Montour American
FRANK C. ANOLE, Proprietor.
Danville, Pa., Nov. 11, l«>9
OLD MAN KILLED
OK HIS BIRTH
On the anniversary of liis 65th birth
day, J. Rankin Edwards, a prosperous
farmer of near Muucy, was shot down
in cold blood and instanlty killed by
Ellis Deeter, whom he had many times
befriended, Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Edwards witnessed the cruel slaving
of her husband.
Mr. Edwards, his wife, and Sharon
Castle, a brother-in-law, were sitting
in the kitchen of the Edwards' home
stead around the stove. At 7 o'clock
'Deeter came into the house very|much
\»uder the influence of liquor. He had
been hunting during the day and car
ried a shot gun.
Deeter placed the shot gun across the
hot stove and then drawing a revolver
Said that he had taken it away from
bis sister-in-law, a woman also named
Deeter, who acts as his housekeeper.
He handled tlio pistol so carelessly
that he was warned by those present
that he might do harm with the weap
on, but not heeding the warning con
tinued to flourish it in a boastful man-
Mr.
Becoming more boastful as the fami
ly remonstrated with him he started
to tell about a fight that had occurred
at his home a few days ago, and said
th&t he could have easily shot one of
tlie persons participating in the affair.
Mr. Edwards remarked that the person
Deeter spoke of could have shot him
before he could have placed his shot
gun to his shoulder, or words to that
•affect.
Deeter immediately picked up his
•Shotgun, put it to his shoulder and ex
«laimed: "He could, could he?"
Then Deeter fired point blank at Ed
wards who was sitting in a chair not
over two or three feet away. Mrs. Ed
wards rushed to the side of her fallen
husband, but death was instantaneous,
the charge entering the right s do of
his neck, severing the spinal cord and
Windpipe.
"Well, I'll go out and kill myself
now," said Deteer as lie walked away,
but he evidently changed his mind.;
Edwards was slain about 7 o'clock,
and it was more than au hour after
that the news of the killing reached
Muuc.y.
The messenger who took the shock
ing tidings to the down-river town
2k.utod that after Deeter hail committed
Vie terrible deed the murderer left the
Edwards farm and went hack to his
fcomo, which is located about a half
mile from the scene of the murder.
Deeter was arrested by Constable
Smith and taken to the Williamsport
jail at 3 o'clock yesterday morning.
Janet's Way of Growing Young.
As a matter of fact, .lanet was horn
exactly two years before her brother
Fred; therefore In the natural course
•of things when he was ten she was
twelve and gloried In It. Wben Fred
was known to be fourteen she still con
Teased to sixteen. When Fred boasted
•eighteen years she timidly acknowl
edged herself Just over nineteen. When
Fred came home froni college and had
■a party in honor of his twenty-first
birthday Jatiet said fo her friends:
"What a boyish fellow Fred is; Who
would think he Is only a year younger
tban I?" When Fred declared himself
twenty-five and old enough to get mar
ried Janet said to a gentleman friend:
"Do you know.l feel very jealous of
Fred getting married But. then. I
suppose twins always are more at
tached to one another." And two years
later at Fred's wedding she said, with
■a girlish simper to the guests: "Dear
old Fred! To see him married today,
and to think when he was only five
years old they brought him to see me.
his baby sister; I wonder if he thinks
of it now?"
Thought He Was Mad.
The late Count de Lesseps was trav
eling on one occasion in a French rail
way train in a compartment with two
commercial travelers.
"I beg your pardon, sir." said one of
them, fancying that he belonged to
their fraternity—"are you not a trav
eler?"
"Certainly I am," said the count.
"We thought so! What is your line?"
"Isthmuses."
"Wh-wh-what," asked the puzzled
commercial—"what are they?"
"I am introducing ship canals," said
Do Lesseps gravely.
The commercial travelers feared that
they had fallen in with a lunatic and
were making preparations to escape
when the couut handed them his card
and put them at their ease.
A Fishing Story.
Angling lias some very marvelous
"incidents" among its many records. I
Hampshire has its true tale of a duck j
which became entangled in a trout
line and, breaking off the gut, trailed
the fly behind her and actually hooked I
a fair sized fish. The struggle be
tween the two must have been as ex
traordiuary as that of the Dumfries j
gander which became similarly at
tached to a line and hook baited with
dead frog.
In this case a voracious pike was
hooked, and a veritable tng of war en
sued, iu which the astonished bird
performed sundry somersaults on the
surface of the water until victory at
last, rewarded the feathered angler, j
which towed to shore one of the 1
largest fish ever caught in that par :
ticuiar loch. And that the tale is trne
makes It all the more interesting.
Time Wasted.
Boston Lady—Did you learn anything j
*t the Woman's club? New York Lady ;
—Absolutely nothing. Wish I hadn't !
gone. I had seen all the gowns be- 1
fore.—New York Life.
NOW SAY THEY CARRY
HARRISBURG, Nov. 10.
The State department where returns
are received was compelled to change
its forecast of yesterday,and it is now
believed by Chief Clerk Thorn that all
of the amendments will pass except
the seventh.
Philadelphia county will give at
least :54,000 for the amendments and
Allegheny, which will give B,(KM) or
51,000, will certainly overcome the ad
verse majorities in the other counties,
and this result cannot be affected by
Armstrong, which is yet, to return
about 5)00 majority against the amend
ments and Berks, which is also ad
verse.
Following are the majorities against
the various amendments in the sixty
three counties that have made official
returns: First, 30,244; second, 25,413;
third, 24,5(72; fourth, 32,760; fifth, 22,-
680; sixth, 25,173; seventh, 751,302;
eighth,2s,7so; ninth, 2(1,801; tenth, 2<>,-
717; schedule, 34,478. All the amenud
nients but the seventh will carry.
MARJORIE GOULD.
An American Beauty Who May Soon
Become a Duchess.
An American girl whose great beauty
and fortune have recently turned the
heads of sotne of Europe's highest no
bility Is Marjorie Could, the eldest
daughter of George Jay Gould. She
is now iu her eighteenth year and was
introduced to society in January last.
Miss Gould bears a strong resem
blance to her mother, who, as Edith
Kingdon, was one of the most popular
members iu Augustin Daly's stock
company. She Is dark of type, with
large brown eyes and clean cut fea
tures. Most of her life has been spent
at Georgian Court, the Gould estate a'
I.akewood, N. J. There she learned to
ride and developed a fondness for va
rious forms of athletics. She plays a
good game of tennis anil almost daily
is on the courts with her brother Jay,
MARJORIE oonr.D.
the world's champion at court tenuis.
The girl has a strong inclination for
acting and has appeared iu oue act
plays with her mother lu the private
i theater at Georgian Court.
! Miss Gould limls the outdoor life ur
Lakewood even more attractive than
the round of social duties iu the city.
She has several automobiles and drives
them herself, usually at high speed.
I Among Miss Gould's most persistent
j wooers is the Grand Duke Alexander
| Georgievitch Domanowski, the hand
j some young cousin of the czar of Uus
j sia. The Duke of Alba, one of Eu
i rope's richest noblemen, has also shown
her much attention, and it was recent
| Iv rumored that the.v were engaged.
POLE FINDER CONFESSES.
j Professor Phelps of Yale. Drawn by a
Sawhorse, Reaches World's Top.
; Professor William Lyon Phelps of
, Yale says that he is the only original
j discoverer of the north pole. He de
j scribes It in the following letter:
| At latitude S7 1 made ray final dash.
I consisting of a few parenthetical remarks
|on the weather I hitched the span. the
I sawhorse and the pony, to a new buck
boa.-0 wagon, cutting oft the tongue, so
that 1 might be the first to announce my
discoviry. Ten miles had swiftly flown
by, len the pony, thinking that the
sawhorse was a seahorse, tried to eat
him. The pony naturally resented tills.
I and the team, already frightened by the
. narrowness of the meridian lines and by
I the spectacle of a large fountain penguin,
i became unmanageable.
The two faithful Eskimos wore thrown
out and were immediately devoured by
polar bears, who. seeing their long beards,
i took them for arctic hairs, esteemed a
great delicacy by these animals. I was
pitched high in the air and landed on the
small of my back, thus discovering not
only the pole, hut ihe wliiflletree. At tins
moment my right ascension was about
ten seconds, my declination, so far as any
future attempts are concerned, was ttnal
and absolute. Yours very truly,
WILLIAM I.YON i'HELI'S
Luck of an Inventor's Wife.
•Mrs. Thomas A. Edison recovered a
diamond ring worth $l,lOO which she
gave up as lost Six years ago. The
young man who found it at that time
had kept it ever since, believing it to
be without value. He was rewarded
with a check and the promise of a
job. something he was in want of.
Uobert F. McCarthy of 7,1 Mount Ver
non avenue. Orange, found the ring I
when he was a student in St. John's
school six years ago. lie was chest- '
nutting in Llewellyn park. West Or- j
ange. N. .1., not far from the Edison ;
home, and lie picked it up from arnoug |
the leaves by the roadside.
Insurance Policy Slot Machines.
Peanuts and accident insurance poli i
cies can now be obtained from sioi [
machines. There is enough money to !
be made from vending them to induce
men associated with the Standard Oil
rompany to organize a million dollar
concern to manufacture and place the
slot machines. It is expected that this
company will in time control all slot
machines that have anything to sell?
One Difference.
Examiner—Now. children.- what is
the difference between "pro" and
"con?" Bright Coy—Please, sir, they're
spelt different.—London Punch.
SUES MONTtluii
COJOR 51700
Claiming that the county of Montour
was neglectful in not keeping one of
its bridges, located in Anthony town
ship, in good repair, by which his
traction engine went through it and
was damaged and himself injured, 11.
13. Mordan, of Millville, through his
attorneys William and Neil Chrisman,
of Bloomsburg, on Saturday brought
suit against the local commissioners,
claiming SI7OO damages. The suit was
brought in this county. The engine
was valued at SI4OO.
"Mr. Mordan details his expenses in
the following manner:
Money, time ami labor expended up
on repairs of the traction engine, ex
tracting it from the bed of tlio creek,
transporting it to and from tho shop
for repairs, including all expenses by
reason of the damage, $700; damage to
the business and loss of profits in busi
ness by reason of delay, $500; injuries
to the plaintiff's person, consisting of
a sprained back, finger hurt, suffering
and loss of time, SSOO, total SI7OO.
Mr. Mordan alleges that,on the '.'Nth
day of July last while crossing a
bridge over Chillisquaque creek, in
Anthony township, on the public road
leading from tlio cross road school
house to Hidlay school house, and
known as the Mouselike, Diehl or Carey
bridge, the traction engine went
through the bridge, I 2 feet, to the bed
of the creek,carrying its owner along,
injuring him and damaging the engine.
LARGE SHIPMENTS.
j There could be no more significant
I object lesson showing the failure of
I crops in this section than the enor
mous and unprecedented filiipnients'of
cabbage and potatoes that are being
made daily into Danville.
George W. Eggert, station agent of
the D .L. & W. Railroad, who is in a
position to know whereof lie* speaks,
Tuesday stated that the like lias
never been known before. Cars con
taining cabbage 'and potatoes, mostly
the latter, shipped from distant points
maybe said j to arrivoJJfatJPDanville
daily and as fast as they can be un
loaded the contents are sold and de
livered to the cellars. It is estimated
that some twenty-five*'carloads]! have
already arrived and that an equal
number have been engagedjby"local
dealers and will arrivejit later'date.-.
In limited quantities cabbage and
ixitatoes were shipped to Danville
other seasons. The increased number
required this year is due to the
drought conditions prevailing during
the summer. The twenty-five car-load -
eil with produce already brought into
Danville to supply the general defic
iency, if placed in a line, would make
a rather imposing railway train, to
say nothingjof'wlmt is to'follow.
In former times, before the railroads
afforded such facilities for shipping,
when crops were short the farmer
found some compensation in lm li
price.-. Conditions, however, have
wholly changed and there is now a
general equalization of prices.
The potatoes shipped here by local
dealers are" sold audj delivered at <>.»
cents. Withernam thousand bushels of
potatoi - unloaded <in the town at the
above figure the fanner of the vicinity
who started out asking SI.OO a bushel
and upward, sees his hope of high
prices vanish and there i-. nothing left
for hint to do but to accept the situ
ation.
LEGAL ADVICE.
THo Lawyer's Duty In Giving Counsel
to His Client.
In the realm of advice a lawyer may
choose between counseling his client
how to uphold the rights secured to
bint by the justice of his cause or how
to obtain benefits from the application
of technicalities and the nse of the
weaknesses of the particular statute
or precedents uuder consideration
whereby he may attaiu advantages in
consistent with fair play between man
and man.
Every time a lawyer encourages such
an application of the law as, resulting
in injustice, casts disrepute upon the
law or its administration he is plainly
promoting discord either in the present
or the future.
Every time a lawyer counsels con
troversy for the establishment of a
right as recognized by existing law
or for the promulgation of new law
beneficial to the majority of society he
is exercising his true function, and
the charge which he lays upon his in
dividual client and through him upon
industry and progress in the mass, if
reasonable in amount, i-s well earned
and should be cheerfully paid.
When, however, a lawyer gives the
other kind of advice the expense, per
haps cheerfully borne by the client
who profits personally therefrom, must
be finally laid IIIMJII society as a whole,
which is thereby paying for its own
injury and naturally resents the
charge.—Donald U. Klchberg in At
lantic.
The Easiest Way.
Dickson—Dobbins formerly opposed
"iy views, but now he agrees with me
in everything. Wickson-Ilow do yon
account for it? Dickson—Don't know.
I'm not surr whether I convince him
or only make him tired.
The first and worst of ail frauds is
to cheat oneself.
His Last Place.
"But" said the merchant to the ap
plicant, "you don't furnish any refer
ence from your last place."
"You needn't worry about that" re
plied the man with the close cropped
bead and strange pallor; "I wouldn't
bo here now if it hadn't been for my
good behavior in my last place."—
Catholic Standard and Times.
100 LATE FOR
BUILDING MACADAM
It would seem that all idea of doing
any work on the reconstruction of the
extension of East Market street this
fall has been abandoned by council.
The change of plans and the effort to I
secure State aid to pave the street be
tween Cook's court and the hospital j
macadam has entailed so much delay
that it would be inexpedient togo on
with the work, even if macadam be
the form of road adopted.
Borongh Engineer G. F. Keefer yes
terday stated that it is ill-advised to
build macadam late in the Reason, even
if the work is finished before frost. A
macadam should be built early enough
to permit the roadbed to become solid
and compact under traffic before freez
ing begins. The engineer designated a
piece of macadam near Danville that
has never proven a success because the
work was carried along until freezing
actually began.
i Mr. Keefer heartily approves the
. action taken by council at its last
[ meeting when it decided to pave the
I extension of East Market along with a
i portion of the street proper, under the
| act of May 1. 1905, provided such pro
| eedure is possible.
j Macadam, he says, is not to be con
i sidered in connection with paving
| when the latter is at all possible. Un
j der such traffic as roads are exposed to
j at present when automobiles ontnum-
I her other vehicles the life of macadam
|is scarcely more than two years—or a
: least at, the expiration of that time re
j pairs are necessary. Paving is well
| nigh indestructible and can be relied
(on for years. That its additional cost
|is more than counterbalanced by its
j durability is a fact easilv demonstrat
j ed.
FRANCES LITTLE.
Another Story by the Author of"The
Lady of the Decoration."
To those who have read that clever
little book "The Lady of the Decora
i lion" it will be welcome news that its
j author, Frances Little, has come for
ward with auother story that also has
j many appealing qualities. "Little Sis
-1 ter Snow" is the title, and it is a vol
j limn that promises to add much to the
writer's fame.
Frances Little is iii reality Mrs. Fan
nie < J. Mncauley, the former name be
tng her nom de plume, and those who
have road "The Lady of the Decora
tion' need not be told that she is a
native and resident of Kentucky. The
heroine of that book, who is in faroff
Japan and at times wretchedly home
sick, is always longing to return to
j the Blue Grass State, and even the
mention of her native and dearly be
v
FRANCES LITTLE.
loved country brings a pang. Prob
ably if it had not been for Susie Datum
she would have given up.
Mrs. Mncauley is a niece of that fa
mous writer Alice Megan Rice, the au
thor of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch." It is rather a remarkable fact
that two members of the same family
shoul' l branch out as authors and write
such witty and interesting books. Mrs.
Rice has also written "Lovey Mary"
and other stories, and her success in
the literary world induced Mrs. Ma
cauley to trv her hand at authorship.
The accompanying photo of Mrs. Ma
cauley is the first one she has had
taken in many years, and it was only
recently that she finally consented to
give her renders a chance to see the
author of "The Lady of the Decora
tion."
An Indignant Beggar.
Flashing a roll of bills in the face of
a haughty individual who had refused |
to give bini alms and who had added ,
further insults to this injury by heap-1
ing ridicule upon him, a very typical'
beggar at t'oyoacan pulled off a stunt!
that brought down jeers upon the un- j
charitable young man. This beggar l
would have passed muster anywhere j
for one of the finished type and could i
safely have walked unarmed at mid- j
night through a wilderness infested
with thieves without his poverty once t
being questioned. There was not a j
whole thread in the warp and woof of
his shirt that extended from seam to
seam, and only an expert sartorial art
ist could have detected which open
ings were those originally made lu the
garment for putting it on and off.
Just what portion of those rags was
solid and strong enough to retain the
roll of bills is a marvelous enigma.—
Mexican Herald.
Painful Cleanliness.
From a Vienna paper:
"Comfortable pension for English
visitors: good kitchen with continental
eatables, or plain rosbeef with pottats
for same price* nice sleeping rooms
with open windows; painful cleanil
ness; numerous extraordinary refer
ences."—St. James' (Jazette.
Would Be Nice.
"I tell you that the world shall yet
give me what I deserve!" he ranted.
"That will be nice," replied his wife,
trying to view her back in the mirror.
"I look well in black."—Houston p™>t.
$90,000 Fire
at Bloomsburg
Fire, discovered at five minutes be
fore 0 o'clock yesterday morning, com-,
pletely gutted the big F. P. Pursel de-!
partment store,comer of Marker, Square
; and Main streets,Bloomsburg. The en- 1
tire stock, which Mr. Pursel values at
SBO,OOO, is a complete loss. The build
ing worth $25,000, has nothing usable
left but the walls, and they are dam- i
aged. The loss on it will be from §l2,- |
000 to $15,000. The property is covered j
by $57,000 insurance on stock and S2O,- !
000 on building. It is Mr. Pursel's in-'
tention to resume business at once in I
the Suppleo-Mather building, corner!
Market and Sixth streets. The store I
itself will be re-built as soon as possi
ble.
STOCK A TOTAL LOSS.
Four grim-looking, smoke-blackened
walls, are all that is left of what was
a fine, well equipped, 3-story depart
ment, store. The entire inside is gutted
from basement to roof.
1 Not a thing was saved. The floors,
I furnishings, heating apparatus, com
j plete stock, to the cent's worth, roof,
and in fact everything that was on the
; inside of the fine store is a loss. In
j fact its doubtful if there is a load of
! good fire wood left.
FIREMEN HANDICAPPED.
1 Robert Young, an employe of the
| Wirt Pen company,discovered the fire,
and smoke was then issuing from the
j cellar door and from under the eaves,
j which would indicate that the fire had
then gained considerable headway. An
alarm was turned in, but the system
] failing to work properly, there was a
| slight delay before the first company
' arrived on the scene.
With four companies at the fire it
! was found that the pressure in the
; water mains was not high enough to
j do the best execution and the fire eng-
I ine was brought into play.
I The firemen were handicapped by
| the immense quantities of smoke that
| had accumulated inside the building,
i When a door was opened it was impos-
I sible to get more than a few yards in
side the builidng, and then the men
i were driven back again to the open
| air. As a consequence the streams were
j played on the fire promisculoiisly from
| the outside.
j In less than an hour it was apparent
I that the entire interior was doomed ;
j flames and smoke had turned the whole
| building into a fiery furnace. It lick
ed it - way to the third floor, and there
j where the fine furniture was stored it
. worked with terrible fury. Gathering
additional stiougth from this new fuel
j the fire just at 8:!i0 o'clock burst
j through the roof. Big red hungry look
i iug tongues of flame burst high into
I the air, and in a few minutes nfter
i wards that jiortioii of the roof fell
through, ami a few seconds after that
tin' attic or garret floor gave way, and
fell with a crash. The other portion of
I the roof fell in, and after that the
flames, fought by the firemen, who
were doing a valiant work, gradually
, died down.
A COMPLETE LOSS.
By 11 :.'io the fire was well under con
trol. At this time a glimpse of the in
terior of the building could lie had
• Easy Money.
How the street urchin spots an "easy
mark" and gets the coin was shown
recently at Third and Chestnut streets.
An excellently dressed young man
I with a setter dog which he held t»y a
I strap was standing on the corner.
One of the newsboys stood beside
| the dog and when its master was not
j looking reached down and gave its tall
j a sharp pull. With a yelp of pain the
dog turned quickly and jumped for its
| tormentor, but uilssed him by several
l inches.
! The fact that the dog did not bite
I hiui was no obstacle to the boy, who
j grabbed his left arm with his right
hand and began to scream furiously,
j "It bit uie; it hit me. Take me to a
I hospital."
j The owner of the dog became alartn
'ed iini! run to the boy. "Here, son."
I be said. "take this tire dollar bill and
'jeep i,uiet. It'll be all right," and he
hurried awa.v.
"Ka.-v money." said the newsboy as
lie joined lus companions.—Philadel
phia rimes.
Bloodshed Averted,
j Opie Bead, the novelist, once told of
i his experiences as a journalist in Ken- ,
tucky mauy years ago.
j "There was a good deal of news," In- j
i said, "such as shootings and knifings,
i but this news was not .I'garded as lin- j
! portant and little attention was paid i
[ to it. I remember once, when a local '
feud broke out afresh, when members
of the opiioshig sides met at the coun
ty seat. There were hot words, a j
blow was struck, and weapous were
drawn, when the sheriff Interfered.
He loudly announced that he would
not tolerate any violence, ordered the
parties to separate, and when his or
ders were not obeyed ho began shoot
ing. 1 forget whether he killed eight
or nine, but I know that in describing
the incident in my paper I commend
ed the sheriff for his prompt action
and bravery and added the paragraph
'There is no doubt but for the prompt
action of the sheriff there would have j
been bloodshed.' "
Tl»e Woes of a Rent Payer.
Warren Foster, a newspaper man of
Ogden. Utah, left a letter at his death
asking that his body be cremated or
Jed to the coyotes. "1 have paid rent
all my life," he wrote, "and mean to
quit when I die. In no event am I
to be buried in a cemetery where rent
al is charred. I want no landlord
calling me up from rest to pav his
rent."
and what, was once one of the fines
I store, rooms in this section, was a mass
lof cjiarred ruins,the goods being buin
j<" 1 or so badly damaged by water that
1 all are practically useless.
In the cellar the water was 3 feet
j deep. There was but one big steel
! girder running through the length of
i the centre of the building, on the first i
i ceiling. This is thought to have saved j
the upper floors from going down, al- j
though it was dangerous togo into the
place for an investigation. As to!
whether or not the walls are safe for j
rebuilding, no one can tell, nntil an j
expert has made an examination.
TAKES LOSS PHILOSOPHICALLY
Frank P. Puisel, the proprietor of
the store, was on the ground shortly
after the tire started. Ho took his loss
stoically, smoked a cigar and smiled.
He was at a loss to understand just |
where the fire started, and how. He j
cannot make himself believe that it '
I was in the heating plant, as was ro
j ported, as it had just been remodeled j
about two years ago and ought to have j
j been in first class condition.
CARRIED FINE STOCK.
More heavily stocked than at any <
time in the history of the store the fire ;
came at an extremely bad time. All of i
the Christmas shipments, with the ex- i
ception of one lot of ladies' and misses' I
notions, which were at the station and !
were to have been taken to the store
this morning, all Christmas goods had I
been bought and in the store. Of these
there were more than SIO,OOO worth.
Only Wednesday $1)00 worth wholesale
of fine china liad been unpacked and
marked in the basement. A lot of toys,
games, etc., amounting to SI,OOO had
also just been received and stored in
the basement. Other stock in the base
ment was crockery and some general
lines of merchandise, in storage ready
to be unpacked as needed,
j On the first floor on the west side
. was a complete stock of women's mns
i lin and dress goods and was worth
| easily from $25,000 to £10,000; on the I
\ east side of this floor was the biggroc- |
1 ery stock and shoe stock. In the centre I
of the floor was the office and safe. I
There was very little money in the |
; safe, and the books and records were j
all inside. Whether these are damaged
|or not is not known, as the safe has i
j not yet been opened. As it is of mod- j
cm make it is not expected that there \
| will be any damage there.
Stocked on the second floor was $lO,-
000 worth of fine furs and ladies' ,
cloaks, suits and skirts. All of the j
winter and Christmas stocks were in
and on display.
Displayed on the third floor was $lO,
000 worth of fine furniture and bed
! dings. In the attic was stored, knock- '
jed-down from 400 to 600 rockers, din
! tug chairs and a number of tables
Mr. Pursel entered the store »".l years
1 ago as a clerk in tbe employ of I. \V.
j MoKelvey. Fifteen years ago, when
; the property went into the hands of a
receiver Mr. Pursel with S. 11. Hart
man bought the stock and continued I
the business for two years when tin
former became the sole owner. In r.NVi
the property was rebuilt.
I
Athens Baved by Poetry.
When B. C. 4U4, after a heroic strug- |
gle, Athens, the "City of the Violet ;
Crown," was captured by Lysauder I
there were cot wanting clamorous I
voices to urge that the city whose lust !
for empire had brought such woes ou
Greece ought to be laid level with the j
ground.
The Spartan general at tirst lent a I
willing ear to his powerful allies, but !
while the council was still debating !
this momentous issue a plaintive voice
wus heard from the city walls chant- I
ing those noble lines from the "Elec- j
tra" of Euripides, that most human :
! of the poets of Greece, in which the i
j heroine contrasts her fallen lot with )
i the splendid exploits of her father. |
who had dismantled the towers of
, Troy.
Ly sauder bent his head and pon
| dered ou fortune's cruel reverses. Tri- \
' umphant as Agamemnon, who could
\ tell but that be might be reserved for
a fate as cruel? The lesson of mod- ;
! eration was accepted. Athens was i
! saved.
1 Milton has immortalized this dramat
ic event in oue of his best known son
j nets;
I The repeated air
| Of sari Electras poet had the power
i To save the Athenian walls from ruin
bare.
When Valor Balks.
[ A couple of Kansas men were talk- ;
tng of fearlessness the other day. "All
this talk." said one of them, "reminds I
mo of a peace ollicer 1 knew a number
of years ago in western Kansas. This j
officer was entirely fearless—in fact, |
the kind of chap who would have
charged hades with a single bucket oT ■
water. To look down into the barrel j
of a gun in tbe other fellow's hand !
was as placidly accepted an affair for !
him as to light his pipe. lie was sent I
for one day.
" 'What's the matter?' he asked.
" 'Cowboy in that room,' said a citi- j
zen, designating the place. 'He's wild I
and dangerous. He's locked himself in, '
and we're afraid he'll break out and j
do us harm.'
"So this officer opened the door of I
tbe room and looked in. Thivcowboy
had a six shooter in one hatul and a j
stick of dynamite in the other and !
calmly remarked that ho would turn
them both loose in case the officer !
came into the room. The officer con- j
sldered tbe thing for a minute. Then
he backed away and as he did so re- i
marked:
" 'Let him sleep it off. They is
times when a man who ain't afraid is
a blind fool.' " —Kansas City Journal.
808 TAFT, POLLS WATCHER.
Hi* First Election Work In New
York's Mayoralty Campaign.
Among tbe watchers who wore ou
July at the polls iu New York city
during the receut election was Itobert
A. Tuft, eldest son of the president,
who. with a party of college men, in
cluding Elihu Uoot, Jr., and about 200
others, had bis lirst experience in prac
tical politics. Before G o'clock on elec
tion morning these husky young peace
promoters and fraud preventers made
an automobile tour of the east side
polling places, and they stuck to the
job of foiling floaters until the voting
day was over.
During the afternoon the energetic
Bob had the distinction of leading :i
relief expedition which quelled a lively
political ruction in the Nineteenth
election district. A Tammany watcher
challenged the right of an aged man to
cast his vote, and B. G. Lewis, a col
lege watcher and-an old Cornell half
back, announced that he would see to
it that the old citizen was not defraud
ed of his vote. At this some oue hit
A |k -liSlifllfL
BOBERT A. TAFT.
Lewis on the head with a blackjack.
He had been accustomed to hard
knocks on the gridiron, and he turned
and with a quick succession of blows
felled two of his assailants. The crowd
seemed to be hostile to Lewis, and he
telephoned to headquarters for help.
In response Bob Taft and a half dozen
of his stalwart companions hurried to
the rescue.
When the relief arrived at the polls
the street in front of'the place was
filled with jeering, threatening men.
but the mob cooled down at sight of
the determined appearance of the col
lege boys. Nothing further happened,
but It was a trying moment.
"It was a great experience, and I
feel that I know quite a little about
New l*ork elections in the polling
places," said the president's son. "We
had a busy day, but we did not at
any time feel that there was any dan
ger."
Mr. O'Donnell and the Hour.
An excellent bull was perpstrat'-<> .
the house of commons one morning at
half past 1 o'clock. Mr. O'Donnell was
the author. lie rose suddenly to his
feet and cut into the debate with. "At
this late hour of the morning, Mr.
Speaker"—
"Early hour you mean." from
government benches.
"Well. Mr. Speaker." he continued,
"at this early hour of the following
day."
Hawk and Weasel In Death Duel.
A hawk and weasel were after tl.t
same hen iu Elston Trowbridge's farm
yard at Fairfield. N. J., when the hawk
got the weasel by mistake. The wen
gel clung to the hawk, and they fought
in midair until they dropped and killed
each other on the ground.
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