The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 16, 1884, Page 6

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CF SD ELS ERTS RP CORRE ; The Chief of the Nipmucks. Trayele npan I Svery one of the cor ptain want to nto the i plea djoining room where hic you can eds and sofas on Ithe curtain goes down punt n the Jast act. Nobody going? Allnght. When I was a young | twenty-five, IT went IAN, SaV ab oa smali town and established my- self in the book and stationery busi- t Ihgence ness, but lest the lesire for knowledge of the commu ay be over-estimated., let me add hat had I not supplemented garden seeds, cigars, tobacco and brogan shoes, my income would have been } | reformation. the man of error. seek to deceive me, given me a keen insight and through i the thin veil of attempted deception, my eye penetrates like the flash of illuminates rely sufficient to pay for the wash- ing of my scant linen. A. short listance from the yillage lived aa old bachelor named Valentine Diff. nassed considerable prop- He had a erty one way and another, particu- larly the other, aad the gloom of his great brick house was rarely pere- trated by the glance of a stranger’s eye. One day, when in my store, whither he had come to purchase a plug of tobacco, he took up a copy of “*Chocktaw D: or The Rifle that Never Missed Fire.”’ r read a book in my hfe,” 1 oF nev said he, ‘tand as I am now getting along pretty well in years, with ticularly nothing to p ittentions, f am halt i this book and read it to see tell the trath im spc entertainment to be found ir iture. Thave been a pret reader of the newspapers, b wetting tired of them’ “If you desire to read a book,””? Ly suggested, “read one of tone. ‘This thing is of a sation order.”” “No. Pl take lon’t wart to be ideas of a fanatical reforme He took the bool layshe returned and nthusiasm th: :d with the work. highly entertained m more ng said he. **Why, sir. Chock ras a wondertul teow. You dit. By the way, let me have to re mother book of the same kind.” I sold him **Forked Lightning, ¢ the Rock Where the Rei Deer fell.2” We | and I no Next morning he came bac seemed to be depressed ticed that he was given to sudden starts, and that, whenever any One . oor a 4 ~ | manded stience. | their object was to secure me and | then rob my store, but in tins I made entered the store, he would shy off toone side and knit his brows. Without saying much, he bought ten cheap books, and went away. I did not see him again tor nearly two weeks. When he returned, he wore a strip of buckskin around his waist, and I thought 1 saw the blade ot a hatchet gleaming among the tolds of a great red jacket which he wore under his coat. “Friend,” said he, mands an audience.”” I discontinued my work ot dusting the showcases, and turned to the warrior. “During the young wolf crouches under the shelv- ing rock backs against the bark of the great trees, chief of the Nipmucks must be en— trapped.” I smiled, and giving me a severe glance, he continued: * the war-like refuge in this wilderness, s music until the chief of the N mucks is captured.”” Thinking that : pgove unavailing, [ asked: “Mr. Diff, how long have lived in this community ?"’ “Mr. Diff! he repeated con- ; temptuously, ‘taddress thou me by the name which to me was left as a) | eet to ths den? 7? d spotless inheritance, ont you will find | in the directi > said I, with « clination ot the head, noble baron will not become ed at him, tor thy servant n soon return an innocent “Errors are vicious,”’ «Thy friends are also condemned. | would rather be than accident. The man ot The blooay k | a redeemless fool. there might be for him # char There 1s no hope for ir was turn- I felt that myt for the gods have | ** How would the red-handed chief Nipmucks rather “Great Lord, mean to kill me I hope.’ . eit is the silly f darkness of a but mark ye: Thou art not ten, for when thou thinkest the ee thy corpse in peace and security shall be thrown from the battlements @ hogs that live beyond. would the cbicf of the Nipmucks Here, slaves !”” who kidnap- ound me hand ped me entered ar my | § r and turned n rushed t baron—hberate londue my arms. accommod Iked up and } } but one of my cu grat i x muzzie ora . . ain I tried to My temples t thought my head would burst. door opened and | a mistake, for they hur vacant lot, a short where they hois companied by the two men. Exhausted vitality, nervous and physi- | een ts i TELS are nee cal debility. 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So found by the Author, whose experience for 23 They obeyed, and in the darkness arily expected to feel edge of the knife. ‘Lift him and follow me.* They complied, rs into what seemed a large riage, and seating themselves beside | me, they gave the command, driven ravidly ask whither | taking me but without replyinz, ore of them pressed the muzzle ot a pis- tol against me, which action Wwe were ventured to fell to the lot ot any physician. 300 pages, bound in beau embossed covers, full gilt, guaranteed to| The Ohio & Mississipp: Railway be a finer work in every sense—mechani- | cal, literary and professiond other work sold in this country tor $2 50 | I was born the baron de- esp, . . here | understood to mean 2 request that I Put him down here. } remain silent. Suddenly the carr ter passing throu * T supplicated, ge stopped, af- an arched : vatches of the! li : i ent watches of the the cross, deliver me trom the hands rk and stormy mght, when the | of ae ned oan” said Diff. as he wali- ognized Ditt’s nd the vraves bare their and I heard his footsteps took me through ss = conducted me to an I have pondered deeply. The gloomy apartment, suppressed > and with a dimly lookin; Wi hen unh aron, who has taken Impossible. across the window. remained al n attempt to change the dnft of his thoughts might not in the lock, the Ditt entered. wild a specrmen of humanity. — : hair was ‘*bushed’ there was 2 smear of blood. “Mr. Diff,”* saad I ‘what do vou mean by Never had I s and on his ¢ My friend, allow + cort you to the The engine ot the Corpus Christi fire company blew up recently. contempt. Sslsny engine and cost emht Consuit the O14 Doctor. rlors Private. A fr ail nay save futures F. D. 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