The Patton courier. (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) 1893-1936, March 20, 1903, Image 6

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    TB ico BR ANA 6 rt bo
seit aang to chsse np my
14ping 10 the roots of my hair. w aa
: , but peated an one nd
; y colored Jthograph.
in the Aroop of Miss Lor
regal head gave nw rudden
age. 1 bent down until my eves
hers, #04 in them | rend, as plainly
» could say it the immortal re-
bike of Priscilla to her faint hearted |
ver: “Why don't you peak for your.
df. John?’
And Stub? Welt, { may as well con.
ex it. 1 bad been made the victim of
| % diabolical ruse. Mr. Van Alan had
the state of wy feelings |
got the ides from a chatice remark of
. | Helen's that it was ouly my cowardice
| that stood in the way of making me the
bapplest man allve, and forthwith oe
sayed the role of matchmaker.
| He was my best mun siz wonths |
. Iater—Leslie's Weekiy,
PR
= Looked Quits Canning,
fA three year-old girl, fair of balr and
sunny face, was aitraiting attention
{in an Erie ferryboat the other after.
' | noon, when a little woman somewhat
7 | past middie age came tripping fn with
a mincing gait, in & very short rainy.
day skirt, a bright red waist showing
| under a Monte Carlo cost. and a girlish
hat topping the whole. The obvious |
OE | sttempt to appear youthful wouid have
» said Stun, art.
at me, It he had
chatr at my head |
all at once In Took:
the window. I wasn't anx-
to see my face.
1 had been in love
for two years,
Suttering about her
bout the candle fine
same resplt. 1
: ue even by my
been pathetic had it not bein for the
simpering expression oxi the woman's
face. 7
YSee. mammal See” excitimed the |
child, pointing to the womsn,
“Hush, Gladys” sald the young
mother, trying to divert the child's st.
tention,
“Bee! Ree!” pergisiod the rhild and
{as the woman who wonld appear
youthful smiled at the child, Gladys
} raised her volee and clapped her little
hands, exclaiming:
“Ixn't it cunning 7°
Amid the fllconcealad mirth of the |
passengers the woman whe bad pro-
yoked this apt though fanocent sail
hurried into the forward cabin-—New
York Thues.
Trae Held Up For a CHINA.
When traffic on Broadwis was most
congested the other day, a feeble old |
{ woman, In tattered garments made ber
WAS 10 the corner of Dey street, with a
inte gir cintchiog pervously at her
skirts. The stalwart policeman st the
crossing approached them and gently
taking the woman by the arm, started
to guide ber through (he lane separat.
ing trucks and ears. Half way across
the street, the little girl dronped al
package, and a few cunts’ worth of |
= | peanuts were scaltered on the tracks,
" said Stub, as if
ith a bright ides.
aren't you? I remember
EBay once that Kenneth
1 of the nicest men shre
Fean't you -- er — ef — Sor?
r me? Tell her bow i
me, aud that I am not really
head ns 1 appear in her
Tell her 1-1 lsve her—just
oursel!, you know: may
8 thought I cared for her she
take e me for a sstrimontal
ed, sternly. “Do your
. Do you suppose a girl
Lorrington would think
man who was lacking In
Ww." sald Stub: “that's
ing to find out.
i
: amp.” remarked my
contemptuous tones, “Prom-
K to her to-night, if you
nee, at Mrs. Applebee's
1d do nigre for him than
Well I arrived |
t night with a
to plead my
girl I loved
{stow
She Jooked up at ber big guardian with
a stare, and asked:
“Can I get them back
By this time the truck drivers were
nf paling impatiently on their reins, for
the
progress of the trio had been
Certainly, little one.” replind the po.
llceman, as he put up his Band and
beld the Broadway traffic in check
| while the child gathered tiem all foto |
{ & newspaper.
The drivers fumed, hat pedestrians
who saw the little incident, smiled as
h ther moved on—New York Mall and
AAA rH gr a
Effort of Newspapers on Fiction.
There is a story told of a newspaper | ;
correspondent who telegraphed his
$ editor as follows: “Have eoltunn story
fon go-andso,
Shall I send 03 The
editor, mindfal of the value of space,
wired back: “Send six hundred words”
In a few hours he receives] another
messuge from the anxious correspond.
ent, reading: “Can't be 193d 19 loss than |
twelve hundred” The welitor promptly
telograpiied back: “Story of ercation |
of the world told in six hundred. Try
iL” And In due time the correspond.
ent sent In his story writtem within
the prescribed Hmits, The condensas-
tion of language in the pewspapers of
our tims has undoultedly had a reac
tionary effect on our Hteratare. Our
novelists no Jonger indulge ta the ele
gant efforescence of two chapters In a
book where one can take {ts place. and
{even the leisurely introductury pages
of Scott, fine as they are. would not
be read in a novelist of to-day, unless,
Indeed, another Beott should arise,
ow
Te Was a nmertar,
Occasionally a humorist ts fonnd
among the toilers, and he is a ray of
sunshine not to be ignored. Buch a ane
was acting as guard on an “LI train
Saturday. Humanity was strogeliog
to got aboard; every third passenger |
a -bwas asking, "What is this train? snd
and I had been friends since
there was a general feeling of hmpa-
tience, It wag all dissipated in a
moment, however, at the next station,
ns the guard opened the gates, for he
sung out ina cheerful voice! “Sardine
express; all stops; take your time!”
And the people harried aboard with
Mr. | a smile on their faces that lasted for!
-] several minutes Now York Man and |
HE monemient reared m rom
enmoration of the Spit Lake
massacre, (he bioodlest frag.
: ody in the history of lowe. »
a peach ul shaft sbout sixty fest high
built in al ste sevtions of rough and |
: Polished granite
. The story of the massacre ax relnted |
8’ Ly Mrs. Abigstl Garfiner Sharp. a sur-
vive, loca of thrilling Interest
~The Rh of March 1857." she paid
{ “the Indians entered our honse, and
{Instantly shod my father throagh the
“host. He fell dead. Af fhe sare Pease |
i ther solved ray mother 85d By Site
hy the sre, besting heen over th
beads with their pane and delving hi
Lent of doors; they thers ktiled fleas dos
fenseless women fo the wost shocking
tanner,
"They pert seized the ohildren, tear
Ing them from my ots ons pt a thee
The tle ones repr ed out thelr sire
towerd me, crying io terror for the pro.
tection that 1 wax powerless tn five.
Heedless of thelr pitedas cries the sav:
j mgen dragred them out of doors and
Kid they with stloks of stove woud
“Prgring thice awlul soenon | was
both wpecchioes and tearions, but Yow,
1 slone in the presence of the dying and
the dead, it geemer a8 thous 1 eoald
pot wait for the missile of death to
trike me vo 1 roshed torwand to one
of the band and begreed him to BU oe
Tgulck, He then roughly seized me by
the arm and enid something whch 1
eould pot nallerstand, bat 1 well knew
by bis actious that 1 was 10 be Wmkin
captive ;
“Of the forty porsgns who were then
who was at bame wae killed except
Ble snd mpeelf, whom the Inllsne took |
with thes aa captives of their relia |
to the netth :
“Alper xin weeks of incessant murel.
through what Ix pow koown ss Lake |
Madison, in Bouth Dakota, we Wire
visited by two strange Indisoe, who
bought Mra. Marble,
tre of Mr Marble we fll In with
| party of Yaslhton Slogg. One of Them, |
pimed Wandoekalhanke, or Brdaof.
EmeSonke, bought Ms Xeble sud ny
gat from the mierernsry Ink pa dn-ta,
“ne evening a short time afier we
wore seltied for the night. after 8
weary march, Mrs. Noble and | were
of Ink-pa-dnta came into the tent of |
the Yankton #84 ordered Mrs. Nobile to
thar she would not go. No scoper did
phe refuse to go that she was seized by
the arm with one hand, aod, with a big
war club in the other he dragged ber
Junt outside the tent door and there
! ¥truvk her three blows such 8s onl Fan
Indisn ean deal. The Dteous groans of
pieread my ears-<leep, sorrowlnl and
out to £0 to ber side. 1 was wo GLizror
¢ gtricken.
"A few days after the death of Mrs
Xobie we reached the Jim River in the
northern part of Soulh Dakota. Jere:
wis An encampment of 200 lodpes of
the Yankton Sisux, a powerful braveh
of the Slopx nation,
“On May 3 thers appeared in the
wearing oils and white shirts with
starched bosoms J was cortain they
well knew no Indian worsen rere
shirts. 1 soon discovered thar [ wis
the sublect of thelr conversation.
| "At the end of three days I wan de.
Hivered over to the ‘Indians in conte’
and the Journey toward elvilization
was begun”
FEROCITY OF THE CATAMOUNT
“When it comes to savage creatures
I will put the catanmount against wey.
thing to be found in the woods” sald |
come out in the lead with distanse io
spare. The catamount fx a ferosious
creatures sud you will have your hinds
full to come ont with your Hfe in
| the first place, they are well equipped
provided them with kag curved and
pointed claws and extraondis
knife, snd if they could use a scythe
{when it coma to mowing a pack of
Boh shy of entamonnta,
“They will scatter and ses per
seribe when they suddenly jose 85 trail
They do not care tH surprise a sia!
mount by rashing upon him soddenly,
They Epow what it will mean to them.
Even pups, out on their first chase |
seem to be wise enpugh instinctively
They are desperate fighters and tn the |
season when food Ia scarce apd when
they become lean and lank from furag-
ing. they are especially desperate.
few years ago while @oating down the
ft Francls River in a dugout, soe
forty tee uh from the mouth of the
river. 1 hed a friend In the dugout
canoe, Bowas a catamsunt. The and
the purpose of attacking us, and had |
leaped from a Hmb which bung out
ever the river at an elevation of Wirty |
esc
residents of the lakes region there wae |
{ not one lol to toll the tale! Every one
Mrs. Nobile, Mra Thateher, Mra Mar |
Ing over the trackless prairies amd
“Rome four weeks after the depart.
were sobl, lost pe we subpomd we
Unbout to He down to vost when # aon |
go out. She shook ber bead sv 8 signal |
kis viethm camse through the tent snd |
erow, Dewey said: “Jolin Jotea, 1 wo
awiul to bear. I dul pot dare venture!
camp of the Yankions thoes ludians
{were from the white seftlements se 1
skilled in the art of laundering white |
&n oid hunter, “and [ am sore wird |,
for fehting ot close range. Nature hag!
# 2 3 ua!
sharp teeth. Their claws cot fhe 2
they could not meet With more SUoowes | xy
dogs down. Dogs, for this reason, |
aronnd to the sides of the frall, resort. |
Ing to the same circular course they dei
“1 remember an experieace 1 had al
with me. Suddenly we heard a jimh |
above us swish back as if relfeved of 8
heavy weight, and in an instant some. |
thing fell {0 the river at the side of the
rial had tried to land in the canos Tor
tire. and you don't have to
them fn order to get 8 Sght”-Slew
| Orleans Times Democrat.
BOY'S TRIP ON AN ON AN ICE CARE
Ia the Missvar! River the other after.
biy, who Hees st Por
rowing song fosting Je Io the Min.
£i28d. and to sere himself froen drown.
In Dots got on 8 Big eaks of ee,
Tle cake gor dieisdesd and fomted
heir floated for severs] pubes. and st
tion men, who, however, Were unable
to bend him sexistanes,
#3
Uhe plies st Kaness City, Kan.
wore notified, snd the petrel wagon
wis Goslly sighted in the middie of
Pui Missetir] River. Imtmesse cakes of
rested, and he was within a few fest
be would protably freee to death.
the boy. It was a perfions Journey that
thy peliceman and the boy had fn the
relurn to the Kansas Dank of the Mis
satgrl, bot the boat flually landed. A
thiers were proposed for Patrolman
hardly speak. He was taken to No. 1
| wis petit to Pomeroy. The boy sys be |
Missouri River —~XKassss City Journal,
Umee when Admiral Dewey was ox-
soitive officer of the old Kenraurpe, 0
1. ways the Ban Francisco Argpooant, |
Cf the pun eek
srising himeei? with twelve pists
Iriveer, it Is related, warted low they,
anil toe rail
Jleaching the mutinesrs, the deatined
bers of Manila Bay, facing them with
8 hockel pistol in each band and the
hig cout, sald: “Call the roll” The
frit same happened to be John Juoes
Through sheer force of haddt he zn.
swered “Here” Alsing his pleted at,
Janes, who stood in the rear of he |
Youu. 1 am gong to have your name
; 5 led pnee more, and if you do pot an
| eJitn Joses™ yang out the voles of the
sling writer. Xo answer. Dewey |
k
fired The miles weant for John Jones
Fwy throueh the beat of the man
©
{gta nding beeide him, »
std: “Now! wen, the roll will be con
he will answer and po op on deck.
Call the roi”
“Elere” answered Bmitk puting hile
af Dewey's natal frowned ancompro
misingly upon Bim he stepped out from
the ranks of his fellows and disap
ofr the remaining forty-eight followed
suit
WOMANS FIGHT WITH A BULL
Mir. 2nd Mrs. Henry Puller, who Hive
with thelr five children on 8 farm
| of Chester, N. J. had a terrible experi-
jemle onl A recent morning About 6
wember. Otice corner one of these
‘hork Mrs Paller heard the bellow.
ing of a viclops deborned bell owned
he font of the Immortal Eliza of
“1'neds Tom's Calin” wes dupifsted |
fioon, Jebn Owens a fourteen Fearadd |
wiles north of Kansas City, Kon, waa |
sort River. He lost contral of Nis |
bout, and Loally found himself? welped |
in the ne cakes of or, The bout oape
don streuts with Owens open 16 The |
Quindiare was sect; Ly 8 gang of sees |
whe ont to the Toot of Minsessta ave. |
nar to await the srrival of the boy, He
Mien had wedged the ope on whieh he
of 8 sandbar in the middle of the riwt. !
This boy wae #11! om the ive s04 whily
He was not In Bnminent pertl the polices
rajilized that be rust be tescunt cles |
Patrolman MeElrar secured 5 rows
hant from 8 Gshermoan and went 10 the |
| bay's ssxistance. The officer Sad a
hart haitie with the ire oakex, but he
Sanity resched the santbar and rescued |
Ervat crowd witnessed the yesrue end |
when the boy was finally landed on i
terra firmua a shout went op. snd three |
MuEirey. Owens was not at all wet, |
buat he wos so chilled that be pould |
stntion. and aftér being thawed out |
wii pot do any more rowing In the |
HOW DEWEY QUELLED MUTINY. |
ify mallors mutinied asd went below |
Humemoning the ship's writer, who
kad charge of the watch muster. and |
(they were of rather ancient patiern, =
The ship's writer curried a iantern |
olor tes tucked away in the breast of
ser and limtoediately po Up on deck |
you are a8 dead man. Call the roll™
Almint before Lis dead body rock
thi deck Dewey, recocking bis weapon, |
tinned, Ax each mays name ie valied
eorge BEmBth™
hand to Bis foreton and as the muorsle |
pwned throuel the forehateh, One by
oy the oouniain about Sve miles north
This weld a txtensire
That there mens but hirthe Sage
3 pase oan over be msirtaisasd
* Turmigaont 358 ighty sob
Por when one country's got
And renning email wud night
Aided pote nnesey and
Prigares Io mart 8 baht
wo i = aston Star.
AND SUE ENOWR
*1s be a well-informed man?
"1 shonddl may so. Why, Lis wife tells
him wey Tng ww Tergiaviibe Post,
I 3 A SE
. ABSU RANCE,
pletare takens-i bope that the ple
fares will be handaoee.”
hardly ecrgnize oursait” New Tork |
Word,
WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS.
"Mark you. if we honest mea do Dot
orgasize tie politictsns will ignorn we.”
“Ax! But {f the organisation
som to anything the politi |
will enpitre 2.7 ~Prek A
RUBBING IT IN,
Wife-"10d you #ver notices that |
domed talker is wanally a3 ignorant per |
Tt
Hosband "Well, you nest talk so
Youd; T's not geal ~Yicagn News
EXTREMELY RARE
grose of humor? oe ;
Father—"The sevise of Somer, my
Young Lady (who ban fost bad Der |
Vemmy--~Pop, what is meant by the
mon, consis lempely of knowing when
sot to be funny. “—Fhiladelphis Juserd. §
SUPERIOR TO TEs, ; 1
Ones my litle brother wished to ride |
with papa. Paps sald, “Na, not under;
the clivuimstances™
My itl brother peplied: “08 1 can
ride on the rircuinstasces, aja
Putiadelphia Beourd.
" A DURBAR ECHO.
“1 see that the Hower elephants at the
durbar were Introdoced by the SQbs™
“That's strange”
“What's serange™
“Strange that they were not a Blkhly
ot" —Clevieland Paln-Dealer,
THAT SETTLES IT.
"1 see that some one is sdvoenting |
the praject of a sewspaper prioted in a |
compact talidald forzs lke a book,” said |
Mr. Torque.
“The very Mea oried Mrs Toye;
=it's simply ridicnions™
“In what way? i
“Wily, such 8 paper would be simply |
oles 10 put under 8 enrpet”--Ihaits
more Herald
Aa, —
FACLUSIYE,
Fh them, and renting to the Seid where |
[it bad been pry
” bis % chest.
wre ton stall fo be of
sguin snes dws the proBgs Into the
animes fesl hat it continmed to butt
its victim with is broken bora. |
Chunging ber tscties, Mrs. Puller
i bravely assalind the rail in front and |
rucpealed in drivine him from her
| los) band's oe Then she xtoond beside
| the prostrate min and checked the
f rushes of the Inforiatad bull with the
! sliarp points of the plichfonk
to give the catamount a wide range. |
For ball an hour she sicod at bay,
{ Revping off the animal which eireled
about ber and charged repeatedly, and
| thon a number of men arrived to the
Fresone and Mr Puller, who was une
| his head and shoulders were badly
Clrndsed, snd that 8 putiber of rida
ware broken,
Strang Pajeer,
Ra strong ix Bank of England note
paper that a single sheet will Nit rf
weighty of pounds.
The Maw Whe Wats,
i The worst thing about waiting te
| dead we's shoes is that yom are apt
hd got cold feet Piladeighin Besard
ig. saw the anim ad |
stapling over he » prostrate Loshand |
sul tex ving to drive the stump of is
ming and wetpior
rin i fitel the nearest pelphs |
Bore slie seized] 8 pitchfork and at
tacked the bull a the retr. Again and
COTE hia wig carried to the house |
| The physician sammoned found that!
“Why you mnof scvent Manntae |
turer Rchults at your cioh? He be!
ngs to a good family and &s very |
tieh :
“Oh, that's all right. but be made kis
own money," Flegende Blaetier,
PRESENCE OF MIND.
Black and White recalls a story of a
Mishwarman who was ootwitted by al
Bolom whom be waria ia
yr OUT money or your He sald the |
bere of the road presentinz a cocked |
pistol at the window of z carriage on
Hoeoozlow Heath
"1 would not yield to one map” re.
sponded the ocoupast of the vehibotas,
“hut as there are two of you 1 muse
CAA ibs
round 0 see wheres the second man |
was, andl st that mament receivind a
bullet through the heart trom bis FN
tend § viet i
3
CF bodily removed to iS
i sole mrom the dir fo nomen the
| tandr Spaniards to mass and served.
| pany for $15,000. $s cintmed Fe, s
#Park from one of ix sno caused
business prevents at Erbel The tests
tony showed that the Sante Fo train
J | plogoed at Ethel four minotes the
piglt of the fire. but iat diss the fre
| was well nader way befove the fray
pulled est, and the rond's attorneys
srgibedt that |B owas ridicnions to male
tain that 8 Sre could be started by %
spaik and gor well poder wir in wool
PR short time. Mr Norton detolsd praee
tieally bis entire srzatwst to this
eat,
“Rin sa - says the Macon Repub
Hewmiy, “if 2 young fellow was SilUINg
on 4 sofa plaving bands with bis ght
tixon traveled Nhe an expoesy tealing
{hat if you desped = Jot of engine
spats of the ph roof of 8 dry bulide
t ing in surmiser tinge four minutes were
ansyie to wets the fate of the strain
fu owpite of all offerte to save i There
were some incredalous soviles at this
The attorney took out bis wateh sod
| banded it to Jurrman LL. 8 Hares
2 hamker of Clinton Hil, Randolph
County, and requested Nim to signal
wiin four miswies bad passed. The
Jurymen leaned over and lonked down
#2 the wately, Then they got trad 30d
petted back in their sesta. Mr Havise
Jowired his hand and rested 1 on Ms
kno, The sitorney so'fied his feet a
few tiroes snd sa? down io 8 chaise
Jodps Adams looked 31 the clock sod
thes) ont of the window.
“NX Geputy marshal pat Nis bead
{ 8% tie door 16 see what wis the mailer
1 and wilted the resull of the rurious
1 seegie. Nearly every man In the rons
that had a watch was studying ts
facts The speaker was sscrilelog
four minutes of Bla alloted me bat
be felt that It was well nvesiad. AS
last Joror Harlan snnotresd the four
mingtes Had expired 2nd handed the
walich back to Mr Norton, Oaly four
1 mingtes, and yet to evry men in the
roca It hed seemed under the sup
presses] tension, ti have heen twice as
long. The court remarked after the
| cam Bad been decided that it appeared
Pally Sftees minsies. The wearisome
susjense was sn eToctive object eee
sen te the fury and a starting exposh
tion of what might transpire iu that
tim. The fury found thar the de
fendant's engine kad zople time In
fom mingtes ta fre the restanrast
batiding and they brongi In 8 verdiet
for the pista tor 834. He, Hthe ex
act sum ber proal? showed her loss
be
The case kad besn pending In the
conte ten Juars—Kacsas City Jour
Be Wornid Ostwit Fate.
The man’s bump of elogoent en
treaty was highly developed. Thus OM
be joguire a saliroad pase
The mars bump of cantion Stand
way out on bis hesd. # 2
“I Bave beard” sald Bn “that pagsens
gerd traveling on & pass always get
into an accident. god fanGt recover
damages from the rairoad by reason
of tie fact that they were traveling an
8 piss. Therefore” zail be, “IT will
outwit fate aod pot Disured in an sock
Geni company.”
Flom the fact that be sewared to
outwit fate it will be dudocnd that his
bun of conceit was alse highly de
veloped. Troa The mass umd of
} emit was 3 reguiar Knabibie
As x matter of fart thers was 8 raf
rondl soclkdent. The mas was in it. He
i dnt even reveive x seratel. Other
| pastengers who Bad paid $1.40 for a
tk managed © reveive Ligdk ezew
brolsed elbows, and thisgs and sve
soe someting lke FNC aniece dam.
agen from the sosllesy sod grasping
raihoad company.
To outwit fate! OL, the fatulty of
masi-New York Bun,
Bell Tha: Calied Columns lbw
There is a bed] at Washinton whose
blstipry dates book © the very tegine
{ming of civiibzation on this continent,
{It By a trifling afar as regards sive,
; Its Simesalions being only eight Oy six
Cand ene-bail Inches: yet Hs pores
! sontided to vall the great discoverer,
Myanbes fo waver spd sacred Wor
it was lowoght from Spain in
| Decimber, 14 3, amd set up La 3 church
ar Ban Twins
It was the soeeial
‘ean ad bears the
we TF In old Gothie
co 358 oer: ww, When
thos ew oily of the phains,
founded chur and bil were
CS There is notes
bow freanandtly pose con toll to recall
{to he minds of the veaturenune ex-
| ploniTs wémarivs of thelr sunny home
bideous and utterly barbaric It reps
land located far away soross the sed —~
Pittaberg Dispatels
Artietie Tay-Makivg.
Sonnelerg aad Nuorembery are the
i. of the wooden tor atl doll mak.
ng Hadostry, which bas found so ready
a market In leglon this week, Years
aon the toys tarped ont at Sonneberg
were of the roughest description, made
entirely of wood, with vopainted faces
i But the workmen bave Decode more
eriinge and (he Industry has been on
araed. No ome factory make the en
tire {iol The making of bisgue heads
| Is entirely different from that of pa
pee ache beuds wonden beads and
ching beads. The bor of tov and
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