Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Apr. 8, 1909, MAIL ORDER OCTOPUS AT WORK Hints and echoes of the vastness of the mail order business of the oountry hi 3 frequently heard, bnt definite figures have nearly always been lack ing For the first time in some years fignres have been disclosed concerning the mailings of the largest Ohloago mail order house. This concern, which Is by no means the only mail order oonceru in Chisago, began to mail its spring catalogues on March 15, and that mail was as muoli greater than the mailing of any ordinary concern as a skyscraper is bigger than a log hut. Six million catalogues wieghing two ounces each were shipped. The total weight was 450 tons. It required mail sacks alone to the extent of sixty-five toDs to hold them. If they had been forwarded in one lot,thirty full length cars would have been required. How ever, four-fifths of the sacks required no handling except to put tliem off the train at their proper place. This mail ing broke not only alt Ohicao post office records, and they are something to break, but broke also most other postollicß reoords in the country, it is claimed. Recently the same firm mail ed in one lot 3,800,000 catalogues,, or 265 tons. This mailing is that of one Chicago mail order house. It does not include the enormous mailings of the other mail order concerns, which in the ag gregate are much greater than .those of the largest concern's figures. A promineut advertising man recently estimated from pretty accurate knowl edge that eaoh year $1 10,000,000 worth of merchandise was bought from Chi cago concerns by mail. On a very con servative estimate of the number of poople who buy this merchandise the figures reach 2,'.'00,000 families. On good authority it is stated that ■every family in lowa has a mall order honse catalogue. The amount of busi ness done by mail order houses can be gauged by the fact that the greatest of mail order houses alone does about .•fp 000,000 worth of business per month. Their catlaogne is 1,400 or 1,500 pages sn size, and each one of the millions een very troublesome all day, begged her earnestly to stay to supper. "Why, dearie." said Mrs. Simmons, j "I did not know yon were so fond of I me." "It ithn't that, Mitheth Thiiumonth," j said Susie honestly. "Mother thath The'th going to give me a good, thound , thwitehin' ath thoon ath you gi> home." -Delineator. The Law of Gravitation. In 1609—seventy-seven years before the publication of Newton's "Princi pia" Shakespeare in the play of "Troilus and Cresslda," act 4, scene makes one of his characters say: i->o to tills boily what extremity you can But the strong l»ase and building of m ■ love Is as the very renter of the earth, Drawing all things to It. This would seem to loot very like the announcement of the law of gravi ty. and yet nothing can possibly lie truer than the fact that the great poet j «lid not in any substantial sense antici pate the philosopher. Between Shake speare s faiicv and the scientific tl'i umph of Ne'.-tim there is an infinite '-difference -Ni w York American. Too Literal. "Well, yes," said old Uncle I.azzetv berry, who was intimately acquainted with most of the happenstanees of the village, "Alrnira Stang has broken off e her engagement with Charles Henry Toot wiler. They'd be goln' together for about eight years, durin' which time she had been ineulcatln' into him. as you might call it, the beauties of economy. But when she discovered ■' Jnst lately that he had learnt his les son so well that he had saved up 217 pairs of sacks for her to darn Immedi ately after the wedding she 'peared t* - » conclude that lie had taken her advice n little too literally and broke off lb •natch.'*-' ruck. STREET REPAIRS un my The borough council has authorized a syntern of street repairs, more exten sive in its scope than lias been under taken in Danville in many years, in cluding practically every street recent ly not improved with the exception of Fast Market and Kast Front street!), for which paving te contemplated. Forty two car loads of crushed lime stone have been ordered from the Sil ver Springs Quarry company. Two cur loatls of material arrived Saturday morning and work on the repairs have already begun. Thi' forty car loads of crushed lime stone ordered and not yet shipped would constitute a good sizsd train if brought to Danville all at one time, but it will bs shipped only nt interv als of greater or less length, just as it oau be taken care of on the streets, where it will be delivered directly from the cir, P. J. Keefar, who as 6tre?t com mis sinner, has charge of the work, Satur day stated that as many hands would be employe.) on the streets as could work to advantage and that the re pairs would be poshed to comple tiou without any loss of time. The repairs Saturday morning began ion Ferry street at the D. L. & W. ; railroad crossing The section between that point and East Mahoning street will be completed first. Simultaneous ly a crew will be put on Church street repairing that thoroughfare between the D. L. & W. crossing and East Mahoning street. Fortunately on these streets lis on many other thorough* fares of tnwu no excavation will be re : quired to make a good job of the mac adam, owing to the fact that the road ! bed was originally constructed of ciu | der and tiiat a solid foundation exists. When Ferry and Ohurch streets are completed the other streets will be taken up in their order that were authorized by council Friday night; namely, Mahoning street, Factory street, Ash, Vine and Chambers street, J Railroad street between Front street aud the canal and the alley leading from Bloom street to Spring street. I When the above improvements are j completed the streets of town, with I the exception of East Market and East i Front streets, will be in very good con ! dition Whether the paving of the two last named streets.so long an unrealiz j ed dream, will become possible during the next six months it is probably a | little too early to predict. [ "You can talk about your <'larksons, j your Rusies, your Radbourns and your ! Mathcwscns," savs Manager Clarke 1 Griffith of the Cincinnati Nationals, "but when it comes down to real figures, tho greatest pitcher that ever lived is 'Cy' Young, who was turned over to Cleveland recently by the Boston club. "Jast think of it, that old boy will bo forty-two years of age on March 29, lias 1 been pitching in fast ooinpany for nine i teen years, and is just as clever in fool -1 ing batsmen now as ever ho was. "It lias been whispered around that tho Cleveland club made a foolish trade j in giving Pitchers Chech and Ryan and a bonus of SIO,OOO for Young. Don't believe it. Why, Young will draw that SIO,OOO the first three gomes he pitches forthe Naps—and he'll keep on winning, too, with that team behind him. "Young's a wonder. Any man that can win upward of 500 games in fast society is a marvel. And you can bet that the old boy has a lot of good base ball in liis makeup yet. Watch him." Honest Ball Flayer. Here's a new one. The Se< retarj of the New Castle (Pa. 1 ba.;eb:ill team claims he has secured a rori'.r.ici, from one of the candidates for a place on the team which is unique, iti that the player agrees that if he does not hit at. a .200 clip for the season he will not ask for | any pay for the final month of the season. Tho secretary will not give out the play er's name, as ho claims that if it were known every pitcher in the league would ; work overtime trying to beat the player out of that month's salary. Pleasing Augury. An era of good feeling is promised I for the Taft Administration. The news papers of all parties .North and South 1 are wishing the new President all kinds j of good fortune and even predicting ' success. It is a pleasing augury.—Ad- j rian (Mich.) Times. A Duty to Aliens. Italki'a sons, In Brooklyn here, With brawn and patience labor Aa wealth creators, far and near Their share they save despite the fear, 1 Unknown to Tankoe neighbor. Of KTim extortion s heavy hand, Whose blackness they can understand. Protection is a debt we owe Within our Kates to workers Their little hoards must fear no blow From bandit bands Sicilians know, Of shooters and of dirkers. Society its duty sees. To crush these Blank Hand vlllanles. [ A hundred thousand peaceful folk In tnVc or manual tollers. Of frugal life, 'neath terror's yoke Breathe fast and dread a coming j stroke From fierce Black Hand deepoilers. ! El Mano Nero's power Is shown In Petroslno's dying Kronn! —Brooklyn Eagle, i "Humble Pie." Originally the term "11111111)10 pie j carried no opprobrious meaning. The i pie was one made out of the "hum bles" or "numbles," from the Norman 1 French "nombrUs'-i. e., the entrails j of n deer. To this day it Is highly es teemed in Scotland and In northern parts of England. So late as the time of Pepys "umble pie" was served as part of the menu of a gentleman's ta ble on an extraordinary occasion. Some writers derive the contumelious use of the phrase "to eat humble pie" from an alleged custom of serving "umble pie" below the salt, or at the second table. IJut this Is not supported by authority. It more probably came into use simply through the similarity of sound, there being no similarity of meaning whatever between the noun umbles or numbles and the adjective humble. SINCE STORY RELATING 10 ISIIM OF MM CO. FAIL! A strange story relating to the his tory of an old and prominent family of Montour county has found its way east from Kalamazoo, Michigan. It recalls the sudden disappearance of Jacob Rishel from his home near Kal amazoo, who moved west from Mon tour county in the early 60' sand dears up at least to soire degree the mystery in which li's disappearance for thirty years was enshrouded. Jacob Rishel, the subject of thU story, was a sou of Solomon Rishel and was born in Mahouing township on the farm jnst east of Danville now owned by Dr. Faules. He gtew to mauhood on the homestead farm and prepared to settle down to the lite of a farmer when he was suddenly seized with the desire to move to Michigan. Al! this was many years ago. When he moved west he was already marri ed, the maiden name of his wife being Mary Heimbach, wliokc home was or the farm in Cooper towtwhip now owned by Prothonotary Tliouils G. Vincent There was one cl:sh» in the family. MONTOUR COUNTY RELVI'IVES. Jacob Rishel had live brothers who j remained behind in Montour county : Washington, Ephraiui, David, Peter and William Rishel. lie had also two sisters, Mrs. Jacob Hartzell, who re mained in this section,aud Mrs. Jonas Mowrey, who removed to Three Riv ers, Michigan. At the present all are dead with the exception of Mrs. Mow rey. Jacob Rishel bought land in Brady | township, near Vicksburg, Michigan. His family iucreased aud he prosper ed. Kleven children were born to Mr. aud Mrs. Rishel; the family was ac counted among the well-to-do people of the community. Iu 1877 Mrs. Rishel died. The care of the farm bpute was left to the daughters—of whom there were eight —and the care of the farm to the three sons, while the father worked at the Vicksburgrgrist milljas a carpenter. HIS STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. During the winter of 1879 the rela tives and friends of Jacob Rishel iu Montour county were pained to learn i that on the 15th of January of that j year he had suddenly dropped out of ! sight. His disappearance was most ! unaccountable. | The State of Michigan was aroused i over the disappearance and every effort j was put forth to locate the man, bu i without avail. Finally the'conviction I became general that the man was dead, j Some thought that he had fallen a ; victim to foul play, while others ad j tiered to the belief that,' alone he had | undertaken to walk across the ioe when he suddenly broke through and j was swallowed up. I The yenrs went by. Breaks iu tl e i little group by death or marriage 1 came one by one, and suon the family was scattered broadcast. No one eu | tertaiued the least doubt but that te i was dead and estates in Moutour couu i ty were closed without his being ct.ll | ed upon to be present. SEEN IN A VISION. In process of time Mary Elizabeth ! Rishel. one cf the eldest of the child i reii married, her husband being Juhu 1 Kidder. After a time the married i couple took up their home at tiiS Fust street, Kalamazoo. Michigan. Mr and Mrs. Kidder have a daughter—Mary who in 1903, when little more than a i child, was taken sick, her ailment bo ' ing nervous and spinal troubles. To Cure Wrinkles. "Look at a paralytic if you think i wrinkles incurable." said a beauty doc ! tor. "On the side be Is paralyzed all : his wrinkles disappear. Though he be sixty or seventy, bis profile on that side Is tho profile of a youth. So the paralytic shows us bow to cure our wrinkles—namely, by keeping our fa cial muscles still. If we keep our faces In perfect repose, never laughing when the comedian sings his best song, nev er weeping wheu wife or sweetheart dies, we will have no wrinkles what ever. The skin wouldn't wrinkle If It were not exposed. The skin of the body Is much disturbed by action of the muscles underneath-as at the knee, for Instance—yet this unexposed skin never wrinkles. Not being ex posed to the bad influence of sun and wind, it has not lost the oil and the elasticity of childhood. And that's where I come in with my creams and j uncnents and massages." New Or leans Times-Democrat. Country Folk Are Tender With Birds Real country folk are very tender in their dealings with the birds that live i near them. In ihe course of my ex-1 perience. extending over many years, i I have never known a case of wanton j cruelty occur in regard to wild birds. J The laboring man, whose work so of-1 ten lies far from the haunts of men, seeks companionship with the birds.! Of these none is more friendly than I Ihe robin, which is sure to appear, however lonely the place. Coruhlll Magazine. Force of Habit. "I wish, John," said the editor's wife, "that you'd try not to be so absent minded when we are dining out." "Eh? What have I done now?" "Why, when the hostess asked yon | if you'd have some more pudding you replied that owing to a tremendous j pressure on your space you were com- I palled to decline."—London Tit-Bits. 1 Waited Effort. Kind Old Lady (talking to a tramp Have you ever made an effort to got work? Tramp—Yes. ma'am. Ijrst motv'- got work for two members of my t lly, but neither of them would take , i —London Telegraph. While suffering from these ailments on several occasions the girl fell into a trance becoming clairvoyant. On awak ing ou each ocoasion she told of (he strauge visions she had beheld, often describing accurately things that she was supposed to have no knowledge of, so that finally the family could not doubt but that while in a trance she had the power of discerning things not present to the Benses. Finally,after Jacob Rishel had been missing twenty four years, and all hope of ever seeing him alive had been abandoned, Mary Kidder on awaking from one of her trances amazed her parents by telling them that she had seen her grandfather and that he was alive. She had been car ried, she Raid, to a hamlet in the moun tains of California and there had seen | her grandfather, Jacob Rishel. He | was standing among piles of boxes and was ready to move from that region. The girl had never seen the grandfath- ) l er iu the flesh and had onlv heard of i | him in a casual way. | After this strange revelation hope ! was rekindled in the bosoms of the j Kidder family ; all others, however, I remained firm in the conviction that the man was dead. 1 JACOB RISHEL HEARD FROM. | There were still many yoaisof v.ait- I ing; then less than three weeks ago, ! like a bolt of lightning from a clsar ! sky, caiue the positive' information j that Jacob Rishel was alive. A letter j from the missing man, now 83 years !of age, addressed to Brady township ! fell into the hands of Jacob Rishel, one of the sons who had continued to j reside uear.Vicksburg. The old man stated that he was fast losing his eye- | ! sight anil that he longed to leturn to j I his old home He was living at Delta, i I Col. Ho had removed from California about the time that he was seen by , in a vigion, surrounded by a pile of boxes ready to move. DIES BEFORE SON'S ARRIVAL, j | As soon as Jacob Rishel received the | letter from his father he left for Del ' ta.Col It was now believed that the great mystery would be cleared up— j that the cause of Jacob Rishel's ('is- ! appearance would be made known and that light would be thrown ou his subsequent career. But alas, no sooner i had the »■•>>: stopped from the train at i Delta than he was informed by a res ident that the elder Rishel was dead — that ho had died only fifteen minutes before the train's arrival. The day before he was assisting to remove some furniture preparatory to ' returning to Vicksburg with his sou when he slipped ou the stairs aui fell heavily to the tloor. The shock proved fatal. Tiius the mystery will never he cleared. Ihe sou fount! that the father was living iu good circumstances. Hi* former thrift had followed him aud he had a nice bank account. He had changed but little iu appeatauce aud the son, who was young when the j fattier left home, easily recognized I liau from photographs. The body was I shipped to Michigan aud ttie funeral | was held from the old home at Vicks- I bnrg on Sunday, March 38th. j Former County Commissioner Uec. 1 1 M. Leighow, whose wife is a first | cousin o( the uisu whose strangely dis ' j appeared, yisterrtay stated that he was au intimate friend and associate of Jacob Rishel, before the latter re moved to Michigan and that in the year of bin departure the two were working together all winter. Wart Him One Better. I One of t'ul j It reminds me of a sad occurrence thai befell a friend of min»» while we were j traveling in Italy, lie was an entliusi i astic amateur photographer, and when 1 we climbed Vesuvius nothing would | satisfy him but a near view of the era -1 ier. lie wanted togo to the very edge. | The guides told him of the danger. It was the last seen of my poor friend! Sad. wasn't it, sir':" he added, turning to the solemn mat. The latter shook I his head. "l)o you doubt my word?" j said the traveler. "No," returned the solemn man."l don't doubt your word, but I fancy your memory is falling." "Eh? How so?" "Because." said the solemn man slowly and "gravely—"be cause 1 am the man! And yet you i don't remember me! 1 came out again | on the other side of the globe, but I i got my view!" There was dead silence ! for a few minutes afterward, and the I traveler got off at the next station. Pretty Slow. j Horace L. Moore was lieutenant colo nel of the noted Nineteenth Kansas cavalry. He could lead men for a long er period without rest on a single ra tion of cheerful good humor than any other officer. Though not given to ; jokes, he was the reputed author of as many astonishcrs as the great Lin- j coin. j One time, on the march, he sent an | orderly wit h a message to an officer at j some distance. Before the man was j ! out of hearing Moore shouted: "Hey. I j orderly! Come back here!" i He came galloping back, sitting limp- j I ly In the saddle. Moore dropped his voice and, assuin- ! j lng a half confidential 1 ed, "Orderly, in the course of your life j [ have you ever seen n snail?" "Yes, sir." was the astonished reply. "You met him, then," replied Moore, j ' "for you'd never overtake one!" —Kan- j sas City Journal. FEATS OF STRENGTH. A Blacksmith Who Fairly Outdid Au gustus the Strong. Not all the world's strong men have been performers on the public stage. Indeed, instances might be multiplied in which the feats of professionals have been equaled or excelled. Charles Louvier, a carpenter of Paris, found it child's play to roll a tin basin between his fingers into a cylinder. On one occasion he carried off a sol dier on guard who bad gone to sleep in tbo sentry box and deposited both the box and the soldier on a low churchyard wall near by. Another man who sometimes found his great strength a source of amuse ment was a Danish locksmith. Knut Knudson. While standing in a win dow on the ground floor he lifted with one hand half a bullock from the shoulder of a butcher who was toiling past with his load. Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony, once entered a blacksmith's shop to have his horse shod. To show his suit how strong he was he picked up several horseshoes and broke one after the other, asking the blacksmith I as he did so if he had no better. When I it came to paying the bill the elector threw a silver piece on the anvil. II , was a very thick coin. The blacksmith I took it up and broke it in half, saying. "Pardon me, but I have given you a I good horseshoe, and I expect a good I coin in return." Another piece was offered him. lie broke that and live or six others. Then the humiliated elector handed hltn a louls d'or, saying. "The o'hers were probably made of 1 bad meta I. but this gold piece is good. 1 hope." | An Italian, Lulgi Uertini of Milan. : perforim'il a similar feat. Besides ! horseshoes, he broke nails a finger j thick j The Duke of Gramnr.o.it. the minis tor of Napoleon II! frequently aston 1 ished the women at < ourr by bending i a twent.v franc piece in his hand.— New York '1 rilmne Cueir Life In Johannesburg. Here i-> an amusing description oi | queer life in a Johannesburg residen | tlal block: "Nearly every one has one j room, anil into this you cram nearly I all your worldly possessions and learn all kinds of vanishing tricks and jug | gling feats, such as having a coinbina ! Hon bed and piano, using your wash itig stand for your writing table and converting your hip bath by day with rugs and cushions into an armchair. In this abode of bliss you receive your friends, male and female, and, if the gentleman, sitting himself rashly o:i ! the bed-sofa, vanishes into the piano < or the lady throws herself wearily int> the hip bath armchair and it falls of) the packing case with her inside it no one will turn a hair. You will in | vite them t<> lunch or tea or dinner which ever is approaching, and tin gentleman will offer togo and buy chops or kippers and fetch the milk and when he returns will help you cook, and you'll sit together and eat ! it on the washing stand, which also does duty as a dinner table on such occasions."—London Standard. The Chief Justice. "There are very few people whol;m>\\ the proper designation of the man wh.i presides over the supreme court," sai'i the secretary of the senate. "Generally he is referred to as the chief Justice of the United States MI i pre me court. In fact, he is the chief justice. That's his official title. >.!■• t of our presidents In nominating i for this ofliee have t'al*n into the err< : of giving him the long title. Whet. George Washington nominated Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut for this posi he described it as chief Justice of the supreme court of the United State* Andrew Jackson made the same errot in nominating Richard B. Taney. did Abraham Lincoln when he appoint ed Salmon P. Chase. Grover Cleve land was the first president to give the 8 correct designation. When he appoint -0 ed Melville W. Fuller he nominated • him to be chief justice and nothing . else. future nominations will br framed in this fashion."— Sowing For Them. As a countryman was sowing his ground two smart fellows were riding that way, and one of theiu called to him with an insolent air. "Well, honest 1 fellow," said he. " 'tis your business I to sow, but we reap the fruits of your v labor," to which the countryman re plied. " 'Tis very like you may, for I l am sowing hemn "—t'-utiw.'c Auditor's Notice. In the Orphans' Court Montour County. In the Estate of William Taylor, late ' of Liberty township,Moutour County, dee'd. i The undersigned, appointed auditor I of the Orphans' Court of Montour County ; in the matter of the First and Final Account of Henry Vincent, Ad ministrator of William Taylor, late of , Liberty township, County of Montour • and State of Pennsylvania; deceased; ' to make distribution of the balance in the hands of said Accountant, to and among the parties legally entitled . thereto; will meet all parties for the purposes of bis appointment, at his office on Mill Street, iu the Botougli of Danville, on Wednesday, May sth, 1909, at it> o'clock, A. M. ; when and where all persons having any claim upon said fund must present the same or be forever barred from coming in upon the same. aI K. SCOTT AMMERMAN, Auditor. Notice. APPLICATION FOR DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATION. All persons interested will take net- 1 ice that application has been made to I the Court of Common Pleas of Mon-1 tour County by John H. Qoeser Com j pany.a corporation duly chartered un- I der the laws of the State of Pennsyl vania; setting forth that,at a meeting ;of the stockholders duly convened, it was unanimously resolved to petition the said Court for a dissolution of the corporation; and praying the Conrt ; for a decree to dissolve the corpora tion. WHEREUPON March 20, 1!>09. the Court directed Notice to be given, notifying all concerned that, unless cause be shown,a decree will be made : in acoordanoe with the prayer of the Petition on April 14. lUOB, at 10:00 | o'clock A. M | All persons interested will govern tberaHelvps sccordingtv. THOMAS O. VINCENT. Protbouotnry. I Danville, Pa., March 20, HIOO. CELEBRATING ' THE PASSOVER One of the most uuitjoe of all Jewish holidays began Monday evening to con tinue for a period of eight days Pe sao!i is the Hebrew name, and Pass over is the English translation. Nis an 15, is the 6th, which is really the first day of this holiday, but aacord ing to Jewish law, all holidays begin at Bcmset the day before. Passover is the Jewish Fourth of July, the first festival of liberty, the commemoration of the original de claration of independence antedating the American declaration by thousands of years. The Jews were slaves in Egypt and in the midst of their gieat est peiaecutions by their taskmasters of Egypt, arose Moses, the prototype of Washington,and struck a blow for lib erty which converfe l a nafion of bond men into a nation of freemen,and laid the foundation for what was then the most powerful nation ou earth. The old testament relates the story of the j events which led tip to the liberation lof Israel. It tells of the death of ail | the first-born males amoug the Kg.vi> |tians, of the swift trip of the angel of j death, with his gleaming sword, kill ing all the firstborn among the Egypt ians, and " passing over" the homes inhabitated by the Israelites, which gave the holiday the uamsof Passover. Then followed the hasty departure ont of the laud of Egypt and the crossing of the Ked Sea. One of the interesting features of the observance of this holiday is that a day of fasting precedes the Passover holiday. The firstborn boy of every family only is compelled to fast ou that day, because the angel ot d"ath, dnriug those stirring times in the lan i of Egypt, spared the first born among the Israelites, and took from earth the first born among the oppressors. Another interesting feature of the Passover is the celebration of the Seder, the first two nights of the holi day, which this year were be observed Monday aud Tuesday eves. The family comprising each Jewish household is seated about the table, and each must, according to rabbinical law, driuk, or sip, from a certain number of glasses or cups of wine. One large glass, the largest aud best in the household, is > filled to the brim with Passover wine, and in the center of the table awaits the coming of Elijah,the prophet,who according to Hebrew tradition, never died, but ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire. This prophet is suppos ed to visit every Jewish household during Sedar night. The mat/.0, or unleavened bread, is \ eaten in commemoration of the exodus | from Egypt, when the Israelites, in I their haste to leave the land of oppres | sion.had no time to use leaven for the i bread. Orthodox Jews discard ail | dishes and other kitchen utensils that i are used during the year, and u?e a ] special set complete in every detail, i for those eight days otilv. Certain food products may not be eaten at ail dur i ing Passover, and other tilings must be specially prepared, and bear the s-ai that it is not "chometz," or unlit for Pjsach ose. They Had Will Power. I was sitting one-morning in a quiet ; Pernor at Monte Carlo when two elder ly men sal down beside ine. Oue was , ■evidently n Scotchman, and the other, 1 gathered, was from Yorkshire. The i former remarked, "1 have just man aged it." This, I discovered, meant a | win of 20 francs. Their daily routine was to appear at the same roulette ta ! hie at an early hour and play the low j est stake of 5 francs on even chances — j that is, on black or red or on the odd jor even numbers. They would lose and win and win and lose, but they remained calm and self contained and | persevered until they had each 20 | francs to the good. I observed them dally. Some mornings they scooped in ! the amount in twenty minutes, and at ' other times it was a tough struggle | until luncheon time before they man i aged ft. 1 never saw them fail once, ! and I learned that they had pursued j ihe same plan for four months. One I thing was clear—nothing could tempt j them togo beyond the modest stake, i and they had the will to stop when j they won the stipulated amount. It i was really one of the best illustrations j of will power I have ever seen, for | few, indeed, who enter the portals of j the casino are able to resist the com | polling atmosphere of the tables to | play on if losing and to plunge if win i nlng.—Chambers' Journal. The Origin of the Periwig, j The periwig, which played so itupor i tant a part in the toilet of a man of I fashion during part of the seventeenth | and eighteenth centuries, owed its ori | gin to I.ouis XIV. of France. When a j little boy (he succeeded to the throne ! , at five years of age) be possessed :> I profusion of remarkably beautiful j waving hair which fell in clustering j curls over his shoulders. The courtier.-! imitated the boy king by having head of false hair to imitate his natural! ' locks, aud when Louis grew up he' ' adopted the periwig himself. i During the reign of William ar.<3| j Mary periwigs were worn in exagger-! j ated dimensions, and the beaux used j I to comb their wigs in public with spe- I cial combs of Ivory and tortoise shell, i which became at last quite indlspensa-' ble to these tine gentlemen. 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.. 1909, granted a role to show cause why the said Court should not enter a decree changing the name of Ralph Winter Diehl to Ralph Beaver Diehl. Said rule returnable April 12, 1909. at 10 o'clock, A. M THUS. G. VINCICNT, Proth j Ralph Kiciier, Att'v. AR i A Wheat Hospital. '"This wheat has been through the hospital," said a miller. "I can teM by the fine polish on the grains. Wheat that has been through the hospital for smut disease comes out better thai* well wheat" The wheat grains, in truth, shone so that one could almost see one's face iu them. "You can see your face in them, can't you?" said the miller. "And no wonder. They've been through drastic treatment—drastic. Smut is a nasty disease, a kind of mold, that changes the starch and gluten in wheat to a black powder. When you see floor full of black specks It is a sign t hat some of the wheat was smutted. Tbo rure is first to wash the wheat thor oughly. Then you dry It. Then you scour it. Then you dry It again. Finally you brush It. Wheat hospitals —they are found in most grain ele vators nowadays—have big machines for washing, drying, scouri • and brushing the grain, and wheat on its very last legs comes out of those in firmaries as spruce and blooming as a football girl." Kuffalo Express An Astrologer's Letter. An astrologer's letter to President Van Ruren forecasting the results of his election in 184(1 Is in the library of congress and perhaps gives a crude Idea of sotne of (he fallacies of our grandfathers. The following are some extracts: "In this horoscope the as cendant directed to the semlsquare of Mars would be In operation about the middle of the fourth year, October, 1785, and might i ause sickness. » * • flux or hurt by wounds," etc. • • » "I have opened the horoscope for Gen eral Harrison, which accords with the chief events of his past life and which If right he will not fill the office president during the next term even If elected. And the danger 1 appre hend to yourself Is not from your pnb 11c opponents, hut from those on whom you repose confidence." Those wl» are superstitious may be inclined to credit this star gazer with some meas ure of wisdom, for Harrison, although elected, died a month after his Inau guration New York Post. Why Our Rcilroacls Are Narrow Gauga Why are nil railroads built on th<- standard gouge of four feet eight ami one-half inches? The makers of the first locomotives thought only of put ting their machines upon the tram ways already In existence, and from that followed a very interesting and curious result. These tram lines natu rally had exactly the width prescribed by the strength of one horse. By mere inertia the horse cart gaugo estab lished itself in the world, and every where the train is dwarfed to a scale that limits alike its comfort, power and speed. Because there is so much capital engaged and because of tbe dead power of custom it is doubtful it there will ever be any change in this j gauge. Still, it might be worse. If the biggest horses had been Shetland [to nics our railway carriages now would only be wide enough to hold two pox ! sons side by side and would have a I maximum speed of twenty miles au hour. 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