VOL.* xxxv HUSELTON'S Great £ k Sa ie IN BOOTS and SHOES. There will be lively shoe selling in tliis house for some time to come. We ha\e taken the balance . of several of our fine lines —sizes are somewhat ' broken —and marked them down to About 50c on the Dollar! \ Misses' Shoes. inost ' y narrow widths—A, H and C. | . . . _ . . . bmall. narrow feet will have a rare One lot of fine Dongola, plain toe, lreat spring and heel, former price $i.25, #1.50 * , , ~ , T and f?.oo, now 75c and sl.oo—sizes One lot of Ladies Shoes former lift price $1 25 and ?2.oo; now 75c and SI.OO. J Children's, same stvle, 8* to u. re- t One lot of Ladies'soft shoes, dnced tojocand 75c.' Sizes 6 to 8, 35c button aud tarns plain and tin fo.mer •ml 50c. price ?4.o-to-date they might as well be / |l || several years behind the times. I.' vou wan 1 the l-est ideas in clothing you should get youi \\ll T ft O clotliirg of men who have the ideas. Vol \\l jj \ ■'! want them to look well and wear well. If £ -hey are not satisfactory you justly blame the ■ V tailor. We make the clothe® in correct style and you are sure of them fitting for we guaran tee them and make the clothes to suit you. CI p ISfZCIC -MERCHANT TAILOR |f *• lvc^lv i 142 North Main Street Butler Penn'a Papc sros, jeweisEßS. We Will Save You Money On Toiamonds, Watches Clocks,) S Silverware, 1847 Rodger Bros. I S Plateware and Sterling Silver^ Our Repair Department takes in all kinds of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, etc 122 S. Main St. Old gold and silver taken the same as cash. YOU ARE WAITING pjr your prescription don't fail to look . , over our line of perfumes, we have re- // I * eeivel nine very fine ones lately, am: /"* r^ will lie pleased to have y'iu examine , , ) j " iem ' ill We also have a very la.geaswjrtm it. of tooth brushes made expressly for u» SLiL \C wbi'h ted hands and face, and if so we « —'vji\ recommend Cvdonitim Cream as a fine toilet preparation. REDICK& GROHMANN DRUGGISTS. PEOPLES I'll ONE. 114 BUTLER PA |to art workers j J Wc just received 4 S a full linv of stumped £ J ond embroidered linens # f in 1898 PATT6RNS a i orders promptly filled, i j MARK'S 4 108 South /Vlain street, a i Qutler, J ■I.J ■ ■ L- J , Advertise in the CTIIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. RAILROAD TIME TABLES I*., Bessemer A I-.. K. Trains depart Xo 12. 9:40 A. M: N'o. 14. 0:07 P. M. liutler time. Trains arrive: Xo. U, 9:55 A. M; No. 11. 2:55 P. M. Butler rime. No. 12 runs through to Erie and con nects with W N. V &P. at Hust in Junction for Franklin and Oil City, and with X. Y. L E. & W. at Shtaan go for all jioiDts east. No. 14 mn through t<"> Albion and connects with W. X. Y. & P. for Fr.:'iklin and Oil City. A. B. Gbooch, Agemt. I>ITTSBUKG & WESTERN Railway. Schedule of I'as f'Miger Trains in effect Sov. 21, 1897. BUTLER TIME. iM-jait. Anive. .Ultgbcnr Aaiim»«laJi<>n r, i'< .»» '■> 17 A. a Aifefibai; "Flyer" * !•' " " " New (Ja*tl<- I V. kx Hi Akn.ll Mail * 1 »•* • ' 1 v Aii.i!h.n> .v.. u.ni.rUii i;'». - if ;; Alligtienv Ex|*» — . .... : 1 1-* M *'» Alletfhrajr "llsir J'" ;; * 1- li* AJii-irfiriir M*il *• *" " B ®> All--Utiij Hjer •« " Kll'i-.1 '. 4 i " 7"! I 111 a." 1.in..-. •: ' -1" " ■' 17 » * Kan*- an-! U. . If»r.| Mail • '■> ■» M ' litri 'ti A> it! ' • '' * '* v M sr.\i>AY trains Ali-aliHlv - X IS ».» '* " Anx«moilattnD * *• r.M N- » Caatl.. A. .latum | » 15 *.»! ' «« " < Kxjirrai I :i 4S i'-*i 5 li 7 Allrgln-ny Act' mmmUUno ; j 1 08 Train arri at . r i.iC li.m. IS. A O. ' t. Illt*bur;r at 3.1.5 p.m ami I'. Jc W., Alkflwuf at F-r thi-.ugb t|.k-N t , a!! j..ii.ti in the »••«», i.. rt!>- or afi'l Information regarding rant,-*, l|l>is of trains, ertc. a.'ijil)' to A. IJ. CBOI'CH, Aifunt, K. B. BEYNOLDS, Snp't, Butler, I'n. Fuxlurg, I'a. r. W. liV-KIT, A.O. P. A.. Alll*tery, Pa PENNSYLVANIA RA s !k WESTEN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. Si. IILM LK iv Krrr.i-r NOT. 29,1897. fjOLTII. , WKKK I/AT 9 A M A. M A.M. I'. M I' M BITLHIt la«v,- Hi", in.'. Ill", -t :•/. '■ ttaxfulmrg Arriv.. *; .VI « ' i II '■> *-' Bttlltr Jiinrtinn. *' 7 -7 k '> ■ ! - '■' ■ ; lintler JUTII tion.. I.' ive 7 I- ' - • * - Xatrona \rrh- 7 X I-' <• ' r ; Tarentum iI- '• 07 1- | i ( 7 •S[.l ... 7 ./l ft In I- 4'» -1 ihtrmuM # •"*» 1 '< ■> "> II X 111 •* <'..iriim.nt '• l.i II 41 M .... SjiiiriK'lal" jft II v. -! 1" n Tarentan 7 81 !» .s:» 12 «7 ■■ 2; '• 4n Natrona 7 3!>| !• 4:1 12 12 8 81 ' '1 Butl.-r Jinn linn.. juiivr 7 I'. i -1 12 JJi 1 ■ i "i llntlef Junction., .leav.- 7 4' ft J 1J 2- 4 07 ■ "i Haxi.tilinrtr .i I 'll in 15 1J 4!i| * 721 8rT1.K8.... i.rriie « 4<.10 !>• I 17 i if. 7 .Mi A. M.|A M ,!■ M.|P. M |P. M. HI'NDAY TBAINH.—Leare Allegl.. ny_< ity f.r Hut. I»T anil [.ritirifril inti-rtni -liate ttotioiia at 7:2" a. in. a:rl J». 111. WKKK Data. FOR TIIK EA«T. WEEK Davj. P. M A. M i I'- M. I' M. * R. ♦; TIFF'lv f*i TI.EK.. Hr . ... 117 i.'/ 7 .T »r ISntler Juitrtioo Iv .. 1 » 1 • 4 '-'.j 7 r»'m Kr j-.rt Iv H:s| I 0-. 4 *»?/ 7 "»l|" All<'k!i» nv Jntu tion.. h l- 1,1 4 211 H " 1... lilruru " « 440 H2l " fault->u ( •' 7V; || 0 » '• l«l;urwv:llc ' 1 J*' H ill V. " Alt'xina 4 A Ift 8 1 tn l .1 lo •• * II "> 1" 4 r, £.\ " PbiladelpbU.. h II 2»» A. M.|l\ M. lA.M. T. M On Muti lny, trmii !••»** •»•*< 7-V» a. ><• . roniiwta I ir llarri-l'iirtr, Alt«*»n i Mini I'liil rl»-l|«liia Tlir»»uich trains (»»r t'i*» i-a-*! liavp |'itti«l*iiri; (tiiH'H Station ), Hl* follows; Atlantic KsfT<"*<, Aiily.... lVnn«|lvaiilH l.iniit«s«l " 7:1 • T|*y E**|»r" I-'* l M *mii> Llim V.»yr* >m, " * riiilaWl)>tiia . ~..4 v> > * Ka«t«Tii Kjiifi-i*, " .... 7 0*» Fart Li ii<*, * H.lo •• I'hil.pl a Mail, Huii'lay* Olly M 4<- * a Wor il<*tail' *1 information, I»«I«Im— > Tli"- K Watt. I'M**. A (ft- W.-t.-rn IMntrirt, for wr Kinii A renin- ami .HnutJi n« |il Htr«»t, rittilmrg, I'n. J It 111 P IIIXON, J K wr>. *.« »mthl Mm *ien't Ajc« nt. Have You Time TO ATTEND C. E. niLLERS —CLOSING OUT SALE.— WINTER SHOES AND RUBBERS, When you cornc to Butler a few dollars with you and attend this sale you can buy footwear at your own price for the next ft.*\v weeks or until all Winter Good are closed out. GOOD THINGS FOR LITTLE MONEY Men's good solid boots.. . .$1.40 B 'y's good solid bro's 1.20s Men's goc' solid shoes .. .98 Boy's schooi allocs 9X Mtn's fine buff ?hocs 98 Ladies' waterproof shoes. . . .98 Ladies' fine i.hoes, button or lace 9^ Misses' fine shoes, button or lace 98 RUBBERS ABOUT. HALF PRICE Boy's low rubbers 10c Ladies' cloth overs 25c Ladies' fine rubbers, pointed..2sc Ladies' heavy rubbers... 25c Men's heavy lubbers 40c Men's fire rubbers s oc I Boy's rubber boots $1.50 Ladies', Misses' and Chil dren's boots 98c LARGE STOCK OI- FEi/F BOOTS and OVERS. Uon'i fail to atend (his sale f in need of footwear C. E. MILLER. 2is S. Main St., Butler, Pa. Selling Out 1 S —OUR— Entire Stock ( \Wail Paper. ( S Choicest patterns arc left. ? ) We want to quit the bus : -C ✓ ness. S V liargains at asto 1 rate ( < DOUGLASS' \ BUTLER, H-V.. THURSDAV, MARCH 10, ISOH Much in Little Is especially true of Hood's Pills. for no medi cine ever contained so great curative power In ki small space. They are a whole medicine Hood's chest, always ready, al- ■ p ■ ways efficient, always sat- ill ; prevent a cold | 111 or fever, cure all liver ills, jick headache, jaundice, constipation, etc. 25c. Ihe only Fills to take with Hood's Siirsaparilla. This In lour Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, a generous Rumple will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure (Ely's Cream Bal.a sufficient to demon strate the grt.-i merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren St , New York City. Itev. Johnßeid, Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his statement. "It is a tive cure for catarrh if used as directed. Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious dru~. Price, 50 cents. SHERIFF'S SALE. By v-rtueof a wril-iof fj. f:t. issued out of | the-' ourt of i'■ .mrnon Pl< a> •r* lin tier <'ollll- : ty. R.i ted ' -I me din -led, 1 hep will l ev- I p<>-' . to puhli•• sale. « the Court House, iu , ih<- borough of Bnter Pa., Kridav the nth I day of 'larch A. Is!*, at 1 o'clock I'. m.. the following dex;r!td.'itlmm In town for p'Ti'i; - im nt Ixiardific and transient trad:-. « ;i I r 111 uu :t r:i nt« «'I t Stable Room For 65 Horses. A roirfl rlass of horsfH. JkMli driver* and onulif i;|»oi» proper notification I#y PEARSON B. NAGE. Telephone, No. 2I». HENRY BSCKEL HAS Opknkd UP THK I.ARC.K Bkick LIVERY STABLE ON WEST JEFFERSON STREET. DUFFY BLOCK, and is prepared to Furnish fust-class ri> s at ptices to suit the times. When want ing anything in the livery line, it will pay you to call on him first, as be is there to do business -to accommodate the public. HENRY BICKEL, Bell Phone 36. People's I^s. unui IS THE TIME TO KAVL IfUn Your Clolliir^ GLEANED or DYED If you want and reliable cleaning or dyeing done, there is just one place In town where you can ge* it, and that is at mm Lillys 21 i > ( 'eiitor jtvenuo. Qt-V» We: do fine work in out door Photographs. This is the tim" of y: ir to have a picture ol your house. Give us a trial. A,o it(orth« .lan cHtown sliding Hlio'l • o N' wY■ k. R. FISHER & SON, OIL MEAL " l; 11 I'Ywl for Hoim . < *<#»v . hn'p, 11'..' . In win, « t<\ Ift-altli, *1 i« iiklh arid nrodii' tI \« powrr toftniftkftift you fcedfriK It? <'h«?npout f' » (IJn tlio n.rk»*t. I INSFFD (ill AN " wm 1 " u ' l-IHOCt-U Ul L M,l point l i U. i jrrar-* on hotmr, barn or f» r»r« Mix* H paints i«• (Joulit ful «|tialit.y ' norm and «ornu vt-ry I" I VVrlti for our'ir^nlar. I or pur»i l*lfiH<'«-'l oil or fin al, and whit«- load, ask f«»r "Thompson'#," 01 addri m uitiTa' tur«-r THOMPSON <<», I . W Diamond strci t ROBEFiT LOUIS STEVEHSOtT SYNOPSIS. CIIAFTKR X.—Billy Bones, an old sea. dog-, much addicted to rum, lodges at Ad miral Benbow Inn. CHAPTER iX.—Stranger. called 'Black Dog," meets Bones: an interview ends In fight and dtsapp' arance of stranger. Uor.es suffers apoplectic strike. CHAPTKR 111.-Blind 1 -gear comes to Inn, presses something in Hones' hand and leaves. "Ten o'clock! Bones cries. "Six hoi rs. We'll do them yet; at which moment he is struck dead by apo plexy. _ , , CHAPTER IV.—Near B-.-nes body Is found a little rour.d I I«r. i.ia. lo no 1 on one side, on lie other the words: iou have till ten t»-night. Oold Is found In Bones' r -a chest, and an oilskin packet. Flight taken from inn. CHAITKR V.—Blind man (Pew) with com-anion? attack the inn. Charring! at not nndinK lnt'B list." the scoundrela scatter. Blind l'ew U run down and kllieJ by a horse. CHAPTr.K Vl. Jtoung Hawkins tanes packet to l>r. I.ivesey, who with Squire Trelawnry opens It f.-. l finds minute di rections for finding of treasure. CHAPTER VII.-Treiawney fits up ex pedition to seek treasure. CHAPTER VIII.—Jim 1 1 awklns meets Black Dog at John Silvr's inn. Black I>o« runs away, and Sliver avows ignorance of hl3 Identity. CHATTER IX.— Ship s captain things tome things on board somewhat singular and asks to have certain precautions taken, among 1 which are the storing or the powder and anna astern and f lvir -£ the doctor and his friends berths beside the cabin. ....... CHAPTER X. — begins her voyage. Hawkins climbs Into apple bar rel and overhears plans of treachery on foot among the crew. ... CHAPTER XI. —Plot (laid by Sliver, rhli 's cook) provides f' r the '•"lke for nos < sslon of the treasure Immediately It is gotten aboard. Cry of Band ho '"cnAI'TEU Xll.—Hawkins tells of Sil ver's treachery to I.lv<-ey, Trelawney and Cant Hmollett, who hold a council of war. CHAPTER Xlll.—Mutiny begins to show In restlessness of men, and captain de cides to give the men an afternoon ashore. Jim Hawkins slips off with them, but on the l-lar.d gives them the slip. , m »i i- rr.it Aiv.-f.om cover Jim sees Silver kill one of the honest hands, and also learns of the murder of another In another part of the Island and runs from the so»-ne. CHAPTER XV.—Jim meets Ben Gunn, a marooned sailor who had lived on Xdand three years. Report of a cannon Is heard. Both run for boat when they see In the wood the union Jack. CHAPTER XVl.—Hunter and the doc tor go ashoro in a Jolly-boat, discover a block-bouse witjln a Blockade and de cide to provision It. !• aithful party J 3 iolned by Gray, a mutineer, and the ship eft with the five remaining mutineers on "cHAPTER XVll.—Jolly-boat starts on last trip to shore overloaded with pro visions. Mutineers on ship man the >riin. Trelawney picks off one of the gunners. Cannon ball passes over boat, which i!n*i and l< ave.i party to wade ashore. Bucca neers heard near by In the wood. CHAPTER XVlll.—Fight with buc caneers results in one killed on each s.ile. Faithful party gain the stockade and run up the Brll Ish colors. CHAPTER XIX.-Jim seeing the colors knows h<- li near friends and, leaving Ben Gunn, climbs into the stockade. CHAPTER XX.—Silver, under flag of truce, makes overtures for chart to get the treasure by, but falls. CHAPTER XXl—Buccaneers attack stockade, are worsted, leaving five d r ad behind. The faithful party loses two, and Capt. Smollett wounded. CHAPTER XXll.—Doctor sets out to find Ben Gunn. Jlrn slips off to seek boat Ben Gunn hwd built, and decides to cut "Hispaniola," now flying the Jolly roger, adrift. CHAPTER XXIII. Schooner now manned by only two of the pirates, and they In a drunken brawl, Is cut from an chor. Jim then, from sheer exhaustion, falls asle'-ii In bott< n of coracle niAPTKIt XXIV— A waking Jim so»s the "Hlspanlola" helplessly drifting, and by a great effort reaches her and leaps, catching ihn Jlbboom. CHAPTER XXV.—Jim finds one of th« mutineers (O'Brien) dead, killed by Hands, and Hands, the only survivor on hoard, severely wounded; decides to reach the whin In North IjiU't. ctT aT'TER XXVl—Hands manage .. secure a dirk. Jim discovers the trm hcry and escapes up a mast, to which h" m pinned by Hands throwing his dirk Jlin fires hla pistol. CHAPTER XXVIL "PIECES OK EIGHT." Owinp to the cant of the vessel the mofits hung far out over the water, an>l from my perch on the cross-trees I luul nothing below me but the sur face of the bay. Hands, who win not so far up, was, In consequence, nearer to the ship, and fell between me and the bulwarks. He rose once to the surface in a lather of foam and blood nnoard and get to sea again. 1 had nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the stockade and boast of my achievements. Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the "Hispaniola" was a clinching answer, and I hoped that even Capt. Smollett would con fess I had not lost my time. So thinking, and in famous spirits, 1 began to set my face honmuard for the block-house and my companions. I re membered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Capt. Kidd's anchorage ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left, and I bent my course in that direction that I might pass the stream while it was small. The wood was pretty open, and, keeping nlony the lower spurs, 1 soon turned the cor ner of that bill, and not long after waded to the mid-calf across the water course. This brought me near to where I en countered Ben Gunn, the maroon, and I walked more circumspectly, keeping an eye on every side. The dusk had come nigh hand completely, and, as 1 opened out the cleft between the two peaks, I became aware of a waver ing glow against the sky, where, as I judged, the man of the island was cook ing his supper before a roaring fire. And yet I wondered, in my heart, thut he should show himself so cureless. I For if I could see this radiance, might it not reach the eye of Silver himself I where he camped upon the shore among the marshes? Gradually the night fell blacker; it was all I could do to guide my -1 self even roughly toward my des -1 filiation; the double hill behind me and the Spy-glass on my right 1 hand loomed faint and fointer; the stars were few and pale; and in • the low ground where I wandered 1 ' kept tripping among the bushes and rolling Into sandy pits. Suddenly u kind of brightness fell about me. I looked up; a pale glim mer of moonbeams hud alighted on the summit of the Spy-glass, and soon aft er I saw something broad and silvery moving low down behind the trees, and knew the moon had risen. With this to help me I passed rapid ly over what remained to me' of my journey; and, sometimes walking, sometimes running, impatiently drew near to the stockade. Yet, as 1 began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle war- I* ily. It would have been a poor end to I my adventures to get shot down by I my own party In mistake. The moon was climbing higher anil higher; its light began to full here and there In masses through the more open districts of the wood, and right in front r»f me a glow of a different color appeared among the trees. It was red and hot. and now and nirain it was a little darkened us it were the embers of u bonfire smoldering. For the life of me I could not think what it might be. At lust I clime right down upon the borders of the clearing. Ihe western end was already steeped in moonshine; the rest, und the block-house itself, still lay in u black shadow, checkered with long silvery si reaks of light. On the oth er side of the houscan immensoflrc had burned itself Into clear embers, and shed a steady, red reverberation, con trasted strongly with the mellow pale- I ness of the moon. There was not n t soul stirring, nor a sound beside the noises of the breeze. I stopped, with much wonder iu my heart, and perhaps u litlle terror also. It. had not been our »;iylo build great fire ; we were. Indeed, by the cap tain's orders, somewhat, niggardly of firewood; and l began to fear that something liu'd gone wrong while I was absent. I stole, round by the eastern end. keeping close in shadow, and at a con venient place where the darkness was thickest, crossed the palisade. To make assurance surer, I got upon my hands und knees, and era wled, w'tli out a word, toward the corner of the house. As I drew nearer, my lieurt was suddenly and greatly lightened. It wa not a ple.iKunt noise In Itself, and I had often complained of It nt other times, but just then it wns like music to hear my friend* snoring to gethci so loud and peaceful in their sleep. The sea-cr.v or the watch, that ' beautiful "All's well." never fell more reassuringly on my car. I In the meantime, there was no doubt of one 'thirpr; they kept an infamous bad -watch. If it had been Silver anantfagc round his head told that he had recently tieen wounded, and still more recently dressed. I remembered t he man who h'ad been shot and had run hack among the woods in the great at tack, and doubted not that this was he. The parrot sat, preeningher plumage, on Loup John's shoulder. lie himself. I thought, looked somewhat paler and more stern than. I was used to. lie still wore his fine broadcloth suit in whlclThe had ftilfilled his mission, but It was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briars of the wood. "So." said he, "here's Jim Hawkins, shiver my timbers! dropped in, like, eh? Well, come, I take that friendly." And thereupon he sat down across the brandy-cask, and began to fill a pipe. "Give me the loan of a link, Dick," said he; and then, when, he had a good light, "that'll do, lad," lie added, "stick the glim in the wood het t>; and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves tol—you needn't stand tip for Hawkins; he'll excuse you, you may lay to that. And so, Jim" —stopping the tobacco —"hero you are, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John. I sec you were smart when first I set my eyc« on you; but this here gets away from me clean. It do." To all this, us may 1M- well supposed, I made no answer. They had set me with my back against the wall; and I stood (liere, looking Silver in the face, pluckily enough, T hope, to nil outward appearance, but with black despair in my heurt. Silver took a whilT or two of his pipe willi great composure, and then ran on agnl n. "Now, you see, Jim, so be as you ore here," says he, "I'll give you a piece of my mind. I've always liked you, I have, for a lad of spirit, and the plctcr of my own self when I was young and hand some. I always wanted you to jine and take your share, and die a gentleman, and now, my cock, you've got to. Cap'u Smollett's a line seaman, as I'll orwn up to any day, but stiiff on discipline. "Dooty is dooty,' says he, and right he is. Just you keep clear of the cap'n. The d-octor himself is gone dead again you—'ungrateful scamp' was what he said; and the short, and the long of the whole story is about here; you can't go bark to your own lot, for I hey wou't have you; and, without you start a third ship's company all by yourself, which might 1m; lonely, you'll have to jine with Cnp'n Silver." So far so good. My friends, then, were still alive, and though I partly be lieved the truth of Silver's statement, that the cabin party were incensed at rue for my desertion, I was more re lieved than distressed by what I heard. "I don't say nothing as to your be ing in our hands," continued Silver, "though there you are, and you may lay to It. I'm all for argyinent; I never seen good come out o' threatening. If you like the service, well, you'll jine; and if you don't, Jim, you're free to answer no—free and welcome, ahlip inate; and If fairer can lie said by mor tal seaman, shiver my sides!" "Am Ito answer, then ?"I asked, with a very tremulous voice. Through all this sneering talk, I was made to feel the thrent of death that- overhung me, and my checks burned and my heart beat, painfully In my breast. "Lad," said Silver, "no one's a-preMS- Ingofyou. Take your hearings. None of us won't hurry you, mate; time goes so ple-isant in your company, you see." "Well," says I, growing a bit bolder, "if I'm to choose, 1 declare I have a right to know what's what, and why you're here, and where my friends .ire." "Wot's wot?" repeated one of the buc caneers, in a deep growl. "Ah, he'd be s lucky oneusknowed that!" "You'll perhaps batt*n iVwn your h(itches till you're spoke, iny friend," cried Silver, truculently, to this spenk or. "YeHtcrdny mortiliiff. Mr. Ilim hliis," said he, "In the dofr-watrb, down cnine I»r. Llvesey with u fluff of truce. Kays lie: '(Vip'n Kilvcr, you'resold out. .Ship's gone!' Well, maybe we'd been taking a glans, nnd ft (long to liel[> It round. I won't sny no. none of us had looked ouh We looked out, find, by tlmnderl the old ship was (fone. I never se»ui n pnek o' fools look fishier; niul yon mny lny to thnf, if I tell!; you that I looked tlie fishiest. 'Well,' says Ilic doctor, 'let's lmrgoin.' We bargained, bim and I, and here wc nre; stores, brandy, Wock-house, the fire-wood you was thoughtful enough to cut, and, in a manner of speaking, the w hole blessed txxit. from cross-trees to keelson. As for them, they've tramped; I don't know Where's they a re." He drew again quietly at his pipe "And lest you should take it into that head of yours," he went on, "that you was included in the treaty, here's the last words that was said: 'How many are you?' says 1, 'to leave?' "Four," says he —'four and one of us wounded. As for the boy, 1 don't know where he is, confound him,' says he, 'nor 1 .lon't much care. We're about sick of him.' These was his words." "Is that all?" 1 asked. "Well, it's all you're to hear, my son." returned Silver. "And now I am to choose?" "And now you are to choose, and _\ou may lay to that," said Silver. "Well," said I, "I am not such a fool but 1 know pretty well what I have to look for. Let the worst come to the worst, it's little 1 care. I've seen too many die since I fell in with you. But ■there's a thing or two I have totell yea." I said, and by this time I was quite ex cited; "and the first is this: Here you are in the bad wov: shii> lost. treasure lest, men lost; your whole business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who did it—it was 1! 1 was in the apple barrel the night you sight ed land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out. And as for the schooner, it w-as 1 who cut her cable, and it was I who killed the men you had al>oard of her, and it was 1 who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've had the top of this business from the first; I no more fear you than I fear a fly. Kill me, if you please, or spare me. Hut one thing I'll say, and no more; if you spare me, by-gones are by-goncs, and, when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all 1 can. It is for you to choose. Kill unother and do yourself no good, or spare me and keep a witness to save you from the gallows." I stopped, for, I toil you. I was out of breath, and, to my wonder, not a man of them moved, but all sat staring at me like as many sheep. And while they were still staring, 1 broke out again: "And now, Mr. Silver," I said, "1 be lieve you're the Ibest man here, and if things go to the worst, I'll take it kind of you to let the doctor know the way I took it." "I'll bear it in mind." said Silver, with an accent so curious that I could not, for the life of me, decide whether he were laughing at my request or had bct-ri favorably affected by my cour age. "I'll put one to that," cried the old mahogany-faced seaman—Morgan by name—whom I had seen in Long John's public house upon the quays of Bristol. "It was him that knowed Black Dog." "Well, and sec here," added the sea cook. "I'll put another nfrain to that, by thunderl For It was the same boy that faked the chart from Billy Bones. First snd last we've split upon Jim Hawkins!" "Then here goes!" said' Morgan, with an oath. And he sprang up, drawing hla knife as if he had been twenty. "Avast, there 1" cried Sliver. "Who aro you, Tom Morgan? Maybe you thoucht you were captain here, per haps. By the powers, I 'll tench you better! Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's gone before you first and last, these 30 year bock—some to the yard-arm, shiver my sides! and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes. There's never a man looked mo between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that." Morgan paused; but a hoarse mur mur rose from the others. "Tom's right," said one. "I stood hazing long enough from one," added another. "I'll bo hanged if I'll be hazed by you, John Silver." "Did any of 3"ou gentlemen want to have it out with me?" roared Silver, bonding far forward from liis posi tion on the keg, with his pljpe still glowing in his right hand. "Put a name on what you're at; you ain't dumb, I reckon. 111 m that wants shall get it. Hav® I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hitwee at the lattor end of It? You know the way; you'rs •' Tkftu h#r« sou/' (kid Mor»»n. with *n oatta. ill gentlemen of fortune, by your ac count. Well, I'm ready. Toko a out luss him that dares, and I'll »co the color of his inside, crutch and all, bo fore that plpcV empty." Not a man stirred; not a man an swered. "That's your sort, IN it?" ho added, returning hte pipe to h1» mouth. "Well, you're u jfiiy lc passed; each adding some apology. "According to the rules," said one. "Fo'k's'le council," said Mor gan. And so. with one remark or an other, all marched out, and left Silver and me alone with the torch. The sea-eook instantly removed his pipe. "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible, "you're within half a plank of death, and what's a long sight worse, of torture. They're going to throw me off. Hut you mark, I stand by you through thick and thin. I (Hdn't xoicau W*, uu, not 111 l 30U SPOk* up. I was about desperate to lose that much blunt, and be hanged into the 'bargain. But I see you was the right sort. 1 says to myself: You stand by Hawkins, John, and Hawkins'll stand by you. You're his last card, and by the living thunder, John, he's yours! Hack to back, says I. You save your witness, and he'll save your neck!" I began dimly to understand. "You mean all is lost?" I asked. "Ay, by gum, I do!" he answered. "Ship gone, neck gone—that's the slie of it. Once T looked into that bay, Jim Hawkins, and seen no schooner—well, I'm tough, but gave out. As for that lot and their council, mark me, they're outright fools and cowards. I'll 6avc your life—if so be as I can—from them. Cut see here, Jim—tit for tat—you save Long John from swinging." I was bewildered; It seemed a thing so hopeless he was asking—he, the old buccaneer, the ringleader throughout. "What I can do, that I'll do," I said. "It's a bargain!" cried Long John. "You speak up plucky, and, by thunder! I've a chance." He hobbled to the torch, where it stood propped among tlic flicwooil,and took a fresh light to his pipe. "Understand me, Jim," he said, re turning. "I've a head on my shoulders, I have. I'm on squire's side, now. 1 know you've got that ship safe some wlieres. How you done it, I don't know, but safe it is. I guess Hands and O'Hrien turned soft. I never much be lieved in neither of them. Now you mark me. I ask no questions, nor I won't let others. I know when a game's up, I do; and I know a lad that's stanch. Ah, you that's young —you and me might have done a power of good to gether!" He drew some cognnc from the cask into a tin canikln. "Will you taste, messmate?" he asked; and when I had refused: "Well, I'll take a drain myself, Jim," said he. "I need a caulker, for there's trouble on hand. And, talking o' trouble, why did that doctor give me the chart, Jim?" My face expressed a wonder so un affected that he saw the needlessn*s« of further questions. "Ah, well, he did, though," said he. "And there's something underthat.no doubt —something. ""'l°' Jim —Irafl or pood." Ami he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst. fTO BE CONTlifriD.l ll«»r Lnrlt. "It Is work, work, work continually, and I never don't get no rest," said the farmer's wife complainingly as she phic<4l another piece of pie before the minister. "Hut you forget that you will have [ rest some day," he said, soothingly. "Not for me, not for me," she an swered, drearily. "\V henever I die there is sure to be a resurrection the very next day." —N. Y. World. Johnny's llnnds. Mother- Johnny, you said you'd l)cen to Sunday school. Johnny (with n far-away look) — Yes'm. Mother—How does It happen that your hands smell flshy? Johnny—l- carried home th'Sunday school paper, an'—an' tl»' outside page Is all about Jonah an' tli' wliale. —N, Y, Weekly. In the fivlra. No declaration of hi* lov# Con M she tiy art entice; nut when thwy both a-«kntlng went. Ho qulokly broke the Ice. —N. Y. Journal. UK NKBDKD A WHOLE CHOP. Grandpapa—Well, little lady, will you give me a lock of that pretty lialr of yours? Majority—Yes, gran'pa; but—(hesi tating) I don't fink one lock would be enough, would It? Punch. Ilninuii Nature. Mreathes there a man with soul so dead. Who never to himself has r.nld: "Were I paid according tn my worth, l"d lmve a mortirußO on thoenrrtnT -Chicago Pally News. No Evidence or Intelligence. Biographical Editor Did Ootrox come from a very Intelligent family? Court Kcporter I hnrdly think so. The names of his father and uncles occur frequently on the jury lists, and one member of his family served In tho It xflslature.— N. V. Journal. t'nefnl Information. Hoy - -Gimme ten cents an' I'll tsllyei •umthln' ycr oughter know. Woman —Get away from here, you impudent rascal! Hoy—All right. Yer kin find out yet house Is on lire fer ycn»elf.—Judge. ;irl(l|ft «4trlUe». Mr. I'oore —Is Miss Tipton In? Belf-liespecting Servants-Yls, sor, she's In. 1 towld her this minute that Ol'd risk me sowl no more tellin' ye she was out when she do be In. Pf. *• Weekly. Just Wheeling Mall. "I could see that she was mt»d cleat through," said Aunt Samanthy. "What was she doing when you sai* b<,r? " . « "ghe was riding her tantrum alone. T.ula»