Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-04-04
CONDENSED NEWS.

Spring will soon be here to stay.
Suspicion is the mother Of jealousy.
....Rain spoiled the sEaster parade at
Atlantic City.
Few men escape the commission OF
an occasional act of folly.
There is far more smart" writing
now than in olden times.
Mrs. NJ. H. Schram is convalescent
after several weeks of illness.
There are times when the most de-
vout of men feels rather wicked.
The legislature needs patriotic lead
er who will help it to its duty.
One may expect little rawness in
the atmosphere for some weeks.
The man who expects nothing is
likely to be fairly we'll contented.
Public Indignation in the United
States is an emotion of slow growth
but it is asir1esistible as the hurricane
once it is aroused.
Patriotism of the better sort man
ifests itself more constantly and more
usefully by timely acts than by empty
assertions.
To all who accept the Christian re-
ligion as an authentic deliveTance this
should be the most solemnly sacred of
all anniversaries.
Many a man who thinks he knows
how a newspaper should be run would
be greatly surprised if he undertook
the task.
1t requires an expert in the talking
business and one with long memory
to tell falsehood without being found
out
David Morris of Chester, died after
suffering four days from an attack of
hiccoughs following an attack of the
grip.
If the legislature shall adjourng
finally ON May 10Th one can readily
see the finish of million or more of
those very important bills.
There..were 466 liquor licenses issued
in Berks county and the license fees
amounted to over $3.50, 600.
William Moyer.of Curu; Berks coun-
ty, caught racoon that weighed
thirty pounds-the largest ever seen in
that section.
Calvin B. North cashier of the First
National Bank of Selinsgrove. on
Thursday celebrated his eighty-fourth
birthday anniversary.
Kentucky is one of the strongest pro-
hibition states III the union in spite
of the jokes about the habits Of her
people.
The Russian douma may be mental
ly weak, as its critics assert, but it is
giving autocracy considerable uneasi-
ness.
The disciple of pleasure may have
"A merry youth, but age is likely
to be troubled by sorrowful memories.
Henry Fulk, OF Lehigh tannery. Luz
erne county. and six of his children
are down with scarlet fever.
Many an unhappy wise man has
sincerely envied the lot of the happy
simpleton whom his comrades stig-
matize as q fool.
The man who robs a State is just as
much of thief as the common seal
awag who purloins the property of in
dividuals.
More than one man who has risen
10 eminence was counte,. a fool in his
boyhood by unappreciative neighbors.
The Sunbury school board and the
bondsmen of the defaulting tax collec-
tor, w H. Berry, are clashing and the
contention will likely be carried into
court.
Obedience to law is at once the duty
and the safety of citizens and corpora
tions.
The cronic grumbler is never pleased
with anything that is. In his opinion
whatever is is wrong.
Local politics may be expected to
grow somewhat warmer and the farm
er is preparing for the visits of the
ubiquitous candidate.
For Europe generally the population
increases yearly by Al to every 10000
inhabitnts.
Publicity frequently makes sum-
mary end of dangerous evils.
The man who was born tired never
enjoys the blessings of life.
The land of the cloudless skies is
dreary and monotonous land after all.
The birthday of one of the greatest
of Americans-Edward Everett Hale,
was celebrated yesterday.
Public opinion sometimes encourages
great wrongs and helps to prolong
their wicked lives
The man who finds himself the vic
tim of misplaced confience has a right
to get bit angry.
Hungarian railway travelling is the
cheapest in Europe. On some lines one
can travel third class six miles for 2
cents
Friday will be the first of the spring
Arbor days, but it does not look as if
there would be many trees planted in