Republican News Item. ,THURSDAY, AUG. 2, 1900. 4 j J Ignorance Is the mother of J t scepticism. Ignorance doer. \ £ not abound to any great extent T # in Sullivan County, J # 80 that there £ 1 is But Little S J Scepticism 112 a#out the Value of * p be mews i ITtem | $ As a Profitable £ JH&vertisfng I flfoebium. m * i - a 112 Read it,Y jur neighbor does.' sSubscribe, borrow. County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. —Miss Maine Fries is aga'n 011 the sick lis'. —Miss Winnifred lveeler is now seen among the ey. ists 011 her new wheel. —A number of new students en rolled at the Summer Normal this week. —Miss Julia Farrell of Dushore, was the guest of Miss Ina Osier 011 Sunday. —An excursion froniJlugcsvillcto j Lake Mokoma 'will be run to-day, I Thursday. ~ —The bar', jobbers in this section | are finishing up their work of peel ing, this week. —Mr. S. F. Colt and family of Buffalo, arrived 111 town /last week for the summer. > —Mrs. J.H. hpeneerand daughter, Mabel, of Williamsport, are guests of relatives in to\y'n. —Miss lluey/Allen, who has been wo,7kjLi\*£ at laporte, has returned to her home in New Albany. —Burr Cowell of New Era, has returned to Laporte to resume work, for the Tannery Company. —Miss Ella Tripp has returned home after several weeks visit with friends in Canton and Williamsport. —W. L. Stonnont and family of New York, are expected to arrive at the pflternal fireside in town, this week. —Mioses Helen Humphrey and Alice Betts of Towanda,are pleasant ly entertained guests of Miss Eliza Shaut. —Mr. Francis Lowrey and Miss Anna Mary Martin of Berniee, were warried by 'Squire lveeler 011 Satur day last. —Judson Brown has resumed his janitor duties about the courthouse after a short vacation in Western Sullivan. —James 11. Gansel is applying plaster to the walls of Prof.Meylert's beautiful residence. His house will soon be ready to occupy. —Mrs. S. S. Ormsby and Mrs. George Schrader of New Albany, spent a few days of last week with Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Schrader. —New arrivals at the Mountain House: Fred G. Lauer and wife, Prof. Roy G. Lauer of Dußois; Miss Lucy Law of Philadelphia, and Miss E. O. Butler, Germantown, Pa. —Mrs. E.H.Cook of Athens, spent last week with relatives in town. George Dewey, the little son of Win. Heim, accompanied her on the visit, and was adopted by Mrs. Cook while here. —Ernes tTliorp, and brother, Willard, were placed within the dim and narrow confines of the county jail last week to await trial at next term of court for breaking into A. T. Armstrong's store at Sonestown. It has been but a short time that one of these boys was re leased from a Reformatory where Ik was sentenced for breaking into the Weirwold cottage two years ago. —Constable N. C. Maben arrested Horton Scliultz and Chas. Midlin in Emmons on Monday and brought them to Laporte on a warrant issued by Mose Freeman, a Jew peddler, from whom several gold rings had been stolen. The ease was settled between the parties before a hearing was had. —Jacob Cooper was on the sick list the early part of the week, with heart trouble. —Atty. E. J. Mullen and wife left town on Wednesday *>r a few days sojourn at Atlantic City. —T. J. lveeler lost a very valuable cow Wednesday morning. It is thought that the animal had eaten some poison weed the day previous. —Mrs. Thos. Maliaffey of Berniee, whose husband was confined in the county jail until last week, for non support of his family, died on Wed nesday morning of consumption. —Mrs. F. W. Gallagher, who has been ill for the past week, was taken to the Williamsport Hospital on Wednesday where slie will have an operation performed. —Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kaye of Forksvilie, Mrs. J. li. King and daughter, Miss Lillian, and Miss Peatrie Hogaboon of Elmira, were the guests of Sheriff Osier and family on Saturday and Sunday. —The Supreme Court filed an opinion Ifik&t week affirming the de cision oAludge Dunham in the case of.Thds. F. Kennedy vs Overseers of the Poor of Laporte township. The legal point decided is that a Poor District cannot be made liable for the support of a poor person without an order of relief, except in cases of ex treme emergency. —A social dance was given in the Odd Fellows llall on Tuesday night for the purpose of raising funds to repair the pagody. Ice cream and other refreshments were sold on the adjoining ground to the hall, and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by a large number of people, both old and young. The proceeds of the eve ning amounted to nearly $40.00 Sonestown. Atty. Will Shoemaker of Laporte, was noticed in town last week. Tlios. Bitter of Lairdsville, was a caller in town on Saturday. Editor Wing and wife were in town Saturday and Sunday. Al. Deininger of Hughesville, re turned to town for a short time last week. Misses May Simmons and Ada Hall were shopping in Muncy Valley on Friday. Mrs. Clarence Drink of Eagles Mere was a visitor here over Sunday Mrs. George Simmons entertained her daughter Mrs. James Bussler and Miss Lulu Jewell of Hughesvile on Sunday. J. W. Buck was, last week, enter taining his brother Jame Buck and wife of Williamsport, during Mr. Buck's vacation from the store of Mush A- Bull Co. Miss Myrtle Edgar spent Saturday night and Sunday at Nordmont with relatives. The festival announced for next Saturday night a week,will be held this Saturday evening instead. Every one welcome. Miss Ora Steek has a wheel. Mrs.Harry Kapler visited Hughes ville friends last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Simmons and Mr. George Kiess attended the funeral of Mrs. Paulhamus at Wil liam sport last week. Mr. and Mrs. J, Finnety of Jersey Shore are visiting relatives of the latter in and about town. Was Ndt A Suicide. The sad death of pretty Nora Brown in a bath tub at Montours ville last week, which was at lirst supposed to have been a suicidal act, has upon further investigation satis lied the minds of many that she met death accidently. Miss Brown was greatly troubled with her heart and would at times fall in a swoon with out any apparent cause. When found she was fully dressed except one shoe and stocking had been re moved. It is i|uite evident that she was seated 011 the edge of the tub removing her shoes when sh& faint ed and fell backwards. When placed in the coffin a mark was visibe 011 her head where it had evidently struck the spigot. But a few days previous to this accident she wrote a letter to her friend Miss May Kelly, of Shu <, in which she spoke of her preparation to attend the Harris Family Reunion to be held at Star Island 011 August 24, to whom she is related. This would seem to indi cate that she was looking pleasantly ahead to this future event, rather than dwelling 011 the thoughts of distroying her life. The funeral in Shunk was largely attended by sorrowing friends who greatly mourned the untimely death of this beautiful young woman who was of good repute and highly es teeifted by all who knew her. BOERS SURRENDER. Robert* Hpporta That Five I'lioavit ltd Yield to Hunter. LONDON, July 211. —An ollieinl dis patch li JIM been received from I.mil Rob erts saying that f>,ooo Boers under Com niaiiclalit Prinsloo have sunviidercd at Nauuwpoort, in the Orange River n limy. A previous dispatch, dated Pretoria, July 20, tells the story of the -i: ;!ithijc as follows: "On July 20 MacDonalil fouxht » n-iif guard action with the enemy from early morning until dark nine miles outside of Naauwpoort. in the Bethlehem hills, resulting in his effectually blocking Naauwpoort nek to the Boer wagons. "Hunter reports that the enemy twice checked his advance by holding strong positions on two neks, one of which was taken before dark by the Scots, the lti.v al Irieh, the Wiltshire and the I.cinstor regiments. Our casualties were only five or six. The second nek was taken during the night by the Scots and guards without opposition, the enemy retiring closely to Naauwpoort. "Prisoners taken stated that 1.20U burghers would surrender if guaranteed that they would be treated as prisoners of war and not as rebels. To this I as sented. As a result of these operations Prinsloo, commanding the Boers, nsk<*il under a flag of truce this morning n four days' armistice for peace negotiations. "Hunter replied the only terms he could accept were unconditional stir render and until these were complied with hostilities could not cease. I ex pressed my approval and told Hunter on no account to enter into negotiations. "As I am writing a telegram has come from Hunger saying that Prinsloo had written a second letter expressing will ingness to hand over himself, with his men, rifles, ammunition and other fire arms, upon condition that the horses, saddles, bridles and other possessions of the burghers be guaranteed them and they be free to return to their homes. "I have replied that the surrender must be absolutely unconditional, that all rifles, ammunition, horses and other pos ses ' s must be given up and that the burghers will he considered prisoners of war. I added that Prinskio's overtures will not be allowed in any way to inter fere with Hunter's operations, which must be continued until the enemy is de feated or has surrendered." A PLAN THAT FAILED. The Ainnenty Celebration at Manila l'rovfil u Flnneo. MANILA, July 30.—The two days' fiesta in Manila organized by Senor Pa* teruo aud his political followers to com memorate the amnesty resulted in a fiasco. The people were passive, unen thusiastic and not even interested. Failing to perceive any tangible, ef fective results of amnesty, they say they can see no reasons "or celebrating. Judge Taft and his colleagues of the commission felt constrained to decline to attend the banquet, us they had been in formed that the speeches would favor independence under American protection, and they could not passively lend their acquiescence by being present. Senor I'uterno, fort teeing the suspen sion of the banquet without the Ameri cans, frantically appealed to them to at tend, promising that there should be no speeches. The provost's precautions were ex treme. The guards were doubled both days, aud the authorities forbade the display of Filipino Hags and of pictures of President McKiuley aud Aguiualdo fraternally framed. The fiesta is generally considered to have been premature and unfortunate. During last week's scouting ten Amer icans were kille aud 14 wounded. One hundred and eigh • Filipinos were killed and Ot) taken prist vrs. Forty insurgent rifles were captures —The imports uul exj>orts of Porto Rico for the Month of May, 1900, were each about 100 percent, greater than for the corresponding month of the year 189'.). This is the poverty and distress to which the Democratic platform said the Repub licans had doomed the island. It is a good thing that the Dent ocratic party has no reputation to lose for accuracy of statements. Facts are stubbornly against them. They were wrong on the tariff. The are wrong on silver. Thay are wrong in predicting distress in Porto Rico. They are wrong in predicting the doom of the Republic in the event McKinley's re-election, and they are wrong by about a million and a half votes in their forefactsas to th*> elec tion of their candidate in November. Get vour Watermelons and Bananas at Buschhausen's. Special bargains in hats at J. W.Buck's Hold's canned meats are unsurpassed tor ilavor and are all Government insoect ed, tor sale at Buschhausen's. Some scythes and snaths and sevthe stones and grain cradles at. l. W. Bucks. You cannot find a liner Red Alaska Salmon no matter what the price you pay 15cts a can at Buschhausen's. Lake herring and white tisli at .1. \V Buck's. —BUCKNELL, L T NI VKRSITY, JOHN HOWARD HAKIMS, President. COLLEGE, leading to degrees in Arts, Philosophy and Science. ACADEMY, a preparatory school for young men and boys. INSTITUTE, a refined hoarding school for young ladies. School of Music, with graduating courses. West College, a new dor mitory for men to be ready for occu pation Sept. 20, 1900. For catalogue, address the Registrar. WM. C. GRF.TZING EK, Lewisburg, Pa. 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 are guaranteed not to chalk, crack or peel off when properly applied and to lust longer than any mixture of Trust Lead and Oil. $ L2S.FOR_NOTHING Our presses have completed printing our Catalogue No. 89, of everything tOjHTI EAT, USE AND WEAR. Each copy JUVJII costs SI.OO to print and S5 cents to JKjflf' mall. As an evidence of Interest, XMy send 10 cents In stamps to help JKW pay postage, and you may deduct ago# these 10 cents from your first jKnßf order of 91, • It required 47 car- /MBSuf' loads of paper for this won- There derful catalogue, which con- ////J?/ i. note tains46o pages.slze 10K*14 tMKW y„ u "an inches, equivalent to over nHSWr think of 1000 pages oft he ordinary , hat this catalogue. We save you jGKS&j book • do es 25 per cent, to 76 per not contain, cent, on everything excepting Lo you buy at every /tf/gjfJ/ co motives and SKHfJJ? i.fiffSKrf/ Bosts. We even This book quotes quote Live Ant wholesale prices 0/MOW mals. Everything to * consumers, Jlgjl/ a man, woman or and with it in child wears, all kinds your ix>sses> 0 f food, everything sion you buy £W£shkW fnT the h ' ome ior the 112. „® a Per hw office, for a hotel, for use 1 J jlimd ww on a ' arm » ,n a barn, or for \lm\Jt ®very known purpose, can ueaier. f oun d in this catalogue. P JVv This book contains over 13,000 illustrations and quotes MBSjBp/ prices on over 150,000 differ- Jnw / ent articles. MBUm ' Lithographed Carpet, l Rnf and Drapery Catalof ue, and our Clothing /fWy Catalogue with large aamplea at 'JMml taohed, are also Free. Ezprestage paid en Clothing; Freight paid on Carpet Which book shall we send 112 Address this -way ; \ * JULIUS HINES & SON Department QOQ, BALTIMORE, MD. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the partner ship association entered into on the Thirty first day of July, A. P. 1 S9'.», between Raphael Kessler, Raphael Kessler. Jr., Henry W. Kessler, Karl Melville Feck, Thomas Medland, William Pentecost. W. G. Giles, Carl Lorenz, A. Ivirtland, J). W. Artley, John W. Sutton, John B.Tay lor and Thomas Sutton, under the name of "Sutton, Peck orn citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned. within six months, immediately proceeding the election.) He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately- proceeding the election. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least "two months and paid at least one mouth before the election. Amendment Eleven to Article Eight, Section Seven. Strike out from said section the words "but no elector shall be deprived of the privilege of voting by reason of his name not being regis tered." and add to said section the followir words, "but laws regulatiug and requiring ' registration of electors may w? enacted to uppi, to cities only, provided that such laws be uniform for cities of the same •class," so shut the said section shall read as Section 7. Uniformity of Election Laws.— All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens or for the registration of electors shall tie uniform throughout the State, but laws regulating and ,Hiring the registration of elec tors may be enueted to apply to cities only, pro vided that such laws lie uniform for cities of the same class. A true copv of the Joint Resolution. W W URIKST, Secretary of the Commonwealth. AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OK THIS COMMONWEALTH KOR THEIR AP PROVAL OR REJECTION BY THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY OK THE COMMON WEALTH OK PENNSYLVANIA. PUBLISH EI) BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OK THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PURSU ANCE OK ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CON STITUTION. A JOINT RESOLUTION Projiosing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Section 1. Beit resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following Is proposed us an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in accordance with the provisions of the Eighteenth article thereof. Amendment. Strike out section four of article eight, and in sert in place thereof, as follows: Section t. All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot or by such other method as may be prescribed by law : Provieded, That secrecy in voting be preserved. A true copy of the Joint Resolution. \V. W, GRIEST, Secretary of the Commonwealth. \|LANTEI> —Quaker Aspen or Shak er !%plar, as some people call it. Alsc-White Poplar and liasswood in the log, or by the cord. Address, KEYSTONE WOOD CO, Willianisport. To Curs Conatlpatlou Forever. Take Caacarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 23c. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. MERCHANT, siHip-iisTiK: :PA LADIES. I have just returned from the city with a magnificent new line of Spring and Synnner Dry Goods, Notions and a dies Furnishing < Joods. Everything of the Latest Please call and examine, the prices aie right. Don't fail to look over the Bargain Counter, it will interest you. GENTS. I have just received a car of seeds, consisting ot Gardeh, Red-top, Drcliard Grass, Timothy and Clover Seed, also a car ofßowkers Fertilizer and the prices are very low. When iu tiecil of a plow I can supply you with the hest made •TIIK \VI U A P." If you want anything in General Merchandise I can supply, you at the lowest possible price, HIGHEST Market Price paid for Butter and Eggs. Yours very respect!.,lly A. E. CAMPBELL. iUbat si2.oo w ;!;, v The above named price on several hundred Very Swell, Very Pretty, t The fabrics are pure wool in fancy patterned clothing as well asjplain aud blue; sl'apes ol'coals are singlejor double breasted, and [the entire appearance and serviceability of these suits are ei|tial to any which you may have made to measure at Ji2">. There is a reason why we sell these u.U at this low price, hi* it concerns vim not, it has no beating on ipialitv 'or price. There are rich pickings fur early ( <:oi'ners. This is an opor tun ity Wi.icli should not be lost. J~ "W" OAK;OLI-j. B l o o t ck Cnrro " DITSHORK, P LAPORTE Clothing Store. WE'RE PREPARED WITH A VFRY LARGE STOCK oF Clothing, Shoes and Gents' Fine Furnishing Goods Etc., and a » Very Large V triety of the Finest Ladies' Wear for Spring and Summer. We arc able to offer you a good many articles cheaper than the cost of making them. Men's suits at i'.7"i, :».utl up to 1(1.00; made in the latest styles. Youth'.-.suits at 2. *»0, ">.(io and S.IHI are the finest qualities. Children*'suits at 1.2"), 1.r,0 and 2.00 Men's tine shoes !h»c, 1.2-"i, l.">o, up to 4.00. Ladeis' shoes !)