Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Jan. 14, IW9. iir piss « Owen McCaffrey, for many years •watchman at the Reading irou works, died at his home on West Centre street, about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. On Tuesday uight of last week, while alone, he sustained a stroke of paraly sis aud lay out of doors ail night The next morning he was found un conscious. Everything possible was done for him, but as time wore ou he revealed no signs of improvement. On a couple of occasions he beoauie conscious and recognized friends, but a short time afterward he relapsed into insensibil ity. Mr. Mi Caffrey was most highly esteemed. He was a conscientious man. As watchman he was faithful to his post of duty, yet he was never inconsiderate aud disrespectful toward others. The deceased was sixty-four years of age. lie was born iu Irelaud, but came to this country when quite young. He was a widower, his wife dying about thiee years ago. He is survived by four sons- Patrick, Peter aud Thomas, of this city, and John of South Dakota; also ouq, daughter. Mrs. Margaret Rush, of this city. Due notice of the funeral will I>o •giveu. MEiTBERS OF G. A. R. WERE PALL BEARERS A. F. Spider, of South Danville, whose deatli occurred Monday, was consigned to the grave in the Episcop al cemetery yesterday afternoon. The funeral took place from the late resi dence at 1 o'clock. The services were conducted by the Rev. L. D. Ulrich,pastor of the Triu ity Lutheran church. The choir of St Peter's M. E. church of Riverside ren dered two tine selections. The pall bearers were six members of tiie Grand Army of the Republic. The following persons from out of town attended the funeral : Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Nields, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Nields,Mrs. Walter Reese and Miss Margaret Nields, of Shamckiu; A. J. Spitler.New Berlin ;Mrs. John Hickettß Wilkes-Barre: Charles Smith, Cata wissa: Mrs. Fred Hoctenstein, Mis. Willia:n Holtaustein of Suubury; Miss Margaret Hopewell, Northumberland. FIRST CROP OF ICE HARVESTED For a couple of days past there has fceeu nothing doing among the ice liar- Testers. When the breakup occurred, last week, tiie ice passed off Mahoniug creek aud n second crop lias not yet matured. On the ponds at Castle Grove the ice remained intact and a day or so after the raiu tiie cutting.of ice there was resumed. By Tueslay, however, the ponds were cleared of ice. So that since that time the work of harvesting ice in Danville lias been suspended. Just bow loug it may take for a second crop to form ou the ponds aud on Mah oning creek will depend entirely oti the weather. On Mahoning creek yes terday the ice was nearly six inches thick. A. M. Peters, who is filling his large ice house from Mahoning creek, has stored away about 800 tons. He still lias room for some 500 tous, which will be harvested as soon as the ice on the creek becomes of sufficient thickness. J. L. Kline,along -vith Charles Lyons «nd others has tilled his ice house from the ponds at Castle Grove. It is quite unusual for so much ice to be stored away thus early iu the sea son. The dealers sen fair prospects ahead and expect to have all their buildings packed with ice to the roof. Cigarette Resolution Fatal. Hazletou, Intl., Jan. 13.—Edward liaue, 20 years old. died here as the result of keeping a New Year's res olution iu which he gave up the use of cigarettes. Me was addicted to ex cessive smoking and W;H urged to stop them with the New Year. Ho accustom-d had the young man become to their usa, the denial of them afifecte 1 IIH nervous system ser iously. Rut ho determined to do with out smoking, thinking the been desire for them woui 1 pass away. FLORIDA WINTER TOURS PEMIIII 11 February 9 and 23, and March 9, 1909 ROUND $47.70 TRIP From South Danville SPECIAL PULLMAN TRAINS Independent Travel in Florida For detailed Itineraries and full Information consult nearest Ticket Agent. '| DEADLY DEFENSE PLAN Steam Blasts Protect New York's National City Bank. COULD STOP AN INVASION. Whole Building Can Be Flooded With | Superheated Vapor In a Few Min utes— System Installed as Great Vault's Protection In New Home. Blasts of steam, superheated and " kept under such pressure as to flood • the entire building In a few minutes, ' will be the main scheme in a deadly system of defense that the National City bank of New York, the largest financial Institution in America, relies upou to make its new home in Wall ' street the most Impregnable financial fortress in the world and Into which it r recently moved. I Wall street for years has fortified j itself against a possible invasion by a I mob or a concentrated attack from , hundreds of burglars, and all its strong rooms and safes have been built of the most thief proof material at hand, but the National City bank is the first to ' adopt steam as a method of defense, ■ says the New York Herald. Around 1 the bank's great safe, which is of the r usual burglar proof construction—tons I of armored steel, re-enforced concrete, r irou rails and meshes of sensitive alarm wires—is a system of steam pipes that, should all other means fail to frustrate robbers, would snuff out ; the lives of scores of burglars should ! they continue to work near the safe or I would stand off hundreds of men for 1 nil indefinite length of time If it did 112 not suffocate them before they could escape from the building. The great safe, or strong room, which weighs 300 tons, is twenty feet high. | twenty-four feet long aud about flf ! teen feet deep. It is built iu two sto | ries, the upper section rising from the ! center of the main floor and the lower . ! section extending into the basement, ' j where It rests on wide marble legs like : some gloomy sarcophagus. These legs ( ' are about five feet high and allow ; from the basement at all times a full ! view under the safe. Looming ui> from the router of a great square of bronze * iled cages and small rooms the safe. tiulshed in dull gray, looks like a section of a warship iu battle paint among a fleet of brass railed and brass trimmed yachts, and entering one of its doors gives tile impression of stepping into a turret of one of the great battle ships, a huge steel hinge much like a miniature crane swinging the sixteen ton doors Instead of au ammunition hoist. Llighly polished steel crossbars on the outside of the circular doors make them look like the breeches of thirteen inch guns. The armament of the vault is about a foot and a half thick, first a half Inch plate of steel, then half an inch of wire mesh made up of sensitive wires that stretch off in a score of dif ferent directions to alarm stations. After the wire mesh there is a half Inch plate of steel, then eight inches of railroad iron and concrete and last five Inches of armor plate. Running around the middle of the vault directly under the bank floor, which Is provided with a grating to allow of u perfect draft from under neath, is the system of steam pipes which the bank officials depend upon to do final execution should all other protection fail. These pipes are four I inches in diameter, perforated with I wide valves at Intervals of about j twelve inches, and are connected with j mains that lead to the boilers. Should l a burglar or any number of them pen- | etrate the first layer of steel and then | the wire mesh without giving an alarm j all the valves can be opened by a sin- I gle turn of a wheel in any of a dozen ; places throughout the building, send- ! lng out a flood of steam that will com pletely envelop the safe in less than ' half a minute. Should a sudden invasion from au underground passage be made simulta neously with the entry from the street of hundreds of men, all the valves would be kept wide open until the stifling, burning vapor filled the entire basement and the banking chamber clear to the top of its seventy-two foot dome, killing all those unable to make their escape. S«nd Strewing Wagon. Consul Frank S. Ilannah reports to the state department that the street cleaning department of Magdeburg has recently made successful experiments with a new sand strewing wagon con structed by Hermann Fricke of that German city. The wagon spreads rap idly an even layer of sand on the streets, which in the case of asphalt paving Is of great benefit in that It minimizes the slipping of the horses when the streets are either extremely wet or frozen. This has heretofore been done in German cities exclusively by hand. The apparatus is worked by the driver and can be adjusted to strew a layer of sand or gravel from 10.08 to 52.-10 feet wide. The machine has been taken over by the city. Notico From Girls to "Sapheads." Working girls in Clwmpaign, 111., re cently put this notice in the local pa per for the benefit of I nivrisity of Il linois students: "Students, attention! Girls who are working and who are fairly good look ing can scarcely walk on the streets of Champaign without some ignorant sapliead of a student butting in and bothering them with his attentions. Now, It would be advisable for all whom this concerns to sit up and take notice." Taking a Mean Advantage. Once a thrifty Scotch physician was called to a case where a woman had dislocated her jaw. He very soon put her right. The woman asked how much was to pay. The doctor named his fee. The patient thought it too much. He, however, would not take less, and as the woman refused to give him the fee he began to yawn. Yawn ing, as every one knows. Is infectious. The young woman In turn yawned. Her Jaw again went out of Joint, and the doctor triumphantly said, "Now, until you hand me over my fee your Jaw can remain as It Is." Needless to ■ay, 'he money was promptly paid. LIST OF APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSE IN MONTOUR COUNTY AT JANUARY SESSION, 1909. At License Court to be held Jauna: Hotel, Wholesale Liquor Stores, Distil places of residence, location, &c., of ei NAMES OP APPLICANTS. , Eugene T. Linnard, Ist ward, Dan ville, Hotel Prank G. Peters, Ist ward, Dauville, Hotel .James C. Heddcns. Ist ward, Danville. Hotel S.;M. Dietz, Ist ward. Danville, Hotel J. B. Karlson, Ist ward, Danville, Hotel ~ Daniel B. Heddens, Ist ward, Dan ville, Hotel Daniel Marks, lstl ward, Hotel | Emil Gaertner, Ist ward, Brewery.. William 0. Williams, Ist ward, Dan ville, Hotel | Joseph Smith, Ist ward, [Danville, Hotel Albert Kemmer. 3ud ward. Danville, Hotel W. H. N. Walker, 2nd ward,Dauville. Hotel Elias Maier, 3rd ward, Dauville, Res tanraut Wm. E. Schuck. 3rd ward, Dauville, Restaurant Paul P. Swentek,[3rd ward, Dauville, Hotel James Tooey, 3rd ward. Dauville, Hotel Henry Kegel," 3rd ['ward, Danville, Wholetale Liquor Store ... Franklin L. Cochell, 3rd ward. Dan ville Restaurant Pat McCaffrey, 3rd ward, Dauville, £2 Hotel | Clarence E. Peifer. 3rd ward,; Dan ville. Hotel.. John'O. Peifer, [3rd ward, [Danville, Wholesale LiquorJStore George A, Meyers. 3rd ward, Dau ville,JHotel ! Thomaa;'Buck. [3rd [ward,'; Danville. Hotel James Ryan. 3rd ward.Danville,Hotel Eugene Moyer. [3rd; ward, 'Danville, Hotel I John Krauack. :ird"ward,* Danville. Hotel .... ! Wm. C. Dougherty,'[3rd {ward,' Dan v111e['H0te1............. ... . WilliamjEckcrt. 3rd ward,; Danville, >4 ; H0te1.. 7 T. Harry W. Fields, 3rd ward, Danville, Restaurant Hanover Brewing"Company,4th*ward, „ Danville - Brewery. ~~ . ~ . Harry Oox. Exchange, Anthony town ship. Hotel Lucretia Reaver. Derry [township, Hotel John Bateman, Derry township, Hotel Charles Burnell. Liberty township, Hotel W. D. Wise. Valley towhnship,'Hotel Francis Sheatler. Valley township, Hotel Samuel K. Antrim, Valley township, Hotel Fanny Heddens. Washingtonville, Hotel Amandus L. Heddens, Washington ville. Hotel Notice is hereby given that the foregoing named persons have filed with the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Montonr County, their Petitions for License, which will be presented to the said Oonrt on Fri day, the 32nd dav of January, A. D., 1909 at 10 o'clock a. m THUS. G. VINCENT, Clerk of Q. S" Danville, Pa., ry 22nd,'1939 at 10 o'clock a. in.."for lors,"Brewers and Bottlers,witiruaiues »oh. Plaoes for whioli Application is Made. S. E. corner Market and Mill streets, Ist ward, Danville, Pa., known as die Montonr Housr. I N. W. corner Penn and Mill streets, Ist ward, Danville, Pa., known as City Hotel. West side of Mill street, between Market and Front streets, Ist ward, Danville, Pa., No. 11 Mill street, known as Heddens House. N. W. corner Mill and Front street, No. 1, Ist ward, Danville, Pa.,known aB Riverview Hotel. East side of Mill street, between Market and Front streets, Ist ward Danville, Pa., No. 16 Mill street. West side of Mill street between Market and Mahoning, No. 137, Ist ward. Danville, Pa , known as Man sion House. East side of Mill street, between Mahoning street and Penn'a. canal. No. 234 Mill street.ist ward, Danville, Pa. N. W. corner Front and Ferry streets, Ist ward,Danviiie. Pa., No. I*9 Front street. East side of Mill street, between Market and Mahoning streets, known as the Baldy House, Nos. 118 and 120, Ist ward, Danville, Pa. S. W. corner of Iron and Market streets, known as ttie Ofleuilower House, Ist ward, Danville, Pa. South side of Market street, adjoin ing an alley on the east, D. L. Guest on the west and known as the Lafay ette House in the 2nd ward, Danville, Pa. Sooth side of Market street, being Nos. 724 and 726 East Market street, 2nd ward, Danville, Pa. West side of Mill street betweeu Penn'a. Canal and D.L .& W. K. R., 3rd ward, Danville, Pa., No. 279. West side of Mill street. Nos. 291 and 293, between Penn'a. Canal and D. L. & W. R. R., 3rd ward, Dan ville, Pa. West siiie of Mill street. Nos. 295 aud 297, betweeu Penn'a. Canal and D. L. & W. R. R.,3rd ward, Danville, Pa. West side of Mill street, No. 339, between D. L & W . R. R. auo Nortli'd. street, 3rd ward, Dauviile. Pa., kuowu as the Union Hotel. West side of Mill street, 3rd ward, Danville, Pa., No. 311. North side of Nortli'd. street. No. 11, between Mahoning Creek ami Mill street, 3rd v wd. Danville, Pa.,known as the North Danville House. East side of Mill street, between Centre aud Spruce streets, 3rd werd Danville, Pa., No. 510. 8 Southeast corner of Mill and Spruce streets, 3rd waid, Danville, Pa. Northeast corner of Mill and Spruce streets, 3rd ward, Danville, Pa.. Nos. 522 and 524 Mill street. West side of Waluut street oetwceu R. R. street and au alley opposite Reading depot, 3rd ward, Dauviile, Pa., known as Catawissa Depot House Southeast corner of Mill and Hem lock streets, 3rd ward, Danville Pa.. Nos. 542 and 544 Mill street,kuowu as White Horse Hotel. Nertheast corner of Mill and Centre streets, 3rd ward, Danville, Pa., No 500. Corner of R. R. street and an alley opposiie D. L. & W. depot, known as Railroad House. 3rd ward, Dauviile, Pa. East side of Mill street, between Hemlock and Little Ash streets. 3rd ward, Danville, Pa., aud kuowu as Washington House. North side of North street, 3rd ward. Danville, Pa., ajoiniug proper ty of Augustus Treason the east and property of Reading Iron company on the west. In a house situatd in 3rd ward, on the northeast corner of Mill and Little Ash streets, being No. 632 Mill street, Danville. Pa. East side of Mill street, No. 338, Danville, Pa. Fronting on Spring street, betwern A aud B streets in 4th ward. Dau viile. Pa. Situated in Exchange. Montonr county, on the north side of Public Road leading from Exchange to Tur botville, adjoining lands of Mrs. Aus tin Molir, Dr. M. McHenry aud Char les Yeager. On east side of public road leading from Washingtouille to White Hall, near or adjoining lands of Wilkes- Barre and Western R. R. where WaUi iugtouville statiou is located, Derry townspjii. A two story frame building situated on the east side of public road leading from Dauviile to Washiugtouville, bouuded 011 the north by road leading from Washingtonville to .Terseytowu, on the east bv land of Joseph Halt man, cu the south by land 01 Henry Cooper. In a two story frame Hotel building situated 011 tlie corner of Main anil Coal streets, in the village of Moores burg. Liberty towuship. At junction of public roads leading from Mooreßburg ami Washingtonville ; to Danville in Mausdale,Valley town ! ship, kuowu as Valley House. ■ Valley township, on road leading from Washingtonville to Dauviile. ; known as Pennsylvania House. In a three story frame' Hotel build ing in Valley Towuship ou road lead ing from Dauviile to Washingtonville, adjoining lauds of Elias Williams, Pierce Appleman, Philip Beyer aud Robert Cornelisou. Fronting on Water street, corner of street iu Washingtonville Borough known as Excelsior Hotel. Sontliaast corner of Water and Mar ket street, Waahlnßtonville Borongh, known as Eagle Hotel. tea NO LIMIT OK ROOSEVELT'S HUNT President Privileged to Shoot Any Animal In Africa. GAME LAWS THROWN ASIDE. British Authorities, by Special Cour tesy, Give Him Permission to Kill What He Pleases and as Much as He Can—Hunting License Free. By speclul courtesy of the authori ties lu British East Africa Theodore Roosevelt will be privileged to shoot at any beast, bird or reptile that gets In range of his gun, whether or not It Is preserved against ordinary hunters. Mr. Roosevelt will be privileged also to shoot at as many of each particular species of beast, bird or reptile as he pleases, whether or not the game law forbids lesser Nimrods to kill more than a certain number. As a further courtesy the British authorities will present a hunting license, which ordi narily costs $250, to Mr. Roosevelt and will not ask tuppence for it. 80 William Northrup McMillan of St. Louis recently told the New York World's London correspondent. Mr. McMillan, a nephew of former United States Senator McMillan of Michigan, probably has killed more big game In South Africa than any other Ameri can. He will entertain Mr. Roosevelt for a few weeks on his farm near Nai robi, British East Africa, iu a count y that is the big game hunters' para dise. Mr. McMillan has been corre sponding regularly with Mr. Roosevelt since the president decided togo hunt ing in Africa, has been advising him on some points and making some ar rangements looking to Mr. Roosevelt's comfort and success. In giving some interesting details of the president's plans Mr. McMillan said: "I shall not accompany Mr. Roose velt on his trip because he wants to be entirely alone so that he and his son can do all the shooting. However arrangements have been made with Richard Cunningham, a young Scotch gentleman, who speaks several Afri can languages perfectly and is thor oughly up on big game shooting there, to take charge of the equipment of the expedition and to manage it. Besides Mr. Cunningham two experts from Washington will go along to treat an.! preserve the trophies of the chase, and, I think, an expert in woodcraft from California will be of the party. "The working part of the expedition will consist most likely of a couple of gun carriers, a cook, the personal serv ants and several Askaris. who will act as sentries and keep watch of the porters, of whom there will be fifty, al! natives, each carrying the regular load of sixty pounds. A few ponies may be taken along for trekking. "Mr. Roosevelt will land in Mom basa. In British East Africa, the ter minus of the Uganda railway, on April 22. Almost immediately he will take the railway and travel to Mueha kos Road station, 200 miles northwest of Mombasa. At Muchakos Road sta tion he will leave the railway and travel twenty miles to pay a fort night's visit to Sir Alfred Pease, an old friend, who has hunted with the president in America. Colonel Sir James Hayes Sadler, governor of Brit lsh East Africa, and Lieutenant Gov ernor Jackson, who is in charge of the department of hunting, will meet Mr. Roosevelt at Sir Alfred Pease's farm. "From there Mr. Roosevelt will move up to ray place, twenty-three miles from Nairobi, and will spend two or three weeks with me before plunging Into the wilds. He will go some 150 1 miles to the northwest into Uganda nnd the eountry surrounding Lake Victoria Nyanza. After this Ills route ; is uncertain. I suggested one route; j others have suggested different ones. Mr. Itoosevelt wants to decide for himself after he sees the country. "Altogether he will cover probably more than n thousand miles by eara | van. After he has hunted enough In British East Africa, instead of going straight to Gondakova, the highest point on the Nile reached by naviga tion, where the governor of the Sudan will have a boat waiting for him, Mr. Roosevelt most likely will make a de < lour into the Belgian Kongo in the hope of bagging n white rhinoceros. "The game in the districts Mr. Roose velt will pass through includes the ele phant, lion, buffalo, hippopotamus, gi raffe, zebra eland and many other kinds. T'sually a hunter must hold a $250 license and make a report of his kill to the department of hunting, but special courtesy will be extended to Mr. Roosevelt, allowing him to shoot whatever lie likes free." .Mr. McMillan calls South Africa his home, but lie passes a few months of each year In bis London house, which is literally tilled with trophies of (lie chase. lie will visit India and return to his farm near Nairobi before Mr. Roosevelt Ir.nds In Africa. The Fatted Calf. That mighty unfair trick of killing the fatted calf for the prodigal causes ! more family rows than anything else on earth except the division of father's | money.—Atchison Globe. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup PUftOTM by worldttf «* : «112 UM ayatem throve* * as bMltfcy ftcttoa oi tfc* kmk foIiOTM •«««*• by It anvoMH m*mbrmnM mt ttMMt. dfe*. Ukd bronchial kAn -A* »taml •» *• Mi •A ||M|| Children Likt fc Nr IAOUMI—VUI UMI % For Sale by Paales A Go SPIRIT PRIZE TEST, Physician Will Seek $5,000 Of fered For Counting Oranges. HAS TWO GIRL MEDIUMS. Believes He Can Fulfill Requirements of Contest With Young Women of Remarkable Powers—One Who Never Saw Greenwich Described Fire There. if two young women patients of Dr. A. J. Fox of New York are the medi ums he says they are, It is time for tho Metropolitan Psychical society of New York to begin counting out the $,".000 it has offered to one who could tell the number of orangeslfpilled on a table behind hltn or her. The doctor has been treating patients for hypnotic suggestion for the past four years, and so much success has he had in making Miss Emma Monroe and Miss Marga ret Marx do the "mentally supernor mal" that he Is convinced It will be a shame to take the money. The tost is expected to prove wheth er there is such a thing as communica tion with the spirit world. Here it Is, as announced by the officers of the Metropolitan Psychical society: When a medium announces that a spirit Is In the room that can see wo will noise lessly spill a few oranges upon a table behind the medium, so that she cannot see them. We will also keep our own eyes In another direction, so that we do not see them, thus eliminating the ques tion of telepathy. Hut the spirit, who Is In the room and sees the oranges, can communicate the number to the medium If the spirit does this often enough to render coincidence Improbable, tho me dium will be presented with the money. That Dr. Fox is firmly convinced of the powers of these young women is apparent to any one who talks with him. For some time prior to four years ago he was junior physician at the Manhattan State Hospital For the In sane, anil he told a reporter for the New York World the other day that it was there he first became interested in what is commonly known as spiritu allsm. "One of tho head physicians told me," he said, "of a man in the hospital who was undoubtedly a madman in many respects, but that he had fore told tho assassination of President Mc- Kinley ou the very morning that It oc curred. lie not only gave the hour, but described the assassin and the spot where it was to occur. Of course such a marvelous feat could not be explain ed away as an instance of mental telep athy. I had been deeply interested in hypnotism, and this story made me more so. "After leaving the hospital I treated many of my patients by hypnotic sug gestion. Of course there are many physicians who do the same thing nowadays. "Certain little phenomena that I have noticed while administering the treat ment have tempted me to experiment, and some of the things I have proved to my own satisfaction I hesitate to talk about because I fear I will be mis understood aud branded as a crank or a faker. I venture to say, however, that I have discovered so called clair voyant powers In at least 05 per cent of the patients I have experimented with that simply cannot be accounted for on any ground yet known to sci ence. "Two young women that I have re cently been treating and whom I had in mind when I called on Secretary I»avis of the Metropolitan Psychic so ciety are Miss Margaret Marx and Miss Emma Monroe, both of 21." West For ty-second street, New York. Only re cently I have been treating Miss Marx, and one day when I had caused her to pass from a deep sleep to a somnam bulistic sleep I told her to transport herself to Greenwich, Conn., a town I knew she had never visited. "She described the streets, houses and certain familiar figures In the town. Up to that point it was possi ble that she was telling what was In my mind. I know the town well. Hut suddenly she exclaimed that there was a fire In Greenwich and described it. I thought her mind had wandered, but that afternoon 1 read in the news papers that a big fire had broken out in Greenwich at the very time I was experimenting on her. "My experience with Miss Monroe has been equally remarkable. Some time ago I was treating her by hyi* notlc suggestion for a stomach trou ble, and, seeing that she was a good subject, I ordered her to transport herself to the apartment of a friend and tell me what he was doing. She described his room minutely and told me the color of the clothes he wore. Again I accounted for it all as an in stance of mental telepathy. "Of course what she said was in my mind, and she was at that moment absolutely under my control mentally. Hut when she said he was seated by a window reading 'Three Weeks' I marveled. I did not know that he owned the book, and I don't know that I had even heard of It at the time. As soon as I left her I called my friend—George Rohan -on the tele phone and asked him how lie liked 'Three Weeks.' 'That's funny,' he re plied. 'I have it iu my hand now •ind have just started on It today. How did you know 1 was reading it?' I told him what Miss Monroe had s.Hd, anil he was startled." Dr. Fox saiil he had planned to give a private exhibition at his home soon of the powers of Miss Marx. Miss Monroe, Miss Anna Silver aud others of liis patients. Then he will notify the Metropolitan Psychical society that he is ready to compete for the rich prize it has offered. Secretary W. S. Davis of tho society said that he would arrange the test whenever Dr. Fox was ready for It. Smart Set English. The speech of the smart man and woman sufficiently betrays the mod ern attitude. To speak good English Is middle class. The modern vocabu lary is very small, and the greater part of it is composed of slang.—Black and White. Stuck to It. Her Husband—lf a man steals, no matter what It is, he will live tore grot it. His Wife —During our court ship you used to steal kisses from me Her Husband—Well, you heard what ' BLOCK SYSTEM MODIFIED There has beeu a modification of the block system on the Penusylvauia rail road ou the south side of the river and this week the trains are running on der the new arrangement. The distance from South Danville to Bluff six and a half miles—formerly comprised one block. This block,how ever, was foond too long for conveni ence aud It was decided to remove the telegraph station from the depot at South Danville to a point a mile and a hal> below the depot aud tc cut the intervening distance into two blocks. A flue modern tower was erected at the point designated below the station and another tower at Boyd's, midway between the South Danville tower and Bluff. The block between South Dan ville aud Wolvertou, will be an eleo tric block and will afford an illnstra tion of the safest and most modern method of operating trains. In the tower at Boyd's telephones ere in stalled, which will be the sole means tho operators on doty will have of communicating with South Danville or Bluff. All orders from Sunbury to Boyd's tower will be sent hy way of South Danville, where they will be taken off the wire and telephoned. On Monday telephone operators were installed iu the towtr at Boyd's and tho trains passed over the block tor the first time. The telegraph station at South Dnuvilld has not yet been transferred t*) the tower, but orders for the removal are expected every day. Three telephone operators are em ployed in the tower at Boyd's: Miss Stoever of Creasy; Miss Hiegle, of Paintersville, aud Leon Cleaver who resides at Hoaring creek. The two lady operators board at the farm house of John Deeter. A new section of the track relating to repair work has also been formed ou the sonth side Under the uew »r rangement the section of which David Nuss is foreman extends no further east than Blue hill. Between that point aud Big I'oaring creek—a dist ance of four miles—lies the new sec tion, of which William Xuss is fore man. The men employed 011 the new sec tion shonld reside in that locality and the Pennsylvania railroad company is endeavoring to induce farmers in the vicinity of Boyd's to build tenement houses. One or more have fixed up disused buildings and will offer them for rent.bnt that any uew houses will he built is unlikely. Copy of the 'Canal Record." W. R. Clark, station agent on the sonth side, has received a copy of the "Canal Record," a weekly newspaper printed on the Isthmus of Panama. where Mv. Clark's sou, Howard Clark, is employed as an engineer ou the great caual. The paper is full of interest and conveys a fair idea not only of the progress of woik but also cf social life in the canal zone. The number receiv ed coutaiuH a graphic deecription of the terrible explosion in the cut at Bas Obispo ou Decenibcr]jl2th. A Reliable Remedy CATARRH #HAY-FEVEB V)'Z 0 * Ely's Cream Balm V w/ is quickly absorbed. . a Gives Relief at Once. It cleanses, soothes, heals and protects gunman 1 nil tho diseased mem brane resulting from Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full si/.» 50 cts. at Druggists or l>y mail. 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