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Show earthquake. The thunder of the elements sounded in the ears cf the heedless revelers. The earth opened in great fissures, and closed again like the jaws of a mighty trap. And in closing it gripped many of its victims in the middle, leaving their hands above ground. Then came the awful sliding, grinding noise of the city, built upon its foundations of sand, sank into the caressing embrace of the sea, which forever closed upon its wickedness and will forever keep its dread secrets. CHAPTER XVIII. (Continued.) it was Sullivan. Rolling over on the hillside, he lay Btill, shot through the forehead. No more lightning rum would he dispense at the charge of one shilling per nobbier; no more unwary bushmen d would he waylay and rob of their cacheques! Sullivans long reer of vice was closed forever and now he would have to settle a longer score than ever he had chalked up against his customers in all his life a score such as rogues of his type never expect to be called upon to pay. Come on, lads! cried the trooper. Fire; but spare the woman if you can. At that moment the door was thrown open and a woman appeared, firing five or six shots from a revolver upon the besieging party. Rushing into close quarters, and firing at random, the hut was speedily gained possession of, and then the fight was over. Stretched upon the floor in a corner, shot through the heart, lay Tom Bayaes; while leaning against the wall beside him stood the woman, mortally wounded, but still at bay. With a yell of triumph William Luke threw himself upon the dead man; but suddenly he drew back with an exclamation of intense amazement. Then he tore open the woolen shirt upon the body. he cried, its a Good heavens, woman; and, as I live, it is Anne Dodson!" The rest of the men crowded into the hut, and a hush of horror fell upon them, while the hunted creature leaning against the wall watched them and clutched at the rough bark slabs in the agony of death, presently gasping Yes, yeB it is Anne Dodson; true to me true to the last! Youve won the game, Bill Luke; you will get the reward; but I, Edward Bartlett, will never hang for the murder of your brother, or or the old man at Froy-leThe coins the gold coins they Ah! are buried buried beneath As the voice ceased the womans black wig slipped and fell off; there was a dull gurgling sound as of one struggling for breath, and, with a wild glance around him, Edward Bartlett fell forward, across the body of the girl who had loved him, dead! One of the men fell hard-eafne- s! been for her. The shock came close on to midday. And what have you been doing of late? The air was hot and sultry. The sky I have been working in the Ballarat was without a cloud. A great stillmines, he replied doing fairly well. ness seemed to hover over the city, and sir, you will be surprised to then, without warning, the earth tremhear that I am shortly going to be mar- bled. Men and women left their ried again. I cannot bear the solitary houses and ran into the streets, only life I am leading now after the happy' to meet death in the bowels of earth years I have experienced. I am going or in the hidden recesses of the sea. to marry my late wifes sister. In his Annals of Jamaica, publishIn Victoria marriage with a deceased in 1828, Rev. George Wilson Bridges ed is wifes sister legal. Some six months after this meeting quotes from a letter written by one of the gentleman received a message from the survivors a rector two or three Edward to come and see him. He had days after the disaster, which is in met with an accident, having fallen part as follows: from a ladder in one of the mines, and After I had been at church reading, was an inmate of the Ballarat hospital. I did every day since I was recwhich at the hospital the Fpon arriving of tor this place, to keep up some show gentleman found to his distress that he of and was gone to a place religion, was too late. Edward Dent was dead. hard church where the merthe by And now a fact transpired that quite where the president chants meet, and overwhelmed him with amazement. who came into my council of the was, The medical evidence went to prove and engaged me to take a that the skilled laborer who for eight company of wormwood wine as a whet glass years had worked upon his estate, and before dinner, he being my very good who had undertaken the arduous toil I stayed with him, upon which friend, g of for the last two years, he a pipe of tobacco, which lighted was a woman. he was pretty long in taking, and not What became of Edwards second being willing to leave' him before it wife was never known she disapwas out, this determined me from gopeared. to dinner to one Captain Rodens, Such are the facts. Whether the ing whither I was invited, whose house, commission of some great crime in anupon the first concussion, sunk into other land had led to the womans thus the earth, and then into the sea with concealing her identity is a matter his wife and family, and some that which must for ever remain a mystery. were come to dine with him. Had I THE END. been there I had been lost. But to return to the president and his pipe of A SUNKEN CITY. tobacco; before that was out I found the ground rolling under my feet, upon In the beautiful harbor of Kingston, which I said to him, Lord, sir, what Jamaica, a few fathoms under water, is that? He replied, being a very sleeps the sunken city of Port Royal, It is an earthquake. Be man, grave which was destroyed by an earthquake will soon be over. not it afraid; in 1692. On a cloudless, still day, when the surface of the sea is perfectDespite the presidents assurance, he ly smooth, the ruins of the phantom and was never heard of disappeared, city may be plainly seen in the depths again. Continuing, the rector wrote: of the transparent water. I made toward Morgans Fort, because I thought to be there securist from fallThe spire of the old cathedral is the houses, but as I was going I saw most prominent object. In the clear ing earth the open and swallow up a mulwater yoii can see the fishes lazily of people, and the sea mounting titude swimming in and out among the ruined over the fortifications. turrets, more suggestive of owls and in upon them and famous burythe Moreover, large bats than of the finny inhabitants of sea the sea. Occasionally glimpses can be ing ground was destroyed, and the harThe carcasses. washed the away had of the ruins of other buildings bor was covered with dead bodies, floatbuildings which for more than two centuries have kept their ghastly secrets ing up and down. and will keep them until the end of TRIUMPH OF THE LADY BUG. time. y, gold-minin- EPILOGUE. Down there, in that peaceful depth, It may be stated here that the incidents in this story are chiefly founded lie the bones of three thousand men, women and children, carried down into upon facts. The following are the the sea with their homes on that awful facts: a large sheep-ownIn the year 18 In the colony of Victoria engaged a married couple for his station, which was situated some hundreds of miles from the coast, far up in the interior. The man, who gave his name as Edward Dent, proved a sober and industrious fellow, and a smart man at his work. He was a capital plough-maamongst other qualifications, and took several prizes for ploughing at neighboring contests. He was a most agreeable mate, and was universally liked by all the other men on the place, being of a lively disposition and a first-rat- e concertina-playeThe latter acmuch is prized up in the complishment a scarcity of is such there where bush, amusement. Ills extraordinary affection for his He iwife was particularly noticeable. would not allow her to do anything in the way of manual labor, and after his day's work was done he was always to be seen chopping up the wood for the bouse and carrying up the next days supply of water from the creek in fact, doing all those little things which most men out there generally leave their wives to do. Edward Dent and his wife remained upon this station for nearly eight years, but one day, much to his masters annoyance, he gave notice to leave. He wanted to better himself, be said, and had an idea of trying the gold mines for a change. For about eighteen months the gentleman in whose employment he had been heard nothing of him. One day, however, as he was strolling down Collins street in Melbourne, he met Edward Dent, and accosted him. He noticed that he was dressed in the deepest mourning. to see I am sorry, he remarked, of outward these with signs grief you upon you, Edward. You have had tome loss? these replied Edward Ay, sir, black clothes very partially reflect the grief within me. I have lately lost my wife. Poor fellow! said his late master, ,who knew how great his affection had er n, r. June day in 1692. An earthquake, suddenly and without warning, smote the profligate city of Port Royal, which sld into the sea. The waters opened and swallowed it up, and there, beneath the silent waves, was hidden the wickedness and debauchery of a community described by historians as being almost without parallel. After the earthquake the town was rebuilt, only to be completely destroy- ed by fire in 1703. On August 22, 1722, it was swept into the sea by a hurri- cane. It was once more reconstructed, but again, in 1815, it was reduced to ashes, and as recently as 1880 it was visited by another hurricane. Every disaster was attended by great loss of life. The city of Port Royal was originally built upon a narrow strip of land extending out into the sea, which accounts for its strange disappearance at the time of the earthquake. Like the house of the foolishman of Biblical lore, which was builded upon the sand, it literally slid into the water when the earthquake shock came. Previous to that .fateful 7th day of June, 1692, Port Royal had been known as the finest town in the West Indies, and the richest spot in the world. It was, as it now is, a British colony, but there was little either in its government or its customs of British morality. We are told that it was a place of luxurious debauchery; that in their excesses the colonists rivaled the profligates of ancient Rome. Buccaneering and piracy were recognized Industries. The treasure ships of Spain were legitimate prey. The riches of Mexico and Peru were levied upon, and the people of Jamaica were literally rolling in wealth and splendor. Vice and debauchery held sway, Bacchanalian revels which might put to shame the dwellers in the Orient were There was no of nightly occurrence. virtue. And like the crack of doom came the One of the most serious criticisms made of the department of agriculture several years ago by eastern newspapers concerned the money it had spent in bringing lady bugs from Australia to infest California and Florida orchards. But the lady bug (Novius turned out to be one of the most satisfactory Importations ever made from the Antipodes, its habit of preying on the scale that was blighting fruit trees being the means of saving to this state and Florida their principal landed Industries. car-dinal- is) Now it appears that the little insect has performed a like office for the citrus groves of Portugal. Specimens sent to Lisbon from this state in 1896 have taken hold of the scale and are exterminating it. Though but few of the parasites survived the long journey by rail and sea, their immense fecundity enabled them in the course of two years to populate the groves with millions of their kind. As a result Portugal will be able soon to again compete with Spain and Sicily for the orange and lemon trade of Europe. The success of the effort to eradicate the scale pest ought to be the means of keeping the department of agriculture flush in funds for parasitical research. It would be worth millions of dollars every year to this country to find a natural foe of the potato bug, of the curious pests that afflict growing hops and of insects that make a pasture of the bodies of domestic animals and poultry. If every bane has its antidote and every flea has smaller fleas to bite em, the bringing of the two together is a proper function of government. The way it has worked in the matter of scale pests, and the distance to which the search for the mean's of exterminating them has gone, certainly tends to encourage efforts, however costly, along related lines. But it is a quest in which all governments may properly bear a part, with special reference to their own entomological resources. A Fair Exchange. Bobby, wont you give a penny to help build Lafayette a monument? Nom, not unless we git his birthday fer a hollerday. Chicago American Meat in Germany. A Letter to Mrs. Pinkham Brought American meats are indeed having a hard time in the German empire, Health to Mrs. Archambo. due to the fact that the German farm(LITTEt TO U&S. FINIHAM HO. 42,395 ers and their friends throughout the Dear Mrs. Iinkham For two country take every oportunity to pre- years I felt tired and so weak and dizzy vent the sale of such meats. It is not that some days I could hardly go practicable for them to get a law of around the house. Backache and headactual prohibition passed, as they are ache all the time and my food would unable to prove that American meats not digest and had such pains in the are dangerous to the health of the peo- womb and troubled with leucorrhoea ple, but they insist on such restrictions and kidneys were affected. being made that the sale of the meats After birth of each child I grew takes place under great difficulties and weaker, and hearing so much of the frequently is made so expensive that good you had done, I wrote to you and the buyers refuse it for that reason have taken six bottles of Lydia E. alone. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one United States Consul Barnes of Cobox of Lozenges, one box of Liver Pills, I learn that, for the last one package of Sanative Wash, and tologne says: fifteen years, there were officially con- day I am feeling as well as I ever did. firmed in the kingdom of Prussia 3,003 When I get up in the morning I feel as cases of illness from trichinae, 207 of fresh as I did when a girl and eat and which resulted in death. Of these total 6leep well and do all of my work. If numbers there could be traced to the ever I feel weak again shall know eating of European meats, examined where to get my strength. I know In Germany and found to be free from your medicine cured me. Mrs. Saliva trichinae, 1,242 cases and 102 deaths. Archambo, Charlemoxt, Mass. The remaining cases could also be The present Mrs. rinkhams experitraced to European meat, but meat ence in treating female ills is unparalnot In examined. been not that had for years she worked side by leled; one of the above cases could it be E. Pinkham, and Mrs. with side proved that the disease resulted from for sometime Lydia had sole charge has past the use of American salted, pickled or of the correspondence department of tinned meat, or of smoked sausage. her business, treating by letter great This statement hoids good for all Gerthousand ailing as a hundred as many When in 1891 the women a many. All women who suffer year. edict against sausage and pork prodinvited to write to Mrs. Pinkham ucts from America was canceled, no are at Mass., for advice, which will Lynn, inspection of sausage or pickled pork be given without charge. promptly was required until July 1, 1898. Since inthen both products are subject to A curious barometer is used in some parts spection. This will result in the abof Germany and Switzerland. It is a jar of solute exclusion of sausage and pickled with a frog and a step ladder in it. water, Gerpork or boneless hams from the When the frog comes out of the water and man market. In the case of boneless sits on the steps a rainstorm will soon hams the cost of inspection amounts occur. to $3.57 per 220 English pounds. Add Did you really give $30 for that handto thi8 the duty, which is $8.33 on 220 kerchief? Well, dont you Yes, ma. pounds of meat, and it is seen that think $30 is a good deal to blow in? the cost amounts to prohibition. As regards the Inspection of American Do Tour Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allens sausage, I learn that three pieces are a powder for the feet. It makes taken for inspection purposes from every two pounds of sausage. By this tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures means the sausage is much injured, if Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and not entirely ruined for selling purShoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. not as this process poses, inasmuch Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Address only has a tendency to cause the meat to become dry and hard, but the meat trouble with most men is that they The bears plain evidences of having been never see an opportunity until some other fellow has taken hold of it. inspected, which is not a very flattering testimonial as to its value for food. Miss Ida M. Tarbell will give in McOn the other hand, German sausagJ Clures Magazine for September an acis subjected to no such inspection aftel count of Lincolns funeral an event alone it is in shape for selling, as it is in- in its kind, since almost every man, wospected before it is made up into comman and child in the North was a personal mercial form or put on the market. mourner, and people stood day and night, in rain and shine, along the railroad in an Making: the Horse almost continuous line from Washington Now is the time to remember that to Springfield, to view the passing funeral the colt of the present is to be the train and testify their veneration and horse a few years hence, and the kind grief of a horse he is to be depends largely Soel.ty Leaders upon his treatment now, says Farm, Are necessarily people of excellent judgStock and Home. Good care, ample ment, taste and refinement. In traveling food and judicious exercise are the esthey demand the best service obtainable sentials at this time. By ample food and the liberality with which they patSome grain ronize the Union Pacific is one of the best is not meant 6hould be fed during the summer, but proofs of that hues superiority. Tiokot not so much that the little fellow will office, Old Stand, 201 Main street. be indisposed to eat freely of grass or Every dog has his day and even then the other bulky food, for the latter is nec- poor dog gets the worst of it, for the dog hia of essary to the proper development days are the very worst days in all the stomach and digestive organs. Two year. pounds of oats a day should be given to the colt after weaning, and he should be allowed to learn to eat some even before weaning. Vary the grain feed with barley or even corn; and if occasionally ground grain in a thick slop is given the effect will be good. But this feeding should be moderate, and not calculated to develop overmuch fat. Exercise the colt should have, but that, would too, temperately. be as bad for the colt as no exertion. It is well, also, to begin breaking or educating the colt at an early age. Secure its confidence by kind treatment and gentle words, accustom it to strange sights, to sudden noises and other alarming things, enough te teach it that they are not dangerous, and An Excellent Combination. so begin to develop the mind as well as The pleasant method and beneficial the body of the horse that you want to effects of the well known remedy, see command a good price later on. Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., illustrate Foot of the Horse. The foot of a the value of obtaining the liquid laxahorse is one of the most ingenious and tive principles of plants known to be unexampled pieces of mechanism in medicinally laxative and presenting animal structure. The hoof contains a them in the form most refreshing to the and acceptable to the system. It series of vertical and thin laminae of taste is the one perfect strengthening laxato five about hundred tive, cleansing the system effectually, horn, amounting and forming a complete lining to it. dispelling colds, headaches and fevers In this are fitted as many laminae begently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation percoffin to the while both bone, longing from sets are elastic and adherent. The manently. Its perfect freedom and subevery objectionable quality of a inserted of leaf paper, quire edge stance, and its acting on tlie kidneys, by leaf into another, will convey a sufliver and bowels, without weakening ficient idea of the arrangement. Thus or irritating them, make it the ideal the weight of the animal is supported laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs by as many elastic springs as there are the laminae in all the feet, amounting to are used, as they are pleasant to of medicinal the but the taste, qualities about four thousand, distributed in the are obtained from senna and most secure manner, since every remedy other aromatic plants, by a method known to the California Fig Syrup spring is acted on in an oblique direcCo. only. In order to get its beneficial tion. Ex. effects and to avoid imitations, please A Big Pig. What is said to be the remember the full name of the Company largest pig ever raired was recently printed on the front of every package. T slaughtered in New York. The FIG SYRUP CO. was a Jersey Red boar two and a CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. half years old, weighing alive 1,609 NEW YORK, N. Y. LOUISVILLE, KY. pounds. The huge swine measured For sale by all Druggists. Price 50c. per bottle over nine feet from tip of its nose to the end of its tail. It measures two UR tWO and a half feet across the loin, two bURES Wntrit ALL tlht fAiLSt and a half feet across the hams, and t Couffb tiyrup. Tastes Good. I7e In Sold bv rirugtfistfL six feet in girth. This makes the hog three feet through. It is split at the shoulder, and to look into the carcase is looking into the crevice of a W. N. U.. Salt Lake. No. 35, 1899 cavern. National Provisioner. Foot-Eas- over-feedin- g. Over-exerti- ani-mS- l.e e, |
