Republican News Item. THURSDAY, AUG. 11, 189 S. lgnorance lgnorance is the mother of £ 5 scepticism. Ignorance does J V not abound to any great extent * # in Sullivan County, r 4 So that there I is But Little I t Scepticism £ J about the Value of j| *«•* mews ; 1 ITtem J t As a Profitable # # * {Hbvevtteino | J flfoebfum. I # # it,Your neighbor does.J Don't borrow. # 4.-v-%. County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. ljaPorte Normal School. |BV THE STUDENTS], Class of Ninety-eight, our greeting Now is echoed by farewell Of the lessons learneil in school-room Soon our livesHhroad w ill ti 11. Side by side for weeks we've labored. Learned each other's mind and heart. Kead in each some hoiie anil vur|iose. Friends from whom we soon will part. As the waters of Mukoma Lap the lakelet's shore. May our spirits'search for know ledge. Ceaseless be forever more; As the mountains in the distance. Let us set our standard high. Let us climb and climb to reach it. Never pause until we die. In our joy and pride of beauty, ill our ho|>e and strength of youth. What is beauty without honor'.' What is half so strong as truth '.' Hy our acts we write our history- Men have read it as they ran— Thoughts and deeds are.what we thrive on. Years alone ne'er made a man. Years will come, O, will they find us Living nobler every day. Are the losses ami the crosses Met and borne ill His own way Have we learned one chord of prelude To eternity's refrain ? Have we known one inspiration. Then our school was not in vain. —Grand Concert to-morrow night. —These are times when root's are appreciated. —The Summer Normal is on the verge of ending. —Hon. Conrad Kraus was an offi cial caller at the county eapitol on Friday. —Mr. and Mrs. Win. Moran of Muncy Valley, called on friends in town Sunday. —Joe Cooper,the clothier, attended the wedding of his sister in Elmira on Monday. —Miss Bessie Davis of Wilkes- Barre, is the guest of Miss (.race Lawrence this week. —Landlord Den Keefe and wife of Dushore, were pleasant callers on friends in town Sunday. Co. Supt. and Mrs. F. W. Meylert, Dr. ami Mrs. Stradliug and I'rof. Moyer visited friends at Bern ice on Sunday. —Mrs. Harvey A.Cassidy lias gone to Atlantic City to join her husband and his mother and sister, for the remainder of the season. —Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Miller of Hingdale, were calling on friends in town Sunday, and in company with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Kennedy en joyed a drive to Eagles Mere. —New Century Quartette Com pany at the Court House Friday evening. The Quartette will In assisted by Miss Elizabeth I'attee, reader, who ranks very high in dia lect work. —New arrivals at the Mountain House are: Mr. and Mrs. James DeCon, of Trenton; Anna If off, Tren ton; Amelia Page Wells, E. Florence Wells, Mary S. Wells, of Towanda; Mrs. J. W. Miirrelle and daughter Willa of Athens. —Frank Buck of Dushore is en gaged in drilling a hole in the bottom of the dug well at the courthouse. It is the-intention of the Commis sioners to have a sufficient supply of water at all times for use about the county buildings, as recommended by the grand jury. —The recitation given in the Bap tist church Tuesday evening by Miss Alice Woodward Turner was one of the most pleasing events of the sea son. The church was well tilled with a select audience that was de lighted with her enjoyable entertain ment which was interspersed with l>eautiful solos by Mrs, H. A. Cassidy. Miss Turner's wonderful elocutionary power brought out more of the beauty of Borneo and Juliet in the balcony scene than is often done by the rendition of the whole play. She elicted much ap plause throughout the entire evening. !id STONE I -LOST HIS JOB. ! • He Was the Original Offensive Partisan. REFUSED TO TAKE ORDEBS. Wlien sldent Clrvi'lanrt Prohibited llepulfllean Office Holders From Serving Their Party, Colonel Stone Promptly Went oil tlie Stump—The Campaign to Open With u llaug of M it CiuiiH at Pittsburg and to lie Full of Speech Making. (Special Correspondence.) Philadelphia, Aug. 9.—"1 suppose X will have to plead guilty to originating one expression in the uolltical lan guage of the country, although I don't give utterance to it," said the Republi can candidate for governor the other day. Colonel Stone is temporarily so journing at Atlantic City, but comes up to town frequently. While the cam paign will not be formally opened un til the second week of September, when the State League of Republican clubs meet at Pittsburg, the party enthusi asm has declined to await on formal ities this year, and the calls for Colonel Stone have been so frequent that he will have but little time outside of his own state between now and the elec tion. He has alwavs been a good cam ! paigner, since he began making Re j publican speeches before he was of age, : and his remark quoted above had ref erence to this phrase, "offensive par tisanship," which he was the occasion for President Cleveland to embalm among the modern classics of political expression. Colonel Stone was the origi nal offensive partisan. He happened to be I'nited States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania when the state campaign of 1886 came on, and In pursuance of President Cleveland's attempt to emasculate as many leading Republicans as possible, received an intimation that If he did not display offensive partisanship, which is to sav if he would sit on the fence and let his party ticket look out for itself, he could retain his office. That Is just what he didn't do. He went on the stump at the first call from Hie state committee, and President Cleveland promptly exacted the pen alty by putting a man in Ills place whose partisanship, being Democratic, was presumably innocuous. If the president had wanted a va cancy In that office he could not have devised a better way to get It, for one look at the head and neck that top out the gigantic figure of the present I?e --publican candidate for governor is enough to indicate that he is not well I built for taking orders from anybody. He is deliberate in the extreme in i making up his mind, as is usually the j habit with farm bred men, who like i to roll a subject over from one end of : the furrow to the other and back again, but he doesn't sub-let the contract to j anybody else, and his convictions will all stand without being hitched. He comes naturally by his disposi tion, with New Kngland blood on the one Bide of his ancestry, and Pennsyl vania German on the other. His father, although only a DO acre farmer, a poor man all his life, was the general trust officer of the neighborhood, and for 20 years before his death nobody In the township thought of making a will without getting him to write it, and ap pointing him executor of the estate. He was naturally, of course, a man who liked to be the head of his own house hold. and so. when the present candi date for governor, at the age of 15. went after the cows one night, and didn't come back, but followed his two ' older brothers to the army instead, the j old gentleman promptly went after him j and got him dSscharged. But he shortly | discovered w.hat President Cleveland found out In 1886, that whether it was his country or his party that he thought needed his services, his son couldn't be held back. It was onlv a short time till he ran away and en listed again, and this time h(s father concluded he might as well let him go. He. showed the same independent spirit in the matter of his first nomina tion for congress. The delegates had been elected in the interest of the then sitting member, Colonel Thomas M. Bayne, but at the last moment ho astonished everybody by declining a renominatlon, and turned it over to Colonel Stone, who had not previously been mentioned as a candidate. There had been no contest, and the district was so overwhelmingly Republican that any dissatisfaction which might have arisen from this unusual cdrcumstance would have had no effect on the re sult, but Colonel Stone promptly de clined to receive a nomination on any body else's credit, and went Into new primaries and won out on his own strength. One of the best descriptions of how he Impresses people as a campaigner, by the way, appeared in the Scranton Tri bune last week, as follows: "Colonel Stone, the Republican nom inee for governor. Is not a popinjay, nor a poseur, as those who met him yesterday can attest. He is a modest, straightforward and unassuming man. who without any flourishes impresses the observer with his reserve strength and his sincerity. No man who looks him steadily in the eyes or takes care ful measure of his words and manner ■will depart from his presence with a feeling of skepticism as to his integ rity or his moral courage. The clean grit and stubborn fiber of the obscure Tioga county farmer boy who worked his way to the front by sheer dint of persevering studiousness and Industry is in him yet, and also the candor and the total absence of vain pretension. "Colonel Stone Is not an orator and does not try to be. Those who shall goto hear him during the ensuing campaign with the expectation of hear ing a thrilling exercise in word jugglery ■will be disappointed, because he is not that kind of a man. In speech he often becomes eloquent, but it is the rugged eloquence of honest earnestness, with out a suggestion of stage play or make believe. His meeting with the people Is hand to hand and face to face, en tirely candid and unaffected. He In dulges In no theatric attempts to win applaus* or capture popular favor. Hi says his say with homely directness and hfs hearers are then left to Judg* of It for themselves. "It Is evident that Colonel Stone's brief visit to this region—which Is merely preliminary—that the Republi can candidate for governor will grow steadily upon the public respect and confidence the more he meets the peo ple of the commonwealth. In his pres ence the electorate will be conscious, not of the hysteria which Is a pre dominant characteristic of the various so-called reform movements of the day, nor of the semi-humorous thimble rig ging which seems to be Inseparable from the Pennsylvania Democracy since the death of Samuel J. Randall, but it will experience instead the tran quillity of assurance which comes from confident mastery of the situation. It will come to realize ere the campaign is ended that In Colonel Stone we are to have a governor fit to face the full measure of the solemn responsibilities of the office." Most Republicans in the state will have a chance to verify this descrip tion for themselves between now and November, for this is going to be an active stumping campaign, and when it opens in Pittsburg next month it will open with a bang of big guns. While there is a general feeling of con fidence that it will be as easy as Porto Rico, there Is an equally general feel ing, inside 'and outside of the state, that In Pennsylvania, as In Porto Rico, for the sake of the moral effect the vic tory ought to be majestically large and decisive. GEORGK H. WELSHONS. COMMODORE WATSON. The Olttear Salactad to lavada tlis Span It® roast—Lashed Farragut to the JRlggiuc- Commodore Watson, who was se lected for the important work of me nacing tha Spanish coast, la an able and efficient officer, as modest as he is able, and who has been performing a duty of the utmost importance and value to the country concerning which very little has beeu printed. Commo dore John Crittenden Watson, who, with a fleet composed for tbe most part of small ships has been maintaining the blockade of Havana and othet North Cuban ports, is » man who by virtue of his commission is tbe senior both of Sampson and Schley, and yet reports to the former. Commodore Schley is, on the naval register, acting Rear Admiral Bantpson's senior by two numbers, and by the same token Com modore Watson ranks ahead of Schley It Is probably not remembered by many that it was the same Commodore Watson, then a young lieutenant, who lashed Karragut to the rigging during the battle of Mobile Bay. This inci dent of the great struggle between the •States long since became historic, and poets and artists have found in it th» inspiration for some of their best and most spirited work. This is the story briefly told: The powerful Confederate Ironclad Tennessee attacked the Hartford fiercely. Farragut took up his position 111 the port mizzeu rigging, the bettet to observe the progress of the fight and to direct and cheer 011 his men Lieutenant Watson, seeing the great danger to which the interepid admira, was exposing himself, procured a rope and lashed htm in his place. In a let ter which Lieutenant Watson wrote tc his mother after the battle, he men tions in detail the recklesu bravery of Farragut, and adds: "At length 1 lash ed him to the rigging with my own bands, having In vain begged him not to stand in such an exposed place." The relations which existed between Admiral Farragut and his flag lieuten ant were of the moot affectionate de scription. In his official report of the Alobile battle, Farragut showed what he thought of Watson. "Lieuten ant Watson," he wrote, "has been brought to your attention in formet times. He was on the poop attending to the signals and performed his duty as might be expected, thoroughly. He is a scion worthy of the noble stock he sprang from, and I commend him to your attention." There is no better blood in the navy than flows in the veins of Commodore Watson. He was born In Frankfort Ky„ Aug. 24, 1842. Ills father, Edward Howe Watson, was a skilful and popu lar physician of the old school, and hit mother, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson was a daughter of John Jordan Crit tenden, the famous Kentucky states man, rival of Henry Clay, governor at one time of Kentucky and attorney general in William Henry Harrison's cabinet. Commodore Watson was married ID 1873 to Miss Elizabeth Thornton, a dis tant connection, and daughter of Judge James Thornton of San Francisco. The result of this union WAS eight children, seven of whom are living. The eldest son, John Edward Watson, is an en sign in the navy, and is now attached to the cruiser Detroit. Commodore Wat son's naval career has been a notable one. He entered the Naval Academy Sept. 29, 1856, and was graduated in June, 1860, standing high in his class He was immediately assigned to the rank of midshipmuo, and Aug. 15 join ed the Susquehanna in that capacity for a cruise to Europe. While he wat abroad the civil war broke out, and he returned at once to take part in It He was promoted to the rank of mas ter Aug. 31, 1861. His career as a fighter did not really begin, however, until Jan. 10, 1862, when he was or dered to the Hartford as navigator This was Admiral Farragut's flagship He was commissioned a lieutenant July 16, 1862, and in January, 1864, he was made flag lieutenant to Farragut He was at thfi battles of New Orleans Mobile Bay, Vicksburg and Port Hud son. In a letter to his son l.oyal dur ing the war Admiral Farragut tells ol Watson's volunteering to slip off and blow up a blockade runner. Among other things be says:"lt was an anx ious night for me, as I am about as fond of Watsah as I am of your own uear sen. The ship referred to by Farragut was burned—blown up as effectuallly and completely as the Merrimac the other day by fietoic Hohson and his equally heroic crew. At the close of the civil war Lieu tenant Watsor. was ordered to the Colordo, on the European station. He was made lieutenant commander July 26, 1866; commander Jan. 23, 1874; captain March £, 1887, and commodore Nov. 7, 1897. During the last thirty years he has commanded a number of the best ships ID the navy and hold im portant posts 011 shore. His wife and unmarried children reside at the Naval Home in Philadelphia, of which insti tution he was governor for a number of years. Tii«» Spanlah Throne Itoom. The throne room of Spain is a mag nificent apartment of crimson and gold, with colossal mirrors and a chandelier of rock crystal that is considered the finest example of the kind in the world. Under the gorgeous canopy are two large chairs handsomely carved and gilded, and upholstered in crimson brocade. These are the thrones of Spain, where the boy King and Queen Regent sit on occasions of ceremony. Sometimes the daughters stand beside their mother, when It is proper for all the royal family to receive the court. First Bale of Cotton of the Season. The first bale of cotton of the reason of 1898 was sold under the hammer in front of the Cotton Exchange, and brought $1 a pound. The United States Hospital will be SSOO better off is a result of the sale. Under ordina ry circumstances such a bnlo would be worth aboivt S3O. Patriotism was ;he factor controlling prices. 'tflJseavjj, ao)80Q) —nj punoae JUBM jo JC>U9I2 outlet of Lewis Lake, thence down outlet south ■IT degrees east 24'.. perches to a post MI left bank of outlet, thence south :io degrees UESI 111 ,s lu |ier ''■'ES toajiost. I hence north 57 degrees west along Riley Stenliack lot and church lot and school liousejot 22 perches LO the place of beginuiug, Containing two acres and four {icri-hes strict measure lie the same more or less. Land all improved and under a good state of cultivation, with a two story framed dwelling house, stable and other out buildings, well wat ered and with fruit trees thereon. Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as the property of Mary Jane Painton at the suit of Mead 1). Dctwelcr, etc!. ELLIS SWANK, Sheriff. INOIIA.MS Attys. Sheriff's oHice, Lajorte Pa., Augusta, IS!IS. Trial Lilt, September Term, 1898. 1 Mitchell, Young 4 Co. vs A. J. llackley, No, 104 Sept. Term IHUS, Scire Facias, Plea, "Payment, payment with cause Ac, Hill, | Inghams. 2 Jauies McFarlane, vs W. C. Mason, No. Y-2 reby. Term 1897. Defendants Appeal. Plea. "NOll Assumpsit, )>ayiiieut, payment with leave lo set off. Hill, | Inghams. 3 A. C. Haverlv, vs Benjamin Kuykendall, Jr. No. 71 May Term 1897, Tres|iass. Plea "not guil ty". Mullen, | Thomson. 4 Merritt Shaffer. vsSosephine Fitzl'atrick, N'o. '.is May Term 1898. Feigned issue. Plea "Pay ment . Inghams, I Mullen. 5 A. L. Smith vs Robert MeEwin, No. 139 May term 1897. Deft, apiieal. Plea, Payment |>aymeiit with leave and set off. Bradley J Inghams. H Durward Saddlemire, vs C. 11. Jennings IT B. W. Jennings, trading and doing business as the Lopez Manufacturing Comjiany No. 54 Sept. Term 1897. Tresiwss. Plea, "not guilty". Hill, I ing hams. 7 Martin Markle, vs E. V. Ingham. No. 152 Sept. Term 1897. Defendants Ap|IEA I. Plea "Nou Assumpsit Payment, |iaymcnt with leave .»C. Hill, | Inghams. 8 F. M. Lewis, vs J. W. Ballard. No. 5 Dec. Term 1897. Defendants Appeal. Plea. "Nou Assumpsit Payment, luivmcnt with leave AC. Mullen, | Walsh. 9 James McFarlane vs Josiaii Hemhury lift, and Henry McKibbinii and John G. Seouteu, Gar nishees, No. 7, Dec. T. 1897. Scire Facias. Plea, Payment. Downs. | 10 Viola Jennings, vs George 11. Moore. No. 42 Dec. Term 1897. Interpleader. Hill, | Mullen. 11 Russel Karns, vs Harry Paulhamus No. 59 Dec. Term 1897. Defendants Apical. Plea -Non Assumjwit" with leave to give »|>eeial 'matter in evidence. Karns, | Bradley. 12 F. H. Tomlinson vs Jacob A. Meyers and William I. Taylor, No. 1 Feb. T. 1898. Ejectment, Plea, not guilty. Hill. I Mullen. 13 John W. Buck vs John Stackhouse anil Win. Stack house Dfts. and Rush J. Thomson and Geo. C. Jackson, Garnishees, Attachment. Plea, Nulla Bonua, by R. J. Thomson. Walsh. | Thomson. WM, J. LAWRENCE, Proth. l'rothy's. office, Laporte, Pa, Aug. 11, 1898. QOURTPROOL A MATION, WHEREAS, HON. E. M. DUNHAM, President Judge, Honorables John S. Line and Conrad Kraus Associate Judges of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Deliverer, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans Court and Com mon Pleas for the County of Sullivan, have issued their precept, bearing date the 18 day of July 1898, to me directed, for holding the several courts in the Borough of Laporte, on Monday the 19h day of Sept. 1898, at 2 o'clock p. m. Therefore, notice is hereby given to the Coroner Justices of the Peace and Constables within the county, that they be then and there in their prop er person at 2 o'clock p. m.of said day, with their rolls, records, inquisitions examinations and other rememlierances to those things to which their offices appertain to be done. And to those who are boundby their recognizatlon to prosecute against prisoners who are or shall be in the jail of the said county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to be then and there to prosecute against them as will be just. ELLIS SWANK, Sheriff. 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