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* X We Are -** :~rr'- Seek i n g- Ne r W TH?.1 i ' * * j^micaY oring uy .oguii td^^d more to ear alrt realize the fact that ? P. upon our ability to ser tomers acceptably. vV every one alike, sell as to sell as good qualiti tit The way our customer; ^ rfrr our trade lias grown is * efforts are appreciated. We have never shape to serve In men's fine Neglige Underwear we are slio values. Lnst season enough to supply our ji we have doubled our pi assure ouv friends that will he any trouble in c li/ t nri W. I. Bt/I "IIWRIE By WEATHERBY CJHESNEY and ALIOK MUNRO. [Opyrlfht, 1000, by Weatherby Cbesney and Allele Munro.] l'resently a sentry spied lis and gave the word. The blg^ship woke up with a scurry and bustle. The trumpeter made his noise, and some arquebusiers, clapping matches to the priming of their pieces, sent n few uiaravedis' worth of lend screaming over the beads of the unsoldierlikc heretics who were adopting this unrecognized means of attack. They effected little, however, Iieyond satisfying themselves that they had obeyed orders. But soon a deadly arrow shower commenced from behind the bulwarks and from the round tops, by which the water here and there was reddened and the strength of more than one stout fellow tapped. The doors of the forward castle opened, and a detachment _ of mall clad soldiers trooped out to guard the beak. Armored men at the top of a high steep wall against naked men In deej water nt Its foot?there could be small doubt what the Issue of such a combat would be. lint, little though we likcr It, It was a trial from which we darei: iiot shrink, and so, with grim deter ininntiou to do or perish in the trying we swam with slow, steady strokes t< meet the Spaniard, cacli man of in looking out eagerly for the best poin to board. In another half minute w< should be facing the climb and making vicious sword thrusts at the axniei who lopped at our limbs from above All, well, it would be a speedy death! But, as It happened, there was to lr no rasping of steel against steel jus then. With a sudden roar like tlie burstini or a thunderbolt u spout of lire do.rtei x from the cluster of rocks on the outly ' ft hurtled through the air and ?truc* ti Sf>A5UA Imp. K; * (L ; t ' \ Always w Customers mite and novel methods )ady large list, and we success depends entirely ve the wants of out cu3re endeavor first to treat cheap as possible, and es as can be obtained. i have stood by us and best evidence that our been in better you than now. it Slurfa on/I 10 auu uuuiiii^L wing some astonishing we could hardly get nstomers, but this season nchases, and we wish to we don't think there ixecuting their wants. / iTY & CO. S huge l\jwl(uT""7)iggi,r than a soldier's sentry box. It hurtled through the air with a din like the humming of millions of rieoehettlng bullets and struck the Spanish ship just abaft of amidships. close to the break of the poop. Smith and carpenter never put together gear that would have withstood the shock of that holt. The solid timbers splintered and broke as though they had been maize husks, and the mighty bowlder ate Its way through fabric and cargo and ton witn a sunon spiasn into the sea at the other side. The waves trembled with the shock, and the promt ship reeled to her larboard beam ends and then righted again with such a strain that the wounded backbone crunched in two with tlie effort. The mainmast and its gear lay Uoatlng on the water. Guns slid from the lower deck like so many pebbles. The fore round top leaned aft till it fouled the golden llag of Spain Cying from" the mizr.cn truck, anl the bowsprit stood once more an it bad done when, leaved and branched, it I sprouted heavenward from same ( astilian sierra in tin* old world. The grim sea wolves, carrion hi :it r.; of the ocean, darting r.p from the mv i cms of the sea, tlxed their talons on the swirling eddies to ti e dark jut:;. k , | below, and as each heavily armored > j Spaniard fell oil into the \\.r he va I | seined by the soft arms < f I e ;. | t relentless than even the llnglkd.n I I ! and strangled by a li je.b'. caress t- :i 1 j knew no refusal. Thus ?!?d tie avenge the dishonors with which t par , Ish slave galleys had minted her. ) It was all over in a few seconds, and i before the minute had elnp: cd. save for t here and there a mot ioned head beside a fragment of wreckage, the harbor ripples wire- undecked by anything stouter than their own Ho v. cry foam. We Ihiglioh. seeing that our work was already done, swam ashore dircctp ly the shot wtis tired and now stood in t admiring wonder opposite the month of the great rock cannon which had g worked this awful havoc. The air still ri ' bore the choking taint of powder ' smoke, and the gnarled, nude figure of ! the old man crouching there, still hold j lug bis lighted match in an ecstasy of y demoniac Joy, beside the touchholc of his infernal machine seemed rather that of n fiend than of one born of mortal mother. "Ah, ha, lia!" lie cried. "See what the old man can do when you heavy dolts leave him for a time in peace. See how he repays In part the wrongs that Spanish torments have worked upon his body. Oh, ho. ho! 'Tis meat and drink to me to have a day like this. Aye, gape at the engine?a sweet, rustic engine, my masters, Is It not? You mny find its fellow in the narrow strait of Dardanelles, which the grand Turk holds, that neither Venetian galleass nor Genoese galley may follow the booty laden corsair to his pagan lair in the Euzlne. "What, my noble captain, you look black at me? Come, let no sour faces greet the old man on his triumph day. ** It vu powder you lusted after, was It? Ami my brawny .Tm\; hero ha ! nn eye to the other pickings. Yes. ami yon. ] too, my hook handed boatswain, when I saw your smooth poll and pulling mouth bobbing over the wavelets like some old dog seal's there wa grot ! for gain in that solitary eye of yours, shining out as clearly as though you ; enrricd a placard oh your neck with the words written In black and white. ' Not a cruzado, not a noggin of powder, scarcely a rope yarn is there left for you to seize. Rut for me?1 had rather have done this day's work than be at this present moment holding the emperor of the Indies to ransom. Oh. ho. ho! There's no ointment like Spani. 'a blood. The throbbing pain in the old man's Joints will be easier tonight." CHAPTER XXIII. As wo had abundance of victuals and water and were in nowise pressed f time, as soon as the Scourge was ready for sea we took her for a week's cruise through the desert sea to the northward of our island. Tills was the more ueeessary as. except our captain, noue of us li:uI more than the vaguest 110tious of lore ami aft seamanship, and it would have been fool's counsel to think of lighting till we had got all hands used to the feel of their new ship. We wore returning from this cruise, well salislied with what we had seen and learned, and were within sight of the Temple of the Serpent on Cave island when Alec called a general council. The question was put to us what to do next. There was no lack of suggestions. One proposed that we should cruise along the main straight away; another thought that wo had better run into harbor again and, lying snug there, plaut a lookout on the mountain who should give us word when a suitable quarry hove in sight. One man added this bit of advice and another that. Hut when each man who had anything to say said it. and there were almost as many plans alloat as there were men, Willie Trehalion, who had been standing straddle legged by the bittaclo and rubbing his skin cap fore and aft across his bald pate, as he always did when his thinking machinery was at work, took a step forward and put in his word. "There's an island hereabouts," he said, "lying some l."? leagues s'utli'ard an west'ard, that should yield sonic good pickings to them as goes odventurin on it." "An island with pickings!" said Job Trehalion. "Then there's Spaniards on it, too. uncleV" Willie tool; no notice of him. "Mar gbcrlta's the name o* it." lie went oil. "Some u' you may have heard o' it. but all o' you may not know that the Spanlards lias got three towns planted there to look alter the pearl fisheries. Now, about her gown. baFnVfoT^o like o us to turn oj? .... t Besides, there's Spaniards there to collect 'em from the pagans as brLngs up the pearl oysters from the sea lloor, an where there's Spaniards y? u can lay your teeth ou't there's powder as well." "And you suggest. WillieV" "That we harry a town on Margherlta." Job chuckled. "A whole towu would tiake a big mouthful." said lie. "Hapten it might squirm about when we *as trying to swallow it an choke us.''/ "Always a fool. Job," replied his undo sourly, "an but one peg removed! from a natural. But 1 never thought to call uephew of mine lily livered." The big, dark sear which seamed Job's face Hashed out and grew purple, and he stopped forward with hands clinched and lips trembling. And no wonder, for, as every one knew, there was not a braver man on board. Willie did not move a muscle. "Stop!" cried Alee sharply. "I allow no quarreling on board the Scourge. Job's objection is a reasonable one and deserves a reasonable answer. There's nothing of the coward about him. and. Willie Trehalion, every man on the Scourge will tell you so. lie has faced death at your side and at mine many a time, as 1 ought not to have to remind you. l'ut enough of this. What is t size of these Ih towns y u spea.1*. of and how do they iU-V" "There's I'auipatas the east sou*, east," replied Willie Trehalion grul'ey. "an there's El l'ueblo do la Mar a league to leeward O* that, an there's Ei Pueblo del Norte on the north sUle." "And their strength?" "I don't know, nor their size either. But they're not us big us London nor Bristol nor Whitby itself, inebbe." "Which of theni would suit our purpose best?" "Puebje del Norte." "Because?" "Because it's highest, Captelr. Ireland." "Could you pilot us there?" "Yes, captain, with a couple o' < .ireful hands at the lead. 1 seed the place marked on one o' thein cubbishly : pfi't iard's charts, but the lubbers hadn't marked down the fairways into t harl>or. The island is steep, too, an rocky on the sen face, though, so there should be water enough." "We'll try," said Alec. "So we'll 'bout ship now, boatswain, and shape a course for the Island of Margheritn." And then, in a lower tone: "Mind, Willie, I don't want you to sail the Scourec into any harbor which masked bat teries and unknown currents may turn into a deathtrap for her. Bring her a short sea mile off the town and then lay to. We can do the rest in the boat <. If tlds wind holds, we should, with luck, be within hall of 1C1 Pueblo del Norte when Its doughty townsfolk have their shoes off and their nightcaps on." And, bidding all except the watch turn in, so as to come up fresh when work was on hand, Alec and I went below. = About tw .'.11 ! llC 1) 1 ' y your | nrys;:rc poisoiv >i ness and once mo These syi when yo you lia\ ache, N'i Bladder, color or and you Li'thoi 1 11 is is c iiallv en Livernn conditio I 1 .V'Hi Maiuifiioturii I >rar Sir IK".- i "i i| ' ,i,i! u hi. lilt l ip? |<> ;i!?| jt ,i mil I went in pi\* i Vaughn's Litlunitr swollen, have conn v ,i l .. v., UI U|I^ 1IH Sold by all Drug Send lis your name anil nil Address LYC "Yon are doia I : vainst your o'.vi judgment. Alee." : 1 I. "1 ('.i: no! litis i t;? fail. lui bona use street light i i;;,' may cost us life or two. .'i. ! heaven knows w haven't a r ati tn a; a.re!" ' lillt the peao'd ladV" "A.ve, .lack, the pe -.i-;.- : ' lie an were bitterly. "They the! \cs a < Undid the men forward. Not of yo c:\ies l:o\v many of hi fellows fall s lent; tts his own chest bur.-; wit!: trea tiro. Ami mice the I ascites cove,* wlisi you think enough tiivw'u iu u commit cry, I warrant, for the eastward cr\us< *L2h, Jack V" "Grautineivy. Alec! You'd not ala - "Ye- " , ' v'o::1 ' Jolt';" ,. ll-- ne eried lu-'a-i-lv .i ' evoay ; |-;V::..:. J* i'li.-V'! c.ii w u naiiLi-,1 ... o Indian it was stolen front df tm ??i" peopled it with he.uest I!;i rlish heart. And. mark use. .le.ek. that's what it v. i come to. (lur people at home are i: creasing every day. and the island tins holds them isn't. I.ook at London, loo at Itristol; tltey're bit:, overgrown citii even now. and they're still growtii} Where, thin!: you. tit its t the overilo' ? fift toV 1 11 tell you. When hii-a begins to fail t!:es.t. as it soon will, as: the little ones I .-gin to cry to their f. titers for food, they will pour out to th west here. ltnleigh a.a. ! his friend planted a faint hearted crew in a mot northern land, so 1 have heard, anion SUWIgeN llllll MMItt : IUI IIIH mm IMl llrocks, am!, as might have been ox pee oil, those that dirt not ,l!e earne bae walling over their miseries atul cursin tlie mm who hail led them away froi England. Hut here. 1 tell you, it is di fereiit. The tietra tlrme bristles wit Spanish towns, 'i'iiere are Cnman: Barcelona. La CJuayra, ('amen.', V; lencia, Cartagena ami :i 11 those in Me: ieo besides. ,\n l in every < tie of the the cursed Spaniard tortures and bun unhindered and makes the very ga dens o:* Cod's earth into foul hlasphei: ing hells. I ask you. what nobler ai could a man have in life than to wre this fair laud from these demons at to bring it ir -dead under tlie sway i Elizabeth of England? "Jack Topp," lie went on. tliisliii ! Does the |Baby Thrive J If not, something mu t T wrong with its food. U Vv.,: j. mother's milk doesri | ish it, she needs SCOT '' S t EMULSION. It supplies . 4 elements of fat required Uv | the baby. If baby is rtc' X nourished by its artificial i frvrv/T ihon if rpnuiiv?. I ,WUUP ">V? ? . V.J ? .V. :: SCOtt'S EnilllSS!!!' half a teaspoontu! three 0 or four times a day in its <> bottle will have the desired effect. It seems to have a < magical effect upon babies ' and children. A fifty-cent J J bottle will prove the truth < of our statements. * * SboulfJ be taken In summer ar, <' well as winter. * * V?c and $1.00, all druggists. < > SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. 1 A* A a A a A .i ki ^enty times an 1 W/ loo<l iii vonr i);xl\* passes 1 lir* kidneys. ' ''ink wlial this n not .->1 ron.n; and beak hy t he\ ci. is matter irom lite blond and misery that will remain unti re brought hack t<? healiiiy a mptoms will te lir kidneys need alien'dm ; e Backache, Tired IV d' c;. ervousness Pains across ;k Sleeplessness. Thills, I Tin Scalding I rine. They mean can't j^el a belter remedy tin Ill's ntriptic i purely \\!*etai>le preparatin re Dropsy and Gravel. l! a< (I Kidneys, restoring them t< 11 and eradicating nil disease. wo Neighbors cured 01 DKOP TVI.F.KS\ r : 11- Co. !?f..oklvn, S". V. 1 ii ill':! >? :?; i <>M ;m.l . i r - : !. r. 1 i-l? 11 lilt--.I ill I >r> ;i?\ . I ! > ?i; i \?> !m?| i : i . id iii" a lien)*??l" I (.*<*iil>I not jri-t ntt lit liicloi' Imt lut "'i'l in.-.' cnsc ii 'i ; :i { < t Ivi iptio ;;i" i have * ii k< |i >ix ln>ni?<. .Mitl i:,. ! > ilitwii mi I 1 am a r.v wi'm. Mr. 'I'. Lit; . <>i i 'd Vaughn's I.ithont ri; ' :? tunl ! ? i - \v?-i! ! . i ifisis, or on receip: c.i i : IL will be scot to Mress nn?l we wi!! :i ! \ u .'Ili'.l'.. >N MFG. CO. 43 Ssuth Fifth . ~ aT."*i n.^..L?,Tyvrr^sriTr jwuw.y.u' v"- " 11 1 tn'fjuy . my t! i fairly ' witieed. "I . .vear In .\: : l' . i If i ??'l t ' back home from i'! . vu, with :i ! Round Rkltl ttll 1 tUlf.lelot '. uoty fur tltU c purpose ! v. il! in t :i ehnrh r r.- 1 lis mil an aiiii.nl:'. ai i y i \vn eu-o, if 11 one ' < . . .1 . .11 '. i ll sail :.. i!. d ! main ! n- ami t; . every town as 1 pass a'.iay. 'i lie went is i! treasury u ! i.i" Sp: in, ami il* h- r ; wer ! e m:ee l>roo 1 ken mil here in liie new world there's - ; little <!> ulit n ; to who will lie queen of il ; the c;s over yonder in the nl !." u ! He broke off suddenly ami went le e. > \.i? . mi,i i turned away t. laine. j For. truth to toll. I Imd little heart to y i ar .ae willi m e who v. as as < a .-r I'm { profitless battle as any paladin ?>i if, j eru.-ades. wit it never an eye for the v l plunder which would follow a trend | li^ht. Many a hard l?!n\v have 1 taken ?i aUtOhven. ta.;', p. is a sport 1 ear.- little n acred limbs. And to give creuii wueie 1! | It is due. no man ean say that John i- i Top;> was ever hack ward in a liirht t ' a train-1 those who v.-ei-o defeiid-.ie* U i gooils or treasure. Hut l>e that as it s j maw j [v> ?^r. ro.vu5n?.] d I < ??112': .i.i.j t.: Morix't'O. ;| i it is a cilst. ! : ill M?.. < i e that a!, ilio j. j properly ol' n:i ?.?:iiI i vert - :.l t'.J to the crown. The i :;!c whit U I ads I Is sucli a result is simple, for the governe inont argues Unit r ! fart tines thus acg cumulated cem-i.-.t ot* ... >neys illegally n retained by the at . la.r.ties. A governt or when appoint! . is probably possessk oil ot' r.o considerable fortune. When g he dies, he :: . y 1 e a millionaire, ii Whence cat hi- . alliiV thjueezed f. most certainly from the tiibes undir ,h his authority ml tin'.'eft.re a*.en S" ! n, only iiy the p. . ..ativis i f the n- tiou in which the ittl'sn h:.d paired x- hit.t. la It has iter' r itt'Uck the Moe-rish govts eriir.ii.nt that those great fort tics r- might more hont.rahly he returm i to n- the people l'r >m tvh->::i tl.ey were tolln en. The ro. ;:!t ir- ? nt'.re c al'.- ea: : > st the crown, bud; ,< h j. id propt : ty as li e > :.. r . Of boon possessed o; I liu nt aial in.I .d..in, t . ii - . ig erty of lii ielati\i . When tlie mighty fall hi M : < .lie ^ crash brings i, rat: v.itii la. t.i V families, even tiiu.h s nt.d i ? all niiii'i-'.i ! with tin 1 it ir selii in that th s its : : > ors, v. .,tt t.r vi- hi en ! ; * luxury i f siaM'.s and .e i.nues of mounted inen. i. . . > glng in the strei Is. 2ii.it I a. . .. a 'y j?E23?2 O j* tx??t. 1 'i i 1(1 i i tsnle. I offer 11 | M ENG On ex I RLASONABL The place lias an excellcii J tenant houses and all the c< | FOUR P. f One (>f 140 acres with ; t place is four miles east of town o iietween the Little and Ilig Ilri ? For terr < > U THE TIMES OFFICE ? hour >u?^li ?p.d i it! loved . ,, t leans. 11 i lio kid,? n<n CN ' vaci ail '.ko - tile iv .nil is . u k! t he: J < > are 't i vit \. Pi] V- \,," r! v # i 1 x ! t ! M 1 . i i i<l'.II I III.* ' < i ail r :n;i< ur.il I Sv V Vy 11 n ?i:.'* \vii! vi'.VclJl i (i i JVC I! V ' ) ) 1 !lC > ; < >nital lit. ''It li v SY. .r <' . . !'??0. \ \!'..*? ? . a '. !? .* ! : ' \ i ; < ! i - :?! ) r.::y c 4 :\\' c ii:c. St. [3roo!Jyn, N.Y. i Every woman loves to think of the I tim i when a soft little body, all her I own, will nestle in her bosom, fully I ! sat". int; the yearning which lies in I the heart of every good woman. But 1 1 i yet there is a black cloud hovering I I 1 about the itty picture in her mind I a which f.'.ij her with terror. The I dre of childbirth takes away much I of t o Joy of motherhood. And yet It 1 I need not be so. For sometime there I has been v.7.on the market, well-known I 1 and recommended by physicians, a I which makes childbirth as simple and J easy as ; .ture Intended It. It Is a 1 | strengthening. penetrating liniment, I which the skin readily absorbs. It gives the muscles elasticity and vigor, 1 prevents sore breasts, morning sickI ne;s and tho less of the girlish figure, j An intelligent mother in Ilutlcr, Pa.. snv : "W'crrI '.< ik'i'il Mother'sFriend , ; >, I would 1 bt.-.in l? bottle* it I had to . .!> ;; '< per t -Jt.'ic tor it." j it t Mother's Friend at tho drug I store. $1 per bottle. I ML MKAUMLLl) IlLGULATOR CO., * I Write for onr fr?e illustrated book,11 Before I IIculth Office Honrs. Willie in ray otllce, ut the Council ('handier, from 10 a. m. to 12 m. every .lav, a 'a v s and holidays excepted, for : la-1 o!,v -v.ietav of < it i/ens wishing burial jif n?i! -s, ?i to transact any oilier business pert tilling to the otlice. 20?tf. W. 1). IIARRIS. NOTICE. I have bought u heavy draft wagon of 8o,0t>0 pounds cnpucity, and am now pre pared to do till kinds of heavy hauling or will hire out the wagon. 4,1 dm J \V_ OTT/RFWT. \CRES i V lie county for PLACE tremeiy K -> TERMS. t 11i:!i loom dwelling vith eight mveiiionces of a country home. A STORES. i hull and pig tight tence. The i on the road to Lockhart Shoals _ own's creek. v. '* lis apply to ; or to T, K. PALMER)