IBLOTTED OUT I if if By CAROL MURRAY ? Copyright, 19(t>, by K. B. McOlure « They were a rough lot of men under the shadow of I)lamond hill miners, teamsters, prospectors, traders and cat tlemen—but when old John Dyer, one of the mine bosses, brought his daugh ter Kate from civilization to live with him there and keep his humble cabin he had faith in that chivalry that has always made the western man respect the other sex. He knew that she would have many admirers and that there would be quarrels on her account, but he was a widower and she motherless, and he hoped he was doing what was beat The cabin, like the rude and strag gling village, was backed by the grim mountain, while along Its front as far as human eye could reach there glit tered the white sands of the Mojave desert. Here and there out on that dreary waste were patches of ugly cacti, and Intuition told the girl as her eyes searched the desert for the first time that out there under the blazing sun the rattlesnake basked and the lizard glided swiftly over the bones of men and animals. The desert was not always at peace, Its surface resembling a placid lake. Now and then a wind, born up In the gulches of the mountain, came down and went sweeping across the sands, and then the spectator saw great clouds of dust as the flinty particles were caught up and driven here and there to cut and gash and wound whatever lived. The sands never swept In from the desert, but always were driven the other way. Had It not been so Diamond mine and the town around It could not have been. The coming of the girl among the thousand men was an event. There were a few old women there—cooks and laundresses—but here was a girl, a handsome young girl. Her influence was felt almost Immediately. The mine manager said that more soap, combs, handkerchiefs and looking glasses were called for from the com pany store In a week than were bought during the preceding three months. At least 800 of the thousand men determined on an Introduction at once, but when It came to the point, and even after three months had passed, there were not a dozen callers at the cabin. A month or two later It was said that only two of the dozen stood a chance. By "chance" they meant marriage. It never oc curred to any of them that a girl might have come among them without fall ing In love and marrying one of their Dumber. It was strange that among Kate's earliest and most persistent admirers was Pedro Diaz, a full blooded Mex ican. He had charge of the company's transportation, and he managed through the father to force an introduction. He was kindly received by the girl, but no more. He was tolerated by the father, but there was no welcome for him. Pedro was a swaggerer. He was an egotist. He thought he was in love* and once having made up his mind to this he was ready to maintain what he called his right by fair means or foul. The thousnnd men said that Pedro's rival was Tommy Brltt. the keeper of the company's store. He was an Amer ican, young, fair looking, and down on the books to be promoted for his en ergy. ambition and integrliy. Perhaps he admired, as all others did, but lit had never asked himself if he was in love. He found both father and daugli ter congenial company, and that would have been his excuse had any one asked him why he paid two visits a week to the cabin. There came a day when Pedro Diaz made up his mind to know his fate, He chose an hour when be knew the girl would be alone, and he dressed In his best and knocked on the cabin door. He believed himself irresist ible, and he smiled and smirked and offered his love. There was a moment of astonishment, and he found himself rejected. The girl tempered her re fusal as much as possible. It was her first offer, but womanly instinct told her to soften the blow even though the man was obnoxious to her. "What: You refuse Pedro Diaz!" ex claimed the man in reply. "You re fuse me—me, who am worth &I.OOQ and could marry any senorlta in my own country! Do you quite understand me?" "I have no love for you," replied the girl. "But that makes no difference. You shall love rne later on. I am Pedao Diaz. It is the first time I ever did a woman the honor of asking her to marry me." The girl's reply was a flrtn one, and Pedro flung himself out of the cabin with anger raging In his heart. He had been snubbed, humiliated, made u fool of. There was a man in the case, of course, and it could be none other than the storekeeper. Whoever oppos ed Pedro I>iaz in any of his cherished schemes must die. He was not five minutes deciding on the death of Brltt. That morning the young man had ridden away across the desert, a stretch of twenty long, hot miles, to strike the railroad on the other side and order further supplies by telegraph. The ride was twenty miles over and twenty miles back. He would cover the dis tance In a day, but It would be late In tb« evening when he returned. "I will meet and kill him as he re turns," decided Pedro, and when dark fM fell he eluded observation as much as possible an 1 rode out on the desert. TTiere was no trail across the sands. He who would hold n straight course must di»>end upon the compass, and he must consult it ofleu. There was fair starlight light enough to see his rival mauy rods away. The sky was clear of those scudding clouds which might be taken as warning.* that the whirl winds were being born in the cold air of the gulches, and n i noise came from the mountain except the whispers of the pines to the cedars. When Pedro had made five miles straight out from the base he pulled In bis horse and sat and waited, his face to the west and his ears alert for the slightest sound. For an hour he waited, and then of a sudden a cold chill struck the back of li s »ie< He whirled his horse about with an oalh on his lips. "It is the sand storm!" h • m t re I as he jumped to the ground. He had a blanket for him. < if i. I one for his horse. The animal lay <: ... n at the word and suffered his head to he wrapped, and Just as the first -harp grains began to fly the man snuggled down beside the animal and muliled his head and swore. He had seen a hundred sand storms on that desert. They came with a puff and went the same way. In five mln otaa t*» would be up aad watching again, but when live minutes hail passed the were stronger. At the enil of ten they begun circling and running across the sands like wraiths. They also dug deep into the sands, and when they met with an obstruc tion they covered it in. Man and horse were soon in danger of suffocation and had to struggle up to throw off the weight. They were just in time to be caught by a circling breeze and spun around as if they were straws, and when the man was flung on his face at last and covered a foot deep in an instant the horse uttered a neigh of terror and galloped heavily away. '"lt will pass, it will pass, and I will have my revenge!" muttered I'edro as lie stood up with his back to the blast, hut it did not pass. lie was flung this way and that, car ried along or left half senseless on the sands, and not for a full hour did the wind scream out its goodby to the desert and return to its sleep. Then the surface of the desert was smooth again, and the man who came riding from the west could not tell that under his horse's feet lay a human body burled two feet deep. There had been a I'edro Diaz. The sands of the Mojave had blotted him out. The It is; lit Honor, Before Millard Fillmore was elected to the vice presidency of the I'nlted States lie was head of the law firm of Fillmore, Hall & Havens of Buffalo. If was one of the leading law firms of the state lie was the defendant's at toruey in a certain action in Buffalo. At the opening of the trial of the case the plaintiff's attorney stated to the jury that he would have to depend en tirely upon the justice of his client's case, as the defendant had sought and obtained the aid and counsel of one of the ablest firms of lawyers in western New York, and he might say he had opposed to liiin the right bower of the legal profession. ' What does he mean by that?" said Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Ha vens replied, "He means you." "Yes, I know," replied Mr. Fillmore, "but what does he mean by that particular expression?" "Did you never play eu chre?" said Ilavens. "So," said Mr. Fillmore. "Well," said Havens, "in the game of euchre the right bower is the biggest knave in the pack." Tuiile MamnTN of Ve Olden DKTN. Can any one still prate of the good old times after reading the following extract from a sixteenth century book entitled "The Accomplished Lady's Rich Closet; or. Ingenious Gentleman's Delightful Companion?" "A gentlewoman, being at table, must observe to keep her body straight and not lean by any means with her elbows, nor b.v ravenous gesture dis cover a voracious appetite. Talk not when you have meat In your mouth, aud do not smack like a pig nor ven ture to eat spoon meat so hot that the tears stand in your eyes, which is as unseemly as the gentlewoman who pretended to have as little a stomach as she had a mouth, and therefore would not sw: How her peas by spoon ful, hut toil; tii in on<> by one and cut them in tw > before she would eat them. It is very unseemly to drink so large a draft that your breath is almost gone and you are forced to blow strongly to recover you self." Antiquity of Wire. The manufacture of wire is of very ancient origin. It has been traced back to the earliest Egyptian history. Spec! mens are in existence which can b< proved to date to 17"<> B. <'. The Ken siugton museum has a specimen whicli was made in Minora 800 years B. C Ancient literature contains many refer ences to wire. From the ruins of Her culaneum metal heads have been ex humed on which the hair is representee by wire. There is no question that this ancient wire was made by hammering out the metal, which was always bronza or of the precious group. This held true of all made previous to tli< fourteenth century, during which tin process of forming wire by drawing 01 elongating the metal by forcing 11 through a conical orifice, made In sonx substance harder than the metal treat ed, was invented.—-Cassier's Magazine. Blfferent YVnya* of Putting It. This is a scientific way: "If a mar falls asleep in the sitting posture with his mouth open his Jaw drops. Th« tongue not being in contact with tlu hard palate, the succotorial space is obliterated, the soft palate no longer adheres to the roof of the tongue, and if respiration be carried on through the mouth tlie muscular curtain beglaa to vibrate." And this is the popular form: "If a man doesn't keep his mouth shut when asleep he will snore." BIRD CUSTOMS. The Habit of Hilling- and the Stork Dove'n lion In it Fight. An Englishman, Edmond Selous, has been watching doves at play and in combat. Of the habit of "billing," in which so many birds engage when they are nesting, he says; "Where birds now merely 'bill,' they once, in my opinion, fed each other, or the male fed the fe male, but pleasure came to be experi enced in the contact alone, and the pas sage of food, which was never neces sary, gradually became obsolete. I think it by no means improbable that our own kissing may have originated in much the same way, and that birds when thus billing' experience the same sort of pleasure that we do when we kiss must be quite obvious to any one who has watched them." Of a peculiarity of the stock dove Mr. Felous writes: ''When these birds fight they constantly interrupt the flow of the combat by bowing in the most al>- surd way, not to one another, but gen erally, so to speak, for no object or purpose whatever, apparently, but only because they must do so. The fact is the bow has become a formula of court ship, and, as courting and fighting are intimately connected, the one suggests the other In the mind of flic bird, who bows all at once under a misconcep tion." The Hank of Ireland, like the Bank of England, has a military guard, which is relieved even twenty-four hours. Immediately after the mount ing of the new guird every morning a knock at the <' >or of the officer's room announces the arrival of the head por ter with a large bo >k. in which the of ficer signs his name, rank and regi ment. and on the departure of the por ter with the book a half sovereign is found ou the table. It is the officer's perquisite. The llnd One. "That brother of yours, Lucy," said the man of the house, "seems to be a pretty tough character." "'Deed he is, sub," replied the col ored maid. "He jes' natchelly seems to be de white sheep ob our fambly, sho' 'miff."—Philadelphia Press, ller Coo lift. Mrs. Hatterson What! You've had fourteen cooks in three months? Mrs. Catterson Yes. and I didn't ph-ase any of them. | Little Dorothy's I Courtship | I By VIRGINIA LF.ILA WENTZ | Dorothy knew that it was about tlino for Joan and the rest of them to bo re turning from their sail on the lake. It would never do for Joan to find the "big fish" of the house party- that waa the name she had Riven the young Eng lish earl—talking to her alone. She, alas, was only poor little Cousin Doro thy and acting In this particular house hold as Joan's mother's paid compan ion: So she pretended to be bored with his lordship's society. "La-la, la-la, la-la-la," she hummed, sinking back Into the depths of the easy chair and stretching her white arms lazily. "I say," said the earl, "am I tiring you. Miss l«»rotby?" Dorothy stopped humming. "No," she drawled, with mock mischief, "not exactly. But" here, she smiled her sweetest smile upon him—"you won't be vexed, will you. If I tell you that I'm a bit sleepy and that I must sleep In the sunV Will you draw this chair over for nie, please?" Hi.slng slowly, she adjusted the fleur-de-lis at her waist while his lordship drew the chair to the sunny corner of the big veranda. "llow 11 that do?" asked he. "Splendidly. Now for cushions." "llow many?" "Hundreds," said she. He collected as many as he could carry and fetched them to her. "Here are thousands," he announced. "Delicious:"murmured Dorothy, sink ing back Into them with a sigh of con tent. "This is quite perfect." "It will be when I fetch you a sun shade," he amended. "Sunshade:" cried she. "Go away, you (ioth: 1 want the sun." "You'll be pickled!" warned he. "So," corrected she, dimpling, "pre served." Her long black lashes lay mo tionless 011 the wild rose flush of her cheeks. The earl chuckled and, pretending that he fancied her already asleep, crept elaborately away on tiptoe. Joan and the rest of them were in sight, and he advanced to meet them. Joan Shannon was unquestionably a beauty. She had been photographed in every variety of pose; she had been painted by several of the most cele brated artists on two continents, but in spite of this fact she had passed through the whirl of three seasons and was still unwed. "She must be waiting for n title," people said, as other girls far less beautiful came out, danced through a season or two, and were led to the altar by men of their choice. However that may be, included among the guests at tills particular house party at the Shannon's big coun try place 011 the sound was the young Earl of Stowbrldge, and It was common property that Miss Shannon already had found him very attractive. "So awfully sorry you couldn't Join us In our sail this morning," she began In her sweet, suave voice, with an ac cent which was the result of much travel. "Is your headache better now?" " 'l'on my honor, I've not given it a thought for the last half hour. I found Miss Dorothy reading on the verahda, and she took pity 011 me and put down her book, and—well, somehow she must have cured my headache! She's got Jol ly pretty dimples, and she's a cousin of yours, didn't some one say?" "Yes distant. Mamma never liked me to associate much with her family when we were little, and now, as you can 1111 a glue, we aren't very—er —con- genial." "Such fun," observed the earl lacon ically. Ills fair companion turned and looked at him reproachfully. "And who would wish to be 'fun?' " said she. "Oh, I don't know," said his lordship gallantly. Miss Shannon found herself wonder ing for a moment as they walked on whether the earl might not prove testy' after all. Would he be uneasy under the crushing and ordering about to which her father and mother submit ted. If there was one thing she dislik ed it was obstacular people. She had been brought up to expect people to agree with her. "Of course," she sighed, shrugging her beautiful shoulders discreetly, "I feel sorry for poor little Dorothy. Moth er won't need her after the autumn, and I'm sure I don't know what's going to become of her then. Besides, she hasn't any practical sense. Just look at her now lying asleep In all that sun. She'll be simply black with freckles!" That afternoon when everybody waa resting for a dinner dance In the even ing the Earl of Stowbrldge wandered Into the library, a cool, dim apartment banked with books and made comfort able with couches. lit* had Just discovered one of his favorite authors and settled down to read when the sound of feminine voices in the adjoining room disturbed his attention. Six seconds had not elapsed when he became aware that it was no ordinary Interview and that he should make a step forward to an nounce his presence. It was not In his character or traditions to be an eaves dropper; nevertheless he found him self curiously unable to move or utter a'sound. "Angling for him—l?" It was Dor othy's voice, low and impassioned, but with a quick little ga«p or two, such ns would come from one who had sud denly received an unexpected douche of cold water. "There can be no doubt of that," came Mr-- Shaimen's Icy tones. "Only yesterday Joan was telling me of her ovv • ■ :;i'sgivfngs" "Misgivings!" There was still that tremulous catch in the breath. "Oh, of course young men will be young men," continued Mrs. Shannon, with a pur in her well bred tones. "They will pursue the girl who holds <;ut the angling iron. You are clever— I 1 n't dispute the face; you are clever an 1 calculating but one thing I have to tell you: If you wish to remain In this household you must assume a dif ferent pise. And, remember, not an other conversation alone with the Earl of Stowbrldge while he Is under this roof. You may go now." There was silence just for an ap preciable fraction of a second; then little Dirithy seemed to be drawing herself up to her full height as she Hung a defiant, passionate answer Into her aunt's face; "I thought at least you were a lady, but you're not. You're cowardly and cruel and vulgar, oh, how can you be so?" Dorothy, sobbing miserably in her hot anger and insulted girlhood, was obliged to leave the room. Mrs. Shannon, cool and collected, as always, touched a bell and sent the cook some orders about the subitL I After dinner, while they were danc lng, the earl sought I»orothy out In the star sprinkled night, where she had I wandered to a hammock under the trees, far from the chattering groups on the veranda. J "I've been wondering who was be hind thut lighted cigar," she said light ly as he Joined her, and then, more seriously, drawing in her breath deep ly: "Isn't it splendid out here tonight? I like to catch that strong brine from the sett. It gives one courage." "Is that what you want courage?" asked the earl, looking at her tenderly In the starlight and feeling his big, honest heart a-throb. lie sat down on a stump of a tree close by. "You're plucky enough, I fancy." "I shall need it all, ull the courage I have. I" She faltered, and under the sweet, sudden spell of sympathy her lips trembled piteously. The earl leaned forward impulsively and gently Imprisoned one of her hands. "1 know,"was all that he said. She measured him, not understanding. "You see." he started to explain in his straightforward fashion, "I was In the next room this afternoon when your aunt"— She drew away from him with terror In her eyes. "Oh," she cried bitter ly, "you overheard all that cruelty, and—and it's made you pity me!" "It's made me love you, little one," he corrected solemnly. "I liked you from the first moment I saw you, but now I know that I love you. Of course," he added, seeing that she still shrunk from him a little, "a thing like that's easily enough said, but Just give me a little hope, and I'll make It my life's business to prove It to you, dear." Ho held out his hand to her like a knight of old. Dorothy tried to speak, but her lips would not respond. Then she did a curious thing. She took his outstretched hand In her own and pressed It close against her eyes, and they were wet. Virtue Wlilcli Commands Love. Should some women need encourage ment they may learn with interest that men are rather apt to be vain and that It is enough sometimes to bo a good listener in order to be a most successful hostess. The following typical anecdote proves this. Gomber ville, the old courtier, somewhat of a poet, too, was known to be paying a deal of attention to a certain lady of the hotel de Kamboulllet. One day some one bad this conversation with him: "You are the 'cavalier servant' of Madam ?" "Yes, certainly." "Do you love her?" "With the most devoted respect In my heart." "Why? She Is not beautiful." "No." "She is not young." "No." "She Is not graceful." "Not very." "She is not witty." "No. not particularly." "\V -11. then, what Is It?" "She can listen admirably."—Trofes sor Albert Sehinz in Lipplneott's Maga zine. of <)Tilnn. James Quinn, a noted actor of Oar rick's tin:'', loved to dine, and was oft> ii fuddled in consequence when he went on the stage. Once while playing with lVg WotHngton, who was acting Sylvia, his daughter, In"The Recruit ing Officer," Instead of asking her, "Sylvia, how old were you when your mother died?" he said "married." Sylvia laughed, ainl being out of her cue, could only stammer, "What, sir?" "Pshaw," cried the more confused Ouiuu, "I mean, how old were you when your mother was born?" The body of Duke Humphrey was returned from Egypt, embalmed In the rarest wine and the richest spices. Upon seeing this tjuinn soliloquized as follows: Oh. j<lagu" on Egypt's arts, I say! Embalm the deail! On senseless clay Rich wines and spices waste! I.lko sturgeon or like brawn shall I Pound In a precious pickle lie, Which X can never taste? Let me embalm this flesh of mine With turtle fat and Bordeaux wlnrt And spoil the Egyptian trade! Than Humphrey's duke more happy I Embalmed alive, old Quinn shall die, A mummy roady made. The Spoiled Child. "So/' wailed Tommy, "I don't waul that big pink necktie on." "It doesn't matter what you want," replied his mother. "You must have it on." "Well, If y <u put it on me I'll cry all over it an that'll spoil it."—Phllade! phia Press. The Anthracite ( ual. When the lirst two tons of anthra cite coal wee taken into Philadelphia, In lSda, tlit good people of that city, so the records state, "tried to burn the stuff, but at length, disgusted, they broke It up and made a walk of It." Fourteen years later Colonel George Shoemaker sold eight or ten wagon loads of it in the same city, but war rants wore soon issued for his arrest for taking money under false pre tenses. lii v.i I tin hie. 4 'ln what v/:iy could you be of any use to an employment bureau?" said the proprietor. "Simplest tiling in the world," re plieil the shiftless looking applicant. "You are always In need of men to fill positions, and I'm always out of a l>b" Detroit Free Press. J J. BROWN THE EYE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with <las.s --« •<«nl artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, Bloomsburg, I'a. Fours— lo a. in. t" sp. m. ill SET! A Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing Spoutlne and Ceneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranees, Furnaces, eto. PRICKS THE LOW! QUALITY Till! MOT' JOHN HIXSON NO. 11« E. FRONT ST. HARD QUESTIONS. They Sound Simple, hut (on May Fiud the VithncrN Klnaive. "How many holes are there in a la-C'l hoot of the ordinary type? Do you know how many there are in the pair you are wearing? That is another question and it is a little ambiguous, for the average man's ordinary laced b » >ts are generally given away by his wife before he has had time to count the holes. "Which of the feet of a horse toue:i the ground in trotting?" a ks (lie examiner. You may imagine the whole class raising arms and shout ing. "All of 'em!" Any one man may fog another with Ignorance, for our knowledge Is in patches. I-• it worth your while, sup posing jou have any business to carry througii, to ascertain how many f's there are i.:i a clo< face? Do you want t> know how ma.iy ribs there are in the cover of y »ur umbrella? This is the umbrelia maker's business. You w;Uk! only to find the time of day and avoid the r.Un. "Thousand words," says an editor to the amateur writer, who may be an umbrella maker. It happens many times a day. The ama teur never knows what exertion and what space this means. Hut the Jour nalist knows exactly the amount of gray matter, black ink and white pa per the demand Implicit How many words are there In this paragraph? Now—quick! THE JAPANESE GIRL. She I* Civil tle n Ilnrlf, With an Air of Dainty Modenty. There were not many Japanese wom en at the party, which made me won j der, considering the fact that there ' were hundreds of men present, but perhaps the absence of the many might j be explained by the uncomfortable and self conscious air of the few who | were there in most unaccustomed for | eign flnery. Not that they wore it so , badly. Not at all. That is a Action of I the foreign woman who is pleasantly blinded to the Imperfections of her own kind. | Of course there are no Japanese girls with Gibson figures of lissom j grace and Fifth avenue strides of | splendid freedom, but the same thing j may be said of many other women in j many other climes. Everybody cannot i be an American girl, you know, and I ' declare I think the Japanese girl runs some of her European sisters a very i close second In her ability to wear un -1 graceful clothes as gracefully as pos sible with very limited assistance from Mother Nature. All Japanese waist lines run up In front and all Japanese girls are "pigeon toed." but all Japa nese girls are gentleness itself, and their dainty modesty serves to conceal ! a multitude of peculiarities.—Leslie's Week ly. I'D* and Oovvun or Santa frm. Probably no other of the West Indian islands has had such a checkered ca reer as Santa Cruz. In turn It has be longed to Spain, which abandoned It;! to England and Holland Jointly; to, England alone; to Spain again, which fell upon the colonists and destroyed j or deported them all; to France, which took It from Spain; to the Knights of Malta, who received It as a gift from j France; to a private company of ad- j venturers. Then it"was resumed pos I session of by France, but abandoned, j so that In 1720 It was uninhabited, j Then it became a no man's land until 1727, when France took it again, and presently sold it to a Danish company, 1 which sold it in turn to the king of Denmark. In 1801 England took it \ once more, ga\e it back to Denmark, ; repented and took it away again in a j few months, held it for eight years, ! and then returned it to Denmark, which holds It still. Mot I'Iu JIIIK Future*. "Yls, muni, < »i'li make yez as good a cook as the nixt wan." "I don't know anytliiug about the j next one, but you'll have to be better than the last one."—Houston Post. Norifil Axiom. "I think I will invite the Bronsons. j I know they would be glad to come." "Hut, my dear, people who would be glad to come are the very ones you j should not invite." Puck. 1 1 The Home Paper | of Danville. ! | Of course yon read J in ■ m. I f | THE FkEOPLE'S ! p. Popular i APER. j I Everybody Reads It. !" ~ I I ! Published Every Morning Except Sunday <-»» i i No. ii E. Ma ho; i ng St. ii Subscription 6 cert . i\.r \V<;efc HEAT AND TANNED SKINS. | The Miracle That Nature Performs When Sunburn Occur*. .There are certain arctic animals, dark coated in the .-hort summer, that in winter turn pure white, thus match ing the sn >\v covered landscape and scaping notice and harm. This change of color, tills protection, effected no one knows how, is wonder ful, as wonderful as a miracle, and yet a kindred change of color, a kin dred protection, happens among man kind every summer, and nobody ever notices it. Wiien the pale city people go out in the summer sun at the seashore or the mountains the light attacks them fiercely, lirst reddening their skin, then s riling, blistering and scorching it. If they kept in the sun enough, and if no miracle occurred, the light woul.l kill them finally, burning off the skin lirst and afterward attacking the raw flesh. But a miracle does occur. The skin changes from a pale color to a tan and on this tan the sun lias no effect. The sun may beat on tan colored skin for days and weeks, but such skin remains always sound, unblistered, whole. Titus nature works a miracle. The white skin is suffering, and nature, aware, somehow, that a tan skin Is sun proof, changes to tan the white. How does she do this? Where did she learn that it was wise to do this? No one knows. Only the fact of the miracle remains. To prove this miracle—to prove that It is not the hardening of the skin, but the change in its color which pro-" tccts it from sunburn—is an easy mat ter. Lot it pale person, unused to the sun, stain one side of his face yellow, and, leaving the other side untouched, go out in the bright summer sun for a couple of hours. The one side of his face is no tougher, no more hardened than the other, yet the unstained side wiii I" i:i!i i<■ i. blistered, while the tail coio. I'd one will be quite cool and uit'..; i. Suni.ani a miracle, a protection to i:;:.:f.:iinl as inexplicable and as wonderful ; the miracle of the arctic an!:; a!:<' change in the winter from dark oat - ; > snow white ones.—New York Hera id. BATTLEFIELD ORATIONS. A Great Deal of Fiction About th* Heeortled Martial Speeches. Somebody once a-ked the Duke of Well:::;;! n if speeches on the battle field were really made .is reported and what was their effect. The duke said, "What effect on the whole army can be made by a speech since you cannot conveniently make it heard by more i than a thousand men standing about you?" Then the duke was asked if it were not the fact that Napoleon de livered some rather notable orations j on the field. The duke would not have I it."The proclamations you read of in the Trench army were much more seen j In the papers than by the soldiers—they I were meant for Paris." It was all I right, the duke agreed, to address a . regiment upon presenting it with col- I ors and that sort of thing. On the I whole, French troops might be more j impressed by a speech than the Eng lish. who In the duke's Waterloo army i were, he declared, "the scum of the i earth, who had all enlisted for drink." ; The French, with their system of con scription, had a fair sprinkling of all j classes. "No," comments a writer, "all these martial obiter dicta which our histories i treasure up for us were for the most part never spoken at all. The 'lnst words' of dying men and the speeches ! made on the battlefield or the deck of an admiral's flagship are not to be re garded as having been actually ut tered. The famous 'Up, guards, and at 'em!' accredited to Wellington at Wa terloo, was never spoken. Wellington himself denied it." And now, Johnny," said the Sunday school teacher, "Is there anything you don't understand about Eve and the serpent "Yes'm." "Well, what?" "Ilow'd Eve keep from havln' a fit when she seen it comin'?" Detroit Tribune. THE HOTEL CHILD. iJangers Thai lleset the Luckivna Ott- HpriiiK of itiv-ilt-»N I'arentn. It is not tiie material aids to ex istence wiii. h are the bane of the iiotel chilli; it is tli.' mental and spiritual at tite.de accompanying this life which is lj be deprecated. it destroys a dt in uTatic spirit through emphasizing the difference bet ween the servant and 11: -served, it exaggerates the power hi money, footers a spirit of depend eit e and unlit.- the pampered imlivld uai for an.v other kind of life, and, \vn: of all, in a child so brought up 1!:' c can li 110 urn erstamling or love ol home. Tiie v may be some future hilil v"ho knows nothing of art, ome function for the one to whom lite., tuie n.aki s n • appeal and who is a ; sensitive to music, i• ut there Is no in tiie -!ate for the mail who has in ;h i initiative, self rel.ance, patriot ism nor 1 >ve of home. He is a social ii. ir i-' a (li-e:ise The community Is bite o*Y without this satellite of the man; p rasi.e of the bell boy and source of supply for the waiter. I! '.here is one child in our eommunl l. v . !i i i superfluous It is the hotel el' 1 A place-! for temporary occu- I a ill Num it>s an.l childless adults hole! are . > be tolerated, but as resl •' 'i' «' Mren they are without tli , >f excuse. Miss Martha lii ■\ in Kveryli uly's Magazine. V* MiMcri'M Teinnpps, Ire ntly saw it s;l somewhere 'v. >: i n are r: :< h better tem per.- ! ai i n." T1 of course, Is a self i• • i-I proposition—up to a cer tain | lint. Women, as a rale, are al toget i-r more self po-sessed and have a grc. : i .• control over themselves than men, w!> j want everytning their own way, i .nt all troubl •, cannot endure the smallest discomfort and are rarely unselti. !i. ISut In justice to men It must be said that, generally speaking, they have very much more to try their nerves.— | London World. Ail Ancient Steam Man. There are it host of authorities on hydraulics and mechanics that could I be quoted to support the assertion that ; the steam engine Is not a modern in vention. Carpinl in the account of his travels, A. I). 12S<5, describes a species j of aeophlle, or steam, engine made In the form of a man. Tills contrivance was filled with "Inflammable liquid" (probably petroleum) and made to do terrible work in the battles between the Mongols and the troops of Prester John. " HciLLTHt COUCH 1 I AND CURE the LUNGS| VTH Dr. King's New Discovery /Consumption price FOR K OUGHSand 50c & SI.OO %/OLDS Free Trial. Surest and (Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. PENNSYLVANIA MllifT Philadelphia & Krie Railroad Division. Northern Central Railway Division. Schedule in Effect June 11, 1905. Trains leave SUI'TH DANVILLE as follows: EASTWARD. 7.11 a m. (weekdays) for Wilkes Barre. Haz leton and Pottsville and Philadelphia 10.17 a. in (daily) for Wilkes Barre, Hazleton Pottsville. Philadelphia, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah. 2.21 p. tn. (weekdays) for Wilkes Barre, Haz leton and I'otlsvllle. 5.50 p. in. (weekdays) for Wilkes-Barre, and Hazleton. Making connection at Wilkes-Barre with Lehigh Valley for all points North and South and D. & 11. for scranton. WESTWARD. f.OOa. in. (weekdays) for Sunhury. I.eaveSun bury 51.42 a in.daily for Lock Haven and intermediate stations, tin weekdays for Bellefonte, Tyrone, Clearfield Phillips burg, Pittsburg and the West. Leave Stmbury 9.60 a. m. |weekdays) Tor Harrisburg and intermediate stations, l'hiladeiphia. New York, Balfiinore and Washington. 12.10 p. m. weekdays for Sun bury. LeaveSunbury 12.43 p. m.daily for Buff alo via Emporium. Leave Sunbury 1.13 p. m. weekdays for Km pori u m, Bellefonte. Tyrone, Clearfield, Philipsburg, Pittsburg,Canandaigua and intermediate stations, Syracuse, Roche ster. Buffalo and Niagara Falls. LeaveSunbury 1.54p.iu. weekdays for Harrtsburg tnd intermediate statiohs, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington. Bullet Parlor Car to Phil adelphia. Leave Sunbury 3.48 p. m.daily for Har risburg, Philadelphia. New York. Balti more and Washington, l '.l p. in.daily for Sunbury. Leave Sunbury .">.lO p.m. weekdays for Keuovo, Elmira and intermediate sta tions. Leave Sunbury 5.20 p. ni. daily for Har risburg and intermediate points, l'hila deiphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 7.51 p. m. weekdays or Sunbury. Leave Sunbury 8.36 p. in.daily for Har risburg ;and all intermediate stations, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington. Pullman Sleeping Car from Harrisburg to New York. Leave Sunbury 9.,">u p. m. Sundays only for Harrisburg and intermediate Ha tions, arriving at Harrisburg, 11.30. Leave Sunburyß.s4 p. m. Sundays only for Willlamsport and intermediate sta tions. LeaveSunbury !).Ti3 p. m. weekdays for Willlamsport and intermediate stations. Buffet Parlor Car. SHAMOKIN DIVISION, N. C. K. W. WEEK DA VS. Leave Sunbury 6.10 a. m., 10.10 a. in., 2.10 p. m. 5.35 p. in.for Sbamokin and Mt Carmel. LEWISTOWN DIVISION. WEEK DAYS. Leave Sunbury 10.00 a. in., 2.05 p. in.for Lew istown and Lewistown Junction. 5.35 p. ui. for Sellnsgrove. For time tables and further information ap ply to ticket agents. W. W ATTERBUKY, J. R. WOOD, lien'l Manager. Pass. Traffic Mgr. GEO. W BOYD, Gen'l Passenger Agent. T ACKAWANNA RAILROAD. ■" -BLOOMSBURG I>IVISK)> Delaware, Lackawanna ami Westren Railroad. ,In Effect .lan. 1, 1905. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. EASTWARD. 7.07 a. tn. daily for Bloomsburg, Kingston. Wilkes-Barre ami Scranton. Arriving Scran ton at !' 12 a m . and connecting at Scranton with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 3.48 a. in. and New York City at .'villi p. in. 10.10 a. in. weekly for BloomsV>urg,Kingston, Wilkes-Barre Scranton and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 p. B. and connecting there with traln> for V w York City. Philadelphia and Buffalo. 2.i 1 weekly forßloomsburg,Kingston,Wilkes llarre. Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. n -s,|:t p. in daily for Bloomsburg, Espy, Ply mouth. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at pin. and connecting there with t rains arriving at Nt w York City at ti.so a' in., Philadelphia 10 a. m and Buffalo 7a. til. T RAIN 8 A RRIV EAT DAN VILLE. 0.15 a. m week I> front Scranton. Pittston, Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate stn il< ins, ica\ ins Scranton at us a in . where it connects with trains leaving New York City at 11.30 p. m., Philadelphia at 7.02 pin. and Buffalo at 10.30 a in. 12.44 p. m.daily from Scranton, Pittston, Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. m. and connecting there with train leaving Buff alo at 2.25 a. in. 4.33 p. hi weekly from Scranton, Kingston, Berwick. BtoomsDurg and intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton al 1.85 p. m., «lu re it connects with train leaving New York City at l .00 a in., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m. 0.0.") p. m.daily from Scranton. Kingston, Pittston. Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Serai ton at 6.35 p. 111., where it connect* With trains leaving New York City at 1.00 p.m.. Philadelphia at 12.C0 p. in ami Butfolo at 0.30 a. m. T. K CLARKE, Oen'l Sup't. T. W. LKK, Oen. Pass. Agt. I 111 I SIIML fo wait to io at) Ms of Printing | | ! I | WORK! its u. lli Plena. LI'S Ml. •je= 11 ============= —— ' 1 r 1 A well print, tasty, Bill or ] \f/ ter Head, Per. • \)lt Ticket, Circn' t Program, Vl.' *> ment or Card (V ) an advertisemen' for your busir.: as. a satisfaction to you Nei Type, New Presses, ~ Best Paper, Stilled fort, " Promptness- All you can ask* A trial will make you our customer. We respectfully that trial. i" in ii No. II R. Mahoning Si. A.
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