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Vol. 3i.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA., MAY 29, 1873.
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
f Stf -T.vo .loll.jr? a yearin advance and iTiM
fiUi t tpfr the end of the year; to dot tors nml ill
cSnt wMlbe'fctnirg.!. .. "un.-j
N i iH:fe- dio'..itfrtii! l unill all arrearages are pun!,
e'xeen't .it the optUm ot the Editor.
Ircrilsesnents of one iuare of (cijthl. or
fs,nne orlhr'fc iiici'Mons 91 5i. Ei-.h .-utittMoiiul
hirtioii, 5 ceiiu. Longer ones in proportion.
JOB Pill NT I KG,
OF Atttt KINDS,
ExeruifJ in the I1I5I1PM ?iyte nf the Art, and onthft
most re.ifonable terms.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lauds and Town Lets
FOR SALE,
)$ee next door above S. Keen' news IVpot
imd J1 dr below the Corner .Store.
March mt, i.s7;;-tr.
D R. J. L A N T Z,
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
Kijl I Im hi office on M;in Street, .in the second
story l Dr. S. Walton's brir.k building, neiiily oppo
site the Siroudshtirg House, and tie l!auer'liiuiself
tli.it ly eiliteen years constant praotire and the iuot
erue.-t and c.airinl aitenli.-ii to all mailers pertaining
t'i hi profession, t hat he is fully able to perforin :!l
Hper.iti(iis in the dental line in the most careful, taste
fil 4ii'l skillful manner.
Special atteiilntn given to saving the N.ttura! Teeih ;
iilsn, lo tlie nisi-rlion of Artiticiat feeth on Rubber,
0. 11.1. Silver or rouUiiuous tiuius, and perlerl fits la
1, I rn-es insured.
M.ist pnrsoafc know the gre;i! folly ami danger ol en
t nisi iii their work to the inexperieiu el. or to those
living at a ilistjiice. April 13, IbTI. ly
JIl. J. II. MB15.I.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
),Tite 1st door above Stroudsburg House,
residence 1st door a bow lt Office.
. Oilice hours from 'J to 12 A. M., from to 5
and 7 to U r. M. May : '7:My.
D
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
residtMioe in WyckofPs building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Aujust 8, lS72-tf.
jr. ii. j. imttciiso:;,
JIPERITIXG AXD MECHANIC!!. DEMIST,
Hjving located in Fast Stroudsburg, Pa., an
nounces that he i.-tnow prepared to insert arli
Jictii 1 I eel 1 1 in the most beautiful and life-like
maimer. Also, great attention given to tilling
and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
tracted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide
ias. All other work incident to the profession
done in the most skillful and approved style.
All work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public
solicited.
Office in A. W. Loder's new building, op-o-ite
Analomink House, Kast Strotidsburg,
J'a.l July 11, 1S72 ly.
I)
It. X. l'ECK,
.surgeon Icit1Ist.
Announces tint having just returned from
Denial College, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and lo fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the most inprcved method.
Teeth extracted without pain, when de-
irel, by the une of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely ha miles. Repairing1 of
!l kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
in j. Main S'reet, .Strotidsburj;, Pa.
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JAMES II. WALTOX,
Atf oritey at Law,
Office in the building formerly occupied
by L. M. Burson. and opposite the Strouds
b irg Hank, Main street, Stroudsburg, I'a.
jau lU-tf
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The subscrilKT would inform tlie public that
be lias leased the house formally kept by Jacob
Kneeht, in the Rorough of troudsburg, Pa.,
and having repaintel and refurnished the same,
i prepared to entertain all who may patronize
iim. It is the aim of the proprietor, to furn
ih superior aceotntnodations at moderate rates
xmd will spare no pains to promote the com
Jbrt oftlie guests. A liberal share of public
J:ttronare solicited.
April 17, '72-tf. D. L. TISLK.
Jnii; uorsi:,
HONESDALE, PA.
Most central location ot any Hotel in tcrtvn.
11. W. K1PLK & SON,
J ?9 Main street. Proprietors.
January y, 1873. y.
LACK 1VAX .AIIO LSI
OPPOSITE THE DEPOT,
Kast Stroudsburg,
B. J. VAN CO'IT, Proprietor.
The bau contains the choie,t Liquors and
the table is supplied with the best the market
affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
TT'ATSOX'S
T Mount Vcri
lion House,
117 and 119 North Second St.
AliOVK ARCJf,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 30, 1672- ly.
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wib
hamsburgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 1867. W. IIOLLINSIIEAD.
MdNKOE COUNTY
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
STROUrSBURG, PA.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
The By-Li ws of this Company, and the
regulations governing insurance have, re
cently been very materially changed, pla
cing it upon a b.isis equal to that of any
Fire Insurance Company" in the Slate.
Important among these, changes arc the
lol lowing, viz :
Policies, instead of being perpetual, are
issued for five years.
All property is classified and the rate of
premium is fixed according to the risk of
the properly.
Premium notes are taken, and all as
sessments tire made on the nolcs.
Property is insured for not more than
two thirds of its actual casli value, and the
full amount of insurance paid in case of loss,
provided the loss be equal to the amount of
insurance.
'Annual assessments"' only are made, ex
cept in cases of heavy loss, and where a
special assessment is necessary.
The Company is therefore prepared to in
sure property upon terms much more desira
ble than under the old system.
Applicatinns may be made to any of the
Managers, Surveyors, or Secretary.
MANAGERS.
Stojdel! Stokes,
J. Depue LeBar,
Richard S. Si a pies,
Silas L. Drake,
Chas. D. Hro'lhcad,
Jiicob Knecht,
John Edinger.
Francis Ilagerman,
Jacob Stouffer,
Theodore Schoch,
Thos. W. Rhodes,
Robert Boys,
William Wallace.
STOGDELL STOKES, Pres't.'
Dkeiier, Secretary and Treasurer.
E. B.
SURVEYORS. .
For Monroe County:
Silas L. Drake, Tiios. W. Rhodes,
William Gilbert, J. Depue LeBar,
Geo. G. Shafcr, Jacob Stouffer.
For Wayne County:
F. A. Oppelt, Jos. L. Miller.
For Pike County :
Samuel Detrick.
For Northampton County:
Richard Camden.
For Carbon County:
Samuel Ziegctifus.
The Managers meet regularly at
the Secretary Office in Stroudsburg, on
the first Tuesday of each month, at 2
o'clock P. M. May 15 73-tf
GOOD NEWS!
SEW FIRM AXD SEW GOODS?
WAGXER & RHODES
would announce to the public, that they have
taken the stand lately occupied by L.T. Labar
&. Co., ami fitted and stocked it with choice
lines, of
Groceries,
Provisions,
Crockery ware, &c.
Every article in store has been selected with
the greatest care, and they can assure custo
mers, that no matter at what price sold, every
thing purchased of them will prove to be of
the best quality.
It is the design to keep a complete assort
ment in each line, so that all tastes may be
suited.
Whether in want of heavy or fine
Groceries or Provisions, Crockery Ware,
and Glassware, Tobaccoes
or what not This will be found to be the
place to call. A speciality with them will be
a No. 1 brand of
St. Louis Mills Flour
which stands at the head of the list every
where. Call and examine goods. Prices
marked down to the lowest living figure.
CHOICE CLOVER SEED ON HAND.
ALSO:
On hand and for sale a superior lot of
Ceiling Lath, Hemlock Boards and Scant
ling, Matched Flooring, and White
Pine of all kinds.
li. S. WAGNER. M. II. RHODES.
April 10, 1873-tf.
Found out why people go to McCarty's to
get their furniture, because he buys it at the
Ware Rooms of Ixe & Co. and tsellu it at
an advance of only ticeuty-tvco and tico
tn'nth per cent. Or in other words, Rocking
Chairs that he buys of Lee & Co. (through
the runners he don't have) for $4,50 he sells
lor 55,.w. 1 nys fo.ui to Li'i some good
niture. LKE & CO.
Stioudbburg, Au-. 18, 1S70. tf.
New Disease Among Sheep.
The Practical Farmer for May contains
an article copied troni .the Middlctown
(.Conn.) Sent i net, slating that
II. L. Stewart, of Middle IladJam,
had lost all his best sheep by a disease
that is ucw in this coantrv. The last of
his flock, a lamb, died last week. Mr
Stewart had expeuded cousiderable money
id importing improved suecp Irom J'Jug
land. Dr. Creasy, tho state Veterinary
surgeon, made a post mortem examioa
tion of one of Mr. Stewart's sheep, and
found a parasite literally, cousumiug the
lungs. This parasite is known as the
'Strongylus Glaria,' or ltouud Thread
Worm. It has lou been. known in Eng
CD O
laud, but not in this country. This is
the Gist case brought to Dr. Crcssy's at
teution, and no mention of its being knowu
m the United States is made in any of
the books or reports. The worm, when
full grown, is two or three inches in
leugth and about as large as a No 2!) cot
ton thread. It first attacks the lungs and
then spreads to the bowels and intestines,
but as yet none have been found in the
flesh. It increases its kind very rapidly,
there being from five to ten thousand liv
ing embryo in each mother worm. We
had the pleasure of examining, under the
miscroscope of the embryo in all states of
development, magnified twenty thousand
times. It was a startling sight. 31r.
Stewart has lost 35 by this insidious and
destructive worm during the past two
years, and some other cases have occurred
in the sheep of his neighbors that were
pastured with his. We also learn that
similar cases have occurred in Hartford
couuty. As most of the sheep affected
were imported, it is quite certain the
parasite was brought lrom England. A
very simple remedy turpentine will
extirpate this worm, so no alarm need be
felt by sheep raisers aud lovers of mutton.
Dr. Cressy is giving the subject his at
tention, and the disease to any extent
need not be feared. Mr. S describes the
symptoms and course of the disease very
clearly, as follows : 'Sheep run a little
at the nose ; cough by spells, and when
doing it draw themselves up together;
stand with head down to the grouud, feet
uear together and back arched j have a
loose state of the bowels in the last stage
of the disease ; sheep grow very poor and
weak, often falling as they walk and bar-
-MrE hard work to rise again. On opening
alter death, lungs are very small, pale iu
color and covered with whitish spots on
the outside, the underside often colored
with purple spots; the air tubes pale and
stiS, and a hue thread like work fouud
in them ; worm nearly white; the lungs
are speckled with gritty bunches of a
shell like character; bowels covered with
numerous bunches of a similar kind.' "
I regret exceedingly to learn of the mis
fortune of Mr. Stewart. In August, 1870,
I visited Middle Haddam and saw his
flock of Southdowus. He had one buck
and threo ewes, just imported from Henry
Webb, England, which were as good sheep
as I ever saw. Previous to this importa
tion. Mr. S. had been breeding from
"Young 80" and "Vigor," bought at Tay
lor's sale in New Jersey, aud which were
in an adjoining lot. They were both
tplendid bucks. 31 r. Stewart is also
quite an extensive breeder of Ayrshire
cattle.
The disease in some of the symptoms
described corresponds wth the disease
that prevailed in this vicinity, last winter
and early in the spring, and also in dies
ter couuty, Maryland, New Jersey aud
New York States. The symptoms which
noticed were slight running at the nose,
dullness, disinclination to move, Htaggcr
ing gait aud loss of appetite. Sheep very
fat. I did not notice any cough (although
others in other places did), bowls were
not loose, but constipated, or standing in
a humped position. The post mortem ex
amination revealed the same small, pale
and apparently wasted condition of the
lungs. Did not notice any worms. I
cauuot pronounce this disease the same
without farther examination, and we are
having no new cases that I can bear of.
One word as to the remedy. The ac
count states that turpentine is a very sure
and simple remedy for the disease, but
presents no mode lor its application. A
ueighbor of mine across the river, and
a breeder of Southdowus, informed me
some time ago that he had preserved the
health of his sheep during the past win
ter by the use of turpentine, which he
sprinkled occasionally on the through,
where his sheep fed, aud that it kept the
bowels from becoming constipated. The
smell of it might perhaps be sufficient to
kill worms iu the lungs. I should like
to hear from some of our Veteriuary sur
geons on this point, whether inhaliog the
fumes of turpentine would be sufficient
to destroy such parasites iu the luogs. 1
coucider it worth a trial. As the disease
has been brought to this country by im
portation, breeders had better be cautious
iu the selection of their bucks the com
iug season.
Another disease has broken out among
the horses in different sections of the
country, and is prevailing to a serious ex
tent in some of the large cities. Iu Phila
delphaia there are said to be over two
hundred cases at the present time. The
disease attacks the hoofs of the horses,
causing the fetlocks to swell to such an
extent as to burst, and terminating some
times in running sores and ulcers, where
by the hoof drops off and the animal has
to be killed.
A NEST OF HOUSE THIEVES.
They Make Headquarters in New York
City and Pillage the Country About.
The head of the gang of horse thieves
located in New York city, is one William
lempie, a pure gipsy, lie is over sixty
years of age, and is gray headed and some
what enfeebled. He is full of mental
vigor, however, and presides at the head
of the bureau with efficiency. lie was
born under the tent on the Wilds of Lin
colnshire, England and at the age of six
teen was married to the daughter of the
head of the tribe. He stabbed his wife
in a fit of jealousy, and before he was
eighteen was shipped to Van Diemau's
Land as a life convict. After serving
seven years, he escaped by stowing him
self away in a ship which touched at the
islaud to water, aud escaped to England
lie joiued himself to a tribe of his peo
pie there, and soon put into use the
schooling he had received.
He carried on his depredations as a
horse thief and a farm house burglar for
many years, in various parts of England ;
but was at last caught and sent iuto penal
servitude for the rest of his life. Five
years ago he escaped from Norfold Islaud,
with three others, and found his way to
this country. He plied his trade as a
horse thief very successfully for some
time, and was mainly instrumental in or
ganizing the gang who are now stealing
horses right aud left, with apparent im
punity. He is a tall, slim, dark man,
with a profusion of black, curly hair.
He. shaves clean, and dresses with
scrupulous propriety. He takes his walks
reguarly ou Hroadway, and has rooms at
quiet, up town hotel. He never en
gages personally in any depredations, but
plans jobs and appoints the members of
the gang to work them out. He is known
among his friends as "The Kid."
Another leading member of the fra
ternity, has a cattle farm near Baltimore,
Maryland. He is a half breed, his moth
er being a gipsy, and his father, he as
serts, a clergyman. He is a tall, stout,
respectable-looking man, of about forty,
and has never, so far as known, been in
prison. He runs a good pasture farm,
leased by the gang, and well stocked.
To his care all the younger and more
valuable horses stolen in New York and
New Jersey, are sent. At one time Jake
had sixty stolen horses in his pastures,
ranging in value lrom JOU ol.UUU. lie
has already individually made a fortune.
lhe third of the gang is a small, well
made' man, of between 40 and 50 years of
age, and of a highly convivial turn. He
is a pure gipsy, but when a boy, was turn
ed out of his tribe, known as the Faw
Vale gipsies, from the locality iu Devon
shire which they chiefly frequcut.
He has been in half a dozen British
jails, and has escaped from several. He
boasts that he rode laugh-a ballagh at
the St. Leger, in 1843. George runs an
other farm belonging to the gang, near
Medina, in Ohio. All the heavier stock
are sent thither, and it is said that he of
ten has over two hundred horses in his
paddocks. lie is familiarly styled "King
George," or "The Prince."
The more active members of the gang
the agents who find out where valuable
horses can be stolen, and boldly steal or
cleverly cajole men out of their property
now demand attention. lhere are
srventcen of them, or that the gang alto
gether numbers twenty.
A Singular Disease.
The Baltimore Sun, referring to the
complaint of Hon. Brooks, says it is a
most singular thing, and it has been the
subject of curious and paiuful inquiry of
eading members of the faculty of this
and other cities, because of its obscure
nature. During his stay in Norfolk he
was under the care of a number of the
best physicians. After the most careful
and laborious consideration of the case,
they state that they do not feel justiGed
in undertaking 10 pronounce as in us
character, and were unable to reach a
final conclusions as to the nature of his
malady.
Dr. W. Parker, a widely known prac
titioner of New York city," has also spent
some time in studying the disease of Mr.
Brooks' and suggested that it might prob
ably be leucocyth;umia, which is an un
due preponderance of the white corpuscle
of the blood over the red. Specimens of
blood were taken from several different
parts of Mr. Brook's body, and entrusted
to Dr. J. J. Woodward, of the Army
Medical Museum. Dr Woodward sub
mitted the specimens to a most powerful
microscopic examination. He reports
that the blood was in an abnormal condi
tion, aud that there was an unusual pro
portion of the white corpuscles, but not
in sufficient quantity to justify the desig
nation of leucocythttmia. In the mean
time Mr. Brooks is the recipient of the
most devoted attention from his family
and friends. He continues cheerful, aud
spends an hour or two eaoh day in the
perusal of his newspaper mail, whicii is
quite extensive.
It is predicted that in five years, at
tho prcseut rate of consumption, the Maiuc
forests will bo dared of merchantable tim
ber. The quantity cut in 1872 was
seven hundred millions of feet of which
two huudred and twenty five millions
came from the Penobscot forests, and one
hundred millions from lhe Kennebec dis
trict.
Light and the Complexion.
The action nf light on the human skin
is manifest. It browns and taus the tegu
ments by calling out the productions of
the coloring matters they coutain. The
parts or the body usually bare, as the skin
of the face and hands, arc darker than
others. Iu the same region, country peo
ple are more tanned thau towu resideuts.
n latitudes not far apart, the inhabitants
of the same country vary iu complexion
in a measure perceptibly telated to the
intcusity of.solar light. In Europe three
varieties of color in the skin are distiuct
ly marked ; olive brown, with black hair,
beard, and eyes ; chestnut, with tawny
beard and blueifh eyes; blonde, with fair,
light beard, and sky-blue eyes. White
skins show more readily alterations occa
sioned by light and heat ; but, though less
striking, facts of variatio'n in color arc ob
servable in others. The Scytho-Arabic
race has but half its representatives in
Europe and Central Asia, while the re
mainder passes down to the ludiau ocean,
continuing to show the gradual raising of
climate by deepening brown complexions.
The Himalayan Hindoos are almost white;
tho;e cf the Deccan, of Coromaudal,
Malabor, and Cej Ion are darker thau some
uegro tribes. The Arabs, olive aud almost
fair iu Armenia and Syria, are deep brown
in leman and Muscat.
The Egpytiaus. as we go from the
mouth of the Nile up stream toward its
i
source, prcseut an ascending chromatic
scale, from white to black ; and the same
is true of the Tuariksou, ou the southern
ide of Atlas, who are oaly light
olive, while their brethren in the interior
of Africa are black. The ancient mouu
meuta ol Egvit show us a fact equally
significant. The mcu are always depicted j
of a reddiih brown, they live iu the open i
air, while the women, kept shut up, have t
a pale yellow complexion. Barrow as
serts that the Montchoo laitars have
grown whiter duriuglheir abode in China,
ltemusat, Pallas, aud Gutzlan speak of
the Chinese women as remarkable for a
European fairness. The Jewesses of
Cario or Syria, always hidden under veils
or in their houses, have a pallid color.
In the yellow races of the Sumatra Sound
and the Maldives the womeu, always cov
ered up, are pale like wax. We kuow,
too, that the Esquimaux bleach during
their long winter. These phenomena,
no doubt, are the results of several in
fluences arising at ouce, and light docs
not play the sole part in them. Heat
and other conditions of the medium prob
ably have a share in these operatious of
color. Still, the peculiar and powerful
effect of luminious radiation as a part of
them is beyond dispute.
Popular Science Monthly.
Sewing on Buttons.
It is bad enough, says the Dambury
Aiir , to see a bachelor sew on a button,
but he is the embodiment of grace along
side of a married man. Necessity has
compelled experience in the case of the
former, but the latter has always depeuded
upon some one else for this service, and
fortunately for the sake of society, it is
rarely he is obliged to resort to the ueedle
himself. Sometimes the patient wife
scalds her right hand, or runs a sliver
under the nail of the index finger of that
hand, and it is then that the man clutches
the needle around the neck, and forget
ting to tie a knot in the thread, com
mences to put on the button. It is always
in the morning, and from five toJwcuty
minutes after he is expected to be dowu
street. He lays the buttou exactly on the
site of its predecessor, and pushes the
ueedle through the eye, and carefully
draws the thread after, leaving about
three iuches of it sticking up for Ice way.
He says to himself, "Well if women dou't
have the easiest time ever 1 see." Then
he comes back the other way, and gets
the needle through the cloth well enough,
and lays himself out to fiud the eye, but
in spite of a great deal of patient jabbiug,
the needle point persists iu bucking
agaiust the solid parts ot that button,
and finally when he loses patience, his
finger catches the thread, aud that three
inches he had left to hold the button
slips through the eye in a twinkling, and
the button rolls leisurely across the floor.
He picks it up without a single remark,
out of respect lor his children, and makes
another attempt to fasten it. This time
when coming back with the needle he
keeps both tho button and thread from
slipping by covering then with his thumb,
and it is out of regard for that part of him
that he feels around for the eye iu a very
careful and judicious mauuer, but evenlul
ly losiug his philosophy as the search be
comes more aud more hopeless, he falls
to jabbing about iu a loose aud savage
mauoer, aud it is just then the needle
finds the opeuing, and comes up through
the buttou and part way through his
thumb with a celerity that no human in
genuity cau guard against. Then he lays
down the things with a few familiar quota
tions, and presses the injured hand be
tween his kuecs, and then holds it under
the other arm, and finally jams it into his
mouth, aud all the while he prances about
the floor aud calls upou heaven and earth
to witness that there ha3 never been any
thing like it since tho world was created,
and howls, and whistles, moaus aud sobs.
After a while he cools down, and puts on
his pant, and fastens them together with
a stick, and goes to his business a chang
ed man.
Do People Read Advertisements ?
There is now and then a person so
stupid as to believe that advertisement
in newspapers are not generally read, and
that money expended in advertising is
practically wasted. Even such will con
cede that if a hundred men of polite ad
dress, of fluent speech and ready wit wre
to call upon a hundred others aud get th
car of each long enough to tj Johu
Smilh, or Jones, cr Thompson, at nh
place, has such and such gtods t such
prices, or would sell a farm or houe and
lot, or has lost a horse or pocket book, or
would lo.in money, etc , we say, such men
will concede that the services of this
hundred men would be of great value to
Smith or Jones, and in some manner ad
vantageous to the party to whom this
statement was made. These one huud
red men could not be employed to go fr tm
door to door and mike this statement to
ten thousand people at less than a cost of
several hundred dallars each trip. All
this is done by the uewspapcrs at a cost
of a few shillings, or a fewlolljr at
most, aud the visits are' male week af or
week, and day after day. The messeuger
who travels addresses himself to the ear,
and takes the party addressed when ho
may have his thoughts absorbed in busi
ness or other matters; but the newspaper
reaches the patty sought through the Cyey
when the reader has his thoughts solely
fixed upon the paper before hirn.
But those - who affect to believe that
there is little use in advertising urge as
an objection that tho advertisements are
not read. They can easily be convinced
of their error in this respect by making
inquiry. Let them insert an advertise
merit offering to purchase some articfd'
that is tolerably plenty in the market,
and they will be flooded with offers to sell
before the ink of the advertisement is
dry. An enterprising weekly that has
circulation of oue, two, or three thous
and copies is in a position to do the vil
lage merchant great good, and for which,
as a rule, the publisher decs not get one
fourth of what he justly deserves. Iu its
sphere, the weekly is of quite as much
service to the advertiser as is the daily,
and often times enjoys the privilege of
being the exclusive family visitor, a
privilege the daily seldom has.
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A Question of Etiquette
The late Tom Wall, of the "Old Pro
vince House," Boston, was a peculiar
aud testy old gentleman. He prided him
self on his acuteness, and openly defied
any one to "sell" him. One morning, ir
the Times office, the boys indulged, as
usual, in a "Jcfi" for the drinks. After
that ceremony was completed, it was
found that "nary a red could be scared
up." In this dilemma the quiet but saga
cious Durivage, after a moment of
thought, was struck with an idea.
"Come boys," said he, let's go over and;
see Tom Wall.
Having great faith in "Duri," the
crowd with one accord, followed him t
the "Old Province House. In his usual
suave manner, he approached the laud
lord. "Mr. Wall," said he, "we've had a ser
ious dispute at our office this morning ia
relation to a simple question of etiquette
and have unanimously agreed to submit
to your decision."
The old man, completely taken off his
guard by this rather flattering appeal
promptly replied:
"Well, gentleman, out with it."
"The question," says Durivage, "is
this : Which is the most proper form ot
invitation if I ask a company like this to
partake with me Gentleman, what will
you have to fake ? or, Gentleman, what
will you have to driuk V
Old Tom scratched his head for a mo
ment iu thought, and was answered :
"Gentlemen, what is it you'll have to
drink?"
The boys did not wait for a second in
vitation, but rushed up the bar and call
ed for their favorite "tipples," much to
the astonishment and ehargiu of Old Wall,
who rcmaked, as he passed out the fluids:
"You scouudrels I the next time you
catch old Tom Wall with your infernal
tricks, your heads will be grayer than
miue."
How to do Dogs.
Ifyouhavo a good dog that kills or
runs sheep, aud dou't want to shoot l.im,
build a pen 1G feet square and run a pole
across the top, and then pick the largest
and oldest buck of the flock, put him in
the pcu, get your dog with a collar around
his neck, and ropo to draw up over tho
middle of the pole, so that the dog will
have his forefeet swinging off of the
ground a few inches. Get out of the
pcu, and let tho buck give him several
good butts, and then turn him loose.
This ii a sure cure. 1 tried it on my
father's dogs when I was a boy j never
knew them to ever cross a field where
the sheep were grazing. jiural Sun.
The Ilarrislurg State Journal says
that there is a geucral disposition in tho
localities where "no license" carried at
the late election, to give the system a fair
and proper test, and to have the law en
forced in an impartial manner. There is
good sense and sound policy iu such a
course, by which those who practive will
profit. It is always in order . to give a
law a fair test, when, if it is effective, it
can be continued, and if impracticable,
repealed. v
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