MONTOUR AMERICAN
112 RANK C. ANGLE. Proprietor.
|)an\ille, Pa., August 16. 1906.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
EDWIN S. ST I! A KT, of Philadelphia.
I or Lieutenant tiovernor,
RORERT S MURPHY, of Cambria.
For Auditor (ieneral,
RORERT K YOUNd, of Tioga.
For Sfird;irv of Internal Affairs,
HKNRY HOUCK. of Lebanon.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Congress,
E. W. SAMUEL
For President Judge,
CHARLES C. EVAN'S
For Associate Judge,
CHARLES A. WAUNEK
For Representative,
RALPH KISNEK.
For Sheriff.
D t\ WILLIAMS.
For Jury Commissioner,
HENRY KERN.
fIILLIONS LOST
TO PENN'A FARHEkS
"The poultry product puts about
#IS,Ooo,CHH> aunually into the pockets
of Pennsylvania farmers; hut when it
itYhowu that tlie State of Pennsyl
vania consumes five times as much
noultrv aud eggs »■- it produces, it be
comes necessary for us to devote some
time and thought to poultry conditions
aud prospects in our Commonwealth. "
Tlie above is the opening annminee
iueut in a bulletin just issued by the
State department of agriculture with
a view t<> stimulating interest in the
poultry business in Pennsylvania.
This document,prepared by T. E. Orr,
of Beaver, shows that many millions
of dollars might be added to the reven
ues of the farmers of this State through
tin- production of eggs and poultry.
Six States west of Pennsylvania sur
pass it in the products of the hen, Ohio
aud lowa leading with SaO.(HK),OOO
worth each. Yet Pennsylvania has
more individual land owners than eith
er of these States—almost every plot
being cajiable of yarding and feeding
a few hens.
"There is a single wholesale grocer
in Pittsburg," say.- the department
bulletin, "who handles an average
daily <»f 300 cases of eggs of 30 dozen
ea< h. lie pays out for these eggs about
halt a million dollars a year. How
many Pennsylvania farmers particip
ate in this handsome sum of money?
Not one. Every egg that this man
handles comes from Indiana, where
careful buyers gather them from the
farmers. He says: 'The farmers of
Western Pennsylvania do not produce
enough eggs especially in winter, for
me to bother with. Of course,l would
rather buy home eggs, but 1 must buy
from people who have eggs to sell.'
"The above-named egg buyer pays
good prices He handles fresh eggs
only. He has no use for storage eggs.
He would pav higher orices if he could
get a constant supply of nearby fresh
eggs Prom Septenibei* 1 to March 1, a
period of six months, the wholesale
Pittsburg prices will average 30 cents
l»-r dozen for strictly first class eggs.
"It has liecii demonstrated again
.tud that the man who can pro
duce egg- st all in this district in
these six months does so at a food cost
of not over Id cents |>er dozen. In
what other line of animal industry can
one find a larger margin to pay for the
labor ami interest on the cost of in
vestment '
' Eastern Pennsylvania demands even
a better «|uality of poultry and eggs at
-till higher prices. The better class
residents of Philadelphia and New
\ ork are each year becoming more
fa.-tidious as to the quality of the pro
ducts they consume, and less care
ful as to the prices they pay, pro
v ided the quality is above reproach.
Not only in the two cities named, hut
iu a dozen smaller cities art* people
who contract for their eggs six months
at 3o ceuts a dozen and six months at
cents, just to be sure they get eggs
that are strictly first class.
"In every town of f>,ooo imputation
or larger are |ieople who would be
triad to pay close to the aliove named
prices, provided they could be sure of
getting n regular supply Itetweeu Sept
ember and March.
Pennsylvania is furnishing a con
stantly increasing demand for more
table poultry of first quality. > ine has
oulv to loiter around some of our com
missi ou houses to learn that most of
the dressed jiouitry consigned will not
rank aiiove third class, that first class
poultry sells more rapidly and for
twice as much as poultry that grades
only third-class. "
The bulletin states that the greatest
obstacle that now stands in the way
of profits from poultry on Peunsyl
vania farms seem to the writer to Is*
properly classified under the following
•leadings Mixed flocks, poor houses,
injudicious feeding and careless mark
etiug."
The hulh-tin contains a vast amount
of practical information as to the beat
methods of conducting the |>oultry
business
OKA < 4 KNOT HK CI l< Kl»
i>y local appllcation", hn they cannot reacii
lhedlM-a»ed |»irt lon of the ear. There In only
way to cure deaftowm.and that In liy run
ktlllilloiial reined I M-afti.-** is caused l,\
an ludamed condition of I lie iiiucoufi lining
of Ihe h.n-'ai liihii I iilte. W hen this liilm-gets
InflHiiieit you have a riiinhlini; *ound or Im
perfect hearim;, aud when It ih entirely c! „
ed <teafne«N is the result, mid utile~N the In-
Ouiiiiiiml lon ran lie tHken out ami lliin lulie
restored to Us normal condition,hearing will
be dtwtroyed forever; nine cane* out if ten are
c»u«ed by catarrh, which ih nothing liiil an In
flamed condition of the mucous tervlces.
We will give One Hundred Holism for any
raaeof Iteafnewi (canned hy catarrh) thai can
00l i* cured l»v Hall h < alarrh fine. <end
or circular". tree
f.J.CIiIMVJ tO.lnn liudi (i
Moid by OriiggUle, price The. per bottle
Han'» 1-amliy Pinnate the heel
JURY LIST FOR
SEPTEMBER COURT
Curtis Cook and W. lioyd Moore yes
terday afternoon finished their work
of drawing jurors for the September
term. A largo venire was made neces
sary by the Dietrich homicide case.
The following is the list:
GRAND JURORS.
Anthony township— B. (!. Dennan,
William .1. Mohr.
Cooper township David Wertiiian,
Jacob M Shultz
Danville, Ist Ward—Kdward Bell,
John G. Waite, Ellis Keese. 2nd Ward
till is Hank, Samuel Saiusbury. Ilrd.
Ward Wellington Kote, John Walize,
John Kisenhart, William J. Rogers.
Ith. Ward George Getbing.
Lilwrty township Daniel F. Blue,
K S. Gilder, J. P. Boudman, Victor
V. Vincent.
Mahoning township George W.
Hmly, Uscar Vastine, Jacob H. Rudy.
Mayberry township—A. M. Bird.
Valley township Homer B. Cross
ley.
Wf t Hemlock township S. B. Flick.
TKAVKKS J UHUIIS.
Anthony township—Jacob Moldren,
J. A. Whipph . Amos Johnston, Jacob
Kramer, B. ti. Stead. Daniel Moser,
Peter A. Histiel, W. O. Kruinm.
Cooper township Charles Bishel.
Danville, Ist Ward Jolin 11. Hunt,
Geo. B. Wintersteen, Charles Limber
ger, Sam'l M. Waite,Richard B. Hul
lihcn, David C. Hunt, Walter Gas
kins, Uscar ti. Shultz.",'nd. Ward —John
N. Price, David L. Guest, Harry ti.
Seidel,Benjamin Cook, David 11. Reed,
Thomas Welliver, John Mowrer,Hugh
G. Pursell. 3rd. Ward James Grimes,
Sr., John I). Moser, George Tilsou,
Patrick Finley, Charles Steigawalt,
John C Patterson, S. J. Welliver,
Thomas J. Rogers, Alfred Forney, Jo
seph Longberger, Samuel Werkheiser,
Wesley Perry, Jacob H. Cole. 4th. Ward
—Joseph Brietenbach, John Bruder,
George Bachinger. Samuel Mortimer,
Augustus Brandt, Thomas Welsh,
Daniel DeitFenbacher, Jasper Perry,
Adolpli Boetinger, Nicholas Hill,
Thomas Kear, Sr., Thompson Jenkins,
Robert Farley.
Derry township—Charles E. Shires,
Sr., C. H. Springer, Norman F.
Bechtel, James F. Patterson, William
Lobach, Sr.
Liberty township—ti. W. Snyder,
G. W. Moser,ti. Bastian.B. F. Messer
smith, Thomas Perry, D. A. Clewell,
Samuel Watrner, James L. Bittler,
John M. Robinson, M. V. Madden,
Jonathan Faust, William Curry.
Limestone township—Thomas Watts,
Charles Shultz,Joseph W. Derr,Thom
as Bailey, Charles Golder, John Zaner,
Ambrose Miller, Elmer Schnure, John
C. Foulk.
Mahoning township Martin L.
Bloom, Frank Schram, C. S. Edmon
son, William H. Maust, W. T. Mad
den, Lloyd Caslmer, William Sunday.
Mayberry township Joseph A.
Swank, J. W. Vastine.
Valley township—William S. Cliurm,
William K. Davis,Samuel W. Piusell,
James Robinson, J. 11. Shultz.
Wasl.ingtonville Charles Gibson,
William Robinson, George W. Miller,
Benjamin DeilTeubacber, A Ji. Ganlt.
West Hemlock township—Hiram E.
Crumley, A. J. Balliett.T. M. Win
tersteen, Jose]ili H. Wintersteen.
WILL PASS
THROUGH SIJNMJRY
The new trunk line from New York
to Chicago, to be built at a cost $150,-
000,000, the merger papers for which
will be filed at the State department
Harrishurg this week, will not touch
Philadelphia, but will go through the
northern part of Pennsylvania. East of
Pittsburg. The road will touch at the
following towns in Pennsylvania:
Freeport. Leechburg, South Bend,
Shelocta, Cherrytree, irvona, Dix,
Loveville, Pine (trove Mills, Shingle
ton, Tusseyville, Coburn.New Berlin,
Northumberland, Sunbury, Ashland,
Mahanoy City, Tamaqua, Allentown
and Easton.
Preliminary work will be begun this
fall on the line to New York and actual
grading will bejrin in the spring. The
line west will be started as soon as
the Pittsburg New York line is com
pleted. The surveys west are not final,
and the promoters expect to lower the
grade further and to shorten the dist
ance before the road is laid out. The
road to New York has been surveyed
three times.
The foreign syndicate will build the
road and turn it over complete to the
New York, Pittsburg and Chicago Air
Line, which will be capitalized at lirst
at $ 1 ,000,000. The route west of Penn
sylvania is to be kept secret, but it is
stated positively that the Lorain,Ash
tabula and Southern railroad, which
is now Hearing completion, will be one
of the many feeders in the west.
James Ramsey, former president of
the Wabash,who is now in New York,
issued the following sigued statement
relative to the new project:
"We expect to make a start this fall
and begin work next spring,hoping to
complete the line between Pittsburg
and New York within three years.
"The line is not merely a prelimin
ary survey, but a final location that
has been revised three times. Three
corps of engineers have been busy for
three years. It is the best iiossible
short low grade line to he had through
Pennsylvania between Pittsburg and
New York.
"The extension of the road to Chi
cago from Pittsburg will be taken up
when the line east to New York is
c< im pie ted. "
Sunbury and the country thereabouts
is much exercised over the announce
ment that the new line , will pass
through that town, as it is considered
to be a solution of the recent inyster
ions large land purchases between
Sunbury and Selinsgrove.
A Prolific Garden.
Cornelius Minier has a stalk of corn
and a tobacco plant growing on his
lot at No. Cooper street, which
well illustrates the extent to which
vegetation thrives this season. Both
the corn and the tobacco came up of
their own accord, the former attain
ing a height of I'-i'.J leer, while a leaf
of the tobacco plant measures feet,
7*4 iuches in length ami is 15' . inches
wide.
\ When the Editor
"Puffed" J
( By DOMALt) \ll£\ \
112 Copyright, IWW, by M. M. < uuningham \
There was Just 0110 reason why the
Widow llidwell refused the matrimo
mini offer tendered her hy Editor Flint
»112 the Weekly Clarion and Fergus
County Advertiser. Editor Flint had
( uwued and edited the Clarion fur many
years, lie had never married because
he had been too busy making up and
working off his edition of GOO copies,
getting tip and printing auction bills,
writing thrilling local notices of wood
wanted on subscription and other mat
I tors connected with a weekly Journal
Jof twenty years ago. Some of his es
teemed contemporaries sneerlngly re
marked now and then that he stole his
editorials, but when It came down to
writing out an auction bill they yielded
him the palm.
"Auction! Auction! Auction!" read
the average bill. "Take notice that on
the 14th of September George Styles,
farmer, will sell at public vendue ull
the live stock and other personal prop
erty 011 bis farm 011 the Red ISridge
road. Said stock consists of horses,
cows, sheep and hogs and about 100
hens and geese. Sale to begin at 10
a. 111.. and all will goto the highest
bidder."
There was no doubt about the suc
cess of the Clarion as a newspaper or
about the success of Editor Flint as an
editor. When he linally made up his
mind to marry the Widow Bidwell,
there was uo doubt that he would be a
success as a Benedict, lie struck a
snag, however. The widow had been
obliged to turn to dressmaking since
her husband's death, and she did not
rank with the Four Hundred of the
village, but she was a lover of poetry
and she bad dreams of poets. While
this kept her grocery bill down, it in
terfered considerably with her getting
out orders 011 lime, and slie calculated
that one about offset the other.
The poetry loving widow had had
titty different poetic effusions pub
lished in the Clarion over the 110 m de
plume of Flossie, but Mr. Flint had
received the copy with a grunt, and
the public had recovered from the
shock each time within twenty-four
hours.
The "poems" had been published to
save carrying dead advertising. .Mrs.
Bidwell was rather surprised when
the editor dropped in on her one even
lug and proceeded to say that he want
ed her for the mistress of his house,
she soon rallied and answered that
there was an Insurmountable barrier
between them. lie didn't look like a
poet. She knew what be could do in
the way of an auction bill, but the
man who wed Flossie must look the
1 part. She would attend to the poetry
as heretofore, but he must at least
have long hair, an aesthetic face and
ttaeamy eyes.
The editor saw at once that he
couldn't till the bill. He wore his hair
short, had a fat face, and his eyes
were 011 the lookout for delinquent
subscribers instead of I >oking Into tlie
far away. lie therefore picked up bis
hat and walked back to the olllce.
However, the iron had entered Mr.
Flint's soul. He had laid his forty
year-old heart at a woman's feet, and
she had spurned it. He either wanted
to commit suicide or secure revenge,
: and after figuring up that the Clarion
! plant was worth about SI,OOO he decld
ed to hang 011 to earth. The tirst In
stallment of his revenge was shown in
his next Issue, when he said:
"We take pleasure In informing our
readers that a brother of the Widow
Bidwell. whi writes beautiful verse
under the name of Flossie, has just
| died and left her a fortune estimated
at SIM),<MHJ. She lias mir heartiest eon
gratulatious."
Of course the public read the item,
and of course the widow read it. There
wasn't a word of truth in it, but when
people came and showered their con
gratulations she couldn't bring her
self to deny the story. She was even
thankful to the Clarion for publishing
the canard. The issue of the follow
lug week pursued the matter further
"We understand," it said, "that the
fortune left to tho Widow Bidwell by
her deceased brother in the west will
go s.">»>,urn better than at first reported.
There are reports afloat that she will
remove to New York city 11s soon as
she comes Into possession and buy a
residence on Fifth avenue. Her poem
tills week is the best thing In the pa
per."
There were more congratulations,
and the widow got deeper into tho
tolls. It was so nice to be patted on
the back and soft soaped that she
couldn't bring herself to deny the re
ports.
Between the second and third issues
of the Clarion the editor had a caller.
Ills ostensible occupation was selling
Bohemian oats to fanners at !?•"> n
bushel and sailing mighty close to
prison as a swindler, but he had the
hair and face and eyes of a poet. Even
the fat and I althy editor had to ad
mit that. The caller wanted to insert
a small ad. and ask about the Widow
Bidwell. lie had seen the notices In
the Clarion about her legacy, and he
wanted a few pointers.
Editor Flint praised the woman who
hail Jumped on his bleeding heart.
Aye, he spoke in highest terms of her,
and even told Mr. Harold I>e I.isle how
he could get an introduction to her.
Then the third issue said:
"We had a pleasant call the other
day from Mr. Harold l>e Lisle, who
haH J 11st made a million dollars out of
Pennsylvania oil We understand that
he may remain in our village for some
days Indeed, hnme Rumor Ls con
Oectlng his name with that of a rich
and prominent widow on Chestnut
street."
Mr He I.lsic was duly introduced to
the Widow Bidwell. She had 110 sooner
set eyes on him than her heart began
to palpitate. The poet had come. He
looked and dressed the part. lie also
acted it. Nothing was said of her
dressmaking on tlie one hand nor of
his oat business on tho other. They
talked of sonnets and poems and idyls,
and the widow was not 111 the hotel
dining room to noto the quantity of
e trued beef and cabbage he got away
with at dinner.
There was a fourth n..tire in ttie
t'larlon. The spurned editor hadn *
much to do with auction bills just
then, and he had time to keep track
of affairs 011 Chestnut street lie had
been told that Mr. Harold De I.isle
was only a traveling agent for a
of eastern swindlers, but he wasn't
going to say so on the contrary, what
he said was:
"The wealth} and distinguished Mr.
He I-isle ii s 111 with us, and if he has
not won the IK rt of a Bee I City lady
then riiiiio; 1 la- gone far astray. The
wedding v. II pro! ably la* a quiet af
mid b-i • nd - o >iii may make a
honey union trip to murope."
The Bohemian oats man who looked
like a poet nit< 1 the widow dressmaker
who really wrote rhymes were not ex
actly frank with each other. lie never
asked the name of her brother or what
disease he died of. lie never asked If
that fortune had come or when it might
be expected
on her part, she didn't ask In what
part of the Keystone State his oil well
was situate: 1 <<r what national bank he
honored with his deposits. They read
the clarion and trusted In each other.
There wire more farmers waiting to
buy !• ihemlan oats and find a crop of
weed-, but .till litrold I>e I.lsle lin
gci'il. There were dresses that cus
tomers were waiting for, but still the
i widow's sewing machine was silent.
The languid!)*' ; and lethargy of look
ing like a poet and being a poet beat
; sliding down hill all hollow. The fifth
"puff" in the Clarion was a send-off.
"The event < 112 ihc season occurred at
| the Meiho :i-t church two days since,"
jit read. "As we have all along pre
dicted, we have lost our fairest flower.
1 In other words, Mr. Harold I»e Lisle
! prevailed upon the charming Widow
| Hid well to give him her hand and heart,
| and the Kev. Mr. I'eters made them
| man and wife in a very impressive cer
emony. The happy couple left for Chi
cago immediately after, but may re
turn next week t > prepare for the jaunt
abr< tad."
Ten days later the bride returned and
at once notiiie 1 all old customers that
business w. n to be resumed sit the old
stand.
Ten clays later in a distant state the
bridegroom was talking up Hohemian
oats. They bad come to an understand
ing about nionej matters. They had
understood that each had played the
confidence game on the other and that
they ha ln't ' .'inn between them.
Kditor Flint of the Clarion and Fer
gus County Advertiser sat down and
wrote an auction bill for Farmer Jones
ami told hi. i what the price for 200
copies would be. and as he found him
self setting it up he found himself say
ing to himself:
"(>h, I don't know. I don't seem to
haves > much ache under my vest as I
did. 1 shouldn't wonder if I recovered
from the blow In time."
Sailor's St-ir> of JUIIKIC SorKery.
'"I here w ii.'. this here black Kamerun
savage. uak< l as an animal," said the
sailor, "and there wuz this explorer In
ills pretty suit of white drillin', and
there wuz a Kamerun medicine man
with a headdress o' human bones. They
stood tnder a palm tree. I sot on a log
an ! watched 'em. The medicine man
put the right arms of the savage and
tlx* explorer el >se together and then,
!!• rishin' a dull lookln' knife, he nicks
a vein in the white arm and then an
artery in the black arm. The blood
come a-gusln'n' and a-gushin' out of
i the black arm, and the medicine man
1 scooped it up in the holler of his hand
| and rubbed it Into the nicked white
! arm. He must 'a' rubbed in a pint be
j fore he closed the wound. Transfooslon
| o' blood Is what they call It. They say
: it saves a white man from jungle fever
; nnd from all the evils of the miasma,
of the hot swamps, of the damp heat,
the rottin' vegetation. They say Stan
i ley had black blood trans footed into
i hls'ii eight times. That Is how he
I stood Africa. I know It's a common
thing for African explorers togo
through the transfoisln' process. And
I'll tell you a funny thing about It. It
makes the hair thicker and darker and
! It darkens the skin a couple of shades."
--New Orleans Times Hemocrat.
Oltlt-st Hotly of Human III'IIIB.
The oldest body of any human be
ing reposes In the Egyptian gallery of
the Hritish museum. It Is the body of
a man who was burled in a shallow
grave hollowed out of the sandstone on
the west bni>\ of the Nile In tipper
Egypt. This man must have hunted
along the b: n!;s of the Nile before the
time of the earliest mummied king
which the museum o issesses, before
the time of Menes, who was supposed
to have ruled Egypt at least 50U0
B. C There were previous to that
time two prehistoric races, one the
conquerors and the other the con
quered. from which sprang the Egyp
tian race of the earliest dynasties. It
Is with the " remote stocks that this
man had to do. Considering the condi
tion In which h • was found. It Is evi
dent that he was associated with a
late period of the new stone age of
Egypt. He was buried In a charac
teristic neolithic grave, with Ist)
ilthlc pots ind Instrument- 112 i.'
about him. There Is of coinno i-i
--serlption of any kind on 11: • pi
knives or grave, ajl having '•< i 1 •
before the invention of any , ritteii
language.-American Antlqu. ri
Thr Wort! "4 uuitiliitlisiii."
The word "cannibalism" is really ihe
name of a people. It is identical with
C'arib, many of the < "aribs, who for
merly flourished in the West Indies,
having been consumers of human flesh.
The letters"l." "n"' and "r" are Inter
changeable in certain aboriginal Ameri
can languages, so that Columbus found
one West Indian island saying "Cani
ba" where another said "Carib," while
Shakespeare's Caliban is another va
riety of the same. Columbus' own con
jecture was that the name was con
nected with the great khan, and later
philologists of the old slapdash type as
sociated with "eanis," a dog. Ap
parently. however, the meaning of
"carib" w as brave and daring.
No Faith In llim.
"Guess that freckled daughter of
Thompson's must have a steady young
man."
"What makes you think soV"
"The old man was in here yesterday
to buy one of these newfangled con
trivunces that make a big saving in
the gas you burn."
"I don't believe the young man's a
steady. If he was they'd sav« all the
gas." Cleveland Plain Healer.
Mrs. Nu'ywed \<ti don't love me
any more: I know you don't! Nulywed
—But, my dear, you're mi taken. I
adore you. Mr-. Xulyw.-l No; you
don t No it;- ii < ;;Id live a woman so
badly dtv .• 1 as I am! Paris l::re.
Sour
Stomach
No appetite, loss of strength, nervou*
ness, headache, constipation, bad breath
general debility, sour risings, and cata/rfc
o' thr stomach are all due to Indigestion
KJ» J I ires Indigestion. This new dfacov
srv retir-ssnts the natural juices of d!gr»
t ! ■ as they eilst In a healthy stomach
V r'.d v/'th the greatest known lonic
and iccjnsUuctlve properties. Kodol Dys
, • sa Cur# does not only cure lndlgestio!-
ar.j dyr-vpsta, but this famous remed*
a I siomach troubles by cleansing
p-jrif)inp, sweetening and strengthening
thr .na HIS membranes lining the stomach
Mr ? S Sail, of R«»«n»wood W. V* . uyi-
I wn Ir-nt'ed with »our stemwh for twertj r*.rt
at uiu mjc *re now usfnf It (a mill
'ft r -■» ,/
Kodol Digests What You E«L
B- ' or. y $1 00 Sire holdlnf time* the Ifia'
tu* which sell* for SO cents.
»r*p«i*d by » O O.WITT * 00.. OMIOAOO,
For bale ly Pa tiles <fc Co
COLONIAL CARELESSNESS.
Iniim it as a St ore limine For
(•tin |»0%% il«*r.
Distressing accidents. such as wo find
chronicled in (hp newspapers of our
colonial era, bring home vividly to
posterity the fact that dangers to life
and limli existed before tin* day of the
dynamite craekei* and the autonloblle.
Children, rambling outdoors, and
grown persons hesicles, says the author
of "Americans of 17711," would pick
find eat strange herries, roots and veg
Ttahles that turneii out poisonous, and
tn vain did newspapers warn against
mushrooms, hemlock, ivy and other
growing things.
Clumsiness at work on the part of the
injured or Injurer did much mortal
mischief. A man dropped from his
ladder or scaffolding while repairing a
house or was scalded to death by an
overturned kettle of potash or maple
san. We read of a father and three
sons who were killed by suffocation,
one after another, while descending
Into a pit without tirst testing for car
bonic acid.
People were careless, moreover, in
the use of powder and firearms when
the Revolutionary era began. At llart
ford the legislature voted joyfully to
the townsfolk two barrels of powder
for volleys in honor of the repeal of the
stamp act. The powder was kept In
a schoolhonse, and the militiamen,
when filling their horns with it, left
some spilled on tin- floor.
The school children, playing with
the black grains, set them on lire and
the train led to a powder barrel, which
exploded with tremendous concussion.
The schoolhonse was blown tip nnd
many children were killed.
A lire in Andover in 177<» burned *>
the ground an old house next the meet
ing house, and its three lonely and
aged inmates perished in the llames.
But "providentially," as one newspaper
remarked, the church escaped un
harmed.
Two old maiden sisters, it seems,
were in the habit of smoking their
pipes after they got into bed, whence,
probably, the disaster. "Therefore,"
adds the chronicler, "It may not be
amiss to caution people against such a
practice."
AVliil- AntN of Africa.
Natives of t he east coast of Africa
do n«>t object to the presence of the
great white ant colonies in their neigh
borhood The ants exercise great fer
tilizing power on the crops. A resi
dent of that conutry writes: "Every
season I have seen the wonderful ef
fects the white ant hill produces on the
Kaflirs' maize and corn. Whenever
there happens to be an ant hill In a gar
den its immediate vicinity can IK? at
once distinguished, as the maize and
corn are full* double the size of the
surrounding crop. The bush country
a few miles from this place Is swarm
ing with white ants and has also a
large nati\ • population. The ants do
not attack .:ivi'ii crops to any extent."
\ Taste For DO^N.
Mark Twain was once talking of war
and of the hardships and privations of
sieges.
"A French man.*' he said, "called one
day on a woman who had two dogs.
They were i:-ly little brutes, and when
they c,!':.o n.vir him the man pushed
them out of the way with his foot.
"'I perceive, sir,' said the woman
coldly, 'that you are not very fond of
dogs.'
"The man started in surprise.
"'I not fond of dogs!' he exclaimed.
'Why, madam, I ate more than twenty
'>f them during the lege of Paris.""
PASTED HIS OWN BILLS.
Tin* Mi'inornbli' Iriurnu finent
I in llootli EVOP Played.
Edwin i tooth once told a little com
pany of his intimates that the most ro
inantie. memorable and delightful en
gagement that he ever played in his
life was i,'iie in which he was obliged to
paste his own bills.
It was In the early years of his ca
reer, long before his famous hundred
nights' run of "Hamlet'' at the Winter
Garden in New York, and at a time
when romance and enthusiasm were
still young iii his heart. He had played
with varying success In many parts of
tlie country, Journeying even to San
Francisc.) and the few camps In the
gold bearing country that were largo
enough to supply him with audiences.
Here lie had done so well that he felt
encouraged to try his fortune In still
remoter climes and accordingly em
barked from the Golden Gate for the
Hawaiian Islands, where, in the Hono
lulu theater and under the direct pat
ronage of the dark brown royalty that
then held sway, he played an engage
inent to which he looked back In after
years with much pleasure and satis
faction.
"But after the play was over," said
Booth, I found it necessary to climb
down from the high plane of art to
common ground and take steps to an
nounce my repertory to the public.
This was done almost entirely by way
of posters, and I could not trust the
job to the native boys, because they al
ways ate the paste and threw away
the bills. My actors would not do it,
because they were such eminent artists
and thoroughbred gentlemen, so I had
to do it myself. Many a time have I
taken off the costume of lago or Hum
let or Othello and gone out with a
bucket of paste and a roll of paper to
'bill the town,' as we say here in Amer
ica, for my next appearance."
Tin- Rntii'l II ml tli«> (nterplllar.
The robin hops along in the furrow
and picks up worms as the farmer
plows, which it eats itself or carries to
its nest as r Kid for the young robins.
The robin prefers smooth coated
worms, such as the common earth
worm, but if such food is scarce It does
not disdain the t: izzy caterpillar. It Is
an e\ il day for the caterpillar when a
robin strike; it. rhe robin picks It up
and >b !;<•* it ; ml shakes it until It
«luik>->: ie inis out of it—the fur, as
the children call the caterpillar's fuz/y
I coating li'-ivin- the caterpillar bare in
patches an ,'times all over and
shaken all out of shape. Then the
robin eats it or c irrie-i it off to feed IN
young.
Porrouiaff IN IIMIIJI.
India 1-; ;i 21:11 »!i of pawnshops,
cording to 1111 l,'ugli>!i authority. The
people think the rlcvere-t man is he
who de.i- the largest number of
ways by which to borrow money. They
putin p!( i : • their lands, oxen, jew
elry, flu : : Ives, their children anil
their gran : d- Id en. and cases have
even been known where a father, to
obtain tuoia t■> defray the expenses
(if h! < d it'g'i er's wedding, has pledged
as collateral th • tirst child to be born
of the union
I'll UN.
People *> I 1 make puns are like wan
ton boys th it l" ' coppers on the rail
road Ir .•'. i. Ira y amuse themselves
and otl rc* i ; ' but their little trick
may upset a !:• . t train of conversa
tion for tl .:l:e of a battered wifti
< ism.—O. W llo'it e
MOVING IN PORTUGAL.
It TnFa'N AlMMit » Woiiit-n arid
I'ivf Mm l or Oui' Jolt.
Moving day in Portugal Is a greater
time <>f in übie than it in even in this
country. A traveler tells about it:
"Vans are unknown, the only means of
vlu-elv I tr.ii ,> n't being rough carts
J drawn I y br.lioeks. these in turn prov
! Inn so i ': s i> furniture that only
I Kill <ll ni il -, iron stoves, bedsteads
j and < h :• tin poilable articles are sent
! liy them. For the rest, the poods are
! cani - I oi't'-.i for many miles by wo
| men only the heaviest things being
taken by men, of whom four are em
| ployed to take pianos, wardrobes and
other he furniture. They carry
| these on |> . - laid across their shoul
tiers. 1o v.!r 'h they are tied by scarfs
I pas Ing under the opposite arm. All
lighlc: - g> ot 1 ■ are taken by the women
on their hca-.'.s. Nix dining room chairs
form an o/iiinary load for one woman.
"{•lie ("i r. ; these by placing one on
t* 1e: ! > which chair the remaining
five a: ■ i'.i !. forming a sort of cage
aro .nd I Previous to starting the
Wo:: a. giv<herself a shake, the chairs
vibrate ar.jond her, and. with her hands
o*l her hips, he st:irls off at a eonteut
c.j jeg troi. covering six miles perhaps
111 an iiour ; nd a half and considering
her 'lf fair;.» and siiaiciently well paid
Willi 1- cent; or P! cents for the return
Journey ther • an 1 back again for a
fs-ei!i 1!. For long distances only
two journey ; are made in the (lay.
'•'1! women are marly always bare
footed. e::eept 011 the coldest days in
winter, \ Leu they may perhaps wear
sabot J. bi'.t (!:>". often wear as many as
1' >::r.i'( :i or iifti en much gathered petti
coats of ail e ' >rs and materials tied
witli \ sash : M iid the waist, the bunch
thus j'...-: ! 11,• 111 the hips making a
rest 112 »• tlie hands. All the china and
jrl : "e carried in hig round baskets
on th* 1:;■ 1• i and ve.'y rarely support
ed by tii" hind. About fifteen or six
teen woiiaii are generally employed In
an ordinary n.ove and four or five
men." < hie ,g > New s.
A 1 eat n- 11 wdl pi tke great oppor
tiuut.es e\ci o;it of the commonest
and moaned situations.—Success Mag
azine.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Jealousy is like some other things—
Ml" li I h Mllll be kept Oil it.
V.'li-n yon sr.y no. say it in a manner
tint v.'i'i leave no doubt of your mean
ing.
\V'!• •: 1 giving a.'.vice to others here is
a mall • to s *rve yourself: Keep
still more.
How littl • the best doctor knows!
An i how helpless h * is in the presence
of serious iiiiiess!
It is said that disappointment is hard
to bear, but we all stand it pretty well
when we 1 • U in the glass.
A man starting into a law suit
lias more faith in courts than his at
torney ever claims to have.
There are too many young men who
start out to make their mark in the
world and siop ;t a soda fountain or
hammock <>n the way. Atchison <Jlol>e.
RAILWAY TRAINS.
AN ORDINANCE !
To Regulate the Speed, and the
(living of Signals of the Ap
proach of Locomotive Engines
and Railroad Trains, Through,
and in the Borough of Danville,
Montour County, Pennsylvania
He it ordained and enacted by the
Town Council of the Borough of
Danville, in the County of Montour
and State of Pennsylvania in Council
assembled, and it is hereby ordained
and enacted by the authority of the
same: That it shall not be lawful for
any railroad locomotive -engine or
engines, car or cars, train or trains,
to be run or propelled through any
portion of the said Borough of Dasville
at a greater rate of speed than eight
miles an hour. Any Railroad Company,
or any employee or employees thereof
who shall violate any of the provisions
of this section of this ordinance
forfeit and pay a fine of not less than
Ten Dollars, nor more than Twenty
Dollars for each and evi ry such
offence.
SECTION 2.—lt shall lie the duty of
every Railroad Company, and of any
employee or employees thereof having
any locomotive -engine in charge, to
riug the bell thereof at all times while
passing through or moving about, any
portion of the said Borough of Danville,
and to properly sound or blow the
whistle thereof upon approaching any
street, alley, or other public dossing
within the limits of the Borough of
Danville. Any Railroad Company or
any emqlovee or employees who flrdl
violate any of the provisions of this
Section of this ordinance shall forfeit
and pay a fine of not less than Ten
Dollars nor more than Twenty Dollars
for each and every such offence.
SECTION:!. All fines and penalties,
imposed by any of the provisions of
this ordinance may be sued for, col
lected and recovered before any Justice
of the l'e ice of the Borough of Danville,
as debts of like amount and fines and
penalities imposed for the violation
of Borough ordinances are now by
law collectible and recoverable, and
shall be paid over to the Treasurer
of the said Borough for the use of
t lie said Borough.
SECTION 4. All oidinam et or parts of
ordinances inconsistent with or con
trary to the provisions of this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
WILLIAM J ROGERS,
Chief Burge s.
('ouncil < 'hamber,
Danville, Pa.. Aug 4, l»i»ti.
Attest:
HARRY Is. PATTON.
Sec. of The Borough of Danville, Pa.
A d tiwcetly on the liver.
\ I 1 3 (~y They cure constipation,
Aytrsi
Want your moustache er heard | j ? p | >£•)•j jj^ 'J []Y£
a beautiful brown or rich Mac!. ? '. .t U : • .T~ H.*-....A1.*00..NA8U1,A.N. &.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. £ (Vif/ ever y I
Seven Million boxes sold in past 12 months. This signature, box. 25c. I
HAY FEVER VICTIMS.
Hay lever victims liave begun to
complain, the season for that distress
ing malady having arrived. Science
lias succeeded in finding a number of
efficient remedies for-the disease and
cousquently tlie sufferers do not have
the annoyance that accompanies the
disease since using these remedies. It
is the custom of some of the victims
Ito spend tin* season in a cold climate.
VERY FEW TRAMPS.
According to the York Gazette, res
idents of the rural districts of York
county declare that they never see the
typical tramp any more. One promi
l nent farmer who lives along a main
highway upon which a dozen years
[ago tramps were seen in swarms, de
j dares that ho has seen but one tramp
111 two years, that the lone wanderer
passed the house only a few days ago
and the children looked upon him as a
veritable curiosity. Must be in ex
traordinary luck those York county
es.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE
OF VALUABLE
Real and Personal
Property !
Pursuant to an order of the Orphans'
Court of Montour County the under
signed, administrators of the estate of
PHILIP S. MOSER, late of Valley I
Township, Montour County, deceased,]
will expose to public sale, 011 the pre- l
mises, on
Friday. Aug'. 31.1906,
at ten o'clock a. m.of saiil day the
following described real estate:
All those two certain tenements,
messuages or tracts of land, situate in
Valley Township, Montour County,
State of Peunsylvania, bounded and
described as follows:
Tract No. 1. Beginning at a post
in line of land now of Thomas Ritter,
thence by said land North fifty degrees
East one hundred and fifty six perches]
to a Pine, North one degree East
perches to a Birch, thence by land of
Philip Boyer South seventy degrees
West forty live perches to a fallen
White Oak, thence by part of same
tract now owned by Samuel Moser
North thirty six degrees West twenty
perches to a stone. North thirty-one
degrees West twelve and five-tenths
perches to a Beech, thence same course
twelve and eight-tenths perches to a
Beech, thence Nortn eighty-seven and
one-half degrees West nineteen and
nine tenths perches to a (ium, thence
North seventy degrees West thirty
one perches to a stone, thence South Si>
degrees West 32 perches to a post in
the road,thence along said road South
nineteen degrees East eleven and five
tenths perches, thence South two de
grees West eighteen perches, thence
South ten degrees East sixteen perches,
thence South one degree East thirty
four preches, thence South twenty
nine degrees East twelve perches,
thence South fifty-five degrees East
four perches, thence South four and
one half degrees fifteen perches and
five-tenths,thence South three and one
Half degrees East thirty six perches,
thence South twenty-five degrees East
two and seven-tenths perches to the
c oeplaf beginning containing sixty
four acres and thirty-four perches be
the sauie more or less.
Tract No 2. Beginning at a stoue in
the line of laud of Roger Hendricks
South thirty-six and one-fourth degrees
East forty-five perches to a stone,
thence North forty-three degrees East
twenty and five-tenths perches to a
Beech,thence by land of Ilenry Snyder
North eleven aud one-half degrees
East forty-six perches to a stone, thence
North 25degrees East fourteen and 2.*»
hundredths perches to a Dogwood,
thence Nortli eight degrees East eight
and eight-tenths perches to a Maple,
thence by other land of said Frederick
Moser South fifty one degrees West
seventy-two and five-tenths perches to
a stone the place of beginning contain
ing eleven acres and one hundred and
twentyseven perches of land.
The above described real estate is one
of the oldest hotel stands in Montour
County. It has been known for years
as the Fred Moser stand is licensed
now aud has been for many years;
there is an abundance of fruit 011 the
premises aud the best kind of water
convenient to house and barn; it lies
on the main road leading from Dan
ville to Milton. Possession will be
given on October Ist, 1906.
ALSO—At the same time and
place a lot of Personal Property
Horses, Cows, Farming Implements,
Chickens, Turkeys, Guineas—House
hold furniture, and all kinds of per
sonal property that is usually found
011 a well stocked farm and in and
about a Hotel Property.
TERM OF SALE: Purchaser or pur
chasers of the real estate will pay
tweny-five per centum of the purchase
money upon striking down of the
property; balance upon confirmation of
ale absolute; all conveyancing to be
at the cost of the purchaser.
A credit of six months will be given
purchasers of personal property 011 1
all sums exceeding five dollars.
MARY CATHARINE MOSER
and GEOKGE MOSER Adm
it. Scott Aminerman, Atty.
McClelland Diehl
Auctioneer
I
■»
CAMPING SEASON.
, During this delightful summer
weather a large number of Danville
. people are enjoying out-of-door life in
camp. At least half a dozen parties
Irom this city art' comfortably (?)
housed under canvas in shady nooks.
, Frequeuth the campers are seen re
turning to town tor a few hours (pre
; suiuably for tlie purpose of re-stocking
the larder) and in every instance they
report having a fine time.
A PRETTY GOOD SWAT.
The backbone of Summer, if not
, broken,got a pretty good swat the last
few mornings with tin temperature
, hovering around 50 degrees at sunrise.
, Warmer weather is on the way,though
no pronounced hot wave.
Administratrix's Notice.
Estate of Henry Bernheimer,deceas
ed, Late of the Borough of Danville,
Montour County, Penua.
Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration in the above named
estate have been granted to the under
signed and all persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immedi
ate payment and those having claims
or demands to present them without
elay to
ANNA M. BERNHEIMER,
Administratrix.
Ralph Kisuer, Attorney.
Danville, Pa., Aug. a, 1!»(*>.
A cure ive CATARRH
Ely's Cream Balm
is quickly absorbed. Epl
Gives Relief at Once. «*%) J
n
heals and protects
the diseased mem- £"fl
brane. It cures Ga- MB '
tarrli and drive s
away a Cold in Hi' 1
Head quickly. 1 UAV fTX/TR
stores tlie Senses of »•»» ■ I L Tbll
Taste and Smell. Fall size 50ets., at Drug
gists or by mail; Trial Size lOcts.by mail.
Ely Brot hers, s<i Warren Street,. New York.
Administratrix Notice.
Estate of Mrs. Sarah E. Hoffman, late
of the Borough of Danville, County
of Montour and state of Pennsyl
vania, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary on the above estate have
been granted to the undersigned, in
whom all persons indebted to the
estate are requested to make payment
and those having claims or demands
will make known the same wiihout
delay.
ANNIE H. WILLIAMS,
Administratrix.
Administratrix Notice.
Estate of Enoch \V Snyder, deceased
late of Libeitv t-unship. in the Conn
ty M< ntonraud Statu of Pennsylvania
Letters i t administration on the estate
of Enoch \V. Sn\ der, late of Liberty
township. Montour County, Pa-, deceas
ed, 1 nvc ' r n -ranted to Sarah E. Sny
der. residing in said township, tit whom
all pernnis indebted to said estate are
requested to m.ike jiayment. and those
having claims or den ands will make
known 'he - tine without delay.
- ARAME SNYDER
Admiustr.itrix
Liberty Township, Montour Co Pa .
Maj- H t li.
Executrix Notice.
Estate of I >r. Thomas B. Wintersteen,
late of tin* Borough of Danville,
Pelill a . deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testamentary on the above estate have
been granted to the undersigned, to
whom all persons indebted to said es
tate are requested to make payment,
and those having claims or demands
will make known the same without
delay.
MINNIE 1. WINTERSTEEN,
Executrix.
Executors* Notice.
Estate of Jacob IS robs t, late of the
Township of West Hemlock, in the
County of Montour and Stat* of
Peunsilvania, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary on the above estate have
been granted to the undersigned. All
persons indebted to the said estate are
required to make payment, and those
having claims or demands against the
said estate,will make known the same
without delay to
WM. .1. BRORST,
MARY ELLEN KNORR,
Executors of Jacob Brobst, deceased.
P. O. Address, Bloomsburg, Pa.
EDWARD SAYRE GEARIIART,
Counsel
Windsor Hotel
Between 1 '2th and 1:1 th St<. on Filbert St
Philadelphia, Pa.
Three minutes walk from the Read
ing Terminal. Five minutes walk from
the Penna. R II Depot.
l~lltfOPI:AN PLAN
$1 (X) tier day and upwards.
AMERICAN PLAN
f'J.OO per day.
FRANK M SCHFIBLEY.
anager
R-I I 1 A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For Mankind.
The ."icent packet is enough for usual
invasions. The family bottle (fit) cents)
contains a supply for a year. All drop
ists sell thm