4 m II ARKS PLIED THE WAVES OF SHIM Dr. Swallow Recalls Many Different Forms of Navigation of the Stream ANECDOTES OF RAFTING PERIOD te Beads Interesting Paper to the. County Historical Society and Con fesses That He Has Never Been in the New Capitol , The Rev. Br. Silas C. Swallow, of "amp Hill, one time candidate for President of the United States on the Prohibition ticket, read a paper before ;he Dauphin County .'Historical Society ast night on the ''The Susquehanna Havigable, Vet Unnavigable." Dr. Swallow's iuteresting discussion is giv in in full, as follows: If I fail to stick to my text this [|| m n [j> [ n , IIM DR. SILAS C. SWALLOW felis Historical Society of Old-Time , r Navigation of Susquehanna svening please charge it to my 55 fears of wandering habits as an itiner ant minister. 1 am indebted for some of the data fthich follows, to the history written iy that versatile explorer of the past, [>r. Egle,' of whom our Historical So ciety and in fact our city and county was Justly proud. At the dedication of 'frv Vaclav school building I witnessed i good natured tilt between the doctor in<l the colored professor, Howard Bay, hen president of our School Board, iiat may be of interest to some of my learers. We three were to deliver brief Kldiesses. Dr. Egle spent much of his ime eulogizing Congressman Maclay; ifter whom the building is named. He (tnphasized the blue blood in his veins. •Br. Day followed 'by saying, "when ; heard that, I looked at "the hand of ny neighbor sitting on the right, Dr. Jwallow, and saw that he had blue llood in his veins; then I looked at the land of my neighbor sitting on the left wd saw that he had blue blood in his leins, and then I looked at my own land and behold I discovered "that I ad 'blue blood in my veins, and then rememfoerfed that' a very wise man amed Paul had spid some eighteen hun- Ired years ago, that 'God hath made <t one blood all nations to dwell on all be face of the earth.' By that time krth doctors gave facial, if not prima acie evidence of blue blood tinsred with ed." Some Personal Reminiscences Some of the facts in my paper were ulled from the "History of Luzerne Sounty," written by my old time iiend, Hon. Stewart JPearce', of Wilkes farre, and if you will pardon some til. STOP CATARRH! OPEN NOSTRILS AND HEAD j Say* Cream Applied in Nostrils j Relieves Head-Colds at Once. f f- | j If your nostrils are clogged and your ead is stuffed and you can't breathe feely because of a cold or catarrh, just Bt a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm 4 any drug store. Apply a little of bis fragrant, antiseptic cream into pur nostrils and let it peeetrate hrough every air passage of your head, nothing and healing the inflamed, swol in mucus membrane and you aet in fant relief. „ Ah! how good it feels. Your nos rils are open, your head is clear, no tore hawking, snuffling, blowing; no lore headache, dryness or struggling »r breath. Ely's Cream Balm is just ishat sufferers from head colds and ca forrh need. It's a delightr—Adv. To-morrow, Saturday, Last Day PUBLIC AUCTION GOING OUT OF BUSINESS ; Entire Stock of Fixtures, Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Clocks and Silverware Everything Positively Sold to the Highest Bidder Sales at 2 P. M. and 7 P. M. American Watch & Diamond Co. 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Get them at" H. C. Kennedy's and dealers everywhere for 50 cents. Mail orders filled, charges- prepaid, by the Wendell Pharraacal Co., Syracuse, ft. Y—Adv. more personal reminiscences since I am in the mood, I will say that the Pearce family, now living only in memory, had a somewhat keen appreciation of the humorous. The father, the Rev. IMar maduke Pearce, was one of the most logical of Methodist preaehers; a class noted more for the Billy Sunday type of the emotional, thau for the logical. He was once approached by an old farmer who said: •'Mishter Pearce, irtv boy tied. I ■tried to get Mishter Joiiusou to preach de funeral sermon, but I couldn't git ' him. Den I tried to git Mishter Wil liams tout I couldn't git him. Den 1 tought as I culdn't git anvpodv else 1 would come unt see vetter I couldn't git you." "Well," answered the aged (Marina duke Pearce, "God bless your honest old soul. Since you can't get anybody else. I'll do it," and he did. ■Now Marmaduke had a son, John .1., who perhaps when still in his teens I felt that he had a call to become a I preacher of the gospel; and on the even | ing he was to preach his trial sermon in the old Berwick church, of which I was afterward junior pastor, more | than fifty years ago, told his father not to come to the church, as it might embarrass him in preaching his first sermon; but the father went, and while his son Johu was offering the opening prayer, slumped into a rear seat, with the collar of his old cloak covering not j only his face but his head. When his j son John came to the parsonage, after j the sermon, the father said: I "John, you grunt when you "How do you know, father!" "1 heard you, for I sat on the back seat from beginning to end." "Oh! I saw you father, but I thought lit was somebody's old coat hanging on the corner of the pew." Getting m a Subject John afterward went to Congress on the "Know Nothing" ticket, from the West Branch District, and on his | return again became a pastor, then a j Presiding Elder, and then he some times lectured. The subject of one of his lectures was "Hell." A preacher introducing him to his congregation i said, "I assure you Brethren the lec | turer of the evening is full of his sub ject." [ I think it was Josh Billings or some other humorist, who in lecturing on ' -Milk, talked about evervtbinig ex cept milk, saying at intervals what he woulit tell the audience if his subject was not? '' milk'' and he believed in sticking to his subject; which he did by taking a sup of milk everv three minutes from a tumbler of milk on the lecture table before him. (My subject is "The Susquehanna aviigiaible, Yet Unnavigable." If vou will .be patient a little longer I expect to get to bhe Susquehanna. It is still some distance away. Permit me to re mark that it is an ancient addage that "Too great familiarity breeds con tempt." This is true of our home-life, and scenery, and of places of historic interest near us. In the year 1904 I was the guest, at Hotel Parker, in Boston, of the 'Honorable J. B. Lewis, a character with characteristics. He now heads the flying squadron holding hundreds of [ meetings and attacking the liquor traf fic front and rear. Arrivinjg there in the evening he said to me: "Now as you do not lecture at 'The People s Temple 1 till to-morrow even you will have all day to-morrow for sightseeing. Where do you want to .go?" "Well," I replied. "I would like to see Bunker Hill, the old Tea vessel, and where she dumped her cargo in Boston harbor; Old South Church, Faueuil Hall, the old State House, Boston Commons, Harvard College, Lexington Commons," etc., etc. "Well,' said he, "you don't want much." Had Never Been to Bunker Hill "No," I replied, "man wants but little here below, but wants that little strong." He replied: "You mention Bunker Hill first, so we will take that first in the morning. I have never been there but I know the way." "How long have you lived in Bos tonl " '' About years.'' "And never been at Bunker Hill HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY MARCH 12, 1915. Smw Victims «f U Grippe Herer FbOj Recover the Health of the Lungs La Grippe mI BnacUal Cafb Oka R*ndl, 4 h«MM m; DMBY, W<ik Lb|( LaJ to Tdirrdirii. TIKBVR the nuoo why yon should stop Oon TloUct, weakening li nippa couha. Tnaj'r# DAARFLRODI. FOLET'S HOKET AKD TAB matters them quickly, sod laevee the throet, bmnchiel li>» aad losft in • eonnd, healthy condition. MBS. T. A. TOWNS, Watertown, So. Dak., raja: "I had a severe eaae of grippe and m> doctor preeeribed Foun'e HONET AID TAB, end it soon overcome nj attack of crippe. When my children hire colds I oarer think of , any coach medicine bat EOLKI'S HOKBT AKD TAB, for I can always depend cm it." J. D. BNTXBKIN, Winston, Oa., writes: "I hsd e terrible attack of pneumonia, both longs involved. After recovering somewhat, my longs never cleared np, and I snffered se verely from congestion. I bought a 50c bottle of FOUR'S HOKET AKD TAB, and it alone entirely cared me." Fourr'l HONET AND TAB has a record for (nccassfnl healing that no other congh medi cine ean equal. It ia absolutely free or opiates and is the favorite congh medicine of a ma jority of people. Use it for all coughs, colds, croup, whooping congh, brooehitis and la grippe coughs. It will not disappoint, or hsrm the most delicate person. * * * EVERY USER IS A FRIEND. Geo. A. Gorgas, 16 North Third street nd P. R. R. Station monument? My! My! My!" But then as I had not been in' my own State Capitol's new building, though passing it every day, I bridled my surprise. .Of course I got my first applause by tell ing the erowded audience at The Peo ple's Temple that night, that'it was a fortunate thing for Mr. Lewis that I had come to Boston to show him the way to Bunker Hill. Yen, I haj passed the new Capitol ibuilding three or four times a day while it was in buildini?, without en tering, but met almost daily acquaint ances from different parts of the State and of the United States •who were traveling miles out of their way to look in upon the expensive and exten sive finishing and furnishing. Wheth er they really saw the $75 shoe shine stand that cost the State $1,600 or the $ 100 chairs, bought by cubic measure, I never knew. The building was too near me and too easy of access to challenge either my curiosity or my admiration. It was in 1797 that three foreign ers, natives of sunny Prance, viz.: the Dwke of Orleaus, the Duke of Mon pensier and Count Bcaufoleis, having been compelled to leave their native country then struggling in the throes of the great revolution and having wandered in exile through Lapland, Russia, Sweden and other countries, found safety in the Susquehanna Val ley and afterward pronounced it one of the finest spots on earth, but many of our own peojde have not yet discover ed its 'beauties. They must first go to Europe or Asia or Africa. "Susquehanna Navigable" But 1 am reminded that I am to talk about the Susquehanna Navigable. Well, I once, when about twelve years of age attempted with two younger brothers to navigate its North Branch in a small foot boat from our farm shore to the other side in the classic valley and near the village of Wyom ing. A terrific wind swiped us,* the whitecaps rolled seemingly mountain high, anil we, paralized with fear, prayed more fervently than we rowed. I think it must have been such an un ctuous prayer as my old friend .Rev. Henry Wilson once offered on a chance visit to the Pennsylvania Legislature nearly sixty years ago. The chaplain asked him to offer the morning prayer, which <he did with such fervor, force, paihos and unction, that the members' hats, usually worn, came off, and the cigars usually smoked during prayer were removed from their mouths; and one of the njemlbers asked my friend, Hon. Lindsay Mehaffey, from the Ly coming district: "Who did you say in your introduc tion that preacher wast" "Why, my pastor at Newberry, the Bev. Henry Wilson." "Why," said the legislator, "he prays like the devil, don't bet" This remark revealed wiat lawmak er's most intimate associate and patron saint. 1 think our prayer on the occa sion of the boat ride was more like that of the old lady whose horse ran <iway with her, and when asked what she did in such extreme danger, she «aid: "I trusted in the Lord till the britcben broke, and then I did not know what to do." Or possibly our prayer was more like that of the good pastor's wife whose hu'band went up from a six hundred country pharge to preach for a Bos ton tiwo thousand-dollar preacher, while he took his summer vacation. Country Parson Makes a Hit The country parson so pleased the city congregation that they extended to him a call to become its pastor. This greatly incensed the country congrega tion to think that any preacher, es pecially their preacher, would be so worldly as to leave a six hundred-dol lar for a two thousand-dollar charge, and they called an indignation meet ing of the members. One woman, more indignant than the rest, said: "I will go down to tihe parsonage and tell our pastor what I think of him.'' The pastor's little daughter answered the door-lbell. "Where's your father?" "Uip in the library." "What is he doing?" "Praying to find out whether he ought to go to Boston." "And where is your mntiher?" "Oh! Bhe is praying, too, and pack ing papa's trunk"—which is an evi dence that women get answers sooner than men. Well, we 'boys paddled and prayed, and I survive to tell the story of that earlj- attenvpt to navigate the Susque hanna. The Indian meaning of the name is Broad Shallow River. It is 450 miles lonjr and much the largest in Pennsyl vania. Its flow is about 2'/ s miles an hour «t low stage and 5 miles an hour at higjh stage. Its average fall is about B feet to the mile. Rivers have had special attraction for the poets. One oi them sings thus: "See rivers how they run, Through woods and niSads, in 4hade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow; Wave succeeding wave, they go A. various journey to the deep, Like human life to endleas sleep." Susquehanna's chief tiibutaries are the North and West Branches, which unite at Northumberland. The North Branch rises in Otsi-go lake, the West Branch in Northern Pennsylvania. Harrisburg a Distributing Center iHarriaburg was the source of grocery supplies for the northern region, even *8 far north as Wyoming Valley, for mapy a long year. The farmers drifted down in canoes laden with farm pro duets and, exchanging these for salt and other groceries, pushed witih poles the canoos back to their homes. In the year 1771 the Provincial As sembly of Pennsylvania passed an act declaring the river a pub lic highway. Portions of the land along the river had 'been settled and cultivated for many years, and the in habitants needed some commodious avenue to market for grain ajid other products. They proved to pay a cer tain proportion of the money required to render the river navigable. The Assembly appropriated an additional sum, and appointed commissioners to «uperintend the work. Tihe gravel bars were cleared away, stamps %ud trees taken out, a channel opened and towing paths constructed along the rap ids. Somewhat different from public <>peratious of more modern times, the "•iver was ready for navigation in a few months from Wrightsville to Wy oming. Not many years later a way 'or trade was opened from the Chesa peake to the New York line. The first transportation boat used on the river was called the Durham'boat, from the town of Durham, on the Del aware a few ntiles below Easton. This boat was built at that place about 1 750. The Delaware boats were R0 feet in length, 8 feet in width and 2 feet in depth and when laden with 15 tons' weight drow 20 inches of water. The steru and bow were sharp, on which were erected small decks, while a running board extended the whole length of the boat on each side. They carried a mast with two sails and were manned by u crew of five men. Further on Isaac A. Chapman con structed a boat propejled by poles, op erated by horses on a tread machine. This was diseontivued as impracticable Then came the period of keel-'bottom boats, known as •' broadhoms." Navigation in 1790 In 1790 o\er 150,000 bushels of wheat floated down the Susquehanna to Middletown and were theuve transport ed over country to Philadelphia. In 1794 oi 1795 the first, ark ar rived in Harrisbrug It came from Huntingdon. About the same time the Conewago canal was commenced at York Haven, and was completed in 1797. Trade was then divorted from Harrisburg and Middletown to Colum bia. A few years afterward boats reached tidewater, and Port Deposit be eauie the niecca of northern ami wesi ern grain men. It was not till f 523 that an net was passed to improve navigation from Northumberland to tide water, and about $15,000 was appropriated for the improvement. It was about that time that a Bal timore company constructed three light draught steam boats, named, re spectively, "Pioneer," "Susquehanna" and "Codorus. ' They continued to visit Harris>burg and some points north until IS2G, when the "Susquehanna" exploded its boilers in an attempt to ascend the rapids at Berwick, Pa. Two men were kiPed and several injured. In 1857 a company brought a small side wheel steamer that had been used on the Delaware river at Philadelphia, but not proving profitable, it was sent back to Philadelphia. In 1832 a strong movement was made to interest Co.igrees in steamboat and sloop navigation from Chesapeake bay to the lakes, but no appropriation being secured it was abandoned. Rafting on the Susquehanna To those of minor age who never saw a raft or an ark on the Susque hanna, a statement of the number that passed a given point in a single year on the spring Hoods, from 50 to 75 years ago, would sound like exaggera tion—46B on Che North Branch and 4 70 on the West Branch are numbers given by one historian. I have counted twenty in sigljt at one time, mostly rafts composed of luinfoer bound for southern and eastern markets. The Raftsmen were jolly crews not. always mindful of others' rights, an I ■by no means sticklers for the golden rule. It was at the village of Sliillin ville, on the North Branch, between Berwick and Bloomsburg that four jo lv but hungry raftsmen asked a goxl housewife to sell them bread and pas try. She brow-beat them as thieves, and they, intent on being what she trusted theui to be, put two fence rails under her clay-formed garden oven and carried it, and its half baked bread, pies and cakes to the raft, and then floated; meanwhile watching the con tents of the oven that they might no; get too well '(tone. They feasted lor ifwo or three days. Oa their tramp re turn, two weeks afterward, toward their home a hundred miles further north, they Stopped and paid the good lady for the oven and its contents, s n I then tramped on northward, liver aft- Applying This Paste Actually Removes Hairs (Beauty Notes) Merdy applying an inexpensive paste to a hairy surface, say beauty special ists, will dissolve the hairs. This paste is made by mixing a little water with some powdered delatone; after about 2 minutes it is rubbed off and the skin washed. This simple method not only removes every trace of hair, but leaves the skin free from blemish. To insure success with this treatment, be careful to get real delatone.—Adv. p f f ff f tyTTtvff ?| T~y yv'^r , rv^ , rTT , r^<r , y T T>T ▼ * j ; Before Purchasing a Kitchen Cabinet: • Investigate Our : : HASTINGS' KITCHEN CABINET CLUB i ► . 4 1 Now Forming ; ; SI.OO Places One in Your Home. SI.OO Week Pays for It. « " Ask for Demonstration and Particulars < ► _____4 ► Call 1991—Any Phone J3joama>n2 Pounded 1871 ll A Great Boon to Catarrh Sufferers Wonderful Bemlts From Breathing Medicated Air Medicine taken into the stomach will never cure catarrh. And neither will the sprays, douches, lotions, creams and other temporary reliefs that so many catarrh victims make a habit of using. To cure catarrh so it won't come back you must first drive from your body the millions of germs that are flourishing in the inner recesses of your nose and throat and are causing the disease. There is a preparation which does frhis called Ilyomei (pronounced High o-ine). Hyomei is a germ killing vapor ized nir formed from the purest oil of Eucalyptus conibiued with other heal ing and antiseptic ingredients. You breathe Hyomei through the mouth and nose by means of a little hard rubber inhaler which druggists furnish with it. This mediuated germicidal air pene trates into every fold and crevice of the mucous membrane of your nosp and throat, hills the catarrh germs that lodge there, soothes, reduces and heals the, swollen inflamed itiembranes. stops the discharge and opens up the clogged nose and air passages in a truly won derful way. It gives blessed relief in five minutes from catarrhal distress of every kind and if you make, a practice of breathing Hyomei for a few minutes each day for .just a few weeks not only will all the symptoms of catarrh vanish but the disease itself will be a thing of the past. No one need try or buy Hy omei on pure faith. 11. C. Kennedy and many other leading druggists in Harrisburg and vicinity sell it with the positive guarantee that it must cure catarrh or that the money paid for it will be refunded. Hyomei is very inex pensive and with this protecting guar autee behind your purchase there is ab solutely r.o reason why any sufferer from Catarrh should not give it fi fair trial.—Adv. er, it is s.iKI, she spake well of the r'v ■fcr men. All the raftsmen of that per o 1 knew tt j»i!ot known as "Uncle Hen.'' Some of his descendants Jive in the vicinity of Harri-iburg now. He was a logician ot' tin- practical type. "Uncle Beu" Teaches Lesson A fellow worker steered the raft on which they were floating, within a foot of a rock, and'when "Uncle Ben," the pilot, chided him for a.) close a call he excused himself by saying "a miss is as good as a mile.*' "Uncle 8.-n " dis sented and they came near to blows in the hour's argument that followed. Next, morning when the steersman awoke, lying on the raft with only a horse blanket for a bed, he was in a rage because s;mie one while he slept ha I placed a ptftrid IMi within an inch of his nose and he had been smelling the onlor all night. "Uncle Ben"' con doled with him, but this time chided him for his ill-temper, since "a miss was as gcod as s» mile," and the fish had not touched his nose. Thereafter that particular raft was steered as far as po-sible front danger. I Mi ink it i< now generally concede! by experts that the Susquehanna is too vide and IOJ shallow, and too susvept able to drjft to be kept navigable to steamboats, even if Congress could be induced to appropriate the millions that would be i;e<;e»:sary lo form a channel, build 'ocks around the various rapids, and thus render it temporarily navi gable. Besiidios an attempt to do so would me nr an endle-s war with the railroid* of the State that were unaided 1n; tinec to perfect their monopoly as can mon carriers, by blotting out the canal system of the Stat#?. And yet, where is the Harri*fourger j who dates to deny that the Hu->qunhan na is navigable, when he stands on its) sh'Oi'o?' and witnesses a dozen or more steamboats engaged in mining and i transporting biack diamonds from the! very bottom of the river, and thei ie-1 members that, in or near Hnrrisburg i zuoiit 1.1,000 tons of. anthracite coal j are thus say* I and utilized annually, | that otherwise would be not only wash ed, but left to fill the stream and ul timately force it out of its bank.--, at. j fljod time, as a destroyer of property, j And then when he remembers the! millions of tons,ailready on the way in I creek and river channels, due to arrive I in Harrisburg long before the present supply is exhausted, lie should feel ! grateful for the providing of Provi-1 dence and their utilization, through | man's ingenuity in appropriating the steamboat; though such boat may bo' low, iealt.v an I devoid of beauty! This | coal though losing mudli of its carbon through exposure to weather and water is yet a l)ooii to the manufacturer, and! r. source of joy to the laboring man,' who secures his bread through the labor! required in lifting and transporting it. j If tired of looking at the uncanny I steam coal boats let the fastidious Harris-burger turn his attention to the j many saud boats, plying Susquehanna's! wave, ami then admit that the Soisque- j hanna is really naviga.ble. And who does not know the value of sand? Why there is not a cowardly jingo, or aj speculator in human bloc i, clamoring I for an \merican war, that does uot I daily pray to his G'»d Mammon, that 1 President Wilson may have more sand. But wo are opposed to war, unless it be fought out as Ai'temus Ward said he was willing the war of his period should .be, fought out, viz:—by his first wife's relations; but our relations are quite j content with Wilson's quantity and I quality of sand. Surely President Wil-J son '* sand suits us exactly, as it is usekl to clog the channels against, the war ships, rather than to accelerate the speed of the jingo war-train. We are willing that the proverbial chip may be knocked from Uncle S'am's shoulder a hundred times while he continues his froiwnless smile and continues to keep his pants strapped down and to mind his own business. The old time Susquohanna Ark of 75 years ago, frequently gave its manager as much trouble as di'l the one that required 120 years of Noah's labor to construct, ami; thait was finally stranded on Mt. Ararat. Yes, as much trouble as was given to Israel and the Phil istines by that little three 'by three box of shittiin wood of Solomon's time, known as tl*a Ark of the Covenant. A Christian Science Methodist Mr. Billings, my father's neighbor of 75 years ago, had a small coal mine in Wyoming Valley. He showed his sym pathy with the under dog in the world's fight, by naming his son Abel; and ho demonstrate*! his impartiality to <toni battants by naming another son Cain. The three constructed an ark, filled it with co»l from their awn little hole in the grounU l and started to navigate the Susquehanna southward. They had not gone fur when their vessel struck a hid den rock and sank. Now Mr. Billings was nut only an amiaible man, but he was also deeply pious, and something of a Christian Science Methodist. He paced up and down the Shore line sing ing a militantly religious song. It had an even one hundred! stanzas. I will not sing tihem all this eivening, but per haps I had better sing one or two in or der to give you the hang of the tune for wo little can tell how soon in life's swift current, and amid its rocks, shoals and breakers you may have occasion to use the song and then it will be im portant for yon to know the tune. In fact I am not quite wire that some of you have not long been familiar with words and music. It ran something like this: | " Die on the field of battle "Die on the field of battle m "Die on the Held of batifcle "Glory to my soul." "Well, Gain! Abel! we can't do any thing with this wreck till'l lower water aptf warmer weather, so we must try it again. You can walk faster than your old dad, so hurry baok up home, get up the team, haul some lumber dawn to the river for another ark, and haul the coal to fill it." " Die on the field of 'battle, "Die on the fi6ld of battle, "•Die on the field of battle, '' Glory to my soul.'' The Susquehanna is still navigable. I The Susquehanna is still unnavigable. TEN THOUSAND MEN IDLE Delaware and Hudson Closes Collieries for Tliree Weeks Wilke.s-Barre, Pa., (March 12.—Ten thousand men at eight 'collories of tho Delaware and Hudson Coal Company have been thrown into idleness by a company order wbielh closes the collier ies for the next three weeks. The sus pansion order went into effect yester day, the following collieries being closed: Cayuga, Brisbin, Continental, Sloan, Dodge, Hallstead, Avondale and l.oomis.-* C. K. Toberv, general manager of the company, declares that the coal 011 hand is much greatei than the demand, and that because of a lack of storage fa cilities the suspension order is neces sary. CITY SAVES IN LIGHTING DEAL Gets Cher per Electricity in Every Par ticular Reading, Pa., March 12.—At a meet ing of Council yesterday five-year con tracts were awarded for street lighting. The Metropolitan Company was award ed the park lighting and street illumi nation. Both bids were reduced, the arc lump price from $65.40 per lamp to $65. fiat. The jark lighting bids were reduced from $36 to $24 per lamp. At present the city is paying $67.50 for street arc lamps. The bid for iu -andoacent lamps is $15.12 instead of 519.20 per lamp. The city will save $21,000 with the new prices in five years. EX-GOVERNORS AS GUESTS Lancaster Travel Club Entertains For mer Executives of State Dancastev, Pa., March 12. —The Lan caster Travel Club, at the meetings of which prominent speakers discuss topics relating to various countries, lafc't night entertained ox-Governors Kdwin S. Stuart and Samuel W. Pennypacker, Lieutenant Governor McClain and castor's ..Mayor, H. L. Hunt, all of whom discussed the su'bject of "Penn sylvania'' from a historical standpoint. The meeting was followed by a ban quet with covers laid' for 150. Presi dent Charles M. Reiling acted as toast master. VERMONT "DRY" TEST LOOMS Prohibition Referendum Only Needs Governor's Signature Montpe|ier, Vt., March 12.—The prohibition referendum bill previously adopted by the House passed tlie Sen ate yesterday. If the bill is approved by Governor Gates the question of State prohibition will be decided at the municiipal election in March, 1916. After sixty yearu of prohibition, tuie State adopted a local option policy at a speeial election in 1903. It'B GREAT FOE BALKY BOWBLS AND STOMACHS We want all people who have chronio stomach trouble or constipation, no mat ter of how long standing, to try one dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy one dose will convince you. This is the medicine so many of our local people have been taking with surprising re sults. The most thorough system cleanser ever sold. Mayr's Wonderful Roinedy is sold by leading druggists everywhere with the positive under standing that your money will be re funded without question or quibble if ONE bottle fails to give you absolute satisfaction. 496 SHIPS IN HA CANAL Handles 2,387,344 Tons Cargo in Six Months—Tolls $3,120,8*2—N0w Average SIOO,OOO Monthly Washington, March 12.—1n the first six months of its operation the Panama canal handled between the two oceaus 496 vessels, carrying cargo of 2,367,- 244 tons. The tolls levied amounted 1o $2,126,832. Tolls collected on barges before August 15 brings the total to $2,138,442. The average now is $400,- 000 a month. The first six months of -commercial operation were completed February 14, 1915. The routes of the 496 vessels were: Number of Cargo ' Route. Vessels Tonnage United States coastwise, eastbounrl, '97 409,439 United States coastwise. j westbound. .• 109 493,272 United States Pacific coast to Europe 68 444,855 I Europe to United States i Pacific coast IB 59,518 South America to United States and Europe,... 89 378,356 United States and Eu rope to South America, 31 138,922 United States Atlantic coast to Far East 4 8 287,752 l r ar East to United States Atlantic coast,. 2 11,500 Miscellaneous routings,. 13 80,500 Vessels without cargo... 45 Totals 498 2,387,244 There were 252 vessels and 1,340,- 6'2'5 tons of cargo eastbound and 244 vessels and 1,026,610 tons westbound. More than forty-one per cent, of the cargo handled has been in coastwise trade. More than twenty-one per cent, lias been in movement 'between the Pa cific coast of North America (princi pally the United States) and Europe. Approximately twenty-one per cent, also has been between the west coast i of South America and the seaports on the Atlantic seaboards of the United States and Europe. The six principal commodities have | been grain, nitrates, coal, refined pe troleum and petroleum products, lumber j and cotton. Republican Praise for Wilson Springfield, 111., March 12.—Presi dent Wilson and Congress were com - mended lor their sl id neutrality in the Knorpean war in a resolution adopt ed by the Senate vesterd'iy. The meas ure was offered by Senator Jewell, lie publican, and urged the P. evident and Congress to remain steadfast in their | policy of neutrality and impartiality. Missouri Lead Mines Resumo Bonne Terre, Mo., March 12.—An | nottucement was made here yesterday that all the ' : ead mines in St. Francois county would resume operations on full | time March 16. Forty-five hundred employe;- and four mining companies | will be affected. Dutch Dedicate Simply at Fair San Francisco. March 12. Dedica ; tory exercises at the Netherlands pa vilion at the Panama-Pacific Intcrna i tional Exposition yesterday were siin ! pie. as a reflection of the sorrow of the : Dutch people over the European war. Killed Before Natal Feast Pottsvillc, Pa., March 1-. —George •Ict'ullough, of this city, was instantly i killed at iluck Run colliery, yesterday, by a fall of coal. This was the twenty j lirst anniversary of McCullough'» ! birthday, and he was just preparing to ! leave the mine for a banquet when a I two-ton bjulder fell upon .him. Boy of 14 to Marry Reading, March 12. Emanuel He- I iter, 14-year-old son of Einnnuel Holier, of Tilden township, this county, was I granted a license here yesterday to marry Miss Edna F. M'oyer, 18-year old daughter of Harry A. Moyer, of the 'same place. The wedding will take place on Saturday. Another Furnace Fired Allent.'wn, Pa., March 12. —Furnace |%'o. 1 of the Thomas Iron Company, IHokendauqua, was put in blast yes terday nioruing, giving employment to 140 iiands after an idleness.of several l months The furnace has a capacity of j 225 tons a day. | Olive Oil—Flesh Builder One of the best known and most reliable tissue builders, . sg*a2L Emulsion containing Hvpephor uhitet is both a flesh builder and nerve tonio. Pleasant to take. Easy to digest. George A. Gorgas
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