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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<i9o 15
Hy balance due Directors at present
settlement ii 92 01
lOOtR) 90
Statement of Orders issued during the
year 1007. Paid and outstanding and
purposes for which the same
tcere issued
Directors Salaries $ 800 00
Steward ;oo 00
Attorney 7500
Physicians.... 140 00
Treasurer 75 00
Clerk 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
<lnniiß that It is necessarv for him to
Bachelors employed by the isthmian
canal commission and living in the ca
nal zone, at Panama, are debating
heatedly whether they need a curfew
law for protection against the bibu
lous and convivial among their num
ber. The suggestion that a curfew law
be established for night roaming bach
elors on the isthmus came from one
of tile employees living In bachelors'
nuarters. says a Washington special
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