottles. But I ateadlly Imp yL aozaa healed up, all the bad aympto *ud I hare never been troubled ? ef 38 yeara la net a young woman, l ber-- alnce then, and I flrmly believe tb eye t<t greatest Mood purider and the bes long. scrofula and aa a spring medicine.' ,-e ago not )ok to bo more than sixty, and Ufa waa agvad by JOHNSTON'S ' JTOB BALK BY DB 1 r ;nty times an he )d in your hotly passes throng] ineys. Think what this meai ?t strong and healthy they d<> nc matter from the blood and tbe tisery that will remain until tl brought back to healthy activ iptoms will tell kidneys need attention and Backache, Tired Feeling. D /ousness Pains across the L leeplessness, Chills, Urine ol aiding Urine. They mean K in't get a better remedy than n's itriptic uirely vegetable preparation i Dropsy and Gravel. It acts T.r a. .. rviuiic^ o, icbiunn); iiiciu IU a and eradicating all disease. 3 Neighbors cured of DROPSY Tvi.ersviule, S. Jo. Brooklyn, N. Y. I nni 03 years ol?l ami for sonic time have Immui t.ro esultoil in Drojisy. I took two lK>ttl?>s of your Va lie a lienp of good. I eould not pet any more of t :or hut lie <li<l my ease no good. Then he advised i ic npnin. 1 liavc taken six liottles, anil my legs, wl wn ami I am now well. Mr. T. J. Little, of this |i 'aughn's Lithontrintie ami ho is well now. Kesiiee J. WAiiH ts, or on receipt of $i it will be sent to any iss ami wo will wnd you FREE a sample bottle of [ MFG. CO. 45 South Fifth St. Pretty Children s C01 ?We hare three children. Before the . birth of the last one my wife used four hot- f . tics of MOTHER'S FRIEND. If you had the Jni pictures of our children, you could see at a glance that the last one to Is healthiest, prettiest and finest-looking: of them all. tajsHy My wife thinks Mother's Friend is the greatest and grandest *a remedy In the TT of world for expect- L. ant mothers."? \\ Written by a Ken- ?? imW1 | rniryn prevents nine-tenths of the to I I! I LlvU suffering Incident to child- oil ui^ih blrth The coming1 mother's ui, disposition and temper remain unruffled m) throughout the ordeal, because this relax- * lng, penetrating liniment relieves the usual distress. A good-natured mother "8 Is prettj sure to have a good-natured child. * The patient Is kept in a strong, healthy condition, which the child also Inherits. Mother's Friend takes a wife through the p< crisis quickly and almost painlessly. II ? assists in her rapid recovery, and wards p off the dangers that so often follow de- r livery. lc Sold by druzgittafor St bottle. C< : THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, OA. Send for our free illustrated^ book written I expressly tot AzpeciAQi moiuvrv. . > AWFUL HORRORS t ;D BY Sarsaparllla \ BOTTLES. t DKRFUL CUBE. g Give* Her Experience. { Id the beautiful village of Brighton, t e and highly respected lady was horn In war, In Hebron, Washington Co., New 0. the year of "Tippecanoe and Tyler , tly preserved, and possessing a very re- 1 interesting reminiscences of her early ' >f Michigan and the interesting and re- < ie stirring events of which she was a witid manifold recollections are more mar- 1 ian are her experiences in the use of 1 Mrs. llurd Inherited a tendency and prodestructive blood taint which has cursed s and marking thousands more as vieted from generation to generation, It Is e form or anoUier. It may make its apis, in unsightly swellings in the neck or mi. Attacking the mucous membrane, It ad, or developing In the lungs It may b*t nsumptlon. d says: "I was troubled for many years and limbs would break out In a mass of My neck began to swell and became very r -ormm r<?d with BCrofUlOUS erUptlOnS I and weakened, and they pained me very I ad condition and my head ached aerarely appetite. I had sores also In my ears. I I tried every remedy that bad been recomad failed. One of the best physlclana la rofulous consumption, as Internal abcesses h was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and bottle, more as an experiment than any, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, 1 sure I kept on taking It. I took a great roved until I became entirely well. All the >ms disappeared. I gained perfect health, itb scrofula since. Of course an old lady but I have had remarkably good health at JOHNSTON'S SARSAPAR1LLA Is the t medicine In the wide world, both for * This remarkably interesting old lady did I she repeated several times, MI believe my SAR8APARILLA." P. C. DUKE, UNION, S. C. >ur li and is filtered is. It the kid>t extract all the result is siekiiese organs are it v. you assistance: If izziness, Headoins, or in the f an unnatural idney Trouble, ind will effect-^ directly on the normal healthy C., < >ot 1000. nhloil with u ki<lti^lin's lilthon,lie l.itltnntriptio no to take your liicli woro luully ilaco (Tylersville) t fii IIv yotirn, tEN bLAKELY. express office. Vaughn's I.lthnntripttc. Brooklyn, N.Y. Ml? General News Notes. Congress has been nosing in the tenness of the great "hog comic" formed to distribute all offices the House among the number nposing makeup of the combinan, and has uncovered such a ghtful state of corruption that it } thrown up its hands and declined take any action on the subject. ha Grippe Quickly Cured. "In the winter of 1898 and 1899 I s taken down with a severe attack what ie called La Grippe" rays F. Hewet*. a prominent druggist of infield, II). "The only m< dicine I ?d was two bottles of Chamberlain's d stopped the cougbiDg like magic, d I have never since been troubled ih Grippe." Chamberlain's Cough 1 L- J J-J * rued j c?d aiwtji m uepeuueu upon break up a revere cold and ward 'any threatened attack of pneumoi. It in pleasant to take, too, which ikes it the most desirable and one the most popular preparations in e for these ailments. For sale by C. Duke. Congress passed over 1,500 special ;nsion bills, nine tenths of which id been prevously rejected by the ension Bureau for cause. They were reed through Congress by the jhesive force of separate pulls. ? m How to Cure the Grip. Remain quietly at home and take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as irecied and a quiok recovery is sure i> follow. That remedy counteracts ny tendency oi the grip to result in ineumoaia, which is really the only erious danger. Among the tens ot bonsand* who have used it for the ;rip not one case has ever been re* Mirted that did not recover. For sale >y F. C. Duke. ? ? If the United States can claim the tsle of Pines under the treaty with 3pain and refuse to turn it over to Cuba, why shouldn't it also claim ill the little islets along the Cuban coast? This would settle the coaling station question, anyway. Pneumonia Can be Ptevented. This disc ate always results from a cold or an attack of the grip and may be prevents d by the timely ure of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. That remedy wai extensively used during the epidemics of La Orippe of the past few ) ears, and not a single ease has ever been reported that did not recover or that rerulted in pner-znonia, which shows it to be a certain preventive of that dangerous disease. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has gained a world wide reputation for ? ? i * ci * _ os cures i?i coins ana grip, pot mio by F. C. Duke. 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