LOCAL TIME TABLES. PENN'A. R R EAST. WERT. 7.25 A. M. 9.00 A. M. 10.22 " 12.10 P.M. 8.21 P. M. 4.81 " V 55 " 751 " 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 " 12 51P.M. 3.11 P. M 4-88 " 544 " 910 " SUNDAYS. 705 A.M. 12.44 P.M. 5.44 P. M 9.10 ' PHILA. <Sr READING R R. NORTH. SOUTH. 7.53 A.M. 11.28 A.M. 8.56 P- M. 6.35 P. M. BLOOM STREET. 7.55 A. M. 11-21 A. M. 8.58 P.M. 6 33P.M. DANvILLE AND BL,< JOMNBUm* STREET RAILWAY CO. L«ave Danville 6 00, 6.40, 7.80, 8.20. 9.10, 10.00, 10.50, 11.40a.ui.. 12.30, 1.20,2.10,3.00,3 50. 4.40, 5.30, «.2<>, 7.10, 8.00, 8.50, 9.40. 10.30, 11.20 p. in, cave Bloomsburg 6.00, fi.4o, 7.33, 3.23, 9.13, 10 03. 10.63, 11.43 a.m., 12.33. 1.23,2.13,3 03. 3.53, 4.43, 5.33, 6.23. 7.18, 8.08, 8.53. 9.43, 10.33, 11.20 p. m. wiret ear Sunday morning 7.30. Last ear, 11.20 at night goes to Grova* uia only. Wtu. R. Miller. Gen'l Manage! LITTLE GIRL SHOT BY BROTHER With a bullet buried in her head be yond the reach of the doctor's probe, Rachael Poff.the eight year old daugh ter of C. William Poff, of Sunbury, is lying in a precarious couditiou at the Mary M. Packer hospital. Rachael with her younger brother Lawrence, aged 6 years, were iu Mr. Pofl's bedroom while Mrs. Potf was down town shopping Mouday and no one was in the house except her four small children. The little boy discovered a 22-calibre revolver in the bureau drawer. His curiosity was aroused by the polished metal and peculiar shape of the strauge object. He held it in his hand, with the muzzle pointing directly in his ulster's face, while lying in bed,as she bent over to look at it. The boy's fing er touched the trigger, tie weapon ex ploded and the bullet struck the little girl in the nose and penetrated deep Into her head. / With blood streaming from the wound and with her face blackened wirh powder the little girl jumped from the bed. She ran down stairs and out of the house to the house of a neighbor.and then back again, scarce ly realizing what she was doing. A doctor was hastily summoned aud the injured child was carried to the hospital. For several hours the surge ons probed for the bullet, but with out success. Considering the serious nature of the wound the child is doing wonder fully well, and if no complications set in she will probably recover. Workmen Honor Foreman. Charles Lehr.of Catawissa, foreman of the work train,which has been em ployed since last spring extending the siding on the south side has beeu very signally honored by a number of Dan ville wage earners. The latter, made up mostly of heat ers and puddlers, during the five months that the big mill was shut dowu found employment under Mr. Lehr on the work train. The Danville workmen, some twenty in number,be came very much attached to the fore man, who has the reputation of being very considerate and humane to the men under him. As soon as the big mill started up and the Danville men got back to their old posts, with their first pay they be gan to think of some way in which they could honor their foreman of last summer. They finally decided to uuite in the purchase of a flue meerschaum pipe for him. The plan was successfully carried out and on last Saturday evening the presentation took place in the waiting room of the station. In addition to the pipe Mr. Lehr was presented with a five dollar gold piece, which repre sented a balance on hand after the pipe was paid for. Mr. Lehr was very much surprised by the demonstration of good feeling, bat he was not too much discoucerted to respond in a way that convinced the men that he appreciated the valu able presents as weil as the sentiment of friendship and goodwill they sym bolized itodels of Beauty and Perfection. A good many advance calendars for 1907, handed out by business firms to favored friends, may be seen display ed about town. Without exception the new calendars are models of beauty - and perfection, whether viewed from a sentimental or an artistic stand point. It is a fact that with each succes sive year the calendar idea is carried to a higher degree of perfection. Ev ery subject is employed that can pos sibly appeal to the individual aud hold his attention until the advertiser's name and business is impressed upon the mind. Thus, conspicuously above the twelve months of the year, we have scenes of domestic felicity, or a barefoot boy. Another dealer, who is a fanoier of chickens, dogs or horses, i fancies good pictures of these will prove irresistible to every one else and he selects them to stand guard over his name and busiuess while the next four seasons come and go. By far the largest number of adver tisers who have faith in the efficacy of calendars seem to believe that ev erybody, admitting a few exceptions, would rather look at a pretty face than anything else in the world. Thus we have pretty girls galore, in all sorts of poses, out numbering every other sub ject ten to one. They do service on all sorts of calendars, on those which ad vertise the manufacture of beer and the sale of tobacco as frequently as they are displayed on calendars deal ing with millinery, confectionery aud other commodities dear to the femin ine heart. The boys and girls are looking about the Btores with interested eyes these •rtnings. JUDGE EVANS OUSTS A SCHOOL BOARD Judge Evans tool; a decisive step to ward the cleaning up of corrupt Con yngham township, Columbia county, when he ousted the board of school directors on Saturday and appointed a uow board, which is calculated to bet ter serve the iuterests of the public schools. The openly corrupt condition in Couyngham has been an eyesore to the good people of Columbia for years and strangely the very center of all the rottenness seemed to be just in the place where all should LQ most, cir cumspect—iu the schools. Judge Evaus' lengthy opinion,hand ed down Saturday, is of great interest as it treats not only of the misdoings of the directors in Conyngham.but al so goes thoroughly over the duties aud responsibilities of school directors iu general. The opiuiou of Judge Evaus starts off by quoting from an opiuiou of Judge Ferris in removing school di rectors: "Popular government to en dure must be based on intelligent citi zenship. Upou this is built our school system. The lever that controls the machinery of that system has been placed in the hands of the school di rector aud to him has boen committed a sacred trust. From him is demanded absolute fidelity iu its execution. He may tax the poeple aud expend their money but only for specified purposes and in the public iuterests. Their duty is to care for the intellectual, moral aud physical health aud growth of the children of the district. For this pur pose he stands between the parent and the government aud from them ex ercises a coutrol which is their first introduction into the domain of law. From every poiut of view it is essenti al that the director, who to the child is the representative of the law,should be law-abiding and scrupulous iu tiie performance of his dutv. In this re spect neither venality, incapacity or negligence will be tolerated. So rigid is this duty that the school director ! who fails to attend two successive ; meetings of the board without suflici j ent cause may be summarily dismissed from office by his fellow directors. So also if all the members of the board neglect to perform the duty enjoined by law, the court is authorized upon proper application, to declaro their seats vacant and appoint others in the places." •'On the 12th of November teu citi- I zeus of Couyngham presented a peti tion to court stating that directors of the district have during the past year refused or neglected to perform their duties as school directors. The peti tion asked grille to show cause j why their seats should not he declared vacant and other directors appointed. In answer, Michael J. Dixon, John Monroe aud Richard Cain came into ! court and said that since the recent ' death of Director Anthony McAnd | rews, Charles Kostenbauder had been ! elected to the vacancy and denied that j they now refused to perform their duty. Motion to dismiss the rule was '• made for the following reasons: Ist, Kostenbauder did not refuse or neglect to perform his duty; 2, that Michael J. Dixon, John Monroe, Richard Cain | and Charles Kostenbauder liavo since j November 24 performed the duties of ! school directors, and 3rd, that court . had no jurisdiction to oust school di- I rectors unless the whole board refused ! to perform their duties. j "The first reasou assifjued is irrelev ant. Kostenbauder was not a director when the proceedings were commenc ed. As to the directors now perform i iug their duty that is to be determin : ed by the testimony. As to the court's ! jurisdiction, in this case, it appears from evideuce that all directors are neglecting their duties. The motion | to dismiss the iule is therefore refus ■ ed. The evidence shows that the direct ! ors of this district have been unfaith • ful to the high trust committeed to them. They have been guilty of gross neglect of official duty. The schools have had practically no attention from the directors this year. They failed to supply the schools with the neces sary supplies aud allowed one of the schools to become out of repair. Iu June this year the board was hopeless ly deadlocked. There were two fac tious of the board, three on either side. The busiuess of tho district was total ly ueg.ected. The best interests of the school children were made to suffer by I reasou of tho •> ir.vo political factious ' contending for supremacy. The busi ! ness of the district continued in this ; deplorable condition up t i the grant ing of the rule aud in a measure still coutiuues. From these reasons we conclude that a state of conditions uxsist iu the Con • yugham school district that impera ! tively calls for the removal of these ! directors from office. It is therefore ordered and decreed that the seats of Michael J. Dixon, John Muuroe, Pat rick Cain, Frank Snyder,Richard Cain and Charles Kostenbauder are hereby declared vacant; aud Dr. Thomas Kea ly, Frank Melkrantz, Thomas Terry, Frank P. Brennan, [John Payne and Martin McDonnell are hereby appoint ed school directors in place of those removed.to hold office until their suc cessors shall have been duly elected aud qualified. BY THE COURT." Pioples Bank Directors. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Peoples bank, ot this city, held Saturday afternoon tho following di rectors were elected : John Duster, John Ellis, James E. Smith. O. F. Feiris, Howard Shultz, Thomas Ben field, David Thotnas, Samuel Lowen stein aud J. H. Cole. To Prepare for Banquet. The members of Goodrich post, No. 22, G. A. R., will meet on Monday night, December 25th. to make ar rangements to celebrate aud uartake of a banquet in their hall on January 7th , at which time the nwely elected officers will be installed. One is meeting with the man or the woman with the mysterious bundle in iuoreaaiug numbers these days. SCBNE OF DISSiIB At STREET MIR The third ward in the vicinity of the armory was the scene of a good bit of disorder Saturday,in which the dis turbing element were some forty boys, who succeeded in making it miserable for Bloch and Beuzbach aud managed to elude the police, whenever the lat ter appeared, so that the ball went on merrily pretty nearly all day. Bloch & Beuzbach. who are engag ed in taking an inventory found it al most impossible to proceed with work. There was a perfect bedlam outside aud at times it seemed that a surging warfare was iu progress,tlie shout aud yells, indicating challenge and defi ance, being varied with the sound of broken glass as stones were hurled through the windows of the upper stories. Such conduct is a disgrace to any town that makes a pretense of keeping things deceut and orderly. Probably the police will fiud some way of get ting hold of the ring leaders, which will have a good effect ou the rest. Tho corner at Bloch & Beuzbach's has been a popular loafing place for a long time, but it is only within a recent period that things have become quite so bad. Corner loafing is a nuisance any where and when tolerated only for a little while it is pretty certain to de velop iuto disorder. Men who would be above any unseemly conduct on the street often fall iuto the habit of tarry ing a little too loug on the street cor- I uers and thus unconsciously become factors iu bringing about tho condi tions complained of. The only way to keep down disorder ou the streets is to keep the corners perfectly clear. It is very hard probably to draw the line between the inoflfeuding sensitive youug man aud another class in whose favor nothing can be said.but the cor ners can be kepi, clear. The sensitive well-meauing mau when told to"move j ou," ou second thought will smother J his pride aud make tha best of it, ! while the other class areeutitled to no j consideration. REST MADE EASY There Will be Less Si eplessness When Danviile People Learo This. Can't rest at night with a bad back. A lame, a weak or an aching one. Doan's Kidney Pills are for bad I backs. They cure every form of kidney ills, From common backache to diabetes. They are endorsed by Danville peo : pie. ; Levi Alleger, baker, of 102 North Spruce street, says : " I found more re j lief from the use of Doau's Kiduey | Pills than from anything I ever used for kiduey trouble. About eight years : ago I had cousiderabh lameness in my back, over the hips and a continual | aching right over the kidneys. These pains clung to me aud increased in severity if I stooped or lifted. Occas ionally sharp paius would pass through me and shoot up between my should ers, along my spiue. All this caused me considerable suffering and unfitted me for my work. I could not sleep well at night aud iu the morning would arise tired aud unrefreshed. I read about Doau' Kidney Pills curing others aud got a box. After taking them as directed I felt better aud con tinued the treatment uutil I lelt all right. I made a statement iu 189(5, in which I said that Doau's Kidney Pills had cured me. I can oulv reiterate that statement at this time. 1 always keep Doan's Kidney Pills in the house aud whenever a cold or a strain brings on a tired or weak back they never fail to remove the trouble." i-orsaleby ail dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburu Co., Buffalo, Mew Xork. sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's —aud take no other. Wall Street's Bad Condition. Wall street or that portion of it leading from the D. L. & W. railroad to the four cemeteries ou tho hill is iu a notoriousl}' bad condition and those who travel it with funerals find cause for a groat deal of complaint. That portion of Wall street was never in a worse couditiou than yes terday. The mud, it is true, is uot deep, but tho street is badly washed aud large stoues protrude from the ground, causing vehicles to jolt badly and making it difficult for the horses to drag a heavy load up the hill. The street lying as it does on a hill side should receive especial care in order to keep it in good couditiou. The principal neglect seems to lie in the gutters along side the street, which are not properly constructed, even if they are kept open, and whenever it rains the water runs down the middle of the street carrying away the mat erial of which the street is con structed and leaving the big stones ex posed. Surely none will dispute that Wall street, which is the only way of reach ing tho four cemeteries from town, is important enough to bo kept in the very best of repair. Its present condi tion is a grave reflection on the bor ough of Danville, within whose con fines the road is located. Obviously, whatever methods have been employ ed to carry off the water have failed and couucil should give the matter special attention and after fixing up the street to make travel easy should devise some method of drainage that would be effectual in carrying ofi the , water. Whatever is done should be doue immediately, as it would be too ' bad if the street should be permitted to lie in its present condition all win ter. Veteran F-orecaster Retires. Elias Hartz, the noted gooseboue weather prophet, of Reading, who lias prognosticated weather conditions for seventy years, is 92 years of ago and very feeble. Last week he was taken to the Friends' homo in Philadelphia, where he will pass the remainder of his days. The hospital for the insane is pre paring to give the patients a big time on Christmas. DRY CHRISTMAS IN COLUMBIA The allied efforts of the Sabbath ob servance association, the W. C. T. U. and the minsiterinms of Columbia county, in the form of numerous peti tions anil resolutions, have resulted in in order of the court that closes all bars in the county on Christmas day. The order was issued on Saturday and reads as follows: In the court of quarter sessions of the peace in and for the county of Columbia, now Dec ember lath., 1906, it is hereby ordered aud directed by the court that the clerk of said court of quarter sessions shall have prepared and printed a not ice to this effect: That all licensed places, hotels, restaurants and saloons for the sale of intoxicating lioours, either spiri'uous, vinous or malt, within this < ounty, shall close the bar parts of thei respective place of busi ness on Mom av night, December 24, l'JOfi, at 1-' o' lock midnight, to keep the same clot 3d until 5 o'clock Wed nesday morn ig, December 26, to the end that no files of liquor shall be made on Chr stmas day. In the event of any violat on of this order by any licensed pla e, hotel, restaurant or saloon keepei, and being brought to the attention of court, an application for license for such place for such vio lation occurred will be refused. This notice to be delivered to the several constables in the several wards, boroughs, towns and townships through out the county, and the same to be forthwith served by the said several constables upon hotel, restaurant and saloon keepers and wholesale dealers within their respective districts with out any cost to the couuty; it being part of the dutv of said officers to is sue orders ot this nature without com pensation. By the Court, (Signed) CfIAS. C. EVANS, P. J. JA 8. T. FOX, A. J. Pleasant Surprise Party. A pleasaut surprise party was tend ered to Samuel Ileimbach at his home in East Danville Thursday evening in j .honor of his 33rd birthday. I Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ileimbach, Mr. and Mrs. James Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Ever ett, Mr. and Mrs. Woodward Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. Barton Fonst, Mrs. Re becca Baylor, Mrs. David Heimbach, Mrs. .Tames Rishel, Mrs. John Crom ley, Misses Dora Morrison, Verna Mor ' rison, Laura Morrison, Mae Heim bach, Florence Everett, Elsie Everett, Hannah Morrison, Gertrude Morrison, Messrs. Kersey Foust, Ralph Baylor, George Heimbach,Raymond Morrison, Samuel Morrison. Joseph Baylor, Ray - | raond Everett and Mr. and Mrs Robert i Peunman, of Bloomsbnrg. Should Isolate Contagic n. "The money saving alone makes it ! common sense for the householder to immediately have a case of communic - i able disease properly isolated," said ■ State Health Commissioner Samuel G. , Dixon Saturday in discussing ways in I which people can protect themselves ! against disease. "If a case of scarlet fever, tor in stance, is immediately isolated in a room as remote as possible from other occupied rooms in the house," con tinued Dr. Dixon,"the chances of the j other members of the household es caping the infection are manifoldly increased. Leaving out the questiou of the parents' duty to safeguard the lives of their other children and their neighbors' children,think of the actu al economy there is in the taking of a little simple precaution at the outset. "In addition to isolating the case, there should be hung over the door of the sick room, and it requires little trouble and expense to do it, a sheet kept moist with a disinfecting solu tion. This solution may be prepared by dissolving eight bichloride of mer cury tablets in one gallon of hot wat er. It should be noted that this is poisonous. "It will be readily appreciated that | by confining the infection to one room | the expense of disinfection and destruc tion of infected articles that under I other circumstances it might seem best i to sacrifice, would be materially de- I creased. The room chosen for the cou i fiuemeut of the scarlet fever patient | will, of course, have been stripped of ! curtains and upholstery and all other | furniture not necessary for the coni | fort of the occupants. "As a money saving proposition, j therefore, don't rose a moment in ad- I equately isolating a case of scarlet ; fever, diphtheria or other communic- I able disease and keep it isolated." Hr. Cotter's Turkeys. Lawreuce Cotter, of Dorchester, | Mass.. until last summer in charge of j Castle Grove greenhouse, where his son, William Cotter, at present is in stalled as manager, will feast on Penn sylvania turkey on Christmas. Charles Lyon, at his meat market on Mill street has two fine turkeys, the pro duct of Montour county farms, dress ed and ready to ship to Mr. Cotter I One weighs 19 pounds and the other ; 22 pounds. Good Work Recognized. Ah a recognition for meritorious work O. R. Shilling, in charge of the Prudential life insurance offices in this city has received a present of a j handsome leather suit case. Today two jof the Danville staff, J. E. Pfahler \ and C. C. Fisher, will receive each a gold pin with a pieco of tlie rock of Gibraltar as a setting. These gifts are for work done dur ; ing a week of special effort in Septem ber, when the staff of the local office wrote $13,000 insurance. First Death in Forty Years. A remnrka de fact incidental to the death of Samuel DoMott, of Millville, is that his is the first death in the Millville lodge of Odd Fellows since the organization of the lodge forty years ago. Like the lodge, the deceas ed was forty years of age. fir. Hippensteel in Charge. William Hippensteel, of Fairview, has assumed charge of the puddle de partment of the Reading iron works. "OHLV HIGH RAH IN STATE'S PRISON" Griffith J. Griffith, of Los Angeles, Cal., has served iiis sentence of two years for shooting his wife and once more is a free man. Griffith J. Griffith enjoyed the distinction of being "the only rich man in State's prison," but what will interest our readers more in his checkered career is the fact that he grew to manhood in Danville, has many friends among our citizens and at least once in recent years paid our town a visit. There is scarcely a man in his early fifties who spent his boyhood in the third ward of Danville but remembers Griffith ,112. Griffith. Several of these were talking Tuesday, who were the first to meet him, when a boy of some fourteen years, he came strolling into Danville, lie was sorely in need of friendship and help and he found both of these in Danville, a fact which in later and more prosperous years lie held in grateful remembrance. Griffith's parents died when he was very young. lie was born in the coal region, in the vicinity of Pottsville, and when he came to Danville he made the journey over the mountains on foot,. The boys of the third ward on his arrival took him in hand, procured something for him to eat and furnish ed him with temporary quarters. In < this way he was brought to the atten tion of Benjamin Mowrey, a black smith whose shop was located at the corner of Mill and Chambers street. Mr. Mowrey liked the !?oy and gave him a home in his family. When lie | came here Griffith could neither read nor write, but through the kindness of i Mr. Mowrey and others he acquired a fair education in Danville. Iu early life Griffith drifted west, j Then catne the news that he had ac ■ quired wealth and had distinguished | himself among philanthropists by pre ! senting the city of Los Angles with a magnificent park of 3000 acres. Later came his visit to this city, which re sulted in the erection of a monument in the Lutheran cemetery at this place to the memory of Benjamin Mowrey, his former friend and benefactor. Next I came the story of the dark tragedy | which cast a blot upon his name, and now we have the news that he has ex piated his crime and is ready to begin life anew. The "Los Angeles Times" in dwel ling on this dark episode of Griffith J. Griffith's cafeer says: "His sentence of two years has been reduced to twenty months by the good conduct rule. He is about to change his occupation from that of laundry girl to that of capitalist. Griffith went into prison in straightened circumst ances ;he is coming out rich again. His property has been working for him while he sorted laundry in the penitentiary. "After giving his wife .$<".5,000 cash Griffith had little except the Los Feliz rancho comprising between TOO and 800 acres, now worth §IOOO per acre. Part of the rancho lies in the Fernando Valley, surrounding the 3000 acres, that compose Griffith park his gift to the city. "Griffith says he feels that his term in the penitentiary is the best thing that ever happened him,as it has brok en him of the dritik habit. "In spite of Mr. Griffith's protesta tions of reform it is said there is no prospect of a reconciliation with his wifo, from whom he is divorced. "His wife was a rich Miss Mesmer —heiress of an old Los Angeles pione er. They were married fifteen years ago. After their mariage Griffith be came a frequent tourist down the cocktail route. Two years ago the community was thunder struck to learn that he had shot his wife. "He had gone to their room at the Arcadia hotel at Santa Monica with a loaded revolver, commanding his ; wife to fall on her kuees and answer a • lot of maudlin questious. "She was too much frightened to do more tlu»u plead piteously. So he shot her. W >uuded she rushed to the win dow and threw herself to a porch, a full story below, escaping death some how. '' Holiday Shoppers Out En Hasse. People of Danville this vear decided to act upon good ad. T ice and they ac cordingly started out early to make their purchases for Christmas. Any one who observed our streets Saturday must have been keenly alive to that fact. Throughout the afternoon the stores were well filled.but it was during the evening that tiie holiday shoppers were out en masse and the clerks scarcely fouud a breathing spell. By 8 o'clock here and there along Mill street the windows revealed large gaps where at tractive articles had been sold and re moved. The windows generally were replenished in short meter by the en terprising proprietor and fresh attrac tions brought new customers. Thread- | ing their way homeward through the ! throng could be seen the satisfied pur chasers, loaded down with packages galore, among which very often were seen a diminutive wheelbarrow for the boy and doll coach, if not the doll ! itself, for the girl. Hoilday shopping will bo distribute j ed through the entire week, culminat- j ing in a rush on Saturday night, which ] iu turn will be followed with a final : wind-up on next Monday night. Danville merchants deserve credit j for the enterprise they have shown. It i can be said for them that the windows j here show up better than in any of our : neighboring towns, while the prices | are more popular. Obviously any one who leaves Danville to purchase Christmas presents elsewhere will be the loser. TO SCARE BURGLARS. The burglary scares yesterday hav wrought excitement to a high pitch, especially among the weaker sex. One lady on the south side of the river has thought of a novel scheme to rid her self of the robbers should they iuvade her premises. She intends to keep a half dozen big dynamite lire crackers in her room at night, and then if any ' mau tries to get into her house lie ' will have to undergo a regular spread eagle, Fourth of July fuailade. DECISION THAT AFFECTS DANVILLE A decision has been handed down by 1 the supreme court of the United States that in its principle.affects a case now pending in this county, between the borough of Danville and the D. L. & W. railway, as well a every municip ality in the country where a railroad operates. The railroad commissioners of the State of Mississippi undertook to com pel the Illinois Central to stop certain through trains at the town of Magno lia, which has about 1200 inhabitants. The court held that the railroad com mission hail not the power to disrupt the schedules of the railroad and thus prevent the railroad from complying with the contract for the expeditious movement of the United States mails. The principle involved Is of import ance because it discloses one of the means that the D. L. & W. may use to justify the ignoring of the Danville borough ordiance. A State court has also taken a sim ilar view in a recent decision, which was handed down before the United States supreme court passed upon the subject. Iu Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, the court of common pleas, has hold that the borough of Suterville had no right to enforce an ordinance restricting the speed of a through train to ten miles an hour within the borough. Interference with carrying the United States mails be ing one of the grounds on which the opinion is based. Funeral of William Taylor. The funeral of the late William Tay lor, whose death occurred on Wednes day, took palce Saturday forenoon from the residence of Henry Vincent, Esq., son-in-law of the deceased, Valley township. The obsequies were very largely attended,the officiating clergy man bieng Rev. Zimmerman of Potts grove. The pall bearers were six grandsons of the deceased, Victor, Robert aud Walter Vincent, William Taylor, Ern est aud George Bower. Interment was made in Odd Fellows' cemetery, this city. The following persons from out of town atteuded the funeral: Mrs. Mary A. Davis, sister of the deceased, of Springfield, O. ; Mr. and Mrs. Nath aniel Taylor, William Taylor,of Phil adelphia; Rev. Samuel Bower, of Pittsburg ; Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus S. Vincent,of Mifflintown ; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vincent, of Denliolmn; and Robert Vincent, of Clearfield. First Pay Since Shut Down. The employes of the Reading Iron works on Saturday received their first pay since the shut-down, last June. The pay represented nine turns and while less than the usual full two weeks' pay,along with what was paid out at the other plants, it brought about something like a return of the very good times of the past, when all our industries were booming. The next pay at the Reading Iron works will not be until the Saturday before New Year's, which will be for two weeks aud will therefore be larg er than the last pay. The employes of the other plants that have been run ning steadily will be better suited as relates to Christmas money. But very little time was lost during those weeks, the pay for which comes due just before Christmas, and at most of the plants that pay next Saturday the amount of money paid out will reach the maximum. MILTON'S WAY. The borough council of Milton has ordered the assessment lists to be pub lished in the town papers, and the Milton Evening Standard,commenting on this action, says: "There is no public matter iu which all the citi zens of a community are so generally interested as the valuations of real estate, which forms the basis of taxa tion. The greater interest the public takes in the affairs of the town the better !ts government is. The publica tion of the assessment lists every three years will get the average citizen in terested in the valuation of property, j just as the publication of the audit or's report interests him in the town's finances or the council proceedings keeps him posted ou borough legisla tion. Comparisons tend to make better assessments and publicity helps secure more equal ratings between wards or districts, aud militate against favor itsm by assesors." The 112 ortunate Small Boy. Though the wreck at Halifax on Sat ! urday brought dismay to the officials |of the Pennsylvania Railroad com ! panv.it brought only joy to the hearts | of the youth of Halifax. Iu the wreck ; cd train one of the cars was loaded | with sugar aud tons of sweetness were scattered over the tracks and on the J bank. Two cars had Christmas toys and candy and very little of this freight escaped damage. Great quan tities of the sweetmeats were left where they fell as being unmarketable even as damaged goods The small boy j reaped a rich harvest and on Christ j mas morning he will not have to looK j to his stocking for his annual supply ! ! of candy. j ' BURGLAR ALARM CLOCK. A burglar entered the residence of j i Frank Willis, in Norristown, early on ! Sunday morning, by forcing open a window and gathered a lot of silver ware in the dining room which he had placed iu a bag. While groping about for more booty he stumbled against an j old-fashioned clock in tho hall and \ upset it. The crash awakened the j members of tho household and the I thief lied without taking anything ! with him. Will lake Holy Orders. Harmon Lorah, formerly of Dan ville,after a visit with friends iu this city, left Saturday for Blue Ridge Summit, this State, where, as a lay I reader, he will have charge of the ser- ! vices in St. John's Episcopal church, during the illness of the rector. Mr. Lorah expects to take holy orders iu I the near future. JURYMEN ARE BEING NOTIFIED Sheriff George Maiers is sending out ; notices to the citizens of the county who have been drawn as mrors 10 serve at the next term of court, which will convene on January J4th. The hour of meet Jug, 10 a. m., is definitely stated hut the sheriff is won dering whether a few of the jurors will not be tempted to presume upon the court's clemency am! in order to suit their convenience delay their ar rival into town until a later hour. All such, the sheriff thinks, should take warning from Judge Evans' action in Columbia county, where at last court all jurors not present when the roll was called were fined one day's pay. It is not. clear to some people why we have court both in January and in February. This is accounted for by tie fact that the coming court up to the present year was always held in 112) • - ember. It generally conflicted with the holiday festivities and for this reason the court last year, in response to a petition, made an order changing it as above described. Several important cases will come up for trial at the next term, which, it is believed, will clean up things pretty well and probably leave no business for the February term. A very important and interesting case that will come up for trial will be that of Clarence Carr the boy who is accused of pushing little George Fausnaught into the old soaking pit at the Bessemer steel plant and of thereby causing his death. Clarence has been in jail since the 19th of July last and is a general favorite not only with the prisoners but also with the sheriff's family. He is a beautiful singer and his sweet and childish tones beguile many an hoar about the gloomy prison,which otherwise would hang very heavily on the hands of those incarcerated. The case of Tate, alias Ethworth, aud Dunmoyer.fake horse dealers, who attempted to defraud M. H Youghtout of a horse, as well as the case of Wil liam E. Peusyl, who is held in con nection with the same affair, will al so come up for triul at the next term of court. This cise daring the last few days has assumed n new interest by reason of the serious illness of Tate, who was taken down with grippe It was necessary to oil two physicians to the jail. Confinement sets v >rv hard on the man Richard McCnmick wo is charg ed with impersonating M n < tflcar <_Vo , is also in jail an I will h ■ trie! .it the next term of court. Peter Dietrich, sentence! t.> the penitentiary,who.-e case was appealed, pending action by the supreme court, is still in the county prison. It was just ten months Friday since Diet rick stepped over the threshold of the county jail on the night of the tragedy in which James A. Jones lost his life. TO OURE A COLD Iff ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE S sigua ture is on each box. 25 cents. IN HOUSE AND SENATE. The republicans of the house of rep resentatives at Harrisbnrg will hold their caucus for the nomination of a speaker on the eveuing of December 81. It is understood pretty generally that Frauk B. McClain. of Lancaster, will be the speaker, and that Clerk Garvin will be re elected. Resident Clerk Johnson wiil likewise be re elected. In the senate it is said that President pro tem. Woods, of West moreland county, wiil be re-elected; also that Chief Clerk .Tudd will suc ceed himself. The usual vacati mof two weeks will be rut down to five days, owing to the desire of the re publicans to pass proper amendments to the uniform primary act. Bill to Pension Old Teachers. Details of the bill to pension public schools teachers in Pennsylvania who have served 30 years, twenty in this State, were made public last week by Frederick E. Downee, superintendent of the Harrisburg schools, a member of the committee appointed bv the State teachers' association to take charge of the movement. This bill will be preieuted in the next legislature, aud a special effort will be made by the committee to ob tain its passage early in the session. The measure provides that teachers, principals, supervisors aud superin tendents of public schools who have served not less than thirty y«ars,twen ty in Pennsylvania, may be retired with an annuity equal to one half the average salary receiveJ in the five years in Pennsylvania preceding re tirement The annuity shall not be less than S3OO nor more than |6OO. The board by which the applicant is employed shall certify the length of service to the superintendent of pub lic instruction. If a penisouer be re employed, the annuity shall cease, to be restored when the re-employment ceases. The bill provides further that all annuities he paid out by the State j treasury warrant drawn by the super intendent of public instruction, who i is directed to set apart out of the gen ' eral school appropriation a sum suffici I ent to carry out the provisions of the i act, A census is now beiug made of the teachers who will be affected by the proposed act. DON'T GET SUSPICIOUS. Here is a suggestion by the "Here and There" man of the Johnstown Tribune that some Danville husbands I should cut out and paste where they | will see it once or twice a day: "If your wife asks you for or $lO about this time of year, and refuses to tell you what use she proposes to make of it, don't be too suspicious. She is go ing to buy you a nice Christmas pre sent that you won't have any use for." A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protrud ing Piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure in 6to 14 days. 60 cents. The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths, There Is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep- I Z ' ij. ! | * live. Many sudden Vs ' L ~r J> deaths are caused by il heart disease, Sr)r Pneumonia. heart All failure or apoplexy I Y \ pare often the result ' 'N \ yo °' disease. If / \)]^3Q' (I kidney trouble is al i„\ A L lowed to advance the • T Lj Ki. kidney-poisoned blood will attack the vital organs or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles most always result from a derangement of the kidneys and a cure is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kidneys. If you are feeling badly you can make no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It corrects inability to hold urine and scald ing pain in passing it, and overcomes tha' unpiear.ant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realised. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Roct is pleasant to take and sola by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sized bottles. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful new dis covery and a book that tells all about it, both Home of Swamp-Root, sent free by mail. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remem ber the name. Swanp-Root, Dr. Kil mer's Swamp-Root, and the addres Binghamton. ft.Y.. on ever? bottles. Jurors for January Term. GRAND JURORS. Anthony township—George O. Bar thlow, Morris N. James, Lew is Martin. Danville, First ward—John L. Camp bell, Charles Lotier, William A. Reed, George S. Maiers; Second ward- James Brosius, Jacob Bover, Newton Fursel; Third warJ—Arthur Mowrey, Jacob Doster, Joseph Schmidt; Fourth ward—Bernard Shevlin. Liberty township—J. D. Cotuer. Mahoning township—Frank Gering er, S. B. Kojher, William Hickey, Ralph Ritter. Mayberry township—William Getty. Valley township—Thomas R. Rog ers, Eltner E. Renn. West Hemlock township— 0. J. Deightmiller, Walter Shultz. TRAVERSE JUROR 3. Anthony township—J. S. Denneu, David A CJX, Daniel Albeck, John H. Kuhns. Conner township—Wellington Hart man. C. I). Garrison. Danville First ward—Harry Ellen bogeu. Jesse Jvlase, Robert Adams, Wiliia'u G. Turner, Harry Rupp, Eu gen- Miles. Charles Ilaag, Charles G. Cload, Johu H. Gernet,lsaac Hoffmau, Joseph 1.. Frame, John R. Miller, W. B. Startzel. Second ward Jacob Diotz, Harry Camp, Grant Fenster macher. Third ward—George Tilson, A. L. Voris, Michael Rielly, Samuel Motteru, Harry Fields, Joseph Divel. Fourth ward—Fred Buchenberger. Fred Ploch. Derry township—Charles Hileman, John Ashenfelder, George P. Cotuer. Liberty township—Jesse Umstead, W. C Bobbins, Joseph Hageubuch, John Colemau, J. E. Geringer, Jona than Stahl. Limestone township—Peter D. Werk heiser. Muhoaing township—C. C. Mover, Elijah B°ll, Michael Breckbill. Valley township—William Gething, B. C P. Gearhart. Washingtonville—A. L. Heddens, Charles W. !>err. West Hemlock township—James H. Geisor. Peddler Didn't Need License. The supreme court of the United States Monday reversed the decision of the superior court of Pennsylvania in the case of N. L. Rearick against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ! involving an ordinance of the town of Sunbury, requiring canvassers for the I sale of merchandise to take out a li* j cense. j Rearick was a representative of an Ohio broom manufacturer,and was ar rested and fined £25 for the violation jof the State regulations. The higher ; State courts upheld the proceeding, but Monday's action over ruled it ou the ground that Rearick was engaged i in interstate commerce which was not within the jurisdiction cf State auth orities. "The brooms," said Justice Holmes, who delivered the opinion "were specifically appropriated to specific contracts, in a practical if not in a technical seuse. Under such circumst ances it is plain that wherever might have been their title the trausport of the brooms for the filling the con tracts was protected commerce." Hunter Will Attend Meeting. State Highway Commissioner Joseph W. Hunter will attend the meeting of the Columbia county supervisors to be held at Bloomsburg ou Thursday, at which time the State highway laws will be talked over, and Commissioner Hunter will explain many points ou which the supervisors have uot a clear understanding. ■—■—Ml l II ■ IWPOII EAA— For Dandruff There is one thing that will cure it Ayer's Hair Vigor. It is a regular scalp-medicine. It quickly destroys the germs which cause this disease. The unhealthy scalp becomes healthy. The dandruff disap pears, had to disappear. A healthy scalp meansagreatdeal to you—healthy hair, no dan druff, no pimples,no eruptions. The best kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years." A Mftde by J. C. Ayer Co , Lowell, Mm. 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