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.