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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18

| called out to the Susan b., that was
just running up her sails. At his
word they put out boat for him, and
while he waited he came down the hill
toward me and the dog, that stood
| growing over you; and for sure
| thought 1t was the end. But he said :
Tell that fellow there that I'm not
going 10 kill defenseless man. He
might have killed me once but he
didn't. It's bound to be one of us
some day or other, but, despise me all
he likes-Tm not such carrion as he
thinks me; and If he only likes to keep
out of my way I'm willing to keep out
| of his. Tell him when he wakes up
that as long as he gives up going after
what belongs to me-for 1t was my
grandfather's-he is safe, but the min
ute he sets his foot or hand on what
is mine, it's either his life or mine
And then he turned away and was
rowed to the Susan B., and they soon
sailed away"
with the black flag at the peak,
suppose, Tom," said I. swell, that
was fine speech, quite flight of ora
tory, and I'm sure I'm obliged to him
for the life that's still worth having, in
spite of this ungodly aching in my
head. But how about the poor cap
tain there! Where does all his elo-
quence come in there? He can't call
it self-defense. They were waiting
ready to murder~us, as you saw. I'm
afraid the captain and the law be-
tween them are all that is necessary
to cook the goose of our friend Henry
p. Tobias, Jr., without any help from
me-though, as the captain died for
me, / should prefer they allowed me
to make it personal matter"
TITS the beginning Of the price,"
said Tom.
1.-THE beginning of the price?"
Its the dead hand" continued Tom !;
Il told you, you'll remember, that wher-
ever treasure is there's ghost of dead
man keeping guard and waiting till
another dead man comes along to take
up sentry duty so to say. The ghost
is getting busy. And it makes me
think that we're coming pretty near
to the treasure, or we wouldn't have
had all this happen. Mark me, the
treasures near by-or the ghost
wouldn't be so malicious"
And then, looking around where the
captain and the engineer and Silly
Theodore lay, / said.
"The first thing we've got to do is to
bury these poor fellows; but where"
l added, "are the other two that fell
in the water?"
"Oh," said Tom, "a couple of sharks
got them just before you woke up"
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INSISTED ON QUICK ACTION
Who Expect Wonders From Cor
respondence School.

Henry P. Dawson was talking about
the numerous correspondence courses
in five lessons-each lesson to be mas
tered in one evening over the after
dinner cigar-which teach man how
to become Napoleon of finance.
"You can't learn to be a Napoleon
of finance or anything else so easily"
he said. "These courses remind me of
the man who brought his son to the
school of mines and growled:
~ want you to learn this here boy
to be an expert mimi engineer, but
look a-here-I don't want him to waste
his time over lot of book nonsense
about strata and foundations, and
don't bother him with minerology and
crystals, neither. What want him to
learn Is how. to find gold and silver and
copper in payin' quantities-payin
quantities, mind you-and I'll call for
him and put him in to work Monday
week."
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
Knew Her Letters.

s Aunt Grace came into the room
where her three-year-old niece was
cutting up her grandmother's new
magazine. Grandmother was making
feeble remonstrances but the small
youngster continued placidly with her
cutting. Aunt Grace turned to her
mother. 1T seems to me-" she said.
Ruth Marie Is getting to be bad
(spelling the word)."
But Ruth Marie had not been play
ing with the school children in the
neighborhood for nothing. She knew
the word from the sound of its letters
and promptly retorted to Aunt Grace,
well, you aren't SO better yourself"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18

By Richard lie Ga11ienne


we reached the boat at sunset we had
scarce strength left to eat our supper
and roll into our hunks. A machete
is heavy weapon that needs no little
skill In handling with economy Of
force, and Tom, who had been brought
up to it, was, in spite of his years, a
better practitioner than /.
have already limited at the kind of
devils underbrush we had to- cut our
way through, but no words can do JUS
flee to the almost intelligent stubborn
ness with which those weird growths
opposed US. 1t really seemed as though
they were inspired by diabolic will
force pitting itself against our will,
vegetable incarnation of evil strength
and fury and cunning.
Day after day Tom and l returned
home dead beat, with hardly tired
word to exchange with each other.
We had now been at 1t for about a
fortnight, and / loved the old chap
more every day for the grit and cour-
age with which he supported our ter
rible labors and kept up his spirits.
Once or twice we had made fancied
discoveries which we called off the
other to see, and once or twice we had
tried some blasting on rocks that
seemed to suggest mysterious tunnel
ings into the earth. But it had all
proved vain thing and a WEAKNESS
of the flesh. And the ghost of John r.
Tobias still kept his secret.
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CHAPTER VIII.
An unflnished Game of Cards.

One evening as / returned to the
ship unusually worn out and disheart
ened asked Tom how the stores were
holding out. He answered cheerfully
that they would last another week and
leave us enough to get home.
"Well, shall we stick out the other
week or not, Tom? / don't want to
kill you, and / confess I'm nearly all
in myself"
MAY as well stick it out, sar, now
we've gone so far. Then Wen have
done all we can, and there's certain
satisfaction in doing that, sar."
So next morning we went at It
again, and the next, and the next
again, and then on the fourth day,
when our week was drawing to its
close, something at last happened to
change the grim monotony of our days.
1t was shortly after the lunch hour.
Tom and /, who were now working too
far apart to hear each others halloos,
had fired our revolvers once or twice
to show that all was right with us.
But, for no reason I can give, I sud-
denly got feeling that all was not
right with the old man, so fired my
revolver and gave him time for a re-
ply. But there was no answer. Again
fired. Still no answer. was on the
point of firing again when I heard
something coming through the brush
behind me. 1t was Sailor racing
toward me over the jagged rocks.
Evidently there was something wrong.
Something wrong with old Tom,
Sailor?" / asked, as though he could
answer me. And indeed he did answer
as plainly as dog could do, wagging
his tail and whining and turning to go
back with me in the direction whence
he had come.
"Off we go, then, old chap" and as
he ran ahead, followed him as fast
as / could.
1t took me the best part of an hour
to get to where Tom had been work.
ing. Sailor brushed his way ahead,
pushing through the scrub with canine
Importance. Presently, at the top of
a slight elevation, came among the
bushes to softer spot where the soil
had given way, and saw that 1t was
the mouth of shaft like wide Chin
ney fiue, the earth of which had evil
IDENTIFY fallen in. Here Sailor stopped
and whined, paving the earth, and at
the same time I heard moaning I'M
derneath.
us that you, Tom?'' / called. Thank
God tha old chan was not dead of oil
events.
'Thank the Lord, it's you, sar," he
cried. I'm all right, but I've had
bad fall-and I can't seem able to
move"
"Hold on and keep up your heart
I'll be with you in a minute" called
down to him.
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call them, and there we were able to
dig him fairly respectable grave.
Tom and Sailor and I were now, to
the best of our belief, alone on the
island, and a lonesomer spot it would
be hard to imagine, or one touched at
certain hours with fairer beauty
beauty wraithlike and, like sea
shell, haunted with the marvel Of the
sea.
First we went over our stores, and,
thanks to those poor dead mouths that
did not need to be reckoned with any
more, we had plenty of everything tc
last US for at least month, not to
speak of fishing, at which Tom was an
expert.
When, however, we turned to our
plans for the treasure hunting we
soon came to dead stop. The indi-
cations given by Tobias seemed, in the
face of such terrain, naive to a de-
gree. Possibly the land had changed
since his day. Some little, Of course,
it must have done. Tom and / went
over Tobias directions again and
there was the compass carved on the
rock, and the cross. There was some
thing Notwithstanding which, if it
was ever there at all, was there still
for In that climate the weather leaves
things impoverished almost as in Egypt.
Sitting on the highest bluff we could
find, Tom and looked around.
'That compass is somewhere among
these internal recks-if it ever was
carved there at all-that's one thing
certain, Tom; but look at the rocks 7"
Over twenty miles of rocks north
and south, and from two to six from
east to west. A more hopeless job the
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
TO THE sHARKsl

synopsis-The man who tells this
story-call him the hero, for short
is visiting his friend, John Saun-
ders, British official In Nassau,
Bahama Islands. Charlie Webster,
a local merchant, completes the
trio of friends. Conversation turn
ing upon buried treasure, Saunders
produces written document pur-
porting to be the death-bed state
ment of Henry P. Tobias. a sue
cessful pirate, made by him in 1859.
1t gives two spots where two mil
lions and a half of treasure were
buried by him and his companions.
The conversation of the three
friends is overheard by a pock-
marked stranger. The document
disappears. Saunders, however, has
a copy. The hero, determined to
seek the buried treasure, charters
the auxiliary schooner Maggie Oar
ling. The peck marked man is
taken on as a passenger for Span
ish Wells. Negro Tom catches and
cures sucking fish, as a mascot
for the hero; 1t has the virtue of
keeping off the ghost of the pirate
who always guards pirate treasure.
On the voyage somebody empties
the gasoline tank and the hero
starts things. He and the passen-
ger clash. He lands the passenger.
who leaves a manifesto bearing the
signature, Henry P. Tobias, Jr."
With a new crew, the Maggie OAR
ling sails and is passed by another
schooner, the Susan b. The hero
lands on Dead Mems Shoes.
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mind Of man could not conceive. Tom
shook his head, and scratched his
grazing WOOL
Il go most by the ghost, sar," he
said. "All these men had never been
killed If the ghost hadn't been some.
where near. Mark me, if we find the
treasure it'll be by the ghost"
THAT'S all very WELL" I laughed
"But how are we going to get the
ghost to show his hand? He's got
such bloodthirsty ways with him."
"They always have, sar," said Tom,
no doubt with some ancestral shudder
of voodoo worship in his blood eyes,
sar, they always cry out for blood. It's
all they've got to live on. They drink
1t like you and me drink coffee or
rum. It's terrible to hear them in the
night"
"Well, Tom," remarked, "you may
be right, but Of one thing I'm certain
If the ghosts going to get any enc, ii
sha'n't be you"
"We've both got one good chance
against them" Tom was beginning,
Don't tell me again about that old
sucking fish,"
Mind you keep 1t safe, for all that"
| said Tom gravely. II wouldn't lose
mine for a thousand pounds"
well. all right, but let's forget the
damned old ghosts for the present"
We decided to try a plan that was
really no plan at all; that is to say, to
seek more or less at random, till we
consumed all our stores except just
enough to take us home. Meanwhile
we would, each Of us, every day, cut q
sort of radiating swathe, working sim
gle-handed, from the cove entrance,
Thus we would prospect as much of
the country as possible in q sort of
fan, both of us keeping our eyes open
for compass carved on rock. In
this way we might hope to cover no in.
considerable stretch Of the country In
the three weeks, and, moreover, the
country most likely to give some re-
suits, as being that lying in a semicir-
Gle from the little harbor where the
ships would have lain. 1t WASH much
OF plan perhaps, but it seemed the
most possible among the impossibles.
Harder work than we had under
taken no men have ever set their hands
to. 1t would have broken the back of
the most ahle-bodied NAVY; and when
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
OLD AGE STARTS
WITH YOUR KIDNEYS

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
CHAPTER VII.
In Which Tom and Attend Several
Funerals.


When Tom and came to look over
the ground with view to finding a
burial place for the dead I realized
with grim emphasis the truth of
Charlie Webster's remarks-in those
snuggery nights that seemed so re-
mote and far away-on the nature of
the soil which would have to be gone
over in quest of my treasure. No Won
der he had spoken of dynamite.
"Why, Tom," I said, "there isn't a
wheelbarrow load of real soil in a
square mile. We couldn't dig a grave
for dog in stuff like this" and, as /
spoke, the pewterlike rock under my
feet changed and echoed with a metal
lie sound.
"Come along, Tom, can't stand any
more of this. Wen have to leave our
funerals till tomorrow, and get aboard
for the night"-for the Maggie Darling
was still floating there serenely, as
though men and their violence had no
existence on the planet.
WED better cover them up, against
the turkey buzzards," said Tom, two
of those unsavory birds rising in the
air as we returned to the shore. We
did this as well as we were able with
rocks and the wreckage of an old
boat strewn on the beach.
don't think two men were ever so
glad of the morning, driving before it
the haunted night. After breakfast
our first thought was naturally to the
sad and disagreeable business before
us.
Il tell you what I've been thinking,
sar," said Tom, as we rowed ashore,
and managed to pull down a turkey
buzzard that rose at our approach
happily our coverings had proved fair
ly efective-"Pve been thinking that
the only one of the three that really
matters is the captain, and we can
find sufficient soil for him in one of
those big holes"
"How about the others?"
"Well, to tell the truth, / was think
ing that sharks are good enough for
them"
"They deserve no better, Tom, and
l think we may as well get rid of them
first"
So it was done as we said, and car
rying them by the feet and shoulders
to the edge Of the bluff-George, and
Silly Theodore. and the nameless giant
who had knocked me down so oppor-
tunely-we skillfully flung them In,
and they glided off with scarce a
splash.
Then we turned to the poor captain
and carried him as gently as we could
over the rough ground to the biggest
OF the banana holes, as the natives
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
An Apology.

Whether the following excerpt from
the Williamsville IN. d. Item is a
bona fide apology, or only the work
of the Office humorist, 1t has original
ity:
1--WE wish to apologize to Mrs. Or
Vile Overholt. In our paper last week
we had as headline Mrs. Overholt's
Big Feet The word we ought to
have used is French word, pro-
nounced the same way, but spelled
'fete.' 1t means celebration, and is
considered very tony word"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
How's This !?

We offer $4,000 for any case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is taxi
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the 8 stem.
Sold by druggists for over forty wears.
Price 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
A cave, a pirates bones,
a chest and
(To BE CONTINUED
Cure for Rheumatism.

A certain variety of seaweed, known
In ireland as "tope," has been recon-
mended by famous physician as
cure for rheumatism and throat affec-
lions if eaten hot, whilst in some parts
of England and Wales a variety Of
seaweed, known as 'laver," has been
in demand for years as vegetable.
Served with roast meats it is said to-
be extremely palatable.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18

With your fingersi You can lift off
any hard corn. soft corn. or corn be-
tween the toes, and the hard skin cal
luses from bottom of feet.
A tiny bottle of "Freezone" costs
little at any drug store; apply few
drops upon the corn or callus. In
stantly it stops. hurting, then shortly
you lift that bothersome corn or callus
right off, root and all. without one bit
Of pain or soreness. Trulyl No hum
bug ADV.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
Found.

Colonel Breckenridge of the Navy
League was talking in New York about
stern father.
"Hes stern, entirely too stern" he
said. I'm fact, the old boys raving
now-raving mad against his son.
HE sent his son off to New York
last week, you know, and told him to
find an opening. Well"
Colonel Breckenridge chuckled.
1.-THE boy -telephoned yesterday to
wire 5000, as he was in hole"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
Critic Coins New Word.

Tired of the hackneyed phrase, a
gripping" story. originated by some
weary critic and eagerly snatched up
by book advertisers, it has remained
for Boston dramatic critic to dis
cover new term. He has found q
play that is "riveting" in its intensity
Of interest.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
Trace Of Independence.

: there's one thing I've got to say
for the prodigal son" remarked Farm
er Corntossel.
whats that?"
HE had the grit to walk back home
instead Of telegraphin' for money"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
-
She'll Tell About II

She'll Tell. About 1t.
"Can a man have wealth untold.
pa?"
mot if he has wife, my son.
Chicago News.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18

Sore Eyes. lood-Shot Eyes, Watery Eyes,
Sticky Eyes. all healed promptly with night
~ applications of Roman Eye Balsam. Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-09-18
Burmese Progressing.

Among the successful candidates for
a degree in 1918 appears the name OF
Ina THEM, the first Burmese lady to
obtain the distinction.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-04-18
.sCercle Ste Anne

LIE Cercle Ste Anne, Br. %, U. G.
F. c., eu lundi dernier une seance
tres interessante rehaussee par la
presence de M. j. B. Jette, Secreta1re
General de PUnion Canadienne-F Fran
caise, de Marquette, Mich. A part les
affaires regulieres, il y cut initiation
de dix nouveaux membres, ce qui in
dique que lie Cercle veut conserver sa
reputation dams le requirement des
membres, car il a toujours joui dun
success presque unique sur ce point
dams toute l'Union, 81 Pom considere
les limitations qui Sc poursuivent re-
gulierement depuis des annees. Aussi,
M. Jette, en- adressant la parole a pas-
semblee, NATL pas manque den faire
la remarque ct de feliciter lie Cercle a
ce sujet ct de la maniere que sont
conduite ses affaires.
Les nouvelles initiees sont: Mines
Penelope Violette, Rose Hamilton,
Miles Mabel Lefebvre, Aline Thibault,
Lucille Latourelle, Josephine Violette,
Muriel Magnan, Anna Magnan, Ange-
lus Violette, Marie Delage.
Communicate,
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-04-18
Quand doit-on Remonter sa Montre

Beaucoup de gems ont lhabitude de
remonter leur montre a un moment
quelconque de la journee ct sans pre-
ter d'attention a l'acte qu'ils accom-
plissent.
Dependant, Pexactitude ct la duree
dune montre dependent beaucoup du
moment Oh son proprietaire la remon-
te, ct cette importante question etc
discutee ct resolue par la corporation
des horlogers, en- Angleterre.
Plusieurs membres pretendaient que
l'operation devait-etre executee la
mutt. lis consideraient qu'au matin lie
grand resort etait plus froid ct moins
souple qu'apres avoir etc portee dams
la poche pendant toute la journee.
Mais lie president fait valoir quill
v await avantage a remonter une mon
tire le matin, car pendant lie jour, la
montre est soumise a des movements
ct a des deplacements irreguliers ct
anormaux, qu'elle supporte plus facl-
lement quand ellie est remontee a fond.
Et c'est cette opinion qui etc adop-
tee.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-04-18
SCI, ,0OO, 900 DE PLUS PAR
AN POUR 100000 GEMS
DE CHEMINS DE FER

Washington.-Une revision de ga
ges affectant 100000 employees de che
minis de fer ct comportant un total
d'augmentation de $65,000,000 par an
nee est annoncee en- date du II avrjl
par M. Walker D. Hines, directeur ge-
neral des chemins de fer. La nouvelle
cedule est retroactive jusqu'au Ter jan
vier. Ellie suit:
Conductors de trains de voyageurs,
$3.50 par mois; proposes aux bagages'
S124.8O; serre-freins de convois de
voyageurs, $120 par mois; mecani-
ciens de locomotives, trains de voya-
geurs, $5.79 par jour; chauffeurs pour
ces memes locomotives, $4.31 par
jour; conducteurs de convois de mar
chandises, $5.4O par jour; serre-freins
pour ces convois, $4.03; mecaniciens,
$6.64 par jour; chauffeurs, $4.81; con-
ducteurs de jour de chemins de fer,
$5.33 par jour; serre-freins, SIS par
jour; mecaniciens, $5.72; chauffeurs,
$4.25 par jour.