140 over a mile and a half from New Schoenbrunn, the skeleton of a giant Indian, with the skull broken in, and by his side the bones of one or two females. They had been hur riedly buried, the remains not being over a couple of feet from the surface, and bore evidence of having been there near an hundred years. It was surmised that they were persons killed'in Gen Wayne's war of 1793-4. but it is more probable that they were the Mingo warrior and his squaws. In 1781, two years after the mission had- been reigned of the evil influences of the artful Indian beauty, David Zeisberger visited Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and, although sixty years of age, he was attracted by the charms of Susan Lecron, a Christian lady thereat, and married her. She lies buried by his side at Goshen today, and there is little doubt but that the pious man took a wife as a shield against temptation in the wilderness, well knowing that notwithstanding the fact that religion is a protector of virtue, there are times, as all sacred and profane history prove, when his physical desires and passions, make of man, if not under the influence of a virtuous wife, only a beast on two legs, after all.
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