UAILKOAD TIME TABLES. pbnn-A K. «. BAST. WBBT Ml A. M. a.u A. M. to. 17 " 12.15 P. M. 2.-21 P. M. 4.81 " 5.50 " 7.51 " SUNDAYS. 10.17 A. M. 4.81 P. M. I>. 1,. AW. It. . EAST. WEST. 6.57 A. M. "J.OO A. M. (0.19 " 12.44 P. M. 2.11 P. M. 4.83 " 5.43 " H. 37 " BUNDAKM 8.57 A.M. 12.44 P.M. »:43P M 837 " I'll 11.A A HEADING R. K. NORTH. SOUTH. 8.03 A. M. 11.24 A. M. 4.00 P. M. 6.05 P. M. BLOOM VTOBBT. 8.05 A.M. 11.22 A. M. 4.02 P. M. 6.04 P. M. J. J. BROWN, THE EYE A SPECIALTY. Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass es and artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, Blooms burg, Pa. Hours—lo a. m.to 5 p. 111. Telephone 1436 Merry Birthday Party. A morry birthday party was giveu at the home of Miss Mabel Treas, iu South Dauville, ou Friday evening, which was attended by the following guests: Misses Elizabeth Daniels, Ruth Dimmick, Ella Landau, Miriam Marks, Hattie Bent, May James, Mary Pegg, Ada Ball, Anna McClonghan, May Moyer, Ella Shultz, Jeunie Snyder, Mary Kimble, May Hummer, Jessie Jordan, Elmira Foust, Mary Heller, Alma Kimble, Margaiet Evans, Pearl Brent,of South Danville ; Bertha Miller, of Harrisburg; Mary Moes chlin, Kathryn Moeschlin, Edith Reimert and Kathryn Leister, of Sun bury; Messrs. Raymond Clayton, Calvin Keefer, Eugene Pegg, Charles Wilson, Hoyt Cleaver, John Ball, David Pursell,Harry Startzel, Thomas James, Arthur Campbell,Clyde Shultz Benjamin Diesroad, Bradley McClain, Harry Landau, Clyde Dyer, Amelis Franois, of this city and South Dan ville ; Samuel Roberts, of Shamokin ; Edward Moeschlin and William Grubb of Sunbury. The party was given in honor of the twentieth birthday of Miss Treas. Attending Firemen's Convention. The Continental Hose Company left yesterday afternoon,on the 12:15 Penn sylvania train for Bradford to attend the convention of the State Firemen's Association. They had a special car which will be run through to the con vention city and will remain there un til their return home the latter part of the week. The Continentals expect to participate in the parade Thursday afternoon. There were thirty-three members who went ou the trip and each bore a portion of the expense. The special car was gaily decorated with bunting and ou its sides were streamers, as follows: "Continental Hose Company, No. 3, Danville, Peuna." The special was attached to the Buffalo Flyer at Sunbury. His Life in Peril. "I just seemed to have gone all to piece," writes Alfred Bee,of Welfare, Texas, " billiousness and a lame back had made life a burden, I couldn't eat or sleep and felt almost too woru out to work wheu I began to use Electric Bitters, but they worked wonders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat any thing, have gaiued in strength and enjoy hard work" They give vigorous health and new life to weak sickly, run-down people.. Try them Only 50c at Paules & Co, drug store. Trouble for Fanners. MONTGOMERY, Oct. 7.—The farm ers are iu for their share of ill luok iu this vicinity. The late potatoes are rottiug and the recent rain has ruiued the corn and buckwheat crops. There will be no buckwheat iu this viciDity to thresh this fall. Tho recent raius have caused it to sprout and spoiled it. The corn fodder is turniug black and many acres will be unfit for use as feed. The com also is only partially ripe, and the corn hereabouts will prob ably be scarce. The Festive Candidate. Here's the festive candidate. He kissed the baby and rubbed the heads of Sam and Sue. He swore tho twins were beautiful and wished he had two —but that doesn't count. He asked about the corn bread, which he vainly tried to chaw, and forthwith begged or the recipe, of course that tickled ma—but that doesn't count. But just before he left he stopped and winked, closed up his jaw, and slipping out be hind the barn, he took a driuk with pa—aud that's what counts. To Kelieve the Situation- A popular method for relieving the necessities of the people for coal is that the miners goto work at the samu pay as they were getting before the strike and continue mining coal uutil the more stringent demands are supplied. This course on the part of the miners would entitle them to wide public sympathy, an important aid in the struggle in which they are now engaged. This would bo an important concession on the part of the ininerH and might lead to similar ones on the part of the operators. READER. Single Fare to Williamsport via Reading Railway. Special excursion tickets will be sold to Williamsport from Mt. Carmel,Sha mokin, Danville, Catawissa, Blooms burg and other intermediate ticket stations, at rate of single fair for the round trip, with a minimum of 25 cents. These tickets will be good go ing on all trains Saturday, October 11th, aud will be good returning uutil Monday October 13th inclusive. McKinley Literary Society. The pupils of the Third Ward Gram mar School organized a literary society Monday afteruoou which was named after the myrtyred president, Mc- Kinley. These officers were elected: President, DeWitt Jobborn; Vice- President, Henry Ortli; Secretary, Stella Doster; Editor, Frank Hartline ; Assistant Editor, Letitia Lunger. Crimson and blue are the society col ors and its motto is "Work and Win." i The flowers are being pulled for tlie 1 winter. . •>*. A SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISER Among the young men who are mak ing headway in the advertising field in New York is Harry 1. Hunt, a na tive of Dauvillo and who has many warm friends in this city. Mr. Hunt begau his newspaper career tweuty years'ago in the office of the Bridge port, Conn., Standard, rising from the positiou of office boy to that o" assist ant manager. Iu 1893 he became ad vertising manager of tho Bridgeport Morning Union and three years later went to New York as editoi of News paperdom. After two years he became assistant advertising manager of tho National Cash Register Company, at Dayton, Ohio, and turned out some of the best work for this big concern which does an immense amount of thoioughly up to date advertising. A little ovor a year ago Mr. Hunt returned to New York aud became one of the general advertising men. His offices are at No. 150 Nassau street, aud he lias been remarkably successful in this great field where only the best, taleut wins such a success as has beeu made by Mr. Hunt. Pavements Must Be Fixed in 30 Days. Pursuant to the action of council Frilay night Street Commissioner H. B. Deeu has already entered upon an examination of the pavements about town. Ho finds the job a pretty big one. Complaints about poor pave meuts have beeu coming in from a good many diioctions of late aud Council at its last meeting decided to take the initiative and make the ropairs necessary at the various crossings. It then resolved that the property owners throughout the borough should do their part and in every instance where the pavements are out of ordor fix them up without delay. The action of Council is quite specif ic, specifying as the kind of pavements that must be repaired, those ot brick iu which bricks are loose or missing and tar pavements, old and worn-out, or rendered uneven and hard to walk upou by the growth of roots reaching out from trees along the curb. The resolution provides that the necessary repairs must be made within thirty days, otherwise the pavement will be lixod bv the borough at the owner's expense. Convention of Endeavorers. The Christian Endeavor societies of Montour and Columbia counties will hold a convention at Berwick on Octo ber 23 and 24. The opening services will be held in the Evangelical church ou Thursday evening, October 23. The sessions of Friday, October 24, will be in tho Lutheran church, with tho clos ing meeting in the Presbyterian church ou Friday night. Au unusually strong program is being arranged and many Endeavorers will be in attendance Rev. E. B. .Dunn,of the United Evan gelical church, this city, will conduct the devotional service Thursday even ing. Ou Friday morning Rev. C. I). Lerch will respond to the address of welcome, and on Friday evening H. H. Furman will read a paper on "How to get the best results from the Christian Endeavor prayer meeting." Opened Metallic Circuit. The United Telephone Co. have open ed their copper metallic circuit to Har risburg aud have also completed their lines through to West Chester, Chest er and as far south as Baltimore. The company are selling coupou books as follows: A book with 200 coupons good lor 112 10.00 worth of tolls at 10 per cent, discouut; hooks with 2000 coupons good for SIOO.<K) woit'i of tolls at 20 per cent, discount. These coupous will be accepted from customers at their face value iu pay met of local extra territorial and long distance messages. Germania Verein Officers. The Geimauia Verein has elected the following officers for the ensuing term : Piesideut, Authouy Schott, vice-presi dent, Charles Haag ; Secretary, Karl Molter; Financial Secretary, Paul Knoch; Treasurer, Audrew Schatz, Trustees, Carl Litz, Chris Loeh and Englebert Albert. The affairs of the Verein are in a fiourishiug condition. Will Open Clothing Busiuess. Harry Moyer, of Lebanon, a son of the late Henry Moyer, intends open ing a clothing store on North Mill street in the near future,in tho Kauff mau building. Purchased a Dwelling. Mrs. Kate J. Pope, of this city, has purchaied of Mrs. Catharine Bausch the double dwelling house, Nos. 104 and 106, East Front street. The price paid was $4000."!} Returned From Europe. Miss Helen Deeu returned home Saturday after spending four months abroad. She landed at New York Satur day morning and arrived at Dauville on the evening train. She was accompani ed on her European trip by a party of friends from New York. ALL WRONG. The Mistake is Made by Many Danville Citizens. Don't mistake the cause of back ache. To be cured you must know the cause. It is wrong to imagine relief is cure. Backache is kidney ache. You must cure the kidneys. A Danville resident tells you how this can be done. Mr. John Lewis, puddler of Mill street, says:; "I was not well for a long time. Wheu working my back became so lame and pained me'so that after getting home at niglit I could hardly straighten. Hoadaces aud weariness disinclined me lor anything | and in addition I was troubled with indigestion. I read about Doan's Kidney Pills and as my doctor's medicine did me so little good, 1 got them and found the most satisfactory results from their use. They are the only remedy which ever gave me permanent relief." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ceuts. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name—Doan's—aud take no substitute. WARD KERNS BADLY INJURED Our townsman, Henry Kerns,yester day received a telegram from Pitts burg statiug that his son, J. Ward Kerns, who is employed by the West inghouse company, has been seriously injured. There are no details. The telegram, which is from the Charity Hospital, merely states that Ward is seriously injured ;that the accident oc curred on October Ist aud that pn opera tion will be necessary. Mr. Kerns has written to Pittsburg for fuller information and is anxious ly awaiting a reply. From Charles Purcoll, a friend of Wards, who was in Pittsburg last week, Mr. Kerns yes terday learned that his son up to a recent date held a position in the office of the Westinghouse concern, but that tempted by better remuneration he ac cepted a position in the machinery de partment of the works. Mr. Kerns from the tone of the tele gram is convinced that Ward's condi tion is very grave. He doubts whether he is conscious, otherwise, he reasons, a message would have been sent soon er. He thinks the delay may have been caused by au effort to locate the family of the injured man. Ward Kerns is a Dauville boy. He is a graduate of our High School and he spent tho greater part of his life in this city. He has many friends here who much regret to hear of the mis fortune which has befallen him. Ward served three years in tho United States Army in the Philippines. He was mustered out last spring. He spent the summer at the home of his father iu this city, leaving for Pittsburg about two months ago. Public Library Warmed With Wood. The Thomas Beaver Free Library Saturday tried the experiment of burn ing wood in the hot water furnaces iu the cellar by which the building is heated. The results were most gratify ing. Uusplit wood was used, the pieces being four feet long. Filling the furnace with these in tho morning it was unnecessary to replenish the lire until noon, while the radiators gave forth a steady and sufficient heat. In every respect tho wood proved as efficient as coal and causing very little if any more trouble. Wood is also being used in the Smead & Wells lurnaces of the public school buildings with equally good results. The intention of the school board was to supplant the use of wood with soft coal when winter approached, but with tho price of bituminous coal soaring around tho high water ma;k attained at present the expediency of trying the use of wood all winter, or until hatd coal can he obtained, will no doubt receive serious consideration. Goes Like Hot Cakes. "The fasest selling article I have in my store," writes druggist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., "is Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung dis eases, who good get no help from doct ors or any other remedy," Mothers rely on it, best physicans subscribe it, and Paules & Co. guarantee satisfac tion or refund price. Trial bottles free. Reg. sizes, 50c and #l. Lincoln Literary Society. The Lincoln Literary Society of the Danville High School held an inter esting meeting Friday afternoon at which the following program was given: Piano duet, Misses Hooley ; rec itation "The Southern Soldier", Miss Lyons; essay, "Government," Mr. Dreifuss; cornet solo, Mr Latim er; recitation, "Has Charity Begun," Miss Cromwell; selection, Keystone Male Quartette ; reading," The Cultur ed Daughter of a Plain Grocer," Miss Furman ; declamation, "Sockery Set ting a Hen," Mr. Amesbury. The question debated was ed, that the demands of the miners are just and their actions commendable." The affirmative debaters wore Mr. Hooley, Mr. Eugene Pegg and Miss Price. The negative side was taken by Mr. Harrington, Mr. Welliver and Miss Jenkins. The decision was in favor of the affirmative. Died at Watsontown. Mrs Fannie B. Hammond, widow of John Hammond, died Friday after noon at her home in Watsontown. She was aged ninety-two years and was the only real daughter of the Revolution iu this state. Mrs. Hammond was an aunt of tho late Mrs. W. L. Antrim, of this city, and was related to the McCormick, Foresmau, Brady and Piatt families. The Elks' Photographs. Photographs of the two base ball teams belonging to the order of Elks which played a game at DeWitt's Park on September 19th may be seen about town. The photograph was made by James M. Irland and artistically is a fine success, each countenance in the picture being perfectly distinct and recognizable. George D. Payne, captain of the local nine, is reclining in the fore ground with the two clubs arrayed behind him. REDUCED RATES TO CLEVELAND OHIO. Via Pennsylvania Railroad Account Ao count Geueral Missionary Convention o the Methodist Episcopal Church. On account of the General Mission ary Convention of the Methodist Ep iscopal Church, at Cleveland, Ohio October 21 to 24, the Pennsylvania Rail road Company will sell excursion tickets to Cleveland October 20 and 21, good to return leaving Cleveland until October 27, inclusive, from all stations on it lines, at reduced rates, 112 The Business Man's Helper. There is no friendship in business. The merchant who does not advertise can not depend upon even his dearest friend to deal with him if that friend finds in the advertisement of a hustl ing rival what strikes his fancy. The man who advertises commands the natron age of not only his immediate friends but the whole community. To advertise liberally is to reap profit* easily. TWO KILLED IN WRECK IT HILTON While running at full speed P. & E. Erie Express, north-bound, run into a draft of freight cars just below the Mil ton passenger station early Saturday morning. Engineer James Wlieeland, of Harrishurg, who was running the passenger train, and Conductor Ed ward Stringer, of Northumberland, of the freight crew, were instantly kill ed. Albert Schaffer, of Sunbury, the passenger fireman, had his skull frac tured, right arm crushed to the shoulder and was otherwise injured. He is in the Mary M. Packer hospital and bis condition last evening was without improvement. If he survives the ter rible shock it will be necessary to amputate the arm at the shoulder. Isaac Phillips, of Harrishurg, the bag gageniaster, fell down a sixteen foot culvert while running ahead to Hag trains and suffered severe bruises. The freight, which was bound from Sunbury to Renovo, was doing some shifting at the Milton freight station and there was no warning to the pas senger engineer of anything being on the track. He did not see the freight cars until almost upon them. Con ductor Stringer was seated on the top of tho roar freight car with his back towards the passenger train. He was unaware of its approach until ho was hurled to death beueatli the wheels. Two brakemen escaped injury by jumpiug. None of the passengers were hurt and only the engine and two ex press cars were wrecked,although they wore completely smashed. The froight cars were reduced to kindling wood. Engineer Wheeland formerly lived in Sunbury and his father, the late Ben jamin Wheeland, was at one time an engineer on the Bloomsburg division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. Birth-marks which mark and mar the outside of tho body are a grief to every mother whose children may bear them. But for every child who beras a birth-mark on the skin there ate many who bear an indeliblo birth mark on the mind. Nervous mothers have nervous children and many a man and woman owes an irrratable and de spondent temperament to those days of dread when the mother waited the hour of her maternity. Tho use of Dr. Piorce's Favorite Prescription strengthens the mother for hor trial. With strength comes a buoyancy of spirits and quietness of mind, which is one of the happiest gifts a mother can bestow on hor offspring. By giving vigor and elasticity to the delicate womanly organs "Favorite Prescrip tion" practically does away with tho pain of maternity and makesthe baby's advent as natural and as simple as the blossoming of a flower. There is no opium, cocaine or other narcotic con tained in "Favorite Prescription." CARLISLE IUDIANS-BUOKNELL FOOTBALL. Reduced Rates to Williamspart, via Pennsylvania Railroad. On account of the foot ball game be tween the Carlisle Indians and Buck nell College, to be played at Williams port on Saturday, October 11, tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company will sell excursion tickets to Williamsport, good going on October 11, and return ing nntil October 13, inclusive, from Bellefontn, Renovo, Elmira, East Bloomsburg, Mt. Carmel, Lykens, Harrishurg. Middleburg, Coburn, and intermediate stations, at rate of single tare for the round trip (minimum a te, 25 cents). PLAIN TALK. Straight Talk and to the Point—The Vir tues of Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills Told in a Few Words by a Dauyille Citizen Who Knows. Mrs. Jacob Mills, of corner Front and Church streets, Danville, Pa., says:—"Last fall 1 was feeling very poorly and nervous. I had frequent spells of nervous headache and a good Idea of trouble with my stomach. See ing Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills re commended I got a box at Gosh's Drug store and used them with good results. I rested so much better and telt strong er and brighter. They certauily did me good and I can highly recommend them." Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills are sold at 50 cts a box at dealers or Dr. A W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. See that portrait and signature of A. W. Chase, M. D. are on every package. Heavy Fall Rains. Tho heavy rain of Sunday inter ferred very much with attendance at church, at both morning and evening service. During a brief interval in the afternoon the sun shone, but on the whole it was unsafe to venture upon the streets without an umbrella. Tho country roads under the fre quent rains are very soft and muddy, the wheels at many places sinking in to the depth of several inches. Tho streams are full to overflowing. Un der the circumstances it is not probable that the river will fall much below the present point, which is still some five feet above low water mark. More Trainmen Being Employed. During the past few days twenty seven brakemen have been hired for the Shamokin divison of the P. & R. railroad Strike leaders claim that the reason tho company is hiring so many men is in order to be prepared in case some of their crews refuse to handle hard coal. Officials claim that the extra force of men is being [hired be- j cause the company expects the coal traffic to increase. All tho old hands on tho division have been pressed in to service, owing to the fact that tho freight traffic on this division was never better and the extra men will be needed in case the coal output is increased. Murray. & Mackey's big Comedy Company at tho Opera House every uight this week. COAL COMING FROM ALL SOURCES Contrary to what is generally sup posed there is in the aggregate a great deal of coal in the cellars of our town, carried over from last year. The real ly provident and long-headed individu al when the strike was agitated last spring foreseeing what was likely to occur bought all the coal ho could get. As a result it is no secret that there are a number of cellars about town that are filled to the top notch. These fellows may not he saving much about their good luck, but their faces show : that some of the troubles that other j people have do not weigh upon them. In these days of stringency coal is apt to materialize from sources where it was little dreamed of. For inst ance, J. L. Pursell, a farmer living between this city and Grovania, has discovered that he has a whole car load of coal to dispose of. Mr. Pursell,who has a lime kiln on his farm, one year ago purchased a car load of good sized coal, which up to the present he has lied no occasion to use in burning limo. Several persons in town who badly wanted coal learned of Mr. Pursell's supply and they importuned him to sell them a portion with so much urgency that he finally decided ta get rid of the whole car load. He was in this city delivering a load Tuesday. The fact that some one had genuine anthracite coal to sell caused a big ex citement and the m.tn was stopped at nearly every square and deluged with offers. To all it was the same story: the coal was all engaged. The prico received was thirty cents per cwt.,but forty cents per cwt. was offered by those very anxious to buy. Recovered Speech and Hearing. Messers ELY BROS. I commenced using your Cream Balm about two years .ago for catarrh. My voice was some what thick and my hearing was dull. My hearing has been fully restored and my speech has become quiet clear. I am a teacher in our town. L. G. Brown, Granger, O. The Balm does not irritate or cause sneezing. Sold by druggist at 50 cts. or mailed by Ely Brothers, 56 Warrea St., New York. Left for Arizona. Judge R. 11. Little and his wife yesterday afternoon left Bloomsburg for a visit with their son Harry at Naco, Arizona. They expect to be absent until sometime in November. ' GULF STREAM MARK 3. The Coame of the Flow Thronnh the Ocean I'lnlnly Indicated. The color of the stream is percepti bly deeper blue than that of the neigh boring sea, this blueness forming one of the standard references of the nau tical novelists. The depth of color 18 due to the high percentage of salt con tained as compared with the cold green water of higher latitudes, observation havlug shown that the more salt held in solution by sea water the more in tensely blue Is its color. Thus even in extratropteal latitudes we sometimes observe water of a beautiful blue col or, ns for Instance, In the Mediterra nean and in other nearly landlocked basins, where the influx of fresher wa ter, being more or less impeded, tho percentage of salt contained is raised by evaporation above the average, says the National Geographic Magazine. Another important fact in connection with the stream Is its nlniost tropical temperature, due to tho fact that its high velocity enables It to reach the middle latitudes with very little loss of heat. Upon entering Its limits the temperature of the sea water frequent ly shows a rise of ten degrees and ev< n fifteen degrees. It was this fact that gave to the stream In the later .wars of the eighteenth century and the ear lier years of the nineteenth an impor tance In tho minds of navigators that It no longer possesses. In those days the chronometer, invented by Harri son In 1705, was still an experiment. Instruments were crude nnd nautical tables often at fault. The result was that the determina tion of tho longitude was largely a matter of guesswork, a vessel after a voyage from the channel to America often being out of her reckoning by de grees instead of by minutes. The Idea, first suggested by Benjamin Franklin, that the master of a vessel, by observ ing the temperature of the surface wa ter, could tell the moment of his entry into the gulf stream and could hence fix his position to within a few miles was hailed with delight. The method was published in 17!K> by Jonathan Williams in a work lengthily entitled "Thermometricnl Navigation: Being a series of experi ments and observations tending to prove that by ascertaining the relative heat of the sea water from time to time the passage of a ship through the gulf stream and from deep water into soundings may be discovered in time to avoid danger." In this work he makes a patriotic comparison of the gulf stream to a streak of red, white and blue, painted upon the surface of the sea for the guidance of American navigators. The Man and the Wave. Once upon a time a man was tilling a talo of woe that unveiled his matri monial experience. "It was all on account of a little dainty handkerchief." he said. "The first time that I saw the girl and be fore we had been Introduced she waved that bit of lace at me, and 1 was car lied away. It was a fall In love and then matrimony. Isut, alas, that deli cate handkerchief was no index to the girl's nature, and I found myself Wrecked on the sea of matrimony." Moral.—A man may be carried away by a wave and wrecked without going near the water.—New York Herald. Wanted a l.oner Key. Spatts—My love, I wish you would alter the key of your voice. Mrs. Spatts What's the matter with It? Spatts—Oh, nothing; only from the expression of Eliza Jane's face after our recent argument I'm certain it fits every keyhole in the house.—Town and Country. Saperatltlnn. Parson (visiting prison)— Why are you here, my misguided friend? Prisoner—l'm the victim of the un lucky No. 13. Parson—lndeed! How's that? Prisoner—Twelve Jurors rnd one Judge.—Chicago News. fV'hen you get tired of work, you will realize that you have reached the time of life when you have no place to play.—Atchison Globe. § jj^l Jj IcJ. gTßia<lßbcKbrdj|i[lA. iCol ( j3TED It is claimed that the russet apples make the best vinegar—not stronger, but better flavored. Mau can build a twenty story sky scraper in a year, but he can't make a spider's web in a night. One of the aggravations of age is to have the rheumatism when the bass fishing is good in October. In wet seasons, while a man may raise bigger crops, he always loses more of them. August ruins make a terrible waste. It is the busiest men who always have the most work to do. The more such a man does the more he finds that wants doing. Considering the titanic power of the lightning stroke and its great frequen cy during the summer months, the wonder is that more damage is not done. With all the food in sight and all the pigs and cattle, it must be that before many months the price of meats will get down to a figure where they will cease to be a luxury. California is coming to the front with a new crop of growing impor tance —the soft shelled almond. This year the crop amounts to 267 carloads, or 2.G70 tons, worth about 12 cents per pound. There is one comfort for the poor man this winter, even If his coal is likely to be high priced, and that is that he will be able to get all the good potatoes he wants at 80 cents a bushel or leas. The most expert chicken picker in the country is employed in a poultry packing house in Chicago. His record 1s fifty chickens in Bm. Is. It is cer tain that the feathers fly when he gets to work. We have rid a large lawn of the pesky squirreltail grass by persistent mowing during Its seeding period and burning up tho cuttings. If you keep this pest from going to seed, It Will disappear. Rural mail routes will compel the making of better highways. The gov ernment has not sentimental feelings on tliis subject and simply gives the alternative of fixing the rouds or losing the service. A heaping bushel basket of dead sparrows was gathered up in one sec tion of a small interior western town after one of the heavy storms of Au gust. llall plays the mischief with these birds. The byproducts of the Chicago pack ing houses are worth $30,000,000 per year and are the sources of large prof- Its connected with the business. Thir ty years ago most of these byproducts were wasted. If in a fit of public spirit you buy a wide tired wagon, your neighbors will quite likely commend your public spirit and keep right on using their old nar row tired outfits, letting you smooth the highways for them. The old poky way of farming with oxen and doing most of the farm work by hand In France is at last giving way to improved methods where the horse supplants the ox and tho modern machine the hand lal>or. The freight car with ball bearings, something we have often wondered did not come to the front, is out at last and Is a pronounced success und if generally adopted is certain to still further reduce the cost of freight trans portation. The general government has finally abandoned further efforts at the im provement of navigation on the Mls pouri river. The railways have beaten the f»oats and captured nearly all the freight which was at one time carried on the river. Central lowa seems to be the center of the atmospheric disturbances and unusual rainfall of tho year 1902, the rainfall being reported at threw feet nnd even more in localities, doing im mense damage to one of the finest rrops ever raised in the state. When a man can get his dairy herd op to an average of 350 pounds of but ter per head, he can afford to entirely Ignore the beef side of the business of stock raising. Such cows should be br«ni to secure as many heifer calves as possible which will do as well or bet ter than their dams. The male calf should meet a theological fate —be dis posed of as deacons. Ill* Offhand M:i inter. "Dan," said a contractor to one of his trusted employees, "when you are seeing about that lime this morning, 1 wish you to mention to Dempsey that I would like to have that bill paid. You needn't press it, you know, but Just mention it to him in an offhand man ner." "Yes, sorr." "I got the money from Deinpsey," said Dan on his return. "I'm very glad. You merely alluded to It in an offhand way, I suppose?" "Yes, sorr. I handed UJm the bill and told him if he dlduTpaarft I would let off my hand and give mm a black eye that he wouldn't forget'for a month, and he paid it at wanst."—Loudon An swers. Klllitl Sympathy. "When I was your age," said Mr. (Joldbags sternly, "I earned my own living." Ilis son looked uneasy, but was si lent. "Well, have you nothing to say for yourself in that connection?" "N nothing, sir, except that 1 sym pathize with you, and congratulate you on the fact that It's all o v er."—London 1 Tit Bits. APPRENTICE QUARRELS. VomiK I'renPfc Worharn - • nfiyx iirad)' For a riulit. Jealousies between the worknx I'S corporations in France result In "11" nitric" combats. bloody battles. It i the one bad fide of an i;.-titution that is otherwise so truly fraternal. They start out in companies, rarely j alone, to make their "tour of Frai • »■." I Before coining back to continue th' ir work in their own villages tln young J apprentices go together from town to | town to study on the ground the mas I terpleees of their trade and to see the I l»est that the genius of their ancestor* I has producetl. It is the erran- I try of the workman. He e;:rns his t n route, perfects himself in his profession, lean s from one master and another, see> con pares, studies, admires. lli gathers hi< humble harvest of souvenirs and im pressions, enjoys the full \ of his earlv years and passes his youth along the sunny highways. Unfortunately there is disagret merit among the "societies." In everything there Is found u pretext for quarrel-. The society of the I'ere Soubise is Jealous of that of Mai-re Jacques, and the Enfants du Solomon take part in the quarrel whenever p« -sible. Two companies meet on the road. The two leaders, the "muster compan ions," stop at twentj paces from each other. "Halt!" says one. "Halt!" says the other. "What trade?" "Car|>enti r. And you?" "Stonecutter. "Companion!" "Your society country?" And according to the reply they drink from the nne gourd or tight. The melee becomes general. They tight, list and sti. until the road is litter.-d with those who are wounded. > me times even to the death. II rpcr's Magazine. ORIGIN OF THE KISS. The («riM !#. Sl»r> of tl»«* Way In W liicli If i Miic Into ll«-ii»K. Kissing is usually accepted as an agreeable f>.*t. and its tli.-ory . lid li tory are ignored, but if kissing did not begin with Adam and Kve it l»-gau with the ItPflutiful young tJreek sheje herdess who found a.i opal on one of the hills of «»receo and. willing to give it to a youthful shepherd who e hands were busy wish his th«'k. let him take it from her lips with his own, says Science Sittings. Thii the was invented, and per!.-., the popular SUJM r .--tit ion iigai . t .lie opal may l>e traced to th • s. ' • icidci.t. for oscillation li:is wrought en at traicdb in tk- world" i bi.story. Ki.s-.iiiK was wcv an act of religion. The nean-st friend < 112 a dying iKr-on performed the ri-lit of ivilln hi* soul l>y a kiss. sii|>|Misiiig that it <•> caped through his lips at the moment of expiration, it is >ai«l tluit was first introduced ii»t«» Knglnnd l>y royalty. Tbe British monarch Vorti gern gave a Imnquet in honor of iii- Scandinaviari allies, at which Uowena, the l>eautiful daughter of llengist, w:i present. During the proceedings. after pressing a brimming beaker to her lips, she saluted the astonished and <1« lighted monarch with a kiss "after the manner of her people." The most honorable royal kiss on rec ord Is that which (jutt-11 Margaret of France In the presence of tbe whole court one day imprinted on the Hps of the ugliest man in the kingdom, Alain Chartier, whom she found asleep. To those around her she said. "I do not kiss the man.l ut the mouth that has uttered so many charming thiit-s Not a* Con«ldrralc no He 'tibial He. "lie's a good friend of yours, isn't he?" "Oh. only medium." "What do you im n l>.v medium?" "Oh, he listens v* nil.' I t II 111, i nil of my trouhh lut lie al, o i.um* i. to listen while he tells r!:. all Ol' his ' tjblcai:.! ' ■ MKNHMKNT To Tilt • • I II I TION KKIII'MSKK T« > THE «'IT|/.KN** <>t TH IS <iiMM<»NW K. \I. I'll I I 'i: I 111 II \ ! PROVAI. <»lt UKJFrTI<>N HV TIIF lil-.N Kit AI. ASsKM HI.Y <»!• I 111 MI.nMoN WKAI.TII <>» PKN NsV I.VA MA. I"" I • I,IS||KI> 15Y olillKK <M TIM HKI I! 1 I M:> <>K TIIK COMMON WKAI.TII. IN I't KSI AM KOl- AUTK I.K XVIII <-| lllh I"N MTITJTIO.N. . „ A JOINT UWWI.I rioN Proposing an amendment 1" section !• n of arti-le out!of the »*oi>st itnl ion. uni discharge of a Jury for failure I. a.tr.t or oilier necessary cause "hall IH»I W -rk no ac quittal. Section I. Ke it resoUed l>\ the -ennl. ami ifoaaeof He preventative* of tbe Common wealth of Pennsylvania In tJeinra! V>vtnMi met, That the following l»- promised as an amendment to the t'onstirutiou; that *to say that section ten of article one. which reads us follows: "No person shall, for am imiictiih eotl. . Is- proceeded against criminally by In forma lion, except In cases arising In the land »r naval forces or In the militia. when in act uul service, in time of war or public tlan-.T, or I.y leave of the court for oppression or mi demeanor In office. No («'r»ni hli:i.l, forth* same oll'cnse. I>c twice put m jeopardy of or limb; nor shall private pro|«-rty taken or applied to puliltc use. wit taint toil tn>nt> ol law and without just compensation lieu - first made or secured,' IM- amended so as to read as follows: No |»Tsnn shall, lor any lodtrtabb onense IH- proceeded against criinlnallj l>> informa tion, except In cases ariMi.- In tl" land or naval forces, or in the mliiti.i. when in actu • service In time of war or public dan ger. m leave oft lie court for oppression or m -d nor in •ittice Noperaon --iui i. f->i tin - • ottense. lie twice put In jeopardy of . r limit; hut adlschargcof the jury for laiiar. ' agree, or other nwessarv ' au«e. shall not work an acquittal. Nor shall privaU K"!"'" be taken or applied to public use. w illimit i thorlty of law and without just ci.mp. n«atioii helm? lirst made or secured A true copy of the Joint Resolution. W. W. LAKIKHT Secretary of the t'oniinonwealth A MKNIIMKNT l<> Till- ' uNsI .I I I - PUtIPO*KI> To Till nn/l AS 'I THIS COMMONWKAI 111 I "i: I'lllll V PKOVAI.oK KKJKt-noN UN lilt >.hN KRAI, ASS KM HI.Y OK I'HK WEALTH or PKN NM\ IA \M \ PI K I.ISIIKII BY OltllKK OK THE ~l < KM Vl> OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN I*l K*l ANCKUK ARTICLE XVllh'l Till <o\ STITI'TION. A JOINT KES< >l.l L'L< »N Proposing an ainendnient to the • oust nut ion oft lie t 'omiiu in * ealtb. Section I. Beit resolved h> the Senat. ami House of Representatives of the I'oiim • wealth of Pennsylvania in tienera A>s-n met, That the following is proposed a- m amendment to the Constitution or monwealth of Pennsylvania, in aoor.iaii. . with tlie provisions of the eighteenth arm • therisif: Amendment. Add at the end of sec lion .• n, three the following words: 'I n i .r.r. shall lie introilui-ed in the tienerai \- '• . such proposed special or local law - hat Iteet nrst submlltetl to a |x>pulnr vol general or spei'lal election in ih< io localities U> lie affecttsl by Its op. • • on, un deran order of the court of common | a the res|H-ctiv» count\ after liearinu ■»•! n plication granted) and sliall have I-en a» prored w inajofitjr of II volt r* ut - election: Provided, That no such el« Hot shall lie held until tin decree of court author ir.tng the Mine shall have Is-en advert I for at least thirty (W> da> sin the im alit >or io Ities atre<'ted, In such manner a- tin court may direct. A true copy of the Joint IJesol ui ioi \\ W '.Klt-T. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Stylish Sunns, Met To any one who will mention THE MONTOI U AMI:RI« AN. and send us \!."i «-eiits we will forw rd immediately the pattern of an a<l vanoe Paris style for a Spring Jacket. Address The florae-Broujjh ton Co. PublishiTs of L'Art <l»* la M<»le, 3 Hast loth Street. New York Single copies of I.'Art dc la Mode. -<• ■ML, We want lo do all Us of Pil)tfl{ IP' ll'S M. I iii ni hk. i [lis toil*, j If 1 A well pri:;!. •tasty, Bill or }.. W / ter Head, I'- ll i v # Y Program, Fl U £}l ment or C'ar.i (v) an advertis-UMfiii for \oitr lui-int -- » satiffactioti to \ or New Type, Hew Presses, Besi Pater, Skilled Wert Promptoess -111 you can ask. A trial will make you our customer. Wi* respect fall' a-'k that trial. 11« m Mi No. ii R Malbxiiiif 't JD A. NVI I- TP Jt. I
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