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WHO WAS HE? 
J AKE HESS, an Adirondack guide, while hunting in 
an unfrequented neighborhood, about five miles 
from the Fourth Lake, Fulton chain, thirty-five miles 
from any dwelling, and far from any known trail, dis¬ 
covered part of the bones of a human skeleton. A party, of 
whom the most active member was Dr. C. HartMerriam, 
the ornithologist, well known to our readers, inves¬ 
tigated tlie spot, and after long and careful searching col¬ 
lected the bones of the skeleton and the following 
articles, most of them embedded beneath a thick growth 
of moss : The entire back half of a pair of trousers, the 
waistband entire, and measuring thirty-six inches 
round; one pocket flap, with an old-fashioned clasp; 
portemonnaie of heavy pressed leather, containing two 
three-cent silver pieces, one dime silver piece, and a 
copper cent, all bearing date of 1803; two padlocks, one 
medium sized, iron and intact, the other brass, and with¬ 
out a handle ; two trunk keys, tied together on a piece of 
tape; a hone, well preserved : a shaving brash; the frag¬ 
ments of two bottles, which, when put together by Dr. 
Merriara, formed a five-ounce vial with the raised letters, 
*'Folger's Alosaonian, New York”—a preparation now 
out of the market—and a two-ounce vial,(with the raised 
letters, “ B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge a tin blacking- 
box, full of blacking; part of a shoe brush ; part of a 
cedar lead pencil; the entire cloth of a coat; a hat; all 
the parts of both boots. The coat was made of the same 
material as the trousers—a black or brown broadcloth of 
good quality. The coat was an old-fasliioued lialf- 
Bkirted frock, with brown velvet collar and lapels. It was 
lined in the body with good blueish-barred woollen stuff, 
and in the skirts with figured alpaca. The buttons were 
brass, with handsome embellishments on their faces, in 
the shape of what is known as the rectangular or Greek 
border. The two lower buttons on the flaps of the rear 
skirt-pockets were of the same size and kind as the other 
buttons, and the buttons on the upperjpart of these flaps 
were small brass ones, with a star on each. .The sleeve- 
cuffs had small brass buttons like the latter. In one of 
the soat skirt pockets were found a pair of blue coarse 
woollen socks, a hall of coarse woollen yarn, and a large 
darning-needle, which was stucIVtlirough the hall. The 
hat was a fine silk one, with high straight crown, 
medium width, uncurved brim, hound with a narrow silk 
binding, the band being of silk, and a half-inch wide. 
With the exception of the plush and the lining, the hat is 
well preserved, the “sweater” being light yellow and in 
perfect condition. The boots, which are almost perfect, 
are No. 8s, of good make, with narrow toes, and pegged. 
Sewed boots were uncommon in the time in which the 
wearer of these is supposed to have met his fate. No 
watch or chain was found, and no trace of hunting or 
fishing apparatus. Neither was there discovered any in¬ 
dication of a valise or pack of any sort. Singularly 
enough, every trace of linen and cotton goods was gone 
from the garments, every vestige of even the canvas be¬ 
tween the outside and the facings of the coat having dis¬ 
appeared, although the woollen and velvet are all well 
preserved. The coat was found parted at most of the 
seams, as also were the trousers, but the coat was but¬ 
toned at the breast. All the coat buttons and pantaloons 
buttons were well preserved. A few small hones were 
found among the doth, all more or less gnawed by rats, 
with the exception of the upper bone of the right arm, 
which is in perfect preservation. When the ground had 
been carefully dug over, all the above remains were re¬ 
moved by Dr. Merriam to his laboratory at Locust Grove, 
in Lewis County, and there, after being carefully cleaned 
and assorted, were placed in glass cases, to await identifi¬ 
cation. Dr. Merriam engaged the guides to continue Die 
search at his expense. The result was that 011 Friday last 
Jack Sheppard reported the last “ find.” Tliis consisted 
of some shirt-buttons, part of the front of the left leg of 
the troasers, with the cloth part of the pocket, a knife, 
the left femur bone, left tibia, and part of the lower jaw, 
all pretty far gone. Sheppard took these to Dr. Mer¬ 
riam, and reported that he had found them scattered far 
apart, and by digging up the ground with a hoe. The 
beginning of the snowy season rendered f urlher explora¬ 
tion j impossible, and beyond the above it is improbable 
that any more of the remains will be found for many 
months at least. Dr. Merriam, after cleaning the hones, 
made a carefnl examination of them. He found that all 
the teeth back of the second bicuspid were entirely gone 
—in other words that the deceased had, at the time of 
his death, no molar teeth on the right side of his under 
jaw. The Doctor also found that the alveolar border had 
been entirely resolved, and that the angle of the jaw 
was approaching its normal condition in old age. From 
these facts Dr. Merriam concludes that the man was past 
middle age, or rather an old man. He also believes h im 
to have been a medium-sized or not very tall man, The 
knife found was a jack-knife with a “ hump-back” blade. 
Now, who was this wanderer V Probably Ills identity 
will never be established. Dr. Merriam says 
I believe it is claimed that this is the first instance of 
a human skeleton having been found in that wilderness. 
Nothing can he more mysterious than the fate of this 
man. There has been found no indication that lie was 
either a hunter or a traveller. Had he been either he 
would not have been found where he was. He seems to 
have been a wanderer. He was apparently a man in com¬ 
fortable circmnstEnces, at least was well clad. How 
much money lie carried cannot be guessed, for the four 
coins found, being all of one date, perhaps were carried 
as tokens, and all traces of paper would have disappeared 
long ago. He seems to have not been accoutred for a 
journey, and yet was found in one of the darkest parts of 
the wilderness, thirty-five miles from civilization, and in 
so rough, lonely and inaccessible a place that it was by 
the merest accident that even an old guide got there. In 
that part of,the woods it would take a hardy man to travel 
twelve miles a day, so great are the obstructions in the 
shape of boulders, windfalls and tom ground. Eagle 
Greek, in the language of the guides, “ goes nowhere and 
leads nowhere.” I cannot think of foul play in connec¬ 
tion with the case, for no victim would be taken so far 
into the forest. As the remains were found, they suggest 
that the man had fallen off the rock, the boots having 
been discovered lying toward it, and the bones of the 
upper part of the body in their order lying with the head 
toward the water. But what in the world was a man 
with a broadcloth suit on, wearing a silk hat, and carry¬ 
ing padlocks in his pockets, doing in that part of tlie 
earth ? And how did he ever get so far in such a costume 
without being observed? I confess that I cannot con¬ 
ceive of any plausible explanation of this Adirondack 
myBtery. If I could get a good reason for the man’s 
presence in the forest at all, I could readily account for 
his failure to get out, on the hypothesis of insanity, 
caused by being lost. A man is seldom so completely in¬ 
sane as when he is utterly lost in a dense forest. He will 
then do the most singular things. He will sometimes 
fail to recognize tlie mostfamiliar faces and objects, and 
will sometimes walk around and around in a circle until 
iie drops dead from sheer exhaustion. The skeleton has 
been in the woods many years. The growth of moss 
over the clothes was an old growth. This root, which I 
carefully cutaway from over the sliin-bone, where it was 
growing entwined about the relic, is over half an inch 
thick, and has at least six concentric rings in its forma¬ 
tion. I never knew of but one man attempting to make 
his way through the Adirondack wilderness without the 
help of guides. That was two years ago, and fhat man 
was well dressed, and was bent on making his way 
alone. He. made inquiries about the correct routes, and 
tried to follow thorn. But his conduct attracted so much 
attention that tlie guides kept track of him, fearing he 
might meet with harm. He was kept in sight for several 
days, but at last got lost, and we have never since heard 
of him. 
The New Mode of Journalism.—M r. Win tela w Reid, 
in a recent address before the New York State Press As-_ 
sociation, expressed his conviction that news gathering 
had reached its limit in tliis eounti'y, and that in future 
the journalist would give more attention to fine writing. 
The police court reporters of some of the metropolitan 
journals have adopted Mr. Reid’s theory. This is the way 
they put it into practice: Wolf Painter, a fishmonger of 
Bayard street, who unites in his two ferocious names the 
totem survival of two most savage beasts, was brought up 
before the Court at the instigation of Mr. Bergli, upon the 
charge of having, with fish-knife keen, sundered in half 
a tabby cat, Tlie reporter thus epic-izes the case: —• 
Tlie principal witness against him was Mrs. Ann Mc¬ 
Guire, of No. 302 Pearl street. On the 23d of last Octo¬ 
ber, she said, she was passing through Bayard street with 
her eyes on the ground, when through accident she hap¬ 
pened to look into Painter’s shop, which is in tlie base¬ 
ment, some ten or twelve steps down from the sidewalk. 
She caught sight of the unsuspecting and unfortunate 
cat prowling around the place; then saw it smell the fish 
exposed for sale. A demoniacal look passed over Paint¬ 
er's face, and grasping a large fish-knife, ran at tlie ani¬ 
mal, caughtit by the tail, and cut through its body. The 
cat howled, and Mrs. McGuire joined in with a series of 
screams. Joseph Tibold, the aged Irish owner of the cat, 
living next door, came hurriedly down stairs to learn the 
cause of the disturbance, and found the animal dragging 
its mutilated body to his feet. He picked it up Cju-efully, 
butchered so fearfully—severed in half; watched it a 
minute or two, till its last breath it drew, then boiled 
with wrath. Then he and Mrs. McGuire repaired to court 
and made charges against Painter. Mr. Tibold was the 
next witness, and corroborated the above story, adding 
that the prisoner kicked the oat after he had ent it. 
Painter denied the charge. He said that he was alone in 
the store when he heard the cat yell with pain, and then 
noticed that it had cut itself. He said it was fond of fish, 
and no doubt in its search for its favorite dish pushed 
against one of the knives, which fell and cut it. He 
offered two witnesses, the first of whom, a man, contra¬ 
dicted him by declaring that Painter was not in the shop, 
hut was sitting outside in his company when the cat me¬ 
andered up to them in a mutilated condition. His other 
witness, a woman, further injured his case by declaring 
that the previous witness dicl not see tlie cat. The Court 
found the prisoner guilty, and sen tenced him to a month’s 
imprisonment. This announcement astonished the 
friends of the accused, who were present in large num¬ 
bers. Painter’s face wore a look of utter wretchedness, 
but a painter’s hand would be required to accurately pic¬ 
ture the look of triumph that lit up the face of Mr. 
Bergh._^ f m 
A Chicago Game Dinner.— At the twenty-fourth an¬ 
nual game dinner given by Mr. John B. Drake, of the 
Grand Pacific Hotel of Chicago, the other evening, five 
hundred and twenty ladies and gentlemen sat down to 
fifty-five tables. There were seventy different kin ds of 
game. The tables and the room were decorated in sump¬ 
tuous style, and in hunters’ taste. 
High Life. — Miners are sometimes very rich, and it 
takes a very rich man to live high where provisions and 
everything else are high, as they are where a miner lives 
on Mount Lincoln, Colorado—in fact, 14,157 feet high. 
But that’s not high. Galera, a little railroad village in 
