r-IK-11 \ \T!()NAI HANK II!- ill siIOKE. I'KjNNA. CAl'lTAl. - - $60,000 SUUPI.US - - *IO.OOO I MO a li. nera! Banking Badness. V> IKNN'tNuS. ii. J'. SWAKTfI. rrf.-:leiit. Cashier A J. BRADIJ.Y Attorney at-I.aw. Ofßee, corner ol Main ami MuncvSts. LAPORTK, I'A. ! [•!;i - <ll .'m il an iitlice ill I\rcli Si., I ii.! 1111 11• 111;i. I sl\all still continue to i.!•: e in the vvcral Courts of Sullivan (MI. \\ In*>i not in my oflliv ]><.*rs<lll:ll tv :i >ii»; •-t .i.t person nil! In- lountl in oharjre thereof. Boruls of various kinds i'nr 11 i.-sli e«l. PRANCRS W. MEYLERT, Attornoy-at-Xiaw. ffic.eiti Keeler'.s Block. L.VPOIiTF, Sullivan County, PA. Rush .1. rhoin-on, Albert !'• 11i'OHS, IST 1. lUO2. "J" HO MS ON & HEFSS. LAWYERS, DUSIIOIii:, I'KNNA. i. uiL' I 'lstancejTelephone. •la; narv I. T J. & F. H. INGHAM, i • ATTOHNRYS AT-I.AW, I.egal huss attenr]i*<l ♦ <» in (ii is an«l adjoining counties \ PORTE, P A. FJ. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTK. PA. • OPFICX If COUNTY BUILDING NKARCOI'UT HOUBK. J # H. CRONIN, ATTOBSEV-AT -LA*, NOTAitV PUBLIC. OrriCß OS M-MN ST t;E KT. DnSHQRB. £$ Q~~ J. MOLYNEAUX, D-D.S. Graduate Universitylot' Pennsylvania, j M.W ALBANY, PA. At Lopez. I'll., Wednesday ami rhnrs.lav j each week. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. *VID MA UK, Prop. I.APORIV - A. Ibis larg" and we' i appoint <1 house it-' the in- ' popuU'i hostel v in this section ! LA PORTE HOTEL. P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. NYwly creeled. Opposite Court j It 1.1-V <•. St vain heat, hath rooms, hot ami i■ hi water, reading ami pool room.ami barber shop; also good stabling ami livery, T .J. K F.ELK IL 1 . .1 ustice-of-the Peace. Office hi room over store. I.AI'OHTK. I'A. Special attention ;;i\ n to collections. All nv.Mcrs left to the care of this otlice •vi 11 iie promptly attended to, M. Brin 's : New Albany, Pa. | Our car of clover .tint timothy seed lias arrived and 1 must tell you that ; this is the cleanest and lost seed I : ovor bought. It i- eb an ittid bright j itiid we happened tii buy it sit the J right time. !am going tost ilt the hall rolling by offering y«>u the best seed you ever'.Miight in timothy at $2.00 por bushel and the clover at per bushel, tint! it' I were to buy tlii'clover to-da.v, would liavo to pay what 1 am offering you it. Lose no time if ynu want seed us you will see higher prices. I'bis car was bought from Conklin and Sou at Riilghamton where they have perfect machinery for cleaning seeds. M. BRINK. FREE ! FREE I A Housewife's Delight, A NiCELY ARRANGED TABLE. Buy your goods of us and a set of this Hand Painted China Free! ASK FOR COUPONS. AT Buschhausen's ( County Seat 1 j Local and Personal Events ! Tersely Told. March 17, was an ideal St. Pal' [ rick's Day. A. P. Starr of Muney Valley was a Laporte visitor Monday evening. Miss liessie Cox of Nordmont, spent Sunday as the guest of Miss Maine 11 ei in. Attorney A. .1. Bradley of Phila delphia is'transacting business at his Laporte otlice this week. Miss Mary McDonald of Cherry Mills, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson. At the close of February there was a balance of over $12,500,000 in the state treasury. Mr. John I laities who lived about a mile from here, moved his family to Tivola this week. .las. C. Caven, the genial livery man of this place, has advertised his livery for sale and when disposed of will leave for Philadelphia. Mr. Harry Brown and Miss Fresa Kigglcs, both of Ilillsgrove, were married at Waverly, X. Y., March K. The farce, called the "Old Maid's Club," which was to be given next Saturday night at the,M. E. Church, has been postponed until after Fas ter, tin' date not yet being decided. The great Baldwin locomotive works iu Philadelphia, in executing a rush order for the Japanese gov ernment, established a new record by making seven locomotives in a day. Many Russians are now coming to this country to find a home. Fif ty of them landed in Wilkesharreon Friday and were distributed to sub urban towns. They hope to find work around the mines. The ruling of the Superior court on the supersedeas in the matter of the appeal of the incorporation of South Laporte, replaces the otticers in power at the time the new Boro. was set apart from Laporte borough. These otticers will hold their places until the case is argued next May and disposed of by the Superior court.! New York newspapers recently j gave large space and big heads to j the successful emptying of a public j school building on fire of 2,100 j ehrildren in four minutes.the child ren being inarched out in good order without the slightest panic. News papers are glad to publish good news when they can get it. The news of a Chicago yellow ■, journal congratulated himself the other days having been able to is- ' sue sj„\ special war editions on thir- j teen words of cable news, But you | kjiow the Japs areretiient. It wat- j n't the news editors fault that he' did not get more. A lady got her little son to assist in killing it chicken. She grabbed the chicken,laid its neck on the block and lightly closed her eyes. Then the boy took the hatcheet, tightly closed his eyes also,and neat ly chopped off his mother's wedding ring finger. When a body of men who pay no t.i\ on realestatc and care less for the advance ment of the town, can get together and vote away your money for useless and extravagant expendi tures, is it not the beginning of corruption, the beginning of a pro gressive confiscation that must ulti uiately impair all property rights, deperciate valuation and severely I cheek all needed investments? J A. K. Tripp, who is engaged at 1 I'leasant Stream erecting buildings | lor the Fnion Tanning company, was taken ill last week with grip, land confined to his room at the I home of his brother-in-law, VV. E. Porter, at Shunk. Heart trouble j followed his attack of grip and his II ondition for a time seemed alarm ing. His wife and daughter were summoned from Laporte Sunday to iiis bedside. It is reported that he ! is now improving. The Republican standing commit tee of Sullivan County met at the ■ courthouse in Laporte on Saturday last at 2 o'clock p. in.in tesponce to the call of County Chairman. There were many prominent republicans present and much enthusiasm showh • throughout the entire meeting. After disposing of the routine work, March 2<i and 20 were fixed as the .dates for holding the Primaries and | County Convention respectively. ins lv s tp6r land. The Russian has an insatiable ap petite* for land. He has absorbed Poland, Finland.part of Turkey and wide stretches of Asia. Manchuria !is his present meal,but he is casting I greedy eyes upon Korea, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, India. and what remains of dismembered and helpless China, and unless his ad vance is checked now by the legions of Japan or latter by those of some other power or powers his progess southward will end at the Mediter-, ranean, the Red sea and the Indian j ocean. The means by which this land was taken have varied. Sometimes! by war, sometimes by diplomacy, sometimes by settlement, he has reached his end. He did not hesitate at butchery if butchery were neces sary. He cheerfully lied if lying would foward his purpose. He fo ment internal discords in the king dom if he thus could come in under the guise of peacemaker and take the country for his own. If it were necessary to reach his goal by in direction, then the indirect route was followed; if he was compelled to seize his prey when the other powers were not looking, such seiz ure was made;if he had to wait a century before achieving his object he waited patiently and stolidly, lieaten back at one point he reach ed out at others, but always and everywhere he kept in view one thing—to get the land. It suffices that she has gained a foothold. This she never relinquish but bides her time, gaining larger and larger concessions until at last the captured province is a portion, of her ever advanced empire. Thus she spread eastward from M©scow to the Ural Mountains. Thus she moved onward into Asia and annex- j ed Siberia. Thus by struggle after j struggle she took Finland from i Sweden. Thus by partition- after partition she absorbed the larger portion of Poland. Thus by war after war she wrested the Caucasus. and TrailscaucasiiH from Turkey. I Thus by crowding and fighting she ! coqnuered portions of Turkestan. Transcaspia' Khiva and Bokhara. : Thus by diplomacy she graduallyj tightened her grip upon Manoliuria j until Japan sprang to arms. The. evident "mission" of Russia I is to spread all over the world and convert everything to the temporal dominion of the czar and the spirit ual dominion of the Cireek church. The declared "missioif'of the Ja pan is to carry western civilization to the orient.to lie the leader of the far east in the march of modern j progress. In the course of events these two"missions ? 'collided. The result was war. In time of peace the Russians constantly prepares for war. On a peace footing the army numbers a bout 1,000,000 men and each year 870,000 young men reach twenty one and are liable to military serv ice. I n time of war the government has 3,600,000 men,500,000 horses (5,000 guns. The population of Russ ia is about 130,000,000.0f whom 4, 000,000 are Jews.and its area is 8, 447,234 square miles,nearly three times as great as that of the Unit ed States, Alaska and all of Uncle Sam's insular possessions. The holy synod of the Greek church domin ates all religious affairs and the peo ple are very devout. The legislative, judicial and ex< - cutive powers are all vested in the emperor who is assisted by a cab- I inet bf minister by a council of state by a "ruling senate"and by a holy synod. The people have little voice in the government, and there is deep seated discontent among them. Revolutionary movements are con stantly under way and are sternly repressed. There is no freedom of speech the press is muzzled constan i tly and the bureaucratic heirachy i rules czar and people alike. More and more money is spent each year on education, and yet the univers ities are veritable hotbeds of revolu tion. Thousands of students and other educated men are banished I every year. The revolutionary spir* is strong in the army, and on nunt j erous occasions troops have refused jto fire on rioters when ordered to |do so. The present war will doubt ess have somewhat of aYepressivi effects temporarily upon there'vol it tionary movement, but only a-great er measure of personal liberty will .satisfy the people and them to cease eudeavoring to change the empire's ford of government. The question of service pension for veterans of the Civil War-was on March IG, settled by a ruling of Pen sion Commissioner Eugene !•', Ware. Its promulgation was <lim?tlyMlu«' to President Roosevelt's <lee.p interest in the old soldiers. The effect of the ruling after April I'i, will make pen sionable at s<» a month Vetera,»s who have reached the age of 02; at .<x ■ those who have reached the .age of 6.j; at #lO those who hav«> reached 68, and at s!2 or the full pension un der the law of 1890, all those who have reached seventy years of age. Death of Mrs. Kohcnspargcr. Mrs. Nancy Kochensparget, who has been confined to her bed for sev eral years, and about two months ago was taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thos. Cook, in Ath ens, where she could receive better cure during the winter months, died at that place Wednesday, March Hi, at 11:45 a. m., at the age of 7 ( J years, 0 months, and 20 days. Mrs. Kocli ensparger was the daughter of Mr. John Keeler and wife who settled in the upper end of Davidson towi " ship in the year 182»>. She was mar ried to Mr. Henry Kochensparger, March :l(», 1848, who with one daugh ter, Mrs. Cook, survive her. The funeral services will be held at the M. E. Church at Xordmont, Satur day forenoon at 10 o'clock. For Sale.—Owing to ill health 1 am compelled to sell my livery at j Laporte. Three good horses, wag ons, sleigh-, harness and all equip-1 merits. Will he sold cheap for cash. James (Caveti r I-aporte. Life Insurance A FEW OF THE MAW REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE A POLICY WITH THE NEW YORK LIFE BECAUSE—lncontestable from the 'date of issue. Because —absolutely ■ Without restrictions. Because—non ' forfeitable from date of issue*. Be cause—cash loans are provided after Second year, on demand at ■» per cent interest without fee or other charge. Because—if death does not occur an accumulative policy is ;i highly profi table investment for the policy-holder who.lives. Policies now maturing to living policy-holders prove this. Iti fact NKW YORK. I.IFK policies do not leak. Health and Accident Insurance J also written. A postal card will j bring an agent to you. or a person- j interview can be had at the office j Saturdays, regular office day. GEO. BROWN, Agent. LOPEZ. PA. Office in I)r. Chrictian Bl'd. U S W The Best place to buy goods Is olten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages are always be searche ior Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on IE'XH'IBITTonI ?????? ? ? 1 STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. jjHirrovft Pa. CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF $0,000,000 offers absolute security t<> depositors oi Pittsburg Trust Company. Pays per 1 sent, on Savings Depot-i's, subject to | withdrawal of #IOO withoir notice, and 2 per cent, on Checking A< « ' ints. Interest compounded semi-annually. Deposits over $10,000,000. Do ail your banking Iby mail. Send for two-hundred year ' calendar free. 323 Fourth avenue, Pitts kwf. *«. Campbell "The Merchant" , SHUNK, PA. February Reduction 3ale During this m <nth our general Ine of Winte Goods wiil.be sold at. a jeduced price. The goods are all stiictly up to date and would be excellent values at the price from which they are reductd. We therefore do not hesitate to advise our customers to take ptompt advantage of this opportunity while the season is yet with us. Yours for Business, A. E. CAMPBELL. ' _ !.! !111 - J Mid Winter Sale of Clothing. If > 011 need an ovt rcoat —come. It's your chance to get one at an average half-price. II you need a winter suit—come. It's your chance to get one at a fraction of its worth. If you need men's trousers—come, and get an all wool pair at from $i to $2, that are $2 to $4 anywhere. Boys pants at to si.««o that are good values at $1.50 to $3. Bo>s' knee pants lsc to 29c, 39c and 0). Fleeced Underwear 39 cents per garment. Men's all Wool Sweaters 79 cents, all wool fancy 1.30, 1.50, j 75, were i.ooto 7 Gloves at Just half of former price. "I his sale is strictly cash, J. W. CARROLL'S, Hotel Carroll Block, DUSHORE, PA. LAPORTE CLOTHING STORE. Spring Goods! New and Complete Line Cent's Furnishings. We are ready with the most inducing display of Spring and Summer wearing apparel lor men, women and children ever btfor placed in this store. The more exact ing your tastes, the more pleased you will be with our offerings. We want you to learn what enormous advan tages the quality and price of our goods offer you. Come and give our place a thorough inspection. SHOES, New Line! SHOES. JACOB HERR, DEALER IN Clothing, Shoes and Ladies' Cloaks LAPOETE, IF.A.. BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED Hand Painted Chinaware. Absolutely Free. We will give with each purchase, coupons which entitles the holder to a set of High Grade China Dishes, irrespec tive of the extremely low prices prevailing here. Easy Foot Wear :>r AH Oh! No Trouble at all to Show Goods. The Qualitv, p ice and style of our spring and sum mer SHOES which are marked down for closing out are the main attractions. Call and see them. Our Complete Line of Groceries. Our new Grocery Department is growing popular. You save yourself if you let us save your money. When you think of true economy this is the place to come. J. S. HARRINGTON, Dushore.Pa
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