— A STUPID FELLOW By EDITH M. DOANE Copyright, IWS, by I*. C. Euatmeut The low. rambling farmhouse lately purchased by the Hod and Gun club lay glistening iu the eurly moruiug ntiushine. Long shafts of golden liglit stretched across the leaf screened porch, lu the old fashioned garden at one side huge piueys lifted heavy, dewy heads. A robin's song came from the orchard, and over all brooded the sweet silence of the Berkshire hills. A mischievous little breeze strayed around the corner of the clubhouse, shook the dew from the lilacs, scatter ed the pink petals of an almond bush and with a muddeu little puff tossed the bright hair of the girl who stood ou the clubhouse steps In the flood of sweet June sunshine, her eyes fixed on the distant hills. "The hills, rock ribbed and ancient as the sun." she murmured softly, stretching out her arms with an Im pulsive little gesture. She dropped them suddenly, a quick wave of soft color dyeing her cheeks as she en countered the admiring glance of a slender, dark eyed man who came lazily toward her. "Invoking the poet of these hills?" he said easily. "By the way, what do you say to a little pilgrimage to his •Id home this afternoon? It must be somewhere near here. Perhaps Eller ton will know,"he went on. turning to a tall, broad shouldered young fellow who came toward them across the lawn with long, easy strides. Ilis rod, his long, wet boots and his mud streaked clothing bore mute witness to his re oent occupation. At sight of them he snatched off his cap and waved aloft an adder twig from which glistened the body of a good sized trout. •Three pounds if he's an ounce, Miss Blair," he called, flourishing the branch triumphantly. "The old sinner! I knew I'd fetch him, and in time for your breakfast, too." he went on eagerly. She thanked him in her pretty, gra cious way. smiling into his happy, sun burned face, and. still smiling, her eyes followed the tall, strong figure as he proudly bore his trophy through the garden In search of the cook. Robert I'nderwood, leaning on the veranda railing, had watched the little •cene impatiently. "Poor duffer!" he said aloud. "Pity the fates didn't give the same careful attention to his brains that they did to bis bank account!" The smile faded from the girl's face. "Hardly the remark to expect from his chief friend." she said coldly. He colored with annoyance. "Oh, he's a good fellow," he returned lightly. "Say, Billy," he demanded as Eller ton came again into view, "do you know how far It Is to Bryant's place?" "Bryant?" The blue eyes were dis tinctly puzzled. "What Bryant is that? Not Tom Bryant on our team? I didn't know he had a place near here." "Never heard of a poet named Bry ant, I suppose." Robert returned, with a quick, amused glance at Kathleen, whose eyes were again fixed on the distant hills. Billy's good humored face colored un der Its coat of tan. "Oh. yes; the Thanatopsis' fellow. I'm afraid I don't know much about him," he went on. with an embarrassed little laugh. "I'm hoping to take Miss Blair over this afternoon—that is. if I can find anything to take her in," I'nderwood continued, with calm assumption. "Oh, I say. Miss Blair, I wanted to take you a run over to"— Billy stop ped abruptly, his eyes fixed miserably on the couple above. lie saw Robert Underwood's dark, alert face, the ten der, troubled eyes of the girl standing sweet and gracious beside him, and lu a sudden, unhappy flash of comprehen sion he understood. "And I imagined she might care for such a stupid fel low as I am." he thought bitterly. "Take my car. I shall not be using it." lie said shortly, and. plunging his hands in his pockets, he turned ab ruptly and walked slowly away over ! the dew wet grass. The automobile had been left at the entrance of the quiet, elm shaded ave nue "It would be a desecration," said Kathleen, "to bring it nearer." She and Robert Underwood approached the wide porch of the low. yellow house the poet had loved. Kathleen wandered happily through the quaint, old fash-oned rooms, exam ined the funny little wooden cradle, climbed delightedly to look from the corner window where the boy poet sat when he wrote his first verse. She touched his favorite chair with rever ent fingers, stood with hushed awe in the room where the great man had died and lingered In the narrow path leading to bis daughter's house, where, between walls of birches which, like •11m, white sentinels, clasped leafy protecting arms overhead, the poet had made his daily pilgrimage of love. TTie hush of late afternoon lay over bill and valley and long shadows flick ered through the arching elms when Anally they turned from the old home stead and drove slowly down the wind ing road. T'p and down hill, over bridges spanning tumultuous brooks, past grassy hollows yellow with dande lions, the car sped smoothly on. fol lowing the road in and out beside a noisy little stream. A sharp curve—a warning shriek from the automobile—the wild plunge of a terrified horse—a woman's fright ened scream! "Quick! Jump! Oh. do help them!" erted Kathleen, springing distractedly ♦o Iter feet. But Robert I'nderwood •at motionless. "It is no use." he muttered, pale with fright 'Hie horse plunged wildly toward the Uream, and, sick with horror, Kathleen tlosed her eyes to shut out what must I olio w Another frenzied call for help, an »n*ue.ing cry. a quick parting of the Bluer bushes fringing the opposite bank, and a familiar, mud streaked figure, like a young giant's, plunged knee deep into the stream. A moment, and he had the frenzied horse another breathless moment, and he ami the horse were down side by »lde He was on his feet again quick ly, his powerful shoulders bent for ward. holding the horse with strong young arms and quieting him with low, soothing voice The horse plunged again, reared, then stood still, trern bling. and finally permitted himself, with much shying anil sidling, to be led past the terrifying apparit' n "Don Quixote to the rescue!" called Robert Underwood as Billy turned back after starting the frightened wo men safely on their way. But his voice was unsteady and the hot color stung his face as he caught Billy's scoruful •yes. Very unlike the young man he bad been used to treating with half veiled contempt was this young giant Who walked with calm assurauce to- 1 ward the willow shaded bank where ! Kathleen stood. She smiled a nervous little greeting j as she advanced to meet him with out- ' stretched hand and tender, shining I eyes. "I am so proud of you!" she j said, a little catch in her voice. He took her hands and held them tightly in his own. "You have been I badly frightened." he said, with quick , anxiety, noting her tear stained face, | the tremulous lips, the lashes wet with recent tears. "Because I thought you would be I hurt," she answered softly. In the road behind them Robert Un- I derwood had reseated himself in the car and with assumed nonchalance was ' I rolling a cigarette. Screened by the j sheltering curve, they were alone in J ) the silence of the woods. Half credulous, with eyes radiant j with the dawning light of a great hap- I piness. he searched the sweet, half i averted face. j "Would you have cared?" he whis \ j percd under his breath and then, "I i I thought it was I'nderwood." he added ! ; huskily. I "There was never any one else," she ! answered, and in the silence her words ! came clear and sweet. He drew her j ! closer, and a wave of delicate color ! dyed lier face, but the blue eyes met ! his br-vely. "Never any one but you." she murmured softly. Wliere In llie Soul Locatedt At different periods in history since ; men first became imbued with the idea that human beings were possessed of , souls various ideas have been ad- j vauced as to the exact spot which that ; intangible something claims as its 1 sear. Within the past thousand years reputed authorities oil psychology have located it in widely separated sections of the brain as well as iu several other organs of the body, such as the heart, liver, spleen and spinal cord. About j the year ISSO I>r. A. H. Stevens of j San Francisco gave the world his views on the subject, declaring that he believed it to be situated in that por- ! tion of the brain known to the anato- j mists as the corpus callosum. More ! than 1,500 years before the speculative ■ philosopher above mentioned startled ! the world with his announcement of ; the discovery of the soul's seat it was ' believed in Greece, Rome and Egypt that it was located in the pineal gland j of the brain. This gland is a little sac containing c.alcart?ous grit and for which the physiologists have not dis covered any particular use. The dls cussion of the subject is an interest- | ing one. but it is plain that it is a j matter wholly within the unknowable j and undiscoverable. Even tlie Ilishop SuMperled. Even a bishop shall not be deemed guiltless by the omnipotent housekeep er, according to a story told by an Episcopal clergyman. "We had the bishop coming to spend the night with us a few years ago." | said he,"and the whole house was in j a bustle from the preparations my j housekeeper made. The bishop came and made a pleasant visit. He had to : go away the next morning early. "Soon after he started the housekeep- j or came to me, trouble writ large on her face. " 'Why, what's the matter?' I asked. 'Are you in trouble?' "She confessed that she was. "'What is it?' I asked. "'I mustn't tell you; I can't tell you,' she answered. " 'But I insist on knowing,' I retort ed firmly. ! " Well, said she, 'the bishop left ear- j ly this morning, before most of us got up. and some of the sheets are miss ing.' "—New York Tribune. IlniitlliiiK a Ron Conntrlctor. Snake dealers in South America have i a fine contempt for their squirming and venomous wares, though it is sometimes difficult to induce ship cap tains to carry them as freight. Tho I I snake dealers handle the boa constric- j tor with great deftness. This serpent bites, but his bite is not venomous, so that the chief danger to the handler is from the serpent's enormously pow erful muscles. The dealers have learn- j ed that the boa to be really dangerous j must have a fulcrum iu the shape of I something around which he may coil I ! his tail. The boa is, in fact, a lever in j which the ordinary arrangement is j power, weight, fulcrum. Knowing this, I the dealers drop a soft hat over his head, thrtt he may neither see nor bite, | and then snatch him so suddenly from | his resting place that he has no op- I portunity to brace himself by seizing ! a fixed object with his tail. After that | the essential thing is to see that he j is not brought within distance of any such object. « STEPS TO HEAVEN. The I.rcend of Hovr Mount Oml'a Smlrnuf Was Cat. Mount Oml, on the border between western China and Tibet, baa the long est staircase lu the world. On top of the mountain there stands a Buddhist temple, around which gather some of the holiest traditions of that religion ; and which Is made a Mecca to the Chi- i nese. To facilitate the ascent of Its slippery j sides some 20,000 steps have been cut in the mountain, forming a single 5 flight, up which the pilgrim tolls. Because of its inaccessibility few Eu- J ropeans have ever visited the spot, but | a number of travelers have ascended | the stairway and are positive that It Is no legendary myth. There is a legend that In earlier times | the pilgrim was forced to ascend the mountain without artificial aids until the monks conceived the plan of requir ing every pilgrim who would gain es pecial benefit of his Journey to cut a single step. A PAIR OF RUBBERS. Wear Theiu Ourinif TlmndcrNtorma If Yon Fear I.lk Ii Inl dh The one tiling which a woman most dreads—barring, of course, a mouse uud being out of style—is a thunder shower. Many most estimable wo men of character and force who can lead great crusades and revolutionize society go all to pieces at a clap of thunder, and a good many men, too, for that matter. It Is not agreeable to be struck by lightning. Nor is It at all necessary. There is a sure preventive- as sure as It Is nituple, inexpensive and always accessible—a pair of rubbers. If a wo man will simply put on a pair of rub- I bers when the lightning begins to flash and the thunder to roar and will stand j on the floor so that she touches notb- I ing else she will be as safe as If she were sealed in a glass cage Rubber Is a nonconductor of elec tricity. and If the lightning has togo through a sheet of rubber to get at yon It will leave you alone and take some thing else In other words, when you have on a pair of rubbers and are not In contact with anything you are per fectly Insulated This Is not a theory merely. It Is a fact proved by Innumerable experi ences. A pair of rubbers has saved II many a life iu a thunderstorm I 112 When the Lawyer Came By CARL DAY I ] Copyright, l'.*k>, by E. H. McClure j The village of Hillsdale, containing ' 4thi inhabitants, had a grocery, a post- j ! office, a cooper shop, a blacksmith shop | and a sawmill, but when any of Its , ' people visited other towns they didn't : brag of these tilings If they boasted at all it was of the fact that the village | never had had a lawyer or ;» lawsuit. I Now and then differences of opinion I arose among the villagers, and they al ways went to old Silas Warner to set- ! tie them. He was the "father" of the i village. When he said it was going to j be a hard winter or a hot summer no 1 one thought of doubting his word. He ' was ready with advice to old and young, and no one ever knew him to j say a mean thing about anybody. He j I would hear both sides of a story and j then decide according to his judgment, j ! and it was seldom that his decision j j was appealed from or created hard feelings. Uncle Silas had been fathering Hills dale for twenty years when an event ! happened. A boom struck the town. ! Some one sold his bouse and lot, the j cooper got an order for a hundred bar- j rels all at once, and it was discovered I that the water of a spring emptying j ! into the mill pond was good for sore ! eyes. It wouldn't have been called much of a boom in Kansas, but it was enough to make them hold their breath in Hillsdale, and it led to results. One Of the results was a move to get a law- I yer to come there and open 1111 office, j i"I ain't goiu' to say yes nor no to it," I ' Uncle Silas said when he heard of it, I j "but if we get a lawyer here we can j j look out for mumps and measles to ! ! toiler." i The lawyer came. He was an object j i of curiosity for the first two weeks, 1 and then he was an object of some- I thing else. To do him justice, he was no pettifogger to set neighbors by the j | ears, but the fact that there was a I lawyer in town to be consulted had an ! influence with the villagers, and soon I I most of them discovered chips on their j ! shoulders. The cooper had a plot of ground on which be always raised about fifty | bushels of potatoes. The sawmill man | | had six or eight hogs running at large j that always managed to get in among j the potatoes and reduce the crop by ! ten bushels. Heretofore this matter j had been carried to Uncle Silas for ar- j bitration. He had taken a couple of | days to think it over and then said: "Waal, nayburs. hogs is hogs, and ta- I ters is taters. and it's mighty hard to ; keep 'em apart. Fact is. hogs have got ! to have 'em. I can't say that it was | anybody's fault in this case, but I ' ; guess If the owner of the hogs pays the j owner of the taters about a dollar and ; j a half 110 one will be the wuss off." j That sum had been paid over with- ; out demur, and there never had been a . hard word between the two principals. Things were different now, however. One day the sawmill man got a let j ter from the lawyer demanding $lO damages because his hogs had made their annual raid on the potato patch of the cooper. "Yes, Joe," said the cooper when bis j | neighbor came to see him, "I told the j j lawyer to write you that letter. It's j time you took care o' them blamed 1 hogs o' yours. You've got to pay me : $lO this time." "But you owe me $7 for lumber, Jim." "Then sue for it." "Hanged if I don't! I'll show you that 1 can start just as many lawsuits ; J as you can!" For ten years people had been in the ( [ habit of taking a short cut across Ja- j bez Smith's lots when going to the 1 postoffice, and Jabez had no more j thought of complaining than lie had of ' flying. All of a sudden, however, he ; ! puts up signs of "No Trespass," and j j when the Widow Thompson didn't heed j j them he came outside his gate to meet l her. "See here, widder," he began, "you 1 1 either keep off my land or I'll have you ! up for damages!" | "What's tlie matter of you?" she | asked in surprise. "Waal, I've been picked on and pick- j I ed 011 for the last ten years, and I've ! | stood it jest as long as I'm goin' to. i We've got a lawyer in the town now, you know." "Then you keep your hens out of my ; | garden or you'll bear from that law- > yer! I alius thought you'd be pizen ! mean if you bad a chance, and now I | know it." "Don't use violent language, widder, or the law will make you suffer for it." Horses, cattle and hogs always had been allowed to run at large in Hills j dale, and the citizens were supposed to i protect themselves by keeping their i fences in repair and their gates shut, j It was not long after the arrival of the j j lawyer that a dozen different neighbors ; I were shaking their fists at each other i and threatening lawsuits for damages I done. In the long before, Jonas Bebee had given the village the privilege of ! digging gravel at his banks to fill In tlie mudholes of the three or four streets. I There was 110 sale for It at any price, and the more they dug away his hills { the better for his property, but one day I Jonas rose up at the postoffice to speak. "Gentlemen," he said, "this thing lias been goin' on long enough. It's ridin' a free boss to death. If any more grav el comes out o' my pits it's got to be paid for at a quarter a load." "What's the matter with you, Jo nas?" asked a neighbor. "I've jest woke up to realize that I've got some legal rights in this world, and you hear what I say a liont that gravel. I've made a fool o' myself by givln' rlie t » .11 about a thousand dollars' wutli, but it stops right here!" When one of the fifty hogs running at large g>l under the front steps of Skinner's grocery in the daytime and grunted away it was Skinner's privi lege* to rouse him out with a pole and then bit him with as many clubs as he could. This had e ime to be considered a constitutional privilege, but Skinner •• as to have his eyes opened. < >ne day, .iff tr l iving enjoyed himself with a Ktray hog. the owner of it came along und stopped before the store. "Bv thunder. Skinner," he cried, "if 1 you ever tech that hog o mine agin i I'll give yon a lawsuit bigger'n a j house!" I "W-h-a-i ?" shouted the grocer as he I opened his mouth and eyes iu astonish j 1 incut. I "I'll sue you for damages and then j have you tried for cruelty to animals, j I I want you to understand that there is j such a thing as law in this town now." "Jim. do you menu it?" ; "Of course I mean it." "Then I want you to pay up what ! I you owe." A dozen families iu Hillsdale had family wells that is, wells sunk ou the dividing line and used bv two fum ilies. No one ever bad heard of any ! trouble on this account, but the lawyer i hadn't been in the village a month ! when there was trouble enough over ! the wells alone to keep him busy for days. People charged each other with drawing more than their share of the water and with damaging the pump or bucket, and hot words always led to a threat to begin a lawsuit. It was four miles to the nearest jus tice of the peace, but within three months of the lawyer's coming he had seven lawsuits to his credit and double i that number on the way. Every one j who had one suit seemed to ache for another, and the party who was tieaten I was prompt to take an appeal. The crisis came when Uncle Jerry Thomas, one of the most peaceful men in the world, suddenly decided that the Baptist church, which had bought a piece of land from him, had cheated him and should be sued for a greater | price. That took in everybody who hadn't any lawsuit on hand, and 11 i 11s dale was preparing for a fresh cam paign when the lawyer suddenly disap peared. llis lawbooks and his furni ture were removed at night, and no one knew of his going until next day Then somebody went up to his office to set' about a suit and found this notice tacked on the door: Notice. Gone for good. No matter whore. AM suits dropped. Don't owe any body anything, but I happen to be a law yer with a conscience. Cut out the law and bo back to the old way. And everybody shook hands with ev erybody else and begged pardon and said he was sorry and wouldn't do it again. Miiitli'Mon'a ltu«€-. When Mapleson, the operatic mana ger, was on a tour in Dublin, Miles. Saila and Anna tie Belocca were lu the 1 company, on arriving at the hotel both ladies chose the best suit of rooms lu It, j each saying, "These will do for me." i"I shall have them," said Walla. "I am | prima donna.'* "There are two prima douuas," returned Belocca, "myself ' and Pattl." This began a furious ; quarrel. Mapleson went to the hotel keeper and ascertained that there were some other rooms nearly as good, lie enjoined the man to declare that they were for Lady Spencer, wife of the viceroy, and stand to the state ment. He then called him up and said loudly: "Both these ladies must have equally good rooms. Where are the othersV" "The only others as large are reserved for the Countess Spencer," re turned the hotel keeper. "But we could see them?" exclaimed both sing ers at once. "Oh, yes," said the man, leading the way. Belocca instantly flew upstairs past him into the suit | and, locking the door in their faces, 1 shouted through the keyhole that Lady Spencer must get on as best she could, leaving Mapleson to congratulate him self oti the effect of his stratagem. (ilami lloono. There were whole streets in Tyre en tirely occupied by glass works, and it is stated that the tirst glass houses were erected in Tyre. The glass houses of Alexandria were highly celebrated for the ingenuity and skill of their workmen and the extent of their man ufactures. Layurd, in writing about his discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, says:"ln one chamber were found two entire glass bowls, with fragments of others. These bowls are probably of the same period j,s the small bottle found in the ruins of the northwest palace during the previous excavations and now in the British museum. On this highly In teresting relic is the name of Sargon, , with his title of king of Assyria in I cuneiform characters and the tigure of a lion. We are therefore able to fix its date to the latter part of the seventh century B. It is consequently the most ancient known specimen of trans parent glass." Aii lin pro* enien ton "Lookout." "He's what they call a "crow.'" said a well ii:fr»;-!uc 1 police witness at Brentford <>f i certain youth, explain ing that a "crow" is one who stands on guard while his associates are busy robbing, to vara them of approaching police or i>t!icr undesirables. The word is thieves' si'itig of considerable stand ing. in lSt!2. for instance, the Cornhill Magazine mentioned it as the technical term for a woman who kept such a watch for a burglar. An explanation that at once suggests itself is that this confederate is expected to "crow" or give some such warning noise, but the word may we!! point to some study of natural history in criminal circles. Those familiar "crows" rooks— are ac customed to p ist sentinels to signal the coming of danger.—London Chroni cle Tin- Lnviftli Jcnkln». In October, lssd, a religiously mind ed Buckinghamshire farmer named Jenkins brought Ills firstborn to the parish church to be christened, and this was to be the name: Abel Benja min Caleb Daniel Ezra Felix Gabriel Ilaggal Isaac Jacob Kish Levi Ma noah Nehetniah Obdiah I'eter Quartus Bechab Samuel Tobiali Uzziel Vanlah Word Xystus Zechariah. It will be observed that the naves are all ar ranged in alphabetical order and are as far as p issiide selected from Scrip ture. It was only with the very great est difficulty that the clergyman dis suaded Mr. Jenkins from doing the lasting wrong to his child that he had unwittingly devised, but eventually It was dec,Med to christen the boy simply Abel.—Chandlers' Journal. J J. BROWN TH E EYE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with * i'id artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, llloomsburg, Pa. Fours—lo a. in. t» sp. in. lien KEW! .A. Reliable TIW SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and C«n«ral Jolt Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ran***. Furnaces. «tc. PRICES TBI LOU IST! QIiLITV Tllli BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 118 E. i'RuNT ST. VICTOR HUGO'S HOUSE. He Watt Not Its Owner, and l'nr it Very Good llriihon. The house in which Victor Hugo died lu Parte was In the avenuo which bears his uarna and close to his statue. Arsene Iloussaye In Les Annales says that he never addressed a letter to him iu any other fashion than— To Victor Hugo, At His Avenua. Yet the house Itself had a modest ap pearance. Its chief charms were a beautiful garden, with -great trees and a delightful fountain, and the extraor dinary richness of its furniture. The house did not belong to Victor Hugo. It had been built by the Prin cess de Lurignan, and Hugo finally tried to buy it from the princess. To his amazement she asked £30,000. The lady smiled. "That Is nothing, considering," she remarked pleasantly. "Considering what'/" demanded the still bewildered poet. ••Think, master. This little house has had the incomparable honor of having been lived in by Victor Hugo." The master smiled lu his turn as he replied, this time without a trace of be wilderment : "Ah, madam, you see 1 am not rich enough to have a house which has been lived in by Victor Hugo."—T. IVs Ixm don Weekly. SPORTS OF THE BLIND. Plenty of Aiiiuxenirut For Thane Who Are He re ft of Slight. With closed eyes two young men In the blind asylum were playing chess. The board they played on had the black squares raised and the white ones suukeu, while the black pieces were rough and the white ones smooth. "Give us this handicap on account of our blindness," said one of the young | men, "and we will play as quick and accurate a game of chess as anybody. Give us checkers and a checkerboard constructed on the same plan, and there, too, our playing will equal yours. "I would rather be blind than deaf," he went on. "Blindness doesn't rob you of much. The blind are excellent an glers. They play a good game of eu chre or poker or bridge. They use cards that have embossed pips. "The blind are good runners, good gymnasts. In our last sports the huii j dred yards were done in under twelve I seconds, and on the horizontal and par j allel bars the giant swing, the cork- I screw, the straight arm balance and the finger balance were executed in a way that elid ed salvos of applause."— New Vork Press. Ilarly Ha r tea in SrleH. There were bargain sales even when this country was in its early youth, t but most of the bargains offered were J choice lots of slaves to be disposed of | ;tt the old slave mart that stood at the ! foot of Wall street. In the New York ' Gazette of Dec. 24, 17'i7, one of the | large slave holders makes this an | nouiicemeut: i German Slaves For Sale.—To be dls ' posed of, three German servants, one a baker by trade, one a butcher and the other a laborer. They are Industrious, good nun, whose honesty has been tried, and In y may be had on reasonable terms Inquire of the printer hereof. No Middle Ground. The proprietor of the dry goods store had proposed to the milliner who owned the establishment across the way. "But, Mr. Wrappemup," she said, "I'm not sure that I like you well enough to marry you. Let us be mere ly friends, as heretofore." "We can't. Miss Wribbens," he an swered through his set teeth. "There is no friendship In trade. You will like me well enough to marry me or I'll add h millinery department to mv stock!"— Chicago Tribune. Itranon Kll ooK h. "What: Marry my daughter?" snort ed old (Jotrox. "Why, you roust be dMtltute of nil reason"- "Yes," Interrupted young Poorley. with refreshing candor; "I admit I am destitute, but that very fact is my rea son."— Philadelphia Press. — II The Home Paper ! | of Danville. i Of course you read jif ■ , i 1 | THE PEOPLE'S I KQPULAR 1 APER. Everybody Reads It. i ~ ! I ; Published Every Morning Except * Sunday at i ' No. ii E. Ma ho ng St. | Ii I ' Subscription o cen Week. A SILVER BRIDGE. (lunliit Ceremony That (ioea With m i Hon mania n W eddlng. At Roumanian weddings It Is the cus ' torn at the wedding feast for the 1 groom to receive ids brkle over a i bridge of silver. ' Coins are placed In a double row r | across the table, and over this the bride daintily steps to her husband's waiting arms. The ceremony of laying the bridge la one of the interesting events of the wedding feast following the religious ceremony. When the guests are brought to a proper spirit of festivity by the good cheer at the board a space at the head of the table is cleared and i from a bag are drawn silver coins pro- j cured for the purpose, the proper pro- i vision being t lie production of coins ■ j fresh from the mint. These are laid In a double row across j the table, and when all is ready the father of the groom makes a speech to I his son, admonishing hlui to see that | his bride's way through life Is always with silver A proper response is made, and, mounting a chair, the elder man swings 1 the bride lightly to the table. Carefully avoiding the displacing of a coin (for that would mean bad luck) the girl makes her way across the short sliver pathway and leaps into the arms of her spouse. At wedding feasts where ostentation , Is desired the bridge Is built lengthwise of the table. iv:AUI. Pu ORDER BEAUTY. Artificial \o>e*. >lonlli Former** and Dimple Denier*. The best artificial noses nowadays | are made of papier mache, enameled. I Stub a nose is fastened to a spectacle 1 frame sometimes for the sake of con venience Miid thus may be put on or re j moved at brief notice. There is a patented contrivance, ' somewhat resembling a clothespin, for j a; i > !::;ient to the uose to give to the .organ a proper taper. Another device 112 is supposed to improve the lines of ! the mou'li. Not a few people have no roofs to their mouth-i, having been born with out any. or in other cases having lost them by disease. For such unfortu j nates artificial mouth roofs made of galvanized rubber are furnished. There is .-i patented device for clean ing the tongue, consisting of a knife with i concave edge to which a sort of j sponge brush is attached. When one is not well one's tongue is liable to be disagreeably coated, but the annoy ance may be removed by means of the instrument described. If you desire dimples you may wear I a certain kind of wire mask at night 1 to-which are attached blunt wooden points that may be caused by the help | of screws to press upon the poiuts where the dimples are wanted. Thus I after awhile the dimples are made to ' appear. ; t -I * LIQUID LITIGATION. The Trial l»> Ordeal That I'lndn m L } Place In Peralc. In l'erak lawyers find no business, • for a modified form of trial by ordeal * decides all disputes. Iu place of the legal practitioner the pleader is a na tive boy who Is assigned to one or the , other of the sides and Is given a bam , boo tube In which is sealed the plead , lng of the person or party whom he represents, j When all is ready two stakes are ! driven into the bed of a stream, and i by aid of a bamboo pole the heads of ! the two boys are submerged at the . ■ same time. , By grasping the stakes they are en , abled to remain under water for quite I awhile after their natural inclination . j would bring them to the surface, but at last one of them gives In and, re | leasing his hold of the stake, comes to j the air. j He is immediately seized, and the 1 | tube he holds Is cast aside. The other lad is led ashore, his tube opened, and the document contained therein stands as the decision iu the case.—New York 1 Herald. » r A JAPANESE LEGEND Th« fairl I I h 21 iml tlit* Shinto Shrine :il < hoslii. Most Shinto slirincs In .Inpaii have a ! I story, ll<r<> i otic whlcli is told of the leading shrine of t'hoslii A traveler was entertained in (lie home of a rich man. A daughter of the host fell in love with the traveler, who did not care for her because s he was ugly, lleiug under obligation to the family, lie could not ignore the girl's love, so he told her that he meant to drown hiiftvdf then \t day. She decided to do the samv* a:id did it. The traveler gave u]> the i '.i |f no ever had it. < ae of the >ls changed the girl into a lish, and !o r. ■ day the fishermen of the town ofleii see that particular fish in the wnb-r near their shores. Soiue lie i i .night in the nets, but she i; always reverently returned to the sea. A shrine wii ; erected on the hill nliove the tn-u and dedicated to the memory of (In girl fish. I5ef;»!•<» starling out to sea the fisher men ir > to th : - lirine t<> pray for good luc!:, : ~(1 n their absence the families "•ontiiiiie to in ilce the favor of the god. A .-I i. I.i at si <ir absence of good luck mean that i'v l!sh god has been of fend*'l and i r-t l>c ap]teased by spe cial >lVering - <'lii<-ago News. PANTS AND VESTS. The Ilift'ereiiee llet »v»*en I hem and Trim rr-c icil Wni>lr»al«. \YI y d<» trade jouruais ignore the word "pants." and what is the differ ence between "trowscrs" and "trou sers" and between "vest" and "waist coat V asl- s a correspondent of the Clothier and I'm iiishcr. "Pants" is an abbreviation of "pan taloons," a word foisted upon us by the French, tli mgli possibly derived from the It,:' ;i "pantaleoii." which, according to th«* poet Byron, has an ill defined connect! >n with the Hon of St. Mark's, in Venice. "Trowsers" is old , English modernized into "trousers." 112 which is the proper spelling. "Vest" !is an abbreviation of "vestment." An other poet. Oliver Wendell Holmes, traces it to Londoners in his line which says: The dangerous waistcoat, called by cock neys "vest." Genteel usage declares "pants" to be vulgar, though it and "pantaloons" and "vest" have their place in trade and so receive recognition. We end-the matter with another quotation from Ilolmes: The thins named "pants" in certain docu ments, A word not made for gentlemen, but "gents." KlLLthe couch 1 AND CURE THE LUNGS W,H Dr. King's New Discovery /Consumption Pric# Fun I OUGHSaM 50c &SI.OO VOIDS Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. PENNSYLVANIA 55 Philadelphia Erie Railroad Division. Northern Central Railway Division Schedule in Kfleet Nov. 2t>, XIKC.. Trains leaveSOL'TH DANVILLE as follows: EASTWARD. 7.11 a mi weekdays) for Wilkes Barre. Haz leton and Pottsville and Philadelphia 10.17 a. in (daily) for Wilkes Bane, Hazleton Pottsville. Philadelphia, Mahanov City and Shenandoah. • 2.21 p. in. (weekdays) for Wilkes-Barre. Haz leton and Pottsville. •">.50 p. m. (weekdays) for Wilkes Barre, and Hazleton. Making connection at Wilkes-Barre with I-ehiuh Valley for all points North and South and l>. & H. for Scranton. WESTWARD. 9.00 a. m. (weekdays) for Suubury. Leave Sun bury 9.40 a. in.daily for Lock Haven and intermediate stations. On weekdays for Bellefonte, Tyrone, Clearfield Phillips burg, Pittsburg and the West Leave .Sunbury 9.60 a. m. (weekdays) for Harrisburg and intermediate stations, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 12.10 p. in. weekdays for Sunbury. Leuve Sunbury 12.+S p ni. daily for Buff alo via Emporium and for Erie and in termediate stations. Leave Sunhury 1.13 p. m. weekdays for Emporinm,Beliefonte,Ty rone, Clearfield, Phtiipsburg, Pittsburg,Canandaigua and intermediate stations, Syracuse, Roches ter, Buffalo and Niagara Fails. Leave Sunbury 1.51 p. in. weekdays for Harrisburg and intermediate stations, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington. Buftet Parlor Car to Phil adelphia. Leave Sunbury 3.48 pin. daily for Har risburg, Philadelphia. New York. Balti more and Washington. 4.31 p. in.daily for Sunbury. Leave Sunbury 5.20 p.m. weekdays tor Reuovo, Watkins and intermediate sta tions. Leave Sunbury 5.10 p. ill. dally for Har risburg and intermediate points, Phila delphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 7.81 p. in. weekdays for Sunbury. Leave Sunbury 8.3*1 p.m. daily for Har risburg and all intermediate stations, Philadelphia. New York, Baltimore. Washington. Pullman Sleeping Car from Harrisburg to New York. Leave Suubury 9.53 p. m. Sundays only for Harrisburg and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Harrisburg. 11.30. Leave Sunbury 8.5-1 p. m. Sundays only for Willianisport and intermediate sta t tons. Leave Sunbury '.53 p.m. weekdays for Willianisport and intermediate slat ions Buffet Parlor Car. SH AMOK IN DIVISION, N.C R W. WEEK DAYS. Leave Sunbury »S.lO a. in., 10.10 a. in., 2.10 p. in. 5.35 p. in.for Shamokin and Mt Carmel. I.EWISTI'WN DIVISION. WEEK DAYS. Leave Sunbury 10.00 a. m., 2.05 p. m for Lew istown and Lewistown .1 unction 5.30 p. m.for Selinsgrove. For time tables and further information ap ply to ticket agents VV. W. ATTERBI'RY. J. R. WOOD, Gen'l Manager. Pass. Traffic Mgr GEO. W. BoVD, Gen'l Passenger Agent. T ACKAWANNA RAILROAD U BLOOMSBURG DIVIS'ON Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. lln Effect Jan. 1. 1905. TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE. EASTWARD. 7.07 a. in.daily tor Bloomsbarg, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre ani Scranton. Arriving Scran ton at 9.4'1 a. in . and connecting at Scranton with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 3.18 a. m.and New York city at 8.30 p. in. 10.19 a. in. weekly for Bioomsluirg, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre,Scranton and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 p. in and connect ing there with trains for New York City, Philadelphia and Buffalo. 2.11 weeklj for Bioomsluirg,Kingston,Wilkes Barre, Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at 4..">0 p. n>. 5.43 p. in.daily for Bloomsburg, Espy. Ply mouth. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, | Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving at Scranton at - 2.\p. in.and connecting there ; with trains arriving at New York Ctty at 6.50 a'm., Philadelphia 10 a. m.and Buffalo 7a. m. j TRAINS AKRIVE AT DANVILLE. ! 9.15 a.m. weekly from Scranton. Pittston, | Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate sta- | tions, leaving Scranton at ti.35 a. m , where It j connects with trains leaving New Yora City | at 9.30 p. m., Philadelphia at 7.02 p. m.and Buffalo at lU.XO a. in. 12.44 p. in daily trom Scranton, Pittston, ( Kingston, Berwick, Bloomsburg and internie- j diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a.m. and connecting there with train leaving Bull- ' alo at 2.25 a. ill. 4.33 p. m. weekly from Scranton, Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and Intermediate sta tions, leaving Scranton at 1 55 p. m., where It connects with train leaving New York City at 10.00 a. in., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m 9.05 p. m.daily from Scranton. Kingston, j Pittston. Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme diate stations, leaving Scranton at fi.35 p. in., ! where it connects with trains leaving New j York City at I.oop. m., Philadelphia at 12.60 j p. m.and Butl'olo at 9.30 a. m. T. E. CLARKE. Gen'l Sup't. T. W. USE. <jen. 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