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Volume xit.
FIMT&SOI
lManniiictiaieis,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
OF
tmt coma,
AND
Sheet Iron Wares
AND DEALERS IX
fflTING, PARLOR ani COOKING
ShQQt SEatalg
AND
BDCSE-FlTiMSDIXC GOODS CEXERALLY.
TVlinr in
m.fOPPER&SIIEET-IROX
PROMPTLY" ATTENDED TO.
Jios.273, 2S0and 282 Washington St.,
JOHNSTOWN. PA.
Mci-4. EDITOIfS:
As we were connected with
Dr. QUINCY A. SCOTT'S
Dental Establishment!
AT TBS Tl MB Ft IS
CENTENNIAL SPECIMENS
V-'re manufactured, ire state posit i-.e!v Hint those
iieant 1'eutxl S4K.'Cimeia wtiicli received tiie
CENTENNIAL MEDAL and DIPLOMA
WEKE MADE BY
DR. QUINCY A. SCOTT
Ani hi? .-tjtnts. And we dcire also to state
jt.at we have been in mam dental offices, and
i:.ive fP,.n dentistrv in all its pliaw. but have
Jivpr -Men work tsrned out anywhere to euual
th.i um.ie at
1'onn Avonuo,
I'irisiit itttn,
w e .1.) not think it nec.psry, bat we also wish to
endorse
li. Quinoy -Y. Scott
ia r-ntlman. upriiflit and rs.nornl.le ia
ail social and business relations.
I''.SCOTT. la. W. II. PERRY,
J'J.S. (iHAHAM, .IOIIN K. AIIL,
LLcr flTTSBlViH. PA,
COLLINS, JOBNSTON&Ca
EBENSBURG, PA.
MONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT,
INTEREST ALLOWED OX TWE DEPOSITS.
M3NEY LOANED. COLLECTIONS MADE,
AND A GENERAL
BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
rpn.Cwl?Uttenllon paid "'neffcor-
Nov. 19, H75.-tf.
A. W. BUCK.
pIrkbTmble uoiiks,
139 Franklin Crn.i 1 . i m..
Cashier.
AmI 1 ' very dost Italian Mnd
American Murhi,..' " 1 .V
Pf. . ".araB!eM "1 Price. &i-anAilfk
ir . ' wor"k- 1
n-i urr"! respectfully solicited
lil24.l.-,f " JOIfV PARKE.
WILKINSON &l O'FRIEL,
fiSEIHiW DOMESTIC sCABBLE !
I-oi-etto, Ia.
4 McheinC.Kte1 uPromPt,y &nd Mtlafactorily,
STATEMENT of SETTLEMENT
smp lor the year end in April ih. 1878:
Peter "Warner, Supervisor, Dr.
To am't of Duplicate. .. . i-ibi
To balance from last vear. iw.rvJ
To cash duplicate a nd" unseated "laoa'tax.!". 127.98
312.43
.1S.75
. 34.60
25
. 60.79
. 28.14
312.43
Cr.
Dy work done and materials rnrni?ned...
34' davs' services'. . . .
" losttax
" or.lcrs paid Collector," cash tax. etc"""
" am t to balance .
Stvos Apams, Supervisor, Dr.
To am't of Work Duplicate ..
t:ah Duplicate
tax on unseated land .'.".".'.".
" order on Supcrrisurs
Cr.
Hy work done on road?
' exonerations on work Duplicate....
" hsl tax on work Duplicate......
" IM'daj'S services
" book,, hammer, hand les'etc .'..'."
' balance trom last vear
" one day at settlement
" 5 per cent, for collecting cash tax."
" tax returned to Comm issioners ..."."" '
" lost tax cash Duplicate
" cash paid tor work done on road.. ."
" cash paid for tublishir.K
fees paid W. H. Sechler
cash paiil T. !. Kdwards. smith work.
" cash to .1. H. Hite on bridge
" ata t paid Auditors fur laat year
.225.P2
. St.i.60
. M.tKI
. 17.21
t3S8.33
.J220.30
4.62
60
. 33 50
. 1 77
. 42 26
1.00
4.63
. 2..S
23
5 98
. 13 IHJ
. 10 00
. 2.S9
. 3 ".SO
388.33
$ 35.9e
Am't of orders issued
'"'IN CAM KHUN, Auditors.
JOHN B. HOSS.
Attest WlLLtAM StLDtKS, Clerk
gTATEMEXT of SETTLEMENT
Willi the Supervisors and Treasurer of
Carroll township, April 1, 1878:
Phil:p Hoover, Supervisor, Dr.
To full amount of Duplicate $')2r, hi
" order as Supervisor, 77 days 119.50 e46. 04
Cl.
By exonerations $ i.o?
amount work done on road, 524 6 1
" services as Supervisor, 77 davs. 115 50
' order paid tor handles "... 4.00 - 646.04
Jakes MEi-tox, Supervisor, Dr.
To full amount of Duplicate $513 92
" ciish received on Duplicate. ... 1.18
" onler as SapcrvisoroS days ... 8i.50 1809 58
Ca.
By exonerations t 173
aimmnt of work done on roaiis. 513 35
" services a Supervisor 94.50 609.58
James MEtt5X, Treasurer, Dr.
To full amount of Cash Implicate. t?7. 1.3
" balanee ef old ad count 18.73 $38S.S6
Cr.
l?y ciish paid out. ... 57.2S
" order as Supervisor, 63 days .. . '94.. 'j
" exonerations 2.44
" per centaife for collecting and
payinifout ... 17 05
" full amount ot orders pnid out.. 92 58
" order as Supervisor, 77 days 119. Ort S83 31
Balance due Treasurer t 19 45
We, the undersigned, do licrefiy certify that the
above statement is just, true and correct.
THOMAS F.LIMC1. I
JACOB YKAOLKY, -Auditors.
CIIARI.KS DC MM, J
Attest Valentine Di mm. Clerk. 4 12.-3t.
GTATEMEXT OF ACCOUNTS of
Treasurer and Tax Collector of Oallitzin
Boroutrh, April 81 h, 1878:
OsoroiE Octwai.t, Collector. Dr.
To amount of Duplicate for 187" 212.57
" uncollected 1878 67. 6d J280.13
Cr.
By am't collected and paid Treas
urer 1248.27
" amount of exonerations 2 43
" returned to commissian-
ers 2 58 251 .28
Balance due from Collector
. . .2 83
F. J. Crristt, Treasurer, Dr.
To amount received from Tax Col
lector in cash and orders 248 27
am't due at last settlement 12 7 258.9
Cr.
By cash aid on orders littcd and cancelled. 2."3 39
Balance in hands of Treasurer 5 59
Financial Statement of Borovoh.
To anient le trom Treasurer 5 59
Tux Collector.. 28.85 f 3 44
By amount of outstanding orders 21 10
Balaace due Borough 13.34
M. JlEAf? H Kt, 1
W.M M. FURfrl'SyN, Aoditors.
M, F.KtLLKY, )
April 19, 1S78. 3t.
SHERIFF'S SALE. Uy virtue of
A. writ of Fieri Faring, isstiftl not f the
Court of Cernmon I'li-iis of Cii iibrin count y nod
to me oirected, ihrre will he exposed to public
sabs at the Hotel of Conrad i(:iah, in John
town, on I I It I A Y. M Y 4li. 1S78. nt 2
u'cun'K P. M., the followinjr real ef-tat-, to wit :
A t.r. the riant, title and interest of Mathias
Wadswor! h and Klias Walsworth of. in and to a
piece or parcel of land situate in Yoder township.
Cambria county, I'a,, ndjoininir Ian s of Joseph
O'tJonnor. Aaron Croyle. Kichanl O'Connor, and
fitbers. containinir lj acres, more or less, havinir
thereon erected a one-story plank house and sta
hie, now in the occupancy ol Mathi:is Wadsworth.
Taken in execution and to be sol 1 at the suit of
John O'Connor, Sr.
Terms of Sate. One-third of the purchase
money to be paid when the jiropfrty i knocked
down, ami the retnaininjriwo-lhirds before the
continuation of the deed.
JOHN RTAX, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Enonsluirif, April 1(1, 1878.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE ! Horace
A. Nathans and C. O. Nathans, tradinp
as Nathans Brothers, vs. W. J. Bonner No. 43,
Sept. Term. 177, F D. Fi Fn.
A. J. Chri.ty, for use of Jlrs. Marv Christy, vs.
'V. J. Bonner No. 23. Dec. Term, 1S77, K. 1). Fi.
Fa.
And now, April 3d, 1S7S. on motion of connsel
interested. etv. the Court appoint John Fen Ion.
Ksq.. Auditor to report ditrilmtion arising from
ti sale of defendant's personal property, on the
above No 43. Sept. Term. J877. tx. loc. anil No.
: 2. Dec. Term, 177. T-'x. Doc , to an. I amonir the
parties It;rallj- entitled thereto. By the Court.
In pursuance of the above appointment, the
undersigned Auditor will sit at his oltiee in the
borough ol Kbensburar, Cambria county, on
Tm'RsnAY. the 2;fl iay of May. 178. at the
hour of 1 o'clock P. v.. of said day, lor the purpose
of the above appointment; where and when all
parties or persons interested are hereby no'ified
toaitend. JoHN FF.NL.ON, Auditor.
tbensburjr. April 12, 1873.-31.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE The nn
lersipnr"d Auditor, appointed hy th
Orphans' Court o( Cambria county to report, dis
tribution of funds in the hands ot James Myers.
Administ rator of I'ai harine Todd, dee'd. hereby
notifies ail persons interested that he will attend
to the duties of said appointment, ai his office fn
KbenshuriT. on Fuiday, the 3d day of .May, 1878,
at 2 o'clock, p. M.. when and where all parties hav
inir claims aiaint the same may attend, or be for
ever debarred trom coiner in on said lund.
ALA IN F.VANS, Auditor.
Ebcnsbursr, April 1:2. 1878.-31.
AD M IMS T R A T ION NOTICE.
Estate, of Thos. J. Lloyd, dee'd
Letters of administration on the estate of said
decedent, laie of Kbensburir boroueh, Camltrla
county, I'a , have been granied to the undcrsitrn
d, to whom all persons indebted to s.ifd estate
are requested to make immediate payment, an. I
those bavin claims apainst the same should pre
sent them properlv authenticated for settlement
HAR'RlhT f. LLOYD.)
JOHN F. TlBBorX, Adm'Xi.
ALVIN EVANS,
ZUzibuxg, 23, IS78.-&.
'HE IS A FREEMAN
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 42G, 1S78.
A. WILD WOMAN'S STOIZY.
On a lnv elmlr in a noil in tliA -tall ot
flotiesdale, Ta., July 10th, 1S7G, sat a most I
Singular looking person. A round, wrin-
Kiea, sun-uurnea iace, small ue.iu crownea
with thick, shapgy gray liair, that fell
down over and almost concealed the black
est and sharpest of eyes ; a slender body,
clothed in scant and shabby female garb,
and lower liaibs encased in tattered trou
sers. This was the occupant of the cell
Lucy Ann Lobdtll, nee Slater, better known
theieabouts as "the female hunter of Long
Eddy."
About forty-five years ago a family nam
ed Lobdell lived in Delaware counly, N.
Y., at what is now the village of Long Ed
dy on the Delaware river and Erie railway,
then sparsely settled. Lumbering was the
main business of the settlers of the vicini
ty. The Lobdells d welt in a cabin in the
woods, where a daughter, the subjeclof our
ske'.ch, was born. From the lime this
child was old enough to walk she was a
great favoiite among the haidy woodchop
pers and raftsmen. They olien took her
off to the logging camp and kept her there
for days at a time, and she early became
inured to the hardships of their life. The
lumbermen in those days were all good
hunters, and a! ways carried their rifles with
them. Before Lucy Ann was 8 yeais old
they had taught her the use of the ritle, and
she soon became as good a shot as there
was in the settlement. At the age of 12
she could out-shoot any of the men, and
handled the ax with the ease of an old
chopper. Before she had reached the age
of 1G she had killed numerous deer, and an
absence of two or three days alone in the
woods was for her not an uncommon thing.
She once killed a full sized panther, and
the bide of the animal is now in the pos
session of an ex She i iff of Wayne county,
Pennsylvania. Notwit hstanding her inas
culine tastes, Lucy Ann's name, as a girl
and woman, was free from reproach. The
breath of slander never reached her, and
she could have had her choice of a husband
from the most exemplary young men in the
vicinity. But she had no inclinations to
marry, and she rejected all offers.
A raftsman named Harry Slater came
into the settlement about 1850. lie formed
the acquaintance ot Lucy Ann, and to the
surprise of everybody they were married.
Slater had proposed to Lucy Ann, .and she
told him that they would shoot, at a mark
with titles, and if be beat her shots she
would many him, if not she would temain
Mill her patents. The trial of skill took
place and Slater a-as victoiious.
Slater proved a worthless scapegrace,
and neglected and abused his wile. A
year after they were married Mrs. Slater
gave birth to a daughter. lieloie the
child was two weeks old Slater deserted
both wife an?! child, leav'ng them in desti
tute ciicnmstaiices Slaler never returned,
but was occasionally heard of in New Yoi k
city, and on the Hudson river, a worlhless,
drunken vagabond.
The sorrowing wife went back to her
parents, and alter two years spent in ef
forts to get along nod maintain lieiself
respectably by doing woman's work, but
with poor success, she laid aside the ap
parel f her sex, donned men's clothing,
and taking her rilie, went into the woods
to enrn a living for herself and child.
For tight or ten yeais she roamed the
forests of Sullivan and Delaware counties,
in New Yoi k, and Wayne and Pike, in
Pennsylvania, and spent two years in
Meeker county, Miiinessotti.
She hail cabins in vat ions places, and
would visit the old home about once a year,
and only appeared ia the set) lemeuts and
villages to sell her game aud furs and to
procure aminuni ion.
On one of her visits to her child, when it
was about four years old, her parents com
plained of having its care on their hands.
She, theiefore, took it away, and placed it
in the Delhi poor house, and left bet old
s amping ir round for New York and lhet.ee
up the 11 udsoti river still in men's apparel
and, strange to say, passed and repassed
her husband on the Hudson lliver Kailioad
without being recognized by him, her dis
guise was so complete.
From Albany she passed west over the
Central New Yoik, and finally t in tied up in
Minnesota, and says she taught three sing
ing schools on the way, to provide means
of traospoi tat ion.
She had a $75 rifle, and spent her first,
winter 1K.V5-G with another peis-n, both
in male all ire, on the old Kandiyohi town
site, on the noitli of the Kandiyohi lakes.
They two were employed to leside on
and thus hold possession of the new town
site, by the Minneapolis propiietors. Her
I co. up, ii, ion spent (ho wimer viih her, but
never for a moment suspected that he was
winieiing with a woman.
At times when provisions fell short, they
weie compelled to live ou squinels for
their meat.
In the summer of 1317 she appeared in
Manannah, boarding a short time in a place,
doing chores, chopping wood, liuntin,
washing dishes, etc., for her board. She
was homely at anything, and those with
whom she was acquainted seemed lo enjoy
her company her male apparel often re
quiring Iter to sleep in close proximity with
otheis of the male gender but with no
indiscietions and with no suspicions that
she was other than what appealed on the
surface.
She ever seemed well pleased with her
disguise, and the difficulty that would nat
urally interpose in resuming, without loss
of charactei , her natural and appropriate
rainment, probably induced her to continue
the deception. She claimed to have as
sumed this disguise originally, in older to
better get away from home without detec
tion from a drunken husband.
She had but liitle money; was a splendid
huntet, and ws offensive to no:te, and as
before remarked, was good company, and
a ''hale fellow well met" w ith all the young
people in the neighborhood, committing no
indiscretions.
In the summer of 1858, by pure accident,
"Satan, with the aid of original sin," dis
covered and exposed her sex. The bine
code of Connecticut was consulted and the
law was invoked to purge the community
of t he scandal.
The county attorney, Wirt. Richards,
now of the city of New Yoik, tiled an in
formation against Mrs. Slaler before John
Robson, Esq , .1. P., then contesting the
jurisdiction of this county wiih J. 1',. At
kinson, Esq., as Judge of the only court
we had, alleging "inat.Jwhereas, ono Lob
dell, being a woman, falsely personates a
man, to the great scandal ot the com muni
ty, and against the peace and dignity of
tbe State of Miuuesota," and asked that
ske bedealt witU according to law, that &o
WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AUD ALL
pernicious an example might not be re
peated in this land of steady habits. U. S.
Willie, a young lawyer from Virginia, then
residing at Forest City, appeared for the
prisoner, and A. C. Smith as counsel.
The plea of not guilty was interposed,
and the legal evidence to prove the neces
sary fact could not easily be obtained and
was left in doubt, and ihe court, after tak
ing the case under advisement, finally ruled
that the light of females to wear the pants
had been recognizee! from the time of Jus
tinian, and i hat the doctrine was too well
settled to be upset in the case at bar, aud
Mrs. Slater was theiefore discharged.
This denouement had the effect to dis
credit her in the settlement, subjecting her
to insult from the vicious ou every hand.
She became deranged pending the proceed
ings, and, as it were, an outcast in society
an object of commiseration and sympa
thy, and soon thereafter a public charge.
. On recovering from the mental shock, she
expressed a willingness to return to her
family and friends, but had n. means save
her rille, and nobody in the settlement w as
able to purchase that.
Sirs. Slater was finally sent home at the
expense of Meeker county, under the di
rection of Captain A. D. Pierce, then of
Manannah.
Soon thereafter Captain Pierce received
a letter from Mrs. Slater's parents, thank
ing him and the county most heartily for
their kindness iu returning her to her
friends.
In 1850 she again appeared on lier old
stamping ground, "the basket," and still
in female attire.
She would at times recount her ex
perience in the forest, and asserted that in
the eight yeais she had killed one. hundred
and titty deer, eleven beais, and numerous
wildcats and foxes, besides trapping hun
dreds of mink and other fur-bearing ani
mals. She had hand to hand contests
with both wounded deer and hear, as ugly
seams and scars upon her body amply tes
tified. For two or three years after her
return she led a mendicant sort of life
through ihe valley, aud finally entered the
poorhouse at Delhi, to which she had sent
her child several years previously. This
child, however, had sometime before been
taken out of the institution by a farmer of
Damascus township. Wayne county, Penn
sylvania, named David Foitman, and
given a home at his house.
In the spring of 18G5 a young woman
was let off an Erie raiisvay passenger train
at Basket station, or Long Eddy. She
could not pay her fare any further, and
said she had no particular point to which
she was going. She cave her naino as
Mrs. Wilson, and said she had beeu desert
ed by her husband at Jersey City, wheie
she had been living for some moot hs. He
was an employe of the Eiie Railway Com
pany, and had eloped with the daughter of
the lady with whom they boarded. Mis.
Wilson said that she was the daughter of
highly respectable parents named Perry,
of Lyr.n, Mass., and that she had run away
from home and married James Wilson, her
parents having opposed the much. The
station agent, and others at Basket station
kindly tillered to make up a purse for the
tinfoi lunate woman, and tend her back to
her parents, but she declined the offer,
saying she was ashamed to meet them, and
did not wish them to know of her where
abouts. She was in feeble health, and
fearing that she might become a burden on
strangers, she went to Delhi and entered
the poor house.
Lucy Ann Slater was still an inmate of
the almhouse, and a singular attachment
sprang up between her and the newcomer,
Mis. Wilson, probably owinc to the sim
ilarity of the causes which had forced them
to become paupers. The following year
both of them left the county house, and
nothing was beaid of cither of them for
two years.
In the summer of 1SGS a party of fisher
men discovered two strange peis.ms living
in a cave in Barrett, township, Monroe
County, Pa, They were a man and a wo
man. Soon there appeared in one of the
villages a tall, gaunt man, carrying a riMe
and leading a half grown bear cub by a
string tied about his neck. The man was
heai hea.led. and his clothing was torn antl
diity. Accompanying him was a woman
a'out 25 years of age, shabbily diessed,
but giving evidence of more intelligence
than the man, w ho called himself I he Rev.
Joseph Lobdell, and said that the woman
was his wife. As they walked about the
man delivied noisy antl meaningless
"sermons," declai ing that he was a prophet
of the new dispensation, and that the bear
had been sent him by the Loid to guard
him in the wilderness. Ir two years these
vagrants wandered nboul that portion of
the country, living in caves and subsisting
on roots, berries, and game killed by the
man. At last they weie arrested and
lodged in jail at St roudsburg. wheie thev
were kept several weeks. While in jail
ihe discovery was made that they belonged
to Delaware county. New-Yoik. and timber
they were sent. This pretended man and
wife were Lucy Ann Slater ami Mrs Wil
son, who had been leading this vagabond
life for four years.
In the meantime Mary Ann Slater, the
daughter of Lucy Ann, who had been taken
from the Delhi almshouse in 1859 or I860,
had found an excellent home, and had
grown up to be an intelligent and attract
ive young woman. A young man named
Stone lived near by with iiis widowed
mother, whom he supported. He loved
Mary Ann, and being a woithy and prom
ising youth, the foster father of the girl
saw no reason to oppose a match between
her and the widow's son.
The widow, however, was so strongly set
against the son martying the young lady
that I he whole neighborhood, wondered. A
number of yoirt g men in the neighborhood
were jealous of Stone, and one daik night
they waylaid Maiy Ann. The outrage
drove her almost insane, but Stone's affec
tion was und ;miuished. He still pressed
his claim for her hand. At length, when
their marriage seemed certain, Mis. Stone
revealed a state of afl.iiis which futh Re
counted for lier opposition. She told her
son that she was not a widow, and that
Henry S'ater was his father as well as the
father of Mary Ann.
Lucy Ann Sla er and Mrs. "Wilson again
left the Delhi poorhouse. and have ever
since been living in c.tvesand cabins in the
woods. The former is at times entiiely
deranged. All last winter they lived in a
cave ten n.iles from Honesdale, but they
divide their time between Monroe couny
and this. Lucy Ann wandered into the
village the other day, and out of common
decency she was arrested.
PiANOEHEe aas tbe latest musical novelty.
ARE SLAYE8 BESIDE."
Little JIartiH Craghan's Sacrifice.
About six years ago, in one of the Penn
sylvanK mines, several chambers in the
upper tier or vein were discovered to be on
tire. It was feared that the flames, wh ich
were raging fiercely, would reach the
shaft before they could be extinguished.
Word was hastily sent o the men iu the
workings beneath to come up before all
means of escape was cut off.
Martin Craghan, a boy of twelve years,
had been promoted to the position of mule
driver the day before. IIo had just taken
his mule to her dark stable, 900 feet under
gr.mnd. when a comrade called to him and
told him of their dangpr, urging him to
hurry lo the shaft, for all the men were
gone.
With a sorrowful look nt his mule,
which he knew he could not save, Martin
ran with his compauion, till they stood on
a carriage waiting to be hoisted up. Then
suddenly it Mashed upon him that a num
ber of men were woiking in a distant part
of the mine, and had not been warned of
their peril.
"O Johnny," he exclaimed, "we must
go tell them 'ere men in No. 4, or they'll
never get out !"
"Tneie isn't time. The shaft w ill be on
fire in a minute, aud then all the smoke and
gas w ill rush dow n here nnd suffocate us."
"But it will kill those men, too, and
they've families to support. There's poor
Bill Craghan, my cousin, with an old
mother and seven little children. If we
run fast, we can get back before they
hoist the elevator."
"You may go if yer sicli a fool, but I'll
not risk it," replied" his companion.
Almost before he had finished speaking,
Martin had rushed away through the daik
galleries and chambers of the mine, till he
reached the imperiled miners, and in
fiightened, breathless tones told his story.
Then instantly turning, be lied back to
the phaft, hoping the elevator had not yet
ascended. But it had gone and his com
panion with it. Martin looked up, saw
the glare of the fire and that the wire tope
had melted, and he knew all hope of escape
in that, way was cut off.
With fleet steps he once more threaded
the deserted tunnels, back to the men for
whom he had risked so much. But they,
taught by experience of the utter hope
lessness of escape by that, one impel iled
shaft, had rapidly employed the time in
building a barricade of rock and coal, as a
temporary protection from the noxious
gases and smoke that were already be
ginning to fill the mine.
By the time little Martin reached the
bariier it was solidly constructed, lor on
thai depended their only chance to live till
the burning shaft was extinguished. Com
ing close to the wall, be begged piteouslv
for admission, but the men persistently
refused him.
"Bill! Bill Craghan !" he ciied, "won't
yon make them let me in? I would have
been safe at home now but for you ! Tom
Reese, your brother Johnny wouldn't come
to tell you of the danger, and he wassaved.
Nvyou are going to let me die out here ?"
The men inside liembled as they listened
to the poor boy's sobs, and many a rough,
black hand was drawn across their eyes
and at last tender-hearted Bill rushed to
the barricade to make an entrance for the
litlle fellow.
But. strong arms pulled him away, while
in hoarse, broken voices they said : "No,
no, man. He's but one. We are many.
To make a hole big enough to pull him
through would be death to all."
"But he risked his life to save us. Will
we let him die but a step away from us?"'
"Not if we could help it, you well know,
Bill. But think of our wives and children
at home. Would ye have us all peiisb ?"
Martin heard this conversation, and, put
ting his hps close to the wall, said, quietly:
"Never mind. Bill. I know you would
all have saved me if you could. I ain't
sorry I brought you the warning. I'm go
ing back to poor old Rosa. If you get out
safely, bid good-bye for rae to father and
mother and little Eddie."
Then, turning away, he went to the sta
ble where his mule was peacefully feeding
at her stall, unconscious of any danger.
Martin's lamp was still burning, and the
smoke had not yet pcuetiated the wooden
barriers between.
At first he Telt in hopr s he would be safe
there. But gradually the noxious vapors
forced their entrance. is he saw that
suffocation must soon come he found a
piece of board, and wrote with cha'k the
names of those that were dear to him.
As he wrote memory brought their pres
ence before him his tender mother, who
had kissed him such a loving good-bye in
the mottling, and had looked so pioudly at
him when he told of his promotion, and
the better wages he would he able to earn
Tl ten little baby Eddie, how he crowed and
shouted whenever Mai tin an) eared!
Would his father ever know that" he had
saciiliced his life to save others? It was
hard to die so young, so full of hope, all
alone iu the dai k.
But creeping back to his dear old Ross
he lay down beside her, as he felt sick and
faint with the stilling air ; and Uod merci
fully looked down on the little hero, and
soon ended his sufferings. The otheis es
caped when the lire was extinguished.
Rut there, close beside the dead animal,
his Ixidy was found, and the memory of his
noble deed is still cherished in those re
gious. Youth Companion.
They Met in Kansas. Som twelve
years ago, in the backwoods of Michigan,
a young man by the name of Donovan
married a young lady, and for a while all
went well ; but soon family cares began to
gall and fiet him aid he struck out for the
west, leaving his wife to care for herself
and one child. For five years he wandered
about, and finally married again and set
tled in the southern part of tin's county.
From this marriage three children were
hoi ti, but last fall the woman sickened and
died, leaving him and the littls children
alone upon his prairie home. In the mean
time his Inst and real wife in Michigan,
after waiting five years for him to return,
concluded him to be dad and also married
again, and last winter started west with
their family of four ch ildien. one being the
child of the first marriage, and by some
unknown fatality came to this County and
settled within one half mile of Donovan,
the woman's real husband. It was not
long before the worn -in and her truant hus
band met, much to the astonishment of
each other, and now the two families are
living in one house, the woman and Iter
last husband keeping house and eat ing for
ber former husband's, children. Jleloit
Kan.) Gazette.
Ay AXCIEXT CRUCIFIX.
Major Dallas, of the U. S. Army, is said
to be the possessor of a remarkable ci ucifix,
which was presented to him by the Rt.
Rev. J. B, SalKinte, D. D., Vicar Apostolic
of Arizona. That prelate received it from
a Mexican woman en his entry into the
countiy, she having discovered it among
the ruins of an old Mission near Tuscon.
No doubt a part or its very venerable ap
pearance may be owing to the exposure it
had undergone before its discoveiy by the
Mexican woman who gave it to Bishop
Salpointe. The Missions of Arizona were
abandoned vet y hastily about the time of
the proclamation of the Mexican Republic,
all the regular Orders having been expelled
the country. The long time intervening
before the re-entry of anv clergy into the
territory was sufficient to iesve many of the
Missions in a deplorable and ruinous con
dition. That of Santa Nina, near Tuscon,
was not exempted from the common fate,
and nothing now remains except a crumb
ling en:nce ot adobe, formerly used as a
residence by the Fathers.
The crucifix is made of wood, and in five
parts: the bead, torso, lower extremities in
one. and the arms. The wood is not an
indigenous wood of Arizona, and its present,
possessor, valuing the relic to hiih'ly, will
not allow it to be cut to ascertain its nuts
nature.
The figure is sixteen inches from the
crown of the head to the extremity of the
feet, and eighteen inches from the hands
where they are attached to the trausveise
portion of the cross to the feet.
It is difficult to enter ujon a description
of this veiy wondetful and soul stirring
work of art. In most crucifixes having
pretentions to more than ordinary value"
the artist has, as in the well known ivoiy
crucifix in the Cathedral of Philadelphia,
left much of the reality of the Crucifixion
to the devotion ot the spectator, relying for
his effect ou the beauty of execution. In
the Dallas cincitix, the artist, while not
neglecting any of these aids to effect, has
portrayed with wondetful and awful foice
the actual Crucifixion of our Divine Lord.
The body is first moulded or chiseled in
exact conformity to the laws of anatomy.
The swelling muscles and the distended
cords are given w itli terrible truth and fi
delity. The body having been, with the
limbs and head, thus carefully made, the
artist has inserted in bone or ivory the an
atomy of the frame. Where the wounded
flesh has been torn, there bones protrude
or are exposed. Over all has beeu smooth-
ed a fine and plastic cement, w hich at the
r-. uj moiiiueu io repro-
sent the torn and mangled flesh, coi ned
w ith a brilliant bl mkI color w hich time has
in vain assailed, the biilliancy remaining
now as vivid and lif-iike as when first put on.
Commencing with the head. There has
been evidently no permanent crown of
thorns. The head is inclined upon the
chest, having fallen precisely at the mo
ment of dissolution; the hair is falling
around and upon the shoulders ; the eye
lids are half-closed, andthe eyes have a
glazed and expiring expiession ; the whole
face, indeed, is that of death. The mouth
is partly open, exposing the teeth and the
tip of the tongue. On the forehead, one
thorn remains imbedded in the flesh, whilst
the hair is torn in other places from the
scalp, exposing the skull. On the left
cheek is the mark of the cruel buffet.
The body is maiked with terrible
wounds; the flagellation has torn the flesh
from the bones, exposing the vertebra and
libs from which hang shreds and particles
of bleeding flesh. The anatomical accura
cy of the position of the bones, shoulder
blades, etc.. can only have jecn secured by
a thorough knowledge of the science.
The cruel scourges have lapped round the
frame, aad left their marks uion the sacred
sides, where they have torn the flesh again, I
whilst the maik of the Roman soldier's
1 .i -i s .. I
i.onc nwa -nun me cieau cut, oi me mur
derous blade. Around the loins can be
seen the places where the cords which
bound Him to the pillar had sunk into the
flesh, and left their ghastly memento.
Around the loins is also gathered the
clout which, tied with rope, depends at the
left hip. This is saturated with blod.
Some portions of it ate cone. The knees
are bare to the bone, and the ankles expose
the angulations of the joints, whilst the
feet are swelled and surchanged w ith bhod.
The arms give teriible evidence of the ag
ony which the weight has brought upon
the muscles; the hands are swollen and
the fingers, though badly broken, aie bent
inward towards the palm with the torluie.
Where the heavy cross bore upon these,
the ai list has not Tailed to show the torn
and wounded llesh.
Such, in brief, is this wonderful crucifix.
The Sacred Figure hangs upon a crirss of
natural wood, ths knots, etc., being left j
covered with cement and blackened. It is j
thirty-eight inches long by nineteen wide, i
the space from the feet to the lower point
being thirteen inches. It is evident ly the
cross of a preaching missionary, and when i
held aloft in the hand of a feivent orator,
must have hail an unsurpassed effect upon
the mind. The Passion is here not w ritten
but really depicted, and the most callous
and lukewarm soul cjnnot gaze upon this
picture of the snffei ingsof our Divime Lord
without being moved to sorrow and repent
ance. The age of this crnc'fix is estimated
at something more than a ceutuiy.
An exclmngp say? : The latest cure for
drunkenness, as prcsciibod hy thescientists,
is to live on beans. That there is more
nutritions substance in a jioek of beans
than a Iftishel of potatoes is a well estab
lished fact in culinary science, but that
the bean possesses the rare medical pro
erty of serving as an antidote for drunk
enness is new. Certainly no cheaj)er anti
dote for that teriible disease eo-tld well le
compounded. And it is so convenient.
Bean soup, baked beans, boiled beans
how easily prepared, and how delicious
Ihe dose. Here's a fine chance for the
Murphy boys. Let them get up bean festi
vals, whereat the unfortunate inebriate 1
can find n cure for his burning appetite
and ne mane a man anain. ii the cure is
. .ii- ...
efficacious the diroveiv may be ranked
. .i r iio.,'.V!..,i..; r . '
blood, for it w ill purify that which liquor
has conupted.
A r.osTUX pnper sas . "A butterfly
was caught at the South End yesterday."
It may be nafe enough to catch a" butterfly
at the south end, but when yon go to grab
a Tvaso, you want lo catch It at. tbe north
easterly end, shifting westerly toward the
head. Hvrriatottn Herald,
Terms, S2 per year, In advance.
NUMBER 14.
Hob Itifersvll on Family Life.
AX INFIDEL WHO TALKS LIKE A CHRISTIAN.
I despise a stingy man. I don't see bow
it is possible, for a man to die wotth fifty
millions of dollars in a city full of wan,
when he meets almost every day the w itu
eted hand of beggaiy and the white lips of
famine. How a mau can withstand all
that and hold in tbe clutch of bis hand
twenty or thirty millions or dollars, is past
my comprehension. I do not see how be
C;in do iu I should not think he could do
it. Do yon know I have known men who
would trust their wives with their heart
and their honor but not with their pocket
book ; not with a dollar 1 When I see a
man of that kind, I always think he knows
which of these ai titles is the most valua
ble. Think of making your w ife a beggar!
Think of her having to ak you every day
Tor a dollar, or. Tor two dollars, or for fifty
cents ! "What did you do with that dollar
I gave you last week ?" Think or having
a wife that is afraid of you 1 What kind
of children do you expect to have with a
beggar and coward for a moher? O, I tell
you, if you have got but a dollar iu the
world, and you have got to spend it, spend
it like a king ; spend it as though it were a
dry h af, and you the owner of unbounded
forests! Thai's the way to spend it. I
had rather be a beggar and spend my last
dollar like a kine, than be a king and
Send my money like a begger. If it's got
to g, let it go ! Get the best you can for
your family -tiy to look as well as you can
yourself. When you used to go couiting
how nice you looked ! Ah, your eye was
bright, your step was light, and you just
inn ou me very uest look you could. Do
you know that it s insufferable egotism ia
' you to suppose t
j love you always h
Think ot it !An
that a woman is going to
o. iking as bad as you can?
I i koi n :.ny women on eaith will be
j true to you forever when you do your level
I best. Some people tell me. "Your doc
trine about loving, and wives and all that
is splendid for the i ich, but it won't do for
the poor." 1 tell you there is, on the aver
age, more love in the houses of the poor
than in the palaces or the rich ; and the
meanest hut with love in it is fit for the
gods, and a palace without love is a den
only fit for w ild beas's. That's my doc
trine 1 You can't be so poor that you can't
help somebody. Good nature is the cheap
est commodity in the world ; aud love is
the only thing that w ill pav ten ner rent. to.
i borrower and lender both. Don't tell mo
I that ton have crot tol. .;.i. 1 v,i... .11
! a false standard of greatness in the United
oiaics. e luinic Here that lor a man to
be great he must be notorious ; he must be
extremely wealthy, or bis name roust be
between the lips of rumor. It is all non
sense ! It is not necessary to be rich to be
great, or to be poweiftil to be happy ; and
the happy man is the successful man.
Happiness is the legal tender of the SouL
Joy is wealth.
Ake Adyektisemests Read? lion.
John Forsyth, the veteran editor of the
Mobile 12egitrr, used to tell a good story
to illustrate the value of newspaper adver
tising, as a means of getting before the
public whenever you wished them to know
of your wants or wares.
Mr Forsyth was accidently drawn Into
a discussion of this subject with a mer
cantile fiiend, who expressed emphatic
doubts that an advertisement benefited a
man's business at all, and closed his side
of the debate with the common remaik ;
It's all money given to tbe aid of the
newspapers. Nobody reads my advertise
ment, or thinks, of it, or looks after it, ex
cept your foreman and collector."
Forsyth replied : "Let us test tbe truth
of your asset lion. Sit down and write out
an advertisement such as I dictate and I
will put it in the smallest type the cj( I
....... -iii, iv iu iiic irmniFFie
ner or the JlgMtr that you can select
The next morning there appeared ag
without a bit of display, aud in the
out-of-the way place in the paper,-.,
following: Lev
Wanted To Ivv n dvg. Arrlj
-Blank ftrect. 3
The contract was that in case the ri
was a "success," the merchant was toD,
Forsyth f j and treat to wtne and oy SS'
If it failed to meet 'he eyes of parties
raarc'iant.abla canines, the editor w''s
pay the merchaut $5 aud set up a '"I
for the two. d lit
During the day of the first appe.,
or his experiment, the m erchant called , .
the n?git r office several times. lie looki
as though lie was in trouble, apjeare
nervous, looked over his shoulder iike or
who is pursued hy a terrible bore or p-'
sistent dun. Finally, late in the eveni
he met his edtm ial friend, and befot .
the latter had time to open his mouth,
the merchant said, hurtiedly and excitedly,
Tor Heaven's sake leave that advertise
ment out of your evening edit ion. There's
5 for it, and $5 mote to pay yon for say
ing N Blank street has got a dog.
Let's go and get the oysters; I'm r.early
wouied to death." rrinter't Circvlar.
Vep.y Like a Donkey." , do yoa
know why you a-e likes donkey ?" 'Like
a donkey !"' echoed vY . opeuing bis
eyes w ide. "No. I don't." "Do you give
it up?" "I do." "Because your better
nan is stulternness herself." "Thats not
bad
Ha ! ha ! 1'il
give that to my wife
when I get home." "Mrs. W " he
asked, as he sat down to supper, "do ynu
know why am I like a donkey?" He
waited a moment expecting his wife to give
it up. But she didn't. She looked m htrn
sotnewnat commisscratingly as she answe-.
en . a suppose uccause you were Dora so.
now women can manage to sit bolt up
right and not change a p.sition, looking
neither to the tight nor left, during a sees
mon in church passes the understaading..
A man will sit ou the picket fenc aJl the
afternoon to see a ball match, but put biro
in a church pew for three-quatra of an
nour a;.a he win wabble all over the seat.
t, . . , r ., '" ; ,
it Can te said for the women that thv d n
I r... ..i.ii tr ,""'",, mejao
not wabble. tlmira Advertirer.
A t.atiy who enco in girlhood sat on Dr.
Johnsou's knee, has died in England, aged
ninety seven years. If the mere fact of
sitting nn a gentleman's knee ia ooDda
cive to female longevity, and our yonrg
giils wish to prolong their lives, we know
lota of ynuntf men who are willing to assist
in tbe hygienic work by devoting their
knees to that purpose two or three xnchts
acb. week,