Show AN AX AGED wheelbarrow lie U ii Is 83 years oil oia and ni jest just nauby it mile tramp A very old coan man with ruddy cheeka cheeks surmounted by snow white hair and a bent form and tottering gait boarded a cortlandt Corl landt street ferryboat in this thi ij city friday morning ve ie pushed before him a queer looking wheelbarrow the barrow 1 apiou of which coni ted of tt a red tin bix box with two hd INA se c cured by a padlock he ile sighed contented contentedly y it he lie seated himself in 10 the ladies cabin have you walked far id old ius u a woman id ili the eat seat beaida beside lim him nine hundred miles madam he answerl 1 taking oft 1 his hi weather beaten hat alii voice waa was strong and his re ply could be through lh thi cabin tile woman ltd td and evry every head in tile cabin turned towar warl 1 the old man ye yes milts miles all till the way ay from Del delaware aare ohio to atou booton 0 and so 80 f fir k mice fince laet last june I 1 have jam 1 every tell of the wai war with the exception in ot of twenty ight mile milt from new Phil delphis to hath bath which I 1 travelled over ui it the care I 1 am 4 3 veara rid old the of thi month then ho he produced cop em of a it poem hidu which he lie said jail ho be ha haj I 1 corn con posed they thoy were ere quickly fold sold f fir fr r five edit cents fr ch at the head bead of the printed stargis were these words rhe the tailing taking of furt fort ceroga may alay 10 1775 A relative of J than alien allen horace alien allen of delaware ohio who visited during the ummer cr of 1869 WA was 3 more d to write as full oits concerning the cene ocene of his hi illustrious re relative at VOs daring exploit twenty two stanza stanzas in rather doggerel doget ret mete mew told the story ot of t the tie event afre the tile boat b ai reached d Us its landing be that this walot the first li he had made but that fur four 5 eare ear ago agn he be had walked from Del delaware DelU kware ware to arland Yr Land kaind thence almost to washington on hi reselling jerrey city be he deposited pr sited his hi wheelbarrow in the baggage room anil and went to the tile hudac of it friend for a few day daye to a bun reporter report tr the old travel ler elsaid said yesterday 1 I am ani the true gridi green IN mountain fountain block and in my blood is 11 the ener gy aud and tile iron aroi will if not the cour courage tige of if the great ehan E ban alien few oung men could have bare gone through what I 1 have goue th through rugh and in all ill mv MY riligh I 1 ha hit e not met one man of my ta age axe A ho bo I 1 thought was wits my quai pil icille I 1 vaas well trained fr walling lu in my couth for long before we bad had railroads rail roade and when I 1 was a well to 0 o do hemp trader I 1 thought ilio noil mg of doing gnoy my fay frev or clity a day I 1 have MR made e the lie trip trill be tween lake erie and am the OUK ohi river ae as many times ti nuel so I 1 have fiu flu akers and in fit ali e daje a it 11 wb travelling tra velling by I 1 Y amuge muge ge I 1 ani aua it i wa wai i partly on this account that I 1 walked and partly to eave save time tor I 1 often beat the stages on those rough roade now however I 1 ilont dont jog along juite quite ao e bri brealy ekly and reali du do more than nine nine miles it day I 1 on this lat last journe J urne on june 18 deducting the bun sun day and eight daar all I 1 spent vil ing gig friend friell ds in it I 1 have valk ad A d fir for jait j I 1 I 1 0 idys dya an wn of fight ight and i n alith miles I arlay aday I 1 me ts t s 1 b irn mi in milton vermont nov 24 1804 my ft faber t ber is e bauit tw alien allen a ol 01 ethan all aln p aty ally fabber drank drunk and quitu ere re d 1 hie his morim and andun no ill I 1 was nearly 21 I 1 worked as a brym arm hand I 1 thi ihn a went to delaware ohio and tor for lea ten trw tr w h p ad then wa wee a trader r in babalo B and toronto until at 60 vor tit t uge I 1 tie worth HI at if e al I 1 owned a abare lar lie tract of if land lu in what is now the very heart of f kanae 0 city tyl ard uld now dow iw be worth w rih a mil million liin in ibe the of 73 1 I wa swindled out it t the this pr property and ia in try trying g to not intal u mv my rights at law r I 1 was finally put 5 in debt 1 attilid docu ili n delaware U laware but ibe the ol 01 thai that lifo life d pon me and I 1 began aleo almi to be a art arfat from ni at i 1 he age f 15 75 and when I 1 woo we hard haril ly able I 1 tl n twe from my chair I 1 con i the iafet of living slit fiot and in the open air th d icare w isia it it would kilt me I 1 made up my wind though to ti try it it was vcr ver a ow ork at birtt but my leg aud and arroa arms gradually became lim heri on u igind t bt fore long all pain had left me 0 i iotis I 1 bae have abnot hl hai enuich enu en o 0 ih 4 t it now and slid on monday I 1 hall rhall teave eave fr my ohm ohio home and adlle down tor the remainder of my life sh uld rh mea eaid yo my way sure la oce the old man mail again on thu tho mail I 1 1 hall ball go home hy way of washing ton I 1 oti for I 1 want to ee see the statue t if f E ban han alien allen which they tell me in ie is in he tile capilos mr alien allen said that he lie had after r several evere eap exp in tram pipi ipg through ohio and unit coma tn tit the C cri clinion that a light nw like that ha he now nw n w trundled wa wite in every way the must and essleen vehicle for MA if ware zaref and thiu that the ex reise to the string wa was excellent never wore stockings oc except in very cold weather pr and had never ex x per h need any trouble rm ible ilia ilis rp petite polite wag was always good and bf b pleat let tio mildly p 2 ht in all sill hip j e he hd hill dever ben assault A tei or robbed an ua its a rule met with unvarying kindne xa wo fro from o lie tile farmers willi whom be he put up for t ibe be |