i •""! | Harmony. I I ... By NANCY BRENT ... 1 x Copi/riffht. 1908. b\j N. E. Dalcv. t'roressor Maurler. lost In the gran deur of "Tannhauser" rendered by himself on the piano, failed to hear the first tap at his studio door. The visitor, evidently realizing how tantalizing it Is to stop inldway in a feeling of trans port, waited until the last note of Eisa's prayer died away, then knocked again and finally by an energetic rat tle of the doorknob caused the pro fessor to come back to a realization of things mundane. "Ah, I was awaiting you, mademoi selle! 1 was anxious to hear how you Bang so beautifully for monsieur the manager." Edith Garth threw her music roll on the piano and walked over to the fire- Pl ace, where the extravagant professor had lighted the gas log. "I've simply disgraced you," she said miserably, holding the toe of her damp "you MUST GO AOAIN, MADEMOISELLE." shoe to the blaze with a despairing in difference to the smell of burned leather. "Impossible! Your voice is most beautiful, and I had taught you the oratorio until you could render it with closed eyes," the professor expostu lated. The girl sat down, hunting vainly for her handkerchief. "I don't know what my voice was, but when I tried to sing for that hor rid man this afternoon I didn't have any voice of any kind. It wabbled, avoided the tune—did everything—and finally died away in an asthmatic gasp." She found the handkerchief, and it proved to lie too small for the demand, a suspicious limpness indicat ing that it had previously seen much service. "Ma paitvre petite;" The professor gazed at her perplexedly. "I'll runke a enp of strongest tea, bitter as the English and the Americans could wish for. While we drink It and eat some crackers and a can of the tiniest sar dines that 1 have In the back of the music case you can tell me your de pression." lie put the kettle on the alcohol lamp and drew the piano bench in front of the fireplace, spreading a sheet of music for a table cover. The girl dried her eyes furtively, and after the outdoor chill her nerves slowly relax ed by the comforting gas log. She watched him with the amused toler ance a woman has for a man's house keeping. and when he brought the "Tannhauser" score to put under the teapot she forgot her woe long enough for a faint smile, which the professor quickly observed. "Ah, you are feeling better even now, and when you have eaten six of the little fish and two of the crackers and ask for a second cup of tills well cook ed tea you may tell me your story." He arranged three of the prescribed little fish on a cracker and deftly squeezed some lemon juice over them. "I believe I am equal to three more," she said, selecting an unbroken crack er from the box and holding it while he angled for the sardines. "And now I must tell you what a failure I made. When my voice stopped with that asth matic gasp, I never was so surprised In my life. I told him 1 didn't know what was the matter—l'd never had such an attack before. He said he had often luul candidates for nosiM/v* '*• lae cnoir get so nervous luey couiani sing at first and for me to rest a few minutes and try again. "But I thought how hard I had tried for that position as soloist and how hard I had studied with you for the last six months, when the people at home had scrimped and saved to keep me here In the city, and I don't know how I lost my grip, but great big tears commenced running down my cheeks, not nice ladylike tears, but the great big splashy kind that you can't swal low and that a reai ladylike handker chief will not soak up." She had hung the ladylike handker chief before the fire to dry, and the big blond professor, who looked more like a Norse sea king than a French teacher of voice, handed it to her, with • twinkle In his eye. "Perhaps you might find a spot •lightly dry," he suggested. "It's "-silly of me to start off this way again. The director told m« to come next week and he would hear me—that If I could sing in half the whole fouled way I cried I ought to make good. You ought to be asham ed to laugh at me," reproachfully. "I'll never have the courage Togo again, and I'll always be afraid to sing in public now. My voice might act that way again, and I wanted so to make my living by singing." He leaned toward her and spoke ear nestly. "You must go again, mademoiselle. In my country we always drive a horse back and make him look at the object that has given him the fright. It is so wuu imS nervous teriw ui tlte. It will grow larger day by day until you will be so sensitive you can not do the solos in the church or the concert. Will you try it again next week ?" "I feel that I couldn't—positively couldn't" she gasped, trembling at the thought of a second fiasco. The professor got his hat and coat to walk down the street with her to her boarding house. "I go with you next week, mademoi selle. I play your accompaniment for you. You must forget yourself, and when he hears you sing the place as soloist at St John's Is yours for the accepting. Monsieur the director will implore you to accept." The next week an elated girl entered the professor's studio. She was not alone. The professor himself threw the roll of music on the piano, with a little whoop of enthusiasm. "Never have you sung so well, and do you not feel glad that the horse that balked was led back to try again?" "I don't mlnA being called a horse a bit I'm so hnpvy," she exclaimed "You couldn't offend me even if you called me a donkey. And it's you—you —who have done it all. I found out yesterday that you have been teaching me for practically nothing when your other pupils ivre paying outrageous prices. It was good—so good—of you," and she hold out her hands Impulsively. The professor took them In his, and the blueness of his eyes sparkled into hers. "It was not goodness, petite—it was— happiness." lie led her to the chair by the fire place and stood looking down at her. "I have been here so long, petite, in a country where I have not the home feeling. There are five years that 1 have taught, at first to few, then to many, much; yet, petite, I have not the home feeling. And your voice I loved first, and then you. I wanted to make you succeed so you would not despair and go back to the country before I had the time to try to make you care. Petite, may 1 goto your country home tomorrow and ask the honor of your hand from madam, your mother?" The girl laughed softly. "That is not the American style. If you want to settle In America for life, don't you think it would be well for you to con form to our customs?" "And will you tell me the best way?" he pleaded. "Suppose you should go—not by your self, but with me—to see my mother, and then"— '•Yes, yes, and then, petite?" "You might say, 'I love your daugh ter and—and your daughter loves me— so she has brought me to see my new mother,'" she said, keeping her gaze on the Are. He knelt beside lier and turned her faee gently toward him. "The beautiful home we'll have —and your beautiful voice will be with me always. We goon the early train, the most early train, co see madam, the new mother, riiiu nnge." HER FfRST SPEECH. It Wasn't the One She Learned, but It Won the Crowd. It was the first appearance in public of Ada C. Sweet of Chicago, United States commissioner of pensions under President Grant and one of the first women In the movement for equal po litical rights for the sexes. When the civil war broke out she was living with her parents in the village of Lombard, now a suburb of Chicago, and was chosen to present to the boys of the Lombard company a silk flag which the women of the place had made with their own fair hands. The literary woman of the village had written for the occasion a beauti ful presentation speech, in which the soldiers were adjured to "take the fair flag into which your wives, daughters and sweethearts have sewed fond hopes and tearful prayers for your safe re turn, carry it through the smoke and shell of battle free from the stain of dishonor and the rents of defeat and bear it home victorious at the end of the war." "1 thought," says Miss Sweet, "that I had learned that piece up and down, backward and forward, inside and out, but on the great day itself, when the band ceased playing and an awful hush fell upon the crowd and every face was turned expectantly up to mine, it was different. 1 opened my mouth—and paused. The literary lady creaked forward In her chair and whis pered loudly, 'Soldiers of Lombard'— "That whisper went through me like a knife, but left me still speechless. 1 set my teeth, stepped decisively for ward and pushed the flag Into the hands of the nearest soldier. Then 1 spoke. Every word of that speech had left me, but I knew what it meant. " 'Soldiers of Lombard,' I said in a desperate voice that must have been heard to the utmost confines of the crowd, 'here's your flag! Don't get it dirty! r>on't tear it! And be sure to bring it back!' "A shout rose from that crowd such as no orator before or since has ever evoked from a crowd in those parts. The first thing I knew I was riding on the shoulders of two soldiers, while the whole company pressed about me, with waving hats, and my father was leaning over toward me from the back of his big horse and calling me his 'own original girl,' while the tears rolled down his cheeks with laughter. "As long as I lived in the village of Lombard I never dared to meet square ly the vengeful eyes of the literary lady who had written that presentation speech."—St. I.onls Republic. A Literal Youth. "Why, Johnny," said Mrs. Muggins, "what are you doing here at home? Is Willie's party over?" "Nome," blubbered Johnny, "but the minute I got inside the house Willie's father told me to make myself at home, and I came."—Harper's Weekly. Helping Her. "You loved her very much?" "So much that when her first hus band d'ed I married her that I might share her grief and so lessen it" "And how did it work?" "Fine! I'm sorrier now for his death than she is." —Houston Post Lost, a woman's pocketbook; black leather, with initial letter Z; finder may keep silk samples, recipe for Eng lish plum pudding, chamois rag, hair pins, newspaper clippings, headache powders and chewing gum; please re turn purse and house key to owner.-- Kansas City Star. I |L " NOTES C.M.BARNITZ WVERSIDE CORRMPONDENCE SOLICITED U/\ >3T? — INCUBATOR BARGAIN COUNTER. When you buy that Incubator, steer clear of the bargain counter. Good machines aren't found in "Cheap John" shops. We haven't time to figure how far all the different style machines In a straight line would reach, but we know that we could view all the dependable incubators in a day without doing stunts and have plenty of time to get to bed with the chickens. Incubators and brooders are of two types, hot water and hot air, but many of them are all hot air. Many of our correspondents in writ ing about hatching machines begin their letters, "I've been stung." They got It at the bargain counter. The exchange columns of the poul try journals are full of fellows who are anxious to trade machines on chickens. They will give you a gilt edge guarantee with the machine, but the only way they can get chickens is to swap. Such machines always incu bate—lots of trouble. Now, it's pecks of fun to sit up nights with an incubator full of high priced eggs and monkey with a smoky lamp and a cranky regulator and, after twenty-one days of such nervous pros tration, to just get left. And this ail turns to bushels of fun and tons of amusement if you have invited all your relatives and friends around to behold the wonderful miracle of na ture \\ltt»n those beautiful, fuzzy balls 'of chick activity break from their irk some environment to begin the voyage of life. In such a case New Year resolutions, antlmarriage pledges and church vows often prove a fnllure like the hatch, and even the company's guarantee gets a black eye. Then what do you sup pose happens when the company lets him down easy by saying, "In such a case it Is the result of poor manage ment and Infertile eggs, and we, of course, are not responsible and will not return the purchase price!" Tableau. Please remember that the best hatch ing and broodiug machinery Isn't just so much lumber and carpenter work. The practical Incubator that turns out the big brood of livable chicks wasn't hatched In a pile of sawdust and shavings by some mongrel that stole her nest. It is the result of costly experiment and scientific thinking. If a reputable incubator holding 150 eggs costs you from S2O to $25 and a brooder to match is quoted at $lB to S2O. don't twist your face to say, "Whew!" That's cheap for good brains and suc cessful hatching and brooding. You'll see It later in fine eggs and stock. When you buy your chicken machin ery, always consult a reputable poul tryman. He knows and is always In touch with new inventions and Im provements in the hatching and brood ing business. As you are asking the favor, inclose a stamp. This is only common decency. Don't get the idea that a larger ma chine at a cheap price is better than a smaller reputable machine at the same price. Hungarians always buy boots for the amount of leather for the price, not according to the fit. Better have a safety device incuba tor that costs S2O and hatches eighty chicks to the hundred eggs set than a 200 egg machine that costs S2O and burns your iiouse down. Large machines are harder to regu late. more dilllcult to keep filled with eggs, and many of them burn more oil tiian two half the size. They are hard to sell secondhand, and a poor hatch is a big loss. The 150 egg size is our measure for best re sults. A big nulsnnce In Incubating is a half dozen different style Incubators. This often comes from attending rum mage sales. Some are hot air. others hot water; some have water pans, oth ers not: some have automatic ventila tion, others slides, and all the instruc- j tions are different. If you are a train dispatcher or have taken a patent memory developer, you can do the stunt, but never leave the variety show In charge of your wife, for there will surely be a fire or a di vorce. DON'TS. Don't forget the nits in dusting for lice. They hatch In two weeks. In two weeks dust again—or nit. Don't bother manufacturing your own louse powder. These ten cent prescriptions advertised will do you. Don't forget to wait till the last bell rings before you order your incu bator. If It lingers back longer than a mouth, then telegraph. Don't breed rats and mice. You have enough on hand to breed and feed chickens without extras. Old fashion ed catnip Is the best vermin fugit. Don't dust the cluck and put her right back on the nest. She will soil her eggs. Let her eat her meal In the morning and dust her In the afternoon. The louse powder will make her drunk, so you can see what you look like just occasionally. ROOSTING ON THE FENCE. It's hatching season and your stuck. "To be or not to be" a breeder for the practical or fancy is the question. Give us the "long green,"and the honest sport take the blue. Come off the roost and listen. If it's meat and eggs, take White Wyandottes. Cocks weigh eight and a half pounds, cockerels seven and a half, hens six and a half and pullets five and a half pounds. Prettiest mar ket fowl. One pound less than Rocks, but more eggs and smaller ration. If it's most eacs and less but finer nesh, take leghorns—S. C. White pre ferred. The dual Leghorns bred for size and eggs are the fad. Beautiful standard birds; graceful as doves; lively as crickets; the layers and payers. But there are others. Choose. You wish to be a sport? Then listen. If we were a sport, we wouldn't bunt In on common ribbon winners, Uke Rocks, Dots and S. C. Whites, that crow from every back yard. We would breed the sportiest, the unique, the ul tra fancy high fliers, that would make the swelled head, know-lt-alls put on their specs and ask, "What Is this bon ton, beautiful bird?" No, sir! No breeding egg layers and Juicy meat chickens to feathers, ctAbs and consumption In our potple. No hook backed Wyandottes In our chick en noodle soup. We would take the fancy bird on the high perch and make him fancier, fanciest. We would be come our own class, own our own mar ket and be the whole show. HATCHING BY ELECTRICITY. The electroplane, the electrobator, the electrohen, will not perform a great part In hatching operations. With a dol lar meter rent and exorbitant rates in many small cities and towns and most poultrymen located far from electric plants, we fear the patentees will not get rich. A cheap portable light plant is next in order. IDEAL BROWN LEGHORN HEAD FOR BREEDERS. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. If you are gathering eggs for early hatching, you make the round of the nests often or the eggs will be chilled. Keep them In a room where the ther mometer registers CO and roll them about every day. To fix an egg that It can't hatch just take it in the hand with point to palm. Hold it tightly and go through the stunt of throwing a ball. The shock turns the germ upside down, and it can't hatch. Now that the shows are over the sporty birds will return to the simple life. Those with bleached backs and dyed feathers will soon asShme their brass and lose their lordly air, and the borrowed crowers will be returned with Hie usual hush money. So long! Yes, you will get the chicken fever In the spring. It's as regular as spring poems, Easter hats and house wreck ing. The easiest way to cure It Is to buy a real cheap incubator and run It according to directions. Caution: Be fore using, double your fire insurance and keep the cat upstairs for a fire alarm. The panic hasn't affected the egg and poultry prices, though we have had to keep our gun out, watching those bank ers that "busted up." Are "nest eggs" safe when they're around? The people who had all their eggs in one basket haven't drawn them out for tomato can storage. Many are leaving leaky bank vaults to Invest with tho Cock-a-doodle company. There's still roosting room. The Missouri hen knocked out the great Missouri mule, and now the Mis souri state show has just gone and done us all. I.isten: Five thousand dol lars' worths of free advertising for all exhibitors; five and ten dollar premi ums; special prizes, such as incubators, silver cups, twenty-five dollar cocker els, fifty dollar pens, gold and silver medals, club cups, specials, ribbons and badges. Did you ever hear of a show paying enough for express before? Missouri, you will do If you do do us. Who Is the big cock of the perch? It's the fellow who won his cups and ribbons on the square. He will not advertise fnked firsts for trade and sell eggs from nints and crooked backs. llo's no prize liar. He's true. Give him his due. Xl's cocks are true. His hens are too. Tic's fair. He's on the square. He'll pet there. It's In the air. . JADTIVWWWKJ , Women the Greater Dreamers. A Vienna doctor has published the following figures: Thirteen men out of a hundred as against thirty-three women dream dur ing their sleep. The number of men who dream frequently is 27 per cent; that of women Is 45 per cent As a general rule, it may be said that the weaker sex has twice as much tend ency to dreaming as the opposite sex. The cerebral phenomenon under con sideration is absolutely unknown to 9 per cent, and 14 per cent dream only very rarely. It seems idle to add that the same doctor noted, what Is perfectly well known, that almost all our dreams are suggested more or less directly by the Incidents of the material life of every day—Boston Advertiser. Religious Instruction, Sergeant (preparing squad for church parade)— Recruits! 'Shun! Those as can read will follow the reglashuns. Those as can't read will go through the requisite motions, as follows; One! Extend lef' 'and 'oldlng prayer book. Two! Halse right 'and to level of mouth. Three! Moisten thumb o' right 'and. Four! Turn hover page!— London Punch. WILD WESUOR BOIS Vast Country Playgrounds Plan ned For City Youngsters. FIRST ONE TO BE IN MICHIGAN John D. Rockefeller and Hie Son-in law, Harold McCormick, Will Fi nance Captain Jack Crawford'a Bcheme to Make Boys Belf Reliant. Poet Scout to Boss First Playground. Ureat summer playgrounds lu the country for city children Is the latest philanthropy in which John D. Rocke feller intends to use part of his wealth, aided by his son-in-law, Harold Mc- Cormick of Chicago. Captain Jack Crawford, sometimes known as the "poet scout,", made the statement re cenUy while In New York. He ought to know, for he is to have direct charge of the first playground to be opened, a tract of wilderness in Mich igan on Portage lake, about twelve miles from the town of Manistee. The plan provides not only for a playground, but for a systematic super vision of the boys' summer play, which will be largely aloug the lines of hunt ing, trapping, woodcraft, swimming, military exercises, target practice and regular exercise In the old tricks of the former wild and woolly west. Indians will be employed, and against them the boys will goon weekly expe ditious. There will be stagecoaches for the boys to save from the attacks of bandits, the outlaws being other boys of the vacation crowd. There will be a typical old time frontier military post, where the lads will learn the life of the mounted service. Miniature des erts will be provided, so that the boys may learn another form of western life. In fact, everything will be provid ed to keep alive the old ability of the frontier days lu the masculine Ameri can breast and to make the boys as capable as were their ancestors when called upon in an emergency. The "study period" will range from three to thirteen weeks. Within the next year two play wilds. If not more, will lie opened, the one in Michigan, which will be in operation next summer, and another on a large tract In New Mexico or southwestern Texas. The land iu Michigan embraces almost 1,200 acres. Captain Crawford claims the conception of this idea as his own, though Rockefeller and Mc- Cormick moneys are to finance it in Its full development In speaking of It he said: It suggested Itself to me in a talk I hod with George Gould on a steamer coming back from England nearly twelve years ago. Mr. Gould was lamenting that much in the way of outdoor sports of a healthy and spirit building character was almost Impossible In those days, when the country was growing so popu lous. I asked htm what he meant, and he said he wished there was soino fron tier left to which he could send his older boys, under suitable supervision, Where they could learn something of real roughing it for a few weeks every year. "It makes better men of boys." he con tinued. "to learn something of the fron tier life and of the things they must know in order to stand Independent un der such conditions." I agreed heartily with him, but tho Idea of creating an artificial frontier didn't occur to mo until we had reached New York. Then George Gould had started west on an Inspection tour. I Intended to present my Idea to him if the chance ever came, but it never did. I was delivering lectures at tho Hamp stead Chautauqua last August, and one day John D. Rockefeller and Harold McCormick were among my auditors. I met them after the lecture and had a particularly long ponversatlon with Mc- Cormick, in the course of which I hap pened to touch on my scheme for Amer ican boys. He became Interested, and I elaborated it to him. Two days after ward he sent for me and told me that whatever money I needed for the plan ho and Mr. Rockefeller would furnish. The plan in detail calls for the estab lishment of many parks for the pur pose of teaching the boys military life and the old wild west methods. The parks will be as large as It is possible to make them under local conditions. The park in New Mexico, for example, probably will cover thousands of acres. The sections will be restored ton wild state. A small military post and a few log cabins will be built here and there, but otherwise no structures will mar the grounds. The boys will sleep in tents and be much in the open air. The plan is both philanthropic and educational, but not so philanthropic that the parks will not be expected to pay for the actual expenses of the summer maneuvers. This latter phase of the plan Is one born of McCor mlck's pet schemes to help to dissipate the class feeling that he believes Is developing In the United States. Where a boy applies for admittance to the camp through his parents it will be as certained whether ho Is in a position to pay for his footl and accommodations. If his parents are in such a position, twice as much as may be necessary to keep him will be charged, and he will be obliged to take another boy who is unable to pay his expenses as his guest At that the paying boy will not be taxed more than SSO or SCO, for only the actual cost of food and ammuni tion will be put on the bill. All the expenses of maintenance of grounds, etc., will be provided out of the fund given by the capitalists. "The poor boy will become the rich boy's tent mate and companion," says McCormick, "and In the summer cam paigns each will come to appreciate the good qualities In the other. When they grow up, better men because of their summer training in the open, rep resentative persons in the poorer and wealthier classes will have a respect for each other that they might not oth erwise have." It is expected that sev eral hundred boys from New York, Chicago and other cities, one-half poor and one-half rich, will be accommodat ed on the Michigan frontier next sum mer. Good Judgment. "Your partner," remarked the privi leged friend, "seems to be a man of unusually good judgment" "You bet he Is," replied the self ac knowledged brains of the Ann. "Why, he never makes a move without asking my advice!"— Chicago News. A Mean Question. Charles—l heard the other day that Gerald Is going to get married. Edward —Well, why shouldn't he? He's comfortably well off. "That's Just the whole point Why doesn't he remain «o7" STATEMENT OF* Til K Hon Of [HE POOR OK Danville and Mahoning Poor Dis trict for the Year Ending Jan. i, 190. J. P. BAKE,Treasurer, n account with the Directors of the Dan ville and Mahoning Poor District. DR. To balance due Director at last settle inept, * 510 49 locash rrcelved from return taxes. l»i is To cash received from M. Cromwell.. 6183 To cash recelvec from Com ley Young 25 00 To cash from ot er disti lets Lss ;{»» To cash received from J. P. Hare, Halm Estate (> uo To cash received from Gregory dowery 11 UJ To cash received from farm 5*121 To cash received from E. W. Peterson duplicate for 1905 5700 00 To cash received from J. P. liare on duplicate for 1906 750 15 To cash received from J. P. Hare on duplicate for 1907 67 00 To cash received fro n Chas Uttermll ler on duplicate for 1906 40 21 To cash received fronChas. Uttermil ler on duplicate for 1907 66515 * 8680 09 CR. By whole amount of orders paid l»y the Treasurer during the year 1907 769615 Hal due Directors at present settlement $902 91 Directors of Danville and Mahoning Poor District in Account with the District. DR. To balance due from Treasurer at last settlement 510 49 To balance due from K. G. iWertman at last settlement on duplicate for the year 1905 1 «»2 To balance due from E. W. Peters at last settlement on duplicate for the year 1905 93 91 To balance due from Chas. (Jttermil ler at last settlement on duplieate for the 1906 5i To balance due from J. P. Bare at last settlement ou duplicete for the year 1906 831 H9 To amount of duplicate Issued J. P. Bare for the Borough of Danville for the year 1907 6866 87 Amount of duplicate Issued ('has I t termiller for the township of Ma honing for the year 1907 800 66 To cash received from return tax lot- Tocaslt received from Mary Cromwell. "I >3 To cash received from Com ley fining 25 00 To cash received from other districts . I*B 30 To cash received from J. P. Hare to ilahn 600 To cash received from Gregory est.... I 100 To cash received from farm 583 21 *IOO9O 90 CR. By commission allowed E.W. Peters on on duplicate fort he year 1905 1 70 By commission allowed J. I\ Hare ou duplicate for the year 1900... 39 79 By Exonerations allowed ,1. P. Hare on duplicate for the year 1900 31 35 By amount Returned of J. P. Bare on on duplicate for the year I90i» 7 00 By abatement allowed .1. P. Bare of 5 per cent on $5370 50 on duplieate for year 1907 208 52 By com mission allowed J. P. Bare of 2 per cent on 5102 01 on duplicate for tue year 1907 102 W By commission allowed .1 P. Bare of 5 per cent on 730 84 on duplicate for year 1907 3684 By amount return by J. P. Bare on duplicate for the year 1907 7 93 By balance due from J. P. Bare for 1907 751 52 By commission allowed Chas. t'tter miner of 5 percent on 4231 on dup licate for the year 1906 211 By amount return by ('lias. I ttermil ler ot duplicate for year 1906 200 By exoneration allowed ( has I'tter inliler on duplicate for y»- ir 1900.... 7 00 By abatement allowed i'has I'ttcrmil ler on 191 76 on duplicate for the year 1907 21 59 By commission allowed Chas tter miner on 16? 17 for tin*year 1907.... 1102 By commission allowed Chas I t ter miller on 223 15 for the year 1907 .. 11 75 By balance due from Chas I'ttermil ler on duplicate for 1907 85 05 By exonerations allowed E G. vvert man for the year 1905 4 92 H orders paid by Treasurer during the year 1907 7090 15 By balance duo Directors at present settlement 992 91 10090 90 Statement of Orders issued during tht year 1907. Paid and outstanding and purposes for which the same were issued Directors Salaries $ soooo Steward UNHXI Attorney 75 on Physicians 1-10 00 Treasurer 75 00 Clerk 75 00 Auditing and Duplicate 18 on Transient Puupers 4 25 Justices 23 50 Horse Hire 1200 Miscellaneous Items 9 25 Printers bills 55 00 Kent 2500 Insurance 10 40 Paid ot her Districts 38 si Expenses in settlement of cases 71 75 Outside Relief as Follows: Medicine 3200 Coal and Wood 137 09 Shoes and ('lothing 23 9•» Undertaker 37 50 Insane at Hospital 3113 75 General Merchandise... (*>9ool 1064 90 For Ma inte nance of Poor J louse and Farm. Seeding Grain and Plants 47 40 Lime and Manure 909 75 Shoes and Shoe Repairing fi«»• Blacksmith hills 0020 House and Farm Hands 445 32 Farm Implements and Hardware 183 77 Clothing 73 76 Coal 35163 Improvements and repairs 22872 Drug Store bills 1035 Tobacco 48 70 New Furniture 15075 Meat bill 135 91 ! Veterinary 18 50 1 General Merchandise 296 36 Flour and Feed 33 25 j €239529 ' P. M. KKHNS, 1 TH K(». ID HTM A N - Directors H. WIREMAN. S We, the Auditors of the Borough of Danville ! and Township of Mahoning have examined the above accounts and iind them correct. • JOHN L JONE*. 1 M. GRANT «"ULICK, -Auditors. M. P. SCOT r, \ Statement of Real Estate and Personal Property on hand at date of Settlement. Heal Estate 122500 00 House and Kitchen Furniture 1330 00 Hay and Grain 1789 22 Farming Utensils 1358 98 Livestock 171595 Vegetables 107 75 Meat and Lard 100 62 I Clothing and Material 10 40 Fruit. Preserves, fcc 19 55 Vinegar 3500 Sauer Kraut * 16 00 I iii m her 20 (K) Separator 3500 Coal 99 00 Tobacco 14 lo Flour & Feed 0 73 Engine 25000 #29110 22 Produce Raised. 325 Heads Cabbage $ 1625 52 Tons Hay 692 00 213 bushels Potatoes 11580 12 bushels Onions 9 00 421 bushels of W heat 3 *995 16 bushels Rye 12 so 713 bushels Oats 29155 1308 bushels Corn ears 4sl 2* 310 bushels Beet? 77 . r 0 50Gal. Sauer Kraut 2500 •TO bunches Celerv .... 25 00 m bushel Onlou Sets 3 00 1 bushel of Beans I.V) % bushel Dried Corn 1 50 5 bushel Totnat es 125 806 lbs Butter 216 SO 210 Dos Eggs 18 00 •iIOO Bundles corn fodder JOSOO 1255685 1 Stock Ruined. 100 Chickens 5 • 7m ' KH Ji^uo urseys. i 2 00 *175 00 Paupers admitted during the year 1907 i *'icci .'.V... Number iu ilwii.se Jan. AMI. A9OT " . Jan. A«l. i#U«V.V..V.'...V.1!l 1 raiiipH Relieved uuiing tiie year 1907 Night lodgings lui nisned Trumps.. 21 . .u«M4iS lUl'UibUcU ifttlilDa u A BOWL OF BITTER TE^ Himalayan Hospitality In a Snow Enveloped Hovel. ' In spite of a poverty which limits Ihelr good Intentions the Inhabitants of central and south central Asia dis play a charming hospitality. Such, at least, Is the Impression gained from Mr. Ellsworth Huntington's book, "The Pulse of Asia." At Matayan, a village in the prov ince of Ladakh, the habitable portion I of the upper Indus valley, a friendly villager invited Mr. Huntington to dive ! down from the crust which covered eight or ten feet of snow In; a one story house. This was at an elevation of 10,500 feet. Although it was April 11, the snow, even oa a level, was higher than the ; tops of the houses. Where it had been shoveled off the flat roofs It formed high banks, protecting them from the wind and making them the favorite sitting room at that season and even In winter, for the sunshine is always warm in that dry, cloudless climate. When the little black cows hail been driven and pulled out of the way Mr. 1 Huntington' descended to an almost ! closed shed used for the two or three hardy sheep and goats and was usher ed, stooping, into a dark stable con taining a little pony, shaggy, like all j the animals. Rending low once more, he climbed over a high sill and was In the warm, close family living room. ; Light and air came in through a hole In the roof a foot square surmounted | by a chimney pot a foot high made of ; throe stones set up to keep out the snow. A few bits oL ragged cloth on the mud floor for sleFpiug purposes, a ; half dozen metal utensils and an iron | pot full of Himalayan tea. kept warm | over some embers, comprised ail the | visible equipment for housekeeping. | After the host had persuaded Mr. Huntington to take a seat on the floor a half palsied old woman insisted upon j ladling out for him a bowl of tea. It was surprisingly good in view of the j fact that a poor grade of tea leaves j had been steeped half an hour or more | with milk, butter, salt and soda. In j richer houses Mr. Huntington was often served with tea which had been improved by being churned violently j in a slender, greasy black churn, twen | ty inches long by four in diameter, in ; order to mix the rancid butter well , into the compound before it was turn ed into the drinking bowls. MISTRESS VERSUS MAID. Servant Accepts Challenge of Society W oman For Contest In Housework. Hanna Olson, a servant girl in r.oone, j la., who says domestics cannot afford I to work for less than a dollar a day, declares she will accept the challenge of Mrs. M. J. Foster, society woman, 1 also of Boone, for a week's contest in housework. Mrs. Foster allege-s that a | dollar a day is too much for servants, j that most of them are incompetent and that she will prove it by rolling up her own sleeves and going to work. I'lans I for the remarkable contest are going : forward. The majority favor setting the two i women at work each iu a home of the ! same number of rooms under about | the same conditions. A committee will J be named, and credits will be given ' for time consumed and for the condi ! tion of kitchen, bedroom and living ! rooms at noon. WONDERFUL SUBMARINE. Navy's New Boat to Have Clever Life Saving Device. A contract with a company that builds torpedo boats for the construe \ tion of a submarine boat was signed 1 by Secretary Metcalf the other day. The vessel will be built at Bath, Me. The inventors claim that the boat will be the largest and swiftest of sub | marines and will have a steaming ra dius of 3.000 miles and a speed capac ity of 10 knots, two ill excess of tho contract requirements. An Important feature of construction will be the compartment forward, where by an equalization of air and water It is claimed a man may walk ont of the open door Into tho water, permitting life saving when othec means of exit from the vessel are cut ofif. Th» Tide Was Right. Mr. Inlander was taken to the war ship in the river In a launch which bore an official who must be saluted. The launch reached the ship's sida when the first gun of the salute was fired, and Mr. Inlander, startled, giauc. Ed up and saw the salutif.g gun not fai above him. "Gee," he exclaimed, "it's a lucky thing for us that it isn't high tide!"— New York Sun. annr< A Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting and Canaral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters. Ran«es k Furnaces, eto. PRICES TDG LOWEST! QUALITY TUB BEST! JOHN IIIXSON HO. 1W E. FRONT ST.
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