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Show Man Officially Dead Still Lives. For an officially dead man, Henry Pancoast, a local ltvoryman, manages to enjoy his moala and surroundings fairly well; and tils Is ono of tho oddest odd-est of recordB. I'ancoast enlisted In tho civil war from Atlantic county and was discharged from tho Kchlngton hospital, Washington, D. C, on January Janu-ary 7, 1803. Somehow tho datos got mixed, aud ho was reported as dead by tho surgeon, nnd so tho recordB state to-day. It took him 20 years to prove bo Was allvo enough to got a pension. For 31 years Pancoast has boen In tho ltvory business horo, nnd during that tlmo ho has novur entered a church, nover attendod a circus, novor wns In the local opera house or attended attend-ed any amusoment whatover, and nover went to a Fourth of July celebration. cele-bration. Tho only placo of entertain-mont entertain-mont ho has visited was a reunion of his reglmonr-, tho Twenty-fifth Now Jorsoy volunteers, In Atlantic City, a year or two ago. Ho says there is not another record llko hU in tho stato. Tho old Eoldlor has left his homo every morning before tho family was up, and returned most of the tlmo after thuy had retired for thu night, and hardly had a speaking acquaint-anco acquaint-anco with his four children, all of whom grow up to fill prominent positions posi-tions in llfo. |