DANVILLE INTELLIGENCER. VOI, LXXVI. WHY NOT FORT AOGUSTA: Few people perhaps are aware of the ! rich historical interest that centers | arouuri a noraber of points iu this see- i lion of the Susquehanna Valley. Fol- | lowing the course of the river, many ! places can be pointed out that prominently iu tl.e early history of the State, notable among these is the site of old Fort Augusta near Suubory. The fortification was erected by the proprietary authorities in 1750 for the purpose of affording protection to the frontier settlements and friendly lu diaus against the inroads of French and Indians, who had begun to work havoc in the State after Braddock's defeat in 1765. As a strategical point in Indian warfare.its location was ex* rellent. Situated at the confluence of the two brauohes of the river, it com imanded a view of the country for miles 4n every quarter that hostile parties •could approach. No heavy fighting was done here. The strength of the post prevented a number of attacks that >had been plauned against it, but for •oyer a quarter of a century the farm •er§ of what are now Montour, North umberland,Union and Snyder counties fled to the fort for protection with their families and live stock, when re 3>orts that scalpiug parties of Indians were in the viciulty were brought to the settlements. It frequently hap ponded that these sottlerß were oblig ed to remain here for months, in tents pitched ou the level country around the fort, aud go out in small parties to work their fields. •Little of the old fortification remains. The magazine, the well aud the com uiandant's mansion are still intact. .For a long time the place was neglect ed. The mansiou, familiarly known as the "spook house"was the abode of tramps for years, aud the inside casing of the magazine was partially • torn out to make a toundatiou for a utable. A few years ago, the property was bought by Mrs. Amelia Gross, au English woman. It now serves her as one of the most handsome residences in Sunbury, She has picked up a nam r of curious relics of the place and arranged them iu conppiouous places about her apartments. The interested viaitor is cordially received and en tertained at length by splendid descrip tions of the fortress and the collection of relics. The universal quostion wi:h all who have seen the place is, *' Why is not this historic old spot owned by the State?" Steps have beeu taken in that direction, hot for lack of concert ed action,nothing has been done. Hon. K.S. Ammerman expressed himelf some time go as being iu favor of a State appropriation to purchase the property aud preserve it as one of the most im portant landmarks of Colonial history in the State of Pennsylvania. The State has done well to set apart the battle field of Gettysburg, the Camp at Valley Forge aud other historic places as public reserves,why not Fort Augusta? Enjoyable Party. An enjoyable party was given at the home of Mr. aud Mrs. Robert Mo- Craoken, near Pott«grovc, ou Tuesday evening. Those present were: Mr. aud Mrs. Miles Bitierand son|Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Rob rt McCrackeu, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gprriuger, and daughter Edna, Mrs. and Mrs. Harvey Rudy and daughter Jennie, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heddings, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Springer, Thomas Bitier, James Smithers, Misses Jennie, Miunie and Nettie Byere, Heleu Bowman, Nora Long, Naucy aud Flora Fruit, Carrie, Verna, Mary McCracken, Julia Stack hoote, Mary Miller, Susie Barnick, and Minnie Erwiu of Catawissa; Messrs. William Long, John Fruit, Joseph Zartraan, John and Charles Mo- Crackeu,William Bitier, Peter Stump, Dennis, Jacob ana Charles Springer, Freeman Robhins, Fredrick Springer, •Charles Boyer aud Alexander Maddis. .Refreshments were served during the I evening. A Souvenir With a History. Lewis Williams, the niue years old 'Bon of W. C. Williams, proprietor ot the Baldy House, a few days ago, be came the repossessor of a souvenir post al oard that has a history. In Decem ber 1903, Lewis mailed the card to Ed ward Reynolds,a former Danville boy, mow au engineer on board of a United States warship, sailing iu Chiuese waters. The souvenir was a picture of 'Christ Episcopal ohorch, this city, just as it came from the pross. It was *ent Mr. Reynolds as a 1004 New Year's greeting, and it has beeu re turned to the sender wouderfully trans ferred and beautified A Chinese art- | iet has changed the pretty church by j doing the picture in maguificeut col- j ors, creating a harmony that makes it ! a gem. Do You See the Moral. A woman in a neighboring towu bought a new tangle 1 coffee pot from a peddler. Iu the evening 6he showed it to her husband, a hardware dealer, who told h»r he kept the same thing in his store for half the price she had paid. "Well," said she, "why don't you advertise? Nobody ever knows what you have for sale." Noah After the Flood. Planted the first froit, the grape,the modt healthy of all the products of the earth. Speer, the oldest wiue grower in " tho U. S., has viueyards ot the Por tugal Grape from which his wines are folly matured by great age aud valu able for weakly persons in hot weath er. 'YOUNG MAN i HELD A PRISONER Tlie river was the scene of several startling events on Saturday,the result ' of people being in too inaoh of a hurry j to test the strength of the newly form \ ed ioe spanning the broad stream. Tne lirst visitors were R. F. D. mall carriers Bert MoOlare aud Clyde Start z I. The former broke through the ice at a very ilaugeroos plaoe near the middle of the.river.aud would, doubt, less, have drowned had not the latter suooeeded in getting him out of the water. In assisting his companion, Mr. Startzel narrowly escaped breaEing through himself several times, and af ter the feat was aooomplished both men found it difficult to return to shore without a repetition of the trou ble they iiad gone through. They suc ceeded in doing so,though, after wliioh Mr. McClure seoured a change of clothing aud then in oompany with Mr. Startzel, went to South Danville via Northumberland, to deliver the mail that narrowly escaped going un der the ice. Shortly after this a young man named Frank Lewis had an adven ture on the river, one whioh he will likely remember for some years to come. In company with Qalen Morgan, Lewis, at 9 o'olock, walked across ttie new bridge to the present terminal,then descended a ladder with the view of crossing over to this side if the ice was strong enough to oarry them. It only took Mr. Morgan a few seconds to disoover that it wasn't,and he returned to tbe bridge. Lewis was of the opposite opinion. He thought he aonld get over all right with a lit tle caution, and made the start. A glance convinoed him that it woald be impossible to oross straight over. An air hole and a long, broad pieoe of very thin ice obstrnoted that aoarse. Thene would have to be pass ed aronnd and to do that necessitated a long journey np the river to a point opposite the terry landing. He moved slowly,when he went at all. Frequent stops were made to test the strength of the ioe ahead,before risking his weight upon it. At the expiration of au hour he arrived at the point up stream for which he had been so long striving to reach. There his nerve deserted him somewhat. He was afraid to either proceed or go back. Fiually he decided to crawl over the spot he fearod to walk upon. Failing in that he attempted to creep the other way with like result. Then he would stand up for awhile and throw lumps of ice in advance of him, witli a view of finding the safest path way. After he had remained inaotive for a short time as though planning the next best move, he resumed th crawling aot, first going one way and then another. His various changes of position, during whioh for a space of over half an hour, he did not travel the length of himself in any direotion, showed the many watching him from the Danville side of the river that he wan surrounded by dauger and afraid to move far in any direotion. Meroury was only a few degrees above zero. His position from the Bliore looked perilous in the extreme. The ice was iu suoh a position that it seemed impossible for any one to goto his rescue. "If he can't cross to this side nobody call oross to him," and "If he don't drown he will freeze to death pretty Boon," were few of the remarks made by the spectators on shore. Then it wai that Daniel Ross found a key to the problem. Taking with hini a long pole for the two fold pur pose of feeliug his way aoross the treaoherous ioe and to use it to help himself out in case he broke through, he started slowly iu the direction of the imprisoned man. He succeeded in reaohiug Lewis and iu piloting him safely to shore. The latter had been on the ice nearly two hours,and when he reached shore he said that he was not suffering from his long exposure to the oold. Death of John Gasklns. John Gaskius, a Oative of Danville, and oonnected for many years with the iron industries iu this city,died at 12 o'olock Sunday night. Last winter he sustained a bad fall aud never fully recovered. About two weefeß ago a complication of diseases developed that reßnlted in his death, Mr. Oaskins was 69years of age.and spent the greater part of liis life in Danville. At the age of fourteen years he entered the employ of Waterman and Beaver, and remained with that firm for twenty-five years, filling a number of responsible positions. At one time he resided in Kingston and later in Tyrone,his absence from Dan ville ooverlug a period of sixteen years. The deceased is survived by his wife and four children: Mrß. John O. Brown, of Meriden, Conn ; Hurley, of Los Angeles,Oal., and Ralph and Miss Bertha of this oity. Walker—Hurley. Harry T. Walker and Mies Maud -M. Hurley both of this city,weie married |at the parsonage of St. Matthew's | Lutheran church, Bloomsburg, Mou- I day evening, by the Rev. John E. By | ers. The couple were attended by Mrs. ' Harry Fields and Mrs. Walter Fields of this city. Upon the return of the bride and groom to this city they were present ed with a check for (300 by Mrs. Jeu ' nil) Walker,mother of the groom. Mr. | and Mrs. Walker will reßide iu this oity. TLKDGKD BUT TO TBUTH, TO ÜBKBTT AHB IO.W—HO FAVOR BWAYB US AND NO FSAS BHAIA AWE* DANVILLE. MONTOUR COUNTY. PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1905 WOMEN HELP DESERVING POOR Since the reorganization of the Wo man's Benevolent Association about a month ago the members of the society have been laboring with a zeal that in most commendable. But notwithstand ing tho energy and determination with which the women enter into the work, they are so greatly hindered by a laok of funds that the results obtained aro very discouraging. The requests from deserving aud needy persons, mostly widows with large families, have been numerous, but the soceity has beeu unable to sup ply the wants of many because of a laok of funds. Goal, provisions aud olothing are the articles most sought after. The collection at the Union Thanks giving service, which is always given to the Association, amounted this year to (14.25. No othor contributions have beeu reoeived. With these small re sources the women have oarried on the work of relieving the sufferings of the deserving poor. This rnouey has now been exhausted,aud the society is with out any fuuds whatever to carry on the work. The women of the Association ask the people of Danville for contribu tions to the good oause iu whioh they are working. It is only at this one time in eaoh year that they request aid. Iu mid winter thoy ask you to give from your plenty,a rnito to cheer the livos of those who have not even the bare necessities of existence. Many Fouls in Game. A fair sized audience witnessed a game at the Armory last night betweeu Mt. Oarmol and Danville iu whioh one team played baskot ball and lost, aud the other team did not play the game and won. The Una! scoiu was 43-20 in favor of Dauville. The game was a procession of fouls, the greater part being oalled on Mt. Oarmel. There were twenty foulß and thirteen times out of the twenty the visitors wore penalized. The Mt. Oarmel boys were advertis ed as beiug a strong, fast aggregation, I and they were all of that. They pass ed the ball beautifully,aud their team work was close aud fast,but they were rather weak iu shooting goals. They played all around the Dauville team in the first half scoring 14 poiuts to Danville's 10—fouls not counted. The half ended with the score tie at 1(5-16, the iooals having scored on six fouls. In the second half Mt. Oarmel, dis couraged by the insistent aud unneces sary foul calliug.and probably discov ering that no amoout of good playing would give them the game, fell away from the good ball they played in the first half and lost out. Danville did some very pretty goal throwing, making a number of loug aud difficult baskets. The line-up: Mt. Oarmel. Dauville. Larnett forward Hayes Bedea Early forward Welliver MoOale center Sechler F. Barr guard Barry S. Wener guard Poters R. Barr.... guard Goals from field—McOale ft, Early 2, Sechler 7, Hayes Bedea 4, Welliver 2, Peters 2, Barry 1. Goals from fouls —Hayes Bedea 11, B\ Barr 2, Early 2. Umpire, Harry Welliver. Time of halves, 20 minutes. Experiencing Great Trouble. The R. F. D. mail carriers have ex perienced uearly as much trouble this week iu coveriug their routes as they did the day after the late blizzard. Many of the public roads have boeu iu au impassable oonditlou. Supervisors of the several townships have done very little toward opening the thorough fares. Portions of the immense snow drifts which blockaded the highways and obstruoted trafilo of all kiuds, have reoeivcd little attoution. The su pervisors in several of the lowushjpß are derelict in their duties, and the farmers in that sectiou are censured for not compelling them togo to work and open the roads. The farmers expeot their letters aud newspapers to reaoh them promptly, but many of them make little effort iu providing a way for the mail carriers to reach them. And in uot doing so they are breaking a portion of tho agreement they made, when petition ing the government to establish the present rural delivery routes. They agreed to aid in keeping the roads open and they are not doing it. Frequently they have stood on their door steps since the storm, aud watohed the car riers breaking a path through the snow in order to reach their homes to deliv er mail. But they made no attenint to aid Unoie Sam's representatives iu the disoharge of their dnties. They want their mail, but they care veiy , little what difficulties the carrier has to ooutend with to get it to them. Its np to theso farmers now to take some steps toward compelling their Supervisors to open the roads for the mail oarriers. If they do not the government may take the matter iu | hand.and then Bometliing will be doue j and that quiokly. Street Assessments. This is the last week for paying 1 street paving assessments, and after Saturday night all remaining unpaid I will bo placed in the hands of a col ' leotor. About one half of the assess • inents have been receipted for by city olerk Patton, and many more, perhaps ) all, will be paid within the specified time. NEARLY READY TO ORGANIZE Matters incidental to the formation of the niedical Protective Association by tho Montour County Medioal So oiety, are progressing. Nearly every thing i» in shape for organization, the committee having its work about com pleted and its plans formulated. With the view of organizing the physicans will meet in a short time. The move to organize a Medical Pro tective Asson<ation in this countv has stirred up the physicians in other ooun tles in the state, and they hate decid ed to act too aud protect themselves against dead beals by forming similar associations. With that objeot in view they have written frequent letters to the local physioians, requesting in structions aud advice in the matter. In the faoe of all this oomes the in formation of a more glgantio move by physioians. The Amerioan Medioal Association has a bill introduced, in Congress asking for a charter,in order that it may beoome a chartered organ ization and be under the proteotion of the laws ot the United States. Con sequently dead beats will soon find hard traveling all over Uncle Sam's domain, and the service of a physiolan difficult to procure. Will Not be Tolerated. Saturday evening, the Danville and Bloomsburg trolley company did a rushing business. Oars in both direo tious wrre crowded. Everything went smootlil/ until the last oar was en route from Bloomsburg to Danville, then a disturbance took place. Between Bloomsburg aud Grovania an altercation was started between some of the passengers that threatened to cause troublo right there, but It soon quieted down. After passing the latter pl»ae, however, the disturbauoe was renewed, and for a while matters looked Beriouß to tho peacefully dis posed passengers on the car. Loud, boisterous language was indulged in and only the prompt action of cooler heads prevented a general riot and, doubtless,some broken heads.in whioh the iuuooent, likely, would have had to suiter with the guilty. The company is determined that Sat urday night's disturbance shall not be repeated. It will not tolerate any such actions. A corps of offioers will be in waiting to nab the violators when the car stops. Whether that will oocur at Danville or Bloomsburg will depend upon which way the car is going when the tiouble occurs. "A word to the wise should be sufficient." First Used in England. The first rural delivery route was started iu 1897, under President Me- Kinley, as au experiment. The tre mendous sucoesß of the method has been unexampled. However, it must not be assumed that this is a Yankee inven tion. It has been used in European countries for many years,and in Great Britain it lias been extended that there is hardly a distriot so remote that the carrier does not visit it at least onoe a day. The system wan established in the British Isles long before it was begun in tho Uuited Stutes. In its first year in the United States forty-four rural mail routes were es tablished, at a cost of {40,000. The en ormous success of the method is shown by th« fact that for the fiscal year end ed June 30, 1904, nearly thirty million dollars were paid out on rural free de livery account For the fiscal year up on which wu have now entered, {20,- 81 ,(100 have been appropratod for the continuance and extension of the rural mail service. There were 24,666 rural routes in existence at the end of the fiscal year on June 80 last; 9,446 new routes have been put into operation during the fiscal year. On October 1, 1904, there were 27,135 routes establish ed, and the service was being extended at tho rate of about 800 a month. Schedule of Spring Inspections.! The schedule for (he inspections of the Third Brigade have been forward ed to tho United States government, aud the aunounoement of the detail of an army officer to make tho inspection for the War Department may be ex pected at onae. The schedule will nave to be chauged some because of arrange ments now being made to s*nd troops to Washington on Uaroh 4th,but these changes will not affect the schedule of the Twelfth Regiment, whioii is as fol lows : March 23, Company B, Williams port; March 34, Company A, Lewis burg; March 25, Company H, Lock Haveu ; March 27, Company E, Sun bury; Maroh 28, Company D, Will iamsport; Maroh 29, Company F, Dan ville; Maroh 30, Company K, Sun bury ; March 81, Company I and the band, Williainsport; April 3,Company O, Williamsport. The details of the inspection have already been published aud now that the dates an made publio the companies should be very busy in preparation. It is particular ly necessary that the non-oommisslon ed officers should bo thoroughly posted for their patt in the inspection will be considerably more than they have been accustomed to in the past. D. Y. M. Club Sleigh Ride The D. Y, M. Club of this city en joyed a sleigh ride to Mooresburg on Saturday. Those present were: Misses Mary Welsh, Sara Pritohard, Bessie Soidel, Lucretia Berger, Helen Seidel, l'liurza Baynham.Rnth Dietz, Ida Ed moudson, Maty Morgan, Edith Shep person, Helen Hurley, Sara Deibert, Ida Evans aud Wanda Whapham; Ed ward Woli aud Walttr Reese. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR RALLY A rally of the Keystone Leagues of Christian Endeavor, wliiali embraces Danville, Lewisburg, Milton, Dewurt, New Columbia, West Milton and Ma zeppa.wlll be held in the Uuited Evan gelical church at Milton this afternoon and evening. The progrum,which will be interspersed with inspiring music, will be as follows : 2 P. M.—Devotional seivice con ducted by Rev. U. F. Swengel, presi dent. Committee reports. Bible Head ing by Rev. J. A. FOBS. "The Christ ian Endeavor Prayer Meeting," by Rev. L. Dice. 7:80 P. M.—Song service led by A. B. Seal. Devotional, Ray S. Daubert. Chorus by Junior K. L. C. E. "The Lookout Committee in Relation to other Committees," Rov. J. W. Thomp son. Reoitatiou, Miss Crumbling. "The K. L. O. E. and the Temperance Oause," by Rev. E. B. Dunn. "The Outlook for 1905 in Christian Endeav or Work," Rev. E. Crumbling. New License Law. The bill introduced by Senator God oharles in the Seuate provides that in eaoh judioial district containing less than five hundred thousand population the governor shall appoint three exoise commissioners. They are to hold ottioe for five years aud shall he paid salaries based on tho population of their respec tive distriots, as follows : Less thau 40.000, {250; loss than 100,000, |500; less than 200,000,1700; more tiiuu 200,- 000 {I,OOO, with mileage aud other ex penses. The salaries aud expenses are to be paid by the counties. After next January the powers conferred upon the oourtß of granting licenses is trans ferred to the exoise commission. The oommisßion shall conduct publio hear ings of applications for lice nso, having authority to issue subpoenas,etc. From any final order or decree of the com mission granting oi refusirg to grant an appeal may be taken to the Su preme or Superior oourts. The bill makes no change iu the present system of filing aud publishing applications, filing of rtmonstrauces, conduct of hearings, regulations of the sale of liquor and punishing violators. Tour Party Next Sunday. The party of Sabbath School work ers now touring the State under the auspices of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association will be iu Danville noxt Sunday. The tour party consists of six por sons.all of whom are experienced Sun day School workers. The parry also includes a male quartet. Hugli Cork, of Philadelphia,the General Secretary of the State Ausociation; W. G. Lau des, of Philadelphia, State Field Sec retary ;Mlss E.G. Lincoln,of Philadel phia, W. J. ErJmaii, D. D., of Ger muntown.lrvin C. Van Dyke,of Hunt ingdon and George F. Sawlo.of Arena, Wis., will accompany the party. The members of tho party will ad dress the congregations at the different churches Sunday morning and even ing. Sunday afternoon at 3 :30 o'< lock a mass meeting of the Sonday School workers of Danville will be held iu the Pine Street Lutlieian ohurch. At this meeting the quartet will sing, and addresses will be made by Mr. Cork, Mr. Landes and Dr. Erdmau. Death of Rabbi flayer. The Rev. Adolph Mayer, formerly pastor of the Benai Zion congregation of this oity, died Friday moruing at the home of his son, the Rev. Eli Mayer, 263 Berkley street, Philadel phia. Rabbi Mayer was 61 years of age,and was a native ot Germany. He came to this country in early life. His resi dence in Danville covered a period of thirteen years, and during that timo his happy disposition won him a host of frieuds who will learn of his death with much regret. Last February the Rev. Mr. Mayer was compelled to resign as pastor of Benai Zion congregation on aocouut of ill health. He spent most of the past year in Baltimore. His condition gradually grew worse aud a complica tion of diseases developed a few months ago. No Trace of Johnson. After having writteu to all his rela tives throughout the oouutry the con viction is growing firmer that Charles JoliDßon, the Oatawissian who so mys teriously disappeared while on hiH way home from Bloomsbnrg to before Christinas, has met with ac cidental death or wait thu victim of foal play. Johnson has a number of relatives throughout the country, iuclading a number in the west, ami to each rela tive to whose home it was thought he might possibly have gone letters ex plaining his disappearance were sent, > but the answer from all was to the efleot that they had seen nothing of him, bat that if he did turn op the family would at once be informed. j Below Zero Saturday Night. Sunday morniug was one of the cold est of the season, ttie theimouietors in tiiis city varying from 10 to 13 degrees below zero. Places nearby report even lower temperatures. At Millvilie the thermometer registered 20 degrees bo low zero, and Ht Benton 14 degrees be low. All day yesterday the mercury was way down, hut toward evening it rose some,registering 18 degrees above at the Moutour House at 12 o'clock iMt night. DR. |. 11. DARLINGTON CHOSEN BISHOP The spooial convention of the Dio cese of Harrisburg of the Protestant Episcopal church held a busy session at St. Stephen's ohuroh, Harrisburg, yesterday for the purpose of selecting a bishop for the new Diucese to succeed the Rov. Dr. William T. Manning, of New York, who was elected at a con vention held at Lancaster reoently and declined. The candidates were as follows : Rev. Frederiok F. Reese, D. D.,ieo tor of Christ church, Nashville, Tenn. Rev. James Henry Darlington, D. D , rector of Christ ohuroh, Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. Paul Matthews, dean of St. Paul's cathedral Cinciunatl, Ohio. Kev. Charles F. Willams, D. £>., dean of Trinity cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. William Frederick Faber, rec tor of Qrace chorob, Lookport, N. Y. Rev. William H. Van Allen, D. D., rector of the Oharob of the Advent, Boston. Thirteen ballots were taken before a choice was made. At 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon a ten minutes recess was declared during the progress ot the twelfth ballot in order to allow the clerical delegates to disouss the situa tion. The recess stretohed to thirty minutes aud at the end of that time the twelfth ballot was taken. It show ed that Dr. Darlington had gained two of the olerioal votes. O. Lame Mun son, Esq., of Williamsport, a lay dele gate, then took the floor and made an earnest appeal, saying that the united support of the delegates is necessary to a successful Diocese. He said that the votes already cast for Dr. Darlingtou represented three-fourths of the com municants in the Diooeße. This appeal produced the desired result, the elec tion of Dr. Darlington being made unanimous after the thirteenth ballot. Dr. Darlington has been rector of Christ ohuroh, Brooklyn, N. Y., for twenty.two years and has been remark ably successful. For many years he was chaplain of the 47th Regimont,N. Y. National Quard. He makes lots of friends and IB a good preacher and a great worker. Christ ohurch, Brook lyn, is the largest parish iu that Dio oeso,having 2000 comunioants and over (1000 attendants. Dr. Darlington was born in Brook lyn, N. Y.,in June, 1856 and is there fore 43 years of age. He is in the prime of life aud has taken pereoual control of all the details of his large parish. He graduated at the New York University in 1877. Then spent three years at Prinoeton college in speoial study, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and has sinoe re ceived tho degree of Dootor of Divin ity from the N. Y. University, where lie was appointed as lecturer. He is a member of the Exeontive Committee of the Church Congress, chairman of the Ohurch Bnilding Fund of his Dio oese and was Archdeacon of Brooklyn for many years. Dr. Darlington is a prayerbook churchman without frills or eooentrioi tit's with a large oharity for the feel ings aud opinions of others. Both Mrs. Darlington and he are descendants of old Colonial families aud will be pop ular iu the uew Diocese. The Harris burg Diocese is fortunate indeed inse ouring Dr. Darlington for Bishop. Few Cases of Truancy. There does not appear to be mnoh complaint about truancy in this city, yet there are jome heads of families who are not as regardful of the oom pulaory school law as they should be. or as the welfare of their ohildren would require. They are not sufßoi outly insistent upon regular attend ance. Parents are responsible for the appearance of their children at lohool. The penalty for dereliotion in this matter, under the law, is fine and im* prisonment,but even a law officer does not care to see it inflicted upon par ents, though they may be cclpably negligent of a most important doty. Instead of punishment the gentler mea sure of persuasion is commonly resort ed to, hut when that fails more heroio measures may be adopted. It!■ un fortunate if this is necessary, for it means trouble to the delinquents and oxposure in the newspapers when snoh cases are ventilated. The Stite wants every one of its children to receive an eduoation. That is why it has passed school laws, and made provisions to enforce the attend ance of pupils. Right thinking par ents are auxious that their offspring should be well educated,and they even make saorifious, if necessary, to bring that about. Surely, when an eduoation is offered to overy child in the com munity, without mouoy and without price, it is the bounden duty of all parents to see that such opportunities shall not be thrown away. Orange Officers Installed. Danville Orange, No. 57, P. of H., met Saturday afternoon at the home of A. C. Mauser, Oooper township, and iui tailed ofHoere for the present year. I Mr. Mauser was mado master of the grange,aud meetings will be held reg ularly at his residence on the aeoona and fourth Saturday of taoh month. Pomona Orange, No, 31, of Uontour and Northumberland coonties, will hold its regular quartorly meeting, lu Urand Army Hall, this oity, on Wed nes lay, February 15. The distriot com prises about twelve granges, and a ! good turnout on the part of the mem bership is expected at tho meeting. MONTOUR COUNTY FARMS'INSTITUTE The Montour Oouuty Farmers' In stitute, under the auspices of the De partment of Agriculture of Pennsyl vania, will be held in the Methodist ohuroh, ' Washingtonville, February 13th and 14th. Although these Insti tutes nre designed and conducted for the education aud advantage of farm ers, yet all who ure interested are In vited. The program follows: MONDA Y AFTERNOON, 1:80. Call to order. J Prayer—Rev. Bryuer. Muiio. " Address of Welcome— O. V. Amer ican, Danville, Pa. Response—Hon. Thomas J. Phillips, Ohester County, Pa. "The EffeotofFeed on the Quantity and Quality of Milk"—Prof. Wells W. Cooke, Washington, D. C. "Renewed Fertility, How to Qet It"—Hon. Thomas J. Phillips,Chester County. "Breeding, Feeding and Profit in Hogs"—Amos B. Lehman, Franklin County. "The Horse, His Origin and What He Demands"—Dr. E. E. Tower, Vet erinarian, Susquehanna County. Music. Adjournment. EVENINGS 7 :15. "Our Insect Frieuds and Foes"— Amos B. Lehman. "Feeding from the Silo Throughout the Year"—Prof. Wells W. Cooke. Musio. Recitation—Miss Rogers. "The Farmor Should be a Business Man"—Hon. Thomas J. Phillips. Recitation—Miss Appleman. Music. Adjournment. TUESDAY MORNING, 9:30. Music. Question Box. "The Value of Farm Manure and How to Retain it"—Prof. Wells W, Cooke. "Tuberculosis"—Dr. E. E. Lower. "Commercial Fertilizers, Their Na ture and Use"—Hon. Thomas J. Phil lips. "Comparison of Profits; Dairy vs. Beof Cattle"—Amos B. Lehman. Musio. Adjournment. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 1:80. Musio. Question Box. "Forago Crops an a Substitute for Pasture"—Prof. Wells W. Cooke. "The Ohloken, a Source of Profit" —Hon. Thomas J. Phillips. "Infections Diseasos of Farm An imals"—Dr. E. E. Lower. " Legumes for Feed aud Fertility"— Amos B. Lehman. Musio. Adjournment. TUESDAY EVENING, 7:15. Muiso. Question Box. Reoitation—Miss Lelghow. "Handling Milk, and Butter Mak ing"—Prof. Wells W. Cooke. Reoitation—Ambrose Olapp. Musio. "The Wife's Share"—Hon. Thomas J. Phillips. Recitation- Miss Belle Lowrie. Closing Song. Adjournment. darfleld Literary Society. The regular meeting of the Garfield Literary Sooiety was held in £he High School room Friday afternoon, at whioh the following program was reii dered; Piano Solo Miss Jenkins Recitation "Baby in Ohuroh" Miss Cole. Essay "Perseverance Is Success" Mr. Jobbom. Deolamation. ."Part of Garfield's . Speech on Northern Territory" Mr. Ortli. Debate—Resolved, "That the free book system is more harmful than beneficial". Affirmative, Mr. Morris aud Mr. Linker; negative, Miss Steiubrenner and Mr. Shultz. The judges decided in favor of the negative. Song Sooiety Reoitation "My Aunt" Miss Newberry. Oration...." Dauger That Threat- eus Our Nation" Robert Jacobs. Deolamation "The Nation's Need of Meu" Mr. Tanuahill. Reading "A Lightning Story" Mr. Engle. . Meeting of Eligibles Tonight. Oolouel George S. Brown, of Sha mokin, division organizer of the Sons of Veterans, arrived iu Danville yes terday to make the final arrangements for the formation of a lodge of that order in this city. Colonel Brown has for some time beeu endeavoring to interest the sous aud grandsons of Danville veterans in the organization, and a large number have expressed themselves ai being thoroughly in favor of the movemeut, and desirous of becoming members of the order. The oH soldiers are espeoialy anx ious to have a lodge of the Sens of Veterans in Danville. The order is an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Repnblio, and the members are able in many ways to assint the G. A. R. A meeting of eligibles will be held tonight at 7 :3Q o'colck in the Q. A. R. Hall,at which matters preliminary to the formation of a lodge in Dan ville will be dlsoassed. NO. II BRISK BUSINESS FOR MERCHANTS Yesterday was a busy one for th» merchants of Danville. They did • larger business than at any other tim* since the holidays. Stores of every de scription, were well tilled with custom* era from the time they were opened in the morning until late in the after noon. Groceries, hardware and de partment stores, alike, enjoyed an ex tensive trade. What was the reason of suoh a sud den boom? The reader may ask. "Because of the unusnally large number of outsiders in town, " is th« reply. The natural bridge did it. More peo ple visited town yesterday, than at any one time sinoe the break-up in tb« river a mouth ago. And they didn't all come from Riverside either, al though there were vast numbers from that place. They oatuo over in groups and purchased from the raerohanti what they were in need of; in many instances, considerably more. Not knowing how long the present bridge would be passable,or when they might have another opportunity of coming to Danville,they invested heavily in sup plies. Of the many that went acroxa the ice in the direction of South Dan ville yesterday afternoon and evening, few, indeed, were without a buudla 01 large basket, and some were burd ened with both. Among the throng were many farm ers and their families. They had not had a favorable opportunity to orosi the river to Danville for many weeki, and availing themselves of the presait one they came from many sections in Northumberland county. Leaving their teams on the Sonth side, they walked acro-s the ice.and after purchasing ei tensively from the merchants, return ed in the same manner. Today will very likely be a repetition of yesterday. And every day there after as lung as the ice remains. with the exception that: business will be still better when tho natural bridge be comes strong enough to carry teami. The activity inaugurated by the river freezing over, speaks volumes of the need of the new bridge. Every d y that the river can't be orossed aggre gates a loss of thousands of dollars to Danville. Through it the business of the merohauts in this city has been I greatly injured. The amount of money they have failed to roalize on account of South side people being unable to get to town to transact business with them, would nearly if not altogether, have paid for the building of the bridge. " A Qenerous Thelf. As the result of the fire at the Gil laspy House Sunday morning, the pro prietor, J. V. Gillaspy, sustained a heavy loss other than that cansed by the blazo in the toilet room. He was made the victim of a member of that class of the light fingered craft known as generous thieves—those who steal part and leave the remainder to ward off suspioion that anything has been taken. WlieD called down stairs to open the doors so entrance oonld b* gained to tho apartment in whioh the Ore was located, Sunday morning, Mr. Qillaspy was In his room changing hii clothes. Alter he received the start ling summons, he was obliged to draw on a few extra garments before ha oonld rospond to the alarm. Thla h* did hurriedly and started from the room, leaving on a stand a pooket book oontaiuing $l6O. The money wu in two rolls, each in separate apart< meuts of tho pnrse. One contained (100 and the other fGO. The purse was part ly open leaving the latter roll exposed to auy one entering the room, but the larger sum was so concealed as to be invisible even after a close examina tion of the smaller one. When the fire had been extlDguiah ed, Mr. Gillanpy returned to his room to complete his toilet. The pocketbook was still on the stand, apparently 10 the same position he had placed It and sliowiug no indications of having been tampered with Having no suspioion that a robbery had ooourred.lie put tbe purse lu his pooket without examining it. He had no ocoasiou to use any of the money the pocketbook oontained until Monday afternoon, then he dli oovered that some of it was missing. From the s(>o roll of bills the thief had extracted |4l, leaving the owner sl9. He showed a slight generosity, but, perhaps, if he had seen the |IOO roll be would have added a few more dollar* to liis share. Death of William Crlpps. William Cripps, tho well known su perintendent of the State Hospital gaa plant, died Saturday morning at 7:80 o'clock of stomach trouble, after an illness of fonr weeks. Mr. Oripps wan a native of Ireland, and was (S3 yearn of age. He oarne to America in 18(1(1, and had been em ployed at the hospital for thirty years. He was well read, and conld converse most interestingly upon a wide range of topics. He was a member of Uhrist Episcopal chnroh. The deoeased Is survived by four ohildren—Mrs. William Wintersteen, of Mooresbnrg ; Mrs. George Marshall. William and Thomas Oripps, of thli city; and two sisters-Mrs. George Johns and Miss Aunle Cripps. Saturday Is Pension Day. Next Saturday is pension day. Thoo sands of honest and patrlotio veterans of the civil war will sign vouchers for pensions justly due them for service* rendered.
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