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VOL. XIV. LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7,1891. NO 49
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141BORTH P I N S T M T , LANCASTER PA
NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER.
MERCHANTS' HOTEL.
MERCHANTS' HOTEL, READING, PA.
Two Blocks from P. Depot. House
neatly furnished. Excellent Ladies' Parlor
and fine Dining and Sitting Rooms. Heated
with steam throughout.
AUG. PUCKER, Proprietor,
S. W. Cor. Third & Penn sts.
3 mar-lv Reading, Pa.
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PURE RYE WHISKEY.
J. B. HERTZLER, Proprietor,
LITITZ, PA.
Distillery on.e mile east oi It. R. Depot.
lOmay-ly
UR familj', which consisted of
father, mother, myself, and sister,
had been living in Minnesota
nearly two years when the Indians
initiated that murderous and historic
uprising. I was 16 years old, and my
sister Mamie was 12. We were living
on a 100-acre farm, six miles from t he
nearest village and a mile irom any
neighbor. We had a snug log house,
barns, &c., and had about fifty acres in
cultivation. Three days before the
outbreak my father had marched away
with a company of recruits ior t he
army and this same company had
taken almost every able-bodied man
out of our neighborhood. The crops
were to be left for the wives and
children to harvest, and the idea of
troubles never entered any one's mind.
While Indians were more numerous
than white people, nobody had reason
to fear them. They were under care
pf the Government, and, so far as
anybody knew, were perfectly satisfied,
and entertained friendly feeling toward
the settlers.
My father leit home the day before
the outbreak, and mother went along
to see him off. This was the case
with several other women in our settle-ment.
They left early in the morning,
intending to return next day. Sister
and I were left entirely alone, but a t
about 9 o'clock in the forenoon an
Indian named Long Walk made his
appearance. He had often called at
our house, sometimes staying all night.
He had a bad sore on his leg, caused
by the bite of a dog, and mother had
made and given him an ointment which
was fast healing it up. Father had
mended his gun for him, mother had
mended his clothes, and Long Walk
was indebted to the family for many
other kindness. He was a man of
about forty, very intelligent, and, as
near as we could learn, had never been
married.
I was cutting hay about a quarter
of a mile back of the house, and
Mamie was spreading it to cure, when
the Indian appeared. He had been to
the house and found father and mother
gone. When he came down to us he
queried:
" Where father ?"
" Gone with the soldiers," I replied.
" W h e r e mother?"
She has gone to see father off."
He looked anxious and troubled,
and when I asked if he would have
something to eat he replied in the
negative. He sat down in the shade
of a tree and nothing to say for a
while, WThen I repeated my inquiry,
and Mamie offered to cook him some
breakfast, he rose up and replied:
" Come along to cabin."
When we reached the house he took
a long look up and-down the road. It
was sixteen miles to the railroad station
from which the soldiers would depart,
and Long Walk seemed to be wonder-ing
if he should advise us to set out
for that point. After a time he seem-ed
to think it wouldn't do, and turned
and entered the house. Our Cabin
was a two-roomed affair, with a garret
above. There were two windows in
each room below, but none above.
Long Walk examined, the windows,
and then went out to a pile of lumber
in the yard and said :
" Get saw—get hammer—get nails
—get boards and fix windows. Make
eyerything good to day."
" But why ?" I naturally asked.
" Suppose bad Indian come to-mor-row
?" he queried in reply.
" But t he Indians won't hurt us."
" Don't know. Indian heap mad.
Iadian drink heap whisky. Indian
may kill white folks."
His manner, more than, his words,
made me feel that danger menaced us
and I got the tools he asked for and
began work at once. He measured
for the windows, and I sawed off some
pieces of plank. He then as<ked for an
auger, and before the pieces were nail-ed
up we cut loopholes in them, two
to each window. We then removed
the sashes from the windows and nail-ed
the planks on the inside. Long
Walk examined the front door, which
was the only one, and by his direction
I reenforced it and added a second bar.
When this had been done he asked,
" How much gun in the house ?"
We had a rifle and a shotgun, to-gether
with a revolver, which belong-ed
to a young man who had worked
for us in the spring and was then on a
farm about ten miles away. I got
these arms together and Long Walk
examined them with great care. We
had two pounds of powder, a lot of
shot and caps, and three or four bars
of lead. He seemed to be satisfied,
and then took me out doors and said:
" B a d Indian no come to-day but
come to-morrow. Get plenty of water
in the house. Make rain on roof. Ii
bad Indian come, shoot him."
" But I can't understand." I said.
" Why should we be afraid of the
Indians?"
" Indian heap mad—look out!" he
replied, and with that he stalked away,
and would not even turn his .head
when I called to him.
I don't belieye I should have real-ized
the full significance of his-warning
had not an older head come to my
assistance. Mrs. Webster, our nearest
neighbor, whose-busband had also gone
to be a soldier, biit who had not gone
with him to the station, came over at
noon to borrow some flour. When
told her what had happened she was
very much alarmed. She had heard
whispered fears of an Indian outbreak,
and she argued that Long Walk would
not have done as he had if there was
not imminent danger. She had no
children, and was only a few minutes
in deciding to remain with us until
mother returned. I went to her house
and got her double-barrelled shotgun
and ammunition, as well as a bundle
of clothes, and when I returned we be-gan
carrying out the instructions of
the Indian. The spring was only a
hundred feet from the house. I got on
the roof and water was passed up to
me, and I flung it about until the slabs
would soak in no more. A bonfire on
the roof would scarcely have ignited
them We had two tubs and several
jars. These we filled and carried into
the house.
I t was four o'clock in the afternoon
when we were through. I had then
moulded over a hundred bullets for
rifle and revolver, and we could think
of nothing else to add to our security.
What was a very unusual thing, we
had seen no Indians that day, except
Long Walk. This, as much as any-thing
else, satisfied Mrs. Webster that
something unusual was on foot. About
five o'clock she determined to go to
her cabin to pack tip and bring away
some small articles, and returned two
hours later in a state of great agitation.
She had caught sight of several Indians
skulking about, and on the road, had
met a squaw, who had spoken to her
in an insulting manner, and tried to
take the bundles from her hand. It
was not yet dark when we shut the
house up and made ready for the aw-ful
tragedy which was to be played on
the morrow.
I don't think Mrs. Webster closed
her eyes that night, although nothing
occurred to disturb us, and sister and
I slept many hours. It had been d ly-light
for an hour when we awoke, and
we were then aroused by the voice of
Mrs. Webster saying:
Children! Children' The Indians
are coming 1"
M hile I was dressing I heard the
yells and whoops of Indians about the
house. There was a gang of about
forty of them, and as soon as I looked
out through a loophole I saw a great
smoke from the direction of Mrs.
Webster's house. Just as I was dress-ed
there came a pounding on the door,
anil the voice of an Indian called o u t :
Huh! Somebody in here ! Open
door, quick ?"
What do you want?" asked Mrs.
Webster.
"Indian hungry-want food. Indian
good friends with Mrs. Bliss.
I was watching the crowd at the
door, and I saw that all were armed.
Two or three were crouched ready to
spring at the door the. instant it was
unbarred.
" Go away—you can't come in," re-plied
Mrs. Webster.
" Indian want food."
"We have none for you."
"Indian want whiskey."
" There is no whiskey in the house."
" Then Indian want to talk."
" Well, what do you want ?"
They had expected to take us by
surprise, and the fact that they had
not upset their calculations for a time.
They retired a short distance to talk it
over, and during the interval we made
ready for what was coming. Making
as little noise as possible, six Indians
laid down their guns and picked up a
piece of 4 by 4 scantling, which father
intended to use as one of the sills for a
dairy house over the spring. They
were approaching the door with this
battering ram when I fired from the
left-hand window a>nd Mrs. Webster
from the right, both of us using shot-guns.
I fired at the men's legs and she
at their heads. I had. but one barrel,
while she had two.
As all six went down I thought at
first we had killed them all. Not so,
however, though it was plain that all
were hit. Two lay on the ground un-der
the scantling, while the others got
up to limp away. We had opened the
battle, and got in the first knock-down
blow. For a moment the ^Indians
were mystified. Then they uttered
their war whoop, and t he fight was on.
I think I should have made a good
fight of it w.thout Mrs. Webster, as I
had been brought up on the frontier,
and had t he nerve of a man, but it
was well that she was there. ..While
she was pale-faced and anxious her
voice was steady, and she took things
coolly. Sister Mamie was greatly
frightened at first, but after a few
minutes she overcome it and asked for
the rifle, with which she was a toler.
ably fair shot.
The first move of the Indians was to
take possession of the log barn, which
stood about 200 feet away. There was
little or nothing in it, and if they fired
it the distance was too great to en-danger
the house. They opened fire
on the two rear windows, and we kept
away from them. Now and then one
of their bullets came through a loop-hole
but we were out of range. Tbe
Indians must have known that father
was gone, and they probably hoped to
scare us with a great noise. They
continued shooting for half an hour,
and then one of them stepped out from
the barn and waved a white rag and
asked for a "talk."- In reply Mrs.
Webster fired a charge of buckshot
which knocked him over, and we saw
his body dragged around the corner of
the barn.
The Indians now scattered and en-circled
the house, and dropping down
whenever they could find cover they
opened a steady fire. By sitting down
on the floor we were safe from any
bullets which might enter 'the loop-holes.
They simply wasted their pow-der,
and after an hour all but four of
them started off down the road. Their
impatience was too great to permit
them to tarry longer. There were
hundreds of other settlers who had re-ceived
no warning and made no prep§-
ration, and were waiting, as it were, to
be plundered and murdered. The
four who-remained stood just out of
rifle-shot to watch the door, and we
eid not see another Indian until near-ly
sundown. Then a band of about
seventy-five came along. Some were
on stolen horses,some on foot and about
thirty of them packed into two wagons
which they had taken from white men-
From the yelling, shouting, and
shooti-ng indulged in one would have
thought our chances very slim. A
part of the force occupied the barn, so
as to command the rear windows, while
the rest made a sort of rifle pit to com-mand
the front. The two who had
been killed in the morning still Jay
where they had fallen, and as darkness
came on we made ready to receive any-one
coming after the bodies, It was a
starlight night, and about 9 o'clock I
caught sight of two warriors creeping
up to the spot. I called Mrs. Web-ster's
attention, and by the time they
were up we were ready for them. As
they were moving the scantling off the
body we fired upon them, and neither
one moved a yard after being hit.
Now came a full hour during which
not a shot was fired or a shout uttered.
Then the Indians began firing blazing
arrows at the roof, and I have no
doubt that twenty or more alighted
thereon. That danger had been pro-vided
for, however, and when they
found they could not burn us out they
fell back on another plan. From one
of the back windows I saw them carry-ing
a long pole to the front of the
house. There were several of these
lying near the barn, and it was now
plain that they were going to t ry the
power of battering rams. I saw one
made ready at the back of the house
as well, and when I told Mrs. Webster
she posted Mamie and me a t the back
windows, while she stood at the front.
The Indians had planned a real attack
from the rear, with only a feint at the
front. With five men at each pole,
they made a rush for both windows at
once, while the front of the house was
only menaced. Mrs. Webster saw
through the plan in time, and* came
running back just in time to secure a
loophole. She and Mamie had the
shotguns, while I had the revolver,
and the Indians did not get within five
fast of the house. Our volley was
followed by screams and yells on their
part, and those who had not been dis-abled
beat a hasty retreat. From that
time until morning we were undisturb-ed,
but they succeeded in carrying off
their dead. We could not tell then
what damage we had done, but several
weeks later, at the trial of the chief
conspirators and leaders, it was stated
by an Indian that we killed seven and
wounded six redskins in our defence.
When morning came not an Indian
was in sight, but before noon we had
half a dozen men and women with us
who were fleeing for their lives, and
before night we numbered twenty. It
was a week before we were relieved,
and during that time bands of Indians
turned aside at intervals to attack us
and be beaten off, with loss only to
themselves. It was one of the two
farm house forts in that great area of
country which made a successful re-sistance,
and but for our success the
number of murders would haye been
added to by a t least two dozen.
A Model Dry Goods Clerk.
So much is said about the snappish-ness
and impudence of the clerks in
the big d ry goods stores that when one
is found that cannot be made cross by
any combination of circumstances he
ought certainly to have the benefit of
the fact being heralded abroad, even
if for obvious reasons neither his name
nor the name of the store which is so
fortunate as to have his service can be
given. The store is, however, in Four-teenth
street, New York, and the clerk
is the most accommodating one in the
whole retail dry goods district, so it
may not be a hard matter for shoppers
to identify him.
I t was on the very hottest day of
last month that this clerk was put to
his severest test. An old lady from
the country had, with an infinite
amount of trouble, succeeded in mak-ing
a somewhat extensive purchase of
linen for her table. To pass over the
preliminary incidents of the showing,
of about all the table cloths and nap-kins
and graycloths in stock before t he
purchase was made, the real trouble
began with the payment. The old
ly emptied out on the counter the
contents of a small handbag. The
contents were dimes and five cent
pieces and there was a big heap of
them. The purchase just came under
3, After counting it over twice, the
clerk had to charter two extra trains
on the cash railway in order to get the
money to the cashier's desk.
The old lady gave minute directions
for the doing up of her package and
then started for the door. She stopped
to think and came back again. She
said that the napkins she had picked
out were too coarse after all, a nd she
believed that she would take the finer
ones. The bundle was sent for and
the change was made. More dimes
and five-cent pieces were dumped down
before the still smiling clerk.
Once more the old lady started for
the door, and once more she came
back. She thought that she would
like to look at the table cloths that she
had bought. The clerk laid out her
packages befo-e her, but she decided
not to make any change in t he table-cloths,
and started away again. But
she came back once more, and had
the traycloths changed,, and the clerk
had to fix her bill again. There did.
not seem anything more that she could
want changed and t he clerk sent the
bundle up stairs.
I n ten minutes the troublesome
buyer was back again. This time she
wanted a package of New York news-papers
sent to be done up with her
bundle. The clerk took them with a
gracious remark that it would not be
the least trouble in the world to have
them put up with her package, and
then he gave his attention to another
customer as if all this had not been an
incident worthy of notice.
Of course, stories might be told of
clerks much more accommodating
than this one, but they possibly might
not have the advantage which this has
of being strictly true.
A Deep Mystery.
Here is a portion cf the examination
to which an old lawyer told me he was
subjected when he applied for a license.
The oldest member of the examining
committee interrogated h i m :
" Are you familiar with any game of
chance?"
"No, sir."
" Don't you know how to play any
game of cards ?''
" No, sir."
"Surely you understand euchre?"
" Never heard of it before."
" I t can't be possible you never in-dulged
in a game of draw poker ?"
' " Yes, sir, it can. I am a member
of the church and don't know one
card from another."
" Well (after a long pause of aston-ishment),
young^man, we'll give you a
license, but how in the world are you
going to makes a living for the first
two or three years after you start to
practicing law is a mystery to us.
How to B e Happy in Summer.
Read the latest books.
Bathe early and often.
Seek cool, shady nooks.
Throw fancy work away.
Wear lighest lowest shoes.
. Ride at morn and walk at eve.
Believe that waiters are human.
.Let hats be light and bonnets airy.
Think the be3t possible of all inen.
Eschew kid gloves and linen collars.
Hurry, never, thus being at leisure
ever.
Dress in cambrics, laws and ging-hams.
Be lavish with laundresses, fruit
men and fans.
Court the sea breezes, but avoid the
hot sands.
Remember that seaming idleness is
sometimes gain.
Let melons precede, and berries fol-low
the breokfast.
Store up the sweet and give small
place to t he bitter.
Retire when m the mood, and arise
when most inclined.
Listen to the break of the waves in-stead
of the fog-horn.
Order freshest fish and corn-cakes;
never mind the heavy fritters.
Send flowers to the ; living kind
thoughts serve the dead as well.
Take your loftiest ideas to the beach,
and your lowliest thoughts to the
mountains.
Remember that nine-tenths of the
people are at the seashore for rest, and
do not sing to them.
I f you feel like doing a good deed,
treat a dozen street children to ice-cream.
That is mission work.
Do not tell your hostess how sweet
the butter and cream were at your last
summer's boarding place.
Remember that children are only
small editions of older people, and that
they have feelings quite as acute.
Look pleasantly at the tired stranger
who glances wistfully at the part of
your car seat occupied by your wraps,
even if you do not offer her t he seat.
Take an Air Bath.
Every woman has evil hours when
she is too restless to keep still and too
dull and heavy to do anything. She
says she is nervous. Her color loses
its freshness, her eyes their brightness,
her expression all its delicacy. She
looks a coarser and less intelligent in-dividual.
Mow the latest remedy pro-posed
for this distemper is the air bath.
Lock your doors if you would test it
the next time the blues declare them-selves,
and disrobe entirtly, taking an
air bath, in the sunshine if possible,
for five or ten minutes. This will act
as a total alterative to the oppressed,
restless state of the nervous system.
I t does better than a water bath, which,
if one has already been taken in the
morning, cannot be always repeated
with perfect safety. After the air bath
dress again slowly, donning completely
fresh linen and some crisp and rather
new gown. The freshness of external
attire is infallibly soothing.
Antiquity of t h e B Flat.
An English naturalist has discover-ed
proofs that the bedbug was quite
common in the armies of the world at
least 120 years before the Christian
era, and that he was ever a sea rover,
as the fleets of that day had their
timbers stocked with this breed of
nocturnal prowlers.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from prac-tice,
having had placed in his hands by
an Bast India missionary the formula of
a simple vegetable remedy for thespeedy
and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all
throat and Lung Affections, also a posi-tive
and radical cure for JSTeryoi^s Debil-ity
and all Mervous Complaints, after
having tested Its wonderful curative
power in thousands of cases, has felt it
his duty to make it known to his suffer-ing
fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering,
I will send free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, in German, Frenchi
or English, with full directions for pre-paring
and using. Sent by mail by ad-dersing
with stamp, naming this paper.
W. A. N O T E S , 820 Powers' Blockr Rochester, N. Y.
Over the Slate
Pottsville brewers have raised the
price of beer.
Thieves have recently broken into
railroad stations at Douglas3viI!e and
Birdsboro.
Station Agent Frank Mitchell at
Skinner's Eddy has disappeared, leav-ing
his books badly mixed up.
Oil wells are being sunk in Berks
county.
Fall of coal at Tower City crushed
Edward Fegley's leg.
There are forty-five cases of typhoid
fever at Cressona,
Horse thieves are stealing the
choicest animals at Norristown.
A fall of loose coal at Plymouth
killed Michael Shiney and John
Evans.
Ellen Sawyer, of Bowers' Station,
aged 15 months, ate caustic soda and
died.
The new railroad through the breast
of the fatal Johnstown dam was open-ed
for business on Saturday.
David Waters, of Washington D. C.,
who was ejected from a barber shop in
Lancaster, had his jaw broken and
may die.
George W. Curran, John Wolf and
Dick Russell have been sent to j a i l at
Hazleton for robbing Dodsoa's cloth-ing
store.
The great anthracite furnace at
Kutztown, which was wrecked years
ago by an explosion, is to be started
up again.
Bossing t h e Job.
A coal cart had backed up to the
curbstone in Waverly place, and the
driver had removed the cover from the
coal-hole and was about to upset his
load when a man came rushing up and
asked him to hold on a moment. He
ran up the steps and pulled the bell,
and when a gentleman came to the
door the caller said :
" I want this j ob outside sir."
" B u t there is no j ob ?"
" I mean the coal."
" But the driver will dump it into
the coal-hole without any assistance.
There is no shoveling or carrying or
anything of that sort."
" But I want the j ob of bossing thè
driver, sir," persisted the man. " I ' ve
been in New York three weeks, and
this is the first easy thing I ' v e struck.
I ' l l take it for a quarter.
" There is no need of—"
" I ' l l say fifteen cents, sir."
" But, as I told you—"
"Well, make it ten. It isn't throw-ing
money away or giving it to charity,
It's simply encouraging a hard-work-ing-
man who has met with misfortune."
The gentleman handed him a dime,
and he pocketed it and ran down the
steps and called to the driver :
" Back 'er. up a little more ! Easy
as you go ! Keep 'er there ! Now pull
the pin and let 'er flicker !"
How to Make $20,000.
A French lady, who died recently
at the Convent of the Sisters of Hope,
at Pau, at the age of 91, has bequeath-ed
$20,000 to the Academy of Science
to be given to any person, of whatever
nationality, who may within ten years
have found the means of communicat-ing
from another world-planet or star
and of receiving a reply from it.
She recommends the planet Mars as
the most convenient for being commu-nicated
with.
OWEN 1 \ BRICKEB, E s q . , attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morning and can be consulted
in all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.
General News.
Blaine is tugging at the oars for
new health.
Mexico is about to reduce postal and
telegraph rates.
Kansas had the coldest and wettest
J u l y in twenty years.
A new railroad between Chicago
and St. Louis is talked of.
Henry C. Ogden, of New York has
mysteriously disappeared.
All Omaha (Neb.) printers were
locked out because of the eight-hour
law.
The Ohio oil field has a well in Han-cock
county that can produce 40,000
barrels a day.
Major General Schofield favors
giving contracts for building guns to
private parties.
Major McKinley will open the Ohio,
campaign on August 22 in the West-ern
Reserve. *
Captain Andrews, lacing across the
ocean in his dory Mermaid, is 1200
miles out of his course.
Business has been resumed on the
old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in
West Virginia.
General Daniel McCauley has be-come
Chief of the Appointment Divis-ion
of the Treasury Department.
Michael and Mary Downey, aged 4
and 2 years respectively, of Wakeville,
Mont., urank whiskey and died.
Rev. J . W. Carter, of Georgia, wants
the Government to buy two States and
put all the negroes in theoi.
A miner dressed in armor went into
a burning/mine at Republic, Mich., to
fight the fire, which has done $250,000
domage.
Guatemala's President is/surprised
to hear from the United States that he
has been assassinated, or even nearly
so.
Colonel Henry R. Mizner, of the
Seventeenth Infantry, has been retired
at Washington, having reached, the
age of 64 years.
The Fire Department of Seattle
(Wash.) has resigned, because wages
were reduced.
United States Minister E. Burd
Grubb has induced Spain to treat
Americans in Cuba with greater fair-ness.
The Ohio clerks in the Government
offices at Washington will be compell-ed
to contribute for McKinley's elec-tion
or resign.
Miss Maggie Blaine, a niece of
Secretary Blaine, was thrown from a
buckboard on Saturday eyening and
dangerously hurt.
The first Bessemer steel ever pro-duced
in Maryland was blown by the
Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow's
Point on Saturday.
General Doubleday has had a fourth
abscess opened after high fever, and is
improving slightly. His death is,
however, looked for daily.
Gold buried by a farmer in Dear-born
county, O., has led to a bitter
feud among the heirs, some of them
digging up acres of farm land left to
another.
Governor Hill, of New York, in an
interview, says : " Senator Gorman is
worth all the consideration the Mary-land
Democrats have bestowed upon
him."
The United Grocers' Company, of
New York, has sued the Old Colony
Distilleries Company, of New Haven f
for $150,000 and t he Old Colony is
said to be shipping goods secretly to
defraud the creditors.