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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-07
WILL BE FRIENLY FIGHT
THE MARTIN-AVIS CONTEST
Attorney Writes to Barlow, and Latter Writes to.
 Martin.

All was squiet on the surface in headquarters of the party were al most deserted. Deep down in the wards the workers are busy making the best of the very shortening time before the primaries, each for their candidate, and the fight grows in in tensity right along. It was stated at the headquarters that the primary tickets will not be printed for about a week yet the intervening time being given for the correcting of mistakes and preparation of the lists handed in Wednesday evening. No withdrawals have been received yet, and it is con- fldently believed thatnone of those who have handed in their names will be out of the fight until the primaries have determined who the candidates for the offices shall be.
 It is evident that the fight for the mayoralty which will be the one in which the great contest will be fought out will be conducted along lines of good fellowship and that whichever of the candidates receives the nomina- ton will be supported by the friends as we'll as the person of his opponent in the race, Letters were made pub lie yesterday between John Barlow, on of the leaders of the Avis cam paign, and James B. Martin, which expressed the nature of the fight and the intention of each candidate to give the successful man the best support in his power While each will do the best possible for the nomination deslr- ed the fight will end at the closing oi the primaries and will find one party at the polls if the wishes of the two men as expressed in their letters is carried out by their friends.
 Prominent politicians expressed g belief that William H. Hacl1ett, whc !. handed in a paper for the office of tal
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ing few days with Mrs. S. B. Bun- nell of South Main street.
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The Branford office of arc lighting and water department of the Consoli- dated Railway company is located in the Milford Block, now, having moved there this week.
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ITALIAN IS CAUGHT.

Rafle Posti, an Italian twenty three years of age, wanted for an as ysault with knife committed early yesterday morning in the saloon of Dominic Ciarametti on Water street, in which the proprietor and his son Ralph and another man named Adolph Merlin were injured so that the two men were compelled to go to the hospital was arrested about 7:3O o'clock in the morning by Patrolman O'Brien after an exciting chase. The Italian attempted to assault the off cer who was making the arrest, but did not succeed and was taken to the station without further violence.
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ing a few days with Mrs. s. B. Bun- nell of South Main street.
 Department commander AppeII of Middletown paid an official visit to Mason Rogers Post z, G. "A. R. last evening After remarks by the wis., iting officials, past commander Fris- Die and others, all sat down to a s,lp- per served by the Relief corps.
 The Branford office of arc lighting and water department of the Consoli- dated Railway company is located in the Milford Block, now, having moved there this week.
 Interest in the Gulford Fair contin- ues to Increase in Branford and evary- thing points to the largest attendance of Branford people at the Gala-day of their sister town to the east. in all the years (and they are nearly half a hun dreO that the event has been held. Those who intend to participate in the parade should communicate with Frank Frisbie of Pond stret, who is in charge of arrangements so far as Branford is concerned
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 Rev. w H. Gardner, of West Haver will again officiate at the Baptisf church on Sunday next and every sun. day until Rev. w. B. Macklnnon, the new pastor assumes his duties. Richard c. Wilcox of Guilford, va, in town on business this afternoon.
 It is expected that degree work vii be exempliffed at the regular meetln, fo Woodland lodge, ,No. 39, K.ofP., nex Monday evening. District deputJ grand chancellor B II. Woodlng, o Rathbone lodge, will be present ant a general good time is anticipated b, | the Sir Knights.
 The regular meeting of BranforC camp, No. S644, Modern Woodmen O America, wasSheld in their lodge room in the Milford block, this evening.
 Rev. G. A. Pelton of New Haven, wi preach at Stony Creek, sunday, in th absence of Mir Countryman. Mr. Pei ton was for several years a former pas tor there and will be glad to gree again his old parishioners.
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collector, would withdraw his petition, but he said yesterday that it was his present intention at any rate to stay in the fight for the nomination. Mean while the fight Is on.
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A considerable portion of the time at the meeting of the board of school vis- itors, last evening, was given to the is- sue of overcrowding at the Center school building. Tn three rooms, i. e., Sth, 5th and 9rd grades, the number of pupils already exceeds the seating ca- pacity and it is confidently expected that the number of pupils will increase rather than diminish as the term pro- gresses. Various methods of relieving the congestion were Informally discuss sed, and committee of five, consist ing of Dr. c. w. Gaylord Rev J. L. McGuinness, and Messrs. Barker, Gun ningha1n and Pond were appointed by the chair to take the matter under advisement and report at an adjourn cd meeting to be held next Monday evening. At the same meeting, princi- pal Lovejoy reported that the number at the high school was 110 Several appointments of teachers to fill vacan- cies were also made at that meeting,
 Attendance at the song recital given by Signor Nuhcio Argillo and Miss May Bradley at Music hall last even ing was not as large as had been hoped for. Those who did attend, speak in the highest terms of the af- fair.
 Photographer H. B. Hunter of Mad ison, was in town this afternoon and took views of several places of inter- est.
 Mrs. George 11. Avis of New Haven was the guest of friends in town last evening.
 Mrs. Wakeman, accompanied by her son, Gordon, Of Bridgeport is spend
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NEWS OF BRANFORD
Board of Finance Receives Estimates Next Mondavover- crowded Schools Offer Problem for Visitors.

Branford Sept, 6.-Chairman e. F. Bradley of the Branford Board of F1- nance, announces a public meeting of the board on next Monday evening, September 9th. The estimates for the ensuing year will be formally received at that meeting, and other business proper to come before said board of finance will be considered. Taxpayers, and the public in general, are invited to attend.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
Hettie Green
on l1arriage

surprised. 1t is simply another illus
tration Of the old truth that one is
sure to reap what one sows
Mrs. Green added that if her son
were silly enough to sell himself and
risk his happiness in this world and
the next for the sake of a title she
would disown him. She probably re-
presents the sentiment of most sensi-
BILE Americans. 1t is amazing how reck
less many of the young women of
America are in view of the sad re-
suits to many of their sisters of mar
riages in high life. There are foreign
noblemen, of course, who are high
minded and honorable men. They
would make good husbands if they are
not already such. But you do not dis
cover men of that calibre wandering
about in search of young woman
from America whose chief attraction
is her fortune.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
PERSONALS.

Charles Albeck left yesterday for a
trip to Philadelphia.
Miss Margaret Hixson returned yes
terday from q visit with friends in
Catawissa.
Miss Cad Phillips has returned from
visit with friends in Jersey Shore.
Rev. J. N. Wetzler returned to Sun
bury yesterday after a visit at the
home of Rev. L. d. Ulrich.
Miss Katherine Vastine left yester-
day for a visit with friends in Lewis
burg.
Miss Bessie Hess and Margaret Ja-
cobs spent yesterday with friends in
Bloomsbury
Mrs. e. D. Hughes returned to her
home in Scranton Tuesday after a
pleasant visit with her brother, Erwin
Hunter.
Mrs. Isaiah Blue, of Valley town
ship, is visiting at the home of Erwin
Hunter, Church street.
Mrs. Samuel Frazier returned to
Scranton yesterday after visit with
friends in this city.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
MIXED I'M THE THUNDER.
a Scene In Macbeth" That Was Not
on the PlaybilI.

1t is related of Cooke, the actor, that
when youth. being without the neces-
sary cash to pay for seat sin 'front.'"
he got behind the scenes one night and
hid himself in a barrel. He had for
companions two large cannon balls,
but the youth, not being initiated into
the mysteries of the place, did not
suspect that cannon balls helped to
make thunder in barrel as well as In
a twenty-four FOUNDER.
The play was Macbeth" and I'm the
first scene the thunder was required to
give due effect to the situation of the
erouching witches. 1t was not long ere
The Jupiter Tonans of the theater, alias
the property men. approached and
seized the barrel, and the horror of the
concealed boy may be imagined as the
man proceeded to cover the open end
with piece of old carpet and tie it
carefully to prevent the thunder from
being split
Cooke was profoundly and heroically
silent. The machine was lifted by the
brawny stage servitor and carried care
fully to the side scene lest in rolling
the thunder should rumble before its
cue.
All was made ready, the witches
took their places amid flames of
resin, the thunder bell rang, the barrel
received its impetus with young Cooke
and the cannon balls, the stage strick-
en- lad roaring Justify, to the amuse-
ment of the thunderer, who neglected
to stop the rolling machine, which en-
tered on the stage, and Cooke, burst
ing off the carpet head of the barrel,
appeared before the audience, to the
horror of the weird sisters and to the
hilarity of the spectators-London
Mail
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
LADY MINSTRELS
FOR DANVILLE

A minstrel show, with the entire
cast composed of ladies and local lad
les at that, is to be the novel and
unique entertainment that will be
given.in Danville within the next few
weeks. Danville lodge, No. 754 B. p.
o. Elks is back of the movement and
the entertainment committee of the
lodge promises show that will eclipse
anything of it's kind ever before given
in Danville.
The services of Mrs. r. Wallace, of
New York City, have been secured
and she will have charge of the ar
rangement and presentation of the
show. Mrs. Wallace has been in DAN
Vile since Sunday and has made much
progress, rehearsals already being
held
The show will be of the time honor
ed minstrel variety, the melodious
circle, the interlocutor, the end men,
the variety second part and all the
trimmings. Mrs. Wallace requires 100
in the cast for her production, and
she includes among her special fea-
lures elaborate settings. handsome COS
tunes and fine singing.
There will be COW girl choruses and
Japanese girl choruses and all costum-
ed in outfits especially designed by
Mrs. Wallace.
Neither the exact date for the pro-
duction nor the place have been Sc
lected as yet. The entertainment will
be given under the auspices of the
DanViile lodge of Elks for the benefit
of the Elks' charity fund.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
CURED HIS
BRAINSTORM

Warden Mcdonnell, of the North
cumberland county prison, tells the fol-
lowing account of Henry Fishers lat
est attack of insanity
''It was shortly after Fisher was
convicted of murder in the first degree
that he showed signs of getting anoth-
er brainstorm. He howled worse than
he ever howled before, and kept every
body awake as we'll as making him
self general nuisance. He was start
ing to repeat the old trick which stav-
ed off his trial last spring and landed
him in the Danville hospital.
"There is a sure cure for this sort
of temporary insanity which il better
than any asylum treatment, Without
making any fuss, we put Fisher in the
dungeon.
"You say you never saw the dun
geon? 1t is built under the ground be-
meath one of the wings. 1t has no
windows. only stone walls and floor
and ceiling and an iron door. It's
blacker than the blacklist night you
were ever out in. The walls are damp
where the water soaks through and
the stale air is never changed except
through a little hole for ventilation.
What the rats live on don't know,
but they all thrive and some of them
are enormous. There is no cot or any
thing to sleep on, only the floor, which
is the rats playground. You said you
were never in the dungeon? Come up
some day and I'll lock you in for
awhile, to show you what it's like.
You'll appreciate it l know.
That's where we put Fisher for
twenty-four hours. After we took him
out he was very quiet and subdued
and has been behaving pretty decently
ever since.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17

The North American has recently
shown that enterprise in news gather
ing is paying investment. When it
was announced that Secretary of War
Taft was to make a trip around the
world The North American at once
realized that this journey must be of
the greatest international import, and
might mean the readjustment of nat
ional friendships and the smoothing
over of international differences
Of all the newspapers in the United
States, The North American sent a
special correspondent along with the
secretary, and with the correspondent
a special photographer.
The Importance OF the news that
The North American has received
from Japan since Secretary Taft's ar
rival at Toxic has shown that The
North Americans correspondent has
been wide awake, and has not allowed
important facts to remain untold.
The special correspondent selected
for their work is Robert H. Murray, a
man who has had long training in
The North American office. The photo
grapher who accompanies Mr. Murray
is Robert Lee Dunn, whose work as a
correspondent and photographer dur
ing the Russo Japanese War brought
to Golfers a number of exclusive il
lustrations of famous battles
In addition to cabled articles. MessIs
Murray and Dunn will furnish by
mail series of illustrated special ar
tices that will tell in clearer fashion
the meaning of the Taft around world
tour.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
ARTIFICIAL PEARLS.
What Little Silver Fish Taught q
French Bsadnaker.

French BsadnaI<er.
"I'll tell you. said jeweer, chow
che wonderfully perfect artificial pearl
came to be invented.
"a rich French beadmaker Noise
Jaquin--he lived in the seventeenth
century-found a pond in his garden
covered one morning with lovely sill
very luster. Amazed, he called his
gardener, who said 1t was nothing
some albettes had got crushed: that
was all.
"Albettes We're little silver fish, bleaks,
the Leuciscus alournus. The gardener
explained that If you crushed them
they always gave the water a pearly
sheen like that. Jaquin put on his
thinking cap.
For six years he worked with beads
and bleaks, wasting millions of both,
but finally he achieved success. He
learned how to extract the pearly lus-
ter from the bleaks' scales and to COW
er glass bead with It.
"What he did--and his method Is
still used-was to scrape the scales from
the fish, wash and rub them and save
the water. The water, decanted, gave
off a lustrous fluid of the thickness Of
oil, a veritable pearl paint, a magic
fluid that imparts lovely pearly sheen
to everything it is applied to-
at takes 1000 bleaks to yield an
ounce of this pearl paint"-New Or
leans Times-Democrat
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
One Gleam of Sunshine.

His play is a rank failure.
1t is frost and a fizzle, and he
knows ii.
The dramatist bows his head upon
his hands and refuses to be comforted,
for it is his first funk.
One by one his friends try to say
something that viii console him, but
to no avail.
Finally his trusting wife finds one
sunny CLEAN in the clouds.
Anyway" she said, you didn't have
to go through the ordeal of making a
speech before the curtain, and you
know you always said you would be
thankful beyond words If you could
escape at."-Success Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
927 ARRESTS FOR
ILLEGAL CAR RIDING

Statements just issued by the Penn
sylvania Railroad company show that
on the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie
S04 arrests were made during the
month of August. Out of the total
number of arrests made, 327 were on
account of illegal train riding. Of this
lumber q paid their fare.
Twenty-nine arrests were made for
intoxication. Eighty arrests were
made for larceny and burglary. while
Hhe remaining number were made for
miscellaneous offenses. Of those con-
Wicted 32l paid fines and 35S were
sent to Jail. One hundred and five
were discharged.
The company is putting forth spec
ial effort to stop Illegal Grain riding
and the reports this month show that
only one more arrest was made dur
ing the month of August than during
the month of July. The police depart
ment is making the largest number of
arrests for illegal train riding on the
Philadelphia and Erie and the North
ern Central divisions.
According to the reports tine largest
total number of arrests is being made
between Altoona and Philadelphia on
the main line. The total number of
arrests for the month of July was TAI
against SO4 for the month of August.
A short time ago the police depart
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad
was reorganized in order to get bet
ter method of putting stop to illegal
train riding. Since the new ruling
was inauguratod the number of ar
rests has run high above that for form
er months.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
The Gerrymander.

The gerrymander, so called from its
author Elbridge Gerry, is a division
of political boundaries by one party so
as to insure the defeat of political op-
ponents by placing them in districts
containing a majority of hostile voters.
1t has been worked successfully In hun
dreds of cases since Gerry first tried 1t,
although it is playing out as political
expedient The gerrymander often de-
feats its purpose, as in the case of the
late President Mckinley, who was ger
rymandered out of congress in the old
Sixteenth Ohio district only to be elect
ed governor of the state for two terms
by the Republicans and thence to go to
Washington twice as president of the
United States. Gerry first saw the
light on July IL, 1744. He was vice
president under Madison and had a
long and distinguished career as a
statesman. = Pittsburg Chronicle Tele~
graph.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17

Mrs. Hettie Green, reputed to be
he richest woman in America. is also
aid to be devoid of sentiment. Accord
ng to those who claim to know the
ady she is severely practical and de-
idedly "near" She has made very
great success of life from a material
tandpoint, but, we infer from some
ecent inoisive remarks from her ton
.ue, has never yearned for European
it as a fitting pendant to her wealth
y >. Green was talking about inter
lat NAL marriages the other day. 1t is
Ter conviction that the young women
Who marry foreign titles in exchange
or their money get precisely what
hey deserve. If the husband turns
)ut brute and spendthrift and if
he wife's life is made so unhappy
hat she is finally forced to seek safe
y in separation, nobody ought to be
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
Making Good.

There is no way of making Iosttna
friends like Making Good" and Doctor
Pierce's medicines well exemplify this,
and their friends, after more than two
decades OF popularity, are numbered by
the hundreds of thousands. They have
"made good and they have not made
drunkards.
A good, honest, square deal medicine of
known composition is DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t still enjoys an i'm
mense sale, while most OF the prepara-
tions that have come into prominence in
the earlier period of its popularity have
gone by the board and are never more
heard OF. There must be some reason for
this long time popularity and that is to
be found In Its superior merits. When
once given fair trial for weak stomach,
or for liver and blood affections, its supe-
rior curative qualities are soon manifesto
hence 1t has survived and grown in pop
ular favor, while scores of less meritorious
articles have suddenly flashed into favor
for brief period and then been as soon
forgotten.
For a torpid liver with its attendant
Indigestion, dyspepsia, headache, per-
haps dizziness, foul breath, nasty coated
tongue, with bitter taste, loss of appetite.
with distress after eating, nervousness
and debility, nothing is so good as DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It's
an honest, square-deal medicine with all
Its ingredients printed on bottle-wrapper
= no secret, no hocus-pocus humbug,
therefore don't accept substitute that
the dealer may possibly make little big
ger profit. Insist on your right to have
what you call for.
Don't buy DR.. Plerce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion expecting 1t to prove rcure- ALL" 1t
is only advised for woman's special all
ments. 1t makes weak women strong and
sick women well. Less advertised than
some Preparations sold for like purposes,
Its sterling curative virtues still maintain
IT'S position In the front ranks, where II
stood ever two decades ago. AS an in
vigorating tonic and strengthening nerv-
Inc 1t is unequaled. It won't satisfy those
who want "booze," for there is not drop
of alcohol in IL.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the oriot-
nal Little Liver Pills, although the first
pill OF their Kind in the market, still lead,
and when once tried are ever afterwards
In favor. Easy to take as candy-one to
three dose. Much initiated bat neper
eQudled.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-10-17
M ModestY.

True modesty is discerning grace
and only bushes In the proper place,
but counterfeit Is blind and Skulks
through fear where It's shame to be
ashamed t. appear; humility, the par.
ent of the first the last by vanity pro
duced and nurs't-Cowper.
French Rags High Priced.
A collector of rags offered the man
ager of large boarding house a cer-
tain price for bag of wornout linen.
"These rags are worth more than
that" said the shrewd landlord. 81
run several houses in this neighbor-
hood, and all are occupied exclusively
by French guests"
The dealer apparently considered
that remark sufficiently explanatory.
He cast hasty glance upon the con-
tents of the bag, then raised the price.
"And he could well afford to raise It,
too" said the landlord. Even at that
rate he viii make money of the things.
French rags the world over bring a
higher price than any other. The rea-
son why? French people wear bet
ter quality of linen and their castoff
garments are in demand by all manu-
facturers of high grade paper."-New
York Press.
A Fight impossible.
81 don't know whether my janitor is
a plain idiot or just too smart for any
thing" declared the fiat dweller. This
morning when l said to him, Did you
hear those people above me. fighting
last night? he turned and looked hard
at me and said: You must be mis-
taken. Those people above you! Why,
there are only two Of them, and they
are husband and wife New York
Press.