Montour American.: FRANK 4T. ANGLE, Proprietor. Hauville, P«-, Uec. S, 1907. F/jrHiiuers Gonii Howe. Huud.odi ut «liou lauds <>' foreiisuewi j ■who have J.trteu at work nxi the rail roads and in in a mjues acil fauloriek> of this COK IU.V siuoe are re ' turning to tutur native lauds, taking with tbem the bulk of the mouey they i -earned ami saved duriug their sojourn j iu this country. Mauy of these men return home to join their families,but a large number go across .t. Cooper Township:—John Mauser. ! George Heimbach. Danville, Ist ward :—John H. Hunt, | C. O. Moyer, Thomas S. Woods. 2nd ward:—John Herricb. I 3rd ward:—Tliomas Rouey, Samuel | McCoy, Jacob Herman, Sarnnel F. | Ricketts. -Ith ward:—Alexander Maun, Paul ! Kuoch, Hugh McCaffery. j Derry Township—Charles E. Shires, j Sr., Oweu Reber. j Limestone Township:—George Wal i ter, George Vanordstrand, William 1 Bogart, George F. Buttermau. Liberty Township:—Urben Rholes, | C. H. Aut i). i Mahoning Township—George Heck ondoru, W. T. Madden, Conrad Risliel, , William T. Dyer. May berry Township :—Clark Kase. Valley TownshipE. E. Reun. West Hemlock Township :—Thomas Bradley, John Hawkins, Joseph Win ; temeen. } Washingtauville :—William Messer smith. State Revamps Break Records, i The revenue of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania for the fiscal year ending Friday night broke all records and showed that the gross income, in- S eluding sales of bonds, was the un precedented total of $'27,027,132.72. a I showing equalled by few States in the Union at anytime. The increase came [ chiefly from the ordinary sources of taxation,the total from these channels being nearly a million dollars more than in the fiscal .vear of 1906, the ex act figures being $991,411.24. This statement, which surprised even the officials on Capitol Hill who had not been following the matter closely, i was given out by the State's financial authorities Friday night. For com parison the. previous high water { mark, the $25,818,924.03 of the 1906 j receipts, was announced and then it was stated that exclusive of the $601,. 1 266 66, proceeds of the sale of govern | ment bonds, the revenue would be $26,426,000 in round numbers. ; The balance in the general fund on i November 30, 1906 was $8,825,522.81 ;in the sinkiug fuud $2,614,520.74 making I a total of $11,440,042.92. The gross in ( come for the year including receipts from sale of bonds was $27,027,132.72 i making a total of $38,467,175.64. Dur ing the year 1906 the payments were ! $26,907,407.50, showing an excess of | expenses over receipts of $1,088,483.47. The payments for 1907 were; $25,581.- | 465.78, showing an excess of receipts i over expenses of $844,400.28 net, which j is the best showing made for a num ; ber of years. TtieaJialance in the general fuud at ; the close of the year was $10,486,410 • 98; in the sinking fund, $2,399,298.88, making a total of $12,885,709.86 in the j State Treasury. Interest on the State deposits which amounted to about $253,000 in 1906, will not vary much from that figure I for 1907 A Lazy Liver May bo only a tired liver, or a starved I liver. It would Ik- a stupid as well as savage thing to lieat, a weary or starved man because he lugged in his work. So in treating the lagging, torpid liver it is a great mistake to lash it with strong I drastic drugs. A torpid liver Is but an indication of an ill-nourished, enfeebled j body whose organs aro weary with over work. Start with the stomach and allied | organs of digestion and nutrition. Put them in working order and see how j quickly your liver will become active. I Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery | has made many marvelous cures of "liver I trouble" by its wonderful control of tha organs of digestion atid nutrition. It re- ; stores the normal activity of the stomach, Increases the secretions of the blood-mak- j ing glands, cleanses the system from pol- ! sonous accumulations, and so relieves tha liver of the burdens imposed upon it by the defection of other organs. If you have bitter or bad taste In the morn ing. poor oriCariable appetite, coated tongue, foul breath. coWipatedor Irregular bowels. ! teel weak, easlli tired. flyspondcnU freuuent headaches, pain Ardlstresata "small of back." gnawing or distressed perhaps nausea. "risings" In throat after eating. and symptoms of weak stomach and torpid no modi- , cine will relieve you more promptly or cure J V"' 1 ""TE Pi-rniaiH-nilv than Doctor Pierce') fc' lilt n Medical I'lscovery. I'erhaps onlj a part of the above symptoms will bo present at one time and yet point to torpid liver or biliousness and weak stomach. Avoid all hot bread and biscuits, priddlo cakes and other indliresttblo food and take tlie "Golden I Medical Discovery" regularly and stick to Its use until you aro vigorous and strong. The "Discovery" Is non-secret, non-alco holic. Is a glyceric extract of native medici nal roots with a full list of its ingredients printed on each bottle-wrapper and attested under oath. Its Ingredients are endorsed and extolled by the most eminent medical writers of the ace and aro racomraended to cure the diseases for which It la advised. Don't accept a substitute of unknown composition for this non-secret uxdiclhi ! OP KNOWV COM POSITION. F. C. GRAO PASSES KM Our readers wili be pained to learn of tl>e death of Frederick 0. Grau.for many years a prominent resident of Danville, who ou Sunday nigkc passed awav at Scranton, where he resided during the last fifteen years or so. The-deceased was aged 79 svars, 8 mouths and 16 daye. Due to advanced agedccing the last four years of his life lie was in poor health, although lie retained full possession of all his facultkis. Ou Weduesday he was ob liged to take his bod and at 11 ;30 p. ui. Suuday he passed away Frederick O Graa was a native of Germany, but he emigrated to this country when a young man. He came to Danville fully sixty years ago. He was married in this city and lived here until some flfteeu years ago, when with his wife, he removed to Scrau tou, where several of their childreu resided. Mr. Grau was a finely educ ated man,possessing a mind well stor ed with useful information. tie was much interested in school work. For several years he filled the position of principal of the fourth ward schools. He was also a member of the Danville school board. He was a skillful en gineer and for a number of years was employed in that capacity about the various iron industries of Danville. Removing from here to Scrantou he took charge of the engine at Bloooi's carriage works, where he remaiued for some 13 years, until increasing infirm ity obliged liim to retire from active pursuits. He was au active, industrious man, kind-hearted and generous, true to ev -5 ery trust reposed in him. During his j long residence iu Danville he made 1 many friends, all of whom will feel a j paug of sorrow ou reading of his de mise. | Since the death of his wife, some years ago, the deceased has resided ] with his childreu. Two sons and three | daughters survive: Kred Grau, of Jamestown, Va., and Frank Grau, of Scrantou; Clara (Mrs. Edward Liiik- S er), Ella (Mrs. Leon Cloven, both of | Scrantou, and Blanche (Mrs. Gordon) jof California. A brother and sister I also survive: John Grau and Mrs. Al fort, both of Philadelphia. Candidates Must File Papers. ■ All those who are candidates for con grass or stati senator, must file their petitions with tlie secretary of the Ou ntuonwealth lint Inter than at noon |ou Saturday, March 12th, four weeks before the primaries. Those who de : sirejjto run for the legislature or for any must file their peti tions with the commissioners not later thau Saturday March 19th, at noou ; The petitions will then be tabulated : in proper order and placed upon the ballots which are to be used by the Republicans, Democrats and any other party represented on the tickets. This | work will ta';e a week, allowing | another week in which to print the ballots and the latter after their com pletion niuit be placed upon a file at the commissioners' office at least a week before the primary election for ; public inspection. The oorrupt prac tices act, which is a sort of a compan ion law to ttie uniform primaries act, under which the primaries are con ducted, provides for the tiling of a statement within thirty days after the eleotlon by all who were candi dates before the eiectiou whether suc cessful or otherwise. If the candidate wins or not he is compelled, under the law, to observe this formality and ! is subject to a tine of SSO and arrest and imprisonment if he does not eom j ply with the provision. He can also be prevented from taking his oath of office These expense statements are to be filed with the clerk of the courts and a minimum charge of fifteen cents is made for the filing If the expense incurred by a candidate is under SSO he may'simply state that fact without goiug into any detailed statement of his expenses Bnt if the amount spent by him is larger he must de rail|each item and where ttie cost of the same has been over $lO lie must accompany with|the' voucher used in payment. The legitimate expenses which a candidate Jmay incur consist l of advertising, paying watchers, dis seminating information, for messeng ers, for postage and the like. No ex penditures of sums where there is no return made to the candidate are per mitted, ami when contributions are mads to political organizations,either in money or other valuable thing, the candidate is liable to a Ueavy fine and imprisonment. Nonregistration fee is legal or permitted under the new act and when contributions are made by others to a candidate for the purpose of aiding him in his fight these con tributions must be set forth explicit ly. Sour Stomach N» appetite, Imi •( itraof th, ttms hsadaoha. oandlpatiaa, bail kw* fanaral lability, iaur risings. ao4 nfl 1 Of tha atamaoh ara all M ln4[fw*»; Kadal rallavxa In4l|aatlan. Tbla n«» try lapraaanti tha natural (uteea at rfla«? tian aj th.y ail.t i« , hMitf,, -»rnbln&4 wltb tha graalwt ba«*a uu/ '.nd rrcanalruotlva sraparttaa. K*4a' £• •i/apapala ooks that invite the reader and re solved them into three general classes : The "perennial," the "annual ' and the " toadstools. " Sliakeskeare and the other above named books are in 1 the perennial" class. Other books of 1 less or questionable value that have their day, he called the ''annuals," | while there is still another class of ! books poisonous iu their uatuie, whioh he classed as "toadstools." "The Hoaveuly Twin-i" aud other i bo >KS of the "Grau.l Sarah" sort, lie ' said, arn not included in the "peren nial "ciamj. In this connection he paid ! his respects to the goody good book, | which lie seemed to have uo more use J for tlmu "nasty nice" people. Even the so-callod literature of E P Roe is mildly under the bau aud the speak er significantly inquired whether it is possible to get anything out of it. "Mrs Wiggins iu the Cabbage Patch" belongs to another class of books, the perusal of which, in Mr. Green's es timation, represents merely a loss of time. dome people,the speaker said, think they must read all the latest books in order to "keep up with the times," never stopping to inquire if the books themselves are "up with the times." Professor Greeue related an incident of his travel abroad when he "met" Marie Gorelli. Whatever his sions may have boon as to the person ality of the authoress he didn't pay much of a compliment to her books, which he classed with those that rep resent "outgrowths of distorted minds". The speaker has uo patience with those people that have no time for books, but imagine they are fulfilling their full duty to themselves by read ing the newspapers. Others along with the newspapers read the maga zines. Such people he is inclined to believe are beyotid intellectual re demption. To "keep up with the times," he said, one had better read something the world is not willing shall die. There are persons who read books of a wholly questionable sort with the excuse that they want to become fami liar with certain phases of life—just as if, the speaker added,it were neces sary to crawl through the dirty sew ers of a city in onler to become fami liar with its system of sewerage. When bad books have falleu into the i hands of boys and their minds are ; poisoned there is only one way to eradicate the evil effects and that is to introduce good reading, supplant , ing the old.> Drive out the devils of darkness by introducing angels of light. Books selected should be of the cheerful type—not gloomy and pesaim i istic. For his part the speaker said ho could nut stand the wormwood of Marie Corelli. He preferred books ' that show that earlh is crowded with heaven a>id in this connection com mended Browning's "splendid optim ism." In conclusion he said bocks should be varied and poetry should be chosen along with prose. PROFESSOR RIGDON 1 he first period in the afternoon was occupied by Professor Rigdon, who putin a plea for grammar, insisting, notwithstanding what is sometimes urged to the contrary,that the subject is not ou'y importaut but also essential It is needed as a preparation for other | language studies and as a basis for correot expression. It is not more im portant than some other studies, but it must comti first. This is certaiuly true of rhetoric. It is a recognized , fact that without a knowledge of gran - mar the latin student labors under a serious handicap. While grammar is essential the study of it affords as mental exercise, which achieves a discipline of the intellect, develops memory and calls into ex eroise the power of judgment. Gram | mar has to do with the power of con ception; it develops the reasoning faculty and indicates that the possess j or is a person of strong will power. Professor Rigdon said that he would not recommend that a persou be a ' grammarian above every thing else, hut only a grammarian incidentally. ; He recommended that a person carry along with the study of grammar econ i omics, sociology,history of journalism 1 and the like, in order to maintain a balance and to prevent the student j from becoming narrow in his views ' and falling into the habit of quibbl ing. Wednesday. The attendance at the teachers' in stitute seems to be increasing eacli day. Yesterday a larger number of : the directors of the county were pres ent than on Tuesday. In addition a considerable number of townspeople, not connected with the schools, al though much interested in matter" pertaining to education, dropped into \ the institute to hear the addresses. Institute instructors as a rule are men of strength and magnetism, who have something new and practical to : offer. As such, therefore, they can l not fail to interest people, whether ' connected with the schools or not, if : the latter are at all cultured The preseut instructors form no exceptions and, whether it is listening to one of ; Professor Green's sparkling addresses ! on literature or following Professor Rigdon through the difficult maze of sentences,the institute reveals is deep 1 interest by giving the closest atten tion. To the regular music, which is a feature of the institute, special music of a high order has been added during the last couple of days. On Tuesday Miss Pearl Fenstermacher rendered a piano solo and Miss Sidler and Miss Oloud a piano duet.. Yesterday morn ing Miss Finnigau rendered a piano solo. Yesterday afternoon Miss Kath- j erine Rogers rendered a vocal solo and Miss Edna Hughes a piano solo. Rev. M. K. Foster, pastor of St. Paul's M. E. church,conducted chapel servioes yesterday morning. PROFESSOR GREEN'S TALK The first period of the forenoon was occupied by Professor Greeii, his sub ject being "A Survey of a Century of Literature." It wan a most compre hensive ami magni Icent effort. The eighteenth m ntury of literature begins about 168 S. The books publish ed in that period v i-re rather intel lectual than emotion >1; rather utilit arian than imaginative, and ratln-r artificial than spoimineous. It wan a period marked by tue origin and de velopment of a rea l ing ptibiio. The people had time to read; thero were more comfortable conditions; people were becoming edui ited and printing was cheap. The common classes were increasing in importance Books tliut were the product of these conditions were of two kinds, general and speci al. The books "gpneral" in their ua true wore prose rather than poetry and were artificial rather than rhetorical; the hooks "special" in their type were the novel, the periodical essa.v,politic al ecouomy and methodical and his torical prose. Among the representative writers were Pope.Defoe, Swift, Burke, Kieh ardson, Hmallet, Steele. Addison, Goldsmith, Gibbons, Adam Smith, Ohatterton and Blake. Toward the close of the century the following movements were noted: First, a return to the earliest form of literature; secoud, a return to Eliza bethau models in contrast to French models; third, a return to nature; fourth, worship of sensibility; fifth, longing for mystery. Up to the time of Dickins children were almost entirely ignored in liter ature. In reading a book the speaker said a person should give much thought to the author—to see what kind of a man stands behind the book and what |he represents. Thus, it will be found | that Srott stands for health, pli3"sical and moral.; Carlysle, for power; Lowell, for nobility; Holmes, for geniality; Jonathan Edwards, for in tensity; Franklin, for utilitarianism; Webster for energy. PROFESSOR RIGDON'S TALK. After iutermission yesterday morn ing Professor Rigdou took up the "Study of Sentences." \Tliis in structor's work is intensely practical and his views can he applied in the I teaching of any other system of gram mar. He refutes DO other author and what he advances is merely supple mentary. In his opening remarks yes terday morning he expressed regret that there was not more in his work as arranged for the present institute that was helpful to the primary teach er. which prompted him to pay a nice compliment to the teachers in 112 lie low er grades. "Any old fellow, or young fellow," said he, "can teach a high school, bnt it requires an artist to teach a primary school." The speaker weiit into the subject very deep. He was clear and scienti fic, however, as following the processes of thought he developed the different kinds of sentences, as simple, ncm- I pound,complex, declarative.interroga | tive and exclamatory. He presented a very r useful diagram relating to the thought basis for classification of sent ences, which he hoped the teachers would adopt in their schoolroom work. i Yesterday afternoon Professor Green gave two admirable talks, one entitl ed "A Literary Ramble" and the oth er "With Holmes and Whittier." Prof essor Rigdou continued the subject of grammar, dwelling on "Seutences. " Notice in Divorce. Anna C. Williams vs John Monroe Williams. ; Iu the court of Common Pleas of Mon- I tour County. No. 23 Mny Term, | 1907. Divorce a. v.m. 1 To John Monroe Williams, Respondent above named : You are hereby duly notified and j required to be and appear in the Court of Common Pleas of Montour ! County on the first day of the next I term thereof (the same being Monday, January 13th, A. D., la) 08), then and there to answer the complaint of An -5 na C. Williams the above-named Lib ! elant in the above-stated case, and to j 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 j above-stated case. D. O. WILLIAMS, Sheriff, j Sheriff's Office, lJauville, Pa., Nov. j afith.,loo7. Strong Basket Ball Team, The basket ball event of the season will occur here Saturday evening when the all star aggregation from Wilkes-Barre will play the Dauville team in the armory. The visiting team goes under the name of the Wyoming Valley Star team and is composed of such players as Hoar, of Nauticoke, who has a con tract with Greensburg for $175 per month beginning December 15th. ; | Banker,of the Wilkes-Barre team, who j is one of tiie best known figures in the basket ball woild today and has few equals in his position; Jones, of the Plymouth team, is a man who needs 1 no mention, for he isiundoubtedly one of the best in the business today; Wood and Barber, of the Wilkes-Barre | team are so well known in Danville that it is unnecessary togo into de- j tails. Te game will be called promptly at | 8:30. The admission will be 25 cents. The weavers of Stehli & Co.'s silk j mill in Lancaster, who struck for high- j er wages and shorter hours about a ! month ago, on Monday declared the strike off and made a rush for work. All were taken ou except the leaders of the strike. E. V. Flick returned to Three Riv ers, Mich., yesterday atfer an extend ed visit with friends in this vicinity. cmwissfc GIRL DROWNS HERSELF Fifteen year old Lucy Smith,daugh ter of Mr. aud Mrs. Phineas Smith,of Railroad street, Catawissa.committed suicide Monday morning by jumping into H'e Susquehanna a short distance above the GVawissa river bridge. Her body has not yet been recovered, al though the river has been grappled and dynamited from the place she jumped into what is known the "cove" several hundred yards below. It is said to be another case of sui cide for affection. Although only fif teen years of age this girl rather than give up the one she was devoted to. aud to whom her parents objected, sought the depths of the cruel, cold river as her only solace. For some time past the girl has been keeping company with a young max! and to whom the parents objected. On Saturday evening while Mr. and j Mrs. Smith were out of town the j young man called at the girl's home. This action on her part was the cause j of a reprimand from her parents Mon ! day morning. Although the girl made no reply she seemed to be down hearted and left the house saying she was going out in the back yard, and j that she would not goto her work at ! the shoe factory that day. It was about half past six when she left the house,aud not returning with in a reasonable time her father sent * j brother out to look for her. He could not find his daughter in the yard, but in the snow he saw tracks leading out of the yard to the street. The father | then followed these tracks, which lead to the river bank, and onto a small boat, a short distance above the Cata wissa bridge. Here the tracks ended, and the mute evidence showed only j too plainly that she had ended her life in the river. An alarm was immediately spread, and soon several parties were giappl ing the shallow water for the body. Although the bottom was thoroughly | searched, the body was not found, j The parents of the young girl are j highly respected by the people of Cata wissa. Mr. Smith is a hard working aud industrious man. He is employed at the Kreamer shoe factory as fire | man. Mr. Smith in reply to a question as to whether his daughter gave any rea son tor such an act, said: "I know of only one. Her mother and I both ob jected to her keeping company with a certain young man. We objected for her own good, but she would not list en. aud on Saturday evening while her mother and I were away from home he called, and stayed for several honrs. Other people told us the match should be broken up and we did all we could to prevent it. Yesterday morning while at the breakfast table ; I told Lucy not togo to work but to stay at home and help her mother. ; She said she would and later wheu she went out in the back yard we thought nothing of it until she had been gone so long that we sent one of | the younger boys out to see what was | keeping her. I then went to search ; tor her and finding the tracks in the suow followed them to the boat thai was lying in the water along the river hank. I knew then that she iiad com mitted suicide aud after giving an alarm I returned home." The young man with whom Miss Smith was infatuated was seen and I was heard to remark that he had not ; seen the girl since Saturday night aud at that time she told him she would j leave home when her parents came I back. J Beside her parents the girl is sur- I vived by two married sisters Mrs. ' William Cox, of Catawissa ; Mrs. Wil liam Billman, of Elmira, N. Y.. aud two small brothers residing at HOD a. 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