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Ecuotcb to politics, itcraturc, gricnltuic, Science, iHovalitn, aufi cncral Intelligence.
VOL. 33-
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., SEPTEMBER 9, 1875.
NO. 15.
PnUirird by Theodore Schocli.
" ... . . : - ...... If ii. .
T,Y'',T. t!i '. t ii i "1" tii'' year, tr. dullar and fifty
vii-' i!l'' Vjir.li 'i'ii'iM'-d until all arrearages are
:li I ,.v.-. i ( (). llaf,. f (,...)it Hues) or
; ' Vihr- i' rt't 'ii-' ct " '-''" additional iii
. I ii r ii- in proportion.
rii'"1- ' ' ' -- - - -- - -
jOIJ 1KI.TI."
of Al l. KINKS,
i i'v lii 'ht slvle f th- Art, and n the
,:. ii. r.iirci-: joiixstoxi:,
J)
Homoeopathic Physician,
lIoM.k-iuv: r.. nj:i!nin Dunlin, Cherry Valley,
MoXJIOK torxTY r.v.
M,v 1 :". ly.
A AeennehpTir
Sam ('i t, Wayni: Co., Pa.
!l iM-'. promi'lly attended, to day or lURht.
( nrr'e im.dYrate. May 1."., '7"-lf.
1)
n. . i Bi.
Surgeon U;:itisl.
. iVtl liiviii just rOir:i-d from !r-nfif
Vj.. I, i- iullv ir..i t.. make :rtitiei-il t.-eth in
. '.vi ilii .l and lif-lik inaini'T. ami to iill de-
!,1 t 1 " vr I'm .' to the 1110: iinirov.s 111 iIhnI.
' r.. ... , .. -t..i wiih mi n:i:n. when deir-i. I.v tlio
f Nil ; 'i-1 Kid iia. which isentir 1 haruile.
i''-Mi: kind - n '!! ilotie. All work waranted.
( :, (, r .! hi
t i'.i K -11-t's '' hrii-V Imillin, Main sire t,
j)
it. s. 1.. rori.Ki:,
l'MYSlCIAX.
() i 11 Mily o;i;v)ita Wiliiau:" Dm? Store, j
C - il M . fuvi-r'.y o-.-iij.i -d hy 11 I,. Wolf, .rner '
Nr';i W'.i! , j ;i t r.-t-. Si rou,li.u r;j, l'a. j
M ii !i .'-", 1 7"i. ;
I)
. u;u iitw iviTTuasox,
P 175121 in, Sireaa and Accoucheur,
lliv.n! IIi.L-n-e, Mj5u street. Str.ni.ls- j
!nir'. l'i.. in t!e huildin funncily tut-iiptwl ;
b.- i'r. iji. I'r.iMij't attention qiven tucills. !
f 7 l a. in.
.;; Ii.fir - 1 " p. '11. !
t ;
A;.ril ' l7-!-lv.
1
1)
i. k;. '.v. .3 ac :vso
Fiirsinw, sr;:;iE;) and ArrorniLTR. ;
i
l:i rlie nil oll'nv of Ir. A. Kecves Jackson, ;
fe-i !-. :n e, curiKT il ir.i!i ;:id rr;itklin strei t. ;
STROUDSBURG, PA. j
A -h; 7--;f ;
riLso.v ii:irso.,
AUCTIONEER,
Rul E-itite Aent and Collector. j
T'i 'i i ', -. -i ;;i ! .- 1 -,;ve to notify the iMiMic that !
h ;i :r 1 t - -11 at li rt not i.- j Tilial projeTl y j
i 1-, a w.-!l a- : -al Ktat.-, at Jn'tii- or Jiriate ;
'ii - :i; III i S: -iii ;d i 1 tor and, at Ftt
s-. . 1 1. in.v. i;. ir. i
Dvv: s. i,i:k,
Ailursicy at Iaiv, !
!ie il ior :i'ove tlie "Stroudsljtirg Ilonsc."
nil-!iirj. Pa. i
t '.'li.-;ioii- pronijitlv undo. !
u-tuljer 1ST 4.
7. i iiorsi;,
HONSSDALE, ?X.
M -t cjntral locution ot any Hotel in town. '
K. W. KIPLK ,1- SOX,
I o'l M um strs't. I ropnetors.
Jaw iirv '.i. 1
ti j & iir
X.rlh Tiunl Ssf.rrt, PHILADELPHIA.
t?i' KeJuceJ rates 1 T" Jkt tlay."2.'3
IIKNPiV SPA I IX, Pn.pr.
I- I. Sviku. Clerk.
Xov. jrN i,s74. f.m.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms. Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
!!iee nifstrly opjiosite American Iloticx
an 1 Hi I dour !kIow the Corner Store.
DR. J.LANTZ,
HURGEOH & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
s!:i! lias , js ,, ?.5ain str't, III the s-i-ond story
'. s. W.otoif, hrii k lu!ldi;ij. iiemJv oKiiie the
'r i l'U:. !,-,. M'.iiv, and lie Hater. Iill.ucjf t hat l.y ei-h-1
"i v . t- ti.iaiit oaetii and th.- nio.-t earliest and
i r-riit a i -u: t-ii t- ail m.iltrr NT(aiiiin-.' to Id yr-t-
I'u ii It . j i.iliv ai,l,. to MTl'orm ail ii.-ral ions
I i tiifd ilt;,i i.. j ,;. , ,,, t.:lr,.f a,i skillful man
;i"i'. ,!' Ml .iii. iiTimi tfiei-ii to savin-; the Natural Te-th ;
' . t.. th i:is.Ttioii of Artificial T.-eth on RuhU r.
1. mIv t. or n' unions ( Jtmis, and fx rtfvt fil in all
M -r.-.n- k !. ih-. sreat foy mi 4aM'i'r of en
f'lstin - th,.;, w-o,k to the iiicxjHTtciiiiil.or to thos" Ii v-lr'-'
" J ditaii.-e. Aj.rtl i i, l7l. if.
R. MAINONE,
Maker, Tuuer, Regulator and Repairer
Of
Pianos, Organs and Melodeons.
.ui k s r.-sidin' in St roudshur' and vicinity, ih
' A Ui' it lu.triiiiii uts thoroughly tuned, renlateJ and
; l-;r.l at a most reasoual.le price, will lea.se U'UVC
iii' ir .i,li r, a, the Jetf. rsonian tlttice.
i. , , ' ."''"I'"!' to i.urchaso Piauos
n fi:ifl il 'llitiradvaot:!;elrtci
-s luul a Jirai-ticle experieln.-C 'of O'
fi,rrri r',ii-",l liu'i. 1 am prci
. ". v lll lliist- I liiU'la "I OIOI liiJ I U"
teal! on iuo, Hav-
OVCT IWMitT-SIX I
.nored to furoi.sh ;
- ati iuost ir.ijuovcd in.-trunirnts a.1 llic io .-I 1
, -y prices, j lis, v- located mvM-lf iu. rtnaoi iit!y '
SOMETHING NEW !
A SHOE MANUFACTORY.
Tlio tiii-lcriiii'-d would rsje.'etfiiHy sriro li'.tiee that
tliey liave it:iMislii at Williams' Hall liuiidin. -i.r-iier
of Jnre ami Monroe Mrvet, Stnmd.shiir;:, l'a., a
SHOE MANUFACTORY,
for the making f all kind of Lady' and ( ieiitleiiiens
ami fhililren's Hoot ami Shoes auil rpp'Ts. l'ai ticti
!.ir alt. Mil ion paid to
CUSTOM WO HIC.
IVr-iis having deformed feet, huukms or corns, or
i liililren with weak ankl-'s. or rnkitl Uuili, ran have
here ol'fir-t clas material and at reaonultlu prices
Shoes made to suit their eases.
llavini had a lar::o ex jn'riene in New York v.- feel
eoiiti.leiii that e can suit customer a to ijualil ies and
prio, all of our i;-mi1s both for jjiMieral and sji-i:l sal!
ar? warranted to t; as represetiteil Iteae uive u a
call, examine our kihmIs and tiiateri.tls consisting of
Surges, jjlazM l-'rem h. Mat and Kreneh t'alf Kid, long;
grained. Hruh and IVMJod tinat Morot.im, I'reneh and
American Calf 3inl Kif Skins, ail of whirh will lie
cheerfully shown t" those who may call. Intending to
make a first rate wearing srli-Jo we have Jiollilnir to
courrl. cith'-r in st-n-V or make from the puMic, hut
would iuvite their closest scrutinv.
July S, 7.Vtf II. II LLOMMETT &CO.
mm for
Th" unleriiKl otl'er at private ssle, his Farm, iit
uate in Hamilton townhii. Moiiph- omitr, l'a., near
iissardsville. and 6 mih from St roiulshii r;', founty
srat el Monroe, iNiutainiii
75 Acres,
i
nliout C .ten- Timlier Land, the tulaiier iniiroTixl lsndt
JiiW ..!!,. soil, in a hih stateof cultivation. The im
;r'vini' art; a
T7
f'V. Wa.p.11 Shi-I. Ti-.'-l- n Is l.y .'M fi t.iVia
00 t'li 11 i n- nine room ll:irn 'A'l liv to
with arnae llvise altaemsi, aiel all otlicr nw -ssary j
out-IoiiHinjs; a 11 -ver fallin ; well of water near the
dj ni:r,'. There is an excellent (Indianl of j
i
Choice Fruit Trees j
on th" firm. coiiitiii of Apjd . l'earh. fhei ry, IMum, j
rriint-. 1 'i:il-:!'d.', s'-eral vai i -til's, iraji- s. standard j
and dwarf t lien ies. ,1c. : a Lime Kiln, and one of the ,
l.-t stone .iiarri in the vail -y. The Kiln ha capn- j
city enough to turn out one hundred r.lnl filty hush- 1
I- of line .-r day.
Tin-i ro;s and .t"M-k can he ttoiiht uith the Farm. '
Here i a ol chance for a harain. I
l'LI Ki: IV. SHAI KH.
I5os;lville, .Inly t, 17."i. If. j
PRICKS KHDITED
AT THE
orner Store!
TI-I3H
CHEAPEST GOODS
IX TOWN.
(Ireat bargains are now oflered in
FANCY DUKSS GOODS,
ALPACAS, VKLVKTKF.NS,
CLOT X-I S ,
CASSIMEKES, FLANXKIJS, Ac-.,
all of which liave been marked down to
PANIC PRICES.
floods all new and right in style, but
marked down to meet the times. We invite
all to call and see for themselves. Terms
Cah.
c. i:. an Din: & Co.
dec-4tf Main St
Strotnlsbnrg, Pa.
0. H. Dreher. E. B. Dreher
3?I-ICEISriX
(2 doors west of the "Jcflersonian Oflicv,")
KMZAHKTII STUKKT,
StroiiIs!iirpr, l'a.,
DREHER & BRO.,
UKALF.nS IN
Drills, .tlcMll IiM's, 1 c r fit iii cry
and Toilet Articles.
Faints,
OILS YARXISIIKS, (JLASS k I'L'ITV.
Abdominal Supporters and Shoulder
Braces.
Seeley's
Hard HI Illicit TRl'SSIJS Also
Emitter's
THUSSKS OF VAKIOITS PA1TKUXS.
Lamps and Lanterns Burning
and Lubricating Oils.
Physleluiis' Prescriptions carefully Com
pounded. X. H, The liidiest Cash price paid for
OIL of WIXTKItGUKILX.
inay-Jtf.
BLA N K "DE E DS
For sale at this Office.
GEEAT
THROUGHOUT
MONROE COUNTY,
ABOUT TllK
Large Assortment
OF
J
And Extremely Low Prices
AT
.r
4'
THE
Mammoth Retailer
OF
Men's, Boy's Children's
Qents Furnishing Goods,
Trunks & Valises,
Umbrellas, &c.
Aii'ii Announeemeiit
TO THE PUBLIC.
order to have more
to display my large
room
stock
of Clothing, Gents'
Furnishing Goods and
Trunks and Valises, I have
eonclnded to quit the Boot
& Shoe business. 1 there
fore oiler and will sell my
stock of Boots & Shoes at
and below cost.
SIMON FBIKD,
April 15. 1875.
Aeut.
LEANDER EMERY,
M AM FACTl-JtF.R AXD Ir.AI.F.K IS ilX K1SI5 OF
farria-rfs ami Bn?girs, Two-seated Carriages
for Livrry stables and private Families,
Platform Spring Wagons,
f t lie Ijtfl tyl' and f"f :ill kiulr t um, krjit cm liatul
or iiiiulr to nl-r.
SINGLE-SEATED CABRIAGES,
m tilt oj or without top, all tjlc.
Deliveiy and Express Wagons,
of difirrcnt styles, hippcd to order. All work warrant
od in every iartionlar lor nur year. I will make to or
der anv Btylcof Carriatfpor liht DiiKfty that may he
aiilei. JCone but lir.t l:is work leave nir shoo. I
uf only firt eM t-k and employ first rfanii work
men, and feci ronndent Ihat I -n pive enlm-MtiJ-ue-tinn
to all who may pun-ha.e my work. All orders hy
mail ohall ri'-ive prompt attention. Hoping thai I
niav ! ahle to fiirnih the eiii.eni of Hroudshurs and
vii'tnily w It li anv thing that they may want in my line.
Addreiw all ori-r to
LrcANii:n kmkry,
Marengo, Calhoun County, Michigan
April 11, lSTo. ly.
UNDERTAKING.
M CAKTV A SfX.S have on hand the lart and lt
axsoilinent of
COFFINS
and
SMfW TRIMMINGS
In he found oulileof eithereil v (New York or Philadel
phia), and will niiike (bis hramh or l heir hu&Iuc a
speciality,
COFFINS and CASKETS
of any haie or style, i:an be furTil.-hetl t owe hour's
notice for alilpnielil, at a tnare 01 inr-iiuii nw mu
any M;oS IS Mroudshurg. in DO ease w in mey t uar
more .shall ten fT ct-ut. abuve actual lost.
iiiiAi,.n.c;
CLOTHING
S1M0K
FREDS
suend. d to i aiiy of tfc Court y -t
po.-.-iblc iioiiie. J itm 1". ' j
ABDUCTED MORGAN.
A MINXKStiTIAX THKOWS C(XSU)KKAi:LK
LKjIIT ox a famols old mvstkky
MOIUIAX DI.SCOVKRKI) IX MAIXE X EARLY
TWKXTY-VIVE YEARS AETKU HIS DISAP
PEAR A XCE.
Correspoiulence of the Pioneer Press. 1
Axoiv.v, Minnesota. August 17. I see
by your issue of the loth inst. tliat tlic
iniiiie of Willium Morgan, with all the mys
tery that surrounds the fate of this unfor
tunate man, is brought again before the
public by the publication of two letters writ
ten ujHui this subject by the Hon. Thur
low Weed.
Perhaps I can throw move light upon
the fate of Morgan than any other person
living. Prior to 1S2G, the'time of his dis
appearance, my father, then a young man,
formed his acquaintance, and knew him
well.
In the year 1827 or 1S23 my father
went eastward as far as CJreat Falls, X. II.,
where he remained a few years. Here he
married, and here he experienced religion
and united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Feeling a deep love for the cause
he had so lately espoused he determined to
devote the remainder of his life to the
cause of Christ and hunianit3. With this
object in view, he entered the ministry, and
started as a missionary fur the wilds of
Xorthern Maine, which then were just be
ing opened up to civilization.
Arriving at Moulton, Maine, he decided
to locate there, and enter at once upon his
work ; and here he resided for a number
of years. In 1844 he went still farther!
north, and settled at Fort Fairfield. This
part of Maine was then an unbroken wil-
dcrncss, save a few strairirlimr settlements i
that were many miles apart. In these mis
sionary labors lie visited these settlements
from .Sabbath to Sabbath.
Upon one of these routes that he traveled
through the forest, guided only by the trees
that were glazed to mark the way, stood a !
solitary cabin with but a lonely ocennant. a i
m y A. I
man well advanced in years. j
The cabin as well as the little clearing !
around it showed marks of age, and led one i
to the conclusion
on that its occupant had long j
of these wilds. With this j
an my father often tarried ;
n- r.lp.-ivrinr lumrs vluli nwr. !
been a denizen
stranire old man my
i i
and nassed many pleasant hours while rest- j
iiv his weary limbs.
-
Xot only the hermit, but the cabin, cx- j
:ited his wonder and astonishment, being
juilt in a very unique manner and con" j
cite
built in a very unique
structed' without the use ot nails or anv
thing else save wnat nc couiu procure irom
.1 i ,t ii
the forests.
In conversation with this strange crea
ture the conviction gradually forced itself
upon 1113- father that he had seen him be
fore but when and where ? Those ques
tion he could not answer at once, but the
truth finally flashed upon him that this
lonely old man was none other than the
friend of his early years, William Morgan.
With this truth pressing upon him, he
resolved to keep it a secret fur awhile un
til he should make himself double sure of
the fact by watching him closely, and by
tracing the resemblance, if any existed, be
tween this old man and young Morgan.
Thus, with the hermit all unaware that
his true identity was suspected by any one
my father watched and studied him until
he had not the shadow ot doubt but what
this was the veritable William Morgan who,
it was alleged, the Masons had murdered
so many years before. Upon making in
quiry in the settlements of those who came
there first, they started that they knew
nothing about him, only this, that when
they came he was there. lie told some of
his discovery, which soon reached the cars
of the hermit, when he silently and un
known to any one, departed in the dark
ness of night ; none knew where, but doubt
less to sock anew some secluded spot, where
he could remain in solitude undisturbed by
his brother man.
When William Morgan was abducted by
his brother Masons and carried to Fort
Xiagara he doubtless escaped from their
hands and fearing that his life would pay
the forfeit for his distardly outrage against
the Masonic fraternity if seen again by one
of their number, he fled here to the bound
less forests of Xorthern Maine. And here
he had lived in all these years, his only
companions the birds of the air and the
wild beasts of the forests.
His wants that he could not supyly from
the soil and from the game that is abund
ant in those parts were probably met by
visiting settlements of the French refugees
upon the St. John's river.
The life that he led here must have, in
deed, been a singular and lonely one, and
doubtless the first years of his life were
full of terror, of fear and disquietude. At
the rustle of every leaf and the breaking of
every twig he would fancy an assassin was
creeping upon him to strike him down, but
as the years stole by these feelings would
give way to one of greater security and
safety, till at last, like Selkirk, he would
feel that he was "monarch of all he sur
veyed." My farther died in 1837. but the forego
ing facts were received at the time from
his own lips, and they can be relied upon
as being strictly true, lie knew this her
mit to be william Morgan, and this is con
clusive evidence mc that Morgan was
not murdered by the Masons, but that he
led a lone, exile life, and that if he is now
dead ho has died a natural death.
But some may ask, if this be true, why
was it not made public before ? This is
readily answered. At that time there was
no paper published nearer my father than
oue hundred and fifty mih-.s uud reporter
Q pot r,u'ue so thick in thee forOoto as
the mosquitoes were, and my father not be
ing a newspaper correspondent it is easy to
perceive why it did not lind its way into
public print.
I decided a number of years atro to make
these sacts public when anything occurred
to call them out, and as this seems to be a
proper time I send them forth to your
readers and to the world.
Yours truly.
A. P. IUmsers.
HORSES.
A stock journal in Canada gives the fol
lowing, which may lie of interest to those
who are concerned in the management of
horses. It says : "Whenever the muscu
lar system of the animal is greatly taxed,
we find a demand for the nitrogenous foods.
Hunters cannot do their work on hay alone;
they require oafs and beans to supply flesh
forming matter. The British soldier and
workman has hitherto excelled in physicial
endurance and muscular power as much on
account of his meat diet as his national
qualities. The late Mr. IJrassey found that
when he fed his foreign workmen on the
.ka:ne diet as his British navies, the work
done by the two approached au equality.
Previously thev had no chance with the
hnirhshmcn. rlesh. of course, su rallies a
cs a j
heavy percentage of nitrogenous matter, j
but beans and peas supply even a much j
larger proportion, and their feeding value
was well tested in the late Franco-Gcrnnn
war, the (lerman soldiers beim largely de
endent upon peas as an ingredient of their
food to meet the waste of muscular tissue.
The wonderful endurance of these men is
conclusive evidence of the nutritive value
of such food. To keen horses in health
when not tiara worked we need no mix
tures ; we have one grain in which the nu
tritive elements are so proportionately ar-
l .it ii t
ranged that it cannot be improved upon ; i
practice has lung adopted it. We refer to I
ats
But to keep hard working horses in tamny, he felt that he must make some rc
m is a very different thing. Oats marks. Turning to one of the ladies, he
condition
alone are not equal to it, nor can any other !
single grain preserve both health and con- j
dition
I he fact is, either their chemical ;
constitution or their physiologieal action is j
defective, and we must, by mixing diluir- I
out articles, so alter the nutritive value and
so balance tho physical actions as to mo-
so balance the physical actions as to pro-
j Iec a food which will not disarrange the
1. f . ! . l
lunctions ot tlie animal, but which will sup- i
ply all the requirements of the body. ' J
"To hard worked men oahneal is no offi- j
eient substitute for beef and mutton, and I
for hard worked horses oats are inefficient
4.1. ? V. Vlll j'Ot V VI Kill I .i Itli r H J J.l'V I t
ience tells us this most plainly, and science
explains it by showin- that beans, peas and j
tares are almost identical with beef and
mutton in the amount of muscle-forming
matter contained by each ; whereas oats
contain nearly lift' per cent, less than
cither of them.
"Xow, in horses or other animals exces
sively worked, the consumption of muscle
is far in excess of the waste of other tissue,
and the blood must be supplied by a cor
respondingly large amount of flesh forming
material. To fulfill their requirement we
must give food containing a heavy percen
tage of nitrogenous material, otherwise the
digestive organs will not be able to supply
the requisite pabulum. Boons or beef will
supply it, oats or potatoes will not, even if
we give an extra amount of them, because
this entails the consumption of such an im
mense bulk of material, a large proportion
of which is indigestible and non-nitrogenous,
that the digestive organs are overpow
ered and unable to reduce the mass to a
state in which all its value may be absorbed.
For these reasons, then, we say that the
use of oats as a principal article of diet for
excessively hard worked horses is very ex
pensive, if not injurious."
ADVENTURE WITH A COUGAR.
As a test of nerve, the recent experience
of a wayfarer, traveling a wood road near
Olympia, Washington Territory, was as re
markable as any on record. The man was
a speculator, looking out wild land, and he
trudged through the forest, following the
almost unseen path formed by an old road
made by pioneers in the wilderness. His
mind was devoted to one subject the cri
tical examination of the trees upon the
land about him, and of the character of the
soil, and he failed to notice for some time
a "pit-a-pat" ujhju the dead leaves near him.
He at first scarcely looked down, when he
felt .somcthin'' rubbin- against his loirs
and heard a slight purring sound, but
when he did look his heart came up in his
mouth and a cold sweat started as sudden
ly as though he were suspended by a weak
rope over Xiagara. Pressing itself softly
against his les. twining about him as he
"walked, moving its flexile body swifily, but
with never a sound, turning up fierce eyes
with something almost like a terrible laugh
in them, was a huge cougar !
Xo chicken was this man in the woods,
but his account of the manner in which his
hat was raised by his hair is not be consi
dered as apocryphal at all. Sleek and sup
ple and muscular the beast glied about, and
at intervals it would come closer again, and
press its bod) against the logs of the man,
the light touch making gooxefiosh of every
inch in his form. It wan a terrible experi
ence, that interview with the cougar in the
forest primeval, and it was well for the man
that Ins nerves were of the kind to do hon
or to a frontier adventurer. Steadily pur
suing his course with steps that wohid fal
ter a little occasionally, he kept on, and
with him the beast continued its treacherous
gambol;-,. At tirsco it wou
1.1
dido a fo'-v
1 pace
rcr the
front, and roll over and over
in the road, and wait for the man to come
up. and then it would circle arouinl him
again until the impulse, almost too- strong
to Ie resisted, wotth! eorjiie upon him to
spring upon the brute, oppo.mg fants U
frangs, and ending the intolerable su-penst"
at any riks. The movements of the terrible
animal were but as the playing of a cat with
a mouse, and the man knew it,
- The moment came at ler;gtrf wherf t?w
strain could l lionw m longer , and tin
man kicked desperately at the hwl as it
passed by him. In an instant it Iwmnded
in front and crouched for a spriigf grow
ing its hoarsely and showing it teeth. The
man stopped aud shouted hopelessly for
aid, while the cougar did not spring at once,
but appeared waiting to gratify its humor
a little longer. The shout fortunately was
not in vain.
There were hunters arid dogs m the im
mediate vicinity, as rare fortune WonM h:tp
w
it, and the hounds dashed suddenly from
the covert as the cougar, seeing thern,
leaped for a tree. A few moments later
the beast fell a victim to bullets, and the
man with whom it had taken a stioH tt"a
telling his story and trying to restore the
normal condition of his nerves by internal
applications from a small flask. It was
one of the episodes which turn men's hair
gray one which would, doubtless, have
brought ileath to a man with k'ss erro
than the hero of tbv :ffarr.
Wonders of the Microscope.
The other day a Detroit father purchaet!
a microscope for his son, boy f ten,
patted the lad on the shoulder, and said t
him :
'3Iy son, take this microscope and goi
out and study the lcarttics of nature'
The boy left all other amusement for
that, and he took such irrcat interest, ami
improved. rall tht at the ten table,
to which several visitors sat down with the
inquired :
"Did yot ever look at cheese through a
microscope :
;,I do
replied,
-Wei
crawl -
;,I dou t think I ever did. ?hc pleasantly
1. ) jut oftglit to see the things
"John ! John !' exclaimed the father,
ill 11 1 i . 1 1 .1.11
snaking ins iicauattnc Doy aortas tneiaoie.
John subsided for a minute or two, and
whc" h'K 11?otIiCT tMe cheese around,
connouy said, "manic you, no. rretty
the young student, desiring to mollify
1 1 1 t. Mil t ?f T
"Father, did rott ever look at a toad
tlugh microscope V
I uvnt r-.ll-
re-
plied the parent, scowling at the boy.
John was rather disappointed at his fail
ure to arouse enthusiasm, and just as the
strawberries were being passed around he
remarked :
"Well 'ou ought to look at a strawberry
once through the microscope I They hxk
just like warts, they do, and you think you
sec bugs running !'
"Jawn !'' said his mother.
"Boy !" warned his father.
"Well, they look wors'n flies' heads
protested the boy, vfho imagined that they
doubted his veracity, "for flies
"Bov !' said the father, making a
motion for John to leave the table.
John left, and soon as it was convenient
for him to do so the father escorted the lad
to the war-h-room in the basement, bounced
him around, and said :
'"My son, gimme that microscope, and
you take the ax and go out and study the
beauties of that woodpile !''
If that boy continues to feel the way he .
doe at presnt, he will become a bank rob
ber instead of a naturalist. Detroit J'We
An Attempt to Starvo a Wife to Death.
A very mysterious case has just come to
light in the town of Boonton, X. J., which
it is asserted, exhibits one of the most brutal
and fiendish cases of barbarity that has tv
curred fur years in the vicinity of Xcw York.
It appears that one Philip Cook, a carpenter
by trade, residing in the above place, has
for a long time lived on unhappy terms
with his wife. It is moreover alleged that
of late he has been on terms of improiT
intimacy with another woman, and ho
sought to get clear of his wife by starving
her to death. To accomplish this purpose
he is alleged to have locked her up in an
upper room in the building, occuyie 1 as
the family resilience, and has there kept
her confined for nearly throe weeks. Cook
has throe children, and the sudden disap
pearance of the mother led several of the
neighbors to inquire as to her wherealMmts.
The children finally told them that their
mother .was kept locked up in a room by
their father. Cook was asked as to the
whereabouts of his wife, when he stated
that she was sick. This did not sati-sfy
some of the citizens, so on Thursday even
ing about twenty of them forced their way
into Cook's house, and, to their groat
astonishment, found Mrs. Couk lying in au
insensible condition on a bare floor. They
removed her to an adjoining room and sent
for a phsician, but as yet she has been in
such a condition that but litlle hopes are
entertained for hev. recovery. She has
been unable ta make a clear statement of
the brutal treatment she has received.
Cook, has therefore, been arrested and
committed to the county jail, without bail,
to await the recovery or death of his wife.
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It is easier lor a lady and gentleman to
walk ude; o$o brc-lh udw than it ut'cd
t t o,
cor.sttfpK-now or
ia narrow Miirts
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