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.
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for the proper protection of American
: patents in Japan. At present the Japi
| appropriate anything that suits them.
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