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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17


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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17
USE OF PERSONAL PRONOUN
why the Uncultivated Appear Al
WAYS to BE Talking OF Self.

why the Uncultfvated Appear Al
ways to BE Talking OF Self.
All the uncultivated appear almost al
ways to be talking about themselves,
but 1t is easy for a superficial observer
to exaggerate the extent to which this
is the case. For instance II you dis
cuss with cultivated man question
Of morals or the wisdom or recttude of
any particular line of conduct, be will
tell you what he thinks right or what
he thinks wrong or what strikes him
as wise or foolish, with very little use
of the personal pronoun- He can see
the situation from the outside. But II
you discuss 1t with an uneducated man
he is incapable of this detached Rtti-
tude of mind. The uneducated man can
only picture the circumstances to him
self by picturing himself in the midst
Of them. What he thinks right and
wise is, no doubt often great deal
better and wiser than what he would
actually have done. Such and such
thing was wrong; l should not have
done IT," he says, or: such and such
was foolish Now, had It been me, l
should have done so and So" To the
sophisticated listener he gives an Inn
preston OF appalling self righteous
ness and even perhaps Of hypocrisy,
but the impression is a mistaken one.
He argues in the vOcative case, because
II is the one in which he can most cas-
ily express himself.
Some people, 1t must be admitted, at
tract condolences from those who have
no weakness for making them. We are
not alluding to those persons who by
a method of deft cross questioning
manage to abstract information with
which they have no business. Such
information is not conflded By its orig
inal owner. but stolen from him, or at
least wormed out of him. The people
we mean have that in their face and
bearing which makes all the world
at home with them. Whoever meets
them may know that they are incapa-
bic OF giving snub or a rebuff to any
one who claims their sympathy, be he
never so silly. They go about the
world unarmed and unafrai6 and, to
give human nature its due, unhurt Tn
consciously. it is they who make the
first confidence, telling those who see
them, even for the first time, that they
are sympathetic and detached, and as
shrewd as they are harmless.-LondOn
Spectator
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17
A PECULIAR COMPOUND
Cryostase Thnws In the Cold and
Freezes Under Heat.

According to German medical jour
nal, very anomalous Is the conduct Of
a peculiar chemical compound known
as "cryOstase" This consists Of mix
ture in equal parts Of phenol, saponin
and camphor, with little turpentine
oil.
This weird substance possesses the
remarkable quality Of becoming liquid,
or we may say of "thawing," in the
cold, and again becoming solid, or, as
it were. freezing" when heated
1t is true that some other bodies-as.
for instance the white Of an egg-pos-
sess a similar property OF becoming
solid, or coGgulating, with heat, but In
the case of these. when once the solidi-
flcation has taken place, no degree Of
cold will restore them to the liquid
state. whereas with cryostase the ex-
pertinent can be repeated and the
process reversed any number OF times.
We have thus n substance which alb
soiutely defies all rule and precedent,
but of whose exceptional behavior no
satisfactory explanation has as yet
been given.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17
Bore on Too Heavily.

This won't go for only one stamp"
said the village postmaster to old Tn
Gle Klah as the latter handed him n
bulky and much sealed missive.
"Whuf for? What's de maddah wild
datT"
TOO heavy" replied the postmaster,
balancing it on his hand.
"Umph. | tole dat boy 30 when he
was a-writtn' Of II. | tole him he was
writin' too heaby n han, but he KEEP
on a-bearin down an a-bearin' down
on de pen, lahk load O. hay. I'll take
II back. sab, an mex him write wild q
pencil. | amt gwine spen' no mo- 2
centSes jes' fer his pigheadedness"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17

I'LL HE'LL YOU PLAN AN ELoPEMENT.
had seen that the second cousin was
smitten he took his part against the
held
Look a-here, Sarah" he began one
day as he got the girl to sit down be-
side him in the orchard, you believe
know folks bettern you do. don't
your
Yes, of course"
81 orter, Sarah-I orter. I've been tn.
New York and Boston and all around.
and l can spot pickpocket as far as
/ can see him That feller Harry amt
no feiler for you to marry. l didn't
have to look at him twice to see that
he'll never make a hustler"
81 don't see why" protested Sarah.
"Natur didn't make him that way.
You'd never have a second dress to
your back If you married him. Better
give him right up now, and lemme
pint you out feller who'll make
crackin' good husband"
who is it2"
Your Cousin Walter. He's fell In
love with you and can't sleep o nights
He's feller who's goin' to rip up the
ground all around some day"
But know l never could love him"
"One can do a heap of things, my
girl, If she sets out to. You Jest go
around thinkin about Walter from
mornin' till night, and you'll be Iovin'
him inside of week"
II don't believe father and mother
would like It."
Say, now, that's the fun Of the hull
thing" laughed Uncle Ben as he rub
bed his hands together. I've kinder
sounded your dad and mann, and they
amt stuck on Walter They can't cot
ton to feller who parts his hair IN
the middle and has gold filed tooth.
They might be opposed TO a marriage
but that marriage could come off Jest
the same"
"HowT asked Sarah, with consider
able interest
Lean your head down till ! whisper
one word in your ear-elopement II
you and Walter make up to each other,
I'll help you plan an elopement and
put 500 in your hand for a bridal dow
er. I'll jest Ike to show your dad and
nam that there's other folks who know
Il thing or two"
An idea was trying TO work itself
out in Sarah's mind, and she asked for
half a day to think things over. At
the end Of that time she accepted I'm
Gle Ben's proposition.
Good girl.' he exclaimed as he kiss
ed her and smiled like a June morning.
You just 90 right ahead lovin' Walter,
and when the time comes I'll be on
hand"
Sarah and Walter went ahead. AS
le was no great fayorite Of her par
ants she was not put to any great
bother. The most she had to do was
70 hear him sigh and recite poetry and
lpostrophlze the rising and setting sun.
Backed and urged on by Uncle Ben,
ne finally proposed and was inferen-
tally accepted This was no sooner
over with than there was a further
.Onfab in the orchard.
Now, then, for the elopement"
,huckled Uncle Ben. And here's the
300 III give Walter another hun
lred before the thing comes OFF
Dear old Uncle Ben, but what
good man you are" Sarah said CRATE
'ully.
Yes, all wool aud a yard wide" be
eplied as he pinched her cheek.
Three nights later at IL o'clock at
light Sarah Jane Williams tiptoed
,oftly downstairs and left the house.
There were a horse and buggy waiting
IA the road which had been ordered by
rncIe Ben young man followed
,osa on her heels and took the lines
nd drove away. As the outfit disap-
,rnred in the darkness the good man
waved his hat and chuckled. Then Ee
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17
WESTMINSTER HALL.
Its Bargain Counters, State Trials
and Coronation Banquets.

Westminster hall, whose old gray
walls have seen coronation banquets
and state trials, used TO echo with the
bargains driven at shops or stalls which
at one time fTinged its walls like n
modern bazaar. These were kept by
booksellers. toy dealers, sempstresses
and milliners The rents and profits
went by right to the warden OF the
Fleet An engraving OF the busy scene
was made by Mosely and prints taken
therefrom by Gravelot before 1773
showing how,
In hall Of Westminster
Sleek sempstress vcnds amidst the courts
her ware.
In TON Browns Amusements'
177O) we read: I'VE enter into a great
hall where v" were surprised TO see IN
the same place men on one side with
baubles ana toys ana on the other TAX
en- up with fear Of judgment. In this
shop are TO bc sold ribbons and gloves,
towers, headdrcsscs. etc On the left
hand we hear a nrble tongued paint
ed sempstress with her charming treble
hVlce you ~ Duv some Of her kUick-
knacks. s."-LoGdOn Mail
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17

Weekdays. Daily. ( Flag station.
Pullman Parlor ard Sleeping Cars run OF
through trains between SGShury, Williamsport
and Erie between Sunbury ana Philadelphia
and Washington and between Harrisburg, Pitts
burg and the West
For further information apply to Ticket Agent
w. W. .ATTERBURY, }. X. WOOD
General Manager. Pass Traffic Mfr
GEO. .WIBONp, GEN Passenger Agent
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-17

the said street railway with electri
motor and to propel c9rs thereon for
the accommodation OF public travel
upon and under all the conditions, re-
gulations and stipulations and restric-
tions as provided in the said ordin-
ance to which this is a supplement.
Approved October 9th. 1904,
WIN. G. PURSEL, Burgess
Attest:
HARRY B. PATTON,
Sec'y of the Borough of
Danville, Pa.
Council Chamber, Danville, Pa. ,Octo-
Der 9th, 1904.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
VISITING CLERGYMEN
PREACH IN OAKLAND
Pulpits of Absent Pastors Are Occu-
pied by a Number of Ministers
From Elsewhere,

OAKLAND, July 10.-The Rev. H.
]. Vosburgh, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church, has commenced a series
of three discourses on Sympathetic
Studies of Our Neighbors." The first
sermon was preached this evening, the
topic being. The Message of Congre-
gationalism.' Following will be THE
Message of Methodism" and after that
THE Message of Unitarianism.''
Mrs. Mabel Walker Murcell and
John McEwing sang to-day at the
Eighth-avenue Methodist Church.
The Rev. Burton H. Jones of Rock
lin preached to-day at the Fourth Con-
gregational Church.
The pulpit at the First Congrega-
tional Church was occupied to-day by
the Rev. F. e. Knopf of Cheyenne,
Wyo.
The Rev. f. ]. Singer preached to-
day at Plymouth-avenue Congrega-
tional Church. :.
At the First Methodist Church to-
day the Rev. 1. n. Halliday preached
this morning and the Rev. H. w. Walz
of San Francisco conducted the even
ing services.
DR.. L. n. Dutton preached this even
ing at the Twenty-fourth-a
Methodist Church.
Oakland, Her Knockers and Her
Boosters was the subject of the Rev.
Owen Hotties sermon this evening AT
the Eighth-avenue Methodist Church.
Rev. w. w. Holloway, d. D., of
Dover, n. J., officiated to-day at the
First Presbyterian Church.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
ALAMEDA SOCIAL

ALAMEDA, July 10.-Principal Duncan Nc
Kinnon Of the Haight School has returned
from a visit TO Los Angeles Pasadena ana
Santa Barbara
Miss Jessie Jameson, formerly a teacher
in the local school department became the
bride Of D. NJ. Francis at Flagstaff, Arizona,
on July f. The wedding originally planned
TO take place at the home OF the brides par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Jameson of this
city, but the groom unable to leave his
business in Arizona.
Postmaster and Mrs T. w. Leydeeker will
pass the remainder OF this month al Waldrhue
in Sonoma County.
DR.. and Mrs. Walter r. Hughes returned
last evening from outing spent at Tolle,
Placer County.
Richard Stevens, formerly in the employ of
the municipal electric light department and
Miss Georgia Echenberger were married re-
Gently in Lake County. The bride is the
daughter of Carl Echenberger of 1921 Santa
Clara avenue.
Miss Jer ella Bishop returned yesterday from
a tour of the Yosemite Valley and left to-day
for San Jose. where she will visit friends for
ten days.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
DISCUSS OFFER
OF ARMY POSTS
Philippine Veterans Deem
Invitations to Drill Chin
ese Soldiers Official
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.
1016 Broadway, July 10.


The Oakland boys who claim to have
been offered commissions in the Chinese
army in consideration of drilling Chi
nese sufficiently to put them on foot
ing with European soldiers are Won
dering how far the invitation may point
to revolution of the yellow races
against the Europeans.
Ralph J. Faneuf and T. J. Thompson.
both Philippine veterans, have received
messages indicating that the Chinese
reform party is trying to obtain the
services of well-trained American SOL
diers to take charge of the reorganiza-
tion of the Chinese army. These young
men are sturdy young Americans and
they are trying to find out from what
source these overtures come. If they
come, even indirectly. from the Chi
nese Government, they suggest inter-
national questions.
The first word received in Oakland
in regard to these overtures was from
HI. j. Kemper, secretary of the army
of the Philippines Kemper wrote to
Thompson and Faneuf, telling them a
company of Chinese was to be formed
in Oakland and setting forth what is
deemed to be the offer of the Chinese
Government, that the American drill
masters should receive commissions in
the Chinese army while the drilled Chi
nese should become the non-commis-
stoned officers of the reorganized Chi
nese army. The young soldiers to
whom this proposition has been made
are trying to find out how far they may
become implicated in international
complications.
Ralph j. Fanuef is at present en-
ployed in the United States postoffice
department in Oakland. He was in the
Hawaiian Islands at the outbreak of
the Spanish-American war. A young
man of strenuous tendencies and eager
to fight for the country of his birth, he
enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania Vol
unteers when they stopped at the ISL
ands. He served through the war with
credit to himself and the flag and made
a record with General Bell, then a
colonel. Thompson, now commander of
Colonel Liscum Post Of Veterans of the
Spanish-American War, was connected
with the hospital service in the islands.
This is what Fanuef said tonight:
Camp Colonel Liscum of the Span
ish-American War Veterans is in re-
ceipt of very peculiar communication
from Mr.. Kemper at Los Angeles. This
communication was originally sent to
Mr., Thompson, the commander of our
local camp, and then turned over to
me. / do not know what it means, but
1T would seem that the Chinese Govern
ment is looking for American soldiers
to reorganize it's army. They offer
American soldiers commissions in the
Chinese army, and the men they may
drill in this country are to have nom
commissioned posts under them"
Commander Thompson confirmed Fa-
nueTs statement. Both the veterans
are convinced that the Chinese Govern
ment is seeking American soldiers for
the reorganization of it's army.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
MISS DOLBEER
A VICTIM OF
MELANCHOLIA
BY Sally Sharp.

The death of Bertha Dolbeer, beauti-
full, cultured, wealthy and loved, smote
her friends a cruel blow, a blow from
which they have not rallied, though the
newspapers of yesterday morning bore
the awful tidings to them. Nor will
they fully feel the loss that has fallen
upon them until there comes the bat
tered BODY of her who left them but a
short time ago to mingle with the
throngs in European capitals.
On the day of leaving as she bade
adieu to a dear friend she whispered to
her. II dread this trip. l fear it,
wish l might withdraw, but L cannot q"
A change of scene had been recon-
mended for her as an Alternative to her
depression. which of late had been as
Stunning a serious persistency. Going to
London, she found life there dull, and
cutting short her stay she crossed to
Paris. hoping the joy of the boule-
vardier might enter into her soul and
lift it from the depths, but the hope
vanished in sleepless nights and haunt
ed days. With youth, beauty and
wealth, joy was not to be lured into the
darkened chambers of her soul. and
sickening of the elusive chase she de-
termined to return home. And it was
on this homeward trip that, maddene6
soul, she made the fatal leap-to rest
And who is there with aught but pity
in his or her heart for the suffering
soul who flung away her young life in
a mad moment of pain?
As a character study, Miss Dolbeer
had always been interesting to her
friends Unlike other girls from her
birth, she grew to womanhood with her
individuality unchanged. Truthful,
frank, straightforward, economical lin
spite of her $1,000 of monthly income).
self-reliant. phlegmatic. wholly devoid
of enthusiasm, unless it be concerning
athletics, in which she manifested some
interest, she was a type of woman
wholly unlike any other similarly situ-
ated.
She entertained but little for an
heiress to a million. took small account
of charities. held no very deep interest
in men-that is, in the individual man
and appeared to dwell in a little dark
world all within herself. 1t was in that
little dark world. peopIed by unreal
creatures, who neither spoke to her, nor
loved her. nor made merry with her.
that she grew silent and gloomy. Then
came the sIeeplessness and the pains
They always come with the peopling of
THE brain with unreal creatures. There
are those who say that the unhappy
maid drank from her mothers breast
the substance of the unreal people
and with the growing years they took
shape. Loved and honored with fine
friendships, and possessed of rare
beauty. there was not in life that un-
purchasable thing, happiness.
The inanimate body. its soul at rest
will start on its trip homeward to-mor-
row.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
CUPID PLAYS
QUEER CAPERS
Causes Notion Merchant to
Sell Out Stock in Trade
and Seek New Sweetheart
BRIDE REFUSES TO WE'D
Dispute Over Who Should
Buy Trousseau Results
in Preventing Marriage

ALAMEDA, July 10.-Cupid and
Christopher Grau. Park-street no.
ton dealer. are at outs and all be-
cause the girl whom Grau secured a
license to marry declined to become
his bride when he refused to pay for
her wedding trousseau. At least, that
is the chief reason that Grau gives
why he it not bridegroom, as his
friends expected he would be when he
secured the necessary legal permit to
marry Miss Juanita Lewis.
Grau still has his marriage license
and to-day asserted that he would try
it on another girl, and placed the fol-
lowing notice in the window of his
store: "Wanted-A young lady with
$1,000 to invest in this business OBJ
ject, matrimony if dispositions are
congenial."
Yesterday Grau had a clearance
sale of marked-down, love-scented en-
velopes and paper that he decided to
get rid of when Miss Lewis informed
him that she did not wish to take
his name. Before the auction Grau
posted the following in q conspicuous
place in his display window:
ION account of a disappointment in
marriage l will sell out this entire sup
ply of June wedding paper. which i
intended to use myself. Very fine for
invitations. love letters and billet
deaux." To-day Grau had but three
boxes left and says that he expects
a run on the store tomorrow.
In speaking of his matrimonial af-
fairs Grau said: Il bought a license
to marry Miss Lewis, but after l had
obtained it some of my enemies told
her parents that I had several chill
dren in Germany. ] was married once
before, but my wife died, leaving me
childless. Miss Lewis also wanted me
to pay for her wedding dress, which
l considered should be furnished by
her parents. If she loved me as she
ought a little matter like a wedding
dress would not have prevented our
wedding. But there is as good fish
in the sea as was ever taken out of
it, and I mean to continue fishing"
Miss Lewis asserts that she never
promised Grau to marry him and that
her parents objected to the attentions
he paid her. Grau is about forty-five
years of age and Miss Lewis is not
yet seventeen.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
FACULTY MEN
MOVE ABROAD
Teaching Force at Uniyer-
sity of California Goes
Forth to All the Chimes
MANY VISIT THE FAIR
Heads of the Departments
Accept Calls to Speak
at Scientific Meetings
Berkeley Office San Francisco Cali,
214S Center Street, July 10.

G49O OClllCl OLLNOAg OAS
The faculty of the University Of
California is just now scattered all over
the world. Some of it's members are In
Europe. some in the Orient, some In
the Antipodes and no doubt at. least
one could be found in every State OF
the Union. Since the last commence
ment the faculty has dispersed every
where, some for recreation, some Tor
study some to work. OF the per-
sonnel of $50 instructors hardly any
may be found in California, except
those on outings and those teaching
at the summer school.
Nearly all of the heads of depart
ments will have visited the East before
college reopens in August. In the
cases of most of these members IT is
the st. Louis Fair that takes them
away. There they have been called
to the gatherings of scientists from all
over the world, to take part in discus
sions or conduct meetings. Even at
this late hour in the vacation men are
going and in d few days there will be
an exodus of twelve more of them.
Among the number will be Professors
George H. Howison, A. f. Lange,
George Davidson. Irving Stringham,
Cornelius B. Bradley, Elmer E. Brown
and A. o. Leuschner.
HTOl6SSOI .. OnIlSly 10 d1IGdQy dl
st. Louis. looking after the exhibit
of the mining colleges of the United
States, of which he is The superin-
tendent.
DR.. A. A. Noyes and DR.. w. C. Nor
gan have been in attendance upon the
meeting of the American Chemical
Society in Providence, r. /. DIR. Noyes
is president of the society and read a
paper before it, as did also DIR. Nor
gan.
Professor Thomas r. Bacon of the
history department is on his way home
from Europe, having been absent a
year on leave to pursue his studies. 1t
is expected that he will arrive soon in
Berkeley. prepared to resume his work
at the university.
Professor William A. Setchell of the
botany department is on his way home
from Australia, where he has been
spending some time in visits to the
botanical gardens. He will complete
a tour of the world when he arrives.
Many of the faculty visited the
Yosemite Valley this year. They
adopted different modes of getting
there, preferably the stage route, but
often they went by foot or blackboard.
Professor E. ]. Wicksoh and a party
walked in, with the assistance of a
wagon and two mules. Professor Mar
tin Centner and Charles l.. Biedenbach,
principal of the Mckinley School,
walked in also. But Professor Jerome
B. Landfield preferred to let the stage
line take him in.
Professor John Galen Howard has
taken his family to the Yosemite for
a trip of three weeks. They are ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Gregory.
Professor Jacques Loeb and his fam
lily spent a two weeks vacation at
Pacific Grove, as did also Professor
and Mrs. Leon J. Richardson and Pro-
fessor E. 2. Lewis.