Hettie Green on flarriage Mrs. Hettie Green, reputed to be he richest woman in America, is also •aid to be devoid of sentiment. Accord ng to those who claim to know the ady she is severely practical and de cidedly "near". She has made a very ;reat success of life from a material tandpoint, but, we infer from some ecent incisive remarks from her ton •ne, has never yearned for a European it as a fitting pendant to her wealth J i. Green was talking about inter lat >nal marriages the other day. It is ler conviction that the young women jvho marry foreign titles in exchange 'or their money get precisely what liey deserve. If the husband turns >ut a brute and a spendthrift and if he wife's life is made so unhappy .hat she is tiually forced to seek safe v in separation, nobody ought to be Public and Private Schools Doctor Eastburn, who died the other lay, was long the master of a private school or academy for boys which oc cupied a distinguished place 'among such institutions here.Some years ago rhe academy languished aud failed for lack of support, and Doctor Eastburn became a professor in one of the pub lic secondary schools. He is said to have attributed the decline of his academy to liis inability to meet the •ompetition in athletics. Probably there was something in this pathetic complaint. But the truth is that his was only one of the many private academies that have passed away in recent years, not because of athletics, but because the development of secondary education in the public schools had made their- superfluous. There is proof of this in statistics which show that while the number of public high schools in the United States had increased from 3626, with 302,963 pupils, in 1890, to 7576 schools with 679,702 pupils, in 1905, the priv ate high schools and academies in 1905 were actually fewer than fifteen years before, numbering altogether but 1627, of which more than one-ha 1 were denominational schools. This seems to tell the story of the 327 ARRESTS FOR ILLEGALGAR RIDING Statements just issued by the Penn sylvania Railroad company show that on the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie 804 arrests were made during the month of August. Out of the total uumber of arrests made, 327 were on account of illegal train riding.Of this lumber 27 paid their fare. Twenty-nine arrests were made for intoxication. Eighty arrests were Jade for larceny aud burglary, while e remaining number were made for iscellaueous offenses. Of those cou nted 331 paid fines and 358 were sent to jail. One .hundred and five were discharged. The company is putting forth a spec ial effort to stop :liegal train riding aud the reports this month show that only one more arrest was made dur ing the month of August than during the month of July. The police depart ment is making the largest number of arrests for illegal train riding on the Philadelphia and Erie and the North ern Central divisions. According to the reports tiie largest total uumber of arrests is being made between Altoona aud Philadelphia on the main liue. The total number of arrests for the mouth of July was 741 against 804 for the month of August. A short time ago the police depart ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad was reorganized in order to get a bet ter method of putting a stop to illegal train riding. Since the new ruling was inaugurated the number of ar rests lias run high above that for form er mouths. While Mrs. Harpachak, of Milnes ville, Luzerne county, was scrubbing a board walk on Monday her 4-year old son came running aloug, fell and tipped over the vessel of boiling wat er scalding him so severely that the flesh fell from the bones, and the lit tle fellow died in a few hours. Wiliner Delap, aged 4 years and par tially blind, was burned to death on Monday at his parents' home near Gettysburg, his clothing having caught fire while playing with matches. In his agony lie rushed against a table which threw him underneath a baby coach in wliioh a baby was sleeping. fThe coach caught fire but the babe 'was rescued before being much burn ed. surprised. It is simply another illus tration of the old truth that one is sure to reap what one sows. Mrs. Green added that if her son were silly enough to sell himself and risk his happiness in this world and the next for the sake of a title she would disown him. She probably re presents the sentiment of most sensi ble Americans.lt is amazing how reck less many of the young women of America are in view of the sad re sults to many of their sisters of mar riages in high life. There are foreign noblemen, of course, who are high minded and honorable men. They would make good husbands if they are not already such. But you do not dis cover men of that calibre wandering about in search of a young woman from America whose chief attraction is her fortune. decline of private academies not sup ported with some definite purpose— religeous or other— which the public schools cannot supply. Twenty years ago well-to-do parents usually sent their sons to private schools, not merely because of the personal associa tions, but because the public schools were unsatisfactory and of very limited range. The immense develop ment that has since taken place, es pecially in the higher grades that fit the pupil for college or for profession al studies, has relieved many parents from the necessity of incurring the great cost of private tuition for their sons. There always will be many who prefer the atmosphere of private schools, and there are long-establish ed academies, at least in all the older States, whose prestige will sustain them against auy possible public com petition. Denominational influences are also important to those who are not satisfied with a purely Beoular education. Thus private academies will not disappear, but they are not multiplying, and only those that have fome distinctive character or record — even if it be only in "athletics"— have esoaped the leveling process of the public schools. LADY MINSTRELS FORDAMILLE A minstrel show, with the entire cast composed of ladies and local lad ies at that, is to be the novel and unique entertainment that will be givenjin Danville within the next few weeks. Danville lodge, No. 754 B. P. O. Elks is back of the movement and the entertainment committee of the lodge promises a show that will eclipse anything of its kind ever before given in Danville. The services of Mrs. R. Wallace, of New York City, have been seoured and she will have charge of the ar rangement and presentation of the show. Mrs. Wallace has been in Dan ville since Sunday and has made much progress, rehearsals already being held. The show will be of the time honor ed minstrel variety, the melodious circle, the interlocutor, the end men, the variety second part and all the trimmings. Mrs. Wallace requires 150 in the cast for her production, and she includes among lior special fea tures elaborate settings, handsome cos tumes and fine singing. There will be cow girl choruses and Japanese girl choruses and all costum ed in outfits especially designed by Mrs. Wallace. Neither the exact date for the pro duction nor the place have been se lected as yet. The entertainment, will be given under the auspices of the Danville lodge of Elks for the benefit of the Elks' charity fund. The coal companies in Northumber land county like those in Luzerne, have at last,after months of argument with the county commissioners, decid ed to pay their taxes as assessed, al though the assessments aro much high er than heretofore. James Wright,aged 4 years, waß cut ting pictures on Monday at his par enii' home in Harrisburg when, in running across the floor, he tripped and fell, and the sharp' point of the scissors he was using entered his breast puncturing his lung and caused a fatal wound. John, the infant son of ex-Tax Col lector Martin Gruhler.of Shenandoah, died in Philadelphia,on Monday. This makes the eleventh;death in the fam ily within eighteen months. GUHKD HIS BRAINSTORM Warden McDonnell, of the North umberland county prison, tells the fol lowing account of Henry Fisher's lat est attaok of insanity "It was shortly after Fisher was convicted of murder in the first degree that he showed signs of getting anoth er brainstorm. He howled worse than he ever howled before,and kept every body awake as well as making him self a general nuisance. He was start ing to repeat the old trick which stav ed off his trial last spring and lauded him in the Danville hospital. "There is a sure cure for this sort of temporary insanity which ia better than auy asylum treatment. Without making auy fuss, wo put Fisher In the dungeon. "You say you never saw the dun geon? It is built under the ground be neath one of the wings. It has 110 windows, only stone walls and floor and celling and an iron door. It's blacker than the blackest night you were ever out in. The walls are damp where the water soaks through and the stale air is never changed except through a little hole for ventilation. What the rats live on I don't know, but they all thrive and some of them are enormous. There is no cot or any thing to sleep on,only the floor,whioh is the rats' playground. You said you were never in the dungeon? Come up some day and I'll lock you in for awhile, to show yon what it's like. You'll appreciate it I know. "That's where we put Fisher for twenty-four hours. After we took him out he was very quiet and subdued and has been behaving pretty decently ever since." I PERSONALS! ! Charles Albeck left yesterday for a trip to Philadelphia. Miss Margaret Hixson returned yes terday from a visit with friends in Catawissa. Miss Cad Phillips lias returned from a visit with friends in Jersey Shore. Rev. J. N. Wetzler returned to Sun bury yesterday after a visit at the home of Rev. L. D. Ulrich. Miss Katherine Yastine left yester day for a visit with friends in Lewis burg. Miss Bessie Hess and Margaret Ja cobs spent yesterday with friends in Bloomsburg Mrs. E. D. Hughes returned lo her home in Serantou Tuesday after a pleasant visit with her brother,Erwin Hunter. Mrs. Isaiah Blue, of Valley town ship, is visiting at the home of Erwin Hunter, Church streot. Mrs. Samuel Frazier returned to Scranton yesterday after a visit with friends in this city. The North American lias recently shown that enterprise in news gather ing is a paying investment. When it was announced that Secretary of War Taft was to make a trip around the world The North American at once realized that |this journey must be of the greatest international import, and might mean the readjustment of nat ional friendships and the smoothing over of international differences. Of all the newspapers in the United States, The North American sent a special correspondent along with the secretary, and with the corresponden a special photographer. The importance of tlie news that The North American has received from Japan since Secretary Taft's ar rival at Tokio has shown that The North American's correspondent has been wide awake, and lias not allowed important facts to reuiaiu untold. The special correspondent selected for their work is Robert H. Murray,a man who has had long training in The North American office. The photo grapher who accompanies Mr Murray is Robert Lee Dunn, whose work a-i a correspondent and photographer dur ing the Russo-Japanese War brought to Collier's a number of exclusive il lustrations of famous battles. In addition to cabled articles.Messrs Murray and Dunn will turnish by mail a series of illustrated special ar ticles that will toll in clearer fashion the meaning (if the Taft around-world tour. The Gerrymander. The gerrymander, so called from its author, Elbridgo Gerry, Is a division of political boundaries by one party so as to insure the defeat of political op ponents by placing them in districts containing a majority of hostile voters. It has been worked successfully In hun dreds of cases since Gerry lirst tried It, although it is playing out as a political expedient. The gerrymander often de feats its purpose, as In the case of the late President McKlnley, who was ger rymandered out of congress in the old Sixteenth Ohio district only to bo elect ed governor of the state for two terms by the Republicans and thence togo to Washington twice as president of the United States. Gerry first saw the light on July 17, 1744. He was vice president under Madison and had a long and distinguished career as a statesman. Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele' graph. James McCurtin, aged 31 years, of Baltimore, died at the Butler hospit al 011 Monday making the seventeenth victim of the wheel works explosion on October 6. •'Clod Save the Commonwealth." Election Proclamation! I, D. O. Williams, High Sheriff of the County of Montour, in the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, do here by make known and give notioe to the Electors of the coantyof Montour,Pa. tliat au election will be held in the said County on Tuesday, the sth day of November, A. D, 1907 it being the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, the polls to be opeued at 7 o'clock A. M.and closed at 7 o'clock P. M. at which time the Freemen of Montour County will vote by ballot for the purpose of electing the follow ing officers : One person for State Treasurer. One person for County Treasurer. One person for Prothonotary and Clerk of the Several Courts. VOTING PLACES. I hereby also make known aud give notice that the places of holding the aforesaid elections in the eeveral Wards of the town of Danville and Townships, within tho County of Montour, Pa., are as follows, viz: Anthony Township, at Exchange Hall. Cooper Township, at. Keller school. Derry Township, at Billtneyer Ho-' tel. Strawberry Ridge. Danville, First Ward, at Court House. Danville, Second Ward, on Front street near school house. Danville, Third Ward, at corner of Pine and Walnut streets. Dauville, Fourth Ward,on Ash street next to J. M. Kelso. Liberty township, at Mooresburg, house of C. S. Middleton. Limestone Township, at California Grange Hall. Mahoning Township, at corner of Bloom and Railroad streets. Mayberry Township, at Sharp Ridge school house. Valley Township, at Mausdale, at public house of David Wise. West Hemlock Township, at Elec tion Bootli near C. F. Styer. Washiugtouville Borough, at public house of Fanny Heddens. NOTICE is hereby given "That every person,excepting justices of the peace, who shall hold any office or appointment of profit or trust under tlie government of the United States or of tiiis State, or any city or incor porated district, whether a commis sioned officer or otherwise, a subordi nate officer or ageut, who is, or shall be employed under the Legislative. Executive or Judiciary departments of this State or United States or of any city or incorporated district; and also that any members of Congress and of the State Legislature, and of tho Select and Common Council of any city, or commissioners of any in corporated district is, by law, incap able of holding or exercising, at the same time, the office or appointment of Judge, Inspector or Clerk of any election of this Commonwealth; and that no Inspector, Judge, or any other officer of any such election shall be eligible to any office, to be then voted for. except that of an election officer. Given under my' hand and seal at my office, iu Dauville, Pa. this the 17th day of October, A. D. 1907. D. O. WILLIAMS, Sheriff. A State forest demonstration area is to be established in Scotland. Tlie government lias purchased for that purpose an estate in Argyllshire con taining 12.530 acres. Oley township, lierks county,reports a yield of 7,000 bushels of apples aud claims the champiouship for the couu ty. Making Good. There is no way of making ratting friends like "Making Good;" and Doctor Pierce's medlciuos well exemplify this, and their friends, after more than two decades of popularity, are numbered by the hundreds of thousands. They have "made good" aud they have not made drunkards. A good, honest, square-deal medicine of known composition Is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. U still enjoys an Im mense sale, while most of the prepara tions that have come into prominence in ; the earlier period of its popularity have j "gone by the board "and aro never more heard of. There must be some reason for : this long-time popularity and that ts to be found in Its superior merit?. When once given a fair trial for weak stomach, or for liver and blood affections, its supe rior curative qualities are soon manifest; hence it has survived and grown in pop ular favor. while scores of less meritorious articles have suddenly flashed into favor for a brief period and then been as soon forgotten. For a torpid liver with its attendant Indigestion, dyspepsia, headache, per haps dizziness, foul breath, nasty coated tongue. with bitter taste, loss of appetite, with distress after eating, nervousness and debility, nothing is so good as Dr. Plereo's Golden Medical Discovery. It's an honest, square-deal medicine with all Its Ingredients printed on bottle-wrapper —no secret, no hocus-pocus humbug, therefore don't French Doadmaker. "I'll tell you." sititl a jeweler, "how the wonderfully perfect artificial pearl came to foe Invented. "A rich French beadmaker, Molse Jaquin—he lived In the seventeenth \ century— found a pond In his garden covered oue morning with a lovely sll very luster. Amazed, he called his 1 gardener, who said It was nothing— | eoine albcttes had got crushed; that was all. "AU>ettes were little silver fish,bleaks, 1 the Leuoiscus nlounms. The gardener explained that if you crushed them they always gave the water a pearly j sheen likt* that. Jaquin put on his thinking cap. "For sis years he worked with beads and bleaks, wasting millions of both, bnt finally he achieved success. He learned how to extract the pearly lus ter from the blenks' scales and to cov er a glass bead with It. "What he did—and his method is still used —was to scrape the scales from the fish, wash and rub them and save the water. The water, decanted, gave off a lustrous fluid of the thickness of oil, a veritable pearl paint, a magic fluid that imparts a lovely pearly sheen to everything it is applied to. "It takes 1,000 blenks to yield an ounce of this pearl paint."—New Or leans Times-Democrat. CIRCUS RIDERS. They Earn Good Salaries, but Their Careers Are Short. A man horseback rider receives from $75 to .$125 a week, and his career as a principal rider lasts about ten years. It is short uot so much because these men get stiff and lose their agility as be cause they lose their nerve. Nearly all circus folk marry young, and with their added responsibilities comes a lively sense of danger which they ignored in younger days. A man rider who can not turn a somersault on a horse can not command more than SSO a week. A woman rider who can perform this feat gets from $l5O to S2i iOji week if she is a finished rider. This isn't much when all the disad vantages of tho calling are taken into consideration, but it should be remem bered that all the expenses are paid, including the care, feeding and of course the transportation of their horses. All they have to provide Is their own clothing. For the men- riders clothes do not constitute much of a factor, and the women nearly nlways make their own, except those provided by tho management. "A dial ring," said the curio dealer. "A French dial ring of the eighteenth century. You can tell the time with It." The ring of gold was beautifully chased, and where the stone sparkles usually there was set a tiny sundial. "All you have to do," said the dealer, "Is to stand in the right way, holding (lie dial so that the sun strikes it, and a tiny shadow- will tell you the hour. Such a ring," lie concluded, "is more a curio than an accurate timepiece. It is only good in the locality it is made for, and even there unless it is set to ward the right point of the compass, it will be several hours out of the way." —Louisville Courier-Journal. It Depends. Pr. Johnson was once consulted by an old lady on the degree of wicked ness to be attached to her son's rob bing an orchard. "Madam," said Johnson, "It all depends upon the weight of the boy. I remember my schoolfellow, Davy (Jarrick, who was always a little fellow, robbing a dozen orchards with impunity, but the very first time I climbed up nn apple tree— for I was always a heavy boy—the bough broke with me, and it was called a judgment." Expressed Nautically. A certain admiral upon coming on board a ship was met by an old class mate with the salutation, "Ilello, old fellow, how are you?" Observing that the admiral h»d carefully combed bis back hair forward tip and over to cov er the bald top o' hi; head he added, "Well, that's the first time 1 ever saw afterguard doing foretop duty!"-"On a Man-of-war " Two country clergymen had agreed to exchange pulpits on a certain date. One of them made tlie following sol emn announcement to his congregation on the Sabbath previous to the event: "My dear brethren and sisters, I have the pleasure of stating that on next Sunday morning the Kev. Zachariah B. Day will preach for you. Let us now sing two verses of hymn No. 489, 'That Awful Day Will Surely Come.' " And It took him some time to discov er why the congregation smiled. The First Boat. At first when a man wanted to cross a deep stream he was compelled to swim across. But man at best is a poor swimmer, and it was not long be fore he invented a better method of traveling on water. A log drifting in a stream furnished the hint. By resting his body upon the log and plashing with his hands and feet he found he could move along faster and easier. Thus the log was the first boat and the human arm was the first oar.—S. B. Forman in St. Nicholas. Witty Women. Women have more wit than humor. They are more sensitive than men. Their minds are nimbler. Their thoughts flash Instantly to an Intuitive conclusion; hence wit Is far more nat ural to them. They have hardly tbe Intellectual patience to create or enjoy the less obvious and more deliberate moods of humor.—Munsey's Magazine. A Failure. "So you don't believe in the mind cure?" , "No." "Did you ever try It?" "Well, I once tried to convince my wife that she didn't really want a new gown."—Judge. Looks That Way. "I wonder if Mars really Is inhabit ed." "Don't know, but if Saturn Is, I'll bet the politicians own It." "Think so?" "Certainly; can't you see the —Philadelphia Fresa. MIXED IN THE THUNDER. A Scene In "Macbeth" That Was Not on the Playbill. It Is related of Cooke, the actor, that when a youth, bing without the neces sary cash to pay for a seat "In front," he got behind the scenes one night and hid himself Inn barrel. lie had for companions two large camion balls, but the youth, not being Initiated Into the mysteries of the place, did not suspect that cannon balls helped to make thunder hi a barrel as well as in a twenty-four pounder. The play was "Macbeth," and In the first scene the thunder was required to give due effect to the situation of the crouching witches. It was not long ere Ihe Jupiter Tonans of the theater, alias the property men, approached and ! seized the barrel, and the horror of the concealed boy may be imagined as the man proceeded to cover the open end ; with a piece of old carpet and tie It carefully to prevent the thunder from being split. Cooke was profoundly and heroically slleut. The machine was lifted by the brawny stage servitor and carried care fully to the side scene lest in rolling the thunder should rumble before Its ! cue. All was made ready, the witches took their places amid flames of resin, the thunder bell rang, the barrel received its impetus with young Cooke and the cannon balls, the stage strlck-1 en lad roaring lustily, to the amuse ment of the thunderer, who neglected to stop the rolling machine, which en tered on the stage, and Cooke, burst ing off the carpet head of the barrel, uppeared before the audience, to the horror of the weird sisters and to the hilarity of the spectators.—London Mail. One Gleam of Sunshine. His play is a rank failure. It is a frost and a fizzle, and lia | knows it. The dramatist bows his head upon his hands and refuses to be comforted, j for it is his first flunk. | One by one his friends try to say i something that will console him, but i to no avail. Finally his trusting wife finds one sunny gleam In the clouds. "Anyway," she said, "you didn't have ! togo through the ordeal of making a ! speech before the curtain, and you ' know you always said you would be i thankful beyond words If you could j escape that."—Success Magazine. Late Already. Five minutes after the tardy gong had struck the principal of the school | was walking through the lower hall when he saw a pudgy little fellow scampering toward the first grade room as fast as his fat legs could carry him. ; "See here, young man, I want to talk to you," called the principal to the late comer. "I hain't got time to talk to you; I'm late already," replied the breathless beginner as the door of hla classroom closed.—Circle. A Natural Fog Horn. At the Farallones the erosive agents have worked with queer caprice. This rock, being granite, has been acted upon by the sea at all levels and throughout the long period when it lias been rising out of the watery depths. Through a long, narrow hole, slanting and communicating with the ocean, there comes at intervals a ter rific stream of air, forced by the spas modic heaving of the waves against the lower orifice. The government, which uses this island for lighthouse purposes, inclosed flip upper end with the nozzle of a l'og horn, and every few seconds there was blown an car splitting brawl which was heard far out at sea and above the din of the breaking rollers. It was allowed to roar only in foggy weather, but it was eccentric in that it would only sound at high tide. When the tide was low, although tlie weather might be very thick, the thing was silent. For lack of Its warning a ship went ashore npon the island rocks, and then It was that the government abandoned its location of the wind hole and erect ed a steam siren or mechanical fog horn, which has since very faithfully performed the necessary service. A Story of Blaine. James G. Hlaine made his first ap pearance on the stump in the canvass in Maine in 1850. He went to Far mlngton to near Senator William Pitt Fessenilen ,>oak and with no inten tion to speak himself. Hut Mr. Fessen den did not arrive on time, and some of his Augusta friends put Blaine for ward to take the platform. He likened his situation to that of a fanner who had a horse for which he asked sr>oo. A horse trader offered him $75 for the animal. "It's an awful drop," said the farmer, "but I'll take it." The story took and so did the speech that fol lowed. Modes'.y. True modesty is a discerning grace ant', only blushes In the proper place, but counterfeit is blind and skulks through fear, where 'tis a shame to be 1 ashamed t' appear; humility, the par ent of the first, the last by vanity pro duced and nurs't. —Cowper. French Rags High Priced. A collector of rags offered the man ager of a large boarding house a cer j tain price for a bag of wornout linen. "These rags are worth more than that," said the shrewd landlord. "1 run several houses in tills neighbor hood, and all are occupied exclusively by French guests." The dealer apparently considered that remark sufliciently explanatory, ne cast a hasty glance upon the con tents of the bag, then raised the price. "And he could well afford to raise it. too," said the landlord. "Even at that ; rate he wl!l make money off the things. French rags the world over bring a higher price than any other. The rea son why? French people wear a bet ter quality of linen and their castoff garments are in demand by all manu facturers of higli grade paper."—New York Press. A Fight Impossible, i"I don't know whether my janitor Is a plain idiot or just too smart for any ' thing," declared the flat dweller. "This morning when I said to him, 'Did you hear those people above me fighting last night?" lie turned and looked hard at me and said; 'You must be mis taken. Those people above you! Why, there are only two of them, and they are husband and wife.' "—New York Press. A Surprised Sister. "Miss Lucy," said young Mr. Pitt, with some trepidation of manner, "there is something I very much want to teli you, and the present seems to be a very good opportunity." "Mr. Pitt," replied the young lady, who was kind of heart and wished to spare his feelings, "I know what you are about to say, and I have been "ex pecting it for some time, hut really It cannot lie as you wish." "Can't it? Why not?" "Well, Mr. I'itt, I can only be a sis ter to you." "That's Just what I was about to say. You will lie a sister to me because your sister Mabel and I are engaged to be married. Mabel asked me to break the news to you." Corked Eggs. "An ostrich egg," said the sailor, •costs ten cents in South Africa. It's fqual to about two dozen chicken eggs and lasts close onto a week. "Out there you open your ostrich egg by makiu' a small hole in the point You shake out as much contents as you need, and then you plug up the openin' with a cork and stand the egg away in a refrigerator till it's needed again. "Plugged carefully, an ostrich egg will supply a week's breakfast ome lettes without goin' bad." The Silver Lining. lie had been going to see her for a long time, but never stated the object of his visits, and she was desirous of knowing something of the future, ne met her one night at the house of a mutual friend and seemed to be quite sad. After several well developed sighs he said, "Life is full, very full, of bitterness. Isn't it?" "Oh, I don't know!" she responded cheerily. "I haven't much cause to complain." "Possibly not now, Mary, but the bit ter cup has been placed to your lips." "Yes, Ilenr.v, my parents are dead." "And is there no bitterness In that, Mary? Is It not sad to be an orphan?" "Of course it Is, Henry, but you see it relieves you of the embarrassment of asking father."—Buffalo Times. The Cautious Fielding. In the eighteenth century servants were tipped every time one dined at a friend's house. Apropos of this hab it, a story is related of Fielding, who often rated David Garrick, the actor, about his penurious habits. On one occasion Fielding, after dining with Garrick, gave a penny wrapped In pa per to the man servnnt as his dona tion. When Garrick next saw Fielding he remonstrated with him on his be havior In playing off a Joke on his servant "Indeed, no," answered Fielding. "I meant to do the fellow a real service, for had I given him half a crown or a shilling you would have taken it from him. By giving him a penny he had a chance of keeping It for his own."—London Bellman. His Symptoms. "Maybe that boy of yours will tie famous some day," said the friend. "I shouldn't be surprised." answer ed Farmer Corntossel; "he does like to wear curious clothes an' say tilings that sounds more stirprisin' than sensi ble."—Washington Star. Her Discharge. "Why did vi*i lea. " your last place?" "Sure, I worr discharged for doia' well, mum." "Discharged for doing well? Why, where were you?" "I worr in the horspital, mum."— Loudon Answers. A Uood Medicine. Laughter not only gains friends, but it's a good medicine—keeps the eyes bright the heart light and increases t lie number of red corpuscles. Per haps that is tlie reason oue sees so few fashionable people laughing. They are cultivating blue blood. A man who was very 111 was visited liy his doctor, one of those lugubrious creatures, about as cheerful as a tomb stone. lie assumed the proiierly de jected air and inquired of the sick man where his friends were in case they need lie notified and asking if he had any last request. "Yes, ■ e," the patient answered fee bly. "What b- ;! 7" "I wish I had another doctor." —St. Louis Republic. A Military Exquisite. Marshal Ncy, who was as handsome as he was brave, never appeared on tlie field at a great battle until he was dressed with scrupulous elegance and his beard carefully curled and per fumed. When he was led out to execu tion he was cool and calm as though he were going to open a dance, only asking that the should tie aimed low that his face Sight not be dis figured after death. A Perfect Husband. "What is your idea of a perfect hus band?" asked the sentimental girl. "A perfect husband," answered Miss Cayenne, "is one who will submit to unj amount of reproof because he de layed dinner to see an eleven iuning baseball game to the finish and never once allude to the similar delays occa sioned by his wife's devotion to Illus trated lectures or pianists."—Washing- A. R.ollablo TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and Ceneral Jolt Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ran«M, Furnaces. «to- PRICES THE LOWEST! QiIILIT! TDE BEST! JOHNHIXSOJN NO Uf & FRONT BT.