Rattlesnake Polson,
“Years ago, when | wus a boy at
bemey” sald a southern man, “an un.
ele of mine, who lived near Mont
ery, was out on his plantation one
when he saw an enormous rattle
snake stretehed In a furrow of a cot
gon fleld. He seized a hoe lying near
by snd made a pass at the monster.
At the same time it struek out at him
and broke olf one of its tangs on the
edge of the hoe blade. My uncle dis-
patched the snake and then picked up
the fang and brought it to the house
a8 a curiosity. It was sharp as a
peedle, and a faint yellow stain at the
tip showed where some of the virus
had e ed,
“The bit of bone lay for at least three
or four years in an ebony box on my
oncle’s writing table in his study,
when one day a stupid negro servant
girl, not knowing what it was, used
ft to extract a splinter from her thumb.
In less than an hour ber whole lower
arm was swollen, and she exhibited
all the characteristic symptoms of
snake poison.
“My uncle had studied medicine and
by prompt measures saved the girl's
life, but for some mysterious reason
gangrene subsequently appeared in hee
arm, and amputation was necessary
My uncle lost no time in burning his
murderous i relic. -
Custom Influences Language.
Pomologists, like botanists, find It
impossible to enforce the rules of prio™
ty in names of fruits and flowers. In
fruits the names of Bartlett for a peas
and Telegraph for a grape have not
been changed in spite of the efforts of
leading pomologists and pomological
societies to support prior names. Those
who lead in these good efforts forget
that the ouly law for language is the
law of custom. In a famous grammar
we are told “the English language re
quires the pronoun ‘it’ for all inani-
mate objects’ but custom has so firmly
made the sun a he and the moon a she
that we have accept it. Thus it will
ever be. To secure the adoption of a
prior name reformers must bestlr
themselves before custom gets posses
slop of the field.-—Meehan’s Monthly.
The voice is the most common and a?
the same time the most complex of hu-
man faculties. When we listen to it
we realize nothing of the many infia-
ences at work in its use. Yet it repre
sents the character, the mood, the tem-
perament and the health of the individ-
ual when left to run in its own way.
If uncontrolled, it will develop much as
a flower garden will develop; the rank
and weedy nature will come to the
front, and the tones of exquisite beau-
ty will be obscured. Bad daily habits
in the use of the voice will give it
many disagreeable qualities. If con-
trolled, the voice will keep its weeds in
the background and permit only its
beauties to be known. If cultivated,
the weeds will be taken out and the
flowers devzloped.—Pittsburg Press
————————
Trying a Donkey.
A newcomer in Africa has many |
surprises. A. B. Lloyd, the author of |
“Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country,” |
narrates an amusing little experience |
of his own in purchasing a donkey In |
Zanzibar:
We had to procure donkeys, by no
means an easy task. Of course each
one had to be tried, as we were to use
them for riding purposes, and in the
course of the work we had various ex- |
I bad set my mind upon a |
fine female donkey and took her out |
periences,
an afternoon's ride. I shall not
forget it. At first when I mounted her
she would not move, in spite of all
my most tender persuasions, and final
ly she began to back.
Now, the streets of Zanzibar are very
warrow, and coming up behind me was
& large bullock wagon. My sweet tem:
pered donkey
horns of the bullocks.
longer a case of making her go, but of
waking her stop.
Away she flew, right along the Naza |
Moja road, and nothing I could do
would check her headlong career. In|
for
fact, I soon tired of trying and let her |
go. On she went, right in among the |
cocoanut trees, regardless of every-
thing until she came to a steep bank.
Here she stopped. This showed that
she had good sense, and I decided to
keep her,
fow to Give a Oat Medicine,
A New York gentleman has a very
fine Angora cat, and so fine a specimen
of her kind that she is famous in a
large circle of fashionable folk. She iv
not rugged in health, yet she cannot be
persuaded to take physic. It has been
put in her milk, it has been mixed with
her meat, it has even been rudely and
violently rubbed in hersmouth, but nev-
er has she been deluded or forced into
swallowing any of it. Last week a
green Irish girl appeared among the
household servants. She heard about
the failure to treat the cat. “Sure”
said she, “give me the medicine and
some lard, and I'll warrant she'll be
ating all I give her!” She mixed the
powder and the grease and smeared it
on the cat’s sides. Pussy at once licked
both sides clean and swallowed all the
physic.
“everybody in Ireland does know how
to give medicine ta 2 nat?’
‘Weene Painting.
A good scene painter may get any-
where from $400 to $1,000 for a scene.
The average price paid to the best half
dozen scene painters for a scene fis
$500. But there are a great many more
scenes painted for $100 than $500.
As soon as a married man gets 8
comfortable home built he begins to
worry his wife by talking about sell-
ing it.—Indianapolis Journal.
There is nobody quite so busy as the
editor who tries to publish a ten page
newspaper in a four page town.—
Washington Post.
backed right on to the |
Then it was no |
“Faith,” said the servant girl, |
Mirror Mad,
“What!” exclaims the astonished
reader, “is It possiBile that there are
any civilized persons on the face of the
earth who are net in the habit of be
holding their visages reflected from
time to thue in a misror of some kind?
{ Surely this eannot ove Wrong,
| quite wrong, gentle reader, for at the
present time, strange as it’ may ap
| pear, there are hundreds of men and
women in the United Kingdom who
have not gazed into a mirror for years.
RO."
ons form wewmbers of this community.
From the moment of a ecdénviet's en
trance to a
exit he is not permitted to have the
use of a mirror of any kind, the small
est piece of glass being rigidly denied
Jail to the moment of his |
The convicts confined in British pris. |
him. To the women conviets this ab- |
sence of a mirror forms one of the
chief hardships of confinement, and |
many a female wg
| en upon their knees and sobbed out
entreaties for the loan of a morsel of
| mirror—*just.for a second.”
entreaties have perforce to be disre-
| garded, and it therefore comes about |
that many a female convict passes
three or four years without being per-
| mitted to gaze upon ber own features
~London Tit-Bits.
His Diagnosis,
Teacher—Suppose you had one pound
of candy and gave two-thirds to your
fittle sister and one-fourth to your It
tle brother, what would you have your-
self?
Scholar—Well, I guess I'd have tbe
measles or something so's I wouldn't
feel much like eating.—Puck.
Boarding House Humor.
Landlady (threateningly)—I'll give
you a plece of my mind one of these
days if you're not careful.
Boarder—I guess 1 can stand it if It
isn’t any bigger than the piece of ple
vou gave me.— Detroit Free Presa
Freaks of Explosions,
Gunpowder explosions have one res
markable feature. The bodies of per-
sons killed in such an accident are
| always found without clothing, but
| frequently one foot will have the shoe
| on. This is true of horses also. If
| one of the feet is in the air and an-
other on the ground, the shoe will be
found torn from the foot that was on
the ground and not from the other.
When men are killed in powder ex
plosions, the foot that happens te be
in the air when the shock came will
be found wearing the shoe, while the
other foot will be bare.
Making It Clear.
A newly appointed French mayor
{naugurated his regime by a notice to
the following effect:
“On the feast of our patron saint
the fire brigade will be reviewed in
the afternoon if it rains in the morning
and in the morning if it rains in the
afternoon.”
rder can tell piteous |
wiles of women who have actually fall- |
All these |
| application for a pass.
He Got a Pass,
“Hart!” aried an alert patrolman in
Manila as a beautifully caparisoned
carriage drove up containing a portly |
gentleman, The driver reined his
steeds, and the sentry, standing trmly
in the center of the street, shouted,
“Who is there?”
Not knowing what else to say, the
occupant of the carriage answered,
“Judge Taft, president of the elvil
commission.”
“Advance, Judge Taft,
nized,” bawled the sentry, The judas
advanced, and the following dialogue
took place,
Seutry--flave you a pass?
Taft—Nu, sir; do 1 require one?
Sentry You do, sir, and it’s my duty
to run you in,
Taft— But | am the elvil governor of
the Philippine Islands.
Sentry That doesn’t cut any figure
You're a eivillan and out after hours
I'll let you go by this time, but the nexs
time I catch you you'll have to see the
captain.”
“Thank you,” murmured Judge Taf¢
as he drove away. And there and then
he formed a resolution to put
According te
the Manila Freedom, Le got it.
A Couple of Bulls,
An advertisement recently published
tm a newspaper in Ireland set forth
that “Michael Ryan begs to inform the
| public that he has a large stock of
cars, wagonettes, brakes, hearses and
other pleasure vehicles for sale or
hire.”
This is the same paper which, in a
glowing description of a funerel, an-
nounced that “Mrs. B. of G— sent'%
magnificent wreath of artificial flowers
in the form of a cross.” |
His Pointed Remark.
“I frequently hear you say that mon- | {
ey talks,” she remarked.
“Yes; it is an old saying and a true |
ane,” he replied; “but, unfortunately, |
while money talks, all that talks is not |
money.” |
“Why do you say ‘unfortunately ¥"” |
she asked. |
“Because if that were 80,” he an |
“lI would be married to a fab
Tandon Fan |
swered,
alana fartyine
A certain concelted nobleman once
observed to Charles Townsend, “When
I happen to say a foolish thing, 1 al-
ways burst out a-laughing.” Town-
send eyed him curiously and at length
remarked in the most deliberate man
ner, “Ah, I envy you your happiness, |
for you must certainly live the merri-
est life of any man in Europe.”
When you are invited to a real old
fashioned woman’s house for supper,
she always has floating island. This is
a sure test.—Atchison Globe.
The temple of fame stands upon the
grave. The flame that burns upon its
altars is kindled from the ashes of
dead men. |
to be recog: |
in an |
Advertising
consists simply in pre-
senting before the people
the goods you have to sell
in an intelligent manner,
whether it is a house and
lot or a pair of shoes. It
is too late at this day to
expatiate on the merits of
advert! That has
been ited so of-
futile
Everybody ww days
knows that = advertising
pays. The main question
is, what medium to use?
Advertising experts long
ago settled it by declar-
ing that newspaper adver-
tising was by far the most
effective and brings better
returns than any other
extant. The merchants
of this section long ago
declared that better re-
sults were obtained by
the COURIER than
It
week by
using
by any other means.
is read every
hundreds of families and
goes into the homes of the
majority of the people of
Northern Cambria county.
The rates are low, just
and equita
to all and the small ad-
vertiser gets just as good
a rate as the large one.
If your business needs
in and let
matter over
a tonic, come
us talk the
with you or send us word
and we will have a repre-
One Week == Monday, Sept. 24, to Saturday,
Sept. 29, Inclusive.
on ————————
sentative call on you and
explain everything about
You may do
without adver-
our plan,
business
tising, but you are certain
to do more by advertising.
It is an investment that
will repay you an hun-
dred fold, :
We will prepare your
copy and take* complete
{ charge of your advertis-
| ing campaign, however
large or small, without,
extra cost.
The Courier,
Patton, Pa.
T.R.MORRISON
Dentist,
PATTON, PA.
Office in Brady Building.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the co-
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween E. T., W. A. and F. C. Little,
under the firm name of Little Bros.
has been dissolved by mutual consent,
The business will be continued by E. T.
and W, A. Little, who will pay all
debts and to whom all bills must be
paid.
Patton, Pa., August 1, 1906.
Estate of William J. Donnelly, Deceased,
Notice is hereby given that letters testa
mentary have been issuedfto the undersigned,
executors of the estate above mentioned. All
persons indebted to the said estate are re-
quested to make payment, and those having
claims to present the same witout delay.
MARY AGNES DONNELLY,
JosepPH H. REILLY,
Executors.
Ten Dollars Reward,
The above reward will be paid for
the arrest and conviction of any one
destroying property at the Firemen’s
Park or molesting anything at that
place in any manner.
F. H. KINKEAD, Manager.
Patton, Pa., Sept. 7, 1906.
Is this your paper ?
A NE
15 gzilons of waicr
heated io the point of §1
boiling, while breakfast ;
IS cooking. When waler :
gets too hot reservoir
can be moved away
from fire by shifting
the leaver shown.
Where pressure waler is used
water front, »
heating surface than any
other, supplies al bundance
of hot waiter fo
all paris of the house
place of reservoir.
I ETE TV NATO TETSU
BIN DER & STARRETT,
dei sme
TC err Ln,
this malleable iron pin-extension
If takesthe -
range made.
not u
The MAJESTIC MALLEA
value, and the fact that it is the only
you can readily see that if quality is considered, the Majestic leads by a big margin.
YOU TO CALL at our store during this week, and let us explain this new featuree—CHARCOAL
why it is the best material for range bodies, and incidentally, why it is
IRON BODIES; let us explain
We want you to call if vou intend to buy or not, as the information gained
sed on other ranges,
will serve you in the future.
Hot Coffee and Biscuits Free
Come any day during this week and have buttered hot biscuits and hot coffee.
a Majestic in three minutes while you wait.
Handsome Set of Ware— Free
With every range so 1d during this demonstration we will give absolutely FRET one set of Majestic
This ware will be on exhibition at our store.
ware worth every cent of $7.50.
Come in and see it, and you will agree with us that it
mental and durable.
less than $7.50, and it is cheap at that.
Come in any day, you are welcome whether you intend
range
We heartily invite our friends to call any day during the above mentioned
week and we will demonstrate the superior qualities of the
New Majestic Malleable and
Charcoal Iron Ranges
BLE AND STEEL RANGE as formerly turned out by the Majestic
people has been considered throughout the entire country par-excellence, and far ahead of any other
But with the NEW CHARCOAL IRON BODY in place of Steel, making it double its
in existence made of Malleable and Charcoal Iron,
to buy or not.
Hardware, Tinware, Paints and Oils,
Patton, Pa.
WE WANT
Biscuits baked on
Everything useful, orna-
nnot be bought for a cent
Patton
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