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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17

other side of the capitol, when 1t can
be bought for a very moderate sum,
we shall commit as great blunder as
the state authorities did IS years ago.
A bill similar 70 that which will no
int OuuCeu Dy senator FOX this week
was introduced in the legislature of
1905 and passed the senate unani-
mously The lieutenant governor OF
the state, the president pro tenn. OF
the senate the speaker of the house,
and many of the leading members Of
both houses at a public meeting, de-
clared themselves at that time enthu
siastically in favor of the measure.
1t would undoubtedly have passed
the house without dissenting voice
as it passed the senate, had the word
not gone ont just before it vas ex
pected the bill would come Up in the
house that the auditor general doubt
ed whether the funds in the treasury
would be sufficient to meet the require
ments of the schools and all the char
table and penal institutions, asylums,
hospitals and colleges, and the other
ltSuldi "a II llStS vi S5ONtI Hllthl, anu
leave enough to provide for the en-
largement of the capitol park
The event proved that the auditor
gene!L was mistaken; a magnificent
surplus was left in the treasury, and
it has been gradually growing ever
never so great as now. There are and
will be an funds to meet this ex-
penditura a-d all other legitimate ex-
penses OF every kind.
Moreover, the money will not all
have to be expended in one year, but
will run over period of three or four
years as It will take at least that
length of time to acquire the grounds,
clear them off, change the lines of the
streets and transform this now rather
unsightly section into a magnificent
extension OF capitol park.
All should remember that this i'm
provement will be made ty a commits
sion to be appointed by Edwin s. Stu
art, whom the people last fall having
confidence in his patriotism and high
purpose, elected to the great Office of
governor.
This commission will not be made
up of citizens of Harrisburg, but will
be selected by the governor from the
sections of the state where he can find
men best suited for the duties. None
of the money will be required this
year, as the commission cannot, under
the most favorable circumstances,
more than fairly start the work All
that can be done during the next II
months will be for the legislature to
pass the bill, the governor to select
the members of the commission and
for the commission to get the matter
fairly under way.
The money required for this pur-
pose will not in any way encroach
upon the appropriation for schools or
good roads, the maintenance of all
state and semi-state charitable and
correctionary institutions, the proper
conduct of the state government or any
other proper enterprise that the legis-
lature in its wisdom shall determine
upon.
This is an improvement which every
citizen Of the state should work for,
and it may be confidently asserted that
every citizen who is acquainted with
the situation will earnestly advocate
it.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17
Tom 3elden'S
Burglary
By ". |. SCANDLIN
Copyright, 1898, by II. Sprague


The familiar number, 12O, painted in
white upon the brownstone steps, sug-
gested 10 Tom the lateness of the hour,
and, unlocking the vestibule door, he
removed his shoes. Entering the house,
he softly closed and boIted the door
and, shoes in hand, groped his way to
the stairs
As he passed the door at the top of
the flight he thought he heard some
one my.iug in his aunt's apartment
He had placed his foot upon the first
step of the upper flight when a food
of electric light made the hall as bright
as day
In its sudden glare Tom saw the gilt
terlng barrel Of revolver looking in
his face aud heard the command:
Hold those shoes at arms length and
back down into that ballroom behind
you. If you try to escape, I'll shoot
you dead
Tom stood aghast His impulse was
TO run, but as he looked into the muz-
zle Of that gun he mechanically obeyed,
and, arms at length, a shoe dangling
from each hand and beads of persplra-
ton standing on his forehead, he back
ed into the room, and the key was
turned upon him
He realized that he was in a grave
predicament. He could hear voices in
the hall and some one speaking into
the telephone. presumably summoning
the police Could he escape before they
arrived? He could perhaps swing him
self out of the window ledge and drop
to the pavement, but the danger of
broken limbs and an ignominious cap
ture caused him to abandon the idea
The only other means of exit was by
the door into the hall, and 1t was lock-
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17
~ Is woman's Way.

When woman undertakes to decap-
itate a fowl or anything with an ak
she grasps the tool close to the head,
raises her chin. squints both eyes,
clinchps two rows Of teeth and hacks
straight down, missing her aim by
about two inches That was sufficient
for a Batavia lady to sever her left
thumb. She was not Il fainter and, re-
placing the thumb. which had been
chopped Mt the first joint bound the
parts together and has excellent prom
ise of its complete restoration. The
game Is not always lost when thumbs
are down detroit News-Trbune
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17
RenlOdeled.

after being injured by a bull OF pc
culiarly savage temper John Wesson
was under q doctors care for con
siderable time and thereby incurred a
heavy bill for medical attendance.
When he was almost well one of his
old friends who had called upon him
said he congratulated him on looking
so well after such a long illness.
Looking well" echoed John. Il
should be looking we'll There's been
$3.50 spent in repairs on me lately. and
I'm not finished YETI
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17
GREAT PUBLIC
IMP ROVEMENT
Extension cf Capitol Grounds at
Harrisburg Prime Necessity.
MUST BE NOW OR NEVER
Opportunity to Secure Proper Setting
For Splendid State House Will
Never Come AGAIN.

Harrisburg, Jan. Is. - During the
present week bill will be introduced
In the upper house of the state legis-
lature by Senator John z. Fox to pro-
vide for the enlargement of the
grounds surrounding Tie new state
capitol by clearing off all the buildings
in the section lying between the pres
ent capitol grounds and the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and extending from
Walnut street on the south to North
street on the north.
This tract which contains about II
acres Of land, exclusive of the streets
which intersect it, will more than
double the size of the mark
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17

II say, Mr.. Waters responded Tom,
IF you'll promise not to give this yarn
away to the boys I'll sign an agree
melt to stop at hotel whenever visit
New York again and give you a key
TO my room"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad
In Effect Jan. /, 1905.
TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE.
EASTWARD,

7.07 a. IN. daily for Bloomsbury, Kingston
Wilkes Barre and Scranton. Arriving Scran.
ton at 9.42 a. m, and connecting at Scranton
with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 9.4S
m. and New York City at $50 p. IN.
0l9 a. m. weekly for Bloomsbury. Kingston
tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.S5 p N. and
connecting there with trains for New York
City, Philadelphia and Buffalo.
I'll weekly for Bloomsbury, Kingston, Wilkss
Barre, Scranton and intermediate stations
arriving at Scranton at $50 p. m.
5.43 p. m. daily for Bloomsbury, Espy, Ply.
mouth, Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston,
Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving
at Scranton at s.25 p. m. and connecting the rt
with trains arriving at New York City at o5i
a m, Philadelphia 10 a. m. and Bufalo7a ID
TRAINS ARRIVE AT DANVILLE
9.l5 a. m. weekly from Scranton, Pittston,
Kingston, Bloomsbury and intermediate sta
iiOns, leaving Scranton at Ga Il. m, where II
connects with trains leaving New Yorg City
at $50 p. m, Philadelphia al ~ p NJ. and
Buffalo at 1870 a. m.
1874 p. IN. daily from Scranton Pittston
Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsbury and interme-
date stations, leaving Scranton at 1910 a. M
and connecting there with train eaving Buff.
aio at2.25 a. IN.
berwick, Bloomsbury and intermediate sta.
tiOns, leaving Scranton at l5o p. m. where II
connects with train leaving New York City
at 1000 a M, and Philadelphia at 800 a. m.
9.0A p. IN. daily from Scranton. Kingston.
Pittston. Berwick. Bloomsbury and interme-
where 1t connects with trains leaving New
York City at !. 90 p. m, Philade phia at l2.0l
.. N. and Buffolo at $50 a. m.
T E. CLARKE. Gen'l Supt.
7. W. LIE. Gen Pass Agl.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17
Collector G
Cupid ~
By ESTHER HARNDIN

Copyright, 1905, by P. c. Eastment
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-17

Henry BFfSntWell, WIN chipping
from the want ad. columns OF morn
ing paper, stepped into the collection
office OF the Jones & Grab Furniture
company.
81 don't know what your job is he
said easily as the chief collector mo-
toned him TO a chair and looked him
over shrewdly. but I'm sober. indus
trious and strong. and | want work.
any Kind to get a start
You look as if you might do" re-
piled the collector dryly But looks
don't count much in this business. It's
your ability to get the money or the
goods. We sell furniture on the in
stallment plan. \ lot of people forget
the last few instalIments That's where
our profits come in You get the last
paynr" "uts or the furniture We don't
care which Want to try itY
Yes" replied Brightwell promptly
When do you want me to beginT
Right now"
And after brief discussion of terms,
hours ct" prioht,rou ~oIIi~I S~-.r.
armed with the book of his predeces-
sOr
He ran down the list Moore,
Greenwich Hall" all within a block
of each other. Moore and Greenwich
We're marked as slow" The name of
Hall had this memo written after it:
Hear that two Of the family have
skipped out Expect trouble"
II was characteristic of Brghtwell
that he started at the hard end Of the
game and rang the bell marked Hall"
He climbed the narrow stairs and
flung back his shoulders rs he rang the
private bell on the second floor.
rs Mrs. Hall in? Pcggy-why, Peg
Ry Hall'' he exclaimed. Then he step
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
Caught Mapping.

''It pays sometimes to have the
right kind of a. lawyer" remarked
w. T. Purdy, q well known mining
man of the Northwest, at the Palace
Hotel II was a witness in case a
few weeks ago in Seattle in which a
colored man was seeking damages
for permanent injuries sustained in
an accident to an elevator which he
was running. The plaintiff claimed
that he had been manned for life by
being. permanently deprived of the
free use of his right arm. Although
the accident had happened months
before, his arm was still crippled,
and he was unable to raise it above
his waist. He explained all this with
much feeling and earnestness during
his direct examination Then the at
torney for the owner of the building
took him in hand.
Show us how high you can raise
your arm said the attorney
"And the defendant feebly raised
his arm few inches.
Now show us how high you
could raise your arm before you were
injured, pursued the attorney.
"And the defendant unhesitatingly
and unthinkingly raised the crippled
arm high above his head, thus
knocking his damage claim skyward
with one eloquent gesture. San
Francisco Chronicle.
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What Balzac Said of Women.

The man who can govern woman
can govern a nation.
A man who can love deeply is
never utterly contemplate.
A woman full of faith in the one
she loves is but a novelist's fancy.
In the elevated order of ideas, the
life of man is glory, the life of woman
is love.
Marriage has its unknown great
men, as war has its Napoleons and
philosophy its Descartes.
A man must be fool who does
not succeed in making woman be-
lieve that which fiatters her.
Marriage should combat without
respite or mercy that monster which
devours verything-habit.
The mistakes of woman result
almost always from her faith in the
good and her confidence in the truth.
No man has yet discovered the
means of successfully giving friendly
advice to women-not even to his
own.
The Indian axiom, do not strike
even with a flower a woman guilty
of a hundred crimes" is my rule. of
conduct.
When a woman pronounces the
name of man but twice a day, there
may be some doubt as to the nature
of her sentiment-but three times
There is one thing admirable in
women-they never reason about
their blameworthy actions; even in
their discrimination there is an ele-
ment of sincerity Houston Post.
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Voting Machine to Go.

The passage by the State Senate
of the voting machine local option bill
is supposed to mark the Punishment
of the machines from the State. 1t
is expected to pass the House with
out serious opposition.
For five years the State has pur-
chased these machines in lots, until
now there is about 100000 invested
in 500 of them The people have
found it hard to "get the hang" of
them, and voters have stayed away
from the polls rather than exhibit
their inability to comprehend them.
Besides, it was brought out in the
debate yesterday that the clicking of
the machine under the manipulation
of the voter tells those near whether
he is registering straight or split
ticket In many of the districts they
registered more votes than there were
names on the registry lists.-Trenton
Dispatch to the New York Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
Eccentricities Of a River.
BY GEORGE FITCH.

This thing happened in Kansas City
not many years ago. party of men
owned a strip of land along the Mis-
souri, River bank. 1t was not hand
some land, but it was valuable for
factory purposes They were offered
portly prices fosit, but held on.
One day they noticed that the strip
was getting emaciated They held a
hurried diagnosis with surveyors
tape and found that half of it had
been wasted away. The next year
half of the remainder had gone.
The men wanted to sell then, but
the market seemed remarkably slug
gish. The next year the river ate so
vigorously that only tiny strip
about as wide as piece of baby rib
bon was left. The men were much
depressed.
Suddenly the land began to in
crease. The Missouri had chosen the
late manufacturing site for place to
deposit fine 160-acrei farm upon
which it had foreclosed up the river.
Inside of six months that strip of
land contained 200 acres. The men
we're jubilant, but still they would
not sell. They wanted another 100
acres, they said. They strolled along
the bank each day and urged the
river, in proprietary tones. to build
faster,
Then the river changed it's mind
once more and not only wiped out
the extra 100 acres but the original
100 acres, every foot of it. The next
year it built up 500 acres in the same
spot, but they all belonged to the
man who owned the ground behind
the original plot. They have stayed
there ever since-that is, up to last
reports. For high financing and
property Juggling the Missouri makes
a crooked lawyer look like a child.
l hate to think what it would do for
a man if it had personal friendship
for him--American Magazine.
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INSURANCE MEN ARRESTED.
George r. Scrugham and Others
Charged With FaIsifying Ballots.

New York City.-Seeking to have
agents of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company jailed on the charge
2f forging signatures of policy hold
ers in the recent elections of direct
ors, George R. Scrugham, manager
for the International Policy Holders
Committee, and two employees were
arrested. charged with conspiracy.
The warrant was served on Scrugham
in the Hotel Hampton, in Albany, by
Detective Fitzsimmons, of District
Attorney Jerome's Office. The pris-
oner was put on train leaving that
city for this city, where he will be
arraigned.
The complaint on which the three
we're arrested, which had been drawn
up by Assistant District Attorney
Walter B. Howe, accused Scrugham
Ind his assistants of tampering with
defective ballots which had been sent
% the Policy Holders Committee to
De cast in support of the committee S
ticket. 1t was charged these ballots
we're altered so that they could be
counted 1t is asserted that between
1000 and 5000 envelopes, containing
votes, were found, to which the
names of policy holders had been at
fixed by the defendants or at their
direction.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
Bull Fighter still Popular in Mexico.


In spite of the agitation that has
been carried on by foreign and native
reformers, it seems to be a fact that
the old Spanish sport of bull fighting
is still popular in the minds of the
masses in this country.
The popularity of the sport and
the almost universal regard in which
the men who make a profession of
it are held were graphically illustrat-
ed in connection with the recent
death of one of the most popular of
the Spanish tereros, Antonio Monies,
as the result of injuries received in
the ring. The unfortunate fighter
was severely wounded and fingered
for a few days before succumbing
finally, and during this interval there
was hardly an hour of the day or
night when the street in front of the
hotel where he lodged and finally
passed away was not thronged with
sympathizing admirers who called to
read the bulletins issued by the med
ical men in attendance, or even con-
tented themselves with gazing sadly
at the walls which held their favorite.
Men from all walks of life could
be seen in the groups silently paying
tribute to the popularity of the man.
The funeral was a largely attend
ed, solemn occasion, and the entire
attitude of the general public was
an indication of the hold that the
sport has upon the large number of
its devotees.-Modern Mexico.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
FRIENDS HELP
st. Paul Park Incident.

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having no ambition to get to my
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would frequently have to lie down.
"At other times / had severe head
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ed and digestion so impaired that I
had serious chronic dyspepsia and
constipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the w. c. T. u,
told me she had been greatly bene-
fitted by quitting coffee and using
Postum Food Coffee; she was trou-
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Another lady, who had been trou-
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day. She was wholly cured. Still
another friend told me that Postum
Food Coffee was Godsend to her,
her heart trouble having been re-
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taking on Postum.
So many such cases came to my
notice that l concluded coffee was
the cause of my trouble and I quit
and took up Postum. l am more
than pleased to say that my days of
trouble have disappeared. / am well
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
SURPRISING Nocturnal Disturber.

There has just been enacted at
Basel a piece of police prudery which
the champion among the official mar
tinets of Berlin might have envied.
A journalist given to using his
typewriter late at night proved him
self somewhat trying to his fellow
. dodgers or occupiers of the house,
who, failing to procure a cessation
of the annoyance by private protest,
at last reported the matter to the
police as nuisance.
The case was not exactly simple,
though it was certainly novel, but
police intelligence finally overcame
the difficulty. They summoned the
journalist for creating nocturnal
disturbance, and the tribunal imposed
fine of one sranc, with the alterna-
tive of four hours mprisonment.-
Geneva Correspondence Pail Mall Ga
zette.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
Stub Ends Of News.

Gerald Fitzgerald, a prominent
young lawyer, shot and killed w. r.
Opp, proprietor of billiard hall in
Friar's Point, Miss, and shot himself
In the right leg
Fifty service scholarships annually
have been given Drake University at
0es Moines, Iowa, by Theodore p.
Shonts, his father-in-law having
ounded the institution.
Believing that -heNwas about to be
leld up, q. X. Bodey. a switchman
t Birmingham, Ala, killed w. A.
kennedy, a molder, who was on his
ray to work.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07
A TilIman Attack.

Senator Tillman was attacking an
offender who pleaded hypocritical
and false excuse
Why" he cried, 'the man is worse
than that rich coal-dealer who said
to his weight-clerk during a biz
gard:
Frank, make that ton of coal for
Bell two hundred and fifty pounds
short. Mrs. Bell is poor, delicate
widow, and she will have to carry all
of it up two flights of stairs. don't
want her to overtax her strength.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-05-07

The State railroads Of Victoria,
Australia, report for the last fiscal
year the largest gross earnings on
record. These roads have a mileage
of 1894 and capitalization of SPOIL
A63,548. Their gross income the last
year amounted to $18,432,448 and
working expenses to $9,728,246. The
fixed charges or interest on the debt
were $7,737,438, leaving nearly ST.
100000 as surplus to be turned into
the public treasury. This is a new
experience for that Australian State.
Springfield Republican.