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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Spider Web as a Styptic.

SPIDERS web, an old cure for bleed
ing. is an uncleanly application, as it
is generally procured from the most
neglected corner in room and is con-
sequently laden with dust. The ear
lest reference to this remedy in our
language seems TO be in a translation
of that curious encyclopedia work of
the middle ages DE proprietaribus
Rcrum." where we read, "Coppe webbe
that is white and clene staunchyth
blood" But as | have seen it applied
to cut finger 1t has been anything
but white and clean. There is another
reference in shakespeare "AIidsum-
mer Nights Dream" when BOTTOM, the
weaver. says to the fairy Cobweb, II
shall desire of you more acquaintance,
good master Cobweb: If | cut my fin
ger / shall make bold with you"
As a styptic. however. it must be ac-
knowledged a spiders web as some
what effective. In Il case of excessive
hemorrhuge after the extraction of a
tooth Il dentist applied Il cobweb with
most satisfactory results. Hospital.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
SIX MET DEATH,
SIX BADLY HURT
WILKES BARRE, Jan. II.

Five men and boy were killed and
six other men badly burned by an ex-
plosion of gas in the new shaft of the
Nottingham colliery of the Lehigh and
Wilkes Barre Coal company at Ply
mouth last night. The men were en-
gagged in sinking the shaft and at a
point several hundred feet below the
surface broke into gas feeder, the
explosion following. All the victims
with one exception are foreigners.
The mine is not considered very
gaseous one, and the officials are at "A
loss to know why there was such a
large accumulation of gas in the slope
1t is reported that the miners went to
their places before the fire boss made
his inspection.
The force of the explosion was ter
rife, all the men being hurled con-
siderable distance by the concussion
and their bodies badly mangled
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
THE JOSEPH
RATT| HOSPITAL

The growing popularity of the JOS
eph Ratti hospital at Bloomsbury has
rendered it necessary that the institu-
ton be enlarged. At the annual meet
ing of the corporation it was decided
to attempt to raise fund of $40, 900
in Bloomsbury and nearby towns for
the purpose of erecting an additional
building to contain four public wards,
two of which will be for male and two
for female patients. There will also be
fourteen rooms for private patients. 1t
is proposed to devote the present
building, with the exception of the
operating room, to administrative pur-
poses. The old building will also con-
tain rooms for the superintendent and
nurses
The officers at the meeting were re-
elected as follows President, A. b.
Schoch vice president, l.. N. Meyer (;
treasurer, f. G.. Yorks secretary, John
G. Harman.
A committee to solicit funds through
out the entire valley will be appointed
in day or so and will at once begin
work. 1t is believed that if the above
named sum can be raised, the state can
be relied upon fer $4,000, which will
insure the new building and will at
ford sufficient means to keep the hos
pital up to the highest standard of
efficiency
The Joseph Ratti hospital has made
very fine record. During the year
there was a mortality of only four per
cent 1t is also claimed that during
that time there We're forty successful
operations for appendicitis at the hos
initial
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
FINEST PICTURES
FOR n. A. READERS
Photogravure Reproductions OF.
fered Next Sunday for AL
most Nothing.

An unusual offer is being made to
its readers by The North American in
next Sundays paper. Through the
medium of a coupon the paper will
give to art lovers the opportunity to
secrue real photogravure of Luke
Fildes' celebrated painting, 1.-The
Doctor. -
Photographers have heretofore sold
at high prices and have been luxuries
available only to those of means
Through special arrangement with
those who control the process by which
these artistic works may be printed III
large quantities, The North American
will furnish copies of THE Doctor, -
on fine art paper, 22X2S inches in size
for 10 cents in cash and a coupon cut
from the paper for Sunday, January
30.
\ y copy of the picture has already
baen received by the editor of this
paper. 1t is indeed a work of the high
est artistic merit.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Her Little Bluff.

Ethel" said Lionel Bertram Jones
as he dropped his slice of bread in the
plate with a noise that set the canary.
In the gilt cage overhead chirping mer-
rily-"Ethel. have something to say
to you.'
They had been married only four
weeks. and the time had not arrived
when she did all the saying.
DO you remember the day on which
l proposed to your"
Yes" she replied. 81 will never for
get It,"
"Do you remember" he went on as
he abstractedly drilled a hole in the
loaf with the point of a carving knife
how when l rang the bell you came
to the door with your fingers sticky
with dough and said you thought it
was your little brother who wanted to
get in?"
YES"
"Oh, Ethel! How could you? How
could you?"
How could l what" she responded
as guilty look crept into her face.
How could you make me the victim
of such swindleT
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
CONQUERED HER Rival.
Pretty and Pathetic Story of Jenny
Lind and Grsi.

Lind and Grisi.
Jenny Lind and GriSi were both ri.
walls for popular favor in London. Both
were invited TO sing the same night al
a court concert before the queen. Jen.
ny Lind. being the younger. sang first
and was so disturbed by the fierce,
scornfu look of Grisi that she was at
the point of failure when suddenly an
inspiration came to her.
The accompanist was striking the
final chords. She asked him TO rise
and took the vacant seat. Her fingers
wandered over the keys in Il loving
prelude. and then she sang a little
prayer which she had loved as child.
She hadn't sung II for years. AS she
sang she was no longer in the pres
ence of royalty, but singing to loving
friends In her fatherland.
Softly at first the plaintive notes
fioated on the air. swelling louder and
richer every moment. The singer
seemed to throw her whole soul into
that weird. thrilling. plaintive pray
er." Gradually the song died away
and ended In a sob. There was a 81
lence-the silence of admiring wonder.
The audience sat spellbound. Jenny
Lind lifted her sweet eyes to look into
the scornfui face that had so discon-
serted her. There was no fierce ex-
preston now. Instead teardrop glis-
tened on the long, black lashes, and
after moment, with the impulsive-
ness of a child of the tropics, Grisi
crossed to Jenny Lind's side. placed
her arm about her and kissed her.
uttering regardless of the audience.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Military Rats.

An old military dictionary tells us
that rats were sometimes used in wai
for the purpose OF firing powder maga-
zines by means of lighted matches tied
to their tails. We cannot offhand re-
call any historical instance of this. but
presumably it did occur. seeing that
Marshal Nauban laid down special
rules for counteracting ii. Anyhow
the dodge is as old as Samson. who,
you may recall, used foxes in similar
way for somewhat similar purpose.
As to the royal rat catcher. we may
add that be had a special official livery.
According To prnmant'S British Xool-
ogy." it consisted of scarlet costume.
embroidered with yellow worsted, in
which were figures of mice destroying
wheat sheayeS. BY the way. rats were
not the only animals honored with a
special catcher Leicester, Tor instance
used to pay yearly salary of IL lis.
Cd. TO its municipal mole catcher. -
London Standard.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Tho Man.of-wzr Bird.

The frigate pelican, or man-ot-war
bird, is usually met with by travellers
in the tropics. Although when stripped
of its feathers 1t is hardly larger than
a pigeon, yet no man can touch AT the
same time the tips of its extended
wings. The long wing bones are ex-
ceedingly light. and the whole appa-
ratus of air cells is extremely devel-
oped, so that its real weight is very
trifing. II flies at a great height above
the water and from that elevation
pounces down on fish, especially pre-
ferrng the poor prosecuted flying fish
for its prey. According to some au-
thors. the name of man-of-war bird
was given to it because its appearance
was said to foretell the coming OF 4
ship. probably because the frigate peli-
can and real frigates are equally ad-
verse to storms. and both like to come
into harbor if the weather threatens.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
THE RACE FOR RICHES.
ls Wealth That Cannot Be Enjoyed
Worth the Price2

10 SdtiiOk -hJoJ GU
Worth the Price2
The writer once inquired of a very
successful man:
When do you ever get a moments
time for your own self-to be your
self and to think your own thoughts?
Do you ever get time like that?"
The very successful man hesitated
for moment and then replied:
why, yes. get such time while
/ am being shaved In the morning"
Is success really worth the price
when it must be paid for at such a
rate? OF what use are mansions and
country houses and great estates If
one has no time to visit them and en-
joy their beauty: Why should one
collect through agnnts the most ex-
Quisite works of art If he cannot find
more than casual half hour In which
TO view them? What are wife and
children If you are always fastening
about the world. far too preoccupied
to give them any serious thought or
to receive the pleasure which their
company could afford you?
And yet there is one sole satisfac.
tion-if 1t be satisfaction. Millions
of your fellow countrymen and coun-
trywomen will believe beyond all
doubt that you are really happy and
will envy you.- Munsey's Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

PresidentlKennedy, of the Coke Pro-
ducers' association, has made the an
nouncement that the independent
plants in the Connellsville and Klon-
dyke regions will raise the wages of
the workers to the scale of 1907 fol-
lowing the lead of the II G. Frick
Coke company. The Rainey and Oliv-
er & Snyder companies also will grant
a raise. There are seventy-fiye indie
pendent plants in the two regions and
it is thought that all will pay ON the
new scale starting with Saturday, the
day set by the Frick people. The 1907
scale was the highest ever paid for
coke production.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
THE AMERICAN WOMAN.
Her Position Here and Its Influence In
the Old World.

Her Position Here and Its Influence In
the Old World.
There is no doubt that the most in
teresting thing to the European who
lands on the northern shores of the
new world is the American woman-
that happy, victorious heroine of mod
ern femininism who has discovered
how to extract from the new condition
of woman all the advantages with al
most none Il the inconvenience; that
being who has known how to assume
the masculinity in all that regards In
dependence and liberty of action and
remain feminine in grace. charm and
altruism; that American beauty, that
American genius, whose wonders are
seen and felt in all the American and
European reviews, whose writers de-
clare her to be engaged almost ell
tirely in severe study, in masculine
work. sport and similar occupations.
Europe, moreover, is right. The
American woman Is not only one of
the most interesting phenomena of
North America. but is also the phe-
nomenon of the new world that might
have the greatest and gravest effect
on the old, shaking on their founda-
tons the essential principles of our fe-
male instruction and training. over
throwing the society of the old conti-
nent or continents. which rest to q
greater extent than is realized on the
antique functions of woman In the
family and in society.-Gina Lombroso
Ferrero in Putnam's Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
LIBRARY OPEN TODAY

After having been closed since last
Friday noon, the Thomas Beaver Free
library will be opened this morning in
all departments as usual.
The library was closed on account of
a break in the boiler of the steam
heating plant. In repairing the trou-
BILE it was found to be more extensive
than was at first thought. The old
boiler was entirely removed and new
one substituted. The work was done
by Joseph Lechner.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

There is possibility of a test o.
the electric steel furnace being made
at Gary, Ind, which is the only at
tempt of this character ever made IL
the United States. Some minor expert
ments in this direction have been mao
abroad
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
No Mjsunderstandinu.

~ hear you have had misun-
derstanding with your old political
friends"
No" said Senator Sorghum: the
worst of it is the impossibility of mis-
understanding We nave expressed
our opinions Of each other in terms SO
explicit as to he unm!stakabie. -
Washington Star
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

Apparently ice is Ice, of course; but.
strangely enough. there Is marked
difference In 1t. Sea water and salt
water in general freezes at a lower
temperature than pure water, in doing
which a part of the salt separates and
the ice when melted gives water that
is fresher than the original, and along
this same line there exists marked
difference in form between the ice
bergs of the two hemispheres. Arctic
bergs are of irregular shape, with lofty
pinnacles, cloud capped towers and
glittering domes. whereas those of the
southern waters are fiat topped and
solid looking. The former reach the
sea by narrow fiords, while the latter
are more regular in formation, reach
ing the open sea by the way of wide
passageways and not subject to the
grinding and breaking efforts of their
northern ives.-Pittsburg Press.
Why She Stayed at the Foot.
Being upbraided by her mother for
being the lowest in her class, little Ma
bel exclaimed in tones of injured in
gocence: 'It amt my fault. The girl
who has always been foot left school,"
-Delineator.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
NOTICES.

To ALL CREDITORS, LEGATEEs AND OTHER
PERSONS ISTERESrEp-Notlce is hereby given
that the following named persons did on the
date affixed to their names, file the accounts
of their administration to the estate OF those
persons, deceased and Guardian Accounts,&c.
whose names are hereinafter mentioned, in
the office of the Register for the Probate OF
Wills and granting of Letters of Admnistra-
tion, in and for the County OF MontouT, ana
thatthe same Will be presented to the orphan 5
Court of said county, for confirmation ana
allowance, on Monday, the 1oth day OF
Jan'y. A. ID. 1910. at the meeting OF the
Court in the afternoon.
1909. ,
Nov. 26, First and Final account of
James Tanner and Charles
Hollobaugh, Administrators
of the estate of Joseph Tan
ner, late of Derry Township,
Montour County, deceased.
Dec 6. First and Final account of
James B. Forrest, Executor
of the last Will and Testa-
ment of Frances Hartman,
late of the Borough of Dan
willie, Montour County, de-
ceased
Dec If. First and Final account OF
Sarah Jane Pursel and Ray
mond M. Pursel, Executors
of the last Will and Testa-
ment of Ellis Bryan, late of
Valley Township, Montour
County, deceased.
Dec. IL, First ana flhai account oi
Mary J. Snyder, Administra-
trix of the estate of John NJ.
Snyder, late of Anthony
Township, Montour County,
deceased.
VIM. L. SIDLER, Register.
Registers Office, 1000
Danville, Pa. Dec. IL. l9oS.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Drinking and Smoking In Korea.


The Koreans are inveterate smokers
of green tobacco. which they use in
pipes with tiny bowls and stems two
or three feet long. They stick their
pipes down the back of the neck when
not using them.
There is deal of drinking, too.
though they have many proverbs
against it-"Heaven and earth are too
small for a drunken man." White
whisky makes red face" "There Is
no bottom to the appetite for drink"
Miliet and 1.-THE AneeIus!"
1t was only after long years of strug-
gle and dire poverty, through which
Millet was cousoled and supported by
his wife. that the peasant painter was
able to take the three roomed cottage
at BarbiZon and try to do something
really good" 1t was then that he be.
gan to paint that most beautiful poem
of poverty" The AnGelus," which is
today one of the most valuable pic
lures In the world. Again and again
he threw aside the picture in despair
of ever finishing 1t TO his satisfaction,
and as often his wife replaced 1t on
the easel and induced him to continue.
On one occasion he was so incensed
at not being able to produce a certain
effect that he seized a knife and would
have destroyed the canvas and ended
the matter once for all had not his
wife fortunately seized his hand and
induced him to give the picture another
trial. Thus it was that at last "The
Angelus" found a place on the walls
of the Louvre. The success it won en-
couraged Millet to paint many more
pictures and thus place kimself among
the immortals in art.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

Work has been resumed in the La
lanche & Gosjean tin plate mills at
Harrisburg after an idleness of some
time. There are good prospects for the
winter. 80 S.4
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Why She STAYED at the Foot
Hard on the Euu.

Fat Lady-Yes, sir; that's the beauty
of keeping fowls. If hever run short
o. meat or I'm in a urry, always fall
back on a hegg. London Bystander.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

' Mrs. Joseph Hahn, Ferry street, left
Yesterday for short visit with friends
in Sunbury.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

Judge Wooden. au au &..ur,r ui 80
berry, Mo, went to CenulIi1. No, tie
other day in response to ,atI from a
friend, who had made wager OF 500
that Wooden could eat forty eggs in
ten minutes. The feat WIS accom-
plished at noon in a Centralia hotel
Wooden eating the forty eggs in just
exactly ST. minutes. After eating the
forty eggs Wooden went to a friends
house for supper and ate as much as
two average men would have eaten.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Good IMAGINATION,

Teddy. after having drink of plain
soda water. was asked how he liked il.
mot very WE'LL" he replied. "It
tastes too much as though my foot had
gone asleep In my mouth"
Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

places of residence, location, &C., of G
NAMES OF APPLICANTS.
Ernest N. Smith, 1st ward, Danville,
Hotel zee. ........ ...... e. ....
Frank G. Peters, 1st ward, Danville,
Hotel. ......-. .................,
James @. Heddens, 1st ward, Danville,
Hotel ................ ...........
S. M. Dietz, 1st ward, Danville, Hotel
J. B. Karlson, 1st ward, Danville,
Hotel. ... ..................
Daniel B. Heddens, 1st ward, Dan
vile, Hotel. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Daniel Marks, 1st ward, Danville,
Hotel. el............. ...............
Emil Gaertner, 1st ward, Brewery
William C.sWilliams, 1st ward, Dan
vile, Hotel. Observation-Disclosures.
Joseph Smith, 1st ward, Danville,
Hotel. ............ .,.....,
Albert Kemmer, 2nd ward, Danville,
Hotel. ........ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
W. H. N.sWalker, 2nd ward, Danville,
Hotel............................. Hotel.
Elias Maier, 3rd ward, Danville, Res
taurant. t................... ........
VIM. f. Schuck, :3rd ward, Danville,
Restaurant
PaulJP. swentek, Bird ward, Danville,
Hotel. el............,..... ....,...,...
James,. Tooey, 3rd ward Danville,
Hotel. ..,,........... ..........,.
David Steiner, 3rd ward, Danville,
Wholesale Liquor Store ..........
Augustus Treas, 3rd ward, Danville,
Restaurant
Peter Treas, 3rd ward, Danville, Hotel
Clarence E. Peifer, 3rd ward, Dan
Vile, Hotel l....................
John c. Peifer, 3rd ward, Danville,
Wholesale Liquor Store. .........
George a. Meyers, Bird ward, Danville,
Hotel. l.................. .........,...
Thomas Buck, Bird ward, Danville,
James Ryan, 3rd ward, Danville, Hotel
Elizabeth Meyer, Bird ward, Danville,
Hotel .............................
John Kranack, 3rd ward, Danville,
Hotel. ................. ........
John Tooey, Bird ward, Danville, Hotel
Harry w Fields, 3rd ward, Danville,
Restaurant t...................
Hanover Brewing Company, 4th ward,
Danville, Brewery y................
NJ. NJ. Houghton, Exchange, Anthony
township, Hotel. ........... .....
Luc1etia Beaver, Derry township,
Clarence Frazier, Derry township,
Hotel. Observation-Disclosures. ...........
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
list OF APPLICANTS FOR LICENSE
IN MONTOUR COUNTY AT JANUARY SESSION 1910

January
Wholesale Dile Brewers
places location, &c, of each.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

Be true to your word and your wcrk
and your friend.-O'Reilly.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13
Police and Press.

1t was Senator Evarts who paid this
compliment to the police of New York
at an annual dinner of the force: "As
compared with the press you exhibit
striking contrast. You know a great
many things about our citizens that
you don't tell. and the press tells u
great many things about our citizens
that it doesn't know"
His Role.
"That man made an immense for
tune out of simple little invention"
Indeed. What did he invent?"
Invent? Nothing. you dub. He was
the promoter"-Clevelan Leader.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-13

Notice hereby given that the foregoing named eso have hd with
Clerk OF County
their License which presented the said Court on
Friday, the of January, A 10 O'Clock
TTOS G.. VINCENT Clerk of Q. S..
Danvill
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-05-13
100 FALL INTO SALT LAKE.

SALT LAKE CITY, May ia
hundred persons were precipitated
into the Great Salt Lake last night by
the collapsing of stairway of the
Saltair Hippodrome. The stairway,
which is above the lake, was crowded
with people visiting the hippodrom,
and gave way under their weight.
Their rescue from the waters of the
lake was an easy matter, it's great
density preventing any from sinking,
and not single life was lost. A
dozen were hurt in the collapsing of
the stairway.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-05-13
HEINzE is CLEARED

NEW YORK, May 13.-Augustus
Heinze, the wealthy banker whose in
dictment and arrest shortly after the
great panic caused a national sensa-
ton, was acquitted yesterday on all
charges of the Mercantile National
Bank, while he was its president. He
was also completely cleared of the
charge of over certifcation of checks
drawn upon his brothers firm, the
Otto Heinze company. -.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-05-13
CARNEGIE CUTS
PITTSBURG OFF

PITTSBURG, April 3O.-Andrew
Carnegie, provoked that Founders day
exercises at the Carnegie Institute,
with President Taft as principal
guest, should be sidetracked in favor
of the Pittsburg- Chicago ball game,
has permitted Pittsburg to feel the
weight of his displeasure. On being as
sured that Founders day exercises
scheduled for next Monday afternoon
have been brought forward into the
morning in order that the baseball
game be not interfered with, Mr.. Car
negie has frankly announced the clos
ing of his purse to Pittsburg.
He has recalled his admitted inten-
tions of giving the city valuable site
for a boys industrial school, but has
sent word that if Pittsburg wishes TO
pay his price for the site she can
have it, The price named by Mr..
Carnegie is about three times the va
lue of the property and the city faith
ers have risen in their anger and told
Mr., Carnegie that they will not be
bulldozed.
Col. S. H. Church returned yes
terday from New York, where he went
to talk with Mr.. Carnegie over the re-
sumption of building the ten-million-
dollar technical school at Pittsburg,
and admits that he was told there
would be no money given now. Mr..
Carnegie pointed out that he had al
ready given Pittsburg $19,OOO,OOO.