SNOW SHOE TIMES!
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CLARENCE LUCAS
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Our next holiday, April 1. Are you
going to celebrate?
Arbor Day on April 8. “Don’t for-
get it.” Plant one tree anyway.
~The attention of our readers is call-
ed to our many advertisements. These
business people are worthy of your pa-
tronage and good will. When you
deal with them, you are doing some-
thing for yourself too; for their pros-
perity means better times for you.
Give them your patronage and keep
the wheels of business moving.
The season is here when fires usual-
ly rage.
on the mountains roundabout. These
fires are very .destructive in many
ways and cause quite a loss each year.
What are you doing to prevent the
forest fires? The old adage: “An
ounce of prevention, is worth a pound
of cure,” should govern us largely in
regard to fires. Often 1arge fires
could be avoided if some precaution
was taken by individuals who travel
a great deal through the woods. It
is true, most of our forest fires origin-
ate along the railroad tracks, but even
these can often be prevented from
spreading over much territory. Hunt-
ers, berry-pickers and herb gatherers,
should be particularly interested in
this thing.
Laws Relating to Minors.
. It is a misdemeanor for any person
‘to give, sell, or otherwise furnish
cigarettes or cigarette papers to any
erson under twenty-one years. Cigar-
ette Law. Act March 16, 1905. Pen-
alty—A fine of not more than $300 nor
less than $100.
It is a misdemeanor for any person
to give, sell or otherwise furnish To-
bacco in any form to any person un-
der sixteen years of age. Tobacco
law. Act July 10, 1501. Penalty—
A fine of not more than $100, impri-
sonment in county jail for 30 days,
or both.
It is a misdemeanor for any licens-
ed keeper, owner, or superintendent
of any public pool room, billiard room,
bowling saloon or ten-pin alley to per-
mit or allow knowingly, any person
under eignteen years of age to be
present therein. Pool Room Law.
Act April 18, 1905. Penalty—A fine
of not more than $100 nor less than
$10. = :
Local officers have been notified
that these laws are to be rigidly en-
forced.
To Avert Trouble.
Though there are those who predict
a strike next month, close students of
the situation and men well versed in
the mining and marketing of coal, fore-
see no trouble at any magnitude be-
tween the miners and operators, and
predict that the matters affecting both
interests will be satisfactorily adjust-
ed in due time, thus avoiding a sus-
pension.—+De-Bois Elvening Express.
An Hcanest Boy.
A lady lost an alligator purse con-
taining nearly ten dollars on Third
street on ‘Saturday morning and Sat
urday’s Daily Spirit published a “Lost”
notice describing same. - The paper
had hardly been out an hour before
Clark Kittleberger, of Fourth street.
an honest, worthy boy, walked into the
office and notified us that he had
found the lady’s purse. The owner
was immediately notified and owner
and finder were later each made hap-
py. This was the act of an honest
boy who should be honored and assist-
‘ed for his noble act for such boys are
like Christian charity, they are “a
rarity under the sun.”—Public Spirit.
A man thinks he can control oth-
ers, chirps New York Press, when he
can’t control himself,
In beautifying its Western termin-
als the St. Paul will plant fruit trees,
instead of foliage trees,
Already there is much fire |
“An Ounce of Prevention.”
A striking illustration of the greal
interest that is being felt in all com-
munities regarding the care and pre-
servation of our forests and trees is
shown in the call that has been issued
for a meeting to be held at the Merion
Cricket club house “to consider the
best means to be taken to eradicate
the chestnut tree blight, which has for
several years been prevalent in north-
ern New Jersey and southern New
York, and which now threatens the
trees in the neighborhood of Philadel
phia.” The call is signed by a num-
ber of representative citizens of the
community, and will be addressed by
experts on the subject of forestry.
A general invitation has been ex-
tended to the principal property own-
ers in that section, and as an evidence
of the earnestness of the projectors of
this meeting an invitation is special-
ly extended to the gardeners of the
neighborhood to be present. This
stirring up of a healthy interest in
this important matter is in line with
the spirit of public good that actuates
the community in so many channels
of endeavor and is especially to be
commended as an object lesson to res-
idents in.other sections of our State
and neighborhood. It is to be hoped
that the good influence will extend
and result in widespread information
and more public zeal in the commun-
ity in all that makes for the‘building
up and preservation of the beauty of
our shade trees and woodlands.—Phila-
delphia Press. ~
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The Philadelphia Strike.
While our sympathy is always
with the under dog, the laborer, in
strikes, we look upon this Philadelphia
fuss as a retribution upon the army of
laborers for the sins they continue to
commit in voting the very men into of-
fice that now oppress them. They do
this year after year. No gang can-
didate is too scurvy for labor to elect.
It has filled the city with a lot of
slaves as office holders who are tied
hand and: foot to the leaders who rob
the city and bring shame and disgrace
upon it. The mighty army of labor
could wipe out the stain at one elec-
tion but prefers to vote the gang tick-
et regardless of the character of the
men. Labor is now reaping exactly
what it sowed and many good people
refuse their sympathy or support in
its dire distress because it is too sub-
missive to gang orders at election
time. And it will continue to do so.
—Emporium Independent.
The Chinese stem to have used
the compass, or its equivalent, states
the New York American, at a very
early date ‘to guide them in their
journeys across the vast plains of
Tartary. They nade little images,
whose arm, moved by a freely sus
pended magnet, pointed continually
toward the pole. An apparatus of
this kind was presented to ambassa-
dors from Cochin China to guide
them in their homeward journey,
some 1,100 years before our era. The
knowledge thus possessed seems to
have gradually traveled westward by
means of the Arabs, though it was
fully 2,000 years afterward before
it was fairly applied among the peo-
ples of Western Europe.
Collection of Watches.
“The art loving public of Ger
many sustained a heavy blow,” says
the “Mongetn Post,” Berlin, “when the
wonderful Marfels collection of
watches, including unique specimens
of the seventeenth century and enam-
els of beautiful design, acquired after
many years and at a great cost, was
purchased by an art dealer in Paris.
The collection contains many speci-
mens which can not be found in any
German museum, and it is to be
hoped that the fate of these valuable
trinkets will not be like that which
of late has overtaken so many art
treasures, that they be sent to the
New World and become lost forever
to Europe.”
Canadian housekeepers complain be-
cause general houseworkers want $9 a
month instead of $6. :
No man likes to be interrupted in
the middle of a sentence unless he is
serving a sentence in jail.
THE LATEST TRIUMPH OF
THE MONO-RAIL ABROAD
Nearly two years have passed since
Mr. Louis Brennan displayed before a
body of English engineers a working
model of a railway car exemplifying
the features of the gyroscopic mode
of locomotion. He has now demon-
strated in a fashion quite conclusive
to the scientific press of Europe that
all the claims then made for the
mono-rail are practically realized.
Intense interest has therefore been
awakened in the prospect of soon pro-
pelling railroad cars on a single line
of rail laid on the ground. They will
be maintained upright by means of
gyroscopic control, and, in the light
of the demonstration just made, they
will turn sharp curves and ascend
steep gradients. Apart from this gy-
roscopic control, the railroad cars
would capsize. Mr. Brennan imparts
stability to his vehicles, as London
Engineering notes, through the same
principle which we see on its grandest
scale when Nature steadies the move-
: tnyestizating, if you increase a moves
ment which would, unaided, have pro-
duced a fall, you actually prevent that
fall from taking place.
“The peculiar property of ‘gyro-
static domination’ has been known,
therefore, to exist. But Mr. Brennan
is the first to investigate fully those
stresses which it causes in the spindle-
legs of the instrument I have de-
scribed, and he is the first to discover
a practical way of automatically ‘hur-
rying’ the precession’ in a manner
which enables a machine containing
his invention to keep its own balance
under all conditions.
Criminals and Drink.
Dr. Albert Wilson, the brain spe-
cialist, described the results of his
recent work in a lecture before the
members of the Society for the Sudy
of Inebriety recently.
problem in crime, I could fill the
platform with criminals who are tee-
totallers,” said.Dr. Wilson. ‘A par-
ticularly accomplished criminal told
me the other day that he must keep
Turning a corner
standpoint, of this gyroscopic mode
THE. MIRACLE OF BALANCE.
with the utmost ease and at considerable speed during
the experiments in England a few weeks ago, the Brennan mono-rail demon-
strated ‘before a large party of engineers the feasibility, from a commercial
of locomotion. The tests were con-
ducted with the greatest ease, owing to the perfection attained in the bal-
ancing mechanism, which remains perfectly under the control of the op-
erator.
The cost of construction of railroads per mile will be reduced one-
half by this invention, and the tost of operation by fully two-thirds.
ments of the heavenly bodies in their
orbits. The earth revolves on its
own axis, our contemporary explains,
says, Current Literature, “in the same
direction as you deal a hand at cards
or pass the port, from right to left.”
It also moves on its.orbit around the
sun in the same direction.
“But besides these two movements
there is a third, which was discovered
by the Greek astronomer, Hipparchus,
who lived in Bithyunia about 160 to
125 B. C. He made several important
contributions to scientific knowledge,
but by far the most valuable one,
which he must have obtained by an-
alyzing the Chaldean observationg re-
corded for the previous 1500 years,
was that the axis of the earth has a
special top-like. motion—known as
‘precession’—in the opposite direction
to that in which the earth itself ro-
tates. If you mount a gyroscope, or
magic top (a flywheel within a ring),
upon a long pair of spindle-legs with
pointed extremities, which will not
hold themselves upright when the fly-
wheel is at rest, you will find that
rotating the flywheel keeps the whole
structure steady. By degrees, of
course, the outer circle increases its
precession to a point at which a fall
is inevitable; but, as Lord Xelvin
pointed out, ‘hurry on the precession
and the top rises.” That is to say, in
this kingdom of anomalies we are
entirely away from drink when plan-
ning a crime. Another, however,
said that he required a little stimu-
lant just to help him carry out a
‘job.’ ’
Dr. Wilson told a story of Berry,
the late executioner. After carrying
out five hundred executions he be-
came so sympathetic toward crimi-
‘nals that he gave up hanging and be-
came a temperance missionary. Talk-
ing of the magnitude of crime, the
lecturer said that a million persons
are arrested in this country every
year. Three hundred thousand,
equal to the population of a large
costs us £6,000,000 a year.—London
Daily Mail.
Comparisons Are Dangerous.
“A chap told me this morning that
I looked the image of you.”
“Where is the idiot? I'll pound
the life out of him.”
“Too late.
York Times. ’
Not a Boston Expression.
She—“That's Mr. Osborn over
there. He married a million.”
He—“You don’t say. Well, that
beats Solomon to a frazzle.”—Boston
Transcript.
Costumer (to customer)—*"You
assistant, being only a poor ‘working girl, cannot give that air of distinction
to the dress that you can.”
CERTAINLY NOT!
=n
must consider, also, madame, that my
“Although alcohol is so great’ a
town, are sent to prison, while crime
I killed him.”—New |
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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Dentist
Philipsburg, Pa.
‘Painless Extraction [of
Teeth a Specialty
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Dentist
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PHILIPSBURC, PA.
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of headache is straining
the eyes and using them
until they feel weak and
bleary. If the people could
realize the need of proper
glasses, there would be
less sore eyes and fewer
headaches. .
I can fit you out with
the right thing. Giveme
a trial,
WM. LUCAS
MOSHANNON, PA.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Carpenters Demand Higher Wages.
Marion, O.—The local carpenters
anion served notice on all contractors
demanding incremsed wages. A nine-
hour day resolution adopted by the
anion declares living expenses have
been doubled as a result of the gener
al advance in prices.
The House passed a bill providing a
penalty of not more than 1,000 fine, or
Imprisonment for not more than two
‘years, in the case of any proprietor of
a place of amusement in the District
of Columbia and territories who may
refuse admission to a soldier or sail-
or of the United States because of his
aniform.
Bleached flour by any other name is
bleached flour still, and no statement
apon the label can bring it within the
law. That was the terse warning
flashed out from the Department of
Agricultude by Secretary James Wil-
son to the millers,
President Taft has given his consent
to a continuation of the custom of ex-
tending the freedom of the. White
House ground to children on ‘Easter
Monday to roll eggs. Grown-ups must
accompany little ones if they gain ad-
mittance.
A report received at the Treasury
Department from Examiner Samuel M.
Hann declares that the total shortage
in the funds of the City National
Bank of Cambridge, Mass., will reach
tbout $250,000. The estimated short-
rege at the time of cloging the bank
because of the defalcation of the
bookkeeper, George W. Coleman, was
$144,000.