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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Grange Oyster Supper.

Danville Grange No. 81 2. of II. holds
its meetings in Cooper Township. On
Saturday evening last after holding a
short business session the members of
the order and their friends partook of
an excellent oyster supper. After the
supper several talks were made stating
some of the many benefits to be had
from being members of the order; to
which all present gave attention. Before
retiring for their homes music, both VOC
al and instrumental, was INDUCED in un
til late hour.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Appointments at Reading Iron Works.

The following appointments were
made to take effect at the Reading Iron
works yesterday: w. g. Williams, AS
sistant superintendent; Edward w.
Peters, Chief Clerk; Arthur Dietrich,
Mill Manager; o, F. Bishop, Inspector,
who will be in charge of Shipping De.
partment.
All other positions will continue to be
occupied as at present.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Epworth League Anniversary.

The 18th anniversary of the Epworth
League of St Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church will be held on Sunday evening,
Nav 18th. The service will be called
"TwelveW oDdertul Years" An excellent
program of music and recitations is be-
ing arranged. Addresses will be made
by the pastor and others closely eon-
nected with the work.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Ladies' Shampooing Parlor

John Bruder has opened a ladies'
shampooing and hair singeing parlor in
the rear OF his barber shop, 2lS Mill
street. The room is fitted up with every
convenience. Entrance through the hall
of Lees photograph gallery.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
CONDENSED NEWS.

May flowers next.
Clean out your cutters.
Plant your garden seed.
Keep firm grip on your winter cloth
ing.
The veterans are planning for Me-
mortal day.
Mrs. Herbert Wyle, West Mahonlng
street, will entertain a number OF friends
at euchre this afternoon.
William Waite was taken violently i'll
of cramp al the Reading Iron works,
yesterday.
A very beautiful bed of tulips in the
yard of r. II. Woolley's residence, Mar
ket street, is very much admired by pass
ers-hy.
A daughter has arrived at the home
of Frank Mensch, South Danville.
Ex-Sheriff George Maiers will open his
barber shop about the middle of next
week
A daughter has recently arrived at the
home OF Theodore Woolridge, near the
fair grounds.
Miss Ida Gallagher has accepted the
position Of night operator at the Dan
vile exchange Of the Montour & Col
umbis Telephone Company.
Pedestrians now seek the shady side
of the street.
Screen doors and window screens are
coming out of their hiding places.
Reber Faust, the 1S months old SON OF
Frank Faust, of Bloomsbury, drank the
contents of small bottle Of belladona
Tuesday and 10 in critical condition.
Mrs. Caroline Wetzel of Shamokin,
aged SO years, was badly burned in the
rear of her home Tuesday afternoon, her
clothing being ignited from a wood fire
John Sandel is giving his house on
Church street a new coat of paint.
The farmers are busy sowing oats and
planting potatoes.
The fragrant peach blossom is now
ready for spring frosts.
"The man behind the plow" is having
things pretty much his own way these
bright, spring days.
Why not have Fourth Of July cele
bration in Danville this year : 1t ia al
event that should be observed with al
the pomp that its Importance demands
Begin preparations in time.
Danville has drawn about all of th'
winter weather that it needs.
The post office has been thorough!
renovated and the floor given a coating
of oil dressing
The parting between the revenu,
stamp and the man who has to buy j
on July 1st, will not be sad one
Charles Woods is convalescent after
serious attack OF illness.
Mountain fires have not been as mum
erous this year as in the past.
In few weeks the picnic season vii
openand add zest to outdoor sport.
N. c. Melick OF Sunbury has accepted
the position of operator at the Philsdel
phia and Rea ding K. r. station, succeed
ing the late J. Riley Mauger.
Every member of the National Guar
OF Pennsylvania must qualify as
marksman this year or he cannot be
member of the Guard. What is the us
of man belonging to the Guard il h
cannot perform the first duty Of
guardsman and hit the object at whie
he shoots? 1t was Governor Beaver
idea when executive that every guards
man should qualify as marksman an
he worked continually to that end, 8
that to-day, as q whole, there is not
better body of marksmen in the Unite
States than the National Guard G
Pennsylvania.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
East Time.

Passenger train No. l2, due at South
Danville at 2.2l p. M, made unusually
good time Yesterday. 1t left Sunbury
six minutes late, making one stop at
Wolverton, and arriving at South Dan.
Vile on time. The run-l2 miles-was
made in fifteen minutes.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Her Eighty fifth Birthday.

The 85th birthday of Mrs. Lydia Lor.
NOR, Church street, was quietly celebra
ted, Saturday evening last. Among
those present were Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus
Doughty and Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob hoyer
of Berwick. Mrs. Lormer is indisposed
ewing to an attack of grip.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Granted a Patent.

r. P. Johnson, of this city was grant
ed patent on Tuesday, April 23rd, on
q folding garment hanger for coats,
ladies' skirts and jackets. He has al
ready taken many orders for this de-
vice.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Death of Miss McOafrey.

Sarah McCaffrey, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas McCaffrey of this city,
died at the University hospital, Philadel-
phia, Sunday, as the result of an opera
ton performed for appendicitis. She
was q years of age.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02

The next club shoot will take place on
the 18th inst. Arrangements are being
made for an inter-county live bird shoot
Of more than ordinary Importance,
which will take place at DeWitt's Park
ON Memorial Day.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
To The Trade.

We have just arranged with B. K.
Shoemaker, of Danville to Handle our
line of Pure Medicinal Rye and Malt
Whisdes We Guarantee their Purity
Rochester Distilling Co.
Duffy Malt Whiskey Co.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Death Of a Child.

William, the seven-months-old child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Madden, Bloom
street, died yesterday afternoon.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Base Ball Oh Saturday.

The High School base ball nine will
play game of ball with the ''77's" on
Saturday afternoon at DeWitt's Park.
Admission will be only ten cents.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Gun Olub Tries It's Skill,

The Danville Gun and Rife Club held
a blue rock shoot at its grounds, De-
Wits Park, yesterday. Following is
tho Snnrn.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02

SOUP.
Clam Chowder.
Baked Delaware Shad.
OYSTERS.
Blue Points on the Half Shell.
STEAMED.
Little Neck CLAIMS.
Chicken, Cucumber, Lettuce.
ROAST.
Spring Chicken and Turkey.
VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Mashed Potatoes,
Cream Corn.
Lobster a la Newberg, Giblets on Toast.
Sliced New Tomatoes, Mushroom Catsup
Mixed Pickles.
Lemon Pie, Cocoanut Custard, Fruit,
Nuts and Raisins, Ice Cream and
Cake, Tea, Coffee
and Milk
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-05-02
Penn Social Club BANQUET.

One of the most elaborate banquets
ever partaken of in this city was that
enjoyed by IS members of the Penn
Social Club at the St. Elmo hotel, Tues
day evening The tables were decorated
with cut flowers and after the gentlemen
were seated they made most pleasing
effect. The menu was prolific with good
things and as the boys had their appe-
tites with them a good showing was
made. A glance at the following bill-of-
fare will prove Johnny" Meyers COM
potency in this line:
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12
rHE NEW nIYoRCE CANON.

Most Episcopalians doubtless agree
with Rev. DIR. Charles H. Strong's view
of the new divorce canon which the
house of bishops at the Episcopal con-
vention in San Francisco has adopted,
but which the house of deputies has
not yet acted upon. The canon, as
those who have followed the proceed
ings of the convention are aware. pro-
vides that no Episcopal clergyman shall
unite in marriage any divorced per-
son, divorced for a cause that did not
exist before marriage. DR.. Strong is
of the opinion that the house of depu-
ties will not approve the canon. 1t is
his opinion that it would not have been
adopted by the house of bishops If
it had not been for a number of mar
riages within the last year or so, which
amounted almost to scandals, among
those who are recognized as society
people in New York. Most newspaper
readers will recall these marriages.
They attracted a great deal of atten-
ton at the time they took place, and
the parties to them were severely cri-
icised for one reason, among others,
that the masses were likely to be in
luenced in such matters by the ex-
ample of those occupying high social
positions.
one reason probably why the house
of deputies will hesitate to approve
the new canon is that it makes it ap-
pear that the Episcopal church is will
ling that clergymen of other churches
shall perform the marriage ceremony
for it's divorced members-divorced for
a scriptural cause that did not exist
prior to marriage-and that it is will
ling that divorced persons thus mar
ried shall be admitted to it's sacra-
ment. In other words, there are per-
sons who cannot be married by the
Episcopal service, though their union
when married is righteous-so right
eous that they are freely admitted to
membership in the church.
OF course those divorced for other
than a scriptural cause are not admitted
to membership, but the new canon per-
mits the bishop to waive this rule.
Doubtless this power is lodged in the
bishop for the benefit of those cases
where a scriptural cause exists, but
has not been made evident in legal
proceedings.
The new canon is not likely to become
a law of the church. The house of dep
uties will hardly take a step that
would tend to raise a question of the
consistency of the church.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12

There was some apprehension IN
England that there would be trouble
in Afghanistan when the death Of Abb
dur Rahman Khan, the Ameer. was
announced, but it seems that his son.
Habib Ullah Khan, has become Ameer
with the assent of his brothers and all
of the leading men of the country and
that peace prevails.
There was it seems some ground for
thinking that one Habib's brothers
would endeavor to become Ameer on
the ground that Habib's mother was
not of good social position, she having
been a slave. 1t is of course of the
highest importance TO Great Britain
that there shall be peace in Afghanis-
tan, and, also, that the Amer shall be
friendly to her. Afghanistan is buffer
between Russian possessions in Cen
trail Asia and India. In the event OF
war in Afghanistan it is probable that
one of the parties would seek the as
sistance of Russia, and thus Russia
and Great Britain might become en-
Droiled in war.
The Arrangement that Great Britain
had with Abdur Rahman was that she
should pay him annually a sum of
money amounting to pretty nearly ST.
0OO. 900. with which to maintain an army
to keep the tribes of his monarchy at
peace with each other and thus prevent
Russia from having an excuse for in
terfering in Afghanistan's affairs.
There is no doubt that Russia would
eagerly seize an opportunity to push
the frontier of her possessions towards
the Indian Ocean. Doubtless it is the
dream of her statesmen that she shall
one day possess India.
1t is of course impossible to predict
with any degree of certainty what the
policy of the new Ameer will be, but
it is reasonable to suppose that he will
lean on Great Britain as his father
did, rather than upon Russia. 1t would
seem to be his interest to do so. At
ghanistan is more prosperous now than
it has been in several centuries, and
it's prosperity is no doubt due to the
wise policies of the ruler who passed
away a few days ago. If the new Ameer
should elect to place himself under
Russian influences ii would not take
long, in all probability, to undo the
good work done by the late Ameer. 1t
is certain that Great Britain will spare
no efforts to influence Habib Ullah
to follow in the footsteps of his father.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12
GarfeId's Powerful Sarcasm.

Gov Oates used to tell story illus
trative of Garfield's masterful power of
sarcasm and his one-time apparently
vindictive feeling against the South"
said a friend of the Governor, accord
ing the Birmingham Age Herald.
1t was perhaps in 1879 or 1SS0-Gov.
Oates was first elected to Congress in
November, 1880, at the same time Gar
field was elected President-and the
Democrats in the House were making
the fight of their lives to insert in the
army appropriation bill provision for
bidding the presence of troops at the
polls.
The fight had been long and bitter
and the Democrats were powerful
enough to prevent the passage of the
bill unless that provision was inserted,
and without the bill there would be no
money for the army.
Garfield was the Republican leader
in the House. and soon to be the COM
mander- inc chief of all the land and
naval forces of the nation by virtue of
his lived and tragic occupancy
of the White House, and he fought the
Democrats with relentless passion and
tremendous force. Suddenly, one day
during the rancorous debate, he bound
ed from his seat to his feet as if phys
icaly stung, and in that ringing,
sometimes bitter voice, he cried:
Mr.. Speaker! Some fifteen years
ago the Democratic party was shoot
ing to death the soldiers of the Union,
and to-day that party is trying to
starve them to DEATH"
He resumed his seat without an
other word, and then there was PAN
demonium. How different is the ma
tional feeling in this day of sorrow!"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12
PERSONAL.

1t is said that NJ. Labor, who de-
Tended Dreyfus. has been offered $780,
600 to deliver hundred lectures in this
country.
Rev. David Bruner has retired from
the ministry of the Baptist Church at
Burgin, KY, at the age of 49, after
service of three-quarters of a century.
The Ruskin Memorial Museum was
opened at Coriston, England, the other
day by Canon Rawnsley. The exhibits
show Ruskin as a painter as we'll as
an author.
Alfred Bowker's work as secretary
to the National Executive Committee
for the King Alfred millenary celebra-
ton is reported as about to be reward
ed by knighthood.
The Sultan of Turkey has six sons
and seven daughters, who are kept in
the securest seclusion, the former never
leaving the grounds of the house in
which they were born.
Andrew c. Mckenzie, a newspaper
man of Boston, has gone to Ecuador
at the head of an exploring expedi-
tiCi NAIoll 10 bdChGQ ny tie GTeSluenL
of that country. The expedition will
make a study of the least known por-
tions of Ecuador
William Cook, the sergeant major
who drilled King Edward VII, then
Prince of Wales, in 1861, when he was
serving in the First Grenadier Guards,
has just retired from active work. He
has been for the last thirty years a
sanitary inspector.
Miss Helen Gladstone, who gave up
the principalship of Newman College,
Cambridge England, to be with her
father and her mother in their last
years, has become warden of the Wo-
mems University Settlement in South
wark, and will live in the settlements
building in South London.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12

An Advance In Art.-"Mrs. Dash,
what is your club doing to help beau
tify the city?" ooh, we are working
hard to get the clothing houses TO use
the word trousers instead of pants
in their advertisements" Detroit Free
Press.
II see the London financial papers,
in discussing the encroachments of
American capital and enterprise, are
telling the Britons to cheer up
Yes, but they are giving them only
part of popular slang expression.
The whole of it would be more appro-
pirate"
What is the whole of it?"
Cheer up; the worst is yet to GOMEZ"
Chicago Post.
II say said the business man to
the detective, some fellow has been
representing himself as a collector of
ours. He has been taking in more mon
ey than any two of the men we have,
and 1 want him collared as quickly as
you can"
"All right; I'll have him in Jail in
less than a week"
Great Scot man! l don't want to
put him in Jail; 1 want to engage him."
Tit Bits.
AT a table of German and English
students recently one pleasant little
German was keen on showing his
knowledge of English. Every sentence
of his was bound to contain hayVe and
alretty; a bit of slang was to him as
ponderous as the voice of an oracle,
and the English tn was simply impos-
sible. He commented brokenly on the
bewket on the table, and the gaynose
in MS buttonhole.
But the climax was reached in an
swer to a question put in good Ger
man:
Are you going to the lecture to-
night, Herr B.?"
ZACH MOI" with a wave of his hand;
der ghost is retty, but der meat is
feeble"
Then the quiet man Strengthened out
our wrinkled brows by suggesting that
possibly he meant, 1.-The spirit is will
ing, but the flesh is weak.'-London
King.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Sunshine Cakes, Bel
singer & Gross: Andrew Hanley Com
pany; Savannah Building Supply Com
pany; My List, Jas. j. Joyce; Fresh
HOLSTERS, at Mrs. Norres Delicatessen;
Beef Roast at Gardner's; Levan's Ia
BILE d'Hote.
Business Notices-New Crop Georgia
Syrup, at MINISTER'S.
Specials To-day-At Eckstein's.
We Invite You to Come-Leopold Ad
Ter.
Branch's Branch-Have You Paid 1t
a Visit
Railroads-The Plant System.
Proposals-For Constructing Hospi-
tai Ward and Dead House.
Amusements-Ri Carvel at The
alter Monday Matinee and Night.
Auction Sales-Temporary Admins
tration Sale, by 1. D. LaRoche, Auc-
tioneer
Malt Murine - Anheuser Busch
Brewing Association.
Grape Nuts Food-Postum Cereal
Company.
MedicaI-Paine's Celery Compound:
Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Pills; TUFTS
Pills; Soda Mint and Pepsln, at Row
linskies.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted; Employment Wanted;
For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12

ITO most people the late Gen. George
man, but he loved a practical joke, E"
said Colonel Joe" Her at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, according to the New
York Tribune. Back in the seven
ties, soon after he was made a briga-
der general and stationed at Omaha,
Gen. Crook organized a wildcat hunt
ing party among a lot of us, and one
moonlight night we started across the
prairie from Omaha for the fort. The
plan was to sleep at the fort and at
daylight start for the wildcats. After
we were all fast asleep Gen. Crook
came downstairs without any shoes on
and took from our rifles the ball car
tridges, replacing them with blanks.
On the way to the woods the general
indicated the order in which he wished
us to fire on the first wildcat in case
we should tree the beast. We had
hardly reached the woods before Gen.
Crook rose in his saddle and said
BY thunder, boys, there's a cat
right in the crotch of that fir! Drop
off your wagon and bag him'
I'VE were on the ground in a twink
ling, and in less time than it takes
to tell it we were blazing away at a
HiOlollOuS DlS WDQCdI WnlCn was mug
ging the limb of the tree. The cat never
stirred as the successive shots were
fired, and the hunters looked at one
another with open mouthed astonish-
ment. We looked around for Gen. Crook
found him behind a stump laughing
away to beat the band. At once it
flashed on us that we had been hoax
ed. The general had just Strengthened
up and was beginning to explain the
joke when the driver, a hired man at
the fort, pulled from under a blanket
in the wagon a duble barrelled shot
gun, loaded with buckshot The gem
eral didn't see him fire, but he turned
around just in time to see tufts of fur
and hair fly from the wildcat as IL
dropped from the tree.
"Off went the general into another fit
of laughter. But this time the laugh
was on himself, for the hired man had
poured both charges of buckshot into
a beautifully stuffed wildcat COM
pletely running it. and the general sub
sequently paid the saloonkeeper from
whom he had borrowed it about SIS
All that Crook said was:
Boys, 1t was worth a hundred dol
lars apiece to see fire good marks
men miss a wildcat in broad daylight
at thirty PAGES 4"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12

Army officers in the Philippines do
not think well of the governments ex-
pertinent in sending white teachers to
the islands to instruct the Filipinos.
Capt. A. D. Mclean, a surgeon of the
army at Muntinlupa, writing to a
friend in Detroit, characterizes the
body of teachers as white elephant"
There are 700 of them. without the
commissary privilege" writes Capt.
Mclean, their salary of SIS a month
doesn't even keep them in food. They
cannot speak Spanish, and will never
learn to understand Tagalo." The cap
tain expresses the opinion that it
would be cheaper for Uncle Sam to
transport all of the Filipinos to the
United States to learn the language
there, than to attempt this school
ma'am scheme" Continuing Capt.
Mclean writes: "They have only been
here two weeks, and have raised more
powwow and disturbance than the
whole army did during the palmy days
of the Instruction. Since leaving the
United States about one hundred of
them have been married and the re-
naming six hundred are busying them
selves day and night to get into the
matrimonial band wagon. the wheels
of which never cease turning, even in
the Philippines"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-12

From the Baltimore American.
abdul Rahman Khan, Ameer of At
ghanistan, died Oct. 3, and has been
succeeded by his son, Habibullah
Khan. Gable Dispatch)
Farewell. Abdul Rahman Khan,
Ameer Of Afghanstan!
Ameer corpse you are to-day
Where the bulbul sings its lay;
Rest your pistols and your knives;
Weep your subjects and your wives;
Gone the days when battle dinned
Round your whiskers in the wind
Whlskers that were waved afar
Like the orihamme of war;
Sound the tom-tom and the gong;
Let us hush the bulbuis song;
Abdul Rahman Khan is gone
To a dirkless, dopeless dawn;
Though "Return!" his subjects pant,
Poor old Abdul Rahman Khan't!
Hail TO Habibullah Khan,
Ameer Of Afghanistan
May your doings and your fame
BE as wondrous as your name:
May your hookah sweetly puff;
May you garner wives enough;
Habibullah, royal kid,
May you rule as papa did;
May you even better be-
That the nations all may see.
That. however grand or great
BE the stern demands Of state,
Though your name a semblance may
Bear 10 comic opera.
Yet In working out a plan,
Habibullah always Khanl