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No paper should be discontinued unless all arrearages are paid. Advance payment is required of persons living outside the county. The printed slip on each paper indicates the time to which payment has been made. CHAMBBESBUEQ, PA. APPARATUS IS PATENTED Improved Apparatus For the Manufacture of Water and Coal Gas By H.

W. Ben-ner of Town. H. W. Benner, superintendent of the Chambersburg Gas company today received word from the patent office at Washington that he had been granted a patent upon a water and coal gas manufacturing apparatus.

The patent was granted April 20. The invention relates to the mak ing of gas and has for its principal object to provide for the economical production of both water gas and coal gas. A still further object of the invention is to provide an appar atus to combine means for the production of both coal and water gas, in parts so being arranged that the coal resulting may be utilized in the producer in the manufacture of the water gas. With these objects in view the in- consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts. The invention will prove of great benefit to gas manufacturers and is the result of much hard work on the part of its inventor, H.

W. Benner. FOUR GENERATIONS Four generations sat down to dinner Sunday at the' home of Mr. and Mrs. B.

Owen, Fourth street. The grana father, Christian Harnish, of Harris burg, who has the same birthday as the youngest child, was present and greatly enjoyed the reunion. "They're Coming Sack" What does it mean It means that bv soecious statements a number of agents were lured awav Irom the sale 01 Butterick Patterns after a fair trial of o'ber makes of they ducovertd their error and "At coming back to sell the patterns they had discarded. The reliability of the Butterick Pattern is established in every part of the civilized world. It is the only Amer-ioan pattern sold in Paris, London and Berlio.

It is universally recognized as tbe dependable pattern. With their marvellous facilities for tbe manufacture of their output they are taxed to tbe utmost to supply the ordeis of their agents. Our pattern sales have been ifcreaeing largely for over a year and this is tbe experience of Euttefiek agents eyerywbere. "Yes, They're Coming Back," J.P.KEEFER YOUR by of Brake's Saw Mill Destroyed By Fire. The large dwelling house on the farm of.

David Coble, tenanted by Philip Coble was completely destroyed fire shortly after 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The loss -will be several hundred dollars, though partly covered by insurance. Philip Coble and family were sitting at the dinner table when they heard a noise up stairs. On making -an investigation it was found that the flue had caught fire and the flames had already gained considerable head way. Neighbors seeing the blaze quickly responded and in a short time much the furniture was gotten out.

The loss to both the owner and tenant will be considerable. The house was built of brick and was a very substantial country residence. The fire- is said to have been due to a defective flue. DRIVING MISHAP While driving with a companion to Waynesboro Walter Kauffman, em ployed by Charles Miller, on the Welty farm, near Ringgold, was injured by being thrown out of the buggy, which was demolished. While driving on the State road, across the Pennsylvania line, near Welty's Mill, the horse frightened at an automobile turned suddenly around and upset the buggy in a ditch.

ON CHAMBERSBURG Royal Arcanum, of Steelton, is preparing to accommodate a large crowd this evening in their hall, when Hon. B. N. Nead will give an illustrated lecture on "The Burning of Chambersburg in 1863." Mr. and Mrs.

William S. Emery and daughter, Miss Harriet, Hanover, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. S.

Beck, Greenvillage. For Jury Commissioner: GEO. H. BRICKER, Third District Peters Township. Subject to Ihe decision of the Democratic vttum nt.

t.hA nrimAi-les 1o be held tbe first saturdsy in June. 1909. Your support and For Jury Commissioner: T. W. KELSO, ist District Letterkenny Twp.

Subject to toe decision of tbe Democratic vot rs at tbe primary election lo lie.Jield on Saturday, June 5, 19r-9. Yonr support and iDtluence bindy solicited. For Jury Commissioner: EMANUEL M. SHATZER, First District St. Thomas Twp.

Subject tbe decision of be Peroocratie voters at the primaries to be held tbe first Saturday in June, Your support ana Influence respectfully t-oiieted. For Jury Commissioner: ABRAM BAKER, Waynesboro, Pa. Subject to the decisiou of the Democratic voters Mt tbe prlmarv election lo be ueid on Saturday, June 5, 19 9. Yonr support and yueuce solicited. two.

persons afflicted by it. The annual loss, through -deaths, doctor's bills and decreased earning power this country is erha $100,000,000. About $10,000,000 is spent each year in screening houses from the inroads of the malaria mosquito. It is de clared that directly or indirectly this disease produces "one-half of the entire mortality of the human race." THE IiEITER DEAL. Whether the Chicago wheat deal has or has not reached its maximum prices, it will be interesting to look back at the chronology ot the last great corner period on the Chicago Board of Trade-, -the Leiter.

deal of 1898. At the opening of April, 1898, wheat for May delivery had been $1.03 1-2; at the opening of May, $1.17 1-2. On May 4 the price was May 5, $137; May 6, May 7, $1.65 an advance of forty- seven and a half cents for that week. On Monday, May 9, the price was $1.75. On Tuesday, the 10th, it ofcort i fif.

On Mav 11, the price was $1.73, the next day 11.65, the next $1.51, and the next, May 14, $1.30. The deal turned out disastrously, and on June 13, when the wheat had collapsed to 75 cents, the elder Leiter announced that he would no longer assist his son Joseph. That ended the speculation; wheat shortly oft-ovwavri anlrl at 65 3-4 cents a bushel. WILL IT ASSIST JUSTICE Throughout the state considerable interest is being manifested in a bill passed by the legislature and now in the hands of Governor Stuart awaiting the signature which gives juries the power to fix the penalty for murder in the first degree at death or life imprisonment. At present thejpenalty in cases of mur der in the: first degree is death.

which may be commuted by the Board of Pardons. The jury homicide cases fixes the degree of the murder, and the Court imposes the penalty. If degree is ihe first the Court invariably sentent-es the prisoner to If the bil now in the hands of the governor receives bis signature the imposing of the penalty in cases where a ver diet of murder in the first degree is found will rest no longer with the judga but with tbe jury, and the penalty, instead of invariably being death, may be that or life imprison ment. Those who are responsible for urging the change present statistics to prove that where the mod ifiedjlaw has been in practice the convictions have larsiely increased. but in comparatively few cases has the death penalty been imposed.

The fact that tbe jury has nothing to do with the sentence and execution of the law, as at present, has been an important aid in the pro. er "administration of justice. It is believed by manv that the idea in the act is purely theoretical and sentimental, and more calculated to retard tban to assist in the admin s-trai ion of justice. ARE KIDNAPPERS. Trial of the Boyles to Commence Next Friday.

Mercer, April 2-1 Indictments were returned by the Mercer grand jury against James H. Boyle on Friday night and his supposed wife in connection with the abduction of Willie Whitla, of Sharon, March 18. A true bill found against Boyle charges kidnapping. The maximum sentence is life imprisonment. In tile case of the woman the same biil was returned, with an extra count which charges aiding, assisting and abetting in the kidnapping.

The in-Oktment against Mrs. Boyle identifies her as "Mary Doe, alias Helen Anna McDermott, Parker, Miner, Yorke and Boyle." The trial of the abductors will begin next Friday. HAIL FELL SUNDAY A severe thunder storm accompanied with much hail passed over rtox-bury Sunday The rain came down in torrents. Previous to the rain the wind was blowinga ter-the rain the wln was. blowing.

ter- come general if the price of wheat continues to go higher. It is truly a shameful condition of affairs which permits one man or one coterie of men to gamble with the poor man's necessities in such a way as to lift the price. There will be very little consolation for tha common people in the reflection that corners in grain almost inevitably end disastrously for those who create them. Some consolation can be found, however, in the fact that the law of supply and demand cannot be permanently violated. An ab normal price will stimulate heavy planting, and, barring meteorolog ical reverses, a big crop will follow, with reduced prices in a few months.

THE "DUSTY" TRADES. It is stated that there are forty- two "dusty" trades, so called, in all of them the mortality from con sumption is unduly high. One death out of every seven in this country is from consumption. Among the grinders almost one death in every two is from consumption. Where the consumption death rate is 14.8 of the total, it is 36.

9 per cent, among workers exposed to metallic dust; 28.6 per cent, among workers exposed to mineral dust; 24.8 per cent, among workers exposed to vegeta ble fiber dust; 32.1 per cent, among workers exposed to mixed animal and fiber dust; and it is 49.2 percent among grinders. It is estimated by the national bureau of labor that proper methods of ventilation and dust removal would almost cut in two the tuber culosis death rate in these trades. It would save 22,000 lives a year and add fifteen years to the life of the average worker. Stated in money terms, it is declared that this would represent an annual saving of 493.000. Those 22,000 lives a year seem, therefore, well worth saving, and it is possible to do it.

THBEE DISEASE SPREADERS. In a government bulletin, Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology, tells how three insects disseminate malaria, yellow and ty phoid fevers.

The house fly "the typhoid fly" has to its credit eighty percent, of the total deaths in the Spanish-American war, and it infected about one-fifth of the soldiers in the national encampment in this country. The number of bacteria on a single fly may vary from 550 to This insect may also spread tuber culosis and cholera, as well a.s ty phoid germs. Yellow fever registers its economic waste not so much in its death list, which compared to other diseases, is small, as through the terror it inspires. Says Dr. Howard: "The disease once discovered in epidemic form, the whole country has become alarmed; commerce in the affected region has come virtually to a standstill; cities have been practically deserted; people have died from exposure in camping out in the highlands; rigid quarantines hive been established; innocent persons have been shot while trying to psss these quarantine lines; all industry for the time has ceased.

The commerce of the south during the ei i-demieof 1878, for example, fell off 90 per and tbe hardships of the population cannot be estimated in monetary terms. Malaria has rendered western Africa, part of India and jnany other tropical regions uninhabitable by civilized man. It has hindered to an incalculable degree the development of Italy. It is believed to ive caused the degeneration, in classical Greece, of one of the strongest of the eartb. It retarded our own exi ansion through the middle west and in the galf states.

It kees the Yazoo Delta, tbe best farming land in the world, 6ave the Nile valley, sparsely settled, and land there down to $20 an acre or less. Our country has an annual malaria death rate of 12,000, and there areabout 1,550.000 Americans suffering from the (Continued from First Pace) nryo rharlfis Heller, in "Water street, was charged with stealing five pigeons from Norman, son of George Keefer, Catharine street. Sharpe has been in jail and arrived in the court room counselless. Isaac "Wingert was as signed to him. After a number of witnesses were heard the Common wealth rested.

The defense had noth ing to submit and the Court gave the case to the jury this morning at 9 o'clock, when court convened. The jury came in in a few minutes and found the defendant guilty! He was called before the court and sentenced to $1 fine, the costs of prosecution and to undergo an imprisonment in the county jail, for a period of su days. John Sharpe is an old ottcnaer and comes from Harrisburg where he has a record. The grand jury reported not a true bill in the case of Herbert Hall, charged with asault and battery with intent to ravish. A true bill was found in the Clifton Well case.

The first case called Tuesday morn ing was that of Harry Monn, of Mont Alto, charging him with rape in the first county and statutory rape in the second upon Eliie Bush, of Mount Union. Mrs. Mary, wife of John Beidleman, and mother of Ellie Bush, was the first witness. In testifying concerning the age she was unable to give the year, but stated that she "supposed the court could tell from its records hatiQp Rush, the father of the girl, went to jail three1 months for the offense." The records were secured. The girl was born December 7, 1894, an dis under 16 years of age.

The family Bible was also ex hibited as evidence. The alleged rape occurred near Mt. Union on April 4, 1909. The girl gave a clear account of the affair. The character of the evidence given by the girl was of such a nature that it cannot be printed.

A number of other witnesses were called. The girl ived with her grand parents at Mt. Union in tbe nross examination of the prosecutrix it was shown that she told the story because she had stayed out lontrer than she was allowed and that she told the story of the crime to prevent a whipping. bhe retoia the atnrv the next morning for the came nnrnnsp. She also stated that she had been threatened by a revolv er which Monn had with him and carried in his hand until they reached the scene where the crime is supposed to iinve occurred.

She was on the witness stand for almost two hours. James Minor, the Greene township constable, was the next witness called. He told of the arrest of Harry Monn and what he had learned about the f.ae. Constable Minor completed his testi mony after the noon hour. Another witness in the case was Annie Albus feotifieri' that she was with the prosecutrix early that evening.

Harry Monn, the defendant, was the first witness for the defense. His testimony was direct and that he knew the girl for several years. He admitted to the crime but stated that she was a party to it. He also stated that a number of times previously ho Vinrl committed similar Climes with her. LURGAN.

niriiii. Anril 26. Some of our farmers sold their surplus wheat the nast week at $1.37 per bushel. The Radical United Brethren quart erly conference was held on Saturday last in the church at Mongul. Dr.

Sam Wadel, Pinola, has quite larae number of sick horses under his care around here and as far down the vallev as several miles below Newburg. John Hosfeld and Luther Alleman made an exchange of lands the other day. Hosfeld gives Alleman twenty acres off his farm and gets the 'same amount from Alleman which will be submerged by the hack water from the dam now being built for his electric plant at which a force of hands are now at work D. D. Swanger and family enjoyed a rare musical treat on Friday last by telephone from the residence of their friend, W.

C. Ziegler, of Middle Spring. '-Home Sweet Home" was fine as well as. other selections, The P. O.

S. of A. have nearly completed their new lodge room in Eos-bury. The building occupies the ground once occupied by Squire Weaver's tailor shop. Tom W.

Swanger, of Hackettstown, N. and John D. Swanger, of Milton, were visitors a few days ago to friends here as was also Mrs. Maggie Gethel of Shippensburg. AFTER DELANEY'S SCALP.

Labor Unions Will Petition Governor Not to Reappoint Eim Fifteen hundred labor unions throughout the state have received from E. B. Greenawalt, of Lancaster, president of the State Federation, a letter urging them to write to Governor Stuart and request him "to appoint someone closer. la the working people of Pennsylvania than the present incumbent," to succeed Chief Factory Inspector John C. Delaney.

Delaney's term will expire next Sunday and the labor unions have been working for some time toward having some other man appointed to succeed him. 'i luijr teimie Kimple. "Valley, is visiting friends here. Wednesday Evening, April 38, 1909 Thus far the month of April has presented us with many varieties of weather. Woudd it not pay better to buy Porter blocks and pave the public square than to invest several hun dred dollars in a sweeper? The legislature has appropria ted in round numbers about $60, 000, 000.

with only a probable income of $45,000,000 in sight. It is, there fore, up to the governor to save ihe state from bankruptcy. It is all over now, and the old soldier who voted the Republican ticket to get a state pension has by this time discovered that history hR onlv repeated itself. The old veteran who can be hoodwinked by a promise is an easy mark for the Republican politician. An act passed by the assembly and signed by Governor Stuart, gives justices of the peace the power to settle surety cases and dispose of the costs.

Formerly the justices could settle only assault and battery cases. This is a move which should result in the reduction of the petty court cases and should prove of much practical benefit. A bill, calling for the appropriation of $60,000 is in the hands of the governor for his signature, to i'av for the deficiency created by the premium put upon noxious animals. It will be remembered that the fund for this purpose became exhausted 'some months ago and many certify cates are held by Franklin county people awaiting payment from this fund. Former State Treasurer Berry at a meeting of the Chester board of trade said he believed that unless the head of the state board of health, Dr.

Dixon, was not called off pretty soon he would bankrupt the state. These remarks were called forth by Dr. Dixon's order to cities and boroughs to reconstruct their sewer systems, build sewage plants and incur still other intolerable expenditures. Thedisturbed condition of affairs in Turkey is giving Europe great anxiety at present. The trouble is between the committee of union and progress, composed of a body known as Young Turks, and Abdul Hamid, the sultan.

The committee's grievance is against the sultan's policy and, backed up by an army, they are demanding the sultan's av dication or the resignation of his cabinet. Abdul Hamid hopes to save his throne and his cabinet by dividing the ranks of the committee, which he proposes to do by appealing to a faction's zeal for the faith. In this event it is believed that a bloody ciyil war would result, the outcome of which none can foresee. BOBBING THE POOH. There is no question that excessive speculation was largely respon sible for the unhappy condition of the last eighteen monts, which drove so many thousands of men to idleness.

Further speculation is making their lot a most enviable one. The corner of the wheat market by Patten is said to have been directly responsible for the advance in Chicago of one cent a loaf in the price Making money for vou The more of ii you have employed the less you need to work yourselt. If you keep on saving, and putting your savings to work, the funded capital of vour earning years will gradually take up the burden, and vou will not need to work at all. In the meantime vou are insured against hard luck or hard times. Have you ever thought about having some money Start an account if you can onl spare a dollar or Chambersburg Trust Company..