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ITEMS CONDENSED.
M Mill II.S LOVK <>K |X>-\-Tw. nty
five years ago William Duffen and
Josephine Bpangler of Pottsville. were
lovers, bnt I lor fen went west, where
he married another girl who died re
oently. Two weeks ago Dotren return
ed to Pottsville and finding Miss Span
gler unmarried, renewed his attent
ions and Monday they WPIP marriid.
OUT ROACH POISON - Six »>er
sons were made seiioosly ill by eating
poisoned food at the home of Joseph
Drebolis, of Minersville although all
of them will recover. Roach poison
spread in the pantry is believed to
have been carried by the roaches over
the food, causing all of the trouble.
OKADLY HOMEOOMING-Believ
ing that he was entering his own
home without the knowledge of any
of his family. Harry Hendrickson. ><t
York, climbed a fire escape and fell a
distance of forty feet to the ground,
sustaining injuries that may prove
fatal.
APPLE GROWING PAYS.—Apple
growing in Adams county pays. One
of the growers received f.*>oo for his
crop of eight acres. Another shipped
four carloads of apples to Europe and
received a snug sum.
NO MORE SQUABBLES - When
Frank Kuhns, a plasterer, returned
home Tuesday night several hours lat
er than he had promised his wife,
there was a family wrangle. This con
tinued after the couple had retired.
Finally, Kuhns jumped out of bed
with a remark, "I will settle this
squabble for good." With that lie
fetched his single-barreled gun, which
was loaded, aud leaning ovei the muz
zle discharged it by pressing the trig
ger with his big toe. The cliargo tore
out his left lung just below the heart.
The hospital surgeons say he cannot
survive.
RIGHT KIND OF THANKSGIV
ING—On Thanksgiving day Judge
Thomas J. Prather aud Mayor Graff, j
of Meadville, distributed sllO worth
of stockings aud shoes among the de
serving poor children of the Crawford j
couuty seat. Under the provisions of j
the will of Samuel Stren, recently de- '
ceased at the county seat, a fund was |
established, the interest ot which is
annually to be used for the purpose
stated.the County Court and the May
or of Meadville to be the distributors.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE—"This
is the end. I have eaten my last meal ,
and I'll soon be a dead man," shouted I
Samuel Sanders of Pittsburg. Five
minutes later he rushed about his j i
house like a maniac and it required j ]
three men to drag him to the Wood s (
Run police station. He died at mid- ! .
night, after he had been taken to the
Allegheny General hospital, and phy- (
sicians, who can find no cause tor his J (
death, think his premonition of death | (
caused his heart to stop. (
THE ROMANCE OF AN EGG.— <
That Philadelphians do not always ! '
get the freshest of eggs is illustrated i
by the following: A letter was re- <
ceived by Frank Rupert, of Blooms- j'
burg, from his sister who resides in 1
Kansas, in which she states that in a !
spirit of fun, she wrote her name and, 1
address on an egg the first of last
January, and that last week received ;
a letter from a Philadelphian to the j
effect that he had that day been serv
ed an egg in a restaurant on which he :
observed her name and address.
HIGH WATER BRIGHTENS BUS- |
INESS. —A fleet of 200-odd light boats j
and barges, laden with 4,000,000 bush- |
els of coal, was released by rising J
wator from Ohio river pools near j
Pittsburg, after a five months' tie up. j
and proceeded South to the relief of
down-river manufacturing centers, j
Several thousand tons of iron products j
were also shipped. The reopening of !
navigation incidentally Imeans work
for more than 1,000 rivermen, who I
have been practically unemployed for j
several months.
NO MORE QUIDS. —That the ca-j
dence of step is lost through chewing j
tobacco and gum was the discovery J
made by Police Inspector John J. j
Ford, of Pittsburg, who is also drill- j
master of the entire police force, and j
as a result he has caused to be issued j
an order prohibiting the police from
chewing tobacco. Ford thinks that
the police try to timt their feet to
the movement of their jaws as they
munch their quids.
FOR USE, NOT ORNAMENTAL
—Tho] Harrisburg Star-Independent
prints a story of a York county deacon,
whose peaches are first in the market,
that, having company at. his farm
house one evening, a terrifio thunder
storm came on. Everybody was thor
oughly frightened, and directly after
a blinding flash one of the visitors
anxiously asked: "Friends, don't you
think we had better kneel and ask for
protection?" "No,brother Jones, no,"
protested the deacon. "I have just had
a lighting rod put on the house at the
expense of and I propose to hold
off and give her a fair show to do
bosiness I"
FIREMEN MAKE
NOMINATIONS
The Friendship Fire company Sat
unlay night nominated officers to be
voted for at an election to be lipid on
1 Saturday pvening, December Hist.
On next Saturday evening, Decem
ber Hnl, between <l:3° <tnd Np. 11l the
annual election for chief engimer and
four assistants of the Danville fire de
partment will take place at the Friend
ship engine house.
Cornelia* Connelly of the Contin
ental company has no opposition for
I chief engineer. The assistants to be
voted for are as follows: Friendship
c impany. John I* Jones: Washington
company, Thomas Honey; Continental
company, Alfred Mellin; Goodwill
company, William lies. The assistant
nominated by the Continental com
pany, which furnishes the chief, will
according to custom,take fourth place.
The contest, therefore, will lie with
the other three candidates, each of
whom aspires for first place.
With the exception of the delegates
to the State and the Six-county Fire
men's conventions the nominations for
the company oflices made by the
Friendship boys Saturday night in
volves no opposition and therefore are
equivalent to an election. Following
are the nominations:
President, William V. Oglesby ; vice
president. Hairy liupp; secretary,
John G. Waite; treasurer, John L.
Russell; foreman, John Barry; first
assistant, Warren Roat; second assist
ant, Theodore Horton; trustee, Wil
liam E. Young; pipemeu, Will G.
Brown, Harry E. Johns, Arthur Prout
and Richard O'Driseoll; axemen, Dr.
J. ,T. Kline, Eli Millard, Hairy Heller
and Ralph Kisner; engineer of steam
er, John L. Hussell; assistant, Harry
E. Johns; fireman of steamer, I'arry
Sanders; plugmen, H. E. Trumbower
aud John L. Russell; delegates to
State Firemen's convention, Harry
Heller aud H. E. Johns; alternate,
Harry Mapstone; delegates to Six-
County Firemen's convention, John
Vastine and William L. Roat; altern
ates, Frank Rantz and Arthur Piout;
fire l olice, Harry Kauffmau, E. V.
Stroll and Edward Linker; torch
bearer, Daniel Morgan; member of
executive board, Edward Aten; mem
bers of the relief association board,
Harry Trumbower and William L.
Roat.
DEATH OF GENERAL OA KES
General James Oakes, a native of
Montour county,and a brother of Mrs.
Margaret O. Hughes,Ferry street, this
city, died suddenly Sunday at Wash
ington, D. C.
General Oakes,who was retired, was
born near Limestoueville, this county,
eighty-five years ago. He was educat
ed ar the University of Pennsylvania
and the United States military acad
emy, being appointed to the latter in
stitution by President Tyler in 1842.
He served for a time on the faculty
of the academy but at the outbreak of
the war with Mexico was lirevetted
first lieutenant. He was in active ser- i
vice in the Mexican War as well as the ,
Civil War, and also in the Indian up- j
risings in the southwest. In ono of i
the skirmishes he was shot in the limb ■
by an Indian. He afterward killed the !
Indian and secured the bow and ar
row, which is still in the possession [
of General Oakes' relatives.
He was assigned to frontier duty !
against the Indians in Northern Ariz
ona, and in 1861 attained the rank of '
lieutenant colonel, being assigned to }
the United States Fourth Cavalry. He
became colonel of the Sixth cavalry
the same year aud after distinguished
service, was made brigadier general
by brevet, March JiO, 1805. At the
, close of the war he was at the head of
the Freedman's Bureau at Austin,
Texas.
He was rotired at his own request
| April 29, 1870. During his retirement
iho spent most of his time in New
I York, Pittsburg and Washington, D.
C,, where ho was well known, being a !
: member of a number of clubs in each j
I city as well as a prominent figure in ;
j military circles.
Orchard Demonstrations.
The fall schedule of publio meetings
in the State model orchards, conduct
ed by the horticultural inspectors un
der the direction of Prof. H. A. Sur
faoe, economic zoologist, include the
following appointments Jin Northum
berland county:
Tuesday Dec. 6, at the orchard of
H. A. Lawrence, near Sunbury, Pa.
Thursday, H at the orchard of Harry
E. Snyder, near Paxinos, Pa.
Saturday, Dec. 10, at the orchard of j
P. U. Swank, near Elysburg, Pa.
Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 12 and
lU, at the orchard of J. K. Rishel.near
Pottsgrove, Pa.
WANT SOLDIERS' MONUMENT,
i —A movement has been started for
I the erection of SIO,OOO monument to
i the sailors and soldiers of Delaware
county.
DANVILLK, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. D»10
MUMMERS MAY
HOLD PARADE
1 Danville will hare a mummer's par*
ad« mi New Yiir'it, if i ll»rt!< !»«• i»k
put forth by the Washington Fire coin
puny to that end bring such rpsults a*
ar>< anticipated. At a meeting Satur
day night it oommittpp »«> appointed
cm»l»linit of Setli Lorttier, Wesley
11<>Iloli.-t n>;li and Thomn- Honey to con
fer with parties down town ami hop
what kind of a response may he niet
with.
The Washington tire company has
always shown great interest in tlie
New Year's parade, and it in rlaimpd
that the idea of such a demonstration
lierp originated with that company.
Naturally, therefore, the member* are
not willing that the New Yeai's par
ade, which has been a feature since
11*04, should fail now for want of some
one to take the initiative.
The committee will wait upon busi
ness people and persons of influence in
different parts of town and determine
just what measure of support can be
relied upon. If the respouse is at all
encouraging a meeting will be called
at once and an organization effected.
If the same amount of enthusiasm is
found elsewhere as exists among the
"Washies" there is no question but
that the movement will be a success.
It is claimed that the month inter
vening will afford an abundance of
time tog tup a first, class mummers'
parade.
S. B. & B. STOCK BOOMING
Humors that a deal is on whereby
the stock of the Susquehanna, Blooms
burg & Berwick Railroad company,
whose tracks cross the upper end of
Montour county, will pass into the
possession of some other company,
probably the Pennsylvania, are rife in
Bloomsburg where the matter is being
eagerly discussed. If any deal is on
no official information has been given
out. The rumors appear to have been
started as a result of a considerable
advance in the price of the stock. T'.e
Bloomsbntg l'tess yesterday says:
"Whatever may he the statement
from the company's officers, there is
some reason for the fact that the com
pany's stock, at one time considered
valueless and which was thrown in
with the bonds, is now commanding a
price of £'■!'.• a share, with an unknown
purchaser for every cent's worth of
stock that can he obtained. For a
time, beginning only a month or two
ago, $35 was offered but the price has
since raised.
"It has long been realized that the
joining of the Pennsylvania lines at a
point near Berwick would cut off the
mileage between the Northern Central
and New York City and many well in
formed railroad men frankly declare
that, in their opinion, the Pennsyl
vania is the railroad to whom the S.,
B. & B would be the biggest asset.
In the event that present rumors should
he based on a foundation of fact, then
the construction of a Pennsylvania
railroad bridge not far from Berwick,
and spanning the Susquehanna, would
he a natural sequence."
THIRTY DAYS IN JAIL
John lluck, arrested Sunday morn- \
iiifr. was given a hearing af tin* eoun- j
tv jail by Justice of the Peace Dalton |
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. In ,
default of payment of fine lie was j
sentenced to jail for thirty days.
Buck created intense excitement be- |
tween '2 and !i o'clock Sunday morn
ing. The disturbance took place at
what was formerly the Shultz home
stead opposite Christ Episcopal
church. East Market street. It was
about !i o'clock when Edward Muck, a
brother, appeared on Mill street hunt
ing the police. He had been assault
ed by John and was bleeding in a
shocking manner.
Officers Mincemoyer, Voris and
Young repaired to the Buck residence.
By that time the man wanted had
taken refuge in the barn, and it was
there that he was arrested. He war.
placed in jail to await a hearing,
j Information was lodged before .Just
ice Dalton by Catherine Settler yes
terday morning, the charge brought
being disorderly conduct.
In hearing the case Justice Dalton
temporarily removed his office to the
county jail. A fine of ten dollars was
imposed. In default of payment there
of he was committed to jail for thirty
I days.
I
Stop* At Station Only.
Under the new schedule all the!
trains on the P. & K. Kailway stop at
Bloom street with the exception of
ISo. 12, south,due to arrive at Danville
at 5:1<5 p. m..which stops at the main
station only.
New Landlord Moved.
Isaac Acor yesterday moved his
household from Exchange to Washing
tonville, where he has taken charge of
the Excelsior hotel, formerly run by
i Mrs. Fanny Heddens.
SCHOOL BOARD
IN SESSION;
The school hoard held ii regular iinef
iiiii Mhil iv night Oil <«i rinmi W. A
Swhler being absent .1 N, Pursel «*►
elected president protein. Other ntem
hfW wern prawnt us follow*: Ortli,
(tarns, Swarts, Shult/., Fischer, Oib- \
son Sillier, Hei*s nml Coin.
The financial report of the Danville
High School Athletic association wan
presented by Mr. Mover, teacher of
inatheniaticii ami science The receipt*
were fK2.82: expenditutes, ♦711.78. Mai
ance, |:i 08. Mr. Mover explained why
in a couple of Instances boy* not num
ber* of the high school were played
in game* of foot ball. It was due sole
ly in those isolated ea*es, he said, to
the fact that there was not suitable
material available in the high school
at the time the game* were played
He explained what was needed to make
athletic* a success in the Danville
high school.
On motion the toilet room* of the
second ward building were ordered
painted.
The new school code was discussed
at length. It was the sense of the I
board that the member* should at once
familiarize themselves with all the )
provisions of the code so as to be able
to judge as to it* merits when the
time comes for them togo on record
in favor of or against, it. The board'* !
attitude will be made known to our
representative in the general assem- j
hly.
Insurance on the public school build
ings to the amount of 860 was ord
ered renewed last night. The insui
ance was distributed among com
panies represented by the following!
local agents: S. A. McCoy, Kdwitrd
Oorman, 11. R. lidmondson, Pauline j
F. Farnsworth, 1). K. Williams, W. .1.
Williams, W. 11. Ammcrman and Co .
F. C. Dorr, Thomas G. Vincent and
Miles Piefer ami Co.
'•Vie lollowing bills were approved
112 ,r payment:
C, E. Voris.com.. J 7.44
Mrs. 11. Cromwell 12.20
Freight and Drayage 5.20
Aaron Rockefellei. 22.30
Telephone 15.00
11. S. Keppert 75
Fitch Dustdown Co 18.40 ;
D. N. Dielfenbacber 4.58
w. H. Orth 1.47 ;
K. Oorman. in< . r ). r >,oo
Miles, Piefer&Oo., ins 7.50
Thomas G. Vincent, ins 15.00
W. J. Williams, ius 22.50 !
D. R. Williams.. . 55.00
W. 11. Ammerman & Co., ius . 39.50 j
Sam A. McCoy, ins 18.00
Pauline Farnsworth, in* 25.00
H. R Kdmondsou, ins... 10.00
NEW OVERCOATS
Captain F. M. Hcrrington Monday !
received notification from Adjutant i
General Stewart, :it Harrishurg, that
Company F. Twelfth regiment N. O.
P., of this city.is to lie titteil out with
olive drab overcoats of the regular
army pattern. There will be 58 of the
overcoats issued to company F.
This comes as good news to the boys
of the local company, who have been
looking forward for sometime to don
ning these handsome overcoats which
are being issued gradually to the
guardsmen throughout the State.
The order received yesterday by
Captain Henington also includes in
structions to retire the old blue keisey
overcoats after the arrival ot the new
ones, and states that the old ones may
bo sold to the men or to others who
wish to purchase them.
An Incubator Babjr.
| Hioomsburg lias an incubator baby I
at tlio present time, a four pound son )
having been bom Thanksgiving Day :
to Mr. aud Mrs. Frank Mass, at that
place. Dr. Bierman, who is the at
tending physician, stated that lie had
hopes of bringing the little fellow
around all right.
INCURS PENALTY
During yesterday some one had the ,
audacity to dump a load of ashes along .
with a variety of cast-off articles over ;
the bank of the canal on the west side
of the big bill board recently erected,
where the stuff lay in full view from
the Mill street culvert.
It showed an utter disregard of the
borough ordinance and added greatly
to the neglected aud filthy appearance
of the old canal. During the past year
council has put forth extraordinaiy
efforts to keep the old ditcli clean.
Last evening when Chief Mineenioy
er learned what had been done he
i could hardly believe it possible and at
once started an investigation to dis
cover the offender. The ordinance pro
vides a penalty for dumping ashes at
uc h plaoes.
Born, a Son.
A sou was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Myern Bitler, at Ottawa, Anthony
township, on Tuesday.
PASTOR TENDERS
RESIGNATION
The Re*. \V. M. Gelger, pastor of
St. John's Lutheran church, this city,
Sunday tendered his resignation to
take effect immediately. The Luther
an churches of Kelgeville and (Irov
aliia, are also in Mr. Geiget's charge
All three of the churches have acted
upon the pastor'* resignation.
Mr. Geiger entered upon the pastor
ate of the three above named churches
last August a\t ar ago. The rcsigna
tion accepted take* plaoe December
Ist, so that he officiated in this charge
for the last time Sunday.
During hi* pastorate here Mr. Geig
er ha* resided in Danville, where be
made many friend* among our towns
people. Hi* heme is at Pillow. Daup
hin county.
Mr. Geiger has accepted a call to
the Lutheran church at Wapwallopen,
Luzerne county, and will assume the
pastorate at once. He is a young man
and a minister of much promise. The
best wishes of his friends follow him
into his new Held.
MONTOUR CO. EXHIBITORS
Montour county will be well repre
sented at the big poultry show at Wil
liamsport this week, five well known
fanciers having shipped their choicest
mating* there yesterday, where they
will compete for prizes with some ot
the finest bred birds in the eastern
part of the country.
The Williamsport poultry show is an
annual affair held in the armory. Fif
teen hundred birds of all breeds have
been entered by 250 exhibitor*. Some
of the birds at the show are insured
for as high as SSOO apiece.
The exhibitors from this county are
as follows :
J. O. Peifer, Danville; 8 Plymouth
Rocks and 15 Crystal White Orping
tons.
Ambrose Prentiss, Danville; 5 Ply
mouth Rocks
Clyde Hedilens. Washingtonville: 14
Single Comb Puff Orpingstons.
Kdward X. Oyster, Washingtonville :
12 Silver Penciled Wyaudottes.
William Siedel, Washingtonville; 15
Crystal White Orpingtons.
STATE HIGHWAY
Work on the new State highway in
the eastern part of the borough is
making excellent progress.
Excavation from Wall street east
ward is practically completed. For
fivo hundred feet at rbe eastern end
the course of crushed slag is in p!a< o
and rolled.
The stretch of road, heretofore so
homely and badly out of repair, has
already taken on a changed appear
ance. At Wall str. et for a long dis
tance the old loadbed was cut down
two feet. At a point a couple bund
red yards east it was necessary to
raise the road bed seventei a inches.
The trolley track, which heretofore
rose aud fell with the general surface,
is now placed at the same grade with
the highway. In addition the bank on
the south side of the road is neatly
trimmed and terraced.
The stone crusher installed at the
cinder tip neat the P. & R. station is
kept in constant operation, several
teams being employed in hauling the
crushed material to the State high
way. It will require but two or three
weeks more to complete the highway.
RAPID WORK
The East Mahoning street newer ex
tension, work on which was begun
some three weeks ago, was completed
yesterday.
The extension, which begnn in the
alley at the rear of the opera house
block, was carried out East Mahoning
street to Chnrch street, and up 'the
latter as far as the parsonage of the
Trinity Lutheran church. It wasqnite
a bin job considering that the greater
part of the way the pipe had to lie
laid at a depth of some ten feet and
that cribbing had to be used.
It was quite a risk also to enter up
on a piece of work of such magnitude
so late in the season, and that it has
been completed before winter set in is
something to be thankful for.
Yesterday ground was broken for
the purpose of connecting the first
ward school building with the Kast
Mahoning street sewer extension. The
work will be completed in a day or so
Tendered a Position.
i Frank W. Magill, teacher of the
I commercial department of the Dan
j ville High School, has been tendered
| a position under the government as
| stenographer,type writer in the bureau
iof mines at. Pittsburg. The salary is
! SIO2O per year. He will refuse tha
1 offer.
New Store at' Exchange.
Mrs. Annie Ellis, who bought the
i real estate of M. Lizzie Wagner, de
| ceased, at the recent sale at Exchange
: on Tuesday opened a general store in
the pioperty.
OR, WOODRUFF
AI INSTITUTE
Every tea- her employed in the pub
lic schools of Montour county was en
rolled at the opening session of iusti
tute yesterday morning Up to the
present thelP has lieeli no very large
attendance of |>atrons of the schools
or citizens in general. The sessions
are at all times open to the public,
and tne proceedings are of general
interest.
The ehapel exercises yesterday
morning were conducted .by Rabbi F.
W. Jcsselson, The first period was
occupied by Dr. Cillan, who took as
his subject, "Kinds of Mental Activ
ity Used in Solving Problems." It
was a practical talk full of good sug
gestions.
Following Dr. Gillan's talk Dr.
John I Woodruff,president of Susqne
lianua University, Selinsgrovo, Pa.,
was introduced. He took as his sub
ject, "Reading for Culture" and de
livered a most scholarly and inpsiring
address.
READING FOR CULTURE
Dr. Woodruff would not underesti
mate the value of enlightenment along
the lines of economic and political de
velopment. Bead the thiugs that
transpire in life. Industry and com
mercial enterprises have their part,
but they are not all of life. The Am
erican people need heart enlargement
and soul enlargement—need to culti
vate a taste for the beautiful in art
aud literature.
Dr. Woodruff stated with tegret
that lie too frequently finds a lack of
general information among students
at college. No person should fail to
read along the line of current events.
As teachers, especially, we need to
understand the economic, and the soc
ial conditions and to obtain the right
outlook into the things of life.
Each man has a natural horizon be-
yonil which he can not see; lie also j
has a mental horizon beyond which he |
may si e, if lie lifts himself up broad !
ening his niintl by reading and study, j
The essence of culture, however, j
can he obtained by other 'means than j
reading. Travel, the viewing of ttie |
plains, the mountains and the cities j
with their imposing architecture —all |
these expand and enlarge the soul. We ■
acquire culture by associating with j
men and women of noble character. :
It is not so essential that we come in j
contact with persons of large mental 1
calibre as with persons of large souls
—who are pure and holy.
Read to enlarge your mental hori
zon. Viewed from a certain stand
point we live in a den and we are
wedded to the idols of that den. We
lire apart from the world—do not
come in contact rt: it at. I \v i
narrower and nariov >1
We should read to get it t-i i tter
social relations will our 112. How* -in
order to be tl.rust tuwuii ui f . tie
world of though'.
Have children r- -i-i i- eai ti. . !
as possible. Cultivate the lialn: id
reading every uritueut ymi eaii.'ie:e
er-i should not put all their time in ,
reading books but should get into per- !
feet touch with their patrous. Try to ,
coma in contact with their thought
and to live their lives.
If we would read for culture we
should try to learn the author—to un
derstand his personality. In lecom
memling books to be read tirst of all i
Dr. Woodruff recommended the Bible,
the one great book that has made life
what it is. Don't get the idea that
practical men do not need the Bible.
He recommended the great masters.
Read thejgreat minds that have eu
, riched English thought—Chaucer,
i Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope,
Wordsworth and Tennyson.
OTHE:I ADDRESSES
Following intermission Dr. Gillau
| occupied a period illustrating his pre
i ceding talk.
; The first period of the afternoon was
j occupied by Dr. Woodruff on the
| "Teaching of English." It was full
| of practical and common-sense points
i and was well received by the teachers.
Professor Charles Zaner followed
| with an excellent lecture on "Pen
! n.anship."
ARITHMETICAL OPERATION
| After intermission Dr. Gillan resum
ed the subject of arithmetic. He had
I previously shown hoVr three of the
| four kinds of mental action used in
arithmetic came into play in solving
problems, namely, memorizing, com
puting and visualizing. He next took
up reasoning as the fourth form of
innetal activity exercised in arithme
tic, and showed that in arithmetic
strictly defined reasoning is almost
wholly absent. The accountant is the
most successful who has attained such
automatic skill that he works without
thinking; he approaches the accuracy
and reliability of the calculating mach
ine or comptograph, which is too stupid
to make a blunder.
But in arithmetic as applied in piac
tical affairs the reason is exercised,
not in performing operations—they
should bo perfectly mechanical—lnt
ESTAHMSKKD IN K.
SUCK 1)01 BY
STRAY BULLET
That the dischnigiug ..f n Flbocrt
rillo I* utti -tided with the greatest
kind nf danger was demonstrated ye*
terday afternoon, when Mrs. Michael
lUnghoy, Center «u shot In
the arm while hanging up clothes in
Ihp vaid of her residence.
Tin- accident occurred about 2:30
o'clock. No person hearing a gun wan
HI sight. Mm. Hatighey wan In tho act
of placing tho clothes on the line and
had hei |, fr Hrill rßipfl(l „„ „ , pve , with
'"" r '"■"' - All of a Miildcn tho hissing
sound of a bullet was heaul an.l at tho
same moment the woman dropped to
the triouuri.
DROPPED TO THE GROUND
Mrs. HaugheyV -la- <hter who was
assisting her to hang up tho clothes
rushed to her aid. Tne injured woman
was assisted into tho house, when it
was found that tl.e ball of a Flobert rifle
a '-'-'-short—had pierced tho muscle
ot her left arm about midway be
tween the elbow and shoulder. For
tunately tho forco of the bullet had
been pretty well sptnt and it did not
pierce the flesh to any considerable
depth. The ball did not ledge in the
woun.l but was found inside the wo
man s waist when this was removed.
l)r. Patton was called, who diessed
the wound, which in itself is not re
garded as serious. Tho fright and the
shock, however, were not without
effect and Mrs. Haughy was rendered
quite ill for awhile.
NARROW ESCAPE
Chief of Police Mincemoyer took
the bullet in charge. It is a large and
treacherous-looking missile. Nearly
spent as it was, had it struck the wo
man in a vital part it would no doubt
attended with lata! conse
quences. Had Mrs. Haughcy'a arm not
been raised thus intercepting the bul
let it would no dnubt have struck her
head.
Thus far all efforts have failed to
discover who fired the shot. It is said
that the bullet came from a northerly
direction and that it came very near
striking a man walking at the rear ot
Mill street, who heard the ball whizz
by his head.
The penalty for using a Flobert rifle
in the borough is five dollars, the same
as for discharging any other kind of
tire arm. The result of jesterday's
shooting will uo doubt be that the
ordinance in this respect will here
after he rigidly enforced.
MUMMERS' PARADE
A number of firemen held a meeting
at the Haldy House last night in the
interest ol a New i'ear's demonstra
tion. An oryiiui' itiou was effected by
electing Setli II ."rmor President; A.
C. ltont. Secretary, and JJ. C. Wil
liiiin-. treasure:-.
As a first st"j t ■ .s decided to as
certain the pet tai •of the people. A
■ committee coasting of Wesley Hoi
lobaugh, George Freeze, and fcieth
Loruier, was appointed.to canvass the
business section and to put the prop
osition squarely up to the people. It
will be for them to say whether wo
shall have a New Year's parade or
! not. The plans will be fully explain
j ed. While a good demonstration is de
; sired there is no inclination to incur
| heavy expense. In the matter of music
i the committee has 110 intention of go
! ing outside of our own town.
in solving the problem, that is, in de
terming what to do or what mathem
atical tools to employ. This is a study
of tlm given conditions, and has no
necessary relation to arithmetic which
is merely the science of unmbers and
the art of computing.
This presentation, like all of Mr.
Crillan's work, was illustiated nd ex
emplified by practical application in a
class exercise with the teachers. He
gave them some problems without
figures, which aroused great interest.
They were problems in which the cum
bers were omitted and thus the solu
tion depended on a correct insight and
reasoning on the conditions given.
Not a little amusement was created by
a few "gumption problems" to catcli
the unwary, such as these: "If I tell
you how much my horse weighs when
standing 011 four feet how canyon tell
how much he will weigh when stand
ing on three feet?" "If one-third of a
ceiling is painted blue, and half the
remaining surface, red,how can I find
the area of the ceiling if I know the
length, height and width of the
room?"
In the afternoon the lesson impress
ed the value of drill on"the forty-five
combinations;" and an improved and
greatly simplified method of finding
the least common multiple of several
numbers was presented.
Miss Mary Caskins rendered a vocal
solo, Miss Phoebe Curry officiating at
the piano.