THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA
STATE'S MILLIONS
IN POLITICAL BANKS
County Treasuries Suffer While
Machine ls:s Public Funds.
MEN W HO HOLD THE SURPLUS
Republican Managers' Advantage In
variably Consulted In tha Geo
graphical Selection of Depoil
toriei cf Taxpayer' Money.
PARTISAN RULE'S MAINSTAY
Trtasury Plum Tree Shaken For tha
Benefit of Men Who Lead Against
All Movements For Honest
Government,
lfmrlr fourteen million dollars ot
tk taxpayers' money, not counting the (
thre and three-fourths million In the
state's sinking fund, were held by the j
Republican machine's favorite banks ,
aad trust companies, at the beginning ;
of this month, for the mutual benefit of :
themselves and that machine. The
zact amount was $13,936,191.24, an In- '
crease of more than $700,000 over the ,
total amount In the 118 depositories a j
month before. And yet during Septem
ber $2,500,000 of the school appropria
tion was paid out. This vast diversion
f the public funds as a matter of par
tisan favoritism and profit exceeds the
record for any previous month In the
history of the commonwealth and
proves the timeliness of the Democratic
State platform's condemnation of the
financial system which "results In the
accumulation of a large and unneces
sary surplus In the state treasury for
distribution among political or of fa
vored banks and presents a constant i
temptation to extravagant approprla- i
tlons and expenditures." j
Apart from consideration of the tak-
lng of millions annually from the coun
ties In license money, which the Demo
cratic platform contends should be left
vlth them to pay for local improve
ments and thereby reduce local taxa
tion, this enormous surplus Is used to
maintain the machine which makes tha
public Interest subsidiary to the pur
poses of a corrupt partisan leadership.
Republican managers when accused of
this have pleaded that the treasury
must keep a great balance to meet such
drafts aa those made by the public
schools. But tho surplus grows stead
Uy from a cause to which they never
refer the constantly increasing reve
aue which the state does not need. The
manipulators of the fund trample upon
the principle that the money the tax
payers pays to the tax gatherer should
be as sacredly held in the keeping ot
the. state for solely public uses aa
money put Into the hands of a trustee
for specific purposes and that any di
version of the public funds for personal
or partisan advantage la a breach of
trust
, Treasurer Selects the Banks.
The depositories favored with this
money are selected by the state treas
urer, with tho approval of the revenue
commissioners, one of whom la him
self, the two others being the auditor
general and secretary of the common
wealth. The maintenance ot Republi
can control In the offlces of the auditor
general and state treasurer is a direct
warrant from the voters of the state
for the continued maintenance of these
conditions.- As the auditor general and
state treasurer are to be elected next
month the continued partisan control
of the Idle treasury surplus Is di
rectly involved in the result. Two
trusted machine leaders have been
named for these Important offices. One
at them earned his nomination by
faithful support of obnoxious legisla
tion. Both can be depended upon to
maintain the present conditions. They
will keep the state funds where they
will do the most good for the machine.
After atudylng results of the law re
quiring 2 per cent, interest for the
itate from all depositories except the
Jve "active" banks, which pay on
ihelr dally balances only one and one
AsJf per cent., the late Governor Hast
ings publicly dnclared that It would be
far better for the state to hoard Its
soney in vaults and receive no In
terest upon it than to suffer the sys
iem which he saw continuing. He de
clared that the public funds were
"nsed for political purposes by depos
iting them In favorite banks where
wch deposits are expected to yield
returns in the shape of political lnflu
nce." Ha denounced the empowering
at "the state treasurer or any man or
ven controlling him to say what
banks shall handle the millions annu
ally paid into the Mate treasury."
' Bribed to Be Blind to Misrule.
The names of the depositories of the
linking fund are never disclosed, as
the authorities say there Is no law
impelling such publication, and they
f evidently glad to have that excuse
'or maintaining secrecy. Publication
f all the other deposits Is enforced,
however, and It shows that most of the
favored financial Institutions have
ach one or more persons In the man
agement who are either conspicuous
machine workers or are in a position
to command favors from the Republl
' tan leaders. The other depositories
practically bribed through the use
ot the state's money to be blnd to
machine mlnrul In Pennsylvania and
to repel all efforts to win assistance
from them In moves to make the gov
ernment honest. These bribed de
positories not only keep out of reform
Mutation themselves but also Influence
Wide clreleB of friends and acquaint.
inces to do Hkewi39 "for tha take of
the bank."
The machine, in addition to thus
providing that appeals from advocates
of good government shall fall upon
deaf ears, exacts financial tribute from
depositories unable to supply much
active work to maintain tho power
which purchases with the people's tax
money the open or pn9ive support of
bank directorates. Among proofs of
this U the case of an officer of a bank
In a city on the Susquehanna river,
who not long ago showed that he con
sidered his institution highly favored
In having a state deposit of $25,000
upon which he had to pay only 1 per
cent. Interest to the commonwealth.
He contributed $250 to the Republican
campaign and covered it aa an "ex
pense" Item of the bank. Men who
know this fact observe that the "con
tribution" was exactly 1 per cent, of the
deposit. They Infer that tho Quay ma
chine, of which the state treasury and
auditor general's o!Tlco are the main
stay, considered 1 per cent, a fair
offering from the class of depositories
to which that bank belonged.
Banks' Political Connections.
Collapses In recent years of institu
tions which the state treasury had spe
cially favored uncovered proofs ot
cash returns to the Republican ma
chine for deposits. Those disasters
exposed also the details of Republican
part leaders' methods of profiting per
sonally from the Influence that had
shaken "the plum tree." Yet no
change has been made In the corrupt
system except to find means of swell
ing the surplus In order to satisfy de
mands from partisan henchmen for the
favoring of additional depositories or
the Increasing of deposits In the old
favorites.
In distributing the surplus there has
been remarkable discrimination In
favor of Pittsburg banks. No doubt
this resulted from the Quay machine's
anxiety to adjust factional troubles
which had left Allegheny politics In a
ferment ever sltfce the enactment of
the second class city "ripper." Last
month Pittsburg alone had 32 banks,
trust companies and savings institu
tions, more than one-fourth of all the
depositories, holding more than five
and a half million dollars of the com
monwealth's money. That exceeds
two-fifths of the entire surplus and
shows one of the greatest obstacles In
the way of Democratic efforts to im
prove governmental conditions in
Allegheny and to ameliorate state
affairs through the agency of that
county.
Machine Leaders As Directors.
Strikingly demonstrating how the
machines of the principal cities are
helped by the state treasury to thwart
the "count. move for honest gov
ernment is the fact that all but a little
less than two millions of the surplus
was deposited in Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Allegheny City and Harrlsburg,
in 53 Institutions. The two western
cities had nearly -ne-half of the four
teen millions. There was $000,000 in
the Colonial Trust Company, an "ac
tive" depository, of which ex-Senator
William Fllnn. the rlpped-out, but re
cently reinstated machine leader of
Pittsburg, Is the most influential direc
tor. Other directors of the Colonial
Trust Include Fllnn's son, George H.
Fllnn, and the FUnn-Magee confiden
tial agent in big transactions, M. K.
McMullln.
Robert McAfee, who, last spring, suc
ceeded General Reeder as commissioner
of banking, waa a director last year of
the "active" Allegheny National, which
holds $785,369.32. The cashier of tho
bank, William Montgomery, is Senator
Quay's fiscal agent and handler of
stocks. The president of the "active"
Commonwealth TruBt Company, of Har
rlsburg, In which the state has $437,
757.14, is Major Lane S. Hart, formerly
state printer, brother of the late Wm.
B. Hart, who was the next state treas
urer elected after Quay resigned from
that office and left William Livsey to
serve during the remainder of the
term. The vice president of Major
Hart's company- Is Judge John H.
Weiss, of the Dauphin county court, a
close personal friend of Quay, and the
directors include Congressman M. E.
Olmsted and another influential Quay
worker, Charles H. Mullln, of Cumber
land county. The law excludes judges
from the directorates of banks, but not
of trust companies.
Beneficiaries of Durham Rule. i
The largest of all the deposits in the
state except that in the "active" Far
mers' and Mechanics', of Philadelphia,
Is that In another "active" concern, the
Quaker City National, of that city. It
has $864,500. Its president, Jacob E.
Ridgeway, Is In close personal and po
litical relations with the principal
managers of the Republican party,
city and state. The chief leaders of
the Philadelphia machine do their
banking In the"Quaker City." Its direc
tors Included the late Alexander Bal
four, whose conduct as an inspector of
the Eastern Penitentiary brought him
under fre, and also the late Congress
man Foerderer, whose wealth financed
the city machine at times.
OH For the City Machine.
The foregoing facts throw some light
upon the resources and methods of the
city machine, which, according to the
leading Republican newspapers of the
state, has Included 80,000 fraudulent
votes In Its returns of a single elec
tion.
In Pittsburg the Freehold Bank,
which was the late Chris. L. Magee's
favorite Institution, has a state de
posit of over $300,000. Its directors In
clude Fllnn snd his son. Other state
depositories there are the North Amer
lcaa Savings Company, and has as vice
president Francis J. Torrance, active In
politics as one of Quay's principal
friends; and the Anchor Savings Bank,
of which Pittsburg's first chief maels
frats under the "ripper," A. M. Brown,
is president. H. C. Frlck, coke and
steel king, a proposed candidate for
Quay's seat in ttrn senate, Is a director
f the City Deposit Bank, which has a
tnug deposit from the state treasurer.
Similarly favored Is the Exchange Na
tional Bank, of which one director,
Calvin Wells, controls the Phlldolphla
Tress, which swallows Press-Mutiler
6nyder as a candidate for auditor gen-'
ral. although It maintained vehement
denunciation of Pennjpacker's gag
even after the Republican state con
vention. Leading Politicians Fsvorsd.
One of the old financiers of the Pitts
burg Republican organisation, T. Hart
Given. Is president of the Farmers' De
posit National Bank, In which Is $190,
000. C. A. Muehlbronner, who Intro
duced the Pittsburg "ripper" In the
senate. Is a director ot the favored Ger
man National. Ot another favorite,
the Keystone Bank. W. C. Magee, a
relative of the late chief political ruler
of Allegheny, Is a director. Director
E. M. Blgelow, brother of the "rip
per's" chief engineer. Is a manager ot
the Liberty National, a state deposi
tory. Stephen Stone, United States
marshal, and son of the ex-governor
and the latter's political side partner,
ex-Congressman W. H. Graham, are
llrectors of the Mercantile Trust. wbl-h
has a nice state deposit. Stephen Stone,
as a director of the favored Prudential
Trust, appeirs again, and he and Gra
ham are also connected with another
state depository, the Federal National.
H. C. Frick is a director and Attor
ney General P. C. Knox was until
recently In the board of the Mellon Na
tional, which has a slice of the sur
plus Of another Pittsburg depository,
the Pennsylvania. Trust, William B.
Rodgers, city solicitor, who helped
with "Quay reform" bills and the "rip
per" In Its original shape, has been the
vice president. Ex-Speaker William
T. Marshall Is a director of the Public
Trust Company. Quay's friend, Tor
rance, and William McConway, whom
Fllnn flatters, are directors of the Sec
ond National. In the Union Trust Is a
repetition of familiar names, Including
Attorney General Knox and Frlck. Ex
Judge James H. Reed, who helps con
trol the Columbia National, which has
$245,000 state money. Is president ot
the Philadelphia Company, a monopoly
of traction, gas and other public utili
ties of Pittsburg.
Fat Pickings For Serving Leaders.
Of Harrlsburg state depositories Ad-
, .. , . . .. , .
In the fortunes of the Commercial
, . . .
Bank. Lane S. Hart and Congressman
Olmsted are president and director re
spectively of the First National, which
holds $293,667.45. Edward Bailey, !
member of the new capltol commls- !
slon, la president of the Harrlsburg Na-
tlonal, with $130,000. Bailey Is presi
dent also of the Harrlsburg Trust,
which holds $350,000 and has ex-In- ,
eurance Commissioner J. M. Forster as !
vice president.
Supreme Court Justice J. Hay Brown
is a director of the Lancaster Trust,
which has state money. Of other fa
vored institutions fed and fattening on
the use of the people's money. Ship
builder John B. Roach, to whom State '
Senator Sproul is related by marriage,
Is a director of the Chester National.
Congressman Acheson Is in the board
of the Citizen's National, of Washing
ton. Ex-State Senator C. C. Kauffman,
formerly sn Insurgent, Is a director of
the Columbia (Lancaster eounty) Trust
Company. Senator Matson is a direc
tor of the Commercial National, ot
Bradford. Elkln's chief lieutenant In
the Republican gubernatorial canvass,
T. Larry Eyre, and ex-Auditor General
McCauley are directors of the Farmers'
National, West Chester. Major Gen
eral Charles Miller, of the National
Guard, Is in the board of the Franklin
(Venango county) Trust Company.
Representative A. A. Thompson, of Fa
yette, Is an assistant in the Union
town First National, which has $100,
000, and his father, J. V. Thompson,
Quay leader, is its president.-
And They're All Republicans.
The presence of Quay's personal and
political friend, Samuel Moody, in the
board of the Beaver First National, ex
plains Its favor from State Treasurer
Harris. Other fortunate concerns are
the Farmers' and Drovers' National, of
Waynesburg, with ex-Senator Daniel
S. Walton as a director; the Honesdale
National, which has In its board Homer
Green, member of the committee that
prepared Quay's fake "ballot reform"
bill; the Mercer County Trust, with
State Senator James D. Emery, spon
sor for one of the Infamous Emery
Foe ht passenger railway franchise
grabs, as president, and Lyle W, Orr,
formerly employed in the state treas
ury, and Common Pleas Judge S. H.
Miller as" treasurer and director, re
spectively; the Grove City People's Na
tional, having as a director Representa
tive H. K. Daugherty, chairman of the
last house's judiciary local committee,
who, at the close of the legislature, was
appointed attorney for the dairy and
food commission and drew a salary un
til Governor Pennypacker was remind
ed of the unconstitutionality of the ap
pointment; the Union Banking Trust, of
Dubois, with State Senator A. E. Pat
ton as director; the Westmoreland Sav
ings and Trust, In which one director
Is John B. Steele, unsuccessful Repub
lican candidate against Judge Doty,
four years ago, and the Warren Trust,
in which State Senator H. H. Cum
mlngs Is a director.
i And so the list of politicians, aU Re
publicans, connected with the financial
Institutions favored with the enor
mous, unnecessary surplus, might be
prolonged.
! This explains why the afflicted wards
of the state In hospitals for the Insane
are compelled to suffer from crowding
and lack of ordinary accommodation.
Neither their health or comfort, nor
the oppression of the farmers and
other taxpayers, whose counties are
practically robtad of license fees
which would reduce their taxation, are
to be considered by the machine when
It wanta to profit f:om millions In Its
favorite tanks.
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OIL FROM ANGLEWORMS.
Said to Be froveretarn Remedy for
Stralna nnil Spra Inn How
It la Obtained.
A correspondent recently Inquired as
lo where she could get "angleworm
oil" and the editor of this department
had to pass on the inquiry as a conun
drum that he could not solve, says the
Los Angeles Times. However, there
are very few questions that some of th
numerous readers of this department
cannot answer. It Is, therefore, not
surprising to find that no less than
seven answers have already been re
ceived to this correspondent's question.
F. S. sends the following from Santa
Monica:
"I noticed In the 'Care of the Body'
department to-day that some one from
Santa Monica asks about angleworm
oil, and that you say that you do not
know what It Is. I will offer a short
story of an Incident which happened
In my boyhood days In Ohio. My folk
owned a valuable horse, which slipped
on the Ice and strained the tendons of
one of Its hind legs so that It could
not put the heel on the ground, and
had to walk on Its toe for Reveral
months, when on old farmer told us to
rub It with cnrtleworms, putting them
In bottles and hanging In the sun until
all the oil was tried out of them. Then
strain It and use as a liniment We
did this and It effected the desired re
sults, and I will say that after that
we never were without this oil, as It Is
pood for so many strains and sprains,
and it no doubt will help the Inquirer
from Santa Monica."
THEIR WORK KILLS MUSIC.
Tvlevrniih Oprratnrs Cnnnnt Pin?
I'lano Well ttrnlnnl Monde of
the Forearm the Cause.
Did you ever hear of a telegrapher
who could play the piano. If so, how
many? Not how many pianos, of
course, but how many telegraphers. Tel
egraph operators find that after they
have worked at a key for several years
their forearms and their fingers lost
that flexibility that Is essential to mu-
sicianally work on the piano. As
many of the men are fond ot music,
I and have pianos of their own, they find
it hard, says the New York Herald, to
1 be cut off from the enjoyment Or the
i -..,. ,. ,,',' ... ,
, music they could make for themselves
,. ' , . ... . ....
n vi ut'h tvi iuv; a ,i aiucu wuutuuuo
of their muscles.
There are few other lines of work that
Incapacitate a man for picking out the
sharps and flats, but the telegraphers
say that they know few men In their
ranks who can use a piano with any ef
fect.
When they sit down before one their
first Imnnlse la the old Imnulni. that
'operating the key gives them. They
I want to use that finger that they use In
I sending messages, and they find It diffi
cult even after they struggle for a long
j time to make themselves players of
I more than ordinary attainments.
HAD SLAIN MAN'S SPIRIT.
Sli-Month-Old Child In India He
lleved to lie the Reincarnation
of a Recent Governor.
Many of the people of India are firm
believers In the doctrine of the trans
migration of souls. Of late consldera
ble excitement has been caused there
by the strange btory of an incident
which recently occurred in the district
of Pegou. The natives there, says the
Chicago Chronicle, suddenly became
convinced that a 6-months-old child
was the reincarnation of the late Mr.
Tucker, superintendent of the district,
who was killed by bandits In 1894, and
that moment the unconscious Infant
became the most Important personage
In that part of the country.
It was taken to several places in
which Mr. Tucker had lived, and, ac
cording to Its attendants, Its conduct
showed clearly that it remembered all
the incidents of its former life.
Finally it was taken to the place
where Mr. Tucker was murdered, and
the story goes that at sight of the fatal
spot it trembled all over and almost
went into convulsions. Indeed, Its
parents say that it wou!d certainly
have died there !f they had not hur
tied away with it
OUR RETURN TO NATURE.
Nineteenth Onturr Renaissance ot
Katoral HUtorr .Marks Epoch
Interest In Aniiual Life.
The future historian of American
life and manners for the closing decades
of the nineteenth century and the be
ginning of the twentieth century, will
find an interesting theme In the renais
sance of natural history, or the re
turn to nature, which marks a distinct
epoch, says Francis H. Herrlck, in the
Century.
If a desire for country life has fol
lowed the congestion of population in
cities, the Increase in wealth, and the
wonderful Improvements in transporta
tion, there has also grown up In Amer
ica a genuine sympathy for animals and
an Intelligent desire for knowledge In
every department of outdoor nature.
This awakening has been attended by
renewed interest in the relation of liv
ing beings to one another, and to their
surroundings, as ell as by the inter
est in the habits, behavior, and intelli
gence of animals, on the part of both
layman and specialist.
Minium from the Air,
An old dream of the chemist Is the
artificial conversion into plant food of
nitrogen from tha alK In the latest de
velopment of tho Bradley process, on
which the inventor has been at work
several years, a special electrical ma
chine makes and breaks 414,000 arcs
a minute, the nitrous gas thus formed
from atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen
being collected ln'waler or directly coui
llued with potash or soda.
AT BAIf R9AST.
Sometimes we are erected in the
morning by flsga at half-mast for some
prominent Otticiai wno yesicrnny
wns apparently in perfect health.
When we Inquire the ailment by
which he wns stricken it is not un
common to be told "acute indiges
tion " or "stomach trouble."
It Is time people learned that in
digestion or any lorm oi
"stomach trouble'" is not a
thing to trifle with. The
result may not he fatal,
but there can be no
condition of diseased
stomach which does
not carry with it phys
ical Iom and weakness.
Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery
cures indigestion and
other forms of disease
affecting the stomach
and its allied organs of
digestion and nutrition.
It enables the perfect diges
tion and assimilation of
food.
"Thunln to Dr. PIerc' Oolrten
Medical Dicovery," write Mr,
Charlea It. German, of Lhihton,
Pa. "It i the only medicine that
haa done me any cootf. 1 tried every,
thing I could think of to cure ItnllKta
tlon. and found I waa only throwing
mwmv monrv Then I heard of Doctor
Pterre a Golden Medical Dlncovery and tried a
bottle of It. and to niv joy found It waa doing
me good. I ud sii Imttlen of it. and am now
cured. It ia the btsl mtdiant on tarth.'
This grand remedy does its work in
thorouch manner; it idves ths
health that is all health ; the strength
that is solid, substantial and lasting ;
not flabby fat, not false stimulus, but
genuine, complete, renewed vitality and
life force.
Accept no substitute for "GoldenMed-
Ical Discovery." There is nothing "just
good" for diseases of the stomach,
blood and lungs.
Dr. Pierce's rieasant Pellets cure con
stipation and its consequences.
How do You Wa'k ?
The girl who would be up to-date
must change her way of walking. The
swagger, swinging gait, so popular
last year and this, must be tamed
down to a more feminine way of loco
motion. Let us hope fashion will
undo what she did in introducing the
long stride, which marred all grace
and attractiveness.
MANACER WANTED-
Trustworthy lady or gentleman lo manage
business ia this County and adjoining terri
tory for well and favorably known House of
solid financial standing. $20.00 straight
cash salary and expenses, paid each Monday
by check direct from headquarters. Ex.
pense money advanced ; position permanent.
Address Manager, bio Moron liuildinn
Chicago, III. 9-10 i8t
Do Good It Pays. .
A Chicago man has observed that
4iGood deeds are better than real es
tate deeds some of the latter are
worthless. Act kindly and gently,
show sympathy, and lend a helping
hand. You cannot possibly lose by
it." Most men appreciate a kind
word and encouragement more than
they do substantial help.
Ir is Your Business
to pay attention to your physical welfare.
Your responsibility begins when yoo get up
in the morning. Your body begins its day's
work at breakfast. A dish of "Jf will give
you the right foundation for the day's busi
ness. "" has grain nutriment to satify
the taste and add strength to the body and
the brain, One dish makes you want Br
other. You can eat at any time.
Grocers sell "f. 2-ia ly
At the Age of Twenty.
At twenty, when a man is young,
he thinks he knows it all; he likes to
wag his active tongue and exercise
his "gall;" he struts around in "noble
rags the earth is all his own; he
laughs in scorn the world of age, and
lists to self alone. He wears a win
dow in his eye to see his mustache
grow; he thinks the ladies pine and
die because they love him so. At
forty you may well suppose, he buckles
down to "biz;" 'tis not till sixty that
he knows how big a fool he is.
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DECEM3ER JURYMEN.
Tho lurvnipn for the Dcopnilier term
of court were tint wn by jury foiiim),.
.loner Mmltz and Hagoiiltni'h nin
Sheriff Knorr oh Monduy, Following
Is the lift:
(1UA1 .M'KOllS
('. K. Adunw, Jlriiir (.'reek,
Henry Hunlo; Urcetiwood.
Jiihti CIhuiiI'imIIii, Madison.
I, . .1. Clewell, Berwick.
15. F. Fritz, JnckMon.
Jt. (t, (ileenly, M.tdiHon.
Philip (Iniiglian, t'oityhghnin.
II. A. (lidding, Hlnom.
Kdwnrd M. Holmes, Klixmi.
Henry .lone, Berwick,
.limit' Kerrignn, Cohyiiglinin.
Henry 1). Keller, Fishing Creek.
Kinni'itiel i.nziiniH, ltlioninlurg.
(Jeorgeli. Muniey, Untawliwa Twp,
Theodore Mericle, 151iK)hinblirg.
Dnnlel O'Neil, llloom.
J. It. Pntterwui, Bloom.
Josinh K, Koltert, ('ntnwlnsa lloro.
M. F. D. Sennlin. Bloom.
Svlventer sutler, Centre.
K. 10. Straul), Conynglinm.
Jnmes Trump, Ornngo Twp.
John Vnnee, Mt. l'lenant.
Oeorge 1). Yont, Benton lloro.
travkrsejuroKS First Week.
K. W. Alexander, Benton Horo.
Miles II. Betz, Bloom.
Oitirli.'" Burt, llriur Creek.
Lewi Beisliline, Fishing Creek.
Asn Deilv, Hemlock.
(1. B. Dennis, Centre.
John Donahue, Centrnlin Horo.
A. C. DeSheppard, Bloom.
H. 1). Kdgur, Bloom.
Si-ely F,l ward, Benton Twp.
Klin Krnent, Cleveland,
Charles Kver, Orange.
V. S. Fisher, Main.
Jacob Fought, Pino,
(leorge Fensternmcher, Iterwick.
Ititnsloe Fister, Orange Boro.
Albert (Jibsons, Berwick.
S. J. Harrison, Fishing Creek.
John Hampton, Cutawissa Twp.
S. M. Hess, Bloom.
Kll Krum, Montour.
H. O. F. Kshinkn, liriur Creek.
Charles Lee, Scott.
Thomas J. MeUuire, Conynghiun.
John O. MeHenry, Stillwater.
Frank Mnrteena. Berwick.
W. I). Mover, Bloom.
C. V. Miller, Centre.
Theodore Menileiihall, Pine.
John K. Mordati, Mt. Pleasant.
Knmnuel Mauser, Muln.
John Mensch. Montour.
V. B. Meyers, Benton Twp.
J. I). Potter, Pine.
VY F. lihodes, Conynghiun.
Frederick liiee. Roaring Creek.
Jacob Bider, Pine.
A. J. BolMins, Centre.
Freas Uingrose, Soott.
B. F. Rice, Scott.
Oeorge Ruckle, Centre.
Clinton Sterling, Bloom.
V. A- Snyder, Scott.
(J. A. Tubus. Benton Boro.
'.. 1). NVenner. Fishing Creek.
Hiram W. Williams, Berwick.
Oeo W. Yetter, Cntawissa Boro,
Ira Zeisloft, Madison.
traverse jurors Second Week.
W. A. Butt, Benton Boro.
C. D. Bowers, Catawissa Boro.
J. 8. Blue, Bloom.
Joseph Crawford, Orange.
David Cotlman, Bloom.
B. C. Deittriek, Berwick. "
William Dildine, Madison.
Kujiene Doty, Berwick.
J. Harrv Dean, Berwick.
Henry II. Deighmillcr, Hemlock.
I'eterO. Kddinger, Main.
P- D. Krvin, Catawissa Boro.
Allison Kssick, Madison.
I. B. (ieiger, Bloom.
Samuel S. Horlncher, Beaver.
Fred Hartman, Bloom.
Dillman Hess, Briar Creek.
A. R. Henrie, Mifflin.
William Johnston, Millville.
J. H. Keim,' Scott.
Harry K. Kearn, Sugarloaf. ,
Marvin Kline, Greenwood.
Clarence Lenhart, Berwick.
Thomos B. Moore, Bloom.
Franklin Meyers, Sugarloaf.
P. W. Miller, Catawissa Boro. ,
J. W. Perry, Sugarloaf.
Barton T. Pursel, Bloom.
T. C. Smith, Jackson.
Bitltla Sterling, Madison.
Ollbert Shuman, Main.
C. Z. Schlicher, B wer.
I. W. Smith, Mifflin.
L. O. Shultz, Pine.
Harry Townsend, Bloom.
James Williams, Centre.
Frayed for Rain,
It is said that the Allentown min
isters, not approvinc: of some ar
rangements for the entertainment of
visiting firemen, prayed for rain.
If this be true the efficacy of prayer
has had ample demonstration.