6 PIES. Wlwn I wtas but a little maid <)f years not more Than tlve. i made mud pies beneat'h the tree®, The happiest child alive. .J molded them with fondest care, shaped them one by one, «"hien crimped the edges prettily. *n«l baked thu-m in «he sun. Since then a many years have flown *>nd still I'm making pies, *fthou«h a difference I own In methods and supplies. And husband now. and children all, I>ook with reproach at me. If thrice upon the festal boarxi Each day no pies they see. All. me. why was my play Not nipped while in the bud! Why did 1 try my 'prentice hand Upon those pies of mud! For 1 have now so crusity grown, Vet none do realize T"hat I'm a martyr to the cause Of pies. pies. pies. Anna E. Treat, in Good Housekeeping. fSoBERT LOUTS STEVCrisorr PART 111. CIIAPTEIt Xv.—Contin-vnn. All (his time lie had been feeling the «tuff of my jacket, smoothing 1 my hands, looking- at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow creature, lint at my last words he perked up into a kind of startled sly ness. • "If you ever get aboard again, says ou?" he repeated. "Why, now, who's « hinder you?" "Not you, I know,"was my reply. "And right you was,"he cried. "Now you—what do you call yourself, mate?" "Jim," I told him. "Jim, Jim," says he,quite pleased, ap parently. "Well, now, Jim, I've lived that rough as you'd be ashamed to a hear of. Now, fur instance, you wouldn't think I had a pious mother— to look at me?" he asked. "Why, no, not in particular," I an swered. "Ah, well," said he, "but 1 had —re- markably pious. And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my cate chism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another. And here's what it come to, Jim, and it begun with •ehuck-farthen on the blessed grave stones! That's what it begun with, 'faut it went further'n that; and so my mother told me, and predicked the whole, she did, the pious woman. But It were Providence that put me here. I've thought it all out in this here lone- Sy island, and I'm back on piety. You ■cau't catch me tasting rum so much; but just a thimbleful for luck, of ■course, the first chance I have. I'm botiml I'll be good, aud I see the way to. And, Jim—" looking all around him, and lowering his voice to a whisper— "l'm rich." I now felt sure that, the poor fellow tiad gone crazy in his solitude, and I suppose I must have shown the feeling in my face, for he repeated the statement, hotly: "Rich! rich! 1 says. And I'll tell you what; I'll make a man of you, Jim. Ah, Jim, you'll bless your stars, you will, you was the first that found me!" And at this there came suddenly a low ering shadow over his face, and he •tightened bis grasp upon my hand, and raised a forefinger threateningly be fore my eyes. "Now, Jim, you tell me true; that ain't Flint's ship?" he asked. At this I had a happy inspiration. I began to believe that I had found an ally, and I answered him at once. "It's not Flint's ship, and Flint is dead; but I'll tell you true, as you ask me—there are some of Flint's hands * board; worse luck for the rest of us." "Not a man—with one —leg?" he gptsped. "Silver?" I asked. "Ah, Silver!" says he; "that were his aarue," "He's the cook; and the ringleader, too." lie was still holding me by the wrist, and at that he gave it a quiet wring. "If you was sent by Long John," he said, "I'm as good as pork, and I know it. But where was you, do you sup pose?' 1 bad made my mind up in a moment, and by way of ai.wer told him the whole story of our voyage, and the pre dicament in which .*e found ourselves, lie heard me with the keenest interest, and when I had done he patted me on the head. "You're a good lad, Jim," he said; "and you're all in, a clove hitch, ain't you? Well, you just put your trust in ilea Ounn—Ben Gunn's the man to do it. Would you think it likely, now, that your squire would prove a liberal minded one in case of help—him being In. a clove hitch, as you remark?" I toid him thesquire was the mostlib eral of men. "Ah, but you see," returned Ben "iut by himself In a liMl« boat, and nit heart done up in a blue scarf. The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cut-water. But, there he was, you mind, and the six all d'ea J —dead anil buried. How had he done it, not a man aboard us could make out. It was battle, murder and sudden death, leastways —him against six. Billy Bones was the mate; Long John, he was quartermaster; and they asked him where the treasure was. 'Ah,' says he, 'you can go ashore, if you like, and stay,' he says; 'but as for the ship, she'll beat tip for more, by thunder!' That's what he said. "Well, I was in another ship three years back, and we sighted this island. 'Coys,' said I, 'here's Flint's treasure; let's laud and find it.' The captain was displeased at that; but my messmates were nil of a mind and landed. Twelve days they looked for it, and every day they had the worse word for ine, un/til one fine morning all hands went aboard. 'As for you, Benjamin fiunn,' says they, 'here's a musket,' they says, 'and a spade, and pick-ax. You can stay here, and find Flint's money for yourself,' they says. "Well, .Tim, three years have I been here, and not a bite of Christian diet from that, day to this. But now, you look here; look at me. Do I look like a man before the mast? No, says you. Nor I weren't, neither. I says." And with that hew inked and pinched me hard. "Just you mention them word's to your squire, .Tim"—he went on: "Nor he weren't, neither —that's the words Three years he were the man of this island, light and dark, fair and rain; and sometimes he would, maybe, think upon a prayer (says you), and some times hew ould, maybe, think of his old luother, so be as she's alive (you'll say); but the most part of Gunn's time (this is what you'll say)—the most part of his tiine was took up with another mat ter. And then you'll give him a nip, like 1 do." And he pinched me again, in the most confidential manner. "Then," he continued—"then you'l! up and you'll say this: Gunn is a good man (you'll say), and he puts a precious sight moreconfidence —a precious sight, mind that—in a gen'leman born tihan in these gen'lemen of fortune, having been one hisself." "Well." I said, "I don't understand one word that you've been saying. But that's neither here nor there; for how am I to get on board?" "Ah," said he, "that's the hitch for sure. Well, there's my boat that I made with my two hands. I keep her under the white rock. If the worst come to the worst, we might try that after dark. TTi! ** he broke out, "what's that?" For just then, although the sun fiad still an hour or two to run. all the echoes of the island awoke and bellowed to the thunder of a cannon. "They have begun to fight!" I cried. "Follow me." And I began to run toward the anchorage, my terrors all forgotten; while, close at my side, the marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and lightly. "Left, left," says he; "keep to your left hand, mate Jim! Under the trees with you! There's where I killed my first goat. They don't come dowu here now; they're all mastheaded on them mountings for the fear of Benjamin Gunn. Ah! and there's the ce.temery" —cemetery he must have meant. "You see the mounds? I come here and pray, liows and thens, when I thought maybe a Sunday would be about doo. It weren't quite a chapel, but it seemed more solemn like; and then, says you, Ben Gunn was short handed—no chapling, nor so much as a Bible and a flag, you says." So he kept talking as Iran, neither expecting nor receiving any answer. The cannon-shot was followed, after a considerable interval, by a volley of small arms. Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in front of me, I be held the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood. PART IV. TIIE STOCKADE. CIl A PTE II XVI. NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR - HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED. It was about half-past one—three bells in the sea phrase—that the two boats went ashore from tha "Ilispani ola." The captain, the squire and I were talking mutters over in the cabin Had there been a breath of wind, we should have fallen on the six mutineers who were left aboard with us, slipped our cable, and away to sea. But the wind was wanting; and to complete our helplessness, down came lluntei with the news tlfat Jim Hawkins had slipped into a boat and was gone ashore with the rest. It had never occurred'to us tg doubt Jim Hawkins; hut we were alarmed for his safety. With the men in the temper they were in, it seemed an even chance if we should see the lad attain We ran on deck. The pitch was bubbling in the seams: the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a mai smelleel fewer and dysentery, it was ii that abominable anchorage. The si.\ scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the "forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made fast, and n man sitting in each, hard by where the river runs in. One of them was w hist ling "Lillibullero." Waiting was a strain; and it was ele cided that Hunter and I should g< ashore with the jolly-boat, in ejuest ol Information. The gigs had leaned to their right; but Hunter and I pulled straight in, ir the direction of the stockade upon the chart. The two who were left guard ing their boats seemeel in a bustle al our appearance; "Lillibullero" stoppe< off, and I could see the pair discussing what they ought to bo. Had they gone anel told Silver, all might have turnei owt differently; but they had th«ij CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1898. orders, I suppose, and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to "Lillibullero." There was a slight bend in the coast, and 1 steered so as to put it between us; even before we landed we had thus lost sight of the gigs. 1 jumped out, and came as near running as I durst, with a big silk handkerchief under my hat for coolness' sake, and a brace of pistols ready primed for safety. I had not gone 100 yards when I came on the stockade. This was how it was: A spring of clear water rose almost at the top of a knoll. Well, on the knoll, and inclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout log house, fit to hold two score people on a pinch, and loop-holed for mus ketry on every side. All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or open ing, too strong to pull down without time and labor, and too open to shelter the besiegers. The people in the log house bad them in every way; they stood quiet in shelter and shot the others like partridges. All they want ed was a good watch and food; for, short of a complete surprise, they might have held the place against a regiment. What particularly took my fancy was the spring. For, though we had a good enough place of it in the cabin of the "Hispaniola," with plenty of arms and ammunition, and things to eat, and ex cellent wines, there had been one thing overlooked —we had no water. I was thinking this over, when there came ringing over the island the cry of a man at the point of death. I was not new to violent death —1 have served his royal highness the duke of Cum berland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy —but 1 know my pulse went dot and carry one. "Jim Hawkins is gone," was my first thought. It is something to have been an old soldier, tout more still to have been a doctor. There is no time to dilly-dally in our work. And so now 1 made up my mind instantly, and with no time lost returned to the shore and jumped on board the jolly-boat. By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar. We made the water fly; and the boat was soon alongside, and I aboard the schooner. I found them all shaken, as was nat ural. The squire was sitting down, as white as a sheet, thinking of the harm he had led us to, the good soul! and one of the six forecastle hands was little better. "There's a ir.au," said Capt. Smollett, nodding' toward him, "new to this work. He came nigh-hand fainting, doctor, when he heard the cry. An other touch of the rudder and that man would join us." I told my plan to the captain, and be tween us we settled on the de-tails of its accomplishment. We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin and the forecastle, with three or four loaded muskets and a mattress for protection. Hunter brought the boat round under the stern port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac and my invariable medicine chest. In the meantime the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the cockswain, who was the principal man on board. "Mr. Hands," he said, "here are two of us with a brace of pistols each. If any one of you six make a signal of any description, that man's dead." They were a good deal taken aback; and aftor a little consultation, one and all tumbled down the fore companion, thinking, no doubt, to take us on the rear. But when they saw Redruth waiting for them in the sparred gal lery, they went about ship at once, and a head popped out on dfek. "Down, dog!" cries the captain. And'the head popped back again; and we heard no more, for the time, of these six very faint-hearted seamen. By this time, tumbling things in as they came, we had the jolly-boat loaded as much as we dared. Joyce and I got out through the stern port and we made for shore again as fast as our oars could take us. This second trip fairly aroused the watchers along the shore. "Lillibul lero" was dropped «gain, and just be fore we lost sight of them behind the little point one of them whipped ashore and disappeared. I had half a mind to change my plans and destroy their boats, but I feared that Silver and the others might be close at hand, and all might very well be lost by try ing for too much. We had soon trWielied land in the some place before we set the provi sion in the block-house. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade. Then, leaving Joyce to guard them—• one man, to be sure, but with half a dozen muskets —Hunter and I returned to the jolly-boat, and loaded ourselves once more. So we proceeded without pausing to take breath, till the whole cargo was bestowed,when the two serv ants took up their position in the block-house, and I, with all my power, sculled back to the Ilispaniola. That we should have risked a second boat load seems more daring than it really was. They had the advantage of numbers, of course, but we had the advantage of arms. Notoneof the men ashore had a musket, and before they could get within range for pistol-shoot ing, we flattered ourselves we could be able to give a good account of a half dozen «t least. The squire was waiting for me at the stern window, ali his faintness gow» from him. He caught the painter and made it fast, and we fell to loading the boat for our very livts. Pork. powder and biscuit was the cargo, with only a musket and cutlass apiece for squire and me and Redruth and the captain. The rest of the arms and powder were dropped overboard in two fathoms and a half of water, so that we could see the bright steel shining far below us in tho sun, on the clear, sandy bottom. By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging around to her anchor. Voices were heard hallooing in the direction of the two gigs; and though this reassured us for Joyce and Hunter, who were well to the eastward, it warned our party to be off. Redruth retreated from bis place in the gallery and dropped into the boat, which we had brought round to the ship's counter, to be handier for Capt. Smollett. "Now, men," said he, "do you hear me?" There was no answer from the fore castle. "It's to you, Abraham Gray—lt s to you I am speaking." Still no reply. "Gray," resumed Mr. Smollett, n little louder, "I am leaving this ship, and I order you to follow your captain. I know you are a good man at bottom, and I dare say not one of the lot of you's as bad as he makes out. 1 have my watch here in my hand; I give you 30 seconds to join me in." There was a pause. "Come, my fine fellow," continued the captain, "don't bang so long in stays. I'm risking my life, and the lives of these good gentlemen, every second." There was a sudden scuffle, a sound of blows, and out burst Abraham Gray with a knife cut on the side of thecheek, and came running to the captain, like a dog to the whistle. "I'm with you, sir," said he. And the next moment he and the cap tain had dropped aboard of us, and we had shoved off and given way. We were clear out of the ship, but not yet ashore in our stockade. [TO BE CONTINUED.] WHAT SHE WANTED. The Hnckater Wan Called l't> Four FliKltt* to Hear Sotnetli!««. A huckster was going along an East side street early one morning last week making the welkin ring with his sing song of "I'o-ta-t-o-o-o-es. loma-t-o-o-es. Nice sweet cooking appools." As he drove slowly along he lifted his eyes to the windows on either side of the street. Suddenly there appeared a woman's head at a window in one of the top flats. The huckster pulled in his horse and raised his ear to listen to the com mands he expected would be coming. But the woman had not the lung power to make her voice carry BO far, and the huckster called out: "How's that?" Again the woman called out and her voice came down faintly. The huckster didn't know whether she wanted po tatoes, cantaloupes, tomatoes or corn. So he marked the fourth flat from the corner and motioned that he would drive around to the alley. The woman was there waiting for him and called out once more, but he couldn't under stand her. Gathering a handful of samples of various vegetables from his stock he I mounted four flights of back stairs and I arrived at the top panting. The woman j stood there awaiting his coming. "Couldn't hear what you said, lady." said the huckster, "so I brought up some of each kind an' you can pick what you want an' I'll go down an' get 'em." "Want?" said the woman, who was in a towering rage. "Want? I don't want none of your old vegetables. What I want is. for you to stop hollerin' in front of this house, or I'll have you ar rested. You're enjugli to wake the dead. My husband wcjrks all night and he's just got into a little doze, and good ness knows it's hard enough to sleep daytimes such weather as this with> out a fiend like you standing in front of the house yelling like a Comanche. Now you get out of here and don't you holler no more or I'll get the police after you." The huckster stood with set eyes and drooping jaw, the perspiration drop ping off his chin, while this harangue was going on. When she had finished he came out of his trance, and said: "Is that what you called me all the way up here for? Send fer yer p'lice, lady; I'm goin' to yell to beat the band." And he went down the stairs and out of the alley and up the street in front of the house with four extra links let out of his throat. And if any person slept on that street it was under the influence of opiates.—Kansas City Star. lie lilt TVitme. The late Prof. Sylvester was traveling by coach in an out-of-the-way part of England, and at one station .is lie sat in the vehicle waiting to depart two villagers approached. One mounted be side the professor, and as her friend turned to retrace her steps the latter said: "Good-by, (Mrs. Harris!" Prof. Sylvester was the last man in the world to let a good opportunity slip by. and as the coach drove off he called out: "Good-by, Mrs. (.amp!" The driver Turned with amazement and said: "1 thought you sairt you knew no one here? How did you know that lady's name was Gamp?" This tale is vouched for.—San Francisco Argonaut. i«fie Snveil IJji.i. They were about to string him up to an oak limb when a woman rushed for j ward and threw her arms around him. "Stop!" she cried. "Ef you won't | lynch him I'll marry him and leave the I state on his honeymoon!" "Take him!" said the leader, "an* ! give me a -lollar an' a half fer the li | '?ense!" —Atlanta Constitution. ProyronM. | Mrs. Weston—l was reminded of my | <;ourtship days to-clay by something ; John said to me. j Mrs. Easton—Souie term of endear ment, I suppose? I "Yes; he said I was a great goos-> • lie used to call me his little birdie. Yr. soe, I have grown some siuce then." Boston Transcript. FINE MILITARY RECORD. Drift. lien. I.utii* 11. « arpeiiter ll.jjnn IIIN Arm; Career In IHIil aa a Private Soldier. One of the most striking examples of the democracy of the United States army is presented by the career of Bonis 11. Carpenter, who entered the army a* a private and has ri.sen to bo a brigadier general. Carpenter was at the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, when he was seized with the war fever and enlisted in the regular cav alry. Within six months his soldier!) qualities won him a commission an GEN. LOUIS H. CARPENTER. (\ Crave Oflicer Who Has Risen from the Ranks.; second lieutenant in the regular cav alry. Before the civil war closed he was repeatedly brcvetted for bravery displayed in campaign and on the field cf battle- to lir.st lieutenant IMiU fur "gallant and meritorious services at Gettysburg." captain 1804 for "gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Winchester," then lieutenant colonel I'nited States army and colonel of volunteers for "gallant and meritorious services during the war." lie was in nearly all the cavalry fights of tin army of the I'otoinac. in the battle of Fairlield, near Gettys burg, he rescued and brought oIT the field the colors of his regiment when the regiment was surrounded by an overwhelming force of the enemy. llin bravery was so conspicuous that Gen. Sheridan, one of the greatest cav alry commanders in history, called him to his side as one of the most trusted officers of his staff'. After the war of the rebellion he returned to his regiment and again became conspicu ous as an Indian fighter. At the beginning of the present war he was made a brigadier genera! and putin command of the brigade made by the famous Fifth -Maryland regi ment. the crack First regiment of the District of Columbia and the celebrat ed Second New York regimen* of vol unteers. ANOTHER NAVAL HERO. 111 a 11 tier Darin, \\ lio I u |i( nml the I*urt of Ponce Willi a Single Auxiliary Gunlmal. Commander Charles Henry Davis, of the auxiliary gunboat Dixie, to whom the Port of Ponce surrendered late in July, was given his command in May, after the beginnig of hostilities with Spain. At that time he was superin tendent of the naval observatory, to which office he was transferred in 1897 from his post as member of the board of inspection and survey. Commander Davis is a native of Massachusetts, and entered the naval academy in Novem ber, 1 SOI. When he graduated the civil | ■''VVV\\U\\v V CHARGES HENRY DAVIS. (Commander of the United States Auxil iary Gunboat I'ixie.) war was in its closing months, and young Davis was sent to the Kuropeau station, thus escaping any active serv ice in the line of fighting. He was pro moted to the rank of lieutenant com mander in Isti!) and to that of com mander in ISS.I. He has been connect ed with several important expeditions for the determination of differences in longitude by means of submarine telegraphic cables, and has traveled in every part of the world. Among tlia ships lie has commanded are the Sara toga, the Quinnebaug and the Mont gomery. He is a first-class, experi enced sailor, and found no trouble in taking the little port of Ponce before the entrance of the Massachusetts and the other ships in the convoy fleet. (ieraieu ICiii|ieror*« Iniliixlry. Some interesting statistics have been published snowing the German em peror's industry during last year. The figures represent a mass of work that might well a ppvul to mi*.t people. 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