Three Baggage Checks By Donald Allen Copyright, tWti, hv M. M. ('uriiiingtiHui Whatever caused Harry l.et', bache lor. Huh man and a good deal of a cynic, to saunter into the Central depot that fleviioou lie never has been able to r\i(h>iu except by laying it to fate. He wasn't going anywhere, didn't want to see ;.iiy!>i.dy in particular, and he al wnjs kept clear of passenger depots on account of tearful old women and cry ing children. On this occasion lie had scarcely caught sight of one tearful old woman when somebody caught sight of hlin. "And who on earth told you that I was going to Buffalo?" exclaimed a voice at Ills elbow as he turned togo out. It was .Miss Remington, whom tie had known fairly well for a year past and who had sometimes struck him as be ing rather good looking and of engag ing manners. Just now she was look ing unusually well In her traveling suit and her eyes shining with excite ment. "I—l came to say farewell," replied Lee, with ready wit. "How nice of you! My trunk was sent on half an hour ago ahead of mtf and mu9t he In the baggage room. I "TES, I KJJOW," SMIXiED THK RAGGAOE MASTEK. know you will take my ticket and get It checked for me. Brother Will said he would surely be here, but something has happened to detain him." "It will tie something to renieml>er all my life." A child of len. a bachelor of forty or an old woman of ninety can check a trunk when once the feat of getting It to the depot has i>een accomplished. All yon have to do i« to point it out with one hand while you show your ticket with the other and (eli the bag gage master that he must make no mis take and check it 112 >r oshkosli Instead of Kalamazoo. Harry Lee had that trunk identified and checked in seven minutes, and lie was feeling rather proud over the fact when a plain looking woman of forty appealed to him. She was looking for a trunk with a broken handle, but thus far It had eluded her. It tried to dodge Harry I.ee, but In vain. He had his eyes on it in no time. Just at this Juncture a girl of eight een, dressed in mourning and looking tearful and anxious, wanted help. Her trunk was all right as to handles, but she wan afraid it bad been checked to Rochester instead of Syracuse. She gave the bachelor her check to see about It, and thus it came about that he had three checks for three trunks !» Ills possession. Moreover, lie put them into the same pocket. Moreover, agsra, he'd have walked back to Miss Rem ington with them had not the plain looking woman and the girl in mourn Ing hesitatingly reminded him of his carelessness. " Tea thousand pardous, ladies," he apologized in confusion, and with that he gallautly pulled out the three checks and made a fair divide. There was Just one apiece and nothing left over. It was train time now and everybody ID .1 II'ITJ, aud Miss Remington's brother came rushing in.and so with It all no one made any discoveries, and the three women were hurried away with scores of other passengers. For the first time in a year, so far as he could remember, the club bachelor had made himself useful for a few minutes, and there was something like elation in his eye as he left the depot to continue his snunter. Twenty-four hours later he received a call from young Winchester, who had an opeu telegram in his band and who bluntly Inquired: "See here. Lee, what have you done with my sister's trunk?" "Why. I checked it for Buffalo yes terday." "She lias telegraphed that she has nil other In the place of it." "But. mar. I surely checked it, and you saw me hand her the brass. Those confounded railroad folks must have made another of their stupid mistakes." "Well, we'll let It rest for a day.and perhaps they'll rectify it." During the next twenty-four hours Miss Remington sent two more tele grams from Buffalo, and the ease lov ing and complacent bachelor got a move on him and went to the depot to Interview the president, vice president and general manager of the road. Be- In:; told that they bad gone off on a : .1 ysi >. ' | cnic, he decided to in terv ,-w th" .a>.gnge master Instead. The.e - a> < i m.iy in his bearing as ii t i' i tsh the worm uuder h feet The v.-■•mi wasn't very busy j >i i aii 1 l;c.ml him through and t i<m i«•!:t! : :i:e«I ith: "W.» li.ivi* two telegrams from two oilier wi IH'ii about trunks having gone wrong. and It's all owing to your bav li.. butted in here the other day. Ire- Ti 'inbei yni very well You had three rr.nks chci-kc I at the same time." ' Yes. sir. I "lid. and if the baggage department can't take care of the trunks all at once it had better go hang." "IMO you nana the three checks to three different women?" "Of course 1 did." "Are you sure you kept them sepa rate?" "Of course—that is—that is, you know"— "Yes. 1 know." smiled the baggage master. "You handed out any old check, and as a consequence there Is a mis. It's vip to you to do some tele graphing and straighten things out." Mr. I „ee spent the whole day tele graphing and receiving "collect" mes sages from Buffalo, Rochester and Syr but ha made little headwav. [ luc.vaur* » • ir «uu eific; iiis "colic rs" were vigorous and rather tinea m At the end of the day he dc lc 1 on making a personal trii> to Mm h.eu out the tangle. He could reiiiciii'-er the trunks and tlieit respect I \ e o\. uers. His first stop was at Syracuse. He was sure I hat the girl in mourning with a humble looking trunk had had it checked there. Two telegrams had passed and lie had her address In the course of an hour he found her. She hadn't quite o much mourning on now ami was better looking than he had thought. She lwul received the plain woman's trunk with the broken handle. She was a refined, ladylike girl and in mourning for an aunt who had left her sf>o.iMNi. bin yet v he used language tinged with acid. Next time she went traveling and had to appeal to a man for help she would make sure that he knew enough to check his own trunk, nnd so forth, and so forth. A woman may lose her sweetheart and say noth ing. but let her lose her trunk while traveling and It takes years to exhaust the subject. Mr. I.ee got away with his ears burn ing, and yet lie admired Miss Strothers. He arranged to have the trunk sent on to Rochester and then took the train for that city. The plain woman was expecting hiin. She had the trunk all ready to point at. but it didn't happen to be Miss Strothers' trunk. It be longed to M ss Remington. Here was another uiixup. The bachelor drew a long breath and started to explain, but was cut short after a minute. He was asked to Identify himself as an honest man; he was asked to prove that he was not a baggage thief: lie was asked to con vince the plain looking woman, who looked plainer than ever in her own house and with her anger tip. that his grandfather had never been hung for a capital crime. At the end of half an hour the plain woman soften on him a bit. She softened enough to say that perhaps after all it was his first crime and that If he hustled around and got that one handled trunk in Rochester inside of two hours she would not call in the police. Bachelor I.ee longed to return to New York and find rest and peace, but inex orable fate drove him onto Buffalo. There he found Miss Remington. "I am not going to blame you at all," >he said as she met him. "It was all my fault in thinking that you knew anything about the operation of rail roads. You could have loaded that trunk into an auto and had it into the Staten Island fern in half an hour. Mr. I.ee prccoetled to explain, but it was no' much of an explanation. How ever, the more he explained and the more he failed to explain the more he became interested In Miss Remington. It was a matter of four days before the big trunk, the little trunk and the one handled trunk reached their re spective owners. The chapter was closed then and there with the plain looking woman, but not so with one of the others. Eve" since that date, and particularly during the last three months, the bachelor clu'i man has found it necessary togo up the road to talk trunk business, and he finds that the most effective way to remind Miss Remington of her duty to ward the diamond ring she wears is to suggest that he take a trip to Syracuse to see the other young woman about her trunk. ShifCii>K tli«* hi lit y. Sir John Macdonald. when premier of Canada one e\enin_ was present at a public dinner at whicli lie was expected to deliver a rather Impor tant speech. In the conviviality of the occasion he forgot the more serious duty of the evening, and when at a late hour he rose his speech was by no means so luminous as It might have been. The reporter, knowing that it would not do to print iiis notes as they stood, called on Sir John next day and told hi;ii that he was not quite sure of having secured an accurate report. He was invited to read over iiis notes, but he had not got far when Sir John Interrupted him with "That is not what I said." There was a pause, and Sir John continued. "Let me repeat my remarks." He then walked up and down the room and delivered a most Impressive speech in the hearing of the amused reporter, who to >k down every word as it fell from his lips. Having thanked Sir John lor his courtesy, he was takiug his leave when he was re called to receive this admonition: "Young man. allow me to give y >u this word of a-lvice —never again attempt to report a public spe to when jo* are drunk." FORMS OF INSANITY. Pre monitor*- Symptom* by Which Tliey Mu> ll«- Detected. There are certain premonitory symp toms of the more prevalent forms of Insanity that can be counted on, as a general thing, as infallible. In paresis, which is claiming Its vic tims In tremendous numbers, there are many physical slgi s that are almost Incontrovertible. The exaggerated twitching of the facial muscles in conversation, the oc casional tendency of the eye to turn outward, the weakness of the legs, the flabbiness of all muscles, are jjre liininary symptoms that give warning that a man is about to break down. With the victim of mania—the mani ac the v|>t->ms are often similar to those f■.•uid in melancholia, though generally the disease gives the victim an appearance of great elation. The eyes are abnormally bright, the fea tures are alert and tense and an air of tremendous excitement is apparent. This is from a constant fear that some thing is ab nit to happen. Another form of Insanity is prevalent among younger persons. Excessive strain, continual worry or trouble, al lied to a weakened physical system, are the causes. It manifests Itself through the gradual loss of some facul ty that has been all right till now. The 10-s of memory for details Is ar» alarming symptom and one that should be give i careful and Immediate atten tion The patient, if taken at the right time, may be cured, but not after the disea- e Ii s j;ot a firm hold on him. Paranoia, which is a very prevalent type of insnnit} is almost Invariably Indicated t>\ a j.eculiarlj self satisfied, conceited e\ res don of countenance. The pat nt poses sneers contemptu on-1., and n every way shows his tre mendously "stage struck" condition. He is absolutely controlled by the "ego." Everything to hint Is "I, I, I." He is a mot. Jin iniac with one set Idea, a single purpose I»r. Oraeme M. Ham mond in New York WorM "II Suits In II T." The clause. It suits to a T." mean tug it tits exactly is as old .as the familiar instrument, the T square or T rule iso called from its resemblance to the letter Ti, used by mechanics and draftsmen for makii - ngles true and for obtaining perpendiculars. The ex pression was in coiutii e,i use in the time of Or. Johnson. who is quoted by Bosv.ell as saying of Wharbu.'ton, "You see they'd have fitted him to u T." a Marta's \ Interference; ) By Constance D'Arcy Mackay \ \ Copyright. I'.*«S. 1»\ Kuby Douglas 112 "Heaven deliver me from neighbors!" grumbled Marta to hersell as she dusted Professor Travel's' study. From its windows she could look across to the next lawn, where a girl in an em broidered dress was tending a flower garden, a lace parasol in one hand and a ridiculously small green watering can in the other. At her heels barked a tiny dog, and it would have been hard to tell which Marta regarded with the more disapproval, the toy spaniel or its owner. The next door house had been vacant so many years that Marta looked on its new purchasers, the Galnsboros, in tho light of Intruders, as the little village of Hanipstead was seldom frequented by summer people. For this reason Professor Travel's made it his retreat the moment college closed in order to escape the festivities of commencement cheering students, pink ice cream and a host of enthusiastic girls had no charms for him. lie was bored by the former and too deeply absorbed In his books to notice the latter. For this Maria, liis middle aged housekeeper, wis supremely grateful. She had ti'ken care of him too many years to relinquish hot supremacy without a struggle. "I'.itt il will coiue some time," said .1 o!i:i her husband. "Love is like the lie .-les. And the older he Is when he taUf . ir 1 lie harder it will go with him " • tie is thirty-live and it hasn't come yet." a.is .e ed Marta hopefully. Mie had nursed Travel's through many childish ailments and felt herself capable of waning off this most dan gerous ailment of all. So she guarded his solitude wiili watchful zeal. She had a horror of intruders, especially young and feminine ones, and the near ness of Betty tJaiusboro was a positive menace to her peace of mind "Running about in high heeled slip pers and wearing big. fluffy hats, just "OH, Wlis'r YOU I'LEASK STOV?" BESOCOHT A SWEET VOICE. if a freckle or two would hurt her!" sniffed Marta. though it was undenia ble that the face beneath the wide brims was wiusomely attractive. The professor caught his first glimpse of ir one afternoon as he came home through his orchard after a morning spent in tin' woods near by. One coat pocket bulged with specimens, the other contained liis notebook, and he hurried along the grassy path, wonder ing if Marta had kept luncheon wait ing. when from the branches of a gnarled apple tree above him came ft great rustling. "Oh, won't you please stop';" lie sought a sweet voice. The professor halted, blinking up ward into the leaves, where a pretty, enibnrrns; cd face looked out like a 1 tryad in distress. "I'm up here, and 1 can't get down, so I'm afraid I'll have to ask you for help." To the professor, unused to climbing any tree save that of knowledge, the feat was extremely difficult. Y'et he managed It skillfully enough and swung himself up to where Betty sat. Then < slowly, holding very tight to his hand, she made her descent, ending with a Jump and a frightened little laugh. "I won't do that again," she de clared. "It's been awfully good of you to help a neighbor in distress, especial ly when she's been trespassing on your property." Travers said that lie hoped she would trespass as often as she liked, and side by side they moved homeward through the long orchard grass. lie saw her to her own gate, and next day when they went for a stroll by the Hampstead j river Marta's worst fears seemed real ized. Her consternation increased when Travers began to look to his canoe that he had not used in years, humming a college glee as he worked. "If he Is drowned It will be the fault of that flighv piece next door!" wailed Marta. He began, too. to take an alarming interest in his personal appearance, a thing be bail never done before He ?ave up bis somewhat seedy coats and queer, loose collars, and a box present ly arrived from New York bearing the ; tall mark of a fashionable tailor. And Maria felt that a crisi had been reach .• I when the loss of some of the finest , p -' i ncuts of liora in Travers' collec ; won ona moved him to a temporary i regret, lb' no longer spent his days ; ;>oring over books Instead, he studied j uie niooiis of Miss Betty Gaiusboro, aud came to the conclusion that there | was 1 1<1 1b ' i •_ on earth more incompre hensible lb in a woman. Once, when 1 the cano.- bad nearly overturned, she < h id VMIW n herself valiant in the race 'of danger. \ei the sight of a tiny garter j snake made her seek refuge on the ! nearest fence, where she perched In a j panic till Travers had killed it. One evening when Travers was re ttiming from a lecture he had given at thi- mnmer school of an adjoining town hen »tod a tall young fellow, fair haired ami broad of shoulder, get off at the Hampstead station and strike alon . the village road like one accus tomed to the place The professor fol lowed a lii le in the rear. At the • iaui boro gate the young fellow turn ed. and Betty. who was lingering on Ml"> Ipwil llevv t r. in*..** »r-sil. | "Oh, Dick!" she cried, nu unmistak able tlirili of surprise ami joy in her J voice. Of (lie rest Travers saw and [ heard nothing. He stopped back quick ;ly into the shadows. What right had i he to lie a witness of a lovers' meet ing? "You must have had a tiresome day," said Marta solicitously, "for you're ns | white as a sheet." "I'm an old fool," groaned Travers ;to himself, "an old fool! llow could I ever have supposed that she could care for me? Why, I'm nothing but a book worm—all my life has been spent in musty volumes and class rooms, and now"— He looked toward the Gains boro house, where the glimmer of a cig arette shone like n firefly through the darkness and the cheerful tunk-a-tunk !of a banjo came on the night air. i "Love," said the professor slowly, "was | not intended for me." Thereafter, to Marta's satisfaction, lie stayed indoors, forsaking his canoe and applying himself listlessly to his ! books. But Marta was quick to read the signs and soon realized that a" was not well with the young professor. That he should fall in love had been trouble enough, but to be refused by a chit of a girl with no more brains than a butterfly, that was not to be borne, and Marta's anger rose the longer she thought of It. But when, after artfully questioning the professor, she found that he had not asked Miss Betty i Gainsboro to marry him, then there ! raged in Marta's hearr a battle between the desire for her own supremacy and the desire for Travels' happiness. The latter conquered. "I see," she remarked to Travel's as she entered his study bright and early, duster in hand. "1 see that Miss Gains boro's cousin, who's been visiting there, has gone, lie's going to marry a girl out west and Miss <fainsboro's to be bridesmaid. Just read it in the paper this morning. I'm sorry to disturb you. professor, but you know this is clean ing day.l won't be long Suppose you go out In the orchard and wait till I'm through';" Marta had seen the dicker of a white Press between the trees. Travers, absentmindedly clutching a paper knife, went out into the orchard in a happy daze and came face to face with Bettv Gainsboro. "Locking for specimens'?" she de manded. a of laughter in her tone. "So." said Travers, "for I've found a perfect one :it lust, a rose of all the roses that I mean to cherish forever, it' you will let me. Hetty.'' "If you don't mind the thorns." she whispered. And Mart i. wat< hitiic then; from tht study wlndjw. surreptitiously wiped her eves. Ido believe I'm glad of it after all." - 'ie said Jiuskily, "though I know lie'll never get his meals on time." DESTINY OF THE JEW. To Milt- llie World u lloitiOK'eiicoiiM Humanity, Sa ys Wnlter Hurt. Zionism, as it presents itself to me. Is a beautiful but a barren dream. It Is the noble conception of a splendid sentimentalist, born from the grand brain and nursed in the great heart of The- :lnre Ilerzl and well calculated to Inspire the imagination of a people that have cherished through the cen turlcs Its imperishable ideals. It is the : flower of a mighty love that never can 1 know u momentary fruition, j In this clannlshness of the Jew, en • gendered by ages of persecution, wo | find the philosophy of conditions that appear to us as cruel. His has been but I a preparatory experience. The strong est bond of brotherhood In the world \ today is that of Jewish Mood. It is ! the red badge of a freemasonry found- I ed on a community of suffering, and j its ritual is written large upon each heart in letters of pain. And this it is that at last will weld the world to gether. With the iiifn-ion of Jewish blood into the universal social body—a blood become so distinctive that it will tincture the whole vast volume— men will meet from the ends of the earth and, looking in each other's face, will recognize a clansman. This is the destiny reserved for the Jew this is his sociologic function to break down the barriers of race that partition society int> nations and give to the world a homogeneous hu manity.—Walter Hurt In Culturist. s?triii Line Flannel. All good flannel Is shrunk before be ing offered to the public, and the proc ess is carried on by the most oxperl enced cloth workers. The flannels are placed between two heavy NV «-t sheets first and left in tint position for hvon ty-four to thirty six hours. When ru mored they are spread out on specially prepared rails in a drying room heated by steam pipes, where they are allow ed to remain until thoroughly dry. The next process is to place the lengths of the flannel in folds between layers of glossy paper and subject it to a press ing by hydraulic machines. The more pressure they are subjected to the more valuable and heavy tin* flannels be come—London Graphic. An luteal 111 lit WINII In the court of sessions in Scotland the judges who do not attend or give a proper excuse for their absence are by law liable to a line. This law. how ever, is never enforced, but it is com mon on the first day of the session for the absentee to send an excuse to the lord president. Lord Stonetield hav ing sent such an excuse, on the presl dent mentioning it the late Lord Jus tieo Clerk Itraxlield said In his broad dialect. ' What excuse can a stout t'el low like him ha'eV" "My lord," said the president, "he has lost his wife." The justice, who was .itted with a Xantlppe, replied: "Has tie That Is a guile excuse indeed. I wish we had a' the same." ttoul briilrncr. '".My oiii\ objection to the young ! man," said the father, speakii' of the ! youth wh > proposed to bis da ighter, | "is that he doesn't seem t > have the j least bit of sense or foresight." "But," answered the mother, "he has as much sense as you had when you asked for my hand." "Confound it! That's just why I ob ject to him." Philadelphia Inquirer. Tlic I'.n Inside*. Is the earth made up of three eon i centric spheres? A physician says that ' such is Ihe case. The solid nucleus he j supposes to be bet eu 3.UUO and 7,000 miles in diameter, and this is surround -1 etl by a liquid substratum, outside of | which is the crust, variously estimat ed al To to ht miles in thickness, j More than two centuries ago a similar theory, including the slow rotation of ' the inner solid sphere on a different axis from that of the entire globe, was held by 1 >r. Edmund 11 a I ley to account ! for the changes in the earth's magnet ; Ism. The axis of the nucleus was thought to have been originally that of ihe entire globe, and to the change of j Its c >urse was attributed the deluge. The earth's internal heat, it is now pointed out. may be accounted for by tiic friction of the different rotating . bodies THE "HOLY HOUSE." fi»»» fi»»» Home of Mary nncfl 111® SM % lour. Let me the main outlines of the legend. \: N izarelh was preserved witli pious care the hou--' of Our Lady. I lie dwelling plaeo in which she received th" gracious message of the incarnation, the lowly home which j sheltered iiie h >ly family for so many years, was a very precious sanctuary. <ni Maj if, lj.il, a month after the taking of Tripoli and I'tolemais, this holy 1 w.is carried by the hands of ang l >• i Nazareth to a place In Ilmatl i i- -tween Flume and Tersatx on the Adriatic shore. It was a one roomed edifice, built of red square stones, fastened with ce ment. and bore proof of age and orl» ental d«-l;n It stood without any foundations and had n wooden deco ratd ecUing. The walls were covered with frc.-.* es; there were a door and n narrow window: inside were an altar of ft-no, an ancient crucifix, a small < i ' ard. containing a few ves sels of ion use; a chimney and hearth. which was a cedar statue of our Lady with the Holy Child in 1 " arms. The pastor of the plaeo I u ned in a vision that the build ing was the house of Our Lady, the stone altar that at which St. Peter celebrated mass and the statue the work of Si. Luke the Evangelist. In proof of the vision he was cured of a serious Illness A deputation of four responsible persons forthwith were sent to Nazareth to Investigate the mystery, and they found that the house was no longer to be found. Measurement aud other means taken proved that the house that had sud denly appeared in Dalmatla was In deed none other than that which had ns suddenly left Palestine. Three years after, on I>ee. 10, 12!i4, the holy house again disappeard and under the pontificate of Oelestiue V. came to Itecanati, a little town in the march of Ancona, when it fixed itself In a laurel grove belonging to a pious lady called I .ore to. It was discovered by some sheplu rds and soon became rec ognized and was henceforth a much frequented place of pilgrimage. Eight months afterward the house removed to a small hill, three miles from Re canati. to la; d belonging to two broth ers, who. liowewr, fell out shortly aft erward over tiie division of wealth which began to flow to the new shrine. To save strife between the brothers the house was suddenly lifted once more and this time settled down final ly in the midst of the public way, which had to be diverted in conse quence. Here, too. In the course of time a chapel was built, which gave way in time to the present basilica. The famous pilgrimage of Loreto goes on today Popes, kings and princes have visited this shrine and left great gifts. Later on a festival with litur gical rites was instituted, and in time the feast of the translation of the holy house was extended to many countries. —Fortnightly Review. ARTIFICIAL WARMTH. It* I mi* an Inherited Hnlilt avd a Sifcn of Luxury. With tie big. restless, energetic world out "of this tropical belt, how ever. ihe matter of keeping warm Is ever prest nr. troublesome and expen sive, throughout half of each passing year As a ni.iUer of fact, the world of hu tr.aniiy d* idling in stoveland never has been in nil tin- ages really and com (ortal.lv warm in winter. It is largely our own fault. Mankind is the only an imal which employs fire in the effort to nirvive the cold of the winters. Tbo hardy lower animals do not need it, however much their luxuriously ener vated representatives, the dog nod the cat. may enjoy it when they hare a chance. Ancient man only got himself rid of his provident coat of hair and his suf fieent latent heat when he began to 'o'if around the family cooking stove and absorb the intoxicating comfort of ariifi lal warmth. This faraway an ce lor i< responsible f«»r the fact that '!.<• present I'.-'.V human being, outside »112 :h-• belt aforesaid, is obliged to keep do 11 a thermometer registering n.-.ii ly or jiiite T«» degrees F. from Oc tober in M iy. besides which he must ie.- Is wear extra clothing Tills also Is an inherited habit. A traveler west once asked a half naked Indian in midwinter how he managed . stand the weather. The Midi.'a r.'olieil: "Your face no got a coal Ii ni c >i.i Indian face nil over." \: !i a-!I Mag iziue. Had Importation*. Englishmen introduced the rabbit to Australia, v here it ruined vast areas of valuable land. Weasels sent to correct the mistake found ground birds good eating and let the rabbits alone. Scots men bestowed tin' thistle upon New Zealand and then wished they hadn't. A pretty water weed of which English men are fond was transplanted to New Zealand and throve so that it dams I road rivers. The mongoose sent to Jamaica to kill off the cane rats ex ternsii!: ' ) 'em end dev■! >ued a fine liking for poultry. nclTLthe couch 1 land CURE the LUWCBI !_„ /TOniSUMPTION | fi FOR i OhOHS and 50c8J1.C0S j" Frea Trial, g a Surest and Quickest Cure for all 3 | THUOAT and LUNG TR9UB- I 8 LES, or 1:0N£1' BACK. 11l I II!■ ■ / smirii! A. Flollabl© TIN SHOP Tor att kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and Coneral Joh Work. Stoves, Heaters. f?an*«», Furnac.js, «to. PRICES THE IMEST! QIiLITY THE BEST! JOHN Hl\S<» so. 118 E. i'EONT ar. ATTAR OF ROSES. Vfovt Thin I J<-« *< io;** ami 11\pe II «Iv% Perfume I* Made. The ward "attar" is from the Arab) "iti" and means perfume. So attar of roses is simply perfume <>f roses. It is brought ii'oui Turkey and the East In dies in small vials and is very costly. Even o i the spot where it is manufac tor d is extremely dear, because it requires 1<KI,0(MI well grown roses to \ it• li tint JS i grains of attar. IK ha.li prieo causes it to be often adulterated with so no essential or fix ed oil or with s;> •rmacetl. However, tli" a<!alteration may be detected by t"s 'eg it in a watch glass with a drop ■ 112 'ilj.huric acid. If the attar be pure ii • !i : iin colorless, for pure attar if i' i- colorless, but if it be adul '.;ed it v. ill become darkened. In r :■ e tiehl . where the roses are g- ii for the purpose of making the ■. ih • bi:>'ies are planted in rows. Li t'...> early miming they are laden v.'i!i I. -'.utii'til ros.-s, but ere noon coi .hoy re all gathered and their p till d in clay stills, with twice t' ■'r weight of water. 'I lie v. iter i it "conies over" Is put | > P ' I'.Ktly . J an vessels and is then carefully covered with damp muslin e! >ii. ' mi dn-'l and insects. It i- iii' l r -i .pod 1 > the night air or to a 11ia i i id. By morning a liie: is suei >!T with a feather and very transferred to a small vi il. N I.after night this process is j rope t■; '! >!i • 112 thprecious oil Is ! separa " : ir in the water. BUSINESS SENSE. A \\ .11 <;• • • :l Meaim u Writ Ovilvn-J Mind. "There" . pieee of advice," said ' the sojii,. • i .-.no;. "that I'd like to give every \ a man taking a busi ness position with a desk attached to it. It's tiii-: Keep your desk clean, j V* luit I u.c a ! \ living a desk clean j Is eViVyiiiiug possible oil it, except that which is % dated to the matter in hand. I've observed In my tine ag>»l ma «y men in their ottices, j and 1 can say that with very few ex- , cejiti iiis tiie real men of affairs are j those \.-!:o a v f.-ee from clutter. "With a! e <>; apers in front of you ! it's aim sr a < e: ainty that some hour! in the day y-m're going to be flustered, and vi.., l'U-!y it will be just when: you want a. clear head. The old idea ■ that a mass if material every which ! way c ih • • !i is a sign that a person is full of b. -'-ess is pretty well out worn. Such a collection not only indi cates a lack of order, but also Is a sign that nervo ;• ie s may be expected from 111 ■ iiiaa in the chair. What with filing cabinet • and other devices no excuse can be offered nowadays for confusion. "A well ordered desk means a well order" ! mind, a mind taking up one thing at a time and giving it the proper attention. It denotes regularity and concentrated, effective effort." New York Pre-s. \ot a Harbor Shop. A Connecticut clergyman, says a writer i:i I.ippinc >tt's, while visiting friends once <uekt 1 his napkin into his c-ol'.ar t > o«-i h's clothing from the pi " ■ <f Mi,' 'a; {ritit at breakfast. He la I'.'hed ;;s he did it and said it re miuile I ?i.i .. a man he once knew who rushed into a restaurant and, seat- In; li'.a. el a taM > proceeded to tuck his nap., ii tinder his chin. He the i tilled i .waiter and said, 'Tan T got bill. he:, here:" "Yes. ' re- aided the waiter in a dig nifiel • lanni r. "bat not a shampoo." Life on the Farm. Heal life on th- farm means corn In abundance, hogs a-plenty, cows enough to keep every vessel on the place over flowing with milk, harses for every member of the family, chickens, tur keys, ; ee-e. ducks, fruit in season and out of season, babies and good cheer s:!l the ye; r round.--Houston (Tex.i I 'c>st. Very Simple. "Mi s Short say- she's thirty, but I'm M;re die ■■ tl irt\ six. every year of it." "Well. >. -ii see. -die was six '.-fora *he lean e l to count." H~ _p" | of Danville. I ; Of course you read i.! i! w i 1 h i THE nEOPLE'S KQPULAH 1 A PER. Everybody Rf: ds It. j :l Published Every Morn! Except i Sunday ; " il > » No. ii b. Mch. mar St.i ;l I : Subscription '\r V. v'". TSJ IL TIMBER PRESERVATION. Tli«* \liihl Perfect Method Is Also (lie KxpeaaiTe. Telephoi.t poles nearly always decay at or just bfinw the ground line. The tipper portion of the pole, permanently in ti:>- »ir, rapidly drying after rain, is I r.i iienllv always dry and is rarely found ilecnved. The butt of the pole, leeply huried in tiie ground, is In a permanently damp condition, but oxy gon being e.vt'luded it is seldom badly •ii,i'< te;l. <'lo-e to the ground line the soil t\■ t:> i 11s the moisture and keeps the wood con iantly damp where it is ex pos<"l to the air and to the heat of the stin, which is just what its little vege table enemies like, but if the albumen in the wood ran be rendered unfit for food the wood tissues offer practically no support to fungi. Timber preserva tion amounts, then, to poisoning the food supply of the destructive agencies. Preservation of timber is attempted in three ways—by seasoning, either natural oV artificial; by outward me chanical means, such as charring in fire or the applications of antiseptics on the surface of the stick, and by impreg nating the wood with antiseptics. Of these ih" last is by far the most Im portant. The most perfect method— which is aNo the most expensive—Is the inje:-ti< . dead oil of coal tar in -1 i ho whole iiber of the pole.—Hart ford Times. Tliey love Dante. A magn : ticent upper chamber of the muui<\[i:il palace (the Palazzo Vecchio) iu Florence is set apart !-i memory of the great poet Dante. To it each of the sixty-nine provinces and all of the lar ger cities and towns of united Italy have contributed a banner in his hon or. There are over 300 of these ban ners in all. and the donors, in eager emulation, have tried to make each of fering more beautiful than the others. The banners are of the differing colors of the provinces and hear their arms In exquisite embroidery or in paintings by the first living artists. The fervor of the homage paid here to the immor tal Italian poet stirs the heart of even the passing stranger. Whatever the jealousies or estrangement of these people, beside his tomb th<\v are united (•pneronit jr. Never be sorry for any generous thing! that you e»er did, even If it was betraye-l V •vt-r he sorry that you were mriLin t;:iiiious if the man was mean afterward. Never he sorry that you grave It was right for you to give even if v.ui were imposed u|>ou. on 112 iii;. i . ! i;-| ( i Uee;> on the safe side hr I ■ .• - T ackawanna railroad. - BLOO MSBORG DIVISION I Delaware. Lackawanna and Wefteri Railroad. In Effect Jan. 1, 1905. TKAINS LEAVE DANVILLE EASTWARD. 7.07 a. m.daily tor Bloomsburg, Kingston Wilkes-Barre Scranton. Arriving Scrun ton at 9.42 a. in., and connecting at Scrantoi with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 8.48 a m.and New York City at 3.30 p. in. 10.19 a. ra. weekly for Bioonisburg. Kingston Wi 1 kes-Barre.Scranton and in termedlate sta tions, arrivin? at Scranton at 12.35 p. m. «nC connecting th re with trains for Ntw Yerl City, Philadelphia and ButTaio. 2.11 weekly rorßloomsburg,Kingston, Wllk«i Barre, Scranton and intermediate stations arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. no. 5.13 p. m.daily for Blooinsburg, Kspy, P'y mouth. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, PitUUori I Scranton and Intermediate stations, arriving | at Scranton at *.25 P- m.and connecting theri with trains arriving at New York City at o 5( u' ni., PhUadelpeia 10 a. m.and Buffalo 7 a ua TRAINS AiiRIVE AT DANVILLE 9 15a. m. weekly from Scranton. I'lttf-ton Kingston, Bioomsburg and Intermediate sta ! tions, leaving Scranton at 6.35 a. m., where 11 connects with trains leaving New YorK City j at 9.30 p. in., Philadelphia at 702 p.m. and I Butialo at 1u.30 a.m. 1 12 44 p ni daily irorn Scranton Plttston ! Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and lnterme -1 ilate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a.m. ! and connecting there with train leaving Bun ;tlo at 2.25 a. ra. I I 3.S p. in. weekly 0111 Scranton. Mugston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and intermediate sta ! tions, leaving S< ranton at 1.55 p. m , where 11 ! -om e 't* with train leaving New York t ltj 1 .".t 10 00 a. ill., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m. 9 ft.-, pin. dailv from Scranton. Kingston i*itt«ton Berwick. Bloomsbnrg and lnterm®- i diate stations, leaving Sera ton at 6.35 p.m. where it connects with trains leaving New York City at 1.00 p. m.. Philadelphia at 12 0( p. iu. and Buflolo at 9.30 a. m. T. K. CLARKE, Oen'l Snp'l. 'l'. W. I.hh, tjtL. I'Uiifa. 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