Montour American! FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., June 25, 1908. SWELTERING HEAT STIFLES PEOPLE Abnormally liot weather made yes terday oue of the most sweltering,stifl ing June days Dauvillians ever sweat ed through. Many said that the thero- j nx ter registered even higlier than oil j Tuesday. Certain it was that human ity suffered more yesterday than ou anv day of the present summer, hut that might be attributed to the fact that each day added to the continued hot Fpell would find people less cap able of withstanding the debilitating conditions. HUMIDITY BREAKS RECORD. Forecaster Demain of Harrisburg said j yesterday morning that the great hum- j idity breaks all former records in the j length of time it had remained over | this section of the country. This is i the sixth day it has prevailed, but a j cheering forecast was announce,l last evening when Mr, Demain issued the ; forecast : "Fair, slightly cooler tonight; fair and cooler Thursday." COOLER LAST NIGHT Already last night the evidcn.es of cooler weather were evident. Showers ; skirted Danville all yesterday after i no iu and several of them even sue- j cei Jed iii placing a few drop* in this \ vicinity. La.-t evening a cooling breeze j was blowing, and this coupled with rtie forecaster's report gladdened the hearts of all. HOT IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Juue 24 —Chicago has cool weather today. The hot wave which lias prevailed for live days was broken last night and early this morning a coo! breeze set in. Yesterday's death li-t as the result of the beat wns the largest for any one day in the city's history. Sixteen persons lied either directly or indirectly as the result of tha high temperatur \ THE COCOA TREE. This Evergreen Is Found Everywhere In the Tropics. The cocoa tree is an evergreen and grows to a height of from fifteen to twenty-five feet, its leaves being bright and smooth, somewhat resem bling the foliage of a rubber plant. It is very low branching, and the blos soms are small and pink. The blos soms and pods not only spring from the branches, but often from the trunk itself. The fruit Is a yellowish pod about the size of a cucumber and Is filled with seeds, all strung together in a pulpy, pinkish mass. It is from these seeds or beans, each about the size of a chestnut, that the chocolate and co coa of commerce are manufactured. The trees bear from the fourth to the thirtieth year, and it is not unusual to see on the same tree buds, flowers and fruit. When ripe the pods are gathered by the native women and are allowed to lie on the ground for a day or two, after which they are opened. The pulp containing the beans then ferments for about a week, the astringent quali ties of the beans being much modified and their flavor Improved. After being thoroughly dried the beans are packed In hundred pound bags for shipment When received by the manufacturer they are carefully picked over for quality, assorted and roasted. The nibs, as the roasted beans with the shells removed are called, are then fed into a hopper and ground be tween stones similar to an old fash ioned flour mill. The grinding process, coupled with the friction of the stones, which produce a temperature of some 120 degrees, changes the solid nibs (without the addition of anything) into a thick, heavy liquid. This Is technic ally termed "chocolate liquor" and Is sold to confectioners. This same liquor, subjected to hy draulic pressure, with the resulting separation into a clear oil, dves the cocoa butter 'if commerce. The remain ing pressate when powdered forms drinking cocoa. The chocolate liquor solidified becomes cooking chocolate, <uid, with sugar, vanilla and spices added. It is sol l as "sweet" or "eating" chocoiate. WOMAN'S TWO SOULS. Mcy Bs Strangers to Each Other, but Thiy jays College President. Women have two souls, perhaps more, according to I'resident G. Stan ley Hall of Clark university. rie gave this as the explanation of the if Uloness of woman, of her "er ratic methods of jumping at conclu sions and her Intuition," in bis address on "Psycho-therapeutics" before the graduating class of the College of Phy sicians and Surgeons the other day at Boston. "Woman is much more susceptible than man,"he said. "There Is a good reason for this. We know that she has two or more souls. She may love and hate at the same time and the same person. She may say and think that she is sielc or well when the re verse is really true. It means simply that one soul is in the ascendency. 'These two souls may be absolute stran gers to each other, but they certainly exist. We have proved it beyond the •shadow of a doubt." The Heroic Life. Know that "impossible" where truth and mercy and the everlasting voice of nature order has no place in the brave man's dictionary; that when all men have said "impossible" and tumbled noisily elsewhither and thou alone art left then first thy name and possibll- j lty have come it is for thee now; do thou ** , at and ask no man's counsel : but tin own only and Qod's.—Thomas j Car'i-le, THOSE WHO ; AHETBAMJNG The Rev. K. E. Mauley, who has ; been conducting services at the Im ! manual Ba| tist church, this morning j ! will leave lor his home in Scrantou, j whue lie will officiate at two wed- ! i diugs to be held at noon today. ;' He will returu to Danville for this J evening's service. Mrs. Anna E. Stetler and son, of ] Johnstown, are visiting at the iiouie 1 ] of Samuel Luuyer, West Mahoniug j | street. They are accompanied by i ' i Thomas Lunger, of Johnstown, who j 1 w 11 spend some time at the home of i.is grandfather. Miss Pauline Waite returned last j evening from a visit with relatives in | Milton. She was accompanied by Miss j Mariou Waite, of Milton, who will make a visit at the home of Mr. aud Mrs. Jolm G. Waite. Ferry street. Mrs L. R. Worrell, Mrs. F. W. , ! Vogel and her sou Frederick of Chest | nut Hill, Philadelphia,are speudiug a j tew days with their cousins, Franklin ! and John Detweiler, Lower Mulberry j street. ' Mrs. C. B. Reese, who lias been mak : ing an extended visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs, George D. Ed -1 tnou ison, left Tuesday for Washing i ton, D. C. Mr. iud Mrs. John H. Hunt return ed last eveuing from a week's visit with friends in Wastiington, D. C. 1 aud Philadelphia. Miss Mary G. Woods returned to Philadelphia \> sterday inoruing after a visit at the home of her mother, Mrs Jacob Fry, Lower Mulberry street. Mrs. Herbert Wyle aud daughter Bertha, of Baltimore, are visiting at the home of the former's father, Henry ; Gross, West Mahoning street. Mrs. Anna Russell, East Market' street, left yesterday for Philadelphia where she will undergo treatment ai. the Gyuecian hospital. Mrs. Lewis Chesuut and sou Gor . man returned to Lewisburg yesterday . after a visit with friends in this city. Miss Dorothy Wilson returned to Tyrone yesterday after a visit with Miss Elfrieda Weiss, Eloom street. Curtis Lore left yesterday for a sev eral weeks' visit at Niagara Falls and Tonawanda, New York. 1 Miss Blauche Frantz.of Bloomsburg, ) is visiting at the Bird homestead, East ' Market street. : W. B. Rhodes returned Tuesday from a visit with friends at Spring Lake, | New Jersey. ; Miss Margaret Russell will leave to- I day for a visit with friends in Phila ' I delphia. i W. R. Rhodes has returned from a : i vi-it with friends at Spring Lake, New • ! Jersey. J ' George B. Browu.son and daughter, , spent yesterday with friends in Sun- I bury. Miss Mabel Guie.of Caiawissa,spent , yesterday with frieuds in this city. Dr. W. R. Paules left yesterday for ' a trip to Philadelphia Risky Revenge. Gaganini, the wonderful violinist, had a narrow escape at Ferrara from a | violent death. Enraged by some hissing from the pit, he resolved to avenge the Insult, and at the close of his pro | gramme informed the audience that he 1 would Imitate the language of various ! animals. After having rendered the notes of different birds, the mewing of , a cat, and the barking of a dog, he ad j vaneed to the footlights, and, saying, "This is for those who hissed!" imltat ! Ed the braying of aa ass. At this the 1 occupants of the pit rose, rushed ou to 1 the stage and would probably have killed their caluminator bad ho not 1 hastily retreated. Fixing His Status. A waiter spilled some soup on the 1 clothing of a portly, choleric old gentle man dining with his wife hi an up [ town lobster palace the other night, whereupon the old gentleman jumped to his feet and, calling tho manager, ! burst into a tirade which ended with the somewhat antielimatie charge that tho waiter was "ao gentleman." "This mail is not supposed to be a gentleman," said tho manager coldly. "He Is merely a waiter."—New York Press. The Hustler. "Do you believe that all things come to him who waits?" "They may start for him, but usu ally some man who hustles overtakes them before they get to the man who waits."—Houston Post. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS TO NIAGARA FALLS July August 5, 19, September 9, 23, and October 7, 1908 Round-Trip <£*7 "2 ft From Rate h* ' .O\J South Danville. Tickets good going un train leaving 12.10 noon.connecting with SPECIAL TRAIN ot Pullman Parlor Cars. Dining Car, and Day Coaches running via the PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE Tickets good returning on regular trains within FIFTEEN DAYS, in cluding date of excursion. Stop-off within limit allowed at Buf falo returning. Illustrated Boob let and fall information may b« obtained from Ticket Agents. ,T. R. WOOD, GEO. W. BOYD, Passenger Traffic Manager. General Passenger Agent. 3 COUPLE we ■IE vows Frauk W. Magill,teacher of the com mercial department of the Danville high school, aud Miss Mary G. Gay, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Gay, of this city, were mnrried at 7 :30 o'olock last evening. Tho ceremony was performed by the Rev J. R. Miller,pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian church, at the home of Mrs. E. R. Rose, aunt of the bride, West Philadelphia. The newly wedded couple left ou a trip to the seashore. Returning they will take up their residence in Dan [ ville. The groom is one of our most suc cessful teachers; he stands high in the ! community and has a promising future before him. The bride is also very highly esteemed. Although for a year ! past she has resided in Philadelphia, ■ vet for many years of her life she liv- J ed in Danville. DR J O REED A BENEDICT. The well-known veterinary, Dr. J. O. Reed, aud Miss Carrie Thompson, both of this city, were united in wed lock last evening. The ceremony was performed in the uewly furnished home ot the bride and groom, No. 218 Mill street, at 8 o'clock, by tie Rev. James Kirk, pastor of the Mahoning Presbyterian church The wedding was a very quiet oue .ittend ed only by the immediate families and friends. Dr. J. O. Reed is a popular citizen j aud is rising rapidly in his profession, j The bride is the daughter of Mrs j Martha Tiiompsou. Bloom street, and is a well-known and amiable young lady. MISS PENN YPACKER WEDS This afternoon at 2:30 o'clock the wedding of Miss Nettie Mabel Penue . packer, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Pennepacker, to Mr. James Lati nor Curtiu will take place in the Methodist Episcopal church at Mount Union, Pa. A reception will follow the ceremony at the Methodist par sonage. , The bride will be remembered by many Danville people as tlie charming daughter of a former pastor of St. Paul's M. E. church, this city PLUG HATS OF JAPAN. Cherished Tiles of the Vintage of Fifty Years Ago. "There Is one sight whioli you must : not miss when you goto Tokyo," said ; the seasoned traveler to a New York- Sun reporter. "That Is the rare dis ■ pluy of anthropological plug hats. | "Some people arrange to get to Japan in cherry blossom season, and others [ want to get there In time to receive an Invitation to tho emperor's garden par ty in chrysanthemum time, but take , ! the tip of one who has batted about the world considerably aud lund lu Tokyo either on New Year's day or on the emperor's birthday. On both you : can see something unique hi the lines : of beadgeur. "When Japan began to get civilized she bought all the accessories of civ > I nidation that England did not want any more. England sold her old fash- J ioaed, out of date, narrow gauge rail | rou.l stock, antiquated tram cars and other secondhand Junk, including the then current styles of plug hat. "The tile of those days has remain ed the ruling fashion In Japan up tc the present Japan may build Dread noughts, but the plug hut of fifty years ago still ruigus supreme. "Only on such ceremonious occasions as the New Year's festivities, the em peror's birthday or possibly the racing meets at Neglshi, near Yokohama, does the Japanese gentleman bring forth from his camphor wood chest his plug bat, a heritage from his forefathers. It may be warped with twenty sum mers, damp or green with the shine of \ antiquity, but that mutters nothing. "Once this superstructure of his wrinkled frock coat and bagged trou sers is added the Japanese gentleman feeds that no dignity short of a decora tion of the Order of the Rising Sun can be added to bis person. That crowning glory of a plug hat may set tle around his ears or it may perch upon his head like half a peanut shell, but no matter. It is the hat of civiliza tion and the badge of respectability. "He trots out of his house looking like one of the ancient daimlos, still with the dignity of two swords. All j that fearful day he wears this hat of ancient vintage like a crown, and in the cud he stows it away in his damp proof chest, awaiting another festal occasion or held as an asset in his es tate after death." Wealth begins In a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out; in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water; in two suits of clothes, so as tc change your dress when you are out: in I dry sticks to burn; in a good double wick lamp and in three meals.- *• - GHOVfeR CLEVELAND DIED YESTERDAY AT H!S HOME IK PRINCETON Was Last Living Ei-Ptf-sldtnt rt Jhs Uaited Sraieo — Statesman Sullered With Heait Disfese and C(mp!icaticn£—Briel Hlbtory cl His L'le. PKINOETON, N. J., June Grover Cleveland, former President j of the United States, died suddenly at ! ] his home at Westland here at o'clock this morning. Death was due , to heait disease complicated with ( other diseases. The passing away of, Mr. Cleveland was not immediately j announced, hut was delayed until an ; official statement had been prepared ; by the physicians who had been at \ tending him in the various periods of hie illness. PHYSICIANS' STATEMENT The statement is as follows: "Mr. Cleveland for many years had suttered from repeated attacks of gas trointestinal origin. Also he had j long-standing organic disease of the heart and kidneys. Heart failure com plicated with pulmonary thioiui iisU ; and oedema,were the immediate causs i of his death.'' While Mr. Cleveland had been ser iously ill from time tot ine the an nonncement of his death came lite a thunderbolt to those who had been ! watching his illness. Last night there was a slight flurry urong t ■ friends of the Clevelands that something was j eriously wrong with the ex-Presideut s GROVER CLEVELAND AS PRESIDENT IN 1888. l I I WIFE WAS AT HOME. ' Mrs. Cleveland later in the eveniug j discussing Dr. Bryant's visit said that j 1 j there was no occasion for alarm, and j , that Mr. Cleveland was petting along nicely. This reassurance totally unprepared : their friends for the announcement of his death. 1 Mrs. Cleveland was at home w hen her distinguished husband passed away. { The children are at the Cleveland j summer home at Tamworth, N. H.,in i charge of Mrs. Perrine, Mrs. Cleve ! laud's mother. The Clevelands came here from Lakewood, where the form er President lay sick for many weeks. 112 on June 1 and intended togo to their summer home as soon as Mr. Cleveland | had gained sufficient strength to tra vel. FOUND PATIENT "INDISPOSED." When the physicians visited their patient th'is morning they found him "indisposed," as one of them termed 1 it Dr. Cainochau, who lives in Prince- j ton, was asked to ftep over to the i house. ] This was before S o'clock. Shortly ( 112 after that hour Mr. Cleveland seemed , 1 to fail. The physicians recognized in- ] ( stantly the symptoms. Immediately 1 arrangements were made to combat . j the attack Everything known and \ with every resource at hand the phy sicians worked over their distinguish- , ed patient. Finally he lapsed into un- • I consciousness and the end came at 8 :K> j ' o'clock. It is believed that the terrific v heat of rite last few days contributed t to a great degree in the sudden death , of the only living ex-President. c MRS. CLEVELAND PROSTRATED i Mrs. Cleveland is prostrated at the sad occurrence and but only a few of j J the sympathetic neighbors have been 112 able to see her. When the nearby 11 friends heard of the es-President 's ! r death many of them hurried to West- land to render whatever assistance > they could,but the physician had mat ters well in hand. I b Livery Notice. Frank Fry has purchased Erwiu Hunter's livery stables on Canal street. Mr. Fry will add'to the equipment al ready in the stables, and will give the public a first class service. The finest horses and vehicles will always be at your disposal. A Lemon Social. At the Trinity Lutheran church, E, Market street, Friday evening at 7 :45. Refreshments served. Everybody wel come. Silver offering. J26. j • LIFE OF CLEVELAND. Grover Cleveland, American states man, twenty second President of the United States, was born in Caldwell, N. ,T., March 18, 1837. He began to earn liis first money as a teacher, but soon developed a talent for law. In ISoi), when but twenty-two years of age, he was admitted to the bar in j Buffalo,N. Y. He soon became known as a young man who feared nothing when principle was at stake, i Pour years after he began tiie prac ! tice of law in Buffalo he was chosen district attorney ot Erie county, thus I beginning his remarkable political career which was to carry him with rapid strides to the highest office in the gift of the American people In !fc7o Mr. Cleveland was elected sheriff |of Erie county He so satisfied the I j people of the city an 1 county that in ISBI he was the unanimous choice of his party for Mayor o? Buffalo, and was elected to that office When in 188 i the Democratic leaders of New- York were seeking a man to lead the party the Mayor of Buffalo was sug gested as a candidate for Governor. He was nominated with little opposi tion and elected by the immense maj- ority of nearly 200,1)00 votes, which i was due largely to his personal popul arity. His course as Governor met with the endorsement of a majority of men of all parties, and he was the logical candidate for President on the ! Democratic ticket in IMM ELECTED PRESIDENT IN' 18S4. Clevelau I was elected, although his opponent was James G. Hlaine. the idol of the Republican party, and a man of great personal magnetism. The contest was most biter and close.Cleve land receiving 219 votes in the elec toral college to Blaine's I£2. Immedi ately on his acessiou to office he be gan to redeem the promises lie had made to himself an 1 the people. The Republicans, adhering to the policy of protection and high tariff, in 186S nominated Benjamin Harrison to op pose Cleveland, and Harrison was elected by a small plurality, but in 1882, when these two men were again opposed for this high office, Cleveland won by a large majority. RETIRED TO PRIVATE LIFE. His course during his two terms, as President was at all times vigorous, determined and able. There wns talk of again nominating Mr. Cleveland for President in 189t!, but the feeling against a third term was too general, and Mr. Cleveland retired to private life in 1 SOT.taking up his residence at Princeton, N. .1. He was the only sur viving President of the United States. Mr. Cleveland received the decreet of LL. D. from Princeton University. He was scarcelv less noted as a fisherman than as a statesman. His last signific ant public aet was a speech at the opening of the St. Louis Exposition in May, 19"3. Mr. Clevelnnd married while in the White House Miss Frances Folsom, of Buffalo,the daughter of one of his old friends, and she survives him with two sous and two daughters. After his retirement from public life he engag ed in the practice of law, associating himself with a prominent law firm in New York. The illness which led to his death began several months ago. flay Inspect Work. The Oscar Smith Carpet and House Cleaning Suction Maciiine will be at work in St. Paul's M. E. church, East Mahoning street,this city,for the next few days. Persons interested in this machine may call there aud inspect its operation. Carpets cleaned on the floor. The successful method of clean ing carpets and rugs, no wear or tear, absolutely dustless. The manager will cheerfully give all : information desired and will furnish | estimates, etc. - I 10 111 1 Hiffill The election of teachers for the pub- ( lie schools of Dauville will take place 112 at 7 :3U o'clock next Monday night. More than the usual degree of in terest attaches to the election this year by reason of the fact that au addition al teacher is to be employed in the high school. It is kuowu that there are a number of candidates for this position as well as for the principal ship of the high school. There will j probably also be some changes in the i salaries paid. The vatauoy that oc- j curs in the fifth grade of the second ■ ward, through the resignation of Miss Pritchard. will most likely be filled by the election of a pupil teacher. Nest in interest to the subject of ) who shall teach is the question which of the several plans proposed for ob taining room for the non resident pu pils Bhall be adopted. | The action taken at the last meeting i . provided that the grammar school of ! i the third ward, which answers for the j ! third and fourth wards combined, be ' removed to the fourth ward building i ' where a vacant room exists; that the | j grammar school of the fir-t ward be \ i transferred to the third ward and that j the room thus vacated in the first ward i . j building be used by the liigli school . pupils. Since the meeting the matter lias j . more fully been discus-til by the school . board and it seemes altogether likely that the plan will be modified some ; what. It i? n fact that while tiie first' 1 ward building is overcrowded, due to I the non-resident pupils, there is an unoccupied room in both the third and fourth ward buildings. Iu the third ward the vacant room was formerly occupied by the night school : in the fourth ward, by the grammar school, which was closed for the want of sup port. The problem that confronts tiie 1 school board now is how to utilize the ! vacant space, relieving overcrowding in the central building or high school, without making it unnecessarily iu | convenient for the pupils affected by the chauges. One plan proposed is to keep all the pupils down town by per mitting Miss Bloom's grammar school to retain its room iu the third ward building aud transferring the first ward grammar school to tiie unoccupi ed room in the third ward formerly | used as a night school. This would give the third ward two grammar ; schools. Under this arrangement the fresh- I man class of the high school would be installed iu the room at present used for the first ward grammar school with the additional or fifth teacher in charge. Iu this room tiie subjects em braced in the freshmau year would be taught exclusively. SERPENT OF AESCULAPIUS, Acrship cf Snakes Led to Adoption of the Mystical Symbol. 1 it has been pointed out by Dr. Bou (, i din that the worship of the serpent I was so universal in antiquity that all t i temples came to be known as "dra | conla" (serpent houses). 1 j However that may be, serpents were p j kept In many of the temples of an e ! tiquity, notably In those of Apollo, ! whose son, Aesculapius, is represented | in ancient statuary carrying a serpent j intwined round a staff or round his arm. s i The serpent, indeed, came iu time to e ! he the special mystical emblem or sym a j bol of the Aesculapian art. e | The serpents of the ancient Greek .. | temples were in all probability relics .. lof that primitive serpent worship _ i which was at one time universal amoug i j prehistoric peoples and has not died j out among many savage races at the | present day. e | And "voodoo," or "obi," serpent wor y ship is still said to linger in the West 8 Indies amoug the descendants of ). slaves. , B in Haiti especially, where negroes u j were dumped down from Africa by the n j old slave traders and were kept in re ' serve before being sold to masters in 1 | the surrounding islands, voodoo has ! defied Roman Catholic missionaries I and priests for ages. A French naval s I officer who visited the court of the I Haitian potentate Soulongue in IS4D jj I described a voodoo ceremony where j cannibalistic and other orgies were in dulged in. a J It is noticeable that the cock and • | black goat which were solemnly eaten 8 on this occasion were both of them t j sacred to Aesculapius. Hence we may •- Infer that the Aesculapian cultus was originally an innocent form of voodoo 112 | and at the same a primordial religion. The extreme antiquity of serpent j worship seems, indeed, to lie hinted at In Genesis, where the devil appears in the guise of the snake god intent on 6 the ruin of man in the story of the a brazen serpent healing qualities are attributed to the image —Lancet. e 112 1 Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup ReiiavM Colds by working fKain Mt of th* system through a copious tad . healthy act loci oi th« bcrwals. Reilsves coughs by aiaanrtig Mm mucous mambraJMS of Um throat, ttm* and bronchial tubes. "As to tmm aa Mapla S«far" Children Like It Fir UNMH-IUI ONTO Tw tiWi Utfaq mt tkttm Nb-taa « M Forjtfale by Panlee Co. IMS ADVICE FOR GOOD ROADS As this is the season when a great many roads are being worked with the big grader, the Good Roads' associa tion ot Lycoming couuty (it-sires to call the attention of all supervisors, road masters and tiie general public to the superiority of the Split Log Drag over the road grader as too frequently operated. A little observance aud experience should teach any practical farmer that a much better road can be made with the drag, where tiie road bed has first been graded and is used for some time than can be made by a second use of the grader. Then though the old road bed be hollowed in the middle it will be evened up quite fully in a suipris ! iugly short time. We can make the drag carry more or less dirt into the middle of the road iby skillful operation. When this dirt I is moved when wet it is more or less puddled,and travel still further puddles |it and compacts it. This first layer of puddled earth makes tiie fouudatiou of j the road. Every subsequent layer | thickens and hardens it, and in time j makes the road too high iu the mid ' die. It can then be leveled off by hitching to the middle of the chaiu and running the drag along the middle of the road, thus grading it down and , making it oval instead of bridged iu the ceutre. Every farmer is quite familiar with the condition of an old road after it lias beeu araded up witli a rond grad , er. While the grader smoothes the road along the edges, it carries into the middle of the road all the sods, clods, stones, tin can?, old bottles, straw weeds and other rubbish. Tiie operator, thinking to do a good job, levels this up with dirt from the ditch aud makes it apparently smootli aud oval, often a better place in the mid dle for a garden than for a team. At the same time tiie grader thaves off the hard surface that maybe on either [ side of the road aud makes it soft, for the action of the grader and tiie drag are quite distinct and opposite—the j grader smooths by cutting,tiie drag by puddling. The grader lauds loose dirt ; in the middle of the road; the drag : lands partially puddled clay iu centre of the road and compacts it. The grad er leaves the road, whether iu the mid dle or on the sides, in au excellent con dition to grow a choice crop of weeds, which at each driftiug'dust, keeps the road moist, and bv their decay add purely vegetable matter eutirely unfit for road building. Tiie drag kills weeds in their seed leaf and so pud ; dies the soil that nothing cau grow upon it. The traveler as he uses the road made by the grader naturally avoids the middle and takes the smooth er sides, which, being soft, because the hard surface has been shaved off ! by the grader, naturally ruts up this road bed and tends to shove it into the ditch. Then comes a heavy raiu. The , loose dirt holds this raiu just like a ' plowed field. The settliug of it leaves it rough, the clods and sods resist pres ~ sure, while the loose dirt settles to t the hottom.and a wagou simply makes . a deep, uueven rut through tiiis soft, yielding substance, spoiling for ever > the grade. - ! Water stays at tiie bottom of these • ruts,and as the surface is not puddled, 1 it is readily absorbed by the soil and 1 it will require from six months to a ; year of constant travel, inflicting more or less misery on the traveler, to get this newly graded road into any sort t of good condition; or, if the grade be ; steep, rushes down at a mad rate and ) makes a deep gully, thus undoing all ■ the work of the grader. Every farmer 1 knows how instinctively he avoids the middle of these newly graded roads. One experience of this kind should be t i sufficient to teacli him how incompar f ably better is the split log drag than any road grader for the purpose of re ; I constructing the grade in a puddled > 1 road. . ' William Bloomfield, a one-armed ' man of Beaver Falls, on Monday saw J Chris Kaucher, au 8-year-old son of , Policeman Kaucher, struggling in the , Beaver river, and plunged in after the . drowning boy. Although handicapped bv his clothing and having but one arm, he managed to get the boy ashore ' just in time to save his life. i i Ou Monday there were tiiiny-one ap i plications for divorco iu the Dauphin ' county court. This was a record break er. and hard times aud idleness are said to be resnonsible R-I P A-N-S Tabttle Doctors find A good prescription For Mankind. The 5-cent packet is enough for usua occasions. The family bottle (fit) cents Oontains a supply for a year. All drug gists. WINDSOR HOTEL W T. Ilßl' HAKER. Manager. Midu a> between tiroad St. Station and Heading Terminal on Filbert St European. $ 1.00 per da> and up American, $2.50 per day and up The only moderate priced hotel of reputation and consequence in PHILADELPHIA
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