Republican News Item. CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor THURSDAY SEPT. I, 1898. "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 nl llif Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. tSmscKii'TioN—sl.2s per annum. II paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should lie ad dressed to IvKI'UBLICAN NKWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Political Announcement. I hereby announce myself ns a candi date tor the office ol' Sheriff, subject to the will and regulations of the ensuing Republican County Convention. J. 11. BoHN, Dushore. Pa. In the Mexican Household, The arrangement of furniture la much more formal than in the United States. It is a very common sight to see a splendidly furnished parlor with a row of straight-backed cliairs all alifco with their backs against the wall and as close together as they can lie placed clear around the room. Heavy single doors, such as are used in the United States, are practi cally unknown in Mexican houses either at entrances or between in terior rooms. All doors open in ihu middle and are fastened with bolls top anil bottom. Exterior doors are always iitted with glass panels, for they also serve as windows. All such doors opening on the street or open court are titteil with solid shutters that are folded at the sides out of si<*ht when not in use. A good Mexican cook relieves the mistress of the house of worry anil responsibility in a manner that is al most unknown in the United States. The cook is given so much a day, and with this amount she will purchase each morning all the provisions for the day, including even the staples that are usually bought in large quan tities in other countries. On a dol'ar a day a cook will provide a very good table for a family of three or four, and get enough beans anil tortillas and chile to set the servants' table he sides. They can really do better than their mistresses, because they can us ually drive sharper bargains with the marketmen of their own class, and they have more patience to haggW over the last penny. Mount VfriHin's tiunrd. Edward Parker, the little old color ed man who occupies the sentry-box at the tomb of Washington at Mount Ver non, lives in Washington. That is, hj? family live here, and We comes over by special permit oft lie organization which has control of the old home of the first President of the United States. For years the tomb of Washington has been constantly before this old colored man's vision. He has never missed a day from that dingy sentry box since Mount Vernon passed into the charge of the ladies, and before that, dating from 1841, he had lived on the place. He was a slave of John Washington, and Is the last of the old servants now living. Every other Saturday Parker comes over to Washington, always carrying with him an old-fashioned carpet-bag, so common in the days of reconstruc tion. The following Monday morning he may always be seen a half-hour at, least before the first train starts fo( Mount Vernon, waiting around the cor ner of Pennsylvania-ave. and Thir teenth-st. He has never missed the flrst train since the electric cars began running to Mount Vernon. Before that the first boat to Mount Vernon, on alternating Monday mornings, al ways found him a passenger. Parker is, Indeed, a character. He assisted in burying the last person consigned to the vault in Washington's tomb. After that the key to the vault was thrown into the Potomac. This was in the early fifties. Something Like a Senreli. A Welshman who was in London when extensive sewering operation! were in progress lost his watch. H» reported the matter to Scotland Vard, and the officials said they would leave no stone unturned to find the missing timekeeper. Shortly afterward Taffy again visited the metropolis and saw street after street turned up. He wan told that in all thirty-six miles of road were In the same condition. He rushed down to Scotland Yard and exclaimed to the wondering inspector: "I didn't think I was giving you all that trouble. If you don't find the •jvatch by Sunday, I wouldn't break up my more streets." Stone Boot Sole*. An inventor has hit upon a method of putting stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue with a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand and spreads it over the leather sole used as a foundation. These quartz soles are said to be very flexible and practically Indestructible. Better Than Cat*. A savant has discovered how to slay mice and rate by means of a bacillus, which he han named after himself, and which is supposed to be far more fatal than ihe cat. FOUR-LEAVED CLOVERS. Queen Horteime's Fast line Spoiled by •• Abundance of Them. An amusing story of Queen Hortense daughter of the Empress Josephine ant wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Hob land, iias lately been told. After hei exile from Holland the ex-Queen so journed for a time in a modest habita tion near Constance, in Switzerland. As her health was broken down bj her troubles, her physician prescribed a visit to the mountains of Appenzell and the ex-Queen, accompanied only bj a reader or female companion and tw« or three servants, went to a rustii neighborhood in the hills. There sh< and her companion found nothing bet ter to do than hunt for four-leavec clover, and became quite excited in thi search. "To lend the matter interest," thi Queen wrote in a letter which has beet brought to light, "we would assumi that each discovery of a four-leavec clover had some prophetic significance The next one, if found so and so, mean that we would return to France; an other meant that I was to receive a let ter the next day from my son Louis and so on. In this innocent pastimi we found positively the only excite ment that was open to us in the place "But soon it was noised abroac among the children of the neighbor hood that we were continually hunting four-leaved clover, anil consequently these children argued, we must wan' it very much. Then all the chililrer and some of the grown people were out hunting four-leaved clover, and soot great bunches of it were brought to us for which we nail to show ourselves very grateful. "In another day our only resource for amusement was gone, for thes< kind but T-fuperserviceahle people hac stripped the neighborhood for a niiW around of all its four-leaveil clover!' Allium! I lis) i lift. Oen. Banks was besieging Port Hud son, Louisiana, the Southern gateway to the control of the Mississippi river A body of troops had marched into tli6 back country to look for hovering Con federate cavalry, and were sleeping one moonless nielli behind stacked riiles in readiness for a night attack. The attack came in an unexpected form. Some six or eight army mules, getting somehow detached from the wagon wheels to which they were tied at night, were seized with a panic, and came charging down almost the entire line of the Fifty-second Massachusetts Volunteers. Every man lay covered with a "shelter tent," a piece of white cotton cloth about five feet square. As the mules rushed over each one of us he woke suddenly with a cry, and sprang up, raising his shelter tent in one hand or upon his front, so that he seemed like a sheeted and gibbering ghost. This successive rising of over four hundred apparitions added wild ness to the panic of the mules, and they fairly flew down the line. Now, the remarkable thing is that, while many a man had his side rubbed hard or his scalp abraded by the hoot or the leg of a mule, not a man was really stepped on or really hurt. It was for months a subject of comment with us that the mules, in their in tensified panic, should nevertheless have been able to see where to step, should have cared where they stepped and in their speed should have been able always to step on the ground. Tbe men presently lay down again, but for half an hour afterward a laugh at the ludierousness ol the experience would start somewhere among the recumbent forms and go pealing up and down the line. Tin- Soule Stir ii> IN.VI. The cause of the present quarrel be tween America and Spain is sufficient ly serious, but how many can recall the incident which created no little stir in 185U, in which the two nations near ly became embroiled —and dragged France into the dispute—over no less serious a matter than the cut of a lady's dress? The lady was the wife of the United States minister at Madrid, Mr. Soule. The French ambassador, the Marquis de Turgot, gave a ball in honor of the ]>uke of Alba, brother of the then Empress Kugenie, who is a Spaniard. Mrs. Soule's dress apparent ly did not meet with approval from the duke, who was overheard by the lady's son making an insulting remark about it. Whereupon young Soule broke up the ball by publicly denounc ing the duke as a blackguard. Next day the affair was the talk of all Madrid and Paris. Young Soule sent a challenge to the duke. Then it was reported that the insulting phrase orig inated with the Marquis de Turgot himself, and the American ambassa dor took up the quarrel and challenged the marquis. The two duels took place at once. The first passed without re sult, but in the second the French am bassador was severely wounded by a bullet in the knee. Tin* Inexorable Hentinel. The Second Louisiana was in a posi tion where the most convenient route to reach it was through the camp of the First Alabama. One of the mem bers of the Louisiana camp was out after hours, and as he came to the line of the Alabama camp he ran Into a sentinel, who promptly brought his gun to a charge and shouted "Halt!" The Louisianian promptly halted, and the sentinel and he stood peering at each other fur some time through the gloom. Finally the sentinel, in tremu lous tones, said: "You can't gel through this line un you say llobson." "Hobson!" the I.ouisianian promptly said. The !-.enti;,ei biought his piece to a jiiesent, ;h< intruder saluted and the line was pass, d Political Card. I hereby announce myself as an inde pendent candidate for representative for Sullivan county, Pa., to make my botany bill, mv jury retorm bill and my free speech bill laws for the welfare of the peo ple of the.State. Fellow citizens, write my name on your tickets in the right column or place and you will thereby elect me when you vote. I solicit your votes and ask for your suflrages. Dit 'JOHN COKU, Herbalist. Dushore, Pa., duly 18, 1898. CON DENS ED REPORT of the condition of the KIKST NATIONAL IJANK of Dushore, l»a., At close of business, July 11. 18MK. KKSOIKCKS: Loans inul Discounts S l'js.sol f>o r. S. Bonds to Secure Circulation HVtOU uo Premium oil United States Bonds 1,000 00 j Stock Securities 15,500 00 , Furniture 1,200 oo Due from Hanks Approved reserve Agt :Kt,3MO 07 Redemption Fund I , S. Treasurer 562 50 Specie and Legal Tender Notes 12,939 28 $ 205,*89 19 LI.UUI.IT IKS. capital # ..0.000 (iO Surplus 10.000 00 I'liuivided I'rolits 2 207 00 DueNational hanks 4.075 90 Circulation lo,i;:io oo Dividcns I'npaid 207 oo Do | >os its 1.T2.M 1 (if) $ 20T>,8»9 19 State of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan ss: I, M. D. Swarts, Cashier of the alnive named hank, do solemnly swear that the above state ment is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. M. D. SW ARTS, Cashier. Sulscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of July 1898. JOHN 11. CRONIN, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: ALPHONSVS WALSH, ) J NO. D. REESER, Directors F. H I'OMKRUY i Administrator's Notice. ate of Alary MrCur/i/, fa/eof Elk land towns/lip, deoeaxt il. Letters of Administration having been granted to ihe undersigned, Administra tor in the estate of Man McC'urty late of Klkland tow iislii|>. deceased, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to said estate are rei|iiesled to make immed iate payment, and all persons having claims against it must present them duly authenticated for settlement. DOWNS, Atlv. JOSKt'H I'AKDOK, ( 1.1,..,.. THUS. MeCAHTV ) A """ 8 Special Notice! $2700.00 worth of Clothing, Shoes, Pants, Ladies' Skirts, Capes, Corsets, and Shirt waists and everything in Men's Furnishing Goods. Will close out the entire stock at near ly f)flc,on thejdollar. This will lie the greatest sale Laporte ever heard of. livery body should take advantage ol the l>:ir gains I will offer. Wc will surely give you prices that you will surely lie astonish ed. It will pay you lo buy not only for present but for future use. I will be glad to give the Lowest l'rice to even body. It will be a special favor that every body should come and examine mv stock even if you don't expect It) buy. Highest price paid tor'linseng. JOE COOPER, LaPorte, Pa. Below I. O. O. F. Hall. Educate Your llowels With Ciurnretb. Candy Cathartic, mire constipation forever. 10c, !£c. If C. C. C. fail, lirutfKistsrefuud money. Farm tor Sale The undersigned - on account ol tail ing health will sell bis valnacle farm situated on Muncy ('reek about nine miles north of 11 ughesville, l'a. part ol the purchase money can remain in prop erty. .IACOII I'ITKS, Straw bridge, Lycoming Co. Notice of Dissolution. The imrliiersliip heretofore existing between M. K.Keeder ami K. F. Ives, tioiiiß business under the linn name of Keeder A- Ives, has tx'en dissolv ed this Mth day of July, by mutual consent, Al| debts <>f said linn id lie presented to M. K. Keeder for payment, and all parties owing said linn to make "payment to same. M. K. KEKDF.H. K. F. 1V lis. " I'.IH'K N KLL I NIVKKSITV, dons 11 ow A til) IIAUUIS, President. College, leading to degrees in Art, Philosophy and Science. Academy, a preparatory school for youngjnen and boys. Institute, a re fined boarding school for young ladies. School ol' Music, with graduating courses. For catalogue, address the Register, \V. ('. (i RKT/.i niiki:, Lewishurg, Pa. FOB SALE. I oiler the following properties: 70 acres, hemlock timber, near Kingdale; 3T.'» acres, virgin timber, Klk Kun, North Mountain, (dose to railroad; 321i acres, coal lands, at Bern ice, adjoining present workings; 8 lots (one entire section) at Kagles Mere, each lot 7.) feet Iront on Pennsylvania Ave., with "Bradford"' privileges and title: 1 lot 75 It. Iront on LaPorte Ave.; several choice lots in La- Porte Boro.: also several warrants ol stripped lands in LaPorte, C'olley and Box townships suitable for farming or grazing purposes. If, T. DOWNS, Atty-at-Law. LaPorte, Pa. Gvorrlmily Kays So. Cascarets Catitlv Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ] ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day; 10,35, 50 cents. Hold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Sores. "Running sores appeared on my leg and spread over the entire lower portion of the limb. 1 got no help from medicine till I tried yours. I was cured by one bottle of e Ayer's oarsapariiia." ISAAC ACKER, Cowans, Va. A Horrible Huilroad Accident is a daily chronicle in our papers; also the death of some dear friend, who had died with Consumption, whereas, if he or she had taken Otto's Cure for Throat and Lung diseases in time, life would have been rendered happier and perhaps saved. Heed the warning ! Il'yott have a cough or any afleclion of the Throat and Lungs (.'all on T. .1. Keeler,Laporte; W, L. Ilotlman, Ilillsgrovc; Is. S -Lancaster, Forksville; l". B .Jennings, Agt. Hstella; •Ino. W. Buck, Nonestown, and get ft trial'package free. Large size 50c and 25c. G. A. Rogers FOKKSYILLK, L'A. (Successor to B.YV. Fawcett.) Watches, Jewelery, Silverware, Etc. Bicycle repairing. Bicycle sundries. Fishing tackle, at lowest possible Price. Ginghams, calicoes and dress goods, cash prices al .1. \V. Buck's. No-'i'o-liac for M.\y C'euts. Guaranteed tobacco habit eure, muUes weak nu-ii siroiiK. blood pure. f>oc.|l. All druggists. Kxccllenl wheal liour from *l.lO to Sl.!'.*, al A. T. Arnistong', Sones town, I'a. Fish anil ham, prices light, al .1. W. Buck's, Sonestow n. To < lire Korevrr, Tulie t 'iiscaicts Candy < 'atharlic. ltic or2&a. JJ i\ full to cure, itruKK'Sts refund money. |I