RAILROAD TIMETABLES. PBNN'A R. K. BAST. WIST 7.11 A. M. H.H A. M. 10.17 " 12 15 P. M. 2.21 P.M. 131 " 5.50 " 7.51 " SUNDAYS. 10.17 A. M. 4.31 M. I>. h. AW. K. . EAST. WEST. 6.57 A. M. T.Uti A. M. 10.lt) " 12.44 M. 2.11 P. M. 4.54 " 5.43 " " SUNDAYS 6.57 A.M. 12.44 P.M. 5:4; I P M *37 " PHIL.A A HEADING R. K. NORTH. SOUTH. 8.03 A. M 11.24 A.M. 4.00 P. M. 6.05 P. M. BL.OOM FCTRKET. 8.05 A. M. 11.22 A. M. 4.U2 P. M. 6.04 P. M. J. J. BROWN, THE EYE A SPECIALTY. Eyes tested, treated, fitted with flash es Aiid artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa. Hour?—lo a m.to sp. in. Taephoue ciTima BIND WILL BE IN LINE The general committee of arrange ments for the Fourth of July demon stration held a meeting at the Court House Monday night. Burgess Pursel stated that he had heard from the hands at Sunbury, Shamokiu, Bloomsburg,Catawissa and Berwick. On behalf of the Twelfth Regiment hand of Sunbury Benjamin Gaskins, director, expressed deep re gret that that organization was book ed tor Muucy on the Fourth and there fore would be unable to come to Dan ville. The Shamokiu baud, which contains 27 men, wants sl3l for play ing in Danville on the Fourth. The Berwick band, James H. Harry music al director, which contains some 30 men wants $4 per man for whooping up the Glorious Fourth in our city. The Bloomsburg band, T. L. Girton, director, with 25 musicians,will come to Danville for $2.25 per man and ex penses. The price fixed by the Cata wissa band is $2 per man and expenses. On motion of Johnny Moyer it was decided to employ the Catawissa band. This organization, assisted at our Fourth of July demonstration three years ago and its excellent perform ance is well remembered. Oil motion of Dr. Sweisfort the secretary was instructed to communi cate with the drum corps and Stoes' and Mechanicsville hands in order to find out their terms for playing in the parade on July 4th. The Milton band will accompany one of the fire comj>auies of that place. The Bloomsburg band may also be employed for the Fourth later on. On motion of Dr. Sweisfort the sec- | retary was instructed to extend to all the secret societies of Danville an in vitation to turn out in the parade. On motion of Johnny Moyer it was ordered that an invitation to join the parade be extended to our borough council and the police force; also that our merchants be requested to participate in the big demonstration by furnishing floats for the parade. It was the sense of the committee that in this there is a fine opportunity for display. The floats at the last parade were one of its most interesting feat ures. The merchants will not be slow to see the advantage to be derived from a float as an advertisement of their goods and their response will doubtless be favorable enough giving the parade all the floats desired. Sunburians Will Visit Danville. Deputy Supreme President and Mrs. E. G. A. Cline returned Sunday from Sunbury, where they paid a fraternal visit to Sunbury Circle, Pro tected Home Circle, Thursday evening. They assisted in the initiation of four members of the Sunbury Circle. They extended to the Sunburians an invitation to attend tho open meet ing of the Danville Circle, which is to be held in Knights of Pythias hall about June 20. The invitation was accepted with enthusiasm and a large number will come from Sunbury to this city on that occasion. The degree team of the Sunbury Circle will in itiate the members of the Danville Circle. If the weather is favorable the visitors will have a jolly straw ride on that evening. Supreme Presi dent Hall and other prominent mem bers of the order are expected to be present at the open meetiug. The Confer house, a frame structure on Water street, East of the Silk Mill, is being moved to make room for an addition to the mill building. The house has been cut into two sections, the first of which is on rollers in the street. It was necessary to put new sills under the house after it was raised from the foundations. Robert H. Morris has charge of the removal and it will take several weeks to get the house to its new location, at Coo]>er and Nassau streets. The new owner of the house is John Buckley. Another June Wedding. Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Ida Jane Weaver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Weaver, and Mr. Gideon Jackson Cunningham. The ceremony will take place in Trinity Methodist church on Wednesday evening, June 25, at eight o'clock. Saved From an Awful Fate. "Everybody said I had consumption,' writes Mrs. A M. Shields, of Chambers burg, Pa., "I was so low after six months of severe sickness, caused by Hay Fever and Asthma, that few thought I could get well, but I learned the merit of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, used It, and was completely cured," For desperate Throat and Lung Diseases it is the safest cure in the world and is infallible for Cough, Colds and Bron chial Affections. Guaranteed bottles 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottles free at Paules & Co. No 352 Mill street. Some of the most beautiful rose bushes to be found in this vicinity are those that cover the entire front porch of the home of Samuel Gulick, South Danvill *. SHUT OUT FOR BLOOMSBURG BOYS An even dozen runs was the tally of the "Old Timers" in the base ball game Saturday afternoon with the j Bloomsburg Wheelman. The Columbia : countiaus failed to score, but their error column was a dandy, ten being j the total. Danville put up an error i less game. Despite the fact that the Bloom boys were shut out the contest was fairly good and had some interest ing moments to stir up tho enthusiasm of the fans. "Joker" Martin occupied the box for the first time this season, but the visitors found him a serious proposi tion, there being nothing joky for them in the puzzlers he put over the plate. Five hits was their limit and they were small ones. Captain Ross did his star act, as usual, and caught the plaudits of the populace. Gosh, at short, also played an elegant game. Miller, third baseman for the Col umbians, was another first-class man. The following is the score in detail: DANVILLE. AB. R. H. <). A E. Gosh, ss 5 2 2 2 6 0 Aramerman, rf 3 2 3 0 0 0 Yerrick, 2b T> O 1 3 5 0 Ross, 3b 3 2 0 2 1 0 Oberdorf, If 4 1 0 0 0 0 Shannon, cf S 0 0 I <> <• Hoffman, lb 2 2 1 14 2 0 Hummer, e 4 12 5 10 Martin, p. 4 2 0 0 2 0 i 34 12 it 27 17 0| BLO< >MSBURG. AB. R. H. O. A. E. | Beagle, c 3 0 2 7 <> 2 j Baker, lb 2 0 13 10 Price, cf . 4 0 0 1 0 0 Miller, 3b 4 0 1 4 2 0 Rinker, 2b 3 0 0 K 3 3 ! Hornel, ss 2 0 1 3 2 4 •Wild, If . ..1 0 0 0 0 0 Geringer rf 2 0 0 1 0 0 White, p, If 2 0 <> 2 1 1 Savests, p 2 0 0 0 0 0 * 25 0 5 27 !» 10 ♦Wild retired in sixth inning. Danville 0 4 0 0 8 0 <> 2 B—l2 Bloom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0— 0 Struck out, by White 5, by Savetts 1, by Martin 4. First on balls, ott" White 4, off Martin 1. Stolen bases, Ross 4, Gosh 3, Hoffman, Hummer, Ammerman, Beagle. Hit by pitcher, Ross 3,Hummer, Ammerman. Sacrifice hit, Baker. Double play, Rinker. Um pire Curry. _ _ i The Danville Base Ball Association is composed of men prominent in the affairs of the town, county and state, men who are leaders in their chosen duties of life, doing well all things that come to their hands. Nowhere in the United States is there a stronger nor more unique association for the advancement of the national game. Few towns have a better team, yet most of the players have served years on the diamond and could well rest upon the laurels of the past. S. A. McCoy, who is president and manager of the association, was a noted figure oil the ball field for years, and has lost none of his love for the game. He is a director of the Young Meu's Christian Association and is always at the fore when the in terests of Danville are to be furthered. Wherever you find genial Sam Mc- Coy the indications are that his bos om friend, Frank G. Schoch, is also on hand and Mr. Schoch is a member of the board of control of the associa tion. Both he and Mr. McCoy are Republican leaders in the First ward, representing it on the county commit tee and being its delegates at the re cent Republican county convention. They served that convention as its sec retaries and journeyed to Harrisburg to participate in the doings at the state convention. Even while there they took time enough to purchase supplies for the team. Thomas G. Vincent, who so ably fills the position of prothonotary of Montour county, is secretary ol the association, and Ralph Kisner, Esq. the Republican nominee for District Attorney, is its treasurer. W. E. Gosh, the druggist, who has been doing fine work as shortstop, was physical instructor of the Young Men's Christian Association last win ter and is on the board of control of the base ball association. The other members of the board of coutrol, W. Fred Jacobs, E. F. WilL iams and A. C. Amesbury, are we ill known business men. Mr. Jacobs is the alternate from this county to the Democratic State con vention, to meet at Erie. The title of the team,"Old Timers" is well chosen for many have been stars in great games. Captain Ross is an old State leaguer who has a wide reputation and who still puts up gilt edged ball. Hummer, catcher, and Martin, pitcher, are also State League veterans. R. Scott Ammerman, Esq., has been nominated by the Democrats of this county as their candidate for Legisla ture. He has served two terms as District Attorney,and played with the University of Pennsylvania nine when a student there. He is the right field er of the "Old Timers". Simon Hoffman, first baseman, was recently elected chairman of Mon tour County Democratic Committee. Jesse Shannon,centre fielder, is prom inent in church choir and musical eir cles. Shannon is an old State leaguer and Hoffman umpired for that league in its best days. Yerrick, right fielder, has worn the uniforms of the Montreal, Rochester, Wilkesbarre and Boston clubs. The Hoffa brothers, Sydney and Will, are members of the Medico-Chirurgical team, Philadelphia, where they are studying medicine. Oberdoif, left fielder is the only vonng 'Old Timer" but he holds up his end of the game and has in him the stuff that brought fame to the others. 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 Balin. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents Druggists or by mail The liquid embodies the medicinal properties of the solid prepar ation. Cream Balm is quickly absorbed by the membrane and does not dry up the secretions but. changes them to a natural and healthy character. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N Y. SERVING MEALS. W«»ll Ordered ami Dainty Table a to Linger Over, Serving a meal neatly, promptly and in a manner pleasing to family and guests is a most important matter, for to nine people out of ten n large part of the enjoyment and consequently the benefit of the meal lies in this one thing —the serving. Discussing this topic, the Boston Cooking School Mag azine makes the following among other points: May not the table, with its many op portunities for an exercise of good taste, courtesy and self control, be a silent educator in our households? If serving is well conducted, what excel lent lessons it may give in neatness jwid order! If, on the other hand, it is poor ly conducted, what equally good les sons it may give in disorder and un eleanliness and consequent haste and discourtesy! Many people think they cannot have an attractive table because expensive linen and china are beyond their means. With the beautiful modern china, as well as other articles which are sold nt reasonable rates, surely a good shopper with fairly artistic sense can make a collection of harmonious if not elegant tableware. Then, too, comes the question of how to have good waitress work when per haps there is only one maid in the household and her time and strength are required for other tasks. The question of how much should be ex pected of her in the dining room is one that each housekeeper must ultimately decide for herself, as the conditions vary so much in different households. One maid in a family of six should not be required to give as much service at table as one who is In a household of two. Will it not be just to this some times overworked maid if we remem ber how many steps she must take in her varied routine and therefore be considerate in asking her services in the dining room during mealtime? The trained waitress is, of course, expected to devote her entire time to service dur ing a meal. We should remember that many parts of the waiting on table, though apparently laborious, are really not burdensome, as they save the maid's time in the end. For Instance, it is really no more trouble to remove dur ing the meal everything belonging to one course before another is brought on, for if It be done at this time there will be just so much less to remove at the end of the meal. In such a case the maid has taken no more steps than she must eventually do in restoring the room to order, and the table has been kept far more attractive. In many families where only a maid of general housework is kept the mis tress teaches her the duties of a wait ress, requiring her on certain days to perform these duties carefully. Thus the maid Is trained sufficiently In this art to do good work for a small lunch eon or dinner with the assistance of some one in the kitchen. The duties of a waitress are not con lined to waiting on table, for she is expected to know also how to sweep and dust a room, to launder table lin en, embroidered centerpieces and doi lies, to make butter balls and salad dressings, to slice bread and cold meats and to wash and wipe dishes and clean silver. Fried Flub. Clean well, removing the head and, if quite large, the backbone also. Slice the body crosswise in five or six pieces, season with salt and pepper. Dredge with flour, brush each piece with beaten egg, roll 111 bread or cracker crumbs, and fry In hot lard or drip ping. Be sure to have the fat hot, as it will not be absorbed so quickly. When the fish is browned, turn care fully to avoid breaking, and brown the other side. Garnish with slices of lemon. Tfirnlnlirii Sliver. Sulphur blackens and tarnishes sll ver, and as egg yolk contains sulphui this is the reason an egg stained silvei spoon looks dull. A soaking in ammo ida water will restore the brightness and if the spoons when dry are allowed to lie packed in warm bran or sawdust the brilliancy will be retained indef lnitely. This applies to all Jewelry whether of gold or silver setting. A I.nte Skirt l)r»I(tn. This skirt, which fulfills the fashion able obligation of being tight above, A FASHIONABLE SKIKT. yet gracefully full below, is cut with a shaped piece round the hips, from which the lower part hangs in full folds, set into narrow plaits at the top. These are well pressed down and then left to flow out naturally. The center panel is plain, ornamented with cross ed strappings, fastening with a small buckle in the center. HERE'S A GOOD THING. Something You can Readily Believe as its Danville Evidence. rant A ten of No. 413 Church street, Danville, PH., say-*: "1 have suffered a great detil from rheumatic neuralgia affecting my whole nervous system and seeing Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills re commended I got a box at (tosh's Drug Store and tried them. They proved a splendid remedy giving me prompt re lief in every way. I rested better and do not suffer from ntinous head aches and feel stronger and better and have more vitality than before. I can nat speak t.OO highly of them. Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills are sold at 50c. a box at dealers or Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. V. See that portrait and signature of A. W. Chase, M. D are 011 every pack 11= OLD BARN TRANSFORMED. tii tenter *lmlo Out of the Old j riiNliloiMMl Timber Framo. An Ohio Farmer correspondent illus trates liis method of making an open center l>arn out of the old fashioned timber frame. First get some three quarter inch steel rods irtade, the right length to run from purline plate to outer \ //r fcrw : '/ V» * 11 * 112 /' * I \ i—4- Jn-i t i I I II U > C~D C_'i C;p c:: OPEN CENTER BAIIN. plate, with a turn buckle in the middle, ns shown *t AA in the drawing. Next take out the brace running from the beam to the purline post. The dotted lines show new pieces or slanting posts made of 3 by 12 planks doubled and bolted together. Cut a notch each Bide of the beam to receive these plunks. These should be bolted through the tenon thus made to the beam. Next put one-half inch bolts through the outside post and the slant ing post at the foot, as shown. The beam now can be cut off next to the slanting post and the two Inside center posts removed from the barns, leaving an entire open center. Those slanting posts will add to the strength of your baru instead of weakening It. LIMING THE SOIL. Tliree Favorable Itraulln Noted In a Forty Yenrs' Experience. Recently the prevailing opinion in re gard to the use and results of lime has changed very much, and scarcely any prominent scientific professor would feel justified in applying the opprobri ous epithet of "Brother Jasper," who believed the sun did move, to one who should express belief that lime is in deed an actual food for plants and that its actual application to the soli as a direct or indirect fertilizer was advisa ble, even when the soil Itself had a not able proportion of It naturally In its composition, but this in the form of un available limestone. I have used lime, more or less, for nearly forty years in different localities, and I never in any instance failed to notice its useful effects. I have used it mostly in the ordinary local manner of Pennsylvania, in the proportion of forty bushels to the acre of the fresh stone lime, which would make over fifty bushels of the dry slaked lime to the acre, where lime was cheap, and here in my present home (North Caro lina) in so small a quantity as one bar rel, or four liushels, to tbe acre. This economy is necessary where lime costs $| a barrel, which is about the cost of a 1 »ili wagon load in Pennsylvania, but the effect of it on the crop of corn was so favorable and as well on the grass after it iliat it was used to a profit even at that price. The first point is as to the acidity of the soil. I have never tested any soil as yet that was not more or less acid and would not effervesce when any strong alkali was applied to it. This is, I think, the natural condition of any soil in which any humus exists, for this means hutnic acid, and my be lief is that the natural condition of any soil in which decomposing organic matter exists is acid. And if we are to place confidence in the statements of that highest of Amer ican authorities, as an agricultural chemist, Professor S. A. Johnson, we must believe that lime is quite as use ful, if not more so, inn soil containing acid than in one in an alkaline condl tion. The mechanical effect of lime on soils is to reduce the tenacious clays to a condition of extreme division, and this effect Is of much greater impor tance than is commonly considered. It is especially favorable to the growth of grass. Indeed, lime is quite as ef fective with grass as it is with clover, for it not only contributes the lime needed by the grass, but it has the ef fect of making soluble and available the potash which grass contains to the proportion of four to one of the lime. Another useful effect of lime has been noted by many of the highest au thorities. This is the increased abil ity of tho limed soil to absorb mois ture, so that in dry seasons the crops on limed land do not suffer so much as those growing on unlimed land, and this result is most noticeable on such soils as clay, which are most affected injuriously by dry weather. Henry Stewart in Country Gentleman. A PromlxliiK Illaekberry. The Wallace is a large, attractive blackberry which has made un excel lent showing on the Michigan station grounds. In 1900 it proved the most profitable berry in the station collec tion. Last season the fruit was very fine, but the crop was not quite so large as could be desired. The plants are up right, stocky and very vigorous. This variety comes from Wisconsin and does not appear to be very widely dis seminated. "More haste, less speed," and "hasten slowly, "are proverbs lw>ru of experience that some things can't be hurried with out loss and waste. This is specially true of eating. The railway lunch habit, "five minutes for refreshments," is a habit most disastrous to the health, you may hurry your eating. Yon can't hurry your digestion, and the neglect to allow proper time for this important function is the beginning of sorrows to many a busy man. When the tongue is foul, the head aches, when there ate sour or bitter rising, nndne fullness after eating, hot flushes, irritability, nervous ness, irresolution, cold extremities, and other annoying symptoms, be sure the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition have "broken down. " Nothing will re-establish them in active healthy operation so quickly as Dr. Pierces (-fold en Medical Discovery. It strengthens the stomach, nourishes the nerve, puri fies the blood, and builds up the body. It is a strictly temperance medicine con taining no alcohol or other intoxicant. Given away. Dr Pierce's great >vork. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send '2l one-cent stamps for the paper cover ed book, or 31 stamps for cloth binding, to Dr K V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. i Suckling pigs take nourishment from the dam about every two hours, and we may accept nature's guidance for \ the frequency of feeding very young ftiimals, says W. A. Henry in Itural World. At weaning time tlie pigs should receive feed at least three times ; daily, with water always aecessible. Sinee the digestive tract of this ani mal is of limited volume probably the best results in fattening can be obtain- ! ed with three feeds daily. Hut the hab it controls here as elsewhere, and stock- j men can easily accustom their animals to expect feed morning and evening only, meanwhile being content. Since meal when dry is more slowly masticated than when moistened it might be supposed that the greater ad dition of saliva consequent upon slow eating would Increase the digestibility of meal so fed, but the trials so made favor moistening the feed with water. Observations show that the pig does J not take kindly to dry meal, eating it i very slowly and very often rooting much of it out of the trough. On the ! whole, sloppy feeds are best for the ( l'igs. I Frolifienpy In Swliip. The breeders of pigs in the United States do not appear to pay as much attention to the mere breeding quail- j ties of their boars and gilts as do our Canadian friends or even as our Eng lish cousins, says Live Stock Journal. In a recent issue we recorded the far- ( rowship in that finest and ablest of all herds of so called Yorkshire white swine In the old country, owned by Mr. Sanders and Spencer of Holywell manor, near St. Ives, Hunts, England, a herd to which slight reference was made recently when describing the fine , stock at the Purdoc university. It ap pears that thirteen sows of the large white breed had farrowed the enor mous number of 177 pigs by eight dif ferent boars during the month of Jan- ' uary last. It was also stated that sev eral of the sows which had proved to be so prolific were sows which had been winners in the show yard as well as others which were destined for the summer shows, as would be a certain number of the young pigs which would , be shown in the classes for pens of boars or gilts under six months old. Can our breeders beat this? The l*it; anil III* Food. The pig utilizes the greatest percent age of the food consumed of any of our farm stock, says an exchange. It costs less to produce a pound of pork than to produce a pound of beef. The pig util izes 20 per cent of the food consumed, while the ox utilizes but 8 per cent. The pig is one of our best sources of ready revenue on the farm. A large digestive capacity is of prime importance in meat producing animals, and in this particular tin.' hog stands pre-eminent among our farm stock. Early maturity being of great impor tance in our pigs, we might be inclined to select a short, thick sow, tending to fatten early, with the hope of getting this quality In the pigs, but such a sow ! will not be a good milker or give large ' litters; hence these characteristics must be reached through the sire. The good breeding sow should be : rather long and roomy, with well sprung ribs, broad loin, deep sides and some length of neck. Let the sire bo j shorter, more compact and with finer bone, which type indicates early ma turity. I'VedinfiT Potatoes to Swine. lii answer to a question J. 11. Rour In American Agriculturist says: "While 1 have had no experience in killing pigs 1 with potato water, I have found by ac tual use that a more profitable as well as palatable article of food can be made from boiled potatoes for swine or any other animal by immediately draining off the water after boiling and mashing them up while hot. Pigs like thrui better. They will keep longer without souring and will give better returns. As to feeding them the water they were boiled in, I would prefer using it to kill lice on cattle, having heard it highly recommended for that purpose. Those who feed boiled pota toes to swine try my way and see if they are not relished." Little Squeal)*. For finishing hogs for the butcher shorts, peas, corn, oats and barley are the best. And here is variety too. If you keep large hogs without gain and pigs on a maintenance ration only, look out for loss in both ways. Black teeth in pigs do not indicate disease. Just what causes them has never been satisfactorily explained. The most marketable hogs are those that weigh 173 to 200 pounds and should not be real fat. A few roots in winter go n long way toward keeping the pigs in health. There is not much profit in fattening pigs for spring porkers. Good For tirowlnK Plb»- Equal parts of wheat middlings, ground oats and eornmeal are a good ration for growing pigs. What we must have with our pigs Is unremitted growth from birth to the block and no waste of food for needless maintenance. The pig should gain the same during the winter as in the summer if he is given proper and sufficient food, the only drawback being that It takes more food in winter for a given gain unless the pens are warm, as the animal heat must be maintained by the food con sumed. The Wee Pißslea. When pigs are young, keep the sow in a pen (5 by 8 feet for twenty-four hours. For the first week let the sow run in the pasture, but keep the pigs In the pen. She will go back to them at noon. After suckling she may be allowed togo out in the pasture again In the afternoon. When ten days to two weeks old, they can run In the pasture along with the sow. Never let young pigs run in wet grass. riRM FOUNDATION. Nothing cau undermine it in Danville. People are sometime slow to recognize true merit, and they cannot lie blamed, for so many have been humbugged in the past. The experience of hundreds of Danville residents, expressed publicly through newspapers and other sources, places Doan's Kidney Pills on a firm foundation here. Mr. Josiah Williams, barber, of:><• Ash street, barber, says:"l did not have to use a whole box of Doan's Kidney Pills before they cured my back of de pressing aching, and removed the lame whirh made every move painful. The lameness centered right over my kid neys.and stooping or liftingsent a sharp twinge through me, when on my feet a dull gnawing pain took all the vim of me. I gave some to Mr. C. 11. Stoes, of 217 E. Mahoning street, as 1 had if» further use for them, and he was as well pleased as I with the re sults obtained. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milbnrn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name-Doan'a- and take no substitute TOWED BY A WHALE BY M ■QUAD. [Copyright, 1901, by C. R. Lewis.] If you could get a peep at Lloyd's register bearing date of Oct. 23, 18S8, you would find recorded under the Lead of"The Loss of the Swan" an article composed of about forty lines of type. The brig Swan was trading along tlie African coast and had run into the !>ight of Itenvin to anchor for a week. She was a Liverpool ship, commanded by Captain 81rector, and had been a trader for ten years. The Swan was known all along the coast from Liberia to the country of the Hottentots and had never met with an instance of treachery when dealing with the na tives. On this trip I was rated as au apprentice boy, and she carried eleven others iu her crew. There were some repairs to lie made after we came to anchor about half a mile from the surf, and it was two days before a native came out to us in his canoe and invited all hands togo ashore for a feast and a barter. As that was the usual way no one had reason to bo suspicious, but the captain did not neglect proper safe guards. He went to the feast with six armed men for company, leaving four of us to mind the brig. She was armed with muskets and cannon, and we were ordered to maintain a strict lookout and signal at once if any number of na tives pulled out to us. It was to be au all night carouse on the beach, aud the three -men with me soon declared that there was no possible danger and broached a cask of rum and proceeded to enjoy themselves. They hadn't the sense to stop when their legs began to tangle up and, as a consequence, all were In a drunken sleep before mid night. Fires had been lighted on the shore and tlio voices could be plainly heard aboard as they shouted and sang. My situation was a lonely one, and 1 was troubled about the drunken sailors, but nothing occurred to startle me until about 1 o'clock In the morning. Then there was a sudden grand yell from the natives, followed by three or four mus ket shots and more yelling, and I was satisfied that the party on shore had been attacked. I made every effort to arouse the sleepers, but all my work was thrown away. I had just come away from them In despair when I caught sight of a fleet of canoes pulling off the shore. If I had been able to tire one of the big guns, it would have had no effect, and of course I could not hope to beat them off with a musket. I did what most any other boy would proba bly do—climbed up Into the maintop and hiil myself away. Ten minutes later the natives to the number of a hundred boarded the brig, and although they found the three sailors still asleep they quickly dispatched them itnd threw them overboard. If they looked for others, it was below instead of aloft. The Idea was to run the brig ashore and plunder her. The fellows knew that the anchor held her stationary, but they could neither work the wind ) lass nor unshackle the chain. After a 1 long and noisy consultation they finally tailed onto the cable to lift the anchor by main strength. A sailor will say that It couldn't be done, but looking down from my perch in the gray of the : morning 1 saw them gather in at least three fathoms of chain. That meant that they had lifted that anchor tweu { ty-one feet from the bed of the sea. j They had still three fathoms to over j come, and were taking a long breath ' to get it ready when the cable was pulled out of their hands and drawn 1 taut nnd the brig began moving out ! of the bay. There wa? a panic at once. . and she had not gone half a mile when j the last native was overboard into his canoe and pulling for the beach. If they were frightened half to death 1 was none the less so, and we had got well out to the mouth of the bight be fore I solved the mystery. The brig was towed as if following a tug. and 1 was down on deck and peering over her bows when a whale suddenly rose a few fathoms In front of her and fell back with a great splash. He was a big fellow, and 1 had time to see that one of the anchor tlukes was caught in his mouth like a giant fishhook. He came up again and again, and he shook his mighty head and rolled over and over In his efforts to get rid of the hook, but it was too firmly fastened. When the sea opened out and the leviathan realized that he was In a scrape, ho started off on a straight ilne and Increased his speed. 1 had been given a few tricks at the wheel, and 1 took It and soon learned how to make a straight course after him. Later on I found that I could lash it fast and teerve the same purpose, i At a speed of at least fifteen miles an hour the whale ran from f> o'clock in ( tho morning to lln the afternoon with out a stop and without deviating a foot from a true course. Then he lay on «the surface and rested for an hour, and the blood from his mouth dyed the sea ifor yards around. When he started again. It was with a rush, but the ca tble held, and he ran until about 7 o'clock In the evening. Then he sud denly stopped, and before 1 could make but what he was up to he came up lin ger the brig with such force as to stave (fn a dozen bottom planks and nearly (turn her over. She began to Ml at once, and with a rush he broke the ca ble and was off with the anchor. As *ve had n cargo of light goods aboard, Including 400 kegs of rum, the brig (waterlogged Instead of going down, iind for the next two days 1 was In her -lgglng without food or water and ifrald that every plunge would be her ast. Then n French ship hove In sight and took me off, and 1 was eventually landed In Ilrest ns the sole and only [urvlvor of the 111 fated crew. As was lifterward learned, the captain's party Mere cut down to a man before the at tack on the brig. Be Sore You're Rit;lit. While It Is true that there conies a tide In the affairs of men which, etc., there are so many people every year left stranded high and dry that some caution would seem to be needed about picking out your particular tide.—Syra cuse Herald. pir Andrew Clark was accustomed to oetine old age as the period of life at which a man no longer adjusted him self to his environment. Stylish Spring Jacket To any one wln» will mention The Montouk American, and send ns 2r> cents we will forward immediately the pattern of an ad vance Paris style for a Spring Jacket. Address The Horse-Brou gh ton Co. Publishers of L'Art de la Mode, 3 Hast 10th Street, New York Single copies of I.Alt tie l:i Mod e. 115 c. DUST SPRAYING. 4 Conservative View <>f It «* Com liurnil Willi tlie ( »eof l.ii|Uiil. "In the great apple growing districts of the west and southwest experiments ure being made with dust as compared with liquid spraying. The dust is blown upon tlie trees by means of an air blast." In view of this fact The Rural Now Yorker publishes the opinions of some practical horticulturists on this prac tice. Tlie secretary of the Missouri Horticultural society says: I am slow to say much about "dust spray" because I do not yet feel sure that it is as efficient as the liquid. In fact, it lias not lu-cn tested long enough to say exactly how valuable it is. Our entomologists and best informed men on fungous diseases give it as their opinion that the "dust spray" is not as efficient as the liquid. Hut it is ap plied so much more easily and quickly than the liquid that we can dust the orchard twice or three times with the same expense as one application of tlie liquid. We can get on the ground when it is so wet that we could not haul a load of water. The hand dusters are easily handled, and the work can be done after a lain or mist or while the dew is on early in the morning. We often dust ficia 1 to 8 a. in.and give the men a half day for the work. Lime (air slaked, fresh) is the base tn carry the insecticides and fungicides. lam sure also that lime is good for both these. It is a good in sectieide and it is a good fuiiir'.eide, and this year we shall test it alone on a forty or eighty acre orchard. I have used the dust process, fiist, in a small way three years ago; second, on forty acres two years ago; last year on over 240 acres. This year we shall use it on over 400 acres. I used one pound of pads green to ten pounds of lime; shall use only half that strength this year, as well as lime alone. 1 used the dry bordeaux tor fungicide, one pound to ten pounds of lime. I shall use this year twenty pounds lime, one pound paris green, one pound bor deaux. We used five hand dusters and one duster togo in a spring wagon. We dusted three times and feel sure that it paid us to do so. We were com pelled to use something besides liquid, because we had no water handy, and we shall continue to do so in our young orchards. While I cannot say that the dust is as valuable as the liquid, yet I think, from our experience, that we can prevent the insects and fungous diseases if we will follow it up sys tematically, especially on our young orchards, where these pests have not yet secured a hold. In an old orchard, badly affected with these troubles, I do not think we could check their ravages so quickly or thoroughly. Itnnplierry Training For tlie Anuitenr An Ohio Farmer correspondent gives some hints about a fashion of trellis ing raspberry bushes practiced by an English gardener as follows: He set his plants about five feet part, and between each two pair of d: * b fci A NEAT WAY TO TBKLMS BLACKCAPS. I plants he set a stake six feet high. The canes were allowed to prow at will without pinching and naturally arched over, as wild canes may be seen to do in the woods. Ilalf the canes were bent each way against a post and fas tened with bits of soft leather tacked to the post as grapevines are fastened to a building. They were not fastened in a close bundle, but spread up and down the post for a foot or more, as shown In upper figure. Wl'on the sea son was favorable, they would reach the ground, and then the tips could be layered if wanted. In the spring the ends were cut back far enough to prevent the fi "it soiling dirty, and nothing more was <:. me un til after picking, wh. ii the oi.i wo id was cut away and loosened from the posts and the new wo I fasten- d in place, it having previously !"own at will. A plantation l;ept in iliis way had the rows snug and narrow until nearly picking time, when the new growth wouhl sprawl somewhat, as shown in lower figure; but. a:.' cu.'-iva tlon was stopped during July, t hi.- did not matter. This probablj would not pay for the commercial grower, but for the careful amateur would be both neat and novel. iifii AND THE nun in m »| rn ran 1.00 now. Subscription to Montoui American SI.OO per year ill i. - ! Hi lIMJL fk wan! 10 io all Ms of Printii I inn I" !! liUIJ ■ I LL'S ML lli Moose. . is uaitt. 1 "r A well r.vii; ♦ ; tasty, Bill or .; » \ ) / * ter Head, IV I) A Ticket, Cir. :* Program, j-'i i!-. ment or Card nn advertisement for your bu i ness, a satisfaction to vou. 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