Montour American.
FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor.
Danville, Pa., Nov. 28, 1907.
D'-fi i« an Ideal Furmer,
Secretaiy of Agriculture Wilsou'has
been asked to define his idea of the
•ssentials of the successful farmer,
and in auswer he has set down these
specifications:
He keeps improved stock that re
spond to their keeping aud that put on
the greatest per ceut. of meat on the
prime pnrts.
He puis all mauure promptly on the
fields.
He rotates his crops.
He tile-rlraius his lauds.
He keeps up good fences.
He has good pastures.
He has a good gardeu.
He breeds draft horses and does farm
work with brood mares aud growing
colts.
He has a library with periodicals
and standard works, aud a musical in
strument.
He helps his wife iu the house when
she needs it, has a spring vehicle for
her to visit in and drives her to church
himself.
He keeps dairy cows or mutton
sheep, or both.
Ot coarse, the Secretary has been
compelled iu this general summary of
the ideal farmer to avoid the consider
ation of strictly local conditions
which might impair the application
of some of the specifications, but in
the main it will probably be admitted
that he has painted a fairly accurate
composite pioture of the successful
tiller of the soil today.
The idea that modern methods have
no place on the farm is being rapidly
dispelled, and as a result the noble
calling of agriculture is being restor
ed to its old-time position of honor
amoug men.
For this restoration the well direct
ed efforts of the National Department
of Agriculture and such State depart
ments as that of Pennsylvania are
largely responsible, through their sys
tematic campaigns of observation and
education.
Are a Husband's Pockets Sacred?
There are many and varied excuses
for the granting of divorces, but the
latest reason for the separation of hus
band aud wife was given in a case re
ported in Massachusetts. Ic.this case
the wife persisted ingoing through
the pockets of her husband at night
when tha poor man was sleeping the
sleep of the just. When morning came
the husband discovered his loss aud
remonstrated with his wife but to no
avail. The nightly plunder of the
trousers' pocket of the slumbering
man continued until patience ceased
to be a virtue and he sought relief
from the divorce court.
Wives all over the country should
take heed of the court's decision that
the pockets of a husband are sacred in
the eyes of the law. The desire of wo
men to investigate things with which
they have no right to meddle has caus
ed a great deal of trouble iu this world
and the woman who has curiosity
enough to try to find out if her hus
band dropped all his change at the
poker game of the previous evening is
likely to get into trouble, if other
courts should follow "the example of
the Massachusetts tribunal.
Wives should let their husbands'
pockets alone, aud if they are injneed
of mouey they should use some less
crimiual manner of securing it.
Some Ideas of Happiness,
Different men have different, con
ceptions of happiness. Some look up
on life from a purely physical stand
point. They magnify the body at the
expense of the intellect and spirit
Their conception of perfect happiness
is physical enjoyment. Something good
to eat and to drink, boon companions
of both sexes, pleasant surroundings
immunity for the time being from
cares or worriment, this is their idea
of supreme happiness. But it is a con
ception which will not wear. Ap
petite will pall, the body will refuse
to respond to the appeals of theseuses,
one's boon companions, the friends of
an hour, will presently tire and seek
other scenes, the pains and aches which
are accompaniments of age when
youth has been misspent,at last arrive
and remain, unwelcome guests until
the final scene.
Others find their most exquisite de
light in intellectual pursuits. They
covet familiarity with the words of
the wise and the good of all time.
They make their library their favorite
room. They eagerly seek the com
pany of the choice spirits wh.o have
embalmed the best part of themselves
in immortal books. Qive them access
to such friends the clouds may
gather, the winds may blow,the storms
may beat upon the dwelling, but they
are oblivious to everything except the
high comrades who are with them.
They feel like thanking God every day
for the invention of the art of print
ing. By its aid they are enabled to
live with the noble and the wise of
every age, secluding themselves from
the vicissitudes and the troubles of
life and accumulating witli eaoli pass
ing week more and more of the wis
dom which they esteem the choicest
gift of fortune.
Otliersjtake great delight in cultiv
ating the spiritual nature. Like the
great Hebrew of old tliev eudure as
seeing him that is invisible. Like the
grim but goodly Puritaus who establ
ished the foundations of our republic
they feel strongly that the only real
things are those "which pertain to the
spiritual life. They may be looked
upon as fmfatics and lunatics,but they
go through life calmly and joyously,
feeling that they have accqnireda herit
age which will remain long after the
universe has been resolved into its
original chaos.
READING SEWAGE
FILTER PLANT
A sewage filtration plant, the kind
1 that the State has in view to prevent
river pollution at this place and at
the hospital for the insane has been
installed at Reading and is ready to
go into commission. It is expected to
be a model for all other towns whose
sewage is emptied into rivers or oilier
streams.
The device, which is of a typekuowu
as a "sprinkling filter** is the first to
be placed in actual service in this
country. The method of purification
adopted consists in general of the fol
lowing process: After a preliminary
screening which is made unusually
thorough to remove the fibrous materi
al contributed to the sewage by cer
tain local manufactures, the sewage is
pumped to a septic tauk ' on the other
side of the Schuylkill, BBOOfeet away,
and which is at sufficient elevation to
permit all further flow to and through
the succeding elements of the plant
to the sprinkling filters, which are
located on Fritz's Island, lying in the
river about 2500 feet away. From the
sprinkling filter the effluent passes to
the-sedimeutation basin and from this
is discharged pure and sparkling, into
the river.
The majority of disposal plants, and
probably all which pump the sewage,
screen the larger floating matter there
from, as a preliminary to further
treatment. Most of these,however, re
move only such matter as would be
caught by a screen of from one-half
to one-inch mesh. In the Reading
plant a rotary screen, called by the
contractor a "segregator," is used.
This consists of a cylindrical screen
open at both ends, which continually
revolves around a horizontal axta at
the rate of three revolutions a minute.
The sewage passes through the open
ings of the screen and drops into a
well below, the supsended matter be
ing retained on the inside of the
screen.
The forty-inch mesh is expected to
catch a very large part of the suspend
ed impurities in the sewage and would
undoubtedly clog up very rapidly if
no provision were made for keeping
it clean. To effect this, a three-inch
horizontal pipe is suspended on each
side of the screen, outside of aud a
few inches from the same, parallel to
its axis and about 45 degrees above the
horizontal plane above it.
Each of these pipes is pierced at five
poiuts space at ten-inch intervals,
from which jets of water, steam or
air are to be driven against the out
side surface of the screen aud normal
to it; the pipes being arranged to
move longitudinally back nnd forth a
distance of twelve inches, thus caus
ing the jets to strike every part of the
screen. The sewage is expected to flow
through the meshes of the screen and
at the same time force toward the fur
ther end the supsended matter, which
is being constantly loosened by the
cleaning jets.
This suspended matter, as it is forc
ed from the further end, will drop in
to a bucket conveyor,which will carry
it to a spiral conveyor, which in turn
will deposit it in bags. These bags
are to be placed into a centrifugal
wringer making 800 revolutions a
minute, by which a large part of the
liquid will be removed from the solid
matter. . The matter will be disposed
of for fertilizer or used for fuel.
The sewage, after this screening,
will be pumped to the septic tank
through a force main.
What It Cost to be Elected.
According to his sworn statement
which has beeu placed on file in Pro
t.honotary Terwilliger's office,Blooms
burg, William Kriokbanm, Democrat,
who defeated George M. Hughes, Re
publican, for the office of associate
judge in Columbia county, spent just
$t»:S4 40 The expenses of John G.
Barman's campaign for State treasur
er was just $15,205, which included all
bills of the State executive committee.
This statement was filed at Harrisburg
on Wednesday.
Krickbaum's campaign expenses can
be summarized as follows:
To the county chairman $300.00
Printing and advertising 78.70
Postage aud stamps 5.00
Clerk hire, self and county
chairman 42.00
Paid to individuals for dissemi
nation of information to
voters 208.70
Total bill of expenses 1634.40
The bill of expenses shows that
October 23, was the first day the ex
pense account began, except that on
October 19th $l5O was paid to the
county chairman.
Livingstone's Vanity.
The Victoria falls of the Zambesi
river, in southeastern Africa, form the
largest cataract in the world. They
were discovered In 1855 by Dr. Liv
ingstone, the great missionary and ex
plorer. and were found to be twice as
high and three times as broad as Niag
ara. Carved upon a tree near by the
initials "D. L." are still discernible,
and in his book the missionary con
fesses that this was the one occasion
in his life when he was guilty of this
form of vanity. These initials are
carefully preserved by the ofUclals of
the British South Africa company, to
whom they were pointed out by the
native who saw them carved.
His Present.
"What do you think? My wife's fa
ther told me before we got married
that he would give me a handsome
present on our wedding day."
"And didn't be?"
"Well, X waited over a week, and as
he didn't mention the subject I asked
him for It, and all he said was, "Why,
didn't I give you my daughter?"
HUNTERS' UNIQUE
EXPERIENCE
William H. Treat) and .Tohu H. Treas,
who were deer hunting at White deer
mountain.have returned to South Dan
ville. Thejrest of the party consist
ing ofJDr. A. T. DeWitt, H. L. De-
Witt,Dr. M. Sofith and D. R. Eck
man expect to reach home in time to
upend Thanksgiving with their fami
lies.
Under the present law.which makes
it unlawful to shoot any but male deer
with horns,the experience of the hunt
ers was wholly unique. The restric
tion cuts down the hunter's chances
one-half or'more. None of the Dan
ville partv at last, account* had ruu
across a deer that might become legiti
mate game.
The guide wounded a big buck,but
that was the nearest the Danville
party came to getting a taste of veu
ison The buck escaped, but he was
easily tracked and, although pursued
by the entire part*, he succeeded in
making his escape.
The does and the fawus as if realiz
ing that"they are protected seem to
have lost much of their fear. A couple
of remarkable instances are related.
The other day ,T. H. Treas and his fa
ther came across a doe and two fawns.
Whether paralyzed by fright or due
to some other cause the animals,usual
ly so timid, stood stalk still no more
than twenty-four feet from the two
men,maintaining their stolid position
for at least two minutes, after which
they gracefully bounded away.
D. R. Eckman had a still more re
markable experience. He found him
self face to face with a beautiful fawn,
which stood its ground not more thau
ten feet away calmly surveying the
man and the gun. Of course, under
the previous law each of these deer
would have fallen an easy victim of
the hunter's musket.
None but "male deer with horns"
may be shot. This of course, gives the
male fawns, which have not yet grown
antlers, a chance to escape. Hunters
have to be very careful that they do
not unwittingly shoot a female and
thus lay themselves open to prosecu
tion.
Save Life-Promote Health.
The committee of one hundred, rep
resenting the most prominent medical
associations, scientists and eminent
nou professional citizens, lias started
an r irnest campaign for the saving of
lifo and the preservation of health
through federal endeavor. There is 110
doubt that this subject is one of the
most important before the country.
While public authorities and human
itarians in general lire engaged in a
vigorous campaign of social uplifting,
every community having its benevol
ent organizations, it is a fact that
scarcely anything has yet been done
to stop the fearful ravages of the pre
ventable diseases. The movement
against tuberculosis has been under
taken within the past few years in
some of the cities and in a few of the
States, and iu some communities pri
vate effort has set itself against the
appalling infant mortality due to ig
norance and neglect, but taking the
country as a whole the general pre
servation of life and health has com
manded comparatively little public in
terest.
A milliou and a half people die
annually in the United States and
more than four milliou are constantly
sick. As one eminent economist has
said, "over five million homes, con
sisting of twenty-five million people,
will be made more or less wretched
during the next year by mortality and
morbidity;" and this horrible night
mare of death and disease and misery
will increase as the population in
creases. The same authority says that
"for a nation to permit such great
wastes togo unchecked is more than
a suicidal policy, for an evil more
destructive than race suicide is race
homicide." When it is known that
hundreds of deaths annually,and many
more cases of illness are due to pre
ventable causes, the absence of a
thorough and systematic campaign be
comes national disgrace.
The idea is to induoe congress to
establish a separate cabinet office or a
bureau under one of the present cab
inet offices, to deal with these sub
jects. It is argued, and with very
good reason, that the government
should take at least as much interest
in the preservation of life and health,
as iu protecting farm animals from
disease and plant life from insect rav
ages. Every person stricken down with
typhoid fever, or tuberculosis, or dip
htheria, or who has contracted a chr
onic disease by reason of ignorance or
neglect, is a living argument in favor
of au emphatic arousing of public in
terest in favor of a thorough and sys
tematic campaign.
Not Hi* Complaint.
A short while since a number of
amateur musicians in a country town
met for the purpose of organizing an
orchestra. They were successful in
procuring all the performers they de
sired except an ophicleide player.
One of the number finally volun
teered to take up the instrument and
try to learn to play it. He had no
ophicleide; but, hearing that he could
probably borrow one from a young
man In the place who was thought to
own one, he, happening to meet him in
the street one day, accosted hid with:
"How are you, Brown? X heard you
had an ophicleide."
Brown looked at him in utter amaze
ment, having probably never heard of
such an instrument before, and stam
mered out:
"Well, I—l was very ill about two
weeks ago, but I don't think I had that,
at any rate!"— London Graphic.
JURY CHOSEN FOR
JANUARY TERM
Following iB the list of jurors sel
ected for the next term of court, which
will convene ou January 18th:
GRAND JURORS.
Danville, Ist ward George W.
Roat, Alexander Grone, Irvin Van
nan, James B. Watson, Joseph Y.
Sechler.
2nd wartf:—Alexauder Hoffuer,
Jauies Dailey, Thomas Swank.
3rd ward:—Thomas J. Rogers, G.
F. Bondman,
4th ward John M. Moug, Alfred
Yerrick, J. M. Kelso.
Derry Township :—George W. Diehl.
Liberty Township—William Rob
bins, K F. Ware, Daniel Heim.
Mahoning Township:— Woodward
Moirison, Edward Rudy, Wendel By
ers. Henry Weirman. James Morrison.
West Hemlock Township Peter
Sandel, Peter Shultz.
TRAVERSE JURORS.
Anthony Township Amos John
son, Samuel lliluer, Joseph Holdren,
Amos Albeck, David Oox.
Cooper Township John Mauser,
George Heimbach.
Danville, Ist ward John H. Hunt,
O. O. Moyer, Thomas S. Woods.
2ud ward :—John Herrick.
3rd ward :—Thomas Roney, Samuel
McCoy, Jacob Herman, Samuel F.
Ricketts.
4th ward:—Alexauder Mann, Paul
Knoch, Hugh McCaffery.
Derry Township—Charles E. Shires,
Sr., Owen Reber.
Limestone Township George Wal
ter, George Vanordstrand, William
Bogart, George F. Butterman.
Liberty Township:—Urben Rhodes,
C. H. Auten.
Mahoning Township—George Heck
endorn.W. T. Madden, Oonrad Rishel,
William T. Dyer.
Mayberry Township Clark Kase.
Valley Township :—E. E. Reun.
West Hemlock Township :—Thomas
Bradley, John Hawkins, Joseph Win
tersteeu.
Washingtonville :—William Messer
smith.
Notice In Divorce.
Auua 0. Williams vs John Monroe
Williams.
Iu the court of Common Pleas of Mon
tour County. No. 28 May Term,
1907. Divorce a. v.m.
To Johu Monroe Williams,
Respondent above uamod :
You are hereby duly notified and
required to be and appear iu the
Court of Common Pleas of Montour
County ou the first day of the next
term thereof (the Monday,
January 13th, A. D.. 1908), then and
there to answer the complaint of An
na C. Williams the above-named Lib
elant in the above-stated case, and to
show cause, if any you have, why you
should not be divorced from the bonds
of matrimony entered into with the
said Libellant according to the prayer
of the petition or libel filed in the
above-stated case
D. C. WILLIAMS, Sheriff,
Sheriff's Office, Danville, Pa., Nov.
25th, 1907.
Women Who Wear Well
it is astonishing how great a change t
lew years of married life of ton make In
the appearance and disposition of many
i women. The freshness, the charm, tho
brilliance vanish like tho bloom from u
: peach which is rudely handled. The
| matron is only a dim shadow, a faint echo
! of the charming maiden. There are two
reasons for this change, ignorance ami
neglect. Few young women appreciate
the shock to the system through tho
change which comes with marriage and
motherhood. Many neglect to deal with
tho unpleasant pelvic drains and weak
nesses which too often come with mar
riage and motherhood, r.ot understanding
that this secret drain is robbing the cheek
of its freshness and the form of its
fairness.
As surely as the general health suffers
when there is de>»4mcmcnt of tho health
of the delicate \voma"Mj£organs, so surely
whorfrttujse organs in
heal\h therqee witness
tot he Tact ini>i»J\tT-d Nearly
B million women have found he:ilih amjJ
h;i;i|>in. y; in the n-e of Dr. .
vorite I'reseriinion. It makes weak wom
en strong and sick women well. Ingredi
ents on label—contains no alcohol or
harmful habit - forming drugs. Made
wholly of those native, American, medic
inal roots most hlchly recommended by
leading medical authorities of all the sev
eral schools of practice for the cure of
woman's peculiar ailments.
Por nursing mothers,or for those broken
down in health by too frequent hearing of
children, also for the expectant mothers,
i to prepare the system for the coming of
! baby and making its advent easy and
almost painless, there is no medicine quite
»o good as "Favorite Prescription." It
: can do no harm in any condition of the
; lystem. It is a most potent Invigorating
I tonic and strengthening nervine nicely
I adapted to woman's delicate system by a
pbysician of ln«ge experience in the treat
ment of woman s peculiar ailments.
Dr. Fierce may bo consulted by lettei
free of charge. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce,
Invalids' lintel and iiurgic»l Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y.
rriimnm.
"I believe In being absolutely frank
with everybody," Bald the aggressive
man.
"Well," answered the peaceable citi
zen, "I suppose that sort of thing Is
largely a matter or temperament If
I were as good n hand In a fight as
you are, maybe I'd be that way too."—
Washington Star.
Pretty Stingy.
"About the stingiest man I have ever
seen," said a local oculist the other
day,"was an old fellow who came In
here not long ago to be fitted with
glasses, in examining his eyes I found
that he could scarcely see with one ot
them, and yet the trouble was one that
could be remedied by a slight* opera
tion. I asked him about having the
eye attended to, but he said: 'No, I
guess I'll just let it go, and then I'll
only have one of *ern to fool with when
I get glasses. I can just save the cost
of that extra lens each time.' "—ln
dianapolis News.
j" PERSONALS. 1
| Mrs Margaret Stuck returned to
, Fisher's Ferry yesterday after a visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Noah Raker,
| Mowrey street.
! Clarence Erick is
giviug with relatives in Philadelphia.
Miss Emma Asking, Ferry street,
| left yesterday for an extended visit
with friends iu Cinoinuati.
Misses Bessie and Maud Seidel,
Honevmoou street, left yesterday for a
visit of several weeks with friends in
Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
Dr. Robert Jacobs, of Wilkes-Barre,
is spending today with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fied Jacobs, Mill street.
Mrs. William Leidy, Oak Grove, is
: visiting her son, Charles Leidy,Bloom
street.
J. Hudson Kase,South Danville, was
in Sunbury yesterday.
J. W. Henry, who for several days
has been filling the position of clerk
at the Pennsylvania station, South
; Danville,returned to Creasy yesterday.
; Mrs. Alby Snyder, East Market
street, entertained Mrs. Halie Wolfe,
' of Lewisburg, on Tuesday.
Henrietta Angle left yesterday
for Jersey Shore to spend Thanksgiv
-1 ing with her son, Dr. W. P. Angle.
Rev. C. D. Lerch will spend Thanks
! giving Day, attending the 40th wed
i ding anniversary of his parents, Mr.
aud Mrs. S. P. Lerch,at Spring Brook
Farm, near Trnbotville.
Mrs. J. W. S. Robison, of Milton,
returned home yesterday after a visit
with relatives in this city.
!
Miss Clara A. Reiner of Perkiomen
j Seminary, arrived in this city last
evening for a visit with Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Gotwalds, West Mahoning
street.
Mrs. Margaret Mowrer of Reading
arrived in town last evening to spend
Thanksgiving with relatives.
Miss Mary 'Jameson, a student at
arrived yesterday to spend
Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr.
j aud Mrs. Frank Jameson, West Mahon
| ing street.
Miles Barber returned to Wilkes-
Barre yesterday, after a visit with liis
parents Dr. and Mrs. I. G. Barber,
East Mahoning street.
Leonard F. Mayr.of New York City
is visiting friends in this city.
Miss Florence Tallmau, of Munoy,
is the guest of Miss Maud McKiuney,
Church street.
The last of the'preliminary crop re-
I ports for the year having just been is
sued by the Department of Agricult
ure at Washington, the country is
equipped to make a close guess at the
volume of its leading farm products
| for this season. We will have 2,554,-
000,000 bushels of com, 623,567,000
i bushels of wheat, 741,521,000 bushels
of oats, 147,192,000 bushels of barley.
292,427,000 bushels of potatoes, aud
13,911,000 bushels of buckwheat. The
; leading states rank in corn produc-
I tiou in this order, beginning with the
head of the list: Illinois, lowa, Mis
souri, Nebraska, Indiana, Texas, Ka
nsas, Ohio. These states produced
more than two-thirds of the country's
corn crop for 1907 and more than
double the amount of the corn which
was grown iu all the world outside of
the United States.
Usually when the farmers have
i good times the country is prosperous.
: The farmers are assured of good times
until the next harvest at least, and
the chances are that 1908 will be more
favorable for them than 1907 has been,
for in backwardness of the planting
time 1907 broke all the recent records.
Prices of farm crops, like prices of
commodities of nearly every sort,will
come down, to some degree, as a con
sequence of the money scare and the
1 temporary shrinkage in the country's
volume of activities, but the farmer,
like every other wage earner, will be
in good shape to meet this brief set
back. The agriculturist is in a posi
tion to look the future in the face
with confidence. Science is equip
j ping him to overcome such drawbacks
ias lateness of planting season and
j droughts, and he can count on coin
i mauding henceforth a good many of
! the prizes of fortune.
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For Sale by Panlet & Co.
ARTESIAN WELL
IUGGGESTED
Several of our pnMio spirited citi
zens of a scientific turn of mind, who
fully appreciate the <Mnger that arises
from the nse of river water,in dealing
with the problem of a pnre supply
have evolved a plan which will no
doubt appeal to a number of peo
ple.
This is nothing lo«s than the sink- \
ing of artesian wells in the vicinity I
of the water works, the theory being |
that by boring down some hundred
feet, a reservoir of water would be
reached, cut off from all sources of
contamination, and us pure and spark
ling as it is possible to conceive wat
er to be. To what depth it might be
necessary togo is uncertain : probably
a thousand feet would yield the right i
results.
Not a sew towns in this State arc
supplied with water from artesian
wells. They are thoroughly practic
able and notwithstanding the first cost
—where water can be obtained—prove
economical in the end. The enormous
pressure exerted on the internal reser
voir forces the water through the bor
ing to the surface spontaneously like
a fountain. Thus is all expense of
pumpiug eliminated.
It should be stated that those who
are agitating an artesian well for Dan
ville aie not unprofessional and illy
informed people, but leading people
of the town, educated up to the needs
of the hour, who have witnessed fail
ure after failure of experiments that
had as their object the bringing about
of better conditions in the river here.
Still,it is the same old thing over and'
the very best that can be said for our
water as pumped into the mains today
is that it virtually is a mixture of
water, mud and sewage rendered re
spectable in appearance only by a still
half primitive process of filtration.
From the ore miners that survive
much practical information has been
obtained relative to the structure of
the earth at this point, all indicating
that conditions are favorable for pro
ducing an artesian well of the first
magnitude—a veritable "gusher," in
fact.
Those who have taken up the matter
are trying to determine whether
enough people can not be interested
to make an experiment,boring at least
one well and down to the depth
required even if that should prove one
thousand feet. Council might be peti
tioned to undertake the work at the
borough's expense. Should a refusal
he encountered from that source the
suggestion is made that the citizens
by popular subscription raise the mo
ney needed. The expense would not
necessarily be heavy, while the ad
vantages,should the experiment prove
successful, would be simply of in
calculable value to the town.
The ordinary person can grasp the
meaning of a few thousand, fifty or
one hundred thousand or even a mil
lion of dollars but few can compre
hend the magnitude of a wealth that
reaches a billion dollar?. The country
was astounded when congress appro
priated the first billion of dollars, but
it was declared the United States was
a billion dollar country. Who can
conceive of fifteen billions of wealth,
and yet this is the official estimate of
the value of manufactures in the
United States, the past year,according
to a Washington dispatch today, and
these figures do'not represent finished
products entirely,but include products
! in various stages of progress. Despite
121,000,000 loss in cotton cloths,
goods sent abroad advanced $30,000,-
000.
The aggregate value of domestic
merchandise exported last year was
$1,854,000,000, (»n increase of nearly
: $136,000,000 over the preceding year.
In this classification "manufactures
ready for consumption" are credited
with $400,000,000, and these figures
are generally accepted as the extent of
the exports of manufactures. The re
port of the bureau, howevar, groups
this classification with those of
"foodstuffs partly or wholly manu
factured.'' aud "manufactures for
further use in manufacturing," the
aggregate exports of which last year
were $606,000,000. aud this amount
added to" manufactures ready for con
sumption" makes the aggregate value
of manufactures exported in the year
ended June 30, $1,086,000,000, or more
than 58 per cent, of the entire exports
for that year.
The cottonseed product exports for
| the year were upward of $40,500,000,
an increase of $!i,500,000 over 1906.
The extension of the parcels post
would open markets now closed to
American business men for lack of
transportation facilities, but which
are open to their competitors who
have advantages of the parcels poet
system.
Just as Good as Ever Too.
An old physician of the last genera
tion was noted for his brusque man
ner and old fashioned methods. One
time a lady called him Into treat her
baby, who was slightly ailing. The
doctor prescribed castor oil.
"Hut, doctor," protested the young
mother, "castor oil is such an old fash
ioned remedy."
"Madam," replied the doctor, "babies
•re old fashioned things."—Exchange.
STAHL'S REMARK
ABLE CAREER
Uenry Washington Stahl, of Suu
bury,supervisor of the Sunbury, Haz
leton aud VVilkes-Barredivision of the
Pennsylvania railroad, aud the oldest
supervisor ou the whole system, will
retire from active service ou Sunday,
December lsr. He reached the age
limit of 70 years ou the 14th of Nov
ember, but according to custom will
not retire until the eud of the month.
He is uow year of hia
active service. He has gone through
uianv strnuge and thrilling experi
ences. He has faithfully served the
company and bears scars which tell
how much he bus gone through for the
road which employs him.
Mr. Stahl was formerlv £a resident
of Riverside. He is still a familiar
figure at the south side, aa there is
scarcely a week but he is seen several
times about the station in the per
formance of his duties.
Mr. Stahl entered the Union army
in February, 18t>5, after securing a
furlough from Pennsylvania aud serv
ed with distinction until the eud of
the war. He was in the posse whicl
pursued John Wilkes Booth, the as
sassin of President Lincoln, and was
close upon him when ho was found
and killed.
In November 1865, Mr. Stahl return
ed to the railroad company. Iu 1872
he had charge of laving a third track
at Thompsontown. Ou April Ist of
that year he was promoted to be sup
ervisor of the Sunbury, Ilazleton and
Wilkes-Barre, with headquarters at
Sunbury.
This position he has held ever since.
He has had many strange experiences
in the performance of his duties there.
On one occasion while he was build
ing a temporary track around a wreck
at Catawisea, an axe, slipping fron
the hands of a workman who was
chopping down a stump, cut deep in
his leg and resulted in the loss of his
shin bone.
On another occasion, while board
| ing a work train at South Danville,on
a snowy day his foot slipped and both
legs went under the wheels. A track
man seeing the accident threw on the
brake and the wheels.slippiug as they
moved forward, shoved trie prostrate
man's limbs clear of the track. The
large toe of his left foot alone was
crushed.
Iu August 1879, Mr. Stahl was en
gaged in clearing away the I debris of
i twenty-five coal oil cars which were
; smashed in a wreck below Kipp's Run
I The oil from several broken tanks run
down into the brush and the ground
and shrubbery were thoroughly satur
ated. He saw fire burning on a truck
, and told one of the men to get a buck
|et of water to put it out with. He
pried away a sheet of iron to make the
• blaze easy to get at, and stood leaning
lon his crowbar on the edge of the em
bankment, when the oil near tiie fire
suddenly exploded. He was blown back
wards over the embankment into the
brush below. The oil which covered
the grouud for yards iu every direc
tion burst into flames like a volcano.
Stahl thought that the end of his life
was at hand aud he breathed a prayer
for his family.
He escaped but boars marks that he
will carry to his grave, which tell
how badly he was injured.
In August of the next year he was
working on an abutment of the Main
ville bridge, which was washed out
by a flood.when a derrick broke,struck
him ou the back and hurled him bruis
ed and bleeding to the rocks twenty
feet below. The foreman of the ma
sous, who was putting iu the stone
was struck at the same time and kill
: ed, but, though shocked and terribly
injured Stahl clung to the slender
thread of life and after a time recov
ered his health.
Only one marriage out of every K
is a failure, and yet they say that- 90
per cent, of the business ventures are
failures.
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"A Square From Everywhere."
Special automobile service fot
oar guests. Sight-seeing and
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Rooms SI.OO j>er day and up.
The only moderate priced hotel
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in
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