MONTOUR AMERICAN FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville. Pa., Feb. 13, 1902 COM MIJMCATIOKS. AL. communications sent to the AMKRI CAN for publication must be signed bj the writer, ami communications not sc signed will be rejected. REGISTER OF SALES. For Which Sale Bills Have Been Printed at this Office. Feb'y 21 —James C. Bitler, sale of farm stock, at his residence, 2 miles south of White Hall. Feb y 2o —Naomi V. Hartman, Admin istratrix of Wellington Hartman, de ceased. Sale of Farm Stock, at her residence in Cooper township. March 6—D. M Boyd, Jr., at his resi dence, Boyd's station. Rush Township, North'd County. Farm Stock and implements. March 12— W. E. Rishe!, at his resident*, on Bloom road. Cooper Township, 4 miles east of Danville. Farm Stock, farm implements and household goods. AMUSEMENTS. Fourth Entertainment. The fourth entertainment of the Y. M. C. A. Star Course will be held in the Opera House on Friday evening, Febru ary 14tli. Dr. DeWitt Miller will be the lecturer. He is acknowledged to be one of the greatest platform speakers of the age. From all sources and direc tions the uniform report is that Mr. Miller's lectures rank among the very best. * * * The strongest aggregation of white and colored artists seen on the road this season is Goodall's "Coontown 400." Wherever they have played, they have been greeted by packed houses. At Harrisburg, Altoona and Allentown, people were turned away at each per formance. The combination is made up of some of the leading celebrities of the day. As a special feature the Three DeAco's, champion sharp shooters of the world have been engaged, and will positively appear. The Allentown "Sun" pronounces this show the best singing and dancing aggregation before the American public. If you want to enjoy a good evening's laugh don't fail to see this excellent company on Saturday night, February 15. Watch for the Clown Zobo Band on day of perfor mance. *1 »». •? The J. C. Lewis' Si Plunkard Co., which is billed for the Opera House on an early date presents a talented com pany of comedians in an entirely new version of the well known comedy suc cess "Si Plunkard." Rewritten and re constructed by the well-known author, Robert G. Morris. All new features, new novelties, everything new but the title. Mr & The "Coontown 400" which will ap pear in the Opera House on Saturday night, Feby. 15th is composed exclusive ly of high class artists, and as it is one of the largest companies that ever visit ed our city, we may expect a perform ance of a very high order. Singing, dancing, rag-time comedy, vaudeville and opera are some of the attractions of the evening. Everything is new and up to-date and those who secure their seats in advance, will avoid the rush at the door. SIOO REWARD, SIOO Tne readers of this paper will be please'" to learn that there Is at least one dread' dis ease that science has been able to cure In all ts stages and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly up on the blood and mucous surface of the sys tem, thereby oestroylng the foundation of the disease and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing the work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of Testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO .Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hull's Family Fills are the best. Revisiting Their Former Home. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Brown, of Fair bury, Neb., are guests at the home of W. M. Heddens, West Mahoning street. Mr. Brown was formerly of this county and was engaged in the mercantile busi ness at Mooresburg. Mrs. Brown is a sister of Mrs. W. M. Heddens. The couple moved West some thirty years ago. Attended Dance at Shamokin. The following ladies and gentlemen attended a dance at the home of Mrs. Henry Helwig at Shamokin last night: Mrs. John Moyer, Mr. and Mrs. Will iam Treas. Mrs. C. C. Moyer, Mrs. Eugene Moyer, Mrs. Mary Higgins.Mrs Charles Green, Miss Kate Gaskins and Henry Trotter. Something That Will Do You Good, We know of no way in which we can be of more service to our readers than to tell them of something that will be of real good to them. For this reason we want to acquaint them with whit we consider one of the very best remedies on the market for coughs, colds, and that alarming complaint, croup. We re fer to Chamberlain's Coughßemdy. We have used it with such good results in our family so long that it, has become a household necessity. By its prompt use we haven't any doubt but that it has time and again prevented croup. The testimony is given upon our own exper ience, and we suggest that our readers especially those who have small child reu, always keep it in their homes as a safeguard against croup.— Camden (S. C.) Mettenger. For sale by Paules & Co., 352 Mill street. Mrs. Gertrude St. Clair, of Milton, returned home yesterday after a visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. Jacob Reedy. Montour Row. ~ \ Mr. C. E. Jennisou, of Bay City, Michigan, is visiting his nephew, W. J. Baldy, Esq., in this city. Mr. Jennison was at one time a resident of Danville, _ leaving here for the West in 1850. He has never lost his interest in his old ; home and during his absence of half a = , century, lie has periodically visited Dan | ville. - Mr. Jennison owns several fine farms i in the vicinity of Bay City. He is much in terested in the culture of the sugar beet, i- ! which has become an enormous and con y j stantly growing industry in Michigan. 0 During a conversation with a repre sentative of this paper Thursday Mr. - Jennison said that he can not under ! stand why the cultivation of beets for sugar, which is yielding big dividends ' j to investors and enriching the farmers jof Michigan, has not been taken up in 1 j this state, where the soil, he has no j doubt, would prove well adapted. I Mr. Jennison has so much practical in -1 j formation at command and manifests so 3 | much interest in our fanning communi ty that this paper gladly lends its col . twins to a short discussion of the sub . ject. presenting the significant facts and r figures adduced. In the vicinity of Bay City are four large sugar factories, which for the com ing year have contracted for 20,000 acres i of beets. Mr. Jennison is largely inter ested in a co-operative sugar factory. , which, he says, pays handsome divid ' ends. He has with him a sample of the j product of their plant, the finest grade of granulated sugar. ; In most instances, the factories, he said, are built by outside capital, the farmers merely guaranteeing to raise the beets. To supply what may be re quired some farmers put out forty or sixty acres; the most, however, less. He had one of these farmers in mind who | last year had nine acres under cultiva tion and whose net profits were sT<> per acre. To yield profit, beets must not fall below 12 per cent sugar; many go higli . er, varying according to the quality of the soil and the care taken in cultiva tion. One ton of beets ought to produce . 210 to 235 pounds of sugar. Mr. Jennison would like to see the cultivation of sugar beets tried in this section and he says it would pay our ' farmers to send a couple of wide awake ' representatives to Michigan for the pur pose of investigating the subject. If ' they mean business, he says, they will have no difficulty in interesting capital ' there —assuming that local money men have not confidence enough to invest ' who will gladly come east and erect a factory upon condition that the farmers here will pledge themselves to raise the 1 beets. Any soil which will raise wheat and ' corn, Mr. Jennison says, will produce j sugar beets. VERY ANNOYING. This Hardly Expresses What Danville Pto- ' pie say of it. Any itching of the skin is annoying. Little danger in itching skin diseases. But they make you miserable. Doan's Ointment is a never failing cure. For Piles, Eczema, all itching trouble. Danville citizens endorse it Mr. D. C.Williams,2o4 Lower Mul berry street,says: "I can highly Recom mend Doan's Ointment. Before using it I was greatly annoyed with a burning and itching rectal trouble. This led me to become interested on hearing about Doan's Ointment and I procured it at a drug store and found it satisfactory. I did not use the remedy long before I was completely cured." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name-Doan 's- and take on substitute Death of Martin Gotwalds. Martin Gotwalds, father of F. M. Gotwalds of the MORNING NEWS, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. K. Fisher, at Pentwater, Michigan, on Tuesday last aged H4 years. The deceas ed for a short time resided in Danville and vicinity, removing to Michigan about 20 years ago. His wife preceded him to the grave about two years ago. The deceased was a man of strict in tegrity, widely read, of scholarly tastes and of independent thought. He was a native of Montgomery County, Profess or J. K. Gotwalds, City Superintendent of the Norristown public schools, is a surviving brother. The funeral will take place at Pent water today. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a number of years and have no hesitancy in saving that it is the best remedy for coughs, colds and croup I have ever used in my family. I have [ not words to express my confidence in this Remedy.— MßS. J. A. MOORR, North Star, Mich. For sale by Paules & Co. Six o'clook Dinner. Mr. and Mrs. .1. B. Cleaver entertain ' ed a number of friends at a six o'clock dinner last evening. Those present j were: The Rev. H. C. Ilarman and j wife, Rev. N. E. Cleaver and wife, Mr. 1 and Mrs. John B. McCoy, Dr. and Mrs. ! Paules, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Price, Miss Jane Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fry and son Frank. When you lack energy, do not relish your fiK)d, feel dull and stupid, after eating, all you need is a dose of Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will make you feel like a new man and give you an appetite like a bear For sale by Paules Sc Co. Entertained at Dinner. Miss Bennetts, Miss Pritchard and Miss Young, teachers oft!»«• Second Ward school, were very pleasantly en tertained by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Waite at a six o'clock dinner at their home, I Nassau street, last evening. Convincing Proof of the efficacy of Ely s Cream Balm , the greatest of catarrh rem edies, is certainly cheap. A generous j trail size costs but 10 cts. Full size 50 cts. Sold by druggists everywhere or i mailed by Ely Bros ,56 Warren Street New York. 135 Mill Street, Lexington, Ky. Messrs. ELY BROS —After giving your Cream Balm a trial I can truly say I feel very much benefited by it use and shall continue to use it by purchasing from our drnggists here Mrs. W j B. DANIEI. Over=Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes. fThe kidneys are your blood purifiers, they fil ter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, achesandrheu matism come from ex cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidrey poisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty cent and one-dollar siz es. You may have a —" sample bottle by mail Home of swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer St Co., Binghamton, N. Y. JURORS FOR FEBRUARY TERM OF COURT (IRANI) JURORS. Anthony township.-—Patrick C. Den nen. David Cox, Daniel Moser. B. C. Stead. Danville Ist ward. —Win. E. Deutcb, Wendell Grausoni. Danville 2nd ward. -Edward Albeck, Peter Snyder. Gilbert Yoris. Danville ilrd ward.—Arthur Butler Edward Elleubogen, John Ickes Sr., Philip Roden, Samuel Rebman. John Schuster. Danville 4th ward. —Owen Horan, Benjamin Harris. Limestone township.—E. A. Balliet, D. L. Cooper. Liberty township.—Peter Mintzer, Wm. M. Robinson. Valley township.—Victor V. Vincent, Washington ville. —C. S. Moser,George Keller. TRAVERSE JURORS. Anthony Township.—B. C. Deunen, Amos Johnston. Cooper township.—Jacob Shultz. Derrv township.—G. .1. Cotner, Isaac Moser. Danville Ist ward.—William Fallon, Wm. E. Lunger. James B. Murray, Eu geiie Moyer, George L. liowe. Danville 2nd ward. -Charles E. (-rib bons, John Kreamer, Robert Pursel, David Rishel,Frank Rowe. W. 11. Smith, Thomas Welliver. Danville 3rd ward. —Charles Murray, Wm. McDonald. James McWilliams, John O. Patton, David Ruckel, Charles E. Ware, Charles White. Danville 4th ward.—Clarence Crum ley. Eugene Doran, Charles H. Keefer, John Mowrey, Daniel Nevius, John Mc< 'lure. Liberty township. —C. H. Diehl.Jacob Keefer. Mahoning township. Miles Farns worth, Michael McGraw, George W Sandel. Mayberry township.—lsaiah Vought. Trial List for February Term ofCourt 1902 Franklin Maus and Charles Mans vs Mahoning township. Elizabeth Herrick vs George D. Ed mondson. John Herrick, administrator of Charles E. Clement, deceased, vs George D. Ed mondson. James O. Frazier vs Dr. P. C. New baker. Peima. Railroad company vs William Stetler. Augusta M. Johnson vs Commercial Mutual Accident company. Certified from the records at Danville Pa., this 11th day of January, 1902. THOS. <*. VINCENT. Proth'y FLORIDA. Personally-Conducted Tour via Pennsy!r vania Railroad. Thi' second Jacksonville tour of the season via the Pennsylvania Railroad, allowing two weeks in Florida, leaves Now York, Philadelphia, and Washing ton by special train February I s . Ex cursion tickets, including railway trans portation, Pullman accommodation (one berth), and meals en route in both direc tions while traveling on the special train.will be sold at the following rates; New York, $50.00; Buffalo $54.25; Roch ester, $51.00; Elniira. $51.45; Erie, ss4.Bs; Williamsport,sso.oo; Wilkes barre,sso.:is; and at porportionate rates from other points. For tickets,itineraries,and full inform ation apply to ticket agents,or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Pass enger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. CALIFORNIA, Thirty-one Day's Tour via Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad Personal ly-conducted Tour to California will leave on February 25. Passengers will be transported to El Paso, Texas, in sp» cial Pullman cars. At the latter point they will be transferred to the "Mexico and California Special," com posed exclusively of Pullman parlor smoking, dining-room, drawing-room sleeping, compartment, and observation cars, which will be used over the en tire trip back to New York. While the best hotels will be used where extended stops are made, the train will be at the constant command of the party. Round-trip tickets,covering all neces sary expenses, $-575 from all points on Pennsylvania Railroad except Pittsburg from which point the rate will be s:<7<». For further information apply to tick et agents; or address Geo. W. Boyd, As sistant General Passenger Agent, Phila delphia. Committed to the Hospital. John W. Bogart, of West Hemlock township, employed <>n the farm of Calvin Shultz, was Tuesday taken to the State Hospital for the Insane Drs Curry and Wintersteen of this city and Dr. J C Shuman of Jerseytown ex amined him and recommended that he be taken to the hospital for treatment. Mr. Wheeler Got Rid of His Rheurna "During the winter of ls'.tn 1 was so lame in my joints, in fact all over my body, that I could hardly hobble around, when I bought a bottle of Cham berlain's Pain Balm. From the first ap plications I began to get well, and was cured and have worked steadily all the year R. W HEELER. North wood.N Y. For sale by Paules & Co. Mrs. Mary Washburn, of West Nanti coke, returned home yesterday after a short visit with Mr and Mrs James [.ong. on Folev's Court THE LITTLE-ROGERS WEDDING Muncy. yesterday, was the scene of a brilliant wedding in which the bride and groom were both well know in Dan ville and the maid of honor was one of our best known and most popular young ladies. The principals were Harry Joseph Little, son of Judge R. R. Little, of Bloomsbnrg, and Miss Mabel Rebecca Rogers, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Rogers, of Muncy. The cere mony was performed bv Rev. W. L. Woods in the Baptist church at high noon. The bride wore white crepe dresden over silk. The maid of honor, Miss Lou Welliver of this city, was at tired in a pretty dress of white. The bridesmaids. Misses Julia Beeber and Julia Everitt, of Williamsport. Miss Margaret Stine, of Lewisburg, and Lena Bailey, of Wellsboro.were attired in dresses of white organdy over green and wore wli"t 1- n' CI TI • brother of the bride, acted as best man. Miss Margaret Rogers, of Muncy and Miss Cu.tli iiinu Liolle, a sister of the groom, w ere 11 wer girl.. The ceremony was followed by a re ception at the home of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Little after an extend ed wedding tour will settle at Cannana, Mexico, where the groom holds a posi tion. "The blood is the life." Science has never gone beyond that simple state ment of scripture. But it has illuminat ed that statement and given it a mean ing ever broadening with the increasing breadth of knowledge. When the blood is "bad" or impure it is not alone the body which suffers through disease. The brain is also clouded, the mind and judgment are affected, and many an evil deed or impure thought may be di rectly traced to the impurity of the blood. No one can be well balanced in mind and body whose blood is impure. Foul blood can be made pure by the use of Dr. Pierce's (-J olden Medical Discovery. \\ hen the blood is pure, body and brain are alike healthy and life becomes a daily happiness. Free—Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medi cal Adviser. 10(18 pages. 700 illustrations, is sent free on receipt of stamps to de fray expenses of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper covers, or 31 stamps for cloth, to Dr. R. V. Pierce,663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Inspection of Twelfth Regiment. The annual spring inspection of the Twelfth regiment will begin the first week in March. The first company to lie inspected will be Company C, Milton which will be put through the necessary examination on March 4th. The other companies will follow in this ordei: Company F. Danville, March 7th: Com pany E, Snnbury, March 8; Company B, Williamsport, March 10: Company K, Snnbury, March 12; Company I, Will iamsport, March 14 , Company A, Lewis burg. March l.">; Company D, William sport, March 17; Company G, William sport. March 1*; Company 11. Lock Ha ven, March 19. Now that the dates for the inspections of the Twelfth have been announced greater activity is to be expected at the armories. The program does not cover the more complicated features of last year, but the instructions given the in specting officers are that they must be Correspondingly more rigid. Although no official utterances have been made upon the subject the impression has gone forth that the recent order giving the twelve company regiments the ad ditional Major is the first step toward completing the reorganization of the di vision. It is said that Governor Stone will complete the reorganization before he goes out of office. If it is done as the result of this inspection, and it seems to be understood that this is the case, the Third brigade will lose five companies of infantry and one regimental organiza tion. This will reduce it to four regi ments of twelve companies each. It would be an unfortunate thing if the Twelfth regiment should lose any of her companies, but if she does the com pany disbanded will have but itself to blame. Good, hard, conscientious work during the few weeks still remaining, will put all of the companies in such condition that none need fear. But this work cannot be done by a few, all must help. The proficiency of those who do the hard work serves to make the in efficiency of the others stand out strong ly. VERY MUCH WANTED. The Last Pew Years Has Shown a Remark able Increase of Sleeplessness - How to Overcome It. Sleeplessness is one of the most proli fic sources producing a weak—nervous and restless condition —There is no sense in using opiates, they only undermine the constitution Nothing hasever been known to perfectly control this condi tion until the advent of Dr. A. VV. Chase's Nerve Pills—Their action is so gentle and soothing a sweet refreshing sleeps follows then nature has a chance to build up. Mr. J. M. Kline, of Paxinos, Pa.,says "Last fall I got a box of Dr. A. W Chase's Nerve Pills at Gosh's Drug Store, Danville, Pa., and had my wife use them. She had suffered a great deal from nervousness and sleeplessness and nothing seemed to do her much good. The Pills acted like a charm—soothing and quieting the nerves. She speaks most highly of them and I haye no hesi tation in recommending them. Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills are sold at "ioc a box at dealers or Dr. A. W. ( base Medicine Co.. Buffalo, N. V. Sc.- that portrait and signatureof A. W. Chase, M D are on every package. A Pleasing Entertainment. Miss Nita Moyer assisted by Charles Lyon, Miss Kthel Woods, and Master Rebel- Mover _.i\v a very pleasing enter tainment at the Hospital for the Insane on Tuesday evening, consisting of songs, anecdotes, fancy dances, &c. They were most enthusiastically received by the audience, who now regard them as old friends, this being the second entertain ment they have given this season, for which the thanks of the hospital are herebv extended. X Por Stomach Troubles. I have taken a great many different medicines for stomach trouble and con stipation. says Mr- S. (teiger of Dunk ertoii, lowa, "but never had as good re sults from any as from Chamberlain's Stomach & Liver Tablets. For sale by PaulesAr Co s. drug store. Miss Enieline Gearhart, of this city, spent yesterday with friends in Cata wissa. Mrs Harold Young, of Snnbury,spent yesterday at the home of Mr and Mrs. J W Hovies on North Mill street * \ Any one who is troubled $ j with Defective Eyesight jjj cannot do better than to consult me as to the cause. fix tijj| I will apply the remedy in the shape of suitable and * perfect fitting glasses at moderate cost. EYES ffl (if TESTED FREE. ></ | HENBY REMFE, W I Jeweler and Scientific Optician. OFFERING OF A FLOOD [Original.] John Oldershaw and hts wife, Marga ret, lived on the l>ank of the Mississippi river. They had everything they de sired except children. Margaret after waiting years for tlie advent of a little one fell Into one of those perversions of the maternal instinct, the lavishing of her affection on a dumb brute. She adopted a puppy which she nam ed Spot. It grew up to be arj ugly little beast, and John hated it. Margaret gave it a crib to sleep in, the choicest food, a bath daily, and when John was not present even brushed its teeth. "What do you want to make a child of a dog for?" John would ask snap- . plshly. "I love Spotty dearly," Margaret would reply. One morning John overheard his wife 1 talking to the dog: "Spotty, dear, I want you togo and bring me a baby. You'll find it somewhere—in the wood perhaps. It will be In a silk handker- ! chief, tied at the corners. There will be a bit of paper pinned to the handker chief, giving the baby's name and tell- j lug why Its mother left it in the wood, j poor womanl" "That's a likely thing to happen," i muttered John. "Take the handkerchief in your ■ teetli," Margaret went on, "where the | four corners are tied together and bring the child to me." John went to Memphis to a foundling ; asylum and applied for a baby to j adopt. There was none to be had whose parentage satisfied him, for lie was somewhat particular in that re spect, so he went back to Margaret j disappointed and empty handed, and , Margaret went on making a child of j Spotty. Soon after this John was reading in j the local newspaper a telegraphic dis- j patch stating that the river was rising | rapidly above and fears were enter- j talned that the levee at several weak j points would not stand the pressure. His house stood on ground above the j highest flood mark, so he did not fear j for his and Margaret's safety, but he dreaded the flood for his neighbors' j sake and the destruction of his own \ and their property. "John," said his wife, "Inst night 1 dreamed that Spotty had gone away and come back with a baby tied up In a silk handkerchief." John groaned. "Spotty! Spotty! Come, get your breakfast!" she called. Spot didn't respond, and Margaret went out into the yard to look for him. She called, but without reply. She hunted among the rosebushes and un der the magnolia trees, in the barn, the woodliouse, everywhere, but there was no Spot. Then she set all the negroes hunting, but when the sun went down that night there was no sign of the child-dog. The flood proved the highest ever known. The levee burst above the Oldershaws', and the country was cov ered with water. Margaret wrung her hands and gave up Spot for drowned and pleaded with John to take a boat •""j go in searcn or ms uony. jonn re fused until he saw that his refusal was downright cruelty. Then he got out the oars, unchained the boat and after taking his wife in with him pulled away into the wood behind the house. John Oldershaw felt like a fool, hut he Is not the first husband who has acted stupidly and wisely at the same time In pleasing his wife. They were met by everything that could float, animate and inanimate. Furniture, dwellings, sections of fenc ing, barns, were floating about iii pro fusion. A wee kitten on a board mew ed to them plteously. A lamb on the roof of an outhouse bleated. Half dressed people who had escaped in boats at midnight were pulling for dry land. John Oldershaw saw the wreck about him and remembered that he was looking for a drowned dog. "See the little ark!" Margaret ex claimed. Whoever has not seen one of those old cradles, now obsolete—as all cradles are, for the matter of that—made of wood, one end covered with the same material, cannot understand the excla niatlon. What Margaret saw was one of these cradles, and, what was more wonderful to relate, she heard a bark, and a dog's nose protruded above the gunwale of the cradle-boat about where the slits for handles were. "It's Spotty!" cried Margaret in ecstasy. "So It Is," said John. "Why doesn't he put his paws on the side and show himself?" said Marga ret. "He's afraid of upsetting his boat," said John. John pulled for the cradle and was i soon alongside of it. Margaret F- '■ the tiny craft, and there, lying on bedding, was an infant. When it saw j Margaret looking down at it, the child's face broke into a smile. Us eye* : laughed, and its little arms and legs vibrated like shuttles. Spotty sat and barked and when all S fear of overturning the cradle was at an end Jumped Into the boat, kissed i Margaret and In all respects equaled | the incessant motion of the baby. So few people will believe this story j that I scarcely have the heart to finish | it, but the rest of it Is of more Impor tance than what I have told. The baby, a boy, was adopted and reared by John and Margaret Oldershaw, and not till he was grown did he discover that he j was the son of a rich planter not far up the river, both of his parents hav- i Ing been drowned when he was swept away by the flood. John after the advent of the little ; stranger treated Spotty with especial kindness, though Margaret, strangely enough, never afterward considered him anything but a dog. HESTER B. MERIWETHER. \ Middle Agf« Ink. An Indelible ink very commonly used in the middle ages was made with a basis of terchloride of gold applied to u cloth dampened with a solutiou of chloride of tin. ELABORATE SKIRTS, Triple Floancti, Appllqaes and Tneks on Ail the Siewemt Model*. Skirts are becoming more and more ornate. Triple effects are especially stylish, and one of the newest skirts Loasts of three gored flounces laid in clusters of five tucks and edged with a rich passementerie. In net and thin goods a favorite model for tall people | ' ' TELLOW LACE GOWN. | consists in a yoke with two rows of shirring farther down, from which falls a full rullle edged with a wide | patterning of lace. Skirts of velvet are handsomest made perfectly plain, with a clinging effect around the hips and a long train. One large gored flounce is rich when added on invisibly or by means of a single heavily stitched fold. A pretty style for a cloth gown consists in orna menting it at intervals with wavy bands of inch wide velvet ribbon of a little darker shade than the cloth. Today's picture shows a gown of yel low lace of a rather plain design. The waist is bloused into a belt of tur quoise silk. The sleeves are elbow length, with a wide frill. The sole trimming of the waist consists of nar row black velvet ribbons brought across the shoulders and front fichu fashion and held together with a tur quoise brooch. The skirt has a graduated flounce set on invisibly. There is a very long train. Jt'DIC CHOLLET. MAKING A GOOD ROAD. Without Competent Men There la No Chance ol Sueee»». A good road can be made by putting In a layer of large or medium sized stone, then on that a layer of crushed stone and on that a covering of gravel and rolling the surface down hard and smooth. But that Is not all that Is needed, says the American Cultivator. A part of the skill is like the old gen tleman's rule for making good coffee, "When you make It, putin some." We have been watching the work on a bit of road this season. There are nbout three inches in depth of the round cobblestones, one inch of crush ed stone and one inch of gravel and loam mixed, which, by wetting and rolling, has been so pressed down into the stones that it is now less than a half inch. If it were whitewashed after it was rolled. It could not look much bet ter, but It might be more durable. We think before one winter passes the larger stones will be at the surface and the covering will have washed away or settled down below them. In close proximity to a strip built by the state as an example of how to build a good road, it is likely to furnish an equally good example of how not to make a good road. It is one of those cases, too common, where the town thought to give employment to its own citizens instead of hiring the work done by contract, when it would have been better to have employed a com petent man with ablebodied help and supported Its cripples from the town's poor fund than to have paid them $1.75 for eight hours' loafing or trying to do that which some of them were unable to do by reason of old age and others were utterly incompetent to do well, while lew of them cared for or took i any interest in any part of the work excepting drawing their pay. Max Mailer'* Sehooldays. When Professor Max Muller as a bov of twelve was put to school in | Lelpsle, as he relates in his autobl j ography, he had an odd old teacher. Professor Muller says: "Before begin ! nlng his lesson he used to rub his spectacles and after looking round the half empty classroom mutter in a plaintive voice. 'I see again many boys Who are not here today.' When the same old master began to lecture on physical science, he told the boys to bring a frog to be placed under a glass from which the air had been extracted 1 by an air pump. Of course every one of the twenty boys brought two or three frogs, and when the experiment Was to be made all these frogs were hopping about the lecture room, and the whole army of boys were hopping after them over chairs and tables to catch tlieui No wonder that during this tumult the master did not succeed with his experiment, and when at last the glass howl was lifted up and we were asked to see the frog great was the JIM of all the boys when the frog bopped out and escaped from tha hands of its would be executioner." Ilablt From the Dtimceon. Convicts who were forced to drag about a ball and chain at the galleys could often be detected, when released, by their habit of trailing one foot after the other. John Boyle O'Reilly, con demned to convict life in Australia for his Fenian sympathies, had also in . after years a ha bit which told a like • sad story. One who knows him said: ? When walking abstractedly and me-f chanically, he always went a short dis-1 tance and then retraced his steps, no | matter how wide a stretch he had be fore him. It was always three paces forward, turn and three paces back, 1 exactly like the restless turning of a lion in a cage. One <lay 1 asked him, "Boyle, what was the length of your cell when you ' were in prison—how many paces?" "Three,"he said. "Why do you askV" "Because when you are absentmind ed you always walk three paces for ward and then retrace your steps." How to Get Rid of Ant*. To rid the house of black ants there is x>erbaps no better rule than the old and long tried one of brushing thor- i oughly all the cracks and crevices in fested by insects with a hot solution of alum and water. Two pounds of alum should be dissolved in three quarts of water and allowed to stand until the alum Is dissolved. It should he boiling hot while it is being used. All house hold insects disappear before this treat inent. Bad Coughs " I had a bad cough for six weeks and could find no relief until I tried Ayer's Cherry Pecto ral. Only one-fourth of the bottle cured me." L. Hawn, Newington, Ont. E Neglected colds always I 1 lead to something serious. 1 They run into chronic l 1 bronchitis, pneumonia, | asthma, or consumption. 1 Don't wait, but take 1 Ayer's Cherry Pectoral S just as soon as your cough | begins. A few doses will 1 cure you then. Thr«« sizes : 25c., 20c . sf. All drujflsti. Consult your doc lor. if Ur *ay« take it, yj then do a<* he If !»e tells you not £ to take It. then cVn't take it. He knows. I Leave *: v.iiJi him We h k trilling. J. C. AY EH CO., Lowell, Mais. ■ MONTOUR IB I AND THE IfllH I $ I rn pir ir J) J IN ADVICE. Subscription to Montouj American si.oo per year ■ll I>HIN ISTH ATOK'S NOTICE. Estate of Wm. Amesbnry, late of the Borough of Danville, County of Montour and State of Pennsylva nia, deceased. Notice i-. hereby given that letter-, of Ad minis) ration upon the above estate have been granted to the undersigned. Allpersons In debted to the said Estate, arc required to make payment, and those having claims or demands against the said estate, will make known the same without delay to WM AMESBURY, J Administrator A. C. AMESBURY, \ NOTICE. In the matter of the iirst and partial ac count of Frank B. Keiner, Adminis trator of the estate of Margaret Kein er. late of the Borough of Danville. County of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, dec d. The undersigned, appointed aud tor by the aforesaid court, to distribute the balance in the hands of the said accountants to and among tiie parties found to be legally entitled tlier. to, will attend to the iluties of his s;iid appointment at his ofllce, No. 221 Mill Street in the ISorough of Danville, Penna., on Tumtay, February 1U»I«. lOO'-i, at in o clock in the forenoon of said day, when and where all persons having claims against the said fund are required to present and prove tlie same or be debarred from coming in upon tile said fund. WIIXIA.M V OGLKSIiV. Auditor Danville, I'a . lan. lit, litrj. HEW-YORK TBIB IBWEB. 5 i'or sixty t!ie NL. »V-VOIiiC U'f.LK..V TRll' i VMi h.iM i.Ven i n.niu,;: i! weiklj r-cwspuper. read A! 4iiiiio-'» t iitlrely by fan:;. : . i.u i hts enjoyed the eon ( in!- tin ik<! support of tin \mi i.i people to.l M ,r »e I nc\ r attained by nny • imiiar pubiKat on. NLW-YORK TR.3UNE FA .JER _ —— \ a m fu E» Inf in M nui .bei w.s i.-vu .1 N -v. t■ 1 ill;. 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An army officer back from the Philip pines tells the following story of a cal low young officer whose mistakes are a frequent source of amusement to his comrades: Early In his military expe rience the lieutenant was awakened "IT'S VERY KIND OF TOtT TO TELL ME THB TIME." one night by the sentry who passed by his tent calling out the hour and vouch sating the information, "All's well." The youth turned over and settled down to another nap, but the next hour was awakened again by the uuwelcome call. When this had been repeated the third time, ho decided to endure It no longer and, going to the door of his tent, called out, "Look here; it's very kind of you to tell me the time, but 1 have a watch here by my bed, so please spare yourself further trouble." Narrow Tires Spoil Road*. One of the most prolific causes of bad roads Is the narrowness of the wagon tires in common use, says Gen ' eral Roy Stone. They cut out great ruts, and when these ruts are filled | with moisture they cut still deeper and mix with the water the new dirt cut from the bottom Into mud and slush. So in bad weather the ordinary wagon tire Is a rutmaker and a mud mixer. An Apt Definition. "What Is a Bohemian?" said the young man who wants to study human ' nature. i "A Bohemian," answered the cold blooded friend, "is a person who al ways needs two or three extra Indorse ments on his note when he wants to borrow money."— Washington Star Stylish Spring Jacket To any one who will mention THE MONTOUR AMERICAN, and send us 2o cents we will forward immediately the pattern of an ad vance Paris style for a Spring Jacket. Address The riorse-Broughton Co. Publishers of L'Art de la Mode, 3 East iQth Street, New York Single copies of L'Art de la Mode. 35c. KCiSTEK'S NOTICES. To AI.R. CREDITORS, LEGATEES AND OTHER PERSONS i NTERESTED— Notice is hereby given, that the following named persons did on the uateatlixed to their names, Hie the accounts of their administration to the estate of those persons, deceased, and Guardian Accounts, Ac. wliose names are hereinafter mentioned, In tlie office of tlie Register for the Probate of Wills and granting of Letters of Administra tion, in and for the County of Montour, and that t lie same will be presented to the Orphans' Court of said county, for confirmation and allowance, on Monday, the 24tli «!»>• of Feb., A. I)., 1904, at the meeting of the Court in the afternoon. 1902. Jany. 1.l First and Final account of Levi Moser, administrator of the estate of George W. Steinman.late of Derry Town ship, Montour County, de ceased. •Tany. 21.—First and Final account of Jonathan Stahl, Executor of the last will and testament of Fieta Stahl, late of Liber ty Township, Montour Coun ty, deceased. .Tany. 22.—Second and Final account of J. Simon Boyer, Administra tor of the estate of J. K. Boy er, late of the Borough of Danville, Montour County, deceased. .Tany. 24. —First and Final account oj Isaac X. Grier. Executor of the last will and testament of Margaret Marshall, late of the Borough of Danville, Mon tour County, deceased. .Tany. 25. —Second and Partial account of Simon Dreifuss, Acting Executor of the liist will and testament of Jacob Loeb.late of the Borough of Danville, Montour County, deceased. Jany. 2~>.—First a»d Final account of Daniel i Boinboy and George F. Yarher, Executors of the last will and testament of Cyrenus Bombov, late of An thony Township, Montour County, deceased. Jany. 2.l—First and Final account of John Long, Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth C. Bennett, late of Liberty Township, Montour County, deceased. WM. L. SIDLER. Register. Register's Office, Danville. Pa.. Jany. 24. 1902. ■yyiDOW 'S AI'PII VISKMKNT. Notice is hereby given to all persons inter ested, that the "following appraisement of real and personal property set apart to the widow of decedent has been filed in the office of the Clerk of Orphans' Court, of Montour County and the same will he presented to said Court for confirmation ni. si. at Dan ville, on Momlay February 'Mth, I#o'J and will he confirmed finally within four days hereafter unless exceptions are previ ously filled, viz: Alice Arnwine, widow of Daniel Arnwine. lateof West Hemlock township, dee'd, person it Is.'loo. Certified from records, February 6th, 1002. THOMAS (>. VINCENT, Clerk.
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