Republican News Item. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 189*. j 41 Ignorance is the mother of £ I scepticism. Ignorance does \ 1 # not abound to any great extent J 0 in Sullivan County. ~ C So that there r j \\ is But Little # ' II Scepticism £ i about the Value oft IReWS I \ Item | 0 As a Profitable # {advertising | \ fl&ebtum. < ! * j # Read it, Your neighbor does, 112 #Subscribe, Don't borrow. County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. —lt was a prrcat Fourth, wasn't it? —l>id your hat fit you on Tuesday morning; —Atty. S. Is. Karns of Hon ton was in town on Friday. —Jethro Battin i> visiting Sliunk friends this week. —Win. Finkle was a visitor in Western Sullivan last week. —Walter Spencer Sr. is confined to his room with severe illness. —A. E. Tripp spent several days with Shunk friends this week. —Geo. Gorman of Nordmont, was a business man in town Monday. 0 —Mrs. A. J. Bradley is on a visit to friends in Dushorethis week. —Mrs. Cora Stormont returned home from Pottsville last week. —Mrs. S. F. Colt and family left for their home in Buffalo on Tuesday. —Judge and Mrs. T. J. Ingham called on Eagles Mere friends Sun day. —County Com. 11. G. llufl'master was a business visitor in town Mon day. —Judges Line and Kraus were at the county capitol on official business Monday. —Dist. Atty. A. J. Bradley was transacting business in Towanda Tuesday. —The refrigerator works best with the door open, under present circum stances. —A party of young people are oc cupying the Weirwold cottage for the summer. —Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hugo of Dushore spent a few days last week with F. M. Crossley and family. —Prof. J. W. Moyer was very un expected called to Philadelphia on Monday. He returned Tuesday. LOST—A pocket-book containing slight value, owner can have same by applying to parties occupying the Weirwold. —Judge Dunham|is spending the week at Delaware Water Gap,attend ing the State Bar Association meet ing. —Mrs. Chas. Wackenhuth and sister-in-law Mrs. Rinehard of Wil liamsport, are visiting friends in Jamison City this week. —New arrivals at the Mountain House this week are: Miss Mary Lloyd and Miss Turner of Philadel phia, Miss Martha Stulan of Athens, Miss Wager-Smith, Philadelphia. —A valuable cow belonging to Mr. Kohensparger was killed on the railroad track Monday by the south bound freight. —Thos. E. Kennedy is having a new board walk laid in front of the Commercial House in addition to a stone curb and two stone tie-j>osts. —There will be a social dance given in the Kennedy Hall on Thurs day evening. A cordial invitation is extended. —Mr. and Mrs. Brewster and daughter Mrs. Cassidy of Washing ton, are occupying thd Green resi tence for the summer. —Chas. Lauer, B. F. Crossley, Val comb and Jas. Corcoran compris jolly party who camped along ■took several days on a fishing Ution. The boys evidently large time but a small catch. some TBE SLOGAN Protection, Prosperity and Pa* triotisin the Party Watchwords. CHAIRMAN ELKIN'S VIEWS. He Believes in An Aggressive Re publican Campaign, NO PARTY FACTIONAL SOBES. A tutted Kront to Be Presented to the Enemy In the Fight Against Free Trade and Free Silver—lmpos sible to Have Any Division of Issues or Principles In the Assault to Be . Made on the Democratic Fortlflca- i tlons. (Special Correspondence.) Philadelphia, July 11.—Three P'S— | "Protection, Prosperity and Patriot ism"—are to be the watchwords of the Republican party in Pennsylvania this 1 year. Those who are in charge of the | organization are confident it will be one of the most dashing campaigns held in the Keystone state for many years, and that the ticket will be elect ed by a rousing old time majority. State Chairman Elkin has sent out a call for a special meeting of the Re- ! publican organization for Tuesday, | July 19, at i p. m„ for the purpose of i nominating a candidate for judge of ! the superior court, to fill the vacancy ! caused by the death of Judge Wick- ; ham. There is no doubt but that Judge j William D. Porter, of Pittsburg, who has already been appointed to Judge Wlckham's place on the bench by Gov- ; ernor Hastings, will be nominated by the committee for the full term of ten j years. His ability as a jurist Is so ! marked and so universally conceded j that his selection is likely to be made | without opposition and with acclama tion. BROAD GAUGE IDEAS. While the members of the state com- I mittee are in Philadelphia Chairman Elkin will take the opportunity of bringing about a full, free and fair in- , terchange of views, in order that the j members may agree upon a definite j plan of campaign. The issues were never so favorable for a successful j campaign as they are at the present | time. The chairman has gone about the ' preliminary organization in a broad gauged and liberal manner. The Re publican party is to be regarded as so large that no man who has ever voted the ticket will be refused admit tance. Any factional wounds which might have existed by reason of per sonal or political quarrels in the past have been healed so effectually that the party will present a united front to the common enemy in the coming fight. The chairman has gone over the situa tion very carefully already, and he Is convinced that it will not be a very serious task to elect the governor and other offices to be filled at the Novem ber election. Colonel Stone, according to the chair man, will go Into the gubernatorial chair with a majority that will astonish his friends and confound his enemies. At the same time the chairman and hia corps of able assistants of the state committee headquarters do not propose to leave anything undone toward get ting out the full vote and polling as large a majority for the ticket as pos sible. Mr. Elkin believes that harmony has been established throughout the state and that petty factional differ ences will not appear during the cam paign nor on election day. The de tails have been mapped out in a thor ough and comprehensive manner and the most competent men to be found have been placed in charge of the vari ous departments of the state organiza tion. ENTHUSIASM FOR STONE. Chairman Elkin in commenting upon the situation today said: "With the war with Spain wiping out sectional lines in the nation and with the Ameri can soldiers and sailors at the front winning mangiflcent victories on land and sea, there is no time for factional disputes in the ranks of the Republican party workers and voters of Penn sylvania. In the last week or ten days I have been practically all over the state and it is simply wonderful the enthusiasm that is being worked up for the Republican ticket. Among the great solid common people the Stone sentiment is tremendous. It is largely accounted for by the war feel ing which permeates the common wealth throughout Its remotest nooks and corners in favor of the Republi can ticket." It Is evident to the dullest mind that the Issues In Pennsylvania this year must be direct and clean cut. There can be no division of principles, and it is idle to imagine that such an incon gruous combination as half state and half national issues can be foisted on the Intelligent, voters of the common wealth. Indeed, conditions have cre ated, as they always do, the issues of the campaign and they cannot be changed, even if those in control de sired to have them changed. CLEAN CUT ISSUES. Mr. Jenks, the Democratic nominee, on one side, and Colonel Stone, the Re publican nominee, on the other, repre sent In their very personalities the two extremes for which the two great par ties are contesting at the present time. Colonel Stone stands for the three P's —Protection, Prosperity and Pa triotism—already mentioned, while Mr. Jenks, who is an estimable gentleman, represents free trade and free silver, the two things which the people of the Keystone state will never tolerate. Dr. Swallow is making a campaign of his own which is not likely to at tract any great or general attention at a time when important issues are to be decided. As the peculiar personality ot the reverend gentleman becomes better known to the people of the state his prospects of polling a large, or even a respectable vote, will rapidly diminish. The conditions that existed last year (krhen Dr. Swallow surprised himself and hU friend* by polling over 100,000 votes do not exist at the pro sent tins*, and those who are In a position to speak advisedly do not believe that lie will poll much more than the normal Prohibition vote. AN EARNEST CONTEST. After the meeting of the Republican state committee, when the ticket has been fully made up and the details of the campaign laid out in their an tlrety, the contest will begin In earn est. The stumping tours o£ the candi dates and their orators and the real lively public work of the campaign will not be started until the early part of August, and possibly the beginning of September. In the meantime, however, the state chairman and his assistants and the members of the state com mittee will place themselves In Immedi ate touch with the organisation of the various counties and will arrange for the promulgation of the literature which will be depended upon to con vince the workers of the Justice of the Republican cause. All of the indica tions at the present time point to a magnificent as well as a successful Re publican campaign. OUR NEW BATTLE CRT U REMEMBER THE MAINE" LIKELY TO BECOME IMMORTAL IN HISTORY. It Originated With Commodore Schley, and, as an Appeal to Fatrlotlam, l» as Thrilling a* Was Nelson's Famous Signal At the •( th« Nil* "Remember the Maine/' Com. Schley's now famous signal of attack on the Spanish fleet, will undoubtedly become immoral in American history, in the history of the English-speaking peoples, in fact; for, as an appeal to patriotism it is as thrilling as was Nelson's battle cry at the Nile, "Eng land expects that every man will do his duty." "I have not yet begun to fight," was one of Cob. Jones' famous replies to a British captain with whom he had been fiercely engaged for over an hour, and who desired to know if he bad sur rendered. It was not Jones who sur rendered when the battle came to an end. The first commodore of tke young American navy was Capt. John Barry. In (he spring of 1781 he was hailed by a British ship on his way from Havana. To tke Inquiry as to his identity, he replied: '"The V. S. ship Alliance, Saucy Jack Barry, half Irishman, half Yankee; who are you?" "Not the value nor the command of the whole British fleet could tempt me from the American cause," was the heroic reply of Barry to Lord Howe, in 1776, when be offered him 15,000 guineas and a commission in the Eng | lisU navy to join the royal cause. Com. Stephen Decatur was one of the very bravest men that ever walked the quarterdeck. His famous toast at a public dinner in Norfolk, Va., in 1816, "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be In the right; but our country, right or wrong," would, if he had never said or done anything else, have won him im mortality. "Don't give up the ship," the dying words of Com. Lawrence, the heroic commander of the Chesapeake, . are among the very noblest ever uttered. They will live as long as ocean rolls or ships float. The gallant Perry flew that signal at his masthead in the memorable battle of Lake Erie, at. the glorious close of which he had the inspiration to pen that dispatch which has canonized him in our history: "We have met the en emy and they are ours." It was writ tea on his stiff hat in lieu of a table, ou the half of an old letter, and the ad ditional Information In It gave the size and number of the enemy, namely, "two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." When the Constitution, under the command of Com. Hull, engaged the French frigate Guerrtere, a dramatic scene was wltnesed on the deck of "Old Ironsides." As the Frenchman's guns began to thunder out, Lieut. Mor ris, second in command, asked Hull if be should glva the order to fire. "Not yet," replied Hull. Nearer and nearer came the two ships. Again Morris asked for the or der, and again came the answer, "Not yet." A few moments later, high above the roar of the guns, as the Constitu tion completely covered her enemy, Hull's voice rang out; "Now, boys, pour It Into them!" The Guerrerie was literally torn to pleceß, "the blood of the killed run ning out of her scuppers," says a naval historian. Com. Macdonough sighted the eneoyr on Lake Champlaln on a Sunday morn ing. He ran up the signal for divine service, and, kneeling on the deck among his men, offered appropriate prayers. During the engagement a British shot struck the hencoop on the Saratoga and released a gamecock, which flew into the rigging and crowed lustily all through the fight, the men loudly cheering. Macdonough'a vic tory aroused the enthusiasm of the'en tire nation. A war cry that closely resembles I "Remember the Maine" waa that which i Gen. Sam Houston gave to his troops at ; the battle of San Jacinto—the battle ; which gave freedom and indepen ! dence to Texas. Col. Travis was in command of about : 185 Texan soldiers in the fort called j the Alamo at Bexar. There he was i surrounded by a greatly superior force under the Mexican dictator. Santa ; Anna. On the morning of March t, 183 It, the ; little garrison of the Alamo capitulated, j on the pledge of the Mexican general I that thglr lives would be snared. 2#vt withstanding this pledge Col. Travis ■ad his entire force were massacred tis soon as they bad surrendered. Their dead belies were gathered together, a huge jiiie or wood was heaped upon theru. and tliey were burned to ashes. On Aj.rll 19,153G, Oen. Houston, with about 700 men, gave battle at San Ja cinto to Santa Anna, with nearly thrae times the number of Mexicans, and, In spite of the disparity of numbers, Houston's little force swept the Mexi cans like chaff before the wind. It was more a slaughter thau a battle. Just before the assault of the Texans WSB made on the army of Santa Anna. Houston addressed his soldiers in a fer vid speech, closing with these words: "Remember the Alamo." These words fell upon the ears of the Texans with wonderful effect. Every soldier in the little army at the same instant re peated the words "the Alamo," until the word became a shriek for revenge that struck terror to the souls of the Mexicans. When the battle was over It was found that only 70 Texans had been killed, while €3O Mexicans were left dead on the Held. A l.rgead Destroyed. "Another familiar legend," says the Critic, "has been relegated to the limbo of the untrue, and it ie a question if there will be anything left for the next generation to pin its faith to. This time it is 'The Prisoner of Chillon,' be loved of and quoted by every school girl. In the cell where the 'prisoner' languished so long there was shown a circle worn In the stones by bis feet in walking round and round a pillar to which he was chained. M. Vuillet, one of the members of the grand council of Vaud, was horrified to find that, in repaving the cell, ihe 'Chemln de Boni vard,' one of the souvenirs and attrac tions of the country, had disappeared. He brought the matter before the coun cil, and was chagrined to learn that the famous track had not been made by the captive whom Byron made famous, but had been industriously scraped by successive keepers." Hiuii a Blind Nation. There are more than twice as many blind persons in Russia as in the whole of the rest of Europe. They number 19,000, which is equivalent to two in every 1,000 of the population. It is believed that blindness In Russia is so prevalent because of the length of time which snow lies on the ground, and also owing to the uncleanly habits of the people. Among all this number only 200 or 300 are able to read, and only about 2,500 are cared for in in stitutions for the blind. Two Natural Faea. Water will extinguish a fire because the water forms a coating over the fuel, which keeps It from the air, dnd the conversion of water into steam draws off the heat from the burning fuel. A little water makes a Are fiercer, while a larger quantity of water puts It out. The explanation is that water is composed of oxygen and hy drogen. When, therefore, the fire can decompose the water Into its simple elenents it serves as fuel to the flame. l*e»alar la Orawlas Hooai. In drawing rooms, handsome silk damask curtains, made up with plain linings to match the predominant color la the damask, are xnopt popular, al though one often sees severe contrasts between curtains and lining, wbdto bold effects are desired. Administrator's Notice. Estate of Mar// McCartjj, hitc <>/ F.tl laml towns/lip, deceased. Letters of Administration having ueen granted to the undersigned, Administra tor in the estate of Mary McCarty late of Blklnnd township, deceased, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted lo said estate are requested to make immed iate payment, and all persons having claims against it must present them duly authenticaled for settlement. DOWNS, Attv. JOSEPH PARDOK, ( Allm „ THOS. Met!ARTV i A "" rK Harrison |Krips. PHOTOGRAPHER. 1500 Columbia Ave. PHILADELPHIA. llegs to announce to the public that after a year's absence he will re-open his branch Photographic Studio at Eagles Here, for the season of 1898, on ,11'I.Y 4th. Mr. Powell who has managed the bus iness heretofore will be on hand. 1 n and outdoor photography executed in an artistic and satisfactory manner. IF SOME Maim HAD AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THIS SPACE II WOULD PAY! WST?? Because it would be READ just the same as you are read ing this. Give it a trial. Teams wanted to haul lumber apply to Wm. 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