|)ntclligf nrcr
Established In 1828.
3D. AVST^LVTZ
Editor and Proprietor
DANVILLE, PA., MARCH 1, 1907.
Published every Friday at Danville, the
county seat of Montour county, Pa., at SI.OO a
year In advance or $1.25 If not paid In ad
vance; and no paper will be discontinued
until all arrearage Is paid, except at the
option of the publisher.
Kates of advertising made known on ap
plication. Address all communications to
THE INTELLIGENCER,
DANVILLE, PA.
ADVERTISING RATES:—Auditor, Ad
ministrator and Executor notices, 3 LOO;
Charter notices, $5.00; Candidate announce
ments (Montour County) in advance, 85.00;
8 her iff Hales, Orphan's Court Sales and all
sales or advertising of that class, 82.0.) per
inch for three Insertions, brevier solid, and
25c extra for eight lines for each subsequent
Insertion.
POLITICAL.
WE are authorised to announce the'
name of ANDREW J. STEINMAN an
candidate for the office of County Treasurer,
subjectr o the rulcsand decisions of the Demo
cratic plma ries.
The air is fall of "arguments"
against the proposed enactmtnt of a
law reducing the maximum railroad
passenger faro to two cents per mile.
Wo are solemnly warjied that 44 the
reduction of passenger rates by statute
will certainly be followed by less lux
uriant and complete service than the
American people have been accustom
ed to;" that "with the additional
handicap of lower fares,radical action
in reducing the number of trains will
be imperative, and the country in a
year or two will enter upon what will
be a new passenger policy," etc.
"Many trains have been run,"it is
alleged, "which did not pay, and it
will be necessary to eliminate these
entirely."
Dwellers in the larger cities especi
ally are warned that so far as sub- i
urban service is concerned roads like
the Pennsylvania and Reading "will
be compelled to make schedules which
will astonish partons who have been
accustomed to have trains ready for
them at almost any time when they
wanted to board them."
All this,aud much more of like char
acter, sounds very ominous, of course,
but really it is not pertinent to the
matter in hand. So far as the situa
tion in Puusylvauia is concerned, the
people have voted for two-cent fare,
and the Legislature is bound to re
spond to the demand. It is too late to
argue as to whether or not a two-cent
faro will bo a good or bad thing for
the railroads or their patrons. The
people, who created both the railroads
aud the Legislature, demand this re
form, and there is no gainsaying their
will.
If the railroads cannot give as good
passenger service at two cents as at
two aud one-half cents, who will suf
fer most--the railroads or the travel
ing public?
Why should the railroads complain?
It is their business to give the people
the best they can or the price the peo
ple are willing to pay. If the people
don't like what they're getting, they
can raise the maximum and give the
railroads a chance to furnish a better
quality of accommodations.
But this talk of reprisals is non*
sense. One of the very arguments urg
ed against the two-cent fare proposi
tion is that "the railroads for many
years have competed with each other
at groat expense in giving the public
not only a sufficient passenger service,
but more than that. Oompetitiou will
continue. The people are seeing to
i Mat also, through various measures
designed to break up and prevent com
binations between rival lines. The law
of compotitiou will provide ample pro
tection to the people from excessive
roduction of accommodations.
SACRED THREADS.
The Cordn Worn by the Three Caatca
of the Hindoo*.
The sacred thread of the Brahmans fs
well known. It Is a ceste distinction
assumed nt an early age and never
parted with. It must be made by a
Brahman and should consist of three
strands, each of a different color, for
ty-eiglit yards In length, doubled and
twisted togetfier twice, the ends tied
In knots. It must be worn next tho
skin, over the left shoulder, liangtng
down to the thigh on the right side.
The three castes of the Hindoos are
distinguished by the material of these
threads—cotton for the Brahmans,
hemp for the warriors and wool for the
artisans. The Parsees also wear the
sacred thread, and boys of seven or
nine are Invested with it, the threads
used being inade always of fibers of
the suru tree. Monier Williams de
scribes the sacred girdle of the Par
sees as made of seventy-two woolen
threads, forming a Hat baud, which is
twined three times around the body
aud tied In two peculiar knots, the se
cret of which is known ouiy to the
Parsees.
The use of "medicine cords" Is com
mon among North American Indians.
Mr. Bourke describes those worn by
the Apaches. These consist of one,
two, three and four strands, to which
ore attached shells, feathers, beads,
rock crystal, sacred green 3tones and
other articles, doubtless employed sym
bolically.—Chambers' Journal.
win? nma oi lanmner.
I "Pop!"
"Yes, my son."
"What kind of wood do they use
most In tnnnfng?"
"Well, when I went to school, my
boy, they used birch."—Yonkers States
man.
Do not borrow trouble. The Interest
4s too high.—Dallas News.
ALMANACH DE GOTHA.
Hlatary of Thin Old and World Fa
iiioun InHtltatloD.
The Almanach de Gotlia is more than
an almanac. It is an Institution.
Bravely arrayed In red and gold, It lies
on the table of every diplomatist, Is In
constant request In the newspaper of- '
flees of all countries and makes a wider
and more international appeal than any
other annual of reference in the world.
It Is to Europe what iftirke and De
brett and the other peerages are to the
British isles, and it Is also the lineal
ancestor and model of such topical en
cyclopedias as our Whittaker, our Ha
zell and our Statesman's Yearbook.
A political and social history of the
world for the last 150 years could
be written from its s back numbers If
these were readily accessible to stu
dents. But they are not. The Alma
nach de Gotlia began to appear In
17G3, but the purchasers did not file it
for reference. The earliest numbers in
the British museum are those for 1774
and 1783, and a complete set can be
consulted nowhere except in the edito
rial office In Friedrlch's Alice In tho
little Tlniringlan capital. Probably not
one In ten thousand of those who cur
rently use the almanac has any knowl
edge of Its Interesting history.
It had of course -4ts predecessors.
The bibliographies of almanacs are
ponderous tomes, and tlie middle of
the eighteenth century was the golden
age of this kind of literature. In Paris
alone as many as seventy-three alma
nacs were published in the year 1700,
Including a royal almanac, an almanac
for merchants, an almanac for Free
masons, an almanac of beasts, an al
manac of badinage, etc. The city of
'Gotha Itself had Its own almanac from
a still earlier date in the shape of an
"improved Gotha genealogical and
writing calendar," the origin of which
is lost In the mist of antiquity, though
a copy dated 1740 survives.—Francis
Grlbble In Scrlbuer's.
A FEAT OF MEMORY.
ZauffwlU'ft Knowledge of the Faaena
Trialn of History.
As an Indication of the quality of
ZangwlU's mental processes I may re
late an incident that occurred while
we were producing "The Children of
the Ghetto." Mr. Zangwlll was seated
In my office, and we were going over
some of the details of the play. It was
the day that Laborl, Intimately eon
nected with the Dreyfus case In Paris,
was assassinated. Knowing that Zang
! will had intimate knowledge of the
| case, a New Yorlc newspaper sent a
1 representative up to see him. The re
j porter entered and after conveying the
I news said:
"Mr. Znngwill, we want from you a
history of ail the famous trials you can
call to mind for our paper."
"Indeed?" said Mr. £angwill. "I
think I can prepare that for you. Come
to see nie in three or four days, and I
will have it ready."
"We want' it now," objected the
newspaper man. "We want to print It
In our paper tomorrow morning."
"But you surely don't expect me to
quote you dates and facta out of my
mind on the spur of the moment, do
you?" asked Mr. Zangwlll in astonish
ment. "Such a thing Is out of reason."
"I'm sorry, hut It's the only way we
can make use of It," replied the news
paper man flrmly. Mr. Zangwill thought
n moment and then asked If he could
have my stenographer for a short time,
lie was called In, and Zangwlll dic
tated to him then and there a two col
umn resume of all the famous trials ot
history, from Savonarola down, and
quoted every Important date and his
torical feature connected with each.—
From "Israel Zangwlll," by George C.
Tyler, In Bohemian.
BOSTON'S LACK OF HUMOR.
An Kngllnh View of the I.nndmarka
of the ''llub."
I have said that Boston loves relics.
The relics which It loves best are the
relics of England's discomfiture. The
stately portraits of Copley are of small
account compared to the memorials of
what was nothing else than a civil
war. Faneuil hall, the Coveut Garden
of Boston, presented to the city by Pe
ter Faneuil some thirty years before
the birth of "liberty," is now but an
emblem of revolt. The Old South meet
ing place is endeared to the citizens ot
Boston as "the sanctuary of freedom."
A vast monument, erected a mere quar
ter of a century ugo, commemorates the
"Boston massacre." And wherever you
turn you are reminded of an episod®
which might easily be forgotten. To
an Englishman these historical land
marks are inoffensive. The dispute
which they recall aroused far less emo
tion on our side of the ocean than on
the other, and long ago we saw the
events of the Revolution In a fair per
spective. In truth, this insistence on
the past is not wholly creditable to
Boston's sense of humor. The passion
ate paeans which Otis and his friends
sang to liberty were Irrelevant. Lib
erty was never for a moment In dan
ger, if liberty, indeed, be a thing of
fact and not of watchwords. The lead
ers of the Revolution wrote and spoke
1 as though It was their duty to tliro\y i
off the yoke of the foreigner—a yoke
' as heavy as that which Catholic Spain
\ cast upon Protestant Holland. But
there was no yoke to he thrown off,
1 because no yoke was ever imposed, and
' Boston might have celebrated greater
J events In her history than that whlct)
: an American statesman has wisely call
ed "the glittering and sounding gener
alities of natural right"—Charles Whit
ley lu Blackwood's Magazine.
WORKS OF A WATCH.
All the I'urtM Are lint the Expression
of One Idea.
To one who has never studied tho
mechanism of a watch Its mainspring
or the balance wheel is a mere piece of
metal, lie may have looked at tho face
of the watch, and while he admires the
motions of its hands and the time it
keeps he may have wondered In idle
amazement as to the character of the
machinery which is concealed within.
Take it to pieces and show lilni eacli
3 part separately, and he will recognize
neither design nor adaptation nor rela
. tion between them, but put thepj to
i, gother. set them to work, point out the
j offices of each spring, wheel aud cog,
explalu their movements and then
, show him the result. Now he perceives
that it Is all one design; that, notwlth
j stundlng the number of parts, their di
verse forms and various offices and tho
agents concerned, the whole piece fs of
one idea. He now rightly concludes
that when the mainspring was fashion
ed and tempered Its relation tq all tho
other parts must have been considered►
• that the cogs on this wheel are cut aud
regulated—adapted—to the ratchets on
that, eti>„ and L!s final conclusion will
be that sucty a piocp of mechanism
eould not have beeu (/roduced by
chance, for tho adaptation of the parte
: is such as to show It to be uccording t?
design and obedient to the will of on*
lntellUroucSb-ap"- -
THE PASSION PLAY.
Its Origin, According to the Tradi
tion of Ohcriinimerjran.
According to local tradition, the ori
gin of tho Oberaniniergau Passion
play was as follows: When in the year
1633 a deadly plague threatened to de
' populate the districts of Partenkirchen.
Escheloke and Kohlgrub. which are
separated from Ammerthal, or the val
ley of the Ainiuer, by a rampart of
mountains, the Ammerthalers succeed
ed for a time In protecting themselves
against the dread contagion, but oue
day a native who had been working all
summer at Escheloke evaded the quar
antine anil entere.l the Ammerthal by
a secret path in order to
annual church festival with his fam
ily. Two days afterward he was a
corpse, and in less than three weeks
the plague had carried off eighty-four
of the Ammerthalers.
Despairing of ull human soever, ttie
terrified survivors addressed thein
•elves to (Jod and registered a solemn
vow that if he heard their prayer aud
removed the scourge they would rep
resent, every ten years, "for thankful
remembrance and edifying contempla
tion, and by the help of the Almighty,
tho sufferings of Jesus, the Saviour of
the world."
Not a single pefson died of the
plague after the vow was made, though
many were affected by It. The first
representation of the Passion play In
fulfillment of the vow of these simple
villagers took place at Oberaniniergau
hi the following year, and it has been
repeated every ten years without a
single omission.
FEMININE INFLUENCE.
Howliere In It More Frtt i*ad Lean
Recognized Than In France.
There Is still in every Frenchman a
great deal of the oriental way of look
ing at woman.
And the French wife knows It, but
she goes on helping her "man," be she
duchess or midlnette. She will forgive
again and again; she will let him
squander her dot and will learn how
tj do with fewer frocks (the delight
of every Frenchwoman) In an ever
pitiful attempt to patch up the fortune
and happiness he has wrecked. If she
happen to be a shopman's wife he
needs no bookkeeper or manager; she
will be there from morning till night,
the slave of the ledger, careful of ev
ery centime, while he, too, often will
leave the heavier part of the business
In her capable hands and turn his at
tention to a domino party at the near
est cafe. If she bo a peasant's wife
no one on the farm will slave harder
than she. There Is scarcely any labor
which she will not undertake.
In every sphere woman Is too often
the man of the house. Nowhere Is
feminine inlluencc more active, more
felt and less recognized than in France,
and nowhere among the civilized na
tions is man more dependent on wom
an, more attached to her aud less re
spectful.—London Mall.
Speed of Sound*.
"Judge David Torrence of Derby,
Conn.," said a New Haven man, "lit
tered many an epigram from the bench.
In a case concerning a noise nuisance
a scientist was once testifying before
him nbout the speed of sound.
► 'Sound.' said the man, 'travels at
the rate of 400 yards a second.'
" 'All sound?' asked Judge Torrence.
"'Ail,' replied tho scientist.
"The Judge smiled.
41 'l'm sure you're wrong,' he said. 'I
have noticed a great difference be
tween tli" speed of certain kinds of
sound. Thus, slander travels at the
rate of quite 1,000 yards a second; flat
tery, 500 yards, while truth makes on
ly a few feet a second, and, slow as Its
progress is, truth often fails to reach
the goal, no matter how short the dls
tance.' "—lndianapolis Star.
THE STRANGLING FIG.
A Curt on* Tropical Tree Tlint Live*
I'poii Other Tree*.
Visitors to Mexico and other tropical
countries often have their attention
called to"the strangling fig"—a tree
that commences its growth as an epi
phyte—that U, ono form of plant life
that grows perched on another—far up
on the trunk or among the branches of
another tree, usually op a palmetto or
some of the kinds of palms. The root*
of the strangling tree extend down
ward around the host tree to the
ground, gradually joining together,
making a tubelike mass of roots some
times as much as six feet or more in
diameter.
When the attacked tree Is a palm
death to it is caused not so much by tho
binding around the trunk as by shad
ing out Its branches by the attacking
tree.
When the attacked tree Is an exogen
—that Is, one with wood and bark—the
attacking roots bind so tightly as to
cause a stoppage of the flow of the sap.
As the sap of a tree Is really Its food
(changed by the leaves so that It cap
be used) and the flow of the food is
thus stopped, the attacked tree Is real
ly "starved" to death. So death to the
attacked tree -Is caused either by j
smothering or by starvation or by both, i
The peculiar mapper In which the
flattened roots extend down and around
the tree give them the appearance of
some thick, slow flowing material run
ning down the tree.—St. Nicholas.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
What Tlil« Great ISrlil*l» luntitutloa j
IlcurcHcntH.
At first sight there is not much like- I
ness between the comfortable country |
gentlemen, retired lawyers, blase men j
of fashion and liberal subscribers to i
party funds, who now drop into rath- J
er than frequent their magnificent hall, j
i end "the mail covered barons, who
' proudly to battle led their vassals from
I Europe to Palestine's plain" In the
days of the Ilenrys and Edwards, but
In one point the house has always
maintained Its character through cen
turies—it is an aristocracy of birth, but
1 It is still more emphatically one of
wealth. The law of entail and primo
geniture has kept the landed estates to
gether as far as the law can. Mauy
have passed by heiresses to new names
or been sold by spendthrift lords, many
holders of ancient titles have lost Uie
wealth that glided their ancestors' cor
onets, but new peors are almost: al
ways rich, and a title Is still an at
traction to an heiress. We sometimes
hear that the house of lords represents
nothing. This Is false. It represents
property. Tupnyson's new Lincolnshire
farmer, whose horse's hoofs trotted
"proputty, proputty, proputty," Is the
type of' a vast pumber of EngUshmep,
Such men are not only content, but
proud, to be represented by the house
of lords. They know that as long as
the lords have their say "proputty"
will have a stanch body of organized
champiQpQj William Everett in At
' luntigh
SALES ARE ENORMOUS
Cooper Preparations Leading Topic in Cincin
nati—Callers at Young Mail's Head
quarters Interviewed.
Cincinnati O. February 21). The I
most interesting feature of the enor
mous sale of the Cooper preparations, I
now going on in this city, is what the I
medicines are actually accomplishing j
among the people of Cincinnati.
At the commencement of his visit
here Mr. Cooper prophesied that dur
ing the later part of his stay he would
receive hundreds of callers daily who {
came simply to thank him for what
the preparations had done. He also
stated that stomach trouble is the!
foundation for a great many diseases
and that his New Discovery, as it is
called, would prove very effective in
all cases of rheumatism simply by
getting the stomach in working order.
That this prophecy has been fulfill
ed cannot be doubted after a half
hour spent at the young man's head
quarters listening to what his callers J
have to say.
A reporter, who watched to ascer
tain, if possible, some light on the 1
reasons for the immensity of Cooper's j
success interviewed about twenty of
his callers yesterday afternoon. The \
statements made by those seen indi
cate that physicians who claim that
Cooper is merely a passing fad, have,
not looked into the facts.
Some of these statements were as
follows: Miss Sallie Middleton living
at 1957 Central Av. upon being ques
tioned, said:
"I have been troubled with general
weakness, dizziness, headache, sleep
lessness and stomach disorders for a
number of years, suffering all the
time with my kidneys and back. 1 !
had tried a number of medicines and
visited several doctors but none help
ed me. I heard on all sides of these
Cooper remedies and decided to try
them. Any one who says that they
are not wonderful medicines, does not
know what they are talking about.
After I used the first bottle, 1 noticed
a decided improvement. I have taken j
three bottles of the New Discovery
and 1 now feel as well as I ever have
in my life. I sleep and eat as I have
not done for years, and 1 am happier j
TIIE DOOM OP VENICE
IT MAY BE TO LIE IN THE BOSOM OF
THE ADRIATIC.
The r«ui»UN Delia of St. May
Toll on Ocean's Depth* Like Thone
of Old Port lloynl—The Sunken
Cities of the World,
It Is believed by ninny fliat Venice
Is sinking Into the Adriatic and that
she gradually will disappear beneath
the waters of the great lagoon from
which her palace crowned Islands
arise. Other cities have gone that
way before her, and ships now sail
over spots which were once teeming
with a populous life.
At the entrance to the haHbor of King- ,
stou, Jamaica, the original city of Port
Royal lies fathoms deep beneath the
blue and sunlit waters of the Carjb- |
beau sea. A narrow strip of land, on j
which are a small settlement and a
fort, Is all that Is left of what was
once the richest and wickedest town in
the West Indies. It was the resort of
pirates, who rested there from their |
depredations and made the city hid
eous with their revelry. But these pi- j
rates brought great stores of their loot to
the city, and Its commerce grew and
nourished. Palaces and churches were
built, a pirate often striving by a rich
endowment of a church to square his
accounts with heaven.
Throughout the greater part of the
seventeenth century no town In the
western world was so magnificent a*
to its buildings or so luxurious as to Ita
habits as Port Royal. Then one day in
JG92 the anger of the Lord shook the
Island of Jamaica, and the greater pan
of Port Royal sank beneath the sea,
carrying with it hundreds of Its in<-
habitants. Towers, churches, palaces
and forts went down, many of them
not tumbling In ruins by the shock,
but sinking bodily beneath the waves.
On a bright day, sailing over the
spot where Port Royal once stood, one
can look far down through the clear
water and see the remains of the city
still standing there on the ocean bot
torn, with lishes swimming about
among Its towers and great tropical
seaweods waving from its sunken
walls.
The negroes of Jamaica—and son?e
white people, too—will tell you that be
fore a storm the suukeu bell of the
great cathedral which went down with
the city on that awful day in 1G92 can
be heard distinctly tolling below the
I waves, rung as a warning by the
ghostly hands of the spirits of depart
ed buccaneers which h iunt the subma
i line city. People who do not believe in
ghosts, but think they have heard the
tolling of the bed. say the explanation
Is that when the city sunk the great
bell of the cathedral was not thrown
I from Jts place, l»'it qtill hangs as It
originally did. The coming storm be
fore It reaches Jamaica stirs up the
waters of the Caribbean and sends In
upon the shore deep waves, which roll
! through the sunken city and set the
j hell ii lollliis.
• Another sunken city of renown is
j Balae, that splendid resort on the Ital
ian coast where Nero and Caligula
I "reveled und drank deep." A strag
! gliu;/ village aud heaps of marble ruins ,
still stand upou the shorn und bear the
name of Uaiae, but the greater part of
the city lies beneath tiie waters of the
Mediterranean, and tourists from Na
ples go out there to gaze down into the
waters and try to catch a glimpse of
the submerged cltv.
The resort of all the wealthy nobles
of Rome when Rome was mistress of
the world, Balae was a marvel of lux
urious splendor. Palace after palace
was built on the shore, and architects
designed magnificent structures ex
tending out into the sea,
When Koine decayed and the (Jotlis
ravaged Italy, Paine was sacked by !
the Invaders. Soon nftcr the city be
gau to sink. First the buildings which
hnd their foundation In HJO wator sub
sided beneath the waves, and then
the sea made an attack on the land.
shore line receded, and
the Mediterranean flowed through the
streets where Hadrian had driven his
Imperial chariot aud Horace had walk
ed thinking of his next poem.
These promontories, crowned with
grand towers and gorgeous palaces,
yrere undermined and toppled into thg,,
I than I have been for a long time. I
have come here to thank Mr. Cooper
I lor what he has done for inc."
! The statement of Mrs. M. E. Em
erson living at 030 \V. Court St., was
| as follows:
"I have suffered with stomach trou
ble and constipation for a year or so.
When I ate 1 would have bloated
spells, sourstomach, fermentation bad
taste iu my mouth. In the morning,
1 was as tired as when I went to bed.
1 had a dull pain in the lower part of
my back. I have taken almost one
bottle of the New Discovery and 1
am wonderfully improved that I have
i come down here to thank Mr. Cooper
in person and obtain more of the
medicine."
Another statement was made by Mr
E. Luken living at 1006 Gcst St.,
who said: "1 have been a sufferer
with rheumatism for several years. I
could not walk or stand on my feet
j when Mr. Cooper came to Cincinnati,
j Nothing helped me in any way and I
I despaired of finding relief, I was in
a general rundown condition, also,
and had some stomach trouble. Hear
ing of his wonderful work my father
: consulted him regarding my case and
purchased a bottle of his New Discov
ery. After I had finished that oue
bottle I was able to walk down town
i and see him myself."
"I have continued to take this won
derful medicine and I am now with
out a sign of rheumatism. My gen
eral health is also greatly improved
and I have not felt so well for years.
I would not have believed that there
was a medicine on earth that would
do what this lias done for me. I am
so much happier that I am very grate
ful to the man that has made it possi
ble for ine to regain my health. He
lias the most wonderful medicine that
I know anything about."
j Other statements taken from those
who had previously used the medi
cines seem to prove that Cooper's suc
j cess throughout the country is gen
| nine.
fifep until at last t!»-* major part of
the splendid city was submerged. Its
disappearance was not sudden, like
that of Port Royal, and due to some
convulsion of nature, but Balae went
down to Its deatli gradually, as Venice
Is said to be going.
Iu Holland the subsidence of the
land has brought It about that many
towns once populous are now covered
by the cea. The old Roman enmp at
Brlttenburg, nfter slu!;lng beneath the
waves, emerged again In 1 "20, only to
disappear, and Its renin ins now lie in
deep water opposite the town of Ivat- .
wljk. The original Katwljk Itself now
Is beuenth the waters, as also are the
original towns of Schevenlngcn, Dom
burg and TCgmond. In fact, a succes
i slon of towns bearing these names Is
, now at the bottom of the sea, for they
repeatedly ave been rebuilt farther
Inland as the land sunk and the waves
| come Into t ike possession.
' The Goodwin : ands, large and dan
gerous shoals off the southeast cdast
of England, were once above the wa
ter and formed a flourishing estate,
j the property of Karl Godwin. There
j was no city on the Godwin estate when
' it subsided beneath the sen, but sev
j oral small illage.- went down to the
deep when .to tra't of country grad
ually dlsapj wired beneath the waters.
There are legends which may or may
not be true of lost cities sunk at the
bottom of Swiss lakes. New York
Mall.
DIED A BEGGAR.
The t'r».reer of John Stow,
the l£ni;l«.sli Antiquary.
John Stow, the celebrated English
antiquary, was a remarkable man. lie
was born of poor parents about 1523
and brought up to the tailor's trade
For forty years his life was passed
among needles and thread, but In the
few leisure hours which his trade al
lowed him he had always been a fond
render of legends chronicles, histories
and all th.it told of the times that
were past. By such reading he grew
to be so attached to old memoirs that
when abort forty years of age he
threw down his needle, devoted him
self to collecting them and followed
his new profess >n with the faith and
enthusiasm of an apostle. Short of
means, he ma le long journeys afoot
to hunt over n:«d ransack colleges and
monasteries, and, no matter how worn
and torn might be the rag* of old pa
pers which l.e found, he kept all, re
viewing, con? ice ting, copying, compar
ing. unnotnt v/i i< truly wonderful
ability and ■ s i*«\ Arrived at
fourscoro y< ra ltd no longer capable
of earning a il . cliliood, lie applied to
th.- I•. und .Fames 1., consenting to
hi j p tition. granted to the man who
had saved treasures of memoirs for
Ungih-.h history the lavor of wealing n
beggar's garb and asking alms at
church door.'.. In this abject state,
forgotten and despised, lie died two
years later.
l'ltty union i•• filnvUet,
it )s not an uncommon Hhlng in
France to see a farmer forty or tiftj
miles from home in wet weather with
n load. If he sees a prospect of a
three days' rain, |p.» putsj his tanpaulin
over Ida load, a cover over his horses
and a waterproof coat on and starts
oil' to market. He may go fifty miles
before he finds a market that suits him,
or he may know in advance just where
he is going You do not often see any-
J»udy driving lifiy miles through a rain
storm in the Uniteil States to fiud a
market for a load of Ijay, but it is not j
uncommon to see farmers' wagons for- I
ly or fifty miles frotu home in France, j
They choose the wet weather for that
purpose. Their mads are Just as good
I then as at any time.
The t orp.-.e
j The corpse j ! lit is a reuiftfUnblo ]
: carnivorous T.i-.en that grow-- in (
the colony of Natal. Its principal,
featdi-e U ino itli. with I
! « throat o;, into a hdliow Klcni j
It alq.osl l.:,:vis ayjt <•.»•«'?.-it .
a thick, g'niinaus secretion, while its |
odor Is very offensive, 'ih.s attract.- J
carrion feeding birds to it. an.l unctf j
they alight on It they are lo t T ir i
% g)aws become entangled in the secre*l
tion, the b I ' ; » .to folds ut>. 1
. i and thejj aru Uteraily boadowixl. J
/
4 1 tA i
| 4 3
I OFF
lOn All Our Overcoats
<3 This is certainly a great cut in
p prices, and if you are still in
need of an Overcoat or a Suit, it
(v will be greatly to your benefit to
come at once—the choice of pat
-5 terns and assortment of styles are
3 very good yet.
I 222 Mill Street. NEWMAN From^^TfL.
Dr. KENNEDY'S
ijfl/ORifc
1 REMEDY S
Pleaannt to Take*
In Every Home.
KIDNEY
JJ^ L,VER 5 URE!
■J' irw K - * Tir. Kennedy** Favorite
vl JY l - Rjics nnd both sexes, afford
permanent relief in al
~ the blood, such as Kidney,
, ttladder and T.lver Complaints. Cores Con
stipation and WfiiltncßH peculiar to women.
ft proves successful in cases where nil other med
icines have totally failed. No sufferer fhonld den-
Lair as tongas this remedy is untried. It hasanun
roken record or success for over thirty yearn, and has
won hosts of warm friends. For snle by all drnpsjista
or write to T>r. .David Kennedy's Si ns, Itondout,
N. Y., for a free sample bottle and medical booklet.
Trespass notices for sale at this
office. Two for s<\ or 25c a dozen.
THE STAR MIRA.
A Ann of (ireut Slate That In Strn*.
grllnv For Existence.
For the greater part of the time th#
variable Mlra. which has been known
to astronomers for 300 years, la alto
gether nunotlceable and indeed Invis
ible. except with telescopes. It onci
disappeared entirely for a period ol
four years, but afterward attained ex
traordinary splendor, only to fad#
again to Invisibility. It Is a sun ol
great size, brighter than our sun when
it shines at Its brightest, but som#
trouble, some solar disease, seems t{
be sapping its vitality, and it resem
bles a patient almost at the last gasp.
Once in about 831 days—but the pe
riod is Irregular—lt has a sudden ac
cession of energy nnd flares up for a
little while with several hundredfold
brilliancy only to sink back Into »
dull red point that nearly escapes th«
ken of the telescope. One Interesting
explanation that has been suggested j
is that tho surface of Mlra periodical- |
ly bursts Into a vast flame of burning j
hydrogen, so great aud powerful thai j
It is visible across millions of millions [
of miles of space. It is a star for th#
imagination of a D.ante, yet there Is
reason to bellevo that the time Is
coming when every star In the sky,
not excepting the sun, will have to
confront a similar struggle for exist
ence, Just as every mortal being must
some time see death.—Garrett P. Ser
vlss In New York American.
Why We t.el Indirection.
Recently a medical man gave it as
his opinion that the oven was respon
sible for more dyspepsia than any oth
er household contrivance, The modern
cook finds it nnu-h easier to bake than
to roast. The spit dog"has almost gone
out of existence, and there is seldom j
any one In the kitchen to take its place.
It follows very reasonably that any !
food cooked within a confined vpne*
will not be so digestible fts that done
before open lire, where all gases
have freedom to escape.—Country Life, j
AN OLD GERMAN LEGEND. I
Tlie Skull tth the Kail Driven j
through 11m Temple.
At Freiburg, Baden, In front of an
old chapel rich In mediaeval painting
depicting the rewards of virtue and
the wages of sin, stands a great cross,
at its foot a skull with a nail driven
Into the temple.
A shoemaker of Freiburg, according
to tradition, died suddenly in the good
old days before coroners and juries
were too inquisitive and was buried
i near where the cross stands. Scarcely
i had the earth upon his grave been wet
j by the rains before his wife took a see
i ond husband.
Neighbors talked, but that was all.
i One night the priest of the parish
i awoke to find standing at the foot of
j id* bed the ghost of the dead shoe-
I maker. The ghastly figure raised a
i gory lock from its forehead and polnt
! Ed to a nail driven In the temple.
, The body was exhumed, and there
was the evidence of the crime Just ns
i the specter had indicated. Tho wife
! confessed the murder and was execut
; ed. Rut the skull was placed at the
[ foot of the cross as a warning.
| "The effect was most wholesome.*'
relates the truthful chronicler, M for
fc.inco then not a wife of Freiburg has
/ murdered her husband."
Tho largest yard and the best Coal at the lowest prices. 2240 lbs
to every ton, anil all my coal is kept under cover. Give me a call
and be convinced that 1 csin save you money
SPECIAL
Reduced Prices
ON
Blankets, Comforts
AND
Flanneletts
O One Lot of 50c O
O Divas Goods lo O
O go at 35c yard. O
WWvvwvm WwWiJItfOUU
E. D. ATEN & CO,
344 Mill Street.
r (
When you ask for the
BEST COUGH CURE
and do not get
TAPIS BALSAM
You aro not getting the bent and will
be disappointed. KEMP'S BALSAM
costs no more than any other cough
remedy, and you aro entitled to tho
best when you ask for it.
Kemp's llalsam will stop any cough
that can bo stopped by any medicine,
and euro coughs that cannot be cured
by any other medicine.
.It is always tho Beat Cough Curo. ; 1
At all druggists, 25c,, 50c. and sl. I
I)on « accept anything else. J
v ■■ O
Charter Notice,
Notice Is l». clt.v given that an application
w ill In* made !•»I lie«iovcrnor o* ihi- (*«» > mon
v.ealth «»t* Pennsylvania. «u MONDAY,
march istii., t !•;, i»> y; w. i>u<ir«'v. w. l
Dudley, Louis A, O*". en leal', \V. 11. 'Hitch cr
and S. ShiiuP'., under the Art of AsHcinb .\
of the C«»inri,in\v»'alih of Pcnnsylvairn, en
t't led M A ; \ri in provide for the Ineorpor.:
tiou and regulation of certain eoporatons,''
►'proved A PHI L 201 h, I<7», and the supple
ments thereto fort e charter of an lnl<-tided
corporal ion t> lie caMed "STA H SPEED. >M
!•; r Kit COMPANY" the character and object
of which Is io manufacture and sell, speed
ometers, odometers, clocks, automobile speci
alties and other articles > ■!' like character, and
for tlicse purposes to have poss ssand enjoy
all the rights, benefits and privileges or the
said Act or A**em» ly and its supplements.
FKBHUA It V - I Mi-7,
H. w. CHAM BERLIN, Solicitor.
pAKCI'TOHH NOTICE.
Etlale of Daniel '/'. Liizarout, Late of Liber!y
Township, thin County.
Not'ce is hereby given, that letters testa
mentary "" the above estate having been
granted t<» the undersigned, all persons In
debted to said estate are requested to tna'-e
payment, and those having claims or (1 -
ttiandsagain t the sahi estate to present the
same, without delay to
C ; AM. E. LA Z A ROUS.
WM. 11. LA/.\l.ot'H,
Milton, It. F. L). No. I.
II MtKli T C. K KKKKII,
Strawberry Ridge.
I)MIN I STRATI )H'S NOTICE
Estate or Etlle J. Arnwlne, late ol "est
llemloc'. township, decease I.
Letters of administration upon the estate
or Etlle J. Arnwlne late or West Hemlock
townslitp. Montour County, State of Penn
sylvania. having been granted by the Reg
ister of Montour County to the undersigned,
all persons indebted to said estate are re
quested «o make payment, ami those having
claims to pre* nt the same without delay lo
O-tT D. Buckhorn, Pa.
CILiS. S. AUN if,
Routeß, Danville. Pa.
or to Administrators
OiUHLIM V. AM&K.«AN, DuuVilie, I'll j
i
Dr. I. G. PURSEL,
NEUROLOGIST
273 Mill Street, . Dunvllle, Pa
\VV straighten Cross Eyes wltliou t opcrut
nouns, 8 A. M.to 12 M.
, 1 P. M.to 0 p. ji.
EYES A SPECIALTY.
112' m \
g "Silver Plate that Wears."
§ YOUR SPOONS
Bj I-orV#, etc., will be perfection in durability,
g beamy tl design :«nd brilliancy of finish, if
B "ley are pattcrui stamped
|
TWniraMNMeOdl FMtewM
flataa than of Uf othar Btki eIMIHrM. WhNI
account of sty la, tmruf ul MyMlp,
ton Froo. lukicftW t*4iy.
MOT IN ANYTRUST
Many newspnp-'rs have lately given currency
to reports by irresponsible parties to thci-lTect
that
THE NEWHOMESEWING MACHINE CO
had entered a trust or combination ; we wish
to assure the public that there is no truth In
such reports. We have boon manufacturing
sewing machines for over a quarterora centu*
ry, and have established a reputation ror our
selves and our machines that is the envy of all
others. Our "AVii- Hoi lie" machine has
never been rivaled as a family machine.—lt
stands at the head ofall ilffjh trvmie. sewings
machines, and stands on its oivu merits.
T/ic "Ke*r Home" is the only r—W|T
HIGH G'fiJDE Scwiny JfaeftiMt
on the market*
It is not necessary for us to enter tnto a trust
to save our credit or | y any d< bts as we have
no debts u> pay. We have never entered Into
competition with manufacturers or low grade
cheap machines that arc made to bcII regard
less of auy intrinsic merits. Do not be de
ceived, when you want i new ing machine don't
send your money away rroni home; call on a
" iVt'ir Home " Dealer, he ean sell you a
better machine ror less than you can purchase
elsewhere. IT there Is no dealer near you,
write direct to us.
THE NEWKOM&SEWmGMACHINECQ:
ORANGE, MASS. , I
New York, Chicago, 111..5t Louis, Mo., Atlan*
ta, Dalian Tex, Fruuciaoi* Vfcb