SEA BATHING IN CUBA. if You Ar« Tempted to Try It, Resist the Inclination. If you should chance to visit Cuba, ofliclully or otherwise, anil should de sire togo In sea bathing, remember the advice of the Englishman and -don't. For sea bathing in Cuba, like the ways of the heathen Chinee, Is pecul iar. The natives probably go through It ns a religious penance, as, consider ed In the light of p. diversion. It is sim ply ghastly. Say you reside In nnvann, and. attracted by the beautiful tints oi the tropic sea. you desire Its Intimate ■saline refreshment. will notice, as you drive along the Malecon, Imme diately below that tine sea jj-all some curious masonry construction like the ruins of cells, over which the waves dash and disport themselves. These are. In fact, the remains of formei baths that before the Gringo came were used by the natives. You will further notice that there prevnll along the Malecon drive odors not at all sug gestive of Araby the r.lest, and whei s'ou tlnd upon closer investigation thai the odors are not wholly removed fron' the fact that all the sowers of the oltj seein to empty Into the sea Just below the wall you acknowledge that thlf fine Malecon promenade has its draw backs. The banos, or baths, are out at Ye dado, a suburb of Havana, and you an likely to enjoy the drive along by th< coast some six miles. The fringes ol Havana, as you leave the city proper are shabby enough, but there's the set to gladden the eyes, and you antic! pat* sporting in those bright blue waters with relish. The lirst intimation you have of the baths is the apparition of a frame structure that looks like a grand stand You enter this and purchase yom ticket. Then the misery begins. Al'to the usual preliminary process, similai to tlmt prevalent in a watering place In the United States, you go forth, ox peetlng to come upon a sandy beach Instead, you tread painfully upon sharj rock, and the sight of the place where you are expected to bathe gives yoi the horrors. It Is a cell cut In th< rock, with an opening to the sea through which the water swishes ant regurgitates with the advancing anc retreating waves. This cell, if yoi have nerve enough, you descend lnti by means of steps, takt g care not t< slip, for the rock is like soap owing t< the action of the seaweed. The botton of the cell Is formed of the rough rock while sharp flints are plentifully strewi about. Your feet are soon lacerate* and bleeding. Suddenly you feel something ni[ your leg like a pair of powerful twee zers. You put your hand to the nfllictee part and tlnd that It is a crab that ha! laid hold of you. You glance about ir hopeless desperation and see that othei crabs are coming forth, with laudable politeness, to welcome you to this aquatic bower of bliss. "What in thun der," you think, "is the idea in walllnf you up in this fashion? Is it a sur vlvai of Spanish crueltyV Then, ni your gaze wanders out to sea, you sei a long grayish black body shoot swift ly past. The explanation of the wall ing in part of the transaction is ex plained by that long, swiftly movlnf body, for this coast is Infested by mar eating sharks, and bathing without the precaution of a wall in front of you with an opening in it just large enougt to Oil the cell with water, would b< likely to prove more gratifying to some hungry shark than to you. You hav< paid $2. Spanish money, for this de lightfui experience, but theu you cat enjby It just as long as you please.- Washington Post. THE LEAD PENCIL Cls Devslopment From the Marksife Used by the Ancients. It is difficult to determine the exact peril id In which "black lead" was first utilized as nn instrument for writing or drawing. as It has been confused ■with other mineral bodies to which it bears uu relation. The ancients used lead, but the metal was formed into flatplates and the edges of these plates used to make the mark. If an orna mental design was desired, the tran scriber drew parallel lines and traced therein Illuminated designs, usually with a hanl point, but also with soft lead. That lead was known to the an cients is also proved by the fact that It is mentioned in the book of Job. I Hiring the year 1015 there was a de scription of the black lead pencil writ ten by Conrad Gesner. lie says that plows of plumbago were fastened Is a woodan handle and a mixture of fossil substance, sometimes covered with wood, wus used far writing and draw ing About balf a century later a very good account of this mineral was giv en, and it was then used in Italy for dmuiiig and mixed with clay for man ufacturing crucibles. We ane informed In Beckman's "His tory of Inventions" that the pencils first oeed in Italy for drawing were composed of a mixture of lead and tin, nothing more than powter. This pen cil was called a stile. Michael Angelo menOuns this stile, and, In fact, it seems that snch i>eocilß were long used in common over the whole continent of Eunope. At this period the name plumbago or graptrtte was not in use, bot instead the name moiybdena or molybfloUls, which is now applk-d to an eidlrely different mineral. Graphite or black lead Is formed In the primary rocks. In the United States It occurs in feldspar and quartz, 1n Great Britain in greenstone rock ami gneiss and in Norway in quartz. The mine nt BorrowdaJe, England, has supplied some of the finest black lead In the world, but the quantity varies owing to the invgularlty with which the mineral occurs. The Jews were for awhile the only manufacturers of pencils. It required great skill to i>erfect the manufacture, according to the degree of hardness or softness required. Of recent years the manufacture of pencils has Increase' to swrh an extent that the price oC these articles has decreased proper ttooat©!}. Graphite and pure clay are comijlned and used in the manufacture of axtltlctal black lead pencils, and, on the other hand, the greatest perfection is attained in the making of the higher class pencils. Ornphite it exposed to heat to acquire firmness and brilliancy of color. Sulphur is also used to secure a more perfect color.—Scientific Amer ican. [fti TOILETS OF ANTS. Sombs, Brushes, Bponges and Soap Used In Making Them. "Ants have fine and coarse cambs, sponges, hairbrushes and soap. They are remarkably clean." The speaker was a nature student He bent over the artificial ants' nest »r formicary, that stood on his table ander glass. "Watch this lady making her toilet" he said. "She won't mind." The little black ant seemed to be carefully tying and untying knots in herself. The tunall black body twisted pud turned. The tough little black limbs darted through the air. "That is her fine tooth comb she is using now," explained the student "It Is affixed to the tibia of the foreleg. It has a short handle, a stiff back and sixty-five fine teeth. Nothing can es cape it "Now she Is sponging her back. Yes, the tongue Is her sponge, the fiat sur face of the tongue. The tongue's edges are her brush. They are equipped with | hemispherical bosses—short stiff, blunt ; bristles. See her brushing her left tore leg with It Doesnt it work admirably? "Now she is combing tlio hairy un derpay of her body with her coarse comb. It Is attached to the tarsus and has forty-five coarse teeth, an excel [ lent Instrument for rough work. I "She Is giving her legs n good soap bath now. She draws them, you see, I through her mnndibles, or upper Juwb. j The mandibles are serrated, and they j secrete a tluid that is quite like soap suds, a superb toilet lotion which ; cleanses the skin and makes the hair j brilliant and supple. ! "Brushes, combs, toilet lotions, soap 1 and sponges—nature has given tliem all to the little black ant."—New Orleans j Times-Democrat. FLEET HIAWATHA. A Cynical Critic's Cold Analysts ef Longfellow's Description. I Determine how fast, asks Professor Greenhill, Hiawatha can run from the | following data: Strong of arm was Hiawatha. Ho could shoot ten arrows upward, And the tenth had left the bowstring Ere tho first to earth hud ttdion. Swift of foot was Hiawatha. He could shoot an arrow from him And run forward with such swiftness That the arrow fell behind him. Neglecting the resistance of the air j and granting that Hiawatha could shoot one arrow a second, the solution is as follows: The time of flight of the arrows tdiot upward must have been nlno seconds. Therefore the velocity with which they i were shot being equal to the time mul tiplied Into half the value of the con' stant of gravity, was 14-1 feet a second. Now, In shooting an arrow from him, Hiawatha, to obtain the farthest flight would let fly at an angle of forty-five degrees, and by a simple trigonomet rical calculation we therefore arrive at the fact that the horizontal velocity of the arrow would be rather less than 14-1 feet a second and would In fact be 102 feet a second, or seventy miles an hour. Hiawatha would therefore have to run faster than this. Could he do it on a sprint? Again having recourse to calculation, we Hud thut an arrow shot at 1 >4 feet ! a second would fly 2Hi yards, or near ly u furlong. Hiawatha would run that distance in about seven seconds, so that he would be able to give tho present holder of the record some 115 yards start.—London Post. DOGFISH CUTLET. Said to Be as Good as the Best Lob ster Ever Eaten. Dogfish ought to be good to eat, as '♦ ! j is well known that they feed on soles s i ! plaice and flounders. The naturalist hailing from the north Kent marshes j with whom I collaborated in various 1 J hooks said that in his boyhood they : were much used by the fishing folk and 1 I that they were excellent eating a mid- I die cutlet being consideittl by many j | to be as good as the best lobster ever ! eaten. As a boy he never tired of hear ing the fishermen's yarns about how 1 the great savage creatures snapped and fought when they were captured. Lying in the bottom of the boats, they i lashed about and bit at the men and i lat each other. The larger ones would fix on the men's sea boots as they moved about or hang onto their oii skin fishing coats like bulldogs. A , bite from one was no Joke. Ilogfish abounded at certain seasons in some parts of the fishing grounds; j other part < they avoided. Sometimes the men ,vould go out only to catch j dogfish just to reduce their numbers a little. They caught great numbers of j ffiem and sold them somewhere farther down the coast, keeping back just a i few for themselves and their neigh bors. You could get a monster for a couple of shillings. Couch, the naturalist, says he has j known 20,000 of the picked dogfish to j be taken at one cast of the seine, Ilolv ert Chalmers quoted as follows from i the "journal" of Spalding, the town j clerk of Aberdeen: "1(542, Prom the j beginning of this year up to June there was a scarcity of whiteflsh along the 1 east coast to the hurt and hunger of the poor and beggaring of the fisher- | men. It was reported that when the fishers had laid their lines and taken j fishes abundantly there came one | beast called the seadog to the lines and I ate and destroyed the haltl bodies and ; left nothing on the lines but the heads. I Tlie like scarcity of fishes to continue j so long has scarcely been seen in Scot- j land, while all other meats were also very dear."—Pall Mall Gazette. Real Use of the Bee'* Sting. "The bee's sting is a trowel, not a rapier,'" said a nature student. "It is an exquisitely delicate little trowel with which the bee finishes off the honey oeli. Injects a little preservative inside and seals It up. With Its trowel like sting the heo puts the finaj touches on the dainty and wonderful weak. With the sting it pats and shapes the honey oeil, as a mason pats and shnjjes a row of brtck. Bufbre up ■Uta oeil It drops a wee bit of pateon toto the honey. This is formic acid. With out it honey would spoil. Mast at as think the bee's sting, with Its potooo. Is a weapon only. It Is a weapon mc ondarily, but primarily it Is a magic trosrel, a trowel from whose emL M the honey cells are built up, a wonder ful preserving fluid drips. THE STAGE KISS. What M Really Meant Rather Than What It Seams to Be. Stage klssesl No one but an actor or on actress can fully appreciate what they mean. The picture as presented to the audience is very pretty, bat tbe vledoa wUcfc looms up before the eyes of the poor player is something 11k « this: A face covered with a coating of cold cream, which has been powdered over with a thick layer of pearl white or brunette powder, as the case may be. On the cheeks are daubs of rouge, which at that close range in no po» Bible maimer suggest as they do to the audience, the ro«y cheeks of a country lassie. Over the eyes is rubbed a little dark bluo powder to make them poetical. The underilds are heavily penciled, and a mark extends a quar ter of an Inch from the eye at the end. This makes them larger. Upon each separate lash is a bead of black cosmetic, which has the effect of mak ing them heavy and long. The cherry Hps, which to the audience the hero Is eager to piras to his own, are to his distorted vision at such clow range only a gash of carmine painted into a Cupid's bow. The actress sees before her a picture even less attractive, for ten chances to one the hero. In addition to his grease paint, wears a false mustache and la also "smelly" with tobacco. The glarq of the footlights tones down this con ! glomeratlou of paint, and at a distance j the faces are actually pretty, but upon . close inspection they resemble nothing I more than a very bad oil painting out of focus. Talu?n from this viewpoint, some of the very Impassioned kisses featured 1 in plays require no little self sacrifice on the part of the players.—Harriet Quimby In Leslie's Weekly. A UNIQUE CRITICISM. The Shout That Made Remington's In dian Open His Mouth. Frederic Remington's studio was quiet. A stillness that betokens work pervaded the atmosphere, and the art ist, working away at his canvas, "The Spirit of War," silently laid on his colors of the scorching sun, and an In dian chief, raised in his stirrups, shout ing to his braves, Inspiring them with courage for the fight. Remington had not heard a knock at the studio door or the entrance of an unannounced guest Nor did he realize that two sharp eyes wore scan ning bis work with that critical exam ination characteristic of the man who "knows nrt." Suddenly there burst from the visitor such a shout as any Indian chief would have lieen proud of. Another and another shoot echoed through the studio. Hemlngtnn, start ing back, dropped his brushes and pal ette and turned In the direction of the thundering voice. "Ah, bah! My boy, open his mouth. Make hbn shout. Make him look It Open his mouth. So—so." And the ' stranger gave vent to two more shouts j flt for the plains. It was Gerome, and this was his i method of expression in this special J case. Remington, In accordance with his advice, "opened his mouth," and ! as a result instead of the slightly I parted Hi*, there is a fnce so full of | enthusiasm, so expressive of a great heartfelt throb giving vent to a cheer, that when one sees the picture he Is prompted to the action of Gerome, who mude prohahly the most unique criticism ever given on one of Rem ington's best pictures.—Scrap Book. SPEED OF FISHES. Tarpon, Shark and Mackerel Are the Swiftest of Swimmers. When scientists desire to find out how fast a certain bird files, It is nec essary only to set up polos and note by stop watches the time the bird re quires to cross the interval. The speod of fishes is more difficult to ascertain. Nevertheless, as the Saturday Even ing I'ost explains, estimates have been made showing that tho mackerel, con sidering Its handicap in size, comes close to being the champion racer. Unquestionably the mackerel travels sometimes as fast as an express train at high speed—say, at the rate of sixty or possibly seventy miles nn hour. Other tilings being equnl, the larger the fish tho faster it swims, jnst as the huge steamboat is able to travel at a speed much grenter than the little har bor tug. Undoubtedly the energy employed by a fish of great size, such as a thirty foot shark, when traveling at Its best gait is something tremendous. An or dinary tug, which represents a maxi mum of energy in a minimum of bulk, utilizes about 200 horsepower. Of course It is only a guess, but it would not seem to be over the mark to sup pose that a seventy foot whale makes use of 500 horsepower when It propels Its huge bulk through the water at a rate of thirty miles an hour. A whale, which is a mummal and not a fish, mtgbt l>e compared to a freight train if the shark Is a cannon ball ex press, but it can beat the fastest "ocean greyhound" in a speed contest. The tarpon Is probably faster than the shark. It Is believed that a tarpon in a hurry can travel at the rate of eighty miles an hour. An Interrogation. While dining with friends in Cam bridge, Bishop Phillips Brooks de scribed with much enthusiasm a col lege service he had recently attended. 'lt was an Inspiration to see all those young man singing so heartily. Es pecially thej- seemed to throw their whole souls into the hymn: "Am I n soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb? Even Dr. X., the president of the col lege, sang as If he felt the contagion of inspiration." "Dr. X. sang that?" broke In on Incredulous listener. "Does Dr. X. believe that?" "Oh, no," re plied BLshop Brooks quickly. "He was merely asking for information." A Comparison. Thomas Sheridan, the father of Lady Dnfferin, once displeased bis fnther, who, remonstrating with him, exclaim ed, "Why, Tom, my father would nev er hnve permitted me to do such a thing!" "Sir," said his son In a tone of the greatest Indignation, "do you presume to compare your father to my father?" Orphans Court Sale OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE! Estate of David Olark, Late of the Borough of Danville, deceased. Pursuant to an order of the Orphan's Court of Montour County to tier granted for such purpose, the under signed, as acting executrix of the last will and testament of the said David Clark deceased, will expose to public sale upon the premises, Nos. 104 & 106 Mill Street. Danville, Pa., on Thursday, Aug*. 8, 07 at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the said day the following described real estate of the said decedent, to wit: All that of certain messuage or tene ment and town lot of land situate in the First Ward of the Borough of Dan ville, in the County of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning at the southwestern corner of lot of Elizabeth Gosh on the eastern side of Mill street, thence in an eastwardlv direction along the said lot of the said Elizabeth Gosh and at right angles witli Mill Street aforesaid ninety-five feet to lot of William L. Sidler, thence in a southwardly direction along the of the said William L. Sidler and parallel with Mill street aforesaid twenty-five feet to a corner of the said lot of the said Williaui L. Sidler, thence in a westwardly direction along the said lot of the said William L. Sidler and at right angles with Mill Street aforesaid ninety-five feet to the northwestern cornor of the said lot of the said William L. Sidler on the eastern site of Mill Street aforesaid, thence in a northwardly direction along the said eastern side of Mill Street aforesaid twenty-five feet to the said southwestern corner of the said lot of the said Elizabeth Gosh, the place of beginning, with the appurten ances, and whereupon is erected A TWO STORY BRICK BUILDING solely occupied by offices. TERMS OK SALE :—Twenty-five per cent of the purchase money shall be paid in cash at the striking down of the property and the balance there of shall be paid 011 the absolute con firmation of the .sale. Deed to be dp'.ivered to the purchas er or purchasers thereof on such ab solute confirmation of such sale and upon payment of the entire purchase money, and the cost of writing such deed shall he paid for by sucli purchas er or purchasers. COIiDELIA E. GEARHART, • Acting Executrix of the last will and testament of David Clark deceased. Danville, Pa., July 3rd, lUO7. Edward Savre oea'rhart. Counsel SPORTS AT S£A. How the Long Trip From Madeira to Cape Town Is Enlivened. The voyage to Cape Town from Southampton or Madeira Is a long one, ilxteen to twenty days, says the I'ravel Magazine, And so we find pas times organized on l>oard far tran icendlng the ordinary concerts, ama teur theatricals, deck games and the like familiar to all of us on the ordi nary ocean going liner. The programme Is an ambitious one, comprising boxing, gymnastic drill, ob- I ttaclo racing, co< kngtjtmg, cricket, baseball and football, egg and spoon races for men and girls and children, ordinary deck games and evening ! amusement, such os concerts and dunces. The sack race for grown men Is the flellght iif all the children, who love to lee their fathers tied up la sacks and progressing by kangaroo-like bounds, whose uncertainty Is made still more precarious by tho pitch and roll of the great vessel. Nor must I forget the holster and pillow fights, with competitors perched on horizontal bars, with their legs tied beneath. Some fighters display rare gameness and staying power, so that the onlookers feel quito grieved when they "go un der" in a very literal sense. Now and then an unfair wag will jo at his trousers with resin and thus contrive to keep his balance In a way enabling him to withstand all comers. Of course the prizes are made up of the entrance fees paid by competitors, which may amount to CO or 80 cents per head. THE LIGHTNING ROD. Franklin's Theory Was Known Away Back In Talmudic Times. In an article on "Current Topics In Ancient Literature" J. I). Eisensteln »ays in the Sydney (Australia) Stand ard: "The lightning rod was invented by Benjamin franklin in 1752 to arrest the electricity of the thunder. When the Information of the discovery reach ed Rabbi Saul Katzenellenbogen of Wtlua, he said that the theory was not new, because It was already known in Talmudic times, and he showed a pas sago in the Tosefta (third century) where it says that 'on Sabbath it is permitted to place an Iron near the hennery to safeguard the fowls from thunder and lightning strikes.' Tho Talmud vouches that 'there is nothing superstitious about this belief." (Tosef. Shabb, chapter 0, end.) "The system of telegraphy, in a crude manner, is curiously described by Judah Jacob Chayat in his com mentary to 'The System of Theology' chapter, 'Tho Gate of the Chariot' (see page iJISb. ed., Ferrara, 1558>. Chayat Is perhaps the first Hebrew author who transliterates the term 'magnet,' and he explains the physical phenomena as follows: 'lf you break the magnet into two parts and sep arate them at any distance, even a thousand miles apart, any move: ■ caused by a Joining wire to one ; will be repeated by the other | (quoted also in Shelah, page 30a. Amsterdam, 1708)." "I think," said young Trotter, "I'll draw that money Uncle John left to me. I'm thinking of a trip abroad." "But," protested his mother, "you were to save it for a rainy day." "Well, I'm going to London. I'll be sure to find a rainy day there."—Wash ington Herald. Ito Cannibalism. With a quivering hand we clip from an Irish paper the following transcript of an official notice In a Dublin govern ment office: "Under no circumstances must government messengers be used for luncheon."—London News. » SHERIFFS SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE j By virtue of a certain Levari Facia'- Issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Montour County and to me I directed, will be exposed to public ] sale at the Montour CounSy Courthouse : in the Borough of Danville. in the Couuty of Montour and State of Penn sylvania. on Saturday, Aug. 10, 07 l at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the said day, the following described real estate, viz: All that certain messuage, tenement and lot of ground situate oo the east side of Mill Street, in the Third Ward of the Borough of Danville, in the Couuty of Montour ami State of Pennsylvania aforesaid, bounded aud described as follows, via: On the south by lot of Henry L. Gross, on the east by ground reserved for a pub lic alley, on the north by lot formerly of Margaret Keiner, now of David K. Eckman.and on the west by the line of Mill Street aforesaid. Said lot being tweuty-four feet wide on Mill Street, and one hundred aud forty -two feet more or less in length to lino of the said alley, and whereupon is erected a certain ItO-STORI BRICK BUILDING aud other buildings and appurten ances. Seized, taken in execution and to be sold as the propertv of Joseph H. John j son and Elizabeth C. Johnson, his j wife, Mortgagors, aud the said Eliza ! betli O. Johnson real owner. i TERMS OF SALE :—Twenty-five | per cent, of the purchase money shall j bo paid in cash at the striking down I of the property aud the balance there of shall be paid ou or before the re turn day of the writ (September 33rd, i li) 07.) D. C. WILLIAMS, Sheriff, i Sheriff's Office, Danville, Pa., July s>th, 11)07. Edward Sayre Gearhart, Counsel. | MONOPOLIES AND RINGS. Olden Time Schemes For Obtaining Wealth and Power. The evil of monopolies and rings was known to ancients, Aristotle referring to them in his "Politics," and then, as now, it was found necessary to hold them in check by legislation. The mo uopolist was in Roman law called a i dardunarius aud punished under the Lex Julia de Annona. Monopolies of 1 clothing, fish and all articles of food were prohibited by the Emperor Zeno under pain of confiscation and exile, so that it Is certain that the rings of the ancient days were as mischievous as they are now. At Athens a law lim ited the amount of corn a man might buy. The earliest recorded instance we have was a corn ring. There Is an nncient tradition that the king who made Joseph his prime min ister and committed Into his hands the entire administration of Egypt was Apepl. Apepl was one of the shepherd kings and ruled over the whole of Egypt as Joseph's pharnoli seems to have done. The prime minister during seven years of remarkable plenty bought tip every bushel of corn beyond the absolute needs of the Egyptians and stored if tinrii.pt the turribio (am Ine that followed he was ablo to get i his own price and bartered corn suc cessively for the Egyptian money, cat tle and land and. taking one-fifth for pharaoh, made him supremely wealthy. It was not merely a provident act, but n very politic one, his policy being to centralize power In the monarch's hands.—London Answers. The Home Paper '| of Danville. ! ! I i Of course you read |j 112 I THE HEOPLEIS I KOPULAR I APER. Everybody Reads It. ; i i Publisher Every Mor :r F£\cept Sunday a". I '» i i No. II E. Mahor 'ng'St. Subscription * p <- Week. 1 Sale c 4 Valuable Red Estate. ( Pursuant to au Order of the Court ' of Oommcu Pleas of Penna., the undersigned Washinutouville Presbyterian OliurcS! of WasliiiJESouville, Montour Countv? I Venna., will espoae ar}public nale up on the premises, near Washiepiianville, I Pa., on Saturday, August 17, 1907,1 ! at S5 o'clock in the afternoon said J day, the following |describedt"Real i ; Estate to wit:— —i A!! that certain;tract;.or;|parct?:"7if J laud situate in Berry Tivwnship, IfioiT j tour County. P fv , bonded and de"- \ \ scribed as follows: On the North'by j J lands ol Daniel Billm^yer; on Blie ! I south by lands of Peter Doitrick ; ;on ' the Ea>ic Stilled Work, Promptness-- All you can ask. A trial will make you our customer We respectfully asK that trial. - •<— -' - - ii E. Mahoning St,. . t=-