THE SOCIAL WAR
OF THE YEAR
1900;
OR,
THE CONSPIRATORS AND LOVERS!
CHAPTER I.
THE HERO RESCUES THE HEROINE.
N one of the oldest settlements of Pennsylvania,
where nature has developed many curious phenomena, and where beautiful mountains, hills,
groves and valleys abound, was born, in an
humble Christian family, a son whose goodness, greatness
and peculiar power amongst men were herculean. This
humble but heroic son of toil was an out-growth, as will be
seen from the indomitable passions, love and barbarous
cruelty which he possessed.
His parents were uneducated, though sincerely pious, orthodox, religious people, who did not believe in education; therefore, opposed schooling, deeming hard physical labor and devotion to gaining an honest living the extent of their zeal and ambition; however, the hero of our plot could not and would not see things in this light; but, he saw a mirror in nature which overshadowed the valley of life and death, and he concluded to go through life in a natu-
