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A Practical Joke Tbnt Win Playei on a rbologrnplier. A professional photographer tells a tale of a practical joke. One day a young man came to sit for his likeness. To the ordinary eye lie look ed like any other young man. A couple of plates were exposed, and then the as sistant who was operating went into the darkroom to develop the negatives. He was gone tnuch longer than usual and was heard berating the junior assist ant pretty soundly for playing pranks with the apparatus. When he returned to the studio, he usked for another sitting and apologized for having before spoiled plates. This time when he went away to de velop be was heard to utter a slight scream, but he reappeared and said there waa a peculiar effect in the negative which he couldn't account for.and would the sitter oblige him again. Once more he went to develop. Then the bell rang violently for the master, and the two held a long confabulation in the darkroom together. This time the master tried his hand and went away to develop. It was not long before he returned and said he was sorry not to be able to get a satisfactory likeness, but a skull and crossbones appeared defined on the young man's forehead. "Rubbish." said the sitter. "My fore head's all right. Can you see anything the matter with my forehead?" And he peered into a mirror as he spoke. "No, there's nothing that I can see." answered the photographer. "But 1 should be obliged if you will please go away and not come here again. This eort of thing is just a wee bit creepy." Upon this there was a dreadful scene, hut the upshot was that the young man had togo and up to the present has not returned. The explanation of the matter is that the young man was a bit of a scientist and had been playing a joke on the pho tographer. Bisulphate of quinine is a chemical which is white in the naked eye, btit seen black by the camera. Any thing that is painted on the skin, there fore, with the chemical will be ordinarily invisible, but will come out prominently in a photograph.—London Tit-Bits. A Trntmlator. The word translator, meauing a mender of boots, has revived or perhaps has never died. Recently Judge Bacon at Whitechapel asked a man, "What are you?" He replied, "A translator." Judge Bacon: "Of languages?" "No, boots. I make old boots new all the week and sell on a barrow in Petticoat lane on Sunday." Bailey (1730 A. D.) explains "trans lator" as "a new van:per of old shoes," etc. I remember the word with this meaning occurring in the old Radnor church parish registers.—Notes and Queries. Hla Work. "I can't give you any money. A stout, •blebodied fellow like you ought to be earning a living." "But 1 haven't any work, sir." "That's your own fault, I'll venture to say. You lack energy. You don't throw yourself into your work." "I wouldn't like to. Nor would you, »ir." "Oh. I wouldn't, eh? Why not?" "I'm a gravedifrger."—London Fun. Temporarily Suppremnetl. "What are the names of that newly married couple in the next flat?" "Oh, we can't find out for a few weeks; each now calls the other 'Birdie.' " —lndianapolis Journal. He »Va*n't Pretty. Angry Politician—See here. I've a good notion to have you arrested for libel! What do you mean by picturing me as you have? Cartoonist—But the picture looks like you. Angry Politician—l I'iinw it does. I know it does. But do I look like n man who likes to look like himself?— Balt imore American. Accounted For. "What seems to be the matter with him?" asked the doctor, approaching the bedside of the man who lay swathed in bandages. "He found the gas leak," explained the nurse.—Chicago Tribune. At Kyak, Alaska, are great Gshing grounds. Halibut is caught there weigh ing 350 pounds, cod 42 pounds and sal mon 58 pounds. Cups and saucers are never used for tea in Russia. The drinking vessel for lea is the "stakan," a glass tumbler in a silver holder. Sheep'* Face*. The face of a sheep does not only In dicate elegance of form generally, but It is the most sure and certain Indica tion of the best feeding quality.—Sheep Breeder. The largest painting in the world. ex clusive of the panorama and cyclorama. Is in the grand saloon of the doges' pal ace at Venice. This painting is 84 feet wide by 34_fp£t high. A Woman's Awful Peril. ' 'There is only one uhauce to save yonr life and that is through an operation" were the startling words heard by Mrs. I. B. Hnnt of Lime Ridge, Wis., from her doctor after he had vainly tried to cure her of a frightful case of stomach tronhle and yellow jaundice. Gall stones had formed and she constantly grew worse. Then she began to use Electric Bitters which wholly cured her. It's a wonderful Stomach, Liver and Kidney remedy. Cures Dyspepsia. Loss <>f App' tite. Try it. Only 50 cts. Guar anteed Fur sale by I'anles & Cos Drng aiiU. CHINA'S WIDE REALM THE EMPIRE CAN SWALLOW KING DOMS, PEOPLE AND LANDS. The Great Plain of Jlorthern China. Yamt II it xin of the Vang-t»e In th® Center of the Empire—One Province aft I'opnlon* na the United States. Austria and the United States combined. The coast line of China, an unbroken stretch from Korea to Hainan, is 1,700 miles in length. The center of China proper, by which term is meant the original 18 provinces, exclusive of Manchuria and Mongolia, is 1,000 miles from the sea board. A division of the empire into three sections—northern, central and southern China—is a help to the com prehension of its varied physical char acter. Northern China comprises the great plain extending from Peking south 1,000 miles, the valley of the llo ang-110, or Yellow river, which courses through the provinces of Honan, Shan si and Sliensi, and the remote moun tainous province of Kansu. Central China is separated from the northern section by two lofty moun tain ranges stretching from the bor ders of Tibet on the west almost to the sea. South of these ranges lies the basin of the Yang-tse-Kiang, covering an area of 750,000 square miles. In se lecting the valley of the Yang-tse for her sphere of Interest England modest ly covets an area over six times as large as the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Chinese have two designations for the Yang-tse to show their esteem for the wonderful river. Yang Is the name of the ocean, and tse means son; hence Yang-tse is the "son of the ocean." Generally the river is called "Ta-Kiang," meaning the "Great riv er." The length of the Yang-tse is about 3,000 miles, and steamers have ascended It 1,300 miles to the geograph ical center of the IS provinces. lehang is the head of navigation for foreign steamers, but native junks and other light draft vessels go as far as Chung- King, and even 200 miles beyond, into the province of Szechuen. lehang and Chung-King are treaty ports and. with Shanghai, Chin-Kiang. Wuhu, Kin-Ki ang, Shashi and Hankow, constitute the c>peii doors for foreign trade in the valley of-the Yang-tt-e. The various spellings of Chinese names render the study of maps of the country difficult, but there is a consist ency in the arrangement of syllables which helps to fasten them in memory. The points of the compass are often added to the name of a city, province or river. Tung means east, and Shan means mountain, so Shan-Tung is east mountain, and Shan-Sl is west moun tain, si meaning west. Pel means north and nan south; tsin, kin or king means capital or metropolis; hence Pe king and Nankin stand for the north ern and southern capitals of the em pire. Shang is Chinese for city, and Shang hai means city by the sea. hai being the word for sea as distinct from the ocean. Ho and kiang botli mean riv er; hence Pei-110 is northern river, Si klang west river, and lioang (yellow) gives its name to Hoang-110 (Yellow river) and Iloang-llai (Yellow sea). Ku or kow means pass and cho or chow depot or stopping place. These words are often combined with others for the names of cities, as Ta-Ivu, great pass or mouth of the Pei-110, and Tung- Chow, the eastern depot of Peking. Nan-Kow, meaning south pass, hap pens to be on the northern borders of China proper, but it means the south pass from Mongolia into the Middle Kingdom. Southern China is a mountain re gion 1,000 to 1,500 miles long and 400 to 000 miles broad. The highlands touch the coast on the east and south and on the north occasionally reach the line of the Yang-tse. The mountain ranges in the soutli trend with the coast, but are short and irregular, giv ing free passage to hundreds of streams finding their sources in the hills and swelling to rivers on their way to the sea. These rivers, in spite of their numerous rapids, are used as waterways by the patient and skillful Chinese. Throughout the southern mountain area of over 300,000 square miles there are no table lands, no ex tensive plains and no conspicuous mountain peaks. Central China has a vast lake region comprising the whole of the province of Hupeh. the southern part of Honan and the northern portion of Ilunan. The Chinese call this section of their country llu-Kwang, or Broad lakes. The scenery of the region is pictur esque, the mountain sides often termi nating at the borders of a lake of crystal clearness. Lake Poyang, 90 miles long and 20 broad, and Taihu, 40 miles long and 30 broad, are very shal low and are dotted with Islands. Lake Tungting. in Hunan, is the principal lake in China. It Is formed by the wa ters of the river Yuen emptying them selves Into a basin 200 miles in circum ference, having an outlet Into the Yang-tse between Hankow and lehang. The great plain of China south of Peking includes the common delta of the Pei-110, Hoang-110 and Yang-tse- Kiang. but is not very productive ex cept in the south. Floods have been a great curse to this region, and in some districts dikes and canals have been constructed to redeem the soil. Else where the land along the rivers has been raised to bring it under cultiva tion. The rainfall along the plain has been very uneven, and the same region will suffer from drought for years and then suddenly become almost un inhabitable by reason of floods. Central China, like the great plain, is well supplied with canals, and for merly the system of waterways ex tended from Tien tsin to Canton down the Grand canal to Chin-Kiang, theu along the Yang-tse to the intersections Tortured A Witness. Intense suffering was endured by with ness T. L. Martin, of Dixie, Ky., before he gave this evidence: I coughed every night until my throat was nearly raw: then tried Dr. King's New Discovery which gave instant relief. I have used it in my family for four years and re commend it as the greatest remedy for Coughs, ("olds and all Throat, Chest and Lung troubles. It will stop the worst cough, and not only prevents but. abso lutftly cures Consumption. Price 500 and SI.OO, Every bottle guaranteed. Trial bottle* free at Paules & Co's Drug i Store of rivers coming in from the south. The Yang-tse is to central and north ern China what the Mississippi was to the middle west and northwest before the advent of railways. Goods are brought by steamer from the coast to lehang and there transshipped in junks to the limits of the great western prov ince of Szechuen. Hankow is the port for the transshipment of goods for the northwest along the Han and its trib utaries. All the region east of lehang, along the Yang-tse valley, is densely populated and contains innumerable cities of wealth. Manufacturing and trading in imports and exports with the remote districts engage the activi ties of millions of people. Travelers become eloquent in describing the evi dences of prosperity along the great river, but the interior is not less note worthy for industry and plenty. The extreme western province of Szechuen, bordering upon Tibet and inaccessible except along the shallow upper waters of the Yang-tse, sup ports a population equal to that of the whole United States upon an area two-thirds as great as that of Texas. Szechuen, from its geographical posi tion, would be called the wild west, or the hills, but It is a saying in other parts of China that one never sees an ill dressed man in Szechuen. In fact, the name Szechuen is the synonym for plenty, as was the case with Califor nia in the days of the golden harvest. Chung-King is the great commercial city of Szechuen and the second trade emporium of inland China, but its trade up the Yang-tse westward and northward along the Kialing is limi*j» to the rainy season of the year, Wie the floods are high. Szechuen can £ Ist upon its own products and mlgi stand as an empire in itself. Besides growing grain in abundance, the prof*- ince raises good tobacco, silk, wax and tea. Cotton is grown there, but uot so cheaply as it can be imported in yarn from India. The plains of Szechuen are higher than those along the Y'ang tse eastward and may be compared to the rolling prairies of lowa. South of Szechuen is the province of Yunnan, the third largest in the em pire. Its mineral wealth is greater and more varied than any other province, but growth and enterprise were check ed by the long rebellion of its Moham medan inhabitants half a century ago. From Yunnan eastward along the southern belt of provinces the country is generally mountainous, but innumer able streams make the region fertile. The poorest soil in the 18 provinces is in Ivwei Chau, the next northeast of Yunnan, but it is rich in minerals. Di rectly east of Yunnan lie the twin provinces of Kwang, Ivwang-Si and Kwang-Tung, or Kwang east and Kwang west. Both have seaports and are well watered. Canton, the capital of Ivwang-Tung, is the largest city in China. East of Kwang-Tung lies the province of Fukien, which upon an area as large as that of Mississippi sus tains a population one-third as large as that of the whole United States. The treaty ports of Fucliau and Amoy are among the chief cities of the province. Among the coast belt of provinces Chekiang is both southern and central. It does not quite reach to the Yang-tse, but is Indented by the bay of Ilang Chow, which is 150 miles long. The splendid city of Hang Chow is at the shores of the bay and is also the termi nal of the Grand canal. A hundred • '\jCHUNO-KIKIQ swcreKfeu SIKKM,/ / SHENSB ""? "-V. •> / A 7>.VR 4"" I s/ [ ±y - I -/V'"/ iX) Y^7<?/ C SHA-SHI J ' \ V(7 v '-. Wv3 \*<> RHAI W S-J-* TREATY PORTS OS THE YANG-TSE. miles north of Hang Chow, in the coast province of Iviang Su, lies the famous old city of Suchau, $ the valley of the Yang-tse. This region is renowned for its fine climate, its fertile soil, its for ests and fruits. From the days of the earliest travelers to the present time it has been called a paradise, and the Chi nese have a saying that to be happy on earth "one must be born in Suchau, live in Canton and die in Hang Chow." GEORGE L. KILMER. Corn Crjj. Killing frosts were not experienced this year until the close of September, and as a consequence the season waa amply long enough to mature practical ly all of the corn crop, says The Amer ican Agriculturist. A little of the very latest corn, especially that planted on abandoned winter wheat acreage, fail ed to mature, but the proportion of the whole crop Is too insignificant to cut any figure. The weather of September was favorable for ripening and drying out of the crop in most of the 1 !t. though the latera v i io'.va and Mis souri have del . finish i: g touch of the sea' i. The pre .-I :i report is t!;e of the season prior to American Agricultur ist's eslui.ate of rate of \ icM made alt er the rro'i i " !■ ■ ; aii.l husking under way. Fiom the data of this re port it is safe to forecast the probable crop result, as the rate of yield is usu ally in close harmony with the final report of condition by correspondents. The general average of corn, as con solidated from local county averages. Is 83.7. With tlie exception of some light and chaffy corn in tlie territory west of the Missouri river, due to drought, the gen eral quality of this year's crop is high. Some damage to corn after ripening is reported in Missouri, lowa and west ern Illinois as a result of high winds and blowing down of stalks, followed by heavy and somewhat continuous rains during the latter part of Septem ber. But tills will disturb quantity very little and quality not much more, as the area affected is small in com parison with the total crop breadth. The natives of Hawaii, he they ever so poor, lie* V t r steal or LICK. T! -e offenses are confined almost er v to the Portuguese residents of l!n M.tad. World's Champion. "I tried many remedies to en re piles,' writes W. R. Smith, of Latham, 111., "but found no relief till 1 used Bneklen's Arnjoa Salve. I have not been troubled with piles since,'" It's the only champion pile enre on earth and the liest salve in the world. 25c per box. guaranteed by Paules & Cos. drnggist NERVOUS HORSES. Important Points In Their Treat ment and Management. The most nervous horses are those finely bred, highly organized and often the most intelligent, says Dr. J. C. Curver In The Practical Farmer. They are on the alert for everything, quick to take notice and equally quick to take alarm and In moments of sudden teiTor act so quickly in what seems to them necessary to prevent bodily harm that they are really dangerous ani mals under the circumstances by shy- 1 lug, bolting and running away from an Imaginary enemy, all of which might be obviated by a proper early educa tion. The horse, like ourselves, must learn everything, and the more highly organized he Is the more readily be will ■earn, through the agency of mai». what to be frightened at and what will do him harm. How can we tell what awful suggestions strange objects offer to the minds of horses? A baby car riage may appear to the horse a verita ble dragon, a sheet of white paper In the road an awful chasm, an open um brella a terrible bugaboo, a man on a bicycle coming toward him some flying devil from which he must flee for his life, and when we stop and think of the matter seriously we cannot blame the horse for what he does not under stand. But how different the actions of the horse when he understands what BREAKING APFLIAXCK. all these things are. When he has had an opportunity to calmly and carefully examine them and every other new thing, he becomes perfectly Indifferent to them all. Therefore when the liorse shies at anything is the time and place to make him acquainted with that ob ject without punishment, but by en couraging words, and If necessary go to the object of fright In advance of him and show him that it is nothing to be afraid of. Let him examine it with his nose, look at it from both sideß repeatedly, and the job is done for all time. But try to force him past it with the whip, and he will become more and more afraid of it, as he associates the frightful object with that of the punishment, and the more sensitive he is the more dangerous he becomes. While we should be firm with our horses, we must at the same time let them know that we are their friends, protectors, providers and educators. Everything the horse does for us is a matter of education. Then is it not the plain duty of every one who handles horses to understand this matter to Its fullest extent? Whatever the horse un derstands he is willing to perform. Then let us take great pains to educate our horses in the line of work we desire them to do. and then there will be but little complaint In relation to their bad habits, their unreliability or treachery. Hornm In War. It Is rather difficult to arrive at a con elusion as to the merits of the horses of various countries used in the war in South Africa, says the London Live Stock Journal. Major Follett, who has been at the front and has Just return ed, speaking at the luncheon In con ! nectlon with the Walsham show, said It had been a great treat to him to see the horses, for he could appreciate a good animal after having for a long time seen nothing but skin and bone. There were some people who seemed to think that things which did not grow in their own country must neces sarily be better than those which did. He saw the other day a letter In which the government was severely taken to task for having bought a lot of English Instead of Argentina horses. He had had the misfortune of owning two and the greater misfortune of having to ride them. A certain writer contended that the Argentina horses could be landed In South Africa for a total of £l4, whereas an English horse landed In South Africa cost £7O or £BO. That was true, but he had known as many as 50 or GOof these Argentina horses served out as remounts to his own regi ment, and within one week of the time of starting there would be perhaps three or four of them left. Tbey were absolutely Incapable of carrying weight. They had very big heads and when they fell always fell on them. Philosophical. Snarley—What's self esteem? Yow—lt's something we all hate to see In some one else, but which is a virtue If we possess it ourselves.—Syracuse Her ald. CiSDMPTIOB CAN BE CORED. T. A. Slocum, M. C., the Great Chem ist and Scientist, Will Semi Free, to .he Afflicted, Three Bottles of his New Pi-covered Reme dies to Cure Consumption i !i All Lung Troubles. .N willing could betairer, more philan thropic or carry mote joy to the afllict ed, than the otler of T. A. Slocum, M. of New York City. Confident that he has discovered a reliable cure for consumption and all bronchial, throat and lung diseases, general decline ami weakness, loss of flesh and all conditions wasting, and to make its great merits known, he will send, free, three bottles to any reader of the AMERICAN who may be suffering. Already this "new scientific course of medicine" has permanently cured thou sands of apparently hopeless cases. The Doctor considers it his religious duty—a duty which he owes to human ity—to donate his infallible cure. lie has proved the dreaded consump tion to be a curable disease beyond any doubt, and has on file in nis American and European laboratories testimonials of experience from those benefitted and cured, in all parts of the world. Don't until it is too late. Con sumption, uninterrnped, means speedy and certain death. Address T. A Slocum M. C\, 98 Pine street, New York, and when writing the Doctor, give express and postoffice address, and please mention reading this article in the AMERICAN* March 4 D j PROBING THE CLAIMS HOW STREET RAILROADS MEET DE MANDS FOR DAMAGES. Minute Examinations Made to Gnard Attains! Prnud—Generally a Com promise llesullit Instead of a I.eual Com pi lea t lon. There is no more striking example of fine and logical system than the claim department of a great street railroad cor poration. Indeed it would be system run mad were it not for the fact that every link in the long chain of events which binds an accident to a settlement is, on the one hand, a safeguard to the company against fraud and, on the other, an assurance to the honest claimant that his case is receiving a careful and search ing investigation. The number and variety of the de mands for damages made upon a street railroad corporation are surprising, but no matter how trivial or how serious a complaint may be a!! are treated exactly alike and all are subject to the same rou tine, whether it be Giuseppe Caponsac chi, whose pushcart has lost a wheel, or the banker who has been thrown from his carriage. The claim department of one of the largest street railroad corporations in the country employs 70 men. Last year those 70 men investigated nearly 20,000 claims and paid damages amounting to $700,000. an average of $35 a claim. The claim department has to contend with every sort of fraud, and it is partly to stamp fraud as fraud that an intricate system has been built up. Two cases illustrating the desire of the general public to "do" a railroad corpora tion came up recently not 1,000 miles from New York. A servant girl who stuttered so badly that she couldn't an nounce a visitor's name without getting tangled asked a street railroad company for damages. She sai\l that a car started suddenly and threw her to the pavement. When she recovered from the shock she found that she had an impediment in her speech. It was proved to the satisfaction of every one except the girl and her law yer that she had stuttered ever since she began to talk. In another instance a mnn who assert ed that he had been permanently injured in a collision sued the company for $25,- 000 damages. Two days before the trial the company's attorney invited him to compromise for $4,500. He declined. When the case came to trial, the judge dismissed it on the victim's own testi mony. These instances may be excep tions. If they are exceptions they prove a rule which points to the necessity for a careful and systematic investigation by the claim department of every claim pre sented. It is interesting to trace the various steps which lead up to a settlement. Sup pose a trolley car runs into a truck driv en by John Doe of 100 East One Ilun dreth street. A wheel is knocked off the truck and John Doe hits the pavement with his head. The conductor and the motorman immediately jump from the car. Allowing John Doe to shift for him self, they get the names and addresses of as many witnesses of the accident as pos sible. When they finish their run. they fill out blanks, which are kept at each depot. Certain questions on each blank must be answered —for example, the number of the car, the number of passengers aboard at the time of the accident, wheth- j er night or day, whether an inspector was , present, the policeman present and his - number and so on at some length. It is j always difficult to induce witnesses to j give their names, and they are likely to hide behind fictitious names or the names of friends, a practice which sometimes leads to unpleasant complications. The reports made by the motorman and conductor, with the names of the witness es, are immediately referred to the cen tral office, where the case is turned over to the elm 112 investigator. He sends his subordinates out to see the witnesses. In as many cases as possible signed state- i ments of the circumstances of the acci- i dent are obtained. The reports of the investigators and the wagon builder are ' handed over to a force of typewriters, | who transcribe the written statements and collocate them as "Case No. IS,<M>O" j or whatever number it may happen to be. i The doctor who attended John Doe sends to the company a statement of the ex- j tent of his patient's injuries, and the company's physician calls up the doctor j on the telephone to get his professional ! opinion on Mr. Doe's case. Then "No. 18,000" goes to a reader. The duty of the reader is to examine j carefully the papers in the case as put ' before him in the form of the reports ! from the investigating department. He is supposed to separate the salient points , from the mass'of detail. He must report ! the number of witnesses seen, how many j favor the company and how many favor j the truck and John Doe and whether iu ; his judgment the company is liable. Then I he turns over the case to the claim ad- j juster. Up to this point the investigation may have occupied two days or two weeks. The claim adjuster is a lawyer, with a lawyer's insight into human nature and a lawyer's appreciation of the power ot Mammon. He decides at just what price the company should settle and sends his men out to see John Doe and the owner of the truck. If these last are wise, they will sign receipts and accept what the company sends. If they aren't, the case will goto the courts. The price set by the claim adjuster is likely to be final, and discretion is generally the bet ter part of valor. This, in brief, is the process through which each of perhaps 20,000 claims must | go. So,thoroughly is the work done that ' no claimant ever receives excessive dam ages. He gets what he deserves and not a cent more.—New York Mail and Ex press. TJncle Sam and Foreign Xovlen. The collection of photographs from life of foreign naval vessels in the possession of the office of naval intelligence is prob ably not excelled by any similar collec tion in the world. Through our naval representatives abroad this department has been steadily gathering information in this form for many years past, and it is not too much to say that, with the in formation in store here, the navy depart ment can inform itself at once of the ex act force of any nation at any designated point of the globe. The information re lates to personnel and material and is In the main exact and official. —Boston Globe. The first swarm from a hive is always Jed by an old queen, the second by the eldest princess, who is often obliged togo in a great hurry owing to her younger sis ters emerging from their cells. Austrian female Convict*. Austria is the one civilized country in the world which never puts a woman in prison. Instead of giving a female crim inal so many months in jail she is pent, no matter how terrible is her record, to one or the other of the convents devoted to the purpose and kept there during the time for which she is sentenced. The convent is not a mere prison in disgui e. for the courtyard stands open all day long, the only bar to egress being a man who acts as porter, just as in other con fents. Ivory handles of knives require n spe cial course of treatment when they be come discolored. Mix ammonia an I olive qij ip equal parts aud add to the mixture prepared chalk to make a good paste. Itub the Ivory with this and let the paste dry before brushing it off. Two or three applications are often needed when the ivory is much discolored. In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. A Keen Clear Brain. Your best feelings, yonr social position or bnsines success depend largely on the perfect action of yonr Stomach and Liver. Dr. King's New Life Pills give increased strength, a keen, clear brain, high apibition. A 25 cent box will make you feel like a new being. Sold by Paules & Cos druggists. DOINGS OF ELECTRICIANS. Inventions nud Discoveries of In tercut to laymen. An extensive scheme for supplying electric power to the gold mines in My sore, India, is under contemplation. Much interest lias been excited In England by the statement that by the judicious application of electric cur rents to growing potatoes the crop may be very largely increased. The largest electric power scheme yet promoted hails from Port Arthur and Port Williams in Canada, where j the falls of the Kaministiqua river are to be utilized and no less than 000,000 horsepower developed. A canal 13 miles long will be required. In the Prussian government dock yard at Kiel electricity is to supersede steam power. All the great machine shops are to be electrically driven from a central power plant of a capacity of 3,500 horsepower. The same plant will ! also supply energy for the powerful dockyard pumps. Many women are finding employment j in the higher branches of electrical j work. Some girls are taking up the study of electricty with a view to be- ; coming electrical engineers, especially j In the department of electric lighting, ' which in its ornamental and spectacu- ' lar side seems to lend itself particular- j ly to the capabilities of feminine taste, i For measuring the enormous electrical currents generated in and distributed from modern central stations the hot wire instrument is becoming very pop- \ ular. This type of instrument depends for its operation upon the principle that ; any conductor of electricity becomes j heated by the passage through it of a current and that any metallic sub stance that is heated expands. Great expectations are entertained and many plans are being formed in Porto Rico for the installation of short inland electric railways from the cen tral range to the coast. The power is to be developed through the agency of j many streams to be met with in every | part of the mountain range, which ( traverses the island from end to end. If all that is expected in the way of new roads and other electrical works is accomplished, there will be a field in Porto liico for considerable electrical machinery and material. The only road on the island, from the capital to Rio Padres, some nine miles in length, is shortly to be equipped electrically. An interesting application of the elec trical current has recently been made in the manufacture of bisulphide of carbon. This substance is a colorless liquid resembling water in appearance, but possessing an intolerably offensive odor. It is used in large quantities as j a solvent for india rubber and as the base of various varnishes. It is 'arm ed when carbon and sulphur are heated together at a high temperature, the bi sulphide then passing away as a gase ous vapor. In the new process a mix ture of ground coke and sulphur is subjected to the beat of the electric arc in a suitably designed furnace, from which the resulting gases are led into worms resembling those of a still. In this they are condensed to the liquid product, which is then bottled. It is not the least of chemical curiosities that this clear and limpid liquid is formed by the combination of two solid substances. I'*e« of the I.emon. Sick headaches may often be cured by taking half the juice of one lemon In a teacupful of strong black coffee. Headaches from biliousness or torpid liver sometimes yield to the simple treatment of half a lemon squeezed in to a cup of hot water without sugar, taken uiglit and morning. Lemon juice and sugar mixed , very thick furnish a common household remedy for coughs and colds. Hot lemonade is also good, but the very best form in which the lemon can be used for such cases is the following: Put a good sized lemon in the oven and let it remain until thoroughly baked. It will then be soft all through. Take it out and add enough sugar or honey (honey is preferable) to make a thick sirup with the juice. Keep this warm and take a teaspoonful every few min utes. When you make a hot lemonade for a cold, remember that glycerin instead of sugar will make the remedy more valuable. For feverishness and unnatural thirst soften a lemon by rolling on a hard surface, cut off the top. add sugar and work the sugar down into the lemon with a fork. Then slowly suck the lemon. Lemons in almost any form have a beneficial effect in cases of rheuma tism and are recommended by doctors. As a remedy for an obstinate corn bind a piece of lemon upon it. renew ing every morning for three or four days. Then the corn will be easily re moved. Bread crumbs soaked with lemon juice may be used for the same purpose. Rubbing with pieces of lem on will relieve sore and tender feet. Chilblains can be cured by rubbing with a sliced lemon that has been sprinkled with salt. The chapping of the hands by ex posure to heat or from hot soapsuds may be prevented by rubbing with lemon juice, and. with salt, lemon juice will remove iron rust and nearly all vegetable stains.—New York Herald. How Xatnrc WOPM, Nature rony be the best physician, but her business methods as a bookkeeper would scandalize a Monte Carlo roulette gambler. Sowing bushels to harvest peeks would be considered poor farming, but the "mystic manager of the organic uni verse" scatters fi,<)oo acorns to raise one oak and 2.500,000 sturgeon eggs to evolve one sturgeon. The experimental work of her pottery shop has covered the neighboring fields with hillocks of shards. Every species of living animals, accord ing to Professor Haeckel, has been de veloped at tiie expense of scores of less perfect entities. —Indianapolis News. Where It Ended. "The man who wrote 'Home, Sweet Home,' was a bachelor, I believe," she said. "Yes," he replied. "What a beautiful thing would have been lost to the world if ho had married before he wrote it." Then they came out from behind the nnlms.—Chicago Times-Herald. •inm l.ike n Mnn. She —Ah, Etui), my parents won't allow me to marry you. There's nothing for us to do but to die together! He—Yes, dear, we have no other choice but to die— but not today, for we have j fricasseed chicken for dinner, my favor- i ite dish! —Fliegende Blatter. Of Practlenl rue. ,f I want the boy ter I'arn history," said the farmer, "so's lie kin write one i>* them historical novels an make money enough to paint the barn an have the ] tuules shod."—Atlanta Constitution. An Onion lure. Among the Chileans a belief prevails that the juice of onions Is a sure cure for typhoid fever if given in its earlier stages. Colds Melt Away, if yon use Kranse's Cold Cure. Pre pared in convenient capsule form tbey | are ea*y to take and effect a speedy i cure of the most obstinate cases. Price j 25c. Sold by Roasman & Son's Phar macy. rot Feeling Well. I am not feeling well today. But why I cannot see. I had some ice cream 'cross the way And pancakes borne for tea. I also liad some caramels. And sugared almonds, too, And, when I met with Tommy Wells, A stick of fine tulu. But I was careful with each one; Too much of none I ate. It cannot be that penny bun, And yet the pain is great. I had six cookies, but I've had Six cookies oft before; They've never left me feeling bad, Nor pickles—three or more. The soda water couldn't make Me ill; 'twas Billy's treat. I sort of think this fearful ache Comes wholly from the heat. Wnnted Company. When small Bobby had worn his first pair of trousers for an hour, he went to his mother and begged to have on his kilt ! a grain. "What for?" she asked. "Because," replied Bobby, "1 fee! so lonesome in pants." SANITARY DRINKiNG CUP. lnaorea rieaiillness by Conxtant Flow of Freiih Water. Members of both the board of edu cation and the board of health are dis cussing a new drinking cup for use in the Atlanta public schools. It is rep resented as being the most sanitary drinking utensil that has yet been in vented. A picture of the new cup is reproduced herewith from the Atlanta Constitution. The cup is stationary and rests over it basin which catches the overflow. SR." A* '^2^- S JPMg mm A't r '^ v. / i SASITAP.Y DRINKING FOUNTAIN, The water comes direct from the pipes to the oup and is allowed to run as long as desired. The flow is controlled by a faucet just above the basin. It is proposed to allow the water to ran into this cup during school hours. There is a constant flow over the sides of the cup, preventing contamination of any kind. Sticks, weeds or any thing else not too heavy is thrown from the cup by the force of the wa ter. The edges can never be comami nated by diseased mouths because of the constant flow. In drinking the mouth is placed to the cup without ; moving the contrivance. In addition to its other advantages the cup is believed to be especially adapted to southern schools because ice cannot be placed in the water which the children drink. The water is cool ed by means of a coil of pipe around which ice is packed, the action being much like that of a condensing worm In a still. ODD EFFECT OF MONEY. VWLT Day Make* Many Men Act Like Comedians. The cashier was in a communicative mood. It was pay day, and as he stood inside his little inclosure he congratulated himself upon the fact that his cash had balanced to a cent and that the pay en velopes were ready for delivery. lie was talking to the old time reporter and re marked: "It's strange how many staid men there are who become comedians on pay day. Just stand here 15 minutes and you will hear more genuine drivel to the square yard than you ever dreamed of before." The old time reporter determined to in vestigate. The first man to approach was the moody chap who seemed to have trou ble on his mind every day in the week. But it was different on pay day. "Hello, Cashley, old man," said he to the cashier. "I heard that the institution was short of funds, so I thought I might as well hurry up and ayoid the rush. Funny how these rumors circulate." The next to approach was the dapper little person who congratulates himself that the concern could not get along with out him. "What's this? Do my eyes deceive me?" he exclaimed as he perceived the hardest worker in the building drawing his envelope. "Are you still on the pay roll? Why, I thought the management had sized you up long ago." Instead of standing around 15 minutet the old time reporter extended the limit, and here are some of the specimens of wit, wisdom and humor that he heard drop from the lips of supposedly rational beings: "Don't know what to do with this mon ey, now that I have it,"from the man who had been out of work for seven months. "What's this? Why, I was assured by the boss that 1 would find SSO more in my envelope this week. He must have overlooked it." This from the individual who had been expecting dismissal for a month. "Still paying off in gold, I see, in spite of the fact that you know I am not strong enough to carry it around with me," chuckled the heavyweight of the estab lishment. "Just as soon as we organize our union we will have this money brought to our houses instead of being obliged to come after it," chimed the fellow who had been broke for five days. "Well, I suppose I might as well take those salary checks and have them framed as souvenirs," chuckled the young man who had drawn most of his salary in ad vance. "Just stop to think," mused the cash ier during a lull, "that 1 am obliged to stand here and listen to all this one day in each week, and still my friends wonder why 1 don't take in the vaudeville shows. To make matters worse, the management refuses to allow me to protect myself with gun or pistol."—Chicago Chronicle. 1,OTM!OVI Vchdol Children, The London school board is responsible for the education of n population more than double that of Denmark or Greece, larger than that of Scotland and only ex ceeded sligh'ly by that of Bavaria and Holland. The child population of Lon don in need o* elementary education is larger than the total population of any European city except Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Vienna. It is more than double the population of Bris tol, Dresden or Prague. The sum annu ally expended oil elementary education in the metropolis is alone equal to the to tal national expenses of Denmark, Nor way and Sweden, not to mention that of many minor states of Europe. The Best Cold Cure. one yon can take without interrup tion to business. One t hat does not effect the head or hearing like the con tinued use of quiniue. One tbat curt s speedily and lea ves you feeling fresh and clear headed. Such a one in Kranse's Cold Cure. Price 25c. Sold by Ross man & Son's Pharmacy. BUR (BESTS ! 1 (V'S ' \ V \ A \l xw* Distinguish the Wall Paper this season Our designs rank with Frescoes i» their grace and art. You should buy them because you get only wbat is beautiful and correct here. We keep no half-way papers, they all come up to a certain standard, at prices astonishingly low, notwithstand ing the advance in price of all raw materials. Prices range from 3 cenle to 75 cents per piece. A. H. GRONE. Shoes, Shoes StylisH I Ciieap I lESelia"ble I Bicycle, Gymnasium and Tennis Shoes. THE CELEBRATED Carlisle Shoes AND THE Snag Proof Rubber Boots A SPECIALTY. A. SCI-IATZ, This season s most artistic ">>MILLINERY^ productions are here to interest and please. Exquisitely trimmed Hats, Toques and Bonnets, and nutrimmed shapes of the newest and most approved style. Call and see them. They will need bnt little praise from ns to make them appreciated. Also a line of un trimmed Hats in all the popular shapes at Reduced Prices. ■Finer. 122 Mill Street. Mil HIW ! A Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing* Spouting and General Job Work, Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, etc. PRICES TAB LOW EST! QUiLITY THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FRONT ST. 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MOREAUS TANSY AND t&Pf PENNYROYAL PILLS 112 The Safest, Serest lad Oily J r RELIABLE Freach REMEDY. <K N?> Price SI.OO per bo*, rink wrapper, " . extra strength. $2.00 per box. by mail, postpaid. Address DR. MOREAU A Co., lirown Bros.* Bldg., S. Clinton St., Cbicago t Hi Wanted—A Wife ! Must, be strong and never have a lame back.— I>r. Hankln'■ Kiiinty Tablet* stop the pain at once and cure permanently .Sold by ltoMMinan <£ Son.
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