NOTES C M.DARMTZ RIVERSIDE coßßEsrovrascr SOLICITED JBT?" THE FARMER CUTS A FIGURE. The American farmer by brain and brawn has made this republic the granary of the nations, as the skilled mechanic has made it the workshop of the world. In the last twenty-five years there has been a marvelous change in the farms themselves as well as in every thing that goes to make the farm homo life more comfortable and the farmer more skillful and successful in produc ing crops in quality and quantity un surpassed. Byron in looking at Rome's ruins prophesied: While stands the Coliseum, Korno shall stand. When falls the Coliseum, Homo shall fall. When Home falls, the world. Please substitute farmer for Colise um and United States for Rome in the stanza and you read the truth. If you have scornfully termed the farmer "a hayseed" or a "Reuben," read it again and in the future be decent. As the farmer seems to be sum total In producing breadstuffs, fruits, vege tables and dairy products, so it is also evident that he is something in the poultry world. Cut the farmer out of the egg and poultry reports and behold the vast deficit! There may be crude chicken meth ods and careless poultry keepers on some farms; but, kind reader, they will not all plead guilty to the follow ing description, "not by a loug shot." Listen. The farms are decorated with speckled dunghill pheasants that are compelled to dig their living from frozen manure piles. At night they sleep with the hogs, on the manger or with their crooked breastbones warm the wagon tire and the ancient grindstone. "Oft in the stilly night" may be heard the last squawk of a Shanghai rooster as he is jerked off the fence by the odoriferous skunk, while the hoot of the long eared owl proclaims the sad requiem of some aged hen that snoozed in the sour apple tree. Can any hen pen scratcher make us believe all that? Some of these blue goggled cushion pressers are in need of facts, fresh air and a good square meal of brain and backbone producer, and the place to get these commodities is out on the farm, where most everything else good comes from. The census gave the farmer credit for producing the greater part of the poultry product, as it mentioned his name in connection with other items that, entering into the big total from all sources, make Uncle Sam the rich est ruler on God's footstool. "Better farm poultry, and more of it," is be coming the farmer's slogan, and, just as he is adopting every method to im prove and increase his crops, so he Is raising better fowls and adopting moro advanced methods in poultry culture. But let him speak for himself: THE FARMER HAS A WORD. We farmers aren't poultrymeu and make 110 pretension to the profession. We are ripped up the back by some of the chicken fellows for our meth ods, but let them be careful to prac tice what they preach, and especially let some of them quit shoving old culls off on the farmers when they send cash orders. Poultry with us is simply a family convenience. That our surplus should make us cut such a figure in the gov ernment poultry report is astonishing. We are breeding more thoroughbred Jwultry, building more comfortable poultry houses and using artificial hatching and brooding, but our main pursuit Is tilling the soil. Farming, and especially intensive farming, requires more money and close application to book and soil than the old system. As the population increases the do- ! maud becomes greater on us to pro duce more to the square inch than ever. The people want bread more than chickens, turkeys and eggs, and the great American hen thrives better on the poultry farms where she has 110 crops to rip to pieces. We are doing extensive trucking and strawberry growing. We can't jail hens all summer, for it doesn't pay. The fanner's wife anil daughters are needed at other employment so If the chicken business gradually falls into the hands of the professionals don't be surprised. The professionals are continually harping at us togo into the poultry business. If we did, there would bo less feed, j The price would advance. Then they'd I yell louder. If we went Into the business, were successful and prospered, then they \ would turn and call us bad names and tell us to stick to farming and mind our own business. We farmers shall strive to advance j In all lines that nre conducive to bring i Tuccess to our main purpose, which Is j to scientifically till the soil, provide /the people with breadstuffs and to keep the United States at the head of the nations of the world in cereal pro- j duction. I THE STEALER STOLE. A chicken thief stole to a roost To steal a Juloy hen. A bulldog, with a steely gazo, Stole round the pen Just then. The thief who stole to steal the hen Was stole in Jaws of steel. The Bteel It stole into his leg And stole his pants, oh, then! Moral.—"Thou shait not steal."—C. M. B. THE HOGS OF POULTRYDOM. There -re the Chester White, Berk shire, Duroo -Jersey, Poland-China, ra ■orback and the "end seat hogs," but wo never dreamed those money kins. SUCK marneying, waaaio rancieis would call their Pekin, Aylesbury, Rouen, Call. East India, Crested, Mus covy, India Runner and Blue Swedish ducks "the hogs of poultrydom." A drop in admiration followed a rise In feed prices, and a fall in duck prof its caused a rise In Indignation. Nearly a million ducks a year In New York and Pennsylvania! When those myriad flappers swing Into the feed trough with their scoop THE CHESTER WHITES OP POtTLTRYDOM. shovels there Is something doing, and, though a duckling grows to six pounds in ten weeks, at the present price of wheat, coru and meat scrap he looks smaller than a hog flea. As the Chester Whites are the most popular of hogdoin, so the Peklns are 1 the Chester Whites of duckdom. This ! species was brought from China In 1874 and has been much improved, es pecially in appetite. Think of over 800,000 green or yoctag Pekins raised in New York and Pennsylvania In 190" and sold for If to 40 cents a pound! Forty dollars a hundred for Pekln pork! The biped hog has licked the quadruped pig. Do you raise ducks? Congratulations! For fine Pekins breed to tWB de scription : Creamy white; loug well formed heaffi' leaden blue eyes; medium sized orange scoop shovel; longer neck in drake and stiff curled tail feathers; back long, broad, with concave sweep to upturned tail; rouud, full, prominent breast; short wings; body long, deep keel; thighs short; short and reddish orange shanks; toes short and connected by web; drakes eight pounds, ducks sev en pounds, young stock one pound less. But these are not tne only biped swine. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. The slump In special pigeon trade Is caused by the squab trust Sorry to see the boys done and the enthusiasm dying down. Where are those trust busters? Since the turkey is dropping back the goose is coming to the front Many families had goose this year for Christ mas who voted the new (lisli the best ever. May the tribe increase! A pen of White Rocks was shipped to Japan from Bloomsburg, Pa., in January. The express was SSO. Tlio Rocks are no fighters. Games are the war birds. But perhaps they will banquet Bob Evans. When you receive a big order, don't get giddy. Wait till the stock is in the hands of your customer and he sends you a blarney stone letter with the "rocks" before you go and make a marble statue of yourself in the news paper. Some fellows are not steady enough to run a decoy duck ranch. They change breeds so often that the month ly journal readers can't keep up to their ads. They are like changeable I silk, only green is the most prominent color. Presto, change! In feeding if your hens do not run for breakfast they are overfed or sick. If they show no signs of distress, look at the dropping board. If excrement i has yellow tip, it is indigestion. Put a pint of Venetian red to two quarts of water for this trouble. Do you buy a rooster simply for his pretty comb and tail? You may cut off a good rooster's comb and tail and still have a good live rooster left But if you cut off a poor rooster's comb and tall you will lie the only rooster left— unless you are a poultry woman. The frosty waif poultry house hah been very numerous this winter. Causes—moisture from fowl breath, damp litter, accumulated droppings, ground floors, undried cement, absence of ventilators and dead air space. All can be remedied. For fowl breath use the ventilator and cloves. The annual garden digging is often accompanied by the annual ciJeken house cleanup. You can imagine the ugly dreams of a flock that must sleep over a rotting mass of hen manure oil summer and a thawing or frozen cess pool all winter. The picture is sicken ing enough without making us feel crawly by mentioning the myriad lice. §s> * JAsTpa. Miss Willard and "Ivanhoe." When Frances Willard reached her I eighteenth birthday she celebrated her j majority by beginning Scott's "Ivan hoe," a book which her father had for bidden, as he disapproved of novels. In answer to his stern remonstrance she told him that up to that day sho had obeyed him in the matter, but "now," she continued, "I am eighteen. I am of age. lam now to do what I think is right and to read this fine his torical story is, in ray opinion, a right thing for me to do." Her father was taken aback, but he saw the funny side of the matter aud, remarking that she was "a chip of the old block," made no further effort to keep her from reading good stories. Must Havo Been a Hard Talk. A theological student was sent one Sunday to supply a vacant pulpit In a Connecticut valley town. A few days after he received a copy of the weekly ;.-apec of that place with the following item marked: "Rev. of the senior class at Yale seminary supplied the j pulpit at the Congregational church j last Sunday, and the church will now j be closed three weeks for repairs."— Argonaut j IN LITTLE | i| SPRINGS CANYON ;; By Addison Howard Gibson. | '' Copyrighted, 1007, by M. M. Cunningham. T As the pony picked Its way up th« wild, rock bordered canyon Ivy Norris took In great breaths of the oaono of the Arizona foothills. "This Is living!" she erled, throwing »ut her arms. The folka back home would not know mo. These three months spent In this wonderful cli mate have made me strong and young again. And this weather! Back In New Hampshire they are having snow, while out here it is golden sunshine nil day long. My heart is full of the day —Thanksgiving! When I write back home that I spent my Thanksgiving out in the foothills all alone the folks won't lielleve me. The} - *!! simply say I'm learning western ways fast—tc manufacture some big ones to boom the country." The last of August Ivy Norrls, pale, thin and thirty, had arrived from the east to teach the Lone Mesa school. The cowboys on Mr. Tower's ranch, where she boarded and lodged, treated the coming of the cultivated little wo man as n great joke. Iler short skirts, the boots and the handsome little re volver and cartridge belt furnished them material for comment for weeks. Even Warde Hughes, the foreman, was amused at her first attempts to mount and ride Pilot, the gentlest pony on the ranch, but he equally enjoyed the pluck with which she persisted in learning to ride and the use of the little revolvet that looked so comically dangerous in her small white hand. On this Thanksgiving morning the handsome foreman had reined In his cow pony behind a thicket of mesquite trees and was watching faithful old Fllot carefully bear his fair rider up the trail of Little Springs canyon. Al! at once he V>ecanie aware of the facl that a few months had wrought a great transformation in the school teacher of Lone Mesa. The thin form I hft.l rounded out into graceful curves. t#ie pale face had become plump and rosy, qpd her awkwardness in the sad die had given place to an easy manner that could ntf longer be ascribed to s uovice. "She's like a girl of twenty," he so liloquized. "By Jove, she's the neat est edition of her species that evei struck these foothills. I wonder if sin knows where she is going. She's » good ten miles from the ranch houst uow and still going on. Well, she's a pretty interesting stray, and I'm going to see that she doesn't get entirely lost." With this thought Warde Hughes en tered another trail, then cautions!* mane a aetour, coming nacu to int canyon just above Little Springs. Still concealed back of some manzanltii bushes, he watched Ivy Norrls coint on up the rugged trail. She was sing ing a stanza ot' an old school song thai he remembered, and the notes floated up to him on the warm November ait sweet and clear as an angel's song Suddenly she ceased, and she glanced (Illicitly up the slope. Then, catching up lier revolver, she sent a shot whiz zing off into the chaparral. A tawuj form dropped out ol' sight down the ravine. "Ah," exclaimed the foreman ad mlringly, "she made Sir. Coyote hil tiie dirt as well as a soldier could have done it." Guiding the pony to the springs, Ivj dismounted. While Pilot drank Ir long, satisfying quaffs from one of the little springs the young woman looked about her, noting the steep granitt walls that surrounded her. the deej azure of the sky and the golden glow of the sunshine enveloping everything like a loving mother keeping a winter's chill at bay. Then she saw Warde Hughes approaching from an opposite direction. "May I join you, Miss Norrls?" ht asked. "Certainly, Mr. Hughes," she nil swercd. "It is noon, isn't it?" giving an odd little squint at the sun as if sh« were already enough of a plalnswomar to estimate the time by its elevation. "It is about 12:30," said Hughes, witt the old timer's accuracy. "Then it is time for my lunch, aiw I'm as hungry as that wretched coyote I shot at It is Thanksgiving day, Mr. Hughes. I have beef sandwiches, olives, cheese, crnckers and some fig wafers in my saddlebags. With New England hospitality I ask you to help me eat them." "While it is not the custom of us cat tlemen to take a lunch at noon," he re turned, looking Into the bright eyes of the little woman before him, "I arn glad to break the custom on this occa sion by accepting your Invitation." Under a live oak they spread the pa per napkins which Ivy had brought and arranged the lunch upon them. Hughes soon caught the happy spirit of his companion, and, throwing his mask of conscious restraint aside, he talked and laughed with her with the pleasure of a boy. "The spring must furnish us tea," she said, handing Hughes her pretty silver folding cup. He quickly filled it from the spring near by. Then he passed the cup to her. "I did not think of having company," she said apolo getically, touching the rim daintily with her pretty lips. "I wish I had an other." "I'm glad you haven't," protested Hughes heartily. "I like this one best," taking the cup from her hands and drinking. For a minute Ivv made no mnl« iiica one loosen at tne man sirtmg op posite her as if in doubt of his mean ing. The next Instant she smiled frank ly and said: "Well, I think I do too." The half serious simplicity of her speech amused Hughes, and, throwing back his head, ho laughed in real en joyment "I'm sure we'll get on all right," he said, still laughiug. Hughes declared there never was such a lunch. The greatest Thanks giving feast in the land was nothing compared with this. The cold, pure water which they sipped In such good comradeship from the one cup he was sure outrivaled the nectar of all the gods. AO too MOB it *u finished and they sat Back mnoer tne nve on* mmi h happy. Suddenly Ivy realized ft was mldaftemoon and she had twelve miles to ride back to the ranch. Tomonjow there would be echo<* and the old rou tine of duties. Today held sunshine, laughter, Joy; the next would be filled with the dally grind and hard tasks. Watching her from under tho wide rim of his hat Warde Hughes saw the weary expression begin to settle over Ivy Norrls' face, and he understood. Left an orphan after finishing school, his loneliness had driven him west Here temperate habits and sterling principles had won him success. Now a woman, loving the freedom of his hills as he loved it had entered his life. Suddenly he beheld a vision—a vision of liberty for Ixrth. Immediate ly he felt an Intuition that the loneli ness of both was at an end. The new life of Bunshlne, the sunshine of a wonderful love, was glowing for them. He yearned to tell her, to lift the shad ows from the patient face, but the moment of realization was too blissful for speech. "Come," he said at last, springing up to meet tho now life and claim it for them. Gently he took her Imnd and lifted her to her feet. Then, look ing Into her beautiful eyes, he said eagerly, "Little woman, I want you to let me make every day of your life a Thanksgiving like today." A soft flush stole into her face, but she did not leave the strong arms which held her. THE ODOR OF SANCITY. A French Writer's Theory of How It May Be Exuded by Man, Dr. Georges Dumas is the author of an article in the Revue de Paris on "The Odor of Sanctity." The writer eccepts as true the numerous reported Instances of saints and mystics of the Catlioilc church whoso bodies after death or during moments of ecstasy emitted peculiarly pleasing odors of various kinds. Then men and women With whom snch legends deal, argues Dr. Dumas, wo.„ neurasthenes. and it is not impossible that the aroma of sanctity which surrounded was the product of strictly physiological and chemical changes to all men, but present in highly intensified form in subjects who, so to speak, burned up the candle of their existence at an unusually rapid rate. Ho says in part: "So far, then, we have couie across a great variety of perfumes—cinnamon, clove, orange, pineapple, rose, violet lily of the valley, yellow amber and benzoin. Now, the natural constitu tion of all of these is well known, and chemistry produces them daily for com mercial purposes. We may therefore substitute the equivalent chemical ex pressions for the ordinary terms we have employed and say that orange, cinnamon, violet and musk owe their perfume to aldehydes and acetones, aromatic liquids derived from the alco hols, just as tlie artificial essence of pineapple comes from butyric ether. We have, then, to ask whether .the hu man body can produce odorous com pounds of the kind we have mentioned and under what conditions. As a mat ter of fact, it does produce a certain number of such compounds in the de struction of organic matter, which is the constant condition of life, in par ticular acetones and the volatile fatty acids, butyric, fonnic, acetic, etc. If the process of combustion is normal all these constituents are burned up, com pletely oxidized, and give as a residue water, carbonic acid and urea. But let some slackening occur in the Inmost nutrition of tlie tissues and the same constituents will escape through the breath, perspiration and the skin." MAGIC MIRRORS. Peculiar Effects In Some of the Pol ished Bronze Reflectors. Now and then mirrors of a curious kind are seen in Europe. They are called "magic mirrors" and are of Jap anese origin, made not of glass silver ed, but of cast bronze, polished on the face and bearing on the back raised patterns, inscriptions, symbolical de signs, crests or pictures. When ex posed to a bright beam of light from the sun or from an electric lamp they reflect in the light from their polished face the imago of the pattern on tiieir backs. This Is a purely optical property and has of course nothing in common with the fortune telling magic crystals of the astrologer or the alleged magic mirrors of necromancy, yet it long puz zled the scientific optician and even now is little known or believed. Tho researches of various scientific men have established the fact that the phe nomenon is due to very minute differ ences of curvature in the polished face, differences so minute that they do not affect the ordinary use of the mirror as a looking glass and flint can l>e do- j tooted only by delicate optical tests. Tho only remaining mystery has been as to how these delicate differ ences of curvature were produced in exact correspondence to the pattern on the back. The makers themselves are often in ignorance of the magic prop erty and do not know which of their mirrors possess it and which do not. The mirrors are cast in molds and aft erward polished by hand, and it is hold by scientific men that the differ ence of curvature is caused by the met al's yielding unequally under that pres sure of the tools used in scraping and polishing, the thin parts naturally bending more thau the thick. This ac counts for the mirrors' becoming magic.—Chicago News. The Whale. The order cetacea, to which the whale belongs, is higher up in the an imal scale than the fish proper, its members being mammals, breathing through lungs and bringing forth liv ing young, which for a time they suckle. The Immediate ancestor of the whale evidently spent part of its time on the land, having limbs where now are found the whale's paddles. Qualified. "This," said tho able manager, "is a difficult part to play. The character doesn't have to speak a word during the performance, and yet he is on the stage the greater part of the time. Do you think you can do It?" "I should think I can!" exclaimed the actor. "I'm well qualified for the part. I've been married for twenty years and haven't had a chance to say a word yet" TO AID UNEMPLOYED Plan Suggested For Providing Means of Livelihood. GOVERNMENT HELP DESIRED. Secretary Wi'son tj Be Asked to Take the Initiative In Establishing Ex perimental Farm Where Idle Work men Can Be Taught Farming—Views of an Educator. The question of securing work Tor the great armies of the unemployed of the large cities, It Is stated. Is to b< brought squarely before Secretary Wll son of the department of agriculture within a short time with the recom mendation that he do all In his powei to have the federal government es tablish an experimental farm. Seth Farnsworth of Chicago, who has Inter ested himself in the case of the unem ployed, wont to Washington and ia preparing to place before the secretary of agriculture many reasons why he should see that the government back the effort to solve the problem of the idle men of the cities. Together with Rev. John Ellis, whe is also in Washington representing the recent St. Louis convention of idle men who are looking to the government to do something to aid them, Mr. Farns worth hopes to interest the officials of the country, from the president down, In the project. The administration, it is stated, is concerned over conditions existing in many sections of the coun try, notably in the large cities, and in tends, it is stated, to address itself to the task of investigating the problem. In this way it is hoped much of the distress among the workingmen of the country may be greatly relieved. "What we want to do in this country to alleviate the situation is to educate the Idle workingman in the pursuit of agriculture," said Mr. Farnsworth re cently to a reporter of the Washington Star. "You hear much throughout the country of farmers who cannot get farm hands. From these stories one would suppose that all a workingman of the cities would have to do would be to call upon the farmer and offer his services in order to secure employ ment. But in the case of those skilled In machinery or other of the trades this cannot l>e true. "They know nothing of agriculture and when they apply to the farmer are turned away because tliey know noth ing of the work of the farm." Mr. Farnsworth then explained that the government should at once estal>- llsh a farm where honest workingmen out of employment may be able to come and receive instructions in the art of husbandry and in several mouths be able togo forth iuto the world qual ified to take up the work in the fields until they may again take up their reg ular vocations In life. For a starting point In this effort to establish a farm for the extension of this proposed high class agricultural education Mr. Farnsworth calls atten tion to the 500 acre tract of laud own ed by the department of agriculture in Alexandria county, Vu., which tract, he says, is an ideal location for an in auguration of the work to solve the question of helping the unemployed. When the question was discussed with Mr. Timothy Healy, president of the International Brotherhood of Sta tionary Firemen, he expressed great interest in the idea. Solving the prob lem of tlie unemployed is taking up much of the time of the labor leaders in New York at this time, according to Mr. ilealy, and in his estimation they will gladly welcome any effort on the part of the government of the United States to alleviate the situation. Mr. James L. Feeney, president of the Bookbinders' union, was one of the local labor leaders whom Rev. John Ellis and Mr. Farnsworth conferred with the other day. lie was also im pressed with the idea that the proposed school for the unemployed. If it could be successfully carried out, would go a long way toward helping to solve the problem of the Idle workmen. Mr. Feeney explained that he stood will) Mr. Healy in support of any effort that will go toward advancing the in terests of the laboring man. Ilis attention was also called to a re cent statement from E. A. Sutherland, who has charge of the National Agri cultural and Normal institute at Madi son, Tenu. In his statement Mr. Suth erland says: "Our experience has been good. We are making steady progress, and those things that were experi ments two years ago are now demon strated facts. We do not need to walk by faith concerning them. I am satisfied that the coming school will have to adapt Itself to the principles that underlie the education where the entire man is trained. "Schools that continue to adhere to the old ideas will share the same fate that has been experienced by men and institutions that refuse to recognize necessary reforms. Self supporting schools will turn out a class of men who will be superior in every respect to those who are trained in a school that does not appreciate practical edu cation." ltev. John Ellis, national secretary of the unemployed at St. Louis, the other night talked as follows of the pro posed plan to establish the school: "After a thorough discussion of the plan with Mr. Farnsworth 1 approve of tne work, first because it will afford an industrial opportunity to many men. In the second place, a little scientific knowledge of agriculture will soon quicken the interest and enthusiasm of men of the city type of mind for farm ind country life. Thirdly, it would Iransform unskilled men into a trained class of agricultural workers who would be hailed with delight by the fanners and who would probably try to become farm owners themselves. In the fourth place, it would save the American 'living wage' standard from destruction at the hands of a vast army of unorganized and unemployed men. "The self supporting agricultural school plan near cities will tend to cor rect the city habit and wake a love for agricultural life not only among this class, but also among clerks, factory folks, struggling professional men and others who are forced out of employ ment" STATKIUKNT O V TIIK DIM'S Of THE POOR ( OF Danville and Mahoning Poor Dis trict for the Year Ending Jan.i, 190. J. I*. DA HE, Treasurer. 11 account with the DlrectorH of the Dan ville and Mahoning Poor District. DR. To balance due DlrectorH at last uettle- DM in $ 51049 To cash nceiTod from return taxes... lf> in To cash received from M. Cromwell.. (WKS To cash recelvec from Comley Young. 'Si 00 To cash from ottier disti lct« 188 30 To cash received from J. I*. iiurc. iiuhn Estate 000 To cash received from (Gregory dowery 11 OJ To cash received from farm 583 21 To cash received from E. W. Peter* on duplicate for 1905 57C000 To cssh received from J. P. Hare on duplicate for 1900 75015 To cash received from J. P. Hare on duplicate for 1907 57 00 To cash received fro n Chas Uttermil ler on duplicate for 190tf 40 21 To cash received fronChaH. Uttermil lur 011 duplicate for 1907 6«»515 * 8089 09 CR. lly whole amount of orders paid by the Treasurer during the year 1907 709015 Hal due Directors at present settlement $992 91 Directors of Danville and Mahoning Poor District in Account with the District. DR. To balance due from Treasurer at last settlement 510 i'J To balance due from E. U. iWertman at last settlement on duplicate for t he year 1905.... 192 To balaucedue from K. W. Peters at last settlement on duplicate for the year 1005 93 91 To balance due from Chas. Utterm 11- ler at last settlement 011 duplicate fur the UMH3 51 38 To balance due from.l. P. Bare at last settlement on duplicete fur the year HKXi 83189 To amount of duplicate Issued J. P. Bare for the Horough of Danville for the year 1907 080087 Amount of duplicate Issued Chas I t termiller for the township of Ma honing for the year 1907 800 50 To cash received from return tax 10 4 s To ca«h received from Mary Cromwell. «»l >3 To cash received from Com ley doling 2>(o To cash received from other districts.. I*B 30 To cash received from J. P. Hare to j 11 aim 000 I To cash received from Gregory est 11 <»» To cash received from farm .>BB 21 #1001)0 90 CR. Hy commission allowed E.VV. Peters on on duplicate for the year 1905 I 70 lly Commission allowed .1. P. Hare on duplicate for the year 1906 3979 Hy Kxoneratlous allowed .1. P. Hare on duplicate fort he year 190tt 31 35 Hy amount Returned of J. P. Hare on • mi duplicate for the year ltfOo 7 00 Hy abatement allowed J. P. Hare of 5 percent on $->i»7050 on duplicate for year 1907 208 52 Hy commission allowed J. P. Hare of 2 i>er cent on 5102 0-1 on duplicate for the year 1907 1 102 0-1 Hy commission allowed J. P, Hare of 5 per cent on 73b 8» on duplicate for year 1907 30 81 Hy amount return by .1. P. Hare on duplicate for the year 1907 7 95 Hy balance due from J. P. Hare for m>7 75152 Hy commission allowed Chas. Utter miller of 5 per cent 011 42 81 011 dui>- llcfte for the year 1900 .... 211 Hy amount return 1»y Chas. Cttermll icr on duplicate for year 1000 2 00 Hy exoneration allowed Chas. I'tter miner on duplicate for ye'ir 1900 7OO Hy abatement allowed Chas l ttertnil ler on 491 70 ou duplicate for the year 1907 24 5u Hy commission allowed Chas Utter miller 011 107 17 fur theyear 1907.... 14 02 Hy commission allowed Chas l'tter miner on 2iSi 15 for the year 1907... 11 75 Hy balance due from Clms I'ttermll ler on duplicate for 1007 S5 05 Hy exonerations allowed E (J. VVert man for the year 1905 4 92 Hy orders paid by Treasurer during the year 1907 7 00 Auditing nn l Duplicate 18 00 I Transient Paupers l J.» Justices 2* "Ml i Horse Hire l2 00 >1 isccllstneous Items 9 25 Printers bills 5500 Kent 2'»o» ! Insurance 10 40 Paid other Districts 3*Bl Expenses in settlement of eases. 74 75 1235:96 Outside Relief as Follows: Medicine H2OO Coal and Wood 137 09 Sh«»es and Clothing 23 9 > Undertaker 8750 Insane at Hospital 8143 75 l itinera 1 Merchandise 09001 4064 90 For Maintenance of Poor House and Farm. Seeding (train and Plants 47 10 Liime and Manure 309 75 Shoes and shoe Kepalriug 5 9' Blacksmith bills 0020 House and Farm Hands 44-5 32 Farm Implements and Hardware Kt 77 Clothing 73 75 Coal 351 68 Improvements and repairs 22372 Drug Store bills 103*» Tobacco I*7o Nt \v Furniture ISO 75 Meat hill I l»9l Veterinary 18,10 (General Merchandise 290 Flour and Feed 8825 92395 21* P.M. KERNS, 1 THEO. HUFFMAN -Directors 11. WIUKMAN. \ We, the Auditors of the Horough of Danville and Township of Mahoning have examined the above accounts amltiiid them correct. JOHN 1,. J ONE"*. 1 M. UK A NT tiI'LICK, - Auditors. M. P. SCOTT. \ Statement of Real Estate and Personal Property on hand at date of Settlement . Heal Estate $22500 00 llmisc and Kitchen Furniture.... 1330 00 Hay and Grain 1789 22 Farming Utensils lUS* 9s Live Slock 1715 95 Vegetables 107 75 Meat and Lard 100 02 Clothing and Material 4040 Fruit. Preserves, &c 19 55 Vinegar 8500 Kauer Kraut * 10 00 Lumber 2000 Separator -'*s 00 Ooal 99 00 Tobacco Hio Flour & Feed 0 75 Engine 25000 $29140 22 Produce Raised. 325 Heads Cabbage t 1025 52 Tons Hay 092 00 243 bushels Potatoes 14580 12 bushels Onions ... 9 00 421 bushels of W heat ... 39995 10 bushels Rye 12 *0 713 bushels Oats 294 M i;WB bushels Com ears 481 25 310 bushels Beet? 77 PO 50 C»al. Sauer Kraut 2500 50 bunches Celerv 25 00 14 bushel Onion Hots 800 1 bushel of Beans 1 SO bushel Dried Corn ISO 5 bushel Tomat 12s 866 lbs Butter 210 SO 210 Doi Eggs 4800 UIOO Bundles corn fodder iOftOO 8255685 Stock Raised. 100 Chickens 3 ;j7 no 2 Calves " 14 00 olurkeys 1200 $175 00 • Paupers admitted during the year 1907 1 Left •Died / Number iu House Jan. Ist i« • - .1 '• Jan. Im. .1 Tramps Relieved during the year 1907 Night lodgings furnished Tramps 21 Meals furnished Tram us 0 CURFEWATPAHUMJ. Employee Suggests That One Is Needed In Canal Zone. TWO MEASURES ADVOCATED. One of the Workers, Living In Bache lor Quarters, Wants Protection Against the Convivial Among His Number—Views of a Daring Dis senter. correspondent or ine new roric row. Tlio trouble began when tlxis employee, who Is stationed at I'aralso, taking ad vantage of the canal commission's in vitation for suggestions looking to the betterment of the service, made these two: I First.—Tho establishment of a curfew hour, not later than 10 o'clock in tho evening, when lights in bachelors' quar ters should be extinguished. Second.—'Tho absolute prohibition of the practice of bringing liquor into quarters Tho employee added ingenuously In making the second suggestion that ho flld not know whether It was against the present regulations to have liquor In bachelors' quarters, "but If not it should be." In advocating these two measures "for the uplift" the employee urged these reasons: There are many employees of the com mission whobe duties are both arduous and exacting, and at the end of the day' 3 labor they are In actual need of undis turbed rest to tit them for the duties of the morrow. When this Is denied them through tho action of various roisterers who periodically make their quarters an assembly of brawlers whom a respecta ble (?) saloon keeper would not tolerate (tho writer is aware that whosoever this shoo pinches will be the loudest in denunciation of him). It Is evident that the service given to the Isthmian canal commission by all who come within the zone of their disturbing Influence Is not and cannot be as officiant .... U be. For the benefit of dipsomaniacs who will indulge in stimulants regardless of detriment to personal health, and the writer would not deny them their "rights" In this respect, It might be well to estab lish canteens In the various towns with "boozing ken" attachments, where their orgies could be Indulged In without dis turbing those who havo no desire to take part in them and who have "rights" which should be respected. The response was Instantaneous and vivacious. An employee at Culebra heartily indorsed the plan, but sug gested that tho curfew should not be rung until 11 o'clock. "Eleven o'clock would suit everybody better than 10 p. n)., because those who attend V. M. C. A. classes, tournaments, entertain ments, lodge meetings and more Inti mate rendezvous would be put to a great deal of Inconvenience If not al lowed to turn on lights oil retiring." One seldom thinks ol' the hordes of canal employees returning nightly In | throngs from Y. M. C. A. classes. I The Culebra employee wasn't so sure | about the advisability of the second : suggestion. He thought it would re quire the presence of a zone pollce- I man to keep the bachelors from bring i lng whisky into their quarters, but | he added, "It Is to be deplored, to be } sure, that orgies are sometimes In | dulged iu by a coterie of friends, such j practice being, I am sure, against the existing rules of the commission. ! The habitual drinking of some of 1 the men makes it also very disagree- I able for their roommates especially, but such a practice. In my estimation. ' cannot be regulated or stopped, whnt ' ever means the official may employ." | Another employee at Empire, who is | evidently a sociologist, a vegetarian. a j disciple of Bernard Shaw and a be- I liever in a paternal form of gorern j ment, at once declared his willingness 1 togo to bed when curfew tolled the knell of parting day. He thinks it would be perfectly lovely if the em ployees could be made to eat legumes by ollicial order Instead of meat. Andrew Bearup, a locomotive en gineer, is the only dissenter who has expressed himself publicly. lie Is full of wrath. In blistering words he seeks to dispel the idea "that the bachelor population of Paraiso consists of in ebriates and rowdies." Bearup says that he has been a resident of Paraiso for eight months and has not seen a drunken or disorderly person in that station in all that time. lie suggests to the employee who advanced the cur few plan that if his duties "be so ar