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The Honorable Highwayman.

Sam Rawson occasionally said good
thing, and one of those occasions
CHANGED to be the town meeting. The
people of Sans village could not IN
derstand how the money appropriated
for the roads had vanished with such
poor results.
A stretch of road, running past Sans
house, was in VIGOROUSLY poor condi-
ton, although Sam declared that he
had paid literally to have it put in
good order, and there was general in
terest when Sam rose to make his
statement before the selectmen.
I'D just like to say one thing" he
drawled, needless of the fact that he
had interrupted an indignant neighbor.
81 don't want to make any fuss, but I'd
just like to ask the honorable board of
highwaymen-"
That was as far as he could get. A
roar of laughter swept over the town
meeting and showed it's effects in the
red faces of the "highwaymen."
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Andrew Carnegie is building a monu-

Andrew Carnegie is building a monu-
ment. Just how high it will be no man
can tell. for who can name the num-
Der of Carnegie's days? There are
many millionaires in America. They
give. They do more or less good, ac-
cording to their lights, but most of
them are quietly resting in their collins
when the world is told that they de-
sired to benefit humanity. Carnegie is
shoveling his money out and getting all
the enjoyment possible from the opera
ton. He wants to see every stone tha+
goes into his monument. He likes to
give, and gratifies his passion. Tie
other day he celebrated his retirement
from business by handing over S5,000,-
900. under conditions, to those of his
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British Trade Ruined

London. Daily Mail protests
editorially against the Indifference of
the government while British trade is
being ruined by foreign state-aided
competition" Referring to Mr.. Ellis
mans statement yesterday at the an
nual meeting of the Leyland line, it
says:
eff there were any certainty that
Great Britain would retaliate, an
American subsidy would perhaps be
averted for some years at least, but
there is no such certainty
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Federation Of Labor ExpeIs
>esetters

CHICAGO.-After one of l. storm
lest meetings in it's history, the Chi
cago Federation of Labor expelled Ty-
biographical Union No. 16, by vote
of SO to IL. This action was taken
upon a report of a special commit
tee, which was appointed four weeks
ago, to investigate the complaint of
the Pressmen's Union that the printers
had refused to give their moral sup
port to the striking pressmen of the
newspaper publishers association.
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A man has had his stomach cut out,
fixed up and put back again. The doc
tors called it gastroenterotomy and con-
sidered it a most interesting operation.
The person who underwent the ordeal
has not yet expressed his opinion of it,
but he is still living.
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William Waldorf Astor has directed
that his new book shall not be publish
ed or sold in this country. Knowing
how Willie Wally feels toward us, this
consideration upon his part was hardly
to have been expected.
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More Cuban Protests

Santiago De Registration TO
the municipal election in June closed
Saturday. Much excitement was
caused by Woods order assingning an
American officer at each registration
place, politicians claiming that it was
another instance of American 1nterfer
ence. Thousands of protests wer
made.
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A Brooklyn woman was not angry
because her husband shot at her, and
missed her, but she wanted him prop
erly punished for shooting the nose off
her lovely teapot" Every woman can
understand her feelings.
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The Governor of Guam denies that
he hid in a cellar at the time of the big
hurricane last fall, and adds that there
are no cellars in Guam. The alibi
seems to be established.
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not his name, but if convicted he
wished to serve his sentence under the
name and thus save his parents from
disgrace. In his application for
marriage license, however, he made
affidavit that his name was Hunt and
admitted that his parents were well
known in Decatur.
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Germans Fire at British

TEN TSIN.-Some German osldiers,
who were guarding a German bridge
across the Poi Ho river at the south
end of the British concession here, fired
on British tug, the Ego, wounding
two of her crew. The bridge impedes
river traffic, and the tug touched it.
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Grover Cleveland Loses Dividends

Denver.-Grover Cleveland if he had
paid assessments on Leadville mine
named after him. would now probably
be a part owner of property paying
$50 900 a month dividends.
About ten years ago Jim Shinn
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Rubber Troubles Settled

Providence, R. IAN agreement ha
been reached whereby all pending suit
between the heirs of Jos. Bannigan
once president OF the rubber combine.
and the United States Rubber COM
pany, has been reached and the suits
will be dropped. The aggregate amount
of the suits was $4,000 .GGO
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

A doctor told a woman's club that
22,O00,O00 American women are affiict-
ed with floating kidneys because of bad
corsets. What's a loose kidney or two
compared with the pleasure of being
neatly and extensively gowned!
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

A Boston man, who is being sued for
breach of promise, in one of his letters
to the girl called her my darling, my
darling, my life, my soul, my every
thing. my Anna" And it is commonly
supposed that Boston people are cold.
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Beers Capture British Scouts

LONDON, May S.-News has arrived
here, says the Cape Town correspond
ent of the Daily Express, that Colonel
Dennison, with patrol of scouts, has
been captured. The location of the
mishap is not known in Cape Town.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

The absinthe habit is growing in
America. 1t is drug that makes the
man who drinks it deadlier idiot than
he was before.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

Mrs. Frank Leslie paid $4,000 for her
new title and was not compelled to
take a new husband with it. Here is
a pointer for other ambitious Ameri-
can women with the title craze.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

If some men were offered President
Schwab's salary of $1,O0O,O00 a year,
they would work a couple of months
or so and then quite for life.
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A man committed suicide in Texas
after sending his wife this telegram:
"Thirty-five to-day; a failure" This
was to abandon the struggle very early;
and man who could be thus discour-
aged when there were before him so
many opportunities to retrieve mis-
takes, was not the sort of man who
ever could have made any Independent
achievement in life. For such, how
ever, there is always the recourse of
giving themselves over to the routine
service of others more capable and
more daring; and life lived in the faith
full performance of this kind of labor
cannot be accounted a failure.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

A Georgia colonel had a man arrested
for Cooking mean" at him. The man
was fined So for rubbering with intent
to scare.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

1t is estimated that one-third of the
inhabitants of the earth are habituaI
users of tobacco, and in most cases
bad tobacco at that.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11
President Cannot Receive Kruger

LONDON.-The Geneva correspond
ent of the Daily Mail asserts that
President Mckinley has informed Mr..
Kruger that he cannot receive him
either officially or unofficially.
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Never begin a good-natured talk with
a man who has just started a fire that
threatens to go out.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

In ninety-nine weddings in a hun
dred, the guests are impressed with the
fact that the bride is dressed for a man
worth ten times the income of the
groom.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

Andrew Carnegie's monument has
already been erected, and it is visible
from any point of view.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

Some men have such unfortunate dis
positions that they work against their
own business.
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old employees who feel the need of II
most. That is a great deal of money.
A century ago few men possessed SO
much. 1t was fabulous fortune then,
and it is a big fortune now. Measured
in muscle it means years of toll for an
army of men. Measured in the Car
negie treasure chest, it is drop, for 1t
is money that he did not need. And
here is the peculiar part of the whole
transaction: Mr.. Carnegie did not at
tempt to play the philanthropist. He
plainly told the men who contributed to
his millions, who made him the rich
man that he is, that he knows all about
it, and that they are entitled to the
money. He told them that labor and
capital were twin brothers, and that
neither took precedence. He also said
that whoever came between them was
the enemy of both. He knew that cir
cumstances, better brains, keen eyes
to recognize opportunity, and the cour-
age to seize it, had taken him from the
ranks of men who toll for others and
made him a master dependent on the
toilers. give only just begun giving"
said the rich man, as he sailed away
to his castle in Scotland. We can all
wish his long life. Those of US who
are selfish can base the wish on purely
mercenary grounds-a desire to see a
great fortune returned to the people
while those of US who see a big heart
throbbing with good impulses in a mil
lionaire's breast can ask that he be
spared many years to purchase more
happiness with the money he has made.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

One can't help wondering what Rus
sell Sage will do with his.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11

The humorist who called it the "Aus-
trian riot-stag" was very fortunate in
his choice of pronunciation.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11
Electricity Causes Numerous Fires

NV YORK.-In March last the
losses by fire in the United States
amounted to the enormous sum of $751;
900, 1000. Ever since the introduction
of electricity into buildings, fire losses
have increased in an extraordinary
ratio, and insurance men all over the
country have been in anxious consul
tation on the subject.
In the alarming increase in the per-
centage of losses, the insurance COM
panies are facing situation which
may mean not only a curtailment OF
dividends, but a wiping out of both
surplus and capital. 1t is said the
time has arrived when the rates must
be increase, or some concerted action
taken along the insurance line to chain
the electric monster, which is believed
to be the main agent OF destruction.
OF sixty millionaire insurance COM
panies, domestic and foreign, doing
business in the United States, only
thirty-one made any profit in the dec
ade ended December 81 last. Twenty
nine lost money, and many of them to
a very large amount.
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Natures Way Best

Incubator methods should conform
as nearly as possible to natures ways
with eggs, as may be seen by observing
the wise old hen who steals her nest
that she may be alone and left alone
while brooding her eggs. AS writer
in the Cultivator observes, such a hen
leaves her nest early in the morning
to hunt for food before anyone can
see her, and meantime cooled and
often get cooler when she re-
turns with legs and feathers wet
with dew. And yet in some way she
manages to come off with chick from
nearly every egg, although it took her
two full weeks to lay them The hint
nature gives us should be taken in
managing the brooder. Cool and some
times slightly moisten the eggs.
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Ten-cent PruneS

According to reports which are evil
IDENTIFY reliable, grocers in New York
City charge from 10 to Is cents
pound for prunes, and the Riverside
Press states that a gentleman whose
Investigations covered twenty-five
states found that in most small towns
he visited there were no prunes on
sale at all In the larger towns prunes
weru to be found, but the prices
charged were practically prohibitive.
Eight cents was the smallest price he
found, for very small sizes, such as the
growers have to sell for less than a
cent and a half, while for sizes that
run up to and cents in California,
the retail price was II to 16 cents.
Somebody is making too much money
on prunes, but it certainly is not the
grower The cured fruit association
may have to check that evil by open
! ing a few retail stores in the large
cities in the East and selling good
prunes for 5 Or cents per pound. Then
they would become a common article
| of food, not luxury.
Holbrook argus., 1901-05-11
Losses of Butter Fat

l found during my work of inspec-
ton, some large factories were losing
as much as 81 pounds of butter fat per
day; this would be in factories making
from IL to tons per day. In other
factories turning out less than one
half ton OF butter per day, losses of
q pounds to three pounds were found.
The following aye some Of the causes
of such losses: l. insufficient speed Of
the separator. 2. Irregular speed OF
the engine, caused, in many cases, by
poor and worn out governors. 3. Boil
ers too small to furnish sufficient
steam for the engine. 4. Irregular feed
of the milk and irregular temperatures.
5. By churning mixed cream at diff
ferent degrees Of ripeness. 6. By churn-
ing at high temperatures, especially
with sweet cream.-Dairy Commits
sioner of New Zealand.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08
PITH AND POINT.

Very few people want to know the
truth unless it fits their prejudice.
Every one who doesn't like you is
looking for Il chance to laugh at you.
A great deal of nerve is sometimes
necessary to keep from being cranky.
You know n whole lot If you know
enough to know you don't know any
thing.
When n boy is not invited to a party,
he hangs around the outside to see how
things are going.
When a dressmaker makes n quilt
out of silk scraps, the women begin to
look at her with suspicion.
Every one Is some kind of n sinner.
The employee too honest to take post
age stamp viii steal his employers
time
BE sensible with your children. When
you want them to do n thing, tell them
why. Don't tell them they must do it
or take beating, or that they must do
it because you say so.-AtChison Globe.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08
SIGNALING TO MARS.
The Difficulty of Doing So by Means
of Lisht.

The very largest city that this earth
has ever known would be altogether
too small to be visible to a being
that being were endcavoring TO see It
with telescope as powerful as the
greatest and most perfect instrument
in any observatory on this globe.
If the whole extent Of Lake Superior
was covered with petroleum and if that
petroleum was set on fire, then, | think,
we may admit that an inhabitant of
Mars who was furnished with a tele-
scope as good as that which percival
Lowell uses at Flagstaff might be able
to see that something had happened.
But we must not suppose that the
mighty cOntlagration would appear to
the Martian as very conspicuous OBJ
ject. 1t would, rather, be a very small
feature, but still | think it would not
be beyond the reach Of a practiced OBJ
server in that planet.
On the other hand, If an area the size
of Lake Superior on Mars was to be
flooded with petroleum and that petro-
leum was to be kindled, we should ex-
pect to witness the event from here not
as a great and striking confagration.
but as n tiny little point of just dis
cernible light. The disk of Mars is
not a large object, and the confagra-
tion would not extend over the three
hundreGth part of that disk.
1t is sufficient to state these facts to
show that the possibility Of signaling
to Mars is entirely beyond the power of
human resources.-Sir Robert S. Ball
in Independent.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08
FOR SMA-. INVESTORS.


Poultry and egg raising is eminently
adapted to the person with small capt
tai who is anxious that the investment
pay without running too great risk
one may begin in the most humble
way in poultry raising, and then gradu-
ally increase the size of the plant as
conditions warrant. 1t is really a case
of learning a business while slowly in
vestng capital in it. And this is really
thr best and most sensible way of ap-
pID.rling the business. To start in
with all the capital invested at first
Hu0 ten learn later by bitter expert
en~n, is just the way TO get discour-
aged and find that there is no money
in the business.
With the smallest amount OF capital
one can 20 into the business, especially
if there is a suitable place at hand for
the work. One can rent small poul-
try farm and then learn by experience,
even raising fruits and vegetables the
first few years to help pay the expenses
of living. Ultimately, however, the
ambition should be placed on chicken
and egg raising for the purpose of mas
tering it as a speciality.
Let one begin with 80 hens and find
out the first season what can be done
with that number. From this stock he
can prepare his next seasons increase
without further calling upon his capi-
tai. BY method of exchange of eggs
with neighbors near or distant new
blood can be introduced, and there will
not be much danger of close inbreeding.
In many places there is a regular
system of exchange of eggs In this way,
and at very little expense new breeds
are constantly being added From the
90 hens of the first season the flock
can be increased to 200 for the second.
If you have been successful with the
80, you are probably prepared the Sec
ond year to handle 200, especially if
proper houses and yards have been pre-
pared in advance. That is very essen
tial and throughout the whole devel-
opment of the business never neglect
to increase the quarters of the hens
and chickens in proportion to their in
crease in numbers.
With plenty Of accommodations and
fair success the second year the begin
ner might well increase his stock to
800 for the third year. The fourth
year he might 90 up to 700 or 500 and
the fifth season round out the business
with an even 1000. When you have
reached that number the plant is a
pretty good sized one, and its further
increase must be made gradually. There
are poultry farms of 5000 and 10000
hens, but the owners have learned by
careful experience how to handle such
numbers in the most economical way.
Any beginner, Of course, can grow up
to such proportions If he has the push
and 20 and the good business common
sense which enables him to raise and
sell to the best possible advantage.
concludes an American Cultiyator cor
respondent.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08
Cleaning oil Fni ntinGR.

An art journal suggests raw potatoes
to clean oil paintings. Have few po-
tatoes at hand, each cut in halves. The
fresh surface is dampened slightly with
cold water and used to rub the canvas.
As the potatoes show soil the surface
is sliced off and the rubbing continued
This process Will create little lather,
which should be wiped off as fast as it
accumulatcs with a clean, damp sponge.
When the whole canvas Is cleaned, it
should be washed over lightly with
clean water from which the chill has
been taken and finally the water
carefully wiped off with an old clean
silk handkerchief. Raw potatoes to
clean paintings are frequently in hear-
say evidence but this description of
the process may be of value. 1t is sug-
gested by way of reasonable caution
that the experiment should be tried
first upon a canvas Of tritiing value
and upon one corner of that.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08
Luck Comes to the BeIiboy.


Luck" said a man who believes in
it. comes to different people in differ
ent ways. | know man who is now
about as well fixed as most men would
want to be whose luck came to him in
helping a man on with an oyercoat.
He was a bcllboy then in a hotel,
and one day a big man, who was big
and prosperous financially as well as
physically, and who had just got his
ovcrcoat out Of the coatroom, turned
to him and said:
Here, boy, help me on with this
coat at the same time tossing the big
coat over to him ana turning away.
The boy didn't begin to be big enough
to do it, and, asking hiu to was just
the big mans little joke, for he was a
good naturcd man, but the next minute
the big man felt the coat going up on
his shoulders all right Turning round,
he saw the youngstcr stepping down
from Il chair which had been standing
near and which he had grabbed on TO
the minute the man turned his back
This ticIilcd the big man very much,
ana he took the small boy into his Of
flee. and practically the boys fortune
was made from that minute, for he had
the stuff in him to make good as well
as the brains to Meet his luck half way
when it came"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08

The cream Of squirrel hunting IS en-
joyed by the man who uses a light rifle
of small Callber and medium power.
The 10 long" as now turned out by
our leading makers Is an excellent
wcapOn-in fact, the best in the world
for the purpose. Though not of sutfi-
cient range to be dangerous to people
or stock at a distance, 1t throws lead
with surprising accuracy to the tops OF
the tallest trees. Good rifle shots al
ways aim for the squirrels head both
TO add to the difficulty Of the sport and
TO avoid spelling meat. And be 1t
known that squirrels head at range
of 40 or 80 yards Is no easy mark. If
a reader doubts this, let him go to the
woods for day, keep all empty shells,
and at the end Of the day let him try
to make the dead squirrels and the
empty shells tally.-E. w Sandys in
Outing.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-08-08
HOW TO INDUCE SLEEP.
College President's Plan For Over
coming Insomnia.

Assume an easy position, with the
hands resting over the abdomen, Presi-
dent Hyde of Bowdoin suggests in The
Outlook, discussing the matter OF sleep.
Take long, slow but easy and natural
breath in such "A way as gradually and
gently to lift the hands outward by the
action of the abdomen. At the same
time slowly and gradually open the
ewes so that at the end Of the inSpira-
tion they are wide open and directed
upward. Let the breath out easily and
naturally, letting the hands fall inward
as the outward pressure Of the abdo-
men is withdrawn. Al the same time
let the eyes drop and the eyelids natu-
rally fall by their own weight so that
they are closed at the end of the eXpi-
ration. Do all this quietly and natu-
rally. Do not make too hard work of it.
Repeat the inspiration and eXpira-
tion, with opening and lifting, dropping
and closing of the eyes, ten times. Then
take ten breaths in the same way, al
lowing the eyes to remain closed. AL
ternate ten brcaths with the opening
and closing Of the eyes. When the eye
lids begin to feel heavy and you feel
tired and sleepy, as you will very soon,
go through the motions more and more
easily and lazily until you merely will
the motions without making any effort,
or hardly any effort, to execute them.
At this stage, or more likely in one OF
the intervals of breathing without any
motion of the eyes. you will fall asleep.
Nervous persons will have some diff
Guilty at first in the gradual opening
and closing Of the eyes. They will tend
to fly open and then snap together; but,
as putting salt on doves tail is sure
rule for catching the dove, SO this grad
ual and easy opening and closing OF
the eyes in rhythm, with quiet, natural
breathing. once secured, are almost
equivalent TO dropping off TO sleep.
This rule induces the respiration that is
characteristic Of normal sleep. 1t tires
the set Of muscles, the firing of which
is one of the favorite devices for pro-
ducing hypnosis. 1t produces and calls
attention to certain sensations In the
eyes and eyelids which are the normal
precursors of sleep. Finally persons
who have had difficulty in going to
sleep report that this method puts them
to sleep and puts them back again
when they wake up too soon.