Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 June 1894 — Page 2
Ladies will find the Handsomest Stock of
SPRING GOODS
In the city at
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One Door East of Postoflice.
ANM BANNING. ProD.
MRS. STRATTON. Trimmer.
WITHOUT THE
BOW (RING)
it is easy to steal or ring watches from the pocket. The thief gets the watch in one aand, the chain in the other and gives a short, quick jerk—the ring slips off the v uch stem, and away goes the watch, leaving the victim only the chain.
This idea stopped
that little game:
The bow has a groove o.t each end A collar runs down inside the pendant fstem) and fits into the grooves, firmly locking the bow to the pendant, no that it cannot be pulled or twisted off.
Sold by all watch dealers, without JmE, tost, on Jas. Boss Filled and other cases containing this trade mark— Ask your jeweler for pamphlet. • Keystone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA.
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No. 22 Sontb JacKson Street, GREENCASTLE, IND.
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5peci&l Attention given to preserving the *nAtural teeth. Office in Williamson Block, opposite First National Bank.
Real Estate for Sate.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, x.''admiuistratrix of the estate of Charles K
Weber, deceased, by order of the Putnam ,'ircuit Court, will offer for sale on and after
SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF JUNE, 1894,
At the office of Qeo. Hathaway, No. 22 South Jackson street, (Ireencastle, Ind.. and until sold, at private sale, for not less than its ap-
pr**ised value, to the highest and best bidder, ihe following real estate in Putnam county
indiana:
— Lji number -live {f> ifid w>sl half cf loiduttioei iocif '4’ iit Oa’ooin r a Subdivision of iOts, three (3) and four (4i of the School Commissioners’ Survey and plat of section sixteen 116), township fourteen i M north, rauge cour (4) west, in Greencastle.
TERMS.
One-third cash, one-third in nine months fend one-third In twelve monthe. deferred payments to bear six per cent, interest aod secured by mortgage on the premises. a; 2C, ISOi. S AS A H W E PE 1 ?, ieo. Hathaway, A tty. 4t7 Administratrix.
J. Birch, Atty.
Sheriff’s Sale-
By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to coe directed from the Clerk »ff the Putnam Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Thomas Bayne is plaintiff, and William K. Adkins, Alice Adkins. John A. Smith, Laura B. Smith, John Hinch, Ella E. Hart and Henry W. Hart are defendants.
I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder, on
MONDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF JULY, 1H91.
between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 cr'clock p. m. of said day, at the door of the court house of Putnam county, Indiana, the
seven years of the following described real estate situated in Putnam county, Stale of Indiana, to-wit:
The northeast quarter of lot nuihber seventy (70) and the northwest quarter of lot number seventy-one <71 in the GreenaKtle or Eastern Enlargement to the town •/row-fity) of (ireencastle, excepting a strip of ground sixty-nine <09i feet in width off of
♦ Vifc *a«t cide of said norths
ide of said northwest quarter of
*aid lot number seventy-one (71 of sain en.i—gemeiit, situate in Putnam county, in the
State of Indiana.
If such rents and profits will not Kell for h ufflcient sura to satisfy said decree, mlefeuL r>.d costs, l will, at the same time ami place, Xpose to public sale the fee simple of said < al estate, or so much thereof as may be sufeient to discharge said decree, interest and osts. Haid sale will be made without reliel rom valuation or appraisement laws.
FRANCIS M. GLIDEWELL,
June 6, 1894
Sheriff of Putnam County. 8
A QUEER RACE.
A STORY OF A STRANGE PEOPLE.
BY WILLIAM WEST ALL.
she really meant lt-I am sure 1 did. j c * lls Cr,TV0 - ver V cloio Ins inre, when he This conclusion, however satisfactory so *Pi e *. 1° •* crevice of a cliff—the coast is far as it went, did not afford much help uncommon rugged—he spies something as toward a solution of the pressing question 'lulu 1 look q i:te like a stone—it was too of the moment: What should I do?—how r "und and regular like; so he lowers his avoid becoming a harden on my mother* • s:l 1 Lakes his sculls, an 1 goes and ^ets It. 1 had asked Mr. Comble to take me hack; " llat '' 0 5’ ou Diink It was’
ter’ off by heart, there was not a sea going ship belonging to the port of Liverpool whose age, classification, and character (which meant, in many Instances, the character of her owners) I could not tell without referring to the book. The partners often consulted me as to the premiums they ought to charge, and the risks which It was prudent for them to take; they gave me a salary which made my mother and myself very comfortable, and had I been patient and waited a few years, I should doubtless have becontc a member of the firm. But I was ambitious; and when the newly constituted Oriental and Occidental Marine Insurance Company Invited me to become their underwriter. I accepted the offer without either hesitation or misgiving. But cautious Mr. Comble shook his head. “It’s a very fine thing,” he said, “for a young man of two-and-twenty to get the writership of a company, and, though I say it that should not say it—to our firm. But you are taking a great responsibility on yourself, and you will need to be very prudent. Fifty thousand pounds is not too much capital for an insurance company, and this is a time of inflation, and the shareholders will expect you to earn them big dividends. Between you and me, I I have no great coutidence in these new concerns. They are going up like rockets, and some of them, I fear, will come down like sticks. But you are young, and if the Oriental and Occidental does not answer your expectations, you will still have the world before you, and I have always said that you are one of those chaps who will either make a spoon or spoil a horn.” The senior meant kindly, and I thanked him warmly; hut I was too much elated by my advancement to give due attention to his warnings, although I had good reason to remember them afterward. My elation did not, however, arise solely, or even chietiy, from professional pride and gratified ambition. The fact is, l had lost my heart to Amy Mainwaring, a charming girl of eighteen, with peach-like cheeks, soft brown eyes, and golden hair; and being as impetuous in love as I was diligent in business, and Amy loving me ns much as I loved her, I had made up my mind to marry at the earliest possible moment— that is to say, as soon as the father gave his consent and I could afford to keep a wife. I thought the salary which I was now beginning to earn would enable me to do this easily. But Mr. Mainwaring did not quite see the matter in the same light. He said we were both absurdly young, and however well off 1 might be, we should be all the better for waiting awhile. Moreover, like Mr. Combi,', he had not absolute eonildence in the stability of the Oriental and Occidental. To my pressing entreaties he answered— “Let us see what a couple of years bring forth. You will be quite young enough then, and the delay will give you a chance of laying something by for a rainy day.” Two years! To Amy and me this seemed an eternity; but as neither of us wanted to defy her father, and he was quite deaf to reason, there was nothing for it but to sigh and submit, and wait with such patience as wo might for the fruition of our hopes. Time went on, and long before the period of probation expired I had to acknowledge that Mr. Mainwaring’s caution had more warrant than my confidence. After doing a brilliant business during the first six months of our career, the tide turned, and in a very sliort time we lost nearly all we had made. For this result—though we hud really very ill-luck—I fear that I was in part responsible. I was too keen and sanguine; I did not like to turn money away. I had not Mr. Combie and Mr. Nelson to consult with, and I underwrote risks that I ought to have refused. I had not always the choice, however; for our paid-up capital being small, first-class insurers fought shy of us, line business went elsewhere, and I had to take my pick among the residue and remainder. This was the state of things eighteen months after I joined the Oriental and Occidental; and had I not got over the difficulty about the “Niobe,” it is extremely probable that the company would have smashed or I should have been dismissed. In either event I should have lost my occupation, and in either event Mr. Mainwaring would. I felt sure, have insisted on the rupture of my engagement with his daugh-
ter.
Hence my prospects, whether business or mutfi.iicniAl, wcic not of the brightest, and Amy and I were often in horribly low spirits. We had thought two years a terrible time, and now I began to feat* that I might have to wait for her as long as Jacob had to wait for Rachel. I am bound to say, however, that our gloom was relieved by rather frequent gleams of gayety and happiness. One does not despair at three-aud-tvyenty.
CHATTER rv.—CRAZY TOM’S TARN. After my memorable interview with Mr. Brandyman. things took a more favorable turn with the Oriental and Occidental. We had better luck, and I took more care, preferring rather to do a small business than run great risks. Our spirits rose with the shares of the company—mine and Amy’s as well as the directors’—and we began to think we were on the highway to prosperity, when a misfortune befell which scattered onr hopes to the winds. The Great Northern Bank (like our own, a limited liability concern of recent creation) suspended at a time when we had a heavy balance to credit, and the very day after we hud paid away several large checks in settlement of claims. The checks, of course, came back to us, and ns wo had no means of taking them up, we too had to
suspend.
I lost my place, of course—a defunct company has no need of an underwriter; and worse—I had taken a part of my salary in shares, and on those shares there was an Up paid liability which absorbed all my savings. The collapse of the company left me tin pool aa when i euteleti Cuift'uib & Nelson’s office seven years before; and by way of filling up my cup of bitterness to
but my place was tided up, and as a severe financial crisis had just set in there was little chance of my finding a place elsewhere. Firms and nauks were falling like ninepins, and men of business looked and talked as if the world were coining to aa end. A word to any of them about finding me a situation would have been regarded as an insult to bis understanding. While I was revolving these things in my mind, and wondering what on earth I should do, I received a call from Captain Peyton, who had lately returned from one voyage and was about to start on another. He condoled with me over the failure, and inquired what I “thonghtof doing,” whereupon, as he was an old friend. I told him of my difficulties, and asked his advice. “What do I think you should do?” he exclaimed, cheerily. “Why, what can you do better than come with mo to Montevideo? I mean, of course, as my guest, make the round trip; you will be back in six months, and by that time business will be better, and you will get as many berths as you want. Young men of your capacity and energy nr* not too plentiful. What do you say?” *** “Yes, with all my heart!” I answered, grasping his hand. “Thanks—a thousand times thanks, C apt ala Peyton! 1 have long wanted to make a deep-sea voyage, and after the turmoil and anxiety of the last few weeks the‘Diana’will be a veritable haven of rest. When do you sail?” “In a fortnight or so.” “All right; I shall bo ready. I suppose Bolsover is still with you’’’ “Yes, Crazy Tom is our boatswain; and a good one he makes. He will may be tell you that yarn of his, if you take him when ho is in the humor. 1 tried him one day, but It was no go. Ho would not bite. I expect ho thought I wanted to chaff him.” “Yarn, yarn! Oh, I remember. Something about a galleon, Isn’t it?” “Yes; a Sj anis’.i treasure-ship, lost ages ngo. The crazy beggar believes she is still afloat. He is sane on every other point, though. However, you get him to tell you all about it. It is a romantic sort of yarn, I fancy.” “When we get to sea?” “Yes; that will he the time. Yv'hen we pet jfto the northeast trades, all sails set aloft and alow, and there is not much going on—that is your time for spinning yarns.” Shortly after this I .heard apiece of news which completed the tale of my misfor tunes, and made me wretched beyond measure. I heard that Amy Mainwaring was engaged to young Kelson! If qiy mother had not seen it in a letter written by Amy herself to a common friend, I couldn’t have believed it; but incredulity was impossible. I was terribly cut up and extremely indignant, and vowed that I would never have anything to do with a woman again—in the way of love. Two days later we were at sea. The “Diana” was a fine, full-rigged merchantman. one thousand two hundred tons burden, with an auxiliary screw and a crew of thirty-nine men, miscellaneous cargo of Brummagem ware, Manchester cottons, and Bradford stuffs. She had half adozen passengers, with all of whom (except, perhaps, a young fellow who was taking a sea voyage for the benefit of his health) time was more plentiful than money. Fur all that, or perhaps because of that, they were very nice fellows. We had lots of books among us. and what with reading, talking, smoking, saunteiing on deck, playing whist and chess, the days passed swiftly and pleasantly. Now and again we gave a sort of mixed entertainment in the saloon, at which the skipper and as many of the ship’s company as could bo spared from their duties on deck were present. Two of the passengers could sing comic songs, one fiddled, another recited; I played an accordeon and performed a few conjuring trfcks, and one way and another we amused our audiences immensely, and won great applause. 1 naturally saw a good deal of Tom B >1sover, but in the early part of the voyage the weather was so variable and he so busy that he had little time for conversation, and we exchanged only an occasional word. But when we got into the region of the trades lie had more leisure, and going forward one fine morning, I found him sitting on a coil of rope, apparently with nothing more important to do than smoke his pipe and stare at t.le sails. “I was very sorry to hear of the busting np of that’ere company,” he said, after we had exchanged a few remarks about th’rir’s 'll "Ctf.il “Yes; you saved us twenty thousand pounds, and I thought that would pull us through; but we lost twice as much by the suspension of our bankers, and then we were up a tree, and no mistake.” “1 hope you did not lose much by it, sir*” “Well, 1 lost my situation and all my money, and 1 had a very nice sum lai 1 by.” “All your money! D.'ar.deur! I am very sorry. 1j;ii you surely don t mean qu;te
all?”
“Yes, I do. I have very little more left than I stand up in. But what of that? I am young, the world is b -fore me, and wh»n 1 get back I shall try again. I mean to make my fortune and be somebody yet, Bolsuver, before I am very much older." “Fortune! fortune! if wo could only find the ‘Santa Anna’ we should both make our fortunes right off. There isg Id and silver enough on that ship for a hundred fortunes, and big Tins at that. ” “Tlie ‘Santa Anna” What is the ‘Santa Anna,’ and where is she?” "I wish I knew,” said the old sailor, with a sigh; “I wish I knew. It is what I have been trying to find out these thirty years and more. I’ll tell you all about It”—lowering his voice to a confidential whisper— "only don't let the others know—they laugh at me, and sa> I am crazy. But never mind; let them laugh as wins. I shall find her yet. I don’t think I could die without finding tier. You won’t say
anything?”
“Not a word.”
“Well,” went on the boatswain, after a fc*v pcnriVQ c* l * ; - rd"u “p e.ame about in this way: My father, ho was a seafaring man like myself. He has been dead thirty-three years. He’d have been
the brim. Mr. Mainwaring informed me
(in a letter otherwise very kind and sym- j 11 (sL on ninety by this time if he had lived.
For sale, a beautiful home on East Seminary street; house of eight rooms, large shade trees, large lot, choiee IruTtl"'all kinds, tf H. A. Mills.
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pathetic) that my engagement with Amy must be considered at an end. He did not forbid me to visit his house, but ho said plainly tlnff the seldomer I came the better
he should be pleased.
I thought he was hard, but 1 felt he was right. What was the use of a man being engaged to be married who had no present means of keeping himself, much less a wife? All the same, Amy and I swore eternal constancy, and we vowed that, come weal, come woe, neither of us would »>..••• man-v anvhndv elsa' and I thought
Weii. my father—he was a seafaring man, you’ll remember—my fattier chanced to be at the Azores—a good many people sees the Azures, leastways Pico, but not many lands there—but my father did. and stopped a month or two—I don’t know what for—and being a matter of sixty ye.- rs since, it does not much matter. Well, while he was there, he used to go about in a boat, all alone, fishing and looking round—my father was always a euiiusish 'jyrt of man, and he had an eye like a hawHj# Well, one
Jsl
day he was sailing round thfc island they
A bottle of rum, per-
I have no idea,
haps.”
“No, no, not that,” said Tom, with a hurt look, as if I ha 1 been j >sting with .a sacred subject. “It was a tin case. Itlmd been there a matter of forty or fifty years, may lie, washed up by the sea, and never seen by a soul before it was spied by my father. Inside the case was a dokyment as told how. in 1741, a British man-of-war captured the ‘Santa Anna.’ a Spanish galleon, with millions of money on board.” “Millions! Not millions of pounds?” “Yes, millions of pounds. She was a big ship, carried forty guns, and must have been a matter of two thousand tons burden. Now, a ship of that slz“ can hold a sight of gold and silver, Mr. Erie.” "Rather. Aim >st as much as there is la all England, I should say.” "Just so, Mr. Erie,” said Bolsover, with glistening eyes. "Suppose she carried no more than one thousand five hundred tons dead weight, and half of it was gold and half silver, that would be a pile of money— make baskets and buckets full of soverdigus and crowns and shillings, to say nothing of sixpences and fourpenuy-pieces, wouldn’t It, sir’” "Carloads! Why, you might give away a few wheelbarrows full without missing them.” As the poor fellow was evidently quite cracked on the subject, 1 thought it best to humor him. “But you surely don’t mean tossy that the galleon was fullbang up full of gold and silver?” “Yes. I do; and why not? Doesn’t the dokyment say as she was a richly laden treasure-ship? And doesn’t it stand to reason as if she was richly laden—mark them words, sir, ‘richly laden’—that she must have been full?” “Why, yes, it does look so, when you come to think about it.” I said, gravely. “The man who finds the ‘Santa Anna’ will have a grand haul; nothing so sure.” “Won’t he!" returned the boatswain, gleefully; in bD excitement chucking Ids pipe into the sea. “Now, look here, Mr. Erie; you said you was poor—as you had lost all the money as you had. Here’s n chance for yau to get it all back, and twenty thousand times more! Help me to find the ‘Santa Anna,’ and we will go halves —share and share alike, you know.” “Thank you very much, Bolsover. It’s a very handsome offer on your part, and I am awfully obliged; but as yet I must own to being just a little In the dark. Say exactly what it is you want me to do. If it is a case of diving, I don’t think I am the man for you; for, though a fair swimmer, I could never stay long under water, and i (Aon’t understand diving-bells.” “No, no, sir; the ‘Santa Anna’ never foundered; she is on the sea, not under it. You surely don't think, sir, ns God Al-
crabbed; the lines were, moreover, so very close together that I found the perusal, or, more correctly, the study of the manuscript by no means easy. Farts of it, in fact, were quite illegible. 1 bad often to infer the meaning of the writer from the context, and there were several passages which I could not make out at all. No wonder the boatswain wanted a man of “ ’end and edycation” to help him. The form of the document was that of a journal, or log; but it was hardly possible that It could be the work of any combatant officer of a warship on active service. The style was too literary and diffuse, and, so
to speak, too womanish and devout. The writer, moreover, whose name, as I read on, I found to be “Hare,” did not write in the least like a seaman. He could not well have been a passenger; and I had not read far before I found that he was a clergyman and naval chaplain. The first entry in the diary was probably written at Spithead, and ran thus— “H. M. s. ’l(scats, 1 :7th. 174*. “Left our moorings this day. under sealed orders, so as yet no man on board knows whither we are bound or where we are to cruise. May God bless and prosper our voyage, and protect the dear ones we leave at home! “19th.—Been very much indisposed the Inst two days; not verv surprising, considering that this is my first voyage, and we have had bad weather. Wind now moderating. but still blowing half a gale. “20th.—The captain has opened his orders. The ‘Hecate’ is to sail with all speed across the Atlantic, cruise about the Gulf jof Mexico, in the track of homeward-bound Spanish merchantmen, and keen a sharp lookout for treasure-ships. Officers and ship’s company highly delighted with the prospect thus opened out of prize-money and hard lighting, these treasure-ships being always either heavily armed or under convoy, or both. To do the ‘Hecate’ justice, I believe the prospect of hard knocks affords them more pleasure than the hope of reward; and though we carry only forty guns, there is not a sailoi-on board who is not confident that we are a match for any two Spanish frigates afloat. Our British tars are veritable bull-dogs, and albeit Captnit Barnaby does sometimes indulge in profane swearing, the Royal Navy possesses not a better mail nor a braver offi-
cer.”
Next followed a series of unimportant
entries, such as;
“Church parade and divine service. “In the sick-bay, reading the Bible to Bill Thompson, A B., who fell yesteriay from one of the yard-arms, and lies a-dy-
ing. poor fellow.
“Dined with the captain, the second luff, and two of the young gentlemen. “This day a dyingdish came through my
port-hole. One of the ship’s bovs caught him. and the cook made an excellent dish of him for the gun-room mess, it seemed a shame to kill the creature who sought our hospitality ami protection, for he was
doubtless escaping from some enemy of tUe
sea or the air.”
mighty would let a.i that money go to my mind to read every word that it
Davy Jones locker. As . ir as I can make nossihlc to decinher
out, all the ship’s company (lied of thirst. When that dokyment was written, they was dreadful short of water; and the ship bee/.ma a derelict, and went on knocking about all by herself—is, may be, knocking about yet—she was teak-built and very staunch—or otherwise she has ran aground on some out-of-the-way island, or drifted into a cove or inlet of the sea. Anyhow, she is worth looking after, ami I have always thought as if some gentleman would give me a helpin’ hand—somebody with more ’end and edycation than I have myself—we should he sure to succeed in the end; nay, I am sure we should—I feel it; 1 know it. Will you help me, Mr. Erie? I cannot tell you how—I am only a common seafaring man; but you are a scholar, with a head like a hook. They say as you knows ‘Lloyd’s Register’ bv heart, and a man as can learn ‘Lloyd’s Register’ by heart cun
do anything.”
“You are very complimentary, Bolsover, and 1 am extremely obliged for your good opinion. But you give me credit for a good deal more cleverness than I possess; for, tempting as is an offer of half a shipload of gold and silver, 1 really don’t see what I can do. If I were a skipper and had n ship, or a rich man and owned a yacht, 1 might possibly help you; but you must see yours df that I cannot go about exploring every island and inlet and cove in the world, or keep sailing round it until I spot the derelict ‘Santa Anna,’ particularly as you don’t seem to have the least Idea where she was when last heard of.” “There you are mistaken, Mr. Eile. I coul 1 a’most put my finger on the very spot. But will you read the dokyment? Then you wilt know alt about it—more than I know myself, for a man as can learn ‘Lloyd’s Register’—
And so on—.and so on. All this did not occupy much space, yet, owing to the reverend gentleman's crabbed fist, the faded ink. and the thumb-marks of the two Bolsovers, it took long to rend; and in order not to miss anything, 7 had made up
was
possible to decipher.
At length my patience and perseverance received their reward. The diary became gradually less tedious and monotonous. There was a storm in which the “Hecifce” suffered some damage, and the diarist (who does not seem to have been particularly courageous) underwent considerable anxiety and discomfort; and a man fell overboard, and, after an exciting attempt to rescue him, was drowned. Then the “Hecate” chases a vessel which Captain Barnaby suspects to be a French privateer; but remembering how imperative are his orders to make with all speed his cruisingground, he resumes his course after following her a few hours. For the same reason ho shows a clean pair of heels to a French frigate, greatly to the disgust <g his crew, for though she is of superior size they are quite sure they could have bested her. Tlie chaplain, on the other hand, warmly commends the captain’s prudence observing that “discretionin acotnmandet is to the full as essential as valor.” The region of the gulf reached, everybody is on the watch. There is always a lookout at the mast-head, the officers are continually sweeping the horizon with their glasses, and the men are exercised daily at quarters; for Captain Barnaby, witli all his prudence, appears to have been a strict disciplinarian. Being of opinion that he will the better attain his object by remaining outside the Gulf of Mexico than by going inside, lie cruises several weeks in the neighborhood of the Bahamas. With little success, however; lie captures only two or three vessels of light tonnage and small value, which he takes to Nas-
sau, in New Providence.
“Ill-satisfied with this poor result, Barn aby resolves to take a turn in the gulf,
chance encounter some homeward-bound
fotin I? ^ ou surely don't mean to say you have it?” I exclaimed, in surprise; for up to that moment I had thought the boatswain’s story pure illusion, and himself as crazy on the point as Peyton said he was. “Yes, I have it. My father, lie gave it me just afore he died. Tom,’ lie says, ‘1 cannot leave you no money, but 1 gives you this dokyment. Take care of it, and look cut for t!;e‘Santa Anna,’ and ynq’U die a rich man.’ Will you read it, Mr.
Erie?”
“Certainly. I’ll read it with pleasure,” Bolsover rose from the coil of ropes, slipped Into the forecastle, and In a few minutes came back, with a smile of satisfaction on ids fare and a highly polished tin case in ids hand. “Here it is," he said; “youTl find it in-
side.”
"But thD is surely not the case your father found at the Azores?" "No. That was all rusty and much battered. He had hard work to get the dokyment out without spoiling it. He got this case made a purpose. Nobody lias ever read it but him and me. Everybody as I mentioned it to always laugheil, and that made me not like showing it. When you have read it, Mr Erie, you'll tell mo what you think. But keep the dokyment to yourself. What’s least said is soonest mended, you know; and if you was to mention it to the others they'd only laugh. And now”—looking at his watch—“I must pipe np the second dog-watch." Promising to observe t*e utmost discretion. I put the tin case in mv pocket, went to the after part of the ship, lighted u cigar, sat me down on a (Southampton chair, and proceeded to carry out Toni’s wish by reading the paper which had so much excited his imagination, and was now, In spite of myself, beginning to excite mine.
CHAPTER V —THE DOCUMENT. The "dokyment,” as poor Tom called it, though It seemed to have been carefully used (the leaves being neatly stitched together and protected by a canvas cover), tiad suffered much from wear and tear, tlie rust of the original tin case, and the frequent thumblngs of its two readers. The ink wu.- faded, the handwriting small and
galleon from Chili or Peru. So passing through the Straits of Florida, lie runs along the northern shores of Cuba, doublet Cape San Antonio, revictuals at Kingston, iu Jamaica, and re-enters the S mth Atlantic between Trinidad and Tobago. A fortunate move was this iu one sense, though, so far as the poor chaplain and a considerable part ot the snips company were concerned, it resulted iu dire misfovtune. Ten days after the “Hocate” left the Caribbean Sep, two ships were sighted, which the captain and everybody else on board believed to be the long-sought treasureships. But besides being treasure-ships, they had every appearance of being licavily armed galleons, and either of them, as touching weight of metal and strength of screw, was probably more than the frigate’s match. All tlie same, the “Hecate’s” crew were full of fight and eager for the fray, and the captain had not the remotest intention of bulking their wishes. But he was prudent withal, and though quite ready, if needful, to tackle tlie two Spaniards together, he thought it as well— doubtless on the principle of not throwing a chance away—to fight them singly if tie could, and biok his measures accord in?.’I e What ihese measures were, 1 had some difficulty in making out. I am not a seaman, ami Mr. Hare’s account, besides being in part illegible, was by no means as clear as It might have been. 1 will, however, do my best to subscribe in plain, nntechnicd language, as any landsman would, the things that came to pass after the commander of the “Hecate” resolved tnenpu.'i' tip* galleons siip’le-haadeil. [to mk coNTiar»:n.]
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When pigs carry straw in their mouths, or when they run grunting home, rain is at hand. Fasts of from SO to to days are of common occurrence among the religious fanatics of India. The District of Columbia has the largest death rate from consumption of any part of the United States.
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Those who have used Dr. King’s New Discovery know its value, and those who hvae not, have now the opportunity to try it Free, fall on the advertised DruRKist and get a Trial Bottle. Free. Send your name and address to H E. Buckleu & Co., Chicago, and tret a sample box of Dr King's Now Lite Pills, Fre *. as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor, Free. All of which is
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Albert Allen's Drugstore.
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It is estimated that the annual consumption of wheat for food in the United States averages about four and a half bushels per capita.
Home Seekers’ Excursions to the
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.June ana july aug. •, oepi. ■«, vjcv. a. ov. 6 and Dec. I the Monon Route will sell tickets at oue fare for the round trip to all points in Kentucky south of Louisville and Lexington, Tennessee. Mississippi. Georgia, Alabama, Florida. North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia; also to New Orleans. Tickets good returning twenty days from date of sale. Stop-overs allowed south of Ohio River. J. A. Michael, Agt.
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King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Siek Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have
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Sold by Albert Allen, Druggist.
Business room occupied by J. Iv Langdon for the last ten years for hooks aud stationary is for rent on June 1, 1894. Inquire of Quinton Broadstreet, in Southard building, tf 3 D. L. Southard.
For Rent. Large two-story, 11 rooms, frame dwelling house; good stable; desirable location. 3tf George E. Blake.
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Terre Haute.
Peoria. Decatur.
VANDAUA LINE. In effect Nov. 5, 1893. t rains leave Oreencas-
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FOR THE WEST.
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FOR THE EAST.
No. 20, Daily 1:52 p. m., for Indianapolis. “ 8, Daily 3:35 p m., “ “ “ B, Daily 3:52 a. m., “ “ “ 12, Daily 2:28 a. in., “ “ “ 2, Ex. Sun 6:20 p.m., “ “ “ 4, Ex. Sun 8:34 a. m., “ “ For complete Time Card, giving all trains and stations, and for full information as to rates, through cars, etc., address J 8. DOWLING, Agent,
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