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- '
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Birthday Party.
; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman enter
tained a number of friends at their
home on C'edar.strnet Saturday even
ing in honor of Mr. Kaufman's thirty
sixth birthday. Mimic was furnished
by George Reed's phonograph. 1