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Show H MODERN DAY HERMIT. H LIVINO AT HAND IN A CAVE IN H PENNSYLVANIA. H (oiifll Ihe rrnphtt lla li Known H rr Had r, ll latloat Miaractar H rraa frum tha World i Carre II H rail of Wlidom. aH aWr5! TAHTLINO .. It LLH iBKrfll l"'r it" mind, LLH HftKCvv5 "" u,ni ,o1'1 about H Hil?rw rmit of 0,il HHf mil'jJVJtll dwelling In lb YtH VfftiXi follow ' 'tkl LwLwH f3it4Jk?( liav' found a mod- LaLaH tmhjC3m "a Yr'nci"aa 'n wLwl WrH lne t'r,on ' Jo H ' ly leph Dewess. who far morn than H run lived In a cave nor Lafayette, j Pa,, and only recently was deprived of H hit rock-hewn habitation by tha rail- H road company Mailing away that part B of the hill. Nothing daunted, how- H ever, Joieph tha I'rophrt, ai ha la H known near and far, set to work In- B (tailing himself In a place aa near B Ilk hi old home aa poailble nullt H Of llmeatone, considerably lower tban H hla own height, tha hut, aa ahown H In the picture, la not much auperlor H to the rock from which he waa driven H The rauiea that led Joieph Deweis B to aeclude hlmioll from the oclty of H man for he Urea the life of a ro- fl cluie are aa much tinged with the B roraanllc aa the welrdeat novel of Oc- BBB lion. The old man la glanl In tat- BBB tire Horn of Scotch parenla, within BB! fight or the ravtrn-IIke atrueture that now ehlelda blm from lhe rain, It It BBBI difficult to aaaoclate hla preaent ap- J pearanc with that of a handaome J roulh who waa a akllled mechanic In I later year, tha lorrr of tha pretlleal girt In the county and poiaeaalng con- slderable money In fact, ll waa loro H and gold that tamed him lo renounce Bi the world. To get the atorr from hla H. own llpa la Ilka llilenlng to the ro- i mancea that made the fame of Walter Ikott. The maiden Jltled him and took H another for better or worae, and Jo- aeph waa never the aame man from B that da on He kept at hla taak aa alone-cutler for years, but when the H bank In which he had atored up hla H aavlnga went up ho concluded that ha H bad hla there of worldly atrugglo H Then ho eougbt refuge In the hollow ot R rock located near Ijifayctte, be- H tween the parallel running tracka of B 'the rennarivanla and Heading rail- roada No Inducemenla could make H him leave the place of hla own free H will, and It waa onljr through strategy H that the company managed to get htm H away while the bleating powder did H the work of annihilation Joieph (he BHH Prophet no longer owned hla cave, With lb Intuition ot hla trade be Br searched around until he tound mate- H rial with which to build a home lie H conalructed the hut In a abort time, H and with no wlndowa, and only a email H opening for ft door, he here Uvea the H extatence which he mapped out for H hlmaelf when he retired from the BBj world Ilia preaent quartert are near H the railroad bridge at Spring Mills and BBJ a dlatanre away from hla old loca-BBj loca-BBj H The appearance ot the man la BBj uniqueness Itaelf. Bummer or winter H be la dreaaed In heavy clothing and B rubber boota He weara a number of BBj ooata at the aame time, and hla thick H woolen cap haa been hla headgear alnce BBj he went Into aeclualon, lha people eay BBJ When etrangera approach hie dwelling he at once rune within, and It la only BB when ho la convinced that the vlaltur B doea not lah to rob him ot hla lm- H aglned wealth that he cornea forth JBJ For Joieph the Prophet Imaglnea he H owna the earth It lua taken audi Bj a hold on him that the few people who BV aid him In aubalatlng ran do ao only by tepreaentlng tbemielvra aa hli I partnera In wraith, and whenever they . approach tha hut they cry out "We nH I thk HHiiMirs iiomi: Qmf. a ' are coming with the big loada of KV f money." BB I Dut get Joieph to talk about hla KW' ' cr7 daya, when In hla rational mood, HBI and you will hear aomethlng that will atartle you Hla Intelligence la far BBh i aboro the average, and he la poated on KSJj I current affaire aa well ae ara thoae Bs I who mingle with the world without. H Tbt lv affair of hla la enough to J I make molit the eyea ot the rooit un- MBJ J emotional llitener aa he heara the a'4 "u recount It Though many BH t 7ara ago, the memory of hla lilting fl I la aa (reab In hla mind aa If It hap- BB I pentd only ycaterday. Hhe waa a BBB I Bcotth maiden, the picture of beauty BBB "'' Then the two had known each ! other from childhood The world looked tmlllngly at the oung pair aa they wandered about the wooda and JBB on the ahorea of the river near which the deapalrlng lover In after yeara waa to take the part of hermit for hla loit aweetheart'a aake It waa the old, old atory Another rame on the acene and won the girl A phyalclan one promt-nen) promt-nen) In the profeaelon today, when he reada thla may realize what price another an-other paid for that which came Into ble own poiienlon, for the girl married mar-ried the newcomer, and from that day on the career of the dlicarded lover waa btaated The writer waa enabled to draw out the old man In regard to thoae daya when he waa aa othera In tbe world "Why did I aelect thla place for my home?" he aald aa he atratghtraed hlmaelf up to hi full height, "lie-cauie "lie-cauie man, and woman more ao are falie to the core Thla la my companion," com-panion," and he etooped down and atroked a large gray cat careaalngly "Thla animal doea not one harm took at him He cannot turn you falae and abow klndneea to your face while curalng you behind your back " Hie eyea blaied like coala of Are ae be recalled the treachery ot former frlenda, aa he called It. "You abould have ia my old home It waa a raitle built In a rock And one day tbay came and blaated my horn Thai, too waa treachery There I lived Ilka the monarch of the desert, the lion In hla den fltorma could beat without the rain often came through tbe thatched doorway, but I did not mind It In the leait I waa away from humanity, my curie, and I only hope jobki'ii thi: I'ltoi'iiirr they will leave me whero I am to my dying day I am U year old, and over beyond In the flald lie burled my grandpa rente" Saying which Joieph pointed In the direction of a clump of treea, which afterwarda were found to ahleld with their branchea a plain headitone telling tell-ing of thoie who were burled beneath. Continuing hla talk, Joieph aald that he never again wanta to aet hla eyea on woman "Man l bad enough," he broke out vehemently, "but woman! I rut the day I eaw any one of the elx. Where I live none of them ever come That la one reaaon why I have taken thla location Then I got the beautiful river to gaie upon I can commune with nature, and the wicked world llee beyond You want to know about my parenteT They were Scotch, and my great-grandfather waa a aol-dler aol-dler In the revolutionary war He fought with Waahlngton and waa an officer, alao. with General Jackaon " At tha Juncture the reporter epoke ot the money the old man had loit. The moment the word money waa uttered ut-tered a tranitormatlon took place In the eiprraalon of the old man'a face It waa I)r Jekyll changed Into Mr. Hyde Where before hla countenance had ahown all the rational fcaturra of tbe average man, lhe Inatant he heard money mentioned he looked nlmoaj. hldeoue He hlued out hla worda In rapid aucceailon Hla dlillke of woman wom-an had been more like the Impreca-tlona Impreca-tlona of the mlaanthrnpe, but the men-linn men-linn of gold transformed him Into a being whoie mind wa confined with tbe Idea of pooimlng untold mllllona and In fear of aame one attempting to take poaaeaalon of hla horde Moneyl money I" he eiclalrucd furl-oualy furl-oualy "Why. I own mllllona, bll-Hone, bll-Hone, trllllonal The earth U nilnel I own everything on lhe glob, and Vall-derbllt, Vall-derbllt, (Jould and all I ho otbera aro .nothing to met The tralna come In here every day aud overy night loaded with gold, and we are going to atore It up heru ao It will reach the heav-ena, heav-ena, Moneyl Come with me and I will ahow you aomethlng that you never aaw before " Tho reporter had been warned before be-fore vliltlng the old man that the baro mention of money would mnko any other aubject out of the queatlon during tbe remainder or hla atay. He had been told to be very careful on that acore. and that It waa the only thing that .mM bring theae awful change of whUh he had Juat been a wltneaa, but It waa too late to retract re-tract the aentence, and to have departed de-parted Juit then would not have Improved Im-proved the iltuatlon Ro, following the old man to hie hul, the latter produced pro-duced a bundle ot ruily krya, with which be tried to unlock tbe door The keya did not botong there at all and, after conelderabla fumbling about, Jo-eph Jo-eph removed an Iron bar and let day. light Into the cavern It took eorue time before the eye could get accuitomcd to the Egyptian idarknoaa within Fearful of contamination, contam-ination, tbe vliltor declined to enter, laying that he would view the trcaa-urea trcaa-urea trom the doorway "Money, heyT What do you aay to thief Joaeph mid, pointing a hairy hand In the direction or the Interior Tho reporter aaw a number ot barrel euth aa tho butchera uie for the pack log or pork "Why, thoae caika are chuck full of gold I've got mllllona. Hllla 11 fill 1111 bllllone, trllllonal Everythlngln re la gold The hanglnga here are made ot gold cloth and the floor la laid with gold brick" The detiulon or tha poor tellow (tad made him deacrlbe tbe bare ground aa made or gold and the raged aack-cloth aack-cloth that he uad aa a covering at night waa the gold hanglnga of which he apoke It waa nlmoit dlatreaedQC to im him In hla deilre to have everything every-thing take on the gulae ol treaiurea The vlaltor turned away, hoping that the old man would once more come Into hla rational mood "took at the river." exclaimed the Imagined multimillionaire multi-millionaire aa he pointed that way "We eipect big ateamera up thla way any moment loaded with money They will have to come here" What a change rrom a few momenta before when the dreamer had pointed In tho same direction and had ipoken of the beautiful atream and bow In could here be away trom mankind and the turmoil of the world and commune with nature The change that had come over him waa almoit Inconceivable Inconceiv-able If It bad not juit then been wit-neaaed wit-neaaed The old gray cat which the hermit haa aa hla conatant companion la aa much afraid of human being aa li Ita maater No one waa ever enabled to gel within cloeo range ol tbe filli" when It keep lurking at the entrance to (he hut on aunny daya Should any one approach It at once dlup-peara dlup-peara within through an opening near the ground The animal muit be very old, for the people In the neighborhood neighbor-hood aay that the two the old man and the cat have been Iniepirable companlone alnce the day when he took up hla realdence In the rock During Dur-ing thoio early daya ot hla iccluilon ho alao had a white owl, but tbe bird of wladom died ft tew year ago. |