Montour American.
FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor.
Danville, Pa., Apr. 18 19(17.
Progress of the Farmer.
It is a fa:t that the farmer of today
is keeping so closely abreast of the
times in the matter of progress
and of knowledge that he is leaviug
behind him the masses in the city who
are often deluded by the belief that
they know more. Ten years in the
country districts surrounding Dan
ville has transformed the farmer It
has lifted him from the rut of »\>ue
labor to the platform of scie*:- rliat
science which he utilizes in <*ve!)p
inghis crops and of securi- for them
prices better than he was able to
secure before
This is not only so in Pennsylvania
bat the progress of the farmer is every
where observed in this country.
Through the medium of educational
and co-operative societies he secures
advantages that toilers iu the cities
often neglect to avail themselves of
on account of lack of time or because
the temptation to enjoyment is too
great.
"The receut announcement that the
Farmer's Educational and Co-opera
tive Union has increased its member
ship in Mississippi by Ave thousand
during the six weeks past is some
indication of the remarkable growth
of this organization throughout the
entire country," says the Atlauta
Journal. "It was estimated some
time ago tnat the membership exceed
ed a round million, and it is by no
means improbable that even those
figuies have long since been passed.
The information from Mississippi is
to the effect that the growth has
been so rapid that special injunctions
have been giveu that no undesirable
members should be taken and this pol
icy has been rigidly followed. But
in spite of the care and discrimination
which is exercised there seems to be
no limit to the growth of the national
union.
"If the Farmers' Union will stand
together they will be ahle to accom
plish much for their own welfare and
for the welfare of the whole country.
It is a compact and patriotic organ
ization, with high ideals and the cour
age of its convictions. It is capable
of becoming a powerful factor, for in
stance iu the maintenance of a higher
level of prices tor cotton aud to this
end, we have no doubt, it will largely
direct its attention. The astonishing
growth shown by the organization in
Mississippi during six weeks is mere
ly an index of its growth throughout
the whole couutrxy and particularly
in the south. It is a factor with which
organized capital iu all its oppressive
form will have to reckon iu the future
If it persists in its determination to
keep out of politics, as au organiza
tion, there will be no limit to its field
of usefulness"
If such organizations took np poli
mere will be little tltuw for tlie
discussion of agriculture. Where there
is so mueh at stake in organizations
where farmers assemble to learn of
cultivation and production politics
would entangle the tabric of progress.
It is too great a movement to be frus
trated by politics. There are other as
semblages in which the farmer can
learn something of politics if he is
anxious on this score. The newspap
ers can help him out of knowledge of
men,things,candidates and principles.
The average farmer will be found
to be surprisingly well booked
on these things. No matter when
yon meet him he has in most cases
arrived at his opinion on the candidate
and the party. Unlike men who sus
tain their families by mental labor he
has time to aud he thinks of these
things while going about his work.
Steadily the farmer is commanding
a wider field of respect. His aim is
always high and his understanding
good. There are great triumphs in
store for him and his success will be
watched with pleasure for it mnst
contribute to the country a great
measure of prosperity.
Ortffln *f the Ortagr.
It la to India and to the Arabs as
middlemen that Europe, and through
Europe America, owe the orange. The
orange crossed from Africa to Spain
with Mohammedanism, while probably
the crusaders are to be thanked for
bringing It to Italy and western Eu
rope among their trophies of the east
The very name Is really Arable—"na
ranj"—and of eastern origin, though
the legend that it comes from two
word! meaning "elephant" and "be
111," because elephants ate oranges to
make themselves 111, Is absurd. Prob
ably In French the Initial "n" Is drop
ped off from naranj, with the final
"n" of the Indefinite article, Just as
our "an apron" represents "a napron,"
and the spelling with an "o" points to
false association with "or" (gold).—
Economists, Havana.
noieii.
The hotels are usually grouped with
in a square or two of one another. Each
one seeks to attract guests by high
sounding titles. For example, In Cau
ton are hotels which flaunt the signs of
the Fortunate Star, the Golden Prof-
Its (an unusually frank confession for
a landlord to make), the Rank Con
ferring aud the Happiness. The food
Is not so bad, but the traveler who
goes to one of these houses to sleep
will wish that he had gone to another.
The bedrooms are small, thin walled
boxes In which you may hear the
breathing of your next neighbor or be
kept awake half the night by the con
versation of people at the other end of
the ball or, worse still, be almost sti
fled by the smoke from an opium pipe
which Is being Indulged In by the man
across the passageway.
The Bosnian Roasting Jaok.
A curious variety of the old fash
ioned roasting Jack Is used by tha
peasants of Bosnia and Herzegovina
when roasting sheep whole, as on the
occasion of a wedding ceremony. One
often sees near a running stream a
long pole having one end revolving
freely In a socketed peg, while the
other, overhanging the water, is equip
ped with miniature paddles. This Is
the Bosnian roasting Jack The sheep
to be cooked is Impaled on the log,
a Are Is lit underneath, and while
the current spins the paddles and the
pole merrily round the big Joint Is
cooked literally to a turn.— Wide World
Magazine.
THE TONGUE OF A BIRD.
An Organ Which Varies Much In the
Different Species.
Few people have given thought to
the subject of birds' tongues. Many,
eveu of the amateur bird students,
know little of the literature on the
subject and still from personal ob
servation.
Birds must use their bills as hands,
and to some extent the tongues supple
ment such use. Thus uut and seed
eating birds extract the kernel from
the shell, which is cracked between
the mandibles.
The full complement of bones of the
tongue consists of eight. The shape
raries considerably in different species,
nnd the comparative size very much
more, although there is a prevailing
general resemblance. The size and de
velopment of the various boues con
trol the shape and utility of the organ.
Well developed front bones mean a
thick, fleshy tongue, such as we find
in members of the duck family, while
small forward bones usually accom
pany a small tongue of less Importance
to the owner, sometimes little more
than rudimentary, like that of the pel
ican.
Among such birds as have occasion
to protrude the tongue well b< 3
tip of the bill the hind bones a.
velously developed and greatly elon
gated. for these are the hones on which
the tongue Is hung.
The edges of the tongues of most
birds are more or less fringed, this fea
ture being most noticeable In thin
tongues. Most birds have a greater or
less number of papillae—small fleshy
projections, spinelike in appearance
and usually inclined backward—on the
upper surface of the tongue. These
are of service in working the food
backward toward the throat.
Some of the sea birds have very sim
ple tongues, which serve but little pur
pose. The tongues of the honey creep
ers have very fine and long feathering,
while those of the woodr'vker are long,
slender and pointed, and the roots of
some species curve clear around the
back of the skull, up over the crown,
and their tips rest at the base of the
upper mandible. With the exception
of the sapsuckers the tongues of wood
peckers are capable of great protru
sion. and the tip is barbed. The sap
suckers. however, instead of having
sharp, barbed tongues like those of
other wdbdpeckers, have brushlike
tongues as a result of the degeneration
of the bristles on their surface into
hairs standing out from the tongue
rather than pointing backward.
Birds with long bills do not always
have correspondingly long tongues.
The kingfishers, with their dispropor
tionately large bills, have short tongues.
The outer edges of the very long
tongues of humming birds are closely
rolled up into two tubes lying side by
side, by means of which the birds are
enabled to suck the nectar from flow
ers.—New York Post.
Utility of Censors.
"When Maxim Gorky dined with
me," said a literary New Yorker, "he
talked al>out the Russian censorship.
. "He said that In the course of the
Russo-Japanese war he had occasion
in an article to describe the headquar
ters of one of the grand dukes. He
wrote of these headquarters, among
other thing*:
" 'And over the desk in his highness*
tent Is a large photograph of Marie la
Jambe, the beautiful ballet dancer.'
"Before this iirtiHf could appear the
censor changed that sentence to, 'And
over the desk in his highness' tent Is a
large map of the theater of war.'
Detroit News.
The Ostrich.
In its habits, methods of life and
prejudices the ostrich is one of the
most curious creatures of the animal
kingdom. It cannot be tamed, though
It is easily trained to harness. When
taught to race it seems to delight in a
brush ou the track or road with a
horse. The gait of the ostrich is a
lumbering sort of jog trot, which be
comes delightfully easy when the bird
la traveling fast. Unhampered with
a rider and traveling with the wind
this muscular creature can outstrip
any horse.
Picturesque Luxemburg.
Only a twelfth as large as Holland,
the little grand duchy of Luxemburg is
one of the most delightful of European
countries. Yet it is almost always neg
lected by the tourists who travel from
Paris to Berlin unconscious of Its near
ness. Luxemburg is free and inde
pendent, and It is quaint and fascinat
ing. It boasts free speech and a free
press, it has free schools of commerce,
philosophy, farming, gardening, man
ual training and housewifery, but with
all Its modernity its ways are still old
and Its customs characteristic, Includ
ing an annual official hunt for wild
boar, and when the city bells ring out
tha hours they play some operatic bit
or a strain from a gay song.—Harper's
Magazine.
The Difference.
Small Boy—Pa, what Is the difference
between a pessimist and an optimist?
Pa—Well, let me see if I can illustrate.
You know I am often discouraged, and
things don't look to me as If they'd
ever go right. Well, at such times I
can be said to be a i>essimist. But
years ago. when I was a young man,
everything looked bright and rosy, and
I was always hopeful. Then I was an
optimist. Now. my son, can you un
derstand the difference between a pes
simist and an optimist? Small Boy—
Oh, yes; oue is married and the other
Isn't.--Harper's Weekly.
Defrauded.
That this is a world of disappoint
ments Mrs. Green had long ago learn
ed, but she found one more disappoint
ment to add to her list during her visit
to lior daughter-in-law,
"I declare, you never can count on
what "oiks will do, and you might Just
as wed give up first as last," she said
dejectedly to Mr. Green on her return.
"There I counseled them to name
that baby Emma Louisa for aunt. And
what do you suppose aunt has done
•'ready ?"
Mr. Green professed himself unable
fc> conjecture.
"She's willed away the Bunker Hill
teapot nnd the Paul Revere sugar
tongs to the Historical folks," said
Mrs. Green bitterly. "And I expect
nothing but what the blue and white
counterpane will go next, and there'll
be that poor helpless baby without a
single Inheritance to her name."
The Angel Face.
"He said I had a face like one of
Raphael's angels," said the blond, with
111 concealed satisfaction.
"Ob, well, the faces of Raphael's an
gels were all painted, you know." re
plied the Jealous little brunette—Chi
cago Record Herald.
A Lesser Evil.
Messenger Your wife has eloped
with your chauffeur. Husband—Thank
fortune! Now I won't ha*, t to break
It to her that the cook has left —Har
per's Weekly.
A LOAN REPAID.
The Fourth Earl Stanhope and the
Gentlemanly Highwayman.
The fourth Karl Stanhope when on
his way homeward late one dark
night was held up by the most gentle
manly of highwaymen, who preferred
his request for money or the noble
man's life In quite the nicest way. It
happened that Lord Stanhope had not
any money with him and was disin
clined to yield the alternative.
"Your watch, then." suggested the
gentleman at the opposite end of the
pistol. That watch, the earl explained,
was dear to him. He valued it at 100
guineas and would not surrender It.
"What I will do," he said, "is to bring
and deposit in this tree the worth of
the watch in money, and you can call
and get it tomorrow night."
"Done, m' lord." said the highway
man.
The law knew nothing about this ar
rangement. and the earl did as he had
promised, lie placed the 100 guineas
where the highwayman might at his
leisure collect it. And there, so far as
he knew, the matter ended.
Years afterward he attended a great
banquet In the city and found himself
pleasantly entertained by an extremely
well known man whose signature was
good for a sum in several figures. Next
day came to Lord Stanhope a letter in
closing the sum of too guineas. Ac
companying It was a note begging hla
acceptance of a loan granted some
years previously to the man who now
forwarded It.
That loan, said tiie letter, had ena
bled the sender to gain a new start in
life, to make a fortune and to renew
acquaintance at dinner on the previous
night with his lordship. The city mag
nate and the highwayman of earlier
days were one and the same.—London
Standard.
Diamonds In His Shoes.
Diamond ornaments in shoes hark
back to the days of the Revolutionary
war and were worn by merchants of
Boston in those days. Thomas Russell
of Charlestown, who died in 1796, was
one of the most active of business men
of liis day in Boston and the first to
engage in the American trade with
Russia after the Revolution. His dress
was typical of his time and is thus
described In an old print: "He usually
wore a coat of some light colored cloth,
small clothes, diamond buckles at the
knees and In the shoes, silk stockings,
powdered hair and a cocked hat and Jn
cold weather a scarlet cloak."—Boston
Herald.
She Was Mistaken.
"Permit me to ask you, madam,"
said the lawyer, who was a friend of
the family, "your real reason for want
ing a divorce from your husband?"
"He Isn't the man I thought I was
marrying." explained the fair caller.
"My dear madam," rejoined the law
yer, "the application of that principle
would break up every home in the
country."—Chicago Tribune.
A Sly Thrupt.
Miss Ann Teek—Really, some of the
young girls nowadays are positively
awful. The Idea of a girl being en
gaged to two young men at the same
time! It's just shameful! Miss Cut
ting—Besides, you find It aggravating
also, don't you?— Philadelphia Press.
A PRODUCT OF MILK.
Galalith 1M SO Stroiif* You Could llatld
a llous«* Willi It.
You could build a house of milk if
you liked, and it would be as strong
and lasting as though made of Aber
deen granite, says M. Glen Fling in
Technical World Magazine. Moreover,
all the fittings could be made of the
same substance, and they would out
live the finest ordinary material that
was ever constructed.
Billiard tables, combs, fancy boxes
and many other things are made from
galalith, which is made from milk.
There is really no limit to the arti
cles which can be made from galalith.
It takes dyes readily, and inferior
grades are colored. The best remain
white, however, for white jralallth
brings the highest price because of Its
similarity to ivory. The first grade of
galalith is made up into knife handles,
and it brlugs almost as high a figure
as would so much ivory.
Galalith is the best substitute for
ivory ever discovered, for it is smooth
to the touch, retains its soft, creamy
tinting for years, is not marred by soap
and water and, unlike celluloid, Is
proof against fire. It does not chip or
crack like bone and can be cut into the
most delicate shapes, being tough and
not easily broken.
FOREIGN HOTELS.
They Differ In Many Ways From
Those of Our Own Country.
Hot water is not "laid on" (piped) at
foreign hotels, says the Travel Maga
zine. If you hear h gentle tap on the
door in the morning, you may inter
pret it as meaning that a copper ewer
of hot water has Just been set down
outside for your personal use.
If you order a bath, it will be pre
pared for you accordingly, and a aweot
voiced maid will give you notice when
It is ready. You are not expected to
operate the water valves at all, and It
Is doubtful if you would succeed If
you tried.
From a variety of vacant rooms at a
hotel shown you you select the one
you prefer, with a definite agreement
as to price. Yon are not required to
accept humbly and thankfully, In blind
faith, whatever room the clerk deigns
to assign to you, as In America. It la
expected, however, that you will order
your breakfasts at the hotel, being free
to get your other meals elsewhere If
you prefer.
Electric light switches are not com
monly turned on by a push button or
a flat key, as In our buildings, but by a
small brass lever. Many of the best
hotels have a reading light In the
headboard of each bedstead.
Mexican Chorch rfgindi.
Queretaro was a town before the
Spanish conquest and was made a city
In IGS.V A legend of Queretaro Is that
u» Otomlte chief, Fernando de Tapia
by name, undertook to convert the city
to Christianity In a way that seems
novel to us, but was common enough
to his day. He came from Tula with
a challenge to the peoplo of Queretar»
to a fair stand up fight. It he won, the
people surviving were to be baptized
The challenge was accepted, but while
the flghl was in progress a dark cloud
came up and the blessed Santiago was
seen in the heavens with a flery cross,
whereupon the people <if Queretaro
gave up and were baptized. They set
up a stone cross to commemorate the
event ou the site of the present church
of Santa Cruz. There Is scarcely a
church in Mexico which has not a leg
end of this kind attached to it.
One of Them.
Mrs. lloyle— My husband says that
when he met me It was a case of love
at sight. Mrs. Doyle— There are lota
of Instances of defective vislon.-New
York Press.
A CAT'S EYES.
! I he ( hlnrar Diaeovered Their lie aa
a Time Indicator.
The first European to learn of the
use of a cat as a time indicator was
; M. Hue, who in a work on the Chinese
I empire tells how he was initiated into
j the mystery.
M. Hue and a party of friends set
out to visit a Chinese Christian mis
, slou settlement among the peasantry.
| They met a young Chinaman on the
] road, and to test his intelligence they
j asked him If he could tell them the
! time. The native looked up at the sky,
but the clouds hid the sun from view,
j and he couldn't read any answer there,
j Suddenly he darted away to a farm
j and returned iu a few moments with a
! cat in his arms. Pushing up its eyelids
with his hand, he told Hue to look at
them, at the same time volunteering
the information that it was not noon
yet. While they were puzzling over
the case the boy went about his busi
ness.
When the party reached the village,
they asked the Christian Converts if
the}' could tell the time by a cat's eyes
and how it was done. Immediately
there was a wild hunt, and all the cats
obtainable in the neighborhood were
; brought before them.
The Chinese pointed out that the pu
-1 pi Is of a cat's eyes were gradually nar
i rower up to 12 noon, when they be
! came scarcely perceptible lines drawn
| perpendicularly across the eye, and
after that dilation recommenced. Hue
! examined the eyes of several cats and
verified what the Chinese had told
him.—Chicago Chronicle.
AN ODD WAGER.
The Peculiar Ilet a Koreixn I'rinoe
Laid and Won In l'aria.
Gambling has always been a favor
ite occupation for the sons of royal
houses, but none of them probably
j has ever exhibited so much wit and
! ingenuity in his betting as a foreign
prince did at his stay in Paris,
i He laid a heavy wager with a mem
i ber of the Imperial club of the French
capital that within two hours he
would be arrested by the police with
out committing any offense or pro
voking the officers of the law In any
fashion. Accordingly, having clothed
himself In rags of the most disreputa
ble appearance, he walked Into one of
the most aristocratic restaurants In
the city and ordered a cup of choco
! late. The waiter refused to serve him
i unless he showed evidence that he
! could pay. The prince at once drew
a roll of bank notes from his pocket
and offered one of large denomination
to the astonished attendant. The lat
ter took the bill and carried It at once
to the proprietor, who sent for the
police, In the meantime allowing his
strange guest to be served.
As soon as the authorities arrived
they arrested the Incognito son of roy
alty and took him to the nearest sta
tion, where of course he was released
after he had disclosed the facts ef the
affair.—New York Tribune.
Pounder of the Japanese Navy.
The founder of the Japanese navy
was an Englishman named Will
Adams, who went to the eastern seas
as pilot of a Dutch fleet In 1598 and
was cast away in Japan a couple of
I years later. He became a Japanese
! noblo and constructor of the navy to
the tycoon, but was never allowed to
return to England. He died about
j twenty years afterward, very ingen
iously leaving half his property to his
wife and family in Englaud and half
his property to his wife and family in
Japan. After his death he was deified.
Matrimony In Central Africa,
j Quails are plentiful at Lake Nyanza,
j and after being snared In the grass by
j the natives they are kept In small
j wicker cages strung on a long pole
j stuck In the ground. When a sufficient
number of quails have been collected
they can be exchanged with a neighbor
—for ail the world like coupons—for
wives.—Brevet Major It. G. T. Bright,
C. M. Q., In Wide World Magazine.
Cro«ty.
The new stenographer's yellow hair
glittered In the flood of sunlight that
poured through the window of the of
flee.
But old Duke, the bookkeeper, had
no eyes for the girl's beauty. He light
j ed a cigar and set to work,
j "Mr. Duke," said the stenographer,
j "Huh?" the old man grunted.
"Look here," she said Imperiously, "I
am sorry, but smoking always makes
me sick."
"Then," said Duke, without looking
up, "don't ever smoke."—New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
An Irlah Compliment.
An Irish gentleman said to an Eng
i ilsh officer, "Do you know Mr. X.
0 f _*/•• The officer disclaimed having
: that pleasure. "Ah, he is a very nice
j feilow and a good friend of mine. But
1 he has been dead these six years. An\
shure, you're very like him!" The of
ficer said he had been compared to a
good many things in the course of hi 9
; lifetime, but never before to a six
year-old corpse.—London Spectator.
<>c uiunl tinan.
"Mamma," queried little Willi#,
| "what is 'hush?'"
"Why do you ask, dear?" said his
i mother.
"Because," explained the observing
urchin, "when I asked sister what
made her hair all mussed after her
beau was here this afternoon she said,
j 'Hush, dear.' "—Chicago News.
The Caller.
"Mary, has any one called while 1
I was out?"
"Yes, ma'am; Mr. Biggs was here."
"Mr. Biggs? I don't recall the
i name."
"No, ma'am; lie called to see me,
ma'am."—Strand Magazine.
Corrected.
Teacher What are parallel lines?
j Micky Mulberry, what are you grln
| ning at? Micky Mulberry—Scuse me,
| Miss Sharpe, but any loidy might
make de same mistake. Yer means
parallel bars, don't yer? Puck.
The secret of being tiresome is in
telling everything.—Voltaire.
What He Wanted.
"now will you have your hair cut,
sir?" said the talkative barber to the
! victim In the chair.
"Minus conversational prolixity," re
: plied the patient.
"How's that, sir?"
"With abbreviated or totally ellmi
nated narrations."
"What?"
"Without effervescent verbosity. Let
even diminutive colloquy be conspicu
, otis by its absence."
The barber scratched his head
thoughtfully a second and then went
over to the proprietor of the shop and
whispered, "I don't know whether that
man In my chair is mad or a foreigner,
but I can't find out what he wants."
The victim had to explain that he
wanted the Job done in silence.
MUSICAL TYRANTS.
Trials of the New York Hostess Who
Hires Operatic Singers.
Not so very long ago a soprano who
had been engaged to sing at one of the
largest houses on Fifth avenue, with
her maid, was ushered into the
room reserved for the artists. She
was slow in removing her wraps and
concluded after she was part of the
way out of them that it was time for
the hostess to welcome her.
So she told her maid to put them on
again after she had inquired of one of
the servants where the lady was.
When he saw the preparations for de
parture lie rushed in haste to the
hostess.
She had been detained at the dinner
table, as a dinner of very elaborate
character was preceding the musical.
It was difficult for her to leave her
guests. She reached the hall, however,
just as the singer's ample form was
disappearing through the portiere.
"Ah, Mrs. Smith," the singer said.
"Then I am in the right house? I was
going out to tell my coachman we had
made a mistake, else you would have
been at the door to meet me."
The hostess looked as if she would
like to speed her flight into the open,
but her guests were soon to arrive,
and she did not dare risk offending the
star attraction at her biggest party of
the season.
Some of the singers make it a condi
tion that no other woman shall be en
gaged and no musicians of any kind
without consulting them. A young
hostess sent out cards to Invite her
friends to hear a great prima donna
sing. Afterward she heard from her
friends of all kinds of wonderful per
formers that she might also have en
gaged.
As the money question played no
part in her plans the young woman
began to engage them. Ry the time
the night of the party arrived she had,
in addition to the soprano, a band of
choir boys who would look beautiful
marching down her marble stairway,
a band of Venetian gondoliers who
would be charming at the entrance to
the music room caroling "Santa Lu
cia," a baritone who sang beautiful
love songs In excellent French and a
voice as soft as pomade, a girl who
could pound the piano with the best of
the men players and a quartet that
played antique music on near antique
instruments.
The prima donna arrived and beheld
In the artists' room this job lot of mu
sical entertainers. The hostess hur
ried into greet her.
"Rut surely." the prima donna said,
"you don't need me when you have so
much for your guests?"
The singer was in earnest. She was
perfectly willing to K'> home and lose
her $3,000 fee rather than be part of
such a musical vaudeville as the inex
perienced hostess had planned. Out of
gratitude because she consented to re
main to make the party a success, the
young matron sent the prima donna a
diamond bracelet the next day.—New
York Sun.
ROYAL MESSENGERS.
They Carry Other Thins* Braid re
Government Diapatchea.
Very odd are some of the errands
done by the royal messenger service in
Great Britain. At an English seaport,
for iustance, a sealed packet which
was being conveyed across the channel
to Windsor in care of the British for
eign office became accidentally unfas
tened in the custom house, and a quan
tity of cigars tumbled out. As the
packet in question was Invoiced as
containing "important confidential gov
ernment dispatches," no little amuse
ment was caused. Nothing serious,
however, came of the incident, for it is
a recognieed rule that "the king can
do no wrong," and neither, therefore,
can the king's messengers.
Besides, it is well understood that
the service is maintained for other
purposes than the nominal one. Dur
ing the late Queen Victoria's reign
these messengers used frequently to
carry to the continent in sealed bags
supposed to contain dispatches shirts
and collars of a special make and pat
tern for one of the British ambassa
dors, hats and bonnets for her majes
ty's female relatives, all sorts of Eng
lish knlckknacks for the late Empress
Frederick at Berlin and even barrels
of native oysters for the embassies %t
Paris and Vienna.
For many years, moreover, It was the
practice of the messengers to call each
week on their way back to England
at Brussels, where they received from
the court kitchens a box of special
biscuits of which Queen Victoria was
very fond and which she believed no
body could make as well as the head
pastry cook of Kiug Leopold's kitchen.
This box of biscuits was solemnly seal
ed up at the British legation with the
official seal and then conveyed with
infinite care to Windsor by way of
Dover and London.—Chicago News.
*THE REAL CHINESE GONG,
It Makea an I'proar aa Awful na It !•
Aatonlahlnir.
By the way, did you ever hear a real
Chinese gong? I don't mean a hotel
gong, but one of those great moon
disks of yellow metal which have so
terrible a power of utterance.
A gentleman in Bangor, north Wales,
who had a private museum of south
Pacific and Chinese curiosities, exhibit
ed one to me. It was hanging amid
Fiji spears beautifully barbed with
sharks' teeth, which, together with
grotesque New Zealand clubs of green
stone and Sandwich Island paddles
wrought with the baroque visages of
the shark god, were depending from
the walls; also there were Indian ele
phants in ivory, carrying balls in their
carveu bellies, each ball containing
many other balls Inside it.
The gong glimmered pale and huge
and yellow, like the moon rislug over a
southern swamp. My friend tapped
its ancient face with a muffled drum
stick, and it commenced to sob like
waves upon a low beach. He tapped it
again, and It moaned like the wind In
a mighty forest of pines. Again, and it
commenced to roar, and with each tap
the roar grew deeper and deeper till it
seemed like thunder rolling over an
abyss in the Cordilleras or the crash
ing of Thor's chariot wheels.
It was awful and astonishing as aw
ful. 1 assure you 1 did not laugh at it
at all. It impressed me as something
terrible and mysterious. I vainly
sought to understand how that thin
disk of trembling metal could pro
duce so frightful a vibration. He in
formed me that it was very expensive,
being chiefly made of the most precious
metals, silver aud gold.—From "Life
and Letters of Lafcadlo Hearn."
Magistrate (to prisoner) What is
your occupation? Prisoner—l am a
locksmith, your worship. Magistrate—
And how cauie you to be found in a
gambling house? What were you do
ing when the police appeared? Pris
oner—Making a bolt for the door.—
London Mail.
HINDOOS AT TABLE.
The Hiffher Their Cant* the Mort
Irkaonie Become the Hulea.
! "In India," writes Sidney Low, "reli
gion, with what seems a malign Inge
nuity, has occupied Itself In heaping
complications round the two essential
functions of eating and marrying. The
Hindoo cannot take his food without
elaborate precautions against pollution,
and the lilgher his caste is the more
[ burdensome these rules are. There are
some Inferior castes in the south who
are not supposed to approach even
j within speaking distance of the elect.
A regular table has been drawn up of
! what may be called the degrees.of pol
lution, so that, while some of these low
persons can pollute a man of a higher'
caste only by actually touching him,
It is held that blacksmiths, masons, j
carpenters and leather workers can
pollute at a distance of twenty-four!
feet, toddy drawers at thirty six feet,
and cultivators at forty-eight feet, j
while the pariahs, who eat beef, have,
a pollution range of no less than twen
j ty-one yards and twelve Inches.
"The more sacred a Hindoo is the!
more he is worried by his code of table !
etiquette. The very high caste Brah- 1
man ought to strip off all his clothes
and, if possible, sit on the floor when !
he consumes his food. He should not I
eat anything which has been touched j
by an inferior or a non-Hindoo or j
drink water out of any vessel similarly
defiled. As the scale descends the re
strictions relax until at last we get
down to the man of no standing what
ever, the sweeper, who is so wanting
In refinement that he can openly stroke
a puppy dog, and finally we reach the
outcast who can eat any kind of meat
whenever he can get it and will even
drink out of a cup which has touched
other lips.
"Luckily for the modern Hindoo
these burdensome prohibitions and in
junctions are subject to certain con
venient legal fictions. Sweetmeats, it
appears, are not food and may be tak
en by anybody anywhere. Not long
ago the Brahmau pundits at Benares
decided that soda water Is not water
within the meaning of the act, so to
•peak, and that ice does not oounf—
Chicago News.
A CRUEL ENDING
The Lonrl)' Dentil and l)mrcnit«4
Grave of Laurence Sterne.
Laurence Sterne, the great writer,
was left alone In his rooms on Bond
street, London, in those last bitter
days, with a servant of the lodging
house for his only attendant. As he
lay dying a knock was heard at the
door and a footman entered, come
from a house near by to inquire as to
his health.
The footman waited till the end, saw
the thin arm raised as if to ward off
a blow and heard the almost Inarticu
late murmur from white lips, "Now it
Is come!"'
Then he went back to the house,
where a large party was gathered, and
told the news to the feasters, most of
whom were Sterne's friends. For the
space of half an hour they lamented
him, and then the talk turned on other
things—so soon are we forgotten in
this workaday world.
"Alas, poor Yorickl" His publisher
and a single friend followed him to
the tomb, while ghouls watched out
side and marked the spot where he
was laid. Two nights afterward the
body was stolen, shipped to Cambridge
and placed, strangely enough, upon the
dissecting table at his own university.
A friend recognized his features and
fainted away when It was too late to
stop the desecration.—Myrtle Reed in
Book News Monthly.
Canae ol tils Joy.
"What are you looking so happy over,
old man?"
"I urn rejoicing over the birth of
twins."
"Great Scott! I congratulate you!"
"Don't congratulate me. Go and con- j
gratulate Evans. He's the lucky man. j
I never did like him."—Philadelphia In
quirer.
Stole Ills Livelihood.
Tattered Timothy I hate doctors.
Tiepass Thomas—What fur? Tattered
Tim—One of 'em cured me o' fits w'en
I wuz a kid. Gee, I cud work up some
sympathetic crowds if I c'd have one
right now!— Cleveland Leader.
She Waa the Girl.
The Widower—l've always said that
if I man-led again I should choose a
girl who Is as good as she is beautiful.
Miss Willing—Really, this is very sud
den, George, but I accept you, of
course.—Pick Me Up.
I —»" 1
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The personal of its officers and directors, together with its ample I
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WM. F. II ALI.STEAD, Vice Pres. WM- A. WILCOX, Trust Officer.
D. B. ATHERTON, Secretary and Treasurer.
—DIRECTORS
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T E Clarke. Joseph J. Jermyn, E. M Kint
II M. Edwards, Edward F. Kln K sbury, August Robinson,
Thomas J. Foster, Henry A. Knapp, wL' I
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• marnii} i-azzjeti.
Among the interested visitors of the
marine barracks at Washington on one
i occasion there was a party of young
girls from a Maryland town, friends of
one of the officers of the barracks.
They proved much interested in every
thing pertaining to the life and disci
pline of the post.
1 "What do you mean by 'taps?'" ask
! Ed one young woman.
"Taps are played every night on the
bugle." answered the officer."lt means
j 'lights out." They play it over the
j Bodies of dead soldiers."
I A puzzled look came to the fa«-e of
the questioner. Then she asked:
j "What do you do if you haven't a
dead soldier?"— Harper's Weekly.
i
Hell Gate.
j Hell Gate, at the entrance of Long
| Island sound, in the East river, was
| not so named because of its dangers
• ind turbulance. as is generally sup
| posed, but quite the contrary. The
! early Dutch ?ettiers called It "Hell
j Gate" because it was a pleasant, beau
tiful passageway. In allusion to its pic
i turesque scenery, "hell" conveying the
j Idea of pleasantness. -New York Her
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112 ANATOMY OF AN OYSTER. <
I lie IHvolve'* Orican» and Where
They Are Located.
Every oyster has ;i mouth, a heart, a
liver, a stomach and other necessary
internal organs including a set of cun
ningly devised intestines. The mouth
1 is at the small end of the oyster's body,
near the binge of the shell. It Is oval
in shape, and, though not readily dis
covered by an unpractlced eye. It may
In* easily located by gently pushing a
blunt bodkin or similar Instrument
i along the folds of the surface of the
iiotly at the place mentioned. Connect
ed sviih the mouth is the canal which
the oyster uses in conveying food to
the stomach, from whence It passes In
to the curious little set of netted and
twisted intestines referred to In the
open! nar.
To discover the heart of an oyster
the fold of flesh which oystermen call
the "mantle" must be removed. This
is fatal to the oyster, of course, but In
the interest of science and for the ben
efit of the "curious" It Is occasionally
done. When the mantle has been re
moved the heart, shaped like a crescent
or horned moon, Is laid to the view.
The oyster's heart Is made up of two
parts, just like that of a human being,
one of which receives the blood from
the gills and the other drives it out
through the arteries. The liver is
found In the immediate vicinity of the
heart and stomach and is a queer
shaped little organ, which is supposed
to perform all the functions of a blood
filter.
Knew Him at Once.
There are other sure ways of bring
ing i, man to mind besides mentioning
his name. Among the candidates who
were sent from Princeton to a Phila
delphia church was one young man
whose language was of the sort whlcb
dazzles und delights the younger mem
bers of a congregation and sometimes
pleases the elders as well. In this case
the committee were besieged to ask
for the young man again, and they
consented, but unfortunately the man
j to whose lot it fell to write the letter
had forgotten the candidate's name.
Nothing daunted, he wrote to one of
the seminary professors:
"Please send us that floweret, stream
let, rivulet, cloudlet, starlight and
moonbeam young man again. We've
forgotten his name, but we've nodoubt
you'll recognize him."
"We do," wrote the professor. And
the desired candidate was aent and
subsequently was called to the parish.
"Old Moore."
"Old Moore," under whose name al
manacs and prophecies have been
appearing regularly for generation,
was not a charlatan. His name was
Henry Andrews. He was a bookseller
of London, and, according to an old
year book, "his prophecies were a*
much laughed at by himself as by the
Worshipful Company of Stationers, for
whom he manufactured them, In order
to render Moore's almanac salable
among the ignorant, In whose eyes «.
lucky hit covered a multitude of blun
ders." Andrews "had a very extraor
dinary genius for astronomy and was
greatly esteemed for his Integrity and
modesty by every scientific man who
was personally acquainted with him."*
How It Struck Her.
"You seemed greatly Impressed," said
the minister, "with rny description of
how they brought the head of John the
Baptist before the king on a salver."
"Yes," sighed Mrs. De Style; "I was
thinking how much better they train
ed servants in those days. Now, mine,
when tliey bring me things, are forever
forgetting the salver."—Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
A Sure Way.
First Author —Oh, the unutterable
monotony of existence! I am thor
oughly disgusted with it all. Would
that I might completely disappear for
awhile. Second Author—Then why
don't you marry a famous woman!—
Judge.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the Rec
tor, Church Wardens and Vestry of
Chr:st (Memorial) Church in Danville,
Present ell -> the Court of Common Pleas
of \l>mt ur C >unty, Pennsylvania, their
: petition iraying the said Court to grant
! under ia-« provisions of the Act of As-
I semMv ■ '.prov- d the 29th day of April
i A. D. eu itled. "An Act to provide
for i.hand regulation of
certain corporations" and its supple
ments, ceitain amendments to the orig
inal charter of the said Christ (Memor
ial* Church, upon which petition an in
terlocutory decree has been made as
prayed for, and that an application will
be made to the snid Court on the 27th
day of May 11H)7 ai 10 o'clock A. M- for
the final decree in tie premises.
FRANK C ANGLE. Solicitor.
Notice.
Notice hereby is given that the
Chillisquaque Presbyterian Church,
Presented to the Court of Common
Pleas of Montour County, Pennsyl
vania, their petition praying the said
Court to graut under the provisions
of the Act of Assembly approved the
29th day of April A. D. 1874, entitled,
"Au Act to provide for the incorpora
tion aud regulation of certain corpora
! tious" aud its supplements, certain
amendments to the original charter of
the said Chillisquaque Presbvterian
Church upou which petition an inter
locutory decree has been made as
prayed for, and that an application
will be male to the said Court on the
27th day of May 1907, at 10 o'clock A..
M.for the liual decree in the prem
ises.
Edwin Paul, Solicitor.
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