Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 July 1880 — Page 2

THE MAIL

PAPER FOR TOE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, JULY 24,1880

W3M: SOME TIME.

Borne time I think yon will be glad to know 1 Tbat I have kept yon ever In my heart.

And lhat

my

love hat* only deeper grown,

In ail that time that we have lived apart. .Someday, when yon have slipped away '•!& from care,

And Idly fall to dreaming of the past, And sadly think of all yonr Mfe has mined, Yon will remember my true love at last. Or It may come to pan, some dreary night,

After a day that has been hard to bear. When yon are weary, heart-sick and forlorn,

And there is none to eomfort or to care, That you will close yeur tired eyes to dream Of (fender kisses falling soft and light, Or restful touches smoothing bacic yonr hair,

And sweet words spoken for yonr heart's delight. OI then you will remember and be glad

That 1 nave kept you in my heart, And that yonr heart's trae home will still be here.

Although we wander silent and apart.

Atlantic Monthly.

Brown's Retreat,

Brown's retreat flashed upon them all ofa sudden. The neighborhood bad gone to sleep, one night, guileless and innocent—that 14, theoretically guileless and innocent— and bad awakened in the morning to the consciousness that Brown's retreat was in its midst.

There was considerable mystery and oonfuslon attending the want of know! «iwe whether Brown's retreat meant that Brown bad retreated, or if it was a genurai invitation into the 'retreat,'or if Brown waa a practical joker, and Brown's retreat merely a gentle atimu lant to that weakness.

Edgerly was such a prosperous town that it was no misnomer to call it a city It bad a fine bsrbor and a fine East India trade, and it had a charming collection of water-side characters. It bad a fine State Prison that was kept on the most desirable plan. Five hundred gentleman were lodged there who kad differences with their country's laws. Once in a while, curiously enougu, one of tbeee gentlemen would escape. There were other tine institutions in Edgerly, of wbicb, however, it is unnecessary to •peak.

Edgorlr itself was built on some three or four hills so that the narrow, zigzag streets were not only narrow and zigzag, but tbey had quite an abrupt slope*, ana some of them, had they beon built as surveyors intend, would have led you, running at a smart pace, down into the very depths of the dubious looking black water at the foot of the hill where, at the weather beaten wharves, with their perfume of bilge water, some rusty looking schooner would be lying at anchor, displaying on its bare spars a varied collection of trousers and undergarments hung out to dry, besides affording a glimpse of a decidedly untidy nautical character mopping the unsavory deck.

To be sure, this represents Edgerly's bast respectable side but, in truth, we hare nothing to do witb its aristocratic aspect.

It was nearly at the foot of Edgerly's d)wnbill street that Brown's retreat flashed out. At a rough guess it was six feet by ton, and occupied one-half of the ground floor of No. 7, a woodeu house, witb depressed looking windows, at each of whlob appeared a vision of somebody's baby and some baby'a mother, all looking very frouaty and much in want of soap and water and fresh air.

Brown'* retreat was, then, about six feet by ten, and left observers no doubt of Its character, as !t boldly proclaimed itsolf 'Brown's Retreat' on a deal board, painted in lampblack by somebody whose right band bad lout its onnning, for the letters resembled Edgerly streets being narrow tind zigzag iu the extreme. Nevertheless, tbey stared into the world over the email, "dtugy show window, wLUoh revealed as a solid foundation two quarts ol dismal looking apples, surmounted by several rows of sickly popcorn balls, collection of combe and seed cakes, a few paper dolls, a sprinkling of dcau Hio», clay pipes, and shoestrings.

Sometimes a child's face would peer out eagerly from among these treasures a child's face, yet strangely uuchildlike, witb shrewd gray eyes watching stealthily, a poor little body shivering In a doubtful calico 4reus, witb an attempt at finery In a striug with three glass beads about her wretched little neck, and a horsehair ring ou an emaciated forefiuger.

The child waa small, the shop was Btnall, and the counter wan very small. The selection of wares was very modest, and the greatest part graced tho window.

When the sign, 'Brown's retreat,' appoarod over the window the neighborhood stared. Whether the Invisible Brown grinned is unknown but true It is that the mysterious child continued to keep tho littlo shop with much solemnity.

Oitoe in a while, when the little shop waa empty—which, heaven knows, was most of the time, for neither money nor trade was very brisk in that part ot the town—a cautious voice would whisper hoarsely, 'Is the coast clear. Popsy?1

The myeterioua child would reconnoiter stealthily, and then with much difficulty would whisper through the keyhole ol a smalt door in the back of the •hop, half loet in the gloom of the place: 'Yes, Nunc!'

Then a tnan's head would peer ont cautiously from the slightly opened door—a man's head, with tumbled brown hair, an unshaven face, and undecided, watery blue eyes, that had, however, little redeeming wrinkles at the corner*, aa If the man could laugh at a joke.

If Popay whispered 'Shoo,shoo, Nnnol' there would come back a muffled 'All Popay!' iy which you will aee that not only waa there a Brown's retreat, bat that there waa even a retreat to that, like a Chinese Juggler*' punleof ball within a ball.

It was on a late November day that Brown's retreat appeared before an aatonlabed world a raw day, when the iukr waves with a greasy scum, down in the harbor, had foamy white cape toning upon them and plebeian Ed gen went about with a red nose and it Panda in its pockeU, and eotne of the ladle* bad their dreaa skirts over th«ir bead*.

Popay, having flashed out along with the retreat, waa much stared at and questioned but the only Information gleaned waa that Popsy bad a sick uncle in the back mora, who waant to be disturbed. He had bought ont the previous occupant, she tart!jer volunteered, who

bad failed inglorioualy, with debts and assets nil. •Uncle says, too, we mustn't trust,' Popay added, parenthetically* As she •poke, a low ohnckle was beard through the keyhole of the back room, as if some one couldn't help laughing, for the life of bim. 'Merdful powers, what's that?' aaked the visitor. •It's only uncle a choking,' said Popsy, with much presence of mind.

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A man may be a rascal, and yet peasees a fine sense of humor. That was the matter with Popay's ancle. Not that he was each an awfulrascal, if you Judge by any other atandard than this world'a. His name was Brown, and before be became ripe for the penitentiary he bad member of society,

name was Brown, and the been quite a decent who even went to cbnroh once in a while. That was his misfortune. Had he not gone to church be might still have been qnite a decent member of society instead of what he was.

One Sunday morning be wandered into a meeting house and beard the preacher grow eloquent on forgiving the sins of our fellowmen how that he, the preacher, loved mankind, and there was nothing bis erring brethren conld do to bim which could turn him fagainst them.

Brown bad gone into the sacred edl flee more for warmth than for piety, for it was a bitter, biting winter day, and bia lucky star was, jast then, very dim. Being there he listened, and listening believed tbe eloquent words. Confidingly, and with a certain sense of humor, too, he took the reverend gentleman at bis word that night the parsonage was entered an'l a large number of valuables were stolen. Brown was not caught in the act bxactly, but a silver cream jog was found in his left coat tail pocket, for which be could not account, especially as it bad a strange monogram engraved on one fiat side. To his surprise and disappointment, the minister appeared against him a jury, without a bit of humor, found bim guilty, and a prosaic judge sentenced him to five years' im prlsonment.

Brown did not belong to that olass novelists delight in describing—the noble convict. He was human that is all I have to say of him. Human, with a fine ignorance of mine and thine but be would do no injury to man or child, except, perhaps, in self defense, when we are all either cowards or wild beasts.

That late November night, when he escaped, one thought baa been uppermost in his distracted mind, to secrete himBelf on some outward bound vessel in Edgerly harbor, and be carried to parts unknown. Very fine In theory, very bard in practice, though Brown had his friends, and yeu know that truthful adage, 'honor among thieves.'

That eventful nigbt, when, after deathly danger, be stood trembling and shuddering once more under tbe trees a free man, unimaginative creature that be was, he felt his own unspeakable wretchedness. With the instinct of a hunted beast more than tbe consciousness of a man with a deadly fear at heart, that made him repent of bis rash folly too late, he turned his back on the open country, tbat would have meant safety to many a man, and groped his way through miserable alleys and no thoroughfares, shrinking at every sound and starting at every shadow, to Edgerly's market place.

Tbe sky was blaok, the rain fell in torrents, and a piercing wind swept the great drops hither ana thither. •Dog's weather,' mattered a policeman, and palled his collar about bis ears, and was for a moment not quite as watchful as bo should be. 'Good convict's weather,' Brown may have thought, if tbe power of thinking was still left to him, in the midst of cold and terror, as be crouched In an angle of tbe ureat market that stretched its granite length in dim perspective, lighted at distant intervals by flickering gaslamps, about which the rays, falling on mist and rain, formed a dismal yellow halo. Deserted all, deserted.

Edgerly market lay quite near the wharves not very respectable, to be sure, but Brown was satisfied, for Brown and respectability had long since ceased to know each other. Quite unhindered he continued his vagrant, groping way, till, in turning a corner, (a corner with a street lamp,) he ran face to face with a man.

Damn you!' muttered tbe new comer. Then, catching sight of tbe cowering face, he graspod the man's arm with the power of a vice. 'You, Brown?' 'You, Jack?' and Brown tried to free himself desperately raising one clenched fist.

None o' that, Brown, we're friends?' cried Jack, Ned Brown, you here? Aren't you— why—you—you must have—you must have'—

Cut? Yes,' Brown interposed. 'I'm off, too, Jack. They'll be after me now, sure?' he cried, and peered about anxiously. •From tbe Jack asked, turning his thumb in the direction of Edgerly's prison.

Brown nodded, and was about to hurry on, when tbe other suddenly stopped him, 'Yours is bard luck, old boy. Here, take this it'll help yoa on. I'll do more for yon if I can—for old times' sake, you know, Brown.'

Hastily thrusting some money into the manTa trembling band, this good Samaritan, in the guise of a sailor, vanished.

With a ray of comfort In his heart, Brown clutched the money to his breast, and at last found himself in that narrow, Klgzag street wbicb led to the black water at the toot of the wharf, a street not very dainty in its inhabitants, and very willing to give anything it possessed tor miserable money. It was the most undesirable of all the streets in a great city—a street with tumble-down wooden bouses and odd nooks with dark lanes and alleys creeping ont, and, here and there, dark quadrangles below tbe level of the street, with rickety wooden steps leading down to them, and dimly lighted by an oil lamp swinging from a wooden arch overhead, and throwing a wretched glimmer on unspeakable poverty and crime.

Down this street tbe culprit crept. He had ]ast roached such a quadsangle, and from the dreary darkbad shrank buck be heard bitter sobbing,' and tbe next inatant be felt something pulling at bis trousers. With a shudder and an oath be looked down. 'Let go, yon brat!' lie mattered, as be caught sight of the shivering form of a child crouching on tbe top of a miserable flight of steps. The child oeased sobbing aud shrank back at the sudden violence of face and tone, while the unhappy man disappeared In tbe darkness.

There la a tench of superstition, a fear of a higher power, be tt what it will, in tbe most unimaginative and irreligious of us—a feeling that, aa we do, we shall be done by.

Fleeing, as be was, from every known peril. Brown waa stopped in his coarse t»y an nnexplained feeling that a certain gniding power—Brown would call it

'lack' in an unvarnished statement— migbt, in rbtrl button, forsake bim aa he passed by the child. So be retraced bis steps to where she bad fallen on her face and was weeping most bitterly. 'What's tbe matter, young an?' he askod roughly. 'They've tamed me out of doors, fur my father's gone—I don't know where— and my mother—mother's dead—and oh, I'm so cold aud hungry, and I'm ao afraid, too!'she cried, looking about fear fully. 'Well, and what's to be done with you

Jindly.'on?'Brown

oung demanded, not nn-

Tbe child stopped sobbing, and looking up witb aa imploring race said, witb innocent confidence, 'P'raps yoa'll take me witb you?'

It did uot enter Brown's head to disbelieve her story. 'Take you with me?' he repeated, with a grim smile, for he saw the ghastly humor of the thing. 'Take yon witb me? Why, I haven't got a bunk for myself to night.'

The child had been bred in that state of society where bunted down Brown was an every day object to her. He seemed a stranger in Edgerly, and what wonder, therefore, tbat he was without lodging? 'I know of a boarding boose where they'll take you in,' she said eagerly 'that is if you can pay,' she added, with some misgiving". Brown nodded. 'It's right here In tbe street, near the wharf, and p'raps you'll tell 'em to take me in, too, and—p'raps you'll give me a bit of brt-ad.' 'Go ahead,' said Brown, and be followed his ragged guide. He was reckless, this brraker of laws, and as a gam-' bier stakes bis all on one throw of dice, BO he staked life and liberty on this va-i grant, with a superstitious feeling tbat his 'luck' could not forsake him for bad be not befriended one as wretched as himself?

Tbe child led the way to a tumble down wooden bouse witb depressed windows. The landlady, a middle aged virago, was just baring a dispute with a slightly intoxicated lodger, which she postponed for an instant to attend to business.

The delicate matter of references not being alluded to, the stranger, in consideration of a certain modest sum, was allowed to take possession of a dingy room, back of a six by ten feet shop, followed by his small guide with a tallow oandle. 'Two doors and a low window,' said Brown, peering curiously about in the miserable room. -One door leads into tbe shop, the other Into the entry, and the window,' he said, throwing it open as noiselessly as possible, and putting his bead out, 'into an alley. 8o!' be er claimed, and shut it again. Then be seated himself on the tall, uninviting bed, and dangling his legs backward and forward, stared into tbe pinched fadb of the child, who stood watching him very patiently. 'And now, what may your name be, young 'un?' be abruptly asked. •Popsy,' "she said briefly, returning his stare, 'You're pretty well alone in the world?' 'Yes,* Bbe whispered. 'So am I,' he said, thoughtfully-'so am I. We might,' he added, as if thinking aloud, 'we might nnug to each other for tbe present, at least now mightn't we?' 'I bet we might,' Popay answered, with a world of gratitude in her young eyes. •Well, then, call me uncle Nunt% you might say, for short. Now, Popsy?' 'Well, Nunc?' •fetch- a pint of milk tind a' loarOr bread.'

Popey disappeared, And Brown lay back on the bed and laughed. The idea of his playing the part of protector was too funny it struck bim so forolbly that he forgot his own precarious situation iu amusemeutat the comic side of the transaction.

Such was tho advent of Brown, who rented thesis by ten feet shop, and hidlug in the daytime, prowled about at nigbt In search of moans to escape from Edgerly Town and tbe Edgerly laws be had broken. Yet tbe man could not be the man he was without having his little jokes. In bis leisure moments, so very

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lentifal, be traced the words 'Brown's on a pine board, aud, trusting to the npuie of Brown as a disguise, nailed it over tbe shop window one nigbt, where it surprised Edgerly the next morning, to tbe intense delight of its owner, who nearly choked with suppressed laughter when an unsuspecting policeman, iu passing, read tbe sign ana grinned.

That policeman had a nioe sense of humor, but it was nothing as compared to Brown's. m.

But justice did not sleep because guileless policemen passed Brown's retreat unsuspectingly. No she was only slightly confused perhaps rubbing her bandaged eyes, and resting the end of her claasio nose on the hilt of her conventional sword. But she was not asleep. She had put her band into her respectable pocket and offered $250 reward for the apprehension of the fugitive Brown, which stimulated quite a number of loafers to find bim ont.

November had turned into the bitterest, coldest December. Approaching Christmas hardly disturbed this part of Edgerly by any undue gladness though Brown's retreat made a sacrifice to tbe season in the shape of a few twigs of hotly and an evergreen tree.

Popsy had developed fine sbopkeeping talents with a shrewd eye open for cash customers. This calculating eye, in looking over tbe street one December morning,lighted on a stranger in an attire several degrees better than tbat usually worn by the gentlemen about. It was across between a naval and a polios uniform, and there waa something military in the slouched hat that was carelessly oocked over a wide awake eye there was, too, something military in tbe dyed mustache.

This personage, witb bis hands in his troasers pockets, stared at the sign of Brown's retreat and said: 'Hallo!' witb a dim sense of amassment. Then he looked in at the door and said: 'Hallo?' interrogatively. Without waiting for an anawer be leaned bia elbow gracefully on the counter and then remarked to Popsy: •Of course, you're not Brown who may Brown be?' to which the child listened in silent alarm. "Brown's a man who likes a joke,' tbe stranger continued, surveying tbe dismal place with much scorn "for of course nobody'd call this a retreat except as a joke. bat did yon say ?nhe abruptly asked Popsy, who stood by in open-mouthed eox**teroatiea* •If you please,' abe said with a little courtesy, 'If yon please, sir, Brown's my sick uncle, and mnsn*t be disturbed.' 'Ob, really, mnsnt be?" said this remarkable individual, calmly making for tbe little door. 'No, yon shan't!' cried Popsy, and thrust ber slight figure between tbe stranger and tbe back room. 'Why, yoa ferocious little savage! what term would it do bim be cried, retreating,nevertheless, while he stroked

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bia dyed mustache monchanalantly, and laughed a weak laugh, which would have been still weaker could he have seen through the deal door, where Brown sat on tbe bed with a loaded revolver in his hsnd, ready with an unexwelcome. •He's aiek, and you mustn't go in,' Popsy said hastily, fearing, child as abe was, that she had made a blunder, even in ber quick defense of him for she knew his story, aud tbat he was waiting for a favorable moment to eseapeon one of tbe schooners down at tbe wharf—a transaction which was by no means strange to Popsy. nous stranger, tarn to allay ber suspicion or ber alarm,

The mysterious stranger, as if in bia

looked over the wares on tbe counter, and at last purchased a clay pipe, and then sauntered careleasly out of the shop, followed by tbe child's eager gaze and by a couple of cautiona eyes that looked stealthily out of tbe inner door after the retreating figure, and made such a mental note of It that that Inquisitive person would not have been safe from Brown beneath any disguise. •Tbe devil's in tbst sneaking cuss!' mattered Brown, as he drew his head in. 'Popey!' 'What is it, Nunc{' the obild asked, cautiously patting her shrewd face in at tbe door. 'If that chap comes loafing ronnd here again, you do this do yoa understand? Now do it?' So Popey coughed obedle Iy as Brown directed. "It's getting hot as h—1 round this place. I'll have to cut, or they'll pin me again,' he muttered. •Nunc,' said Popsy, still lingering •there waa another man here tbia mornwhat asked to see yoa, and I said yott was sick, and he said he was a dootor. I said you wouldn't see no doctor then be said he was a friend o' yourn, and he'd oome round again.'

There was a look of veiled fear in the man's eyes, and he clenohed bis brawny hands, and felt as if tbe gana^ that he bad been playing was ooming to a delicate point.

The zigzag street wss indeed becoming unsafe quarters. The neighborhood was accustomed to harbor suspicious characters, and, after a first nod of surprise, forgot all about tbem. But tbe mysterious Brown, who waa never seen, who rented a shop wbere there was little to sell, became tbe subject of conversation. The police were after him, too but it was net the poliee who looked in at the etore and beught day pipes, nor did the police say it was the dootor and his friend. The police were soonring the country far and wide in searoh of the criminal, but it had not ocourred to tbat able body to examine tbe region under its very nose that duty WM being performed by self constituted spies, who bad recourse to tbe polloe only at the last moment, fearing it might olaim the reward. The culprit, knowing tho tricks of the trade, instantly reoognized his visitors' errand, and muttered a curse upon tbem. The man was not se delicate in his sentiments—not being a noble convict—as to doubt the honor or parity of their profession he merely questioned their right to be stepping into tbe shoes of those whose duty it waa to arrest him in the way of business. 'Curse tbem for sneaking dogs! Why can't they leave a fellow alone!' be thought, with a despair at heart that nearly made him give In, beaten.

Neverthelees, that nigbt he once more groped his' way stealthily out of the house, through aback door that led into tbe alleyway, darker for a cloudy night, and dirtier than usual for a spell of thawing. Into this dirt and darknees Brown disappeared.

Being only a child, Popsy was tor a moment filled with unspeakable terror at the sudden awakening, tbe light, and the strange man, Then there flashed into her mind, young as she was, tbe danger of the man who had befriended ber, and whose object was, she knew, to remain undiscovered.

Without moving her eyes from the stranger's face she slipped on to her feet, and at the door of Brown's room, as If to defend it. Not a word she said, but stood there shivering and trembling, with one small, faithful hand on the door knob, and a pleasing look in ber faithful eyes that made his own dim tbat made him turn away for an Instant and then ask in a husky voice, 'Don't you know me, Popsy Popsy started at the tonee. 'Well, this beats all! Don't you know your Nunc?' cried the man. 'I swear, youngster, either you're asleep or I'm another man. What, don't yon know ine, Popsy?' he asked, and held oat his arms to her.

Yes, yon are Nunc!' the child cried, throwing her arms about bis neck. Then, after a little thoughtful pause, she added, 'And vet you are not.'

Tbe man was, Indeed, well disguised. Since Popey bad known him his face bad become rough and dark by a beard and mustache of some weeks' growth. Soap and water and a oomb, prosaic as it sounds, had helped tbe transformation. Tbe trim sailor's dress, rough as it was, formed such a contrast to tbe wretched clothes be bad ploked up piece meal.

Witb better clothes, something of tbat disgraced, hunted down look in nis eyes had disappeared so tbat aa far as bis outer man was concerned, Brown might again have been classed as a respectable member of society. 'And yet yoa are not None,' tbe child repeated, not qnite comprehending his diagnlse.

Brown said nothing, but lifting ber in bis arms carried her into the back room and closed the door. Placing the candle on tbe rough table, be seated himself and took tbe child on his knee.

Look here, Popsy,' he began with some embarassment, 'you know I'm biding from the—from tho—' perMce/ Popsy interrupted wisely.

Well, yes, to be sure. And tbe fact is, to make a long story abort, those two chaps who've been prowling around here are making the place too hot for

have expected from so rough man— •Popsy, Pve got to leave yoa, though I saidl wouldn't anditdoes seem hard and mean, now, doesn't it, voung 'un!' «Oh, Nunc, None!' tbe child sobbed. •Then, there!' Brown said, rocking ber to and fro like a baby. 'Now, listen to what I'm done. You dont know jack? Still, bow abould your be muttered to himself. 'Ay, Jack*s goinae a berth with himself on (be Mary Ann, boand for the Esat Indies. The skipper's glad of a steady hand, and arts no questions at this time o» year. There'll

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come a woman for you to-morrow, Popsy, who'll take ye along with her. She's Jack* sister, and,' speaking almost In a whisper, 'onee ahe was tonave been my wife—my wife. But I went to the dogs—God forgive me! and she'a only Jack's sister now. Be mfndful of her, Popay be true and good like ber, and aome day you'll grow op to be a good woman, just as she Is—heaven bl« ner!' Brown cried, and buried bis face in hia bands for a moment. •I will. I will, Nunc!' the child answered piteously. 'Bat when are you coming back 'Never,' said Brown, aoenstomed to ataring bard facta in the face— 'never. But when yoa've a woman grown—a good woman, mind, like her. Popsy—perhaps then you'll oome ont to me. Bat what's the matter, young 'nn?' as Popay, slipping from his knee, with head bent forward, listened intently. 'Nunc, don't you hear something?' she whispered, terror strioken.

Instantly Brown was deadly still listening witb that keen suspense whiob only a man feels whose liberty and life are at the mercy of a sound.

There was the noise as of a delicate tampering with the metal about a knob or lock—a noise whiob wonld have been unheard in the daytime, but whiob at dead midnight barely caught and reeoheed into tboae straining, foreboding ears.

There was only time to act. With the

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uickness of a man to whom self possesin danger has become a aeoond nature, he sprang to the low window, toce it open, and without another word or look leaped out into the midnight darkness, and ran, ran for dear life, with we horror at heart of perhaps running into tbe very handa of hie pursuers.

The child, with quick instinot, shut the betraying window, and then, with the hot tears welling up into her eyes, shrank back into a dim comer, and waited till the low door opened, and by flash of a lantern and the flaring light of tbe oandle saw three men enter, one of whom carried a revolver in hla band. This last man was a pel ice man, and he stepped with a certain buainese like air, which was in fine contrast to the lagging steps behind bim, in whom the cnila instantly reoogiaed the nautloal loafer of tbe morning and the individual who said be was a doctor and a friend. 'Where's Brown? Where's the man?' the policeman asked, peering about with lantern in one hand and the revolver in the ether. 'This is Brown's Retreat with a vengeance,' said the nautical gentleman, while the friendly individual used some strong language abont meddling fools, with a glance at the former.

Without the knowledge of what would happen, with the glitter of tbe ngly looking pistol in ber eyes, but with a world or gratitude in ner heart, poor Popay crept out of ber corner, and said humbly and pleadingly: 'If yon please, sir, I am Brown!'

Of course tbey tried to ferret him out, but the humorous rogue did aotually escape on the Mary Ann. bound for the East Indies, witn briskest kind of a breeze to push ber along.

I had a feeling of sympathy with Brown all the time, for be bad a vein of humor in him, and a vein of humor ia an excellent point in a man, even if $250 are offered as a reward for his tare as a common thief.

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He was, to be sure, & bit foolhardy in his appreciation of a joke, for in his leisure he nailed up another deal-board

witb 'Brown's Retreat' upon it at tbe head of his bunk, to tbe curiosity of tbe other seamen. Only one understood tbe delicate innuendo, and tbat was the

*tbe neighborhood about Brown's He-' 'S°®d Samaritan, Jack As his country's prisons were never again honored by bis presence, as nothing was heard of his death, as mysterious presents are continually reaohing

treat, if not very honest or respectable, had a touching confidence in other people's honesty and respectability for it always slept with its doors wide open in summer and on the latch in winter, tbe delicate formality of a bell or knocker being quite unknown. At midnight, or a little later, the faint light of atallow candle lit a corner of Brown's Retreat and awoke Popsy from her slumbers on a miscellaneous heap of old clothes and a patchwork quilt to the fact tbat an unknown man was bending over her. A sailor ho seemed a strong looking man, with a face smoothly shaven but for a short, cleanly-cut mustache.

Popsy, who has grown to be a true, noble-bearted girl, just aa Jack's sister was before ber, it is pleasant to think tbat the wretched criminal found some spot on earth where he prospered where he could have his little joke without being locked no where tbe preachers say what they mean, and human nature is to be trusted.

The name of Brown is notunoommbn. Should you know a middle aged man of that name, with a misty past, and a taste a ioke, you migbt ask him if he ever card of Brown's Retreat.

Honored and Blessed.

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These are TEN in number. Theyoonslst of Five large and elegant Side-wheel Lowpressure Steamers, and Five A 1 upper cabin Propellers. These ten steamers form six separate lines on Lake Michigan, leaving CHlUAoeas follows: Racine, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc *9 a. Saturday's boat don't leave until— tp.ni Nigbt boat* for Milwaukee Tuesday and Friday.—— 7 p. And Saturday 8 p.m LadiDgton, Manistee, et&, Hat. and

Sunday excepted 9 a. Ahnapee. etc., Toes, and Fri. 7 p. m. and Friday 9a.m O'd Haven, Muskegon, Q'd Rapids, FOT^'reen'fcy. etc. Taes. *i&dayii^ 7 p.'m For Eseanabad: Lake Superior towns

Tuesday 7 p.m

No finer SUMMER PLEASURE TRIP can be found than that which can be enjoyed on these splendid steameca.

JL HEW FEATURE!

Special Excursions are now given daHy (Sundays excepted) CHICAGO to GRAND HAVEN via MILWAUKEE, and return to caiGAOO, for ITJOthenmnd trip. Tills includes two meats, state room and berth. A brass and string band accompanies the steamer to Milwaukee^ Passengers on this ronte can stop off a* Milwaukee and Grand Haven as long as thsy pieaaa.

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Consumption, is characterised ly catarrh. or inflammation of the mueoni membrane of the air passage* with cough and expectoration, short breatn, hoarseness, pains In the chest. For all bronchial affections, sore throat, aphonia, or loss of voice, coughs, Dr. Swayne's compound Syrup of Wild Cherry tea well known curative.

HOXC TSSTDCONV.

Asthma and Distressing Congh Cured. My mother was a great sufferer from Asthma cough, oould not sleep, her symntoms became very alarming, short breatn. pains and oppression. Dr. awayne's Com* pound Syrup of Wild Cherry gave her lm mediate relief and in her to good health,

a short tame restored H. MEYER, Grocer.

17th and Carpenter streets, Philadelphia. Price 25 cents and SI per bottle, or 6 bottles 95. The large sise Is the most economical. Sold by all prominent druggists. By Buntin A Armstrong, Torre Haute.

Itehlsv Piles

Is one of the most annoying diseases in the world, and yet all oau tind sure relief by the use of 8wayne's Ointment, it has been tested in thousand of instances, and invariably makes a sure care. The symptoms are moisture, like persplratlou, intense Itching, particularly at night, when undressing, might think that pin worms were orawling In about the rectum the private parts am sometimes affected. Procure this Ointment at once and be cured. sxtir OXSBASBS. Swayne*s Ointment Is also a speolflo for tetter, Itch, salt rheum.scald head, eryslj las, barbers itch, blotches, all scaly, eras cutaneous eruptions. Prloe,S0 cents. Throe boxes, $1.25. Sent by mail to any address on reoelpt of prloe. Prepared only by Dr. Swayne A Son, Philadelphia. Sold by all prominent druggists. At Buntin & Armstrong's, Ter re Haute.

Facta that We Know. If you are suffering with a severe congh, cold, asthma, bronohltls, consumption, loss of volee, tickling in tho throat, or ahy tickling In the throat er lungs, we know that DR. KINO* NBW DISCOVERY will give you Immediate relief. "W know of hundreds of oases it has completely cured, and that where all other mediolnes had failed. No other remedy can show one-half as many permanent cures. Now to give you satisfactory proof that DR. KINGS NBW DISCOVERY will oure you of asthma, bronohltls, hay fever, consumption, severe colds, hoarseness, or any throot coughs and colds, hoarseness, or any throot or lung disease, ir you will call at Oullok de Berry's drug store,Terre Haute, you can^et Berry's drug store, a trial bottle for ten cents or a regular bottle for 91.00'

For Falling, Prematare Gray Hair Use London Hair Resterer. Insures new growth London Hair Restorer. Restores the color. London Hair Restorer. Exquisite dressing London Hair Restorer. Tbe only oleanr London Hair Restorer, and effectual Haf London Hair Restorer. Restorer iu market.

A toilet luxury, entirely free fiom all obnoxious or uupleasant odor, it thickens thin hair, restores gray hair, gives It new 'Ife, cure* dandruff, eauslug the hair tb row where it has fallen off or become thlh, md tor l)U3Bur*-luxury. tinft Armstrong, Terre Haute, and afl lead-

life, grov does not soli or stain an pei fti Price 75 cents, slxJ»otties 94 tin & Armstrc ing druggists.

ythlng, and Is so spared as to make

rfectly and elegantly prepared as to mi ta lasting hair dressing and toilet Bold by

BROWN'S

EXPECTORANT

The old reliable remedy for all Throat and Lung Diseases, is a scientific preparation, compounded from the formula of one of the most successful practitioners in the Western oountry. It has stood the test for tbe last twenty years and will eifect a cure after all other oough remedies have failed.

READ THE FOLLOWING. HAM. OF RBPRB8BNTATIVE8, 1 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 16,1871. DR. J. H. BROWN—We have used yonr "Brown's Expectorant" and tako pleasure in saying that It is tho best medicine for coughs, colds, hoarseness, and cheerfully recommend it to all who may be troubled with Throat and Lung afflictions.

WM MACK, Speaker House of liep. ZBNOR, Rep Harrison county. S OAUTIIOKN, Kep Knox county.

MONTOOMBRY, Rep Johnson county. O TARLTON, Rep Johnson and Morgan counties.

HCSEI-III, Doerkeeper House of Rep. N WARRUM, Rep Hancock county. CIIP AUBOTT, Rep Bartholomew county E CALKINS,Rep Fulton county. JNO W COPNBR, Rep Montgomery county W O Nsrv, Rep Putnam county

IT ACTS LIKE MAGIC. OFFICE J. M. AND I. R. II. Co., 1 JEFFKHSONVILLB, Ind., April (1,1871.J Da. J. H. BROWN—Having suffered with a severe cough for some time past, 1 was Induced to try one bottle of your "Brown^s Expectorant." I unhesitatingly say I found It pleasant to the taste, and to aot like magic. A few doses done the work for the cough, and I am well. ,,.

DILLARD RICKETTS,

President J. M. and 1. It. B.

READ WHAT GEN. KIMBALL SAYS. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. SO, I860. DR.J. H. BROWN—After having used your enough to know s, I can near testimony iw uniform suecess In curing the most obstinate cases of coughs, colds, etc. I have frequently administered the ''Expectorant" to my children, and always found It the veryj best as well as the most pleasant remedy of Its kind

NATHAN KIMBALL, Treasurer of State. WHAT AOASE OF CONSUMPTION SATS. David A. Sands,of Darlington, Montgomery oounty, says: "My wife has been afflicted with consumption for a number of years and during tbat time has tried most ail of tbe medicines recommended tor that disease without affording any relief. I was Induced by the recommendations of Dr.

say that my wi am confident it will entirely restore her health by its oontlnned use."

IT CURES BRONCHITIS. JEmxBtTBOH, Ind., Angust 28,1071* This is to certify that I have used Brown's Expectorant in my family since its first Introduction. It has never failed to give entire satisfaction. My wife Is subject to bronchitis, and I lave found no remedy equal to "Brown's Expectorant." I recommend it as a safe *nd reltable remedyj. T. BBSNTON, M. D,

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