VOL- xxXV SPRING GOODS. OUR ENTIRE SPxRING STOCK OF * FINE FOOTWEAR IS ALL IN. We went east early, and after carefully looking over the different line*. and petting their best prict»s for < ASH. We placed our orders on all goods to Im* made t«> our special order. These goods have all arrived and an? open and readv for your insper!ion. I<> say this stock of spring goods is the finest we have ever had aria the selection much the is stating it mildly. In Ladies' and Misses' Fine Shoes we are showing some handsome styles in several shades of fine tan with either leatln r or cloth tops—Same styles In black shoes in the finest of dongola. made on the latest -tyl.- Lists and with the new toe. The ladies* shoes rang*; in price from to iv. A lin« «>r ladies' fine patent leather shoes ranging In price from "«0 to and the priees of v. isses shoes are from $1.25 to We have tne goods in all sizes and widths* from A A to r. 1. Our Line of Oxfords, Strap Sandals. Southern Ties. etc.. must not be forgotten as the stock of them i-. very large j and styles right up to date. We take pleasure In showing these goods whether you wS'i to . buy or not. Come In and we will be glad to see you. Men's and Boy's Shoes. A complete line of colored shoes in all the latest shades vesting top* will in- very \ i>h > this summer —see our line of them, they are B£Af*TIES. The light summer sho»-> with bright shiny hue, its glitter and gloss, its comfort and cost Is the shoe good and true. A large assortment to select from at BIC'KELS. Men's Shoes range in price from |2.00 to and the prices for the lloy's shoes arc from ?1."0 t«» | Cjmc to us and you'll find «>ur stock so large you can find what you t. All Styles of Shoes to select from at lowest prices. Here is where wo can interest v«u again. Men'j anil !>• v | working slmes, Box Toe shoes, Heavy Soli- English Hals. Congress Gaiters ami ltuckle Lace Plow Shoes at rock lxittom prices, JOHN BICKEL. 128 S. MAIN St. BUTLER. PA. | Wall Paper. j 0 We hav? just opened one of tbe most complete lines ever shown j S in Butler consisting of the latest designs nnd colorings selected K from the lea-iitig wall paper factories of the I". S. with a vi.-.v of . J pleasing all both in quality and price we consider i' a pleasure t.» * 9 have you call and inspect our goods as we feel confident w: can \ J please you, and the prices are as low as the lowest. J ;i Special Notice i j| We have remnants you can linve at prices that .vill astonish yoa; p j also headquarter? for R.ioks, Stationary, etc. 1 Ira C. Black. & Co. s M .7ew \ SUCDESSORS TO DANIEL KINCH. J IJL YOUNG, Tailor, Hatter and Gents Furnishing Goods. Summer tfeat makes the problem of looking dressy and keeping cool a hard one But we've solved it; and fcr once economy, comfort and fashion go hand in haurt Our summer suits are finer in fabric, nobbier in pattern and more stylish in cut han'everibefore, they fit your cutves and yet they're not sweat bath outfits. The prices may surprise "ou. J. S. YOUNG, Tailor. oi S. MAIN St., - - - BUTLER, I'A IZEfc They Fit Well, vvl "" wear we '®' II 1 Al I / NEW YEAR IDEAS U'less your 111 / /II j/ -I If clothes rre vp-10-date they might as well be J\? X J Mil 1/ I U several years behind the times. If vou wan |i "T\ V I f- —Ap, the best ideas in clothing you should get you) 'Ltf/ld \\ |1 I clothing of men who have the ideas. Vol \\l II \• : l want them to look well and wear well. If !!tv r 1< j aie not satisfactory you justly blame the J—JylfTl I' tailor. V»c make the clothes in correct style / .—s.\< and you are sure of them fitting for we guaran 'Jr \.y lee them and make the clothes to suit you. UP kPfk MERCHANT TAILOR ' ■ • 142 North Main Street Butler Penn'a Pape sros, JEWEbeRS, We Will Save You Money On Watches Clocks, > ; Silverware, 1847 Rodaer Bros. ( Plateware and Sterling Silver^ ( Goods. < 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. | MOURNING MILLINERY j {I We invite your attention to our Spring 5 J stock of MOURNING MILLINERY. While * (I giving you the latest styles we give you + the lowest prices ? 4 ! Face Vails from 25c to $1 00. Priestleys' £ (| Widows Vails from $l5O to $6.00 * J Lyons' Widows Vails (all silk) from $3 00 ± j to $9 00 {MARKS.' 108 S. MAIN STREET. \ J BUTLER. Pa. J Advertise in the CITIZEN. THE BOILER CITIZEN. Ea iv to Take ai»y to Operate Are features y -caliar to Hood's Pills. Small in size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. A* man Hood's said: " Yonni ferknow yon 21a have taken .1 ; ill t II it is nil la™S • f 1 a over." 25c. C.'. Hoixl & Co., Proprietors, i ovvel!, M:i<s ■ C ~ * Ih'j ouli f i.U o Uke v '.tii IIood"3 Sarsapariila. Tli!» I * Your Opportunity. On -f ten cents, c sii or fiiftmps, a -..: ple will 1"' mailed ui t):o raost popular Catarrh and Hay 1 ever Curo (Ely'r. Creß'i. Ba'. u, sufficient to demon strale the gr< merits c»f the renic*dy. ELY BIiOTHEKS, , r,t Warren .St , Ktw \ork City. ■Rev. .Tobn Rei.l, Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Cream IJairn to mo. I can cmphftsizo Lis statement, "It is a posi tive enre for catiirrh if used c.s directed, liev. Francis W. Poole. Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Crsam r.rt'm is tlio aelcEOwledßed enre for catarrh and contains 110 mercury nor -uy iujuric.ua drus Price, 50 ccnta. We All Know 1 that llie s!ovenl_\ dressed nuin never receives the respect and consideration the well dressed man gets. One socril u arirs sitig well lies in ihe selection cl* the right tailor. our garments are cut and made in cur own workshop in this city. We are particular about the fit, fashion a'nd all the minute details in their construction. Would !;e plcpsed to show aou a product of our shop and also give you a pointer in econ omy. fall patterns ow d 1 sp1 9^' ALAND, MAKER OF MEN'S - !.()T 14 Pearson B. Nace's Livery Feed and Sale Stable Rear of Wick House, Butier, Penn'a. The bt -»t. of lior.."S and first <*las»s r«K s al wravs on hand an i for hire. licst aeeonn.io I;i .did ::i to.vn f-»«• |»« rioa mnt h«:i;-'in: .i.... transh-nt trade. al rare guarantied. Stable Room For 65 Horses. A -jo'ml rlass oi horsvV-. ln»th <ll i \ • r- and draft hor.-« - alv*a>> oa hau l and f jt r.ali* under a full jrv.ar . ut« > e; and hor.vs Iniuglit upon proper notitwation by PEARSON 3. NACE, Ti-lcplioiie, No. '-'lil. L. C.WICK" Dkalf.w in Rough Worked Lumber Ok aix kinds. Do rs, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Shingles and Lath Always in Stock. LIME, HUR AM) PLASTER Office opposite P. & W. Depot. BUTLER. PA, T D. L. SIeLLANO, > Jeweler and Optician, > ( Butler, Pa. —HENRY BICKEL Has Opened Up The Large Brick LIVERY STABLE ON WEST JEFFERSON STREET. DUFFY BLOCK, and is prepared to Furnish rijjs 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 tlwre to do business—to accommodate the public. HENRY BICKEL.- Bell Phone 36. People's 115. unui IS THE TIfVIE TO HAVE mn Your ClotiiirQi CLEANED or D\ 7 Ed" If you v/ant ljooU and reliable cleaning or dyeing done, there is just one place In town where you can get it, and that is at w BOTUH '2113 Ceritei* avenue, uo fine work in out door Photographs. This is the time of y Jar to have a picture ol your house. Give us a trial. Agent for the Jauieslo* u Siidinif Blind I'o.—Vpw York. R. FISHER & SON, OIL MEAL Feed for Horses. Cows. -liifp. Hues. |"o\v|s etc. Ilc.iltli. ri<i prinlm-tiv,. | HlWl . r to animals. Arc you feeding ItV Cheapest feed in the market. LINSEED OIL years on house, barn or fence. Mi.\e«l paints are doubt ful quality: soiim* and some v«Ty ?♦*"' fnr onr « , ir« , nlar. I lead, ask for "ThonijiM>nor addrt-ss uiaiiufaeturer. THOMPSON CO.. r, \\ LMamond street Allenbeny. Pa. HUTLER. PA., i'HI ;RSDA\. MARCH LM. l.si S I ROBERT . . ( BTNOPSIB. CIAPTER I.—Billy Bones, an old sea iog, much addicted to rum, lodges at Ad miral Eenbow Inn. CHAPTER 31.—Stranger, called "Siack D 05," meets Ilonts: an Interview emu nglit and disappearance of i-'ranyer. Bor.es suffers apoplectic stroke. CHAPTER 111 Blind liesgar corves to Inn presses sDmethlng In Bones' hand and leaves. "Ten o'clock:' cries. "Six hours We 11 do them ye at which moment lie Is struck dead b> apo plexy. . , , CIIArTKR IV.—Near Bones bod} U found a little ruun l i~:» r, 1-ia Viei.f i on one Bide, on tle other the words. \ou have till ten tj-nlght." Odd Is tour.d In Bones' sea chest, and an ollsk»n packe.. Flight taken from Inn. CHATTER V.—Blind man (Pew) r.!*h companions attacl{ the lr.n. C.ir. u .ti not flndlnar "F ir.t's i: 't.' t. ■■ scoutuiit-o scatter. Ulir-.d l'ew is run down and kilied by a horse. CHAPTER VI. ici:r.™ llawkh - taK 5 packet to Ur. Lives v. v.h'< v,'it:i Squ r c \ Trelawney oper.s It ar.d tlr.d.; r.vinute rcetlonn for finding of vast trea-s .re. CHAPTER Vll.—Trelawney flts up ex pedition to seek treasure. CHAPTER VIII —Jim liav.lclns meets Black l»oi- ut John Silver' •= inn. Biack l»vij run" av.ay, and Silver avows ignorance of his identity. ' CHAPTER IX—fihip's captain thinks ■ome thiJ , s on - somewhat sinsumr and asks to have certain preeeuiions taken, among which ar.t the storinK o. the powder and arms aMern ana cn i»R : the doctor ard hi 3 frieims berths beside ; the cabin. | CHAPTER x.—"Hi-pan! la voyace. Hawkins climbs into app.e car rel and ove.rh-ara plans of treachery on 1 foot cmon; the crew. . CHAPTER XI.-Plot (laid ,•> Bhlt/t < 00'k> provides for tae stnt# iw ilon of the treasure immed.at'-lj 1. is gotten aboard. Cry of I-and r. heard. , ~ , CHAPTER Xll.—Hawkins tells cf Sil ver's treachery to Llvesey, Trtlawiuy and Ca"'' Smollett, who hold a council s ar. CHAPTER XIII.-Mutiny begins to show ir restles u-.ess of men, ar.d captain (H --ci.lea to trUe the men an afternoon ash .re. Jim Huui.lr.s sli> s off with them, but cr. the islan l gives '.hem the • 1'r>- » n in im; 2£xV. —F.om cover Jiin sees Silver kill one of the honesst hands, and i al?o learns of the murder of another i i | another part of the island and runs from the scene. _ XV.—Jim meets Ben Ornn. a marooned sailor v.-ho had lived on is", tnd three years. Report of a cannon la ] irl. Both run for boat when they see in the wool the union jick. C'APTER XVI. —Hunter and the .oe tor go ashore in a Jolly-boat, discover a within a stockade and de cide to provision it. Faithful party Is Joined bv Gray, a mutineer, and t! rhlp left with the live remaining mutineers on boar-.1. CHAPTER XVII - Jolly-boat starts on lapt trip to shore overloaded with pro visions. Mutineers on ship man the pun. Trelawney picks off one of the gunners. Cannon ball passes over boat, which sir.is and leaves party to wade ashore. Bucca neers heard near by in the wood. CHAPTER XVlll.—Fight with buc caneers results In one killed on each side. Faithful party gain the stockade and run up the British colors. CHAPTER XlX.—Jim seeing the colera knows he is near friends and, leaving l;en Gunn, climbs Into the stockade. CHAPTER XX.—Silver, under fine- of truce, 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 wounded. CHAPTER XXll.—Doctor sets cut tc find Ben Gunn. Jim slips off to seek boat Ben Gunn h«td built, and decides to cut "Hlspanlola," 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 an chor. Jim then, from IMtr exhaustion, falls asleep in bottom of coracle. CHAI'TEIt XXIV—A vnk!: - Jim see the "Hlspanlola" helplessly drifting, and by a great effort reaches her and leaps, catching the Jibboom. CHAPTER XXV.—Jim finds one of th-i mutineers (O'Brien) dead, killed by Hands, and Hands, the only survivor on board, Severely wounded; decides to reach the EhiD In Xorth lalfct. CllAl'TEit XXV!. -!lat;d ; r. ur.fiin secure a ditk. Jim discovers the tr. aehery and escapes up a mast, to which he |3 pinned by Hands throwing his dirk. Jim fires his plstoL XXVll.—Hands 'plercea Dy a bullet falls into the water 'and sinks. Jim n-.akes fast the vessel and returns bj moonlight to stockade, to discover he has fallen into the hostile camp. CHAPTER XXVIII A quarrel among the buccaneers causes a revolt ar.d they take council, during which Sliver teil3 Jim he will stand by him. CHATTER XXlX.—Buccaneers return and give Silver the "black spot," on one side of which Is written "deposed." Sil ver, In answer, throws to them the chart of the island, showing location of treasure, which they had so long coveted, end he is again made the buccaneer chieftain. CHAPTER* XXX. Doctor attends wounded buccaneers: has a short talk with Jim. when latter tells of his ex ploits. Doctor advises Silver to keep boy close beside him as he goes on his treasure hunt that day. CHAPTER XXXI. THE TREASURE HUNT FLINT'S POINTER. ".Tim," .'aid Silver, when we were alone, "if I save<l your life, you saved mine; and I'll not forget it. 1 seen the doctor waving l you to run for it —with Ihe tail of mv eye, I did; and I seen you say no, as plain as hearing. Jim, that's one to you. is the iirst g"lint of hope I had since the attack failed, nnd I owe it you. And now, Jim, we're to go in for this here treasure-hunting, with sealed orders, too, and I don't like It; and you and me must stick close, back to back like, and we'll save our necks in spite o" fate and fortune." Just then a- man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was ready, ar.d we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk. They had lighted a fire lit <0 roast ivn ox; and it. was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without precaution. In the same wasteful spir it, they had cooked, I suppose, thr«>e times more than we could eat; and one of them, with an empty laugh, tlirrw what was left into the Are, which I)'a?.'rd and roared again over this unusual fuel. I never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing-; and what with wasted food and sleeping- sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged cam paign. Even Silver, eatinpr away, with Capt. Flint upon his shoulder, had not a word of lilame for their recklessness. And this the more surprised ine, for 1 thought he had never showm himself bo cunning as he did tHen, "Ay, mates," said he, "it's lucky you have Barbecue to think for you with this here head. I got what I wanted, I did. Sure enough, they have the ship. Where they have it, I don't know yet; bub once we hit the treasure, we'll have to jump about and find out. And then, mates, us that has the boats, I reckon, has the upper hand." Thus he kept running on, with. hi« mouth full of the hot bacon; thus he restored theirhope and confidence, and, I more than suspect, repaired his own at the same time. "As for hostage," he continued, "that's his last talk, I g-ucs>s, with them he loves so dear. I've got my piece o' news, and thanky to him for that; but it's over mid done. I'll take him in a line when we go treasure-hunting, for •we'll keep him like so much gold, in case of accidents, you mark, and in the meantime, once we got the ship au<? treasure both, and off "to sea like jofly companions, why, then we'll talk Mr. Hawkins over, we will, and we'll give him his share, to be sure, for all his kindyess." It was no wonder the. men were In u good limnor now. For my ir'. Iv. • s horribly oast down. Should theiclm me he had now sketched prove feasible. Sil ver, already doubly a traitor,w euld not hesitate to adopt it. He had st;;I a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare eseaipe from hantrincr. which the best he ha>? to hope on our side. Xay. and even if thirgs fell out that he was forced to keep his f"-:t h with Br. I.ivesey, even then what dan ger la r before us! "What a moment that would be when the suspicions of his fol lowers turned to eertnlnty, and he and I should have to fight- for dear life he, a cripple, and I, a. 0.-y agair.it 've | strong* and active seamen! ! Add to this double apprehension, the ' mvsterv that still hung over tho be havior of my friends; their unexplained desertiou of the stockade; their inex plicable cession of the chart; or, harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver: "Look out for 6qualls when you find it; and you will readily believe how little taste I found : in my breakfast, and with how uneasy 1 a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure, i Wo made a curious figure had j anyone been there to see us; all in soiled sailor clothes, and all but me armed to the teeth. Silver had two guns slung about him, one before and one behind—besides the great cutlass at his waist, and a pistol in each pock et of his square-tailed coat. To complete his strange appearance, Capt Flint sat perehed upon his shoulder and gabbled odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk, j I had a line about my waist, and fol lowed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his pow erful teeth. For all the world I was led like a dancing bear. The other men were variously bur dened, some carrying picks and shov els—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the "Hispaniola"— others laden with pork, bread and brandy for the midday meal. All tho stores, I observed, came from our stock; and I could see the truth of Silver's words the night before. Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water, and the proceed* of their hunting. Water would have been little to their taste; a sailor is not usually a good shot; and, besides all that, when they were so short of eat ables, it was not likely they would b« very Hush of powder. Well, thus equipped, we all set out — even the fellow with the broken head, who should certainly have kept in shad ow—and straggled, one after another to the beach, where the two gigs await ed us. Even these bore trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a ! Token thwart, and both in their mud died, unbailed condition. Both weretc be carried along with us, for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers di vided between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the anchorage. As we pulled over there was some discussion on the chart, lite red cross was, of course, far too large to be a guide; and the terms of the note on the back, as you will hear, admitted ot some ambiguity. They ran, the readei may remember, thus: "Tall tree, Spy-g'.ass shoulder, bearing a point to the N. of N. X. E. "Skeleton Island, E. S. E. and by E. "Ten feet." A tall tree was thus the principa mark. Now, right before us, the an chorage was bounded by a plateau froit two to three hundred feet high, adjoin ing on the north the sloping southerr shoulder of the Spy-glass, and rising again toward the south into the rough cliffy eminence called the Mizzen-mast llill. The top of the plateau was dottec thickly with pine trees of varying height. Every here and there, one of £ different species rose forty or fifty feci clear abovo its neighbors, and which o! these was the particular "tall tree" oi Capt. Flint could only be decided on th< spot, and by readings of the compass. Vet, although that was the *ase every man on board the boats hac picked a favorite of his own ere wt were half-way over. Long John alont ithrugging his shoulders and bidding them wait till they were there. We pulled easily by Silver's direc tions, not to weary the hands prema turely; and, after quite a long passage lauded at the month of the seconc river—that which runs down a woody cleft of the Spy-glass. Thence, bend ing to our left, we began to ascend tht slope toward the plateau. At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marsh vegeta tion greatly delayed our progress; but by little and little the hill began t r . steepen and become stony underfoot and the wood to change its charactei and to grow in a more open order. II was, Indeed, a most pleasant portion of the island that we were now approach ing. A heavy-scented bloom and many flowering shrubs had almost- taken the place of grass. Thickets of green nut meg trees were dotted here and there with the red columns and the broad shadow of the pines; and the first min gled their spice with the aroma of the others. The air, besides, was fresh and stirring, andf this, under the sheer sun beams, was a wonderful refreshment to our senses. The party spread itself abroad, in a ; fan shape, shouting and leaping to and fro. About the center, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I fol i lowed—l tethered 'oy my rope, he plow lug, with deep pants among- the slid ing gravel. From time to time,' in deed, 1 had to lend him a hand, or ho mu>t have missed his footing and fallen i backward down the bill. We had thus proceeded for about , half a inile, and were approaching the I brow of the plateau, when the man i upon the furthest left began to cry i aloud, as if in terror. Shout after shout came from him, and the others began to run in his direction. "lie can't have found the treasure," said old Morgan, hurrying past us i from the rig-lit, "for that's clean a-top." Indeed, as we found -when we also , reached the spot, it was something very different. At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human i keleton lay, wiih a few shreds of cloth ing, on the ground. I believe a chill struck for a moment to every heart. "He \vas a -seaman," said, George , Merry, who, bolder than the rest, had | gone up close, and was examining the J lags of clothing. "Leastways, this ia I a good sea-cloth." "Ay, ay," said Silver, "like enough; you wouldn't look to find a bishop here, i reckon. But what sort of a way is that for bon*'S to lie? "lain t in natur"." Indeed, on second glance, it seemed impossible to fancy that the body was in a natural position. But for son-.<i disarray (the work, perhaps of the birds that had fed upon him. or of tli slow-growing creeper that had grad ually enveloped his remains) the man lay perfectly straight— his feet point ing in one direction, his hands, raised above his head like a diver's, pointing directly in the opposite. "I've taken a notion into my old numskull." observ d Silver. "Here's the compass; there's the tip-top p'in) of Skeleton island, stickin' out like o tooth. Just take a.bearing, will you along the line of them bones." It was done. The body pointec straight ir. the direction of the island and the compass read duly E. S. E. by E. "I thought so," cried the cook; "thU here is a p'lnter. Bight up there is out line for the pole star and the jolly dol lars. But, by thunder, if it don't maks me cold inside to think of Flint. This is one of his jokes, and no mistake. Him and these six were alone here; h< killed 'cm, every man; and this one he hauled here and laid down by com pass, shiver my timbers! They're long bones, and the hair's been yellow. Ay that would be Allardy*ce. Vou mind i A Hardy ce, Tom Morgan?" "Ay, av," returned Morgan, "I mind i him; he owed me money, he did, and i took my knife ashore with him." j "Speaking of knives," said another, "why don't we find his'n lying round" i Flint warn't the man to pick a seaman's ' pocket; and the birds, I guess, would leave it be." "Bv the powers, and that'» true!' cried Silver. "There ain't a thing left- here," said Merry, still feeling around among the f. ones, "r.ot a copper doit nor a baccy box. It don't look nat'ral to me." "Xo, by gum, it don't," agreed Sil ver; "not nat'ral, ncr not nice, says you. Great guns! messmate, but if Flint was living, this would be a hot spot for you and me. Six they were, and six are we; and bones Ls what they are now." "I saw him dead with these here dead light.:," said Morgan. "Billy took nic in There laid, with penny-pieces on his eyes." "Dead—ar, sure enough he's dead, anil gone below," said the fellow with the bandage; "but if ever speerlt walked, it would be Flint's. Dear heart but- he died bad, did Flint!" "Ay, and that he did," observed an other; "now he raged, and now he hol ler for the rum, and now he sung 'Fifteen Men' were his only song, mates; and I tell you true, I never right ly liked to hear it since. It was mair hot, and the windy was open, and 1 hear that old song comin' out as cleat as clear—and the death-haul on the man already." "Come, come," said Silver, "stow this talk. He's dead, and he don't walk, that I know; leastways, he won't, walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed the" cat. Fetch ahead for th» doi.fjloons." We started, certainly; b it in spite o the hot sun and the staring daylight tvcK>. : ■ • i }. t Shout after shout came from him. the pirates no longer rnn separate and shouting through the woods, bu« kept side by side, and spoke with bated breath. Tho terror of the dead buc caneer liad fallen on their spirits. CHAPTER XXXII. THE TREASURE HUNT—THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES. Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent. The plateau being somewhat tilted toward the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide pros pect on either hand. Before us, over the tree-tops, wc beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchor age and Skeleton island, but saw—clear across the spit and the eastern low lands—a great field of open sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spy glass, heredotted with single pines,there black with precipices. There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of coun'tless insects in the brush. Xot a man, not a sail upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased tho sense of solitude. Silver, as he sat, took certain bear ings with his compass. "There are three 'tall trees,'" said he, "about in the right line from Skele ton island. 'Spy-glass shoulder,' I take It, means that lower p'int there. It's child's play to find the stuff uow. I've half a mind to dine first." "I don't feel sharp," growled Morgan. "Thinkin' o' Flint--I think it were—'as done me." "Ah, well, my son, you praise your stars he's dead," said Silver. "He was un ugly devil," cried a third pirate, with a shudder; "that blue in the face, too!" "That was how the rum took him," added Merry. "Blue! well, I reckon he was blue. That's a true word." Ever since they had found the skele ton and got upon this train of thought they r had .spoken lower and lower, and they had almost got to whispering by now, so that the sound of their talk hardly interrupted the silence of the wood. All of a sudden, out of the mid dle of the trees in front of us, a thin, high, trembling voice struck up the well-known air and words: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho. and a bottle of rum!" I never have seen men more dreadful ly affected than the pirates. The color went from their six faces like enchant ment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan groveled on the ground. "It's Flint, by —!" crlnl Merry. The song had stopped as suddenly as it began-—broken off, you would hnve said, in the middle of a note, as though some one had laid his hand upon the tinker's mouth. Coming so far through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I thought it had sound ed airily and sweetly, aiul the effect on my companions was the stranger. "Co sue," said Silver, struifgliittf with his nshen lips to get the word out, "that won't do. Stand by to go about. Thta is a rum start, and I can't name the '. oioe, but it's some one skylarking — some one that's flesh and blood, and you may lay to that." His courage had come back as he spoke, and some of the color to his face along with it. Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this encourage ment. nr.d were coming a little to them selves, when the same voice broke out again—not this time singing, but in u faint, distant hail, that echoed yet fainter among the clefts of the Spy glass. "Darby M'Graw," it wailed—for that is the word that best describes the sound "Darby M'Graw! Darby M'Graw!" r>gain and again and again, and then ri.-ing a little higher, and with an oat'i that I leave out: "Fetch aft the rum, Ds rby!" The bin caneers remained rooted to the ground, their eyes starting fri»m their heads. Lorg ufter the voice had died away they still stared in silence, dreadfully, before them. "That fixes it!" gasped one. "Let's go." i "They was his last words," moaned Morgan; "his last words above-board." Dick had his Bible out and was pray- ; ing volubly, lie had been well brought up. had Dick, before he came to f»»a and fell among bad companions. Still. Silver was unconquered. I could hear his teeth rattle in his head; but he 1 had not yet surrendered. "Xobody in this here island ever j heard of I>arbv," he muttered; "not one ; but us that's here." And then, making . a great effort: "Shipmates," he cried, \ "I'm here to get that stuff, and I'll not • . he beat by man nor devil. 1 never was 1 , feared of Flint in his life, and, by the j powers, I'll face him dead. There's 700,000 not a quarter of a mile from j here. When did ever a gentleman o' j fortune show liis stern to that much ! dollars fur a boozy old seaman with a J blue mug—and him dead, too?" But tdiere was no sign of reawakening j courage in his followers; rather, iu- | deed, of growing terror at the irrever- i ence of his words. , "Belay there, John!" said Merry. | "Don't you cross a sperrit." And the rest were, all too terrified to reply. They would have run away severally hud 1 they dared, but fear kept them together, and kept thein close by John, as if his daring hel[>ed them , He. on his part,.had pretty well fought his weakness down. "Sperrit? Well, maybe," he said. "But tht r ' or.e thing r.ot c'<T.r to me. There wr.s an echo. Now. no man ever st-en a sperrit with a shadow; well, then, what's lie doing with an echo to him, I should like to know? That ain't in natur". sisreiy?" Ihis argument seemed weak enough to you can never tell what will niT ■: t':t > :perstitious, and. to my womli-r. C - rge Merry was greatly re lieve.l. "Vv'f-il. that's so." he said. "You've a head : .■><"• :s y.-nr shr:i!t*t • John, art no mistake. 'Bout ship, mates! This here crew is on the wrong tack, I do be lieve. And come to think on it, it was like Flint's voice, I grant you, but not just so clear away like it, after aIL It was liker somebody else's voice now— it was like —" "By- the powers, Ben Gunn!" roared Silver. "Ay, and so it were," cried Morgan, springing on his knees. "Ben Gunn it were!" "Tt don't make mueh odds, do it, now?" asked Dick. "Ben Gunn's not here in the body, any more'n Flint." But the older hands greeted this re mark with scorn. "Why, nobody minds Ben Gunn," cried Merry; "dead or alive, nobody -minds him." It was extraordinary how their spir its had returned, and how the natural color had revived in their faces. Soon they were -chatting together, with in tervals of listening; and not long after, hearing no further sound, they shoul dered the tools and set forth again, Merry walking first with Silver's com pass to keep them on the right line with Skeleton island. He had said the truth: dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn. Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sym pathy, and Silver even joked him on his precautions. "I told you," said he—"l told you, you had wp'iled your Bible. If it ain't no goo<J to swear by, what do you suppose a sperrit would give for it ? Xot- that!" and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his crutch. But Dick was not to be comforted; Indeed, it was soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened by heat, exhaustion, and the shock of his alarm, the fever, predicted by Dr. Livesey, was evidently growing swiftly higher. It was fine open walking here, upon the- summit; our way lay a little down hill, for, as I have said, the plateau tilted toward the west. The pines, great and small, grew wide apart; and even between the clumps of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in the hot sunshine. Striking, as we did, pretty near north-west across the island, we drew, on the one hand, ever nearer under the shoulders of the Spy glass, and on the other, looked ever wider over that -western bay where I had once tossed and trembled in the coracle. The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearing, proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly 200 feet into the air above a clump of underwood; a giant of a veg etable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and n wide shadow around in which a company could have man euvered. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west, r.tnd might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart. But it was not its size that now im pressed my companions; it was the knowledge that £700,000 in gold lay somewhere buried below its spread ing shadow. The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors. Their eyes burned in their heads.; their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune, that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them. Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch, his nostrils stood out and quiv ered; he cursed like a madman when the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him, and. from time to time, turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his thoughts; and cer tainly 1 read them like print. In the immediate nearn<"ss of the gold, all else had been forgotten; his promise and the doctor's warning were both things of the past; and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and l>onrd the "His paniola" under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail awav as he had at firpt intended, laden with crimes and riches. Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for me to keep up with the rapid | ice of the treasure hunters. Now and again 1 tumbled; and it was then that Silver plucked so roughly nt ( the roue and lauuehed at- me his mur- derous glances. Dick, who had dropped behind us, and now brought up the n.-r, wus babbling to himself both prayers end t-ursi*. as his fe\cr kept rising. This also added to my wretch cJi and, to crow n all, I was haunted by the thought of the tragedy that had once been acted on that plateau, when that ungodly buccaneer with the blue (ace—he v.ho had died at Savannah, singing and shouting for drink—had there, with his own hand, cut down h Thisgrove,that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, 1 tsought; and even with the thou-rht I could believe I heard it ringing still. We were now ut the margin of the t i:i.*ket. "11 mates, altogether!" shouted M Try; cr.d the foremost broke into a run. And suddenly , not ten yards further, v. • beheld them stop. A low erv arose. Silver doubled his pace, digging away with the foot of his crutch like one p i - esscd, r.nd next moment he nnd 1 had come also to a dead halt. Before us was a great exenvntion. not very recent, for the sides had fallen, in and grass had sprouted on the bot tom. In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two nr.d the boards of sev eral packing cases strewn around. On one of these boards I saw. branded with a hot iron, the name "Walrus"—the name of Flint's ship. All was clear to probation. The cache had been found and rifled—the £709.000 were cone! pro BE coxTiKrsp.J —Among the recent resignations la that of G. W. Cable from the editorship of Current Literature. —II. C. Chat field-Taylor's next novel is to be called "The Vice of Fools." It Is a Biory of Washington society life. —Frank 11. Stockton recently made a visit to New Orleans, and the first fruU of the trip is a characteristic story, "The Romance of a Mule Car," in the Century. —Henry Seton Merriman is the nom de guerre of Hugh S. Seott, who ia known in the business world of London in a very different capacity from that of novelist. —Chester Bailey Fernald, author of "The Cat and the Cherub," has written a companion story, introducing some of the same characters. It is called "The Cherub Among the Gods." —lt has been arranged that an Eng lish translation of J. K. Huysman's forthcoming novel, "La Cathedral," shall be published in English simul taneously with the issue of the volume in French. —The poems of Paul Lawrence Dun bar, the negro poet, have gone into the fourth thousand—a pretty fair circula tion for any book of poems nowadays. But now Mr. Dunbar is about to tempt Providence by publishing a noveL It is described as a realistic picture of a small Ohio town. —"The Skipper's Wooing," is the longest story that W. W. Jacobs has yet written, but the success of that book has emboldened him to try his hand at a full-length novel, n© has been more or less engaged on It during his holidays, but he is so slow a worker that it is not likely to be finished until next year. —A German monograph on Thomp son, the author of "The 6easoas," de scribes him in the title as "a forgotten poet of the eighteenth century;" but an English exchange points out that "during the present century there have beennolessthanEOedltionsofhls poems, to say nothing of separait© editions of •The Seasons,' while his works, or por tions of them, have been translated into German, Italian, modern Greek and Rus sian." RELIC OF THE FLOOD. I'etrllled Giant Tree of Supposed A»- tedllavlan Antluolty. Camden county, N. J., boasts a genu ine relic of tlhe flood, a petrified giant tree, dug up on Farmer Charles Nor cross' land, in Lindcnwold. The theory of a scientific man who has examined tho relic is that the tree was tossed up on the waters of the great deluge and finally struck diry land, when the flood receded, at the point where It has since been buried, ages and' ages ago. Its gigantic proportions certainly prove It to have been a stranger to this part of the United States, says tlhe New- York Journal. Its sire warrants the assumption that it belongs to the fam ily of big trees that are so remarkable a feature of forest growth on the Pa cific coast. It resembles a pine tree in fiber and a California redwood in size. The petrified reanains are those of a tree eight feet in diameter, consequents ly about 24 feet in circumference, and scintists say its-age in life was about 600 years. For 30 year's Farmer Nor cross bas tilled the soil of his farm, and has plowed hundreds of times over the spot where the tree was found. The farm has always had on one spot a number of curious srtone slabs and loose chips. The scientific man whose attention was called to them deter mined to make an excavation there. Ilis spade soon struck a buried tree. He dug u trench across its base, and at the end of an hour laid bare a section two feet wide and five feet across. Convinced that he had struck a really wonderful relic, ho called upon the state geologist at Trenton, who sent down a staff of assistants. They began to dig toward the top of the'trunk. At a distance of several feet above the butt the diameter had fallen off to about seven feet. At 12 feet it was re duced to five feet across its girth. At 24 feet the diameter of the tree had shrunk to two feet. Two feet further along the diggers foundthe snapped-off top. The rest of the relic had evidently disappeared from sight and knowledge. The age of the tree, when It was Bwept away in the flood, according to the rings in it, is computed at 600 years. The rings and even the tissues are vis ible to the naked eye. Sections have been highly polished and subjected! to a microscopical examination. There are about 60 rings, having an average diameter of two inches, 25 rings with an average thickness of one inch and 20 smaller rings with small diameters. In color the tree has a dull salmon (hue, which is probably due to its long-burial in the earth. Tho surrounding soil is of a coarse sand, mixed clay and gravel lower down. —St. Louis Republic. ,\e»v l*roee*s of Diamond Maltlnat- Dr. Quirino Majorana, an Italian chemist, has succeeded in producing minute artificial diamonds In a manner differing, iu one important particular, from the roetho' of M. Moissan, the French chemist. Dr. Majorana heats a piece of carbon with the electric arc, and then submits it to a sudden pres sure developed by explosion driving a piston, and amounting to 5,000 time* t!.e ordinary pressure of the atmos phere. In the mass of carbon thus treated he finds microscopic crystals which answer the tests for diamonds. Moissan's method is to first dissolve carbon In molten irtfh and then al low *he iron to cool under great pres sure, The Italian chemist's experi ments indicate that great heat and great pressure are sufficient to trans f orm ordinary carbon into the dia mond ' rm without metallic solvent. — X V «. ISIo 1^ . PtRSONAL ANO LITERARY. —Ma ml in Garland considers "Th« Descendant" oue of the most reipa/rka blo lirst books produced within the last ten j ears. —The French sculptor, Rodin, has just finished the model of a statue of Victor Hugo, which the French govern ment has ordered for the parthenon. The other model of the same subject, which be exhibited in the last Champ dc Mare salon, ho is now executing 1 ia marble. —Sir Oliver Mowat, premier of On tario, Canada, who will soon become lieutenant-governor of the province, is 77 years o? age. He is of Scotch descent, was born in Kingston, Ont., removing to Toronto early in life. He has been in public life for 41 years. —An author has been discovered for "The Descendant," the-clever novel pub lished anonymously. Though most critics attributed it to Hall Caine, Har old Frederick and other masculine writers, the real author is said to be Miss Ellen Glasgow, who is only 22 years old. —William Allen Butler, the chief pro moter of the latest great transconti nental railway scheme, in which three big trunk lines figure, is the man who in ante-bellum times created the fa mous Flora McFlimsey in the cele brated poem, "Nothing to Wear." Mr. Butler is now a successful lawyer la New York. —When Queen Victoria visited the Dublin exhibition in 1549, with her two eldest children, nn Irish farmer came tear the royal carriage in one of the parks and said: "May it please your majesty, call the next one Patrick." In the following year was born the duke Connaught, who was christened Ar thur William Patrick Albert —A grandson of ex-Empress Eugenie, the son of Prince Louis Bonaparte, is a pupil at tie military academy of St. Cyr, France. He goes by the name of Wallie Kelly, his mother having been the daughter of a London tailor of that name. It is said that the prince and Miss Kelly were secretly married, but Do proof of the marriage exists. The ex-empress placed the boy at school and often visits him there. —A young writer tells this story on herself —the best joke of all! She sent a batch of squibs to a comic paper, re questing pay at the usual rates, and was tersely informed that the paper's usual rates consisted in "glory." "Then print my jokes, and give, oh, give me glory!" she replied. They gave her glory with a vengeance, printing her name, street, town and state address, in large type, at the foot of the joke lets. TWO VIRTUES DISAPPEARING. Loralty and Chivalry Seem to Be Out of the Fashion. Loyalty seems to be one of the old fnshioned virtues which of late years have become almost obsolete—loyalty to one's friend, one's guest, even to the members of one's family. It seems to belong no longer to the ethics of mod ern life». "'Yea, I am very fond of-so and-so," is the usual preface, "but," and then follows the usual criticism, which is generally exaggerated, is often unkind, and almost always gives a disagreeable impression of the per son discussed. In old days it used to be considered bad taste to criticise either gupfit or host, but such intimate inter course nowadays seems only to give nn added opportunity for satirical remark. It is literally true as society is at present constituted that a person who speaks well of friends is voted a bore, while a tongue that spares no one gives its owner a decided popularity. Oddly enough, however, the listeners who en joy the gossip which in the nature of things is necessarily ill-natured, never seem to realize while they laugh over the shortcomings of mutual ac quaintances that they themselves will be the next victims, for it may be taken as a well-proved rule that a person who says sharp things of one friend will not spare another. Every one of us is vulnerable, aud if our intimate friends cannot "be to our virtues very kind, and to our faults a little blind," whom can we trust? We shall have to end by "loving our enemies" and praying to be "delivered from our friends," like Job of old. If loyalty has become obsolete among the women of late years, the menmjght well plead guilty to another indict ment—chivalry with them has certain ly died out. It used to be said of American men that they were very Bayards in knightly homage to their womankind. But where now is that boasted consideration? Women are dragged into print and have their most private and sacred affairs discussed without any redress. It is not so very long ago that courtesy toward theses in public conveyances used to be the rule. Now it is the exception, and the tone of careless indifference prevails even in matetrs social. Politeness to ward women simply because they are women is now conspicuous by ab sence, and there is a give-and-take sort of manners in vogue that is very defi cient indeed in the respect shown, of yore. Perhaps this is not altogether the fault of the men; it may be that the women have brought this state of af fairs on themselves. If the new woman had not appeared it is possible that th« old-fashioned genfleman would not have gone out of existence, and that our men might have remained pretcs chevaliers —but whatever the cause, and wherever we may look for the rea son, it cannot be denied that another very desirable virtue has become prac tically extinct.—N. Y Tribune. A Great Chinese Drldare. Spanning an inlet of the Yellow sea near Saugang, China, is a bridge five and a quarter miles long, with 300 piers of masonry, and having its roadway 04 feet above the water. This work is said to have been accomplished by Chinese engineers 800 years ago.—Youth's Con* paaion- Ohm for Poranambull«t«. Lady Visitor (at office of eminent phy-* •lcian) —I have called, doctor, to ask if there is any eiure for sleep-walking. I have had the habit for years, and late ly it has become worse. Dr. Highprice—lt can be cured, madam. Take this prescription, and have it made up at Colde, Steele & CO.'B. "Colde, Steele & Co.'s? Why, that Is not a chemist's, but an ironmongers." "Yes, madam. The prescription calls for a paper of tacks. Dose —two table spoonfuls scattered about the floor be fore retiring." —Tit-Bits. Deceived by Ills Slater. Mamma—Why did you strike little Elsie, you naughty boy, you? Dick—Well, what did she want to cheat for, then? Mamma —llow did she cheat? Dick—Why, we were playing at Adam end Eve, and she had the apple to tempt me with—and she never tempted me— but went and ute it all up herself!— Tit« Bits. Always There. The greatest trouble with the cur l-eat ©f true love Is the inevitable tnl iflertow of selfishness. —Puck.
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