The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-11
Lord and Lady Kicks.

His sons are asking for an inquisitiou Of
lunacy upon MIR. Thomas Lord, a million
aire of New York, because he, being SO
years of age, has gone before Cardinal Nc
Closkey with Mrs. Hicks, a dashIug widow
of forty, to be there united in matrimony's
holy bonds. The petition of the sons al
leges divers act of eccentricity and ferget-
fuiness upon the part of the ancient Lord,
which they would persuade us were acts of
lunacy but manifestly the crowning ag-
gravation WAS his marriage of a rich old
man of o3 to a spendthrift widow of 40 an
act most likely to seem, in the eyes of his
sons and men, to be one of most indisput-
able luuacy. We appreciate the feelings
of the sons. We sympathize with thcm in
the desire that they feel To say the fight
OF their fathers million from them to
Hicks. Hicks, tits said, had already Sc
cured, before the marriage and when she
dwelt IN high style i'll London, entertaining
princes and potentates, $500, 200 of the
aged Lords money as a loan and three
weeks ago, coming quietly home for more,
has concluded to take the balance of Mr..
Lord S money with Mr.. Lord himself. II
that is not Cause fOi aggravation of mind
to Mr.. Lords children, We know not what
would be.
And still, with all our sympathy for the
sons and daughters, SO suddenly beref. of a
fathers love and money, we bave an abund-
ance left foI the ancient man himself who,
at the advanced age of SO, chooses to fall i'll
love and is cruelty told that it is an act of
such insanity as TO cause the law to step in
to rob him Of his bride and his cash as, be-
tween the boys and their dad, it would
seem that the sire has the best right to the
money, and as to his title to his bride there
can be no dispute, since she gave herself or
sold herself To him and cardinal blessed
the union. There may fairly be two opin-
ions as to which wac the crazy party to
such union, if either was. We refuse TO
believe that Lord was, just because he was
S3. We know men of that age who are
better men physically than those of half
their years. Several yeais ago in tue noun
tains of southwest Virginia we came across
a husband of "a and a wife of 40, who had
around them several of their offspring the
youngest being four or five years old in
the vicinity dwelt a son of the patriarch s
first marriage, some seventy years old and
the man OF ninety-four years ba6 the ap-
pea.ance and vigor of but threescore.-
Lancaster Intelligencer.
! CURIOUS INSTANCE OF ANIMAL SAeAcr-
TY.-A New Zealand paper vouches for tho
truth OF the following story: There is a
dog at Isupo and also a young pig, and
these two afford a curious example of ami
NAL sagacity and confidence in the bona
tides of each other. These two animals
i've BIZ tne Native pa on the opposite side of
Tapuacharuru, and the dog discovered
some happy hunting grounds on the other
side, and informed the pig. The pig be-
ing only two months old, informed the dog
/ that he could not swim across the river
which at that spot debouches from the
lake, but that in time he hoped to share
the adventures Of his canine friend. The
dog settled the difficulty. He went into
the river, standing up to his neck in the
water, and crouched down; the pig got on
his back, clasping his neck with the fore
legs. The dog then swan across, thus car
rying bis chum over. Regularly every
morning the two would in this way 90
across and forage around Tapuacbaruru,
returning to the pa at night, and IL the dog
was ready to go home before the pig, he
would wait till his friend came down to be
feriied over. The truth of this story is
vUuched for by several who watched the
movements OF the pair for several weeks