The Captain's Money.
i Tale ol Buried Treaiure, Cuban Revolt
nil Adventure Upon the Sea.
IN FOUR VAKTB.
IY JAMES FRANKLIN fITTS.
Thin far the strength of hoH tlie
wings of love li nl In-Ill him up against
tha wi-iik in-ill of half-healed wound;
but now, when In- finiiid himself alone
-with Hl, lii- head reclined wearily
upon her bottom, She belli him closely
in ber arms.
"You'll not leave me again dear?"
ahe whispered.
lie made no answer; be had fainted.
Nothing hut love had held him from
the grave.
Two weeks passed before he was ab).
to leave hi bed. i'hun the doctor j .
be waa In fair way to recovery. N
one tuan in a thousand, he said, DOUld
have aurvived such wounds; not one
in five thousand would huve aurvivi-d
tin- journoy undt-rtuken in early eon
valesence. Ilia complete restoration
to health would be alow; but with care,
anu perhaps a change or climate, a
little later, nil would be well with him.
Now that Henry Crawford waa ccr-
tain that the villainy of Hunter bad
auccecded, he waa reluctant to pain hit
betrothal and her mother with tin
itranga fate of Captain Willis' money.
Their atoninhmont on boaring it knew
no bounds. Much that had been inex
plicable in the conduct of her husband
waa now made plain to the Borrowing
"NO, Ml-, he's NOT IiKAD.
woman, ami (lie meaning of Hutlter'l
action waa ax plain, It was not with
out admiration that Crawford ebcerved
the di-meiiiior of the widow under thii
most surprising and unexpected revo
lation. Kite indulged in no useless itv
pining nor reproaches; her sorrow for
the loss of l)i-r huabaud was una hated.
All disappointment at the loss of wealth,
waa concealed.
"Helen," anid Crawford one day,
when they were alone, "your poor
, father waa in his last hours very
anxious umi you ami your mother
ahottld have the money. y,. dou'l
know hut that it ia well tj..it it is mm "
"Whyf"
"I fear it would have, brought us a
eurse. It made your father partially
unhappy in his life; and it cost him his
life, too. Tha Infamous scoundrel
who hue got it struck down ai cry thing
mat sioon uctween it and him. Are
jroil sorry it la goner"'
'Not if you are content,"
"Hut iu loss will put time between
Ui and happiness."
"1 can wait for you." She aaid it,
lid sliu looked it.
What could be do but klaa herP
PAKT IV-t-IIAITEK tt
Raw i 1..11 1.
On a frosty inoming of early Do
eeiuher. Henry Crawford stepped
ashore at rrovineetown. The poloi
waa returning to his face, his Mp m,
omelhing of iu old elasticity, he had
thrown asldo bis canes, sharp paint
from Ins desperate hurls occasionally
li., I 1. 1 I . c
" mm; nut youth, t length and
vigorous constitution were triumph
ing. And the future wns beckoning to
iuu not me inline or ease and
fort that poor Captain Willis
pictured for bun and Helen
future of toil ami endeavor
both. Km lie waa
coin-had
hilt H
for Mi. in
uippv in (lie O 11 14.
pert; her love waa bia exceeding great
reward.
He had never 1 n at this place be
fore; but from the Captain's descrip
tion ot Hie locality, ha had no .inn.
culty lu llndlng the aid house, j-,.,,,,.,,
he reached It be made some inquiries
,a. a shop, and received a very explicit
answer.
"The old Lolnlell house you mean.
IrP Why. Lord hleaa you. nobody
goes near it aiuce Ma'am Willi and
her daughter left It. Nobody knows
any thing more about it, nor wants o;
we know too much alres.lv II.:....'
have l-ecn quiet there lately, forall 1 wi
beard: but I s'pose they're liable to
break out again any night"
"Mr. Willis ami her daughter ow n
h placo now." .aid Crawford. "I
am Uialr agent, and have come here
tin. morning by their direet ion to look
" c,"'"'"ou of the place, and ,
Uke care of th0 property remaining in
the rooms they occupied. Where cau
K'1 ,Wo or three men to help "
"What to go u tba house and
move things outf"'
"Certainly."
Jt '," 5? ,,,wo' yo" n,v mn,
air. MMtty arovdd aet foot iu it"
Crawford h-ft tha horro.-Mriokeii
i .ji.r. ami walked cm. He
smiled at In al the man's fear.; but
after he had asked the same question
in aevaral other quarters, and reeeived
the same reply, he begun u. aee difll
cultj before him upou his errand.
As lie reached tha near vicinity of
the house, he puwJ to ukl. ,
auney of wl,i,h enabled . old
aailor who had been following him for
everal miuutaa to overtake him.
"Pardon. yOUr bouor," he said
craping the erown of bia hat "J ji
heard you tell Mr. Uom Ui.t vnu a ant
ed aome help u, urn,, Mr.. Willi' fur
niture. I can t do much; but Vm
willing Iu bear a baud U help UpUin
Aaron's folk. That ia, provldin' you
dou't ax me to go any where but ia the
rooms wjies Jh,y yvsjsi Idwa't kaav
any one heir-asTolild do that MM h,
but me. Howsornever, in the daytime,
and with company, I don't mind doin'
so much for the sake of the old Cap
tain's folks- (tod rest his soul!"
"You knew Captain Willis, then?"
" 0, aye! Everybody here knew
kirn."
"What Is your namef"
"Thomas Kurt, your honor."
"1 shall need al least two more men
tn move away Mrs. Willis' household
effects. Can't you get them for me?"
"It can't lie done, sir," was the pos
itive reply.
"Why, what a set of old wives you
men must he here iu this town to be
seareil try a lot ol silly stories about
ghosts ami hiiiiutings!"
' Keg pardon again, sir; but neither
you nor any one else has a right to
peak that way about men old enough
to he your father. I'd like to help the
( aptain s wulow; hut If you re to talk
like thai, you'd belter look for some
one else, liooil moruiuir. sir!
Crawford was amused at the old fel
low's anger, but could not dispense
with him vet.
lien-, Kurt come hack," he called
out, " Here s I dollar for von. whelh-
r you go into tlie old MUM with mu
or not I always like sailors; Jvc heen
Willi them many a voyage, though
not much of a sailor myself; and 1
don't want to offend an old salt like
you."
"Oi no offense, your honor; you're
a nice-spoken gentleman," said Tom,
returning and pocketing the coin.
' I ought to tell von," Crawford
tinned. ' that Captain Willis was
my best friend. I was with him on his
vessel when he was killed by the
mutineers, and I nearly lofl my life iu
lit iu' to defend him. I could show
you wounds clear through my chest,
not jret healed, that I got from the
knives of the mutineer that night."
The under-jtw of Mr. Kurt dropped
with surprise.
" Let shake your hand, your
honor." and he sawed that member up
ami down iu such vigoroua pump
handle fashion tiiat Crawford had to
remind him that he was not strong
enough y,. for so enthusiastic a grecl
iug. "Well, the Lord love your brave
young soul. I'm pr I ami happy to
you andlakeyon b the band I What
can I do for you or for (he widow, or
ber pretty darterP'
"I II tell y Tom. You're the only
man I've got hold of ben yet who
promiaes any help; and I want to
tell you what will make you belief
ll. ..I 1 .o.i i . , i
miiii (on auo an ine people Here nave
bean frightened at shadows, captain
Willis talked w ith me freely about that
house, unit the stories of its being
haunted; hut he did not belie
of II."
'.Not believe it, sir! Why he told I
them yarns himself, all over town."
"lie (Old me that, loo; hut he did
that for a certain purpose. I may Mil
the people here what it was, some
day."
"Capt'n Willis not believe the house
w"J s ky!" the sailor repealed,
dwelling upon the incredible fact.
"M by, he came bank to it himself uf.
mm I... Hta .I.....I! m.. urtm . .
"ui". mii. it mis unit Her
da'ter saw him."
"You're certainly wrong tlx , my
old friend. Both of them tell , ,i that
Ike saw nothing of the kin ' "
Tom Kurt wa- staggered. He looked
from the sH-aker to the house, as
11 gh ! ling that the latter might
-'i my lake wings and soar aloft.
rheoberlehed neltialoui of himself and
his males were one by one being mer
cilessly destroyed by this unbeliever.
Mill he would not ield.
"Km them wlmi heard ihoutlni
that night ami screechlus ami liidg
BOM 1 it 111 ii and pistols!"
"To be sure they did, Tom; and I
know who made all that disturbance.
I liave fully salistied both these ladies
that they were most cruelly and
vrutaiiy imposed upon by a black
hearted scoundrel, for his own crim
inal entUk If the ladies come back
here next summer, as the) may, we
shall probably have to make the whole
curious Hory public, so as to clear the
house of its bad name.''
Tom stared at (lie speaker in blank
and hopeless incredulity.
"The fact seems to be," Crawford
continued, "that houses are ery much
like dogs in the proverb. Only give
one a bad, name and it will stick!
"Where did these noises seem to
come fromP"
"From the cellar of the old part. I
ol down In tin- ground and listened
by that sunk window there, where III
loose dirt has lilled up nearly to the
top of the sash."
'The old cellar!" Crawford ex
claimed, with sudden Interest. "When
was this? .See if you can fix the time
exactly."
"I reckon I can. It waa 'bout 'leven
o'clock of the night of the day that the
wimmin left the house."
I.Ike a Hash did Captain Willis' brief
account of the place of concealment of
his treasure occur to Crawford's
mind, with the details that he had
given, and particularly the stress he
had laid on the dilliciilty of raising the
enormous stone that covered it. His
heart bounded madly at the thought
perhaps the triumph (if villainy had re-
i coiled ii itself, ami there succeeded
that other exultant thought, that he
had himself been brought hero this
day to restore the 'aptain's, money to
its rightful owners.
He laid his hand lirmly on Tom
shoulder. "I declare, that worthy
said afterward, iu describing the seem
"he looked that proud and happ that
I didn't wonder Miss Helen had took
to him so. And he looked bold am
lSOlnt like, anil b -poke like a Paul
Jones giTtu ins orueri on tin- quarter
deck.
"Thomas Hurt," aaid Crawford,
"there are no ghosts in that house,
there never have I n any. The cclla
from w hich you heard those noises i
Ihc place w here ( aplaill Willis buried
his treasure. When he -ailed on that
last voyage that landed his kind soul iu
Heaven, he had lifty thousand dollar
buried there; what you say makes me
very hopeful that it's there now. I'm
going down there this minute; it'll
take more evil spirits than have ever
got together there, to slop me. What
I may (i list there, somebody else must
see as soon as I do; if I guess rightly
about it tin- law will have to make an
lnquiry( and there niUl be no doubt
alHiiil the evidence. I don't believe,
after what I've said to' you, that you're
afraid to go I hero Wil li Die; but I ia
that if you w ill go, and if we find the
Captain's mOjjet there. fOU. shall have
one hundred dollars of it."
The time came, nuf long after this,
ihafTonr Knit received the promised
reward. ' rfe exhibited it at the tavern
to the admiring eyes of hi associates,
and to the envious one eye of old Pe
ter Mullins. He remarked, as Ik
showed It:
"I wasn't half satlsiied about tin
spooks, positive as tlie young fellow
talked, lint I did what none of von
would ha' darvd to do; 1 followed him
into the old house. '
ihis rubbish ami a ruult or npl-uiug at
the middle of the cellar, 'i'ln stairs
came down at the extreme end, so thai
tho whole scene was before the sx-cla-tors.
Around this narrow space canvas
hags had been deposited. Their
mouths had been opened; were open.
Their contents were gold - always
gold. Some of them appeared to
have been closely examined, for great
gold pieces were scattered thickly
around the border of the vault. No
examination of iiiautity or denomina
tion was made at that lime; but the
subsequent count of the treasure, in
cluding the large number of hags not
yet removed from tin- great sunken
best, showed a trifle in excess of lifty
thousand dollars. It revealed French
ouis d'or, Spanish doubloons and
trip to the tropics. Mrs. Willis, 'com
fortably located with her sister, and
with plans for the future not yet
formed, age I with the doctor, ol-
aerving that as Helen and Henry had
not as yet thought best to lake a bridal
trip, H-rhaps the w arning of die doctor
might furnish an excuse to combine
business with pleasure.
This wns so near nil approach to a
Joke, that Mr. Crawford looked with
surprise upon his staid and widowed
mother-in-law. She smiled quite dis
tinctly at him.
Mrs. Crawford urged the trip. Her
loving heart had taken alarm from the
mere fact of the physician's advice.
"Well," said the young husband,
"we'll go on one condition I'm aome
what acquainted with those latitudes.
There are places in tlie southern seas
A VENTURE IN
CHICKENS.
K'turmed
where t Hhooldii'l IU... to tia f , t
pistoles, Portuguese nioidore, Kritish iUH, n(lW 'ltm.KIsu.imii.tki
sovereigns. The nations of the earth ! ,!.. n
had contributed to make up the Cap- Tllfi Pn.i!,in -,, eilv alUasssl.
tain's lost treasure. it it i i. .t.
This was the splendid sight that the Ml Nl,w Y()l k b. 8teanier- for CjmrleS'.
eyes of these men saw.
Their eye returned tn it, with tlie
fascination always exerted upon hu
manity by a great amount of gold.
Yet it waa to the horrid spectacle in
closed by this treasure that they were
longest drawn.
The heavy stone, intended to cover
the treasure-vault, had fallen, and
pinned between it and the edge of the
vault the shoulders of a man. He must
have been standing in the vault lift
ing out more bag-, and had just raised
up to place one outside, when the mer-
A ItORItlD SPKCTAC1.K.
cih ss weight descended and fastened
him to his livingdeath, HI arm were
helplessly thrown out; his head was
thrown back.; the face, distorted with
all evil passions, mingled with tlie ter- Sailing westw ard that night, he pointed
J ton. Some days later they took a sail
ing vessel from the latter place for New
I Orleans.
They were full two weeks on the
way. Crawford explained to his bride
how it wus that the powerful current
I of the Culf Stream, setting northward
along tlie coast of F'lorida, compels
sailing vessels to go more than four
hundred miles eastward, to tiud a
Southern passage.
In many hours of the moonlight
nights, as well as of the pleasant days
of the delightful passage, she waa on
deck with him, viewing the low-lying
Idands, tl merald hue of the water,
ami the pure white bottom at the shal
lows. He explained to her the mys
teries of throwing the lead, and what
the landsman meant by his cries of
"Six and a half live!" At one point
on a remote shore of New Providence,
the vessel passed close to the charred
remains of the "Nellie Willis." The
newspapers had been busy with the
facts of the tragic fate of the bark;
Crawford's name had been widely
mentioned; his identity had been dis
covered by the passengers on this ves
sel and with Helen leaning on his
shoulder, he was compelled to give tlie
true story of the mutiny and its results
to thoM who sal on the after-deck that
moonlight night
As the vessel approached the coast
of Cuba, he pointed out to her the
range of mountains in the background
and the Pan of Malanzas near the sea.
imA is
lit l
1
ii mi to t o i ikk riur, vm n
MttM l oo rO1 SOMKOMK I.IJIK."
Kwrxhody in I'roy.uoctown talks
alsnil the I.oImIcII place Is-ing haunted;
but it's all rumor and gossip.. Nobody
has seen or heard any thing thai de
serves aval to la- examined."
That's where you're wrong, sir!
w rung ns w rong can In-!"
Tom nHke up triumphantly, and
naaaaN down his hal to emphasise the
assertion.
"What do you mean?"
". I'll tell ye I'll tell ye. my young
sir; and theu see if you'll b so jtert an'
chipM-j- in laughin' at the things that's
Ih-.ii makiu' the IW iueci'n folks
rrw.' You waul to know who's
heard or seen ant thlug fr tm that old
house wor'h aoUch', Well, have."
Indeed?" .poned Crawford, good
huinomily. "Nw. don't give me aM
second hand gossip, fcr, urt."
"I saw and heard it myself. I tell '
ton! (iroaniug aed moaning like ail
ihelietid bituseU bad a holt ol a man.
eryii gio the I,.rd to help it - whatever
waa bejtgiug Ml M be Wt to do- -and
all seen! I just U-il you. young sir,
If you'd heard 'ni. you'd shut up ou j
haunted li..'huv I res kotv."
PAKT IV IIAJTKR III
TOT ajfk "i i
The front door of the lately-occupied
pai l still hung open; the rulu had beat
iu; there had been no tires In this part
fur si weeks, and lb atmosphere was
damp aud chill. Deferring a visit to
Mrs Willis' abandoned rooms until the
great curiosity and interest that pressed
at his heart hail bt siitislied, Craw
ford mounted the stairs. , found
that a door between the upper hall and
the old part, which ha. I been kept
barred and bolted, lay shattered and
broken on the floor, as if liealeu in In
blows of an axe. He passed throii"ii
the aperture, loin Kurt closely follow
Ingi and stood in one of the loii"-de-
sertcd rooms.
In what way Captain Willis had h
eejlSomad to make his secret visits to
the old cellar he had not been in
formed. He paused now a moment to
reflect that it had penbnbrf been bt
some more convenient outside paaaago;
but, he was now so far on his way that
he would not turn back.
He had provided himself with a
poekct-lnnlcrn, which he now lit The
room was bare of tirnitme, as wa
every oilier (hat he saw in this part of
the house. All was dark, damp and
DiUatj the dust and cobwebs of half a
cent ui v w ere around him.
Hut he was too eager to lie awed by
such thoughts. He pass,..! through thl
room and two others More finding tin
u 1 1. i . ... . i Ik..- II I. .1. .
- '". einuiij; n, uie loosi
and rotten boards creaked and erackci
beneath his tread, and bats (lew at lb
light.
iu tlie rooms below he searched for
0 minutes before finding the co
Ted ivceas by which (he stairs d
, -' d (o the cellar. He knelt down
and thrust the lantern into the open
ing. I lie darkness and dampness ,,f
the l ooms he had tratersed were multi
plied in that noisome depth. A sick
enlng smell pervaded the air.
loin Kurt stood trembliii'' behind
ft. a a. a. a .
1 's liaml grasping the skirt of
trawfords coal. The young man
turned and spoke to him:
'Hurl, lie nol afraid; you Will meet
no spirits down here. Yet, what I
have already discovered tells me that
ii is a place of horrors. Summon torn
fortitude; nothing will harm V0U bin
you will need courage to face whit w,u
must ee. Come' keep hold of mv
coat, if it pleases ion."
lu Ibis way they went down, sonic of
the steps not onh creaking, but break
ing beneath their feel. Hurl kept well
l-hind Craw foixl, and it was ou r the
young man's shoulder, as he held up
the lantern above his head, that the
sailor's first dear view of the -h u.il i
and wonderful spectacle of the cellar
was had.
Smie minutes were necessary lo ac
custom their eyes to the gloom of the
place, which was with ditlWullv aud
rors of a cowardly soul, was tha face of
Jiiiuis Hunter!
What pen, what tongue, could por
tray the horrors of that slow aud lin
gering death, compounded of atari a
tion and suffocation? Who can speak
of the torment of tMj touL. to which
the physical pangs were trilling, a
hours ami days went on, and brought
no relief? Who tell of the cries,
the groans and moans, protracted
through days ami nights, the least of
which had reached tho ears of Tom
Kurt; and which w ere unheard or dis
regarded, because, more than for any
other reason, the man who thus suf
fered and died had prepared men to
disregard and shun them!
No man could say how this tragedy
had occurred. It might have been that
the Covering. stone, reared back against
a pile of rubbish by the utmost effort!
of this man, was placed insecurely, aud
had fallen beeeuse of it.
Or it might have been that the
movement! of the plunderer in the
vault had brought it down upon him.
Or might it he, as some of thu dccolv-
rellgloua and God-fearing people of
Provinnetown aaierted, that u special
providence was exerted, aud that the
vengeance of an outraged God waa
hurled upon the wicked man in tho
height of his .seeming IriuniphP
We do not know. We only know
that Henry Crawford became pro
foundly impressed as he looked upon
this scene.
His mind went back barclv three
months lo the burning desk of tho
Nellie Willis. He saw himself hrln
helpless, prostrate, apparently dying.
He saw the man w hoso dead, staring
cmvs and contorted features hero con
fronted him, bending over him in
satanic triumph. He recalled his own
words uttered then; -(Jod will never
permit such villainy to triumph! I
u-ll you now, you will be overtaken
and punished!" Ho rem bered his
present assured happiness, with love
and wealth both given him. H bowed
his head; he was humbled iu an in
stant. Tom Kurt heard him audibly
pronounce the words:
" 'Vengeance is mine; I will reuav .'
aaith the Lord."
out the iri-eat rcvolviiiff. flashin" lio-ht
of Moro Castle, twenty miles away.
"it wouldn't be well for me to land
there," he observed. "Those Span
iards have long memories. Our course
I ma. i. front Ho- ii. iii i of a
I Kiilliualait-
Ever since I was a small boy and the
proud owner of a bantam lieu, w hich
suffered an untimely end at my hands
by being squeezed to death, I have
been possessed of a deep desire lo own
a number of chickens. We had I.
the year before, into a small suburban
collage, and during that summer, w hen
I had seen the neighbors' fowls calmly
scratching up our lmckb?t,'-l. the old
thought grew within me, and by the
next season 1 had prevailed over the
counsels of my wife, and purchased as
many chickens us lay within my mod
est means. 1 was a happy man when
1 saw the flock gather about the door
step for the lirst time, as they anxious
ly awaited their evening allowance,
and for fear that some unprincipled
being might avail himself of the oppor
tunity to replenish his roost by deplet
ing mine, I secured a watch-dog. I
also subscribed to a number of agri
cultural papers that devoted a column
or so to the interest of fowls, and pur
chased books on the care of ihlokeni,
winch I read devotedly. How my
heart swelled with pride when a hen
proclaimed with unnecessary reitera
tion the advent of an egg! and after I
had searched for half an hour for it,
how triumphantly I bore the warm ob
ject to my wife, remarking: "Now,
my dear, we can have fresh eggs every
morning for breakfast and vll you
need in addition for cakes aed pud
dings." But, alas, the heart of man is often
centered upon things of vanity, and it
is not well to put your trust even in
chickens. Perhaps a fay extracts from
my diary may best servo to show the
sequel:
"May 1. It being the first pleasant
day, the doors and w indows were left
open, and my wife, going dow n-stairs
about noon, found two ambitious
roosters upon the piano, while a third
was industriously picking at tlie beads '
on the sofa cushion. In order to pre
vent a repetition of the scene No. o was
converted into stew."
"May 3. My dog ha Suddenly devel
oped a fancy for playing willi the .
fowls, and spends most of his time in '
(dialing them around the yard; at any
rate, it keeps them out of mischief."
"May 7. One hen is missing. I sus
pect the dog."
"May 9. 1 found a nest of eggs to
day in tlie back of the garden, and in
carrying them to the house iu my hat 1
I stumbled eggs and hat ruined." I
"May 10. Another lien missing,"
"May 11. When coming from the
train to-day I noticed a couple of
i i i i , .., , ,
iieus loooKiugveryiniicn tike mine in a
- . . . aiH...
",LUKt 'N GARDE
Belcne I mule my ardra o I ...
I read lb. .e.,, .u, c.talcw ".
wuuld plan u,t 4 s7
How lot. o- liitoloui ve( talil.. i
ran. 1 ,
and toured up the protlti
urden m. Uu
Of patent fertilisers.
fani'v
tmli ' mm too.
I tinnuhl uhn.il ...
am
1 blreil ii en Ihnl wmiM.'. .
with Ihc hue. on' m. ..
w
itftttniwiaftmtm, M
After I made my i-arden Oh
a
The tajaaaa leratahas .. "'"o'uia-
dots upon idem ran NaS
Threats pi ehed bsttl. . M ,B .
cow. utr all my corn "(
Anil a liiii, ihui '-- - .....
m ---- .- iu une tar
1 ' nun ll.
Then rime a
MNeai Ihen mii
And pelting hu.l ami hurrnane
in iu mau
Then, like th
me
UNI worms. MIM cut a.
k ' '"""U.
"We
ought that burned inJ
then a flood d l0llai
turnm
-e th- p.iifiie of Kg ,Wam, ,
i tiles and bum, "r8Ux
"trj
SJH
Cl,.
pillion, i row and .lug,,
With purls green, tobacco, luinh,,.
hellebore '"'Pour, toot m
I dosed ihut Insect army, but the. onl. j
more; 0lllcnej(w
I moiled mv i lmin ui '
sun and r.:n, ',he
And gut myself so dirty that I
the train. ")ibiw
All summer long I wrestled, hi m.
allointropa m tllr
..hinoiitdnt, the barrels, had Wjd,,rBj
Andthog,,twa.n',.b1.to.uPpl.01,(llMer.i
lUoprreotchamonfo,,
Before I made my garden. Oh
llll
u si m t- ly greenhorn in,
can- to reup
juo pruuis or a garden I
Uu.afterwurd, my trouble. .nd
.in ..i, . .
cheap. ij
-H. C. Dolg, In Detroit Krr,
NEW NAVAl'teRROR.
iqain Lstrst M,p1y RM
Mthtoeaeel Vmt-mm
A new acquisition to KnglMd's
was launched I recently and ohriete
theulcHn. She is designed asatefo
sci-.-w torpedodepot ihlp, but issw
.-.'di eted cruiser and a formidable
lighting oriift as well, and KftmZ
eutirtdy uovol typo.
The oonatruotioa of the Vulcan
begun on Juno 10. tm. Sheisf0'6
tons displacement lai-.erl h-
than any of the large India,, tro,,,,:
ships and three limes as large as roa.iv
a cruiHer. She Is built of steel. Wr
hull alone weighing .'). 17(1 tons, and her
principal measurement arc as follow,.
Length, 800 feet; beam. (i feet; mnn
draught, feet. The vertical keel is
of an unusually heavy and salnta,,,
character and is 3 feet and G la,
high. The cast-steel U-sh:nh.,i .i..
-s- VHIIP
-LL! - v-a
A LONQ VOVAUK.
neighbor's yard, but unfortunately the P0' is extra strong, weigh ing fl re tm
fowls have no distinctive mark of indi
vlduality."
"May 15. Wrong as regards the
hens. Both have been found sitting iu
a corner of tlie garden; were not dis
turbed. Prospects of two tine broods."
"May 18. The newly-planted Uower
bed has afforded my flock much
amusement, to the ruination of the
plants; loss, live dollars."
"May lit. Another nest found. This
time 1 carried the eggs to the house to"8 coal. " amount suffli ient for
I ll.l , .li.il 1 , .
.vntl , uivmeii into miiiieruiH
water-tight compartments, and is pn).
tected by a continuous steel deck 6
inches thick in the slope and 21 Inckaj
elsewhere. The engine are of the
triple expansion type and will fires
collective Indicated horse power task
forced draught of I2,(HK). They will
drive the ship at a speed of :1) knots
(Ti miles) and 1M knots (S0.7 miles) at
sea. There will ho Him- Hire fi.p 1 fh.i
one by one."
"May 20. The sitting hens hare de
serted their nests. Can the dog have
frightened them off?"
May 22. 1 lie roosters seem to bo
DtWumueaat 18 knots an hour. She
will have a balance rudder : similar to
that litted to the Spanish cruiser Keim
Regent! and to the Inman steamer dtj
of New York. This will enable the new
troubled with insomnia, as they awake I War ,nP t turn a complete circle el
will now bo northwesterly lo New Or
leans, where we cau pass a pleasant
month. We may be four or five days
yet on the way; it is a long voyage."
His arm was around her; her beauti
ful eyes were turned trustfully up to
him.
"it's not so long, Henry, as the voy
age you engaged to take with me when
we stood up before tlie minister."
' record end here. It began
in the I'aseo of Havana, in a dread
ful exhibition of human hate aud
vengeance; it ran end no more titl
us at all hours of the night with their
crowing. No remedy mentioned iu
books or papers."
"May 21. All the fowls came into
the front hall to-day, and enjoyed them
selves by picking at the bright carpet
tacks, which are usually considered
very indigestible; hope they f wallowed
none."
"May 2C The dog must go; he was
found to-dav eatintr eras."
"May 28.- My wife declares that the
chickens must follow the dog; but a re
prieve was granted, as 1 found two
nests of eggs."
"May 29. A number of fowls miss
ing. As (lie dog has been disposed of.
ii must, uo some other a"vncv "
"itiay .w.-llieir fate is sealed. The
out rooster was rather tough eating,
om my wile says that the next butch-
than by that best token of human love er 8 '"" Wl" 00 considerably less than
! kiss.
the knd.
PART IV. CHAPTER IV.
TBI UNU VOYAUB.
During the winter, on one of Ihiuie
hitler nights when no one in l'rovince-
town stirred out of doors, the old l.oh-
d.-ll house was burned to the grouud.
The destruction was coinulele: onlv
. . s
The "leal red poppy" has rocently
been found to have the valuable power
of binding with iu roots the soil in
which it grows in such a manner that
It will prove moat valuable In support
ing embankments. Already several
engineers have undertaken tho sowing
of railway embankments with poppies. 1
It Is n queer fact that deaf persons
who can not hear ordinary conversa
tion anywhere else can hoar the most
casual and low-toned remarks when
they are riding in railroad cars. "I
can not explain it,' a deaf woman said
In speaking of it, "but the rattle of the
cars seems to drown the ringing b mv
usual
"June 1& Th last pullet eaten. I
have decided that my forte is not chick
ens." "June 16. -The fowls that were
'I'lssmg a couple of weeks ago returned
ttMlay, but gave no account of them
'J'l"'.v med rather lonely."
"June 17. Two weeks' ,n.,i ....
ohkfkeni is enough; so Mitchell, tha
colored man who does chores about the
p.ace, was presented with the prodi
gals. Thank Heaven: ,,-'
Total loss, including (lower I , hat
and. log, thirty-eight dollars.-Vitrei
A Mum, tn Mrper'a WmUg,
be.
lowly peaetrateii by the rays of the
lantern.
'ihe horrid odor became almost over
"Wering. Hoth men stood al the foot
of the stairs summoning strength w ith
wnn n lo ivinain iu tin- place ten min
ute. The feeble light presently dlsclo-cd
to their eye, now Hunted to the place,
ai oner the house of treasure and the
I. null'
Kriefly. as become the awful nature
of that scene, let us portray it.
They stood m one apartment of the
cellar; other wen- beyond
Thl one was prrh'M fifteen feet bv
thirty. Near! the wall wr hr.i
of refuse, being mostly rolling; sails
and cordage.
A small soar remained between
ashes and the stones of the foundation ! eur4, aml "ll '"' acquaintances whoaea
remained; there was not even a charred i doaf "0,icu the thing."
-mo louowmg misspelled names of
places on letters is but a sample of
what Ui clerks In tho Rondoiit post
office are compelled to "wrestle ' with
every week: "l'ogibkse." "S-eoike."
Each of these letters was Intended for
Poughkeepsie. and was marked "in
haste." "Sigkerces" was thrown iu
the Saugorties mail, while "Vernieiise"
found its way to Phoenicia all right.
-in the i'nited S ates postal service
there aru 58,100 iHwlmasters, 7.U00 rail
way mail-service employes, 7.000 letter-carriers,
100 inspectors. 5.OO0 olerka
in the post-ofni-e. two clerks in tho
iosi-imee IK'imrtmenL
total of 77.HXUJ employee.
master ateraires
am or plank. What caused the eaua.
fiagraliou was never discovered. To
no one was the ss less troiililes.i.
than to the owuien of the old house,
Secure now iu the possession of a mod
erate competence, cherishing tlie
memory of Captain Willis, and vet
ith paramount feelings of loathing
and discus! fr the hIhim Mrs Willi.
and Mi. Crawford (for Nellie Willis
had ceased to exist in society as well j
M in the merchant-service) could
truthfully say. as they did. that thev
were not sorry for the casualty.
qi a a a .
ine kind reader who has followed
the story so far is notilied that the
hou-e hardly exists iu tradition
now in l'riivincetown. Should be go
to Its sit,, iu the pleasant New England
iiniiner, he will tiud it covered with
pretty cottages In the Queen Anne
t.vle. M ihc piazzas of which women
and children spend the long afternoons
looking out over the bay. from which
the salt breea comes up refreshing!
1'hev net er dream and it i-
t ..... . . .
"'t they sdould nol know ,.f
the stining life-dram, closing with a
tragedy, that wa thirty-live years iro
enai-ted Uftm this spot
A the w inter advanced. Heart l'rw.
fonl did not improve a- rapidly a th
pht sician had predicted, aud that eou- j
scitnijeiu oifeiviul man uid a
This (five a
Every paaft.
two assisbitita .na
this iu round numbers amounts to 116..
wo jiersons, which number added to
77.WO give HM arsons over whom
the service has controL
-Wnehtngton's father died when the
future President was twelve, Jefforsou s
when be was fourteen, Jackson's be
fore the boy wa born. Madison's when
he was a youth. Garden! s when he wa
a mere iKibr, Harrison the elder's be
flrebehad reached his majority Ty
leYs when he was thirteen. Johnson's
when he a four vearsold. and
Neatness in Girls.
Neatness is a good thing for a eJrL
"d ,f she does not learn it wl
young she neve,-will, ii takes a great
ca mo,,, neatness to make a girl look
JJ 11 I" make a boy look
Pas-able Nllt la-canse a Ihiv is better
""k.ug.han a girl. Imt h!a itethe.
i l"W-.i.s,.r,notsoni!l,lv
" 1 ,!""t tofM 't expect a
V .o look as prelty as a girl. 'A ,;,.'
y h not neatly dressiHl is called a1
"7' "oone like, to took a 1,1.
h;. face may be pretty and . V
Wgw byt if .,, is" a spot , '
cheek, and her fin-reiV n.t. .. .. ... . 1
with Ink 1.-7 ,J" "''
, , . " uer siloes are
aim ner apron
ou ,,, , gkjrt sh(i
..... u,- naeu. i..m ... i
. I m ve!it- ml
" have learned it. it wi
'iVJ VA.lt if .i . t
not more than -100 yards ill diameter in
little over three minutes.
As a torpedo-depot ship she will re
admirably adapted for the work. She
w ill be a flouting factory, full of forfei
and workshops for the repair of torpe
do boats and torpedoes. She will
carry mi immense supply of torpedoes,
submarine mines, and ull the necessary
gear for submarine work on u largo
scale, and sho will also have upon her
decks a small flotilla, probably eight in
number, of second-class torpedo-boats
of the largest size. These she will be
able to hoist overboard and dispatch in
all directions at a few minutes' Mtfc,
The Vuloan will also have a torpedn
armament of her own. consisting "I
six launching tubes, some of which sre
to be under water. Regarded more
particularly as a cruiser, she will pos
sess dualities which Awittlt i
among t,he most formidable unarmoreJ
cruisers of tho world. She will have
weapon! which at close range will
be capable of penetrating armor tf
U nearly sixteen inches thick. The
quick-firing armament will be the ni't
powerful of any ship in the world. It
will enable her to discharge on each
broadside a storm of eighty to one hun
dred ami fifty projectiles'a minute: snJ
should she ever be attacked by unr
niored cruisers or tooedo-b'ats, she
would b able to giv them a warm re
ception. X. Y. World.
when
most
not la I
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oii i v. :in,l 1... ii
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put yourself in a satisfactory position.
cook up a proper smile, look steadily
at a sp.it designated, drop in yourtwe
Shilling piece, wait about live minutes,
ami a snap-shot photograph comes out
ornnido'o. In military parlance the
whole '.- done in one time and
twn. i'he machine can't make any
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two pictures for one nrieelffW"
your girl are sufficiently l
niiehiied to stand very close Wjfetbfi
wi..n the quarter goes down th"
- Pieclrical Itoview.
- 'i'he snaki.s a man sees w hen he '
ritii:.; ivitl, u severe attack ef
llr.sss In men- arc not "water SB"
Tat is rtflabl, Morriitowa Herasl
file Itoston Transcript teii tH
tory nboutaamall colored boy ofaielif
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that she saw T nl Pen "K"1 praying for one very e iriK':-
first rn,..i. ""daughter. and her mnster went to town next day.
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,n? United
V.OW iveri
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how you've 00 n! return inhe evening then "
jack-knife laid on the bov'l m0
therss hm
about one l.
bora The charste, , " only one I... " ! r there
,v "rsmrij aii 0 i. n- '"r over 6 ooti iu.i
these were molded bv th.ir m..t.' In th. n . 'P1,
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I The boy discovered tho knife prorspty
snough in the morning. auialll"r
ferly, and exclaimed softiv.
ir of condemnation of his owe eta
'ty. "Why didn'tipray foratwod
jiw? '