Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-11-08

our fishing. and now the rapif1lv a..
ing rlde gave us considerable dino ~stity
in hauling in our net. Th. h..cafei.[ how
ever. was a good one-sevef very fair
fish and one 20 FOUNDER (which, ! re-
solved. should go as pedce Offering to
Dame CARAT, the Spaniard's house
keeper.
There was a small CRATE In the cabin
of Willie's boat, and we soon had the
rich. red salmon steaks toasting before
| it,
The scent of the cooking brought an
addition to the party. A gaunt, long
legged, black cat put his nose round
the door and leered at Alec and ME
with such an evil expression that we
involuntarily shrank back, and l, at
least. had uncomfortable recollections
of the stories l had heard of witches
and of the evil eye. A cat may be
mere cat and nothing more, but the
other sort-never name them-are much
the same to look at, and had no par
ticular fancy for being hurried away
on broomstick to attend a witches
Sabbath
Willie noticed my CONSERVATION and
broke out into roar of laughter
'Ha, ha. Master Topp! Afraid o.
Nep, | see. Come. Nep; there's COM
pliment for you! You've scared the
young gentleman with your pretty smile.
No need to fear him. my lads If there
ever was any witchery in him, the
salt water has washed it all out by
now. Nep's been half over the world
with me, an you might rub him In
the dark for a week without getting a
spark out O. him."
That was all very well, but when
Nep set up the brine stiffened bristles
on his tail and, arching his back, spat
and swore at me through his jagged
teeth. all because l moved my 20
FOUNDER out of his reach, thought it
advisable to rap out piece of Latin
just by way of precaution. AS child
| was taught to do so, and have fol-
lowed the rule with success throughout
life. Nep, however was nothing more
than he seemed, and In later days we
became shipmates and firm friends,
though 1t took some time before I be-
came sufficiently accustomed to his &C.
centricities to be able to pass him with
out shudder.
When the steaks were cooked, the
boatswain produced from one of his
lockers little canvas bag of spices
and from another some rough wooden
plates, and while we set to with our
knives Nep did the same with his teeth,
growing vigorously to show his satis-
faction, though had previously taken
the precaution to sign a surreptitious
cross over the share that Willie gave
him. We made a hearty meal, and
Willie. after he had with sailorlike ti-
diness slowed everything back into its
place, tucked himself comfortable into
n corner of his cabin, took the cat on
his knee and advised us to follow his
example and enjoy 40 winks to help
our digestion.
'But you haven't yet told me about
my father" objected Alec.
'Your father, young sir" said Willie
solemnly, sailed once more for the
Spanish main in search O. the goulden
city O. Manoa, an O. him an O. the
company O. brave lads as went with
him never a word has been heard to
this day."
Alec was silent for few moments,
and and nsitassa 30, \ 1aasad n Antezrnu
"Mayhap not" answered Willie, 'but
IL he hain't, why, then he's In the in
quisition's claws, an that's nigh upon
the same thing, for you'll never set
eyes on him again, though It's sorry
be to have to say such word to YOU"
"Jack," said Alec solemnly, taking
my hand, 'T shall search for my father,
and know that some day shall meet
him again, but howl wonder howT
"Im with you in the search, Alec"
! whispered.
Willie had been watching us narrow
Iy, with n smile of half doubling ap-
proyal scanning his face. Now he spoke:
"Well, well, lads, IL ever you do start
to throw away your lives on sich
fools quest just let Willie Trehalion
know, an mebbe he'll ship with you as
boatswain. Captain Harry Ireland was
the best captain that ever stepped, an
Pm thinking that this old tar can't do
better than take sarvice under his son.
But you'll never find your father, lad.
Manoa has led many besides him to
their graves, an mebbe'll be the death
of few more before it's found"
ITo BE Continued
Eject OF Fear ON wounds.
The fear of poison In iacerareu
wound under certain circumstances I'D
I'm itself quite sufficient to give o
wounded man tetanus. or lockJaws
than which no more horrible complica-
tion exists. Thus for a long time "
was thought that the natives OF the
Solomon and other neighboring is-
lands lately added to the empire USED
poisoned arrows and many white men
shot by them died In tetanic convui-
sIons, including one very horrible case
of n commander In the navy who had
made special study Of tetanus.
At length the French governor OF
New Caledonia. noticing that the symp-
toms exhibited were not consistent
with the use of any known poison, ap-
pointed a medical commission to In
uuire into the affair, when 1t was dis-
covered that the arrows OF the natives
were not poisoned at all, although con-
structed In such way that smaii
piece of the bone point almost always
remained In the wound. The irritation
produced by this prevented the wound
from healing quickly, and the mentai
disturbance produced by fear and per-
haps change Of climate did the rest.
1t was discovered at the same time
that the natives of other islands who
firmly believed in the poison theory
seldom suffered much inconvenience
from the arrow wounds. because they
believed that the spells given them py
their own sorcerers prevented the pol
son from taking effect.-Pall Mall Ga
zette.
IrascibIe Won Bulow.
During Hans Won Bulow's leader
ship of the orchestra Mt Hanover a
,anor of fome was engaged to play q