The Stayton mail., February 15, 1907, Image 2

THE IRON PIRATE
(router plesaimi Uniti that ilistMiit view.
It wax a* ilio tigli 1 had paaaod from a
driui laud to tho laud of mail, from tha
■ilrut w ay» of ulght to the brat break
iug o f the dajr.
HURT, BRUI8E OR 8PRAIN
C H A P T E R X IX .
It was not until daybreak on the fol
lowing morning that we reached the track
of ocean-bound ships; but our voyage was
altogether in favor o f Black, for the sun
had scarce riseu when Doctor Osbart got
RELIEVES FROM PAIN
THE OLD-MONK-CURE
uie from niy^tad to see what he called my
B y M AX PEM BERTON
first introduction to business.
Fries U e and 90c
“ There's the lied Cross Line's Bel-
Ionic not a utile off on the starboard
quarter,” cried he exult ¡ugly, “ aud we’ rs
going to clear her.”
1 dressed anyhow, almost ns excited as
rn n rlu .lt« ll.s.n slsg,
he was, and stepped on to the gallery.
IRRIGATION IN CANADA.
each shot a man dropped dead on the
r i l A P T K R X V I I . — (Continued.)
A little elderly German who keepa
A ll eyes were turned to the north, where,
ilia anger was fierte, terrible a» a tor­ beach ; but the American stood untouched.
n still loner's ahop amuses and Interests
now almost abreast of us, there was the
nado. Mia teeth gnashtx), his hands shook, The appalling brutality of the action
Alberta Country Feet Coming to tha
long aud maguiticent hull of the great
{h
im self by mnklug up stories about Ida
he rolled in his chair like a great wounded seemed to awe the rest o f the crew. They
Front.
liner. She went at a tremendous pace
distornerà ami telling them to Ida fa lli­
beast: but when he saw that I was un­ stood motionless, dumb with their ra ge;
and was rapidly leaving us, when the
Th e Cnniuliitn Pacific R a ilw a y com ­
but when they recovered themselves they
moved. he fell quiet again, and said in
li.'
great gun forward sent a shell ploughing pany la now engaged in a great irrlgn-
low. coaxing voice:
rushed upon us with wild ferocity.
I
“ Dut young Indy who lina de pink
the sea fifty yards ahead of the Belloule.
“ Don’s coni|>el me. lad, to do what I heard a shout from the water and. look
tiotr w ork, just east o f C algary, t h » t I cheeks' a'bVtM* m arried aoo.i, I fin k .”
The effect o f the call was seen upon the w ill even tu ally bring under
w ater .
.
.., ...
have meant not to do. You’re here for ing there, I saw I>octor Osbart in the
great vessel, whose decks were soon dot­ l.AOO,OUO acres of tw line land aa there
....
. . .
,
• . . . ___
good or ill. These men are nothing to launch: and there was a Maxim gun in
, ’
,,
.
,
_.
,
. . , "N o w , my t ’nrl, you know nettings
ted with black objects, while three more
.vou; they're lazy hogs that the world's the bows o f her.
a m a
of ( anada. T
Th
h ey have
hnve juat
juat
*
, ,
men appeared on the bridge, and the sig­
o f her whntcffer, la It not an?” nnd Ida
well rid of— let 'em die, and save your
thrown often to m dtlem ent the first
“ Clear that beach!” roared Black In
nal flags ran up.
w ife tried to look na If she did not
own carcass. You've been here days now awful passion ; and instantly, as he drop
block o f 110,000 acres, which they nre
“ Give it him for’ard,” roared B lack:
think
him n w onderfu lly clever man.
— the first man that ever lived among us ped flat and I imitated him. there wns
and the shot that answered his command (•idling nt from $15.00 to $25.00 per
“ It la like dis,’* wild the stationer.
without signing our papers.
You’ve a a hail of bullets, and the main part of
acre.
In
connection
w
ith
tldn
irri-
struck the quivering hull not twenty feet
straight notion that my hand's agen Hu the crowd fell shrieking. The victory was
from the windlass and .vou could see tha gated land th ey are se llin g n oa -irlga b le acdemnly. " I observe, nod 1 know. A t
rope, and, for the matter o f that, agen awful, instantaneous.
As the men fled
splinters carried fifty feet in the air, while lands at from $12.00 to $15.00 per acre, «ra t she buy paper and envelopes de
the world, too: those that share with me towanls the hills. Black called after them :
the shrieks of terror catue over the sea w hich cannot lie suriaiiirtcd for grazing saint; later she buy tw ice ns more
shall swing with me. It isn’t o f my ask­
“ Bring to, you carrion, or I ’ll wipe vou
purposes, and afford* a range w hen 1 paper, and den five tbnes ns
more
to us.
,
ing that you’re amongst us, or that you out. every one of you ! Any man who'll
Screaming like wild bensts. the men stock may graze throughout the en tire paper os envelo|ics. Ho I know she is
took up the work of Mall, who put the save his throat, let him come h ere!”
turned the handles o f the Maxim guns; year w ithout sh elter.
U come betrothed.
first nail in his coffin that night he came
At these words they turned back to a
the halls rained ujion the defenseless linei
The future of Western ('anada, ami. “ And today.” he said, beaming with
to my bed at Spesia. I saw him there man, and came cowering to the water's
as hail upon a sheepfold. I saw strong particularly the southern portion of Al- pleasure, “ to-day she buy only
one
though he thought me sleeping : and that edge. T h irty of their fellows ’ lay dead
men reel and fall their length as death U*rU province, is assured. Calgary, half-doseo en v e lo p and five times as
night I wrote death against his name, as or wounded on the stones.
took them; the breeze Imre to me the
1 wrote it against yours when you entered
its metropolis, a d ty of 20,000 inhab- ,,,,,rt. j,..|M*r; and wbto i tdi hw aha
“ Where's your leader?” asked Black,
my room in 1‘ aris. There’s reasons why and they pointed to the American, who wailing o f women, and the sobs o f chil­ Hants, cumoaed largely of Americans. ^
(],.m ph*apM. ,r , h„ ,,liy many, she
dren.
I ’ ve broken my word in your case, though lay with the blood pouring from a wound
s a live up-to-date city, In retail
to mP
haV(, no ni^ , of m„ riN
The
flag
dropped
and
the
signal
was
you’ll never know ’em ; but there’s no in his left thigh.
himiness is in the hands of bright, pro-
. ^ , k|)OW
frlpn(, h#
made to us to come aboard.
reason why you shouldn’t swear to go
“ He's there, is he?" screamed the Infu­
gtetwive business men, who bundle
"L
ow
er
away
the
launch,
you
John
!”
comes
soon,
and
so
comes
de
m arriage
through it with me. There’s my papers. riated man. “ Well, I ’ ll cure him like a
enormous stocks. Th ere are a numls-r
on quickly.”
Sign ’em now. or you lie a corpse before ham. Get torches, some o f you, and ice cried Black, "and take every shilling you
can lay hands on' and hang u p 'th a T sk l£ •
jobbin g houses located there, and a
him in.”
an hour on the clock.”
home market for stock is afforded by a
per
for
a
rhin-skinned
find
Deafness Cannot He Cured
He leaned over his writing table and
A ll helped him in his ghastly work, and
“ You’d better go. said Osbart to me, large |4irkng house. A lon g the line of b r local applications as thay cannot raarb tha
put into my hands a rough sheet o f uarvh- brought shovels and picks, which they car­
“ you’ ll be amused;’ and suggested it to the Canadian Pacific ra ilw a y in South­ dlaeaarU portion of It.» rs r 1 l.eia Is ouly ona
ment. But my eyes were dimmed with ried to the higher plane of snow.
Black.
ern A lberta, there have been tw enty Way to cu r« <l»a ■>< •«. stol that i> by Constitu­
the restless excitement of the situation.
tional rvu io li»« l<«afiirsa Is caum u by an In­
“ W e’ ve got to die. both of us,” said the
“ Yes, he shall go,” he cried; “ if we elevators ef-Uldished the |>a*t year, to flam 'd Condition ol lh » mucous lining of lha
T h e silence o f the room was terrible to American at la st; “ you en me. Black, en
swing, he shall swing,
I«et him get be fo llow isl by th irty m ore next year, Kusuchlsa Tut* W hen Ibis tuba Is Inflame«!
b e a r: it was as though I struggled for there isn’ t much ez we kin look for. Go
import«
aboard.”
*o that tlirre w ill I * no shortage for fug.and
nd wh«u
when ItUsnUrsly
It 1« eullraly sloa».f;i
closer, l>aafn«aa la
life while already in the totnb.
My on. lay me right here as I lay n o w ; but
I might as well have put a pistol to my the immense crotw produced in th is Jks result, and unlMs ib« Inflammation
in
can I
thoughts went hurriedly to Europe, to my I ’ll rise agen you. and the day’ll come
1
*
ta»en out an<J this lube ra loisd to Its Cornu
normal
borne, to my friends. I took heart for a when you’d give every dollar ye’ re worth head as to hare refused. They bundled section.
oo'idltion, hearing will be deetroyed forever;
me into the launch ; bat they would not
•Ine esosa out I.t ten are caused ». » t atarrh,
step which was the last mad design o f a to dig me up, en give me life agen.”
Is nothing but an Inflamed condition of
In pulling down the old cathedral of which
driven man.
I touched Black on the arm and was leave me when they enme alongside, and
Ute-iiiurous surlei-ee.
Roaring John” himself drove me up the Metz a strong box has boon found con­
"
s
w
ill
give One Hundred Dollars for any
about
to
plead
with
him
;
but
at
the
sight
“ Give me the pen ; ! ” I said suddenly.
ladder. Seven o f us at last stood on the
case of I irai urti lreuse.1 by catarrh) that can­
He put the pen into my hands, and of me he raised his fist, and I moved bridge, and were face to face with the taining coins and watches valued at not te- tu led by llall'a • eterth ( ure. tteud lor
1120.000.
circulars, free.
leaned back with a chuckle o f satisfac­ away. He stood foaming and muttering,
F J. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo, 0.
The haste o f the captain o f the Bellonic, and four o f his
tion ; but the movement cost him the his hands clenched.
Hold by Drugslsts, 71c.
officers.
C a u tio n .
Hall's family lilts are the best.
game. I clutched his pistol with a light­ men was not half haste enough for him ;
The deck was a very babel of sounds,
Imitations have Itcen placed upon the
and when they begnn to dig he hurried
ning grasp, and covered him with it.
o f groans, of weeping. The ship's surgeon market so closely resrmblina A llc ck’ s '
them
the
more,
until
a
great
pile
o
f
snow
T h e Heat o f H r f e r s s e e s ,
" I f you raise a finger I ’ll shoot you like
1*1«
ters in general ap> earnnee as to 1«
himself seemed paralyzed before the sight
had been thrown out.
a dog,” I cried.
well calculated to deceive. It b1 however, ! Th e newr servant had presented her
o
f
the
carnage
around
him.
But
above
I watched them roll the man over into
in general Rppenrunre
only that they
Then the man, who was no craven, sat
all this terror, I know of nothing which compare with A llrock’s, for t’hev are not references and the mlatreas rend them
the
trench
and
shovel
the
snow
quickly
motionless in his chair, and his face might
over, declares a w riter la Answers,
upon him. He watched them, silent in struck me with such fearful sorrow as the only larking in the lies« element* which
have been cut from marble.
hnve made Allcock’ s s • efficient, hut are w ith a doubtful eye.
his terror: but when his head only was sight of a fair young English girl lying oft« n harmful In their effects. Kcmemts-r
“ I f you raise your voice to call out, or
by the door of the great saloon, her arms
" I am not quite satisfied w ith your
i f anyone comes to this room, you die uncovered he gave a shriek o f agony, extended, her nut-brown hair soaked in that Altcock's are the original ami only references, Jane.” she said.
which rove like the great cry o f a man
geiiuin
-
porous
plasters
—
the
lies!
external
where you sit,” I said.
“ Nay ther nut I, mum,” responded the
going before his God. and ceased not to her own blood, while a man knelt over rnm-fly known und when purrhasing
“ Boy, you're the first that’s bested
echo from height to height until long min­ her, and you could see his tears falling pla-ters tlie only s fc wav is to always sta lw art maid, “ but they’re the best I
Black,” he said. “ I ’m caught like a rat
utes had passed.
Black gave a great upon her dead face, and bis ravings were insist up<m having Allcock'».
could get.”
in the hole. What do ye want? Name
start, and shivering as a man struck incoherent and almost those o f a maniac.
I 'a r ls A llen .
it, and I ’ll know how we stand!”
MeaDwh.le
another
scene
w'as
passing
on
down with a deadly chill, he passed from
K ron om jr.
“ Let me aee,” muse. I
I ’ ncle
Allen
“ I want my life— now that I refuse to
the bridge between the man John and
the grave to the beach.
“
W
hat’s
the
matter with that man?”
Hpnrka,
“
in
the
old
daya,
when
we
sign that paper. You can give the order
the captain o f the Bellonic.
Chat no man's to lay a finger on me, and
“ What do you want «board of my couldn't charge it up to ‘grip,’ what waa asked the d«>aler, aft««r the customer had
C H A PT E R X V III.
you will?”
ship?” cried the latter; aud "R oaring it we used to call this rocky sort of feel­ gone out. “ lie got mad when I tried to
It
was
on
the next afternoon, near to
Me thought a moment, looking straigt
John” answered him with a mocking ing we all have juat after the Christmas sell him a Christmas tree.”
"T h a t’s I'ppein," said one o f his neigh­
L u n itie s '.'"
down the barrel of the Colt. Then he the setting o f the sun. that Doctor Osbart le e r:
came to my room with great news for me.
bors. “ He's rich and proud, but stingy.
«a id :
“ W e've come aboard to hang you, to
TO CURT A COID IN ONT DAY
“ This business with the men has com­
He hangs nit his Christmas pr«>sents on
“ Yes, I can’ t avoid that— I ’ll give you
begin on !”
pletely upset our plans,” said he. “ Black
Take LAXATIVE RRORO QUININE Tablets his family tree.” — Chicago Tribun«*.
that.”
The men with the young offii^r cocked
“ And my liberty on the first occasion hoped to winter here; and to let the hub­ their revolvers at this, and I said in a DrugglaU refund money If It fall« to etire. A. W
I in |>r m i l n a .
UKOVk’S signature Ison each box. 25c.
bub in Europe quite subside before he
offering.”
mad frenzy wh.ch would not brook si­
Reporter— Colonel, you hnve read what
put
to
sea
again.
Now
he
can’t
do
that.
“ No,” he replied very slowly and stern­
lence :
V a lid K srnse,
Senator Gotleft says about the country
There’s only one thing that will keep the
ly : “ they’d tear me to pieces.”
Indignant Matron (in crowdel car) — facing an industrial crisis. Do you think
“ You scoundrel, if you touch another
hands
quiet,
and
that’
s
excitement.
H
e
There was no doubt that be had right
soul here I ’ll «hoot you m yself;” for I Fir, when so ninny elderly women are bis fears are justified?
In this. I put the pistol dow n: then I has determined to sail to-night; but, be­ had my revolver on me. "D o you make standing up why don't you rise and offer
Eminent Statesman— So far aa he is
offered him my hand, and he jumped up fore v--e talk o f that, we must have the a business of killing children?” I cried one of them your nest?
concerned, young man, they are. He is
conditions.”
from his seat, grasping it with a great
F«*nted Passenger (w ith d ig n ity )— You face to fa«*e with the dreadful alternative
again, and pointed to the dead body of
"W h at have you to ask?" said I.
clutch.
the girl-child.
I don’t know who was are laboring under a mistake, madam. I of going to work at something or starving
“
Simply
this,”
he
answered.
“
Yon
“ You’ re a sound plank of a boy.”
j to death.
more surprised, the captain of the Bel­ am the B«*nrded Lady.
Th e sound o f firing, rapid and oft re­ shall give your word, as a man o f honor, lonic, listening, or the man John.
that
you
will
make
no
attempt
to
leave
peated. came to us from the shore of the
“ You cub,” he cried; “ if you talk to
cove below. He went to his window and the ship without permission.”
me I ’ll skin you a liv e !” but I said quick­
“ I accept.”
I saw the whole bay lit with silver light
Then slowly the great engines began ly :
from a full-risen moon, and the distant
"Gentlemen, these men
want every
I>eaks as grim beacons above a land of their work, and we swept out to the open
shilling
on
this
ship.
Give
it them now
sea.
W
e
dined
that
night
in
the
saloon
rest. Out on the snow there was a hun­
gry crowd of starving souls, crying for upon the deck, a commodious place light­ and save your lives, for you have no al­
b rea d ; and those to whom they cried an­ ed by electricity, and in every way luxuri­ ternative. I f yoo give the money np, you
swered them with their muskets, dyeing the ously fitted. The walls o f it were paneled have my word that they won’t touch you.”
E v c iy part of the hotly Is dependent on the blood for nourishment nnd
"A s there’s a heaven above,” exclaimed
glittering white with many a red stream. in white and gold, and were covered with
Strength. W hen this life stream is flowing through the system in n state of
“ For heaven’s sake, help those men, if curious designs, old heroes fighting, old the young captain, “ they shall pay for purity and richness w e are assured o f perfect and uninterrupted health;
you have anything but the instincts o f,a gods drawn by lions at their chariots; this day's work with their lives. I hand because pure blood is nature’s safe-guard against disease. W hen, however)
Jason seeking the fleece in a golden my specie over under this protest; but
brute in you !” I cried.
barque;
Orestes fleeing the Furies. The don’ t deceive yourselves— half the war­ the body is fed on weak, impure or polluted blood, the system is deprived of
There was a pause before he answered
long
seats
were covered in leather o f a ships in Europe shall follow you within a its strength, disease germ s collect, and the trouble is manifested in various
me. Then he snatched a rifle from a
ways. Pustular eruptions, pimples, rashes nnd the different skin affections
deep crimson, and there was a small week.”
case and said :
show that the blood is in a feverish and diseased condition as a result of too
lie
turned
away,
and
presently
the
ruf­
piano.
The
dinner
itself
was
admirably
‘T a k e that pistol and come on. There’s
served, and was partaken o f by the deaf fians with me had lowered money to the much acid or the presence of some irritating humor. Sores and Ulcers are
blood to let.”
I followed him down the passage to the and dumb engineer, by the doctor, the value of a hundred and fifty thousand the result of morbid, unhealthy matter in the blood, nnd Rhcum.iti.sm, Ca­
beach, where he blew a whistle sharp Scotsman and myself. Black talked with­ pounds into their launch. When at last tarrh, Scrofula, Contagious Blood Poison, etc., are all deep-seated blood
out reserve before me, knowing well that we put off again, and the launch was full disorders that w ill continue to grow worse as long as the poison remains.
and shrill.
H e relied of the jewels and the money, it seemed These impurities and poisons find their w ay into the blood in various ways
‘ T h a t’ll wake ’em on the ship,” he ex­ I could do him no injury.
plained. “ I ’ m not afeard of these, but mostly on the doctor for advice, and dis­ that I had passed through a hideous Often a sluggish, inactive condition of the system, and torpid state of the
there’s fighting to be done— now don’t cussed everything with him in the best of dream.
avenues of bodily waste, leaves the refuse and waste matters to sour and
On the second day after the robbery
tempers.
show till you’ re wanted.”
form uric and other acids, which are taken up by the blood and distributed
of
the
Bellonic,
we
stopped
a
second
and
“ My plan is this,” he said ; “ we’re short
He advanced towards the snow plain
throughout
the circulation. Com ing in contact with contagious diseases is
of oil, and K arl here is beginning to get then a third ship; though I saw nothing another cause for the poisoning of the blood ; w e also breathe the germ s and
and sang o u t:
of
It,
as
all
the
fighting
was
on
the
star­
“ John, you there, Dick—hands to quar­ uneasy. I shall knock over a couple o f j
microbes of M alaria into our lungs, and when these get into the blood in
ters, do you hear me? Move right quick, whalers in these seas and fill the tanks. board side, and my cabin wns to p o rt;
sufficient quantity it becomes a carrier of disease instead of health. Some
but
there
was
a
shnrp
fight
on
the
third
Then,
as
they’
re
looking
for
us
In
mid-
o r I ’ ll move you 1”
are
so unfortunate as to inherit bad blood, perhaps the dregs of some old
morning
with
a
Cape-bound
vessel,
nnd
They put down their arms from their Atlantic, we’ll get south o f Madeira, and
shoulders in blank amazement, and list­ run against two or three of the big ones again towards the afternoon with one of constitutional disease o f ancestors is handed down to them and they nre
making for Rio or Buenos Ayres.
We the North German LIloyd boats home­ constantly annoyed and troubled with it. Bad blood is the source of all dis­
ened to him as he went on :
Osbart, ease, nnd until this vital fluid is cleansed nnd purified the body is sure to
“ There's enough down for one night, I shall pick up a good bit o f money; and ward bound to Bremerhaven;
reckon, and I ’m not going to be kept it’ll be a month before they get on our eoming to tny rooms, delighted to give me suffer in some w ay.' F or blood troubles of any character S. S. S. is the best
remedy ever discovered. It goes down into tile circulation and removes any
awake by your firing.”
course that way, for I mean to let ’em the details of these captures.
<To be continued.)
They came round him slowly and sulk­ down light when it’s not a case of saving
and all poisons, supplies the healthful properties it needs, nnd completely
ily, and he drove them to the big houses our own skin.”
and permanently cures blood diseases of
Ills Id en tity.
with fine round phrases. I lurked near
W e passed the Danish settlement of
every kind. The action of S. S. S. is so
“ Papa, wha Is a 'gentlem an o f the old
him, but an American saw me and cried: Godthaab early on the next
morning,
thorough that hereditary taints are removed
“ Say, Cap’en, hev ye took to adoptin’ though so far out at sea that I could school’ ?”
nnd weak, diseased blood made strong and
that boy ez ye seems so fond of?”
make nothing of i t ; while we lost the
“ One, my son, who Insists on having
healthy so that disease cannot remain. It
“ Shut your Jaw, or I'll shut it for coast of Greenland altogether before the B righ t's disease when he can abundant­
cures
Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula, Sore*
y o u !” replied Black. “ Is the boy your day had passed, a hazy shower o f dust­
ly afford appendicitis.” — Puck.
and Ulcers, Skin Diseases, Contagious
like snow greeting our coming to the
affair?”
”
Blood Poison, etc., and does not leave the
“ I calcerlate, an' some of us wishes to Atlantic and to a perceptibly warmer lat­
B r a t«.
slightest trace of the trouble for future outbreaks. The whole volume of
itude.
During this day, and until we
know partlcler if he's signed or no.”
H is W ife — W hat do you think o f my
blood is renewed and cleansed after a course of S. S. S, It is also nature’s
“ Oh, you want to know, do you? Let sighted the Hhetlands, the small screw
them as makes complaint step right hwre.” tender kept our course, and we exchanged new photographs, John?
reatest tonic, made entirely of roots, herbs and barks, and is absolutely
H er Husband— T h ey fla tter you, my
Only four joined the leader; but (he signals with her every morning.
armless to any part of the system.
S. S. S. is for Rale at all first class
Finally we sighted the coast of Ireland, dear. T h e man must have hypnotized drug stores. Book on the blood and any medical advice free to nil who writs.
Captain suddenly snatched my revolver
from me, and fired four shots; and for and I know not if I have ever had a you Into looking pleasant.
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