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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
CLOTHES HANGING CONTEST.
Boston Woman Wins by One kimono
In Amusing Competition.

Boston Woman Wins by One kimono
In Amusing Competition.
A contest in the gentle act of hang
ing out clothes was the unique feature
of the outing of the Massachusetts Ice
Dealers association at Bass Point,
Nahant, the other day, and, while some
of the women blushed as certain gar
ments We're hung to the breeZeS. The
event proved to he one of the most
amusing that have marked any outdoor
gathering last summer. Miss Haze
Nutting of Boston won by kimono
The contest was between Miss Nut.
ting and Mrs. Louise Howard of Wa
tertown. Mass, who were captains of
sides sitting across a table from each
other. Under the chair of each was Il
package and the combined packages
on each side contained everything from
drop stitch stockings to outside knit
sweater. and all were given away later
as prizes to the ladies present The
garments in packages had to be taken
from bundles fastened beneath chairs.
unfastened and passed along to the
captains, who hustled them on to the
lines.
A crowd OF about 400 looked on as
the two captains worked neck and
neck. Mrs. Howard got away slightly
in advance and led by one stocking.
Miss Nutting caught up to her on cor
sets, gained steadily in pettcoats and
skirts and hung out her last article,
Chinese kimono, ten seconds ahead.
The women on each side then drew
numbered slips for their pick from
the line silk stockings and Il white
sweater were the first to be chosen
The ladies to draw the higher numbers
had only meager assortment of lin.
geric to select from, and none seemed
very anxious to take a chance at It.
There was also an ice cutting con
test by women. Blocks of ice weigh
ing from fifty 20 seventy pounds were
placed on a long table, and they tried
to chop ten pound piece Nearly 100
women took part, and Miss Emma ~
Curtis a jamaica Plain won first prize.
cutting a piece weighing ten pounds
one and a quarter ounces.
The millennium viii be a time when
people carry out their good intentions
Puck.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
WEIGHT OF A HORSE.
Bad Guesses Made by Men unskiiIed
In Hosssfesh.

Many people, even among those who
frequently make use of horses. have
little idea what an ordinary horse
weighs and would have much difficulty
TO guess whether given animal stand
ing before their eyes weighed 800 or
1900 pounds. Yet they would have
no such difficulty with man and prob
ably be able to guess, especially If they
were good Yankees, within ten or twen-
ments of Europe have long been pur-
chasing and weighing horses for the
military service and transferring them
from carriage or draft employment to
the various branches of cavalry and
artillery. The animals are ordinarily
assigned according to weight. The
French military authorities find that
an ordinary light carriage or riding
horse, such as in the United States
would be called a "good little buggy
horse" weighs from 300 to 400 kilo-
grams-say from 800 to 900 pounds.
Such horses as these are assigned to
the light cavalry corps. The next
grade above, which in civil life passes
as a "coupe horse" or carriage horse
of medium weight, ranges In weight
up to 4S0 Kilograms, about 1850
pounds. This horse goes to help mount
the cavalry of the line.
Next come the fashionable coach
horses" of persons of luxury, which
weigh from 500 to $50 kilograms, or
from 1000 TO nearly 1900 pounds.
These horses go to serve the purpose
of drill for the cavalry belonging to
the reserve military forces. Above
these there are still two grades of
heavy horses. The first are those used
for ordinary draft purposes and are
commonly found drawing the omni-
buses of Paris where such vehicles
are still In use. These weigh from
1,100 to 1900 pounds The heaviest
horses are the Clydesdales and Per
chcrons, which are oxen in size and
strength and which weigh from GOO to
500 and sometimes even up to 900 kilo.
grams-that is, from 1900 up to near.
ly 1000 pounds. None of these Per
cherons of the heaviest weight are
used in the military service, but some
Of the lighter ones are employed for
draft ard artillery Buffalo
Commercial
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12

Three more farms yesterday were
declared to be in state Of quarantine
by DR.. Leonard Pearson. State Veter-
marian, who, with other members OF
the State livestock sanitary board is
in this section trying to stamp out the
dreaded foot and mouth disease that
has broken out among the cattle in
Montour and Northum berland coun-
ties.
The farms now under quarantine in
this immediate vicinity are those Of
Jacob Shultz, Cooper township, Mon
tour county; Edward Shultz, Elmer
E. Bogart, Clarence Campbell and Ed :
ward Fisher, Rush township, North
cumberland county.
The United States officials arrived
yesterday morning and Joined State
Veterinarian Leonard Pearson in an
effort to locate the disease wherever it
may exist and to enter upon a system
attic warfare against its spread. The
officers. who arrived on the 30 train,
were as follows: DR.. A. D. Melvin,
chief Of the bureau of animal in.
dustry DR.. John r. Mohler, chief of
pathological division; DR.. Steddon,
chief of the quarantine division OF the
department of agriculture.
DR.. Pearson, accompanied by the
United States officials. State Secretary
DR.. Critchfield and the staff of physio-
ians belonging to the live stock san
itary board-Drs Jobson, Turner,
Nuns and Oawley-were ssnugly tuck
ed away in 7. ]. Price large automo.
bile and conveyed TO the several farms
where the disease was known or sup
posed to exist.
AS stated yesterday the present is
the first time that the foot and mouth
disease ever appeared in Pennsylvania
and about the second time it has been
known to exist in North America. The
automobile tour yesterday, which
brought the officials face TO face with
thO lhicCtOu ShibIO was, tHcItLblt, al
object lesson that was highly priced,
At each place a full and thorough in.
spection was made, and the visitors
each of whom is an expert in his line,
we're a unit in the belief that the cat
tie ailing are affected with the dread
ed foot and mouth disease. AS re-
suit the three additional farms were
declared to be under quarantine.
DR.. Pearson put in an exceedingly
busy day. DR.. Melvin, chief Of the
bureau of animal industry. aud DR..
Mohler, chief of the pathological div
ision, United States officials, left yes
terday afternoon for Buffalo N. Y,
to gather some necessary data, as it
was through that center that the cat
tie which Infected the several herds
here where brought into this State a
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
CONSTITUTION ISLAND.
History of Place Mrs. Sage Gave to
the Government.

the Government.
Constitution island. which was re-
gently presented to the government by
Mrs. Russell Sage to be added to the
West Point reservation. is rich in In
dian legend and historic memories. 1t
is situated in the Hudson at n point
where the natural channel of the river
forms two right angles by turn from
south to east and back to south. West
Point lies to the north.
A Revolutionary description in the
West Point library states that the
''west and northwest sides OF the is
land are formed of bold and inaccess-
tble precipices, while OH the east is a
large flag meadow partially drained by
bitches recently cut through it," At
present there are $50 acres in the is
land. Fifty of these are meadow, and
the remainder is upland. None of the
many islands dotting the Hudson is
more beautiful than this one, auE its
rugged shores are admired by all who
pass up or down the river.
Up to the Revolution the island was
known as Martelaire's Rock island and
also as Martter's Rock or Martyrs
Cliff. The first name was derived from
the French family Martelaire, who
made it their home some time about
1920. Martyrs Cliff sprang from one of
Its tragedies. Later on, when certain
Notifications were erected on its
heights, it became Constitution island.
On Aug. %. 1T75, commissioners APP
pointed hy the Continental congress,
accompanied by company of men
and led by Colonel Bernard Romans,
an engineer, reached the island and
began the erection of the "first fortifi-
cations in the highlands" The work
on the island was not completed at
this time. Under the orders of Kos
ciusko. the engineer later detailed to
fortify West Point, the breastworks,
the remains of which are still to be
traced. We're erected there.
Troops were garrisoned on the island
and several cannon mounted There,
too, figured the celebrated iron chain
placed in the channel to prevent the
British from passing up the river to
Albany and the upper country. One
end of the chain was attached to the
island. With the fortifcations on Poo
plopenskill known as Forts Montgom-
cry and Clinton, and the many other
redoubts thrown up Kosciusko made
the point most formidable.
There are stories foating around
among the inhabitants of Orange and
Putnam counties of visits to the island
d. by DR., Franklin and the worthy
Charles Carroll of Carrollton and of
excursions thope made by Washington
and Lafayette, 1t is said to have been
a favorite spot with Benedict Arnold
and his young wife.
The island became the property in
1SGO of Miss Anna Bartlett Warner
and her sister, the late Susan Warner,
better known under her pen name Of
Elizabeth Wetherell.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
PATROL WAGON
FOR THE BOROUGH

The borough of Danville for the first
time in it's history is to have patrol
wagon. Heretofore when a man yield
ing to the seductive influence of red
eye became completely knocked out
and was unable to navigate the offic-
ers were obliged to carry him to the
lookup or to trundle him off in COM
mon wheelbarrow. the spectacle in the
latter event being exceedingly grote3-
que and amusing.
Danville, however, is forging for
ward and to keep pace with the times
in all departments our borough fathers
have decided that our police must no
longer be required to drag or carry
men paralyzed with drink to the lock-
up. Such methods are altogether too
primitive. Even the wheelbarrow must
go and in it's stead the council has de-
cided to furnish or officers with-a
push cart.
The latter, however, is to have rub
ber tires SO that it will not attract un-
due attention when propelled by an
officer. it is trundled over the paving
with its helpless and inert human
cargo.
The patrol wagon fortunately will
not add big item to the cost of equip
ment in the police department. The
push cart will simply be taken over
from the department. of streets and
bridges where last year it was used in
keeping the Mill street paving clean.
The wheels are little too shaokIy
to be of much service and council has
decided to have them removed and in
their place pair of bicycle wheels
installed Thus not only will the
patrol wagon be strengthened, but rub
ber tires will be supplied also, all in
one operation.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS-.
Startling Plan to Show consumption's
Ravases In United Atates.

Startling Plan to Show consumption's
Ravases In United q tates.
A startling means Of ~aowing the
ravages consumption is making in the
United States will be adopted in con
nection with the international tubcr-
culosis congress at Washington. The
census bureau will have in the Ma
tional museum building an electrical
device which will record by flashing
of a light the death ratio from this
disease. That is to say, light will be
flashed every time death from the
white plague occurs in the United
States as computed from figures gath
cred by the bureau.
This is the first time the interna-
tional congress, which meets at inter
walls of three years, has been held in
the United States, and much is expect
ed of its labors.
The exhibition is a graphic picture
of the work of world renowned scien.
lists in their fight to stamp out phthisis
and to win back to health and happi-
ness multitude of afflicted who must
perish but for this relief.
The federal exhibit and that OF most
of the states have been arranged advan-
tageously and are most creditable.
Cuba, Germany and Sweden have no
tlceable exhibits.
New York's exhibit is in the center
of the main group of states. 1t is al
mittedly one of the most striking Of
the congress, because it shows how
unceasing has been the fight to stay
the advance of a disease which men
aces a population as big in the me.
| tropolis alone as that in some states.
y feature of New York's exhibit is
that sent to Washington by the Charity
Organization society, in charge of Law
renee WELLER, director, the author of
modern tenement house law that is
fast ridding the chief city of the new
world of a condition that is admittedly
the chief breeding ground of this dis
ease enemy-the slum.
OF equal interest in the New York
space is the exhibit showing the ad.
vance made in ten years toward giving
the tenement dwellers sanitary homes.
wherein, instead of sordidness and dis
ease, light air and healthful surround
ings can be had.
The Nathan Straus milk pasteuriZa-
ton exhibit will receive much attention
from the delegates TO the congress, be
cause for years milk has been regard
ed as one of the greatest mediums for
the transmission of the bacilli of tuber-
culosis. The exhibit is in charge Of
Miss J. Il. Hern of New York.
Delightful Gift.
Little Miss Hamlin is a grateful soul,
and her many relations find it pleas
ure TO do her kindnesses and present
her with appropriate gifts.
You certainly were well remember
ed on your birthday" said a friend.
what did your uncle, DR.. Grantham,
give your
HE hasn't given it to me yet" said
little Miss Hamlin, but next month,
when he isn't quite so busy, he's going
to give me my appendicitis operation.
Isn't that good of him T"-Youth's Com
panion.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
A SURPRISING WEDDING.
II Gave a Shock to the Lady Who Was
So Anxious to See 1t.

IL Gave Shock to the Lady Who Was
So Anxious to See II.
An elderly American authoress asked
me to conduct her to n place where
she could see a workman's wedding
as she required it for new novel,
writes the Paris correspondent of the
London Gentlewoman. To oblige the
lady took her to the Lac Saint-Far-
geau, an establishment at the top of
the steep Rue de BelleYille.
1t was still early when we reached
the place, and no brides or bridegrooms
were visible as yet. At last two char
a-bancs drove up TO the door. and a
noisy company alighted, all smoking
cigarettes, including the bride, which
shocked my friend exceedingly.
The company then sat down TO
luncheon, and we watched them from
n distance, while a photographer took
up his position near us. The meal did
not last very long and ended in the
bride performing jig on the table,
while the guests danced around her
They then started games, hide and
seek, etc, and while the bridegroom
had his back turned the bride threw
her arms round the neck OF red hair
ed youth.
This led to fight between the two
The melee became general, the bride
pulling off her wreath and throwing 1t
at her father-in-law's head. My friend
looked on In GREATNESS excitement,
while the guests jumped over the ia
bles and chairs, but when the bride
turned a somersault alighting on the
bridegroom's shoulders, the good lady's
indignation rose to a high pitch, and 1t
was only then that l told her what l
and the reader no doubt, too-guessed
long before. that they were a party of
acrobats rehearsing a scene for q cine
matograph company.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
TO COOK ON THE MARCH.
Russian Stew Pot Will Be Used by
United States Army.

In any future campaigns in which
the American army may be engaged
the Russian stew pot is to stand next
TO the colors in Importance, says
Washington dispatch. The commits
sary department after much thought
has decided upon that order of prece-
dence.
The Russian pot is a recent discov-
cry so far as the subsistence officers
are concerned. The Russians have
known Of it a long time and used it in
Manchura. The only objection to it
there was that it was too often empty.
1t has been adopted here as a part of
the field equipment.
The pot is put on wheels, and it has
n fire box, so that the making Of n
savory stew can proceed during the
last few minutes of Il march and be
ready for the tired soldiers when they
so into camp.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
TIE TRAPPED THIEF.
A Midnight Adventure With South
American Desperadoes.

A Midnight Adventure With South
American Desperadoes.
In describing certain experiences
among the outlaws and desperadoes of
South America an English traveller
tells the following grisly story:
"One Eight a farmer was reused
from sleer by hearing unusual and
stealthy noises about the place He
got quietly out Of bed and. after listen
ing attentively. discovered that some
people outside were cutting a hole
through the door close to the bolt by
which it was held.
at did not require any great amount
of detective talent to guess the object
of the operation. and the best way to
foil it was suggested by Il thong Of
rawhide with loop on it which hung
from a hook on the inside of the door
Noiselessly removing the thong, he
slipped the end of it through the loop.
and there he stood armed with an i'm
promptu lasso. ready for action.
at was an anxious time while the
farmer stood watching the hole in the
door grow larger and larger until at
last it was of sufficient size to effect
the purpose for which it was made.
The supreme moment arrived. and a
hand was stealthily inserted not only
through the hole. but also through the
loop of the little lasso which hung
skillfully around it. With sudden
jerk the loop was tightened around the
wrist and the hand dragged in as far
as the aperture would allow. while the
thong was securely fastened to the
hook on the back of the door.
THE robber was perfectly helpless.
His companions came TO his aid and,
having Intellectually dragged Mt the i'm
prisoned arm till they were tired. gave
up the struggle and prepared to depart.
But they were prudent men. and it
occurred to them to save himself their
companion might betray them. Dead
men, they thought. tell no tales, so
they killed him."-New York Mail
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
A Town of Macs.

Scotsmen are remarkably successful
as colonists. They are also very clan
nish. There are many prosperous set
Elements in Greater Britain where
Caledonians largely predominant, but
the names of these localities do not
carry that fact on their face. Nobody,
however, can be mistaken as to the
prevailing nationality in "Macsville."
This is town in the Cobalt district
of Nova Scotia. You will be perfectly
safe in accosting anybody there thus s:
81 say, Mac."-London Chronicle.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
SCARED THE ROBBERS.
Odd Incident In England In the Eight
eenth Century.


For time during the eighteenth cen
tury in England there was a lull in
the robbery industry owing to an odd
incident. Shortly after the execution
of an English burglar named Elliston
a curious communication purporting
to have been written by him was put
into circulation. NOW, as l am a dy.
ing man." it ran, II have done some
thing which may be of good use to the
public. l have left with an honest
mantle only honest man l was ever
acquainted with-the names of all my
wicked brethren, the places of their
abode, with n short account of the
chief crimes they have committed. in
many of which l have been the accom-
plice and heard the rest from their
own mouths. l have likewise set
down the names of those we call our
settlers. of the houses we frequent and
all of those who receive and buy our
stolen goods. I have solemnly charged
this honest man and have received his
promise upon oath that whenever he
hears of any rogue to be tried for rob
berry or housebreaking he will look into
his list and if he finds there the name
of the thief concerned to send the
whole paper to the government Of
this l here give my companions fair
and public warning and hope they will
take it," 1t is said the hint was So
effectual that for n long time pick
pockets and burglars in that part OF
England went into panic stricken re-
tirement. And. this being so, it is just
rs well they did not know that the let
ter was a clever forgery, the work of
that prince of wits and humorists,
Dean Swift-New York Tribune.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
Not Mentioned by herodotus.

Xerxes was meditating upon his
good luck in having been made king
by his royal father in preference TO
the eldest son.
still" he said, 'if the succession
had been determined by a primary
election l would have got 1t just the
same. Naturally everybody would
have marked an X opposite my name"
Subsequently, however, the Greeks
gave him the double cross at Plataea
Chicago Tribune.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
A WAR TRAGEDY.
Pathetic Incident at the Siege of PORT
Hudson.

Hudson.
At the siege at Port Hudson, La,
there was one gun commanded by Al
phonso Dubreuil. He was young
sugar planter who had opposed seces-
sion, but maintained that IL Louisiana
seeded he would go with his state.
DR.. Chatrand, his neighbor, was vio
lent secessionist, and Dubreuil and the
doctors daughter Amelia were lovers.
Louisiana seeded. Alphonso raised q
company and proved so brave a Con-
federate that the doctor, who had op-
posed his daughters marriage, readily
consented, and the pair were married.
His bride was accorded special per-
mission to go into the bomb proofs Of
the fort, where in comparative safety
she could be near her husband. There
she saw him operating his enormous
gun but her heart was torn with fear
for his safety Suddenly she became
excited by the noise of firing and, rush
ing out from her place of safety, was
struck by piece of shell and fell back
lifeless. Dubreuil ran to her side, saw
death in her face and went back brave
ly to his gun.
The next morning was beautiful, and
the sun shone gloriously. There was
cessation of hostilities that the dead
might be buried. Thus engaged, a re-
quest came from the enemy to allow
the body of young lady to pass
through our lines. 1t was granted.
The little cortege came, preceded by Il
military band playing mournful
dirge, and halted at the outpost. The
old musket box used as n bier was ac-
companied by two ladies and several
officers. One of the latter. a handsome.
young fellow with long hair, walked
calmly and slowly, but his face be-
trayed the greatest grief. A detail Of
Confederate privates acted as pallbear-
erS. Our men uncovered their heads.
All were blindfoded and led through
our lines to the steamboat. They bade
u last adieu to the dead bride and re-
turned blindfolded
1t was the saddest sight l ever saw
G.. n. Saussy in Spare Moments.
In the Depths of the Sea.
The quantity of light emitted by
many minute deep sea animals is SO
great as TO supply over definite areas
of the sea bottom u sufficient illumina-
ton TO render visible the colors of the
animals themselves. Some cephalopods
are furnished with apparatus which
reflects the light from their phosphor-
escent bodies upon the sea bottom over
which they float. This rejecting APP
paratus is spoken of as IAN efficient
bullseye lantern for use in hunting
through the abysmal darkness"
Some Few Escaped.
"Oh. John" whimpered the wife as
she seized the morning paper. see
what that editor has done with the ac-
count of our musicale! He has placed
1T alongside the column of death no.
tices. It's shame. And we had such
prominent people as guests too"
81 suppose" said the husband wea-
rily. that the editor wishes to call at
tention to the fact that some people
are more fortunate than others
Bohemian Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12

\ Scottish farmer was proudly show
ing visitor an antique clock which
had recently come into his possession.
Isn't that gran clock?' he said.
Il bocht it at an auction sale in the
toon the ither day an got a rale bar
gain"
Yes, but does it keep good time:"
the visitor asked.
"Ah, weel, it's no good enough 10
catch train or that sort o. thing. but
good enough to get up to yer breakfast
wi"