The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 17, 1901, Image 3
* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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O j* tx??t. 1 'i i 1(1 i i
tsnle. I offer 11
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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
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U THE TIMES OFFICE
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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!
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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)