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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Eating Fruit Mt Breakfast.

The business of breakfast is most
important one, for it stores the human
battery with power for the days work.
n good breakfast gives man staying
qualities and equips him for almost any
emergency likely to occur.
What are the essentials of a proper
breakfast? The first, the most impor-
tant, item is preliminary meal Of fruit,
oranges, grapes, apples, cantaloupe, ber.
ries, seasonable fruit in which juice pre-
dominates over fiber. Fruit juices, taken
early on an empty stomach, are convert
ed into alkalis, keep the blood normally
alkaline, preventing saturation Of the
system with uric acid and warding off
the storms Of suffering which such O
condition provokes.
Fruit juices act as corrcctives to the
digestive organs, wEcttug the appetite,
increasing the secretion of the gastric
juice and stimua.-g peristalsis Where
fruit is eaten oyc:y morning, digestion Il
satisfactory. the bow els are natural and
regular, the head is clear and an agree
able feeling Of general well being Is ex-
perienced.
Too much emphasis cannot be laid
upon this matter of a preliminary fruit
breakfast. If accustomed to eating n
small breakfast, you should tighten the
noon lunch and 6 o'clock dinner. You
will sleep better and rise with appetite.
If the fruit does not appear to agree with
you at first, try small beginning. Take
only an orange, drink the juice and reject
the fiber. Persist. and the stomach will
adapt itself. Gradually add a bunch Of
grapes and an apple. You will be sur
prised at the farreaching benefit derived
from so simple Il practice.
After the fruit, the usual breakfast Of
a chop and rolls, omclet, potatoes, coffee
or what not is in order.-Tabe Talk.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
CONSUMPTION CAN
Be CURED.
T. A. Slocum, M. c., the Great Chem
ist and Scientist, VIII Send Free, to
the Afflicted, Three Bottles Of
his Newly Discovered Rene
dies to Cure Consumption
and All Lung Troubles.

Nothing could be talrer, more phIan-
thropic or carry more joy to the atilict-
ed, than the offer of T. A. Slocum, NJ.
c., of New York City.
Confident that he has discovered Il
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions wasting, and to
make its great merits known, he will
send, free, three bottles to any reader of
the AMERICAN who may be suffering.
Already this "new scientific course of
medicine" has permanently cured thou
sands of apparently hopeless cases.
The Doctor considers it his religious
duty-a duty which he owes to human
itv-to donate his infallible cure.
He has proved the dreaded consump-
ton to be durable disease beyond any
doubt, and has on file in his American
and European laboratories testimonials
of experience from those benefited and
cured, in all parts of the world.
Don't delay until it is too late. Con-
sumption, uninterrupted, means speedy
and certain death. Address T. A
Slocum, NJ. c., 90 Pine street, New
York, and when writing the Doctor, give
express and postoflice address, and
please mention reading this article in
the AMERICAN March 8
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Useful Knowledge.

Every housekeeper should know that
when an article of food scorches in cook
ing, if the vessel containing it be imme-
diately uncovered and set into a pan Of
cold water for few minutes, carefully
removed from the vessel without stirring
the food which has been scorched, it will
not taste of the scorch. | have rescued
delicate custards by this treatment. Veg
etables that have actually burned to the
kettle may be redeemed if one is careful
to remove no part of that which is dam
aged.
When food boils over on the stove, IL II
is at once covered with salt, the disagree
able odor arising is Immediately arrested,
and the stove can be more easily cleaned
than where the article is allowed to burn
off.
If boiled or mashed potatoes must
stand for a little while before serving,
they may be kept palatable by laying
three or four thicknesses of a clean soft
cloth directly over them. then covering
the kettle closely and setting it where it
will keep warm, but not scorch. Setting
into pan Of hot water is the best meth
cd and is that employed by hotels and
restaurants that must keep potatoes
ready for serving for two or three hours
at a time. The cloth absorbs the steam
and prevents the potatoes from becoming
heavy and soggy.
If soft cloth is put into the steamer
and the slices of bread or cake to be
steamed are laid in this and the corners
folded up over them before the steamer
is closely covered, it will absorb the mois-
ture that collects in the steamer. and the
slices will be fresh, light and perfectly
free from sogginess.
Cold baked potatoes may be warmed
up and be as palatable as freshly baked
ones if they are dipped into hot water
and then put into the oven, care being
taken that they remain there only long
enough to get perfectly hot, but not long
enough to become hard.-Housekeeper
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Resisted Deep water Baptism.

"a little boy ! knew Of in the west"
writes Bcv. Cyrus Townsend Brady,
in The Ladies' Home Journal. belong
cd TO a family who had trained him to
believe in the deep water form Of bap-
tism and WAS experimenting with the
household cat and a bucket of water.
The animal evidently did not belicv"
in immersion, for she resisted. bit and
scratched ard used bad languagc-in
the cat tongue. of course. Finally the
little boy, with his hands covered with
scratches and with tears in his eyes.
gave up the effort to effect the regener-
alton of the cat. 'Doggonc you" he
cried-notice the choice of epithets in
the use of the word dog-'go AMI be an
Episcopal cat if you want to-!
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
The PrOper Way to Emf.

At meeting of medical men DR.. L. A
Burial spoke of the amount of mischief
done by the very common habit Of eating
the meals rapidly, according to the farm
er's motto of Quick to eat and quick tc
work" Thorough mastication was of the
utmost importance, and, of course, this
presupposed proper condition of the
teeth. Gastric digestion was often weak
ened and much distress was caused by
the ingestion of too much fluid with the
food, particularly at the beginning of a
meal. Another factor in causing dyspep
sia was the habit of eating food in silence
or without that mirth and good fellow
ship so necessary to insure a nervous con
dition to the normal action of the digest
i've organs. These little details might
seem trite and unimportant but it was
the duty Of the careful physician to in
struct his patients in regard to them.
The long continued and free use of di
gestive agents served to make the di
gestiye organs lazy and inactive.-Medi
cal Record
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
The Creation of Woman.

Heather mythology cannot be assumed
to be historically correct although it is
often interesting. The legend of the
Hindoos concerning the creation of
woman is one Of the most entertaining of
myths that have been preserved through
the ages. 1t relates that at the beginning
of time Twashtri, the prototype of Vul-
can of more recent mythology, created
the world. When he found that his work
would be incomplete without woman, all
his material had been exhausted. There
was not n single solid element remaining.
Much perplexed, Twashtri, after pro-
found meditation, took the roundness OF
the moon, the undulations of the serpent,
the entwinement of creeping plants, the
trembling of the grass, the slenderness
of the rose vine and the velvet of the
flower, the lightness of the leaf and the
glance of the fawn, the gayety of the
suns rays and the tears of the mist, the
Inconsistency of the wind and the timidity
of the hare, the vanity of the peacock
and the softness of the down on the
throat of the swallow, the hardness of
the diamond, the sweet flavor of honey
and the cruelty of the tiger, the warmth
Of fire, the chill Of snow, the chatter of
the jay and the cooling Of the turtledove.
He united all these and formed woman.
Then he made a present to her Of man.
Eight days later man came to Twashtri
and said:
MY lord, the creature you gave me
poisons my existence. She chatters with
out rest, she takes all my time, she la
ments for nothing at all and is always
ILL.," And T. received the woman again.
But eight days later the man came
again to the god and said: "My lord, life
is very solitary since l returned this
creature. ! remember she danced before
me, singing. / recall how she glanced at
me from the corner of her eye, that she
played with me, clung to me-" And
Twashtri returned the woman to him.
Three days only passed, and T. saw the
man coming to him again. "My lord"
said he. II do not understand exactly
how, but l am sure that the woman
causes me more annoyance than pleasure.
! beg of you relieve me of her"
But Twashtri cried, "Go your way
and do your best" And the man cried,
81 cannot live with herw Neither can
you live without her." replied Twashtri.
And the man was sorrowful, murmur-
ing: "Woe is me! l can neither live with
nor without her"
This is found In an English translation
of a book of Hindoo legends recently
discovered The title of the book Ia
"Of . P'sssr ~ the Moon Reddened by
the Setting Sun" and is the sixth part Of
large work, "The Surging of the Ocean
of Time" 1t was written in Sanskrit.
and the original manuscript was given
to an Englishmen, Mr.. Balm, by an old
Brahman dying of the plague. The other
five parts are not translated
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Not N Rut Terrier.

Officer Ned Scarlet of the Second po-
lice district was riding to his home on an
electric car one morning, and rs the car
slowed up at a crossing 10 allow some
passengers to alight woman rushed
out from neighboring house screaming
shrilly and beckoning to the officer.
Scarlett jumped off the car and hur-
ried TO the womans assistance.
whats the matter, ma'amF asked
Ned.
"Oh. officer" shricicd the distressed
female, there's Il rat in my house!
Won't you come and kill it,"
Excuse me, ma'am." responded Scar
lett IT'S many tonnes Owe bin towld
Oh was a 'tarrier.' and no doubt Oi am
wan, but nivir can it be sid thot Officer
Scarlett demancd himself 10y assumin tn
dooties av a rat tarrier.' Goo day.
ma'am."
And with dignifcd wave of his baton
Scarlett remounted the car.-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Women In the Civil Wnr.

Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy, a daugh-
ter of Chauncy Gaylord of Bristol Conn,
who was one of the early settlers in
Onondaga county, n. Y, was promi
nent worker for the Union armies. Her
father died when she was quite young,
and her mother married Elianin Clark of
Massachusetts, whose sons became noted
for their contributions to literature and
for their interest in educational matters.
She married the Hon. Samuel G. Pom
eroy, afterward United States senator
from Kansas. He lived in Southampton,
in this state, at the time of their mar
riage and was a member of the state
legislature. She accompanied her hus-
band to Washington when he entered
the United States senate. The war had
just aroused the nation, and she found
ample opportunity to engage in the hui
manitarian projects for the soldiers and
their loved ones which large hearted peo-
pie like herself had become interested in.
After nearly two years of general serv-
ice in this line she founded an asylum at
Washington for the freed orphans and
destitute aged colored women whom the
war and the proclamation of emancipa-
tion had thrown upon the care Of the
s2Azw~
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
EncGuFn gcl to HODP,

When the Empress Frederick, eldest
daughter of Queen Victoria, was a lit
tie girl, her disposition, to the great
grief of the queen, was naughty and
arrogant Once, when about to embark
on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert
she was lifted across to the deck of the
boat by one of the sailors, who, as he
was putting her down gently, said.
There you are, my little lady"
Il am not little LADY, l am a
princess" was the prompt and indig
nant reply. The queen, who had over
heard the conversation, detained the
man with gesture, and, turning to her
spoiled little daughter, said:
Tell the kind sailor that you are
much indebted TO him for his civility
and that, although you are not little
lady yet, you confidently hope to merit
the title before long"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Queen Emma's Diamonds,

The eX-Queen Regent Emma of Hol.
land can plume herself on having more
beautiful collection of diamonds than any
other of the crowned women of Europe.
The piece of highest value is a remarka-
ble diadem of diamonds and sapphires,
some of which are Of extraordinary size
and produce the grandest effect by the
way in which they are arranged. The
sapphires are placed on the front band
and increase in size toward the middle,
where a sapphire of the size of n walnut
forms the apex. Below this sapphire there
are three stems bearing three diamonds
of the size of hazelnuts. These diamonds
rise like flowers from the midst of n
crown of leaves.
Not less rich are stream of 81 large
brilliants and n necklace Of three rows of
splendid pearls, with hooks of diamonds
from which hang pearls of extraordinary
size. There are also various brooches or
namented with diamonds and the royal
crown. One represents the lion OF the
Netherlands in enamel and stones, and
another has the initials of the royal cou-
pie. The effect Is augmented by the great
skill with which the stones are cut, ena.
bling them to dart forth magnificent
flashes of light-Le Diamant.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04

and his health was never very good after
the war came to an end. But he return
ed to the city of his enlistment and there
for some years carried on leading busi-
ness. In later life reyerses led him to
take up the practice of law, and he NOV
ed to Milwaukee, where he died in 1893.
In the meantime Mrs. Kate Pier had
been called upon to handle the estate, and
it was then that she learned the advan-
tage of some legal knowledge to n wom-
an, and particularly to one who has to
deal with business affairs. Her eldest
daughter, Kate, on graduating from the
high school at Fond du Lac, took up the
study of law The family moved to Mil
waukee in 1895. The year previous both
mother and daughter had been graduated
from the law school of the University of
Wisconsin, where they took a two year
course in one year and acquitted them
selves with the highest Of honors.
When the family removed from Fond
du Lac to Milwaukee, a law office was
opened as soon as home. Miss Kate II.
Pier went into general civil practice, and
her mother devoted herself entirely to
work in the office. Through the efforts of
Miss Pier, who, by the way, Is not en-
tirely without knowledge of political
wiles, the legislature passed law which
permits women to hold the office Of court
commissioner Mrs. Pier was appointed
by Judge Johnson and has the distinc-
ton of being the first woman in the
country to hold that position.
The law fever was catching, and Mrs.
Piers two younger daughters, Caroline
Fl. Pier and Harriet Pier, following the
footsteps of their mother and sister,
took the law course at the University of
Wisconsin and were graduted with hon
ors.
They opened offices in Milwaukee,
where they still conduct their business.
They met with about the usual success
which young men of the legal profession
have until Miss Kate had her first case
before the supreme court Of Wisconsin in
1889. This was a small railroad case and
was easily won. After this success was
assured.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Grent Mems WomnnkInd,

The love of a man for a normally rea-
sonable and good looking woman is not
determined by the woman's qualities, but
absolutely springs from his capacity for
loving and in that respect n truly great
man has either one hoartstring less or one
heartstring more than other men; he be-
comes either sublime or ridiculous.
DIR. Johnson's love for woman many
years his senior and perfectly plain is to
many people absurd. To me it is sub
lime. The woman in this instance has
nothing to do with the question. 1t Is
the capacity for uxoriousness which is so
truly astonishing in great man. The
woman had probably not the remotest
notion of the greatness Of the man, any
more than had Matilda Heine or Therese
Levasseur or the wife of Luther, and in
such instances great mems womankind
are happier than the womankind who
are conscious Of the greatness Of their
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
j. j. B ROWN,
WILD DASH DOWN MOUNTAIN.
Horses Took Fright and Coaching
Party Met Dire Disnster

Horses TOOK Fright and Coaching
Party Met Dire Disaster.
Jersey City. Sept. 29.-Ten persons,
seven of them women, members of a
coaching party, who had been badly
injured in a wild dash down a noun
tain side behind four runaway horses,
reached Jersey City yesterday. A
party of Il had set out in the coach
from the Twin Mountain House,
Maplewood, N. H. Going down the
mountain the horses took fright and
ran away. They dashed down the
steep road, the coach pitching from
side to side until it caught in a ditch
and was wrecked.
In the party were Mr. and Mrs
Henry Muller, of No. 6S Freeman
street, Newark; their daughters, Daisy,
aged II years, and Ida, IA; Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Borsum, of Plainfeld, N. j.,
and their children, Louis, Martha, Ida
and Anna. In the coach were also
George Mcpherson, of Detroit, and
John Mcpherson, his brother, of How
ell, Mich.
Nearly all of the victims are suf-
fering from fractured limbs or ribs,
and many of them are internally in
jured. The McPhersons remained at
the Twin Mountain House.
The smashing of the coach landed
the whole party in the ditch, the horses
continuing their gallop down the hill,
landing dead and mangled at it's base
Mr.. Muller was the only one of the
party who was able after the acci-
dent to make his way back to the
hotel. From there he chartered the
special car because the surgical ac-
commodations at Maplewood were in
adequate for so many wounded per-
sons.
All the injured were carried, some in
stretchers and some in carriages, from
where they were hurt to the hotel and
thence to the Pullman car Doctors
and nurses accompanied the party in
the car
On the arrival of the train here the
Pullman car was detached and taken to
Newark by a special locomotive. There
the members of the Muller family were
removed to their home in ambulances
The car then proceeded to Plainfeld
with the Bersums.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Ready For a Substitute.

Old Scotch ministers had a keen sense
of humor apart from the Doric altogether.
One of the best stories that could he
quoted in this connection is that told of
DIR. Gilchrist, formerly Of Grceuock. but
who was minister of Canongate. Edin-
burgh. when he died. \ rather cocksure
young man was officiating for him one
Sunday. and on going to the vcstry the
doctor found his substitute robed and
ready for the pulpit. In the course of a
few minutes conversation with the old
minister the young sprig said in an off
hand way:
81 suppose, doctor, you repeat the
Iord's Prayer in some part of the serv-
ice?'
"Aye. aye" replied DIR. Gilchrist quiet
ly, unless ye hae a better one o yer
ain"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04

fathers or brothers and, above all, OF
their husbands.
Generally, the great man, if he shine
amatively at all, shines more in the
character Of a lover than of a husband
But there are exceptions. Carlyle never
shone either as lover or as husband
There Is not the slightest romance In
his life.
Byron was particularly awkward to
manage. What Dante and Petrarch
would have been had they married re-
spectively Beatrice and Laura it is not
difficult to magine.-Philadelph In.
uuirer
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Care of China.

The care of china is not so simple as il
appears. Some paste is so perfectly hard
that it never 'takes" dirt, other speci-
mems are very absorbent. OF course, chi
ma must not be rubbed with anything
very gritty or the glaze will be destroyed,
or at least scratched, rendering it more
likely to be permanently impregnated
with dirt or to have its pattern leopard
lied. The Chinese employ fuller's earth
and soda with plenty of water, and the
effects are charming, the china coming
out of this mixed bath with a glistening
complexion,
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Oyerindulrenc In Coffee.

Overfndulgence In COnee.
Coffee is n powerful irritant Of the
cerebro spinal nervous system. Re
cent tests have shown that 1t increases
mental and bodily waste rather than
retards 1t, as has been claimed. Cof-
Zee poisoning is sometimes mistaken
.or the troubles engendered by the use
If alcohol. In both cases the stomach
md nervous system are the sufferers.
Caffeic and alcoholic gastritis are
nearly identical as to their symptoms.
The use of coffee by children has in
several cases caused an arrest of de-
velopment. Cases have been reported
of delirium tremens brought on by the
excessive use Of coffee. 1t is related
In q foreign medical journal that a
man, in the absence of his wife, un-
dertook to make his own coffee. Not
knowing the correct proportions for
use, he took about one-quarter Of a
pound Of fresh roasted coffee for two
cups. Two hours afterward he COM
planned of vertigo, headache and, at
first, trembling of the legs only, which
soon became general, followed by sew
eral other distressing symptoms, some
Of which continued a day or two
longer.
BY busy physician it Is stated that
at least two-thirds of his practice
comes from the excessive use of coffee.
The excessive use of tea and coffee,
as well as the use of alcoholic liquors,
often almost wholly oblterates the
sense of taste.-Health Culture.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
shocked 20 Death by Striking Matcl

Laurens, S. c.. Oct. Friday nigh
the home of Mary Bridges. colored
woman, was blown up with dynamite
bomb. The whole city was startled by
the explosion, and the house was de-
molished. The woman was away from
home, and no one was injured. Yes
terday George Anderson. colored, was
arrested for the attempt. He was
enamored OF the woman. but she re-
jected him, as he has another wife. The
day before the explosion he threatened
her life
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
THREE KILLED IN A LABOR FIGHT.
Detective and Two Unfonfsts Shot
by Non-Union Men.

by Non-Union Men.
Cleveland, Oct. 1-City Detective
William L. Foulks was shot and in
stantly killed Saturday while trying to
put stop to shooting affray be-
tween union and non-union molders.
A party of five or six non-union men
were set upon by some union men.
The former began shooting. Detectives
Foulks and Parker, who were nearby,
interfered Foulke was shot through
the heart, and when he fell the men
dispersed Two of the union men were
shot and fatally wounded. They are
Henry Cronenberger, who died at the
hospital late Saturday night, and Will
lam Steffield, who died yesterday.
Cronenberger was union molder. Stef-
field was union bricklayer, and had no
part in the fight. Charles Peck, non
union man, is under arrest charged
with the murder of Detective Foulks.
and Paul Irving, Thomas Jennings,
Edgar Mcintyre and Willis Webster,
also non-union men, were arrested on
the charge of shooting with intent to
kill
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
Heller's Testimony.

Albert Heller, living at 1114 Farnham
ST., Omaha, says: Il have tried most
every thing that is used as a prevent
i've or cure for headache, but nothing
did me so much good a. Krause's Head
ache Capsules. Others who have used
them say the same thing" Price 25c
Sold 10y Rossman * Sons Pharmacy.