" ■ ' 'j . i .. ... k t.. IMC t %i.- 'I. »viblt* i r> Thursday Afternoon fly Tbi Publishing Co &t the Covin'y Uoat of Suliiiku iTounty. XAPOBTE, PA. %' c. M . • l ii>nk*n. rifOn. .1. WVi.'MAM. See'y ,v Tress. Entered at the Post«MKce at Laporie. as second- ass mail matter. !'P O BOX 5 F i HARRISBURG.PA. j CURES ALL DPIVK AND DOUG ADDICTIONS. j M ; wi. ' FUONISMLJ NEW MANAGEMENT, ) WATCH THE UPS. r : :3fr Ser.T tivo Muscles Mat;® Thsi Grsat Tciltnlc3. "It's a que. r thing,' remarked the ' feasor, Miow people can control j 11 «v. s ;;nd uot liieir mouths." i '. lie inw. .or with whom iu; happen- j ii. t>e talking miule the comment | :i ,t ti e professor probably meant j : .• ,ies >vl:eii speaking of mouths. I i didn't mean tongues. I : iiii' ~t mouths." the professor rejoined, j "1 ,:;tn, if you want to be sclentltlcal- ] .•enrale. she n; tlon of the lip inns- j .!■ There's neirly always, iu a | ' eut of excitement, of exaltation, • '.ssion or emergency, n telltale ; vi'-..:ent on their part which can't j r.mi'ded against Why can't It be , •tl n: \iustV Because It Is so j ly DPclotis. Most of us from ' i:t . ; i-.i'ii ■ ' have be;:r> trained to use >• . o? -i, il ro use thorn In such a ' v. \< as to ' oncoal o;-r emotions. It's | .: ;it n : h the mouth. Perhaps we a.l. an*.•«->•! far enough to do •l! i tmi'tatii things at the same | • . Any ;, y U,e fact «emaius that j t'.'i ( .lUipie, 1 have reason to :... a m->.i Is n: t telling me ■ i.i: l don't jrive my attentiou to • !'■ il.- may look at me as fear- j as ' w:uii>. What I watch ! : >r : ■ something sigiilftcaut In there .. ■ of M- x'-i e lire wore, if ! -st n - chatv ■ in the expression i ■ ' •.< ii|»-< i a':i (!• ed after all to. 1 ' ; f." hioi i'.::; if tile , Is the least I tivmhiiog or twitchlug, the least exbi-1 . .-.''i i' of nervousness— , •tet!. ! (>•: ve my doubts." "i ;i ; ' (..'.served '.lie Inventor. ! "■I. ■ !ii'( "nit fart does tint explain j ;> ' .»r: ot !!>.■ mustache it shows , th i; -.he 01.-.ttK-he i. is uses." "Il Ines." returned the professor, "i ■' .-oi: t remember that the mus -1: -i • as a rule, dot n't ohsenre the iip \. 1 the lower lip. If you'll the li 'i.ble to notice. Is if any* t . i'i'veialo:y than ihe tipper • .«• ii- ' u-.IJ.v that lip which gives I . m-. i . ;>!■,.s- .si tD mouth The tip- i ; "ib ■ foli. 'vs suit, its It were." "Well, well." said the Inventor, tin- . Ills I :".cache. New York Press. I A KING'S U?iDPESSINB. 1 hrj Cercn ory 'vV.* 5 e Wondortul One 1 i Lo: - i >s XVl.'s Tin-.c. .1 ".Men.oh's the Comtesse del '• (IV '-'i-iv 11), edited from (he! j.'i.-i .1 manuscript by t'hurles Xicottl . fo:- ; i the foliov.iug realistic ' * . '1 on i,; i;..* "couehev" of Louis X> 1 . ' i i: ■ k in:' ■ coat, v aisteoat and shirt 1 oif iken o;V. ii" stood there naked to v.ai.-t, scratching atal rubbing Lint"! . a : ll' !:•" i'ad beeti alone. In the ' H» <>: " hcie court nnd often •!'..» s ; .rno ■ of (iisiiuction. The li T ■ 'let hand.: 1 the idghtshlrt to the inosl highly fioallfled person, to one of ■ i ;u;-e ■ 112 the blood if any were i. This was a r'ght and not a When the per on was one with i he v. :s on familiar t«.*rins the •• on id of!«..|i play tricks while i it • ii. s:ep:)lag on o;,e side to • ;be holder mu after hiiii. accom ... the . iluu-ming jokes with d :.ruiTa which greatly vexed • who were siiK-erelv attached to !. : 'o When his shlit was on he put dressing g u, while three val •:s r.fastened his waist lielt and knee I tye lies, which fell to his ankles, and ia th • gavl- scarcely able to walk with these :Idlcnlous fetters, lie would shuf ( • i • .ud tile circle of those iu wait i".;,' When the king had had enough . 112 it he shuffled backward to an arm ■ ha!" which \. as pushed into the mid i>ie of the room and .dropped into it, lining up his legs. Two pages on lii.'ir knees Immediately seized his ' nulled off the king's shoes and let • ou dro(< with a crash, which was a p of etl'juette. As soon as he heard .he uolse flu- usher opened tbo door. "<Jentlenie!i will please pass 0 Tlies. present went away, and the '-eremotiy was finished. However, •ho : erson . ho was holding the can r... ■].: w:. allowed to stay if he had anything si eclai to say io the bint;, .".ad Hence i ie vnlne that was attached to this strange favor." Ur'ucky Suggestion. A a oid vi.-ar bad a groom who had bee.i detoo'cd flcjlina his master's oat-. Tb< icar had not dee hied what •ourse p ake. and meantime the ..•ro )in had iione to the curate to ask !.d:n to j for him, and the sympa < lie'.ic j fellow hastened to the i-.. Tory to appeal to the vicar. The ohi vicar heard his curate out, bu 1 ■•••Led obdurate, to as a last resource Mr.- curate quoted Scripture as a plea let leniency and salt! we were taught «!MI a man took our coat to let him 'ake the cloak as well "That's true," said the vicar dryly, . ad us the fellow has taken my oats 1 i'tn going to give him the sack."— Loudon Answers. IM TOSS ll i tat I Mathematics of the Turning of Heads or Tails. CHANCE AND THEORY CLASH. If Heads Turn Tan Time* In Sequence, Theory Says the Odtis Ar« Against j Another Head, Vat CHariee Says the ' Odds on the Next Toss Are Evan. A famous mathematician, Professor ! Karl Pearson, once spent the greater | part of his vacation deliberately toss ; iu.,- a shilling aud making careful notes j ;of bow it fell. He spun the shilling I ■ Uo.OOO times, and a pupil of his. work- i ' iug separately. spun a peony 8,200 ] titles and ulso tested the drawing of ; y.( iK) tickets from a bag. i It may seem straruce that a learned ; professor should put himself to such ! an amount of trouble to demonstrate j what every schoolboy who had ever | tossed a coin already knew. Yet. as a | matter of fact, few really do grasp j | the laws which govern such an nppar . ently straightforward matter as the j tossing of a coin. Ia the words of the ; arlibiaeth iau, the theory of "runs"— i that Is, heads turning up repeatedly :or tails turning up repeatedly--is pre j eisely as follows: | The chance of a head Is one-half; of j two heads following, is one half multl ; piled by one-half—that Is. one-quarter; j of three heads lu succession. one-half | multiplied by one-half multiplied by j ntie-half—that la, one-eighth. Now. j what do you suppose is the chance of j:i run of eleveu heads? It la safe to ' say that not many persons, however ' accustomed to tossing coins, have re« j oonedl this out. The fact is that one ' "run"of eleven hearts Is on the aver ; :tce only to be expected In 2.048 sets I of coin tossing. Although the man lu the street may i not have reckoned this, he Is always ! quite positive that if, say. a coin has j fallen tec limes head upward he Is 1 safe to start backing tails. He puts | Ills money on tails turning up be | cause, he says, it stands to senso that ! the run of heads can't continue. But I does it? At the eleventh tons the head i of the coin is just as big as It ever : was. What mysterious influence can a (.".st event, the tossing of ten heads, j hi l , ve on a future one which has no (link with theui - uajuely, the tossing I .if the coin the eleventh time? Surely | ench toss is an event by itself, as Sir , Hi. am Maxim said of a game at rou [ let'.:- at Monte Carlo: '•lt is a pure, unadulterated questiot) ; of chance, ami It is not bifloeuced In the least by unj thing which has ever ! taken place before or that ever will | take place in the future." I A nasty piece of plain speaking this I for the cranks who had published 1 schemes fo.- "breaking the bank" and 1 whose plans depeuded entirely on the ! theory that if one game ended in a i win for "red" the chances against it ' ending "red" a second time were less. : « third time less still, and so on. j This of course would be a sound ' enough argument provided that you regard some dozens of games of roil ; let.'e or tosses of a coin all as one cou -1 tinnous event. It is quite safe, for In i stance, to offer beforehand big odds ! against a coir, turolug up heads ten times runniug. But iu practice the j put He house loafer does not do this. ■ What he does is to bet ou each sepa rate toss by itself, thus defeating his 1 own alms. The odds against a coin j turning up heads eleven tlnu* are as I has been shown, something like 2.000 i) 1. Hut suppose you only start bet site .i; lentil toss. What are the I oii. t ., the eleventh toss again i being a head? The odds, so far from being 2.000 to |l. ate actually I to 1! To use an . Irishism, the odds are even—that is I :.i say, if you split up the eleven tosses j into eleven separate events to be be! on separately your bets should be j "e>'!•■'. money" all the time, however ; often bea;".: turn tip running. But if | ye.: view the eleven tosses as one cont j event and you offer a prelimi nary bet against t'ne whole eleven re | <!:•;•» being heads you wilt have to , give gigantic odds. I Vthis goes to prove the absolute i uncertainty «t gambling. The great . est uiuthema ti.laus of the day cannot I be certain how a coin will fall, so that the man of merely average abilities : who stakes anything important on the toss of a coin is allowing that part of | bis fortune to pass entirely outside his i control.—Pearson's Weekly. South Africa's Locusts. Millions and millions of locusts set tie, and millions and millions continue | flying to settle farther on. They have been settling In myrlßds for a hundred , miles and more, and yet enough are . left flying to hide the sun. On the ground nothing can be seen but lo | etists. So thickly do they pack thi;i not a square Inch of earth or grass Is visible. As you walk through them s narrow wake Is left for a few seconds in your track where they have flown out of your way, and as they rise in i thousands before your foet the noise uf their wiugs Is like an electric power station. —Grand Magazine. Putting It MiMty. The flooding of a Yorkshire mine had a tragic result, and a miner was de puted to break the news to a poor wo , man whose husband had been drown i-4. "l »oes Widow Jones Uve here?" "No," was the todlgnant lady's reply. "You're a liar!" he said—London Tatler. ' Never tell your resolution k* fore hand.—Seldeu. Cultivate-the Habit of buying repiu goods from a reputabe concern. We are agents lor VV. L. DOUGLASS SHOPS fro jso to 5. do p i> always sa'tisfact .r>.! A HOOD AS SOB. TAIENT K gr\ of CHILDRENS' and \ o'• LADIES' Heavy Shoe M , Fine Goods at correct Clothing Made to Order Ail have the right appearance and guaranteed otsd in both material and workmanship and price mte. Wo also manufacture Feed, the Flag Brand. It. is not cheap, Inn good. Is correctly made. Ask your dealer for it'or write us for prices NORDMONT SUPPLY Co. General Merchants, Tontl™am K jsrox-. id^oistt, U> 99 m The Best place to buy goods Is often asked by the pru-i pent housewife. Money siving advantages arealways being searched tor l.ose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on ?????? 7 7 7 STOP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. AU answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. BNflaerove. Ft | = ; Make Your Grocer ; Give You Guaranteed I Cream of Tartar Baking Powder i I Alum Baking Pow ders interfere with I digestion and are un healthful. Avoid the alum. | i ————■— BAW NER 8A LVE i' th« moat healing »*lwi MO the world Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. 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