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CHAPTER VII
|»S , ADVENTURE ON THE
ISLAND
_;^Ui bJtvo good legs,
\Aatdistlinced SUver
gaTe>n# the ehue.
|e ooBtInued tor half an hour
the underbrush and tben
I*to a (bearing. He started to
sr «Bon the sandy cleared
e, %ut lumped siiddenly hack
t^ laft« ugly llaards crawl-
Biovly Into the underbrush.
D took to his heels and did
atop running until he came
i large tree at the edge of a
d«d glade. He was panting
pusly, coveted with sweat
wiped off with his
'was just thinking how
he had been in escap
ing from -the two gigantic liz
ards when he was startled into
new tear by hearing the voice
of Long John^ Silver. He drew
fipiuickly back among the bushes
and listened.
“Copae now, Tom.’i came Sil
ver’s voice, pleasantly, "haul to
and think it over."
"What are you a-telling me,
lohn Silver!" Jim heard Tom,
tone o^he loyal members of the
[rrew,..Mpf'-‘‘r won’t listen to the
iltkea diatbat! Now be oft! I
I'don’t want my rigging fouled
mutiny. I’m an honest sea-
_ and I swear I never met
Idlrtfer scum than you! Now you
heard Silver hobble away, and
got up and ran blindly onward
thrortgh the underbrush, his eyes
filled with terror. At last he
. came to the stpny slope of a
clearing and saw a furtive, dark
figure leap from behind one tree
to another, starting stoims to
rolling down the bank. Jim start
ed to go to one side, down tO'
wards the sea, a glimpse of
which he caught between the
trees, but the dark figure disap
peared only to appear directly in
front of him several hundred
feet on, cutting off his escape to
the sea. Jim pulled the- pistol
from underneath his coat and
aimed it at the uncouth figure
with a beard covering almost its
entire face, clothed in tattered
ship’s canvas and in goatskins.
"Do-hont! Do-hont!’’ cried the
ape-like figure, stopping and ap
proaching him guardedly.
“Who . . . who are you?’’ ask
ed Jim, lowering the pistol.
“Ben Gunn—I’m por Ben
Gunn, I am,” said the sinister
figure, advancing closer. “And I
haven’t spoke- with a Christian
these three years.”
“Three years! Were you ship
wrecked?”
“Nay, mate—marooned! Ma
rooned three years—gone and
lived on goats and berries and
oysters. But, oh. my heart’s sore
A' wild, unearthly scream cut
■kort Tom’s words and set Jim’s
heart to thumping again, louder
than ever.
“Silver, i n heaven’s name,
iihat was that!’’ said Tom.
"That? Oh, I reckon that'll be
VAllan
"So you’ve killed Allan, have
k-you? Well, rest his soul for a
Ltrue seaman! But kill me if you
^Can! 1 defies you’’’
Jim peeked between the shrubs
saw Tom walking proudly
'away from Silver; saw Silver lift
up his crutch and hurl it after
Tom, striking him in the back
f\and felling him to earth: saw
;ver, a horrid smile on his
draw hi.s knife and hobble
on one leg to the prostrate sail-
' «r and plunge his knife into his
..back.
-■ It was all Jim could do to
keep from screaming out. He hid
his face in his arms, stifling the
cry that was on his lips, and lay
on the ground shuddering. He
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Jim. all excitcmoBU v
“Aha!* exclaimed Gunn, war
ily. “That’8 what yoar 'Baulro
and Doctor would like to know,'
says I. Yes, says you!’»-
He pointed to the beach below
them.
. “Snug in behind , that white
rock is my little skin boat and
paddle as I made with my own
hands. So you takes it and goes
out and sees the Squire. And yon
tells him Ben Gunn puts a prec
ious sight more confidence—;a
precious sight, ' mind you—in
gentlemen born than in gentle
men of fortune." He nipped Jim’s
cheek between his fingers. “And
then yon’ll give him a nip, like
I do you. And then you says
Ben’ll meet him right here on
this hill—^and he’s to come alone,
with a white thing in his hands
“Yes, but—’’
“When, says you? Why any
time from noon observation to
six bells. And, Jim, If you was
to meet Silver now you won't tell
him old Gunn is on the island,
would you?”
“Oh, no!”
“Wild horses wouldn’t drag It
from you? No, says you?” Jim
shook his hand on it. "That’s
sweet, says I."
“Upon my word,’’ said Jim, “I
don’t know what you’re saying,
but I’ll tell the Doctor and the
Sviuire all about
lotke To
Wilkesboro,
w-
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starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable is announced. /In their new
est vehicle. “Chained,” the glamorous couple of “Dance Fools, Dance,”
“Possessed," and “Dancing Ladjy,” are again paired in a drama that
will hold you from start to finish. Clarence Brown directed . . . enough
said. Thursday and Friday at the Liberty Theatre.
His words were cut short offj
bv the boom of a cannon being
Republicans Have Eye
On 1936_ In Fight They
Are Giving New Deal
TAt cannon ball struck the stern of the
jcUy boat, throwing all the occupants
in tie water.
Washington, Oct. 1.—With the
general tide of public favoi itlll
flowing in the direction of the
new deal. Republican generals
are building up sea walls In the
present campaign which they
hope will stop the Democratic
wave before 1936.
In the most optimistic Repub
lican quarters it is conceded
that unless some unusual set
back is experienced by the Roose
velt administration between now
and November 6, Democratic
control of the 74th Congress is
certain.
While the old guard Republi
cans are putting up a •bold fight
against the pro-Roosevelt forces
tor Christian diet! You mightn’t
to have a piece of cheese about
you now?" He crawled forward,
fawning. J'm shook his head,
and Ben Gunn continued: “No,
says you? Well, says I, many’s
the. long night I’ve dreamed of
cheese — toasted mostly — and
woke up again, and here I was!’’
“If I ever get aboard again
you shall have some,” said Jim,
nervously polite.
"Now what's to hinder you
getting aboard. That ain’t Flint’s
ship, i.s it?”
“.\o. Flint’s dead, but most of
his hands arc aboard, worse luck
for the rest of us.”
’’Not . . . not a man with one
leg?" asked Gunn, whimpering.
“You mean Long John Silver?”
Gunn jumped away from the
boy. "If you was sent by him,
I’m as good as pork and I know
it! But who are the rest of you?”
“Why Squire Trelawney and
Dr. Livesey and the Captain and
“Ah! Squires and Doctors!’’
cried Gunn, suddenly excited.
“Gentlemen born, says I! That’s
different—different from gen
tlemen of fortune. You can trust
gentlemen born! Now you’re all
in a clove hitch. Perhaps poor
old Ben Gunn’s the one to undo
it, says I! How says you?’’
“Well. I don’t—
“Well, says I!’’ cried Gunn,
gleefully, and started to lead Jim
away. "We’ll have a council of
war. I’ll hear your tale and you’ll
hear mine. If your Squire’s a
liberal-minded gentleman some
thing might come of it, says I.”
Jim told his story quickly as
they wandered through tlie trees,
and Ben Gunn, in turn, told how
he had been a member of Flint’s
ship when Flint had buried his
treasure on the island, and how,
returning there on another ship,
three years later, he had led the
crew on a twelve days’ fruitless
search for the treasure.
"One fine morning all hands
went aboard. ‘As for you, Ben
jamin Gunn,’ says they, ‘here’s
a musket and a pickaxe. If you’re
so sure Flint’s money is here.
hey’ll head us off from the stock
ade!"
When they were safely enscon-
j ced in the wlde-porched log cab-
begun to fight!”! in within the stockade, the up-
Come on! We’ll—" {right timbers of which, enclosing
half an acre, were six feet high,
Captain Smollett ran a Union
Jack up the flagpole. The men
on the ship again fired the can
non, the shot missing. Dr. Live
sey suggested lowering the flag,
as it spotted the stockade.
“Strike my collars! Never!”
said Smollett. “This spot is Eng
land!”
(Continued next Thursday)
fired.
"They’ve
cried Jim.
“No,” said Ben Gunn. "You
tell your Squire. Reasons of my
own, Jim! Reasons of my own!”
and the queer-looking fellow
darted away among the trees.
■jim started running towards
the shore, keeping in the shelter
of the trees not to make a target
tor one of Silver’s pirates. He
saw the jolly boat making to
wards short, with Captain Smol
lett, Livesey, the Squire and two
sailors in it. He watched Tre
lawney stand up and the careful
aim at a hunccaneer loading the
brass cannon on the Hispaniola.
He could scarce refrain from a
shout when he saw the man on
ship drop t" the deck. Another
pirate scrambled to the edge of
the ship and fired a musket at
the jolly boat. One of the men-—
it looked like Redruth—half
arose in his feet and toppled
over into the water.
“Stay at your oars!" Smol
lett’s voice carried to Jim’s lis
tening ears. “He’s gone! We’ve
got to beach the boat or she’ll
swamp!”
Indeed the Jolly boat soon
foundered making its way
through the breakers. Jim saw
smoke belch from the mouth of
the Hispaniola’s cannon, heard
the whine of the ball as it went
through the air and struck the
stern of the jolly boat, throwing
all the occupants and the load of
provisions it carried Into
water. Captain Smollett,
Livesey, the Squire" and
waded to shore, holding
guns high above them to
them dry.
Forgetting all caution,
ran down to the beach and into
the water to help them.
“Jim!” cried Dr. Livesey.
“Thank heaven you’re safe!”
Jim saw Gray grab a cutlass
from the foundered boat and
possessed himself of another.
“Abandon the boat!” com
manded Smollett. “Nothing’s any
good to us now. Lively now or
for favor in November, their real
aim is to get their party in po
sition for an ebbing of the Dem
ocratic tide which they expect
will set in before the 1936 pres
idential campign.
Any strength they might gain
in November of course would be
a decided asset to the Republi
can organization. However, gen
eral Indications for the country
as a whole point to a preponder
ance of Democratic victories in
the contest for Congress control.
These Indications are strength
ened by checkups on the relative
party strengths exhibited in pri
mary elections which closed in
September.
What effect another sweeping
Democratic victory would have
on the Republican party remains
to be seen. G. O. P. leaders, how
ever, claim to see a tendency on
the part of conservatives to
swing away from the new deal.
They point for confirmation to
Michigan and a few other states
where some anti-administration
candidates polled bigger votes in
primaries than Democrats.
Wbereas, tlia Btnte Board of
^ecttons of North' Carolina on:
^ptatnber 1st, 1934, ordered the
lounty Board of .Eleetiona of
SYiikea county to divide" North
mikeahoro Townah>p, Mulberry
Townahip and Wllkeaboro Town
ship Into two precincts and to
>rder new re^tration of all
qualified legal votem In the above
ownsbipa; and whereas the State
Board of Blectlotfs further order
ed that the regiatration hooka In
ill the other townships and pre-
dncts be^ transcribed. Into new
books, ■’
And whereas, the Couniy
Board of Elections met In the
ilty hall on September 19, 1934,
at tVo hour of 10 a. m., .after
giving notice In the local news-
•iapera that this meeting would
be held for the purpose of nol^
fying. ail Interested parties that
the board would divide and make
additional precincts In North
Wilkesboro, Mulberry and Wll-
kesboro 'Townships, at which time
various parties wtere present and
diseuBsed the division of . these
townships, and whereas, the
Board of Elections of Wilkes
county met at the city hall In
the town of North Wilkesboro on
September 20th, 1934, and upon
motion duly made and carried,
ordered the following townships
to be divided Into precincts as
follows;
NORTH WILKESBORO
Beginning on the Mulberry
road In Mulberry line, running
south with Highway No. 18 to
iUg an efsternly direction the
Ashe and Allethapy county Unc.
to, an IntersecUoB of the , eatab-.
UahoA Une of Walnut '' Grove
Township; thence in a south*
wardly direction with the Wal
nut Grove Township line as now
eatabliahed to tbe'polirt of begin
ning in the road at the top of
the mountain known as the Yel
low Banks. All on the north
aide of the line to be Mulberry
Precinct No. 1; all on the sonth
aide of the line to be Mulberry
Precinct No. 2.
It is further ordered that the
polling place for North Wilkea-
■bord Precinct No. 1 shall be In,
at or near the building known aa
the Call Hotel Building on B
Street; that the polling place in
North Wilkesboro Precinct No;
2 shall be in, at or near ^the
building known as Blair’s Store
on 'B Street. *■
That the polling place for Wil
kesboro Precinct No. 1 shall he
In, at or near the county court
house building; that the polling
place for Wilkes’ooro Precinct
No. 2 shall be in, at or ..near the
school building known as the
Straw Schoolhouse near Straw
postoffice.
That the polling place for Mul
berry Precinct No. 1 shall
be in, at or near Felix Hall’s
store; that the polling place for
Mulberry Precinct No. 2, shall
be in, at or near Sulphur Springs
schoolhouse.
It is further ordered that all
names On the registration books
fork of road at A. A. Cashion’s ! of the aforementioned townships
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Emporia, Kansas, to restrict resi
dents to four inches of water in
their bath tubs. One wonders
whether the City sent around an
inspector to make sure that the
ordinance was obeyed. — Roa
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SEE THE WORLD’S FAIR
3-DAY ECONOMY TOUR “A” J28.10
(Transportation to and from Chicago Included)'*'
This tour rate if $28.10 is for one person, and includes
all features listed below. It provides a most inexpen
sive and enjoyable visit to the World’s Fair, anti is es
pecially suited to the tourist whose time is limited.
1. 3 days’ and 2 nights’ hotel accommodation.
2. Transportation from terminal to hotel.
3. 2 General admissions to the Exposition grounds.
4. Admission 'to one of the following: Fort Dearborn,
Lama Temple, Colonial Village.
5. Sightse^g bus tour of the fair grounds.
6. Choice M one of the following sightseeing .trips: (a)
Chicago Northside tour by Gray Line (b) Chicago
Southside by Gray lane, (c) Chicago Stockyards
Tour by Gray Line, (d) Moonlight cruise on Lake
Michigan, or any of the other sightseeing cruises
operated by the Steamer Roosevelt.
6-DAY ECONOMY TOUR “B”
(Transportation to and from Chicago Included)'*^
This tour rate of $35.60 is for one person, and includes
all features listed below:
1. 6 days’ and nights’ hotel accommodation.
2. Transportation from terminal hotel.
3. 3 General admission tickets to the exposition grounds
4. Admission to one of the following: Fort Dearborn,
Lama Temple, Ckilonial Village.
b. Sightseeing bus tour of the fair grounds.
6. Includes same as listed in paragraph six above.
For Further information considt Local Agent
ATLANTIC GREYHOUND LINES..
Beach Kellar, Agent North Wilkesboro, N. C,
filling station; thence with Eliza
beth street to the Trogdon road
and with the Trogdon road south
to where same crosses branch
and thence with the branch to D
street: thence east with D street
to Intersection of Sixth street;
thence south with Sixth street to
Ice plant; thence a straight line
south to Yadkin River. West of
line to be North Wilkesboro No.
1, east of the line to be North
Wilkesboro No. 2. •
WILKESBORO
Beginning on south side ol
Yadkin River where Southern
Power Company’s power line
crosses Yadkin River near the
bridge in east end of North Wil
kesboro; thence with said line
south to top of Brushy Mountain
to Brushy Mountain Township
line; thence in easterly direction
with Brushy Mountain Township
line to Lovelace Township line;
thence in northeastwardly direc
tion to Antioch Township line;
thence in a northwardly direction
with Antioch Township line to
the Yadkin River; thence up and
with the Yadkin River to the be
ginning. East of the Southern
' Power Company’s line to be Wil
kesboro Precinct No. 2; west of
the Southern Power Company’s
line to be Wilkesboro Precinct
No. 1.
MULBERRY
Beginning in the Walnut Grove
Township line at the Yellow
Banks In the public road, and
running with the public road in
a southwardly direction, by the
way of the home of Uriah Myers
to the intersection of the Hay
Meadow road near the home of
L. B. Myers; thence running in a
westwardly direction with the
Hay Meadow road passing the
home of Ben Hayes to M. F.
Absher's store; thence through
the farm of M. F. Absher in a
westwardly direction, running
south of the home of M. F. Ab
sher and old Franklin Absher
home to Mulberry Creek; thence
up said creek to the mouth of a
branch, sonth of the home of
Eugene Sebastian; thence in a
;we8ternly direction with said
branch, passing the spring of
Dock Kilby to the source of said
branch; thence in a westernly
direction to the top of the moun
tain; thence with the top of the
mountain to the northern boun
dary line of the lands known as
Floyd Absher and Billie Brown
lands; thence with the northern-
ly boundary lines of said lands of
Floyd Absher and Billie Brown
to the old Mountain road that
runs from Mulberry to the Union
Township line; thence in a north-
westernly direction with said old
thence in a northernly direction
with the Union Township line,
as has divided the township of
Union and Mulberry Townships to
the top of the mountain at thCj
Ashe county line; thence follow-/
shall be stricken off, except those
who have registered under the
absentee law or those legally en
titled to remain upon the books
as provided by law, and that all
voters who are legally entitled to
register and qualify to vote In the
coming November election and
In primaries and elections here
inafter held shall present them
selves to the Registrar of the re
spective precincts on the days
provided by law for the registra
tion of voters, at which time, and
place, if found qualifled, they
will be entitled to register un
der the order of the new registra
tion which is herein called; that
the County Board of Elections
wants it specifically understood
that "all voters who have hereto
fore registered in North Wilkes-
,boro, "WilkeBboro and Mulberry
Townships will not b© entitled to
vote in the coming November
election unless they present
themselves to the Registrar on
the days provided by law and are
found qualified to register, except
those who are legally entitled to
remain upon the books as pro
vided by law
It is further ordered that a
new registration be had in Union
township, Wilkes County, and
all names on the registration
books of said township shall be
stricken off, except those legally
entitled to remain upon said
books, as provided by law, and
all, voters desiring to register In
said township shall present them
selves to the Registrar on days
provided by law for the regis
tration of voters; that this order
is made for the reason that there
are a large number of voters In
Union Township and that part of
Union was at one time a part of
Ashe county and the books have
never been properly revised.
It is further ordered that in all
precincts and townships other
than those four specifically nam
ed above that the names in the
registration books of said town
ships , and precincts b© transcrib
ed into new books.
It is further ordered that a
copy of this order he posted in
three public places in Wilkes
county, and at the courthouse
door in Wilkesboro, N. C., and
advertised In a. local newspaper.
It Is further ordered that all
registration books shall be open
in all townships and precincts In
Wilkes county On the day, time
and place as provided by law
for the registration of voters,
and that the first day for the
registration of voters shall be
October 13, 1934.
Done by order of the Board of
County Elections, this the 20th
day of September, 1934.
R. M. BRAME, JR.,
Chairman Wilkes County Board
of Elections.
Attest: •
J. C. GRAYSON,
Secretary Wilkes County Board
of Elections.