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
<of catalogues mailed costs mailed costs
About 25' cents in stamps to send out.
Nearly 8,000 people are employed on a
twenty acre plant filling orders, and
seventy-five special catalogues aud fif
teeu sample books nre got out each
season.
It Was a Boy!
There was no booth In the corner
idrug store. The young man at the
telephone, therefore, could be heard by
«11 the customers ranged about the soda
water fountain. His face beamed as
he talked.
"Everything Is all right," he was
•Baying.
"Ma'am?
"Yes'm. Eleveu pounds. Beautiful
!boy. Like me, they say.
"Ma'a m?
"Yes'm. Resting quietly. Would
•have sent for you. but thought it best
snot to. Didn't want to worry you.
"Ma'am?
"Yes'm. I'll attend to all that
"XI a 'a m?
"Yes'm. I'll tell her you're coming
<owu right away. Beautiful boy.
"Ma'am?
"Yes'm. Eleven pounds and luoks
'Just like me."
He rang off and walked proudly out
of the drug store apparently oblivious
of the smiling countenances of his In
terested listeners ranged around the
Bodn fountain.—Chicago Inter Ocean
Meant Her Invitation-
Mrs. Simmons, who bad been spend
ing the day with Mrs. Mayes, was pre
paring togo home. Susie, who had ;
\>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'<e occupants of a railway
j carriage was a gentleman who beguiled
| the time by telling some rather "tall
j yarns" of bis experiences abroad A
I solemn looking individual with a cam
i era and tripod sat in a corner seat and
| listened without a shadow of a smile.
| The traveler, having concluded an im
pressive story, says Ixmdon Punch, be
| gan again: "I never see a camera 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. There is hardly a reason aside
i from this antiquated horse why the
; railway coach should not be nine or
j ten feet wide —that is, the width of
the smallest room in which people can
j live In comfort and furnished with ail
j the equipment of comfortable chain-
I hers.—Atlanti".
Prediction About Taft.
j Don't look for any more stienuosity
i from the White House. Kat men are
i not inclined to great exertion. There
' will be no more setting patterns of
I horseback riding for government otß
j Mais.—Hastings (Mich.) Journal.
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