WOMEN OF HOLLAND. Dutch Fsminlne Co«tumee Are To» Complex For Words. The women's costume la a trifle too complex tor verbal description, as feminine belongings usually are, but the white lace cap which covers the head from eyebrows to nape of nock and from ear to ear, curving out in rounded wings on each side of her cheeks, Is always a conspicuous and Inevitable portion of a woman's attire. It may jwisalbly be that on Sunday this cap Is a trifle whiter or stlffer or daintier than on week days, but the difference is not very apparent. The ladles assure us there Is a vast difference in the quality of the net and «he amount of handiwork employed, but the lent* made no special note of that. In shupe and outline the camera finds great distinction between these caps and those of Katwyk or Markeu or Bols le I)uc, but between Sunday and Monday caps In Volendam it re oords none whatever. For the rest of the costume feminine Holland asks above all things apparently a very flat, narrow chest surmounting enormous hips, and Volendam is no exception to this fashion rule. The invariable black "best waist" of the elder women Is usually brightened by a square yoke of lighter color and material, and the dark apron or oversklrt Is topped by six Inches or more of gay plaid or bright colored band worn over an un derskirt of dull blue striped or black material and uncountable petticoats. About the throat a collar formed of many rows of heavy dark red coral beads is fastened by huge silver clasps, and the number of rows, the size and quality of the beads are matters for feminine pride. Long hair Is not the glory of women In Holland, save per haps at Marken. It is usually hidden and at Volendam Is out quite close and entirely covered by a tight fitting thick black silk cap concealed beneath the nnowy white lace. The younger girls, from the tiniest toddler to the young melaje, old enough to wed, wear dresß os aud caps the exact counterpart of their grove mothers, no less full of skirt or narrow of chest, but much waver in color. A group of tiny maid ens In a stiff iireeae on the dike resem bles nothing more than a swarm of butterflies.—Florence Craig Albrecht In 3crlbner*s. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. No small noise sounds as bad as that made by squeaky shoes. Lift any little woman's thumb and you will find a man under It. How few people are as polite to their Mends as they are to strangers I People seem to begrudge a preacher *verythlng he gets except his vacation. The child that is ruled by lore and the child that has Its own way live at the same house. If you were a mind reader you would Stun a lot of unpleasant tilings which now you can only surmise. The man who prides himself on being a "great observer of little things" can usually be relied upon for a few un pleasant remarks. Soon after a boy ceases to credit his father with being the smartest man on earth he imagines his father should consult him on all doubtful issues.— Atchison Globe. Inflection. The wife of an army officer at a western post recently had occasion to visit n small neighboring town to do some shopping at what Is called the general store. She was much enter tained by the variety and antiquity of the stock of goods, and as she passed out her eyes were attracted by a pile of mottoes, elaborately lettered and or nately framed, the upper one being the Scriptural passage, "Walk In love." As she paused the clerk, a dapper young man of more affability than ad vantages. stepped forward with the remark: "Them are the latest things in mottoes. This top one i? swell to put over a .voting lady's door—'Walk In, love.' Lippincott's. The Outc'or-r Ooy. Let the boy lean) to hit the bright spot with a rifle, and If war comes he can hit the button on the coat of an enemy the first shot and does not have to be taught to shoot over again after he enlists. If he is familiar with guns, boats, water and the wild woods, he will be handy anywhere, and you cant lose him. Any boy who has got a fa ther who wont do the right thing by him and give him a chance to love the woods and the water and the free, clean air that Clod serves free, when you get far enough away from man's city can come along with me some time, and I will show him how to have the time of his life.—Outer's Book. He'll Get the Girl. Tommy Battles was turned down when he asked Elsie's father for his consent. The old man said that Tom my was a good boy, but lacked per sistency. "What Is Tommy going to do about tt? He goes to the old man and nsks htm for his daughter three evenings every week.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. His Reformation. "Yes," said the reformed cannibal chief, "I used to eat every missionary that came out here." "That was before you got religion, eh?" queried the new missionary. "No; before I got indigestion."—Cath olic Standard and Times. Learning. Roker— I won SSO from Bings last night playing poker. Joker—Why, does Bings know how to play poker? Soker—Not yet—Lipplncott's Maga zine. Why the Dial Has Sixty Divisions. We have sixty divisions on the dials of our clocks nnd watches because Hipparehus, who lived In the second century before Christ, accepted the Babylonian system of reckoning time, that system being sexagesimal. The Babylonians were acquainted with the decimal, but for common purposes they counted by "sossi" and "sari," the "sos wf representing sixty and the "saros" Sixty times sixty—3,GOO. From Hip parehus that mode of reckoning found Its way into the works of Ptolemy about the year 150 A. D., and on that authority It has been perpetuated. ■<* ' t.M Hf r ODD WAYS OF POETS. Tennyson, Artistically Fastidious, Was a Personal Sloven. There la a sort of idea in the public mind that the poet is what scientists call a "fixed genius." that every poet is the exact counterpart of every Other poet. There is probably no class of men In the world—if class it can be called whose members differ more widely in personality. Pope, for Instance, was a miser. Dry den, Sedley, Rochester and Shelley seemed to have no use for money and "splashed It about in the most Insane fashion. Shakespeare was a keen man of business. His contemporaries, Mar lowe and Masslnger, did not leave enough to have their bodies decently burled. Coming down to modern times, Ten nyson was artistically the most deli cate and fastidious of men. A mis placed comma, an epithet which was not the perfection of expression, gave him nights of Insomnia. Yet he was perhaps the most utterly careless man of his generation regard ing his personal appearance. Had he not been carefully watched by his de voted wife, he would have been quite content to wear a suit of clothes until It dropped off him bit by bit In obedi ence to the law of gravitation. A great admirer of Tennyson once described his first meeting with the groat poet. It occurred at a roadside public house in the Isle of Wight. The late laureate was seated by the kitchen fire, with a short black clay pipe be tween his lips, burning grease spots out of a pair of check trousers with the point of a redhot poker. It was probably Tennyson's "faculty of silence" which helped him to secure the friendship of the greatest talker— In botli senses of the phrase—of his generation, Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle had occasional fits of silence, and he and Tennyson would sit on op posite sides of the hearth for six hours at a stretch without exchanging as many words. At the expiration of such a period of silent intercommunication Carlyle would knock the ashes out of his last pipe and remark with every symptom of the keenest intellectual satisfaction, "Aye. Alfred, mon, we've had a glori ous nlcht!" Tennyson's great and friendly rival. Browning, was as different from him tn tils personal peculiarities as he was In point of genius. He always looked as If he had Just been turned out of a bandbox. Ten nyson was one of the most silent of men. Browning one of the most ebul lient and loquacious. Tennyson was pessimistic and somewhat morose. Browning was always bnrstlng with optimism and expansiveness.—Chicago Inter Ocean. ANCIENT ARMIES. Ten thousand horse and 100,000 foot fell on the fatal Hold of Issua. The army of Artaxerxes before tho buttle of Cunnxa amounted to about 1.200,000. An army of Cambyses, 50.000 strong, wns buried In the desert sands of Afri ca by a south wind. A short time after the taking of Ba bj'lon the forces of Cyrus consisted of 600,000 foot. 120,000 horse uud 2,000 chariots armed with scythes. Ninus, tho Assyrian king, about 220 B. C., led against the Bactrinns his arrny, consisting of 1,700,000 foot sol diers, 200,000 horse and 16,000 chariots armed with scythes. When Xerxes arrived at Thermop ylae his land and sea forces amounted to 2,6-11,610, exclusive of servants, eu nuchs, women, sutlers, etc., In all num bering 5,283.220. So say Herodotus. Plutarch and Isocrates. Why Paper Cuts. Have you ever cut yourself with a piece of paper? The edge of a piece of glazed paper looks much like that of a knife under the microscope. Of course the little teeth have not the strength of steel, but If the edge of the paper Is drawn swiftly over the linger without much pressure that peculiar property of matter called Inertia comes Into play, and the tender teeth will cut the flesh before they are broken. Tho same prop erty It Is which allows a candle to be shot through a one inch plank or per mits a bullet to pass through a pane of glass without shattering It, leaving only a clean, round hole.—C. H. Claudy In St. Nicholas. Lincoln and a Suit of Clothes. On one occasion a Judge was 111 and, being unable to sit In a case, delegated Lincoln to hear the mattor. The ac count of a guardian was In question. He had paid S2B for a suit of clothes for his ward and justified It on the ground that it was a necessary ex pense. Lincoln held against the guard ian on the ground that It was an ex- I travagant expenditure and In passing on the case stated that he had never In his life owned a suit of clothes that | cost S2B. Wasn't Sure. "Remember," said the lawyer, "you ' nave undertaken to tell nothing but the truth." "I'll do my best," answered the ex pert witness, "but I won't know how far I have succeeded until I'm through with the cross examination."—Wash ington star. The Doubt. Borrows—By tho way, Knox, did 1 leave my umbrella at your office yes terday? Knox You left an umbrella, but I don't know whether it was yours or not.—Exchange. Thunder in September Indicates a good crop of grain and fruit for the next year.— Proverb. A Quick Guess. The small boy entered the shoe store and appeared to l>e somewhat bewil dered. "What will you have, my son?" ask ed the clerk. "I—l have forgotten what I was sent for," replied the boy bashfully, "but—but it is something we have at home every time ma goes into the kitchen whLle the cook is there." The clerk smiled knowingly. "Oh, I see. You want spats?" "Yes, that's It, mister," replied the lad, his face brightening. "I came after a pair of spats."—Chicago Nejm ADAM AND EVE. _ The Forbidden Fruit, the Fall tnd the Three Mystlo Qifts. Many are the attempts to identify the forbidden fruit Some say it was the fig, others the grape, others, again, the pomegranate, but the most "Ara bian Nightish" description paints It as an ear of wheat which looked like a ruby and was as big as an ostrich egg and grew on a tree whose trunk was like gold, Its branches like silver and 3ts leaves emerald. Our first parents were expelled about 8 o'clock of the afternoon of Friday, the 10th of May, having resided in Eden seven years, two months, two weeks and three days. Adam was banished to Ceylon and Eve t<> Mecca, and they remained apart for 200 years. Adam, according to some accounts, spent half his time weeping, with his face to the earth. Others less chari table aver that his solitude was cheer ed by Lilith, who resumed her former relations with lilm. Wlien he repented and rejoined Eve, he begged that something might be given him from the happy garden of innocence which he had forfeited, and, 10, in answer to his prayer three mighty archangels were sent to him, Michael bringing gold, Gabriel frank incense aud Raphael myrrh—mystic gifts in after years associated with the offering of the magi, whom early Christian tradition identified with Enoch, Melchlsedek and Ellas. FLY FISHING RODS. It Is the Weight Outboard From the Hand That Tells. Much pleasure will be found in buy ing rods and tackle. If Inexperienced, any old angler will rather enjoy help ing you out, or you can goto a first class shop, ask for a salesman who Is an angler and tell him where you pro pose to flsh. If economy is an object to you, very fair working tools can be had for a little money. It Is surprising to handle some of the rods that are priced at $5 to .$lO. I do not consider weight In the scales of great impor tance, as I like a good sized, comfort able handle. It Is the weight outboard from the bundle that tells. One of the lightest rods I ever saw weighed eight ounces on the scnles. It had a big, fat wooden handle and substantial fittings, but the rod proper was very light. My individual preference in for a rod of ten feet, but lots of men prefer some thing shorter. I have seen good work done with an eight foot rod, but there is a great difference In the power of rods of the same length. A tall, strong man can handle a rod of great power and with a suitable line bring out all there Is in It. He may be able to do this all day long without great fatigue, while a weaker person would be hear ily handicapped and tired to death.— Forest and Stream. Strange Freak of Memory. There is a strange story of how Sir Walter Scott, producing "The Bride of Lammerinoor" during Illness, was afterword found to have forgotten en tirely what he had thus created. Ac cording to James Ballantyne, "the book was written and published before Mr. Scott was able to rise from his bed, and lie assured me when It was first put into his hands in a complete shape that he did not recollect a single inci dent, character or conversation it con tained. The original Incidents of the story, which he had known from l<oy hood. he still remembered, but he knew no more about the story he bad writ ten than he did before he began to write or even think about writing it." These facts were corroborated by Mr. Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's son-in law and biographer, so that they are placed beyond question. An Earthquake In Persia. Professor Vambury, the Hungarian orientalist was in Shiraz, Persia, at the time of one of Its devastating earth quakes. The shook was terrible, throw- , ing great houses about like shuttle- 1 cooks and splitting the hills beyond the town. When the very earth seemed in process of disruption and men and wo men were weeping and tearing them selves In agonies of fear two mad fa natic priests stalked through the tot tering city oryiug aloud that the for eigners sojourning in the place had brought on the calamity. And the peo-1 pie took up the cry "The Frengis are unclean!" and made a rush for the house in which the professor had been ! staying. Only the entire collapse of j tlie property adjoining beat off their at- ) tack and enabled liiin to make his es- j cape from the city. Dress Millennium. When the dress millennium arrives and every woman finds herself a thing 1 of Joy to look at, able to walk in com- j fort and with,a pocket for her purse,' It will be the result of an elementary ' training In dignity, comeliness and common sense.—Reader. i Wanted a Second Trial. "You were guilty of one matrimo-, nlal mistake. I shouldn't think you would marry again." "Oh, but you know a verdict of guilty usually leads to a second trial," replied the gay grass' widow.—Phila delphia ledger. Caustic. "Yes," said the bride of a week. "Jack tells me everything he knows, and I tell him everything 1 know." "Indeed!" rejoined her ex-rival, who had been left at the post. "The silence' when you are together must be op pressive." Preliminary. Stella—l wonder why sentiment at- j tacheg to a first kiss ? Bella—lt's like j the first tooth. You've got to have it; before yon get the second.—Brooklyn, life. Crossed the Border. (Extract from a lady's letter)—We j must have been traveling very fast, for i In the morning all the people were : swearing at us In German and early In the afternoon they liegan to swear at ! us in Italian.—Simplicissiinus. A Mean Cut. Dora—ls it true that Jack is going to ;marry you? Flora—Yes, dear. Dora— Well, you'd better make him sign the ipledge. Flora—Why, Jack doesn't drink. jDora— No, hut he probably will.— Cleveland Leader. hiJ ARGUMENT OF FORCE. Napoleon Smashed a Vase, and the Treaty Was Signed. Early In April, 1797, the people of Austria demanded peace with France. Negotiations were begun In the vicini ty of I.eoben. Bonaparte, in an inter view with the Austrian plenipotenti aries, said to them, "Your government has sent against me four armies with out generals, and this time a general without an army." In the treaty which the Austrian commissioners pro jected the first article stipulated that the emperor of Austria thereby reoog ulzed the French republic. "Erase It!" exclaimed Napoleon. "The existence of the republic Is as plain as the sun. This article Is only fit for the blind. We are our own masters and shall es tablish auy government we prefer. If one day the French people," he con tinued, "should wish to create a mon archy, the emperor might object that he hud recognized a republic." The preliminaries were soon settled, Napo leon signing for France, thus placing himself on an equal footing with the emperor of Austria. The formal treaty known as Campo Formlo was signed In October, 1797, Austria fulfilling the pledges she had ulready given. The Austrian plenipotentiary protested against tli» distribution of the prov inces beyond the Adige. Napoleon was angered at this, and, seizing a vuse, dashed it to the ground, exclaiming, "If it is not so nrranged I will break your monarchy as I have brokeu this vase!" This argument of force, as demonstrated to tlie diplomat was convincing, and the treaty was signed. PHYSICAL EDUCATION. Don't Develop the M nd at the Expense of the Body. The man or wotuat. who would train the mental faculties without any refer ence to the physical shows a faulty qualification for the work in which he or she may be engaged. The mind may be ever so well trained and stored with knowledge of the books, but un less there Is behind it u reasonably strong body life runs the risk of be ing a failure; if not that, an existence of pain that serves as a limitation upon its possibilities. It is a species of cru elty to educate the mind at the ex pense of the body. Better let a child grow up into manhood or womanhood with an Inferior education than with a better education of the mind and a body weakened in the effort. The fact that so many men in this country who have succeeded In bus I ness and In professional and public life have been the sons of farmer*, whose early life has been spent out of doors, has heen a sub)ect of remark. May It not be accounted for on the ground that In their boyhood their physique was developed so that In aft er life, besides their mental acquire ments, they had strong Itodies with which to do the work they have so successfully performed? This Is not only possible, but very probable. - Knoxville Journal. A Stolen Trade Secret. The manufacture of tinware in Eng land originated in a stolen secret. Few readers need to be informed that tin ware Is simply thin sheet iron plated with tin by being dipped into the molt en metal. In theory it is nil easy mat ter to clean the surface of iron. Dip the Iron Iti a bath of boiling tin and remove It enveloped In the silvery met al to a place of cooling. In practice, however, the process is one of the most difficult of arts. It was discovered in Holland and guarded from publicity with the utmost vigilance for nearly half a century. England tried to dis cover the secret In vain until James Sherman, a Cornish miner, crossed the channel, insinuated himself surrepti tiously Into a tin plate manufactory, made himself master of the secret and brought It home. Women and Jewelry. "Women know a great deal more about iiuying Jewelry now than they knew twenty-five years ago," said a Jeweler. "When I first started in the business a clerk with a persuasive tongue could talk a woman Into buy ing most anything It wasn't safe for her to step inside a shop unless she had a man along. Now the average woman knows more about Jewels than the average man. Of course they can be fooled—anybody can but an expert —but as a rule she buys with a sur prising knowledge of value, and her taste in the cutting and setting la ex cellent."—New York Post. Brains. "A man stood on his head twewhr minutes in order to win a wager. He died the next day." "What killed him? Congestion of the brain?" "No; If he had had any brains he wouldn't have done It." Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. Specified. "When in trouble." said the cmlneal lecturer, "refrain from worrying." "But, doctor," asked a woman In the audience, "how can we?" "Anyway," replied the lecturer, "re frain from worrying other people." Worse Still. She—You'll be glad to learn. deer„ that I've got out of visiting our rela tives. Ho—Grand! Splendid! It hung over me like a cloud. How did you manage it? She Oh, I asked them here!—lJfe. Meeting the Situation. "I wonder if there's anythiug seriou* between that tall girl and the little captain?" "I think there is. She has had the heels of all her shoes lowered."—File gendo Blatter. Cause of His Joy. "What are you looking so happy over, old man?" "I am rejoicing over the iblrth of twins." "Great Scott! 1 congratulate your "Don't congratulate me. Go and con gratulate Evans. He's the lucky man. I never did like him."—Philadelphia* Enquirer. His Attentions. Nan—How attentive young Mr. All gawn la to his pretty wife! Fan—l don't wonder you notice it, but you must have been misinformed. They are not married yet. -Chicago Tribune. THE COTTAGE. It Bhould Be Without Sham Eleganos and Elaboration. There are cottages and cottages. Any modeet, unpretentious house designed on strictly economical Hues may be fitly called a cottage, and It Is more satisfactory to regard one's own sim ple little abode an a well built, commo dious cottage than as a small house of comparatively cheap construction and cramped dimensions. It is when glren to the big swaggering seaside houses of the rich that the term "cottage" be comes a misnomer and an affectation. To the mau of moderate means the very idea of building a cottage rather than a house carries with it a sense of making a home within his means free from vain striving for a sham elegance and elaboration. The cottage which apes the mansion is as absurd as the affected and exaggerated dignity of the pompous and undersized individual who seeks to create an Impression out of all proportion to his real importance. Since Simplicity is one of the main at tributes of a well designed cottage, its charm and effectiveness must depend upon the quiet excellence of Its propor tion and the harmonious and unobtru sive quality of Its coloring in relation to its surroundings.—Robert C. Spencer In House Beautiful. MISLED BY PARROTS. How Columbus Missed the Honor of Discovering This Continent. A flight of birds, coupled with a sail or's superstition, robbed Columbus of the honor of discovering the continent. When Columbus sailed westward over the unknown Atlantic, he expected to reach Zlpnngu (Japan). After several days' sail from Uomera. one of the Canary Islands, he became uneasy at not discovering Zipangu, which, ac cording to his reckonings, should have been 211! nautical miles more to the east. After a long discussion he yielded to the opinion of Martin Alonzo I'lnzon, the commander of the Pinta, and steer ed to the southwest. Pinzon was guid ed in his opinion solely by a illglit of parrots which took wing in that direc tion. It was good luck to follow in the wake of a flock of birds when en gaged upon a voyage of discovery, ac cording to widespread superstition among Spanish seamen of that day. If Columbus had kept to his course, he would have entered the gulf stream, have reached Florida and then proba bly have been carried to Cape Hat teras and Virginia. On the Bias. "What do people mean when they talk aliout tacking?" asked Bobby, who had listened to a detailed account of his sister's first experience in a sail boat, but In much confusion of mind. "Oh, you'll know when you're a little bit oidar," said his sister, but the small round face wore an expression of Injury, and she had to explain fur ther. "Why, it's just turning halfway round," she said, with slight hesita tion, "and then—and then you sail on the bias." Old Age and Work. Old people make a great mistake when they give up work. Many men who linve made a competency in busi ness and feel entitled to retire from active work And themselves declining in health and becoming prematurely old for want of occupation. In most aged persons the vital functions con- tinue in active exercise under normal conditions, but if the regularity and moderation of business life are depart ed from trouble will surely follow JKMZ* . AM* The Home Paper of Danville. Of course you read i »ii ii THE nEOPLE'S KOPULAR I APER. Everybody Reads It. Publisher Every Morn: uxcept Sunday No. II L Mah« - "g'St. SubsCi%;>lion 6 c.« J -. »* V' udc. AERIAL TELEGRAPHY. First Attempted by Amontons In the Fifteenth Century. One of the first systems of aerial telegraphy was attempted In the fif teenth century. The originator was Amontons, at that time considered siuj of the cleverest scientists of the world. Yet you never hear the name nowa days In connection with that of Morse or Bell. However, Amontons develop ed a system of signal telegraphy so that a message could be sent from Paris to Homo In three hours. Those who assisted In the transmission of the message along the line were unable to tell the nature of the message. Posts were placed from Paris ncross the Alps at consecutive points, *-here men were stationed with telescopes. Different signals, representing com binations of letters, were run up at each post. The man at the other end, seeing the signal, placed a similar one before his post, and so the message was carried to Its destination. The key to the signal was known only to those who sent the messages In Paris and to the recipients a thou sand miles away. Amontons was not encouraged In his work by the puffy, gouty functionaries of the time and discontinued his efforts. Philadelphia North American. A Domestic Distinction. "They say that your wife wears the pants," commented the tactless friend. "She does not," responded young Mr. Enpeck with some spirit. 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