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The BomafHic/frstoryofa Cement Talk No. 10 t Pirate Ifo&r cf Concrete work ft stands the weath­ er. No rotting, Poet—In winter I write poema ~3y Ji£zT£& Nobis BURNS keep the wolf from the door. shrinking, warping, Coftyr/pAJ; /&/f 6y M O. Cf/APMAJY Admiring Friend—Yes- Poet—And in summer I have to no crumbling nor with Thompson's keep on writing poems so the iceman HE good bark N. F., named Keating, with full di­ will stop at the door. rusting can occur Hesperus will rections how to find the . chart to guide them. "The cave, Keat­ where good sand, gravel spread her Thompson died under mysterious cir­ ALMOST CRAZY WITH ECZEMA white wings at cumstances a little later and the ing said, was 15 feet or crushed stone have Eagle Harbor, suspicion grew that Keating killed long by J.2 feet been mixed properly with Wash., in a few him. However that may. be, Keating .broad, with a ceil­ % "I, the undersigned, cannot give weeks and sail sailed to Cocos island in 1844 with ing high enough to enough praise to the Cuticura Rem­ UNIVERSAL Portland away across the Captain Bogue, a seaman of sufficient permit a man to edies. I had been doctoring for at blue Pacific into means to finance the expedition. They stand upright. It least a year for eczema on my foot. I Cement and cast into the heart of the found the treasure, but Bogue never was full of bars of had tiied doctor after doctor all to sidewalks, floors, steps, most fascinating returned. Keath g said he was gold and sacks of no avail. When a young girl I sprained foundations or other concrete romance of all drowned in the surf while attempting money. Many of the my ankle three different times, paying pirate story. to climb into a boat with his boots sacks bore the stamp little or no attention to it, when five work. Our best customers Capt. Frede­ and pockets stuffed with gold. It is of the Bank of years ago a small spot showed upon are our old customers who rick Hackett, in generally believed that Keating mur­ Lima. There were -A my left ankle. I was worried and sent know by experience that concrete made command of the dered him. many golden cruci­ for a doctor. He said it was eczema. from UNIVERSAL cement is good for fixes, chalices and vessel, claims to be the only man in Keating made a second visit to the He drew a small bone from the ankle years of use. Ask your dealer for all the world who knows the secret of church ornaments. Z about the size of a match and about island four years later and again UNIVERSAL when you have any the of Cocos island. found the treasure. In both trips he A statue of the Ma­ an inch long. The small hole grew He plans on this expedition to lift the is supposed to have brought away gold donna of solid gold lay upon the to about the size of an apple, and the concrete work to do. vast wealth plundered by sea rovers and jewels to the value of $150,000. floor. It was so heavy that Keat­ f eczema spread to the knee. The doc­ UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO. . I in the early part of the last century He was prevented from recovering the ing and Bogue together could not tors never could heal the hole in the SECURITY BANK BUXL. MINNEAPOLIS .r and hidden on the island in a cave, entire treasure by mutinous crews on lift it, but could only push it along. ankUi The whole foot ran water all ANNUAL OUTPUT 10.000.000 BARRELS the exact location of which has been both voyages. Keating and Bogue are The glitter of the piles of gold, the time, lost and for which adventurers have the only men, so far as Is known, who Keating said, fairly made him reel "My husband and my sons were up sought in vain for many years. ever recovered treasure from Cocos and seemed to fill the cave with a night and day wheeling me from one He is equipped with hydraulic min­ island. ghostly radiance that at first room to another in the hope of giving ing machinery and has sufficient pro­ Keating passed his secret on to the struck him with awe. me some relief. I would sit for hours visions to remain for a year if nec­ Hackett brothers, both seamen and his "Bogue and Keating tied a few at a time in front of the fireplacp ShoePolishe Finest In Quality. Largest En Variety* essary on the island, which lies 300 neighbors in St. John's. Keating had coins in a handkerchief and rowed hoping for daybreak. The pain was They meet every requirement for "'"T'lnc miles off the western coast of Central lost or destroyed the chart which he back to their ship. They told the so intense I was almost crazy, in fact, polishing shoes of all kinds and colors. America. That a score of former ex­ had obtained from Thompson. But he sailors they had found a spring of and -towns up and down the western The Peruvian authorities, of coarse, I would lose my reason for hours at peditions have proved failures does drew another chart which he gave to fresh water, but they were so excited coast, pillaging the cathedrals and lay­ did not dream that Captain Thompson, a time. One day a friend of mine not discourage him. The treasure the Hacketts with explicit instructions with what they had seen that they act­ ing tribute upon the citizens. His who so bravely flaunted the English dropped in to see me. No more had -DANDY ; • • gdgu • hunters who have gone before have how to find the cave. Keating died in ed unnaturally and the crew, may be, DRESSING;"--!, - fame as a cruel and rapacious sea rob­ flag, had sailed in earlier days under she glanced at my foot than she ex­ .. LAI* 1 ' ll;V> i depended upon pick and shovel. He 1883 and Capt. Thomas Hackett, the had suspicions of the truth, anyway. ber spread from the Horn to the Span­ the with Benito Bonito's claimed: 'Mrs. Finnegan, why in the : n.Vf .SHOKS • ;! ' will be the first prepared to use elder brother, sailed in 1885 on an ex­ One word led to another, and Bogul ish settlements in California. In hunt­ cut-throat crew. But with $11,000,000 World don't you try the Cuticura Rem­ " Tw-"MEV' | 0E - j? • hydraulic mining methods. Earth­ pedition bound for Cocos, but the voy­ and Keating told as little as possible, ing for a spot in which to bury his battened down in his hold the old law­ edies!' Being disgusted with the doc­ quakes, he says, have shaken down but it was enough for the crew, who age ended with his death in Havana growing treasure, he chanced upon Co­ less spirit of his buccanneering days tors and their medicines, and not be­ : landslides upon the treasure cave and from yellow fever. made them promise to go shares. cos island. ftaCf^KtST_C'ai-0R* flamed upf anew in Thompson, and he ing able to sleep at all, I decided to : V- j changed the topography of the island. Capt. Frederick Hackett, who is "Right here Keating and Bogue be­ Cocos island is a volcanic speck in could not resist the temptation to turn give the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura He will wash the earth away with about to undertake the latest Cocos gan to play their game more shrewd­ the Pacific ocean and belongs to Costa robber again. In the night watches he Ointment a trial. After using them streams of water powerful enough to island treasure hunt, has himself made ly. They served out unlimited grog, Rica. It is 300 miles off the Costa and his men slit the throats of the three days that night I slept as sound uproot trees and burst rocks asunder. « two former unsuccessful expeditions. as if to celebrate treasure trove. Long Rica coast, 500 miles from Panama, guardians of the treasure, slipped as a dollar for eight long hours. •He is confident of success. Captain Hackett was formerly a GILT EDGE the only ladies shoe dreaata# before night the whole outfit was glori­ and 5 degrees north of the equator. their cables and put to sea. I awoke in the morning with but very ibat positively contains OIL. Blacks and Polishes* "When I return to the United whaling skipper. He has been a sea­ ously drunk except Keating and Bogue, On the trip to Cocos island destined The Mary Dear bore up for Cocos little pain, in fact, I thought I was .adles' and children's boots and shoesi. shines States," says Captain Hackett, "I shall man all his life. He formerly sailed without robbing, 25c. "French Gloss," 10c. who took care to remain strictly sober. to be Bonito's last, a number of his island and dropped anchor in Wafer In heaven. After using the Cuticura DANDY combination for cleaning and polishlnf have the entire Cocos island treasure out of St. John's, Newfoundland, where All hands turned in early to sleep off men became dissatisfied. Having row­ aU kinds of russet or tan shoes, 25c. "Star" size, 10o,. bay. Some portion of the spoil was Remedies for three months I was per­ KLlUTE combination for gentlemen who tak* battened down beneath the hatches of he was born and grew to manhood. their potations and be ready to bring ed their treasure to the cave they gath­ distributed among the crew. The re­ fectly restored to health, thanks to pri.de in ha/ins their shoes look Al. Restores color the Hesperus." For the last ten ye^rs he has made and lustre to rll black sboes. Polish with a brush' the treasure aboard next morning. As ered on the beach in sullen temper, mainder Thompson carried in 11 boat­ the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I or cloth, 26 cents. "Baby Elite" cizo 10 cents. The story of Cocos island makes his home In Vancouver, British Colum­ soon as they were asleep, Keating and If your dealer does not keep the kind you want*' and soon came to open . They loads around the headland wihch sep­ Will be sixty-four years of age my send us his address and the price in stamps foi Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure bia, where he is engaged in tbe fish­ Bogue slipped off to shore in a whale- were tired of . They demanded next birthday, hale and hearty at pres­ a full size package. Island" seem true In comparison, so arates Wafer bay from Chatham bay WHITTEMORE BR08. & CO., ing trade. He is a bluff, ruddy, beard­ boat. They beached their boat and that the entire treasure be divided and there landed it upon the beach. ent." (Signed) Mrs. Julia Finnegan, much stranger are the facts of this 30-26 Albany St., Cambridge, MaMW ed old sea dog, hale and vigorous de­ again made their way to the cave. among them and that they be set upon He sent the boats back to the brig, 2234 Hebert St., St. Louis, Mo., Mar. %h% Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of real romance of burled treasure than 4 spite his three score years, and full They filled their pockets with doub­ the mainland and permitted to shift keeping two men with him. With their 7, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Shoe Polishes in the World. the dream-adventures, highly colored of a boyish enthusiasm over a project loons and pleces-of-eight and louis for themselves. Bonito refused. A assistance he carried the treasure into Ointment are sold by druggists and aa they are, wrought by the imagina­ that has been his one flream for a d'ors. Not satisfied with the money, pitched battle was fought with cut­ the tropical brush and stowed it ip dealers everywhere, a sample of each, tion of the novelist. The marvelous The Wretchedness ( quarter of a century. Sp many expe­ Bogue, stuffed bar gold into his sea- lass and pistol, and in the hand-to- Benito Bonito's old treasure cave1. with 32-page book, will be mailed, thle hafc Its 'beginning in the days ditions to Cocos island have failed to boots so that he could hardly walk hand engagement many were killed. Then he shot the two men. free on application to "Cuticura^" of Constipation when savage , flying skull- find that Captain Hackett for the weight. In launching the boat, Bonito was victorious. With the mu­ Dept. 12 K, Boston. Can quickly be overcome by and-crossbones at their mast-heads, has had difficulty in raising funds for Keating said Bogue went under and tiny suppressed, he sailed for the West He spread to the winds every stitch Carried the and plun­ his present expedition. He succeed­ was drowned. Indies. Off Valparaiso, some one sug­ of canvas and headed the brig west­ The Awakening. CARTER'S LITTLE dered tall galleons on the high seas. ed in getting together $100,000, and "Keating," Captain Hackett went on, gested a carouse ashore. Bonito gave ward in a mad hurry to escape pur­ Dignified mother of prospective LIVER PILLS. suit, but before the tall peaks of Co­ Purely vegetable It fairly glitters from beginning to with this sum he has been able to pro­ "escaped to sea with his plunder, leav­ his consent. Seventeen men were bride (to social editor)—And little cos island had dropped below the ho­ —act surely and s.7ery men murdered that they might never ure was to tear up the earth with months before his death In 1821. Bo­ then planning a campaign of exter­ nito was born in 1788. He was a landed under an armed escort. But f.he human race." successful. By ma.l CO cents. J. P Ai,ii.K>l betray the treasure's secret hiding streams of water thrown by a hy­ mination against Bonito and his buc­ MEDICINE CO., Uest.ii6> HC1'aon - Mimu Spaniard of supposed gentle blood His the desperado was a man of resource, place. Finally It hands down from the draulic mining engine. I have the caneers. Sent to England for the pur­ real identity is not known—Benito Bo­ and he and the mate contrived to es­ far-off time of romance to prosaic latest hydraulic machinery with me pose, Thompson and Chapelle guided nito was an assumed name. He be­ cape and kept in hiding in the caves modern days a great golden mystery now, and I shall set out with perfect a British corvette to one of their old gan bis carreer as a lieutenant of a and undergrowth. For four days arm­ If You Have a Sickly which, like a siren beckoning through faith in the successful outcome of my chief's places of refuge in the Car- Spanish At the close of ed parties searched for them through the years from purple southern seas, voyage. ribean. Bonito's ship and crew were the Napoleonic wars he became mate the length and breadth of the island, "The landslide that now lies on top captured, but the. grim old sea wolf, has lured men to ruin and death. of a Portuguese trading brig. In 1816 pouring volleys into every piece of Youngster Try This Free According to well-authenticated ac- of the treasure cave probably occurred seeing ahead the loom of the gibbet on he quarreled with his captain, mur­ thick scrub or likely hiding place. At cdunts. $23,000,000 in pirate treasure in the middle of the last century dur­ Execution dock, blew out his brains dered him and seized the vessel. From the end of this time, thinking that Is buried on Cocos island. Of this sum ing the violent earthquakes that shook on his own quarter-deck. that date he followed the life of a pi­ perhaps the fugitives had been killed The family with young children that Is the western coast of South and Cen­ Of the subsequent fate of Chapelle ing out the bowels and strengthening the $12,000,000 in money, bullion and rate. One of his first prizes taken in by the broadsides with which the jun­ without sickness In the house now and little stomach muscles, will immediately plate is supposed to have been hidden tral America. Forest trees have grown little is known. gles had been raked, the captain of the then is rare, and so it is important that correct the trouble. upon it, and the appearance of that West Indian waters was an English the head of the house should know what This is not alone our opinion but that In 1821 by Benito Bonito, the last of slaver named the Lightning. Having Thompson drops out of sight until gunboat sailed away. of Mrs. N. EC. Mead of Freeport, Kans., the great pirates who, even after La- part of the island is vastly changed 1838 when he reappears as Captain to do in the little emergencies that arise. whose granddaughter has been taking it since the days of Bonito, Thompson cut her out of Matanzas, where she The two marooned men eked out a A child with a serious ailment needs a successfully and of Mrs. J. R. Whiting fltte had passed away, kept alive upon was lying at anchor one night, he Thompson, master of an English trad­ precarious existence on berries and doctor, it is true, but In the majority of of Lena, Wis., who gives it to her chil­ the ocean the lawless traditions of and Keating. But with my bearings instances, as any doctor knows, tbe child dren and takes it herself. It is sold in burned his own brig and, transferring ing brig, the Mary Dear, which at the birds' eggs until a vessel called at Co­ suffers from some Intestinal trouble, and chart and the instructions given fifty cent and one dollar bottles at every L'Ollonois, Pierre Le Grand, Roche opening of the second chapter of the cos for water. Passing themselves off usually constipation. drug store^ but if you want to test it la me by Keating in many long inter­ his flag to the British vessel, renamed There is no sense in giving it a pill or Brazillano, England, Hawkins and Sir romance of Cocos island was lying in as shipwrecked sailors, they were your family before you buy it send your views, I believe I can locate within a her the Relampago. which is Spanish a remedy containing an opiate, nor is address to Dr. Caldwell and he will for­ . for chain-lightning. Most of the crew the harbor of Callao, Peru. A revo­ given passage to the mainland. The uusning of the bowels to be always rec­ ward a 8«ppljr free of charge. The remaining $11,000,000 Is said radius of 30 feet the spot beneath lution was under way In Peru. Lima, ommended. Rather give it a small dose For the fre# sample address Dr. W. B. of the slaver were made to walk the mate died soon afterwards of yellow of a mild, gentle laxative, tonic like Dr. which the treasure is buried. Caldwell. 201 Caldwell building, Monti* to have been concealed in the same plank. Two pleaded for their lives and the capital founded by Pizarro, was fever at Punta Arenas. Thompson es­ Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which, by clean­ cello. 111. "I knew Keating from youth up," cave In 1838 by "Bugs" Thompson, offered to join Bonito. On this condi­ in a state of siege. Just before the be­ caped. One story has it that he went one of Bonito's old pirate crew, who Captain Hackett continued. "He was leaguering lines of the revolutionists to Samoa where he lived under tbe a rough. Ignorant man who had been tion Bonito spared them. These two sailed away with the treasure from men were Thompson, known in Cocos were drawn about the city, the gov­ name of MacComber. According to an­ a fisherman and a sailor all his life. ernment authorities removed the the harbor of Callao when the gov- island traditions as "Bugs," and a other tale he made his way to Eng -eminent authorities of Peru entrusted "It was because my brother and I money from the treasury, and from befriended him when most everybody Frenchman named Chapelle, who also land. It aboard his vessel to save it from figures later in the story of Cocos is­ the churches the plate and ornaments capture by revolutionists. It consisted else looked askance at him that after dating back to the golden days of Nothing was heard of Thompson land. of money from the public treasury, in­ advancing years made it pretty cer­ the conquest, and sent them for safe again until 1844, when on a voyage gots of gold from Inca mines, plate, tain that he never would be able to In the long, low, rakish Relampago, keeping to an old stone fortress at Cal­ from England to Newfoundland be feil chalices, ornaments and golden stat­ voyage to Cocos again, he decided to which could show a clean pair of heels lao. When the revolutionary army in with Keating, who was to become ues belonging to the churches and ca­ divulge his secret to us. My brother to anything sailing the Spanish main, Jearned of the removal of the treas­ heir to the secret of the Cocos island thedrals of Lima. and I owned tbe collier, Lord DufCerin, Bonito bad a busy and prosperous ure, which was valued at $11,000,000, treasure. Captain Hackett is fourth in what which was kept busy cruising up and career as a pirate. From Rio to the it marched on Callao with the deter­ Soon after Thompson had confided Inay be christened the royal line of down the coasts of Newfoundland and Bahamas he became a scourge and col­ mination of capturing the rich hoard. his secret to Keating he died, rfis the holders of the golden secret of New Brunswick. On one of our voy­ lected an immense amount of booty. In this crisis, the commandant of the death aroused no suspicion at 'he Cocos Island. This secret has been ages we took Keating with us. One When the Spanish government sent fortress, seeing an English flag flut­ time, but long afterwards in the light handed down In a sort of lineal de­ stormy night as the old man sat by warships to hunt him, Bonito slipped tering from the peak of the Mary of events Keating was suspected of scent from Thompson. The former the table in the cabin over a glass of around Cape Horn to fresh pastures in Dear, bethought him that under the having murdered . him. Keating took In size, shape, color, quality and ocean freebooter for years carried stiff grog, he first told us how to find the Pacific. folds of the union jack Lima's treas­ over Thompson's effects, including his about a chart of Cocos island drawn the treasure. He began his strange The wealth of the churches of ure would be safe. Captain Thompson map of Cocos island. By Thompson's price, Lenox Soap suits the ma­ upon a piece of yellow parchment story with an account of his first visit Spanish America is still considerable, gave his consent to the proposition. death, Keating became the sole pos­ showing the exact location of the cave to Cocos with Captain Bogue. but in the early days of the last cen­ The treasure was soon stowed snugly sessor in all the world of the secret of jority of women better than any in which his own and Bonito's treas­ "It was a hot day in June, he said, tury the richness of the plate and or­ under the Mary Dear's hatches, and the Cocos island treasure. How Keat­ ure hoard Is hidden. He gave this when he and Bogue landed. They naments with which they were adorn­ four Peruvian soldiers were left on ing lifted the treasure on two voyages other soap. chart to a fisherman of St. John's, struck off through the tropical jungle ed was amazing. Bonito sacked cities board to guard it. to the island already has been told. That is why most women, when their grocers ask what 1cfruf of GOOD AND BAD BEETLES our fruits. This little friend Is one of body. The little beetle is of the fam­ it is likely to prove a most beneficial world. This is a yellow bettle, with the smallest and one of tbe hand- ily Coccinellidae, a small, hemi-spher- insect to the gardener and orchardist. black stripes, befitting its conduct as soap they want, say, "Lenox, of somes of the great family of beetles, ical beetle, red or yellow backed, with One of the relatives of this pretty a convicted criminaL It does not con­ I Dainty Little Lady Bug Belongs to the and one with which most of us made white, red or yellow spots. It is also little beetle, for which no words of fine its diet to potato vines, but eats course!" % Former Class and Is Welcomed acquaintance in our infancy, if not called lady bird as well as lady bug. commendation can be spoken, is the other* plants of the solanum family to Our Gardens. when it was all alive, then in that The Australian lady bug was im­ Colorado beetle, or potato bug, which, with relish. It is especially fond of earliest cyclopedia of knowledge, ported into California for the purpose within half a century, has made a dis­ egg plant and consumes the bitter­ "Mother Goose." under the name of of controlling the ravages of the, cot­ tinctly bad reputation for itself. Its sweet with avidity. The female lays Among the numerous Insect visitors "lady bug" in connection with the tony, cushiony scale. The larvae of original home was in the Rocky moun­ its orange-colored eggs, about the Lenox Soap * to our garden, one, at least, deserves gentle admonition to "fly away home." lady bug are brightly spotted worms tains, where it lived until 1859, when size of mustard seed, in fiat groups 'if ,