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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-20
New line Chinaware
for Christmas at Nc.
DOnaId'S.
Puzzled the Boy.

Small Boy wish I was a
great philosopher like you
Great And why, my
SOM"
Cause you know everything,
aud there's some things 1 can't
understand; but if l was like you
I could"
Tell me one of them
Well, for one thing, I'd like
to know why photographers can
take pictures of comets an neteors
an flying cannon balls anS light
ming flashes, and yet can t photo
graph a boy without squashing his
head in pair of pinchers?"-
Chicago Journal.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-20
WHO said, Turkey?

FORTUNATE is the individual
who can enjoy the beautiful sun
shine.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-20

You may have observed that
dressmakers never seem to tire of
their efforts to improve on the
work of nature.-Chicago News.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-20
Man and Wife.

The snow was falling. The day
was stiil and gray and cold. DR.
Parkhurst, shaking the white flakes
from his shoulders, said:
Il have just witnessed an in
structive happening-a happening
that might teach US why some
marriages do not succeed.
A man and his wife were walk
ing down back street. The man
had his hands in his pockets. The
woman carried basket filled with
cabbage and beets.
a group of boys danced like
imps on a corner. They had snow
balls in their hands. As soon as
the married couple had passed
they let drive.
But only the woman was struck.
She got two heavy blows about the
head and face. Every SNOWFALL,
somehow, missed the man.
He looked at his wife as she
brushed the snow out of her ears
and hair and then he shook his fist
at the boys and shouted:
" It's a good thing for you,
you young rascals, that you didn't
hit mel"
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-20

A recent number of the Current
Issue publishes an article headed
Achievements of a Pioneer Rio
Grande Planter" from the pen of
that able writer Mr.. Louis ]. Worth
am, in which our respected and
horored fellow citizen Sheriff John
Closner is given the credit for his
achievements as pioneer planter
which he so richly deserves. Mr..
Closner's work and untiring energy
during his 21 years residence i'll
Hidalgo has not only made his
name familiar all over the State,
but it has brought Hidalge-county
into such favorable notice that she
is now on the verge of an era OF
prosperity never dreamed of by the
most optimistic, and John Closner
more than any other one man was
the means of bringing it about
Hidalgo Advance.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-20

A. ASHHEIM, Cashier
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
A PAGAN MYTH.
II Linked May and MntrimOny With
Unhappiness md Misfortune.

II Linked May and MntrimOny With
Unhappiness md Misfortune.
The pagans had a myth that "only
bad women marry in May" They had
another-that if the marriage did take
place the couple would live most IN
happily, and children born Of the mar
riage-if 1t was not hopelessly rendered
barren by thus slapping the fates in
the face-would be deformed or imbe-
cile. With prizes like that In prospect
It is not much wonder that the igno-
rant and superstitious taboo May mar
riages, but there Is no excuse yet for
this idiosynCrasy of thinking people
at least no sensible one.
Ovid was a firm believer In the SUI
perstition and said that no widow or
young girl would marry in May unless
she wished to invite the displeasure Of
the gods and that the imprudent wom-
an who braved their wrath would fill
an early grave. Ovid pinned his faith
to rosy June, the birth month Of June
and when he got ready to launch his
daughter on the matrimonial sea he
studied the stars and all the supersti-
tions to make sure that he would not
run upon ScylIa In steering off Charyb-
dis.
Resolved to match the girl. he tried to
find
What days unprosperous were, what
moons were kind.
After June's sacred ides his fancy stray
ed
Good TO the man and happy TO the maid.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
Evolution of the BnyOnet

The sweynes-feathcr (hOg's bristlcD,
which seems to have been the original
prototype OF the bayonet, was a long
rapier blade, fixed in a handle and car.
ried in a sheath, which was given to q
nusketeer for defense after he had dis
charged his piece. Stuck by its handle
In the muZZle OF his gun, it constituted
a very efficient weapon for acting
against pikcmen. To diminish his in
cumbrance the sweynes-feather and
musket rest were combined, the latter
forming a sheath for the former, in the
reign of James I.
Toward the latter part of the civil war
the use OF the musket rest was aban-
doned, and 1t became the practice TO
stick the dagger by its handle into the
muzzle OF the piece after discharging IT.
In 1859 two rings were added br
which the bayonot was placed on the
muzzle without interfering with the
firing. This improvement, the inven
ton OF General Mackay, an English
officer. was introduced into the French
army by Vauban in 1903. by the Eng
lish themselves il was not adopted un-
til after thr battle Of Fontcnoy 0745),
where the advantages its use conferred
on the French were only too painfully
manifest. the Duke Of Cumberland :
army being defeated with the loss OF
1900 men Parsons Weekly
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
Down TO Time of Edward III. They
Had Right of Voting.

Had Right of Voting.
The ladies of birth and quality sat In
council with the Saxon Wltas. The
Abbess Hilda presided in an ecclesias-
teal synod
In Wighfred's great council at Becon-
Geld, A d. 694, the abbesses sat and
deliberated, and five Of them signed the
DEGREES OF that council along with the
king bishops and mobiles
King Edgar's charter to the abbey of
Crowand, A u. 96l, was with the con
sent Of the mobiles and abbesSes, who
subscribed the charter
In Henry Ill and Edward is time
four abbcsses We're summoned to par
lament viz. OF ShafteSbury, Berklng,
ST. Mary Of Winchester. and Of Wilton.
In the thirty nth of Edward III,
were summoned by writ to parliament,
to appear by their proxies. Mary,
countess Of Norfolk: Alienor, countess
OF Ormond: Anna Dispenser. Phillippa,
countess Of March; Johanna Fitz
Water, Agneta, countess Of Pembroke;
Mary de St Paul. countess of Penn
broke. Margaret de Roos. Matilda,
countess Of oxford: Catherine, countess
of Athol These ladies were called bS
their proxies, privilege peculiar TO
the poeraGp TO appear aTd act by
proxy .-"Audquifics os Parliament"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
S25,OOO FOR
A STORY
And This for Just the American
nagazine Rights for One
Publication.

Think of 1t Twenty-Five thousand
dollars for one story! The highest
price that has ever been paid in Am
erica to any author for the serial rights
of any story.
And consider the quality of merit,
the intensity of interest this story
must possess to command this extraor-
dinary price. The White Company"
has ever been accepted as the greatest
work by any author, and by far sup
erior to his own Sherlock Holmes"
tales-0ut "Sir Nigel" says Conan
Doyle himself, surpasses them all
Do not fail to buy The Philadel-
phis Press" for Sunday. December g.,
as this great romance by the world g
greatest writer of romantic fiction will
be THE sensation in the literary world
for months to cCme.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
THE TREE KILLER.

A Curious Vine That F1ourishes In
Lower Central America.
One Of the curious forest growths of
the isthmus of Panama and lower Cen
trail America in general is the vine
which the Spaniards call matapalo, or
tree killer" This vine first starts In
life as a climber upon the trunks Of the
large trees, and, owing to its marvel
ously rapid growth, soon reaches the
lower branches At this point II first
begins to put out its "feclers
harmless looking root shoots, which
soon reach the ground and become as
firmly fixed as the parent stem. These
hundreds OF additional sap tubes give
the whole vine a renewed lease of life,
and it begins TO send out its aerial ten
drills In all directions. These intwine
themselves tightly around every limb
of the tree, even creeping to the very
farthermost tips and squeezing the life
out of both bark and leaf. Things go
on at this rate but short while before
the forest giant is compelled to sue
cumb to the gigantic parasite which Is
sapping its lfeblood Within a very
few years the tree rots and falls away
leaving the matapalo standing erect
and hollow, like monster vegetab BILE
devilfish lying upon its back with its
horrid tentacles clasped together high
in the air.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23

ONLY A LITTLE COLD In the
head may be the beginning of an OBJ
stinate case uf Nasal CataIrh. Drive
out the invader with Ely's Cream
Balm applied straight to the iufiamed
stuffed up air passages. Price Soc
liz you prefer to use an atomizer, ask
for Liquid Oroam Balm. 1t has all
the good qualities of the remedy in
solid form and will rid you of oatarrh
or hay fever. No cocaine to breed a
dreadful habit. No mercury to dry
out the secretion. Price 75c., with a
spraying tube. All druggists. or mail
ed by Ely Bros. 56 Warren street,
New York.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
OLD TIME SERVANTS.
Pepys Had Troubles of HIS Own
with His MeniaIs.

Perhaps one reason why servants in
Pepys' time We're treated as "one OF
the family" was that they very often
were blood relations. The diarist him
self, in fact, engaged his own sister
Pauline as his servant, (which she
promised me she could, and with many
thanks did weep for joy" For all that,
he would not "let her sit down at the
table with me, which | do at first that
she may not expect it hereafter from
me-" Her temper, however, made the
arrangement impossible, and Pepys
had to engage somebody else Instead.
at being u great trouble to me that
should have a sister of so III a nature
that | must be forced to spend money
upon a stranger, when 1t might be bet
ter upon her if she were good for any
thing"
1t is only within century or so
that servants have ceased to be rela-
tlons OF the family and the term
"menial" has come to be considered
derOgatory instead of meaning simply
within walls"-intra moenia. In the
old days all women between twelve
and forty and all men between twelve
and sixty without means Of subsistence
could be forced by two justices to go
into domestic service; hence the fact
that when a man married his cook, as
he often did, he was extremely likely
to marry some one above him In sta
ton, as we understand distinctions or
class nowadays. This also explains
why lady would refer to her maid as
her "gentlewoman" and a master to
his valet as his gentleman"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
WHAT WILL BE
THE RESULT .?

On the subject OF Grange Banks.
concerning which an article appears
on another page, there is much to
saw both pro and con, bat just how
much good can be derived from such
institutions is yet to be learned by ex-
periepce. In this line W. ?. Hastings.
one of the most conservative expert
enced and progressive newspaper edit
ors of the State, has the following to
say in his Milton Standard of Tues
day
John G. McHenry, OF Benton, well
known in this county, and probable
Democratic candidate for Congress
| next year, is one of the promoters OF
a system of grange national banks,
which are to be established in the var
! ious counties of the state where the
grange has a strong mem bership. 1t
will take "A trial TO develop whether
the plan will be practical. Master
Hill, of the State Grange, advances
the theory that it will make the in
diyidual farmer far more prosperous
and will give them the use of money
to fuance tLeir own improvements,
such rs rural telephones, etc. " This
sounds all right on paper, but how
much more will the farmer control his
money that is deposited in the Grange
| bank than i'll any other institution
Besides banking is business just as
farming or numbering or making iron
or anything else. and requires a speci'
al training and experience to ensure
reasonable degree of success. The
writer recalls period probably thirty
five years ago when the Grangers
started their own stores. Hundred;
and thousands of retail stores were es
tablished over the country, and were
managed as rule by presumably cou'
servative men with practical business
ideas. Ninety-fve per cent, of them
were failures, and entailed loss, il
some instances, quite serious upor
those who promoted them. The bank
ing scheme may be all right, but tt
our mind. what the farmer needs mos
is some legislation in his interest
This he can get whenever lie makes
up his mind that he's going to have
it
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
III. l.. DeWI1T
SHOOTS A DEER

II. l.. Dewitt of South Danville, who
left for the White Deer Mountains on
a hunting excursion few days ago
last evening returned home. bringing
with him big deer. which was brought
down by his unerTing aim.
The present law makes it illegal to
shoot more than one deer or fawn dur
ing the season. After getting his deer.
therefore, nothing remained for Mr..
Dewitt but to return home, although
he had only been out a few days.
Mr.. Dewitt feels the restrictions of
the law very keenly. as no sooner had
he shot the deer, which proved to be
a fine doe, than two thriving fawns
came trotting along These of course
under the law were safe from 1.-THE
hunter.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
THE ESKIMO CANOE.
II IL a Curious Little Craft That Ii
Cranky, Yet Safe

cranky, Yet Safe.
1t Is In Greenland that the hunting
ability Of the Eskimo reaches its high
est development He has a fine me
chanical skill. Bones, ivory, stones, q
little driftwood, skins and the sinew
OF the reindeer are the materials from
which he must make his boat and
weapons. There is nothing else Says
a Greenland traveller: "Of these the
Eskimo builds a canoe, its frame Of
bones and drlftwood, it's covering Of
translucent sealskin sewed together
with sinew. This kayak Is decked over,
except for a hole in the middle framed
with a wooden ring. The Eskimo
wriggles into this hole, his legs extend.
ed into the fore part Of the boat
Round his waist there Is a cylinder
Of sealskin, the lower edge Of which
draws over the wooden ring and Is
pulled tight with thong making all
water tight to the armpits. For heavy
weather the cylinder Is part OF a skin
shirt with hood. Strings tighten this
hood to the face and cuffs to the
wrists, while a pair Of long sleeved
mitts protect the hands and arms.
80 rigged good man can turn hls
canoe bottom upward and right him
self again with sliding strokes Of his
paddle, for he Is as waterproof as 6
duck. Moreover, his vessel Is so flexi,
BILE that it is almost safe from being
crushed in the ice drift and, being lin.
Der, is extremely swift when propelled
by the double ended paddle.
ION the other hand, the vessel Is 50
cranky that only about two-thirds OF
the native men have nerve and bal
ance enough to hunt Only three OF
four Danes In all Greenland have
| dared use a kayak"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23

The Zemstvo Congress, in session al
Moscow. is expected to adopt resolu-
tions declaring allegiance TO Count
Witte and the Government in an ef-
fort to stem the tide of anarchy. Many
members OF the Congress are opposed
60 any modification of the old regime,
but have been won to the view that
she chief duty of the present is to re-
store q stable administration The sit.
uation, except in reference to peasant
disorders, has greatly improved. The
peasants. aroused by false rumors,
broad-casted by agitators, still burn
and pillage the big estate. Landown.
ers have been banished.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23

1t was the upper deck of Il London
bus. A passenger. dignitied person
age, lighted n cigar and threw the
match, as he supposed. into the street
A few seconds later he was surprised
to find that his umbrella was on fire.
At the same instant a sharp gust OF
wind opened it and carried it, like a
flaming parachute. through the air
Making sudden grab after his truant
property. the passenger overbalanced,
plunged headlong over the omnibus rail
and after turning sOmersault landed
upright on the road unhurt.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
Saw Mill at Opp
Destroyed by Fire

MUNCY, Nov. 22.-The sawmill at
Opp, owned by P. W. Opp. was totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday night. TheI g
was no insurance, the policy having
expired a short time ago. A lot of
finished lumber was also destroyed
The cause of the fire is unRnown.
The fire was discovered by Mr.. OPP,
but it had then gained terrific head
way. When Mr.. Opp first saw the
blaze the roof was falling in and it
was then too late to make any at
tempt at saving the plant.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23

There is more Catarrh In this seCtiOnof thu
ountry than all other diseases put together
and until the last few years was supposed to
be ncurab le.sFor a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
ocal remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be "A
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. j. Cheney & Co.
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to a teaspoOnful. 1t acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. The offer OF one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address.
FL. CHENEY q CO., Toledo, o.
Hairs Fa mily Pills are the best,
Sold b Druggists, 75c.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
minor MATTERS
on INTEREST

M. Fl. Sohram and Johnny Meyer In
treading over Montour Ridge in search
of game have run across the Hunters
SprinR," some four miles below town
which has revived food Of memories
In the minds of old-time nimrods The
old spring, which has been nearly for
Rottan during recent years, lies abolt
l50 yards below the Devils Feather
bed" an is closely associated with
that natural curiosity. Few persons
ever climbed to the top of the noun
tain to visw the gigantic cou3h OF
rock on which his Satanic Majesty ac-
cordiug to tradition at night stretches
his limbs without Queuching their
thirst at tue "Hunters' Spring" near
by.
The spring is one Of large dimen-
sions, the water OF which even in sum-
mer is cool aud refreshing and of the
clear and crystal sort associated with
q brook on the mountain side. 1t
takes it's name from a time-honored
custom that obtained among the hunt
ing fraternity of Danville ana vicln-
ity. from the early days of the settle
ment For many, many years each
autumn on the Saturday following the
election there was al annual hunt, in
which everybody of any Importance In
the county skilled in the use of the
gun participated. The day wound up
with a great game dinner at the spring
near the Devils Featherbed. "
On the morning of the day scores OF
gunners would assemble at different
points and start out to hunt over Non.
tour Ridge and possibly over the farm
land lying at its base. While these
were bagRing pheasants, squirrels quail
60. which in those days were much
more plentiful than now ,ot hers of the
party were busy building huge fire,
installing a capacious RridirOn beside
the spring and otherwise getting things
In readiness for the preparation of a
feast.
About O'Clock the hunters began
to come in-al loaded down with
game. It is recalled that OH one &C.
oasiou there were seventy-fve squir-
'rels on hand with pheasants. rabbits,
quail, &C.. in proportion. With the
abundance of help on hand tha game
was soon prepared for cooking. Charles
Shoals, whose memory still fingers
with Us, was for many years head cook
on the occasion aud naturally the feast
evolved was q royal one. The scene
in the deep wood around the blazing
6re-the sound of the careless, the
merry voices that echoed along the
mountain side as the short autumn day
drew to close still linger in the
memory of few old timers. but to the
rest Of us of another day aud n genera
tion il Is q story that has nevtr beer
told.
Among prominent Dauville people
who always participated in the annual
hunt we're the following: John Deem
Jacob CorDelisou, John r So, william
Henrie. James Ephlin, John Miles,
Myers Perrin. Fred Blue. The Bill.
meyers. the Blues. the McCrackens and
other prominent families of the rural
sections were also always represented
at the hunt.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
ExeCutrix's s Notice.

Estate of Julia Anne Bowyer, late
of the Borough of Oanville, County OF
Montour and State of Pennsylvania.
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary on the above estate have
been granted to tie undersigned. All
persons indebted to the said estate are
required to make Tayment, and those
having claims or demands against the
said estate, will make known the same,
without delay to
ANNIE E. BOWER, Exeoutrix.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
Auditors Notice.

Estate of Margaret Y. Grove, late of
Danville, Montour County, de-
ceased.
The undersigned auditor, appointed
by the Orphans Court of Montour
County, to make distribution of the
balance in the hands of the account
ant to and among the parties entitled
thereto. will sit to perform the duties
of his appointment, at his office, ITO
Mill street, Danville, Pa, on Monday
the 18th day of December, A. D. 1905,
at 10 O'Clock A. Nj, when and where
all parties interested are requested to
attend, or be forever debarred from
any share of said fund.
RALPH KISNER, Auditor.
Danville, Pa, Nov. 9th, 1905.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
Executors Notice.

Estate of Mary Lockhoof late of the
Township of Derry. in the County
of Montour and State of Pennsyl.
vania, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters
testamentary on the above estate have
been granted to Il e undersigned. All
persons indebted to the said estate are
required to make ayment, and those
having claims or demands against the
said estate, will make known the same,
without delay, to
WILLIAM HOUSER,
Executor of Mary Lockhoof, deceased.
P. o. Address. 6l2 Bloom street,
Danville. Pa.
Edward Sayre Gearhart, Counsel.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-11-23
CLIMBING THE ALPS.
Guides That Tempt UnNvnry Travel
Prs Into Feuts of Danger.

Guides That Tempt JnNVnry Travel
crs Into Feuts of Danger.
More than half the accidents in the
Alps occur to those who have not the
pluck to turn back The guides are
too often ia favor of going on from
professional motives. They have very
few weeks to earn their living in, and
it is a sort Of tragedy for them to miss
Il single climb For the same reason
they are givon to urging a party on to
climb difficult and expensive peaks
that are really beyond their strength.
They regard tourists as so much bag
rage which they can at need almost
arIy on the rope The only climb,
therefore, which they regard as dan
gcrous is 'traycrse'-on which an
accident to their tourist may mean
death TO themselves. Climbing straight
up or down obey feel fairly certain of
sustaining any strain on the rope. 1t
Is most Important, therefore, that ev-
cry party should use its own unim-
pcdCd judgment in regard to every eX-
petition. - great danger in places
like Xnrmat and ChamoniX is that
there are 81 large number Of unemploy.
ed guides always waiting about to
catch the umwary traveller and tempt
him into u difficult and expensive
climb. He will get far more pleasure
out of the sport if lie begins with the
cheap and easy ANA works gradually
up to difficult There is no especial
merit in being frightened half out OF
your life London News.