A SUMMER MORN. have won them high posts of honor. hanged. {r*lt must have been a pretty THE STARS. nearly five minutes, and at last Ralph The pirates landed by scores on the (pticura solemn spectacle. ft With joy we hail the rising of the sun. Curtis turns toward Sara wharves of Charleston th«* governor One would think that this example *Soap* When fimt its welcome rajs spread o'er the "Miss Prescott, Mr. Crosbie and I What are their years' The night's unfath«n^u was unable to resist these bands of would have served as a warning to eaith, have formed a compact togetheiiiji'tjuierr ueep m™ a vAjuiuaivm brigands, who, well drilled and armed all other sea rovers to steer clear of •Jlad'mnp: the eyes of birds and beauteous Rings back,no answer gives no ghmmermg where yonder roadlmerg- to the teeth, paraded the streets, insulted k*y Charleston for a time, for when a flowers JQU And still unknown, and beanti'ul they beep esfrom those clumps of shrubbery!" henitsor the citizens and their wives, And men, and showing where are hid people become fairly aroused they The silent courses of eternity "Yes," answeres the puzzled girl, On ev'ry blade of grass the dewy pearls! and plundered the shops at their own prove-dangerous. are likely to But We hail the cumson glow upon the lake's in right puzzled tones, sweet will. That Black Beard did DABY HUMORS. Captain Worley, who, you remember, What are their memories of creation's day!, Calm, pulseless bieast, and the bnght golden "Very well. We desire you to wait not sack and fire the town may have When startled chaos, from its kingdom commanded one of Black Beard's lights COMPLEXIONS, WITH PIMPLY, hurried, been due to prudence perhaps he did here. We will disappear. When you That tinge the clouds and set the woods on ships, reasoned that after such an blotchy, oily skin, Ked, Bough. Hands, witb Frist knew it's master, and with glad amazo chaps painful finger ends and shapeless nails fire, not think it safe to drive the people next see either of us, it will be as he effort the people of Charles ton would They sang the birth-song of our trembling and simple Baby Humors prevented and cured Which a lew hours before weie still, but now to desperation. advances toward you, doubtless at world7 be less likely to resist an attack from by CIITICUKA SOAP A marvelous beaatifier ol Are resonant with song' world-wide celebrity, it is incomparable as a fullest running speed, alone the same him. In a strong ship mounting six I After the pirates sailed away, loaded SkinPunfjmgS ap, unequalled for the Toilet Likewise from our hearts songs use in praise What have they looked on since, with patient road. One will in all probability win and without a rival for the Nursery guns Captain Worley therefore ventured with plunder, they seemed to have To him who gives to eaith each light and eyes, Absolutely pure, dehcatelv medicated, exquisitely the race which we propose to run, shade to enter the bay and lay his While million yearsuncounted rolled away9 parted. Black Beard perhaps felt perfumed, CUTICUHA SOAP produces the "To him who plants the lillies in the vales, li Who claims antiquity for a man that dies but if it proves a neck-and-neck race, whitest, clearest skin, and softest hands and ship before Charleston. It was a weary of this steady excitement and prevents inflammation and clogging of the The roses on the mountain's «ide, the pinks Before such records of the past as they' then—then daring feat and eyen mariners so pores, the cause of pimples, blackheads, and of the unceasing watchfulness he was Upon the murky moor the daisies white most complexions! disfigurations, while it admits skillful as pirates may repeat it once "Then?" questions Sara with Can they to man the mystery explain, That spread their pearly glory o'er the fields obliged to maintain. He had accumulated of no comparison with other skin soaps, and The why, the whence, of his uncertain '°, brightest green, and the sweet violets blue too often, as this brave corsair trembling voice. rivals in delicacy the most noted of toilet and property and could retire. Ap nursery soaps, Sale greater than the combined That thnvo beside the streams that flow between state' found to his cost. For Governor "Then," Walter Crosbie here any rate he parted compauy witn sale of all other skin soaps Price, 25c. Unlock the riddle that he reads in vain, Send for "How to Cure Skm Diseases Johnson, then ruler of South Carolina, breaks in, "you will walk home alone. his captains and sought a career by The grand old oaks and beeches of the wood And clear the tangled pioblem of his fate? Address POTTKK DHDG ANH CHEMICAL COBPOBATION. proved to be a man of determination Do you consent to such an arrangement, What is the heai if it be destitute himself. About this time he committed Proprietors, Boston, Mass Can they fashion to the future give, ^O. oy and praise"? If it bo cold to gifts and spirit- A large armed strange and wild as it seems? one of the most awful of his Aching sides and back, weak kidneys, And tell the whither of man's anxious quest? Which God gives freely, though they are the ship lay in port with a crew of hardy Reflect for a moment before replying." and rheumatism relieved in one minute by many crimes. Finding the crew of Make life a less than wearisome to live, light tars. The governor called for volunteers CUTICURA A1«TI-PAIN PtiASTER 25c his ship too numerous, and unable Or stay the hazard of his wild unrest' And,glory a summer morn'' to reinforce them, and being a to get rid of them, especially when h6 Saea covers her face impulsively —Springfield Homestead. Oh, stars' what midnight message do you bit of a sailor himself, went onboard A Sohoo for Housewifery desired as few witnesses as possible with both hands and remains in this bear himself to command the attack. to his atrocities, he contrived this The domestic laboratory of Mr BLACK BEARD THE ROVER. To minds grown weary with the year's in attitude for a while. Then she uncovers crease' way to accomplish his purposes of her face again with unequal Dwight L. Moody's seminary at Worley was not the man to dowse The wistful eves that watch you shining course some of his crew must have impulsiveness and cries out in tones Northfield was organized by Miss his color nor to fly. Whatever else there, been in the secret with him to enable almost fierce from intense excitement"I Look out of troubled hearts that know Huntington, of the Wilson Mission may be said of him, he was bold as him to carry out his plan. When off not peace have reflected, and I consent Kitchen Garden in New York, and is a lion, and awaited the enemy, although Chamber's Journal. a desert island he managed to let the Sara is standing quite alone now carried on by teachers ofher training. superior to him in force, without ship touch a shoal without actually in the clear, perfect moonlight. flinching. After exchanging One hundred girls are here getting fast. On the pretense that Around her gleams the shadowy shots the ships grappled. As the taught housewifery and sewing, EW Providence in the TEERIBLY DECIDED. the ship must be greatly damaged lawns, broken with their great dusk governor and his men swarmed over cooking, washing, table waiting and Bahamas is one of the and required to be lightened and masses of foliage Her eyes are the sides of the pirate ship, no quarter fine laundry work as exact sciences, careened Black Beard ordered al- fairest islands of the Atlantic. fixed intently upon that fragment of was given nor asked. Many of the and not as makeshift employments. IS utterly absurd opposite road which its skirting Its shores are most all the crew, over 100 in num- boarding party fell and all of the pi Mr. Moody's seminary was founded shrubberies allow her to see. S a a a id pretty fringed with groves of ber, to land, taking provisions only rates were slain except Worley and for pupils having high aims but Presently there is the distant sound for a day or two. They little suspected Grace Ashleigh, with one of his men. But they were desperately small means, who may by its means cocoa, and its harbor is at which seems a considerable distance, his infernal purpose. As soon wounded, and lest they a in laugh obtain a thorough education at the protected from all winds by the low of rapid, advancing feet. as the boats had returned after landing should die before the justice of the "How can you love lowest cost, with the tacit understanding keys that serve as a breakwater. The steps came nearer, nearerheavy, the men he made sail, backed the law could execute the last penalty on that every graduate, both two men at the same decisive thuds of vigorous them they were at once hanged at Early in the last century the island ship off the shoal and left his comrades of its acadmic and domestic science feet against hard, unyielding gravel. time and not know to die of starvation on a barren the yard arm. Thus ended the remarkable belonged to several English noblemen courses, will be moved to teach what And now, without a moment's isle. Black Beard now steered career of the corsairs of which to take?" who had received it as a grant she had learned, either privately or warning, the steps cease. Then there the Carolinas. for Pamlico river in North Carolina professionally.—Harper's Bazar. "from the crown and established a is a man's wild, fierce cry, alter that where he announced his intention to "But it is true. dear. I can't make $'& what seems a second of silence, and rflourishins colony there. By the settle down as a peaceable citizen, up my mind," and a worried look then the dreadful, cracking, unmistakable and took for his thirtieth wife the he Distributio of S peace of Utrecht the European powders steals over the other's sweet face. sound of a pistol. rosy daughter of a planter who seems had agreed to exterminate the From the Edmburg Beview •'Well, I hope you won't end by Just for a brief space Sara stands to have seen only the sentimental Mr Darwin found that the small ^buccaneers, those pests of the West as though frozen into stone. Then side of a pirate's life and character. hating them both," is the remark portions of earth attaching co the When baby was sick, we gave her Caatona, Indies, and everything looked serene she rushes down the road, turns the But a man like Black Beard could Miss Ashleigh makes as she gets into feet of migrating birds contained seed" corner made, so to speak, by the When she was a Child, she cned 'or Castona. .at New Providence whence a strange not remain quietly on shore, nor die her carriage and drives awayleaving Nine grains of earth on the leg of a great shrubbery clusters, and darts quietly in his bed, and in a year or When she became Miss, sheclung to Castona, fleet flying the black flag with bloody woodcock contained a seed of the Sara Prescott to her own thoughts. on, on with the fleetest steed. Along, two he manned another ship and put When ehehadchildren,shegave themC'astona. skull and bones was seen entering toadrush. From six and a half quivering, terrified moan leaves her Very gloomy and miserable those to sea again. For a time he pretended the port. It proved to bethe squadTon ounces of earth rolled into a ball and lips as she pauses at last by a dark, that the vessels that he ostentatiously thoughts are. She recalls with a outstretched form. adhering to the leg of a wounded of John Teach, sea rover of towed into port had been sense of shrinking fear, how intense patridge he raised eighty-two separate "Walter—Walter Crosbie! for God's S picked up abandoned. This was great ability and most desperate a passion for her has recently grown plants of five species. Migrating sake, what has happened?" hardly likely, especially as Govoner •character who had just entered upon to possess both Kalph Curtis and birds often frequent the edges of And then she sees the ghastly, upturned Eden, and the colonial secretary, and an independent career of adventure He Go it Easily. face and the long, gory stream ponds ere their departure, and in six the admiralty judge of North Carolina Walter Crosbie how each had be. The following incident, which occurred and blood on the high seas that oozes from its temples! A and three-quarters ounces of such shared the gains with Black come almost aggressive of late in in Cincinnati, shows that Cincinnati Not two yards distant there is another Beard. There seems to have been mud he raised, under glass, 537 Teach was first engaged in trade his fierce request for some final answer women have more ready prone form. Sara staggered public officials of easy consciences in plants. Seeds furnished with crowns, with Jamaica But when his ventures to his eager hopes and how the toward it. money than ready wits: A Mrs. Nieland, those days no less than now. hooks or prickles readily stick to the turned out unsuccessful he decided more that either pleads the more ab. Ralph Curtis' swarthy face gleams, living on Jane Street, was victimized plumage of birds, which all such At last this noble corsiar threw off livid and ghastlv, in the pale moonlight! an original manner one as so many did in those days birds, and especially such wanderers solute the perplexity and doubts all disguise and fearlessly scoured afternoon. A stranger knocked the coast, capturing everything that as the albatros,s might carry long try his fortune in piracy. He soon Suppose they should have some "His fault," he grasps—"all his at the door about 12 o'clock and came, aud running his prizes up to distances. Applying these facts to contrived to seize a large ship whose deadly quarrel on her account? fault' He stabbed me as I was passing told Mrs. Nieland that her son had his haunt on the Pamlico river. the case of the Azores, Mr Wallace decks he mounted with forty guns. him. Then I fired—not till then. Nothing is more probable. They been arrested and that $25 was immediately This was more than the good people found that most of the plants in God help you—poor Sara—poor His promises of booty soon gathered of that state could bear. Whatever have grown cordially to hate each necessary as bail money Azorean flora are well adapted to be Sara!" a crowd of eager ruffians under their opinion of piracy, they had no for him Without thinking of uncertainty carried by the methods just suggested—forty-five other, of that fact Sara feels right These are the last words he ever humor to have their goods snatched of the man's identity Mrs. his command. Ship after ship was of the 439 flowering sure They are living at the same speaks. And so the race has been from them, the stuffs for ladies Nieland gave him the money. At 4 plants belonging to genera that captured, some were scuttled and run, and so death has won it.—Boston hotel and are constantly thrown together. gowns and the wines and brandies o'clock the son, who was supposed to have either pappus or winged seeds, their crews made to walk the plank. Globe. lor the men folks, Sara shudders when she remembers sixty-five to such as have minute have been arrested, came home, and But he saved the five best of these what evidence she has had Finding that their own governor seeds, thirty to those with fleshy it was found that there was nothing ships. When he had a fleet of six was unwilling or unable to help them, of how fierce a temper each possesses. whatever in the story except the $25for fruits which are greedily eaten by Mrs. a Goat. and having no stomach to attack vessels he felt the need of a port of birds, some have hispid seeds, and the sharper. Oh, why can she not be like other The telling of a joke on one's self this wild beast in his lair, the colonists 'his own, where he could refit and store eighty-four are glumaceous plants women? Why must she suffer so requires more self denial than the appealed to Governor SpotsI well-suited to conveyance by winds the spoil. New Providence lay near re a in in Brandy keenly from what seems nothing except wood of Virginia to come to their majority of persons care to exercise. and currents. The only trees and the tiack of ships bound to the West aid. He immediately ordered Lieutenant A shocking inciden fc occurred the her own gross stupidity and shrubs of this isolated group are It has the advantage, however, Maynard of the roval navy Indies, and hither this new freebooter silly irresolution. bearers of small berries such as the a on a is A a of hurting nobody's feelings, and oi r- P" to proceed against Black Beard in 1 now steered. Just at this stage of Sara's a legitimatL prentice baker was carrying: a ,ar Portugal laurel, myrtle, laurustinus, affording a field for exa an armed ship. Maynard was just W a 1 containing about six gallons of thoughts the sound of a footstep The colony of New Providence was and elder, while those with heavy I the man to succeed in so desperate WTebb geration. The late Mrs. Lucy brandy on his shoulder up a dark directly behind her meets the young too feeble to offer fit resistance, and berries, which could not be conveyed an enterprise. Black Beard heard of Hayes was especially fond of recounting staircase where a jet of gas is generr girl's ear. She turns, and in the Teach, without so much as saying by the means suggested—oaks, chestnuts, I his coming and anchored his own vesI ally burning. On the seeond landing vague dark sees Walter Crosbie's tall, her own defeats and mishaps, "by your leave," at once proceeded hazel, apples, beeches, alders, sel in an advantageous position. He he missed his foot and stumbled commanding figure, and fair, Saxon to take possession and make that an as this anecdote, which she firs—are absent, common as they had a crew of twenty-five picked men against the wall. The ]ar broke, the face. He begins speaking with ambushjirom which his cruisers could of true piratical fibre. They had been are in Europe. The character of the told one evening at a dinner at the liquet came in contact with the gas brusque suddenness: "Sara—Miss spring iorth and waylay the merchant in many a fight and knew well that flora is that of the southwestern peninsula White House, will show: and in a moment the uiffortunate Prescott—I have come to bid you ships. There he held high carnival the only thing for a pirate in battle of Europe, and if we assume It was at our home in Fremont, lad was enveloped in flames of burning good-by." there many a bloody deed was is to win or die, but to surrender that one half of its species is indigenous, one evening November, when without spirit. His heartrending cries wrought, and the ribald revelry of She clasped both hands together (never, for that meant inglorious the other introduced by Europen any warning the thermometer brought the tenents out but the heat in an abrupt burst of surprise. many a foul orgie profaned the midnight death at the rope's end. settlers, there is still a rich and varied began Jailing and snowflakes filled was so great that they could not get "You cannot possibly mean it?" stillness of that summer isle. the au- I was all alone in the house near him for some time, and he died flora which Mr. Wallace thinks has Maynard had a much larger crew "I do. I am tired of being played Teadli from all accounts was appearance with my youngest children and thencolored before their eyes in intense suffering. been recently over 900 miles of ocean fast and loose with from dav bv than Black Beard. He concealed exactly what the pirates of nurse, Winnie. The men When the police and the doctors arrived by the means just indicated. It is believed day." most of his men below the deck. But romance should be of a grim and servants had gone to their homes they found nothing but a body that the phenomena in queston "You are! not going," she answers his ship grounded when approaching most temble aspect. He was heavily before dark. "Suddenly I thought completely calcined, and it took calmly, after a little silence and while the pirate, who at once opened a terrible are still in progress, and that built, his shoulders were broad, of poor Christopher Columbus, oui them some time to prevent the burning they are walking-on. "I know by fire. Twenty men were shot 900 miles does not form the limit of and his muscles like iron. His complexion long haired, pugnacious Angora brandy setting fire to the woodwork your tones and your manners that it down at the first broadside. Seeing the distance to which the same ocear was tawny, his eyebrows goat, out the pasture. It seemed on the whole house. is only a ruse, You are not going but few men left on deck, Black Beard carrying of plants extends. black and bushy, and beneath them cruel to leave him there without any until I—I give vou a final answer." concluded that the man-of-war was bis eyes shone with a glare that shelter, so presently I went and asked "And for God's sake," Walter completely crippled and boarded her freezes one to the marro w. But the Winnie to get a lantern and come bursts forth, "when is that final answer with most of his crew. At that moment S me for William Tell. most remarkable feature of this sea with me. coming? There are times, Sara Maynard ordered up the men ruffian was his beard. It was of a A report that the Swiss government f- Prescott, when I feel like beheviug hidden below. They sprang on deck "At the barn we found a great box, raven blackness and grew to his has issued a decree forbidding that no more heartless coquette than and flew at the pirates like tigers, into which we put some straw, and waist. When, he was going into battle the reading or relating in the public yourself ever drew breath, and that taking them completely by surprise. together we rolled and pushed and or preparing to toss a score of schools of the romantic story of you care no more for me than you do The two captains met in a hand to carried that box across the roadand trembling wrenches from the yardarm William Tell, on the ground that the for Kalph Curtis/' hand conflict and it came near going into the pasture. he had the habit of twisting his legend of that hero and patriot is "Pardon me. I think I heard my hard with Maynard when his "Christopher saw the light and beard into braids Indeed he took a utterly without foundation fact, name mentioned," and the owner of sword broke but just as he was about came toward it. We retreated behind special pride in this hairy ornament, has been published in numerous papers to fall beneath the corsan's descending the name stands before them. the fence, and tried to coax him and by it acquired the notorious in different parts of the United blade he fired his pistol and Black Sara utters a little scream of dismay. into the place of shelter. Imagine name af Black Beard. This practical States. Among others, the New Beard threw up his arms, reeled and our sentiments when he mounted to admiral always carried a cutlass dropped to the deck dead. He cheated York Tribune editorially commented "How unexpected," she falters, and the top of the box, and there took at his side and over his shoulders the gallows and his end was more upon the matter, regretting the reported then there is a silence among the trio up his abode for the night!"— were a pepuliar belt contrived by glorious than his deserts. Every action as an exhibition of which lasts until Walter Crosbie Youth's Companion. "himself, which no less than six of one of the boarding party of seventeen harshly breaks it. iconoclasm. the huge pistols of that day were were killed or wounded. 'Very unexpected," he exclaims, suspended. This was evidently a Every one who has a spark of romance and yet after all scarcely inoppertune Presidentia Profanity. pirate of uncommon magnitude, and Maynard in turn now boarded the in his composition will be BotE tbe method and results when. I, for one, am glad that it has President Harrison, being a dea* rhe pirate ship, just in time to seize a his deeds showed that was as glad to learn that it is possible that Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant occurred. It gives me at least the con in. the Presbyterian church, is negro standing with lighted match fierce and daring as he looked. the report is unfounded. The Tribune's opportunity of asking you in Mr. and refreshing to the taste, and. acts supported not to be in the habit OJ by the magazine to blow up the ship, But, after a time, the oft repeated editorial has called forth a fivery Curtis' presence, Miss Sara, how entr yet promptly on the Kidneys, swearing. Nobody has been known outrages of Black Beard reached such according to Black Beard's order, communipation to that paper from much longer you desire that this and Bowels, cleanses tha systern to hearbim. Many of the presidentg. a point that the West India merchants case of defeat. The eight men remaining John Hitz, late consul-general of masquerade shall continue. Do you effectually, dispels, colds, headaches on board were hanged and have, however, been able to svear, appealed for aid to the English Switzerland, now a resident of New wish to walk home with Mr. Curtis and fevars and «ures habitual the head of Black Beard was fixed and. dad so. Jackson stands pre-ominent government. A powerful fleet York, in which the statement is made or myself?" And then Ralph Curtis constipation. Syrup »f Figs is the. to the end of the bow3prit of his own was sent against him, too powerful lor his mouth filling oaths. Hia that the Swiss government, instead puts only remedy of its kind eve* produced, —. for him to resist with any hope of ship, and in this manner Maynard genius for investing startling expletives of seeking to destroy the fame of Tell, "I echo Mr. Crosbie's question." pleasing to tie taste and acceptable success, and the pirate prince of the returned with his trophy to Virginia. is moving to do him honor. Mr. was extroaciinary. With age, Whereupon poor weak Sara burst to. the stomach, prompt ia Bahamas, the self-appointed governor While Black Beard was thus terminating Hitz says: however, his habit of cussing grew into tears. his wild career, his former its action and truly beneficial in its of New Providence, John Teach, Only recently collections have been less pronouciced, and he generally "Please go away," she sobs brol comrade, Steed Bonnet, carried effects, prepared only from the most otherwise Black Beard, wisely decided It 1 made all over this country for a kenly. "I can walk home very well contented himself with saying, "By matters with such a high hand on to put up his helm and run to a healthy and agreeable substances* its monument to William Tell, to be by myself." the Eternal?" unless the occasion required safer port. the coast of South Carolina ,that many excellent qualities commend it erected upon the place in Altdorf "Let there be home decision,'* said something stronger. Andy We next hear of Black Beard on Governor Johnson fitted out an expedition to all and hare made it the most where the hero made his famous apple Ralph, addressing his rival. Johnson eussed frightfully. Grant, against that corsair. It the coast of the Carolinaa. A rendezvous popular remedy known.. shot. These collections were forwarded "If Miss Prescott will not make it although a smoker and drinker, was commanded by Captain William was made in the night at by the representative of the herseli it is for us to do so/ Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c never uttered an oath, though he fthelt, member of a family that has Cape Fear. And this bold desperado Swiss government at Washington to "I do not understand," replies and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. actually dared to block Charleston. since become noted. The ships met was a military man. He was the ^J the federal authorities in Berne. The %t Walter. i„m Any reliable druggist who t*t 1 I seens incredible to us now, but is near Cape Fear river, and a desperate only soldier president who never Swiss government itself contributed Ralph draws near to him. caay not W it on hand will prosure none the less a fact. His three ablest conflict ensued. The pirates were swore. The best known swearer ol to this monument fund, I am informed, "I beg your pardon, "he commences, Ufft. it promptly for any one who overpowered, many were killed, and -captains were named Vane, Worley the present day is Gen. Sherman, a and would surely not b&ve done speaking to Sara, and then there follows wishes to try it* Do not accept any Bonnet, with twenty-nine of his men, and Steed Bonnet, men whose reputaI though Sheridan when he lived was a so did they consider the Tell story between the two men an inaudible were taken alive and carried to substitute. vi tion for courage and skill was only rival for* the honor, but with Vittle merely a myth, or haft they taken whispered conference which she I second to that of their dread admijral, Charleston. They received a summary CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., Phil dead he reigns the prince o^oath the action your well-raeaning article who witnesses it watches and wonders^ and in the royal service might trial and all but one were refers to.T^fS ^^S^S" inventors.—Pittsburg Press^ %t. The conference continue* SAN FB4N&SGQ, CAl„ LOmSYIUS. KY. fitEW YORK. N.