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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
A Couple of Bulls.

In the report of Dublin charity or
ganization the following paragraph ap-
peared:
Notwithstanding the large amount
paid by the society for medical attend
ance and medicine very few deaths oc-
CURED during the year"
Which calls to mind the story of the
two countrymen who We're passing an
eye hospital famous for its skillful op-
erations.
Jack" explained one of them i'm
pressively. "in there they'll take your
eyes out and put them on the table in
front of you and let you look at them"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
Wanted Himself.

one afternoon the proprietor of an
animal store said to his young clerk:
tom, I'm going upstairs to work
on the books. If any one comes ia
Tor live animal, let me know. You
can attend to selling the stuffed ami
mails yourself"
About half an hour later in came a
gentleman with his son and asked
Tom If he could show him live mon
Key. To the customers amazement
the clerk ran to the foot of the stairs
and yelled:
Come down; come down, sir; you're
wanted dw-Judge.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09


DON'T use rotten eggs for nest eggs.
Your mother-in-law may get an old one
for breakfast. Then for a bust-up.
Don't expect u five dollar cockerel
for dollar, Have you any real five
dollar birds for dollar bill? We have
never bought any and would like to
try it.
Don't forget when chicks, ducklings
and poults appear that they should be
kept separate from each other and the
old stock. The old gander will guard
the gosling.
Don't forget heredity. A crooked tall
on hen puts crooked tail on a cock.
erel. Hat ditto. y crooked beall on the
cock puts a lopsided mouth on the pu.-
lets. Where did you get your crook,
edneSs?
Don't spend your time writing spring
poetry, but raise spring poultry. The
former will bring you an \. G. check
to your aspirations, but the latter will
bring check to pay for your wife's
Easter hat.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
Tom Grogam's
Easter


w the prettiest girls in the
ward sail by the engine house
and give Tom Brennan, the handsom-
est fireman of hook and ladder COM
pany No. -, perfect fusillade of eye
alteration.
"To the divil wild Toni" said Dooley
Bryan, struggling his brawny shoul-
ders in downright disgust He don't
be human. What ails him OF dunno
all the gurris in the parish crazy over
his black eyes an he not noticin' thin"
"Was he always so?" inquired Larry.
"He was" returned Dooley, liver
since Maggie Harrigan TUX the veil"
"Oho" said Larry.
"They were engaged" said Dooley,
enraptured with himself as a gossip,
when Maggie got the vocation. 1t was
near KILN Tom, but nv course he could
do nothin'."
''He couldnt?" said Larry. "Why
didn't he carry her off?'
Murder, We divil phwat We be sayin'?
'Tis the bride of heaven she is. It's
ashamed av you OF am, ye baste. No;
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

lOolnlesS ulNlIS. TO THE DIVIL WID
With which ToM!' SAID DooLEY
sage observation BRYAN.
Mr. Bryan betook himself to the bur-
nishing of the hose cart as relief to
his overcharged emotions.
All was true. Since the day Tom
Brennan tore his manly heart out in
bidding an eternal farewell to the
hSautiful girl who renounced him for
her vocation the big fellow had never
been the same.
All women were like shadows to him.
lie had loved one truly, devotedly. and
he had been forced to give her up to
heaven. He could never love another.
Tom never noticed women. He sim
ply went about his business of saving
property and lives as if there were
nothing else in the universe for big,
handsome, athletic fellow
Often as he lay in his bunk at the
engine house, as he rode tempestuously
through the crowded streets, as he
fought the flames, he repeated to him
self the last words he had said to his
beloved: 81 love you, Maggie, darlin'.
L
you, and since you bid me tear out my
heart I must do 81"
The Easter morning dawned-the
very Easter on which Tom had hoped
to lead his sweetheart to the altar. He
thought of her as he reused from his
dreams of her sweet face. Life was
over for him, he said. He saw again
the crowded church, the white robed
novices. He smeed thd incense, he
heard the roll of the organ, the solemn
voice of the priest He shivered and,
turning, buried his face in his pillo~.
Suddenly the alarm reused him. He
listened. He sprang from his bunk
and moment later was down the pole
and in his place on the truck. His
face was like the face of the dead AS
in a dream he heard the cry, Where
is itF' and the answer from a dozen
lusty throats, "The convent
The convent and the orphans home
adjoining were ablaze. 1t was evident
at a glance that the buildings were
doomed. The main business was to
save the sisters and the children. =
The bravery of the nuns and their
proteges was only second TO that of
the magnificent fellows who fought for
the lives of these helpless people. Ev-
cry one recalls the amazing fortitude
and courage displayed at this fright
full hour.
The children had been well drill.
ed for just such u moment of peril,
and nobly did they now obey their in
sructors. Such deeds of heroism as
were done that bitter morning are new
er lost. Their memory remains as an
eternal inspiration.
Tom Brennan thrust ladder up to a
window of the dormitory just beneath
the huge gilded cross that surmounted
the roof Of the convent.
In this window, serene, calm, her
lips moving in prayer, stood sweet
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
SETTING A HEN,

Test her first with doorknobs and
corncobs If her enthusiasm increases,
arrange rOomy nest, so she may
turn and leave and return without
breaking the eggs. Underlay the oat
straw with tobacco stems and dust
the hen with louse powder two days
before you give her eggs and redust
the fifteenth day.
Hint.-A hen will not eat at once after
duSting and will soil the eggs if put
right back on the nest. Set her in q
secluded spot and you viii get a good
hatch if you have good hen, gooj
eggs and you are good fellow 10
tend her.
Bill Of Fare.-Whole corn, grit wa.
ter, dust box; no green food, meat
scrap nor mash. If you are faithful, il
will not be twins nor triplets but on
the twenty-frst day she will serve a
whole family of chickets on the half
shell.
FEATHERS AND EGGsHELLs.
Ducklings, white clover and honey
bees are Il bad combination. Better be
careful
To get white flesh market chicken
feed white ground oats and skimmilk;
corn for yellow backs.
When you buy dressed fowls, if the
bird is healthy kick against Il packed
crop. Too high for corn. It's against
the law to sell packed crop chickens in
some states. Call the cop.
It's common sense to keep fire ex-
tingushers handy. It's no joke TO
grab a redhot incubator and fire it out
side the fire zone. Swish, swaSh, hiss,
and the eXtinguisher has saved you
from being beaten by the insurance
company!
The yield of farm products for 1907
reaches S7,412 100000, or $6J7 .000,0O
above 1906. The farmers poultry did
their part Who got the big pull? The
trusts" says the farmer Yes; they
play their trick, and the farmer gets L
gold brick.
Chickens that pick toward the sharp
point of the shell seldom get out They
do not absorb the yolk; it bursts, and
they drown. Sometimes a chicken will
stick fast to the shell. You can help it
to liberty, but the majority of these
sticbers have crooked backs, crooked
necks and crooked feet and amount to
nothing. If nature can do no bette"
with such crooked material. can yOu:
Dear reader, if John Browns pretty
peacock gets over your fence and lays
an egg under your rosebush and you
get it, whose egg is thatT' "AIine, of
course" Yours? Well, prove it."
"Oh, that's easy! I've got the egg and
possession is nine points of the law"
''Sure your right" "Well, | guess.
and if you weren't so pigheaded you'd
see it." ''Well, then my dear would
it make any difference if that egg had
been laid by pretty peaheni'
Who ever heard of goose special?
Well, then, Russia is ahead. A special
goose train of twenty to forty cars
steams over the Russian border into
Berlin every day Each car holds 1 200
cacklers. Imagine $4,000 geese honk-
Ing and kissing while q multitude of
our good natured German friends bid
for them, Berlin's "gOosey gander"
bill is 100000 a year The German
emperor relishes roast goose stuffed
with onions, decorated with liquid hops
This Is not lcze majesty.
Don't get your troughs and water
vessels mixed. Roup, cholera chicken
pox. canker. are contagious.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
NuIpid's
Bad AiI6m
ANHROuGH daYs of Lent.

NAHROUGH days of Lent,
On sport intent.
Dan Cupid fashioned arrows,
And every day
His aim, they say,
He practiced on the sparrows.
Now, days of Lent
Myrtila spent
In projects for adorning
A costly hat
OF splendor that
She'd wear on Easter morning.
Thus Cupid and Myrtilla planned
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

A n d toll e d
through Lent
en- weather
Till Easter day,
When. on the
way
From church c h,
they came to-
eether.
A n d c u p ] d
laughed
And aimed a
shaft
With skill and
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

poor Tom had to
submit, but he's
niver been the
same. Oi sup
pose now" con-
cluded Mr.. Bry-
an meditatively,
"if wan av thin
Numbers av the
-Four Hunderred
were to come by
and give Tom
the glad eye he'd
niver incourage
her. 'TiS Sthrange
thot the nuts al
lus fall to the
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

swi f t n IS SHAFT.
laden;
But, 10, the dart
Found not the heart.
But the headgear of the maidenl
"Ho. ho!" she cried
With saucy pride.
"You did it very neatlyl
My hat was bare.
Your arrow there
Becomes it most completely"
But, filled with shame
At wretched aim
And practice unavailing,
The pretty boy,
Bereft of joy,
Before her stood bewailing.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

And at the foot of the cross Tom
Brennan died for his Maggie darlin'."
Edith Sessions Tupper in New York
Herald.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09


citement. reached the window Sister
Mary Beatrice looked steadfastly Mt
him with her old sweet smile, the smile
he had loved.
He held out his arms.
"The child first, Tom," she said as
she laid the little boy on the broad
breast of the fireman.
A mighty shout went up from the
crowd below. All had seen that sub
lime act. All realized what it meant
A dozen hands received the child.
ladder.
He lifted Sister Mary Beatrice fron
the window.
For one instant he held her on his
heart.
Then as the frenzied spectators
kroaned and cursed and prayed the
convent walls swayed In.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
JOHNNY, GIT YER GUM

Johnny, git yer guni
A weaseFs In the pen;
Give 1t to i'm straight;
Don't shoot the speekly hen.
Hit i'm with the ak;
Stab 'irS in the collar;
The feller what fixes i'm
II git 4 ha'f a dollar.
You're a bully fener!
MY. but you kin shooti
Here's yer ha'f dollar,
An fifty cents to boot
Nail i'm to the barn,
Warnin TO the rest;
Skunks an weasels git,
If yer know what's best.
Johnny's pulled his gun;
This hain't nary lie.
Better go q mile aroun'
Else yer want to die.
q NJ a
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

faced sister,
holding in her
arms a tiny Grip
pied boy. SO
sym bolic was
the attitude of
this holy wom-
an that not one
Irish heart in
the vast crowd
below failed 20
respond.
TT is Sister
Mary Beatricei
III oa n ed [ h @
mother superb
or. She knelt
upon the bare
ground a n d
crossed herself.
w h en- Il o m
Bre nnan. his
face blackened
with smoke and
his eyes blazing
mitb barcir Nv
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
DON'TS.

Don't fan to advertise, but fail to tell
lies.
Don't use the same trough in all the
pens. Epidemic.
Don't buy medicated nest eggs for
lice. They are quackery.
Don't keep too many breeds. 1t
beats Kilkenny cats and will beat you.
Don't think how hard your work is.
1t brings on grumps and lazy prostra-
tion.
Don't dust the mother hen with sui
phur. Makes sores and blinds chicks.
G."
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

be seen by his victim and enemy
His white fur is the ermine of royalty
and august courts, and the dark spots
on these robes are the black tips of
weasel tails.
The mink and weasel should not be
confused. Minks reach two pounds and
have half webbed toes. When a chicken
Is ripped from the neck down the
back, it is neither weasel, mink, rat
nor opossum, but a coopers hawk did
the damage Weasels are born from
April to May, six to two to a litter
The young ones are great poultry
fiends and are easily caught in steel
traps. They are common all over the
country, except In Arizona, New Mex
leo, southern California and the gulf
states.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09

''AiY HEART IS IN MY You'd know nv
EASTER HAT. sIR! heart
Is in my Easter hat. sir!"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-09
She stamped and CT

"Cheer up, you
silly Cupid!
that Love is
blind
I've he eard-l
find
That Love is on
ly stupid.
"Your skillful
eye
Did aim awry,
'Tis true, but
what of that,
sir?
lf you were
smart
You'd know my
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05
BIG Strike on in Granite CUTTING,

The men employed in granite cutting
operations in Barre, Montpelier and
other places in this vicinity went on
strike Monday morning, according TO a
decision reached Saturday night at a
meeting OF the Granite Cutters union.
The vote was unanimous, all the 1900
men present at the mass meeting raising
their voices in favor Of the strike. The
decision affects 5000 workmen In this
vicinity.
Under the contract with the MANN
facturers which expired Feb. 20. the men
had been receiving an average of 37i.
cents an hour. In the conferences which
have been going on for q month or more
between the manufacturer representa-
tives and the union committee, the men
demanded 40 cents an hour, but after
ward modified their demand and ex-
pressed their willingness to sign a con-
tract for one year 1t the old rate.
The manufacturers declined to sign q
one-year contract. They were willing
to make contracts for three years at the
old rate, but for no shorter period.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05
WiNDHAM SENTIMENT.

The Brattleboro Reformer is the first
Vermont newspaper to sound the senti-
ment of it's section in regard to the feel
ing toward Republican candidates, ma
tional and state. 1t sampled between
fifty and seventy-fve representative men
of different towns of the county, with the
following results
"That there has been comparatively
little discussion thus far on the presiden-
tial question, but that Hughes seems to
be the favorite in the majority of the
towns.
ssThat there is an almost unanimous
sentiment in favor of sending an unin-
structed delegation from Vermont to the
national convention.
''That the majority of people believe in
having the delegation composed of repre-
sentative business men in preference to
politicians.
"That the question of the governorshir
is arousing no enthusiasm whatever.
''That the names of Preuty or Stanton
carry little or no appeal.
''That by far the larger part of the
voters in the county would prefer to re-
elect Governor Proctor"
We believe Windham county is a fan
sample of the whole state, at present.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05

guilty by reason OF insanity. She was
placed in the state asylum ten years ago
the coming May, and has since been cen
fined there. There have been various re-
ports as TO her mental state and there are
now. 1t is reported, although not con-
firmed, that the supervisors will report
that the woman is now sane.
The tragedy took place on May 20.
1897, on the morning OF the day which
was being observed as Memorial day.
Mildred Brewster called for Anna Wheel
er and asked Der to walk down the street.
They went down together and when near
~ opposite the house of Jack Wheeler.
tine Brewster woman whipped out a re-
volver and fred at her companion. NOR
tally wounding her. She then turned the
weapon on herself.
Both were taken to the hospital and the
Wheeler woman died the next day. Miss
Brewster fingered along and finally, after
an operation, recovered, although disfig-
ured as she is today. Her trial was held
in March, lsss, aud she was sent to Wa
terbury as insane.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05

If o. S. Annis of North Troy is as
plucky little scrapper on the Republic
can state committee as he was when he
stalled off Clement and his ponderous
legal advisers at the memorable crisis of
1902, when Clement wanted all the votes
cast for governor in the state election
counted before the result was declared,
there will be plenty doing. Annis was
also one of the last Republican pro-
hibitionists in the Senate to lower his
coIors
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05

Over four hundred names just added
to the voting lists, many of these delin-
guent taxpayers whose taxes have been
paid by the saloon interests, show that
the liquor men are busy. If a small vote
is cast on Tuesday, this city is likely TO
go back to license. burlington Free
Press.
What lovely law that delinquent tax
payers Acknowledgement act is, about this
time. when voters for license are needed !!
Yet the out-and-out prohibitionists
were the most strenuous opponents of
its repeal in 1906.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05
REBUKINC THE PRESIDENT.

Our friend of the st. Adams Messenger
intimates that it would be 'rebuke" to
the president if the party failed to con-
tinue his policies under the stewardship
of his chosen candidate, Taft.
Well, maybe. II the president is in
error, his party ought to rebuke him.
Great as he is, he is not greater than the
Republican party. Even if that party
endorses him and his policies, in the
main-which it does-msy it not pre-
sumo to select as his successor some man
other than his choice, and would its
failure to follow his advice in the matter
constitute rebuke, properly speaking =?
If so, does not the president himself
invite it when he actively espouses the
cause of one of his own cabinet officers
The republic has never taken kindly to
the idea of president passing over the
presidency to his chosen one, though in
one or two instances it has tolerated it,
usually with after regrets. The thing
runs counter to the innate feelings OF
ought, on his retirement, to leave clear
field, with no favors to any candidate.
Take the two leading candidates, Taft
and Hughes. Can anyone see wherein it
appears from the record of one that he
is more flexible than the other in his
espousal of what may perhaps be styled
the Roosevelt policies?" We don't
understand that Taft swallows the Roose-
Welt program entirely; neither does
Hughes, but both in the main adhere to
the idea of strict justice and impartiality
in the making and enforcement of law.
Taft has had the wider experience as an
administrator of federal law and rela-
tions, but Hughes leads him in the matter
of originating and enforcing legislation
calculated to deal with the pressing
needs of the hour. From all that has
appeared, Hughes stands like rock for
2i-carat right and jrstice. He probes
the rottenness of the rich when it heeds
it. He safeguards the public by wise
acts, calculated to prevent robbery at the
hands of big insurance companies or by
public service corporations. When
baked by the politicians, be appeals to
the people, and they whip their represen-
tatives into line. But Hughes is not a
demagogue. OF sudden he wheels
about and vetoes two-cent fare bill, be-
cause ne finds it wrong and ill-advised.
/ baf I'm ~ 20, ko, u
race track gambling. OF truth, those
who have watched Hughes have found
him tried as the metal of Taft-who so
far has been largely an understudy-
has not been. What Taft would have
done in the same circumstances we can
only surmise-we do not know.
Now, of these two men, can Republi-
can who admires Roosevelt and his strong
and usually right way of dealing with
public matters, have preference for Taft
over Hughes, except as it is made for
him in greater or less degree by the
president himself? And il this is SO, is
the president exerting right influence,
or one that tends to the carrying out
of our American ideas of democracy,
when he places his hand on Taft's
shoulder and says, 'Take him; I want it
?" And if the presidents influence
is not right in the matter, ought Repub-
licans to be under any duress OF
offending or rebuking Roosevelt if they
follow other than his wishes?
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05

this cold, hard winter, to exc along on
81 % a day, while those "higher up"
continue to draw their fat wads. It's
the "hewers of wood and drawers OF
water" who, in their weakness and need,
are generally the first to feel the pinch of
hard times and the last to get the benefit
of prosperity. God pity them!
Did Congressman Hsskins ever say
anything as foolish as this, reported as
of his recent Boston speech?:--
sour force of go, 900 men is sufficient
for present purposes and if we ever have
war we can, in a week, raise 100000
more men and lick the whole world"
Many will agree with Mr.. Haskins that
standing army of $4,000 in time of
peace is all this country should maintain,
but it would take considerably more than
10000 additional men, raised sin a
week." to click the whole world" 1t
is wrong to inculcate any such idea for
three reasons; first, it isn't true; second,
it is boast of prowess, such as we ought
to avoid; and third, because it tends 10
encourage carelessness in the prepare
ton of the military arm. We don't be-
lieve Mr.. Haskins ever said this, as re-
ported.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-05

The oath annual convention of the
state department of the Woman's Relief
corps opened Thursday morning in the
yestry of the Church of the Messiah. Mrs.
Kate ID. Lee of Wells River, department
president, was in the chair and all the
department officers except three members
Of the executive committee were present.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Seaver of Montpelier,
past department president, extended to
the delegates cordial address OF well
come, to which Mrs. Lavina Kenney OF
Rutland responded. delegation from
the Grand Army encampment, then in
session, headed by Gen. Hugh Henry OF
Chester was introduced. This committee
brought cordial greetings and expressions
of esteem from the encampment, as
voiced by General Henry.
Officers for the ensuing year were elect
ed and installed as follows:--President,
Mrs. Nellie Nj. Smythe OF st. Johnsbury ;
senior vice president, Mrs. Mary l.. Ris-
ing of Randolph; junior vice president,
Mrs. Hattie L. Richardson of Chester;
treasurer, Mrs. Henrietta Gorham Of st.
Johnsbury; chaplain, Mrs. Lavina p.
Kenney OF Rutland.
The new executive board is made up OF
Mrs. Mary b. Goodwin of Wells River,
Mrs. Sarah J, Adams OF st. Jobnsbury,
Mrs. Minnie Carr of Bradford, Mrs. En-
ma Lapoint of Barre and Mrs. Emma J..
Mcbride of Colchester. The delegates
elected to the national convention to be
held at Toledo, o., in August are:-Mrs.
Emma L. Je@ett OF Swanton, Mrs. Ella
Martin of Burlington, Mrs. Lora Lamson
OF Springfield and Mrs. Alice Baker Of
MoBtpelisr.
II was decided to hold the next en-
esnpment next summer, the time and
place to be decided upon later.