i.'i"U WHJ.JJMUW.' VJ Scuotcii to politics, Ctteroturc, agriculture, Science, IHovnlitn, nub cncral 5ntcili9cce. VOL. 32. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 13, 1874. NO. 12. -I i I Publi .1 ilbri :i year iidvanco and .if not ftr. , ..I ,.f llui vi.'ir il.iipir ntxl lifl.- Ill" ' ' .-I "J , v i."i. r iivuuiTiii"i ni;i;i:i arrearages r.re it I if the I'd it or. 1 ... ' 'I't ' ' . I.. .rn .111. 'ill f one sT'iart" of (ciht linos) or .-.Vl", .. ...,;.,., l .-i t I 'm h .t.liti.,n.t O. i,-iK I.niirr ones in proportion. jors o in t'li- hhh - ATI. KIN PS, .t stvh of the Art, ami on the rr:i i.llKll'lf t Tills. DR. J- LAN T Z, TRGE0N & MECHANICAL DENTIST. 50 ;n :-!rreI, in t uo srvnnu story l'.i'lliii'-t, n-':irly opposite the irj ll.iiiv'.ainl In l':i!ers liinwi-lf 1 hat ly ciIi l',i.' iMiir:i' ii 'i' 'he mo-.t earnest and .. ! m.i.irrs p iiainin:; u ins pr. i illy :.h!o to perform all operations :x 'i irn l i ureim ana solium m.in- at!cnti,.!i tivoii to savin? tin: Natural Teotli ; ,ir .''jii,. iiiv : lion ef A Ttilit i:il Teeth on Itiihher, 'i silver or i'niiti:n!;;ns Oams, and perfect fits in all ;ni:r-J. "r.,'t" rir work 'to the inexperienced, or to thus liv- -r .ns kn.iw nit; .reiiv i.m j aiei uanger m eu- I) ,R. H. 5- l'ATTi:SO.V, DPERITIaG AND 31EniAMC.iL DEMIST, v:-v: iii Ti-l S: roiiiKiinr. Pa. nnnounees that him to in -i-rt ai;in; iul teoih in thenot ,1' -'.;k'' i:;. inner. Also, trrcat attention if Isll -w pr , : Krt,.:;!' :! 1 f ' " A" ' r i iii! Ji-.ni i j "kmtvi!1 i n e n hi nrai icein. i rein i.-,! b i; u ;';iin hy the u- of N itron- Ox ide I ia. hiTM.ok i:i- i ! -n t prof; s:o:i donr in the .'jojfiil ji nd !;; r o- '.l Mi!". All work attended to ,o'v ?n-l wtirr.int.'.!. t'liares reasonal)!.;. I'at- !h.- p;'!.i;- s .li 'it.-d. L in A. I."!:'r i new bnil lin;, jHtc Anah il i-'. '.". troudhur, la. i july 11, 7;. I) , 5.. E'FX Iv. " ill! Ii iv:::-; j:i-t rel urnp.1 from JVntal C,.ij,. j i';n!v pi -i'parni to make artificial treth in li'-.'.i-t l-aiitifu'l and lif -likf inuMner, and to fill de- ttfHj (...e:h a rditu to the iii.i-t improved iifthoil. T-f:h er.ti i ' ;1 wi;hnit p:iin. wlo-n desired, hr thr if Nitr.-;-: Mtdo 4t:i.. winch is f li" ; r-. l v harmless. ..fad kiud neailv.ioitr. work warantcd. oi .1 ;. Ki-Uvr's nev,-hricit huilditiir, M:iin street, te.M, I 'a. (Aug. 31 71-tf. Can you tell why it is that when any t "fl'r'i f Stroodshur to hiiv rnrniturp, thoy al-xa-J -' i: Mil ui:y' l-'urniture Morel VILLIAM S. USES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. Firms, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. I I OnVf next ,1 .'ir alove S. 1 1?es' news Dcp?t i ..i w the C'ornor itore. i!ar;'!i 2: l7o-tf. J) R. iSOV.iiSW I'ATIERSOX, Physiciic, Sar2on and Accoucheur, ;uc c-.T to Ck-o. V.". .eip.) Ofiice M.rn srec-' 5 -ip b:i'lJin7, res r rie::;i r. t-r i::fetir; tc:i!i ;tro'.i!-l) irer, Pa., in Dr. idr.ce ? io;:?e. .rah strevt, nt-xt J'rtimi't attention i .! a. m. 1' T. IJ. 0 K ni. ('Ice Lours Apr! 0 l74-lv. D rnbinii surgeon and accoucheur. In i!ie -! Jackson, fMdon. r., rornvr of .Sarali ??nl Franklin street STROUDSBURG, PA. J PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, v , MOUNTAIN HOME. PA. it !e.is,,j h . '"i i . i i i i ii i r n i in iii.ii. ... . r M.. I. . . . I .. T I. IV',f,:1'5. !!1 the P.(ir,!!I nf Stn.n.Lhur'-r 1 hrt iiavitisr ro;.ai jitcl an.J ixAiniishecl tiiefanie, I'-ehnre-d to entertain all wlio mav patronize J' is the aim of the proprietor, to furn- and Ml: u- m.iiiiKiii.ions iii ti.oiieraie rates si':irf :io j.jins to iiroinoto the com- i0rt oftue p.,est.. A liberal share of public V.l 17, 'Tii-tf.j I). L. PISLE. HONESDALE, PA. t central location ot any Hotel in town. hVl T R. W. KIPLK k SOX, Mrre.t. Proprietors. - v. J1 "it: 11. VJ-ALTO, fr IlOJlM'i ill JUV, 'i'Jf 'p '' building formerly occupied t, t , r-;r,n' a,"d ormosite the Strouds- Ian street, btroudsburg, l'a. -tt Hfv-' ,:JVAKP A. WILSON'S (of J-V Mill..,, 1 ' . , . , v - Kfii i ..r,. J- A. 1 . ) Hccinc tor CO- crno ,0X ;,,ld ASTHMA carefully E0LLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. l-J- .'I'd'tdnr froth nrf -pur'. W. IIOLLINHEAD. I) - ft Iimi - . Mm ar w m :ntv X- st...,r, . a.. it. j ... ta-iiifcssV I'!.'l 's'-'urS who understands their tvar,v . l l1.01, :itted a Funeral managed o ' "yiuaic toe omy Uimer- ii!fcH. .i , n,J": taker in town, and you i!of the fact DTouEiT Ihat wlMiii Ornai w?,I?t !lt'y thing iu the Furniture or N-PoiV , ' nuh'lt McCarty & Sons in the K k ,Iall Wain street, Strondsburg, The Boy Who Took a Boarder. Once upon a time, long before any of you children were born, about two hun dred and Cfty years ago, in fact, a little boy stood, one morning, at the door of a ralace in Florence, and looked about him. Why he was standing there, I do not know. Perhaps he was watching for the butcher or the milkman, for he was a kitchen-boy in the house-hold of a rich and murhty cardinal. He was twelve years old ami his name was Thomas. Suddenly be felt a tap on his shoulder, which made him turn around, and he said! with great astonishment : - ' "What ! Is that you, Peter ? What has brought you to Florence ? and how are all the people in Cortona ?" 'They're all well.' answered Peter, who likewise was a boy of twelve. "It I've left them for good. I'm tired of taking care o( sheep stupid things ! I want to be a painter. I've come to Florence to learn how. They say there's a school here where they teach people." 'But have you got any money?" asked Thomas. "Not a penny." Then you can't be a painter. You had much better take service in the kitchen with me. here in the palace. You will be sure of not starving to death, at least," said the sage Thomas. "Do you get enough to eat ?" asked the other boy, reflectively. "Plenty. More than enough." "I don't want to take service, because I want to be a painter," said Peter." "Put I'll tell you what we'll do. As you have more than you need to cat, you shall take me to board on trust to first, and when I'm a grown-up painter I'll settle the bill." -iicvu, tuiu .i nomas, alter a mo ment's thought. can manage it. Come up stairs to the garret where J sleep, and I'll bring you some dinner, by and bv." o the two boys went up to the little room among the chimney-pots where Thomas slept. It was very, very small, and all the furniture in it was an old straw bed and two rickety chairs. Put the walls were beautifully whitewashed. The food was good and plentiful. f,r when Thomas went down into the kitchen and foraged among the broken meats, be found the half of a Sue mutton-pie, which the cook had carelessly thrown out. The cardinal's household was conducted upon very extravagant principles. That did not trouble Peter, however, and ho enjoyed the mutton-pie hugelv, and told 1 Thomas that he felt as if he could flv to the moon. "So far. so good," said he ; "but Thomas. I can't be a painter without paper and pen cils and brushes and colors. Haven't you an- money ?" "No,"' said Thomas despairingly, "and I don't know to get any. for I shall receive no wages for three years." "Then I can't be a painter, after all," said Peter, mourn fully. "I'il tell you what." suggested Thomas. "I'll get some charcoal down in the kitchen, and you can draw pictures on the walls." So Peter set resolutely to work, and drew so many figures of men and women and birds and trees and beasts and flowers, that before long the walls were all covered with pictures. At last, one happy day Thomas came in to possession of a small piece of silver money. Upon my word, I don't know where he got it. Put he was much too honest a boy to take money that did not belong to him, and so. I presume, he derived it from the sale of his "perquisites." You may be sure there was joy in the little boarding-house up among the chimney-pot.?, for now Peter could have pencils and pacr and India-rubber, and a few other things that artists need. Then he changed his way of life a little. lie went out curly every morning and wandered about Florence, and drew everything he could find to draw, whether the pictures in the churches, or the fronts of the old palaces, or the statues in the public squares, or the outlines of the hills beyond the Arno, just as it happened. Then, when it became too dark to work any longer, Peter would go home to his boarding-house, and find his dinner all nicely tucked away un der the old straw bed, where landlord Thomas had put it, not so much to hide it as to keep it warm. Things went on this way for about two years. None of the servants knew that Thomas kept a boarder, or if they did known it, they good-naturedly shut iheir eyes. The cook used to remark sometime, that Thomas cat a good deal for a lad of his size, and it was surprising he didn't grow more. One day, the cardinal took it into his head to alter and repairing place. He went all over the house in company with an architect, and poked into places that he had never in all his life thought of before. At last, he reached the garret, and, as luck would have it, stumbled right into Thomas's boarding-house. "Why, how's this ?" cried the great car dinal, vastly astonished at seeing the mean little room so beautifully decorated in char cord. "Have we an artist among us ? Who occupies this room?" "The kitchen-boy, Thomas, your Kmin- once. "A kitchen-boy ! But so great a genius must not be neglected. Call the kitchen boy, Thomas." Thomas came up in fear and trembling. He never had been in the mighty cardinal's presence before. He looked at the char coal drawings on the wall, then iuto the prelate's face, and his heart sank within him. "Thomas, you arc no longer a kitchen boy," said the cardinal, kindly. Poor Thomas thought he was dismissed from service, and then what would be come of Peter ? "Don't send me away !" he cried, im ploringly, falling on his knees. "I have nowhere to go, and Peter will starve and he wants to be a painter so much !" . "Who is Peter ?" asked the cardinal. "He is a boy from Cartona, who boards with me, and he drew those pictures on the wall, and he will die if he cannot be a pain ter." "Where is he now?" demanded the car dinal. "He is out, wandering about the streets to find something to draw. He goes out every day and comes back at night?' "When he returns to-night, Thomas, bring him to me," said the cardinal. "Such genius as that should not be allowed to live m a garret. Put, strange to say, that night Peter did not come back to his boarding-house. One week, two weeks went by, and nothing was heard of him. At the end of that time, the cardinal caused a search for him to be instituted, and at last they found him in a convent. It seems he had fallen deeply in love with one of llaphael's pictures which was exhibited there. He had asked per mission of the monks to copy it, and they, charmed with his youth and great talent, had readily consented, and had lodged and nourished him all the time. Thanks to the interest the cardinal took in him, Peter was admitted to the best school for painting in Florence. As for Thomas, he was given a post near the cardinal's person, and had masters to in struct him in all the learning of the day. Fifty years later, two old men lived to gether in one of the most beautiful houses in Florence. One of them was called Pe ter of Cortona, and people said of him, He is the greatest painter of our time." The other was called Thomas, and all they sai l of him was, -Happy is the man who has him for a friend !" And he was the boy who took a boar der. Charlotte Adams hi St. Xichclas for Avyvst. Rather Nice. A few days since Justice Jccko, of St. Louis, received a call from a vounjr man and a voting woman, each of whom was the bearer of a portly carpet sack. Their ap- pcarance lnoicaten tuat mey nail just ar rived on a railroad train from the rural districts of Illinois. "Be you thj squire?" asked the young man. with an air of diffidence. "I be. Do you want to get married?" "Yes. Hhw did you know?" "I saw it in your eyes. There is a cer tain sort of scintillation in the left eye of a man who is about to commit matrimony that betrays his purpose tis truly as a spot on the sun indicates falling weather." "Do tell ! Squire, you're poking fun at mo. ain't you." "Not at all. It is a part of the Dar winian theory of selection. You'll find it all out before you have been a year in the traces. Are you in a hurry to have the knot tied ?" "Yas, sir. We want it done right away, don't we, Mollie." "Yes, squire," said Mollie ; "but haint you got a dressing-room, where I can put on my bridal dress and titivate a little." "I am sorry to say my only chamber is crammed full of hobby horses, toys, trinkets and stuff seized by the constable from a fancy store. However, there it is, if you think there is room enough in it for you to dress." The bride looked into the room adjoin ing the office, and declared she could make out to slip on her wedding dress in it. With carpet sack in hand she entered the lumber room and closed the door. The bridegroom asked for another dressing room, saying he had his wedding fixtures in his valise and would like to put them on. He was told there was no other room vacant, and that he would have to wait un til the bride had enrobed herself, and then he could take his turn. What happened is thus told : The young man sat down with an air of impatience, holding his carpet sack between his knees, and twirling his thumbs. Con .. .. . i' i.i .i i i. stable Mc(ieary, whose appearance is that of Don Juan of the killing type (although in reality he is the chastest man that ever chased a juryman or replevined a widow woman's parlor furniture,) had been writ ing at his desk when the bridal party en tered, and now arose and passed into the passage-way loading down stairs. The 3'oung man with the carpet sack turned red in the face as he saw the door close upon the constable. He evidently thought MeGcary had gone into the store-room where the bride was making her toilet. lie became ner vous, threw his carpetsack iuto a corner, arose, sat down again in another chair, and was extremely fidgety. The more lie tired to conceal his emotions the redder his face grew. At length, unable longer to endure the agony of doubt and mistrust, he ran to the door of the store-room and entered. A scream was heard, and then the young man came back looking very sheepish. This rash act of the bridgrooin came xcry near breaking off the match, but the justice ex plained to the bride that it was all a mis take. "Are you a married man, squire ?" asked the bride, putting her fiice to a crack in the door. "Yes I have been married ever eo long." "Well, then, I wish you would come in here and hook my frock." The justice complied with the modest request, and in a moment the bride came out in a gorgeous attire. The bride-groom then entered the room, and when he re turned the ceremony was performed with out further delay. Thcn the bride re-entered the storeroom and changed her dress, and the happy couple marched out with their carpet sacks, highly elated at the suc cess of their mission. Cavalry and Artillery. The long ranges and rapid and accurate firing of the small-arms and field-guns of to-day have seriously affected the uses and mode of employing the different arms of service. The employment of large mas ses of cavalry on the field of battle will probably not again occur, unless under some very exceptional circumstances, for where the ground is sufficiently open for them to form and act they will be fully exposed to such a fire as will prevent their advancing or even retaining their position. The ex perience of the war of 1870-71, as far as it went, proved that cavalry could not attack good infantry armed with breech-loaders without incurring certain destruction. Again, in reference to the other duties of the cavalry, such as escort and patrol duty, it is quite certain that the breech-loader will enable very small parties of infantry to at least annoy cavalry parties so much as to hamper them exceedingly in their opera tions. The fact that small parties of the CJerman cavalry ranged so far and freely in France, will not serve as a rule for other cases. In a moderately broken or wooded country two or three good men with breech loaders, could, with entire safety to them selves, very soon put an end to the move ments of ordinary cavalry patrols. It is quite probable that the future changes in cavalry oaganization will be in direction of assimilating a large part of it to mounted infantry. While the cavalry has lost something of its importance, the artillery, on the other hand, has gained in power and independ ence. The breech-loading field-fiuns can be so readih- placed under cover and fired so rapidly that it is possible to place them in positions that the old muzzle-loaders could never have held, and also to trust them themselves with slight infantry sup ports. In 1ST0-71, especially iu the latter part of the war, the German artillery was usually in advance of the infantry line, and often really decided the battle when prac tically entirely without their infantry sup ports. The changes now being made in the direction of small calibres, heavy charges, flat trajectories, and long ranges ; all this accomplished by means of a material so light that it can pass over rotiyh ground, and find positions almost anywhere. A consequence of all this will probably be a large increase of the relative strength of the artillery. Iu regard to the mitrailleuse inventions for the rapid and concentrated discharge of small-arm bullets, opinions van- cxceedinly. There is reason to be lieve that the last war did not impress the Hermans with a very high idea of the value of such weapons, but that they have reach ed the conelussion that in the face of ac tive and aeurate and long-ranged artillery mitrailleuse can accomplish very little. There seems good ground for believing, however, that for the defence of works, or defiles, or of a position of limited extent, the mitrailleuse, or, still better, the Oatlin gun. will prove a very reliable adjunct. The effect of the modern improvements upon the infantry has been no less marked than upon the other anus of the service. If, on the one hand, their new weapon has freed them from all danger from the once dreaded cavalry, on the cither hand the new artillery is so formidable as to ren der a resort to new formations and new methods of attack obligatory ; for the dense columns and successive parallel lines of for mer years cannot withstand the distant, rapid, and accurate fire of modern guns. Ne ither can tho.se old formations possibly succee d iu the attack of positions held by good infantry armed with breech-loaders. Destruction and wild disorder must be the result of any such attempt. Jfavjur's Mtjazi(tc. A WILD MAN. An Exciting; Chase and Cantnre of a Young Man Supposed to be Wild. On last Friday morning, about '1 o'clock, a young man entered the house of John Webb, at "Buck-eye Tavren," the usual stopping place, midway between Caryville and the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, near Chitwood, about ten or twelve miles be yond Caryville, and threw himself into a bed along with some gentlemen stopping there for the night. The landlord, Mr. Webb, being aroused, found the young man iu a state of intense excitement, and at fnt supposed he was drunk. But, on trying to induce him t take lodgings cles where, it was ascertained that he was not intoxicated, hut wild, or crazy. Then Mr. Webb tried to induce hint to remain and take quarters with him, but failed, lie became excited and ran away, and, strange to say, a fine mastiff dog of Mr. Webb's followed him, and was found with him, and very much attached to him, six or eight miles distant, later on the same day. The first heard of the strange man after leaving Webb'ii was early on Friday morning, at Mr. Ned's, several miles off, in Scott coun ty. He was accompanied by Mr. Webb's dog, which seemed to have linked fortunes ! with him. He in compan' with the dog. slipped into the houe of Mr. Neal, and seized a four-year-old child, and started f ir the woods. Neal pursued him, when he fled at great speed, leaving the child, the dog continuing with him. Here he became wholly destitute of any clothing save a shirt. The neighbors became arous ed, and after running him through the mountain gorges for more than ten "miles, succeeded in capturing him late in the af ternoon of Friday. It was with the great est difficulty that Wedb induced his dog to 1 i i leave him and return home, the canine showing many signs of sympathy with the unfortunate young man. Our informant saw him soon after he was captured. He was then much exhausted, and going through all the mananivrcs of a tired dog panting, shaking his sides, and lolling or dropping out his tongue to its full length, and letting it hang out. At times he would go through the most remarkable grimaces and distortions of his face and whole body. His captors had succeeded in getting a pair of pantaloons on him. lie had talked a little in a very uncouth style ; had asked for something to eat, drank a few sips of water, and commenced gnawing a huge piece of corn-bread. He gave his name most generally as George llyath, of Town Creek, Claiborne count v, though he used other names frequently when asked in re gard to his name. He is somewhere be tween twenty and thirty years old, being of that peculiar appearance that gives but lit tle index of true age. He has some hair on his face, which leaves the observer in doubt whether it is a boyish fuzz, or a half grown, or half a Aveek's growth of hair. He is not an idiot. He is a wild man. How long, he has been such, or what caused it, our informant seemed to regard as matters of doubt. Those who had him in charge are good citizens, who designed proceeding to Jluntsville, and taking all necessary steps for his comfi.rt and wel fare. He will be found, if friends should be in search of him, iu the custody of the au thorities at Huntsville, until something can be ascertained of his origin, etc. My Neighbor's Dog. My neighbor keeps a dog my nearest neighbor. Other neighbors keep other dogs, but it is this neighbor and this dog I speak of. The neighbor is all riedit kind-hearted, votes my ticket, and his wife borrows lea and coffee of my wife, but his dog is gradually killing me. During the day, when I am down town, the beast sports around like an innocent Jamp, or lies in the shade and sleeps and dreams. But as soon as I retire that dog commences operations. My neighbor and his wife are old and deal", ami they have no idea cf what their dog docs. I make it a rule to go to bed preeiscly at nine o'clock, unless the President of the United States or some of his Cabinet officers are stopping at my house. At just five minutes after nine, when he knows that I have got the sheet over me, that cannie sits down in front of my gate. He wriggles and twists until he gets firmly imbedded in position, and then he opens his mouth, sucks in a long breath and yells : ' Oh ! boo 1 boo ! boo ! boo !" It fetches me on end in an instant. There is such a graveyard shriek to his voice. that my hair stands up for a moment, and I think of ghosts rambling through deserted halls. In about thirty seconds the canine opens his mouth again : "Oh ! whoop ! boo ! hit! boo 1" At this I get out of bed, seize a stick of wood and open the door to mash him. lie calmly gazes at me while I draw back to throw, and when the stick strike's the ground a rod to the left of him he utters a quiet chuckle. However, when he sees more wood coming, he saunters off in a careless manner and I go back to bed boil ing for i. ivi 'nu v. . jii tiuuuv iiju; ii in in u 1 1...K-1 1 '.l...llf 40I....M ... 1 .1,. ..1 that brute comes through a hole in the fence, plants himself under the bed-room window, and, getting all ready he howls : "Ha ! boo ! whoop ! Gen. Jackson's dead !" I throw up the window and shout at him to get out, go home, vanish, dry up, but he sits there and calmly contemplates my night-cap until 1 begin to shoot at him with the revolver. Then he walks around the corner of the house and stands there, knowing that no revolver can shoot on a circle. My wife begins to interfere about this time, and 1 haul in the revolver, close the window and declare by the horn that not another sun shall ever set on that dog in life. At midnight he howls again at one thrc-e five, and then be returns home wish the consciou-ness of having done his duty. I have thrown him poi soned meat, paid boys to lay for hiui, and wasted a cord of wood and a pound of powder myself, but he grows fat and his howls grow worse. L spoke to my neigh bor, but he replied that "it was hard times for money," and I got discouraged. Mv wife says : "Patience, dear," but I won't have patience no, hang me if I will ! It is now half-past eight o'clotk, ami between this and elevt u I will hurl that dog into eternity. M. Ouu. A Trap for Cut-Worms. There is no trustworthy remedy against cut-worms except actual catching and kill mg them. Any application to the soil sufficiently strong to injure or discommode them would certainly destroy the crop, and all the recommendat ions to use salt, carbolic acid, and other similar substances may be set aside as useless in practice. We have trapped thtm in various ways, beneath chips, stouts, and in holes punched in the ground with a smooth round stick, such as an old broom-handle. But, unfortunately,, in these cases they are caught only after they have spent the night in destroying the young cabbages or corn. Finally we hit upon the expedient of surrounding the hill or plant with a ring of holes close to gether, and iu this way caught a great many of the pests every night. Making so many holes with a single stick is a slow process, but with a contrivance which is described below the whole ring of holes is made at one stroke. An old shovel-handle-' is split for about a foot with a fine saw. The split portion is soaked in boiling water, to soften it, and the ends are inserted into hobs made in a hoop or ring of wood two inches wide, one inch thick, and eight inches in diameter. In the bottom of the? ring there are inserted a number of pieces of an old broom-handle projecting two inches and placed not more than a quarter of an inch apart. When this is pressed into the earth around a hill of corn or cab bage plant, it leaves a circle of smooth round holes two inches deep, with compact sides and bottoms. The cut-worms fall into these holes in their nightly rambles and may be found and destroyed in the morning. Amerirvn Agriculturist. A Notable Wen. Young Stevens, son of the battery man, has gold galore, but what are millions to a man so deformed that dogs bark at hint when he goes halting by. and lovely woman, even when the golden luster of untold wealth glisters about his head, faints at sight of him? From his birth a peculiar wen, growing larger day by day, has m.vlo his face and neck hideous. Covered with long hair it looked like a repulsive wild animal dinging to his head. Stevens hid himself fii on the general eve, and moped IT "I ' ,"..1 in loneliness, in early vontli he was betrothed to a beautiful young girl, but as the wen grew great his love grew less ; rather his determination never to inflict his horrible deformity on a fellow-creature was firmly firmed. The best surgeons of Europe and America gave him no hope. They were unanimous in declaring that to remove the wen was to permanently re move the patient. But recently he met a daring practitioner who declared that it was within the skill of the surgeon to lop off the excrescence and restore the aillicted man to a healthy and normal condition. Stevens listened gratefully. "Do it," said he and vour reward shall be"81.J,()(K)." With elect l ie knives the confident cutter went to work, and in a very brief time had earned his mammoth fee. The skin beneath the tumor was smooth and sound, and Stevens is in excellent health. He may now have his picture taken, enjoy his wealth, and say to his Dulcinea, "Wen, oh ! wen shall we. wed !" Chicago Times. Secretary Bristow has effected a contract with representatives of certain foreign banking-houses for the sale of $:.,OGO,(MM of the five per cent, nation loan yet remain ing on hand. About $10,000,000 was taken by American bankers, making $45, 000,000 in all, and leaving some $124,000, 000 still to be placed. But as the Ger man financial agents took care to secure a first claim on this balance it may be re garded as being as good as sold ; and, in fact, the Secretary expects to part with it all inside of three months. This five per cent, loan was created about two years ago, to replace an equal amount of six per cent, bonds, thus saving interest at the rate of one per cent, yearly. Since the panic of last fall no progress has been made in the exchange. Purchasers can pay for it in five-twenty bonds at par, or in gold, as they think proper ; and the Secretary cannot sell it for less than par. The Department always has the power of calling in the six per cents, under the optional feature of the "five-twenties." The fact that the new bonds are taken so readily on foreign ac count indicates that the German capitalists are not afraid of the repudiation theories of the Indiana and Ohio Democrats. That such doctrines can ever succeed in this country seems to require a stretch of the imagination, but after what we have seen since 1860 we need not to be astonished at anytuim Still there is no news of the present whereabouts of the kidnapped boy, little Charley Boss. The munificent reward of $20,000 has not yet evoked any informa tion of immediate value. The public in terest in the case continues without abate ment, and it really seems as if Philadelphia would do almost anything to bring the lost child to light. The utter failure of the police thus far to get on his track is not creditable, and shows an unexpected degree of ignorance and inefficiency. It is now stated that the New York jhrahl has tak en the case iu hand on its own account and will prosecute it to the end. This looks more like business than anything else that has been done. A tolwco chewer insisted on expectorat ing on the floor of a street car iu Buffalo nd was put off by the conductor, who was afterward arrested on a warrant swovn out by the man of quids. The court held that the conductor was blameless as the tobacco man was making a nuisance of himself generally. Andrew Yansant, a young man, re spectably connected, has been committed to the Cumberland county jail to answer the charge of forging the name of Lewis llitchnet to a promissory note amounting to $200. Since his imprisonment he has declined to touch food, and declares that he will starve himself to death.
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