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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 <lnriug the summer does not
easily melt w hen taken to a lower al
titude. It exists two miles above iln
sea level all summer long, and a- Den
ver is one mile above the tide, there
is plenty of snow to turn the great re
union of the Elks into a unique festiv
al. The Moffat Road is being built
from Denver to Salt Lake City, Utah,
and is now in process of construction,
and this is the tirst time it has been
possible to bring snow down to Denver
for the purpose of astonishing crowds
ot visitors who come from where the
snow vanishes as soon as the breath of
April touches it.
JN EiSTEB PICTURE
OF HIGHEST DEBIT
Lithogravure in Ten Print
ings With the North
American,
An Easter picture that tits the invasion
is one of the timely features provided
for the delectation <>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 <II as to how
the kaiser's t tie should r i divided the
court Into three section One division
favored • C nan emp >i ■ the second
was for ■'< .or »112 <!e:-m my." while
the third v bed It to lie "emperor of
the Cerin,.!! ." I'.lsmarck. who was
present nt • Rtich discussion, looked
up from a i.•! "What's the latin !'■ «r
eauji.ige'r" I. ■ a«ke-l ••Fare' , neu;um."
said on»- * i'areirnen." s : |jd another
Bismarck • led Rignificaotly as here
plied. ' I'a: i en turn or farclmen, it i*
all the same to me."
t ncon*i*l«Mi t.
"If You |i >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.
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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. <S W. Division o! Penn
sy Tied up by a Rear End Col
lision Above Nescopeck.
The uoou Pennsylvania passenger
train from W ilkes-Barre arrived an
hour latr owing to a wreck at Retreat
siding, just above Nescopeck, wJiicli
occurred at 8:30 o'clock yesterdav
morning.
Tlie passenger train leaving South
Dauville lor Wilkes-Barre at 7:11 ran
into the rear end of a freight traiu at
the Nescopeck siding through some
misunderstanding of signals. The
engine of the passenger aud the ca
boose of tin- freight train were both
badly smashed up, both crews as well
|as the passengers oil the traiu all es
caped uninjured. Some of the freight
crew were in the caboose as the pass
enger approached, aud seciug that a
collision was imminent they Jumped
to safety, just iu time to be saved
from being crushed with the car.
The wrecking car was soon on the
scene, and after two hours' labor the
track was cleared, but it was several
hours more before traffic could be re
stored.
Dance on Easter Holiday.
The annual Easter Monday dance
will take place this year as usual at
the armory. Music by a seven-piece
orchestra.
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor
, |L ~ l . and cheerfulness soon
L r disappear v/nen the kid-
VIL- ne y s are out order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
•yl * become so prevalent
/W*; y that it is not uncommon
S/fK / jj for a child to be born
/ / a^' wea k kid
\ ][=- neys. If the child urin
ates too often, if the
urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the passage, it is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting, depend upon it.the cause of
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as
most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made mis
erable with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp=Root is soon realized. It is sold
by druggists, in fifty-
cent and one dollar
sizes. You may have
sample bottle by mail
free, aiso pamphlet tell- Home of swamp-Root.
ing all about it. including many of tht
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y.. be sure antf
mention this paper.
Don't make any mistake, but remem
ber tbe name, Swi.np-Root. Dr. Kil
mer's Swamp-Root, and tbe adriiv.-
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Executors' Notice.
Estate of Jacob Brobst, late of the
Township of West Hemlock, iu the
County of Montour aud State of
Pennsylvania, deceased.
* Notice is herein given that letters
testamentary on the above estate have
been granted to the undersigned. All
persons indebted to the said estate un
required to make payment, and those
having claims or demands against the
saiil estate,will make known the same
without delay to
WM. J. BROBST,
MARY ELLEN KNolUl,
Executors of Jacob Brobst. deceased
P. t). Address, Bloonisburg, Fa
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i Counsel.
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For Maiik.
The 5-cent packet is enough t'<>; usual
occasions '! he fan i y bottle (<>" cents)
contain* a supply for a year. All drug
gists sell tbein.
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Philadelphia, Pa.
Three minutes walk fioni the Head
ing Terminal. Five minutes walk from
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