tsp-jblican News Item. ,THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1900. *.<%, * \ Ignorance Is the mother of W scepticism. Ignorance does \ V not abound to any'great extent t in Sullivan County, 9 4 So that there r £ is But Little $ i Scepticism £ # about the Value oft fabe IRcVVS I i irtem : 0 As a Profitable 4 jHbvertisino j j flDebium. * #Read it, Your neighbor does. £ # Subscribe, Don't borrow, v »»»»%.»»»»»» v County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. —There is considerable Lagripp in this vicinity at present. —Wm. Kennedy was in Titus ville, this week. —Judge Dunham is holding court inWilliamsport this week. —Wm. Hartt, of Campbellsvillo, was a business man in town Tuesday. —The Messenger house owned by ft. M. Dunham is receving a new coat of paint. —Dr. W. T. lteedy, of Huglies ville, is in town practicing dentist ry this week. —Mrs. F. H. Ingham, daughter Eunice and son Fritz are all on the sick list. —Mrs. Frank Grant visited friends in Warren Center, Bradford county, this week. —The County Commissioners held tqeir monthly meeting the early part of the week. —Mr. Albert Conklin attended j the Baptist Sunday School conven- , tion held at Muncy, last week. —A child of Mr. and Mrs. John Keeler, of Nordmont, died on i Tuesday, May Bth of pneumonia. —Mrs. O. W. Bennet, located on the Mason farm, has just received an up-to-date line of spring Millen ery goods. —F. M. Crossley and son Ellery, 1 and T. M. Kennedy in the ' Sells-Forepaugh show in William sport, last week. —Kansas is to organize a farmer's trust. This is certainly running the octopus into the ground where it belongs, deep down. —Seven skidways of logs aggre gating in value about S.IOOO, belong ing to Bennett & Peal of ftagles Mere, were burned Monday. —Prof. L. L. Ford kindly extends, his thanks to the people of Laport* ' for fighting the forest fires from 1 is summer house at Mokoma Place. j —Roaring Branch will have a new tannery in working order within sixty days more, to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. —Forest fires extending from head of Muncy creek to Cherry run are making interesting times for Sutton, Peck & Company and the Lyons Lumber Company. -Martie Gallagher's son, William, fell from iv fence on Tuesday and sustained a very bad cut on the right cheek. Dr. Willson was called to . dress the wound. —While at work at one of the rollers in the tannery Monday night Wm. Heim Sr. had the misfortune to get his right thumb so badly crushed as to necessitate amputation of a part of the injured member. At present he is doing well. —Mas \j>r LaTtue Bird, of Estella, is now \ part of the News Item force, se. ving his apprenticeship which has the distinguished title of "devil". —The dynamiters who tried to destroy the Welland Canal, failed to ' «*9 so because they were drunk. 1 \ere is a great temperance moral in tl. v but we are not quite sure just ho it bears. —Stones, large and loose, and ditches deep and dangerous in great j abundance in the public road to | Eagles Mere. Stew Chase, if here, j might excite the authorities to do> better. —The Sullivan Publishing Com pany stockholders met at the offle of the secretary, T. J. Ingham, on Monday, and re-elected the officers of the previous year. A dividend of five per cent was declared for the stockholders. —On Tuesday the state treasury passed into the hands of Colonel ft. Barnett, who succeeds J. J. Beacom The balance in the general fund at the time of the transfer was $3,500- 000. —The intimation that a team with a loaded wagon going down the Ingham hill got fast in one of those water crossings and was unable to extricate the load, is probably a mistake —in the direction the team was going. —Orator Pull, who speaks from the smokestacks of manufacturing and commerce, will make speeches night and day all over the country in the coming campaign. For full particulars address his advance agent Wm. McKinley, Washington. The saw mill of ft. F. Ives, located near ftagles Mere, was totally de stroyed by fire about 2 o'clock Sun day morning, entailing a loss of about $5,000. It is said that no in surance was carried. Forest tires is likely the cause of origion. —Miss Julia ()'Donovan complet ed her term in the second grade of the Borough school on Thursday. Owing to loss of time the other grades will continue for several days longer. —Master Herman Yeager left on Monday for Freeburg, Pa., where he will attend the spring term at the musical college, devoting his time to the piano. —The Ladies Society of the Bap tist church, will serve ice cream in the Baptist Church parlors every Saturday evening during the sum mer, commencing Saturday evening May 11', All the big States that have recent ly been holding Republican conven tion are out strong for expasion. They want to extend the markets for American farm and factory products. Kxports of American manufactures will pass the $400,000,000 mark for the fiscal year ending with next month. In 1895 they only amounted to $183,595,743. And yet there are a few people who still opposing pro tection and commercial expansion. —lt was in 1895 that Senator Hoar delivered a speech in which lie said, speaking of the tree planted by the first American settlers: "Its boughs hang over the Pacific; and in time— in good time—it will send its roots beneath the waves and receive un der its vast canopy the islands of the sea." Why, this must be that good time. / —Europe affords the best market for American farm products and manufactures, buying from us almost to the extent of a billion dollars a year. Why not keep on terms of friendship with our best customers. —A Kansas editor has referral to the Honorable Champ Clark as "a iiamond pin in the shirt front of freedom". Those who have witness ed the manner in which the gentle man from hops about from issue to issue are disposed to regard him as a sort of a lynch pin in the shirt front of Heedom. —What Lincoln was to his country in his day, McKinley is to the country to-day; and the nation which expressed its endorse ment of Lincoln by re-electing him to the presidency, will set a similar mark of approbation on the latest of his distinguished successors. —The trust problem will soon be solved even if Congress does not adopt any law on the subject. The individual states are rapidly passing laws controlling the operations of trusts incorporated in other states and practically confining them to their own homes. This will soon turn the tide in favor of-mailer cot porations, as few states are hrg<; enough to support trusts all by them selves. —Jiulge Metz'ger, of Lycoming- County, and legal circles in other parts of the State have considered considered the expediency of sepa rating "amature" offenders from the hardened criminals who are confined in the prisons. It has been the experience of jail war dens that where youthful offenders, held or convicted for a trivial crime, have been allowed to min gle with adult culprits, the associ ation has always been detrimental to the morals of the younger pris oners. j la it not about time for the Demo cratic party to call upon the country to put them in power, so that they may reduce the dangerous surplus in the United States Treasury? That is one of the few promises made by it that was faithfully fulfilled, and, in doing so, it also reduced the sur plus of almost every citizen in the Union. As a suplus reducer and a deficit creator that party has a record that can not be successfully assailed. A peculiar circumstance connected with the accidental death of Joseph Walterhouse, at Muncy, was related Monday. Walterhoue saw Thomas (i. Swenk, the Western Union oper ator, receive a telegram from his, Walterhouse's wife in Wilkes-Barre, addressed to his parents, telling them she has heard that her husband was dead and requesting to be told when the funeral was to take place. At this moment Walterhouse heard a freight train approaching, and exclaiming that he was the live liest corpse they ever saw, made a grab for a handle, missed it, fell and was ground to pieces. v The Jtcparter Journal, (Republican) of Towanda, has divulged the secret of its great success to its brother pub lishers of financial contraction by publishing the following: "A gentleman who is a candidate for political honors asks if the Re porter Journal will publish a sketch of his life in the interest of his can didacy. To which we reply, that we will be glad to do so—at the reg ular advertising rates of the paper. So plain a business proposition in volves no doubt in the mind of the publisher and can have but one an swer. Inasmuch as we have been asked the same question by several other candidates for office a few words 011 the subject may not be out of place at this time. "The Reporter Journal is a news paper whose object, primarily, is to make a living for its publishers . The publication of the news and matters of general interest are inci dental to that end. The publication of matters calculated to advance per sonal interests or the private gain of its readers or the public does not come within the scope of this policy, and all communications 01* articles of this nature must be paid for. They are clearly and properly a legitimate soucre of revenue to the publisher who does the work. "The foregoing statement is made for the benefit of a large class of persons who have a very crude con ception of the functions of the news paper and who seems to think that it should do for nothing a work that hits a definite pecuniary value to those for whom it is performed.'' The NEWS ITEM will not attempt to figure up the amount of this class of advertising and labor it has given away. Were it now to be paid us in one lump we would feel like con tributing SIO,OOO of it to the Nation al campaign fund. Judge Thompson, of the United States District Court at Cincinnati, has decided that the law docs not re quire any revenue stamp to be fixed to bonds'of notaries public. A party of pupils of the Vera Cruz State Normal School will leave Jal apa, Mexico, to-day to visit Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities. „A Denver despatch says that it wilt take two weeks and $200,000 to re pair the damage to the roadbed of the Colorado and Southern Railway iu Platte Canon by the recent floods. The converter and billet mills of the Illinois Steel Company's plant at Joliet are closed Indefinitely, as the result of the closing of the American Steel and Wire Company mills. About 2,500 men are idle. At Ysletta, Tex., Pablo Alvares, a jealous lover, while attempting to shoot his sweetheart, Miss Logan, ac cidentally wounded two young men. The young lady is dead from the ef fects of shock. The system of registering letters by mail carriers was on Saturday ex tended to 163 postoffices, and there now remain less than 100 cities hav ing free delivery where this system is not in operation. It is current talk in Yokohama that 30,000 Japanese will leave their native country this summer for British Col umbia; and, it is believed, that the number coming to the United States will be enormous. The wedding of His Imperial High ness Crown Prince Yoshihto, of Ja pan, and Princess Sada Ko, daughter of Prince Kujo, which is to take place May 10, will be attended with great rejoicings at Yokohama. The survey for the Japanese Rail way from Seoul, capital of Corea, to Fusan, has been completed, but it is not likely that operations will be be gun, as the Japanese Government hes itates to guarantee a subsidy. Alexander Sablston, the head of the Sabiston Lithographic and Publishing Company, shot himself, presumably by accident, in the offices of the com- \ panv, in Montreal, Saturday, and died a few minutes after. A despatch from St. Petersburg says that the Czar has ordered the Chief of Police of Moscow to cease all extraor dinary precautions for his safety, sav ing: "I have come to see my people, not the police of. Moscow." —The Ladies' Aid of the SI. E. church will sell ice cream Saturday night every two weeke, beginning May 12, at the residence of Mis. E. Grimm. JB Famous Maryland m Men's Clothing I Hade to Order. Eipreuifr Prepaid and UutriuUetxl to fit L ' The stylish kind of Suits, Over- coats and Trousers, made by best city merchant tailors, are made in our workrooms at about one-halt HI what you have to pay at retail. Our Mitt's Clothing Catalogue, with Ml large cloth samples attached, ■9 shows the latest styles and con tJH ceits, and is profusely illustrate. I HV with the latest fashions that will l»e worn by the l>cst dressed this season. We ship you our T&jp Clothing C.0.D., and we guar antee each garment to fit you, so that you run absolutely no risk: think of the large saving you elicit and the stylish garments we send youl "U'e publish a 16 r..1,.r lithographed book,which ■/lyfy' %'QlivMml and Bed Sets, Table and Piano Covers, etc., in Hs r their exact colors and tQ designs, so that by look- *£>■■■ wift Sf Ing at these color plates nSSjM you can tell exactly how V the fabric itself appears, xL/ IVI and buying from us you IgagP^ buy at millpriccs, and save from 40 to 60 per cent. All Carpets sewed free, lining furnished without charge, and freight prepaid Doth catalogues are free. Which do you want? Address this way: JULIUS MINES k SON, Dept. 9o9, Baltimore, Md. CONItHNSED REPORT of the condition of tin FIRST NATIONAL HANK of Dnshore, l'a., At close of business, l)ee. 181H). RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts J1(i!,973 98 L T . S. Bomls to Secure Circulation 12,500 00 Premium on United States Bond# 1,00000 Stock Securities 33,1 TO 00 Furniture 1.200 00 Due from Banks Approved reserve Redemption Fund U, N. Treasurer 562 60 Sjieeie and Legal Tender Notes I>,BBB It) 8 3000W, US LIABILITIES. Capital S fio.ooo co Surplu saud Undivided l'rolits la.fttX! .4 Circulation 10,750 00 Dividens Unpaid 7-' ix> l>cposits 222,806 74 S 300,059 98 State of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan ss: I. M. D. Bwarts, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above state ment is true to tile best of my knowledge and be lief. M. P. BWARTS, Cashier. Suliscribcd and sworn to before me this fd day of Mav I'.KJo. JOHN 11. CRONIN, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: •IN'O.D.REESER. i E.G. SYLYARIA. [-Directors. ALPHONSUB WALSH. J The Northwestern Yeast Co. (if Chicago, 111. are out again this year distributing free samples of their now famous Magic Yeast. There is hardly a man, woman or child in the United States not familiar with the good qualities of this favorite bread raiser. Have you seen Busehhausen's wall paper? It's up to date and prices are right too. For Sale.—A Saw Mill in tir-t class condition. Capacity, 40,000 to yO,OOO feet per day, in hemlock. Can be seen in operation until June Ist, 1000. Practically new. For further particulars, address CllAs. \V. ItEKDKB A- Co. (iw. Laporte, Pa. The business of the town in canned goods is at Busehhausen's. Wall paper at popular prices at J. W. Bucks, this week. The old reliable Towanda shoes for sale at Busehhausen's. Mr. James McFarlane is agent for the Celebrated Pitkin Paint and Specialties. This is the oldest mix ed paint manufactory in America and their goods ;ir( > j/uarantecd not to chalk, crack or peel off when properly applied and to last longer than any mixture of Trust Lead and Oil. QOURTPROOLAMATION. WiiEitKAs, IION. K. XI. DI NHAM, President Judge, Honorable* John s. Line and Conrad Kraus,Associate Judges of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Ouarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans'(Jourt and Com mon Pleas for the County of Sullivan, have issued their precept, bearing date the 9 day of Mar. 1899, to me directed, for holding the several courts in the Borough of Laporte. on Monday the jMh day of May 1900, at 2 o'clock p. m. Therefore,notice is Hereby given to the ( oroner. 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, \\ itli their rolls, records, inquisitions examinations ami other rememberauees to those tilings to which their offices appertain to be done. And to those who are bound by their recognizance 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 tlicro to prosecute against them as will be just. 11. W. OSLER, Sheriff, herift's Office, Laporte, Pa.,, Apr. 14, 1900. 2 ASK YOUR DEALER * 1(1 nj FOR THE * l&eighton 112 | Sho6 Ladies. £ s * $ ... WARRANTED. ... * £IW $2.00 * ux. $2.50 * 1 JPBR 2 j pair. * t Perfect Fitting, Best Wearing and {jj J SMost Reliable Shoe sold. * For seventeen years our product has beeu a m Standard Shoe for Women, and is to-day con* |H ceded to be one of the most reliable and thor- JT fL oughly honest lines of Ladies' Footwear on Jf 2 the American market. Sold through our au -2* thorized Agents. All styles, sizes and widths, w * lit m• • * JJ Sold exclusively by S Mrs. D. H. LORAK. * * SONESTOWN, PA. jj m MADE BY "TUP- It 3! ff. 1. creiemoß & to. J * ,♦ and cfndertalting, BRANCH CONNECTION AT LAPOBTE, lE^ XKXT Door TO W.ViON SHOP. It. A. OONKLIN, Mgr. Ten Years Experience has taught FORKSVII I F PA iUs how the best value for 1 Vnr\OVILL.L, Ir. The LEAST MONEY.