Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Apr. |, 1900. THE HsO HAT IS ii ! Of course we eau not help but ad *uire the exquisite creations of the millinery art that ate now tlispluyeii iu the leading Btoreß of Danville — which cater to the dear ladies —prep- aratory to Easter, which is ouly two Sundays away. How ttie artist can .ui conscientious, careful Bill, asking, •Which spot?"' Relative Hardness of Frecious Stones. The relative hardness of various none-; is easily determined by festii, - the power of one stone to make 1 scratches oti nuo:ber. If a diamond i rubbed with one of the points of topaz. Hie topaz point is blunted am! ! the mark which will be seen on!!.-• face of the diamond Is only the di; • o!' •/> top;:v.. whl< h eon lit* brushed <:: wi'. . .lie i. i-r. i'.ut if Hie topa • rubbed against the diamond the lai tor is unaltered and the surface of the former is marked with a scratch which can be removed only by fur tbet polishing down. It Is on the basis of this process of comparison that a scale of comparative hardness lias been formed represented by ten sub stances, of wlileb diamond is the high est and graphite the lowest In the scale. It is a curious fact tbut these two extremes of the scale, the brilliuut and hard diamond and soft black graphite, are both chemically the same substance pure carbon. Jewelers' clr cular. Willo and Kean. Irving u ; ed to tell with dramatic cf feet a stci*.' about W (1. Wills, the :lramntlst. who. among other services, wrote fir bin the play "Charles I." When Will: was a bov ten years old he \ i taken to see Kdmund Kean play Macbeth. In the murder scene he was so affected by the realist If power of the actor that, seized with n severe attack of nausea, he hurried from the box. Ten years later he was lunching at a chop house In Fleet street when :i man entered, sat down at a table near him and ordered it meal, lie was a perfect stranger to Wills, who, afler a few minutes' pro pinqulty, was again seized with a fii of nausea, from which he had not saf fcrcd since as a boy he was at the theater ou the occasion mentioned, lie was obliged to leave the room. When some minutes later he paid bis bill the waiter said to him: "Did you see that gentleman at the table near you? That's Kdmund Kean."-11. W. Lucy in Corn hill Magazine. An Anticlimax. "I just dropped into thank you for that medicine you sent home by my wife last night." said the grateful pa tieut, grasping the doctor warmly bj the hand. "I've been laid up off aud on for years, have tried all the patent medicines oil the market and been treated by every doctor in the nei :!i borhood, bur your medicine was tiie only tiling that, over did me any good." "it's a pleasure to have you come here to tell me this," replied the doe tor, highly elated. "Most of my pa i ticuts are not so thoughtful. But that I prescription is my pet favorite, and I j never yet knew it to fail to cure a j cough if taken in time." | "Cough?" echoed the patient. "Why. | I didn't take it for my cold. 1 used il | as a liniment for my rheumatism." A Thrifty Hungarian. ! A certain Hungarian peasant named Jail Illrsch made a business trip t; i Budapest, and while there he had the idea of ordering a hundred visiting cards. When he returned home lie found, to his dismay, that the cards bore the name of Mavisch instead of Illrsch. It was only a printer's crroi but to Jan Ilirseh it meant a loss of a shilling and sixpence unless he nm hi make use of the cards. He according ly purchased for the sum of a shilling an official form of petition and filled it with a request to be allowed to alter I his name to Mavisch. His prayer was | granted He is now Jan Mavisch.— | London News. Having set a trap for wild steers en \ Weston mountain, in Dalton, Mass., j Robert Celt ami George t'rozier cap- I tured three and brought them down ; the mountain to their farm. | A year ago last fall when a herd of j young cattle was being rounded up i after being out on the range all sum | mer half a dozen or more escaped, and all efforts to capture them were utv | availing. They eventually became as | wild as the deer with which they j traveled about the mountain all sum | mer and fall. Finally Colt and t'rozier built an In j closure. In which they placed hay and ! com. A drop gate was operated by a wire a quarter of a mile away. Colt and i'rozler ascended the mountain, ' sprung the trap and caught three steers. They hope to capture others ! soon. ■ "Billy Possum" Post Card Latest Pad. j The "Billy Possum" idea will not be : allowed to rest with the manufacture I of a toy In the shape of the Taft-Geor ' gia table delicacy. A characteristic i picture of •Billy" will be put on the ! market In the shape cf post cards. I blotters and other office supplies. The j picture shows "Billy" in the attitude j of enjoying a good digestion, probably I tile aftermath of a meal on a tiiee fat 1 hen. A smile of eminent satisfaction ,' Illumines hi • demure face, and a single I look at him Is enough to put an entire j office force in good humor for the en tire dny. | Why the Menu V/as Changed | The culinary department of an K.ist I Indian household, if the story of an I American traveler who has recently re | turned from Calcutta is to be believed. Is managed far differently from an American kitchen. "Here we employ an Ethiopian expert at so much a j week," says tho Philadelphia Record i "There a cook would disdain to place i n weekly valuation on his services i His conditions involve a flat rate of so j many shillings weekly for the furnish : Ing and preparation of provisions. TV i system of putting the culinary depart ment out to contract causes a peuuii | ousness on the part of the chef which I frequently is not for the best health I and welfare of the household. Short |ly before last Christmas the above ! named American tourist had ordered ' his cook to have steak for dinner j Broiled chit-ken was served instead I Pressed for his reasons for disregard | ing the command of tile head of the j household, ihe cook explained that the 1 chicken had taken sick and if it had I not been kilh hail borrowed thought o "squeeze" him by. demanding In stnnt repayment or a large considera tion for further time. He was invited ■ to call on one of these "bankers" and there met the others. Their demand wa- made, anil their victim seemed at their mercy. They did not, however, i know the resourcefulness of Mr. Yerkes. who retaliated by remarking: "Well, I owe a lot to all the hanks here, and I'll just publish a statement tomorrow in the papers, giving the full amounts and staling my Inability to pay. 1 liis will make such a run on tin? banks that they will soon be as broke as 1 should, and therefore I shall not be the only sufferer." The "squeezers" recognized the truth of this and so withdrew their demand. Mr Yerkes. however, refused to with draw his threat unless they lent him another $50,00(1. They did so. A Wonderful Hand. Master I'm sorry to hear, I'at, that ycrur wife Is dead. Patrick—Faith on' 'tis n sail '." -Brooklyn j Life. Literary Irrigation. "Your latest v -.vol • « very dry." | said the reader of the publishing house to the young but rising author. | "I was pretty sure you would sa? i ih.it," rejoined the ac.ihor. "fonsc j quently if you "ill count them you ' will find the lionjlne weep; real tears j ou Just 253 pages of riy storyCleve i land I'lalu Deal. r. A Squid In Hawaii. In discovering ihe failings or eccen tricities of -I person Ilawaiians not j only show < rspieacity. bin an aptness i jin applyi' 4 a uiti.name to the one; I possessing s»i"h characteristics. The ! politician who changes lu> faith too | often Is called a squid (octopasi. <>tie I species of this animal is caught by-'lje 1 aid of a torchlight in shallow water. : While a I iu net Is held some di lance In front of it, m that It can conven iently run into It and be caught, it is prodded behind by ihe fisherman's | foot. Sometimes the squid will go di rectly Into the trap, but often It will 1 run forward, with every indication of ; bet 'c- enmeshed, to a point within two i feel • r the net, when it will suddenly I turn ■ >ut and go back to Its starting j place. Then It Is likely to describe a I right, left ' r oblique angle, always 1 contra:-; to ih» fisherman's desire. Sol in Hawaiian metaphor the politician or candidate who switches from the straight track i; a squid.-"Paradise of ; the Pnoffle." Tlir Sv. nffl-am Tii' pew ; and readlr;; di ;k if • SwatlTh.iM i' t: vli. A - n'i , to ! - end. ati.. r ' i r.; m:n ! i ding lib' got . i ' •• aml a ■ ra" ret would reveal to l-ii > how to find a pit of money. So iJC li ■ v.lit with lib dog, and at the : rlilge a sir.tngei i stopped liiiu ■ i•r. " I ,a> I night I hail , • a dream bidding ile go t » Swaffb-un i and dig In hand such a place ~i:d , there find a p< t of nion • :t I d ■ ■ I believe In droan Th back went i the tinker, I'm.' * and found the pot I as described •■•-, also an Inscription bidding hi'ii di i ■• •or. whl li he did 1 anil found 'im- id uit'i i re j stored Svvi if , inn,- < irv lug-i were |i tic to pi rp e his ' memory I«oi:d n i>tr.ind. • Stock!nr3 With Tassels. Tho season's novelty in stockings ; has cunnim; little silk iaxseis dangling I from tlio ai kie and another pair higher ' up, reaching t > about the top of tho : shoes. Nothing like these tassels 1,.,. ! been seen before on stockings, luit just now tliev aro threatening to bo -1 come as popular ah the Scotch plait I:. ol a few years ago. 'I ho bissols eertaii.lv I give ii fantastic toucli to an otlicrwi ;o j discreet stocking, lor thoy are loose j and each tassel is about an inch long, ; made of lino silk and likely to dan and bob about with cverv .step of tlio wearer. Tl.o tassel comes jut nb".c the instep and looks well with p'.,a; or low slippers, onti the higher t. : gives the ePi ' oi a silken Hessian boot, j The new stockings are in siik or lisle I and have besides the several tas- 'U elaborate embroideries in different col ors or in tones of the color of tho stock ing itself. A very pretty design is in the form of ay elongated basket lilli I with flowers and worked in natural colors. The handle of tho basket is finished ofi with tlio inevitable dancing tassels. One Needed Rsßt. our husband needs rest, madam, * said the doctor, "I know it!" she exclaimed trlnm. pliantly. "I've told It to him forty times u day for the last two months If 1 have told It to him once. I've just kept telling It to him all the time.' John, how many times have I told you that you need rest?" "On second thought," interrupted the; doctor, "perhaps It would h efttr If yon rested." Troubled Even In Death. "How Is this? I thought you dis liked your mother-in-law, and here I you are carrying flowers to aer \ frave!" "Kxactli: Slip hated 'em."~Jouri A innsnnt. SECOND NAT'L PEACE_CONHRESS A most cordial invitatlou has beuu extended to our oily to be repieseuted by leu or wore delegates in the Hecoud national peace congress to be bel l m Chicago, May 8-5, 191)9. The invitation in extended through t a communication addressed to Chiti Durgess Amesbury and signed by lloyal i L. Melendy, secretary of the congress. | On behalf of the executive commit tee the secretary extends the chief burgess an invitation to become an honorary member of the national peace congress. In recent years the need for regular national pence congresses has been making itself everywhere more and i more felt. Comparatively few at bent of the peace workers in any country are able to attend the congresses in other countries. | The first American natioual pence i congress was held in New Yoik in | April. 1907, and was tiie most import : ant aud impressive as it v\as certainly the laigest popular peace denjonstra | tion ever seen. The resolutions unauim ! ouslv adopted urged unremittii g ett'urt on the part of all nations to perfect | the legal system which shall supplant the war system and called upon cur governt cut for decide ! action toward bringing about the limitation of burd ensome alignments of the nations. The sei.Jijil meeting <;f the peace oougre-s, to bo held at Chicago, will no doubt be conspicuous for its suc cess, ins; iriug the international work | ers of the country and nerve them for the tasks 'lint cocfrcut t^eiu. Hon. J. >l. Dickinson, secretary of wir uudei I dent T; it, is president of the natuji.u! juv r congress. What ac . Jtii e cliiof burgess nud our citizens uiay t!eoido to take in the ! matter will Cev lop l..:ei. A Lost Fee. The night Hon. Augustine Blrrell once believed that he had been sniit I ten with a mortal disease and went to consult a distinguished doctor who lived In the neighborhood of Ilarley street and who was a great expert on the disease of which he thought be was a victim. It was a hot day in July, and as bo walked from his Loudon home, which was in the neighborhood of Addison road, to Ilarley street he perspired freely. He found the great physician's rooms ail crowded with patients— ! probably, he thought. suffering from o similar complaint to himself. While waiting he found on the table a book written by the great physician on the subject of the particular dis ease. He opened the book, and tbo first words which caught his eye were tbc.-ii 1 : "'Tbo patient who is suffering from tills d '-'Mso never perspfivs.' He had S >»tch bloi.d in his veins, so he picked i;» his hat and gloves and walked out, and he never saw thr.t eminent physician.—London Scraps. Reynard's Cunning. W bill 1 crossing an old field waist , high with withered mullein stalks goldenrod and other weeds I noticed a dog within forty feet. He was part ly hidden by the grasses, but appeared to be a young, reddish brown setter, pottering along, smelling at tins clump and that I v.nch of weeds and grad ually circling behind me. In a few minutes I heard a yell. "There uoes a fox." Sup* enough. over the top of a neighboring hill a hundred yards away went ray "dog." It was a shrewd piece of work on his part lo throw me off my guard !•;> seeming indifferent and when behind me and out «>f sight to streak it for cnv< r I hail probably disturbed hir.i during his afternoon siesta. Many a fox have I hunted and killed, but this one fooled nie com pletely. It forms a very pleasant re ollectlon a-» an Instance of brute sa gaeity —Forest and Stream. Dogs and Smoke. "And to you I bequeath the dog." said the New York man who was giv ing to London In live. The family that had been eommis stoned to take care of the dog liked the dog. but the dog did not. like them. By and by bis dissatisfaction became so pronounced that the first family passed him along to another friend «'f the expatriate. The second family was not so fond of the dog as the first family had been, but the dog did not in the least mind their lack of affec tion. Apparently he had struck a "homy" atmosphere that |.leased him. so he settled down to a contented old age. One day the story of that dog's eccentricities was related to a man who knows all about dogs. Tin second family wondered wlu- the dog had evinced such an unwelcome par tiality for them. "it isn't the people In this bouse that attract the pup." said the dog ex pert "It's the tobacco smoke. His former master was a habitual smok er. lie. his clothes, his rooms, every thing about him. snielled like one big cigar. The dog was used to tobacco smoke He liked It Nobody smokes in that house where he first lived. lie missed the scent of tobacco, and be wasn't satisfied till he got to another place wher • the air is blue with smoke."—New York Press. Automobile Course For Farmers. That agricultural colleger; and schools are now giving courses in automobile matters to their students as part of tlio curriculum which is to preparo them for thoir practical duties in life coast i - stutes a prophecy of how largo the part of the motor car will bo in farm life of the future, and also indicate* the present interest which the more en terprising farmers feel in the motor propelled vehicle. Short coureo stu dents at the lowa State College at Den Moines, whose studies are chiefly on agricultural subjects, are to have an automobile lecturer from a representa tive of an automobile company 4 in Ke nosha, Wis., while the Michigan State Agricultural School at Lansing, Mien., is to have a special course of instruction on automobile ojieration and repair. BLIOIHOUKLS M ON TRAIL After v.oiiilng aim st throe days without succtss (.'ii tlio murder case,in which Salvatore houli iu C.HH blown 10 death by tiyuiinjito while sltepin In ;t hunk house at Timorion, to authorities who are more determine'* than ever that the person or perso ■ who committed ihe foci murder sh«, be brought to just ctt htvo secured a blood hound (oue (;f the bast iu tliib part of the State) which was yester* day taken to the eoetie (,f the crime and given the scent and although the ollicera reoognize the fact that the animal will have hard work following the tracks, they believe success V. i > 1 ultimately crown their efforts -iiui bring the guilty parties into custody. Excitement ran rife iu Trevorton yesterday when it was announced that a suspcet by the name of Angelo Tra vato had b?en arrested, who it is I legeii, threatened Bedford's life. T.ie former, however, was able to prove irt alibi which left the authorities an much in the dark as ever. The funeral of the murdered man look [.lace Tuesday from St. Patrick'* Catholic church at Trevor tau. Hundreds of Tyroleaus from all or. . the region were in attxudauce to do horor to the ile.. man's i cinory. Hotel lirafters. The proprietor of one of the largest hotels In New York, speaking of tlio uses made by Ron paying customers of his house, said to a rural guest a few days ago: "We have a large number of patrons from whom we never collect a cent, although we have no such thing us a free list. They come here In thfe morning, pick up a castoff pa-1 per, which they road, keeping an eye open for another, which they grab as soon as it is dropped. After reading awhile they stand at the ticker, often giving long lectures to their follows on financial conditions and stock possi j bilities. The overcoat becomes burden some, and it is taken to the check j room, where its owner knows it will be perfectly safe. Then, if they can tear themselves from the ticker, let-1 tors are written on our stationery, j They do not use our telephones be- j cause we charge an extra 5 cents for the call, hut they carry home matches. ! toothpicks, blank cards and blotters' and use up the soap In our lavatories. ' They also take generous nibbles of the cheese and crackers in the cafe ' The strange i part of all is this—that the majority if ihls class are well to do and hi. lily re; etable, and on that account we do not shut them out."— New York Tribune Th« Slcopiny Sickne s. The terrible -.looping sickness of tropical Africa Is discussed at length !n P.n trfl'-'n i'i Popular Mechanics. The disease which long baffled scion- ; tists, Is spread by the tsetse fly, a 1 bloodsucking, uiv dying Insect. On the 1 ipproach of either matt or animal at a river crossing In the densest foro.ii the victim is soon scented out by 11: By, if there is one in the vicinity, and then, either silently or with a peevish buzz. It makes straight for the most accessible spot and gives its stab. The usual course of the disease is from four to eight months. At the DUtset there are headache, a feverish condlton, lassitude and a correspond ing disinclination to work. The facial aspect changes, and a previously happy and Intelligent looking negro becomes Instead dull, heavy and apathetic. Later, tremor In the tongue develops, speech is uncertain, and mumbling walk shuffling and progressive weak ness. drowsiness and oblivion (o lii surroundings afflict the sufferer The last stage is marked by extreme ema ciation and a coma deepening into death. Wanted Papa to Enjoy It. Francis, aged four and a half, had annoyed his father until that Individ ual finally lost patience. He was try ing to do some varnishing. Thinking to get rid of htm for a few minutes, he said, "Hurry, the window and watch the parade." The lad ran to the window- find climbed upon a chair, while the father smiled at the success of his little lie. The was still on his face when a tug lit his coat and a "Hurry, para, quick!'* caused him to start toward the window. "What Is the matter?" he asked. "Come and see the elephant In the parade'"- Delineator. Notice To Whom It M»v Concern : Notice i:i heioby given i at the Coun of C. I'. of Mcrtcur (>. in the lllli day of .l»:i . 19f9, grantc! a role to show e:iu>e why tLo sa-.i Court shon'ti not ints r a decrei c.hangii gthej name (I R slph Witti r Pit h! to Ralph Reaver Diebl Said rule returnable April 1ears ago. That tie I Improvement of railway administra tion. The plan Is to erect strong art light poles at the places along the rail -1 way where cases of suicide are fre ' quent, such as from the I'yeuo park ' hill, overlooking the Toknido line. Sui j cides from this spot have been most ' frequent, ami II Is hoped that by ! means of a new li it the engineer In j charge of the locomotive will be able to see any object on the track more easllv. 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