VOL* xxxv MRS. J. E. ZIMMERMAN. GREAT ANNUAL OPENING OF SPRING DRESS GOODS 5 SILKS. Our assortment consisting of the latest colorings, weaves and designs b% far surpa&sts ail our former exhibitions, and by reason of our excellent Eastern connec tions, we are able to offer the season's most deiirable goods at prices much lower than th .se asked for similar goods elsewhere. We shall gladly furnish Samples for comparison upon application. Ladies'. Suits, Skirt-Waists and Millinery Dep't has been thoroughly renovated and enlarged. We now have one of the largest, best lighted cloak rooms in Western Pennsylvania outside the large city stores. A'e have on display in our new room advance styles in Ladies' Silk waists which in clude fancy weaves, stripes and satin?. Trices range from i 2 5D to <9 co; Ladies' Suits in Coverts, Serges and Novelty cloths from #5 00 to #25 00; Ladies' Separate Skirts iu all the new weaves anil colorings also, Black Satin and Morie Velvet Skirts—prices range from $1 00 to sls 00. New Spring Millinery 5b OUR MOTTO: R . J- I r„ S.. .... n S also on display. Exper g Above All In Quality, r 1 r £ Below All in Price. ienced trimmers in our Miilinery department all the year round. firs. J. E. Zimmerman. jj Wall Paper. I |) _ We havi just opened one of the most complere lines ever shown > i) in Butltr consisting of the latest designs and colorings selected 5 from the leadiug wall paper factories of the U. S. with a view of * . | pleasing all lx)th in quality and price we consider it a pleasure ti J e have you call and inspect our goods as we feel confident we can f e please yon, and the prices are as low as the lowest. # !| Special Notice I A We have remnant* you can have at prices that will astonish yon; 5 .j also headquarters for Books, Stationary, etc. . Ira C. Black. & Co. s SUCDESSORS TO DANIEL KINCH. * 1 S , YOUNG ' Tailor, Hatter and Gents Furnishing Goods. Summer heat makes the problem of looking dressy and kecpiug cool a hard one But we've solved it; and for once econcmy, comfort ar.d fashion go hand in haud Our summer suits are finer in fabric, nobbier in pattern and more stylish in cut ban ever before, they fit your cuives and ye! they're not sweat bath outfits. The prices may surprise «ou. J S. YOUNG. Tailor. toi S. MAIN St., - - - BUTLER, I'A I «g They Fit Well, i vv '" wear we "- I A 1 If NEW YEAR IDEAS U' less you .11 / /li 11 i| clothes ere up-to-date they might as well be Ir -1 I I I I several years behind the times. If you wan nY/ JI \ \*l 1 tlie Itst ideas in clothing you shoul<l get vr.tii r \\ I I v- "M clothing of men who have the ideas. Vol \ \\l ft I •'! want them to look well and wear well. If I t bey are not satisfactory you justly blame the . J— f ailor. We make the clothes in correct style f /--NX' a nd yf>u are sure of them fitting for we guaran ' S W tee them and make the clothes to suit you. UP K&C k MERCHANT TAILOR ' r • ■VEfWrv, 14 2 North Main Street Butler Penn'a — Pape sros, JEWEbCRS. We Will Save You Money On Toiamonds, Watches Clocks, > S Silverware, 1847 Rodger Bros. 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 si'ver taken the same as cash. • * ' "V*" m improved U. S. Separator's m Vermont Dairymen's Convention. leads everywhere is used; sub |l stantially made more thorough iu separa ■Vß A \K FREDERICKSSURG, PA., June I, 1597. II I*l M My daughter, 6 years old, can set the II ml #r -1 N°- 6 Improved U. S. Separator in perfect ■ U order and run it. It runs much easier the Be l.aval. DAVIO UMBURGER. m VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., - Bellows Falls, Vt. W Advertise in the CITIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Library J RAILROAD TIME TABLES I'., |{T"I«'III<T «V LI, K. Train? depart No 12 0:40 A. M No. j 14. 5:07 P. M. Butler time. TRAINS ARRIVE: NO. 'J. '•> :55 A. M; NO. 11. 2:55 P. M. BUTLER TIME. No. 12 runs through to Erie and con nects with W. N. Y. IA." P at Huston • Junction for Franklin and Oil City, and v.-ith N Y. L E. <Sr W. at Shenan so for all point- east. No 14 rnns through to Albion and connects with 1 W. N. V. & P. for Franklin and Oil ' City. A. li. CROUCH, Agent. 1)I rTS BL'KG & WE3I E.< N Railway. Schedule of I'as- Trains in effect Nov. 21, I i 897. BLTLER TIME. iLVJART. ANIVR. A «NNNKIDATI.NI *> £"■ A.M 1» 17 AM ] ALLEGHENY "FIVRR" 8 1}" <J M " NV\» « A«-CUUIHN*LATI.>II .. 1 »' * '•* 1 • AKRON MAI!.. * 1' 7 <C, I X ALLEGHENY A«X'*IINI<XUTIOII. . L'» 03 " 12 1* 4 I ALLEGHENY K.\J I 1"» P.* ■"» " I ALLEGHENY "FLYER" i ' I OIICAGO EXPRMR 3 4"> " 12 1» ALLEGHENY MAIL 5 4<> " » <*• " ALLEGHENY "FLYER" 7 US " ELL WOOD ACOAIIIIIO'LATIOII •"» 411 M 7 '^s CLIICAP LIMITED . •» " «17 A.M I KANE AND Itiswlfonl Mail 'J *•" A M -<» P.M CLARION ACO'LITLII"UITI'-II 5 :J5 P.M '* •• A M > I SDA Y TK.VL N>. AIL*>GH<*NY KXPR»-*« 8 1". A M X> " NEW ('TURTLE ACCOMUI-LATION 8 L'» A M 7 «TT " GUCMD CZBREN 3 #B M '• W ALLEGHENY ACCON INITIATION 7 OU " TRAIN ARRIVIUG AT 5J»7 P.M. 11. X O. P!TT>BNRG NT .'>. l"» J».M AND I'. AC W., ALLEGHENY AF 3.:N» J». IN. FOR THROUGH TKKFN !«• ALL J»"IIIT- IN THE WC«T, NORTH- W«*T OR AOUTHWMIT AMI INFORMATION REGARDING RO»IT«*», TIME OF TRAINS ETC. APPLY TO A. D. CROUCH, AGENT, K. B. REYNOLDS, SUP'T, BUTLER, PA. FUXBURG, I'A. W. BASSKTT, A. «. P. A.. ALLEGHENY, I»A PENNSYLVANIA t. WFSTEN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. BCHKDCLK IX KRRRCT NOV. jit, 1*97. SOUTII. WEEK DAYS A. M. A. M A 31. P. M P. M BUTLER L«» V.. •. L~> * <»•'. 11 I*. 2 x', r> <V» SAXONLIURG IRRIVO •; .VI K .'IOLL -IH 3 <*> •"> 2* BUTLER .FUNCTION.. " 7 27 * 12 02 '■» H> BUTLER JUNCTION.. .LEAVE 7 'Hi r "»•; 12 22 '■> '!■'> O .VI NATRONA ARRIVE* 7 .'l* 9 <»1 12 .'«» 33 «; TAREUTUNI 7 4J ft </7 !2 .V# 42 *» «C S|»RING<LALE 7 ■">» 'J 1»» 12 L"» .*I2 .... (JIARVM «NT FT I 4 'M. », 27 SLIARJTKLOIRG M (17 ft LI'L 111 4 12 ALLEGHENY O 2«> ft 48 1 2-'» 4 2- R > <I 43 A. 31. A. 31. I'. 31. P. 31.|P. 31. SUNDAY TRAINS.—LEAVE BUTLER FOR ALLEGHENY <'ITY AND PRINCIPAL IUTCRNN'DIATC FTATIOURT AT 7:3 R > A. IU., AND s*>U P. TO. NORTH. WEEK DAYS A. 31 A. 31 \ 31 P. 31 P. 31 ALLEGHENY CITY.... I'HTC* 7 < 4» •» (M» 11 2*» 2•" 010 J .SHARPMBURG 7 11 ft 12 11 37 2 4/>J ... C.-IREMOIIT FT IFT 11 'j :'Ai 11 £>•» •'# 1«> •» :j7 TARENTUM 7 IIL ft •';!» 12 07 3 23 '» 40 NATRONA 7 ft 43 12 12 3 31 0 51 BUTLER JUNCTION...ARRIVE 7 4«>. ft .V) 12 22 3 4O / «»♦» BUTLER J UNCTION, .LEARE 7 4«» ft 12 2-> 4 07 7 NO SAX UIOURG 8 1 10 15 12 4!» 1 :H» 7 24 BUTLER.» ARRIV< n 4O|LO 1 17. 5 OT> 7 50 A. 51.J A. 31 P. 31. P. M.JP. 3! SI'ND.W TRAINS.— L«AVI- ALLEGLIENY ' ITY F«»R BUT* L»-R AND PRIN INTERIU IIATE IRTATIOUS AT 7:* JO A. IN. AND FT:-*! P. M. WRU DAY- FOR THE EAST. WEEK DAVS. P 31 A. 31. | P. M P 31. 2 3'# 0 25 1 V LLT-TMEB AR ....' 1 17 » 2-"» 7 27 AR BUTLER JUNCTION IV . 11 2"» 4 7 4- IV IIN TIER JUN<IION IR* H 12 OM 4 «'*. 7 IFT AR FN-EPO'RT IV 8 28 12 00 4 "ft 7 53|'• ALLEGHENY JUNCTION.. .." ,82412 01 421 H<4 • 4 *O H >\ 44 PAULTON *. ORI M 51; " SALTRTBIIRU' 44 730 '1 <•'.« 541 ft 22 '• BLAIRHVILL. '• 700 TO 40 5 "»O :YI " IHMRTFVILLC INTERUECTION.. . 44 5 .V» LO LO 8 .VI 11 35; " ALTOONA 4 * 315 800 1 IKI 10; " ILARRI L.URN 44 II 45 3 10 4 LIO 0 2TJ '• PHILIFLELPLIIA , H .'IO 11 20 A. 31. P 31 |A. 31. P. 31 On Suut'-iy, train having Butler 7.3" a. m., connects for IlarriflairK, All<"»na and Philailelphia. THROUGH TNTIN- THE ERMT LEA\E PITTNL-URG (UNION STATION), A- FOLLOW* ATLANTIC EXPREIW, DAILY 3:30 A.M PENNNYLVAUIA LIMITED . 44 7:15 44 DAY JSXPREW, 44 7:!J0 44 3!AI:I LIN«- KX|>R«-A, 14 ....8:00 U F.T«FR»RR "ERPRE*", 14 . . #:»•»'» M FA«T LINE, 4 8:LO * 4 PTIILA'L A M;DL. SUNDAVH ONLY 8:40 V.M FOR D«*TAILE<L IUTORMATIOII, A<IDNTA TIKK. E. WATT, PAW. AGT. WESTERN DIWTRICT, CORNER FIFTH AVENUE AND HMITH FLELD STREET, PITTSBURG, PA. J B. HUTCHISON, J R. WOOD GENERAL MANAGE <IEN7 "A«»I»R. AGENT. Have You Time TO ATTEND C. E. HILLER'S —CLOSING OUT SALE WINTER SHOES AND RUBBERS, When you come to Butler bring a fe\<' dollars with you arid attend this sale you can buy footwear at your own price for the next few weeks or until all Winter Good are closed out. GOOD THINGS FOR LITTLE MONEY Men's good solid boots.. . .$1.40 B'iy's good solid boots 1.20s Men's good solid shoes.. .98 Boy's school .shoes 98 Men's fine buff shoes 98 Ladies' waterproof shoes... .98 Ladies' fine shoes, button or lace 98 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' good heavy rubbers... 25c Men's heavy rubbers 40c Men's fine rubbers 50c Boy's rubber boots $I .50 Ladies', Misses' ar.d Chil dren's boots 98c LARGE STOCK OF FEL.T BOOTS and OVERS. Don'i fail to atend this sale f in need of footwear C. E. MILLER. 215 S. MAIN ST., BUTLER, L»A. Selling Out £ 5 —OUR— 7 I Entire Stock I $ Wall Paper. < S Choicest patterns are left. V } vVe want to quit die busi- C P ness. \ I V Bargains at asto 1 rate 7 • } DOUGLASS' V I Butler. Liver Ills Like biliousness, dyspepsia. headacne, cor.rtt ration, soar stomach, indigestion are promptly ! cureu by Hood's Fills. They do Uielr *vork Hood's ! easily and thwoucbly. * I I ; Kest after dinner pills. 111 ■1 ■ ■ I Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell. Mass. Tiie onto mil to take with Hood's Sarsuiardla. TliounancU ar* Tryinc It. In order to prove the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the moft effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have pre pared a generous trial size for 10 cents, tiet it of your druggist or send It) cents to ELY BROS., 50 Warren St., N. Y. City. I suffered from catarrh of tho worst K ; nd ever since a boy, and I never li'iprd for cure, but Ely's Crentn llalm t-eems to do even that. Many acquaintance sL».t used it with excellent results. —Oscar Ostrurn, 45 Warren Ave., Chicago, 111. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged curefor catarrh and contains no cocaine, merctiry nor any injnrious drug. I'ri -e, 60 cents. At druggists or l«y mail. We All Know that the slovenly dressed man never receives the respect and consideration the well dressed man gets. One secret in dres siig well lies in the selection cf the right tailor. our garments are cut and made in cur own workshop in this city. We are paiticular about the fit, fashion and all the minute details in their construction. Would be pleased to show you a product of onr shop and also give >* ou a pointer in econ omy. fall patterns now displayed ALAND, MAKER OF MEN'S LLOTHES Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and Sale Stable Rear of Wick House, Butler, Penn'a. Tin- best of horses and llrst, class rlsfs al wars on band and fur hire. Hest am mi modal lons in town for perma nent lioardliiK and transient trade. Speci al care guaranteed. Stable Room For 65 Horses. A jS(Mui clan* of horses, h'»tli drivers and drH.fih<>rs<*s always on hand and for sale* i:j»on projKT notification hy PEARSON B. NACE. Telephone, No. 219. "L C.WICK, DEAI,ER_IN J Rough $ Worked Lumber OK ALL KINIJS. Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Sliingles and Lath Always in Stock. LIME, H \IK AND PLASTER Office oppositef!'. & U'. Oepot. BUTLER. PA, <~ D. L. CLEELAND, 1> < Jeweler and Optician, > ( Butler, Pa. —HENRY BICKEL— HAS OPKNKD UP THB LARGE BRICK LIVERY STABLE ON WEST JEFFERSON STREET, DUFFY BLOCK, and is prepared to Furnish first-class rigs at prices to suit the times. When want ing anything in the livery line, it will pay you to call on him first, as he is there to do business—to accommodate the public. —HENRY BICKEL, Bell Phone 36. People's I^s. ynui is THE TIME TO HAVE nUW Yotir Cloth CLEANED or DYED If you want good and reliable cleaning or dyeing done, there is just one place in town where you can get it, and that is at i»t sums ok imiis til *5 CJonter avenue, Kr-5i„VVe do fine work in out door Photographs. This is the time of year to have a picture ol your house. Give us a trial. Agent for the .Jamestown SHdincr blind Co.—New York. P.. FISHER & SON. OIL MEAL I'ee.d for Homes, rows. Sheep, Hoifs, Fowls etc. Health, strength ami nroduetlve power \> animals. Are you feeding If, <heap,.,t in tin* market. LINSEED OIL I;"';,,, years ii.i house, barn or fence. Mixed paints are doubtful i|iiallty: some wood and some very had. Writ.-fur our eln-ular. I'or pure l.lnsi-ed oil or meal, and wldt. 1 ' •. * 1 - / " »* '•* "Thomi,soil 's." or add res* manufacturer I lIoMI'HON .V < <». I.", \\ Diamond Street Allegheny, I'a. BUTLER, P.A., THURSDAY, MARCII 17, ISOS [ROBERT LOUIS STEVEf^n. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER L—Billy Bones, an old sea dog, much addicted to rum, lodges at Ad miral Uc-nbow Inn. CHAPTER ] I.—Stranger, called "Black Dog," meets Hones; an interview ends in fight and disappearance of stranger. Bones suffers apoplectic stroke. CHAPTER lll.—Blind beggar comes to Inn, presses something in Bones' hand and leaves. "Ten o'clock!" Bones cries. "Six hours. We'll do them yet;" at which moment he is struck dead by apo plexy. CHAPTER JV.—Near Bones' body is found a little round paper, blackened on one side, on t.'ie other the words: "You have till ten t»-night." Gold is found In Rones' sea chest, and an oilskin packet. Flight taken from inn. CHAPTER V.— Blind man (Pew) with companions attack the inn. Chagrined at not finding "Pint's fi.3t." the scoundrels scatter. Blind Pew Is run down and killed by a horse. CHAPTER Vl. *nung Hawkins taxes packet to Dr. Lives y, who with Squire Trelawney open 3 It and finds minute di rections for finding of vast treasure. CHAPTER Vll.—Trelawney fits up ex pedition to seek treasure. CHAPTER VIII.—Jim Hawkins meets Black Dog at John Sliver's inn. Black Dog runs away, and Silver avows ignorance of his IdenUty. CHAPTER IX.—Ship's captain thinks some things on board somewhat singular and asks to have certain precautions taken, among which aro the storing of the powder and arms astern and giving the doctor and his friends berths beside the cabin. CHAPTER X.—"Hispaniola" begins her voyage. Hawkins climbs into apple bar rel and overhears plans of treachery on foot among the crew. ... CHAPTER Xl.—Plot (laid by Silver, ship's cook) provides for the strike for possession of the treasure Immediately It is gotten aboard. Cry of "Land ho heard. , „ , CHAPTER Xll.—Hawkins tells of Sil ver's treachery to Livesey, Trelawney and Capt. Smollett, 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 oft with them, but on the island gives them the slip. Onnri f.it XXV.—F.om cover Jim sees Sliver kill one of the honest hands, and also learns of the murder of another in another part of the island and runs from the soene. CHAPTER meets Bon Qunn, a marooned sailor who had lived on island 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 ashore in a Jolly-boat, discover a block-house within a stockade and de cide to provision it. Faithful party Is Joined by Gray, a mutineer, and the ship left with the five remaining mutineers on board. CHAITER XVII.— Jolly-boat starts on last trip to shore overloaded with pro visions. Mutineers on ship man the gun. Trelawney picks off one of the gunners. Cannon ball passes over boat, which sink! and leaves party to wade oshire. Bucca neers heard near by in the wood. CHAPTER XVIII— Fight with buc caneers re.iulta In one killed on each side. Faithful party gain the stockade and run up the British colors. CHAPTER XlX.—Jim seeing the colors knows he Is near friends and, leaving Ben Gunn, climbs Into the stockade. CHAPTER XX.—Silver, under flag of fruce, makes overtures for chart to get the treasure by, but falls. CHAPTER XXl.—Buccaneers attack stockade, are worsted, leaving five dead behind. The faithful party loses two, and Capt. Smollett wo.unded. CHAPTER XXll.—Doctor sets out to find Ben Gunn. Jim slips off to seek boat Ben Gunn h«d built, und 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 asleen in bottom of coracle. CHAITER XXlV.—Awaking Jim sees the "Hispanioltt" helplessly drifting, and catching me jfr>no->in ' • -..1,1 ir.-,.,. CHAPTER XXV—Jim finds one of th« mutineers (O Brien) dead, killed by liandH, and Hands, the only survivor on board, severely wounded; decides to reach the ahip lriJS'orlh ipiet CHAPTER XXV! .—Hands ruaoag. secure a dirk. Jim discovers the tr> aehery and escapes up a mast, to which he U pinned by Hands throwing his dirk. Jim fires his pistol. ... ir.n XXVII.—HandH pierced oy a bullet falls Into the water and sinks. JIM makes fast the vessel and returns by moonlight to stockade, to discover he has fallen into the hostile camp. CHAPTER XXVIII.—A quarrel among the buccaneers causes a revolt and they take council, during which Sliver tell* Jim he will stand by him. CHAPTER XXIX. THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN. The council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them reentered the house, and with a repeti tion of the same salute, which had in my eyes an Ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch. Silver briefly agreed; and this emissary re tired again, leaving us together in the dark. "There's a breeze coming, Jim," said Silver, who had by this time adopted quite a friendly and familiar tone. I turned to the loop-hole nearest me and looked out. The embers of the great fire had so far burned themselves out and now glowed so low and dusky that I understood why these conspir ators desired a torch. About half way down the slope to the stockade they were collected In a group; one held the light; another was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of an open knife shine in his hand with varying colors in the moon and torchlight. The rest were all somewhat stooping, as though watching the maneuvers of this last. I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in hii hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession, when the kneeling fig ure rose once more to his foet and the whole part} - began to move together to wnrd thehouM. "Here they come," said I, and I re turned to my former position, for it seemed beneath my dignity that they should find me watching them. "Well, let 'em come, lad—let 'em come," said Silver, cheerily. "I've still a fihot in my locker." The door opened and the five men, standing huddled together Just inside, pushed one of their number forward. I fi any other circumstances it would have been comical to see his slow ad vances, hesitating as he set down each foot, but holding his closed right band in front of him. "Step up, lad," cried Silver. "I won't eat you. Hand it over, lubber. I know the rules, I do; I won't hurt a depyta tlon." Thus encouraged the buccaneer stepped forth more briskly and, baring passed something to Silver, fromhmul to hand, slipped yet more smartly back again to his companions. The sea cook looked at what had been given him. "The black spot! I thought so," he observed. "Where might you have got the paper? Why, hlllo! look here, now; this ain't lucky! You've gone and cut this out of a Bible. What fool's cut a Btbfer "Ah, there!" said Morgan—"there. Wot did I say? No good'll come o' that I said." "Well, you've about fixed it now, among you," continued Silver. "You'll ail swing now, I reckon. Wliat soft headed lublx-r had a Bible?" "It was Dick," said one. "Dick, was it? Then Dick can get to prayers," said Silver. "He's seen his slice of luck, has Dick, und you may lay to that." But here the long inan with the yel low eyes struck in. "Belay that talk, John Silver," liu said. "This crew lias tipped you the black m>"t in full council, as in dootv bound; just you turn it over, :is in dooty bound, and see what's wrote there. Then you can talk." "Thankv, Ceorge," replied the sea cook. "You always was brisk for busi ness, and has the rules by heart, George, as I'm pleased to see. Well, what is it, anyway? Ah! 'Deposed'—that's it, is It? Very pretty wrote, to be sure; like print, I swear. Your hand o* write, George? Why, you was gettin' quite a leadin' man in this here crew. You'll be eap'n next, I shouldn't wonder. Just oblige me with that torch again, will you? This pipe don't draw." "Come, now," said George, "you don't fool this crew no more. You're a funny man, by your account; but you're over now, anil you'll maybe step down off that barrel and help vote." "I thought you said you knowed the rules," returned Silver, contemptuous ly. "Beastways, if you don't, I do, and I wait here —and I'm still your cap'n, mind—tjll yon outs with your griev ances and I reply; in the meantime yonr black spot ain't worth a biscuit. After that we'll see." "Oh," replied George, "you don't be under no kind of apprehension; we're all square, we are. First, you've made a hash of this cruise—you'll be a bold man to say no to that. Second, you let the enemy out o' this here trap for noth ing. Why did they want out I Idunno; but it's pretty plain they wanted it. Third, j-ou wouldn't let us go at them upon the march. Oh, we see through you, John Silver; you want to play booty, that's what's wrong with you. And then, fourth, there's this here boy." "Is that all?" asked Silver, quietly. "Enough, too," retorted George. "We'll all swing and sun dry for your bungling." "Well, now, look here, I'll answer these four p'luts; one after another I'll answer 'em. I made a hash o' this cruise, did I? Well, now, you all know what I wanted; and you all know, if that had been done, that we'd 'a' been aboard the 'Hispaniola' this night as ever was, every man of us alive, and fit, and full of good plum-duff, and the treasure in the hold of her, by thunder! Well, who crossed me? Who forced my hand, as with the lawful cap'n? Who tipped me the black spot the day wo landed and began this dance? Ah, it's a mighty fine dance —I'm with you there—and looks mighty like a horn pipe in a rope's end at Execution Dock by London town, it does. But who done it? Why, it was Anderson and Hands, and you, George Merry! And you're the last above board of that same meddling crew; and you have the Davy Jones' insolence to up and stand for cap'n over mo—you, that sunk the lot of us! By the powers! but this tops the stiffest yarn to nothing." Silver paused, and I could see by the faces of George and his companions that these words had not been said iu vain. "That's for number one," cried the brow, for }ie"h;W'beeiT'iiTlking with a vehemence that shook the house. "Why, I give you my word, I'm sick to speak to you. You've neither sense nor memory, and I leave it to fancy where your mother was that let you come to sea. Sea! Gentlemen o' fortune! I reckon tailors is your trade." "Go on, John," said Morgan. "Speak up to the others." "Ah, the others!" returned John. "They're a ndce lot, ain't they ? You say this cruise is bungled! Ah! by gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see! We're that near the gibbet tfiat my neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen, p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide. 'Who's that?' says one. That! Why, that'B John Sil ver. I knowed him well,' says another. And you can hear the chains aa you go about and reach for the other buoy. Now, that's about where we are, every mother's son of us, thanks to him and Hands, and Anderson, and other ruination fools of you. And If you want to know about number four, and that boy, why, shiver my timbers! isn't he a hostage? Are we going to waste a hostage? No, not us; he might be our last chance, and I shouldn't wonder. Kill that boy? Not me, mates! And number three? Ah, well, there'? a deal to say to number three. Maybe you don't count it nothing to have a real college doctor come to see you every day—you, John, with your head broke —or you, George Merry, that had the ague shakes upon you not six hours agone, and lias your eyes the color of lemon peel to this same moment on the clock ? And maybe, perhaps, you didn't know there was a consort coming, either? But there is, and not so long till then; and we'll see who'll be glad to have a hostage when it comes to that. And as for number two, and why 1 made a bargain—well, you came crawl ing on your knees to me to make It—on your knees you came, you was that down-hearted—and you'd have starved too. If I hadn't—but that's a trifle! yon look there —that's why r !" And ho cast down upon the floor 0 paper that I Instantly recognized—none other than the chart on yellow paper, with three red crosses, that Iliad found in the oilcloth at the bottom of the cup tain's chest. Why the doctor had given it to him was more than I could fancy. But if it were inexplicable tome the api>earance of the chart wis incredible to the surviving mutineers. They leaped upon it like cats upon a mouse. It went from hand to hand, one tear ing it from another; and by "the oaths ami the cries and the childish laughter with which they a«?ompanied their ex amination, you would have thought, not only they were lingering the very gold, but were 'at sea w<ith it, besides, in safety. "Yes," said one, "that's Flint, sure enough. J. P., and a score below, with a clove hitch to'it, so lie doneever." "Mighty pretty," said George. "But how are we to get away 'with it, and us no ship?" Silver suddenly sprung up, and sup porting himself with a hand against the wall: "Now, I give you warning, George," he cried. "One more wonl of your sauce, and I'll call you down und fight you. How? Wl.y,howdolknow? You had ought to tell me that —you and tho rest, that lose me my schooner, with your interference, burn you! But not you, you can't; you hain't got the invention of a cockroach. Hut civil you can speak, and shall, George Merry, you may lay to that." "That's fair enow." said the old man Morgan. "Fair! I reckon *o," said the sea-cook. "You lost theship; I found the treasure. Who's the better man at that? And nonv I resign, by thunder! Electwhom you please to toe your cap*n now; I'm done -with It." "SilTer!" they cried. "Barbecue for ever'. forcap'n!" "So that's the toon. Is It.?" cried t"he cook. "G-eorge, I reckon you'il have to wait another turn, frien<l. and lucky for you as I'm not a revengeful man. But that was never my way. And now, shipmates, this black spot? Taln't much good now, is it? Dick's crossed' his lucktind spoiled his Bible, and th-at's about all." "It'll do to kiss the book on still, won't it?" growled Dick, who was evidently uneasy at "the curse he had brought upon himself. "A Bible with a bit cut out!" returned Silver, derisively. "Xot it. It don't bind no more'n a balVad-book." "Don"t it, though?" cried Dick, with a sort of joy. "Well, I reckon that's worth having, 'too." "Here, Jim—here's a cur'osity for you," said Silver; and he tossed me the paper. It was a round about the size of e> crown-piece. One side was blank, for it had been the last leaf; the other con tained a verse or two of Revelation — these words among the rest, which struck sharply home upon my mind: "Without are dog's and murderers." The printed side had been blackened with wood-ash, which already began to eotne off and soil my fingers; on the blank side had been written with the same material theone word, "Deposed." I have that curiosity beside me at this moment; but not a trace of writing now remains beyt>nd a single scratch, such as a man might make with his thumb nail. That was the end of the might's busi ness. Soon after,with a drinkall round, we lay down to sleep, and the outside of Silver's vengeance was to put George Merry up for sentinel, and threaten him with death if he should prove un faithful. It was long ere I could close as eye, and Heaven kno»wslhad matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and, above all, In the remarkable (fame that I saw Silver now engaged upon—keeping the muti neers together with one hand, and grasping, with the other, after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life. He himse-lf slept peacefully, and snored aloud; yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed, and the shameful gibbet that awaited him. CHAPTER XXX. ON PAROLE I was wakened—lndeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the senti nel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the doorpost by a clear, hearty voice hailing ua from the margin of the wood: "Block -house, ahoy!" It cried. "Here's the doctor." And the doctor it was. Although I was glad to hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without admixture. I rcmejnbered with confusion my in subordinate and stealthy conduct; and when I saw where It had brought me — among what companions and surround ed by what dangers—l felt ashamed to look him in the face. ne must have risen in the dark, for the day had hardly come; and when I ran to a loop-hole and looked out I saw him standing, like Silver once before, up to the mid-leg in creeping vapor. "You, doctorl Top o' the morning to you, sir!" cried Silver, broad awake and "Bright and early, to be sure, and It's the early bird, as the saying goes, that gets the rations. George, shake up your timbers, «on, and help Dr. Livesey over the ship's side. All a-dooin' well, your patients was —all well and merry.** So he pattered on, standing on the hill top, with his crutch under his el bow and one hand upon the side of the log house —quite the old John in voice, manner and expression. "We've quite a surprise few you, too, »ir," ho continued. "We've a little ktranger here—he! hel A ne>o boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, be did, right alongside of John—stem to stem we was, all night." Dr. Livesey was by this time across the stockade and pretty near the cook, and I could hear the alteration in hi« voice as he said: "Not Jim V "The very same Jim as ever wan," says Silver. The doctor stopped outright, although he did not speak, and it was some sec onds before he seemed able to move on. "Well, well," he said at last, "duty first and pleasure afterward, as you might have said yourself, Silver. Let us overhaul these putlents of yours." A moment afterward he had entered Ihe block-house, and, with one grim nod to me, proceeded with his work among the sick. He seemed to me un der no apprehension, though he must have known that his life among these treacherous demons depended on a hair, and he rattled on to Ids patients as if he were paying an ordinary profes sional visit in a quiet English family. Ills manner, I suppose, reacted on the men, for they behaved to him as if nothing occurred—as If he wore still ihip'B doctor and they still faithful hands before the mast. "You're doing well, my friend," he kaid to tlie fellow with the bandaged iicad, "and if ever any person had a close shave, it was you; your head must be as hard as ircl. Well, George, how goes it? You're a pretty color, certain ly; why, your liver, ma.ll, is upside down. Did you take that medicine? Did betake that medicine, men?" "Ay, ay, sir, be took it, sure enough," returned Morgan. "Because, you see, since I am muti neers' doctor, or prison doctor, as I pre fer to call it," said Dr. livesey, in his pleasantest way, "I make it a point of honor not to lose a man for King George (God bless hlml) and the gal lows." The rogues looked nteach other, but swallowed the home-thrust In silence. "Dick don't feel well, sir," sold one. "Don't he?" replied the doctor. "Well, step up here, IMek, and let me see your tongue. No, I should be surprised Jf ho did; the man's tongue Is fit to frighten the French. Another fever." "Ah, there," said Morgan, "thatcomei of sp'iling Bibles." "That corned—as you cdll It—of be ing arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having mnae enough to koon honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. 1 think It niaht probable—though, of course. It's only an opinion—that you'll all have the deuce to pay before you fret tliut malaria out of your systems. Camp in u bog, would you? Silver, I'm surprised at you. You're less of a fool than many, tiike you all rotund; butyou don't appear to me to linne the rudi ments of u notion of the ruin's of health. Well," he added, after he liad dosed them round, and they h«d token hit prescriptions, with really kurghable hu mility, more like charity school chil dren thun blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—"w<fl, that's done for to-day. And now I should wish to have a talk with that boy, please." And lie nodded his head Kn my direc tion carelessly. > r -_ George Merry was at the door, spit ting and spluttering- over dome bad- ' tasted medicine; but at the first word of the doctor's proposal he swung round with a deep flush and cried: "No!" and swore. Silver struck the barrel with his open hand. "Si-lence!" he roared, and looked about him positively like a lion. "Doc tor," he went on, in his usual tones, "I was a-thlnking of that, knowiug as how you had a fancy for the boy. We're all humbly grateful for your kindness, and, as you see, puts faith in you, and takes the drugs down like that much grog. And I take it I've found a way us'll suit all. Hawkins, will you give mc your word of honor as a young gentle man, for a young gentleman you are, al though poor born—your word of honor not to slip your cable?" I readily gave the pledge required. "Then, doctor," said Silver, "you Just step outside o' that stockade, and once you're there, I'll bring the boy down on the inside, and I reckon you can yarn through the spars. Good-day to you, sir, and all our dooties to the squire and Smollett." The explosion of disapproval, which nothing but Silver's black looks had restrained, broke out immediately the doctor had left the house. Silver was roundly accused of playing double—of trying to make a separate peace for himself—of sacrificing the interests of his accomplices and victims, and, in one word, of the identical, exact thing that he was doing. It seemed to me so obvi ous, in this case, that I could not im agine how he was to turn their anger. Dut he was twice the man the rest were, and his last night's victory had given him a huge preponderance on their minds. He called them all the fools and dolt 6 you can imagine, said it was necessary I should talk to the doctor, fluttered the chart in their faces, asked them if they could afford to break the treaty the very day they were bound a-treasure hunting. "No, by thunder!" he cried, "it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy." Ami then he bade thetm get the Are lighted and stalked out upon his crutch, with his hand on my shoulder, leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility, rather than con vinced. "Slow, lad, slow," he said. "They might round upon us in a twlnicle ol an eye, If we were seem to hurry." Very deliberately, then, did we ad vance across the sand to where the doctor waited us on the other side ol the stockade, and as soon as we were within easy speaking distance Silver stopped. "You'll make a note of this here, also, doctor," says he, "and the boy'll tell "And now I should wish to hav« a talk with that boy." said the doctor. you how 1 saved his life, and were de posed for It, too, and you may lay to thwt. Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind as me—playing chuck farthing with the lust breath in his body, like—you wouldn't think it too much, mayhap, to give him one good wordl You'll please bear in mind it's not my life only now—it's that boy's into the bargain; and you'll speak me fair, doctor, and give n»e a bit o' hope to go on, for the sake o' mercy." Silver was a changed man, once he was out there and had his back on his friends and the block-house; his cheeks seemed to have fallen in | his voice-trem bled; never was a soul more dead in earnest. "Why, John, you're not afraid?" asked Dr. Livesey. "Doctor, I'm no coward; no, not I— not so much!" and he snapped his fin gers. "If I was I wouldn't say it. But I'll own up fairly I've the shakes upon mo for the gallows. You're a good man and a true; I never see a better man! And you'll not forget what I done good, not any more than you'll forget the bad, I know. And I step aside—see here—and leave you and Jim alone. And you'll put that down for me, too, for it's a long stretch, is that!" So saying, he stepped back a little way till he was out of earshot, and there sat upon a tree-stump and be gan to whistle; spinning round now and again upon his seat so as to com mand a sight sometimes of me and the doctor, and sometimes of his unruly ruffians as they went to and fro in the Band, between the fire—which they were busy rekindling—and the house from which they brought forth pork and bread to make the breakfast. "So, Jim," said the doctor, sadly,"hen you are. As you have brewed, so shall you drink, my (boy. Heaven knows, J caiuiot find it in my heart to blame you; but this much 1 will say, be 11 kind or unkind; when Capt. Smollett was well, you dared not have gone off; and when he was ill, and couldn't helj It, by George, it was downright cow ardly!" I will own that I here began to weep "Doctor," I said, "you jnight spare me I have "blamed myself enough; my life'i forfeited anyway, and I should have beer dead now, if Silver hadn't stood for me; and, doctor, believe thlß, 1 can die—and I dare say I deserve it—but what I feat is torture. If they come to torture me —" "Jhn," the doctor interrupted, aiu! hl« voice was quite changed, "Jim, 1 can't huve this. Whip over, and we'l' run for it." "Doctor," said I, "I passed my word.' "I know, I know," he cried. "We can't help that, Jim, now. I'll take il on my shoulders, holus bolus, blame and shame, my boy; but stay here, J cannot help you. Jump! One jump and you're out, and we'll run for it like antelopes." ".N'o," I replied, "you know right well you wouldn't do the thing yourself; neither you nor the squire, nor captain; and no more will I. Silver trusted me; 1 passed my word, and back I go. But doctor, you did not let me finish, il 1 hoy come to torture me, I might let sltf a word where the ship is; for I got the ship, part by luck and port by risking and she lies in North inlet, on the south ern beuch, and Just l>elow high wuter At half-tide she must be high and dry.' "The ship!" exclaimed the doctor. ltapidly I described to him my adven tures, and he Iw-ard me out in silence "There Is a kind of fate in this," Ik observed when I had done. '"Kvery step it's you that saves our lives; unt do yoqjjUpWJgtf ky any chance we are No. 11 going to let you lose yours? Thai would be a poor return, my boy. Yot found out the plot; you found BenGunr the best deed that ever you did, 01 will do, though you live to ninety. Oh. by Jupiter! and talking of Ben Gunn, why, this is the mischief in person. Silver!" he cried! "Silver! I'll give yoi a piece of advice," he continued, as the cook drew near again; "don't you be In any great hurry after that treas ure." "Why, sir, I do my possible, whick that ain't," said Silver. "1 can only, asking your pardon, save my life and the boy's by seeking for that treasure, ond you may lay to that." "Well, Silver," replied the doctor, "ii that is so, I'll go one step further; look out for squalls when you find it!" "Sir," said Silver, "a» between man and man, that's too much and too little. What you're after, why you left the block-house, -why you give me thai there chart, I don't know now, do 17 And yet I done your bidding with my eyes shut, and never a word of hope! But no, this here's too much. If you won t tell me what you mean plain out, just say so, and I leave the helm." "No," said the doctor, musingly, "I've no right to say more; it's not my secret, you see. Silver, or, I give you my word, I'd tell it you. But I'll go as far with you as I dare go, and a step beyond, for I'll have my wig sorted by the captain, or I'm mistaken! And, first, I'll give you a bit of hope; Silver, if we both get alive out of this wolf-trap, I'll dc my best to save you, short of perjury Silver's face was radiant. "You couldnt say more, I'm sure, sir, not if you was my mother," he cried. "Well, that's my first concession," added the doctor. "My second is a piece of advice: Keep the boy close beside you, and when you need help, halloo. I'm off to seek it for you, and that itself will show you if I s,peak at random. Good-by, Jim." And Dr. Livesey shook hands with me through the stockade, nodded to Silver, and set off at a brisk pace into the wood. (TO BE CONTtltrßß.] WIT AND WISDOM. —Poet—"Give me a word that's syn onymous w-ith crop." Amateur Fanner (sadly)—"Failure."—World. —"Are the lawyers making any prog ress with that will case?" One of the Heirs—"Oh, yes. They've used up about naif the money."—Life, i —Mother—"What Tyould poor mam> jma do without her boy if he went Her Boy—"You could whip Fido when you were cross and just pre* (tend it was me, couldn't you?"— World. —Hobkiiys—"My brother bought' a wheel here last week, and you said if anything broke yon would supply anew [part." Dealer—"That's right. Whatdo (you want?" "I want two deltoid mus fcles, a new set of knuckles and knee ban."—Life. [ —Reuben Railfence—"What do you. think about this here thing of gdrin' (women their rights equal with men?" Henry Harrow—"Puffectly proper. I give 'em to my wife. I have that blessed (woman out in the field to work as soon as her breakfast work is done up."— fuck. ( —"Suppose," suggested the teacher, fthat you have a piece of beefsteak and but it into halves, then cut the halves into quarters, the quarters into eighths, &ad the eighths into sixteenths, into ♦rhat could the sixteenths be cut?" "Hash," responded Tommy, whose jnother kept a boarding house. And the ■SIILS. ■ « ■■ —The phyAfcian in churge had decided that an operation should be performed. f'Do you iirink," asked a relative anx iously, Uiat the operation will do any jjood?" "Well, I should gay it would," replied the doctor, confidently. "And feeD live?" "Oh, dear, no; not at all. 2 at It will settle a medical point that Bbeenin dispute for the last 50 years." Evening Post. A Hint to Advertisers. Murphy—Do yez moind the Dago sign in the window beyaut? O'Brien says it manes there's a mon inside whot spokes F rinch. Flannigan—Thin why don't they put it in English so ivery wan would know? —Town Topics. Her Faith Was Great. He —Do you believe in palmistry— that you can tell anything by the hand? She—Certainly. Now, for example, if I had a certain kind of ring on a cer tain finger of my left hand, people would know that I was engaged. —Tit- Bits. Disagreeable tor All. Gowper—l don't know how it is, but wherever I go there is Btire to be some thing disagreeable. Stickin—And wherever you go that's just what everybody else says.—Boston Transcript. A Higher Value. Klondike Bride—And do you think I am worth my weight in gold, love? Klondike Bridegroom—Worth your weight in gold, pet? Why, blame my eyes, If I don't think you're worth your weight in canned goods!— Puck. Infantine Philosophy. Tottle (aged five)—l wonder why. ba bies is always born in de night time. Lottie (aged seven, a little wiser)— Don't you know? It's cos' they wants to make sure of findln' their mothers at home.—llarlem Life. In the Line of Progress. "Some doctor claims that the stom ach can be removed without injury to the patient." "Yes? I wish he'd find out how to remove the s-norlng apparatus of some of the folks who snore."—Puck. A Qnlet (Jams. Tommy—('an we play at keeping store in here, mamma? Mamma (who has n headache) —Yes, but you must be very, very quiet. Tommy—All right, we'll pretend we don't advertise. —N. Y. Truth. Her Complaint. Mrs. Malonc (at the window, watch ing a funeral-procession pass)— Bad luck we're hovin'! Moike has drove thot hearse fur foive years with niver a chance to drolve it fur his own wolfe.— Judge. Hot nifllcnlt. "I'm writing an article on how to liva on ten dollars a week." "I don't sec how you can figure it out." "Oh, it's much easier to figure it out than to do it." —N. Y. IMb. An I nfalllna Ml«n. "Just look at that conceited ass!" "How do you know he's a conceited ass?" "He has better clothes than I have." —Chicago Journal. I.lke It, Only Worse. "Talk about trouble! You've never had four children down with the measles at once, have you?" "No, Mrs. Cranthy, but we've had 14 boarders this summer."—Judge. \ot Much of a TlilnUer. ]j e —J always say what I think. She—lf you don't sny nny more you won't strain your —N. Y. Journal.
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