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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
LAST OF THE PASCAGOULAS
An Indian Legend From the Shores of
the Gulf of Mexico.

An Indian legend of the PascagoulaS
is told by the fishermen and oyster
men down on the shores of the gulf
of Mexico.
a point reaches out into the gulf
near the mouth of the Pascagoula riv-
er. The pine trees on it come almost
to the waters edge, and between lies
a strip of white sand; across a marsh,
a border of light green swaying and
rustling grasses and beyond gray
cypress swamp the hanging moss of
the trees swaying in the wind. To the
south the blue waters of the gulf
stretch away, with little waves lap
ping on the chalk white clam shells
of the shore.
There in the evening during the
short twilight one hears soft music, as
If it were the notes of a violin, insist
ent, changing, sweet 1t is the song of
the Pascagoulas
Long years before the Pascagoua
Indians had lived upon this point. The
white men. the Spaniards. came in
huhlbtiS' anu WIN lhtlll tlG hbSillN
warriors of other tribes, to make war
and to drive the Pascagoulas out of the
country. Coming from the inland, the
enemy took away all chance of fight
and hedged them in on the point The
Pascagoulas fought for days and
nights in the dark pine woods against
outnumberlng foes. Then they saw
that all was useless, that they could
not overcome. and starvation stared
them in the face
The Pascagouas called a council of
the tribe and talked long together. To
give themselves up meant lives of
slavery or death, and to fight to the
last man was to leave the women and
children to the mercy of the white
men and their allies.
The next morning the Pascagoulas
put on all their paint and trappings
and burned their wigwams. The men,
women and children slowly, defiber-
ately, unflinchingly backed step by
step into the water behind them. sing
ing. Not one faltered. They died with
their faces toward their enemies,
brave and free, and now in the even
ing when the wind blows over the
marshes the pines and grasses sing
the song of the Pascagoulas.-New
York Post.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
PARIS Cables.
Tho War of Words That Comes When
They Block Each Other.

Tho War Of Words That Comes When
They Block Each Other.
There Is no more entertaining way to
spend IN idle hour in Paris than to get
into q taXicab and instruct the driver
to go along some street where you will
be reasonably sure to get into jam or
to bump against another cab. The
charm of the experience is, of course,
enhanced by your ignorance of what
the cabbies say.
Should your driver merely Craze the
wheels of another cab he will turn on
his seat and yell mellifluously at the
other driver, who in turn will shout
back an assortment Of vowels. But
the best is quarrel between two cab
bies obstructing each others way.
The conversation, translated as nearly
literally as is safe, goes in this wise:
SACRED name! Why do you?"
Holly blue! do notr'
stomach on the ground! You have
the face of an oxr'
Blue stomach! Are you in chains"
"A bas! Name of q dogy'
Mon Dieu! Name of a pig"
"Wow Tor words to that effec0!
Name Of name!'
a thousand deaths! Name of a
name of namem
Now you begin to expect some do
ings. While you have not fully un-
derstood, you are satisfied that nothing
but pistols and knives will wipe out
the insults.
Unfortunately about this time the
jam is untangled and you are allowed
to drive away, but the other driver
yells after'yours:
"Aha! You are little piece of
brown soap"
1t seems that this expression is the
lighting name" In Paris. Were it not
that your cabby owes a duty to you
and must convey you to your destina-
ton you know by his facial express
sion that he would climb down and
get that other cabby and muss up the
city with him.
He contents himself with turning
about and making face in the direc-
ton of his enemy and OF going through
the motion of splitting at him.
Then he says "Yoop" to the horse,
and the war is over.-Chicago Post.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
FLEETS OF AlRSHIPS.
British War Balloon Expert Says Time
For Them Is Near.

British War Balloon Expert Says Time
For Them Is Near.
In the opinion of Colonel James
Templer former superintendent of the
balloon factory of the British army at
Aldershot, who talked at the Waldorf
hotel in New York the other night on
military aeronautics, 1t will be only Il
comparatively short time when the
United States and other countries will
have large fleets of large dlrigible bal
looms for emergencies of war
The colonel went to New York after
witnessing the tests of Captain Thom-
as S. Baldwln's war balloon at Fort
Myer, Va. He said countries like the
United States and England, instead of
having only two or three 4ttle dirigi-
bles, carrying two or threeNmen each,
would ultimately be content with moth
ing less than several hundred war bal
looms.
II was delighted" said the colonel,
with Captain Baldwin's balloon. as it
was just the right shape and size effi-
clently to train men, and 1t certainly
was great personal success for Cap
tain Baldwin-who, by the way, is II
splendid chap-as hitherto that size
balloon had never been made so that
it could be both dirigible and buoyant.
The fact of its taking up two men rem
dered the ascent made by Captain
Baldwin and Lieutenant Lahm very
surprising to me and a most unquali-
fed success.
II am delighted to think that it is
under consideration that Captain Bald
win is to receive instructions to build
larger dirigible balloon for your war
department as soon as the money can
be obtained. This matter should be
pushed with all possible facility.
81 am delighted with my reception.
| am delighted with the country. I'm
less l get orders l shall stay here un-
til the Wrights' aeroplane tests are
over | want to see those, not that l
have any doubt rs to the Wrights
meeting all the specifications of the
war department, but because | believe
they can do even more. spent one
whole day with Orville Wright. and l
cannot tell you how favorably he inn
pressed me. The Wrights are. in fact.
the best up TO date with aeroplanes.
They have the best heavier than air
machine that | have yet seen or read
of. We have a man in England. Cody
by name, who will really surprise peo-
pie with an aeroplane that he will
soon test for the British army. Then
ah, but l mustn't say anything about
that-no. not word" said the colonel
SERIOUSLY
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
MAY CUT BRYAN IN GRANITE.
Amateur Sculptor Has Carved Fifty
four Faces on Small Block.

Elmer Burkett of Wayne, Pa, mine
owner and amateur sculptor, who ar
rived at New York recently on the
Cunarder Lusitanla with n small piece
of granite in his pocket, is looking for
William Jennings Bryan. He met Mr..
Taft abroad and managed to get the
impression of the Republican candi-
dates head on the granite rock and is
now In pursuit of Mr.. Bryan for n sit
ting.
Mr.. Burkett has chiseled some
crowned heads on his talisman, and.
although the stone is only by by !
inches, he has carved upon it the faces
of fifty-four persons of note he has
met Mr.. Burkett 4iid that many
years ago. before he became wealthy.
he was walking along the tracks of the
main line of the Pennsylvania railroad
and found the piece of granite. \
few days later fortune smiled upon
him, and no amount of money, he said.
could tempt him to part with it.
He has set of small, sharp steel
tools, made especially for him, and
they are always wrapped up with the
rock and guarded more carefully than
his purse While on his way to Liv-
erpool year ago on the Cunarder the
sculptor received an offer of $4,000
from an art collector for the rock of
many heads, but he refused to sell it.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
USE OF AEROPLANES IN WAR.

Could Drop Shell From Them Into
Ship Funnel, Says orvilIe Wright
The chance remark Of a sergeant of
artillery at Fort Myer during the re-
cent aeroplane flights of Orville Wright
the famous aeronaut, was the basis for
discussion of one of the most impor
tapt features of the governments in
terest in aerial craft for purposes Of
war. The discussion took place at n
dinner rendered to Mr.. Wright by ma
val officers. Said the sergeant. Air
ships aren't any good to launch a shell
from because you can't get the cen
trifugal force that is necessary to hit
an object"
The idea which the noncommission-
ID officer intended to convey was that
the whlrling motion given a she'll by
the modern steel bore guns could not
be accomplished in dropping an explo-
sive shell from an airship.
The main facts brought out in the
discussion of the aeroplane as an in.
Strument of war were that a machine
such as that of the Wright brothers
would be practically invulnerable as Il
target for the enemy's guns, that with
u little target practice an explosive
could be dropped on war vessel with
damaging results and that the aerial
war craft could be launched from the
deck of a battleship.
Mr.. Wright said that he had made
experiments with a swinging weight to
see how closely he could hit objects
over which he was flying.
"I found that after n little practice
1t became comparatively easy to put
the weight just where l wanted to-"
said Mr.. Wright. "One allowance
which must be made is the effect of a
wind striking the course of the airship
at right angles"
"On your present machine how much
weight could be added in the shape of
a gun?" Mr.. Wright was asked by
Lieutenant Sweet, the naval officer de-
tailed to observe the Fort Myer aero
nautical tests.
zone hundred and fifty pounds" Mr..
Wright replied.
The merits of launching an explosive
from gun We're then discussed. Mr..
Wright said there would not be sufIi-
cient kick" to cause the aeroplane to
diyerge from its course. A shell could
be dropped into the funnel of a war
ship, causing terrible damage to the
machinery and completing its work of
destruction by bursting the boilers
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
HOOKLESS WAIST.
Hoboken Inventor Shows Dressmakers
Labor Saving Device.

While fourteen young women Of va
rious sizes and styles of architecture
tried on corsets for the benefit of the
400 delegates TO the convention of the
Dressmakers' Protective association in
Masonic temple at New York the other
night official announcement was made
that hereafter it will be unnecessary
for any woman to call for assistance in
buttoning her waist in the back.
A public benefactor who lives in
Hoboken, n. j., submitted for the ap-
proval of the dressmakers small
metal device which, he said, would
soon take the place of buttons and
hooks and eyes throughout the civilized
world. More than dozen men who
did not know that admission to the
dressmakers' convention was limited
to women spent the evening in the cor
ridor where the man from Hoboken
explained the beauties of his discovery.
According to his optimistic predic
tion. his device, consisting of n chain
running between two lines of sockets
with n ring at the top, will soon be in
general use and will bring surcease of
care to thousands of husbands.
"One pull on the ring" said the
orator from Hoboken, land the dress
Is buttoned or unbuttoned, hooked or
unlocked, as the case may be. Any
child can operate the device"
Give me So worth" said one of his
auditors, and others also purchased.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
FOREIGN CAPITAL
IS CONCERNED
Europeans VIII Make Invest
mentS Here II Taft Wins.

An argument against Bryan that Is
growing in Importance, says the
Philadelphia Inquirer, is that which
deals with the sentiment said TO b.
held by some voters, that the Demo
cratic candidate would not be In po-
sition to do much harm as president
because of the fact that the senate
would still be Republican. A New York
bankers. Mr.. Jules Bache, is back from
Europe with reports that financial in
terests over there are taking much in.
terest in the canvass and that IL Taft
is elected foreign investments will in,
crease. He explains that the great
fear would be of the men with whom
Bryan would surround himself. Rooss-
welt he says, has always had first
class business men in his cabinet.
Mr.. Bryan's surroundings, on the
contrary. have been of the opposite
character and the principal danger. in
the event Of his election. would lie in
the fact that large number of vacan.
cies in the United States courts wou!I
have to be filled during his incum-
bency. We can judge the future only
by the past. so we must assume tha.
Mr.. Bryan would take the same class
of men for those Offices that he has
taken for his political advisers.
While it is true that as president
Mr. Bryan could not force through
laws against the judgment of the Re.
publican senate and thus could not be
much of menace to the country in
that way. at least for two years, he
could play havoc with 1t through his
appointments. Not only could he revo.
lutionize the supreme court by invit-
ing men of socialistic tendencies to
the bench, but he could upset the treas.
ury and upheaye the departments
through radical change in policies
Suppose a Haskell to be called to the
treasury department?
We must either continue the princi-
Pies of Roosevelt by the election of
Taft or submit to the exploitation OF
lot of theories for the next four
fears by Bryan. There can be no com
promise 1t is one thing or the other.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
ENGLISH TITLES.
Why Inferior Honors Are SometimeI
Refused by Commoners.

heIdSeu ny SOE1HlOHeTS.
Although it costs money to be made
4 peer, no sum can actually buy a
British title, as may be done in some
European countries. Honors of this
description are in the giving of the
king, or, rather, his majesty bestows
them on persons at the recommenda-
ton of the prime minister, who really
has the final say in the matter. Titles
are conferred either directly or indi.
rectly - directly when no third per,
son recommends a candidate for royal
recognition and Indirectly when
third person brings a candidates name
forward, he having good and valid
grounds for doing so. The former
method, however, is the one which is
usually adopted. 1t is the duty of the
prime minister to distinguish Il name
celebrated In politics, science, art %
literature and to decide whether the
merits of any given prominent person
deserve recognition at the hands of
the king.
If, in the opinion of the prime min
lister, such n given person deserves ele-
ter takes any steps in the matter the
favored individual is apprised of the
prime minister's intentions by n per
sonal letter. in which is conveyed the
degree or title it is proposed TO confer
on him, subject to his approval. ln
four out of five cases the approval IS
given. The fifth person, who may
have been offered knighthood OF
perchance a baronetcy, refuses be.
cause his refusal may increase his
chances of obtaining at Il later day
a higher title still-a pecrage. Armed
with the persons approval, the prime
minister now takes the next stcp--that
is, obtaining his majcsty's sanction.
which is rarely refused
1t Is seldom that plain Nj" bios
SONS straightforward into lord" un-
less the circumstances are very un-
usual, such as the reason why peer
age was conferred on MIR Morley or
hOnorS conferred on successful gem
erals in the field, as in the case of
Wolseley. Roberts and Kitchener. As
a general rule a plain Mr." is trans
formed into "Sir'-that IS. knight or
baronet-and one who is already y
"Sir" ana has done some signal recog-
niti1n finds his reward in his ultimate
service to the state emitting him tC
royal elevation to the peerage.-Chl.
cago News.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
AN AMERICAN HERO.
He Used His Own Body to Stop a
Leak In a Ferryboat.

He Used His Own Body to Stop
Leak In a Ferryboat.
One morning in January, when the
ice In the Hudson river ran unusually
heavy, a Hoboken ferryboat slowly
crunched her way through the floating
foes until the thickness of the pack
choked her paddles In mldriver. 1t was
an early morning trip. and the decks
were crowded with laboring men and
the driveways choked with Jeans. The
women and children stanSing inside
the cabins were a solid mass up to the
swinging doors. While she was gath
erlng strength for a further effort an
ocean tug sheered to avoid her. veered
point and crashed into her side, cut
ting her below the water line in a
great V shaped cash. A moment more
and the disabled boat careened from
the shock and fell over on her beam,
helpless. Into the V shaped cash the
water poured torrent. 1t seemed but
question of minutes before she would
lunge headlong below the ice.
Within 200 yards of both boats and
free of the heavy ice steamed the
wrecking tug Reliance of the Off
shore Wrecking company, and on her
deck forward stood Captain Scott.
When the ocean tug reversed her en-
gines after the collision and backed
clear of the shattered wheelhouse of
the ferryboat he sprang forward, stoop-
ed down, ran his eye along the water
line, noted in a fash every shattered
plank, climbed into the pilothouse of
his own boat and before the astonish-
ed pilot could catch his breath pushed
the nose of the Reliance along the rail
Of the ferryboat and dropped upon the
latter's deck like a cat.
With a threat to throw overheard
any. man who stirred he dropped into
the engine room, met the engineer half
way up the ladder, compelled him to
return, dragged the mattresses from
the crews hunks, stripped off blankets
and snatched up clothes, overalls, cot
ton waste and rags of carpet, cram
ming them into the great rent left by
the tugs cutwater
1t was useless. Little by little the
water gained, bursting out first below,
then on one side, only to be calked out
again and only to rush in once more
Captain Scott stood a moment as II
undecided, ran his eye searchingly over
the engine room, saw that for his needs
it was empty, then deliberately tore
down the top wall calking he had so
carefully built up and before the en-
gineer could protest forced his own
body into the gap, with his arm outside
level with the drifting ice.
An hour later the disabled ferry
boat, with every soul on board, was
towed into the Hoboken slip.
When they lifted the captain from
the wreck he was unconscious and
barely alive. The water had frozen his
blood. and the floating ice had torn the
flesh from his protruding arm from
shoulder to wrist When the color be-
gan to creep back to his cheeks he
opened his eyes and said to the doctor
who was winding the bandages:
"Wuz any Of them babies hurt?"
A month passed before he regained
his strength and another week before
the arm had healed so that he could
get his coat on. Then he went back to
the Reliance.-Everybody's Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15

No longer the animal ficuonist gets the
public's profound admiration
BY stories of rabbits who have all the
habits peculiar TO civilization.
The fox that hews rocks into four sided
blocks to build him a bobcat proof
Is gone by the board with the tales that
record the catch of the fly fishing
bear.
And with eager delight all the gentry that
write of nature have whetted anew
Their pencils and deal with unquenchable
zeal with the things that the veg
tables do.
THE Onion That Moved Half a Million to
Tears" is the name of one popular
story;
Another relates of cantaloupes traits
that led it to win fame and glory;
THE Pumpkin That Bit" is a neat little
skit of fight in a ten acre lot.
Where cabbage grew gay with the
pumpkin one day and got what 1t
ought to have got.
\ tale to divert is "The Sage of the Dirt"
which tells of thoughtful potato
Which got in n row with a near Jersey
COW concerning the teachings of
Plato
For now it is known that not varmints
alone. but garden truck also. can
think,
There dawns big chance in field of
romance that has not yet grown sod
den with ink.
What Seton can find in an antelope's mind
or under buffalo's thatch
Can also be found IL one only looks round
in some handy asparagus patch,
And who knows but perhaps when these
book writing chaps have ceased to
make magazine features
or the beasts. bugs and plants they may
find some romance in the doings OF
plain human creatures?
james ]. Montague in New York Amer
lean.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
AlRSHlP INSURANCE.
Farmer Asked For Flying Machine
Clause In His Policy.

Clause In His Policy.
Jacob Weiner a farmer of Nepaug,
Conn, went to Winsted, Conn, recent
ly to buy fire insurance. He insisted
on there being a flying machine clause
in the policy. saying he had read how
Orville Wright had perfected his aero
plane. and he thought there was as
much danger of flying machine strik-
ing and wrecking his building as light
ming If aeronautics keep pace with the
development of automobiles.
The farmer wanted a five year pol
icy, but when informed by Justice
James Smith. the insurance agent, that
he was ahead of the insurance compa-
MES, which have not yet begun to in.
sure against loss by flying machines,
he said dejectedly:
Insure my buildings for one year
only. Perhaps the companies will be
up to date by the time my policy ex.
pires."
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
Especial Correspondence.
New York, Oct. Is

That the recent financial panic from
which the United States is now re
covering was not the result of local
conditions is indicated by the TACT
that severe business and industr-a
depression for months has prevailed
throughout the world
The United States has suffered less
than any other country.
In fact. the situation in this country
is not to be compared to that abroad.
Official reports recently received by
the department of commerce and labor
furnish an accurate index to the bust
ness conditions of foreign countries.
These reports show that the imports
into the United Kingdom for home
consumption and the exports of do.
mestic manufacture have declined
greatly The situation there grows
worse.
In August the decline in exports was
1871 per cent The decline in re
exports, that is goods imported from
other countries for sale to foreign
purchasers, was $67,532, APO for eight
months this year or over 20 per cent.
The falling off in net imports was
$137079,572 for the same time. The
decline in exports of domestic manu-
facture in that country was STAG,
900. or 10.6 per cent. in eight months,
about per cent greater than the de.
cline in the United States in the same
time
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
AccornplishecI.

Mr.. Goodlie - My boy. you'd never
hear me use language like that! The
--id-I bet you don't! Why. it took
me five years to learn all dem words
Sketch
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
A Painful Dilemma.

Willie-What's a dilemma?
Johnny-Well, it's when you can't sit
down because your dad licked you for
going swimming and you can't stand
up because n crab bit your toe-Illus-
trated Bits
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
A New Dancer.

Knlcker-Let's sit out the dance in
the conservatory.
Stella-But they say that plants have
eyes and memories.-New York Sun
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
Outraasonina Reason.

Little EaymouG'S mother had told
him that she should put him to bed il
he disobeyed her command in GER
tain matter Temptation overcame
him, and when his mother proceeded
to fulfill her duty sobs of anguish filed
the room.
But. Raymond" said the mother
gently, Il told you | should punish you
in this way II YOU dIsobeycd, and
mother must keep her word. you
know"
Between mutilcd sobs Raymond man
aged to say, You needn't break your
word. mamma. but couldn't you change
your mind?" - Woman's Home Com
nanion.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-15
LABOR ABROAD IS
SUFFERING SADLY
Industrial Depression World
Wide, But Is Passing Here.
AMERICAN OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT

while Manufacturing Embellishments
In the United States Are Increasing
Their PayroIIs, Distress Among the
Unemployed Prevails Throughout
Great Britain and the European Con
tinent.