Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Jan. 27,1910. CHESTER HAS SAME EPIDEMIC That other places are being visited the intestinal disorder that has tak- such a strong hold on Danville is evidenced by the following special in yesterday's North American: CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 25.—An un usual disease that is epidemic here is pne/.ling the members of the local board of health and members of the medical fraternity. Several cases have proven fat;il,but in most instances the attacks last from four days to a couple of -weeks. While nearly all the industrial plants have had their forces more or less depleted as a result of the disease, the works of the Penn Steel Casting company suffers most. At the present time there are 150 men and boys on sick leave, and with the exception of half a dozen or so, all are suffering with the new disease, which some doctors have styled intestine grip.oth ros pronouncing it tropical dysentery. "We first thought the trouble was all due to the water that was being furnished from the Delaware river," snid Dr. J. R. T. Gray,the city bact eriologist, "but when the fact is tak en into consideration that Chester lias but two cases of typhoid fever, it does not look as though bail water was the cause." Officials of the Penn Steel Casting company's plant aie doing everything possible to get rid of the disease. Al ready some of the important depart ments of the plant are crippled, and the concern is handiepped in getting out orders, as a number of the most skilful workmen are ill. Some days ago the company stopped the use of city water, and not only placed ice water all through the plant, hut pro vided individual drinking cups for the men. Tha Lottery Mania. The first lottery on record in Eng land was drawn in Loudon in lotiO, the proceeds being devoted to public purposes. Four hundred thousand lots were drawn for the prizes of cash and silver plate, aud for four months noth ing else was thought or talked of.and the delight of the winners and the despair of the unfertunates seemed equally exaggerated. A perfect epi demic of lotteries followed, there be ing no laws upon the subject, and soon there were lottery tailors, lottery tea merchants, lottery barbers (who with each shave at threepence gave a ticket that might draw a ten pound prize), lottery shoeblacks, lottery eating houses where for sixpence a plate of ideat and the chance of drawing CO guineas were given, and so on down to a sausage stall in a narrow alley, where it was written that he who bought a farthing's worth of sausage might realize a capital of 5 shillings. Trials of a Lectirer. A well known Englishwoman lectur er tells some stories at her own ex pense. "1 was." she says,"on a tour through the provinces, and one night as 1 ap peared on the platform in a small town the chairman introduced me to my au dience in the following way: 'You have heard of Mr. Gladstone, the Grand Old Man. Let me now introduce to you the grand old woman.' This was in tended as a sincere compliment. "On another occasion a bluff old farmer who boasted of his ability to look on all sides of a question an nounced me as follows: 'This lady's eome here to talk about her rights. She's hired the hall herself, and so she's got a right to be here, aud if any of you don't like what she's got to say you've got an equal right to walk out in the middle ou't.'" Leaning Tower In England. The famous leaning tower of Pisa has a rival in the Temple tower of Bristol, in England. It is a square tower of early Gothic architecture. All its parts still preserve their normal relative positions without cracks or fissures. The tower, which is about IXS feet high, is five feet out of per pendicular at the summit. There ar« no records to show whether the incli nation was part of the architect's de sign or whether it is the result of an earthquake or of slow changes in the inclination of the soil. For many years there has been no change in the •lope of the tower. Right In Her Line. "Isn't young Bilkins going to wed that actress?" "Xo; she feared that his lazines# would bring poverty to both of them." "Aud what did she do?" "Canceled the engagement, saying she had an aversion to a poorhouse." —Exchange. Curacao's Good Schools. In all Curacao schools, trom the most exclusive to the humblest gov ernment school, in which the little black or parchment Dutch twigs are bent, Dutch. French. Spanish, English nud Papieinento are used and taught. Uy the neighboring islands and even on the mainland and as far away as Cen tral America these schools are highly regarded, and a large number of for eigu children are sent to Curacao to get their education.—Charles Johnson Post in Century. i ~ To Tunnel Mont Blanc. Kegotlations are proceeding between Italy and France with regard to a pro posed tunne! through Mont Blanc. The tunnel is to run under the Sorret pass and will be the longest in Europe. It will be more than double the length of the Simplon tunnel, which Is 19,803 meters long. SATTERIHWAIT FIRES HIS GUHS HAKRSIBURG, Pa., Jan. 20. Alfred F. Sattertliwait, of Chester county, who was dropped as assistant by State Economic Zoologist H. A. Surface, lias filod with Secretary of Agriculture N. H. Critclifield serious cliaiges against his former chief. The gist of the charges, which go deeply into detail, is that Surface has been systematically purchasing mach inery and material with state money, which he used for his own private ends on his farm at Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county. It is also charged that he has carried men upon the state payroll, when they were actually working for Surface personally. SURFACE WILL MEET CHARGES Surface will not discuss the charges at all, hut said: "I ask my friends to withhold judgment in this matter un til the whole business has been sifted. I am ready to meet these or any other charges which any one can bring." Surface is also charged with being un fail in his manner of hiring and dis charging "field" men, with compel ling certain employes to live at his home in order that he may enjoy the income from their room rent; with padding his personal expense account, and with, in one instance, having ad vanced a State employe's pay from S'JO to $l2O per month only on condition that the man would render service on Surface's farm. The charges conclude: "That Sur face has caused a number of able men ! to sever connection with the division his notably suspecting disposition in ! some instances bringing the result pos- I sibly against his will. ! N. B. - Among the men whom Sat j terthwait alleges left the department j on account of Surface is A. W. Steph- I ens, formerly inspector in this ilis- I trict, who is widely known in Mon tour anil neighboring counties. Show Windows In Austria. The Austrian shopkeeper takes great pride iu having his window dressed in an attractive manner and the glass perfectly clean at all times, no matter how small the shop or how small the city. Frequently the greater part of the stock of merchandise Is displayed in the windows of the smaller shops. It is much less difficult to make at tractive displays than iu American stores, as windows open outward on hinges. Even heavy plate glass win dows ten to fifteen feet square are so arranged and dressed from the street instead of from the inside, as in Amer ica. The large windows are usually arranged in the morning before many pedestrians are on the street. The wall space between shops is frequently rented by owners of adjoining stores and arranged to nppear like windows, giving the appearance of being a large shop. When one wishes to examine an article displayed in a window the proprietor or clerk goes to the street with a key, unlocks the window and takes out the article, then locks his window again. The Only Difference. Clorlnda was as black as uight and of heroic proportions, but in every pos sible way she copied her slender young mistress, for whom she hnd a great ad miration. "I like to look jes' as much like you as 1 can," she often said, " 'cause you looks jes' like a lady orter look. Mis' llend'son." Clorlnda intrusted all her shopping to Mrs. Henderson and scorned the bright colors and pronounced styles af fected by her own friends. One day she asked her mistress to buy her a pair of low shoes. ,\« she made the re quest she glanced with admiration at the slim little foot showing beneath the edge of a dainty skirt. "An' I want 'em jes' exactly like yours. Mis' llend'son." said C'lorinda, "no dlff'ence 'ceptin" dey's gotter be wide nines, so maybe de buckle might 'pear better if 'twas a teenty mite lurger'n yours."—Youth's Companion. A Successful Stratagem. When the electric telegraph was first Introduced Into Chile n stratagem was resorted to ID order to guard the posts und wires against damage ou the part of the natives and to main tain the connection between the strongholds on the frontier. There were at the time between forty and fifty captive Indians In the Chilean camp. General Pinto. In command of the operations, called them together and, pointing to the telegraph wires, said: "Do you see those wires?" "Yes, general." "1 want you to remember not togo near or touch them, for If you do yout hands will be held, and you will be un able to get away." The Indians smiled Incredulously. Then the general made them each In succession take hold of the wire at both ends of an electric battery in full operation, after which he exclaimed: "I command you to let go the wire!" "I can't. My hands are benumbed!" cried each Indian. The battery was then stopped. Not long after the general restored them to liberty, giving them strict Instructions to keep the secret. This had the de sired effect, for, as might be expected, the experience was related In the strictest confidence to every man In the tribe, and the telegraph remained unmolested. Beating Pennsylvania Game Laws. Chief Game Warden Joe Berrier has unearthed and exposed a new device to beat the state game laws in Penn sylvania. During the deer season men were shooting does and placing on the heads by means of incisions In the skulls full sets of horns. These car casses would then be shipped as fully grown bucks. One such case was re ported froi Elk county, aud Berrier caught the man at Butler, Pa. The man paid the fine of SIOO and S2B costs, and that ended the case. A HARD WORKER. His Boiled Appearance Brought Him a Raise In Salary. Tlie eccentric proprietor of a largo newspaper In London had a way of appearing In the composing and pre** rooms at the most unexpected times, and as Ills visits often resulted In a general shakeup of the working forces of the paper they were awaited with fear and trembling by the employees. One time one of the pressmen, an excellent workman, who hud been there many years, but was sometimes guilty of a lapse of sobriety, had a black eye and was In a <iunndary as to what excuse he should offer If the pro prietor noticed it. By a sudden inspi ration he seized an Ink roller and daubed some Ink on his face, quite covering the discoloration. Presently the governor came In and, with the foreman, went through the room, com menting on every detail and looking very sharply at every workman. When about to leave he suddenly pointed to the Inky pressman and said, "What is that man's name?" The man quaked In his shoes until he heard the governor continue slowly: "I want you to give that man 6 shil lings a week more wages. He Is the only man In the room who looks as If he had been working."—London '-tele graph. Bird's Sense of Direction. The migratory instinct in birds Is combined with another equally myste rious, that of the sense of direction. A gentleman engaged in scientific re search work for the fishery board on board the government steamboat Gold Seeker recorded a very Interesting ob servation he made of this characteris tic of migratory bird life. An oyster catcher that was being buffeted by a head wind In Its eastern flight across the North sea toward the continental shores alighted on the boat. It took kindly to the attention paid to it so long as the boat kept its easterly course, but when the course of the boat was altered a few points to the northward the bird Immediately show ed signs of uneasiness and after au 1 apparent consideration of Its bearings flew into the darkness of the uight on Its eastbound course. The alteration in the boat's course was revealed to . those who were watching the bird only when the compass was examined.— ; Scotsman. Norway's Many Meals. i Among the well to do in Norway tha frequency of meals and lighter re freshments is something startling, at least to the average American—break fast at 0, dinner at 3, coffee at 3:30, regular tea. with many dishes, in Eng lish style, at 4:30. supper at 7, and at 11 nature Is finally fortified with fur ther nutriment for the long, radiant night. These long, radiant ulghts, by the way, ure u constant peril to Clirls tiania. They encourage many forms of dissipation and immorality, much as the corresponding darkness of the long winter brings in its train a certain sor did depression, both mental nnd phys ical. —Caroline Thurber In Century. The Fate of the Oneida. One of the most extraordinary catas trophies that have befalleu vessels of the United States destroyed the sloop of war Oneida in 1809. She was bound homeward, with a jolly ship's com pany. eager to see wives and sweet hearts and native land once more, when not far out of port she was struck by the British steamer Bombay coming iu. The stem of the Bombay cut off the stern of the Oneida. The ship was sinking rapidly, and guns of distress were immediately fired, but the Bombay steamed on her way and left the vessel to her doom. She went down, and all but one or two of her crew were drowned. The captain of the Bombay gave no other reason for his conduct than that he bad Lady Eyre, the wife of a distinguished Brit ish satrap, on board and did not wish to disturb her nerves with scenes of shipwreck, lie was mobbed when he reached Yokohama, dismissed from the service, socially tabooed from that time on and died in disgrace a year or two later. Where Hypnotism Failed. When Daysey May me Appleton re turned recently from a party where the influence of several minds overotie had been the evening's entertainment and told her mother how six girls, •pith their minds bent on one thought, had made a man stand on his head, another man at their silent command had tried on a woman's hat and an other man had tried to eat water with a fork, it put a suggestiou into Mrs. Lysander John Appleton's brain. That evening when Lysander John came home his wife and four daughters sat In a circle with their bands covering their faces and their heads bowed. To all his inquiries they said nothing, and at last, fearing they hnd gone mad, he sent for the doctor. "We concentrat ed our ininds on the thought that Ly sander John must give us $5 each, and instead of that we have a doctor bill to pay," sobbed Mrs. Appleton, "and they said it would be particularly easy to work if the man's mind was a blank."—Atchison Globe. Quaint Hymns. For unreality of sentiment In hymns we must go back to the eighteenth century. Here is an Instance: All, lovely appearance of death! What sight upon earth Is so fair? Not all the gay pageants that breathe Can with a dead body compare. It seems strange that death should have been the occasion for a touch of unconscious humor in a hymu. In the collection entitled "Hymns, Ancient and Modern," there was nnd possibly still is the following verse: They do not hear when the great bell Is ringing overhead. They cannot rise and come to church With us—for they are dead. The list of things which "they"' are unable to do might be indefinitely ex tended.—London Chronicle. There Are Exceptions. "Wo are all born equal," quoted the wise guy. "Don't try to tell that to the mother of n first baby," cautioned the simple mtig.—Philadelphia Record. Different W«nt». "What we want," said the attorney to the reporters, "Is Justice." "What I want," said the client to th« attorney, "la a verdict In my favor."— Life. MUCH ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY TAKEN Court convened at 10 o'clock Tues day morning, with his Honor, C. C. Evans and Associates Blee and Wel liver on the bench, for the purpose of resuming the taking of testimony in the Raup will contest. Hon. Grant Herring and George Reimensnydor, at torneys for the respondent, arrived from Sunbury on the 10:24 Pennsyl vania train and the case was immedi ately taken up. i The taking of direct testimony was immediately resumed, including that of the witnesses for the contestant that could not be present at the former hearing. The first witness called and examin ed by Hon. H. M. Hinckley was Isaiah Raup, the contestant, who was mere ly '' recalled.'' He gave the principal points of his father's married life and his own life up to the age of twenty three years when he went to the west. His mother's maiden name was Cath erine Mary Snyder. Before purchasing and occupying the homestead farm the family lived at Strawberry Ridge, j Mausdale, Bloomsburg and several j other places. Lafayette Raup bought | the farm in 1860, when the witness was about five years ot age. He had five hundred dollars, which he paid down, giving a mortgage of nine hundred dollars for the balance. The witness remained at home for over twenty-one | years. He was taken out of school | when a boy and was put to work haul ing wood to Danville. During a couple lof winters ho worked out from home, . at a lime kiln,his labor being paid for ] with lime,which was used for fertiliz -1 ing his father'sjjfarai. His mother— I first wife ot Lafayette Raup—-worked jon the farm at all kinds of labor, ("even in the timber." When the wit ; ness went west the farm was paid for, j and a new house and barn had been ; built. There was also money in the i bank. The witness went west in 1878, | when lie was about 23 years of age. | One hundred dollars was all that he | received from his father at any time. | Lafayette Raup was a veteran of the I civil war and at one time received i $1450 back pension. He afterward re | eeived twelve dollars per month regul arly. Lafayette Raup's first wife died while visiting her son, the witness, : and is buried in the west. ,T. P. Bare was called to the stand. In 1903 witness was justice of the peace in Danville. He prepared Lafa yette Raup's pension papers. The hit ter's wife was always with him. Wit ness knew Raup from 18."> ii until the time of his death. They were intimate, the witness helping to raise the barn built by Mr. Raup. During latter years the witness observed a marked : change in Lafayette Raup. William Heddens was called. He knew Lafayette Ran]) for over forty years. They were brought together during the war and later, witness had j "fixed up" Raup's pension papers, jOn one occasion the latter had told witness that he "would like to do a ; good many things—if he dared." He i said that he had a "good boy." John Marshall, councilman of Dan ville, was the next witness. He and , Lafayette Raup were intimate friends. | They first became acquainted about 1860, when they lived only half a mile apart. Witness know first wife and ! son, Isaiah Raup. Until the latter grew up the work on the farm was i done chiefly by Mr. and Mrs. Raup, j the latter working in the field during ! haymaking and harvesting. She also i husked corn. When Isaiah grew up ho i did a great deal ot work clearing land, j During latter years the witness said : Lafayette Raup and the farm seemed |to go down hill together. The man | seemed to be failing mentally I E. S. Beyer, a nephew of Lafayette | Raup, was called. He worked for Mr. j Raup, on one occasion as late is i six years ago. Following the second I marriage he noticed a change in his ■uncle. The latter, the witness said, did not seem to be free to talk .vlien in the presence of his wife. He seem ed afraid of her. He would drop con versation when he saw his wife ap proaching. He explained to his nephew that lie "couldn't do as he used to do.'' Lawrence Snyder, brother of Lafay ette Raup's first wife, was called lo the stand. Witness and Raup were very intimate until after the second marriage of the latter, when he seem ed changed and showed no inclination to speak when they met. William Snyder, another brother of Lafayette Raup's first wife testified. Ho worked on the Raup farm while Lafayette was in the army and lie told of the hard work in the fields done by Mrs. Ranp assisted by Isaiah, then only a small boy. Other witnesses for tho contestant were Gilbert Ranp, a nephew, Wil liam Moser, Charles Diehl, Mrs. John Becker ami W. S. Lawrence. At 2:15 o'clock the contestants rest ed. The first witness called by the respondent, Tuesday, was Jesse Gresh of Liberty township, who did thresh ing for Lafayette Ranp the most of the time since 18111). The witness also sawed timber for him. Lafayette Ranp, according to the witness, was perfect ly rational; he was able to carry on a conversation and showed no inclina tion to wander from the subject. William Gurry was called. Ho knew Lafayette Ranp since 1860. Up to about five years ago the witness lived on a farm only a mile and a half distant. He sold a cow to Lafayette Raup and later on bought corn of him. Lafa yette Raup seemed to understand busi- CONDITION OF WATER VERY BAD Tuesday a report was received on tlie six samples of water sent to the laboratories of the State board health by I)r. C. Shultz,secretary of the local board, on January 18th, which report on the whole shows that our borough water is alarmingly impure and leaves no doubt as to what source the epi demic of intestinal disorders prevail ing may be traced. The board of health at its meeting, on the 10th inst, in view of the un hcalthful conditions in town ordered that several samples of water, includ ing one of effluent discharged from the sewage purification plant at the hospital for the insane, be sent to the laboratories'of the" State department of health for analysis. Pursuant to this action, Dr. Shultz, secretary of the board of health, sent away four samples of water from taps in differ • ;it parts of town along with one from the reservoir of the water works. 1 e, of course, did not omit the sample of effluent. The report received yesterday is signed by Herbert Fox, M. D., chief of the laboratories, and is as follows: No. I. Effluent from hospital as it enters river, bacteria per c. c., 00,000; bacilli coli per c. c., 20,000. No. 2. Ash street tap of \V. O. G., bacteria per c. c. 180; bacilli coli 0. No. 3. Cherry street, Farley supply, bacteria per c. c., -18; bacilli coli, 2. No. 4. Reservoir, 'Danville water works, bacteria per c. c., 380; bacilli coli, (5. No. 5. Northumberland street sup ply, bacteria per c. c., 160; bacilli coli, 0. No. fi. Bloom street supply, bacteria 80; bacilli coli, 0. The full extent to which our water is impure and the factorfit becomes in causing disease will be better under stood when it is explained that the bacilli coli is a much dreaded disease j germ and is the root of most all intest j inal troubles. By scientists it is con sidered the twin brother of the typhoid ; bacillus and so long as it lurks in the water supply, those who use the wat er are exposed to danger. The bact eria, are not essentially harmful. . When they are too numerous, it is true, there are some grounds for ap ! prehension. About. 400 bacteria per j c. c. are put down as a safe limit, be i youd which they should not exist, if j conditions are to be regarded as ab solutely safe. It will be observed that i iu the samples of water taken in town I bacteria do not exceed the limit. Iu I tlie hospital effluent there arc 110,000 I bacteria per c. c. In regard to the bacilli coli, in the past, the worst showing ever made iu an analysis of Danville water was 1 (bacilli coli) per c. c., which proved quite sufficient to stir the board of health to action and resulted in a gen eral warning to water takers. When we reflect that iu the present test K bacilli coli per c. c. are fouud in the reservoir at the water works we can not fail to see that there is much great er cause for action. The secretary of the board of health, thoroughly alive to the danger, last evening requested that the people be warned through the columns of the Morning News to boil all the water used for drinking and culinary pur poses. The Weather. I I'or most of us the weather Is s'l I j one of those minor unaccountable pow ers, too capricious to be either qui:>' divine or quite devilish, whom our s.i * age ancestors used no doubt to placate with offerings. We uo longer do that, partly because wo have learned to dis tlnguish between religion and super stitlon, partly because we do not be lieve that the weather would care for any offerings of ours. But still we keep that primitive lingering idea of the weather as something with per sonality enough to make us angry with It, and we still get some satisfaction from telling it what we think of It. The poets pay their tribute to good weather and talk about the sun and the rain and the wind as if they had a wonderful and beautiful life of their own, and their poetry makes ua love sun and rain and wind as If they were Indeed living creatures. But there are many prosaic people who would de spise such poetry for its unreality and yet who personify bad weather just as much as the poets personify good; to whom the rain, when they havo no umbrella, is as much an enemy as the cloud was a friend to Shelley. We can all abuse bad weather so well that !t Is a pity we cannot learn to praise good weather better.—London Times. uess transactions thoroughly,the value of money as well as the value of the commodities changing hands. The wit ness saw no evidence that the man was not of sound mind. S. Y. Curry was called. He knew Lafayette Ranp for many years. Wit ness installed a chain pump 011 the j farm of Lafayette Raup in I'.KH. The J latter came to see Mr. Curry about the pump and transacted all the business in relation to the matter. As far as the witness was able to determine Lafayette Ranp was in his sound mind. ! Other witnesses whose testimony j went to show that Lafayette Raup was of sound mind were James Y. Curry, James B. Bondman, John Conway Jacc.b Raup and William J. Crowley. The court appointed Stuart A. Hart man, guardian of Lydia Pietta Hart man, Leah Frances Hart man, Clarence Wellington Hartman and Martha Eliza beth Ilartinan. .minor children of Wel lington Hartman, deceased. The bond of Sarah Wright commit tee of Mary Stuart, lunatic, was ap proved by the court. THE CRISIS. A Laving Mother Quid** Her Qlrl at the Fateful Moment. "Tour whole future life depends upon It." The mother, her face tinged wltb sympathy which we must ever feel In the presence of an immaturity that is hesitating between right and wrong, laid her hand over that of her beauti ful daughter. "Yes. dear." she continued, "into every life there cornea at one time or another a supreme temptation. 11 the crisis Is passed all Is safe, but if you yield at the fatal moment you cannot retrace your steps. You are then com niltted to a fatal policy." "But, mother, father says he cannot afford it." "Exactly. Fathers from time im memorial have always said that. It is their way of Imposing on youth and Innocence. Gp forth at once and buy the gown. Do not forget that 1 am wltb you, that I will stand back of you with all the feeble strength I can command." So saying, the proud woman folded into her arms the weak creature, who even then, if it had not been for ber timely rescue, would have been be trayed Into a humiliating and sbame ful surrender.—Success Magazine. The Hand Kiss. The kiss of the hand is undoubtedly ancient and therefore is not derived from that of the lips, but probably the converse is true. The hand kiss is loosely asserted to be developed from servile obeisances in which the earth, the foot and the garments were kiss ed, the hand and cheek succeeding in order of time and approach to equality of rank. But it is doubtful if that was the actual order, and it is certain that at the time when hand kissing began there were less numerous grada tions of rank than at a later stage. Kissing of the hands between men is mentioned in the Old Testament: also by Homer, Pliny and Lucian. TIIO kiss was applied reverentially to sacred objects, such ns statues of the gods, as is shown by ancient works of art, and also among numerous etymologies by that of the Latin word "adoro," and it was also metaphorically applied by the inferior or worshiper kissing his own hand and throwing the salute to the superior or statue. The Story of a Statue. There was set up in the seventeenth century at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, what is probably the most curious piece of art extant, erected to the i memory of Sir IJobert Holmes, a Brit | ish naval officer of that period. The odd circumstance is that the statue i was not originally designed for Holmes ' at all. but for a very different person ! age, no oilier, indeed, than Louis XIV. of Kr. :: i IKS statue, finished as to the flgn;'.'. Iv.t In the rough as to the j head, was heii.g taken to France on i an Italian vessel when it was captured ! by a British man-of-war commanded I by Holmes. Upon perceiving the un- I finished condition of the statue Holmes, with grim humor, compelled ' the artist, who had accompanied bis I work, to chisel his (Holmes') head on tho king's body. And so it stands to day. Holmes was eventually made governor of the Islo of Wight, which fact accounts for the location of this mongrel bit of artistry. TOWER OF BABEL. Traditions as to ths Height of the Fa mous Structure. The actual height at which the last stone of that famous structure. Hie ' tower of Babel, rested cannot, on ac | count of the remoteness of the times at which It Is said to have existed, ever become more than a matter ot | merest conjecture. Herodotus, who ' lived about 1,700 years after that j "great spiral way to heaven" is «aid ' to have been attempted, says that lie ' saw at Babylon a structure consisting J of eight towers raised one above an other, each seventy-five feet in height, but whether this ruin was there mains of the tower of Babel It was even then impossible to ascertain. He rodotus, usually minutely exact In Ills ; writing, leaves us in ignorance as 'n how the upper level of each of these seventy-five foot towers was reached | from the level below. As might be expected, even In tra dition, a wide difference of opiuion ex j ists as to the height of the tower. Most orientalists maintain that God did not put a stop to the work until the tower had reached a height of 10,000 fath oms, or about twelve tulles. In Cey i lonese tradition it is said to have been Jas high as 20,000 elephants, each standing one above the other. St Jerome asserts on the authority of persons who had examined the rnlns that it did not reach a height exceed ing four miles. Other statements are still more extravagant—London Sat urday Review. To Make Farmers of Indians. In connection with the new plau for administering Indian affairs the de partment of the interior will ask for an appropriation from the present con gress with which to establish model farms on all of the reservations where agricultural pursuits aro practicable, i It is planned to place these farms lu the hands of expert agriculturists and : horticulturists, who will instruct the ' Indians iu all branches of farming. The department already has taken ! steps to deprive the Indian landowners ' of direct control of the money derived from renting their holdings to the j white settlers by requiring that this j money be held in trust by the Indian I commissioner, to be turned over to j the Indians for such improvements as | are deemed advisable. This order was I made to suppress the leasing system ion reservations and to compel the 111 ! diar. to cultivate his own land. Executor's Notice. Estate of Jacob J. Bardole, late of the j Township of Anthony, in the Conn- j ty of Montour and State of Pennsyl- I vauia, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters 1 testamentary on the above estate have j been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment and those having claims against the said estate will make known the same with out delay to JOHN I). ELLIS, Executor, Schuyler, Pa. J2O, 31, F7, 14, 21, 28. SOIL THE WATER HALF AN HOUR The true condition of our water sup ply as shown by the recent examina tion made l.y the State department of health has proven quite a revelation to our readers. The physicians of town, especially, who are familiar with the results of former tests, *r» surprised to find the showing so bad. Without exception they are of the op inion that whether the present epi demic of intestinal disorder can bo traced to the water 'supply or not the situation is one that calls for the ad - option of every precaution possible. They unhesitatingly declare that families who neglect to boil river wat er when used for drinking or for gen eral purposes in the kitchen are taking a very great risk, indeed. This sug gests the question of how long water should be boiled. Dr. Newbaker.presi dent of the board of health, yesterday stated that there should be no differ ence of opinion on this vital point, j Boiling undoubtedly renders the water safe; but to make the sterilization thorough the boiling should be con tinued for half an hour. Other physi cians expressed themselves as of the same opinion. Nothing less than half an hour will insure that every particle of water has couio under the proper degree of heat. FJDr. Newbaker last evening adverted to the fact that the samples examined were taken from the water supply on the 18th inst., after the river had risen considerably. In his opinion had the | test been made a few weeks earlier, when the water was lower, conditions would have been found considerably worse—just as they would be found better now, when the river is high. In his opinion under existing conditions, the maximum of danger exists when the river hovers around low water mark. 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