Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Dec 17, 1908. BORDER IN SECOND DEGREE A compromise verdict of murder iu tlie second degree was brought iu at Snnbury Tnesday morning at 9:80 o'clock by the jury which lias been deliberating siuce last Thursday at 2 30 p. in.in the case of Angelo Mor ori, me foreigner, charged with the murder of n Haloou beeper at Shamok in. The jury was out just 115 hours, and nil of the twelve men showed clearlv traces of the severe strain of ■their five days' confinement. Immediately after the verdict was rendered,the court addressed the jurr. He said that he would not excuse them on account of a disagreement because the prisoner oouid not be tried ag*iii, and so he intended to have kept fiem out until they had arrived at a ver dict. The prisoner was not sentenced then, announcement was made that he ■will be brought into court aud sen tenced on Monday. The man who betrayed the least in terest of ail who heard the verdict was the prisoner himself. What may lie beneath the surface is not kuowu, but Dover lias the slightest expression crossed his face. Ho win absolutely unmoved when the slip of paper on which the verdict was written was handed to the court. He was unmov ed a minute latsr when he knew that his life was spared aud that imprison ment and not the gallows awaited ; him. The docile conduct which las , markod his eoutse during the whole trial was more apparent than ever. He has acted much as a dometsic ani mal, which is accustomed to obey the voice of its master. Ha held up his hands when told to do so. It developed after tue jury was dis charged that Thomas E. Pursell, of Marstialltown, openly favored murder in the saeoud degree from the start, and then he was the only one who ventured an opiuiou. The first ballot which wa» taken resulted, it is report ed, in ten for first degree, aud two for second. Those who held out are re ported as being Pursell and Frank Halfpenny. After numerous secret ballots had been taken, the situation changed until it stood six for first and six for second degree. One by one the jurors were drawn over to second de gree, but in the meantime several fav ored manslaughter. For the last twelve iiours of their vigil they stood eleven for second degree and one for manslaughter, When the last man was wou over to the way of thinking of the majority the verdict was brought in. Thomas E. Pursel.the man who rose into fame by his stand for second de gree in the race of odds, is aged about fifty years, aud quiet in demeanor. He was more worn by the vigil than any of the others. The attorneys in the case had little to say. Those for the defense stated that they believed the verdict to be a just one. The Commonwealth's at torneys, who are regarded as having blundered in their selection of jurors, were non-committal. Dk. J. O. KEED AGAIN ON DUTY Veterinarian J. O. Reed after a week's illness at his home in this city left for Sunbury yesterday to report for duty at the sub station of the State Live Stock Sanitary board at that place. Dr. Reed since the outbreak of the foot aud mouth disease has been near ly continuously in the employ of the State. He stated yesterday that he did not know to what line of work he would be assigned, but expected to be absent fur some days. 5-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED SISTER Harold Brouse, aged 5, killed his two-year-old sister Katherine at the home of his father.Percival N. Brouse of Penn township, Snyder county,yes terday morning. His father had been butchering aud killed several pigs with a 32-c.alibre rifle. The children got the riflr and the little girl pretend ed to bo an animal marked for slaugh ter while her brother, imitating his father, was to ha executioner. She crawled under the kitchen stove and he lay down and pointed the gun at her. He tired a bullet through her temple aud death was instantaneous Notice. That on and after this date the sev eral Courts of Montour County will be held as follows: The Second Monday in January, in each and every year. The Second Monday in March, in each and every year. The First Monday in .Tune, in each and every year. The Third Monday iu October, in each and every year. The Third Monday in December, 11108, the present term time for the Fourth Term of Court, to be a return day for all writs issued and made re turnable thereto; sttid Third Monday not to be n return day after this year. CHAKLES 6. EVANS, P. ,T. Attest, THOS. G. VINCENT, Clerk. Dscembar 7th, 1908. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the fol lowing counts have been filed in the Prothonotary's OHice in and for the County of Montour and that the fame will be presented to the Court of said County for confirmation Ni. Si. on Monday, the 11th day of January A. D. 1909, at the meeting of the Court in the afternoon. Account of Fidelity Trust Company, Substituted Trustee under the Will of Charles 0. Baldy, deceased. First and Fiual Account of P. F. Brennan,Guardian of Elizabeth Mark ley,a person of weak mind and unable to take care of her property. THOS. G. VINCENT, Prothouotary. Prothonotary's Office, Danville, Pa. Dec. 15th, A. D. 1908. Dl 7, 24, 31, J7 KRINGLE JINGLES. Vtrwi That Can Be Sent With Christ mas Gifts. CALENDARS. May all the days Throughout this year "Red letters" be To you, my dear. May all the Jeweled heads Upon Time's rosary Be gold without alloy— This Is my prayer for thee. HANDKERCHIEFS. Twelve bits of white fluff to my lady'f boudoir— As many as months in the year. Here's hoping that never a month nor mouchoir Will hold for that lady a tear. A BOX OF CIGARS. Many a film of fairy fancy Goes up in smoke each year; But, being a woman, of course I can't ees What dream chrysalids are here. NECKLACE. A slender, golden, Jeweled chain For miladi's neck so white and warm. Both throat and chain new beauties gain; They but enhance each other's charm. A PHOTOGRAPH. My replica I send As substitute for me. Perhaps 'twill hang more gracefully Than I could on the tree. PIPE. The key to the gateway of dreams, I'll be your boon companion At smokers if that beseems Or soothe you, set you sailing Upon a sea of dreams. In silence bear neglect—on my life I'm almost better than a wife! A POCKETBOOIv OH PI RSE. Shakespeare called me trash, And that, perhaps, is true, But when I'm filled with cash And you've been feeling blue Even a trashy friend you'll And Has mighty power to ease your mind ; A RING. As the circle is endless, So it love typifies; When broken 'tis mendless. Whosoever is v i? «' Its fair Jewel will hold And cherish its gold. —Delineator For December. 112 INDEPENDENCE DAY HONOR. Danish Americans to Celebrate Next Fourth of July In Denmark. Denmark will haven Fourth of July celebration next summer, given by [ thousands of Danish Americans who j will go there for the occasion. This j was recently announced by Dr. Max Ilenlus of Chicago, who went to New York to make arrangements with the Danes in that city for the celebration, which will be in Aarhus, where there | will be an exhibition of the resources of Denmark. Dr. Ilenlus Is president of the Dan ish American society and has sent a cable message to the president of the exhibition in Aarhus, asking that the Fourth of July be set aside as a Dan- j lsh American day. The president has agreed and has turned the program for the day over to Dr. lienius. It Is the intention of Dr. Ilenlus to arrange for i a number of speeches by prominent | Danish Americans. Aarhus is one of the oldest towns in Denmark, and there lie the bones of departed Danish ! kings and queens. Heavy Clothes For Automobilists. "One effect of the rise and growth of autoinobillng has been to cause the woolen mills to weave fabrics for men's apparel of a most extraordinary thick ness," recently remarked a Philadel phia importer. "I can show you sam ples of cloth of almost three times the weight of ordinary winter goods. They are made of such heaviness to give ad equate protection to those who will not let the severest weather keep them from their loved diversion of motoring, i For making up suits of such extra 'heft' j the tailors of course have to charge a ; good deal more than for their custom- j ary output. Any fashlonahle builder of I clothes will ask from sllO to $125 for a nobby automobile suit. One of this 1 kind would last a man at least five j years." Crazy. "We find the prisoner not guilty by reason of insanity." "But the plea was not that of in sanity," remarked the court. "That's Just the point we made," re- \ joined the foreman. "We decided that any man who didn't have sense enough to know that an insanity plea was the proper caper must be crazy." PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD BUU TIN THE STEEL COACH—A TRAVEL SAFEGUARD. The Pennsylvania Railroad now has in operation on its lines east of Pittsburgh over two hundred passenger coaches, dining cars, baggage cars, and mail cars of the new all-steel type. The solid steel framework of these cars, designed to resist shock and minimize the dangers of collison, is further strenghen edjbv the steel sheathing enclosing the body of the car. In fact, everything about the coach is steel, save the window frames, the cushions of the seats and the flooring. Such little woodwork as enters into the make-up of the coach, the plush with which the car seats are covered and the hair with which they are stuffed is treated to a fireproofing process, whilst the floprs are cement, thus rendering the coach at once practically indestructible and thoroughly fireproof. It is built like a battleship. The new coach is longer than the standard car generally in use on the railroads of this country, and has a comfortable seating capacity of sixty to ninety people according to the style of the coach. The unusual weight of the coaches give to them a solidity that greatly increases the comfort of the passenger. The seats are adjusted to a more convenient space and angle, the coaches are all lighted with electricity and amply ventilated in winter as well as summer by new and thoroughly tested methods. The interior finish of the coach is plain though pleasing to the eye. The absence of ornamentation enhances the idea of strength and at the same time assures absolute cleanliness and thorough sanitation. Steel cars are now in use on the principal trains between New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and on the Main Line between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The number of cars is constantly being increased as the finished product comes from the shops. The Pennsylvania Railroad's equipment is recognized as the Standard of America. THE NORMAN "OYEZ." A Legacy of William the Conqueror to the Court*. Everybody who has ever been in a United States courtroom knows that when the Judge walks out of his cham bers and ascends the bench the court crier drones out: "Oyez, oyez, oyez, the honorable court of the (whatever district it may be) Is now in session." Not many persons, however, realize that the crier says "oyez, oyez, oyez," Instead of "barken, harken, harken," because of a chance visit that William the Conqueror made to an English court almost 900 years ago. William had overrun England, seized the government and placed himself at Its head. Happening to enter a court room, he heard the crier call the as semblage to order In English. William rebuked him and on the spot decreed that the business of all English courts should be transacted in Norman French, his native tongue. Afterward the courts went back to English, but to this day "oyez. oyez. oyez," clings to court customs wherever the English language is spoken as a reminder of the great Norman who whipped King Harold in the bnttle of Ilastings.- Scrap Book. One of Life's Tragedies. lie had expected a tender embrace from his sweetheart, but her greeting of him was cold. lie could not under stand It. "Darling," lie exclaimed in agony, j "what is the matter?" But she remained silent, her lips : tightly i losed, and motioned hini from ; her. lie fill upon his knees. "My love," he cried, "tell me what 1 have done to offend you? 1 swear 1 ha\o d. Ie nothing wrong! I confess 1 lib-sed the Simpson girl last night at the party, but on my oath I—l thought she was you." !ler llpM closed even tighter, but she i:t: -r I not a syllable, and, in despair at her unbending demeanor, lie tied from the place, he knew not whither. Would yon know, oh, reader, the rea son ni' the conduct by which a woman blighted two young lives? "fwas sim ply this: She had left her false teeth in the bathroom. Probably She Meant It. Lucile, a carefully brought up little girl of five years, returned from her first party in great glee. "I was a good girl, mamma," she an nounced ami talked nice all the time." "Did you remember to say some thing pleasant to Mrs. Townsend just before leaving?" her mother asked. "Oh, yes, 1 did," was the enthusi astic reply. "1 smiled and said: 'I en joyed myself, Mrs. Townsend. I had a lot better dinner than 1 thought I'd have.' "—Delineator. One on the Judge. j "Here you are," said the judge to the colored prisoner, "complaining that you j eau't get along with one wife, aud yet j Solomon had hundreds of "em." "Yes, yer honor," was the reply, "but , you must rleUollect dat de last testi i mony he give In wuz dat dey wuz all vanity an' vexation of spirit!"— Atlanta Constitution. Girls Learning to Carve Now. It seemed there were no more accom plishments to be taught to the girl of fashion who is In the bud stage, but there is one left It is the gentle art of carving. The girl who wishes to give dinners In family fashion must know how to get the bird apart gracefully, says the New York l'ress. Such girls I as Marjorie Gould and others equally { highly placed In society have been i drilled in such intricacies. In these j days, when the bachelor girl Is one of j the hosts to reckon with, carving skill I Is needed Every bachelor maid likes 1 to get up a dinner in her apartment, and without a roast fowl or a Joint what is a dinner? Ethel F'oosevelt can preside at the bead of her table almost as well as her father does. riatiereo iTlrr.. Magistrate (about to commit for I trial) — YOB certainly effected the rob bery in a remarkably ingenious way— In fact, with quite exceptional cunning. Prisoner (deprecating!}*)—No flattery, ! yer honor: no flattery, I begs on yer.— ; London Fun. Porter Always a Sailor. During Grant's first term his secre tary of the navy, Borie, for a time turned the actual administration over to Admiral Porter. Admiral Porter was a sailor In the strict etymological sense of the term in that he believed there was nothing like sails. As soon as he was In authority he caused the four bladed propellers of the vessels to be removed and replaced by two bladed ones In order that the ships might maneuver better under sail. Tho inefficiency thereby brought about Is, of course, apparent to any engineer, as the size of the propeller opening was j fixed and the two bladed screw could not be made large enough. A few years later in a report to the department he actually claimed that the vessels were faster under steam with the mutilated screws. The facts, of course, were just the reverse, and when his influence be came less proper propellers were again fitted. This was when he was still in his prime and his Judgment was. at K*ast, not Impaired by ago. About i.venty years later, when the Itoach cruisers were being built, the dear old man, then over seventy, went before the naval committee and said that the j | plans of these vessels were wrong t>e- | | cause they had only auxiliary sail j j power. In his judgment tlie.v should ; I have been given full sail power with j j steam as an auxiliary, lie was still a i j (sailor! Tho world had not moved for j j him.—Engineering Magazine. The Desert Tortoise. One of the most interesting reptiles j of California's great desert is the tles i ert tortoise. A writer in Suburban j , Life says:"l have found as many as : twenty of these hard shelled fell \vs that, we usually associate in onr minds with tho thought of water in the very j heart of the desert, where the water was exceedingly scarce. Yet when you pick them up they generally void two or three largo spoonfuls of liquid. Dis [ section shows that they each have two I large water sacks on the back, and j these afford them their water supply, j They are great travelers and can walk ; faster than we should Imagine. They i are also good climbers. 1 have watch ed one for hours climbing up and j down the rocky sides of a desert i mountain. 110 could wriggle himself up to a rock almost as high as he was long. Raising himself on his tail end. : lie would use his head as a hook. then claw with his right leg until it ' had secured a good hold. then, with what seemed to me extraordinary strength, he would lift himself up and wiggle his body into a secure posl j tion." The Wise Eskimos. Everything in the Eskimo dress has a reason for its existence, writes Cap tain Roald Amundsen In"The North ; west Passage." The members of Cap tain Amundsen's expeditions had be come accustomed to the Eskimo dress and had adopted it, but many of them thought it ridiculous for grown up men tog* about wearing frlngo to their cloth <, so they cut it off. I had my scruples about this, says tho | author, as 1 had already learned that j most things In the Eskimo's clothing and other arrangements had their dls- I tlnct meaning and purpose, so I kept my fringe and put up with the ridi cule. He laughs best who laughs last. One fine day the anovaks, a sort of tunic reaching below the knee, made i of deerskin, from which the fringes | had been cut off, commenced to curl I up, and If the fringe had not been put '■ on again quickly they would soon have ' looked like neckties. Only a Letter Out. "Talk about scholards," said the proud Sam Smith. "Listen to my lit tle lad talk about grammar. Tommy, what gender Is thy fayther?" "Masculine," said the learned Tom- ' my. "Bean't It wonnerful:" said the proud father. "And thy niither, Tom my?" "Feminine," replied the erudite ju venile. "Hear that agen!" cried the delight ed father. "An', uoo, Tommy," he proceeded, picking up the family tea pot, "what gender in this?" "Neuter," said Tommy. Sam's face fell. "Well, well," he exclaimed, "it's alius the way. Still, not but what the little lad was far oot. lie only said ne\iter 'stead of pewter, that's a'!"— London Tit-Bits. Resentment. An old toper, being very hard up, went into his favorite bar and asked ! the publican for a glass "on tick " "No," 6aid the proprietor, "I won't give you whisky on credit, but there's a sixpence. Now, what do you want?" "Nothing here," replied the tippler, lifting the coin and putting it in his pocket. "The man who refuses me credit won't get my ready cash," and with an elevated nose he marched out at the door.—London Telegraph. QUEER DEFINITIONS. An Early Eighteenth Century Inter preter of Hard Words. Bailey' 9 Universal Etymological Dic tionary, with the subtitle, "An Inter preter of Hard Words." was first pub lished in London in 17-1. Most of its definitions are eccentric, and some of them incredibly so. Here are speci mens plucked at random: Man—A creature endowed with rea son. Thunder—A noise known by persons i not deaf. Lightning—A meteor. A Rainbow—A meteor of divers col ors. Weapon Salve—A sort of ointment which is said to cure a wound by be ing applied to the sword or other weap on that made the wound. Balloon—A football; also a great ball with which noblemen and princes use to play. Cow—A beast well known. Milk—A food well known. Peacock—A fine bird. Elephant—The biggest, strongest and I most intelligent of all four footed I beasts. Medlar.—A fruit which Is grateful to j the stomach, but Is not ripe till it be ] rotten. Snow—A meteor well known In north erly and southerly climates, especially beyond the tropics. Mouth—Part of the body of a living creature. J Eve—An Instrument of death. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. Is the Habit a Legacy From the Old j Sun Worshipers? Tlie halfback, about to be tackled, stopped, then darted in a long curve toward the right. He was soon down ed. "The other side knew he would turn from left to right." said a veteran. "We nil turn from left to right. To turn from right to left seems wrong, seems like reversing. We wind a watch from left to right, we turn a I screw so. and so we write, and so we rend. "It all comes down to us from pre historic times, from tho sun worship ers. The sun moves from left to right, and its worshipers believed that all human actions must proceed accord ingly. Well, they still do so. "Churning is done as the sun moves, and there's a superstition that one re verse turn of the handle will spoil the butter. "Cooks stir batter from left to right. A reversal, they say. would make the batter coarse and heavy. | "Shut your eyes and turn thrice. Don't you naturally Instinctively turn i from left to right? i "Whalers put back again if the | ship's first movement at the beginning | of the voyage Is not from left to right. I"In a subconscious way, you see. I ; sun worship is still the religion of j I man."—Exchange. THE CANNON ROARED. j How an Ovation by a Youthful De- j mosthenos Was Cpoiled. While campaigning in his home state Speaker Cannon was once inveigled | iuto visiting the public schools ol' a town where he was billed to speak. In one of the lower grades an aiubi- 1 tious teacher called upon u youthful Demosthenes to entertain tho distin guished visitor with an exhibition of amateur oratory. The selection at tempted was llyron's "Battle of Wa terloo," and just as the boy reached the end of the first paragraph Speaker] Cannon suddenly gave vent to a vio- j | lent sneeze. "Rut hush, hark." declaimed the youngster—"a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye hear it V" The visitors smiled, and a moment later the second sneeze —which tho speaker was vainly trying to hold back —came with increased violence. "But. hark!" (bawled the boy)—"that heavy sound breaks in once more. Ami nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! It is tho cannon's opening roar!" This was 100 much, and the laugh that broke from the party swelled to a roar when Uncle Joe chuckled: "Put up your weapons, children. 1 won't shoot any more."—Success Magazine. The Division of Time. The division of time into hours was practiced among the Babylonians front remote antiquity, but it was ilippar chus, tlie philosopher, who introduced the Babylonian hour into Europe. The sexagesimal system of notation was chosen by that ancient people because there Is no number having so many di visions as sixty. The Babylonians di vided the daily journey of tho suu, tho i ruler of the day, into twenty-four para j sangs. Each parasaug, or hour, was subdivided Into sixty minutes, and that again Into sixty seconds. They com- i pared the progress made by the sun j during one hour nt the time of the • i equinox to the progress made by a ; good walker in the same period ofl time, both covering one parasang, and 1 the course of the sun during the full equinoctial day was fixed at twenty- j four parasangs. Left Him In Doubt. A certain young artist lu New York who Is on terms of comparative inti macy with tlie janitor of the apart ment house wherein he maintains his studio is in some doubt whether the I said janitor is a cynic or something of an art critic, or both. "One day while doing a bit of repait work in the studio," says the painter "Mike scrutinized a bit of my work with ominous solemnity. When 1 indi eated a portrait of myself tU' blow fell. Said I: " 'The paint on this Is badly cracked ! which spoils the likeness.' "With no more expression in hlsi countenance than is to be seen in the] face of a representative of Buddha Mike replied: " 'Not at all, sir.' " Training Canaries. In the canary breeding establish ments of Germany only the male birds are valued, because the females never sing. The method of training the birds to sing is to put them in a room where there is an automatic whistle, which they all strive to imitate. The breeder listens to the efforts of the birds and picks out the most apt pupils, which are then placed in another room for further instruction. These are tho best singers and ultimately fetch high nrlj'op If You Would Look Well— Use hairpins, visible, invisible and ull kinds. Wear a net or thin veil to keep In vagrant locks. Cleanse your face with cream every night before going to bed. Wear Immaculate neckwear, a clean shirt waist and gloves without holes. Don't allow the public glimpses of a soiled white skirt or a shredded silk <«ie. Kennedy'® Laxative Cough Syrup KsHavas Colds by working j< tS« rjritara through a eoplaitt h*»lihy sottoo W tha bewak. cough* by ft muoooa mambranaa mi tka thaal. *nd bronchial tubaa. "A* pi——l la Mi H Mtpto lugif** Children Like It Ftr IAMMH-VUI ONTO 1h hVßTiKttnf art fcHaWh IwdH For Sale bv Pan leg & Oo An Exception to the Rule. "It Is an invariable fact," said the professor at the club, "that the sense of sight travels more rapidly than the sense of sound. You will observe, sir. that when a bit of ordnance Is fired from a fortress or a man-of-war you see the puff of smoke that comes coiu cldently with the explosion several moments before you heax the report thereof. Thus it is always"— "Not always," said little Todgers from the corner. "I know of a case where hearing antedates seeing by really considerable lapses of time." "I know of no such thing in the whole broad range of science," retort ed the professor pompously. "Perhaps you can enlighten us, sir." "Well," said Todgers, "It's the case of an Englishman and a joke. In al most every case the Englishman hears a Joke about a week before he sees it, and"— But the professor had gone, and they j say that nowadays when he sees Tod gers he shies off like a frisky horse in the presence of a motor car.—Harper's Weekly. Waterproofing Matches. Perhaps some of your readers would be interested to know that I have found a simple, Inexpensive way to waterproof matches. Into some melted paralliu, care being taken that it was as cool as possible, I dipped a few or l dinary parlor matches. After wlth i drawing them and allowing them to cool It was found that they scratched j almost as easily as before being coated i with the wax. Several were held un- j der water for six or seven hours, and ' all of them lighted as easily as be- j fore immersion. When the match is i scratched the paraffin is first rubbed off | and the match lights In the usual way. i Matches treated as above would be i very useful on tamping or canoeing ; j trips, as they do not absorb moisture. I Since more rubbing is required to light j them than the ordinary match, It ' would he practically impossible to set | them mi tire by accidental dropping.— ! Scientific American. Tom, Dick and Harry. "Some folks have a hard time to find ! odd enough names for their children," said a man in an uptown club the other evening. "They will search through ail kinds of books on the sub ject. consult all their friends and rela tives and finally burden the youngster with something never heard of before. "I know one man, however—he is a banker and lives on West End avenue —who, while he did not spend much time In search of names, adopted a scheme which is very novel. It took five years to carry out the scheme, j now complete. The first boy he named Tom, the second Dick and the third ITarry. This particular trio is about an much talked about In the neighbor hood as the noted Tom. Dick and Har ry of whom nearly every one has heard."—New York Times. In Vain! "In vain, in vain!" cried the young man distractedly. His hair fell in loug wisps about his brows, and his coun tenance was deathly white. The crowd pressed close. "In vain. In vain!" he cried again, with wringing of bands and gnashing of teeth. "What?" cried the crowd. "What is in vain''" ! "The letter 'v!'" cried the young ! man as he escaped. Dignity of the English Waiter. The English hotel waiter belongs to ! a race which is slowly but surely be I coming extinct and carries about him | the melancholy aura of the doomed Every head waiter at a British inn has j in him at least the making of a duke's ' butler. No glimpse of avarice mars I the perfection of his monumental man \ ner, and if at the last, lie condescends to accept your vail it is with something I of the air of a discrowned king. I.on | don Sketch. GOOD HORSIMANSHIP. An Old Hunter's Illustration of the Gift of "Hands." Your heart and your head keep up. j Your hands arid your knees keep down, I Tour knees keep close to your horse 9 sides And your elboWß to your own. | Tills old bit of advice for the would I be horseman is quoted by a writer iu | Baily's Magazine and declared to bo I perennially sound. He quotes another old hunter on the ! subject of what he calls "the divine ! gift of hands" in riding. This old | hunter, John Darby, used to attach i two pieces of twine to the back of an j ordinary chair aud draw the same tighter until the chair balanced on Its ; fore or hiud legs, according to his own | position. | Then when balanced he would keep j It, so to speak, on the swing by gently I manipulating the twine or reins he ; hclil In his hand. A rough pull would, j of course, have upset the chair one I way, whereas the fact of not checking | it in its movements at all would have ! caused a total loss of control over it lit the opposite direction. | "Anil that," when the exhibition was ' concluded he would add, "is hands, | gentlemen." Jogging to the covert, continues the writer, you may notice one fine horse, | the owner fully equipped, throwing its I head tip and down like a pump handle, | another sweating profusely, although the pace has not exceeded five uilles | an hour since It left the stable, and a i third snorting and prancing about all over the place. Why is this so? Simply because the rider of neither of them Is possessed ; with the divine gift of "hands." Inside and Outside. The following report was sent by a subordinate inspector to his chief iu the telephone service. It concerned a faulty house connection: "Eound wire with uo outside outside. Put inside wire outside and outside in- J tide. Need more outside for inside." Learning. Wear your learning like a watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull It out and display it merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly or unasked, iike the watch i man. The wrongdoer is never without a I pretext.—ltalian Proverb. Getting an "Old Mas." "Speaking of new m«n," said the boes of the skyserrjicr builders, with a twinkle, "comical Tilings happen even up here, the same as in u theater. Sometimes in ru«h reasons there ain't enough hands togo round, and we have to take 'em green hills. I had one once, a kid front Vermont, a whale of a kid, with bones like a horse and eyes awful anxious to please eyes that made you like liim. lie's one of the best men I've got now, but then he was green as God made him." The foreman stopped to chuckle. " 'Go up to the eighteenth floor,' I told him one day, 'and bring down an old man.' I was busy at the time, and when I saw the kid stare I said kind of sharp that if that old man wasn't here in five minutes the whole blamed building would probably goto smash. This was just my way of making him hustle, but he thought 1 meant it word for word. He went up on the run, and in a few minutes he came down with a sputtering, clawing old feller held like a vise In his arms. " 'He was the only old man on thu floor,' said the kid, "and he wanted to stop and argue about it, but from what you said 1 knew what it meant, so I just grabbed him and came.' "You see," the foreman added kind ly, noting my puzzled expression, "an old man happens to be the name of a tool we use."—Everybody's Magazine. Making Caricatures. The way in which some artists can distort features without making them unrecognizable is certainly very re markable. Thomas Nast possessed this faculty to an extraordinary de gree, and he had a very peculiar way of adding new faces to his mental photograph gallery. When a fresh subject would arise in politics, for in stance, he would invent some pretext to call upon him at his office or house anil hold him in conversation as long as possible, studying his features When he took his departure he would purposely leave his cane. Once out side, Nast would make a hasty pencil sketch on a card and would usually Hud that his memory was deficient as 10 some detail. lie would then return, ostensibly for the cane, and another look at the victim would enable him to perfect his sketch. After that he had the man forever. When Joe Kep pler was alive he used to make fre quent trips to Washington for the pur pose of seeing statesmen whom he wanted to draw. lie was very clever at catching likenesses and scarcely ever referred to a photograph. A Wonderful Bird. One day a wonderful bird tapped at the window of Mrs. Xansen's (wife of the famous arctic explorer) home at Christiania. Instantly the window was ! opened, and in another moment she covered the little messenger with kisses and caresses. The carrier pi geon bad been away from the cottage thirty long months, but it had not for gotten the way home. It brought a note from Nansen. stating that all was going well with liitu and his expedition in the polar region. Nansen had fasten ed a message to the bird and turned it loose. The frail courier darted out Into the blizzardly air. It flew like an arrow over a thousand miles of frozen waste and then sped forward over an other thousand miles of ocean and ! plains and forests and one morning entered the window of the waiting mistress and delivered the message which she had been awaiting so anx iously. American Patents In Jr.pan. Arrangements will soon be perfected for the proper protection of American : patents in Japan. At present the Japi | appropriate anything that suits them. I A ReSiabls Remedy Ely's Craam Balm Cj mvtß is quickly absorbed. ■ GivcsßelieialOr.ee. Jj It cleanses, A heals and protects the diseased mem brane resulting from Catarrh and drives away aCold in the Head quickly. Restores the Si-uses of Taste and Smell, l'ull size GO ets. at Druggists or by mail. Liquid Cream Balm f"r u*o in atmnizcrs 75 cts. Ely Brothers, st> W-.rren Str • t. New York Anvnne sending a sketch find description may qulcklv 1.-I'f'rt ;iln our opinion free whether an invention 19 probably patentable. 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