People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Ethan Alien’s Sword. [ARTICLE]

Ethan Alien’s Sword.

The sword which Ethan Allen drew in the cause of freedom in 1775 has been kept in the Allen family since the patriot's death, and is now in possession of Hannibal A. Hopkins, of Lansing, Mich. Mr. Hopkins has offered it to the government for exhibition in the national' museum at Washington with other revolutionary relics, and it will probably soon be placed there. Its history is well authenticated, and Ethan Allen in his autobiography refers twice to using it in the capture of the British at Ticonderoga. The Chinese distort the feet of their womep to keep them at home. For the same reason the Venetians formerly compelled their women when abroad to wear clogs of such size and shape that walking was made extremely difficult and as little of it as possible waa done! Don’t overload the rooms with fund ture—or anything else.