3 i SE 1 1 revving pov, “ wrotbed for Fr gn elegr; Limit was far : war, i ; AS you & iatle off exch fras, Si ork, for the days sre Geet and few, : Don't dream, but do! You may won ser Cols gr! nding | faws, You may pro und probe for the Kreet Put an nth = fr” with an n honest thrill EE ng ¥ Was no small feat, yet : ety they watched the floe Ponts rndndatnes wast atre ] tently, his foot shipped and he fol Into | slippery edge as he went down, hig suspended by his aries for a second, | crushed. For the lightly poised block {bad been started dowowsrd by bis ‘was caught lke a squirrel in a box {trap In a parrow, irregular space among vith | the blocks, about three feet wide, five pt | feot long and six feet high, alise thie gravity of his siteation He . ha his jack knife, or at Jenst make a g| camp for help br thrusting out his | cost and waving it. The sunlight fl | tering In through a chink gave promise ex. | of this, and helped to relieve the semi: # | darkness of his prison. | fall, took out his knife and then looked o| tide was due at three minutes of 12. | Hon fashed upon him; the tide would Ee it. If he Gi} not escape he { would be ground to powder. One! | him. : | terrae clutched him, but shaking it off | had Hust ope hour and Afty-seven min. L utes in which to cut hls wiry out and got ashore. Could he do 111 A tunnel | { of attack, the silghe rrack Between the 31 and the one thar formed the Jower wall, he began ehlpping sway the joe § returned. e | lie was letting the hole get smaller the deeper it went into the fee. If the perhumian strength foreed Rlimself slowly upward out of the vio like grip of the narrow opening. He rose fo hia feet, free of an foy toon st last; but be found thery was, j po time 15 cross to the shore lefore the jceladen wave of the bote wend strike, It was slready within five! hundred yards of him. : Koowing that it would take many | | times more force to move the jam § resting on the lar than It would to move the field In the channel Hard 1 man quickly realized that the best { thing to do was to stay on the round. The enfest place was 81 the smnmit] fro to the ons big cake forming the plusacle lie ninde his way, and crouch. ing on its slanting surface, waited. Over to the southwest was the camp {in the shadow of the foothills No gone was in sight. There was no ue 2 | in shooting to let his men know of his swan Hs position. 1o- the crack between. He clutched at the then, his hands loosing their hold, he dropped Jost In time to escape being welght, and crdshed against the Jower one as be struck In a heap below. He For a moment Hardman 012 pot re- feit sure that be could cut himself out | ich he could signa) to He inspected hin eamera tn a leis urely fashion, glad to find that It had not been in the Jeast Injured by the at his watch. It was 10 o'clock: the Then all at once the perl] of his post. set the whole fam In motion, perhaps movement of a cake would annihilate For an awful mament " gickening Lis began to make 5 enlenlation. He large enough for the prsssze of his body must be made through more than thirty inches of hard, brittle lcs hy | wesns of a rather slender koife binde, Selecting the wos vulnerable point emke that formed Me cover of the trop | At first he works! with feverish any. Sety, but gradually Lis ual esolnesa When be bad ent steadily upward to a depth of ten Inches. be noticed 1hat dimensions were allowed th decrease any more he save that the hole wonld be much too parrow for bis exit by | the time the eake was pierced. So beginning at the bottom, he enlarged the tunnel until It seemed to him that its necessary comivergence would still leave a wide enough opening when the | surface was reached. Hoon operations were again delayed. ry HERTS Pe ME woo XA Es ASH 4g Mad MRNA VERA Lhe Spa patil i Sastund, and had resided a that place. roll tows danger. for shove the roar of the water his voles would not carry half the tistance. Nor could the men ald Bi If they should hear. Bo lo gilence he turned his glatice to the foaming erest of the ndvancing wave faiing thie emliens strelich of dull while ice following i, The wound. extending down farther than the shoreward joe, was the fire to receive the shock, Although the whole mass shioddersd. 1t bold firm as the first of the monster cakes carried by the bore styuck. reared up, and began to sccumulate at the beginning of the slope. The packed field near shore gave way a litte, became Cone vulsed threughout Hs entire length, yet till hung in the passage, Out on the other side the open channels be came obstructed, so that the progress of the foe was now checked clear geross the arm. This mads the pres gure on the mound terride. Iiisen on by the immeasurable force bebind, cakes weighing a bun- dred tons were heaved and pusbed op the inelins toward Hardman, as if they were nothing but chips. With fanscissicd gare he walched the huge blocks climb higler and higher, and saw them pile up with a grinding, crunching sound three dep over the trap out of which be Bad just escaped, I'he aight made beads of cold persplira- tion stand out on his forehead, As the fos drove In harder. the | tumbling, braving cakes crept upwand; the mound trembled and was shoved backward. The block on whieh Hand man stood rocked with the prosisare; ft seemed about to topple over and pitch down the steep declivity at the Lack, Then there same A mighty rosr, % | orash snd 8 chaos of grating, cracks Hing poleesothe tamed foe in the inward channel bad brakes loose st last sod was moving, At anew the treed on the centre wen relieved, the tee began to deffeet shorereard and the movement of the mound réaned. Weak and limp Hardman reclined on the saram®t, while the greater part af the Soaring foe turned in and erowd- edd throoarh the opensd channel In a rolling, pitching processes of mache I hraken cakes At lsat & shant on the share drew | Hardman's stiention. There Caulkine geaticnlations. Hardman waved his hat In return snd settled himscil to wait for the passage to clear. In half 5 hour the fee thinned ont, and Canikins had the boat manned, came | ont in it and took Hardman to comp—~ Youth's Companion 5 SC le A Monkey Chums With a Cat. The Zoo bas a bashful monkey. The | 3 o} "hat He pia to he micork Tost Was With a siden Pie sbnind Hardmae dropped back, pulled oft his thick | ‘ober cont, and then, with almost sn Madehied to Fight Him. fiona Clark Conary in the Kentucky Lezislainre, enjoys the reputation of} ring & prac tical folie of nb neRn da. Ballard, a promises: bhoesder of fine arses snd ower of Pinchiera Wilkes, Lm Boia pacer. bas on Bis place 8 pon of highly bred gsm chickens While Ceurge was showing Jack his favorite ronster and expatinting on hx great prowess Jark pretemied 1a rgard the bird as a very ovdinmy clivken, apd «ald he could whip Win with a bugtanl. A bot argument en sed, resuliing In a match being ar runged for betwen the rooster snd A buzzard, which Jak sgreed fo pro dice. Jack had a trap set and in a Sire time die unto Warrior = viory large buzzard, was brought to} Hire. Aerording to the fermex of fhe cone Haked togetier by Ihe feet with a yun oor so of stot soni Ax the rooster braced Bivaself for the onislanght the buzzard regarded him with stall] indiflerencr, atl at the fret pigs Jifted Nix wings and sailed away. with the rowley sgnawking io ila fwake George rag far 3 gun but te fore Be conid ger Lpek with it the | tipzzard snd the reculer were high in the alr and away ou! of reach of the fomling piece. The distirasing cries of the unfortunate rooster grew fainter aid fainter, untill faally they were faded away in the ether Line. Nothing bas since been beard of the Lirda~— Cincinnati Eogeirer, A Yale of Dash Shooting. We had been busting for docks on the upper Schroon River, and bad warn, tired and disgusted aud io the nocd when & hunter will kill “any thing.” when, padding avonnd a bend of the sires, we Saw a dittle clear tg. a log camp aod a leag. lank oll weodsrasn win vas sed ted un the Task enoplacently smoking a entnrob pipe Tdeeatly in foont of Hon a Bock of ae ducks were swimming ia the piver, “Heavens and easth! I've 3 good mild to fake a shot gt those tame anes.” ssid my friend. Then raising the bask: “I'll give you a doilar If veu'll It ae bute § shot at th ee dnake” “Hand vyer your dotisy It was dene, snd © Lath barrels, simost sno Gi. “Yon didn't make deal” said my fries Oh, | dunes, 1 don't ears. They ala’ my ducks They Vong ta the Premehanan vp the river) New York Tis SE Bosk ThisrCs Bhs {The complet forad 9 a stolen book Cent owteal this Beek for fear of EhR ue, BRIE which was quoted {none of the Len { don Police Courts a few days ago is Beither origins] wor complete, The : 3 foe timntia l Thyme which has weg Josip and ug and th i wers waking franfle | 70 bs and the lsdians we R e i veraally In uae along sebond vuidren, pata thus: “Don't steal this book for fesr of hame, For in it's writ the owner's name; For if you die the Lord will say “Where is that beak you stole away? Ard if vou say you do oot Koow, The Lord will east you dows below 1a boys schools the vendindiae rayme her nxeaile been mare definiteivdnrid Johnstown: Vie Richard % Thomas ef wx fo Murhine Weakiasd, of Patton; . Roe tary, J. H . She bad hewn in 41 henith for Wen Bertram, Carroll towash dp, B55. ig time and sought treatment in Philadel : | phis sod New York at different limes MeCombin, Carroll townubip, $40. t and died in the Post Gradosts Hospital Annie BE Powsll ot vir to Mary Mo W0wn; Chaplain, the Very Rev. John and Medical College in the latter city Combe, Carroll township, $15. Tuesday morning, Decomber 18, 1002. he ds survived by ber husband med | Carrol townabip, £5. wing children: Thos Xx, | Boyle, of Bt Joho's Cathoiie chapels, Wiison Powell et ox to Jacob Bostic, Jobnstown; Exeostive Couneil--Fred Skelly, of Johnstown; J. W. Shar (MeCang, of © ‘remit: Troensaper, Pro - Anie E PF Gal vir ta Mary Ann: Geurge KE. Hi Pp af Laren HOW n Mar shal, Thomas M Sweeney, of Johns d3ck Wilke, lavner Representative = Jusciiy. Hix | I sed law, Gegrze | Four pris shreast, bright, caper, laughing, § Doar chlctren of a hag gd world wha bold tint the roomier was daly enuipped § with gaffes and the two birds wore | beard no mare, apd the lmated pale | failed to bag & single ste. We were Eo § *% tk Ee CE ed Bids For io ihe Hook 1s wril the owner's To “Tittle Wareen : 1 doe them coming through the abady | reat Bach in ber odd, odd fashioned, flowing wwe, : ; Four blossoms bicoming in the green old | own. They hive in hearts alike of young and aid, in pany tongs thew girhah voices nme, A cherey spine: § time. Gghting baw of For she wha made them, made thon swoet | and trae, Real products of sur land of wan anid i pu wi Huan and good wad fresh ax PROS INg | The prs we love, Moz, Any, Bath and ~dJowwd Plonsekersing. An Odd Lhe Harp. Children who ar musically inelined an get & whole lot of fun out of a home-made old Btls harp. Flrss get some elastic bands and an empty vigar ax ODL ITTLE HARP. EA dS Si tox. 1 — Bet a deep cigar box, | the Dest kind over which to stretch elastics to make them sing Homimer slender wire nails st intervals along the front and back edges of the apen | tnx, then fake ordinary elastic lands iFig 5 and stretch thew across the | tox by slipping wach one over two | eta on the outside of it, forming he fhe shane bail Bot being porous, por take uw any water and erste Tribune. A L Living Peper Cnater., fred sone PORTE 2:5 1 -~ bi af € eniia, aml on one orendion Porraae of Al ati oT 4 copy of tow Edintarglt ing + nn the able fut igs, Jeu’ ects my bo ind articles. Rew here. This begins wil Scart The viceroy Inaghed., He pers | ceived that the isi had Attempied it to ly Review? 3 threw rae tN magazine. Ie was eanght by the which had been wrogght into mal cutters, Pen JRlwing Him volee be called out 20 the man val Mrs, Helin was éarried to the luke Detroit, August Ui 3812, Find two by an Dadian elle! in the massaces al oiler Indians. We wish all aur friends and patrons a Very ¢ Happy sad Prosperous New Year. § » | tarbances of any kind W mar the da wen iaway or that he met with an accident. | ley, Gertrude Eriecson. Abe Wilkin. Maguolick is a Slavish miner thirty son sand Flora Roueq missed but one years of age, with light brown hair day. Visitors & amoag them . ? and small mustache. He wore a brown Prof. Herman T. Jooes, county super. checkered coal and vest and dark intendent ; | paahed pas. He leave a ‘wife and Mrs. McClain was a devout member Vrisco, Hastings, $56. church from (ihild- | John B. Strittmatier ef ux to Rem Ee ro wha waa Botiored | Brandt Peale, Carroll township, $450. ! ted by all ber scquaintances, Frank Rager to Webster Coal and She was & kind mutter, 8 devoted wife Coke company, Eider township, $150. Seas Samia . David Charison ot ax ot al to ¥ ret Patterson, Carroll sownship $134.05. | Joh C. Miller ot 0x ot wi to Mary E. | j Kaylor, Carroll township, $15. Sf Phar (nee. rol 000. of Hasing, Gri the pro bi 9 ] inex, Carrolf sowsabip, § Sione ss a ics oh, Core Co chne s B.A Zoller of ux to Fred Arh, | Carroll township, $1.50, DR. Moore et ux to Webster Coat! and Coke esmpany, Allegheny, the Comtral Hotel recently, Notley lost $1060.90 and had the | Wo members of the party A Barnes Barourbore for fraud, an account of which Mary 1. Susquebanns, $0. Barnestoro, $1 John B Reed. to Edgar P. Reed OUur. (roll tewsabip. La ti Ho Christmas | 5 Fay, VEEL was very frnersily ob. of served in Patton thin year, The da a ; on ane Christos doy. The day Thos From the Sueirtwsrier wd Mellen orddiciart'y wold there from $1 to $8.56. 1 homnghly Aged Liquors that have stood the test of tine, ithe fat Fraveyard” tinge, the sow FE | that fell the night previcas complutely The following: is the report for Sprite. covering the ground. Special service THIEF whoo! for month ending Duc. Beboods for the Pasi Month were held in the morning by both the | 3, 1802. Catholics and Eplacopalisns and d baariy Namber of papls vurolled: males, 14; overs batons fae 1a town was closed. oonEles, 15; total 99. average atvend. | The merchants generally were willing | ance, males 12, females 13; total 25; per 10 give their employes u whole duy off, cont of attendance, males SM females _tbelug in a particularly happy mood ™h 1efal 87 Those perfect in attend. jover the volume of holiday business 0% Were: Kate Overberger, Berths j transacted. Most of the shies | wen: for Dieskisiex. Annie Gears, Bertha I for many yours past, 1 was a senson Dimer Bearer. Wiltiam Fox. Those of good cheer and there were ny fis. miming bot one day were: William | | Trenkles, Paul Uearbart Bertha Kings tem M. G. Duss, Teacher, ; Report of Mellon school, Carroll Peter Magnulick, who lived pear towsship for month ending Dee 2 Magutick went Mats 5 Barnesboro, ft his home Thamday, 1H: Whole namber in attendance; m | December ith, on a short hunting trip | males 9, fomulos 20, total 34; average so and bas not returned He told his slBndaner, males 7, females 3, total h | wife be wanted dinner as paaal, bot he 27 per cent of attendance: males 73, didn’t retarn for it, though his dog fersalen 78, tial average TA. The fol reached home about four o'clock that towing were perfect in attendance: afternoon. It is feared that he may Modustus Farabaugh, Bertha Fars have become demented and wandered baugh, Agnes Mertens, Clemence Fal B J OvERBERGES, Teacher Morenuihe Apprakier Avpotaied. : Advertisea Letters. The county commissioners have The following letters remain uncalled appointed Lyman Sherbine, of Croyle s for in She Pa o n post office for the two township, mercantile appraiser for this weeks « : ay, Dec. 27, 1902: year. He succeeds J. W. Dick, of "Soll Blarage, Men Anuie Johnson, Al- Johnstown, and will begin his work in Piste Grunge, will be preseat and will hands on account of the backward season. bert Nagle, Mrs. Catherine R. Nagios, March or April. The mercantile ap 0 Bodor Poll, J. Kopley, John B. Nole, praises receives mileage and postage | Domenico Nafuriani arid is paid by fees. He turns in the ~ Foreign: “ Andro Iv anceak, John mercantile licenses ta the county reas : Somes. ‘urer and for every merchant appraised Persons calling for the above letters he receives Afty cents. Mr Dick last will Please say that they are HAdver. year turned in 1,200 names, 50 that his (remuneration, exclusive of expenses, ® Wis Grexxe, Postmaster. via an. ! Read your ows Counizn 4. L Spangler of ux 0 Michal Us | | 3 ©. Fuz ot ax10 Autie Surin, Car. William H Sele ing 0 Yoo Jobs Whited to Sarsh 5 Whited, | Mary Ad Lavilliers et ¥ir to Thomas | | a : Louis Riebr ef nx to Xavier Porchoia, | | baugh, of Carroiitows: Patrick © Mal the Spangler, Mary B., wife of H 3 pid Bastings, $600. _ je, of this place, Naney C., a; home, | Jobo BE. Mancher wo 1 Joa A. Jr, of Bryn Muwr, and Jou OC, Peale, Carrofitown, $150.94. 8 student st Villa Nova college. ; ley, of latly: Patrick Nash, of Baroes boro; BW. Lisinger, of Lorette, and | Patrick Liihbons, of Ashville. The Aflowing delegates were pros. 1 rot GE Hippa, ¥. M. 1 No. 321 Carrolitown; CW. J Weakiand Y ML | No. 448, Patton; TM Sheehan, Jon No. § AO H, Patton: B. W Lita inger asl Dr. Miller, C. MB ] 311, Loretto: Patrick | ‘No. LAO oH, Barnesboro: x +. | Kearns and Fred Skelly, Division N LAO H, Johastown; Thomas H. Nar 84, Annem; nr ¥ in L, Yo. -, Johnstown; cbomcr en Qashote SLL The an Job convention is to be held | | Carrot ywn be Art Monday in April Sno | The Prod met that Baw Made Pats Famous fintug ap tn Foe Bitam soos coal advanced to #9 a tou | (in Phimdelphia Saturday, the highest | gare ever reached for this product. | SOLICIT YOUR FOTORE GOOD WILL AND C iS Lo any thing and « every thing to keep you warm. And a Big One Between pure wane} terated 1 liquor and the cheap stuff. As much difference as there is between any 1in the COURIER at the | Bens n &’ laviiliers ot vir to Thomas The adv ance curses in Lhe feece of the other commodity, ar even more $6. We maken specialty of [Tact that soft coal can be mined for handling only about Woosnte LW $1 a ton, and Shen (make & good peofit for everybody con : ewruied phat i cau be shipped to that eit for about $140 a ton, and that it is RE The stivane is ales made io the face Scores of different frand 5 Io select from. if the further fact that the soft soal SPErRlork re naw 13a prasation to mine mare cond than ever before bs the his ory oF the county, and that they fae Sal tiaal they wre coasly 10 send mid Boos of lous to Phlindelphia At once if She racitoads will carey 6 The Poupsyvivania is the only rail pond wileb can take soft cual to Phila ueipbia. The company i» not bringing (mach owe now than it did when the anthraei ie strike began, nearly months ago. The Pennsylvania says it bs sulliring from a case of “vonges- thon,” stud that the trouble wil prob ably last antl daly ar August next, al. : though President Cassatt made ate ¥isit fo Pittsburg and Altoona and en. deavorsii to sase up the situation at those points : Regular (Pusrteety WMosting ta hee Hold ot le fet ¥ Neal. i The rey iar quarterly meeting of the : KC county Pomona Grange will be held bi the opera Bouse at Ebens- burg on Mooday, Jan. 13, atSa mm. The directors of P. of H Fire lo. surance company will be elected div Cpectly aller the opesing of the after. (Boca session which will convene at 3p om. Magee Ave. A bottl € of whiskey in the house this cold disagreeable weather is almost an indispensible necessity. SOLE AGENT mn this viemity for the Ce lebrated Duquesne Beer, Ale and Porter. Ed. A. Mellon, WHOLESALE LIQUORS. Patton, A Big Lot of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’ s Coats and C: apes Must be disposed of ‘before our Annual Inventory The owning session will be open ta in January. the publi and will begio af 7380. J. 7 Allman, Secretary of the Pennsylvania These goods are of the latest pattern and are left on our Somebody is go- give an address at this session. A fall ing to get some bargains. program will be prepared for pablics Hien mext week. Hon J J Tuomas, Master Hemsax Dismay, Secretary. <Patmmize the home print shop. S DON'T Miss IT ! Also a large line of Furs will be disposed of at the same ¢rifice prices. Overcoats, Underwear and Winter Suits are We are letter prepared than ever to included | in this sale. tarn out commercial printing of al kinds anid at prices that can’t be dupli-. | erted for od work.
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