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We An Seeking* N< n Kudo ivoi ing by lot!iI to add mote to our a realize the fact that upon our ability to s< tomers acceptably. : every one alike, sell j to sell as good quali The way our customc our trade has grown i - .* * efforts are appreciate* ? - * -r We have neve - shape to serv In men's fi tie Negli^ Underwear we are sh , .. values. Last eeatoi . -v enough to supply our we have doubled our assure our friends tht will be any trouble in apf fjredof your ^tublornneps In tin And meanwhile tbo example will good. X6," old mau, dop't hurry. NVs for tbo audience." "Ten thousand timc3 would I prel \ death," cried the Spnulard with a vi \ ononi oath. 'jr- \ "You are not offered a choice, senoi \ "You refuse to kill me?" "Absolutely," . "Ah, then, I surrender. Your punh ment is more degrading than your ta: \ I accept the lesser Indignity." \ "fco? I thought you would," s: yUec. "Here, gunner; appoint this m to a gang and giro him a task suital o hla strength." \ ' CHAPTER XX*. V wall of stone four feet thick, s 'jpllng a small well barred do \p lately closed the entrance to \ and made it a prison that seen Mtkablc. One solitary sentinel v /: V sufficient to guard it, and V.C.J'.. po confluent were we of I , m that. Although we had on 1 Vraft storehouses and so on. ? W. T. BE/ V IS. S Bj WE ATHERB YOHESNEY and ALIO] ICUHRO. {OlpTTlfht, lilOO, by Weatherby Cbeaney and All< Munro.] "But I have no Intention of killln jou, senor," replied Alec with a courtl bow. "Here, you men, go and brln the rest of the prisoners from the env to witness the flogging. I am not goln to b^ve you whipped to death. Do though the old roan hero I jjjg "We ?rill roa*t you In yoKrjnct :l ihcli itcbtoff to do It, I can Xo. I a Imply going to give yon tlircescu laahes today on tlic bare back ai threescore wore on every succeedi; day that you refuse to work. You in; e Always sw Customers i: l i i 11 i 11limit! una novel incmous Ire.ady large list, and we success depends entirely ?ive the wants of out cusWe endeavor first to treat as cheap as possible, and ^ ties as can be obtained, it's have stood by us and is best evidence that our 1. ;r been in better e you than now. [ce Shirts and Summer lowing some astonishing ti we could hardly get customers, but this season purchases, and we wish to it we don't think there executing their wants. VTY & CO. a t 4 _ ... ... ?? yi n which might serve as a fort lu case of attack, we built our own dwellings on the plntbau above. A zigzag path from t the slmre led one to the upper level lu less than five minutes, and once there ^ all danger from the fevers which the clammy night mists of the harbor might give birth to was averted. The houses, built of bamboo nnd thatched : with broad leaves, lay in and among a grove of graceful feathery palms _ whose waving lingers fanued the hot "" air into coolness, and the uatural garg den around them remained as much as y possible undisturbed, g Lovely flowers grew everywhere, e framed in slender fern fronds. Orchids g hung from the trees In twisted masses n ) of rainbow tinted color. The leaves Is | of the shrubs were hidden In a clpnk of rich blossom. A myriad scents commingled, and the breeze was fragrant with the essence of paradise. Nor was the luscious picture contlned to still life only. Strange Insects like animated jewels hummed through the t air. Painted butterflies whose color^ ?ng no human brush could reproduce floated sensuously from bloom to bloom. Lizards, like flashes of pale green Are. shot across from the shadow of one great plant to the shadow of ! another. Aud overhead the gnyly plumaged birds fluttered about or perched on the branches nnd sang to the sun throughout the whole of his dally course. Had it not been for the droves of steel Jawed mosquitoes which haunted our fairy grove 1 think few of us would have asked better than to spon I bis days ou such n favored spot. Rut the Insatiate blood thirst of these lu ?\nr?cnn t<u1 no fvAlll lln. SL'Cl OUriUltTB |ininiiiu generating Into inert* lotus enters, and in the first spark of dawn wn.. our call to re work. ad We worked hard?the English urged 11 g by habit nnd hope, the Spaulanls by ex ay ample nnd rod. A second boat was ie, found lying In a rock pool stove In. but be j rcpairabie, and Willi this and tbe other lit one which we already possessed the oarrnck's stores and cargo and the Jet er sain from the galley were safely housed >q. ashore. Then began the heavier toll of unpleclng the vessels, stripping off the unspllntered planks and frames, the unbroken knees and elbows and transporting them'to the site whereon we Intended to lay stocks for our new keel, jjj It was slow work, as any one who has broken up a ship will know, for j;(l holt and chimp and treenail had each to an be drawn with curious care lest tlm- i j]o bers for sheathing should be split and so rendered unfit for further use. But time and perseverance were the chief factors toward success, and by lavishur. Ing both freely we at length finished or the dismantling of the two wrecks and (llp carried or towed their contents to the u>(1 beach tn front of the cave. k,ag It was then that the great discussion , took place as to the form In which our j(H new bark should be built. tlte Ever since ws had settled In our upur. land village among the palms Alec bad been if laying Ms spare time In carv lug and rigging a : ; u <n t.> ships. N hotly had taken ::i: :i*.t;* of him. for it was not l:to < ? : public nppluilKe and as y i iv asked for public* etltiri-; ?. lie wo:.' work by the tliekerii::. ' f .. : the night and :*;?!?? : t? d > w . r <":1 >; In his labors that sometimes v. e won': speak three or four litres t<? hint ;ie not get au answer. More 11 :*i; <-:r-e fancied that he was under a s > .! an wondered whether Don Migvl i. ..! th power of the evil eye. For indeed m sworn shipmate's inuumr \.ns efu strangely disiracttd. Sometimes be would si; ..zing moot ily nt ills work; sometimes be \.< ;! stare intently at the t'auta.-tie s!i:h!? pictures wl.ieb tbe Jerky l!at es < to tbe dark bushes at tbe edge of the ci. ele of light. and then be would set : and destroy a greater part of tbe fa! rlc be bad toiled over ami start palioul ly to lit and carve it all afresh. And tbe old man. who. whett not cl guard below, seemed r.hvny to b watching these a J tempt . would rtt! bis shining hands and burst eat into ; weird "Ob, bo. l:o!" of approval. Now and again the modeler wouh take one of his tiny era ft u> a seeludet part o< tbe harbor and openly savin; Le wanted no company would test it so we supposed. Ami bow bis play things had behaved in these trials v.could always guess bv tbe look on hi grave face when be returned, plea see or gloomy according to tbe result. tits umre liad fashioned siiniln; strange vessels in tin- old days at Whit by, where the uubclicviug jeers of tin shipwrights had made him destroy them, and though I and the others, looking at his new desigus with the erltlcal eye of sailors rather than with the partial one of comrades, pointed out to him grave defects and useless innovations, he would quietly hid us wait, wait, wait, and not criticise the unfinished work until we could base our judgment on shown lesnlts rather than on the strange and unlikely looks of his new models. And so In the long summer i veiling.; when our work was done,- while Ale pondered and labored, the rest of us smoked our cigarillo?, drank pa I in wine, spun yarns of mermaideus and sea monsters and giants such as Ma gellan found by the Icy southern ocean. And sometimes we sang the old sea songs of England, and sometimes again new songs of Spanish torture, of blood and of revenge, songs which the'old man made for us and which be delighted to teach us to sing, t'ruel. devilish songs tbej' were, and the old man weird laughter ran through the chore,u like a demon's accompaniment, but to some of us their very horror v ts their charm. But when the labor of collecting the planks and timbers was nearly over by our captain's orders we other.: bo?. .n building a toy ship of u.:r own. designlug her upon what we considered the fastest and baudlest. It= ?-?lleved, the larger vessel for which we had collected otir material ceu'.d best be built. 1'ut upon our mettle ly a challenge to pit our brains I the captain's, we spared no j gins t > perfect the details of our little craft, and so from boltsprlt to mi/r.f.i. ft cm the poop lanterns to the heavy round tops, from forecastle to aftereastle, she was as pretty a plaything as the heart of a sailor could desire. And that when put to the trial she would prove fastest In sailing, quickest in getting about au-i handiest to fight her builders had not a doubt. It was declared a holiday when the two little vessels were placed in competition on the ruflled waters of the harbor, and after stowing the Span lards away snugly In their Jail (except some half a score who were dispatched on a pig hunt and afterward were the cause of no little uneasiness to us) ail bands assembled to see the trial. Two courses were to be sailed one. a dead run before the wind, ti e other a trial of speed close hauled?for. as Willie Treliallon Justly put it. "n haystack can drift, but It takes a 'idy ship i > run to windward in anything like weather." Alec captn!~ed liis own bark nu:l ' ours, nuil \vl:,'D each nn visa tor ha i trimmed sails ll:e two vessels \vi r headed, with the win.l straight s ! shore, toward the other side if i;.? harbor. As regards looks, our hark uuquc tionahly made the- I raver show. Ller square stern towered out of the water like the gable of some quaint ol i house, and her frowning ports com manded the sea all nroimd. Hei courses, topsails, sprltsail and inizzee bellied out in graceful curves, and hei bluff, sturdy bow rode over the wave lets like some restive charger and I churned them into l'oatn beneath he: keel. Proud would the pygmy cap' have been who could have stood c>; that lofty poop and looked d \vn a the pygmy crew in the wai-t heiov. as they passed In and out of the door, of their house In the forecastle. Sir. was a pretty craft and otu- that a 1 a mariner's heart burn within him i" joyful anticipation of her certain vW tory. lee's vessel caused no such thrill She was low In the water, had no ens tie forward, had not even a raise poop and possessed hut one deck a u that flush through nil Its length. H bows were sharp and much out awn; which augured ill for her safety In heavy sea (though truth to tell s! teemed to ride over the ell high wav of the harbor as dry as our own vo set), and her stern was pared down t< nothing where the rudder moeta tin water. A strange sight trnly. But It was her rig which excited oil greatest wonder. Her two polo mast had no round tops and hut little o shrouds or stays. Moreover, they ear rled nothing hut fore and aft canvas oblong sails hoisted between gaff am boom Inboard and triangular sails 01 the bolteprit. She had only four sail In nib Mi so strangely were thujr ?u About tv, ,t ; all the b p ; by your nevs are (4 t : ; Doisonoi i ; ness and once mo: These syi when yo ; ; vou hav ache, N< o Bladder, color or ! and you V augi Lithoi This is a ually cur Liver an eonditioi Lyon Mauufaoturiu Dear Sirs ney complaint whic out rlptlc and it ?li and I went to my ?K Vaughn's Lithontri] swollen, have come had dro|>sy and use<J Sold by all Drugs Send us your name and ad< Address LY01 that there *%vas no sign of bag In tlieiu (except when slie was running free), and in a word tliey set as flat as boards. Yet in spite of all our vessel did not <illOW llin nllim- I ? * * coined rather to be straining every splinter to keep her plnee. rI he two wont ashore within three seconds of one another, and the men who were watting their arrival took them up and hailed that Captain Ireland's boat was first. Ah, well, we'd see what she could do on a wind. Not much there, some of us fancied. Once more sail was trimmed, and the little craft were set to claw off a dead Ion shore with what was to them n task In which many a well Found {Hup of great tonnage had utterly failed, as thousands of rock gashed corpses can witness, and we. for our-part, were unwilling to try it. Alec, however, said his vessel could tlirasli through, and so we could not for very shame refuse the encounter. For the little galleon our fears were but too well founded. Close hauled as she was, with all her sheets \\<!1 aft, like a sentient being she did her very best, striving and striving to labor out to sea. but sagging more and more to leeward with every attempt. And at last a wavelet, a trifle lustier than those which had gone before, hove her high and dry upon the beach from which she had started. But Alec's model was In a different plight. With never a shred of canvas shivering she reached out over the mluilc billows, never swerving from her ennrso hv a hundsbroadth, groov lng her slanting path UP the watery hills ami slipping down into the valleys with her decks as dry as the burning sun above could make them. Though smarting with defeat, wc could but admire the power of this new sea engine. She sailed some seven points closer to the wind than any craft we had hitherto clapped eyes on her speed was incontestable, and it anything like moderate weather twe hands could put her about with ease. Still, though she might be as agile a; a panther, wc were by no means It consamptioii is. by no means, the dreadful . isease it is thought to be? I 0 n the beginning. It can always be stopped? the beginning. The trouble : : you don't know you've go i ; you don't believe it; yu i won't believe it? till vou art forced to. Then it is danger ous. , Don't be afraid; but attent I to it quick? you can do it your self and at home. Take. Scott's Emulsion o . Cod Liver Oil, and live care fully every way, p This is sound doctrine whatever you may think o * be told; and, if heeded, wil .. .save life. If you have not tried It, send fc free sample, Its agreeable taste wl II .surprise you. n SCOTT Si BOWNE, Chemists. 409 Pearl Street, New Yorl M 30o. and f l.0Oj gll druggists. 'enty times an 1 lood in your body passes thro kidneys. 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WA :ists, or on receipt of $i It will be sent to a Iress and we will so in I you FliEK a sample bottle N MFG. CO. 45 South Fifth S love with her as a battleship ami rained out objections In a perfect storm. To these Alec listened gravely enough at flrst, but presently his eye lighted up. and he answered with an amount of irritation and heat which was unusual in him. "To the ship breaker with your clumsy apple bowed dealing fortresses!" he \ cried. "Noah's ark was not mere tin- \ handy in a sea. Look at my beauty, how she sits tlie water like a duck. 1 Note her tine en trance. Fee how neatly ' the waters close behind her delicate j stern, leaving no heavily dragging wake. And as /or lofty sides being a ( protection against boarders. 1 shall ma- j neuver so that no enemy can over get j near enough to lay me aboard. And c ask where are my castles on bow dttTi J stern. Why. you uuobsorvlng dolts. ( did you not hear before we left Lug- t land that Captain llawklns of l'lym- j outh was razing them from all his ] sliips as a uumeriy mcumnrance 111 i only for laud loving cowards who could < not light except from behind a stock- 1 nde?" ' And so he ran on. decrying every j point in our ship and sticking up for j the innovations on his own so fiercely < that, losing my temper somewhat. I > vcutnrcd to remonstrate. Hut before 3 ten sentences had passed my lips the 1 old man Interrupted. MOh. ho. ho!" cbv.ckb 1 lie. "Empty ' headed Jack, what a 1 ity you're not n J Spaniard, for surely a more mulish 4 bigot never stuck to a foolish cause. ' Why, good numskull, you're always j prating of your hatred for the dons and here you are trying in your crass Iguo- 1 rnuce to belittle the most cunning ' scourge that was ever made to swing ] 1 against their idolatrous hacks. I tell ' you, Jack, and you. my masters all, I tell ycu ? I, who have thrown you a ( dozen or so of true prophecies before? I tell you that yon outlandish craft 1 which is now working her way almost ' In the eye of the wind shall work a ( > deed the like of which no English l ark, 1 like manned, has ever worked bef u'e. > She shall fight a single handed ! ght with a great galleon and capture l.er, ' and there shall be spoil such as the J greediest of you scarce dare dream about. "And so off cap every one < f yo.i to Iyour captain and follow bis bidding without note <f your Ignmant questioning.' ('li. ho. ho! "lis a merry I world, hut ' onlcd w.ili fre.i?." I [**> ** OOXTTJftnCD.1 1 ; OUy /J I Of beat land in : sale. I offer mi3 M E N G On exti , REASONABLE The place has an excellent tenant houses and all the con ; FOUR Pi' II One of l^O acres with a place is four miles east of town c >r between the Little and Big Broy For terms "{the times office lour ujjdi and is filtered cans. It the kid> not extract all t lie he result is sick1 these organs are tivitv. 1 you nd assistance: It Dizziness, lleadI nine nr i n " i/v/Jiio, V/l III t 11 of an unnatural Kidney Trouble, i and will eflectIs directly on the a normal healthy >Y. i, S. <>? ( I'Nm). troi.liic.l wil'.i ;i l.i.lVihi-!iii's Kitlion>t? the Liili>)iitri|.ti<' (I iiii- l<> take your which were 1 >:i? 11 v is place (Tvlersvillc) iM'etfnllv vmirs. RUEX HLAKKLY. ny express offl; ?. i>f Vaughn's l.il'.iot'.ti i;>t ic. t. Brooklyn, N.Y. WOMAN IS USES DOJOATE MUStOAL IMSTRVMEMT In good condition she is sweet and lovablo, and sings life's song on a joyful harmonious string. Out of order or unstrung, there la discordance and unhappiness. Just as there is one key note to all music so there is one key note to health. A woman might as weU try to fly without wings as to feel well and look well while the ergans that make her a woman are weak or diseased. She must be healthy nside or she can't be healthy outside. There ire thousands of women suffering silently all >ver the country. Mistaken modesty urges heir silence. While there is nothing more idmirable than a modest woman, health is >f the first importance. Evsry other coniJdr.rotinn ch/tnlrl orivamv twtfam It. Brad. hesafestandquickist way to cure leu- ||k x>rrhea, falling of i he womb, nervous- 2S| ? |l less, headache, fcf ft V JBX jackache and gen- | 1 lUlnHIt book will be cent AaW to all who write to /Hn/ J1I^^H9h9 REGULATOR CO. Atlanta, Go. Health Ofhoe Honrs. Will be in my office, at the Couqeil Chamber, from 10 a. m. to 12 m. every day, Sundays and holidays excepted, for the convenience of citizens wishing burial permits or to transact any other business pertaining to the office. 20?tf. W. D. Harris, NOTICE, I have bought a heavy draft wagam of 86,000 pounds capacity, and am now prepared to do all kinds of heary hauling or will hire out the wagon, 45?6m. J. W. Gilbert, ACRES the county for PLACE remely : -> TEKMS. nine room dwelling with eight veniences of a country home. LSTURES. hull and pig tight fence. The >n the road to Lockhart Shoal* rn's creek, i apply to or to T, X. TA1MM,