' Republican News Item. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1898. 11 Ignorance is the mother of i ( scepticism. Ignorance does \ v not abound to any great extent J 0 in Sullivan County. ▼ <> So that there $ )! is But Little $ J \ Scepticism £ about the Value of p be lKlewß j ITtem 2 As a Profitable 4 jHfcvertismo i 5 fliebium. | $ Read it, Your neighbor does. £ Don't borrow. # County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. —Now for a flag raising in San Juan. —Joe Cooper of llughesville has opened a clothing store for a few week in town. —Supper ami ice ereani Will be served in the grove opposite the Court House 011 Thursday evening, July 28. Proceeds for the benefit of Rev. J. A. Patton, Pastor of .M. 11. church. —New arrivals at the Mountain House this week are: Mrs. J. L. Smith and son Victor, of Buffalo; Mias Mary Muffley, of Baltimore; Mrs. Ellen Barrows, of Philadelphia; Misses Ella and Rebia Barrows of New York, and Mr. C. F. Michener, of Philadelphia. —There are thieves and thieves; but the most contemptible thieves are those who prowl about when all are asleep and carry away things. Last week someone, evidently full grown, gently "lifted" a nice large beef steak from the Commercial Hotel ice house. It is not the finan cial value of the article but the style of the thief that provokes the popu lar landlord. —The world moves—so does Land lord Beahen. It is true "great and growing bodies move slowly" but they never fail to "get there;" slow and sure is a good motto, and ac complishes much more than spas modic lightning rod efforts, and this is proved by the methodical and stymatic gait of Mr. Beahen in im proving his property "The Maine." Yellow and white paint have caused an exterior effect and an investiga tion reveals many interior causes and effects. —The never-to-be forgotten Chas. Dickens in David Copperfield de scribes a man who was so stingy that when he would purchase a present for his "best girl" his meanness would get the better of him, and he would keep the present for him self! !! Certain revelations in La porte since the advent of pretty school mams and gallant youths have made us wonder if any lineal descen dents of the magnanimous "Barkis" are scattered around in beautiful seclusion awaiting the magic touch of some Dickens to immortalize them. —Germany hardly knows what to do next to draw the attention of this country to herself and convey the impression that she will have to be considered when the final disposition of the Philippine Island is made. There have been a number of things that have not set very well with this country and Germany may find her self quite ignored, if nothing worse, by the time the present difficulty is settled. Uncle,is not in a mood just at the present time to stand much fooling. —Only about ten per cent, of the men offering themselves at the re cruiting stations have been accepted, because of physical conditions. Now, girls, with only 10 per cent, of the men worth a continental and your sex already in the majority by some thing like three to one, some of you are surely bound to draw a blank. What really interests us is, how the women would average up, and the best way to get at this would be to make a call for several millions of them and see how many can pass muster. I jet the requirements be a thorough knowledge of household affairs for instance. 10 MORE ANDY JOHNSON. How a Distinguished Friend of the President Views the Campaign. OLD FEUDS ON THE SHELF. While All Kinds of Republicans Vote With the Flag. NO OFF YEARS IN WAR TIME. Unique Illustration of One Anti-Quay Republican \Vho Says lie Will Leave **tlie Old Man"in the Hauda of Prov idence Till the War Ist Over-No Hoom Kor Dlckerluif With the De mocracy This Year. (Special Correspondence.) Washington, Jtily 19.—"1 am glad to see that the Republicans of Pennsyl vania have not forgotten Andy John son, nor the terrible warning of his career in the White House," said one of the few members of the house ways and means committee who still tarries here in the summer smell of the hot asphalt street pavements. He says it Is to clear up some odds and ends of departmental business. He is known, however, to have the confi dence of President McKinley to an unusual degree, and it is more likely that he foreswears the delights and comforts of seashore and mountain at the president's request, in order that his advice may be had in any critical situation which may arise out of the present war. They were old associates In congress, and have been close to each other for many years. "Under the present circumstances," he continued, with much earnestness, "the election proclamations in the var ious states ought to appeal to the party spirit of Republicans as the president's call to arms appealed to the patriotism of the country. It should meet with a like response. This is especially true of Pennsylvania, whose magnificent and unswerving Re publicanism has so often stood the keynote of party success. We of other states do not forget that Pennsylvania was the state of Curtln, nor fail to re member how Lincoln leaned upon your great war governor in all the darkest hours of the rebellion, and it is among the most gratifying signs of the times to observe by the press reports from what under other circumstances might be discontented sections of your state, that your leaders are patriotically lay ing their rivalries on the shelf until this war and its problems are settled." "But with Santiago surrendered. Manila under Dewey's guns, and the Spanish navy either under water or hunting a hiding place up the creek, do you seriously think the war will last past election day?" "I sincerely hope not, so far as actual fighting goes, but war is like measles or diphtheria. The dregs It leaves are often harder to deal with than the disease itself. The greatest and gravest problems of this war will only begin to be set for the statesman ship of this country when the last gun is fired. It was so after the last war. It will be doubly so after this one. Some of these problems we have upon us already: some we cannot even predict. They have come without ex pectation or warning, and they will likely continue to come that way. Ad miral Dewey's guns, in a couple of hours of a Sunday morning, changed the map of the world for generations to come, and the few modest lines In which he announced, In effect, that he had an Island empire as large as New England and Pennsylvania ready for the American Hag, brought with it questions of international and enduring moment, such as have not confronted us for a hundred years. Is this a time to swap horses, or to quibble over local grievances and differences? Is It a j time for Republicans In states like ! Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, or In any 1 Republican states, to speak with any- i thing but overwhelming majorities?" "You speak warmly." "Every Republican who Is close to national affairs feels warmly upon this subject. I value above anything else that has come to me in my life the es teem of my neighbors, and the unfail- ! lng .confidence with which they have returned me year after year to con gress, but if it seemed to me tomorrow that some other Republican, my bitter est enemy even, could be elected next November more certainly than I, or that his election would be more signifi cant of the loyalty of my district to the president and the party, I would tele graph my resignation from the ticket, and urge his nomination with all my might. I am by no means alone in this feeling. Shortly after the war began I received a call here In Washington from a distinguished gentleman in my district who made a vigorous cam paign against my nomination two years ago, chiefly urging that I had been In congress so long that I had become negligent of local Interests. He had been openly pointed out as likely to run on an independent ticket against me this year with Democratic support. He traveled all the way to Washington to notify me that the war had changed the situation. He offered togo Into the convention as one of the delegates, If I desired it, saying frankly at the same time that he made no pledges be yond this year. Said he: "'I know I am throwing away (or j rather Sagasta is throwing away for me) my best chance. The next election will be in a presidential year, and with your well known closeness to McKin ley you will be hard to beat. I had been thinking that as this was natural ly an off year we might make the land ing. Hut there are no off years In war times.' " "And you think a similar feeling is developing In Pennsylvania?" "I know it,"he replied, "and so they i do up at the other end of the avenue," j Jerking his thumb in the direction of I the White House. "You know,"he continued, "we took in unusual Interest In your affairs this ' | year, because two of the moat 41a- I tingulshed Republicans In your delega i tlon In the house were rival candidates for the nomination. Those of ua who had served longest with them and knew their worth were In somewhat a 1 Quandary. We wanted both of them i to get their desires, and yet we didn't want to lose either of them from the house. I am glad, by the way, that I Charley Stone has been renominated ! for congress. Ills people have honored themselves In showing their apprecia tion of his distinguished party services. So far as the colonel is concerned, If he Is as untiringly faithful to the In , terests of his state at Harrlsburg as ' he has been in Washington, you will have a governor to be proud of. I have known him In congress ever since he came here, and so far as the party Is concerned I feel confident that when he I goes out of office he will leave the party more free from faction and ! stronger before the people than It has | been for years. "After.the convention,"he added, "I j talked with all of the Republican mem bers of the Pennsylvania delegation, and some Democrats. At the request of a friend who Is deeply concerned to | see a wholesale Republican victory I ; wrote to a number of business men In ! your state with whom I had become ' intimate In the course of tariff leglsla \ lion. My Information, coming from ! one and all, is the same, although many of them had been in favor of another candidate for governor, and some of them were rather Umber heeled In their Republicanism, except in presidential years. Here, for Instance, is a letter I got from one of them only a few > days ago. After apologizing for delay ' in answering, owing to absence from ! home, he says: " 'I don't take back anything I have said, remember, but I am going to put 1 a cross in the circle tills year, and vote 1 for the flag- 1 don't approve of some | things that were done In our last legis ! lature, but while a Republican ad ; ministration is In the midst of the i prosecution of a foreign war these j things which in ordinary times would ' be fair occasions for vigorous rebuke, ' seem to me trivial beyond expression. When I was a younger man we used to 1 have volunteer fire companies in our I city. The rivalry was intense between them, and fights were frequent. Some | times two of them happened to come j together on their way to a fire and then there was a battle royal. All the old grievances were recalled, and the oid grudges satisfied. They had an elegant and stirring time to them selves, but my recollection Is that the house usually burned down white they were at It. Our house is afire this year, •so to speak, and so among Pennsyi ' vanla Republicans when election day | conies around you will hear of very : few Quay or anti-Quay, Wanamaker ; or antl-Wanamaker, Martin or anti- Martin. Magee or anti-Magee Republi cans. We will just be one kind of plain Republicans until this war is over and its issues are settled. You are at lib erty to show this letter to the presi dent if you think it necessary. As to Quay, he is getting pretty well up In years, and can't live forever. I have made up my mind to leave him to Providence until the war is over. Then, if he is still running the machine, I'll take another whack at him myself. Anyhow, I don't see anything to be gained, even if there was no war on hand, by colleaguing with the Democ racy this year. Their state convention. In addition to kicking Itself up and down stairs on the money question, de feated its most promising candidate, solely upon suspicion that he had not voted the straight Democratic ticket two years ago. And yet while they brandish his scalp before our eyes, In our ears they whisper that this would be a good year for Republicans to vote for Democrats. Nay, nay.' "This," continued the congressman, "I find to be a fair sample of the feeling of Republicans all over the country. The unfaithfulness of Andy Johnson after our last war cost the country be yond expression. We have a man In the White House now who Is as differ ent from Johnson as day Is from night, and the election returns next November will serve notice to the watching courts and crowns of all creation that the peo ple of the United States are as loyal to their president as Its soldiers are to their flag." And then we drifted off politics and began to talk about the war, and the harvest thereof. CIEORQE H. WELSHONS. Uoll Jewelry. Golf has invaded the realm of jewel ry. Some of the presents that would be most acceptable to men and women who play golf have designs of golf clubs upon them. Gold and ailver clubs are used as stick-pins, miniature bundles of clubs crossed somewhat af ter the fashion of rifles on a soldier's cap as brooches, and a small putter clasp pin Is Just the thing for the white puff tie. Match safes, cigarette cases, link cuff buttons, tankards and loving cups, silver-backed brushes and silver topped tobacco Jars, all with golf de signs upon them in relief, are coming more and more to be a part of the gentle men's outfit. For the women there are dainty silver score-card frames, chain belts, purses, small cupe, silk belts with silver buckles ornamented with golfing paraphernalia. As prices in local and inter-club matches these convenient articles are finding much favor. lilMnlitr «■ t»* aniUM. The Sultan of Turkey is more than liberal to his daughters, as the recent marriage of Princess Naime reveals. In addition to about $90,000 a year the princess has a palace decorated in the most lavish style and a retinue of ser vants. who are all paid by tbe father. Coat •( Spain's bull-fighters made money last year. Mazzantini in 66 fights killed 168 bulls and made 396,000 pesetas; Reverte's score waa 71 fights, 160 bulls and 276,000 pesetas; while Guerrlta, with 76 fights and 147 bulla slaughter id, earned 456,000 pesetas, or |91,000. To RIMIr m Pane •( Glaaa. A musket ball may be fired through i pane of glass, making a hole the size jf the ball without cracking the glass, if the glass be suspended by a thread; t will make no difference and the thread will not even vibrate. WHAT A WAR MEANS. Loaa to the Wealth of the World ii the Blood and Aahea of Battle. What has actually been lost to the wealth of the world In the blood and ashes of the war since authentic his- 1 tory began is beyond all estimate. It! has been computed that the loss of hu-j mau life alone in that time from war! amounts to fourteen thousand souls—a number equivalent to the en tire population of the globe for the last 330 years, says a writer in Leslie's Weekly. It should be noted here that the class of men who are drafted or ac-' cepted for military service are Invar iably tihe very class who, by reason of ftge, health and strength, are the most valuable to the world from the purely; economic and material standpoint.' They are the stalwart, intelligent, ca-| pable men. In this country economists have set the definite value of $5,000 up- : on the average man, considered as a wealth producer. Taking this figure as the general standard of the value of man, it can be seen what aa inconceiv able amount of wealth in the shape of men has been destroyed on tbe battle fields of the worid since time began. The war losses of the United States have not been as great, comparatively, as those of other civilized nations in recent times, but even the totals here are sufficient to show the absurdity of the supposition that either now or at any other time we may reap financial gain by the sicklvs of battle. The an nual expenditure of the United States during the war of the revolution was 120,000,000 la specie. Most of the money was raised by public loans in the form of paper currency. The dimin ishing value of this slender security in evitably brought about the hoarding of gold. The consequent scarcity of real money, as a matter of course, was fol lowed by suffering widespread and in-, tense. Our second war with England lasted only two years, but it cost us $72,000,000 tovindlcateour cause, just and righteous fts it was. And this did not Include the losses to our merchant marine from English privateering, a loss beyond computation, even in thoae times of our comparative commercial poverty, i For t'he folly of the Mexican war we had to pay dearly in men and treasure, a loss for which our acquisition of ter ritory did not compensate. The lives of more than C,OOO American citizens were a part of the price we paid for that display of power, and something more than $25,000,000 for military dis bursements was another part. For the civil war the figures of loss fcll around mount up to stupendous totals. The immediate financial losses were $4,600,000,000 to the north and $2,- 300,000,000 to the south, with such after results as a national debt of $3,000,000,- 000, a crippled merchant marine, a ruined agricultural community, besides the losses occasioned In other partsof the world, including those consequent up on the cotton famine of Lancashire, and the loss of employment to more than 100,000 European laborers. Such, at least, are the losses computed by Leroy-Beaulleu in his "Lea Guerres Contemporalns," causing him thus to close his chapter on our civil war: "Such is war. Its nature is so homi cidal that it slays thousands of victims •veu at a distance of thousands of milss from the battlefield." Administrator's Notice. h'xfatr of Mary McOnr/i/, /ot< <>/ /•;// - land toirnn/iip, decerned. Letters of Administration having oecn granted to I lie undersigned, Administra tor in the estate of Mary McCarty late ol' Elkland township, deceased, notice i* hereby given that all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make unmed iate payment, and all person? having claims against it must present them duly authenticated lor settlement. DOWNS, Atty. JOSEPH PARDOK, I . , THOB. MCCARTY /AUUHS. Harrison |Krips. PHOTOGRAPHER. 1500 Columbia Ave. PHILADELPHIA. Begs to announce to the public that after a year's absence lie will re-open his branch Photographic Studio at Eagles Here, for the season of 1898, on JULY 4th. Mr. Powell who has managed the bus iness heretofore will be on hand. In and outdoor photography executed in an artistic and satisfactory manner. IP SOME MAy HAD AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THIS SPACE IT WOULD PAY! "W ZTTF? 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. Kobbins Sonestown Pa. 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