THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MAR 30 
224 
THE DRUM LAKE EASTER SERVICE. 
A story of the Michigan Pine Woods. 
BY HERBERT W. COLL1NGWOOD. 
Copyrighted by the Rural New-Yorker. 
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) 
4 t^rvAKE bold of this woman with me Bill,” 
I said Jack. “An’ you, Parson, take this 
revolver and toiler. Ef a man touches one 
of us—3hoot him.” 
The two men raised “SarcySal” from the 
snow, and carried her carefully, almost 
tenderly, to her own house. The minister 
followed with the revolver in his hand. He 
would have used it if necessary. The cro wd 
fell back, and in a short time dispersed. 
Silently they carried the woman into the 
pretty little room, and laid her on the bed, 
while the Parson stood lookiug wistfully at 
her. 
“Come, Bill,” whispered Jack, as her eyes 
opened at last, “this ain’t no place fer us, 
leave Parson in here alone.” Jack and Bill 
stole away, and left the Parson and “Sarcy 
Sal” together. 
I cannot tell what happened during their 
interview, I only know that when Jack Gray 
came back at last, he found the woman lying 
dead; the minister with his face buried in the 
pillow and his hand clasped in hers. 
Aud so, holding fast to the hand of the one 
she had wronged, as a little child might hold 
its father’s hand, the soul of the wretched 
woman, freighted with all its sin and shame, 
had drifted away. 
“ Come, Parson,” said Jack kindly, as he 
touche i the little man’s shoulder. “Ye’d bet¬ 
ter go now an’ let the wimmin folks do all the 
rest.” 
“I flunk I will,” said the minister as he 
walked tlowdy to the door. “ I think I will.” 
He gave one last look at the dead woman, 
and then went softly out. 
Something on the floor where the minister 
had been kneeling caught Jack’s eye. He 
bent down and picked up a long golden curl. 
He laid it by the head of the dead woman; 
they were exactly alike. 
“ The Parson must hev knowed her afore,” 
muttered Jack, as he walked to the window. 
“ It beats all. I'll keep it now,” and he 
thrust the curl into his own pocket. 
The minister walked unsteadily into Mrs. 
McKelvey’s kitchen and sat down in his old 
place by the fire. Mamie had cried herself to 
sleep. She lay on Mrs. McKelvey’s bed, with 
her arm thrown over the baby’s neck. 
The Parson did not care for dinner. He 
wanted rest, he said. At last, he rose wearily 
to go to his own room to try and sleep a little. 
He stopped at the door to ask, “You will 
take care of the little girl; won’t you, Mrs. 
McKelvey ?” 
“In course, I will, bless’er dear little ’art.” 
She wanted to say more, but the tears stopped 
her. 
Late in the afternoon, Mr. McKelvey 
knocked at the minister’s door. There was no 
response, and the visitor pushed the door open. 
The Parson sat in his chair as if asleep. He 
was asleep, but it was “ the sleep that knows 
no wakiug.” All Drum Lake wondered what 
killed him. They never could tell, but Jack 
Gray and Mrs. McKelvey might have told. 
They were buried together. Jack and Mrs. 
McKelvey took charge of the funeral, which 
was held in the old “audience room ” where 
the Parson’s mottoes still clung to the wall. 
The minister from Frenchtown came over 
to preach the sermon. He spoke eloquently 
of the Parson, and of the great hope before 
him, but he left the woman with a shudder, 
to her fate. He did not believe that the 
minister’s hand had held hers all of the way. 
But after the funeral, in Mrs. McKelvey’s 
sitting-room, when little Mamie came to him 
and said, “I know I shall see my mamma 
again,” he muttered: “Out of the mouths 
of children cometh the truth.” 
Drum Lake came in a body to the funeral. 
One by one, the people passed by the rude 
coffins, and looked at the dead. How 
death had changed them ! It had purified the 
woman. The coarse, brutal look was gone, 
and only the sweet, tender face remained. It 
had made the man strong. All the old feeble¬ 
ness aud melancholy had passed away, and he 
was smiling as if the “ wondrous good ” had 
come to him at last. 
Jack Gray and Jim Foster walked away 
together. 
“ I say, Jim, what a terrible pretty woman 
she must have been in her day.” 
“ Yer right, Jack, but what a fool he was.’> 
And so Drum Lake decided his place. Per¬ 
haps Jim was right. Perhaps he was a fool, 
and yet poor, little fool, he “ knows the secret 
that men die to win.” He knows it, but he 
cannot teach us. His lips are sealed. We can 
only learn it as he has learned it—in the “old, 
old way.” May sve he as well prepared. 
(THE END.) 
Reports from several rather widely separ¬ 
ated parts of the West indicate that several 
parties are simultaneously practicing the 
same swindle upon farmers. Probably they 
are members of the same “gang,” or it may 
be that,having heard of the fraud,they are all 
practicing it. each on his own hook, indepen¬ 
dently of any one else. The nature of the 
scheme is well illustrated by the doings in 
Webster count 3 T , Iowa. A short time ago 
a respectable-looking, elderly man appeared 
in different townships for the purpose, as he 
alleged, of purchasing horses for an Omaha 
firm. While horses and cattle are the ob¬ 
jects which the rascals usually pretend they 
wish to buy, they occasionally say that they 
w r ant pigs, or sheep or even wheat, corn or 
oats—whatever,indeed, the farmer may have 
most of for sale. Well, that Webster 
county sharper usually bought one or more 
horses from every farmer he visited, giving 
fine prices even for old, broken down animals, 
always tendering in payment a check signed 
by the Omaha firm and payable at an Omaha 
bank. To prevent the possibility of any loss 
to the farmers, he told them to get their checks 
cashed before he removed the horses, and to 
enable them to do this and also to give him 
time to collect all his purchases in the neigh¬ 
borhood, he would allow those he had bought 
from each farmer to remain where they were 
for a few days. Just before leaving, he in¬ 
variably turned to the farmer and, in an-off- 
hand, matter-of-course way, said that as the 
farmer had the horses and the price for them, 
it would be well for him to pay something- 
just enough to “ bind the bargain.” This was 
invariably done, the stranger getting from each 
from 50 cents to a couple of dollars. Of 
course, the checks were never paid, inquiry 
at Omaha disclosed the fact that no such firm 
existed there, and the “respectable-looking” 
old sharper never claimed his purchaies. In¬ 
vestigation showed that he had bought horses 
from 10 to 12 different persons a day, so that 
though the amount he got from each was 
small, his rascality netted him a pretty 
snug income in the aggregate. This 
“ game” can be easily “ played ” in any part 
of the country, and with any agricultural 
product as well as with norses, substituting for 
Omaha the name of some other town a moder¬ 
ate distance away. 
In the Rural of February 18, 1888, the 
Eye-Opener denounced the dishonest prac¬ 
tices of “ Dr.” H. A. Eberle, of Kansas, who 
was in the bab.t of obtaining from patients 
notes for which he promised not to ask pay¬ 
ment until a cure should be effected. Then 
he used to sell the notes, and neglect the pa¬ 
tients. He is supposed to have realized over 
§i5U,000 in this way. We see from several 
Kansas papers that the fellow has just been 
arrested for fraudulently obtaining money 
under false pretences. Several Kansas friends 
have written to us commending our exposure, 
which preserved some of them from impo¬ 
sition. 
It has just been decided by the Supreme 
Court of Michigan that a note given in pay¬ 
ment of Red Line Wheat where the conditions 
were not fulfilled, cannot be collected, as the 
whole transaction was tainted with fraud. 
This Red Line Wheat business is conducted 
in precisely the same way as the Bohemian 
Oat swindle. The law relating to one must 
be applicable to the other therefore, and to 
all frauds of the same stripe. 
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G rowers and dealers in sweet 
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A FAMOUS BATTLE-GROUND. 
On the bauks of the Tippecanoe, a small 
stream which enters the Wabash River in In¬ 
diana, was fought the terrific battle of 
Tippecanoe. 
In this great struggle of frontier times, the 
allied western Indians under the chieftain¬ 
ship of Elskwatawa, the “Prophet,” were 
defeated in November, 1811. by the Americans 
undeFthe command of Gen. Wm. H.jHarrison. 
It was a desperate, hard-fought battle, and 
much depended upon the result. 
Had the Indians been successful, all bar¬ 
riers of defence for the early settlers would 
have been overthrown and the deadly toma¬ 
hawk would have been active in the rapid 
extermination of the remaining pioneers. On 
the other hand, the fortunate termination of 
the contest put an end to further attempts at 
open warfare by the Indians. The rich terri¬ 
tory, so long overrun by hostile savages, was 
thrown open for settlement, which rapidly 
occurred as soon as the news of the great vic¬ 
tory became widespread. 
Naturally, great praise was rendered to the 
success aud intrepid bravery of Gen. Harrison 
and he was honored in many ways. He 
afterwards served as commander of the 
Army of the Northwest, and when Indiana 
was admitted to statehood, he was selected to 
represent the State in the United States Sen¬ 
ate. In 1840 he was elected President and 
his unfortunate demise occured shortly after 
being inaugurated. 
The forty-second anniversary of the Battle 
of Tippecanoe found the gallant grandson of 
“Old Tip” leading his forces to a great politi¬ 
cal victory w hich resulted in the selection of 
Gen Ben. Harrison as President of the United 
States. 
TheHarrisons have been a hardy race of 
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After all, each individual has at all times, 
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