Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 July 1869 — Page 6

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Nan was a cripple, never had walked was getting a slop in seven years, that is to say ever since she was born. .Jacob was twelv\ and a n'oou stout-.slip of a bovatthat. In the winter he went to "school, and in the summer he picked up stones and worked in Eugene Vale's father's garden. Squire Yale, ihey called hint, not that he was a

"out because pool- folks seem

to think they en n't put: a rich man aigh enough over their own heads without giving him some sort of a title to step upon. At least that is what Jacob Hillings used to say. but •i' Jacob didn't like rich

folks,

and

and he

had a spiteful sort: of way ol talking abotit them, At-ove nil, Jacob didn like the Si.nire. and as for Eugene, it wouldn't be too much to say he hated him. f'.' be sure, Jaigene was rather set up in his ways, and rather careless about: hurling poor people's feelings, and when he was angiy said a good many thinks he was sorry for iifterwtvrd. and Jacob never forgave anything that ollcnded or hurt iuni. So the two boys did not get on very well together," e-peeiaily the winter when tliev ^ere both twelve years old,

went together io the district.

school, it wit- Kugene's last term.

'for the next fall he was to go

"boardiiiK school to bo lilted

scene

most always did, and at last

what

for col-jat

didn't know half as much. Miil he, and went on so that his poor mother cried, and Nan told him he was a wicked bov and i-lio didn him, which made matters worse, tor if there was anvihiug in the world .Ja•cob loved better than all else, it was .poor, pale, pretty little Nan. his crippled sister.

they had begun to dispute about and took to calling each other names, and saying all the provoking things they could think ot, until at last Jacob said Eugene was a stuck-up tool, and Eugene said Jacob was a sneak and a bc^ar. To this Jacob replied that the°°othcr lied, for he never begged a

cents

mean

worth in his

which

life,

Eugene retorted that the very

trowsers Jacob wore at that moment had been a pair of his old ones, and were patched trom a pair ot his father's. Unfortunately, this was the Mi- Vale shrieked precise truth, although it was vcr (Jood heavens! that

The end of it was that Jacob rushed away from the school house feelin0- as if he would like to kill somebody or other—he wasn't sure but it was'himsclf—and as if he never could poor mother's sliricl face one of those boys as long as he lived. The more he thought ot it the blacker and bitterer grew his mood, and the more eager his longing for revenue 5 just what revenge he did not know at first, but iust as the sun went down, and gloomy black shadows came creeping through the wood where he lay, something seemed to whisper a suggestion in his car, which made him start and turn pale, and then sit up and look all around him to see if anybody was near enough to suspect the horrid thought already working in his mind.

No one was near no one. that he saw, although for that matter no one is ever alone. So, although Jacob could see nobody, and threw himself back on the grass feeling quite sure he was alone, the something which had whispered the horrible in his

mind

did not let it rest, but kept urging

and making it easy, and telling him how badly he had been treated, and bow sweet revenge would be, until in the end Jacob rose up and went skulking along out of the wood lot and across the fields, looking just like a dog that means to steal a bone and knows that he ought to be whipped for thinking of it.

The wood lot where he had spent the afternoon belonged to Squire Vale, and the fields he crossed after leaving it were Squire Vale's also, and beyond tliem lay the great fafrmyard, and barns, and haystacks, at the UaCk of Squire Vale's big white house. It was almost dusk when Ja-

Jacob's lather was dead and his 1 that he easily found a chance to ereep "All right, father! I've—' begun mothc wis t)0«r poorer than pover into the great hav barn and hide him-! the poor boy, and at that moment ty in fact, lor she had herself and .la-1 self there. the Moor gave way under his feet, and cob and little Nan to support, and 1 Meantime his poor mother at home j.he disappeared Irom the window, more and more- anxious, where the flame:} came rushing out

especially as she had an errand at the instead. Squire's that could not lie put'oil'mi-! Willi an til morning, there was no one with whom she could,...leave Nan until Jacob came home. At last, just belore it got quite dark, she put Nan in her little basket carriage, made up the bundle she had promised to send home before night, and set oil tor the house. When she had reached

[ctTe and as Jacob did not appear, and he! '.Jacob,"

Ten

o'clock

sound

a toll him that his mother would not be very slowly, because of his low spir-

home that night. The boy went, its, and want of appetite.

^College, indeed Didn't thai, make was pretty tired, he lay down upon had not been for you the other night, Jacob rave! Why shouldn't he go the seat in the iittle porch, and slept 11 should be without a son to-day., to college as well' as Eugene wh

I iardly anything was saved beyond and brought .Eugene with him. the lives of the. inmates, and a few When he had the boys alone, ho said boxes of papers and valuables in the

of Eugene to say it, especially child They have been forgotten, with Eugene to school at my expense, before the other scholars, who at once set up a shout, and made a. gieat many witty remarks about, patched breeches and beggars on horseback, and other delicate little allusions which I don't remember just now.

Then Eugene appeared at the window, conveying a great bundle bound round with strips of sheets and towels tied together until they made a rope nearly long enough to reach the ground. •'Quick, now! Cut the rope and let me have it for the woman. Mother, see to little Nan there in the bundle!"

So little Nan, safe and sound, was taken out of the comforter she had been packed in. and Mrs. Vale sat down on the grass, and took her in her arms and cried over her as if she had been her own, all the time, keeping her eyes fixed on the: window: where Eugene now stoocl with poor Mrs. Billings, who,1 white and' ^ein.b|ing, and scared, couldjiardly be persuaded: to even let him tie the rope around her waist. At last, however, partly by coaxing and partly by main

CRAWFOftDSVlLLE JOURNAL: JULY 29, I860.

cob Billings loft the wood, where in-1 strength, he succccded in getting her I deed he would have been afraid to outside the window, and then putting stay any longer, and bj' the time he fortii his whole strength, he lowered roachcd the i»uilding it was dark, so her gently and safely to the ground.

the door she took Nan out, put the gaping for more, food, more lives. bundle under her own arm. and so liu'j the next moment tnat ligiib, ac tried to carry both child and bundle live tigure appeared staggering out of up the steps: but halfway up she the place, this time with the senseless tripped and fell, bruising herself eon-j form of Kuirene Vale in his arms, his siderabiy. .and Imrling poor little Man face and arms wrapped in the coat so badly that she fainted away, and his preserver had hastily stripped oil Airs. Yaic, who had been looking ontj his own back to out around him. of the window, came running to the I Just outside the house, rescuer and door, calling the servants to follow rescued came down in

her, and taking up .Nan in her own and when they were raised and called arms, carried her in and laid her upon for it was discovered that it was Jaa bed.

With care and patience they presently revived her, but she was so te vcrish and excited with the fright and pain that Mrs. Vaic would not hear ot her being carried home that night.

but kept both her and Airs. Billings, coat. and

sent

a boy down to the little cot- A week later the Squire came to tage to wait until Jacob's return, and see Jacob, still in bed, and mending

--You

Squire's study, and after a little while will, I. think, last you your lives. It they gave over the attempt to do any. will make better men of you if there thine, and stood out in the yard in is any of the right stuff in you, and I front of the house, looking on at the think theic is in both." destruction, dismally enough, of ''Jacob, I forgive the. great injury course. But while Ihey looked, a you did me in your madness, lor the window in the upper part of the house sake of the great benefit you did me was thrown open, and a woman's when you recovered your senses, white, ghastly lace looked out, while More than that, since you arc so eager for education, and, as your teacher woman, and1 says, so good a scholar, you shall go

and now it is too late!'' and if you still wish it, when you are "Too late! Little Nan!" shouted, fitted, you shall go to college and .almost screamed Eugene, who stood study for a profession, Jacob am I a close beside her, and without, another wise man or a fool *.0 trust 3*011 thus word he darted in at the open door "A wise man, I'll prove you, sir," and up the burning stairs, and disap- said Jacob, with a sudden strength pearcd in what seemed nothing less! in his own powers and the Squire, than a sea of roaring flame. One looking in his face, believed him. great cry went up from all who saw But the best of the whole story is 'him, but high above it all was his that

rrrv

succccd in rescuing them. Not that 11-^ Al MJ&l. I believe that the reward made any difference, for all were ready to do best without, and no 011c, whether man or chimney elf, can do more. But before any one could find time or wit to do any thing, a brave voice from the window called out: "All right! Stand by to catch her, some of you."

awful groan the father

heap together 'jPfrt

cob (killings who had saved liugene Vale's life, and that both lads were seriously burned and injured, Jacob by fiir the most so, from having exposed his head and face to the flames while protecting Eugene with his own

began

very comfortably* until morning. Now I have two, fori shall always

Vale's orderly house, and the Squire very white and trerubhug, but very

himself went last oi all to bed. Ten much resolved to speak. Frir-es

minutes later, a great clould of smoke, '-Before you say any more, I want

and then Hashing, flickering ilame, to tell you it was who and then a steady lire, rose at once

house

from the great hay barn, and then, only when 1. saw Eugene save my from the straw-shed, and then, finally, mother and sister that 1 knew how

It was the vcrv next day alter this I from beneath the wooden steps at the awfully wicked 1 had been. I wish I

that the end of the whole mat-1 fro it. and back of the house, and had died in the tire, sir. T. do, really

ter arrived—in this way. Both hoys from a pile of brushwood heaped and truly." stayed at home, and so"in fact did al-1 against the end of the house. By Of course the Squire was very mo£t' the whole school except the the time the sleepy household were much shocked at this, and insisted teacher—more's the pity. Well, aroused to a full sense of the danger somewhat sternly upon hearing the somedisputearose. and Eugene and that was upon them, everything was whole story. Jacob told every word Jacob took different sides, as they al- in a blaze, and burning in the hot, dry 'just as faithfully as he could, and then foruot! air of the summer night, with fearful, the Squire wentawuy without a word, 'rapidity. Three days later he came again,

the old man,''if it

struck, and at tiie look upon you as if you were—" i-'r^neii

out went the last light in Mr. --Stop, sir, please, said Jacob,

two have had a lesson which

Jacob

i'aintmg to the ground. of a fool, had oeen one ol lh\ wisest The second sound was the Squire's I as well as the kindest of men in revoice calling upon the men to aid him

kept his word, and proved

as she, ., fell in the end that Squire Vale, instead

paying the injuries of his enemies by

in saving not only his son's life, but benefits. that of the woman and child he had .n i.— risked himself to save, and offering MILLINERY. large rewards to those who should

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Assortment of

31illineiy Ooods

•Comprising a

Complete .Summer Stock

Will ho

SOLD AT COST,

UNTIL

September 1, in order to close out fo a Fall and Winter assortment. The attention of the ladies of Craw fordsvile and vicinity is invited to this opportunity forjsecuring cheap Millinery Goods.

Shop in National Block,

Washington Street,

Crawfordsville. july22 1,

COME

to the Stone Front for all kinds of Printing.

DRY GOODS.

rushed forward, but was passed half ^OlMlWHf.et4 fc Jjll'O. :t light, boyish figure, who way Jlevv, rather than ran, irom behind a areat tree where he had been hidden, plunged through the chasm left by the door now burned away, and disappeared in that roaring, (rightful furnace, whose deadly jaws seemed

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D'Laines, Lusters. Lawn-.

Select Stvlc:

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L5Ie:n.'.hoit and brown Muslin.-, Sheetings and Shirting-. riitow-case Muslin.-, lri-li Linens,

{t00J) skirt,

and

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and barn on lire, and it was

Y- .Ciill and see our (roods unit prices be-

fori pnrehasimi elsewhere. O. K.

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Hughes' F.loek, opposite Court House, 1 apS CrawforJsvillc, Ind.

STOVES AND TINWARE.

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WITH

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Largest Stove in the Market,

Having an

Oven

22 hy 28

JJST

inches

With a

Twenty-six inch Fire-Sox.

These Stoves are guaranteed to bake quick and even, and not to crack.

My Stock of Tin-Ware

Is large, and will be

Sold JiOlV for Cash.«f£$r gINCE,

Country merchants will find it to their interests to examine my stock and priccs before purchasing.

A W A E

As for Hardware, we will offer such inducements as will satisly you that we are decidedly the cheapest house in the Wabash Valley.., Do not fail to call

slick.

and

examine my

V. Q. IRWIN,

No. 3, Empire Block* »piy

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CRAWFOKDSVILLIC.

HAVIXCi-

purchased the above

lishment of i. L'yke, I will say citizens of Montgomery and adjoin in1, tics that 1 will furnish

MiU'W('« WOl'k.

JvllUlS Ol

Headstones.

Tombstones,

tllommients,

SHOP ON

Tablets, £V.

11" vou will call at he

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TIIE OLD POST OFFICE ROO.U.

You can there see my style ol work, audi will show you as fine specimens of work as is to be seen in this part of the State. eeril work delivered at the grave-yards and warranted to give satisfaction.

I will canvass the county soliciting orders, and will say that you can purchase your work as cheap at home as you can at the shop. 113!°I want it distinctly understood tliatl WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD by any shop.

I I I I I S O E

Of the best qualitv furnished at low priccs. jy2 C. T. BRITNDAGE.

MARBLE WORK.

Phoenix Marblo Works.

rhomix-like, we hare arisen lit-

orally from the ashes, we have moved the remnant of our stock to the east side of Washington street, next to Miller's new, buiiding, north of the court house, where* we have now a nice assortment of

Such as Monuments, Tablets, Slabs, »tc., which we Will sell cheap. U3f As the late lire did us much damage, we must work hard and sell cheap, to mako money to meet our liabilities.

I. F. WADE &, SON.

N.B.—If any Of our friends want to give us a little "material aid" on account of our loss, they .-an do so by if they owe us, call and pay if they wantanv work in our line, either Grave-Yard or Building Work, give us a call. We will do you NICK WORK at LOW PRICKS, and be much obliged.

BUILDING WORK done to order. Crawfordsville, Dec. 30,1868.