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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
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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.
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