—Miss Emma Spencer is spending several days in Williamsport. Sheriff Osier is looking after his farming interests in Elkland Twp. this week. —Mr. and Mrs. Will Kiess of Sonestown, visited friends at La porte, Sunday. —Miss Vina Upman of Eagles Mere, is spending several days at her Laporte home. —Farmers and candidates have been making good use of the fine weather we now enjoy. —John Morgan of Ilillsgrove, is visiting his aunt, Dr. Rose Morgan, at this place. —Slaters from Hughesville are laying a slate roof on Judge Dun ham's residence. —Geo. Stackhouse and family of Sonestown have moved into Chas. Funston's cottage for the winter. —Dr. Wilson returned home on Monday from a several days' visit with his parents at Warrensville, l»a. —Judge Dunham returned home Tuesday from Tunkhannock, where he had been holding a two weeks' term of court. —Atty. A. J. Bradley has moved from the Episcopal parsonage to the Warren Watrous residence, recently vacated by W. J. Lawrence. Mrs. M. C. Lauer wishes to an nounce to her friends and patrons that the Mountain House will be closed to the general public from November 1, until June 1, 1902. —Messrs M. E. Reeder and J. W. Fly nil left 011 Wednesday for Mexi co, where they will look after tim ber interests. —On account of Quarterly Meeting services to be held in the M. E. church at this place next Sunday at 10:30 a. m., there will be 110 preach ing at Cherry Grove. —Mr. J. W. Finkle wishes to an nounce to the public that he will dis pose of a portion of the M. E. par sonage furniture at private sale. Call at his residence for particulars. —The Court House still stands. It has not tumbled down though the Herald declared six weeks ago that it was ready to tumble down. Neither has "Billy Lawrence" as the Herald cr,lis him, tumbled down. Blow your ram's horn again Jonnie. Following are the names of those drawn to serve as grand jurors for December term of court: J. M. Osier, Samuel S. Rogers, James Farrell, John Houseworth, Lawrence Lavelle, John Coyle, Con ell Dunlap, Edward Travelute, M. J. Phillips, J. C. Pennington, John Hanny, James Spence, Jr., Asa Speary, Jackson Watters, Ruben Thrasher, S. D. Murphy, John Cog sdell, Frank Allen, Geo. S. Speaker, James Kunes, Richard W. Bennett, Samuel Kinchlor, Chas. A. Starr, John Roberts. List of names drawn to serve as traverse jurors. Martin Wilcox, George Whipple, Frank Meyers, W. L. Dempsey, A. A. Miller, Jonathan S. Richart, H. C. Pardoe, Wm. Johnson, Nelson Zaner, Thomas Ilousekneeht,Walter H. Lawrenson, Thomas Cangley, Boyd llaverly, Geo. W. Houseworth Cearles B. Watson, Z. E. Botsford, G. A. Rogers, George Hottenstein, Dorson M. Speary, Frank Shoemak er, Philo G. Keisenger, M.R. Black, Parvin Kile, Robt. J. Kshinka, Wendell Sick, A. A. Schock, Wm. Kinsley, Fred Keeler, J. K. Bird, John L. Farrell, Chas. M. Boyles, Chauncy Fuller, Asa G. Little, H.R. Bennett, John A. Sick, Wm. Loeb, Edward Holms, Patrick Hannan, Frank Wilcox, Wheeler Starr, F. G. Waltman, Lee It. Gavitt. We have been waiting patiently to see in the Herald some statement of the qualifications of James Walsh for a Judge. This is a high and honorable ofilce, and the position demands a good man. In all good faith We have asked for some state ments of his qualifications. We get no answer. We have had upon the bench such men as Judge Bedford, Judge Speaker, Judge Pomeroy, Judge Wright, Judge Rogers, Judge Deegan, Judge Colley and others equally honorable and trustworthy. Have we had any one upon the bench without character? Do we want such a man? We put the question to all voters, of all parties, who re spect integrity and love virtue. We entreat you to investigate before vou vote. Mild aner, re .us are being u itgarding democratic candidates. It does not tell which candidate or what the reports are. This is a very weak mode of cor recting false reports, if such exist. The News Item has nothing to say in favor of false reports, but it must not be assumed that all reports are false. Some reports in circulation are certainly true. —lt is u remarkable fact that the most reliable and talented democrats of this county are in the background. Scouten pushed himself to the front by a series of underhanded tricks, and blossomed into a boss. He treats the veteran democrats as his subordinates. He relies on them to help elect the men he nominated, but never thanks them for it. —The people want a clean well tested man for sheriff, and they are going to get such a man in Air. Cox, and you might as well trv to turn the tide as to change the minds of the voting taxpayers whose friend Cox has always been. The Scoutenites are on the run. We have had them that way since before the nominations. It is shown by the fact that Scouten dropped McCarty and Craft, both of whom he had promised to nominate for prothonotary and sheriff, to get his man Walsh nominated for associate judge. It is further shown by the fact that he and his man are willing and have ' .1 trying to trade either Kennedy or Cott to get a vote for his man Wa'sh. The cry among his choosen few is, "make a vote for Walsh at any cost." To those ac quainted with the situation this will not work; and to those who are not, we say, don't trade. Neither Reeser, Deininger nor Cox need trading or want their friends to trade. Don't trade! DON'T TRADE ! DON'T TRADE! _ Friends of Reeser, Deininger and Cox! Be wide awake on election morning. Let it be remembered that after election last year Scouten published in his Herald a letter from his trusted agent to Fox township in which it was said. "Bright and early 011 Tuesday morning 1 opened tire on the enemy and at eleven o'clock had them knocked out," and three cents left! Bright and early is their time, don't be caught napping. It is currently represented that Scouten is making pathetic appeals to republican friends to vote for James Wplsh. He claims that he has been "hardly used" by the Court, and that he cannot be returned to the bar unless Walsh is elected. The fact is Scouten has never made any application to be re-admitted to the bar. Judge Dunham stated in his opinion which he tiled, that if Mr. Scouten conducted himself prop erly he would be re-admitted. If Mr. Scouten is of the opinion that he has conducted himself in such a manner as would entitle him to re turn to the bar, why does he not make the application ? Since the nomination of John I). Reeser, Scouten's Herald has made weekly assertions upon his private character. Last week it spoke of Mr. Reeser's, "ravenous greed for money," and declares that he has de voted every moment of his life to money getting, "ignoring every ob ligation of charity and benifieence," and that he "grabs every dollar within his reach and squeezes it until the eagle screams." If what the Herald says against Mr.Reeser were true, (which it is not) it would be like Satan rebuking Kin, for the editor to denounce such con duet. Scouten's "ravenous greed for money," however, would be no ex cuse for such conduct in Reeser if proven. But nothing is proved, no circumstance is mentioned, no auth ority adduced; all rests upon the words of the editor. Mere rot! In the Herald of September 25, Boss Scouten asks the question, "Do you want a machine man or a clean man for associate judge?" That is a very apt question: but who is the machine man? James J. Walsh was nominated, as the saying is, by the skin of his teeth, over a democrat of high standing in the party, of excellent qualifications, and withal a clean man. It is not ques tioned that the influence of the Boss defeated Anthony Rhoey and nom inated Walsh. If ever there was a machine man, Walsh is one. The pertinent question now is, " Do you want a machine man or a clean man for associate judge?. John D. Reeser is the clean man. 1 —The tax payers are waiting anx iously for Scouten to pay the three thousand eight hundred and forty nine dollars and fifty-six cents which , his action in starting the judicial election contest cost the county. All agree that he ought to pay it. We stated last week that three years ago a petition was prepared in Scouten's office, and circulated by James J. Walsh to contest the elec tion of Sheriff Osier, and that their failure to get the contest open was caused by a legal blunder. This statement has been before the public for a week and Walsh does not de ny it. Mr. Osier was fairly elected and a contest must have resulted in an increased majority, for no doubt many of Jas. Walsh's votes would have been thrown out on well known grounds, but the tax payers would have suffered for it. They want no more $3849.56 bills. Let the man who undertook to bring on this con test be buried so deep with tax pay er's votes that he will not think of contesting the election. Scouten has been making the state ment that Walsh must be elected so that he can be reinstated to practice law. This, like nearly all the state ments made by Scouten and the Herald, is not true. In the opinion of Judge Dunham disbarring him he used the following language: "When he can conduct himself in all re spects, properly and respectfully, we shall cheerfully hear his application for re-admission and act favorably thereon." The Supreme Court in commenting on this case says,"This is a clear indication that the Court below * * intended to treat the applicant (Scouten) with as much leniency as the preservation of neces sary discipline would admit." Now, in the face of these recorded facts, Scouten says it is necessary for him to have "Big Jimmy" as he calls his candidate, elected. So that he could be reinstated, although he has never made any application to the Court to reinstate him. This state ment of his is in keeping with his other actions and shows that be is merely making it as a catch penny to get votes. That mysterious word "gang" has been repeatedly used in every issue of the Herald since, Reeser, Deininger and Cox were nominated. Neither of these men are, however, included in the "gang," because the Herald declares that the gang nom inated them, and neither Reeser or Deininger were at the convention. Neither is Vincent one of the "gang" as the word is now used, because the Herald in its issue of the 2d inst. asserts that, "as soon as the machine decided to nominate Reeser for as sociate judge, Mr. Vincent declined the chairmanship for that reason." We have searched the files of the Herald to find out the names of the "gang" and in one issue we find it distinctly stated that the gang con sists of Dr. Christian, Dr. Gamble and William J. Lawrence. Having found out the persons in the gang the next thing is to find out the meaning of the word. We have heard of a gang of thieves and a gang of laborers. In the yellow journal of Philadelphia which the Herald apes, the word is constantly used in the sense of a gang of thieves —meaning a gang looting the pub lic treasury. The Hearld can hardly mean to use the word in the sense of a gang of laborers, for there is nothing odious about that term. Must we come to the conclusion that the Herald means to call Dr. Christian, Dr. Gamble and Win, J. Lawrence a gang of thieves? We call upon that paper to define what it means. Dr. Christian, Dr. Gamble and Win. J. Lawrence are not candidates for office; they are honorable and trust worthy citizens. If they take an active interest in politics, it is their privilege. It is time the libelous Herald ceased its attacks upon good citizens. What has the amount of the com pensation for services rendered by Judges Line and Meyers, got to do with the prospective compensation of the successor to Judge Line? Ab solutely nothing. The compensation to be received by associate judges is fixed by the State. No judge can get more than the law allows him. John D. Reeser is an honest man, and will do his full duty as a judge, and no doubt accept from the State Treasurer the amount justly due! him. James J. Walsh is not the' man to accept less than the law gives him. Offices are not put up at auction to the lowest bidder. Some are paid salaries by the year, some are paid by the day for the time spent. In the latter class are associate judges. They are expected to do their duty and get their just pay for it. It is not necessary for the Herald to re-hash the substance of its libel on Judge Kraus or try to apply it to Reeser. In his Herald of Oct. 2, Chairman Scouten said, "It is a well known fact that Reeser has for several years conspired the political death of Mr. Vincent. He well knew that the de feat of Christian would be a heavy blow to Vincent, and when he enter ed the booth with the curtain be hind him, the mysterious deed was done." Again in the same paper he said, "It is with much delight that we view the decayed ruins of the old machine. Mr. Vincent, the best man among them has withdrawn; the editor of the party organ is up ;» tree, and the party assassin is their candidate for associate judge." And further he said, "As soon as the machine decided to nominate Mr. Reeser for Judge, Mr. Vincent declined the chairmanship. Why was this? Simply because Mr. Vin cint could not serve the party with a candidate at the head of the ticket, who he well knew sought it.s ruin. Now we ask you again, whose par ty is Mr. Reeser's party of which he speaks in his enticing letter to the voters of Sullivan county?" We can imagine the pliant editor scratching his head with both hands, and walking the editorial sanctum to contrive some new misrepresenta tions to cover the exposed false hoods in the article above quoted. The Herald has characterized the News Item as a "character smasher." Our regular subscribers well know that this is misrepresentation. Our files are open to inspection from No. one to the present number, and we defy any one to find an article injur ious to the character of any private person. Even candidates for office on the opposite side in politics have been treated with courtesy. During the present campaign we have made no attacks upon the characters of the opposing candidates. It may be asked "how about Scouten ? To this we say, it is true we have had a good deal to say about Scouten dur ing this campaign, but always in answer to his unprovoked attacks upon our candidates or upon the News Item. And even in repelling these attack we have refrained from saying the worst that the truth would justify. In one of the pro verbs it is said, "Answer a fool ac cording to his folly." Scouten is no fool, but surely it is folly for him to say of an honorable, trustworthy and educated man like JOHN D. HKK SKH, that "he has grown rich at the expense of his customers," thftt "he lias an inordinate greed for money," that "he has never done any man a favor," that "he has no qualifications for the office," that "he pinches dollars until the eagle screams," etc. Scouten is the chairman of the Dem ocratic standing committee, and is running the campaign in his own interest. We have therefore been compelled to answer him according to his folly. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of a writ ol Fieri Facias issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County, ami to me directed and delivered, there will be exposed to public sale at the Obert House in DIISIH re Sullivan County, I'a., on THURSDAY, NOV., 21, 1901, at 10.80 o'clock a. m., the following de scribed properly, viz; AH that piece or parcel ot land situated in the Borough of Onshore, County ol Sullivan and State ol Pennsylvania,bound ed and det-cribed as follows, viz: Begin ning at a corner of lot belonging to Eli zabeth C. Thomson, thence by the same North thirty-three and one-half degrees West seven and six-tenth rods; thence North three and one-half degrees, West live and eighty-five one-hundreths rods to Mill lot; thence North sixty-eight degrees East eight and two-tenths rods; thence South forty-two degrees, East nine and seventy-six one-hundreth rods to an alley; thence by said alley South forty-eight de grees, West twelve and one-half rods to the place of beginning; containing one hundred and twenty perches ol land, be the same more or less. Having thereon erected a large frame dwelling house, barn and other out buildings and truit trees growing. Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as the property of.l..J.Meßsersmith at the suit of Alpnonsus Walsh. 11. W. OSLKR. Sheriff. Sheriffs office, Laporte Fa., Oct. 28,'19('l WAI.SH, Atty. ALITTIEKNOvffM M That the majority of spjiou dis.s originate in disorder of the kid v j Foley's Kidney Cure is gunranteeu. I | sure to get Foiev's. 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