Montour, American . =■ | FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Jan. 28, 1909. THE JOKER NUGGET. An Incident of the Early Australian Gold Diggings. Among the rich finds in the Austra lian gold diggings the Joker nugget ranks among the chief. It turned the scale at thirty ounces and was sold for SOOO. In size and shape it resembled a man's hand, thick at the wrist part and tapering off toward the fingers. The claim had been a good one from the first, and the owner did not have to work hard. One day he was reclin ing full length idly searching for nug gets when he caught sight of/he Joker. He at once covered it with his hand and sat tip, rather wondering how ho would secure the treasure without be ing seen. If the find became known •every man in the field would tramp to the spot and invade his claim and so prevent him working. A man in an adjoining claim looked up. "Found anything?" he asked. "No. Seen the .?olor—that's all. Fitch my coat over to me, will you? It's lying near there. I want a smoke." "Here you are, mate. But what's the matter? You look pale. Don't yoti feel right?" "I'm all right, only the sun is a bit hot." He was struggling with an insane desire to laugh, but lie got his coat over the nugget and sea'ed himself oti the top of it. Then laughter overpowered him, and he became hysterical. Those About him wondered, but thought the j sun had affected him. In a little while j he gained his composure and decided j togo to his tent. In lifting his coat i he managed to take up the lump of ! gold, and no one knew that ho had j found anything. Tt was not until ten | days had passed that the fact was | noised abroad, and even then few j knew the claim whence the Joker came. PASSING IT ON. Presence of Mind In an Unpleasant Situation. Greatness is thrust upon some in- j dividuals, patriotism on others. When j the patriotism does not belong to one's own country the situation may prove i embarrassing. Such it was in the case | vi Agostino Polidori, the great-grand- i father of Dante Gabriel Bossetti. The I Incident is given in a life of the poet I by liij brother. Polidori, an Italian, was in Paris at the taking of the Bas tille in 17'!). lie tells the story of his ! unexpected prominence and his extri- j cation from the uncomfortable posi- { tlon. i was passing by the Palais Royal j While the populace was running to as- | sault. ihe fortress, and, having en- j countered a highly powdered wigmak- i <>r with a rusty sword raised aloft, I. | sot expecting any such thing and hard- j ly conscious of the act, had the sword | handed to me as he cried aloud: "Take if. citizen! Fight for your j country!" I had no fancy for such an enter- j prise, so, finding myself sword in hand, j I at once cast about for some way to | get rid of it.and, bettering my instrue- j tlon from the man of powder, I stuck I it Into the hand of the first unarmed i person I met. "Take it, citizen!" 1 repeated. "Fight .for your country!" Then I passed on and returned home. Her One Ambition. She wanted a job. she told the man ager of the big store, and everything Jibout her, from drooping eyelashes to neatly molded instep. Indicated that she would draw enough trade, or ought to, to cover her salary. But the manager told her that for I one of her inexperience she would j command ouly about SO a week. She accepted this, if it was the best j he could do, but as she was about to : turn away she hesitated and asked de- ' murely, looking at him through the drooping lashes, "Do you suppose you ! could make that $7 a week, so I could have a little laundry done once in awhile?"— St. Louis Republic. Long Love. The word "love" In one of the In dian dialects is "ehemlendamoughku- ; nagogagu." Fancy a sweet forest maiden telling her copper colored 1 brave t! 't she "cbemle-dmnoughkn nagogagus'' him. The conjugation o" the verb "to love" In that ilialoct must take at least a year to recite.—rath- i fmd'T. Reason Fcr V/crry. "Men v irr." more than women." "Yes: the not only have everything j to worry about that the women have, j but they al o have the women to wor ry about too."—Smart Set An Appeal For Mercy. "Judge." said the prisoner, "I sup- 1 pose you're going to soak me." "You are a habitual offender." re plied the judge; "were caught with the j stolen goods, and the court will have ' to do its painful duty." "I don't want to seem unreasonable," replied the prisoner. "I don't mind a long sentence. I'm used to It. But say, judge, cut out the lecture that j usually goes with it. won't you."- j Philadelphia Ledger. WINTER TOURS VIA Mill HI February 9 and 23. and March 9, 1909 ROUND $47.70 TRIP From South Danville SPECIAL PULLMAN TRAINS Independent Travel in Florida For detailed Itineraries and full Information ' roiiMilt nearest Ticket Agent. DRAWS FOOTBALL MORAL j President Praises Harvard Fullback j For Sacrifice In Yale Game. Frnest Wr Wei bo's brilliant work ns | fullback on the* Harvard football eleven which defeated Yale the other day has been recognized by I*resident Itoose velt, who has written a letter to Ycr Wlebe congratulating him. The lettei Is 11s follows: My Dear Mr. Ver Welbe—Like evory othor irood Harvard man. I have the heartiest feeling of gratitude for the en tire team who won the preat victory on Saturday last. But 1 feel an especial pelf KTatitudo toward you. It was through you more than any one else that the bull was nut in a position to enable Kennard to do the work which he did so admira bly and to kick the poal from the field. For the «ood of the team your individ ual pood was sacrificed, and through this sacrillce and through the admirable work you had already done and through Ken nard's lino kick a victory was won. How ever, It was a first rate example of the interest of an individual being subordi nated to the good of the team. There can not be any better lesson for our national life than to reach that the good of the in dividual must be subordinated for the good of the people. Now, I have the heartiest admiration for Kennard's feat. He kicked the goal, and ho did a service that no one else could have done, and too much praise cannot be given him, but you are entitled to every whit as much, and every man I have met here feels just the way 1 do. With heartiest good wishes and congratu lations, believe me. sincerely yours, THEODORE liOOSEVELT. I*. S.—l wish I could thank personally every man on the eleven from Burr down, and llaughton and Graves and everybody who has done anything for the eleven. In cluding substitutes and the second eleven. To Brand Counterfeit Money. The secret service at Washington, after several years of patient negotia- j Hons with the clearing house and ! banking associations throughout the | United States, has managed to obtain j almost unanimous action regarding the marking of counterfeit money handed to the receiving tellers. Practically all the big banking institutions of the United States have adopted rules re quiring the tellers hereafter to stamp I "counterfeit" on all specimens of bad money they receive. This will put it beyond the power of the owners of the counterfeit money to pass it on unsuspecting persons after they have failed to dispose of the coins or notes i at n bank. Just Before Christmas. Now the butcher's boy smiles blithely as lie meets you or. the block, And the grocer's boy goto busy with his cap, And the janitor is careful your opinions not to shock. Though In days gone by he did not care a rap. Now the waitress asks you over if you'll | have a piece of pie, And the bellboy coines ofttimes before you ring. While the cook gets so ambitious that you ask the reason why And decide you've quite misjudged the girl, poor thing! Next your relatives get busy, writing let ters by the seore. Though you're not by any means a man j of wealth. Hut you hasten to remember that about a | yoAr before They were equally concerned about your . health. Then a dawning seems to seize you In Its [ vigorous embrace. And an understanding permeates your , spine. There's a reason for these favors which ' you very soon will trace If your talent for analysis is fine. -Lurana W. Sheldon In New York j Times. Roaring Muscles. "If a writer wrote of roaring mns j cles, you would laugh at him. Joints ' crack, the stomach thunders, but mus-1 cles, you would say, don't roar. That j is your mistake. They do." The speaker, a physician, put his j finger in his car. "I hear a muscle roaring now," said ' he. "Try it, and you. too, will hear the] sound. And to prove that it is the j sound of a muscle, put a plug <>f wood in your ear instead, and you will hear i nothing. "Contracted muscles give out a roar ; ing sound. Relaxed muscles are si- j lent. This fact Is of use in dlagnos- j ing certain diseases. The stethoscope! makes the muscular roars audible, and ! those strange voices proclaim th& pros- i once of such diseases as tetanus, men-; ingltis or strychnine poisoning, while j silence on the muscles' part is, so to speak, a sullen admission of the pres ence in their midst of atrophy, degen eration, paralysis."—Buffalo Express, j It Is Well. It is well to carefully cultivate tastes. i Husk In says, "Tell ine what you like and ! will tell you what you are." It Is well In study human character. | Bodenstedt says:"ln the face of ev- j erv human being his history stands j plainly written; his Innermost nature steps forth lo the light. Yet they are' Ihe fewest who can reml and under- j stand." It. is well to "brush up against the; world." r.oethe says: "Talent forms I itself in secret. Character is the great ; current of the world." It is well to ho never cast down ! Elizabeth Barrett Browning says: I.et no ono til! his death .Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done Who the Mound Builders Were. Who were the mound builders 01 North America? The Rev. l>r. Bryce of Winnipeg has examined a large number of these Interesting struc tures and is of the opinion that they were built by the Toltecs and mark the course of the Tnitec immigration) from the south along the Mississippi| and Ohio to the great lakes and the j St. Lawrence, along the Missouri and along the Mississippi proper to the Rainy and Ited rivers. This would make (lie earliest inound date from about i 100 A. I).—Boston Ilerald. Natural History. "Whah is you been workin"?" asked Miss Miami Brown. "Up to one o' deshere garridges wliar dey keep de automobiles." "I s'pose you likes 'em better dan mules." "Well, de dlff'unce is dat a mule kicks wir his bin' feet an' de automo bile is mo' ll'blo to butt fame as a goat."—Washington Star. nnl u Ciotnes Away. A housewife should be careful to have all the starch washed out of clothes before they are put away for the winter. They should be rough dry and if possible protected by sheets of dark blue paper. BEAUTY'S HALF SLEEP. Be Reposeful if You Would Cultivate Curves and Retain Youthful Contour. It would seem from the deluge of i advice poured into the stout woman's , ear that there are no overlean women In existence, or if there lie such they are well satisfied with Ihcir angles. While fashion frowns heavily upon any signs of buxomness—and we must admit that a large percentage of femi ninity past thirty is fighting to retain youthful contours—there do exist wo men who would undergo tortures In order to exchange their sharp outlines for softer curves. It is all very well to prate of the "lines of youth," but when one's shoul der blades, elbows and hips are bony to scragginess one is bound to yearn for a light coating of adipose tissue. I.et us not forget, however, in the search for artistic curves that it i« usually the woman with decided tend ency to "fret and worry" who Is thin even unto attenuation. The very slender woman never Im presses you as really reposing. She sits on the edge of her chair, wriggles her slim feet and continually works J Imaginary patterns with ten diligent little fingers. When she enters a room she moves from point to point and finally bends unresignedl.v to a seat, the hardest one in the room, while her plump friend gravitates to a pile of cushions and snuggles Into their depths as naturally as the soft eyed Maltese curls herself Into a btfll before the open grate. Then, too, the bony woman is so i deadly in earnest when she talks. She j searches the room for imaginary j j threads, walks to the window to rear- ] j range faultlessly hung curtains, read l justs ornaments, continually hears the j telephone bell and does everything to j keep her nerves a-jangle. The meager woman who courts flesh | to round her angles into curves of j beauty needs fresh air and sunshine In ' I unstinted measure and must have j them. She must eat a great deal of fruit. Those denied to her obese sister are her special friends. She must when possible take a glass of milk between meals in mid-morning and i i afternoon and again before going to lied. A wafer or two can be eaten at j the same time, while the milk must be ] slowly sipped, not gulped down rapid ! l.v. She may eat cereals freely and all ' the starchy and sweet vegetables. White and sweet potatoes, peas, corn and beans and salads to promote di gestion are her mainstays Meats are 1 according to appetite and taste. All sorts of sweets are fattening, partieu | larly chocolate, which Is also especial ly nutritious. Strong Monosyllables. Instructors In the art of literary i composition usually condemn a string i of monosyllables, but in the well ! J known hymn "Ix>ad, Kindly Light," ! written by a master of the English j language, you may count thirty eon I secutlve words of one syllable only. I They offend neither the eye nor the ear. | Milton often nses n series of mono i syllables, in the second book of "l'ar ( adise Lost" we have: The (lend ; O'er hoff or strep, tliroush ptratt. roush, dense or rare. With head, hands, winss or feet pursues tits way I And swims or sinks or wades or creeps | or flies. | Such lines are not uncommon In the \ I book: • | Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death. I And again: j Of neither sea nor shore nor air nor fire i —London Notes and Queries. ' Courtship In Ireland. ! An Irish boy marries when he has a i rid house and an Irish girl Just when she pleases. Sometimes she so pleases : i while yet her years are few: at other ' times she is content to wait upon wis ' dom. In the latter case, of course, she j makes a wise choice, but in the for- I tner almost always a lucky one, for j luck Is the guardian angel of the Irish. "You're too young to marry yet. i Mary," the mother said when Mary pleaded that she should grant Lau rence O'Mahony a particular boon. "If you only have patience, mother. I I'll cure ineself of that fault," was ' Mary's reply. "And she's never been used to work, | Laurence," the mother said to the | suitor discouraging!}'. I "If you only have patience, ma'am,") was Laurence's reply to this, "I'll cure i ! her of that fault." And he did too.— ! | Seutnas MacManus in I.ipptneott's. j Cause of Car Sickness. Y»'. Wood attributes car sickness to the nystagmus produced by looking | out of the cat' windows. Look out of a car window and observe how rapidly the telegraph poles t!it by. j Each one is seen and involuntarily fol- i lowed by the eye uatU It is opposite* | when the eye shifts to the one follow- j i ing This is true of near buildings, i ■ Objects farther away seem to move slower, and those very far off seem to I be almost stationary until the whole landscape appears to be revolving j round a common center. The uu- j conscious effort to take in everything i produces a rapid lateral oscillation of the eyeballs, as any one can observe by watching the eyes of his fellow passengers. The eye strain is enor mous and is the chief factor In pro ! ducing car sickness. This can be ! proved by asking it patieut who Is | subject to car sickness to look steadily at a mirror which is moved rapidly to and fro or tilted backward and forward. He will immediately com plain of nausea and vertigo. The | treatment consists of advising the j patient to avoid looking out of the car windows and in giving him a grain of cltrated caffeine shortly before he takes the cars and repeating it every hour as long as there is any tendency ; to be sick. The author has been en- | ablod by this procedure to relieve many sufferers from car sickness.— New York Medical Journal. The Brute. "Yes, this room Is dark, damp and positively uninhabitable. It is sup plied for your wife's mother. If she has one." "She has. I'll take the flat"—Boston traveler. DIFFERENT STYLES. How Meredith and Browning Might Describe the Same Incident. If Browning and C!eorge Meredith were describing the same act they might both be obscure, but their ob scurities would be entirely different. Suppose, for Instance, they were de scribing even so prosaic and material nn act as a man being knocked down stairs by another man to whom he had given the lie. Meredith's descrip tion would refer to something which an ordinary observer would not see or at least could not describe. It might be a sudden sense of anarchy in the brain of the assaulter or a stupefac tion and stunned serenity in that of the object of the assault. He might write: "Wainwood's 'men vary in veracity' brought the baronet's arm up. ITe felt the doors of his brain burst and Wainwood a swift rushing of himself through air, accompanied with a clarity as of the annihilated." Meredith, in other words, would speak queerly because he was describ ing queer mental experiences. Rut Browning might simply be describing the material incident of the man being knocked downstairs, and his descrip tion would run: What then? "You lie" and doormat be low stairs Takes bump from back. This is not subtlety, but merely a kind of insane swiftness.—Gilbert K. Chesterton. BEARDED LADIES. A Parisian Showman Says They Are Quite Numerous. An Englishwoman who confesses to a mild mania for attending the street fairs common in and around Paris says that she Is always impressed by the extraordinary number of bearded ladies among the attractions. "1 was inclined to think that they were fakes." she says in the London Gentlewoman, "but when I discovered that they were quite genuine my sur prise at tills wonderful supply of phenomena grew stronger. And when a few days ago I saw at the fair in the Avenue d'Orleans a lady exhibited with a long flowing beard I could no longer withhold my curiosity. "I applied for information to a gen tleman well known in the showman world and who acts as a kind of agent to the people owning shows, sup; '\ ing them with the necessary a "0. human and otherwise. This gentle man appeared surprised at my ques tion. "'Bearded ladies!' he exclaimed. '1 can find as many as I like. You have no Idea how many women, if they liked, could rival men as regards whiskers and mustaches. But they are not anxious to enter into that kind of con >etition.' " The ' Cmart" Schoolboy. Modern children's intellects seem to bud and unfold much earlier than they did a generation or two ago. You of ten get some rare posers from the youth who is having his first taste of schooling. The other morning at break fast an admiring father asked his bud ding prime minister how lie liked school. "Oh, very well, pa, except the mas ter with the star teeth!" "Star teeth! Star teeth!" puzzh-d the father. "What do you mean by star teeth?" "Why, you know, pa. those that come out at night." The attendant servant maid dropped the muffins, and pa suddenly found something of exceptional interest iu the morning paper.—Edinburgh I»is patch. Waterproof Coats of Grass. In the tropics of Mexico, where torrential rains fill a part of each year, raincoats are a very necessary part of man's apparel, owing to the intense heat which prevails in the summer season the ordinary rubber raincoat cannot lie worn. A rainproof cout is made from native grasses and is worn by the men of the middle and upper classes. The grasses are woven close together, and It Is Impos sible for the rain to beat through them, no matter how hard the storm may be. Some of these coats are made with a hood which protects the head ns well as the body. Cne V/as Enough. "Papa, why didn't you wear a pair last night?" "A pair of whatt child?" "A pair of skates." "What does the boy mean?" "Why, l!ill. the coachman, told tlie cook that you had a lovely skate on last night when you came home,"—Ex change. Winged Burglars. Buchlier iu his "Psychic Life of Animals" speaks of thievish bees which, in order to save themselves the trouble of working, attack well stocked hives in masses, kill the sen tinels and the inhabitants, rob the hives and carry oft the provisions. After repeated enterprises of this de scription they acquire a taste for rob bery and violence. They recruit whole companies, which get more and more numerous, and finally they form reg ular colonies of brigand bees. But it is a still more curious fact that these brigand bees can be produced arti ficially by giving working bees a mix ture of honey and brandy to drink. The bees soon acquire a taste for this beverage, which has the same disas trous effect upon them as upon men. They become ill disposed and irritable and lose all desire for work, and final ly, when they begin to feel hungry, they attach and plunder the well sup plied hives. Not Quite. "I sleep with your letters under my pillow," the modern lover wrote. Then he yawned and muttered to himself: "At least I goto sleep over the let ters. I suppose It's the same thing."— New Orleans Times-Democrat. His Board. Sam Sparks—Oh, yo' ain't de only seed In do sunflowah. lier's lots ob uddeh gals dat hab called me "Sugah" befo' Ah obeh heahd ob yo'. Belinda Sparks—Well, man. If dey called yo' "Rntrah" dey sholy must hab meant loaf sugnb Chlcnsro News. MEN'S CLOTHES. Not What They Used to Be In the Days of Elizabeth. Most men nowadays do not get much pleasure from dress and scarce ly notice the changes of fashion in men's clothes. They are vaguely aware that a hat looks odd when Its shape Is old fashioned, and they ac cept the hat of the moment because they do not wish to look odd them selves. nut this is a merely negative interest. They are also apt to be con temptuous of women's greater inter est in the fashions, ns if it were a mark of frivolity. Tills is an ignorant mistake. Dress Is or ought to be an art, and therefore, if only a minor art. it is a more seri ous matter than any of the games to which many men give so much time and pains. Resides, men have only be come indifferent to their clothes in modern times. In the heroic age of Elizabeth they made themselves as smart as pea cocks. Great soldiers and poets then took pains to be in the height of the fashion, and fashions changed with some violence and rapidity. In the eighteenth century, too, which wo do not think of as a time of effeminacy and when men were wanting neither in enterprise nor in seriousness, they were as splendid and extravagant in their dress as women.— Times. WONDERS OF VELOCITY. A Piece of Thin Cardboard Will Cut Through Wood. Velocity has a great deal to d< with one substance's ability to break through another, and it is remarkable what can be accomplished by a com paratively soft substance against a much harder one when the former is given enough velocity. A bullet made of a tallow candle would smash tint if fired against a board from a toy gun, but when shot from an army rifle it will go right through the board. A stream of water has been known to have such swiftness of movement that a sword was broken in two when a strong man tried to cut it through. Cyclones have been known to drive such frail projectiles as straws well into a tree. An interesting experiment showing what a soft substance can do may be performed by attaching a bristol board disk to the motor of an electric fan and setting it to revolving at the fan's usual rate. If a piece of wood, such as a load pencil, for example, be carefully applied to the edge of the revolving disk, the wood will very readily lie cut through, of course if the disk were to revolve slowly the wood would soon blunt its edge.—Path tinder. REBUILDING THE CAMPANILE. New Tower Now Rises Above the Piazza to Height of 160 Feet. About twenty years ago a little boy was playing in the sand 011 the beach of Porto d'Anzio, in Italy. With shells, pebbles and hits of driftwood he bad built a little city, with canals instead of streets, and in the center was a tall tower. A wave spread over the sand, and the tower fell, and the boy said to his father: "See, my Venice is flooded and the campanile all down. Some day the real Venice will be swept away, and then they will ask me to build it up." The real Venice lias not been swept away, but the campanile on July 14. 1902, fell into the l'iaz/.a di San Mar co. and the little boy, Gaetano Moret 11, now a tall man, was asked to build It tip. says a Venice correspondent ol the New York Times. So within the next few months it will be completed, with a new marble top, crowned with a new figure of an angel iu glided bronze, and around the marble top there will be the statues of Peace. Mercury, Apollo and Pallas, designed by Sansovlno a century and a half ago, and the old bronze gates will be found again at their accustomed place In the logetta. For over a thousand years the campanile stood as the watchtower of the Lady of the Adri atie, and the new tower, with its elec tric light ;S2O feet above the piazza, is expected to last until a new city has been built upon the ruins of the old. After the catastrophe of 1002 the question was whether to rebuild the new tower on the old foundation or to let the latter form the nucleus of a new foundation. The latter plan was adopted, and on April 25, 11103, the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new .structure was hold ihe Order of Fools. April 1 is not the only fools' day in the year. On November 12. UNI, the Order of l'ools was instituted by Adol phus, count of Cloves. Members were not by any means Idiots, however, for the word had a different meaning then. They were the prototype of our modern Order of Foresters or Odd Fellows, doing .1 similarly benevolent work. Their In signia consisted ol' a ■ rin'.lo, upon the left shoulder of which was embroidered a jester, or fool, in cap and bells, yel low hose and silver vest. So these cheery, useful jokers had a bright, happy outlook upon life and met to gether to dispense the earnest of their healthful existence at stated intervals, the chief day of which was Nov. 12. London Chronicle. Kennedy's Laxative Dough Syruj Ra&otm Grid* by vorktaf #l—ll at li th« »ftlciv throtifb • «cpfcv-k* ;.**Jttl7 notion H tk« bovsia by ahiMliii & -nwctnn miinbttnw ml Mm 9mm. 4**- .-jMi bronchial lube*. **At t* *• tmm Children Like It 9m lINUKI fUI DMN *» i-sfty- V *>!•.''. V'% uk>' *- I. ► ,» TRAINING FOR DIPLOMATS. Former Ambassador Tower Advocate® Course In the Big Universities. Charlemagne Tower, formerly am- ' bassador from the United States to Germany, is an advocate of a course iu special training for men who wish to spend their lives in a diplomatic career. In the Yale News, the olliclal student organ of the university, Mr. Tower recently made the following statement of his observations and nd vlce: "It is imperative that the United States should have men to transact business in other countries who are J thoroughly capable of coping with any ! unusual situation or technicality that may arise and who are qualilieU to i meet their diplomatic on a perfectly equal footing. To attain this standard all those who receive ap pointments to the service should lio obliged to absorb a fundamental knowledge of the worlc which they are to undertake. "It is only too often the case that the candidates who receive appoint ments are utterly ignorant of tlie ru diments not only of diplomacy, but also of systematic business methods. "A very simple and practical scheme of remedying this matter would be to establish a course in diplomacy at the larger universities which would lead I up to an examination for admission to ; the service, just as is now required I for entering West Point and Aunapo- | lis. Tills would not necessitate an in- ! dependent graduate school, but the i Instruction could be easily woven Into ; the ordinary academic course, since the means are within tt»o power of the larger institutions. The course would involve a study In French, Ger man and S;';; 1 i h, history and general knowledge of International law. Too much stress cannot be laid on a thor ough knowledge <>f French, in which | diplomatic transactions are chiefly car ried on. "The German system Is far superior to ours. Only i n obtaining the degree of I'll. I), can one be admitted to the foreign oflice. The course of study is thorough and broad, so that when the time comes for an appointment from the emperor the appointee is perfectly fitted for Ills duties. On the other hand, in the United States very often a mflii without the least qualification receives immediate appointment by reason of personal friendship or politi cal obligations." A GREAT COMBINATION. When Husband, Wife and Mother-in law Co-opsrate. Shortly after Ills marriage, which took place In ISSO, John Burns, the ltritish labor leader, settled down as a Journeyman engineer in Battersea and twenty years after confessed that he was the first engineer to make with ids own hands an electric tram car in Great Britain. In those days, however, people did not believe that electric traction was possible, and Burns had to take the dynamo and tram to the Crystal palace and run the latter round the grounds for six months before people could bo Induced to be lieve iti the novelty. But the people were so nervous that, although the charge was only sixpence, none of them would venture in the newfangled invention Then Burns was struck with a brilliant idea. He said to his wife. "You have got to come clown to the palace three times a week and get into the first electric tram car us a decoy duck for the others." This was only temporarily successful. So Burns brought along his mother-in law, "and," said the energetic labor leader when relating the incident, "when a husband, a wife and a mother in-law co-operate success is assured." —London Tit-Bits. Towers. The patient architect had just suc ceeded in getting Mrs. Drlppingold tu decide between the charms of renais sance, classic and Queen Anne for the plans of her magnificent new country house. "The only details 1 ain't goin' to leave to your discretion," said the wealthy lady, "is the matter of tow ers. 1 want fileuty of tow< rs that folks call 112( e fur a long way off when they're ridln' by." "But what kind of towers do you tvantV" inquired the unfortunate archi tect—"Norman. Gothic"— Mrs. Drippingcld closed the English novel of high life on which her soul had been feeding. "Why, ancestral towers, of course."- Puck. FLOWERS OF SPEECH. An Englishman's Address at a Ladies' Seminary In Siam. The Influential Englishman in Siam fluttered himself that he had a very decent knowledge of the language and was ready to do great thin :- lie had already ordered coffee from bis hotel waiter \\ illi success and asked the boy to bring up Ills boots. Now, influential Englishmen in Siam are not as common as cock roaches, and that afternoon the dis tinguished visitor was requested by a friend to deliver an address on "England" at the only ladies' sem inary in the country. Confidently lu? accepted. lie began famously. Every one ap plauded and smiled. But gradually as he proceeded bo noticed consternation overspreading the countenances of his listeners. "What's the trouble?" he whispered in English anxiously to his friend on the platform. "Trouble!" exclaimed the friend hol ly. "Why. the trouble is what you are saying." "But," protested the speaker, "I am saying, 'I am delighted to see so many young ladles rising to Intellectual heights, with tine brains and large appreciation.' " "Oh. no. you're not," corrected the friend. "You're saying, 'I am pleased to see so many small lionesses grow ing large and fat, with big noses and huge feet!'" —London Tit-Bits. Tainting the face on the stage Is barbarous custom come down t" from the nge of oil lamps and < tv With ga- and ole tr| ■ H.rht and «• glasses r-r i < • ■ ■ house It !s not need T.<> V ■ ' FktE LfcClUkh ON TUBERCULOSIS ' Those of out citizens who wish to avail themselves oi an opportunity to gain a 10. of practical itntoimalioii re lating to tins white plague or tuber culosis sl.ouid attend tlie fiee illustrat eil lecture given by lJr. Stock in Y. M. U. A. hall at 8 o'clock tonight. Dr. Stock has charge of the tuber culosis Olgpeusary at this plate The lecture will be illustrated by forty nine slides, several of which were ob taiued by Dr. Stock on a special trip to Puilatleiphia, showing Professor Koch of Germany, who discovered the tuberculosis bacillus and thereby open BO tne way for combatting the dreaded disease; it; will also show the bacillus of consumption, portions of the lung NUd liver atlected by tuberculosis, to gether with illustrations of various i-auatoriuuis, and one of the tents at Fort Bayard, kept up by the govern ment for treatment of the soliders suf fering from tuberculosis, as well as the gnat Jewish hospital for con suuiptives maintained at Denver, Col. iu additim a great variety of other pictures will be shown during the course ot the lecture lo illustrate pro per sanitation and to show under what j conditions the disease germs flourish. | Dr Stock's lecture will be compre hensive, covering the entire field of j tuberculosis. It is hoped that the pub I lie w ill show the proper appreciation of h:s efli.rc b> turning cut en maste Election Notice. Notice is hereby given that an eleo tion will be held by the stockholders of the "Colonial Spinning Mills, (In corporated)," at their office in the | Borough of Danville, Fa., on Satur day, February 27, 19C9, between the | bonis of 5 and t>, for the purpose of j electiug a Board of Directors for the ' ensuing year and for the purpose of | translating such other business as may conic bv:cre them. ! ED. J. HAUTMAN, | F2J. Secretary Notice. To Whom It May Concern : Notice is hereby given that the Court of C. P. of Montour Co., en the. 11th day of Jan.. 19(9, granted a rule to show cause why the said Court should not enter a decree changing the name cf RalphJWinter Diehl to Ralph I Beaver Diehl. ! Said rule returnable April 12, 1909, at 10 o'clock, A. M. THUS. G..VINCENT, Froth. ! Ralph Kisner, Att'y. - One Reason. 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