Show ONLY ONE MATCH the Per flops of or two maim A resident of cincinnati has bas received the following letter from fro in a fr friend bend at english lake indiana I have not had time till now to write you about johnsona johnsons adventure up the lake that terrible night this is tho the way that Jo johnson linsan was prevented re vented from gettin getting down the falka lake lie ile had noticed that stat the floating 11 i ice C C in the river was hard when he C 11 went m t up in the morning and t that hat it became soft oft and mushy in the afternoon lie ire thought that the lake ink e would bo be partially open and the ice soft co so that ho lie would have no difficulty in pushing lubig through it everything went along smoothly until he lie struck in the ice gorge near jenkins goo goose gooc c lie ile got t two boat lengths into it aind and co could go 11 hefu no nir lher it was wa still d daylight when he got there lie ile took in the situation at once and said to bell the man that was with him that it would be their death to undertake it the weather was getting intensely cold and the drifting snow was feo so dense derise that he could scarcely see the length of his boat ahead d of him they the were about two rods from the norl north bank of the river there waa was nothing left fur for them to do but to turn the beat boat and seek shelter in the woods here they encountered much difficulty as the boat could be scarcely moved on account of the ice ice and snow enow that had bad been frozen to it and the river was so deep that johnson had to put his hands bands down into nto the water so that the paddle won would id reach the bottom they were fully fifteen minutes in getting to the shore by this time it had become quite dark and bitter cold with the enow snow d drifting I down in torrents the first thing to be doneway done was to find a shelter from tho the wind and to make a fire an examination revealed that they had but one match the situation was getting desperate in tho the extreme an and d a piti pitiless lees night before them the boat was dragged a it eloit distance into the woods johnson then pried off the decks deeks with a paddle tok took his rubber coat spread read it upon tho the snow enow and turned t diio IF to boat over the coat lie he then crawled under the boat and whittied whittled the deck board into fine shavings epou I the rubber then taking boxed his oiled gun rags rap from his cartridge box poured his gun oil upon them some odthe of the rags rag he saturated with whisky not wishing to use the match till ho be had exhausted other means he be proceeded to obtain fire by extracting the shot from some of his shells shell and putting dry rags therein also pu putting eting rags in the barrel of his pun run in itt this way jie be tried several times to get fire by shooting under the boat but did not once succeed in igniting the rags by this time they were almost frozen the time had come to see what hat virtue there was in the match they could delay no longer and live for they were perishing johnson told me the next day daj that he lie felt that their lives depended upon the match that if it went out their lives would go out with it they had already tried for half an hour to obtain fire with the gun without success johnson again crawled under tho the boat to arrange the rags razi and shaving upon coat eo so as to keep them butof out of the snow here lie imagined that the coat was damp ia mp and cold and might extinguish tho the fire so eo lie called to his friend to e empty in apty pty his shell box and hand it to him this being done he carefully gathered gi liis his shavings and rags into it though already suffering with tile intense cold johnson and bell too took k off their outer coata coats and stuffed them under the windward side of the boat between the gunwale and the ground to prevent the possibility of the wind putting out the match when ignited in this supreme moment fearing the awful consequences of a fall failure lure johnson weakened and faltered and asked bell to strike the match which bell lacked the courage to do so o with fingers benumbed and nearly frozen johnson took fr from in his rubber match safe eafe the solitary arv match upon which the lives of two souls depended and with tre trembling hands heat he at first struck oh ob so care fully on the end of tae match mateli safe the ccone mccond stroke less gently than the first the third stroke with more vigor vior ignited the match and they were aae safe the rags and shavings in tho shell box immediately took fire a few dry twigs and limbs were immediately added near the boat was a hollow a ash ah h tree and to this the shell box with its precious contents content was conveyed in another minute the ash tree was in in flames from top to bottom other trees and stubs were set on fire they kept as many asfour as four or five rive fires burning at ut a time during the whole night so fo if the enow should extinguish one there would be other fires left on account of the difficulty of getting a supply of fuel they having no axe or hatchet and nearly all the dead limbs I lying Y I I il on the ground being frozen into t the b e mad it became nee necessary essary to set fire fired to a hollow tree when one could be found consequently the fires extended over twenty acres of grou ground iid about in the morning famished nature asserted itself A mallard waa was picked and cleaned and broiled there was one piece of frozen bread and some salt left in the lunch bor which served a good purpose the voyagers voya gera broke cam camp at ci clock in in the morning walkes walked down to the lake over the tbt ice and were soon at the house johnson had one ear frozen and hla his clothes badly burned bell was nearl nearly y done for ho he slept all that day and night and lie and johnson went home on the noon train the next day they heard our gun guns and replied by shooting thoo ting also but ag as you arc are aware we did not hear bear them |