Montour Amorioan.
V ANtll li. ••mrrtrlur,
i»ium nip. l*a , live* lu. I<ll7.
Tn« Villi . n r* K»«.
W|l«i <• l. ~ lUMMrfI l»l « 4ll»l> of *
«tol«a ki«« flint l« m q»i««»ton thlih
yariottn i n, fi»>i««iiitf>f"il « ill
«int mm In# any autminliliil iimtrlbn
t«i iiii l w<ifl l'i enlightenment,
The l*i>'<t <-» 'it which llil* difltenlt
jiroh " n wi« |>' « m<»il l« that wileli
kit* Jn«t l> ii inn ulntf the attention
of * • nrl of Ju«ii-i» at Hnwheriih. N
Y 11 >r ■ tl.i' ili'foiiilant wa« Mr John
J iufll. n< on# tttn<* fire Minimi*
aton. rof New Vnrk Oity. Mr H. nn
■nil wi* charged by * Mm l<aor«
Whit* with Imvltm kl«ed her twlci
agaln«l her will. Sin- said In her com
plaint tlint hi> e»uie tip behind her,
jmt hl« attn around her w »l*i and kiwi
f.l her ou the Hp* before she lot I h
change to prevent him. Tim ex|ieti
etme *»euis to lnTf been *ati«fao»ory.
for, *r 'onl intf to the plnintlfT'* state
m#nt. tin su'd Hcanuell "of niallcp
aforethought anil Imiiiu homln instlg
at.• I by the devil," Immediately re
pi>»ti<il the |*«rforiii!»iice, although wli>
the kIMPp wai not hy thistimesufflcl
put iv upon her gn»rd to reppl thin en
core is not ooiivineiiißly e*plaln*d. ;
Presumably she hail been to much tak
en ahvk by the man's audacity as
temporarily to liavo lost the power of i
■elf-proteotion.
For this duplicated assault Mr?
White, reoiting the injury which her
feelings had sustained, invited a sym
pathetic jury to award her #15,000
damages Well, It dhin tdo it. The j
judge in his charge treated the action 1
as involving no more than a question
of assault Ho did not invite or em
power the jury to take any account of
the pleasure which the defendant may
have derived from the irregular osoul
ation attributed to him. He told it
that the only issue was whether the
defendant had placed his hand upon
the plaintiff as alleged. If he had, no
matter how lightly, then an assault
had been committed for which dam
ages might be assessed. Thus illumin
ated, it did not take the jury long to
reach a decision,and after having been
O Jt an hour it brought in a verdict for
the defendant ou the ground that the
evidence had failed to disclose any
cause of action.
This was a lame aud impotent con
clusion. One would have liked to
know what consideration determined
the jury's judgment. Did it think
that the assault alleged had not been
proved, or was it of opinion that a
stolen kiss is wrothless unless the theft
is condoned and approved by the party
of the second part? Other juries have
been contrary minded. A case is on
record in Wisconsin where five kisses
were appraised at s'sooo each, which
is certainly a pretty stiff tariff. At the
other end of the scale a Miss Theresa
Harvey, of Newark, who wanted |3OO
for six more or less chaste salutes —
surely a modest appreciation—receiv
ed from an unfeeling tribunal no more
than six cents. In yet another case
tried at Ballston Spa, a suit to recov
er damages for breach of premise, in
the conrse of which it was shown that
1330 kisses had been given and receiv
ed, resulted in a verdict for S3OOO,
which was at the rate of $2.42 per
kiss. This case, hiwever. is not on
all fours with the rest, as the dam
ages awarded were based, not on as
sault, but ou a breach of contract.
It is evident that no guiding prin
ciple can be deduced from the recorded
precedents, but the view of sensible
men will be that a kiss which is not
reciprocated is not worth a continent
al cent.
SpeaK Well of Your Town,
Speak well of the town in which
you reside or do business. If in all
respects it is not up to your high
ideals, pass over its defects aud emph
asize its good points, doing, at the
same time, all that you can to improve
its unattractive features.
Nothing so" unfavorably impresses a
stranger in his r estimate of a town as
the croaking of its citizens about its
unfavorable conditions. If you cau't
find some favorable feature to discuss
don't say anything about the unfavor
able ones. Remember that there is
only.one perfect place audit is nt ces
sary to die before von are eligible for
admission there. If yon intend to keep
alive you must stay on earth and abide
in some place that has only earthlv
characteristics.
If you don't like the place in which
your lot is cast, move out or stop
croaking about it. There is no law
which oorapals you to remain. It
differs from the penitentiary in that
respect. But while you stay boom the
town. Insist that it is a good place
to live;that its business men are alive
and up to the present minute; that it
is a Rood place to trade; that its peo
ple are courteous and oordial to
strangers; that the town is improving
in many respeots and that in our town
in particular life is well worth the
living. If you can see only the bad j
features of our town: are sure that al! |
of its officials are grafters; that its I
merchants are not so enterprising as '
those of some other city; in fact if 1
everything about the place has an on- j
favorable appearance to you, the !
chances aro that your liver needs at
tention aud the sooner it receives it
the sooner life will take on a brighter
look.
The pessimist believes that every- j
thing is rotten ; tlia optimist thinks
that conditions are simply ripe. Put j
up your hammer. Try to whistle. If
you can't whistle, sing, ylf ou can't j
sing, just smile. Anybody can do that j
and if everybody smiles the town will j
look better to you.
JiIHY GHOBBN FOR
JANUARY TERM
Kulli.« |i u I* the Imt nt Jamr* *el
». i i| fur the H"*f lerttt of cotirl. which
will convene on .lanitnry I Nth:
(IHANt) JCHoH*
Ptnville, l*t ward (teorge W.
Hut, Alexander «lr«,ne, Ittin V»n
ll* 11. ,I nun* H Wntmitt, Jimeph
H "Ciller
9ml ward : Ale*alidrr llnfTiiPt,
.lame* Mailpy, 'i'howia* Swank.
Hr I ward:- Thotiia* J. linger*, tl.
F lliitidinaii.
4th w»rd John M. Mong, Mficit
Y-trick, .1 M Ke!*o.
Derry Township :--<J«virgp W Diebl
Liberty Tnwti*hlp—William Bob
bin*. II F Warp, Daniel lleini
Mahoning Township:— Woodward .
Moirtsnh, Ktlward Body, Weudel By
er*. Henry Welriuan, .lames Morrison.
Wist Hemlock Township : Peter ,
Samiel, pPter Hhulta.
Tit A VKKBK JURORS.
Anthony Township:—A mo* John
inn, Samuel lllliipr, Joseph Holdren, |
Amos Albeck, David Cm,
Cooper Township:—.John Mauser.
1 tieorgn Heinibach,
Danville, Ist ward :—John H. Hunt,
iO. C. Moyer, Thomas S Woods.
2nd ward :—John Derrick,
ilrd ward :—Thomas Honey, Samuel
McCoy, Jacob Herman, Samuel F.
Ricketts.
1 4th ward :—Alexander Maun, Paul
Knocli, Hugh McOaffery.
Derry Township—Charles K. Shires,
j Sr., Oweu^Reber.
j Li ip :—George Wal
i ter, George Vanordstrand, William
; Hogart, George F. Bntterman.
I Liberty Township:—Urben Rhodes,
j C. 11. Anteu.
Mahoning Township—George Hecfc
j eudorn.W. T. Madden, Conrad Rishel,
! William T. Dyer.
j Mayberry Township : —Clark Kase.
Valley Township:—E. K. Renn.
i West Hemlock Township:—Thomas
Bradley, John Hawkins, Joseph Win
tersteen.
| Washingtonville :—William Messer
i smith.
Christmas Trees an a Gifts.
There are some people who are
1 chronic fault finders, or always wor
rying about something. If they pass
one supposed crisis, another looms up
iu their imagination, and you might
just as well let them alone, for they
are not happy unless t hey are miser
able, aud whining about something.
So with physical ailments; some peo
ple like to hear themselves talk about
this ache and that ache, this bad feel
ing and that one. They are never
well, to their view, but they manage
| to eat their fodder and shuffle along
j about as well as the ordinary person.
And every year the Christmas re
former bobs up. He or she would do
away with Sauta Clans, the Christ
mas tree aud Christmas gifts. How
ever, no harm is done by these people,
for if they did not spare their time to
it they would take up something-else:
so they may as well be allowed togo
ou without protest so long as they do
not interfere withjthe shopping.
The reformers say gifts aro a waste
and nuisance, aud meauingless so far
as an expression of friendship is con
cerned au entail obligations that the
giver and the receiver would gladly
avoid had they the courage to free
themselves from the tyranny of cus
tom.
Gift-giving is a good deal of a nui
sance carried to extremes, but to sup
press it. would rob the world of much
of its cheer and good fellowship. It
would not result in any economic or
material benefit, but rather would be
an injury to industry and trade.
The anti-tree reformers have some
valid grounds for objections on econ
omic reasons, iu the depletion of our
forests, and in destroying valuable
timber. But until there is better care
iof forests from fires, from ruthless
waste in other directions and there
I comes systematic reforestation, the
' Christmas tree for the children will
j persist.
1 We do believe, however, that the
j shameful waste should be prohibited,
i and some system obtain in the out
j ting and in the sale of Christmas trees
i Every year more trees are cut, and
| thrown away in the cities thau are
used, principally because the prices
j are prohibitive to the large majority
; of the working people.
Kodol For
Indigestion
Our Guarantee Coupon
If. alter nairif two-third* of a ti.oo bottl* •(
Kodol, jroa can honestly say it baa cot bepe
flted you. we will refund yo«r money. Try
Kodol today on thia guarantee. Pill out aoi
•Un the following, preaent it to the dealer at
the time of Durchaae. If it faila to aatiafy yo«
return the bottle containing one-third of the
medicine to the dealer from whom you bonaht
It.and we wiil refund your money.
Town _________
I | State
I Sign here
L t ol Thle Oat
Digests What You Eat
And Makes the Stomach Sweet
E. C. D»WITT & CO., Clitc«so, IU.
For Sale by Pauies 6t (»
Bear patiently what thou stiCPerest
by thlno own fault.—Dutch Proverb.
Of the two offenses against the body i
undereating is more immediately dan- !
gerous than overeating. It saps the !
strength from the start. Safety and I
sanity may lie in discreet selections of j
food based on personal peculiarities. :
They are not promoted by absurd the- '
orles.—New v„ r k World.
WHOLBBALG
THF.FT OF ROBES
Holier) Me' Wrote*. tif tin# pity, ett
*a«iirri*y ronttting was arraigned bp
fore ,ln»tlce of the Peace Og'esby
charged with the lufeny of a valuable
toll#, blanket* and other article* In
'lefanlt of thtee hundred dollar* ball
he was committed to jail.
The hearing on the whole wa* mml
Mutational. 1)1 the floor In the Just
tee'* office lay a small wagon load of
loot, oon«p|poott» among which *«>
Charley H"\et'* valauble noon *kln
r 'bp, dangling from the surface nf
whli-1i were pome fifteen health*-look■
lug coon tall*, each representing a
m parate pp|t. which some time or otb
er had fallpn a« a trophy before the
titiPirltig aim of Mr H"iir'» gun In
a group around the stolen article* sat
half a down well-known men from HIP
country, who had been called in as
witne«e*.
The information, lodged hy Char lei
Beyer, of West Hemlock township, set
forth that "on the night of December
18th, at the bam of William Fensfi r
maelier in Valley township. Kobrrt
McOormick did steal, tnke and carry
away, a coon skin rube aud a blanket
at the value of flO and upward, prop
erty of Charles Beyer; also a halter
aud whip of the value of #1.2-i, prop
erty of Daniel Hillmever; also a blank
pt and pair of arctics valued at *<> 50
property of Howard Vognetz.
Ii the office of Justice Oglesby,
while waiting for the arrival of the
defendant,who had been placed in jail
when arrested, the witnesses assembl
ed good-naturedly discussed the stirr
ing incidents of the night before, in
volving the discovery of the theft and
the capture and detention of McOorm
ick.
Briefly told, the facts are as fol
lows: Ou Friday afternoon there was
a puhlic sale at the farm ot William
Feusterniacher in Valley township
Following custom in the eveniug a
party was held. Among those attend
ing were a number of young men, who
had driven to the place with their
buegies. Among the latter was Charles
Beyer, who during the eveniug walk
| ed over to the oak tree hotel, leaviug
i his horse aud carriage at Fenstermach
ers. Some time later William Brittain
jot Derry township, came along. Rob
| ert McOormick, who attended the sale
i and had tarried at the party, was just
: ready to leave. Mr. Brittain asked to
ride along aud McOormick assented.
The night being cold and Mr. Brit
j taiu being without gloves he wrapped
! Ins hands in the lap cover. He found
I this to consist of several thicknesses
I In order to find the beßt protection for
his hands he placed them between the
two blankets and to his surprise came
in contact with one of the coon tails
on Mr. Beyer's robe, which was snug
ly sandwiched between the blankets.
This robe, with its dozen or so of
dangling coon tails, is famous over a
wide section. Mr. Brittain at once
• became suspicious that something was
wrong. Stopping at the oak tree ho
tel aud ruuuiug across Mr. Beyer he
communicated his suspicions to him.
The latter slippedjout TtoVthe bupiy
and rnado a quiet investigation. He
felt convinced that the coon ekin robe
was no other thau his own.
j Charles Beyer is a man of powerful
j physique and is jußt as brave as he is
i strong and good natured \Mien he
suggested, therefore, that to clear up
the mystery they would go back to
William Fenstermacher's and see
whether his robe was where he left it,
opposition was unavailing and there
; suit was that in a few minutes Robert
, McOormick accompanied by Charles
Beyer and William Brittain was o
his way back to the Fenstermaeher
! farm. Arriving at the premises Mr.
Beyer fonndfhis worst suspicious ei i -
firmed. His valuable was miss
! ing. This set others investigating sujd
they found that divers articles®!
above enumerated in the information
i had been transferred from their own
vehicles into that driven by the de
fendant. ,
Mr. Beyer took McOormick into cus
tody and held him while Howard
Vognetz, one of the victims of the rob
bery, drove down to Mausdale aud
! called Chief-of-Police Mincemoyer up
by telephone. At the chief's sugges
tion Mr. Vognetz drove into Danville
and took the otlicer out to Fenster
macher's farm,where Me' oimick was
delivered over into his custody.
By this time it was near the hour of
midnight. Arriving at Danville Mc-
Oormick was placed in jail and the
loot was unloaded to be used as evid
ence.
At the hearing McOormick pleaded
"not guilty." Charles Beyer, William
Brittain, Daniel Billmeyer and How
ard Vognetz, all testified in accord
ance witli the facts as set forth above,
each in turn selecting from the pile
on the floor and ideutifiying the goods
stolen from him. At the hearing it
developed that William Beyer had
missed a blanket, which waß later
found on McCormick's wagon and
identified.
McOormick'made no attempt to dis
puto the evidence that the stolen art
icles were found iu his wagon but he
said he had no idea of how they got
there.
The justice considered the evidence
adduced sufficient to hold the defend
ant and lie fixed bail at three hundred
dollars. McOormick failing to secure
a bondsman be was committed to jail
to await court.
Cases have been known of men who
have permitted business to interfere
■with golf, but tliey are rare, and cer
tainly It would be extremely difficult
to find an Individual bold enough to in
cur the odlnm of his fellow golfers by
admitting the impeachment—Golf 11-
lustrated.
GEO. SNYDER
ARRRSTRI)
Bllfttllr aftet III* •tltrtllK xpUnrle (tl
tn*n*Mp an it I *M*f Mtticfri"*
j*r hart landed hi* man In Jail Ofl|c»t
William K Vnnna mad* a mml a*n*a
Mount arr»«t on I'ln* afreet
The officer *a» on lila beat wli*tt In
p*rr*ir*rt a man waking Ma war nlnng
tli* *tr**t carrying **r*ral article* It
wa« w*ll nn tnwarrt muni 111; an nti
heard of Innr for a nun to be taking
Imme pnreliaw* mart* at ant rif tin
•tore*
Tli* 1 ffi -er lmlbrt th* man.
"What hav* yon not tl.ir*?" li* a*l
ert
" Noun of jrnnr huaiticsa. " wa* tie
roplv, or ratinr It wa* substantially
tli* reply, a* thorn wore peroral art
jectlren employed more profane than
elegant, which are omitted.
"We'll make it onr basineta,'' *aid
th" officer a* lie laid hold of the niau.
Alone in I In- night a desperate *tru •
gle then took plane between O '<> > r
Young and the belated man. The fel
low wa* unable to giro any t-atfafact
ory account of how lie obtained the
good* and wa* bent upon getting away.
The officer came not victorlons.lioM -
ever.and landed the fellow In jail
The man arrested proved to lie (Jeo
alias "Snorgo" Snyder. Poring tlie
day .Teaae li Wyant lodged iufotuia
tlou before Ju«tice Ogle*by charging
Snyder with the larceny of about h
gallon of oysters, about twenty-five
clauis anil a stew pun,the \alue of the
whole being estimated at five dollars.
Mr. Wyant Htated that the oyster*
were stolen from the rear porch anil
were obtained by breaking open a tub
that had jnst been received. The oth
er articles stolen were also obtained
from the rear porch.
The defendant pleaded "not guilty."
| He said the oysters aud the other art
icles bad been given him by a "hobo." 1
In default of S3(H) bail he wascoroniit
trd to jail to uvait court.
What Do They Cure?
The above question Is often asked cou
ecrnm-' Dr. I'icnc'- two leading modi
| cines, "Gulden Medical Discovery" and
| "Favorite Prescription."
The answer is that "Golden Medical
Discovery " is a most potent alterative or j
blixid-purltier, and touic or invigorator
and acts especially favorably in a cura
tive way upon all the mucous lining sur
faces, as of the nasal passages, throat,
bronchial tubes, stomach, bowels and
blaidefc cnrlnj a large per cent, of catar
rhal caVea whether <fie disease affects the
1 nasal paStawjs, the th*<iat. larynx, bron
chia, stomach\(as catarNuil dyspepsia),
bowels *( as bladder.
. uterus or other ptTvlc Even in
1 »ihen* - 'i V p Mingt"
affections Itla nft/»n snce ( es>f u| In affect-
Is'1 s '
u n
is u powerful yet gently acting invigorat
ing toni- a:i.l nervine. For weak worn
out, over-worked women—no matter wlctt
nap caused the break-down, "Favi '•
[ i'le-ci iptioii" will be found most eilec.i\
in building up the strength, regulating
1 the womanly functions, subduing pa. 11
, : and bringing about a healthy, vigorous
condition of the whole system.
* A book of particulars wraps each bottle
giving the formulae of both medicines and
; quoting what scores of eminent med- i
' leal authors, whom works ara consulted
by physicians of all the schools of practice
as guides in prescribing, say of each In
gredient ontorlng into theae medielnea.
> The words of praise bestowed # on the j
several ingrodlouw enturlng Into Doctor .
' 1 I'lerco's ineillclriei by stieh writers should
1 have more weight than any amount of <
, non - professional testimonials, bewauae
; such men are writing for the guidance of 1
. their medioal brethren and know whereof
they speak.
| Both medicines are non-alcoholic, non
) | secret and contain no harmful habit- |
, forming drugs, being composed of glyceric j
extracts of the roots of native, American
1 ' medicinal fore«t plants They are both 1
| sold by dealers in medicine. Yon can't ,
' afford to accept as a substitute for one of
- these medicines of known composition,
t j any secret nostrum.
lJr. I'ierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
5 easy to take as candy, regulate nnd I&
vigoraU) stomach, liver and bowels.
r ;
An Invincible.
When Alcibiades was told that his
countrymen had pushed sentence of
I death upon him for being at the head
. of a conspiracy to overthrow there
| UplouK and political constitution of
Athens he aald, "1 will show them I
' still live." He obtained from Sparta
assurance of personal safety and went
hither. He delighted and charmed the
Spartans, as he had the Athenians in
I ; his earlier years. He adopted their
customs and dress and was the strlct-
I est Spartan of them all. He wore his
( hair short bathed In the Icy waters
of the Eurotes and ate their black
broth and barley bread. They believed
j that he had been misrepresented. In
■ truth, as Plutarch said, "he changed
i color more quickly than a chameleon."
In Sparta he was grave, temperate
1 and fond of physical exercir.e; in lonia
he was easy going, luxurious and mer
ry; In Thrace he was drunken, in
j Thessaly he was devoted to horsernan
i ship, and in the court of the l'ersian
satraps he surpassed Tissapheraes
I j himself In magnificence. As Sparta :
1 ! was to be the prize of the Athenian
| victory, he showed the people their
. i danger, advising them to begin active
I operations against that city. No bet
ter advice could have been given them,
: and they profited by It
1
; Moths do not cat furs or cloths. I
I | Thoy lay their eggs In these rich I
. s uffs, and It is the worms from the i
i that do the eating.
The Indians who live by the Amazon
| river use a lonfe blowpipe "to shoot j
J birds. The pipe is a piece of palm j
| cane with the pith pushed out of Its '
center. The blowers develop extrnor
'! dinary lung power and are able to
| bring down their victims from great
! heights.
Frozen Frogs.
I have seen frogs frozen into the j
middle of solid lumps of ice in the '
j laboratory. Drop the lump on the j
floor, and the frog would break out j
1 like a fragment of the ice itself. And !
I this has happened more than once to 1
j the same frog without causing him the :
j least apparent suffering or inconven
-1 leuce. lie would come to aud croak '
| and look as wise as ever. Dallas i
Sharp in Atlantic.
home Love
la Beet.
Rr lANfi LUDLUM I F.fi.
< 'nt« rlttii»«l l*»T. tit I", r Kanlment
( y O
"Mlm Khnrt, I want ymi to lw tny
wlf* 112 want lo take yroi t<» my hum#
In (lennmiy anil trarh fnn to lore my
ppnpl* a* they will love you Will you
ha vp m»f'
The** word* fell from the llpa of a
hnnrtanm* rjt-rmnn who staying «t
the Kllwood Inn for the summer and
who for week* had been devoted to
the !••••• ntlful Kloaimr Hlmrt. helrosa to
a cool million
"Oh, fount Andrea, tluitik you *n
much. liut I am nut for other land*
I'm a home girl pure nnd simple.
Yoor people would not love tne I had
hoped you would go without iiiuklug
me any thla."
"You knew, then, that I would ask
you ?"
The girl drew herself up with a
atately manner and replied:
"Since you do not spare me why
ahould I save you? Yea. I knew that
you would."
"Americana do not know the mean
ing of home." sneered the count. "I
"DEAR HEART!" UK MURMURED.
could not have gone without asking
you. Miss Short, because —well, it does
uot matter now. I am sorry 1 asked
you, and 1 trust you will never regret
your answer. You will hear of me
again." And with a stiff bow he left
her.
Eleanor, once more on the piazza,
dropped iuto an armchair and rocked
slowly back and forth. It was a beau
tiful night, a night for happiness, uot
for tears, and why should she cry?
Yet tears would come to her eyes. She
did not love the man who had just left
her, and she did love some ono else.
She did not want a German home nor
a German husband, and she resented
his attack on the American home. She
leaned forward on the rail and sighed.
A shot rung through the stillness of
the night air, followed by a piercing
scream.
In an instant the conservative pa
trons of Elwood inn became a clamor
ous crowd, surging 011 the piazza from
every direction. The men rushed thla
way and that, and In a few momenta
the lifeless form of a woman was car
ried into the hotel lobby Miss Short
had been shot in the back, perhaps fa
tally, and her slayer was still at large.
While the doctors worked over the
Injured girl searching parties were or
ganized to find the assassin. The
grounds were carefully guarded, detec
tives were called in and went through
their usual methods of cross question
ing the employees of the hotel, and
hours dragged by with no trace of the
man who had fired the shot. Bulletins
were issued from time to time regard
ing the condition of the patient, and
by morning symptoms showed that
there was a chance for her recovery.
With the recovery of consciousness
came speech, and her first rambling
words were. "Oh, how could he!"
An anxious mother leaned over her
and gently said:
"Who, Eleanor, dear?"
The injured girl gasped, "The count!"
and again lapsed into unconsciousness.
Hut one count had been at the hotel,
and It aid uot taKe long 10 una uuu m
his room and place him under arrest
He was placed under heavy bail until
Miss Short either recovered to face
him at the trial or died.
Days intervened while the patient
huug between life and death, but final
ly she began to pick up the broken
threads and was well on the road to
recovery. Her mother, sitting by the
bedside of the girl, fondly caressing
her, said:
"Jack has been here every day, dear,
asking and pleading to see you, and
we have promised that he shall be the
first Can you see him today? The
poor boy is almost frantic."
"Yes, mother; I want to see him
whenever you say I may."
"He has been waiting in the other
room for two hours, so 1 will call him."
A well built, brown faced man ap
peared at the door in answer to the
mother's call and knelt down by the
side of the girl, slipping one strong
arm about ber shoulders and nestling
his bronzed face close to hers.
"Dear heart!" he murmured.
"Why, Jack, mother is here looking
at us!" said Eleanor as the color came
to her pale cheeks.
"Your mother knows all about it,
dear. Haven't I been telling her every
day for the past two weeks? If she
don't know It It's not my fault. You
see, I couldn't tell you, so I bad to tell
some one and thought your mother a
safe repository for confidences. But
you mustn't talk, dear. You are Just
to get well, and then I'm going to take
you away for months and months
just you and I, dear."
Eleanor proved a good patient and
each day found her stronger than the
one gone by. Jack was in attendance
M oae*fcc=.:-7 aa tuj 1....
Mr* Khnti «n(i many f»*ft»y nmm M
Ml her, tlth Iwt IIMII nfi hi*
•hmiMi'f * Hit#" he f»«r1 *lmM OB#
•In♦ a* the tallltht appmaehed ah*
Irnne.l Mfef *11(1 . In*rd the tmnk that
he « a* rending
dear yon ImK not tnld «!<•
that ynti Ininl fti#''
Why, Kleannr. how ran yea ant
thai II *a* the la-l thin* I aald laal
r\enlrig « ben fntir mother turned m*
Ml,"
"I remember no* but that wa* ye*
terday," ahe aald a* aha ne*tl««d rlnaet
to him "That *a« a whole twenty
four hour* ago"
"Dear h<-art," he ■•aid. with a auille
"aa Mrh twenty 112. nf Itotira elapae I
Inve vn(t that tntich more Vott know
that dear. and I itna't *ee why «•
have to wiill untll yon get entirely
well Why not IN> married <iuh>tly,
right Iter* In lhla Utile mom, where wr
have been ao happy with Mrh other,
and let lite mine voti liai'k In health?"
"Why, Jack, yoti selfish man! Not
have a wedding, no bridesmaid* and
no lon*, white aatin dreaa with a
train! oh. how could yon even aug
Rent It? But If you want me to I will,
dear, for when you go far itway from
me the whole Itght aeema togo out
of my life, and It'a been dark aueh a
loiik time."
Jack'a answer wan to take her In hla
atrong aritta and hold her close to hla
heart for n moment as lie whispered
"Darling!"
".lack," Eleanor murmured. "I want
to ask you a question that haa been
on my mind ever aluce 1 regained con
•ciouaneaa I wanted to ask mother,
but feared to worry her. But if you
will hold me tight I will ask you."
"What is it, dear?" answered Jack.
"Who shot me?" And her eyea closed
•s she asked the dreaded question.
"The poor count did not do it 1
happened to be coming up the grounds
that night as he left you, aud 1 stop
ped to watch him. lie walked down
the front steps aud sauntered over to
the big elm tree at the south end of
the grounds, when from the buahes the
form of a woman appeared, and in an
instant she leveled a pistol and shot
at him. She missed him and the bullet
struck you. It all came out in a few
days. It has since come to light that
the woman was bis wife, whom he de
serted in Germany."
"Oh, Jack! What suffering that
wicked man has caused?"
"Yes. But be opened my eyes to
how precious you were to me. I had
taken you for granted, dear, not as a
special blessing. We men aro so
selfish."
"Not you. Jack," she murmured as
his arms closed around her.
American Names.
If we have some growing sense of a
desire to touch with poetry the termi
nology of our American towns, we
have succeeded so far only in securing
a slightly picnic grove atmosphere such
as is given off by Lakewood or River
side. The rich sentimentallsm of the
real estate dealer has done what It
could, considering the hurry he is In.
If we have a new manufacturing sub
urb, the chances are we shall bo too
lazily anil flatly patriotic, call it Lin
coln aud be done with it, or too crude
ly romantic. In which case the secre
tary of the company will report to the
directors that he lias had the place
Incorporated as Ivanhoe. With the
slightest dash of poetry In his soul he
might keep true to the strenuous char
acter of the place, with all its prospec
tive labor agitations, and at the same
time give a tinge of beauty to the sit
uation forever by calling It Fretley, or
If It is a place where hammers are to
ring t* ; morning to night why not
call Stroke instead of naming it
Smithvllle after the present chief
stockholder in the concern?— Atlantic.
Taking No Chances.
"It is a rule to which good lawyer*
usually adhere," says a Philadelphia
attorney, "never to tell more than one
knows. There was an instance ID
England not many years ago wherein
a lawyer carried the rule to the ex
treme.
"One of the agents in a Midland re
vision court objected to a person whose
name was on the register on the
ground that he was dead. The revi
sion attorney declined to accept the
assurance, however, and demanded
conclusive testimony on the point
"The agent on the other side arose
and gave corroborative evidence as tc
the decease of the man in question.
" 'But, sir, how do you know the
man's dead?' demanded the barrister.
" 'Well,' was the reply, 'I don't know.
It's very difficult to prove.'
" 'As I suspected,' returned the bar
rister. 'You don't kuow whether he's
dead or not.'
"Whereupon the witness coolly con
tinued: "I was saying, sir, that I don'l
know whether he Is dead or not but 1
do know this: They buried him aboul
a month ago on suspicion.' Ilarper's
Weekly.
Pretty Pert.
A baldhea'led man writes: "The
most impertinent child I ever tnet was
a boy of ten years of age. On leaving
his widowed mother's house I at
tempted to pat liini on the head in a
fatherly manner. At this he pushed
my hand away and said. 'Grow some
hair of your own, old man. If you want
to pat It!'"
JUTW, nunc,- sum tne o-onaay
school teacher, "read the next verse."
The little girl read, "Cast thy bread
upon the waters."
"Why should we cast our bread upon
the waters?" asked the teacher.
" 'Cause the fishes have to be fed,"
was the reply.
Degrees of Pity.
The Bachelor—Don't you pity us old
bachelors?
Young Widow—Yes, but I don't sup
pose I pity you as much as the old
maids do.—Chicago News.
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SOME coon
REASONS WHY
«• n and •*< nr». tour trade b* keeping
a« tin# a stn< fa of gmwl* a* t,e ran pro
'■re, anil In- Is n a>lt In aell his gorel*
at | rlees which i ompare fatorald*
with those of nnl .if town merchant*
Yonr hnßn merchant pai* h « shara
I 'ward tha > i|ieuee of maintaining tha
tn niolpal government, thus prosing
that he iaaclliren interacted in the
growth aud pri-perltt of Danville
Ynttr homi merchant i* a nitlßen, a
hetiever in and worker for a greatai
Danville, and as soch he i« entitled to
the support 'and encouragement of
those who buy household goods and
article* of wearing apparel
Yonr home merchant should unt he
coni|ielli'd to enter into comjietitiou
with the mail order linns*, which pas
not one cent of tax iu the city nor do
they pay a license for the privilege of
dealing with the citizen*.
Yonr home merchant is a ri-preaeiiU
live of the commercial interest* of
Danville, and a* sncli gives his time
and attention to the upbuilding of the
city.
Your home merchant sell* you goods
at a reasonable profit to himself and
stands ready to make good any defect*
or exchange an article which does not
give entire satisfaction, while the mail
order houso asks yon to take it* goods
on trust, declining to correct errors
and frequently sending you inferior
goods, which you'must keep.
Your home merchant is one of you
a man with whom you are acquainted
and to whom you can go with the as
surance that if you deserve it you wili
j receive credit, while you must pay
; cash to the mail order house for an
article you do not see until you liaai
| it from the railroad station.
Your home merchant spends a great
deal of his money in your town, help
ing to increase its advantages and ad
vance its interests, while the mail
i order house takes the money from the
town and makes no return whatever,
except to give you goods which are
! seldom dependable.
Yonr home merchant deserves your
support because yon know that by pa
tronizing him you are aiding to build
up the town in which you make your
living, and because you know that ev
ory dollar you send to mail order
houses is a dollar taken from circula
tion in the city, thus working an in
jury to the community in which you
live.
Don't he misled by the false state
ments of the mail order houses, hot
buy of your honie r merchant and show
your loyalty to tne community in
which you live and in which you de
rive your income.
Some people think you mean the
snow when you the "great
white plague. "
A New York woman has been order
ed by the courts to pay an expert in
I heraldry SSOO for tracing her lineage
to Alfred the Great.
Notice In Divorce.
Anna C. Williams Mcnroe
| Williams.
In the court of Common Pleas of Mon
tour County. No. 2!i May Term,
1907 Divorce'a. v.m.
To. John Monroe' Williams,
Respondent above named :
You are hereby duly notified and
required to be and appear in the
Court of Common Pleas of Montour
County on the first day of the next
term thereof (the same beins.' Monday,
January 13th, A. D., 1908), then and
there to answer the complaint of An
na C. Williams the above-named Lib
elant in the above-stated case, aud to
; show cause, if any you have,why you
should not be divorced from the bonds
of matrimony entered into with the
s"nTd Libellant according to the prayer
lit tfie petition or libel filed in the
above-stated case.
fD. C. WILLIAMS, Sheriff,
Sheriff's' Office, 'Danville/Pa., Nov.
j 25til, 1907."
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Windsor Hotel
1217-1829 Filbert Street.
••A Square From Everywhere."
Special automobile service for
onr guests Sight-seeing and
touring cars.
Koonis SI.OO per day and up.
The only moderate priced hotel
of reputation and consequence
1U r „
Philadelphia, Pa.
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