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1swo Men oaetod ALIVE.

St. JeseDh. No, De. d d. GIL
Hand and @ uAkaswn nAn were
burned t. dsatA i ! ear II tho Rsck
Island yards - =. 0il1ilaal Mas nov
ing fron NsrtA bsrD, Il, e Marlin, I,
u. ~ "a stsvs S tho car W tipped
over and set the housshsll aIseds 81;
Are, roasting tAs men alive.
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The old ysar, With I'll ~ joys and
sorrows, Successes and disappoint-
ments, because 10 most Of V II has
brought both, will soon have paassd
away. What ths new ysar will briAd,
TO each one Of 10, ~ eA1aet tell.
That II TOO will have it, cloudy days
and days Of sunshine may - taken
for granted. In this life The hitter
and the SWEET are very nush blend
Cd, and u ID perhaps we'll for % tha>
sash DO the casa. Life, however, IL
TO : large sxtsnt what No make Il,
and No Ourselves are generally the
cause Of our own failures. Not alto
gsthsr, though, - 10 ; ssrtAia sxtsat
~ are the creatures Of elreumstan-
cea and conditions and environments,
Tar bsyond our control. - II every
body's duty to make the mosA Of life
IN his own sphere OF activity and 10
trust to God for his blessing. Il be-
hooves 10 al therefore to take hold
Of our work for 1907 with renewed
energy and hope. and, Is Shakespeare
would SAY, act well our part, there
all thu honor lies. May the year 1907,
bring fswer disappointment and
more successes, less sorrow and more
real happiness to each one of our
many readers that is the sincere wish
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lluskoEee, DIG. - -
load Of mail matter from Texas peints
and consisting principally 81 Christ
mas pack was practic ally destroy
ed south 6 here by tho burnin9 Of =
mail car "a thS fast nor = hound round Nj
souri, Kansas s Texas passenger
train. D
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kII.iastly r Z aeeuran !.

#5 u.s. 90 clad 60 meet your mother.
said Mr.. Newcome BY the way. i
didn't think she VA % very
''Oh, s. intetrrupted Miss sFnsr.
"a sure III never grow to b Ike
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vyolvss Raid ea,.a. Pen.

SsSS - 4OSsOY 49,
Notwithstanding tS JaAn - :
san, fsnassr AvaaG asstAaast e hsrA.
wolves Il tAA4 ssstisa e Psk ssAty
are pnuanV .nslnAse1s aA vieS>uS
this ~snbar. Hanssa saTs 1lat ~
nights age wolves bFsls 49, has shsaD
field and h1asl twsntv-nlne Inc wstA-
ems, bssides nadnalng HAaaber q eth
CPS 10 bad1y Nat tAA0 ~ . ~
slaughtered. s
Hanson says tkat 10 was aceuseA
shout Z o'clAek II ~ 1ASFn1ng ~ Z
dksturhazss 81 Ne sAsso zen, and
dressing k.sslsaiy went sut to see
what Yves tbs reuble HA said ha
found sevesA largo tianhsr wolves IN
the pen worrying the shssD. ThSy aD-
perently had satsA thsir aDpetites ana
were then amusing themselves ~
chasing the frightened sheep about the
pen and swapping ct the4F limbs.
Hanson was unarmsA. but yelled
Justify. In IN attempt - brighten the
nnaraudans away. 9ASy 1aid No at
tention to him, hswever, and Ii was
not until he armed knseh with q
club and went after them that thsy
skunk away, swapping aad sRRrllng.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04
TrespaSSerS
BY c. B. LEWIS
C1pWight, 1905, by f. C. Parcels
BY c. b. LEWIS

When Captain Ben Golden retired
from the sea and bought place on the
Connecticut shore he made only care
less inquiries as to who were his neigh
bors As a matter of fact. he did not
rare. As he explained 1t:
Il am a man as attends to my own
business and expect other folks to at
tend to theirs. l shall have house
keeper and a servant and live very
quietly. My nephew, George Lee, may
come down from the city now and then
TO stay over Sunday, but that's all the
company | shall have"
Two weeks later, in buying and tax
ing possession Of the property adioin-
ing Captain GOldens on the west, the
purchaser, who was a man OF sixty
ana rather crusty, had said to those
who sold to him:
II don't care who lives around here.
All | want of them Is to mind their
own business and let me mind mine.
If catch any of them trespassing on
my land they won't DO it a second time.
l shall live here quietly, with my niece
to manage the house"
There were no fences dividing the
property. but for the first few weeks
Captliu Golden and Mr.. Bingham, who
WAS the man with the niece, were too
busy to walk abroad much. They saw
each other from distance, but made
80 ct.ort TO get acquainted. One day
they were tramping through the shrub
berry near the dividing line and came
face TO face 10th were there for the
Same oni r, Iaca one of them had
been thinking of putting up line
fence to shut the other out. There was
some embarrassment for n moment,
and then Captain Golden, being the
more joyial OF the two, called out:
Good day. neighbor; glad TO meet
you"
Good day, sir" replied the other as
he drew himself up in an icy manner.
Being we n" neighbOrs'-
we are not ncighbors sir. You sim
ply happen to live near me. That is no
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04
KILLED THE LAUGH.
The story OG the Prayer In RossinI'S
"MOse In EEitto."

The sublime prayer of the Hebrews,
when preparing to cross the Red sea,
IS, perhaps. one Of the most solemn
and majestically grand compositions
that can he found in the choral roper
tory. yet. at the same time, simple to
degree This was an afterthought
of the composer and was not intro
iuccd until the second season of the
production Of Nose In Egitto" at Ma
PIES.
he opera then, as now, terminated
with the passage of the Red sea by
the Israelites; but. although the audi
ences were cutrauced with the music,
;hey invariably saluted the passage Of
tie Red sea with peals Of laughter
owing to want of skill of the machin-
ist and scene painter, who contrived
TO reader this portion Of the affair su-
perbly ridiculou, and brought down
the curtain amid uproarious mirth.
Hossini exhibited his usual indiffer-
cnce, but poor Tottola, the poet, was
driven nearly crazy by this unwel
come termination of his literary la
b0rS an intensely chagrined at the
idea of so sacred a subject exciting
laughter This lasted throughout the
first season; the next it was repro
duccd with similar brilliant success
ton the first night, for the music, and
similar laughter at the end Of the op-
era. The next day, while RossIni was
In ,l,,l, I, Io1 nF Iy-gp
In bed and gossiping with a room full
Of friends. in rushed Tottola, IN a most
excited state crying out:
"Eviva, | have saved the third act"
How" asked ROssini laZily.
why" replied Tottola Il have
written a prayer for the Hebrews be-
fore crossing the dreadful Red sea,
and l did it all in one hour"
WELL" said Rossinl, ''if it has taken
you an hour to write this prayer | will
engage to make the music for 1t in a
quarter of the time. Here, give me
pen and ink" saying which he jumped
out Of bed, and in ten minutes he had
composed the music without the aid
of a piano and while his friends were
laughing and talking around him.
Thus, owing to the blundering igno-
rance of stage carpenter and scene
painter, the world is indebted for the
most sublime preghiera ever penned.
Night came. The audience prepared
to laugh as usual when the Red sea
scene came, but when the new prayer
commenced deathy silence prevailed,
every note was listened to with rapt
attention, and on its conclusion the
entire audience rose en- masse and
cheered for several minutes, nor did
they ever again laugh at the passage
# the Red sea.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04

rcenng somewhat DclugerenU, put lie
lost Fl all soon after entering the CRATE
full shade. \ rabbit ran away, squirrels
chattered at lin, and he caught sight
OF birds nests among the branches. 1t
was a place Of good viii and peace,
and he was feeling so when he heard a
suspicious noise ON the other side of
heap Of brush lately cut and stacked.
He thought he heard the movements of
a man. If It was a man he was tres
passcr. If he was trespasser he must
be sent about his business.
"Hcy, you, beyond the brush, what
are YOU doing thereW called the young
man.
There was no answer. but he heard
a movement lie advanced and gave
the heap a whack with his cane and
shouted:
Come out and show yourself, you
skulker"'
Tt" skulker made no response. The
silence aggravated Mr.. Lee, and, draw
ing his cane up to his face like a gun,
he continued:
"If YOU don't come out Of that before
l count ten I'll fire a charge of buck
shot into the brush"
you'd better notH' replied voice
that Jumped him a foot high, and he
clrcled around the heap to find young
lady standing there with a freshly
gathered bouquet in her hand. He
looked at her with open eyes and
ut him with hap
chin stuck out and a CLINT Of defiance
In her eyes.
Good Lord, but you really must ex-
cuse me- Sasped Mr.. Lee after long
minute.
You can go ahead and shoot now"
replied the girl.
But II didn't think to find a wom-
ana girl-Eerc."
"No. Neither did | think to find a
young man ready to do murder. Do
you know that YOU are a treSpasser,
sir? You are on my uncle's land, and
as his representative l warn you off.
The dividing line is two feet behind
YOU"
Mr. Lee slowly moved over the line,
ami his face betrayed such astonish-
mcat ana pcrpleXity that the girl could
not prevent a smile.
"Can-can | say anything to explain
this unfortunate occurrcnce| he beg
gcd"
''>'othing except that YOU wanted to
shoot me-
But You know l didn't. You know
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04
Women of Ancient Rome.

I'VE are assured by Seneca" says
the historian Inge, that there were
women In ancient Rome who counted
their ages not 10y their years but by the
husbands they had had. Juvenal tells
of one woman who had married eight
husbands in five years. Divorce was
granted on the slightest pretext. Many
separated merely from love of change,
disdainlng to give any reason, like
Emillus Paulus, who told his friends
that he knew best where his shoes
pinched him Rich wives were not
much sought after by wise men. Their
complete emancipation made them diff
liCult to manage. Accordingly, since
both rich and poor wives We're objec-
tionable, the large majority Of men
never married at all. In most cases
Roman bridegroom knew practically
nothing of his wife's character until
after marriage. Marriage for the Ro-
man woman meant a transition from
rigid seclusion to almost unbounded
liberty. She appeared as a matter Of
course at her husbands table whether
he had company or not. She could go
where she liked, either to the temples Of
Isis and Scraps or to the circus and
amphtheater She had her own troops
Of slaves. over whom she ruled without
interference"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04
WITHOUT
LICENSE
By EDITH n. nOANE
BY EDITH N. DOANE
Copyright, 1893, by W. r. Caldwell


There was such excitement In -Four
Corners as had not been known in
that small settlement for many a day.
The quail on the Cornish estate were
protected by the game laws from April
to September and by Dawson, the
gamekecper, at all times, yet one May
morning found Dan O'COnnOr in the
Cornish preserves with a brace Of
quail at his belt, whereupon Dawson,
summonlng the sheriff from Windsor
Bend had promptly arrested O'Connor
and Jailed him.
Such a thing had never happened be-
fore In the history Of Four Corners,
and public feeling ran high. a crowd
had gathered at the one store the place
boasted and their muttered threats
finally merged into open defiance.
Il heerd that Dawson had kinder got
his eye on a couple more o. the boys" )"
limited old man Plerson.
A ruffianly looking fellow leaning
against the counter looked up with a
heavy scowl.
He'd better look out the boys don't
get their eyes on him first" he growled
savagely.
"A few birds more or less amt moth
In to make a fuss over nOhow," put In
q tall. lank fellow behind the stove.
Hes got to look fer little shoot
in" mumbled old man Pierson.
The hard faced fellow against the
counter Strengthened up and moved
slowly toward the door "He might g
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04

thing at once.
Not quite" she said clinging to
him, her eyes shining up at him
through a mist of tears. You may
have me, If you lose everything else.
I'm not afraid Of poverty if l may
have love
Seems like it's time | took hand in
this game" Il throaty voice said be-
hind them, and there stood the Mac
ton. He had been ambushed all the
while in the summer house outside
which the lovers stood You folks
think list'nin' amt the right thing he
went on. NO more 1t amt but l
walked from n nap as you were in the
midst O. talkin', and it didn't take ten
words to show me the lay o the land.
| Ike the lay of it. The little lady
thar" nodding toward Philomena,
has got me dOped out fine and pat,
but she didn't make sport of the old
GalOot She said it In sport but she
has looked out fer me. And more'n
that, she's made me understand thar
was at least one woman money
couldn't buy You amt half good
enough fer her" this TO HethertOn with
a chuckle. But since it appears she
likes the looks o We, be hanged If
you're goin to take her and try love
In a cottage At least, not onless the
cottages got all the fiXin's. No need
to tell me how you stand. amt quite
out o the market if | am up here in
the mountains, courtin' and rusticatin'.
If you need margins, l know the rea-
son why. Go right straight to the tele-
phone. I'll be along O ye; together
well get the straight o things down to
n dot over my private wire. I'm goin'
TO see you through If 1t takes one
million or even two. But when you
are through you git married and keep
out of sech meSses."
Il WILL" Hethcrton said. holding out
his hand.
Before the MacCarty could take it
phllOmena flung herself between them,
threw her arms about his thick neck
and kissed him on both cheeks.
You're an angel elephant" she muir
INJURED Il shall love you always, no
matter what he says" with a nod
toward Hetherton.
"Hc says, Amendment accepted p"
Hetherton said, wringing the Mac
Carty's hand.
That gentleman laughed apologetical-
said as he puffed away with Hetherton
at his elbow:
at takes jest an angel elephant to
skeer the bulls and bears good and
hard"
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excuse. however. for you to trespass
on my property"
who's a-trespaSsingT'
you are, sir. The line runs this
side of that beech, and you are at
least fourteen inches on my land"
Then I'll get off your land, right
off, exclaimed the captain, as he be
gan to brlstlc up Yes, sir, I'll get
Off am oT-and if you are that sort
of man warn you not to set foot
on my property"
II will be careful not to. | will see
about a fence at once"
Il shall also see about 1t at once"
81 shall build the fence"
sir" said Mr.. Bingham, Il forbid
you to Put up a fence here"
And forbid you"'
There was further emphatic and even
violent language, and they finished up
by almost threatening the shotgun in
case of further trespass. When Mr.
Bingham reached his house his face
was 50 red anl his manner so per
luIDbi Nlldl ilS hLtNNr IAASS DNAAAAAN
Gray, was forced to take notice Of it
and ask If he had been attacked by
tramps. He thereupon explained what
had occurred, favorlng his side of the
case as much as possible. and con
cluded with the declaration:
Il am not going to let that old brute
of sailor bluff me, and If you let
him scare you off you are no niece Of
mine"
"I've taken great liking to rambling
through that shrubbery," replied the
niece "and now I've got to be very,
very careful not TO get even one toe
over the line"
"You go right ahead and ramble just
where you want to, line or no line,
and If that old lump of salt says any
thing to you make faces at him. told
him I'd build fence, but | won't. He
may build one and LAY for 1t. It's
curious how the Lord lets some folks
continue to live"
MISS jennie cray had lived with her
uncle long enough to know how hot
headed ana iraSciblc he was and that
If there had been any trouble he had
done his full share In provoking It. But
she also felt 1t her duty to stand by
him, right or wrong More than that,
she also felt II her duty to trespaSs up
on Captain Golien's land because tres
passc.s LaJ been forbidden.
Tie oil sailor was also In an angry
mood when lie reached his house. bu
! he did not explain matters to his house
! keeper. He waited until his nephew
! came down, a week later, and then h'
! told the story and added:
/ George, | don't want no trouble witt
anybody, but If that old fossil drive
me to the wall | shall drive him unde
ground. | said I'd build a fence, bu
! won't do i. He can build and pa.
for it if ne wants to. I've warned hin
} % keep off my land, and if he don
10 it.
George Lee, civil engineer, had
warm heart for his bluff old uncle, ant
e was only natural that he shOult
| capJuse his cause He arrived at tn
house on Saturday evening, and sool
! after breakfast Sunday morning he Sc
out for the shrubbery with a cigar II
| his mouth and cane In his hand Z
look the .pUnd over, lie found bel
Of shrubs and trees about forty rod
wide ana extending from the highwa,
back to tlo shore. lie could walk ther
and ain imagine himself in forest
. Il
auI tie whole thing was happ,
thought carried out between neighbOrs
Young Mr Lee had left the hous
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04
WATERLOO.
GrOuchy Was Solely to Blame FOI
the Downfall of Napoleon.

the bowman OF
Napoleon would have won the battle
Df Waterloo had Grouchy prevented
the Junction Of the Prussians with the
English army, because he would moi
have had to fight two battles at once
Few.persons realize that the so called
battle of Waterloo was in reality o
double battle, somewhat like jena anc
Auerstadt Napoleon fought one bat
tie at Waterloo against the English
On the arrival of the Prusslans he was
forced TO go In person toward Planche
mott and there fight another battle
against the Prussian army, leaving tc
Ney the conduct of the troops at Wa
terloo. 1t IS a well known maxim IN
war that a very great or decisive vic
tory cannot he gained unless one com
mander makes a serious blunder OF
which the other takes Immediate ad
vantage. 1t IS very evident that the
fact Of the emperor having to fight
two battles at once instead of concen.
trating his attention on one alone enor
mously increased the possibility of 8
mistake Moreover Napoleon did moi
have the able lleutenants of his former
campaigns. Desalx, Kleber, Lannes
and Bessieres were dead, Massena and
Macdonald had taken the oath of ale.
glance to the Bourbons, ana Murat had
split with the emperor Napoleon's
personal attention was therefore i'm
pcrative. TO Grouchy alone all blame
must he attributed, for had he prevent
ed the union Of the Prussians with the
English the emperor would have had
TO fight only one battle at time and
could have given his entire personal
attention TO that one battle.
In the second place, Napoleon would
not have been forced to fight with II,
9i7 men against two armies numbering
about 125O00-nearly two to one
against him. He would have had IL,
9i7 good soldiers pitted against a raw
undiSciplincd army Of G7 ,6G1 men un
der the Duke Of Wellington, which was
not only inferior IN mere numbers but
far inferior In morale and experience
The chances would have been greatly
IN FAVOR or the french. Then, too, the
French army was commanded by the
acknowledged master Of modern war
fare, whose brilliant successes at RI
voli, Marcngo, Austeritz, Jena, Fried
land Wagram, tho Borodino and Dres
den had daZzlcd the whole world. In
Ill then Napoleon had never been de
fcatcd IN any great decisive battle ex
ccpt Lclpsic, and the French were
strong in their confidence Of the EN-
pcrors success. Two Of the best writ
"rs On the Waterloo campaign, Shaw
Kennedy and Sibourne both English
men. concur in saying that had Grouchy
kept the Prussians away the Englisl
army would have been badly beaten
This view IS also held by the ables
writer Of all, Mr.. Ropes.-United Serv
ice Review
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-04

business trop and Dan O'Connor bag
Ged the quail.
1t was the evening after the excited
discussion at the store that Molly,
prompted by an unusual feeling Of
restlessncss, crossed the room to the
window and, stepping out on the We
randa, wandered down into the moonlit
garden Robert Cornish would be back
tnat night. but of course it was no
vague hope Of meeting him that bright
ened her eyes or led her through the
gate into thr road. made light as day
by the fun moon overhead.
Hist. Miss Molly, hist" said a voice
close at her ear.
She started violently as a small uu
k,mpt figure crept through the hedge
nrt stopped short in her path.
'DoIt go on. miss" said the boy,
with much settlement. Don't. They
ar' waitin' fer Dawson below, an
uayDe they might do ye some harm"
Waiting? For whati To shoot
him." asked the girl breathlessly.
Yes miss The wagon has gone to
Wind Or Bend to meet him, an when
i, comes blackwell. they're waitin',
, -9 down in the hollow"
tat it iSn't Dawson the wagon has
-oaa to meet" said Molly in horrl-
I'll whisper. 1T is Mr.. Cornish
] Guess it won't make no difference
+ them, miss. whether it's Dawson or
The master himself They're bent on
b!"JI"
Iar boy Gutted through the hedge.
leaving the lirl, white and Mortified, in
the middle of the road For a mo-
ment she stood as If stunned. Then
her mind leaped riotously to the
chance of escape. IF | can reach the
Windsor road through the cross patti" +"
she thought desperately, Il may be in
time"
She turned through a broken gap in
the hedge, into field beside the road,
and, breaking into a quick run, rushed
through the wet grass into the thicket,
blackberry bushes, whose thorns
clutchcd at hnr light dress, through
another gap, across q wall, whose
stones slipped and sli@'tnder her feet,
on again, lightly, swiftly, through a
plowed field, across a ditch, over a
marsh where her slippered feet sank
deep in the soft, wet sod, still onward,
with passionate thankfulneSS In her
heart as she heard the distant ring of
horses hoofs.
Could she reach him?
Robert. Robert she cried desper-
ately.
The sounds came nearer. A light
road cart swung swiftly toward her.
Robert she cried again. Then, as
a tail young man In the cart pulled up
his horses sharply, she sank. spent and
breathless, beside the Windsor road.
The excitement had largely been q
matter OF misunderstanding, and when
young Cornish had explained his plan
Of sharing the game, and, Furthermore,
had refused to prosecute the ringlead-
ers Of the disturbance, Four Corners
was with him TO a man.
1t IS hard to say which of his two
next moveS-hlS marriage to Molly or
his appointment of Dan O'Connor to
/ the position of gamekeeper-evoked ed
/ the more admiration.
J Each Nv 'em beln', so to speak, q
/ stroke o genius" mumbled old man
! PlerSon.