Jlan i illc Uigcnrcr I Established In 1826. , X). AV3T X/VX3 Editor and Proprietor. DANVILLE, PA., JAN, 5, 1900. Published every Friday at Danville, the county neat of Montour county, l*a., at tl.oo a year in advance or 91,'i.j it' not paid in ad vance; and no paper will be discontinued until ull arrearage iH paid, except at the option or the publisher. Kates of advertising made known on ap plication. AddreßH all communications to THE INTELLIGENCER, DANVILLE. PA. A MATTER FOR. COUNCIL. Those of our citiznes whose avoca tions Saturday night or yesterday led them over the canal culvert at Ferry street beheld a good object lesson to show what may follow when the au thorities fail to exact of the masses ;i proper respect for # tho municipality or tolerate practices that are out of all accord with cleanliness, hygiene and civic pride. That the old canal, an eyesore to be gin with, lias been rendered double unsightly by the dumping of ashes and what not over the banks aifl along the edge of the culvert, under the pretense of aiding to fill up the old water way is one of those facts that are self evid eut. This is bad enough, but as the offenders are not interfered with it is not strange that the practice has been carried furthur. The acme was reach ed on Saturday when one individual dumped a big load of trash right on the culvert in the middle of Ferry street. The term 44 trash" is used ad visedly, as amoug the contents with ashes as a bjuso were turkey feathers, old excelsior, broken bottles and con demned potatoes. The load was not even properly leveled over, but seemed literally dumped on the street, the driver no doubt finding excuse in the fact thaf there was a slight depression in the grouud ou that spot. By last evening the deposit was pretty well leveled over by the action of the wheels passing, when the above named ar ticles were some which had worked their way to the surface. Of course our Borough Council will never tolerate anything like this. Be sides the man who dumped the trash on the spot is liable to arrest for viol ating the State law passed by the last Legislature, which prohibits the cast ing of trash of this or any other sort upon the streets of any Borough. It is certainly somebody's duty to get busy at once and discover who dumped the trash in the street. The next thing that Council should do is to stop once and for all the dump ing of ashes and all that is implied by the name into the canal. If tho old waterway is to be filled npgo about it in some well sustained systematic way that will bring results and not eucour age niggardly and slovenly practices that ouly add to the eyesore. Again, if a street in the heart of the Borough needs filling up let some ma terial suitable for road huildiug bo selected and not a lot of stutf that i:- disgusting to tho eye and that will be scattered over tho square by the first wind that rises. Civic pride should bo cultivated which can not be accomplished in a better way than by enforcing the Bor ough ordinance, which prohibits the dumping of ashes auywhero within the Borough. What a stranger's im pression might have been who entered town by way of Ferry street yesterday it would be hard to imagine. County Commissioner George M. Leighow is a reliable public oflicial and a capable man of affairs. At the same time he is not above revealing an interest in the little details of every day life, as is evidenced by the fact that for several years past he lias kept a diary, which ranks with the most complete record of daily events extant. Mr. Leighow pays especial attention to the weather and whether rain, or shine the climatic conditions are care fully recorded. In summing up for the year just expired ho finds that be tween January 1, 1905 and January J, 15)(K» it rained just one hundred ami two times and snowed just thirty-nine times. Mr. Leighow\s diary also contains a record of deaths and funerals occur ring in the community; also serious accidents and the like. There is not a day that he does not fill up the allot ted space in the dairy with information that may prove valuable in the future. «I it <4 Dr. P. C. Nowbaker has received from a friend at Cedar Keys, Florida, a very remarkable specimen of persim mon. It is eight inches in diameter, red in.color and resembles a large to mato. The physician has not yet tast ed of it but like the orange and other fruits indigenous to Florida tho per simmon will no doubt prove as delect ablo to the taste as to the eye. K IS R Mrs. Georgo Fornwald, of Blooms burg, who has been undergoing treat ment- at the Joseph Ratti Hospital for two weeks, past, was reported yester day as much better. She was ablq to sit up and it was thought she would bo able to leavo the Hospital in a day or so. Mrs. Fornwald has many friends in Danville, who will be glad to learn of her improvement. w * * The Bowling Alley is attracting big i crowds nightly this week. Nearly every evening a bevy of young ladies are present who are furnished with easy chairs. Tonight will bo one of! especial interest, as there will be a contest between the Bowling Club of this city and the Bowling Club of I'loomshnrg. . * « * J;fm\s Martin has installed a lunch eoiiilter in his'store and is already do- a big business in coffee, sand wicjieij,* pies and the like. The trolley terntiftris s«spms to make such business profitable. I'trSuSftS mfcw- Dr. OiifiunuV Prc.-cripiiwn is ' n fc'UJiranteud euro for Dyspepsia, Judiiioßtioa and ull titomuch trouble. Price 50 Cents. ' Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes. fThe kidneys are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney poisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits cent and one-dollar siz- T [tjm es. You may have a sample bottle by mail nom© of swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake, hut remember the name swani|.-H««»i. I»r. Kilmer's Swamp 1 toot, and the address, Itinghamton, N \ on every bottle THE SLOTHFUL TODAS THEY ARE THE LAZIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. A Hill Tribe of tmliit Who*e Men Will Neither Hunt Nor Work and Who Are l'roud of Their Reputa tion For Dounrlidit Indolence. In these days of push and energy It rounds strange to talk of people as be ing lazy, aud still the Todas, a hill tribe of India, are the laziest people in tlmworld. . Tile Todas are not ashamed of their reputation and are free to confess that they know of nothing so foolish and stupid as work. Their one and only pursuit Is the raising of buffaloes. They are far too Indolent to follow tlu» chase. An ax Is their weapon, although they know how to make others. They use this for waging war and for fell ing trees. They will not till the laud, considering this unnecessary labor. To make housekeeping easier all their nat ural products are held In common. The idea of property Is only restricted to the hut, Its contents and live stock. The buffaloes, which they own in large quantities, furnish them with skins for clothing and the hut, and the meat is used as food. But milk is their principal diet. They do not even relish the Idea of milking their cattle. The head milkers are the only ones that are to be persuaded to do this la bor. These men are chosen from the class of "pelkl," or "sons of God." They are the priests and practice celib acy. Although the priests tend to tho cattle, each householder owns his cat tle. Much as these men dislike the caring for their cattle, they find farming a less dignified calling. Some years ago they went to war with their neighbors, the Badaga and Kotas, as they, might be able to levy a tax of one-eighth on their grain products. When their grain grows scarce they live on roots and berries. They will sell their land or give it away, but they will not culti vate It at any price. The building of bamboo huts does not interest them any more than the culti vating of the soil, and they make this task easy by making the boys cut tho bamboo and their wives build the huts. It is not unusual for three families to share one abode. The men are often so lazy that they cannot afford one wife alone, but even this does not worry them. Two or three brothers manage to support one wife. Indolent and slothful, they sit listless for hours, un concerned about all things. What they know they know well. They are Intel ligent within certain narrow limits, but they are too lazy to Increase their store of knowledge. Whatever has to be • lone must be cared for by the women and children. Strangely, their appearance does not disclose this most marked characteris tic. They are tall and well proportion ed. They look like Roman senators as they walk wrapped In skins resembling the ancient toga. Their appearance Is not only prepossessing, but bold and self reliant. Many an amusing story Is told of this small hill tribe, numbering about 400 men. An American missionary was working among them when one day lie saw some women and boys building a hut of bamboo, lie Inquired why the men were not performing this labor, and one woman explained, "Husband mine don't work; me and boys build house." The missionary made no further com ment, but when the hut was built he told the husband that he must build another hut, as he could not live in a home made by women and children. But tho surprised Toda answered: "No, no. Me no work. Man has boys and wife to work." The Toda meant what he said. Al though the missionary argued and final ly horsewhipped the native, he could not get him to build a hut. An equally amusing story is told by an English officer. lie was so taken by the handsome appearance of one of the natives he wanted to ttike him to England and place him in his own regi ment. The officer gave the native skins and silks until the Toda prom ised to become an English soldier. lie was delighted with the officer's bright, gay uniform. He did not feel bad about leaving his country, his wife and children, but when ho was told that soldiers work he said: "Me lio be an English soldier; me be Toda. Me no work; me no like work." Win : the I:i offl ?er tried to per suade him he made answer: "Take 1 wife and boys; they be English sol diers—like work. Me stay home and rest; me lw* Toda."—Chicago Tribune. Canary Seed, Perfectly clean see l is absolutely es sential to the health of a bird. I>o not trust to the appearance ef the seed alone, but thrust your hand Into the i midst of u quantity, and if there is a , dusty feeling after you have withdrawn it the seed is not sufficiently floun, says Home Chat. Canary seed, If of good quality, is very bright Ami plump In uppearance and feels heavy In the hand. i in pertinent. Uncle-Well, here's the money you've been bothering me for. Now, reineiu- J or the old.saying flint "A fool and his inonf'4* arc-easily parte!." Nephew—l 'dofi't Tiuo'w' about tlirit. I've tyad to , coax you for fpovg than a week for this!— - FOR TOM'Sj CARP A Tr «® Wh > ch I Eore Good Fruil Sy OTHO 3. SE/tGA. [Copyright. 1904, by Otho B. Senga.] A MOST wonderful and gorgeous Christmas tree stood In the window of the great store of Warden & Joyce. All day a constantly changing throng of small admirers exclaimed at its magnificence and registered extravagant wishes be fore it. I Children richly clad and full of joy ous anticipations, children in comfort less rags, who knew Christmas only by the sight of the happiness of others, I stood side by side and gazed with long- ! ing eyes at the bewildering array of costly gifts and brilliant decorations. I A small girl of twelve or fourteen, j with face unnaturally old and sharp, \ unsmiling eyes, critically examined the i tree in silence. Up and down, from side to side, her keen gaze wandered. "I bet It's empty at the back," she finally muttered. Poor child! Her brief experience had already taught her the unreality and falsity of many glittering things. She stepped quickly Into the vestibule where she could see that part of the tree away from the window. A sudden joy fh»shed into her face. "It's true—that tree is true." she whispered eagerly. "The back Is as good as the front." She hesitated an Instant and then raised her clasped hands best ecliingly. "God," she cried, "send me a tree for Tommy!" Iler intense longing made her voice sharply Imperative, and the first word struck harshly on the ear of a richly dressed young lady who was passing close to her. "You mustn't swear, child!" she ex claimed hurriedly. "I wasn't swearing," the girl an swered calmly, without resentment. "I was praying for a tree for Tommy." An elegant carriage waited at the curb, and as the young lady stepped to MISS STANLLOPE GAVE ONE LOOK AT TUB TALL MAN. the sidewalk the footman threw open the door. She stood for an instant, as If thinking, and then, turning quickly, she went back Into the vestibule, where the child was still standing. "Will you come with me a minute? Out of the crowd," she added hastily as the girl faced her with surprised eyes aud an uncliildlike, repelling look on her thin face. "Will you step Into the carriage? • Flease do. I want you to tell me something, and it Is so very cold"— The girl seated herself on the luxu rious cushions, the young lady fol lowed, and the Inwardly disgusted footman closed the door. "Will you tell me your name and where you live?" the lady questioned gently. The child regarded her earnestly. "Depends on who you are and what you want. You ain't a charity worker nor a slum visitor?" The young lady smiled understand- Ingly. "My name is Margaret Stanhope, and I live on Commonwealth avenue. You —you spoke of Ton my." The girl's face softened. "Yes; he's my brother. My name Is Maggie Taylor, and 1 live on Buruham street," adding with a return of her former manner, "but it ain't a slum street, and I don't want no charity." I «.Mlss Stanhope smiled radiantly. "But I do, Maggie. I am so glad our names are the same. I need just what you do not—charity. Tell me some thing about Tommy." She lingered lovbigly over the name. "Why did you pray for a tree for him?" "Because he's sick. He's only twelve, ' and he works In an office, and his boss Is away, and Tommy took sick after j he'd gone. Tommy feels sure that If ! he was here he'd send his wages to him just the same, for he's a good boss and awfully kind to everybody, but the other man—his pardner—ls different." ; "Maggie," said Miss Stanhope ear nestly, "1 wish you'd help me to have a happy Christmas. I am all alone hi the world, without any one to care for me, and I want to do something for | some one—for some one named Tom- 1 my. because—because six months ago 1 did a wrong and cruel thing to some one by that name. It would help make my Christmas happy If you would let me arrange a tree for your Tommy. Will you?" The girl drew a long breath. "It ain't charity?" she asked doubt- ■ fully. "Not to jou nor to Tommy," answer 1 ed Miss Stanhope joyously, "but It will be to me." "For Tommy's sake," murmured the girl assentingly. "For Tom's sake," echoed Miss Stan hope tenderly. The uubendiug footman was still more disgusted when he was directed to make another round of the stores, and his bearing was absolutely frigid when he was required to carry a most unbecoming load of bundles up the stairs to the little home on Burnliam street. That the indignity of a good sized tree was laid upon him also re quired the concentration of all his thoughts upon the generous wages Miss Stanhope paid to enable him to endure the present situation. "I keep house for father and Tom my," whispered Maggie, leading the way. "Tommy's in the kitchen. I left him there ill the big chair 'cause it's warmer. We'll take all these things iu here"-openiug the door of a neat sit* ting room—"and when we get the tree fixed I'll push hiui in iu the chair." Surely never before was a tree so quickly made to blossom and bring forth fruit, and it was a "true" tree, . with gifts on every side. Maggie surveyed it with joyful pride, her thin face losing its careworn look SEND US M 1 A cow, m Steer, Bull or Horse hide. Calf skin, Dog skin, or any other kind of liide or skin, and let EKJEA us tan it with the hair on, soft, light, odorless and moth-proof, for robe, rug, coat or gloves. But first get our Catalogue, giving prices, and our shipping tags and instructions, so as to JflggH -- > avoid mistakes. We also buy ? raw furs and ginseng. THB CROSBY FRISIAN FUR COMPANY, 116 Mill street. Rochester. N. Y. |- — ... .. .. "rrrr m I ' ami becoming almost childlike with I the llush of happy excitement. I "Miss Stanhope," she whispered posl j tivcly, "prayers are answered— I know i it uow." Always, in the way he thinks best," answered Miss Stanhope earnestly, adding in her heart, "Lord, 1 believe— help thou mine unbelief!" "I'll bring Tommy in now," Mag pie said, and went softly out to the kitchen. She returned almost immediately. "llis boss is there!" she exclaimed excitedly, "lie got back yesterday. Ain't he awfully good to come so soon to see Tommy V Tommy looks better already! 'ihe boss 'll push him in." They both turned toward the doer as it was opened, and a big armchair with the sick boy in it was pushed carefully over the threshold. Miss Stanhope gave one look at the tall man behind the chair and started forward. "This is Tommy's bjss," began Mag gie, mindful of her duties as hostess, but the greeting of her two guests quite disconcerted her, for Tommy's boss caught the aristocratic Miss Stanhope in a close embrace, while Miss Stan hope m'led penitently, "Oh, Tom, Tom, I have been so sorry, and I have want ed you so!" The Origin of Snnta i lnan. Santa Claus is of German origin. This is true if only because that is the German name for St. Nicholas. That he is an old man is because in the an cient pagan feasts in celebration of the decay of the old year and the birth of the new an old man played the prin cipal part. Among the Greeks anil Ro mans it was Saturn, the father of all the gods, and among the Norsemen it was Tlior, who was long bearded and white haired. That the saint is St. Nicholas is due to the fact that that, venerable personage's feast day was,, celebrated at about that period. St. Nicholas was a bishop of Myra, who flourished early in the fourth century, lie Is the patron saint of children and schoolboys, and hence It was natural that he should be a part of a celebra tion when the children received gifts and when they were allowed to be "heard as well as seen."—New York Mail and Express. GETTING OUT OF BED. Take Your Time About It nnd Don't Shock Your System. Don't Jump up the llrst thing your eyes are opeu. Uemembcr that while you sleep the vital organs are at rest. The vitality is lowered and the circula tion not so strong. A sudden spring out of bed is a shock to these organs, especially to the licatt, as it starts to pumping blood suddenly. Take your time In getting up. Yawn rnd stretch; wake up slowly; give the vital organs a chance to resume their work gradually. Notice how a baby wakes up. It stretches Its arms and legs, rubs Its eyes and yawns and wakes up slowly. Watch a kitten wake up. First it stretches out one leg, then another, rubs Its face, rolls over and stretches the whole body. The birds do not wake up and fly as soon as their eyes are open. They shake out their wings and stretch their legs, waking up slowly. This Is the natural way to wake up. Don't Jump up suddenly, don't be In such a hurry, but stretch and yawn and yawn and stretch. Stretch the arms and the logs; stretch the whole body. A good yawn and stretch Is bet ter even than a cold bath. It will get you thoroughly awake, and thou you will enjoy the bath all the more.— Medical Talk. C'ollur n h a. Verb. The verb "collar" has long been used transitively, meaning to "seize or hold of a person by the collar; more i loosely, to capture." The verb was I thus employed early In the seventeenth ■ century. Steele, in the Guardian, No. 81, wrote, "If you advised him not to collar any man." Other instances are: Gentleman's Magazine, 17(52, "Ills lord ship collared the footman who threw . It,"and Marryat's sentence In "Feter ! Simple," "He was collared by two French soldiers." The LnuKhleki tfiißllshmaii. The English seem to recognize and enjoy their reputation for stolidity aud taciturnity. The London Globe quote 3 an American asking a waiter In a res ' taurant: "Doesn't any one ever laugh here?" "Yes, sir," replied the waiter. "Some times we have complaints about it." Au internal I*usxle. "Is my hat on straight?" she asked him. I lie looked at her headgear In dumf» amazement "I duuno," he auswered. "When It's ■ straight It looks crooked, and when It's crooked It looks straight."—Cleveland ! Plain Doale»\ A irony*. The Butler—Hand hevery night at the hour of midnight the ghost hap pen ra and grows and wrings its hands. Tourist—Ah, must have died In the cu cumber season.—London Tlt-Blts. Why the Ocean Doeiu't Preeie, If the ocean did not have salt It would freeze somewhat more readily than it does now, but there would be no very marked difference. The ocean Is prevented from freezing not so much by its salt as by its size and by Its commotion. On account of Its size, large portions of It extend Into warm climates at all seasons, and by reason of its great depth it is a vast storehouse of heat. Its currents dis iributc much warm water among the cold.—St. Nicholas. He Never Went There Airuln. Hostess (at the party)— Miss Kobln- ' sou has no partner for this waltz. ' Would you mind dancing with her In- ' stead of with mo? Hawlcard—On the coutrary, I shall ' be delighted.—Exchange, Fairly llolleil Iu It, "Our olllco boy dropped Into poetry yesterday." "How was «hat?" ....... . ( "The literary 'editor kicked hi hi Into the wastebaLket."—Cleveland Leader. I , OJV TH TOUCH By Robert Jermain Cole Copyright, IMS, by Uuby Douglas B ■ ■ o | Every day when it did.-not rain,.and I sometimes when it did, Thisbe Latch j wandered oft* into the woods or down ■long the river and came back at night with some added grace from nature's wild treasury. She had run away for rest and health to the little parenthesis in the country that called itself a town. She got a good deal besides these gifts. The two men that were happy enough to live in the same house with Miss Latch were far better aware of her gains than she was herself. Mrs. Kedding kept the house. She had only a few jhiests. Tfer son Tom protested against those; so far as the principle went. lUit when the practice happened to Include Thisbe Latch he began to persuade himself that perhaps it was better for his mother to have something that would interest her and keep her from being lonely, as she had • boeli since his father's death. Miss Latch was a schoolteacher, but no one would have detected It—at least by any of the labels that the pictures in the comic papers furnish. Her hair was as IN ONE HAND HE IIELD A IJUNCn OP PAN HIES. ye Hoy as corn silk. Her eyes were di rect in their glance, like those ef her own school children, and far more dis concerting. Carlton Cross, auother guest at the house, failed to Interest Tom very no ticeably, although Miss Latch appeared to like him. Cross was spending a few weeks in town settling up an estate for which he was counsel. He devoted his evenings to a pretty obvious effort to settle the estate of matrimony so far as Miss Latch and he were concerned. Every evening after supper the two sat on the broad porch while sun set glorllied the valley below them aud twilight crept out of the deepest wood, where it had been lurking and hiding from the sun all day. Tom Heading worked in one of the drug stores of the village. That meant that his evenings went Into the drug gist's profits till such time as he could command a store of his owu and hire some other poor soul to work for him. That was the end toward which Tom was slowly advancing, but for the pres ent he was forced to pass out of the door after supper, walk resolutely across the porch to where the more fa vored 111*111 and the girl they both want ed sat, aud with a brave spontaneous cheerfulness bid them good evening. On two or three occasions Cross had spared him this pain by taking the girl off for a drive. That was worse yet. It is true, Tom had his Sundays, but a part of these he always spent with his mother, lie felt that Cross was forg ing ahead of him in the race. The thing that discouraged Tom most was this. As he walked downtown he thought of the beauty of the loug evening that was Just boginuiug. Having thrilled, him self, under the spell of twilight, he feared its power upon Thisbe Latch. ••it' that clever chap," thought Tom, "half knows his business and says the right thing and keeps still at the right time, I'm afraid there's no chance for me." But it was not his way to be melancholy for long. He vowed If the other man did get her he would at I least make a little place for himself in her memory. He thought of her through the day, aud every night he passed her on his way downtown lie had some word commonplace It might be that was charged with Mio day's repressed affec tion. In the general chat of the table, iu the Sunday visits and in many un considered greetings Miss Latch was •coming to know Torn far better than !le realized pile night as To*i crossed the porch togo to his work ThlSbe asked him lightly: "What would happen •to your old drug store If you should sit here with us awhile? I believe you don't trust anybody but yourself to mix the pre scriptions. You couldn't sit still a whole evening, could you?" "Yt»s, I could," answered Tom. "I i do, anyhow, only you dou't see me. I sit right In that chair and listen to ev erything you say." He pointed to an empty rocker near the one In which I Thisbe sat. A look of amused under standing came Into her eyes. I "So when the charming Miss Ritchie thinks you are serving her an Icecream soda It's only an illusion—l mean you, lot the sodu. You are really here all ! tiie time?" Tom nodded. Mr. Carlton Cross looked bored. He wus not troubled with very much imagination. Later he .had a chance to account of a very grand reception he had at- j tended at Rochester. Miss Latch heard the sound of the young lawyer's voice, i but'her thoughts were with the drug . elerk. The idea that he, down at the Itore, imagined himself in that partle- > ular chair fascinated her. She looked j nfr the empty rocker, and as the twl- I 'light deepened and the street lamp was ' lighted she could fancy that the shad pw which the pillar throw on its high back was Tom. Two days later, lustead of leaving by the frout door, Tom came around from i the side of the house. In one hand ho j held a little bunch of pauslctf. He 1 handed tlieni over the rail of the porch, his hat In his other haud, without tt word. "Oh, the beauties! Here's a yellow (gje with purple eyes and a purple one with yellow eyes," exclaimed Thisbe, When T°m was £one sue f-emcujborei} Ophelia's sayjng: "Pausies—that's for thoughts." , She also reuieuibete^ that the poet ff PEOPLES' STORE ir" MAKE YOUR GIFT-SHOPPING A PLEASURE BY DO ING IT NOW, THEREBY AVOIDING LAST MINUTE CONFUSION AND CROWDS. HA VE YOU INSPECTED 7 ::T H E PEOPLES' STORE:: • —WMWWMUMWMIMte -e There is the place to get just what you want, and everything is handled over our counters that is found in any first-class department store. Our China Department is tlie best in the city; and the toyde-M partmcnt is equal to any. Give a call of inspection is all we ask; ouri goods speak for themselves. | PEOPLES' STORE I 1 275-77 Mill Street, - - - DANVILLE P,.i m—————if i mag———mmmm■■! fP" FARMERS AND DAiRYMEN! 1 ATTENTION! Orders will he 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 Pottsgrovo. Persons hhving orders in will he notified on arrival of the ear C. H. flcMahan & Bros. Special Dairy Foods and Dairy Supplies, HAY AND FEED Pottsgrove, Northumberland Co., Pa. ! Keats was an apothecary's prentice. The conversation of Carlton Cross be came less and less Interesting. Being no lover of tlowers himself, it did not occur to him that the little velvet leaves were his rivals. When Tom came home that night he found Miss Latch on the porch. She was still holding the pansies in her bauds. He walked to the chair beside her. "I thought you said you were sitting there already," said Miss Latch, with a touch of mischief. "That doesn't satisfy me any longer," broke out the man impatiently. "That chair can't tell you what I think of i you. I can't tell you myself, but I'll | try. I think you are the loveliest wo man in tlio world. I can't help loving you." For a long time she was still. Then she began: "If you can't help It, why, then"— She paused, and Tom leaned toward ' her. Ills hand covered hers, crushing I the flowers. "Thisbe," lie pleaded softly, "do you ' < are l'or me?" The hand he held auswered for her. Tom rose from his chair aud kissed the girl on the lips. A little later he said, "You don't know how much afraid I was, sweet heart, to leave j'ou here for those long sunset talks with another man." "You needn't have been," she auswer ed happily. "The sunset and the twi light seemed to belong to you. The more he talked the more I dreamed of somebody else." Tlir Shape of the Enrtk, A country schoolmaster was coach ing his pupils for the yearly examina tion, and, having before him the junior class in geography, he asked: "Can any little boy or girl tell me the shape of the earth?" To this there was no answer. "Oh, dear me," said he,"this is sad! Well, I'll give you a token to mind it. What is the shape o' this snuffbox in my hand ?" "Square, sir," replied all. "Yes, but on the Sabbath day, whin I change ma cloes, I change this snuff box for a round one. Will you mind that for a token?" Examination day came, and the class was c.^lled. "Can any little boy or girl tell what Is the shape of the earth?" Every hand was extended, every head thrown back and every eye Hashed with excitement. One little fellow was singled.out with a "You, my little fel low, tell us." "Round on Suudays and square all the rest o' the week!" Wakiutf llliik l.'p. Amelfa was all sweet, nice and nerv ous, and she said to her sweetheart: "You have been so old a friend I want to tell you something. I am," and she blushed, "I am going to be married." "Wait," he cried hoarsely, "before you go farther hear me! I must say it, though I have uo right now, but I will have less right later. I love you, I adore you; I have loved you since we were children together. I do not see how I can live and see you the wife of another. But, at least, you will know that I have loved you all these years, and when you hear the wind sigh over uiy distant grave—of course, that is nonsense"— "Dou't take on so, John Ileury," she * said softly. "I'm going to marry— ' you!" Then the strong mau fainted, and as she bent over him a determiued little line showed about her mouth, and she muttered: "I had to do something to bring him to it." According to Scripture. A certain tailor of very strict prin ciples was in the habit of excusing tlio faults of his assistants only in they could Justify themselves by Scripture. One (lay a woman enterod his shop ami asked to see some material, but refused to buy It because It was too cheap. After showlug her some other (pods, the assistant brought back the ; mime material, this time asking a high er price, whereupon the customer bought It. Afterward, the proprietor, who had witnessed Uio transaction, re proved his assistant severely. The lat ter, remembering the rules of tlio es tablishment, replied: ''Obi It's accord ing to Scripture all light. She was a stranger and I took her In."—Harper's j Weekly. Stationery for Farmers. Farmers and other*, particularly those living on the Rural Delivery route , should have printed stationery a« well iu 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 ease it is not delivered. We are especially well equipped to do thin class of printing and can do it promptly and neatly. Wo 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. I * VITALOIDS Cure Nervous Diseases. Oidraan'B Prescription— Strengthens the nerves. Builds np worn out mon and women. Price 50 Cts. J WANTED -BY CHICAGO MAM' .fauitrriug House, person of irust worihincss and somewhat familiar with local toi'iltory as assistant in ( branch office. Salary $lB paid week ( ly. Permanent position. No invent | ment required. Previous experience not esseniial to engaging. Address, .Manager Branches, Como Block, Chicago. 1-29 06 A UDITOR'B NOTICE. Estate of Margaret (Jrove, Late of Danville, Montour County, Deceased. The uudersigned auditor, appointed by the (Orphan's < tourt of Montour (founty, to mak.- distribution oft lie balance in the hands ol the accountant to and anions the parties en titled thereto, will sit to perform the duties of Ills appoint ment, at his oillee, 110 Mill .Street, Danville, Pa., on Monday the 11th., day ol December, A. D. IWS, at lu o'eloek A. M. when and where all parties interested are re quested to attend, or be forever debarred in >ni any share of said fund. HAL' 11 KIHXKIt, Danville, Pa., Nov. l», lUOu. Auditor. W. M. SEIDEL, 344 Mill Street. BRIGHT'S DISEASE-GRAVEL.! " I have long resolved that ] V\ wotrtd apprise you of the deep sense of obligation which I feet. There Is nothing which lii- .v enjoy I do not owe to the ivmi Favorite a time when Wm* being could endure. My troubled A 112 began in my kidneys end ■AdiXl /J® I Never Expected to Recover. wlieu I wnliiccl, and I finally uot so weak that I could not stand alone. My phy sician said I had Bright'* Disease, which WUH, in deed, alarming information. To add to my afilic tion, after 1 had been ill about two years,! had a bad attack of gravel, I saw Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Hemedy advertised in ou? paper. After using one bottle I threw away my ci ne and went to New York on a visit, and three bott cured me. I have never had a return of gravel, nor of the pains or weakness in the back, aud though 1 am over sixty years of ago I Am Now Vigorous and Strong AS I was In my prime. I do all my own work and rarejy know what it 1h to be tired. What physicians aud all of the many remedies I had taken could not do Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Hemedy did; it sta*.ed the dinette and made me a strong, vigorous woman." Mr». Enid ino P. Mizner, Burg 11 ill, Ohio. Or. D. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy i Prepared at Ron dont, N:Y. . Bold by all d»uggisis. $1 a bottle; 0 for S& PENNSYLVANIA I railroad Schedule in Kffect Jan. I, 1906 Trains leave South Danville HK follows* ror< ujawlssa. East lilooniKburK, Neseotwir | N«i,11,-.»k v , Wilkes-Burn', IMTtVlon^SSft: ton aiicl_ intermediate stations, ~u „ Ml I" ,11 * ni * wee * days, and 10.17 a. ni! ForNunbury and intermediate station* 900 a. in.and T.'d pin. week-days, mid 4.31 p. in. daily, l-or Sunbuty only, I<.li» p. m. week days. For' I'ottuville, Heading nrul Philadi li hin, 7.11 a. 111. and 2.21 p. in. week-days, hoi H izleton, 7.11 and It". 17 11. 111., '2.21 and 50 p. 111. week-days. For l/4*wlsliu i'tf, Willlaiiisport. and Ix.ek Haven, 9.00 a. in., 12. «i» and 4.31 p.jn., week days; lor Willlaiiisport and interinedlaie stal[lons : -,| p. Week-days 1 I--»r lkdlefonie, Tyrone, PUiflpsburg, Clear | Meld, and Pittsburgh, 9.00 a. in., and 12.1 p. 111. week-days. '!*"»»•?.'I 11 '' Intermediatestations ii.OO 4.81 iV in Hnndn"s - lu, » week-days; F( iln!i ( v u! Harrisburg) Unitimore, .. I . '-MN)a. 111., 1*2.10 and 7.51 n. daily !l - Vs; 4 * 31 (Baltimore only) p. in.. For Pittsburg 1' via Harrisburg i9.00 a. in., 12.10. Ml. and 7.01 i». ni., week-days; 4.31 p. ni! Sundays; • via Lewlstown J unction ) 9.00 a in., and 12.10 |> m„ week-days; (vi:i Ixx-k Haven IP. 1 (la. in,, anil 12 10 p. ll]., \v l. Hamler,'and ue ptild* I^*VTe s. ly " K l mr,norshl P arc to he I.cwlstnirc, Pa„ OLIVER M. HAMLER. Nov . :t"th, IMK itom uT UKI.I.INOKR, 1 lie business will continue without inter- Hamler A ,n the ownership of Oliver M. Displayed First State Tag. A law passed at the hist session of the Legislature requires all cliaffeurs to be in possession of n State license after January Ist, 11)06. The first tag displayed in Montour county, comply ing with the new law, was on W. W. 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UV-R-OIDS CURE const| patk>N I — l ■—■"l>r.Oidmau'n famous Prescrip tion permanently euros Constipation. Bilious* ness, Sick Headache. Price 25 Cents. AUCTIONEER Real Estate or Personal Prop. erty Disposed of at Public Outcry. 'Bcs/ S ficsul/s Guaranteed Address, Michael Brcckbill, Rurdl Route 4. Ounvllle. Pa Fill! KAI.K-A HMAI.I. KAI!M OF FOR ty-six aer* s, known an the Mauser farin loeate. EVEItITT, R. F. I'. I. Pottsgrove, Pa. Convulsion, Pits, (hen Epilepsy. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nerv ine has been so successful in curing these brain-wrecking diseases that there is every reason to believe that even the most hopeless cases can be benefited, if not fully restored. We will .be jilcased to refer any one thus afflicted to many who now enjoy the blessing of health, after years of hopeless suffering. "I have a son that had brain fever when two years old, followed by fits of the worst type, and he was pronounced incurable. I spent hundreds of dollnrs for him. without relief. After about fifteen years he became so bad thut wo sent him to Longcllff hospital for the insane, at Logansport, Ind. He was there nearly three years, but he con tinued to grow worse, so we brought him home July 30. 1902, in an awful condition. He had lost his mind almost entirely. .11* hardly knew one of the family; cculd not even find his bed; was a total wreck. 110 had from 5 to 10 fits a day. We were urged to try l>r. Miles' Nervine, and before the first bottle was used, we could see a change for the better. Wo have given it to him ever since, and lie has had but two very light spells since last August, 1003, and then lie was not well other ways. We pronounce him cured, as he can woik and go anywhere. If any one wishes to ask any questions concerning this, they are at liberty to do so." E. If. BUNNELL, Lincoln. Ind. Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first oottle will benefit. 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