Tffontour American.
FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor.
Danville, Pa., June 6 !907.
PROBERS FINISH
BNULY IST
Commission Determined Not to Make
Public Its Report—Wonld Warn
Gratters.
HARRISBURG, .Tune 5.
The legislative probers engaged in
getting to the bottom of the graft in
connection with the building of the
new capitol resumed their sessions in
the senate caucus room this morning,
and propose to keep up the work every
day this week.
TO FINISH BY JULY 1.
It is said that the commission ex
pects to make a finish by .Tuly 1 and
put their report in the governor's
hands, leaving it for liim and Attor
ney General Todd to act in the matter
of commencing prosecutions against
those who have profited illegally in
"trimming" the capitol. That there
will be prosecutions goes without say
ing. The members of the commission,
the attorneys connected with the in
vestigation and high State officials all
say that there is but one thing to do
and that is to begin criminal suit
against the grafters not only to punish
them for their rascality, but also to
recover for the State some of the cash
that was grabbed in such large quant
ities.
WILL NOT WARN GRAFTERB.
The commission is determined not
to make public the report of the audit
ors on the ground that it contains
matter of such a character that the
men who are to be proceeded against
might be given a cue as to what the
evidence will be and take steps to
counteract it, if possible.
It is said that the probers will place
their report in the Governor's hands
as soon as possible so that suits can be
brought before the statute of limita
tions expires. A story was current to
day that Senator Penrose will insist
that the platform to be adopted by the
Republican State convention tomorrow
shall denounce the grafters in strong
terms.
NEKS ITEMS FROM
ROUND THE STATE
Jeremiah Lynn.niailiug clerk in the
Allentown postoffice, lias served in
that position continuously for twenty
two years.
John Donegan was on Monday night
elected treasurer of the Bethlehem
school board for the twenty-fifth con
secutive time.
The supreme court has sustained the
city councils of Wilkes-Barre in its
appropriation of £5,000 for celebrating
the city's centennial anniversary.
John Bishop, of Harrisburg, aged 68
years, who has been obliged to wear
glasses for thirty years, has regained
what is known as second sight so that
he lias no need for glasses.
While two high school pupils of Oil
City were rowing on the Allegheny
river on Monday their boat struck a
submerged wreck, They were pitched
out and Georgo Swanson, aged 18
years, was drowned.
The Harsvood Electric Power com
pany of Hazletou, charted by the Par
dee interests, proposes to issne bonds
to the amount, of $2,000,000 for the ex
tension of its business, the object be
ing to furnisii light and power over a
circuit of about twenty-five miles
about Hazleton.
After litigation extending over sev
eral years the supreme court has decid
ed that the great power plant of the
York Haven Power company is in
Lancaster and not in York county
The plant is located in *he bed of the
Susquehanna river and is worth con
siderably over a million dollars,yield
ing a county tax of about $1,500.
On Saturday morning the sexton of
the United Bretheru church at Red
Lion, York county, found that there
was no draft wheu he went to start a
fire in the church furnace. An ex
amination showed that the pipe was
filled with sparrows and he took out
U4O dead birds, which had sought re
fuge there from the cold and rain.
MAIL ACCOHPANIED
THUNDERSTORH
V very severe storm passed over this
section about one o'clock yesterday af
ternoon and in several places it was
accompanied by hail. However, the
latter did very little damage to the
fruit as it. only kept up a fesv min
utes.
In the northern end of the county
the hail was the most severe while in
this town although it rained quite
bard there was but little hail.
.|ln the population of New York city
there aro 780,0(H) persons of German
parentage, 735,000 of Irish, 250,000 of
.Russian and 228,000 of Italian.
DANVILLE SCHOOL
DISTRICT REPORT
Annual Statement ol Receipts and Ex
penditures lor Year Ending
Jane t, 1907.
Annual Report for the year ending on
the first Monday in .Tune, 1907.
Whole number of schools ... 30
Average number of months
taught 9
Number of male teachers em
ployed 4
Number of female teachers
employed 26
Average salaries of males per
month 181.25
Average salaries of females
per month 48.65
Number male pupils attend
ing all the schools. .... 609
Number of female pupils at
tending ail the sohools 663
Whole number of pupils in
attendance 1272
Average daily attendance of
pupils. 1066
Average percentage of at
tendance 92
Cost of each pupil per month. $1.73
Mills levied for school pur
poses 6}£
Mills levied for building
purposes 0)^
Amount levied for school
purposes $16,452.93
Amount levied for building
purposes 1,115.84
Total amount levied.. $17,568.77
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand from last
year $992.69
State appropriation for the
year 6,038.77
From Tax Receiver—taxes . 16,204.07
From County Treas'r.—Un
seated lands 14.10
From all other sources—tui
tions, fines, &c. 1,315.99
Total Receipts $24,565.62
EXPENDITURES.
Repairs, etc $1,381.75
Teachers' Wages 14,473.00
Amount paid Teachers for at
tending Institute. . 280.00
School text-books.. 952.88
School supplies, other than
text-books .. 894.24
Fuel and Contingencies .. 1,555.68
Amount paid janitors , ... 1.322.50
Debt aud Interest paid.. 1,395.00
Salary of Solicitor 50.00
Salary of Secretary .. 200.00
Fees of Treasurer 232.90
Fees of Tax Receiver... 488.45
Other expenses 297.30
Total Expenditures .. $23,523.70
Balance on hand $1,041.92
RESOURCES.
Balance on hand 1.041.92
Amount due district from all
sources 2,348.57
Value of school property—
real and personal 100,000.00
Total resources.... $103,390 49
LIABILITIES.
Amount borrowed—debt of
district 11,000.00
Resources in excess of liabil
ities $92,390.49
Witness our bauds this 3rd day of
June, 1907.
WM. J. BURNS. President.
W. H. ORTH, Sen'y.
The Traveler's Tree Myth.
Among the romantic stories of far
off lands that have long maintained
their circulation and commanded more
or less belief is that of the "traveler's
tree," credited with possessing a reser
voir of pure water fitted to ii»ve the
lives of wanderers in the desert O. F.
Scott Elliot declares from his own ex
perience that the tree grows only In
the neighborhood of swamps or springs
and that, although it has a considera
ble amount of water in a hollow at
the base of its leaf, the water possess
es a disagreeable vegetable taste and
of course is inferior to other water to
be found in the vicinity.—Youth's Com
panion.
Calmness In Emergency.
An eminent doctor, lecturing to a
school of nurses upon the necessity of
self control in emergencies, told the
following Incident: "One of his pa
tients while in a low. nervous condi
tion swallowed by mistake a dose
from the wrong bottle. She shrieked
out that she was poisoned. One of the
nurses screamed 'Aconite!' and began
to cry hysterically. The other nurse,
seeing that the patient was going intc.
convulsions from terror, wheu relief
would be impossible, said coolly: "Don't
be frightened. Look here.' taking a
mouthful of the dose herself. She
then went outside to rid her mouth of
it procured an emetic and sent for a
doctor and a stomach pump. Her
calmness saved the life of the patient."
One View of It.
"I won't marry him, mother, even if
be Is a count. All he wants me for is
my money, and he's a big fool!"
"Hush, my dear. He'd be a bigger
fool to want you without a cent!"—
"ft'ashington Herald.
A Sad Case.
A Chicago physician was one day
called to attend a sick child in a
"shabby genteel" quarter of the Windy
City.
"Madam," said the doctor to the
mother, "you should send Hfe child
Into the country for several weeks
each summer."
"I am sorry to say, r<Mgatn(-
od the woman, "that wm are n»t rich
enough to do that."
"Then," suggested the physician,
"have her sent by the fresh air fund."
"Oh, doctor," exclaimed the woman,
"we are not poor aaaucb!"—HarpdK
Weekly.
THE ARCTIC OUTLETS.
What Would Happen If Theaa lea
Channels Were Cleaed.
It Is well that there are the water
gaps between the continents whose
headlands form the boundaries of the
Arctic ocean. Through Bering strait,
Baffin's bay and the huge opening be
tween Greenland and western Europe
thousand*) of cubic mile* of ice are an
nually discharged which if landlocked
would long ago have so accumulated
as to have Impelled cataclysms that
would probably have so swept life
from the earth that the evolution of
man would linve been deferred indefi
nitely Into the far future centuries.
Both poles are located with singular
adaptation to ease off the otherwise in
evitably too great accumulation of lo
cal avoirdupois, which would as surely
change the earth's center of gravity as
would the hanging of an immense
weight at some local point on the pe
riphery of a balance wheel.
It is to this good fortune in present
polar locations that the world owes its
immunity of cataclysmal inundations
and reorganizations which otherwise
must have laid down other strata to
the mausoleums that mark the resting
places of the forms that once sported
beneath us.
THE HOTEL CLERK.
According to This View His Lot Is Not
a Happy One.
Whi) is the most envied and bedia
monded among men? The hotel clerk.
Who runs away with our heiresses?
The hotel clerk. Who geb< the stralght
est tips on the stock market? The ho
tel clerk. Whose pride goeth not be
fore destruction and whose glory is
never dimmed? The hotel clerk's. So
runs the accepted catechism.
Now a truth seeker In Chicago rises
to say that the average hotel clerk's
chance in life Is a trifle less than noth
ing. He can't marry, for he is com
pelled to live In the hotel, and his
wages won't, pay his wife's board.
Even as a bachelor he tlnds it hard to
save money. When he reaches the
age limit —not a high one--he is dis
placed by a young man.
There are then three things for him.
lie may become night clerk in a coun
try hotel, a job that he rose from years
before; he may be putin charge of a
cloakroom and look to tips for most of
his pay or he may try to get other
work, using up his savings meanwhile,
and end his life in the almshouse. Not
a cheering conception and practically
useless to the humorist.--Collier's
Weekly.
KEEP YOURSELF YOUNG.
Exercise Every Day Even Though You
Steal the Time ta Do It.
It is futile to try to lay down gen
eral litre limlti for the different kinds
of athletic sports.
The limits vary individually within
very wide marks, and if observations
made on a number of Individuals of
the present generation put them very
low this does not mean that they would
he the true and desirable limits if we
had a generation whose physical edu
cation from the beginning had been
undertaken and carried out upon a plan
only one-fourth or even one-tenth as
elaborate as the plan for Its mental
education, not only as far as exercise
and sport are concerned, but also in
regard to eating, drinking, clothing,
sleeping, pleasures, stimulants, etc.,
and whose individuals were willing to
continue to live upon a similar plan
after growing out of the hands of their
educators.
Live a simple, natural life, take
strenuous exercise every day of your
life, even should you steal the time to
do so, and see what will become of
your personal limit for the various
kinds of sports New York Medical
Journal.
Indian Punishment.
Some idea of what Haroda, India,
was in times comparatively recent
may be gathered from the following:
A hundred elephants wore kept at the
expense of the state, and criminals
were executed in a most horrible man
ner. The poor wretch, tied hand and
foot, was fastened by a long rope round
the waist to the elephant's hind leg.
Then the animal was made to trot
through the city, and the man, at al
most every step rebounding against
stones and obstacles, noon became a
mass of bruises ami wounds and a
ghastly spectacle. If he survived this,
his head was placed on a block, and
the elephant crushed it with his foot.—
Exchange.
Sun Spots.
Astronomers have no generally ac
cepted theory as to the cause and na
ture of sun spots, but some connection
with terrestrial phenomena surely ex
ists, because the curves representing
the frequency of magnetic storms and
of the aurora boreails are practically
identical with the curve of sun spot
frequency.
Real Sinkers.
"How did they catch the thief that
robbed the railroad eating house?"
"He was so weighted down with
plunder he couldn't run."
"Money ami silverware. I suppose?"
"No; doughnuts."—Milwaukee Senti
nel.
Partially Revived.
Johnnie—Papa, papa, come quick!
Mamma has fainted, Papa—Here. put
this ten dollar bill in her hand. John
nle (a moment later)— She says she
wants ten more.—Fliegende Blatter.
Resentment seems to have been giv
en us by nature for defense and for
defense only. It is the safeguard of
Justice and (he security of innocence.
Adam Smith.
xne i:n K ll«li of ft.
An English actor of some prominence
was dining with some friends In this
country. One of them asked Idm if he
had found any American plays that he
thought he could use in England. "Ob.
yes," he replied. "I have seen one or
two that 1 fawncy will be on the other
side. In fact, I have entered into ne
gotiations for several. One that ap
peal* to me strongly ii a play called
'Tan Evenings ID a Public House,'
where 1 shall play John Morgan, and
another is named 'Uncle Thomas' Resi
dence,' which has a fine part for me in
Marks, the barrister."— Kanaaa City
Star.
ALASKA SALMON.
Pro cession of the Four Varieties of
This Superb FI»H.
"There is nothing more curious con
nected with the tinny tribe than to
watch the doings of the salmon family
in Alaska," said an Alaskan dealer.
"The most singular thing of ail is
that after the females deposit their
(pawn their earthly career terminates,
aud I have seen the bottoms of creeks
covered with their dead btxiies. They
give birth to thousands of their kind
and immediately die. The young onoe
are then taken care of by the male
salmon, nud it is a well known fact
that In three years from their birth the
offspring reappear on the very ground
of their origin. There are four varie
ties of this superb flsh which make
their appearance in regular order of
succession.
"In the spring the first to arrive Is
the magnificent king salmon, which
weighs all the way from fifteen to
ninety pounds. About June 1 comes
the sookey or red sajmon, which visits
our shores in enormous numbers and
which is the common canning variety.
A little later appears the log salmon,
which only the Indians will eat, and
finally. In August ami September, the
beautiful silver salmon arrives, the
prettiest fish in nil the world and one
of the most palatable.
"When the salmon enter the fresh
water by a curious trick of nature
their skin becomes red, but this pink
hue does not affect the whiteness of
their flesh. It is seldom that salmon
will journey up a glacier stream, but
the streams that have lakes at their
heads literally swarm with them."—
Washington Herald.
ATTACKING A SYSTEM.
It Involves Attacking the Men That
Uphold the System.
On every side I hear strange insist
ence upon tile fact that it Is only the
system that is wrong. I hear people
utter the following extraordinary
words: "We do not attack Individuals."
What, in the name of the seven plan
ets. can you attack except individuals?
llow can one tight a system? If a sys
tem came into this room, what would
you do to it? Would you take a gun or
a fencing foil or a butterfly net or a
horsewhip or a disinfectant?
A system only exists in the minds of
men, and if there Is a very vile system
in the minds of men there must lie
something very vile about their minds.
1 do not say that they may not have
other virtues along with the qualities
that make the bad system. 1 do not
say that the upholders of any bad sys
tem are without any moral merits. 1
do not say that Italian brigands are
without any moral merits. But, how
ever **xl or evil may We mingled in
the character of an Italian brigand,
nobody ever said that in dealing witk
persons of that profession you were
not to attack individuals.
You do not. In dealing with brigands,
say that ycrn merely attack the system.
You attack the brigands—that is, sup
plying Unit you are in possession of
tile adequate bodily courage.—C. K.
Chesterton In Illustrated London News.
Thackeray's Pantomime.
William Makepeace Thackeray was
always too genial, too generous, too
open handed, to bo an accumulator of
this world's goods, and in spite of the
large earnings of his pen he died a
poor man. Shortly t>efore his death his
friend, John Leech, the cartoonist, call
ed upon him and found him In his
study writing writing and sighing at
the monotony of his work.
"Why don't you have a holiday." said
I**ech, "and take your girls to the sea
side?"
The great novelist made no verbal
answer, but, rising slowly, plunged his
hands to tlie very bottom of his pock
ets, brought these receptacles out,
shook them vigorously without eliciting
a rattle of coin, replaced them and then
resumed his seat.
Strength of the Condor.
The enormous strength of the condor
is only equaled by his voracity aud
boldness. This Immense bird often
pounces upon small animals, but from
the shape and bluntness of his claws
he is unable to. carry anything very
heavy, so he contents himself with
fixing it agaiust the ground with one
of his claws, while with the other and
his powerful beak he rends it to pieces.
Gorged wit! food, the bird then be
comes incapable of flight and may l>e
approached, but any attempt at cap
ture is furiously resisted.
Cure For a "Nagging" Woman.
Having advertised as a widower in
search of wife No. 1!, a man of St.
Gall, Switzerland, showed the fifty re
plies and photographs which he liad
received to his wife, and, stating that
If she did not waut him there were
others who did, he effectively cured
her of her "nagging" habits.- Petit
Parisien.
He Read the Signs.
"And now. little boys," said the pret
ty Sunday school teacher, "we have
seen that it is ordained that every hu
man being must si*e •ay come to his
death. And what comes at'Ur dying?"
"Cleaning and pressing," yelped a
boy who was familiar with window
signs.—Chicago News.
Influence of Scotchwomen.
It is not surprising to find flint those
qualities—intellect, grit and strenuous
endeavor- lluil have brought tbe man
hood of Sedßand to the front should
also be a marked characteristic of
Scotchwoman. Englishwoman's Re
view.
When we read, we fancy we could be
martyrs; when we come to act, we can
not liear • provoking word—Hannah
More.
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THE FIRST MARLBOROUGH.
His Was ■ Curious Combination of
Contradictory Traits.
Herbert Paul In his book on Queen
Anne of England paints a queer pic
ture of the great Duke of Marlborough.
He was not truthful. He was not
straightforward. He was not honest
In his love of money and his capacity
(or hoarding It he rivaled those wretch
ad misers who have don# no more
than contemplate their gains. And yet,
such are the strange freaks in which
nature indulges, this mean and selfish
Intriguer was endowed with perfect
courage, with an irresistible charm of
manner, with a temper which even his
wife failed to disturb, with a brain
that no sophistry could obscure and
wilh a military genius liefore which
criticism is humbly silent.
lie was treacherous even in a treach
erous age. Wholly devoid of cruelty
and by nature humane, lie is said nev
er to have sacrificed an unnecessary
life. He used his fellow creatures for
his own purposes, and when he had no
further use for them he forgot their
existence. He made his plans and
carried them out with the absolute effi
ciency of sheer Intelligence and the
serene implacability of impersonal
fate.
THE SULTAN'S SCREEN.
It Is Made of Tanned Human Skin
Elaborately Decorated.
There is a story told of a famous and
curious screen which occupies a promi
nent place In the menage of the sultan
of Turkey. It is made, so rumor hath
It, of human skin, perfectly tanned and
elaborately tooled and embossed, aud
it has been in the royal quarters for
more than two centuries. This remark
able screen is not an evidence of cru
elty or barbarity on the part of Tur
key's ruler 200 years ago, but is a
memorial to twelve faithful servants
of a former sultan. At one time dur
ing the sultan's reign 200 years ago
a wing of the palace caught tire, and
during the conflagration a much loved
member of the sultan's family was res
cued by twelve servants. The twelve
servants perished, some of theni dying
later of their wounds and burns, so
ids majesty had t! ir skins removed
by an expert and !: I them preserved
In this touching iliough remarkable
manner. The screen Is now looked up
on as a part of the ruler's inheritance,
and it is said th it every sultan cher
ishes It almost n < lie would his own
royal skin.—New York Herald.
THE AGE OF FISHES.
Both Ear Stones and Scales Carry ths
Annual Tally.
It has been found by Ichthyologists
that the age of a fish may be read front
Its scales. These Increase In size by
annular growths, two rings being form
ed each year. The "otoliths" or ear
stones, which lie in two sacs ou either
side of the base of the cranial cavity,
afford another means of determination.
Like the scales, the otoliths Increase
by two rings annually. Each spring
that is, from February to June—a white
ring is formed, and each autumn—that
Is, from July to October—a black one.
Thus the number of either white or
black rings in an otolith gives the age
of the ARII in years. In the case of
flatfish the latter method has been
found more reliable, whereas in the
case of the cod the scales give a bet
ter result. Although varying much in
size and shape in different species, the
otoliths show a remarkable constancy
In the same species; hence they are
of considerable value in the diagnosis
of a species.—London Globe.
A Lesson In Philanthropy.
A whole souled resident of Ilarlem
the other evening received the jolt of
his career as a parent. While reading
his evening paper the doorbell rang,
and a parcel from a lilg department
store was announced. The cost was
cents, and he gave his little bright
eyes, a girl of six, a two dollar bill
with which to pay the boy.
Half an hour later the subject re
curred to htm.
"Here, Mabel," he said. "Where's
that money 1 gave you for the boy?"
"Why, papa." was little bright eyes'
reply, "1 did the same as you did yes
terday with the newsboy. 1 told him
to keep the change."—New York Globe.
Belgium Shopkeepers.
Belgium shopkeepers generally are
dealers in miscellaneous goods. One
man In a small way, for Instance, sells
beer, foreign stamps, fridt, cotton, bis
cuits, penknives, cheese and second
hand hair. Everywhere one finds a
mania for glaring lights. One evening
when I was out 1 saw a tremendous
light In the distance, and I thought It
must surely be an advertisement for a
music hall. When I got nearer, I found
that the light merely conveyed the in
telligence that sardines were sold on
the premises.
One Drawback.
"It's a good idea to have something
Slid by for a rainy day."
"Yep," answered Peter Corntossei;
"only that kind o' cub is a good deal
like a reg'lar umbreil'. Some other fel
ler is liable to walk off with it jes' as
the shower starts."—Washington Star.
Serious Business.
Gladys— I am going to buy an auto
mobile. and I want you togo along
and help me select one. Cousin Jack—
Not for me, little girl. Why, I even
wouldn't pick you out a husband.—
Puck.
He Did Not Need It.
Buskin—l can't goon. I haven't any
makeup. Manager—What are you play
lug tonight? Buskin The fool In--
Mauager -Go right on. Never mind
the makeup.
The Word "roller/*
"Cutler," according to Its present use,
should mean a man who makes things
that cut, but really it has no more to
do with "cut" than "cutlass" and "cut
let" have, which Is just nothing at all.
"Cut" has some Teutonic origin, but
"cutler" comes through French from
the late Latin "cultellarius," which
meant either a soldier armed with a
knife or a knifemaker, and "cultellns,"
a little knife, was the diminutive of
"culter," which, among other things,
meant a plowshare or "coulter." "Cut
lass" comes from the same source and
"cutlet" Is "cotelette," a little rU>.
BRAIN AND BULLET.
What Happens When the Skull Is
Pierced by a Shot.
The results of firing a bullet at a
flat brittle bone ami into a soft sub-
Btance like the brain are very different.
The bone Is pierced, unci tlie lateral dis
placement of Its particles is very slight,
but the brain Is thrown aside In all di
rections. The difference Is due to the
different degree of c ihesiveness of the
particles composing the t wo bodies or.
In other words, to the greater fluidity
of the softer structure.
Next, the Importance of fluid con
tents in Intensifying the effdfcts of a
bullet fired through a closed recepta
i'le is shown by one of Kocher's experi
ments. Two identical tin canisters
were filled with equal quantities of
lint, which in one was dry and In the
uiber saturated with water.
A bullet of moderate velocity fired
through tliem simply perforated the
dry one, but caused the wet one to
burst explosively. Koclier also filed
a skull with water and found that a
bullet fired through it caused bursting
of the sutures.
Very remarkable is the shattering
that results when skulls flint have been
filled with water or with wax are
treated In this way, and if they are
compared with others showing the ef
fects of bullet wounds under normal
conditions it Is easy to appreciate that
the variations presented are depend
ent, in part at least, upon the differ
ence in the character of the contents.—
Current literature.
SPONGE FISHERS.
The Greek Girl Divers of the Island of
Himla.
"We were cruising in the Mediter
ranean In the late full," sulil u globe
trotter, "un<l on a golden uftemoon we
stopped beside a little lleet of sponge
divers. Nearly nude, the divers sut on
the edge of the boat. They held bis
stones that would help them descend.
One at a time they inhaled three or
four long breaths and then plunged
with their great stones into the blue
water.
"One boat interested us. Its divers
seemed so graceful and young. We
drew uearer, and, by Jove, the divers
were all girls. They were young Greek
girls from Illmla, an Island near ■
Rhodes. It seems that in Hlmla the j
sponge (living is carried on by girls j
altogether. These girls seemed very i
expert. Their dark hair knotted on j
their shapely liernls, they reclined on I
the sun warmed deck till their tarn
came. Then, graceful as stage dai>
cers, they leaped overboard and In the
sea's dim green depths tugged, at the
black sponge growths.
"The captain said the Hlmla girls
were not permitted to marry till they
had brought a certain quantity of
sponges from a certain specified
depth."— New York Press.
Queer Chinese Belief.
It is a common belief among China
men that if one commits any crime
against certain animals —cats, for ex
ample—the soul of that animal will
take possession of the wrongdoer until
the offense has been purged. A serv
ant girl, according to the oriental tale,
unmindful of tradition, put to death a
cat and its three kittens. She was
taken violently 111. Her mistress, sus
pecting the cause from the fact that
the maid was scratching and mewing,
apostrophized the body of the dead
cat, demanding to know why It thus
tormented the girl. The spirit of the
cat, speaking by way of the girl's
mouth, denounced the quadruple mur
der. The whole stun,- was told by the
girl in the character of the cat. Then
she expired in violent convulsions.
Elephants Can Carry a Grudge.
A Hindoo mahout was employed with
a working elepiiant in Hungkok, Kiam,
and frequently used a steel goud in de-
Dance of all warnings. The result was
that his elephant made frequent at
tempts to kill liitn, and finally the man
was discharged. Nearly four years
afterward, by a niost_remarkable coin
cldence, both elephant and mahout met
again In Muulmalu, Burma, and no
sooner was the big tusker out of sight
of the sawmill and well Into the forest
than he curled bis trunk up backward,
seized his old persecutor by the neck,
hurled him to the ground, and in an
instant a mighty forefoot had crushed
out his life.
Bewitched.
Morrison, an English traveler of the
seventeenth century, while at Dantzic,
Prussia, says lie "saw a mill which,
without the help of human hands, did
saw boards. It had a great iron wheel,
which did not only drive the saw, but
which did also book in and turn the
logs onto the saw." Dr. John Dee
must have seen a similar mill at
Prague. Of it be says,"l saw me a
mill at Prague of which I verily be
lieve the devil himself was master."
The Result.
Magistrate—What! Do you mean to
say your husband struck you and he
that physical wreck? Mrs. Moloney—
Yes, yer honor, but he's only been a
physical wreck since he struck me.
Specimens.
Mrs. N'ewedde —Certainly, you may
take some of those biscuits to your
friend. Is he hungry too? Weary—
No, mum; he's a geologist!— New Or
leans Picayune.
Mathematics.
Mother—Jean, give half of your apple
to your little sister. Remember that a
pleasure shared Is doubled. Jean—Yes,
mother, but an apple shared Is halved.
—Nos Lolslrs.
Winsdcr Hotel
1: 11 Sis. on Filbert, h>t
Philadelphia, Pa.
Three minutes walk from the Read
ing Terminal. Fiveniinnt.es walk from
the Penna. K. K. Depot.
EUROPEAN PLAN
11.00 tier day and upwards.
AMERICAN PLAN
$2.00 per day.
REAL COUNTRY LIFE.
Why the American Farmer Grows Old
Early In Life.
Any one w! o has lived on a farm
does not need to be told the reason
fnrmers grow old early, for he knows
of the strain under which the Ameri
can farmer lives during the five
months of spring and summer. His
workday is from 4 or 5 in the morning
until 8 or !) nt night. Including chorea
fifteen to seventeen hours of the hard
est kind of physical labor, and every
minute of It nt high tension, especially
during harvest. Then comes a period
of relaxation in the fall, the one time
In the year when he lias Just enough
muscular exercise to keep him In
health; later, the winter season, ap
proaching stagnation, in which h«
takes on flesh, gets "logv," and then a
furious debauch of hard labor through
the spring and summer again. No
wonder that fy forty-five he lias had a
sunstroke and "can't stand the heat,"
or has "a weak back." or Ms "hen*
gives out." or a chill "makes him rheti
matlc," and when you add to this fu
rious muscular strain the fact that the
farmer sees his Income putin peril
every season and his very home every
bad year, so that each unfavorable
change in the weather sets his nerves
on edge. It can be readily imagined
that the real "quiet, peaceful country
life" is something sadly different from
the ideal.—Woods Hutchinson, M. D.
in narper's.
The Fly Fixed the Date.
Often it is the little things which
bring the great results where :nysten
ts deepest. When commentators on the
works of Robert Louis Stevenson were
busiest they came across a manuscript
whose place of birth they could not de
termine. There was a crushed fly up#n
one of the pages. An entomologist
found that tho fly was a specimen pe
culiar to the Polynesian Islands. Sqp
reason had written the notes In Samoa
Dickens' Interest In !nns.
"Pickwick" is the very Odyssey of
Inns and travel, for the youthful Dick
ens I Lad traversed Kngland as a re
porter, and in "Pickwick" alone no
fewer than fifty-five Inns, taverns, etc.,
In Loudon and the provinces are men
tioned and often described at length.-
London Chronicle.
Sour
Stomach
No appetite, loss of strength, nerval*
ness. headache, constipation, bad bresllfc,
general debility, sour risings, and catarrt
of the stomach are all due to Indigestion.
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Kodol cured me end we are aow mini It la aelk
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savage thing to bent a weary or starved
man because he la.-ged in his work. So
in treating the lac-ring, torpid liver it Is
a gri it mistake to lash it with strong
drastic drugs. A torpid liver Is but an
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body whose organs are weary with over
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Administrator's Notice
i Kstate of Mary K. Kearns, late of the
Borough of Danville, in the county
of Montour and State of Pennsyl
vania, deceased.
Notice is hereby duly given that
I letters of administration have been
granted upon the ab'ive estate to the
' undersigned.
All persons indebted to the said
estate are required to make immediate
payment, and those having claims or
demands against the said estate will
make known the same without delay
! to
JONATHAN SWEISFORT,
Administrator of Mary Kearus, dee'd
:P. O. Address Danville, Pa.