6 JES' TO BE ALONG O' fOU. Why. dearie, swnu I couldn't tell like how It 'pears to me To be with you. and only you, 'fhout mind- In' where we be; It aort o" brings a dreamy sense of peace and comfort, too, An' a restful kind o' teedln' Jus' to be along o' you. It Bets the he>es a-hummln' an' Übe birds be gin to sing, An' the clover head 3 to blushta", thlnkln' of the happy spring. It makes the roses brighter In the mornin's early dew. An' me as happy as the birds to be along o' you. The brooks laugh at the mossy banks that o'etr its edges dip, The water lilies kiss the brook, pretendin" Jes' to sip. Beoms like 1 clear forget myself when brook and lilies woo. An' wonder what you're tihtnkin' of when I'm aiong o' you! Why, dearie, all the world grows bright, and beautiful, and fair. An' Jest to live and breathe and be Is heaven everywhere When I'm along with you, my dear, for getUn' where we be, An' both are happy aji' content when you're along o' me. —G. H. Turner, in Coldwater Courier. (ROBERT" 10UIS STEVETtSOrTI m 1 PART 11. CHAPTER VIII.—CONTINUED. On our little walk along; the quays, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling me about the dif ferent ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage, and nationality, explain ing the work that was going forward —how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and a third making ready for sea; and every now and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen, or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly. 1 began to see that here was one of the best of possible shipmates. When we got to the iun, the squire and I)r. Livesey were seated together, finishing a quart of ale with a toast in it, befcre they should go aboard the schooner on a visit of inspection. Long John told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth. "That was how it were, now, weren't it, Hawkins?" he would say, now and again, and I could always bear him entirely out. The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away; but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long John took up his crutch and de parted. "All hands aboard by four this after noon," shouted the squire after him. "Ay, ay, sir," cried the cook, in the passage. "Well, squire," said Dr. Livesey, "I don't put much faith in your discover ies, as a general thing; but I will say this—John Silver suits me." "That man's a perfect trump," de clared the squire. "And, now," added the doctor, "Jim may come on board with us, may he not?" "To be sure, he may," says the squire. "Take your hat, Hawkins, and we'll see the ship." CHAPTER IX. . POWDER AND ARMS. The Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated be neath our keel and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we swung alongside and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the mate, Mr. Arrow, a brown old sailor, with ear rings in his ears and a squint. He and the squire were very thick and friendly, but I soon observed that things were not the same between Mr. Trelawney and the captain. The last was a sharp-looking man who seemed angry with everything on board, and was soon to tell us why, for we had hardly got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us. "Capt. Smollett, sir, axing to speak with you," said he. "I am always at the captain's or ders. Show him in," said the squire. The captain, who was close behind his messenger, entered at once and shut the door behind him. "Well, sir," said the captain, "better *peak plain, I believe, at the risk of offense. I don't like this cruise; I don't like the men, and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet." "Perhaps, sir, you don't like the ship?" inquired the squire, very angry, as I could see. "I can't speak as to that, sir, not hav ing seen her tried," said the captain. "She seems a clever craft; more I can't Bay." "Possibly, sir, you may not like your employer, either?" ssyh ti» squire. But here Dr. emt in. "Sta}' a bit," said he. "stay a bit. No use of such questionsas that but to pro duce ill feeling. The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an ex planation of his words. You don't, you say, like the cruise. Now, why?" "I was engaged, sir, on what ye call sealed orders, to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me," said the captain. "So far so good. But now I find that every man before the mast knows more than I do. I don't cull that fair, now, do you ?" "No," said Dr. Livesey, "I don't." "Next," said the captain, "I learn we are going- after treasure—hear it from my own hands, mind you. Now, treas ure is ticklish work; I don't Like treas ure voyages on any account; and I don't like them, above all, when they are secret, und when (begging your par don, Mr. Treiawney) the secret has been told to the parrot." "Silver's parrot?" asked the squire. "It's a way of speaking," said the captain. *'B!abbed, I mean. It's my belief that neither of you gentlemen know what you tire about; but I'll tell you my way of it—life or death, and a close run." "That is all clear, and, I dare say, true enough," replied Dr. Livesey. "We take the risk; but we are not so ignorant as you believe us. Next, you say you don't like the crew. Are they not good sea men?" "I don't like them, sir," returned Capt. Smollett. "And I think I should have had the choosing of my own hands, if you goto that." "Perhaps you should," replied the doctor. "My friend should, perhaps, have taken you along with him; but the slight, if there be one, was uninten tional. And you don't like Mr. Arrow?" "I don't, sir. I believe he's a good seaman; but he's too free with the crew to be a good officer. A mate should keep himself to himself—shouldn't drink with the men before the mast!" "Do you mean he drinks?" cried the squire. "No. sir," replied the captain; "only that he is too familiar." "Well, now, and the short and long of it, captain?" asked the doctor. "Tell us what you want." "Well, gentlemen, are you determined togo on this cruise?" "Like iron," answered the squire. "Very good," said the captain. "Then, as you've heard me very patiently, say ing things that I could not prove, hear me a few words more. They are put ting the powder and the arms in the fore hold. Now, you have a good place under the cabin; why not put them there? —firstpoint. Then you are bring ing four of your own people with you, and they tell me some of them are to be berthed forward. Why not give them the berths here beside the cabin—sec ond point." "Any more?" asked Mr.Trelawney. "One more," said the captain. "There's been too much blabbing al ready." "Far too much," agreed the doctor. "I'll tell you what I've heard my self," continued Capt. Smollett: "That you have a inap of an island; that there's crosses on the map to show where the treasure is; and that the island lies—" And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly. "I ncrer told that," cried the squire, "to a soul!" "The hands know it, sir," returned the captain. "Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins," cried the squire. "It doesn't much matter who it was," replied the doctor. And I could see that neither he nor the captain paid much regard to Mr. Trelawney's pro testations. Neither did I, to be sure, he was so loose a talker; yet in this case I believe he was really right, and that nobody hud told the situation of the island. "Well, gentlemen," continued the cap tain, "I don't know who has this map; but I make it a point, it shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow. Otherwise I would ask you to let me re sign." "I see," said the doctor. "You wish to keep this matter dark, and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and pow der on board. In other words, you fear a mutiny." "Sir," said Capt. Smollett, "with no intention to take offense, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. No captain, sir, would be justified ingoing to sea at all if he had ground enough for that. As for Mr. Arrow, I believe him thoroughly honest; some of the men are the same; all may be for what I know. But I ain responsible for the ship's satety and the life of every man Jack aboard of her. I see things going, as I think, not quite right. And I ask you to take certain precautions, or let me resign my berth. And that's all." "Capt. Smollett," began the doctor, with a smile, "did ever you hear the fable of the mountain and the mouse? You'll excuse me, I dare say, but you remind me of that fable. When you came in here I'll stake my wig you meant more than this." "Doctor," said the captain, "you are smart. When I came in here I meant to get discharged. I had no thought that Mr. Trelawney would hear a word." "No more I would," cried the squire. "Had Livesey not been here I should have seen j-ou to the deuce. As it is, I have heard you. I will do as you desire; but I think the worse of you." "That's as you please, sir," said the captain. "You'll find Ido my duty." And with that he took his leave. "Trelawney," said the doctor, "con trary to all my notions, I believe you have managed to get two honest men on board with you—that man and John Silver." "Silver, if you like," cried the squire; "but as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English." "Well," says the doctor, "we shall iCC." When he came on deck, the men had begun already to take out the arms and powder, yo-ho-ing at their work, while the captain and Mr. Arrow stood by superintending. The new arrangement was quite to my liking. The whole schooner had been overhauled; six berths had been made astern, out of what had been the nfterpart jf the main hold; and this set of cabins was only joined to the galley and forecastle by a sparred pas sage on the port side. It bad been originally meant that the captain, Mr. Arrow, Hunter, Joyce, the doctor, and the squire were to occupy these six berths. Now Redruth and I were to get two of them, and Mr. Arrow and the captain were to sleep on deck in the companion, which had been enlarged on each side till you might almost have called it a roundhouse. Very low it was still, of course; but there was room to swing two hammocks, and even I the mate seemed pleased with the ar j rangement. Even he, perhaps, had CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1898. been doubtful as to the crew, but that is only guess; for, as you shall hear, we hail not long the benefit of his opinion. We were all hard at work, changing the powder and the berths, when the last man or two, and Long John along with them, came off in a shore-boat. The cook came up the side like a monkey for cleverness, and, as soon as he saw what was doing, "So ho, mates!" said he, "what's this?" "We're a-ehanging the powder, Jack," answers one. "Why, by the powers," cried Long John, "if we do, we'll miss the morning tide!" "My orders!" said the captain, short ly. "You may go below, my man. Hands will want supper." "Ay, ay, sir," answered the cook; and, touching his forelock, he disap peared at once in the direction of his galley. "That's a good man, captain," said the doctor. "Very likely, sir," replied Capt. Smollett. "Easy with that, man— easy," he ran on, 1o the fellows who were shifting the powder: and then suddenly observing me examining the swivel we carried amidships, a long brass nine—"Here, you ship's boy," he cried, "out o' that! Off with you to the cook and get some work." And then, as I was hurrying off, I heard him say, quite loudly, to the doc tor: "I'll have no favorites on my ship." I assure you I was quite of the squire's way of thinking, and hated the captain deeply. CHAPTER X. THE VOYAGE. All that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Dlandly and the like, com ing off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had a night at the Admiral Deubow when I had half the work; and I was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boat swain sounded his pipe, and the crew began toman the capstan-bars. I might have been twice as weary, yet I would not have left the deck; all was so new and interesting to me—the brief com mands, the shrill notes of the whistle, the men bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns. "Now, Darbecue, tip us a stave," cried one voice. "The old one," cried another. "Ay, ay, mates," said Long John, who was standing by, with his crutch *'Bo ho, mate*," said he; "what's this?" under his aria, and at once broke out in the air and words I knew so well: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—" And then the whole crew bore chor us; "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" And at the third "ho!" drove the bars before them with a will. Even at that exciting moment it car ried me back to the old Admiral Den bow in a second; and I seemed to hear the voice of the captain piping in the chorus. Dut soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the "Ilis paniola" had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure. I am not going to relate the voy age in detail. It was fairly prosperous. The ship proved to be a good ship, the crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly understood his business. Dut before we came the length of Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require to be known. Mr. Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than the captain had feared. He had no command among the men. and people did what they pleased with him. Dut that was by no means the worst of it; for after a day or two at sea he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness. Time after time he was ordered below in dis grace. Sometimes he fell and cut him self; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and at tend to his work at least passably. In the meantime, we could never make out where he got the drink. That was the ship's mystery. Watch him as we pleased, we could do nothing to solve it; and when we asked him to his face, he would only laugh, if he were drunk, and if he were sober, deny solemnly that he ever tasted anything but water. lie was not only useless *as an officer, and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright; so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and j was seen no more. "Overboard!"said the captain. "Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble of putting him in irons." Dut there we were, without a mate, and it was necessary, of course, to ad- vance one of the men. The boatswain. Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard, and, though 'he kept his old title, he served in a way as mate. Mr. Trelawney had follower! the sea, and his knowledge made him very useful, for he often took a watch himself in easy weather. And the cockswain, Is rael Hands, was a careful, wily, old, ex perienced seaman, who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything. He was a great confidant of Long John Silver, and so the mention of his name leads me onto speak of our ship's cook. Darbecue, as the men called him. Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible. It was some thing to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead,and,propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like some one safe ashore. Still more strange was it to see him in the heaviest of weather cross the deck. He had a line or two rigged up to help hiim across the widest spaces—Long John's ear rings, the3' were called; and he would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk. Yet some of the men who had sailedwith him before expressed their pity to see him so re duced. "He's no common man, Darbecue," said the cockswain to me. "He had good schooling in his young days, and can speak like a book when so minded; and brave—lion's nothing alongside of Long John! I see him grapple four and knock their heads together—him un armed." All of the crew respected and even obeyed him. He had a way of talking to each and doing everybody some par ticular service. To me he was un wearied'ly kind, and always glad to see ine in the galley, which he kept as cleam as a new pin; the dishes hanging up burnished and his parrot in a cage in the corner. "Come away. Hawkins," he would say; "come and haw a yarn with John. Nobody more welcome than yourself, my son. Sit you down and hear the news. Here's Cap'n Flint—l calls my parrot Cap'n Flint, after the famous buc caneer —here's Cap'n Flint predicting success to our v'yage. Wasn't you, cap'n ?" And the parrot would say, with great rapidity: "Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!" till you won dered that it was not out of breath, or till John threw his handkerchief -over the cage. [TO BB CONTINUED. J JUDGE DOOLITTLE'S JOKE. It Pot Senator I-'esnenden Ink Had I'oaltion. The old senator was a great story teller and related many interesting and humorous accounts of what he had seen in public life. One of his favorite stories was at the expense of Senator Fessenden, a warm personal friend. The judge and Senator Fessenden had been appointed on a commission with several others to treat with the various chiefs of the Sioux nation on an impor tant Indian question of the day. It was long before railways had been intro duced into the far west, and the mem bers of the commission had to travel on horseback. Judge l>o<»little was chair man of the commission, but at the con ference shifted that duty to the shoul ders of Senator Fessenden. The latter was highly pleased at the honor con ferred on him and much "puffed up" in consequence. The judge had method in his madness, however, for he had heard of the pecuViar reception ten dered by the Indians to the spokesman of any party of visiting whites. At the appointed' time the two par ties to the conference congregated. There were probably 200 Indian chiefs present with their wives. Senator Fes senden advanced to do the honors for the commissioners, when to his»«iistriay the whole body of Indians—squaws and nil—advanced, and, after embracing the chairman, gave him, according to their custom, a welcoming kiss. Judge Doo little often said he thought that Fes senden never quite forgave him for the trick. —Doston nerald. Sn me Tnle. There is the old story of a Dritish railway. A traveler had l left his wrap in a railway carriage, and the guard, opening the door, inquired: "Is there a black mackintosh here?" "No," answered one of the big high landers inside; "there is no black Mack intosh, but there are six re>d Macgreg ors." This story would almost seem to have been copied in another railway story. A clerical passenger looked up from his book. "Have you read 'Lamb'sTales?' asked he. "No," said the man opposite, who hap pened to be a commercial traveler, "but I have black sheepskin rugs."—Gen tleman's Magazine. Matrimonial Item. Gilhooly applied to a matrimonial agency for a companion, and the gentle man in charge said: "I've got just the kind of a woman you want. She is tall and slender, love ly blue eyes, golden hair, and a beauti ful complexion. Her figure—" "Now you are getting down to busi ness at last. How much is her figure?" —Tammany Times. WIYCk to Work for Them. An old Georgia negro, meeting his former master, was asked about his family. "Well, suh," he replied, "some is railroadin', some is 'sputing and spoundin.', some is in office, en some in de chaingang, buit mos' er dem is good citizens en got wivos ter work fer 'em 1" Not Thnl Kind of n Iloy. "Little boy," said the kind gentle man, "I hope you do not read those per ' nicious dime novels?" I"Naw," said the little boy, "not w'er: I kin git bully good stories for a nickei ' apiece."—Cincinnati Enqviyer. COUNT DE CASSINI. Kunnlu'M %ew Anibamdvr at Waik- Ington In a Diplomat Mud Scholar of Urral Henown. Count de Cassini, the new ambassa dor from liussia, who brings to Washington a message of the kind est import from his imperial master, is a gentlemin of noble ancestry — ancestry more distinguished than noble, for it was the family of Cassini whose members, from father to son, for more than 174 years were the di rectors of the great observatory of Paris. The ambassador's immediate family went to Kussia to live early in COUNT DE CASSINI. (Ju3t Appointed Russian Ambassador to the United States.) the present century, when that great state began to become "European ized." The family was always scien tific, and the present count is the first of his line to take to politics and diplomacy rather than the pro fession of his ancestors. At the same time, few men in secular life in Europe can boast his attainments in the way of scientific and classic knowledge. His diplomatic work for liussia in the orient ranks with that of the best talent in the world, lie was the czar's representative in the complications which followed the Chinese-Japanese war, and it was he who secured all the important con cessions to liussia recently granted by the Chinese emperor. His reward for these distinguished services was the embassy to Washington, now con sidered one of the highest diplomatic stations by the governments of Eu rape. Count Cassini speaks seven lan guages fluently, including a few ori ental tongues, and he is rapidly ac quiring English for the purpose of better facilitating his work in the im portant new post. FIGHT FOR A CORNER. Claim .1 uin |>111 k Scenm to He Practiced In .\ew York City a* Well as tlie I'ar Went. That queer little building which was erected just a year ago on the south west corner of the boulevard and One Hundred and Eighth street is called to mind by a dispute which is now on as to the ownership of the triangular plot of land on which it stood, says the New York Herald. Mrs. Johanna C. Samuel, a wealthy widow, claims it, and shows an alleged abstract of title. J. liomaine Drown & Co. are just as positive that Frederick Entz, their client, is the owner, and hold another alleged abstract of title. Michael McDermott erected the building under a lease from James A. QUEER LITTLE BUILDING. (The Source of Much Costly Litigation In New York.) Deer ing, agent for the De Peyster es tate. it was triangular in shape, the sides being P-'Vis and 21% feet, and the overhanging second story was supported by massive iron pillars. It was erected in Mrs. Samuel's absence from the city, and when she returned she entered an indignant protest against what she termed "claim jump ing." 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