VOL xxxviii
I Half Price Sale|
* Jackets tCapes #
We now offer our entire stock of stylish Jackets and Capes at just
lone-haif the former low prices. This is a great opportunity to save. Uk
The assortment is still good.
ALL GARMENTS NOW HALF PRICE. jK
FIRST COME, FIRST Served. £
A GENUINE CLEARANCE SALE is beini: yl
carried on with vigor and will b; continued unt-1
stocks are properly reduced ■ and all odd lots and
broken assortments are closed out. JR
We quote a few cleerance s*le prices:
V 1b) Jli.?s and SI.OO Fancy Silks reduced to 68c
t 85c ai:d 75c Fancy Silks reduced to 50c
C
Jfc 1 Vv Lot 50c Dress Goods reduced to 25c
JjA / I V O 0 " lot $3 5° al I Wool Blankest reduced to #2.50
'%] 111 It One lot $4.50 all Wool Blankets reduced to #3 25
wit I 1 \ $l5O and $1.25 Wrappers reduced to SI.OO
tIJ J I \ Reduced prices on Table Lines, ..rashes,
{ / J \ \ Flannelettes, Underwear, etc xk
All gexxts are rot reduced in the same proportion
"""" " *— as those quoted. Some goods are not rctuced at all Uk
but we give you enough bargains all through the stock
to make it worth your while to come 4R
L. Stein & Son, |
108 N. MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA £
Bickel's January Prices.
One lot Ladies' Fine Dongola Shoes $J
One lot Ladies' Kangaroo-Calf Shoes 1
One lot Ladies' Best Oil Grain Shoes
One lot Ladies' Warm-Lined Shoes ''J
One lot Ladies' Leather-Sole Felt Slippers ~2
One lot Misses' Kangaroo-Calf Shoes. ij?
One lot Children's Kaugaroo-Calf Shoes
One lot Men's Holiday Slippers > { }
One lot Men's Fine Satin C'alf Shoes } 'Jv
Gokey's Hand-Made Kip Box-Toe Boots, long leg, 4 soles ■'< 'J''
Gokey's Copper-Toe Shoes for Boys, sizes 10 to 2 1 'J-
Gokey's Copper-Toe Shoes for Boys, sizes 3to 6 1 'jj
Men's Donble-Sole and Top Lace Working Shoes.. 1
Boys' Double Sole and Top Lace Working Shoes
Our Stock of Felt Boots and Rubber Goods
to be Closed Out Cheap
Men's Best Felt Boots and Duck Overs 22
Men's Best Felt Boots and First Quality Overs 1 ?•>
Boys' Best Felt Boots and First Quality Overs 1 50
Youths' Beet Felt Boots and First Quality Overs 1 !•»
Men's Storm King Rubber Boots
Men's Short Rubber Boots -
Boys' Rubber Boots J f *
Youth's Rubber Boots 1
Child's Rubber Boots
Men's Buckle Arctic* 1 } '
Men's Fine Self-Acting Rubbers
High Iron Stands with Four Lasts
Sole leather cut to any amount you wish to purchase. Cut half-soles and
shoemakers' supplies of all kinds.
Complete stock of Ladies' and Gents', Misses' and Children's Leggings and
Over-Gaiters.
It will pay yon to visit this great sale and secure some of the bargains being
fifered.
JOHN BICKEL,
128 SOUTH MAIN STREET. - - BUTLER, I'A
57 E. MILLER,SHAMAN
To Make Things Lively
For Thirty Days.
GREATEST SALE EVER HELD IN BUTLER.
«>ur holiday trade was large—unusually large—but we find we
have too many Shoes and Rubbers. In order to reduce our stock we
are going to cut the prices on all winter goods, such as Shoes,
Slippers and Rubbers. If you've not bought your winter shoes or
rubbers yet, come to us—we are in better shape to serve you than
ever before. We mean just what we say.
Butler's Progressive shoe House
19
Will sell shoes cheaper during the month of January than ever before.
We haven't space nor time to quote prices, but come in and see us—
see how wc have grown in seven years- and get a share of the
bargains we are ofiering this month.
We hope to make many new friends this year.
TRY AN UP-TO-DATE SHOE HOUSE.
C. E. MILLER.
1 11 l Men don't buy clothing for the
11 TT 1 wJmW)sl* T> purpose of spending money. They
/[.[ UJy £1 desire to get the best possible re- Pj
yyj'l suits for the money expended. Not
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they can be sold for rnd made up
properly. If you want the correct
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Silently and slowly the boats crept on
toward the town. We had crowded ev
ery man of our crew into them, with
the exception of the old man. who was
left in charge of the Scourge. We were
not pressed for time, as the dons would
hardly be in their first sleep yet. So
we paddled easily, keeping a keen look
out anil cursing in a whisper the man
who allowed his oar blade to raise the
slightest splash. I tell you. to some of
us the effort of that strained silence
was harder work than it would have
been to raise a hearty cheer and race
to the landing through fi hail of Span
ish bullets.
Once Alec's boat got on a ledge of
rocks, and her crew had to climb over
board and lift her into deep water, and
once mine hod to be eased over a shoal.
But no damage was done to either of
tiiem, ami the quietne.-s with which we
worked pre\ r.ted uny telltale sound
from reaching the si,ore.
Foot by foot we crept on. feeling our
way by instinct, as it were, through the
velvety darkness. Not a light showed
from the sleeping to v.and but for the
loom of the high on the harlior's
sides we could lianily t< 11 sea from
land. Sheltered from fie wind, the
water had become .v- sm; jtli as an un
tarnished mirror, t:: 1 In spite of :il!
the caution with wt. ! •' we dipped and
raised the oars, a r. ! -!i uo-.v I tie :i
could not be uvoitl- ' ' over such
11 surfru e sound travels f.-ir Iv the <j<iiet
of ui.rrt.
Presently the voice ; of two men taiU
ing cause to us aero- st: v . and
after a minute or s.o one of t'-eni chal
lenged :
"Who goes there?"
"Amlgos: Kspnaoles." replied Wili'e
Trehalion.
"Mother of God. those accursed Eng
lish!" exclaimed the man ou shore and
fired his pistol. We smothered a laugh
at the poorness of our boatswain's
Spanish and. as further caution was
now useless, bent to our oars with a
will.
"There's a fort of some sort here,"
shouted Alec, "between me and the
shore. Follow in quickly before they
can bring their guns to bear."
Hardly had the words left his lips
when there was a flash and a roar, and
a dose of lead took the tips from our
starboard oars.
"Very prettily aimed!" muttered Jan
Pengony, who as a gunner must needs
express his opinion. "The next may be
closer. A demiculverin. too, by the
ring o't. Jump her along, lads, an
Jet's be after the captain afore he's
Btormed the place by hlsself. Hooray
for Captain Ireland an the Scourge!"
And so lustily did our fellows lay
their backs to the work that before an
other .'SO sei onds had passed the boat
sprang almost high and dry on the
shore, and the next shot from the demj
culverin whistled safely over our
heads.
"Now. inds." I shouted, "up we go
and at 'em ax and hanger! But mind
not to fall foul of our own men. for the
night's as dark as the pit. Stay a mo
ment! There's the captain clamoring
for admittance on the right yonder.
We'll try if we can't scramble in at
the sea fare."
So saying, I turned and cut across
the rocks to thi left, with the men aft
er me belter skelter. The fools of Span
lards were still blazing away with ean
ir 11 ainl arquebus overhead, showing
us what a state of confusion they were
In. and till I had actually squeezed by
big cur :iss in through an embrasure 110
one offered to stop me. And after that,
though many bad the will, no one had
the power to cut me down.
Breech to breech with the very deml
culverin that had first been fired at us
I held the ground t'" the others picked
their way through the darkness and
clambered up. Then, yelling to tell
Alec our whereabouts, we charged to
gether, driving the dons before us with
a tempest of hacks and haws that,
dazed and half awake as they were,
they had no stomach to stand against,
and finally pinned a big crowd of them
against a corner of the palisading.
But, in spite of the success of our
first charge, we were very nearly over
powered, for others kept (locking out
of the barrack as the din waked them
from their sleep and, taking us be
tween two fires, were like to have
made a small mouthful of us by sheer
weight of numbers. Itapidly forming
The man on shore fired his pistol.
Into a small hollow square, we fought
for awhile for our very lives, with a
grinning circle of yellow Spanish teeth
ravening at us 011 every side.
Then suddenly there was a cry of
nlarm from the great gate of the fort,
and about half of our assailants ran off
to defend that point. The hearty Eng
lish cheer with which they were re
ceived told us that Alec and his lads
had got in at last.
This was the turning point. A few
more Spanish heads were broken be
fore we succeeded In joining our two
bands, but when that was once effected
the combat was of short duration, for,
shouting, after our usual custom, that
we'd slaughter every soul unless they
threw down their arms at once, we
rushed them nil into two opposite cor
ners and held them so till every weap
on was out of their hands.
"Jack, take a couple of men with you
and go and examine the barrack," cried
Alee.
1 diil as he bade me and returned
presently to report that there was a
large room in which we could hold the
prisoners safe in the meantime. We
jailed them all. therefore, with tlie ex
ception of the commandant, in their
own quarters and. after setting guards
nt the door, cast about what was to lie
done next.
Alec questioned the commandant.
"How many men have you here?"
"Some 180, senor, and had I known
bow small your handful was I would
never have surrendered to you. How
ever, in the town"—
"I have no time for parleying. Senor
Commandant." said Alec shortly, "and
if your townsfolk annoy us I'll batter
the place down about their ears. But
give nie what 1 want, and I promise
that my advantage shall not be pressed
further. 1 must have powder and
pearls—your whole stock of each."
"Your request is a modest one, Senor
Englishman. You ask for all we have
got."
"And. asking, intend to have. Recog
nize. senor. that might is right just
now, and so save further bloodshed."
The Spaniard shrugged his shoulders.
"The powder I cannot prevent you
from taking," said he. "You will find
it. or. at any rate, the greater part of
it, in the magazine underneath the
penthouse there. But the pearls, for
tunately. are out of my keeping. They
are stored in the treasury, and that lies
in the very heart of the town."
"Very well, senor: to the heart of the
town I go for them, and with you as
my guide."
"Senor Captain." said the comman
dant Indignantly, "consider my rank!"
"Thai precisely what I am doing,"
replied Alee dryly enough. "You enjoy
at present the rank of prisoner to Alex
an.ler In land, who will hold your body
responsible for any ambush your
tongiN' may lead him Into.
"And now. lads." he continued, turn
ing away from the Spaniard, "there's
dawn beginning to show over the bill,
and so the les.- time we waste the bet
ter < :;rry the powder down to the
boms, iin.'l when it's safely stowed tell
tin Itoatkeepers to shove off a couple
»>f oars' length from the shore. Ar
fnorer. spike ail those culverins but
one. break the pans and stocks from
the arquebuses and cut the crossbow
strings. Willie Trehalion. I leave yon
here with four men to guard the bar
rack door. Slew that culverin round
pnd lire mumchance into the crowd of
them if they gel restive, and if that
does not silence them post your men on
either side oi the door and baptize with
your axes all those who try to come
out. You understand?"
"Aye. aye. sir," replied the boatswain
grimly.
"The rest of vou form fours and
follow me as hard as you can run.
Senor Commandant, after you! And,
senor. no attempts at escape, If you
value your life. I'm fleet of foot, and
my sword blade will split you in the
hack at the least sign of treachery."
Out we weni at a good smart trot,
the dou. In his shirt, leading, and,
speeding along a muddy, well used
path, bore toward the town. It was
not a very large place, so far as we
could see, and there \*ere no defenses,
as the fort above could, from Its posi
tion. have sunk any vessel that at
tempted to enter the upper harbor. But
the inhabitants had been thoroughly
aroused by the firing and now flocked
out of every alley, tinned anil resolute
to defend their homes. A spattering
fire greeted our approach, but it touch
ed no one and only changed the more
orderly advance into a mere race for
precedence.
Alee was among the first knot, while
I was puffing and blowing full 2<> fath
oms astern, and his rashness very near
ly led blui into trouble, for one big fel
low leaped 011 him from behind and
bad him 011 the ground before he could
shake off the embrace. However, Job
Treliallon's lean, long legs brought him
on to the scene In time, and Alec's cap
tor rolled over with a head split to the
chin.
By the time our captain had got on
his legs again the rest of us had come
up. and together we drove the towns
folk down their street in a body, shout
ing that we'd fire the houses if they
made us halt. The Spanish comman
dant had contrived to bolt when Alec's
hands were full during the first melee,
and so we pushed on without a guide,
trusting that instinct would lead us to
where the jewels were stored, for in
truth some of us had keen noses for
plunder.
As it turned out we made two false
searches, taking the trouble to overhaul
a couple of stone buildings which were
only food stores aud dwelling places.
Indeed, wo were very nearly done out
of the booty altogether, for the Span
iards made a clever and desperate at
tempt to carry off the pearls to a safer
spot.
In the event, however, this effort of
theirs gave us the very information we
needed. We spied n knot of fellows
laden with leather pouches trying to
slink away in the confusion, and,
knowing that at a critical moment no
man troubles himself with burdens un
less they are of unusual value, we
made after them.
On being pursued they dropped their
loads, which we promptly gathered up,
every man slinging two of the pouches
to his belt, aud then going to the build
lug from which we had seen the fel
lows come, we broke down the door
and fought our way In.
There was a strong defense, but It
was carried at some cost—to the de
fenders—and we helped ourselves to
another score of the leather bags and
came out agaiu. The fight was waxing
furious outside, and re-enforcements
wore coming up every minute.
"We must get out of this," cried Alec,
ns 11 furious rush drove us back against
the wall of the treasure houses. "Hack
and thrust, lads; clear a space and
form fours again. Drop the pearls if
they're too heavy to hold. We must
reach the fort and relieve the boat
swain."
"The soldiers Is got out.'" bawled a
voice. "It's them that's at us now!"
"There's the commandant! 'Ware
sword behind. Master Topp!"
"Down the street to the right, lads,"
sung out Alec, "and make for the
shore. The boats are coining to meet
us."
"Aye, an uncle's in 'em," added Job
Trehnllon with a chuckle. "They Span
lards in the barrack's b-jen too many
for him."
When they saw our object, the Span
iards, led oti by their commandant,
pressed us harder and harder, and, in
cumbered as most of us were by the
leather bags—for the men held grimly
on to their precious pearls—we were
very nearly overcome. But the narrow
ness of the street was In our favor,
and with Alec and Jan I'eugony and
myself covering the retreat, we got
slowly down to the beach. Even then
our work was for.-the boats.
having bad to make a long circuit to
avoid a reef, were still a considerable
distance away, and the Spaniards, uo
longer fearing to hit friends, opened
a gulling arquebus fire.
Alec, however, was equal to the oc
casion. Calling upon us to drop the
pearl bags by the water's edge and
follow him, he dashed back against the
assailants with the whole crew of us
at his heels, and before they quite
knew what had happened we had tak
en prisoners the commandant and
three of the other leaders as well as
about n dozen of the rabble. These
formed a breastwork which sheltered
us completely from their friends' Ore,
and so no further attack was made un
til the boats came round.
There was some symptom of a final
rush tft, after heaving the precious
stones on to the floor boards, we pre
pared to embark ourselves, but at the
first forward movement we swore that
we would slit the throats of our pris
oners if we were molested.
The threat was enough. They let us
slip off In peace, and as soon as we
were out of gun and bow shot range
we tipped our hostages into the water
nud let them swim back unmolested.
Without further incident the boats
towed down the harbor and steered up
alongside the Scourge, which had drift
ed in on the current and was lying
scarcely a quarter of a mile off the
land. We got under way at once and
congratulated ourselves on our good
luck.
Powder for our cannon and pearls for
our purses—it was a good night's work.
CHAPTER XXV.
"Well, boatswain." said Alec when
the forestaysail sheet had been let
draw and we were once more com
fortably under way. "tell us how it was
you let those Spaniards escape from
the barrack."
"Sneakin hounds!" growled Willie,
who was not over well pleased with
himself. "They put shame on an hon
est seaman. You'd hardly left the
building when the scoundrels came bel
ter skelter at us. all fully armed, forc
ing us to fire the cnlverlu an then to
light for dear life. Where they got the
aims from the Lord only knows, an I
hadn't time to find out. An while one
party o' tiie skunks was keeping us go
ing In front another was grubbing
away at the wall in the rear, so that
before we rightly knew what the trou
ble was they'd made a hole, an most o'
them was through it an after you. An
tiitu,captain, when the birds was flown,
what could 'a' four like us do? We'd
cut down a baker's dozen o' them, but
we wasn't able to run after an bring
back the rest. So. judging that they'd
make for the town, we filled up the
touch hole o' that last culverin an
then, slipping down to the boats, row
ed off to Ihe lower bench to meet you."
"And well you did so," replied Alec,
"for we have got off with none killed,
which at one time I little thought we
would do."
"None killed," I added, "but several
scratched pretty deep and three badly
wounded. George lias got a crack on
the sconce which I fear will stop his
fighting forever. His helmet was slit
through as though it had been a paper
fool's cap."
"Don't you bother about Garge, Mas
ter Topp," sang out Jan I'engony from
the fore scuttle. "Garge's skull's like
a bullock's. Now that the old man's
pulled the broken sword blade out on't
an sewed up the slit Garge is cursing
away as amiable as ever he did."
"Is the old man surgeoning, then?"
"Aye, au lacking a bettor we might
have a worse. He's just chopped off
Tinker Tom's leg at the knee joint an
sewed up the stump as neat as can be.
An Torn, he never uttered a groan nor
a grunt the whole time, an there he is
now a clamoring to have his leg salted
down to take home with him for a
keepsake. I'm thinking the old man
bain't no bad surgeon."
And so it proved, for with the excep
tion of the loss of Tinker Tom's leg,
every man of the crew was as sound
ten days after the fight as he had been
when the Scourge's powder room was
empty. The taking of this store of
powder and pearls at El Pueblo del
Norte was In every way a lucky stroke,
for, besides giving us the means for fu
ture battles, it put all hands in conceit
with their captain and their craft.
Moreover, It was something prosperous
to look back upon during the profitless
time that followed.
After clearing the reefs of the harbor
we ran round to patrol the well used
highway at the Ltnck of the Island lying
behind the rocky shelter of Coche,
which is separated from Marglierlta by
a strait two leagues In width and dart
ing out when a quarry appeared. Six
times in six weeks we were engaged,
but the prey was after Alec's heart,
not mine. We grievously annoyed the
subjects of his majesty of Spain, but
all that we rifled from their pockets
would not have melted down into a
deep sea lead.
The explanation is simple. Each craft
we brought to and overhauled was
westward bound, carrying a packed
cargo of lank, lean dons from the old
world to fill their pauper pockets from
the wealth of the new. Quite one-half
of each bark's sallow company was
rotting with scurvy, a result of the long
passage out; and as sick men who have
no wealth but the ragged clothes on
their baeks to defend will not fight des
perately for the fortunes they have yet
to gain, uone of these encounters cost
one drop of English blood. Indeed five
ships out of the six hove to at the first
shot and surrendered without further
resistance.
Now, though I know that it goes
against au English seaman's grain to
resort to extreme measures In cold
blood, still prudence Is a jade that
needs attention as well as the more
highly mettled steed chivalry, and so
I and almost all the Scourge's crew
with me saw fit to expostulate with
our captain on his treatment of the
prisoners. Their vessels, as he had
no use for them, he scuttled, but their
bodies he consigned to the boats and
allowed them to make for the shore
unmolested. Nor would he allow a
hair of one of them to be injured.
It was In vain that we warned him
that some, escaping fevers and hun
ger, wild beasts and heathen, must
make their way to the Spanish settle
ments and, giving news of our cruising
ground, either bring the hawks down
upon us or, what was just as bad, pre
vent the herons from crossing our
(light. It was equally In vain that we
showed him how every Spaniard allow
ed to go free —for that nation knows
not gratitude—meant one more pair of
bauds against tin or our countrymen
at some future day. lie would listen
to nothing. Ills duty, he said, was to
war against Spain. Ills conscience
was satisfied that by destroying her
shipping he wounded her mortally, but
his conscience would never consent to
killing men other than in fair light.
On deck I was loyml to rny captain,
tis was my duty, but In tlie cabin 1
spoke my thoughts freely, as was a
sworn shipmate's privilege.
"The crew Is getting surly." I told
liim one day. "with this long continued
.'II success nr.d it will take little to
make their uiullled grumblings break
tut into open mutiny."
"What will they have?" he answered
impatiently. "But sailors are the same
oil the world over. I make not the
slightest doubt that Shem, llam and
Japhetb growled among themselves on
deck whenever Captain Noah was in
his state cabin. But let our lads say
what they want, and I am ready to
listen. It is not as if they were hired
for a set trading voyage to a certain
port and back again, with thumb
marks and crosses duly set against an
agreement and bounty money pocketed
and guzzled before the anchor was
tripped. I am their captain only by
election and hence to a certain degree
their servant."
"How if they depose you?"
"Then I shall serve uuder the new
rapiain. Who is it to be—yourself?"
"Y«u know me better than to think
that." said I warmly.
"Yes. Jack, I do. But who else is
there?"
"Willie Trehalion."
"Willie Trehalion would never take
the cross staff from my hands. Be
sides. he does not know how to use it.
But what about the old man? He has
the ear of many of the crew, and from
what I hear was a shipmaster before
he fell into the hands of the Span
iards."
"1 can well believe that." said I.
"It was only the other day he took the
cross staff in those twisted fingers of
his, shot the s-tn, ciphered out his reck
oning on the slate and, turning round,
"Oh, ho, 011. Master Topp!' he chuckled,
'lie's a lubberly navigator who cannot
find his position to a matter of three
minutes.' And then when I had gone
over the work afresh and found that he
seemed to be right, 'Ah, ha, lia, Master
Topp. you're a better scholar with
cudgel than with pencil! More weight
in the forearm than in the head, eh?
Stick to the sea long enough and you'll
blunder a stout ship ashore yet before
you're hanged.' And he would have
added more in the same strain, but I
didn't wait to hear It."
"Ah." laughed Alec, "the old man's
infirmities protect his skin from the
trouncing of John Topp's fist, and the
old man's wit is too sharp pointed to
take P. trouncing from John Topp's
tongue."
"Maybe," said I silkily, "but I have
no fancy to be taught by a daft man."
"Why not, If he knows something
which you don't? Put your pride in the
powder room. Jack, along with the oth
er touchy explosives, and remember
that every man on this earth has some
thing to teach. At least, so I have
found. The mummer chap from Strat
ford says that there are sermons In
stocks and stones and good In every
thing."
"Where's the good in a Spaniard?" I
asked slyly.
"To till land and build towns for her
majesty's lieges some time to occupy
and for the present to gather gold for
you to plunder."
"Right!" said L "Then let us bet
übout the plundering. I tell you this
profitless cruise must cease or there'll
be powder burning within the walls of
the fortress. The men's sulks will come
to a head shortly if you don't give them
a sop to their greed."
Alexander Ireland got up and paced
the cabin, plucking at his short red
beard In Irritation.
"The devil seize you all for a set of
unhung robbers!" he cried passionately.
"Not one of you has spark of true pa
triotism iu him. From this spot I have
destroyed vessel after vessel of the en
emy, and without losing a single man.
And why? Because their crews have
nothing to fight for. But intercept 8
rich plate ship and In one fight we may
lose half our ship's company, and then
it will be 'ilurrah for England, while
yet the Scourge has men enough to sail
her there.' Well, so be it As my
hounds wili not hunt dry scented any
longer 1 must flesh them."
"You speak confidently," said I, half
scared at his vehemence, "as though
you could point out the course of a fat
prizo without further search."
"And so I can," he answered quietly,
and, unrolling a chart of the main, he
skewered it on to the table. "See here!
The vessels coming empty from the
east touch no laud before reaching here
and so make for this strait In happy
Ignorance of our presence. Not so those
that are full of treasure and homeward
bound. Every port on the coast has
been advertised of the pestilential Eng
lishman's whereabouts, so they steer a
point or two to the northward of the
regular course and pass by the other
side of Margherita, near that same El
I'ueblo del Norte which we harried
three months ago. Now, If we creep
round the eastern end of the Island I
warrant we'll be within gunshot of
some hulking gold wagon before we're
u couple of Sundays older."
"Then," said I, "In the name of all
that's sensible do It!"
The captain laughed shortly. "No,
I'll leave the matter in your hands,
"The crew it yetting surly," I told him
one day.
Jack. If you and the other rascals are
So greedy for. gold, you can put the
Scourge about whenever you please.
Ami I— IU light her for you down to
the last plank when the time comes."
Without another word I spi'ang up
the ladder.
The men were Idling about the hot
decks In surly knots of threes and
fours, but the news brightened up their
sullen faces as rain does n parched
prairie. They jumped to their sta
tions like a parcel of holiday school
boys. Up went the stowed foresail,
the headsalls sprang aloft like larks,
and driven by eager arms the wind
lass heaved us up to the stream anchor
at which we were riding.
"Flatten In the starboard Jib sheet
there and rant her head olT! Hand
somely. now! There she comes round,
the beauty! Forrard there, let draw
and sheet home! Now, helmsman, set
her head north northeast and by north
and keep her so till we are clear of tho
island!"
A good whole sail breeze was coming
from the east by south, which temper
ed the sun's brazen rays to a pleasant
warmth and sent us sweeping along
through the smooth Caribbean sea on
one of our best points of sailing. The
hands were in high good humor at the
thought of a ftdl fleshed prize. A cask
» r rich nllcaute had been brought on
deck and broached, and thus with
most cheerful augury we began our
new quest.
Patriotism might wait. It waa plun
der's turn now.
W [TO HI CONTINUES.]
m A RUMMAGE SALE.
One Man Who In WPII Aware Wkti
He linn I'.noußh.
"Thoro," exclaimed the big north
side resident as be threw himself Into
his favorite clulr, "we're home, and
wt-'re groins to stay right here! No
more skirmishil g from pillar to post
by me or mine. I've had a bountiful
sufficiency aud am not a bit like the
man who does not kuow wheu he has
bail enough. All this traveling for
health or pleasure is sentimentality
aud doesn't pay 10 eents on the dollar."
"Must have reached that conclusion
on your Inst trip." volunteered the
practical neighbor who had dropped In.
"You used to be awful keen for get
ting away from the city and enjoying
relaxation, as you put it."
"Ever attend a rummage sale?" with
apparent Irrelevancy. "No? Well, I'll
tell you. It's a church institution.
They ask everybody to donate things.
There's no limit. Anything from lace
handkerchiefs to stone crushers. Then
they go out and collect these things,
lis up a sort of a department store, and
a lot of pretty, persuasive women but
tonhole the visitors Inveigled in and
make them buy.
"I've been down to my old home,
you know, and they had a rummage
sale. It opened the nigbt I was to
leave, so I went down with my wife
and little daughter, prepared to go
from there to the train. There was
no checkroom, so we stored our traps
and calamities in different booths. I
bought liberally, for a fellow likes to
make a good showing when among the
people with whom he grew up.
"When it came time to leave, what
do you think? They had sold my over
coat and hat, my wife's cloak and fur
collar, the little girl's Jacket and all
the smaller bundles. I made a gallant
attempt to laugh it off, with a hope
that they would make good for the
loot, but not a cent; not an attempt to
recover the plunder. They thought It
a good joke. I remained over and
stocked up, but from this on I'm stay
ing right here at home."—Detroit Fre«
Press.
>'o Gratitude to Waite,
"Take my seat, madam."
She took It.
About ten minutes later she remark
ed:
"Thank you, sir. I would have said
it sooner, but the last man I thanked
for giving me his seat In a crowded
car had only got up because he wanted
to get off the car, and I felt that he
had won my gratitude under false pre
tenses. I made up my mind I wasn't
going to let It happen again."
"Don't mention It, ma'am," respond
ed the man clinging to the strap. "I
merely got up because I was tired of
sitting."
And nothing more was said until the
conductor hoarsely bawled out:
"Division street!"— Chicago Tribune.
Grateful.
"My dear," said Mr. Sirlus Barker,
"that box of cigars you bought me has
resulted In great benefit 1 want to
thank you for them more earnestly
than I did at first."
"Did you enjoy them?"
"No, but I'm better off. They made
me realize what a terrible habit smok
ing can become." —Washington Star.
The Wrong Sort.
Mrs. Subbub—Out of work? Non
sense! You could easily get work If
you wanted It
Hungry Hlggins—Well, ter tell yer
the truth, ma'am, what I'm looking fur
Is a snap.
Mrs. Subbub—A snap, eh? Here,
Rover, Rover. Sic Mm.—Philadelphia
Press.
Glvlns the Tired Do* Hli Dae.
"I notice that one of the Boston pa
pers laments that 'pants' are still ad
vertised In that city."
"1 suppose that the old saying holds
good that 'pants' are a characteristic
of 'gents.' "
"Yes, and of tired dogs."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
lu lioston.
Minerva —Yes, be and I had a de
lightful conversation last night and
the theme was love!
Diana—lndeed?
Minerva—Yes. We were discussing
whether love Is subjective or ob
jective.—Puck.
Either Way.
"There Is no doubt" remarked the
humorist, "that Washington is a capi
tal city to go to."
"And equally there Is no doubt," re
marked the other man, "that It Is a
capital city to leave." —Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Nad Workings of a Good Scheme.
"My man, tell mo how you came to
be a tramp."
"Oh. bless yer, (hey got me t' jlne
one o' these don't worry clubs, an I got
so I didn't keer when I lost m' Job."—
Detroit Free Press.
Too Late.
A.Q
--i iHs^
"Are you willing to share honest
poverty with me. darling?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Nocash. but I have
already promised to share Mr. Mll
yun's wealth and no questions asked."
—New York Journal.
Kate—l wouldn't marry him If he
were the last man on earth.
Jane—l would.
Kate—What for I'd like to know?
Jane—Oh, Just to spite all the other
women.—Detroit Free Press.
Wild Life In the lloaif.
"Have you ever had any trilling ad
ventures, Penelope?"
"Yes. Once I stood on the arm of a
couch to tlx a window curtain, and
the couch shot across the room with
me."-Chicago Record.
A Positive.
Funnyblz—Blffer Is a fugitive from
justice.
Eezyma rk—No!
Funnyblz—Yes. The gas collector's
been after him for two weeks. —Ohio
State Journal.
llrllllnot llrnry.
Economical Wife-Henry, we must
rut down our expenses this month.
Can you think of anything we can do
without?
Henry Well, there's your mother,
(or lustauce.— Pittsburg Dlapuwh.
No. 3
OR*
THE UNDERGROUND WATER.
Straight Through to Eartk'l Center
It la the Landowner's.
Referring to the decision of the court
of appeals by which the city of Brook
lyn Is restrained from the use of Its
driven wells on the ground of their
withdrawing water from the surround
ing districts operated as market gar
dens. a decision that will cause satis
faction to many whose interests as cul
tivators always have been in danger of
being jeopardized by the building up
of residential districts, American Gar
dening comments as follows:
The process referred to has been go
ing on for years in the neighborhood of
Brooklyn with perhaps greater Intensity
than in any other city. The situation
of I.ong Island and its formation have
rendered It peculiarly susceptible. The
proximity to a large city has made It
nn area of dense population for peo
ple who wish to retire after the day's
work Is accomplished, and the fertile
character of Its land, together with the
level surface, has made it a very con
venient spot for the location of vege
table .growers and truckers who came
to supply the wants of the first named
class. The conditions for carse and
effect to be quickly operative were ex
cellent.
A condition that has been known
and realized for years, so far as the
fanner class is concerned, came to such
a pass that action was brought in the
courts by Benjamin F. Forbell against
the city of New York, and a historic
rendering is the result Judge Smith
in the original trial took the stand that
the act of pumping water from another
man's land, and which was the actual
foundation of his business and living,
was to be regarded as a trespass, and
the precedent now established by the
upholding of that decision on appeal by
Judge Landon strengthens the general
position of the agriculturist In a re
markable degree. He is no longer to
be the easy, Impotent victim of the suc
cess of other enterprises. The water
which flows under his soil cannot in
future be taken from him with Im
punity. It is just as much his as the
crop which grows on the surface by
means of the water which it draws up.
The case in question awards the plain
tiff damages to the sum of $6,000, with
costs.
The case is briefly this: Forbell was
the lessee of certain farming lands near
Spring Creek and used a portion of his
lands for growing celery and water
cress for the New York market. This
part of his farm was on low lying land
near Jamaica bay. The growing of cel
ery requires an extraordinarily large
supply of surface water, and on For
bell's land the dip of the underground
water shedding stratum was only
about a foot below the surface. It was
the claim of the plaintiff that the effect
of the pumping at the Spring Creek
station was to lower the underground
water table on his land and to render it
useless for the growth of celery.
The facts In the case were not long In
dispute, as Forbell was able to produce
numerous witnesses who upheld him In
his assertion in regard to the unfitness
of his land. lie likewise summoned the
engineers of the water department,
who testified that the pumping station
sucked its water from all the land
within a radius of at least five miles.
The decision then practically rested on
the question of the right of landown
ers to the product of their land to the
center of the earth, a well established
principle of the old English common
law which had never been gainsaid. At
the original trial in the special term of
the supreme court on March 0, 1889,
the plaintiff's attorney called attention
to a previous decision of Judge Hatch
in which a distinction was drawn be
tween the right to intercept running or
percolating water on or below the sur
face and that to use artificial means to
draw by suction from beneath adjacent
land the water to which it was natu
rally entitled. On this distinction the
presiding Justice, Wilmot M. Smith,
awarded the decision to Forbell, grant
ing the injunction, to become operative
as soon as the case should be fully set
tled. The appellate division affirmed
the decision, and the court of appeal®
has now established a distinction
which cannot fall to be of the utmost
consequence in all future questions In
volving water rights.
The Sweet Potato Crop.
In the south Atlantic states the sweet
potato crop, according to government
statistics, suffered from lack of mois
ture and, except in Georgia, the yield
per acre In those states is below the ten
year average. The yield in Tennessee
corresponds exactly with the average
of the last ten years, and In all the oth
er states in which sweet potatoes are
grown on a commercial scale condi
tions have been favorable and large
yields are reported, Texas reporting 08
bushels per acre, as compared with a
ten year average of 79 bushels, and
New Jersey 135 bushels per acre as
compared with a ten year average of
103 bushels.
Sugar Beets In Ohio.
The Ohio station reports that on the
whole the sugar beets of the 1900 sea
son are below those of last year In sug
ar content and purity, few counties
that supplied a number of samples giv
ing the factory requirement Farmers
in the middle and southern sections of
the state are not advised to pursue the
growing of sugar beets. The northern
sections arc considered more promis
ing. and there is now a factory in Fre
mont county. The station at Wooster,
0., is ready to receive applications for
beet seed to be sent out in March, 1901.
The amount sent to any pereon will be
limited to 12 pounds.
The Latest.
Softlelgh—When I want to be slallgy,
I alwqys say I feel like 30 cents.
Uptosnuff—lf you want to be up to
date, say you feel as if you were,
marked down from 30 cents. —Ohid'
State Journal.
Wheels.
Mrs. Fluster—Dear me, I hare 80
many things In my head that-
Cruel Husband—l suspected that all
along, but most kinds of machinery,
make a noise.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
lie Wouldn't See It*
His Wlfe-Oh, John! Here's such 9
funny Joke about a woman trying to
drive a nail. Shall I read it to youl-m*
New York World. j