Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-07-13
minor MATTERS
on INTEREST

but it usually gets right in the end
Political matters are again coming
to the front.
The wise citizen avoids litigation
as he would the plague.
The man who rocks the boat should
be locked up in a lunatic asylum.
The period of the free pass is never
likely to return to this country.
The best of men and women are Of
ten the victims of their environment.
There is only one way to acquire an
education that will prove valuable and
that is by hard study.
The fireworks have all been packed
away for another year, while the
wounded are slowly recovering.
This thing of taking shelter under
trees during the progress of an electric
storm is mighty dangerous piece of
business.
The unknown Fourth of July cele-
brator who killed little girl in Haz-
Teton by the discharge of a revolver
must feel sorry he was born.
The Pan American conference will
open at Rio de Janerio on the 21st of
this month. Secretary of State Root
and the United States delegates sailed
form New York ON the steamship
Byron, a couple of days ago.
Admiral Rojestvensky takes all the
blame on himself for the surrender to
the-.Japanese. Which involves a higher
degree of bravery than to have battled
to hopeless finish against the JAP
warships.
Winston Churchill, the author OF
Orchard Carvell' and Commission, ~
has entered the race for the Republi.
can nomination for governor of New
Hampshire, upon the platform OF
interference by the Boston and
Maine railroad or any other corpora
tion, with the political affairs of the
state.
Automobiles are now accused oi
spreading insect pests. They also still
up microbes in the dust that they
raise as they tear along.
The deadly cholera is at work early
in the Philippines. Every care should
be exercised to keep it out of this
| country.
In the present condition of Russis
it would not be surprising if the gov
ernment should decide ON the officia
assassination of Rejestvensky.
The American Bridge company broke
all previous monthly records during
June by booking orders for an aggre
gate of 60. 900 tons of structural stee
and turning out from its mills 30, 0O(
| tons.
1t is undoubtedly fact that the
British government regards with al
xiety the present situation IN Egyp
and northern Africa as possibly indi
eating the outbreak of "holy war. "
The boot and shoe industry con
tinues to occupy position of promin
ence because of the steady increase il
shipments from Boston in comparison
with any previous season, more thar
2, 800, 900 cases having been Forwarded
during the first half of the year.
1t is expected the government crol
estimate for July, will be very favor
able, and is considered of much i'm
portance as guide to the condition o.
Spring wheat, as we'll as of the star
of corn. The Winter wheat figures
will be the last of the season and will
be only revised when the actual crol
results are known.
4 1t is estimated by people who are il
a position to know that not half O.
the foreigners who went away during
the suspension of the mines have re
turned to coal region. Considerabl,
difficulty is experienced at some of tn,
colleries owing to the scarcity of men
The farmers would like a couple o
weeks straight sunshine, to get thei
grass cut and cured and hay put in tn,
barn. The weather is too catchy TO
haying.
= The Atlantic City lawmakers hav,
passed an ordinance declaring stree
meeting of the Salvation Army dis
orderly, and that everybody participat
ing in them is disorderly. OF cours,
the pagssage OF the law cannot be re
garded as reflection on the municipa
lawmakers.
The railroads threaten to increas,
the freight rates on breakfast foods
Is this in the interest of the public
health?
There are reports of an excellent hay
crop throughout Eastern Pennsylvania
That is good news, for it means money
in the hands of the farmers, hay being
! now one of the best paying crops.
Ex-Postmaster Chas. w. Scott, oi
Williamsport. has brought suit against
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
for ten thousand dollars damages fol
injuries sustained while riding in one
of its trains.