Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-03-21
CoHerdam to Be Built Around IN
Wreck at Havana.

water tight. Then the water can De
pumped out Of the inclosure, leaving
the wreck exposed in the mud. Der
ricks and powerful lifting machinery
will then be brought into use and the
huh lifted from its bed Of mud. If II
can be patched UP SO that 1t will float,
that will be done. If it cannot be
raised, 1t will be torn to pieces while
the cofferdam keeps back the water.
The divers found that the wreck had
settled some 40 feet In the soft mud,
the bottom of the ship being GO feet
below the low tide mark. The cost or
raising the vessel Is estimated Mt from
$780, 900 to 100000. Its value when
raised cannot be estimated, but some OF
the contractors thought it might be
worth 100000. One Of the contractors
thought that II the vessel could De
foated it would be worth $1,OOO,OOO'
The general impression was that II
could not be f1oated.
The divers found two magazines IN
the vessel containing 300 tons of pow
der intact and uninjured. All the div
ers and surveyors agreed that the
Maine had been blown up by a mine
set of from land battery.
Question of Ethics.
"Be truthful" said the teacher.
"Always| asked the boy.
always" answered the teacher.
'Never tell lie?"
Never"
"Not even a white lie?'
"Not even a white lie."
"Huhv calculated the lad scornful-
ly. Its a mighty good thing for you
you amt boy with my dad for a fa-
ther."
"Why" asked the teacher.
Because" replied the boy, "if you
was my dads little boy an you'd heard
what he said about Aunt Eliza comm
to visit US with her children an Aunt
Eliza had asked you II you weren't all
glad to see her an you'd told the truth,
like l did, you'd think there was
place where your trousers was mighty
thin after dad got through with you"
He went back to his desk, and as he
sat down with great care there was an
expression on his face that showed the
great lesson Of truth had been, at least
in a measure, lost ON him. And In his
Indignation and innocence he did not
appreciate the humor associated with
the fact that his teacher did not belong
to that division of the human race that
wears trousers.-ChicagoP Post.
In many churches of Provence and
Italy, especially those near the sea, ex
voto paintings placed on the walls in
accordance with vows made by pill
grims in moments Of danger are often
remarkable for their frames. Among
the curiosities may be enumerated
laths formed of splinters from ships
that have been wrecked; also frames
made Of pieces of heavy cables, occa-
sionally painted bright hues, but some
times left In their primitive gray color
and splashed with tar. Nailed to the
laths surrounding a painting repre-
senting sailors fighting with fierce saw
ages may be seen African or Polyne-
sian spears and darts or swords made
of hard wood, evidently mementos Of
terrific struggles. Sailors or landsmen
who have made vows during times Of
peril at sea and who have no trophies
to display will surround their paintings
with broad bands of wood heavily in-
erusted with shells and seaweed, not
infrequently of rare and extremely
beautiful kinds. - London Peoples
Friend.
GIVE HER SOFT WATER.
Three farmers wives, asked at an in
stitute this winter to name the par
ticular thing which they would most
like to have to add to the comfort and
convenience of their country homes,
said, soft water" Now, was not
that funny? With barrels and barrels
OF soft water pouring on to the roofs Of
their homes and running away to
waste after every rain and these good
women forced to use the hard well wa
ter for all the washing and cleaning
incident to their housekeeping! Any
man can put in a good cistern for $50,
and $40 more will put a pump connect
ed with 1t and an enameled sink In
the kitchen. When SO small an ex-
penditure as this will make q woman
happy, why not do It?
CITY MEN AND COUNTRY HOMES.
AS the facilities afforded by mod
ern interurban means of transit are In
creased more and more are well to do
city people seeking homes in the
country. Children ought never to be
born and raised in our cities. City
conditions, with polluted air, water and
milk, lack of play room, vicious sights
and associates, imperil not only the
physical but the moral well being OF
the little ones. 1t Is the bottle baby
Of the cities which swells the mortality
lists In the summer months, and the
effort to raise them at all is like trying
to raise q calf on the sklmmilk from
q separator creamery. The desire for
the country home by city men is giving
q marked Increase In value to all farm
lands lying within reach of our large
eastern cities.
lne western IdrHleF talkS uiuereuIly
about his possessions to the local as
SCISSOR from what he does to his broth
erin-law from Vermont who is making
his first visit west. He illustrates the
difference between contraction and ex-
pansion.
Ten beet sugar factories were in OPP
Grafton in Michigan last year, which
used 250,O00 tons of beets and paid the
farmers over 81, 100000 for them. For
ty-eight million pounds of refined gran
ulated sugar were made. The crop is