3 n Ojsi THE VOUCH By Robert Jermain Cole Copyright. !>}" Kubj Douglas 1> r= Q Every day when it did not ruin, arid tiometiDK'3 when it did. Tliisbe Latcli wandered off into the woods or down • long the river and came back at night with some added grace from nature's wild treasury. She had run away for rest and health to ihe little parenthesis iu the country that called itself a town. She got a go,>d deal boides these gifts. The two men that were happy enough to live in the same house with Miss Latch were far better aware of her gains than she was herself. Mrs. Redding kept the house. She had only a few guests. Her son Torn protested against those, so far as the principle went. Hut when the practice happened to include lliishe Latch he began to persuade himself that perhaps It was better for his mother to have something that would interest her and keep her from being lonely, as she had been since his father's death. Miss Latch was a schoolteacher, but no one would have detected it—at least by any of the labels that the pictures in the comic papers furnish. Her liair was as r~r d mm IX ONE HAND HE HET.t) A BUNCH OF PAN SIKS. yellow as coru *ilk. Iler eyes were di rect iu their giance, like those of her own school children, and far more dis concerting. Canton Cross, another guest at the house, failed to interest Tom very no ticeably. although Miss Latch appeared to like him. Cross was spending a few weeks in town settling up an estate for which he was counsel. He devoted his evenings to a pretty obvious effort to settle the estate of matrimony so far as Miss Latch aud he were concerned. Every evening after supper the two sat 011 the broad porch while sun set glorilied the valley below them aud twilight crept out of the deepest wood, where it had been lurking and hiding from the sun all day. Tom lieddiug worked iu one of the drug stores of the village. That meant that his evenings went into the drug gist's profits till such time as he could command a store of li s own and hire some other poor soul to work for him. That was the end toward which Tom was slowly advancing, but for the pres ent he was forced to pass out of the door after supper, walk resolutely across the porch to where the more fa vored man and the girl they both want ed sat. and with a brave spontaneous cheerfulness bid them good evening. On two or three occasions Cross had spared him this pain by taking the girl off for a drive. That was worse yet It is true. Tom had his Sundays, but a part of these he always spent with his mother. He felt that Cross was forg ing ahead of Hint in the race. The thing that discouraged Tom most was this. As he walked downtown he thought of the beauty of the long evening that was Just beginning. Having thrilled, him self, under the spell of twilight, he feared its power upon Thisbe Latch. "If that clever chap," thought Tom, "half knows his business and says the right thing and keeps still at the right time, I'm afraid there's no chance for me." Hut it was not his way to be melancholy for long. He vowed if the other man did get her he would at least make a little place for himself in her memory. He thought of her through the day. and every uight he passed her on his way downtown he bad some word commonplace it might be that was charged with Mie day's repressed affec tiou. In the general chat of the table, in the Sunday visits and iu many un considered greetings Miss Latch was ♦ominir to know Tom far better than te realized One nigbt as Tom crossed the porch togo to His work Thislte asked him lightly: "What wonld happen to your old drug store if you should sit here with us awhile? I believe you don't trust anybody but yourself to mix the pre scriptions. You couldn't sit still a whole evening, could you?" "Yes, I could." answered Tom. "I do. anyhow, only you don't see me. I sit right in that chair and listen to ev erything y n say." He pointed to an empty rock r near the one in which Thisb«» sat. A look of amused under standing •••line into her eyes. "So when the charming Miss Ritchie thinks you are serving her an icecream soda It's o "ly an illusion— l mean you, i>t the soda )»u are really here all I -e time?" Tom 11 i idrnl. Mr. Carlton Cross 1 ored. lie was not troubled »vith very mm ii ima nation. Later he had a chance t> continue l is u-couut .1 a very grand r >-eption he had at tended at Rochester Miss Latch heard ihe sound of the yo.uig lawyer's voice, but her thoughts were with the drug clerk. The idea th t he. down at the itore, imagined liiu.->elf iu that partic ular chair fascinated her. She looked at the empty rocker, and as the twi light deepened and th ■ street lamp was lighted she could fancy that the shad ow which the pillar threw on its high back was Tom. Two days later, instead of leaving by the front door, Tom came around from the side of the house. In one hand he beld a little bunch of pansies. lie handed them over the rail of the porch, his hat in his other hand, without a word. "Oil, the beauties! Here's a yellow one with purple eyes and a purple one with yellow eyes," exclaimed Thisbe. When Tom was gone she remembered Ophelia's saying: "Pausies —that's for thoughts." She aHij rviueutbeit-il thut- tin? ytrtit Keats was an apothecary's prentice. The conversation of Carlton Cross be came less anil less interesting. Being 110 lover of flowers himself, it did not occur to him that the little velvet leaves were his rivals. When Tom cauie home that night he found Miss Latch on the porch. She was still holding the pansies In her hands. lie walked to the chair beside her. "I thought you said you were sitting there already,' said Miss Latch, with u touch of mischief. "That doesn't satisfy me any longer," broke out the man impatiently. "That chair can't tell you what 1 think of you. 1 can't tell you myself, but I'll trv. I think you are the loveliest wo man in the world. I can t help lo\ing you." For a long time she was still. Then she began: "If you can't help it, why, then"— She paused, and Tom leaned toward her. His hand covered hers, crushing the flowers. "Thisbe," he pleaded softly, "do you cure for me?" The hand he held answered for her. Tom from his chair and ki-sed the girl ou the lip*. A liltle later he said, "You don't know how much afraid 1 was, sweet heart. to leave you here for those long sunset talks with another man." "You needn't have been," she answer ed happily. "The sunset and the twi light seemed to .belong to you. The more he talked flic more I dreamed of somebody else." Tlie vhnpe of the Enrth. A country schoolmaster was coach ing his pupils for the yearly examina tion, and, having before hint the junior class in geography, he asked: "Can any little boy or girl tell me the shape of the earth?" To this there was no answer. "Oh, dear me," said he."this is sad! Well, I'll give you a token to mind it. What is the shape o' this snuffbox in my hand?" "Square, sir," replied all. "Yes, but on the Sabbath day, whin 1 change nta does, 1 change this snuff box for a round one. W*ill you mind that for a token?" Examination day came, and the class was called. "Can any little boy or girl tell what is the shape of the earth?" Every hand was extended, every head thrown back and every eye Hashed with excitement. One little fellow was singled out with a "You, my little fel low, tell us." "Round on Sundays and square all the rest o' the week!" Wnkinj; Mini I p. Amelia was all sweet, nice and nerv ous, and she said to her sweetheart: "You have been so old a friend I want to tell you something. I am," and she blushed, "I am going to be married." "Wait." he cried hoarsely, "before you go farther hear me! I must .say it, though I haven > right now, but I will have less right later. I love you, I adore you: I have loved you since we were children together. I do not see how I can live and see you the wife of another. But, at least, you will know that I have loved you all these years, and when you hear the wind sigh over my distant grave—of course, that is nonsense"— "Don't take on so, John Henry," she said softly. "I'm going to marry— you!" Then the strong man fainted, and as she bent over him a determined little line showed about her mouth, and she muttered: "1 had to do something to bring him to It." Ffti'thAll In 17rtO. We who complain of ho tps and whip ping t >ps and other games played iu the street*, to the annoyance of foot passengers, may congratulate ourselves that football is no longer to be reck oned with these "In winter," \*e are told by an ohl writer, "football is a useful and charming exercise. It is a leather ball about as big as one's head, filled with wind." We do not know if this description is intended to be hu morous. "This is kicked about from one to an her in the streets by him that can get at it.and that Is all the art of it." concludes this disparaging writer, win thinks so little of our heads and our games. There is an old print extant of football players in the Strand in all in hats, coats and wigs. This sport among the traffic lends a new significance to the words of the Lancashire poet, "To play at log gets, nine I: des or ten pinnes; to try it out at footballe by the shinues."— Lon don Chronicle. The rournfrf of Failure. All honor to the man or woman who knows no such word as defeat, who follows the pathway of a consistent purpose and iy the line of duty, even with the dark shadow of failure ob scuring the way. To have the courage of one's convictions at all times and under all circumstances requires no small degree of character and deter mination. It is better togo down to ultimate overthrew in a cause which one believes to be just and right than to profit by any compromise with con science or suffer the lowering of the moral tone which must come to all who lose the consciousness of adhe rence to their faith rather than wear the laurels of honest defeat. Tlie Dliclmr l.nkf. A Hrltislj government engineer living Iu Bombay asserts that India has the largest artificial fresh water reservoir in the world. He says that In the na tive state of Udaipur, in Rajputana, some thirty tulles south of the city of Udaipur, is the great Jalsamand, tlie Dhebar lake. The dam of this lake was built some '_'<#> years ago by the Maha rana Jai Singh. It covers an area of between twenty-one and twenty-live square mile-'. Its depth at the dam is ninety feet, and its capacity Is esti mated at tr:! «gallons. The Eleven THOIIMAIMI Virgin*. The 11,«hx» virgins mentioned in Cath olic martyr »logy were the virgin train of St. Ursula. While ou their way to France they were driven by adverse winds to Cologne, where they are said to have been murdered by Iluns. Even to this day visitors to Cologne are shown a pile of human skulls and bones heaped up In a wall aud faced with glass. These, the verger asserts, are the relirs of the unfortunate fe males. St. Ursula was a British princess. A Trfiinl Matter. The first slice of goose had been cut, and the minister of the Zlon church looked at it with as keen anticipation as was displayed in the faces around him. "Hat's as line a g lose as I ever saw," Brudder Willi.:: he said to his host. "Where did you get such a flue one?" "Well, now, .Miotah Rawley," said the carver of the goose, with a sudden access of dignity, "wheu you preach a special good, scnuou I uever axes you where you got it. See ins to me dat'a a ' rlv'al matter. tii.vwqy." EAIiLV BOOKMAJ\EIIS THE FINE ART OF THE MONKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. >\rltten am! llluniiiinteil Work# TIIHI Were Mur»ils «»F Skill nnil lniluwt ry—Aiijtlo-Smoii Monkn Orljs inaleil I lie Roman Letter. There is scarcely any error so popu lar, yet so unfounded, as that which Invariably attributes unbounded indo lence to the monastic orders of former days. To them we owe the preserva tion of literature, both in the pains they took to perpetuate history b.> their la bors in transcribing and by their dili gence in the education of youth. In the large monasteries a chamber was always -el apart for writing, al lowing space in the same apartment for other quiet employments also. The transcribers were superintended by the abbot, prior, subprior and precentor of ihe convent and were distinguished by the name of "antiquarii." These in dustrious persons were continually oc cupied in making new eoj ies of old manuscript bt>oks lor the use of other monasteries, and by this means many were educated and our most valuable historical records were preserved. The Anglo-Saxon monks were most celebrated as writers and were the originators of the small romau letter used in modern times. The greatest delicacy and nicety were deemed es sential in the transcribing of books, whether for the purpose of general In struction or for the use of the convents. Careless and illegible writing Is therefore but seldom to be met with among the remains of monastic indus try, and when erasures were made they appear to have been done with the utmost care atul skill. For this purpose the monks used pumice stone, and they were also provided with a puuetorium, or awl, to make the dots and with metal pens for writing until after the seventh century, when quills were brought into use, they being far better than the metal pens then in use. The inks were composed of lamp black soot mixed with water and gum for use upon the vellum, paper not be ing introduced until the tenth century; hence the beautiful distinctness, as well as durability, of very ancient manuscript books. So important was the art of writing in those days that It Is conceded as many as P>o different styles were in vogue among the learn ed. With so many impediments to the multiplication of books as were at tendant upon their slow production in this manner, it is not a matter of sur prise that the monks enjoyed almost a monopoly of this kind of labor, as In truth they were the only body <>f men who could properly conduct It. The expense of preparing books was pro verbially great, and large estates were frequently set apart for the purpose of purchasing them. In addition to the cost of transcribing, the materials of which books were composed were sources of great expense. The leaves in many instances were composed of purple vellum for the purpose of show ing off to more advantage letters of gold and silver. The binding was often very gorgeous, although of rude con struction. The prevailing covering for books was :i rough white sheepskin pasted on a wooden board, with Im mense bosses of brass, but the ex terior of those intended for church service was Inlaid with gold relics or silver embossed on ivory plates. Some books had leaden covers and some had wooden leaves, but even as early as this bindings in velvet with silver clasps and studs were made as pres ents for exalted personages. Illuminating manuscripts was also another occupation of the monks of the middle ages, although not confined to them, for the greatest painters of the day disdained not to contribute to these cumbrous and sometimes confused dec orations. The art of correct drawing and a knowledge of perspective cannot, however, be ascribed to the generality of the fantastic pictures by which illu minated books are adorned. Coloring and gilding appear to have been the chief points to which the attention of the illuminations was directed. The neutral tint was lirst laid on somewhat In the same mode as In the present day, some portions being left untouched in order to be afterward Imbedded In gold and silver. The pictures represented different subjects, according to the na- S ture of the book which they were In tended to embellish. The title on the pages was formed of capital letters of gold and azure mixed. Illuminated pic tures are »112 a dazzling brightness, the white predominating, which, not being 1111 oil color, reflects the rays of light and does not absorb thern. So much custom had the monks In their labors of transcribing and illuminating that they were sometimes obliged to Intro duce hired limners, although contrarv to the monastic rule In general, but such aids were seldom resorted to, the monks being usually the only laborer.. The invention of printing diminished the importance and annihilated the profits of writing, and in 1460 that of engraving -;r>erseled iln> art of illu I initiating.—New York Herald. Antlflpntitaic Trouble. Young Wife (on the honeymoon)— Dearest. I wish you wouldn't be so ex travagant with your money. Husband —Why, love 1 one? Young Wife-He cause you'll ha - e no money left for ali mony if you don't look out!—Yonkers Statesman. IIIM Tnnch. "That pianist has a metallic touch." "I've noticed that. He borrows mon ey of me every time he comes to town." Detroit Free I'ress. The Ksklin sing almost constantly when they are indoors, between tbe <n- Vrvals of >< n'ng and eating. « IM'tll Isis* 0«1<I Join. "Mankind i ■ suspicious," said a chemist of < ie bo nd of health. "Only last week :i wealthy clergyman sent me a piece of pie for analysis. lie suspected th I hi- daughter, a beauti ful and good giil. wanted to put him out of the way. The pie contained, of course, none '-;t t:.. usual ingredients, j "Some people scud me pickles, sauces, I plucking* profitable and widely ad j vertised compositions that they want j to learn how to duplicate and vend ; themselves. | "There isn't a well known patent | medicine that hasn't been submitted i to int* for nnaly-iq twenty or thirty ! times."— New Yor': Press. \ lifrlpr. I In an old black letter translation of I Albert us Magnus the donkey figures In the following extraordinary recipe: | "Take an Adder's skin, and Anrl plg incntum, and grecke pitch of Rcupirl tlcutn, and the waxe of uewe Bees, and j the fat or grease of an Asse, and breake them all, an 1 put them all In a dull seething pat lull of water, and make it to seeth at a glowe tire, aud after let it waxe cold, and make a taper, and ev ery man that shall see light of It shall seeme headles.se." I MAN EATERS IN INDIA. The Sort of Tiffers That Hunt I* or I!uin an Game. The"man eater" is the Jungle night mare of India, and numerous are the theories to account lot' its abnormal appetite Commonly it is said to bo an old tiger which lias found game too ilillicult to bring down, or a sickly tiger winch has resorted toman kill ing In its weakness as the easier meth od. The consensus- of opinion among experienced hunters and observers is, however, that a man eater is an ex cat tie killer which in conflict with herders, who are often quite brave In defense of their cattle, has discovered how much less work it is to kill a man than cattle, for the cattle killer is usually fat and lazy. Nothing has been found, so far as 1 have discover ed, to suggest appetite for human flesh as the impelling motive, or that man eaters reject all flesh not human, or that the cubs of a man killing tl - inherit the man killing propen sity. Mather Is it a case of contempt for man bred of familiarity, and more often the hist lays hold of the tigress, very liki-ly l» .auso in foraging fur her cubs cis she does until they begin to hunt for themselves at seven months) and in their defense she has come more frequently in contact with man, or it may be because the female is more numerous than the male or be cause by nature the slyer and more vicious.—Exchange. WILD DOGS OF ASIA. Fierce Animal* That Purmie and Kill Hear* and Tlifer*. The quality of courage possessed by hunting dogs of Asia appears in a marked difference of habit from that noticeable in all other carnivorous beasts. As a rule, each ferocious ani mal has its natural and favorite prey, which may vary in different localities, but is in each case the easiest and most profitable victim. Tigers, for Instance, are cattle slayers or deer killers, Just ns cattle or deer happen to be most abundant in their district. Leopards prey on goats, sheep and, when they can get them, on tame dogs; wolves oil sheep and cattle, stoats or rabbits and hares, and weasels 011 rats and mice. But, though the Jungles which they visit abound in defenseless animals, the wild dog does not limit his attacks to these. The packs de liberately pur ue ami destroy the black and Himalayan bears and the tigers, affording perhaps the only instance In which one carnivorous species deliber ately sets itself to hunt down and de stroy another. From their rarity, the uninhabited nature of the jungles which they haunt and their habit of hunting at night which a probable suggestion makes the basis of the ear ly legends of the demon hunter and "heliequin" at a time when the "red dogs" still remained In Europe—obser vations of their habits are rare.—Lon don Spectator. * v eitftoii Story. h mi!; < evcusou teil* of a speech he 11): i , :• at .1 gathering of Scotchmen In Sam " I! aid: "I cannot say why we a |rmi to be Scotsmen, but the fa t "I'll <ii- iliat we arc. It Is not that our .a.id is sunny like these trop ical i-les, and Its climate is not even 1,, . : s -.and's history contains lit tle that 1 not disgusting to people of humane feelhig- That long brawl wh: h Is called Scottish history con tains sc .'1 ely one object that Scots have pat n with." The address drew tears to the eyes of a German who had gone to the meeting violently preju diced ;giii t Stevenson. No sooner hatl tins • ;,er tbiishe-1 than the meet- j Ing proceer 1 to clasp hands and sin« "Auld Lang Syne" Few tiii'ii could tell, if they were asked, how t ia' v feet per second they walk The ave: ge man walks four feet a second A dog. on Its ordinary jog. goes . u ht fe< 1 a second. A horre trots twelve fc t a second. A reindeer over the lee mak--* t'venty-six feet. A race horse t ik> s forty three feet. A I sailing s!i!;i makes fourteen feet. - Philadelphia Bulletin. (iiit (lie Thorn. Young Thome (to his ideal) And your name i Ilose? What 11 sweet name l: >se M Hose—l am glad you like It Hut but but Ido not want to be a rose without a Thome. XV) at coald a iv.low say after that? Sin* Knew. F • tli V '".i ' m't know how glad I am t 1 seey >-i. Clara, d< ir. Clara I)ear —Oh, yes, i do. Johnny told me he heard you say you would rather die than see me again Boston Transcript «*on*r tfurnliift l ire. 112" * ■ i'K'j. inn at Slapostones near Osmotherly, England, is a firt which for more than a century hai never been allowed togo out. Tin place Ls a quaint little building, t< I which many visitors resort on account of its never extinguished fire and tin turf cakes baked upon its hearth. It has been kept bv members of one fain ily for over a hundred years. An ICasy Lcmnoii. ''l :! 111 s'ipposi . to die of a broken heart." s.ij.i the unmanageable actress. "Now, how am I to know how a per son with a broken heart behaves?" "1 1! tell yon what to do," answered the ; 1. !u spoken manager. ' You study the author of this play after he sees rrdir nprforn»finc*P of it *' J J. BROWN THE EYE A SPECIALTY Kyes tested, treated, fitted with <lass j «. tnd artificial eyes supplied. Market Street. Bloomsburg, Pa. Hours—lo a. m.to sp. m. 111! EI! A Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting and Ceneral Jot* Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, sto. PRICKS THE LOWEST! QIALITY TUB BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 11« E. FRONT BT. -11 I■ 1 - irr 1 ■ 1 ■ ■ a GETTING OUT OF BED. Tnkp \o«r Time About It an<l Don't Shock Your System. Don't jump up the first thing your eyes fire open. Remember that while you sleep the vital organs are al rest. The vitality is lowered and the circula tion not so strong. A sudden spring out of bed is a shock to these organs, especially to the heart, as it starts to pumping blood suddenly. Take your time in getting up. Yawn and stretch; wpke up slowly; give the vital organs a chance to resume their work gradually. Notice how a baliy wakes up. It stretches Its arms and legs, rul>s its eyes and yawns and wakes up slowly. Watch a kitten wake up. First it stretches out one leg, then another, rubs its face, rolls over and stretches the whole body. The birds do not wake up and fly as soon as their eyes are open. They shake out their wings and stretch their legs, waking tip slowly. This is the natural way to wake up. Don't jump up suddenly, don't be in such a hurry, but stretch and yawn and yawn and stretch. Stretch tho arms and the legs; stretch the whole body. A good yawn aud stretch is bet ter even than a cold bath. It will get you thoroughly awake, and then yuu will enjoy the bath all the more.— Medical Talk. Collar aw »i Verb. The verb "collar" has long been used transitively, meaning to "seize or take hold of a person by the collar; more loosely, to capture." The verb was thus employed early in the seventeenth century. Steele, in the Guardian, No. 84, wrote, "If you advised him not to collar any man." Other instances are: Gentleman's Magazine, 1702. "His lord ship collared the footman who threw it,"and Marryat's sentence in "Peter Simple," "He was collared by two French soldiers." Ttii- LnnK'>l<""" EiiKlixhuiaii. The English seem to unJ enjoy their reputation for stoiidii.v and taciturnity. The London Globe <1 >ies an American asking a waiter lu a res taurant: "Doesn't any one ever laugh here':" "Yes, sir," replied 'lie waiter. "Some times we have complaints about it." An Etrrnol I'uule. "Is my hat "ii straight?" she asked him. lie looked at her headgear in <!um» amazement. "I dunno," he answered. "When It's straight it looks crooked, and when it's crooked it \o )k -traight."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Aeon jr. The Rutler Hand hevery ni;rht at the h >t:r of midnight the gho<t hap pears and groans and wrings its hands. Tourist Ah, must have died in the ru cumber season. I.ondon Tlt-Blts SennltlvnifM of IMnnt*. Darwin g;'ve it as his opinion that some plants can see, and an Indian botanist relates some curious incidents which tend to verify the belief. Ob- , serving one morning that the tendrils of a convolvulus on his veranda had decidedly leaned over toward his leg as he lay In an attitude of repose, be tried a series of experiments with a long pole, placing it In such a position that the leaves would have to turn away from the light in order to reach It. In every case he found that tho tendrils set themselves visibly toward the pole and in a few hours had twined themselves closely around it. Innate Pi-rverifnMt. The neighbors were discussing the peculiarities of an eccentric old resi dent. "I do think," remarked Mrs. Hlgglns, "that old Mr. Tightun Is the contrariest man on the face of the earth." "What's lie doing now?" asked Mrs. Joggins. "Doing? You remember he used to say that when he had accumulated $50,000 lie was going to quit saving money—the old skinflint!—and settle down to the enjoyment of It?" "Yes." "Well, he's actually done it!" i The Home Pupcr i i of Danville. ! Of course yon read jLiiiii.;, }\ p i THE PEOPLE'S 11 kopular I APER. Everybody Reads It. i Published Every Except Sunday : J No. ii E. lAslh ng St. j v II Subscription o ec r Week. A HEROIC BATTLE. •| h»* l.nrm> \\ Jin Hit* Sen, unit the Colored I roojit Won. No engagement of the end war was < in- d on with more leroism and en durance titan that l'"»nglit by the For ty-ninth i nit IMI Stab's colored troops alter hostilii • > were over. The Maga •/.iue of American History contains an ,11. i int of tin- tussle in which the bi.i! k soldiers bore themselves BO brave;... The steamer Merrimae, load- i ed with cotton, left New Orleans for New York carrying, besides her reg ular passengers, thirty officers and 900 colored privates i ir several days all went well. Then Jie vessel sprung aleak, tires were j dampened and the alarm spread. It . was found that the iron supply pipe j through which the water for the con- j denser was taken from the sea was j broke.!, ami the place of leakage could ; uit be reached. The passengers were panic • vi.-.. en. One small, fat < ierman • went about wringing his hands and i crying: "Aeh, we are at the bottom of the : sea! It we gets pack t i New Orleans will dey gif me pack my monish?" The water gained fast. The only hope lay in keeping alloat until a ves sel could be sighted. The colored troops were pressed into service and proved themselves the heroes of the occas. A I;:. • of men was establish- j etl from the hold to the deck, and buck- i ets were passed as rapidly as hands \ cmi l move. On deck another line j stepped back and forth with well trained military tread. The work be low was in >st exhausting. The men at the b ittom could liot hold their posl- ! tion more than three minutes at a time, Thej were blinded and half strangled by the swashing sea water and bruised by the lumps of coal 1 which dashed about. Put no one faltered, and high above tli ■ noise rose the clear, sweet voices of the workers, now singing an army s ing, now a cheery negro melody. The int: • lit- night new hope to the hearts oft! passengers. Ilour after hour the t;:en worked and sang, and the sea , did not gain on them. Tw > days passed, and the drinking wnt • give out. Then they could no lo:;g r sing, and their parched throats | w< ■(■ eased only by a scanty supply of . -.iiiges and lemons, but still they w I; I. On the third day the lights of a sterner were seen only half a mile ai Kit'-;.i ts were sent up, and villi great < tliculty, on account of hr wet ammunition, a gun was flred, tli.' dismay of all. the steamer pass- ! i'd on. ouieklv the s ddlers formed a line once more, and the wearisome la- j bor beg'in again. Afters: \! live hours of bucket pass it:;: a stc; ier T.'.H sighted which re st • ' i t he call for help, and the water! gretl Merrimae was towed into ' harlHf. Tl'.e Men who had sung so cheerily in tl " midst of hard labor and In the face of t.< vh were thoroughly exhausted, but they had not lost their light heart- I ed gayety. Strawlipfrlm, Lord Sefton, the renowned gourmet, was once interrogated as to the best mode of eating strawberries and re plied: "Sprinkle them slightly with powdered white sugar candy and a few drops of Malmsey. Take them after breakfast or for supper or after dinner after a plain biscuit lea." When a onca well known diplomatist attended his fir t garden party after arriving In Lou '.'Hi be wa < shown a dish of straw boni - and cream 'Tourquol falre?" cried lie. e:.olainlng that lie could not bring himself to fancy that the mess was intended for the food of men.— London Truth. Wlsat !s mi EditorT S cue bo sin an English school were asked the oilier day to define "editor." Here are - tme of their definitions: "An ed t ir i< a t . i:: who handles words," An editor makes his living out of the lit!,, ii language." "An editor is some body who does not do anything him self, and when somebody else does g K'S :ind tells oilier people all about it." An editor is a man who lias the indti try of a beaver, the instincts of a bee and the patience of an ass." THE OLD SQUARE PIANO fhe old B'ju;. piu th( e stands; has yellowed tho •>.-v e vh't*; ke>«; In gI i . | | r« That <iii.. luii'l fro!-, it Ki't melodies T!if p' llul r . 'l wli-i dainty f»<-t Wcm pressed in (he dea« old long :.gu; I How tli ushion 's worn on t!i« onee soft seat! Ati. shame on the years to have treatei i It so' I flif old piano thick logg ij and square. What tales it might till if it had ► tongue' flow many u *rian who '.R Kray leaned there On i's h. y jld side v.hen he wa» secrets were toil tc the dear ol* ' thing | By maidens who lons s'tice eeused t' trill! Ron .;'.' still < lings to Its every string. And love ge. Ms to hover around it still Mi. wi-it tt the old, sweet song«. the ain Th,-t Ion;' \cars ago tilled hearts Witt joy is th maiden's father crept down thow stairs To drive away some lingering boy? 1 The old snuari pi. 'O, there it stands: Afrf has : "flowed its once white keys Hark On who played it is using hi» hands On a bell wine „ v tier.t over h»r krea* —("nit.;»jc Hecord-iJer*.d. | Vladou of tlir >l. D. ill# M \ If; 1 w - T -.v,.. /j^Wi !r>f M if ./jp B -ill H sgj. &X .. ; .J" C/iZ Anxious Wife—What do you think ol cy husband's condition? Physician—Ch, he'll pull through ah right. What he needs is rest; so I have prescribed an opiate. Anxious Wife—How often shall 1 give it to himV Physician-Dor.'t give *it to him at »1!; take It jours-lf.—New York Weld KILLTHC COUGH AND CURE THE LUNGS I w ™ Or. King's Nsw Discovery /CONSUMPTION Price PQR I OUGHSand 50c & SI.OO WOLDS Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Care for all j THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, i Philadelphia & Krie Railroad Division. | Northern Central Railway Division. Schedule in Effect Nov. 2fi, 19n.">. Trains leave .SOUTH DANVILLE as follows: EASTWARD. 7.11 a in. (weekdays) for Wilkes Barre. Haz leton and Pottsvllle and Philadelphia 10. 17 a. in.daily; for Wilke« Harre, Ha/.leton Pottsvllle. Phil delphia, Mahanoy City and Shenandoah. 2.21 p. 111. i weekdays) for Witkes-Barre, Haz leton and Pottsvllle. 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 Scran ton. . WESTWARD. 9.m) a. m. (weekdays) for Sunbury. I>eaveSun bury 9.10 a. in.daily for Lock Haven and inter mediate 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. m. weekdays for Sunbury. Leave sunbury 12. is p. m.daily for Bull' alo via Kmporium and for Krie and in termediate stations. Leave Sunbury 1.13 p. m. weekdays for F. mporiu m, Bel lefonte. Tyrone, Clearfield, PiiilipsburgtPittstiurg.Canandaigua and intern.ediate stations, Syracuse, Roches ter. Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Leave Sunbury 1.51 p. m. weekdays for Harrisburg and intermediate stations, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Washington. Bullet Parlor Car to Phil adelphia. Leave Sunbury 8.48 p. ni. daily for Har ris!.urn. Philadelphia. New York, Balti more and Washington. ! 4.31 p. in.daily for Sunbury. Leave Sunbury 5.20 p. m. weekdays lor Renovo, Watkins and intermediate sta tions. Leave Sunbury 5.10 p. m.daily for Har risburg and intermediate points. Phila delphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 7.51 p. m. weekdays for 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 9.58 p. m. Sundays only for Harrisburg and intermediate sta tions, arriving at Harrisburg. 11.80. Leave Sunbury 8.54 p. m. Sundays only for Williamsport and intermediate sta tions. Leave Sunbury 9.53 p.m. weekdays for Williamsport and intermediate stations. Buffet Parlor Car. ■ SHAMOKIN DIVISION, N. C. R. W. WEEK IIAYS. | Leave Sunbury 0.10 a. m., 10.10 a. m., 2.10 p. in. 5.35 p. m.for Shainokln and Mt Carmel. LEW IST( >\YN DIVISH »N. WEEK DAYS. Leave Sunbury 10.00 a. m., 2.05 p. in. fur Lew islown and Lewistown .lunetion. 5..10 p. in.for Selinsgrove. For time tables and further information ap | ply to ticket agi nts. W. W. ATTEKBI'RY, .1 It. WO('D' (ien'l Manager. Pass. Traffic Mer j GKO. W. BOYD,Gen'l Passenger Agent- Philadelphia and Reading Railway IN EFFECT DEC. 3rd. 1905, TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE lor PhiladelphiaT.sß,ll.23 -i. m.and 3.58 p. m. For New York 7.58, 11.38 a. m.and 3.56 p. m ! For • atawlssa 11.28 a. m.and 085 p. m. ! For Bloonisburg 11.23 a. m and 6.85 p. m. I For Milton 7.53 a, m.and 3.5H p. ni. i For Williamsport 7.53 a. m.and 8.56 p. m. TRAINS FOR DANVILLE. I Leave Philadelphia 10.21 a. m. I Leave Williamsport 10:00 a. m„ 4:30 p. m. I Leave Milton 10 37 a. in.. 5:19 p. m. j Leave Bloomsburg 7:37 a. m.. 3'38 p. m. 1 Leave Catawlssa 710 a. m., BS6 p. 111 1 A last express train from Reading Terminal i Philadelphia to New York every hour from 7.00 a. m.to 7.00 p.m. Same service retnrn i Ing. ATLANTIC CITY R. K. *' rom Chestnut Street Ferrv. 1 For South Street see Time tables . WEEK DAYS. ATLANTIC CITY—7.BO a. m. Lei. 9.00 a. m. | Exp 11.20 a. m Exp. '.'.00 p m. Eip 4.00 p. ru. \ Hp 60 minutes. 6.00 p m Lcl. 7.10 p. m. Exp 1 SEA ISLE CITY.-8.50a.m. ' APE MAY >■ nd OCEAN CITY—B.SO a m. I 4.15 p. ni.,0.00 p. ni. SUNDAYS ATLANTIC CITY.—B.' oa. m. Lcl. 9 00a. n. y Xp. 10.(0 a. m. E.\p. 5.00 p. ni. Lei. 7.15 p. in. j Exp. C \PF MAY, OCEAN CITY and *F,A ISLK i CITY 8.46 a. in. Union Transfer Company will rail for and epnek baggage troni h<oels*anti r»* identes. • For time table* and further information apPC tx> ticket ivKvso. I X. T. DICE. EDWJN i l Buyt. tiea l I'alH'. 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