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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12
HER FIRST SPEECH.
II Wasn't the One She Learned, but
1t Won the Crowd.

1t was the first appearance in public
of Ada c. Sweet of Chicago, United
States commissioner of pensions under
President Grant and one of the first
women in the movement for equal po-
litical rights for the sexes. When the
civil war broke out she was living with
her parents in the village of Lombard,
now a suburb of Chicago, and was
chosen to present to the boys of the
Lombard company silk flag which the
women of the place had made with
their own fair hands.
The literary woman of the village
had written for the occasion a beauti-
full presentation speech, In which the
soldiers were adjured to take the fair
flag into which your wives, daughters
and sweethearts have sewed fond hopes
and fearful prayers for your safe re-
turn, carry it through the smoke and
shell of battle free from the stain of
dishonor and the rents of defeat and
bear it home victorious at the end of
the war"
81 thought" says Miss Sweet, that
backward and forward. inside and out.
but on the great day itself. when the
band ceased playing and an awful
hush fell upon the crowd and every
face was turned expectantly up to
mine, it was different. | opened my
mouth-and paused. The literary lady
creaked forward in her chair and whis-
% 7
"That whisper went through me like
a knife, but left me still speechless. l
set my teeth, stepped decisively for
ward and pushed the flag into the
hands of the nearest soldier. Then |
spoke. Every word of that speech had
left me, but knew what 1t meant.
Soldiers of Lombard said in
desperate voice that must have been
heard to the utmost confines of the
crowd, heres your flag! Don't get it
dirtyl Don't tear it And be sure to
bring it backp
"a shout rose from that crowd such
as no orator before or since has ever
evoked from a crowd in those parts.
The first thing knew | was riding on
the shoulders of two soldiers, while
the whole company pressed about me,
with waving hats, and my father was
leaning over toward me from the back
of his big horse and calling me his
own original girl while the tears
rolled down his cheeks with laughter.
"As long as l lived in the village of
Lombard l never dared to meet square
ly the vengeful eyes of the literary lady
who had written that presentation
speech."-St. Louis Republic.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12

To balance due Directors at last settle
ment..... ......................-..S $40 20
To cash received from return taxes I6 4S
10 cash received from Nj. CROMWELL 6lS3
10 cash receivec from Comley Young 25OO
10 cash from OF. er disti lets. Iss 81
To cash received from j. Z. Bare, Hahn
Estate. .......................... 600
To cash received from Gregory dowery lIOJ
10 cash received from farm. :....,... 5S32l
To cash received from L. w. Peters on
= duplicate for 1905. 57CO 90
To cSsh received from j. +. Bare on
duplicate for 1905 .;.:.............. 756 Is
To cash received from j. Z. Bare on
>, duplicate. for 1914 .;:.....::..,.... 500
To cash received fro n Chas Uttermil-
Ter on duplicate for 1906. ......... 1921
To cash received from Chas Uttermil-
Ter on duplicate for 1907 7.......... 665 10
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12
OR

By whole amount of orders paid by the
Treasurer during the year l9O7..... 1886 Is
Bal due Directors Mt present settlement 5000 "a
Directors Of Dan0iLle and Mahoniag
Poor District IN account aOith tile
District.
DP
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12
Farm.
=. NJ. KERNS,
THEO. HOFFMAN Directors
IL. WIREMAN.

We, the Auditors of the Borough of Danville
and Township of Mahoning have examined
the above accounts and find them correct
JOHN L. JONES
NJ. Z. SCOTT,
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12
ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR
Danville and Mahoning Poor Dis.
trict for the Year Ending
AMI, 100.
OF

j. p. BARE, Treasurer.
n account with the Directors of the Dan.
Vile and Mahoning Poor District.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12
A Literal Youth,

"Why. Johnny" said Mrs. Muggins,
what are you doing here at home?
Is Willie's party over?"
Nome" blubbered Johnny, "but the
minute I got inside the house Willie's
father told me to make myself at
home, and l came."-Harper's Weekly.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-03-12
DnC0rd and ana
HarWOnY.
By NANCY BRENT -.

Copyright, 1908. bv N. E. Daley.
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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25
A Wonan's Back
The Aches and Pains Will Disappear
if the Advice of This Lewiston
Citizen Is Followed.

A woman's back has many aches
and pains.
Most times It's the kidneys fault.
Backache is really kidney ache.
That's why Doan's Kidney Pills
cure it.
Many Lewiston women know this.
Read what one has TO say about
If.
Mrs. Lillian M. Dickson, 105
Eleventh street, Lewiston, Idaho.
says: II doctored for five or six
years for kidney complaint, but fail
ed to obtain any permanent relief.
The pains in my back were terrible,
aid on one occasion l was confined
to my bed for three weeks, scarce
l. able to move. The kidney secre-
tons also annoyed me greatly, being
scanty and causing burning sensa-
ticp during passage, and at times J
had no control over their action and
E.rew that sUnietti1ing must be done
or ! would soon be in critical con-
d.tion. Hearing the good reports OF
Doan's Kidney Pills, I secured 4 sup
Fly at the Idanha Pharmacy and the
FIRST few doses gave me prompt re-
lief. / continued their use end IN
a short time was free from all my
troubles. | have since been without
Sign of the annoyance, and know
~ at / owe my present good health
tt Doan's Kidney pills.
For sale by all 1ealers. Primo
60 cents. Foster-MilIuru Co., Buff
falo, New York, sole agents Tor tn
| fIrited States.
Remember the name-Dpan's-
and take no other.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25
BABCOCK MILK TEST
Professor of Dairying, University of Idaho.
By ]. H. GRANDSON,

down for the purpose of adding wa
ter to the bottles. enough water is
added to bring the contents up to
the neck of the bottle, after which
the machine is again started and
run for two minutes, again stopped
and sufficient warm water added to
bring all the fat contents up into
the graduated part of the bottle.
After another whirling of one min
ute the samples are to be read. 1t
may be we'll to state that it is pref
cradle to use soft water and that
the temperature should be about
120 degrees Fahrenheit.
To read the amount of fat, take
one bottle out at a time, hold it up
right, the graduated part should be
on level with the eye. The differ
| ence between the highest and low
est limit of the butterfat column is
the amount of butterfat expressed in
per cent direct. Most milk bottles
| are graduated up to 10 per cent.
Each division indicates l per cent,
and each small division two-tenths
of 1 per cent of butter fat. To IL
/ lustrate the method of reading, let
it be supposed that the top of the
fat column is at So and the bottom
at AS, then the readings are 8.5-4.5
- per cent fat. This means that
in 100 pounds of this kind of milk
there would be exactly pounds of
fat.
If the testing has been properly
done, the butter fat column should
be perfectly clear, of brownish
yellow color; the dine separating it
nom the acid should be cleat and
distinct. Too strong acid is apt to
cause black or charred particles to
appear in the fat. This same result
may also be due to too high tempera
ture of either the milk or the acid.
insufficient amount of acid or too
, Weak acid or too low temperature OF
| IuS lullh VI lhS dSLo may ASOulb III
white or cloudy test.
, Much more complete directions
} accompany each outfit-the princi
| Pile object of this article is to i'm
t press upon farmers the simplicity o
r the test and that there is nothing
d mysterious or mystifying about 1t
1t is so simple that anyone of ordi
0 nary intelligence, willing to give /
e a little time and patience, can easil,
Il master all its details When tn
e farmer fully realizes that it fur
d nishes him key not only for weed
). ing out his Improbable cows, blu
d also for checking up his creamer
y man, he will not be slow to max
, use of the Babcock test.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25

The California State league is
coming to the front at rapid
pace. Frank Herman of San Fran
cisco is president of the organiza-
ton, and the managers are as fol-
lows: San Francisco, Phil Knell;
Oakland, Walter McMenomy; San
Jose, E. P. Mayors; Fresno, Charles
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25

"Charles A. shaffer, Dublin. Ire
land" is the way Charlie Shaffer,
manager of the Roanoke, Virginia
league, team signs. We don't know
whether 1t is his name or home
town, but something looks wrong.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25

Baum; Stockton, Cy Moreng. Jr.;
Sacramento, ". f. Curtin; Alameda,
Louis p. Schroeder, and Santa Cruz,
William DevereauX
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25

Try the merchants -r-cent lunch
at the Raymond from Il till 2
o'clock.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25
TEA

Moneyback means that
the tea is good and well
worth the money.
Can't m e n anything
else.
Your grocer returns your money il you don't
IKE Sehillings Best We pay bin
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-25

For tlrst-class Iaunnry work zee
Guy Fountain. Phone Black BAL ri
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01

- - MEANS are the winters smartest
gowns to hang in loose. indefinite INES
to conceal alike the defects IN pad hsuie anu - %
graceful noise Of a good one style ycIeP' Ii
raotcjre in every bizarre effect. Instead some Oh
the loveliest Of the newly imported models sIiO"
adaptations Of the princess effects that are chdl
ing from all points OF view, SO accurately al @
proportions balanced The elimination VI ''i0
waist line is by far the most severe test that any
figure can be put to. and divinely tail ana sum
must she be who wears such ereauohS u uie
modiste's fancy. And On the frocks. no matter IV"
simple they appear when completed. far more ume
and skill are expended than for the most eIa5o-
rateIy built gowns Of season or so ago For' uh-
less tho apparent ''waistlessness Is given at eA
actIy the right point. with Just the risht touoH,
and the wearer be blessed at least with slender
hips the result is extremely grotesque
The majority of the new princess gowns have al
the appearance of fitting IKE glove ABOUT the
hips but in many slight mouSqUetaire erect Is
given above the waist line TO sirdle height, and the
fronts are surpllced a panel at the back relieving
the plain tightly drawn look that the habit back
ordinarily has Sometimes, cS In one very stunning
ORIGINAL model the sUrplced effect is given at back
and front alike, the soft, pliable cloth drawn
smoothly at the waist line and revers of some sort
are arranged to give long and almost lanky
line that is becoming 10th TO the we'll developed
and the slender figure.
1t is noticeable that oxdized silver dull gold and
green gold are freely used in the hand embroid-
cries on the inevitable chemisette or vestee. Satns
very supple and shimmering; duh ribbed silks the
ribs at any space apart OF any width. and
braids. plan or fancy. are the accepted ornamental
ton for indoor frocks or street costumes. but
the coats which invariably Drectoire. soutachs
braiding is most seen combined with padded en-
broidery embroidery in fine braids such
used on net landings. The braiding is IN long
lines st the seams and in handsomer braids than
used heretofore Being employed in severe effects.
better materials called for.
The buttons coats covered 10 match the
collar. and cuffs OF else with the fabric used for
the suit. and the best looking models DO not show
them overlarge. The tendency is. in fact. toward
small size. except for fastening Buttons OF cOlled
inteTlaced soutache have cachet that cannot be
attained by any other button not metal. and
used In innumerahle designs. being. OF course.
hand made TO suit the idea OF the customer.
The monotone effects ara more seen this season
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01
Food Values OF Some Vegetables.
Recipes for Lending Variety to the Diet-Cream Soups

for Children.

in the husks tying the husks back IN place after
the silk is removed. The same rule. holds with
corn with fsh-the quicker from the source of
supply to the fire the better.
The milk in the corn hardens when boiled or
roasted. but in corn pudding or fritters it remains
soft and milky. Corn in the has "a greater
amount Of waste than almost any otner vegetable.
Two tablespoons of food is generous allowance
from an average ear A person may eat four ears
Of corn and not get the nutriment he would from
one good baked potato. The average can of corn
contains pint of food. at the prices of green
corn may why summer bosrders are re-
gaied with canned corn
Miss Barrows showed the corn from four ears
making about cupful. To portion she added an
egg and little -four for thicIening and cooked on
the eridde as corn fritters mock oysters"
las I don't see how they could mock any one
after the first mouthful prefer TO call them corn
fritters," said Miss Barrows. These fritters can
he cooked in the chafng dish and canned corn
chorped can be used for them. With milk added
instead of -four and baked in the oven it makes
the unsweetened pudding" used as a vege-
table. An egg TO every cup of milk is the proper
ton for this
Miss Barrows took a green pepper, cut on one
end and scooped out the interior
Now this" said she. holding up the shell with
a smile 'is the place to cook any nice little mess
we like. Il is a good place TO warm over cold
boiled rice or stuffing left from fowls, or any
kind Of cold meat left In the refrigerator chopped
and used alone, mixed with breadcrumbs, and
any kind OF havorng you Ike. Different filings
can be used with the different peppers 1t isn't
necessary to have them all alike. Baked and
served piping hot, cold scraps will go Off In this
way in a manner wonderful to behold
Brussels sprouts merely dimInusive caobases.
If you know how 10 cook cabbage you can COOK
Brussels sprouts and cauiifower. They are all the
same thing Brussels sprouts are expensive, but as
there is little waste about them 1t makes them
medium priced vegetable, higher than cabbage and
not much better except for variety. The end and
outer leaves of each little sprout should be re-
moved They be served In tInbale cases.
IF you have garden in summer and the cucum-
bers rpen too fast u be used raw pare the larger
ones remove the seeds. cut In strips and cook and
serve toast exactly like asparagus. Ii will makA
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01

| In our last lesson I tried to teach you how to
| begin modelling in clay, and as I always sympa-
thize with the beginners natural desire 10 see
| some results from his her efforts, am no"
/ going to tell you how to make some simple casts
in plaster of paris from your clay models In low
relief work It is very easy. For instance let US
| suppose that you have carefully copied PRONE
from one of tho medallions sold by the art deal
ers and that you have modelled II IN clay dS
| told you on the ground glass plate
To begin making your mould you must first roll
out some clay on board. and cut 1t into pieces
about two inches wide and about inch thick, ana
with them form fence around your head the size
you wish your medallion 10 De. GU W1li nave 10
draw the circle first with pencil TO guide you'
and then cut the clay 20 fit the circle ana "eio
the pieces well together with your fingers and press
them tight to the glass at the bottom, SO that not
q crack remains to let the plaster through TO
show YOU what 1 mean have marked AA on the
souare in the accompanying cut to represent the
ground glass; and BIB to show the round clay
fence which is to give the shape TO your medaillohs
When everything is ready, stick lump OF ciay
in each corner of your glass, and insert STICKS 70
hold up a damp cloth over your WORK Inc next
stem Is to prepare your plaster OF paris You must
be careful in buying 1t that 1t IS taken tioiI d
freshly opened barrel, and you must Keep II III
nerfectly dry place. There is no danger ldt youi
,1astar will stick to your clay, but YOU would better
- o,,r Ground glass with clay water. That is
water and clay mixed together 20 the consistency
of milk . ,,,,
Now mix your plaster. For small meoalloii
,oo,,15 about a mint OF water will probably be
enough although it is always better 10 nave 'oo
much plaster than little. and the mould shouid
be thick and strong. First, put the WAFER INTO d
china bowl and then sprinkle in the plaster niue
by little with your hand It is very important
for good work to mix the plasteF IN this way: 10
this until the plaster is longer completely ao-
eorhed bv the water but stays on the surface. II
everything else is all ready you can then mix II
with a spoon and when it is ike cream cover
YOUR MODEL first blowing it, that the depressions
are all well filed. and then keep putting on the
plaster until It is even with the clay fence. Re
member that plaster sets very rapidly after mix
ing and that there must be no stoppage in your
work
After the mould is made. leave it to set Tor
about half an hour; then take off the clay fence
and lift it from the glass, and you will find that
YOU have an exact mould Of your work Now hold
the mould under a faucet Of water and wash 1t
until there is no sign of any clay adher1ng TO II;
then with soft brush make lather of soap and
wash it WELL so that the brush and the soap viii
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01

, told that root of the great "SemHer Augustus
was sold for more than five times this sunl-1S 900
forms.
Sometimes people who did not know the value of
these modest little bulbs got themselves into dread
ful sCrapes as the English traveller did.
It this history of the tulip mania that
the novelist Dumas founded his story of The
Black Tulip which went through so many diff
cuIties and dangers before it took the prize at
Haa~IeEn. but Dumas probably did not intend us
TO believe that the tulip really black There
are tulips that are called black, but they must
be only very dark purple. for florists say that
no flower can be really black
It took the good Hollanders about four years to
recover from the tulip mania, which began in
1854 and by the end of that time of course, many
Of them were ruined. But they still love tulips and
a wealthy Holander is proud Of owning rare
specimens rich Englishnan IS of his fine
horses or an American millionaire Of his costly
pictures.
Holland is still the centre Of the tulip growing
industry, but longer think. as people used
to- that the tulip can reach perfection only IN
Dutch soil. We know that it was the Dutch
brain, and not the Dutch soil which made the
Dutch tulip. and American florists can grow tulips
now quite well the Dutch do.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01

soup is practically a solid The usual proper
tfon is half and half.
Potatoes and celery are often cooked together
for cream soup, and, Of course potatoes should be
very well soaked beforehand, as the water they
are boiled in is used. little onion is cooked in
almost all vegetable soups. though hardly with
peas. Soup green's may be thrown in-anything
you like for a favoring. Celery alone makes very
delicate soup. but few stalks too tough for the
tabe will make celery soup out of potato. Corn
should be well chopped for soup. To pre-
vent the curdling Of the milk in tomato soup do
not pat the tomato and milk together until the
last moment before going to table. or, if you are
afraid 10 trust It, put soda in the milk in the pro-
portion of half the size Of a pea to each cup OF
milk. Half a cup of tomato to each cup of milk
is the proportion for tomato soup Another way
of making tomato soup is to put can Of tomato
in kettle Of water with rice and havoring, set it
on the back OF the stove and let it cook slowly till
the rice done and then strain. The rice thickens
it and provides the nutriment.
These cream soups are in reality merely
other way of serving vegetables They very
nutritious, be prepared in great variety, and
many persons who would eat little OF
plain boiled vegetable VIII consume soup
made of that same vegetable with avidity. I have
known persons who never touched raw celery
who very fond Of cream of celery soup. Chill
dren will often make a whole meal OF a cream
soup with bread crackers. and If the truth were
known many a grown-up will do the The
vegetable flavor removes the f1atness from the milk
and enables one to consume quantity of 1t which
would net be palatabe in its raw state
Peas and beans the best of all substitutes
for meats they contain the same proteids
which form the food value of meats. So in a cream
of pea soup has practically all the food values
the proteds the fat OF the milk and butter. the
vegetable juices and the starch of the bread
crackers eaten with It.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01
TIME FOR THE PLuMEp KNIGHT.

An English weekly comments with mild arnuse-
ment on the fact that young man. English
man. wore a purple coat at fashionable wedding.
No one seemed To approve OF the innovation, and
the purple coat has not appeared again The
fact is" says the journalistic critic. that Eng
Iishnen OF this day consider dandyism as extinct
as the dodo.' II does seem hard though. that the
man with a soul for color shouldn't be allowed to
crafty il in his attire. But so Il Is
A man may wear a bright necktie X his wife
will allow him. but he can't depart from the
regulation brown. black gray IN HIS coat OF
trousers. or his fellow Will regard him mad
silly. II does seem strange that men should
band together 10 deprive one another OF external
aids to fascination. at this stage OF civilization
too, when women are becoming so independents as
to find men much less irresistible than OF yoreL
In the days OF the cavaliers men didn't need
pluned hats TO make themselves beautiful TO
women. FOR the womeE had no occupation ous to
marry them. aEyhsW. It Is now. when thousand
occupations are beckoning 70 women. hat man
need piumed hatA
New-York tribune., 1908-11-01
THE SWALLOWS NEST.

Dear Little Men and Little Women: I spent my
vacation up in the Catskills, and can never re-
member having had better time. lived on a farm
where they had a number Of horses. COWS, pigs
chickens and geese. soon made friends with all
the animals but the geese They flew at me once.
which frightened me so that I always took good
care to keep out of their way.
One thing that interested me very much was
a barn swallows nest, which I discovered bulIt
against one OF the beams Of the barn. 1t was mace
entirely Of mud and straw. which the BIRDS
had carried themselves, and 1t looked just Hhe d
very small theatre box In the nest were tnree
tiny little birds with very large mouths N.Y. how
they would open them when the mother plld
brought in a worm bug! ! used 10 go down
to the barn every morning and watch them nave
their breakfast. The mother bird would fly back
and forth TO the nest any number OF times with
food for her little ones. and then, how she would
talk to theml I often wondered what she was
saying.
As the weeks passed the little birds began to
grow quite large and pretty, and just as was
thinking that the nest would not hold them much
longer the mother bird started to teach them now