Nivvs Item. ■• - I THURSDAY, NOV. IT, i*9S. J Ignorance is the mother of T scepticism. Ignorance does J T not abound to any great extent ' # in Sullivan County. W $ So that there 4 £ is But Little $ t Scepticism £ I about the Value of £ b c IKlcws i ITtem j p As a Profitable # JHbvertistng 5 j flDeMum. J r Read it, Your neighbor does, j* Don't borrow. # County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. -The turkey is now on the home | stretch. —lf we give Spain :ill the time she wants she will take u big slice from eternity. —The Czar's throne is once niorej waiting for Tom Reed. —Thos. Simmons of Sonestown, was shaking hand> with Laportej friends Saturday. —Rufus K. Polk carried the *ev-: •enteenth Congressional district l>y a plurality of 2500. —Henry Pardee of .Milview was a business man in town Saturday. —Grant Little of Jakersville was doing business in town Wednesday. —Born, to Mr. and Mrs. L. R* Gumble, Monday, November 7. a; boy. —Judge Dunham is in Tunkhan-j nock this week holding argument, court. —Chas. R. Lauer transacted busi-, ness in Dushore and Lopez on Wed-! nesday. —T. J. Keeler has converted a i portion of the front porch to his res-! idence into a bay window. —Mr. J. W. Ingham of Sugar Run ! is the guest of his brother Hon.Thos. J. Ingham this week. —Mrs. Jacob Fries spent the fore part ofthis week with her daughter Mrs. J. L. Farrell at Dushore. —Mrs. William Walsh and son are spending the week with friends and relatives at Dushore and Bernice. —Mr. Simon Breigher has moved from the Karns cottage back to the tannery where he is engaged at tiring. —Naturally enough,since the elec tion went right, preparations are be ing made to enlarge many industrial plants. —Mrs. Emma Barrows spent sev eral days last week with Mrs. Agnes Rogers at the Williamsport hospital. Mrs. Rogers is improving nicely. —Considering the near approach of the season instead of the time honored rooster lots of the pa pel's might get out a crowing Thanksgiv ing turkey. —Further proof of the tendency to run party interest in the ground around election is shown by the statement that a lot of dead men were assessed in Chicago. —E. L. Place is tilling his store full of choice holiday goods and in vites all to see his liberal preparation he has made for your wants. His assortment of Christmas good is to the extreme limit of choice ness. —Dr. Reedy, Overseer of Poor of Hughesville, was in town Monday night looking up the last place of residence of Elmer Dawalt whose family is a town charge. Dawalt who resided a few months here pre vious to moving to I-lughesvill, has been arrested for some misdemeanor and left his family in destitute cir cumstances. Davidson township is the last place he had gained a resi dence. —With a new assortment of ulti . outturns for little Alfonso he must begin to see that it is time for him to get his gun down again,or get out of the way of the eagle. And, as his gun has been taken from him, there seems nothing left but to dance when the eagle screams. HARP AND BANJO STRINGS. Vbe Beit and Flnent Oradeti Ar« All Made in Italy. "It has always been believed that violin, harp and banjo at rings were out °f viscera of the cat." The 'gut of a cat is no more suitable for such use than that of a mouse," and as far as my investigation goes lias never been so used. Violin strings are made of many kinds of skins, but principally out of sheep skins. The secret is in curing the skins, which has always been kept In Italy, where all the liner and better grade of strings are made. There are, however, several | concerns in this country which turn out musical strings, and they make a very good grade, though they do not compare as yet with the Italian strings. "All the poets who have sung of the ! musical insides of the cat were wrong, i Even Shakespeare, who was phenom-; enally correct generally in his produc-j lions, fell into the prevailing error, j probably because lie did not take the - trouble to look into the matter and ac-[ cepted the general opinion. The vari-1 ous metallic or wire strings are im- : proving constantly and are used in> very large quantities and by the best j musicians. They have one advantage, over the skin strings when used out of! doors in that they are not affected by the weather. In damp weather skin; or gut strings, as they are generally j named, are affected very much, and, : notwithstanding all the lightening, they are very frequently flat in tone, i The wire string escapes that influ ence, though there is a certain effect,! a timbre, technically speaking, that | can be got out of a skin string that no ; wire string yet made will give you." l V I'ecullnr InduHtry. In one of the streets in the neigh- j borlrood of the famous London Bridge j there has for some time been carried; on an industry peculiar even to that; city of curious and crowded occupa tions, namely, an eel-skin leather fac- 1 tory. Here are prepared and manu- j factured an interesting variety of ar ticles from the skin of the common eel.; By means of numerous complicated processes the skins in question are manipulated until they resemble and would be easily taken for leather, al though of a more glutinous and pliable nature. In one specialty this strange substance is cut into long, thin strips! and plaited very closely together for whiplashes and to cover portions of the; handles of more expensive whips. Cer-. tain kinds of lashes and harness laces are also made from such skins, com bining flexibility and toughness. fteltt In I.oudnit. Talking about fishing, I am remind- j ed of the destruction of the famous j London Sunday eel market, which had existed on the Surrey side for over, three hundred years. Customers went from all parts of the metropolis to pur-i chase this cheap and nutritious food. The dealers were called "sniggers,"! ;ind the eels were sold by the "grab"—; six-pence a time. The eels were first! placed in sand, and the vendor would seize a handful, which made about a; pound. It is astonishing how many of our neighbors eat eels. Not long ago ' when a hydrant was opened in Seventh avenue, above the Park, many of the squirming things came out, and there, was a lively contest for their pos- j session. I would as lief eat a snake, j Eels are of great economic importance. l 11 in Ship III* Snerthearl. The word "ship" is masculine in French, Italian, Spanish and Portu guese, and possesses no sex in Teutonic and Scandinavian. Perhaps it would ; not 1 e an error to trace the custom back to the Greeks, who called all ships by feminine names, probably out of deference to Athene, goddess of the 1 sea. But the sailor assigns no such reasons. The ship is to him a verit-; able sweetheart. She possesses a waist, collars, stays, laces, bonnets, j ties, ribbons, chains, watches and dozens of other feminine valuables. j Everybody Warned. An Arizona rancher has posted the following notice on a cottonwood tree near his place: "My wife Sarrah has left my ranch when I didn't Doo a Thing Too her and 1 want it dlstinkly understood that any Man as takes her in and Keers for her on my account, will get himself Pumped so Full of Led that some tenderfoot will locate him. for a mineral claim. A word to the wise is sufficient and orter work on fools." Aii Old I'nlTerflty. The oldest university in the world is 1 at Peking. It is called the "School for the Sons of the Empire." Its antiquity is very great, and a granite register,! consisting of stone columns, 320 in ; number, contains the names of (>O.OOO graduates. To Ilnrn Coke. Coke can bo burned in ordinary Are-1 places by moans of a new attachment,' consisting of a perforated conical, hoi-; low block, to be placed in the grate' bottom and connected with exterior ! draught pipes to supply air to the in-; terior of the mass of burning fuel. KnrrliigM Not In Fnvor. Among the Phoenicians the wearing of earrings was a badge of servitude,] the same custom obtaining with the Hebrews. The latter people said when : Eve was expelled from paradise her ears were bored as a sign of slavery. Oyster* 1 Feeding Time. it has been discovered that oysters | feed only at about the turn of tide, and that the l-abit of opening periodi j cally persists even when they are out of water. i his m Story of Carl Neufeld Who Was Held a Captive For Thirteen Years. : STARTED OUT AS A SPY. Was Captured, Came Near Being tx ecuted and Sintered Fearful Tor tures and Privations. I">|»enl a Whole Veur In tl»« "Black Hok" of I lie PrUon -WuH fearfully al TIIIHN finally l)iscovei*U .>altp«*trt» lor 11 li«* Manufacture of lau. On.: of the first things General Kit- I ehener did on entering Omdurman was j to look lor Carl Neufeld. This now I famous man was at the time, and had beet; for thirteen years, a prisoner ' 1 ] tho Khalifa's capital. He was soon j i'ound and released, and among the first to congratulate him was his old ! friend Statin Pa.-dia, himself former'y j a prisoner of the Mahdi and the vvn ; ter after his escape, of that absorbing j wort;. "Eire an:o.i ; importar 1 capture, and N'etif. M w j ushered into the presence of the threo j Khalifas end two I'urop ana who were (entrusted with the examination of his ! papers. Neufeld spoke AraMe. and was quite fearless. 11i > paper- show 1 that he was a Prussian, and had stud ied in l.eip/.ij; I'tiiversny. I All the documents were translated to the Khalifa' as 't W;M 11100 important. Ito assure him tlia' Neufeld was no*, an Englishman, as otherwb it w u!d • have goto very hardly , with him. ; There war one letter, however. InEng | llßh. which, if it ha t boai truthfully i translated would have probably got him into great danger. After Neufeld'S j preliminary examination tin Khalifa's mi mi IF-tiled to have Iteen put at rest, for he.C.elivered from his high seat a long speech regarding this "great Eng i lisli pasha," who. he said had come to ' the Soudan with arms and ainmu j nit ion intending to stize Kordofan j and tight against Mahdisni, but for ! tunately the bravo troops of Wad el I Nejumi had met him in U- Dongola, killed his soldiers and captured him. ' Poor Neufeld therefore thrown into 1 bains and carefully guarded by 1 soldier ;. It was decided that Neufeid was to Ibe hanged next morning. Very early the Khalifa sent orders that the great ; drum was to be beaten while the blast of the huge 0111 bey a (trumpet) sounded close to Neufeld's ears. The slaves 1 made game cf him as If he were a i monkey, but he ke>pt up his cotirr.ge and answered all insults with a manly | spirit. The rope had been fixed on the scaffold and crowds of peop'e col lected to see the "Englishman" exe cuted. Neufeld was taken to the mar ' ket place, escorted by horsemen. The crowd raised a yell of delight when ! he appeared, but Neufeld walked fear lessly on. and on reaching the gallows 110 jumped onto t'.ie angarlb (bedstead) and lient his head so that the rep? might be adjusted. Just at that mo ment the judge stepped forward and said that, the Khalifa had been gra ciously pleased to repeal the sentence of execution, and Neufeld was therefor i again removed to the prison. The depth of misery to which lie WAS reduced may be understood when it is known that he spent a whole year 1 in the stone hut ("the black hole") of , the prison, and it was not till he had ' completed two years in prison that 1 through the intermediary of a friend |he was allowed to build a little cell : for himself in one of the corners of i the yard. When powder became scarce in O.n durman. some one suggested at 0113 of the Khalifa's councils that it would bo , much better to make the unbelievers I work for religion instead cf remaining 1 all day idle in prison, and thai Neu ! feld ought to undertake the saltpetre | refinery. The Khalifa said- "Do what you i think is right. T am content." Neufeld was sent to Halfaieh in search of saltpetre. He found some and went to work in the old Mission I House at Khartoum, receiving a small I sum as wages. "He still wears one I chain on the feet," says Obrwalder, i "which, from constant rubbing, has become as bright as silver and there are great black marks around lib ankles." The chain Is knocked off now, and | Neufeld is, after thirteen years of ex ; ile and slavery, once more a free man. As many as 4,601 muscles have been counted in the body of the moth. i i Forks ville. i Election passed off very quietly. ' Mr. Harry Hitter of Philadelphia' was in town edtiesday. E. M. Hchanhitchcr, r. Plumstead of Ilillsgrove was I in town Monday. Miss Myra Rinebold has been ■ visiting at Dr. F. M. Gross 1 . R. W. Right was in town Monday. j Miss Emma Benjamin is attend- j ing school at Freeburgh, Pa. QOCRT PBOOLAMATJONT WHEREAS, HON. K. M. DUNHAM, President Judge, Honorable* John S. Line und Conrad | Kruus Associate Judges of the Courts oi Oyer und Terminer and General Jail Deliverer, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans Court and Com- ! moil Pleas for the County of Sullivan, have issued I their precept, bearing date the 2S day of Sept 1898, to we directed, for holding the several courts in the Borough of Laporte, on Monday the ! 12th day of Dec. 1898, at '2 o'clock p. in. : 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. ni. of said day, with their . rolls, records, inquisitions examinations and j other reraembcrances to those things to which theiroltic.es appertain to be done. And to those who are bound by theirrecognization to prosecute ; against prisoners who are or shall be in the In.il of j the said county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to : be then and there to prosecute against them a* ' will be just. KLLIS SWANK. Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Laporte, Pa.,. Oct. 31, 1898. Trial List, December Term, 1808. 1 A. C. Haverly, vs Benjamin Kuykendall, Jr. 1 No. 71 May Term 1897, Trespass. Plea "not guil -1 ty". Mullen. [Thomson. | 2 Mitchell, Young & Co. vs A. J. Haekley, No, i 101 Sept. Term 1895. Scire Facias, Plea, "Payment, i payment with cause Ac, Kill, | Inghams. | S James McKarlaue, vs W. C. Mason, No !)•_' Feby. Term 1897. Defendants Appeal. Plea. "Son Assumpsit, paymeut, payment with !••«*••• i<>, set off. Hill, i Inghams. I Merritt Shaffer, vs Josephine FitzPutrick. No. ! 98 May Term 1898. Feigned KslU\ Plea I'av- | j meut. Inghams, | Mullen. Jfartin Markle, vs K. V. Ingham. \<>. i.vj ] Sept.Term 1897. Defendants Appeal, l'lea "Nun Assumiisit Payment, payment with have . r 11111, | Inghams. 6 I". M. Lewis, vs.!. W. Ballard, .No. , H,e. i Term 1897. Defendants Ap|>eal. PI. a "Non I Assumpsit Payment, pavment with leave ,u\ ; Mullen, | Walsh. 7 K. H. Tomlinson vs Jacob A. Meyers and William 1. Taylor, No. 1 Feb. T. 1898. Ejectment, . Plea, not guilty. Hill. | Mullen 8 J. Wm. Allen and Martha Allen vs Taper . Hunsinger and Rush J. llunsinger No. 98, May 'I j 1898, Replevin. Mullen and Thomson. ' Mill anil Hatt. I 9 J. Wm. Allen and Martha Allen vs Taper . llunsinger und Rush J. llunsinger, No. 99, May |T. 1898. Kjectment. Mullen and Thomson ! Kill and Piatt. WM. J. LAWRENCE, l'roth j Prothy's. office, Lajiorte, Pa, Oct. 31, 18e presented to the Orphans' Court of Sullivan county on Monday, December 12.1898, at 3 o'clock p. m.for confirmation and ; allowance. WM. J. LAWRENCE, Register, j Register's office, Laporte Pa., Nov. 14,1898. Executor's Notice. I Estate of Frederick Helnze, late of Elkland township, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamen tary upon the estate of said decedent liavo been | granted to the undersigned. All persons indebt ed to said estate are requested to make payment I and those having claims or demands against the I same will make them known without tielav to CHRISTIAN E. HEINZE, Executor, i Lake Run l'a., Oct, 11 1898. Boarders. John. V. Finkle lias opened his large] 1 and comfortable house for the accomoda- : j tion of court boatders, and also for regit-, ! lar boarders bv the day or week, at rea ' j sonable rates. ! Corner of Maple and Munev Sts.,Laporte. ' Williamsport & North Branch R.R | TIIVEE TABLE. In Effect Tuesday Sept. 13, 1808. Northward. Sonthward. pm.ia. m.j a.m. pm I 5 25| 10 23 Halls 94V 440 I f.'>3o|flo2B Peunsdale 941'f455 ; ft 40: 10 40 Hughesville ; 9 32 ; 423 ! ' ft 48 10 48 Picture Rocks 9 2ft 4 13 I fftftl floft2 Lvons Mills 1922 fiCVS J (ft 51 flOftft Chamouni ; 9 20' ft (XI If« 02! 11 01 (lien Mawr 914 Sft9 f612 fll 14 Strawbridge 'f9 oft f3 17 fi IB fll 17 Beech Glen 1901 f:i 12 ti 20| 1121; Muncy Valley Bfts 340 fi 28 11 30 Sonestown 8 r>2 332 ; c 45 1149 : Nordmont 838 3 lft i 701 12 CK LaPorte 821 2 ft; 7 04' 1211 LaPorte Tannery 8 19 2R-I 1 f7 20 f1230 Ringdale 18 Oft f233 ■ 7 351 12 4ft Satterfield 7 sft 2 2(> I i pm.'p, m.| :am. pm. All trains daily except Sunday; " 112" flag itations. Conneetions with tho Philadehibia Jt Reading at llalls, for all points north and snnth, and the 1 Fall Brook and Becoh Creek railroads. At j Satterfield for all points on the Lehigh Valley : railroad. At Sonestown with tho Eagles Mere railroad. R. E. EAVENSON, Oen, Manager HnghesviUeP L R. tumble, Dealer in and Hanufacturer of I Farm . CARRIAGES \NL WAGONS. AND Vour Patronage j Lumber N noliciti'il on tlie of low prices. hoiTl 'et if in faot ! mm/ are g*itii»£r ri1" refer ■ ence for (Sovcrnnient.nl and polilical information. Contains the Constitution of the United States, ths Dingier Taritt Hill, with a comparison of old anil new rates, i'resident MeKinlev's Cabinet mid appointees, ambassacors, consuls, etc. i'he standard American almanac. I'rice. - r > cents. Address* 'I he News Item. Do you Appreciate Values? I I'Jao, 1 wtn readily do'.business with you. Call, and 1 can till your order to your entire satisfaction. I | I My Spring and Summer Line is Complte. Casimcre Suits, 34.50 to 88.00. Worsted Suits, $5.50 to 20.00 Serge Suits. 5.00 to 10.00. Clay Suits, 4.00 to 18.00. Also an attractive line of IGents Furnishing Goods. Mats, caps, light wool ami gauzo under ware, umbrellas, trunks, traveling bags and valices. Call and see the largest line of clothing in thts part of the country. 0" "W CAROLL. K. c " r °" Dukhork. P LA PORTE Clothing Store. We ordered carload quantities of Fall and Winter goods for the opening of our new building, Oct. ist. The goods arrived as everybody knows and the new build ing is stocked and overstocked with goods. Fairly overflowing with new fall and winter styles—tables and counters actually groaning under the heavy loads of Fashion's fancies. Relief can only conic in one way: CLEAR OUT THE GOODS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE by selling at a close margin. While other stores are trying to get rid of old stock of many years, we are now disposing of new goods at positively LOWER PRICES. JOE COOPER, The Clothier.