DANVILLE INTELLIGENCER Established, 1828 DANVILLE, MONTOUR COUNTY, PA., SEPT , 'O4. D. AUST LUTZ, Editor and Proprietor. THK INTKLLIOENCBII is the oldest and best weekly, Democratic newspaper in this section of the State. It enjoys the distinction of having a larger county circulation thun all the other weeklies com bined. Itgoes Into the homes of aill the best Democrats in the county, and is read by thousands of its Republican friends weekly. Published every Friday at Danville, the county seat of Montour county, Pa., at SI.OO a year in advance or 91.23 if not paid in advance; and no paper will be discontinued until all arrearage Is paid, except at the option of the publisher. Kates of advertising made known on application. Address all communications to THE INTELLIGENCES Danville, Pa. DID THEIR WORST. It's all over. No war. No blood shed. No hood ling. No nothing. A small handful of Foster's party met in Convention on Saturday to see if they could man age to place a Republican ticket in the field this fall. We would not have it understood that there are uo Republicans in Montour county, for there are a few that are just as good as some of the worst Democrats, but those of the better element stood aloof and left the rest do their worst. It was impossible to fill the ticket, and Mr. Foster appointed the rest of the convention as a committee to as sist him in hunting some one to allow his name to lie used as candidate for prothouotary. After screening in all sec tions and quarters they managed to complete the ticket in a few days, but so flimsy is its construction that it will re quire strong ropes to keep it bound together and hold fast what they have. The ex-postmaster figured iu the quietness of the minute, but seemed to evaporate iu the ridiculousness of the moment. In short the local party is simply disgusted with its leaders and manifests 110 interest whatever in their party. This is a good year for Chairman Blue to show what Montour is made of. With the most excellent men for President and Vice President, and such a man as Mr. Thompson for Supreme Judge, the Hon. Harry E. Davis, for Congress, and then our good, safe county ticket, we can expect nothing less than the greatest Democratic landslide in Montour county we ever experienced in the county's history. Wc forewarn Horace that if he fails to produce the above desired and expected results, he will suffer nothing less than decapitation, electrocution or hanging. SLIPPED OUT They lmve gone. Just us was expected from the very establishment of the concern. Wise people mistrust ed them from the start, and their expectations have been fully realized. Monday or Tuesday the Rod Star Trading Stamp Company quietly and mysteriously slipped from our midst, somehow or other, without even giving notice to their forelady, and shamefully leaving her without work or giving her any previous notice to look for another posi tion. This is the kind of jicople they are. Their principles of doing business are wrong, and tin unwarranted hreech of conlidence they left with our people, a city of between eight and ten thousand inhabitants, de serves to be exposed in order to forewarn the inoceut vie time of other sections. Not only did they leave a sore feeling with their customers by sneaking away, but the articles given by them were found to be of very inferior quality, in many instances, and frequent exchanges for better goods were demanded. Many of their customers were left with whole books filled and some with them but partially filled. The con cern claims to have combined this branch with their Bloomsburg store, and that their customers here should inform their customers that in order to have their books redeemed they must goto Bloomsburg. Think of it ! Pay fifty cents togo, fifty cents for dinner, waste the time ingoing and then pay to have the goods sent here. Quite an inducement, isn't it? Why didn't they give early notice of their intended departure, so that their customers could deal fairly by their customers, if they carry on an honest business ? This is another demonstration of the truth contained in Baruuin's well known assertion, after learning the true nature of the American people: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people sometime, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. TO MEASURE THE EARTH. The small school boy of years ago was taught the distance around the earth; you know it, or if you do not, your geography will tell the measure ment in a manner that loaves no room for doubt. Still, thore is doubt, and not merely doubt, but an assurance that geographers are inacurate in this important particular. Because of this certainty thore has arisen a science, "geodesy," which means measurement of the earth. Foremost in the movement for this most pain staking of all forms of surveying is the United States. The International Geodetic Association has its most enthusiastic members and contributors in this country, and the great invisible tape lines now spanning the globe in the interests of science are be ing spread most rapidly and skillfully by the long, strong lingers of your Uncle Samuel. While it is not hoped to ascertain the size of the earth with mathematical accuracy, it is hoped to establish it within one-millionth of a statute mile, or about one-fifteenth of an inch. Scientists who 'are making geodesy the work of their life do not say that even this most painstaking measurement the world has ever known will be absolute accurate, but if they come within one-fifteenth of an inch of the true dimensions it will be close enough to suit all reasonable persons. THEY WILL ROB YOU. Danville seems to be an easy mark for fortune tellers. Our people can't be convinced that fortune telling is a fraud, and the support they teuder to frequent visits of these various lmposters to our city appears to be very en couraging to the fraternity. Wc admit that palmistry is a science, but have we ever had a scientific palmist with us ? If any so-called palmist, or any other person at tempts to read any of your future, whatsoever, consider it an insult upon your good common sense. While palmistry is an interesting study to some, you may find it quite diff erent, and if a truely sdentifical palmist was to read your hand it would not be interesting to you, esjiecially to so many who make it a practice to waste their fifty cent pieces 011 having these frauds tell them a lot of uonseuci cal trash which is detrimental to the minds of the weaker. lake our advice and avoid these people who tramp around through the country posing as palmists and clair voyants, they mean you harm aud will rob you of your money. HOW TO WALK There is 110 virtue in a dawdling saunter. The •alow and languid dragging one foot after the other which some people call walking, would tire an athlete; it utterly exhausts a weak person, and that is the reason why many delicate persons think they cannot walk. To derive any benefit from the exor cise it is necessary to walk with a light, elastic step, which swings the weight of the body so easily from one leg to the other that its weight is not felt, and which produces a healthy glow, showing that the sluggish blood is stirred to action in the most re- 1 (pote veins. HE DREAMED WELL From the shadowy land of droams an idea hiu come to William A. Engle that promises to make liim a millionaire. As the most popular feature of the dream-born invention will cover an avoidance of many long delays that have made railway traveling a nuisance. In brief terms, the device permits an engine which has been disabled 011 one side to proceed to its destination by use of the mechanism on the un injured side. This is accomplished without the dis connection which heretofore has been necessary of pipes, valves and other fittings on the damaged side. This operation usually takes from fifteen min utes to more than an hour, depending upon the ex perlness of the engineer and the condition of the locomotive. Important parts of machinery are apt. to be lost in the process of disconnection. Mr. Engle, who lives in Pottsville, Pa., and bus been connected with the motive power depart ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad for sixteen years, had worked upon the problem of avoiding theso de lays for more than a year. It had simmered down to the one point of providing some device for throw - ing the whole side of the engine out of commission. With that before him he had worked until his brain was weary, and lie was ready to acknowledge him self beaten. Throwing himself upon his bed one night re cently he set his mind to work in a last desperato effort to overcome the mathematical and mochanicid obstacles that had kept him from his goal. Agai.i ho reviewed and threshed out the calculations of pressures, fittings and distances. Instead of un raveling, the maze became more tangled than ever. Finally, from sheer brain fag, he fell asleep. Almost instantly the brain, left to its own dir ection, took up the thread of knowledge ho hu I gathered in his year's study and meditation an 1 wove them into a finished fabric. The idea, practi cable, patentable, was clear before him. lie awoke immediately, with the joy of discov ery and set about reducing the dream to a thing of blue prints and formal figures. At first it eluded him, but he stuck at it until it had been reproduced just as he saw it in his sleep. "Concisely stated," said Mr. Engle, my inven tion consists in providing any desired form of valve for cutting off the supply of steam from one or tlic other pipes leading to the steam chest. The ad vantages accruing from the employment of this in vention, summed up, are that disconnections undi r all conditions are entirely avoided and defects in tl.e steam chest and cylinders readily located. Tl.o usefulness of this valvo as an aid to get away whe 1 running one sided and stopping 011 centre is appn ■- ent. The value of this valve in setting main valvts is that it can readily be determined which side s out. "The beuefils derived from the use of the valve 011 locomotives are numerous. It will bo only necessary to close the valve on the disabled side and , proceed." ITS ATTRACTIONS Hll liter's Park, as always 011 a fair holiday, is a favorite place of popular resort. Labor Day found it in the acme of its good name. It was jammed to its f'ulh-t capacity—the greatest crowd ever known to be tliciv, and notwithstanding the rush, jostle and push we found tic gathering of a quiet, orderly nature. In order to accom modate the human traffic Liveryman Hunter had every available vehicle employed in transporting the tide of life in its incoming and outgoing. Hacks from a distance mingled in the turmoil, currying visitors from nearby cities aud towns. Games and sports were indulged into the pleasure of the masses, and the labor unions did quit themselves nobly. The parade was a credit to the com mittee in charge and contained the various labor organiza tions of the city, with the exception of the moulders' un ion, which, iu due and proper respect, did not join ti e ranks through love and sadness at heart for a departed brother, Mr. Tierney, who had been called to join the great union of laborers in the farbeyoud. Standing on the summit of this beautiful park, one cannot help but admire nature's productions, as they lie stretched before your gaze. The magnificent cencry pr> - seuted by the high ridge of hills, just opposite is an attrac tion to the artist's eye and cannot help but draw friends its side. The farmers of Montour county have opem I their eyes to its splendor and will use it for their annual picnic, having selected it from among the many oth< r groves aud parks, on tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 10. Another lively and socible time can be expected. So, come. TO COME OFF THIS MONTH. Of the many novel features of the St. Lou: Exposition—features representing every phase < I J Twentieth Century ingenuity—none will exceed i interest the competitive trials of airships, to be sailed this month. | \\ hilo Santos-Dumont is largely responsible fen the present interest felt in aerial navigation, and i regarded as the leading and most daring experiment erin this direction, he is by no means the only on. devoting time and wealth to a solution of the prob leni of traveling through the air, a problem thai , engaged attention and stimulated invention long IK fore the day of "Darius Green and his Flying Machine." A number of sanguine aeronauts wii ( have airships of various degrees of dirigibility a! St. Louis—just how many will probably not be , known until the contest in the clouds actually bt gins—and the machines represent a wide range 01 inventive calculation. An American builder of air yachts, Captai; Thomas S. Balwin, of California, is already at St. Louis with two manageable balloons—he does not call them airships—with which he hopes to win al' or part of the 1100,000 prizes ottered by the Expo sition management for this feature of the big fail On the Pacific slope these two Hying machines have attracted considerable attention. They seem to bi constructed on common-sense principles. CONFIRMS THE INTELLIGENCER. Hon. John Wanamaker, merchant king and ox Postmaster General, in a speech to about 120 c members of the Bethany Brotherhood and Bible Union Monday, standing upon one of the benche> of Fairmount Park, Phil'a, said, speaking of Labor Day, "that, even if it were true, as alleged, that the taking of 14,000,000 men from their daily tasks to keep a holiday should cost $40,000,000, it was worth that amount to teach the arrogant rich, and the men who live in castles, and the men who con trol the trusts, that organized labor is a power which must be reckoned with, and that the working man is able to make his voice heard." lie further stated, in words almost siiuiliar to those used by the Intelligencer just a week a It seems that a reporter of a local Demo cratic paper, upon whom the A-so ; cintcd Press depended for a report, failed to attend the meeting, but in. j stead invented a speech for Senator ■ Hill, which contained several state ments wholly misrepresenting the Senator's views and quite at variance with Ids utterances. Among the phrases thus inserted as a part of the speech was one lo the effect that Senator Hill had charged President Roosevelt with bcingn '"fraud."Sena tor Hill said nothing of tho kind. This correction is made without the knowledge of Mr. Hill or any of his friends, but in the interest of accur acy for the Associated Press ser vice. The Associated Press. "Give me the money," snys a re cent speculative philosopher, "that has boen s[ient in war and 1 will pur chase every foot of land 011 the -lobe. I will clothe every man, woman nnd child in an attiro of which kings nnd queens would be proud. '1 will' hnild school houses on every hillside and in every valley over the whole earth : I will build an academy in every town and endow it, a college in every State and fill it with able professors ; I will crown every hill with a place of wor ship consecrated to the promulgation of peace; I will support in every pulpit an able teacher of righteous ness, so that on every Sabbath morn ing the chime on one hill shall answer another around the earth's wide cir cumference and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven." The signs of waning summer are ap parent. Flowers thai link summer with autumn are appearing. Tho leaves nr.> coloring and thero Is an indefin able something in the air, aud clouds ■ that remiud one that fall is not far away. %*B!ack Diamond COAL YARD WILL SELL COAL C IJ K A J? E R than any otlier coal yard in Danville. FIRST CLASS QUALITY. T. A, Scliott | * win mm si T «j " The wind-up ot 3 J The Sen ton with 3 J Prices at less than 3 " Manufacturers tan produce them. S Draperies— =H®3- 1 -AN D-: -M— -- " j C a °e Curtains Mattings! Mattings! Mattings! I HOUSE FURNISHINGS, b D LSI IKS, Ac., all reduced. J i; S N. 15.—Cash balance paid on Butter and Eggs. Farmers will find our store the head centre to do their trading. The largest stock to select from and at prices that out-distance all competition. REMEMBER THE PLACE DANVILLE'S GREATEST STORE | P. C. Murray & son j FARMERS AND DAIRYMEN! 1 ATTENTION! Orders will lie taken for a guaranteed 43 per cent. Protein Brand of Cotton Seed Meal, delivered off the car at Potts grove, at a reduced price. Send inquiries and orders by mail to Pottsgrove. Persons having orders in, will bo notified on arrival of the car C. H. flcMahan & Bros. Special Dairy Foods and Dairy Supplies, HAY AND FEED Pottsgrove, Northumberland Co., Pa. I ONE WEEK'S TREATMENT FREE! r" SIMPLY CUT OUT THIS COUPON. 1 And mail to The Cal-cura Company, £«me- Br Bfi a -1B ir i ) Latest Improved Sewing Machine. Wo can ftirnisli you with a $50.00 > Sewing Machine, new from the factory, *- at just half price. It is a Llght-Ruuing Champion Drop-Mend, one of the very latest patterns, and made by the New Home Sewing Machine Co. Call on or address this oflice. 1 RAILROAD The Standard Railway 01 Thie Continent I'KOTEUTEK THROUGHOLT HY TJIE Interlocking Switch & Block System Schedule In Effect Nov. 29, 1903 aaairowaa# STATIONS A.M. A.M. P.M. V.U. Hunbury. Leave 5 045 | 0 55 j 2«i § 525 Klines Grove i (J.»l I 10(11 _ > r.«a Woivorion 1 «r»s no (Hi raio 1 537 Kipii's it mi r 700 rion ... 1 r, M sonili lMnvllle 1 _.. „ I LULL YIIU- | ' " *0 17 221 550 {'">•'l .-•••, 112 7 10 no 21 12 2.', I 5 (VI ( rick 1 Til float I2(i| 1 oui < miiw IHKH ..Arrive 702 1035 230 IIOH K?,Lr v ßr," , .Vnii;,;-r^ vc l 1 1:"" 0 " i««i •« lilonm.'.buri; ) '- 17 10 13 243 015 Kspy Kerry 112 7 42 no 17 1 u in stouylown Kerry 1 7 50 41053 ! Creasy.... 7-,2 Joso*"iisfi ((30 Neaeopeek \rrlvel „ Berwick 112 802 1100 305 040 NeaeopeeK......Leave S Ho2|UOs| 300 « 040 Beach Haven Ferry., I'soo Wapwallopeu Hl» 11 21) "3 20 (152 loud Hill 1 825 Til 25 112 325 1'056 Mocaiiauua ) „. Shiekshlnny \ 831 11 «« 330 701 Ret rent. S W 11 !i> h 111 710 Nanticoke 851 11 54 •{ m 7 m 111" ton Wood 112 (K) fl2 (K) J .'{«y, f7 25 s,mVh > U'| l |i , ' r ?» 1 V& 112 1 17 28 nil M\!^f" urro --- 1200 1( » 7HO ll.i/h Slrect tins !•»(w j nri 7M Wilkes-Bar re... Arrive 1)10 12 10 4U5 735 STATIONS A.M. A.M. I'.M. I'.M Wilkes-liarre...Leave 112 7 25 110.% | 2 15 ( tioo Hazie Street 72S 10 37 247 002 Sonth WBkes-Barre.. 730 10 40 25 (lift Plymouth l;erry f732 112 1042 112 2'2 1 t((X7 Button wood T7 35 112 10 45 I 2 54 1 iil>9 Nanthoke 712 H) ft) 301 ul7 « 7~i 10 58 310 (J26 ShlekNliinny I 0 rtl . Moeanauua / 1107 320 037 K ),,d H ij' 112 8 tt> f11Uf325 I0 42 Wapwallnpeii «io 11 m 331 U47 lieacli llaveu Ferry.. Nescopeek Arrive 818 11 20 342 700 Berwick ) . k Leave/ ' 8 18 S ll 1342{7 00 KM 11(1(1 3 ii2 700 Klonj town Kerry 112 s 3.1 11l ( I ;,l r7 13 j'Jtpy h'rey Sl2 ril 40 1 It! r7 20 llloninslMiri; > Kust liliiiNlmru...,} B 'l7 1150 100 725 Catawlwa Arrive 855 1157 113 732 OatawlsHa Ixsavo 855 1157 413 732 llonring ('reek r»O4 112 12 ft> 112 11» r7 39 V ,yek Haven, Kenovo and Kane, 12 15 p ni week* •lays; |,« M -k Haven only, Si 11 at in and 131 pin \Veek-diiyH; for WillianiHport and intermedi ate statttais, 1) 14 ain and 751 pin week-days. ( leartleid, t) 11 a in and 12 15 p m week-days. For llarrisburg and Intermediate stations. I.) II a in, 12 I.» pin and 751 pin week-days; 131 pin daily. J ' . For IMiiladelphin (via llarrlHlmrg) Baltl i more and \N asliinuton, 014 a m and and 12 15 and i 51 p m week-days ; l 31 p m dally. For I'ittHburff (via llarriwluirg) si 11 a m and lal p m week-days; 131 p m dally ; (via l,ew istown junetloii) It 11 a m and 12 15 p m week days; (via liiiek Haven) Oil a m and 12 15 D in week-days. Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars run on through trains between Sunbury, Williams, port and Krle. brtween Sunbury and riillo* delphia and Washington and between Harris burg, Pittsburg and the West. For further information apply to ticket agents. \V. W. ATTEHBUIIY, J. It. WOOD, General Manager. Pass'r TrulHc Mgr OKO. W. Ik)Yn, Oenenil Pass'r Agt. 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