MONTOUR AMERICAN
FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor.
Danville. Pa.. Mar. 20. I 902
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REGISTER OF SALES.
For Which Sale Bills Have Been
Printed at this Office.
March 26—Eugene Morrison at his resi
dence in Mahoning township, about
one and one-half miles from Danville,
Farm stock, farm implements and
household goods.
March 26—John Klingman at his resi
dence on the road leading to Union
Corner, about three miles from Dan
ville. Farm stock, farm implements
and household goods.
March 27—At one o'clock p. m., J. J.
Kline will sell his household goods,
buggies, etc., at his residence East
Market street. Danville, Pa.
Announcement.
I hereby announce myself as a candi
date for County Commissioner, subject
to the rules of the Republican party.
Your support is earnestly solicited.
J. C. MILLER.
CONVENTION IN
SECRET SESSION
The Outcome cf the Mine Workers Con
vention at Shamokin Still In
Doubt.
The Convention of the United Mine
Workers of America resumed session at
Shamokin yesterday morning with 630
delegates present. President Mitchell
presided. Rules for governing the con
vention were adopted, after whijh the
various committees presented their re
ports.
A communication was received from
President John Reese of the lowa organ
ization of miners assuring them of sym
pathy and wishing the anthracite min
ers succeas.
A communication was received from
Lattimer miners, crippled in the riot
at that place, asking for assistance. A
collection was accordingly taken up for
their benefit which amounted to $60.12.
On motion the firemen of District No.
1 who are desirous of affiliating with
the United Mine Workers, were admit
ted to the convention.
District No. 1 under President Thomas
D. Nicholls, whose delegates are gener
ally supposed to favor a strike, seem to
hold the balance of power. It is the
largest of the districts and lacks only 36
votes of having as many as the other
two districts, 7 and 9, combined.
Nicholls is very much disappointed
over the refusal of the operators to meet
the miners and has taken a radical
stand for increased concessions, demand
ing among other things that miners be
jtaid by weight instead of by wagon as
at present.
During the forenoon the convention
went into executive session and re
mained behind closed doors during the
day. President Mitchell is in posses
sion of letters from the presidents of the
coal mining and carrying companies
written in reply to the request for a
joint conference. These letters, it is
understood, form the subject of discus
sion in the secret session.
Things have an ominous appearance
and although peace is hoped for a strike
is very much feared.
SIOO EEWARD, 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 aestroylng the foundation of
the disease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting
nature tn 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.
The drummers are fighting shy of the
coal regions at present. All are await
ing the action of the miners' convention
at Shamokin this week and are not de
sirous of placing orders; neither are the
prudent business men of the coal region
seeking to stock their stores with any
great amount of goods. If a strike is
the outcome of the Shamokin conven
tion, the merchants want to have as
small amount of goods as possible on
hand. It will be a relief to all when
the tension of the present week is over.
To accommodate those who are partial
to the use of atomizers in applying liq
uids into the nasal passages for catarrh
al trouble*, the proprietors prepare Ely 's
Liquid Cream Balm. Price including
the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists
or by mail. The liquids embodies the
medicinal properties of the solid pre
paration. Cream Balm is quickly ab
sorbed by the membrane ami does not
dry up the secretions but changes them
to a natural and healthy character.
Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N. Y.
Dropped Dead-
Samuel Gottshall, of Shamokin, drop
ped dead in the P. & R. depot at that
place yesterday. He was a married
man and a veteran of the Civil War.
Danger of Golds and La Grippe.
The greatest danger from colds and
la grippe is their resulting in pneumon
ia. If reasonable care is used, however,
and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
taken, all danger will be avoided.
Among the tens of thousands who have
used this remedy for these diseases, we
have yet to learn of a single case having
resulted in pneumonia, which shows
conclusively that it is a certain preven
tive of that dangerous malady. It will
cure a cold or an attack of la grippe in
less time than anv other treatment. It
is pleasant and safe to take. For sal<>
by Paules & Co. H42 Mill street.
I A musement S
I
The :: Hickman Brothers, the jovial
| comedians, who have been crowding
' the theatres nightly throughout the
■ country, come to the < )pera House Sat
; urday evening in "Down and Up," des
cribed as an up-to-date musical comedy
| written expressly for them The title
! expresses the entire plot, which consists
of the adventures of "Mr. Dooley,
i made famous in the sketches by Dunn.
: which are now running in all the lead
ing newspapers.
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The stage story of "David Harum"
the Charles Frohtnan attraction at the
Opera House on April 16th is said to be
simply a dove tailing of the more dram
atic incidents in the world famous novel
that has run through more editions than
any book in the last ten years. That
the staging of the story has succeeded
in sharing the success of the book is
to put it mildly. Tin- comedy of well
to-do tip country life was a decided
novelty and caught the fancy of the
Broadway theatre-goer as no other
comedy has done in years. The charac
ters were well-recognized types and the
play itself was neither a burlesque of
country life nor the mawkishly senti
mental sop that is dished out at cheap
theatres, the wit and humor, the truth
and pathos were genuine and Mr. Froh
man claims to put his best producing
foot forward in this, his latest, and great
est success.
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Tbe Augustin Daly Company is cer
tainly a very pretentions organization
if one may judge from its number and
personnel, as well also as the great
amount of scenery, wardrobe, etc., that
is provided by the management for the
proper production of the latest and best
of the London and New York musical
comedy successes, viz: "A Runaway
Girl." The Company comprises some
fifty artists, prominent among whom
are seen the names of Mr- Arthur Dunn,
Mr. Walter Clifford, Mr. Joseph Tre
Denick, Mr. Geo. F. Beard, Mr. Henry
Leone, Mr. Harry Dickson, Mr. Frank
Regis. Miss Celeste Wynn. Miss Clara
Belle Jerome and Miss Rose La Harte.
There are many others of equal distinc
tion. With this array of talent, in con
junction with the pretty faces and train
ed voices of the handsomely dressed
chorus, one can readily see that the
splendid reputation of this excellent
company must be well deserved. The
entire organization and complete pro
duction of "A Runaway Girl" will be
seen at the Opera House on the evening
of April Ist.
£ & VS
An Elaborate Production of "Faust,"
Saturday, April sth.
The beginning of the fifth act shows
us Faust and Mephisto climbing the
steep rocks and yawning chasms of
the* peak of the Brocken in the Hartz
Mountains, where, according to the Ger
man legend, the Witches and Warlocks
meet at Walpurgis night (the thirteenth
of April) to hold their yearly festivities.
The night grows darker and darker: the
moon is in its last quarter and gives but
little light. They climb higher and
higher; the trees and rocks and distant
cliffs take on wondrously fantastic
shapes in the dim light of the dying
moon; only the hooting of owls and the
far away cry of the lonely night-hawk
breaks the solemn stillness; strange
shapes crawl to and fro, and wierd
snake like forms seem to writhe and try
to clasp the wonders in their horrible
embrace. At midnight a mighty temp
est rises and the witches gather from
far an I near to their unholy festival.
During the truly horrifying scene that
follows Mephisto shows Faust the never
failing "Punishment of Evil," and the
curtain falls with terror stricken Faust
writhing in the Evil One's grasp. A
perfect storm of electric fire descends,
amid which the imps and witches are
seen revelling in their fiendish merri
ment.
A grain of sand in the eye can cause
excruciating agong. A grain of pepper
in place of the grain of sand intensifies
the torment. The pain is not confined
to the organs affected. The whole body
feels the shock of that little irritating
particle. It is so when there is any de
rangement or disorder of the delicate
womanly organs. The disorder may
seem trivial but the whole body feels it.
The nervous system is disordered. There
are fretfulness, irritability, snllenness
and depression of spiri's. The general
health of woman depends on the local
health )f the organs peculiarly feniiu
ins. Remove the drains, u'cerations,
bearing dowh pains, and other afflic
tions of woman, and the whole body
feelethe benefit. Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescriptions is a specific for the disease
es that undermine the strength of wo
man. It is free from opium, cocaine
and other narcotics, poisons which en
ter into many other preparations for
woman's use. It makes weak women
strong and sick women well.
A well known property owner intimat
ed yesterday that there are not half a
dozen desirable houses to rent in the en
tire city. He added: "If at least twenty
five new houses are not built in Danville
within the coming year,the problem will
become serious and rents will jump to
abnormal figures. Recent events how
ever do not tend to induce capitalists to
invest their money in building houses,
owing to the advance in building ma
terials, etc. Where we spent a dollar a
few years ago we now spend £l.lO.
and altogether with the increased taxa
tion, the situation is not one that is like
ly to induce anyone to enter into any
! extensive building operations during the
' coming summer.
La Grippe Quickly Oured.
"In the winter of ls'js and 1899 I was
taken down with a severe attack of what
is called La Grippe, 'says F I. Hewett,
a prominent druggist of Winfield, 111.
"The only medicine I used was two bot
tle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It
broke up the cold and stopped the cough-
I ing like magic, and I have never been
troubled with Grppe. " Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy can always be depended
upon to break up a severe cold and
ward off any threatened attack of pueu-
I monia. It is pleasant to take,too which
makes it the most desirable and one of
j the most popular preparations in u*e fur
these ailments. For sale by Panics &
Co. 842 Mill street,.
Destructive Fire in Shamokin.
Fire which originated in the rear of
John Condren's flour and feed store in
j Shamokin Tuesday completely gutted
1 that structure, causing a loss of about
f2OOO Prompt work of the Shamokin
' firemen saved the adjoining buildings
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads (he news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
cures made by Dr.
—ij. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
« J|| the great kidney, liver
lu ! IIL an d bladder remedy.
"I U fr\V/ ' It is the great medi-
J J ca ' triumph of the nine
l\Vi_\ ,1 teenth century; dis
|\§==A, _____ • covered after years of
.t vlr-" ' sc ' e ntifi c research by
r) 1 sS r- Kilmer, 'he emi
fl. _: * nent kidney and biad-
specialist, and is
wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou
bles and Bright"s Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
ommended for everything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedy you need. It has been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send your address to
Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing-P^^rtSH^^^^^
regular fifty cent and Home of H>»amj>-noot
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
AN INTERESTING
PROGRAM
tendered at St. Paul's U. E Church this
Evening by Sunday School.
A musical will be given by the Sun
day school of St. Paul's M. E. church
tonight, which promises to bean event
of more than ordinary interest. As will
be revealed by a glance at the program
below those participating without ex
ception are persons of acknowledged
talent in their respective lines. It is
hoped that the event will be generously
patronized by the public. An admis
sion of ten cents will be charged, the
proceeds to be applied to the missionary
society of the Sunday school. Follow
ing is the program:
Selection Violin. Cornet and Piano,
Nelson Woods, Walter Russell ami
Mrs. Woods.
Ladies' Quartet Misses Rank. <'nus
art. Klase and Harman.
Solo, Miss Mary Unger.
Recitation Miss Olive Rank.
Piano Duet.Mrs. Woods and Miss Woods
Solo Charles Lyon.
High School Boys' Quartet.
Recitation W J. Rogers.
Violin Solo, Nelson Woods.
Duet .Misses Rank and Harman.
Selection. Violin. Cornet and Piano.
POSITIVE PROOF.
Should Convince the Greatest Skeptic in
Danville.
Because it's evidence in Danville
It's from a citizen, perhaps a neigh
bor.
Investigation will confirm it.
Mr. Thos. Lewis, of sl;i Mill street,
says:"For years I had a lameness over
my kidneys and aching in the small of
my back. 1 used many remedies, try
ing first one thing and then another,
but without being cured. I learned
about Doan's Kidney Pills and read the
statements made by people who had
used them and took according to direc
tions. The}' not only removed the lame
ness and aching, but they banished the
headaches and depressed feelings.
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
no substitute
For sale in Danville by G. Shoop Hunt.
An embassy came to Harrisburg yes
terday on a mission of peace, but the in
dications are that it was a failure. There
are those among the good Methodist
brethren who honestly believe that the
Swallow-Hartzell affair should be amic"
ably adjusted outside of conference and
without the formality of an ecclesiastical
trial. It is feared that the trial will be
harmful to the Church and for that rea
son the peace committee was chosen at
an informal meeting held by clergymen
of conference to consider the whole mat
ter. But it looks now like a war to the
finish with all the acrimony and bitter
ness of such controversies. The Confer
ence will meet at Beliefonte next week
and no doors can be closed tightly enough
to prevent the proceedings of the trial
getting out. —Harrisburg Telegraph.
How to Cure the Grippe.
Remain quietly at home and take
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as direct
ed and a quick recovery is sure to follow.
That remedy counteracts any tendency
of the grip to result in pneumonia, which
is really the only serious danger. Among
the tens of thousands who have used it
for the grip, not one case has ever been
reported that did not recover. For sale
by I'aules & Co., 342 Mill street.
Masquerade Surprise Party.
Mr. and Mrs. David Guest were tend
ered a masquerade surprise party at
their home on Nicholas Avenue Tuesday
evening. Those present were; Mr. and
Mrs. William Ritter, Mr. and Mrs
Samuel Lormor, Mr. and Mrs. John Do-
Lanty, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew ltoat, Mr.
and Mrs. Willard Fetterman; Mesdanies
Lloyd Foust,Edward Hofer,Peter Kellv.
Patrick Martin, Michael Reilly. Patrick
McVey, Curry Foust Webster Foust,
Philip Foust, John Bates, Hamilton
Smith. William Mottern, Thomas Lyon,
Martin Curry, John Kilgus,Frank Reef
er, Robert Paugh, Jr., Robert Paugh,
Sr . Lamar Ilahn. Harry Saunders, Ben
jaiuim Cook. Albert Kemmcr. Misses
Katie Miller, Louise Miller, Man
Smith, Sallie Hahn, Marie Fetterman;
Messrs. Samuel Lyons and James Paugh
Death of a Child-
Irene, the little daughter of James
Rudy, East Danville, died Tuesday
evening of consumption, aged 1 years
and S months.
First Rehearsal Call.
Those invited to take part in the ren
dition of "Queen Esther'' are requested
to meet at the Y. M. C. A. Hall tonight
at 7:30 o'clock sharp
RHcRM.,
ALFALFA HAY.
fin n died ii nd l-Vd Kconomleally and
So uv to l.cNseii l.iilior.
Every time alfalfa hay is haiulltH]
there is considerable loss from the
breaking off of dry leaves. Where it
has to be forked over several times be
fore it reaches the manger little is left
but unpalatable stems. I recently saw
an alfalfa barn and feed lot construct
ed with an idea of preventing this
waste, says an American Agriculturist
correspondent.
The barn was surrounded with feed
ing racks, the common Y shaped rack
ALFALFA BARN AND SHOOT.
made of one inch boards, just far
enough from the barn so that a wagon
can be driven between. The alfalfa
hay is put into the barn through these
doors, and when wanted for stock a
wide shoot is used, reaching from the
barn door to the rack. By these means
the hay is conducted from the barn to
the rack without loss. These shoots
are removable and can be taken out
when the barn is being filled or for
any other reason. The work of feed
ing the stock is also greatly lessened,
as it consists simply in throwing the
hay into the shoot and allowing it to
slide down into the rack.
SILO TALK.
I'olntn About lluildinK Hc*t Corn
ami lion to Grow It For Sllnuc.
In answer to a correspondent John
Gould says in Ohio Farmer: It is not
imperative that the contents of a silo
be lowered two Inches per day. It
would be difficult in many instances to
force a certain number of cattle to eat
that much. We have never found any
trouble where one inch daily is fed. To
divide a ten by seventeen foot silo into
two pits would make them very small,
and the friction on the walls would
make it difficult to get the silage very
compact. You would only have 170
surface feet of silage, and 225 is not
considered a very great surface to feed
from. W'e would advise against parti
tion. Plank with grooved edges set in
"cleat runs" against the walls makes a
very good partition.
Better make your silo corners round
ed by nailing narrow boards across the
corners and round tlieui into a depth
of four inches and cut up in the cor
ners with the narrow lining or celling
and have no joints or semicorners. If
you do set up beveled plank in the cor
ners, fill in behind them with thin ce
ment mortar; otherwise you will have
an air shaft in the corners to let air
into your silage.
Use narrow Georgia pine flooring to
ceil up your silo, two and three-quarter
inch widths. Nail well, and while
painting the grooves might help some
it will prove of little worth if the floor
ing is well put on and draw nailed.
The manhole doors, two by two feet,
cut so as to have the jambs come on
the girths, made snug fitting, opening
on the inside, are as satisfactory as
any.
I think the small kerneled Virginia
white corn is the best of all the varie
ties grown in northern Ohio. It grows
strongly and ears profusely, matures
for the silo by Sept. 20 and carries a
great amount of sugar, about four
times as much as sweet couji. We
much prefer planting corn for silage in
drills three and a half feet apart and a
kernel each six inches in the row. A
grain drill can be used with success,
but it does not come up so evenly, in as
perfect rows, and does not cultivate as
nicely as the straight planter rows.
For silage corn prepare the ground
two weeks or more before planting.
Work it deep and make it mellow.
Harrow every few days to kill weeds
before planting. Plant two inches
deep. Harrow or use the weeder until
the corn is five or six inches high, and
cultivate very shallow and allow the
unbroken roots to grow as near the
surface as possible. The drier the
weather the oftener the shallow, tine,
level culture should be given to the
crop.
Interest In Roadf*.
In the past few years increasing in
terest in the matter of good roads has
caused such an agitation in congress
that men who have their hand on the
pulse of their constituents have begun
to recognize that an intelligent and lib
eral support of all efforts to give thor
oughfares and highways to their people
will be demanded of them by thoce
whom they represent.
People Are Growing Wiser,
is a sufficient proof of that fact. It is
not fashion; it is good sense life pre
serving instinct. After the long confin
ing winter, a day or more spent along
the coast in the invigorating salt air,
refreshes both mind and body, and pre
pares them for the Spring demands of
business or society. So strongly are
educated persons imbued with this fact,
that of later years the Easter Sunday
Promenad'' on Atlantic City's famous
boardwalk has far surpassed in style,
beauty and numbers, the Easter show
on Fifth Avenue. Rittenhouse Square
and other noted fashion promenades of
former years. While Atlantic City
stands first in this respect, numerous
persons prefer spending the Eastertide
at Cape May and Ocean City.
To accommodate its patrons the Phil
adelphia & Reading Route has arranged
to run in addition to its good regular
service, the following fast express
trains, with Pullman Parlor Cars at
tached from and to Chestnut St.and
South St. Ferries, Philadelphia.
For Atlantic City, Sunday 30th. inst..
leave Philadelphia 8.00 a. in. Returning
leave Atlantic City 9:30 P. M.
For Cape May and < >cean City, leave
Philadelphia March 29th, 1:30 P. M..
March 30th, 8:30 A. M. Returning
leave C tpe May and Ocean City March
30tli, 5:30 P M.
Leave New York for Atlantic City,
March 29th. I 30 P. M..and returning
leaves Atlantic ('itv March 30th. VBO
P M.
J Good Jewelry %
will add an air of refinement ami elegance to any jjj?
costume. It makes a man look prosperous and makes
a woman look prettier. Money putin poor trashy jL
T*f jewelry is money wasted. Jewelry from our store is jl;
■V- a trood investment, it is alwavs worth what vou pav ;I;
Iml ' If|
.7 tor it, can always he depended upon for quality.
U/ W
J{J HENRY BEMPE, $
J"eweler and. Silversmitli. nl
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ALABAMA HIGHWAYS
GROWING SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF i
BETTER COUNTRY ROADS.
Ilelitt ion of Good HOIMIN to I'nlilic
School*-—"Accessibility a Factor In
Kducatlon—A Stale In Measured by
It* Itondn.
The counties of southern Alabama
met In convention at Mobile recently ;
and organized a good roads associa
tion, elected officers and adopted a
series of resolutions demanding such
legislation as will place the state in
a position to plan and construct public
roads in a more scientific manner than
at present obtains.
The Hon. J. W. Abercrombie, super- !
inteiulent of public instruction for the
state of Alabama, discussed the sub
ject of "Good Roads and Their Rela- :
tion to Country Schools." He spoke in
part as follows:
"The enrollment in the white schools
of Alabama is only (!4 per cent of the
school population. In the colored
schools it is only 48 per cent. Deduct
ing 25 per cent for withdrawals and
Irregularity in attendance, which is a
very low estimate, we have a daily at
tendance in the white schools of 48 per
cent of school population and in the
colored schools a daily attendance of
30 per cent. In those states where the
roads are good the average dally at
tendance is from 25 per cent to 50 per
cent greater. It is reasonable to con
clude then that something besides gen
eral interest is necessary.
"Though the interest be widespread
and intense, the enrollment and attend
ance will be regulated greatly by the
cost of going. For several years our
common schools have been practically
free. Now they are entirely free for at
least four months In the year. Yet
the attendance is not as large or as
regular as it should be—not as large or
as regular as It is in many other states.
Hence we conclude that something be
sides general Interest and free tuition
Is needed.
"Somebody may suggest that the
great necessity is a competent teach
ing force. It is conceded, I believe,
by those who are experienced in such
matters that no school can be a suc
cess, in the fullest sense of the term,
without a thoroughly qualified teacher,
one In whom the people have faith. It
was for that reason that the lawmak
ing power established recently a new
system for the examination and certifi
cation of teachers, by which the quali
fications of the teachers in the public
schools have been increased more than
100 per cent. The board created for
that purpose has labored faithfully
and impartially and fearlessly to elimi
nate from the ranks of the educators
those who are not qualified for the
service. Great things have been ac
complished in that direction. Our
teachers are better fitted for efficient
service than ever before. Yet the at
tendance upoD the schools, the country
schools especially, is too frequently
small and irregular. Something is nec
essary other than general interest or
free tuition or qualified teachers.
"A school may have all these things,
may be perfectly equipped as to build
ing, furnishings and trained teacher,
and at the same time prove to be a fail
ure on account of lack of accessibility.
Accessibility depends upon the quality
of the public roads. Our good public
roads are on a par with our good
schoolhouses. The one would be about
as difficult to find as the other. What
is the encouragement to erect good
buildings along impassable highways?
We do not build good residences even
In such places. Business establish
ments and industrial enterprises do not
flourish there. Inaccessibility and high
civilization seldom accompany each
other. Senator John T. Morgan spoke
truly when, in a recent letter to Mr. L.
L. Gilbert, secretary of the Montgom
ery Commercial and Industrial associa
tion, he said: 'Not only are good roads
pleasant and ornamental features of a
country, but they are the wisest and
most economical bestowal of money
and labor. Every civilized country is
measured by its roads as much as it is
by its Industries in the estimate that
men place upon its value.' It is pos
sible to have good roads without good
schools, but it is absolutely impossible
to have the best of schools without
good roads. As a rule, the efficiency
of a country's common schools may be
measured by the condition of its pub
lic roads."
President D. P. Bestor of the board
of trustees of the Medical College of
Alabama discussed good roads in their
relation to the medical profession and
the patient. He said the good roads
movement had been making splendid
progress. It must be remembered
that it took nearly 100 years to get the
central government interested in the
question of rivers and harbors, Even
Calhoun and King, who was an Ala
bainian, had been opposed to making
these appropriations, and other great
statesmen had been slow about taking
up the question of Internal improve
ments. But the good roads movement
bad met with a prompt public re
sponse, and there was much to be
thankful for.
Coming down to the question of the
physician's Interest In good roads, he
said during a recent visit to another
state lie was impressed by the fact
that many of the physicians used til
cycles. They could not do it in Ala
bama. In the state to which he re
ferred the physicians only charge
SI for a visit. An Alabama they
charge $3. They had to do it.and the
bad condition of the public roads was
responsible for It. Better roads would
mean that the physician, whose lot is
a hard one at best, would endure fewer
hardships and lie would be able to
reach the patient more quickly and
would be able to do a better part by
the put It'll t.
What Won Her.
"I thought she was going to marry
Tom ?"
"No; Jack."
"Why, she told me Tom was willing
to die for her and"—
"Yes, but Jack offered to make a
uood living for her."
THE ROMANCE OF AGE
They had loved in childhood, and
now he was a widower and a grandfa
ther, she a widow and a grandmother.
"Would It not be pleasant for us to
bring the little people out to the park
tomorrow?" he suggested. "1 should
like to see your grandson. Indeed I
should."
"And I should so love to see the little
girl. It would be nice, wouldn't it?"
"And we could show them the bears
and other beasts and let them play up
on the grass, and we ourselves might
talk of those other days." There was
moaning in his eyes as he looked into
the sweet old face. She knew it, and,
with a faint tlutter of the heart, like
that of the girl who had given him the
flower before quarreling with him, she
acquiesced in the arrangement. She
would bring a lunch for the children,
and they could watch them at their
play.
lie saw her while she was yet a dis
tance and walking across the flower
marked lawn toward the fountain
where they had arranged to meet.
Somehow the vision of other days
came to him, and he remembered that
she had once looked like this when she
had moved down the path and under
the apple blossoms to meet him at the
gate, only then there was no blue cap
ped and white waisted grandchild run
ning at her side. He remembered also
that no little golden haired girl in a
white frock had held his hand while he
had waited at the gate or had looked
up at him and asked him childish ques
tions in the name of grandpapa.
The children were shy and hung
back when they were earnestly
prompted to shake hands and kiss each
other, and the little boy finally re
fused flatly and was clild therefor.
Then they all went to a green hillside,
juid under the shade of a tree they
gayly spread the little lunch.
"Do they not," he asked, indicating
the children, "make you think that we
are beginning life all over again in
stead of coming rapidly into its ending
—and to a lonesome ending at that? Do
they not—hold on, my little man, you
mustn't smear jelly on your sweet
heart's frock!" The admonition was
called out by a fiercely hostile action
on the part of her grandchild. Before
they could check the youngster he had
repeated his sweet and sticky assault,
and the little girl burst into spasms of
tears. They comforted her, and the sil
ver haired grandmother warned Bobby
that such disgraceful conduct, if re
pented, would meet with swift and ter
rible justice.
"I have always kept that rose you
gave me before our quarrel," he said,
suddenly turning to her. "I did not
think It disloyalty to my wife to treas
ure it, and it was a great comfort to
me. I"
He was interrupted by a scream from
her.
"Your little girl is scratching his
face! Oh, the poor little man!"
He had his hand in his coat's inner
pocket, and it was clasping a small box
in which he knew there rested withered
rose leaves, but he drew it out again
and interfered between the two chil
dren.
"Stop, Mabel!" he said sharply.
"There, there; don't mind. You mustn't
cry about your dress. Grandpapa will
get you a fine new one tomorrow, and
a dolly."
"And candy?" snuffled the weeping
girl.
"And candy," he promised.
Somehow this episode seemed to have
severely wrenched events. She comfort
ed the scratched Bobby with promises
of edible merchandise, occasionally
speaking of the dreadful nature of his
wounds. It was ten minutes before
they had worked around to a normal
condition, and then he said, "I have
kept that rose for all these thirty
years, and you had forgotten me."
"Forgotten you? No, no. You must
not say that. I pledged my faith to my
husband and kept it —but —sometimes
sometimes—see, here is the little ring
you carved out of a peach stone for
lue, and"—
"Wali-h-h-h!" came from rearward.
She turned the sweet old face just in
time to see the little girl leap to her
feet and butt the boy fiercely and
vengefully in the stomach. Bobby roll
ed down the hill and brought up
against a sapling.
"Oh, what do you mean? You wick
ed little vixen!" she screamed. "At
tacking a poor child like that. That Is
your grandmother's spirit in you, I'll
warrant!"
"He put a choad down my back:"
screamed little Mabel. "A nasty hop
choad!"
"A toad?" the old man called angri
ly. "You outrageous little villain
Just wait till I peel a switch off this
tree, and"—
A silver haired statue towered before
him. With her right hand she thrust
the sniveling Bobby behind her. "What
will you do, Robert Harden':" she ask
ed, with flashing eyes. "Assault my
grandchild for being nearly killed by
this scratching, lighting little spitfire:
Never! Over my dead bod.. alone shall
such an outrage be committed." And
she looked at him like a heroin
"Very well, madam!" he snapp< <i
' Perhaps your daughter knows how
to raise children—perhaps you do your
self—but there's no evidence of it. A
toad! Down her back! The vicious
little whelp!"
"Good morning, Robert Harden!"
"Good morning, Rebecca Ellis!"
They separated, each leading a
shrieking grandchild and each burning
with inward hatred for the other.
A tramp who sat beneath that tree
,vi hour later found a small box of rose
leaves lying on the turf.
We Ihiubt It.
"Oh, th 'se won't do at all!" she said
when the guide brought out the snow
tshoes. "I'm sure I can wear a smaller
size."—Chicago Post.
Self Depreciation.
"You ought to marry a good, sensible
girl," sai'l the friend.
"Your advice Is paradoxical," an
swered Willie Wishington. "How am
I to find a sensible girl who is foolish
enough to marry uie?"—Washington
Star.
Ilcr liefer^nres.
Mrs. Hiram—Ami have you any ref
ercnces?
Applicant No, iiniui; Oi torcd 'em
up:
Mrs. Hiram (iu surprise)— Tori* them
up? How foolisli!
Applicant—Yez wudn't think so,
mum, if yez bad seen 'em.—From
"Recollections of Mrs. Minnie E. Leo."
"Lifting th*> Kl»k."
One of the picturesque English coro
nation ceremonies which have been
discontinued is that of lifting tin- king.
In the old (lays the monarch always
slept at the palace of Westminster on
the night before the coronation. The
regalia, which are still, technically
speaking, in tin- dean and chapter of
Westminster, were brought by them t<>
Westminster hall in preparation for
the ceremony. These were arranged
on a long table, the crown, the scepter,
the spurs, and so on. The king when
he descended from the palace to West
minster hall was lifted by his nobles
onto a marble chair.
The lifting of the king into this chair
was a survival of the old Saxon custom
of carrying the king on his shield. The
custom survived up to the time of the
coronation of George IV. When the
monarch was seated in the chair, lie
at once directed bv pointing his linger
which of his nobles should carry tlie
various parts of tlie regalia to the ab
bey, and the procession began.—Lou
don Tatler.
Why HP Was llejectfd.
The soul of a rajah who had been
released from the cares of this world
and an uncongenial wife presented
himself at the gates of paradise.
"nave you been in purgatory yet?"
demanded Brahma.
"No, but I have been married."
"Enter then. It is the same thing."
At this moment another soul arrived,
who begged Brahma to allow hiin alsc
to euter.
"Softly, softly. Have you been in
purgatory yet?"
"No, but neither has that other fel
low. He died the same day I did."
"Very true, but he had been mar
ried."
"Married, indeed! Why, I have beer
married three times."
"Away, then, to the lower regions!'
said Brahma sternly. "Paradise is nol
made for imbeciles."
How lo Make 151ce l ni.rs.
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pint of milk and two eupfuls of colt
boiled rice, one tablespoonful of salt
and one cupful of Hour in which is
mixed two level teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder. Beat thoroughly and bake
on a hot griddle.
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.Nothing is more conducive to the
health of a horse than a good light,
airy stable. This should be built upon
high and dry ground, says C. A. Noyes
in Prairie Fawner. The horse is a clean
animal and should have dean quarters,
and to prevent disease arising from
tilth and neglect careful attention
should be given the stable. Because of
its airyness in summer, a log stable
Is much preferred. It can be made com
fortable during the winter by chinking
the cracks with straw.
Opposite each stall should be a win
dow, protected by a shutter, to let In
the cheering breeze or bar out the
storm. Fasten the rack high anil tirmly
to the wall with the upright pieces
four inches apart to prevent the wast
ing of long food. To avoid injury to
the horse the halter should be passed
through a ring in the manger and nev
er tied to the rack.
The stall should be five feet wide.
Tliis permits the horse to lie down in
rt, 1!• partitions between the
stalls being neatly planked and low
enough to the floor to prevent the
horse from getting his feet under and
high enough to keep the horses from
molesting each other. For a work
horse a dirt floor is much the better,
as the moisture received by the hoof
coming in contact with the earth makes
it tough. A bed of dry straw is as great
a welcome to a tired horse as is his
food and is :is necessary in a slable as
a currycomb.
Ksprcise Knrin Teams.
The farm teams accustomed to hard
work should not be driven rapidly on
the roads, says Kansas Farmei\ As
far as possible the horses on the farm
should have daily exercise in order to
; keep their muscles hard and their wind
i good.
Rent For liUiue IlorneH.
An error which is frequently com-
I mitted is the turning out of lame horses
Ito pasture. He is obliged to exercise
as he picks his living, said Dr. W. U.
Fair before the American Veterinary
Medical association. Another mistake
is the exercising of trotting and run
ning hordes on race tracks, thus pre-
I venting them from making satisfactory
: progress toward recovery. By exercis
! ing a lame horse we retard his recov
; cry and frequently produce atrophy of
i the healthy muscles in the same limb.
i if bard pulling or fast driving cause
( lameness, why not remove the cause
I and give him absolute rest? That is
j the very reason why so many track
I horses never fully recover. They are
not allowed to rest after meeting with
1 an injury. True, exercise will develop
1 muscles, tendons and ligaments, pro
vided the animal be not lame and weak
i in any one quarter.
I'roiit In Good Mnro#.
j Here is where a good many people
have made a mistake—they have let
j their good mares go and kept the ordi
j nary ones, to the detriment of their
| future business—says National Stoek
| man. All farmers need not and should
| not lie breeders of horses. Some men
j can make more by keeping cheap geld-
I ings to do their work and raising no
I colts than they can by keeping mares.
I But those who keep mares to breed,
i and they are in the majority, should
| have nothing to do with the cheap
: kind. If they keep mares and breed
! them, they should keep good ones.
' There is uo profit in any other kind.
| Let the fellow own them that does
! not know enough to care what he
breeds. Some uieu seem to think that
the stallion is the whole thing, that
j somehow they can raise good horses
with common mares if they patronize
good stallions. This is so frequently
an error that it does not pay to take
the chances. Don't let the good ones
get away. They are ueeded more and
more as the buyers become more crit
ical.
i'tincliou of the Horse's Krog.
The larger and better developed the
frog the better does it fulfill the func
tions it is intended for. It is only nec
essary to bear this in mind to see that
it is a mistake to pare away the frog
in any way. Besides thus negatively, *
as it were, influencing the development j
of the frog by not having it touched,
when the horse is shod the develop
ment may be influenced directly by al-j
lowing the frog to eome into contact '
with the ground and to bear weight,'
though it docs not do this to nearly
same extent as do the wall and the
outer part <>f the sole, which latter
the chief parts of the hoof for bearing $
weight.
In the cases of horses shod in
usual way tlie frog necessarily is not.
able to perform its functions nearly so!
well as in the case of unshod horses, |
and in this fact lies otic of the evils of*
shoeing. If the frog in the shod foot|
could perform its functions to the full
est extent, more especially in the caseS
of harness horses, there would be few-1
er diseases of the feet.
A Killer.
Maude —Gaskell thinks he Is a regu
lar lady killer.
Esther—l shouldn't wonder. 1 had to
talk with him last evening, and I real
ly thought I should die, he wearied me
to.—Boston Transcript.
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