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WATT. LITTLE LOO. A Story of Love, Adventure and the Sea. BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.

CHAPTER XXIV. DEACON'S HONOR. the exception of the few bottles that had fallen to our share who lived in the cabin, there was no more drink left in the brig; though of this I not sure until a rummaging party, beaded by Beaoty, bad explored every accessible part of the vessel. There was more to gladden me in this than meets your eye. I do not speak of the men not being able to intoxicate themselves any more.

The great gain was that, de. prived of drink, they would be eager to end the voyage- This would certainly improve my authority, and strengthen my hands to keep them clear of Miss Franklin. I was as much on deck at this time as if I bad been the lawful and responsible commander of the brig, timed fora special ran, with a heavy wager at stake if I sprung a spar or lost a tail. The men appeared perfectly satisfied with me, and chuckled at ttay looked over the vessel's side and up aloft. Clear signs in their conduct showed me their eagernesi to get this part of the voyage done; and now and again cautiously sounding them as they stood at the wheal, I gathered the existence of an element of anxiety, the reaction following their lawless exploit.

They hail, for all they couid their in tention stood for the deed in their coarse captain an.i mate; they were in possession of the brig, but they had no plans, and in the future was the uncertainty that worried them. And in this, though my thoughts bad quite another meaning, I sympathized with them. My future was as uncertain as theirs; nevertheless, I was quite barren of projects, and would unfold them, as they came into my head, to Miss Franklin. The arrangements I made for her safety were systematic enough, so far as they went, and my scope was very limited. Every night I locked her securely in her cabin.

A loaded revolver, which I bad found in the skipper's locker, was always in my pocket by day, and under my pillow when I turned in; and this I made no talk of my intention to her, as God knows the poor girl was filled with enough fancies to keep her in a constant state of was prepared to draw upon the first man who should touch the handle of that door, or attempt to force himself into her presence. I further took care that no one should approach her myself; her meals were regularly taken by me to her cabin, so that she remained as. secret and buried as any harem damsel. Old Banyard had my confidence, but I distrusted Deacon. He had a trick of asking after Miss Franklin, and once importuned me to let her sit at the table with me, saying that the sight of her pretty face made the voyage pleasant, and that he thought it was bard upon her that I should keep her locked up as if she were my prisoner.

He said this with a queer expression in his eyes, and the oddest look that I ever saw on the human face. I answered him very shortly, and, as was usual with him when I addressed him stormily, he was silent. However, this determined mo to transplant him to his native Boil, the forecastle, if 1 could possibly find an excuse for so doing. It was enough that I did not think him in bis right mind. Sundry hints had been given me of this by his eyes' and his laugh and his engrossed air at moments when all about him was astir.

I had partly resolved to put it to the crew that he was not seaman enough to be trusted with the safety of the brig, and to leave it with them to choose a first mate in his stead. But I did not care to act precipitately. He was high in their favor, the arch-conspirator, the pioneer of their fortune; he had always professed gratitude to me for saving bis life, and I should be act- ting insanely to make him my enemy for the want of carefully considering how to edge him out of my end of the brig. Finding the quicksilver "pumping" in the barometer, and distrusting the calm as you would a couchant tigress, I snugged the canvass down to single-reefed top-sails, and had cause to congratulate myself on my foresight, for a little before eight o'clock it came on to blow from the northwest, and in an incredibly short time the wind increased from a moderate breeze to a heavy gale, which, raising a cross sea, set the brig laboring furiously. All hands went below to change their clothes at eleven o'clock, the watch to turn in, two hands being on the lookout, and Banyard in charge.

In one sense this rough weather was helpful to me; it not only kept the men quiet, but made them understand my importance. In a word, hod I refused to work the brig, there was not a man on board who would have known whether he was heading her right twelve hours after I bad given up charge. Tired and drenched through, I quitted the deck along with the rest of the men, meaning to have one advantage over them in a pull at a brandy-bottle. On going below, I glanced in the direction of Miss Franklin's cabin, the door of which I bad not yet locked, owing to my detention on deck. It was open, and swinging from side to sido, without banging, witb the rolling of the null.

I thought this odd, the more especially as her cabin was in darkness; and I was going to shut the door, but it occurred to me first to light a lamp and look around the cabin before turning the key. Her sleeping place was a sacred object to me, and it was only the overwhelming fear of danger lurking near that vanquished the scruples whioh held me back. Holding the lamp, I approached and called her name softly. She did not answer. I advanced another step, and stood in the door, and beheld her sound asleep, her sweet face smiling in Her slumber, her rich dark hair, partly gathered up and partly loose, lying on the pillow.

There woe something exquisitely touching in the sight of her sleeping, in the appeal put forth to my manhood for protection by her closed eyes and soft, unconscious smile. There she lay at rest while the cabin groaned to the plunges of the brig, and the foam of mighty waves roared their thunder nnder the county almost beneath her. I held the lamp over my bead, and beholding a shadow behind the arm-chair in the corner of the cabin darker than the chair would project, I crept up to it, and in a second my right hand was on Daocon'x throat. The sight of him there put the strength of a giant Into my arm. One stifled, choking sob he gave, as I hauled him out through the door; speak be could not, for fais windpipe was flat between my fingers.

I looked at Hiss had not 8H11 holding my man, I put the tampion the table, closed the door, then let the villain go. He fell flat at my feet. I trembled from head to foot Iwosmod wttb rage. Such was my fury, bad he stirred, I should have fastened upon his Un-oat again, and never tot go my bold till mf strength was wasting on a corpse. Kntsring my cabin, I seized some caest- bsttngs.

and bound the man's aiid arms. 1 then dragged Us ssnsetosi body to bis own cabin, tossed him into bis bunk, tipped over bis fops a bucket half-fall of water, which stood at hand in toe pantry, and which, I belie ve, the cook had used for washing op bis and closed and locked the door. Then going to the foot of hailed Banyard: "TU stand Deacon's watch to-nifta. Boose me op vbsa the tima comes." -1 He ask'ed no questions; and taking good care this time to lock Miss Franklin's door, and looking to my revolver before I put it under my pillow, I threw my salt down and went to sleep. CHAPTER XXV.

I HARANGUE THE HBET. Nxxr morning, when the crew was at breakfast, I told the cook to send them aft, as I had something very particular to say to them. They arrived speedily, wondering what on earth was the matter, and casting their eyes round suspiciously. It was a bard jub to talk to them, for the motion of the leaping brig kept one reeling like a house in an earthquake; and the wind being well forward, the spray, as the seas burst against the vessel's side, blew aft like a squall of rain, and kept the eyes smarting witb the salt. Standing among tbem, I stated that Deacon bad acted traitorously to me, and was proceeding, when, finding that the man next to me could scarcely hear my voice, I desired all hands to step into the cabin.

"First," said addressing the rough ence as they squatted, some on the benches, and some on the table, letting fly their tobacco-juice on the carpet with great unconcern, "Deacon must be produced to hear the charge I have to make against him and pointing to his cabin, I directed a oouple of men to fetch him out of his bunk. Now I bad no notion of the effect my squeezing of bis windpipe had produced, and could not imagine, therefore, whether his body would be hauled out dead or alive. Beauty and Jimmy went to fetch him, and very much astonished were all hands when he was brought forth, bound hand and foot His eyes were wide open, however, and when he saw he shouted: "Of all cursed, inhuman tricksl Think, mates, of his having left me sweltering in my bunk since 12 o'clock last suffocated witb circulation but cramp upward? Cut me adrift!" "It's lucky for you," said waiting until they had freed him, and he had beaten bis breast and stretched himself, "that I didn't stop your circulation for good and all. The crew are here to listen to my complaints, and they shall judge." "Did ye lash him yourself like that!" inquired Welchy. "Yes, I did," said They seemed greatly amused and astonished, and were beginning to banter Deacon, when I silenced them by beginning my story.

Having narrated how I found the scoundrel Skulking in Mils Franklin's cabin, I appealed to them: "For the last eight days, mates, Pve been your skipper, and done my work like a up through the night, looked after your safety, and carried you a long stretch toward your island. What was your agreement with me? That the lady was to be left to me, and all bands swore that they'd not interfere with her. All of yon, with one exception, have kept your promise like men. And I have kept my promise, haven't "That's right enough," they answered. "You only," I thundered, turning upon Deacon, and holding mr clinched fist towards him, "have broken your you, whose life I saved, and who ought to be more my friend than any other man aboard the brig.

If I throw up my charge and say to the men, 'The promise you made me is broken; I'll not navigate the vessel another If I say this, and she comes to harm, and the crew are seized, and hanged or imprisoned for life for piracy and murder, who will they have to thank! Yon and I stared into bis white face amid dead silence. "Now, then, wot's all this?" cried Beauty. "Wot's Deacon been doln'?" "Didn't I tell yon that I found him skulking behind a chair in the lady's cabin last night?" I shouted. Here Deacon sprang up, and waving big arms melodramatically, cried out, "I own Jack Cbadburn caught me in hit wife's cabin." "Bink that foolery I exclaimed, furiously. -'I've got a clear meaning, and you shall know it in a minute." "I went there," he continued, "not to touch, but to admire.

Mates, I'm a lover of beauty. When is beauty more divine than when it's asleep! Lord! I'd give my right arm for a pint of rum! Curse you, Chadburn, you've made my mouth as dry as a baked sponge. Come, hand us a swig from your private collection, and let tht past be buried." Some of the men began to laugh, others to grow impatient, and Old Bam growled that he wanted to finish breakfast, and never ha' left it bad be known be wur called away to listen to notheu but blazin' nonsense!" "It may seem blazing nonsense to you," said "but I'm in earnest, and Til give you my meaning in a few words. If Deacon remains aft, I shall refuse to navigate the brig. He has broken his promise, and if you don't make bim clear out of this I'll burn my log-book, and be shall carry the brig round the Horn himself." Deacon looked bard at me, bnt did not The men examined my face, and, seeing my temper and earnestness, grew restless.

"Look here," cried Welchy; "the question is, who's of most or Deacon? I say Chadburn is?" "Sniggers, ye haven't acted fair," shouted Suds; "Jack's kept his word to us, an' I'm for backin' him." These two voices were sufficient to make all unanimous. "We'll leeve ye manage this here business as you like," one of them cried. "Fair's fair." "Choose mate from among you, then," saidL "Understand this," exclaimed Deacon: "I'm not going to fight against what you consider right. If you think Jack has been wronged by me because I bad a mind to see wtaat a pretty woman looked like in her sleep, then I'll shut up. Til own fast enough that we can't do without him.

Let any man be chief mate in my place, I say hang the berth I I like sleeping in all night" "Yon hear what he says, mates. Choose your man, and lefs make an end of this," I i exclaimed. I "I calls upon Beauty to take office," Sam. Bnt Beauty bluntly refused. Then Suds was hit upon; but be politely informed them that "he'd see 'em bio wed fust! be wnr on able seaman, he wur, and never wanted to be notben else." The offer went round, bnt was flatly declined by one and all.

Alarmed lest they should fall bock upon Deacon, I said: "111 be mate as well as skipper, if you like, ril keep watch and watch witb Banyard." "Right you are!" they shouted. This matter settled, they went tumbling up the ladder in high good-humor; the whole affair, so significant to me, being treated by them as a joke. I caught bold of Deacon, and detained him until the cabin was cleared, and then towering over him (I was half a bead taller than he), I exclaimed te tbe fiercest tone I could assume: "Yon may bless your stars that I didn't kfll you tost night. Understand this, you rascal, and gather your brains together to take in what I say: not a hair on that, girl's head shall be injured while an ounce of power is toft in this fist," thrusting it nnder his nose. "You no longer belong here, and will have no business to enter the cabin.

So, if 1 catch yon aft, I shall put your presence down to some foul motive, and shall deal with you much compunction and tsadsraess jr-u dealt with Captain Franklin." "I never 1mew a man with sach a temper as yours," he mattered, trying to nqr eyes, bnt quite faffing to do so; "dWl 'ftf- tarma wjth may mere threats. You nearly chokeoT me last night, and you left me to live or perish, just as it might happen, alone in the cabin them That wipes out your score against me for saving my life. We're quits now, and I owe you nothing." "So much the better. My compact with yon and the men is clear; they ore willing to abide by it, and I'll serve them. But I know youl I have looked deeper Into you than yon imagine, and have discovered what your mates don't guess at.

There's a secret behind your story!" This was a bold thing for me to say; it was putting my suspicion of his madness into words. But it was forced out of me by my temper, and being said, could not be recalled. He looked at me witb a queer and dangerous expression in his eyes, and something like a spasm contracted and hardened his mouth. Then out went this look from his face, and an air of horror replaced it. He glanced around him, and asked me what I moont "If you can't imagine, I needn't explain," I replied.

"Come, go forward and leave me to do the work you've brought upon me, and, above all, let there be no interference there!" and I pointed to Miss Franklin's cabin. So saying, I turned away, and be went up the companion-ladder slowly, pausing midway to look round upon me with on utterly absorbed air. His manner quite decided ray conclusions. I might indeed have judged him "touched," by signs as old as the earliest part of the voyage, had I not been a heedless observer. It was a queer discovery to make; and now that I had made it, I did not know what to do with it When Banyard went on deck I knocked on Miss Franklin's door to take her breakfast to her, and learned bow much she knew of the danger she had been in.

My punctuality had taught her to be ready for me; I found her dressed and waiting. She greeted me with her rich smile, that threw a light all over her face, and asked me what had brought the men into the cabin. She had tried to hear what they said, but what with the door being shut, and the heavy creaking going on all around, she had only caught few words, and these had given her no ideas. I preferred to leave her in ignorance of the matter, little loving to see the delicate bloom fade off her cheeks, and her eyes grow wild and swimming; and, by help of a white He, I left her to imagine that the men and I had been discussing navigation. "But," said "one good thing has happened: Deacon has thrown up his post and gone forward.

So now you will have only Banyard to meet at table, and he will not hurt you." This piece of news heartened her up, for she thought Deacon a fiend, having hoard me speak of him as the ringleader of the mutiny. "I have been thinking and thinking," she said, leaning her chin on her little hand, and fixing her lustrous eyes 011 my face, "how we are to escape from these dreadful men. If they were to put you and me in a boat, could we reach the land?" "Not easily," I answered, gravely. "Where ore we now, Mr. Chadburn?" "Edging away for the southermoat point of South America, called Cape Horn.

When we round it, we shall sail into calm seas and beautiful weather; and then, and not till then, I will help you to think how we are to get back to England." She clasped her bands, and cried: "There is bapniness in hearing you speak those words. Dear England! What would I give to be there!" and then, hiding her eyes, sbe exclaimed, in her flute-like voice of trouble, "Every time the vessel rocks I think of my poor brother. Oh, Mr. Chadburn, tell me you believe he is safe This was a consideration I never liked to tackle, objecting to the hypocrisy of the answers it forced from me, and because (to be perfectly candid) ft did not weigh so very much on my mind, seeing the ugly fix we ourselves were in, I answered her SB a parson would, and went to the next point at full speed, to get away from the subject "Do you know," said I "I have discovered that our friend Deacon is mad!" "Mad!" she echoed, rounding her eyes. I nodded emphatically.

"Not wholly mad. He never rages. There's a Saw in his wheel-work; be keeps unearthly time." "He is certainly a very odd-looking person quite ugly enough to be mud," she said, with the delicious simplicity of tone that always made me smile. "Do you believe in his story absut the goldf" I asked. "I have never thought about it," she replied.

"I have been too frightened to think of anything." "Old Banyard doesn't believe It, bat all the rest of the men do, I ancy. True or false, I shall steer them to this island, providing it has an existence." "And if it does not exist)" "Then I'll put them ashore somewhere else, if they'll let me." "How could they stop yon!" "Oh, if on the land we make they see a bouse, or a flag-pole, or the spars of a ship, or any sign of civilization, they would soon oblige me to sheer off. I do not reckon upon our escaping them in this way; they will watch me too narrowly. A desert island would suit my hopes better than a populous one," She looked at me with a terrified expression which I could not account for, until it flashed upon me that she might "Not for us to stay upon," said "Were you thinking of Paul and Virginia?" She blushed rosy, but looked very sod. "Ah, Miss Franklin," I sighed, "some of these days you'll be looking bock upon these cruel times long after I have utterly vanished out of your sight; and then may be you will recall me just to mildly reproach yourself for refusing the confidence which that young sailor chap called Jack Chadburn begged you to give him." She looked at me earnestly, exclaimed, "Some of these and whispered, "I am a foolish little stopped again.

"Here am I keeping you from your CHAPTER XXVL OFF THE HOBS. THX cold of nights was now intent, and it was bitter enough in the day. Heavy snow falls would encumber our decks, aud the touch of iron was like a burn to the skin. The rigging froze hard as steel; fakes of the coils of the running-gear were glued together, and were thrown hard upon the deck to break them adrift. Whatever might have been the disposition of the men, these were not the latitudes to air their humors in.

The cold numbed their passions as it froze their fingers. They cursed the want of rum, and compensated themselves, when the weather often no fire could be lighted in the galley for a couple of days boiling coffee. In this wise we drew near Cape Horn, the albatrosses poising themselves over wake, and the boobies flapping their awkward wings over us. Faying clow attention to our dead- reckoning, I was, nevertheless, enough to obtain frequent sights. The chronometers in the cabin were fine pieces of mechanism, and the aborts were new.

Indeed, nothing about the brig and tar furniture bnt would have sitoneed the most critical. The longer I cgnunandtd bar, tbebBttsv I gnw iiHiwifrrtH with bar many qualities, the more I loved her. The notion of saving her from the men who had id Mil bar, Issr ntf swwt- beart on board, and the freight in the hold a passion in me. Here was an honest dream of sea- romance! But it was all on idle hope in those days end inanition concerned my heart nearly, OCe afternoon an incident occurred which, while it confirmed a conjecture of mine which is written in the last chapter, should threaten, one might think, to give au entirely new character to undertaking which the crew, in their madness, had imposed on themselves. Up to this day we had sighted no ice; we were now in latitude 57 9f.

For the last week I had stationed a couple of hands day and night on the lookout; keeping a sharp lookout myself in the darkness, and directing Banyard to do the some. At mid-day it was blowing strong from the westward of south, the brig close-hauled an the port- tack, under double-reefed top-sails, lying up with shivering leeches, for I wanted no northing, with Cape Horn likely to expose its desolate, broken, and ice girt rocks on the lee bow. A very high sea was running, and never did the ocean look more melancholy and wild; the torn clouds, hurrying like smoke over a pale sky, a single albatross astern, gleaming upon the pouring green, swooping in raids upon the burling waters, and fulling and rising on the wing in rhythmic evolutions, corresponding with the form of the -waves. Ever and again the seas burst in mountains of spray over the brig's bows high as the foreyard, and fell with a voice of thunder upon the hollow decks. Suddenly the wind dropped, and left us rolling furiously.

The sky cleared up, and the wintry sparkled crisply on the soused decks. What did this betoken? I looked anxiously round, but the horizon was unbroken. The pitching and rolling were frightful. I called the watch, and hauled taut everything; but I every moment expected to see the top-gallant masts snap and heartily regretted that my objecting to set the crow to any work they were likely to resist had prevented me from sending down the royal yards a week ago. Half on hour after the wind dropped a black cloud rose in the southwest.

I watched it for a few momenta. It soared rapidly, extending its black length, and looked like Night herself coming down upon the brig. I shouted for all hands, ready to man the braces and stand by the top-sail sheets; and scarcely bad they tumbled up when the squall was on ua, screaming like a tornado. With it came hail as heavy as musket balls; hurled by the fury of the wind, they struck us upon the bead and face with a force to deprive us of breath, and almost to stun us. Not a man could face the discharge; and it rattled upon the oil-skins and sou'westers of the men at the wheel until the sound was like the pouring of shot into a tin pan.

It was now as dark as night With the hurricane on the port quarter, thebrigdrove like a vision through tog of hail and sleet and spray. This was true Cape Horn weather; the tears squeezed by the cold out of our eyes fmezing on the eyelashes, and the pain in the fingers sharp enough to keep one groaning. As if the darkness thrown by the pall of cloud were not sufficiently discomfiting, the snow, taking the place of the hail, fell furiously. So thick was it that the two on the forecastle were not visible from the wheel. Nothing could exceed the wonder of the spectacle of the snow as the driving tempest churned it up; whirled to right and left, it filled the air with fantasically shaped and we seemed to sweep through an ocean of steam, or in a spray from a cataraat, the smoke wberefrom was vast enough to fill -the heavens.

Both top-sails still spread their canvas to the wind, and under these the brig Bashed through and over the tremendous seas like the albatross that still sped after us. I sent the men below, but told them to hold themselves in readiuess for a shift of wind, or for heaving the brig to, and I roared to the two hands forward to keep a sharp lookout ahead. After a bit the heavy snow-fall thinned, the sea opened around us, but not many ship's lengths. The sleet and rain, and the spray lashed up out of the water by the wind, heavily fogged the atmosphere, and added to this was the early night flung upon the deep by the sombre expanse of clouds. All on a sudden there came from the forecastle a loud and fearful cry: "Hard up! bard up! for God's sake! Ice bight ahead!" I never stopped to indeed there was no need to look; my scent was keen.

and I could smell the ice perfectly. I shouted to the men to put the wheel hard over. The spokes flew round like an engine wheel and not a second too soon for on the port bow there leaped out of the mist and snow an iceberg tne dimensions of which, magnified by our amazement and the whirling atmosphere through which we surveyed it, seemed as colossal as a cathedral. As we staggered past it, the floe, consisting of the lumps that had been detached and floated in its neighborhood, pounded against the brig's bows and under-her chains, and one piece we ran foul of was of sucb formidable dimensions that the blow resounded throughout the brig, and brought all hands out of the forcastle, thereby saving me the trouble of calling them. Scarcely bad we escaped this frightful peril when again came the dreadful cry, "Ice right ahead If ever I stood in need of a cool head, I wanted it then; and yet, as if this were a crisis destined to test my presence of mind to the uttermost, scarcely had this ory reached my ears when one of the men at the wheel, suddenly shrieking out, "There's the island! there's the island leaped acrosf the deck and sprang into the main-rigging.

The wheel was jammed hard over, and to keep it in that position the fully exerted strength of two men was required. When, therefore, for he was the madman who had jumped from let go of the spokes, it spun round, carrying the other man with it, and before I could have drawn a breath it bad dashed him, bleeding and senseless, against the bulwarks. I had caught hold of the spokes, however, before the wheel could revolve a second time; and some of the crew rushing aft, the wheel was jammed hard up again. The second iceberg was now right abeam. The brig had been flying round on her keel, and here she was, with her top-sails thundering overhead, her way gone, rolling frightfully, every huge sea that come rushing up threatening to bury her.

"Port your helml" I shouted. "Man the lee fore-braces. Rouse aft that foretop- mast stay-sail sheet!" Our position was indeed critical, and not a man on board but what knew it Happily I could discern no more ice to leeward, and the two great bergs were now some distance to windward. The one imminent danger was that the brig would be overwhelmed by the waves. But brave Little Lool she topped the seas like a cork.

Then, feeling the pressure of her bead-sail, she fell off and her top-soils filled again. The weather bow cleared up a bit, sufficiently GO to enable us to see the two looming icebergs to windward. Everywhere the sea was clear. There could be (anger in heading our course while wi could see a couple of miles ahead; so we squared the yards more to the favoring goto, and in a few minutes had dropped the deadly danger of the icebergs behind the thickness on the horrizon. Meanwhile Deacon, after shouting himself hoarse hi the main rigging, had corns down, and stood leaning against one of the pumps, with his eyes fixed upon the deck, and his arms folded.

The man who bod been knocked infTppP' 1 hod come to," and been led forward. I went up" to Deacon and asked bun what he meant by leaving the wheel. "Ton tojerl" I roared in my anger, "do you know that the brig was within an ace of being lost by your mad trick!" Some of tiie men, hearing me shouting, came round me. Deacon raised his eyes, and I observed that they were bloodshot, and that his face was just the color of a corpse dead of the dropsy. He mode no answer but there "Was such wretch, such a "helpless object, bewildered air, that, in spite of my rage, a feeling of pity came across me as I looked at aim.

"What made ye leave the wheel, yon Idiot?" exclaimed Beauty, in his coarse brawling voice. "You'd be a fine 'unto take charge, you would! It were as bod as murderin' Jimmy to leave him alone at the wheel." "It wnr as bad as murderin' of us all!" shouted Sam. "If the brie badnt put that second iceberg well to vind'ard, where should we be now?" A sudden look of even to me, who knew bnt little of the signs of such a in Deacon's eyes as he oast them round. He pressed his lips olosely together, folded bis arms tightly, and uttered not a word. "Let him be for the present," said I.

"Go forward, boys, and get your tea. If it comes on thick I shall heave-to to-night" "We'll soon make him answer," I heard Beauty exclaim, as I turned away; presently, glancing back, I perceived they bad got him by the arms, and were running him, apparently unresisting, towards the forcastle. Continued next week. Wonderful Cures. The press of the country is constantly filled with wonderful cures which have transpired through the agency of some medicine in their immediate neighborhood.

Some of these have some foundation, but a great number have no better basis than the flighty imagination of the writer. The following case, however, is without precedent, and anyone is given the privilege of writing to the subscriber and finding if he tells the truth. Erie, Dr. cannot bnt feel it my duty to express to you, before your departure from our city, my thanks for the great benefit I received from the use of your medicine, Peruna. One bottle placed me square on my feet, after a sickness of four weeks, which confined me to my bed and then left me lame and crippled.

Three days from the commencement of the use of your remedy the cane was dispensed with, and in a week I was perfectly well. N. J. WEIGHT. Business Agent Evening Herald, Erie.

For a pamphlet on the "Ills of Life," address Dr. S. B. Hartman Columbus, Ohio, they will send it free of charge. Indiana Market.

Corrected Every Wednesday Morning. Eggs perdoz. 8 Butter per ft. Chickens Turkeys Pork Dried apples Dried peaches Tallow Flour Wheat Bye Oats Buckwheat per cwt. per bush.

Potatoes Hay Per ton 18 6 300 100 65 43 60 70 1 00 40 800 NEW AD VERTISElfENTS. OWNS' SALE. The Estate of JOHN PRICE, Decease! By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Indiana county, there will be exposed to sale at public vendue or outcry, on the premises, on Tuesday, October It, proximo, At 10 o'clock, A. A certain tract of land situate in the township of Green, bounded and described as follows: On the north by land formerly owned by Thomas Price, on the east by land of John Wheeler, on the south by land of William Shadrach, and on the west by land of Sam I. Bonahey, containing fifty-three acres, more or less.

half purchase money on confirmation of sale, and the balance in one year, with interest, after date, to be seen red by bond and mortgage on said premises. Sale to be conducted by Wm. R. Wlmer, Administrator of the estate of said deceased. By order of the Court.

seplS ORPHANS'JUT SALE. Estate of Leyi Stutzian, Deceased. By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Indiana county, there will be exposed to sale by public vendue or outcry, on the premises, oa Friday, the 17th of October, 1884, At 2 o'clock, P.M., A certain tract of land situate in the township of East Wheatfleld, bounded on tne north by lana of Daniel stntzman, on the east by lands of Benjamin Stutzman, on the south by lands of Archibald Mathews and on the west by Findley Mathews, containing twenty-seven acres and one hundred perches. All of said land is cleared and under fence, bnt has no buildings thereon. half of purchase money on confirmation of sale, and the balance in six months, with interest from, date, to be se- cbred by bond and mortgage on said premises.

"Sale to be conducted by Thomas Griffith, Administrator of the estate of said deceased. By order of the Court. J. A. FINDLEY, seplS Clerk.

Auditor's Notice. In the Orphan's Court of Indiana county. In the matter of the distrloutlon of the funds In the hands of P. E. Gillespie and Samuel Shepard, executors of Elizabeth Shepard, late of Pine township, deceased.

Indiana County, ss. I certify that at an Orphan's Court i at Indiana, in and for the coun- aforesaid, on the 6th day of A. 1884, before the Honorable John P.Blair, President Judge of the said Court; In tne matter of the estate of Elizabeth Shepard.de- ceased on motion of Samnel Cunningham, the Court appoint 8. M. Jack, the auditor to settle, adjust and report distriou- tion of the fund declared by the decree of the court the 30th day of Jnne, A.

1884, to be in the hands of the Executor of the estate of the said Elizabeth Shepard, deceased. Witness my hand and the seal of said court NOTICE. I will attend to the duties of the above appointment at my office in tne Borough of Indiana on Friday, the 10th day of October, 1884, at 10 o'clock, lorenoon of said day, when and where all persons interested may attend 11 they see proper, or be forarer debarred from receiving any share of said fu nd. I 8. M.

REDJAGKET DOUBLE ACTING, ADJUSTABLE FORCE PUMP! Throws a steady stream. Can be L. ftom top, without removing pump ftom platform. fAlw.ysfros^ro^^^^ Sanitary Plumbers and General Pump for price list. sepTS-lm Steam, Engines! ery a specUdfr.

Second, boilers on hand. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Prices Gi NEW SPRING STOCK NOW OPEN. Complete in all departments. Elegant new styles -wash dress goods In Ginghams, Cham- brays, Seirsuck era, Suitings, Ac.

All grades and widths Floor Oil Cloth, Stair and Table Oil Cloths. Full Domestics, Brown and Bleached Muslins, Ticks, Cheviots, Ducks, Denims, Drills, Jeans, Prints and Ginghams. Complete Stock Of Notions, Hosiery, Gloves, Embroideries, Edgings, Laces, Unnderwear, Neckwear, and small wares of every description. ELEOAXT STOCK Of white goods, table linens, towels, napkins, Ac. TRUBY CAMERON.

mayl TOO LATE! Some of our patrons sent us their orders last Fall when we were busy filling orders that we booked early in the season. It was not too late to use the fertilizer, but it was toojate for us to ship the goods promptly, in some instances we were compeUed to return orders and money which accompanied them. This we very much dislike to do, and we have since then added to our shipping facilities so that we will be able to give all orders quick dispatch. Nevertheless, to avoid any possibility of delay, we trust our friends will send in their orders at once for THE MARK. TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR PHOSPHATE.

ADOPTED 1880. CHEAPEST and BEST. For circulars giving analysis and farther information, call on or address BAUGH SONS, Sole Manufacturers, 20 So. Del. Philadeplhia.

For sale by JOSEPH HOLSOPPLE, Indiana, Pa. june20 R. A. PAUL, GENERAL FIRE INSURANCE AGENT, SALTSBURG, PA. REPRESENTS Commercial Union Assurance of London.

Assets' 'Queen of London and Liverpool. Assets 35.693,338. Orient.of Hartford. Reliance of Philadelphia. Assets Pennsylvania of Pittsburg.

.8299,238. JOHN L. PAUL, Gen'l Solicitor. Office with John McGaughey, next door to First National Bank, Indiana, Pa. CAMPAIGN GOODS Furnished at short notice F.

G. REINEMAN, 52 and 54 Sixth PITTSBURG, PA. Costnmer and Regalia Manufacturer. Send for illustrated price list. CARD.

I offer for sale grape wine made from the purejuice of the grape raised in my own vineyard, and made under my own personal supervision. Its purity and genuineness I will guarantee. It is especially suited for communion and medicinal purposes D. W. ANTHONY, Parkwood P.

mar8-l Indiana county. Pa. For sale by Dangherty Bros, Indiana, Pa. For Sale by J. H.

Stevenson Co, 100 Fifth avenue, Plttubnrg, (real estate Roller Process Flonr ageuis,) a nearly new MU1, on railroad, at a No. 1 town-near Pittsburg, 50 bhls. capacity per day. Price, 88.000, In easy Also, other Flour Mills. A good country store in Indiana county, with one and a half acres of ground, a good dwelling and store room, with a 52,000 stock of goods, all-for Also, a store property and store, P.

and 97 acres of good term land in Beaver connty, for S7.500, Ineasypay- ments. Farm list free. THE 31th YEAR BEGINS SEPT'R 10, 1884. Blairsoille (Pa) Ladies' Seminary. For catalOfiTueB, to BBV.

T. B. KWDMO. Principal. jnlyl7-10t SURGEON DENTISTS.

Corner Philaoeiphia and Sixth Streets, Indiana, Fa. 49-Atmoephertc Disks and all the late improvements in Dentistry. Anassthetics administered if desired. 2-ly DKHTAIi ROOKS. IN THE DIAMOND, BLAIBSVXLLK, PZHH-A.

FILLING TEETH A SPECIALTY. Oxide- Gas administered for painless extraction of teeth. apl'M 3D3B3STTIST, Permanently located in-Indiana, Pa. Booms in Row's bofldlng; second floor. special 1 ulcerated NEWAJD Indiana, Pa.

The following valuable forms are offered at (air prices and on reasonable 14. Acres in Centra-township, six miles.from Indianaand two miles from Homer City; 300 acres 1ft best state of cultivation, the balance covered with good white oak timber; a large frame dwelling house, also tenement house, a large frame bank barn, 80 feet square, a frame stock barn and a large number of other outbuildings, all flrst-classs; a No. 1 orchard of all kinds of fruits, is certainly one of the best farms in Western Pennsylvania. Price, 550 per acre. 19.

Acres in sight of Indiana town, 115 acres cleared, balance covered with the best white oak timber, three good frame dwelling houses: five acres of orchard, one of the largest and best frame bank barns in the connty, and one of the best improved farms in the county. Price, S80 per acre. 38. -1 -i fl Acres, with about 100 acres in No. 1 state of cultivation, near Jacksonville Borough; nas thereon a dwelling house of 6rooms, also a tenement house, largeframe bank barn and a number of other outbuildings; splendid orchard, and Is a very desirable farm.

Price, only 59,500. 41. Acres in Conemaugh township, 2 miles of Saltsburg; log house of 4 rooms aud cellar; frame tenant house of 4 rooms- good log barn with frame sheas, and other outbuildings; 3 acres of an orchard; a number of good springs. Price 36,000. 53.

1 Kf7 Acres, in Young township, KO JL acres cleared and well fenced, In goodstate of cultivation. Frame barn and other outbuildings, orchard; Price only £10 per 55. -i Acres, In Center township, 60 acres cleared. Log house, hewed" log barn; 40 acres in good white oak timber; orchard, underlaid -with two veins of coal with pits Price only 52,500. 57.

-f 1 Acres, 93 acres in cultivation, 22 JL acres of white oak lumber, log house and barn, -t acres of orchard. Good smooth land, in Blacklick township. Price $45 per acre. 58. 9 Acres, all well improved, frame house, two frame stables, blacksmith is a very desirable property Joins Homer City, and is one of the very best opening for a blacksmith in the connty.

Price only 52,000 59. Acres in While township. House, barn, orchard, A bargain. Price Acres, 130 cleared, two frame houses, log barn and other build- Ings. Good large orchard.

Three miles of Indiana. Price 61. Acres in Young township, 60 old frame house, new frame bank barn, good orchard. Four miles from Livermore. 62.

Acres in White township, 40 acres cleared. New frame house, frame bam and other orchard, Three miles of Indiana. Price 83,000. 63. -i Acres in White township, about all In cultivation, brick dwelling house and frame buildings; young orchard, 2U miles from Indiana.

Price 88,500. 64. Acres in Conemaugh townshir OU one mile of Saltsburg, two large frame barns, large frame dwelling house and other buildings; a number one orchard without donbt one of the most desirable and cheapest farms in Western Pennsylvania. 65. Acres in Logan county, West ttUtJU Virginia, covered with oak, poplar and walnut timber.all underlaid with coal, and good farmland when cleared.

Title indisputable. Is certainly a bonanza to lumbermen. Price less than 84.00 an acre. Any Information freely given, and all correspondence promptly answered and for lists Indiana, Fa. HOTELS.

-fTTVKRGRKBN HOUSE. Pine Flats, Indiana county, Pa. MARY P. WILLIAMS, Proprietress. First-class accommodations for travelers.

Nothing will be found wanting for the comfort and convenience of guests. On the table can be found the best of food, well prepared and neatlv served. Good stabHng for horses attached." OBEPERS' HOTEL. INDIANA, PA. CHARLES GOMPERS, Proprietor.

First-class Accommodations for guests Boarding by the day or week. Good stabling attached. The choicest wines, beerand Honors always to be had at the bar. mayama ETZ HOUSE. (formerly the Wlssell House,) North Sixth street, three doors below Com House, Indiana, Fa.

P. A. METZ, Proprietor. First-class accommodations for lodgers and boarders, good stabling for horses, andfaii treatment to all customers. He respectfully invites the public to call, and promises to spare no pains to pleaaft all.

marMSM HOUSE, INDIANA, PA. CHARLES DERR, Proprietor. Having taken possession of this well-known Hotel lately owned br Conrad Bley, the TOO- scriber would respectfully solicit a continn- since of the patronage of the public Every at tention will be paid to the comfort or Imart'ffi JtERICAIS HOUSJB, door to R. R. Depot, Indiana, Pa.

MARTIN Proprietor. This Hotel has been pnt in first class repali- refurnised in the new throughout. Nothing will be found wanting for the comfort and convenience of guesta. On the will be mund the best of food, well prepared and neatly served. WEieellent stablliw attached.

Comerl-ifth This hotel is in splendid repair throughout provided with every accommodation for convenience and comfort of gnesta, aud the- table is supplied at all times with good and substantial food, well prepared and served up In the Dent manner. The proprietor keeps, on, band none bnt the purest liquors. He nsM made special arrangements with a friend California, from whom he receives invoices of pore California wines and brandies of old This hotel Iskept Administrator's Notice. Harvey Toy.late of Canoe townatt ana.