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AN WOLVES.
One of the most muscular, powerful,
full-limbed settlers on the New York fron
tier, a century 6ince, was Heinrich Kaup
mann. His arms were like piston-rods,
and he could drive his huge mallet lists
with such tremendous momentum as to
fall an ox as if struckcn by a thunderbolt.
It is said that he was once caught by
two iron-muscled Mohawks, each armed
with knives, while lleinrich had neither;
yet at the first onset he fractured the skull
of the foremost Indian, and bore the sec
ond to the earth as if he was nothing but
an infant. That Ir.dian never resumed his
perpendicular again,
All this byway of introduction to an
adventure that Kaupmaun once had with
a pack of wolves, and which came fear
fully nigh having a fatal result for him.
The winter of 17— was an unusually se
vere one throughout the Northern States
any many deaths from exposure and star
vation occurred before the opening of
spring. The wolves, bears and wild ani
mals became nearly famished from hunger,
and in consequence, were usually fierce
and courageous. They came down from
the mountain, and woe to the sbeepfold
that was left unprotected during the night.
They were sure to be invaded by the starv
ing animals, and not a sheep would live
to tell the tale.
There were tracks around the barns,
where the wolves had trotted all night in
their search for some means of entrance ;
their howls could be heard through the
still, cold hours, and more than one Louse
wife had been chased to her very door by
imprudently venturing forth at nightfall.
Many of the settlers sat in the upper
story of their houses, and amused them
selves by shooting the wolves, for whose
scalps the Government had a standing
bounty of several shillings.
Heinrich Kaupmann remained at home,
only vcntei ing forth to attend to bis dumb
animals, and to see that they were properly
protected during the night. But after a
while, his stock of groceries became low,
and finally gave out altogether. True, he
and his family could live on the poultry,
sheep, and animals they owned; but it
was rather unpleasant to be without tea,
coffee, sugar, salt, and many other articles
that more necessities than tnev were lux
uries.
By this time, too, the roads had been
traversed so much, that they were thor
oughly broken, and Heinrich concluded to
harness up his mare to his sled and go to
the village, about four miles distant, and
procure the articles he so much needed.
With a want of foresight which he nev
er could explain, he started upon his
journey without any weapon except a
keen edged hatchet, which he carrieds>in
case the sled would give out. In the
house hung his trusty r;fle, but neither he
nor his wife seemed to imaging that there
would be any call for it, and he drove
cheerily awav, bidding his wife a merry
good-by, as his mare went at a spanking
gait down the road towards the village-
The latter place —which might more
properly be termed a settlement—was
reached in due time, the groceries all
bought, and everything was in readiness
to start homeward.
Heinrich had been storm-bourd so long
in his house that he found a companion
ship of his friends at the village tavern
very agreeable. There was so much to
talk about, so much news to listen to, such
a quantify of gossip regarding the affairs
of the neighborhood, that the time slipped
unconsciously by, until, when he arose to
go, he found it almost dark.
Still he had no fears as his wife would
understand that he had remained at the
village, and there was no necessity of his
immediate return.
As he turned homeward and left the
village behind him, and noticed that the
dim light by which he was travelling be
longed to the moon, it flashed upon him
that perhaps he would encounter danger
before reaching home, and he regretted,
for the twentieth time, that he had left his
rifle behind.
The road, deep between the drif.s of
snow was of just sufficient width for the
little marc and sled, and the spirited little
animal went forward at a swift gait, while
Heinrich somewhat stupified and weary,
was beguiled into drowsiness by the easy
gliding motion of the sled.
He was half asleep and half conscious,
when he became sensible of the rapid in
crease of the motion of the sled. He felt
it jerk several time beneath him, and ail
at once a fiercer jerk than usual, accom
panied by a neigh of terror, effectually
around him, and he sat bolt upright and
looked around. He looked in front; all
wore its wonted appearance ; a wild strag
gling piece of wood, standing two feet
deep in snow, the narrow track twisting
through it; the heavens cold and clear,
the earth white; but close behind the sled
were three guant animals, cantering heavi
ly, while a fourth was fast gaining behind.
The jaws of the leading wolf, owing to
the slowness of the sled, were within
reach of lleinricb's shoulder. But the
latter cared little for this. The brutes
were after the mare, and upon her courage
and fortitude depended the escape of her
self and master.
If the alarmed creature, could have the
nerve to keep steadily onward in the track
ahe had a good chance of eluding her pur
suers; for the moment the wolves sprang
outside the road to pass the sleigh, the
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHTS."—Thomas Jefferson,
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1867- •
depth of the snow so diminished their
' speed that they fell behind.
But should the mare in her terror,
spring aside and plunge into the snow,
Kupmann knew it was all np with both of
them. Such a proceeding would disentan
gle her from the sled, and before she
could get a dozen yards through the snow,
the wolves would be tearing her to shreds.
Heinrich leaned forward and spoke
kindly to his naimal, which raised her
ears that were flat with terror, and fell in
to a more even pace. He then turned,
and brandishing his keen-edged bachet
shouted to the brutes, but he did not dis
comfit them in the least.
Reaching forward, he patted his mare
with the band that held the rains, while he
held the hatchet in the other, and kept
his eye upon the ferocious brutes. How
ever, he didn't use the weapon ; the closer
the wolves kept to the sled, the less they
were seen by the horse, and as a conse
quence, there was the less probability of
the terror becoming uncontrollable, and
her breaking aside from the path.
So long as matters retained their rela
tive position, Heinrich felt that all was
going well.
It was not long before the wolve3 dis
covered that there was little prospect of
success so long as they remained in the
track, and they now began springing aside
and attempting to get abreast of the
horse. In every instance they fell be
hind ; each effort revealed them to the
terrified mare, that had no blinkers.and the
furious plunges she made filled Heinrich
with the greatest anxiety.
One of the wolves was very large,
straight-limbed, and showed a speed supe
rior to the rest. More than once when he
sprang out into the snow, he advanced
nearer abreast than did the others. Upon
this guant creature Heinrich fixed his eye,
and caught the green light that played
from his eyelids.
Bv-and-bye the snow became flatter, and
the huge wolf sprang aside. The speed of
these animals is extraordinary, and he
gained rapidly. Henreich waited until he
got just abreast, when, rising in his seat,
he circled the hatchet over his head, and
brought it down with the quickness of
lightning. The head was cleft in twain
and with a dying yelp, he doubled over in
the snow, and was quickly left behind.
One of the dreaded animals was dis
patched ; there were three left as furious
for blood as him ; and these never abated
their speed in the least. Had tliev got a
taste of their companion, they would have
gorged themselvss on him before seeking
the horse, but he whisked off'the stage of
life so suddenly that they scarcely noticed
his absence.
The distance from home was rapidly di
minishing beneath the quick steps of his
mare, which continued to carry the sled at
full speed, until the fear of overturning be
came again a source of anxiety, Henreich,
too, had learned by this time, that these
were no ordinary animals with winch he
had to deal, but sharp set, courageous and
determined brutes, to which man or beast
would be alike welcome, their preference
however, as manifested bv their actions,
being for horse flesh.
These were not the animals to be fright
ened away by the sight of a man's house,
and there was a bad open space between
the outskirts of the forest and Henriech's
home. *o which he looked with no little ap
prehension.
They had "now approached the very
edge of the wood, and the wolves began
gaining on each side. The terror stricken
horse became uncontrolable, and, bounding
terrifically forward, caught the sled against
the stump of a tree, overturned it, and gal
loped away at a full run. leaving Henreich
alone in the snow.
Before he could rise, he felt the brutes
clawing at his throat, but his garments
were so thick that he was saved from in
jury; and rising to his feet, threw them
off. His hatchet had been jerked from his
hand as be fell, and he looked desperately
around for it, but it was not to be found.
By this time the mare was almost out of
sight, and two of the wolves were on the
defenceless man, and the other, deserting
the animal, bound back. Henreich faced
the foremost and the next moment was sur
rounded.
The powerful man now called into play
all the strength for which he was so re
nowned. He struck furiously at the leap
ing snarling brutes, and flung "them off when
they attempted to cling to him. Had he a
weapon, even a club, it is not impossible
that he would have saved himself. One
blow, with a club in his hands, would have
cracked the skull of the largest brute, and
with a knife he could have ripped them
open.
But there was no hope, fighting with his
naked hand. His blood had already dyed
the snow, and the smell and taste of it made
the brutes more furious, if possible, than
before. Their lithe, heavy bodies were
hurled against him, as if impelled by lome
power not their own,and finally pulled him
down.
The sweets of earth, the mysteries of
hesven, swept through poor Henrich's
mind, in those brief, terrible moments, the
particulars found time to intrude. It is
often, very often thus in the moment of
death.
He thought how his devoted Mary wo'd
watch through thp vigil—how his mangled
remains would tell his fate in the morning
—life's despair for the mother of the lielp-
I less little one's. All these things rushed
! through bis brain, and he knew that he
| himself was in the jaws of the wolves.
I Then those foul, lurid eyee glared over
him ; the tightening of the throat follow
ed and thinking was finished. Still he
struggled to release his arms—the grasp
on bis throat was choaking him ; his sen
ses reeled ; when, like the whizzing of a
meteor, another hard breathing animal
shot in among the assailants and fastened
itself on the chief.
The wolves for an instant relaxed their
fury; Henreich reeled giddy to his feet,
recognized his brave dog. For a moment
he stood bewildered, when he saw one wolf
retreating, and the other two attacking his
dauntless dog. He turned to help him
and a bright object caught his eye ; it was
bis hatchet lying in the snow, within an
arm's length of the last desperate struggle.
Henreich snatched it up, and he was him
self again.
His arms were bleeding, but bis giant
strength remained. The next instant he
had split the skull of one of the wolves, and
he now turned, like a madman that he was,
upon the fierce animal that had borne his
faithful dog to the ground.
The first blow laid bare the gaunt back
bone, the next his throat, a terrible gash,
and the third loosened his terrible gripe
upon the dog. Still he struggled fiercely,
when Henreich sprang upon the animal
and cut and hacked and slashed until the
wolf was mince meat.
As lie arose, a hand wai on his shonlder
and turning, a head was on his bosom.
" Henreich !"
Marv!"
Long did the young people stand in
speechless embrace, but the weaker sup
ported the stronger, for Henreich's nerves
were gone, and he leaned upon Mary like
a helpless child.
The arrival of the affrighted horse arous
ed the wife, the moment she opened the
door the dog rushed forth, led by his kind
ly instinct. Mary fled wildly after him,
not pausing to bring the rifle. But this,
it has been shown, was not needed.
llow TO "FINISH" A DAUGHTER.—The
following is said to be a sure ''rule
1. Be always telling her how pretty
i she is.
2. Instil into her mind a proper love of
dress.
3. Accustom her to so much pleasure
that she is never happy at home.
4. Allow her to read nothing but nov
els.
5. Teach her all the accomplishments,
but none of the utilities of life.
0. Keep her in the darkest ignorance
of the mysteries of housekeeping.
7. Initiate her into the principles that
it is vulgar to do anything herself.
8 To strengthen the latter belief, let her
have a lady's maid.
9. And, lastly, having given her such
an education, marry her to a chrk upon
five hundred dollars a year or lieutenant
going out to a fort.
What Every Young Mau Should Do.
1. Every young man should make the
most of himself, intellectually, morally, so
cially and physically.
2. Me should depend upon his own ef
forts to accomplish these results.
3. He should be willing to take advice 1
from those competent to give it, and to
follow such advice, unless his own judg
ment or convictions, properly founded,
should otherwise direct.
4. If be is unfortunate enough to have
a rich and indulgent father, he must do the
best we can under the circumstances,
which will be to conduct himself very
much as though he had not these obsta
cles to overcome.
5. He should remember that young
moia if they live, grow old ; and that the
habits of youth arc, oftener than other
wise, perpetuated in the -mature of man.
Knowing this fact, he should "govern
himself accordingly."
6. He should never, nnder any circum
stances, be idle. If ho cannot find the
employment he prefers, let him come as
near his desires as possible— he will thu3
soonest reach the object of his ambition.
8. All young men have "inalienable
rights," among which none is greater or
more jsacred than the privilege to "be
somebody."
new supplement to the common
school law, contains a provision, which
was adopted by the House by a vote of
46 yeas to 35 nays, that prohibits county
superintendents from graating certificates
to teachers who are in the habit of using
intoxicating driuk as a beverage.
An Easton cotemporary regrets to
learn that "a prominent citizen of St. Louis
who has been drinking imprudently of tbo
muddy water furnished for that place, died
last week from a sandbar in his alimentary
canal.
The curious fact has been observed by
means af the microscope that perforations
made by the electric spark are uniformly
pentagonial in form.
gg- Samuel Case, aged 15, is to be
banged, at Cincinnati, for murdering a
playmate.
S3T The Democrats gained a victory at
the election in Quincy, 111.
It is believed tbat the coming wheat
crop will be the largest ever grown on ihia
continent.
A MASQUERADE INCIDENT,
A certain married couple here, in high
life, supposed to be living lovingly togeth
er, were recently invited to a masked ball.
Upon consulting together, they mutually
decided not to go, and thus, it was supposed,
ended the matter. Upon the day of the
ball, the husband represented to his lady
that he was suddenly called over to New
York on most important business, and ac
cordingly after breakfast left the house;
but alas ! sorrowful to relate, not for New
York, but to prepare an elaborate disguiso
in which to attend the ball. Stranger
upon the departure of the loving partner of
her joys, the wife also changed her mind,
and determined to attend the same ball, in
company with a lady friend. Arrived
there, she wandered around with the masks
and before long happened, by an unlucky j
circumstance, to find herself beside her hua
band as his partner for a dance. He, not
being much on his guard, spoke several
times in his natural voice, so that his wife
at once recognized him, but, with woman's
tact, said not a word in reply to the very
loving and gallant speeches from her faitb
fel partner. She thco decided to watch
him, and never lost sight of him for a mo
ment. At last he seemed to find the one
particular charmer he desired, and they
became inseparable.
Remaining near tbcm, the wife heard
them, arrange to depart before the time ar
rived to unmask, and accordingly, soon af
ter they started for the dressing rooms.—
He soon procurod his wrappings, and went
to the door of the ladies' room to await the
appearance of his fair friend ; but the wife
was too smart for him, for, slipping on a
long cloak, and hood over her head, mask
ed as she was, she emorged hurriedly from
the dressing-room, seized the arm of her
expectant lover, and they rapidly made
their way to the carriage,—she, of course,
not speaking, and he never suspected the
exchange he had made in his haste. After
getting into the carriage, the lover became
exceedingly demonstrative yi the
expression of ardent love, un
dying affection, etc., etc. His companion
prudently kept him at a distance, and care
fully abstained from speaking above a whis
per, so that the affectionate lover did not
discover his mistake until they mutually
unmasked in the room of the house to which
he had ordered his carriage to drive. I
drop the curtain ! the interview can be
better imagined than described. The lady
was separated from her unfaithful partner;
for, in as much as his supposed partner was
taken by the gay Lothario for "his adora
ble Laura of seferal months' standing," and
as the name of his real partner happens to
be, not "Laura," but something very differ
ent, she justly concluded that the "affair"
was no new one, — Philadelphia Chicago
Tribune
PUTTING PITCH IN THEIR BOOTS.
I have heard of a company of bunters
who caught a number of monkeys in the
forests of Brazil in the following amusing
way: They had a lot of little boots just
large enough to be drawn easily over a
monkey's foot, and filled the bottoms with
pitch. With these they set out for the
woods, and soon found themselves under
the tree, where the monkeys went rattling
on over their heads, but never for a mo
ment removing their eyes from them. They
then placed the little boots where they
could be seen, and commenced taking off
their own boots. Having done this, they
let them stand always near the little boot*.
All this the monkeys carefully noticed. The
hunters were too wise to attempt to catch
them by climbing the trees; they might
as well have expected to snatch the moon
as to lay hands on one of these little fellowst
They had an easier way than this, and
more effectual; they simply sat down un
der the trees while the little chatterboxes
were rattling on over their heads, but nev
er for a mgment removing their eyes from
them. The hunters now taking up their
own boots, having carefully looked over
them, drew them slowly one after the oth
er upon their feet. Not a movement es
caped the observation of the monkeys.
Having replaced their boots they hurried
away into tie thicket of undergrowth not
far off*, where thy were hidden from the
sight of ihe monkeys, but where they could
see everything that happened under the
trees. They left the smali'boots* all stand
ing in a row.
The monkeys soon descended from the
trees, and imitating the banters, thrust
their feet into the boots set as a trap for
them, chattering and gesticulating all the
time, in great glee.
As soon as they were fairly in the boots,
out sprang the hunters from their hiding
places and rushed among them. The mon
keys affrighted, at once started for the trees
but only to find that they had destroyed
their powers of climbing by patting on the
boots. So they fell an easy prey to their
running enemies. This is the way the
monkeys were caught, and how many
young persons are caught in the same way.
In their desire to do what they see others
doing, they fall into serious trouble, and
often bring upon themselves ruinous hab
its that follow them to the grave.
Fifty thousand barrels of lager-beer were
destroyed by a recent fires in Chicago.
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A Compromise with sin is a surrender
to the devil.
There are one million mow women than
men in England,
TziiiMS, sa.oo x*im ▲zwdbc
H3T A clergyman who was in the hab
it of preach ir.g iu different parts of the
country,.was not lon<j since in an inn,
when he observed a horse jockey trying
to take in a simple countryman, by impos
ing upon bim a broken-winded horee'for
a sound one., Th parson knew the bad
character of the jockey, and taking the
man aside, told him to be cautious pf the
man he Was dealing with. The man fiual
ly declined the purchase and the jockey r
quite nettled, observed:
"Well," replied the parson, "if you had
been where you ought to have been last
Sunday you might have heard me preach."
"Where was that?" inquired the
jockey." *
"In the state prison!" replied the cler
gyman.
A NOVEL PERFORMANCE. —Near the
iity of St. Joseph, Missouri, a few days
since, the rite of baptism was performed on
several women by immersion in the liver.
As it was winter it was necessary to cut a
hole in the ice, and the novely of the scene
attracted a large crowd, among whom were
several Indians, who looked on in wonder
ing silence. They retired without under
standing the nature of the object
of the ceremony they had seen; but
observing that tho subjects of immersion
were females and getting a vagae idea that
it was to make them good, the Indians
came back a few days afterwards bringing
their squaws with them. Cutting another
hole in the icc near the same placq* they
immersed each aud all of them, in spite of
their remonstrances.
VOL. 6 NO. 39.
a " = v*
ftJßfmap o* known a
country society which" withered away all
to nothing under the dry rol of gossip on
j ty. Frferidships. "once as firm as granite,
I dissolved to jelly, and then run away to
water, only beeaase of this; love, that
promised a future as enduring as heaven
and as stable as truth, evaporated in a
tnorning mist, that turned to a day's long
tears only because of this; and a husband
and his young wife, each sraining at the
heated leash which in the beginning had
been the golden bondage of a God-blessed
love, set mournfully by tbe side of the
'fciifre' Vfieri aH 4htflr lovfe fheir
jojp lay buried, and only because of this.
Great crimes work great wrong; and the
deeper tragedies of human life spring from
its larger passions; bat woeful and most
most mournful are tbe nncatalogued trage
dies that issue from gossip and detraction ;
most mournful the ship-wreck often made
of noUe natures and lovely lives by the
bitter winds and dead salt waters of slan
der. So easy to say, yet so hard to dis
prove—throwing on the innocent all the
burden and the strain of demonstrating
their innocence, and punishing them as
guilty if unable to pluck out tbe stings
they never see, and to silence words they
never hear —gossip and slander arc the
deadliest and the crudest weapons man
has forged for his brother'B hurt.
' YOUNG MAN, YOU'RE WANTEB.—A
lady writer, under this heading, bits off
the men as follews*-A woman wants
you. Don't forget her. Don't wait to
be rich; if you do, ten to one yon aie not
fit to be married. Marry while you are
young, and straggle up together. Bat
mark, young man the woman don't want
yon if she is to divide her affections with
a c'gar, spittoon, or whiskey jug. Nei
ther does she want you if you don't take
care of her, and the little "-afterthoughts,"
want yob simply because you are a man
the definition of which is too apt td be—
an animal that Wears bifurcated garmdnts
on his lower limbs, a quarter section of
stove pipe ou Lis bead, swears like a pi
rate, and is given to filthy practices gener
ally. She wants you for a companion, a
helpmate—wants you to have learned to
regulate your appetite and passions; in
short, the image of God not in the likeness
of a beast. It you are strong in a good
purpose, firm in resistance to evil, pure in
thought and action, as you require her to
be, and without which inward purity nei
ther of you are fit for husband and wife ;
if you love virtue and abhor vice, ifyoa
are gentle, forbearing and kind, and not
loud talking, exciting and brutal, young
man, that woman wants you; that modest
fair, cheerful, right-looking, frank-spoken
woman we mean, who fills your idea of
maiden and wife. It is she that wants you
to marry her when you like, whether fehe
is poor or rich ; wa will trust you both on
the above conditions, without ary further
security.
"Parson, I had much rather hear you
preach than see you privately interfere in
bargains between man and man, in this
way."
EVERT WORD TRO.—It is a great and
prevalent error tbat children may be teft
to run wild in ever) sort of company and
temptations For several years, and then it
will be time enough to break them in. This
mistake makes half our spendthrifts, gam
blers, thieves and drunkards. No man
would deal SQ with garden or lot; no man
would raise a colt or a puppy on sqch a
principle. Take notice parents, nnlets jou
till the new soil, and throw in the good
seed, the devil will hare a crop of weeds
before you know what is taking place
Look at the poor, dear children, and think
whether you will leave their saf&tv or ruin
at hazard; or whether you shall not train
them up in the way they should go. i
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