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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-20
CHAPTER Xxx.
THE CORPSE.

He was your chum, Burn. See to
him. Well keep him till tomorrow.
There may be life in him." said Troll.
lope, rising from the side of the body.
Burn and Hankey raised Masters and
carried him to his cabin. They pulled
blanket over the corpse, and when
they came out Hankey exclaimed:
mine of us now. What fool to
forego his whackl"
"What did he want to lose his life
over Miss Mansel for?" said Burn, stop
ping at the cuddy table to look about
for more champagne. "He was that sort
Of man who does thing like that. A
fine young chap quixotic with diseased
liver, but loved him."
He stretched forth his hand and took
a bottle quarter full Of brandy. Han
key left him. Davenire stood at the sky
light watching Burn drink. Ho seemed
amused by his expression of face. The
other did not know he was watched and
grimaced with emotion at his trem-
bling glass.
None Of the others returned to their
merrymaking. They lighted their pipes
and wandered about the decks, here and
there one with little stagger. Cald-
we'll had relieved William at the wheel,
but the ship was wildly Off her course or
up in the wind, nearly in irons, again
and again, in the short time he grasped
the spoxes. His hand shook. He num-
bled violent words as he drove the helm
this way, then that, trying to fix shiv-
or in the weather leech Of the main
royal, leaving the topgallant sail be-
meath full and steady as alabaster, to
no purpose. He yelled out, "Some man
relieve mel" and Shannon took the
wheel.
But tho ship ran away with him, and
Hanksz found his sys : little too Cred
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m5 .ct-.--S I.~sua.ly sullen sand
gloomy, while the motion of his dark
eyes showed inward disquiet.
Shannon" called Trollope, Ego be-
low and see if Masters is dead. Cald-
wells in doubt and anxious about him. T"
"You killed him. Why don't you go
yourself?" exclaimed Shannon, the faint
smile with which he had approached
vanishing.
Don't say l killed him, +" snarled
Caldwell. Il shot him i'll self defense. !"
$50 you did," said Trollope.
He went with face of aversion. The
expression in his damp, pale, blue, pro-
truding eyes made him look sick. While
he was absent the sun set. His going
this evening had something Of strange.
weird hurry about it. There was no
solemn and majestic withdrawal of the
trailing skirts of red splendor. A thin,
moist. yellow effulgence, like colored
steam, filed the western sky and went
quickly. A calm seemed to roll out Of
the west over the brows of the swell,
polishing them. The topsails aloft
SaspSu anu pO"', oo 'hSuSh, pNihS "AA'N'
they suffocated in the sudden stagna-
ton.
'It was more Like an eclipse than "A
sunset, said Davenire.
at will be black night, " exclaimed
Trollope. "Look how the bend of the
sky's approached And d'you see those
scalelike clouds up there?" he added,
pointing up where little before it was
all faint blue.
'He is stone dead" said Shannon,
coldly, stepping out of the companion
way. at may comfort you, Caldwell"
he exclaimed to that gentleman, who was
leaning over the rail, "to know that he
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routine. from ;;me 20 i.me The -euro
of one or another might have been seer
in posture of drinking at the cuddv
table. Davenire was one OF these. when
something after 8, Weston came below
for draft.
mark" says Weston, "I've been
thinking over that key at the bottom ~
the sea. Suppose fire-any sudden
trouble-should we be able to force tho
door as quickly as Trollope fanciesP"
Lets try an experiment, said
Davenire.
He locked the door of the cabin in
which Mrs. Peacock had slept and then
putting his foot and shoulder against II
strained.
''Shall help?" said Weston.
81 can manage it, answered Dave.
nire in n voice Of suffocation, and at The
instant of his speech the door, driven bv
his irresistible muscle and weight of
"beef, " as sailors say, few open. This
satisfied the two men. They returned To
the table, and while they drank a TIM
bier of cold grog apiece they talked
cheerfully of their prospects.
On deck the silence of the fog black
ened sea was soul subduing. 1t forced
the men TO speak in low voices. A cough
startled, laugh would make an echo in
the invisible heights Old splicers, old
spouters, hearts whose backs had been
curved to the shape of shells by years Of
leaning over yards and kneeling upon
decks, would have made nothing of such
a night as this. They would have found
nothing to awe them in it, They would
have seen nothing terrifying in the soft
green sheets of fire which ran in folds
from the ships side every time she
leaned, lighting up the fog as fire lights
up its smoke. But our nine friends were
not Jacks in professional sense. They
were educated men; they were gentle
men born and bred. Two or three of
them who claimed to be did afterward
prove to be ''highly connected. They
were men of sensibilities, of taste, cul.
tivation. Some were very well read.
They were just the sort of people to be
moved by this vision of wonderful
hushed blackness, in the midst of which
they hung floating on fire.
where's William" said Trollope,
who sat upon the foremost skylight
smoking pipe.
Shannon roared out the name. The
man answered and came aft.
what do you think of this weather.
said Trollope.
why" answered the man slowly,
81 can't say that I've been a.thinking
of it at all F"
SIS there wind in it?'
The man standing in the cuddy sheen
turned his head about with leisurely
motion, as though seeking for the wind.
There's no look Of wind" said he,
"but l don't say this muck amt going
to draw up presently and fall down
again in water :"
Would you advise that the ship
should be left to lie under such canvas
as she now has?'
See your tawps'l halyards clear, and
there'll be nothing to hurt" answered
William.
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Compromising with Conscience.

He was a mean creature, and to his
meanness was added such designing
wickedness as is rarely shown by man.
de went into a newspaper Office the
other morning and offered the follow
ing advertisement for publication:
Notice. IF the plain looking wom-
an, about 40 years of age, who lost a
pocketbook containing So lbs. I'd. in
s. street on Tuesday afternoon will
apply to -, she can have the money
by paying for this advertisement. 4"
The mean wretch had seen the lady
drop the pocketbook and wished to re-
tain the contents for himself. He was
OF opinion that no woman would an
swer the advertisement, as he had
worded it, for so small a sum as GO 12s.
3D. de was correct. -Pearson' Weekly.
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said to Caldwell in cold voice and
with pale but steady face, 81 am
ready for you whenever and wherever
you please"
"Oh" said Caldwell, with a violent
start, while distinct tinge of green
sifted into the color of his cheeks. ''If
you arc ready and want Trollope,
I'll leave you to make the arrangements
while go and load.
Davenire withdrew his huge shape in
silence, and silence also fell upon the
rest of the men till Caldwell appeared.
He had taken as long time again as
the other in loading his weapon, piece
exactly after the patsern of Masters.
When you pulled the trigger, the barrels
revolved, and for convenience and pre-
cision it was about as good to take aim
with as one of those memorable blum
derbusses which Hankey had committed
to the deep.
"Wbere's it to be, Trollope?" said he
in low voice.
"We must chalk for you on the quar-
ter deck" said Trollope.
They went down the weather poop
ladder, Masters leading, Caldwell clos
ing the file. Trollope measured 12 PAGES
in the lee gangway. This was the best
place for the proposed murder. The ele-
walton Of the cuddy front protected the
sight from the great glare on the quar-
ter. There was shelter here, too, from
the wind, for the flash of it under the
main trysail-main trysails were then
carried-cleared the rail above the head
and left sort of gentle eddyings such
as you get under the lee of parapet
even when it blows great guns.
The spectators of this duel grouped
themselves upon the main hatch, clear
of the most distracted aim, as you may
suppose. Trollope pulled out white
handkerchief and held it up.
care yod ready?" said he.
Ready" said both men in one
breath.
Masters turned his handsome, decay
ed fcce mp " / an instant's look of APP
peal--Cf ad cation even; then his eyes
went to his opponent. He in that pause
stood rounded in the back like a cat
itself. He was hunched with
savage resolution. The spirit of murder
was in his scowl, in his gaze, in the set
of his lips. You feared foul play as you
Would he anticipate the fall
of the handkerchief by one second of
time in justification of his looks?
The handkerchief dropped from the
hand OF Trollope. The revolvers blazed
in the same instant. The combined
noise of those old fashioned pieces was
louder than the report of four pound
Or. Masters sprang backward, explod-
ing second charge right into the deck.
then let fall his pistol. He made a -four
sh with his hand to his heart, looked
round to Burn with q smile and fell ON
MS face.
Caldwell hunched-stood unhurt.
"Is he dead?" said Davenire anxious
".
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They pulled the b aniset from his face.
sleeps in beauty. All the sins of his life
have gone out of his face, and he's the
innocent son Of a good mother"
1--WE must bury him" said Caldwell,
who had turned quickly on hearing
Shannon.
"At dark" exclaimed Trollope, with
determination.
They had not long to wait for that,
however. By s o'clock it was a dead
calm and black as thunder with fog.
The ocean was full of fire, and close
alongside the mystic lights rose and
swayed, dissolved, fluctuated, sheeting
out again in flashes brilliant as distant
lightning. These fires played in "a hun
dred shapes. You saw them through the
steam OF the fog, and the silence in that
brooding bl ckness made them wonder
full and awful.
The sheen of the skylights hung in
the thickness in faint silver, the bin
nacle was a crown of light, and down
upon the quarter deck the light stream
ed In lines through the windows in the
cuddy front. The deep gloom, the occa.
slonal long drawn yearning sob of water
alongside, the sometimes strange CRY
falling from the invisible heights where
the tanning canvas strained the sheayes
or Jared parrel, the sense of isolation.
OF lnnnlte remoteness, Of the ships lit
tleness as speck in that black void.
boundless as the imagination chose to
make, filled the gentlemen with sensa.
tons OF superstition. They were all
agreed that Masters body ought to be
sunk at once, so Cavendish, Hankey and
weston went to work to bury it, Softly
entering the berth he lay in. they pulled
lhe blanket from his face. He looked
ike some fancy of manly beauty in
marble. 1t was true that death had
smoothed the sin out of his face. The
light OF the next world was ON it. and he
looked to be smiling at some finer sight
than tongue could utter
The three stitched the poor fellow mn
nastliy and did not omit to attach a
heavy weight Of iron to his feet. This
done, they bore the dismal burden ON
deck. oN
Caldwell stood near the main hatch.
never imagining they would be SO
quick. When he saw them coming into
the square of light in the cabin door he
uttered low yell of surprise and has.
.liy walked away on to the poop, NUT
tering curses as he glanced behind him.
overheard with itl' said Trollope.
VINO was standing in the gangway. "But
decently, boys. He was one of usn
Ihey put him over feet first and LET
MIN 60 The body dropped, with n soft
splash, and vanished in vivid flash of
sea fire, whose track those who watch.
ed thought themselves able to follow To
a depth Of fathoms.
ITS shuddering work." said Han
Key. ITS gone beastly cold, hain't itp,,
de entered the cuddy and mixed a !
glass OF brandy and water. which be /
drank. The time passed slowly. Some
Oh the men sat down to cards, but thew
could not play. They lighted pipes and
cigars and went on deck and mooned
ABOUT the poop conversing in tones sub.
dued BY the black silence that was al,
about them. They could not somehow
on this frst night Of pirstic possession
'essls th'nsslyes down into true sea
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-20
CHAPTER XXI.
THE NAME OF THE ISLAND.

THE NAME OF THE ISLAND
The surveying brig Wellesley on a
certain Afternoon at z o'clock was on
the port tack, moving boldly 10 leeward
on a taut bowline. The air was very
light; the sea ran i'll wrinkles The brig
made no wake, but if you looked over
the side you saw the water there polish
ed by her ccrpulent bilge.
Commander Boldock stepped out of
the companion hatch and looked round
him. Mr.. Hardy and Mr.. Matthews
paced side by side the very short scope
OF quarter deck. A number of seamen
filled the round bows about the wind
lass ends. Any one glancing through
the fiat skylight would have observed
Miss Mansel at the little table reading.
ITO BE CONTINUED
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-20
"BulIs- Not Irish.

Those who are not Irishmen some
times trespass on Irish property. A
French cure, preaching about sudden
death, said, Thus it is with us-we 60
10 bed well and get up stone deadv'
An old French lawyer, writing OF an
estate he had just bought, added,
There is chapel upon it in which
my wife and wish to be buried, if God
spares our lives"
A merchant who died suddenly left
In his bureau letter to one of his cor
respondents which he had not sealed.
his clerk, seeing it necessary to send
tne letter. wrote at the bottom, "Since
writing the above / have died"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-20

blOlD.
young fellow groaned twice, and with
that second groan expired.
"You plugged him with barbarous
fine aim, seeing what sort of ground it
u.s." said Trollope to Caldwell as he
knelt by the dead man. Look here.
He put his fingers in hole in the
cloth exactly over the heart.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-20
A Natural Inference.

The most curious thing in the
world began Bixley.
Hush" hoarseiy whispered the hor-
nned Junkins, with gesture toward
We door. she's in the nsxt room H.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27
Observation-Disclosures

recently purchased. Eight hundred
dollars worth of coupons were cancel
ed on each one Of The bonds, which
means a good saving to the county.
J. c. 0. Morse came down from
Hutchinson Saturday evening. He
went to Riverdale Sunday after
noon and returned to Hutchinson via
the D. NJ. & A.
Miss Katie Adams Of Medford,
OF, arrived in the city Saturday
evening TO visit Mrs. w. o. Barnett,
and attend commencement exercises
next Friday night.
Mrs. ThOs. Nepper Of Mount Ver-
non, Ind, with her two children, ar
rived in town Monday night to spend
the summer visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Will Lichtenberger,
J. w. LOckman and wife Of South
Haven, Mesdames Geo. j. Hess, j. NJ.
Burlington; E. c. GallOup Of Oxford,
and Mrs. E. r. Jones of Downs, Okla,
were visiting Mrs. W. NJ. Copeland
Tuesday.
Frank Six left Tuesday morning for
New Mexico, to remain indefinitely,
for the benefit of his health. Mrs. Six
did not accompany him. Frank will
visit Arizona and California before
returning.
The Rebekahs gave delightful ice
cream social at Odd FELLOWS hall
Saturday night. A large crowd was
present to enjoy the excellent pro.
gram rendered and feast upon the
ices and cakes.
Sheriff Heskett left Monday night
for PlattSmOuth, Nab., after a mar
named Belville, who stole four hogs
from c. L. Racey, living in the STRIP
south of Caldwell, last month and
sold them to Mich Horton of Cald
well.
MeSsrs. and MeSdameS Ed Smith,
E. f. Higgins, VIM. Gelino and o. l.
Graft drove to Drury Sunday on al
outing, They say they saw boys there
catching fish two feet in length
They purchased few for lunch ant
brought home a mess.
]. S. Barclay, formerly merchant
of Perth, now resident of Alert, O
T., was in the city Saturday. He
said they had the finest prospects fOl
wheat in Oklahoma that he ever saw
anywhere. The people are very little
in debt and are sup and a comin'".
DR.. Lou Richardson went to Eni(
Tuesday with a view of OpeninI
a dental office there. He is thinking
of locating at Enid, 0. T., or McPher
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27
THE CITY AND COUNTY.

Mrs. W. W. Durham is reported
quite sick.
Charlie StOfer of Attica, spent Sun
day in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Smith spent
Sunday with friends in Oxford.
Albert G. Overholt has been appoint
ed guardian Of Elmira OverhOt.
Just try a 1Oc. box of CaScarets, the
finest liver aud bowel regulator ever
made. If
If you drink pepsin, the new pop.
you will not be troubled with indiges-
tion.
When bilious or cOStive, eat a Cas-
caret, candy Cathartic, cure guaran-
teed, lOc, 25C. If
ChinCh bugs are working in the
wheat fields in the northwestern par t
of the county.
AL Brumley and family spent Sun
day in Oxford, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. FramberS.
Ex-County Superintendent John A.
DOran Of Sedgwick county, died at
Gueda Springs Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. Franklin of
Milan, were in the city Monday Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. CUwherd.
A. R. Anderson of Mayfeld, was in
town Tuesday morning on his way to
the Presbyterian assembly at Rock
Island, III.
Mrs. W. G. Jones returned to her
home in Hunnewell Saturday evening,
after a pleasant visit in the city with
Mrs. G. c. Shawver.
A. R. Elliott of Enid, has recently
secured a contract to build a large
brick building in KingfSher, o. T.,
for Edmund Frantz.
Mrs. W. L. Wilson, formerly Of this
city, mother of Lige and Tom Wilson,
died in Portland, Oregon, Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock.
The children of Frank Webel, who
died several weeks ago in the Osawat
Omie asylum, were sent to their rela-
tivesi Pittsfeld, ILL.,, Tuesday.
inflammation of the bowels, that
dangerous disease, can be relieved at
once by BeggS' Diarrhea Balsam. 1t
acts like magic. We sell it. H. F.
Smith. ALTO
County Treasurer Maddy received
Monday twenty $1,000 railroad bonds
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27
Tempting Offerings
Dress Goods Stock

Your choice of our 22c Novelty
Dress Goods at. .l3c
Big line of high grade wool Novel
ties, worth 60c and Csc. .36c
Kai Kai Silk Stripes, reduced from
% cents ntStO......................19c to. .19c
China Silks for Waists or Dresses. .19c
Choice Dress Style Prints at. ..... SC
Indigo Blue Prints. ...............9 SC
Yardwide Bleached Muslin, soft fin
iSh, worth &c, for. .................5 sc
Lonsdale Bleached Muslin. SIC
Cotton Shirtings, plaid or stripes. Sc
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27

son, Kan. DR.. Richardson is thor
oughly impressed with the advaDt-
ages of the west, and his many friends
in Kansas will be glad to learn Of his
renewed faith in the country west OF
the Mississippi.
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-10-02
DEBS COLON!ZATIONP PLAN
Governor Rogers Says He Is Not Al
together in Harmony With
Social Democracy.

Seattle, Sept. 27.-In an interview today
at Olympia with a Post-Intelligencer cor
respondent, Governor Rogers gave his
views as to the proposed Debs colonial
ton plan for this state. Governor Rog
ers says:
Il know nothing whatever of the democ-
racy colonization beyond what | have seen
outlined in the newspapers and a letter l
have received from Cyrus Field Willard.
notifying me that a committee would soon
visit this state. l am not altogether in
harmony with the ideas of the social de-
mocracy in their colonization scheme.
'''rhere is neither money nor land that
can be donated by the state to the pro-
posed colony, except, of course, as any
man has the privilege Of using his home
stead rights. However, | have actual
knowledge that some of the railroads
have offered the progenitors Of the colony
money and assistance to induce them to
settle in Washington, also that special in
ducements have been held out to the col
oniStS by eastern Washington land Syndi-
Gates. Should the pioneers sent out by
the colony be men willing to work hard
and Of practical ideas, the scheme will be
productive of good to the state in develop
ing it's resources and adding to its farms
and commercial enterprises
Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-10-02

Port Townsend, Wash, Sept. 25.-The
tug Pioneer, which left Puget sound Oh
September u, with the bark Shirley in
tow, for Skaguay, returned yesterday:
having made the run down in SO hours.
The Pioneer brings the story of a land
slide which occurred near Sheep camp.
on the Chilkoot pass, last Sunday morn
ing, IN which Is men are said to have
lost their lives. Only one body is sal;!
to have been recovered, that of a man
named Choynski, a cousin of Joe Choyn-
ski, the prize fighter. The men supposed
to have been lost were packers on the
trail. The officers of the Pioneer say
the story was brought to Skaguay Sun
day evening by three men, who told 1T IN
such a way as to leave no doubt as to
it's truthfulness They described the av,
alanche as consisting of rocks, ice and
dirt which had been loosened by the re-
cent rains.
All the bridges on the Skaguay river
have been washed out and the river is a
raging torrent. w. w. Sprasue OF Ia
coma, who started eight weeks ago with
a three years outfit, returned from
skaguay on the Pioneer. The steamer
Al-ki. a week overdue from Alaska, az
rived this morning at 4 o'clock. She car
ried large list of men returning from
Skaguay who were unable to cross the
pass.
The snow is six inches deep at Lake
Bennett. and three inches fell on the
summit of Chilkoot pass last Saturday.