Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 February 1878 — Page 6

:THK MAIL

A PAI'EK

FOK TIIE

PEOPLE.

failed.

[M. W. P.]

Yes, am a ratned maa. Kate! everything gone at last Nothing to show for th* trouble and toil of the weary yean that are past nooses and lands aud money have taken wings and fled This very morning I signed away the roof from over my head.

I shouldn't care for ravself, Kate I'm naed to the world's rough Way*. I've dug, and delved, and plodded along through all my manhood days: But I think of you and the children, and it almost breaks my heart. Tor I thought so surely to give my boys and girls a splendid start 80 many years on the ladder, I thought I was near the topOnly a few years longer, an 1 then I expected to stop And put the boys In my place, Kate, with an easier life ahead, But now I must give the prospect up that com forting dream is dead.

"lam worth more than my gold," eh? You're good to look at it so, But a man isn't worth very much, Kate, when his hair is turning to snow My poor little girls, with their soft, white hands and Innocent eyes of blue, Turned adrift in the heartless world—what can and what will they do?

"An honest failure?*' Indeed it ,wa% dollar for dollar paid. Never a creditor suffered, whatever people have said Better are rags and a conscience clear than a palace and flush of shame, One thing I shall leave to my children, Kate, and that is an honest name.

What's that? "The boys are not troubled? .They are ready now to begin And gain us another fortune, and workjthrough thick and thin?" The noble fellows! already I feel I haven't so much to bear, Their courage has lightened my heavy load of misery and despair.

"And the girls are so glad it was honest? They'd rather not dress so fine And think they did It with money that wasn't honestly mine. They're ready to show what they're made of, quick to earn and to save My blessed, good little daughters! so generous and so brave!

And you think we needn't fret, Kate, while we have each other left, No matter of what possessions our lives maybe bereft? You are right With a quiet conscience and a wife so good and true, Til put my hand to the plow again, and I know that we'll pull through.

SA£atog3£1.

—AN—

INDIAN TJ.LE OF FRONTIER LIFE.

A TRUE STORY.

CHAPTER XXXII.-CONTCTUKD. THE WAR PATH. .§ Meanwhile, tbey conversed but little among themselves. And that in their own dialect. Floya endeavored himself to extract the arrow from the wound, but found the task difficult. It could not be drawn backward on account of the lughnessof the

flinty

{owedand

bead, and to

draw it forward was to pull the harsh and tantalizing quills which lined the shaft through the raw and quivering flesh. Either course was fraught wi'h almost unendurable pain. He tried them In vain, while at every effort and

grimace which he made, bis tormenters aughed the more. They even gathered around him, as if to enjoy the scene. Old

jrlm, solemn featured warriors slth*lr rough faces to botray a smile at the sufferings of their captured foe.

Floyd now and then could distinguish the word "Squaw" uttered by them In a tone of contempt. Already nearlv maddened with pain, be became furious at the sight of their Inhuman cruelty, and at the thought that bis irrepressible anguish made him the object of their derision

In a sudden paroxysm ho seized the tormenting arrow in bis left hand and attempted to break it. It bent double In bis powerful and desperate grasp, but the tough hickory would not break. In a fury ne then ient the stubborn withe to bis mouth and actually succeeded in gnawing it off with bis teeth. In a moment morn it WAS withdrawn frona bis arm. The fliwt bead he flung, in impo tent fury, at his tormentors.

While he had been thus engaged they had become sileut. His strength in doubling up the stout hiokery, and his resolution in biting it sway, at last had excltod in the bosoms of those who surrounded him a foeling very different from contempt. 'There!' oxc'.almed the young man. •you damned gang of grinning wolves, take that for your amusement! I'll pay you off with hickory applied to your yelling throats if I ever get free from you agair!'

They did not seem to understand him, nor probably would they have cared if they had. They made no movement except what was necessary to keep him securelv within their reach. Meanwhile aa well from los* of blood as fron extreme suffering, Floyd i^egan to feel a little reaction after Lis sudden excite xnent, and grew somewhat faint. He was compelled to ait down, feeling sick and dtaev. His hand tremhled as he leaned his head upon it, and be almost imagined that his last hour had come.

After a while, however, the Eaintness having to some degree passed over, be rose up and contrived to walk down to the brook where, in the cool clear water, he bathed his aching and now swelling

arm,

and slaked the thirst caused by the fever of b.s wound. In these operations he was not impeded bat was merely watcbed.

Escape, at present, was out of the question: and he felt that any attempt at it would be worse than uselena. Ho, therefor*, after a while, returned to the place wfcw* the others were gathered, and being in low pain and more composed, bad abetter opportunity to make some observations as to tbe numbers and character of bis captora.

Th*t tMy did not belong to tbe neigb» borhood be was already convinr-e.!,"Xnd on a more careful Inspection, he became satisfied that they were what warn then generally known aa Canada or Huron Indiana, a race alraoat always hostile to those of the district wbieh thev were now traversing. This supposition accounted for their attack on himself. A white man was always an enemy, and moat especially In an enemy's country.

At a abort distance from the place where he was sitting, he observed a group of the older men of tbe party, apparently engaged in deliberation. Beyond them, ami a rod or ao higher np the bank, was an enormous pine tree which attracted his attention, not only from ita sir), but from the circumstance of ita leaning over at a great Inclination, 1 so much aoas to create an unpleasant

iittpmmlon «1 11* being about to fall. At its ane *va« a thicket so oiose as to be impenetrable to the aye.

As the council contHned. various members of it from titne to time pointed toward their prisoner and he rightly enough conjectured that he himsolf was thesu'j*c!- of their deliberations. His suffering, which was lately ao Intense, and which had not yet entirely abated, had this good effect, that it withdrew his mind from tbe contemplation of the dangers which probably awaited him, or at lea*t rendered him partially indifferent to them.

But it was not long befure tbe little couclave closed its ominous session. Tbe pipe, which seems to be the source from which all savage as well as much civilized wisdom is derived, had only twice performed the circuit of tbe connoil be fore its members bad apparently come to conclusion and broke up.

Soou. afterward, a few of the younger men, approaching Floyd, gave hiai to understand that he must rwe and follow them.

Knowing tbe folly of resistance, he complied, although he was entirely at loss to know what it meant. They led him to a small isolated tree a few paces distant. The sapling was not larger than his own arm. They speedily hackedit off, at about five feet from the ground, with their tomahawks. While some were engaged in this, others, from the thick marsh close by, had cut long, pliant twigs of willow, whieb they bruised and twisted till they acquired almost the flexibility of ropes. FJoyd began to have some unp'easant antici pations as to what was coming. Tne truncated tree formed a stake to which it was obvious enough tbey intended to lash him. What further designs they might have he could not of course sur tnise, but evidently cruelty would be their prevailing characteristics. The spot was near the bottom of the slope, and around the sapling, to which preparations were being made to fasten him, was a small space of level ground, covered with a smooth green sod. As they began to pass the withes and some strings of sinew around the chest of the poor young man he looked wistfully but vainly about him to soe if any aid was at band, or if tbe least chance for escape was left him. Though weak and a'nt, he would not] have hesitated, now urged as be was by extreme des-

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eration, to adopt any means of relief, doubtful or dangerous. Not the slightest chance, however, seemed to occur, and in a few seconds he was securely bound, and became as helpless as an ox in tbe shambles. His back was toward tho stream, so that as he stood be nearly faced the hill. Almost in front of bim, therefore, the high, overleaning pine tree before mentioned liftedits ponderous bulk.

In moments of extreme peril, or of strong excitement, objects of unusual appearance are apt to impress themselves upon the fancy, and to make a permauent lodgment upon the memory. For this reason the attention ol Floyd was almost unconsciously turned to tbe inclining pine, though his thoughts were flying far and wide on a thousand other subjects.

For this reason, also, for years afterward, did tbe recollection of that strikingot ject in the wilderness remain vivid and clear in bis mind, forming one of the most prominent points in his mental picture of the dangers which that day beset bim.

No sooner WJS the fastening fully completed than a chcle of yelling young savages, with wild outories and brandished weapons, began to dance aboat him.

Tbe little conclave of senators was again formed, but nearer to the place of sacrifice and while some were engaged 11 smoking, others had begun a low, gutteral chant, which the poor victim might as well take for bis death song. Me was brave, and, although he felt the invincible repugnance to death whiob ail, and especially the young and strong, experience, be resolved to meet bis fate, whatever it might be, with the courage of a man and if he could not die like a stole, he would at least endeavor to die like a soldier.

But as yet no further violence had teen done him. Once or twice some one had seized him Dy the hair, and with discordant yells had swung a knife or ax with murderous import bofore his face.

To produce fear and mortal apprehension, was among the "luxuries of their savage executions. Momentarily he expected to feel the fatal blow descending upon his unprotected bead. He almost wisbe'd it might be soon, so that tbe horror should be ended. It was not, however, with any reck'ess feeling, that such a wish came into his mind. On the contrary, in that extreme hour, his heart felt oppressed with prayerful longings and unuttored entreaties to heaven. If death must come he only hoped its agonies might be short. Around him the band of exulting murderers now circled in their fantastic dance, more rapidly and wildly than ever. Some even, with playful malice, to augment his fears, hurled their hatchets at tbe tree to which he was tied they would often graze near him, and often strike into the quivering sapling. Others, again, with mocking menaces, would stand lie fore him, and with fixed aim, and a steady sweep of tbe arm, threaten to send their axes into his body, as they had sent them into tbe tree. Tbe torture for tho poor young man was ex treme. In spite of himself, cold drops of perspiration would gather upon bis forehead.

But this could not long continue. In the midst of tbe scene, at length there came a lull, as one of bis most powerful tormentors approached bim, seeming to be detailed for some special duty. Amid profound silence be took bis position a few paces in front of tbe prisoner, holding a heavy tomahawk in his hand. This done, tbe chant of death was again resumed to which the selected executioner began a sort of solemn, solitary dance, but without materially changing his position. The object seemed to bo to fix tbe altentl and to attract the gaze of the victim before the fatal blow should be struck and in spite of all he could do. Floyd soon felt bis looks drawn bv a kind of fascination In the reqnired direction.

As* he gaz'Ki, another object suddenly nu-t his sight. It was tbe gigantic form of Wild Jacob, emerging silently and stealthily from the bushes at the base of tbe overhanging tree. With caution, but with great celerity, and unseen by the sava$e«, whose attention was absorbed by tbe interest of the expected execution, be stole forward, bearing In his hand an enormous bludgeon. Floyd had never before seen him, and at tint almost fancied him to be a creature of his own imagination, «r some monster of the woods, thua strangely risen from their recesses. Hia eyes remained llxed upon tbe fantastic figure, partly in expeclaut cariosity, and partly in the distraction caused by the apprehension of Immediate death.

What it might portend, was of course a mystery and before the young man even acquired a definite impression of tbe circumstance, a change came over all around him for with tne scream of an Inluriated demon, tbe wild man suddenly ourst through tbe chanting circle

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of the old men, scattering them to the right and left, wbilu with one sweep'of his heavy club be struck to the ground the savage who so threatened the life of Floyd.

In lens time than it takes to describe

the others, with shouts of terror, were stuttered like chsff before their insaue pursuer: and although ininy were knocked over in tbe first few seconds, the whole gftng soon manAged to scramble up and disappear, with tbe excep tion of tho one who had been

first

struck

and wbo bad fallen to rise no more. *i he whole seemed to be but the work of a moment. The f»cene almost magically changed, ami Floyd, before he was quite able to comprehend how, found bis fetters cut loose, and himself at liberty but so great was tbe reaction, that in his exhausted condition, he could not move from the spot. He endeavored to look around iu order to thank his strange deliverer, but his tongue seemed as if glued to bis jaws and refused uttorance he endeavored to walk, but his limbs were powerless and could not perform their office and meanwhile adizzy sense of weakness came over him, and Jee fell fainting to the ground.

The ignorant are always superstitious, and tbe American savages were no ex ception to the rule. By all their cu.i toras, teachings and traditions, as we have several times before had occasion to observe, they were Jed to consider^ a person of a weak, or a disordered in teliect, as one to be looked upon with awe, if not with fear. He was supposed to bold communion with beings of the land of spirits and in some instances it was imagine that they invested him with supernatural powers, or came to his aid in moments of difficulty—fighting his battles, like anseen legions of angels. Everything, therefore, in tbe appearance of Jacob, 'as he suddenly came down upon the assemblage of Hurons, had been calculated to inspire them with fear.

His terrific outcries, his enormous strength, and miraculous activity, combined with their superstitions, were too much for the coolest heads and stou est hearts among them. Thus it was that they gave way so suddenly before him, and vanished like a mist before a strong wind.

As the last of the dusky fugitives disappeared from tbe scene, the momentary silence of the forest was broken by a strange and uncouth noise. The madman had flung himself down at full length upon the summit of a gray rock that commanded a view of the scene of bis late exploit, and rolled from side to side as if convulsed with merriment at the mischief which he thought he had occasioned. He seemed to consider that his crowning exploit, and bis laughter was louder and harsher than ever.

Floyd still lay pale and motionless upon the grass where be had fallen. Not far from him rested the body of the savage who had been brained in tbe madman's first onset. He, too, was pale but mingled with the dusjsy tint or his features, was the livid hue of death. Clotted blood covered l)is scalp, and in congealed, purple drops, stood on his forehead and his cheeks. In bis band wa* still clutched tbe threatening ax. An expression of cruelty still sat upon bis countenanpe. It was the latest emotion which had passed over it, and its traces were thus left behind, fixed there until tbe dissolving hand of decay should turn all to dustund obliterate alike the' mold of the absent soul, and tbe moral depicted upon it.

After a short time Jacob left tbe rock where he had gone to give vent to his merriment, and to watch the retreat of his discomfitted enemies, and returned to the spot where the two bodies still lay. He examined each of them. But there Was a language in the appalling image of dissolution which became intelligible even to his unsettled mind. It spoke, not directly and plainly to bis understanding, but indirectly and confusedly to his whole being, and affected bim, as it will affect tbe unthinking animal, through his instincts, and by a sort of electrical agency through all his senses, and through every nerve and fiber of bis frame. Death is a disturbance and a shock to ail animated nature. The fiery horse that would tramplennbesitatingly upon a living man, will start and turn aside with instinctive fear from his lifeless remains. So it was with Jacob.

No sooner had he bent over the prostrate Indian than, with signs of alarm, he recoiled from tbe corpse, though his head was still turned, and his eyes were bent upon it. Fear took possession of him—whitened his lips, enlarged his wid, wide open eyes, and shook his iron muscles, as tbe wind will shake a slender reed.

With Floyd however, it was different. Though he was still in a swoon, and to a careless observer as lifeless as the other, tbe more acute instincts of Jacob at once discerned that he was not dead. Notwithstanding the destructive tendencies of this mindless creature he acted acoording to no rule, and his course could never be conjectured in advance. Accordingly, through some inexplicable freak, he now lifted up the body, and with many .tokens of tenderneM and care, bore it up the bank. Parting the bushes he deposited it in the secret but of

boughs

already described and known

to the reader. Tbis done, he turned and left tbe plaoe in silence, though the va graut thoughts which flitted over tbe desert of bis mind seemed to find expression in a continual whispering, which moved his lips indeed, but which to one not close tot him was quite inaudible.

After getting in the open spaoe be again bout bis looks, with many signs of fear, toward the spot where the dead Indian lay. and cautiously avoiding it, and turning stealthily op tbe bank, be soon leaped away with bis usual precipitation, and disappeared amid the gathering shadows of evening.

When Floyd returned to bis senses be found himself alone and in darkness. By a determined effort he was at length able to recall to his recollection the events that had happened up to the time when Jacob had so suddenly made his appearance. Bat beyond that all was darkness In hia memory, as complete as that which now met his outward vision. After a brief interval he rose op to grope about and by dint of searching he finally succeeded in detecting a place of egress from hia leafy prison, and In emerging into the open air. As he did so, tbe night wind felt chilly to his fevered frame, and he shuddered aa ita first breath blew moist and cold upon bim.

Stepping a few paces dawn the alope, Floyd, by tbe aid of starlight, was soon enabled to discover tbe atake to which he had lately been bound. The train of recollections which the right of tbis evoked, well nigh made his memory of the recent events complete. He knew himself to be still near tbe soene of hia late perils, and found that he was now apparently safe, though alone and (hint from his recent suffering and loss of Mood.

Some friendly arm it must hare been that had thua interfered to effect hia deliverance, and to deposit him in the lace of seclusion and repose in which is bad awakened. Turning baok. he again stood at the base of tbe leaning tree, and while there a low sound caught

his attentive ear. It proceeded from some place near that which be bad lately lefk where he had come ao near being offered np aa a sacrifice. It seemed to be something like the noise made by a man or animal walking cautionaiy over 'the leaves. He did not dare to move, or to make any sound, lest it might be some of bis lste enemies returned to leconnoHer.

Meanwhile, the character of the sound cbsnued though still muffled and low, it appeared more like the tramp of several persons than of one Soon after it seemed gradually to recede and to become less and less distinguishable. Then again it ceased altogether and in the place of it a low, wailing chant, as of many voices, disturbed the solemnity of tbe night.

To Floyd all this was quite inexplicable. He knew not that his late persecutors had thus, in stealth and under

of the night, returned to bear off the body of their slain comrade. After this all soon became silent again save the usual roises of the forest—as much to be expected as the roar of the surf upon tbe sea coast—and, after many painfnl reflections upon his own situation, the young man thought he could do no better than avail himself of the shelter he had at hand^and wait the return of morning. V- 1 [TO BE CONTINUED.]

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A GENTLE HINT.

In our style of climate, with its sudden changes of temperatuie—rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled in a single day—it is no wonder that onr children, friends and relatives are 60 frequently taken from us by neglected colas, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. A bottle of Boschee German Syrup kept about yoar home for immediate use will prevent serious sickness, a large doctor's bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing consumption, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disease of the Throat or Lungs, its success is simply wonderftil, as your druggist will tell you. Qerman Syrup is now sold in every town and village on this continent. Sample bolles for trial, 10c. regular size, 75c.

For sale by Gulick & Berry and by Groves A Lowry.

Consumption Cured. An old physician retired from practice, having had placed in his bands by an East India missionsry tbe formula of a simple vegetable remedy for tbe speedy and permanent cure of consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, 1 will send, free of charge, to all who desire it, tbis recipe in German, French, or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. W. Sherar, 126 Powers' Block, Rochester, N. Y.

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Whooping Cough Specific cures this disease in one week's ti.*ne. If used generally, It will save the lives of hundreds. Do not lm your child die of whooping cough when onbottle of this Specific will cn re it. It moderates all the severer symptoms within th* first twenty-iour hours. For sale by GUI.ICK A BKKRY and BUNTIN A AKMSTKOKG, 'i'erre Haute, Ind

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Janl9 im

Terrible Mud. Blockade

Ah entire season of impassable roads. The disastrous

Business Paralyzed and banks, bankers, insurance companies and leading merchants faillng by the hundreds.

For nearly four raont'js we have had an uninterrupted reign of mud throughout tbe entire West. Tbe immense crops of last summer are still unmarketed. Last fall the merchants of the West, encouraged to expect a heavy trade because of the prosperity of farming communities, laid in unusually heavy stocks and still have their unpaid-for goods upon the shelves.^bought at prices nearly double those which now prevail. It is under Just such circumstances as these that our splendid organiz itton tells the most powerfully in our fsvor. With two members of our firm stall times in the New York

given to the people c. quence, even these goods, bought at such ruinouely low prices, must go still lower.

Grand Special Sale- at Mud Blockade Sale Commences Saturday Morning, January 19th, 1878.

Tell your neighbors and friends about it and remember, that earliest buyers will have the best assortment from which to select. Avoid the crowd by making your purchase* in tbe morning whenever convenient to do so.

Grand Smash Up in Prints. Handsomest Styles of the Season.

5 ono varda beat Merrimack Prints, 5a. 5,000 yards best Wamsutta Printa, 4c. 3 eases best Cocbeco Prints, 5c. 150 piwee Pwdhc Prints/5c/ 200pieces Gloucester Prints, Sets. 5,000 yart. beat Americsn Prints, 6c. AW-i. BEST PRINTS of whatever make and of tbe latest and most desirable styles, CEMTS'ATARD.

Thagg Dtices are simply unprecedented and unapproachable. These same goods were always sold at 10c a yard before the war. The other dry goods establlahments of Terre Haute are getting 80 a yard for them.

We hate Slaughtered Prices in e?ery Department Nothing Held Backi

5,000 good quality unbleached muslin, 4 cents a yard. Children's fine muslin hoee, 8c and 10. Double fold waterproof cloth, 50 oents. Handsome felt akirt, 50 cents. Oood*(tnton flannels 7c imd 8c. Tycoon Reppa, 12J4 snd 15 cent*. 1140 cloaks down $14 50. Entire stock of best printa, 6 cents.

Good robe printa, 4 cents. Job lot of dress goods. 7c and 9& 40 pises* elegant suitings, 12& cents, sold early toths season at 25 oenta. Handsomest goods yoa ever aaw at 20c, 25c and 30c. Tycoon Reppa, 12X snd 15 cents.

«pedal sale will commence on the morning of fiaturdsjr, Jan. 19 th,

lAJLCi iJIUllvIa until oar Immense winter stock is all disposed of. We bsve been enabled to give but a few nrices. but the cot we have made extends to every department. Don* delay buying until yoar more active neighbors l^ye bought os out of some of these extraordinary bargains and then And fault with us for the reaults of your own tardiness.^

FOSTER BROTHERS, ?. Great New York City Store, 418 Main St., Terre Haute, Ind.-

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60 lots for sale tn BairsdoflTs subdivision (of the old Phlegan garden) on Fourteenth street and Liberty Avenue deslr ably located, will be sold on reasonable terms. These lots are convenient to the railroad sbof s, city schools, and in a desirable part of tbe city. For further Information call on

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