MONTOUR AMERIUAN FRANK C. ANGLE. Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Apr. 12 1900 KILL HAKE COLNT ER PROPOSITION Miners Were Busy Vesterday Preparing It lor Today's Conlerence — Contentions. NEW YORK, April 11.—The count er-propost ion of the operators that the anthracite strike commission consider only two of them tiers' demands, namely, rates of wages and an adjust ment of complaints by the board of conciliation will be rejected by the mine workers in its present form, "lhe counter-proposition of the operators includes many restrictions and lim itations that are altogether objection able to the miners. The miners scale committee met today at the Ashland house to consider this latest reply of tlie operators to the demand tor arbi tration and it was indicated that a counter-proposition will be drafted which will be presented to the oper ators at the joint meeting tomorrow. MINERS WANT SPALDING. The operators say today that the situation is with Mitchell and his men, and upon them depends whether or not there j>eace in the hard coal industry. The miners point- out that the operators, by astute wording that the anthracite commission be required to arbitrate the situation, have lost to the miners one member of the commis sion, who was a great friend ot the mine workers, Bishop Spalding, of Peoria. The bishop lias recently sttl fered severe attacks of paralysis, and is consequently unable to serve. The operators in the counter-proposition state : 9 "The members of the anthracite strike commission, or such ot them as may l>e able and willing to act, shall be requested to decide, etc. '" This clause prevents anyone from serving in Bishop Spalding's place and as the bishop was appointed on the commission by President Roosevelt at Mitchell's request, they think it only fair that the president be asked to ap point someone in his place. This re quest will doubtless be incorporated in the miners' counter-proposition. THINGS MINERS WILL REJECT. The elimination of the miners' de mands to only tlie question of wages and the adjustment of complaints by the board of conciliation will be flat ly rejected by the miners. The mine workers contend that the question of the eight-hour day is one of great im portance to the worker, and the scale committee will insist that this ques tion be submitted to the commission tor arbitration. The mine workers are of the opinion that there must be some modification on the proposition of the j operators that the question of reduc tion of wages should be arbitrated as well as the question of an iucrease. How far the miners will carry their objection to this position of ators that questions of reductions, as well as increases be arbitrated, is not known. Wilcox, of the Delaware and Hudson company,has stated that he is prepared to show that the coal in dustry is in such shape .that the price of fuel should be reduced, and that there should be a decrease in wages. MIME GIFT FOR PASTOR Farewell Gathering lor Re?, and Mrs. S. B. Evans—Presented with Cot Glass Set. A very pleasant gathering of the members of St. Paul's M. E. congrega tion took place Tuesday evening at the home of Rev. and Mrs. S. B. Evans, on West Market street, the occasion be ing in the nature of an informal fare well to the retiring pastor of St. Paul's and his wife. "Appropriate to the event and that Mr. and Mrs. Evans might have some thing to recall at times their Danville friends to their minds, the members liad banded together and secured a farewell gift to be presented on this occasion. The gift was a handsome cut glass water pitcher with six tumblers all on & silver tray. <). R. Schilling, who has been prominently identified with church work at St. Paul's during Mr. Evans pastorate, made the present ation Sour Stomach No appetite, loss ot strength nervous ness. neadache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodoi cures indigestion. This new discov ery reoresents the natural juices of diges tion as they exist in a heaithy stomach, combined with the greateft known tonlo and reconstructive properties Kodol Dys pepsia Cure does not only cure indigestion and dyspepsia, but this fa/nous remedy cures all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. M' S. S Ball, of Rjvenswoo-i W Va.. says:— " I was troubled with sour stomach 112 r twenty years Kodol cured na and we are now jsing It In milk for baby Kodol Digests What You Eat. Bottles only Si 00 Size holdint 2hi times the trts! s'.ie, which sells for 50 cants. Prepa ed by E. O. OeWITT A 00.. OHIOAOO. For sale hv Parties fl (V> The Trout Season. With the opening of the trout season next Monday the fishermen of tins sec tion are getting their paraphernalia readv bent on • uticing the wily trout. The dealers in fishermen's supplies have been busy supplying tackle and the other neoessaries aud the next few days will find the wide-awake angler ready for his first "cast." "Money is the root of all evil." Which probably accounts for much of it being «o dirty. MINOR NATTERS OF INTEREST Pacts and Episodes Caught in Passing and Brielly Related lor Benefit ol News Readers. MILES MURDOCH For several months an article has been going the rounds of the press to the effect that a fortune of *200,000 awaits a former Danville man named Murdock, who cannot be found. The article states that there is uncertainty about the man's first name which is either Amiel, Emille or Albert —that he was born in Massachusetts in 1822, a son of Bartlett and Hannah Mur dock—that those interested in locating him have traced him to Danville, Pa., where in 18(11 he was married to Miss Henrie. It was known that he enlist ed in Brooklyn iu 18K5 and records have been found of his discharge in 1871. After enlistment however all trace of him has been lost. Joseph R. Pat ton and others well re member Murdock when he lived iu Danville These men are able to set tle the question as to his first name, which was "Miles." Murdock was a very gentlemanly and clever man and helil a position in the office of the Montour iron works. While in Dan ville, about IS.Vi, he married Miss Lucretia Henrie, who sometime after ward secured a divorce. mm « GOOD OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT. The Government, report concerning the growing wheat shows a slightly lower average April condition than that of a year ago. At that time the official estimate of the condition per centage was 5)1.6, and that made pub lic yesterday was 89.1. A few states like Kansas, and some of smaller pro ductive capacity, show an appreciable shrinkage, which brings the general average 2..") points below that of last year, although the condition of the crop in some states is higher than it was then. The slight comparative deteriora tion, however, does not indicate an unsatisfactory crop outlook, as the | present condition is unusually high even for April, and has been exceeded but three times in that month during the past fifteen years. The April figures are usually higher than the condition at harvest, but there is margin for some decline from the present high promise without material reduction iu the aggregate yield Unless there shall be serious future impairment of the plant the winter wheat production this year is likely to be as abundant as was that of 1905. mm 112 BUSINESS AND RELIGION. Business principles applied to relig ion are as successful as sound religious principles applied to honest business. In Knoxville, Tennessee, the pastor of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church, at his wits' end to check a falling off in the attendance at his Bible school, recently inserted a page advertisement in a Sunday morning paper inviting vouug men to come to his meetings. The effect was instant aneous. As a result of one insertion of the advertisement the membership of the Bible class increased one-third, and scores who had never heard of it became sufficiently interested to write and inquire concerning the work. The church officials sav that one hundred dollars —the cost of the advertisement —was never sjient more advantageous ly for the cause of religion. « * * AN ALTAR CROSS. H. W. Lewis of Philadelphia lias presented a gilded altar cross to Trin ity Lutheran church of this city. Mr. Lewis is a wealthy man. who has re membered several other churches in this vicinity in the same generous way, among tlieui being the Lutheran church at Selinsgrove. 4 ILL WE ASK IS A TRIAL We know what your derision will be and you, with thousand)* of others, will agree that D-Zerta Jelly is superior In flavor, clearness and delicacy to any jelly dessert you ever used. Dissolve the contents of one package in a pint of lioiling water and set to cool. Every flavor tastes like the fruit itself, and it is so easy to make attractive desserts liy simply adding nuts, fruits, bananas, etc. If D-Zerta Jelly does not please you write us and get your money back. Five fruil flavors—Raspberry. Strawberry. Lemon Orange and Cherry. At grocers. 10 cents. I> ZKKTA. KOCHKSTKK, N. . Auditor's Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas of Mon tour County, No. 2 May Term. 1906. Horace 11 Bennett and Mary E Bennett, his wife et al vs. K. Olive Thompson, Committee of David Wands. Lunatic, et al. The undersigned Auditor, appointed by the Court of Common Pleas to make distribution of the money paid into court in the above stated proceedings to and among the parties legally entitled thereto according to their respective in terests in the said fund: will meet all parties interested for the purposes of his appointment at his oftict on Mill Street in the Borough of Danville, Pennsylva nia on Saturday May •">. 1906 at to o'clock A. M. when and where all parties interested are required to be present or be barred from coining in upon saiil fund 11. M. Hinckley. Auditor SIOO REWARD, SIOO The readers of this paper will be please'' to earn that there is at least one dread' dis ease that science has been able to cure lti ail thejtages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Ca tarr'a Cure is the only positive cure now kno fri to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Mali's Catarrh Dure is taken internally, acting directly up on the blood and mucous surface of the sys m, thereby oestroying the foundation of the disease jnd giving the patient strength by building i>p the constitution and assisting nature in doing the work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any ease tiiat It fj»lls ti 'urc ««o'l for list i Testimonials Hold by lirt.gglsls Hall's Family Pilli. ire t.bi ti«s' ELKS WILL TAKE SNOW BATHS In the Mid-Winter, That's What the Western Fairy Tale Says And 'Tis True. Members of Danville lodge No. 754 B. P. O. E. art' preparing for the Elk reunion to be held in Denver, Colo rado, this summer. A good sized del egation of the local lodge will see the wonders of the west. Snow balls in the slimmer time will be one of the features of the reunion to be held in Denver,next July. Sixty miles from Denver, on the new Moffat road,there are banks of perpetual snow lying beside the tracks, and quantities of this will lie brought down when the great parade is passing through the streets of Denver, and the Elks will learn how it feels to plunge their hands in cooling snow while the -um mer sun is blazing down upon their line of march. The snow that remains in the moun tains f buyers of the Sun day North American for April I~> Nearly all of the article- and pictur - i ti the paper for Easter Sunday breathe th Easter spirit, but the one ilia' will up peal most strongly i- a iian Isome lit ho gravnre of a little girl surrounded by rabbits -the child s Easter auiiu il To give to the artist a full, 'and per fect expression of his work, the printers have done the picture in ten printing getting into the composition every shad ing of color that cm be produced by mechanical means. The result i> a deli cate. finished reproduction, even more attractive than the wonderfully faith fill original. The Gibson picture series will be eon tinned on Sunday. April The circulation of the Sunday North American lui.- increased over ■ !<> Oito copies in the last sixty days Next Smi day will be larger than ever. See your newsdealer and place your order now- Will (io .South. Five hundred men will leave Slia mokin aud Mt. Carniel tliis week fur North Carolina where they %% 111 l>< employed in the construction of !iOO miles of railroad. The wages paid will range between $1.50 and ftt. 00 per day and transportation will he furnished to the point of operation. Tli»? !*«>'• oil '»i Wonlfti. Great ri> !.• . carrying with thc/n enormous Abilities of self indul gence. may f::irly tie considered as a sort of poi- 'ii which ruins a certain proportion of those who are exposed to It. though strong constitutions sur vive. As rum destroys savages, so wealth tends to destroy persons—espe cially young ones, whom use and train ing have not gradually made immune to Its effects How that is may readily be noticed in observing the effects of newly won wealth on the families of the wl'-ncr-: M a r.ir n. n and usu ally one ver.» n.< • Messed in iiis wife, who can combine with the ability that wins him ri'hes the sagacity to train children horn in comparative piverty BO that Ihf.v will benefit by a rapid aud radical improvement in !i - circuni stauc-s -IMivarl S. Martin in Allan tie. Origin of Kalirw. Italic lot! • were first used a boat tee year 1000 bj Vldi Muutiliw, a Wne Uan printer, lie observed tlie many j Inconveniences resulting from the vast number of abbreviations which were | then so fret11 leu; >ng the printers thai a b •<;!; \v,!> iii . i understand. A treati-e ■-i :;«•» j :iii\ . !*iM<•;> on the art of re:»d a p.' .ited book ; el thus addres ed t> the 1 true.! I'y introduc ing the italic letter he c ■ 1 r.• ■ i ail ex pedient by which these abbreviations might be i :tiivly got rid of and yet book's suite ' ' • increase in bulk He dedicated h - invention to the Italian states; ht-ix ■ the name I? hvis also been distinguished by the n'*..o of the Inventor end called the Aldine. The firsi book p" 1 ited in ital s \,a» ;m edi tion of "Vii 1" printed at V» lice by Aldus hi lr.'l #-l i- Hi: i. "Young :. U.i the dignified gentle' »::n i:i black dress, "have you fully coiis? re I the future? Have you made prov ms for the hen-after? Is tt not i ! :i i. • cue moment, please, but are you a tii-acr or n life insurance Ugent?" y . . 'lll.ee Sent tiel. lllkj . j rf-K( ovmiM'iit. In tin days of the ptiwi; German ctco re the que i ■ the second was for ■'< .or »112 n't S e What You Want Ask For It the sin i displayed ovei a grocer's counte And v hen a man went in and asked payment of a bill that had lnen running for six months lie was Ph "vii out through the front door. He is now of opinion that gi tiers are not consistent. ; STATE ANTITOXIN SAVES MANY LIVES i Health Commissioner Dixon's Free Distribution of Antitoxin Greatly Reduces Death Rate Amonjj; Poor Iu Pennsylvania. I EARI.Y USE OF SERUM URGED Dr. Dixon Points Out the Increased Benefit of Using Antitoxin As Soon As Possible After the Onset of the Disease Use Liberally For Im | munizing. The free distribution of Diphtheria Antito:.in inaugurated by Dr. Samuel I CI. Dixon, Commissioner of the new ' State Department of Health, is already i showing a splendid saving of precious I lives. Out of the total number of cases reported to the Department of Health in January in which the free Antitoxin was administered there were so few deaths as to bring the death rate down 1 to 8.8 per cent. This was a reduction i of over 5 per cent, from the December ; figures. This low death rate as shown by the January records means that in stead of about 42 lives being lost out of every hundred cases of Diphtheria, as would be found where Antitoxin is | not used, the disease was able to claim J only about nine victims. It means i that instead of 420 deaths out of every 1000 cases of Diphtheria, the death rate is brought down by the free dis tribution of Antitoxin to 88. Health Commissioner Dixon feels | confident that as the custom of free | distribution of Antitoxin becomes more thoroughly established and the physicians of the State use the serum more promptly after the onset of the disease anil in more liberal doses, the death rate will go far lower. From city, town and country village ' all over the big State of Pennsylvania s the physicians are sending in their re , ports that tell the story of little chil ! dren stricken down by Diphtheria, and ' then ol the arrest of the dread disease ; by the administering of the wonderful | prophylactic—Antitoxin. Dread disease | it hardly need be called any longer, ] for the hand of death that was for merly thought to have the little child surely in its grasp, the moment that I Diphtheria was diagonsed, has now [ lost its power. j At the time that the State Depart ; nient of Health is supplying Yntitoxin ! for curative purposes, it is also fur nishing the rum for immunizing. When the family physician is called into the humble home and reads upon the child's throat the signs that to his practiced eye mean Diphtheria, he I nows also that the little brothers and sisters of the sick child have by this time probably been exposed to thp disease and may be stricken down at any moment N'o need for him to wait and see ii any of these other children develop the symptoms of the disease. He may immediately seeure from the State's free distributing depots suffi cient Antitoxin to immunize every one of the little ones, and the older mem bers of the household, too, who have i been exposed to the infection. It is now th>' aim of the Health Com missioner to impress upon the physi cians ol the State the great import ance of administering the Antitoxin in curative doses as soon as possible at" ter the onset of the disease, and the immunizing doses as soon as It is known that other children of the household have been in any .way ex posed to the disease The importance ) of this early n is shown very clearly I in the clinical reports that the State ■ Department of Health receives in I cases where tlv free Anatoxin ha? been used. The Januan records show in more than one case that it the \nti toxin had been administered earlier, i and in sotm cases more liberally, a life might have been saved, t Dr. Dixon greatly appreciates the co i operation he is g'tting from his fellow 1 physicians thro ivliout the state j n se curing to the p< pie the full benefits i of the free distribution of Diphtheria • Antitoxin. On their part the physicians • are daily telling of th<> benefits exprri > enced by them in their practices. ' • Dr. S. F McDonald, of Lawrence t county, write.- to the commissioner: 112 "I am en. losing clinical report of the household of diphtheria treated with . the department Antitoxin. The results t were very gratifying. 1 feel that the ' furnishing of such for the poor is a ' boon to scientific medicine, a great aid 1 to the physicians of the state, and b \ery much needed charity to the poor." "It was a matter of life or death with his patients." writes Distributor Houck, of Shenandoah, in telling of the rush of a physician to bis depot for the purpose of si ruring a package of Slate's Antitoxin. "1 am sure the Antitoxin has saved the life of the patient," writes Dr. N Ziegenfuss South Bethlehem, on tin bottom of on- of his clinical report.! received by the commissioner. Dr. J. H Tweedle, of Carbon county, tells of being called into a household where six children were down with diphtheria and adds on his report "the children all recovered and are doing well." "Let me express my opinion that this is a Godsend for the poor. The par ents of MY patients send thanks to you and all connected," is the testimony of Dr George ii. Tiobins. of Wyoming county, to the \;tlue of the state's free Antitoxin. At the .00 different points through out the state where II alrh Comrnis' I sloner Dixon Iris established i dejK^ 1 of di-t' i!> 11J'• n there is kept a supply 1 of fr«'sii Antitoxin that drawn ' upon immediately by the physician when' v-i b>- h; a case of diphtheria in a lamih that < annot afford to bear the e\ p. use of the serum. The system of keeping these depots supplied so that no \ doable time may be lost in administering the \ntiloxin, has been carefully worked out by the Depart ment i i It md the commissioner pays high I i.ite to the excellent man ner in vbi. ins distributors have tak en hold nt i ii-ir work and the con fieb i.i ions i are they are showing in keeping their records of the amounts distributed. III A dog I li' iei ollce took exception to Profes- iv Huxley's assertion that 'one ' of the lirist curious peculiarities of the dog mind w i .ts in!' rent snobbish ness. -ib iwu by tiie regard paid to ex ternal respect bility. Tlw dog who barks I'm t a b- will lei a well iln 1 m iii i i'-s hint • ' ■' "'.it <.p position e s:ii,j t l«:it. in i '■ only dogs uf w dres-".| I I us act se. I log : et-tl- me I 1 ■ > lliell II Ig ' k, not .'t I" 1 : :•> 1» 'r.w»us ei ttlied In sleek bn> I' i" | When Luiig Sing Whistled | By CLAUDE PAMARES || lie lit, I t>. I»y L ('. The foreman at the Star ranch bad collie up In tie lov.se in the middle of the aftt ruooti on some erraml, and :»s |u» passed the cook bouse where Lung t ; ing was scouring bis pots and pans lie heanl a sound Ih.it caused him to t-top in his tracks and exclaim: "Well. I'll be banged!" Lung S tig wiis whistling. lie had been cook ;it Star ranch for over a year and bad never been heard to whis tie before.' Indeed, he never hummed, never smiled, never talked unless di rectly spoken to. He was put down as surly and vrm-sgtaincd, but its he was u good cook and a> none of the men eared a copper whether he talked or not lie still held bis place. "What's the matter?" asked Colonel Spear's wife, who was mistress of the ranch, as the foreman finally reached the door. "That heartien back there is wiiis tling." "Well, can't a heathen whistle?" "There is no law against it. but Lung Sing has been here over a year, and this i bis fir t toot. Wonder what has happened to chirk him up?" "I can't say. I had him in here an hour ago and told liini that he'd have to take the backboard tomorrow morning and drive over to Pine Hill to meet Fannie Williams. She's coining onto ftay with us a month or two. you know. They think something is the matter with her lungs, and the doctor has rec ommended this climate. The colonel has got tog • over to Wolf Creek, and, of course, the rest ef you*are busy." "But- but 1 don't like the idea," said the foreman :»s he scratched his head. "Why don't you?" "Because Lung Sing is whistling. When a heathen whistles look out for him." The woman laughed and turned away, and a minute later the foreman was walking off. lie passed the cook house again, and the Chinmau was still whis tling -'oi'tly to himself. "He's nt it again, and I'll bet he's up to some deviltry. I'll t<-11 the lioys to keep it II eye oil liim." As so ei as he b id cooked the men's I»r»«:tkfii.it l i'\t me-: i»g Lung Sing set oul "it his lii m le drixe to the rail roaTl. He v. is gi.< n n any words of caution by the colonels wife, and he promi-ed over again to drive slowly ami bring the girl and her trunk safely to tb • ran it. i 1 is face was as impas sive a . a washboard until be bad left the lionse 11;i'r a nii'e behind him; then be puckered hi.* monvh and began to whistle. |{atween whistles lie grimed am! smiled An hour red a half I t - r he drove up to the liti ie t. 'tin on the plains, and wh»n the ii'.'in i. iiie in his passenger stepped from <■' <• of the parlor ears. Lung Si;:g vol i ! l.er with it grunt. He unit; ■ i i• i i .. she put her bag gage alio it It!.' v; Iti and he put on a blank i id; a* lite station agent said to the girl: "I st'jiM' si' lie's the cook over nt the St filial i ■.>' .d I tn because till the otb.e s v. < ,'c busy." "Oh. I'll <•;;< use biia." laughed the girl lis she settled her elf. Anil next moment Lung Sing was driving awav. It was in .hiiie. and the weather was cool and pleasant, and the girl almost forgot the ia:.'t be..;,'.e her as mile after mile was pas ed. * nt e Or twice she was conseiou that lie was whistling, but as sle> didn't 1 now whether Chiua i men usually whi tied or not site did not give them. '' a < -on 1 thought, i she had l»een Informed by letter that j the drive from the >:i to the riinch I house would no' occupy ov«r two hours at the farthest. That I e.aut her ar rivitl by noon. 11"i* walcii showed her when that hour b d come round, but i she could see r > s.gu of civilization. Iu fact, she saw tlu.t the vehicle had left the road, such its it was, and was pro ceeding over the unmarked plains. "Are wi almost tin re?" she asked as she turned to Lung Sing and spoke for the first time since leaving the station. "Lillo while —lille while," he replied as he stared straight ahead. "But how is it that you are off the road?" "Load alle light." * A minute later the Chinaman was whistling. It wasn't the honest whis tle of an American, but there was something hypicritic: 1 and deceiving about it. The girl had nothing further to say. The man would not have been sent if he hadn't been all right, and if he had left the track it was probably to take :t short cut and reach ihe house all the sooner. It was not until her watch marked 1 o'clock and the vehicle was being driven among the scrub pines and cedars, along a stretch of foothills, that the g !, i turned and seized Lung Sing by the arm and ex claimed : "I know you are not taking me tn the ranch house! What do you mean by this?" "Alle light—it He light," replied the Celestial its lie ht.iTie i the horse for ward. "But it is not aIJ right! Let me nut at once!" He seized her with one hand to hold her in the seat while he guided the horse with the other, but in the strug gle the animal was reined int i n tree, ittiil the vehicle stuck fast. Then Lung Sing developed the p ! : that had been working in bis brain ever since the moment he was told I'iat be must drive over for the visitor. With a fierce scowl on ! face, in his pigeon English lip ordi r< ' the girl to proceed h a ertain direction. For (v rods be, u,d where she had left the bu'-khoard il.ere >.. is a rocky bluff hid den under the cellars and in the bluff a cive ol i .iisidera lde dimensions. I.'pou entering the cave lie tied the girl's hands and feet and then retraced his steps. The vehicle was backed off the brink of i gorge, the harness tiling over it and then ihe man led Ihe horse Into a thicket and cut it-- ihi >at. When he reappeared at the cave he unbound bis victim and la\ d >w non .a fiat stone at the mouth and told her his He bad heard "I brigands and \ioldups and abductions lie bad ab jlueted her and would bold hei captive until Colonel Spent was willing to pome dow u with SO.INIII in cash and promise not to set the law on his trail. He bad been wondering for several years how lie could make a grind coup, but fate bad never aided him before. He knew the Chinese cook at Crescent riinch anil through him could gc pro visions an 1 open communication with the colonel. She would be well treat ed. but she would be held captive ill the c;i\e until results could be brought uhotu. Lung Sing n *ted on bis right side it in I elbow he told bis story. The sun had g M far in the west, and as it siiuUe over the bill forming the roof of the cine it cast shadows down in front, j ,\s the story was finished, and it had j been listened le without a word in re ply, Lung Sua began to whistle. He had brought his plot safely thus far I and felt that he had a right to whistle. t As lie whistled ;i new shadow appeared ; among the shadows. It fell upon the fiat stone iit tiie Chinaman's heels and I was >o clean cut that the girl drew In | her bre.itn at of it. She knew it | for the bead of a great cat. The head j moved to and fro. and the ears worked backwa d and forward, and sill the time the man lying there was whistling to himself. He may have wondered why the captive did not shed tears and ap peal to bis mercy, or he may have men tally praised her for the bold front she put on. She was ready enough to weep, and she would have appealed but for that shadow. It fascinated her anil \ for the time being made her oblivious of her situation. Sometimes it disappear-, ed for ii moment, but always to reap pear ml to seem to grow larger and be come more menacing.« By and by Lung Sing ceased to whistle and said: "I tiie you up again and go away." He had lifted himself off his elbow when there was a scream so fierce that the hills rang, and a tawny body alight ed on the recumbent Chinaman, strug gled with him for a moment, and theu was gone from sight among the cedars. The girl rose up and stared, but Lung Sing was gone as well. The big moun tain lion had carried him off as easily as a cat carries a mouse. "Didn't I tell you?" said the foreman of the Star ranch at midnight that night when the girl had been found wandering on the plains and brought In by a searching party, "it isn't In the nature of a Chinaman to whistle. He .just sulks and grunts. When you find him whistling, look out for him, for there'll be mischief to pay in some shape." Steelynrrin Still Popular. "It beats me," said a clerk iu a hard ware store, "liow the old fashioned steelyards hold their own. I can re member how popular they were with certain farmers' wives when I was a boy in the country and what a delight it was to me to be allowed to try my band at weighing a roll of butter or a bag of wool. But even then the women and children were the only persons who seemed to take much stock in steel yards. The tradesmen who bought our produce very flatly said that the figures represented by steelyards not. only could but did tell lies, and they pro ceedcd to weigh all our stuff over again on scales that were supposed to have the quality of truthfulness. "Fp to the present day steelyards have had the reputation of being unre liable. but in spite of their ill repute people -still buy them. Just why so many householders and tradesmen re tain their fondness for an antiquated style of weighing machine when there are so many new and approved pat terns on the market is a puzzle, but even though mystified we keep a sup ply on hand for the benefit of those who stick to the old way of doing things."— New York Press. Qualified to Practice. When John Hay was crossing the Atlantic in 1S« 1T» on his way to Paris to serve as secretary of legation be told the following anecdote to one of bis fellow travelers: On applying for admission to the bar of Illinois he was summoned to appear before a commit tee of prominent Chicago lawyers to be examined as to his qualifications. He went to the place appointed and found the committee assembled, but for a long time they took no notice of the young candidate, but continued talking vigorously together on various subjects. At last one of the lawyers, turning to him. said: "Mr. Hay, what would you do if a client should come to you with such a case iis this'.-" and proceeded to de scribe very elaborately a complicated legal case. "I should ask for a retaining fee of promptly replied Mr. Hay. "and tell him to call tomorrow." "Mr. Hay. you are admitted," said the gentleman, and with a hearty laugh from .all-present the proceedings closed. Ivnriv He WUH Wor*hipeil. "11l Paris Mr. Whistler and an Eng lish painter got into a very turbulent argument about Velasquez at a studio tea," said an artist. "Mr. Whistler at one point In the argument praised him self extravagantly. The Englishman, listening, sneered, and said nt {he end: •* 'lt's a good thing we can't see our selves as others see us.' " 'lsn't it. though?" said Mr. Whistler. '1 know, in my case. I should grow In tolerably conceited.'" Projjresxtve Matrimony. "You can always tell a young hus band from an old one by the way ho acts when lie goes after a bucket of water," says Fucle Hiram. "Three months married, he swings the pump handle, whistles and casts covert glances iit the house as though some pile were looking at him from the win dow. One year married, he swings the pump handle more slowly, smiles oc casionally and seems to be annoyed be cause the meal is late. Two years mar ried, he looks sour and glum, kicks the cat over the coal house and looks at the house as if lie would like to choke somebody. Three years married, he sits on the doorstep and smokes while his wife works the pump handle."— Kansas City Journal. run riur "Now, Willie," said the boy's mother, "before you goto sleep you must try to recall any little sin you commit ted during the ila\ and be truly sorry for it." "Yes, ma'am," replied Willie. "1 guess 1 was guilty of usury, for ouo thing." "Fsury?" "Yes'in; 1 found a nickel and used it." Philadelphia Press. \ Rule of r.iie. In all the affair- of i c let it be jour great care ml i i . t your mind or olfeial your j : it And this rule, if si rved car* fully in all your deportme.it. will be aie 'y security to you in your und ings. Fpie tetus. Ill»i ;ile. One >' alch set rig' i ' do to set many by One tli t gi.'s wrong may be the means of misle.. 'ing a whole neighborhood, and the same may be said of example. -1 diw in. A 9 W" V-y X\ rf * The greet rof health \ ll TS\-4*C* pjVH M Cf kt °p {he t ,owels regular. i\vers I Is lb . '. \ PT Si Lowell. Mass. Want your moustache or b>\ird gjj j P | jjjj jVj - J QY E a beautiful brown oi rit'JiMack? i 'sc > > i.'.m-.umuMi..- ■ • > -p.. !»,-.-iro«. % To Cure a Cold in One Day In Two Days. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. £<%// ™ ev J*y Seven Million boxes sold in past 12 months. ThlS Signature, «>OX. 4 JC. GIANTS OF THE PAST PREVIOUS AGES SUPPLY US WITH ENORMOUS FOSSIL BONES. I.lzard* I lir«*i- TlmeM flie Slie of lll#* UrKCNI nt and n Turtle* V\ hoNt* LOOKED LIKE H Hot. 'J'lic II f>11« rli h l»le I'luted M/ard. The belief in a race of giants was once almost universal. Even today large skeletons when found are some- | limes reported as being those of giant human beings. This was especially j true of the period abut the tenth and ! eleventh centuries, and in the latter a j most amazing discovery was reported, 1 which threw tin- scientific world of the j time into great excitement. It was said [ that the body of Pallas, the son of Evander. bad la-en discovered beneath the tomb of tin- Emperor Ilenry 111. The bones were euormous and proved to have belonged to a huge fossil ele phant. As late as the fifteenth century a war of words was waged over a find of large bones, one party claiming that they belonged to the giant Teutoboehus. In IK.">7 a giant was discovered in Switzerland. The council of Liu-erne requested a learned scientific man. Pro fessor Felix Plater of Basel, to report upon It.and he not only announced the bones as part of a human giant, but made a complete restoration, showing the man twenty feet high, which the proud cltv adopted as an ancestor In the arms of tbe commonwealth. Unfor tunately for the theory and much to the discomfiture of the people who had raised to a high pinnacle this mighty ancestor. It was found to be the re mains of an elephant. Nearly all the mastodon finds were attributed to giants, but there is no evi dence that a human giant ever existed over eight feet in height, and it Is ex , tremelv doubtful if tills height was | ever attained. 1 Giants other than human are very common in all branches of the animal kingdom—giants in every sense when compared to their pygmy representa tives of today. Some years ago some laborers in the Senalik bills of India ; were engaged upon a government work when they came upon the re tnaius of a turtle that proved beyond question that these animals had their 1 giants in the days of old. The shell which the men exposed might have been used as a shelter for several men, 1 and at first, before its bony nature was observed, it was thought by the natives to be a hut of some kind. For tunately the bones were uninjured, and | tbev were taken out and removed to the British museum, where a complete restoration»of the animal may be seen. The length of the turtle was ten feet, its horizontal circumference twenty ' live feet aud its girth fifteen feet, but it was estimated by scientists that ! this was not an adult and that when ! fully grown this huge creature would ' display a dome-like back eight or uine feet high, giving a total length of twenty feet. Oue of tbe common animals in equa torial South America and in Centra} ! America is tiie lizard iguana, which attains a length of four or five feet 1 and is considered rather large, but 1 it was a pygmy when compared to an 1 ancestor that once wandered over Eng ' land and various portions of the world. ! A number of years ago some working men were excavating aud blasting iu a quarry near Maidstone. England, when some bones were uncovered that caus i ed profound astonishment on the part |of the finders. The skeleton was per feet, and as It was lifted out. bone by bone, their amazement increased, and the news was spread all over the coun try. attracting large numbers of peo ple. When the bones were placed in 1 their proper position they were found to be*the skeleton of a gigantic lizard j that when alive must have beeu three times as bulky as the largest living ele i pliant and stood upon its bind legs like 1 a kangaroo, tearing down branches : from tin- highest trees. Such an aul | Ul al was a slow mover anil sluggish | and must have fallen an easy prey to | tbe human hunters, if they existed. The marine giants were even more bizarre aud remarkable than the laud forms. If we can imagine the little iguana lengthened out to thirty feet, its back spines changed to broad fiullke objects, we form some idea of the ap pearance of one of the small dinosaurs, Stegosaurus ungulatus. one of the most uncanny anil remarkable creatures ever found. It is called the plated lizard, and tbe best skeleton was found on the eastern flank »112 the Rocky mountains. Some of tbe plates with which this ar mored lizard were protected were two or three feet In diameter and the spines over two feet In length. From the fact that the hind iimbs were tbe largest It is evident that this strange creature could lift Itself up and sit like a kan garoo, resting upon its powerful tail, which, with its enormous spines, must have been a "terrible weapon. A giant fiom America had a skull that ineasure.l eight feet in length. Al most over the eyes were two large 1 horns, a third placed over the nose. The ' great length >f the skull was given by ! a huge crest that was protected by a ' ridge of long plates. The mouth of the tiicaratrps 'as protected by a horny beak. In life it must have presented a formidable appearance, with a body : clumsy and low like that of a hippo -1 potamus, n long tail like an alligator's, Its bead calling i<> mind the rhinoceros. This monster was twenty five feet in length and must have beeu one of the strangest njdmals of its time. —London Spectator. <* liiK«« ina Ik. I i» C- Much mystery has iu times past at I tached to the art of glassuiaklng. It ! was formerly the custom for the work men in setting pots iu the glass furnace to protect themselves from the heat by dressing in the skins of wild animals from head to foot To this queer garb were added - , . and thus tbe most bl-b'ous In • '.ing monsters were readi' p.i -unied t> the eye. Sho'\ u '■ ,heinsep is In tbe aeighb.»rht>o.?, '<• • infinite alarm of children, old u i ! oi;.t. «(;• I*. »e|} "I came : c. - that appoint ment ! was • "lIOW 110:1 !V" "I got a di-• p'i • .i;ment Exchange Tt Is A mi--.: tb!e gto live ! ll -U it ;!.e 1 •> »112 a spider.—Rwift PASSENGER TRAIN STRUCK FRFICHT Trallic on S. H. nr Fours —10 a. m. t \. in H-I P-A N S TaSuKs Doctors fin«l A good pivscritvio For Maiik. 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