Tffontour American. FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., June 6 !907. PROBERS FINISH BNULY IST Commission Determined Not to Make Public Its Report—Wonld Warn Gratters. HARRISBURG, .Tune 5. The legislative probers engaged in getting to the bottom of the graft in connection with the building of the new capitol resumed their sessions in the senate caucus room this morning, and propose to keep up the work every day this week. TO FINISH BY JULY 1. It is said that the commission ex pects to make a finish by .Tuly 1 and put their report in the governor's hands, leaving it for liim and Attor ney General Todd to act in the matter of commencing prosecutions against those who have profited illegally in "trimming" the capitol. That there will be prosecutions goes without say ing. The members of the commission, the attorneys connected with the in vestigation and high State officials all say that there is but one thing to do and that is to begin criminal suit against the grafters not only to punish them for their rascality, but also to recover for the State some of the cash that was grabbed in such large quant ities. WILL NOT WARN GRAFTERB. The commission is determined not to make public the report of the audit ors on the ground that it contains matter of such a character that the men who are to be proceeded against might be given a cue as to what the evidence will be and take steps to counteract it, if possible. It is said that the probers will place their report in the Governor's hands as soon as possible so that suits can be brought before the statute of limita tions expires. A story was current to day that Senator Penrose will insist that the platform to be adopted by the Republican State convention tomorrow shall denounce the grafters in strong terms. NEKS ITEMS FROM ROUND THE STATE Jeremiah Lynn.niailiug clerk in the Allentown postoffice, lias served in that position continuously for twenty two years. John Donegan was on Monday night elected treasurer of the Bethlehem school board for the twenty-fifth con secutive time. The supreme court has sustained the city councils of Wilkes-Barre in its appropriation of £5,000 for celebrating the city's centennial anniversary. John Bishop, of Harrisburg, aged 68 years, who has been obliged to wear glasses for thirty years, has regained what is known as second sight so that he lias no need for glasses. While two high school pupils of Oil City were rowing on the Allegheny river on Monday their boat struck a submerged wreck, They were pitched out and Georgo Swanson, aged 18 years, was drowned. The Harsvood Electric Power com pany of Hazletou, charted by the Par dee interests, proposes to issne bonds to the amount, of $2,000,000 for the ex tension of its business, the object be ing to furnisii light and power over a circuit of about twenty-five miles about Hazleton. After litigation extending over sev eral years the supreme court has decid ed that the great power plant of the York Haven Power company is in Lancaster and not in York county The plant is located in *he bed of the Susquehanna river and is worth con siderably over a million dollars,yield ing a county tax of about $1,500. On Saturday morning the sexton of the United Bretheru church at Red Lion, York county, found that there was no draft wheu he went to start a fire in the church furnace. An ex amination showed that the pipe was filled with sparrows and he took out U4O dead birds, which had sought re fuge there from the cold and rain. MAIL ACCOHPANIED THUNDERSTORH V very severe storm passed over this section about one o'clock yesterday af ternoon and in several places it was accompanied by hail. However, the latter did very little damage to the fruit as it. only kept up a fesv min utes. In the northern end of the county the hail was the most severe while in this town although it rained quite bard there was but little hail. .|ln the population of New York city there aro 780,0(H) persons of German parentage, 735,000 of Irish, 250,000 of .Russian and 228,000 of Italian. DANVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT REPORT Annual Statement ol Receipts and Ex penditures lor Year Ending Jane t, 1907. Annual Report for the year ending on the first Monday in .Tune, 1907. Whole number of schools ... 30 Average number of months taught 9 Number of male teachers em ployed 4 Number of female teachers employed 26 Average salaries of males per month 181.25 Average salaries of females per month 48.65 Number male pupils attend ing all the schools. .... 609 Number of female pupils at tending ail the sohools 663 Whole number of pupils in attendance 1272 Average daily attendance of pupils. 1066 Average percentage of at tendance 92 Cost of each pupil per month. $1.73 Mills levied for school pur poses 6}£ Mills levied for building purposes 0)^ Amount levied for school purposes $16,452.93 Amount levied for building purposes 1,115.84 Total amount levied.. $17,568.77 RECEIPTS. Balance on hand from last year $992.69 State appropriation for the year 6,038.77 From Tax Receiver—taxes . 16,204.07 From County Treas'r.—Un seated lands 14.10 From all other sources—tui tions, fines, &c. 1,315.99 Total Receipts $24,565.62 EXPENDITURES. Repairs, etc $1,381.75 Teachers' Wages 14,473.00 Amount paid Teachers for at tending Institute. . 280.00 School text-books.. 952.88 School supplies, other than text-books .. 894.24 Fuel and Contingencies .. 1,555.68 Amount paid janitors , ... 1.322.50 Debt aud Interest paid.. 1,395.00 Salary of Solicitor 50.00 Salary of Secretary .. 200.00 Fees of Treasurer 232.90 Fees of Tax Receiver... 488.45 Other expenses 297.30 Total Expenditures .. $23,523.70 Balance on hand $1,041.92 RESOURCES. Balance on hand 1.041.92 Amount due district from all sources 2,348.57 Value of school property— real and personal 100,000.00 Total resources.... $103,390 49 LIABILITIES. Amount borrowed—debt of district 11,000.00 Resources in excess of liabil ities $92,390.49 Witness our bauds this 3rd day of June, 1907. WM. J. BURNS. President. W. H. ORTH, Sen'y. The Traveler's Tree Myth. Among the romantic stories of far off lands that have long maintained their circulation and commanded more or less belief is that of the "traveler's tree," credited with possessing a reser voir of pure water fitted to ii»ve the lives of wanderers in the desert O. F. Scott Elliot declares from his own ex perience that the tree grows only In the neighborhood of swamps or springs and that, although it has a considera ble amount of water in a hollow at the base of its leaf, the water possess es a disagreeable vegetable taste and of course is inferior to other water to be found in the vicinity.—Youth's Com panion. Calmness In Emergency. An eminent doctor, lecturing to a school of nurses upon the necessity of self control in emergencies, told the following Incident: "One of his pa tients while in a low. nervous condi tion swallowed by mistake a dose from the wrong bottle. She shrieked out that she was poisoned. One of the nurses screamed 'Aconite!' and began to cry hysterically. The other nurse, seeing that the patient was going intc. convulsions from terror, wheu relief would be impossible, said coolly: "Don't be frightened. Look here.' taking a mouthful of the dose herself. She then went outside to rid her mouth of it procured an emetic and sent for a doctor and a stomach pump. Her calmness saved the life of the patient." One View of It. "I won't marry him, mother, even if be Is a count. All he wants me for is my money, and he's a big fool!" "Hush, my dear. He'd be a bigger fool to want you without a cent!"— "ft'ashington Herald. A Sad Case. A Chicago physician was one day called to attend a sick child in a "shabby genteel" quarter of the Windy City. "Madam," said the doctor to the mother, "you should send Hfe child Into the country for several weeks each summer." "I am sorry to say, refore his death his friend, John Leech, the cartoonist, call ed upon him and found him In his study writing writing and sighing at the monotony of his work. "Why don't you have a holiday." said I**ech, "and take your girls to the sea side?" The great novelist made no verbal answer, but, rising slowly, plunged his hands to tlie very bottom of his pock ets, brought these receptacles out, shook them vigorously without eliciting a rattle of coin, replaced them and then resumed his seat. Strength of the Condor. The enormous strength of the condor is only equaled by his voracity aud boldness. This Immense bird often pounces upon small animals, but from the shape and bluntness of his claws he is unable to. carry anything very heavy, so he contents himself with fixing it agaiust the ground with one of his claws, while with the other and his powerful beak he rends it to pieces. Gorged wit! food, the bird then be comes incapable of flight and may l>e approached, but any attempt at cap ture is furiously resisted. Cure For a "Nagging" Woman. Having advertised as a widower in search of wife No. 1!, a man of St. Gall, Switzerland, showed the fifty re plies and photographs which he liad received to his wife, and, stating that If she did not waut him there were others who did, he effectively cured her of her "nagging" habits.- Petit Parisien. He Read the Signs. "And now. little boys," said the pret ty Sunday school teacher, "we have seen that it is ordained that every hu man being must si*e •ay come to his death. And what comes at'Ur dying?" "Cleaning and pressing," yelped a boy who was familiar with window signs.—Chicago News. Influence of Scotchwomen. It is not surprising to find flint those qualities—intellect, grit and strenuous endeavor- lluil have brought tbe man hood of Sedßand to the front should also be a marked characteristic of Scotchwoman. Englishwoman's Re view. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we can not liear • provoking word—Hannah More. 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And yet, such are the strange freaks in which nature indulges, this mean and selfish Intriguer was endowed with perfect courage, with an irresistible charm of manner, with a temper which even his wife failed to disturb, with a brain that no sophistry could obscure and wilh a military genius liefore which criticism is humbly silent. lie was treacherous even in a treach erous age. Wholly devoid of cruelty and by nature humane, lie is said nev er to have sacrificed an unnecessary life. He used his fellow creatures for his own purposes, and when he had no further use for them he forgot their existence. He made his plans and carried them out with the absolute effi ciency of sheer Intelligence and the serene implacability of impersonal fate. THE SULTAN'S SCREEN. It Is Made of Tanned Human Skin Elaborately Decorated. There is a story told of a famous and curious screen which occupies a promi nent place In the menage of the sultan of Turkey. It is made, so rumor hath It, of human skin, perfectly tanned and elaborately tooled and embossed, aud it has been in the royal quarters for more than two centuries. This remark able screen is not an evidence of cru elty or barbarity on the part of Tur key's ruler 200 years ago, but is a memorial to twelve faithful servants of a former sultan. At one time dur ing the sultan's reign 200 years ago a wing of the palace caught tire, and during the conflagration a much loved member of the sultan's family was res cued by twelve servants. The twelve servants perished, some of theni dying later of their wounds and burns, so ids majesty had t! ir skins removed by an expert and !: I them preserved In this touching iliough remarkable manner. The screen Is now looked up on as a part of the ruler's inheritance, and it is said th it every sultan cher ishes It almost n < lie would his own royal skin.—New York Herald. THE AGE OF FISHES. Both Ear Stones and Scales Carry ths Annual Tally. It has been found by Ichthyologists that the age of a fish may be read front Its scales. These Increase In size by annular growths, two rings being form ed each year. The "otoliths" or ear stones, which lie in two sacs ou either side of the base of the cranial cavity, afford another means of determination. Like the scales, the otoliths Increase by two rings annually. Each spring that is, from February to June—a white ring is formed, and each autumn—that Is, from July to October—a black one. Thus the number of either white or black rings in an otolith gives the age of the ARII in years. In the case of flatfish the latter method has been found more reliable, whereas in the case of the cod the scales give a bet ter result. Although varying much in size and shape in different species, the otoliths show a remarkable constancy In the same species; hence they are of considerable value in the diagnosis of a species.—London Globe. A Lesson In Philanthropy. A whole souled resident of Ilarlem the other evening received the jolt of his career as a parent. While reading his evening paper the doorbell rang, and a parcel from a lilg department store was announced. The cost was cents, and he gave his little bright eyes, a girl of six, a two dollar bill with which to pay the boy. Half an hour later the subject re curred to htm. "Here, Mabel," he said. "Where's that money 1 gave you for the boy?" "Why, papa." was little bright eyes' reply, "1 did the same as you did yes terday with the newsboy. 1 told him to keep the change."—New York Globe. Belgium Shopkeepers. Belgium shopkeepers generally are dealers in miscellaneous goods. One man In a small way, for Instance, sells beer, foreign stamps, fridt, cotton, bis cuits, penknives, cheese and second hand hair. Everywhere one finds a mania for glaring lights. One evening when I was out 1 saw a tremendous light In the distance, and I thought It must surely be an advertisement for a music hall. When I got nearer, I found that the light merely conveyed the in telligence that sardines were sold on the premises. One Drawback. "It's a good idea to have something Slid by for a rainy day." "Yep," answered Peter Corntossei; "only that kind o' cub is a good deal like a reg'lar umbreil'. Some other fel ler is liable to walk off with it jes' as the shower starts."—Washington Star. Serious Business. Gladys— I am going to buy an auto mobile. and I want you togo along and help me select one. Cousin Jack— Not for me, little girl. Why, I even wouldn't pick you out a husband.— Puck. He Did Not Need It. Buskin—l can't goon. I haven't any makeup. Manager—What are you play lug tonight? Buskin The fool In-- Mauager -Go right on. Never mind the makeup. The Word "roller/* "Cutler," according to Its present use, should mean a man who makes things that cut, but really it has no more to do with "cut" than "cutlass" and "cut let" have, which Is just nothing at all. "Cut" has some Teutonic origin, but "cutler" comes through French from the late Latin "cultellarius," which meant either a soldier armed with a knife or a knifemaker, and "cultellns," a little knife, was the diminutive of "culter," which, among other things, meant a plowshare or "coulter." "Cut lass" comes from the same source and "cutlet" Is "cotelette," a little rU>. BRAIN AND BULLET. What Happens When the Skull Is Pierced by a Shot. The results of firing a bullet at a flat brittle bone ami into a soft sub- Btance like the brain are very different. The bone Is pierced, unci tlie lateral dis placement of Its particles is very slight, but the brain Is thrown aside In all di rections. The difference Is due to the different degree of c ihesiveness of the particles composing the t wo bodies or. In other words, to the greater fluidity of the softer structure. Next, the Importance of fluid con tents in Intensifying the effdfcts of a bullet fired through a closed recepta i'le is shown by one of Kocher's experi ments. Two identical tin canisters were filled with equal quantities of lint, which in one was dry and In the uiber saturated with water. A bullet of moderate velocity fired through tliem simply perforated the dry one, but caused the wet one to burst explosively. Koclier also filed a skull with water and found that a bullet fired through it caused bursting of the sutures. Very remarkable is the shattering that results when skulls flint have been filled with water or with wax are treated In this way, and if they are compared with others showing the ef fects of bullet wounds under normal conditions it Is easy to appreciate that the variations presented are depend ent, in part at least, upon the differ ence in the character of the contents.— Current literature. SPONGE FISHERS. The Greek Girl Divers of the Island of Himla. "We were cruising in the Mediter ranean In the late full," sulil u globe trotter, "un cers, they leaped overboard and In the sea's dim green depths tugged, at the black sponge growths. "The captain said the Hlmla girls were not permitted to marry till they had brought a certain quantity of sponges from a certain specified depth."— New York Press. Queer Chinese Belief. It is a common belief among China men that if one commits any crime against certain animals —cats, for ex ample—the soul of that animal will take possession of the wrongdoer until the offense has been purged. A serv ant girl, according to the oriental tale, unmindful of tradition, put to death a cat and its three kittens. She was taken violently 111. Her mistress, sus pecting the cause from the fact that the maid was scratching and mewing, apostrophized the body of the dead cat, demanding to know why It thus tormented the girl. The spirit of the cat, speaking by way of the girl's mouth, denounced the quadruple mur der. The whole stun,- was told by the girl in the character of the cat. Then she expired in violent convulsions. Elephants Can Carry a Grudge. A Hindoo mahout was employed with a working elepiiant in Hungkok, Kiam, and frequently used a steel goud in de- Dance of all warnings. The result was that his elephant made frequent at tempts to kill liitn, and finally the man was discharged. Nearly four years afterward, by a niost_remarkable coin cldence, both elephant and mahout met again In Muulmalu, Burma, and no sooner was the big tusker out of sight of the sawmill and well Into the forest than he curled bis trunk up backward, seized his old persecutor by the neck, hurled him to the ground, and in an instant a mighty forefoot had crushed out his life. Bewitched. Morrison, an English traveler of the seventeenth century, while at Dantzic, Prussia, says lie "saw a mill which, without the help of human hands, did saw boards. It had a great iron wheel, which did not only drive the saw, but which did also book in and turn the logs onto the saw." Dr. John Dee must have seen a similar mill at Prague. Of it be says,"l saw me a mill at Prague of which I verily be lieve the devil himself was master." The Result. Magistrate—What! Do you mean to say your husband struck you and he that physical wreck? Mrs. Moloney— Yes, yer honor, but he's only been a physical wreck since he struck me. Specimens. Mrs. N'ewedde —Certainly, you may take some of those biscuits to your friend. Is he hungry too? Weary— No, mum; he's a geologist!— New Or leans Picayune. Mathematics. Mother—Jean, give half of your apple to your little sister. Remember that a pleasure shared Is doubled. Jean—Yes, mother, but an apple shared Is halved. —Nos Lolslrs. Winsdcr Hotel 1: 11 Sis. on Filbert, h>t Philadelphia, Pa. Three minutes walk from the Read ing Terminal. Fiveniinnt.es walk from the Penna. K. K. Depot. EUROPEAN PLAN 11.00 tier day and upwards. AMERICAN PLAN $2.00 per day. REAL COUNTRY LIFE. Why the American Farmer Grows Old Early In Life. Any one w! o has lived on a farm does not need to be told the reason fnrmers grow old early, for he knows of the strain under which the Ameri can farmer lives during the five months of spring and summer. His workday is from 4 or 5 in the morning until 8 or !) nt night. Including chorea fifteen to seventeen hours of the hard est kind of physical labor, and every minute of It nt high tension, especially during harvest. Then comes a period of relaxation in the fall, the one time In the year when he lias Just enough muscular exercise to keep him In health; later, the winter season, ap proaching stagnation, in which h« takes on flesh, gets "logv," and then a furious debauch of hard labor through the spring and summer again. No wonder that fy forty-five he lias had a sunstroke and "can't stand the heat," or has "a weak back." or Ms "hen* gives out." or a chill "makes him rheti matlc," and when you add to this fu rious muscular strain the fact that the farmer sees his Income putin peril every season and his very home every bad year, so that each unfavorable change in the weather sets his nerves on edge. It can be readily imagined that the real "quiet, peaceful country life" is something sadly different from the ideal.—Woods Hutchinson, M. D. in narper's. The Fly Fixed the Date. Often it is the little things which bring the great results where :nysten ts deepest. When commentators on the works of Robert Louis Stevenson were busiest they came across a manuscript whose place of birth they could not de termine. There was a crushed fly up#n one of the pages. An entomologist found that tho fly was a specimen pe culiar to the Polynesian Islands. Sqp reason had written the notes In Samoa Dickens' Interest In !nns. 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Notice is hereby duly given that I letters of administration have been granted upon the ab'ive estate to the ' undersigned. All persons indebted to the said estate are required to make immediate payment, and those having claims or demands against the said estate will make known the same without delay ! to JONATHAN SWEISFORT, Administrator of Mary Kearus, dee'd :P. O. Address Danville, Pa.