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WILLIAM K1TTELL. j
'Jtfornnt at JCnto, Qrbtnsburg, j
Cambria County Feana.
OiSce Culoaude row,
De. 4. 16
CYRUS L. PERSHINti. Kf.y. Atthknkv
at Law, J.!.iitinvti, Cambria Co. I'a.
01'ire on liain t,trcet, second tl ur over
Baiik. ix 2
It. T. C. S. Gardner,
rilYSTCIAN ANH SURGEON.
Teii lers his prfv ssIo:..d M-rvi.e to
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eden s i; una,
nd surr. .tiudiiiT vii initv.
oFUCi: IN COLOXADE ROW.
June 'JO, l04-tf
the
J. II, Scasilaii,
ATTO li N t: Y A T L A W ,
EuEN'Mii'Ro;. I'a.,
OFFICE ON MAIN STREET. THREE
IJOORS KA-T or the LOGAN HOUSE.
Dercmber 10, l&G3.-!y.
R. L. Johnston. Gko. W. Oathax.
JOHNSTON & OAT MAN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Ebiunburg Cambria County l'enua.
0FHCE REMOVED TO LLOYD ST.,
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I I
OI1N FKN'LON. Esq. Attornky at
.aw, EWens-l'iirtr. Ciiinbria coiintv I'a.
'Hii': on M;uu stiect uij' ining bio dwvl
n.. i 2
I
NOON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
J TE.VSRrKG. OAMBRIA U .. I'A.
Ofhce uue duor Eat of the I..-t Ollice.
Feb. IS, 18t3.-tf.
G
K0RGEM. REED.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EBENSBURG,
Cambria County, Pa.
OPTICS IN COLON A DE HOW.
March 13. 1864.
MICHAEL IIASSON, Erq. Attoeney
at Law. Eoenvburz. Cambria Co. I'a.
Ounce on Main street, three doors East
f Julian. ix 2
s. w. HICKMAN.
G. W. HICKMAN &L CO.,
Wholeajile Dealers in
MANUFAC TURKD T BACCO.
FORZIGV AND DOMESTIC SEOARS.
SNCFFS. Are.
N. E. COiL TlllitI) .v MARKET STREET.
I'HILADnLl'lilA.
Augmt 13. Ibu3.-!y.
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a'jjjv k o:i il j,
'ssiiuaav
on ia Villi UKV
sua vxs -qua v aim
NVOHJ-lILW
S3IVH VIH JiaaVlIHd I.S2H0IH
Ior Rent.
An office on Centre Street,
xt d,v)r north of iviq. Kinkcad's office.
PotoehBin riven imneliatelv.
JOSEPil M'DONALD.
Air'l 15, IMi.
BLESSINGS OF GO VER KM EST, LIKE
Select lccirir.
8 El A
I ti
i;y I'kkstos o'hakiiktt.
Come! clasp the steel upon thy feet :
How fair a hall room spreads before us :
We'll dai.ee upon the froze:- sheet.
The windi sbal! 1kj our minstrels sweet,
Fci dauce like ours nee s fiyiug chorus ;
The ice our fi.ior
To wander o'er.
Our roof the sky, blue bending o'er ua.
It is a sport fir heart an.? limb,
And both alike with j y are leaping;
The tenant of the stream shall swim
Less tiset, lelow than we shall skin:.
In graceful curve above them sweeping;
And many a shout
Shall we ring out,
To wake far echoes fioni their sleeping.
Now fur the revel strain the nerve;
By demon frost be laggaid bitten ;
The inn; straight line untiughi to swerve ;
The whirl, the ring, the sweeping curve,
Shall all upon the fl u d lie written.
Each maze we weave
Behind we leave,
A trace to tell where we have smitten
3ftti5CfIlaiuou5.
M ASUMC ii O 31 4 I C .,
Or tU Mitoule Tallamau.
BY AN OKHCKU OK Tilt: 17
During the lute Mexican war a lad of
: sixteen, u daring youn Virginian, leaped
i a fericc and climbed a parapet some bun-
tired yards abend of bis company, and
' was taken prisoner; but not Ijefore be
f bad killed three Mexican?, and mortal!
; wound. d a Colonel. His mother, a oor
! widow, but, though poor, h lady, (and
i w hy not ?) beard of hi? fate, ami as be
who an only son, her heart yearned for bis
J releaae. JShe wept at the thought, but
j while the tears were streaming down her
i t hecks, suddenly she recollected that she
j was a Mason's widow. Hope lighted up
! her bo-otn at the thought she dried her
tears and exclaimed :
j tk I will go and test the ta'.ismanic
power of the order my husband loved and
; levered so much.'
I She sold some articles of furniture, and
; n 'uh the money reached the city of Wash
1 ingtuii on loot.
j In her dusty attire she entered the de
! paitment of the Secretary of War, and
! with some difficulty obtained an ii:tei view.
; As she entered the apartment in which lie
j was seated, and he saw bow dusty she
appeared, " Well ma'am," was the salu
i t.itioii he gave her ; but when she removed
j her veil, and saw the visage of the lady
I in her face; be h :f raised himself in his
chair and jiointcd her to a sent. She told
lii hi of her son's capture and wished to go
I to him
j " I can't help you, ma'am," he replied,
! "a very oxpcn.-ive journey to the t-ity of
; Mexico. Your son will bv; reloascd by
and by tip exchange of prisoners."
. Sir," said llie vidow, s th'i tears of
woe rolled down her check, 44 can you not
help me to a pas.-jn-it."
" Of course," be replied, " that will
! lie granted to you at the Secix-tary of the
j Statea' office, but you are poor, law do
I you expect to pay the cxeriscs of such a
journey It is a visionary scheme, (wood
morning ma'am."
"Sir' said the lady, " will yon be so
kind as to recommend me to the officer in
command of the regiment that will sail
from Uallimorein a tew days?"
ItnjRissible, ma'am, imjMissible," be
replied. Then tuniit g to the page, be
said ' who did you say was waiting for
an audience? Tell them I am at leisure,
now."
4i Sir," said the lady, " I have one
more question to ask you before I leave
your office, an I I pray you answer it
j are you a Mason ?"
" Yes, ma'am," he replied.
" Then, sir," she said, permit mc to
say I am a Mason's widow with ibis
declaration I leave your ufrlee.
That moment the Secretary's manner
was changed to that o( the most courte
ous interest.
lie entreated her to lie sealed until he
could write a few lin.s to the Secretary of
State. In a few moments be presented
her with a note to the Secretary, recom
mencing her to bis pympathy and friend
ship. Tbo Secretary of S'ate received
her most kindly, and ave her a letter to
I he commandant at New Orleans direct -inr
him to procure her a free pass to Vera
Cruz by the first steamer. Through the
agency of the two Secretaries the Lodges
placed in her hands three hundred dollar,
with a talism-inie card from the Grand
Master at Washington, and the widow
left tbo city.
THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
! When she reached l'lttsbnrg the siage
I agent seeing the letter Ito bore from the
and Master would receive nothing lor !
her pasage ihe Captain of the steamer
on which si e embarked for New Orleans,
no sooner deciphered it than he gave her
the best state-room he had, and when she
! leached the Crescent City, she had two
! I i end red and ninety dollars left of l::r
j three hundred. She there waited on the
General i command of the station, with
! ihe letter of the Secretary of State, who
1 immediately instructed the Colonel in
! command of the forwarding troops to Pee
I that she had u free passage to Vera Cruz
j by the ti'-st steamer. lly all the officers
she was treated with the greatest polite
ness and delicacy, for they were all Ma
son's und felt boo ml to her by ties as
strong and delicate as those which bind
a brother to a sister and rejoiced in the
opportunity offered them of eincing the
benign and noble principles of the craft.
After a passage of 'five days she reached
Vera Cruz, and having a letter from the
commandant at New Orleans, to the
American Governor she sent it to him.
enclosing the talismanic card she received
from the Gr in 1 Master at Washington.
The Governor immediately waited on her
I at the hotel and offered her a Iransporta
j tion to the city of Mexico by a train that
would start the next morning. The Co!o
, nel who commanded the train, kindly
t took her in charge and offered her every
i facility and comfort on her journey, provi
j ded her with a carriage where th.i country
I was level, and with mules and palanquins
I over the mountains.
Within ninety miles of the city, they ;
were overtaken by a detachment oi tra-
gociis escorting a
f-ovt rnmcnt official to ;
the General in command Anxious to
get o i faster, she asked permission of the
Co!o:a! to join ihe detachment, and
though informed of the I.ir.gor and fatigue
of riding a'l dav on horseback she wa.-
willing to brave all, that she might s. o:.er
see her son. The Colonel then provided
her with a Meet and gentle Mexican ponv
and she assumed her place with the troops,
! escorted by the officers, and never fatigued
till llie towers o! .Mexico were in si-m.
She reached the city on the second day's
battle, and in the heat of the battle, at-
i tempted to enter the gates. An officer
I insrtantlv seized the bridle and told her she
j must wait until the city was taken.
j '-Ob! sir," she exclaimed, i cannot i
i wait one hour m signi oi me cuy mai
' hold.-, my son a prisoner I must see him,
! sir."
i '-The city must first be taken, madame,"
tie again replied, wuu muui tmpnasi.-?,
becoming excited.
44 1 cannot wait sir," she replied, 44 my
son. mav be ill dying in chains in a
: dungeon t-ne hours delay may remove
: him from me. Oh ! 1 must go to him
! I will enter the city.
i 44 Madame," said the officer, 44 you
1 cannot reach it bat by crossing the battle-
fw, you wilt surely be killed."
"Sir," said the Inly, "1 have not
j traveled from Virginia to the gates of the
i city to fear enter tl.em hanks for
1 - 1 ;..,l-...s a thousand heartfelt :
i 1 1 Hit ..; -
' thanks 'or von and the officers who have
; lioen so kind m ni'-. 1 shall always re
i mendier these otiieers with t!ie most grate-
I ful feelings of my heart but don t detain ;
I me longer. Yonder is a 'gate that leads j
I to the city. 1 will enter it in search of
! my dear boy. j
i And on she sped, but ere she reached ;
j the gate anoiher officer rode up by her j
I Pi,ie 'a,,,! admonished her of danger and j
i imprudence. j
! 44 Sir " she replied, 44 this is no time to
talk ofprudence and tear-- my son, my j
only stin is a prisoner in chains. I am i
told that' Santa Anna is in the midst of j
dimtnenng group, l will seek turn ;
his hand place the talismanic card j
and in
Inch I bear he is a Mason, and will '
.rtainly heed me." ;
CtIlfll",J " ' i
. . , it 1 i 1 t I .
44 War destroys all lrotIirhxxi, nai.l .
the
iWr who was not a M:ufun.
made
tilll iki itl n . iiiil w:iii'iiiiili
!... I w l.nf :
1.7
moment, strutK ner piny an.i
across the field of deaih. At that mo- .
inent the masked battery that mowed .
down one-half of the Tahne'to regiment,
opened yet right across the gory field she J
was seen galloping on her white pony, ;
ivoidiiv the retreating platoons by e"- i
circle around their Hank the next mo- j
aicnt she was seen coursing over the .
.M-oun.l i e f ,,,e 'ry in mU 1
nlav H-in hvd swing her shipped, forget- ,
' . . . .tf .,.llw! ih;it bowled .
,ul OI . , lt .-xnect-
'i-rtiitill lllCIII, iil'i'il' liiuii- .
aiotinu iii-" ii .
aootlicr.
i
I ,i i,or to la I every moment, uui on
! went with fearless air. York, njuli.tude of .n-ople none of
i "Tl woman's love for her son has j whom bus bad more than half a break
,,d.' her wild," .aid tin officer who at- ! fast, or exjiect to have more than had a
! en .'ted to a-rest her flight 1 dinner,- will choose a legislature. Is ,t
! 44 She will surely be killed," exclaimed possible to doubt what sort of a legnsla
51ien' J .,ro ur hit r'uosen ? On oiw Mde 15 a.
DISTRIBUTED AUKS. UP.JW Till
" A niotuei's love is -hunger than ihe
pain- of l-a!h," exclaimed a si.Mier.
The God oi battles vvnl protect her."
said a
Tcnnesean.
'She
:i
r-.-ie!l i
Santa Anna safe and s::mid as a roa b "
The soldier was i "g!it An- went over
the field of (hath and readied Santa
Anna unhurt. He received her jmliu ly,
and when she told him her crraud and
presented her talismanic card.
Madame," said be, " I am a Ma
son, and know the obligations of the Order
in icacc and in war. When your son
was taken prisoner he mortally wounded
my materi al nephew, who is now dead,
but he shall be restored, for I will not re
fuse your request in the face of the letter
you bear.
lie immediately gave her an escort to
the city, with an oilier to restore her son
to her anus. The order was promptly
olieycd, and that very day, as he promised,
she embraced her long lost son.
lio much for a mother's love; and so
much for the protecting arm and noble
sympathetic heart which Masons ever ex
tend to lovely, help'ess woman. Oil ! if
widowhood be th" ilmm of woman, li
woiiMi not oe a iason s wne, moiner,
daughter, or sister in the hour of peril and
need ?
.11 a can la 3 ' Opinion of tin bL'i;I
fec' Mates Cjiuvei-niiteut.
'Ihe fiHowing letter was written in
J8.j7 by Iord M.icaulav to Henry S.
Randall, Esq., of New Yoik, the author
of the Life of Jefferson :
You are surprised to learn that I have
., i,-,.,!, ., T..(V.,..., .,,..! '
lllll .Ul . fit. UVI .-"II ttil'l 1
i
! I am certain that I never wrote a line, and
' that I never, in 1 aihament, in convcrsa
i lion, or even on the hustings a place
j where it is the fashion to court the popu
! lace uttered a word indicating an opinion
that the supreme authority of a State
: ought to be instructed to the majority of
i cbizens told by t'ie bead, in other words,
to the iHxircst and most ignorant part of
; society I have long been convinced that
institutions purely democratic must sooner
or Liter destroy liberty, vi- i.-ivilimi"ii, or
both.
In Kurope, where the population is
dense, the effect of such institutions would
bj instantaneous. M hat hannened lately
in ienuu.e is an example. In 1848 a pure
democracy was established there During
a short time there was reason to expect a
general spoliation, a national bankruptcy,
a new partition of the soil, a maximum
of prices, a ruinous load of taxation '.aid
on the rich for the purpose of supporting
the poor in idleness.
Hut the time will come when New Eng
lanl will be as thickly settled as Old Eng
land. Wages will be as low, and will
fluctuate as much with you as with us.
You will have vour Mancuesters an 1 Hir-
minghanis; an I ia ihos.; Mancliesiers and
15irir.in;.bat:s hundreds of thousands of
arti.-a.:s wih ns.-uivd.y be sometimes out of,
work. Then the institutions will be f.uily j
h'v.u'dit to the test. Distress everywhere i
i ' . i.,i. ,..i:,....., l .r. I
makes the laborer mutinous and di-.con-ter.t"
d, and inclines him to listen '.ti'.h
eagerness to agitators who tell him that it
is ;i monstrous iniquity that one man shall
i Vl. m;;i;0n while another cannot get a
luj nie:d. Li bad years there is plenty of
jumbling here, and sometimes a little
rioting. Hut it mat Tors little, for here the
sufferers are net the rulers. The supreme
power is in the hands of a class numerous
indeed, but select, of an educated class, of
a class which is, ami knows Us. If to be,
deeply interested in the security of pro-
i.y .
ctirdmgly, the nial--ontents are hnnly yet
gently constrained. '1 he bad time is got
ovei iu .v....... ...v. .-v.....
Hove the indigent. i ne spnn-s o. ..a......
al prosperity soon begin to How again :
work is plentiful ; wages use, and ad is
... , (
UilHtl'JIlil V H4 l,iuviiiimvi"
x n:lve scon Mm Wl
fillip! tlil-nilfrll StlOll (THinil n-.i-MMin
as I
have descubed. Through such seasons
the United States will have t pass in the
course of the next century, if nt t of ibis.
I Ley will jou pass through fktm! I
beartiiv wish you a good deliverance.
Hut inv reason and my wishes are at
war; and I cannot help fonlxiding the
worst. It is q lite plain tint your gov
ernment will never be able to restrain a
distressed and discontented majority.
I-'or with you the majority is the govern
ment, and has the rich, who are
iiHvin s
: a minority, absolutely at its mercy. I lu
a minority.
I , -. . .. -
, ,,,., .,.,,, ,,, si... t-A New
tuiv
HUH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR.
IS, 1865.
statesman prcaci.i.ig patience, ivmhvI tor'
ve.-ieil lights, strict ob.-M r auce of ptiblh
latin. Oa the o.her is a den-igogije
ranting about ihe tvranny of caphalirt
nnd usurers, an 1 aking whv ambodv
siiouM be permitted to think champ gne
and ri le in a carriage while thuu.-antis of
holiest lalis are in want of neee.-saries.
' Inch ot the two candidate is to be pre
ferred by a workingm ui w ho beais his
ciiildre ii cry fur more bread I furiously
apprehend that you will, in some such
season of adver.-ity as I have descriU-d,
do things which will prevent prosperity
from returning ; that you will act like
pe-iple who should in a year of searcitv,
devour all the seed com, and thus make
the next year a year not of scarcity, but
of absolute famine. There will lie, I
lear, siMiliaiiou. There is nothing to stop
you. Youi constitution is all sail and
no anchor. As. I said before, when a
society has entered in this downward pro
gress, cither civ ilization or lilierty must
ieri.-h. Kit her some Cajsar or Nujioleon
would seize the reins of government with
a strong band, or your republic will be
as fearfully plundered and laid waste by
barbarians in the twentieth century as ihe
Konian empire was in the tilth, with this
difference: that the Huns an I V. n !a!s
who ravaged the Hounni empire came
from without, and that your Huns and
Vandals will have been engendered will, m
your own country by your own in.-litu-
lions.
Thinking thus, of course, I cannot
reckon .Jciterson among tlie uenetactors i
of mankind. I readily adui't that bis j
intentions were good, and his abiiitiis:
considerable. Odious stories have been I
circulated aluiut his private life: but Ij
do not know on v. h it evidence the.se .-.to- j
lies rest, and I think it probable that thev !
are false or monstrously exagerated. '
in u TJglit riaee.
The human skeleton, whether living or
d ad, is not in itself a cheerful subject,
perhaps. Nevertheless, there is one por
tion oi the suijevt the dead head to
which the Lender occasionally devt ies a
brief paragrapfi or so, wnfcii rrinini.- mo
as Mr. Lincoln is reported to have casu
ally remarked, of a very strange story,
in which a dead-head figures to an extent
that is both marvelous anl piciuie.-que.
I bad the story from St. Gothard him
self, which, of course, is a sufficient
voucher for its authenticity. If St.
Got bar J should come to see it in the col
umns of the Lender, I must take the con
sequences; bui as he lives at an immense
distance from New York, I mean to risk
it. This is the story, which will read
best if narrated in St. Gothuid'u own
words :
Out of the most remarkable oljects I
remember ever lo have seen, s ii i he, is or
was in view near the head of the lonely
valley of Tamara, in I'eiu. Ab- ut fifty
yards iVtiui the road that dips into the
uorttiern end of ihe gorge there crops out
fioin I lie grct u s'.v al ii a rugged mass of
rock s .me thirty feel high. On the b.ei
of this lock, which is in the form of a
truncated cone, there stands a man in
armor.
He has stood there for over two hun
dred years. It is natural, ihcivfore, that
his iron clothes should Ik somewhat rus- !
ty, which f ey ..iv. Through ihe gride
tit his visor there gleams a something that
looks white and dry. That is his skull
It has t.-eii white and dry for over two
centuries The icople of the countrj few
of whom ever pass that way, have a su
perstition almut him. A king's ransom
(whatever that may lie when reduced into
currency) would not tempt one of them
tot limb lo ihe summit of the ruggtd
cone a:al inspect the Man in Armor. I
slept u.ider Ins shadow, in peace, for
more than a week, when my horse was
lame, and brigands were infesting the
ueighboihotKl. Asa patrolman,', 1 con
sider the Man in Armor equivalent to
about seven men hers of the admirable
Fifth ward police.
I waved my ham! to Ihe Man in Ar
mor, one fine morning, and mounting my
trusty steed, dived into the valley at its
northern cud, nor puded bridle until 1 bad
emerged at the southern- '1 here I found
a posada, or, in plain English, an r..n
the daughter of the h use was lovely,
and her name was Margarita. She
shod. len d one day w hen I told her how 1
had sh pt under the shadow of the Man
in Armor, and as ihou-.li t-h preform!
to decline comcrsing iiIkuiI. him; but 1
fastened her with nir eye and she sjK.ke
at last, though with pallor.
"Once" quoth Margarita, 44 the Man
in Armor was a robin r, known t the
Kople for miles around as l'asquale tbo
Hri"and. He kert pos-ida himself and
waslne inventor, of the cia.'o " 44 And
VOL. 12 NO. 1.
what is the cmt-; prilhce, beautiful Mar-
ganta T "Minna tiaclci stcppttl a
while at the poxlda" said the and
didn't give ti.e ra.-eal who k pt it a chance
to r.b and murder him, but rode Ibi ward
oa his way, he generally found I. is horse
lame before he bad gone any great dis
tance Then he would return t the jo
tzidd, where be would decide to pass the
night probably, unable to d'wnvtr the
cause of bis horse's lameness. Next, he
would be killed in the course of the night,
ami his remains thrown into the cleft
known to the present day as the Lift cf
Dent!-. The horse would be all ripht.
Oi.e tou. h of a knife would remoe the
thread id strong waxed silk tied so tight
ly by the mbljcr jnst above the jmimnl's
p-slein, and lonte.ded among the hair,
causing temjKirary lainuie-s. That lia
u e is w hat we call the onto," said Mar
gaiiia, with a nfnnte charming in one bO
wi II, never mind.
l'asqua'e prtispered 50 greatly on bi9
mur.l.-i, and acquired such a giniid stud
j of horx-s by mei.ns of the ciuto. that, like
all shoddy men, be became very solicitous
ab ut hi.- life. Once he caught a tartar
in a traveler w ho gave him the cont nts
of bis pistol instead of bis purse. This
warning the wounded la?-q!i:de took se
riously to heart. He burnished up an
old suit of ancestral armor. (1'asqualo
maintained anctstors) and in this be con
tinned to pursue bis unholy calling
-an
i bon-i-hid man from head to foot. UettCr
j fur l'a-quale ho had gone in brass
There was a Jesuit missionary in these
parrs, well known and greatly t steciucd
as the l'adre Hartolo. I think there is a
work of bi.- e itant upon the geology of
the district in which I am supj-osed to be
-ojourieng. The convent to w hich Har
tolo belonged, enjoyed a reputation for
wealth, and to despoil that institution of
its treasure had long been a scheme that
lay deeply coiled at the bottom of the
robber I'asquale's heart.
The wily Jesuit was aware of this. He
even got tidings of a certain time at
which I'asquale's plan was to be put into
execution, and be resolved to frustrate it
e.fter a fashion o bis own. l'asqcule
1jji! ftitv bi'i.;iii( Is to back him.
T. I I - . .
ii was a loveiy morning as itie l'adre
j H..,rto!o arrived at the head of the pass of
1 amain upon bis mule. lie was not
startled ut the vision of an iron-clad war
rior tui horseback just emerging from the
gorge, for he knew Iaquale well, and
had once undertaken to convert him, but
it was not to le 44 My son," said the
l'adre mendaciously, addressing the rob
lcr in bis most dulcet tones : 44 1 pray
for you daily. Just now I cursed you
however: I tetrad. As I arrived at the
high groend a mile behind me I observed
from it that our convent is in flames, and
that there is a wiid hurrying to and tro.
!'. squ.tle has d- t:e this, said I : accursed
bo l'asquale. Forgie me, my son, I
spoke in ib heat of the moment, and my
hfrt melts tow.ed you now that I see
von here. Clandier lo ihe summit of
rt :;t c. r.iea! r. ok, and thence ou will
d--Mry ihe devastation the evil doers have
wrourJ.t ujion our holy shrines. 1'lcsa
you son l'asquale. I will hold your
'horse."
Stunned at being forestalled in bis da
ring project, the unsusjiecting robber, de
scended from bis horse, elimlnd up the
fatal rock with such ngiliiy as his iron
trammels wou'd allow, and stood upri-bt
on the summit of if.
lie has stood there ever since.
The wily Jesuit in the course of l is
geological reMarcl.cs. had discovered that
the stone forming the aptx of the riclc
was a Iodestone of wonderful power.
No force could wrench iron from it.
44 Hicss yon, niv f on !" cried be, as be rt tie
away waving bis band Inward ibi-mist ta
ble biijai.d. 44 Hit ss you. my son! we
will do what we can lor the repose of
your soul, but I have no fears. Do not
struggle. Inevitable destiny has at last
fallen cpon yon, and your hour has come.
Spare your anathemas. There j-ou are,
while the iron lasts, a spectacle and a
warning for ages to the assassin and ihe
roblior. Cursed be he who attempts to
remove you. These are the words of
Hart olo, and tl ev shall be inscribed upon
the rock."
44 Hot why didn't the rohlicr walk out
of his iron clothes, Margarita, and vacate
liie fatal fciniidiou ?"
localise be was dead," replied Mar
garita. "He died of fiL'-t m the awlul
wur-ls of l'adre Harn.lo, whose cur-o
w afterwards -. raven upon the reck,
though it is not disceruable now, Uhg
worn away by the baud of time."
And the Man in Armor stands on I.is
roek ni the present day, proliabiv
st il
king illustration of the light xnua
tight place. .Veic York Leader.
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