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The Newtown bee., 1889-07-05
-DEERING MOWERS-


 No farmer can afford to buy other mowers, as is proved by these facts The cut is one third or one -half wider than others; draft at the same time lighter; the perfect floating bar adjusts itself to all inequalities of the land, gli ding over stones and down into hoilOws, ,leav- ing ss close, even stubble; there is no choking or elogging, the machine being started in any place without backing; the pitn.an box can never become cramp ed and is protected by a heavy steel bar i'll nOnt.its entire length; the mower can be instantly thrown into or ont Of gear, without the driver leaving his sent; 1t has fhe highest wheels and widest tread of any light mower; is as easy to ride as buggy; the one horse mowers arc very paragonsa af worth; !; the Deering six and seven.foot cuts nre the best two horse mowers made, they do tlze work so much easier and quicker: the kEives are not ttuled after a witole season. 8 wOsk, as the knife sections are so narrow (2tz fnstesld of irches3 that stones do not get in to dull them. I send these mowers on trial to any* resp0nsf ble persons. All parts of these mowers broken in the first year of serv ice will be supplied free
 My Champion Lumber Wagons age durable, cheap and unexceiled; turn one third shorter than others; obvinte sore horsess necks, as they will not whip. One two and tbrce-seated Bnsiness and Pleasure Wagons; Road Caris, Road Wagons, Shifting Poles, Harnesss etc.,of all Inscriptions:
 E. N. SIPPERLY 9innar1vsa MiJ1a Waafrort Gf;.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-05
SOUTHPORT.

Examinations for teachers certificates will be held on Tuesday, July9. Certifi- cates given during the last two years are to be continued for one year more.
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The Captains Money.
4 Tale OF Buried Treasure, Cuban Revolt
and Adventure Upon The Seas.
I'M -FOUR PARTS.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits.

Thus far the strength of hope, the
wings of love had held him up against
the weakness of half-healed wounds;
but now, when he found himself alone
with Helen, his head reclined YEARLY
upon her bosom, She held him closely
in her arms.
you'll not leave me again dear?"
she whispered.
He made no answer; he had tainted.
Nothing but love had held him from
the grave.
Two weeks passed before he was abs
to leave his bed. Then the doctor said.
he was in fair way to recovery. Not
one man in thousand, he said, could
have survived such wounds; not one
in five thousand would have survived
the journey undertaken in early con-
valesence. His complete restoration
to health would be slow; but with care,
and perhaps a change of climate, a
little later, all would be well with him.
Now that Henry Crawford was GER
tain that the villainy of Hunter had
succeeded, he was reluctant to pain his
betrothal and her mother with the
strange fate of Captain Willis money.
Their establishment on hearing it knew
no bounds. Much that had been mex
plicable in the conduct of her husband
was now made plain to the Borrowing
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-06
Neatness in Girls.

Neatness is good thing for a girl,
and if she does not learn it when she is
young she never will 1t takes great
deal more neatness to make girl look
well than it does to make boy look
passable. Not because boy is better
looking than girl, but his clothes are
OF different sort-nOt SO many colors
in them; and people don't expect a
boy to look as pretty as girl. A girl
that is not neatly dressed is called "a
sloven, and no one likes to look at her.
Her face may be pretty and her eyes
bright, but if there is a spot on her
cheek, and her fingers ends are stained
with ink. and her shoes are not laced,
and her apron is dirty, and her collar
unbuttoned or her skirt torn, she can
not be liked. Learn to be peat, and
when you have learned it, it will al
most take care of itself. -BaDtis!
NeeEly.
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trip to the tropics Mrs. Willis COM
fortably located with her sister, and
with plans for the future not yet
formed, agreed with the doctor, OBJ
serving that as Helen and Henry had
not as yet thought best to take bridal
trip, perhaps the warning of the doctor
might furnish an excuse to combine
business with pleasure.
This was so near an approach to
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 physicians advice.
"Well,' said the young husband,
"we'll go-on one condition-Tms some
what acquainted with those ATTITUDES.
There are places in the southern seas
where / shouldn't like to be found,
just now. III 60, if can arrange the
trip"
The condition was easily allowed.
1t was late in February when they
left New York by steamer for Charles
ton Some days later they took sail
ing vessel from the latter place for New
Orleans.
They were full two weeks on the
way. Crawford explained to his bride
how it was that the powerful current
OF the Gulf Stream, setting northward
along the coast of Florida, compels
sailing vessels to 60 more than four
hundred miles eastward, to find a
southern passage.
In many hours of the moonlight
nights, as we'll as of the pleasant days
of the delightful passage, she was on
deck with him, viewing the low-lying
islands, the emerald hue of the water,
and the pure white bottom at the shall
lows. He explained to her the mys-
teries of throwing the lead, and what
the landsman meant by his cries of
''Six-and half fivem At one point
on 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 YES
sel-and with Helen leaning on his
shoulder. he was compelled to give the
true story of the mutiny and it's results
to those who sat 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 back ground
and the Pan of Matanzas near the sea.
Sailing westward that night, he pointed
out. the great revolving, flashing light
of Moro Castle, twenty miles away.
cit wouldn't be we'll for me to land
there" he observed. "Those Span
iards have long memories. Our course
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1.-THE ENID

The "real red poppy has recently
been found to have the valuable power
of binding with its roots the soil in
which it grows in such manner that
it will prove most valuable in support
ing entertainments. Already several
engineers have undertaken the sowing
of railway embankments. with peoples.
1t is queer fact that deaf persons
who can not hear ordinary CONVERSE
ton anywhere else can hear the most
casual and low-toned remarks when
they are riding in railroad cars. Il
can not explain it, deaf woman said
in speaking of it, ''but the rattle of the
cars seems to drown the ringing in my
ears, and all my acquaintance who are
deaf notice the same thing"
The following misspelled names of
places on letters is but a sample Of
what tile clerks in the Rondout post
Office are compelled to "wrestle" with
every week: 'Pogibkse." ''Seepike.
Each of these letters was intended for
Poughkeepsie, and was marked lin
haste" .'Sogkerces" was thrown in
the Saugerties mail, while "Vernieuse"
foand its way to Phoenicia all right.
In the United States postal service
there are So, 200 postmasters. 1000 rail-
way mail-service employees, 1000 let
ter-carriers, 100 inspectors, 5000 clerks
in the post-offices, 600 clerks in the
Post-Office Department. This gives a
total of 1890 employees. Every post
master averages two assistants, and
this in round numbers amounts to 49,
400 persons, which number added to
1890 gives 1914, 800 persons over whom
the service has control.
-Washington's father died when the
future President was twelve, Jefferson's
when he was fourteen, Jackson's be-
fore the boy was born, Madison's when
he was a youth. Garfield's when he was
a mere babe, Harrison the elders be-
FIRE he had reached his majority, Ty-
ler's when he was thirteen, Johnson's
when he was four years old, and Hayes
and Cleveland 8 when<they were young
boys The characters of nearly all of
these were nodded By. their mothers
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Everybody in Provincetown talks
about the Lobdell place being haunted:
but it's all rumor and gossip. Nobody
has seen or heard any thing that de-
serves even to be examined"
That's where you're wrong, sir!L
wrong as wrong can ber'
Tom spoke up trimphantly. and
dashed down his hat to emphasize the
assertion.
''What do you mean?'
20, I'll tell ye-r1l tell We, nv youno
sir; and then see if you'll be so pert ans
clipper in laughin' at the things that's
been maxim the Provincet'n folks
creep! You want to know who's
heard or seen any thing from that old
house worth noticin'. Well. Ihave .
"Indeed?" queried Crawford GOOD
humoredly. "Now, don't give me anv
secondhand gossip. Mr. Burt
II saw and heard it myself, | tell
you! Grooming and moaning like a,
the fiend himself had holt of a man
crying to the Lord to help it-whatever
1t was-begging not to be let to die
and all sech! l just tell you, young sir.
# you'd heard 'em, you'd shut up on
haunted houses. reckon
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CHESS weight descended and fastened
him to his living death. His arms were
helplessly thrown out; his head was
thrown back; the face, distorted with
all evil passions, mingled with the ter
rors of cowardly soul, was the face of
Louis Hunter!
What pen, what tongue, could por
tray the horrors of that slow and lin
gering death, compounded of starva-
ton and suffocation? Who can speak
of the torments of the soul, to which
the physical pangs were trifing, as
hours and days went on, and brought
no relief? Who tell of the cries,
the groans and means, protracted
through days and nights, the least of
which had reached the ears of Tom
Burt; and which were 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. 1t might have been that
the covering stone, reared back against
pile of rubbish by the utmost efforts
OF this man, was placed insecurity, and
had fallen because of it.
Or 1t might have been that the
movements of the plunderer in the
vault had brought it down upon him.
Or might it be, as some of the deeply
religious and God-fearing people of
Provincetown asserted, that a special
providence was exerted. and that the
vengeance of an outraged God was
hurled upon the wicked man in the
height of his seeming triumph?
We do not know. We only know
that Henry Crawford became pro-
foundly impressed as he looked upon
this scene.
His mind went back barely three
months to the burning deck of the
Nellie Willis. He saw himself lying
helpless, PROSTATE, apparently dying.
He saw the man whose dead, staring
eyes and contorted features here con-
fronted him, bending over him in
satanic triumph. He recalled his own
words uttered then: s'God will never
permit such villainy to triumph! I
tell you now, you will be overtaken
and punished!' He remembered his
present assured happiness, with love
and wealth both given him. He bowed
his head; he was humbled in an in
slant. Tom Burt heard him audibly
pronounce the words:
Vengeance is mine; I will repay
saith the Lord"
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will now be northwesterly to New Or
leans, where we can pass pleasant
month. We may be four or five days
yet on the way; it is long voyage"
His arm was around her; her beauti-
full eyes were turned trustfully up to
him.
'1t's not SO long, Henry, rs the voy-
age you engaged to take with me when
we stood up before the minister"
Let our record end here. 1t began
in the Paseo of Havana, in a dread
full exhibition of human hate and
vengeance; it can end no more fifty
than by that best token of human love
"a kiss.
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this rubbish and vault or opening at
the middle of the cellar. The stairs
came down at the extreme end, so that
the whole scene was before the specta-
tors.
Around this narrow space canvas
bags 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 quantity or denomina-
ton was made at that time; but the
subsequent count of the treasure, in
GLIDING the large number of bags not
yet removed from the great sunken
chest, showed trifie in excess of fifty
thousand dollars. 1t revealed French
louis dor, Spanish doubloons and
pistoles, Portuguese moidore, British
sovereigns. The nations of the earth
had contributed to make up the Cap
tain's lost treasure.
This was the splendid sight that the
eyes of these men saw.
Their eyes returned to it, with the
fascination always exerted upon hui
mainly by great amount of gold.
Yet it was 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 man. He must
have been standing in the vault lift
ing out more bags, and had just raised
up to place one outside, when the mer-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-06
Pictures Made by Electricity.

The latest novelty in which cleo
tricity plays part is one of the put
your money in : the slot-and-see-it-gO
style. 1t is higher priced than its pre-
decesso"s, but you get more for your
money. This one costs quarter. You
put yourself in satisfactory position.
cook up proper smile, look steadily
at spot designated, drop in your two
shilling piece, wait about five minutes,
and snapshot photograph comes out
complete. In military parlance the
whole s done in one time and two mo-
tions. The machine can't make any
change, but you can make it give you
two pictures for one price if you and
your girl are sufficiently well &C
guainted to stand very close together
WIN the quarter goes down the slide.
Electrical Review.
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NEW NAVAL TERROR.

England's Latest supply Ship a Quick
Fighter and a Fast Sailor.
A new acquisition to England's navy
was launched recently and christened
the Vulcan. She is designed as twin
screw torpedo-depot ship. but is fast
protected cruiser and a formidable
fighting craft as we'll, and represents an
entirely novel type.
The construction of the Vulcan was
begun on June 16, 1883. She is of 6, 62O
tons displacement-lar short.
than any OF the large Indian troop
ships and three times as large as many
a cruiser. She is built of steel. her
hull alone weighing $40 tons, and her
principal measurements are as follows:
Length, $50 feet; beam, 68 feet; mean
draught. 20 feet. The vertical keel is
OF an unusually heavy and substantial
character and is 3 feet and inches
high. The cast-steel U-shaped stern
post Is extra strong, weighing five tons.
The vessel is divided into numerous
water-tight compartments, and is pro-
tected by continuous steel deck
inches thick in the slope and 81 inches
elsewhere. The engines are of the
triple expansion type and will give
collective indicated horse power under
forced draught of 10000. They will
drive the ship at a speed of 20 knots
(23 miles) and Is knots Got miles) at
sea. There will be storage for 1000
tons OF coal, an amount sufficient for
5000 miles at Is knots an hour. She
will have a balance rudder similar to
that fitted to the Spanish cruiser Reina
Regent and to the lnman steamer City
of New York. This will enable the new
war ship to turn complete circle of
not more than 400 yards in diameter in
little over three minutes.
AS torpedo-depot ship she will be
admirably adapted for the work. She
will be floating factory. full of FORCES
and workshops for the repair of torpe-
do boats and torpedoes. She will
carry an immense supply of torpedoes,
submarine mines, and all the necessary
gear for submarine work on a large
scale, and she will also have upon her
decks small flotilla, probably eight i'm
number, OF second-class torpedo-boats
of the largest size. These she will be
able to hoist overheard and dispatch in
all directions at a few minutes notice.
The Vulcan will also have torpedo
armament of her own. consisting of
six launching tubes, some of which are
to be under water. Regarded more
particularly as cruiser, she will pos
sess qualities which entitle her to rank
among the most formidable unarmored
cruisers of the world. She will have
weapons which at close range will
be capable of penetrating armor up
to nearly sixteen inches thick. The
quick-firing armament will be the most
powerful of any ship in the world. 1t
will enable her to discharge on each
broadside storm of eighty to one hun
dred and fifty projectiles minute; and
should she ever be attacked by unar-
mored cruisers or toDedo-boats, she
would be able to give them a warm re-,
ception. IN. Y. World.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-06

FAILURE IN A GARDEN.

Before made my garden o was a happy man
I read the seed store catalogues and joyfullv
would plan
How lots o. luscious veg tables I easily cor,n
raise,
And figured up the profits that, they saw a
garden pays.
OF patent fertilizers. fancy garden tools and
seeds
bought about as many as a Western farmer
needs;
/ hired men that wouldn't work. and. RISING
with the lark
dug till time for business and finished IN ~.
dark.
After made my garden, Oh /! was wofu, man
Inc cnlckens scratched my pretty beds. the
dogs upon them ran,
Inc cats pi ched battles ON them fought the
cows ate all my corn
And q hog that tried to bite me ALWAYS roo+aa
there at morn.
Then came d:ought that burned to dust NV
garden; then food
Ana peiting hail and hurricane turned every
thing to mud;
Then, like the plaques of Epvnt svarmoa ,,.
me flies and bugs,
1ncn worms, moles, cut worms, locusts cater
pillars, crows and slugs.
''N'AA P.sAiS SiOCii, IOUacCO sulphur, SCOT and
hellebOre
dosed that insect army, but they only cried for
more;
spoiled my clothes and patience in the blazing
sun and rain,
ana got myself so dirty that always missed
the train.
All summer long wrestled, while nv per.pir-
alton drops
L think would fill the barrels had ready for NV
crops,
And though I wasn't able to supply one dinners
needs,
took the prize Of champion for raising famous
weeds.
Before made my garden, Oh! Twas happy
man,
But afterwards mytroubles and experience be-
gan.
NOW, II some city greenhorn like myself would
care to reap
me profits OF garden. I will sell out yerv
cheap
H. G.. Dodge. in Detroit Free praa.
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PART IV.-CHAPTER w.
THE LONG VOYAGE.

idE LONG VOYAGE.
During the winter, on one of those
bitter nights when no one in Province.
town stirred out of doors, the old Lob
dell house was burned to the ground.
The destruction was complete; only
ashes and the stones of the foundation
remained; there was not even charred
beam or plank. What caused the con-
migration was never discovered. To
no one was the loss less troublesome
tnan to the owners of the old house.
Secure now in the possession of mod
crate competence. cherishing the
memory of Captain Willis, and yet
with paramount feelings of loathing
and disgust for the place, Mrs. Willis
and Mrs. Crawford for Nellie Willis
had ceased to exist in society as well
as IN the merchant-service) could
truthfully say, as they did, that they
were not sorry for the casualty.
The kind reader who has followed
the story so far is notified that the
LobdeH house hardly exists in tradition
NJ" III IrOVlnceCOWn. Should he 90
TO Its site in the pleasant New England
summer, he will find it covered with
pretty cottages in the Queen Anne
style, on the piazzas of which women
and children spend the long afternoons
looking out over the bay, from which
the salt breeze comes UP refreshingly.
Ihey never dream-and it. is certainly
better that they should not know-of
the stirring life-drama, closing with a
tragedy, that was thirty-five years ago
enacted upon this spot.
AS the winter advanced. Henry Craw-
iord did not improve as rapidly as the
physician had predicted, and that con-
scientlous professional man urged >
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where did these noises seem to
come from?'
"From the cellar of the old part. /
got down to the ground and listened
by that sunk window there, where the
loose dirt has filled up nearly to the
top of the SASH"
1.-The old cellarr' Crawford ex-
claimed, with sudden interest. "When
was this? See if you can fix the time
exactly"
II reckon l can. 1t was bout 'leven
o'clock of the night of the day that the
wimmin left the house.
Like flash 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 difficulty of raising the
enormous stone that covered it, His
heart bounded madly at the thought
perhaps the triumph Of villainy had re-
coiled upon itself, and there succeeded
that other exultant thought, that he
had himself been brought here this
day to restore the Captains money to
its rightful owners.
He laid his hand firmly on Toms
shoulder. 81 DECLARE that worthy
said afterward, in describing the scene,
"he looked that proud and happy that
l didn't wonder Miss Helen had took
to him so. And he looked bold and
resolute like, and he spoke like Paul
Jones givin' his orders on the quarter
deck.
Thomas Burt" said Crawford,
'there are no ghosts in that house,
there never have been any. The cellar
from which you heard those noises is
the place where Captain Willis buried
his treasure. When he sailed on that
last voyage that landed his kind soul in
Heaven, he had fifty thousand dollars
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 stop me. What
l may find there, somebody else must
see as soon as do; if 1 guess rightly
about it, the law will have to make an
inquiry, and there must be no doubt
about the evidence. l don't believe,
after what I've said to you, that you re
afraid to 60 there with me; but / say
that if you will 60, and if we find the
Captains money there you shall have
one hundred dollars of it.
The time came, not long after this,
that Tom Burt received the promised
reward. He exhibited it at the tavern
to the admiring eyes of his associates,
and to the envious one eye of old Pc
ter Mullins. He remarked, as he
showed it:
II wasn't half satisfied about the
spooks, positive as the young fellow
talked. But did what none of you
would ha' dared to do; l followed him
into the old house."
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CURRENT ITEMS.

After being totally blind for fifteen
years, Mrs. Todd of Bronson, Mich,
was suddenly cured The first person
.nat she saw was her daughter. and her
nrst remark was, my! how you've
grown.
In the United States there are
Io'ooo lawyers about one lawyer to
every 700 inhabitants. In France there
IS only one lawyer to over 6, 600 people
In Germany the proportion is about the
same as in France.