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Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Ufa; No Favors Win us and no Pear Shall Awe." VOL. 11. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS. eiry ^Iiiiitaltr, ' Cubliahed Evs»r Wednesday J* YJKJS »LYKB EDITOR AKD PUBLISH*®. Office in Bishop's Block, i4noimiPmT * TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. tee Tear (In a«i*•»«•) ••••••••••• ffXot Paid within Three Months.... Subscriptions received for .three (|onth« in the same proportion. i i i 1 .... .$1.86 ... %m •r six 50* 1# 00 MOO MOO •0 00 NO 00 Rates of Advertising. ' • We announce liberal rates for advertising m the PLAINDF.ALHR, and endeaver to Ihem so plainly that they will be rsadily on- lerstood. They are as follows: 1 Inch one year . - • j - t Inches one year - f Inches one year - V Column one year - • - || Column one year- Column ene year - One inch means the measurement of one gkr.h down the column,single column width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, have »e privilege of chanjrinsr asyoften as thejr oose, without extra charge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having •tanaing cards) will be entitled to insertion •f local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line each week. All others will he charged 10 Mnts per Mne the^ first week, and ft cents per line for each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set in) the first Issue, and fteents per line for subsequent issues. Th".s, »n Inch advertisement will cost fl.Mforone week, 91.W for two weeks, 12.00 for three weeks, and so on. The Plaiwdkal»b will be liberal in giving Mtltorini notices, but, as a business rule. It trill require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of Us columns for peounlary gain. • BUSINESS CARDS. H. T. BROWN, M.D. DHYS1CIAN aND SURGEON. IT Residence, McHenry, III. Ofice at O. H. FEGER9, M. D- \ nilTSlCtAN AND SURGEON. McHenry^ I Ills. Office at Residence. X O. J. HOWARD, M. D. I1HYSIOIAN AND SURGEON, Mftffenry, 1 III. Office one door West of ritsslmmons i Evanson's store, up Stairs. -4- BARBIAN BROS. ClSXR Manufacturers, McHenry, ill. Or-ders solicited. Shop, la Old _Mcllenr liSi^ • J ders solicited. Shop, la Old McHenry. Keiter Block, third door west of Riverside •ouse. ROBT SCHIESSLE Having purchased the old stand of Joseph Wiedemann, NEAR THE DEPOT,' McHENBY, ILLINOIS, Keeps open for the accommodation ;of the Public a rirat-Class Saloon and Restaurant, Where he will at all times keep the best brafcds bf Wines, Mquors and Cigiirs * to be found in tne market. Also Agent For FBANZ PALE'S MILWAUKEE LAGER BIER. Beer In Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al. ways en hand, cheaper than any other, quali­ ty considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to. GOOD STABLING FOR HORSEB. CTCall and see.us. Robert 8chlessle. MeHenry.IU., Kay 16th, 1886. ; -- BUSINESS CARDS. M. r. ELLSWORTH, A TTORNET at Law, and Solicitor In Chan A eery, Nunda, III. ASA W. SMITH, TTORNET AT LAW and Solicitor] in L Chancery.--Woodstock. IlL S. F. BENNETT, M. D. pHJSICIAN AND SUnOBON. Also United JL States Examining Surgeon. Illinois. Richmond, E. B. BEaNETT, M. B., Late House Surgeon Cook County Hospital, RICHMOND, ILLINOIS, Special attention given to difficult Surgical eases. DEVT&CH GESPROCHEN. Office at Residence of Dr. S. F. Benuett. DR. C. R. WELLS. pHTSICIAN AND SURGEON, Wauconda, *- ,Lake Co., III. All calls promptly attend­ ed, day or night. Office on Maim St., east of Barker's harness chop. MART G. BARB IAN. HAIR WORKER. All ktiids of Hair Work done in first class style and at reasonable prices. Rooms st residence, north east corner ef Public Square, McHenry, IlL DR. C. E. WILLIAMS. DENTIST. Residence Dundee. WHI be at McHenry, at Parker House, the 10th 11th 26th and'ifith of each month. When dates occur Saturday or 8unday I make my visits on the following Monday, and the first day of such visit ocenrs on Friday, I will stay but one day. A. M. CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jeweler NO. 55 FIFTH AVE., (Brigsrs House), Chi-cagOj 111. Special attention given to re­ pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. WA Full Assortment of Goods is his line AT THE OLD STAND, JAOOB BONSLETT, ^ALOON AND RESTAURANT, at the old j stand, opposite Bishop's mill, McHenry, III. The choicest Wine*, Liquors an*i Cigars to he found in the county. Warm or cold meals on short notice on application. PHIL BEST'S MILWAUKEE BEER by the Bottle or Case, always on hand. good stabling for horses. J. C. KARGES, House, Sign and Carriage PAINTER, Shop at McHenry House, Near the Iron Bridge- I am prepared to do ill kinds of Painting on short notice, and guarantee satisfaction. Sign Painting a Specially. Call and soe me if in want of anything in the Painting line, as I am satisfied that I can please you, both iu workmanship and price. «T. C. Karges. McHenry, June 1\ 1885. Attention Horsemen! I would call the altentfion oi the public to my Stable ot Stock Horses, four in number: two Morgans, one 3-4Percheron, and one Imported Horse. They aro all good representatives of their breed. Also a tew Merino Sheep i< r sale. The public are cordially invited to call and examine stock, get prices, etei No business done on Sunday. N. S. Colby. 10-7-tf McHENRT, ILL SAL00M and RESTAURANT Buck's Old Stand, McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Uta Kentucky Liquors, French Bitters, McHenry Lager Beer, Talks' lfilwtokM Bmi, the JBottle or Case. We buy none but the best and sell at Reasonable Prices. Call and see me and I will use well. ANTONY ENGELN. McHenry, 1U.. 1884., PARR A book of 100 pages. The beet book for an advertiser to con­ sult, be he experi- enoed or otherwise. (lists oT newspapers and estimates I oost of advertising. The advertiser who ipend one dollar, finds in it the in­ ne reqnirea while forhimwrho will _ _ j tmiKired tbousanc* dollars in ad- ling, t scheme Is indicated which will ithla every requirement, or ms be made tSOb^sUffhidttaij^s easily arrived at by cor- tmlenc*. 14• editions have been issued, post-paid, to any address for 10 cents. Ito tJEO. F. HOWELL A CO., IPAPSB ADVERTISING BUREAU. Bt. Frinting House Sq.), New York. St Patent 8elf- PfiDOflm Adjusting bUno&l [IMPROVED.] ily perfect fitting, truly comfortable th-preserviug Corset made. PUMP REPAIRING, CEMENTING, ETC. The undersigned is prepared to do all lobs In the line of Digging Wells, Repairing Pumps. Cementing Wells, or will put in XTsto* Fumpa On short notice and warrant satisfaction. In short will do all work m this line. Can furnish you a new Pump, either wood or iron, warranted, as cheap as any other man. Good references furnished if desired. If you want a Well Uug, a Pump Repaired or a new Pump, give me a call. WOrdors bj Post office, Jo£ attended to. L. BANTES. Johnsourgh, 111., May 25th, 1835. JOB BABQAINS 01 tli-jpreserviag Corset made. Has sn flection above and below a Corded IeM. Entirely different from any ivsry Oorset is'stamped and absolute. * in erery particular. Be sure - ~ pat Manufactured only milt Co., Chicago, and dry .foods stores erery. st**" For Coal and Wood --CALL ON E.M. HOWE Opposite Bi«hop*s Mill* ^Tho has a complete line of the best stoves'm the market, as well as a large stock of Mare, Mechanic's M, TIN, COPPER A SHEET IRON WARE, Ajm}, <|n|Bict, everything In the bard ware stove and tin lino. JOB WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD. Call at his store before buying elsewhere lobbing and repairing promptly attended to 4^Remeuil>er,«xt .*a good Dargains can al­ ways be obtained at Howe's. u.n«.»w i iaaa_ SI for 13 Weeks. The POLICE GAZETTE will be mailed, securely wrapped, to any address In the l (JoltedStates for three months on receipt of ONE DOLLAR. Liberal discount allowed to poftmasters, agents and einbs. temple copies mailed froe Address all orders to BICHABD K. FOX, PUHKtn SQDJUO, New York. doing! Sobs I! Bonilll AUCTIONEER , " A D INTERIM* M. F. ELLSWORTH Tenders his services te the selling -- -- p! and guarantees good work or no pay. Terms >ublie ran Ad reasonable, made known on application, dress, NUNDA. ILL. MONEY LOANED On McHenry County Farms, on time,' terms, and in amounts to suit borrower®, by J. W. RAN3TEAD. ii-i7-8tn Elgin, Illinois. ATTENTION LADIES. MRS-J. H, SEXTON, Tor the past ten years one of the leading Dressmakers in £)gin, las moved to McHenry where she is ready to do Dressmaking in all the latest stales. Satisfac­ tion guaranteed. Cutting and Fitting a specialty. Also agent for the I. X L., Tailor system of Cutting and Fitting. Full instructions given* Rooms two doors West of the Riverside House. 10-38 W I N S L O W ' S "Vineyard" Roller Skatss. For the best, most dunlble and easiest run­ ning Roller «lcstee get the ••VINEYARD." i'I the principal Rinks are using the "VINEYARD" Roller. Put up in nil Clamp, Half Clamp and strapped Complete. The demand for these skates is so great that they are kept in stock by all principal bar I- ware dealers throughout tne country. Manufsctured by the Inventor and Patentee lAMU^L WINSLOW, WORCESTER, MASS. John Helm, Algonquin, IlL, DEALER IN Etrdwaxt, Stona, Tiamm, In abort, we keep everything >n the above mentioned lines, which we are offe' ing to the buy­ ing public as cheap as any other house in this section. Call and See us* J0BBNQ ft REPAIRING. PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. JOHN HELM. Algonquiu. Feb. 18,1886. Livery Si JC. WIUHTMAN, class rigs, with or furnished at reasonable ratts. •NESDAY, MARCH 10, 1886. tie. NO. 34. H all kinds done on short notice. leior. Hi thont drivers Teaming ot United States War (3aim •--OF- WM. He Woodstock, Illinois. Prosecutes all oSaPsss and Mntls of claims against »he United states tor ex-SoMiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims Ail communications promptly answered if Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. WJiLlf. OOWLIN, Ollce at Residence, Madison «t., Woodstoc*. Illinois. Soldiers' Department, County C. A. R. Directory. BrCimORD POST WO 288. ea*h*monhth.flm tlllr<l Frld%J ersnlngs of DB. S. r, BUTHBTT, Oom. WOODSTOCK POST, no HML month'" tUn' Monday evenings of each B. N. Smith. Com. JOHNSBURGH HENRY MlLLEfl, --PKALKB IN-- Foreip aid American Marble, Scotch and American Granite HfOfiUMBNTS, TABLETS. HEADSTONES CEMETERY COPING, ETC. JOHNSBtJBGH, ILI* Orders Solicited. Good Work Guaranteed. Post Office Address McHENRY, ILL. ^ VAN WINKLE ^ ̂ This is not a Cure All. But a Sure and Permanent Cure for R H E U M A T I S M . This remedy Is guaranteed to Rive Immediate relief, and perform a permanent cure If used as directed; it acts upon an entirely new principle, dis­ covered after years of patient Ktii'ly ana experiment. Its elketi are truly murvrloua. vVe claim that our remedy has a specific action upon the fluid* of the body, supplying moisture to the tissues and lubricating the Joint* affected by the disease. Nd Mgsr JBtatorted Llmlu remain after a cure by this spedflc. A trial of n finale bottle will convince the most sceptical that we have not told half its Virtues. Price, ®1.©0 per bottle. For sale by all Manufactured onlv by kuvda post. Meets the first and third Wednesday even in* of each month. ' Wm. Butlbb, Oom. HA.BVABD POST, NO 90S. Meets the second and fourth Monday even­ ings ot each mouth. ' DB. H. T. Woodbcfp. Com. Mabbnoo Post, Na 169, • Meets every Second and fourth Prldav evenings of each month. . J. B. Babcook, Oom. A. F. Kremer 8th Iowa Cav., Weit Branch, Iowa, wants lo hear from some of his comrades in arms who were on the stoneman and McCook raid In the rear of Atlanta. I enlisted August 16, 1862, as private, Co,* B, 47 th inland served with that regiment until march 25.1864, when I was commissioned second lieutenant In the 70th U. S. colored, serving with that regiment until March 6,1864, mak­ ing four years, seven months and eighteen days service for Uncle Sam. I would like to hear from any or all of the members of either organizition, especially the officers of the latter,--C. A. Cutlbr, Mtnonk. 111. Some say we are doing too much for the soldier. Stop and think! Where would t»ie government have been If we had staid al home. For my part I think we have had but, little done for us. Others say we can hava 160 teres of land for our services. That is a fine thing. We are put on a dead level with the European paupers. Seme o« the fellows are too old to go West, in the woods, anil many are not ahle to get there.-- H. L. Simons, Simons. Ohio. Railroad Ticket For 1,000 Miles TO • •• St. Andrew's Biy, Florida. This beautiful Bay and surroundings are acknowledged by all who have visited there to be the loveliest combination of fert ile sell, beautiful foliage, fragrant orchwids, bine water, growing city, and absolutely perfect climate In Summer as well as in winter, to be found in America. There is but one Florida and St Andrew's Bay is its brightest jewel. Prices for Businest or Home l,ots nnd Or­ chard Tracts range from S5, 99, S17, SDO, to S1SO. and sales were made t > more th .n 3.000difierent purchasers within the llrst sixty days. St. Andrews will certainly become the second largest ritv in Florida within the next two vears. Properly is doubling in value every thirty day*. Free Transportation for I.OOO Miles tp Tract Purchasers- Send 4«* stamp tor illustrated pamphlet con taining full details. Address principal bnxi ness office as follows: ST AMDKXw'S BAT E. K. ft LAHS CO-, 327 Main St- Uiaoiaaati. Okie* A GIFT Send 10 cents postage and we will mail you free a royal, valuable, sample box of goods that will put you in the way ot making more mtney at once, than anything else in America. Both sexes of all ages can live at home and work in spare time, or all the time. Capital not required. We will start yon. Immense pay sure lor those who start at once, Stikson A Co., aine OBBAT* GRANT BOOK! Life and Personal Memories of Qen. Grant in one volume only $1.79. One agent sold 48 first dav; 10,000 sold first week. Aft engrav­ ing itxi'3 inches of all "Our Presidents" Fan to each subscriber. Think of this! Some per­ son should send 00 cts. for outfit and engrav­ ing and secure this territory. Book now out --no waiting for commissions. Address Eldbb Publishing Co., 861 Wabash ays., Chicago, Illinois, & LENNEY MEDICINE CO., CHENOA. ILLINOIS. do not forget that our claims f>r the Specific are contrary to all past experi­ ence in the treatment of Rheumatism. In fact it was long before we ou> selves became con vinced that it could be possible that a single remedy could perform radical cures, where the most eminent physicians had failed. Not­ withstanding all this we are now convinced, and we have also convinced every one who has used it, that it is a Wonderful Medicine. We invite and urge theafflictcd to correspond with those who have given their voluntary testimonials furnished on application as to its effects In their eases. j» A PRESENT! Our readers for 12'cents in postage stamps to pay for mailing and wrapping, and the names of two book agents will receive fret a SUel Finishing Purlor Engraving of all our Prrsidents, including Cleveland, size 82X28 inches, worth >1.00. Address Elder Fab- Co., Chicago, 111 m nflffi Th* VOL. 10-1886, !• Leading Illustrated W«eklv Beview, Devoted to Music, rama, Literature, Art. Sociaty nnd Current Events. The Ablest. Brightest and most Influential Journal of its class in the world. CBrriCAX,! INDEPENDENT ! IMFABTIAL I No home should be without It. In the Philadelphia Decem­ ber, 19, 1886, Opii, Jone? In his account of the sli-ije of Fort Wagner, used the following language: "It soon became necessary to disturb again and again their dead comrades, until the attempt to bury them beyond reach was aban­ doned, and in future when the graves were encountered, the bodies were . tootr eai-th par­ ti pets and there left.*' I was on Morris Island from the day it was occupied by our troops until the day after Wagner was taken, a id I never saw or heard of such conduct on the part of our sol­ diers. I believe it is n false statement and 1 hope the old comrades that par­ ticipated iu that siege will speak out and not allow a rebel general to mis­ represent them.--J. B. Bell, 85th Pa., Lawrence, Pa. Gen. Black's MIsistMi The honorable commission of Pen­ sions lias estimated that It will re­ quire $300,000,000 to pay the arrear­ ages of pensions if the limitation is gtricken ofl, and consequently mem­ bers of the House are proposing to re­ pudiate the debt aod that It will bank­ rupt the treasury. I suppose General Black made the estimate on the num­ ber of applications filed since July 1, 1880. Now we know that only about 50 per cent are proved up and al­ lowed. hence It is fair to estimate that the cost at 9150,000,000. Then again instead of this amount being - paid out in one year it is fair to presume, judging from the past, it will take ten years at least to work all the oases so It would not add over 915,000.060 to the roll in any one year. Have we any more right to suppose it will bankrupt the country than in 1879, and did not the country prosper after that as never before? Do gentleman propose to re pudiate the 92,000,000.000 of bonds be­ cause the amount is large? Certainly not, as that is the other ox. Gold muot be paid In Yull. But the debt of blood Is repudiated^ Comrades, let us take Gen. Blacks estimate and see what this generous government has robbed us of. Twenty years ago the last soldier was discharged. The interest on 9300.000,000 at 5 per oent. simple interest would be 915,000*000 each year, or 9300,006.000 in twenty vears just t lie amount of the prinolpal. and now after giving all that, honor able gentlemen have the cheek to stand up and Bay, "because yau did not die your claim before 12 o'clock, noon the first day of July. 1880. we wilt beat you out of the priuclpal also." Let me p opose my little scheme if the gov­ ernment Is really hard up and hat no money. Let it issue 3 per cent, bonds for ten or twenty years, or we will take silver. The only government bonds I ever owned were two 950 bonds received at their face value for my wages at 916 'per month as sol­ dier, and we would not refuse them now when they would be worth their face value.--Veteran, Minden, Neb. Jtki J King. Publisher t Vrsisrisk Artbsr. Editor. VKlCB Id ciwm. 1( can l>e ordered from any Bookseller, News­ dealer, Stationer or Music Dealer, Sent postpaid at above rates. Address THE KE\NOTE. , TO. Box g 766, New York (% A Boone to Humanity. St. Albans, vt.. May 31, 1884. C. Dickinson dt Son, Barringlon, III.: I have used your Russian Liniment In my family over two years, and find It the best Liniment I ever used. It will telieve paiu almost instantly. For Rheumatism, Lame Back, Headache, Sore Throat, Burns aod Chilblains It has no equaL I should not feel safe without it Id my family. Mas. AutuCltm For ale by all Druggists, ABOUT ADVERTISING. Advertising It a legitimate part of a newtpaper*s stock In trade, and tomethlng to be paid for like any other commodity. Some persons in every community need educating on tills subject. The more rural the local Ity the more contracted the Ideas of the applicant and the more he feels at liberty to ask for free advertising that shall contribute to something In which be is interested. Thus it often hap pent that people will request i notice" of their entertainment out of which they propose to make money, provided they can got the notice without paying for It. The chances tre that the persons asking tuch favors of a newspaper have been to some other printing office to get their circu­ lars and their tickets printed--not for nothing, however. They can under­ stand that the advertising which the circulars and such afford Is to be paid for, but they do not fully oomprehend why a newspaper should not notice and benefit their speculations without charging for It. These remarks are preliminary to the statemeut of a bus!nest principle which prevail! lo all well regulated newspaper offices, and which is based on principles of equity. It is thlt: That whatever a news pa- perjpubllshes that is ealculuted to put money In the coders of an Individual, a society, a church, or other party, comes under the head of advertising, and Is to be paid for as-such. If a church glvet an entertainment and charges an admission fee thereto, or proposes to gain money by the enter tainment In some other way it be comes a business transaction, and any advert'seing of It in the newspaper Is legitimate part of the expenses which the entertainment should bear. When a newspaper Is employed to put dollars into the pockets of anybody, whether Individual, church or state, then the newspaper is entitled to pay for its service. That Is the lodg and abort of the principle. A newspaper must have a revenue from its adver lining just as much as the baker must have pay lor hh bread. The one Is as much a stock In tradfe as the other. In the larger cities that is well under stood No one would think of going Into the Chicago Inter Ocean or 'lime* office, lor instance, with acomplimen tary ticket to some entertainment for money getting, Mid ask that a "notice" of It be made, if be did, he woifid Immediately learn what the adver­ tising rates ot the establishment were and in what columns be could make his announcement. It is undoubtedly true that in some small, places in the country, feeble newspapers yield to the kind of sponging refered to. In such places there are always persons who think the whole newspaper estab­ lishment is at the|r beck and command If they take one copy of the weekly paper. There Is another. class of people, and lots of them too, who think If they get a oouple of dollars worth of job printing done they have a right to ten or twenty dollars worth of free advertising In the paper, and some of tbem, In addition, actually have the cheek to ask the editor to buy a ticket to their entertainment besides. In Chicago or St, L>ouls or Milwaukee, people know better. They d i not ask It. Wh?n they need to ad­ vertise In the newspapers something for their pecuniary benefit or the benefit of their society, they know that it must be paid for as much as the gas, or the circulars, or the other legttl^, mate Items of expanse Incured in the ir money getting enterprises. A Literary Cariosity. The Glasse of Tl me. in the First and Second Age Divinely Handled by Thomas Peyton, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent. Seen and Allowed. London: Printed by Bernard Aisop for Lawrence Chapman, and are to oe sold at his Shop over against Staple Inne, 1620. Now reprinted in * neat volume, Long Primer type, bound in fine cloth, gilt top. beveled boards. Price 50 cents. Thequtlnt poem, of the title page of whi:h the above as a transcript, appeared ftbarly half a century earlier than Paradise Lout, and it Isiutrin sically probable that It would have fallen undei the eye of Milton; In any case there are striking points uf re­ semblance between the two poems, and many have snuposed Milton's im­ mortal work lo have been Inspired by the former. Only two copies of the work are known to be In existence prevlou* to the Issue of the present edition, one being in the British Museum, the other In the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The copy in tfte British Museum was purchased at a noted sale of oi 1 books In 1819, by Baron Boiland, who notes udou a blank leaf that it cost him III. 17#. 6d. (about 9110.00). Some years ago a ghntleman of Virginia, Mr J. L. Peyton, sprung from the old English family of that name, made an accurate trauscript of the copy in the British museum, preserving even the quaint spelling, punotuatlon, capitalising, and Italicizing of the original. This present edition Is printed without alteration/ Apart from Its presumed connection, with Paradise Lost, the poem has very oenslderable merits of its own, and Is In every way a literary curiosity. John B. Aides, publisher, New York. ^ J >' \? "'j ^4 1 • •; ill Written for the Plalndeaier. DRESSER'S DROLLERIES. No. 38. •TUI-D., ST. tOCTS,*a t o PIONEER COURAGE. John Gath, his wife, a son and t' daughter composed a very brfght an# happy little family. Their only homo was a neat log cabin built near a spark* ling streamlet in the then wilds of Kentucky. The blue robed mountalnii could be seen plainly outlined against the sky, at a distance of only thirty miles. The trees grew wildly in pro­ fusion, and aside from the rich feast# of game and trout, nuts and berriei were to be obtained in abundance* Behind his cabin the sturdy pioneer * had planted a few acres of corn and potatoes, with a tew pumpkins planted between the rows of corn. One cool day in autumn, when the woods began to shed their beauty, Mr. Grath and his wife determined to spend the day with a "ntar" neighbor, whose cabin home was nearly twelve mile? distant. So, harnessing up their old - brown horse, they rode slowly away t lesvlng the homestead in care of their two children--George and Martha, ; George was In his eighteenth year/ and his sister lo her sixteenth. After doing the chores with willing and rap- * id hands they began to cast about for some diversion that should render tbo intervening hours,' between their parents return, hours of pleasure and of profit. One suggested* this, the other that, but there appeai- „ id some objecfon to each proposal f that would render it impracticable, until Martha finally said: "George, why not go nuttiug? I remember you said you saw loads of fine hickory nuts on the trees not far from that d im the beaver* have thrown across the stream. It is so near too--not more, surely, than:' half a mile distant from here, and we need the nuts badly, for our store is much depleted." "Agreed!" respond­ ed George in his usual prompt and „ ready way. "We'll get the bags and start immediately so as to get back- near sundown, before Pa and Ma arrive arrive home from their visit" Get­ ting the necessary bags, they started out, Martha carrying them, as George had quite enough to do walkiug under the burden of a heavy rifle, for It was unsafe to go far into the woods unpro­ tected by fiie arms. They were soon * at the designated place, and. alter sev­ eral merry hours of labor they filled^ the sack with nuts; then turned their ? faces toward home and commenced the journey back. They had arrived to within a few rods of the cleanug which surrounded the cabin, whtu George suddenly ttopped, and giving hit sister a warning .lance, be placed the heavy bags of uuls upon the ground taking the rifle his sister had been carrying, and leading her silently back deeper into the wood. Then, stooping down, he whispered, "Martha I saw a moccosin track Impressed In ' *'o| S ihe damp ground, so 1 strongly su-pect Indians are lurking in ambuati, to mur­ der whoever shall attempt to enter the cabin. 1 lutend to creep up as nearly as possible, keeping out of sight, aud perhaps discover their place con­ cealment. Meantime await my return. Poor Martha knew well she might never see her brother aga n. but she answered him bravely with a smila, lor she had become used to perils which daily surrouuded her. George's form WHS soon lost to her view, creep­ ing like a snake he soon succeeded iu no sle88iy gliding to where he could get, through thick busties, an eutire view of both cabin and part of the clearing. The coru had lately been cut and the slight shocks still standing couid not have concealed an enemy Irom the pearcing eye of a backwoods­ man. Nothing vas to be seen, but so sure was the boy that Indians were about the cabin that he remained lully a half hour, jis eyes roaming keenly about. At last his patience was re­ warded, for a dusky face peered cau­ tiously out pf the doorway, and satis­ fied that no one was near, two Indians stole rapidly toward the wood. Impa­ tient at the lengthened absence of the . occupants, they determined in tra k M theut in the woods and ambush them T here, so if the party were too large iney might escape without attacking tlieui and return tome other day. Ge »rge took aim at the foremost red- ';V; skiu aud tired. A yell ot agony follow- lowed the report, aud the Indian lay writhing upot the ground; hit coin- 'i^§, paniou quickly bounding to the thicket }?•$' from when the shot h;id proceeded. A tierce struggle instantly iollowed, but the slender youth of eighteen w«s no match for the burly savage. He was thrown violently to the ground with a . deep knife gash in his arm. He was , - entirely at tn»: mercy of the savage, who. sbowiug his brutal nature, pick­ ed up a piece of branch and commen­ ced using it unmercifully upou the head and face of his victim, until he baJ rendered him unconscious. He •tooped down to obtain the scalp as a trophy of his prowess, and iu doing so his stone tomahawk fell to the ground. A hand quicsly grasped it. so silently the s vag° didn't see it. Before be could execute his purpose a blow laid him a corpse on the body of his intended victim, and Martha stood above him with the weapon in her grasp. Hearing the title shot she fear­ ed for her brother's safety, aud coming from Iter concealment site had arrived just in time to strike the blow that saved h's lile. When the, parents re­ turned they fouud the brave girl bad dragged ber brother into the caoin and was atteuding to his wouuds, none of which were dangerous. George was some weeks in recovering, atid many a time during his iilness did he blass the cheerful little sister that made tbe monotonous hours flow lightly by with her songs and stories. In time, the region in which they lived became more thickly settled and security from attacks of Indians became more and more assured, until they ceased to- have any apprehension of them al '•m Wl> f - * "J 'it: :W? •? I art- * v . i Wv ' .. ' ' .*£„* _ • . fii«