4 Sarpeiwr) Scully ]f i*ess. I ESTABLISHED BY C. B.QOULD. HENRY H. MULLIN, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY TBRMH OF SUBSCRIPTION: Sfcryear ("2 00 If paid is advance J1 50 ADVERTISING RATES, publish edat the rate of one tol lar per square for one insertion and fifty cents square for each subseutient insertion. Rate** by the year or for Six or three monthsare !w i\nu uaiiorm. and will he furnished on appli cation Legal and Official Advertising persquare.three tfcnesor less, $2 00; each subsequent insertionSO oeut» per square. Local noticestencentsper line for oneinsertion s euts per line for eachsubsequentconsecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines, ten cents per ltao. Simpleannouncements of births, marriages and leaths will be inserted free. Has..less Cards, live lines or less $5.00 per year orer five lines, at the regular rates of advertising Ho local inserted for less than 76 cts. per issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PRBSS is complete, and allorda facilities for doing the best claas o< w*»rk. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages aBO paid, except at the option of the publisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for in advance. t#-No advertisements will be accepted at less than the price for fifteen words. Religious notices free. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. TO THE REPUBLICAN ELECTORS OP PENN: SYLVANIA: I a:n directed by the Republican State Com mitteo to announce that the Republicans of Pennsylvania, by their duly chosen representa tives, will meet in convention at the Opera House in the city of Harrisbnrg, on Wednesday, April 6, 1901. at ten thirty o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating candidates for the follow ing offices, to-.vit: Oue person for the office of Judge of the Su preme Court. Thirty-f our persons, t.io at lame, for presiden t ial electors, and, To elect tour delegates and four alternates at large to the Republican National Convention to be held iu Chicago, on June 21, 1901, also For the transaction of such othter business as may be presented. In accordance with the rules governing the organization, the representation in the State Convention will be based on the vote polled at the last presidential election: Under tbe rules aaoh legislative district is entitled toonedele %ne from every two thousand votes cast for {{residential electors in 190 i, and additional dele- Site lor every fraction of two thousand votes (polled in excess of one thousand. By order of Republican State Committee. BOIES PENROSE, Chairrean. W. R. ANDREWS, Secretary. EDITORIAL ftBNTION. Australians are using Kentucky methods in welcoming John Alex ander Dowie. Betting on Cleveland's nomina tion has already begun in New York, —$200 to §I,OOO. Three thousand cowboys are or ganizing in Denver to bring the western breezes to the Chicago con vention. George Fred Williams says he believes the Democrats will carry Massachusetts. George's believery is always full of queer things. All the Christian nations iu the world are sweeping out and fur nishing their cabinets to receive anon rare pieces of old China. The prosecution of Senator Siuoot insists that every Mormon holds that obedience to law is subord inate to obedience to God. Very well; but does not every Christian hold that same doctrine. A New York physician has in vented a curious aud delicate machine which will distinctly illuminate the internal organs. Perhaps we can find out now what's the matter with Mr. Bryan's liver. The Mormon president, Joseph F. Smith, tells the Congressional Committee that he has forty-two children, most of thein girls, lie adds very earnestly that Reed Smoot should not be held respon sible for that fact as he does not furnish the Caster bonnets. This complicates matters terribly. The Panama Canal Commission ers will nut sail for tin; Isthmus this month as announced, but will wait till title is obtained. It is then purposed to keep at least one on the ground all the time. Sen ator Cullom says "There will soon be a vacancy on the board." The climate is too deadly for a long spell of good health. A member of the Congressional Committee on Foreign Commerce says that the Panama Canal Com pany "positively cannot deliver the canal to the United States. If we should pay it the §40,000,000 we should only be buying the right to build the canal and to retain 40 per cent of the profits after paying all expenses." This accords with Senator Piatt's view. But Crom well, counsel of the Panama Canal Campany, says there is no hitch whatever, that everything is love ly, and that the transfer can be m;t