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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02

ton OF the Commonwealth. and In order
to carry the same into complete opera
ton, 1t is hereby declared that
In the case of officers elected by the
people. all terms of office fixed by act OF
Assembly at odd number Of years
shall each be heightened one year, but
the Legislature may change the length
or the term, provided the terms for which
such officers are elected shall always be
for even number of years
The above extension of official terms
shall not affect officers elected at the
general election of one thousand nine
hundred and eight; nor any city. ward.
borough, township. or election division
officers. whose terms of office, under
listing law end in the year one thousand
nine hundred and ten.
In the wear one thousand nine hundred
and ten the municipal election shall be
held on the third Tuesday of February,
as heretofore; but all officers CHOSEN at
that election to an office the regular term
of which is two years, and also all cleo
tion officers and assessors chosen at that
election, shall serve until the first Mon
day of December in the year one thou
sand nine hundred and eleven. All ofn-
GERS chosen at that election to offices the
term of which is now four years, or is
made four years by the operation of
these amendments or this schedule. shall
serve until the first Monday of December
in the year one thousand nine hundred
and thirteen. All justices of the peace.
magistrates. and aldermen. chosen at that
election, shall serve until the first Mon
day of December in the year one thou
sand nine hundred and fifteen. After the
year nineteen hundred and ten and until
the Legislature shall otherwise provide.
all terms of city, ward. borough town.
ship, and election division officers shall
begin on the first Monday of December
in an odd-numbered year.
All city, ward, borough and township
officers holding Office at the .Sate of the
approval of these amendments, whose
terms Of office may end in the year one
thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall
continue to hold their offices until the
first Monday of December of that year.
All judges of the courts for the sew
eral judicial districts and also all county
officers, holding office at the date of the
approval of these amendments, whose
terms of office may end in the year one
thousand nine hundred and eleven, shall
continue to hold their offices until the
first Monday Of January, one thousand
nine hundred and twelve.
A true copy of the Joint Resolution.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Biz increase
IN Attendance

The borough schools opened Mon
day with total enrolment of 1850 an
advance of forty-two over last years
enrolment. The increase occurs in the
grades where there are 900 pupils en
rolled as against $50 lasr year.
The attendance ut the high school
which it was supposed would he affect
ed to some extent by the newly organ
lied Parochial high school aud the
high school on the south side. is tweu-
ty less thau last year. Monday there
were 100 pupils enrolled while last
years enrolment was 1870. At the
papils holding promotion cards to the
high school. The difference then of 23
represents not only the number affect
ed by the new high schools but the
number of pupils who have stopped
school as we'll.
There we're fortyon nonresident
pupils in attendance at the high school
Monday. Seventeen of these have
contracts signed by boards of direct
urs, one is paying her own tuition and
the remaining twenty-three are chill
dreu of residents of South Danville
sui Riverside who are paying the
tuition fee of twenty-five dollars in
preference TO sending their children to
tie new high school un the south side.
The schools in the different wards
are pretty evenly divided. The over.
crowded condition of the senior Sec
ondary school in the first ward which
would have resulted if last year lines
were followed, has, under the system
OF transfers adjusted by the board,
been overcome. The senior secondary
schools now stand as foll1ws: first
ward, so; second ward 4s: third ward,
80; fourth ward, So.
The attendance at the grammar
schools following the same lines as
last years evenly divided as follows ::
second ward 43; third ward, Az;
fourth ward, 81.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Bridge [ citing.

Plans and specifications are on file
at the County Commissioners office in
Danville, Pa, for two Steel Bridges
with concrete floor. One so feet long
by IA feet wide. One 42 feet long by
IA feet wide. Bids will be received
until ~ O'Clock noon, Saturday, Sept.
4th, 1909, said bids to be opened at
80 P. NJ. A certified check for s400. 90
must be deposited with the Commits
sioners' CLERK at or before 10 o'clock
A. M, Saturday, September 4th by
each bidder for each bridge.
The County Commissioners reserve
the right to reject any or all bids.
BY order of the County Commis
sioners.
Attest Horace G. Blue. CLERK.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
The DanyiIle team. under circumst.

The Danville team, under circumst-
snces that would have discouraged any
team in the country, played good ball.
The work of Coveleksie in the box was
superb-of the twenty outs made by
the Danville team ten we're to his
credit as strike outs. In three innings
he famed the side. Skinny totaled
five hits off.his delivery during seven
innings of a game that with a pitcher
of less nerve in the box would have
developed into rout. Individually
every member of the Dsnville team is
to be complimented for the fine dis
play of head work and forbearance,
when they were being robbed, NAL
treated, and disgracefully DETAINED by
the lawless ana rowdy element present
at the game.
The score:
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Feats That Never Happened.

A grotesque and foolish view of the
west leads many who are not ac-
quainted with that part of the country
to perpetrate amusing blunders re-
gHrding the possibilities of the typical
western weapons, the rife and the six
shooter. To shoot an animals eye out
at hundred PAGES is n common feat
In wild west literature. Sometimes 1t
is done with n six shooter-in type, not
anywhere else. OF course, no man
can see the eye of an animal that far.
l have had a good rifieman tell me he
could cut off a robins head at a hun
dred steps. The truth is that he could
not see the head clearly that far. You
read that the desperate Slade could
with n six shooter at fifty or sixty
steps hit man in any button of his
coat that he chose, but you may be
sure that neither Slade nor any one
else could do anything of the kind.
Even trick and fancy shooting at its
best could ever cover feats ascribed as
matters of course to the average from
tiersman by those devotees of frenzied
fiction who never saw the frontier
Outing Magazine.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
THE LIVERY STABLE DOG.
Some Ways In Which He Differs From
the Fashionable Pets.


The common livery stable dog is to-
tally unlike the powder puff" or
''toots and skigums" dog, but his dis
position is infinitely better To lie on
cushion and growl and snap at the
hand that would caress it is considered
the height of folly in the livery stable
variety.
The livery stable dog approaches you
ingratiatingly and offers you n dirty
paw to shake. After you have shaken
it he solemnly gives you the other.
Then he crawls up in your lap and
licks you on the mouth.
The livery stable canine is a most
industrious digger of holes The the
ory is that he is going to lie down in
the hole he digs, but he does no such
thing. He goes and lies down right
in the middle of the sidewalk, where
people will have to step over him. He
will never get out of anybody's way.
the street and tries to make carts,
wagons and automobiles avoid him.
He doesn't enjoy as large vocab-
ulary as the powder puff or skigums
dog. A phrase like Does ums want
ums itty bass?" would scare him to
death. His advantages have not been
such as 10 acquaint him with such
hifalutin talk. but he does know a few
simple phrases like Cit to blazes out
of here, you darned pestw He under
stands that pcrfectly.-Puck.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
HARRlMAN'S GREAT MANSION.
Features of Railroad Masnate's Sum-
mer Home at Arden, NJ. Y.

mer Home at Arden, NJ. Y.
An army of mechanics has been
working day and night on the Summer
home at Arden. Orange county, n. Y,
of E. II. Hartman, president Of the
Union Pacific railroad, who recently
sailed from Cherbourg, France, for
New York The residence surmounts
the top of Tower hill, which COM
mands a view for miles around.
Mr.. Hartman owns practically the
whole mountain, from the peak of
which. Tower hill, signal beacons
burned in Revolutionary days to warn
the Continentals of the movements of
the British or the approach of maraud-
ing Tories and Indians. In all Mr..
Hartman controls about 10000 acres,
and for the most part he holds the
rights of way to this vast estate, thus
obtaining a privacy which was denied
him in his former summer home at
Woodbury..
The Tower hill house is 1900 feet
above tidewater and is reached by a
private inclined railroad $500 feet long,
which rises 700 feet. This road con-
meets with the Erie railroad near Turn
er's.
For two years several hundred men
have been employed on the house,
which is still far from complete. But
the central part is being finished tem-
porarily for Mr.. Hartman. This por-
ton alone contains forty rooms, be-
sides the servants quarters. which are
permanently finished.
The house is being built with stone
quarried on the mountain, and the
timber for the exterior wood trim
mings was also hewed in Mr.. Harri-
mans forests. All the material used
is American product. The one stone in
the structure which Mr.. Harriman's
quarries could not supply is a huge
block Of granite, carved into a stags
head with spreading antlers. This will
crown the main doorway. The stone
for this came from up state.
The house is $50 feet long north
and south and $50 feet east and west,
having three stories. with II tower sixty
feet high. The tower is IL by IL feet.
The house is surrounded by a stone
wall, built some distance away from
It on the brink of precipice.
Around the outside of the house,
Facing the edges of the cliffs, are log
gies. covered galleries or porticoes hav-
ing colonnades on one side, which is
open to the air. The woodwork of
these was carved by well known art
lists, aud the paneled ceilings are deco
rated. There is an enclosed court
paved with marble. in which are
fountain and beautiful statuary.
There is Il swimming pool on the
lawn near the house containing pure
mountain spring water. and in the
house are baths of every description.
The house is tireproof. The staircases
are of iron and marble and bronze
The elevator shafts are walled with
terra Gotta. and all pillars and beams
are of iron and cement. Nothing short
of a volcanic eruption can destroy the
railway mans home.
There are three acres of marble
mosaic floors, and the rooms are fin
ished in Japanese, French. German.
Italian and colonial styles.
While the actual cost of the house
is not known to any one but Mr.. Har-
riman, it is stated that already more
than $3,000OO0 has been paid out
The house has been over four years
in course of construction.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
A SAILOR IN
UNCLE SANS NAVY

Chester Mowrer, one of Uncle Sam s
sailor boys, is spending a ten days
furlough at the home of his father.
Roger Mowrer. East Mahoning street.
This is Mr.. Mowers first visit home
since his enlistment five years ago. He
is at present a baker ON board the U.
S. s. Hartford, the school ship of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Mr.. Mowrer left this city in 1904 at
the age of nineteen. He was assigned
first to the training station at Nor
folk, Virginia. In 1907 he was trans
ferred to the U. s. s. Virginia and
toured the world with the feet. 1t is
of interest that there were four Dan
willie boys on the cruise, Reynolds,
Turner, Jacobs and Mower.
MI. Mowrer was unaware of the
nearuess of the other Danville boys
until notified in letter from home
received almost at the end of the trip.
Since the return of the feet Mr.
Mowrer has been on board the Hart
ford. George Jacobs. son of our towns
man, W. Fred Jaoobs,a student at the
Naval Academy was under instruction
on the sohoolship and it was the meet
ing of the two, with the resulting re-
miniscences that caused MIR. Mowrer' $
present visit home.
The three months cruise of the
Hartford is finished and at the end of
his leave, Mr.. Mower will report at
Philadelphia for assignment.
1t is interesting to note that MIR.
Mowers rise from ordinary seaman
to baker with the corresponding in
crease in salary was due to his ap.
premiership with John Jacobs Sous
of this city.
Before he left town Mr. Mowrer was
in poor health and was compelled to
spend one year ON farm Now lie is
the picture of health, broad, deep
chest. clear complexion and the keen
eye that be speaks life on the ocean
wave. He speaks In glowing terms of
life In the navy. His enlistment he
says, was the best move he ever made.
While for, say the first two years. the
life is somewhat arduous, after that
period one develops a fondness for it
and il is seldom indeed that a sailor
is found who does not prefer it to a
life on land.
The class of men in the navy has
grea ly improved in the last four ear. i.
Prev Gus to this time a great numheI
of sesmen were foreign born, Swedes
aud Danes predominsting. Now. ow-
ing TO the effort on the part of the
government to make the service at
tractiye together with the ten per
cent. increase allowed in 1908, and the
increase OF $6. 30 for re.enlistment, the
sailors are for the most part, ma
tive born Americans and the improve
ment is apparent. Mr.. Mowrer says
that on moderate salary the seaman
can save far more than the average
man Oh land. There are many chances
Of promotion and after thirty years
service the sailor is retired ON three
quarters pay.
Mr.. Mowers liking for the service
is evidenced by a narrow red strip on
the left arm of his uniform denoting a
re e-eElistment for another four years.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Sardlne Oil by Tank Car.

A tank car of 163 barrels Of cotton.
seed oil recently shipped from Ken
lucky for a Maine canning company
is said to have arrived at Eastport,
Me-. few days ago in good condition.
This being the first attempt to ship
oil east in other than barrel packages.
the experiment was awaited with
much interest.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Pretty Weary.

Weary Dying under apple tree)-
Say, mister, kin l have one of dem
apples? Farmer-Why, them apples
won't be ripe for four months yit
Weary-Oh, dat's all right. I amt in
no hurry. III wait.-Life.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Abruzzi's Bio Climb.

A dispatch from Peshawar, India.
says the recent record climb Of the
Duke of the Abruzzi was not made UP
Mount Godwin-Austen, but up Bride
peak.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Then He Was Fired,

Father-I cannot give you my daugh-
ter. my dear sir. 1 am mighty par
ticular in such things. Suitor-Oh,
pshaw! Now, 1 am not in the least
so.-Meggendorfer Batter.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
CareIess

Visitor-So that's Miss Overton
Don't you think she carries her age
remarkably we'll? Artist-No. don't.
She has dropped several years OF 1t to
my personal knowledge. - Illustrated
Bits.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
a Nice Distinction.

Mrs. Farmer-And you say that the
last man you worked for was 81 Hig-
gins? Rambling Resteasy-No, ma'am.
l said dat he wuz de last man dat EN-.
ployed me.-Chicago News.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
An Explanation.

"How in blazes did the compositor
happen to head my foreign travel let.
ter with the words Foreign DrivelY "
Il don't know. Perhaps he read it,
cleveland Plain Dealer.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
2
SHIJK NV
Totals
Peyton hit by batted ball.

*Peyton hit by batted ball.
*Umlsuf out for cutting first.
Danville. ....... 0 o 2 0 0 q %
Shick shiny. ........0 0 0 o 0 3 Ia
Earned ruus, Shickshinny l. Stolen
bases Umlauf, Metzler. Msckert .
SHELTON Two base hits, Rutz ,, Laird
Three base hits. Umlauf Sacrifice
hits Peyton. Left on base. Dsnville
5. Shickshinuy 3. Struck ont, by Gov
eleskie 10, by Burns 6. Base on balls
off Coveleskie /, off Burns 8. Hit by
pitched ball UmIsuf, SHELTON Time
of game hours. Umpire Hagemeyer.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02

brane resulting from Catarrh and drives
away aCold in the Head quickly. Restores
the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size
so cts. at Druggists or by mail. Liquid
Cream Balm for use in atomizers Is cts
Ely Brothers. 56 Warren Street, New York.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
A Reliable Remedy
FOR
CAThR Rn
ElY's Cream Balm
S quickly absorbed.

IS uUICkW aDSOFDed.
Gives Relief at Once.
1t cleanses, soothes,
heals and protects
The disensed NOM
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02

Section II. Amend section seven article
fourteen, which reads as follows
Three county commissioners and three
county auditors shall be elected in each
county where such officers are chosen in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-fve and every third year there
after; and in the election of said officers
each qualified elector shall vote for no
more than two persons and the three
persons having the highest number OF
votes shall be elected; any casual vacancy
in the office of county commissioner or
county auditor shall be filed by the
court of common pleas of the county in
which such vacancy shall occur, by the
appointment of an elector OF the proper
county who shall have voted for the
commissioner or auditor whose place is
to be filled" so as TO read
Three county commissioners and three
county auditors shall be elected In each
county whore such officers are chosen.
in the year one thousand nine hundred
and eleven and every fourth year there
after and in the election of said officers
each qualified elector shall vote for no
more than two persons, and the three
persons having the highest number OF
votes shall be elected; any casual vacancy
in the office of county commissioner or
county auditor shall be filled by the court
of common pleas of the county In which
such vacancy shall occur, by the appoint
ment of an elector of the ppper county
who shall have voted for the commits
sioner or auditor whose place is to be
filled.
Schedule for the Amendments.
Section H. That no inconvenience may
arise from the changes in the Constitu-
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
Amendment Eight-To Article Twt
SeeffoD Ono

Section 9. Amend section one, article
twelve, which reads as follows:-
IAN officers, whose selection is not pro-
vided for in this Constitution, shall be
elected or appointed as may be directed
by law" so as to read
All officers, whose selection is not pro-
vided for in this Constitution, shall be
elected or appointed may be directed
by law: Provided. That elections of State
officers shall be held on a general election
day, and elections of local officers shall
be held on II municipal election day. ex-
cept when. in either case. special elections
may be required to hll uueXpired terms
Amendment Nine-To Article Fourteen
The Detroit times., 1909-12-10
SUFFRAGETTE'S SUIT FOR
DAMAGES is DISMISSED
Mrs. leigh Sued Home Secretary
Gladstone. Who Ordered Foroiole
Feeding OF Prisoners.

LONDON. Dec. l0-The suffragettes
cause received "A hard blow YESTERDAY
when Lord Chief Justice Alyerstone.
i'm the Kings Bench court dismissed
the damage suit of Mrs. Marie Leigh
leading suiiragcttc. against Home
secretary Herbert Gladstone. who Is
sued the order Tor the forciblc feed
ing OF the defendant and other suffra
gcttes imprisoned i'm the Birmingham
Jail
The justice declared that the crown
officials are not only entitled 90 Us"
whatever means may be necessary 10
protect the lives of prisoners. but that
il is their duty to do SO
Mrs. Leigh has also brought dam
age suit against the Jail officials, but
today's decision foreshadows the dis
missal OF this suit. English politicians
think the decision will have IA tend
ency to check the aggressiyeness OF
the sufiragottes in the coming general
election.
one of its first results OF the case
will probably be the end OF the
-~TIUngCr stTtKCS TINT imptfr0ttt-'f
suffragettcs have iuauguratcd to hast
en- their release from prison.
The Detroit times., 1909-12-10

10 raise the craft by sheer pull, add
lng To lis huoyancy and dirigibilitt
without the necessity OF momentum
Impaired by the driving scrowS.
Balloon OF ~ Compartments.
\Withont its machinery. ,hc biz craft
rs just balloon OF ~ compartments,
kept In the Wind by its rudder, capd
bic of soaring anu gliding by tire ma
nipulation of Cos hcicopters AMI hig
planes
The frame is built of spruce and
~ much lghtcr indu any set con
structed The cutincs arc of Sc
cret composition uearA 81, light as
aluminium and as ough AS The lA'5-
est nickel steel They arc driyea not
by gasoline bat bt q chemical gas
which Is also used to innate Tho hdi
loon iu midair II necessary The pro
peilers are of new type that experts
assert allow no escape Of air
Two German experts visiting the
coast recently spent a day Ina lnSqo'-
ton ~ The ship ana WHOM they were
through said thar so far as theory
went IN, shin was ahead Of tho best
that zeppelin had produced
Fly or course 81 viii fly, lays
Prebble
Il am not an 3irship man am
hacker Of long chances and never
lost one yet The shin is lighter than
has L. COL p-Ihe- nngines cor
tainly will turn the propclers So Il
has 10 go ahead II We want 90 come
down probably We won't have much
trouble That has never been a very
serious problem though picking tte
soft spot has sometimes bothered
81 me man-birds Anyway | will put
S6o.o0o in this ship. NJ diamonds ant
my home and everything else en-
raise money ca are going into cloth
ana metal and wire. and | am as sure
that We are going 10 make the best
flight yer made in this coun ry ne.
| am that I will he the worst busted
airship crank IN the world II we don't
fly
The first trial flight will probably
be made within six weeks Il IS pro
posed 10 make a flight under war
conditions above the area OF ground
The Detroit times., 1909-12-10
JAPANESE SPIES
ELECTED FROM
BUILDING
One of Them Had Drawings OF New
Propeller for Proposed Monster
Aerial Battleship Invented by
Portland Men.
Young Inventors Believe II Will
Settle Question of Protection
On the Pacific.

PORTLAND Ore, Dec. l0-Mhne
the Pacific slope and Washington. y.
c.. and Hawaii, and Alaska. and sari.
Gus other spots where Uncle sam
folks dwell, are fretTtHg because the
? Pacific feet is not being increased
fast enough TO protect the Western
coast OF the United States, and while
reports and rumors of mysterious
aerial battle fleets lowering over
Toxic are disturbing the sleep of the
heads OF leading powers, two youns
Portland inventors are quietly co.nplet-
ing a monster aerial battleShip wlncI
they believe will solve temporarily az
least the Pacific Coasr problem ~
protection.
Whether they are right or NOT, will
be demonstrated within n very few
weeks. Representatives of ~ least
two nations have become tremendous
~ interested in the coming demonstra-
ton.
One of these nations is Russia.
Japan is the other The United States