The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 7, 1887, Page 6

earns we nea ‘ iH i "THE NIAGARA SACRIFICE. ft was the custom of an Indian tribe to sacrifice a beautiful a ally to the spirit of the ls of N Ofer swift , shores The moo And loud the impatient t Expectant of its com For on this very niz The fairest Indian maid must glide Down that swift stream so fierce and wide, Must yield her to the eddying ti And quit the realms of light. Such sacrifice by old decree Each year hath been, each year shall be. fiver ray; nt roars, And to which fairest maid 1s given ‘The meed among so many fair? Who, journeying to the red man’s Heaven, Shall shun this world of toil and caret And 4oth she fear to die? Fear to embark tn frail canoe, And bid her tribe, her friends, adieu. Then pass, like fleeting ghost, from view For all eternity? Ah, no; though death itself be near, An Indian maiden knows not fear. Behold her calm and passive mien, Her lustrous eyes, aad dusky brow! Hath ever maid more dauntiess been Than she who comes to perish now? And yet—she scarce knows why— ‘There lurks within her inmost breast A grief which may not be represt. ‘That he, the chief who loves her best, Should thus behold her die; Should see her borne on ruthless wave Beyond all hope, all power to save, And now the fatal hour is nigh: The Indian warriors line the stream; While, all around, the cloudless sky Is flooded with the bright moonbeam. And lo!—at signal given— A damsel fair, tn drifting boat, Adown the shimmering stream doth float, They note her form, her mien they note, And rend the echoing Heaven. Loud swells the applauding shout while she Is gliding to eternity. But see! propeled with greater force, ‘There enters on that scene of death Asecond boat: they watch its course With straining cyes and quick-drawn breath, A warrior sits therein. ‘With vigorous arms his oars he plies. His bark with Heaven's own lightning vies, And shoots like meteor through the skies, The maiden's boat to win. A few strong stroxes—then side by side, They journcy down the furious tide. "Tis he! ‘tishe! They meet again, Nor death itself can part them more. Words speak they none, for words were vain Beside you cataract’s deafening roar; On—on—speeds each canoe. ‘The falls are near the stream more ficet, The currents shelve beneath their fect, Their eyes for one short moment meet, Then both are lost to view. Yet sweet, methinks, those lovers’ fate, Whom death hath failed to separate. —Casseli's Magazine. THE BANK BURGLAR. His Fatal Mistake and Terrible End. {Original.} BANK ROBBED. MERLINV'LLE, June 21,—The First National Bank of this city was robbed last night of @250,- 000 in cash and bonds. Entrance was gained Dy sawing through the roof. The watchman was overpowered and left bound and ed. He says the robbers were all masked, and that the man who first surprised him was tall and heavy. It is supposed to have been the work of Black Jack, the noted croo , and his gang of experts. No traces of the robbers have been discovered, although a large force of detectives are at work, It was this item among many others that Charles Clayton, president of the largest banking house in the city of Helena — distant from Merlinyille about twenty miles—read one morn- ing while glancing over his paper. Of course, being a banker, it was only natural that it should prove interest- ing tohim. He read it over carefully several times, then laid the paper aside. Somehow, after reading the account of the robbery, he felt a strangeness that he could not overcome. He did not know just what it was. The damp- ness of the morning sent a chill through him that the cheerful fire in the big granite grate could not drive away. ‘The misty rain seemed more dismal than ever, and altogether Charles Clayton was evidently in for a severe case of “blues.” He tried to interest himself in various ways; he looked over all the choice works in his luxuriously furnished library, but the elegantly bound books with all their tilted titles proved uninteresting. His eyes roved about the walls and rested upon paintings and bric-a-brac that cost thousands of dollars, but it was very plain to be seen that on this particular morning they held no charm for him. He picked up the paper again, and, behold, the report of the robbery stared at him bolder than ever. He thvew the paper down with an angry exclamation, and then, seem- ingly recovering his composure some- what, said: “Pshaw! I don’t know what's the matter with me this morn- ing, I wonder if that item has tarned me, or what the deuce is wrong with me, But that can’t be it. All the Black Jacks in the country couldn’t get into our bank if they worked a year, no matter how skillful they were. But something is wrong with me this morning—I don’t know what itis.’ And then he relapsed into an- other fit of thinking. He sat in this manner for at least fifteen minutes, when he was aroused by a tap at the door. Shaking off his drowsy air and wondering who it could be that wanted to see him so early in*tho morning, he arose and Opened the door. But it proved omly to be James, his man servant, who had Come to announce his breakfast. “I won't go down to the dining room ad morning, James,” he said. “Just ®ring me up a cup of tea and s ae =. Pp Pp ome James did as requested, and he sip- the tea and tasted the toast, but » Tike every thing else, it was all The tea was like so much hot water } and the toast like chips, and so he yatdown again. Then he fell to ms, and thinking. what has ever become John. Tshall never fouget him. {t was just dul ordered him morning as this when I from home. True he was younger than Lo obut I coubkin’t help it. He acted so outrageously toward- poor fatuer He tempered and never How J wish I« words.”’ H shook convu stand it any lov like a dog. and v Well, I could forgi } True, father did Urink, and when it got the upper hand of him he grew abusive. Wien we poor mother away in the villag- churchyard” —a little sigh—‘there was no getting along with him. We were all very poor then, and the circumstances were so different. “That was a terrible day when John left us. Ican not believe him guilty of so henious a crime, even though he was quick-tempered. Father came home in an awful condition, and at once became very abusive, Isaw that a quarrel was imminent and so went out, but John refused to go, Father at once commenced cursing him, and John answered back. Word followed word, and curse followed curse. Then father struck John square in the face with the poker, inflicting an ugly wound, from which the blood flowed freely. It was too much for the boy; he sprang at father, grasped him by the throat and hurled him to the floor. I remember it as plainly as if it were being mimicked before my eyes now. IT WAS A HORRIBLE SCENE. “It was a horrible scene. There stood John on one side of the room covered with blood, and father lying motionless on the floor. It was too much for me. I rushed into the room and grasped brother by the collar and marched him to the door, and then or- dered him never to return. And he never did. Oh, that he would only come back and say that he was inno- cent—that there was no blood upon his hands. “Father recovered consciousness, and, with its returning, the liquor that had parched his throat awoke in him all the furies of hell. He raved and swore, and threatened to kill John at sight. With forced strength he roused himself, and against all my wishes and pleadings, went dut in the drizzling rain, never to come back alive. “He did not return that day nor that night, and I remember how anxious I grew. Thesecond morning I searched everywhere but couldn’t tind him, and so spread the fact of his disappear- ance. It did not create much excite- ment; no, it provoked only derisive re- marks, some of which sorely wounded my pride and taught me never to speak ill to children in this same situation. I could not help it if my father was a drunkard, and such scathing flings as ‘he ought to be dead, the sot,’ mademy heart bleed; and only made his mem- ory dearer.” “I succeeded in organizing a search- ing party, amd in a short time his bloated and dripping body was dragged from the mill pond. Oh, horrors, what a sight he was. The coroner and other officials were there and the corpse was examined to find if he had committed suicide, or if there had been foul play. Investigation disclosed the fact that his skull had been crushed in by some blunt instrument. Seeing this, the coroner began to question me. Of course I did not know how it happened, but I did know that brother and father had quarreled, and that, if they had met after father left the house the last time, his death would not prove much of a mystery. Know- ing all this, I hesitated, for as much as T hated John for his cowardly conduct, I knew that my testimony would fasten upon him the crime of murder; and, oh! I appeal to you, my wife who is now in Heaven, to forgive me for ever telling all to that jury, who deliberately pronounced my brother the basest of all criminals—a murderer. But 1 thank thee, Almighty Providence, that he escaped the elutches of s law that would have killed him too. Qh, brother, brother, come back to me, if only for one moment, and tell me that your soul is not stained with our father’s blood; tell me that you are in- nocent."? A single tear coursed down his cheek and he heaved a troubled sigh. He was aroused by James, who came to inform him that his carriage was in waiting. “I won't go down to the bank to-day, James, and if anybody calls 'm not to be seen. Idon’t want to be molested,” he said. James Promised to see that he was not dis- turbed and went out again. Charles Clayton spent a most wretched day, and was glad when night spread her dark mantle over the earth. He retired ear! rly. It was e ages we are awakened by horri ble nightmares. and to him the newspaper item, which he had seen in the morn- ing paper, was always uppermost in his dreams when he awoke. Suddenly he jumped up in‘his can- opied bed. He was sure he heard a nois Yes, there it was again—in the library, which was just below his bed- room. It was the sound of his revolve ing desk chair, and he remembered distinetly of telling James to oil it, be- cause the squeaking noise made him nervous. He listened intently to a» sure himself that it was no idle fancy, and as the sound was a several times, he determined to investigate. Charles Clayton was a brave man, but not reckless. He did not know who or how many men he had to deal with, and so he carefully examined the large revolver which he took from under his pillow, to see that it was in perfect order, and then proceeded down the heavily car- peted stair very cautiously. The library door was partially ajar, and the sight that met his gaze as he looked through the crack made him shudder. There at his desk sat a heavy, broad shouldered man, his face covered with a black mask, and through the two holes a pair of gleam- ing eyes flashed restlessly. Beside him lay a heavy revolver, and in his hand he held a picture. Presently he looked around the room as if in'search of something, and then spying ashelf with several bottles upon it, seemed satisfied, and crossed the room to where they were. “I wonder what the man wants with those fire extinguishers,’’ thought Clay- ton. The burglar, for such he proved to be, removed the cork and placed the bottle to his lips. The banker al- most laughed outright, for he saw the fellow’s mistake—he had taken the hand grenade for a decanter of liquor. The man looked at it, smelled of it, and then put the bottle back with an angry, as well as disgusting, gesture. He started back toward the desk, but before he could reach it the banker saw his opportu- nity and stepped out before him, and, presenting his revolver, ordered him to throw up his hands. The burglar, with a muttered curse, sprang upon Clay- ton, intending undoubtedly to surprise his adversary, knowing probably that this was the safest way of overcoming him. A terrible struggle for mastery en- sued, and the big burglar was fast get- ting the better of his man, when sud- denly his grip loosened, and he would have fallen heavily to the floor had not the banker caught him. Clayton was surprised, being unable to comprehend the turn of affairs. He removed the mask from the man’s face and discovered on his right cheek a livid sear. Then he started back as if struck. The man’s lips moved. “Charles.” “My God! Then I was right. John, John, what is the meaning of this?” “Charlie, 'm afraid that was poison Tdrank. I feel like—like I'm dying.” “No, no; not that!” “Yes, Charlie, I feel it. you brother again.” “To your heart’s content.” “Listen, brother. I want to tell you how I—ugh’’—and he shuddered all over—“killed your father. I've got no right to call him father. He marked me for life by that blow across the face, and when you ordered me from the house I was in a passion. I be- lieve [could have killed -you, too. I waited for him, and when father— your father—came out of the house and saw me by the mill pond washing the blood from my face, he flew at me. We had it up and down. He struck me square on my wound, and started the blood again. I tore at him; I picked up a coupling pin from the railroad switch that runs into the old mill, and, God help me, I killed him.” His voice grew hoarse, and it was plain that his life's flame was sputter- ing the last time. Let me call ORDERED HIM TO THROW UP HIS HANDS. SES ES ei epee ca aaa Charles turned away to hide his emotion. “Don’t turn from me, brother. almost gone. Let me finish.”* “Goon. I am prepared for any thing*now.” “Don’t think too hard of me, broth- er. After leaving home I was contin- ually in fear of being captured, be- cause I knew there was a price upon my head, so I took what shelter was offered me. I fell in with a gang of house-breakers, and have followed the business ever since. I came here to- night to rob this house because they Tm one of those fitful sleeps | ident lived here, pat I didn’t. kno ou, brother, ow Td asitaid away. When I'm dead tell the people that Black Jack, the porglar, poisoned himse f by mistake. Send my body to the morgue. I've disgraced the name too much to drag it lower.” His voice was growing feeble and gonvu ns Were coming on. Charles removed all traces of a strug- gie and placed his brother on a couch. James was dispatched for adoctor, but before he arrived John Clayton was beyond all mortal aid) He had ex- p i his crimes, and no judge or jury ra ronounce upon him sentence. his than a seaffold or pris- told me a bank on,” sail the banker, inwardly. To his friends he told that his brother from the country had come to visit him, and, being thirsty, he had taken advink of the tire extinguisher by mis- take. A large line of people followed the remains to the grave, but not one ofthem knew the story of Black Jack, the banker's burglar. Joun M. ScHOENEMAN <- — A Brave Pennsylvania Girl. Colonel William R. Aylett, of Vir- gisia, in his recent speech at Gettys- burg, said: “The bravest woman I ever saw was a Pennsylvania girl, who defed Pickett’s whole division while we marched through a little town called Greencastle. She had on a United States flag as an apron, which she defiantly waved up and down as our columns passed by her, and dared us to take it from her. And there was not one man of us who dared do so. Struck by her courage and loyalty Pickett, with hat off, gave hera military salute, my regi- ment presented arms, and we cheered her with a good old-fashioned rebel yell, which some of you boys here have doubtless heard. God bless the true and brave little woman; and she was as lovely as she was brave. Would that she were here to-day that I might, in admiration of her pluck and truth, grasp the hand of that splendid and glorious type of American womanhood. She deserves a place by the side of those Carthaginian maidens who cut off their tresses as bowstrings to send their lov- ers’ arrows hissing to the Roman heart.""—N. ¥. Post. College Widows. That class of young ladies known among the students as ‘college widows,” and commonly supposed to have the acquaintance of several gen- erations of collegians is not larger in New Haven than elsewhere. Let a girl once get such a reputation, however, whether justly or unjustly acquired, she can bid good-bye to all hopes of wedding acollege man. A fellow may enjoy her company; he may call on her; he may pay her sufficient atten- tion to ordinarily justify a popular sus- picion of an engagement, but he rare- ly or never marries her.—Ltppincott’s Magazine. —The Village Improvement Society of Westborough, Mass., has put in practice an idea which may yield rich results in the development of neat- ness. Large baskets have been placed in the corridor of the post-office, and there are conspicuously displayed printed requests that people, instead of throwing envelopes and newspapers on the floor or sidewalks will drop them in the baskets. —_—_—_—_——— —Lee Wing, a Chinaman, who be came insane after being rejected by an American girl who for a time accept- ed his attentions, was taken to an asy- lum in Chicago. As he was dragged to his seat in the car he said; ‘Melican girl no good. Lee go clazy. Too bad.” —Potato is used to clean steel pens, and generally acts as a pen wiper. It removes all ink crust, and gives a pe- culiarly smooth flow to the ink. Pass new pens two or three times through a gas flame, and the ink will flow freely. —A patriotic hen of the Langshan persuasion, belonging to Dr. W. H. Richards, of San Louis Obispo, distin- guished herself and celebrated the Fourth of July by successfully present- ing her proud owner with two eggs on that same day. The doctor has secured an affidavit of the facts from the fowl, and proposes to paint her red, white and blue. . —Hansoms, with India 1ubber tires, rendering their movements easier, have been introduced into London; the new Victoria hansom, combining some of the advantages of the brougham and Victoria, is also to be found on the streets.—Chicago Herald. —Wichita is without debt, which can be said of no other city in Kansas, and taxes are lower in Wichita than in auy city, town or village in Kansas. 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