LOCAL TIMH TABLES. PENN'A. K. K BAST. WEST. 7.25 A.M. #OO A.M. 0.22 " 12.10 P. M. 3.21 P. M. 4.31 " 5.65 " 7.51 " SUNDAYS. 10 22 A.M. 4.81 P.M. D L. & W. K R. EAST. WEST. 7.05 A.M. 9.10 A.M. ;0.19 " 52 51 P.M. 2.11 P. M. 4-38 " (5 44 " 910 " SUNDAYS. 7 05 A. M. 12 44 P. M. 5.44 P. M 9 10 PHILA & READING R. R. NORTH. SOUTH. 7.58 A.M. 11.28 A.M. 8.56 P- M. 6.35 p. M. BLOOM STREET. 7.55 A. M. 11-21 A. M. j 158 P. M. « 33 P. M. ~)ANV!LLE AND BLOOMSBURG STREET RAILWAY CO. An\e Danville 6 00, 6.40, 7.30, 8.20. 3 10. 10.00. 10.50, 11.40 a m., 12.80, i.20, 2.10. 3.00, 3 50. 4.40, 5.30, 6.20, 7.10, 8.00, 8.50, 9.40. 10.30, 11.20 p. m, eave Bloomsburg 6.00, 6 40, 7.38, 8.28, 9.18. 10.03, 10.53, 11.43 a.m., 12.83, 1.23. 2.13, 3 03. 3.53. 4.43. 5.33, 6.23. 7.13, 8.03. 8.53, 9.43, 10.33, 11.2<> p. m, .. irst car Sunday morning 7.30. r ..ast car, 11.20 at nigbt goes to Grova* nia only. Wm R. Miller, Gen'l Manager 801 NEW LAWS WE MAY EXPECT The next Pennsylvania legislature will go into sessiou with a comfort able Republican majority in both branches; so the people of the State will naturally look for the enactment of such laws as were promised to them before election. There is no diversity of opinion among the Republican State leaders, as to the introduction and passage of a measure giving trolley companies the right of eminent domain so far as may be necessary for their successful building and operation, and the right to carry freight, as the Republican platform sets forth : "Iu order that the products of the fields and farms may reach the market at the least possible cost and inconvenience." This legis lation is demanded by farmers all over the State,and it is predicted that the railroad companies will not he able to sidetrack it as they did in pre vious years. An effort will be made to pass a con stitntional bill to prohibit railroads and tranportation companies being en gaged in mining coal. This is for bidden in the seventeenth article of the constitution, but the companies engaged in this business never accept ed the constitution of 1874 and it is doubtful whether they can be reached by the proposed legislation. The Republican party is pledged to pass an employers' liability law. Cor porations and large employers have heretofore been able to prevent the en actment of a law which would make them liable for damages to employes injured during the time of their em ployment. If a drastic bill of this character were passed it is held by labor leaders that there would be few er accidents in factories and large est ablishments because employers would take greater care to protect their em ployes. A law which will extend the provis ions of the Shern act to county officers and their employes is included in the reform legislation proposed. This law will apply to county officers all over the State. A bill to prohibit mercantile ap praisers holding any otner Federal, State, county or city office, wa9 recom mended by the Republican State plat form. A law which will meet with the ap proval, as it will mean more money for local purposes, will be one to re turn to the counties all the personal property tax and license fees collected therein. This legislation iB recom mended by the Republican State con vention. Other laws proposed by the Republi can State platform embrace increased appropriations to public schools, hos pitals and charitable institutions, and for hospitals the separate care of the criminal insane, the erection of dis pensaries, hospitals and sanitariums for the treatment of consumption and liberal appropriations for the construc tion of public highways throughout the State. Made Happy for Life. Great happiness came into the home of S. C. Blair, school superintendent, at St. Albans, W. Va., when his little daughter was restored from the dr«ad fill complaint be names. lie savs: My little daughter had St Vitus' Dance, which yielded to no treatment but grew steadily worse until as a last resort we tried Electric Bitters: and I rejoice to Hay, three bottles effected a complete cure ' Quick, sure cure for nervous complaints, general debility, female weaknesses, impoverished blood and malaria. Guaranteed by Paules & C<> drug store. Price 50c. Seriously 111. Joseph Kase, the well known con tractor, is lying very seriously ill at his home at Rushtown, Northumber land county. He has been confined to his home for some time. "For years I starved, then 1 bought a 50 cent bottle Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, and what that bottle benefitted me all the gold in Georgia could not buy. j kept on taking it and in two months went back to my work as machinist! In three months 1 was as well and hearty as 1 ever was. I still use a little occasion ally as I find it a tine blood purifier and a good tonic. May jou live long and prosper."—C.N Cornell. Roding. Ga. Aug. 27, 190#. Kodol is sold here by Paules & Co. A MAN'S MOTHER. The Venango Daily Herald is with in the realm of truth when it declares that "no man ever gets so old that he can afford to be ashamed of the natur al love of his mother. Pome young men who have just, sprouted up from boys appear to think that there is a great disgrace in showing a loving tenderness for their mother in public. Nothing will vouch so thoroughly for the proper training of a man as the fact that he still loves his old mother and la not a*named of it" SDPT. SCHAEFFER'S !| ANNUAL REPORT x... That special schools for uuvacciuat ed children should bo provided by the State is the somewhat remarkable re commendation of Nathan C. Schaef fer, Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, in his forthcoming report to the Legislature. Ho also takes occasion to remind the lawmakers that, while the Legislature has greatly increas ing its appropriations to elleemosyn ary institutions, the appropriation for the public schools has not only not been increased, but has actually dwindled,though there is a steady in crease in the number of pupils. In 1895 the amount of the State appropria tion per pupil was $5.11. In 1905 it was only |4.30. In each year the Lea islature appropriated $5,500,000, but, whereas the common schools got the whole of this appropriation in 1895 the Legislature diverted from the appro priation for 1905 $237,500 for State aid to normal school students and SIOO,- 000 for township schools, leaving but $5,212,500 for common schools, as against $5,500,000. In the meantime the number of pupils hail increased from 1.070,H13 to 1.200,908. SCHOOLS FOR UN VACCINATED. The Superintendent devotes a large part of his report to an effort to solve the problem of giving schooling to children whose parents will not allow them to be vaccinated. He says: Some of our legislation tends to keep children out of school. We have enact ed laws making attendance at school compulsory, and we have passed other laws depriving certain children of the right to attend auy public, private, parochial or Sunday school. The child who cannot read and write simple sentences in the English language is uot allowed togo to work before the age of Hi years is reached. The hoy who spends the" first I*s years of his life in idleness or play is always in danger of becoming a confirmed loaf er,and is on the highway to illiteracy, vagrancy and crime. Iu view of the irreparable loss which children deprived of schooling must suffer, it behooves the Legislature to make provision for the schooling of the following classes of cliildreu : 1. Children who. after repeated at tempts, have not been successfully vac cinated, because they are. or at least seem to be, immuue from smallpox and vaccinia. 3. Children whom reputable phy sicians refuse to vaccinate by reason of scrofulous, tubercular or other ad verse conditions. 3. Children whose parents will not allow them to be vaccinated on ac count of prejudices due largely to the excitement caused by anti-vaccination literature. 4. Defective and backward children for whom education cannot be provid ed in schools of the ordinary type. 5. Children so situated that no school is accessible to them. EMPTY SCHOOL HOUSES. There are sections of this Common wealth in which the school houses are empty because the parents will not al low their children to be vaccinated. One should not shut his eyes to the immense good which lias been accom plished by the enforcement of our vac cination laws. Today only one case of | smallpox is known to exist in the State of Pennsylvania. On the other hand, one should not ingore the fact that the courts have repeatedly decided that no flue can be imposed upon parents or guardians for the non-attendance of the unvaccinated child. All the pun ishment, therefore, falls upon the in uoceut child. SCHOOLS FOR THE DEFECTIVES. Separate schools are also needed for the so-called defective classes. These include the deaf,the blind, the feeble minded, the morally delinquent. The j act of May 18, 18?«, P. L., 157, provides for the establishment of special schools for deaf mutes in school districts waich have a population of more than '20,000 inhabitants and eight or more deaf mute children of proper age for attending school. This law has re mained a dead letter upon our statute books. The State maintains, separate and apart from the public schools, in stitutions for the education of the deaf, the blind and the feeble-mind. Nevertheless, some children who be long to the defective classes receive no schooling. We also need special schools for backward children who do not be long to the defective classes, and who by special methods can be advanced to the plaue of normal children. Phila delphia lias taken steps to provide in struction specially suited to backward children, and our other cities should in no long time follow this example. The child who asks its mother to pray that it be made like the other children that get aloug at school deserves treat ment not as morally delinquent, but as a backward child whom manuel train ing and other exercises may give con trol of its hands and its mental pow ers, thus fitting it to play a useful part in the life of the community. BETTER PAY FOR TEACHERS. " Unless the compensation of teach ers can be materially advanced," the report goes on,"it will be impossible to keep the schools up to the high standard which they have attained In number of districts the limit of tax ation has been reached and the needed advance in teachers' salaries cannot be made without more liberal school appropriations by the State Legislat ure " The report recommends the establish ment of a teacher's retirement fund ; the creation of the office of State In spector of township high schools to classify such schools and to see that the bounty of the State is wisely ap plied, and that the Legislature will be as liberal toward borough schools as it has been toward those of the town ship. Here is onr c 'tidetised opinion of the Original Laxative ough Syrup "Near ly all other cough syrups are c mßtipit ing especially those containing opiates. Kennedy's Laxative (containing) Honey and Tar moves the bowels. Contains no opiates. Conforms to the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by Paules tit Co FJB BENEFIT OF STEVENS MEMORIAL There will be only one eveuiug en tertainment during institute week and this will be one which should interest all friends of the common schools, as aside from the interest of the enter tainment itself it is designed to hou or the memory of Thaddeus Steveus, the great advocate and supporter of the public shcools in those days when the system needed a champion such as Mr. Stevens. As explained iu a pre vious issue the Stevens memorial will take the form of an industrial school for indigent orphans. The proposition is to erect a $200,000 building with an endowment fund of? 500 ,000. The money left by Thaddeus Stevens for such a school today amounts to about SBO,OOO. The legislature has appropri ated $50,000 toward the project. Sixty three counties of the State have in dicated a desire to participate in the movement and now little Montour goes on record as one giving practical assurance of more or less substantial aid. Governor Pennypacker is a warm friend of tlie movement and the prop osition to hold the entertainment here fcr the benefit of the funrl is in line with the recommendation of State Superintendent N. C Shaeffer, as set forth in the recent article. The entertainment for the benefit of the Stevens memorial fund, to take place here on Thursday evening, Dee ember 6th., will be in the form of a eadiug or recital and will ho given by Miss Landis, of Millersville, a tal ented and cultured young lady.especi ally accomplished in her lino. She is the daughter of Hon. John H. Landis, former member of the legislature and a'; present superintendent of tho Unit ed States mint at Philadelphia Miss Landis will be accompanied by her fa ther, who will give a fifteen minute talk on "Thaddeus Stevens." Mr. Landis is treasurer of the Stevens Me morial association and is an energetic worker in the interest of the fund. His address on the subject of "Thad deus Stevens" delivered at Altoona Mracli 15, 1905, created widespread in terest. A Year of Blood. They ar 1908 will long be remember ed in the hum" of F N. Tacket. of All i auee. Ky.. as a vear of blood: which flowed so copiously from Mr. Ta< ket's lungs that death seemed very near. He writes: "Sev: re bleeding from the lungs and a frightful oo'igb had brought nie at death's <loor, when I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion. with the ast >uishiug result that, after talcing four bottles I was com pletely ret -red and as time has proven permanently cared- Guaranteed for Sv>re Lungs, Coughs and Colds, at Panics <X: Co's drag store. Price •">!»<• and SI.OO Trial bottle tree. Congestion at Sunbury. The railroad situation in Sunbury now holds the centre of the stage for the head officials of the great Pennsyl vania system. It is now believed that ! in that town lies the main cause of the congestion which has been block ing the traffic on all the lines, especi ally on the local division, and that in I Sunbury alone can be found the retn | edv. Adequate yard facilities at that point are believed to be a key to the | situation. A notable party of railroad men were in Sunbury throughout Saturday mak ing a critical examination of the traffic. There were Mr. R. M. Patter son, geurral superintendent of freight transportation,and other officials from Philadelphia; General Superintendent W. H. Myers, Superintendent H. P. Lincoln, and Assistant Trainmaster Charles Hartmau, of Williatnspoif. In the party of inspection were in cluded the Sunbury officials. On the conclusions drawn from their critical inspection of the situation in Sunbury will depend all future action taken by the company in reference to that town. To relieve the freight con gestion is a necessity immediate and imperative. The means which will be t iken to accomplish this end are of far reaching importance to Sunbury. WHAT THEJKIDNEYS DO. Their UtceasiDg Work Keej>3 [ (Js StroDg And Healthy. All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. They work night and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure matter daily, when un healthy some part of this impure mat ter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms—pain in the back, headache, nervousness, hot, dry skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disorders of the eyesight and hearing, dizziness, irregular heart, debility, drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep th? filters right you will have no trouble with yc ur kidneys. Augustus Hawn, '.i.17 Second St., Huntingdon, Pa., says: "Itwasabout three years ago that my kidneys first began to give me trouble. The disease grew on me gradually and constantly became worse until it reached a stage of severity that when I got up in the morning slurp stinging pains would catch me in the back and the action of the kidneys became very regular and there was a hot burning sensation dur ing passage of the secretions. I tried all kinds of medicine but nothing seemed to do me any good. At last I decided to try Doan's Kidney Pills and found such prompt and unexpect ed relief that I feel warranted in re commending this remedy to other sufferers.'' tor sale by all dealers Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburu Co.. Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's and take no other Hunting Trip. |W. 11 ilartman arid W. ('. Brittaiu, of Derry township,have returned from a several days' hunting trip to Pine Summit ami report having had a fiue time. They brought home with them i'i pheasants and 19 rabbits SURFACE UPSETS SNAKE MYTHS; The AMERICAN is in receipt of a copy of the interesting bulletin pub lished by the division of zoology of the Pennsylvania department of agri culture under the direction of Prof. H A. Surface that has for its title "The Serpents of Pennsylvania." There is no other group of animals in Pennsylvania concerning which there is so much cruelty almost uni formly shown in a relentless aud un just warfare as snakes, according to State Zoologist Surface. "Ingorance, mythology aud super stition have combined to surround them with nu atmosphere of dread," says Dr. Surface, who has made a care ful study of the snakes of Pennsyl vania. "It is not only superstition, but also ignorance and unnecessary fear which have rendered it impossi ble for any person to study them care fully." For the purpose of exploding many popular notions about snakes, Dr. Sur face lias issued this bulletin upon the reptiles of Pennsylvania,with a speci al reference to their food and econ omic features. The bulletin states that among the myth, fallacies or folk lore concerning serpents current in some parts of Pennsylvania are the following: Snakes sting with their tongues; suakes charm birds aud people; green serpents are venomous ; there is such a creature as a hoop snake, which rolls like a hoop: there is a horn snake, with a venomous horn at the end of its tail; suakes are blind once per month and regularly during "dog days;" snakes moult or shed their skin each month; serpents can blow about or spit poison ; snakes chase aud attack people without provocation; snakes and other reptiles are slimy; certain kinds of suakes milk or suck cows: when snakes are killed the tails do not die until the sun goes down or uutil it thunders; kill a suake and turn it over to bring rain; snakes spring or jump from the ground at their victims; snakes strike from a truly coiled position ; when a firearm is pointed at the snake the reptile draws its own head, audit is impossi ble to miss it or shoot it anywhere but in the head; the yellow rattlers are females aud the black are mates; a snake can be made to put out its eggs by dropping it into fire, snakes lose their venom by being deprived of wat er for six days or more. Sankes are erroneously supposed to have medicinal properties, as follows: Galls of snakes recommended for their bite ; their oil for rheumatism, bald ness and deafness; their skin worn for rheumatism and stiffness: a snake's heart, oil or blood for consumption or other ills; its flesh to be eaten for blood disorders or other troubles; a second bite of the same snake in the same place to cure or counteract its first bite; the rattles of suakes as charms ; other parts of snakes for var ious cures, preventatives or charms. Dr. Surface notes the following as some actual though queer facts about the Pennsylvania suakes. Some serpents swallow their youug for temporary protection; some snakes play "possum," or act dead as a means of defense; some snakes lay eggs, others bear young; fangs of ser peuts are renewed or grow in again after being extracted; the youug black snake is gray aud spotted, aud often mistaken for the spotted adder, water snake or copperhead ; suakes can live a year or more without food , serpents often eat one another ; some species of snakes are beneficial as insect eaters and others as destroyers of mice aud other obnoxious rodents, as mice and rats; two-headed snakes are not un common; snakes and other reptiles are uot "cold-blooded," but are the temp erature of their surroundings. Dr. Surface announces in his bullet in, which was issued Saturday, that a second bulletin will be issued as soon as be completes his investigation of the stomachs of a large number of snakes which have beeu sent to his office the last six months. The second bulletin will contain as much as can be obtained from various observers iinil correspondents upon the haunts and habits of reptiles of Pennsyl vania. The second bulletin will also con tain tables and charts concerning their food and breeding habits. More mater ial is needed to advance these studies, and Dr. Surface asks for uotes or written reports of observations,as well as specimens. Barn Raising at Rxchange. Yesterday about 40 of the friends of Frank Ellis, id' Exchange, assembled to assist him in raising his fine, large barn. Mr. Ellis is also just completing a new residence After the raisiug a fine dinner was served to the guests aud a few pleasant hours were spent socially. Had a Close Call. 'A dangerous surgical operation, in volving the removal of a malignant ul cer. as large as my hand, froui my daughter's hip. was prevented by the application of Bucklen's Arnica Salve,' says A. C. Stickel. of Miletus, W Va. "Persistent use of the Salve completely cured it." Cures Cuts, Burns mul In jo 2oc at Paules& Co.. druggists. MENACE To THE FARMERS. "The burning of bums in this part ot the country," said a farmer," is one of the constant menaces we are expos ed to, audit is now a very serious matter, and causes considerable anx iety to me and others I know. What should we do when a tramp comes along aud asks to sleep in the hay mow? Charity would say "Yes,' but it is il'iugerous, either to let him do so or to refuse him. The loss of a farm er's barn at this time means much financially. The insurance never cov ers the loss when the crops are all harvested, and at this time, no one could rebuild his barn at anywhere near the figures it was originally built for. Farmers have more to fear in the way of tire than property owners in towns and cities, as the latter are pro tected more than we are. " TiiE LAW WILL BE INVOKED It is a sad state of affairs when a quiet and inoffensive man who is en deavoring to earn an honest living in a town where everyone is supposed to have the protection of the law,during business hours is obliged to lock him self in Ins store in order to escape the taunts aud annoyance of unfeeling or unthinking people. Yet this is precise ly what has been goinj; on day af ter day during the year or more past on the busiest part of Mill street, the undeserving victim of it all being J. Cooper Montgomery, who conducts a tobacco store opposite the opera house. The way this man has been treated is nothing short of a shame and a dis grace to the town. There is scarcely an evening—aud very often the same nuisance exists in the daytime—when some one is not annoying the tobacco nist; often there are gioups in front of the store, all equally guilty, who are not only an annoyance to the man inside, but are a positive nuisance on the street. Once inside they run things to suit themselves and in order to pro tect himself "Cooper" is often oblig ed to lock the door and shut out his "customers". It is then that things reach such a pass that they have be come a positive scandal. While some kick against the door outside others throw down the awning and tantalize the man in all the various ways that ingenuity can devise. Often the per petrators are the merest hoodlums,but just as frequently they are men, from whom one would expect something better—very much better. The threadbare argument that if the man would pay no attention to those who seek to have fun with him there would soon be an end to it has no force in the premises. All persons cau notbe philosophical under such circumstances aud if men have no consideration and real sympathy for anotiier poor fellow whose lines have not always fallen in pleasant places, then it is time for the strong arm of the law to interfere. Such a crisis lias been reached at present. Several citizens, whose sym pathy has been aroused,have taken the matter in hand aud will see to it that the man is protected. One of these, a man of standing, yesterday in no un certain terms stated what he for one intended to do, if the nuisance is not abated immediately. Arrests will cer tainly follow and if those in the habit of making themselves objectionable about the store are wise they will take this tip aud govern themselves accord-1 ingly. The best treatment for indigestion and troubles of the stomach is to rest the st<>mach. 11 can be rested by starvation or by then-ie of a good digestant which will digest the food eiten. thus taking the work off the stomach. At the pro 7>er temperature, a single teaspoonfnl of Kodol will wholly digest !.ono grains of food, it relieves the present annoy anre. puts the stomach in shape to sat is factorily perform its functions Good for indigestion, sour stomach, flatulence, palpitation of the heart and dyspepsia. Kodol is made in strict conformity with the National Pure Food and Drug Law Sold bv Panles ifc Co. Last Canitol Excursion. The last capitol excursion was run over the Pennsylvania on Saturday aud carried its usual large quota from Danville, I<*B people taking in the de lightful trip. Saturday's was the sixth and last of the penny-a-mile ex cursions. On the six Saturdays that the specials were run 64'.t tickets were sold at South Danville, the largest number going on November 3rd., when 20r> took in the sights at Harrisburg. Those who took in Saturday's ex cursion from Danville aud vicinity were: Dr. aud Mrs. H. Hiushellwood, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fetterman, Mr. and Mrs. William Ash ton, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kostenbauder, Mesdames Chris Loeh, John Smith, Charles Smith, Bernard Shevlin, John Moyer, Kate Foust, E. A. Curry, I. G. Bar ber, Misses Katherine Riffle, Ella Leamy, Kate Foust, Laura Kruni, Florence Hartliue, Florence Krum, Katherino Fisher, Mary Hartline.Car rie Caoheriua, Hester Moser. Rose Gallagher, Bertha E. Kase, Blanche S. Sechler, Helen Tooey, Marv Leffler, Carrie Ward, Lizzie Phillips, Margaret Cook, Mamie Flanagan,Ethel Herring ton, Maragret Barber, Phoebe Curry, Amanda Wittemeyer, Emma Kosten bauer, Edith Ashton, Jennie Dyer, Stella Cook, Messrs. Arthur Hahn, G. O. Campbell, Elmer Mowrey, Sam Mowrey, John Albeck, John Mitchell, Lloyd Baylor, A. C. Angle, Howard YauKirk. Guy Mowrer, Horace Apple man, William Applenian, Hugh Bar ber, George Kostenbauder, Kase, Sam J. Welliver, Benjamin Gillaspy, William Childs, Joseph H. Gerriuger, Jacob Johnson, Charles F. Cook, L. M. Campbell, Frauk B. Gulick, John Kessler, Pert Gulick, Joseph Weaver, William I. Davis, Boyd Billheim,Sam Lobach,Thomas Gething.J. W. Shoop, James Riffle. Morris Leighow,"Dad" Swauk, William Everett, Frauk Gill, ! John Casey, Lafayette Foust, Joel | Reabuck, J. P. Enterline, G. E. Rea bnck, Walter Mettler. Boyd Wolver ' ton Arthur and Stuart Cook. PUBLISH THE LAWS The Pittston Gazette favors the ad option of an act requiring tlie pub lication of the laws of the State in a sufficient number of newspapers iu each county. It says: "With the in creasing enactment of laws regulat ing fool products, the dairy and the farm, the killing of game aud the catching of fish, the trespassing upon the lauds aud similar laws it is abso lutely necessary that efficient public ity be given so that the people may not lie ignorant of anil innocently vio late the laws of the Commonwealth. Famous Strike Breakers. The most famous strike breakers in the land are Dr. King's New Life Pills When liver and bowels g.» on strike they ijnickly settle the trouble, and the purifying work go s right on. Best cure for constipation, headache and dizziness 25c at l'anles & Co..druggists. L'he wise business man always uses the columns of his local newspaper for advertising purposes. COUNTY MEW MTU County Superintendent C. W. Derr having fully arranged the program for teachers' institute is giving thought to the annual meeting of the Montour couuty school directors' association, which will take place sometime in January. He is casting about for a good practical speaker for the occas ion, and as soon as he secures one he will arrange a program for the meet ing. The annual meeting of the school directors' association takes the place of "directors' day" which was form erly a feature of the county institute. It is an improvement on the old order. One or two practical addresses, the reading cf papers prepared for the oc casion and a general discussion in dulged in by the members gives the directors an opportunity to learn what is new and most approved in methods of instruction aud in school nuuage meut. Each director attending the meeting is entitled to a per diem of two dollars and mileage at the rate of 3 cents per mile, paid by the district in which he serves. The meeting of the school directors' association last year was held in the courthouse on .Tauuary 30th, when a practical program was rendered, in which the directors themselves parti cipated. The principal speaker was Professor Lose, citv superintendent of Williamsport. The officers of the Montour county school directors' association are : Presi dent, Jacob Fischer; secretaries, Horace Sidler and William Robinson : treasur er, Joseph R'tter. (rive children h remedy with a pleasant taste Don't f->rce unpleasant medicine down their throats. Kennedy's Laxative (containing) lluney a> d Tar is most pie mant to take Children like it, and as a relief for colds, coughs, etc., there is nothing better No opiates. Conforms to National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold bv Paiiles <X- Co. state Official Count. The official count of the recent elec- j fioti for State offices in Pennsylvania I was completed at the office of tiie sec retary of the Commonwealth Thursday afternoon. The vote in detail follows: Governor —Edwin S. Stuart, repub lican, 506,392; Lewis Emery, jr., fus ion, 457,957; Homer L. Castle, pro hibition 24,793; James A. Maurer, socialist, 15,169; John Desmond, so cialist-labor, 2,109; Scattering 25. Stuart's plurality, 48,435. Lieutenant Governor Robert S. Murphy,republican, 504,841; Jeremiah S. Black, ton, pro., 35,897; Charles P. Gildea, socialist, 16,453; James Clark, social ist labor, 2,813; scattering 1. Mur phy's plurality 71,919. Auditor General—Robert K. Young, republican,sos,B33; William T.Creasy, fusion, 451,177; Edward Moore, soci alist. 16,289; William H. Thomas, so cialist labor, 2,952: scattering 2. Young's plurality 54,656. Secretary of luteraal Affairs—Henry Houck, republican, 511,865; John J. Green, fusion, 419,630; George Hoff man, pro., 25,547; Henry W. Kane, socialist, 16,212 ; James A. McConuell, socialist-labor, 2,688; scattering 3. Houck's plurality 92,235. The vote for rhe republican nominees includes the vote cast for them as the candidates for the citizens party, which polled an average of about 5,000 votes. The vote for tlie fusion nominees in cludes their combined vote as the can didates of the democratic, Common wealth, Lincolu, referendum and un ion labor parties. Mr. Creasy was the nominees of ail of these parties and also of the prohibition party. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quiuinu Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE S signa ture is on each box. 25 cents. Over Embankment. A thrilling ruuaway occurred Satur day evening near Bloomsburg in which four well known men of Mt. Pleasant township, Columbia county, were thrown out of a wagon and over an embankment, and all more or less ser iously injured. Frank Mordau was driving a team of spirited colts on his way from Bloomsburg to his home in Mt. Pleas ant township. On the front seat with him was Claries L. Sands,well known politically., while seated ou a turkey box in the rear of the wagon were William Mordau and William Lorah. When a few miles out of Bloomsburg one of the men in the wagon made a sharp noise,causing the horses to start forward One of tlie reins dropped from the hands of tlie driver. Just at that iusant tie wagon struck a water course, and tlie driver, Frank Mordau, was thrown over rhe dash board be tween the horses. Still holding ou to one rein, Mordau drew the buses too far to one side of the road and the whole outfit, wagon, horses and men, went over .i steep embauknieiir into a field. In the mix up that followed the oc cupants of tlie wagon were pretty bady used up. Oueof tiie horses was (taught, while the other got away and was nof captured until early yesterday morn ing. The injured men were taKeu to the Welliver farm nearby an I when a phy sician arrived he [found that place looking like an enie-gency hospital. I Frank Mordau had suffered a dislocat ed shoulder and 3 ribs broken; Wil liam Mordan dislocated bis right shoulder aud had a number of severe lacerations; Sands sustained a number of cuts about the head aud a badly bruised body: Lorah, who received cuts and bruises all over his body, managed to walk to bis home 7 miles distant. Mrs. Foulk Convalescent. The many friends of Mrs. Ralph Foulk in this city will be glad to learn that after an illness of five weeks of peritonitis in the Memorial hospital at Johnstown,she is now con valescing and on Thursday was able to sit up for the first time. The cold microbe is especially active just now. LIBERTY TOWNSHIP WANTS ami SCHOOL The euterprisiug people of Liberty township, this countv, are making a move for the establishment of a town ship high school. With the idea of in stituting a thorough discussion on the subject, a meeting has been called for Saturday evening. December l-r. at which time both tne board of directors and the tax payers of Liberty will at tend. The establishment of township high schools is looked upon with favoi by the State department of public in struction, which encourages the town ships to maintain these higher institu tions of learning by paying extra money to the school districts wherein they become located. To a township maintaining a high school with a two year course the State agrees to pay S4OO extra appropriation : for a three year course, $t!00 and for a four year course, SBOO. On account of the in sufficient public school appropriation, however, the State has been compelled to cut these extra appropriations in half, giving to the townships main taining high schools only 50 per cent of the above amounts. Liberty township this year has 15 pupils for whom tuition fees are being [laid outside of the district—l:s who attend at Pottsgrove and 2 who attend the public schools of this city. For these pupils Liberty township pays out about $2.00 apiece per month, or nearly S3OO a year. It is claimed that the high school could be maintained with the money saved from outside tuition together with the appropria tion from the State. The proposition to which Liberty township will give consideration next Saturday evening is one that is of in , terest to the residents in all of the rural districts in the county. It' tie tapxayers of progressive Liberty de cide that they will make the move and have the.r own high school their ex periment will be closely watched by all who are interested in the cause of education. The school board of Liberty town ship is composed of I uther Croinley, VV. C. Robbins, William .1. Clark, Jesse Bogart, William Robbins and William Lazaru- A GUAKANTELL' (,URE FOR YILF.S Itching, Blind. Bleeding, Protrud ing Piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money- if PA Z() < >INTMENT fails to rure iu f> to 14 da vs. •"><) cents. Pathetic Appeal for Lost Boys. Chief-of-Police AJ inceuioyor Satur day received a pathetic appeal from the Chief-of-Police of Sandusky. 0., asking for aid and co-opeiat io.i iu flip final searcii for two little boys, Wil liam Missis and Joseph Wirth, who mysteriously disappeared from the 6treets of Sandusky on July 13. 1899, and who are supposed to have been kidnapped. As a good way of getting the facts before the people the press of the country is asked to assist. Chief Miucemoyer has cuts of the little boys as they appeared when they left home. At the present time Willie Missig would be seventeen rears of age and Joseph Wirth sixteen. Through all the intervening eight years (lie search for the missing boys has been diligent ly prosecnted by the anxious parents. Anyone who has any information that might prove of value will kindly ad dress the chief-of-police of Sandusky, O. The chief-of-police receives many inquiries for missing people and as a general thing they hardly cause more than passing interest, but in the present case there is an element of extreme pathos, recalling many features of the Charlie Ross case. The police of the entire country are at work. i (•}.><k! for everything a salve is used for | and especially recommended for piles. That is what we say of Dt-Witt's Witch Haze! Salve On the market for years and a standby in thousands of families. Get Hewitt's. Sold by Panles & Co. UNIFORM PRIMARIES. Objection to the uniform primaries has come from some of the townships on the ground that the farmers would be compelled togo twice to the polls, once for the nominations aud anotner time for the electious. Yet in many of the townships nominations are at pre sent made by caucuses and conven tions, aud this places upon the voters as much of an obligation togo to the nominating places as the uniform prim aries would impose. This has been the custom iu populous townships especi ally. No ureater duty would be placed upou the voters by the uuiform prim ary system than has beeu imposed by the old system. They can shirk, the ■ former as they have shirked the lat \ ter. Bur the uuiform primary plan would be more of an incentive togo | to the polls and assist iu making the nominations. There would be the as -1 suranee that no intermediate influence would be in the field to tempt the cor rupt ion ists. It is hoped that the bor oughs and the townships will adopt the new plan without hesitation. i Need a g»od cathartic? A pillis best , Say a pill like DeWitt's Little Early ' Risers About the most reliable on the market. Soid by Panles & Co. Birthday Party. The fifth birthday.of Alfred Thomas Marks was very pleasantly celebrated Saturday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Marks, Riverside. Dinner aud supper were served for the little folks. Those present were Misses Florence and Elizabeth Peifei, Cath erine, Nellie and Elizabeth Marks, Masters George and John ; Marks and Charles Ebling. SEMINARY NKEDS FUNDS. Dickinson seminary is one of the in stitutions of which Williamsport i* justly proud. But it is handicapped for lack of funds and an effort is to be made to raise $25,000 for immediate use. H. T. Ames, Esq., is the head of a committee the other two members of which are ex-Mayor Foresmau aud President Evelaud, to consider and re commend plans for raising rhe money. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable hy Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition, beauty, vigor „ | and cheerfulness soon *' V '* , disappear when the kid "eys are out of order - Clll t !V>X ~ or diseased. Kidney trouble has ~ become so prevalent V that it is not uncommon r/l\S ' / * or a child to be born /V viv.\ ' 1 afflicted with weak kid- e Y s - If the child urin —lc?..—■ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it.the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swarr.p=Root i-soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty- 112 'K*' cent and one dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mail "'SgjgP free, also pamphlet tell- Home of Swamp-Root. ing all about it. including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sirfferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer &Co., Binghamton. N. Y., be sure and mention this pap-:r. Don't make any mistake, but reinem ber the unne. Svyanp-Root, Lr. Kil mer's Swainp-110 >r, and the addre* Binghamton. N.Y.. on ever? bottles. Boy Shot With Revolver. The dangers of inexperienced hand ling of a firearm has ngain demon strated and as a cousequence Thomas, the twelve year old sou of William Schlegle, of Shatnokin. is lying in h critical condition at the Miners' hos pital with hut very slight hopes for his recovery. Mouaay afternoon together with a youth named Tyson young Schlegle weut out on the hillside near his heme to shoot mark with an old revolver, lu his endeavors to cock the trigger Schlegle was unsuccessful aud Tyson went to assist him. He took the revolv er, which was an old style one, aud wast ugaged in trying to get the trig ger back. Young Schlegle was stand ing close by watching. Suddenly the hammer went buck a short distance aud before Tyson could lock it in position there was a loud report, fol lowed by a sharp cry from Schlegle who lay moaning and writhing on the ground. Frigiitfiued almost out of his wits Tyson lei the youth to his borne and hurriedly summoned Dr. Bicble. The latter found thai the ball had entered the furohead aud lodged behind the right ejeiiall, bulging it from the socket, an 1 alter temporarily treating aud bandaging the injured optic order ed him to 1 e removed to the Miners' hos pita I. Advices from the hsopital last evening were to the_effect that there were but slight hopes entertained for his recoverj*. Birthday Surprise Party. Miss Mary O. Gaskins entertained a number of her friends at ber home on Mahoning street, Friday evening, in I honor of her fifteenth birthday. The evening was spent with music and games. Refreshments were served. Those present were Anna Hendricks, Florence Jonos, Elizabeth Jones,Rhea Hoffman, Barbara Gross, Bessie Moy er, Ivy Moyer, Jennie Stewart, Alice West, Julia Uaskiiis, Marv Gaskius, Merlin Morrison. William Speiser, Earl Woodside, Orville Moyer, Grover Mincemoyer. Walter Gaskius, William Breitenbach and Henry Leisenring. Farmers Are Happy. The farmers of this section have ev ery reason to be thankful this year for a very successful year. As a whole, the crops were very good,aud altogeth er the year was one to look back on with pleasure. Which fact is loudly testified to by the abundant supplies consisting of nearly every variety of edible produced in the country to be seen in every farmhouse in readiness for Thanksgiving day. PROPHETS DISAGREE. There is a lively contest on between J the weather prophets, who have been predicting a hard winter from the fact that the muskrats' coat is thick and the squirrels ami chipmunks lay ing in a good supply of winter food. Others contend that since rain fell on St. Martin's day the winter is bound to be soft. It seems a toss up between St. Martin's Day and the muskrats and chipmunks and it will require time to vindicate oue or the other. The surest way is togo right ahead and prepare for winter. THE HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL. The Reading Telegram is quite right when it declares that " the high school pupil who attends strictly to this stud ies and enjoys no recreatiou which tends to swell his head or undermine his character is in the best way of de velopment into useful manhood. To try to ape college ways is silly and liable also to become injurious." Weak Lungs Bronchitis For over sixty years doctors have endorsed Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, weak lungs, bronchitis, con sumption. You can trust a medicine the best doctors ap prove. Then trust this the next time you have a hard cough. The best kind of a testimonial S "Sold for over sixty years." 1 M Mad© by J. C. Ayer Co.. Lowell, Mm. JTO Also manufacturers of /II 9 SARSAPARILLA. flyers xw Wo have 110 secrets ! We publish the formulas of all our medicinal. Ayer's Pills keep the bowels regular. All vegetable and gently laxative.
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