ODR CARPENTERS !l ORGANIZE The carpeutera of Danville and vic inity have organized a local uniou of o the United Brotherhood of Carpenters tl and Joiners of America, tlie object be hi ing to reduce the bourn of daily labor, a to eeonre increased pay for work and o in a general way to reap the benefits d of the prosperity prevailing. o The carpenters were organized last a week by D. M. Post of Wilkes-Barro. organizer for this district, who was 11 accompanied ta Danville by Joseph 11 Ephliu, a former townsman, now a a member of the board of trustees of the s Wilkes-Barre union. The officers elect- c ed were : President. John L. Russell, 1' vice preaident, J. O. Mowrey; record- r ing secretary, Arthur Myerly ; financi al secretary, O B. Switzer; treasur- L er, William Price. John M. Sechler. 112 T. W. Bartholomew anil David Guest 1 were elected trustees. Last night the uewly organized uu- i iou held a meeting in the Friendship o engine lionse, where it considered the 112 question of by-laws and adopted rates. « Notice of action pertaining to the latter will in all probability he given r the contractors today. 1 The regular number of hours that s carpenters worked in Danville up tot the present was ten, although a good fl many followed tlie custom of other > places and worked only nine hours. ' The wages paid were S5 cents to 28 ' cents per hour, the latter being the i contractors' figures when they charg ed for day work. < Now tliat. organization has been ef- 1 fected the carpenters will demand a 1 regular day of uiue hours. The wages will be fixed at 28 cents per hour. The < contractors when working on ropaiis i and charging by the day will have to 1 fix the price at a figure that will al- 1 low them a profit, which will proh- ' ably be 30 or 31 cents per hour. : There are twenty-six charter mem bers of the union, but there are some 1 forty carpenters in this vicinity eligi ble to membership aud, it is thought the most of these will eventually joiu * union. There is said to be nothii g in the i^rganization that conflicts with the contractors' interests aud these, unless they happen to be members of the lumbermen's association, am per fectly eligible to membership. Iu fact, a couple of the smaller contractors of Danville are already members of the local union. The objects of the United Brother hood are: To discourage piece work, to encourage an apprentice system and a higher standard of skill, to cultivate a feeling of friendship among tho craft and to assißt each other to secure em ployment, as woll as to furnish aid iu cases of death or permanent disability. The initiation fee of all members can not be less than five dollars. Dues of beneficial members shall not be less than fifty cents per month ; of semi beneficial members and apprentices not less than thirty cents per month. To be admitted to beneficinl membership a candidate must not be less than twenty-one and not over fifty years; he must be of good moral character and competent to command standard wages. Apprentices under twenty-one or candidates over fifty or persons in bad health when they joined are classed as semi-benefical members. The disabi 1 ity benefit is graded according to length of membership. There are funeral b 'unfits, both for the member aud his wife, the amount paid iu eacli case also correspouding to the length of time the member belonged. John Batemnn in Charge. John Batemau, formerly proprietor of Lyndlinrst hotel, Shamokin, has purchased the wholesale liquor store of J. T. Kindley, this city. He assum ed charge yesterday aud iu a short time will have the business in perfect running order in all its departments. Mr Findley has purchased the Cent ral Hotel at Plymouth, Luzerne coun ty. His family has already removed to Plymouth and he will follow iu a few days. Mr Batemau, the new proprietor, is a native of Danville and grew to man hood in this city. At the age of nine teen he removed with his parents to the coal region and during the greater part of the subsequent time ho has been a resident of Shamokin. Mr. Bateman is an ardeut votary of base ball and for several years was the owner and manager of the famous clnb of Edge wood park,Shamokin. It is his intention, lie says, to look after base ball in this city and under his influ ence it is altogether likely that b»*e ball, which in Danville lias lagged for a couple of years past, may enter upon a new lease of life. EVIDENCES OP GOOD TIMES. Saturday night, although not a gen eral pay night, the mainstreetß of the town were crowded with people. Many were out merely for pleasure wains, but many more were bent on shopping tours, and went home laden with big bundles. Danville merchauts generally ■av that trade is good, and they an ticipate still better times as spring ap proaches. Many of the stores liavo al ready received part of the spring stocks,aud the showing is most tempt ing. horse's Bite Caused Insanity. Louis Ringer, of Alleutown, was bitten five months ago by a horse, itud as a result of the wound, it is believ ed, he has become mentally deranged so that he Imagines lie owns the Penn sylvania and the New York Central railroads and has boon spending money lavishly on various purchases. He has been taken into custody and his condi tion will be investigated. GOOD ORDER PREVAILS. 'The justices of the peaco in Danville say that business is verv quiet iu their departments, especially aloug crimin al lines. The police also report mut ters very quite, only an occasional drunk being run in. This, however, is • very satisfactory state of atfairs so far as the general publio in concerted. Public Sales in all parte of the CtAuXty qtyw. APPLICANT'S NAME POSTED ! Isaac Stein, tho Russian shoemaker on Mill street, has the honor of being the first alien iu Montour county to seek citizenship under the new uatur- j alizatiou laws aud regulations of Oct- j ober, 1006. His name along with other data required is posted iu theprothou otary'a office, whereit attracts atteutiou as one of the features of the uew law. The procedure uuder the new reg ulation, in several respects, is essent ially different from the former law and the standard of qualification is slightly raised. The changes will he come apparent if we glance at the leading features of tho uew laws aud regulations. The aliou seeking naturalization uapers, first, must declare on oath be fore the clork of court two years at least prior to his admission, after he has reached the ago of 18 years, that it is his intention to become a citizen of the United States aud to renounce forever all allegiance aud fidelity to any foreign prince or poteutate, &c. Secoud, not less than two years nor more than seven years after he has made such declaration of intention he shall make, and fill a duplicate,a peti tion iu writing signed by the applic ant in his own handwriting aud dulv verified iu which petition such applic ant shall state full name, the country irom which he emigrated, date of ar rival in the United States, &c. He must nut be a disbeliever in or opposed to organized governments, neither can he bo a polygamist, nor a believer iu polygamy. Sectiou sth, provides that the clerk of courts shall immediately after fil ing petition give notice thereof by posting in a public or a conspicuous place iu his office or in the building iu which his office is situated, uuder approDriate heading, the name, na tivity aud residence of the alien, the date aud place of his arrival iu the Uuited States, &c., aloug with the ua nes of two wituesses. Section 8 provides that uoalieu shall hereafter be naturalized or admitted a* a citizen of the Uuited States who can uot speak the English lauguagV. Isaac Stein, the applicant, is the Russiau Hebrew, formerly a soldier under tlfe Czar, an interview with whom relating to the conditions iu the Russiau army aud the hard lot of the Rnssian soldier was printed iu these columus duriug the Russo-Japauese war. He is an ardeut admirer of our couutry and its institutions and iu ap- plying for naturalization he is taking a step that he has contemplated from tho day he landed ou Americau soil. Each district must hold a naturaliza tion court under the naturalization law and regulations of October, 1906 Iu tliis couuty Judge Evaus has select ed the May term for holding natural ization court. SUPERSTITIONS. There is nobody liviug uow who be lieves that if you look over the left shoulder at the new moon you are sure to have—is it good luck or bad? Not a siugle reader of the News who visits a friend insists upou going out of the ideutical door he entered lest he leave his luck behind. Who now believes that if you leave your homo in the morning and turn back for something you have forgotteu all your good for tune for that day will vanish? Nobody insists upou directly carrying a new born baby to the topmost room iu the house in which it was born,to the end that it may always be high raiuded. . None of the farmers or gardeners of the twentieth ceutury bother them selves about the "signs" that used to command the atteutiou of their ancest ors aud which were believed to have a potent influence upou the crops. When a baby will not grow we no longer think of taking it to the powwower who will put it through mysterious processes aud presently present it to its anxious pareuts every whit whole. SHAKE-UP AT MT. CARMEL. Au exchauge tells that Mt. Carmel is to have a shako up. "The wrong doer aud the law breaker will tremble iu their boots, as Burgess Peunmau is nosing out all that is had and suspici ous, with the iuteutiou of prosecuting oue aud all, great aud small." If halt of the reports that come from Mt. Car mel are true, that towu ought to be a shining mark tor a real live reform wave Shortage of Locomotives. Although there is uo shortage of coal miuod and uo shortage of cars, New York aud the New Euglaud states are threatened with a serious anthracite coal famine, because of a scarcity of eugiues to haul the coal from the mines iu this State. Died at Sunbury. The iufaut daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Deau Clark, of Sunbury, died yester day. The funeral will take place Fri day moruiug at 11 o'clock at Reed'* station. Mrs. Clark, the mother, was formerly Miss Kimpel, daughter of Charles W. Kimpel, of Reed's station. The Shortest Bill. Tiie shortest bill yet introduced in the legislature the preseut session is this by Senator Felker: "The first day of Jauuary, commonly called New Year's Day. shall hereafter be a legal holiday." WHISPERINGS OF SPRING. The sunny side of the street yester day afternoon had a strong suggestion of sprint*. Passiug aloug the way, one instinctively listened for the chirp of the robiu aud the mellow srtaius of the discordant street piano. Returned from hospital. John Reiloy.who was injured iu the coastiug accident on Ash street, Feb j ruary 19th., has been dismissed from the Joseph Ratti hospital. He is very I much improved. Mrs. FranklinS. Keller, who suc cessfully underwent an operation at . the Joseph Ratti hospital, several weeks ago, has returned to har home ou Church stcuet. Pllithe f|l li^a^SpKildren I or f e omo l|^W%cK^»U They usually want | You remember the hunger you had V^Jj - _jj omc C ooking counts for much *"» in the child's health; do not imperil it with alum food by the use of poor baking powder. Have a delicious, pure, home-made muffin, cake or biscuit, ready when fhey come in. To be sure of the purity, yoy must use HAVAI BAKING I if UTAL POWDER Royal makes a difference in your home—a difference in your health— a difference in your cooking. ROYAL is absolutely Pure. WHEN ICE WAS jj S3O PER TON I A. M Peters, seated iu his cozy office ou Mill street, last night, grew c reminiscent He noted that ou March 1 3rd, thirty-nine years ago, iu 1868, 'c with his pareuts he removed from the ( 112 first ward to the second ward of Dau- t ville aud began his career as au ice- i man. He recalled that on the day the J. moving occurred the snow lay ou the j - ground three feet doep.reaching to the window sills. i The transition from snow to ice was i au easy oue for Mr. Peters aud the subject of ice suggested au interesting i array of facts relating to the ice busi- j uess which covered nearly half a cent- i ury of time. i Upon moviug to Sageburg Emanuel Peters immediately went iuto the ice , busiuess and Arthur, then a lad of) about 13 years was his right baud man. As boy and man Arthur has beeu in i the ine business ever since. He related several interesting ;ircumstances iel - ative to his busiuess last mglit. One of these is that at one time owing to< scarcity they retailed ice at #1.50 per hundred weight or S3O per ton. The j ice that summer was shipped from Maine* Those who thought they were ; paying exorbitantly for ice last sum- j mer would do well to reflect on the i figure quoted by Mr. Peters. Incidentally, whether ice was plenti ful or scarce there uever was a season ; iu the loug interim siuce 1868 when the Peters ice wagon was not daily on its rouud through the town. Amoug the patrons now are some whose grand pareuts were supplied with ice by Mr. Peters aud whose parents were also amoug his patrons, affording instances in which three generations have beeu supplied by the same dealor. Allusion to the"three generations," it is true, makes it souud as though Mr. Peters were a patriarch, but we beg to refer our readers to the figures quoted when it will be seen that Arthur is still a 1 young fellow ou the sunny side of ' fifty. Building Church vVith Pennies. Members of the Presbyterian church at Sayre have adopted a uovel method by which to raise money for the erec tion of a uew church at that place. The idea is an exemplification of the old adage, "Take care of the peuuies aud the dollars will take care of them selves. " The object is to gather a "mile of peuuies," aud to do this eacli member has beeu provided with a narrow strip of paper a foot in length The obverse •tide of the strip is divided into spaces just large euougli to hold apenuyeach ' »u flr»t one at ion your doctor would an I \ *-.• ■ • ,i • ll tli. • s iil>*oliitH) ami vein- l.n'vHs i ulur liy' takii'K luxntive dose/of Aycr'H PHI*. jm Mad" Vv J.C. Ayer Oo.,T.nwMl. Mas* A 1.? HA!R VIGOR. f\ fjO h Q AG; n owe. fIL -A. X% Vtf 3 .' : (JK/ PECTORAL V. e hi' • publia'i 3 t l .. • ■ ■ j To Ciet Big Appropriation. The public schools of this city will | be greatly benefitted by live uew sehool appropriation bill which allows the . sura of $18,000,000 for education. | The apprlpriation bill presented to , fcne house Monday night ami members of the committed are showing of the great reforms instituted in the word iug of the bill, which carries a total , of $22,879,000. The school system has been reeoguiz ' ed to the extent of $ 13,000.000 which is $2,000,000 mure than last year, and | the department of health also secures au increase. All the shouting is due to the fact that the capitol expenditures have , caused a move for the eliminatiou of the slipshod methods of fluaucial ! housekeeping that have prevailed iu State administrations. It is proposed to strike out of all | appropriation bills the joker which roads "to bo uaid out of moueys iu the State treasury not otherwise ap propriated." It was clause . that the #9,000,000 "trimmings" were ' placed iu the new capitol and the State printing was paid for, and uu dor a similar clause that all mouey was paid for bridges erected by the State. I"The publfc schools this year, " said Chairman Sheatz,"will be given $13,- 000,000,and there will be a special ap propriation ot $705,633 to the board of publio grounds and buildings, which will bo sufficient to cover all expenses for the next two years, including sal aries, supplies, coal, the care of the capitol and everything as it is now. Tli is meaus that, uulike the old board, the new board will not have the entire general fund of the treasury at its dis posal. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS DIAMOND BRAND j LADIES I Ask your Druggist for A CHI CHHS-THR S PILLS In RED and /j\ GOLD metallic boxe9, sealed with Blue< O ) Ribbon. TAKE NO OTHER. Buy of your \/ Druggist and nsk for CHI.CIIES.TEB'tt V KNOLISII PILLS, the DIAMONI> BRAND, for twenty-five years known as Best, Safest. Al« vays Reliable. Sold by Druggists everywhere. 'IIJCHEST23R CHEMICAL CO., PHILA., PA. J J. BROWN THE EYE A SPECIALTY. | Kyes tested, treated, fitted with /las ie ♦m 1 artificial eyes supplied. I Market Street, Bloomsburg, I'a, Hours —10 a. m. t«» 5 p. m. DR. J. SWEISFORT, DENTIST. : Uses ODONTUNDfcR for the painlene er ; traction of teeth. Dentistry in all ; t its branches and all work guar anteed. CHARGES REDUCED. Opposite Opera House, Danv lie j i. r UUOi ! J: i, ! PRESCRIPTION ORUBBIST, Opposite Opera Mounts - I'ENNi ROSSMAN & SON'S PHARMACY, S4G MILL STREET, DANVILLE, »*, Two WMgitfw* FhirmirliU In shtrg* rut FrMk Drag* and mil lln* of r»M»l MadlclaM and fvndrlaa. s rui 019 AM fIOOD OOLD WD*, Patronize A. C. AMESBURY, Rent Coal In T nwit'. BEST FOR THE BOWELS If yon haven't a regular, healthy movement of the bowels every day, you're 111 or will be. Keep your bowels open, and bo well. Force. In the ahape of violent physic or pill poison, la dangerous. The 6moot heat, easiest, most perfect way of keeping the bowels clear and clean ia to take EAT 'EM LIKE CANDY Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good, Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken or Qrlpe; 10, 2S and 60 cents per box. Wrlto for free sample, and book let on health. Address 433 Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or Naw York. KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEM "ON THE OTHER HAlfl}". The Miltou Standard admits that the coal tax proposed by the bill now b(. fore the legislature would yield the State a revenue of $!i,o00,000. But it looks at the oilier side of the question aud observes: "Ou the other baud it would probably be takeu as au excuse by the operators for adding ten or twenty cents a ton to the price of ooal. In the cud the consumer would pay the tax, as lie always does. "