Trial list, December Term, 1911.
Return Day, December 11, 1011.
I. — G. W. Bigger vs. John Manuel,
No. 49 May Term 1911. Framed lusue.
Plea—"Non-Assumpsit" &C.
Scouton. Mullen.
2. —.1. G. Colt vs. I.ee Kosenerants and
John Rosencrants. Defendants, and the
Nordmont Chemical (Jompany, <iaruishec.
No. 56 December Term, 1909. Attach
ment Execution. L'lea—"Nulla Bona.
Mullen. Scouton.
Meylert.
;j.—C. 1). lloodbv bis next friend, Kin
ma C. Hood vs. Connell Anthracite
Mining Company. No. 9 May Term,
1911. Plea—"Not Guilty."
Scouton. McCormick.
Mullen.
4.—William T. Fairchild vs. beliiith
Valley Railroad Company, No. (>K May
Term, 1910. Trespass, Plea—"Not
Guilty."
Scouton. Thomson.
Kaufman.
Mercur,
5. I). K. Dieflenbacli vs. Corn Glover
and Fred .1. Glover. No. 1 February
Term, 1911. Defendants' Appeal. Plea —
"Not Guilty."
Scouton, Mullen.
(1. —A. T. Mulnix vs. Setli P. shoe
maker and Will. I'. More. No. 10 Feb
ruary Term, 1911. Framed Issue. Plea
—"Ray-men t.''
Mullen. Scouton.
7. —Alice Jf. Putnam, a. d. b. n. c. t. a.
of Luman I'utnam, Deceased, Assignee
of N. N. Hetts, lixecntor and Trustee ot
Mrs. 11. Charlotte Ward, vs. C. F, linn
singer and Lizzie (or Klizabeth) Allen
and James P. Allen, her husband. No.
31 February Term, 1911. Scire Facias
Sur Mortgage, l'lea—Thai Mortgage i
not a lien upon laud Ac.
Thomson. Scouton.
8. — Laussat 11cyeli n vs. Win. .1. Law
rence, Charles T. Lawrence and O. 11.
Lawrence. No. 8 May Term, 1911.
Framed Issue.
Meylert. Mullen.
9.—The Township of Cherry, to the
use of the Treasurer ofSullivau County,
for Cherry Township School District vs.
Fred Frieder. No. "25 May Term, 1911-
Defendant's Appeal.
Walsh. Mullen.
10.— H. J. Schaad, a Taxpayer ol the
Township of Cherry vs. Thomas W. <ia
han, Frank llulliyasler and Henry
Touschner, Supervisors of the Township
wl Cherry. No. (Hi May Term, 1911.
Appeal from 'township Audit.
Scouton. Mullen.
Prothonotary's Oflice,
Laporte Penn'a.,
October ;10, 1911.
ALUKRT F. IIKESS, I'iot'v.
Jury List For December Court.
List of jhtsous with their occupation ami
Place of reMilence drawn as Traverse and relit
Jurors for lieccmlier Term and Sessions, begin
ning Monday, December 11, lull.
TRAVERSE AND PKTIT JURORS.
NAME OCCUPATION KKSIDENCE
Allen William Farmer Colley
Halir William 1). Farmer Cherry
Harnliart Harrison Laborer Iticketts
Hay William Farmer Davidson
Bennett Monroe Farmer Davidson
Benjamin John D Dentist Dushore
('amp Boyd LaViorer Davidson
Cook William Miner Horn ice
Covey Steve Teamster Dushore
Dera|»sey Edward Blacksmith Lopez
Donovan Michael Miner Berniee
Kberlin Willard Laborer Kieketts
Frutehey Reed G Lumberman Loj»e/.
Cott Robert Miner Lopez
Gallagher Thomas 11 Clerk Hemice
Hess John W Farmer Elk) and
Ha/./eii Charles Laborer Davidson
Hay Archibald Miner Berniee
Hugo Albert G Farmer Klkland
Herst Frank Miner Berniee
Killi Tliomas jr., Miner Lope/
Kaminsky Frank Jr., Miner Berniee
Kinsley John Laborer Loin*/
Kashner Hurley Laborer Jamison city
Lavellc Thomas Farmer Cherry
Lambert Leo Lai Hirer Forks
Lockwood 11. D. Foreman Davidson
Lynch M L Laborer Lopez
Laurenson Geo. W Farmer Mt. Vernon
McDonald William Laborer Cherry
McCarty Frank II Farmer Klkland
Porter Orwell Farmer Fox
Philbin Michael Farmer Forks
Porter William E Farmer Fox
PardoeCarlH. Farmer Klkland
l'ainton Monroe Farmer Davidson
Qui nn Peter Miner Hern ice
Bobbins William Farmer Davidson
Rogers Dean li Farmer Klkland
KeinltoUl Barney Farmer Forks'
Kightmire Abelfno Farmer Fox
Spence James Miner Berniee
Seculcs C J Agent Davidson '
Savman Levi Farmer Forks i
Binder W B Farmer Davidson 1
Sayman Emanuel Farmer Forks
Teevan J J Farmer Klkland
Wentzel Leroy Farmer Cherry
GRAND JURORS,
Abbot Milton Laborer Ricketts
Brown Reuben Farmer Fox
Caddow Harry Farmer Lopez
Bailey Fred Farmer Klkland
Chestnut John Farmer Davidson
Chapman John 11 Farmei Klkland
Dyer Albert L Lumberman Lopez
Farrell John F Carpenter Dushore
Green Reno Farmer llillsgrove
Gloecklcr Philip Kramer Klkland
Kester Charles Farmer Forks
Kraus Fred C Farmer Cherry
Keating James Farmer cherry
Kast Frank Farmer Cherr>
Laird William Farmer Davidson
Meyers Bert Farmer Fox
Phillins John Farmer Davidson
Parrisn Charles V Farmer Fox
Rohe William Farmer Cherry
Hick Joseph Farmer Cherry
BnyderGeoW Agent Forksville
Strickland Frank LaUirer llillsgrove
Taylor G S LaUirer Mt Vernon
VMialen Hartley Laborer Cherry
Help the Children.
"There is nothing in all the world
ro Important as children, nothing so
Interesting. If you ever wish togo In
for some philanthropy, if you ever
wish to be of any real use in the world,
do something for children. If you
ever yearn to be truly wise, study chil
dren. We can dress the sore, bandage
the wounded. Imprison the criminal,
heal the sick and bury the dead, but
there is always a chance that we can
save a child. If the great army of
philanthropists ever exterminate sin
and pestilence, ever work out our
race's salvation, it will be because a
uuic child has led them."—David Starr
Jordan.
Three Inscriptions.
On the doorways of Milan cathedral
are three inscriptions. The first, placed
under a carved rose wreath, runs, ••All
that which pleases Is only for a mo
ment" The second, under a cross,
reads, "All that which troubles Is but
for a moment," and under the central
arch is the Inscription, "That only Is
which Is eternal."
M. BRINK'S
PRICES For This Week.
ton 100 lb
Corn Meal 33.00 1.70
Cracked Corn 33.00 1.70
Corn 33.00 1.70
* Sacks each Gc with privilege of
returning without expense to me.
Schumacher Chop 31.00 1.00
Wheat Bran 28.00 1.45
Fancy White Muhln. 31.00 1.(50
Oil Meal 44.50 2.25
Gluten 31.00 I.CO
Alfalfa Meal 25.0.) 1.30
Oyster Shelln 10.00 60
Brewers Grain 27.00 1.40
Choice Cottonseed Meal
Luxury Flour sack 1.20
" " per 1)1)1. 4.05
Beef Scrap 3.00
Oats per bu. .00
Charcoal 50 Il> sack .00
Oyster Shells " .35
140 H) l>ag Salt coarse or fine .50
50 11) hag Salt .25
Buckwheat. Flour
Slhuinacher Flour sack 1.50
Muney " " 1.20
" " per hhl. 4.05
Spring Wheat(Marvel) " 1.70
Veal Calves wanted on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Live
fowls and chickens on Wednesday.
11. HlilNK. New Albany, I'a.
7 f]:
A Cow For a Life.
The Ober Gabelliorn is a peak v
torious for the dangerous cornices
which decorate its upper ridges. Of
many accidents reported in connection
with it perhaps the most remarkable,
says (J. D. Abraham In "Swiss Moun
tain Climbs," was the adventure which
befell an amateur and his young guide.
In passing along the dangerous final
cornice it suddenly gave way under
the amateur, and he went flying
through space to apparent destruction.
The guide at the other end of the rope
seemed in hopeless plight, but with
astounding presence of mind he flung
himself down the opposite side of the
rklge, thus saving two lives. The rope
cut deep into the snow above, bnt held
Arm. The young guide's name was
Ulrich Aimer, llis reward was a cow.
A Horticultural Puzzle.
"It's no use," sighs the nature wiz
ard. "I may as well give up."
"What is bothering you?" we ask
sympathetically.
"I got started a few years ago on a
whim of mine. I took a head of cab
bage nnd crossed it with a white pota
to and grew eyes on it; then I crossed
that with a cornstalk and grew ears oi
it; then I crossed that with a squash
and grow a neck on it; then I crossed
that with a cocoanut and grew hair on
it, but hanged if I can figure out what
to do for a nose and mouth!"—St
Louis Republic.
He Worried the Judge.
A story was recently told of the older
Judge I'eckham, father of the supreme
court justice, in the early days of
dentistry a hickory plug \V«s put into
tlie cavity to fill the space where a
tooth ought to be. This plug bad to
be gently pounded Into its desired po
sition. The old judge was somewhat
addicted to strong language, and when
the dentist began his wor ktlie Judge
indulged in some classic comment. As
the tapping of the plug continued he
threw all dignity to the four winds of
heaven, and his language became de
cidedly "more forcible than elegant."
When, however, be arose from the
chair after what seemed to him an
interminable period of agony he pulled
out all the stops in his vocabulary for
a grand clitnax. The Impression on
his listener seems to have been deep
nnd lasting. As the judge passed out
the dentist grimly remarked to a wait
ing patient:
"Wasn't it beautiful? It wasn't real
ly necessary to pound half so long,
but I did so enjoy bis inflection that 1
almost pounded the hickory plug into
splinters. Wonderful command of
language the jndge has!"— Case and
Comment.
C.-osced by the Corpse.
Most of Walthamstow is too modern
to have much mystery about it, but
the Walthamstow strip" of Leyton
preserves the memory of a curious old
rule. Barely a hundred yards broad,
this strip of land, belonging to Wal
thamstow parish, ran right across Ley
ton from the lea to Snaresbrook, par
allel with tbe southern border of Wal
thamstow. llow came Leyton to be
crossed by this alien strip? Leyton
it was said, had once refused to bury
a body found in the lea; Walthamstow
came for ard to do It. And In such
cases ' ,~s the rule that the volun
teering parish might take from the
other as much land right through to
the other side as the men who carried
the corpse could cover walking in line
hand lu hand arms extended. The
inconvenient result worried both par
ishes until the growth of population
made new parishes necessary.—London
Chronicle.
Not Jealous.
Mrs. Jawback John. I do believe
you nre jealous of my first husband.
Mr. Jawback—Well, no; 1 don't believe
I'd call it jealousy. Envy is the word
—Cleveland Leader.
Yet.
lie—ls Maud thirty yet? She—Yes,
yet.—Boston Transcript
THE MERE MAN'S
VIEWPOINT
THE STOUT HEART WINS
By BYRON WILLIAMS
TIIE woman to whom has been
revealed the truth knows what
a mistake it is to give oneself
despair. Then everything is
lost! History teems with stories of
men and women who but for despair
might have won. Literature is loaded
with instances of individuals who by
holding out a little longer might have
"lived happily ever after."
Sir Tannhauser, the legendnry hero
of Germany, escaping from the thral
dom of sensual passion, sought abso
lution at Koine from the pope, who
said, "You can no moro hope for par
don than this dry wand can bud and
bear leaves."
Tannhauser, giving up to despair,
went his way, and, behold, the pope's
staff miraculously sprouted! Messen
gers were sent to find Tannhawser, but
he was gone. Instead of hoping he
had abandoned himself to the awful
blackness of sorrow and had disap
peared.
Woman, Tannhauser would have
been absolved, he would have been
restored to happiness and to love, if
he bad stood out against despair.
Consider the case of the Babylonian
lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. To the
tryst at Ninus' tomb came Thisbe.
Driven away by a lion, she fled to a
place of siifety. Pyratnus, arriving at
the tomb and believing his beloved
Thisbe was dead, gave himself up to
despair and killed himself. Thisbe, re
turning, found her lover cold in death
and took her own life.
Had Pyratnus embraced hope in
stead of despair the story would have
had a most delightful ending, or might
not have been written at all.
In Matthew Arnold's poem, "Tris
tram and Iseult," Tristram, lying
wounded, awaits the coming of Isolde.
If the white tlag were hoisted it was
she thnt approached. When told the
Ball was black Tristram gave up and.
courting death, died before Isolde, un
der the white sail, arrived.
Just a little more hope, just a little
more faith, and all would have been
well.
How many defeats have been turned
Into victories by some brave heart that
refused to be conquered! How many
armies have gone down to defeat be
• anse they acked a leader possessing
(he characteristic that makes a- man
fight on and on against great odds, de
fying defeat, knowing no conqueror,
icknowledglng no subjugator!
And you, woman, no matter what
your fight is, no matter what the load
you are carrying, do not enter the
slough of despond, do not despafr.
Some time there will come relief, some
THE 9TOOT IIEAIiT WIES.
time the sun will shine, some time
right must conquer might.
Despair dulls the mind, stops the
Dow of pul-lug blood in your veins,
makes an invalid of you. Hope feeds
(he spirits and quickens the body. Iu
the garden of hope grow flowers for
every hand. Hope is an enchanter, a
tonic, a panacea for all Ills.
All about me in the city I see men
who have given up the battle in the
turmoil of trade. 1 see men broken
and dispirited, men who have aban
doned hope and embraced despair.
Henceforth for them there will be no
sun shining through their cypress
trees. All ahead is blackness and ob
livion.
They are the wreckage that floats up
from the great sea of endeavor, the de
bris of commercialism. Upon the
shore of failure there lie thousands of
these wrecked hopes that now are
symbols of despair, but upon that long
shore line cannot be fouml one man
with hopo in his henrt
Hope is an old friend. It comes to
us at cradle time and will be constant
and true, even beyond the grave. If we
will but make a confidant and a com
panion of It. Despair Is a stranger
that comes to us later in life to give
tears to our eyes and aching pains to
our hearts.
Despair usurps the place of happi
ness and, rude beyond measure, drives
from the citadel of our being all those
things that make life glad and happy
and worth living. And when all the
dear things of our being have been
beaten orit of us by this monster it
gives nothing in return but sorrow and
bitterness and woe.
Be on your guard, madam. When
despair leaves its visiting card at your
front door take warning lest It come
again and again and ruin your life.
[> 3 [ I FT! n ffi*l
Dili to ficLu hiri
INCITING A MOB
Nebraska Young Woman Charg
ed With a Cruel and Most
Unusual Crime.
PLOTTED A LYNCHMG
Four Ranchmen Hanged Her Sweet
heart, and It Is Said the Girl, Be
lieving She Would Get $7,000 Insur
ance, Planned It.
Valentine, Neb. —Eunice Murphy, of
this place, the girl accused of having
incited a mob to hang lier fiance in
order that she might inherit liis life
insurance, has been held lor the dis
trict court. The presiding judge de
clared that Miss Murphy Is just as
guilty as the men who took her sweet
heart to a tree and hanged him.
Silent to all but her attorneys, de
spondent, but dry-eyed, Mirs Kunice
Murphy is composedly waiting in her
jail cell the day when she shall be
called to trial as accessory to the
atrocious murder of Charles Sellers,
her suitor.
To all appearances an unsophisticat
ed country girl, the young woman is
intelligent enough to keep quiet about
her affairs. She is charged with incit
ing her fiance, George Weed, his
brother Alma, her cousin and former
fiance, .tarry Heath; and her brother
Kenneth Murph.v, to their cruel at
tack upon a man who had for three
years sought her hand in marriage
Avarice is alleged as the motive.
Thus are all the elements of a melo
drama present in her case. Taiking
advantage of them, she might, with .
newspaper interview, clothe h< rseli
with all that morbid glamor so dear ti.
a sensation-loving public. Yet she
prefers to keep her own counsel, re
fusing to make flie simplest state
mcnts about the affairs and referring
all questioners to her lawyers.
The hanging of Sellers. June IS. by
some of his neighboring rant hinoii
in
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The Hanging of Sellers.
near Cody, Neb., created a sensation
for a time, but when four men charg
ed with the crime were putin jail and
bound over to the district court, the
excitement subsided. Now it is
charged by John M. Tucker, county
attorney, that Miss Murphy incited
and procured the murder of Sellers,
her alleged motive being to get pos
session of $7,000 of insurance policies
and considerable personal property
which she is said to have believed
would be bequeathed to her upon the
death of Sellers.
At the time of the killing of Sellers,
it was rumored that one man in the
party that hanged him to a telegraph
pole was inspired by jealousy, he be
ing a suitor of the girl.
Hutch Jack and Sellers, who lived
together, were awakened one night by
a knock on the door by George B.
Weed. Jack knew Weed and invited
him into the house. Weed had said
he was making a social call. Weed
asked Sellers, who was in bed in an
adjoining room, to get up and come
into the room where Jack and Weed
were, but Sellers excused himself bv
saying lie was not feeling well. Fif
teen minutes later, Jack says, a party
of men, composed of Kenneth Murphy,
Harry Heath and Alma Weed, came to
the Jack home. They were armed
and they covered Jack and command
ed him to remain in the room where
he was. George Weed told Sellers to
get up.
"We are after you," he said, ac
cording to the affidavit of the county
attorney. Sellers arose and Harry
Heath is alleged to have thrown a
rope around liis neck and pulled it
tight, and George Weed. Heath, Mar i
phy and Alma Weed are charged with |
having dragged Sellers out of the .
house to a nearby telephone pole and j
banged him.
Horses in Nail-Studded Car.
Savannah, Ga. —For transporting
horses and mules lor SO hours in a
car studded, sides and bottom, with
heavy nails, which maimed or Killed
all the animals, a Georgia railway has
hen made defendant in a suit lor dam
ages. The animals had been trans
ferred from their original car and
were in another which had nails stick
ing out all around.
PREMIUM CLUBS
WORST MENACE
Their interior Goods Hurt Mer
chant and Customer.
DODGE PURE FOOD LAW.
Ingenious Canvasser Got Merchant's
Wife to Take S3O In Cheap Stuff In
Order to Get a "Fall to Pioce6" Rock
ing Chair.
■ While the straight out and out mail
order houses are receiving the atten
tion of merchants throughout the land,
there are dozens of concerns, also mail
order houses, whose operations collec
tively are perhaps more harmful to the
people and the merchants than are the
sell direct catalogue houses. These eon
; cents are the premium givers which em
ploy canvassers to organize clubs for
teas and coffees, spices, extracts and
dozens of other articles, paying either
la cash commission or giving some pre
mium, such as sets of dishes, house
i hold furniture, jewelry and the like,
i There is scarcely a city in the land
of any size but has one or more of
I these establishments, each doing con
siderable business. Some of these
houses pay hundreds of thousands of
dollars a year for advertising space iu
the women's papers. The annual vol
ume of business of some of these con
cerns exceed that of Chicago's biggest
catalogue house. Others do business
exceeding a million dollars annually.
The catalogues published only go into
(he hands of agents along with sam
ples to be used in canvassing. There
is not a city or hamlet where these
concerns do not transact business.
They generally work on the premium
plan—a premium to the purchaser of
their goods and a premium to the can
vasser. The goods handled are of an
inferior class. They escape the inves
tigation of the pure food otliciais be
cause shipments are made direct to
the consumer or to the agent who does
the distributing, and no inspector has
the audacity to take goods for analysis
that go in this manner to a consumer.
Various plans have been devised to
head off the operations of these con
cerns. So far no adequate plan has
been discovered that will stand the
tests of the higher courts. Strange
to say, frequently wives of merchants
are found among the patrons of these
concerns. Not long ago the wife of u
storekeeper purchased through one
club more than S3O worth of stuff, a
better quality of which her husband
carried in stock, just to get a cheap
rocking chair, and then gave to her
neighbors a lot of soaps, extracts and
other goods she received in order to
keep it out of her husband's sight.
Funny game, is it not? Isut what can
be done about itV— Agricultural South
west.
IRONCLAD RULE IN TRADE
Best One Is. Have No Such Rule—A
Case In Point.
Of all ironclad rules in business only
one is tit to tie up to.and that Is to
have no such rules.
Fifteen years ago a man wishing to
order a suit of clothes entered a cer
tain tailoring establishment and be
came interested in what today we call
a plnhead check.
"I admire that," he said, "but I nev
er wore anything like it before and
want my wife to see it. Oilt me a sam
ple—just an inch square will do."
"I'm sorry, but it is against the rules
of the house to cut samples," said the
; salesman.
"What—not even an inch square?"
The man walked into another tailor
shop on the same block, and for fifteen
years he has been getting his clothes
there— forty-five suits in all.
How many samples would Tailor No.
1 have given to get an order on forty
live suits of clothes?
As it is he'll never get the chance to
hand over samples. If ho were the
last tailor in Christendom probably
this customer would prefer the latest
styles in tig leaves and shoestrings to
the original pinhead check.
In business the only rules that count
are made by the customer.—Philadel
phia North American.
Jail For Mail Crdcr Man.
Imprisonment, in the federal prison
at Leavenworth. Kan., for three years
and a tine of SI,OOO is tin- sentence im
posed upon William P. Harrison,
wealthy head of a mail order concern,
by Judge llolMster in the United
States district court at Cincinnati
lie was found guilty of lining the
mails to defraud, conviction coming
upon all seven counts of two indict
ments. alleging that he advertised and
sold through the mails a vacuum car
pet cleaner and a washing machine
neither of which would do the work
required. The trial lasted more than
four weeks and cost the government
thousands of dollars to bring witnesses
from all parts of the country.
"Many games originated from an
cient forms of worship, human sacrl
flee, marriage, burial and other cere
monies," I>r. A. O. lladdou remarked
in nn address at the I loyal Sanitary
institute. "Leapfrog is n game com
mon to almost every country, includ
ing New Guinea and Japan."—London
standard.
PNEUMONIA.
Its Best Friend Is a Bad Cold That H
Been Neglected.
Pneumonia is not dreaded mer
ly for its power to seize and k
quickly, hut also for its apparei
power to select the most unlike
victims. Most persons have live
through the shock of hearing tin
some friend had suddenly died t
pneumonia—a friend from whoi
they had parted hut a few days c
even hours before, leaving him i
what seemed the highest notch c
physical well being and perhap
protesting that he did not
what illness meant.
T1 lis disease is most dangerous t
the apparently strong, robust peo
pie of heavy weight and hearty ap
petite, although it may attack an'
one, for its germs are omnipresent
The strong and full blooded indi
vicinal who is at the same tinu
something overweight is cspeciall>
in danger of pneumonia and should
take particular care to avoid it. II
hi? diet is too heavy—and that may
safely be assumed—it should bo
ruthlessly cut down, especially as to
meat and tiie elimination of alcohol.
The weighing scale is a good
friend to such a person and should
bo consulted regularly. The scale
does not argue about that extra
pound or two—it proves it—and aft
er a weight in accordance with ago
and height has been determined it
can he maintained in most cases by
the exercise of a little self control.
There are hosts of people who in
dolently permit themselves to get
heavy and even fat in the winter
months. They are the people who
should be constantly reminded,
"The pneumonia germ 'll git yer if
ver don't watch out!"
The condition of the man must
be recognized as more important
than the presence of the germ, as
proved by the fact that there is less
mortality among the thin and ap
parently delicate than among the
stout and full blooded.
Some of the phrases used by the
laity on this subject have, after all,
more sense thaii nonsense in them.
Tt is said that some one is "threat
ened with pneumonia" or that a
"bad cold ran into pneumonia," and
in a sense it is true, for every one is
"threatened" with pneumonia; fhat
is to say, the germ is always present
and ready and willing to begin its
work if one only gives it a chance.
The most successful way to give
rt ft ( nil nee is to neglect a bad coh
and thus break down the natura
defonses of the system. If ever
bad cold were met with starvation
physic and fresh air it would de
part in disgust, and the lurking
pneumonia with it, for the large
burglar cannot get in through a
hole which has refused to admit the
smaller one.—Youth's Companion.
Wicker Baskets.
One of the largest imports from
Russia into America is willow
elothesbaskets. The huge hampers
so commonly in use are nearly all
made in central Russia by peas
ants, although some come from the
Danube valley, and there is consid
erable domestic manufacture. The
importations last year exceeded a
million dollars' worth. Osier wil
low, from which they are made, has
been worked by Russian peasants
for centuries and was formerly the
material from which they wove
their houses. The method of cut
ting, peeling, twisting and manipu
lating the withes is handed down
from father to son.—Chicago Reo
ord-Iterald.
As She Would Have Been.
A gentleman in Paris paid a visit
to a lady, in whose parlor he saw a
portrait of a lovely woman of, say,
five and twenty. Upon the entrance
of the ladv her visitor naturally
asked her if the picture was a fam
ily portrait and was told that it rep
resented her deceased daughter. "Is
it long since you lost her?" asked
.the gentleman. "Alas, sir," replied
the lady, "she died just after her
birth, and I had a portrait painted
to represent her as she would have
appeared if slio had lived until
now!"
The Disenchanting Phonograph.
The best story I have heard re
cently is that told of a well known
Oxford don who was asked to speak
into a phonograph. A little later
the machine was turned on again,
and he was requested to listen to
his own voice. The don then turned
to the assembled company and said,
"It is strange that through this ma
chine 1 am made to speak in a pe
culiarly bumptious and affected
manner."—London Tatler.
Urand Forks to Have Water Filtered.
The new rapid sand filter which
has been In the course of construction
since early last fall for the city of
Grand Forks, N r . D.. has been com
pleted. and official tests are now in op
eration. It Is expected that the city
will accept the plant, and the citizens
will again have pure drinking water
after being without it for more than
four months.