The Stayton mail., February 22, 1907, Image 6

RHEUMATISM
There waa no d.fflculty whatever In fol­
lowing the line of the deadly uiesaagc.
“ Full e|>eed astern !’’ roared Black, and
the nameless ship moved backwards, fuel­
er and yet faster. But tli« black death-
bearer followed her, a* a shark follows s
death ship; we aeuuied eveu to have back­
It Is perfectly natural to m li the upot that hurts, arid when the muscles,
ed into its course - it cauie on as though
to strike us full amidships, hut Che great nerve*, joints and I muk - s are throbbing aud twitching with the pains of
ship swung round with a majestic sweep, Rheumatism the sufferer is apt to turn to the liniment oottlc, or some other
aud as we waited breathlessly, the torpedo external application, in nn effort to net relief from the disease, by producing
passed right under our bow, missing the 'ounter-irritution on the flesh. Such treatment w ill quiet the pain tempo­
ram by a hair's breadth.
rarily, but can h ive no direct curative effect on the real disease is-causc it
We tired at the cruiser, hitting her does not reach the blood, where the cause is located.
Rheumatism is more
right under the fuunel, and a second time than skin deep— it is rooted ami grounded in the Mood and can only be
uear her fore gun. Nor did she answer
lied h r constitutional treatment I T C A N N O T B8 R U B B 8 D A W A Y .
our firing, hut rolled to the swell appar­
Rheumatism is due,to nn excess of uric acid in the Mood, brought about by
ently out of action.
the accumulation in the system < f refuse mutter which the natural avenues
“ Skipper, are you going aboard her
of
Ixslily waste, the Bowels and Kidneys, have failed to enrry off. This
now?” asked the man “ Roaring John.”
CH APTER XX.
had come, passing noiselessly over the “ She’s done by her looks, and you'll get refuse matter, coming in Contact with the different acids of the body, forms
It waa later rhat Captain Mack, Doctor leads; but he lefi me s newspaper, where­ no oil if ye delay. Karl, there, he iau't uric acid which is absorbed into the blood and distributed to nil parts of the
Osbart and myself entered the 7 :dO train in there was column after eoluran con­ as comfortable aa if he were iu his bed.” body, and Rheumatism gets possession of the system. The aches and pains
from Ramsgate; leaving the screw tender, cerning the robbery of the Bellonic. A t
“ You'rs quite sure she's done, John?” are only symptoms, and though they m ay l>e scattered or relieved for a time
by surface treatment, they w ill reappear at the first exposure to cold or
now diafuiaed, with the man John and last, the police were on the trsll o f Cap­ he asked, turning to the big man.
eight of the most turbulent among the tain Black; yet I saw at once that, lack­
“ Site's done, 1 guess, or why don't she dampness, or after nn attack of indigestion or other irregularity. Rheuma­
crew of the nameless ship aboard her. We ing my help, he would elude them.
spit?”
tism can never be permanently cured while the circulation remains saturated
had come without hindrance through the
It was half past six when at last a man
The words had scar«1« left hia lips with irritating, pain-producing uric acid jxiison.
The disease w ill shift
crowded waters of th- Channel; and, styl­ unlocked the door o f my room and entered. when the cruiser's aft guns thundeivd out from muscle to muscle or joint to joint, settling on the nerves, causing
ing ourselves a Norwegian whaler in bal­ He was one of Bla<k’s negroes.
almost together, aud oue shell
passed intlatumuthm nnd swelling nnd such terrible pains that the nervous system
last, had gained the difficult harbor with
“ Sar will come quick.” said he, “ and through the very oeuter of our group. It is often shattered, the health undermined, nnd perhaps the patient becomes
out arousing suspicion.
At the first, leave his luggage. The master waits.”
cut the man John in half as he might deformed nnd crippled fur life. S. S. S. thoroughly cleanses the l>l««xl and
Black had thought to leave me on the
have been cut by a sword, aud bis blood renovates the circulation hy neutralizing the acids and expelling nil foreign
steamer; but I gave him solemn word that
CHAPTER XXL
and tleah splashed us, while the other half matter from the system. It warms and iovigorotM tha blood so that
I
1 would not seek to quit him. that I would
We drove rapidly and took a train for of him stood up like a bust upon the deck,
of
n
weak,
snur
stream
,
constantly
dcjni.sit-
not in any way betray him while the truce Tilbury. The journey was accomplished and during oue horrible moment his arms
itig nerid nnd corrosive matter in the mus­
lasted, and that I would return, wherever in something under an hour; and when moved wildly, aud there wag a horrid
cles, nerves, joints and liones, thelxxly is fed
I was. to the tender in the harbor at the we alighted and got upon the bank of quivering o f the muscles of his face. The
nnd nourished hy rich, health-sustaining
the river. I saw a steam launch with the second «hot struck the roof of the turret
end of a week.
blood which completely and permanently
I will not pause to tell you my own man John in the bows of her. I entered obliquely, and glanced from it iuto the
cures Rheumatism.
S. S. S. is composed
thoughts when 1 set foot on shore again. the launch and we started immediately, sea. The destruction seemed to
move
I could not he*p but carry my memory to going at a great pace towards Sheerness ; Black as uo more thau a rain shower. He
PURELY VEGETABLE ‘ f
purifying ami tonic properties—
the last occasion when, with Roderick and and reached the N or* after smne buffet simply c rie d ; “ A ll hands to c o v e r; I'm
just what i l need, d ill every COM <’f Rheu­
Mary, I had come to London in the very with the seas in the open. A t this point going to give 'em a taste of the machine matism. It contains no potash, nlkali or other mineral ingredient, but is
hope of getting tidings o f this man who we sighted the tender, and went aboard guns;” and we re-entered the conning made entirely of purifying, healing extracts and juices of roots, herbs nnd
now sat with me in a Kent Const express. her. when we made full speed towards the tower. Then, as we tiegnn to move again, barks.
If you are suffering from Rheumatism do not waste valuable time
Where were the others then— the girl North Foreland.
I swept the horizon w.th our light ; but trying to rub a blood disease away, but begin tlie use < f S. S. S. nnd write
Black had made a colossal mistake, this time, far away over Lhe black waste us aliout your case and our physicians will give you any information or
who had been as a sister to me, and the
man as a brother; how far had the fear from hia point o f view, in setting foot in of water, the signal was answered.
adviia; desired free of charge and w ill send oursjKi-i.il treatise on Rheumatism.
o f my death made sad that childish face England ; but the crowning blunder of hia
“ Number t w o !” said Black, quite calm­
which had known such little sadness in its life was that fatal act o f folly by which ly, when 1 told him, “ and this time a bat­
THE S W IF T SPECIFIC C O ., ATLANTA, CA
sixteen years of life? It was odd to think he had sought to shield me from the men. tleship. Well, boy, if we dou't take that
that Mary might be then returned to Lon­ Now the object o f letting Blatk reach hia oil yonder in ten minutes you may say
T h e H o w l i n g Old U lls a a rd .
don. and that I, whom perchance she vessel again was as clear as daylight; it your prayers.”
T h e S u b tle D ifferen ce.
thought dead, was near to her, and yet, was not so much the man os hla ship
An earnest defender o f things Irish How dear lo my heart is the Here* bowl­
ing bhxzard.
in a sense, more cut off from her than in which they wished to take.
asserts that the tradlOtonal bull o f Ire ­
CHAPTER XXII.
Which cornea from the north like a wolf
But were we followed?
I had seen
the grave itself.
The nameless ship bounded forward In­ land Is not, as la commonly mip|MMMil. i
on the fold.
It was after 10 o’clock that the ride nothing to lead me to that conclusion as to the n.ght, and scon was not fifty yards the expression o f a blundering Intelli­
terminated, and, following Black and Oa- I came down the Tham es; and now, fa ­ away from her opiwnent. Never have I gence. but, on the contrary, shows the Predicted by Footer or some other wizard.
The charger of snow and the demon of
bart into a closed carriage, I was driven vored by an intensely dark night, we known anything akin to the episode when exquisite feeling o f the Irish fo r fine
■ o ld .
from the station.
We drove for fifteen promised. If nothing should intervene, to bullets rang upon our de<-ks In hundreds,
shades o f meaning.
Th e trouble lies How R w e e t to he caught In Its grasp tike
minutes, staying at last before a house gain the Atlantic in two days, and to be and the dead and the living in the other
In the ears that hear it.
a feather.
in a narrow street, where we went up­ aboard that strange citadel which was our ship Isy huddled together, in a seething,
And find yourself wrap [ted round a tele­
“ I f ye were to be killed crossing, a
There
stairs to a suite of rooms reserved for us. stronghold against the nations.
struggling, moaning maaa. We had open­
graph p o le;
A fte r an excellent supper Osbart left us. was no sign of any warship pursuing ; no ed fire upon her before such off her men fence ye'd be all right,’* said a looker
on to a fox-hunter whose horse had Ob, how we adore. In this wild wintry
but Black took me to a double-bedded indication whatever that the tender, then as could be spared had got below.
weather,
turned head over heel* In the m iddle o f I
room, saying that he could not let me out steaming at thirteen knots towards Dover,
“ Ijet ’em digest th a t!” cried Black, aa
Thia blizzard that comes when you're
was
watched
or
observed
by
any
living
a level pasture. “ But If ye w ere killed I
o f h.s sight. ‘
he watched the havoc.
clear out o f coal—
"B oy, if you make one attempt to play being.
I, who had not cessed to watch that on the flat o’ th' Held ye'd never hold This wild, whirling blizzard, the razor-
I was dead worn out and slept twelve
me false,” said he, “ I ’ll blow your brains
distant light which marked another war­ np your had a g a in !”
edged blizzard.
hours at the least, for it was afternoon
out.”
ship on the horizon, knew that a second
The loud-howling blizzard fresh from
W i l l D o It T h r o .
when
I
awoke.
Black
was
not
In
the
On the next morning Black quitted the
light had shone out as a star away over
the North Pole.
“ I travel on your road a good deal,"
bouse at an early hour after breakfast, cabin, and I went above to him on the the s e a : and now, when 1 looked again,
— Lincoln Journal.
but he locked the door of the room upon bridge. There was no land then to be I saw a third light. W e were being sur­ said the caller, “ and I'd travel on it a
good deal oftener if it wasn't for its
sparkling
Osbart and myself. “ Not,” as he said, seen; but the clear play o f
to ciwr a coio is oNr day
rounded. The searchlights o f the distant sharp curves.”
“ because 1 can’t take your word, but be­ waves shone away to the horizon over a ships were clearer to my view every mo­
Take
I.AXATIVK
ItKOMO q l'lN IN K Tablet*
“ W hat's the matter with the curves?"
cause I don’ t want anyone fooling in tumbling sea. upon which were a few ment. Black saw them, and took a sight
Druggists refund money If It falls to cure. K. W
asked the elevated railway magnate.
ships.
Upon
one
of
they
he
constantly
here.”
He returned in the evening at 7
UUOVK'H signs'.tire Is on each U>*. 23c.
from the glass.
“ They ought to he provided with a
o ’clock, and found me as he had left me, turned his glass.
“ Boy,” he said, "you should have told strong railing or something of that kiud."
By and by all the crew began to ob­
W rung
Sinn,
reading a novel.
me of this. I see three lights, aud that
"What for?**
While Dooly was holding court in
The following day was Thursday.
I serve Black's anxiety and to crowd to the means a fleet.”
“ So a train couldn’t run off the track
shall always remember it, for I regard starboard side; but he told them noth­
“ Are you going to run for it?” I asked. when It goes whizzing nnd grinding Washington Uounty, Georgia, a certain
ing.
although
he
never
left
the
bridge.
It
it as one of the most memorable days in
“ Run for it, with two engines, y e s ; nround one of them, and fall to the street General Hanson came hi and sat down
my life. Black went out as usual early was somewhat perplexing to me to ob­ but it's a poor business. And we'll have below.”
j nt the side o f the Judge, ami tiegnn to
in the m orning; his object being, as on serve that, while the great ship waa un­ to fig h t!”
“ You’ ve never heard of that happening, ( tell him nhout the vast amounts of
doubtedly
following
us,
she
did
not
gain
the preceding day, to find out, if he could,
I saw the foremost ironclad but two have you?"
pro|M>rty lie owned.
a yard upon us.
what the Admiralty were doing in view of
miles away from us, and the others were
“ No— not yet.”
“Stop Just a moment, general,” said
This strange pursuit lasted three days sweeping round to cut us off if we at­
the robbery of the Bellonic. W e had been
“ Well, when It does happen we’ll put
Dooly. “Mr. Sheriff, call In Jones, the
left thus about the space o f an hour when and into the third n igh t; when I was tempted flight. We lay with but two en­ something around those curve«.
Good
receiver of tax returns.”
there came a telegram for the doctor, who awakened from a snatch of sleep by the gines working, and a speed of sixteen day.” — Chicago Tribune.
firing of a gun above my head. I got on knots at the best. Nor did we know from
In a few moments that worthy np-
read it with a fierce exclamation.
K n t h ln g lliilnx.
pen red.
"T h e captain wants me urgently,’’ said deA , where my eyes were almost blinded minute to minute when another engine
It was an imposing building, hut the
be. “ and there's nothing to do but to leave by a great volume o f light which spread would breu.k down. At that moment there
“ Mr. Receiver,” said the Judge, “come
tran with the square valise did not hesi­
you here. You must put up with the In­ over the sea from a point some two miles came a horrible sound o f grating and !
up here nnd make nn Inventory of Gen­
tate.
dignity o f being locked in. The man wno away on our starboard bow. W e had been tearing from the engine room, and It was
“ Madam,” he said to the matron who eral Hanson's property. He had mis­
in the Atlantic then
for
twenty-four succeeded by a moment o f dead nad chill­
owns this house is one o f us.”
appeared, “ I should like to show you a taken me for you.”— Sunday Maga-
hours,
and
I
did
not
doubt
for
a
moment
I was in the very throes o f a mental
ing silence.
copy o f our book. T h e Quiet Life,’ which zinc.
,
struggle when the strange event o f the that we had reached the nameless ship.
“ The second engine’s gone!” said a is making such u----- ”
day happened. I chanced to look up from Had there been any uncertainty, the wild man above, quite calmly.
t » n a i d e r a n n n or n .vioforlsf.
"S ir .” she interrupted, "this is an In­
the book 1 had been trying to read, and joy of the men would have banished It.
W e hold no brief for the motorist,
We found the crew sullen and mutter­ stitution for the deaf and dumb."— Chi­
I heard the voice of Black singing, ing, but Friedrich, the engineer's eldest
I saw a remarkable object upon the leads
the Bystander says, but “ honor where
cago Tribune.
A t son, sat at the top of the engine room lad­
outside my window. It was the figure of “ Hands, stand by to lower boats!”
honor Is due.” On a country road the
In Boston there are one and a half
a man, looking into my room ; and pres­ that moment the cruiser showed her teeth. der, and tears rolled down his face. The
other
day we saw a motorist deliber­
ently. when he had given me innumerable Suddenly there was a rush of flame from great ship still trembled under the shock electric lights for eai-h person.
ately avoid running over an animal on
her
bows,
and
a
shell
hissed
above
us—
cods and winks, he took a knife from his
of the breakdown and was not showing
Siberia exported 90,290,000 pounds of the highway! To tie exact. It waa a
pocket, and opened the catch, stepping the first sign o f her attempt to stop us ten knots. The foremost Ironclad crept
butter last year.
circus elephant.— St. James Gazette.
into the chamber with the nimble foot o f joining our own ship.
up minute by minute; and before we had
W e were no more than a quarter o f a
a goat upon a crag path. Then he drew
realized the whole extent of the mishap,
a chair up to mine, slapped me upon the mile from safety, but the n n was full of she was within gunshot o f us; but her
peril,
and,
as
the
launch
stood
out,
the
knee and said ;
colleagues were some miles away, she out­
“ In the name of the la w ! I take you nameless ship o f a sudden shut off her pacing them all through it.
by surprise; but business,
Mr.
Mark light, if possible to shield us in the dark.
“ She signals to us to let her come
Strong. In the first place I have wired But the pnrsuer Instantly flooded us with aboard,” said “ Four-Eyes”
to your friend. Mr. Roderick Stewart, her own arc, and. following it with quick
“ Answer that we'll see in chips first,”
and I expect him from Portsmouth in a shots, she hit the jolly-boat at the third. said Black, and lie called for K arl and
couple o f hours ; I d the second, your other O f the eight men there, only two rose made signs to him.
friend, the doctor. Is under lock and key, when the hull had disappeared.
Those on the battleship made quite sure
“ Fire away !’’ cried Black, shaking his
on the trifling charge of murder in the
of us now, for they steamed on and came
Midlands, to begin with. When we have fist, and mad with passion ; “ and get your within three bunnred yards of us. Black
Captain Black, the little party will be hands in ; you’ll want all the bark you’ ve watched them as a beast watches the un­
Yni\S
got just now.”
compl ?te.”
suspecting prey. He stood, his face knit
T h e K im ! Y o u H a v e A l w a y s F o u g h t lias b o r n e th e sig n a
But we had hauled the men aboard as in savage lines, hia hand upon the bell.
I looked at him, voiceless from the sur­
t u r e o f C h a s. I I . F le t c h e r , a m i h a s b e e n m a d e u n d e r his
he
spoke,
and.
though
two
shells
foamed
I looked from the glass, and saw that no
prise o f it, and h* went on :
p e r s o n a l su p e rv is io n f o r o v e r ÍJO y e a rs . A l l o w n o on o
in
the
sea
and
wetted
us
to
the
skin
in
man was visible ui>on our decks, that our
“ I needn’ t tell you who I a m ; but
t o d e c e iv e y o u In th is.
C o u n te rfe it s , Im ita tio n s a n d
there’s my card. W e have six men in the the passage, we were at the ladder o f the engines had ceased to move. We were
“ .J iist-a s -g o o d ” a r e h u t E x p e rim e n ts , a n d e n d a n g e r tlio
nameless
ship
without
other
barm,
and
motionless. Then in a second the bells
street outside. and another half dozen
h e a lth o f C h ild r e n —E x p e r ie n c e a g a in s t E x p e rim e n t*
watching the leads here. You will be with fierce shouts the men gained the rang out. There was again that frightful
grating and tearing in the engine room.
sensible enough to follow my instructions decks.
F or them it was a glorious moment. The nameless ship came round to her
absolutely. Black, we know, leaves the
C a s fo r ia is a h a rm le ss su b s titu te f o r C a s t o r O il, F a r e «
country to-night In his steamer.
The They had weathered the perils of a city, helm with n mighty sweep; she foamed
R orie, D r o p s a n d S o o th in g S y ru p s.
I t is P le a s a n t.
It
probability is that he will come to fetch and stood where they could best face the and plunged in the seas; m e turty.-d her
c o n ta in s n e it h e r O p iu m , M o r p h in e n o r o t h e r N a r c o tic
you at 7 o’clock— I have frightened it all crisis o f the pursuit. It wag a spectacle ram straight at the other; and, groaning
su b sta n c e . Its a g e is its g u a r a n te e . I t d e s tro y s W o r m s
out o f the people downstairs— If he does, to move the most stolid apathy ; the sight as a grpat stricken wounded beast, she
a n d a lla y s F e v e ris h n e s s . I t c u re s D ia r r h o e a a n d W i n d
you will go with him. Otherwise, he’s o f a couple of hundred dnnoniacal figures roared onward to the voyage of death. I
C o lie . I t re lie v e s T e e t h in g T r o u b le s , c u re s C o n s tip a tio n
pretty sure to send someone for you, and, lighted by the great white wave of light knew then the fearful truth ; Black meant
a n d F la tu le n c y . I t a ssim ila te s th e F o o d , re g u la t e s th e
ns you at the moment are our sole link be­ from the enemy’s ship, their faces up­ to sink the cruiser with his ram. I shall
S to m ac h a n d llo w r ls , g iv in g h e a lth y a n d n a t u r a l sle ep .
tween that unmitigated scoundrel and his turned as they waited Black's orders, never forget that moment o f terror, that
T h e C h ild r e n ’ s P a n a c e a — T h e M o t h e r ’s F r ie n d .
arrest, I ask you to risk one step more, their bands flourishing knives and cut­ grinding of heated steel, that plunge Into
and return at any rate as far as the coast, lasses, their hunger for the contest be­ the seas. I waited for the crash, and in
the suspense hours seemed to pass. A *
that we may follow him for the last time.” trayed in every gesture.
“ Boys,” cried Black, “ yonder’s a gov­ last there was tinder the sea a mighty clap
I looked at his card, whereon was the
Inscription, “ Detective Inspector King, ernment ship. You know me, that I don’t of submarine thunder. Dashed headlong
Bears the Signature of
Scotland Y a rd ;” and I said at once:
run after war scum every day, for that’s from my post, I lay bruised and wounded
“ I shall not only go to the coast, but not my business. But we’re short o f oil, upon the floor of steel. The roof above
to hla tender, for I ’ ve given my word. and the cylinders are heating. Boys, It’s me rocked; the walls shook and were
W hat you may do in the meantime ia not swing or take that ship and the oil aboard ben t; my ears rang with the deafening
roar In them; aeas o f foam mounted;
oiy affair. I suppose he’s made a sensa­ her.”
shrieks and the sound o f awful rending
tion?”
"Look out a ft— the torpedo !”
“ Sensation ! There Isn’ t another sub­
A tiny line o f foam waa Just visible and tearing drowned other shouts o f men
ject talked of in any houae in Europe— for a second In the way off the ligh t; but, going to their death. And through all
but, read that; and It’s ten thousand in the moment the cruiser had shot It from was the hysterical yelling o f Black, his
▼ M l C E N T A U R C O M P A N Y . T T M U R R A Y S T R E E T . N E W T O R R C IT Y .
m y pocket, any w a y !”
her tube, the extinguished her arc, leav- defiance, hia elation.
Detective-Inspector King went as he ioff as to llcht the waters with our own.
(T o be contlaaod.)
CAN NO T
B E
R U B B E D A W A Y
«o o
S.S.S.
.
What is CASTORIA
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 3 0 Years.