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VOL. 32.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 29, 1875.
NO. 48;
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I'TITTITTIIIT Ol AMI A Ik 1
Published by Theodore Schoch.
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OF ALL KINDS,
Executed in tli hi-het styl.? of the Art, and on the
innst reason Hide tT!iis.
CEIC5IAVTS HOUSE,
413 & 415
Xorth Third Sttreet, PHILADELPHIA.
JCsST" Reduced rates, $1 75 per da-.""
HENRY SPAHN, Prop'r.
L. 11. Snyder, Clerk.
Nov. 120, 1874. bin.
""WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Eeal Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Ofnee m early opposite American llouen
and 2.1 door below the Corner 'tore.
March 20, lS7.5-tf.
D R. J. L A N T Z,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
S; i II has his fTioc on Main strTt, in th? second story
of Pr. S. Walton's I. rick tu i 1-i i ti tr. nearly opposite th
StroudIjui !f House, and he fl;it-rs himself t lmt ly oili
i .t-:i years i-mistum practiiv ami the most earnest and
cupful att.-iition to all ni.itters pcrtainiiii; to ids pro
f s-ion, tlit is fully aMe to perforin all operations
in the dental line in the most careful and skillful iauu-n-'r.
Sjhm-UI attention stiveii to nvin? the Natural Teeth ;
r,i-), ' ihe insertion of Ar'iJiiial Teeth on Knhhi-r,
t.ilJ, Si'ver, or Continuous limns, and perfect fits in all
casrs injured.
Mo.-t persons knor lh zn-at folly and danger of r-n-trustiiti;
t heir work,t, the ine.ncrietieei. or to thosw liv
ing t a distance. April l;5, 174. tf.
u. r. i.. ii:cst.
Nmgeoii lcntist.
Announces thnt Invinij just returml from IVntal
College, hi is fully prepared to make artificial tettli in
th? most hejiitii"-il and life-like manner, and to till de
cayed f -th aec:rd:ti to th most improvil me'hxl.
Te"'ii extr.iei:sl without pain, when des-ns!, by the
t Nitrous Oxide tias. whieh is entirely harmless.
riMiriii of all kiads neatly done. All work warantcd.
( ii-ir-'-s refsiiiia'ele.
(e'j.-e .1. tl. Keller's new brick builuin?. Main street,
5u-.uusur, Ta. fAuv. "1 'TI-tf.
Operatiag and Mechanical Dentist,
Announce that luirinjt returned from Pental College
In- is fully prepared to jKTfora all operations in the
;-t,i il line, in t!i! mist careful and skillful manner.
Teeth t-xtiaet.sl l.y the use of ?:is n hen desired. All
wirk warranted. Ciiari;es reas.o.iahle.
HYit- in llutcliison's hrick building, Ter S'liotw ell's
-lore, T-ist Kroudhbure, i'a. Ajiril Tl, '7'. ly.
D
II. S. FOl'LKC,
rilY.SICIAN.
Olfice nearly opposite Williaajs)' Drus Store.
Usidni-, formerly occupied by E. J. Wolf, comer
5rah and Walnut streets, .troud?bitrg, I'a.
.arch 2 l S7j. tC
II. IIOV 'AllD PATTERSOX,
Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
O.lice and Residence, Main street, .Stronds
burc:. Pa., in the building formerly occupied
fev Dr. .S.ip. Trompt attention given to calls.
!7 to 9 a. ru.
1 " " p. in.
C " S p. m.
April 16 S74-ly.
r. c:l:o. w. jackso.v
rnrsiciiN. surgeon and aitoltiieur.
In the old oClce of Dr. A. Itceves Jnckson,
evidence, corner of .Sarah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
August 8,'72-lf
1 5 L'SO.V KSOX,
AUCTIONEER,
Real Estate Agent and Collector.
The undervi-ned lefrs leave to notify the public that
be is prepare! to el at short notice icrsonul property
of all kinds, as well as Real Ilstate, at public or private
tal.
Offlee at Thomas tenijile's oM store stand, at list
irudsburv;, l'a.. le: 17, 1S71. ly.
DAlt) S. IAZK, -Allorney
at Jaity,
One door above the "Strotidsburg House,"
Siroudnburo;, Ta.
CollectioriR promptly made.
October 22, 1874.
K
HONESDALE, PA.
Mo?t central location ot any Hotel in town.
II. W. KIPLE & SON,
I M Main street. Proprietors.
January 9, 1S73. ly.
A.
IKK'KAFELLOW,
Ueadj-Made Clothing, Gents Fur
nishing Goods, Hats & Caps,
Coots & Shoes, &c.
EAST STnOUnSBUPG, PA.
('ear the Dcjot.)
The public are invited to call and examine
S'khIs. Prices moderate. " fay G, G9-tf
B.'T you liiioiv Hi sit" .1. II.
iMcCarty Sous are the only Lnder
tkers in Htroudsbtirs who understands their
11iis;oo9 tp. nt-md n 1'nneral nianaccu
; j iiwi, uti iiv. - i
ty any oilier Undertaker in town, and you
;'! .see the proof ot Uic fact. j
June J?,71-lf '
Fonndling Hospitals in Italy.
At Palermo we visited another of these
institution which has been working its
mischief for nearly three centuries. The
infant department is carried on much the
same plan as the one at Home, except that
the infants were not swaddled, and that
main- more of those admitted are sent out
to nurse in the eoxihtry. The pay given
to the peasant women who take charsre of
these infants is fourpenee a day for the first
fifteen months, and after that three farth
ings a day ; and great must be their pover
ty when, in the hope of some little gain,
they are eager to undertake the charge of
these babies. When the foster-parents are
tired of them they can always be brought
back to the institution and pass into a
school in the same building. The boys,
however, are removed at six years old to a
separate place, where they are kept until
they are eighteen, whereas the girls, unless
married, have to remain within these nun
nery walls till twenty-one. The infants
under lour years old had all a sickly, dull,
apathetic looks, and the uurscs were quite
as unprepossessing as the children. "When
the schooling period is over they arc made
to do the work of the institution. "Wash
ing, serubing, making macaroni, tending
silk-worms, weaving, cooking, are their oc
cupations, carried on under the supervision
of eight iaywonien and twenty-eight Sisters
of Charity. The school-mistress had been
trained in a normal school, but for all that
she was teaching the children in the Sicilian
dialect. The lung dormitories were clean
and orderly, but the curious and peculiar
feature of this establishment was the pa r-
Idtu io, or reception-room. Picture a large,
long room, the centre portion of which is
divided off from the sides and further end
by an iron grating which forms a cage, en
tered only by a well barred street door,
through which visitors fron the outer
world are admitted. Here they sit on ben
ches to covnersc with those beyond the iron
trrating. Friends of the Sisters or em
ployes of the place and the foster-parents
are the usual visitors. Once a week how
ever, on Sunday mornings from 10 to 12,
this place is the scene of the most novel
and ludicrous courtships we ever heard de
scribed. One of the objects of this mother
ly establishment is to find fit and proper
husbands fur the girls under their charge.
The fit and proper here is much like the
fit and proper of society ; the one requisite
being that the young man is bound to show
himself in possession of sufficient means to
maintain a wife in comfort before he is al
lowed to aspire to the hand of one of these
precious damsels. Having given in his
credentials of Gincss to the guardians, he
receives a card which admits him next Sun
day morning to an inspection of the candi
dates fur matrimon'. There, sitting on a
bench, if his curiosity and ardor will allow
him to remain sitting, he awaits the arrival
on the other side of the grating of the
Lady Superior accompanied by a girl. She
lias becu selected by order of seniority and
capacity for household work from the hun
dred or more between seventeen and twen
ty-one waiting for a, youth to deliver them
from their prison. The two young peo
ple, both no doubt breathless with agita
tion at the importance of the ceremony,
have to take one long fixed look at each
other. Xo word is spoken, no sign made.
These good Sistersbelieve so fully in the
language of the c'c, that to their minds
any addition is futile, and might but serve
to mystify the pure and perfect effect of
love at first sight. The look over, the
Lady Superior asks the man if he will ac
cept the maiden as his bride. Should he
answer in the affirmative, the same ques
tion is put to her, and if she Imjws her as
sent the betrothal has taken place, and they
part till the Sunday following. The young
lover again makes his appearance before
the tribunal of guardians, and there the
contract is signed, the day of marriage
fixed, and he is granted leave to bring the
ring, earrings, a wedding dress, and con
fetti, and present them through the gri
dirou of course to his betrothed. Every
thing has to pass the scrutiny of the Sis
ters, for fear of a letter or some tender
word being slipped in with the gifts.
During the few Suudays that intervene
between the first love scene aud the mar
riage an hour's conversation within hear
ing of the Lady Superior is allowed, but
not a touch is exchanged. The empty talk,
interspersed with giggling, consists of in
quiries as to the wedding dress, the sort of
confetti most liked, and the occupation and
place of abode of the suitor.
Should the young man refuse the first
damsel presented to him, he is favored
with the sight of three or four more ; but
should he & t ill appear iJ'Jjxilc he is dis-
missed. The giral also has the power of
refusal.
The marriage over, the task of the sis
ters is done. Our readers must before
now have wondered what inducement there
can be to make the youths who have the
world to choose from come here in search
of a wife. Two hundred and fifty francs
is the great attraction. That sum is given
in dowry with each of these girls, and for
that sura, it seems, a Sicilian is willing to
sell himself for life. Those girls for whom
the institution fails to find husbands are
allowed, at twenty-one, to face temptations
alone, and situations are found for them.
Macmillan s Magazine.
TRICHINA SPIRALIS.
THE DEATH OF A TOOH WOMAN IN THE
DEX IX THE NEW YORK CITY PRISON
A DOCTOR'S DISQUISITION ON THE TERRI
BLE MALADY.
Mary Urown, who was sentenced to the
ten-day house' of the Xew York Tombs on
Wednesday, died three days after. Deputy
Coroncr Marsh found the body infested with
trichina. The doctor said : The trichina
spiralis enters the human body in the flesh
of animals. It settles upon the muscles
and propagates. However clearly the mus
cular fibres of the victim may be displayed
after death, they still look as if they were
sprinkled with the eggs of an insect. In
stances of the tenancy of the human body
by the trichina spiralis are more frequent
than is generally supposed. On account of
their microscopic size they are frequently
overlooked. Of late the knowledge that in
stead of being a harmless parasite it is the
cause of a horrible disease is fortunately
becoming general. Instead of degenerating
harmlessly in its capsule, as it was formerly
supposed to do, it migrates among the
muscles and causes three or four weeks of
severe suffering and a painful death. The
male of this most dangerous of parasites
measures one-eighteenth of an inch, and
the female one- eighth. Their bodies are
round and filiform and their heads are
narrow pointed arid unarmed. Trichime
ma)- exist in flesh, and yet be invisible to
the unassisted eye.
Dr. Philip Frank, ex-assistant surgeon of
her Britannic Majesty's staff, sent from
Holland the first information we have bear
ing upon this disease. He attended a 3'oung
maid servant who died of it in 1SG0 in the
Dresden hospital. After her death her
medical attendants learned that she had
been employed in a farmer's house, and had
been taken ill shortly after the killing of
two pigs and an ox. Professor Zenker,
who had attended her in concert with Dr.
Frank went to the farm house and ascer
tained that the housekeeper and several
of the servants had sickened shortly after
the maid servant's illness began. With the
aid of a microscope the Professor discov
ered in refuse morsels of the pigs myriads
of trichinae. Even the butcher who killed
the animals was sick. Under cross ques
tioning lie admitted that according to a
custom ,of his guild he had tasted of the
pork while raw. Prof. Wiuchow, of Ber
lin, fed a rabbit with a part of the flesh of
the girl, and it was soon seized with gene
ral muscular paralysis, multitudes of young
trichina; appearing in the affected regious.
To other rabbits bits of the body of the
first were given, and each of them became
a victim to the trichime. In 18G3 one hun
dred and three robust gentlemen sat down
to an excellent dinner in a hotel in Hett
stadt, Prussia. Within a month twenty of
them were dead, and eighty were in the
grasp of a terrible malady. An investiga
tion was instituted, and it was brought to
light that the -rotcwurst,' or smoked sau
sage, had been merely heated. The pig of
which it had been made was traced to a
neighboring farm, whose owner proved that
he had forbidden the sale of the animal, on
account of its being in poor condition. The
remnants swarmed with encapsuled flesh
worms.
In the case of Mary Brown, who was im
prisoned for intoxication, the symptoms
were lassitude, depression, sleeplessness, loss
of appetite, excruciating pains in the lower
extremities, swelling of the legs, and finaly
pneumonia. The deceased muscles were
moderately developed, pale, reddish gray,
and sprinkled with non-capsuled trichime,
lying on and within the sheaths of the
fibres. They were alive, some lying straight,
and others coiled. There was a marked
degeneration in every part of the muscular
tissues. In the jejunum I found sexually
mature trichime. Before her death every
possible effort was made to induce the un
fortunate woman to tell something of her
self or of her kinsfolk, but she waa persis
tently rcnticent.
A Highly-Honored Baby.
During the severe snow storms of a cou
ple of weeks since an exceedingly American
occurrence was chronicled at Storm Lake,
la., a small city on the line of the Iowa
Central railroad, some eighty or one hundred
miles east of Sioux City. On Friday night
several western bound trains, with several
hundred passengers, were compelled to stop
there till the relief trains could plough and
shovel a way through the drifts extending
thence to Sioux City. The two hotels
were, of course, soon crowded. The resi
dents then threw open their houses and
with American heartiness made all the
storm-stayed passengers their guests. On
one train was a car of Menonites from the
south of Russia ou their way to join the
colonies of their countrymen and co-religionists
iu Dakota. Either too timid to ac-
cept, or xmable to comprehend the invita- j
tions of the people of Storm Lake, the
Russians refused to leave their car, where
they passed the night. Next morning it
was ascertained that in a bed room improv
ised by tacking some sheets across the
end of the car where the stove was, one of
the Mennonite women named Brolinska,
was about to be confined. The simple
Mennonites had apparantly, no idea of
soliciting medical attendandce or more suit
able accommodation, but these, of course,
were soon supplied. Two doctors from
Storm Lake and two others who were storm
stayed prmptly volunteered their services,
aud under their auspices a possible Presi
dent of the United States was successfuly
ushered iuto life. The ladies of the city,
with the sympathy and curiosity of their
sex, were not long in making their way to
the car to inspect and aid, and thus in a
very short space of time of inconsiderable
excitement was caused in the crowd whose
members were all in unusual good humor
and prepared to make the most of any sensa
tion. The mayor summoned a special meet
ing of the council, which declared the day
a public holiday, voted the hospitalities of
the city to the baby and its mother, appoint
ing a committee to present the resolution,
and invited the citizens to make a suitable
demonstration. These, nothing loth, com
plied. A procession was organized, contain
ing every vehicle, public or private, in
the city, headed by the city marshal on
horseback and a brass band drawn by six
gray horses. Following these came iu
carriages the mayor and counil, the Odd
Fellows, the Free Masons, the Young Men's
Christian Association and the church soei
ties ; then marched the fire department ;
the general public afoot or in carriages,
came next. The mother and baby were
carried in triumph to the public hall, where
after prayer, speeches were made by the
mayor, Judge Jefferson P. Kidder, delegate
to congress from Dakota, aud several pro
minent lawyers, merchants, etc., the con
cluding oration being delivered by Eph.
Witchcr, who brought back the first news
from the Black Hills miners. The an
nouncement was then made that a five acre
plot of land adjoinining the city was to be
given to the baby, the deed being already
prepared and only needing to be filled in
with his name. A poll was at once demand
ed, and some 230 of the 350 people present
voting for that name, the boy was christen
ed by popular acclamation Storm Lake
Brolinska. The procession then re-formed
and cscourted Master Brolinska and parent
to the station where a special engine and
car awaited them, and bore them away to
Sioux City amid cheering, ringing of bells,
screeching of whistles, etc. All the flags
aud banners iu the town were hoisted or
hung out, bells were rung, firearms discharg
ed, healths drank, the Storm Lake Pilot
got out an extra containing a full report of
the demonstration, and altogether the peo
ple treated themselves to a sort of wintry
Fourth of July.
More Light on Africa.
The ancient belief that there was a pigmy
race in the interior of Africa Avas long be
lieved to be an absurd fable, but its truth
was demonstrated a year or two ago by the
arrival of some of the little people in Egypt,
two of whom were afterward sent to Italy,
where they are being educated. If an en
terprising American succeeds iu his under
taking, we shall soon know more of this
curious tribe. Col. Long, a Marrylander,
who is in the service of the Khedive of
of Egypt, and who has already made some
discoveries of interest in the lake region of
the Upper Nile, is already on his way to
the country of the Xiam Xiaras, as the
dwarfs arc called. He writes from LeoJo
to a friend in New York, under date of
Jan. 20 :
I leave here in a few days for the coun
try oPNiaui (Man-caters j with 200 sol
diers, to recruit from this liliputian or pi;
nr.
my race (celebrated for their fighting qual
ities) that dwell on the borders of this
country. They are exceedingly short in
stature, about the height of a child six to
eight years of age, but exceedingly broad,
of exeat strength, with feet and hands well
shaped, are pleasing to the sight, and have
nothing of the disgusting appearance of the
dwraf. These people are very warlike" and
often attack tribes (of our stature) and take
possession of their lands. They are called
by the Xiam Xiams "Ticki-Ticki," and
must be of those of whom Gulliver sung
for the delight of the juveniles. One of
the females was sent down by steamer as a
present to his Highness the Khedive. The.
Xiam Xiams are anthropophagi, but the
privilege of fasting on human flesh is ac
corded only (as one of them told me) to
adults, not to the children, but not being
sufficiently inducted to their customs as
yet, I am unable to vouch therefor.
Had Livingstone uot been driven back
from the Manneyme region by its pestilen
tial climate, poisonous water, and the ex
cesses of the Arabs with whom he traveled,
he would probably have reached the pig
mies in the earlier years of his last tour of
exploration. Forced further South, and
impelled by a feverish desire to discover
the fountains of the Xilc described by
Herodotus, he moved in a southerly diree
tiou finally lost health and life in the inun
dated swamps around Lake Bangweolo.
The record of Li3 labors Is already before
the public. The journals of the French
expedition to the regions of the Upper
Zaire ought soon to be put in print, and it
is likely that Col. Long, if successful, will
strike the northern boundaries of their
route. Stanley and his associates, we may
hope, will complete what Livingtone left
unfinished. With these additions to our
stock of geographical knowledge, the space
allotted to 'Unexplored Regions" will be
reduced to comparatively small dimensions
on our maps of Africa.
Windmills in Holland.
The continual winds blowing from the
Atlantic furnished the power gratuitously
to whirl the vanes and turn the water
wheel attached to the windmill. There
has been little or no improvement made on
this machine in Holland for 1G00 years.
Xo other power is so cheap, simple or re
liable. Without its application, two-thirds
of Holland and one-fifth of Belgium would
even now, iu the noonday of steam power,
of necessity have to be yielded back to the
ocean, because the cost of steam machinery,
fuel, repairs and attendance could not be
supported from the profits of the land.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
says : There arc 12,000 windmills in Hol
land and Flemish Belgium, each doing
from six to ten horse power service, accord
ing to the strength pf the wind, aud work
ing twenty-four hours per day, and every
day in the month during the rainy season,
and when the snows and ice arc melting
and the streams are high. The annual
cost of the windmills in Holland is 1,000,
000. Twenty times that sum would not
operate steam power sufficient to do their
work ; for recollect that all the coal con
sumed in Holland h is to be imported from
England or Belgium.
Go where you will, you arc never out of
sight of windmills in motion. lit the
suburbs of large cities, and at certain
points where the waters of the ditches and
canals is collected to be thrown over the
embankments, they are congregated like
armies of giants, and never cease swinging
their long, huge arms. They are construct
ed of much larger dimensions than those
seen in the United. States. The usual
length of the extended arms is about eighty
feet, but many of them arc more than 120
feet.
But the wiudmills in Holland are not
exclusively employed in lifting water, but
are used for every purpose of the stationary
steam engine. I observed a number of
them at Rotterdam, Antwerp, the Hague,
and here at Amsterdam, engaged in run
ning saw mills, cutting up logs brought
from Norway, and others were driving
planing mills and flouring mills, brick mak
ing machines, or beating hemp.
Those used to lift water out of ditches
into canals and embanked rivers have
wheels instead of pumps attached to them,
as they are less liable to get out of order,
and are thought to remove more water to
a given power.
The mortality report of the District of
Columbia for the six months ending March,
shows that the death rate of the whites
was 10.31 per thousand, while that of the
colored population for the same period tas
nearly 10 per ihous-md,
A Cure for Lock-Jaw.
In the Course of the Cantor lecture, re cently
delivered before the British Society
of Arts by Dr. Benjamin Richardson, the
following deeply important remarks were
made upon nitrite of Amyl : One of these
specimen, I mean the nitrite of Amyl, has
within these last few years obtained a re"
markable importance, owing to its extra
ordinary action upon the body. A distin
guished chemist, Professor Guthrie, whilo
distilling over nitrite of amyl from amylio
alcohol, observed that the vapor, when in -'
haled, quickened his circulation, and liade
him feel as if he had been running. There
was flushing of his face, rapid action of his
heart, aud breathlessness. In 1SG1-C2 I
made a careful and prolonged study of the
action of thi singular body, and discovered
that it produced its effect by causing aii
extreme relaxation, first of the blood vos"
sels, and afterward of the muscular fibre-:
of the body. To such an extent did this
agent thus relax, I found it would even
overcome the tctantie spasm produced by
strychnia, and having thus discovered its'
action, I ventured to propose its use for"
removing the spasm in some of the extre
mest spasmodic diseases. The results have
more than realized my expectations. Under
the influence of this agent, one of the most
agonizing of known human maladies, called
angina pectoris, has been brought under
such control that the paroxysms have been"
regularly prevented, and in one instance,
at least, altogether removed. Even teta'uu?;
or lock-jaw, has been subdued by it, and
in two instances, of an extreme kind, so
effectively as to warrant the credit of what
may be truly called a cure.
Saving is
Wealth.
One great cause of the poverty of the'
present day is the failure of our people to'
appreciate small things. They do not
realize how a daily addition, be it ever s.
small, will soon make a large pile. If the
young men and young women of to-day
will will only begin, aud begin now to save'
a little from their earnings and plant it iir
the soil of some good savings bank, and
weekly or monthly add their mite: thcy
will wear a happy smile of competence wheir
they reach middle life. Not only the de
sire but the ability to increase it will also
grow. Let clerk aud tradesman," laborer
and artisan, make now aiid at oiive a be
ginning. Store up some of your youthful
force and vigor for future contingency.
Let parents teach their children to" begin
early to save. Begin at the fountain-head
to control the stream of extravagance to
choose between poverty and riches: Let
our youth go on in habits cf extravagance
for fifty years to come as they have fur'
fifty years past, and we shall have a nation'
of beggars, with a monied aristocracy. Let
a generation of such as save in small sums
be reared, and we shall be free from alt
want. Do not be ambitious for extrava
gant fortune, but do seek that which is the1
duty of every one to obtain, independence
and a comfortable home. Wealth, and
enough of it, is within the roach of1 all. It
is obtainable by one process, and bv one:
onlv saving.
Useful Information:
One thousand laths will cover see:itv'
yards of surface, and eleven pounds of nails
will put them on.
A cord of stone, three bushels of liine,
and a cubie yard of sand will lay one hun
dred cubic feet of wall:
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen'
buf hols' of sand, and one bushel of hair,
will make enough good mortar to plaster
one hundred square yards:
One thousand shingles, laid four indir
to the wcathvr, will cover cue hundred
square feet of surface, and five pound of
shingle nails will fasten them on.
One -fifth more siding and flooring is need ed
than the number of square- feet of sur
face to be covered, because of the lap iir
the siding and matching of the floor.
Five courses of brick will lay one foot in
height on a chimney ; six bricks in a eour? e.'
will make a fluv' fbnr inches wide and t wcl vc
inches long, and eight bricks in a coitr.sc-"
will make a lluc eight inches wide and six
teen inches Ion jr.
The best mode of oiling a bolt U to fake
it from the pulleys and immerse it in a.
warm solution of tallow and oil ; after al
lowing it to remain a few moments the belt
should be inrmersed in water heated teron-r
hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and instantly
removed. This will drive the oil and tal
low all in, and at the sama tirue properly
temper the leather.
! Mr. J. Geit, oflottito . wears iY. r
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