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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
The Farmers Wife

Is very careful about her churn. She
scalds 1t thoroughly after using, and gives
il a sun bath to sweeten II. She knows
that if her churn is sour 1t will taint the
butter that is made in it. The stomach is
3 churn. In the stomach and digestive
nd nutritive tracts are performed pro-
.essCs which are almost exactly like the
burning of butter. Is it not apparent
hen that if this stomach-churn is foul IL
makes foul all which is put into it2
The evil of a foul stomach is not alone
he bad taste in the mouth and the foul
breath caused by it, but the corruption Of
the pure current of blood and the dissem-
ination Of disease throughout the body.
DR.. Perce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
1t does for the stomach what the washing
and sun bath do for the churn-absolutely
removes every tainting or corrupting ele-
ment. In this way it cures blotches,
pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings,
sores, or open eating ulcers and all
humOrs or diseases arising from bad blood.
If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak and easily tired, feel depressed
and despondent, have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom-
ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour
or bitter risings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider
able number Of them, indicate that you are
suffering from biliousneSs, torpid or lazy
liver with the usual accompanying indi-
gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
arrangements.
The hsSL. agents known 10 medical SCI
ence f0L fGe-C1 UI die above SYMPTOMS
COALITIONS. as atfesfed1XIbe.MT .MTitl1gs
Of leading -IeacbelsQ practItIQleTs- 5f
al the several schools q medical lracIlce,
have been skIIILulII>-ald -harmQlious1Y
fS99hinsd Sfgda1s IN r. .p13 s Golden Medical
will be readily proven to your satisfaction
If you will but mail postal card request
to DR.. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, n. Y, for q
free copy of his booklet of extracts from
the standard medical authorities, giving
the names Of all the ingredients entering
into his world-famed medicines and show
ing what the most eminent medical men
of the age say of them.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18

There is Il curious old market near
Paris in which everything is sold at
secondhand. Working girls can fit
themselves out there from head to
foot. AS writer says: Mimi can sell
her old felt hat and buy a straw one,
exchange her old dress for new one
and. If she likes. buy Il steak and a
salad for her dinner, a paper bag Of
fried potatoes, sweets and some flow
ers for her window. Democracy is king
here. and no more attention is paid to
the millionaire who Is looking for
something marvellous which he may
pick up cheap than to the man with
wooden leg who wants Il new boot in
exchange foc dozen sardine tins, FIVE
gloves and stocking.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
SPORT IN AMERICA.
The Change That Has Come Since
the War Between the States.

The Change That Has Come Since
the War Between the States.
Before the civil war we Americans
had few outdoor pastimes. There was
some fox hunting in the south, some
shooting III the north. There was con-
siderable fishing, very little angling.
Tennis and golf were unknown to US.
Croquet was decorously played Driv-
ing and riding were restricted to the
few who could afford the time and ex-
penSe One or two cricket eleVens
struggled for existence. There were
no bicycles. no motors, of course, only
an absurd velocipede or two. Extreme
youth flew kites" played marbles and
whipped tops. Among their elders,
however there was mincing, artiti-
cial attitude toward all outdoor sport
which found its fullest expression in
quadrille, at croquet or Il sentimental
sailing expedition under the calmest
Of skies.
However, even then we had yachts
men-naturally corollary of our superb
commercial navy-and we had good
horses and were breeding better ones,
and we by Inheritance We're nation
Of men who handled Il rifle properly.
War came and left us with its im-
mense accumulation of good and evil,
and it seemed then that out of sheer
WEAKNESS of sadness and trouble the
germ OF the old play spirit, so long dor
mant, awoke among us TO save us from
ourselves. Golfers Weekly.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
The Hazel Tree.

a curious survival Of the days when
the magicians of Europe sought indie
fa;igably for the philosophers stone Is
the superstition that attaches to the
hazel tree. The old alchemists used
to make their divinlng rods out Of
hazel twigs, and they fostered the be-
lief that it would mysteriously direct
its owner to hidden treasures, If 1t was
manipulated with the absolute faith
that was required in all those occult
entertainments of the middle ages. AS
time went on, the rod of Jacob" as
a branch of hazel was universally
known. gathered new powers. Not
only would it lead TO the discovery Of
buried boards. but 1t would also act
as an infallible agent in locating run
away servants and escaped criminals.
1t was a sure guide to underground
springs rs well. and was an unfailing
charm against the lightning.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
BERRY CAUGHT
WITH THE GOODS
IN BANK DEAL
"Reform" State Treasurer in Busi
ness Along "PractiCal Lines" "
BoRRoWs OF STATE DEPOSITORY

Startling Revelation of Tactics Worse
Than Those Which This Good
Man" So Long Condemned In
Others.
William II. Berry, state treasurer,
professional reformer, has been caught
with the goods on him.
He has been found to be engaged in
borrowing money from a depository OF
state funds for a private enterprise in
which he is heavily interested. He had
to admit this fact, sut in trying to eX-
plain why he did it and how he did it,
he lied, deliberately lied, and he was
caught lying and the facts were prov
en- against his misrepresentation by the
records of Delaware county.
Mr.. Berry, who is a sanctimonious,
"holier than thou individual who has
been making all sorts Of charges
against Republican officials and who is
now on the stump for Emery and his
colleagues on the Democratic state
ticket. has been shown to be as prac
tical as the most practical OF the pro
fessional politicians and he is, in the
vernacular Of the machine politician,
"out for the stuff"
Berry is a member of the state board
which designates the repositories of
state funds and besides has in his
power the right to draw from or add to
any deposit in any banking institution
which carries a deposit of state funds.
When Mr.. Berry went into Office as
state treasurer, the Harrisburg Trust
company carried a state deposit Of
about 100000. Since Berry has been
treasurer this sum has been jumped
to over $500 coo.
Berry at first applied to a Baltimore
Surety company to go on his official
bond but he discovered that it would
cost him about $2500 a year for bond
which would have eaten up a good
portion of his salary About this time
negotiations were opened with the
Harrisburg Trust company, which fin
ally went on Berry's bond fer 100000
for a mere nominal sum"
Good Ih!hg FOr rust Company
The trust company does not appear
to have LOST anything By that opera
ton.
It's deposits Of state fvads have
grown 10 great proportions. and it has
been houoled Icy TIE state treasurer in
the capacity Of cge omer in tae loan
department
The Fields Prick casapany, Of Ches-
ter, is a ,ouecIn in which State Treas
urer Berry is heavily interested.
The books show that the incorpo-
ratcrs OF the brick concern We're Will
liam Il. Berry. of Chester, so shares;
Holstein H. Fields 25 shares, and John
W. Fields. % shares. William II. Ber-
~ appeared as treasurer. The charter
indicated that Mr.. nerry's interest was
for cash invested, while that of the
Fields brothers was for real estate.
GOOD viii and personal nrnnertV turrad
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
Auditors Notice.
IN THE ORPHANS COURT OF
MONTOUR COUNTY.

IN THE ORPHANS COURT OF
MONTOUR COUNTY.
In the first and final account of +. l..
Lyons, administrator of George
Fry, late of the township of Lime
stone, III the county of Moutour
and State of Pennsylvania, deceas-
ed.
The undersigned, appointed by the
aforesaid Court, Auditor to make dis
tribution of the funds in the hands of
the said administrator to and among
the parties legally entitled thereto,
will meet all persons interested for the
purposes of his appointment Mt his law
offices No. LOG Mill street. Danville,
Montour County, Penna. on Friday,
the 10Th day of November, \. d.. 1906,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of the
said day, where and when all persons
having claims on the said fund are re
quired to make and prove the same or
be forever debarred from thereafter
coming i'll upon the said fund.
EDWARD SAYRE GEARHARr.
Auditor.
Danville, Pa, Oct 4th. 1905
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
MADE GOOD AT
BLOOMSBURY
Dr. Samuel Gets the Glad Hand from
Columbia County
Farmers.

Hon. K. w. Samuel has returned to
Mt. Carmel from his visit with the
Columbia county people at the Blooms
burg fair. The weather was not pleas
ant, but the reception given to our
congressman was very gratifying to
him and his friends.
Columbia county few years ago
was veritable bulwark of Democracy
but times have changed ideas and
property under Republican govern
ment and soup houses under Demo
cratic regimes have awakened even
that old fishing creek confederacy TO
the needs of the times and the Demo
cratic majority in Columbia have been
very materially cut down in recent
years and in some cases turned i'm Re
publican majOrities. The rapid growth
of the manufacturing town of Berwick
has added verv largely to the Republi-
can vote of the county. The continued
prosperity of that end of old Columbia
will entirely change the political com
plexion of the county in few years.
This Republican growth coupled
with the feeling upon the part of
many intelligent Democrats that the
district must be represented by Re
publican if it is really to be represent
ed at all, will probably give to DIR.
Samuel an almost even vote in Colum-
bia county next month. The doctor
will carry Catawissa and Bloomsbury
by small majorities and he is expected
to have at least a thousand majority
i'll Berwick. Mt. Carmel News.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
TIE MODERN HOTEL.
A Product Of the Times, 1t Is Made by
the Guests.

tnt
Among the silly and absurd articles
appearing from time to time concern
ing hotel and tavern keeping, one tells
us again ana again how the modern
hotel is shown to disadvantage when
compared with the inns of colonial
days. In these articles the writer d.
lateS and eXpatiateS on the hospitality
of the old time tavern, and the cold,
Indifferent and almost cruel treatment
received from the hands of the modern
hotel man OF course every one knows
if he will drop sentiment for a moment
and give the subject a little sober re-
Election that the modern traveller, tour
list or hotel guest would absolutely re
fuse tie accommodations afforded by
The inn Of hundred years ago. The
only advantage Of a hotel of those
times lay in the fact that the lack Of
material comforts drew from the trav-
e.cr warmer fellow feeling and great
or SUciabiity i condition in which one
man was more his brothers keeper
than prevails today. Again, the travel
together en- route or ut the hotel, made
closer acquaintanceship not only possi-
bic. but far more desirable than in our
day of big hotels and big crowds.
The modern hotel is product of the
times The wants, desires, whims, fads
and, on top of all these, the imperative
demands of those who travel have
made the hotel of today what it IS from
the standpoint of food, accommoda-
tions. method of service and manage
ment and from every point of view.
The hotel keeper Of today responds to
the bidding of the guests. One might
almost say of the man and woman who
travel: Here is your hotel. You have
planned It, furnished it. You have out
lined its methods Of management, and
it is what you believe should be COM
pretended III the modern hotel"
The colonial tavern, which would not
be tolerated for moment in our days
was adapted to its times. To speak OF
ii as being superior to the modern hos
te,ry is to claim that the old stage
coach, which left you more weary and
worn 1t the end of a hundred miles
than the palace coach does today at
the end of Il thousand miles, was su
periDr vehicle of travel to those used
on the modern railroad. Hotel World.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
Auditors > Notice.

In Re: Sheriff's sale of the DanyiIe
and Sunbury Street Railway.
The undersigned Auditor, appointed
by the Court Of Common Pleas OF
Montour county, Pa. i, to make distlib
tion of the fund in the hands of th.
sheriff to and among the parties legal
ly entitled thereto, will sit to performs
the duties of his appointment, at his
office, 10 Mill street, Danyille, Pa.
on Friday, the 9th day of November.
A. d. 1906, at 10 o'clock, a. m, when
and where all parties interested are re-
quested to attend, or be forever de-
barred from any share of said fund.
RALPH KISNER, Auditor
Danville. Pa, October l3, 1906
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
The Oversha ioui:g Issue.

II will not % f." n. ..oi. .E,5 Of the
Republican state Tides 20 plead fOI
voters on the theo.y that tie election
OF next November is Important as to
this year only. eXcisim5 the editor OF
the Brockwayyilla Record This is the
direct and immediate quest. =, but 1908
presents the oyarshadOWing issue. No
sincere Republican wants 4 Democrat
sent to the White House two years
from now. Some Republicans who
claim to be sincere say that they will
vote this year for Emery, the Demo
cratic nominee, against Stuart, the Re
publican candidate for Governor, and
when they vote for Emery they line mp
for the whole Democratic state ticket
Yet IL is automatic that you cant con-
tribute to the election of a Republican
President by electing the Democratic
tickets in the several states. Politics
don't operate that way. Judge Parker,
the last Democratic candidate, since
the election of 1904. h.. repeatedly
said that the way to put a Democrat
IN the White House is to carry the
smaller political divisions. the town
ship, the ward, the city, the county
and then the state.
That is the way to a. . and if the
true and loyal Republics .. .'oansyl-
vsnia want to elect a r. ..;iClH in
1908 for President, they must not make
the mistake this year of iortifying
Democratic strength by voting for the
Democratic nominee for Governor TO
do that Is to invite a Democratic tri-
umph and Democratic victory in the
nation is sure to spell disaster.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
4 parthian shot.

Il hear" said Mrs Gaddie, that
your husbands got job as superin-
tendent of cemetery and you're go
ing there to live"
"Well?" replied Mrs. Naybor shortly.
well. l was thinking it would be an
awful ghostiy and creepy sort of neigh
borhood."
Perhaps, but the neighborhood will
not be prying into our business. Phil
adelphia Press.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
A WHIRbWIND FINISH
Pennsylvania Republicans TO Close
Campaign With Great Guns
On the Stump.
SECRETARY SHAW, OF CABINET
Will Be Here, and Speaker Cannon,
Senator Knox and OF efs Will Speak
For Stuart and the Whole tt. (.
Especial Correspondence.

Especial Correspondence
Philadelphia Oct iG.
Colonel Wesley r. Andrews. chair
man of the Republican State Commit
tee, has planned a whirwind finish for
the Republican state campaign
After several conferences with Chair
man J. S. Sherman, of the Republican
congressional committee, he has map
ped out a schedule of mass meetings
in different parts of the state at which
many speakers of national promin nee
will make addresses in support OF Ed
win S. Stuart for Governor and his col
leagues on the state ticket. and for
the Republican candidates for Con
gress.
The fact that Pennsylvania now has
the largest dolegation of any state Of
Republican members OF the Iouse of
representatives makes this an import
ant political battle ground. and Presi-
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18

This surprise was not lessened by Ber
rvs admission that for his bond for
100000 he was only compelled to pay
a nominal fee.
The usual fee of security companies
for taking such bond is S25O0 year
It was not considered remarkabl,
that the State Treasurer should look
with kindly eye on the Harrisburg
Trust Company.
Those who read of the transaction
were startled when they recalled the
strong demand for treasury reform in
last Democratic platform and the veh-
ement speeches which Berry and Ho-
mer Castle made concerning politicians
who borrowed money from banks which
hold state funds.
Although Berry's entry into brick
making did not begin until after he
became State Treasurer, his friends in
Chester are confident that it will be =
successful venture. Berry is known in
his home town as shrewd business
man.
Rut what is causing no end of gossip,
especially in reform circles" is the
fact that Berry should so soon after
his election engage in transactions of
a character which he and his associ-
ate5 have for years denounced
"OId Timers" Put to Shame.
The fact is that he went further than
any IF his predecessors.
The reformers did not have an op-
portunity to criticise any state treas
urer for borrowing from state deposi-
tories. There is no record of such a
the state Treasury under Republican
administration.
There have been criticisms from time
to time of politicians supporting the
party in power for borrowing from
banking institutions having deposits
of state funds.
When the Enterprise Bank failed in
Allegheny it was Mr.. Berry and his
Democratic colleagues who went up
and down the state frantically decry-
ing a system which would permit poll
ticians borrowing from banks carry
llS uEDOSiLS Vi Sldlt luluS.
But there never was a charge that
a state treasurer was engaged in that
line of business until Mr.. Berry, "the
reformer," was elected
The state did not lose a dollar by
the failure OF the Enterprise Bank,
which afforded so much political CAPT
tai for Mr. Berry last fall. as every
penny OF state funds deposited in that
bank has been paid back, with inter
est, into the state treasury.
The late Senator Quay, while having
no connection with the state treasury
borrowed money from the Peoples
Bank in Philadelphia upon approved
collateral, such as any other citizen
might do, but the Berrys and the EN-
cry and the other "reformers" set ur
a hue and cry throughout the common
wealth, and painted him as a law
breaker and an emmy of the people
Mr.. Berry. as State Treasurer, is
now discovered to be large borrower
from an institution from which he car
draw large sums of money any day
might cripple the trust company finan-
cially in case of a run, and yet he was
chosen as a reform" candidate FOL
State Treasurer. and he is still nightly
upon the stump demanding the election
Of a reform candidate for Governor
in the person of that eminent refor-
mer" Lewis Emery. Jr.. of P1re Oil
fame, of Brewery and Church" no
toriety, and of other scandalous con&i.
tions that are now the subject Of gen
eral criticism.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
4 Spoiled Sermon.

\ clergyman WAS unexpectedly called
upon to preach before the students OF
a well known college He chose Il ser
mon from his barrel and without
reading il went To the college chapel.
He got on splcndidly until near the
close, when he amazed the boys with
word in conclusion to you who are
mothers"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
An Odd Argument.

Here is a knotty problem suggested
by Sir Henry Roscoe in his autobiogra-
ply Two men argued as to whether
oil or water We're the lighter. The first
man contended that the oil must be
lighter, as 1t floats upon water. And
then the unscicntific man triumphed
with the argument that oil must be the
heavier because It keeps the water
down
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
, CT 10 Lne corporation.

gscr 10 an. cornoraIr,u.
Nr Berry makes these admissions.
The Field hoys hal a brick ward
in Chester and We're hard pressed for
money I agreed 10 take hold Of The
thing aud NM mn s!4G00 in cash
against their nronarty and we formed
q corooration with S5o O60. cauit9I 7
taking 80 ner cent of the stock
Il found when + came 10 look the
plant over that a railroad siding was
necessary To GET his siding put in
il was necessary to Inv lot of land
I did moi feel like investing in any
more stock but ! was willing TO buv
some bonds Others were willing TO
take bonds So the $50 600 corporate
MORTGAGE was executed TO the Harris
burg Trust Companv as trustee of the
bonds"
How did Won come to select the
Harrisburg Trust ComDanv in the
transactiong"
"VeU that seems TO me the only
thing in This transaction that NAV
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80 4nanaa :, ard 7 won't ohood - oot
NV ontiors We bouaht "a acres oa
lana ond VIC nnI,, i,topd 10 actroIl,.
iesra eao ooo IN bo,ds rrboro viii no
-, o.ro af Iand hahind ovo,,, bondv
por.,,e otton,,+,d ovnIo,ation tbo+
,o want 70 Tio,'rfsl,ro TO rneotiata tho
Eoan so that the fact would not be
,lnown i'll Delaware county, and pos
sibly raise the prlce OF land Whlch
he desired to purchase, fell very nat
when it was revealed that all OF the
details OF the tiahSacIioh were StlehG-
ed to by the Delaware county Irusf
Company ana the recording tees We're
pala by 1t.
why berry ShouIu ili'ahce MS ue"'
II oii' ' i''' ! '7Do' - =. 'o5''''l
oec'uSe lie ""nt'" ~ NeeP It Seoi e.
anu theh :" ~ MS own 'o"h anu NV :
Tue sea- SleH nl%" SiT that n,2zIa9 OFT,
oia1, in Do1awaro cn1ntv
,Ioroover tho records show that tbis
delaware Countv Trust COMPANY is the
boIdor of an oriairaI ironcIad first
mortgage for $4,000 on Fields Bros.
brlchyaru. %
H. DIS bFil! says, me- sal al, pLe % az -
OF ground Oshiho 'hT @'o'o0o III Do'i''s
whlch Berry says VIII W iSSue" uiiu'i
the @oo'VVo MOI ls"se '"e 70 w
not snow II. lhey uo Sno" '"'t tue
original yard ol Field Bros. compll lsec
eight acres Against this is the SIG. .00(
mortgage.
The other new purchase besides thG
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
SlOO REWA RD 500

The readers OF this paper viii be pleased To
earu that there is at least one dreade dis
ease that science has been able to cure IN all
the stages and that is Catarrh Hairs Ca
tarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
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Cure is taken internally, acting directly up
on the blood and mucous surface OF the sys-
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the disease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing the work. The proprietOrs
have so much faith in It's curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. send for list .
Testimonials.
Address,
f. j. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle
"a airs Family Pilis are the besI
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-18
A SMALL FRAME DWELLING HOUSE

and other necessary t-buildings.
Terms of sale, one half of purchase
money to be paid upon the property
being struck down, the balance upon
confirmation absolutely of said sale
by the court when a deed will be de-
livered at the expense of the purchaser.
GEORGE MAIERS, Sheriff, Trustee.
VIM. Kase West, Atty.
Oct. II, 1906.