‘THE EOUNDERED GALLEON em HERLY CHESNEY AND | By WEATTICH MUNRO. i! [Copyright, 1899, by the Authors.] } **Why not?” “Ob, it aay. treak, or you may fall, thing! And even if you did get to the top. all right, it would be awfully dangerous for you to haul yourself up pg J ty, ‘don’t te foolish, please! If you ‘Want to stay here till you've starved off two stone of your weight, I’ll openly don’t.” She raised her knees and acl he bess self a foot farther up the rope. she stopped and, having Sa iced te ee * she said, ‘go below.” ‘Whatever for? No, Dolly, let me be at hand here in case anything hap- pens. You may fall. Perhaps I could Se Alan went, and Dolly slid on the hatch above him. Down below the young man listened ‘with straining, anxious attention. He erst a ee squeak from her shoes as of from the boarding, and tee a eit panting a she worked her way upward. The sou! Jae fainter, it he aan hear en Hoi . Ther es ie a minute’s awful seorese va his Nikd tingled to be ea ool and. through the seg eat He Seekers alls sorts of possibilities— if the girl ee fall, or ifvone of the knots shou! e undone— ‘There was a alight jar on the board- ing overhead and then a gleeful hail # “Ahoy, below there! The ladder ‘waits, your excellency.”” CHAPTER XVI 1AIN RSHA GOES POACHING. time that Dolly and the un- @ergraduate had ae their way oa it of the Jong sock which I Nick’s one pe eee almost dank’ and Uscras was still Tee gees Lies ig an hour's hard scram| to be fore they could mabe eh reach the Ea- reka the journey too tel ams are not tho most reliable light in Thich to go tock climbing, even tion, Sea itane ie Pee t is most ta ey would more thai Gl very far astray indeed in their efforts to retrace ath which y bad taken in the ing, for in the moonlight the ep gave decep- tive Appearances of easy gullies where re i rating but uel? holes and of gentle slopes which a closer ‘approach showed to be sheer precipices. Every step oh to be picked, and care- fully picked t sales vexed Salehea to witain a quarter of amileof the Eureka, the rest was easy, ti they were now upon the sandy, level beach once more And here they ue striding along quick: Kat ie Sau black shadow in tl At a hail from Austen he an ahoy!’’ he cried. ‘‘Are you right?” ” answered the un- “Both of us!’” sponte Dolly. ‘*Rath- er tired and f ly ‘hungry. ‘That's all. ere’s father , The doctor shifted his helm and bore down upon them. About a fathom away from them he stopped, fiddled for bis glass and ae it i: ah eye, and then he rammed bo! fists deep Rite, eg a ‘Under that stare Guthrie to feel uncomfortable. Dolly, as usual, took m: i manage most people and among them, course, Dr. Tring. “We're very sorry for outstaying our Teave,’’ she said demurely. ‘But we couldn’t ee it. We we upand aldn’t get out. pene oe ay tire ing day, and we'vem meals.’ “Bless my soul!’’ ejected the doc- sat * was not to do the St. Bernard dog trick | lieve you've about hit it. You eee, it = trandy bottle andi Hath, bal How- | ¥: ne ever, come along at 01 ee ‘8 the dad Lig nied ae kees would sa; 7. us 1% around.’ He began to get ansioe is Pista about you a couple of bourse ago, She knew how to have to be carried back to the Bureka a streteher.”” “Go and tell hi the wigging. We conan’ tbe i it real ‘Yon see, it was this way”’— ““Never mind the yarn now,” inter- rupted Dr. Tring. ‘Here we are at the ‘im you’ you ean eee ces the whole yarn.” “Mi to the dad that we ahaa * help i tt sted the girl “H'm! I'l tell im that you say you couldn't, but you’y got to prove severity. He pa away inland again, and the others went gowns to the boat. Hen- rietta squeak tt greeting, and as she was Statiais: of remarked that the ois had took on bad about Eaibose old dad,” remarked Miss Cole- pepper ten minutes afterward, when i en keenest e. Alan, and pi ickles prevented th ‘gradu- ate trod giving an Reet see to Dolly’s question at that particular mo- men eee shook his head most vig- sou: ou “We hayen’t found fee spring of fresh water we were sent to seek, you know,”’ suggested ay ce “I don’t care if w haven't,” replied other day like this i looking for “On!” ured “Miss Slapaipes ca epat pdets ed teats ‘There was, however, as it turned out, because Captain Colepepper had found it himself. The spring: Fa only about oe ards from the part of the beach thes wereles Se igh te and the Captain had lit upon the spot aosiden: tally, while he was engaged in turni the island of Piper’s cay upsi side dow find the two authorized water searchers “No more shore leave ee r anybody ai present,"” he declared that Ste pee when he a boa ue ape - ter’s tale. ‘“‘It doe: “Come, out with tt, Tom!" ing of the water Sane and fhe ne jobs that brought us to Piper’s I an ‘t want to prey i a an 7a er than is necessary to put ee ae into proper trim for cea a on 2 ie Santa Catarina’ We’ got through a faiieh bit ae “tia peat ing work today, while you two young- sters ees been amusing yourselves by tumbling into my piratical ancestor's mantraps. But there's still three days’ work good to be done before I shall ea clare the Tipreka: tu'aé tein & sreach an Atlantic blow, so we'll make it fee bel loctor, and all hands to take their watch below. We sball make an early start tomorrow.” wit, as it proved, the Sette over- haul of the ketch was not destined to begin on that next day, afte alt for in the morning at breakfast Tom Jelly made a statement that gave the whole crew other work to do. ‘The one armed hair on ded. his cap nervously in his hand and did not seem k Il the ca; tain had twice exclaimed, ‘‘Come, out with it, Tom!” At-last, with ~ oes loud introductory “H’ ml” the man began his explana- tion. “Why, cap’n, it’s that lnbber Cain!” ipper, a trifle of impatience. ““What's the mat- ter with him? He basn’t been running away, has he?” | “Why, cap’n,” replied Jelly, “I be- loxising 's coming on me again now. If 1 doan nee ea pigs fee t. rigmarole?”’ broke in the doctor impa- tiently. 5 “With due respect,” said the voice of To ji whet i yo rave Soe z wher us is now.’ says ao! the ‘hind toa shipmate, though scull the jolly aboard by myself. Now. cap’n, that was how it began, but, this night, I’s'l bust.’ ot.” gaya I shitting to wind et pA him a trifle ely, re “aye, he. ‘Zusan a eet, pein prem “What's the use of telling us all this Well, to him, I says, Cain, e, ‘sees me standing I, always eing wishfal to be but a cook with the clay still spall on his heels: ‘Here shevitunt wl'oat pia venssanap Cain La-what’s-un's-name or I'll be getting rable. rou «« «Sun up, Tom Jelly,” ‘ee, an starts off into the scrub, Matbine me to Fas jough sun up see me ashore pene and though I waited a matter of f no Cain hove in view. So of I ae tenia to the ketch and tells the whole ess to ’Enrietta, “er bein fust on “fo hear it. «Tom Jelly,’ says she, ‘you be a blamed fool!’ ee ‘8 the very words, cap’n—‘blamed foo! ‘get below, you Dick ae swab, tell the skipper at once!’ Terri woman ’Enrietta be, he aale ne fad miss. The men was going on, but Capta’ Colepepper ext bis is rambling short ey a ‘That'll do!’’ whereupon he saluted with his solitary fist and tumbled up ‘Witt does this mean, Colepepper she doctor asked, picking bis wig up from a locker wa aioe it on bis bare sconce. “The fellow can’t have been trying to decert, ¢: e 2”? Gee dourt seo gt aitierew nay Wheto to desert to,” replied the captain per- lexedly. “Caves and booby traps,”” suggested Doll ly. “Ah,” said the nee aS course! T or that’s ne t; Cole- It lke a that this infernal island tiny ‘bristles with pleasant surprises of that kind. That great Jumbering fo fool evidently went off under the impression that he was going Ba idtidis on Pee kigane ow eedioen on his bones. I’ve heard of men getting a se h of that sort of madness-when ra wale e only thing which that this es clod HAGA Hoye tadjehenehrdmagina tion ge ch an adv “He'll found s y niche, e bawling, like one of his brotber Abel’s bulls, from the shore there in the course of the morning, asking to be taken off If he’d only i the old di down. Te 1 fit the Eureka as though it had been built for her.”” They got the anchor a, and, poses the ketch under jib and mizzen, worked eri i captain bad noted. It was rather deli- eate work getting in, as the whole place Was not bigget than a dock basin, but the captain had the boat out to get ‘warps ashore, and before he piped down fo the Burel shore fasts a’ Ga ct thy cided oF Cha eg tebe wan steep to, and by getting out a couple of springs and slacking up a trifle on the ee at pe beet apie. Nae her close in, and then, after slipping out the gangway. a bridge of planks put And when all {his was done, still no Cain Laversha “Tm Sieaia ‘Gilepspper,” said the oe ee “that your sleep the: people “It lool tor,” admitted the some irritation. don’t suppose he and see that they se break their own peri or yours. e pirate’s snug- gery then added in a tone which only Dolly could hear: “Confou nd Henrietta! But we'll try to lose her.” Colepenper his intentio mn of managing the sai faithfulness to the Bg al hes order of her stuck grimly to her ordered duty; but, inasmuch as she was at the same time a woman, she had a Kindly feeling for the lovers, and therefore trudged stoli conscience, And by ia compromise 8 succeed the fellow ras pot pitted like ie § sone where he’ the man this morn: search’ party,” find him quickly if we spread well, come ashore, with instruction: dare say he’s fully convinced by ie ba ‘A haspelt Doe sae, says he, ‘afore time that one if not both of you will | Zusan Pierce @ in hand, and the Naot os Pas gone 2 to lob for ing.” ‘Wo must) uayet sang for a ie “No, Tl take a ‘i bande replied the ptain. ‘We shall be more real oly ed ene wank ‘anal at's ose Ke Washington ketch where ——_—__ te minutes after this the wate! might from the city for several weks. ‘Hello, ate was Apa off with Miss Colepep- per. ¢ think you and Dolly had | pbis Scimitar. oO tegetuer. or you'll be pe getting | ae rappeher into mischief a; “Send Henrietta’ to look ee them,” ith a grin. st Guthrie, ‘hat fool of a farm ar fe pas fumbled into the very “Aye, fe. bit iad Guthrie, and y papades see 3LOOD. MARKED 0. ‘When ‘Gu thrie pail ey to. Miss i 0 lose Henrietta, he was no doubt pe ly along as far behind them a8 was con- sistent with the duty demands of her led in the difficult task of peciae out her orders to the ides tion both of herself and of her charges. ‘They found the cave in which Nich- tye the First ven cocaine his inhos- table snuggery in exactly the same eaaition in which they pie left it. So it was obvious that the burly farmer had not been there. “Bat I don’t think,” pronounced Dolly, “that there’s the least likelihood of his paving. followed the shore route at a e's far too much climbing chance of finding him by following his fdatpisand picking onble wot “What do you think, Henrietta?” asked aan ” said the woman, “he wad ‘eat muddling fool, Tom Jelly, that he was going Poaching, and he nat’rally woe expect to find his me along coast. So most likely he’s gone inl: and. ae eae think feed better strike in- [ro'BE continue.) | pa A Letter From De Aar. The following letter, dated De Aar, December 4, has been received from Private George Downey, of the first contingent, by Mr. A. H. Bate, of fontreal : ‘Arrived at Cape Town on the 80th; or imagine, all desert and the sand aes ing in clonds. Well, if you could set us; we are the toughest looking crowd. No shaving since we but everyone in Tia i number of ‘wount through here for Spent Syyutelt de jus in i ase the main hospital. We st com mencing to get details of the fight at odder River. We e leave xpect here for Orange River to-morrow, and connoitering party of the Duke of Cornwallis’ L.L, wasjfired on on = a whole can of bully beef without trouble. ‘This sandzis fierce; 'it blows into everything; yesterday v a 8 meni at home we can do all that is eae ieee! led to coepe fron a train, two stations south of here, and the escort filled him full of lead, stopped the train and buried him. There are lots of Boer sympathizers in this part of the country. Well. I will write at least twice @| hall’s estimate, it is week, eave and from Kimber- ley if we go Impression. “What's the use of spending so much money in an election?” asked the * friend. “Great Scott!” answered Senator Sor- “What do you want a man t éo va bis money t Just let it He s and do bi ka lope Li Peaiacanays humor- AGRICULTURE UP UP TO DATE. Points From Secretary Wilson’s Re- port For 1599, Much work has been undertaken on} behalf of tobacco, looking wide | a suvstitution as possible of home BTO} rim) prot ya! | teresting investigations as to the) eauses affecting flavor and aroma are in; on. From a s study of the ayer of Den- mark, especially of Al n grains and oilcake, tea mane meludes strongly against 5 policy aia steril- izes our lant it the same time that it supplies arise countries vith the means of producing meats and dairy products . for eee markets which we could ourselves supply. The intersting fact is noted that the tea gardens at Summerville produced 3,600 pow: Acris oF oe e past season. Irrigation epeieite improvement of varieties by importation and hybridization, are indicated as impor tant steps to be studied. In regard to public ae the secre minder the present sys- | tem. He advocates leasing in large from their ae ‘will be distributed: throughout N ngland, tie micntas Ss discusses the Boe of irrigation at considerable length, giving strong reasons for a general | out wit ference in laws an ethods prevailing the different ie dependent upon irrigation and ates that mot portant rivers have’ steams supplying irrigation to half states. Inevitably, under these! exinaance, differences will arise/ calling for legislation by’ congress, which, should, therefore, be put possession of all the facts affecting is 8, coanuts, ieee and especially ees ber, Be vee we cee now largely de- penden' Brazil. * For Sack, n Iowa cuatdiegtead correspondent reais and describes a sack holder which he finds useful: Take two strips 4A SACK HOLDER. e hi sacks a tin pail answers better scoop shovel. The World’s Wheat Crop. deca 25 Broomhall: World's wi shels—that is, according to Broom- considered better than the very short crop of 1897, but decidedly nearer to that than to large one of jews and Notes. States. dey of agriculture has in press and will soon Iss (0. 72, poe of experl- entit Reading Courses.” tthe bulletin was nell university, the organization re farmers’ reading h have beco: A Negr ‘ ous. The other day two roustabouts | portant factor among the agencies for sivance straight across the island sts were overheard talking. They met on} diffusing knowledge and promoting t to be afraid of sine eran ae whi e levee after one had been absent | enthusiasm among the farmers. The used bulletin contains ete of bo Bill; how is yer?’ said the} yarious reading col No marked crop vanes from the vAvell" was the reply, “de doctors 18 | ten year average is noted for any of give me up, but de police ain’t.”—Mem- the Percival tobacco growing. states this season, says the crop circular. me CONSECRATED MUSCLE) a2 str wer. man — the lion found out, and fhe 3,000 men whom Responsibilities on Those Pos-|#lew found it out; yet he was the fect of petty revenges and out- sessing Physical Power. gian by low passion. I far 0. owing any discredit upon ; physical Sapiins : ere are those ALU 01 ‘who seem great admiration THE VALUE OF GOOD HEALTH, for fotcacy ele sickliness of con- titution. ever could see any 4 Streng Plea for u Purer Social Aumo- sphere—Christians De Not Realize the | * Gulf of Iniquity by Which They Are \d by Free Lovism. ileeanstags ba 11. — In this Bounded—Innumerable Homes Blight- Gymnastics may be waa religious discourse Dr. T: eating airtse Take ove (eprleal pawertio at eglekeiind w me strong and well, as in a former dig-| Worth more a course he preached to the disabled | Petual vertigo, if muscles with the and ‘‘the shut in;” text, Judges xiv, Tim- 2, “And Samson went down to nath. ‘There are two sides to the charac- phase of his character econ with lessons of solemn and im-] Our spiritual sty to ought to be as pert. To there graver ‘en we| good as our physical hearing, | Our This giant no aoabe in ay lit gave evidences of what he w: be. It is poleon and the man Napoleon—but both alike; two Howar: the Howars nd the man Howard—but ing down toward Timnath, a came out him, and although this young giant was weaponless he seized the monster by the long man and sh im as hungry hound shakes a ch hare and mai is side bleeding under the smiting of He fist and the grinding heft of his Tnietd he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh, his arms bunched with muscle that can fierceness and beg ‘The Philis- Be want to conquer him, and there- es: eis an evil woman living in the valley of Soreck by the name’ of Delil: ey appoint her the agent creted in the same building, and then Delilah goe: ork and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of his strength. ell,”” Bea you should take seven h EE be _ perfectly wowerless Ba es. Then she ae ner panda’ aia says, ‘‘They come—the Philistines!”* and he walks out as though there were no impedient. She coaxes him Weave them nds and -y ie—the Philistines!" Hes walle out as eae” sly as he did before, dragging a part of the loom with him But afier awhile she persuades him te tell the truth. He says, “If you they will fa man wide wake so! asleep. TI hear the blades of the shears grinding agains! ch other, and I he long locks falling off. The or razor ac- complishes what ithers and ¢ loom could not Mol RudAenty vate) clasps her hands and say, 2 JOOS ny upon iceeeismagall”t Hin eee erst a Sirurt but his pera ag gone. in the hands of his T the groam of the gfant as they take his eyes out, and ness, feeling his wa: goes te rd 7D. ison door is open, and the giant is thrust in. He i) down and puts his hands on the mk, which wit ustin; horizontal motion goes day after day, after week, month after month—work, work, work! ‘The ee of the world in cap- tiy a looks shorn, his eves pan- in Gazal ken wreck of a wor! his tomb, yet writing more ir Gor will endure as 3s * what he did for the ‘‘Rise ai rs the wo! Wilberforce was fold by his doc- ups f muscle, men of nerve, men of physical power, to devote them- sel he Lord. Giants in body, Behold also in the story-of my text illustration of the fact of the dam- age that strength can do if it be mis- lost by the guessing of his riddle he robs and kills 30 people. He wi not only gigantic in strength, but gigantic in mischief and a typ tho: i & w! any faculty of social’ position or salt Mcrae Gade Da che area nents purposes. mien of stout physical health, “of great mental stature, men of Mien oapelal “pedlnss aiek ls gree power of any sort, I want you to t earth, to ae pes of a in uided, bedraggled in sin, Genasiccaitve of evil, God will thunder against you with his con- demnation, in oe ‘day, shen! million aire and pi ant slave, Ring wail pater akall Gens Saida ee) side in the judgment and money bags and judicial oan ime and roy: robe shall be riven the ees Be slain of a woman. Boliah varied the train of poke erteeteage dvs the taver af EM eae. citizen as well as of ied often it is that you do not we sets forth the| find physical energy indicative of at a i assimilate food. and tugging away to lift up this sun- is a most ehametal fact ge ure of his diseases, all his days sitting in the door of iz than es an sending out an ee 2 Jong. ai gress of Religion” in the Bence rid. An widowhood id sent tnumerable souls to me ie ie of free lovism, it is this—th: ase eee for fave acre less was his term: 0 out of this world, where are ‘This Wh tried’ to gain the world and save their souls, but were swindled bea a jlessed be God, has and hell, and he is ready to wight alt our battles, from the first I said to an old usted the health or "Pollock, fed he epto could have such a apart of Bits “day other bert Pollock hada eee Rega sur- as vive that glimpse. In the description of that day he says, among o in the woe, Rigs woods, and tell it 2 the doleful ae Beas, winds wail “to the howl- hill ‘and’ owt hills mourn to the dis- mal vale: 8, And dismal vales sigh to the sorrow- br tream, ing brooks, And sorrowing brooks weep to the weeping si i And weeping stream awake the groan- ing deep; Ye'heavens, great archway of the universe, put sackcloth on, id ocean, robe thyself in garb of all thy waves into e groan and utter it Long, loud, deep, piercing, dolorous, immense. The occasion asks it, Nature dies, in her and angels come to lay her grave. What Robert Pollock saw in poetic iat ed pose the ae of Deron jae ears tens ft grinding ‘corn: in “Better peak. ‘ow wilt rouse up. ad- igment, the dream you and I will see in positive lity—the jud; judg- ment! ei ir friend send you on “Wh: your ineihans that makes you so es gry? Sh e promised you something u: she sent me a feather and deaterh Bigrvaritiache Blatter. Hibicigey 5 PAT Mie verse criticism. 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