FOR PURE WATERS AND BETTER HEALTH Health Commissioner Dixon's Great Task K to Reclaim the Waters ol the State From Pollution. THE DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE lamt»ry Engineering Division of the Department of Health Is Teaching Municipalities Efficient and Economical Methods of Drainage. A lamentable and tremendous amount ol needless suffering sickness, evpense and death annually result tioni the wantou pollution of the cream- of Pennsylvania among those individuals dependent upon these wurto of supply for drinking water. Hundreds of communities hang iu the Uaiaui* and at any time may have an epidemic of typhoid fever stalking through their midst and decimating their numbers Hundreds of the young and best lues of the commonwealth aie annually sacrificed to the unsani tary imivuin of sewage disposal. Pol- SOB material of human origin from public and private institutions, sewers and privies are emptied into streams ai paints but short distances above wa *er aoiks intakes, and iu a few- hours the:eafter a « delivered through the • ater pipes oi p. 1 l»t 1 • systems to many iunocent and unsuspecting individuals, who rest secure in the belief that the pistil a itaorities. having in charge the furnishing of drinking water, and • a: o i.>:!•!• :oi the purity of tbe *a?er th'is supplied, are faithfully iertoiming their obligations. Publu and private corporations, howevex • vi n when earnestly inclined, ate ofteu limited in their powers to p. event sewage contamination of the source* o; water supply. After y> ar- of affliction, and at a terrifl<- co-,! :n human life, it has finally :awn-d poti the people that a higher authority than the municipality must l il'ple » the problem and afford a xciuedy 1; therefore, of interest ; ,u every «ic.zen of the commonwealth lu acow attotii t'.ie work that Health • ommlsifiont r Dixon is doing to pre **rve the purity of the waters of the i fate in fulfillment of the duty laid ipou him iv the ait of April 22, iso; l'lie enorn: ty of the task Is com jirebende.i when one realizes tho fact thai almost wiihoiit an exception *•»«!> city borough and municipality n IVnii-' vauia having a sewer sys tem dis' ba ,e« Its tilth into the most ul enieii nearby stream, regardless ut conseq 'aces to the user of that, atreain at some point below. Further. where there are no sew fit pnv.es are almost universally lo < ated on or near the banks 01' natural water courses, which thus serve as opeu sewers. By no known mathe- j maths is !t poMfble to coapirte the 1 extent of evil, the misery, expense.l poverty, lifelong suffering and death j wtih h this custom entails; but It is a tact that a laige amount ol it all would b« driven from the state if sanitary j methods of sewage disposal were adopted It la the privilege, as well as the d4ly. of tne Stat. Health Commission ci to bting about ju.-t this result. No »hott sighted vacillating and radical 1 poli'V cmM be laccmful iu such a : great undertaking It will necessarily b« the work of years to undo the cus- j turns of generations and establish uni veiaal healt.ii.il conditions. Its sue-! 1 e*s> iu a measure depends upon the enlightenment and co-operation of the ' people The stupidity and skepticism ' of a pn-ot' upied and selfish |>opulace ! !s a barrier to quick results. Where ihe publi< cons< ien« e Is quickened, voluntary retorms will be inaugurated and Iteueflts will be at once secured. ! In other < as 1 s the law will have to be Invoked and enforced. The Chief Engineer of the Depart ment. F Herbert Snow, and his assis tants are now traversing every part of the S'ate. making examinations of ■ewetage systems and water supplies,' and -olle.. riant feature of the 1 ounisMonei - work is appealing to I the muni' Ipalities namely, the utiliz ing free ost to them of the services of The mj ■ Bg fefMtMßl in con- ' •ultation and advice respecting the in- ] *est engi- \ neering advice pio< arable. which has already res ul t< d in saving to munici palities Ui_e -urns of money by ob viating 'os»u mistakes In carrying «.'it the £. r.eral advice and suggestions of the Mate department the nmni< ipal ltie« n. >*-t employ theji own engineers, but tw-fnre plan- are finally adopted they pa-' for approval to the health oummissionei Dt Dixon confidently asserts thai through his engineering division tie will save to the munici palities in the state hundreds of thou- I kanda of dollar and at the same time work with 'he kml authorities In car- . ryiug out ha al Improvements. %11 l-!|tl 1 n tib. , lu tiieuMrr of out f;itl»er Gone to ( Join his appendix, his ton-Ms his olfae- tory nerve, his kidney, his eardrum , and a leg prematurely removed l»y a t.os|ittnl whii era veil the evpe I rlen«>- WwstMiy's Magazine If tun reMilvc to do widely and you \IU never do r'.g'j* ! ituskiii . ' 1 1 Iv mwwtiww ( j! BY THE I! "MONKEY" | DRILL B , Michael James < [ 1 ' Copyright. laf»>, by liuby Dougla-s | "But there Isn't room for all seven of us In the wagon box," said Clement when Hex Burgess had Invited the par ty to "pile lu." "Oh, ti or in ley can ride on the front *«-at with the driver," lturgess had re plied lightly enough, though Gormley felt the undercurrent of malice lu his voice, "up near the horses. Thee© gal laut cavalrymen like to be about horses, you know." A January thaw had left the clay roads liquid, but a hard freeze follow ing had reduced them to smooth Iron, and the rumble of the wagon on the hard surface echoed far through the breathless, glittering cold of the tnoon llsrht. li was the night of the Grangers' party at .Merritield town hall, five miles from Slocum, and a week before Bur gess had Invited a half dozen young people of Slocum to attend, riding over in his sleigh. The thaw had necessi tated the change from sleigh to wagou. "I wish I hadn't come, 1 wish I hadn't come," beat Incessantly in ! Gormley's brain to the steady clop-clop of the horses' feet. "I had no business to do it. Burgess is a boor. He never forgets bis money nor remembers his manners. What got Into me, I won der"'" aud much more of the same sort of self deception, for Gormley knew perfectly why he was braving the nip plug cold aud Burgess' thrusts. Noth : lug but suddeu death could have kept him away. Sylvia Ornish was there. But the joy of being near her was dashed by the thought that Burgess was nearer still beside her. In fact. ' To secure that coveted place their host had boldly ordered his rival to the ! front seat. Any man with red blood lu his veins could scarcely blame Burgess for his maneuvering. The girl was a bewitch ing little figure, muffled lu furs, a co quettish red tam o'-shanter setting off her piquant face and mischievous eyes. Burgess had never seen her look pret tier, and he glowed with satisfaction at his neat disposal, for the drive at lesst, of his rival. Meanwhile the sweet tempered Gorm ley. by nature almost too submissive, was near to being roused. He was lashing himself tu bitterness of spirit. It liad always been so. Fate had mado him the football of Kex Burgess, even In schooldays. Burgess was big aud brave aud handsome, while he was slight aud pale faced. The boys had nicknamed < iorniley "'Molly" because | he had once fainted at the sight of blood. Burgess' father was the wealth iest man in Slocum, and every cent of the money would oue day belong to Hex, for he was the only child. Hegardless of the merry chatter and the snatches ol' song from the others, Gormley plunged deeper Into his niel ancholy reflections. He, puny clerk lu a dry goods store, to aspire to Sylvia Gerrish's love against one so favored of gods and men as Burgess! His cheeks burned, too. when he thought of the other's contemptuous reference to "cavalrymen." Frankly, | he admitted. It was ridiculous that he, "Molly" Gormley, should have martial aspirations. Vet when the state mili tary board had offered Slocum the equipment for a troop of cavalry for the national guard Gormley had been unanimously chosen captain. And he was the man for the place. He could | ride. It had always )>eeu the sport In 1 which lie excelled. He knew the"mon- ' key" drill of the United States cavalry as he knew the alphabet. They talk of Cossacks aud Bedouin '■ Arabs and Indians aud the way these ( savages handle a horse, but the man who follows the yellow guidon Is a lit tie the best horseman of them all. Aud Captain "Molly" Gormley, Troop A, First cavalry, stale troops, rode like a regular whether In the saddle, bare backed over the hurdles or standing, each foot planted firmly on the back of a galloping horse. Besides the first qualification of a cavalryman he had the other requisite for an officer, the gift of command, aud eveu West Point cau't touch that. So despite the fact that his body quailed at the sight of blood Gormley's spirit sang with the notes of the bugle when Troop A, two long straight lines of men and horrJes moving fieautifullv In unison, passed In review at camp. The thought of his creation—he had made Troop A the pride of the national guard In the two years it had been or ganized—gradually lightened the glooui which had overspread (Jormley's spir its. He reflected with considerable com fort that Burgess could not ride well. Ihe big fellow did not understand horses and feared them. The bully In him crept out. too. on horseback. lie thought it merely discipline to Jerk the head of his mount cruelly aud without reason Burgess was not a member of Troop A Maybe this fling at "cavalry men" had been due to envy. Even the possibility that Burgess en vied him w: 1 s balm to Gormley's sore heart. And if he could only plan It so ns to sit by Sylvia on the homeward Journey now his cup of Joy would be full. It was a mighty hound from the depths of despair almost to the pinna cle of Miss in one short half hour, but Gormley was young, and youth has hope for a heritage. Insensibly the young man was at tracted by the beauty of the night. The burnished utooii glistened on mil lions of tin) floating frost crystals tlu til they sparkleil like diamond dust. To the westward the black roadway unrolled I "fore them like a velvet ribbon Bt iver . reek crossed beneAih It 1 hundred yards away. From the lowland bordering the creek the road hi l 1. mi graded to a height of fifty feet an• .11 wool rose from the swampy low gr nil.l and roiled in noiseless bil low - t • the height of the road. The 1 • 1 ■ of tin clattering wagon and it- o • '.pan s into this heaving white ! silence seemed almost uncanny. It ! was is a ..1 which might rise and engulf tliem. The other-; were similarly Impressed, I it would tin for the talk was some what quieter The team after three miles of brisk movement was getting warmed up and danced spiritedly. The 1 driver tick a fresh grip of the reins, for careful work was needed, especial ly at night in crossing Beaver creek flats H,. puiieil strongly to bring the | horses to it walk, then lunged* back | ward suddenly The right rein had broken near his hand. ' What followed for the first paralyzed moment was like a scene from a horrid dream to Gormley There was a con fusion of sho.its and shrieks from the wagon box behind. The horses were crowded to the left of the road by the pull of the one souiffl rein, to which the driver still clung stupidly. They plunged Into the railing; It cracked, then gave way beneath their weight. The nigh horse was partially off the road, scrambling desperately with Its hind foot on the treacherous side of the embankment. A*id still the relentless relu, dragging at the frenzied animals' bits, Impelled I hem over the edge of the road. In a tiash Gormley saw the only course that would save them, the girl he loved and the others. There was no time to get down and reach the bits, lie might save himself by jump lug. but Sylvia, wedged In the box, would be rolling over and over to pit eons disfigurement or death. "Drop It!" he shouted fiercely at the driver, and the latter instinctively loosened his grasp on the line. Gormley scrambled over the foot board and onto the tongue of the wagon. He threw himself astride the off horse A well directed lunge with j his right hand secured the broken relu, and the same movement wrenched the . j animal's head sharply to the right Leaning far out, he seized the other i struggling animal by the bits with ills i left hand and pulled with all his ! strength. The hoofs of the frantic 1 horse striii \ tire from the embank 1 inent edge. lor an instant the whole | outfit trembled toward destruction, but the pull to the right never slackened, ; the ni_h horse secured a foothold at last, and the danger was over. "How did you ever think so quick-j ivV" ; -Ueil t: 1' 1 Parker when the ex cite e.it hid died down a little and the r.' :t w.. ''ciag mended. •it wasn't thought at all; just in- j i sfinct." replied Gormley. "Yon see, j the trick of riding one horse bareback j and guiding another is part of the cav alry •tnoiikc;.' drill 1 learned It years ago wli.'ii I was a l»oy." Burgess holds i 1 •inent in bitter hat- | red sine • that night, for it was Clement i who Insisted on changing seats with j Gormley. and that brought Gormley i Into a place beside Miss Gerrish. The engagement was announced ne\t day, all as a result of the ride home after : the dance. The betrothal kiss, given when the waning moon was smothered by a i cloud, was doubly sweet to Gormley, j for Burgess was scarce a vanl aw.av. I Tin" Art of Miinaie. The slab upon which the mosaic is made Is generally of travertine or ti burtiue stones connected together by- Iron clamps. Fpon the surface of this a mastic or cementing paste Is gradu ally spread as the progress of the work 1 requires it. which forms the adhesive j ground or bed upon which the mosaic : Is laid. The mastic is composed of fine lime front burnt marble and finely powdered travertine stone mixed to the consistence of a paste with linseed oil. | Into this paste are fixed the "smalts" of which the mosaic picture Is formed. They are a mixed species of opaque j vitrified glass, partaking of the nature of stone and glass and composed of a variety of minerals and materials, col ored for the most part with different metallic oxides. Of these 110 fewer than I,7'MJ different shades are In use. They are manufactured in Home in the form of long, slender roils, like wires of various degrees of thickness, and are cut Into pieces of the requisite sizes, from the smallest pin point to an inch. When the picture is completely finished und the cement thoroughly dried it is highly polished. Chambers' Journal Had >'<» Terror*. A young minister settled over a small country parish was Instructed by Ids parishioners to procure a piano for 1 their use. He did so. telling the dealer j to charge the bill for rental to the sec ' retary of the parish. When the bill uuiountcd to the society being uu- I : able to pay It as well as the swlary of | the pastor, the music dealer dunned I the minister for the money, telling him thut he assumed the responsibility. The latter replied that he never assum ed the responsibility of another, hav ing all he could do to pay his own bills, whereupon the dealer threatened to sue him. A short time after our friend receiv ed a letter from 11 New York collection agency, to which as well as several fol lowing he paid no attention, until the following short but definite letter came: Dear Sir—Unless you remit ut oncn we shall publish >ou uil over the country as a delinquent debtor. To which he replied: Gentlemen Fver since I entered tha ministry 1 h iv> been struggling for the title of P. l> Co ahead OUR LANGUAGE UNIFORM, j While (>real Hrllaln, For Inntanve, M«> Vlnuj Different I.an KUitKea. It lias been observed that the lan guage spoken in the United States Is remarkably uniform. True, there are : many dialects, but Great Britain, less j In area than any oue of half a dozen of our states, contains such very differ ent languages ns English, Welsh and the Gaelic of the Scottish highlands, to say nothing of the provincial dialects of Cornwall and Yorkshire aud the unique speech of the I,ondon cockney, while In this country, with its vast ex panse of territory, its settlement by j Spanish. French, Dutch and Swedish colonists ami Its millions of immigrants drawn from nearly every country, large and small, all over the world, there Is j far greater uniformity of speech than lu any other land of equal area and ; population. The causes can be readily seen. The public schools have made us a nation | of readers, and the press has supplied books and papers without limit. Press associations have done llieir part to ward giving a uniform and fairly good tone to the newspaper language of the day. The telegraph, the telephone and j cheap postage have brought distant \ parts of the country into quick and I easy communication, and so have aid-| ed in teaching a common language, j The railroad has penetrated every cor ■ ner of the laud and made us a nation j of travelers Countless human shut-I ties thus are thrown daily across the land in every direction, carrying with them the threads of thought and speed) and doing their part to make one pat j tern of the w hole. No doubt our maps, I which stiil present so many different I kimN of names, will iu time lose the | ( strangeness aud the "foreign air" that ! i are so noticeable now. 11. M. Kingcry ; iu St. Nicholas. lie -.ftioe sure. A story C t'dd of tic Sud 11 rail j way vv hi.ii -h . s pa tii nl I 1 | To an official there came ih * from 1111 i».i.;ying station S u master h,, di-d Shall I bit h The reply was ~-eiit "V>-s; bar) s[. 1 tlon ma ier 111:t pl.a en ! i in Is really dead before )..n so.** In j due time back came the u>**BHage: I "Have i.:.. .e,! station 11 n ter x ! n't* sure he v . . t I b\ hii 1 ag him t • on the lea ! v ifh a li !i 'a! • " There was perf.- t nsjiiiarice that there l ad been ICJ I lei .1 i hurl:. I }v\uvm wmt \% tuwMmwmi I That Ten Acre! j Lot | I\y 'Donald Allen S ' »p> i'ii do for others. Jeil's good qualities were ill a way his enemies. He was lazy, and, added to hi-- laziness, he had a uiauiu for trading. lie would trade horses, dogs, guns, watches, overcoat or anything els:-, and it so happened that the other ' fellow always not the best of the har- I gain. He had been left quite a little for i tune by his grandmother, but in the i course of tlve years he had sold at a loss or traded with sharpers until all that was left to him was a ten acre lot lying just outside the village limits. It was a ; line a meadow as could bo found in the county, and Jed was hang ing onto that until some lightning rod I man should come along and trade him a farm on top the Rocky mountains i when he fell in love. JI in Thomas, the carpenter, had died three years before and left a level headed, economical widow behind him. | She was an old schoolmate of Jed's, 1 and h" had seen her almost every day for I weni v five years, and until the spirit <> i" love Ihi I i'i led up he had sim ply regarded her a< he looked upon all l other women. He wa> sitting <>n the grocery steps ; one day whittling when his knife slip | peil and cut his linger. The Widow ; Thomas was iu>t entering the store for : half a dozen egirs when the accident \ occurred, and she pulled out her hand j | kerchief and bound up the bleeding j tinker. It was only a trille, but some how it touched the heart of the old ! bachelor, and three days later he called ion the widow. "Martha," lie began. "I've got tired I of sloshing around alone and am going | to tret married." "For the land's sake!" she exclaimed. "That is. If the woman 1 want will ! : have me." "Who is it V" "Vou." "Now, Jed. don't come around here - with any of your nonsense." she said. , ; "You are a u«.«•«! natured man. but you I are lazy. You think you've got brains, j ' but everybody beats you. It would j drive me crazy to have such a hus- i baud." "1 coiil I and would reform. If I had ! any one to peck at ine I'd goto work." ' "1 haven't time to be poking up a j i husband It's hard to teach old dogs | new tricks. Thank ye for the honor, : Jed, but I -~s we won't do any mar- ! I ryinj;." Jed was crushed for three days, dur ing which time i windmill man came along and oflVred to trade him T>.ooo acres of d< i t land in Arizona for his meadow and explained that he could raise lo.i i i rattlci-nakes to the acre on the sandy soil and sell the oil for is" a gallon to iri. • ise the feet of bubies with. Ii .led had been in his normal coudi- j tion lie would ha . e elosed with the of- i for at once, but as he was in the throes j of hopeless love he astonished the , town liv turning the windmill man ] down. * Two days later he went back • to the widow and said: "Martha, 1 had a dream about Jim I last night. I dreamed that I met hlni in front ol the blacksmith shop and ; that we shook Lauds and he said he '■ . hoped I'd marry you." "Oh. you've come about that, have you:" she asked. "I have. I'm a miserable uiau." "Have you tried catnip tea':" "Catnip t>. ': Hn-at heavens! What ails me is love, ami if the Mississippi j river was composed of catnip tea it J l couldn't cure nie Martha, if you won't 1 j promise to have me 1 can't live a week ■ longer." ••Nonsense. I'm busy with my Iron j ; lug, and you run Jed was now so broken up that ev erybody began to notice and comment ! ou it, but when questioned he simply ' shook his head arid intimated that he : was not long foi this sinful world. lit' got up • iierg.v enough, however, tc ] contract to out a thousand ties for a suburban cleetrie line. and. hoping ! this might work in his favor, he paid ' another visit to the widow and told ' her of it. "Now that you see I am going to work, can't you say yes?" lie asked In I conclusion. "Jed, what do you come bothering | for':" she asked. "Because I love you." "Don't be silly. I'm making minct [lies today and haven't time to argue." Jed went away, determined to throw himself into the mill pond, but when he reached the bank he met a stranger who had been poking around the vil lage for a couple of days without tell ! lug any one his business. He intro duced himse.T and said that he thought | some of establishing an orphan asylum if he could tind a site to suit. In this i way he brought the talk around to | Jed's meadow. The value of the land j as it lay w:> Slim an acre, though Jed | had never had a cash oiler for it. The stranger didn't exhibit too great interest in the matter. lie said he'd j think the matter over and perhaps | make an offer. He had no mountains i in Idaho and no lakes m Europe to trade, but would be prepared to pay cash A day later, while still saunter ! lug around, lie met Jed and said that he could have Sl.otni for the land as soon as the deed was made out. Ihe lovelorn bachelor had started for the otlice of the village lawyer to have the deed made out when he met the Wld ; ow Thomas. She noticed his exelte- I ment and asked the cause, and when I he had told her she said: "Look here, Jed, don't you take too I I much stock in the orphan business." I "How do you mean':" "You're an orphan yourself, and you don't want to let any other orphan get the better of you Can you get a horse and buggy anywhere for an hour?" "Of course." "Then let's drive out to your land and see what kind of a place It would make for the poor orphans." On the way out Jed recurred to the old subject, saying that ho was on his way to drown himself when he met the stranger. "Come, now," interrupted the widow, "this is straight business and you keep quiet." When the meadow, which lay along the highway, was reached the widow Insisted on walking across It from north to south. The ground looked as level us a floor, but near the center was a sort of sjnK hole. In rainy weather "siderable water stood there, but the I earth was now dry. "I'm!" said the widow as she halto"! and sniffed. "Do you mean that smell V" "Yes. Ever notice It before?" "Once or twice. Smells as if some body had been breaking rotten eggs around here." "•let a pole and thrust it into the ground as far as you tan." "Here's one right hero, and some body's been poking What do you make of It, Martha':" "Jed, you've asked me to marry you," she said in reply. "1 have. Inn you don't seem to cart; whether you drive me to a suicide's grave or not." "I don't know but I'd be willing to take chances." "As how V" "If you'll deed me this land today I'll promise to marry you within a month. I shan't answer any questions. It's yes or no right off." "Then it's yes. by thunder!" exclaim ed Je! as he reached the roadside fence. The deed was made out before sun down and sent away to the county seat to be recorded. Next day the man who was looking for an asylum site called upon the Widow Thomas. He hail scarcely mentioned the poor or phans when she laughed and said: "Don't let your philanthropy cause you to lose a good thing. The ground up there is full of natural gas, and you know it. It's only twenty miles to pipe it to Chicago. If it's under the meadow, then it's under hundreds of acres around here. Go ahead and make any test you will and then come back with your offer." A week later he was willing to hand over $10,0(10 iu cash, and when Jed Wheeler had Seen the money counted out and the deed passed he exclaimed: "By thunder, Martha, but that was the only piece of land I had, and when a piano feller comes along and wants to trade me a goose farm for the rais ing of speckled geese, what am I go ing to say to him?" "Kefer him to your wife," she an swered as she kissed him for the first time. \ Tranrdj In Klce. Here is a story of Scotch sailorineu told by the Dundee Advertiser: "The ship's crew had been made up in a hurry, and when they had passed the bar ai d were beginning to feel a trifle hungry it was discovered that they had no cook. So the old man asked Geordie to try his hand at the job, and (Jeordie scratched his head and rubbed his chiii an i -aid he would do Ills best. Next morning he consulted Jack about breakfast. Oh.' said Jack, 'rice will do!' 'Will it d'ye think?' said Geordie. Woo. about how much shall I cook?' •Let's -ee.' replied Jack 'There's four teen of us with the old man. I should say a bucketful would be plenty.' 'I doot but it will,' said Geordie and went off to Ihe :ailey He git a Imcketful of rice and put it In a large pot, and when it began to boil It likewise began to swell. So he baled out a portion in to another pot, and that also did like wise Then he baled out of both pots into other pots until all his pots were full. Still it swelled, and Geordie be came alarmed So he put ou all the lids and lashed them tightly down. Then lie went forth and locked the door and - oml against the bulwarks watching its m the skipper came along and made inquiries regarding breakfast Whi-t. man!' replied Geor die softiy. I'm cooking rice, and I don't know the ininit It will burst the door.'" Origin of *'lV«tlier 1 n ill" lup." "A feather in his cap." signifying honor and ilistineiion, arose from a custom which was common among the Syrians and perpetuated to this day among the various semieivilized people of adding a new ieather to the head gear for every enemy slain. in the days of chi. ilrv '.lie embryo knight re ceived his .... jue in a featherless con uition. a id tii- i won his plumes as he had won In*- spurs, in a manuscript writic i ' li.eha d Hansard in 1588 and ■ irefiili.v pr< :v ed in the British museum i- ine 11:11 ued an ancient Hun garian custom, that of allowing 110 man to vve.M a !'» ither in his cap who had not killed a Turk The Hungar ians had a law. which was in vogue as late as 1011' which allowed warriors to add a teaUi -r to their headdress col lection "every time the claimant could prove that '. e had succored a starving Hungarian bad killed an ablebodled Turk or otliT Moslem." These old cus toms are ii 'W obsolete, but It is lnter- esting to know that there were once such laws upon the statute books of nations thought to be civilized. Social Opinion. Social opinion Is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard It only with lerr.v and dare not touch or meddle with it: Micro are more foolish people who. in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade and get cut and mangled for their pains, and there are wise people who grasp It discreetly and boldly by the handle and use It to carve out 111 -ir own purposes.—Mrs. Jameson. KILLTHE COUCH AND CURE THE LUNCS ~ w,th Dr. King's New Discovery _ /tONSUIVIPTION Price FOR I OUGHS and 50c & SI.OO Free Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY liACK. SOMETHING IEI! A. Reliable TO SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and General Jot* Woik. Stoves. Heaters, Ranees, Furnaces, etc- PRICKS TIIK LOWEST! QIiJLITf THE BEST! JOHN HIXSOJN NO- 11# E. FRONT BT, WONDERFUL MIRAGES. Tlionv Seen In the Winter Twilights Northern \lu*ku. 'lhe most v. al »rful mirages ever be held by mortal eyes are those that are seen in the twilight winter days In northern Alaska. these remarkable ghastly pictures of things, both Imag inary and real are mirrored 011 the surface of the waste plains Instead of iil> m 1 pi ! the flying vapors they ap i . r 1..•• I.vi ig creatures and seem to be .-.nail; moving rapidly across the pi 1 in. M other limes they appear high In the air. out this Is a characteristic of the northern mirages that are seen near ashore. When the vapors ii.nl lnlsi> are drlren out to sea the Imit _es mirrored in them appear to be 'un ,!tig through the waters at a terrific rate *1 m : •I. dashing the spray high in lhe air. while huge breakers roll over tii ... and onward toward tbo mountainous islands beyond and against which they all appear to be dashing Monstrous serpents, appar ently several hundred feet long, some times with riders on their backs, men on horseback thirty to fifty feet In height, animals and birds of all kinds of horrible shapes and colors seem to h" 1 past, racing and chasing each other until they are lost In the twilight fogs or dashed to pieces upon the rocky Islands mentioned above and which are twenty miles out to sea. THE RED SQUIRREL. lie Store* Very I.lt lie Food Fop in Winter. lit Maine in fact, all over New Eng land red squirrels do not put by great hoards of any kind for winter use. When a Maine red squirrel has filled Itself wiili acorns and beechnuts It will hide a few here and there —under leaves, in hollow logs, iu cracks of rifted trees and among stone heaps. An average red squirrel, haviug the run of an oak grove In the fall of the year, may in the course of two weeks tilde away from two lo four quarts of acorns, though they will be In perhaps twenty different piaces, and In no in stance which we have noted has anj nut been shelled. The squlriel which piaus a hoard of nuts and makes deliberate preparations for winter is the little chipmunk, or striped squirrel, which seeks winter quarters soon after heavy frosts und which remains In hiding all winter. The chipmunks often hide as many as two quarts of shelled beechnuts in one place. Their storehouses are, as a rule, under the ground, in sloping and sandy soil, the burrows having been dug with true en"inet-ring skill, so that no fresh et can drown them out. It is believed that most observing woodsmen will say that the red squir rels*.! this vicinity seldom make large • •ache of pro\ isions for winter con sumption and never shell the stored nuts In fact, the red species have no need to pay much heed to such matters, tts they are abroad and active In the coldest days of winter as much as they lire In midsummer, so precautions for food are not demanded. As the red squirrels subsist for a good part of the year upon the cones of pines and spruces, which hang to the limbs, they •to not care how deep or hard the snow may be. feeling secure In finding all the food they want among the tree tops. —Bangor News. Her Awful IlluiKler. Tess—Ob. that's your new hat, eh? Jess Yes. and such a bargain: only $lB. What do you think: 1 dropped Into let Miss G rum ley see it Just now, uinl she pretended siie wasn I interest ed. Didn't even ask how much I paid for it. Tess No, dear si"" didn't have to. You've forgot• m 1 * oft '• at tag marked !? Ipv 1,1 ' lelphia IV "s ! The Home Paper j i I of Danville. i i i ! Of course you read |II HI is. I, THE FIEOPLE'S [ Popular 1 APER. Everybody Reads It. j _ I I ! :! Published Every Morniuv; Except Sunday i No. ii E. Mjf! ng St. i I Subscription 6 con . . r Week. BLACK GOVERNORS. t Curtou* l*i«?ee of Old Tiui<- » ouacct- Icul History. A book little known even to collect ors of Americana is a volume entitled "Hartford In tin- Olilen Time; Its First Thirty Years," hy Scaeva, which was edited by \V. M. 15. Hartley and pub- 1 lished at Hartford in 1553. There Is a chapter in tliis book entitled "The liUi. l. (io . mors of Connecticut," the very title of which will excite the sur prise oi most intelligent people eveu In i Connecticut, who have never heard of auj black governors in tiie Nutmeg Stale except tin* governors of an oppo site political faith, who were, of course, politically black. The title, however, is explained and justified by a littlo ex planation Before the Revolution and down to a period as late as 1820 It was the custom for the negroes living In tile stale to bold ail election Oil the Sat urday succeeding the regular election day, choosing one of their number as j governor. Sometimes, however, no | election « a- held, the retiring governor assigning his office to another. The ' man chosen in either ease was usually i"of imposing presence, strength, firm ness and volubility, quick to decide, ready to command and quick to flog." He appointed a staff of military ami judicial officers, who executed his or ders in all matters pertaining to col ored people, especially questions per taining to morals, manners and cere monies. The fact that he had no legal status in the province or state did not at all trouble him or his subjects, and ho ap pears to have exercised a very real power, nearly always oil the side of morality and justice. The justices of the peace appointed by these black governors were, as a rule, extremely severe In punishing people of their own color who transgressed the law. So generally was this recognized by the whites hi colonial times that when a slave committed some offense it was the custom to turn him over to the black Justice for punishment. Such a 'culprit always fared much worse than if he hail been tried by the regular courts. Among the more notable colored men who held the office of governor were: Quaw, a negro belonging to Colonel George Wyllys; I'eleg Xott, who be longed to i 'olonel Jeremiah Wads worth; Boston, belonging to Mr. Nich olas; John Anderson and Cuff, who held the office for ten years. After the abolition of slavery in Connecticut the custom fell into disuse. Milt Hie Same DM In Oilier I'IUI-PD, but It < ciiia I si* No Microbe*!. It is an error to think that the clieui leal composition of the air differs es sentially wherever the sample may be taken. The relation of oxygen to nitro gen and other constituents is the same whether it Is on the heights of the Alps or at the surface of the sea. The fa \orable effects, therefore, of a change of air are i;*>t to be explained by any difference In the proportions of its gaseous constituents. The important difference is the bacteriological one. The air of high altitudes contains no microbes and Is. In fact, sterile, while near the ground and some hundred feet about it microbes are abundant. < In the air of towns and crowded places not only does the microbe impurity in crease, but other Impurities, such as the products of combustion of coal, ac crue also. Several Investigators have found traces of hydrogen and certain hydro carbons In the air, especially In pine, oak and birch forests. It Is to these bodies, doubtless consisting of traces of essential oils, that the curative ef fects of certain health resorts are trac ed. Thus the locality of a fir forest Is I said to give relief In diseases of the [ respiratory tracts. But these traces of ! essential oils and aromatic product j must be counted, strictly speaking, as | Impurities, since they are apparently not necessary constituents of the air. Recent analysis has shown that these I bodies tend to disappear In the air as a higher altitude Is reached until they disappear altogether. It would seem, therefore, that microbes, hydrocarbons and entitles other than oxygen and nitrogen, and perhaps also argon, are only incidental to the neighborhood of human Industry, animal life and damp vegetation.—Chicago Chronicle. Wo waul to: Jo ali Ms «112 Prmlii np i, |j i II! ii's km. IIA Pit. li's Matt. i i A well ]>rl- i • tasty, Bill 01 W/ ter Head, IV.*' - A/A Ticket, Cn d > Program, Si v TSj ment or Card (y) an advertisemcii for you 1 business satisfaction to you New Tfje, New Presses, ~ Best Pater, M. 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