MONTOUR AMERICAN FRANK C. ANGLE. Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Nov, 24, 1004. ANIMALS WITH HANDS. MOM the Knnnaroon !'■«■ Their FOP*- feet In K*tlng. Kangaroos use their hands very read ily to hold fond 1» and to put It into their mouths. As their fore legs are so short that they have to browse In a stooping position, they seem pleased when able t > secure a large bunch of cabbage or other vegetable provender and to hold it in their hands to eat. Sometimes the young kangaroo, look lug out of its mother's pouch, catches one or two of the leaves which the old one drops, and the pair may be seen each nibbling at the salad held In their hands, one, so to speak, "one floor above the other. The slow, deliberate Clasping nnd unclasping of a chame leon's feet look like the movements which the hands of a sleep walker might make were he trying to creep downstairs. The chameleon's are al most deformed hnnds. yet they have a superficial resemblance to the feet of parrots, which more than other birds use their feet for ruany of the purposes of a hand when feeding. To see many of the smaller rodent!— ground squirrels, prairie dogs and mar mots hold food, usually in both paws. Is to learn a lesson In the deiterous use of ha mis without thumbs Nothing more readily sugsests the momentary Impression that a pretty little monkey is "a man and a brother" than when he stretches out his ueat little palm, fingers and thumb, and, with all the movements proper to the civilized mode of greeting, insists on shaking bauds. The Stormiest Re|l» Kio"«. The waters of Cape Horn have never been on visited by storms for mors than a week or two at ft stretch with in the memory of man. Standing on the outpost of the world, Cape Horn is the meeting place of ocean currents of very different temperatures, from the Icy cold waters of the antarctic drift to the warmth of the Brazilian and Peruvian return currents. The prevailing winds are from the north west and west, and these, coming from the warm regions of the Pacific, con dense into fogs which the sailors call "Cape Horn blankets" and which are the sure forerunners of storms. The extremely low levels to which the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego descend, the perpetual congelation of the sub soil, the meeting of conflicting winds of very different temperatures, are all direct or indirect causes combining to make tliis the most constantly stormy region of the world THE MEDITERRANEAN. Although Called a Tlitclena Sea, Ita Water Hlnea and Falla. Why are there no tides in the Medi terranean? asks a reader. As a mat ter of fact, there are tides in the Medi terranean. The general rise and fall are. however, so insignificant, owing to the comparatively small area and the mass of water involved, as to have escaped detection until scientific meth ods were brought to bear, and hence the Mediterranean has come popular ly to be looked upon as a tldeiess sea. A similar want of knowledge and ex perience of tidal phenomena cost Caesar tlie loss of most of his fleet on his invasion of Britain in 55 B. C., when his vessels were dashed io pieces upon the coast. At Algiers a self recording tide gauge was set up by Aime, and from its records lie deduced a rise and fall of eighty-eight millimeters, or three and one half inches, at springtide and 1 4 that amount at neap tide, a fluctuation which would escape ordi nary observation, as it would be mask ed by the effects of atmospheric dis turbance. At Venice and in the upper reaches of the Adriatic the true lunlsolar tide seems to be more accentuated than at other parts, but here also its effects arc subordinate to those of the wind. —London Answers. THE FRENCH DINNER. It la .Not Only a Meal, but an Enter tainment an Well. Generally shaking, the table of the American is provided for the purpose of feeding; for the Frenchman It Is for the purpose of refreshment, says Flora McDonald Thompson in Harper's Ba zar. "It must nourish—yes, but of equal necessity It must please, please the mind also as the body—and there must be provided, too, diversion and repose. Thus Is cooking an art with the French people, and a meal, whether of the rich inan or of the poor peasant, is one of fcls finest ceremonies. The employees of Paris business houses are allowed from one to two hours for the midday meal, and it is an unwritten law of the French household that the servants shall have at least an hour for de jeuner and for dinner alike, during which time they are not to be called, except for grave reason, but are left free to seat themselves at table in the kitchen, where, even In very hnmble kitchens, they tuck their napkins under th«ir chins and laugh and talk while eating and drinking, so enjoying a de gree of leisure nearly unknown among all classes of Americans. "As a rule, the Paris business man takes his midday meal In the bosom of his family. This is deemed such an important feature of domestic econ omy that the whole scheme of living is adjusted to that end; and one finds families of wealth and social distinc tion horsed throughout the business sections in order thus to make It pos sible that the honr or two allotted to dejeuner may be spent by the man in his home." JiiKt I.lke Amerleaaa. A peculiar revelation In regard to train travel in Japan is that the people of various classes, customarily polite In their Intercourse with one another and iu their dealings with aliens, lose nearly ail sense of courtesy when thwy enter a passenger car. When I first rode In a first class car In Japnn and saw several dainty Japanese women 1u pretty silks standing while Japanese men remained resolutely seated 1 could almost fancy I was on an elevated train in New York bound for Harlem. —Harold sln«. Pocket >ll rrorm P'oa Men. "Pocket mirrors for men?" repent*vl j 0 wholesale notion man In response | to an inquiry. "We sell hundreds of them every year. You will And them for sale on street corner stands and In some barber shop*. I don't know who buys them. 1 cnu't even any I ever saw n man use a pocket mirror. But I kTi >\v they are in constant de mand In the trade. You can buy a very good one, metal, for 10 or l."> cents retail. Ovnl shaped, flat mirror* for the vps? picket, made of celluloid, with a cover to protect the glass, cost 25 cents each." New York Press. OVER THE TICKER - I [Orljrlnal.] She was a splendid girl, but I 4 knew ■he should marry money. This was my thinking, not hers, of which 1 knew nothing. A long time I worshiped her. Then when the great Wall street boom came on I Invested a few thousand dollars and gained a fortune. I was worth s2< >O.OOO. This result was not fully attained till the summer of 1902. Hearing that Marguerite was at the seashore, I went there. I pretended to be much surprised to meet her, but this was all assumed. I had gone there to woo and win her if I could. I didn't have much trouble inducing her to accept my attentions—indeed, she would decline to make engage ments with very rich men to be with me, though she knew nothing about my circumstances. September came on, and many people left the coast. Enough remained to keep up the dally attendance on the beach and at the hops. One morning Marguerite and I were sitting on the shlnlnfc sands look ing at the bathers. I had got pretty near to a proposal the night before and was Just about to close the matter up so far as my part WHS concerned when I heard a cheery voice behind me, and Billy Allen clapped a hand on my shoulder. I introduced him to Mar guerite, and we all three chatted to gether. Billy said there was a flurry la Wall street and suggested that we goto the hotel and look at the ticker. Marguerite said she would like togo, too, so we rose, sauntered together up the beach and were soou bending over the tape. I explained matters to Ma rguerlte. "Those letter* M. O. P.," I said, "stand for Missouri Pacific common stock. It is a great favorite at present and is usually referred to as Mop.'" "A good name for a poodle," inter posed Marguerite. "Now. a bolder," I said, "of 100 •hares of 'Mop' makes or loses fIOO for every point It goes up or down. On 1,000 share* the change is SI,OOO, on 10,000 shares SIO,OOO, and so on. Sup posing we have, say. 20,000 shares, let us see what one makes or loses as the quotations vary." I held the tape and read the quota tlons on the stock. "A quarter, a half, three-quarters rise. We're ahead 115,000. Back she goes a quarter, a half, seven eighths, one point. We've lost our 115,000 and $5,000 besides. Still she ' goes down. A half, three-quarters, a 112 point, a point and a quarter, a half, three-quarters Great heavens, is she never going to stop? Two points, a half,three-quarters, three points. We've made a big loss. We're out $60,000." "It quite takes my breath away," said Marguerite, with a gasp "Oh, you would soon get used to it," I replied. I am not much of an admirer of my self and didn't think I was doing any thing remarkable, but Billy, who knew 1 was "long" of exactly 20,000 shares of "Mop," looked at me in amazement. There was some reaction (which, as I explained, regained some of our hypo thetical losses), and then down went the quotations, so that when we left the ticker I was out $85,000. Mar guerite went upstairs for a short nap before lunch, and Billy and 1 went out onto the piazza to talk it over. I made up my mind that I would take advan tage of the first reaction and sell out. The next morning I met Marguerite on the piazza. I excused myself for not having seen her in the evening by saying I had Billy on my hands and proposed that before we went to tin beach we should take a look at the ticker. We did so, and I saw that sev eral stock? of which I had a few thou sand shares each followed "Mop's" ex ample and slid down to a point that left me barely SIO,OOO If all my shares were sold at the prices quoted. Ire solved to save that bagatelle for fu ture operations and, excusing myself from Marguerite for a few minutes, went to the telegraph office and sent a message to my broker to sell all I had "at the market." Then I rejoined Mar guerite and we went to the beach. That evening while we were sitting tog**her on the piazza looking at the ocean slowly lapping the shore as a lion may lick his chops after devouring somebody I said to my companion: "Marguerite, you are the only woman I ever oaw whom I wanted to marry, and I resolved three years ago that if I ever made enough money to take proper care of you I would ask you to be my wife. Yesterday morning when Billy Allen came tip I was worth $-«>»,- 000 and was on the eve of putting the question to you. We went to the ticker and saw so which I have saved from the wreck, went yesterday afternoon and today. 1 tell you this because it la due to you and myself that you should know why. after all I have said to you, I do not complete what I have begun." She sat looking at me with eyes opening wider and wider till 1 bad fin lahed. "Do you mean to tell me that that supposititious case was your own?" "I do." "Then all I have to say Is that I'd rather marry a man with such splen did nerve than one with a million." With a simultaneous impulse we opened our arms and clasped each oth er la a tight embrace. My fiancee would not hear of my leaving Wall street. She said that a man with such nerve Is especially fit ted for a speculator and I must seek my fortune where I lost It. I went "short" and In less than three months regained my S2. Pleasantly Entertained. Mr. and Mrs. H.L. DeWitt pleasant ly entertained a number of friends at dinner Saturday evening at their home, Walnutdale Farm, near River side. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gearhart, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Suter, Mr. and Mr* William Richards. Mr. and Mrs. Kaup, Oscar Kaup and Miss Maggie Dyer. If Edward B. Tustin.of Bloomsburg, and J. B. Russell,of Wilkesharre,scor ed uo other victories in the financial j world they would be remembered by j the financiers of the country for their i work in first starting the Chicago Sub way proposition, of which all the metropolitan papers have during the last few days been making much, the names of the country's financiers who have taken op the $50,000,000 proposi tion, launched by Messrs. Tustiu and Russell, and upon which they have realized $1,000,000, having for tl e first time been made public. From present indications the goose boue weather prophet is a fraud. !| FIGHTING F LAMES TO SAVE VILLAGE | MONONGAHELA. Pa , Nov. UH. A | forest fire which wass-tarted by a rail- j j road engine spark last Sunday on the , hillside opposite here broke out, afresh last night, and (lames now menace not j only the tipple of the Alonougahela J mine and the farm houses which lin in the path of fire, but the whole v 11- 1 lag 1 of Axleton. 2 Axl toa is at the foot ot a lull,about I : a half mils up the river from where j i the blaze is now r.iging, and bt sides! ! about fifty homes contains the plant of the Liggett Spring and Axle works: removed last year from Allegheny The buildings are at the idee of the j woods, and will tall an cay prey to ! the flames unless the efforts of the fire j fighters are successful. Extreme danger threaten* farm house* and barns 011 the lsvel land at the top of the hill. Here men ate now la'iug against the flames in an endeavor to plow op euougli earth to stay their course. A stretch of a mile along the high hill side has alrealy been swept by the flames. At Moimngahela min< an ef fort is being uitde to save the com- 1 pany's propt rtv by starting smaller fires to meet the larger one. How's This '■ We otter One llu ad red Dollars Ue ward of any case Of Catarrh that can not he cured by { Hall's Catarrh Cure. j We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe iilm j perfect ly honorable in all business transac lons and financially able to curry out any obligations made by their firm. ® WKST &THCAX. Wholesale liruvglsts.Toledo O. WAI.DINO. KINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, ) acting directly upon the blood and rnuctus surfaces of the system. T stlrnonlals sent t ree. I'rl M 7'u; psrlmtla Sold by all drua gists. Hall's Family I'illsare tiie best [ THANKSGIVING FOOT BALL i The last foot ba'l • vent of the sea ; son will bo played at DeVVitt's Park - this afternoon between Danville and : Bloouisburg. Prizes are to be given 9 to those holding lucky tickets. The 1 line-up will be as follows. Dinvillo Bloouisburg j Jenkins hft end Hemingway , Foust.. left t:i( kle Demi r. e Springer left guard.. McKelvy ' Hahn ... center . li Buckalew Gunzberger right guaid Edgar Douglas .. right tackle Oherendi r Miller, H. ri will be open. Officials will be theie constantly and efforts will be made to organize the minority into an effective woikiug force. i POSSE SEARCHING FOR MURDERER OF TWO PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23. Henry Henderson and his nephew George Henderson, colored, were shot aud killed last midnight at Bethayresabout teu miles fiom this city. A posse of ' citizens has since been scouring the , surrounding country in search of i Frank Saylor, a negro who is alleged ' to have committed the murders Henry Henderson was found dying in a field, having been shot in the \ groin. He said he had warning. The t wounded man died in less than an , hour. His nephew, George Hender son, sta r ted iu pursuit of Saylor. i He overtook the fugitive and at . tempted to seize him. Before he could do so, however, Saylor is said to have discharged his weapon at Hem'ersou, ' the ball passing through his left lung, killing him instantly. RUSSIANS NOW WANTS 1 ANOTHER BIG FIGHT ST. PETERSBURG,Nov 23, 7 a m. —A naval correspondent of the Novoe Vremya urges the formation of a third sauadron for service in the Far east and points out that the ship, a modern i battleship is available at Cronstadt.to which, he says could shortly be added two battleships and two cruisers of a t somewhat older type aud fifteen tor pedo boats, making iu itself a formid able fleet. ' The writer suggests incidentally that there is still a possibility of getting , out the Black Sea fleet, which, added to the above squadron should heavily overmatch the remnant of Japan's sea ' iio wer. " ; Funerals Snowbound ; On Way to Cemetery , LONDON, Nov. 23.—Unprecedented , snow falls continue iu the British provinces. Many places and villages are isolated and everywhere In the north railway communication is de layed and in some parts entirely stop - ped. t There are ius'ances of funerals be ■ ing snow bound between the house and the cemetery aud children have 1 had to be dug out of drifts between their houses and the schools. Even iu West Cornwall and the Island ot Jersey, where snow is a rarity,heavy falls are reported. Teu to twenty degrees off ro-it were . registered in tne United Kingdom last night. Justice of the Peace Jacohy officiat . id Monday afternoon at the wedding of Abraham 11. Child* and Susie M. . Hurley, loth of Danville, the nr.<- , mony being perfouned at his office.— Rloomsburg Press. (To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. £ 112%// e X e jy I Sevan Million boxes sokl in past 12 months. This signature, *X>X« 25c. J I The Weakness Of an Amazon (Copyright, 1904, by K. M. Whitehead ] "Would you object to telling me your 1 reason for wanting to inarry ine?" she l asked In an aggressive tone that qua ; vered into pathos. Such an unexpected answer caused | Barnard to rise from his chair some ! two or three inches lief ore lie remem | tiered that it is the unexpected that al j ways happens. He sat dawn carefully, ' having achieved a calm that implied i that hers was the generally recognized method of answering a proposal. "Why—er— for the same wasou that other men have asked you to marry them, I suppose—because I care more for you than for any one else." "The others," she said slowly, "have I hail various motives. There haven't been so very many," she added, as if ! constrained to be honest "I have known you so short a time I could not be aware of that. I should never have believed it without your assurauce." The hardness of her face relaxed slightly. "You are the fourth," she said shortly. "Will you tell me why the other three failed?" softly. She leaned back in her easy chair and grasped its arms with a nervous, I awkward movement. Barnard noticed the strong, white hands, larger than his by far. Do men ever love a womau that weighs 193 pounds?" she asked bitterly. "1 have known one man that accom | pllshed the feat." He smiled in her eyes encouragingly. "One couldn't feel an Inclination to hold a hand of that size. It's uncom fortable in aO% glove." She held the offending member before him as if she could cheerfully have amputated the left one and have overtaken the right with a similar fate before they com municated to each other any knowl edge of their various doings. "The man I mentioned feels a trou b lego cue Inclination to hold that very j hand," he laughed. "You are old enough to have acqulr ! Ed better taste," Bhe retorted censori ously. "How old are you, by the way?" "Born exactly forty-nine years and three months ago." "I don't object to that," leniently. ; "It makes me feel somewhat better, I ' think. A woman of thirty-five likes to | feel young even by comparison." "I'm sure I'll never object to com porlsons In our family. If It pleases i you we'll turn down Mr. Shakespeare's I opinion concerning them." "In all my thirty-five years"— she began. "You seem proud to enumerate them. You might knock off five without any one suspecting," eying her with the air of an expert. "Simple honesty shouldn't be caught embezzling," she smiled, with a sense of good comradeship. Iler hands re laxed from their grip on the chair and I fell more comfortably upon her lap. "Didn't the other three think It would be rather nice?" He looked meaningly at the hand nearest him. "I don't think anybody ever wanted to," Bhe answered simply. "I look too much like the sturdy oak and have re i eel red none of the tenderness that faJls to the lot of clinging vines. Of course there are Btorrns from which the oak might like to be sheltered. I don't like my masculine manner—l hate It," ve : hefiently—"but It gives a better effect 1 than If I tri«*d to be kittenish. A hun dred and ninety-five pound kitten would run such a serious risk of being mistaken for a giddy elephant." "Precisely," he agreed. "But even a feminine elephant might long to be admired occasionally and— lov»"d." "Didn't the other three ever"— lie gently stroked the firm, white hand. "They didn't want to," she blushed , furiously. "But why, then"— he commenced "Oh, one of them was a widower and said it was so expensive having all the sewing done out for four children." He frowned sympathetically. '"Hie second wanted a partner to : help run a boarding school." He nodded. "The third was a preacher and I thought it was not good for man to j live alone. He didn't seem to think dyspeptic tendencies and an lnsuffi | clent income obstacles to prevent his ! finding a companion with all ease. In : fact, his manner was full of assurance that I would Jump at the chance. None of them, nobody In all my life, ever i really cared for me. They only want j ed me to help them do something." Her eyes were full of tears. "I i would like some one to love me as j they do the pretty little woman. I j am Just as affectionate and tender j hearted as If I were little and dainty" —her lip quivered—"and—l -want—to be loved -and to be—like them." She covered her face with her hands. He sat down on the arm of the easy chair with an air that was Joyous and youthful. "Dear little woman," he said, ignor ing the fact that the shoulders shaken by sobs were broad as his own, "the other three needed killing. I would love to slay them for you one by one, but unfortunately there is a law against it. I will content myself re joicing that their lack of appreciation left a chance for the fourth one." lie smoothed the hair gently from her forehead. "The fourth man loves you," he said, with a simplicity of words strong in feeling. She slowly raised her head and look ed in his face. In her eyes was shin ing the same expression that men have often Been in the eyes of those more favored women she envied. The amn ion sank into Insignificance; the wo man came Into her own triumphantly. "Sweetheart!" he said. TROY ALLISON. A Guaranteed Cure For Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or protrud ing Piles. Druggists refund money if I'AZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in <1 to 14 days. First application gives ease and rest. 50c. If your druggist hasn't it send 50c in stamps and it will i>e forwarded post-paid by Paris Medi cine Co., St. Louis. Mo. Uncle Sam's navy should be fieccml to none in the world. } *|| Vegetable, liver pills. Thai \\7 XJt I I is what they are. 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Men whose business leads to expo- I sure to weather or to violent physical [ exercise, such as sailors, soldiers, watchmen, navvies and field laborers, all take tobacco as a stimulant and • have done so from the first. i These classes are mentioned as spe cially large consumers of the weed in Dr. Everard's "Panacea," published in Hobbes and Newton both used tobacco to stimulate. Goethe and Heine hated it. Scott smoked profusely; but, • according to Mr. Trelawnev, Byron I "never smoked pipe or cigar." Modern experience and observation seem to indicate that tobacco is a stim l ulant in moderation and a narcotic In ! excess, in this respect resembling all other intoxicants, using the term in its > widest sense, from tea to opium. CAT'S CRADLE. i Origin i.* tlie Xamc of the Familiar L String anil I'IUKT Gnme. Cat's cradle has been familiar to most of us from childhood as a game for two players, in which the first winds a looped cord over the fingers of both hands in a symmetrical tigure, and the second inserts his lingers and removes » it in siieli a way as to produce a dif ferent figure. This they do alternately ' several times, always changing the ; formation. The art consists in making > the right changes. ; The cord forms a rude representation - of a manger, and the name originally was "cratch" cradle, cratch being a manger (creche, I-'rench), such as that In which our Saviour was laid. "They • layde hym In a cratche," was Wyclifs translation of Luke ii, 7. The word Is still used in llouian Catholic countries | in that particular sense. ' S The Abbe Prevost says In his "Man l uel Lexique," "< 'ratch is the name glv | en to a manger lor cattle and which is . | consecrated by the birth of Jesus : | Christ." To the present day the racks i which stand in the fields for cattle to ' eut from are called cratches. ! "lankee Doodle." i As for the origin of the tune of "Yan kee Doodle," over which there is much ' controversy, this can be said—that most of the views expressed about Its origin are right, but only partly so. It is • true the tune is the same as that of ? i "Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket," "Yan kee Doodle Came to Town," and that t of the Dutch reapers' song, "Yonker > Dudal, Dudal Daun," but it is also . identical with the old Biscayau "Dan -1 za Esparta" isword dance) and that of a German song which was published | t at Cologne In the year that Columbus j I discovered America. ' SV CAMRRH i; jSL gfl: , Ely's ("ream Balm (.IV,-, It,.lief at cu.ee y_y Lly-p ll delist"., soot lit- uniijj I | LTBLL i heals the diseased membrane. It en res Ca- I . tarrli and drives away a fold in the Head | ; M by P.nles & Co., Gosh &Co > R I PAN- S Taluk , Doctors find A good prescription ' For'mankind ' The 5-cent packet is enough for usual occasions. The family bof »(00 cents) > contains a supply for a yeai . All drug ' gists sell them. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Laura V. Kline, Widow of John M. Kline Deceased vs Jonathan S. Deen et al. C. P. Montour Conty. No 1 June Term 1908. In Partition. Tiie undersigned appointed Auditor by the aforesaid Court to make distribu tion of the fund realized from the sale of the real estate sold under the above stated proceedings and now re maining in the hands of the .Sheriff of Montour County for such purposes, will sit for the purpose of discharging the duties of his said appointment at his law olllce No. :{.">o Mill street, in the Borough of Danville,Montour County on 112 TUESDAY, DECEMBER «th, A. D. 1904. at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day where and when all persons ' are rt quested am" required to present and prove their claims or be forever ' thereafter debarred from coming in on ' the said sund. H. M. HINCKLEY, I Auditor. Danville. Pa . November 15th, 1904. WAR CORRESPONDENTS. Bora* of Their Pamonn train of I'hyn lral KnitnrHnce. One of the finest achievements of a war correspondent was that of Ilolt White, a representative of the New York Tribune, In the Franco-Prussian war. He witnessed the battle of Sedan from the Prussian headquarters on Thursday, Sept. 1, 1870. At its conclu Bion he rode to Brussels, but there the postofflce authorities refused to trans mlt his dispatch to London and even threatened to arrest him for saying that the French had been defeated. He then went onto Calais, crossed to Do ver by special steamer and took a spe cial train to London, where he arrived at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning. Next day there was a description of the bat tle si* columns long In the Tribune. It was not till Tuesday that the London newspapers had accounts of the con flict front their correspondents. But the most famous deed of physic al endurance In the race for news be tween war correspondents was told of Archibald Forbes. In the Servian war of 1876 fiemlln, the nearest telegraph station, was 120 miles distant from the •cene of the battle. So soon as Forbes knew the result he rode off, and all night long he kept at a gallop, chang ing horses every fifteen miles. At Sem lln he had one long drink of beer and then at once sat down to the task of writing, hour after hour, against time, the tidings of which he was the bearer After he had written the story of the battle and put It on the wires he lay down In his clothes and slept twenty hours without waking He had wit nessed the battle, which lasted sis hours; ridden 120 miles and written and dispatched a telegraphic message four columus In length to the I tally News, all In the space of thirty hours.— Macinlllan's Magazine. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. the Venerable Superstition That la Associated With July 18. St. Swlthln's day falls on July 13, and In England there is a superstition that if It rains on that date the suc ceeding forty days will be wet, and If, on the contrary, St. Swlthln's day be fair then the succeeding twoscore days will likewise be pleasant. The su perstition la venerable, for one old his torian remarks that "St Swtthln, a holy bishop of Winchester, about the year 860 was called the weeping St. Pwlthln, for that about his feast Prae ■epe and Anelll, rainy constellations, arise cosmlcally and commonly cause rain." Another version of the story Is that the good bishop left orders at his death that he should be burled in the open churchyard and not in the chancel. The monks, however, disobeyed the wishes of their dead and laid hlin to rest on July 15 within the minster, whereupon rain fell heavily and con tinually till on the fortieth day the of fending priests became alarmed and hastened to fulfill their dead bishop's j request. Statistics furnished by the officials ! at Greenwich observatory discredit the accuracy of the whole tale. The figures ' for one period of twenty years goto show that the greater number of rainy days after St. Swlthln's day followed a dry July 15. A PAINTER'S ARTIFICE. The Secret of the Color In One of Turner'* Pictures. The late Mr. Horsley, It. A., has re corded that at one time he studied al most daily one of Turner's finest water ' colors, called "The Snowdon Itange," admiring especially the tender warmth ! of the light clouds encircling the moon, ne tried all sorts of glasses to see If he could dlncover how the particular glow was gained, but without success. Chance revealed the secret. The pic ture began to buckle from Its mount, and Its owner, Sir Seymour Haden, put it luto the hands of a noted expert to be remounted. When he had suc cessfully removed It from Its old mount the expert sent for the owner to show him what he had discovered. A circle of orange vermilion had been plastered on the back with an Ivory palette knife where the artist wanted the effect and then worked off sufficiently far through the pores of the previously wetted pa ' per to give the show of color, while re taining the smooth surface, without a trace of workmanship on the right side. This may have led Mr. Horsley him self to use, as he did, brilliant orange as the foundation for a white muslin dress. JUST BREATHE. When Worn Oat Don't Take ■ Stim ulant j Jaat Breathe. Don't take a stimulant; Just breathe. This Is the advice of a doctor who does not believe In the old medical policy of mystery, but who undertakes philosophically to explain to any pa tient why such and such a remedy should be beneficial, says the Phila delphia Telegraph. "When you are 'let down,' " contin ued this physician, "don't take a cock tall; Just breathe. Put your finger on your pulse and get Its rhythm. Dur ing eight beats draw In the breath, breathing deep and low and forcing the diaphragm down first, then filling the upper lungs. Then exhale this breath during four beats of the pulse. "Now, if you are working with a piece of machinery, say a typewriter, what do you do to make it run more smoothly? You don't put a lot more oil on It and gum and clog It all up. You clean it first. You can best clean the blood by breathing. The blood passes through the lungs, and It needs and expects to find plenty of fresh air with oxygen In it. If it can't find per fectly fresh air It needs more air which Is not perfectly fresh. It needs to be cleaned by contact with the air. "Once in awhile hold the lungs full of breath as long as you can without expulsion. In doing this you are sim ply cleaning the machine. You are cleaning the blood. At the same time you are giving that little fillip to the action of the heart and the nervous system which you thought you were giving when you took the cocktail. In the latter case you didn't clean the ma chine. You simply ran It a little faster and gummed it up a little more. You can get the same results, the same feeling of exhilaration and of accom plishment, without taking the cock tall, and at the same time the machine will steadily improve In Its running quality. Breathe the best air you can get and plenty of It. It is as necessary as food. The heart and lungs act In voluntarily. In hurried business life they become too Involuntary. in that case don't take a cocktail; Just breathe." A Flnnneler. Ethel—l know he is a financier, but he Is not a speculator. Maude—How do you know, dear? Ethel—He didn't buy our viigng incut ring until he was quite sure tl ut 1 would accept him. PORT ARTHUR F IRK BURNS BUILDINGS Naval (juris Start lila/e Near Ar serial. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 The Jap anesti legation lias received the follow ing cablegram from Tokio: "Port Arthur army repoits tl.at buildings uear arsenal caught fire about noon November 22, owing to bombardment by our naval guns. At 9 :40 p. m. still burning " JURORS FOR DECEHBER COURT For »lie December t' rm of Court, December 27th. 1904, tlie following Jurors have been drawn : TRAVERSE JURY. Danville, Ist Ward—Harry E. Tram bower, William G. Maiers, William G Kramer. Danville, 2nd Ward.—Edward Aten, Gilbert Voris. Danville, 3rd Ward. lleury Grove, Samuel Werkheiser,A. J. Hialt,James Dailey, E. S. Miller, Setli C Lormer, Richard Metherell, Wesley Bodine. Danville, 4th Ward —Frank Yeager, Heurv Kueibler, James Edgeworth, Frederick Henry, Samuel Moitimer. Auttiony township. —Peter Rishel, William Flora, Lloyd W. Welliver. Derry town-hip. —William L. Moore, Clark Boone, Frank B. Cromley. Liberty township —J. J Hoflmau. Limestone township—Ambrose Mill er. Mahoning township.—Edward Wert mau, Thomas Johns, Morris Leighow, Ralph Leighow,William Houser, John Weaver. Mayberry township. Willinm C. Ka?e. Washingtonvi lie.—H. S. Moser. R. B. Seidel. West Hemlock township. Paul Maustelloi. GRAND JURY. Daniille, Ist ward.- Joseph Keely, John H. Garner, Samuel W. Arm?, D. C. Hunt, VV illiam E. Limberger,Frank G. Schoch, U. L. Gordy, George Mot tem. Danville, 2nd ward.—Willaid Fet terman, Oliver B. Sweitzer, D. R. Williams. Danville, 4th ward.—Charles Mot tern,Thompson Jenkins,Charles Deihl. Anthony township—William Rishel. Liberty township. William G. Ford, Victor Vincent, William J Leidy, William E. Patterson. Limestone township.— Calvin Deen, Thomas Schuyler. Mahoning township—Joseph Baylor. Valley township.—Thomas H. Ben field, Peter Yorks. SHERIFFS SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE! By virtue of a certain writ of Fieri Facias issued out of the Court of Com mon Pit as of Montour County, and to me directed will expose to Public Sale at the Court House, Danville, Mon tour County, State ot Pennsylvania,on Friday, December 2, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the said day the following described Real Estate, viz: „ All that certain creamery and lot of land on which the same is erected, situate in the Township of Derry, County of Montour and State of Penn sylvania, bounded and described as i follows: to wit. Beginning in the middle of the public road leading from Washingtonville to Jersey town and on the boundary Lne between Washing tonville Borough and Derry township at a point in tl.e projected right line of Market street in said Borough where it intersects the said boundary line o aid Borough in said public road on the divisiou line of said Borough and Township, South seventy-eight and three-fourths degrees. West sixty-five feet, to the corner of lot lornieily Charles L. Gibson, now Mrs. Thomas Robiuson, thence bv the same South eleven and one-fourth digrets East one hundred and sixty-seven and five tenths feet to a post, thence by lii.e of lands formerly of Joseph Hartman, deceased, and Simon S. Beyer, North seventy-eight and three-fourths de grees East sixty-five feet to a post; thence by same lands North eleven and one-fourth degrees West; one hundred and sixty-seven and five tenths f7\\ X r i for a child to be born / » v\\ X with weak id , s=-. neys. If the child urin —ates too cften. if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it.the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first s'.ep should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as ■ most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect ol Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold cent and one dollar sizes. You may have a KSjgMMDlfffijuQ sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet tell- Rom* «* sw»o«»»r«* I ing all about it, including many of the thousands of testtmon al letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Bir.ghamton. N. Y., be sure antf ; mention this paper. 1 < j t nj 1 112 i ( n>tijf. lot r« n»m ber the name, Swanp-Root, Dr Kil -1 j filer's Swamp- Root. and the addrex Binghamton, VY ~ on every bottles AN ORDINANCE. I AUTHORIZING. EMFOWE RING 1 AM) BSQUIBING THK BOROUGH 1 OF DAN VILLE. MONTOUR COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. TO BtiSUS CERTAIN COUPON HOR : OUGH BONDS FOR THE PUR POSE OF PROPERLY SECURING AND PAYING CURTAIN SPEC- I ALLY AUTHORIZED BOROUGH INDBBTBDBBB9 INCURRED OR | TO RE INCURRED BY THE SAID BOROUGH IN THE MAKING OF j CERTAIN BOROUGH IMPROVE MEMS AND ALSO PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF INTER EST AND PRINCIPAL OF THE SAID BONDS. Be it ordaiued aud enacted by the Chief Bnrgixs,aud by the Town Coun cil of the Borough of DaDville, in the County of Montour and State of Penn sylvania. iii council assembled, and it is her* by ordained aud enatced by tl.e j authority of the same: That for the purpose of properly securing and Ras ing certain sptcially authorized Bcr ough indebtedness incurred or to be incurred by the said Borough of Dan ville, in the making of certain Bor ough im; rovemenls duly authorized by i the borough election held on the sec ond day of Angu-t A. D. 1904 for such 1 specific j urpose, the said Borough of ■ i Danville »>e, and it is hereby duly au thorized, empowered and required to i issue Three hundred coupon Borough Bonds in the sum of One Hundred < Dollars each, redeemable at the plea j. sure of the said Boroash of Danville, I after the first day of November A. D. 11)09, and payable on the first day of November A. D. 1924, with interest tiom the first day of November A. D. ' i 1904, at the rate of tluee and one half ; per cent per annum, payable sexni-au ! nually by the Treasurer of the said Borough of Danville, in lawful money of the United States, at his office in ' th<> said Borough, on the first day of May and on tie first day of November in each vear, on the presentation of the projer inti rest coupon thereto at tached. At im vi-d tl.e oth dav of November A. D. 1904. A M.(i. PURSEL, Chief Burgtss. Att-sr: HARRY B. PA fTON. S cietarv of the Borough of Dauville, Pa. Co n i! 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