BIG DRAIN FOR CHURCH STREET The succession of heavy rains dur ing the suuimer auil fall, which has demonstrated that the borough's sys tem of drainage is totally wrong, has brought council face to face with a problem that is inoro important than street repairs or paving and demands speedy solution. For reasons not necessary to explain in some parts of the borough the surface water has been diverted from natural chauuels following the slope of the land into artificial waterways where it lias seemed expedient to lead it. As is al ways the case when natural law is violated there was a peualty to pay and this has followed every time the water has accumulated under the prolonged aud heavy raius that made the present teasou unique. The stories of overtaxed gutters, of flooded pave ments and cellars on Bloom aud Low er Mulberry streets are twioetold tales, but the bad state of affairs is clearly due to the diverting of the water. The matter was takou up at the last meeting of council aud all agreed that the only solution was to get the wat er as far as possible back iuto its orig inal channels, which would imply that the excess above the P. & R. crossing, instead of being conducted down Hlooiu street, should be permitted to follow the natural slope of land down to Blizzard's run. Pursuant, to action taken at that meeting Borough Surveyor Keefer of Suubury canio up to Danville Tues day and in company with P. J. Keef er, superintendent of sewers, and George Jacobs,T. W. Bedea and Amos Vastiue, councilmanic committee on streets and bridges, went carefully ov er the grouud to see how the excess of water on Hloom street might bo got ' rid of without causing annoyance and damage. Home of the councilmeu favored sink- , ing pipe along the alley at the rear of the Grove church, others favored Pine street, while still others thought that Church street was the only thorough fare that should he considered. The borough surveyor favored Church ■treet Tuesday and this was the thor oughfare selected by tlio committeo to contain the proposed drain, which will take in the water above the crossing and pass through under both the P. & R. and the D. L. & W. railroads. The committee yesterday was divided be tween an 18-inch and a 24-inch pipe. This point will be finally settled by couucil when the committee makes its report at the next, meeting. The pro posed drain will add something to the borough's expense account, as it will have to be laid at considerable depth and the distance between Bloom street and Blizzard's run is over two squares. Nevertheless it is a necessary improve ment, one that has been deferred too long already. 12 Squares on Election Ticket. The voters of the State will have enough parties from which to select a candidate this fall, there being twelve party squares for Stato tickets on the ballot. Of course every new party that took out nomination papers and secur ed a sufficient number ofsiguors is en titled to a place ou the ticket, and to have a separate square, and the inde pendents havo boon unusually active. The partios entitled to squares on the ballot this year aro as follows : Repub lican, Democratic, Prohibition, Socia list, Socialist Labor. Citizen, City, Commonwealth, Jefferson, Lincoln, Referendum and Union Labor. There aro many otlior parties that have filed papers in the State depart ment, claiming certain party names for judgeship, legislative and congres sional nominations, and in some coun ties there will bo as many as fourteen squares on the ticket. Among the names pre-empted are Mitchell, Penn sy 1 vania Blacksmitli, Roosevelt, Square Deal, Nomination Paper Party, Sen atorial, Judicial Reform, Butler Re publican, Federation and Majority Rule. It will be some time yet before the official ballots will bo certified from the State department, as there are so mauy contests on bofore the Dauphin county court that certifying it now is impossible. Death Claims Well Known Lady. Miss J. Nettie Henrie after a pro tracted and painful illness departed this life on Saturday morning. The deceased was the daughter of the late Samuel Henrie and was a life-long resident of Danville. She was a young woman of most ox emplary Christian character. Kind and sympathizing by nature through out her entire life she was devuted to others and in return was deeply belov ed for her tender sympathy ami self sacrifice. She was nearly a lifelong member of the Grove Presbyterian church and among the younger people of town there were few that were more widely known. Her sufferings covered a jieriod of much ovor a month. For a week or more preceding her death her case was regarded as hopeless. She boro her suffering with patience and Christian fortitude. She was conscious until nearly the end, which occurred at 5 :30 o'clock Saturday morning. The deceased is survived by two brothers, John T., of Berwick, and Frank C. of this city; also ono sister, Miss Anna, who resided at the family homestead on Bloom street along with the deceased and her brother Frank. Argument Saturday. • ) Court, convened Saturday morning at 10 o'clock for argument' with his honor Judge C. C. Evans and Associ ates Bide and Waguer ou the bench. * Owing to the absence of R.S. Ain mer man, one cf the roundel interested, court rose without transacting alf s business. It was agreed to cb ne*k Sat- ' urday for the of hearing argu ment <jii the except foufc filed to the re port of the viewers on the i>ver road in Mahoning township; also for hoar- of fetceptions to road ill Limestone township the farm of Ulark Benfteld. This year lias certainly been liboral ■ in the matter of cropß. PHPILS MOST MEND THEIR WAYS Judgiug from a candid expression of opinion indulged in by several mem bers of the school board it would seem that the boys aud girls of the first ward schools stand in danger of los iug a great deal of the freedom at pre sent enjoyed during the recess period, if tlioy do not si>eedily abaudon sever al practices, which reflect discredit on the school. Under the present rules the pupils, especially those of the high school, at recess are permitted to leave the school grounds and meander to almost any point,* if by so doing they get back to the building by the time school goes into session. The directors claim that the boys and girls are sadly prone to abuse these privileges. One of the directors referred to has noticed that the boys, who of course, are not permitted to smoke about the school grounds, aud who probably are not supposed to smoke at all, at recess seek the Y. M. O. A. and there iu the shadow of that institution, which is understood to stand for purity aud obedience iu boys,habitually indulge iu cigarettes or iu pipes. This practice, the director said, is not only detri mental to the boys, but it is giving a great deal of concern to the general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who is doing what he can to break up the practice. Another diroctor has observed that the girls at recess habitually stroll down town. On starting out the ob jective point seems to be the post oilice corner, after which in little groups they stroll up and down Mill street. Notwithstanding that they ["are on the principal thoroughfare aud that the streets may be crowded they have the habit of walking abreast and crowd ing pedestrians, who liavo business on the sidewalk,clear off into the gutter. Tho disrespect or thoughtlessness shown by the school girls,the director claimed,is often appalling. With arms linked and five or six abreast taking up every iucli of room, they come sweeping along with au utter disregard for others. Tho director re lated an experience of his own in which he said, he was obliged to get out in tho gutter aud hold ou to a hitching post while the phalanx of budding femininity swept imperious ly by. Other directors expressed themselves iu the same strain, agreeing that if less complaint is not heard concerning the conduct of pupils the proper thii 1 12? to do will bo to adopt a rule obliging them to remain on the school grounds during recess. The matter will prob ably be discussed at the next meeting of the school board. Floor on Catawissa River Bridge. The floor on the Catawissa bridge lias been causing all kinds of trouble ever since the structure was opened to the public. On the Danville bridge the wear and tear of weather and traffic seems only to produce a hotter road for all kinds of travel. In view of the fact that Danville and Catawissa bridge floors are built of the same material the following latest condemnation of the up-river job, from the Bloomsburg Press, will be interesting: "Ten times worse than it was earlier in the year, those who have seen the flooring of the Catawissa bridge de scribe it as being. While the condition was bad enough then,the upheavels of the blocks used in the flooring were only in spots, standing out like huge boils on an otherwise fairly good sur face, but today the condition is such that the entire bridge is in the same condition. The blocks are elevated in places from twelve to eighteen inches and the general opinion is, that the job is about the worst that was ever worked off on an unsuspecting public. "The situation has now passed the point where mild words can be used in describing it. It is squarely up to the county to have the condition rem edied - before the county has a lot of damage cases on its hands. With the bridge in its present condition they will follow as surely as night follows day. It has only been good luck there have been no serious accidents there already. A horse in crossing the bridge Saturday, fell down and the horse of George Martin, of Blooms burg, fell down Sunday afternoon. Fortunately, neither horse was injur ed. "The Penn Bridge company was the contractor for the bridge and they are the ones directly responsible for the bridge's condition. Welderlick, of Allentown, did tlio floor job under sub-contractr,and when the blocks were putin it was stated in these columns, as well as in other county papers that the work was of inferior order, but the inspectors allowed it to pass. "County Commissioner Hess stated yesterday the contractors were the ones to make good and that the Com missioners were trying to hold them. Somebody should be held." More Honey for State Road*. Stato Highway Commissioner Hunt-: er is urging upon the local authorities of every county in Pennsylvania the necessity of co-operating with the de partment for the passage, by the next Legislature, of a hill increasing the appropriation for public roads if they want constructed all the roads for which certain couuties have already asked Stato aid. For example, the | amount of money appropriated to jieav |er county, which has alieady applied for Stato aid to build fifty one miles of road, for use until June 1, 1907, is *42 ,921.31. Tlio apportionment, fori 1907-1908 then becomes duo, and amounts to |1tf,004.49, making n total of *. r )8,925.80 available for use until Juno 1, 1908, at which time the 1908- 1909 apportionment.,amounting to *l<>,- 004.49, becomes duo,making a total of 174,930.29 available for road building uutil Juno 1, 1909. The total State share of roads constructed and con tracted for amounts to about *58,937.- 80. The apportionment to Beaver coun ty until Juno 1, 1908 has been entirely consumed,and the work is consequent ly hampered. The fair minded man always wants to hear both sides of the story. TELEPHONE COMPANIES JONSOLIDATE One of the most important telephone deals in recent years, which may have a great effect iu the near future upon long distance rates in this and uearbv States, was consummated at a meeting of capitalists held at Philadelphia last week. American Union Telephone Company was at that meeting brought into working existence, the company having been incorporated at Harris burg on May 31. The new compauy links together by purchase and lease a number of in dependent telephone companies of Pennsylvania, Southern New York, Northern Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia, aud by extensions, connec tions and betterments, combining these companies iuto one complete system of local and long distance telephone transmission, which, with a traffic agreement with the Keystone Tele phone Company, of Philadelphia, est ablishes a system that stretches from the Atlantic coast across New Jersey, Delaware aud the States above men tioned. LONG DISTANCE SERVICE. Being made up largely of many of the oxistlug""independent "telephone companies iu the State, the new com pauy will early prefect a long distance service extending from this city to Baltimore, Md. ; Washington, D. C., aud Wheeling, W. Va., iu the South; Pittsburg, Cleveland aud Erie, in the West, and Buffalo, Rochester aud Syracuse, N. Y , in the North. As the subsidiary companies have long term contracts with the compan ies operating in these important com mercial centers, the Philadelphia, Pittsburg & Erie Long Distance Tele phone Company, which is a subsidiary company of the American Union Tele phone Compauy, largely controls the long distance service as well as the in dependent telephone situation iu the most thickly populated sect.iou of tho United States. THE MERGED COMPANIES. The companies entering the merged combination comprise:— United Telephone & Telegraph Company ; operating trom the Phila delphia County line northwest to the city of Williamsport, and west to the city of Altoona, inclusive, embracing the counties of Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuyl kill, Northumberland, Union, Snyder, Moutour, Columbia, Lycoming, Clin ton, Center ami Blair. Cumberland Valloy Telephone Com pany ; extending from the city of Har rishurg southwest through the Cum berland Valley to the Stato line, and northwest to the borough of Lewis town, embracing the couuties of Dau phin, Perry,Mifflin,Juniata, Cumber laud, Franklin, Adams and York. Lykens Telephone & Telegraph Com pany ; operating exchange ceutois at Elizabethville, Lykens, Millersburg and Tower City. Cumberland Valley Telephone Com pany, uf Baltimore City; operating in the States of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia,embracing the counties of Washington, Frederick and Carroll, in the Stato of Maryland ; Frederick and Clarke, in the State of Virginia; Berkley and Jefferson, in the State of West Virginia. Boyds & Damascus Telephone Com pany ; embracing the county of Mont gomery, Maryland. Huntingdon & Clearfield Telephone Company; embracing the couuties Center, Clearfield,Cambria and Joffer sou. Cambria Telephone Company ; em bracing the county of Cambria. ludiaua Telephone Company; em bracing the county of Indiana. Bradford County Telephone Com pany ; embracing the county of Brad ford, Pa. Port Allegheny Telephone Com pany; embracing the counties of Mc- Kean and Potter. Petroleum Telephone Company; em bracing the counties of Crawford and Venango. Commercial Union Telephone Com pauy; embracing the counties of Elk and Jefferson. Union Telephone Company, of Erie, embracing the counties of Erie,Craw ford, Mercor, Newcastle, Venango, Boavor, Warrou, McKoan and Potter, in the Stato of Pennsylvania, extend ing to the city of Oleau, inclusive, in the State of New York,and to the city in the State of Ohio. York State Telephone Company,em bracing principal exchange centers at Elmira, Binghamton and Owego, in the State of New York. Philadelphia,Pittsburg & Erie Tele phone Company, embracing present and prosposed long distance lines in j forty-three couuties iu the State of Pounsylvauia, as follows: Blair, Cam bria, Beaver, Allegheny, Armstrong, Chester, Clearfield, Clinton, Bradford, Erie, Huntingdon, Elk, Indiana, Mifflin, Crawford, Moreer, Lawrence, Warren, Tioga, Westmoreland, Lycom ing, Dauphin,Lehigh,Wyoming York, Lebanon. Suyder, Uuiou, Columbia, Juniata, Porry, Berks, Lancaster Adams, Northumberland, Chester, Delaware, Susqiiehanua, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lackawanna, Montgomery and Cumberland. The new company has traffic agree ments and connections providing for I the interchange of long distance mes- I sages throughout New York Stato, west through Ohio ami ludiaua, and by the Cumberland Telephone Company, con nection with all the important south ern cities and towns. —Philadelphia Press. HE'S GOOD STUFF. They havo a preacher in Coatesville who answers to the singular name of Pinchbeck, but he soems to bo mado of good stuff, for ho is conducting a class among his members for the study of the Bible which had au attendance of sixty at the last meeting, although the enrollment is but flfty-sveeu. Any teacher who can get his entire class and three visitors out may certainly be pronounced a success. The political bee is beginning to buzz pretty fiercely these days. TO IMPROVE SCHOOL GROUNDS All improvement is 011 foot at the grounds of the first ward school build ing, which, it is hoped, will have the effect of keepiug the grounds clean and dry,thereby making it more pleas ant for pupils and promoting cleanli ness in the school rooms. Heretofore in times of rain the school ground un der the tramp' of hundreds of little feet became like a mortar bed and the result was that immense quantities of mud were carried into the building. Iu order to improve the play ground at a previous meeting of the school board it was decided to order a car load of crushed limestone from Lime Ridge and to spread it on the ground as an experiment. The material has arrived and Tuesday a team was em ployed hauling the crushed limestone from the car to tf.e school building where it was spread over the play ground in a thin course. The material is ground very fine and seems to answer the purpose nicely. Under the tramp of a mulitudeof feet it instantly becomes packed solid up on the ground. It is very clean and iu a short time, it is said, will become quite hard and dry, regardless of the weather. Mud is a great annoyance at each of the other school buildings and if the crushed limestone is a success in the first ward the intention is to use it at the school buildings iu each of the other wards of the borough. Died in the West. A letter was received in this city yesterday from Coulterville, Cal.. an nouncing the deatli of Benjamin W. Tomlinson, which occurred at that place on September 28tl». The deceas ed was a native of Danville. He was an uncle of Mrs. W. H. Ammerman and is well remembered by all our old er residents. Prior to the Mexican War he was clerk iu the post office at Danville under Alexander Best as postmaster. At the breaking out of the Mexican war he enlisted with the Col umbia Guards of Danville under Cap tain Wilson. At the close of the war he returned to Danville aud was hon orably discharged with the Guards at the courthouse. Soon after the Mexican war W. H. Gearhart, known familiarly a*"Cali fornia Bill/* who, along with other Danville young men, had fallen a vic tim of the gold fever and made his way to California, returned East for a visit with relatives. Mr. Tomlinson was charmed with life and opportuni ties on the Pacific coast as described by Mr. Goarhart aud when the latter returned to California the deceased accompanied him. The two men for some years together led the arduous life of prospectors, sharing the many vicissitudes of fortune. In the process of tiino Mr. Gearhart returned to his homo at South Dan ville, where ho spent the remainder of his iife. Mr. Tomlinson,however, had bocomo wedded to the mountains, tho fiowors and tho gouial climate of Cali fornia aud, although many induce ments wero offered him to share a home with relatives in Danville, he persistently decliuod. He, however, uevor lost iuterost in his native town. Through all tho years that intervened since his departure he kept up a reg ular correspondouco and once, just at the close of the civil war, he paid Dan ville a visit. At the timo of his death he was in his eighty-first year. He was a bachel or,a man of refiued tastos and of kind ly sympathetic nature, who was be loved by those arouud him. Picking Culm to Keep Warm. Because of the dead-lock in the school board, of Conyngham township. Col umbia couuty, the schools are with out fuol aud iu somo parts of the dis trict tho teachors aud pupils are com pelled togo out aud pick coal from the culm bauks or else close the schools, according to the Ashland Telegram, which speaks of tho situa tion as follows: "Owing to factional differences in the school board, affairs in the Con yngham school district are in a deplor able couditiou, and there is much in dignation among the people. These difficulties havo retarded the school work iu many ways for the past six or more wooks, and the tardy action of tho courts in giving the people redress is anything but commendable. Prompt action is what the people want, but, it seems,must be content to see it drag along while the school system is crip pled, and children deprived of the rights to which they are entitled uu der tho laws of tho State. There is groat wrong somewhere audit should bo the duty of the courts to rectify this wrong at tho earliest possible time. "Because of these contentious teach ors are unpaid, as well as others to whom the district is indebted. No sup plies have been received, aud the schools are without fuel. Iu some parts of the district, it is said, that in order to keep tho rooms comfortable teachers aud pupils havo been compel led to pick coal from tho culm banks or elso close the schools. "It is certainly a disgraceful reflec tion oil our laws when any man, or body of men, are permitted to be re- Aponsible tor such a condition of af fairs as is here pointed out. The legal remedy should be applied.and it should be done quickly, and without any fur ther dallying with the law. "The mandamus served on the presi dent and secretary Friday orders that the report for Statu appropriation be made out at once, and that they re port to court the first Monday in December that the duty has been per formed, or they will stand committed for contempt." OOF FIN MAKERS. The editor of the Cliarleroi Daily Mail gives the people of Cliarleroi somo good advice which is applicable to other towns and cities. He says: "If you waut the town to be a town, talk it up. We feel like terming those people cofllu makers who go about de crying the conditions of business, the distant qualities of the peoplo,aud the slow progress of the public improve ments. '' WILL BE HANDED OVER ON FRIDAY Buchanan & Company are now about winding up work on the heat, light and power plant at the hospital for the insane and 011 Friday it will be handed over to the trustees of that institution. The plant is now runniug to the perfect satisfaction of all concorued, furnishing heat as well light to the institution. Yesterday all three en gines were run together. Tito trial was eminently satisfactory. While one en gine aud dynamo answers the pur pose ordinarily, yet there are emer gencies when it may be necessary to combine all three into one uuit. It was necessary, therefore, to kuow how the three eugines would pull together. A few hands are still employed cleaning up outside the building and connecting up a few motors, amoug which are a 40-horse power motor in the carpenter shop, a 25-horse power motor for the threshing machine,a 10- horse power motor for the bake shop aud a 10-horse power motor for the electrical pump to supply the boilers. The work begau 011 May 9th, the heaviest part of the contract being the wiring of all the buildings to tho number of 2300 lights. The comple tion of the plant so much earlier than was expected as well as the first class quality of.work doue speaks volumes iu praise of Mr. Stutterheim, the rep reseutativo of Buchanan & Company, who has beeu on the ground sinco tho work began and will remain until Fri day, although all the other representa tives of the firms that had a hand iu the v*ork havo returned to their homes. The largest number of hands employ ed was uiuoty-fivo, eighty-seven of whom were Danville men. In this con nection it is worthy of note as reveal - iug the pleasant relations between Mr. Stutterheim aud the men working un der him that at no time during the; several months of difficult aud exact 1 iug labor did he And it necessary to discharge a single man. Mr. Stutter heim is a most companionable and agreeable gentleman; he is the soul of courtesy and is always fair. Under the circumstances it is not strange that tho same cordial relations that obtain betweon him aud his workmen are found to exist between him and tho hospital authorities and everv one in tho community with whom he came iu contact. Fell Under Train at Hilton. Harry Held, whose residence is some where iu New York State,is a patient at the Mary M. Packer hospital, Sun bury. the victim of an accident, which occurred at the Heading passenger sta tion at Milton,on Saturday afternoon. Held is connected with tho Electric Theatre company, which exhibited at the Milton fair grounds during the last week, and 011 Saturday he decid ed togo to Bloonishurg and make ar raugome 11 ts for the appearance of the company at the fair at that place this week. When Held arrived at the Heading passenger station at Milton, tho train was about ready to leave and by tho time he had purchased his ticket it was in motion. Hushing out of the station he attempted to board the train and missing his footing he fell. Still retaining his hold on the handle ho was dragged for some distance and when he fiually left go tho wheels of one of tho coaches passed over tho back part of his right foot badly crush ing it. Dr. Ross was summoned ami Hold was given medical attention audit was decided to send him to Siiubury to the Mary M. Packer hospital. He was met at the sration there by Dr. • q hindel, the Reading company's phy sician, who accompanied him to the hospital aud dressed his injury. AN OLD LETTER. Our townsman, James M. Kelso, has iu his possession an old letter that is a most curious document. It was writ- ! ten in 1841 by F. R. Shunk, at that time superintendent of common schools of Pennsylvania,and was addrossed to Mr. Joseph Kelso, father of James M. Kelso, who was then a school diroetor in Chester county. The lotter was in answer to an iuquiry made by Joseph Kelso about a point under dispute in tho Chester county school board. Tho most curious part of the opistlo is that 110 envelopo was used. The paper was folded and then sealed upon itself. F. R. Shunk was later, in 18-14 elected go.ornor of Pennsylvaniaand re-elect ed in 1847. State Buys Timber Land. Tho recorder of deeds of Clinton county received for record an agree ment of sale whereby tho State comes into possession of 9545 acres of land iu Noyes aud Beech Crook townships, in that couuty. A similar instrument was filed with the recorder of Centre county for ttoOO acres,making an addi tion of more than 15,500 acres to the forest reserve in that section. The laud is being sold by tho Ly coming Laud & Lumber company, of Williamsport, for $250 an acre. The State now owns (50,000 acres in Clinton county,known as the Hopkins reserva tion, which will grow in value. A SAINT MAKING TRIUMVIRATE The South Bethlehem Globe declares that when a preacher acoused a certain editor of not always tolling tho truth the editor admitted the truth of tho charge ami retaliated by declaring that no miuistoi who would tell the whole truth about all his members would oc cupy his pulpit more than a week. "The press and tho pulpit," said he, "go hand iu haud with whitewash brushes and pleasant words, magnify ing little virtues into big ones The pulpit, tho pen aud the gravestone are the great saintmakiug triumvirate." LEVER OF ENTERPRISE. At the organization of tho llazleton board of trade the other day, Thomas Martimlale, of Philadelphia, was tho principal speaker. His theme was "Buy at Home and Advertise." Mr. Martindale said: "Advertising is tho levor of all enterprises,and without it there can be no success.'' PLACING POTATOES 1 ON THE MARKET With one exception the largest mar ket of the year took place on Saturday morning. The generous yield of the summer duo to plenty of rain aud care ful farming,for which tho people of our couuty are noted, was never more strikingly iu evidence. Abuudaut to overflowing, choice and delicious in quality literally every product of the field and garden was represented in the long row of wagons, which cover ed nearly every foot of available space There were just 105 one-horse wagons, 21 double wagons and 14 butchers aud bakers in line. In order to reduce the labor of stor ing away tho crop,the farmers are en deavoring to sell as many potatoes as possible. As a consequence the big yield of tubers was reflected in mar ket by largo quantities, which were out of proportion to other products on sale. Thev sold fairly well at 00 to (55 couts per bushel. Chestnuts fouud a place among the other products and the large quantities of these brought in would indicate that there is a very large yield. They sold as low as 12 cents per quart, al though many were disposed of at 14 aud 15 cents. Heretofore, with probably the ex ceptions of Thanksgiving aud Christ mas, the largest markets of tho year were apt to occur during midsummer, when garden vegetables, fruit and borrios were iu season. Such a large market iu October is unusual and can bo accounted for only by the fact that the season has been a very prolific one and that the farmers flud themselves iu the possession of a «np"rahnu lauee FOUR IN KILLED BY fIiIXPLOSi TAMAQUA, Oct. 9. 1 A terrible explosion occurred this morning at the lower mill of the H. A. Weldy Powder company's plant about three quarters of a mile north of here. Four men wore instantly kill ed and two others fatally injured. The oxplosion occurred in the dry house where 500 kegs of powder were stored. The explosion was terrific and was hoard and felt miles away from the scene of the catastrophe. The dead, who are all from Tama qua, are : Wilson Sassaman, aged 42, wife and several children. Thomas Pilrsel, aged 28, single. Calvin Doiber, aged 29, single. Edward Dreisbach, wife and two children. Tho injured are: Irviu Sassaman,son of Wilson Sassa mau, married. Horribly burued and can't live. Lorin DoWire, of Wiufiold, Union couuty, aP. &H. painter, leg torn off", critical condition. Pursel and Doiber wore in tho dr house and wero blown to pieces. Irviu , Sassaman had just left the dry house | before the explosion occurred. He wns hurled into a mill pond. Wilson Sassa t man was iu the keg house and was burned to death. 1 Lorin DoWire, one of the injured, is I aP. & R. painter and was painting a , railroad bridge spanning the Schuyl- I kill about 50 feet from the mill whou p tho explosion occurred. His leg was torn off near the body and hurled 50 feet away, while he foil into the river and swam ashore. I DoWiro was taken to the Ashland 112 hospital on aP. & R. passenger train. , A physician attended him euroute. v The doctor forgot the severored por tion of tho leg when the train arrived at the hospital, and it was discovered , later by the baggagemaster when the train reached Shamokiu. REAL ESTATE. That the community on the south side of tho river is experiencing a boom of 110 mean proportions is well illustrated by the volume of real ostate business that is being done over there. George B. Ostrauder, the south side real estate agent, yesterday said that tho success ho has lately had in mak ing rapid exchanges in large pieces of real ostate is really phenomenal, and indicates tho activity that is pervading business in South Danville and River side. A FORTUNE IN APPLES. State Poniologist J. H. Funk, at Boyerstown, has an apple orchard of twenty acres and from it ho is now picking and shipping a crop of apples which will reach a thousand bushels. He makes the declaration that the man who plants an apple orchard now and cares for it properly will have a for tune iu ten years. Ho seems to have practical faith in his predictions, for he has the orchard aud is beginning to accumulate the fortune. MASQUERADE BALL. Invitations were issued yesterday for a masquorade ball to he given in the armory ou the evening of October 81st. Comstock's orchestra is announc ed to furnish the music. The arrange ments are in the hands of a committee composed of Robert M. Jacobs, Thom as A. Foltz aud Charles A. Hartt. Patented October 30th. Claronco F. Blue yesterday received a lotter from Robert Walton. Esq., patent lawyer, of Washington, D. C.. stating that the patent on Mr. Blue's new skirt haugor would be issued from the patent office ou the 80th of this mouth. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Your Heart. The heart of man resembles a secret chamber wherein stands, like the block of white unhewn marble set 111 the studio of a sculptor, a veiled figure. Though the man may not so much as lift the corner of the veil. j ? et must he ! forever and In secret work to fashion 1 aud to form the figure that lies be nMAth ' THE IMPRISONED PEDDLERS PAID DP The two peddlers who refused to pay the flue for peddling without a li ceuse Friday aud were committed to the lock-up to undergo five days' im prisonment became weary of durance and before they had served the first 24 hours decided to pay the flue aud costs of seven dollars and breathe the pure air of freedom again. As they settled with the justice aud weut their way it was difficult to de termine whether they wore affected most by the humiliation of their ex perience or the loss of their money, | with which it went so hard to part. They loitered about town for awhile Saturday, but it is not kuowu that they made any attempt to peddle. Citizens could aid very much iu at taining the ends of justice if they would goto the trouble to notify the officers when one of these itineraut dealers makes his appearance. The fellows are very sly aud often carry merely a small handbag,' so that it may be some time before the officers discover what is going on. Iu the vast majority of cases it is safe to assume that the peddler has uot paid five dol lars for the privilege of selling goods for one day and if he has lie will very quickly produce evidence of that fact. On Friday it is said that at least one party instead of notifying the officers actually gave one of the peddlers a tip when the officer came near, so that the fellow was able to escape. MAKE CALLS AT NIGHT. Peculiar Custom of the Arab I.utile* of /.uiixlliur. T!:p Ar.ib ladies of Zanzibar live iu treat seclusion in the large white houses, never going out in the daytime from one year's end to another, saya the Manchester Guardian. A little cooking and sweetmeat making is their only recognized employment, though some few of them can do beautiful viik embroidery. To He on their beds und be fajined by their slave girls is /he usual occupation of the richer women. If they want to visit their friends, or, rs is more often the case, to perambu late the town, they wait until 8 o'clock lu the evening, when a gun Is fired warning all Mohammedans that it is the fifth and last hour of prayer; theu they may go out. They are entirely enveloped in large mantles and their faces completely hidden by very ugly gilt masks, with oblong slits for the eyes, and many of them wear these even In the privacy of their own homes. Their other garments are trousers and a tunic reaching below the knee, which Is often embroidered and trimmed with gold braid. They have a number of gold and silver ornaments, nose rings and earrings, bracelets, anklets, and so on. They are very light in color, mauy of them cream colored. Their features are regular and good, and they have dark eyes and silky Mack hair. They paint under their eyes and stain their hands and nails a reddish color with senna. If they want togo any distance from home they ride through the narrow streets on large white asses stained a brick red. their slaves running by their sides, but you generally meet them stalking solemnly along, surrounded by their slaves, who carry enormous lan terns as big us a Loudou street lamp. Very often they do not return home till 4 lu the morning, when another gun is fired proclalmiug the first hour of prayer. It Is very awkward at times when you meet lu the streets some of these ladies whom you ought to know and are greeted by them. You cannot see their faces, it is not always easy to recognize a voice, and nothing would offend them more than to ask their names. I'a liner* to ii Had Not Been Intro duced to 1Ior» or Doiuhm. Alexandre Dumas, the elder, tells this story in his diary: "One day Victor Hugo and I were dining with the Due Decazes, and among the guests were Lord and Lady Palmerston. Lord and Lady Palmerston hud come late. There had been no time for an Introduction before dinner, and after dinner, while we were taking tea, the formality had been forgotten. Young Due Decazea came up to me. 'My dear M. Dumas.' he said, 'Lord Palmerston has begged me to ask you to leave an empty chair between yourself and Victor Hugo.' I did so. "Lord Palmerston got up, took his wife by the hand and brought her over to us. 'Look at the clock, my lady,' he said. 'What o'clock Is it?' asked Lord Palmerston. 'Thirty five minutes past 10,' replied my lady. 'Then remember/ said her husband, 'that this evening at thirty-five minutes past 10 you were seated between Victor Ilugo aud Alex andre Dumas and that such an honor Is not likely to happen to you twice lu a lifetime.' "lie then took his wife by the hand aud took her back to her place at the other side of the room without another word. You see, he had uot been Intro duced either to Victor Hugo or me." The Valuable "My Pretty June." "My Pretty Jane" was one of the most profitable songs to the publishers ever written. Some years ago it brought over £2,000, yet all that Mr. ritzball, the writer of the words, and Sir Ileury Bishop, the composer of the music, jointly received did not exceed £-10. Fitzball, to be sure, declared that it took him just ten minutes to write, and Kishop thought so little of his own setting that he had thrown the manuscript into the waste paper bas ket, from which It was fished out by . the manager of Vauxhall Gardens. But. even so, the composer was surely entitled to a proportionate rewaid with the publisher, audit is not consoling to recall the circumstance that Bishop died almost a pauper.—Chambers' Journal. The Runt and the Went*. The lfuiuerous kinds of west of which the elTete east solemnly dls- '• courses are enough to bewilder a 1 Philadelphia lawyer. It will assure you that besides "the middle west." a phrase that It e:n;iloys canilmiully and with eviile.it pleasure, there are | an eastern west, a western west, a 1 northern west mil a sr>u.heru west! \et there Is only o:ie east aud hardly enough of that to swear l»y.—Cali '""•nlac. I.lbeled London, When the most has been said against Loudou smoke and Loudon fog, against j the dirt laden atmosphere and the noise and worry of the metropolis, It Is still true that there are heulthy people In 1 the capital. London has not perhaps deserved all the hard things that have been said of It.—Loudon Country Gen- ' My Hair Ran Away Don't have a falling out with your hair. It might leave you! Then what? That would mean thin, scraggly, uneven, rough hair. Keep your hair at home! Fasten it tightly to your scalp! You can easily do it with Ayer's Hair Vigor. 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