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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20

he said in his quaint old German WAY, The storm all the ship over broke and It was already pretty soon that we thought our last moment was hsre vet On the deck was I walking when a great wave over the starbOard binnacle xes- wept me off my feet took ana over the rail the sea into. So loud the roaring of ths gaie was my shouts for geheIp was crowned until the thought came 10 me already yet to swim 60 the other side of the ship around and bo washed back again upon board once more already.
 Tt was not drowning that feared my self for. but the charges of desertion that up against l should find myself, and so suiting the action the word to. putting forth all myself in strength, the waves breasted, gained the other side and in three minutes on the deck again with care right side up was landed already be- fore any one knew had of the ship been gone live minutes already"
 Marvellous presence of mind" said |,
 Yes" replied the Baron. Yah! But then why not? I always have my mind carried with me. It is not well to pack 1t up your trunk in and then to go away from there and leave It.
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Here's Consolation Over the Death of
 Lander.

It was my happy-or unhappy-fortune to be present at the moment when the death of Leander was announced. to Hero. It was a most distressing acci- dent that lead to Leander's drowning. He had swam the Hellespont to see his lady-love e dozen times, but at last an adverse fate overlook him and he was swamped Word was Immediately sent to Hero. The woTnan's face at first con vulsed in an agony of sorrow. and then, as she observed us all watching her. with an effort she gained control of herself:
 Well. perhaps 1t is for the best" she said, with a little sigh. "As soon as thev heard he had swan the Hellespont the vaudeville people got after him. Per haps if he had lived he would hava heen exhibited as Proctor circuit fin A tank Ask my friends to omit flowers ana send theatre tickets instead too will drown my sorrow in the future matinee
 Recollections of Captain Kidd.
 It has not been my wont Fatber Time continues in his memoirs) to devote much attention to the pirates that have sprrng up from time to time in the worlds bis- tory, yet certain buccaneers of renown have been among the most polished of
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CANCER OF FACE; DISCHARGE PRO-
 FUSE AND OFFENSIVE.

Mir. James A. Greer. of Athens, Ga, Endorsed by the editor of the Athens Banner watchmanl makes the following statement
 q the first cousin of the late ex-Governor Alex ander H. Stephens. and have been postal clerk df- ferent railroads since tse8 For ten years have been a sufferer from cancer my face. which grew until discharge of matter became profuse and offensive became thoroughly disgusted with blood purifiers, and pronounced them humbugs, as had tried many without relief.
 Finally was induced to use Botanic Blood Balm CB B. B.) The offensive discharge decreased at hardness disappeared became less and less in size, until nothing remains except gained flesh and strength all who have seen me bear tes timony cannot say too much in its praise"
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20

TONIC.
 Mr. Deitch is Secretary of the Hungarian Lodge Nashville. He says; T was all run down after a bard winters work. I had lost my appetite had aches in my bones and joints with touch of rheu- ratisn. My blood was thin and so gave B. B. B. trial. and 1t has acted on me like magic. It is the finest blood remedy and tonic on earth.
 Yours truly,
 DAVID DEITCH"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20
Baron Munchausen's Presence of

This quality of presence of mind which stood the Baron in so good stead in the incident I have just narrated seems to have remained with him all. through his
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About twenty years ago was cured of a bad eat- ing cancer ulcer by taking B. B. B. Three large ulcers broke out on my collar bone. cured these with B. B. B. Lately broke out in head and all the small bones out of my mouth and I could scarcely eat talk. I could eat little strained soup-that all tried nine doctors. but none could My was pronounced hope less I tried B. B. B. again, and cured once more @ years old. and able to walk mile any timo--am strong and healthy use bottle of B. B. B. sometimes. not often-dont need it. Tho disease made me most deat B. B. B. helped my hear. ing. Respectfully
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observed with. much interest that Ba- ron Munchausen took his straight.
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THE Poison or Humor Is constantly at work. breaking down the body. rot ting the bones. making offensive Sores and Plmples excruciating Rheumatism, Aches and Pains in bones. back or joints. offensive Catarrh.
 At the least excuse, such as hruise, scratch or burn, it may show itself in deadly cancer or eating sores and ulcers. Is it not worth while to spend only one dollar for thor oughly tested Blood Remedy like Blood Balm? Then you have begun to conquer the Impurities in your Blood. Not crack in the entire body can escape the searching determination of Blood Balm (B. B. B. to kill the Poisons and Humors and drain them from the system and heal every sore and stop every pain.
 BLOOD BALM IS MADE FOR BLOOD TROUBLE ONLY. AND WE DO NOT RECOMMEND IT FOR ANY THING ELSE. We urge you to begin treatment at once so as to master the dis ease at the earliest possible moment
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PAINFUL SORE ON LIP.

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

Soon through the gloom there drove,
not strong ship, but a wreck. But
calm and steady, her captain stoodNon
her deck.
Suddenly, straight before them in
the darkness, as if they had leaped
at the moment out of the sea, three
rocks appeared. And one was sharp
as a needle. And one had three peaks
on its top like bishops mitre. And
the third had three great points like
a trident.
The ship struck hard, The green
waves, rushing on behind, climbed
over each other to fall upon her.
Screaming, the passengers rushed on
deck, and in a moment they would
have been swept away had it not been
Tor Captain 1reson, who stood tall
and straight among them and COM
forted the women and encouraged the
men.
Even while the ship was yet CULVER
ing from the shock, he had sent sea-
men out to the face of the rock with
ropes; and soon, one by one, the
women and the children were dragged
upward, out of the reach of the sea.
ANlA NdlliN lllS lilNll, dltl at 1dSl lllC
sailors. These begged the captain to
go first, but he shook his head. When
they had climbed to safety, they cried
to him again to ascend. But he had
seen a dog that had been forgot
ten and he fastened it to line to be
hauled up the rock.
While the men were still hauling,
comber came, rolling swiftly at the
wreck. When it receded, Captain Ire
son lay bleeding at the rail, washed
helplessly to and fro by the water
Then there rose long cries from the
rock and the sailors dashed down,
needless of their own lives, to save
their captain. Their hard hands seized
him tenderly and tenderly their great
muscles raised him. With women cry
ing over him. they laid him down and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

an admiral, but he is also a Governor
the Governor of Garrickfergus cas-
tie, military fortress, with the right
to occupy certain rooms in the castle
If he SO desires.
The reason that this eight-months'-
old baby is an admiral before he can
talk is that, years and years ago, in
the days of Queen Elizabeth, the Eng
llsh used to maintain a naval force on
Lough Neagh to overawe the natives
of Tyrone, Derry, Armagh and An
trim, who rather objected to English
rule. The fleet Of Tough Neagh fought
several battles with the Irish and at
that time the position of admiral there
was no sinecure
One of baby Chichester's ancestors
distinguished himself in these fights,
and the position of Admiral of Tough
Neagh was made hereditary in his
family, descending from father to son
down to the present day, though this
is probably the first time so young
a Chichester has held the office. In
fact, the child is not only the youngest
admiral in the world to-day, but
probably the youngest one that ever
was.
It should be mentioned that Ad-
miral Chichester is half American, his
mother, though born in Canada, hav-
ing been brought up in the United
States, and being a Boston girl to all
lntents and purposes.
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There came great cry from the
sea that startled the shipwrecked peo-
pie so that they huddled together, and
with that cry the ghostly multitude
vanished.
The captains voice rang out high
and clear: you must build beacon
fire to attract passing ships. Carry the
food and fresh water into the caves
and look out for the women and chill
dren"
Then his lips went gray. His old
boatswain, wiping his eyes, stopped
over him
Goodbye, old comrade," said the
captain. Bury me in the sea at the
foot of the cliff, for here is where the
gulls are born"
1T was a strange thing" one Of the
women told the people on the ship
that rescued them Just as our dear
captain died a white gull that none
of us had seen there before, sprang
up from his side and flew to the sea
with wonderfully clear, glad CRY. 1t
seemed almost as if it were his brave
soul"
Those who heard her did not know
how very true that was.
JULIUS MULLER.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

Shapes thronged all around him In
front of all, with burning eyes, stood
tall, bearded man, in the costume of
an Admiral of CASTLE and Leon Be-
hind him, tall and stately, with most
beautiful countenance, stood one in
English armor
My Lord Howard of Dillingham;, -
whispered Captain Ireson, smiling
again.
Yes, and we bid you welcome, "
said the glorious figure My Lord
Cumberland and Frobisher and Drake
and Cavendish, all come to meet you
here"
And still they thronged on. In
Dutch and English and Spanish garb
they passed in from the green sea
Diego Flores de Valdez and Van
Tromp and Cabot and Lawrence and
Jones-they trooped in, silent, ghost
ly, till the air was filled with the faces
of the sailors of all the world and of
all time. Among them he saw the
fishermen he had known when he sat
with the old grandmother on the
beach; and at last his father and
grandfather and all the dead Iresons
strobe through the throng and laid
their hands in his.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

where the white sands drift over the
mounds and soon hide the flowers that
are laid on them.
Then the youngest grandson went
to sea.
silent fisherman and learned the ways
of the coast storm and the green rage
of waves that beat on rocky shores.
He saw the cod swim in vast brown
schools, feeding like cows over the
great banks off the land. He came to
know the ways of the mackerel that
appear suddenly out of the deep sea
and vanish again. And he looked into
the face of the winter storms till his
eyes became hsherman's eyes-pa-
tient, looking upon the waters neither
defiant nor afraid
Many rocky headlands and wave
washed islands he saw that were
haunted by birds. Some of them were
so populous with sea fowl that the
lowering birds were like smoke over
them in the dawn and at sunset, while
all day they whitened the cliffs as
with snow
But whenever he asked the fisher
men if these were the places where
the sea gulls were born they answered
mo"
When the youngest grandson had
become a tall fisherman himself,
something drove him to long for the
wide world. He did not know what
it was. He did not remember what
the old grandmother had said when
she nodded her head so mysteriously:
Wherever salt tides flow,
Blood of my blood must CO."
But when he said to the old fisher
man with whom he was living:
Il think that | must go to sea on a
big ship" the old man smiled and
said:
Yes. [ knew that you would, for
there was never man of the Ireson
blood yet that did not go as a sailor"
SO he went forth on deep water on
a swift ship that was bound far. And
when the sea rim lay unbroken all
around him, swinging up and down,
he wondered if he would find the place
where the sea gulls are born.
Once he asked an old sailor man
who, said the others, was a wizard;
for" said they, she is Finn, and ali
lllllS dIe WdIloCkS. Fdr away IN the
north of Finland, where the pine trees
cease to grow and the Northern
Lights dance with the blue foxes in
the long, cold night, an old Finn
woman sits over great pot, that
boils and boils, although there is no
fire under it. 1t has been boiling for
more years than men can count, for
the Finn woman is as old as the world.
She was born the day the sea was
made. She sells charms to the Finn
| sailors, by which they can call her.
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a quantity of goods which he had
hidden in hollow to the west of the
manor house, and he asked that they
be allowed to remain there until he
returned for them threatening that if
he did not find them intact upon his
return it would be bad day for the
Gardiner family and all that was
theirs.
Then the pirate ordered that pig
be roasted for himself and his com
panions. There was nothing for it
but to obey, and while the meal was
cooking Kidd made himself most
agreeable to his involuntary hosts, re-
calling them with gossip of the great
world and telling something of his
own adventures.
When the pig had been eaten, Kidd
sent one of his aides to the hollow
where he had stored his goods. When
the man returned he handed to his
captain roll of cloth which the
pirate, with profound bow, present
ed to Mrs Gardiner, 1t was roll of
beautiful brocaded silk interviewer
with threads of gold.
Mrs. Gardiner then ordered the cap
tain to be served with a fagon OF
cider. Tossing the cider off to Mrs
Gardeners health, Kidd drew from his
pocket and threw into the empty
fiagon a large diamond. Then he
handed the drinking vessel back to his
hostess,
These two relics of Kidd have beer
treasured with care by the GARDENERS
ever since that day, and are still in
the island manor house.
After Kidd had been captured, and
while he was in prison waiting to be
sent to England to be tried for his
life, he confessed to having hidden a
part of his ill-gotten wealth on Gardi-
ner's Island.
Governor Bellomont sent some de-
tectives to the island, and Mr.. Card.
ner took them to the place where the
pirate had told him he had left his
treasures on the day of his visit. Ir
the hollow the pirate had named were
found buried bags of silver and gold
precious stones and bales of valuable
merchandise.
1t was all taken to Boston, where
it became the property of the crown
On the west shore of GARDENERS Isl
and is little cove called Cherry Tree
Harbor, and near it is the dell of the
buried treasure, which is now called
Kids Hollow.
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admiral.
Many boys do, indeed, grow up to
be admirals, but the trouble about it
is that one has to wait so long before
he gets an admirals job that he is too
old really to enjoy it; and he has to
quit going to sea soon after, because
he is so old.
There is one admiral in the world,
| however, who is actually too young
to enjoy his rank and title. He is
only eight months old, but is, never
theless, not only an admiral, but the
Sweetest" kind of an admiral Lord
High Admiral
This baby admiral has long string
of names, and his last one is Chiches-
/ ter When his father died the other
day he became not only an admiral,
but marquis-the Marquis of Done
gal But the young admiral is not
naughty, and takes to his nursing bot
tie as naturally as most admirals take
to water
1t will be some time yet before Ad-
orders, and, sad to say, he may never
nave d snip 10 HOiSI HIS dulIlll d. AdS
upon unless he buys a yacht for that
especial purpose This is because,
though the baby is an admiral all
right, he is only Admiral of Tough
Neagh, a big lake in the north of
Ireland; and the fleet of war ships
which used to be maintained on this
lake years ago is maintained there no
longer.
So the boy admiral is in the same
position as was an admiral of the
United States navy before America
built her present war feet--he has
plenty of water but no ships TO speak
of.
But though he is without feet, the
admiral still has certain privileges and
rights which cannot be taken from
him. He can wear a uniform the
same as the kings-that is, the gorge
Gus uniform of an admiral of the
fleet" and if his nurse should take the
admiral in her arms and go to any
ship or fortress, the soldiers and sail
ors would be obliged to turn out and
salute him with nineteen guns. 1t
would probably scare the admiral and
make him cry, but it is his right.
| Not only is this interesting infant
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31

/fTHE sea gulls are the souls
of the drowned sailors,
/ said the old Grandmother
nodding her head mysteri-
ously She knew a great deal about
drowned sailors. Her own grand
father and father and her three sons
and two grandsons had all been
sailors; and one by one they had gone
out to sea not to return.
Now only the youngest grandson
was left He was too small to go to
sea, and he helped the old grand
mother mend nets on the long brown
beach that is so monotonous and bare,
and yet enchants men so that they
can never live happy away from it
after they have once been under its
spell.
While the tide went out till the sea
was so far withdrawn that it lay in
the distance like a thin black line, and
while it stole in again, slowly, slyly,
like a cat with sheathed claws-ever
and always the old grandmother, nod
ding her head mysteriously, told stor-
les to the youngest grandson.
1t was as if she told a story for
every mesh that she knitted, until the
patches did not look like patches at
all any more to the youngest grand
son, but each was story.
There was the story of the gray
palace of the sea fog that rises smok-
ing out of the grayest sea where it is
fifteen thousand feet deep There was
the tale of the bell buoy who broke
his chain one night and now roams
restlessly on the wide sea and tolls
in mockery under the prows of the
frightened ships The stories of the
yellow Klaboterman and the ghost
rock Carmilhan; the tale of the phan-
tom fire of the "Palatine," that can
be told only by those who have heard
the tide tell tales to the headland-
all these and scores more drifted past
him as the mists drift by at sea- while
the old grandmother wooden needle
went in and out.
But best OF all the youngest grand
son loved the story of the place where
the drowned sailors meet deep in the
green sea to have their souls changed
to sea gulls. And as he looked out,
wide-eyed, over the wide water, he re-
solved that some day he would go to
find the place.
The old grandmother read his eyes
and nodded her head mysteriously.
Wherever salt tides flow,
Blood of my blood must CO."
she said, and the sea gulls screamed
high overhead.
One day the grandmother stopped
mending nets and they buried her in
the graveyard that looks over the sea
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# True Captain Kidd Island

~ NE of the most romantic
A places in the United States is
~ Gardeners Island, which lies
just off Greenport, on the
shore of Long Island, near the eastern
entrance to the Long Island Sound.
There is real old-time manor
house on Gardeners Island, and pre-
served in it are relics of the old
buccaneer, Captain Kidd, which were.
no doubt, part of the cargo of the
ship "Quiddar Merchant" for the TAX
ing of which Kidd was hanged.
These relics were given to an an
cestor of the present proprietor of the
place by no less a person than Kidd
himself.
Gardeners Island is three miles long
by one mile wide, and has been hand
ed down in one family for more than
200 years. 1t was bought from the
Indians by the original proprietor for
zone large black dog, one gun, some
powder and shot, some rum and a
few Blankets
The Gardiner who was lord of the
manor there in Kids time was eating
his dinner one evening and thinking
what good bargain his grandfather
had made when he purchased the isl
and from the Indians, when one of his
servants came running to the manor
house to inform him that a strange
vessel had anchored off the shore ant
a band of fierce looking men hac
landed.
Close behind the servant came {
short man clad in the picturesque CARL
of a northumberland" of the day
He had waving plumes in his hat
rapier and dirk by his side, and wore
a fierce black mustache streaked will
gray. He was accompanied by two
aides, and announced himself as Cap
tain William Kidd.
At that terrible name the quiet anC
peaceful manor house became tn,
scene of great excitement. Only tn,
lord of the manor and his wife pre-
served their composure and their dig
nifty.
Mr.. Gardiner asked what had pro
cured him the honor of the pirate
visit. Kidd replied that he had LANDED
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-31
Our Gardener Man.

Our gardener mans man named
Jim;
But that's no really name for him.
His real true name, he told us so,
Is Observation-Disclosures
He says he only gardens when
He needs rest from killing men.
And when the summers gone,
guess,
He'll go back to the wilderness.
Once Dan and me hid in the grass,
Just where our gardener man would
pass;
And when we jumped up with yell
He was so frightened that he fell
ooh, That Kills-the-Bufalo,"
Said Dan, What makes you tremble
so?"
And Jim. he said, why, l forgot.
And thought twas Indians; that is
what