: XAW NEWS m.'.v, ! WINS, Editor ■PaJjii iiija, i£l ■' &:/ 3?nuvsclaj Aitomoo By The Sullivan Publishing Co ' At the Count; Heat of Built van County. XjAPOBTE, PA. W C. MASON. Preilclun. IXiOrf. J. INGHAM, Ste'y & Treas. Entered at the Pout Office at Litporte, as eeoond-claes mail matter. STriHi™cnry~wi~ written liy Gertrude Warden. It will he published in the PHILADELPHIA J'MESS, a id the iirst chapter will appear Sunday, March 7th. ;t ia an interesting and fascinat ing Ghost Story and tells all about ghosts, and is full of hair-raising ex perience. The story grows more intensely interesting from chapter tu chapter to chapter. It will I>P publi hcd ev clusively in the PHILADELPHIA I'll ESS. order your paper in ad vance to be sure you will not miss the opening chapters, for their will be an extra demand on thin Sunday. Administrators' Notice. Notice is hereby given that Letters ol Administration upon the estate of Fran cis \Y. Gallagher, late of Laporte Boro., Sullivan County, Penna.. deceased, have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted 10 said estate are re 11 nested to make payment, and those having claims or demands, will make them known without de lav to MRS. THERESA GALLAGHER. Laporte, Pcnna., Administratrix. •1 Miliary 4. 1000. -TELL HER SHE MUST." The Doctor's Mistake, Which Was Corrected by the Married Man. The family physician pulled medita tively at his vigil!' for a few minutes before coming down to business. "1 have been to see your wife, as you requested," lie said at last, "and 1 asked you to come in so that I could tell you what should be done. Sbe's in a pretty bad way." "In iced?" "Yes. No regular sickness, you know, Idit generally run down and in bad shap:'. With rest and care sbe'll come out all right, but you'll have to look after her pretty closely." "1 !"g your pardon." "1 say you'li have to look after her pretty closely. You'li have to appoint yonn elf sort of general overseer or su pcrvi >r of everything pertaining tu lier welfare for a time and be very strict with her too. In the first place, tell her she must"— "Doctor, are you acquainted with mj wife':" Interrupted the husband. "Xot intimately at all," replied Uie astoti bed physician. "I've been cnil ed upon to treat her once or twice, as yon know, but Ihat is aii." "Possibly that may be urged as fa excuse," said the husband, "hue It's net a particularly sood one. There are worn :i with whom you are quite well acquainted, are there not?" "Certainly." "Married women?" "Many of them." "And still you advise me to tell ray wife that she must do something or other V" The physician looked at the husband, and the husband looked at the physi cian. "My dear sir," said the physician at last, "it flatters some men to talk to them that way, but I see you arc a man of judgment and sense who pre fers ihe truth to all else. Of course what 1 mean is that you ought to sug gest to your wife that if it is in ae cord with her judgment possibly It might be a good thing to follow the advice that I will now give you. Nat ural. y, being married, 1 know as well as you that 'must' is a word that ought to be eliminated from the English lan guage or at tlic most eoutiued to the lntei'-ourse of parents with children.'* --i.xohanj.re e The Best place to buy goods Is often asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages are always being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on <hhhih )* y ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. AJ answered at V«r»on Hull's Large Store. I A BOUNDARY LINE, j tXPBftIENCFS OF THE COMMISSION | ON THE MEXICAN FRONTIER. ! Difficult tnd Danfarooa Work la tka Uanrlt and Moantaini—A F»rl»u Band, ; iltrn—XL« Effects •' Mlr»f»-Cltf Ra- Mltu lata a Ma»« af Bowlder*. Although the boundary line between the United States and Mexico was de ifiLod over halt a century ago by the Treaty of Quadalupe Hidalgo, after the Me xlcan War, there haa seldom bean a time since then when the precise loca tion of this international limit has not given cause for vigorous disputes and often bloody border warfare between I the Mexican and A'inerlcan settlers near the line. After the treaty of 1853 a survey waa made of the Use, to effect some neces sary changes. Monuments were put up MEXICAN BOUNDARY MONUMENT. along the arbitrary portion of the boundary west of the Rio Grande, tout most of these landmarks were simply rude plies of stone, and the ease with which they could be destroyed or re moved was soon discovered by the ne:.rby settlers, never loath to seize an opportunity for a quarrel with their neighbors on the other side of the in ternational fence. Finally, in 1882, owins to continual boundary quarrels, a convention to settle them was ar ranged between the two countries. Bui. on account of various delays It waa not until November, 1891, that members of the International Boundary Commission were at last appointed. S:y the month of June, 1894, all work along the entire line, both surveying and monumeut-erecttng, was finis led. Two hundred and iifty-elKht monu ments, some of stone, and some of Iron, hat: been placed along the seven hun dred miles of boundary west of the Rio Cr; nde The Intervals between them we.e varied to suit the requirements of the different religions, but the dis tances averaged about two and three quarter miles between each two. Some of the experiences of the mem bers of the F.urvy are well worth a more extended description than can be given here. The mountainous region for mcay miles about Nogales, Ariz., is one of the roughest and most arid on the continent. In this neighborhood waa seen for the first time the strange and ungainly giant cactus, called the "su guaro" by the Mexicans. Its fruit, whjn ripe, is used as food by the Pa pa to Indians of the region, who eat it fre:<h, dried and preserved, and make fro nit, Dusldes, a slightly intoxicating drink. In the broad valley called the Moreno Flat, west of the Baboquivari Mountains and about fifty-rive miles west of Ncr&les, a frightful standstorm waii encountered on July S, 1893. At>out 4 o'clock ia the afternoon, a dense, dark-brown cloud was seen ris ing In the south. The brilliant sun was soon overcast, and in a few moments af'.t-r the cloud was first observed the sto-rn broite in all its fury. In ten or fifteen minutes it was as black as mid night: the atmosp.-iare was tilled with loose soil of the valley to a height of several hundred feet; respiration be came almost impossible,, and It was on ly by breathing through a handkerchief held in front of the mouth that suffo cat on was avoided. In half an hour the wind began to subside, the darkness diminished, and in a little more than two hours the setting sun shone faintly through the dust particles that still 1 fill, d the air. Wonderful mirages were seen while crowing the loaeiy deserts. Just be fore sunrise craggy peaks would ap pear. capped by similar Inverted wh oh would gradually flatten out Into strange forms. Once a city, with all ; Its buildings, appeared in a valley to 1 the northward, but the morning sun res slved it Into a mass of large bowl > ders near the base of a mountain. At ; another time, on the bare Yuma Desert. the reconnoissance party seemed to be i in a level depression, surrounded on I every side by a vertical wall of rock, fifty to oEe hundred feet high, which moved with thorn as they journeyed toward the river, but lessened In height until it finally vanished. The com monest deception was seen in the beat of the day, when beautiful lakes, fring ed with trees, lay apparently only a few hundred yards away. The details were so perfect, even to the reflections 1 In the water, that the party did not wonder that thirsty travelers were of ten lured from the road to procure this water, which never could be reached. The mirage distortion of the size and form of animals was also remarkable. In one case a herd of wild horses was mistaken for a herd of antelope and ; followed for several miles before the mistake was discovered. At times a jack-rabbit would loom up on the de sert with the apparent size of a cow, while occasionally the legs of animals , would be so comically lengthened as to make them appear mounted upon stilts. A New 8ol«nc«. Gloißomaucle is a new "aeience," la troduced by a Mis* Erbere No of Paris, consisting of reading the character by the form and size of the tongue. The guiding principles are as fol lows: If the tongue is long it is an in i dic.ition of frankness; if it is short, of dissimulation; If it is broad, of ex panslvencss; if narrow, of concentra tion. When the tongue is both long and larre it implies that the possessor is a great gossip, frank to disagreeabieness, and thoughtless. If the tongue be , long and narrow, its owner is only half , frank, thinking as much as is uttered, but not always uttering all that Is thought. If the tongue he short and broad, ' there Is premise of plenty sf gossip— I and falsehoods; It talks a great deal, but says little of what is really thought. If short and narrow, it indicates deep I cunning and lying; impenetrability and ' 1 prudence. This tongue belongs to thoee persons always ready U make mis taken, but eager to is spire confluence. !|| . ShortTalkson \ ll' Advertisirid | No. 19. People generally read advertisements more than they did a few years ago. The reason is to be found in the advertisements themselves. Advertisers are more careful than they used to be. They make the advertise ments more readable. Some of them even become, in a way, a department of the paper, and people look for them —3 <, ' every day with as much sest and pleasure a* they turn to any other feature. This is true of many department stores all over . JxL the country. Jf\/W In many cities there Is just one man who appre- Tj .-Y / ciates the value of such interest. ' He breaks away from the old set style. He tells / VvlfStff something interesting in his space every There are lots of interesting things in ' business. Look over the miscellany page of any paper—look at its local news columns, I i aud its telegraph news, for that matter, I and you'll see that the majority of the <| * H: v items are more or less closely related to 0- some business fact. 'I Dress these facts up in a becoming »i* ih» c»m, &u» garb of words, and they will find readers. ttJatmi." even though they be in • "mere advertisement.'* Let the merchant come down off his pedestal and talk in his | He needn't be flippant—far from it, /A *7 i but let him not write as if he were ad "" | lEf dressing somebody afar off, and telling fg |n him about something at ev«n a greater Wl ' newspaper goes right into its 'fm rea^er,s house—goes in and aits down It is on the table when he eats, and .ffi-jp|'* in bis hands while he is smoking after ,irTT Tn t ' > * meal. It reaches him when he is in I |! lll'lj}' an approachable condition. i ij^** That's the time to tell him about PtS VRBL 'Wwflll®®® yotir business—clearly, plainly,' convinc -SSOTB? ingly—-as one man talks to another. * a-*. **,. AW J. M. WIHTON, MUNCY VALLEY, PA. j Never Before HaveJJWe Received 50 and 75 so many praises and Vj) Boys' Knee many'flattering remarks as*we Pants weight have had this Season. Special. Were you one of the vast thrcm\s ihni " crowded our store during the pasi wet k? i / Did you tet your share of the a?tic k s it, advertised? I( not you should lilrMn COMB HER t NOW We are making new friends fast: selling more jRHKB I goods than ever before HIE But we still want more friends, want to sell our stock taster, ye we arejspurred onto deeper price cutting. People wonder how 112 VsO can do it. To this we can answer, tnat no other store in ihi cuxKi/nq section; has the wholesale buying facilities enjoved by this estab lishment. We can buy lower, we can sell lower. 1""" ' Sweater Coats Specials Men s Corduroy Pants Men S Sillftb , r I <t» From I. 19 to 2.50 Men's Xeglipee'.Shiris 39c MlnTS e co ß r er ° Its! CHILDRKNS' SUITS 39c 125 From 9QC to M o and 550 J£- ovJ«hi«. S Mens sweeter coats I.JO, 1ir ,,,.. TriAiiccoc Mens sweater coats _ 2.00; MEN S TI\O_'SER.S Rens Vneck sweaters 25 and 46c; From 69c to $4/5. Men's extra heavy cotton Slens cardiganjjackets 1.251' urfjv nVFPAHS mixed socks 08c ' MblN D UVtKALLS. Men's all wool'socks 19s UnderWear ' From to MEKSODD COATS S| ribbed or tteeoed 20 and 26c All 1 HCeS All PriC< S Men's ribbed>nderwear Duch and Corduroy to 22S | A ' S <> hl « men ,f lu, " b , er " ,c " , llco lott 39c rubbers—Lambertville and 1 * Ball , it* a j Hand. A lug saving lor you- Mer/s fleeced lined underwear •» °° lora 39c rAT Also big line of Shoes ai sav- La^ies ' KURS at great reduction, j Boys' corduroy knee pants, lined , Hlj£ prices for DreSS Bi;|) BLANKETS from "sc*.up. throughout, fine ribbed quality; SllOe. Ladies' 1.6 s ? SllOeS for 1.09 rri7vv< ti • r i Minn * . 0 . , nn : VI » \\i i IkUMv.s all sizes from l.oOup. worth regular 75c Special 39cj MCH S Working ShOCS 1.6^ Men's Suits j Douglas Shoes at reduced |L a( jj es ' Sweaters | Men's Suite 4.65| . , o Men's fcuits 6,75j D|oj Line OF IVlell S CIPi Q ILadles'Waists, blue, black. 39c I - L , 112 t Mens Suits 11.75 14.50'. HiippH nrirpQ LdUltJb UUdIS 8 ; i its 15.50 16 25! UUL»CU pi IvivO, i Ladies' Coats from 3.50 to 12.00 1 So Come to J. M. Wighton's to satisfy your wants. Rememb e only lasts;.this month. 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