DANVILLE'S SUBSCRIPTIONS At the request of the San Francisco relief committee, of Danville, the AUERIOAN gives this morning the list of subscribers and the amounts re ceived up to 7 o'clock last evening. At that time the money subscribed amount ed to *158.36. At the time the list was given to the paper the committee had in view sev eral other subscriptions that would run the total up to at least SOSO. The stove works subscriptions are not in cluded in the following list. One interested $50.00 T. J. Price .50.00 J. H. Goeser & Co 25.00 W. G. Pursel.. 10.00 Lawrence Cotter. ........ 5.00 Cash 6.00 Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Ass'u 25.00 Danville Bible Class 10.00 H. B. Meredith 10.00 P. E. Maus... 20.00 W. S. Lawrence 5.00 A. Lawrence 5.00 Hanev & Frazier ... 5.00 Sam Rebman 5.00 A. C. Amesbury . . 5.00 William J. Rogers ... 5.00 John F. Tooley 5.00 Charles Lyon 2.50 Cash 1.00 John Jacobs Sons 5.00 D. R. Rckman 5.00 W. F. Bell 1.00 U. G. Youngmau 5.00 Howe 1.00 Cash ... 1.00 8. F. Rioketts 1.00 Cash 1.00 W. E. Kane 1.00 G. R. Sechler 1.00 Jos. W. Phillips 2.50 A. G. Harris 1.00 F. M. Owen 1.00 I. O. Lee... 2.50 J. H. Brugler 2.00 E. D. Pentz 2.00 I. Stein 1.00 J. H. GOBS. .. .. 1.00 W. G. Maiers 1.00 Cash 1.00 C. P. Harder 5.00 Cash 1.00 O. M. Leniger 1.00 Mrs. J. B. Jordan 1.00 E. W. Peters .. . 2.50 W. L. Sidler 5.00 George Maiers 1.00 Carl Litz 2.00 L. O. Deitz .. . 1.00 Daniel Marks I.oo' R. Y. Gearhart 5.00 E. M. Shultz 2.00 J. Doster sons 5.00 Joseph Schmidt 1.00 P. C. Murray & Sons 5.00 F. P. Johnson 2.00 H. M. Sober .3.00 G. A. Rossman 1.00 George W. Hoke 1.00 James T. Findley 2.00 Henry Divel 2.00 D. H. Haney 2.00 Cohen Bros 1.00 R. L. Marks 2.00 Harry Ellenbogen 5.00 Elias Maier ... 8.00 E. A. Curry 5.00 Cash .. 2.00 J. W. Lore 1.00 E. S. Miller 1.00 Employes Reading Iron Co .... 8.0!) Employes Tube Works and Howe & Samuels 14.86 Penina Bright 2.00 Rebecca B. Sidler . 2.00 Thomas J. Rogers 5.00 Mrs. W. S. Roberts 5.00 Simon Dreifuss ... 1.00 Cash 1.00 Employes Curry &Co . . 28 26 Alice Smith . . 2 00 W. G. Reese 1.00 John Detweller .50 Frank Detwiler.. .50 Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Eyerly 1.00 Mrs. John Cooper 50 William Spaide .... 1.00 Jacob Weimer .50 F. H. Vannan 5.00 D. B. Heddens 1.00 Samuel Welliver .. 2.00 H. Esterbrook 1.00 James Ryan ... 1.00 8. M. Deitz. 1.00 W. T. Shepperson 2.00 Harvey Dietrich 3.00 Danville Milling Go .. . . 5.00 Wm. David Wise 1.00 Charles Byers 1.50 Clarence E. Peifer 2.00 From box on street 1.25 Oglesby Family 5.00 Dr. J. O. Reod 1.00 E. S. Foruwald 5.00 Box at Elias Maiers 2.75 A. E. Hostelley 1.00 Thomas Lewis 1.00 M. H. Schram 2.50 Gash , 5.00 Gustave Oelschlager . . . 1.00 Edward Hurley .50 W. H. N. Walker .... 1.00 H. L. Gross 5.00 O. P. Hancock 5.00 J. E. Moore 10.00 Rev. E. T. Swartz .. 1.00 J. H. Shannon & wife 2.00 Julius Heim... 2.00 Samuel Bloch 2.00 Total .. ..... 1511.11 FREIGHT TRAIN WAS DYNAMITED WILKES-BARRE, April 25.—A Le high Valley freight train was blown up with dynamite on the cut-off,above Pifcteton, at midnight last night. The engine and several cars were derailed and wrecked. Engineer John R. Thom as,of this city,and Fireman H. Brown of Pittston, were injured in the wreck age. It is believed that some malic ious persons placed a box of dynamite on the track, which exploded when the locomotive struck it. The explosion was terrific, throwing the engine from the tracks and tearing off the tender. Three freight cars were thrown over a steep embankment. A corps of railroad detectives and the county officials are making a searching investigation. Presbytery Statistics. The report made at the spring ses sion of the Presbytery,of Northumber land held at Montgomery, shows that tho number of persons received into the church during the past year was 459, as against 37!) the year before. This gain of 118 members is a gain of twenty-five per cent. The annual ex penses during 1904 was 111(1,000. Last year they were about SIOO,OOO. The re port also showed that only about thirty per cent, of the scholars in the Sun day schools are members of the church es. Only eight societies among the men are at present organized in the entire Presbytery. Pennsy Ships Storage Coal. The coal inspectors Tuesday superin tended the loading of coal from the MoClellan yards of the Pennsylvania railroad company near Millershurg, the storage plant being opened for the shipmenjt of coal. The yard is the largest used for storing hard coal, and the company will ship ISO carloads a day for a short time to supply present ord#r«. ASSOCIATIONS ON THE STREET Certain facts have come to light re lating to improper conduct upon the streets at night, involving our young population, which have thoroughly aroused the chief burgess and the town council. The matter is being deliber ated on and nothing will be clone has tily,but judging from the agitation at present it does not seem unlikely that a curfew ordinance may be enacted in Danville. In dwelling upon the unseemly con duct upou the streets, at night, here tofore the boys have come in for their share of reproach. It now seems that the girls are no better tliau they should be and that their conduct in some parts of town has become so reprehen sible as to cause a public scandal. Burgess Rogers appeared before council at its last meeting to call the attention of that body to reports that had come to him in connection with some of the public dances. Not only did the bad reports involve girls that were considerably under eighteen years of age, but they quite conclusively established the fact that the gentle creatures were drunk. ' A gentleman was present at council meeting, who had attended a number of the dances and without denying the humiliating allegation stated—and his explanation was accepted by council— that the dance was in no way responsi ble for the condition of the girls or any consequent disorder. He admitted that girls of almost any ago are likely to appear at the dance, but lie stated that attendance of girls under eighteen years is discouraged and unless they misrepresent their age to the manage ment they are generally obliged to leave the building. It has occurred that intoxicated females, who imbibed elsewhere, have appeared at the arm ory, but we have the gentleman's word foi it that they were immediately forced to depart. As a result of it all the burgess and council feel convinced that conditions exist on our streets after dark, which no well regirlateil town can afford to tolerate. The police at all times have authority to arrest iiersous intoxicated or guilty of disorderly conduct, but it is pretty evident that something else should be done to improve the condi tions, and to separate young girls—and also boys—from evil associations, which can be accomplished at least in part by keeping them off the street at night. Hence a curfew ordinance sug gests itself. No action was taken by council, but the matter was discussed with much earnestness and was held over for future consideration. Former Townsman a Prospector. A letter has been received from Em erson Keim, son of John Keim, the brick manufacturer. Emerson left Danville a year or so ago and is now prospecting for gold in the neighbor hood of Manhattan, Nevada. According to his letter our young townsman is having the usual experi ences of the frontiersman or prospect or. He writes that he is about forty miles from Manhattan at a new place called Millett's. Ho arrived there about three weeks ago, his tent being the third that, was struck in the place, which is now growing rapidly. In making the journey from Manhattan, he statos that he "walked forty miles with his bedding on his back and a stick in his hand." It was a hard trip and one to be remembered, but lie feels that he will be rewarded, as the place promises to become one of the richest ever discovered. He has already got 14 claims and is looking forward to fabulous wealth. Emerson writes that he is getting to be quite an expert in prospecting and that he "can now locate a mine with the best of them." He finds life in the mining camp full of charm and he enjoys it very much. It is an usual experience for him, he says,to lie at night out under the stars with only a blanket over him and thirty miles away from every other human being. His only companion is 4 a mule, which lie rides in his prospect ing tours. Whon at th« ranch he gets up in the morning at 5:30 o'clock; at 6:30 he starts out. He generally puts in a full day returning at 6 p. m. He rides* thirty to forty miles each trip,examin ing on the way all kinds of rocks for some kind of minerals. The life is a rough one and full enough of adven ture to please anyone The principal food of the prospector is beans, bacon and crackers. The country is full of springs and the best of water is ob tained anywhere. Wages are high. Unskilled labor is worth five dollars per day, while mech anics and the like command eight to ten dollars. Eight hours constitute a day. MAKING IMPROVEMENTS. Horace C. Blue is erecting a new porch at his residence on Mill street. Yesterday morning lie tore down thej old portico, which had done service since the dwelling was built. The old structure was quite a pretentious piece of architecture but many of the tim bers had yielded to decay and Mr. Blue decided to tear it down and build along modern lines. The new porch will hoover twenty feet in length,tak ing iu practically the entire width of the house. It will add much to the pleasure of the family occupying the house and improve the value of the property. A portico, it would appear, can uot be relied upon to withstand the rav ages of time like the dwelling proper and while the latter is still in good re pair the portico or veranda becomes dilapidated in appearance, detracting much from the general surroundings. It is unfortunate that now and then property owners are uegligeut iu this respect and permit old porticos to re main long after they have ceased to be ornamental. There are a good many streets in town that aro disfigured iu this way and the owners would do well to imitate Mr. Blue's example. Awful suspicion that wo are dooad ent is forced upon one when it is uot ed that in 1877 a man robbed a Brook lyn bank of fIOtt.OOO, while nigli to SO years after his son tackled the same institution and only gets away with (84,000. CONCERNING OUR MILK SUPPLY A communication has been received at this office signed "Daiiyman," which approves the action taken by the authorities to promote good sanita tion by securing an analysis of river water, ]>erfecting sewerage, etc., but which suggests the advisability of the board of health examining another source of contagion, which has ap parently been overlooked. Reference is mado to the in ilk supply of the town, which, as is well understood, if not scrupulously clean and pure, is apt to prove a potent cause of typhoid fever and other diseases. Inasmuch as the writer is a dairyman the views ad vanced, as they relate to milk, especi ally, ought to have much weight. Th communication reads in part: "As everyone knows the only diet given to a person suffering witli fever is milk. Let us consider what might happen if the milk given the patient is not of the best and the purest qual ity. Assuming that the cows are healthy, is it not most frequently the case that the oows are confined in dark, filthy, unventilated stables? Amid sucli surroundings is it not to bo supposed that deadly bacteria, which lurk in such places, will be introduced into the milk? The bacteria increase with wonderful rapidity and by the time the milk reaches the fever pati ent it is laden with deadly poison and the poor weak patient, whose only hope of life is in the sustenance he gets from the milk, is required to partake of actual poison. Now, the honest con scientious dairyman will see to it that his stables and their surroundings are clean and sanitary, but how about the milk lie purchases from other people? Is he always careful to visit these farms to ascertain if the stables are clean and sanitary and consequently whether the milk is all that it should be? "Iu what better way eaii disease be carried from house to house than by bottled milk? Does anyone suppose that the dairyman disinfects every hot tie each time it is returned? Is it not putin the case with the other bottles and washed by the dairyman in the usual way? The next day the bottles are all filled and distributed, as they happen to come, to the patrons on the route. The bottle that came from the fever-stricken home goes into some other home and in a short time anoth er case of typhoid fever is reported. "We have considered the possible sources first, but there is another roa son why the health authorities should inquire into the dairy supply. Every month the dairy and food department sends out a book containing the names of persons who have violated the law by adulteration of milk and other food sunplies. As we know Danville lias not been quite innocent iu the past and who is sure as to the present sup ply? Last year the agent did not* test the milk sold in Danville and it is not likely that he will come this summer unless somebody requests the depart ment to make a test. Cousumers are very willing to patronize a dairyman whose milk is slow to turn sour in warm weather, yet nature never in tended milk to keep sweet louger than a certain time. Beware of milk or cream that keeps sweet in warm weather—it is 'doctored.' Why should not Danville follow the example of other towns and require a test of the milk once every mouth? The Babcock test costs but a small amount and the test can easily be made. Thus the con sumer would know whether the milk is honest in its weight and above or below the standard. All honest dairy men would hail such au examination with pleasure. DAIRYMAN. Will Analyze River Water. Dr. Cameron Shultz,secretary of the local board of health, yesterday stated that as soon as the river falls to its normal level a specimen of our liy draut water will be sent to the Phila delphia chemical laboratory for an alysis. As indicated by tiie report of Health Commissioner Dixon recently printed in these columns, Montour county has had a rather bad showing as relates to typhoid fever aud the board of health is takiug this measure o see whether the condition of the %ater supply has anything to do with undue prevalence of disease. To allay all fears it should be stated that there is nothing whatever alarm ing. in the situation. As relates to typhoid fever at present there are even less cases than duriug the period cov ered by Dr. Dixon's report. It hap pens merely that the board of health is not satisfied that our showng should be auythiug less than the best the year around and it is Koing to find out, if possible, what deleterious influences are at work. J While our filter plant, is given credit for eliminating n great deal of im purity from river water, the consensus of opinion among our doctors seems to be that it should not be relied up on to eliminate bacteria. Some of those medical men, too, do uot regard it as at all unlikely that during low water disease grems may be found in the river here, brought down from up stream where the sewage from many towns finds its way into the channel. Hence, it is deemed best to ascertain the condition of the water by close an alysis to the end that, if anything is found deleterious in its quality, our citizens may know how to meet the condition. Prohibition Convention. The Prohibition county convention of Montour county is called to meet at the courthouse on Tuesday, May 1, 190fi, at 2 o'clock p. m., to select a County Committee, select delegates to the State convention at Harrisburg, and to nominate candidates for the offices to be filled. The State Chair man expects to bo present. All the Prohibitionists in the county.men and women, are urged to attend the con vention. J. M. KELSO, Co. Sec. President Castro of Venezuela is said to be recovering from an attack of paralysis, and that acting President Gomez, upon celebrating his accession to office, lost #BS,(XX) in a cock fight. A pretty set of rulers tliey have in the petty Venezuelan republic. FISH COMMISSIONER MEEHAN DISAGREES In a letter to Senator Godcharles of Milton, Commissioner Meehau says : ? I do not agree at all w'th Donehow er's theory that spring planting of tront is not right. I have so stated in the Williamsport Suu. I would not care how groat the facilities might be ■when rearing trout, I would not favor planting them in the fall. I could give very many good reasons in favor of spring planting of small fish and against planting large fish in the fall. Here aro two or three very good and conclusive ones: First. Young fish three or four months old when planted in the streams in the spring soon find plenty of food coming to them and by the autumn are fully capable of hunting food for themselves. Second. Fish held in the hatcheries through the summer must necessarily be fed with artificial foods aud when planted iu the fall of the year do not kuow how to huut for food for them selves, and food at that time is very scarce. Consequently, these fish have a very hard time of it pulling through the winter and many are lost. Third. Fish kept in hatcheries un til fall learu to ' school" aud when planted in the fall hold to the habit and when the angler comes along in the spriug it is almost certain that uearly every fish will be caught. Fourth. Fall planted fish are the most helpless creatures that can IK* im agined. Spring planted fish in a week or twojearu to tako care of them selves. Fifth. It is by results that we de termine whether a tiling is good or not. The results from the tront streams iu Pennsylvania show that spring planting is good. The allegation which is often made that floods will sweep away little fish is not fouuded ou fact, if the fisli are planted where they should be, namely iu spring runs tributary to the stream from which it is expected to catch them. No flood which has vet occur red has been able to turn as much as the tail of the trout or move it from where it wants to reuiaiu. That is af ter the trout has become used to its new water, which will be at the most three or four days, and when planted there early iu the season before the snow water has entirely disappeared the time is shortened. Twenty-four hours will settle them securely. The United States Bureau of Fisher ies has apparently learned that both Pennsylvania and Michigan and some other states are right iu spring plant ing from the fact that it is going into spring planting as rapidly as possible. A few years ago it planted uearly all its trout in the fall, advocating au tumn planting. Last year they raised ten and a half million trout, of which only one million were fall planted. The rest wore planted even earlier tliau we do. Michigan plants in the same stage and has achieved marvelous success. lam convinced from experi ence covering nearly thirty years in fish planting that it would be impossi ble to stock the waters of Pennsyl vania with trout if fall planting were indulged in. The best evidence to prove this is to be found in New York state where they plant almost, exclu sively in the autumn ; the fishiug is there falling behind. In Pennsylvania aud Michigau where spring planting is the rule, trout fishing is improving annually. THIRTEEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY Queen Victoria ouce asked Ambas sador Choate if Americans believed 13 to be] ail unlucky number, says the "Boston Brown Book." "No, your Majesty." he replied, "we do not, for the eternal found ations of our Republic were built up on the number 13." Let us see what Mr. Ghoate referred to. In the first place, America was discovered on the eve of the 13th day of the month, and the original repub lic consisted of 13 colonies. The first official Stars and Stripes adflptoil Juno 14, 1777, had 13 stripes and 13 stars. Our national emblem—the American eagle—requires 13 lettors to spell it, as does tho motto on our seal—E Plur i bug Uunm—and of the great seal of the United States, Annuit Coeptis. The first word to pass over tho At lantic cable was sent on the 13th day of the month, and on Friday at that. The silver quarter in your purse is not considered a "hoodoo," yet 13 is writ ten all over it; Above the head of Lib erty are 13 stars, the eagle bears an olive braucli with 13 leaves in one claw and 13 thunderbolts in the other. On his breast is a shield bearing 18 bars, and from his beak streams a ribbon with our motto containing 13 letters. Each wing had 13 feathers, while as you know it takes 13 letters to spell quarter dollar. The war of 1776 was called revolu tionary, and was not unsuccessful be causo spelled with 13 letters. Our flag was saluted by 13 guns when Wash ington raised it—yes,and by 13 cheers. Tho Ameriau Navy had just 13 ves sels at the outset—no more—and the founder of it, John Paul Jones, was not uuluckly because of the letters of his name. He was exactly 13 years old when he first came to America, and was the first to carry the 13-starred flag to victory, and to have it saluted by a foreign power on the 18th day of the mpnth. Perry's great victory on Lake Erie, wasj won on the 13th day of tho month, and the Stars aud Stripes raised over Sumter ou the IStli. One of the mßst remarkable rases of '.'stay at home" and lack of curisity, is that of Mrs. Hauud Turk, living at EUmsport, only fifteen miles away from Williamsport, who last week visited that city for the first time in fifty-nine years. She is sixty-four years old aud remembers being brought to that town when five years old, but she lias not been there since. TWINS. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Love, Bloom street, was gladdened Momlay by the advent of two bounc ing boy a. IMPORTANT ACTJUNDEFEIM Amos Vastiue, a first ward member, created a stir in council Friday night-, when he informed that body that the polluted condition of the river bank above the intake of the water works had been reported to the State board of health. Who it was that had taken the niatter up when the local author ities hesitated to act was not stated. Just what «*onon council expects from Health Commissioner Dixon is not clear. At all events it had not the ef fect of impelling the members to take auy action in the matter,although the violation of the ordinance and the consequent, defilement of the river bank were threshed qver in about the same way as at the previous meeting. The attitude of the members was about the same with the exception of the gentle man from the third ward, who at the previous meeting said he did not be lieve the printed description, but who at the last meeting said lie had in vestigated and had found the situation bad enough. The matter was treated a little fnoro seriously than at the pre vious meeting, but no action was tak en either to effectually prevent the dumping of garbage on the river bank or to remove the impurities that are already thrown on the spot. It is worthy of note also that from other parts of towu, especially, the third ward, there is much complaint on the score of bad sanitation. Al though the of May is nearly here it is no uucommou sight to see alleys uearly blocked with manure piles and ashes. Still worse, the gutters on many of the streets are filled with waste water of all sorts which flowing from one spot lies in front of tiie door ways of other persons who strive to keep their premises clean and present able. Probably those responsible for the objectionable state of affairs de scribed will some day awake to their duty in the premises. Kill Typhoid Says Dixon. "Wipe out typhoid by killiug the germs contained in the discharges of the patient before they leave the sick room to lay other fellow beings low with this disease." Such are the in structions that Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon gives in his new cir cular ou typhoid fever addressed to nurses and attendants in charge of persons suffering from this infectious malady. "I want to send that message ring ing through the whole State," said Health Commissioner Dixon to a news paper man at Harrisburg yesterday. "I want to get every local board of health to see that in every home where there is a person ill with typhoid feV er, the physician, the nurse or attend ant shall bo impressed witli the duty of letting no infection from their pati ent he the cause of giving the disease to another,and the wav to do this first of all is to kill the germs of the dis ease that comes from the patient be fore these germs leave the sick room. I am determined that the appalling harvest that typhoid is reaping in Pennsylvania shall be cut down. It can be done—it must be done. If, be ginning today, the nurse or attendant in charge of a typhoid fever case will see to it that the discharges from the patient are thoroughly disinfected be fore they are carried out of the room in which typhoid victim is confined, we can almost wipe out typhoid in a year's time. I realize that this is a big I "if," yet it is one of the simplest ways in the world to blot out a disease that is appallingly epidemic through out the whole State." "If only each aud every persou to whom this message is directed will hear it and heed it." In iiis typhoid circular Health Com missioner Dixon sets forth simple me thods of killing the typhoid germs be fore they are carried out of the sick room. Death of Thomas Cook. Thomas Cook, son of Benjamin Oook, East Market street, died at the hospital, Wilkes-Barre, Saturday morn ing and later in tho day was taken to his home, West Front street, Berwick, The deceased was 32 years of age. He was born in Danville aud spent many years of his yfe here. His many friends will grieve to learn of his doath. He is survived by his wife aud one son, Benjamin,three years of age. Besides his father, he is survived in this city by a brother, William Cook, and a sister, Mrs. William lies. An other sister, Mrs. Sarah Vastine. lives in Pittsburg. The deceased was taken to the hos pital two weeks ago. He underwent an operation for appendicitis; com plications set in, which resulted in death. Mrs. Cook was almost a daily caller at the hospital and it was uot until last Thursday that the sad news was imparted to her that there was no hope of recovery for her husband. The deceased was an employe in the blacksmith shop of the A. C. & F. Co. Ho was a member of the I. O. O. F., of Berwick, aud was recently appoint ed as a delegate tp the Pittsburg con vention. He was well liked aud had many friends in Berwick as well as iu Danville. Express Free to Frisco. U. S. Express Agent Foruwald has received a wire from C. E. Topping, general superintendent, that roads as follows: " You are authorized to ac cept free all goods and money for re lief of San Francisco sufferers." Similar instructions have been re ceived by William M. Sechler, Adams express agent. Gang to Steal Cattle. There appears to have been organiz ed a gang for tho stealing of cattle at Byruesville, between Centralia and Ashland, as within the past week six cows have completely disappeared from the stables in that vicinity. Residents are becoming indignant and an effort will be made to bring about the arrest of the guilty .parties. Marriage License. A marriage license was issued by Prothouotary Vincent Saturday to W. C. Uuger of Union Corner aud Miss Gertrude M. Vought of Elynburg. SOME CHANGES CONTEIPLATED Besides installing four additional arc lamps aud two incandescent lights as indicated by the report of the last cotmcil meeting, our borough fathers have decided upon some improvements in the borough light system, which will help the service aud necessitate only a small outlay of money. At present there are five circuits in the borough, but, as explained -by the borough electrician, in their practical working they are interwoven in such a way as to render it difficult or im possible to make necessary repairs at auy one point while the lights are on without interfering with the service all over the borough. The difficulty seems to be that each of the four cir cuits embraciug the arc lights return ou the commercial circuit, which lights up the borough projxjrty, such as city hall and the four hose houses. In case of an accident to any one of the arc lights it becomes impracticable,accord ing to the electrician, to make speedy repairs without shuttiug off the whole system. In case there is anything wroug with the commercial circuit, especially, there is no other way out of it but to throw off the whole sys tem. Acting upon the electrician's advice it is proposed to make each circuit a circuit in itself. This according to an estmiate made by the electrician will necessitate the purchase of about 14,- 400 feet of wire and a number of cross arms. The cost is not difficult to de termine. According to the electrician's estimate it will not exceed S2BO. No time has been set for beginuing work on the improvement. The four arc lamps authorized at the last meeting of council will be instal led immediately. The light ou Wal nut street, where heretofore darkuess has reigned, will necessitate the erec tion of four uew poles. CASTOR IA Tor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought A RUINED CITY. It is almost beyond belief that with in a couple of days, one of the chief cities of the United States,the metrop olis of the Pacific coast, a place of 400,000 population, should have been annihilated, laid in ruins, an utter waste. San Francisco, with its-mag nificent seven story hotel, covering a block, ten to eighteen story business buildings, scores of magnificent man sions, churches and edifices,public and private,equal to auy city in the world, have gone down in ashes. It was believed first reports were exaggerated, but the fire fiend swept on, aud swept away over #100,000,000 worth of property, aud left past rec ords dwarfed. The Chicago, Boston aud Baltimorcffires are small in com- pari sou. Great stretches of blackened ami smoking ruins mark the place where business houses and beautiful resi dences of a great city stood a couple of days ago. For two straight miles, wrcekage and ruin are seeu. Great manufactories, mercantile houses, banks and office buildings are nowhere to],be seen. Eighteen aud tweuty story steel buildiugs, mammoth hotels cov ering a block, a dozen millionaire mansions, famous landmarks,museums and places of art, hospitals, etc., don ated and endowed by former wealthy resideuts or pioneers are in ashes. The loss and destruction is appal ling, but Sau Francisco will be re built. The railway communications exist, the splendid harbor, and the gateway to the Far East. The same kind of courage aud energy as rebuilt the burned districts of Baltimore, Chicago and Boston, will prevail in Sau Francisco, aud when the people recover from their daze, and capital begins to pour in from the big cities of the East and Middle West, the stricken California town will take heart and a new and a better city will spring up with astonishing speed. OLD-FASHIONED JUSTICE. Complaint is made occasionally that the court in some counties allows too much latitude or overlooks remissness in grand juries ignoring bills which apparently ought togo to trial. Judge Staples, of Monroe county, is not dis posed to depart from the good old fashioned way of country justice, aud last Tuesday sent for jurors because they had ignored an indictment charg ing a couple of females with larceny of goods from a department, store. When the jury came into court the judge said, when the evidence before the grand jury is sufficient, it is the duty of a grand jury to find a true bill, and in a case like this it had no right to ignore it. That would be com pounding a felony. Because a pros ecutor appears before the grand jury and says that he does not want to pro secute a case it does not empower the grand jury to ignore a bill in a case of felony. It is for the court to consider when the case is brought before it whether the prosecution should go 011 or not. Hereafter he expected the grand jury to conform to these in structions. The supposition is that grand juries decide 011 the weight of evidence pre sented by the plaintiff whether there is sufficient reason for a true bill, but evidently the judge in question was of the opiuiou that justice was not being done, and he was frank enough to say so. Compounding a felony is a serious charge, and such an allegation is not pleasant to say the least, aud grand juries who have to deal with Judge Staples are pretty apt hereafter to ex ercise greater care in their delibera tions.—Scranton Times. The scientists are trying to explain both Vesuvius aud Sau Francisco, but their explanations are largely theories. The day before Mount Pelee vomited forth destruction on the thousands at her foot, a scientist assured the in habitants of St. Pierre that there was no danger. SHIPMENT OF COAL RECEIVED Nearly a mouth lias passed siuce any coal was miued and already the gener al conditions that are in any way re lated to fuel are pretty nearly the same as those that prevailed during the great miners' strike of 1(102. Already the arrival of a car load of coal in I town is au event far out of the ordin ary—sufficient to create quite a stir. The quality of the coal—where it was shipped fromx-how it was procured— all these are questions that concern the people mightily. The first shipment of authracite coal that reached here since the shut down arrived at South Danville yesterday and was consigned to the Reading Iron company. A little iuquiry as to where the coal came from revealed that we have comparatively near at hand a fairly abuudaut son»co of coal not af fected by the shut down—a source nearly identical with the oue that stood our towu in such good stead dur ing the last great strike. This is at McAuley mountain—the picturesque old ridge some thirty-five or forty miles to the east of us that lies on the very borders of the great coal deposit aud holds in its bosom one or more veins of the black diamonds. No one can scarcely remember a time when coal was not mined at McAuley. Ovor thirty years ago John Hiutorleit er, who owned aud occupied a farm in Beaver Valley, that abutted on the mountain, putin all his spare time miuiug coal, which lay near the sur face aud was easily obtained. It was a very good coal,a trifle soft probably, and was known as " peacock" coal ow ing to its gaudy colors, which resem bled those of the poacock's plumage. The farmers who ilid not burn wood exclusively purchased their coal of John Hinterleiter paying for it at the rate of one dollar per two horse load. The school houses iu several adjoining districts were supplied from the same source. There was no breaker at the mine aud the coal was delivered iu chunks as large as a half a bushel, which the purchaser had to break with a hammer. It was from this small mine, now in other~hauds, that a considerable quan tity of coal was hauled to Danville during the last miners' strike by sev eral of our townspeople, who general ly occupied nearly a day and a night in making the trip. A more important mine was on the west Jor Scotch Valley side of the mouutain, operated for many years by Lossee and Shuinau. This mine was pretty well equipped and a good deal of coal was shipped. The methods em ployed, however, wore rather wasteful and immense culm banks accumulated, containing good coal in all sizes. After some years, when the mine was no longer operated, and coal in creased so much in value, the culm banks themselves became a factor aud parties undertook to work them over extracting the coal and placing it up on the market. Whilw the mines were in operation there was little demand for the product and the work was not pushed to any extent. Now, however, since miuiug has ceased and a general shortage of coal has occurred, it is al together different. A big demand has opened aud cul from the Scotch val ley culm piles will be shipped as fast as it cau be obtained. The coal, which was shipped to South Danville yesterday was No. 5 ; audit was clean and uniform in size. Our townspeople will undoubtedly look to the same source for future shipments. Pale, Nervous? Then your blood must be in a very bad condition. You certainly know what to take, then take it —Ayer's Sarsa parilla. If you doubt, then consult your doctor. We know what he will say about this grand old family medicine. Thla ia the first question your doctor would ask: "Are your bowela regular?" He knows that dally action of the bowels is absolutely essential to recovery. Keen jrour liver active and your bowels regular by taking laxative doaes of Ayer's Pills. A Made b» 3. O. Ayer Co., Lowell. Mass. yV Also manuftmturera of A\ -. _ ' hair vigor. / I ) iljrO AGUE CURE. WL <AUV# O CHERRY PECTORAL. We have no aecreta ! We publish the formulae of all our medicines. WM. KASE WEST. ATTORNrY-AT-LAW. No. SSO MILL STREET, DANVILLB. CHARLES CHALFANT. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Ita. 110 MILL STREET, DANVILLB WILLIAM L. SIDLER, ATTORNEY-AT.LAw, rot Htl.L AMD HARIET STRIRTS. •ANVILLB. Patronize A. C. AMESBURY Best Coal In Town. PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND DEDICATION The initial step toward the dedica tion of the new capitol was taken yes torilay when the dedicatory commis siou mot with Governor Peuuypacker. Governor Peuuypacker presented a let ter from President Roosevelt's secre tary, Mr. Loeb.to the effect that Oeto er 4, will suit liim to atteud the ded ication, and the commission decided to hold the ceremonies on October 4. It will be purely a military spec tacle, as the commission lias decided that it will be more in keeping with the dignity of the occasion, and it would not comport well to have all kinds of organizations in the line of parade. There will be no civic org anizations whatever iu the line,and it is thought that two provisional bri gades of the national guard will be sufficient The president aud Governor Penuypacker will be in the line. Just what part the president will take-in the ceremony will be left en tirely to himself. He may hold a re ception, deliver an oration or do ex actly as he nominates, and the gover nor will write to tell him so, aud ask what he prefers. There will be? ceremonies on a grand stand to be erected in front of the cap itol on which will be seated 8,000 peo ple, and Speaker Walton, Senator Fox ami Auditor General Sudyer will locate and see that the stand is erect ed. Speaker Walton was also author ized to take up the matter of trans portation with the railroad companies, audit is expected that the crowd there will be the greatest in the history of Harrisburg. State Treasurer Mathues and Auditor General Snyder will look after tlio matter of music, and it is said have designs on securing the ser vices of the marine baud, of Washing ton. After the ceremonies and parade in the day time there will bo a ban quet in the evening either iu the hall of the new house of representatives or in a large hall to be selected if it is uot couvenieut to use the hall of the house. It is expected that at least a thou sand persons will attend the banquet. The wife of president Roosevelt and the ladies of the cabinet will be invit ed to attend and will be entertained at the residences of prominent citi zens. Others expected to be present are the United States senators and and i congressmen from this State, the sup reme and superior courts, senate and house, prominent scientists, men of affairs in many walks of life, and State administration attaches. Another meeting will be held soon to arrange for sending out invitations. BEST FOR THE BOWELS If you haven't n regular, healthy movement of the bowels every day, you're 111 or will bo. Keep your bowels open, and bo well. Force, In the shape of violent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. The smoothest, easiest, most perfect way of keeplug the bowels clear and clean is to take Pleasant. Palatable, Potent, Taste Oood, Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken orOrlpe; 10, 25 and 50 cents per bo*. Write for tree sample, and book let on health. Address 433 Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN Charles V. Amerman, Attoine>-at-L w Notary Public DANVILLE, PA. INSI'ItANCK, GEN'L LAW PRACTICE UNITED 'pifOXK, 202 G. SHOOP HUNT. PRESCRIPTION DRUGBIST, Opposite Opera House. MNVIILE, . . I'KKN'i IHOMAS C. WELCH, ATTORMY-AT-LA*. District Attorney of Montour Ooantj No 107 MILL STRBBT, DANVILLE. J„T. BROWN, M.D. THE EYE A SPECIALTY Eye.* tesi d, treated an litted with glasses. No Sunday Work. 311 Market I - -- Bloomsburg. Pa Hours—lo a. m.to sp. m. DR J. SWEYSFORT, DENTIST. Ueen ODONTUNDER for the painless ex traction of teeth. Dentistry in all its branches and all work guar anteed. CHARGES REDUCED. Opposite Opera House, Danv lie Take year preecrlptlona to ROSSMAN & SON'S PHARMACY, 145 MILL STREET, DANVILLE, PA. Two Boftetor«4 Pharmacists In oharg* part Freak Drug;a and full lino of Potool Medlclaea and Wondrloa. VINE OIOAM. OOOD COLD SODA, CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PIUS *aff. Always reliable. Lad lee. ask Drafriat for (HH IIIIHTKKM ENULINrf in BeJ and Uold metallic boxes, sealed with blue ribbon. Take no other. Itefuoe daaferoaa a aba Ci tation* and Imltatlona. Buy of your Druggist, or uviid 4e, in stamps for Pssrtlenlare, Testi monial* and » Relief for Ladles" in UtUr, by return Mall. 10,000 Teatimoniala Sold fey all Drugglsta. CHICHBBTBB OHBUIOAL CO. •IN BadUoa Hnaarc, PHIKJL, PA. UMIMIUaMPM
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