MONTOUK AMKHKSAN FRANK C. ANGLE. Proprietor. Danville. Pa.. August I 190 1 CO >1 >ll Mt ATIOXS. All communications sent to the AMI:KI CAN for publication must be signed b\ the writer, and •oiniuunications not so signed will be rejected. ANNOUNCEMENT. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for r> nomination for the office of Prothonotarv and Clerk of the Courts of Montour County, subject to the ac tion of the Republican Convention. J. C. Mili.KK. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. To the Republican electors of Penn sylvania lam directed by the Republi can State Committee to announce that the Republicans of Pennsylvania, by their duly chosen repsentatives. will meet in convention at the < >pera House, in the city of Harrislmrg, on Wednes day, August 21, at lo.no ;i. in., for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices ! —_i One person for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court. One person for the office of State Treas urer. In occordauee with the rules 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 is entitled to one delegate for every two thousand votes cast for the presidential electors in 1900, and an additional delegate for each fraction of two thousand votes polled iu excess of one thousand. By order of the Republican State Com mittee. FRANK HERDER. Chairman. W. R. ANDREWS. C. 12. YOOEHKKS, Secretaries. RL HOPFCS FULFILLED. Aft> r tbe rain, then the sunshine againi * After tho night the dawn. And a sweet release and abiding peace After the pain has gone. But over and over this lesson stern The fickle an-1 careless old world must learn: t'nder the beauty and bloom of the rose, In hiding:, the sharp, cruel thorns repose. He only knows of the sweetness that flows • Prom nature's purest fills Who, weary, mounts to the life giving founti Far up among the hills. Put over and over this lesson stern The fickle and careless old world must learn: t'nder the beauty and bloom of the rose. In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose. Aft. r the fear and the sad, bitter tear, Cometh the hope fulfilled; After the climl». then the prospect sublima. As the Good Father willed. Dut over and over this lesson stern The fickle and careless old world must learn: v t'nder the beauty and bloom of the rose. In hiding, the sharp, cruel thorns repose. —Los Angeles Herald. |LADYTTTT| I LIGHTFINGERS. | X By M. Quad. X O Copyright, 1901, by C. B. Lewis. Q (XXXXXXZXZySOOQOOQOOCXXXXXX) l '- The start of the whole matter was the lodging of a complaint at Scotland •Yard by a well known jeweler doing business on the Strand. lie had miss ed two diamond rings from a tray he had been exhibiting to several lady cus tomers. but unfortunately for him the gems had been gone an hour perhaps before he knew that deft lingers had purloined them under his very eyes, lie could recall tln- names of four or five ladies, and he beaded the list with tbe name of a marquis" wife, bnt the Inspector on duty might well smile and turn away at that. Had the jeweler in it been in such a perturbed state of mind he would never have included that name. Indeed, lief ore he left the place he apologized, partly to himself, for having given any names at all, as It was utterly absurd to suspect any of BY A TREMrNDOrs EFFOKT SHK PULLED HERSELF TOO ETHER. the owners of having taken the rings. He seemed to feel it a duty to report his loss, however, and after being quietly advised to have an eye on his employees and unknown customers he was dismissed with the promise that tbe matter would be looked Into. As a matter of fact, no assignment was made on the case. Some flash chap had "lifted" the Jewels without even his call being remembered, and it was no use to hunt for a needle in a hay stack. It wasn't three days before another case was reported by another Strand jeweler. This time it was a diamond sunburst, and he was positive that he had shown it to only three ladies before he missed it. lie was reluctant to give the names, but when pressed to do so that of the marquis' wife again headed the list. The others were almost as far above suspicion, and the Inspector look ed at the complainant iu a way to make him feel like a culprit. This time I was put on the case, but I shall be hon est enough to say that it was a mere matter of form. It was more than any official's head was worth even to hint that one of the three ladies mentioned might have carried the ornament away lu a moment of absentmindedness. It was about five days after this that the third case was reported. This time a Jeweler had lost a pair of valuable diamond earrings, and he had to be hard pressed by the Inspector before he would admit that the loss was de tected almost immediately after the marquis' wife bad left the store. She liad greatly admired the ornaments and had partly decided to purchase them at a later date. Not for one instant, not .... ...o intr. um me jeweler suspect the lady of title of even taking the jewel away in a lit of abstraction, but some how lie felt it his duty to report the case. Tiie inspector didn't Muff this third tradesman quite ns heavily as he had the first and second, and lie looked grave ami thoughtful when 1 was giv en the case and tie related particulars. I was told togo my own way about it, but if I made a blunder Scotland Yard would see me no more as a detective. That wasn't at all encouraging, you see, but I had togo ahead and make a start. Much to my surprise, after thinking the matter over I came to the conclusion that the marquis' wife might possibly be guilty of shoplifting. The idea almost took my breath away at the first go off. but when I came to recall the many rumors about the mar quis being .1 gambler, hard up, a man •if miserisli habits at home, and so forth, there looked to be something in it from a detective's standpoint. The lady was well known to me by sight. She was past 45, much faded, and her face always carried a fretful, worried look. I simply waited until she appeared on the street in her car riage, as if iioimd on a shopping tour, and then followed her. It was a week after the third case was reported that she came out. and she went directly to a Bond street jeweler's. 1 followed her into the store, where she was known and received with great servil ity. and when a tray of jewelry was placed before her I felt sure that the next half hour would clear her of all suspicion or complicate the case still further. Iler manner was that of lofty condescension. She slowly and lan guidly inspected the jewels, and now and then the proprietor of the store, who was waiting upon her in person, had his attention attracted for the mo ment elsewhere. My lady finally de cided to call again and was bowed out, and she was hardly clear of the door when I revealed my identity to the jeweler and asked him to be sure that there was nothing missing from tfco tray. He was at first inclined to ad minister a snub, but when he found the finest ring of the lot conspicuously absent lie almost fell over in a faint. There was no room to doubt that the lady had "lifted" it, but that only made the case worse in a way. For a trades man and a detective to charge a lady of quality with shoplifting was as bad as treason against the crown. A mere word would tiring financial ruin upon the jeweler, and he was ready to stand the loss ten times over rather than speak it. Twice more within the next fort night I followed the lady into jewelry establishments and morally convicted her of shoplifting. This made six cases in all, and, no matter how the victims felt, we of the Yard were quite deter mined that something ought to lie done. I had been on the staff for ten years, and my work had given good satisfac tion, but I was selected as a sacrifice. I mean by that that I was ordered to secure an interview with the lady, in form her of my discoveries and take the consequences. I must take all the burden on myself and clear the Yard. There could be but one ending, and before making my call my resignation was written out, and I had arranged togo with a private agency. One morning I appeared at the residence of the marquis and boldly asked for my lady on important business. I was kept waiting until she was satisfied that I was neither a process server nor a creditor and was then admitted to the presence of a very slipshod looking woman who showed ine scant courtesy when she said: "Well, sir, you are here, and now what is it?" "It's about the jewelry, my lady," I replied. "What do you mean?" "The finger rings from Black's, the sunburst from Brown's, the earrings from Green's. You carried tliem away and forgot to return them." My lady's face went white as snow, and she gasped for breath, and I ex pected to see her faint away. By a tremendous effort she pulled herself to gether, and as the color came back to her cheeks she hissed at me: "You dog, you! The marquis shall see that you get your just deserts! Leave the liousq at once!" I left, anil within an hour the mar quis was at tlie Yard to say that he would uproot the whole system if I was not promptly bounced and an apol ogy rendered. The Yard apologized, I was bounced, anil my lady had a story for her friends about attempted black mail. There were no more thefts, how ever, and as a private detective I even recovered some of the stuff from tho shops where ray lady's maid had pledg ed tliem to raise casli for her mistress. "Sweating" Bee*. The process known as "sweating" is not confined to human beings. It is applied to bees by some up to date keepers. The natural tendency of the bee to work and its great dislike to idleness art.- made use of to the fullest extent. Honey Is a product that yields a good profit, so the beekeeper brings tho flow rs as near as may be to the hive and induces his insect gatherers to work hard to collect the honey from them. An expert beekeeper gives the fol lowing idea of what they will do. Sev enty-five acres of land planted with white clover or sanfoin will keep 100 hives busy during the three summer months. The yield of honey for each fine day is ten pounds per acre, and as the plant flowers twice and remains in bloom for a week very often the total yield is 10,000 pounds. Combmaklug is lighter and less dan gerous work than gathering honey, so the young bees usually perform tills task But the keeper wants them all to work and work hard, so he provides the base of the comb In natural size and pure wax. That leaves less work t<» be done at home, and the bees go out immediately there Is nothing more for them to do inside. The keeper also tal.- s care to constantly empty the <"'it l i i:j, so that the bees shall always I- laboring to till it. —London Stand llow to Mil ke (iicn 111 l»«p SoJad. Pare tlie cucumbers and put them in! ■ ice water. Whip stiff one and a half eupfjils of cream and fold into it 112 ur tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, the same quantity of horse radish, a tea sp 1 Hl l'ul of salt and two or three dash ex ut" paprika. Stand this dressing on the ice. Just before serving dry the cu cumbers In u napkin. Cut them iu thin slices, dress with oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and arrange on H bed of let tuce. Cover with the whipped cream and send any that may remain to the table iu a bowl. It has been fully demonstrated that Ely s Cream Balm is a specific for Nasal Catarrh and cold in the head. This distinction has been achieved only as tiie result of continued successful use. A morbid condition of the membrane in tit • nasal passages can be cured by this purifying and healing treatment. Sold by druggists or it will lie mailed for f>(J cents by Ely Brothers, s<t Warren Street, New York. It spreads over the mem brane, is absorbed and relief is immedi ate. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor and cheerfulness soon »'!i L ~ disappear when the kid neys are out of order -uUIMa Z3|? —~ or diseased. Kidney trout!" has become so prevai 'jl that it is r-* ■ - '/i ' or a c: ' ' rn / Y \aV\ a '^' c,e d v-'th v, 'J y % neys. If the child urin ' w ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it.the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty- iF-jlTr cent and one dollar sue ;. You may have a gffafffflj'l wHjjjpßiffi sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet tell- Home of ing all about it, including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. How to Make F.»ti£ Sonp. Stir a teaspoonful of beef extract into one quart of boiiing water; add a grat ed onion, an eighth of a teaspoonful of celery seed or a little celery chopped, half a teaspoonful of salt and a salt spoonful of pepper; stir constantly un til It reaches the boiling point; strain through a line sieve and pour it while hot iuto the well beaten yolks of two eggs. Add four tablespoonfuls of care fully boiled rice and serve very hot- Ladies' Home Journal. llow to Make I'll I cure nil Butter. Epicurean butter is served with grill ed meats, etc. To make it put two tablespoonfuls of fresh butter in a small bowl and work into it thorough ly with the point of a silver kuife a mixture of cayenne, mixed herb pow der, minced parsley, lemon juice and mushroom powder. When tills Is ac complished, set it on the ice and as soou as solid stamp it into dainty pats. Hot these about tiie meut in serving. Novel Ammunition. During the sieges of mediaeval times it was very common for the beleaguers to throw from their catapults and oth er military engines dead bodies of dogs, swine, together with pieces of horse flesh and similar carrion into the city or castle besieged iu order that the de fenders might by the stench of this putridity be forced to a surrender. SIOO REWARD. SIOO Tiie readers of ilii> puper will lie please'* to learn that there is at least one dread' dis ease that science lias lieen able to cure in all ts stages anil that, is Catarrh. Hall's <'a tarrli Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity, ('atarr)i bein£ a constitutional disease, requires a Constitutional treatment. Mali's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly up on the blood and mucous surface of tiie sys tem. thereby C.estroyinn the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by building up t he const i tut lon and assist ing nature in doing tiie work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that t hey offer One Hundred hollars for any Case t hat it fails to cure. Send fur list of Testimonials. Hold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's family I'ills are the best. MAKING A NEW TOWN. What a (ir«*n( Industry 11M* Done In k V niiN\ I \ a it in. The town of South Sharon Is a crea tion of the Sharon Steel company. The originators of the company about two years ago purchased over I,OUO acres south of Sharon, and after selecting sites for the furnaces and mills laid out the remainder of the land in lot plans. The lots have been disposed of with phenomenal rapidity. The steel company has under course of erection IJSO dwellings, to be either sold or rented, as tenants ina3 - prefer. There arc? also over 150 other houses going up in the town. When all the mills are running, many more homes will be erected to accommodate work men, to say nothing of other inhab itants of the place. The main streets have been paved and sewered, and tracks for an electric car line between the town and Sharon have been completed. It is likely that the town will be incorporated as a bor ough and called Ituhl <'ity, In honor of the first president of the steel com pany. The new town Is now in the midst of a building boom. The finest building thus far erected is the four story brick office structure of the company on a terrace 2o feet above Broadway, the main street. The next building of prominence is the Broadway hotel. In the business section stores are being built, another hotel is soon togo up, and in the residence districts many handsome homes are being erected. BrlKht Stnra Not the l.nrKinl. The amount of light we receive from tiny star depends upon its distance, its size and the brilliaucy of its surface. A faint star far away may therefore be much larger than one which appears brighter to us because it is nearer, and as a matter of fact it is known that some faint stars have a much larger mass tha* is, weigh more—than Sirius. ttie bright est star in the heavens, although this lat ter star is three times heavier than our sun. The Danube flows through countries in which . r >2 languages and dialects are spoken. It is 2.000 miles in length and bears on its current four-fifths of the Commerce of eastern Europe. A REPUTATION. How it was made and retained iu Dan ville. A good reputation is not easily earn ed. and it was only by hard, consistent work among our citizens that Doan's Kidney Pills won their way to the prond distinction attained in this local ity. The public endorsement of scores of Danville residents has rendered in valuable service to the community. Read what this citizen says Mr.Levi Alleger of 102 North Spruce St., says: I bad much lameness in my back right over my hips and an ever lasting aching over the kikney. It hung right to me, and stooping or lifting any thing caused sharp pains to pass through me. I had pain lietween my shoulders and running down my spine which unfitted me for my work I could not sleep well nights, and was tired all the time, especially first thing iu the morning. 1 read aliout Doan's Kidney Pills curing others of this trouble and I got them and after taking them I felt all right. Toey are the only thing which ever did me permanent good. For sale by all dealers Price 50 cts. Foster Milbnrn Co., Buffalo, N. V., sole agents for the U. S. Rememlier the name Doan's and take no substitute. * ■** . 080 . 4** #W o*> .0* **" /W j** . *■*. rr? t!- «rsr tr.«-.tr.s?- «* r- sr tr fim iiiws! VI/ ; J •?* l!/ your vacation trip )■{ are those yon t;ilc« with i K i.lak. Tie- improved t •'• 1 > .u" Kodak \bf is -i) simpleto operate that a child cm i:i tk■ |»•*i.- ■ i pietuiv- '!(, ~?/ with it (fj\ \h Before going on yonr \ ic-ation pat ;i Kodak in yonr pocket. ff. W> ! You will get more genuim ilea ur< with a Kodak than twice its •L fix •i' cost any other w.-.v. Then- is pr (it in it too. II von have a few \ll 'I X moments leisure come in my store. It will he :I pleasure 1.0 M show you the many points i,t •\■ I!• -F• ■in construct ion and <im of\ ||y plicitv of operation of the l'asiiaaii Kodak /|\ HENR"y IREIuIIPE # vV '. JEWEIiER AND SILVERSMITH. V -© 112 ■ *2> - • • "•x - V •**> ■«*•> -«*. -wr- «h>- •«»' —** A- • • J<L- •M» ■ **o *a- ,& • om* '• S ' -J+t ' m** • FORGOTTEN. r A imi* ypar r, r so ago fibe spurklerl everywhere. With shi aiders l«r<; and fare The fairest of lh» fair. B'p read about her nvnrv day An havinif been at this or that, , At club or tea or ball or play. Attraction centered where she sat. A little year or so ago She swayed a certain set. Without her functions failed, but, oh. How quickly we forget! The men who flocked around hor then Now flatter othor Kirlg, anil thry read her name with envy when She swayed ne'er think of her today. A preacher Raid some words, and, 10, A maiden ceasod to be! The fair one people used to know. Oh, where, oh, where is she? There's one who bends with loving jraz* O'er something small and frail and sweet. 1 wonder if she mourns the days When all the world was at her feet? —Chicago Kecord-Herald. t CARRIAGE* fIY ** I I THE SCAFfOLD: In the seaport of Calais, which for over 100 years was under the power of the English, there once lived a bache lor, Josse Dullart, who had come there to carry on business. He was a native of Ilaillenl en-I'Tandre, well qualified to se cure for the London merchants the wool of which the Flemish weavers make ( their various materials anil to derive an honest profit from each. Naturally, because of his commercial subtlety and ; because of the pleasant and comforta ble life which came to him in conse quence, our man became exposed to the jealousies and 111 will of the other tradesmen, English for tho most part. 1 lle did not know It, since the hypo crites allowed nothing to become evi dent, but, on the contrary, made every endeavor to present an agreeable ex terior to him, so as not to compromise in the least the slight advantages which' accrued to them through his kindliness. Nevertheless they decided to ruin him and to that end contrived a device so black and so wicked that Sir Satan klmself in his demoniacal mind could not have imagined a better. In pursu ance of the scheme one of them secret ly concealed in the house of Josse Dul lart a leather bag containing a sum of 100 llvres sterling in gold crowns. Hav ing done this, he went to the criminal magistrate with two comrades as wit nesses to accuse his colleague of hav ing robbed him. At that remote period then? hail not yet appeared under the canopy of heav en any of the imptulen .sharpers, slug gards and swindlers who in the course of time have shamelessly said and writ ten that ownership means theft, and the money earned by some is so much ; lost by others, with the sole Intent that j they may pi| everything into confu sion and be able easily to slip into their; purses that which is another's. The world has indeed heard of much folly and seen many Iniquities, but not that, and human Justice, which had nev-1 er known of any jesting upon the mat ter, would have hung their like high i and in short order, dealing with them precisely as she would with veritable robbers. Who was amazed at seeing the po liceman of the provostship invade his home, ransack his coffers and chests, 1 produce from them a sack of gold of which lie knew nothing and a legal clerk take down disquieting notes of the affair in his illegible scrawl? It was the ill fated I Millart The poor fellow strove with them In vain, vowing to God his Innocence, but words could not prevail against deeds. : Now, he could not explain how the sack, the evidence of his crime, had come Into his possession, whence It fol lowed that the innocent man was con demned to the halter as if he had been , guilty. The affair, however, let loose In an uproar all the devils of Calais. Think of It —a great merchant, with a house of his own, convicted of common lar ceny, like a vulgar rascal! In the end the populace, while it was not privy to the plot laid by a half dozen arrant rogues, was nevertheless not mistrustful. It rather Inclined in favor of the pitiable citizen of Itallleu lols. This without taking into consid eration the peasants on the outskirts of the town, who were French, not hav ing been expelled from their tireside by the conquerors, as had been the j jKjor commoners of the city, and who hated all the English within their bor-: ders. So it may be said that the throng which swarmed about the streets and crossways on the day when Dullart j was to be taken to the gibbet entertain ed more compassion for hbn than deri sion, above all, if you take into ac count the fact that he was young, good In every respect and of a prepossessing appearance. From the jail to the gallows Josse walked with bowed head by the side of a priest, who enjoined him to re joice that he was about to pass into at better world, lit; did not glance at a single person, so great was the shame | he felt on account of the filthy mischief «>f which he was accused. It was only when he had ascended the first rounds of the fatal ladder, having the cord i about his neck, that below the soldiers grouped around the base of the gibbet, I lie perceived the crowd and recognized among them a fair young woman for whom in happier days he had conceiv ed a tender and violent passion. At the sight of her he experienced a yet more poignant sorrow at leaving so soon and so painfully an existence from which he had expected to derive such delicate felicities. And then, im pelled by a sudden reminiscence and by a natural instinct for preservation, he began to cry out with ail liia might: ",L<oyse, Loyse, by God the l ather, j the Son and the Holy Ghost, I adjure you! Save my life, claim me in mar riage." The girl stood there trembling with emotion among her companions. Hear ing herself thus addressed by name by the prisoner, she became convulsed with agitation; almost unconsciously, half moved by pity, half incited by her neighbors, she approached the gib bet without the police daring to pre vent her. "Oh, Loyse," repeated the prisoner nrd< inly. "I am innocent. I swear It by my eternal salvation! Demand me in marriage, and you will have saved my life!"' She did not know one word to say, she had so lost her senses, but she ex tended her hand, which the poor devil seized with avidity. Seeing this, the people in all direction began to roar: "A marriage, a marriage! She has claimed him! Cut the cord, hangman; cut it. cut it!" The executioner (lid not cut the rope, but he let it drop, undecided as to what was most expedient for him to do, and as the crowd continued to bellow and even become threatening the officer of the provostship, judging it an oppor tune time for a delay, led the condemn ed man back into his cell in order to submit his peculiar case to the law. And the people dispersed content, be lieving the man from that moment to be saved. Hut the stealthy cats did not so eas ily let go one whom they held in their claws. They had a man to be hanged, a pretty little man. a man over whose hanging they licked their lips, and here how people pretended that he was taken out of their grasp! And why, I ask you? Cnder the most fool ish of pretexts, iu the name of some ri diculous custom, some illegal pretense which granted grace, full, free and im mediate, to any condemned man whom a woman declared in public to desire in lawful wedlock. Who ever had heard of an equal subterfuge? Hut. all, traditional or written, ti. law is the law, and the case in ques tion had to be elucidated! Unwillingly rather than willingly they opened an inquest upon the matter in hand to learn whether or not so unreasonable a usage had ever at any period had power by law, which Inquest finally es tablished that no similar case had been presented since the time of the con quest in Calais, but that previous to that date there had been many such cases, more particularly in Flanders and in Artols than in I'icardy. In consideration of these indecisive conclusions the enemies of Dullart urg ed the magistrates to override the law, and the magistrates (lid not demur. It was the governor who placed an ob stacle before them ill view of public opinion, which had become greatly agi tated over a controversy which had at stake the life of a man made in the image of God. Suddenly that dignitary called to mind the example of prudence offered of yore to the world by that worthy magistrate l'oiitius I'ilate in order that lie might avoid thrusting his own linger between the tree and its bark. In place of announcing his fears in public he appealed to 11is mas ter, King Edward, the fourth of that name, to decide the matter according to his own good pleasure. The monarch judiciously estimated that one man more or less upon the gal lows was of small value iu enhancing his glory and bespoke clemency for the case under consideration. lie ordained then that the old usages should be con formed with and that full pardon be awarded the condemned man, under the condition, be it well understood, that the solicitor of his love hold him duly to his engagement. So it came to pass that the good Josse had the rare and marvelous fortune to espouse a gentle and well favored maid en after the approved fashion instead of the cold and grimacing death and to be indebted to his wife for that which ordinarily men owe to their mothers only that is to say, his life. A similar occurrence took place a short time afterward unexpectedly at the city of Koueii. As a certain thief, a native of Hautvilliers. was conduct ed to his fate, a loud old woman step pod out of the crowd below and declar ed that she desired him in marriage. The prisoner, astonished, considered a moment; then, remarking that the aforesaid person was a homely hag, shook his head and pursued his way to the gallows, observing to the execu tioner: "The wench, I don't want her!" And in a moment lie was wedded to the gallows.—Chicago Tribune. t«» the Wolvex. For sheer melodrama the English jewel robber Houghton's arrest would be hard to beat. After his last big dia mond theft he was traced to West Hromwich and thence led the detect ives a dance over the country. At last when the pursuers were hard on his heels he dashed into a traveling men agerie which was exhibiting just out side Hiriniiigliam. There lie found one of the attendants fastening up a van cage containing a pair of large gray wolves. He tlung the man on one side and opened the cage, shutting himself in with the beasts and daring any one to fetch him out. The strange thing was that the wolves, which the propri etor had always considered the most dangerous animals in the show, took no notice whatever of the fugitive, but showed great ill temper toward the keeper and a constable, who had great difficulty iii dragging Houghton out. \ qnmtlan (it Location. "I thought, count, that you were a dead shot?" "I am." "And yet, though you said you would shoot your adversary through the heart, you hit him in the foot." "It was an error of judgment. I thought his heart was in liis boots; It turned out to be in his mouth." —i-ion.- doii Telegraph.l 1J0AI) MAINTENANCE. KEEP THE SURFACE FREE FROM HOLES AND RUTS. ]'ro|i«*r I se of the It«»<i«l ll«»;ii«* mude Machine—frowning th« II Si way—AIIKIC of Side SloyoN, l'r«*|>arii«K For Winter. The chief object in the maintenance of an earth road is to get rid of the wa ter as quickly and as fully as possible. In maintenance, as in construction, wa ter Is the great enemy of good The secret of success in maintenance is to keep the surface smooth and the side ditches open, says Professor Ira O. r'eiker in Illinois experiment station bulletin. There are several niacliines or devices •which are very effective In filling the ruts and depressions and In keeping the surface smooth. Different tools are best under different conditions. The writer has seen a heavy stick of tim ber shod with a steel plate and drawn by two horses used for this purpose with great success. He has also seen a railroad rail so used. The rail Is usu ally 14 or 10 feet long and is drawn by | four horses. When the ground is mel low and loose after freezing and thaw ing. the rail will smooth the road down i nicely and do it more rapidly than the road machine, since it cuts a wider swath. One round trip is sufficient for any road. The time when the work is most advantageously done is compara tively limited, and therefore one rail should not be expected to cover too much road. In the late spring, after the ground has settled, the roads should be pre pared for summer travel by being shap ed up with the road machine or road grader. When this work is to be done, the ground is comparatively dry, and consequently the heavier road scraper is required and can be handled on the roads. It is somewhat unfortunate that this tool is ordinarily called a road grader, since the name has possibly led to a misconception sis to an impor tant use of the machine. As an instru ment of road construction this machine is used to give a crown to the road, but as an instrument of maintenance it r~ N- , ( -- rori; HOUSE LOAD. should be used only to smooth the sur face and restore the original crown. Apparently some operators assume that the machine is not to be used except to increase the crown of the road. Em ployed in this way the crown is made too great, and a big ridge of loose earth is left in the middle of the road which only slowly consolidates and which is likely to be washed into the side ditch es to make trouble there. Since the in troduction of the road machine there has developed a strong tendency to in crease the crown of the road unduly. Doubtless the object is to secure better drainage of the roadbed, but piling tip the earth is an inadequate substitute for tile drainage. Side slopes steeper than just enough to turn the water into the side ditches are a detriment. In smoothing the road the road ma chine should be run over the ground lightly so as to smooth down the ridges and till up the ruts. Only enough earth should be moved toward the center of the roadway to replace that washed down by the rains. The blade should stand nearly square across the road, and considerable earth should be shov ed along in front of the blade so as to have enough loose earth to till any de pressions. The surplus earth should be evenly distributed along on the sur face. This work should be done early, be fore the ground becomes hard and diffi cult to work and before traffic lias been compelled partially to do the work of the road leveler and while the surface is in condition to unite with the loose earth left by the machine. Unfortu nately this work is often postponed until the ground is so hard that it is impos sible to do a thoroughly good job. If the ground is a little too wet for agri cultural tillage, it is all the better for roadmaking, since it will pack better than though it were drier. During the summer, if the road becomes very bad ly rutted, the road machine should be run lightly over It. In the summer when the roads get roughed up they can be materially im proved at small expense by running over them with a harrow having the teeth do »vn quite flat. Finally, during the fall the roads should be repaired with special refer ence to getting them into good shape for the winter. Any saucerlike depres sion or ruts should be tilled with earth like that of the roadbed. The mate rial should be solidly tamped Into place. Holes and ruts should never be filled with stone, bricks or coarse grav el. The hard material will not wear uniform with the rest of the road, but produce bumps and ridges and usually result in making two holes, each larger than the original one. It is a bad prac tice to cut a gutter from a hole to drain It to the skle of the road. Filling it is the proper course, whether the hole is dry or contains mud. The holes most requiring attention are found at the end of bridges and along the sides of small wooden box culverts. The Weekly Got There Hurl jr. Foundation is a new t.wn tip In tb« Ka lispell county of Mjatana, where the new gold belt Is beirg unbuckled, "l is a very n w town Indeed -barely three month': old, but It has a weekly paper already In the West Fishei Ga zette. which was started .vitliin a month after the rush to the camp be gan. Maybe trade follows the flag; cer tainly. anyway, the press follows the crowd speedily nowadays. Whiskey Medicines. The temperance press is emphasizing the danger to the home in the use of " medicines" which are loaded with whiskey or alcohol. In this respect, as well as in the remarkable character of their cures, Dr. Pierce's medicines differ from other preparations. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and 'Favorite Prescription" contain no alcohol, whiskey or other intoxicant, and are equally free from opium, eo caine and other narcotics. Every family should have a copy of the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, sent absolutely free, on receipt of stamps to pay expenses of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or HI stamps for cloth binding. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo N. Y. THE MOSQUITO PEST. Method* of a New Jersey Town to Get Kid of a Nuisance. The Village Improvement society of | South Orange, N. J., lias started in sys tematically to abolish the mosquito. In i a r« « ent Interview the chairman of the committee explained tin - method adopt ' ed. He said: "Our work is only preliminary as yet. Pr. <>. 0.-Howard, chief entomologist ; of the United States agricultural de partment, issued a pamphlet in which i he . aid that any community might rid itself of mosquitoes if it took the right j means and was energetic and pera I st ent. '•The improvement society had some trmsptjiideiice with l>r. Howard on i the subject, and finally, realizing that the individual co-operation of every | lioc-ehohh-r was required, we arranged ! for a lecture by I)r. Howard. "In the first place, you can't have 1 mosquitoes unless you have water, i Without standing water there will be i no mosquitoes. I"The question of drainage is impor ; taut, and if a lowland is drained a per | matte nt Improvement is effected. Three : fourths of the property owners having ! lowlands have started to drain them, and the others are about to follow the \ example. "Then, we have bought some oil, which two men. going about the village with a cart, have used to cover all the stand ing water. In about five days they emptied ten barrels of oil. This opera ! tion will be repeated in about a week ; and again at intervals thereafter of l about three weeks. "Oil itself will kill the mosquitoes which alight on the water and will kill j the wrigglers, which have to come up j to the surface of the water every few minutes to obtain air. We have been : fortunate in finding tin enthusiastic ; ally in the local inspector of the board of health. a;,d he has practically taken charge of the work for us. "After taking care of the standing water we have begun impressing the importance of the work upon lndlvid | "als. Cesspools are responsible for millions of mosquitoes. It is the same j with cisterns, but there is no necessity • for cisterns now that there is a public 1 water supply. A pint of oil is all that is necessary In it cesspool to kill off whole communities and generations of I mosquitoes. "We have Interested people in the j poorer sections of the town by giving I the oil away. We select some one in a ! central section and make him the cus todian. As the fluid used is not illu minating oil, we are not afraid that it will be diverted to u u\s other than that to which it is intended. We use what is called fuel oil. "Rainwater barrels are a prolific source of propagation, and we have found that four broods of mosquitoes, averaging 5,000 a brood, is the result of one rainwater barrel. "Of course mosquitoes can breed in water tanks, flush tanks and even in the traps In plumbing. We advise peo ple to protect themselves from the mos quitoes by inclosing water tanks with netting. "We are confident of local relief and perhaps of immunity from mosquitoes, and we are encouraged, not only with the slight results we have bad, but with the cordial co-operation on the part of the public. "In ponds where it is not deemed ad visable to spread oil it is best to stock with fish. The ordinary sunfish is very fond of mosquitoes and will clear out a pond in excellent shape." The creditors of the Duke of Man chester are to accept 12s. Gd. on the pound. Papa Zimmerman drove a close bargain, and the creditors had little choice in the matter. Thus are Amerl can money and enterprise ruining th« British trade. REDUCED KATES TO THE SE SHORE. Annual Low-Rate Excursions to Atlantic City, etc., via Pennsylvania Railroad, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged for three low-rate ten-day excursions for the present season from North Bend. Troy, Bellefoute, William sport, Mocanaqna, Sunbury. Shen andoah. Dauphin, and principal inter mediate stations (including stations on branch roads), to Atlantic City, Cape May. < >cean City, Sea Isle City. Avalon. Anglesea. Wihlwood, or Holly Beach, on Thursday, August s and 22. 1901. Excursion tickets, good to return by regular trains within ten days, will be sold at very low rates. Tickets to At lantic City will be sold via the Delaware River Bridge Route, the only all railline, or via Market street Wharf, Philadel phia. Stop over can be had at Philadelphia, either going or returning, within limit of ticket For information, in reguard tospecilic rates and time of trains consult hand bills, or apply to agents', or E. S. Harr ar. Division Ticket Agent. William sport. Pa. ill Hi AND THE: ■lll Hi! m 112 CO P[R TOW I J IN ADVANCE. I Subscription to Montoui American SI.OO per year. ill SI. LOUISIANA ROADS. Their I'renciit Condition Prevent® Stute Development. Hon. F. C. Blacksher, a planter and large real estate owner of Robeline, La., in a recent interview in the New Orleans Times-Democrat on the road question said: "I tliink bad roads are the greatest drawback to this parish—in fact, are the stumbling blocks to immigration. I have had many men visit me and go over my lands with a view of pur chasing. but after traveling over the roads would give up the idea of I'liv ing, saying that the roads were of such a nature that the difficulty of market ing the crops would be too much of an item. They would, therefore, leave our parish and seek some country where the roads were better." lie further said that to maintain the roads in good condition in that parish would i>e a very small item compared to the breakage and increase amount of team, to say nothing of the time and labor lost ingoing over the roads in their present condition to and from the different markets. He believed that good roads would induce immigra tion and benefit the people more than anything else, lie is a lirm advocate of the state fixing by statute some i mode of bettering the present condition of the public roads through this sec tion of the state. He is of the opin ion that the bad loads are now holding the state back and advocates the adop tion of some method to better their condition at once. "No one knows the difficulty the people experience iu go ing to and from the markets during a wet season unless lie were togo out in the country himself and see the conditions. Yes, you may say I favor anything that will tend to benefit the present condition of the public roads." ' THE REVIEWER. =~ By taking £lO worth of trouble you can now have $2 worth of unused reve nue stamps redeemed.—Philadelphia Ledger. The connection between sanity and red liair deserves investigation. Out of 2<h) patients in one asylum only one is red haired and only four are blondes. | —Providence Journal, i American macaroni made from Amer ican wheat by Americans and by an i American process is to be one of the ; slogans of the industrial battle upon which the United States is now enter ing.—Chicago liecord-llerald. We never hear of hazing at an In dian school. The Indian pupils are savages who are striving to become civ ilized. The white students, many of them, are civilized humans who are striving to become savages.—Denver I'ost. About $r,00.000,000 has been collected in the last two years by the special war taxes. They were all little bits of taxes, but 1 and 2 cent collections from L'ucle Sam's big family of 70,000,000 count up fast and large.—New York World. This is the age of electricity. But who is the inventor whose genius will discover a way to prevent the occa sional breaks and interruptions in the currents which are now at the front of | modern progress and are changing the face of the world?— New York Tribune. NOTICE OF INQUISITION. IN* THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OF MONTOI • u Cor NT v NO 3 .Tr nk 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, SarahC. 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. Tn William Cleveland, (tue of The Defendants Ahoie-Named. You are hercliy duly notified that I»y Vir tue of l lie writ of part it ion in the aliovc pro ceeding to rue directed, an In<iuisit ion will lie held on the premises therein descrilied situate in the Third \V:ir<l of the Itoroutrh of Danville in t he County of Montour and Mate of Pennsylvania, on Krldii}', Sr|itriiilicr 'ioili. I art I. at eleven oVIocU in I lie fore noon of tIK said day, to ascertain and in quire. anions ot her "things whether the said premises can lie p;ii t» d 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. ItItECK 1i11,1,. Sheriff. W.M. J.BAI.DY. KIIWAUD SAYHK OEAUII AHT. Counsel. Sheriff's ofllce hanville, I'a. Inly I'.'tli. 1901. ANNUAL REPORT. J. H. Shultz, Treasurer, in account with the Valley Township School Board for the year ending .lune 30th. 1901. I>K. To State appropriation $ tMil 2fi To Bui. from last year.. 4DN -11 Received from collectors 4i> From other sources. 2s Total (M> CIS. Teachers wages $1470 U> \mount paid teachers at In>litut> 52 50 Text IMIOKS !IS IM Supplies . 54 H7 Fuel, etc s2 Fees of collector and treasurer lis 48 Secretary's salary and postage 2ti M Other expenses tUi 01 Total sumo *7 Itulance in hands of treasurcr.... s 279 29 V K. SI Hi.El.' crctary. pVKt't TOU'S Mi l l) K. KSTATK OF.I At 'OB MOSKU, HF( l>. I.etters testamentary on the estate of Jacoli Moser. late of l.ilierty Township. Mon tour County. Pennsylvania, deceased, have lieeii granted to the undersigned, to whom all persons indented 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'KTEK It. MOSKU. i .. . , .lA<o|{ p.. Mt is IK. i ut °rs. June 27. t!HH. Y>'HMSTKATOH> VOTICK. Estate of George W. steinman. Lab of Perry Township. Montour County Pennsylvania, deceased. \.'l ire is hereby sivi n that letter of Ad millislt'.'ition upon tin* :tlx>vc Stati 1 have ltr;illl«*<i to 1 h«» iimltTNiirncd. All persons in lii'htnl to tln» said I.slate, ait required t< inakf payment, and thus** 11 asi MLT claims or demands against the said estale. will make known tlii k same without delay to LEVI MOSER, Adniijiisit ator HALI'M Kisx I:<{. Attorney. —— | A IKI \'S \OTICK. Instate of Wellington Hartinan. 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 min c : :'it ion II pon t he a hove estate have been "t-..nt -i i i the tie iL^ncd. \|| persons in .1 t.i t!• "lm reijnired to titnke vent. ml th'-se .. 1: . ■i i• n-• or de ••lands ngaitisl .!;•• ■ ■.•l « .i f • vviil make 1111 II the 5a.,... wiMj c.it. ... i.. . to At • ! i \". 11 i : .Ml \ \dmlais|ratrix oi \V> llnu'ton ilartiii.'in, l-etcasrd. 1". I ' Address, (irovam: , IVDUH EMVAISI) SAVUtIitARHjIItT, t'outlhll.
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