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Feb. ll.-3t. Carrolltown, Cumbria Co., Pft.
T'EO M. UEADE. Attorney-at-Laio,
f Fbensburir. Pa. Wee Centre etri-et.
t'irec ,iotir tr in Ulb ttrei. SuffJT,T0
Till! TKltllOJlS OF" THE LOST,
' 1 saw a man sitting upon one of the rocks, j reclion ; and, after another night spent on
M. Jules " erne, in his vork, "The The statement was received with incredu- ! the plain, running about in j circle to pre
Jlystciious Island." depicts the finding of lity at first, bnt the sailor repeated it with ' serve warmth, his third day's travel brought
a certain boatswain upon a small Island, so much assurance that the captain mount- 1 him within thirty miles of the fort, and very
after a solitary lcsidcnce there of twelve . ed to the crosstrces to look for himself. ! far from the track. Here hope seems to
years' duration. This unhappy person is , Sure enough, there was a man silting on have deserted him; and, after having hung
described as being covered over his entiro ; the rocks. The ship at once headed for ! a portion of his clothes on a tree to attract
body with a thick suit of hair, civinrr him
1 0 r,sPect f i ape. He is also devoid of
speech, save certain unintelligible sounds,
ami Ins intellect is a blank. Evidently his
leason and memory of language have both
been lost for a series of years. The actions
of this poor creature arc those of an animal,
ana ins habits aic filihy and brutal in the
ex,cmc- e resists the eflorts rnauo to
, cupturchim, and makes repeated but. futile
timt.ivi.Ma loist.ipe.
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ing originally occupied by tho boatf wain
dining the pciiodof his first advent, but
now evidently long sin.'e fallen into desue-
tu.le. It contains sonio cooking utensils,
'lul1 1'ie-arms, a uioie, and
some seeds, so that tho castaway had
within his reach tho me-.ns of appeasing
iiouui, luiiinii (iiL-io siifisnr, ana a lair
pinountof food for the mind. Desji:c all
tiiis he had lost his reason, fled Ids dwell
ing, and lived like a wild Least in the forest.
Having most of the essentials which con
tribute to comfoi tabic existence jn com
inunii ics, the man had doubtless become
insane from lack of companionship. At
first, probably the life was novel, and en
gaged his intellectual faculties by tho
drafts which it made upon them. Further
on, he longed for sight of a human face,
for human sympathy and companionship
j This d;si;-c grew npou him, becoming at
j lcngtli tlio one aosorosng thoiiglit, which
j mastered ami excluded .di others. Then
the desire for j hjsieal exertion waned; the
j mind, dead to ail eise but i:s intense longing
j for fellowship, corrosled and fed upon
itself ; reason wandered, tottered, auel fell,
and the man became a mere animal. II.iv
I ing been of a somewhat fieiceand in tract a-
j b'.e temperament before insanity, he be
come a wild and ncrvously-er.crgctic ani
mal. Ti.cn came a season of exposure to
j the elements, and a life led by the lower
. animals, during uhich nature wrought her
mystciious changes in hi:n, and set her
, peculiar marks npost his iierson. IIo ac
' rjuired a suit of thick hair in lieu eif clotl'.ts,
and his facial development intensified into
' that of an ape. All this happened because
the boatswain lacked companionship. He
; was lost to the world.
After his capture the lost insane man
gradually recovered his sanity. By degrees
tho tones of his former language returned
to him, and ho resumed its use upon occa
sion. 15-.it the major poition of the twelve
years parsed upon the island were, and al
ays would be, a blank to him. He had
'no more memory of theni thr.n if they had
never existed.
nu. unfortunately, M. .Tides Voire deals
iu fiction and we must accept his statements
cumfirano tt'ili. Now, let the writer relate !
a vci it.ibl history : !
In the year 1S;U, a Mr. Davis, an officer
of the Hudson Bay comjiany, left York
I'acN'iy. on Hudson bay, in the annual ves
sel visiting that poit, distined for England. '
He took with him his two eldest daughters
for the purpose of having them educated
in England, leaving his wifo and remaining
children at an interior fort in the company's
tern'oij'. Mr. Davis was a liignly educa
ted Englishman, of stanch fiiysiqiie un
shaken intellect. No question ef his sanity
had ever been rai.-cd, or that ho was not
the peer of any in his rank in life. The
vessel enjoyed a prosperous voyage and
reached London in safety. Mr. Davis
plaeeel his daughters in a suitable school,
then passed some timo in visiting among
his relatives iu that vicinity. At length ha
recciveel notieo from tho company's office being a man ed strong mind, and of active,
in Fanchnrch street, that a vessel would energetic habits, would be liable to more
1 sail for York factory on a certain elate, in ; violent feeling'? of terror, despair, ami de
i which he would be assigned a slate room, nire for companionship, that a. person of
It was intended to send two vessels that sea- ; less mental acumen and of more apathetic
son with the annual outfit, one to precede temperament. His mind wouhl cat itself
j the other by a week or more. j out far more rapidly than would that of a
I Mr. Davis sailed in the first ship, which comparatively ignorant person. Thehigh.
1 encountered heavy weather almost from ' er the intellectual standarel of tho lost in-
the time of staiting. The seams of the
j vessel were opened by'the violence of the
S2 ' elements, so that almost continual pumping
! was necessary. As tho American coast
hi ! neared, the condition of tho vessel be
came; more precarious, until, one stormy , thi fact ii tne case of a passing acqnaiu
morning, she went elown near a rocky j tance, a Mr. James Mackensie.
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j swim euecteu an escape to lano. i ins
61 j number at that time was not supposed to
include Mr. Davis, although ho was known , means of conveyance consisted of mules
to bo an expert swimmer. He elid not, ! and a wagon instead of the ordinary win
however, appear upou the island and was ! ter traveling apparatus of the country
naturally supposed to bo drowned. The snow shoes and dog sledges. Mr. Mackcn
miserable survivors remained upon the J zio was a firnt-rate traveler, and accustom
rocky coast about a week, when the second j ed from boyhood to such work. He knew
vessel passing took off what remained of . the country well, and, for a man of his
them alive. This ship reached York facto- J strong constitution, the severity of the win
ry in safety aud reporteel Mr. Davis as j ter's cold had too few terrors for him. At
drowned with numerous others. Word j a place called Pine Ilivcr Crossing, ho vol
was sent to that effect to his family and j unteercd, as the party with which he travel
relatives anel his accounts adjusted with i ed hael run short of provisions, and their
the company. He was a gentleman
some wealth and bis family were left in
comfortable circumstances. Tho vessel re
mained at York for a month, taking on her
cargo of furs, and then set sail for England.
As she was passing by the rocky island,
the scene of the rescue of the first ship's
survivors, the lookout announced that he
'. the island, and anchored. Vhile the an-
chor was being cast, and the boat lowered
! and manned, the castaway approached the
vessel and sat upon a rock in plain view, as
; if awaiting the arrival of the boat's crew.
j lie was clothed, and apparently in good
outward repair, considering the cireum-
i stances, and was recognized by the captain
and some of the crew who knew him as
Mr. Davis. They hailed him, but he rc-
; tunied no answer, o particular attention
; j..im iw 1111, uuncni, hum 1 uu uiiin wise liian no cuo. itu ins iraciicat
j was pulled rapidly to land. What was the knowledge of the use or the compass, and
astonishment of tho crew, when the boat ! of the country over which ho traveled, he
ncared the shore, to see Davis leave his! could have brought himself to any point
scat and run rapidly toward the intciior of j he chose ; but the lost feeling had bereft
the island! 1 hey laTuled and puisncd linn,
but railed to ovoi take him before lie became
lost to sightamong the rocks. A tolerably
thorough vearch of he rocks resulted in no
furthci indications of his presence, and the
chase was reluctantly given up. Among
the more credulous of the snilors it was of
course believed to be Davis' wraiih ; but
the practical captain and crew, who had
known the man well, insisted cn his bodily
presence, and so reported it on the arrival
in London. The story was reccived some
what incredulously, however, and filial'
dropped f:-'rn mind.
The foi'ii'n ing season, nevertheless, the
lookout of nnothei vcrsel made the samedis-
' covery, and another landing ensued, with
the same results. Davis dis.-ippeaicd snd
floidy, but entirely, llosiiii wore the cloth
ing he had on when wreck- d. though in a
badly tattered condition After that he
v.as seen again in a nude s:.?e.
In the lomthycar after his shipwreck a
party lauded from a company's vessel and
endeavored to catch him. They pursued
him closely and used very means to close
his avenues of escape. Dot Davis ran with
almost incredible speed, leaping high rocks
with apparent ease, a
from sight altogether
and at length escaped
On this occasion he
was covered lightly with a cr-at of hair. In
the seventh year the unfortunate man was
seen, I believe, for the last lime, having
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then a heavy suit of hairovcrhi3 entire body,
and a beard of great length. lie was at
that time some fifly-six years of age The
attempts made to captuie him, ami the cir
cumstances of his condition, were but little
noised abroad by tho officers of the com
pany on account of his aiiiicted family ;
but r.o one, lina'.ly, expressed the least
doubt of his identity, or that he hael be
come cm zed under t he terrible conditions
of the shipwreck. The story reached the
writer through a daughter of Mr. Davis,
and was corroborated by officers of the
company cognizant of the circumstances ;
so ho relies implicitly upon its veracity.
lloro again was an insanity brought
about by tho loss of human rssociation,
augmented, perhaps, in this instance, by
tho lack of matter to attract the mind.
Da vis cci taiuiy was supplied with food
probably from tho sheli-lish and seals cast
up by the sea and shelter of sufficient
warmth to protect him from the inclement
weather, so that it must have been influ-
Cnccs extraneous from dread of death,
from hick of mere animal necessaries,
which produced the insanity. The extreme
fear of man manifested by him was proba
bly caused by that general feeling of tenor
which seizes lost persons and renders theni
feaiful of every auimatc eibject, or it may
have been ;tho result of a revulsion of feel
ing upon a subjr-ct which occupied every
power of thought wiiesi sane that is, the
intense desire to see a human face. Davis
; dividual, up to a certain point, and the
' more gregariousj his habits of life have
been, the sooner and more severely will tb3
; lost feeling attack his sanity in the major-
- ity of instances. I recall an instance of
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; who si-ancu in uie imer Beaton, nen.-
! wilh three others, to visit Fort Garry. The
01 wagon, in consequence 01 oaa -weawier,
traveled heavily, to push onward alone,
with the intention of sending back assist
ance from the fort. lie followed the track
correctly until nightfall, when he lost his
way, probably iu an attempt to fi.id a
shorter route. Tho succeeding nu iTjinhe
: resumed his journey, but in Hie wrong di-!
! tlio attention nf nnv nanwr-hv. In hi-.- !. n
and vas frozen to death. V hen his dead
: body was recovered, belay with one hnd on
: his heart,
the other containing a compass.
It was easily comprehended by the expe
rienced plain traveleis who found tho body
that Mr. Mackenzie, on realizing himself
as lost, must have grown so excited as to
as lost, must have grown so excited as to
lose his presence of mind, or he would have
known his necessary general position with
regard to the river, and have acted other-
him of reason within three days. Being of
more t.han average intellectuality, and of
! gregarious habits, he succumbed with cor-
responding rapidity.
The influence of this feeling upon these
of a lower order of culture, and of a differ
ent temperament, may be seen in the case
of a half breed, named Lavie, personally
known to the writer. This pcrsou was by
occupation a toyageur during the summer
season, and a trapper and hunter iu the
winter. His mental standing was very or
elinary, being unable to read or w rite, and
bis habit apathetic, living much alone.
Some of his ponies having strayed off upon
the prairie during the w inter months, Lavie
went in epicst of them. The prairie was a
native heath to him, which he had trotlden
from infancy with the same assuiancc that
ordinary mortals walk the pavement. lie
had no fear of being lost; every depression
in the snow-clad earth, every stunted
shrub, was a landmaik to guide him on bis
way. Yet, after an absence ef half a day,
a storm arose which obscured the landscape,
and Lavie, despite his praii ie-craft, found
himself lo.,t. ile accepted the situation,
and, knowing that any eflorts to extricate
himself un'il after subsidence of the storm
weu Id prove fruitless, set about making
preparations for bis safety from freezing,
j He attached himself to a clump of cotton-
wood-trees as a landmark, and walked in
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a circle about it. Night came on, and he
still walked. Day followed, and night
again found him still walking, with the
storm unabated. At length his moccasins
wore o.T his feet. lie took the long mit
tens from his hands, and tied them to his
feet in lieu of shoes. Then he walked on
through the third, fourth and fifth days
ami nights, supporting life by chewing his
leather hunting shirt. Tho sixth morning
he found his feet frozen, anel striking the
beaten path like bits of wood ; his hands
in a like condition, and his face but little
better. During that day, however, some
wandering Indians discovered him in an
apparently ding condition. They took
him to a neighboring military post, auel,
after the surgeon had bereft hi.-n of poi tiems
of both feet and hands, and taken a piece
from his face, Lavie got well.
When found by the Indians, it iswoithy
of remark that with the exception of ex
haustion, the man was mentally more acute
than when he was fust lost. During all
those feaiful days and nights the combina
tion of terror, despair, and, above all,
longing for fellowship, which really con
stitute the lost feeling, hael striven against
that dull intellectuality and apathetic tem
pcrment in vain. There were an indiffer
ence to, and an ignorance of, t he finer parts
of the torture, which effectually shielded
him from danger. He simply did not know
! enough to experience any of the feelings
J which would have wrecked a higher order
of intellect. Tiue, be knew that if the
storm suhsieicd he could escape; but this
assurance could not of its-elf have supported
him after the fourth day, probably, when,
bad he been capable of entertaining it, the
lost feeling would hae overcome him.
Among the numerous instances which
have come to the personal ne'tico of tlio
wiiter as illustrative of the fact that a. vis
itation of the lost feeling almost invariably
produces insanity, and that, generally
speaking, tho higher tho order of intelli
gence (always up to a certain point) of the
lost person, tho more painful, if not fatal
will the insanity prove, I know of none
better than the following :
There was employed as a farm hand, in
a certain place where the writer resided, a
elesei ter from the United States army. He
was a young man of rather tuore thati or
dinary ability, and tolerably conversant
with prairie life. It was the enstom of the
farmers of that region to cut hav at some
distance on tho prairio in the rear of their
farms, stack it on the spot, anil haul it to
the barns in the winter as required. In
accorelanee with this established usage, the
young man in question was dispatched
with ox-sleds one winter's day af'.er hay.
IIo took with him, for the sake of company,
a boy belonging to a neighboring farm a
little lad of about twelve years eif age, and
not particularly bright. They did not ex
pect to be absent over three or four hours.
Tho stacks of hay were distant about two
miles from the farm house, on the prairie,
and entirely out of sifthfc of fences or either
landmarks, but a well beaten track ltd to
' them.
About two hours after their departure, a
terrific Ftoim arose, rendering objects at
the distance ef a few yards invisible by
reason of the swirl of snow driven by the
fierce winds. Some fear was entertained
for the safety of the lads, but it was argued
that by that timo they would have reached
the stacks, and, by eligging into them,
could remain in safety until the subsidence
of the storm. At all events, no one could
go to their relief. The evening wore on
with no abatement In the violence of the
Rtorm ; and, as it was impossible to extend
aid to the sufferers, they remained out all
night. In the morning the oxen they had
driven out were fouud in the cattle-yard.
They had their yoke on, and had evidently
been loosed an;l turnctl adrift. In the af
ternoon of the day a party was organized
to visit the stacks, and with considerable
elifficulty procceeleel there. They found
the road entirely obliberatcd, and the snow
elriftcel in fantastic shapes over the prairio.
Reaching the stacks, no trace of either
man or boy was found ; jind a further
search of three consecutive elays failctl of
tangible results. On tho fourth day, how
ever, the boy was founel uneler a snow
el ii ft, frozen stiff. He had a'l his clothes
on, anel was evidently following the trail
of the cattle when overcome by the cold.
About one hundred yards elistant, in a di
rectly opposite diiection, the shoes, mit
tens, cap and outer shirt of the man were
found in the snow, but no tiace of the
owner. Tho experienced prairie men en
gaged in the search announced immediately
that lie had discarded his clothing in a fit
of insanity, anel discontinued the search as
useless. When the snow melted from the
ground in the spring, the body of the un
fortunate man was eiiscovered sitting at the
base of a tree on the banks of a stream six
miles away. It was entirely destitute of
cloMiing, saving a single garment.
Now, here was a boy of dull intellect
following a judicious course on being lost,
and using tho calmest reasoa in his efforts
to escape ; and an intellectual man who
became crazed by the same circumstances
within twenty-four hours. Not that it is
to be understood that the lost person must
necessarily be possessed of intellectual cul
ture in order to become crazed by the lost
feeling, or that an uncultivated pci-son pos
sesses an immunity, by reason of his com
parative ignorance, from that feeling and
its general consequences. It simply goes
to augment the mass ef pnxif tending to
show that tho feeling of terror, despair,
and elesire for sympathy and companion
ship, acting upn a cultivated n.inelr un
hinge it from tho sheer capacity of that
mind to more acutely and intensely expe
rience them than can the untutored intel
lect which is on a plane below such keen
appreciation of its situation. The very
combination going to make up the lost
feeling must have been c-ducateel up to a
certain standpoint, by the general culture
of the individual before it. can so to'ally
and entirely assume possession of him as
to inehico insanity. Then, too, the insani
ty produced comes under that class of
mental aberrations known as temporary,
in this respect at least, that, when the lost
insane is plaeeel in the companionship of
his fellows again, bis intelligence gradually
returns, and he becomes, after a time, as
sane as before. There are, of course, ex
ceptions to this rule, but it is true in nine
cases out of ten. II. 21. Hvlinson in Ap
plcton. A Noa'f.l, Lf.ap Year Paiitv. It may
amuse some of our party going rcaelers to
reveal to them a new stylo of leap-year
amusement net w iu vogue among the fashfein
able folks of Atlanta, Georgia. A look at
the programme inclines us to believe that a
good tleal of harmless fun could bo made
out of such a gathering : The party is to
be eutirely composed eif the young people
of tho best society married folks to be ex
cluded except as spectatois. The partici
pants are to be in masque and costume and
remain so until midnight. Each young
lady, upon arrival, deposits in a box a
sealed proposal of marriage, signing it wilh
the name of the character she represents.
Thc young gentlemen draw these from the
box, and each one must find out the fair
lady representing the character signeel to
the projiosal, conduct her before a buily
centennial magistrate, who will perform a
quaint, old-time, quasi ceremony.
. From that time until midnight the couple
are to be companions and enjoy themselves
as one. Bnt at midnight a pompo is Chi
cago juelge, with a sheriff aud two attor
neys enter and open a divorce court. The
parties are severally called np in couples,
tell horrible things of each either, are
solemnly divorced, and unmasked by the
sheriff. This will be the richest part of tho
fun. When all tho couples are divorced,
supper is announced, auel after that the
party contiunes iu the usual way.
Bi.esseij is the rran who knows how to
keep his mouth shut, gome people live
sixty years without learning the art. In
deed, the older th-y grow, the w ider their
mouths open. A man or a woman w ho is a
gabbler at forty five is a dreadful afaicf ion
to a house, or a community. There are
two things this ago needs to learn when
to say nothing, and when it says anything
to say it well. "If any man among yon
seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, this man's religion is vain." Go
den Itvle.
Putting on a Shirt in a Tunnel.
The following incident occurred not ion
since on a train on the North Pcnn rail
road :
On the seat in tho front pait of one of
the passenger cars a sewing machine agent
from Chicago weaiily awaited the hour
when he should reach Eastoa. lie bad
been long on the way, and was tired and
dusty, and complained to the gentleman in
front of him that he had not had time to
change his iincn," the bosom of which
bore evidence to the fact. His ncigbliors
sympathized with him, for he was a ce'.mely
young man tolook upon, with pensive eyes,
curly hair, and n Adonis-like form,
adoiued with the best of cloth cut iu the
latest style, while on the third finger of his
right hand an enormous diamond flashed.
Takidg him all iu all. he was "not to be
sneezeel at," as a couple eif ynsir.g city girls
thought, judging frem tho glances which
they so frequently cast upon him, and the
&igiis which now and then escaped their
cherry lips.
This the youthful ewing machine man
observed, and his heait went pit-a-pat, and
ho wished that his shirt bosOm was more
immaculate, and again he spoke of it to his
fellow travelers.
"I will tell yon bow to tlo it, if you have
a clean shirt with you,' said one of the
geutlemen, who happens to reside in Eas
ton. "Yes, sir, I have a garment in my satchel.
How cau I put it on ?7'
"We are approaching the tunnel, and
the conductor tells me that it takes seven
minutes to pass through it ; so there's your
chance, and nobody will ever be any wiser
of your movements," replied the joker.
The suggestion was so "apropos" that
the youth of the sewing machine embraced
it at once, opening his satchel and selecting
the linen of spotless w hite.
"Now's your chance cried the fun
loving Eastonian as the train plunged into
the tunnel. Then all was dark. The
blackness of Erebus prevailed and no
sounds were heard above the rcverbeiating
rumble of the cars, save now and then an
emphatic oath from the scat of the young
Chicageian. Quick as a flash of lightning
the iron hoise dived into the broad sunlight,
and then what a sight was there my
countryman ! In a stooping posture there
was the sew ing machine youth, striving to
thrust his body into a shirt that was double
buttoned at the throat.
"O, my ! O, my T' shrieked the city
bfdlcs, as they buried their pretty borriCcel
faces in their handkerchiefs ; and theie was
a general blushing among the ladies and
very loud smiles on the faces of the gentle
men. Then the Easton joker rushed to tha
wriggling youth, who was uttering piofan
ity by the bushel and unbuttoiuig tho
neckband the head popped through, and
then there was presented to the astonished
passengers a face like raw beefsteak, with
the sweat streaming from it like gravy from
a basted turkey. The gentlemen gathered
around him so as to shut him in from view
until ho completed hisj toilet, when be
grasped Lis".catchel and darted into tho
next car, vowing vengeance on the man
who told Jiim how to put em a clean shirt
in a tunnel.
IIotv to IvEtr a Sur-scmcm. An in
dignant farmer recently entered tho cilice
of tho Elizabeth Xctrt and ordereel his pa
per stoppod because hi: differed from, the
editor in regard to the advantages of sub
soiling fence rails. The editor, of course,
conceded the man's i ight to stop his paper,
but he lemaiked coolly, looking e ver tho
list :
"Do yon know Jim Sowuers down at
Hardscrabble?"
"Very well," said the man.
" Well he stopped his paper last week bo
cause I thought a farmer was a blamed fool
who didn't know that timothy was a good
thing to graft on huckleberry bushes, and
he died in four hours."
"Leird, is that so?" said -the astonished
granger.
"Yes, and you know old George Erick
son, elown on Eagle Creek ?"
"Well, I've heard of him."
"Well," said the editor gravely, "he
stopped his paier because I said be was
the happy father of tw ins, and congratula
ted him on his success so late in life. "lie
fell dead in twenty minutes. There are
lots of similar cases but it don't matter ;
I'll just cross your name off, though yon
don't look strong, and there is a bad color
on your nose."
"See here, Mr. Editor," said the sub
scriber, looking somewhat alarmed, "I be
lieve I'll just keep on another year, 'cause
I always did like your paper, auel come to
j think on't you're a young man, aud some
allowance orter be made," and he departed,
satisfied that he had made a narrow escape
from death.
Ix a village Sabbath-schoul in a neigh
boring village a few Sabbaths ago, the
superintendent was endeavoring to convey
to the minds of the chih'ren the spiritual
significance of tho lamb, the heep and tho
shepherd. "Now," said he "you are the
lambs, the teachers ait: Hie Fbeep ; what am
j I?" After some .ne. an urchin, having
j more knowledge thai discretion, assuiirg'.y
shouted iu a loud voice, vtu fCM wi
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