Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville. Pa., Dec. 23, 19(19. NEWSTTEMS FROM 'RUUND IRE STATE Christian evangelistic work is to bo Carried to the mills and factories of Pittsburg. Dr. .T. C. Calhoun will be in charge of the new movement aud wealthy men are back of it. Nineteen-year-old Earl Mason, a plant, chief for a telephone company at Monongahela, is dead as the result of a bullet wound believed to have been self-inflicted. His family thinks that he was temporarily insane at the time of the shooting. " Winona Geyer, aged saved the] life of her brother Robert, when his j clothes caught fire at an open grate at ! their home at Butler. Her mother was 1 sick in bed and her father was absent and when the child's clothing caught fire she rushed to the kitchen, got a pail of water and extinguished the flumes. Eight< i ii-year-old <*. 11. Blood could not withstand the sight of Christinas preparations in every town which lie entered and applied to the York police to git money to take him home to Elinirn, X. Y.,from where he hail run away in November. A telegram asking for aid was sent to the lad's father aud brought instant response. Surgeons operating on Mrs. Kather ine Ames, at the Crozer hospital at Chester found that the woman had a piece of glass in her appendix. About five months ago while she was prepar ing the table for a meal, the sugar bowl broke and some of the particles flew into her mouth. It is thought that she swallowed one of them. Alleged discrimination against negro prisoners in Moyamensing and Holmes burg prisons is to be investigated by a committee of the African Methodist Episcopal ministers of Philadelphia. It is said that the negroes are not treated as well as are the white men and that some who have tuberculosis are exposed to the elements. After his wife who had obtained a divorce from him had been married to Edward Bogart, former secretary of the Pittsburg Manufacturers' associa tion and now believed to be in Phila delphia, Thos. F. Deck, a wealthy manufacturer, secured another divorce in Toledo, Ohio, being ignorant, it is said of the former separation. Bogart said that Deck merely was trying to injure the reputation of his former wife. W. A. Hoy, of Spreggstown, Greene county, has serious injuries about the body and his horse is cut aud scratch ed about the legs, as the result of an accident of which he knows nothing. He started on horseback for a village two miles away from his home and afterwards the horse galloped into town. A half hour after that the half dazed man entered the place and even after he had recovered he was unable to tell what had happened. FREEZE CURTAILS WATER SHAMOKIN, Dec. 22. Tile general freeze has dried up •many springs in this region, and an •other water famine is on. During Tuesday night tho water pressure grew so weak that for a while parts of the town were in darkness, owing to lack of water at the electric light plant, while cars on branches ol' the Edge wood trolley lino came to a standstill from the same cause. Tho water company issued notice yesterday asking people to be as sav ing as possible with the supply, aud fears are entertained that unless a tha-.v and rain soon occur, much dam age aud suffering will come from lick of water. CORSET SAVES LIFE CHICAGO, Dec. 22. A corset steel probably saved the life of Mi>s Ethel Eitclhuber, when a shot was fired through a bedroom win dow in her home last evening in an attempt to kill her. The shade- were drawn hut as Miss Eitclhuber was standing near the win dow her shadow on the curtain gave the would-be murderer his mark. Winn the bullet struck her she ran out into the kitchen where the other nit 111 hers iif the family were seated, cry ing: "I am shot! I.aiu shot!" Tho bull t went through lu r dress, but when it struck the corset it glanc ed off. Mexico Will Not Object. Mexico City, Tex., Dec. 22.—Mexico "will make no open objection to the election of Dr. Madriz, president of Nicaragua. Beyond a polite expression regarding the personal qualities of Madriz and a suggestion that the whole affair is in the hands of former Ambassador Cieel, now in Washing ton,officials will make no direct state ment. I The Ladies' Aid society of Trinity I Methodist Episcopal church will meet ' this evening at 7:80 in the church I parlor. FIRE THREATENS SEVERAL HOUSES A slight blaze occurred at No. 215 j East Mahoning street Tuesday after- I noon, which caused the ringing of the J lire bell, although the flames were ex- j tiuguished by a bucket brigade. The j incident was sufficient to cause in- j tense excitement. Tuesday a family was moving into j the dwelling. No. 215, which adjoins the one occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stoes. Some excelsior was be ing burned at the rear of the house be side a board fence and close to an out kitchen. From this fire, which was left alone for a short time, the flames communicated to the fence anil thence to the outkitchen. The entire section at the corner of Olmrch and East Mahoning streets is compactly built up with wooden buildings. Had the fire gotten the least headway several properties would have been badly damaged, if not de stroyed, no matter how hard the fire men might have worked. The fire fortunately was discovered in the nick of time. Simultaneously j with sending in an alarm to the fire department the people of the immedi- | ate neighborhood were aroused. t Two : or three men.among whom were Chief Buigess A. C. Ainesbury and A. C. Roat, by hard work succeeded in ex tinguishing the fire while it was in its incipiencv. Soon after the fir ■ bell be gan to ring word was telephoned in that the fire was extinguished. The damage is only nominal. Chicago Hears of Coming Arrests. Chicago, Dec. 22.—Official Chicago is on the tiptoe of expectancy today i following reports that imlicments against at least three officers of coal j companies and several city officials would be returned before night charg ing conspiracy to defraud the city in the sale of coal. THE BANISTERS. What They Tell the Dwellere In New York'* Tenement!. Many a grewsome bit of wisdom Is gleaned by settlement workers. The other day a woman of philanthropic tendencies trudged miles looking for rooms for an unfortunate family that had to move. After she had made a selection that would fit their scant means the mother of the family went | around to see the rooms before mov ' ing in. "Oh," exclaimed that wise tenement dweller, "we'd be worse off hero than I where we are! This place Is too un ' healthy." "How do you make that out?" asked | the settlement worker. "It strikes me i as being better than most houses of 1 Its class." The woman pointed to the banisters, which ran up through the five flights of stairs to the roof in a ragged, bro | ken line. "Coffins," she said grimly. < "That's what that means. Coffins Is ' terrible hard on banisters. There are too many deaths here to suit me." ' And when the settlement worker learned that many tenement dwellers 1 really do judge of the healthfulness of a house by the condition of the banls -1 ters she concluded that that place wouldn't suit her either.—New York Press. PEARY INSURED FOR $50,000. Magazine Proprietors Who Bought Ex plorer's Story Took Out Policy. To protect their Interests the pro t rietors of Hampton's Magazine, who have contracted to pay Commander Robert E. Peary $50,000 for the serial rights to his story of his journey to the north pole and tho accompanying pictures, have taken out a policy of Insurance on the commander's life for $50,000. Commander Peary passed the doctors' test. The policy will decrease in value $5,000 a mouth for ten mouths, when It will expire, making the fixed value of the Peary articles as they appea; $5,000 each. Self Control. The self control ot the Japanese, even In times of the utmost stress, aud their courtesy, which begets quiet ness and discretion, are both brought out by a writer lu St. Paul's Maga zine. "Cry. It will do you good." I said once to a poor Japanese woman who, crouching beside her dying husband, was controlling herself with an effort that would. I feared, make her 111. She laid her little slim browu finger upon her trembling red lip and shook her head, then whispered. "It might disturb him." "Cry, It will do you good," 1 said the next day. when the man was dead and she seemed almost prostrate with grief and overenforced self control. "It would be most rude to make a hideous noise before the sacred dead." came the soft reply. The Quick V/ittsd Sharp. Mrs. Sharp—So you told Mr. Jones you wished you was single ouce more, did you? Sharp (with quick witi— Only that I might have the happiness of marrying you over again, darling. —Boston Trunscrlpt. Domestic Bliss. Madame—l don't know where our son gets all his faults from. I'm sura iie doesn't get them from me. Mon sieur—No, you're right there; you haven't lost any of yours. Trust men and they will be true to you. Treat them greatly and they wi'i ehow themselves great.—Emerson. He Saw Double. Stymie (who has dallied too long at the clubhouse)— Hey, old man! What chuh wanter tec up two balls for? Green (ditto)— That's all right, old chap. Can't you see I'm driving with two clubs?— Puck. BRINGS SUIT FOR SLANDER Henry Roat of Liberty township has brought suit against Percy Hageubucli of the same township for slander. A writ of capias ad respondendum tres pass in connection with the case was issued by Prothonotary Thomas G. Vincent yesterday. In the statement of the case Mr. Roat alleges that Percy Hagenbuch, the defendant, spoke of and concerning the deponent and in the presence aud the bearing of a number of persons false, slanderous, malicious and de famatory words, which were address ed to William Rote, a son of the de ponent, to wit: '' Tell your father to go and settle for the coal he stole." The deponent declares that the charge is wholly false and that the de fendant knew the same to be untrue; also that the said slander has often been repeated by the defendant and that it has to a great extent injured the deponent's reputation and affected his character. The deponent has lived in Liberty 1 township for sixty-seven years. He I affirms that he has sustained by reason : of tho grievance above mentioned loss to an amount exceeding five hundred ' dollars in his business and his charact er. Mr. Roat is represented by William 11. Hackenburg of Milton. Pope 111 of the Gout. \ Rome, Dec. 22. —The pope is confin | ed to his bed with another attack of gout. All audiences have been tempor arily suspended, but the physicians state that there is no cause for alarm. A ROYAL BED. The Magnificent One That Was Used by Queen Elizabeth. An Interesting description of the magnlflcence of a bedstead ordered for Queen Elizabeth's use Is found in a "wardrobe warrant" dated 15S1 aud quoted lu "Gleanings After Time." It was of walnut tree, richly carved, painted and gilded. The celure, tester and valance were of cloth of sliver, fig ured with velvet, lined with change able taffeta and deeply fringed with Venice gold, silver and silk. The mrtalns were of costly tapestry curiously and elaborately worked, every seam and every border laid wllli sold and silver lace, caught up with long loops and bu.tons of bullion. The headpiece was of crimson satin of Unices, edged with a passaymayue of crimson silk and decorated with six ample pluuies containing seven dozen ostrich feathers of various colors pro fusely decorated with gold spangles. ; The counterpoint was of orange col ' ored satin quilted with cutwork of j dotlis of gold and silver and of satins I of every imaginable tint embroidered [ with Venice gold, silver spangles and J beautifully colored silks fringed to cor ! respond and lined with orange sarce net. \ This was a queen's bed, but almost equally gorgeous ones were common , for several centuries, in the reign of i Queen Anno a bedstead put up as a j prize in a lottery was reported to have j cost over £u.ooo.—London Family Uer i aid. Graft In the Household. The tipping system has become acute i now that graft Is boldly recognized as ! "business.'' and the world has no ! shame for the majority of workers in j the vineyard. A charming young ma tron exclaimed the other day that graft had even Invaded her household i She was asked how that were possi ble at:d replied. i have discovered that my most trusted and faithful maid has been approached by some one who i shall be nameless to advise the cook, who is another treasure, to leave me." j "llut she did not';" "Yes, she did." | said the young matron, laughing "Yes, she did. and I don't blame her i for the price. Sly nice Julia was paid ! S2O to sell me out. and the cook's wages are about double what I can j pay." "A case of bribery." "Not at i all—plain, unvarnished graft." was the I philosophic response.—lto.-ton Herald. One of Field's Jokes. '•Jdward Everett Hale greatly enjoy ed a joke which was perpetrated on him bj Eugene Field. l-'ield celebrat i ed one of Dr. llale's visits to Chicago | by giving a luncheon in his honor and | inviting a number of prominent per sons to meet him "field was aware." •aid Hr Hale, "that I v.as a temper anee man.and therefore I was some what surprised to see that the table on which the luncheon was served was very abundantly supplied with bottles labeled 'Win- l;y.' 'Brandy' and 'Cham pagne.' Hut when these bottles came to be uncorked they were all found to contain uutlilng but water!" Vogetablo Suspension Brio'ge. A remarkable suspension bridge j spans the river Apurnmac In central : Peru. The ropes of this bridge are j composed of pliable roots and vines. | while the planks are made of branches. ; In the humid climate of Peru It would j he by no means extraordinary if this j vegetable bridge were one day to : start growing.—Wide World Mag/a hie. The Similarity. Rlobbs— Why do you liken Ilarduppt. | to the busy bee? Ho Isn't particularly industrious, Is he? Slobbs-Oh. no; it isn't that, but nearly every one he touches gets stuug.—Philadelphia Hoc ord. Her Logic. A United Stales senator in one i f h: j campaigns told this story to lllustra J the logic of an opponent: Hid you ew hear about the young woman in fun Dodge? One spring morning she sai on the piazza of her pretty little home sewing a button on her husband's coat The husband himself appeared, ano she said fretfully: "It's a perfect shame the careless way the tailor sov ed this button on. This is the lift . time I've had to sew It on again im you." PERSONALS Mrs. Nicholas Hill, Upper Mulberry street, will leave today for a visit with relatives in Kingston. William J. Books, a student at Hah nemann college, Philadelphia, arrived yesterday to spend the Christmas vaca tion at the home of his mother, Mrs. C. S. Books, Bloom street. Mrs. Robert M. Jacobs, of Wilkes- Barre, arrived yesterday for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.J Fred Jacobs, Mill street. Fred Roberts, of Washington, D. C., arrived Tuesday to spend the Christ mas vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Roberts, Bloom road. Harold R. McClure, a student at University of Pennsylvania, arrived in this city last evening to spend Christmas with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. IJ. McClure, Bloom street. Miss M. Farnsworth, Valley town ship, loft yesterday for Lock Haven where she will spend Christmas with relatives. Mrs. A. IJ. Cresley.of Wilkes-Barre, left yesterday for Lewistown, after a visit at the home of her brother, Wal- j tor Pennington, Front street. P. A. Aurand, Ferry street, attend ed the funeral of Mrs. Isaac Erdley.at Selinsgrove, yesterday. Mrs. John Buckley, Cooper street, spent yesterday with relatives in Sun bury. Mrs. Thomas Johns,of Scranton,wa.- the guest of Mrs. J. X. Pursel, East ! Market street, yesterday. Mrs. Frank Russell and son Robert will leave today for a visit with Mrs. Russell's parents at Scranton. Mrs. George S. Maiers, of Allen town, has arrived to spend the holi days with friends and relatives in this city. Edward Price, a member of the Freshman class at Lehigh university, arrived last evening to spend the Christmas vacation «t the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. ,T. Price, East Market street. Howard Lunger, of New York City, arrived yesterday to s]iend the holi days with relatives iu this city. Miss Mabel Dietrich, of Washing ton villt% spent yesterday with friends iu fiis city. Mis. Elli n Pursel, of Orungeville,is visit lux at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth ' Moyer, 1). L. \ W. avenue. The Cuckoo. Where does the eueUoo lay its eggst j What is its staple diet? What course | does it take in Its autumn migration ' when It returns to Its African haunts? These are questions that await satis factory answers Cnlll It was found ! that the I'Uekuo laid its egg 011 the ground and suhseijiiently carried It In j ili hill to a neighboring nest it was I -supposed that the liird fed largely 011 | the eggs of smaller birds. This fallacy ! lias been disproved. Probably in the | whole range of British birds there Is ! no other that can boast such curious ' domestic traits as the cuckoo. It makes j no ne*t. does not attend to Incubation duties and rears no young and appar j ently never sees the bird that is batcli ] ed from the egg that it surreptitiously j places In the nest of some smaller bird, j -London Globe. Served Him Right. ' "You're looking very gloomy today, jTo ikins. What's the matter?" ••Matter! l>o you know Miss I'aruo. mi- old maid that lives over the waf. liiiwklns told me that she was en gaged to him. v ■ just for the fun of i the thing I went and proposed to her. 1 and she ni.ll ro. Now I'm look -1 ine 112 r Dawliins!" —l.oudon Tlt-Blts. Her Distress. | Mary, aged fourteen, was found one 1 day by an older sister sobbing and cry I big. | "What Is the matter?" she asked I with great concern. | "Three boys have asked me togo tc ! the dance tonight," was the unexpect 1 ed reply. j "Well, my dear child, certainly that . is not such a terrible misfortune." "Yes, bul I toKl the first one I woulo i go with him. and the last one ivas 1 : long pnnter." j NO FALSE PRKTENSE lias mark ;ed the career of Ely's Cream Balm. Being entirely harmless, it is not re sponsible like the catarrh snuffs and 1 powders, for minds shattered by co caine.The great virtue of Ely's Cream Balm is that it speedily and complete ly overcomes nasal catarrh 'and hay , fever. Back « if this statement is the testimony of thousands and a reputa -1 • ' . tiou of many years' success. All drug ! gists, 50c., or mailed by l.ly Bros., 50 Warren Street. New York. Charter Notice. , Notice is hereby given that applica ' tiou will be made to the governor of j Pennsylvania, 011 the Ttli day of Jan -1 nary, lillO, by John A. Leinbach, Harry C. Wagner and William H. j Sypher, under tiie. Act of Assembly of ■ the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania entitled "An Act to Provide for the Incorporation and Regulation of Cer tain Corporations," approved April 211 th, IX7-1, and tiie supplements there to, for the charter of an intended corporation, to be called "The Turbot Xylophone Company," tho character ami object of which is tho construe -1 fion, maintaining and leasing lines of telephone, for the private use of in ; dividual*, firms, corporations, muni ' cipal anil otherwise, and for general , nnsiuess in the Counties of Northum berland anc^ Montour, in the State of Pennsylvania, and for this purpose, to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of the said Act of Assembly and its supplements. WM. H. hAOKENBERG, Solicitor. December nth, 1909. Dl 5, at), 27, J!!. DIAGNOSING TREE AILMENTS Many of the requests for informa tion in regard to trees and their ail ments that are received l»y State Zo ologist H. A. Surface, Harrisbnrg, are not definite enough, and it is difficult to give the proper remedies in conse quence of not having sufficient infor mation. A manufacturer of Hanover, Pa., wrote to Professor Surface, inquiring what to do for the trees in his garden —pear, plum, cherry, quince and apr icot, —which are suffering, and appar ently dying. Following is the Profes sor's answer, and it will be well for those intending to write for informa tion concerning their trees to observe the instructions given: "Replying to your letter as to what to do for your fruit trees, I beg to say that the remedy depends upon the kind of disease or trouble. I would strong ly suspect that your trees are infested with San Jose scale,but I am not sure of this. The scale attacks all varieties which you mention, and it will cer tainly make them look sickly, and worse within a very few years, j If you will send me some twigs from | your trees, I can examine them, and lif the trouble lie San Jose scale I can ! let you know exactly about this. I can | thin tell yon just how and when to i treat them You are at liberty to i write to tho Orchard Inspector for ! your county, asking him to stop and ! see your trees at any time when he is in your neighborhood. He will doubt less let you know when his business will take 11im there. "If lam passing that way soon, I can come personally to see your trees, but I think the lirst thing is for you to send me some of the twigs, and if they have scale, or any evidence of plant disease, which can be detected by an examination of them,l can give you the diagnosis and outline the remedy. This will answer the same purpose as though I, or one of my in sjMictors, would take tho time to come and see them. Please lie sure to put your name on or in the package, which may be sent to me by mail." Skeleton In the Closet. The original of the singular saying "A skeletou in the closet." which is found in almost every language in Eu rope, is found in one of those curious collections of stories that have come I down from the middle ages. In one of these collections, compiled by an un known hand about the middle of the tenth century, there is a story of a wealthy lady who. having a secret grief, confided it to a friend who was apparently a perfectly happy woman. She was the wife ot a nobleman who lived in Ills castle in the south of France. She and her husband were outwardly "U the most loving terms. Not a care cloud seemed to cast a shadow mi her path. After hearing the story of her afflict ed friend the imble lady took her by the hand and led her to a secret cham ber ;:tl.inii liig her bedroom, there open ed the d<>oi of a closet and exposed a skeleton. "Knew, my friend." she said. •'IH> one is liii|i|>.v. Kvcry day 1 am forriMl Itv tny husband to kiss this Kriimliiu death head. which Is that of a gentleman who was my husband's rtvH: 111 ill whom I would have married hail not my parents willed otherwise." Lincoln's Religion. 1 have never united myself to any church, because 1 have touud dillicultj in giving my assent without nieni.ii reservation to the long complicau-. statements of Christian doctrine whicl: characterize their articles of boiler and confessions of faith. Whonevei any church will inscribe over Its alt.r ns Its sole qualilicatiou for member ship the Saviour's condensed statement of the substance of both law and pel. Thou shalt love the l.ord Hi God with all thy heart, and with a. thy si at I.and with all thy mind, an thy neighbor as thyself." that ehun will 1 join with all tny heart and :ii my soul.—Abraham Lincoln. Emigrant Potatoes. Irish potatoes, like Irishmen, do bet ter abroad than they do at home, and just as the average Irishman when he gets to the colonies becomes a gov ernor general, like Lord MacUonuell or Sir Uavau Dully, so the average Irish seed potato planted in England knocks spots out of the average Scotch or English seed.—lrish Homestead. Ready, as a Rule. "Woman," observed the epigram matic boarder, "is a puzzle without an answer." "Huh!" snorted old Grumpley. "1 never saw >» woman without one yet." —Boston Transcript. A Duck of a Man. Ellen Terry and Mr. Balfour met for the lirst time at the table* of Henry \Y. Lucy in London. During the i n suing conversation Miss Terry re mained strangely sileut. Presently the Unionist leader had to leave fir the house of commons, and EIU-: Terry at last found her tongue. II; host was relieved to find that *lie had not been bored. Bringing her cl<>si I hand down on the table, she exclaltu 'd with a glance toward the door through which Mr. Balfour had passed, "i think that's a duck of a man!" Breed and Pipe Baker. The lecturer at the cooking school sometimes enlivened her remarks with an anecdote. "The eighteenth century baker," siu said, "was a pipe cleaner ns well, ji: as the barber a little earlier was a surgeon. Everybody in those days smoked clay pipes, provided the same as cups or spoons by the col Tee bouses Well, each morning a waiter carried bis master's stock of pipes, some bun dred perhaps, to the nearest bakery The baker would boll them, then dip them in liquid lime, then bake then dry. They -eame out of the oven a sweet and white as new." T OHE KILLED, ANOTHER HURT Ernest Weikle, of New Columbia, was instantly killed and Howard Keef er, of the sarno place, is lying serious ly injured at the Williamsport hospit al as a result of an accident at the Philadelphia and Heading railroad crossing a short distance above New Columbia about 5:50 Tuesday night. A wagon in which Weikle and Keefer were riding was struck by the Head ing passenger train. The wagon was demolished and both occupants of the vehicle were hurled high into the air. Weikle's neck was broken, the back of his head gashed and face cut and bruis ed. He was dead when members of the train crew reached his side. Keefer es caped with a fractured skull and his left, leg broken in two places below the knee. Although his injuries are. severe it is thought lie will recover. At the time the accident occurred the unfortunate men were returning from the woods with a load of Christ inas trees. A freight train was stand ing 011 a siding near the railroad cross ing and apparently cut off tilts view along the stretch of track to the north. The men failed to notice the approach of the passenger train until too late to avert the accident. The train was I stopped a short distance from the , crossing and members of the crew and some of the passengers hastened to the aid of the men whose bodies could be sei 11 lying near the track. Weikle was about twenty-six years of age and is survived by his widow. BIRDSHOT KILLS BEAR WILKES-BARRE, Deo. 82. Herbert Kester, a 19-year-old boy, of Overton Bradford county, yesterday staggered home with the skin of a 400 pound bear, the largest shot in this State this season which lie killed aft er a desperate encounter, using a gun loaded with birdshot Tuesday after noon. He found the bear asleep some miles from Forksville, in dense brush, and got his first shot at a distance of 10 feet. The bear charged him at once. Kest er waited until the bear was almost upon him, thrust his gun in its face and fired. Then jumped backward, re- loaded and fired the tliird shot with the muzzle against its breast, jumped away again, putin another shell and killed it with the fourth shot. A Gentle Rebuke. It wns late in the year for straw berries, but Mrs. Ilea con was deter mined to have some for Sunday din ner. Over the telephone came tin news that they were "very flue, ma'am; very tine Indeed." Being however, a cautious housekeeper, sin decided to look over the fruit herself , as the gr uer was not always to bt j trusted. "They don't appear very good." sin said some time later, examining cure fully a basketful. "They look"—lien she extracted one and tasted it—"tin . look a little green.l don't know. Just let me try one." She took another "X guess I'll take one box, please. Von don't put very many in a box. do you'/' she inquired. "There was," said the grocer respeci fully, "but there's been so many ladlo looking 'em over that there nln't"— "You may give me two boxes," said 1 Mrs. Beacon —Youth's Companion Insects and Flowers. Experiments on showy flowers Ilk.' the poppy tend to show that insects are not always attracted to flowers l»y the brightly colored petals, but rather by the perception—doubtless by means of smell—that there is honey or pollen In these experiments the unopened flower hud i u Inclosed ill a gauze net so as to proteet it tl'otn insects and When It . xpands the petals are care fully roi;i"ved wMimii touching the r.- t.mining parts v. ilie Angers it'., bres avoid a flow ■ Hie smell of tin mat! Hnjjers Is lett on Hi. and the petui less flowers receive practically as tn.titv insert visits as untouched flow era do. Her Complexion. We once knew a woman who <iuai re led with her complexion. At one time she touched It up so much that it became touchy. At another time I! was beyond the pale. Occasionally it broke out and became very flery. But however much she quarreled with it. she was always ready to make it up Fir6t, Forgive. When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any, that your Father also which Is In heaven may forgive you yonr trespasses.—St. Mark xl. 25. In friendship we see only those fault? which may be prejudicial to cut , friends. In love we see no faults hut those by which we suffer ourselves.— De la Bruyere. from experience. .Mrs. Enpeck—l learned today tint Cob Smith and Mary Jones were se cretly married teu months ago. .lu-' think of It.' Married nearly a yeai j and nobody the wiser! Mr. Enpeck j Oh. I don't know! I'll bet Smith was j a whole lot wiser before he had been | married a month. Famous Puzzles. The puzzle corner of"Tin Phila delphia Press" is as interesting and popular as ever . It is a regular feat- | lire every Sunday, and the contest is open to everybody. One hundred American hunting flags aredist t ibutcd every week to the successful contest- j ants. Flags are 30 inches wide by 00 j inches long. The stripes are sewed, not printed, in fast colors. The prize Jig Saw puzzles are interesting to grown-ups as well as to the little ones They are a great fad and amuse for hours. Order "The Philadelphia Press" and solve the puzzles. m FILLING THE JURY WHEEL President Judge Charles O. Evans came down from Berwick yesterday morning to bn present at the filling of the jury wheel for the ensuing year. Jury Commissioners Robert C. Auten ami Henry Kern were also on hand early in the day. Prior to Judge Kvans' election, for many years the tilling of the jury wheel was left exclusively in the hands of the jury commissioners. Judge Evans, however, believed that he could be of help in selecting men of the pro per mental and moral make-up needed for jury service. Ho took part in the tilling of the jury wheel the first year of his term and annually since then when the wheel was being filled he has been present with the jury com missioners. Two hundred and sixty names will be placed in the wheel for next year. In not a few of the other counties, notably Luzerne county, the court shares Judge Evans' views and oni' or more of the judges make it a point to be present with the jury commission ers when the wheel is being filled. KIDOO" CALENDAR IH SUNDAY PAPER The North American Offers Most Attractive Supplement to Readers. The North American will issue with its edition for Sunday, December 20, a most attractive calendar for 1910, an appropriate supplement for the season. The calendar is reproduced by the photogravure process, the most artist ic known to modern printing. The central figure of the design is " Kap tin Kiddo," the youngster that has been made so popular a feature of the comic section of The North American. This special portrait of the 'Kaptin" is by Grace G. Wiederseim, his regu lar delineator. His New Year's add- ress to the public lias been penned for him by Margaret G. Hays,who writes his terrible tales every Sunday. Those who are not North American readers, and who want the most at tractive calendar of the season, should oider Sunday's North American. An Excellent Company. LocalJ'theatre goers have a ran theatrical event in store all of next week at the Danville opera house in the coming of The Cutter Stock com | panv. On Monday evening the eutire strength of the company will appear in "Thorns and Orange Blossoms," a play for wliich the management is paying a high royalty to the author. During the intermissions high class specialties will be_iutroduced, thereby avoiding any long ami tiresome waits. No end of go id reports have been received here in advance of this ex cellent company,and there is no doubt but they will do capacity business at prices of 10, 20, :i(> an I 50 cents with a special inducement of ladies' usual 15 cent tickets limite I to 200 on Mon , day evening. Seats will be placed on j sale at Leniger's Drug Store a. m., Friday. A Rsiishle Remedy > or bk s ti&ki %/tMi Ely's Grsam Oalm #/ is quickly abstrbed. M ho-iVs'T..i •' • , the disom o,\ mem brane rosu:.i»\g from Catarrh and drives away nl'oM i:i the 1 lead quickly. jv<*store* the S -us* -of Tuste and Smell. Full si/.* 50 cts. v.t agists or by mail. Liquid 1 Cream Balm f<>r u>e in atomizer* 75 cts. Ely Brothers, £•(» Warren Street, New York. Anyon© sending n nkotch nnd donorlntl ■ » niny quickly ascertain our opinion frt*o wliothor an invention is probably i«at ««nral>!p. < niiiuintcn. tlonsstrictlyconlldcnUul. HANDBOOK on I'atmita eeiu froo. OMent nconc> f«>r fycurugpatents. i'Htoute taken through Muim A to. rocolve tptcial it - ice, without charge, luttin Scientific American. A handsomely lllustrnto»l weokly. I.anrewt cir culation of any ncientitlc Journal. Term*. #.» a year ; four niontha, |L tiold by all newsdealer**. MUNN&Co. 3G,fir «New York Branch Office. tfia K St.. Waphluuton. I). C. r.N« • R-I-P-A-N-S Tabuk Doctors find A'good prescription For Mankind. ■ Tlie 5-ceut packet I- <uough fur USUH 1 otjuassions. The family. buttle (tit) cents | oontains a supply for a ye All-drug | gists <1 W iW iTllli" ' Hl'THll'TT ay-CV' >'* v • v I WINDSOR HOTE! \V. T. BHUBAKKH. Manager. jS Midway between Broad St. Station k -,- and Reading Terminal on Filbert St Cg European. SI.OO per day and up 5 American. $2.50 per day and up g The only moderate priced hotel of K reputation and consequenco In B PHILADELPHIA | wmmmmammmmmmrm
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