Republican News Item. CHAS. L. WING, Editor and Manager. THURSDA.Y MAR. 24, 189S. "FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning:. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPORTE, PA. Kntered at the Post Office at Laporte.'' as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.50 |>er annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample cojiie." froe. All communications should be ad* 11 rP4i)A(I trt REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Bepublican Primaries and Convention. In pursuance to a call of the Co. Chairman the Standing Committee met at Laporte Pa. on February 28th and iixed the date for the pri maries to be held in the several pre cincts of Sullivan county on April 2nd at which time delegates to the County Convention to be held at Laporte on April sth will be elect ed to represent their respective dis tricts in said Convention. The purpose of convention being to elect our delegate to State Convent ion and to name conferees for Sen atoiral and Congressional Confer ences and any other business that may properly come before the Con vention. Following is the rules of the party governing the primaries and representation. PRIMARY ELECTION. The primary elections shall be held in each district, at the place for holding general elections in said district unless otherwise order ed by the vigilance committee; the vigilance committee may fix some other place, and may name the hours for holding the primary pro viding said committee shall post at leaßt six notices in suitable public places of the time and place ol holding said primary election, at least five days before the date fixed by the chairman for holding pri mary elections. In case any member or members of the election board shall fail to appear at the place advertised foi holding elections within fifteen minutes after the time set for hold ing the election, the other membei $r members of the board preseni shall appoint a republican or re publicans to fill the vacancy, who shall take the oath as required b\ law. In case all Viembers of tin board fail to appear within fifteen minutes after the time advertised for holding the election the repub lican voters there present shall pro ceed to elect two persons from among their number to act as in spectors and one to act as judge, and they shall administer to each the oath, and immediatly proceed to hold the primare election. REPRESENTATION. Each election district in the county shall be represented by ai least two delegates; districts which had Republican votes at the last previous State election exceeding forth, shall have three delegates, and districts which had republican votes at the last previous State election exceeding eighty, shall have four delegates; districts which had republican votes at the last previous State election exceeding 120 shall have five delegates and one delegate for every additional forty republican votes. In case a district under any call by the Chairman of the county committee fails to elect a delegate or delegates, that district shall not be represented in the convention, the convention shall not have the power to fill such vacancy. But in case a delegate duly elected is unable to attend said convention by reason of sickness or other un avoidable circumstances he maj appoint a republican residing in hit election district to act as his sub stitute. Yours and etc. F. P. VINCENT, Chairman. Miss Ona Ireland, a young lady liv ing near Skillman, Ky., has a bird, tbe History of which would grace the col amns of our natural history. Miss Ona oas a very large and beautiful flock of turkeys, a part of which were hatched >n the early summer months and *trayed away from the house for quite 4 distance. In their rambles a young partridge, presumably an orphan, fell into the ranks of the little turkeys, and Bndlng the company congenial, forsook the field, stayed in the barnyard and orchard, and never for a moment left the turkeys, eating and roosting on the limb of a tree with them. Now the turkeys are grown, as also is the par tridge, and it Is no unusual sight to see the partridge creeping beneath the 3ook ot turkeys. A TOOTH OF GOLD. The Truthful Narration of a Dentist Who Knew His Dntlneat. The man in the chair of torture was remonstrating with the doctor of den tal surgery. "That's all right," said the dentist, 'but you are foolish not to let me build that tooth up with gold for you." "What's the use? It will cost me forty dollars, you say, and I cannot af ford to eat my flve-dollar-a-week board with a forty-dollar tooth. It is too much dead capital." "Is it?" smiled the dentist. "Listen to a story. About ten years ago I was trying to make a living in the west in partnership with a fellow who wasn't any luckier than I was. We worked around to the north, where the winters are bad as they are in the Klondike, and our funds kept getting low er and lower until starvation sat down to table with us. The weather was getting colder, too, and the last wagon train out was booked for the following Sunday, then two days away. It was our last chance, for to remain there for the four months till the trail was open meant death, sure. The price togo with the train was twenty five dollars each. Just what twenty five dollars amounts to you will never know until you need it as badly as we did. "We hadn't a cent on earth and nothing to put up to get one with. It was indeed a cold day for both of us. By Saturday noon we had given up all hope of getting out, and had retired to our shanty to drown our sorrows in a quart of whisky we had discovered, no matter how. As we sat gazing in stu pid despair at each other with the full bottle between us, my partner grinned a ghastly grin and the gleam of tho gold in his filled teeth caught my eye. I concealed my feelings and quietly asked him how many teeth he had fill ed. He told me there were six, and one of them was nearly a solid gold tooth and had cost him fifty dollars. In a minute I had communicated my idea to him, and in another minute I had my tools, for I had been studying dentistry then, at work in his mouth, digging away like a miner. It was a rich field, and in half an hour 1 had out every bit of gold in those teeth of his and had beaten it up into a wad that we took io the owner of a saloon who knew what raw gold was worth. He looked it over and offered sixty dol lars for the wad. "My partner kept his mouth shut j and so did I, and when the train moved i out with its wagons next day we had our place in the front row and five dollars apiece spending money. Six I months later we struck luck and I fill- I ed my partner's teeth and never I charged him a cent." "Goon with mine," said the man in j the chair, "and charge me the same." PiOKrf«»lvo llnrKlnry. Beverly Bronze Turkey Dorsey of j Hutchison precinct sauntered into the Paris-Kentuckian-Citizen office a few days ago, and while in a reminiscent mood told this startling story: "Not long ago I had a wire fence erected on my place, and along In the night some enterprising thief or thieves came along and stole it, posts and all. I had also cut down a large tree, and cut two big gate posts from It. Fearing these would be stolen also, I set a boy with a rifle to guard them. One night the boy sat on one of the logs and fell asleep. The thieves returned, drove a pin in the log, hitched a team of hors es to it, and drew it out. leaving the boy asleep on the bark which had for merly Inclosed the log. When the lad awoke it was to find himself perched high in the air on the outside covering of bark, and both my gate posts wero gone. How's that for progressive bur glary?" Attacked by n Gray Kngle. While Peter Eggleston was cutting railroad ties near Cascade, N. Y. ( he found the deserted nest of a gray eagle. While examining the uest and its con tents he heard a loud noise, and sud denly the old eagle had struck him In the face with bill and claws, and tak ing a circuit through the air, alighted on a tree about 200 yards distant, but in plain view of the nest. Again the bird made an attack, aim ing at Eggleston's head, but he avoid ed her, and she struck him on the arm, making a slight wound. She returned to her post of observation, but soon made a third attack, when Eggleston struck her with a club and brought her •■'o ground, where, after a severe . he succeeded in killing her. isured seven feet two Inches outstretched wings. • Present to the Little Girl. corge B. Smith, of Russell . Mo., is the proud owner of a juaig of beads presented to her by Abraham Lincoln. She was a school girl at New-Salem, 111., at the time Lincoln was running a store there, and one day her teacher sent her to Lin coln's well to get a bucket of water. "Please, Mr. Lincoln, may I get a buck et of water?" said she to the tall young storekeeper. "Of course you may," re sponded Lincoln. "I thank you evei so much," said the little girl with a courtesy. "You are the politest little girl I ever saw," said Lincoln, with a smile; "come into the store and I will give you a present." And this is how Mrs. Smith came Into possession of her string of beads. Tbe Town's Artistic Sense Revolted Heretofore Kansas has patiently borne every sort of Imposition possible in an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" troupe, but last week, when a little bow-legged man set out to play the part of Tops? at Eldorado, the people roae up in armed revolt and ran the troupe out of town. IWorn Out?i $ Do you come to the close of | $ the day thoroughly exhausted? ; $ Does this continue day after I | day, possibly week after week? ! I® Perhaps you are even too ex- ; hausted to sleep. Then some- < thing; is wrong;. All these ! things indicate that you are J suffering from nervous ex- < haustion. Your nerves need ! feeding and your blood en- j riching* Scott's Emulsion | of Cod-liver Oil, with Hypo- ! $ phosphites of Lime and Soda, 1 j contains just the remedies to ] $ meet these wants. The cod- < $ liver oil gives the needed | jjj strength, enriches the blood, j ft feeds the nerves, and the hy- < $ pophosphites give them tone ! and vigor. Be sure you get ] « SCOTT'S Emulsion. j ® All druggists; 50c. and SI.OO. v J SCOTT & BOWNE^Cl^mUt^N^Yori^J The Drnimiier Kruin Xow York \nr rntcn 11 Bit of Itoiumioc. The drummer had just finished read ing a story of a train hold-up and let his newspaper fall into his lap. "I had a rather romantic experience once with train robbers," he said, "which I think I won't ever forget. I had been laid up sick for a week at a tavern in a Kansas town and my at tendant had been a very sweet and gentle girl, who was a relative of the landlord's. She was such a nice girl that I was in no hurry to get well, and while I was putting it off all I could I was as industriously putting on the chains of love. At the end of ten daj - 9 I was able to take up my sample case again, and when 1 left the town my gentle nurse was on the same train, in my charge, bound for Kansas City, where she was to be met by friends. I had never talked love to her, and I fancy she didn't suspect me of any thing except a desire to flirt a little, but I had made up my mind to talk seriously to her before I let her friends take her away from me. "I fooled along, as most men do un der the same circumstances, waiting for a real good chance to come in, but before I reached the proper condition the train cante to a sudden stop in a lonely place, and by the time we had asked what the trouble was a half masked train robber stood in the aisle of the car with a revolver covering the contents. The girl turned as white as a sheet and 1 thought she would faint, but I told her she wouldn't be hurt, and she sat there staring as if she had turned to stone. As it happened, I kept my wits, and when a shot and a shout rose on the air outside and at tracted the robber's attention for a mo ment, I whipped my revolver out of my overcoat pocket anil would have got him sure, but as I brought the gun around the girl at my side caught my arm and stopped me. I looked at her In amazement. " 'Don't,' she gasped, 'it's my fath er,' and then she fell in a faint, while the robber hurried out in response to the calls from his partner. "As for me," concluded the drummer, "I thought probably It would be Just as well for me not to add to the poor girl's troubles by trying to get Into her fam ily." A traveler, wtoo nad occasion to make an encampment on a ledge of rock in an unbroken forest asserts that he witnessed the beginning of one of the most destructive forest flre3 that ever occurred in that region. A dead tree of enormous size blew over and lodged against another tree, which it bent almost in the form of a bow. The fierce wind swayed the top of the bent tree which supported the trunk of Its fallen neighbor. It so chanced that sphere was a space of several feet where the fallen tree was smooth and rested on the other. The force of the wind In sweeping the bent tree back and forth soon ground the bark from the trunk of the tree. The friction caused by this grinding developed a high de gree of heat, and the tourist, to his as tonishment, saw the wood of the dead tree burst into a flame. The top was soon consumed and fell, scattering burning embers upon the dry leaves for some distance around. These fanned to a flame by the wind, soon created a fierce fire that swept over miles of valuable timber. Much blame has been attached to campers and ma licious persons who have, it is alleged, started fires either through careless ness or for a desire for wanton mis chief. Owners of large tracts of land would do well to keep close watch of their forests during and after heavy wind storms which are not accompa nied by a heavy rain. A little precau tion might save thousands of acres of valuable timber. "For Colds and Throat Troubles cur regular standard medicine is 4> Ayer's (Uerry Pectoral" J. HEYWOOD, A.M., Professor of Mathematics, Otterbein Uni versity, Westerville, 0. HALF-SIZE BOTTLES, 50c. A Horrible Railroad Accident i* a daily clironiclo in our |>:i| or*: h'm> ' tin* death nC><>me dear tiieiid. ulio li.nl dii-.l witli <.*>•ii^-uiiiption, wheron*, if he or she hail tiikeu Otto's Cure for Throat ami Lung dweapes in time, life would have | been rendered hii|>|>ier ami jj« llmjsaved. I Heed the warning ! It'you have a coujrl or nnv aflectkin of the Throat and I.niijfH Call i'ti I' ■' Keeler.Lajxirte: \V. 1. [lothnaii, 11 iII.-'LT■ J \ <■: 11. s l.Miienstcr, Forks* ille; U Jennings, Ajii. lv«tolla; i I no. W. I'.tiek, SoneHtisvx n, and irei a! tria y paokaire tree. I.arire si '<■ ;">oc and I LAPORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES. Connected with the Commercial j Hotel. Fitst-c!as> IT or pes and ; Carria^e.^. Hates reasonable. OHAS. COLEMAN. Prop. K.lu.'Hte lour "Villi c.iscarett.. C:iix!y < iiti>ui'tk\ cure eonaiipaUou forover. Oc, -Vo. 1. C. O.Q. full, ilrtuKuts refund money. Catarrh Inhaler Free. Only one persuii in fifty eureii by old mi tliodh of trout iiiK Catarrh now every where condemn lit. The new Scientific Cartnrrh Inhalei nf Dr. Worst's nuiikil tree toult leaders of the NKWS ITEM. !> the latest and in*st ii|i to-ilaU method for curing Catarrh, Colds, Bronehitis, Sore Throat. Headache etc. SPECIAL Ol'l'Kli I w ill for a short time mail any reader the new Inhaler with medicine for one year on three dayr :rial free. If it gives siitlnfaction. si nd me $1.(10 return it. Send for it now. Address A. C. JENKINS. Laporte, Pa. iiu-iu*«ac lor JKitfty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak nen strong, biooii pure. 50C.J1 All druKuista Spring and Summer livery corner of the store is bright, with the newest^ things for Women's wear'and Men't wear and Children's wear. vVe are glad to have you come it and see the new life of the old store and look at ifs excellent line of goods. Winter Weight Jnderware for Men, Women and Children. in conjunction witt the inviting varities, all prices will be found more than ordinarily small. * | 3 rocery Department A new and fresh sup ply of Groceries. have have just arrived. Vernon Hull, Hillsgrove. Pa. I am now putting up EAVE TROUGHS that will not rust. Send me your order or write for prices. CUNNINGHAM'S HARDWARE STORE DUSHORE P SOME MAf iiau an tDVERTISKMKNT IX this sp.vrr 1 WOULD Pill WHY? Because it would be REAE ust the same as you are read ng this. Give it a trial. Subscribe for the N'KWC ITEM. BO YEARS' jH^^Hi^EXPERieNCE TRADE MARKS OCSIONS ' COPYRIGHTS AC. Anyone lending a iketcb and deecrlptlon mar qutokly aaoertaln oar opinion free wbetber an invention la probably patentable. Communlcn tlons (trtotly oonttdenttal. Handbook on Patents rent free. Oldeat agency for »ecuring patents. Patents taken tErougb Mann k Co. recolro tpectal notice, wtthoat charge, to tlia Scientific American. A bandaomely lllattrated weekly. Largeet cir culation of any eclentlßo journal. Tenne. N a year: four montba. it. Sold by all newedealerj. W.L.Hoffman's - HILLSGROVE Three Big Stores-- MUNCY VALLEY, PROCTOR, PA. OUR NEW LINE OF GOODS are first in quality, first in style, and first from a genuine saving point of view, because they're lower in price than you can find elsewhere It you are looking for the bargains of the year go at once to any of the above named stores where former \ dlues and prices are practically lost sight of in our determined efforts to dispose of the largest and best line of DRY GOODS and NOTIONS ever brought to tliis County. Extraordinary line of CORSETS The lady who wishes the latest styles combined with high grade and half the old price should call and select from the complete line of sizes. |j JENNINGS BROS. I cSH We keep in stock at our mills a complete line of dressed lumber in hemlock and hardwood. MANUFACTURERS OF Gang Sawed and Trimmed Lumber. I-OPF7.. PA. SPECIALTIES Hemlock Novelty or German Siding, Hemlock Ceiling 7-8 or 3-8 stick, Hemlock Flooring any width desired, Hemlock Lath both 3 and 4 feet long, Hardwood Flooring both Beech, Birch or Maple, The same woods in 3-8 ceiling. CORRESPONDENCY SOLICITED. Buy Good Goods! And you will be surprised how cheap they are in the end. We have just unpacked such a stock o' coats and capes to which we are pleaded to cull vour special attention. We do not pretend to handle the cheapest coats in the market, but »edo6ay we have the BEST and neatest fitting "arments made. Our coats and capes are made to order, and in the latest *tvle* with prices to suit everybody. IN DRESS GOODS WE WERE NEVER BETTER PREPARED TO PLEASE YOU THAN AT THE PRESENT, AS WE HAVE THE LARGEST AS SORTMENT IN THAT LINE EVER DISPLAY ED IN THE COUNTY. Ladies and Misses, Bovs and Men, you need not go hall frozen this winter for we have plenty of underwear for you all, both in cotton or wool, ted or gray and the pr ces are very low, so low that when you see the goods you will ba aston :«hed that we are able to give you such bargains. One word in regard to foot wear: Our shoe department wir lever more complete and if you will'lavor us with your attention for a few nutes when in town we will convince you that we have the must caretudyi) lected line ot fine and heavy bo«>ts and shoes ever brought before the public. On crockery we have just received some very pretty designs in Decorated Dinner Sets to which we invite your attention. The buying ol country produce has alwavH been a i-pecial feature of ou< Businesn, and wo ftill continue in paying the highest each pi ices lor Butter \ Egg? and Wool. \ E. G. Sylvara, DUSHQRE, PA. \ ?. Htirrtr n»ruMi- Prl;., S, KLKUABT. mo. RIGHT ' ; Thursday Morning, THE REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. 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