People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Page 2

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Addison Parkison. Geo. K.Hollingsworth. President. Vice President. , Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Cashier. Commercial State Bank, RENSSELAER, INDIANA, Directors: Addison I’aikison. James 'l'. Randle. John M. Wasson. Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is f prepared to transact a general banking busrtesß. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. Arc open for business at tbeold stand of the Citizens’ State Rank. Alfred McCoy, Pres. T. .1. McCoy, Cash A. R. Hopkins. Assistant Cashier. A. MCCOY & CO S BANK RENSSELAER, IND. The OltlfMt Bank in Ju-ititer County ESTABLISHED 1854. Transacts a general banking business, buys notes and loans money on I >ng or short time on personal or real estate security. Fair and liberal treatment is promised to all. Interest paid on time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and sold. Vour patronage Is solicited. Patrons having valuable papers nr; v deposit them sot safe keeping. HL. BROWN, D. I). S. . i mJi m Lotet i'iUlngt, Croirti <tnd Uridyi Work. Teeth H ithuut fliiteea SpeeUltu. Gas or vitilized air administered sot the painless extraction of teeth. Give me a trial. Vftfceover I’m ret & Wishard's. TtaiiiitWmil French Ml La Grande, (Black.) Weight 1.700 pound*; SeHMin »<• total Bay Sialliw, SHINE, Wetyhl 1,350 pounds; Season Will be found at Hemphill's barn on river bank. Indiana. L; C. C. Brown. Owner. Will Collins Kppppr. AtcMfeS I 8 a ur,u prompt remed jKa for the cure of Jlurr hrei dy’seatery, colie. choir r M»rbu« and all form? Summer Complain; -, i,> VißKix. .JSSfwF Ixyosenersof the Bowr-lr. xGttfjEfWSStfF tfi pLKA HAN’T TO TA KE A • EFPECtALLr VSSFCL »< For sale ta lit n Heel nor by I rank Jlejer.

ON THE FRONTIER.

| .HERE was six of •us. The sixth was (Ginger. He was (about 17 years old, black as a coal, with the biggest (mouth I ever saw, and that mouth was (full to overflowing with great shining white teeth. Ginger often declared his parents were almost

white, but he had "taken back’’ into the black blood of his slave ancestors. This may have been true, but, as old Zeb Scatterman was wont to observe, he must have "taken back a durn long distance.” Out on Freshet Creek, in the Black Hills, we struck “color.” Freshet Creek, I think, has since been given another name. To Mike Garrity belonged the honor of discovering that the southern bank of the creek showed "sign.” But it was Big Ben Harris who found the entire side of the ravine was full of "veins,” containing gold enough to make us all rich, if it could be taken out. Then we held a consultation. Just above the point where we had made these discoveries the piiny stream dropped from a high fall. "Es we only hed plenty of water tbar, we could work her by hydrulicks,” said Zeb. That set me to thinking. "There must bo plenty of water there in the wet season," I observed. *’P« member this is called Freshet Creek.” "Begobs, that’s so.” nodded Garrity. “Wid a bit av a dam up above we could git force to throw the warther cl.me to th’ top av this bank.” Ginger said nothing, but looked very wise. We worked at the bank for awhile, but, although it was very rich, the work of getting it by the panful to the stream and washing out the "yaller” did not make it very profitable. Big Ben thought we had better build a dam, and wait for the spring rains to give us all the water we needed. I had an idea. "The spring rains won!-: eh an out our dam in a twinkling.” 1 declared. “Then what can we do?" "There is water enough here now. if we can hold back a good pond above the fail.” They saw I was right. The next day Davis and Garrity were off for Custer to get hose pipes and nozzles.

The rest of us went to work building the dam. We worked like beavers. We had it nearly completed when Davis and Garrity returned. They brought the hose, likewise some news. Sitting Bull and his braves were said to be in the nilis. It was reported that the chief had sent word that he would wipe out Custer City and level Deadwood. A party of prospectors had been murdered and scalped in Potato Gulch. Outside the larger camps there was a genera) state of alarm. “Begobs!" cried Garrity, "it's oursilves thot’D be losin' our hair av we don’t look out." "G'way. dar!” came contemptuously from Ginger's lips. “Who's skeered ob a few Injuns?” His teeth were almost chattering with terror. Old Zeb Scatterman looked serious. "Es thar’s redskins in ther hills we’d best keep our weather eye open all ther time," he observed. "Es anybody sees anything of 'em round these yere parts we'll have ter skip out lively.” “Yah!” grinned Ginger. "Five big white mans runnin' from de Injuns! Yah. yah. yah! Neither ketch dis nigger running while dar's yaller ter pay fer der washin'." Now we all knew that Ginger was about the biggest coward on the face of the earth, and so we did not pay much attention to his boasting. This seemed to anger him, and he bragged worse than ever. He began to tell how many Indians he had killed, and how he had escaped

HE SLUMPED AND FELL.

death at their hands time after time, and he kept it up persistently for the next three days, till everybody was pretty sick of It. ' I ll fix him." said Ben one day. • 11l stop his bragging.” With his rifle he shot an eagle, from which he'obtained plenty of feathers for his purpose. Red clay served him as paint. With considerable labor he made himself up like an Indian one day. and then he had us send Ginger down the ravine on an errand. When the colored lad was at a considerable distance from the camp Big Ben came out upon him. uttering a fiendish whoop. Ginger gave a choking yell of terror, and started to run. But his legs seemed to melt beneath him. and he fell In a helpless, blubbering heap. Big Ben stood over him, flourishing a hatchet and knife, as he cried: “Heap nl~e fat black boy! Ugh! Good curly scalp! Waugh! Big chief take black hoy's scalp!" “Oh. good Mistah Injun, please don't take my scalp!” wailed Ginger, in the most abject terror. • With the others, I had followed, and we were concealed at a distance, where we could watch all that took place. Ben flourished the knife, at the same time pretending to seek for a good grip in Ginger's hair. “Big chief like black boy's scalp." be

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declared. "Look heap nice in big chief's wigwam.” Ginger rose to his knees and clutched Ben about the legs, while he continued begging to be spared. « His manner was heartrending. “It's too bad!” I muttered to Zeb, who was near me. “Ben will scare the nig foolish.” . t-l? "Es he’ll cure him o’ boaxtin’ I don't keer a dern!” was the old fellow’s retort I stood it just as long as I could. I really began to fear Ginger would die of abject terror. Of a sudden I rushed out, firing into the air with both revolvers, and yelling loudly. Big Ben took to his heels. Ginger flopped over and lay stiff on the ground. When I reached him I found that he had fainted. The others came out and we restored him to consciousness, but he was as weak as a kitten during the rest of the day, and he would start and shake at the slightest sound. A thousand times he blessed me for saving his life. The boasting was completely taken out of him. Big Ben was going t® tell him how the trick was played, but I objected. I made them all promise they would keep still till Ginger got to boasting again. He was not taken that way. But his admiration and love for me seemed unbounded. Apparently he sincerely believed that I had saved his life, and he was so grateful that he could not do too much for me. Really he hung about me so much that he began to be a nuisance. We had completed the dam, and it gradually filled with water. The pipes were properly laid, and one day we turned two heavy streams of water against the bank of the ravine. It melted and came washing down before the force of the water. We could not use the water very long, for the pond lowered rapidly, and it took time for it to fill again. But we could wash down enough so it was an easy thing to carry the precious clay to the sluices we had constructed. In this way we could handle six or eight times as much in the course of a day as we could before. It paid, and we were jubilant. At the end of a week we began to feel like millionaires. Then something happened. We had been using the water, but had stopped.

I was getting my load far in under the hollowed-out bank, where I thought it was liable to be the richest. Suddenly there was a yell of warning. 1 looked up. A big slice of watery clay came swooping and sliding down the slope toward me. Above it I saw the overhanging bank slowly giving way, threatening to bury me beneath tons of earth. Before I could make a leap tHe sliding clay came about me and caught me to the knees. I tried to drag myself away. Too late! I was held fast! Slowly but surely the great bank was settling for the fall. Looking upward. I felt that my moments were few. A numbness seized upon me. and I gasped like one fascinated as death came down upon me. Then there was another hoarse shout. I felt somebody catch me about the body and fiercely struggle to draw me from the clutch of the clinging clay. Given sudden hope, I did my best to get free. Thus aided. I succeeded, and T was sent reeling through the thick clay, over the top of it, down the bank, catching a glimpse of the face of my rescuer as I went. It was Ginger! As I was suddenly freed, he slumped and fell, struggled up, fell again. Reaching solid ground. I turned to see him in the clutches of the coiling clay. I would have dashed back, but, at that very instant, the crumbling bank gave way and came down with a thundering roar, part of it reaching me and hurling me backward. Ginger was buried from sight in a second. I arose unharmed, but my brave rescuer was dead. I He had dared rush to my assistance i when my other comrades steed spcll- ■ bound with fear. i But he had given his life for mine! In time we excavated his body and i gave him decent bini:tl. with a large , bowlder to mark his resting-place in 1 Freshet Gulch. On the bowlder 1 laboriously chiseled these words: •‘GINGER. A TRUE HERO.”

REWARDS OF LITERATURE.

Number of Author* Eirniug Good ’lncome* Larger than Ever. Not all of the truly worthy authors of 1 past times have been condemned to penury and vagabonage. Some of them, on the contrary, have acquired fortunes I by reason of the liberal compensation they received for their work. Scott was ' paid for one of his novels at the rate of ' $252 per day for the time employed in writing it. and his total literary earnings aggregated $1,500,000. Byron got $20,000 for "Childe Harold" and $15,000 ; for "Don .Tuan.” Moore sold "Dalia ’ Rookh” for $15,750, and his “Irish MeloI dies ' brought him $45,000. Gray received ! only S2OO for his poems, and not a cent i for the immortal "Elegy," out of which ; the publisher made $5,000; but that was because he had an eccentric prejudice against taking money for writing. i Tennyson had an annual income of from $40,000 to $50,000 for many years, though in the early part of his career, when he wrote "Maud" and “In Memorlam,” he realized next to nothing. i Longfellow sold his first poems, including some of his best ones, at very low I figures, but he lived to receive $4,000, or S2O a line, for the “Hanging of the Crane,” and when he died he was worth $.350,000. Whittier left an estate of S2OQ,000 and several of the leading American prose writers have done quite as well. These are exceptions, it is true, but they serve to modify the general rule,, and to show that in cases of superior merit, literature has proved to be notably profitable. It is safe to say that the present rates of pay for literary work of good quality are higher than those of any preceding time, and that the number of persons who are earning respectable Incomes in that way is larger than was ever before known.

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