-A.lvil iititr ItatoN.
The Inrirc and reliable rlrcntuMoti of tpe fun.
bki a Frfkw a n cemmend- It to t h taToranle b.
ile-rlion f.I .lvn t irer. hi tTor will he la
"TtM at the follow ins; ..w rate" :
1 Inch, a tim 1 li '
1 " 3 mor.thit. 2 w
1 " f munthr 3 to
1 1 rear 6 00
2 " month g.i'O
t " 1 ynr . l-.."0
S " 6 months " o.oo
S 1 year "". u no
coI'd 6 month . lo.oo
" 6 month jo.')
) ' 1 year 31, no
1 " e months 4 i no
1 " 1 year TS.no
A-Itn'niVat-'r'p and Executor Not ires ....
Ault-eir' Netifi 2
Stray and fr'iniiv Notice- l.W
lume- 1tom. hr-t in.-ri"n l ie. er line ; r&ch
rubsequ -nt In-i rtioa Sr. per line.
( '' fi.'T. f t oj it of dmtj ftf cf!r(irrfflrfioa
pr so ir a-i f f f.i ?j i( ,7'f onjt f?- :."f!f 1 n t r: ! I attrn
lion to cr.tj mr'trr nt t n'.fj or tndrfic'ia nftrnf,
ri''f jHit'i or cx a if-rlwmt if.
.Ton 1'rintino of all kind r.eatlT kva' eprl tl-o-1t
executed at lowest riif!. l.n'i you I'Tnel
t.
fjir.XSHl'IlG Cambria Co,
UY H. A. Mrl'IKK.
ro .,
(.ynranteed Circulation - J,OCS.
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f ,, a !.ll!lonl per Tear will be cbanred to
py7n novent will the above trrms l.e da
, . if j from, an.l thnie who don't consult their
i ,ater.-t-. bv pay;" If advance must not
' i'tto be placed on tho same f ontinn a those
Jo. l et thti fact be distinctly understood
'--oi tbi time forwar-J. ..
' f -Pav for vnur paper before you stop it. ir
-alt you mii"t. N'one hut sealaasrs do otli
f-ls- Don't be a 9euliWH,?-llle's too short.
H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher.
'HK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.'
SI.50 and postage per year, In advance.
VOLUME XV.
EBENSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, ISS1.
NUMBER 20.
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IF A NEW SUIT TOU NEED,
IT U'HA I'AY "YOU, IMJBUD,
This ANNOUNCEMENT to Read!
J'ltin'f Jn.of returtirtt from Ihr
VAII Tin:
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING,
to ttorJ. our mJ'Jl I.AHUK STOKES, ire are nou- preHired 1o fur
nish every man and boy to uiom this comes greeting irith
EH CIOTHIHG s GtHTS" FURHISHIUG GOODS
at Z,OWi:il VlllCKS than they can be bought at any other house in
Blair or adjoining counties. In proof of which assertion ire submit the
follon-ing facts:
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A M A 41 M IT.
I'a 1 ti.ro'.irh et. Tor j.7.'
1 hi ' 1 1 :r. :t-- and d'l;e
all eo!i: t:ti.)D.
VF. AKE SFI.I.lN'f
A Man's liood Rnine Nnlt
fr4.i'0. The an.e kinil of
a suit w.i Id 1:131 s':t-'.n
for .',.'-).
Alii: SKl.I.INC.
SUITS FOR BOYS
: vfr xrWh Inir pr.!'. for
GOOD
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the kind :
you eve
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MES.iU SOItK-
lined t.Vroii j noi.t, :it. Ir .iu
65 cent; to M.'- -
WE A HE S EI. LINO
len'H 4o1 OvernlM
nt -il ct. niol up. and trood
' a 1 1 o SniKT.- for 4" cents,
s Id evt-rywher tor 7'i ct-r.
All tlio alcove Icorll-Ml ;otl a ml tlmnsinl of iloliars' north of other Sir.
tide eqiinllj cheap are now in Ntock, readj lor inspection nt tlie
YOUNG AMERICA CLOTHING HOUSE
Corner Eleventh Avenue and Eleventh Street,
Opposite OpM-n Ilonso. ALTOONA, XV.
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CLINTON STREET, JOHNSTOWN. I'A.,
ALWAYS II AY F. TIIF.
?-:t. sintl Clu?aif?st Stock of
TJl
NOTIONS, MILLINERY, CARPETS, ETC.,
to b found in Cambrhi or adjoining counties. I"Forcet not the street and numbers
ii'-.d fail not to call, buy and be happy.
GUARAri7EED25CEMT3 EY USI.NG
& f
nrJ. f1P7TAU9'3 HFAD .".HH PILLS enre mr,c ionderf-iP.y in a
:y i u.d-!.iS!CK ftnrt NL.'OUS HEADACHE ; and, while
!:, dii V - ! erv -. n-l-m, r-l;ove DYSPEPSIA in i'.a wortiorm, rler.ns
- tic s-. ;r:.-. f excess ol biie, producing . guar Leiiilhy action o the bowels.
H 1W a o,a ci?a hn nf these
Di5i r r o:. f',t cornplMBCUre, maiiwl w nr.y ail lraa on re:ciptof
nino 3-cont Posiaeo Stamps. For 8ai by hi'. Druggta.
U? SULK ritOI-RIfiTOR9,
cash )i;.i.r.n
CHEATING AND COOKING STOVES,
AND MANl.FAC
TIX AND SHEET-IRON WARE,
I MOti 31?voiilli Ave, Altoonn, JPn.
- Pl.tl'lr I'l.Atl". IX TIIK (ITT. Ronfinr, Snouting; ami ItepnlrlnaT of
.-II tin I promptly anil antiwfaetorlly allemletl to. liMM.'79. tf.
The TrritlT HTr-itelv Told.
muz s'iiav stoju: of
S. rn-lTEEBAUM, CARROLLTOWN,
i IS Tilt. I'l.mt E TO Itl V AT LOW
SUMMER GOODS
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SIDNEY DISEASES,
r-i'.Titli::-'.,BirpH hthii-Mof KITJN'ET-WOHT. 1
tone t, ;ij n-.fiQA orrrai;.-", aud Uironh them c'.eansca rh ny-tc-r. of acrrimalatfxi tra poonoui
.imari. Kiin d!9iijf turty ymrn mtar.iling Ikwc bcn ctirel, a'co i'rs, Conat : iatjon, BJieumtisiu
wtur ha?r r ji-.r--. -i fj.s v --:m3 for year. Vw'3 haves volnires cf ta'.,a;:iy cf t3 vronderfni ctiratiTO
lvwe NMt..-- 1; i-,r.;q Z2i" rs, which do more harm tiian axi, or dro'.c pills, but U5.natupe
-.t-tf-v,OET( aad heal'-h will be quickly
J' I"- 1 i l ) iVFLIA KM I
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01 ui:ike :iynn'iit ti the l a-
having rUn.i r !e:nau.!s w;il
!:imi- without !-l:iy.
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! In the iinfer--:-jrne-i by the
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I'astcrn Citlrs. nlicrc ire hotujht and
CASH for enough
WE ARE SEI.T.1N
A "an's White 1HK KST
tor Ou cents, which sold last
fea-on. nnd wns consMcred
.-lieap. for $l.ir.
AI!F, SELLING
NEAT SUITS FOR DOYS,
trrm 4 to 14 years old . nt T."i fi nt?. wioeli n
oiiih sll who see them: and oud WOOL.
HATS lor men and buvs at 4j nnd 6oeent.
WE AtiE SELI.INif
nins- st its in a mi ls,
tor any nje from 4 to 8 yr?.,
for SJ.'oO: roiiller'd cheap
!n. t eason at .').. "'0.
vatuahlA PILLS, with full di-
ix ai.i. kind or
'l IJK11K Ol'
LST I It I IIS Till". -
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OF ALL KIND!
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If
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1'' ! I v the prpriet'.r to evry re.i l-r r.f the KrrsA!t tn sl! and
i.tp'iiu ioi-i'trn-1 :inl Ii':irii' t h Hiinritav.ib!e lriff- whl''h are
the wl.o i:iy th' ir itexils from n:e. The reason I
in 1 1 ; .t r.n.tit th.i n anv her merchant In 'ambria
o.m- a ml pee tor Vi.'ir.-olvi".
' s. TIITM.BAI.-M.
CONSTIPATION
A!iD PILES.
Sin r? Rr.r! 'irfVil TVmrJ. WhiC?l if)
wcriacn nr.ttxral pric:p!f3- It rtoro3 RtrecrJi
repalrfxl.
d. Cet it of your Drupgist, Price. $ I.
nVHr A O . !.(.'., ltarliocon, VU
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I
TAKKANVS SEI.1ZIK APFRIKNT
May properly herille.l the "Hereiile"of medicine,
for It clean)-'! N.ifire? nu'viin !"tnl.l-. and allow.
the recuperative power.- .,i the m-icui to i the i
ir..i L- ..f re.r..r-it ..... I.. I... .1. i. s ... '
- - .1 11 nieii in ne t- in r;
N.ilnro alime "lire-.. I'hif Apcn. nt c.pen the pro
pern venues, the functions are permOteil to resume
tiu tr work, ami the patient tret.-" well.
S li, 1 HY ALI. lUM i JiMSTS.
AXIS CREASE
Bi"t in theworH. Lefts lor.trfr than any other.
A Ways In koo.I r-,n.iti in. t 'ure.' c.n-, cut?, brnl?
c nni cor"-. v,-t. i,,:t i;'tl to,,r,, ,,., ,l8 jmj.
t.i'iour. I very pa. ka.e I, .-.. the tr.i ie jiurk. Call
tor nte jf.-.i ii.i -.. .i.j.i .net- id oi... r.
rr.;ix awat.
; There was an old shoemaker, sturdy a? .eteel,
i Of jtrcat wealth and repute in his day,
; Who, if questioned his secret of lack to rereal,
Would chirp like a bird on a sp.-ay ;
j "It Isn't so much the vocation you're In,
i Or liklnsr for it." he would say,
j "A? !t is that forever, through thick and throui;h
I thin.
You should keep a-pejri-inif away."
3
e fonr.1 a maxim of value whoe truth
servation hns proved in the main.
which might well be vmir.ted a watchword for
youth
In the labor of hand and of brain.
For if genius an, talent are cast
Into work ol strone.t display.
You can never be sure of achievement at last
T'nlcss you keep pejrinir awny.
There are shopmen who might into stntemen have
crown,
Politicians for hand work made ;
Some poets who better in shop had shon,
And mechanics best suited lor trade:
But when once in the harness, however its fit,
Ruckle down to your work nit;ht and day.
Secure the triumph of hand and ot wit
If yon only keep pegging away.
There are times in all ta.ks when the, flood dis
content. Advises a pause or a change..
And, on lield far away nnd lrrevclont bent,
The purpose Is tempted to ranee ;
Nevet heed, but in sound recreation restore
.Such traits as arc slow to obey ;
And then, more persistent and stanch than beforo,
Keep pegging anil pegging away.
Ieave fitful endcavor3 lor such as would cast
Their spendthrift existence In vain.
For the secret of wealth. In the present and past.
And of lame, and o( honor, is plain.
It lies not In change, nor in sentiment nice.
Nor in wayward exploit and display,
But just in tho shoemaker's honest advice,
To keep pegging and pegging away.
A LAWYER'S STORY.
W J1HH, BEIXi AI.TOM'THCK TRIE, IS HICH
MKiMd.lt H!A. HCTIO.
SHOWING THAT PIP.ECT EVIDENCE MAY
AS EN TRI ST WORTHY AS CIRCtNf
STANTIAI. EVIDENCE.
BE
"I never would convict a man on circum
stantial evidence if I were a juror never !
NF.VF.lt !"
The speaker was a distinguished criminal
lawyer of nearly forty years' active practice
and whose fame extended far beyond the
limits of his own State.
We had been diseasing a recent eouse
cchhre in which, upon purely circumstantial
evidence, a man had been convicted of an
atrocious murder, although many of those
most familiar with the circumstances of the
case entertained the gravest doubts about
the justice of his conviction, and had been
swung off into eternity, protesting his abso
lute innocence with his latest breath and
calling upon God to send his soul straightway
to hell if he was not telling the truth.
As most of our party were lawyers the
conversation naturally enough drifted into a
discussion of the dangers arising from con
victing accused persons, whose own months
were closed, upon purely circumstantial evi
dence, in the absence of any direct and pos
itive proof of guilt, and cace after case was
cited in which, after conviction and execu
tion, the entire innocence of the supposed
culprit hail beer, clearly demonstrated.
yiost of the laymen present agreed with the
distinguished lawyer whose very positive ex
pression of opinion has been quoted, while
the majority of the lawyers contended, with
that earnestness for which lawyers are noted
when advocating their own side of any ques
tion, that justice could never miscarry when
careful judges guard ngaint the possibility of
unsafe verdicts by refusing to permit a con
viction except when every link in the chain
of circumstantial evidence has been estab
lished bevond doubt and the whole chain
been made so perfect and complete as to !
leave no room for Any consistent hypothesis '
of innocence. j
"The first niunler cae I ever tried," said i
one of them, "was stranger than fiction, as ;
i you will admit, and is quite as remarkable 1
! as any of the cases you have referred to .
j where. lDnocent men have been wrongfully 1
I convicted upon circumstantial evidence. It '
; ought to have been reported as an example j
j of the unrealiability of the direct and posi-
five testimony of eye-witnesses who tell
what they believe to be the truth."
i lie then related the main points of what
: was certainly a most remarkable, and drani
I atic trial, and which constitutes a fair off
set to some ot the honorable cases to be
found in every work on circumstantial evi
dence. Tiie narrative produced so strong an
impression upon my own mind that subse-
j quently with his consent, I put it into the
, following shape, having carefully compared
I it with his note of testimony taken upon the
! trial of the case. It can be relied on as ab
I solutely correct, with the exception that I
have used fictitious names, for reasons which
' will readily be nppeciatcd when it is known
j that most of the actors in the drama are still
living.
! One winter evening about 8 o'clock in the
i early days of the war, in the quiet little town
of , while patro'.ingthe streets to pick up
, stragglers from the camp on the outskirts of
tt.e town, Corpora
Juiius Frye was shot and
killed by one of three men of bad character,
who were in company and ir. open enmity
with the soldiers. The men were arrested,
committed to prison ami brought to trial at
the next term of court. Two of them were
gamblers and desperadoes and supposed to
have more than once had their hands stained
in human blood, The, third, whom I shall
call hort, though bearing an uneviable re
putation, was regarded as one uulikely to
slay a fellotv-man except under compulsion
of circumstances. On account of the char
acter of the men and the trouble they had al
ready brought upon quiet, law-abiding citi
zens the sentiment of the whole community
was strongly against them.
In order to clearly understand the force of
the testimony given upon tho trial and the
subsequent result it is important to bear in
mind the physical peculiarities, dress and
j general appearance of each of the three
prisoners.
I Short was a small man, not more than five
feet six inches in height, slender, weighing
scarcely 130 pounds, with bright, fiery-red
I hair and side-wniskers, and at the time of
the murder wore a white felt hat and an old
light-blue army overcoat.
J
Ryan was fully six feet in height, of ro
bust frame, dressed in dark clothes and wore
a Derby hat
Grey was a heavy, broad shouldeied man
of medium height, weighing f ully 200 pounds,
with a full black beard reaching nearly to
his waist. But as the evidence subsequent
ly showed that he had not fired the shot it is
unnecessary to describe his appearance more
minutely.
Certainly it is difficult to imagine two men
more unlike than Short and J?yau or less
liable to be mistaken for each other even by
strangers, much less by their acquaintances.
There was no possibility here for a ease of
mistaken identity.
Short and Ryan were tried together, with
their consent Grey having asked for and
obtained a separate trial and each was de
fended by a separate counsel.
After the preliminary proof relating to the
post-mortem examination, the cause of death
and the identification of the body of the de
ceased as the person named in the indictment
the Common wealth called as its first witness
a woman, Mary Rowen. She bore a bad
name for chastity, but nobody questioned
her integrity or'purpose to tell, reluctantly,
it is true, the whole truth. The prisoners
were all her friends and constant visitors to
her drinking saloon, of which she was pro
prietress. She was a woman of powerful
physique, almost masculine frame, great
force of character and more than ordinary
intelligence.
Fiom her testimony it appeared that a col- ,
ored woman with whom she had some diffi
culty had hit her on thfi head with a stone
and ran, and the three prisoners coming np
at that moment, started with her up the
street in pursuit of the fugitive. Although
tlits night was dark there was snow on the
ground, and a gas lamp near by gave suffi
ficient light to enable one to recognize n per
son with ease some feet away. After run
ning about one hundred yards the pursuers
came to Mie corner of an alley and stopped
under the gas lamp, being challenged by the
deceased, who was in uniform, in company
with one of his squad. Mie swore that
when the corporal cal'.ed "liaIt"f?hort, whom
she had known intimately for years replied,
"Go to h 1," and, while standing at her
side, so that their elbows were touching, both
being immediately under the gaslight, he
pv.llr-d out a pistol, pointed it at the deceas
ed, who was four or five feet from him, and
fired and then ran down the alley, the de
ceased pursuing him, she heard four or five
more shots fired and. immediately the deceas
ed returned, wounded, and Short disappear
ed. While the shots were being fired she
saw both Ryan an.l Grey standing at the
corner some feet away from her and after
that they separated and she went home. It
was also proved that the alley was bounded,
on either 'side, by high fences, difficult to
climb, and led down to a sticam of water
about fifty feet wide and throe or four feet
deep. Xo traces of footsteps were found in
the snow except those of one man leading
down into this stream, and it was evident
that the person who had fired had not climb
ed either fence, but had waded through the
stream and disappeared on the other side.
The next witness was the soldier who
stood close by the deceased when the first
shot, was fired, and who, not knowing the
j prisoners, described the person who fired and , an opportunity to be heard on the witness
j ran down the alley as the man with red-hair 1 stand, the denial of which by the law is one
. and side-whiskers, dressed in a light-blue
army overcoat and white soft hat, and upon
i being directed to look at the three pi i.n rs
immediately identified Short as th- .n
whom he had seen do the shooting.
! The testimony of these witnesses was in
j no wise shaken upon crcss-cxamitiation.
j Then trie sworn anti-movtcm statement of
! the deceased, taken by a magistrate, was
j read to the jury. He said that he had known
j Short personally for some time, but he nev
! cr had any difficulty with him. He fully
I identified him as the man who had fired the
I first shot and then ran down the alley, firing
I one shot after another until he fired the last
and fatal shot almost in the face of the de
ceased. He also fully described the cloth
ing worn by Short as it had been described
by the other witnesses.
These were all the wilnessess to the occur
rence, except the prisoner's themselves, and,
of couse, they could not be heard. The case
against Shoit seemed to be as conclusively
made out as though a score of witnesses had
sworn that they had seen him do the shoot
ing. Xeitiier the Judge, jury, nor the spec
tators entertained the slightest doubt of his
guilt, and when the Commonwealth, at this
point, closed its case, it seemed as though
the fatal rope was already around his neck
and his escape impossible.
Ryan heaved a sigh of relief which was
audible throughout the whole court room, for
he was safe : there was not one word of tes
timonj against him or any circumstances
tending to show any previous arrangement
or concert of action between him and Short.
After a whispered consultation between
the counsel for the defense one of them rose
and moved the Court to direct the jury to
forthwith return a verdict of "not guilty"
as to Ryan, in order that he might be called
as a witness for the other prisoner. This
was resisted by the District Attorney, and,
after lengthy and elaborate arguments, the
Court decided that it wns bound togrant the
motion, and accordingly Ryan was declared
"not guilty" and the verdict recorded.
Then came a scene as dramatic to those
present as anything ever witnessed on the
stage. Without any opening speech by
i Short's counsel, Ryan, in obedience to a noil
; from his attorney, stepped out of the prison
j ers' dock and into the witness-box, looked
! around the court room, took up the Bible
j and was sworn to tell "the truth, the whole i
! truth." Every head was bent forward, every
; ear was on the alert, every eye fixed on the
I witness something startling was expected.
! Would be attempt to show that Short had
done the shooting in self-defense? That
I seemed the only thing possible. But how
I could he lx? believed in the face of the posi
j ti ve testimony of three witnesses. two of them
j living and in the court room, and one of
them dead murdtrcd.
Ryan stood for a moment looking down
j and then slowly lifting his eyes to the bench,
! in a silence, in which the falling of a feather
I might have been heard, he said :
! "May I ask the Court a question ?".
The venerable Judge, evidently surprised
at being interrocated, looked at him and
said : "Certainly, sir."
"I understand that I am acquitted," said
Ryan, pausing for a moment, and then con
tinuing ; "I want to know from the Court
whether anything I mny say now car. ever
be used against me in any way ?"
"What did lie mean ? What need for that
question ? Everyone looked at his neighbor
inqu'u ingly.
The flush of the Judge showed that lie, at
least, understood what it meant an attempt
to swear his guilty companion out of the
hangman's grasp. Then, in a tone of un
mistakable indignation, came the answer:
"I am sorry to say, sir, that nothing you
may say now can be used against you ; that
is, on a trial of murder. You have been ac
quitted." Ryan's face grew pale, anff then red, and
he said, slowly and distinctly :
' 'I t was I who fi red a'! the shot not Short. ' '
Most of the faces in the court room wore
looks of incredulity; some of indignation at
the hardened wickedness of the man who
had just been declared innocent and who, by
his own statement was guilty of murder, it
he was not guilty of perjury.
But, quietly and calmly, without a tremor,
sis coolly as though he was describing some tri
vial occurence which he had causually wit
nessed, Ryan went on step by step, detail
ing all that had occurred, and when be had
finished lm story thore was probably not a
person present who was only fully convinc
ed not only that Ryan had told the simple
truth, bnt also that he himself fired tho fatal
shot in self-defence, or at least under such
circumstances of danger as would have led
the jury to acquit him.
lie detailed how he had fired the first shot i
from a small, singlcd-barielcd pistol in the j
air without any purpose except to give his :
challenger a scare, and then ran down the I
alley and upon being closely pursued by tho j
deceased with sabre drawn and ready to
strike, he was compelled to pull out a rcvol
! ver and fire several shots towards his pursu
er, who was rapidly gaining on him, so as to
keep him back ; and tiiat when ne had but
one shot left he stumbled over a large stone
and fell on his knees, and at this moment the
deceased struck at him with the sabro, cut
ting him slighty in the cheeks, and, being
: thus pressed, he aimed and fired the last
shot, which subsequently proved fatal. He
. further told how, upon recovering his feet,
I he ran, waded through the stream and find
! ing that he had lost his hat when he fell, re
; traced bis steps, recrossed the stream, found
! the hat and then went to a hotel, wiiere he
! was seen by several witnesses to dry bis wet
j clothing. His manner, his bearing and his
story itself convinced his hearers that he was
! telling the truth.
But, so that nothing might be wanting if
any . doubt remained in the minds of the
i Judge or the jury, witnesses of undoubted
i veracity w ho. were called corroborated him !
! as to the condition of his clothing and the j
j cut on his cheeks within fifteen minutes af- J
' ter the occurence. Besides it was shown ;
that although the man who had fired had
! waded through the streams, Short's clothing ,
; wns perfectly dry.
! It is unnecessary to say that Short was ,
promptly acquitted and warmly congratula-
; ted on one of the narrowest escapes ever
made by any man in a court room. Xothing
' could have saved him bad the court refused
j to direct the acquittal of Ryan and allow him
! to testify. i
The deceased corporal, the soldier and
; Mary Rowen were mistaken. That was all
i there was about it.
j So much for the ocrasionol unreliability of
- the direct testimony of honest eye witnesses.
J And so much, also, for giving the accused
of the relics of barbarism which still disgrace
its administration in some States at this late
day. Lawyer XXX.
PltilatWjthia Times.
The Rani at C'heiu h. Mollie had a little
ram, fleece black as rubber shoe, and every
where that Mollie went he em-i-grated to.
He went with her to church one dav the
folks bi-la-rious grew to see him walk dc
! innre-ly into Uea con Al-len's pew !
j The wor-thy deacon quickly let his angry
' passions rise, and gave it an unchristian kick
' between the sad, brown eves.
i
This landed rani my in the aisle ; the dea
con followed fast, and raised his foot again :
but ah ! that first kick was his last.
For Mr. Sheep walked slowly back about
i a rod, 'tis said, and ere the daacon could re-
treat, it stood him on his head !
The congregation then arose and went for
that 'ere sheep, but several well directed
butts just piled them in a heap.
I Then rushed they straightway for the door
; with cm sos long and loud, while rammy
struck the hindmost man and shot him thro'
the crowd.
; The minister had often heard that kind-
: ness would subdue the fiercest beast, so
t
. "Ah !'" he says, "I'll try that game on you."
And so he kindly, gently called : "Come,
' rammy, rammy, rani ; to see the folks abuse
yon so, I grieve and sorry am !"
With kind and gentle words he came from
: that tall pulpit down, saying, Rammy, ram
j my, ram ; rannny, rammy, rammy, rammy,
I ram best sl.ecpy in the town."
I The rani looked meek, and on be came,
j with "rammy, rammy, ram : rammy, ram,
I ram, rammy, rammy, rani ; theniccy, pretty
: ram."
The ram quick dropped its humble air
and rose from off hs feet: and when the
parson lit he lay beneath the hindmost scat.
And as he shot out the open door, and
j closed it with a slam, he named a California
I town I think 'twas "Yuba Dam !" (Juincy
Modern Arno.
Dipn't Want to Destroy Harmont.
The other night a policeman observed a man
hanging around the entrance of a Michigan j
avenue hall in a queer sort of a way, and he j
asked him if ho belonged to the order in j
session up stairs. The man replied that he j
did, and the officer inquired, "Then why
don't you go up?" "Well, I was thinking
of it." "Haven't been expelled, have you?" I
"Oh, no." "Aren't afraid of anybody ?"'
"No, sir.
"And you haven't lost your in-
teresf?" "I might as well tell you," said
the man, after beating around a while long-
er. "I went down to Toledo a few days
ago, and somehow the story came back here
that I was drowned. My lodge thereupon
passed resolutions to the effect that I was
honest, upright and liberal, and a shining
ornament, and what was its loss was my
gain. I wasn't drowned, as you see, but I
kind o' hate to walk in on 'em and bust those
resolution. I've tried it three times, and I
can't get higher up than the fifth stair before
I weaken." Detroit Free Press.
One of our free-for-all-poets sends in an
able effort commencing ;
In all the lan.l the wheat field: Ftan.I,
Ooblen ripe nml tair to fee.
And ben.linic low the reapers iro,
Sttinirina; their cradle. merrily
All but Uupert why not he?'"'
Trobably Rupert is in the next field mak
ing love to the fanner's daughter. In any
event, his absence from the place where work
is being done shows that this young man's
head is not hilly.
Emerson savs : "A beautiful woman is
a picture which drives all beholders nobly
mad." Emerson errs. Thousands have
gazed upon Forepaugh's "most beautiful
woman in the land," and'yet not a single be
holder has been driven nobly mad. Xor a
married beholder, either, for that matter.
If any one tells you that Aleck Stephens
and Sara Bernhardt have been hired to Bar
nnm, who Intends to exhibit them as Cleo
patra's knitting peed.es, don't believe the
yarn. There's no truth in knit.
THE OLD S ITCH.TEM)ER'S STORY".
HOW HIS DEVOTION TO DUTY SAVED MAST
LIVES. HIT KILLED HIS BOY.
"It's nigh eleven years now since I first
come onto this road. For the first three
years I was a brakeman, and if I'd stuck to it,
I might have leen conductor by this time
who knows? My character was good ami I've
always been a steady man. Rut you see, sir,
it wasn't to be. My wife always objected to
my runnin' on the train, it kept me so much
away from home, not to speak of the danger ;
and so at the end of the third year, when our
little boy was born, she begged me so hard to
give it up, that I consented, and the company
put me in this place, where I've been ever ':
since. It's not hard ! I've only got to tend
one switch and do odd jobs about the depot.
The pay is Just as good as what I got before,
only there's no chance for promotion : but
then I'm at home all the time, which makes
it up. I live only a little way across the
bridge, in the outskirts of the town which
you see the other side of the river small
white bouse with an elm tree in the yard;
you can see it from the other end of the
switch.
"So you think the river very beautiful at
this season of the year ? Well, sir, I dare say
it is. I thought so once myself, but I don't
take any pleasure in looking at it now, and
I haven't for many a day. Its green banks i
and its clear water, with the sunlight a ;
sparklin' on it only makes it seem the cruder, j
as if it laughed over the misery it caused hu
man bein's. But my opinions haven't any- j
thing to do with what -oii came to ask me '
about, and so I'll come to the point at once, j
"It will be four years on Monday, the !
thirteenth of next month which is May i
that after eatin' my breakfast and smokin' ;
my pipe, which latter operation I generally .
gets through with about eleven o'clock, 1
started across the bridge, takin' with me my '
little boy Willie, who, at the time was just
risin' four years. He was awful tickled at
bein' allowed to come out with me, as his
mother kept him mostly around the house,
bavin', like most women, a great fear of the
trains. I don't think I ever see a finer morn
in the sun well up, but not too warm, a
white cloud here and there in the blue sky,
the trees and grass green and fresh and
glistenin' in the dew, and beneath us the
river flowin' bright and clear, just as you see
it now, sir.
"My heart beat light, and bavin' nothin'
on my mind 1 had just finished payin" for
my house the week before I began to think
on coinparin' my troubles with my blessin's,
that after ali it would be hard to find a bet
ter place than this same world we live in.
"The time table was a little different then
from what it is now. Tiie freight train came
down at 7:0 a. m., switched off, and waited
for the express to go by, which followed it
some fifteen minutes later.
"I reached the switch about fifteen min
utes ahead of time I always do anil settin"
down on a tie, I filled a fresh pipe and smnk"
ed away, while little Willie gathered peb
bles, and. throwin' 'cm in the water, lauyhcd
and shouted at the sparkles they made. Fin
ally he ventured down to the edge of the wa
ter, and picked one of the lillies that grew
! t,lt're m abundance, be came in great glee
and held it down at mv feet. I put the flow
er in my jacket pocket carefully, so as not to
bruise it, intendin' to show it to his mother.
He lisped out that some pretty blue ones
grew farther down, and begged me to lot him
go and get one of them ; but as it was almost
train time I wouldn't let him; and takin"
him some ten or fifteen yards from the track,
set him down by the side of a tree that ma
ple yonder and told him to stop there till I
called him. The time for the train came and
went, and still no sign of it. I grew nervous
and didn't notice my boy.
"Minute after minute passed away, and at
last, when I began to be certain that some
accident had happened, it came in sight just
five minutes before the express was due.
which I knew could not be more than three
miles behind. I saw at once the cause of the
delay. The tiain was long and heavy, nnd
the engine number forty-two, which the
fireman had christened Old Ricketj was the
worst on the road. The switch was all
ready, but the train moved so slowly that the
hist car had hardly left the main track when
I heard the whistle of the express, and the
next minute she rounded the bend Ht full
speed. I knew that I didn't have any too
much time to get the switch in position, and
I I went at my work with a will, when sudden
ly I heard a scream, and turning around I
?aw Willie strugglin' in the water.
"For a moment the sicht of my child's dan
ger overpowered everything else, and quick
as thought I sprang for the river : but before
1 got half the distance, the whistle of the ap
proachin' train rang in my ears like a trum
pet, and the thought of my duty and the
hundreds of lives that might be sacrificed if I
deserted my post, flashed through my brain
as quick as lightnin', while all the time there
was a feelin' about my heart 1 can't tell in
words I only know it was worse than death
beseechin' me to save my boy.
"The conflict couldn't have lasted more
than two seconds, and how the one feelin'
got the best of the other I never knew. I
i haven't cot any recollection of turnin' back.
but the next thing I do remember, I was at
the switch workin' r.way like mad. I never
; had such strength
I felt that I could have
I wrenched up the solid
i them like straw, yet I
iron rails and bent
didn't seem to see
anything about me distinctly, neither rails
nor ties, but dimly and mistily as in a
dream.
"What I did see as plainly as I do now
although it was behind me was the clear
and beauriful river flowin' on in the mornin'
sun, and in the midst of it my little Willie
weakly stiugglin', while the bright, cruel
waves dashed in his face and seemed to
laugh. I had no ear for the toar of the near
in' train, but all I heard or seemed to hear
were the cries to his father for help grow-
iu
fainter and fainter, and then the horrible
gurglin" sound as he sunk finally and his last j trated by water, which, as we have just oi
breath rose to the surface. I served, "is an exception to this rule of con-
,,,. 0 -,,, ,;,,, f - i ol traction and expansion. From a certain
At last the switch was all right, and al- , fixH, toulrrriltllri! (,01-ty degrees Fahrenheit)
though it is a short job at best, and I must ! jt expands cither by cooling or heating. The
have done it that time quicker than I ever ! force with which it expands is enormous.
can again, yet it seemed longer than
longest summer day ; but it was done, and I
rushed to the river and gazed eagerly around
for some sign that might tell me where to
plunge in to the rescue of my child. But
there was nothin' but the sunlight that
glinted brightly on the little wavelets that
shone mockingly in my face as they hurried
onward. I don't remember anything further
there was a great chokin' in my throat, a
huge weight of lead seemed to fall on my
brain, and all was black.
"When I came to my senses it was three
weeks afterwards, with my old woman, God
bb'ss her ! sittin alongside of my bed, hold
in' my Lands in hers. Tiie divtor said 1 h.id
made a close shave of it, and at fir.-t 1 ft It
sorry I had lived at a'J : but th.it didn't l;it
loni;, for I knew there was nnoih'T one her
that sat by me that had suffered more than
me, and so I tried to get better in order to
console l.cr. It was two weeks before I was
out of bed, and quite two mouths before I
wa.s able to go around. I sliail never be ti e
same man again. The eonipany pfiisiom-d
me and didn't wa;;t me to do any more work
! at all, but I couldr.t bear to be idle. You
see, sir, 1 wasn't brought up to it ; and,
strange as it may appear, I didn't feel like
! workin' anywhere except in the old place.
I seem to be closer to my boy there.
"I found the lily he ha,l gathered, just as I !
I had placed it, in my jacket pocket, and gave
1 it to his mother. She lias it yet in a little
. glass case on the mantle-piece, all withered
and faded, and there sir, it will always be,
' in sight of us both, till our time comes to join
; him."
i
j A Bot'.s Pocket asp a Giiu.'s Pocket.
: Tommy is twelve years old. His sister is
' sweet sixteen and a half. The other moi n-
ing Mary accosted her mother with "Ma, see
j what a lot of stuff I found in Tommy's pock-
ets," and she deposited on the table the fol-
i lowing articles, to-wit : Fight marbles, fine
top, a broken-b'aded knife, a leather strap,
a buckle, a bunch of old keys, a fishing line,
j a piece of lead, a smooth tonic, four pieces
i of slate pencil, a worn out pocket-book, an
j oyster shell, a wounded jewsharp, a piece of
blue glass, a rubber ball, lump of ch:ik. two
dried fish-worms, a sling-shot, piece of In
j dian rubber, two corks, a fractured comb,
! piece of licorice root, a song book, two me
! dais and a juvenile land tortoise. Tommy
' looked though! fully, as the contents of his
pockets were deposited before the eyes of
, his mother, and sullenly remarked that it
"was none of Sis' business, and wanted her
' to let his trousers alone."
Xcxt day Tommy captured the outside
! pocket of his sister's dress, and carrying the
contents to his mother, sarcastically observ
ed, in the presence of Mary : "M.i, just see
what a lot of tiash I found in Sis' pocket:"
. and lie produced from his hat ti:c following
knick knacks, iz: Three hair-pins, a soil
ed glove, a piece of chewing-gum, three
cards, a broken locket, elastic gnib-r, piece
of riobon, two s'ate pencils, another piece of
chewing gum, photograph, piece of osange.
'broken toothbrush, more chewing gum,
spool of silk, a thimble, a 'piece of cotton sat
: united with white powder, one ni.-klc, two
sour balls, gai'cr heel, ivoiy rpament be
: longing to a parasol handle, handkerchief
perfumed with jockey-club, gaitci-buttoi.er.
witheied geranium leaves, ivory-handled
pen-knife with broken blade, a fan, five vis
iting cards, be'.t-buckle, box of inline, aiioth
' cr piece of cliCi.isg-giiin. fragment of iook-
ing-g'ass, a pench-stone, a piece of damasse
; silk of the pattern of her friend Lucy's t:cw
dress' an artificial flower, a l.orse-iiair ring,
and a long brown hair entangled i:i a hunk
of taffy.
Tommy placed the last aiticlcon the table
and siid from the loom with a gi in of tii-
: uinph on his roguish face. His sister made
an ineffectual grab for him, and as lie passed
into the street be hcaid her voice callinc,
"You nasty little brat, if you get at my
' pocket again I'll slap your face-." Tommy
I thinks honors are casv.
A Sap Scene. A Gal way correspondent
of the Dublin Frcrtnan draws this pathetic
picture of Irish distress :
Another sad sight of Irish misery was seen '
j here a few days ago another caig.i ot our :
: poor and down-trodden people wafted away
into exile, away over the Atlantic to far
; distant America. It was with sadness 1
j watched the group of emigrants wending
i their sorrowlul way to the docks the poor;
; gills leaning on the arms of their sonowfui
: and heart-broken parents, the fine, manly
' young men in the first bloom of life. Their
; heads bowed down ju silent agony. h, it j
i was a sight to move the hardest heart. At :
length the group got on board the tug which
' was to convey them to tiie vessel. It was
; here that the pent up grief burst out... Here
I a young man flung his arms around his old
father's neck, sobbing like a child, perhaps
bidding him the last farewell. One young i
1 man particularly attracted my attention.
, He was n fine young able bodied man. a na
t've of (Jonnomar.i. He was standing on
' the wharf a few moments before the tug
came alongside : be was ciio.igcd in car
i nest conversation with an old grey headed
; man, whom be styled father. The signal
: was given for ail passengers t g' t on board.
This, it seems, roused him, for immediately
hc caught the old man in his arm and kiss- ;
ed him repeatedly, saying, "Father a-thore,
do not grieve so : 1 will work, and soon earn '
enough to see you soon in America, where
! you will not fear eviction any longer. Give
1 your blessing, father, and' I will n.t for
get you when 1 go abroad." The tug was
ready now ; the whistle was given : then
j there was a piercing wail from many a heart- ,
I broken parent and child, which must have
w inged its way to the throne of the God of
justice I watched the tuff glide along in
the still morning air, and thought, peihaps,
all those poor emigrants might never reach
their destination. How many ships that I
have left our ports bearing our poor famish- '
ed people have gone down beneath the At
; lantic, leaving tb bones of our kindred to
; whiten on the bottom of the dreary waste of
: waters! Oh, Heaven, there any remedy
to stop this heai t-renriir.c scene? What;
could not the Land bill do it it were to meet
the expectations of our people? But no.
' To quote the words of a modern orator,
; "Ireland asks England for bread, and gets
! nothing but a stone."
! The Power oe Heat and Colo. With
the single f-xception of water, all substances
in r.ature expand or become larger when
1 heated, nnd contract nnd become smaller
! when cooled. A church steeple is higher in
j summer than i:i w inter. Metals show til is
j action plainer than other bodies : and, as a
j consequence. Southwark Bridge, being con
: structed entirely of iron, is shorter in cold
I weather than in warm. If the sun shines
but a few minutes on the great iron tubular
' bridge near Bangor, its length has increased
! visibly. A cannon-ball which would pass
! through a curtain-ring while cold would not
! do so after being placed in boiling water,
j The tire wheels previous t their being fixed
j are made hot, in order that by their eontrac
! tion thev may bind the work the firmer.
f 1 n A nf trwtcn aa,-wn n riii. Wilio ttf Ti'iftl r T i f li
! r- uinh the universe , .rovemed nm- be iiins-
! It lias necn caicuiaieu mm h i;ione ei aiei
an men in uiameiei epaiiu-. in iic-.oiz,
with a force superior to the resistance of thir
teen and a half tons' weight. This peculiar
property of water is taking advantage cf in
splitting slate. At Colley Western, the slate
is rinT im from ouarries in large blocks.
which are placed in an opposite direction to
that which thev had in the quarries, mid the
rain is allowed to fall on Them, which soon
penetrates tlieir fissures, when the sbaip
frii fii the water, which, expanding
with its usual force, splits the slate into thin
layers.
Pekvna had
a remarkably good pffect on
my daughter's Paralysis
Sc'wickly, P..
V. K. DlNCAN,
I OR LIKE.
I'nder tbi
Year Ago,'
of a goodly
contributed
head of "K-i-ol!t'ctioiis of
Fifty
' wLifh l.a foinied the caption
number of iiit-'r sting fkctidies
to it local columns, wc f ml the
following iu the last issue of the I'rnonjo
syi. .'o'"r, published at Fi.mklin. Pa. :
As early as isu t,, hunters were encamp
od on Tioncsta, near the spot now occupied
by Newtown Mil's. The men bad conic les
fm the purpose of hunting than to sis" the
country, to examine the streams, to search
for pine timber ai.d as -eit.iin w'.at facilities
there were for getting it to maiket. The
only settlor in that region then, aW.ve old
town, was King-ley. Herel.iah May lived
I at Oldtown. three i.iiU'S above the mouth of
Tioncsta. It wns ut or near Kim. ley's
, shanty whoie these men !:' their camp.
I One bright moo:.!igt.t night, cue of tha
hunters, a vou'ig ninn of twenty-three years,
concluded to have a little pa-tiine on skates,
i of which exercise he w as very lomL A se
veie cold snap had n;a'et!iree"or four inches
ot smooth, solid ice, and Smith, the young
. cxplorci in question, had not forgotten his
' skates among hi- other traps. this bi igbt
j December night he calculated to have a bttie
i sport all by lnmseif. Af ter a few preiimina
, ry nourishes iu front of hi- camp to see that
hisskatcs were securely fa-tened he started
! for a run ol a few mil'.-s up the creek. In
telling his own stoty. as I heard it f-hortly af
i ter the occurrence, fie said : "Iliad gum per
haps two miles t;p the large stream. Tim
' night was ainio-t as light as day and very
ca;m. 1 could hear the echo of the ring of
my steel kates on the shore as I passed
sw iftly a'ong. Coining to the mouth of a
smaller stream on my right I concluded to
explore it a short dl-'anee. It was ery
crooked. In going up it some three-quarters
of a ui'le I think I must have travelled
fuliy two miles. Its average width was
iibrtiit sixty feet. Both banks of The stream
were hcavi y timN ied, principally with hem
lock, and the branches interlocked, forming
a complete canopy over niv bead, making it
quite dark in comparison with the broad
creek 1 had just left. How long I might
have enjoyed the delight cf the cxen :c and
tiie beautiful scenery of this litt le stream I
cannot tell. I was unpleasant! v interrupted
by a strange sound w hich 1 supposed at brst
w'as the hooting of an ow l. As 1 listened the
conclusion cam" to me that the noisis came
from wnhes and boded me no good. Keep
ing my presence of mind, I started on tiiei
backtrack lor the month of the creek. 1
had not gone fur before 1 heard the how ls
unpleasantly near. In my race lor'safetv 1
had to follow the course of the windings of
the stream, while lnv pursuers traveled not
more tha n hail the di-tancc that 1 was forced
to get over. It was a race on my part for
lite an.l for sii per on parte! t he "w ol cs.
To make a meal for a gang of those savagn
animal is not a plea-ant pi os pert. At about
forty yaids from the nouithoi t he litt le creek,
they tried tohead me (iff 1 roui t he big -t ream.
The bauk was quite a bluff and I cou'd see
them on shore leady to spiing upon me as 1
passed. 1 bent my head and brought every
nerve in play in the effort to pas this point
of danger. As I passed under full hcadwav
thcy jumped at inc. but ini-ealrulat ing m'y
sied ihey struck the ice iojrp a distance lie
hind. I glided out on the broad Tioncsta,
and felt relieve I. hut the ia.-e was not over.
They followed ine on down the stteam. I
was perfectly at home on skates, but all my
tlc' tness and skill were nee, sary to enable
me to escape their fang-. When" the v came
so near that I could hear their pattei ing on
the ice 1 would wheel t- the rignt or U-f t and
gain upon them, for they could not turn as
siioit as 1 could, but wcr- compelled to keep
on for several rod- before they cuM change
their course. By this mano-uver of frequent
t icking I kept out of their leach until our
camp w as in -ight. We had two dug- chain
ed up in the sh inty and when They lcgtn To
. b.uk and raise an uproar the wolves turned
b o k and I was sale. How long the race
la-ted I do not know. It seemed an age,
but was probably not pi. are than an hour
pel haps not so long as that. Had one o! my
skates got loose or hu I 1 tiippe.l on n stick
this story would have n.'Yer'beta told by
me."
From Smith'.- description of the little
si ream and it- zigzag course near its mouth,
he undoubtedly went up Saimou creek. It
. empties into Tiope-ta lomteen miles from
its month an.l two mile- above .Newtown.
. Wohes arc scarce in Fore-t county to-day.
Thkili.inc Exhibition ok Xliive. Ber
nard Koehlerand Fritz Hisgen, two lious-
painters, yesterday began pan. ting the huge
house at Bet la street and CeHtral avenue.
Three o'clock in the afternoon found them
close up -.uidor the caves of the house and
-ixty-livc feet from the ground. They had
inst finished tiie surface within icach mid
had started to lower the scaffold a few feet.
When the required distance had been
reached Ilisgen called to his j at ti.er to hang
on To the rope until be (Ilisgen) tied his
own, when he would come over and perform
a Iikescriceforl.ini. lli-gcu had jut com
pleted his own knot when K'C'iliT cried out,
"Come over quick, I can't hold it." Ilisgen,
as quickly as possible, -Luted across the aer
ial bridge, but had not gone two steps when
he saw the man let go his hold and felt tho
holder give way bent-nth his feet. As Ir- he
gall the fall, in'thc energy of desperation, he
with both !.;..n is grasped the almost si!1(,tti
top of the four! h story w indow cornice pn,i
there hung in the air, a distance of sixty feet
from the pavement. He tht u cave an ex
hibition if nerve that terrified cverv one
who saw it. Placing the toe of one" boot
against the window frame lie cave his body
a. slight pendulum motion away fioni the
house. A second push gave hini better im
petus nnd as he sw ung on the return toward
the window he released his hld and went
crashing through the glass safely to the floor
of the lourth-.-tory room, from whence ho
immediately looked out through the apop
ture he had made to see what had become of
his companion. K.iehler had not been quite
so fortunate. A- he went shooting through
the air be caught the hanging rope with
both bands and lessened bis speed all the
way down at the expense of a',1 the cuticle of
his palms, w hich was burned off 1-v the fric
tion. He landed in a sitting posture on the
sidewalk and w.ys taken t the hospital with
a pair of sore hips. (. in. f'om m r' iol.
Cvuiors Hr.iTs. Great men often fall
into curious habits, which they find it im
possible to conquer. Augusta Hare, one of
the ripe-d scholars in tiie English pulpit, and
a refined gentleman, when be had ended a
tiv.in of hard thinking, would spin aroii'jd
o:i his heel a few seconds and then resume
work again.
Xeander, the famous church historian,
could not lecture to his students unless he
had a good gooscquill to pull to pieces a- b-j
talked, and it was necessary to supj.lv a sec
ond quill w hen the first was completely strip
ped. illiam A ilbt-rf'.rce became so ab-nibc 1
in convcr-ation in cvenirg companies r.s
wholly to forget himself. lb- would iift lnm
seif from bis chair in his i-nrne-tness, move
forward a little, and gradually approach
perilously near to the edge. It was a tradi
tion in fa-hioiiab!e English circles that he
bad fallen several times to the floor. But in
families where he wa loved it was the cus
tom to station on of the ot.ler children be
hind his ( hair to move it forw.-ud as he mov
ed nnd guard him Rgninst ei I. Some who
afterward became leaders i . the Kngh-h so
ciety retained among the plca-antest mem
ories of their childhood the recollection of
t'ne services rendered to tlj brilliant Riid elo
quent convcrser.
Here is Laura's com. position on the cow :
" cow is an animal w.th four b gs on the
1 ii'ii'cr side, one on e:: h korner. The tail is
lon -cr than the Ices, hut it's no use to stand
on " The cow kills pies with her tail. A cow
has big cars, thtt wigcle on hinges ; so doe
tho tail. A cow is bigor than a calf, but n t
as big as an elephant. She is made small, so
-he can go in the barn-door w hen nobody is.
look in'. Some cow are Plack. nnd -orno
hook. A dog was booked once, she tocil
the dog that won ied the cat that killed the
r-.t V.laefc wns cive white milk. So dcs.
other cows.
Milkmen sell iii:ik to iniy mcir
l;tt ir ,l.-..c.i n Inch thev PHI Water 111
and chalk. Cows chew cuds, and en- li rw
find-its own chew. Then they swa.,ow then
own chew, and chuse another chew to chew.
This Is all there is about cows."
A SKATER'S RACE