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FRANK C. ANGL E. Proprietor .
Danville. Pa.. July 2b 190 1
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
I hereby annonuc* my name a* i j
candidate for renoininat ion for lln ollic< j
of Prothonotary and Clerk of th« < .»nrt> j
of Montour County subject to the a<-
tion of the Republican < 'mention.
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REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
To the Republican electors of l'eiin
sylvauia I ant directed by the Kepubli
can State Committee to announce that
the Republicans of Pennsylvania, by
their duly chosen repseutative» will
meet in convention at the »tpera Hotisi
in the city of Harrisbnrg. on Wednes
day, Angnst 21. at 10.30 a. nr.. lor the
purpose of nominating candidates for
the following offices
One person for the office ot Justice of
the Supreme Court.
One person for the office of State Treas
urer.
In oceordance wit h t he rule- governing
the organization, the representation in
the State Convention will be based on
the vote polled at the late presidential
election. Under the rules each legis
lative district i> entitled to one delegate
for every two thousand votes east for
the presidential electors in I'.mo, and an
additional delegate for each ti action ot
two thonsaild Votes polled in excess of
one thousand.
By order of the Republican State Com
mittee.
FKA.NK KKKHKIC. Chairman.
W. R. AXDKKUS C. E. VooutiKi:-'.
Secretaries
Why Gomez Is Ilcrf.
Oeneral Gomez, who came up from
Ooba a week or so ago, has dispelled
the mystery of his presence In the Unit
ed States, though why there should
have been any mystery attached to the
visit of the battered old patriot, who
has now sheathed his sword and Is a
private und peaceful citizen of the Is
land, no one (ran quite understand. Aft
er much Importuning by the metropoli
tan newspaper reporters General Go
mez Issued a statement, saying: "The
»ole object of my visit to this city has
been my great desire to embrace my
old, true and loyal friend, Mr. Tomas
Estrada Palnia, whom I have not been
able to see since peace was re-estab
lished, and, of course, to pay a visit to
President McKlnley, to whom we Cu
bans owe so much."
The general declares that, as tho Cu
bans are all anxious to establish self
government, they are all working to
ward this end. Although this is hard
ly an exact statement of fact. It is a
pardonable exaggeration coming from
a leader whose struggle for independ
ence has lasted 20 years and who c?m
hardly be blamed for Intimating that
annexationists are not Cubans as he
understands the word.
•In concluding his statement General
Gomez Indulges In a line bit of Iberian
eloquence and distributes compliments
broadcast. He adroitly says:"On again
Betting foot In this free land I feel hap
py, for In every American I see a friend
who, having shed his blood side by
■lde with us for Cuba's freedom, has
earned our eternal gratitude and es
tablished the mutual obligation be
tween the two people to maintain the
peace and the independence of the is
land of Cuba." While the language la
somewhat extravagant and takes for
granted some things which may not be
regarded as wholly settled, the en
thusiasm of the old hero as he sees the
near approach of the "Cuba libre" for
the accomplishment of which the better
part of his life has been given is nat
ural and wholly commendable.
Conscription and Civilization.
The Beacon, a Boston publication
which calls Itself "a magazine of help
fulness and hopefulness," finds a queer
dilemma confronting the military au
thorities of those countries wherein
service in the army is not compulsory.
On the one hand, The Beacon says,
men nowadays will not enlist, except In
times of great excitement due to peril
of foreign attack, unless they are well
paid and fed, provided with amuse
ments and recreation and subjected
only to the lightest of discjpllne. On
the other hand, declares The Beacon,
"men who are kept in a fairly comfort
able frame of mind, who are well fed
and who find plenty of wholesome
amusement do not make good fighters.
.The rough fare, the strict discipline,
the drill, the constant restrictions on
his liberty, the punishment for petty
offenses, put the soldier in an irritable
mood. In which it ts a positive relief to
htm togo out and kill somebody." Ho
The Beacon thinks that it will not do
to make army service too easy, because
in that case the army will not be a
good fighting machine, while if army
service Is not made attractive It Is
going to IH> more and more difficult to
get recruits. The conclusion Is that be
fore very long little wars will be given
np, and then, sarcastically, "that, of
course, would be a sad blow to civiliza
tion, but It would bo a great thing for
the comfort of thoso who sit in dark
ness and Incidentally for the people
who have to pay the bills."
What special knowledge of war and
warriors this hopeful and helpful
magazine possesses Is not revealed, but
its notions as to what, constitutes a
good solaler and makes him efficient
In battle is certainly noveL
"If you make It impossible for the po
lice captain to receive pay for protect
ing crime, you will come pretty near to
making it impossible for criminals to
flourish, whether thej lie gamblers or
Other kinds of lawbreakers," says Jus
tice Jerome of New
rather unpleasant commentary on
municipal government
The English papers are calling atten
tion to the fact that the tirst term of !
oilier of Prince George of Greece as
high commissioner will expire within a
few months. Three years ago Crete'
was making trouble for almost the
whole of Europe, and now it is possible
that she will again give the great pow
ers something more to worry about. It
is reported that the members of the
chamber of deputies have been consid
ering tlie question of asking for annex-
ation to Greece. This is looked on as a
sign of rumpus to couie In the near fu
ture. According to reports from Ath
ens, the Christians of Crete claim that
"the material resources of the Island
cannot suffice for an autonomous gov
ernment." But what are tbey to gain
by being annexed to practically bank
rupt Greece? If the Christians of Crete
would confine their efforts to industry
and drop politics for a time, they would
doubtless soon be inn much better con
dition themselves, and at the same time
they would save the coucert of the pow
ITS a deal of anxiety. It is, of course,
difficult to maintain peace in an island
Inhabited by two antagonistic races
and have each enjoy equal rights. If
there is an outbreak in the near future,
the responsibility for it will lie very
largely with the Christians, who are
doubtless more or less encouraged iu
their position by the high commission
er himself.
To Stop Corners Iu Grain.
The movement started by the New
York Produce Exchange to mako the
cornering of foodstuffs more difficult, if
uot to stop it altogether, seems likoly to
bear fruit-
Under present conditions the so call
ed contract grades of wheat, corn, oats,
fctr,, are limited in quantity, and it is j
a more or less easy matter for the mar
ket to bo manipulated. The frequent
corners are evidence of this. That
New York dealers who wish to conduct
a legitimate business are practically at
the mercy of the speculators In the
large primary markets Is shown by a
till>l*■ prepared by the New York Jour
nal of Commerce. Of the stocks of
wheat in New York <*Wy 314,023 are of
the contract grades of No. 2 red, No. 1
hard spring and No. 1 Northern; of
corn only 240,108 bushels are contract,
and of tmts only 207,491 bushels. The
corresponding figures for Chicago are
fvV.T.usti, 1,722,301 and 3,080,500. It Is
thus seen that manipulation in Chicago
would almost immediately wipe out
the contract grades In New York and
leave the dealers in that city with the
obligation of paying whatever the spec
ulator who worked the corner demand
ed in order to make their deliveries.
The plan by which it is proposed to
remedy this evil is similar to the one
which for several-ears lias operated
successfully In tIF cotton and coffee
markets. It contemplates making sev
eral grades good deliveries with the
payuieut of a certain arbitrary premi
um to be fixed two or three times
year by a committee of the exchange.
This would permit dealers to conduct
their ordinary business without fear of
losing all their money in an effort to
make good their contracts. It would
also furnish an opportunity for dealers
at Chicago and elsewhere to hedge if
they were caught in a corner.
Any movement tending to do away
with or perceptibly lessen the corner
ing of the necessities of life, which Is
the most dangerous and harmful phase
of speculation, is to be commended and
should have the approval of all who
carry oil a straightforward business In
the various agricultural products.
According to the latest returns, Fish
kill Landing, N. Y., has the record
breaking romancer. A man In that
place, he says, ate some fried eggs that
had been charged with electricity by
a lightning bolt that dropped through
his residence, and Incidentally through
his kitchen celling, directly over the
stove where the eggs were frying.
Shortly after he had partaken «112 his
egg embellished meal the man felt un
comfortable. lie felt still more uncom
fortable when the eggs began to short
circuit themselves. Green flames snap
ped and crackled from his hair, his
watch stopped, aud old nails and tacks
and needles flew to him and hung on
with unpleasant pertinacity. The doc
tors were hurriedly called, and they
said that the lightning would have to
take its time in working out of his sys
tem. They had no remedies that would
mitigate the effects of overindulgence
in fresh currents, and so for two weeks
the victim has been recuperating from
this violent attack of electric Indiges
tion.
It Wa« Hli Denl.
A mining engineer who has returned
from Alaska brings, among other inter
esting tilings, evidence that the higher
the latitude the greater the latitude.
Watching a poker game In which tho
stakes were heavy he saw a player give
himself four aces from the bottom of
the pack.
liurning with Indignation at such
shameless cheating, he turned to a by
stander and whispered, "Did you see
that?"
"See what?"
"Why, that fellow dealt himself four
aces!"
"Well, wasn't it his deal?"
Judge Brown of the United States
circuit court, sitting at Boston, has de
cided that tho Bell Telephone com
pany no longer has a legal right to the
exclusive use of the Berliner micro
phone and that its patent on that in
vention is void. This is the second im
portant decision given by Judge Brown
against the Bell company. It further
strengthens the position of the inde
pendent companies, which are growing
quite rapidly throughout the country.
The days of telephone monopoly seem
to be numbered.
Won.
"Dear," said young Mrs. Jrllus, "I
thought you ought to know. There's a
married man who Is violently in love
with me."
"What?" he cried. "Who is he?"
"If I tell you, will you give me those
earrings I wanted?"
"Yes. Who Is it?"
"You."—Philadelphia Tress.
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ClninKi'd Tiint-x.
Times have changed indeed from the
time when Sydney Smith complacently
observed tliat the United States had
so much wilderness clearing t«► d<> tliat
It might well take its literature, learn
ing and luxury in the hulk from Eng
lish factories.
"Why," he had asked, "should the
Americans write books when a six
weeks' passage brings them, in their
own tongue, our sense, science and gen
ius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies,
steamboats, gristmills, arc their nat
ural objects for centuries to come."
We might almost reverse this and
ask, "Why should the English feel ill
at ease when a six days' passage brings
them our sense, science and genius i
For the time at least the Kev. Syd
ney Smith's chief notoriety seems to
be that he was the author of certain
observations whose truthfulness has
proved as brief as It was bitter. Har
per's Weekly.
Tliey All I.end I«.
Towne —lilugore's not very interest
ing himself, but there's a born leader
of men in his family.
Browne —You don't say?
Towne—Yes; it's a girl; arrived last
night.—Philadelphia Press.
lin portH nt.
He—Darling, will yon be my wife?
She—Have you a recommendation
from your fiancee?— King.
How's This ?
We otTer <>ne lluudred Hollars Reward for
any case of < 'sit irrli tliat can not l»- cured liy
Hull's Catarrh''tire.
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We tin - undersigned, havt known I". .1-
Cheney for the last !•">>• ar-.. and believe him
perfectly Inmorable In all business transac
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their tirm.
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Hall's family Pills are the best.
The newspapers or Cutia are discuss
ing the poverty of the native vocabu
lary. They say that school children
have such a limited command of the
Spanish language that they recite their
lessons in< It gantly and incorrectly, con
tinually repeating the same words and
often giving those words a meaning not
sanctioned by the dictionaries. There
are artisans all over Cuba "who are
Ignorant of the right names of the tools
they use, and there are blacksmiths,
masons and carpenters who do not
know the names of certain figures and
things which they draw and fabricate
continually." The Dlario de la Marina
of Havana says that a great school for
the teaching of Spanish should be
founded in Cuba. A flood of Angli
cisms, it declares, is inundating Cuban
writing and conversation, and within
20 years "not a word of Spanish will
be understood in the island."
John I'. Klein, sentenced to the peni
tentiary for bigamy by a local court,
enjoyed the unusual blessings of two
wives, two homes and two positions.
Clever as he considered himself, his
scheme failed and all on account of tin
unequal division of his two salaries
between the two wives. The wife who
received the smallest division of his
two salaries started an investigation,
which resulted in bis imprisonment.
Thus it would seem that fair play is a
Tequisite even in a successful bigamist.
Just now there is a craze for scien
tific physical culture, and it is even
making its way into the schools. It Is
easy to understand that a city clerk
may be the better for chasing weights
up and down the wall of his room foi
exercise, but what has become of tin
physical culture boys and girls are sup
posed to have iu the playground games'
The wild Indian is the most graceful
! the most supple, hardy and alert spec
j imen of the human race to be found
and he knows nothing of the white
1 man's devices for building up muscle,
j Ills bodily training comes from games
j and contests where the race is to tin
! swift and the battle to the strong
I That is the best physical culture whict
i is play, or akin to it, and not serious
' work.
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THE DAYS OF TERROR
ROBESPIERRE, THE MODERATE ANC
DISCREET REVOLUTIONIST.
I'lnln \V«»r«ln of Murut anil Other J«c
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IliN llrti'iiar of lluiuuii lltglitu—Ac
<*<-sh u( Trrrorlmn.
[Copyright, 1901, by G. L. Kilmer.]
but not until long after Marat hat
preached it and he himself had frown
ed It down.
Early In tho revolution Mirabeai
said of Robespierre after one of hi:
speeches, "That young man believe!
what he says, therefore he will go far.'
The "young man"was then above 3»
and had won distinction In the defense
of Hen Franklin's lightning rods am
also by his espousal of the huraant
principles of Rosseau, which causet
him to side with tlie people against no
bility and clergy and to advocate th»
abolition uf capital punishment.
At college Robespierre had had foi
companions Hanton and Hesruoullns
yet when elected deputy to the states
general he was one of the most modest
of revolutionists. He then lived on hit
stipend of is francs a day and support
ed his sister from it. Studious and ab
stemlous, with but a single coat to hit
back, and that worn threadbare, hi
courted retirement and when drawr
out of himself was so mysterious anc
outspoken as to be feared by his col
leagues. His radicalism at that tim«
consisted in advocating the rights oi
citizens to serve upon Juries and in tin
national guard and In sharing politlca
rights with the blacks in the colonies
Said lie, "Let the colonies perish rathei
than a principle." When the constltu
ent assembly ended in 1891, Robes
pierre was a hero of the Paris sections
A decree proposed by himself prevent
ed former deputies serving In the nexi
legislature. He traveled In the interior
frequented the Jacobin club and begar
to publish a revolutionary journal. Mi
rabeau died at this time, and Kobes
pierre succeeded him as the populai
idol, but there were too many jealous
ics :it work among headers to permit
one man to take the reins.
The uprising of the Paris sections 01
the commune, August, 1792, brought
the young lawyer again into promt
neiice and power. He appeared befor*
the assembly sis the spokesman of «
deputation of citizens which demanded
the establishment of a criminal court
for the trial of the enemies of liberty
The court w as promptly organized ami
Robespierre named as presiding judge
but he refused to serve on the ground
that it would not be right to make him
Judge of those whom he had alreadj
denounced as enemies of the country
Against the massacres which soon fol
lowed under the inspiration of Dantoc
he vigorously protested and ceased ti
appear at the meetings of the com
mune.
Robespierre was elected to the na
tional convention from Paris, and soon
afterward the (Jlrondius accused bin
of aspiring to dictatorship. Marat de
fended His rival on this charge and at
the same time disclosed the motives oi
these two men. He said that at his first
meeting with Robespierre the lattei
had drawn him into declaring that hi
would send certain judges to the stake
poniard I.afayette, burn the king in hit
palace and strangle the traitorous rep
resentatives in the convention. Said
Marat of this interview: "Robespierre
listened to me with terror. He grew
pale and was silent for some time. This
confirmed me in the opinion that I al
ways had of him, that he united tht
knowledge of the wise senator to tht
integrity of a thoroughly good man am
the zeal of a true patriot, but that he is
lacking as a statesman alike as regards
clearness of vision and determination.'
Afterward Marat publicly declared ir
tin? convention that both Robesplerrt
and Danton had all along repudiated
the idea of a dictatorship, of triumvi
! rate, of tribunal, which he had put be
fore them. Finally, either as a matte)
of justice or for his own glorification
he said that he (Marat) was the tlrsi
and probably the only man since tht
i opening of the revolution who hac
openly declared for a triumvirate ot
dictatorship as the only means oi
I crushing conspirators.
Itotli Robespierre and Marat drew i
| hot lire from the (Jirondins, and the Jac
i obins took alarm. One day toward tht
[ close of 17!»2, before the attack upor
the king. Citizen Robert said to the Jac
f.liin dub: "It Is very astonishing tha
the names of Robespierre and Marai
are always coupled together. Marat is
a patriot. He has excellent qualities, 1
i admit, but how different is he from
Robespierre! The latter is discreet
moderate in his means, whereas Marai
is exaggerated and has not the discre
tion which characterizes Robespierre
It is not sufficient to be a patriot. In
order to serve the people usefully it is
necessary to be reserved in the meant
of execution, and most assuredlj
Robespierre surpasses Marat in tht
j means of execution."
In the same strain Citizen Hourdoc
continued: "We ought long since tc
have acquainted the affiliated societies
with our opinions of Marat. How could
they ever connect Robespierre and Ma
rat together? Robespierre is a virtuous
man with whom we have no fault tc
find from the commencement of the
revolution. Robespierre Is moderate In
his menus, whereas Marat Is a violent
writer who does great harm to the Jac
obins, and besides It Is right to ob
serve that Marat does us great injury
with the national convention. The dep
uties imagine we are partisans of Ma
rat. We are called Maratists. If we
show that we duly appreciate Marat,
then you will see the deputies draw
nearer to the Mountain where we sit.
You will see the affiliated societies ,
which have gone astray rally around !
the cradle of liberty. If Marat Is a pa- ,
trlot, he will aeeede to the motion I !
am about to make. Marat ought to sac
rifice himself to the cause of liberty. I
move that his name be stricken from
the list of members of this society."
Some members applauded this speech, !
while others murmured, and in the
confusion Citizen Dufourny arose to
pour oil upon the troubled waters. Raid
he:"1 oppose the motion for expelling
Marat from this society. I will not de
ny the difference that exists between
Marat and Robespierre. These two
writers who may resemble one another
In patriotism have very striking dif
ferences. They have both served the
people, but in different ways. Robes
pierre has defended the true principles
with method, with tirinness and with
ail becoming discretion, Marat, on the
contrary, has frequently passed the
bounds of sound reason and prudence.
Still, though admitting the difference
that exists between Marat and Robes
pierre, I am not in favor of the erasure.
I conclude with proj>oslng that the mo
tion of Bourdon be rejected and that
merely a letter be written to the affil
iated societies to acquaint them with
the difference that we make between
Marat and Robespierre."
This compromise prevailed, but in
less than 3d days the moderate Robes
pierre was calling for the death of the
king. Said he, "Louis must die that the
country may live." After the death of
the king he Immediately proposed a
committee of public safety clothed
with power above the convention. It
was organized, and Robespierre be
came the spokesman of the Mountain.
It was then that he Instituted the reign
of terror and defended the condemna
tion of the Girondists by the declara
tion, "There are periods in a revolution
when to live is a crime."
Finally In the same year as the death
of the king and the organization of the
committee of public safety Marat was
assassinated to avenge the Girondins.
He was the greatest personal force in
the commune, ami then began a strug
gle between the commune, with its rev
i olutionary army, and the committee,
with Robespierre In power. Danton led
the convention, which was also in the
way of the committee. Robespierre de
nounced the feast of reason which the
convention instituted and afterward
tried to counteract it by a festival to
| the Supreme Being. Gradually the
breach widened between Robespierre
and the Dantonlsts of the convention
and the commune, which no longer had
Marat to offset Robespierre.
The first element togo down under
I the guillotine were the communists.
The Dantonlsts applauded at first, but
I within a short time Danton and Des
moullns were brought to the block by
j their old school fellow, Robespierre,
who at the head of the governing eoni
| mittees was virtually the dictator of
I France.
i Whatever the cause, the moderate
| had become the terrorist. Perhaps Ma
j HOUKSI'J KIUiE.
' rat had had the longer vision, or it may
t be that Robespierre waited for time to
i prove that the greatest enemies of the
revolution were in its own ranks. He
had lid himself of the commune and
the convention and finally tried to
purge the committees. lie failed and
was brought to tliw block after a dead
ly struggle between his adherents and
the convention.
In person Robespierre was slight,
| with feeble and angular limbs. His
voii«e was shrill and monotonous, his
[ eyes blue and deepset. A continual ten-
J sion of all the muscles of the face gave
I to his naturally yellow complexion a
somewhat ghastly look. From first to
j last he inspired his fellows with fear.
! The outside world worshiped him as
j •'the Incorruptible."
Geouue L. KII.MIR.
' How (u u Fh influx l'erson.
If the face is pale, lay the patient
flat on the back and raise the feet a lit
tle. If the face is red, raise the patient
j to a sitting or easy reclining position.
The pale face indicates that there Is
I too little blood in the head, the red that
j there is too much. It is necessary also
| to be careful that a black or blue face
; Is not mistaken for a pale one, for this
! dark, hue indicates venous congestion,
! and in such a case the patient should
be raised.—Exchange,
Far Wone,
Jack—And did she make a fool of
you?
Arthur—lt was worse than that; sht
| let me make one of myself.- Puck.
The Telltale flird.
There is a bird I'd like to see,
A bird that always tells of me.
Whenever I have naughty been
This bird is surely to drop in
And tell mamma just what I've done;
Then she calls me "My little eon."
1 know ail what she's going- to .say.
'Tie, "Johnny, you've been bad today!"
Hut when i ask, ' Ilow do you know?"
She sa}3, "A birdie told me BO."
And if a piece of pie I take
yr even a small bit oft ake
From pantry where no windows are
And I creep through the door ajar,
This little bird has eyes to se^
And tell mamma all tales 'bout me;
Yet still I never saw this bird,
But ever of it I have heard.
Mamma says, "Oh, he flies around!"
'Tis strange I cannot hear a sound,
Although I 1< -k and listen well
When I do things I would not tell.
Fur fear mamma might ' all me bad
And look at m- with eyes s»» sad
That 1 am sorry, and 1 say
Again, "I'll never disobey."
I wish I could this rare bird find
That tells su< h tales when I don't mind.
A Korean Prison.
The gate was wide open, and the
courtyard was full of prisoners,and the
surrounding buildings were old juid
tottering. I asked the chief, whom one
of the two or three listless attendants
called for us, why the prisoners did
aot run away. "Oh," lie replied, "they
would he caught and beaten again and
kept longer. Now they will get out
soon."
Hilt as I looked at them I saw they
did not run because they could not.
The life was beaten out of them. The
keepers brought the heavy red cord
with a brass hook at the end and
trussed up a man with it to show how
the beating was done and then brought
us the stiff rods with which victims
were pounded over the shins and
thighs until the beaten spots were sim
ply masses of festering rottenness.
There was a room, black, foul, leprous,
in which the men were fastened in the
stocks. The I'.lack Hole of Calcutta, was
scarcely less merciful than this.—
Ladies' Monthly.
II iw tnrertn lity.
Farmer Honk—Say. Lem!
Fanner Stackridcr—l lar?
Fanner llonk Is that 'ere solemn,
spectacled young nephew of yourn
that's bein called "doctor" and goes
around lookin as wise as a treeful of
owls a dentist, a lioss physician, a corn
curer, a layer on of hands, a presidin
elder or just a common doctor that
saws bones and kills folks?— Puck.
All Kml»rnelii k°.
"I see that somebody says Edmund
Kean, the most famous of English ac
tors, lived to adapt tlie kind of meat
he ate to the part 1 it- had to play, choos
ing pork for tyrants, beef for murder
ers and mutton for lovers."
"That's a great id» a. I suppose
when he had to play several parts in
one evening lie ate hash."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A New England man was given to
addressing his cattle in rather em
phatic terms. One day when the cows
were more than usually frolicsome lie
was heard to exclaim: "Vis, scatter,
will ye! Blast ye! If there warn't
but one of ye. ye'd scatter!"
The Sexton— I don't think you can
Cud a particle of dust in the center aisle
today, sir.
The Reetor--Oh, yes! I remember now
that bride yesterday had au unusually
long train.
The Man I~p Town at the Telephone—
Hello! Is this the grocerV
The Grocer —Yes.
"Have you got any very old cheese?"
"Yes; I've got some that's all
I'll call it if you'd like to speak to it."
Mrs. Crimsonbeak —Did you think to
Pt"|> at the plumber's this morning, dear?
Mr. <'i iiiisuiibeak Vi s, but he wasn't
in.and all the time 1 was waiting for
him I heard his daughter up stairs sing
ing, "If you haven't got no money, you
needn't come round."- —Yonkers States
man.
How to Darn Stocking)).
Silk iloss Is one of the best things to
use In darning stockings, although a
strong and smooth darn for merino
stockings may be made by using both
stout cotton and woolen yarn. When
going over the break for the first time,
have the threads of cotton. Then put
in the cross layer of woolen yarn. In
drawing the threads in linen lirst rub
the surface to be drawn with white
soap.
How to Clean Picture Frames.
The best preparation for cleaning pic
ture frames or restoring furniture is a
mixture of three parts of linseed oil
and one part of spirits of turpentine.
It uot only removes scratches, but re
stores wood to its original color, leav
ing a luster upon the surface. It should
be applied with a woolen cloth and
then rubbed when dry with a silk cloth.
Why We Bathe.
Professor Vivian Lewes, at the Lon
don institution, recently furnished the
following answer to the question,
"Why do we bathe?" Twenty-eight
miles of sweat glands In our skin are
discharging 'JO ounces of water per day
and leaving upon the outer surface of
the skin a full ounce of solid matter.
These are aided by the oil glands of the
hair, which facilitate the adherence of
; external dirt. Hence the refreshing
character of the morning bath and the
necessity for grease absorbing jilkalies
in soap.
Boom tiy Innuendo,
"Have you done anything to boom
your town?
"Waal, I reckon! Held tew indigna
tion meetin's tew pertest ag'in the
smoke nuisance!"— Detroit Journal.
HOHNOII I'mniM h.
"The king orders you executed at
■unrise for offending the queen."
"Hut she wanted me to elope with
her, and I refused."
"That's just it."—Life.
Panaeecu
Fortieth Friend (since breakfast)—Ry
Jove, old follow, you've got a fearful
cold. What are you taking for it?
Sufferer (hoarsely) Advice. New
v o rk WceVlv
Womeu Who Wear Well.
It is astonishing how great a change
a few years of married life will make
in the appearance and disposition of
many women. The freshness, the charm,
the brilliance vanish like the bloom
from a peach which is rudely handled.
The matron is only a dim shadow, a
faint echo of the charming maiden.
There are two reasons for this change.
ignorance and neglect. Few young
women appreciate the shock to the sys
tein through the change which conn s
with marriage. Manx neglect to deal
with the unpleasant drains which are
often consequent on marriage and moth
erhood. not understanding that this
secret drain is robbing the check of its
freshness and the form of its fairness.
As surely as the general health suffers
when there is derangement of the health
of the delicate wonienly organs, so sure
ly when these organs are established in
health the face and form at once wit
ness to the fact in renewed comeliness.
Half a million women and more have
found health and happiness in the use
of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Preseiption. It
makes xveak women strong and sick
■ women well
MEN AS THEY PASS.
Admiral Schley, au enthusiastic?
Knight Teuiplar, has promised to at
tend the conclave In Louisville in Mi
gust.
The Chinese minister has sent a gen
eral request In newspapers to spell the
last portion of his name with a small
"112," thus, Wu Ting-fang, as fang is
simply a descriptive title and not a
part of his name.
Judge Jeuks of the New York su
preme court told the law school of New
York university the other day that "the
man with furrows in his brow wins
against the man with creases in his
trousers every time."
General Wood has been made a mem
ber of the Academy of Science of Ha
vana. The academy is one of the most
exclusive organizations in Cuba. It is
limited to lo members, and each mem
ber is elected for life.
Captain A. F. Lucas, the discoverer
of oil in Beaumont, Tex., who is said
to ]><• worth s4o,'"Kt/tOO, was practically
penniless a year ago. Though a mining
engineer and geologist by profession, ,
lit- was a railroad conductor for H
number of years.
Lord Currie, the British embassador
at Koine, has purchased for £12,000 a
property near Subiaeo, in the Sabine
hills, where there is said to be a villa
built by Nero, and excavations are to
be made there under the personal su
pervision of Lord Currie.
Harrison W. Gourley, who was ap
pointed by Abraham Lincoln to a minor
clerkship in the New York custom
house, has Just completed 40 years of
service in that institution, having risen
meantime <o the post of special deputy
naval otiicer and comptroller.
General Harris C. Ilobart. who has
resigned from the Milwaukee public li
brary board after a service of 25 years,
was one of the Union prisoners who
tunneled his way out of Libby prison
at Kiehmond during the civil war. Ho
is now in his eighty-ninth year.
John G. Wool ley, who was the Prohi
bition candidate for the presidency, has
started on a trip around the world for
the purpose of collecting data on the
liquor traffic and conditions in the
countries visited, preparatory to issu
ing a book on the results of the prohibi
tion movement.
The action of the United States dis
trict attorney in taking a hand In the
investigation of the affairs of the Sev
enth national bank, says the New York
Mail and Express, is evidence of a de
termination to bring somebody to ac
count for violation of the law In the
management of that institution. That
the law was violated In overcertifying
checks for Marquand Co. and in
making loans to that Arm far In excess
of the prescribed limit cannot be de
nied, but a national banking associa
tion as such cannot be punished, nor
can officers and employees be made to
incriminate themselves. And yet it is
desirable to fix the responsibility for a
ruinous management that the law was
intended to prevent and to exact a pen
alty for a violation of provisions which
are the sole safeguard of depositors.
It is important that the trust necessa
rily placed in the officers and directors
of a bank by those whose money is
under their control should be under a
legal protection that means something.
When it Is betrayed, somebody ought
to suffer.
Commenting on the decision of the
appellate division of the New York
state court, which defeated, temporari
ly at least, the movement against high
signboards, the New York Tribune
makes the suggestion that the state
regulate the matter of signs by levying
a small tax on everything not used on
buildings to designate the name of the
owner of the business and the charac
ter of the enterprise. The French sys
tem, which is very successful, is cited
as an example. Under this scheme
about $710,000 is paid annually by ad
vertisers into the public treasury. It it
evident that this cannot be a heavy
tax even with the small amount of ad
vertising done in France compared
with that done in the United States. II
is nevertheless a restraint in some de
gree, as the tax is levied on the size ol
thp nnot-orq nlcrno
Reduced Rates to Meeting of Baptis
Young People's Union of America, Chi
cago. via Pennsylvania Rati road,
On account of the International Con
vention of the Baptist Young People's
Union of America, to lie held in Chica
go, July 25 to 2s. the Pennsylvania Kail
road Company will sell excursions tick
ets from all stations on its lines to
Chicago at rate of a single fare for the
round trip. These tickets will be sold
and good going on July 28,24. and 25,
and will be good to return until July
80, inclusive. Tickets remaining on
deposit after July 80 will be good re
turning. leave Chicago until and in
cluding August 24, on payment of fee
of 50 cents to Joint Agent.
ill IB
AND THE
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Subscription to Montoui
American SI.OO per yetir,
in NOW.
A Mar-vel of Snrgfry,
Surgery has reached a point at which
almost any marvel may be expected,
but it has remained for a Russian sur
geon to attempt and succeed in per
forming an operation hitherto regarded
BS flatly impossible. He lias repaired
the great femoral artery—-has spliced
011 to it an artificial length, just as a
plumber might solder a piece of leaden
pipe to a brass one.
He vol vinK Kites For SixnalinK.
William A. Eddy has demonstrated
that a windmill with a revolving up
right shaft and horizontal revolving
burs three feet in diameter can be car
ried to a great height by means of
mammoth kites and made to revolve
suspended lanterns with greater light
power than the revolving single lights
used by the lighthouses.
The Berliner Tageblatt comments as
follows on the farewell speeches of
Count von Wnldersee aiid General
Chaffee: "We must forget that the
greatest difficulties and most irritating
conflicts with which the German com
mander in chief had to deal were cre
ated by Americans and by General
Chaffee, and we must console ourselves
withi&he words of the proverb, 'All's
well that ends well.' " General Chaf
fee did make it rather difficult for Von
Waldersee to carry out t ho German pol
icy of loot in China.
An Australian editor who is also &
member of parliament republished an
article from a Dublin paper criticising
King Edward, and for his indiscretion
he was expelled from parliament. So
It seems that free speech and free press
have strings tied to them in the new
federation of the antipodes.
Mr. Baldwin announces that he will
approach the north pole from the Nor
wegian side. Circumstances may com
pel changes In these plans, but it is
pretty certain that if he reaches the
north pole he will have to approach It
from the BQUIh.
PRIVATE SALE
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE!
Tiie following described farm is here
in' offered for private sale, to wit: All
that messuage, tenement and tract of
land situate in the Township of Valley,
in the County of Montour,Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows viz:
On the East by lands of Franklin Diehl.
on the South by lands of William Curry,
on the West by lands of John Conway
and on the North by lands of C. Jenkins
and others, containing one hundred and
twenty-five acres, sixty-five acres of
which is cleared land and the remain
ing sixty acres being wood land, and
! whereupon are erected a two-story
j frame dwelling house, a large bank
barn, and other out buildings. There
are also situate on the premises a well
of good water, and fruit trees of all
kinds.
For further information inquire of
John Hendricks at the premises, or of J.
P. Bare, Esq.. No. 405 Ferry street, Dan
ville, Pa.
J. P. BAKE, Esq., Gen. Agt.,
for Sarah Casselberrv.
NOTICE OF INQUISITION.
IN THK COURT or COMMON PLEAS, OF
MONTOUR COUNTY NO 2 JUNE
TERM 1901. 1N PARTITION.
Theodore Doster and Agnes B. Doster
his Wife, in Right of Said Wife,
Harry Latimere and Elizabeth Lati
mere his Wife, in Right of Said
Wife, Sarah C. Johnston. Mary A.
Johnston, and Samuel Johnston,
Plaintiffs.
VS.
Isaiah Hilkert, William Hilkert, John
Hilkert, Eleanor J. Hilkert, Mary
M. Hilkert,Richard Moser and Eve
line Moser. his Wife, in Right of
Said Wife, and William Cleveland,
Defendants.
7*<> William Cleveland,
One of TheDDefendan t Abort-Named.
You are hereby duly notified that by Vir
tue of the writ of partition in the above pro
ceeding to me directed, an Inquisition will
be held on the premises therein described
situate in the Third Ward of the Borough of
Danville in the County of Montourand State
of Pennsylvania, oil Friday, September
'iOth, 1001, at eleven o'clock in llie fore
noon of the said day, to ascertain and in
quire. among other Unrips whether I lie said
premises can l>e parted and divided without
prejudice to or spoiling the whole thereof,
or otherwise to value and appraise the same;
where and when you may attend if you deem
proper.
M. BRECKBILL. Sheriff.
W.M. J.BAI.UY.
EDWARD SAYRE UEARIIAUT.
Counsel.
Sheriff's Office. Danville, I'a. .Inlv li'th.
t!Wi|.
ANNUAL REPORT.
J. H. Shnltz, Treasurer, in account
with the Valley Township School
Board for the year ending June
30th. l'.Hll.
DR.
To State appropriation.. ... j Wu
To Hal. from last year.. 458 11
Received from collectors 886 4"
From other sources. 2s W7
Total ot>
CR.
Teachers wages $14711 (I)
Amount paid teachers at Institute.. S3 SO
Text books MS <>4
Supplies 54 W7
Fuel, etr SM S2
Fees of collect or and treasurer L>S 4-S
Secretary's salary and postage 20 00
Other expenses l.'iti 01
Total 81SHW 77
Halance in handsof treasurer ... $ 27il
V E. SIDLKR. Secretary.
PXKCI TOR'S VOTII K.
ESTATE OF JACOB MOSER. DKCD.
Letters testamentary on the estate of
Jacob Sloser. late of Liberty Township. Mon
tour County. Pennsylvania, deceased, have
been granted to the undersigned, to whom
all persons indebted to to said estate are re
quested to make payment, and those having
claims or demands will make known the
same without delay to
I'ETEK H. MOSER. < v . vutors
JACOB 1!. MOSER. t 112 xl,uu ' r!> -
June 27. l'.Mtl.
I,\ IST It AiOICS NOT UK.
Estate of George W. Steiuman. Late
of Derry Township, Montour County
Pennsylvania, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letter of Ad
ministration upon the above State have
granted to the undersigned. \ll iteisons in
ilelited to the said Estate, are required ti
make payment, and those having claims oi
demands against the said estate, will make
known the same without delay to
LEVI MOSER,
Administrator.
RALPH KISNKR,
Attorney.
ATUI \'S MITM K.
Estate of Wellington Hartman, Late of
The Township of Cooper in The Coun
ty of Montour And State of Pennsyl
vania, Deceased,
Notice is hereby given that Letters of Ad
ministration upon the above estate have beeo
granted to the undersigned. All persons in
debted t<> tli, "id,| estate are required to make
payment, and those having claims or de
mands against the s.-,i<l estate wilt make
known the same without delay to
N VOMI V. IIA HTM A N
Adininistratrix of Wellington
Hartman, Deceased.
I'. o. Address, Orovanla, Ftnua
EDWAKL> SAY kk GEARHART, Counsel