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THE FOUNDERED GALLEON. % CHAPTER XXII ‘THE BALANCE OF THE GOLD. ~ . Captain Colepepper was spacing the @eck of the Eureka and watching anx- ously for the daylight to come. ‘Ihe saptain was nervous and irritated and skowed it in the unwonted jerkiness of sContound that farming lout!” he muttered ashe leaned on the bulwark By ducal te ‘winked down undimmed from the ze- nith. ‘Then witha rush the light Tae ‘as day. and it w: Dr. mane sat it from the com- ion way and al cooks his etand bpsids le skipper. “Wed t better have the boat) out soon,” said he, “‘and go and look for Captain Cole rep pes emlty and then made ai impatient ge: he eee We Srsitebly, jana was #@ mile to the eastward. per?” he asked presently. ‘The captain handed him his binocu- Jag, and the doctor, after a minute’s lose scru: of the in} ani attention, returned the glass to his com- Fanion “What do ee makeot it?” he asked. | along look. “It's a | Xe OW. ae that Inbber Cain, od he's rae a white thing round his sent asked ihe doctor in a tone rGettain. ‘Wonder what's the matter with him!” “Tumbled over a pebble and broken his Sova, I dare say—the lumbering’ Bab where, in the name of all that’s mes have they got a boat with mi ister thing to do with it. Colepepper, doesn’t it strike you that they may have hada skirmish and that the farmer may have got damaged in a fight with the owners @¢ the boat?”’ “By Jupiter, yes!’ cried the captain excitedly. ‘‘We’ll take the jolly and go to-meet them. others may be feo. Here, you Spiedernichel, just go and tell my daughter to come and steer us!” the ihe was out of her bunk an hour ago j ere Wi sign of them. Quite right that she sbould have a chance of welcoming “I'll give that young man a piece of . my mind, though,”’ decla the cap- tain Reha “it I he’s been pla; ing the again. His talent for get- ting into scrapes is ji ifle too pretty for my notions of ‘ipline.’” But when the of the night’s or to be told in the little see an honr afterw: O9kip opta ocean about this ane tion of his, ‘The three auditors heard spread up and up, while the yal still |. Captain “How the onteYon aid att exclaimed: Ca admiringly. Sssetn it through a couple of feet the deck,’’ explained Guthrie. & e rd, and th the ado side of the stick.with the saw, I su] * cried the eager cap- in. “No; the other way round,” was the ce “but it’s the same thing, of onrse. That mast wasa piece of the best Memel pine. I may tall eat ve 1 shouldn’t say the teeth of the good for much when at last it aa come ‘The heel of it cut the bulw: to the deck level as it fell.”” re eee mast did you tackle?’’ asked the doct “Fort ree ‘Hm! Then Idon’t see that we're trie, with a “I daresay that's what they’ll Fy even- tually. But it won’t ee sas or to- days to u see, after Saas ae the Tat overboard Henrietta went round with a hatchet and cut every ope ee stay that the iron would go. throt take them a good week of we eo toil than they’re used to before they cai La) so much as a eaneleas | ie’ man,” said “you're not half ans iol aut Tve He ae thought y this the Bet aacats rose and owed, anit Ming Co lepepper gave a strange little laugh, which caused the doctor to glance at her sharply and then Ae ‘The captain took a long took. to exchange asmile anda aes with the 7s, Jady’s father. Dolly, becom- ing su conscious of this tele- pe ey demonstration, blushed. “What did you do with "Cain 8 meee ite headed mulatto?” the top uf Soe eeylieh 6 tak ale place of Cain’s fone pressure. Cain wash’t at all ple on isttibe him go, mi eve oul when I asked him hae hi inated with him, gravely suggested that pets were the police.” “That er’s @ genius!’ pro- nounced the bape “How did he get hurt, by the way potter ated that, wan futhen my fault,” admitted Guthrie. “ went wide, eet but one of them tip ike think it hurt him Spang but Minne he saw the color you should Dave hard ‘aie yell! He j rine rolled down int and moaned that he was song sole a and that Zn- san Pierce w« zee him no ace Someta hard) stick to our oars for laughing, bees ‘we weren’t by any means ou of the mulatto’s popgun yet. The efonny an’s DO the But that deci: and for some little time paced the e <] earnest conversatio! skipper made no secret of his fear that the schooner’s people would fim perhaps have ‘lt inclined 45" let the ir attack and do their no Hee in mach longer will it take get the Ketch pe trim?” asked the doctor presen taht ion ream now,” answered the captain. *“« re not interrupted today. I can Hide Sagi by eit a morrow.” “What about the boat?” ““Theschooner people’sboat, youmean? I don’t feel like taking her away. ancestor of the cay did enotgh stealing for one family, I take it We'll knock a leave her on the beach here. Then, if they like to bring the schooner round to fetch her, they can, Now I'll go and see about forging ahead with out repairs T° ting anxious back again at the rifling of the see Gatarien's nioney box before we drop into any more scrapes." “So am I,” agreed Dr. Tring. “And, by the way, Colepe exactly how c watching your crew lately, but I ven- tu hen it comes to the dividing of that Spanish gold there are two of our junior who will ee to have ‘their shares lumped to- ether. whe captain drummed his heel for a minute on the deck planks and then turned sharply to his companion. YX loctor ?’* said he. peewee den nog ili. gemie “natton a8 0 me too! And I don’t think" he added slowly, after a short au, that T shall pmo to it liber: Guthrie's a goo fag Vil, amis that I’ ve Haken a aa af a the next day We hee caste Miia held the Eureka were cast off, and \ ier uel oat inp toot ae ‘Then the doctor turned pilot again, a ith a fair wind toward the opening betwee the reefs. passed the pointed out a couple of dark en wie clad figures watebing her pro; from ou ee the peak and dip- iG young woman, that’s rather hard lines, isn’t it?’ ex- Postalated the pilo foe ie doctor!” was the no sympathy with pi- your descendant!” cried Dr. Tring a he ae hiveaknipes rare vie other rr hoqerachatttan out ate the oie ‘inder etsy canvas, not she had come in, ay pede channel to the leeward, and then, with a fresh, whole ling her spanish gold was waiting doe, pies, On the third day out from Piper's cay the captain announced that, apse to his observations, she was as near as might be lying dead over the foundered galleon, the old Santa Catari Ci lirics wera 3 into a diving bell a @ dropped qowa floor of the They did nok, Howevers bie off the proce spot again at the first attemp! fact, five journeys back and forth to ce Were required before they found even a part of the'sea floor whici But on the sixth dip they hele Golconda, an nd & e rest ie at the feaeesnigh diets ware z satin bowels of ow, for each one knew that the reward was sure, an it knowl- edge made them find a pleasure even in the turning of that awfal crank which je earlier search for the sunken treasure had been to them such a work wi oe. When once they had located treasnre room again, three journeys were all that were necessary to empty it, and when they pumped their way to the surface for the last time the Eureka ld and on her deck: gold ahd silver to the value of a million igging cry of dismay caper aus hands look up in sudden ‘ “the radacee schooner!" strange looking vessel, a schooner Se bat oe malt, was rapidly coming up before ind. Captain Colepep- per gave one see at her a: bawled to all hands to nga for their lives and they’d escape the rascals yet. were bringing a strong breeze up eas them, fee before eo Eureka had time even to slip her anchor the chai had hauled a Tal rae Shade of Nicholas the (ae ne be sank almost directly on to the top of| *he operatic fter her, leaving only the helmsman on their pil ae t Uisdiee vx cars tha Boat case rapidly The poe hot eyed cousin and the white headed mulatto were stand- ing ap i in fe era mith pistols esled a dozen boat’ pane a te Ea rested on their oars. “Ketch ahoy!’’ shouted the mulatto, showing his white teeth in an evil grin. “We've come for our share of that gold you’ye got. Now, gentlemen, if you're sensible you'll hand over Ciaiven ‘on’t hurt any of you—except the point out to Nek that there — ot us here with pistols and those pistols Be ieydian” ecaighbent’ thay pretty eink other day, I shouldn't trust too much, I were you, to the chance of the said pistols missing fire. You were precious funny when you thought you'd et the | tise ess r of us, weren’t you ell, it’s our turn to do the smiling alpen wi now!" [r0 BR CONTIN Ops ft ereatene blessings to parents ouier Graves’ Worm Exterminator wt effectually ex) worms and give: health in a marvel Romy mosuner te chee Tramp—You haven't ten cents about you, sir. Pedestrian—How did you find ay ee I thought nobody knew I w: lspiohis would find less eae ‘women. want a comfortable chair while they are fitting a shoe, es itis with the greatest erates can yt them to si Ww datnatel, even after the shoe = fitted. Ther when about they wonder why the shoes are not so com- fortable as they were at first trial. ‘A woman's foot is considerably small- er when she sits in a chair than when she walks about. Exercise brings a larger quantity of blood into the feet, they ae szireciatly. The muscles. In buying shoes inte ‘tack should be borne in mind.’ Deafness Cage be pute ‘by local applications, “y cannot ch the alaeenad portion of thee ear, “aihere "a only one ‘to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu: Tadalvcmedies. ‘Deatuess is eaused by. an in famed condition of the mucous lining of the this tube gets inflam: 2 casi ised by em Shek which is wothing bug an inflamed’ con: Gition of the mucous surfaces, ‘We will give One Hundred Dollars for any caused by eatarrh) that, cas. I's Catarrh Cure. Send for CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Te. ase of Desiness not be cured by circulars free. sarSold by Drugs Scientific Cookinge ipl water should be De ready. ssid. For scientific toast the bread should ‘be put in the oven until it is dry. Do not allow it to get hard but sim} leave it in long enough = haye oe moisture drive minutes in the toaster will carpets Don’t eat fried eggs, she it is brown in to keep it from getting to hard. THE FLETCHER CASE. A Petrolea Lady Vanquishes @ Stubborn and Persistent Enemy. She Was for Months a Martyr to dod ‘lammatory Rheumatism—Dodd’: Kidney Pills Oured Her. Potroles, March 13,—N¢ lady rest- A. Fietcher, of the Fletcher Thronghont the adjacent country dis- i she very wide acquaintance. All who know this estimable 1: get down stairs with- ont Listen ‘and every impen change of weather brought her the most indescribable agony. used, in remedies were efforts to effect a cure. ferent medical men were called = to attend her, but all failed di: At length Mrs. Fletcher, having read of Dodd’s Kidney ae decided to give them a trial— She did so and the only Soult coe oe ‘The first dose soothed her inte ls more good, and five bose ett her a sound and healthy Not a vestige of her ol@ eee "vemains. Rheumatism has no terrors, whee drink of water cures thi Not Very Happily Put. Manud—How do you like the new way I do my hair? Frank (who wants say wome- thing particularly aay ee yor look at least 80 years younger. Minard’s Liniment Lumberman’s Friend. ‘Ties of Brotherhood. Jones—How do you feel about this phonetic spelling reform? Brown—Well, I think it will be val- uable in wiping ont old party bicker- ings between the educated and uned- ueated. eats Minard’s Linimeat is used by Physicians, Abuse of Austrian Soldiers It is reported that in Taeis the tom of boxing the ears of soldiers and recruits has been so common and s0 violent that thousands of them impairment of Pg se 3 mi recently issued a prohibitory aS w back for 50. asia Miller’s Kitiney "Pills and Plas Bae is coxe eet, Cler! mmber 839 died thie orning, re ~ Shall Tr alsin his rela- tives? Propriet ere ee Asedand ten dol- Jars a day, wasn Olerk—Yes, Proper you'd better wait a day or bost physiolans speak well of Min- os Je Onapens Tron P ABimple Spring Medicine. sean Sits-—Lhnve been » great enfferer have been bed. Seeing your MIN- J ted 8 and got immediate relief. I ascribe m; tion to health to the poduaital power of your medicine. LEWIS 8. BUTLER. Burin, Nad. Take a wineglass before breakfast. Health for ae children. Miller's Worm Powder ee? Bars Omnibus Riding. Professi« etiquette prevents French ae and jai cal officers from riding in omnibuses ‘Our Usual Fortune. Miller’s Worm Pons! cure all atk ments of children like magic. ae Riders Mean: ' two Suara 41,875 arias teen Killed ta inet THEL ='Ale~Porter JOHN LABATT, London, - Are undoubtedly THE BEST. a PURIFY THE DRAMA. is the Advice Given by Rev. Dr. Talmage. 1F CORRECT, DO NOT SUPPRESS IT Such ‘The Stare, When Purified, Will Draw to Itself Billion: Never Been to Than Once or Twice, or Never at All, Washington, March 18.—At a time departments ‘of usefulness\:more . of he dramatic clement and less of the i didactic. The tendency inthis da; 0 ai is to drone religion, to whine reli- among the children 3 or Of) gion, to cant religion, to sepulchar- ge playing with their dolls and) 7. Yeligion, when we oug! e- their radles and their carts, seen | senc it tn animated and spectacular fen years after i playhouses, 0f | ma, wood, ten years ites in. th Let me say to all young ministers charades, after that in bor of the g It you have this ints impersonations in’ the; academies | Gis aetio element da your nature, of music. zi it/for God and heaven. If you Shall we suppress it? You canas| will go home and look over the his- easily suppress its Creator. You} ‘tory ‘of the church, you will find may direct it, you may educate it. | nat those men hi ght more you may purify it, you harness it) Couls to Christ who have been dra- to multipotent usefulness, and’ that | matic, Rowland Hill, dramatic; ft is your duty to do. Just as We | qo) ramatic; Thomas cultivate the taste for the beauti- Guthrie, orem Gicacs aie ‘and the sublime by bird haunted | Be bert MeChayne, psa gien and roistering stream al t- aa are + matic ; aracts let down in uproar over the} George Whitefield, Geemmaties | Robert mossed rocks, and the day lifting | rai, dramatic; Robert South, dra- ts banner of victory in the east, | matic; Bourdal dramatic; . F sa it retreats through of) tie ou ge 0 the west, and the Ae and the | ;.. ce it é Y, if you attempt to cultivate that Waterloo of an August thunderstorm | clomnent and try to wield it for God, blazing their esate ni oO ee ing | YOu will meet with mighty rebuff afternoon, ste a Recapist Rat icature, and ecclesiastical aay Hak thee culti- | Ouse! Will take your case in charge, vate our tasto for the beautiful and) p, out taracd sens so Soumitpaip sublime, so in every lawful way Wwe will be the human life Now, I tell you not only that God ted this dramatic element have to tell vou in the Scriptures he cultivates ite ne appeals to it, he develops Ba bas implan in our natures, care where you open Bile. Pou eye will fall neat ama. pha, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu and Job. drama, al "The openi the closing act of swiftly leave off his ol nd e for this extemporized levee! of People Who Have the Drama More Here it is in the book of the Magnificent ! mot mean inyth or fable, for my the: t type — 500 ology is of the oldest years old. thousands of years old, old as the Bible. When I speak drama at the beginning and Bese of the Bible, I do not mean an ean the tru lin; resounding, Now, if God implanted this drama tic elemént in our natures, and i has cultivated and developed RAS ures, I demand that you ‘Because the drama has again and aeain boen degraded and employed| for Seaseire purposes is nothing dram: again and again under the feet of of the Tasclvious, dance aeitty shinys about: the nacse¥e of knee; from the pallor of begged, I suppose, at the doors. hie passed Oniover the slippery a ment, cautiously end carefully,; x Seeaiied fen unt his crutch alloped and fell, I hi well as I could, gathered up fray ts ¢ the package as well as I could, put them uni e arm and the rutch under the other le But Hetle drama of ng. accident and suller want in all our different youl eironat ant oe ternal rewards ior Sage ete fev. Dr. Bellows of New York many ne: very Briiant but gis xificined ao ESok thal oe sition that the theatre tigi be re- the assiduous a is my senti- theory. ; | anything, and you give it up to sin ae leat It Christianity. is mighty enough to but the amu: petent to make quet everything. Gomiinge arlich. Ge oy ona ext ‘we have positive announcement world are to “Holiness of thousands of homes where the sons and some of you would say food rea- sons and '$ Wo! are poor reasons, but still held back. But o1 the estab! it of in institu- tion they’ id feel ee aS arrest: . their anxieties and wi say 01 establishment of this me instiention whieh T have called cular, sie is, what we have Sictenreiia jome. ch: stitution, this spect: oper if it is to social moral suc- the first a tig ent ougtit £9 ‘drop, every church service | it to ceas ‘At @ reasonable hour every night | in of public entertainment | Grehestras ought to unstrung. | ‘What comes more than this comes too ¢ platform of this new ina | spectacular, under t+ or a sermon b; e with oda institutions, on the platform of this new ‘institu: tion we shall hove only goo and good women ‘in the ordinary pocial sends of coal aS soon as the platform of the fairly gotabllshed realm in which to exerci step over on the platform, and giants known the ot rams their world over, who hi been. "toiling for the elevation of thi mea, will g 9 past, such men as Joseph Jefferson of of that new Instite cupied only by these pures will draw to ‘sel! never. been, the Mest genius six nights the week bi ua eas ot intellfgencs and goo morals. ‘Do you tell me this plan is chimeri- cal? \I answer, it only requires one hori to see ii —one man of large Thaividoat means heart, and wi pete we when I, @ mini Presbyterian church, go to some new institution, like this, the spectacular, and flamlet while mas ee us seat have ig dramatic pean unmet and unregal >We want this ee aa pe ent of the church ai lent of theatre. The ‘uae tries to © com- promise this matter, and in many churches there are dramatic exhibi- fons. Sometimes they call them charades, sometimes 1 them tem ge is put up in the church in the lecture room, and there you go and see David and the giant and Joseph biti die cnc and tee exhibition in the theatr the theatre is more skijlfl- faiht ease sh drama and with the surroundin spoken of—an “institution which we can without so- try and without self deception ppo patronize—an institution to anedtnerouilernate en t ean it without Kk our religious sensibilities, though the Sab! ore we sat oly sacrament. ‘The amusements of life are beauti- ticular ct could guess where you will spend eternity. ‘As to the drama of your life end beginni @ cradle, at the end of it will stand first welcome. The acts, banquet and battle, process! bridal and Eee he and tears, w let us have a new institution, |, par- Padi pp pt bln with | Senator Cox on Life Insurance, Geo. A. Cox's speech at the annual meeting abs ee Warne ate lawl oie made a most fayorable :impression company’s histor of approval and. confide: i think it those responsibl fe for tl ervati ope naatriton fe which i in building on foundations Nae olan 8 Whether in the ines lence. securing of oper, Rata to say that it is not = intention. nor anagement ‘of the Company to depart from it has been so long conducted. or/in mi a matter of satistaciion ia oe on exceeds that of the best in fl every part of the Dominion onus ah a iienees of the Lveliove and the strain and. stress of years. aking investments Teeter oe look at the matter as it is likely to appese ten, twenty, irty years i vam content to sacrifice tratisient Success for Beane security ent welfare of those wh sts are wrapped up. + the ti I ‘think we should not be doing id not seek to keep the Canada Life th chly: G times, oe in its agencies and) head 0! *Gonservative Pro- therefore, be our mott« quennial investigation. That is matter dealt with in the report, viz., # ays an eventful period, but es) es so/on this‘occasion, for the reason that the life com} are now brought face'to face with a most serious practical problem, viz., the read- justment of their finances due to the permanent fall that has taken place jn the rate of interest. Many persons who are not familiar with life assur- ance finance do not realize the important place which interest holds in the foundations of a life company. ¥ t its interest i a life mapany would soon become insolvent. It is not alone from the prem- it fr erest as well, that claims must be met, and if inter- est is likely to fall below what has been assumed then the security of « company’s contracts is wilde red Moreover, the securing rate of interest larger than that sumed company’s calculations is one of its ain sources of it, fence it is of the hig! import that the va comes at times manden duty 0} ce of ‘a great trust i to maintain. people’ r the amended cubntence Act rye to rolind the strong. per cent., and the‘other uy Table. Never has such an exhaustive been © under mn by the ym) % and interest. ae the Actuarial ing up best Ca A sides of ial surplus over cone athe new Government ay the fe Lnstitnte of arene of’ Great Bri ler, Consulting Actuary of New York, of America. Sir. Man! ae ee of r British actuaries, is so st napon this occasio open es tie Tull soe por cent. standard. ‘Our own Mr. F alance eat natistaction that the Company was in possession of a ae all liabilities, even upon the. high standard of Hm. 334 per. servedly stands high in his own professi ii Hence, in face of a rate of interest _ in. all Renewed continue for some cies Fels ruit. erefore, those charged with the i 's interests, even against their own of last session all the companies must interest basis all existing business te sometimes dos » debtors, extension aad might nly meet ‘te stunations under. exit ww which is framed to coe ot ‘be used aid the weak should In order to lace before our Directors just what was saree in pas- sing to the HE er standard, it was decided during last yi to. ask our tuarial Department to ¢.a detailed valuation of our 37,000 policies, upon the Hm. 314 per cent. basis: Im addition to this, two other full de- tailed valuations were made, viz., one upon the 3 tu e policy liabilities ony diferent bases, fe aly appointed at work takin; mi substan EXPERT OPINIONS. Deereiens ot t Society way, holds the ees aw in the es nec ae and ad- » 2 Sanderson, M.A., A.LA., F.S.S., who de. - and whom the Di Long Journeys. pi seem tired,” said the solicitous officer. SET am,” said the press censor. “But you haven't been traveling many miles.” “J guess you haven't been watching my blue pencil. I haven't eadanie less than t, and even al that Bale way through the manuscript.’ Washington m Star. Mrs. Bro wi Ob, dear! I don't ae what's the ater wi give me 50 Mrs. Malaprop—Goodiness, you'd better consult an octopus right away.—Philadel- |haye phia Press. Sordid Soul, ie ae do you think of my new oesband—I haven’t given it a thought. I've been busy thinking about the bill. — jews. laughter ‘anid ‘grod one of th st able, reliable jive Actuaries. in. weuld have preferred immediate adoption of the Hm. 8! Per cen’, standard, but after a careful i een of the ition in ite bear. ings he was quite in accord with the medium course has pursued. New lite for a quarter, Miller's om pound First Diagnosis. Medical Professor — In a pation’ Nir rd is the first thing to find out? 't—Whet ee he can pay. Ask for Minard’s and take no- Other, In the Boarding House. Land! spread their toast thinner. must have regard for the taste’s of one’s