Commissioners' 5tatement
-OF THE-
Finances of Jefferson County
For the Year 1907.
AMOUNT OUTSTANDING 1002, 1904, 1885, 106 AND PREVIOUS.
Tear, District and Collector
1904 Barnett W. A. Wallace
fl905 Barnett W. A. J al.ace
1905 Brookvllle John H. Shlck
1 1905 Clover N. A. McLaughlin
1905 Plnecreek Frank Walters
,1905 Polk A. L. Lockwood
11906 Barnett W. A. Wallace
!jj6 Oliver J- A. Geist
1906 Plnecreek John Hatien
1906 Polk A. L. Lockwood
1906 Punxsutawney ...H. H. McHenry
1906 Reynoldsville Wm. Copping
1906 Wlnslow Amos Rtrouse
1906 West Reynoldsville. W. B. Stauffer
County Poor
Bond
Btate I Dog
It 3 64:8 4 41 ) 8 83 8 1 98 J t
175 23 87 60 44 07 29 00
190 04 85 95 85 95 17 16 9 90
123 82 70 17 70 17 123 06 28 17
164 99 66 49 65 49 . 27 79 4 95
13 40 IS 60 13 60 9 01 24 75
31 37 23 92 23 76 14 08 9 35
I 182 93 49 64 16 76 21 42 8 80
119 38 66 67 23 39 6 71 22 00
66 9S 89 99 21 90 8 05 87 40
231 23 67 98 19 74 9 40 8 80
167 73 79 86 36 89 12 85 6 50
2 63
139 07 384 97 203 06 81 63 271 15
23 3 03 1 04 1 82 2 02
AMOUNT OUTSTANDING FOR 1007.
Tear, District and Collector
Barnett H. L. Agnew
Beaver A. F. Keitz
Bell A. J. Grafllus
Big nun A. G. Anderson
Brockwayvllle G. W. NelRon
Brookvllle E. O. Heaxley
Clayville James Lnckard
Clover J. 1. Hctrick
Corsica J. F. Luther
Eldred Wm. M. Wilson
Falls Creek D. C. Smith
Gaskill Geo. A. Keliar
Heath John Paine
Henderson John W. Hnag
Knox O. C. Stewart
McCalmont W. D. Wachob
Oliver -..J- A. Uelst
perry S. L. Stewart
Plnecreek John Hatten
Polk A. L. Lockwood
porter Chas. Miller
Punxsutawney H. H. McHenry
Hose A. S. Klouso
"Reynoldsville Wm. Copping
v Bummerville O. 8. Sampler
Snyder C. M. Frindle
Svkesville J. F. Webber
- Union .Q. C. Aaron
Warsaw R- v v,.NV ell
Washington -J- J- Sterrett
Wlnslow ;Amrs Strouse
West Reynoldsville W. B. Stauffer
Worthville S. P. onderllng
Young T. C. Haag
ICounty Poor
Bond
State Dog
$201 38 70 10 8 23 4211 14 00 I 12 6f
158 20 62 85 17 87 13 30 15 00
327 63 118 11 86 30 4 00 14 50
101 45 26 32 13 94 . 7 98 6 60
291 77 97 77 , 31 84 15 96 17 00
617 78 270 76 91 03 13 84 7 00
384 95 128 33 43 01 17 60 260
171 73 69 48 21 40 8 17 1 09
" ftS5 91 " i29 66 "ii'oi ' "4'64 '-80'60
197 79 66 82 . 22 42 8 08 16 00
129 72 42 95 10 89 11 37 19 50
14 13 4 10 1 84 2 34 4 50
605 35 202 14 67 21 113 76 86 64
301 93 97 41 82 75 9 90 41 84
855 06 2S5 24 93 70 13 13 94 20
409 40 161 74 63 34 11 69 17 60
147 50 65 65 17 35 23 66 25 60
444 90 148 36 49 61 14 64 60 00
218 76 72 88 24 31 6 70 8 00
81 99 60 48 21 30 2 45 10 50
1914 69 638 92 213 05 102 97 32 50
421 42 142 52 48 73 14 81 24 60
1222 94 365 03 116 66 13 63 80 60
68 04 23 62 6 81 16 67 3 01
85.1 4i 113 66 87 95 82 49 42 00
151 70 46 63 13 20 11 97 10 00
150 64 60 26 16 77 81 03 10 00
809 64 269 45 89 93 48 32 83 00
661 21 186 86 48 95 3 43 27 40
2424 74 815 13 271 64 61 97 161 60
133 10 45 28 14 43 10 68
20 63 6 83 2 24
1005 09 337 78 109 59 11 96 43 60
Receipts and Expenditures for 1O0T.
RECEIPTS.
Amt. In Treasury. ;8 15,916 31
Outstanding tax, 1905 and ,,.,
previous z,zl -
Outstanding tax, 1906-7.... 71,198 10
Rented tax lien record i2 99
Unseated tax lien record.... 1,887 60
Interest J?
Hotel licenses 1.03 ! .
Redemptions .,2,11
Com. costs and fines 8,1 1 1 69
Returned tax JJ 67
Rent 6 00
8-4 State personal tax re
returned 8.449 nn
Jury fees 28 00
Miscellaneous receipts 618 99
Btate for primary election,
June. 1907 1.874 07
State for premiums 1,088 00
Btate for fire and game
wardens 155 90
Btate for Agriculture Asso
ciation 900 45
Redemptions Rec'd Treas.
Bale Hook 212 04
necelnts and Expenditures for 1007..
Poor Fnnd.
RECEIPTS.
Amt. In Treas. last settlem't.$ll,433 14
Outstanding tax 1906 and
previous ; . 4.805 72
Outstanding tax 1907 15,804 45
Unseated tax lien record.... 472 25
Seated tax lien record 21 76
Amt. received for care of
Inmates 2.229 26
Ptnte aid 3,554 13
Burial of inmates 144 40
Rent 21 00
Miscellaneous receipts 409 10
Total 107,014 12
EXPENDITURES.
Assessors' bills
Auditors' pay
Allegheny Co. work house..
Appeals
Auditing Reg. and Pro. ac
counts Appropriation to G. A. R.
for Memorial Day
Blank books and stationery
Bar Asso'n 1-2 Com. fines..
Bridge and bridge repairs..
Ballots, Feb. Election
Ballots, Nov. Election
Burial Indigent Soldiers....
Ballot boxes
Commlsloners' Atty
Court Cryer
Clothing for prisoners ....
Constables' - returns -.
County Supt
Care of Clock
Commissioners Pay
J. N. Kelly
J. S. Burr :
E. T. McGaw
Commonwealth bills
Discharged cases and In
quests Commissioners' Clerk
District Attorney
Delivering ballots
Directors' Association ....
Dog tags
Express
Election billR, Feb
Election bills. Nov
Election booths
Error in settlement 1906,
order 151
Fuel and light
Freight
Furniture
Fire and game wardens bill
Fair association
Head stones for Soldiers....
Insurance
Interpreters fees
Jurors
Grand Petit
Traverse ,'
Janitors pay
Jury Commissioners
Jail physician
Livery hire
Medicine for prisoners
Meals for jurors
Markers for Soldiers graves
Penitentiary bills
Prothonotary's bills
Postage and Box Rent
Probates and fees
Printing bills
Primary election, Aprit ....
Reform schools
Repairs to court house
and Jail
Register and Recorder
Repairing prisoners shoes..
Rent
Road and bridge views
Rent for telephones
Refunding orders redeemed
Redemptions paid
Registrars of vital statistics
Stenographers
Supplies
Sheriffs bills
State tax
Transcribing records
Telephone Messages
Talesmen
Tipstaves ,
Traveling expenses and
mileage
Transferred to poor build
ing fund
Treas. per cent, receiving
890.865.77 -i
Treas. per cent, paying out
881.296.64
Water rent
Balance in Treasury .......
4.809 64
276 00
1,929 00
87 14
50 00
200 00
914 81
536 36
19,602 62
266 00
84 00
6S5 00
260 00
250 00
219 00
1B7 CO
470 96
200 00
60 00
800 00
800 00
800 I0
5,400 11
294 48
1,000 00
1,250 00
59 05
100 00
27 00
23 64
1.968 30
1,794 64
91 60
112 00
1,563 43
16 14
44 75
91 70
900 45
90 00
163 91
214 50
1.040 27
2.902 04
1.739 66
493 33
141 79
- 60 00
202 25
60 62
265 90
40 00
1,419 66
706 10
392 77
1.555 00
2.174 56
1,490 67
639 65
643 81
47 95
13 15
100 00
760 60
246 00
77 23
213 63
709 75
1,208 65
257 89
8.725 38
8 599 42
212 75
25 20
22 00
385 76
76 10
20.000 00
1.138 07
1.625 93
327 60
2.741 65
Total 138,895 21
EXPENDITURES.
Blacksmithlng 49 65
Burial lot 19 00
Cattle - 71 00
Commissioners' pay
J. N. Kelly 400 00
J. B. Bnrr 4O0 00
E. T. McGaw 400 00
Commissioners' Atty., Stewart 250 00
Disinfectant 17 00
Drugs 276 23
Farming Implements 226 79
Farm 6,300 00
Freight and hauling 46 31
Furniture . , 354 17
Feed - 108 85
Fertilizer 76 60
Fuel and light 986 27
Groceries and provisions.... 2,928 19
Hospital bills
Warren 3,588 25
Polk 275 00
Dlxmont 274 00
Wornersvllle 104 29
Passavant Memorial .... 37 60
Insurance 1,602 98
Livery hire 64 60
Outside relief 1,585 65
Orders of relief and Insani
ty certificates 254 50
Organ for chapel 100 00
Pinecreek school district ... 6 40
Plumbing and repairs 666 61
Rent 37 60
Refunding orders 28 62
Shoes and clothing 809 27
Supplies 349 78
Seeds and Plants 98 28
Salaries
Shields. Supt 800 00
Miss Shields. Matron.... 200 00
Elizabeth McCullough .. 415 00
Dr. Thompson, physician 300 00
M. M. Hnugh 660 00
Thomas Hctrick 300 00
Rev. Bartlott 60 00
Wages 624 21
Traveling expenses and trans
porting limates 307 24
Telephone 4 80
Treas. per cent, receiving
$27,462.07 843 28
Treas. per cent for paying
out $25,142 24 502 84
Bal. In treasury 12,906 85
Total ..$38,895 21
General Statement.
ASSETS.
Poor tax outstanding 1906
and previous 971 08
Poor tax outstanding 1907.. 5,192 26
Unseated tax outstanding... 832 64
Cash in Treasury 12,906 65
Total $19,902 73
LIABILITIES.
Nothing
Assets over liabilities 19.902 73
Total ...$19,902 73
Poor nulldlnr Fnnd.
RECEIPTS.
To amt. transferred from
county funds $20,009 00
To outstanding tax 1906 and
previous 1,844 36
To outstanding tax 1907...., 6,297 27
To unseated lax lien record.. 157 63
To Seated tax lien record.. 10 81
To amt. from poor fund 4.095 40
Total $107,014 12
General Klstnnrat,
ASSETS.
County tax outstanding 1906
and previous $ 1,704 88
State tax outstanding 1906
and previous , 142 26
County tax outstanding 1907. 15.484 84
State tnx outstanding 1907.. 665 86
Unseated tax outstanding.... 2.601 89
Cash- In Treasury 2.741 65
Total .$23,540 88
LIABILITIES.
Nothing
Assets over liabilities 23,540 38
Total .$22,640 88
Total $31,403 87
EXPENDITURES.
Bonds redeemed 25.600 00
Coupons redeemed 6.700 00
Treas. per ceni. receiving
$7,309.97 91 37
Treas-. per cent, paying out
130,700.00 f.l 00
AUDITOR'S REPORT
OP THE
Finances of Jefferson County
For the Year 1907.
Total $3'-,406 87
General Statement.
ASSETS.
Poor building tax outstanding
1906 and previous 5C9 55
Poor building tax outstand
ing 1907 , 1 707 85
Unseated tax outstanding ... 845 80
Liabilities over Assets 76.472 70
Treasurer's; Account.
IRA J. CAMPBELL, Treasurer, In ac
count with Jefferson County for the
year ending December 31st, 1907.
COUNTT FUNDS.
DR.
To am't In treasury at last
settlement $15,916 81
To cash received on county
tax of 1907 47,509 08
To cash received on state tax
for 1907 7,507 85
To cash received on outstand-'
Ing tax of 1906 16,181 73
To cash received on outstand
ing tax of 1906 and previous 2,215 97
To am't of personal tax re-
turned by the state 8,449 66
To am't of hotel license re
ceived 1.035 00
To commonwealth costs re
ceived 8,109 69
To am't of fines received.... 63 00
To am't of Jury fees received 28 00
To am't of rent received from
J. W. Walker 60 00
To am't of redemptions re
ceived from Commissioners 66 47
To am't of tax received from
Treasurer's Receipt Book.. 68 67
To ain't received from Clarion
county on Cooksburg bridge 34 49
To am't received from Forest
county on Cooksburg bridge 75 74
To am't received of C. H.
Blood on fees .-. 303 98
To am't received of J. B.
Means on fees 204 78
To am't received of state for
Primary elections 1,874 07
To am't received of state for
premiums on weasles, etc.. 1,088 00
To am't received of state for
premiums to Agricultural
Associations 900 45
To am't received of state on
forest fires 155 90
To amt. of redemptions re
ceived 212 v
To nm't received on unseated
tax of 1906 1,887 60
To Interest received on un
seated tax 13 31
To am't received on seated
tax of 1904-5-6 73 99
SHEEP FUND.
DR.
To am't In treasury at last
settlement
To am't received on dog tax
of 1907
To am't received on dog tax
of 1906
To amt. received on dog tax '
of 1905 and previous
800 0
175 17
698 27
BO 01
Total t 1.661 63
CR.
By sheep orders redeemed...,
By refunding orders redeem
ed By am't paid school districts
By Treasurer's percentage for
receiving $1,361.63
By Treasurer's percentage for
paying out $1,318.15
By reserve fuud In treasury..
826 75
18 10
973 80
17 01
26 86
200 00
vanm. do certify that In pursuance of the 47th Section of an Act entitled
Act relRtlng to counties, townships, etc., passed the 15th day of April, A. D.
1834.' we met In the commissioners office In the Borough of Brookvllle, Pa., on
the first Monday of January. A. D. 1908. It being the Blxth day of saltl month
and did audit, adjust and settle the several accounts required of us by law,
agreeably to the several sets of Assembly and supplements thereto, according
to the best of our Judgment and ability, and find them as set forth in the above
report.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand and seals at the office
.foresaid this 7th day of February, A. D. 1908.
THOMAS D. ADAMS, (Seal.)
' G. H. 8MAIL, (Seal.)
J. H. CARR, (Seal.)
We further renort whereas many citizens renuest a more fully Itemized
statement of the expenditures of the county we therefore present the fol-
Invln ll an,l..,l hrl.ltrA ..nan... tnv 1007'
Am't paid for stone work of Cherry run bridge $1,666 09
Am't paid for superstructure of Cherry run bridge 1,125 00
Am't paid for filling approaches of Cherry run bridge 150 00 $ 8,141 08
Am't paid for stone work of Burket Hollow bridge 81,241 57
Am't paid for superstructure of Burket Hollow bridge.... 1,125 00
Am't paid for filling approaches of Burket Hollow bridge.. 180 19 1,496 7$
Am't paid for stone work of Soldiers run bridge $1,747 88
Am't paid for superstructure of Soldiers run bridge 1,228 95 8.171 81
Am't paid for stone work of Beaver run bridge $1,360 15
Am't ptld for superstructure of Beaver run bridge 1.574 84
Am't paid for filling approaches of Beaver run bridge 146 61
Am't. paid on lawsuit regarding weaver run nriage . ?.; "
Am't paid James B. Caldwell as bridge engineer 868 84
Am't-pald on bridge contracts for 1906................... 1,889 63
Am't of repairs on Pickering St. Btats bridge In Brookvllle 417 27
Am't paid for painting bridges 848 88
Am't paid for other bridge repairs 8,218 88
Total $79,095 40
LIABILITIES.
Bonds-outstanding 75.000 00
Amt, due poor fund 4,095 40
Total $79,095 40
JEFFERSON COUNTY. SS:
Pursuant to law, we the undersigned
Commissioners of Jefferson county,
publish tho foregoing statement of the
receipts and expenditures of said cnun.
j ty for the yea 1907, and also present
ine sweii una jiaoiuiie ox tne county
on the 1st dav of January, isok.
Witness our bands and seals of office
mis ii in oay or euruary, lues.
J. N. KEI.LY, (Seal.)
J. B. BARK, (Seal.)
10. T. DleUAW, (Seal.)
Attest: Commissioners.
A. Ii OALBRAITH, Clerk.
Total $107,014 12
CR.
By county orders redeemed. .$71,610 24
By refunding orders redeemed 77 23
By am't paid directors asso
ciation 100 00
By am't paid County Superin
tendent 200 00
By am't paid Btate Treasurer
on personal tax 8,599 42
By redemptions paid 213 63
By am't paid registrars of vi
tal statistics 709 75
By am't transferred to' poor
building account 20,000 00
By Treasurer's percentage for
receiving $90,885.77 1,136 07
By Treasurer's percentage for
paying out $81,296.64 1.625 93
By balance in treasury 2,741 65
Total $107,014 12
POOR FUNDS.
DR.
To am't In treasury at last
settlement $11,
To am't received on poor tax
of 1907 15,
To am't received on poor tax
of 1906 4,
To am't received on poor tax
of 1905 and previous
To State aid received 8,
To outside relief received for
maintenance of Inmates of
Cotinty Home 2,
To am't received on produce
of county farm
To am't received for burial of
Inmates of County Home...
To am't received from rent..
To am't of unseated tax lor '
1906
Te nm't of seated tax for 1904,
1905 and 1906
433 14
804 45
380 33
425 39
554 13
229 26
409 10
144 40
21 00
472 25
21 76
Total $38,895 21
CR.
By orders redeemed for main
tenance and expenses of in
mates of Cnuntv l-Trima . . t10 70A ?
By orders redeemed for pur-
i-iiHKuiK real estate lor
countv farm . R9id nn
By refunding orders redeem
ed 20 62
By Treasurer's percentage for
receiving $27,463.07 843 27
By Treasurer's percentage for
paying out $25,142.24 602 84
By am't of poor funds In
treasury 12.906 86
Total $38,895 21
POOR BUILDING AND BOND FUNDS.
DR.
To am't transferred from
COUntv account . . nnn nn
To cash received on building " '
bond tax of 1907 8 297 27
To cash received on bond tax
of 1906 j 4n gg
To cash received on bond tax
oi i:ua ana previous 424 38
?'' of unseated tax for
1906. l-epolvAri . M
To am't of seated tiii"fnr
1904-5 and 6 io 81
10 ami. aue fund 4.095 40
Total $31,405 37
en.
BV Rm't of nnnr l,n,l.
Rv e3d; V ' $26,000 00
By a tnt of poor coupons ro-
. , , r lcmg-e tor
receiving $7,309.97 91 3;
By Treasurer's percentage for
paying out $30,. 00.00 614 00
Total $ 1,661 68
Sheriff. Account.
GRANT SCHEAFNOCKER, Sheriff.
DR.
To am't of orders drawn . ...$ 3,725 88
CR.
By am't due at last settle
ment $ 210 2C
By boarding prisoners, 4962,
at 60o per day 2,481 00
By 113 commitments at 60c
each 56 50
By 73 discharges at 60c each 88 50
By removing 20 prisoners to
workhouse and penitentiary 462 27
By removing 1 prisoner to
reform school 45 E8
By removing 1 prisoner to
warren 4U zv
By drawing and summoning
Jurors 208 29
Bv fees for attendlnir court
29 days at $3 per day.... 87 00
Bv court and election nrocla
mations it 75
By extra care for Antonio
Ala saro. 37 tiavs at boc Der
dav 18 EC
Bv fees on tines and costs col
lected by sheriff 65 36
Bv bench warrant November
term, laui 13 92
Total I 8,725 38
Commissioners' Account.
JOHN S. BARR, Commissioner.
CR.
By one year's salary as Com
missioner and poor director 1,200 00
DR.
To am't of orders drawn.... 1,200 00
j. pi. K.t-L.11, commissioner.
CR.
Bv one year's salary as com
missioner ana poor director 1,200 00
DR.
To am't of orders drawn.... 1,200 00
is. T. McGAW, Commissioner.
CR.
By one year's salarv as com
missioner and poor director 1,200 08
DR.
To am't of orders drawn 1,200 00
Cummlsloner's Clerk Account.
. A. E. OALBRAITH, Clerk.
By one year's salary'. 1,(00 00
DR.
To nm't of orders drawn.... 1,000 00
County Superintendent's Account.
PROF. 1 MATNB JONES, County
Superintendent.
CR.
By am't of vouchers filed... 200 00
DR.
To am't of cash received from
County Treasurer 200 00
Steward's Account.
S. M. SHIELDS. Steward of County
Home.
CR..
By one year's salary
DR.
To am't of orders drawn .... 800 00
800 00
Matron's Account.
MISS MYRTLE SHIELDS, Matron of
county Home.
CR.
By one year's salary 200 00
DR.
To am't of orders drawn.... 200 00
Jnnltor'n Account.
GEORGE H. GROVES, Janitor.
CR.
By one year's salary 480 00
DR.
To am t of orders drawn.... 480 00
County Home Physician's Account.
DR. II. P. THOMPSON, Physician.
CR.
By one year's salary 800 00
DR.
To am't of orders drawn.... 800 00
Jail Physician's Account.
DR. W. W. MATSON, Physician.
CR.
By one year's salary 100 00
DR.
To am t of orders drawn.... go 00
To balance due Matson 60 00
T"'"' 831.405 37
Total $ 100 00
County Solicitor's Account.
A. B. STEWART, Solicitor.
CR,
By one year's salary 600 00
DR.
To am t of orders drawn 600 00
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Beaver
Bell
Big Run
Brockwayvllle ...
Brookvllle
Clover
Corsica
Eldred
Falls Creek
Gaskill
Heath
Henderson
Knox
McCalmont ......
Oliver
Perry
Plnecreek
Polk
Porter
Punxsutawney ...
Reynoldsville ....
Ringgold
Rose
Snyder
Bummerville
Bykesvllle
Union
Warsaw
Washington
W. Reynoldsville.
Wlnslow
Worthville ..
Young
Clayville
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15 63 20 21
6 07 8 33
'i57-78 26845
16 58 6 83
4 60
'm'ii S i 9 ' 3 2
77 69 78 17
343 441483 42
207 541256 3S
101 95 90 74
414 42 562 96
104 781464 72
97 80 264 40
5 64 16 74
173 64203 99l
40.. 281220 03
1 791
276 51
78
89 32
169 09
5 64
291 79
293 23i
15 91
68 62
677 69
2 51
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93 631162 66
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277 46 663 48
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83 78
26 62
15 47
34 4
33 61
4 37
3 69
81 91
31 72
32 29
14 62,
26 91
63 53
97 41
12 94
34 77
11 60!
4 12
15 92
21 3C,
52 96
28 98
49 23
39 73
6 19
13 77
IK 45
33 08
63 66
10 93
48 49
3 421
83 17
40 78
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13 74
34 00
37 281
275 00
132 30
173 15
24 921
375 00
69 18179 10
68 85
75 24
90 00
356 61
30 28
61 06
104 97
90 00'
91
262 12,
74 84
360 29
395 12:
178 73
68 74
208 0
1 791
409 05
8 73
180 00
1 73
363 90
33 78
25 62
15 47
34 84
33 61
4 37
8 69
81 9
31 72
82 29
14 62
26 9
53 53
97 4
12 94
34 77
11 60
4 12
15 92
21 36
62 96
28 98
49 23
39 73
6 19
13 77
18 45
33 06
63 66
10 93
48 4f
3 42
33 17
40 78
83 751
15 53
6 07
141 93
8 14
4 601
185 31
40 31
68 44
48 36
83 10
414 42
29 64
7 80
5 64
173 64
48 67
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186 82
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202 67
59 60
85 67
16 74
135 25
11 96
293 23
15 91
68 62
268 64
2 51
174 84
2 86
319 68
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JEFFERSON COUNTT, BS. :
We. the uu.Jorsiar.ed Auditor of Jefferson County, In the State of Pennsyl-
Total
THOMAS R. ADAMS,
J. H. CARR,
$18,602 52
(Seal.)
(Seal.)
By Dr. Felix Adler.
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Ey Sir Frederick Treves.
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He Lies to His Wife 1
T By Winifred Black. 1
CUaitENT magazine takes up some valuable space discuss
ing the subject of "Why men never tell the truth to women.
That's easy enough to answer. .
A man never tells a woman the truth If he can help it,
because he hates a scene, and he knows he will get one if he
hands her the plain, unvarnished truth without a little pink
string around it to make it look rietty.
Why does a woman tell a man. the truth?
Becanfi Rh Vnnwa ha will make a scene when she does
it, and that's the very thing she is after.
Men nate heroics.
Women love them.
The best woman on earth would rather flcht with her husband than Bit
Btill and look pleasant while he reads his paper and forgets all about her.
tne meanest -man on earth would rather smoke his pipe in peace una
think about the fish he didn't catch, last Summer than quarrel with any
woman who ever breathed.
If I had a husband who wouldn't nnarrel with me Rood and hard once
in a while. Just to show that he cared whether I was cross or not, I'd divorce
him and marry a Bengal tiger to get excitement Into life.
a woman doesn't hate to hear the truth from the man she loves any
more than man hates to hear the truth from the woman he loves he only
hates the results worse, that's all.
The only time a woman ever does hear the truth at all Is when some man
tells It to her her father, her brother or her husband.
The rest of the world Joins in the conspiracy of flattery that sends many
a poor silly goose neacocklne throueh life under the Impression that she's
a swan of royal bearing at the very least. For a good, sensible woman with
no nonsense about her, commend me to the woman with brothers.
She's heard the truth about herself often enough, you may depend
upon it.
Me? Do I like to hear the real -upright and downright no-nonsense-about-it
truth?
Well, er a yes, when I'm feeling Just like It.
At all other times I like to have the people I love say to me in gplrit,
"See here, I love you so much, let's pretend I think you're beautiful and wise
and charming and kind," and the first thing I know I'll be trying my hardest
to be all the things we're "pretending."
Why don'A men tell the truth to women?
Because they dassent.
They might get a dose of truth in return. From the New Tork American.
National Short comings
N my heart of hearts I am an optimist with respect to tho
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J subject I fancy you must feel very much as I do, that to be
2 a member of a people convicted in the eyes of the world of
ntion. so much
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dwelt on In the newspapers of the present day, Is like feel
ing as the member of a family that has a blemish on lis
escutcheon. You cannot go abroad and listen to the gibea
of the Europeans, however little they may be justified, with
the same sense of contempt that one might have had. So there is a grow
ing feeling of pessimism among Americans as to our experiment in
government.
The way to conquer this pessimism is to work your way through it,
and not shirk facts. There is a disposition on the jart of those who know
unpleasant facts to gloss them over and say things are sure to come right.
That has not been the way of the world, things go wrong unless there are
those who deliberately see to it that they go right. '
la the early days of our history we were the Joseph among the nntions.
Joseph must have seerued an Intolerable prig to his brothers. In his ambitious
dreams he saw greatness which had not yet given any external evidence of
Itself "Behold I saw my sheaves in the midst of my brothers', and their
sheaves bowed down to my sheaves." He was a foolish boy to prate about It,
but all the same he was conscious of the stlring 6f his aspirations. So in the
but all the same he was conscious of the stirring of his aspirations. So in the
former half of the last century especially.
We have no great leadership In politics or In other fields. The average
American Intelligence Is high, but we have not the peaks that tower
above the average. No country needs great leaders so much as a democracy,
and In no country have they appeared less than In our democracy. The falsa
idea of equality, I Imagine, has something to do with It.' It is a curious fact,
Americans are the most individualistic and the least individualistic. No
where in individualism encouraged and nowhere so much discouraged. The
American Is filled with the spirit of enterprise; on the other hand, he is less
Independent than the Englishman. He would never assert his rights when
he has been ousted, as the Englishman; he is afraid of being singular when
he steps out and resents that which others bear the crushes on the Subway,
for Instance. Democracy is unfavorable to individualism in this respect.
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AM certain it is safe to prophesy that the time will come
when hospitals for infectious diseases will be empty and
not wanted. I also look forward to the time when It will
be as anomalous for persons to, die of scarlet fever, typhoid,
cholera, and diphtheria as it will for a man to die of a
wolf's bite In England. Very llttlo, however, can be
done by the legislature, but everything by the progress
of medical BClence, and in a much larger degree by tho
intelligence of the people. We must recognize that the say
ing that every one must eat a peck of dirt before he dies is erroneo and
see that dirt Is undesirable. Preventive medicine is founded upon hard fact,
prudenco, and common sense. The mystery of the ancient doctor, his use of
long names, and his extraordinary prescriptions are passing away. Multitudes
of shelves lull of bottles which surround doctors are also passing away, and
being replaced by simple living, suitable diet, plenty of sun, and plenty cT
fresh air. The fight of the present day Is against millions of microbes, and
the weapons are sanitary regulations, municipal government, the sanitary
Inspector, end the medical officer of health. American Magazine.
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