I ,. 1 ft )''- THE SCRAOTON TRIBUXE-THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1898. S ) j5 ""The Skipper "of the ft Pfaaotoira Tango Prom Answers. I. A dark-eyed girl wn stundlni: on the Btnrboard side of a cutter rlRRcd smack. Her pazc was llxed upon a umall blnck object that danced on the choppy waters a boat's length ahead. A young seaman was stationed at the helm. Ho was dividing his attention between the girl and the black object. "rieady?" raid he. "Ay!" She had bared her brown, rounded arms to the elbows and adjusted her red cap that held In check her unruly hair, and she now bent over the bul wark, her hand outBtretchrd In readi ness to seize the Hoatlne thing' as the cmack skurrled by. "A black bottle," she cried, and the next moment she had It in her grasp and was holding it aloft, the water dripping from her arm. "Look, Steevle! I wonder If there's anything inside?" "Stop a bit, Lottie; we'll soon see." Stephen Armstrong llxed the tiller and then sat down upon the deck at Lottie's side. The splendor of the sun set fell slantingly upon their eager faces. The man looked at the bottle and then at the girl. "It's tightly corked," said he. Then he held It up between his brlglit eye and the golden light. "It's a letter!" said Lottie, peering over Armstrong's shoulder through the glass. "Vhy don't you break it?" He struck the bottle against the bul wark and a slip of paper fell upon the dock at their feet. At this moment an edge of the tarpaulin that lay across the bow was cautiously raised and a red-bearded man fooked out at them with drowsy eyes. The girl picked up the crumpled slip of paper, hurriedly unfolded It, and read as follows: "In another half-hour I shall be drowned. Here I'm n-lyln", drove ashore In a dense fog on the East Salt win Sands, with a fresh breeze n-blow lng from the southeast. She was drove on to these sands at 4.30 a. m about low water. The tide is rising now and breaking over my craft, and I'm alone aboard. The man what finds this docu ment I solemnly make him my sole heir. In the cupboard of the aft cabin he'll find a pile of golden sovereigns. For I'm an old miser God pardon me and I've hoarded my thousands for no earthly good. A Just punishment has fallen upon me at last. "Ben Tarbuck, Captain." Armstrong stared at his sweetheart, Lottie Sanderson, In blank amazement. For a moment he was unable to utter a word. At last he whispered: "It's the phantom tug hush!" and ho glanced toward the tarpaulin. "No word to anyone and our fortune's made." He buttoned up the scrap of paper In the breast pocket of his pilot coat, and cast the broken bottle overboard. Then he resumed his place at the helm, and the smack went lumbering on Its tack ing course toward the shore. The man beneath the tarpaulin lay emlngly sound asleep until the smack neWed the entrance to Saltwln har bor, when Armstrong shouted: "Belay there, Redshaw! Harbor lights!" The night had nearly closed In. II. As soon as the smack had run Into the small harbor and brought along side the stone quay, Armstrong went ashore with his girl, leaving Itedflhaw aboard. They made their way through .thijtown, and entering n. lane behind ne uuuiieriiiK etuiu uuuca, jui'seuiiy JJt of a cottage where a 'light sM;wed in the window as if to welcome 'them. "Lottie," said the seaman, "the War ren farm's for sale. I was Just-a-thlnklng what a snug home It'd be for me and you." "Ah, that was grandad's once," suld the girl, "and now I come to think of It, granny prophesied years ago that the farm would be mine some day; and she's a wonderful gift o' prophesying, ain't she, Steevle?" Lottie had slipped her hand carres singly Into Steevle's arm, and now talked of all the surprising things they tvould accomplish If this dream of ivealth were only realized. Presently they reached the cottage door, and Lottie, raising the latch, led i the way Into a well-furnished kitchen, n where a fire gave out a cheerful blaze. I lAn old woman was crouching In an nrmchalr beside the hearth. She turn ed her blind eyes searchlngly toward them. Lottie ran forwnrd, and bend ing down greeted her tenderly. As Armstrong took his seat at the Ltable, where the girl made all haste to flay supper, the young couple exchang- ed ; a glance and a nod. '"Granny," the seaman began, "I've brought you a bit o news strange news what me and Lottie's Just picked 'up nt sea. Granny Sanderson's face beenme ani mated. She craned her neck toward the speaker and said: "Good news, I reckon! It's In the Inp V your voice, Stephen, plain as be. what ls't, my lad?" Armstrong hastened to relate the In cident of the black bottle, and then he read the amazing document which pad come to light. The woman listened Intently, and when ho had concluded sat silent for a vhlle. At last she said. "Who knows o' this?" SALT HEUM Mnst torturing and dlsrlRurlr.j: of itching, battling, scaly skin and scalp humors is in. i Untly relieved by a warm bath with Ccti- I, ccbA Boxe, a alDgle application of Cuticuiu oiatment), the great skin cure, ami a run nose SPCwncuiM. IIwolvbxt; preatest-of blood burlfler and humor cure, when all elso falls. la roM trefhut Iht wortf. fonii Df - Cm. Cur , rfvpi., Uottsa. ' llov t Curt tiJ( Rbu.M 17m. '(uticura "Nobody," said Armstrong, " 'cept us threo what are hero together." "Nobody? Was you and Lottie alone aboard?" "Itedshaw was aboard, o' course. But ho don't count," said Armstrong; " 'sides, ha was nsleep, weren't he, Lottie?" Granny Sanderson shook her bend shrewdly. "There's them what sleeps with one eye open," said she. "I knows 'em." "What do you mean?" retorted Arm strong. "My mate ar'n't ono o' that sort! Whatever's put such a thought Into your head?" "Ah, my lad! 1'vo alius held as you was too confiding. It's In your natur. Now, lookee here! If you takes my ad vice you'll not lose a minute putting to sea. Why, bless me," said she, "it wouldn't surprise me If Redshaw were there aforo you. Mark mo!" Stephen Armstrong had pushed away his plate while Mrs. Sanderson still spoke. He now rose hastily and Bald; "I'm not nfeer'd. I've a mind to take Redshaw alonger me tonight. Why not? I'll need a hand, I'm thinking." "Go alone," said Granny Sanderson. "Leastways, don't you trust Redshaw In this business, Steevle, If you hope to steer back Into Saltwln harbor alive!" Armstrong turned angrily away and put his hand upon the latch. Lottie sprang toward him. "Let me come with you!" said she, "No!" the woman interposed, rising and taking a step gropingly toward them. "I forbid It. You stay alonger me." , Armstrong went out, enraged beyond measure at the thought that his old mate, with whom he had put to sea almost dally, In fair weather and foul, for ten years and more, should be sus pected of treachery. He had always put Implicit trust In Redshaw, though he could not deny thnt the man had his faults. He was given to drinking at times more than was good for him, and his mates were not always the men Armstrong would have chosen. Still he had never known Redshaw to act In a way that he could call underhanded, and he would not mistrust him now. He had reached the edge of the sand dune, where he could gain a clear view of the moonlit sea. He cast a glance toward the harbor. "What!" the exclamation came like a cry from his lips, and the next mo ment ho was running In wild haste toward the shore. III. Redshaw lingered aboard the smack after Lottie Sanderson and Armstrong had cone. He sat on deck smoking his short clay pipe and looking yearningly to seaward. As soon as It was fairly dusk, however, he began to bestir himself. lighted a ship's lantern, and collected together a few articles needful for a short sea trip. These articles he car ried on board a skiff almost alongside. Then he loosened the ropes, adjusted the oars noiselessly and glided out of the harbor Into the open sea. He now hoisted sail and turned his boat's head in the direction of Saltwln Sands. The wind has freshened andhe skiff rose and fell and ran forward over the dark waters with increasing speed. At first the clouds overhead were dense and lowering, but scarce had Redshaw got clear of the harbor when the night showed signs of brightening, and the curious moon occasionally looked down upon the little craft out of black, ragged clouds. The gleam lit up Rcdshaw's face, re vealing a look of Intense greed. Once or twice the man glanced over his shoulder like one who half dreads pur suit; but his more frequent look was directed to beaward with an untiring search. An hour two hours went by, when a faint ray of light fell athwart the water a short distance ahead. At the same Instant Redshaw sprang to his feet and peered eagerly over the bow. Presently the boat's keel grated upon a sandbank, bringing the skiff to a gradual stop. The man found him self in two feet of water, and with his seaman's knowledge of the bearings there was no reason to doubt that his boat had ran upon the sandbank for which he had designedly steered. It was low tide, and the moment he had made the skiff secure, he began to wade through the surf toward the light which now glimmered hard by. He soon grew convinced that it came from a ship's cabin. Suddenly he stopped. "Walt a bit!" He pulled a bowle knife from his poeket.opened the dagger-shaped blade, und clinched the handle between his teeth. Then he stepped forward with a look of purpose. The light soon proved to be one that came from n cabin window on the plrt side of an old tugboat. Redshaw caught at a bit of rope, and hauled himself hand over hand up the boat's side until he could peer Into the cabin. A strungc sight met his glance. The light of a swing lamp fell upon a small, wrinkled man In a pilot cap. He Mood In water up to his knees, and ho laughed with a shivering sort of laugh, and plunged his hands Into the water and fished up handfuls of sovereigns that glittered the more through being wet. The old skipper gloated over each handful, as he Hung the coins with a clinking sound upon a shelf In a cupboard, on a level with his head. Redshaw clung to the rope, taring like one spell-bound at the weird figure. Then he climbed noiselessly on deck, and crept round to the cabin door. Ho found It open. With fetealthy tread he descended the ladder, the bowle knife now behind his back, tightly clutched in his right hand, a villainous look in his eyes. Hut of a sudden at the very moment that Redshaw crouched down with In tent to make his spring the grim old mariner fixed his glittering eye fear lessly upon him. The man paused, once moro complete ly nghast, deprived of all volition. Ah! You've come, havo you come to claim it my gold?" cried the skip per as ho shivered and laughed again. "No, no I bayn't dead yet, mnte. The tide's been and turned, Just In the nick o" time. It were a-washlng clean over tho deck at nightfall, when I sent that 'ere bottle adrljft, and I thought as how I was a drowned man. But it'H been running out ever since, tho tide has, mate running out, till It's give mo tho chance to touch my gold touch it once morel" Ho broke Into a wilder fit of shiver ing laughter now, and .bending down, plunged both hands into tho water. At tho same lnstnnt Redshaw regained hla will power and leaped forward. But as ho lifted his knlfo with tho thought to strike, a masterful grin woa put upon his wriBt, and ho was thrown back upon the ladder, crush'ed and stunned by the fall. When Redshaw recovered conscious ness ho found himself lying in tho bow of tho little skiff, Htlll at anchor upon Saltwln Sands. A gray, foggy dawn was breaking over a calm sea. He raised himself upon his elbow nnd looked around, A dismantled craft was drifting brfore his eyes upon the flood tide. Her stern was turned directly toward him, and upon It ho read, paint ed In large, white letters: "PHANTOM TUG." as It vanished Into 'the mist. It was Armstrong who had saved Ben Tarbuck from his mate's treacher ous blow. Tho Phantom was subse quently towed Into Saltwln Harbor. But Tarbuck never fully recovered from that night upon the sands; and before Lottie had become Stephen Arm strong's wife the skipper died, leaving the bulk of his wealth to his preserver. Redshaw never showed his faco In side Saltwln harbor again; though, had he acted honestly, he might pos sibly have shared his mato's good luck; but In his over-reaching after Tar buck's gold, he had lost all. PAST WAR SCARES. Historic Instances Wherein UucU Sam Doemed It Kxpedlent to I'ut on Ills righting Hoots. From the Philadelphia Press. The United States as nn organized government has been In existence 109 years only, but during that time It has fought two forelcn wars, one war on Its own soil and been subjected to a number of war scares. With the wars everybody Is familiar. Tho war scares, however, are not so well known. They began soon after tho government was organized and have continued to occur slnco with more or less frequency. The first war scare was the result of the French Revolution. The French gov ernment formed on the fall of the monarchy wished the sympathy and support of the United States govern mpnt and sent to this country as Its minister tho well-known Genet. His design was to form an offensive and defensive alliance between France nnd the United States nnd embroil this country Into a war with all the ene mies of the French republic. The en thusiastic reception given Genet by the people of this country, who were eager to express their sympathy with a na tion struggling for liberty, turned his head nnd he Imagined that he could oerr!de the government and take what ever liberties he chose. He had prl ateers fitted out In the ports of the United "States and the British mer chant vessels captured by these priva teers were confiscated by French con suls in this country, notwithstanding the neutrality proclamation Issued by this government. It was only the firmness and decision of Washington, whose demand for the recall of Genet was promptly complied with that saved the country from a war with England at that time. o This is the best known war scare this country has experienced, probably because It was the first and one of the most acute. There were two other French war scares. The second one arose from the delay France showed In making compensation for the Ameri can vessels seized in French ports dur ing the time of the first Napoleon. The controversy over these seizures dragged along until near the close of the sec ond presidential term of General Jack son when he preemptorlly demanded reparation. The two countries were dangerously near to war on this occa sion and diplomatic relations between them were stopped for a time. But England mediated nnd the war cloud blew over. The interference of France In Mexico during tho War for the Union was a cause of great Irritation to this country, but beyond protest nothing was done until rebellion In the South ern Btates ended. Then an emphatic demand for the withdrawal of the French was made and had It not been complied with war would have result ed. Louts Napoleon saw the need of prompt action and quickly withdrew the French army from Mexico and an other war scaie was dls&lpated. o British war scares have been fre quent, but with' the exception of the War of 1S12 they have all ended with out hostilities. One of the first of thes'e was caused by the refusal of England to surrender the Western forts as ngreed when the Revolutionary War ended. But this dlfllculty was settled by the Jay treaty. England and (he United States were very near to war In 1S07 when the British warship Leopard fired upon nnd boarded the United Stntes frigate Chesapeake. This trouble was qulted by England disa vowing the act and making reparation. The settlement of the Oregon bound ary line loomed up on the horizon for n time as a probable cause of war but the question was settled amicably In 1S4G. Great Britain's course during tho war for the Union was the occasion for much unfriendly feeling in this coun try. The fitting out of tha Alabama, and other privateers In English pjrts gave rlbe to what weio known as the Alabama claims which might hive caused a conflict had not England paid damages to the amount of firi.sno.000. The Venezuela w.ir scare growing rtut of Great Britain's claim to territory In Rcuth America Is too recent to need explanation. Spanish war scares were numerous as long as Spain held possession of any port of the North Amerlenn continent. Her hold on the mouth of the Mississip pi river was a constant irritation to the American ocopla until Loulslanua an as sold to this country, and later her possession of Florida and the disputes us to its boundaries were a perennial saurce of wars. For causing some of these scares tho people of the coun try nre not wholly free, for the South wus not over-scrupulous alraut observ ing Spanish rights. Since Spain's hold on the continent was released Cuba has been a fertile source of war fevers, in lf51 the famous Ostend manifesto nd vlslng th'o Pierce admlnlstartlon to buy Cuba from Spain might easily havo led to war. Tho Cuban rebellions have also brought the United States and Spain near to war. Some dHlcate questions had to "be settled during tho Cuban Ip Burrectlon beginning In 1SC8 and much patience exercised tn prevent wnr. The notorious Vlrglnlus affair in 1873 al most precipitated a conillct. V'nlled rinruimm. Foreign Count They tell mo there ure n great many euses of Insunlty among tho rr.cn In your country. American Heiress It is useless to deny It. A great mony of our men do marry for love. Chicago News'. JONAS LONG'S SONS. 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Each production of the following reper toire mounted complete with special sccijcry carried by company: Monday NlKlit Tho Stowuwny Tdewlay Mutlneo The Iron Master. TuisiUy Nluht Lights O' London. Wednesday Matlnco The Paymaster. Wednesday NlKht l'ower of the Press. Thursday Matinee Lady of Lyons, Thuraday Night The "Waues of Sin. Friday Matinee The Circus Girl. Friday Night Brother for Brother I'luys for Saturday to be announced. Special Introductions Between Acts. Night Prices, 10, 20 and 30 centc. Dltno Matlnco Dally, commencing Tues day. Note A special ticket will be Issued for the ladles (rood Monday night at 13c, ATTEND TO YOUR EYES NOW Eyesight preserved nnd headaches pro vented by having your eyes properly und (scientifically examined und fitted. liyes examined free. The latest styles of Hpoo tucles and eyeg'asses ut the lowest prices. DR. SHIMBERG, 305 Spruco Strset THE DICKSON M'F'G CO,, bcruuton aud Wllkes-Ilurre, l'u. 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