MONTOUR AMERICAN FRANK C. ANGLE. Proprietor. Danville, Pa.,' Mar. .? 1904. HARDEN ELLE'S NOT OPEN TO RUSSIA CONSTANTINOPLE, March 2. Russia dare uot pass the Dardanelles with her warships. The Turkish gov ernment, yielding to ttie peremptory deniauds of other poweis— particularly England—has resolved to forcibly pro vent Russia's Black Sea fleet from passing through the Dardanelles. The defenses along the straits have been strengthened and submarine mines, to be exploded trom shore, have been laid The reason for Turkey's change of front concerning the Dardanelles mat ter is the prompt and decisive action of England. Tin' sultan was notified that should the Russian fleet bo per mitted to pass through the straits a British fleet would immediately make a demonstration before the sultan s palace here. In addition to England's strong protest representations that could not be misunderstood,and which gave the sultan no alternative, were made by other powers against such a breach of Russia's treaty with Eng land. London, March 2.—Up to noon to day no news concerning the siege and bombardment of Port Arthur lias been received. A St. Petersburg dispatch iiays the claims of Japanese victories there were premature. It is said that low tide disclosed one of the Japanese torpedo boat destroyers sunk in the outer harbor. But the absence ot news from Port Arthur presages Russian de feat-. It is now evident that the re portei landing of Japanese troops near Vladivostok was either a feint or mere ly the landing of a small force with arms to equip the Chinese brigauds who are harassing the Russians. Rus sian spies in numbers have been caught iu Japanese forts. One discov ered on a transport at Nagasaki jump ed overboard and was shot in the water. Washington, March 2.—lnformation received here from Japanese sources is to the effoct that the real Japanese attack on the Port Arthur peninsula, will not occur tor about a fortnight. St. Petersburg, March 2 —lt is an nounced here that notwithstanding re ports to the contrary the working of the Traus-Siberian railroad surpasses all expectations. The trausport of troops is going on with the regularity of clockwork,B,ooo men each day,with baggage, going eastward. The Russian plan for the mobilization of troops in Siberia is giving excellent results.and troops are hurrying to the seat of war by all available routes. The Russian plan is said to be to remain on the de fensive until an overwhelming super iority of forces insures the success of a final and complete offensive attack. London, March 2. Tho Japanese minister at Seoul has notified the Korean government that the construc tion ot a railroad from Seoul to \S iji for military use will be commenced forthwith. Engineers and surveyors have already left Seoul. This means that the Japanese will make their tight aloug the line of this projected road which sweeps through the centre of Korea north and south to the mouth of the Yalu. It runs through Ping yaug, where the first land clash be tween the two armies occurred, and uot more than fifteen miles from the point, juat outside Anju,where a Rus sian force of 40,000 is said to be mass ed ready for battle. Thero are 100,000 Japanese around Seoul, aud these are being moved northward by forced marches. Across iu Manchuria the Russiaus aro taking every precaution against a Japanese advance from a now quarter. London, March 2. A dispatch from Nagasaki says that nearly one hundred wounded Japanese men-of-war's men have been landed there on tho hospit al ship Kohemaru. Among the men are six engineers of the transports that were sunk bv Russians No number of dead in the Port Arthur engagement is given. The large number of wound ed indicated that the Japanese losses heretofore denied were serious. Paris, March 2.—Gabriel Hanotaux, former minitser of foreign affairs, has ■tarted an agitation in tavor of the intervention ot the powers to stop the war between Russia aud Japan. French official circles count much on the movement, as they think Russia would be perfectly willing to accept the good offices of all the powers,i ro viding it was a combined effort, thus compelling Japan to do the same. Low Rate Tickets. "National Association of Retail Grocers of United States, San Fran cieco, Cal.,May 3rd to Bth. IHO4. Gen eral Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, Cal., commenc ing May 3rd, 1901. For tho above oc casions the Lackawanna Railroad au thorizes the sale of round trip tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles via all regular and direct routes at the low rate of $6fi.25. Tickets will be sold April 22nd to 30th,with privilege of certain stop overs enroute, return ing limit to he up to and including June 30th. For information in detail, passengers will inquire at local ticket offices. Carrie Takes Up Vaudeville. Carrie Nation, who visited this eify in November last, has retired from "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" to be come a vaudeville head liner. She ap pears in a monologue iu which she re lates her career as a smasher of swell thirst Btat,iou j . At a New Haven theatre where she recently appeared, the audience guyed her unmercifully, but they couldn't phase her. She still carries her hatchet,which is her stock iu trade, but purchasers are few and far between. As the wind blew spasmodically during the early hours of Tuesday morning, it is likely proper to state that March came in like a lion. It is to be hoped that it will go out like a lamb. The people hereabout are of one opinion iu the belief that they have bad all the winter they desire. DISASTROUS FIRE AT PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH. March 2.—The most disastrous firo that has visited Ply mouth iu years broke out this morn ing at II o'clock on Galoid Ave., en tailing a loss of $10,750. The People s Theatre, the double house ot F. B. > Walton, the barn of Daniel Frautz and the lunch house of.l. K. W. Jones were totally consumed. The alarm was sent in from box 23 at 11.10 o'clock. The three teams of the Ply mouth lire department were at the time engaged in tilling in the mine cave on Walnut street and as a coii sequeuoe the fire had gained consider able headway before the department reached the scene of the conflagration. The firemen were confronted with the most adverse difficulties aud when the water was turned on the streams lack ed force. Superintendent Davenport of the Water Company sent word to the Woodward and other mines in the vicinity to shut oft their pumps and other means were taken to increase the force of water in the mains The situation looked serious for a | time and it seemed that a portion of the town would be wiped out. Word was sent to Wilkisbarrc tor assistance audit was but a short time when No I. Engiu i and Hose wagon responded, but were unable to assist owing to the different size of the wat er plugs. 'J'be Wilkesbarre firemen back'd their engine to Brown's Creek, but despite their elforts the apparatus failed to work sue. ossfully. The fire started in the lunch house of J. E. W. Jones, and was caused by the overturning of a gas stove in the front room ot the building. The flani 's quicklv communicated to the People's Theatre (skating rink), which is an ancient wooden structure and burned like tinder A shifting of the wind caused the flames to envelop the double dwelling of F. I). Walton located on the lett side of the building, where the firo started and despite the gallant efforts of the firemen the building and its contents were doomed to destruc tion The livery stable of A. E. Williams adjoining the People's Theatre was the next building that caught, The firemen with outside assistance saved tho horses and carriages in the build ing. Two stiearns were turned on the stable and as the other buildings were doomed to destruction the efforts of the firemen were turned to saving the livery building. After a hard fight the flames that communicated to the livery stable were under control. A barn owned by Daniel Frantz in the rear of the People's Theatre ignit ed and was soon a roaring mass of flames. The attention of the firemen was then turned iu saving the sur rounding buildings, the streams of water being used to confine the flames to the burning building. After two hours of efficient work on tlie part of the fire laddies the seething flames were under control. The buildings consumed are: Peo ple's Theatre, valued at $2,500, owned by Joseph Schwartz, #I,OOO insurance. Mr. Schwartz just last week reduced the insurance on the building 1500. A. E. Williams, livery stable, par tially destroyed, SSOO. F. B. Walton, double dwelling, $5,- 000, partially insured. J. E. W. Jones, loss $450, insurance $250. Barn of Daniel Frantz, loss SIOO. F. B. Walton, who occupied the double dwelling lost nearly all of his household effects, including a number lof valuable papers, estimated to be i worth in the neighborhood of SI,(XR), thereby making his loss si'>,o(K). He was by far the heaviest loser. The building which he owned was new,be ing recently erected. It was fitted with all the modorn improvement of a dwelling house. The firemeu hampered as they were with a poor water supply, accomplish ed good work by getting the fire un der control iu so short a time. There Is more Catarrh In this section of th ouritry than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be ncurable.-For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, !ind.prescribed ocal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced It In curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured l>y F. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken Internally in doses from 10 drops to it teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. The offer of one hundred dollars for any case It falls tocure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENF.Y A CO.. Hold by Druggists, 75c■ Hall's Kamllv Fills aretiie lien The Pennsylvania commission to the St. Louis Exposition wisely decided last week to make the Liberty Bell a feature of the great fair. Governor Penuypacker opposed the proposition. "The old bell is too sacred a relic," he declared, "to be carted around like a circus show." Nevertheless,the mo tion prevailed by a vote of 13 to 6,and thousands of peoplo will get an oppor tunity to see that sacred trophy and measure the lessons of liberty it pro claimed. STORY OFJJL-CH. DUcovarad by Dr. David Kannady-Only Kidney Ramady Sold Undar Guarantaa. J)r. David Kennedy was born in New York City, but at an early age bis family moved to fioxbury, N. Y. He was graduated in 1860 from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He at once volunteered as a surgeon and was assigned to the United States Army General Hospital in West Phil adelphia, and soon became President of the Examining Board and Consulting Surgeon. After the war, T)r. Kennedy settled iu Ron dout, City of Kingston, N. Y., where for a number of years he enjoyed a large prac tii-e as an operative surgeon. He was one of the Presidential Electors of New York State, Mayor of Kingston for four years, and held many other professional, bttsinesa and political offices. The latest achievement of his life was the discovery of Cal-cura Solvent, a positive eure for all diseases of the kidneys und blad der. In speaking of this remarkable remedy, he said: "Cal-cura Solvent is the crowning achievement of my life. It will not dis appoint." Your druggist will return your money if Cal-cura fails to cure, and The Cal-cura Company, of Rondout, N. Y., will pay the druggist. Cal-cura Solvent cures 98% of all cases of Kidney, Bladder nnd Liver dis orders. SI.OO « bottJw. Ouljr uu« uu. GIVES GOVERNOR A POINTER A Freeland man, whose name is not given, but about whose identity there will be much speculation alter the people of that town hear wbat lie has to say, is among the many who have given Governor S. W. Penuy packer some free advice as to how the great ice gorge in the Susquehanna river may be broken. The Freeland man writes as follows : "Your Honor: You have the power to prevent any damage. How'.' With 100 picked men and all the old cast iron pipes about six feet long,three to six inches wide, plenty ot dynamite and about six cannon that can be charged with scrap iron. "Where is the money coming from to do this? "Simply from the people you bene fit. Why should not the railroad com panies, bridge companies aud others who are in danger give th. ir little mite? "How are these things to bo work ed? "Well, we will start at the lower end, where the river is open,shoot in to the ice with cannons,which will be on flat cars, and work that way unit! you come to where the river is block ed. Then start with your cast irou pipes; charge them with dynamite, put them under the ice, attach your batteries to the wires and shoot. The cast irou pipes will burst into frag ments, which will settlor through the ice and bleak it to atoms. "P. S.—Don't be afraid of the fish warden. He won't arrest you for kill ing the fish." TO (JURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. roves's signature is on each box. 25. Why the Penalty is so Heavy. The reason that the State law at taches so severe a penalty to the theft of waste from journal boxes is not be cause ot the intrinsic value ot the material, but because its removal may result iu very serious wrecks to trains. When the waste is taken away there is nothing left to hold the lubricating oil upon the axle, and consequently nothing to prevent friction. The bra-s bearings in the journal boxes are thus quite frequently melted when the e:\rs are in motion. The heat of the molten metal tempers the irou axles, and frequently causes them to snap. The results quite frequently have been very serious wrecks. Axles have been known to snap in this way after a car had traveled as short a distance a- five miles after the waste was removed from the boxes. "When Johuny Comes Marching; Home." In the period of the War til' the Re bellion a uew Held lia.s been touud by Stanislaus Stange and Julian Ed wards for comic opera endeavor. That it is a productive field to the manager and a fascinating one to the public is proved by the unequivocal success that the new comic opera, "When Johnny Conies Marching Homo" lias achieved. The story, costumes, instic and scenic environment are all strongly sugges tive of the military life ot IHtil and '(55. The humor of the story finds ex pression iu ludricous situations and witty dialogue without once descend ing to horse play, while the composer has deftly interwoven strains of the war songs and negro melodies popular at that time iu his score, so that the military and patriotic atmosphere is preserved to a remarkable extent. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" will be presented by the Wliit uey Company at the Opera House on Monday evening, March 14th. Tonight's Program. Following is the program for the musicale and literary entertainment to be given this evening in St. Paul's M. E. church by the Young Ladies' Bible Class: Piano Trio Misses Books, Moyer, Cousart. Vocal Solo Miss Jameson Recitation Mr. Rogers Mandolin Solo Miss Kimerer Vocal Solo Mr. Lyon Recitation . Louise Reynolds Violin Solo Miss Saunders Vocal Solo . Mrs. Allen Recitation Miss Russell Vocal Solo Miss Ammerman Recitation Mr. Rogers Vocal Solo .. Mr. Russel Selection Boys' Quartette An admission fee of 10 cents will be charged. Proceeds to bo applied to the Missionary offering of the Sun day School. Democratic State Convention. The Democratic State Convention will be held in Harrisburg ou April l<4th for the nomination of candidates tor Presidential electors and a Justice ot the Supreme Court and the election of delegates to the national conven tion. A majority ot tho members of the committee have designated the time and place indicated in their replies to the letters sent out last week by Sec retary Meek and it is expected this will be fixed by the committee at today's meeting in fiarriabarg. The Cameron Coiliery Fire. The tiie at the Cameron colliery at Shamokin, operated by the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company, which lnoke out last Saturday,is still raging so fiercely and tie heat is so intense that no one can approach it. It is thought, however, that the lire is be ing slowly smothered, and that it will eventually go out without doiug much mo e damage. The mine officials yes terday ordeied the men to cease dig ging the channel from Sliamok in creek to the fan house, by means of which the mines were to have 1m en flooded. Even though the fire is extinguished within a short time, the colliery will not work for probably a mouth or so. Fifteen hundred men and boys are idle. 112 ct direct| y 0,1 l ' ic ''ver \ \7I #| I They cure constipation, r\ \t~ I I 111 biliousness, sick-headache. Sold for 60 years. Want your moustache or heard BUCKINGHAM'S DYE a beautiful brown or neb black i Use run cis ut oniiivisra u« a. r. mu T 00.. ."UOMUI. N M OLD FASHIONED .SPRING HOUSE St. Louis— A spring of living water, gushing clear auii cold ironi the hill side at the northeast corner of tlio Palaoe of Agriculture at the World's Fair grounds at St. Louis is one of the features provided by nature tli;*t will delight thousands of weary and thirsty visitors during the exposition. This beautiful spring began sending forth its refreshing stream before the Louisiana Purchase was made a hund red years ago and 110 matter how dry the summer there has never been any diminution of its flow. When the landscape architect with big steam shovels, steam scrapers, with armies of men and hundreds of mules at his command began altering that part of the earth's surface em braced in the Exposition grounds, cut ting down a hill here, filling in a val ley there, Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, Chief of the Department of Agricul ture,gave strict orders that the spring be not molested. A weeping willow tree that must have been growing for more than fifty years spreads out its green branches over the spring and creates a delight ful shade. The water as it bubbles from the ground flows down a steep hillside through a miniature ravino 111 which dainty lerns and pretty 1110-ses luxuriato. Chief Taylor has authorized the building of a quaint old fashioned spring house over it. An old-fashion ed well-sweep will lift the water in a moss-covered, iron bound oaken buck et. The walls of the structure will bo covered with bark of forest trees and the roof will be thatched. Rustic seats will be placed conveniently 111 the spring hou*e and in available spots down the ravine. Cups will be provid ed and the visitor who at some time or another has seen just a sight, and re- Kaled himself with just such a drink, will ree ill pleasant memories as he pauses in his self-imposed task of see ing World's Fair wonders. The water is as clear as crystal. It j is just the right temperature—not so i cold as iced water and much colder ! than the water that flows through the j city mains. It is a mineral water, but ' has no odor and no rep-Hunt taste. Its 1 How is sufficient to provide cold and refreshing aud healthful drink foi thousands and the old-fashioned spring house is sure to become a popular re sort in Agriculture Hill where so many other beauty spots have been created. for School Library. The pupils of Ceuter school, Rush township, ga\e an entertainment for the benefit of the school library fund on Friday, February 26th. The enter tainment was given under the direc tion of the school teacher.Miss Phoebe R. Wolfe and a most pleasing program consisting of songs, recitations, etc , was rendered. The school room was tastefully decorated for the occasion and the entertainment proved a suc | cess in every detail. Another man who thinks that this illation is not big enough to face its responsibilities comes to the front with a magazine article about what would happen if the South American republics were to unite against us. The same old thing would happen that has happened right along ever since the Great Armada. There are such things as fighting peoples in the world and the South Americans are not un der that head. To Fight Boy Miner Law, Cambria county miners have decided to make a test case on a recent act of the legislature prohibiting the employ ment of boys under lfi yeais of age in the mines. Evan Davis, a mine fore man at Reus Creek,has been prosecut ed for violating the law in order to briug the matter before the county courts. The losing side will appeal to the State Supreme Court. As the scenic production carried by the Whitney Opera Company ou tour this season is the original production of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" that was used during the New York and Chicago engagements, two sixty-foot baggage cars are required for the transportation of the scenery aud many electrical effects which are in evidence at every performance. In seven months the Reading Com pany added over four million dollars to its surplus, an amount nearly millions greater than the surplus of the corresponding seven months of the previous year. This gain causes visions of dividends upon all of its various stocks. Tliu cuooutuKing feature of the statement made public is that the Coal & Iron Company earned one mil lion of the surplus. i lie ii|iru Uour. "1 don't know now exactly how It happened," Reggie was telling his best friend over a game of billiards. "I never meant to propose, you know T— that is, not just yet. I wanted to knock about a little more. But after we got home froui the theater and sat In the parlor discussing the plot of the play I ventured out on thin ice and broke through before I knew where I was. It came as a deuce of a shock, just as I should Imagine breaking through real tee would be. "But Jessie was all ready for me. She was expecting It. First thing I knew she had me by the collar and landed me on safe ground again—but 1 was engaged. No doubt about that. Anyhow, 1 am glad I've got h«'r. Might have lost her through some slip If I'd waited. But I don't want to read any more stuff about bashful fellows stam mering out proposals. It's all too easy." —New York Times. Fortunf'x Favor Sufttcleiit. "What do we want with gold and precious stones':" said the proud young mother, fcn/.ing fondly upon the baby "This is fortune enough for us." "Huh!" ki"! 'i!"t! t!e father, who had been walking the iloor nearly all night. "I'm gl ; sh water. It has also been ascribed tneilieinal virtues. (Jesnersays that physicians value the perch so ( much that they rerominend it to be j freely eaten by wounded men. women in childbed and those suffering from dangerous fevers. Aldrovaudus praises it and mentions that the two otoolitlis ("round bones"i found in the head of the perch are marvelously i 1 >od for stone in the bladder. That the carp was esteemed In olden times ill England is certain. I'ame Berucrs. writing in her quaint "Trea ty see of Kysshynge Wyth an Angle." published in 14lKi. says,"The carpe be a deyntous lish. but there ben few in Englonge." Being "deyntous"—i. e., "dainty" it must have been a good fish at that time to eat. It has certainly lost i|s character since then. In the art of healing the carp plays a respectable part. One old writer speaks of the fat of the carp as being of mi raculous power for the alleviation of "hot rheumatism." The manner of its application was by frequent rubbing on the painful part, and the effect was said tolllr 1 eminently mollifying and salutary. The triangular bones in the throat of the carp on being ground to powder and applied to a wound or bleeding uose were said to act as styp tic. The gall was also said to have been used for sore eyes, and "alwve the eyes." says an old .Kscillapius, "two little bones exist, seniicir ular in shape, which are diligently preserved by noble females against the lunatical disease." In the ' Haven of Health" carp are also comprised in"the ten series of fische which are reckoned as principal | in the preservation of health," and, ! adds the quaint old writer, "this lish I Is of great wholcsouiencss and great | value, and Its ton-sue is very pleasant I to carping ladies." A kind of first cousin of the c-arp is what is known as the barbel. Such ancients as .luveiial. Alhertus and oth ers of that ilk evidence that it was known and > steeined by the Roman gourmet. I'lutai' h mentions a curious fact in its natural history. Ih\ Bad ham in bis "I'rose Ilaleiitics" trans lates this | a--a.- as follows: "The roe of the barli- l is vry puis..nous. Auto nio (Ja/.iu- tool; two boluses and thus describes his -ensatioiis: \\i lirst 1 felt no inconvenience, but some hours hav ing elap~ :-d 1 iieuan to be disagreeably affected, and as my stomach swelled and «oiild not be brought down by anise and carminatives I was soon in a state of great depression and distress It appears that bis countenance was pallid, like a man in a swoon Deadly coldness ensued, and violent cholera and vomiting came on. The barbel (Barbus vulgaris) of today has survived such poisonous qualities, its flesh has the taste of stewed white blotting pa per, and its roe is as Innocuous as bread pills. All the same, good .lulyana Berners shared the bad opinion of the earlier writers. She says; "The barbyll Is a swete lish. but it is qnasliy mete and pervious for mauiiys bodye. For coniynly he ynyth an introduction to ye l'ebris (feveri, and If ye be eten rawe he may cause of liiannys dethe whych hath often bccne scene. Tlie tench which Ikis been introduced into some parts i I this country is an olive greenish carp which has been for long tinif termed in England the "phy sician of fishes." According to a score or more of authorities, ancient antl modern, the thi I. . The edition is lite '. «nd your order should he filed vi I y< ur newsdealer without delay. T is war chart can be obtained with no other new spa pei. TRIVIAL TO THEM: A »FELONY IN LAW. The Ilarrisburg "Patriot" of, the Ith inst, has a statement of how four boys rendered themselves subject to a heavy penalty by mischievously remov ing the oily waste from car journal boxes to start bonfires. Numerous complaints had been made by employes of both the Pennsylvania and Reading Roads that the boxes of the tolling stock was from time to time stripped of waste containing lub ricating oil, and tho detectives by a quiet investigation soon located Ihe offenders who were arrested and taken before Magistrate John L. Bah s, who held them for a further hearing. The boys took their arrest v. ry quiet lv. for, as one of them said, "I dun't care it my mother does knew 1 pot pinched, li I bad been run in lor stealing coal it would be different,but what does it matter if 1 did pull a lit tle waste out cf a journal box," but when arraigned before a Magistrate they discovered that they had broken a State law which classes the offense as a felony, punishable by a li\ie of |SOO aud five years imprisonment at hard labor. The plan to substitue cement for wood in station piatforms, first tried at Tatuaqua by the Reading railway, has proved entirely successful and the wooden platforms will be removed from many Reading stations the com ing summer. There is a scarcity of oysters in Dan ville caused by the severe weather which has frozen up the fresh water coves where the bivalves are harvest ed. It is to be hoped the "freeze" will let up before the two remainiug mouths with "is" go by. It will real ly be too bad if we are compelled to wait until September. Early Risers THE FAMOUS LITTLE PILLS. I For quick relief from Biliousness, Sick Headache. Torpid Liver. Jaun dice, Dizziness, and all troubles aris ing from an inactive or sluggish liver, DeWitt s Little Early Risers are un u equalled. I They act promptly and never gripe. They are so dainty that it is a pleasure to take them. 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