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[Pennsylvania County Histories] Cl a s Book Volume o\l Pennsylvania State Library Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun92unse MA.RK TWAIN’S SoRdF ROQK. 3? A TENTS : united states. GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE. June 24TH, 187,3. May i6th, 1877. May i8th, 1877. TRADE MARKS: UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. Registered No. 5,896. Registered No. 15,979. DIRECTIONS. Use but little moisture, and only on the gummed lines. Press the scrap on without wetting it. DANIEL SLOTE & COMPANY, NEW YORK. ■ 1 together with cleats and pins. For ma- terial he had the boundless forest, for framing, carpentering and joining tools he depended almost wholly upon his axe. But primitive though the little cabin was," some 12x14 feet in size, it was home to the honest backwoodsman, nevertheless. It was situated about 10 rods east of the later Belmont and Easton turnpike, at a point near the later well known residence of Minor Mumford. Mr. Stanton worked part of the time during the summer for Early Wayne County History—Scenes in Mr. Preston, on the new road, and also the Forest and Cabin—Building a Home succeeded in clearing a small piece of laud in the Wilderness—Fourteen Miles From around his cabin. There was at this time a Neighbor—An Accident, Sickness and No Doctor or Medicine—Face to Face a few log houses in the stumpy clearing on With Starvation—Two Hunters Bring the bank of the Susquehanna river, many Relief—A True Story of a Family’s Suf- M, miles distant, called Harmony, where pro¬ ferings and Wonderful Deliverance. visions could be procured. BY JASPER T. JENNINGS. The next winter Mr. Stanton labored what he could to procure such necessaries In the spring of 1789, while John Hil- as he might require, and having visited his born and Samuel Preston were engaged in humble dwelling on the approach of spring i cutting through the North and South and put on a few more finishing touches, road, near the head waters of Starrucca he went up the Susquehanna where his creek, an active appearing young man family, consisting of a wife and two ohil named Samuel Stanton came along with dren, were staying, and on April 10, 1791, ; his staff and compass to survey a tract of they moved to their humble forest home, wild land for William Cooper.i agent for 14 miles from the nearest neighbor. A Thomas Rogers, of Philadelphia. Having few other settlers came in to make pre¬ been engaged several weeks in the then paratory beginnings during the summer, 1 j wilderness region of Mount Pleasant, sur¬ but on the approach of cold weather they veying days and camping with the party all returned, and Mr. Staaton and his 'in the woods at night, he was thoroughly family were left aloni in the solitary | (acquainted with the different tracts, and depths of the great wilderness. Winter , (being well pleased with the locality he soon set in with unusual severity. Heayy ] (resolved to settle there. snow storms followed each other In quick A satisfactory bargain was soon con succession, and the cold northern winds J eluded and having completed his profes- swept over the hills with Arctic rigor. I jsional duties he departed. Early the next They had two cows and a yoke of oxen, E (year he returned, for the purpose of mak- which were sheltered in a rude log hovel [ ing preparations for a homo in the wilder- near the cabin. He had cut a quantity of f (ness- The first thing to do was to erect wild grass, which he had stacked on a . jsome sort of a cabin that would afford at beaver meadow some two miles away; and I least a partial protection from storms and to break a road through the deep snow wild animals. He could not build a regular and haul it Home was no easy task. The t log house, for he was alone, and could not season had not been a very productive one, < roll up the necessary logs. He cut a lot of and as the ground was new and unculti¬ * large straight poles, such as he could eon- vated they had raised only a meagre sup¬ 1 veniently briug to the spot, and laying ply; but by thorough economy ho hoped I them up the required height he cut them he might have enough to last through the I shorter for the roof, so that they might ' winter when more could be obtained. gradually draw in until they came to¬ The long dreary months seemed like ri sether in the centre. Over these he fast- years. No sound of a human voice greeted K entd large flat pieces of hemlock bark. them in idieir loneliness. Only the hollow- Finding some smooth slabs of stone, he soulless echo of his own axe met his ear. P brought them in and laid them down for a I Surrounded on all sides by an apparently l dearth, and building a wall behind these a boundless forest, with no sound or sign of i few feet in height to keep the fire from the [life, it seemed as though the whole world t P°^es the cabin, his fire place was com¬ was deserted. The deep snow, unbeaten pleted. The smoke ascended through an by track of man or animal, made it im¬ aperture in the roof, left for the purpose, possible to get any grain to the distant i iTheie were at that time no saw mills in mill. Still they did not despair. Adapt¬ that section, and there were no boards to ing themselves to their situation they be had. For a door he sp it out slabs from struggled on, hoping against hope, and | a straight grained log, and fastened them looking forward for better times. Their corn, inferior in quality, was parched and l ?.{v I roared in thetey gale, drifts accumu pounded, and their wheat was boiled. ! lated about the door, and the fine snow Gradually their little stock of provisions i sifted in upon the floor and bed. Alone, wore away, and it began to be apparent I worn and weary, the solitary watcher sat lUp through long, lonesome that they would not have enoug . 1 the night,, keeping fire and attending the sick ones, But gloomy as their prospects were they, while the doleful hooting of owls and were pleasant when compared with the. distant howling of wolves combined To trials and difficulties they were about to One day while he the; render the dark night doubly dismal. Hi9 I cows gave no milk, and he looked with beaver meadow after a load of hay, Mrs. alarm oa the last remnaDt of his provis¬ Stanton eltpped on the lee and ir.otnneda ions The wolf of huuger was already at| bone in her ankle. She managed to crawl, the door. He had no food suitable for the, into the cabin, where he met her a tew hours later, to learn that she was almost fast declining sufferers, and day by day they were sinking and pining away. He helpless. She had taken a severe cold divided i he principal part with his chil¬ through privation and exposure during dren, prepared the last morsel for his suf¬ her husband’s temporary absence^ and m fering companion, but abstained from tak- short time she was prostrated with fevei. ingjL™ any nourishment himself. A day 01or They had little or no medicine suitable for rr ^SAase and he could not leave them two longer, daring which his provisions were stinted out with trembling hand, and to perish while he should wade through then the terrible hour came. He brought! the snow so many miles to obtain it. out the last morsel, but ere he made the There was no one to send on such a xriend- final division he hesitated. Pale and IV errand, and to obtain a doctor, some «0 emaciated, with gaunt and hollow eyes, or 30 miles away, was simply out of the 1 his beloved companion lav helpless upon j the bed, with her sick babe pining and q Hiswhole attention was now required famishing by her side. Her eyes wandered in the cabin. Circumstances made him doctor, nurse and housekeeper He pre¬ . about the room with an unmeaning vacant stare, and her voice, so low and weak, was pared with all the care a man„ c°!1“’ devoid of reason, seeming to usp m its Lst food his humble home afforded, and ; very incoherence the horrors of starvation, brought it to the bedside of to dear com- ■ death, and the lonely grave. On either, nanion, but she could not eat. He bathed |sideof him stood his little children, al- telpred Prow, a»d | most reduced to skeletons, begging piteous-; words of encotimwmeut “ ’ “h hy for bread. It was a trying ordeal. He; I made the last division, and turned away soon uecauic — — hardest blow of all. The one kind yoxee -j to hide his emotion. He had hoped and that had so long and uncomplainingly prayed for succor, but no relief came. He, borne the burdens of life with him, speak¬ | too,* waswasted and bowed down beneath ing so many words of cheer and comfor , the crushing burden oiof his deep affliction,’ ■t" ___ him cnout in his darkest hours of despondency, now but no one came to relieve him, or speak spoke only unconnected and meaningless .one word of encouragement.
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