Montour American. FRANK C. ANGLE. Proprietor. Danville, Pa , Mar. 7, 1907. Among the more importaut legisla tive propositious that died with the fifty-ninth congress,aud most of which received the sauctiou of the president and the coantry, are : The eight-liour bill which organized labor has been asking for these many years. The anti injunction hills, of which there were aeveral. Sv\amp laud reclamation. Codification of the revised federal statutes. Modification of the Chinese exolusion act. Copyright revision. Re duction of the tariff on Philippine products entering the United State?. The bill to make Porto Ricaus citiz ens. Publicity iu campaign affairs. The Crumpacker bill to afford a court review of a fraud order issued by the postoffice department. Federal child labor legislation. Legislation to pro tect free labor from contract labor. Legislation regulating the interstate traffic in intoxicating liquors. Most of these measures will re-appear at the next session, but it is a discredit to congress and to this nation, that the Sugar and Tobacco Trusts prevented justice to the Philippines in giviug them »ueh legislation as would place them on their feet aud revive their industries, by reducing the tariff on Pnihppine products entering the United States. The notorious railway mail graft, carrying with it excessive payments to the amount of at least ten or fifteen million dollars a year, is continued. The trick of weighing the mails for seven days and dividing by six to fiud the daily average, which makes a free gift of five million dollars to the roads, is still in force. The Beef Trust is al so v ; ctor The Beveridge ameudment to date meat products wa- defeated in conference. The conservation of gov ernment nl aud coal lauds, urged by the president, was refused, though the relusal leaves them at the mercy of the Standard Oil and Coal Trusts. Pension Bill Voted Down. HARRISBURG, March 6. With hardly a dissenting voice, the house of repreeeutati ves yesterday af ternoon killed the teachers' pension bill, ou second reading, aud the mem bers had a lot of fuu doing it. Scarcely had tiie bi'.l been read when Representative Dunsiuore, Republi can, of Tioga, wfft red an ameudment that iiut only teaeoers, but al persons attaining the ago of 70 years,who had for twenty-five years beeu good aud faithful citizens of the State, be made eligible for the peusiou of $l5O per year which the bill provides. The house accepted the amendment amid laughter and cheers. Representative Marvin, Republican, of Piko, contributed his share to the entertainment by following with an amendment that, instead of teaching thirty years, as the bill provided, teachers should serve seventy-five years before being eligible for pen sions. With a whoop of merriment this amendment was also adopted. A third ameudmeut was proposed by Representative Pratt, Republican, ol Allegheny, providing that men teach ers should be retired at the age of «0. As the house was not playing any fav orites this was also tacked on the bill, and at once drew forth a point of ord er from Representative Blabslee, Democrat, of Carbon. Blakslee presented what he termed a constitutional poiut of order, saying that the bill was impossible of ful fillment as amended, for it provided tor retiring women at the age of *>o. and that no worn »n would ever admit that she was HO. Speaker McClain smiled broadly and admitted that the point was well taken, but nevertheless, decided to submit it to the house. In a mighty shout the members sus tained Blakslee, aud the bill fell. There was little time from the mea sure's iuception when it was not vir tually cretaiu it would fail. Not ouly is there a general sentimeut against civil peusiou list* among a large pro portion of the members, solely ou the merits of the question, but the con stitution is quoted as being against any peusious except for military ser vice Fire in New Capitol. HARRISBURG. March 6. Mice aud matches formed the com bination that arly this uiorniug set fire to a de k iu the offi :e of State Re gisrrar Bart, iu the Department ot Health,at th new State capit d Night Watchman K. M Householder was paradiug through the corridor iu the north wing of the capitol wlieu he smelled smoke. It was about 1 o'clock and he knew there was no necessity for a fire at that hour, and he began an investigation,which resulted iu the discovery of the fire iu Dr. Batt's office. Watchman Householder quickly gave the alarm to State Health Commis sioner Dixon,Private Secretary Morse and Clerk Nelson who were still iu the main office of the department, aud the quartet quickly unreeled the baud hose kept for fire purposes and break iug iu the door of the office soon had a stream on that destroyed the fire mic robes, the conflagration germs and the flame bacteria. An alarm was sent out,but when the firemen arrived they were informed that their services were not needed as the fire had been extinguished. Swift justice followed upon the in cendiary act of the mouse that nibbled thq matches and set the desk on fire. In clearing away the debris the iu cinerated remains of the incendiary were found, the fire fieud being crem ated in his attempt to set fire to the oapit>ol. Nothing remaiued of the mouse but a charooal and a scorched trail. A. gross of mouse traps have beeu ortteFßd by Super!Dtuttfeot Rami*' A MILITARY DESPOT. The Experience of One Private In the German Army. The following is the experience of a German army p ivate: During the second maneuvers 1 was jeut ou ahead to select quarters for my company. The police supply the names of householders who are expected to shelter the soldiery, and I had to de cide on the number of men who should be assigned to each place. It seems that our major dispatched a courier with a message for our captain. For some reason or other the message was not delivered. The next day the captain called me out and In the pres ence of the whole company re'mked me for not delivering the message. "I did not receive any message," 1 ventured. „ "Shut up your mouth, you liar!'' he thundered. And again he bellowed, "Why didn't you deliver that message, you"— I told him a second time that I had not received any message. The cap tain's temper broke all bounds. With an oath he rode his horse at me full tilt, hurling filthy names at me the while. When he had ridden right up to me- I fully expected he would run me over, but I dared not move—he suddenly reined in his horse and. drawing a long dagger from his belt, shouted, livid with passion. "I have half a mind to stick this through your vile body, you schweinhund!" Once more lie asked me about the message, and once more I answered him. "Then live days' confinement and bread and water be your punishment, you liar!" he retorted. He repeated the question several times and increased my term of impris onment each time I answered in the negative until my term of Imprison ment equaled fourteen days. I was placed under arrest. Next day I was released. I afterward found that the captain had discovered his mistake, but he never referred to it. —World Today. BIRTH OF A "GASSER." Nolae <it a Blowing Well Drowned \lt Other Sonndi. In the Broadway Magazine is a story by Rupert Hughes concerning the oil wells of Texas. He tells of the birth of a "gasser." , "It screamed like the death cry of a thousand panthers." He says:"The long sleel cable has beeu sent flying like a twine string. A great length of pipe has been hurled against a tree and wrapped around it. The derrick was almost hidden in a white haze. A geyser of tine sand was streaming up ward and eating away the lofty crown block. "Seth knew what it was. He found Tom, and they gesticulated at each other. They made faces, but no audi ble sound. Their voices were vain as candles in the full sunlight. Each was trying to yell the same thing. " "She' 3 a gasser, blowing her head off.' "Meu gathered from everywhere and acted like crazy folk, working their jaws and delivering no message. "They were soaked, drowned, ob literated in a sea of intolerable noise. "A mile away at the railroad station the passengers were equally made dumb by the uproar. If a man want ed a ticket he had to write out the name of the station. An engine rolled In with a bell that rocked without sound and a whistle emitting puffs of white steam that no one heard. "The animals of the region were greatly disturbed. There was much breaking of harness on the part of horses, and one or two galloped about under empty saddles. Their riders were doubtless stuck in the mud some where, head first. "A few pigs wandering here and there had sniffed at the noise and re turned to their luxurious wallows In the oily muck." Corttly Wind Nor No royal castle has cost Great Britain more iu hard cash than that of Windsor, says the London Chron icle. When George IV. nnounced Ills Intention of making it a family rest dence parliament granted him £300,000 toward its reconstruction. For four years the work went merrily on under fresh grauts, and the king then took possession of the private apartments. That did not end the expenditure how ever. By the time William IV. had satisfied himself that there was noth ing more to be done the castle had swallowed up to a mllllOD pounds. A Line on Her Age. "Oh!" gasped the beautiful woman as she fell back, clutching at her heart, and permitting the telegram to flutter to the floor. Her fashionable guests rushed for ward. crying: "What is it? Has your husband met with au accident?" "No. no." she moaned. "It Is from my son-in-law i am a grandmother!" His SlnbbornneM. "Haven't you and your friend got through hat argument yet?" asked a parent iiis youngest son. "It isn any argument." answered the boy. "I aiu merely telling Jiiumle the facts in the case, and he is so beastly stubborn that he won't under stand."— < 'hums. GirapinK the Organ Grlntlera. Ke-ide close to a dentist's if you are not fond of :• -et music. Itinerant organ meu < .rqfuliy avoid playing anywhere ne.r lb* house of a prac titioner who er effectually stop or ret ■ e !' t■, •',! -.Tinders.—Lon don I'm -'i HARD ON BACHELORS. A concreted attack upon bachelors is iu progress all over the United States. The lndiaua Legislature is de bating a bill designed to tax them in matrimony—or suicide. The Massa chusetts Legislature has been petition ed to do likewise—the petitioners signing themselves. "The Unmarried Ladies of Wakefield," and alleging that "bachelors are or no earthly use except as pall bearers," The Supreme Court of Illinois,on a damage snit ap peal, has decided that bachelor's life is worth but sl. The Charleston News and Courier proposes that bachelors be debarred from holding public office. BILLS EXCEED REVENUE. This is the way it strikes the Hazle ton Dailv Standard: "If one may form an opinion from the number of bills offered iu the State legislature the members seem to be impressed with the bolief that the income of the State of Pennsylvania is unlimited. The bills askiu? for money already exceed in amount the aunual revenues," EDMUND KEAN. ' r« See Hisu Act Wan Like Heading Sbok«N|ieare l>> LiKhtnlng, Before the third century after the oirtlj of Shakespeare had reached Its lirst quarter there was burn In England to a stage carpenter and a strolling ac tress a child destined to grapple with the poet's highest thought aud iuter-; pret it with n vividness that to this •lay stands unrivaled. Coleridge's terse , comment, that to see him act was read ing Shakespeare l>.v liglitniug, reveals him with the fullness of a volume. Ed mund Kenu, along with most people early trained to an art, had little A any education of the schools. He was when a boy provided with instruction by some benevolent people whom his smartness aud beauty attracted, but he rebelled against the tasks of study aud went to sea. Rut life there was too rough for his flue nature. lie returned to England and at the age of seven be gan the study of Shakespeare's charae ters with his Uncle Moses. This he continued with an actress named Tids* well, who taught him, besides, as well as she knew, the principles of her art. At an early age he had the credit of originality so surprising as even then to challenge the supremacy of Philip Ivemble. At fourteen he played Ham- Jet. King George had him recite at Windsor castle, and it is said this Inci dent led some gentlemen to send him lo Eton, but there is no record of it. At twenty he was In a provincial troop, u member of which lie married, and for six years thereafter, until his glori ous night at Drury Lane, his life was one of hardship, struggle, obscurity, hut, thanks to the faith in himself, not hopeless. His London debut was made nt twenty-eight. lie hail fought for it Uard and long and would then have missed it but for the falling reputation of the theater. London debuts in first roles are not easy for provincial ac tors. aud none knew better how hard they are to get than Henry Irving. Kean seems to have been at his full splendor and made a hit. After that his habits were altogether prejudicial j to the refinement of taste or the acqui sition of knowledge. A TREE OF ILL REPUTE. Tlie Fresh Juice of tlio t pan Act* m n Deadly I'olhoii. An evil reputation has long been borne by the upas tree. Ant'aris toxl • ?aria, which grows in Borneo and oth- 1 ?r East Indian islands. It Is still a :ommo» belief that birds (lying with in the influence of its poisonous va pors instantly perish and that it Is fa tal for animals or men to rest be neath its shade. It resembles certain thus plants (like the poison ivy) in emitting a volatile substance which affects the skins of certain suscepti ble persons, though others are unaf fected. The sai> is very poisonous and is the chief substance used by the Dyaks of Borneo for poisoning the tips of their darts. In this process an incision is made In the bark of the tree and the milky exudation collected on a palm leaf and dried first in the sun and then over a fire until a thick brown mass Is left. In this state it can be kept without deteriorating, and when re quired for use it is made Into a thiu paste with the juice of "tuba" root, which is used to stupefy fish, or with tobacco or lemon juice, aud the ends of [ the darts dipped into the mixture and dried. These darts are made from the middle stem of ti*e palm leaf and an about six or eight inches in length anil of about the thickness of a knitting needle. They are used with a wooden sumpl-! tan, or blowpipe, which is about seven or eight feet in length and has an In ternal diameter of about one-quarter inch. A bird struck by one of these little darts Is instantly killed, and n pig dies in about twenty minutes. The fresh juice of the upas tree, whether swallowed or Injected Into the blood, acts as a violent poison. ( causing convulsions and death. ROBUST DOUGH ROLLERS. , Work In u Pi,- Factory la 011 the Scale of \tliletlc». To properly describe the processes of , linking pumpkin pies would require one skilled in the technicalities of the art. This is the way it looks to a mere man: : First, the coarse yellow rind Is remov- ; ed, and then the pumpkin is cut open end the seeds taken out, after which the two halves are thoroughly washed. Then a husky lad takes a sort of cleav er and eut-s the pumpkin into large pieces, which are fed into a steam chopping machine and reduced to small fragments. These are placed In a huge copper boiler capable of holding per- j haps twenty-five gallons. After the boiling has been completed a pasty mixture of eggs, milk, sugar, cinnamon and other spices and condiments is added and well stirred in, aud then the yellow mass is ready to be filled into the skeleton pies. The crust Is pre j pared- in another department, where the dough is mixed, rolled and placed ! In the pans ready to receive the fill- J Ing. If any one thiftks that plemaklng Is an easy and effeminate employment j he should visit a pie bakery and in- | spect the muscles developed on the arms of expert pie crust mixers and j rollers. They would be creditable to a , trained athlete aud would put many a i mill worker and blacksmith to the blush. Finally the pies are placed on racks aud shoved into huge ovens that ; resemble nothing else so much as the kilns used for burning brick. These j kilns are constructed in any size de- j sired, with a capacity of anywhere i fro.:' fifiy tip 1 i sever. - : 1 undred at a time. wliil-- ill-y !• iled every half hour or less. Pacl£* Monthly. QUICK CHANGES from hot to cold aud back again / try strong constitu tions and cause, among other evils, nasal catarrh.a troublesome aud offen sive disease. Sneezing and snuffling, coughing and difficult breathing, aud the drip, drip of the foul discharge in to the throat— all are ended by Elv's Cream Balm. This honest and positive remedy contains no cocaine, mercury, nor other harmful ingredient. The worst cases are cured iu a short time. All druggists, 50c , or mailed by Ely Bros., 56 Warren Street, New York. Steel Plant to flexlco. The big $1,000,000 steel plane of the Pottstowu Iron company, in Potts town, which has beert idle for a dozen vears, has been sold to the Monterey j Iron and Steel company, aud will be dismantled aud moved to Mexico. Funeral of firs, (iraham. The funeral of Mrs James Graham, whose sudden death was noted yester day moruiug will take place at nine o'clock tomorrow morning from St. Joseph's Catholic church. lutermeut in St. Joseph's cemetery. DRESS OF THE ESKIMO. lluilr It;- ih« Wolneu From the Slcina of Sorllirrn Aniioala. Tlii' chief material of the clothing of (lie Eskimo is the skin of the reindeer, which is ined in various stages of pel ade or tanning Fine, short haired ( cummer skins, especially those of does ; ami fawns, are used for making dress garments and underclothes. The heav , lest winter skins furnish extra warm jackets for cold weather. The white | spotted skins of the tame Siberian rein deer are especially valued for full dress jackets. The skins of the white mountain sheep, white ntul blue fox, wolf, dog, ermine and lynx are sometimes made into clothing. Umlerjackets of eider duck skins are often pressed into serv ice. Sealskin dressed with the hair oa is useil only for breeches and boots, and for those rarely. Of late years drilling and calico have been intro duced into the makeup of some of the minor garments. The dress of the men consists of a loose hooded frock without opening ex cept at the neck and wrists. This reaches just over the hips and very rarely to midthigb, where it is cut off square and usually confined by a girdle at the waist. Under this garment la worn a similar one of lighter skin and sometimes «ithout a hood. The thighs are clad In one or two pairs of tight fitting knee breeches, rather loose, but fitted to the shape of the leg. They are very low iu front, but are much higher behind, sometimes as high as the small of the back. They are held In place by a girdle or thong around the waist and are usually fastened below the knee over the boots with a drawstring. On the legs and feet are worn, first, a pair of long deerskin stockings, with the hair inside, then slippers of tanned sealskin, iu the bottom which is spread a layer of whalebone shavings and out side a pair of close fitting boots, held in place by a string around the ankle, Much reaches above the knee and 1 ends with a rough edge covered by the I breeches. Dress boots often end In an ornamental border, with drawstring Just below the knee. The boots are of reindeer skin, with white sealskin soles for winter and dry weather, but in summer waterproof boots of white whaleskiu are worn. Overshoes of the I same material, reaching just above the i ankles, are sometimes worn over the i winter boots. The women wear tight fitting deer skin pantaloons, with the hair next the skin, and outside of these a similar pair made of the skins from deer legs, with the hair out. and having soles of sealskin, but no ankle strings. The women's pantaloons, like those of the men. are fastened with a girdle Just •hove the hips. It appears that they do not stay up very well, as the wo men are continually hitching them up and tightening their girdles, like somi old sailor. Until they reach manhood the boys wear pantaloons like the women, but their jackets are cut just like those of j the men. The well to do Eskimos generally own several complete suits of clothes and present a neat appearance when not engaged iu dirty work. The poorer classes wear one suit for all occasions until It becomes shabby. New clothes are seldom put 011 till winter. The outer frock is not often worn In the Iglu, or hut home, being usually taken ! off efore euiering the room. At present there Is no such thing as an Eskimo tailor, for the women of each Eskimo household usually make the garments of all the members of the family. Not only this, but the Eskimos ore extremely conservative In the mat ter of changes in the style of their rai ment -aid respoud very slowly to the modernizing influences In this particu lar which have reached their neighbor hood. MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. The Change From the Era When Wives Were Taken by Force. ; Marriage customs have changed ev j cry where with the advance of clvlliza j tlou. Anglo-Saxons In ancient times. It is said, used to capture their wives by force from their fathers or their hus bands, it did not matter which. I This was before Augustine came to preach Christianity. Then purchase was t more common than capture, although the latter seems to have been frequent ; enough to the reign of Ethelbert to ! need regulation by law. By this law a man might run away with a woman, provided he afterward paid her pre j vious owner, be he father or husband, 50 shillings. If It was husband who had thus been deprived of his wife, the woman's captor had not only to pay him the fine, but also to buy him an other wife. In any case the stolen wo i man belonged to her captor. If a man had purchased his bride in t&e days of Ethelbert and afterward concluded he had paid too much for her, it was lawful for him to return her to her former owner and claim again the purchase price, provided that ho had not previously expressed satisfac tion by making the bride a present on the morning after the wedding. The next step was the "foster lien," | when the bride price was paid on the ! day of espousal and was supposed to compensate the parent for the cost of ; bringing up his daughter. It seems. \ however, that this soon fell Into disre pute, as there was no law against the father engaging bis daughter to nu i merous suitors, taking from each the ! "foster lien'' and, of course, cheating all but one on the wedding day, which at that time was only the day of be trothal, when the suitor gave a "wed" or pledge for the future performance of , his contract. If the suitor did not claim ! his bride within two years after the ; wedding day.he forfeited all right to her and to whatever money or goods he had paid for her. If the woman and her father broke their promises, the father had to give the suitor four times as much as the suitor had already paid him. As civilization advanced the bride | price was given to the woman herself and became her dowry, while nowa- I days the tables are frequently turned, I and the bride settles the money on her I husband. | llroorAtcd. Hubby—My pet, you will pardon me but aren't these griddle cakes a little burned? Wiley (almost in tears) —Oh Tom, and I tried to make them so pret tv for you with that pyrograph set you gave me! B.iston Transcript. I.et me tell 1"U that every misery I miss is n new blessing. — Walton. \ ll«4 liei/e<T French. For two centuries have been cry big "Encore!" at the end of a song, where a Frenchman never says it, his own equivalent for it strangely being the Latin "His!" And"on the tapis" appears in English far more often than In French, aud misunderstood at that, since It does not uieau "ou the carpet," but on 'he tablecloth of the council table for discussion. Loudon Chroui ele. A SPIDER FIGHT. tt Wna a Fast und Farloua Uatile to the IJenth. I once had a spider pet of a kind the books enabled me to identify. He was a fine big fellow. I caught him iu the garden, carried him home, and for nearly two months he and I took a close interest in each other, he for the flies I introduced to him and I for the amusement he Introduced to me. I kept him in a milliner's box, letting him out when 1 visited him, especial ly delighting myself with allowing him to drop from one hand by his fine spun thread and then either catching him In the other or gently compelling him to climb back again by appar ently eating his own ladder. One day I captured another spider of the same species. I kept him for a few days In a separate box, and then, with the kindly idea of companionship, I introduced him to Tiger. 1 have seen dogs light; I have seen chan ticleer fight and slay his man; 1 have seen rams fight till, with his skull crushed in, one lay dead at the foot of the other; I have seen men fight; but the f'llie.st sense I ever realized of mad, murderous passion let ungov ernably loose, centered in one destroy ing aim and summoning every physic al energy to its devilish service, I realized when those two spiders rush ed to mortal combat. I stood in boy ish terror as their tangled legs drop ped off, torn oy mutual rage; and as with vicious dexterity they struck each other with their poisoned fangs, using for their own destruction the weapons and appliances with which nature has provided them for the capture and slaughter of their prey. I visibly turned pale. Tiger was the victor, but even while with brutal wrath, all mangled as he was, IK* bit and spurned his dead and limbless foe he was seized with symp toms I tock to be paralytic, and in a minute or two I helped him to his death. A...1 this fearless gladiator was afraid of. I remember, and nevei would tackle a big bluebottle fly. What is courage?— Dundee Advertiser. SUGAR MAKING. The Illndiioa Probably I,earned the Art From the Chineae. The Chinese, who invented almost everything before anybody else heard of it, claim to be the original discover ers of the process of sugar making, and it is said that sugar was used in China as long ago as 3.000 years. This Is misty, but the fact is well establish ed that it was manufactured in China under the Tsin dynasty 200 years at least before the Christian era began. India lii.'s put forward a claim for priority of invention, but the probabil ity is that the Hindoos learned the art of sugar making from the Chinese and that through .them the knowledge final ly spread to the western nations. Ne arclius. when sent by Alexander ou an exploring voyage on the Indus, brought back reports of "honey" which was made by the Asiatics from cane with out the help of bees. At this time neither the Greeks nor the Jews nor the Babylonians had any knowledge of sugar, but later the art of making the artificial "lioney" be came known and practiced, though its progress aud development were ex ceedingly slow. It was prescribed as a medicine by Galen in A. I). 150, and up to the seventeenth century it had become nothing more than a costly luxury, to be used only on special occa sions. Even as late as the beginning of the eighteenth century the annual consumption of sugar in Great Britain had reached only 20,000.000 pounds, whereas it is now more than 2,000,000.- 000 pounds. Refined sugar was not made In Eng land till 1059. The art of refining was learned by a Venetian merchant from the Saracens, who sold the secret to him for 100.000 crowns. PECULIAR EYES. The OriffiiiN of Slight of the Spider und the Snail. The next time you catch a spider try to find the eight shiny little eyes at the anterior eud, some above aud some put under the edge of what we may Imag ine to be its forehead. To examine these parts to the best advantage hold the spider in tweezers, or it may be better to use a spider killed by being dropped Into a bottle of diluted alcohol. These eight eyes vary in arrangement and in relative size In various species of spiders—ln some they may be ar ranged in two rows, in other In three; some may be very small and others large and prominent, and so bn—but there they are, rather poor eyes, near sighted, looking In several directions at once, and the spider, which can never ehut any of them, is sure to see every thing that approaches unless It Is asleep. In which case the sight Is dead. For some purposes It may be conven ient to have eyes that roll up and dis appear at the approach of danger. And these are exactly what the snail hai, situated at the end of two l<*ig and sensitive palpi, or feelers. When all 1« quiet their owner extends these organs, and you can see at their tips small round knobs upon which the eyes are placed. Rut if you touch one of the palpi or even Jar the snail a little the eyes begin to back into these feelers as the tip of a glove finger may be turned In, and they no longer see any danger that may be lurking at hand. DnnKcm of the ltevenue Service. The officers of the internal revenue service make little fuss over their ac complishments. The world scarcely bears of them unless they have had a desperate hand to hand fight with mountain desperadoes which has re suited in the death of several of tlieii uumber. But day after day and night after night they go about their work calmly, quietly, in constant danger of death from a shot from some ambush ed moonshiner or blockader. Yet these men are an absolute necessity for the safeguarding of the country's interests and they deserve m u ll credit for their hard task, scarcely appreciated by the great mass of the people.—David A. Gates in Metropolitan Magazine. \\ lion the Wirt* Tire*. "M -'.ei: said a telegraph opera tor, •"always slide over the wires bet ter on Monday than on any other day. The wire you see, have profited by their Sun ty rest. It is a fact that In animate "ii as animate things get tir xl and tie. I a \ juration occasionally Yon Un > v !i v true this is of razors, of automobiles, of locomotives, and it Is Just a - true of telegrauh wires. A wire utter its Sunday rest gives a quicker, a fuller aud a im*e delicate transmis sion. It i< lik" a piano that has just been tuned." A Limited Hsbit. "I see that some of our scientists claim that death is largely a matter of habit, depending upon thought and all that." he said "Nonsense." she replied. "Did you ever know any one who was in the habit of d> ing?"- Philadelphia Inqulr THE QUESTION OF LIFE. MAB'K PRUKRESM HXMI the Book* of tb« Eighteenth Century. In what mankind called "progress" j the world was led by illusion, advanc ed by lies. Everybody hated work, which was the only health. Even the preacher spoke dolefully of"the curse of Adam." Everybody wanted to be rich, which meant unhappiness; every body wanted to be idle, which meant death. Change was regarded as prog- j ress. and to find one different from oneself was to find one worse than oneself. And with all these 1 sympa thized, knowing them to be wrong. j 1 had listened to moralists and be fore all was done discerned that a question of morals was a question of latitudes, and vice related to the equa- j tor. Cruelty was a creature of the thermometer; the tropics tortured j what the arctics nursed. Happiness ; was born of contrast when it wasn't j born of temperament, and Third ave nue laughed oftener than Fifth. One man committed suicide, another gave a feast. Each was worth $20,000. The suicide had been a millionaire, the feast giver a pauper. I considered merchants and gamblers. There was | but one difference—when the mer chant's resources ended his credit end- j i ed: when the gambler's resources end ed his credit began. When the gam bler was down his fellow gamblers helped him; when the merchant was down his fellow merchants fell upon him and tore him like wolves. Progress? A wise man proved it by pointing to a railroad and asking me to remember stagecoaches. I asked why it was better to travel 000 miles In a day than to travel ninety. He *ald one could reach Chicago in a day and night. I replied that one couldn't reach Calcutta In a day and night. He said that medicine and surgery had advanced; that we now saved lives we used to lose. I asked why It was im- ! portant to save lives that must one day die; also I pointed out that we saved weaklings to wed weaklings and pro duce weaklings, which was progressing ! backward. He grew angry and asked ; if I favored death. 1 grew angry and asked if he favored birth; also I want ed to hear whether or no he believed in killing weeds. Progress! I know nothing of medi cine and railways and stagecoaches and saving lives, but I do know about books. And I see by my bookcases that the nineteenth century did not write so well nor in things beautiful think so well as did the eighteenth, with the promise all about me that the present century will write worse and think more heavily than either. We have better guns, clocks, plows, sewins machines, but they wrote better Eng lish and thought nobler thoughts.—Al fred Henry Lewis in Cosmopolitan. Omen of the WeddinK Rln«r. At the close of a recent divorce case a woman spectator remarked: "I knew they wouldn't pull together very long. The crease made by her wedding ring proved that. When she had been married six mouths I saw her take her ring off one day. The mark it had left was so faint you could hardly see it. You can always gauge the length of a marriage by the impres j siou made by the wedding ring. In some cases the rlug, even though en- I tirely too large, sinks away into the finger. Such a mark as that indicates j a marriage as lasting as eternity. Oth ; er women may wear a ring as tight I as the skin, .vet it will leave scarcely a j streak on the flesh. In that case look out for an early termination of the con tract." The other women present said noth ing, but all improved the first oppor tunity to slip their rings around and inspect the telltale mark. The faces of some wore an expression of satis faction, others of disappointment, but nobody knew the reason therefor.— New York Press. CONSCIENCE MONEY. What the Old Time t'nbllahera Pall From n Senae of Juatiee. Some Interesting details have been given ont lately as to the sums volun tarily paid to British novelists by American publishers before the days of Intematllonal copyright. Any American firm could reprint at once whatever is »ued from the English presses, but some publishers arranged with British authors for advance sheets of forth- : I coming works, thus enabling them to j 1 get the start of "piratical" firms which paid the author nothing. It Is Interest- | Ing to observe the occasional disparity between the merit of the book and the j price paid. The whole thing was In i the nature of a leap In the dark. Often the sum given by the American pub lisher was really more than the Amer- Icau rights would probably have been worth had It been possible to secure them by copyright. Thus Anthony i Trollope got S3,C>OO for "Sir Harry Ilot ; spur," one of Ills poorest novels; George Eliot $8,500 for "Daniel Deronda" and Charles Iteade $5,000 for "A Woman Hater." No publisher today would pay any such sums for these books If he were permitted to read them before . buying. On the other hand, by way of com parlson, the very best books brought their authors only trifling returns from America. Charles Iteade received only $250 for"Put Yourself In His Place," SI,OOO for "Hard Cash," these being two of his finest novels, and SI,OOO for "Love Me Little. Love Me Long." Thackeray got only $750 for"The New- . comes" and SSOO for "Ilenry Esmond." Trollope obtained from the Harpers $125 for"The Bertrams," $250 for , "Castle Richmond," sst>o for "Phlneas Finn," $250 for"The Eustace Dia monds," "Orley Farm," "Lady Anna" and "Ralph the Heir." The SSOO for his "Cicero" is fully as much as any American publisher would give today for the copyright of such a book. George Eliot received only SIOO for | "Adam Bede" and SSOO for "Silas Mar : ner." "The Mill on the Eloss" brought her $1,500. Wllkie Collins and Dickens were the most popular authors of the preeopy riglil period, and they fared best of all Kt the hands of their authorized Amer ican publishers. The former drew from j ths country SI,BOO for"The Woman In 1 Wbit«." $3,750 each for"The Moon i stone" and"Man and Wife" and $3,000 for "Poor Ml* s * Finch." To Dickens the Harpers paid $1,250 for "Little DorrJt." SI,BOO for "Bleak House," ss,oofi ea.h for "Our Mutual Friend" and "A Tale <>f Two Cities" and $7,500 I for "Great Expectations," this last rep- ; resenting the high water mark of such voluntary payments.—Bookman. The \eeldent. Mii'.onner Yon are charged with breaking a chair over your wife's head. Prisoner—lt was an accident, your honor. Ilizunner-What! Didn't you intend to hit her? Prisoner—Yes, but I didn't intend to break the chair. The i ur.y florae. \ An Irishman once tapped a poky J horse with a whip and said, "Pick up your feet, ami they'll fall theirselves * A NEED, JUST LIKE SLEEP. I* the Instinct of Nnturul Death Burn In Mankind? The most convincing fact in proof of the existence in man of an instinct of natural death seems to me that report ed by Toxarslcy in relation to an old woman, lu the lifetime of Toxarsky I begged an acquaintance of his to ob tain 112 >r me the details of this most in teresting ease, of which I had found but an incomplete statement. Tox ursky unfortunately could add nothing to what lit- had published in his article. 1 believe, however, that I have fouud the - i.ii- i 1 from which his Instance had been taken. In his buik upon the physiology of taste, which had its day of celebrity, Biill. t-S.ivarin relates the following: 'I had a great-aunt, ninety-three years oM, who v. is dying. Although for some time <*o.limed to her bed, she had re tained all her faculties, and her condi tion was only betrayed by her loss of appetite and the weakening of her voice She had always shown a fond ness for me, and I was near her bed, aifootionati'ly really to wait on her, \\uich did not prevent my watching her with the philosophical eje I have ever had for the things aud events sur rounding me. Are you there, nephew?* <he asked, in a scarcely audible voice. Yes. aunt; I am here at your service, and I think you would do well to take a little good old wine.' 'Give, mon ami. One can always swallow liquid.' 1 hastened. Raising her gently, l made her take half a glass of my best wine. She brightened for a moment and, look ing at nie with eyes which had once been very fine, 'Thank you,' she said, 'for this last favor. If ever you reach my age you will find that death be comes a need, just like sleep.' "These were her last words. Half an hour later she had fallen asleep forev er. We unmistakably have here an in stance of the Instinct of natural death. The instinct was shown at a relatively early ag<> in a person who had retain ed all her Intellectual faculties."—Pro fessor EHe Metehuikoff in Harper's. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Beat a hoy out of a dime and the crii i'.- will never outlaw. C •: may not he a detraction, hut it is certainly a half sister. T!i«- truth with unselfish people is they arc l.ah'e to bra ? about it. There I only o e way in this world to get your own way—insist upon It. Almost any defense would be ail right if you could make people be lieve It. ft is just as dangerous to tell some pj»o;>l<' a secret as it is to fool with aloaded pun. When a man submits to a procession wedding the other men look at him the way boys look at a boy whose mother mr.kes him wear long curls. The man who has made a failure in any line of business never has a very good opinion of the man who started in the same line at the same time and made it a success—Atchison Globe. Her 'lcnrnlnir. Mat: I— Why is that lady over the way always i i black? Is she mourn ing for any one? Bess—Yes, a hus band Maud—l didn't know she'd been marri»d. Bess—No, but she's mourn ing for a husband all the same. Of Course. Profess.)! (a little distracted) l'm glad to see y>u How's your wife? "I re.«ret It. professor, but I'm not married." "Ah, yes. Then of course your wife's >ll singl-" Blatter. Ni£tS3i CATARRH In all its stages. jf C °'o(K\ J Ely's Cream Balmf cleanses, soothes and heals t the diseased membrane. It cures catarrh and drives Jf _..j away a cold in the heail quickly. ('renin Bnim is placed into llie nostrils,spreads wer the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is im mediate and a cure follows. It is not drying—does ni it produce sneezing. Large Sizn, 50 cents at D Ag gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents. KI.Y BROTHERS. 50 Warren Street, New York Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup CONTAINS HONEY AND TAR Relieves Colds bv working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves Coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Mapl* Sugar" Children Like It^ For Sue by Paate* <v <»> A Most Valuable Agent. The glycerine employed in Dr. I'UTCO'S medicines greatly enhances the medicinal properties which it extracts from native . medicinal roots and holds in solution much better than alcohol would. It also possesses medicinal properties of its own, being a valuable demulcent, nutritive, antiseptic and antiformcnt. It adds greatly to the efficacy of the Illack Cherry bark, Bloodroot, Golden Geal root. Stone root and Queen's root, contained in "Golden Medical Discovery "in subduing chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and lung affections, for all of which these agents are recommended by stand ard medical authorities. In ail cases where there is a wasting away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak stomatfi. as In the early stages of con eumntipn. there can be no doubt that gly cerine/acts as a valuable nutritive and ait's she Golden Seal root. Stone root, Que<£> ropt and Black Cherrybark In promoting digestion and building up the flesh airtffslrength. controlling tho cough and bringing about a healthy condition of the while svstem. Of course, it must not be ofdected to work miracles. It will not curelA>nsumption except In its earlier stages. It. will Ctif" very severe, obsti nate. hang-fflV chionii- conyhs. bronchial niiTT WTVWlrra I troubles, and.chronic soro t.TrrT.7T~v"":Lu hoarseness. In acute coups I (isn't*7 effective. TTls In the lingering hang-on coughs,or those of longstanding, even when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that it has performed its most marvelous cures. Prof. Finlcv Ellingwood, M. D., of Ben nett Med. College, Chicago, says of gly cerine: "In dyspepsia It serves an excellent purpose. Holding a fixed quantity of the peroxide of hydrogen in solution, It. is one of the best manufactured products of the present time in its anion upon enfeebled, disordered stom achs, especially If there Is ulceration or ca tarrhal gastritis (catarrhal Inflammation of stomach), it is a most efficient preparation. Glycerine will relieve many cases of pyrosis (heartburn) and excessive gastric (stomach) acidity." _ , . . "Golden Medical Discovery " enriches ana purifies the blood curing blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings and old sores, '"send'to Pr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y„ for free booklet telling all p.bout the native medicinal rocts composing this wonderful HiacUcUitt. TUere <8 no alcohol In It. LAN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE. Investigation showed that the Are ha<l started in a drawer in a desk in which matches were kept, and the mice in making a prjuare meal of match heads Jia<l ignited then) and the fire followed. The fiames ate down ward and then communicated to the Other wood work in the room, all of which was L>a <ly blistered before the fire was extiugui.-hed. The furniture of the room was also blistered so that it must be replaced. The logs will amount to about 112 1,000. Superintend ent Rum bo at ouce set meu to work to straighten matte rs out, aud the room will be ready for occupancy in a short I time. Tie \ou!ii man Iron Plymouth wh married on a capital of 75 cents prob ; ably banked on his wife's alulitv to | wrei-rle with a wash tub TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE & Personal Property Pursuant to a:» order issuing out of the District C mrt t 112 the United States for the Easti : strict ■,f the Plate of j Penusylvauia tin: Trustees lof the estate of William !!. I siinier, Bankrupt, wiit expose i-t nohlip sale or outcry, at the Couit House i-'teps, in Danvill", Montour ("utility, Penn sylvania, on SATURDAY. Mar. 9, 1907. at 2 o'clock p. m. the following described real estate: All that cutain farm tract of land situate partly in Derry and Anthony townships, county of Montour, State of Pennsylvania bounded outhe North by public road leading from Washing tonville to Exchange, on the East by lands of Roup, on the South by Chillisquaque Creek and land 3 of Howard Billmeyer, on the West by lands of Kleeman. Diehl and Love. Containing three hundred aud seventy oue acres and forty perches, common ly Known as John R Bennett farm. ALSO AT THE SAME TIME AND PLACE THE FOLLOWING DE SOhiBED PERSONAL PROPEKTY : Abont twenty six tons bailed hay; about three tons bailed straw; About thirteen hundred and fifty bushels of shelled corn ; about one hundred bush els of oats TERMS OF SALEReaI Estate, Three thousand dollars shall be paid in cash upon striking down of the property balance within thirty days. Personal Property: Twenty-five per entum tf the purchase price to be paid upon striking down of the prop erty balance at the time of delivery within thirty days. J. HECTOR McNEAL, Trustee. M. BRECKBILL. Auctioneer. Auditor's Notice. IN THE ORPHAN'S COURT OF MONTOUR COUNTY. IN RE ESTATE OF CATHARINE IIA UN, LATE OF THE BOR OUGH OF DANVILLE, IN THE COUNTY OF MONTOUR AND STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. DECEASED. IN PARTITION. The undersigned appointed by the aforesaid Court, to make distribution of the fund paid into atjd remaining in the said Court afterpayment of the amount of costs and fees taxed and ap proved by the Court, to and among the parties legally entitled thereto, will meet all parties interested for the pur pose of his appointmeut at his Law Offices No. 106 Mill Street, Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, on FRIDAY, APRIL ."th. A. D., 1907, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the said day, where and when all persons having claims ou the said fund are re quired to make aud prove the sune or be 112 irever debarred from thereafter coming in upou the said fund. EDW \ Rl> SAYRE GKARHART, Auditor. Dau»i:.e, Fa. Mar. 2. IJH>7. Kxecutrix Notice. Estate ot Michael H v " • -iz:'. late of t' v Borough of OaLvhi ', Montour county, deceased. All persons iudehred to said estate arc re jueste<; to make immediate pay ment aud t';u-e having legal claims ag-tinst the san e, will present them without delnv in proper order for set tlement to MRS MARY JANE PERSING, Executrix. Danville. Pa.. Nov. Ist, I'.KW. NOTICE. APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF LIQUOR LICENSE. Petitiou of James Ryau of the 3rd Ward of the Boroogh of Danville. Peuna. for the trausfer of his hotel li cense from its present location No. 5.6 Mill Street to the two story brick building, situate on the North East Comer of Mill an.l Ceutre Streets aud known as No. 500. \Vi 11 be presented # to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montour County March 18th 1907 at * 10 o'clock a. in. THOS G. VINCENT. Clerk Q. S. Danville, Pa. March 6th, 1907. Winsdcr Hotel Between 12: hand 18th Sts. on Filbert St Philadelphia, Pa. Three minutes walk from the Read ing Terminal. Five minutes walk from • heP<mia. It R. Depot. FIHOPEAN PLAN i l CO per day and upwards. AMERICAN PLAN $2.00 per dav. R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules Doctors find A good prescription For Mankind. The .Vcent packet is enough for u-ua oocassions. The family bottle (60 oents contains a supply for a year. All drug gists
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