< PIRATE By Guy Boothby. ow |et confluent smallpox and presented a ree appearance. “Is it a hopeless case?"? Alie asked, i nub tan entreaty ‘in her voice. a note that had certainly not been there hour a ig g “Quite hopeless,” I answered, * will endeavor to make death as pai ie ane the outa to me in half an hour {nm th bs oO ‘Tbe man in command was in the act 0} iter blade, the swift- 0} wm before her there could be no doubt: that it would Rave _found a si bai tho guard. Kwong Fung was immedi- me seoonds after this departure phen of us spoke, r sion, It gh to inquire my enemy's “Death,” ae adenenal of have for jive, but s silent again for a few mo- ments, then picking up the dager, which a fallen on the floor, she looked in the face and said: Dr..Di Sn crinnvtile I owe you my life. If ever the opportunity arrives, you will not find me ungrateful, Te was all chi ay servants if they cannot see that their prisoners are a”? I was abou! ut was inter- of litigants, who were followed by a hird. ‘They were all natives, for, as aiscovere , there was not one gin- gle instance on ecard in the history of the isiand He white population bav- ing found it necessary to resort ‘a law to petelesbetr’ aitocensea)eAriees ized fheir rufled feathers just as if they had in reality been what sho had called em—bher children. And ‘aa a result in each case plaintif and defendant went halted and knelt at Alic’s feet. ff together, their differences settled a can ie mace, at mioasty quite for the elnded, ante sa ut on Fay tees white hat, e legal pune we fn tho act of eotting ont for the village, eee y the dog, when an inci- red which was fraught with We wer steps before described, when a young and attractive native wo man hove in t reps, she belted and knelt at sae 's feet, wee ress, saying eet to herin the s soft povia tongue I have so repeatedly ad- mired. When 4 ee finished, Alie turned to me and “Dect, has is your first case, and a sad one. Will you tell me if you can do anything for this poor creature’s child?” pol tittle thing was in sam to stage | venient for all the inbabitants,”* villas, Atie trantlated my speech and mi pave given tue mother some oon ment, for she fell ak pu fea a in the apo reverence s. Then with an obeisan pened she among the trees, Alie turped to me-nnd said, with a deep sig! “Now, Def De Aorsishviile, if you ee and accordingly we passed fun Pee apaimansioen take path toward the settlement. CHAPTER V. HOW WE FOUGHT THE PLAGUE. Leaving the house behind us, we made our way by means of a circuitous m, 4 bjects—European polities @ of which her knowledge was other, however far stele mi from bd the conversation © invariably came back to the epidenie that was the occasion of my presence in the settlo- m At last ws left the jungle and pared to descend the precipitous hillside by means of a long flight of wooden enouph little place, with its well Jaid ont and nicely planted’ thorough- fares. ne:iily built European houses and picturisyue native huts It was hard = believe that, clean and healthy as it looked, it had lost more than a quak- teats population by the I at my companion. She, like myself, had been very silent for the last hundred yards, and now as she looked dow. her Biigdora: I saw her beautifal eyes fll pith te Do‘ Normanvillé". abe said, as we ceed the bottom of the steps, “if you will allow me w al life: you will be able to understand bow it is that I am cs ee affected by my people’s pier ens au at reply, and and at the gate of tho AREA UgHBSReE Were. met by an old man, who was evidently a person of poneiderable je importar ce in the pl ite skin and a ‘lightly savin ett Oe countenance, and, toot he spoke Chinese and the native with unusual fiuency, hat politely and waited for her to speak. . Christianson,” she said, sade ing out her pies: this is . De Ni has eemiinal cnchigtiits come to our assistance from Hongkong. I don’t think it is neces ty for me to assure him that yoo will give him your entire assistance in this terrible crisis in the same manner as you have hither- to given it to The old man cowed {2 me and then addressed my compan “We have done EE OS i terday there were 18 deaths, among them your old cockswain, Kusae, who died at 7 in the morning, and Bllai, the wife of At. tack, i at midday, bis wife durin; noon, and their only child create scarcely an hour ago. Doctor any hope at all of our meee! ania ts to stop this awful peti red him we would do our best, iets and then as my second in com- id. “Now,” I said, turning to her, “‘be- fore we commence our work let me ex- actly iar ans eh position. With what vee am I invested?” “With and coinplete authority,” she pif Si mptly. “Whatever you may deem baie my unfortunate peo- ple, a do without consulting any one. Believe me, noone will attempt to dispute your right.’ That is as it ehould be, ze I thank you,’ Isaid. ‘‘Now, will you tell me ‘where my own abode is to be? It should to my co! aca ewer Sad path and disappeared | }; are ready ye will set off on our tour of | inf “T thought that house on ya mound it the foot of - the hill,”’ she answered, eine Sse ber seu gee toa structure .about @ couple ee rarer yards from th where w it? panied by the old man, we set out for it, eagerly watched a ee eg natives, th pressio their ta ces, had com quite to sonia rae me ake ees b a a * en we entered, an ste gl native lad was called from formed in English Ghee Evan hie new master and a, he was to see that I wanted for nothing. It is oy fir to add that pats my stay in the island zo man could have eee eee aaa! sitting room re passed to the room at the end the senate which a found Hed been set apart ip and eqi Honathesy ES Grewia the allt on 8 waterfall bef scribed, aes were enough drugs of all sorts ward the buildings on the plain. : and descriptions to stock. half a dozen a AGE made our way down the path | Chemists’ shops, while my instruments, we many sul 8 and r rnalia were its were ae erry aud complete, and I ini mated as to Alie, tees prc watching ne, Sod the wind “It is a op Mr. Chrstianson,” se I began, “there uu bad any symptom: of the disease yourself?" “Not one. Since it started ef ha been as wall as at remember ever to been in my “When Ivers ivaokenoriraiie Tasty Iput the question with some little timiaity, for I feared lest by so doing I might wake some unpleasa: ot a roman yeas ago with y st soetycu enalny WE 1 call up the heads of thowillese and Pl operate on them.’ So saying, I unpacked my fae Be having done so vaccinated my in command. W! plished, he Sara Ot tha save nie a list he had pre. if dozen principal inbab- were immediately sent ag they Seal my po- sition ee explained to them in a short speech b “Now, geutiainen,” I. said when her address was finishe if ion _and the well organized attack ast gr disease which bas so decimated eal population I py ear none of you have taken the disease, I propose vaccinating you all, as I have jon done Mr. Christianson, When 3 been accomplished, we will Paet propel to work.”” half av hour puke this was dane and I was oie eS enter upon m: Sourse ‘aah ine pone Nae ”’ I said, after a little miltstion with Alio, ‘assemble the bealthy. folk of the village on the green yon thie ‘was soon done, and at the word of command the entire population able jor, all mized up higeledy Plesty in glorious confusion. en, Frenchmen, s, Swedes, Italians, Portuguese, Spani ., Bas: sians, Hindoos, Malays. Dyaks a Chbinamen. The dui U oomatatiny: ine ex, predominate: The first business to be performed when they w fore me was to separate the men from the women and, as ie possible d disoatol that I singled out those I bi the hillside for the hospital. oy thay employed erecting huts with all hen the remainder had saneis ee the necessary 0 >peration, volunteers were nested nroll themselves for the Seiek eb uecize toe McK wad te 1d fore T had completed my work of vaccination the sun had disappeared behind the Dil, and it was time for the evening mea , tired as we all were, ft gad eodload wo think of sto pping, so after we had broken our trie the work of hut building and vaccination proceed- in by torch and lamp Light until lie atter midnight. By the time my last pati ed I was utterly fwaen tue But thlawae’ be se with Alie, who throughout the day and ‘stimulant, and i had the effect of one upon seemed fagged out beyond all recoupig bate plotting, Revaperty’ and giving ad- ice, it was like a breath rene wee te Mest moving about among her peo- ple, ben xo thought of a Ate or Dah i implements and 8 vaccinated in Liverpool 12 va fon night and warning him to be Mar ‘our erm sion, Tl do ae and pre Rete Chtletiauson, ‘8 Feport that the fourth but was ready Bidding astir on the morning, I took my ared to soon Alie on ber homeward journ ce, some time neither of us spoke. jen it was Alie who began the con- versation. {70 BE contINvED.] Bits of Tin. “An ordinary political said a novelty manufact campaign,’ end out ecets ae the tin factories of the south to buy all the waste tin and useless cans they thou in i fe, if anyth in be called waste nowadays. ON e tin even AES It is used for the backing of nay beahae Brook: Peppermints, in dm: ag was a caitaiy family iv which the worker became interested. Thong pool AUTHORS’ MANUSCRIPTS, Not Necessary For Editors t: 7 often does not take half a minote to dis- card what one knows he doesn’t want. It isan old saying that one does not need to eat a whole joint to learn wane: it is tainted. bea revelation to som id say, “We want an article on that subject. next article begins with a page or of, The ver egins in a fi sway, seems to be constructed according to eo als is pretty good. 18 see ‘shows a coarse strain, and the rong ing stops the: ‘en articles ided upon, with sufficient pe! Fagan, in ee hi one article in a dozen perhaps needs tc be read through.—New York Independ- ent. INSECTS AS HOODOOS, They Keep Settlers Away From Many Parts of the World. Nothing could more strikingly illus- trate the importa: thinge than the large role which is now at- hee to the mosquito in the ae the most serious and w: npn disnes to which the huma ject. is t said that what aa the successful colonization ef many tropical and what throws the greatest obstacle in the way of civilization of an d government in vast regions of central Africa is pot climate, not distance from home ai natives. aria, and now We find that the prevalence of ma- laria, so far as man is concerned, de- pends on the mos and that thie ritating and aus yee 5 jak means by which the poiso ia is propa: gated and aleted ‘or yea: back t ee have known ists will havo to recognize in a muel saan of our em he globe’s sneteoe) shall be possible ame —Hospit: Punctuation. What a great difference in = mean- ing of asentence a misplaced comme car ae! Take the following, for ex: "Bemen my husband is @ very sick This cho did, | seeing that they had a modest allow ance of groceries, coal ra Babey! and so ie with the 's for emer; pote is oat they told ps they did eather was so fine, and ee ma had ayes seen the sho; ts left I bought grandma some pep catty’ Crete has lost Sites eee a turbances of recent years oliv the value of $10,000,000, Tt will take ears to restore the orchards to fai fosaring conitioa, aii i tio ised ite 2 and 800,00 to carefully examine each in turn, After 00,000 Obristians will have to starve. of the ues marke: “Corsa ann head; “ ee met on his feet da his eeaere a clont i bisright hand; his faitntel oral tn his eyes an angry glare saying nothing, he sat down.” — Pittsburg Chronicle - Tele- raph. 7 Faw! bas been Stina eae “a donbt tat the ‘identical a wi ‘wkes carried in eae of the houses af fhe enae whep e intended to blow them up, is now in existence. ane es is in the Ash- molean museum at Cambridge. Guy reeves po carrying ti Jantern sabia history of nis S veee fully coratisuel and it 1 most pate its Loe among the exhibits of the world.—London Mail. fessor Bryce eee ie slip in ii book on South A‘ acouses the Boers of abusing ae nglan by “rotten THE INFANTS ESCAPE. Now, can you imagine what would have beeu the calamity to earth and heaven, reavement to all history, wha’ awindling not only man race, and Rev. Dr. Talmage Enumerates the Dangers That Beset the Holy Babe. Christ’s Cradle Had No Rockers--The Character of Herod--But | un: One Irreproachable! Man--What Christianity Has Done for the World. that nis father had tailed to find! Sup- children dashed tops or separ- Be maainecien: Dec. 25.—In a most un- enone text, will seek the ‘the cuits ea sha iatang vend had ho rockers, or it was not to be soothed by scillating motion, as are the cradles of jad no canopy, for it seemingly ung: Deed plage whore thas cradle so ad been sent from ten, Sreriasied or snpalling Bombardment all the world than the bombardm ot ‘thay cradle? a Herod who led the attack was | y. nobles who had attended upon his dying bed to 1 that there might be unl ing after bis decease. from that same deat ordered the gisnihtor of al! the oiceen {in Bethioham a maseaored the e yu maa with Aesoointes ‘cdlesiastioal power, Chriat x when on); pp rite nt ‘with lshij When was dead, avd ike king up and taking her 80 that What I want to call your attention to mine and th world’s narrow Suppose thi attempt o: child’s life had been successful! Suppose that delegation @ beast aay "be che in the flight had stumbled , feeling sure that if| puoom Lung mi for the iverse to gaze upon and adm: A rd Pence. stil farther romarklog upon the nar- World would nover have known the ary Jesus had pet sehsntoaay ‘The B. graveyard. plucked’ out the world’s ares tele beaks thro ct spoken a by a dying Indian Nase rbeaen Obristinn Bamo.salmueen said doiliim, ‘You aye boon @ Warrier am in many feuds, but enough. Iam at my ene- t “in on ben Cieat se trie of arb, Te hina’ whiobiia wa pactae nag OeaE af this century and ooronet the brow of the coming century,.{¢ consequent upon the midmight anthem above Bethlehem, two bars to that musio the same doctrine—‘‘Blessed are the merciful. ‘The Peace of Chri pei I take another step foberaeittanened ing ana gban the narrow escape Thad and the pulses some of world had in the secretion of Christ then unwittingly store birthplace from the io detectives times, when and the clubs with they , wot its luster an have dashed the babe’s life out mie I and the ay that without the life that holly and night in Bethlehem the world “would | looked interwoven! ave had no illuminated deathbeds, | not fore the time of Christ guod people may. Have pi alosed thelr earthly Ne at epending o rist to come, al teeeaues tia thera’ ware ao vian saints, and the decor: Assyrian saints, ane Egyptian saint G a Grecian saints, a ser es saints long before the clouds above Bethiehem became a baleoi the best snes of a world where all aaa I cannot r was aueiiing more than a quieting guess Shae came to those Hofore, Christ death. | 1 b said something bordering om that it was so long a time mas to Christmas. 2 and 1,8 istmas_ noon Christmas nights bas on our poo lanet? Let us thank God thet we Tie tn aoe ghle Christmas, which ri of church Lord, report lace whore they “fond the swift woul sartied desihito that babs to May e Ia Pure Man. the deine rae i cee through | | Still further Lamotte upon the nar-| coy. loot Peaceful d dit A escape which ee da Thad and all) BC; veiumphant gee ah: She world had in scabs most of ste Edward Parsons. of Vara, the oof Yarted.heathen | cbleftain, ofying! in is De isin t sea. Get She Is ready for the a good pilot to guide me. ie o inalte aa its Phidias among pacts rs, its Homer bir ieisita Pope ana phe among poets, ts Aesop among fabultsts, its pert lye amare Dem table, say self under ths wings of he mercy sent shonanns of peo- | ter following him to the with heavenly weapons he has fought ‘The battles of t! Pinicted Wie were and Kept a the faith And wal jained th 1e Necessity of bate for a thought that ve said as a the gold ‘mines fornia, d and undeveloped, ©: the thimblefal of gold uss whitch in| ‘2 Caltfornia miner brought” from a upon the desk of a 18 remarking upon ; upon the arbi ‘8 's liom or leht peo the’ eye that lao! sheng eat “I find n jeath ics riders! Suppose airchslaus had got his hands on the babe that turned out to be so perfect a life?| the ransom of earth and fe the ther the: alt, Hope 21 no beer jplcig age ed pss apture of heaven. He started. that night ut i on 01 year of duration instead of 83 years, had he died in Bethlehem or in Cairo or in the desert between, nob a church woul: opened, not a nation Ad ood oe inaugarated, no! hat a crisis that was in the oath ey What a crisis in the at y Now let the Christmas table be spread. all together making a ta $0 rool sarod. 8 enough to Send ont the invitations to all the whom we would like to have ransomed of ye of the host have crossed the flood, part are crossing now. aigently Aoeubevoring aaild,'s ye have found him, bi that I may come and wor Given at the palace. Herod the Great.” Mita beerrpe MINARD’S LINIMENT is best. Satchise Foley, Oil City, Ont. v. Pierre Handry, Pokemouch Thomas Wasson, Sheffield, N. B. n first | leit himself to At the Telephone. Give me one thousand amd “Hello! si ix” ae “nt " Got nape “One fiat three, foe, five, six, en, nine, ught, pac ‘ot the naught?” Neught- “One, om three, four, five, six. Got the six?” “Yes.! “One, t' three, four, five, six, agaim Got the six neal what I y bs, ies Go es foe ey. oe ible ix. Why didn’t you s: stay would by ss injustice te nd that standard healing agent— Dr. Thon a“ Eclectric Oil with the ordin- lotions and salves. wmmatory and astring- ne contrary, emin- ne and. onsite when applied ro relieve and powerfully Heroes of the Pen. ‘The intensity to work and rewrote it, ax pane the entire work in The sami fea agate was en- au by Carlyle ¢ MS. of his “otek the iia mes ae Minard’s Liniment the Lumberman’s Friend, Trouble in the Camp. li eeaatters » said the Salvation Army cap- ce a me Be y to Brother ee pcmenine dasond mpokeuié nden Cuan! tle dose of Miller's Worm Powders occasionally will keep the childrem healthy. Leaping Power ofa Flea, if a man were to Jeap as for in lea. he eal will never touch amined leave a dead or dying pe! rit 'Yhe best remedy for scrofula is Mil- ler’s Compound Iron Pills, 50 doses 25 cents, Lotteries in goes Tt is rate by over §2,! number of policy tickets bought annu- tlly is “since 6,000,000. Health for the children, Miller's Werm Powders. Pretty ger Gowns. Handsome street si smooth-finished © cloth in town, t brik blue or gray- bees gine both abr and silk ing isin open jee ite eoecimery with beads, spangies, and, mouseeline ap- liques. Heavier passementeries are of oe i Tes, but the sash for evening dress may have the buckle of. Rhinest and be worn the back without ang ly long ed with a row frill of ailk rouseeline all around. —Ladies’ Home Jou: Only those who have had experience can cause. Pain with off—pain j Bigte and day ; but relief is sure to those use Holloway’s Corn Foreing Bulbs in Winter. oes bulbs for. winter flowerin astened of retarted “by the { put & warmt used. To hurry ise more heat; to keep them velop, ‘and: thei flawers’ will got last Jong.—December Ladies Home J as nal, ae Ge Their First Meeting. a big, uncouth looking chap, ‘ylia pachape Inbred tna ted ry oT Bls ‘heel was on the order of a locomotive, At least, wrk ward-loaking. ‘and Reavy, Hike himeelt. He was riding alo push with the hol Fowtloe bis then Thich. his awk- ward “ance. ‘She was a delicate young girl, perhaps id her, for it had the uppearance ot light- and quickness, ‘The girl wore glasses, low tate should decree that these twe should come together, it ia bara 10" aay, ‘opposite directions, mi ea sen a look of determination came over her f and she smiled as s tho: lear antest manner anes nable: “Oh, never mind, I’m glad nobody's hurt.”