oaurilleijittrlligciti:er Established in 1828. I 3D. A.V3T LXTTZ Editor and Proprietor m DANVILLE, PA., DEC, 8, 1905. t Published every Friday at Danville, the county scat of Montour county, I'a., at SI.OO a year in advance or 81.25 if not paid in ad vance; and no paper will be discontinued until uil arrearage is paid, except at the option of the publisher. Hales of advertising made known on ap plication. Address all communications to TH E INTELLI < i E N CElt, DANVILLE, PA. LET US BE REASONABLE. JUST now there is a strong ten dency to overdo the crusade against all forms of grafting and crookedness by making it appear that the official and business life of the country is .rotten to the core. Un supported statements are accepted as indisputable facts and suspicion is aroused where none is justified. Discussing this feature of the re form wave which is sweeping over the country the Washington Post suggests that we run to extremes in every thing we do. Whatever absorbs our attention for the moment is about the only thing in the world worth think ing about; if we take sides in any controversy, we are sure to overdo it, as we did in our Japanese partisan ship during the late war, and if we are against anybody, they immediate ly become the ofiscouring of the earth. It should in fairness be said that we are equally hasty and unbalanced ir our judgement of ourselves, whether favorable or disparaging. In some moods, anil along certain lines, and they are not a few, we are the most cocksure dogmatists and the most expansive and unblushing brag gadocios that walk; on the other hand, we sometimes paint ourselves in such black colors that the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah might well be looked for to full upon us inconsistently. Since the recent disclosures of rapacity, dishonesty, and official un faithfulness, continues the Post, we have been indulging to the full iu one of these Mack periods, representing ourselves day after day to all man kind as the basest and most un worthy of people. We would by 110 means detract from the seriousness of these disclosures, or assume that a considerable degree of national heart searching and works meet unto re pentance would not be becoming and and salutary; but we deny and resent the assertion that is beiug constantly made, and which many here and abroad are coining to believe, that we are corrupt from center to circumfer ence; that uo one any longer is hon est, and that civic virtue has taken its flight from our midst. We de cline even to join iu the insincere con fession that "tliera is no health in us." If that were indeed the case, we might well despair, for we should have nothing to build on. The fact is, and a study of any period of our history will confirm the statement, that relatively to our pop ulation and wealth, and to the num ber and magnitude of the business transactions that daily take place among us, there never was a time when there was as much health in us, or so much honor and civic virtue, as there is today. Nor should it be forgotten that temptations of our times are vastly greater in degree and iu number than at any previous per iod, and that a vigilant and omni present press drags to light and spreads abroad everywhere with to) much and too sensational exploitation of detail, everything discreditable that takes place. Iu earlier days such things were much less often made known and were not spread abroad and talked of and written about as now, and there can he 110 doubt that we have gone too far iu that direction. Not that all wrong-doing should not be uncovered and ventilated, but it need not be dwelt 011 and magnified till every one comes to doubt his neighbor, and wonder whether Irs own good purposes are not mere fig ments of a trausccudeutial and wholly unpractical imagination, which, if ad hered to, will leave liini behind in the race. It is also greatly to be deplored that denunciation and depreciation of our public men has become so uudis crimiuating and universal. A man is very likely to become after a while what every one says he is, and if he is continually told that lie is a thief, and led to suppose that every one be lieves it, it is not to be wondered at if he becomes one. Public men are in no wise different from men iu priv ate life, and, like them, are not in frequently untrustworthy and dis honest; but take Congress as a whole, they are upright, honorable meu, aud conscientious in their performances of duty. The body politic is like an indivi dual. His health varies with his sur roundings and occupation, and is better at some times than at others. Sometimes he is so absorbed ill his pursuits that he grows careless of it, and suddenly finds that he must pull himself up and mend his ways of life. That is just oui condition now. Iu a period of vast expansion aud in creasing wealth we have neglected the ordinary rules of moral hygiene, but are coming to realize it, and amend ment will speedily follow. An indi vidual who finds himself afflicted with boils, which indicate a coming out of the bad humors of the system, pre paratory to renewed healthy condi tions, would not go about proclaiming that he was diseased through and through and in a hopeless condition, but that is just what, as a people, we have been doing, audit is time to stop it. Every one must expect to be taken largely at his own valuation, and if we continue to write ourselves down %t The bottom of the scale, the world at large before long will come to think that we indeed belong there. —A CHESTER contemporary says "the Philadelphia gang deserved all it got 0:1 elec ion day." No one said it got all it deserved. BUT WILL IT ENDURE ? /■fr HE prosperity of tlu* country lias Ijl been so great for a number of years that many persons have come to entertain the belief that periods of depression are things of the past, and that there will bo an indefi nite era of prosperity. This view has no doubt done much to keep stocks at their present unusual prices and to advance them still further. They argue, for example, that railroad stocks must remain high, because the consumption follows so closely upon the heels of production that there can not in the future be such an accumu lation of stock by the compani< s' that a bieak in the price of coal must en sue. That reasoning looks only to a continuance of the present prosperity in manufactures. But what assur ance is there that the manufacturing industries, now running at high pres sure, will remain in that condition. \Vckn >w that such periods of depres sion do come along at intervals of un certain length. The year 1907 has even been select ed for the arrival of the next one. When hard times come, one industry after another is compiled to cut down its productive capacity. That means a decreased demand for coal. Even families double up to economize in the consumption of coal, and in this way the consumption in the domestic sizes as well as those required by manufacturers, is decreased and these conditions are certain to produce their effect on production, and, con sequently, 011 the prices of coal stocks. While things are booming as they are now men are apt to forget these things, but depression comes along with the certainty of fate and the tax gatherer, nevertheless. And when it does come, it afiects everybody, and each one begins to economize, the railroads not excepted, so that the dividends will be cut down and stocks must come down with them. It has been said that the time to sell stocks is when some one else wants to buy them, and the present seems just such a time. —WISE Magistrate- in Nebraska fined a small boy fifty dollars for roll ing a cigarette on the street. Whether it was done because the law prohibits boys from smoking cigarettes out there, or because it was setting a bad example to the rest of the community, or because the lad had not taken out a license as a manufacturer, we do not know, but the case reminds us very strongly of one of Shakespeare's characters iu "Much Ado About Nothing." — A CI.EROYMAN who resigued his pastorate to take up the practice of law assigned as ope reason for his change "that the average man will pay more to keep out of jail for one day than to be kept out of hades for eternity." -— IT is not much encouragement to! a graftless State to learn that New Jersey owes nothing aud has 83,000,- 000 iu its pocket. "I Didn't Think." A young girl threw a rose in the d i.st in the moment of thoughtless ness, In a moment she was sorry and picked it up again, but its bloom and beauty were none, the dust clung to its petals, and its delicate Iragrance was destroyed That rose was her reputation, and one thoughtless act hail ruined it. She could say "I meant nothing had," and"l didn't think," hut it will never bring hack the bloom of Iho rose. There are some girls in this town trampling roses under I heir feet, who to-morrow will say "I didn't think " Dance Near Exchange. Mr. and Mrs. Hohert Heiimann en tertained a largo number of their friends on Friday evening. Dee 1, near Exchange. Messrs Henry liitt ner, of Tnrbotville and Sebastain Deltseit, of Oitawa, furnished excell ent music. The evening was pleas antly spent dancing. 'J'hoso.pro-ent were:—Mr. and Mrs. David Ulrich ami daughter Edna, Louisa and Sue Pollick, Mrs. Sulie Biilmeyer and daughter Laura, Mr. William Mills, Mildred and Florence Probst, Elsie Snyder, Hugo M Heiimann Cora, Sadie and Frank Funk, Howard, Suse, A Wagner, Calvin L. Shires, Martha Grey, C. G. Deitrich, Harry Yocura, Walter Seibert. Mrs. Armantague, Mrs. Grey, Steward Saul, Harry and Anna Love, Norman Litlerer, Agustua Klreman C. 15. Diehl, Charlie Alower er, John Yagle, John Plotts, Frank E. Diehl, Steven Eilis, Clyde Springer Eva Mowerer, Mrs. John Diehl, Ella Menges, Miss Maude M. Mohr, Mrs. Patrick Brennen, Sydney, Walter, Cora and Stella Diehl, Paul and Bertha lleilmami, Blanche and Norma Durlln; and Foster, Laura and C ara Musser, Mr. aud Mrs. Armstrong, of Wulsontown, DREW THEIR OWN WILLS. Eminent LPKAI Lltrlitn Who Did So and Illundered. Many celebrated men have neglected to softie their affairs. Ben Jonson, i Dryden and Sir Isaac Newton all died ■ntestate, Bacon insolvent, and the epigram ou Butler's monument in i Westminster abbey sufficiently ex | plains why he and many others like him never made a will: The poet's fate is here In emblem shown. | Ho asks for trend, and he receives a "Wills," said Lord Coke, "and the construction of them do more to per plex a man than any other, and to make a certain construction of them exceedeth jurlspnvdontlum nrtcm." An old proverb says that every man is ei ther a fool or a physician at forty. Sir H. Hatford happening one day to quote the saying to a circle of friends, Can ning humorously inquired, "Sir Henry, mayn't he be both?" At any rate, ex perience teaches that lawyers \tlio draw their own wills sometimes make great mistakes. Sir Samuel Itomiliy's will was improperly worded. Chief Bar6u Thompson's will became the sub ject of chancery proceedings, while the will of Bradley, the emiuent convey ancer, was actually set aside by Lord ' Tliurlow.—X.ondou Standard. BILLY BOY. MATCHMAKER By MARTHA MXIiILOCH-WHIIAMS Copyright, 190fi, hy 1.1). Marshall "Pretty! It is profane to call her jueivly pretty," Wheaton said, staring covertly at Heleu Marr. "She is well named," he went oil. "Can't you fancy Ler's the "Pace thut launched a thousand ships And hurned the topless towers of Illium?" "No," Norrls answered with a laugh ing shake of the head. "Remember, I'm neither artist nor painter, nor even Bohemian—merely a village landlord, whose chief concern is to keep terms with his tenants, and used to seeing pretty girls, even very pretty girls, every day in the week." "If you call her pretty, I repeat your case is hopeless," Wheaton persisted. This time he spoke very low, but not so low as to escape Helen's ear. She was coming toward them on her dap pled pony, her hat hanging at the back of her head and a sheaf of wild roses in the hollow of her arm. The pink of the roses was deepening in her cheeks, and she would have ridden past with the merest inclination of the head but tliat Billy Boy, spoiled beast, was of another mind. He whinnied Joyously to Norrls, and when be got abreast of that gentleman planted his four legs, obstinately refusing to budge, his whin ny changing to a plaintive whicker of protest. "I see Billy Boy Is constant—not proud and haughty like his mistress. He does not Ignore his friends If he does happen to find th£n In bad com pany," Norrls said, stepping to the pony's head and letting him rummage a sugar lump out of his pocket. Norrls tried to speak with his usual bantering friendliness, but not very successfully. He wished, Indeed, Billy Boy had been less his constant friend, since he did not want to present Whea ton to Billy Boy's mistress. However, there was no help for it—lt served him right for spoiling the creature so. But there were mitigating circumstances to , the spoiling. | The Marr paddock adjoined his own, and while holding converse with Billy Boy across the fence of It, giving him | bread, sugar or sweet apples, he need ed no excuse for likewise holding con | verse with Miss Helen. She was shy j of him when they met socially, for, though Norrls would have scrupled to j admit It, lie was the catch of the vil- I lage, much courted by the eager and | rather let alone by the self respecting, r Beyond their pride and their pedigree I the Marrs had little. Helen's chief di version, indeed, was the rides she took ' about the red roads and the shady I lanes which led from the village Into I the deep country. Wheaton was not a bad sort, but he was a city man and, Norrls more than suspected, a trifler, making love to every very pretty or very piquant face he encountered. He was, moreover, disgustingly good to look at. Thus Norris contrasted mentally Wlieaton's supple elegance with his own burly strength. Wheaton played at being an artist, chiefly by way of diversion. He had just enough money to keep himself in luxurious idleness and no will what ever to Increase the sum of It or divide the spending. Norris knew all that; therefore ho raged Inly, mainly at him self, while Wheaton talked to Helen, the while coaxing Billy Boy to stand obstinately still by giving him tufts of tender roadside grass. It was play fully done, so playfully Helen did not In the least see through It. She got over her shyness very quick ly and talked brightly to Wheaton, giv ing him now and again dazzling smiles. It took her all aback to have Norris at the end of fifteen minutes Jerk Billy Boy's bridle sharply and send him can tering homeward with a sharp slap on the rump. As the pony cantered Helen won dered what she had done to displease Norris. Ho had looked gloomier and older than she ever had seen him and had growled In answer to the goodby she had thrown to him over her shoul der. Before the week end sbe bad ceased to think of Norrls, of Itilly Boy, of anything, indeed, save and except Wheaton. Tliey had ridden through the long summer mornings together and spent the silver moonlit evenings strolling about the village, never get ting beyond hail or the range of friend ly household lights. Helen went bare headed; Wheaton insisted upoji It. lie insisted, too, that he must paint her— not in the lieat of the summer, but when he came back in the fall. Ho was coming, of course. He had not dreamed that hlrf own country held such beauties as the region round about had disclosed. Fossibly he would settle down there and make himself famous by perpetuating the charm of its grassed reaches, its towering hills, the silver of its brooks and the soft. Il limitable purples brooding above its big fields. Helen listened as one ehclianted. She was Just nineteen, unworldly as a new fledged dove and full of romance and the worship of romance. Wheaton seemed to her a creature apart, :• denizen of another world, one In which she herself belonged of right, although she would 110 doubt be the simplest the humblest, there. His tales of the city, of the studios, the cafe:?, the spar klo and foam of existence, fascinated her as nothing else had ever done, not even the old Chronicles, which hereto fore had served her Instead of fairy tales. Wheaton really talked well, but then Helen's listening was In itself inspira tion. Add that he was as much in love as his temperament admitted, and It is easy to understand how he seemed to her inspired. He did not look for ward or backward—at anything except the day and the pleasure of it. Helen had charmed her as that other Helen no doubt charmed Paris. What won der that he reveled In the charming,' without a thought of how it might end! He did not even see what it all meant to Norris, good old Norrls, who was too staid and phlegmatic ever to know the real meaning of life. He loved to make Helen talk of him. By her stories Norrls had been to her a sort of com bined knight errant and fairy god father. There was no hint of romance Jn them, for all she had colored so beautifully and flung her head In telling of the traps and pitfalls the vil lage had set for him. It was plain she knew Norris to be a prize of the chase matrimonial. Perhaps that was why Wheaton felt moved to ask one day as they sat under the big apple tree at the edge of the paddock: "Little Helen, why don't you save Norrls from his pursuers? You could do it, you know—by taking him your self." "Thank you. That's just wljat J' v © boon wanting to ask ibis last two years," Korris said, vaulting over tho fence, In wliose ambush he had corny SEND US £ A COW, JFI Steer, Bull or Horse hide. Call skill, Dog Bj^KSS skin, or any other kind oi hide or skin, and let bSPjHB us tan it with the hair on, soft, light, odorless Hh^^H andmoth-proof.forrobc, rug, coat or gloves. But first get our Catalogue, Sring prices, and our shipping gs aud instructions, so as to avoid mistakes. We also buy fiber raw furs and iciuseng. THE CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY. 116 Mill strMt, Rochester, N. Y. upon thorn unseen. "Will you take mo, Helen?" he went on, heedless of Wliea ton's presence. Helen gave a little cry and hid her face in her hands. Slio had risen. Wheaton also stood up. Both men towered above her, look ins defiantly into each other's eyes. "Will you take me, little girl?" Nor ris repeated, catching her baud and laying it against his cheek, lie felt It tremble <h»llcately before Helen snatch ed It away. She looked up at him al most piteously, then turned to Whea ton. Wheaton's face was a battlelield. All at once he was discovering that he did not know all of himself. Under the dilettante, the man of leisure, there \vas another, somewhat primal, self, with somewhat also of primal force. And this fellow was wild to spring at Norris' throat, to rend and strangle him, and, having rent him, bear away the prize. Yet with the other half of him Wheaton knew that If he had but heard of rather thau heard Norris' love making he would have smiled approval of It as a good ending to something otherwise tangled. This other man Raw, too—and was shamed bitterly by the sight—the love light playing In Helen's Innocent eyes. She was not for him. He had better break her heart at onee thau at piece meal. That would be-the end should he "be mad enough to marry her. He would tire of her—of any woman. But, oh, the twinge at thought of her anoth er man's wife! He shut his teeth on it and took both her hands—slim hands, hanging helplessly at her sides. Ho wanted to clasp and kiss them and lay them against his breast, but a certain fiber akin to manliuess made him In stead hold them firmly art'one might hold those of a frightened child while he said huskily: "The play is done, Helen. I'm going away, straight abroad, nevef to come back. Won't you let me think of you» as—happy Helen Norris?" "Why think of me at all?" Jlolen be gan proudly. Billy Boy interrupted her—Billy Boy, who felt he must be in everything. He came between her and Wheaton aud gently crowded her toward his favorite Norris, then, whirling about, kicked Wheaton heels over head. Thus a tense moment became filled with comedy. Thus also Helen found out that laughter Is balm for lovesick uess. Who could be sentimental over a lover sent sprawling to grass? Not Helen, certainly. By this tol%en she married Norris be fore the now year came. The Goil of Fortune. The Chinese deity of fortune is al ways represented as a Jolly god, and the rich votive offerings which cover his altars nre speaking testimonials to his popularity. On the 2d of the second month a special festival is held in his honor, on which occasion his temples are crowded with worshipers, who manifest a devoutness which is strange ly wanting in the services offered to the less material deities. Feasts of fat things are greedily pre sented to secure his favor, and, not content with leaving the lots on the knees of the god, his practical minded worshiper*! seek to lift the veil which conceals his counsels from mankind, l or this purpose they adopt a curious device. In some open space or market square a large wooden cannon loaded with a small charge of powder and a circular rattan wad is flre;l perpendicularly Into the air. As the wad descends the sur rounding crowd struggle to catch It, in the belief that he who is successful will enjoy the blessings of peace and plenty during the ensuing year. True Art. John Ituskin said that In matters of criticism one should never come to par ticulars,- for authors are apt to come down upon you with "authorities," there being an authority for almost ev ery absurdity that can be committed, rlthcr in literary or practical matters, hi a letter to a college friend Ituskin wrote: "The object in all art Is not to 'nform, but to suggest; not to add to the knowledge, but to kindle the imagi nation. He is the best poet who can by the fewest words touch tlie great est number of secret chords of thought !n his reader's own mind and set them to work in their own way. To put plain text into rhyme and meter 's easy; not so to write a passage which every time it Is remembered shall sug gest a new train of thought, a new sub ject of delightful dream. It i3 this mystic secrecy of beauty which is tho seal of the highest art, which only opens itself to close observation and long study." A I.canon From Henry C'l*V. A well known southern politician who died just before the civil war not infrequently spoke of an Incident that took place in his first term in congress, in which he received a lesson in state* craft from the great Whig leader, Ilenry Clay. "I was a young man and an enthusi astic Whig," he said, "and I eutered congress quivering with eagerness to 6erve my party and to distinguish my relf. I was on my feet shouting, 'Mr. Speaker!* a dozen times a day. I op posed even petty motions made by th« opposite party and bitterly denounced every bill, however trivial, for which it voted. Before the session was half over I had contrived to make my self personally obnoxious to every Democrat that I met. "One day after an ill tempered out break on a question of no moment I turned and saw Mr. Clay watching me with a twinkle in bis eye. " 'C.,' he said, 'you go lulling some times V* * " 'Yes.' " 'Don't you find that tlie best rod Is the one that gives n little nt each Joint? It does not snap and break at every toueb, but bcuds and shows Its strength only wbeu n heavy weight is put on It.' "I eausht his meaning. I bad seen him chatting familiarly with the very men whom I was berating. Yet I knew when great Interests clashed be was the one mau whom they feared. "I set myself then to learn patience end coolness. It !i the strong, flexible rod wblcU doxs |iot bi'eak under Uio big flsb," When the Lawyer Came By CARL DAY Copyright, 1905, by E. S. McClure The village of Hillsdale, containing 400 inhabitants, had a grocery, a post* otlice, a cooper shop, a blacksmith shop and a sawmill, but when any of Its people visited other towns they didn't brag of these things. If they boasted at all it was of the fact that the village never had had a lawyer or a lawsuit Now and then differences of opinion arose among the villager* r.:;d they al ways went to old Silas Warner to set tle them. He was the "father" of the village. When he said !L going to be a hard winter or a hot summer no one thought of doubting his word. He was ready with advice to old and young, and no one ever knew him to say a mean thing about anybody. He would hear both sides of a story aud then decide according to his judgment, and it was seldom that his decision was appealed from or created hard feelings. Uncle Silas had been fathering Hills dale for twenty years when an event happened. A boom struck the town. Some one sold his house and lot, the cooper got an order for a hundred bar rels all at once, and it was discovered that the water of a spring emptying into the mill pond was good for sore eyes. It wouldn't have been called much of a boom in Kansas, but It was enough to make them hold their breath in Hillsdale, audit led to results. One of the results was a move to get a law yer to come there and open an office. "I ain't goin' to say yes nor no to it," Uncle Silas said when ho heard of it, •'but if we get a lawyer here we can look out for mumps and measles to toller." The lawyer came. He was an object of curiosity for the first two weeks, and then he was an object of some thing else. To do him justice, he was no pettifogger to set neighbors by the ears, but the fact that there was a lawyer in town to be consulted had an influence with the villagers, and soon most of them discovered chips on their shoulders. The cooper had a plot of ground on which he always raised about fifty bushels of potatoes. The sawmill man had six or eight hogs running at large that always managed to got in among the potatoes and reduce the crop by ten bushels. Heretofore this matter had been carried to Uncle Silas for ar bitration. ne had taken a couple of days to think It over and then said: "Waul, nayburs, hogs is hogs, and ta ters is taters, and it's mighty hard to keep 'em apart. Fact Is, hogs have got to have 'em. I can't say that it was anybody's fault in this case, but I guess if the owner of the hogs pays the owner of the taters about a dollar and a half no one will be the wuss off." That sum had been paid over with out demur, and there never had been a hard word between the two principals. Things were different now, however. One day the sawmill man got a let ter from the lawyer demanding $lO damages because his hogs had made their annual raid on the potato patch of the cooper. "Yes, Joe," said the cooper when his neighbor came to see him, "I told the lawyer to write j*ou that letter. It's time you toofc care o' them blamed hogs o' yours. You've got to pay me $lO this time." "But you owe me $7 for lumber, Jim." "Then sue for it." "Hanged if I don't! I'll show you that I can start just as many lawsuits as you can!" For ten years people had been in the habit of taking a short cut across Ja bez Smith's lots when going to the postofllce, and Jabez had no more thought of complaining than he had of flying. All of a sudden, however, he puts up signs of "No Trespass," and when the Widow Thompson didn't heed them he came outside his gate to meet her. "See here, widder," he began, "you either keep off my land or I'll have you up for damages!" "What's the matter of you?" she asked in surprise. "Waal, I've been picked on and pick ed on for the last ten years, and I've stood it jest as long as I'm goin* to. We've got a lawyer in the town now, you know." "Then you keep your hens out of my garden or you'll hear from that law yer! I alius thought you'd, be pizen mean if you had a chance, and now I know it." "Don't use violent language, widder, or the law will make you suffer for It." Horses, cattle and hogs always had beeu allowed to run at large In Hills dale, and the citizens were supposed to protect themselves by keeping their fences iu repair and their gates shut. It was not long after the arrival of the lawyer that a dozen different neighbors wore shaking their lists at each other and threatening lawsuits for damages done. In the long before, Jonas Bebee had given the village the privilege of digging gravel 9t his banks to fill In the mudlioles of the three or four streets. There was 110 sale for It at any price, and the more they dug away Ills hills the better for Ills property, hut one day Jonas'rose up at the postofflce to speak. "Gentlemen," he said, "this thing has been goln' 011 long enough. It's rldin' a tree boss to death. If any more grav el comes out. o' my pits It's got to be paid for at a quarter a load." "What's the matter with you, Jo nas?" asked a neighbor. "I've Jest woke up to realize that I've got some legal rights In this world, and you hear what I say about that gravel. j I've made a fool o' myself by givln' j the town about a thousand dollars' wuth, hut it stops right here!" I When one of the fifty hogs running at large got under the front steps of Skinner's grocery iu the daytime and grunted away it was Skinner's privi lege to rouse him out with a pole and (hen hit him with as many clubs as he I could. Tills had como to be considered ! a constitutional privilege, but Skinner was to have his eyes opeued. One day, aftir having eujoyed himself with a { stray hog, the owner of It came along . and stopped before the store. I "By thunder, Skinner," he cried, "If i you over tech that hog o' mine ag'in I'll give you a lawsuit bigger'n a house!" i "W-li-a-t?" shouted the grocer as he opened his mouth and eyes in astonish ment. "I'll sue you for damages aud then have you tried for cruelty tj animals, I want you to understand that there Is such a thing as law in this towu now." "Jim, ilo you mean It?" "Of course I mean it." "Then I want you to pay up what you owe." A dozen families In Hillsdale had family wells—that is, wells sunk on dividing line and used h* two fata [OUR NEW FALL LINE t Ladies', Misses', Children's COATS, FLFIS, SIM IS Ladies' Coats from $4.98 up. The Largest and Best Stock to select from. EVERYTHING UP-TO-DATE PEOPLES' STORE, 275-77 MILL STREET, - - DANVILLE pi— FR FARMERS AND DAiRYMEN! "F 1 ATTENTION! Orders will lie taken for a guaranteed 43 per cent. Protein Brand of Cotton Seed Meal, delivered off the car at Potts grove, at a reduced price. Send inquiries and orders l>y mail t Pottsgrove. Persons having orders in will be notified on arrival of the car C. H. flcMahan & Bros. Special Dairy Foods and Dairy Supplies, HAY AND FEED Pottsgrove, l ; Northumberland Co., Pa. ilies. No one ever had heard of any trouble on this account, but the lawyer hadn't been in the village a month when there was trouble enough over the wells alone to keep him busy for days. People charged each other with drawing more than their share of the water and with damaging the pump or bucket, and hot words always led to a threat to begin a lawsuit. It was four miles to the nearest jus tice of the peace, but within three months of the lawyer's coming he had seven lawsuits to his credit and double that number on the way. Every one who had one suit seemed to ache for another, and the party who was beaten was prompt to take an appeal. The crisis came when Uncle Jerry Thomas, one of the most peaceful men In the world, suddenly decided that the Baptist church, which had bought a piece of land from him, had cheated him and should be sued for a greater price. That took in everybody who hadn't any lawsuit on hand, and Hills dale was preparing for a fresh cam paign when the lawyer suddenly disap peared. His lawbooks and his furni ture were removed at night, and no one knew of his going until next day. Then somebody went up to his office to see about a suit and found this notice tacked on the door: Notice. Gone for good. No matter where. All suits dropped. Don't owe any body anything, but I happen to bo a law yer with a conscience. Cut out the law and go back to the old way. And everybody shook hands with ev erybody else and begged pardon and said he was sorry and wouldn't do It again. The Lavlnli Jenkiiu. In October, 1880, a religiously mind* ed Buckinghamshire farmer named Jenkins brought his firstborn to the parish church to be christened, and this was to be the name: Abel Benja min Caleb Daniel Ezra Felix Gabriel Ilaggai Isaac Jacob Kish Levi Ma noah Nehemiah Obdiah Peter Quartua Rechab Samuel Tobiah Uzziel Vaniah Word Xystus Zechariah. It will be observed that the names are all ar ranged in alphabetical order and are as far as possible selected from Scrip ture. It was only with the very great est difficulty that the clergyman dis suaded Mr. Jenkins from doing the lasting wrong to his child that he bad unwittingly deviMQ, but eventually It was dec/tied to christen the boy 6imply Abel.—Chambers' Journal. I'OHlcd. William (a five-year-old) Mamma, Is It the divorcee tint always Rets the alimony? Ills Mother—Yen, dear, as a rule. William—Well, which Is the di vorcee, the man or the lady? Ills Mamma—Why, what questions to ask! What do you want to know for? Wil liam—'Cause me and Sadie are play lug divorce, and I am trying to maka her give me the alimony.—Brooklyn Life. An Impossible Imitation. The irritable employer turned to his typewriter with a sudden snarl. "Why don't you write It Just as I say It?" he demanded. "Because my typewriter hasn't the catarrh," Rhe quietly responded.— Cleveland rialn Dealer. Your Mission. Set yourself earnestly to see what you were made to do, and then BOt yourself earnestly to do It, and the loftier your purpose Is the more Rure you will he to make tha world richer with ever;' enrichment of yourself. A rich man without charity Is a rogue, hurt perhaps it would bo no dlf- Bcult nut for to prove that he Is also a fool—Fleidltta Rennon Enonffh, "What! Marry my daughter?" snort ed old Gotrox. "Why, you must be deetitute of all reasou"- "Yes," Interrupted young Poorley, with refreshing candor: "I admit I am destitute, hut that very fact Is my rea son."— Philadelphia Press. The Intelligencer lias a class of cir culation tlmt makes advertising in its columns rich with results. It has, too, a quantity of circulation at rates that mean great profit to the persou using the paper. We still continue to give The Great American Farm Journal to all of oursub scriberH who pa\ in advance. Think of it. Twouaper* for the price of one, and only 91.00, fao. Stationery for Farmers. Fanners and others, particularly those living on the Rural Delivery route , should have printed stationery as well as business men. It is not only more busi ness like to send a letter with name and address printed on the notehead and en velope, but it insures the return of the letter in ca>e it is not delivered. We are especially well equipped to do this class of printing and can do it promptly and neatly. We will supply 250 note heads and 250 envelopes, extra quality, for $1.50, or 75c for either one lot. This is cheaper than you can buy the paper and envelopes regularly at retail stores. VITAinilK C ure Nervous Diseases. 11 intvlvv -Dr. Oidman'B Prescription- Btrengtbene the nerves, Builds up worn oat men and women. Price 60 Ota. WANTED -BY CHICAGO A! ANU facttiring House, person or trust worthiness and somewhat familiar with local territory as assistant in branch olllce. Salary $lB paid week ly. Permanent position. No invest ] ment required. Previous experience not essential to engaging. Address, Manager Branches, Co mo Block, Chicago. 1-29 06 NOTICE. Estate of Margaret Y. Grove, Late of Danville, Montour County, Deceased. The unders'gned auditor, appointed by the Orphan's Court of Montour County, to make distribution of the balance in the hands ol the accountant to ami aiming the parties en titled thereto, will sit to perform the duties o» his appointment, at his olllce. 1H» Mill Slic-I, lhtnvlllc, Pa., on Monday the lltli., day ot December, A. i». 1906, at 10 o'clock A. M. when and where all parties Interested are re quested to attend, or be forever debarred lrom any share of said fund. HAL' H KIHNER, Danville, I'a., Nov. u, 1U0">. Auditor. The Goods for Fall jf Are beginning to arrive, and each day sees new and choice styles added to our . i slock. T The Dress Goods Department includes the best val ues and choicest styles the market affords. If You are looking for Flannelettes We have dozens ot styles :*: that cannot be told from :*: the Wool Flannels (Jood selections of Blankets and Com forts that are so much needed these cold nights. Prices are right in all departments,and you will make a big mistake if you do all your buying beforo coming to see us. W. M. SEIDEL, 344 Mill Street. John Roach's Skilled Workman Found Assistance Outside of His Craft. was in charge of the Cop persmith's Department of John Roach & Sons' shipyard, where I was employed for nearly twenty years. I had enjoyed robust health all my life until I was ta ken with disease of the kidneys. I used many remedies, but, get ting no relief, I consulted a phy sician, who told me that 1 Had Kidney Trouble. After treating me for several weeks I noticod with some concern that instead of I there being any improvement, I was actually getting worse. Plainly something more effective must be done. At tills time I saw the advertisement of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. I bought a bottle of the medicine, and when 1 had taken It I was decidedly better. I continued its use and am NOW PERMANENTLY WELL, for many years ago, and I have never had a single symptom of the disease since. Dr. Kennedy Is free to tell anyone, far and wide, that I was cured of kidney disease by Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. And I recommend its use to everyone afflicted GEO. NES9KNTHALKR, Cfiester, Pa. Dr. D. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy Prepared at Rondoat, N. T. 91 a bottle; 112 for All druggists. mmm} I KAILHOAD The Standard Railway 01 Thie Continent PMOTECTEI) THItOUGHOIT ill iUK InteriociiugSfitcli&Bltck ivsiiii Schedule in Effect Nov. 26, I'JCS a©liVU^A2i) STATIONS A.M. A.M. L'.M. I\M. Sunbury Leave I 0 15 | 055 i 2UI g . 25 K line's (lrove I 't 5t flO 04 t . so Wolverton 1 0 58 flow I f,S7 Kl|»|»'h Kun I 7 00 r 10 11 .. 1 5 44 Kutitli hanville ... , „ 1 Hiuvtile j 10 17 2; I i, 50 f 7 1,1 fl °2l I 5 58 Itonrlnir ( reek r7 23 flo 28 J 2 .<1 j . (ii I Catawlssa Arrive 732 10 35 :.7 I<h ( amwlssa...;." Leave | 7 32| 1035 5 2 ,7 § ' 08 I'iHSt Bloollisblllg ... ) | . | liloomsburg j ' 10 43 .4J ». 15 Kspy Kerry j , 19 stony town Ferry 17 52 ... 1 27 j Creasy 7 .">1 10 50 '2 0 <3O 1 Nescopeck....Arrive) ..... ..... .. Berwick 112 ****' 11 05 3 s/. <4O NeseopeeK Leave S HOI 111 05 5305« <: 40 Wupuuilopcu nhi 1120 310 •52 Pond Hill 1 825 111 25 1-50 Mocunuq ua ) Mll ...... shlokKhlnny / 01 I Retreat 813 1112 882 .10 Nantleoke 851 1151 310 .19 Hutton wood moo fl2 00 1 7*25 Plymouth Ferry f9 02 I 7 28 Sou ill Wllkcs-Burrc . 000 120«5 730 Wllkes-Barre... Arrive 910 12 10 355 735 dQUViDWAi&J) STATIONS A.M. A.M. I'.M. L'.M. Wllkes-Barre. .Leave $ 7 15 § 10 35 I L 4> t ' 00 Sou lb Wilkc.s-Barre 720 2 A) t.05 Ply mouth Ferry 112 7 22 I •; 07 But ton wood ... 112 721 112 2 54 I • 09 Nantleoke 731 10 .V) 302 «. 17 Bet rent 739 10 58 311 h2O »«> *•-•> "87 P«'"l "I 11 112 7 VI 112 « 27 1 C 49 Wnpwnllupen 7 .vt 11 l.i n:u nJ7 Ne«copeek Arrive sell 11 -M 1 a run Sl'.p'vk Leave} IBoo| II ai .< 12 57 00 Creasy sis ÜBS J.,3 709 Stony town Ferry 1 s 21 t 7 12 Espy Ferry .. 820 103 Blooinsburg ) ... 0 , hast liloomsburg } Catawlssa Arrive B|o 11 58 113 732 Catawlssa Leave 840 11 5 1 413 732 Koarlng Creek 112 8 48 112 12 f0 i 1 19 112 7 39 Boyd 112 8 55 112 12 II « 4 23 1 7 »<» 12 w -<;• Klpp's Kun 112 9 0."» 112 1 35 112 7 56 Wolverton 112 9 14 112 I 42 1 8 03 Kline's Grove t 9 IT 112 4 45 I' sOb Sunbury Arrive $ 9 25 { 12 30 | I 56 | 8 lu i Daily. $ Dally, except Sunday. I Stops only on notice to Conductor or Agent, or on signal. Trains leaveSoutb Danvill as follows: For I'itt.st<ai and Seranton, 10 17 a in and 2 21 and 550 pin week-days; lo i7 ain dully. For Pottsvllle, Heading and Philadelphia 7 11a in and 2 21 p m week-days. For II i/leton, 7 11a 111 and 2 21 and 550 p m week-days. For Lewlsburg, Milton, W'iliiamsport, Lock Haven, Keiiovo and Kane, 12 1"» pin week days; Lock Haven only, 9IIa in and 431 pin wecU-da.\ * ; fur William-port and interim di ate stations, 914 a in and 751 pin week-days. For Bellei'onte, Tyrone, Phillipsluug and Clearllcid, 9 II a in and 12 15 p 111 week-days. For Hnrrishurg nnd intermediate stations, ill Lam. 12 15 p 111 and 751 p 111 week-da vs; 4 31 pin dally. ' . For Philadelphia (via Harrisburg) Balti more ami Washington, 9 11 a in ;iud and 12 15 and 7 51 p 111 week-days ; I 31 p m dally. For Pittsburg (via Hnrrishurg) 9 II a 111 Mid 7 1 p 111 week days; 131 pin daily ; (via L- w istown .1 unction) 9 II a in and 12 15 pin Meek days; (via Lock Haven) 9 II a 111 and 12 1"» p 111 week-days. Piilluian Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains lift ween Sunbury, Williams port and Frie. between Sunbury and Phila delphia ami Washington ami between Harris burg, Pittsburg ami the W.st. For further Infoi'mation apply to ticket agents. W. W. ATTFKBUItY, J. 1L WOOD, General Manager. Pass'r Tiafllc Mgr GEO. W. BOYD, General Pass'r Agt. AUCTIONEER Real Estate or Personal Prop erty Disposed of at Public Outcry. ,J Bcsl "Insults Quaranlcca Address, Micimel Breckbill, Rural RrutL* 4. Danville. Pa . Foil SAI.lv-A SMALL FAHM OP FOR tv-six ik-ivh, known as tli«- Manger farm located iniks nnrUi-enst «»l* I'm throve. Fair buildings, good I'rull, water at houm* and barn. All cU-iired and under high stal or cultivation. Tlds farm is .-HVivd at private sale and is :• •. rai»le pn ■pnt ,v. Will I. ave laty, straw and fodder on the place. I'o: ses sion given this tall. Address, L. O. KVKMTT, H. P. I». 1. Pottsgrove, I a.- Heart Weakness. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure lias made many hearts well after they have been pronounced hopeless. It has completely cured thousands, and will al most invariably cure or benefit every case of heart disease. Short breath, pain around heart, palpitation, fluttering', dizzy, fainting and smothering spells should not be neglected. Take Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and see how .quick you will be relieved. It cannot make a new heart, but will restore a sick strengthening the heart nerves and muscles, relieving the unnatural strain, and restoring its vitality. "I had a very bad case of heart trouble. For six months I could not work. Last July I was plowing corn and feeling had all day; in the after noon In plowing one row I had to lr.y down, or fall down, three times. My heart throbbed as though it would burst through, and I hud difficulty in getting my breath. I purchased a bottle of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure, and beforo I had used h If of it I could lay down and slrep all night. Previ ously I had to get up from fivo to ten times a night. I have taken several bottles, and my heart Is as regular as clock work. I foci like a new man, and can work considerable for an old man, 84% years old." H. D. McGILL, Frost, Ohio. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If It falls he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind notTnanytriist *Muny newspapers have lately given currency to reports by Irresponsible parties to the effect that THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO had entered a trust or combination; we wish to assure the public that, there is no truth in such reports. We have been manufacturing sewing machines for over a quarter ofa oentu* ry, and have established a reputation for our selves and our machines that is the envy of all others. Our " Xetv Home** maehine has never been rivaled as a family machine.—lt stands at the head ofall tiiyh tirade sewing machines, and stands on its oira merits. The " AVir Mlome" is the only really HIGH GRADE Sewing Machine on the market. It Is not necessary for us to enter Into a trust to save our credit or pay any debts as we have no debts to pay. We have never entered into competition with manufacturers of low grade cheap machines that are mode to sell regard less of any intrinsic merits. Do not be de ceived, when you want ft sewing machine don't send your money away from home; call on a "New Home ** Dealer, he can sell you a better machine for less than you can purchase else where. If there is no dealer near you, write direct to us. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO ORANGE, MASS. ,
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