Montour American FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Sept 2. 1909. HARRIMAN'S GREAT MANSION. Features of Railroad Magnate's Sum mer Home at Arden, N. Y. An army of mechanics ha? been ■working day and night on the Simmer borne at Arden. Orange county. N. Y., of E. 11. Harriman, president of the (Union Pacific railroad, who recently sailed from Cherbourg, France, for New York. The residence surmounts the top of Tower hill, which com mands a view for miles around. Mr. Uarriman owns practically the Whole mountain, from the peak of Which. Tower hill, signal beacons burned in Revolutionary days to warn the Continentals of the movements of the British or the approach of maraud ing Tories and Indians. In all Mr. Harriman controls about 40,000 acres, and for the most part he holds the rights of way to this vast estate, thus obtaining a privacy which was denied blm in his former summer home at Woodbury. The Tower hill house is 1,300 feet above tidewater and is reached by a private inclined railroad 3.300 feet long, which rises 700 feet. This road con nects with the Erie railroad near Turn er's. For two years several hundred men have been employed on the house, ■which is still far from complete. But the central part is being finished tem porarily for Mr. Harriman. This por tion alone contains forty rooms, be sides the servants' quarters, which are permanently finished. The house Is being built with stone quarried on the mountain, and the timber for the exterior wood trim mings was also hewed in Mr. Harri man's forests. All the material used is American product The one stone in the structure which Mr. Ilarriman's quarries could not supply is a huge block of granite, carved into a stag's bead with spreading antlers. This will crown the main doorway. The stone for this came from up state. The house is 3CO feet long north and south and 350 feet east and west, having three stories, with a tower sixty feet high. The tower is 12 by 12 "feet tThe house is surrounded by a stone kail, built some distance away from It on the brink of a precipice, i Around the outside of the house, pacing the edges of the cliffs, are log gins. covered galleries or porticoes hav ing colonnades on one side, which Is open to the air. The woodwork of these was carved by well known art ists, and the paneled ceilings are deco rated. There is an enclosed court paved with marble, in which are a fountain and beautiful statuary. There is a swimming pool on the lawn near the house containing pure mountain spring water, and in the house are baths of every description. The house is fireproof. The staircases ore of iron arid marble and bronze. The elevator shafts are walled with terra cotta. and all pillars and beams are of iron and cement. Nothing short of a volcanic eruption can destroy the railway man's home. There are three acres of marble mosaic floors, and the rooms are fin ished in Japanese, French. German. Italian and colonial styles. While the actual cost of the house is not known to any one but Mr. nar riman. it is stated that already more than $3,000,000 has been paid out. The house has been over four years in course of construction. Milk on a Stick. In winter time milk goes to the buy «r in a chunk instead of a quart, says la Glasgow paper. The people in Sibe ria buy their milk frozen, and for con venience it is allowed to freeze about n stick, which comes as a handle to carry it by. The milkman leaves one chunk or two chunks, as the case may be, at the houses of his customers. The children in Irkutsk, instead of cry ing for a drink of milk, cry for a bite of milk. The people in winter time do not say, "Be careful not to spill the milk," but "Be careful not to break the milk." Broken milk is better than spilled milk, though, because there is an opportunity to save the pieces. A •quart of frozen milk on a stick Is n ivery formidable weapon in the hand of an angry man or boy. as it is possible to knock a person down with It. Ir j kutsk people hang their milk on hooks Instead of putting it in pans, though, j of course, when warm spring weather 1 comes on they have to use the pans or pails as the milk begins to melt and i drop down the hooks. The Illusion of Night. I sometimes fancy that every great .city must have been built by night. •At least it is only at night that every i jpart of a great city is great. All archi-1 tecture is great architecture after sun-1 set. Perhaps architecture is really a ; nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ! At least I think many people of those! nobler trades that work by night (jour- 1 nalists, policemen, burglars, coffee stall keepers and such mistaken enthusiasts 1 as refuse togo home till morning) i must often have stood admiring some ' iblack bulk of building with a crown of ! battlements or a crest of spires and then burst into tears at daybreak to ' Idiscover that it was only a haberdash-1 scris shop with huge gold letters across! (the face of it.—u. A. Chesterton in ' News. Llressed FOr the fart. "What subject have you taken fori your address at the Civic club?" "Woman's n,oral obligations as a j citizen." "What a lovely subject! And what j aro you going to wear?" "That new gown I brought home with me from Paris. And just think: I I had it so (leverly packed In with my old clothes that the customs house in spector never discovered It was there." —Baltimore American. An Explanation. "now In blazes did the compositor happen to head my foreign travel let ter with the words "Foreign Drivel?'" "I don't know. Perhaps he read it." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 INCREASE 1 HIKE Tlie borou K" schools opened Moil day with a total enrollmeut of 1150 an advance of forty-two over last year's enrollment. The increase occurs in the gta.les where mere uie 990 pupil* un rolled as against 9'iO last year. The attendance at the high tel.col wl.ich it was supposed would be affect ed to some extent by the nowly ized Parochial high soiiool aud the high school ou the sout i side,is twen ty less thau last year. Moudav there were 160 pupils eurolled while last year's enrollment was 180. At the clo eof school last year there were 183 p-iplls holding promotiou cards to the high school. The difference then of 23 represents not only the number affect ed by the new high school# but the number of pupils who have stopped school as well. There were forty-one non-re6ident ! pupils iu attendance at the high school j Mouday. Seveuteen of these have j contracts signed by boards of direct i crs.oue is paying her own tuitiou and i the remaiuiug twenty-throe are chi 1 - ' ilren of residents of South Danville | sju I Riverside who are paying the ; tuition fee of twenty-five dollars in !>ret'ereuco to sending their children to the uew high school uu the south side. The schools in the different wards ! ium pretty evenly divided. The over crowded condition ot the senior sec ondary sohoo! in the first ward which would have resulted if last year's lines were followed, has, tinder the system of trauefers adjusted by the board, been overcome. The senior secondary schools now stand as folliws: first ward,so; secoud ward.4B: third ward, 50 ; fourth war 3, 53. The attendance at the grammar schools following the same lines as ! last years evenly divided as follows : | secoud ward, 43; third ward, 42; ! fourth ward, 27. THE LIVERY StABLE DOG. I Soma Ways In Which He Differs From the Fashionable Pets. The common livery stable dog is to tally unlike the "powder puff" or "toots and skigums" dog, but his dis position is infinitely better. To lie on ; a cushion and growl and snap at the | hand that would caress it is considered | the height of folly in the livery stable I variety. j The livery stable dog approaches you ingratiatingly and offers you a dirty paw to shake. After you have shaken 1 it he solemnly gives you the other. I Then he crawls up in your lap and licks you on the mouth. The livery stable canine is a most j industrious digger of holes. The the- J ory is that he is going to lie down In the hole he digs, bat he does no sue 1 * 1 thing. He goes and lies down right in the middle of the sidewalk, where | people will have to step over blm. Ho will never get out of anybody's way. I He even lies down In the middle of the street and tries to make carts, j wagons and automobiles avoid him. ! He doesn't enjoy as large a vocab ulary as the powder puff or skigums j dog. A phrase like "Does urns want | ums ltty bass?" would scare him to death. His advantages have not been such as to acquaint him with such hifalutin talk, but he does know a few | simple phrases like "Olt to blazes out [ of here, you darned pest!" He under stands that perfectly.—Puck. Feats That Never Happened. A grotesque and foolish view of the west leads many who are not ac quainted with that part of the country to perpetrate amusing blunders re garding the possibilities of the typical .western weaiKins, the rifle and the six shooter. To shoot an animal's eye out at a hundred paces is a common feat In wild west literature. Sometimes it is done with a six shooter—ln type, not anywhere else. Of course, no man can see the eye of an animal that far. I have had a good rifleman tell me he could cut off a robin's head at a hun dred steps. The truth is that he could not see the head clearly that far. You read that the desperado Slade could with a six shooter at fifty or sixty steps hit a man In any button of his coat that he chose, but you may be sure that neither Slade nor any one else could do anything of the kind. Even trick and fancy shooting at its best coulel ever cover feats ascribed as matters of course to the average fron tiersman by those devotees of frenzied fiction who never saw the frontier.— Outing Magazine. Eluding the Officers. Here is an amusing description of one of Balzac's periods of lmpeeunios ity. Mery, the i>oet, a great friend of Balzac, was an inveterate gambler and rarely left the card table before daybreak. His way lay past the Cafe 1 de Paris, and for four consecutive mornings he had met Balzac strolling leisurely up and down dressed In a pantalon a pieds (trousers not termi natlng below the ankle, but with feet j in them like stockings) and frock coat with velvet facings. The second morn ing Mery felt surprised at the coinci dence: the third he was puzzled: the fourth he could hold out no longer and asked Balzac the reason of these noc turnal perambulations roundabout the same spot. Balzac put Ills hand In his pocket and produced an almanac showing that the sun did not rise before 3:50. "I am being tracked by the officers of the tribunal de commerce and obliged to hide myself during the day, but at this hour I nin free and can take a walk, for as long as the sun Is not up they cannot arrest me." Careless. Visitor—So that's Miss Overton Don't you think she carries her age remarkably well? Artist—No, I don't. She has dropped several years of It to my personal knowledge. lllustrated Bits. [HE OIPI'S MB! Results of Saturday's Games Shickshinny, 4; Danville, 2 Berwick, 6: Bloomeburg, 4. Alrten, 8; Nescopeck, 2. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P.O. Nautlcoke 16 4 .789 Danville ..14 6 .700 Shickgtiinny 11 9 .550 Nesoopeck.. 10 11 .476 Benton 8 10 .444 Bloomsburg 9 13 .429 Berwick 7 18 .350 Alden 6 15 .286 The Danville base ball team invaded the enemy's country again on Satur day, only to be made the victims of another sand bagging plot, which for bould dlsregard of fairness has the best efforts of Captain Kidd lashed to the mast. The Shickshinny team ably assisted by Umpire Hagemeyer, of Blootnsbcrg and a gaug cf bandits, | composed of the foreign element cf ' that section,took the game away from i Danville by main force, and finally | when the Danville manager could no j longer endure the injustices cf the | official and the lewd sneers and jibes lof the spectators and with lrew his men from the field, the game was giv ■ en to Shickshinny by a score of 9 to 0. UMPIRE HAGEMEYER SOARED BY THE MOB. After Catcher Peyton, of Shlckshin | ny, came to the bat in the third In | uings aud was called out by Hagemey j er when he was hit by a ball from his own bat, the game degenerated into [ the most barefaced robbery that the I Hloomsbarg official could make it. Up j to this time Hagemeyer had been um piring fairly, which he is thoroughly j capable of doing as all Danville fans | know. When he retired Peyton the Shickshinny Black Hauders Burged out to the base lines with clubs in their hinds and barling the vilest epithets i at the umpire, threatened his life when | the game was finished. From that j moment Hagemeyer lost his nerve aud started giving the game to Shickshin ny. la Danville's half of the fifth Hage meyer had his first chance to get back i inio the good graces of the foreign fans. With one out Hess came to bat. Pitcher Bcrns gave the Danville cap tain three balls running aud then put j a strike over the plate. Ou the next ball pitched the Danville player, be lieving he had been given four balls, started for first, when Hagemeyer call led him ont ou two strikes. Umlaut', ! next up, drove the longest hit of the j game, a three bagger into right field. He reached third safely on his hit, when Shickshinny's first biseman ' rushed up to the umpire to inform him that the Danville runner had not touched first base. On the Shickshin uy player's word the official declared Umlauf out. To show the ugly temper of the mob that the locals were up against,in the seventh Coveleskie accidentally hit Skelton. Shiuny's third baseman. The hall just grazed the batter's breast and , did not hurt him aud he look his base, but the incident was enough to in flame the bandits and the Black Hand sign was at once sent for "Pinkie's" blood. Out to the base lines they surged again, clubs in the air and threatening the Danville pitcher. With Skelton ou sacri ficed, Skeltou going to third. Burns ' hit a grounder to Coveleksie who ran in and caught Skelton trying to make home. Mitchell drove a grounder to ward second and reached first on Liv engood's error. Butz drove a two'bag j ger Into right field, Ammerman get ting the ball and throwing to the plate. Botna was coming toward the rubber when the Danville catcher got the ball and tug him three feet |from the plate, but Hagemeyer called him safe. HAGEMEYERJTRIES TO PUT HESS OUTOF'THE GAME? This was the proverbial straw. Captaiu Hess ran in fromj'third aud protested the decision,but Hagemeyer, thoroughly frightenedfcby the menac ing mob, refused to listen to the Dan ville captain'sTprotest and said the de cision should stand. Hess then very properly told the Bloomsburg ofiioial 1 that it would be an excellent idea if he would "go some place and die aft- j er ho had' finished umpiring this ; game." Hagemeyer thereupon rcse in 1 his might aud retired the Danville captain to the bench. Manager Hoff man refused to'*take" Hess from the game and the Danville players left the 1 field. STATE POLICE]ABSENT. It is usual at games placed on the Shickshinny grouuds to have at least ' three members of the Statej,coustabul ary present to maintain order aud pro tect the members of the visiting team and the umpire. Unfortunately tor Danville the" constabulary had beeu j called tol McKees "[Rocks and the I grounds™on' Saturday "were without j police protection. The actions of the crowd at the game had anything j kuowTTin the line of hoodlumlem stop-i ped. Two of the crowd of men who j came down from Nanticoka to help j Shinny's ga.tg perpetrate their rob bery,occupied a space directly in front of the grand stand and performed lewd dances whenever Shinny gained an advantage over their opponents. The exhibition was so disgusting that it was absolutely unsafe for a lady to be on the grounds. THE DANVILLE TEAM PLAYED A GOOD GAME. sin i 111 SI'S lit Chester Mowrer, one of Uuole Saui's xailor boys, is spending » ten days' furlough at the home of his fattier, liogur Mowrer, East Mahoning street. This is Mr. Mowrer's first visit home sinoe his t.uliftment five years ago. llh ! is at present a baker on board the U. S. S. Hartford, the school ship ot the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Mr. Mowrer left this city in lUO4 at the age of nineteen. He was assigned first to tiie training station at Nor folk, Virginia. In 1007 he was trans ferred to the U. S. S. Virginia and tonred the world with the fleet. It is of interest that there were four Dan ville boys on the cruise, Reynolds, Turner, Jacobs and Mowrer. Mr. Mowrer was unaware of the nearness of the other Danville boys until notified in a letter from houie { received almost at the end of the trip. | Since the return of the fleet Mr I Mowrer has been on board the Hart- I ford. George Jacobs,son of onr townf | niau, W. Fred Jacobs,a student at the Naval Academy was under instruction ! ou the schoolship and it was the meet j iug of the two, with the resulting rt - ! miniscences that caused Mr. Mowrei's ' present visit home, j The three month's cruise of the Hartford is finished and at the end of his leave, Mr. Mowrer will report at Philadelphia for assignment. ; 1c is interesting to note that Mr. Mowrer's rise from ordinary seaman to baker with the corresponding iu- I crease in salary was due to his ap- I preuticeshlp with John Jacobs' Sous 1 of this city. Before he left town Mr. Mowrer was in poor health and was compelled to spend one year on a farm Now lie is i the picture of health, broad, deep 1 chest, dear oomplexion and the keen ; eye that be speaks a life on the ocean wave. He speaks in glowing terms of i life in the navy. His enlistment he says, was the best move he ever made. I While for, say the first two years, the : life is somewhat arduous, after that 1 period one develops a fouduess for it and it is seldom indeed that a Bailor is found who does not prefer it to a life on land. The class of men iu the navy has ' gren ly improved in the last four year . Prev oils to this time a great numht-i of s' (men were foreign born, Swedes and Danes predominating. Now, ow ing to the effort on the part of the government to make the service at tractive together with the ten per cent, increase allowed in 1908, and the increase of $«.30 for re-enlistiuent,the sailors are , for the most part, na tive born Americans and the Improve ment is apparent. Mr. Mowrer says that on a moderate salary the seaman ! can save far more than the average man ou land. There are many chances of promotion and after thirty years service the sailor is retired on three i quarters pay. Mr. Mowrer's liking for the service 1 is evidenced by a narrow red strip on the left arm of his uniform denoting a Ire enlistment for another four years. A Nice Distinction. Mrs. Farmer—And you say that the last man you worked for was SI Hlg ! gins? Rambling Resteasy—No, ma'am. I said dat he wuz de last man dat era ployed me —Chicago News. Abruzzi's Big Climb. i A dispatch from l'eshawar, India. I says the recent record climb of the I Duke of the AliVuzzi was not made up | Mount Godwin-Austen, but up Bride I peak. i ————-———— The Danville team, under circumst ances that would have dlscourged any team in the country, played good ball. The work of Coveleksie in the box WBB j superb—of the twenty outs made by the Danville team ten were to his | credit as strike outs. In three innings he fanned the side. Shinny totaled five hits offals delivery during seven innings of a game that with a pitcher of less nerve in the box would have developed into a rout. Individually every member of the Danville team is to be complimented for the fine dis play of head work and forbearance, when they were being robbed, mal treated, and disgracefully defamed by the lawless and rowdy element present at the game. The soore: DANVILLE. K. H. O. A. E. Hess. :ib.. 1 0 I 1 0 Umlauf, ss 0 2 0 1 0 Livent;ood,2b 0 0 0 11 j Ooveleskie, p 0 0 11 o! Stock, lb 0 0 3 0 lj Ammerman, rf .0 0 1 0 0' Dooley, c 0 0 11 0 1 Metaler.cf . . .......0 0 2 0 0' Mackert, If ...1 1 0 0 0; Totals . 2 8 *l9 4 3; SHIUK3HINN Y. R. H. O. A. E. 1 Mitchell, If. . .. .11 0 0 0 j Butz, 2b ...... 1 2 3 0 0 Cawley, es 0 0 11 Oj Booth, rf 11 0 0 0 i Williams, lb.. 0 0 8 0 0 Laird,of 0 1 0 0 0 Skeltou, 3b 0 0 2 3 0 Peyton, o ... 1 0 K 0 1 Burns, p 0 0 0 4 0 Totals 4 5 »20 8 1 •Peyton hit bv batted ball. •Umlauf out for cutting first. Danville.. 0 0 2 0 0 0 o—2 Shickshiuny 0 0 0 0 0 3 I—4 Earned runs. Shickshinny 1. Stolen bases Umlauf, Metzler, Mackert 2 Skelton Two base hits, Putz 2,Laird Three baso hits, Umlauf. Sacriflee hits Peyton. Left on base. Danville 5. Shickshinny 5. Struck out, by Oov eleskie 10, by Burns 6. Base ou balls off Ooveleskie 1, off Burns 5. Hit by pitohed ball Umlanf, Skeltou of game 2 hours. Umpire Hagemeyer. Proposed Amendments To Penn'a Constitution PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO I THE CITIZENS OF TIIIS COMMON- I WEALTH FOR THBIR APPROVAL OR I REJECTION. BY THE GENERAL. AS SEMBLY OF TIIE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. AND PUB : LISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRE TARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION i Proposing amendments to sections eight ] and twenty-one of article four, sections j eleven and twelve of article five, sec- ! I tions two. three, and fourteen of article ! eight, section one of article twelve, and ; sections two and seven of article four- ! | teen, of the Constitution of Pennsyl- : ' vania. and providing a schedule for carrying the amendments into effect, j Section 1 He it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ! Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen : eral Assembly met. That the following are proposed as amendments to the Con ! Ftitution of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania. in accordance with the provi sions of the eighteenth article thereof:— Amendment One—To Article Four, Seo tion Eight. Section 2. Amend section eight of article four of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows: "He shall nominate and. by and with the advice and consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate, appoint a Secretary of the Commonwealth and an Attorney General during pleasure, a Superintendent of Public Instruction for four years, and such other officers of the Commonwealth as he is or may be authorized by the Constitution or by law to appoint; he shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen, in of fices to which he may appoint, during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session; he shall have power to tiil any vacancy that may hap pen, during the recess of the Senate, in the oftice of Auditor General. State Treasurer. Secretary of Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Public Instruction, in a Judicial office, or In any other eleo tive ofllce which he is or may be au thorized to fill; if the vacancy shall hap pen during the session of the Senate, the Governor shall nominate to the Sen ate. before their final adjournment, a proper person to fill said vacancy; but in any such case of vacancy. In an elec tive office, a person shall be chosen to said office at the next general election, unless the vacancy shall happen within three calendar months immediately pre ceding such election, in which case the election for said oftice shall be held at the second succeeding general election. In acting on executive nominations the Senate shall sit with open doors, and, in confirming or rejecting the nominations of the Governor, the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered on the Journal," so as to read as follows: He shall nominate and. by and with the advice Mini consent of two-thirds of all the members of the Senate, appoint a Secretary of the Commonwealth and an Attorney General during pleasure, a Superintendent of .Public Instruction for four years, and such other officers of the Commonwealth as he is or may be au thorized by the Constitution or by law to appoint: he shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen, in offices to which he may appoint, during the re cess of the Senate, by granting commis sions which shall expire at the end of their next session; he shall have power to till any vacancy that may happen, during the recess of the Senate, in th* office of Auditor General. State Treas urer. Secretary of Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Public Instruction, in a Judicial office, or in any other elective office which he is or may be authorized to fill; if the vacancy shall happen dur ing the session of the Senate, the Gov ernor shall nominate to the Senate, be fore their final adjournment, a proper person to fill said vacancy; but in any such case of vacancy, in an elective of fice, a person shall be chosen to said of fice on the next election day appropriate to such office, according to the provisions of this Constitution, unless the vacancy | shali happen within two calendar months Immediately preceding such election day. in which case the election for said office shall be held on the second succeeding election day appropriate to such office In acting on executive nominations the | Senate shall sit with open doors, and.in confirming or rejecting the nominations of the Cicvernor. the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered ' on the journal Amendment Two—To Article Four, Sec t!on Twenty-one. Section 3 Amend section twfcnty-one of article four, which reads as follows: "The term of the Secretary of Internal Affairs shall be four years: of the Audi tor General three years; and of the State Treasurer two years. These officers shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the State at general elections. No person , ejected to the office of Auditor General : or State Treasurer shall be capable of , ' holding the same office for two consecu tive terms." so as to read:— The terms of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, the Auditor General, and the | State Treasurer shall each be four years; j and they shall be chosen by the qualified , j electors of tlie State at general elections; I but a State Treasurer, elected In the year ' one thousand nine hundred and nine, shall serve for three years, and his suc cessors shall be elected at the general , election in the year one thousand nine ■ hundred and twelve, and in every fourth i year thereafter No person elected to the i office of Auditor General or State Treas j urer shall be capable of holding the same office for two consecutive terms. Amendment Three—To Article Five. Sec tion Eleven. Section 4 Amend section eleven of ar | tide five, which reads as follows: "Except as otherwise provided in this • Constitution. Justices of the peace or al dermen shall be elected in the several wards, districts, boroughs and townships at the time of the election of constables, by the qualified electors thereof, in such manner as shall be directed by law. and shall be commissioned by the Governor for at< rm of five years No township, ward, district or borough shall elect more than two Justices of the peace or alder men without the eonsent of a majority of the qualified e lectors within such town- 1 ship, ward or borough; ne» person shall be electee! to such e»thce unless he shall have resleieni within the township, borough, ward or district for one year next preced ing his election In cities containing over 1 fifty thousand inhabitants, not more than i one alderman shall be elected in each ward or district." so as to read: Kxcept as otherwise provided In this Constitution, justices or the peace or aldermen shall be elected In the several wards, districts, noroushs or townships, by the qualified electors thereof, at the municipal election. In such manner as shall be dlrecteel by law. and shall be i commissioned by the Governor for a term of six years. No township, ward, district or borough shall elect more than two Justices of the peace or aldermen without the consent of a majority of the qualified electors within such township, ward or borough: no person shall be elected to such ofllce* unless he shall have resided within the township, borough, ward or '!. i for ono year n< \t ceding his • lection. In cities containing over liftv thousand inhabitants, not more !£an one nld-tman shall bo elected in each ward or district. Amendment Four—To Article Five. Sec tion Twelve. Section 112. \tnend section twelve of arti- : cle five of lie* Constituton, which read* as follows "In Philadelphia there shall be estab lished. for each thirty thousand inhabit ants. one court, not of record of police an«l civil causes, with Jurisdiction ne»t exceed ' ing one hundred dollars: such courts sha'l be held by magistrates whose term of office shall be five years and they shall be electee! : on general ticket by the qualified voters at i ar»e; and In the election of the said magis- | trates no voter shall vote fe»r more than two I thirds of the number of persons to be electeel I when" mofo" Tfian oTTe~7Tre '»o Ko chosen; j they shall be compensated only by fixed salaries, to be paid by said county; and j shall exercise such jurisdiction, civil and criminal, except as herein provided, as Is now exercised by aldermen, subject to such changes, not involving an Increase of civil jurisdiction or conferring political duties, as may be made by law In Phila delphia the office of alderman la .abol ished." so as to read as follows: — In Philadelphia there shall be estab lished. for each thirty thousand inhabit ants, one court, not of record, of police and civil catises. with Jurisdiction not exceeding one hundred dollars; such courts .shall be held by magistrates whose term of oflice shall be six years, and they shall be elected on general ticket at the municipal election, by the qualified voters at large; and in the election of the said magistrates no voter shall vote for more than two-thirds of the number of persons to be elected when more than one are to be chosen; they shall be com pensated only by fixed salaries, to be paid by said county; and shall exorcise such Jurisdiction, civil and criminal, ex cept as herein provided, as is now ex ercised by aldermen, subject to such changes, not involving an increase of civil Jurisdiction or conferring political duties, HS may be made by law. In Phila delphia the office of alderman is abol Ished. Amendment Five—To Article Eight, Sec tion Two. Section 0. Amend section two of article eight, which reads as follows: "The general election shall be held an nually on the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November, but the Gen eral Assembly may by law fix a different day. two-thirds of all the members of each House consenting thereto," so as to read:— The general election shall be held bi ennially on the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November in each even-numbered year, but the General As sembly may by law fix a different day, two-thirds of all the members of each House consenting thereto: Provided. That such election shall always be held in an even-numbered year Amendment Six—To Article Eight, Sec tion Three. Section 7. Amend section three of article eight, which reads as follows: "All elections for city. ward, borough and township officers, for regular terms of service, shall be held on the third Tuesday of February," so as to read:— All Judges elected by the electors of the State at large may be elected at either a general or municipal election, as cir cumstances may require. All elections for judges of the courts for the several Judicial districts, and for county, city, ward, borough, and township officers for regular terms of service, shall be held on the municipal election day; namely, the Tuesday next following the first Mon day of November in each odd-numbered year, but the General Assembly may by iaw fix a different day, two-thirds of all the members of each House consenting thereto: Provided. That such election shall always be held in an odd-numbered year Amendment Seven—To Article Eight, Sec tion Fourteen. Section S Amend section fourteen of article eight, which reads as follows: "District election boards shall consist of a Judge and two inspectors, who shall be chosen annually by the citizens Each elector shall have the right to vote for the Judge and one inspector, and each Inspect or shall* appoint one clerk The first elec tion board for any new district shall be selected, and vacancies In election boards filled, as shall be provided by law. Elec tion officers shall be privileged from ar rest upon days of election, and while en gaged in making up and transmitting re turns, except upon warrant of a court of record or judge thereof, for an elec tion fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of the peace In cities they may claim exemption from Jury duty during their terms of service." so as to read:— District election boards shall consist ot a judge and two inspectors, who shall be chosen biennially, by the citizens at the municipal election, but the General As sembly may require said boards to be appointed in such manner as it may by law provide. Laws regulating the ap pointment ot said boards may be enacted to apply to cities only: Provided, That such laws be uniform for cities of the same class Each elector shall have the right to vote for the judge and one in spector. and each inspector shall appoint one clerk The first election board for any new district shall be selected, and vacancies in election boards filled, as shall be provided bv law. Election offi cers shall be privileged from arrest upon days of election, and while engaged in making up and transmitting returns, ex cept upon warrant of a court of record, or judge thereof, for an election fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of the peace In cities they may claim exemp tion from Jury duty during their terms of service. Amendment Eight—To Article Twelve. Section One. Section 9. Amend section one, article twelve, which reads as follows: "All officers, whose selection is not pro vided for in this Constitution, shall be elected or appointed as may be directed by law." so as to read:— All officers, whose selection is not pro vided for in this Constitution, shall be elected or appointed as may b»» directed by law. Provided. That elections of State officers shall be held on a general election day.and elections of local officers shall be held on a municipal election day. ex cept when, in either case, special elections may be required to fill unexpired terms Amendment Nine—To Article Fourteen. Section Two Section 10 Amend section two of article fourteen, which reads as follows "County officers shall be elected at the general elections and shall hold their offices for the term of three years, be ginning on the first Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors shall be duly qualified; all vacancies not otherwise provided for. shall be filled In such manner as may be provided by law." so as to read: County officers shall be elected at the municipal elections and shall hold their offic.s for the term of four years, be ginning on the first Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors shall be duly qualified; all vacancies not otherwise provided for. shall be filled in such manner as may be provided by iaw. Amendment Ten—To Article Fourteen. Section Seven. Section 11. Amend section seven, article fourteen, which reads as follows: "Three county commissioners and three county auditors shall be elected in each county where such officers are chosen, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five and every third year there after; and in the election of said officers each qualified elector shall vote for no more than two persons, and the three persons having the highest number of votes shall be elected; any casual vacancy In the office of county commissioner or county auditor shall be filled, by the court of common pleas of the county in which such vacancy shall occur, by the appointment of an elector of the proper county who shall have voted for the commission* r or auditor whose place is to bo filled." so as to read:— Throe county commissioners and three county auditors shall be elected in each tounty wii re such officers are chosen. In the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven and every fourth year there after; and in the election of said officers each qualified elector shall vote for no more than two persons, and the three persons having the highest number of votes shall bo elected; any casual vacancy In the oilicc of county commlssoner or county auditor shall be filled by the court of common pleas of the county In which such vacancy shall occur, by the appoint ment of an elector of the pamper county who shall have voted for the commis sioner or auditor whose place is to be filled. Schedule for the Amendments. Section 12. That no Inconvenience may %rlse from ti>e changes in the^Constltu- Hon of Tfie Commonwealth, and In "order to carry the same into complete opera tion, it is hereby declared that- In the case of officers elected by the people, all terms of office fixed by act of Assembly at an odd number of years shall each be lengthened one year, but the legislature may change the length of the term, provided the terms for which such officers are elected shall always be for an even number of years. The above extension of official terms shall not affect officers elected at the general election of one thousand nine hundred and eight; nor any city, ward, borough, township, or election division officers, whose terms of office, under ex isting law. end in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten. In the year one thousand nine hundred and ten the municipal election shall be held on the third Tuesday of February, as heretofore; but all ofllcers chosen at that election to an office the regular term of which is two years, and also all elec tion officers and assessors chosen at that election, shall serve until the first Mon day of December in the year one thou sand nine hundred and eleven. All offi cers chosen at that election to offices the term of which is now four years, or is made four years by the operation of these amendments or this schedule, shall serve until the first Monday of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. All justices of the peace, magistrates, and aldermen, chosen at that election, shall serve until the first Mon day of December in the year one thou sand nine hundred and fifteen. After the year nineteen hundred and ten, and until the Legislature shall otherwise provide, all terms of city, ward, borough, town ship, and election division officers shall begin on the first Monday of December in an odd-numbered year. All city, ward, borough, and township officers holding office at tborate of the approval of these amendments, whose terms of oflice may end in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday of December of that year. All judges of the courts for the sev eral judicial districts, and also all county officers, holding office at the date of the approval of these amendments, whose terms of office may end in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twelve. A true copy of the Joint Resolution. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Bridge Letting. Plans and specifications are on file at the County Commissioners' office in Danville, Pa., for two Steel Bridges with ooncrete floor. One 60 feet lung by 14 feet wide. Oue 42 feet long by 14 feet wide. Bids will he received until 12 o'clock noon, Saturday, Sept. 4th, 1909, said bids to be opened at 1:30 P. M. A certified check for $400.00 must be deposited with the Commis sioners' Olerk at or before 10 o'clock A. M., Saturday, September 4th by each bidder for each bridge. The County Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. By order of the County Commis sioners. Attest:—Horace C. Bine, Clerk. Pretty Weary. Weary (lying under apple tree)— | Say, mister, kin I have one of dem 1 apples? Partner—Why, them apples I won't be ripe for four months yit. j Weary—Oh, dat's all right. I ain't in I no hurry. Pll wait.—Life. Then He Was Fired. Father—l cannot give you my daugh ter. my dear sir. I am mighty par ticular in such things. Suitor—Oh, pshaw! 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