Jjnf rlligcnrer Established In 1828. OUR TICKET. NATIONAL. For President. ALTON TV PARKER, of New York. For Vice President. HENRY G. DAVIS, of West Virginia. Presidential Electors: At-I.arge—Stanley W. Davenport unci Rob ert W. irwin. 1 Harry Nicholls 17 S. /. Hawbet ker 2 JK. Walnwright 1H Kobt. E. Welgley 3 John M. Campbell 10 1.. 13. Woodruff 4 James M. Stewart 20 Novln M. Wanner G 11. Max. Rowland. 21 T. K. Costello 0 Mosus Veale 22 Win. T. Mochling 7 Ernll 1101l 28 Rockwell Marietta 8 11. 8. Johnson 21 Charles H. Aiken W. Hayes drier 25 James I*. Collier 10 William Craig 20 M. F. Coolbaugli 11 John.McGahren 27 A. W. Smiley 12 Charles F. King 28 S. E. Walker 18 Isaac Ulster 20 Henry Meyer 14 John Sullivan 80 Thomas 11. Foley 15 John B. Coulston :il CJeorge Heard 10 A. Walsh 82 Chits. H. Payne STATE. For Supreme Court Judge. SAMUEL (JUSTINE TIIOMI'HON, of Philadelphia. COUNTY. For Congress HARRY E. DAVIS, of Suuliury. For The Legislature 11. SCOTT AMMEUMAN. For Protlionotary Tiios. G. VINCENT. For County Treasurer SIMON W. HOFFMAN. Rainy season. Plenty of nioistore. Summer is waning. Straw liata aru being called in. Autaiun cornea before the autumn leaves. As the aster disappears tho chrytau themum appears. Most politicians retire but wind the alarm clock evory night. Making cider and boiling applebut tor is quite a business at prosent. Tho East Euds defeated the Young Timors by a score of 7 to 4 at tho brick jard grouuds on Saturday. Wo can all accomplish somotliiug evou if it is only to supply the neigh bors with gossip. Oar old friend, Sir Thomas Lipion , is coming again. You are always wel coino.Sir Tlioinas. The American peo ple admire your spunk. There is no danger of conforming to the world without when you have Christ within. The State officials will this week iu ipect tho niilo of road pnt down east of Milton under the Good lioads law. Just watoli and SOB if the press agent Of tho world's fair does not send out a •tory in a day or two of a man who walked ou his hands from New York to St. Louis to win a bet. St. Josoph's Catholiochurch at Mil ton, is uiuoty-uiuo years old and will celebrate its ouo hundredth anuiver gary next year, Ouo tiling about cigarottos is that they never prolong a man's life to a doddering old age and make him a burden ou his great-graiiduhildron. " Tho sovon presidential tiokets iu the field this year are: Roosevelt and Fair banks, Republican; Parker aud Davis, Democratic; Swallow and Carroll, Prohibition; Watson and Tibbies, Populist; Corrigun aud OCT, Socialist Labor ; aud Hanford, Socialist; Soott aud Payne, Nogro Liberty. The Ponna. R. 14. Company has placed iu itß yards from Mt. Carmal to Sunbury a complete outfit of llrst aid to the injured supplies and a port able strotcher for prompt use iu case of accideut. A fatal disease has broken out among the hogs iu the vicinity of Milton and a large number have died within the past two weeks. Sunday, September 2fith, has been the day set aside for the celebration ot the wiping out of tho church dobt of the M. K. Church, of Bloomsburg. Water is bocoming scarco at Sha tnokin collieries and firemen at tlio boiler houses have boen notified to be very sparing in its nse. Tho world is becoming horrified at the slaughtor in the Far East, but no move is being made to i>ut au eud to it. O. L. Pensyl, of Bloomsburg, is the ownur of two hundred of the finest buff chickens that can bo found iu the Htato. Ohestnuts are somewhat late this year. Tho crop will bo a good one. The trees all over tho mountains are loaded down with burs. It Is a very cold day whou the Board of Trado of Williamsport does not send ont something booming its oity. It thoroughly believos in advertising. Other like bodies should do tho same. LADIES to do plain sewing at lionit on collars, nothing to buy, materials sent everywhere free. Send addressed en. velope National Mfg. Co. 259 M'. llfitli St. New York. The Executive Committoo of Sos quehauna University,on Monday elect ed tho present treasuror,lra C. School! of Selinsgiovc, head solicitor for n proposed $1,000,000 endowment fund and general field secretary. We regret to say that Hon. J. Ilenn Cochran, 11. S. Senator, Williamsport foremost citizen, our friend, your friem and a good and great man, has been vcr; sick, hut we are pleased to add that lie i convalescing and will soon lie alilq to I* about again and lend his strong hand ii defence of Democracy. Wednesday afternoon almost tho en tire male portion of our High Sclioo dropped in upon us in a regular ava lanchc. They paid us a pleasant call am withdrew in perfect order, thus provin their gentlemanly qualities. Danvill boasts one of the liest High Schools ii tho State, and justly can it do so. Gen tlenien, "be sure you are right, then g ahead." A small wager can produce great noise. But we didn't see the ic Cream. PARKER TO SPEAK IN THE CAMPAIGN Heads Democratic List of 3,009, luclucl irig Cleveland and Bryun. Three thousand orators are to be turn ed loose in the doubt'ul States by the Democratic campaigu managers the last week in September. Announcement was made at national headquarters yesterday by Daniel McConville. head of the speak ers' bureau, of the list of speakers, de cleared to l»e the strongest ever engaged in a National campaign. The list is headed by Judge Alton 15. Parker. This is the first oilicial an nouncement that has been made that the candidate is to speak. Where and when or how many speeches lie will make was not explained, but it was said definitely that he would participate in the speak ing campaign. It was explained later that his speaking plans are not definitely made. In the formal statement issued by Mr. McConville it was said: •'lt is known that Judge Alton V». Parker, ex-President Grover Cleveland and William J. Bryan will each take part in the campaign." It was declared that about every em inent speaker-oil the roster of tne Dem ocratic party had enlisted. From one end of the country to the other they will be heard from tin last week in Septem ber until election day. Mr. Cleveland is expected to make a few speeches in the East, the number not having yet. I>een determined. VOICE STRANGE TO OWNER Never Sounds Exnctly the Some us It Does to Friends. That a mau docs not hear his own voice as all the rest of the world hears it is shown by an interesting experi ment described by Dr. L. Laloy in La Nature of Paris, says the Literary Digest. Kays this writer: "If a person records on a phono graph a few sentences pronounced by himself, together with others by his friends, and causes the machine to reproduce these at the end of a brief period, it generally happens that he easily recognizes his friends' voices, but not his own. On the other hand, the friends recognize his voice per fectly. This singular fact proves that every one hears his own voice differ ently from others. "As is remarked by Professor Ex ner, the difference must lie in the quality of the tone. It must be re membered that one hears his own voice not only through the air, as do his auditors, but across the solid parts situated between the organs of speech and those of hearing. The sound thus produced has a different timbre from that conducted to the ear by the air alone. "We may show this as follows: Take the end of a wooden rod between the teeth and pronounce a vowel con tinuously. Let the other end be al ternately taken between the teeth and released by another person, who at the same time stops his ears. The latter will find that every time he seizes the rod in his teeth the sound becomes stronger than when i! reaches his car through air alone, and has a different quality. The experiment may bo varied by applying a wooden rod to the larynx of the person ob served and touching it from time to time to the observer's own larynx. As in the preceding case, it will be found that its passage through a solid body augments the intensity of the sound and modifies its quality." ANTI-PROFANE WOMEN" PLEASE SEND A WIFE Oregon Man, Impressed With Berwick Crusaders, Writes, Proposing Marriage. Berwick, Pa., Sept. 14. So impressed is Harry. Wertfall, of Portland, Oregod, with the noble work being done by the Women's Christian Temperance Union of this place in suppressing the profanity that was formerly rampant upon the streets of that city that he has written the president of the society asking if there is not some marriageable mem ber of it who wants a good home and a good husband. Wertfall recently saw an account in the papers of how the woman had induced the Berwick Council to pass an ordinance forbidding swearing up on the street. He writes under date of August 27: "I see that you are going to curb the use of profanity; that is right. Now, while you arc doing that try to see if you can find nie a wite. Ido not smoke or use profane language, and am :!0 years old and good looking. Please show this to your society and see if you have any marriageable i ladies. There is a good home and a good husband for her. With many i thanks to you." lie gives his address as P. (). Box 1017, Portland, Oregon, but Mrs. Van Houten, the president of the society, has not yet answered his letter. Low Rate to Wllilamsport via Reading , Railway. t Account Races at Williamsport - September 13th to 16th inclusive the • Reading Railway will sell special Ex cursion tickets to Williamsport at about Single Fare for the round trip - from Mt. Carmel, Bloomsburg, Cata i wissa and intermediate ticket stations. ' These tickets will be good returning 1 until Sept. 17, 1904 inclusive. Y A Wilkesbarre Methodist Church lias s improved on the time-worn custom of feeding a mortgage oil', by dieting it >' off. For this week the congregation R will abstaiu from nil dclieacios, the e money savod togo next Snnday to " froeiug the church of debt. Tlio snfTci er from church sappers and church i fairs will heartily approvo of the >1 change, while the self-denying ab i- staiuers will doubtless bo the gainers d physically as well as financially. K e Runaways Dragged Driver to Death. n Bloomsburg, l'a., Sept. 14. —Rupert 1- Beach, of Catawissa, was killed in a run to away on the mountain near his home a yesterday afternoon. He jumped out af * the wagon overturned, was caught in the wheels and drugged to death. Mr. Cleveland's Offer to Alton B. Parker. Nut many persons are aware of the fact that Alton B. Parker WHS offered a place in the first administration of President Cleveland. McCready Sykes tells the story in the 4t Greenbag n as follows: "Parker was in close and intimate relations with the Albany Regency of latter days, and was a warm friend of President Cleveland. Early in 188/), ho was summoned by a tele gram to Washington, where Presi dt nt Cleveland offered him the post of First Assistant Postmaster-General of the United Slates. The salary was live thousand dollars. Parker thought the matter over, and although his salary as Surrogate was only three thousand dollars, he promptly de clined the place, as he feared that to withdraw from the active life of his own county would mean the lo s of his practice, which gave every prom ise of being established within a very few years. ♦'Somewhat surprised ami a little disappointed, Mr. Cleveland sent for Mr. Vilas the Postmaster-General, saying, 'Vilas, Parker says he has a three thousand .dollar salary as Sur rogate of Ulster County and is build ing up a law practice, and he can't afford to take a live thousand dollar place.' '• 'That's strange, 1 said Vilas. *1 left a twenty thousand dollar practice to take an eight thousand dollar place in the Cabinet,' 11 'Yes, 1 retorted Parker; 'and if 1 had been making twcuty thousand dollars a year for ten years, 1 should not mind taking a live thousand dollar place in Washington.' "Later in the same year the offer was authoritatively made to Parker of the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Now York, but this, too, he declined. ■'The time was at band when Park er should definitely retire from poli ties, although he was not yet half through his thirties. Oil the urgent solicitation of the Democratic leaders, I'arker consented, in the autumn of 1885, to act as chaiiman of the Demo cratic Executive Committee in the State campaign. That campaign is still spoken of as one of (lie most efli cient and successful campaigns of the past generation. With practically no campaign funds, Parker fought an uphill light wherein few hoped of success, and ended the campaign with a decisive victory. Here his political service came to an end, for in December of the same year, 1885, he was appointed to a vacancy ou the bench of the Supreme Court. In the following year he was elected to a full teim, the Republicans paying him the compliitient of running 110 candidate. He was only thirty-five years old." The Motor Car. (From the London Telegraph.) The motor car is indeed making a revolution both in town and country life. House and land agents state that people aie 110 longer unwilling to rent mansions in districts formerly regarded as inaccessible. With the mo tor car's almost magic agency of transport dwellers in the couutry cease to consider (), q ill lie one of the moat attractive from every standpoint that has ever been held by the Association. The premium list will !>e away ahead o£ any other fair in this section, and the racing track will have some of the fastest trotters and pac ing horses that have ever been seen here abouts. The management has been most liberal this year and the inducements they make will bring the exhibits away ahead of other years. Special features have been secured at great expense, in order to make the days a continual en joyment for both old and young. The track is rounding into first-class condition and all the buildings, etc., have been repaiied and made attractive. Kvery day will lie a big day. Kxcursion trains will lie run 011 all roads, giving a very low rate to visitors. Jiig Hpecial pteniiums will lie offered for displays by organizations in or outside of the county, while the list in general has been in creased. A Pill In Time will save a serious sickness, especially to people subject to Bilious attacks, Sick Headaches or who suffer from Stomach disorders. A pill in need is a friend indeed, and you should never be without a box of , J Beecham's Pills 112 Sold Everywhere. Inboiej 10c.*ndtSc,\ LARGEST CHECK EVER ISM) BYTHE STATE Treasurer Mathues Utters One for $1,200,000 With Phila delphia as the Payee. FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX Great Activity Displayed In Refvndlng the Three.Fourtha of »1,600,000 Due McNlchol'a Playground. With k proniptitute unprecedented in tho history of Pennsylvania's fi nances, State Treasurer William l<. Mnthuus last Thursday sent a check for 41,200.000 to the oity of Philadel phia, returning to thai city its share of the $1,600,000 which was Inst week paid into the treasury for personal property tax. Never before has the payment been made so promptly, never before has such a largo check been drawn at the State Treasury and only once before has the payment of Philadelphia's share of the tax been made in a lump sum. There is nothing to compel the re payment of the money so quickly. As a matter of fact, it generally drags along for weeks or months. The only occasion when but a little lime elapsed between the receipt of the entire amount and the repayment of the portion due the city was several years ago during Colonel Harnett's term as treasurer. State Treasurer Mathues preferred to repay the fund as quickly as possi ble and to send it to Philadelphia in a lump instead of having the accounts drag along and be split into small amounts during the Fall and Winter. It was said at the Treasury that this check for $1,200,000 is the larg est ever issued from that office. The personal property lax was, ac cording to the law, paid by Philadel phia into the treasury only a few days ago, the amount being $ 1,600,- 000. Under tho same law three fourths of the mouey roverts to the city and the other one-fourth remains in the coffers of the State. Comley. Mrs. Geo, llurria is spending some time at Jersey Shore with her son. Watts school opened Monday, Sept. 12th, with the clever archer, Prof. Yeagle, of Exchange, teaching the young ininclj how to shoot. Many of the farmers of this section are busy plowing for wheat and cutting corn. Harry Ellis, of Danville, is spending sometime with friends and relatives at this place. Thos. Harris left on Sunday for Mon toursville, where he will spend some time. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Plotbi, of Para dise, spent Sunday with Jas. Probst and family. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ellis spent Sun day with Frank Zcrby and family, of near Exchange. Gust Plotts, wife and son, of Sullivan county, spent the latter part of last week with Jas. Probst and family. M isa A nnie Wagner spent Sunday at Exchange. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Litchard spent Sunday with Prank Fry and wife. Mrs. Geo. W. Watson left Tuesday for St. Louis, and will visit in several other western states tiefore her return. Too many merchants look upon ad vertising as a scheme to help the editor. With rural delivery and de partment stores sending out tons of advertising matter, the country merchant must have the goods and the prices and he must advertise or get run over in the march of civiliza tion. His rents are less, his help ccsts less and be can compote with the city retailer and pay his advertis ing, too; and the time has come when ho absolutely has to do it. The country merchants are finding this out and are taking advantage of it. Our exchanges are ebowing half page | and whole page ads that have always carried but small ads before. Special Rates to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal.. via Lack awanna RaHraad. On account of the Trieunial Con clave of Knight* Templar at San Francisco, Scp't 19th to 26tb, the Lackawanna will sell round trip tick ets to the above points at low rate of 166.26. Tickets will be on sale from August 15th until September 9th and will be good for continuous passage up to the first Colorado, Moutana, Wyoming and Texas point reached, except that slop over not exceeding 10 days will be allowed at Chicago, St. Tiouis, Memphis or New Orleans. Upturning tickets will be good for stop over at certain points and pass engers must reach original starting point not later than October 23rd. For further particulars passengers will inquire of Lackawanna ticket agent. Campaign 1904. Dates tor Democratic) Workers to Re member:—Last day For Registering Vot ers, Wednesday, Sept. 7th. Last day For Taying Taxes, Saturday, Oct. Bt)i. Last day For Filing Certificates of Nomi nation (State Ollices), Tuesday, Sept 27th. Last day For Filing Nomination Papers, (State Offices), Tuesday, Oct. 4th. Last day 'For Filing Certificates of Nomination, (County Offices), Tuesday, Oct. lltli. Last day For Filing Nomina tion Papers, (County Officers), Tuesday, O'jt. 18th. Flection Day, Tuesday, Nov. Bth. World's Fair Excursions. Low-rate ten-day coach excursions via Pennsylvania Railroad, Septem ber 7, 14, 21 and 28, Rate, 817.00 from South Danville. Train leaves South Danville at 12:10 p. m., con necting with special from New York arriving St. Louis 4:15 p. m., next day. SCHREYER STORE CO. j SCHREYER STORE CO. The Best Shoes for the Money. New Fall and Winter Styles are Here. What you are looking for and what we always bear in mind in Inly ing footwear is shoe excellence—and that is why our shoes arc noted for wearing qualities, perfection of fit, style and comfort us well as very moder ate prices. Our winter weights are now here and a prettier and better line has never came to Milton. When you want the best style and tho easiest and the longest wearing shoes, Schreyer's have them with no higher price than others charge. Men's Shoes. Ralston Health shoes, made in patent colt skin, lx>x and wax calf, lace or button, in the new style toe, they have the cork insole and water proof sole, Schreyer Shoes, 2.(X), 2.60, 8.00, 3.50 in patent, roll or dull finish leathers, heavy doable sole, straight lace or blucher cut, full line of the new narrow toe for dread. 1.50 Gold Rond working shoe double sole blucher cut, always guaranteed to be satisfactory to the wearer. 1.25 Men's Dress Shoos in lace or congress, tip and plain toe, good quality of leather. Boys', Youths' and Little Gents'. 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, Hand sewed foot form shoes are favorites for the growing foot, lace and blucher out, i»ox calf and patent, sizes, 8 toss. 1.00, 1.25, 1.50 Seaui'oss school shoes, no seams to rip. solid bottoms, double sole, mostly with steel slugged bottom on sole. Ladies' Stylish Shoes. llerrick Shoes embody elegance in appearance, wear resisting qualities, and easy fitting made in patent colt, wax will" and vici kid, straight lace, blucher and button styles, a full line in the new I'otay last the newest toe out, 2.50, 3.00, .'5.50. 2.00 lines in ladies art the showiest line ever opened at the price in this vic inity, patent and wax calf, lace and button, wide extension soles, just as much style as high priced makes. 1.00, 1.25 Fine Dress Shoes in dongola kid, extension soles, good wearing qualities. Dress Goods for Fall Wearing. We shall exert every effort to make this the largest and best season in dress goods the store has ever known—our buyer, Miss Allen, while in New York last week purchased the prettiest and nobbiest line that the ladies' ot this section have ever had the opportunity to inspect. They are coming in rapidly now stnil there will be startling values offered at our store in the stylish fabrics, qualities that vou will scarcely believe it possible to be sold at the price we will mark them. The new shadings of browns and blues l>esides the ever staple blacks, many mannish effects for tailored suits, the new Panama Cloths will be the great novelty of the season and extra values in Mohairs. October Delineators—just in—shows fall styles in handsome colored fashion plates, grand literary features. liutterick Patterns never prove a misfit—they're safest. Lambrequins and Linen Covers. Lambrequins of fine quality flowered satten, fringed on three sides, 2 widths 25c and 50c. Bureau and Side board linen covers, open drawn work and heinstitceing, 75, 89c, 1.25; Linen Stand Covers, henstitched, 89c; hemstitched and embroidered. I.(so;—some are square, some round. Basement Attractive Values. It pays to buy a good clothen wringer—the guarantee is a safe guard against all imperfections, and the ball bearing kinds means the saving of exertion and strength. We sell Horse Shoe Brand l>ecause they have proven to be the most satisfactory. 5 year guarantee, 3.25, with ball l>earing, 3.75. 3 year guarantee, 2.89, with hall bearing, 3.25. 1 year guarantee, 2.25, with ball bearings, 2.50. Wringers not guaranteed at 1.49. Folding Wash Benches, holds two tnbs and wringer at 1.25. Boss Kotary Wiuiber, 0.08, usually retails at 8.00; "1000" Washer the marvel of simplicity and so easy a child can operate it d.98. Optimus Washer at 7.08, usually 0.00, Uneeds Washer with gearing on top 3.08; All kinds wash l>oards, zinc, glass, brass and encmal, 15, 20, 30, 35 and 40c. Christmas Toys, almost every day brings us a shipment of the new lines of toys for holiday selling, whenever a doll or a toy is wanted our stork is ready for use. 60-Carts and Carriages, largest assortment of styles and prices in town, compare our prices with others and you will know why it will pay to come here. New ones just arrived. Then, too, we keep express wagons, velici pedes for lioys and girls, wheel barrows and doll carts. Enamelled Ware, enr new fall line will be opened in a few days, prices cheaper than ever before—no dearer than what others charge for second qualities and our line will positively not chip off, double coated ware. Notion Counter, in basement too proves to be a success—the prices are the inducements—the little things at cut prices is what you find. Ladies' Coats A Price Opportunity. 15.00 Values for 10.00, Brand new coats too; our buyer while in New York had an opportunity to purchase a small lot at a wonderful low nrice. Won't tell you now how nicely they are made and lined, hut hope you will be interested en ough to call and see them for they arc regular 13f.00 values to be sold for 10.(X). Our New Lines of Fine China. An unusually pretty line of good grade of China and very low prices, to see it is to appreciate it far l>etter than to tell about it. Salads, tiuted, heavy gold lines and edges perfect flower decorations 10, 25, 30, 49, 51), 60c, 1.00, 1.39, 1.50. Cake Plates, flower decorations in center with heavy gold borders, edges tinted, with raised flowers in gold, 2 handles, 1.00, 2.25. Celery Trays handsome flower decorations, gold traced, 1.00 and 1.19 set. Olive* Dishes, flowered and tinted, 19, 25, 50, 75c. Individual Olives, 15, I'.), 25c. Sugar and Cream Sets tinting and neat little flower decorations 25 and 50c 30.00 value in Dinner Set for 25.00 : 25.00 value for 20.00; 100 pieces, extra large meat plate. Seperate plates, Cups and Saucers, Ice Cream Sets, Pudding Sets, and many others in fine china. At the Notion Counter. Strong lines of Wrist Bags, Neckwear, Belts, in tho newest styles and novel ties at prices that are very low indeed for such pretty kinds. Furniture Buyers, Notice. Our Furniture offerings are going to lie money saving prices. We arc opening the best assortment stock in town. Every day brings new lot. Little Prices on Groceries. Granulated Sugar, 25 lbs. for 1.25, 10 lbs. for 50c, another carload again. Wo sell a good roller flour at 1.30, or 25 lbs. for 05c. On Saturday and Monday, Sept. 17 and 19. Good Chocolate, 12c, cake of J lb. Gold Dust, 10c for the 25c package; 40c for a 10 lb. bucket white Fish, usually 50c; Country Rendered I.ard, 10c lb. Lion Coffee, 12c, Arbuckles, 13c lb. Schreyer Store Co. Front St. -- MILTON, Pi -- Elm St. SUBWAY TAVERN DENOUNCED Methodist Minister Calls It a Third-Rate Bowery Saloon. At the Methodist Preachers' Meet ing, at No. 150 Fifth avenue New York, after the speaker for the day the Rev. Harvey Wood, of the Na tional Temperance Society, had con demned the Subway Tavern, the Rev. Dr. F. C. Iglehart said: "One of the most ridiculous as well as terrible things in recent times in this city has been the spectacle of the sanctification of the low-down, greasy Bowery saloon called the Subway Tavern. Thinking that the establish ment might have been misrepresented, I visited it myself. I did not find the slightest evidence there of the re spectability claimed for it, in building decorations, bar, bottles, customers or atmosphere. 1 do not know what a first-class saloon looks like, except lor the glimpse I have had through swinging doors, but in comparison I should call the Subway Tavern a third-rate saloon." Making Friends Every Day. This can truthfully be said of JKLL o ICE CRF.AM POWDER, the new pro duct for making the most delicious ice cream you ever ate; everything in the package. Nothing tastes BO good in hot weather. All grocers are plac ing it in stock. If your grocer can't supply you send 26c. foi 2 packages by mail. Four kinds: Vanilla, Cho colate, Strawberry and Untlavored. Address, The Genesee l'i re Food Co., Box 295, Le Hoy, N. Y. CHICKEN FINrS $2,000 GEM Indusirlous Fowl Scratches Up u Dia mond Lost Ten v ears. Ashcville, N. C., Sept.. 9.—A chicken scratched up Mrs. William Marion Smather's $2,000 diamond, after it had lain In the earth ten years. The stone was lost by Mrs. Smathers while visiting relatives in Great Barrington. Mrs. Smathers was then Miss Rebecca Loring Kenonff, and she was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Wright Crippen. A diligent search for the diamond was kept up for months afterward. An Agreeable Surprise. The home of Mr. and Mrs. David Smith, near White Hall, was taken by storm last Saturday night, their friends aid neighbors from all parts of the country having gathered into celebrate the 00th anniversary of Mr. Smith's birth. Notwithstanding the dark night nnd threatening weather, by 9 p. in.the large house was filled to its utmost, and the lawn and veranda, which .surrounds three sides of the house, were lined from one end to the other with yooiig people, who sought this occasion to have a good time. Tiiore were about 2. r >o pfjople present, among whom wero He A". Muuro, of White Hall; Mr. Samuel I'aul, of Phila delphia, and Mr. Win. We'sh, of Turl>ot ville. Refreshments '#ere served. All enjoyed the nuisic fur wished by Messrs. Amos Johnson and Rishel. Alto gether, it waa a gra fid success. FRIEND. PARKER ABOUT TO SPRING SENSATION May Goto New York for the Purpose- Startling Rumors Concerning It. Esopus, Sept. 12.-It is reported that Mr. Parker will soon make tin announcement of great political im portance. About its nature there were startling rumors, none of which can bo confirmed. Mr. Parker him self refuses to say anything except that whatever statement or announce ment he has to niuke will be made when lie is ready to make it. Ho may goto Now York for this purpose within a few days. In the mean time there are mauy conflicting rumors, from which it is safe only to make the modest predic tion that there is going to be an im portant change in the attitude and situation. In the series of important political conferences which have been going on at Itosemount for several days to day's was given to David B. Hill. Mr, Hill has persistently kept away from a private conference with Mr. I'arker ever since the good telegram to Shce han and Mr. Sheehan's public state ment that Judge Parker l.ad not tele graphed on any subject to Mr. Hill at St. Louis. The afar olTncss of I tic lolatlons be tween Mr. Hill unci Mr. Parker has been well known in poli ical circles, also the fact that their ideas as to the conduct of the campaign ami the make up of the Statu tic ket «lid not coincide. Kumor has gonj so far as to affirm that this is a real reason for Mr. Hill's announced withjrawed. Mr. Hill arrived from Albany 011 the noon train, lie was (net by the L'arker wagonette. The call was sud den and had been quickly arranged by Mr. Parker over the telephone af ter last night's conference with Messrs. Slicchan and Belmont, which lasted until 2 o'clock. Mr. Hill stayed until the evening train to Albany. He refused to say anything about the conference except that it was not concerning the State ticket. Burdette on the Saloon. Robert J. Burdette, who is now the popular pastor of a Baptist church in Los Angeles, made the following sturdy and sensible speech in that city recently, before the W. C. T. U.: "About the power of prohibitory laws to prohibit—the laws of the .State against murder do not entirely prevent murder. But nevertheless, I am opposed to licensing one murderer to ever so many thousand persons, even on petition of a majority of the property-owners in the block, that we may have all the murder that is de sirable in the community under wise regulations, with a little income for the municipality. I believe in the absolute prohibition of murder. "The laws of the country prohibit ing stealing do not entirely preveut stealing. Nevertheless, lam opposed to a high-license system of stealing, provided that all theft shall be re stricted to certain authorized thieves, who shall steal only between the hours of say 6 A. M.and 11:30 P. M., except Sunday, when no stealing shall be done except by stealth, en trance to be made in all cases on that day by the back door, tnd at the thief's risk. I believe 111 laws that absolutely forbid theft ntnny hour, or on any day in the week. "And, on the same ground, and just as positively, do I believe in the prohibition of the liquor traffic. And I never said I didn't. And I did say that I did. And I DO. "I do say that the best way to make a man a temperate man is to teach him not to drink. But a saloon is not a kindergarten ot sobriety. Your town is uuder no obligation to any saloon. All that it is, in respect ability and permanent piosperity, it has grown to be without the assist ance of the liquor traffic. "If the saloon men insist iu quot ing me on this topic, let them com mit this to memory, that they may repeat it as they need it: Ido not know one good thing about the saloon. It is an evil thing that has not one redeeming tiling in all its history to commend it to good men. It breaks the laws of God and man. It dese crates the Sabbath; it profanes the name of religion; it defiles public or der; it tramples under foot the tendcr est feelings of humanity; it is a moral pestilence that blights the very at mosphere of town and country; it is a stain upon honesty; a blur upon purity; a clog upon progress; a check upon the nobler impulses; it is an in centive to falsehood, deceit, and ' 'Search through the history of this hateful thing, and read one page over which some mother can how her grate ful head and thank God for all the saloon did for her boy. There is 110 such record. All its history 19 writ ten in tears and blood, with smears of i:hame and stains of crime, and dark blots of disgrace." —Selected. Hughesvllle Fair. Account Hughesvllle Fair Scptom 20tb t» 23rd, the Reading Railway •will sell excursion tickets to Hughcs •ville at rale of atiout single fare for round trip from Newberry, Mt. Car :uicl, Catawissa, Hloomsburg and in termediate ticket stations, with a minimum of 60 cents. Those tickets ■will be sold for all trains September 20th to 28rd Inclusive and will be good for return until September 24th i inclusive. ROMANCE BEGUN AT BIRTH ENDS IN WIDOWHOOD AT 14 Love Affair Started When Hrownlov Was 9 and Eva 0 Terminates Sadly. Cincinnati, Sept. 9.—A romance which had its origin nt the cradle fourteen years ago, when Brownlow King, then niue, fell in love with Eva Wilson, a liny bright-eyed baby whom he rocked to sleep daily and whom he afterward married, came to light to-day with tho arrival of the young girl, now a widow, at her mother's home, No. 1817 Vine street. Eva Wilson King wed at thirteen, is a widow at fourteen and is still in short dresses, with brown curls hang ing down her back. Her marriage took place at Anderson, S. (J., where both families lived. "My husband loved mo from tlio time I was a few days old, and was an almost constant companion, even when I was a mere baby, so mother tells me," said Mrs. King to-day. ''lie always considered the privilege of rocking me in the cradle u great favor." The young widow exj acts to enter the public schools in i few months and has come to her n. other's home that she may have her I aby cared for properly while she completes her education. Sat., Sept. 17, on the premisses in Mahoning twp., one mile east of Dan ville, the heirs of the la!? Bam'l Fonst will sell the real estate, eo isisting of 100 acres, on which is a 2-s-ory dwelling, bank barn and outbuildings. Sale to commence at 2 p. in. M. Breckbill, Allot'r. A change of air will uot cure the heart of sin. Slcer, Bull or llorse I KHaf hide, Calf skin, Dog B SjKw skin, or any other kind K of hide or skin, and let M KShB us tan it with the hair B WsiwH on, soft, light, odorless B MtBBB and moth-proof,forrobe, eSsS rug, coat or gloves. But first Ret our Catalogue, HfrCfl giving prices, anil our shipping HSjjjjja j-.s avoid mistakes. We' hi so buy raw furs and uinseng. r ' TUE CROSBY FRISIAN Fl>R COMPANY. 116 Mill Street, Rochester, N. Y. Special Fares to Bt. Louis via Lackawanna. The following fares are authorized by the Lackawanna Kailroail via all direc routes and good 011 all trains. Season ticket limited for return to Dee. 10th—533.20. 00 clay ticket $27.70; 15 day ticket, $22.75. Stopover will be allowed at Niagara Falls and Chicago not to exceed ten days. Arrangements have been made for the through movement ol chair and sleeping cars from Scranton to St. Louis without change. LABiESI Dr. LaFrat co's "i Compound 112 Powerful Combination. Successfully used by r '.'CO,OOO women. Price ST-O. Dru splits, I or by mall. LaFranco & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 2 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Harry IT. IlebcrUnff, late of Washing* |tonvitle Borough, the above es tate. having been granted to he undersigned nil persons knowing themsr ves indebted to *ald estate are lummy reipu ted to make im mediate settlement and tho 1 - • having elalms nre notified to present them. 1 roperly authen ticated for payment, to JOHN O. HKHtiltMN' . Adminstrator Wotthingtoi Ir'illo, I'M. jJXEUUTIUX'B NOTICES. Estate of IJonham It. Qcarhat, late of Dan vitte, Pa., deceased. Notice is hereby given th. t letters testa mentary upon the estate »»• the said H. lw. Ueurhart have been grantto the under signed. All persons indebt* ! to said estate are requested to make pay* ent, and those having claims or demands ainst the same will make them known without delay to MARY LOUISA GKARHAM', Executrix, Danville, • a. Or to HOHKKT U GEAUIIATIT at First Nut ma! Bank Da ville, Pa. NOliM ANY TRUST Many newspaprrs havo Into'7given currency to reports by Irresponsible putties to thoefTeel tlmt THE NEW HOMO SEWINI MACHINE CO had entered n trust or comb.natlon; wo wish to assure the public tluit there is no truth in such reports, we nave bco.i manufacturing sewing machines for over a qmrterofa centu ry and have established a refutation for our selves and our machines Hint is the envy of all others. Our "New Horn " machine has never been rivaled as a fan ily machine.—lt stands at the head ©fall Hi ft * Grade sewing machines, and stands on Its t-ivn merits. The "A'etr Home" is the only realty IIJGH GRADE Sctci-ia Machine ( - on the market• It is not necessary for us to enter into a trust to save our credit or pay any d