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Show , j I pkick $ I Sj 1dVentOre. j f MIIS. CURRY'S DARING. Jlfjri ' Inlrjl N HIlHHll StleOt. Wltlllll tllO B H cltylimltsof Danville, Pa., i Is mi olil cemetery which ! vJL contains tho remains' of I lill lUi many of the llrst settlers ot the North llranch Val-ley. Val-ley. For ninny years this sacred God's acre lias been allowed to fall Into a tate of sad neglect, ptobaltly because It was foreseen Hint It must give way , to the encroaching requirements of the city. Quite recently the work of removing re-moving the dead has gone rapidly forward. for-ward. Mnny of the more Important personages, among them General William Montgomery, a distinguished ofllccr of the Revolution, being removed re-moved Rome j ears ago. Among tho silent sleepers removed this Rummer to a more tilting place of repose In Fiilrvlew Cemetery was Rob-crt Rob-crt Curry and his faithful wife, around .which clusters it story of mournful Interest. In-terest. The Currys wore a young couple cou-ple who lived, during the provincial period, near the present site of Danville. Dan-ville. During the Itevolutlon Curry served ns a soldier In the defense of Uip frontiers. Ills wife, too, was h , woman of nerve and patriotic devo- jt? tlon, nnd remained during these dark l .1 .dnys to share the perils of the settlers. In the summer of 1780 the frequent Incursions of Indians made It necessary neces-sary for ninny of the Inhabitants to neck shelter nt Fort Augusta, nt Sun-bury, Sun-bury, wlicro the women and children remained, while the men, heavily iiirmcd, traversed the settlements to Vwk after stocks and crops. Curry and bis wife were among those who had gone to the fort for safety. Upon one occasion they concluded to venture out on n visit to some friends on the Clillllsqunqun Creel:, nevernl miles north of Sunbury. When they arrived nt a point near the present pres-ent village of Cameron, where the vchoolhousc Is located, they were suddenly sud-denly beset by a party of hostile.-?, who lew Curry and took his wife captive. After this bloody deed they continued their way northward nnd encamped ' for the night In a ravine near the present pres-ent village of Mooresburg. In order to prevent her escape while they slept, the Indians bound Mrs. Curry hnnd and foot with thongs, after af-ter which they lay down for repose. Although bound very tightly and In great discomfort, Mr. Curry was not a niian to give way to despair. While apparently composed and seemingly resigned to her fate, In order to throw her captors off their guard, shu devised means ot effecting her escape. Fortun. tcly, her hands were not tied behind her back, as wits usually the A case, nnd, her tlugers being free, she found Hint sho wns able to manipulate, manipu-late, n small pair of scissors which she had concealed on her person. She inn do no undue haste to free herself, but nwalted tho proper time, when her captors were sound asleep. When nt Inst the fateful moment enmo Mrs. Curry deftly severed the co' that bound her and softly glided glid-ed Ike a phantom Into the forest gloom. The Indians, no doubt, discovered discov-ered her escnpe wuen too Into; and, knowing Hint the rangers would give quick pursuit nnd quicker retribution, they speedily left the region. Mrs. Curry arrived nt the home of her friends In safety and nt once gave the alarm. A party was Immediately made up, headed by the bravo woman, who soon recovered tho body of poor Curry. Ills remains were taken to the graveynrd nt Danville, where tliey reposed re-posed for a period of l'JIl yenrs. Mrs. Curry survived her husband for a period of forty-live yenrs. dying In 1825, nnd by her request was laid by its side. Philadelphia Itccord. A BItAVP. PIONEER WOMAN. Nestled upon the mountnln side, mid-ivny mid-ivny between San Jacinto nnd Strawberry Straw-berry Valley, Is the ranch known ns . tho Thotnns rnnch. This ranch Is sit- J, uated In one of the nios beautiful nnd picturesque spots In all Southern California. Cali-fornia. To this place, forty-two yenrs tgo, Uncle Chnrley Thomas, as he Is now called, brought IiIb young and pret-ty pret-ty bride, to build n home In the wilderness, wil-derness, for wilderness It wns, with not o white man nearer than Tcmeculn. Surrounded by Indians, and the wlla animals that roamed through the mountains, Mrs. Thomas saw life In all Its prltnltlvo wlldness, and met with mnny exciting ndventures. In her quilnt nnd modest way she relates one night's experience while Mr. Thomas was away getting their annual 6upply of groceries. They had driven their yung cattle nnd calves into a corral near enough to the cabin, ns they supposed, to protect them from tho depredations of the bears, but In the night Mrs. Thomas was awakenc-by awakenc-by a terrlblo racket among Hie live block, nnd sho knew tho bears had broken Into the corral, and would like-ly like-ly destroy tho entire hunch If something some-thing wns not done to protect them. Inn moment this bravo little woman detehtUgd to save the stock that sho nnd her husband hnil struggled so long nnd hnrd to raise. Seizing her rifle and ammunition, and lighting her lantern, lan-tern, she made her wny to tho corral, nnd looking through an opening In the fence, evidently made by the bears, 6ho could Just mako out one largo hear munching nt tho carcass of a yearling i 'T" which he hud killed nnd drawn through tho fence. At the same time two other hears came toward the open-lrg, open-lrg, growling and showing their teeth, with tho evident intention of nttnek-lug nttnek-lug her. Trembling "like a leaf on a poplar tree." as she described It. she raised her rllle, and. alining at the gilt terlngeyes of tho nearest bear, llred, Mr. Bruin rolled oxer, gave one or two convulsive kicks, anil p.isvl In his I chips. I This brave little woman wns destined, de-stined, however, to stand euard until daylight, killing Milt another bear, and wounding the third. It might have been dlllleult for her to have protected the cattle, or eon saved her ovn life, except for the assistance of two faithful dogs. When ilnj light came, and Uncle Charley how In sight, when the cattle were safe and all danger was over. Mrs. Thomas did what many another woman hns done, nnd will do, to the end of Hme-fiiliiled.-K. .1. W., In The I.os Angeles Times. A GRECIAN IIKHO. I.Ike a gleam of golden sunlight through the blnoknoss and the horror of the Balkan thunder cloud comes tho story of a sorvni 's faithfulness and loyalty to his trust, even In the lace of death Itself. The details are gathered from a letter which has been recently received by a Turkish gentle-mnu, gentle-mnu, at present living In Manchester. "We found him wnuderlng In the mountains," says the writer, a resident resi-dent of the much troubled vlllayat or Monnstir, "and In his arms was the dead body of a little child a girl one oi our own people. The poor fellow was In n fearful state, his clothing being be-ing In rags, his boots cut In pieces by tho rocks and the Jngged stones of the mountains. Upon Inquiry we found that he had been the trusted servant of a Mohammedan merchant, who, having business In Constantinople, was obliged to leave Ins household In rhnrge of this Greek. When the rebels reb-els came Into the district nnd begnn to pillage nnd massacre the Inhabitants, this mnu fled to the mountains, tnklng with him the child, the only one of the family. He must have been hiding for some weeks, as he Is fearfully weak from hunger and exposure. Ho himself would hnve been In little dancer dan-cer from the rebels, being like unto themselves, an Infidel, but his love for his mnster nnd his spnse of the trust bestowed upon him led him to enrry the little one nwny from the marauders." marau-ders." V. C. A CUBAN D'ARTAGNAN. It Is stnted Hint Mr. .Incques Lobau-dy, Lobau-dy, the Kmpcror of tho Sahara, whose arrival In London was surrounded with an air of mystery, has enlisted ns his commander-in-chief the redoubtable M. Lnbcrdesquo, a cosmopolitan warrior war-rior who, even before ho fought the notorious duelist. Max Regis, was famous fa-mous In two hemispheres. Ily birth M. I.nberdesquo Is n Cuban; but his father was French and his mother was Spanish, Span-ish, and he got his education nt Pnu, which wns his nearest approach to Gaseony, the reputed laud of his nativity. na-tivity. As a boy he was pugnacious, but when he returned to Cuba to study medicine he grew disgusted with the natives. Personally, he said, he preferred pre-ferred to do his killing In n more gen-tlemnnly gen-tlemnnly wny. So he turned revolutionist revolu-tionist and fought for Crespo In Venezuela. Ven-ezuela. Then he fought for Mnceo In Cuba. Campaigning In the country wns slow, so ho went to Havana, squabbled with the Spanish otllccr.s there nnd fought some forty duels before be-fore his father sent him to Prance In 1S05. Ills exploits since then nre public pub-lic property. Ie Is n very Munchausen of duelists, who can tight twenty bouts without losing breath, Jump twice over his charger's back and carry the animal ani-mal fully caparisoned on his own. And ho Is not yet forty. Men nnd Women. bull moose thkks man. Treed by a moose. George Ham, of Now York, who Is in Hastings, Me., looking over timber lnnd, had an exciting ex-citing experience. He wns not looking look-ing for game, so took no rifle when ho left tho logging camp. He I d gone about half a mile along the Tote road when n huge moose came snorting through tho woods, closely followed by a sow moose. When the bull saw Ham It stopped fifty feet away and began to paw the ground. Ham looked for n plnce of re-treat, re-treat, snw a low-limbed spruce and-made and-made a dash for It. The moose started start-ed In pursuit. The man fell over a fallen sapling, nnd the moose enme to it standstill so nt.,r Hint Hum snys he could feel Its breath. He crawled around tho trunk of tho tree nnd Jumped for the lower limb, pulling himself up with his hands. When senrcely ten feet nbovc the ground the enraged animal fairly stood on his hind legs to reach Ham. Ham was forced to remain In the tree the grenter pnrt of tho forenoon, while tho bull wnlked nbout nnd pawed and tho cow browsed. At times the bull walked nwny, but nt Ilnin's slightest move It dnshed back. Finally the two moose wnlked nway, permitting Ham to reach his camp In safety. A HRItOIO PHYSICIAN, v deadly plague was raging In tho ' i.y of Mxrsclllcs. The doctors could do nothing, for very little was known of the disease, owing to the danger surrounding any Inquiry Into It. In n council among themselves they came to tho conclusion Hint the corpse of a victim must be dissected, but It would bo death to the operator. Upon this being decided, n celebrated physician, one of their number, arose and declared de-clared that for tho safety of tho country coun-try he would give himself up to tho tank. He then Immediately left the room, mndo his will and arranged his affairs. At daybieak on the following morning ho entered the bouso where a mnu had just died ot tho plague. Hero ho nuido n complete examination of the body, performed tho necessary operation and wroto down all ho observed. ob-served. When this was completed he left the limine, ilnvw the notes he hud made Into vinegar that t'ley might not carry tho Infection and retired to a lonely spot There ho died within twelve hours. V. C. |