Republican News Item. VOL. IX. } This Is the Place cTo Buy Your Jewelry S X Nothing in Town to Compare Willi N ( the Quality that We are Giving / / Yon fort lie Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r fof this section. Many years here in business, always 3 with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C (with a care and judgment commensurate with its I \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ (112 our store a sale place to invest. C r Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r H teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated, y > RETTENBURY, ) PA. The Jeweler. HARDWARE No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK/ WOOD. HE ATERS: ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnisiiiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Ease Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air. Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. ofe,© issft ore, pa. The Shopbel! Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILL! AM SPORT, PA. January Sale, Muslin Underwear. This week, we begin an important sale of Muslin Underwear, at special prices, that is vvor.hy of more than the usual attention of muslin underware Every garment is entirely new and the prices are very much less than you have been paying for equal value. For 10 Cents Ladies' Corsets Covers: Children's Drawers, 2 to 112» years; Hoys' and Girls' Twilled Muslin Waists: Children's Skirts, I to years, and Infant's Dresses, Neck •and Sleeves I'.dged with Lace. Ibr 10c. For 15 Cents Ladies' Corset Covers, edged with lace or homcsiitched rallies: Ladies' Drawers, with ruffles; Childrens' Plain or Ruffled Drawers, sizes- '2 to S; Childrens' Waists and Infants' Dresses with yoke and insertion, for 15 cts. For 55 Cents Ladies' Gowns, either square or V neck, tucked yoke or lace or embroidery insertions; Ladies' Drawers with Flounce and Tucks: Ladies' Long anil Short Skirts, with hemstitched rulHe: Corset''overs daintily trimmed with lace and riblion, and Infants' Dresse.-. lor 25c. For 50 Cents Ladies' Corset Covers with lace embroidery and ribbon: Ladies' Drawers with deep flounce edged with embroidery or lace: Ladies' Long Skirts; Ladies Short Skirts with lace edge—several styles of gowns to choose from, for."» 00. For 75 Cents Ladies' downs with tucked yoke, lace embroidery insertion; Ladies Long Skirts, with tucked flounce or insertion and lace edge: Ladies' Drawers with deep llounoe trimmed with tucks and embroidery or lace. A large line of Corset Covers daintily trimmed with fine lace and embroidery, excellent values lor 75e. For SI.OO We show a large line of Ladies' Muslin, and Cambric Underwear elaborately trimmed with tine laces and embroideries; the best assortment we ever showed lor .$ 1.00 In connection with this special sale of Muslin Underwear we will have dis played a large line of the finer grades o! Muslin and Cambric Under Garments, that are elaborately trimmed with dainty laces, embroidery and ribbons. Quality considered, the prices will be very low. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12,1905. ON THE ISTHMUS TO STAY. *SiKl>tN of the I ni 1 t'll SintcH In Puim -11111 Are Cleurlj- Defined. When an agitation hostile to Ameri can interests in Panama was inaugu rated a lew weeks ago the New York, Bennington, Boston and Marblehead of the United States Pacific squadron were ordered to Panama. On their ar rival marines landed ( and occupied the several railway depots. This is in ac cordance Willi the treaty signed in No vember, ]!)03, and ratified in Uebruary of this year, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Under that treaty the T'nited States is sovereign in the canal zone and has the right to employ, at the discretion of the president, its land and naval forces for the preservation of order and tiie protection of canal, railways and ships. The promptness with which the government acted 1 is notice to all adventurers and disturbers of tile peace that there is to lie no more law lessness 011 the isthmus. Undoubtedly there are in Panama many men engaged in intrigue against the United States and the present Pan ama government. These intrigues are not based on popular discontent, but 011 desire to embarrass the government in tlie <• instruction of the canal and to protit through complications incident to delay. Involved in these intrigues are many politicians and speculators represent ing isthmian and foreign interests af fected by the domination of the Unit ed States on the isthmus. Possibly these politicians and speculators aim ed to promote an insurrection about the time of the presidential election in this country with purpose to em barrass the administration responsible for the Panama canal treaty. If so, they misjudged the American people and the government. There never was in any international compact a clearer definition of the rights and powers and privileges of the United States on the isthmus. Dis turbers or conspirators are to deal not with a weak government at Panama, but with the strong government at Washington. Adventurers plotting dis order and rebellion that they may loot the treasury or overthrow an adminis tration are to be restrained by the military and naval forces of the Unit ed States. TU" quicker the masters of intrigue on the isthmus learn this the better for all concerned. The independence of Panama cannot lie subverted. The power of the Unit ed States 011 the isthmus cannot be weakened or overthrown. The con struction of the canal cannot lie delay ed. No international complications to tlie disadvantage of the United States are possible. The control of the isthmus is in our hands, and it will remain there. This is what the presence of the Pacific squadron at Panama and the landing of marines mean. We are on the isth mus to stay and to build the canal. THE SAGE OF LINCOLN. Still DiKlnrbinK the AtmoM pliere With Hi* Chatter. Bryan is still talking! The political magpie unceasingly offends the atmos phere with his discordant chatter, says the Chicago ltecord. lie is tiresome and doesn't know it. lie squeaks and gibbers in the street in company with other unsheeted dead. What anodyne can soothe that atilicted soul? Who will quiet the perturbed spirit? Who minister to the mind diseased? Bryan lias a good deal to answer for and he feels it. He has led a great po litical party to two disastrous defeats and has contributed largely to a third. It will not do now for him to disavow responsibility for Parker, lie accepted Parker and preached him—crucified—in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, lowa and Ne braska, with the result that wherever he went Republican majorities multi plied. Either he was untrue to him self in October or he is untrue now. Probably untrue both times. lie will not grow in public esteem by accusing Parker or blaming him for a defeat to which all elements of the disheveled and frayed out Democracy contributed, according to their means. It is not magnanimous, not brave, not manly to heap insults upon a fallen foe. Manifestly the sage of Lincoln is in pain. Something ails him. He has ap pendicitis of the brain. Part of it ought to he cut out. If he could be sep arated from his sense of self Impor tance he might do better. lie is in curably of the opinion that millions of his fellow countrymen are hanging breathless on his lips. If they are, they are tired of hanging. They would like to be cut down and decently in terred. As for the nostrums, the specifics, the cure alls and the quack remedies of Dr. Bryan, they can well wait awhile. They cannot be given to the patient for four years, and it is a question whether the patient will take them when they are prescribed. They can wait, and Bryan can wait, and the peo ple can wait while he is waiting. In peace there is nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. Will some good friend kindly pull the curtain over pretty Poll? if nobody will do that, Ulysses will have to stop ills ears or lift up a supplication to all the pagan gods for a temporary attack of deafness. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Hume Mutuul Fire Insurance Com pany, held their annual meeting in the high school building at Fork>- ville on Saturday, Jan. 7th., lilt 15. The meeting was called to order at 10:30 a. m. by President M. it. Black, The minutes of the last meeing and special meeting were read by the secretary R. D. Lan caster and approved. U. Bird one of the auditors read the report which was also approved. The report shows that the company has paid in losses during the year s?2'>oo.oo and has in the treasurers' hands a bal ance of $721).0<>. After some dis cussion on the new conditions that exist, the following committee were appointed by the president to report in afternoon. On telephones Ulysses Bird, A. G. Little and Geo: Mart/.ig, On thrashing engine. Watson Fawcett, Geo. Wanck, and 11. L. Molyneux. On reserved funds held to pay assessments where loss has been sustained, ('has. Kil mer, A. T. Mulnixand S. S. Gain er. Adjourned to 1:00 o'clock. At the afternoon session the following officers wese elected for the ensu ing year. Most of the old officers being re-elected. Directors: ( olley, Phillip Tubach; Cherry, George Ilartzig; Davidson, Shrewsbury and La Porte, J. C. Pennington; Klkland: Job MeCarty; Fox, F. W. Hill; Forks, Watson Fawcett; Forksville ALU Black; Hillsgrove; L B.Speaker It. D. Lancaster was elected Secre tary and Geo. W. Snyder Treasurer. Agents or surveyors I>. L. Earle, J. S. Gainer, D. K. Miller, O.K. Wilcox. Johu Pardoe, K. S. Little, M. D. Horn, and J. K. Bird. For adjusters, \V. L. Norton, S. B. Kil mer and O. N. Molyneux, and for auditors, U. Bird, W.Calkins and J. L. Molyneux. The committees report in favor of having telephones installed but must be provided with ground rods prop erly attached, steam engines to Ie used in thrashing or cutting feeil with proper restrictions, and no re served fund to be retained where parties rebuild. A resolution was also made allowing insurance on livestock, killed anywhere on the premises. Every farmer should patronize this home company. It is as firm as the North Mountain, and as cheap as the cheapest. Over one million dollars is now insured in this comp any. According to reports, none of the lug railroad men are backing the proposed line between Binghamton and Williamsport, but the scheme is all in the hands of I). K. Baxter of New York; J. 11. Stone of Wilkea harre and A. K. Harvey of ISing hamton. Harvey is the only man in the lot who has had any experi ence in railroading. The promoters pin their faith in the ultimate suc cess of the project to the resources of the country, both mineral and agri cultural, which the road will drain. They expect to develope extensive coal lands between \Vyalu>ing and Williamsport. Among the many bright things that must have been said at the St. Louis Exposition one, at least, was reported. A good woman fell into conversation with one of the attend ants at the turkish morgue. The man spoke such excellent english and seemed so intelligent that she ventured to express the hope that he went to church every Sunday like a Christian. To which the prompt reply was made. "No, madam. 1 go every day like a Turk". With a loud report a glass jar tilled with yeast exploded in the hands of Airs. Samuel Glace atSunbury, Wed nesday of last week, and nearly killed her. Several days previous she secured a cake of prepared yeast which she dissolved in water, plac ing it in a jar until she was ready to use it. Just before the explosion she put a small quantity of baking soda j into it. Glass struck the woman on ! the left arm above the wrist, coni | pet el y severing an artery. The j timely arrival of physicians prevent ed her from bleeding to death. The newly appointed mercantile appraiser of Luzerne county has de cided to get after soap clubs who do a large business in that county. It is said that these clubs take several j thousand dollars out of the section ' annually and do not pay one cent of! tax. The new appraiser has decided that they must pay a tax and has already on his list a large number of soap club ag nits. These clubs are regarded as a great detriment to the merchants, and it is considered just that they be compelled to pay a tax when it is taken into consideration that the merchants are forced to. —Wilkes- barre Times. That would be too bad! The most of the soap clubs in this part of the county run their legs off'selling soap and lotions for the Lurkin Soap Co. of Buffblo, which is owned by the Standard Oil Co., and what would poor Rockefeller do if the soap club d should be put out of business? Just consider what might happen if John D's should be cUt down another million or two. Your home merchant will have to worry through, somehow, in any event hut how about poor John? You may not kyow it and you may not believe it, nevertheless it is a fact that Mr. Larkin gets a princely salary for running that Huff'alo busi ness and the rest of the profits goto the Standard Oil Co. who owns the whole shebang. This information was given by a man who furnished nearly all the lumber used in the Lar kin buildingat Buffalo. It costs you no more than it did the editor of the Messinger.—Lucy ville Messinger. Forty-live cows belonging to Lan ing and Brown, of Wysox, Bradford county, were recently tested for tu berculosis and the entire herd found to be effected. Arrangements were as once made to have them shipped away for slaughter under the direct ion of tin-SUtte Yet renary Board. Heretofore (he stale paid for cows that were tested and found to have tuberculosis, but not for cattle that were killed for beef and then found to be diseased. But now the law is such that if an animal killed fur beef, is found to have tuberculosis, the state will pay for it upon proper proof—not to exceed 5 cents a pound, nor $25 for whole carcass. Informa tion will be furnished by Dr. Town er member of State Board. The Williamsport News says in regard to the new railroad: "The proposed railroad from Binghamton to Williamsport and the probability of its construction this year revives a project of an interesting nature,the building of a spur of the new road to Eagles Mere. As the new road is to pass by Hillsgrove it would be a comparatively small matter to build the spur. While the whole matter so far is just speculation, there seems to be a good chance of such a move being made and that it would be a poptdar movement is arrured when the situation is understood. The spur would be a standard guage which would allow of running Full man palace ears right to the lake. At present Washington people us u ally come to Williamsport by the Pennsylvania then take the Reading jto Halls and the W. and N. li. to Souestown and from there the nar row gauge. As far us Sonostown the Philadelphia and New York peo ple using the Reading have now ex cellent facilities, but it is'probable that if the talked of spur were built (he Philadelphia and Reading would arrange to run parlor cars over it to the lake. On the other hand it is possible that if the new road were to move in the direction of Eagles Mere the W. A- N. 15. would wide gauge their road from Sonostown to the Lake." From birth a boy can hold proper ty, at seven he is, if intelligent, an swerable for a crime; at lourteen he | punishable for a misdemeanor; at 'eighteen be is qualified for the mili tary service: at twenty-one he may ! declare himself independent to his ' father, and old enough to vote; at ' twenty-five he is eligible to Congress I and at thirty to the United States , Senate, and at forty-five he is ex | empt from military duty. 75 TS. PER YEAR The income of the State last year exceeded twenty-one millions of dol lars; the expenditures exceeded nine teen million; the excess of receipts over expenditures exceeds two mill ion jjand a half. There is money enough in the treasury to extinguish the state debt. During the year over six millions of dollars were appropriated and ex pended for common schools. About three million were expended for hos pitals and charities. Haifa million expended in aid of counties to build bridges, of which Sullivan county got a liberal share. One million was applied to the new state capitol. The good old Keystone State is the best governed and most thrifty state in the Union. < iovernor I'ennypacker in his mes sage says:"The greatest injury to the forest lands arises through fire. I recommend as one means of di minishing the loss which comes from this c.iuse that the railroad corpora tions of the State and those having lines passing through it be required under fixed penalty and the pay ment of resultant damages, to put out all fires within 100 feet of their tracks, except in municipalities." Governor Pennypacker has aback, hone like a crow bar. He was crit cised and abused by many newspa pers of the state because he recom mended an amendent to the libel law which the Legislature passed and he signed. The only essential change in the new law is that the responsible owners of newspapers must put their names in the papers which they publish. Most of the members of the Legislature who voted for the law have been re-elect ed. The (iovernor now proposes that a law be passed which, careful ly guarding the freedom of the press in all the rights it now posseses, shall protect honest and honorable citizens from what is> known as "Yellow Journalism." Yellow jour nalism is defined a.s publications which habitually and intentionally for the sake of gain, with falsehoods, defame and ridicule public officers and private citizens. It is known to all that there are a few such newspapers in our great cities. The command''Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," is certainly as applicable to the pub lishers of newspapers as to other citizens. The great mass of news papers respect it. Why should those who do respect it stand up for those who do not? This question we can not'answer; but it is a fact that many newspapers have assailed (iov ernor Pennypacker for the stand he has taken. It takes a brave man to stand up against the "slings and ar rows'! of an incensed press, but the Governor is doing it. lie will be sustained by all considerate citizens. The State of Pennsylvania now owns about sevn hundred thousand acres of land acquired for Forestry Reservation purposes. As it'is con tinually adding to its purchases for this purpose, we think it would be well for the Commissioner of Forest ry to turn his attention to this coun ty. There are some lands at the head waters of streams which will grow trees but of no value for culti vation. <>n this subject Governor Pennypacker says,"The efforts for the preservation of the Forests, the Game and the Fish, all of which the state has undertaken, seem to look to the accomplishment of ends close ly related, and it is well worthy of consideration whether better results could not be secured by a combina tion of them. The fish propagate in the streams, the streams traverse the forests, the game for its life needs* both stream and forest, and all c ' them require the employment oi j watchmen and wardens. lion. Win. Connell, of Scranton, has introduced a bill in Congress, a section of which provides a head tax upon each immigrant of £{, for which the owner or the vessel that brings him to this country is liable if the immigrant does not pay it,and ! which becomes a fine upon the ves sel if not paid within |twcnty-foui hours. The fund so derived shall be ; used for the payment of salaries and j expenses of the immigration services.
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