11, < 112 1 NOTES C.MBARNITZ RIVERSIDE , l fh^k O CORRtSWJNWCNCEj ft*--- SOLICITED U/\ J&*~- ■ - WHEN YOU MATE UP. You will soon mate up your pens for breeding, and there are certain particulars you must bear in mlml to bring success. When you have culled out all over three years old and those with gross defects, then take "The Standard of Perfection" into the pen and select from the remainder those that are nearest to the standard type. If your fowls look like three cents when you apply this criterion, it is time to buy new birds. You can't breed something out of nothing. STUDY YOUR BlßDS.—lndeed, the successful chicken hustler is always studying his birds. The poultry man who doesn't study hen nature and thinks he has such a surplus of gray matter that he can throw a breeding pen together like a boy pitching quoits had better "go away back and sit down," for if he's up front he got in 011 some other fellow's stock or climbed the fence. Study your birds now. The people who wait till they hear the whistlo blow before they start for the train generally miss the last platform and make fools of themselves. There's no such thing as luck in shaking chickens up like dice. You may get a blauk. When the solons of the poultry world who sell hens for a thousand dollars apiece and cockerels for live hundred and who have thousands of bonton birds to select from must sit down for a day to study out a single mating, is that not a lesson for those who mate their pens with breakneck speed? If birds are mated now you may be surprised at unforeseen changes you will make. You will thus catch the drones, the hens that will not frater nize with the male, and eliminate from the pen the hen that continually bullies the rest. By tills early removal of the birds to a pen by themselves they may receive that special care and feeding which are necessary for them to have to insure a good output of fertile eggs, for it is a fact that liens for breeding must have different treatment from those which are simply fed for market eggs. This is often overlooked until the first test of the incubator shows great in fertility. A great many poultry men do their shoving at the wrong end of the hen wagon. The hens that are pushed at the be ginning of winter are up against the wall when hatching time comes. The doctrine that you should sepa rate the male bird from the females until breeding time to promote his productive powers is a big fake. Do this If you wish to ruin the head of the pen. BAD DISQUALIFICATIONS. Re ject birds with the following defects: Wry tails, crooked backs and breast bones, side sprigs, lop combed males, squirrel tails, diminutive tails, white faced cockerels except Black Spanish, deformed beaks, purple barring, brassl liess, white lobes in Wyandottes and Cochins, pinched tails, feathered shanks on clean legged varieties, clean shanks on feather legged breeds, swinging crops and drop wings. You need not wait three weeks to discover if the eggs are fertile. Test them with a strong light at the end of five days. If the eggs are all Infertile, replace the male bird with another. If part of the eggs arc infertile, you either have too many hens or certain of the mem bers of the harem do not stand in well with Mohammed. If a reconciliation cannot be made quickly, remove the offending squaws. DON'TS. Don't keep your ducks in damp quar ters and on hard, cold boards. Furnish clean, soft litter and be decent. Don't keep ducks with chickens. Their feed Is different. Ducks and droppings are a combination to restrict the duck supply. Don't isell duck eggs for n song. They command a high price for Hebrew trade. Write to an egg house for prices. Don't keep oyster shell too long. The sea salts draws moisture, and the shell gets soft. It's dirty and out of date anyhow. Don't forget to save those duck feath er. Feather beds are no longer light ning protectors, but there's nothing better for a boil than a duck feather cushion. Don't undervalue those bantams. Tiiey lay many eggs, take up less room and eat little. Let the boys have a flock. Don't forget that pheasants aren't canaries. They are ornamental, but not to hang among window curtains. Don't house pheasants with other stock. Give them lots of room and fresh air. Let them go. Don't mix turkeys, chickens and geese. Birds of one feather should flock together. Don't tolerate scrapping roosters. They are a nuisance. The fighters aren't fathers of Itooseveltian families. THE MOST PRACTICAL ROOST. The stepladder roost is out of date. The chickens all fought for the highest eeat in the synagogue. Result, strife and bumble foot. The sassafras sapling roost, guaran teed to [irevent lice, has gone into ob livion with the lightning rod. The movable roost is the fad. Our plan: Make four carpenters' tres tles, two of them five feet long and two and a half feet high and the other four feet long and two feet high. Cov er the high trestles with boards six feet lono and on this drooolnsr floor nlace your low trestles and from one to tne other place your roosting slats. Put these four inch slats on loose and on very cold nights move them close together. Set up in a corner out of drafts and place the dusting box near and the hens will keep the roosts well dusted. Advantages.—Easily cleaned; easily removed: catches all the manure; can be removed or set up in three minutes; hens can scratch under it; red mites avoid it. Try it and be convinced. THAT INCUBATOR. Is your brooder cleaned and disin fected? Does it need a new lamp and felt for the cover? Get them now. Where is your incubator stored? Is it down in that damp cellar, where It will spring at the joints and the mice can nibble out the lining? This cellar business is only a fad anyway. Last summer we tested the eggs for a gentleman who was hatching chicks by the cellar plan. Our machines were up stairs in a comfortable room. He got forty-five chicks from 200 eggs. We got 189. That's proof enough. Know -m. ' "VBUR A, comb: B. face; C, wattles; D. ear lobes; E, hackle; l-\ breast; O. back; H, saddle; I, saddle feathers: J, sickles; K, tall coverts; L, main tail feathers; M. wing bow; N, wing bar; O, wing bay; P, wing butts; Q. breastbone; It. thighs; S, hocks; T, shanks; U, spurs; V, toes; W, fluff. "BUG HOUSE." Tile hen stood on the lousy nest. Whence all but she had fled; The red mites crawled all over her. And shortly she fell dead. " "Tls apoplexy, I'll be bound!" Her lousy owner whines. He sticks her in the cold, cold ground. Beside the young grapevines. My friend, he kept an old "bug house;" A bugger, too, was he. His chicken house was all one louse, A "mitey" sight to see. Moral.—Don't be a bugger.—C. M. B. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. When your feeding is bringing a rea sonable number of eggs, don't change your methods because Sam Tryitall has been around. If he was a leopard, he could change his spots. Don't trade a gold dollar for a lead nickel with a hole in it. When your ben cackles, "go thou and do likewise," but keep your head level. Don't let an egg record or a blue ribbon make you au egotist. If you make a good sale, cackle, but don't think you are the only cockerel on the perch. When you begin to be stuck on yourself, feel the top of your head, and you will surely find a soft spot. There is a little difference between a capable critic and a critical crank. The one is thoroughbred bruin and the other mongrel monkey. This is not contempt of court, but a judge's li cense can't cover up a fool. When eggs are way up, hesitate to drop a little for good, regular trade. Au extra egg when pullets are laying will make up for size. A hog in the hen's nest is worse than a dog in the manger. A Buff Orpington hen sold in York, Pa., for S4OO, and a poultryman at St. Louis sacrificed a hen and rooster for $1,500, while at the Crystal palace show they dropped to $250. That's a slow old price for chicken anyhow. It's time to form a hen trust. There were 0,000 entries at James town and 10,1 HJO at the Crystal palace, London. The American Wyandottes took most money at the English show, and they didn't have to marry any old English clucks to get it. "Count" that for our side. It's an old Joke, but It just leaked. The chicken paper reporters and the regular press men sailed from Norfolk to the Jamestown grounds on opening day to enjoy a banquet with President Roosevelt and report his speech. They were held out on the water for two hours, and when they got to the hall there wasn't a five cent cigar In sight. There was no red fire needed that night. Biff! The average length of an egg is 2.27 inches, the average diameter at the broad end is 1.72 inches, and the average weight is two ounces. When a rotten egg hits a politician's cheek, neither can be measured. •oorvukj, Wit on the Field of Honor. When Curran, the famous Irish bar rister who rose to such eminence, met Egau on the field of honor to decide a quarrel with pistols the latter took ex ception to the inequality of their per sonal appearance. "I might as well fire at a razor's edge," he said, referring to his adver sary's sllghtness of physiqie, while he himself offered "as good a mark us a turf stack." Without a moment's hesitation Cur ran declared that he had no desire to take an undue advantage of his op ponent, and he was willing to let his ■lde view be chalked out on Mr. Egan's body and any shot that hit outside the mark should not count. Theoeophy. The Theosophlcal society was found ed in New York city on Nov. 17, 1875, by Mme. Blavataky and Colonel Henry S. Olcott, but its headquarters were re moved in 1879 to Adyar, Madras, In dia. Its object is threefold—to form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of mankind, to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science and the unexplained laws and phenomena of nature and man. j JUST I POSTAL. I ... By LESTER ROSE ... i Copyright, 1901, bi/ Homer Sprague. jimmy propped the card against tne sugar bowl, and while he liuriedly ate his breakfast his ej-es seldom wan dered from the picture. Delia, the din ing room girl, regarded him scornfully. What was the use of mooning over a picture postal with never a word to tell who it was from? It was rather a pretty picture, a quiet little town nestling on the bank of a broad stream, but it might have been a love letter from the way Jim my stared at it. Twice Delia had to remind him that he must leave the house by three minutes past 8 In order to catch the last car that would land him at the office on time. Delia knew to a fraction of a second when each of Mrs. Beemnn's twoscore boarders must leave. Driggs Jestingly called her the "human alarm clock." Recalled to earth by the second sug gestion, Jimmy thrust the card into his breast pocket and sprinted down the street to the corner. Once on the cur he took out the card again and had to walk back three blocks because he was carried past the office building still studying the picture. After all, it was a picture well worth the study, for Arlington was one of the prettiest towns in his native state. Postal cards with local views were something new for the little town. Jimmy could remember the stir which the first Illustrated postal received by an Arilngtonian had made. Sarah Coyne, to whom it was addressed, had let the postmistress keep It for a whole week that all might see the curi osity. It had attracted more attention than the first Philippine stamp. Now. it was evident that some ama teur photographer had taken a picture of Arlington from the hill. Jimmy could almost locate the exact spot where he had often stood. It was over IT WAS JI MMT WHO BTEI'PED POKWAIiD. in the Pruyn lot, where the boys used to coast in winter. It was too steep for the girls. One could easily run clear to the river on a good pointer. But there was no hint of snow in this picture. The trees that fringed the river bank were In full leaf, the lone willow that grew on the tiny Is land was draped in green, and Jimmy could fairly smell the mint and the sweet flag in the marsh where the creek through the Newmans' lot form ed a confluence with the river. Somehow it brought Arlington back with startling distinctness. He had supposed that he had forgotten the town in his two hurried years of city life, but with the picture before him it was as though he had just climbed the hill from the little red house that was hidden In the picture by the new brick Methodist church. They were Just finishing the steeple when he had come away. Now It proudly reared Its head above all the other buildings. Jimmy turned the card over and re garded its face. The blurred post mark seemed like an old friend. lie could look through the glass partition where the boxes were empty, down in the corner nearest the drug store, and see Emma Sherman Industriously stamping the mail. lie could hear the double thud as she struck first a letter and then the ink pad. He could hear the com ments of the men waiting for the mail to be sorted. He could even see the recruiting poster with its gaudy pic tures of uniformed soldiers, a glory of blue and red and yellow, in the midst of the more somber bills announcing auction sales and the prim handwrit ing of the notice of the social of the Ladies' Aid society. But, most of all. the neat writing of the address held his thoughts. It need ed no signature to tell him the name of the sender. Only Bessie Brewster wrote like that. lie recalled the lotig, happy years when they two had plan ned to seek the city together. He was assured of a position through his un cle's Influence, and Bessie would keep house for him and perhaps In time be able to write for the magazines. The Ar lington Times had used some of her stories and had called editorial atten tion to them. It had all been a glorious dream, but Bessie's mother had died, and when thay graduated from high school and he spoke of going to the city she had gently said that her duty was to care for her bereaved father. He had used the argument that her great duty was toward herself, but she thrust the Idea from her, and In the end he had flung away from her, de claring that she did not love him, else she would see that he had greater rights than her father, for whom she had worked all the best years of her life. He had not written after that, not even to tell of his success. This was the first time he bad seen her hand »4«itun oiute nt; uuu it'll Ai in/^HHi. and his eyes grew soft as lie studied thii r*hlrr»<rrnnhv Than .•» bend to his work. But thoughts of Arlington were strangely mixed with the details of ac counts, and when the noon hour came be sought an Interview with the head of his room. The latter was looking for an opening for a cousin and was glad enough to let Jimmy go without the usual two weeks' wait. Three days later Jimmy was In Arlington. Ills first call was on the Brewsters, 1 but the tiny maid told him that Miss Bessie had gone to town for a shop ping tour and would not be back until evening. When the evening train rolled up to the little platform and Bessie descended from the car steps, her arms loaded with bundles, it was Jimmy who stepped forward to relieve her of her burden and who guided her through the little knot of station loungers. "You are back for a visit?" asked Bessie when they had cleared the crowd. Jimmy shook his head. "I came because of your postal," he explained. "It made me homesick, and j I Just had to come." "I'm sorry"— she began, but Jimmy Btopped her. "I'm not," he declared. "I'm glad. 11 never was so glad about anything be-1 fore. It was like a message that I had j to answer." "But now it may make you only! dissatisfied togo back," cried the girl. "That's just the beauty of It all," explained Jimmy. "I'm not going back. I guess Arlington's a big enough place for me to stay in, espe cially"— "Especially?" she repeated as Jim- j my paused. "Look here," he said, speaking rap-! Idly and with a voice that betrayed the Intensity of his feelings. "I know I don't deserve to be permitted to speak ' to you after the way 1 acted about' your staying here when I wanted you to marry me and goto town. I've for- j felted all right even to see you, but It' you could only know the time I've put | In since I got that card you'd bo sorry ! for me, even if 1 did act like a brute. | You tvere right, Bess, in staying with your father. I was all wrong. But 1 am sorry. Do you think that perhaps some time we might be friends—good friends—once more?"' I "We are friends now," said Bessie eoftly, "else you would not be walk-; lng with me." "I don't mean that," objected Jim-1 my. "It's not Just friendship I ask. It is something more. I want a chance to regain your love. Do you think that there would be a chance for me in time?" Something in his tones told the girl of his sincerity and his loneliness. Ho had hurt her cruelly In those old days, but she had felt sure that he would come back to her. Her face grew softer as she laid a hand upon his arm "Why wait, Jim?" she asked. "You j have learned your lesson." The bundles fell to the hard packed I snow as Jluimy rapturously caught her In his arms. As he recovered the: bundles one crushed under his grasp, and there was the tinkle of lirokeu glass. Bess gave a cry of dismay. "You've broken the lamp I bought for the parlor," she reproached. Jimmy laughed happily. "I'll buy a dozen lamps for the parlor—our par lor," he promised recklessly. Thackeray and the Scotch. A glimpse of Thackeray is given in j "Memoirs of a London Club," by Da- j ! vld Masson. At all our meetings at the Garrick [ and at Our club Thackeray always seemed to me. In spite of his light hu mor and his habitual nickname of "Thnek" among his friends, to be a man apart, a sad and highly sensitive ; man, a man with whom nobody could 1 take a liberty. It was at one of the larger dinners of Our club—Jt may have been a Shakespeare birthday dinner about the ( year 1800—that I chanced to sit next l to Thackeray, and in the intervals of | the speeches we had a good deal of j quiet talk. But In Our club gatherings ! | there was often a lapse Into what we called the "war of the nationalities," | which consisted of good humored mu tual chaff and banter between the Eng lish members and the two or three Scottish and Irish members of th" 1 club. It may have been this that some- i how suggested the following bit of Thackeray's talk with me: "D'ye know,"he said, "that, though I can describe an Irishman perfectly, I never could descrllie a Scotchman?" j I reminded him of Mr. Binnie. "Oh," he said, "that's not what I mean; that's a mere facsimile of a man I know, a mere description from ! life. But what I mean Is, I couldn't | Invent a Scotchman. I should go | wrong. Rut. oh, I'm quite at house ! with the Irish character!" The Title Tax. Now tna has got the fldgets. And Sadie's looking glum. While pa pretends to sympathize. Although he chuckles some. This chap In congress worries 'em, For all the plans were made To spend a year in Europe And a title gut for Sade. Said pa: "This feller thinks It wronc That Yankee girls with cash Should set thi'tr caps for foreigners And such like titled trash. Nine hundred million dollars gone To shingle their old shacks— He says It's time to stop the game By putting on a tax." Ma thinks that pa has got no style. He's still tho same Joe Noggi Who started twenty years ago To make a pile on hogs. He clings to Bramble Center way» And never Is afraid To say a straight American Is good enough for Sade. Ma can't forget that Hattle Hangs, A little freckled fright, At Newport is "your ladyship" And her hUßband but a knight. While Sade, with half a million mor*. Is tall and slim and fair— How well a coronet would look Upon her golden hair! So otT to Europe they will go. Poor pa will stay at home. They'll gad about In gay Paree, In London and In Rome. What care they for the title tax? For ma will be repaid When Bramble Center hears that she Has got a count for Sade. —Michael Fitzgerald in Boston Gtobe. iiMitirnimu uiinnuieu ut'ia-ve Hint tne sun is angry with the moou and hacks at it till it grows smaller and smaller and finally disappears, when it is sup posed to U'g for a respite and soon begins to grow again, liut tnat directly it attains its full size the wrathful sun recommences Its attack upon It. PHONE FORRAILWAYS The Telegraph to Be Displaced by It After March 1. WOMEN WILL EE EMPLOYED. Many Men Operators to Be Let Out. Automatic Block Signals Will Be In stalled and Many Small Telegraph Stations Closed. When a train with a little party of passengers on board recently pulled slowly southward out of the station of Miami, on the extreme southeastern coast of Florida, its unostentatious de parture marked a dramatic moment in the history of a man and a railroad and an event the bearing of which upon the future relations of the United States and her neighbors of the West Indies can only bo fully told by time, says a St Augustine (Fla.) special dis patch to tho New York Globe. The train was the first over the fa mous "seagoing ruilroad" which Henry M. Flagler has been pushing with all the resources of the Florida East Coast system, which he rules, literally out over the sea toward Key West and Havana. When the trains began run ning to Knights Key, Cuba was brought half a day nearer the United States, and Havana was for the first time placed In direct connection with New York and Chicago. The traveler can now board a Pull man train In either of these cities, whirl across a dozen degrees of lati tude direct to Knights Key and there step from the train aboard a boat which will land him in the Cuban capi tal, 115 miles distant, within six hours. In another year, when the remaining forty-seven miles to Key West have been opened, the distance between Un cle Sam and his island ward will be still further reduced. Key West is but ninety miles from Havana, and It is planned to Join the two by a ferry service which shall take the trains themselves straight through. The conditions that confronted the builders were these: From the southern mainland of Florida In a long curving line to the southwestward the coral islets called the Florida keys stretch away to Key West, the last of the chain. Eastward lies tho Atlantic, westward the bay of Florida. Begin ning at Homestead, twenty-eight miles south of Miami, where the road ended, they must build along the line of these keys and across the scores of channels and passages which separate them one from another a road which should be so solidly based as to withstand the dreaded autumn hurricanes which have their breeding place among the West Indian islands. Some of the channels are a few feet wide, some thousands of feet and some miles. The widest of all, tho spanning of which was the last piece of work In the com pletion of the section now opened, Is five and a half miles across from Is land to island. Everything except the rock for the roadbed and embank ments had to be transported from the mainland, for tike keys are mostly bar ren and could furnish no supplies. Even water had to be brought In tanks, and the workmen had to be housed In floating dormitories over much of the distance. In spite of these difficulties and of the obstacles of mud and water, stiff currents. Jungle, rock, heat, mosqui toes and storms, the work, once begun, has been pushed steadily on without a halt until the end Is in sight. From Homestead, where tho extension be gins, it Is seventeen miles to the coast at Water's Edge. This part of the con struction is on the mainland, but It Is through the strange south Eloridlan region of low everglades and man grove swamps, interspersed with high er patches of rocky pine land. From Water's Edge the road crossts Jewflsh creek, uniting Barnes and Blackwater sounds by a drawbridge, nnd after skirting Lake Surprise, where thousands of tons of filling were swallowed up in a vain attempt to run the road straight across the lake, it lands upon the middle of Key Largo, the largest of the keys. Fifteen miles bring the southern end of Largo, and there the road becomes really amphib ious. Of the seventy-seven miles re maining to Knights Key more than half is built over water on cement and coral rock embankments or on con crete viaducts, supported on concrete piers anchored to the rock bottom and strengthened with piles. At the deep er channels there are drawbridges to admit the passage of vessels, and in the embankments which cross the shal lower passages are twenty-five foot wa ter openings at frequent intervals. From Key Lurgo the extension crosses Taveruler creek to Plantation key, which It traverses, thence over another narrow arm called Snake creek to Wlndlys island, then across a wider passage to Upper Metacutnbe key. The longest viaduct .vet reached carries the road from Upper Meta cumbe to Lower Metaeumbe, whence a etill longer embankment takes It over the wide channel to Long key, the next stepping stone. Then from Long key to Grassy key comes the longest leap of the whole way. Between these two thuw are five nnd one-half miles of sea. which are crossed by the famous "ocean viaduct," over which the rails are car ried thirty-one feet above the main Burface level of the water. From Grassy key a number of small Islets and intervening passages are crossed to the larger Key Vueca, from which, by a narrow channel, the diminutive Hog key and another channel. Knights Key, Is reached, where the journey by rail is ended for the present. An Inconsiderate System. **Why don't we take an express train?" asked the sweet young thing of her escort at a subway station. "This Isn't an express station," ex plained her escort kindly. "How tiresome!" exqjalmed the s. y. t. "They ought to have express trains at every station!"— New York I'""-" ooiiging Jailer. Mayor—Where are you going? Vil lage Constable—The three tramps I Just locked up want to play whist, and I'm looking for a fourth.—Transatlan tic Tales. STATKMKMT Kliil POOR OF Danville and Mahoning Poor Dis trict for the Year Ending Jan. i, 190 . J. I*. 15A Ut:, Treasurer, n account with the Directors of the Dan-, vlileand Mahoning Poor District. DR. To balance due Directors ut last settle mem * 540 49 To cash received from return taxes- . 10 is 'Io cash received from M. Cromwell.. t>4S3 To cash receivec from Comley Young. 25 oo To cash from oti er dihti lets 188 3<> To cash received from J. P. Bare. Hahn Estate CUO To cash received from Gregory dowery 14 OJ To cash received from farm 583 21 To cash received from E. W. Peters on duplicate for 1905 57C0 00 To cssh received from.l. P. Hare on duplicate for 1000 756 15 To cash received from.l. P. Hare on d up I Icate for 19u7 57 00 To cash received fro u Chan Uttermil ler on duplicate for 1900 40 21 To cash received front'has. Uttermil ler on duplicate for 1907 605 15 % 8689 09 CR. By whole amount of orders paid by t lie Treasurer during the year 1907 7606 15 Hal due Directors at present settlement 8992 01 Directors of Danville and Mahoning I'oor District in Account with the District. Dli. To balance due from Treasurer at last settlement 510 49 To balance due from E. G. iWertman at last settlement on duplicate for t ho year 1905 1 92 To balance due from E. \V. Peters at last settlement on duplicate for the year 1005 93 91 To balance due from Clias. Uttermll ler at last settlement on duplicate for the 1906 51 38 To balance due from J. P. Hare at last, settlement on duplicete for the year 1906 831 89 To amount of duplicate issued J. P. Bare for the Borough of Danville for the year 1907 6866 87 Amount of duplicate issued ( has Ut termiller for tho township of Ma honing for the year 19u7 800 56 To cash received from ret urn tax 16 48 To cash received from Mary Cromwell. 04 s> To cash received from Comley \oung 25 00 To cash received from other districts.. I*B 36 To cash received from J. P. Hare to I latin 6 00 To cash received from Gregory est.... 1100 To cash received from farm 5K4 21 *IOO9O 90 Cli. By commission allowed E.W. Peters on ou duplicate fort ho year 1905 4 70 By commission allowed J. P. Hare on duplicate for the year 1906 39 70 By Exonerations allowed .1. I*. Hare on duplicate for the year 1906 31 35 By amount Returned of J. P. Bareou on duplicate for the year 1900 7 60 By abatement allowed .1. P. Bare of 5 percent on 86370 56 011 duplicate for year I1H)7 268 52 By co 111 mission allowed J. P. Hare of 2 per cent on 5108 04 on duplicate for the year 1907 r 102 04 By commission allowed J P. Bare of 5 per cent on 73b fci 011 duplicate for year 1907.. 36 81 By amount return by J. P. Bare on duplicate for the year 1907 7 95 By balance due from J. P. Hare for 1907 75152 By commission allowed Chas. Utter miller of 5 per cent on 42 31 on dui»- liCrtte for the year 1906 2 11 By amount return by Chas. l.'ttermil ler on duplicate for year 1906. -00j By exoneration allowed Chas. I'iter- I miller ou duplicate for ye.ir 1906.... 7 06 | By abatement allowed Chas I ttcrinll ler on 491 76 on duplicate for the year 1907 21 59 | By commission allowed Chas I tter mllleroii 16V 17 for the year 1907.... 14 02 j By commission allowed Chas I 1 ter miner ou22:i 15 fur the year 1907 .. I 17"»! By balance due from Chas I ttermll- _ | ler on duplicate for 190? .... 85 65 | By exonerations allowed K G. Wert man for the year 1905 .. 492 By orders paid by Treasurer during the year 19u7 7696 15 By balance due Directors at present settlement 992 94 10090 90 ! Statement of Orders issued during the year 1007. Paid and outstanding and purposes for which the same we, ed Directors Salaries $ 300 00 Stew ird 300 00 Attorney 75 00 Physicians 140 00 Treasurer 75 <0 Clerk 75 001 Auditing and Duplicate is 00 Transient Paupers 125 Justices 2 5 50 Horse Hire 12 00 Miscellaneous Items 9 25 Printers bills 55 on Kent 2500 Insurance 10 40 Paid other Hlstrlcts 38 si Expenses in sett lenient of cases 74 75 1235196 Outside Relief as Follows: Medicine 3200 Coal and Wood J37 69 Shoe? am! Clothing 230» Undertaker -*7 50 Insane at Hospital 3113 75 General Merchandise 69001 4064 90 F Maintenance of Poor House and Farm. Seeding drain and Plants 47 40 Liuie anil Manure 309 75 shoes and shoe Repairing 5 9» Blacksmith bills 6020 House and Farm Hands 445 32 Farm Implements and Hardware I*3 77 Clothing 73 75 Coal 35163 Improvements and repairs 22372 Druu Store bills 1035 Tobacco I® New Furniture 150 75 Meat bill 135 91 Veterinary. I# so General Merchandise 296 36 Flour and Feed 83 25 $2995 29 P.M. KERNS, 1 THE*>. ID>FF.MAN -Directors H. WIREMAN. t We, the Audltorsof the Borough of Danville and Township of Mahoning have examined the above accounts aiultlnd them correct. JOHN L. JONK«. 1 M. GRANTGULICK. Auditors. M. P. SCOTT. \ Statement of Real Estate and Personal Property on hand at date of Settlement. Heal Estate $22500 00 House and Kitchen Furniture 1330 60 Hay and Grain 1 .hi 22 Farming Utensils 135*98 Livestock 1715 95 Vegetables 107 75 Meat and Lard. 10002 Clothing and Material 4040 Fruit. Preserves, fee 19 55 Vinegar 3500 Sauer Kraut • 1600 Lumber 2000 Separator 33 00 Coal woo Tobacco 14 40 Flour & Feed 6 73 Engine 25000 *29440 22 Produce Raised. 325 Head* Cabbuge * 1625 52 ToUi Hay 692 00 243 bushels Potatoes 14550 12 bushels Onions 900 421 bushels of Wheat 3<995 16 bushels Rye 12 so 713 bushels Oats 294 55 1308 bushels Corn ears 48125 310 bushels Beet.* 77 £0 50 Gal. Sauer Kraut 2500 50 bunches Celerv 25 00 l l i bushel Onion Sets 300 1 bushel of Heatis I 50 H bushel Dried Corn. 150 5 bushel Tomat es 125 866 lbs Butter 21660 240 Do* Egifs 48(H) •2100 Bundles corn fodder iOS 00 |2.V>6 85 Stock Knitted. lw Chickens :)700 ves H 00 1 'B* lia oo tllurktys l2u( , 8175 00 Paupers admitted during I In- year 11)07 H L)i«u '.v."'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'...;;;;; S Number In House Jan. Ist. iIKJTII '* .. " JttU. Ist. 1908... ..."1.17 1 rumps Relieved during the year 1907 Night lo dglngs Aitoished Tramph 217 >1 eals furnished Tram us SEAGOING RAILROAD. Remarkable Line That Runs On Florida Keys. CUBA NOW HALF A DAY NEARER A new field of employment for wo men is to be opened by the railways. Bays a Washington special dispatch to the Chicago ltecord-Herald. This does not mean that the roads will employ women telegraphers; but, on the con trary, their employment will be for the purpose of taking the places of te legraphers already in the service. The future women railway operating em ployees will be engaged ut the smaller stations taking train orders over tel ephones, where formerly such orders were transmitted and received by tele graph. This new field will be open to women when the new nine hour day law governing the working time of railway telegraphers goes into effect on March 1. It was confidently expected that this law would work a revolution in rail way operation, and it was with this end in view that the Order of Hallway Telegraphers procured its passage de spite the determined opposition of tho railway managers and even against advice direct from the White House. Tho revolution is coming, all right, but It will be a revolution which will rele gate the telegraph to a back seat as an adjunct to railway operation and will throw thousands of operators out of employment and annually will de crease their number until they will al most disappear from American rail ways. . It was expected that the reduction in the working hours of railway telegra phers to nine hours would compel tho railroads to employ at least 8,000 addl tional men at once. It was also known that It would be impossible to secure this number of men when needed, and It was therefore hoped by the men that an increase in wages would be a part of* ■ revolution planned. The railway managers at first took a similar view of the situation, but It soon was discovered that it would bo impossible to supply the demand If ail existing telegraph offices were to be maintained after March 1. As a result of a careful study of the situation the nine hour day for telegraphers will bring about the following changes: First.—The abandonment of all sta tions as telegraph stations except divi sion headquarters and junctional points. Second.—-The substitution of tele phones for the receipt and the trans mission of orders and messages. Third.—The employment of women as agents in many stations thus trans formed Into telephone stations. Fourth.—The transaction of a tre mendous amount of office business by letter which formerly was transacted by telegraph. Fifth.—The rapid extension of tho automatic electric block signal system, which will make telegraph stations un necessary. In determining to Inaugurate these changes the railway managers found that they had in reality l>een preparing for them for years. It was discovered also that by adopting the most expen sive system of block signaling train orders and telegraph stations could for the greater part be done away with. The railroads therefore decided that they would rather six-nd millions in providing and maintaining automatic block signals, which never goto sleep and which never fail unless they spell "danger," than to spend the same mon ey in maintaining telegraph stations and telegraph"operators. The closing of stations as telegraph stations is made possible by the fact that with an automatic electric signal all that is nec essary Is to start trains as fast as the terminal block is empty and keep them going until a semaphore says "stop." Accordingly many of the big systems, notably the Harriuiun roads, have been hastening the installing of such sig nals, and the new year Uuds them ready to lock the telegraph keys in hundreds of stations. The second con viction, but one which many have hith erto lacked courage to put into effect, Is that the telephone is really the most Bcientific means of communication be tween stations and headquarters. Tho Burlington road, for example, has been successfully operating trains by phone over Its heaviest division, between Chi cago and Galesburg. for several years. The Illinois Central, the New York Central lines and other big systems bee for several years had telephonic communication throughout the entire length of their systems. ■1 IE?! 1 A Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne and Csnsral Job Work. Stove*. Heaters, Ranges. Furnaces, sto- PRICES TIIG LOWEST! QIIiLITY TUB BEST! JOHN HIXSON V 0 U» E. FHOHT ST,
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