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VOL. 29.
STROUJJSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 25, 1872.
NO. 39.
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Published by Theodore Schoch,
TEH'l Two (IrtM-trs a year in advance and if not
fiat ! bpf.r" Ihe ent of the year, two dollars and fifty
frill will be charged.
v niorr iliM-ontiiiued until all arrearages are paid,
rxrrot at the ortmn ol the Editor.
trA Ircrlisenieuts of one square of (eight linec) or
...:i? or lhre m-;?rtiins $1 50. Each additional
tf Mi 'n. 31 cent. Longer ones in proportion.
job iKiri(;,
OF ALL KINDS,
rtet utcd in the hi-liet style of the Ait, and on the
most reasonable terms.
DR.J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
Still In his office on Main Street, in the second
Mry of Dr. S. Walton's iirick. tuilidlng, neaily oppo
ile the srroiidshurs House, and he fl.tUers'hinii-clf
n it hv eishtet-n yeais consiant practice and the mot
nnivl an I cairful altenilf n to all matters pertaining
t.t his prciffion, that he is fully able to perform all
ujieraiions in the dental line in the nio.u cairful, tatte
I'll and skillful manner.
Special attention given to saving the Natural Teeth ;
hI,,.. to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
f; U. Sliver or (Continuous Gums, and perfect fits In
all r ae insured.
M ist persons know the strut f.l!y and danger nl en
ni ins their work to the inexperienced, or to llioe
lmj at .1 distance. April 13, 18T1. ly
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces lii it having just returned from
Dental Collets, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teetli in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to fili decayed teeth ac
cording to the most i-nprcved method.
Tedh ex'ract"d without pain, when de
fired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
ail kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Clurjre reasonable.
Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
ing, Mii.i S rcet, Stroudsburg, Pa.
aurr 3l-lf
Dll. V. O. IIOFIMI.tX, 31. I.
Would respectfully announce to the
public that he has removed his office from
OAlan 1 to Canadensis. Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice of Medicine ami Surgery will Vhj a
n-ifftVient guarantee for the public continence.
February J."). 1S7. tf.
J
mils ii. w.iirox.
At Ionics at I-utv,
OihVo in the building formerly occupied
by I j. M. Bursnn, and opposite the Strouds
burg Hank, Main street, Stroud.sburg, Pa.
j.in 13-tf
O HOLM US. Jr.
ij .lllorncy at Iaiv,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office, on Main Street, 5 doors above ihe
SironJsbur-r. House, and opposite Ruster's
clothing store.
07-Busincss of all kinds attended to with
promptness and fidelity.
May 0, 1SG9. tf.
PLASTEE !
Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER,
at Stoke' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS.
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING, and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on band.
Wi I exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or pay the highest market price.
HLACKSMIT11 SHOP just opened by
C. Static, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. S WYCKOFF.
Stokes' Mills, Pa., April 20, 1871.
A.
KOCKAFKLLOW,
DEALER IN
Ready-Made Clothing, Gents Fur
nishing Goods, Hats & Caps,
Coots & Shoes, &c
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA.
(Near the Depot.)
The public are invited to call and exam
ine goods. Prices moderate.
May 6, 1609. tf.
REV. ED WARD A. V I LSON'S (of W il-limn-burgh,
N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
OCT" Mfdicines Fresh and Pure.
ov. W. HOLLINSHEAD.
A FULL ASSORTMENT
iL OF
HOME MADE CHAIRS
Always on band at
SAMUEL S. LEE'S
New Cabinet Shop,
franklin Street Stroudsburg, Penn'a
In rear of Stroudsburg Bank.
April 6, '71. ly.
DO.VT FOIIGBT Hint wlicil
you want any thing in the Furniture
' Ornnuieutal line that McCarty. in ihe
OJd-IMlottV Hall, Main Street, Strouds
turjj, IV, u the place to get it. Sept. 20
Dovr root, your jjio.hgy
away for worthier art idea of Furni
'urc, but go to McCarly4', and you will set
eil paid ibr it. Sept. 26, '67.
DOVr you Know lliiil J. II.
McCarty is the only Undertaker in
roudtburr who understand? his business!
If not, attend a Funeral managed by any
other Undertaker 111 town, and you will see
tbe proof of the fact. Sept. J G, '67
An Ode to Feeling.
The small-pox in Chicago is the Chicago
I osfe provocation for printing the following
poem :
"How arc you, Johnny Jones, my friend?"
"How are you, Johnny boy ?"
I clapped him cordially and cried
"Old friend, I wish you joy !"
"A merry Christ mass J bust just then
He jumped at me and growled ;
lie doubled up bis fists and swore
And got right up and bowled.
I never paw a man so mad,
lie stamped upon the ground,
And talked swearwords and danced and writhed
And twisted 'round and 'round.
"Mad dogs," I screamed ; and then be said
To quiet the alarm,
"Oh! Jim, I'm vaccinated there;
Don't touch me on that arm !"
LIFE IN GREENLAND.
The life of the Greenlander must be
very dreary. About the first of October
the last ship leaves for Europe, and from
that time until ihe next May, they, have
no communication with the civilized
world ; their year is divided into one long
day and one long night. For mauy
months the sun never sets ; throughout
the twenty. four hours, he is seen describ
ing liis brilliant circuit in the northern
skies. In July, you watch bis descent
towaid the horizon till he seems to dip
his golden edge into the sea ; then, seem
ing to pause in his course for a moment,
lie mounts again into the heavens. While
we were there, a month later, the sun
disappeared for less that four hours ; I
had watched his setting at 10 P. M. cover
ing tie sea and sky with gold and purple
but the heavens remained bright with a
mellow light, by which I read during the
brief night ; and at 1 o'clock A. M., he
re appeared in glory. This was a novelty,
aud I felt free from the silvery of hours,
but that prolonged day brought with it a
strange excitement. I knew not when to
retire, when to rise. Bells called us to
breakfast, lunch and dinner ; bells called
as to repose and aroused us from our fit
ful slumber. .
This lengthy day is followed by an
equally long night, which brings mental
and moral depression. Men are moping,
testy, imaginative, and appear colorless
as potato sprouts growing in a dark cel
lar. Even the dogs suffer from the pro
longed darkness. Yet Greenland is not
without some bounties of Providence.
Duriing the brief summer, the valleys are
green with grasses and mosses. Some
flowers have been found as far north as
80. Of course there are no forests, but,
as a substitute, quantities of drift wood,
from North American rivers, arc gather
ed on coast and used for timber. But if
nature is scanty in her supply, of vegeta
tion, she is abundant in her supply of
fish, fowl, and beast. The waters abound
in salmon, codfish, sturgeon, whales, the
walrus and the seal. The very air is
sometimes darkened with ducks, geese,
and quail. But the reindeer, the walrus,
the seal, and the bear are of the greatest
value to the Esquimaux, both for food
and raiment. AVhat the cocoanut. palm,
that tree of a hundred uses, is to the peo
ple of the Indies, and the olive tree is to
the inhabitants, of Palestine, the reindeer
is to the people of Greenland. The flesh,
the tongue, the marrow of the bones are
delicacies ; the blood is a nourishing be
verage ; the skin not only furnishes cloth
ing impervious to the cold, but also tents
and bedding; and out of the boues and
horns are made all necessary household
utensils When an Esquimau catches a
reindeer, he has, on four legs, a larder
well filled, a wardrobe well supplied, a
huose well furnished.
Next to the deer, the walrus is of most
value to Greenlauders. It was on a
bright August day, when for the first
time I sow a herd of these immense
beasts. The largest was not less than
twenty feet long, and weighed two thou
sand pound. The neck was short and
thick, the head small, the tusks long, and
the feet resembled broad, fin-like pad
dles. When ou land their movement
are slow and awkward, but in the water
they move with great rapidity and pow
er. When pursued by the hunter, they
display almost human intelligence.
When in winter the walrus comes out of
the water, he breaks up the ice with an
explosive puff which can be heard for
miles. In the meantime the hunter is
lying on the ice waiting for a favored mo
meu't. His instrument of attack is a large
harpooo, to which is fastened a strong
line, of many fathoms length, made of
of walrus hide. The other end of the line
is fastened to a rod of bone pointed with
iron, to be driven into the ice. The mo
mcut comes. The walrus ries breast high
above the ice, and looks around as if half
suspicious that some foe is nigh. In au
instant the hunter is on his feet, and the
harpoon is buried under the flipper of the
breast. With desperation the walrus
plunges beneath the water, and the hun
ter drives the iron-pointed rod into the
solid ice, which holds the line securely.
Finding himself fast, the wounded beast
comes to the surface again, looks around,
observes where the the stick that hold
tjo-ht the line, again descends, comes- op
and breaks the ice just where the staff
had been planted ; but, knowing the cun
ning of the walrus, the hunter has hauled
in his liue aud planted his stick in an
other place.. And thus the struggles gos
on between skill and force, till the beast
is exhausted and the game secured. But
with all his strength and cunnini?. the
walrus is no match for the polar bear.
In August the walrus makes his way to
the shore, draws his huge body upon the
rocks and there basks "in the sunshine.
Ever watching for his prey, the bear
mounts the overhanging cliffs, and lifting
a large rock with his forepaws, and cal
culating the distance and the curvature
with the acuracy of a mathematician, he
hurls the rock on the animal's head, crush
ing in the ponderous skull ; then, like an
arrow, the bear rushes down the cliff, and
if the walrus still lives, he hammers away
with the same rock till the beast is dead.
Bear-hunting is oue the most exciting
scenes of the polar regions. A large she
beer, with a four-months old cub, was at
tacked first by the dogs, which she caught
up and flung, first one and then another
to a great distance. During the strug
gle, the cub was wounded with a pistol
ball. At once the mother placed the
cub between her hind legs, and shoving
it along sought flight ; but, wounded her
self, she faced about, rose upon her mind
quarters, placed the cub between her hind
lens and bade defiance to her pursuers.
Wounded again, she fell dead, and the
cub mounted the dead body of its mother,
and continued the fight till captured.
Since the days of Job, there has been
no such patience as is now displayed by
the Esquimau, when in winter he is hunt
ing the seal. Having ascertained where
the seal is gnawing beneath the ice for a
breathing-hole, the hunter perforates the
spot with a slender bone rod, with a point
at one end and a knob at the other, which
is moved by the seal in coming to the sur
face. This many occupy twenty-four
hours. The hunter then builds a wall of
snow, four feet high, to shelter him from
the wind. Seating himself behind it, he
places by his side his spear and lines.
He must preserve the utmost silence, that
he may hear the seal at work and not
cause fright to the animal. He even binds
his knees together with a thong to pre
vent the rustling of his clothes. And
there he sits for twenty four hours wait
ing the coming of the seal to the surface,
when he cautiously rises with spear in
hand, aud the long sought for seal is his.
Reo. Dr. Newman, in the Methodist.
Compulsory Education.
The fact presented in the late message
of Governor . Geary that there are in
Pennsylvania more than seventy five
thousand children receiving no educa
tion other than that derived on the streets,
while the public schools afford ample
facilities for their admittance and train
ing, starts again the important question
whether a system of compulsory educa
tion should not be adopted. In review
ing the able report of Professor Wicker
sham, the Philadelphia North American
comments as follow? :
The annual report of the State
Superintendent of 'Common Schools of
Pennsylvania has just been made public,
and contains many facts truly gratifying.
There is an increase over the previous
year of 1,488 schools, 40'J teachers, 5,23
pupils, and SS09,157 in the expenditures.
By some strange arrangement the city of
Philadelphia was a long time excluded
from these reports, aud never appeared
iu the annual statements of the depart
ment, so that when the reports were
quoted in distant States they invariably
did injustice to the State by giving figures
that were far below the real oues. But
this is rectified now, and looking at the
progress of the State at large, the present
report is worthy of attention. It gives
the entire expenditure upon schools, in
cluding orphans' school, at $0,100,928.33.
The Superintendent calls attention to
the fact that the increase in the expendi
tures on schools in the past seven years
has been more than equal to the entire
outlay seven years ago, from which our
readers may draw their own conclusions
as to the shocking neglect of education
in the interior of the State prior to the
adoption of the new school law, which
established the office of County Supcrin
tedent. It may be safely assumed,
however, that even in the present improv
ed conditiou, the public school system of
the Commonwealth is far below the re
quircments of the times, and that 831,611
pupils are too few for a population of
three and a half millions. Long ex
perience has convinced all connected with
education in Penusylvauia that nothing
but sheer compulsion can be depended
upon to drive the school system ahead pro
perly. While the origional school law
left it optional with school districts to act
or not, a large number refused to do any
thing at all. They were known as non
accepting districts, and ignorance became
so dense and deplorable that at length the
Legislature, after a sharp struggle, made
the school laws obligatory upon all
districts, and compelled all to act.
A physician in Sioux City, Iowa, uses
an ointment made of charcoal and lard to
prevent pitting iu small pox. This is
applied freely over the face, hands, and
neck as soou as the disease is distinguish
ed, and continued until all symptoms of
suppurative in fever have ceased. The
application allays the itching, and seems
to shorten the duration of the disease and
leaves the patient without a blemish, the
eruption protected by the ointment not
even showing signs of poetulation, the
charcoal preventiug the action- of light,
and the lard of air.
Tour looking glass will toil you what
none of your fiicuds will.
Reverdy JohEson on tha Kurlux :
There is now one Demorat, at least,
who has been converted to a belief in the
existence of the Kuklux as described by
Republicans who believe that the stories
told by the carpet baggers are not exag
gerated. We allude to the Hon. Reverdy
Johnson. It will be remembered that
upon the passage of the Kulkux Bill,
Mr. Johnson condemned it in unmeasur
ed terms, denouncing it as "a gross out
rage upon the southern people," and "an
unnecessary and outrageous piece of legis
lation to oppress a peaceable and law abid
ing people '' During the late trials in
South Carolina, Mr. Johnson was retained
as counsel for the accused. His present
views on the subject may be inferred from
the following language employed by him
in addressing the jury :
,4I have listened with unmixed horror
to some of the testimony which has been
brought before j'ou. The outrages prov
ed are shocking to humanity ; they admit
of neither excuse nor justification ; they
violate every obligation which nature ana"
law imposes upon men ; they show that
the parties ongaged were brutes, in?eusi
ble alike to the obligations of humauity
and religion. But, if justice shall not
overtake them, there is a tribunal from
which they may not hope to escape ; it is
their own judgment; that tribunal which
sits in the heart of every living man ; that
still, small voice which strikes through
every heart- the voice of conscience
the voice of God. If it has not already
startled them to the enormity of their
couduct, I trust in the mercy of Heaven,
that voice will speak before they shall be
called upon to account for the transac
tions of this world ; that it will so tpeak
as to make them penitent ; and that, trust
ing to the dispensation of Heaven, whose
justice is dispensed with mercy, when
they shall be brought before the bar of that
great tribunal, there will be found in the
fact of their previous lives some small
grounds upon which God may say Par
don I"
Our Democratic cotemporartes are gen
erally ready to quote from Ileverdy John
son. Wc hope they will publish the
foregoing extract.
Saved by Salt.
The Plattsburg (Mo.) Register gives
the following:
A few days ago Wm. Hamilton, resid
ing near the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
went into the timber about a mile off to
shoot squirrels. Nothing being heard of
him all night, several neighbors the next
morning went in search of him. About
three o'clock in the afternoon they found
him up a leaning tree, thirty feet from
the ground, fast and unable to extricate
himself. After some trouble he was taken
down, and it was seen that one foot and
ankle were badly torn ond bleeding.
He said that about three o'clock the
previous day he came across a large black
I bear, and shot at but missed him. The
1 n i tit-
ocar maae ior mm wun an 111s miguc.
He ran, and Adding the bear gaining on
him, threw away his rifle, and partly
climbed and partly ran up a leaning
sycamore tree, with the bear following
right at his heels. The top of this tree
had been broken off and was hollow.
He thrust one of his legs into the hole
to keep himself from falling, but soon
found that his leg was fast. He tried to
extricate himself but could not. The
bear in the meantime had torn his boot
off, and was gnawing and eating the flesh
from the foot and ankle. Mr. Hamilton
took his pocket knife out aud cut at
bruin's eyes : but with one sweep of his
paw the bear stauck the knife from his
hand, with a part or two of his fingers.
Mr. Hamilton could now sec uo help,
and gave up to die, expecting to be eaten
up alive by the bear. But soon a happy
thought struck him. That morning he
had put some salt in his pocket to salt
pome cattle he had running in the timber.
He took a small handful and sprinkled it
in the bear's eyes. It had the desired
effect. The bear shook his head, growl
ed, and went down. He soon returned,
however, but a little more salt drove him
away the second time, and to Mr. Hamil
ton's inexpressible delight he trotted off
into the forest.
Remedy for Bots in Horses.
The Practical Parmer contaius the fol
lowing remedy for bots : "Fill an ordinary
junk bottle half full of molasses ; thcu
fill with sweet milk ; shake the contents
and drench ; follow the above in about an
hour with a bottle of strong sage tea,
made of our ordinary garden sage ; next
day give that horse a feed of rough rice,
and the dead bots will be ejected with the
rice. My theory is, that the milk and
molasses being sweeter than blood, the
bots turn loose to eat it. The sago tea
will kill them, and it is tho only thing I
ever heard of that will do it without in
jury to the horse. The rice will dislodge
the dead bots better than salts; in fact, if
you will give horses a feed of rough rice
every two weeks, I do not think there is
the least danger from bots ; at least such
is my experience. As a proof of what 1
have written, get two suge leaves, dip
them in hot water, lay oue down and put
a lively bot 00 it, then cover him with
the other, and he will die irvstantly.
Sage tea I have also found very beneficial
iu cnlicjit imperfectly harmless, if it d-oes
no good.
A Geneva (111.) i'ouudry manufactures
seven tous of Eud-iroma a week.
The Fisk inquest is concluded and the
coroner's jury found that the deceased
had come to his death from the wounds
of a pistol ball, "discharged at him in a
deliberate manner" by Edward S. Stokes.
Stokes declined to say anything relative
to the charge against him, and his coun
sel, iu a lengthy address, then asked the
coroner not to return the ' proceedings,
which should be reduced to writing, un
til the next Ciiminal Court. His reason
for this request was that the public ex
citement might have some time to wear
away. He again referred to the McFar
land trial and said :
Had McFarland been tried within thir
ty days after the Coroner's verdict he
must have been convicted. But when
sober second thought came upon the pub
lie mind, always sure to follow in a case
of that kind, he was not only acquainted,
by the public so incensed against him,
but almost received the thanks of the
jury for the act originally committed.
We imagine that it will be some time
before Stokes "receives the thanks" of
any jury for murdering Fisk.
It is staled that, when all debts become
settled, the estate of the late James Fisk,
will not realize over S100.000. His life
was insured for S20.000 in the Equitable
Insurance Company. II is acquisitions
were large, but his extravagances were
great. He sunk about 150,000 while run
ning the several companies of the grand
opera house. John II. Corner, lately Fisk's
private secretary, will be his administra
tor. It is reported that the Grand Cen
tral hotel sent Corner a bill for S2500 for
the use of a couple of rooms occupied by
the dying Fisk and friends from Satur
day evening till Sunday 'afternoon. A
certain amount of damage to carpets may
have occurred to the hotel through the
large crowd assembling there to view his
body, but nothing to warrant the exorbit
ant charge made. Coroner Youn-r took
from the person of Fisk diamond studs, a
very expensive gold watch and chain and
jeweled sleeve buttons, valued at 80,500.
In addition to these he had $1,500 in
money iu his pockets. Fisk is said to
have giveu 58,000 for the diamond stud
he habitually wore. The coroner holds
them at the disposal of Mrs. Fisk. Ex.
The Chicago Tribune says : A case of
peculiar interest to the instructors of the
rising generation has just been tried at
Princeton, in the Circuit Court of Bu
reau county. At a common school in that
county last winter, two small boys, forget
ful of all the precepts of the excellent
Dr. Watts, engaged in a hand to hand
conflict during the morning recess. They
were, however separated, and on inquiry
the teacher was assured that friendly re
lations were restored. But by noon their
fiery passions were once more aroused.
Moved therein probably by ''Tom Brown
at Kugby," they arranged for a regular
prize fight. Just as one was knocking
the other down for the third time, the
ring was broken and the victor assaulted
so vigorousiy that his elbow was dislocat
ed. hen the crowd interfered, their
teacher was notiGed of the hurt. He
rushed at once to the door, called out to
them to stop, and then hurried back to
the school-room to put on his boots, as
he was naturally averse to walking through
slush several inches deep is slippered feet.
Before he reached the group, the elbow
was dislocated. The injured youth,
through his father, straightway sued the
teacher for criminal negligence. The
trial was a long one. The jury were out
twenty-four hours, and returned a ver
dict for defendant, whereupon an appeal
was at once taken to the Supreme Court.
Great interest was manifested in the trial,
and the schools of Bureau county had a
practical vacation throughout its progress,
as all the teachers were congregated at
Princeton. If the verdict should here
versed, there will probably be an cnger
rivalry for positions in schools for girls,
where human nature manifests itself in
gentler phases, and the pedagogue will
not be likely to lose his year's wages by
the blood thirstiness of his pupils.
How to Make Girls Healthy.
Let a girl, duriBg the years from 12 to
18, spend but one hour daily in mental
laborr taking but one study at a time,
walk auother hour, labor at some agree
able employment three or four hours, read
an hour, sleep all all she wauts during
the night, but never take daytime "naps,"
cat plain, nourishing food, mostly bread
and roast or boiled meat, and every day
indulge in all the fun and frolic which
her youthful spirits enn deuisc, and she will
become healthy, happy and intellectual.
Theu from 18 to 21 she may attend Vussar
or any other college, aud will fiud herself
better able to carry off prizes than the
girls who have been always at school.
But she will not have developed wiry,
muscular strength equal to the young
men of her own age, because Nature has
forbidden it.
A girl is provided from birth with more
adipose tissue than a boy, not as some
supposo, to keep her warm, but to
render her muscles more juicy, soft and
yielding than his. The investigations of
some anatomists have also proved that
her body contains a much greater num
ber of nerves, and that her arterial system
on approachiug womauhood becomes more
largely developed than his. I, therefore,
cannot at all agree with the writer who
says, "we see uo way out of this difficulty
but to commence with the cradle, aud
educate girls as nearly like boys as possi
ble." X I'. ISceniuj 'Jail.
The Russian Government has recent
ly been engaged in reconstructing its
army on the principle of a general con
scription. The period of liability to eer
vicc is to commetice at twenty-one, and to
last for fifteen years. Graduates of the
higher schools and universites, however,
are not required to enter the army until
the age of twenty seven, and pupils of
the middle schools are not drafted until
the nge of twenty two. The period of
active service varies according to the de
gree of education. University graduates
are only required to remain in the army
for six months ; graduates of gymnasiums,
and lyceums for a year, and so on down
to the illiteaate, who are obliged to serve
for six years. The causes of exemptions
are very numerous ; no military service is
required from only sons, artisans em
ploying five journeymen, foremen of
manufacturing establishments, clergymen
of all denominations, choristers in the
Russian churches, teachers, physicians,
apothecaries, and veterinary surgeons.
Notwithstanding these and other special
exemptions, the Russian army in time of
war, it is calculated, will consist of 1,G53,
393 men and 50,9 officers of all ranks.
Of these, 32,817 officers and 1,332,543
soldiers are' to be stationed in European
Russia, and 4,071 officers and 1G3.211
men in the Caucasus. The above force
will be distributed into 1,203 battallioos
of infantry and 280 squadrons of cavalry.
The artillery will be armed with 2,571
guns. In time of peace the number of
troops under arms will amount to 34,707
officers and 730,000 men.
;
Cure for Cancer,
To the Editor of the Pittslrirg Post :
I wish to make known through your
widely circulated paper to the many now
now suffering with cancer. In 1863 a
cancer came on my left hand, after much
suffering, all remedies failing me, I had
it burned out with caustic. It made its
appearance again in 18G4 in my right
arm, being more troublesome than before;
I suffered almost death again with caustic
burning; this seemed to check it for a
while. It next broke out in my right
hand. In the spring of 1871 it grew
very fast until the hand became helpless
and I carried it in a sling; all remedies
and caustics failing me this time I feared
my hand must be taken off. On hearing
of several persons- being cured by drink
ing wild tea and poulticing the cancer
with the tea grounds", I commenced using
wild tea in earnest. I abstained from us
ing coffee or other tea and in four weeks
was cured as well as it ever was. I am
acquainted with iwo citizens of Pittsburg
that have been cured of cancer by drink
ing wild tea within the last tew months.
For the sake of suffering humanity I
make knowu these facts. Wild tea grows
in most of the States and is well known.
This remedy should have the widest
publicity.
Yours respectfully,
J. B. Williams. Health Officer.
Allegheny City, Fa.
Down the Hill.
The evening of every man's life is com
ing ou apace. The day of life will soon
be spent. The sun, though it may be up
in the mid heaven, will pass swiftly down
ihe western sky and disappear. What
shall light up man's path when the sun
of life has gone down ; He must travel on
to the next world ; but what shall illume
footsteps after tire nightfall of death,
amid the darkness of his journey ? What
question is more important, more practi
cal, more solemn for each reader of our
journal to-ask himself? That is a long
journey to travel without a friend. Yet
every man must perform it. The time is
not far distant when all men will begin
the journey. There is an evening star
in the natural wotM. Its radiance i3
bright and beautiful, and cheering to the
benighted traveler. But life's star is in
a good hope of heaven. Its bcanty and
brilliancy are reflected from the Sun of
Righteousness, whose bright rays light
up the evening cf life, ami throw their
radiance quite across the darkness of the
grave into Immanuel's laud. It has il
luminated the footsteps of many a traveler
into eternity. It is of priceless value.
A thousand worlds caunot purchase it ;
yet it is offered without money and with
out price to him who will penitently and
thankfully receive it. Reader, will you
take it ?
At Professor Gross clinic at the Jef
ferson Medical College, in Philadelphia,
on WeduesJay, a young man" was intro
duced by DrMW. H. Pancoast, who had
lost both legs from a railroad accident in
the interior of the State. iThe right leg
was amputated f'ourN inch?s abovo the an
kle, aud the left four inches below the
knee. By the use of nrtifical limbs made
by II. A. Gildea, of Philadelphia, Prof.
Gross demonstrated to the class that tha
subject was able to walk, run, leap, &c.,
so that it was quite difficult to tell which
leg was artificial, and especially to dis
cover that both legs were artificial. Ho
stepped in and out of his -carriage with
ease. The case was regarded by Profes
sor Gross as being particularly interest
ing, as showing the triumph of art over
circumstances. The young man, who had
been apparently doomed to go all his lite
upon his knees, or move about with the
very unsatisfactory aid of crutches, was
eoablo.d to walk in an upright position,
aud perform most of the work aud me
chanical motions he was capable of beford
aiDpuUtiou.