i > s i: \i, wLtLS I t-' Published Every Thursday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOKTE, PA. W C. Mason, I'ri'siiien. K. XI. Di sham Tiea< THUS. J. INCH AM, SeiTttury. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. In pursuance to a call issued by I lie chairman,the Republican County Committee met at Laporte, Pa. on March 12th for the purpose of fixing 1 he.dates for holding the Primaries ami the County Convention. It was decided to hold the Primaries on Sat in day the 20th day of March, and the County Convention on the foll owing Tuesday March 29th for the purpose of naming a State Delegate; < ongressiunal Conferees; Conferees to nominate National Delegate and alternates; Conferees to nominate a President Judge, and a county Ticket And such other business as may come properly come before the con vention. A full attendance is desir ed upon this occasion. F. 11. Ingham, Seey. \V. P..Shoemaker, Chairman. STANDARD OF LIVING WHEREIN AMERICANS FARE BETTER THAN FOREIGNERS I ou<!lUoll of W'n Kf Burner* la Till* (ouiilry I titlrr Protection Com pared With That in Their Fellow* In «;reut Britain I nder Free Trade. Senator Gallinger said in concluding his -i-eat speech on the result of Ding leyism:. "The American standard of living, American manhood and American homes are the sequences of a protec tive tariff." What Is the American standard? llow does it differ from the foreign bt;>in!nrd, and how does our present protection standard differ from our tree trade'Standard? We do not propose to consider tli» millionaire or the exceptionally ub innate who can always be found ir i cities under -any circumstances but ilie masses of average toilers to be found by the million all over our eour try. in i he first place, the average Amer ican is better housed, better clothe/ and better fed than the average work ingniari abroad because he gets from twice to ten times the wages. In Knf hiiul one person iu every twenty-flvs 1> a pauper; in the United States nor one person in a thousand, in Knglantf tin per cent of the wage earners hnve ue plaee they can call their own beyond l lie end of the wyek. have no bit of sod nothing of- value of any kiwi, are hous ed in places that an American would not ihink tit for a horse, and a month's idleness or sickness brings them face to face with hunger and pauperism. In the I'uited States hundreds of thou sands own their own homes. Other hundreds of thousands rent four and six room tenements and apartments which are comfortably and often hand somely furnished. From 20 to 33 per coin of the whole imputation of some of the largest towns iu England live in one room homes. Less than one-teutli of J per cent of our population so live, in l.ondon alone a quarter of a million people live in "homes" which consist of a single room for all purposes of do mestic life for all the members of the family. It need hardly be added that such "homes" have little furniture and rarely a carpet. It is simply a con tinual struggle to exist and keep the children alive. We can hardly realize in the United States what such an ex istence is. Now, let us look into a typical Amer ica.'.! Home. It can be found iu the cit ies. in the towns or th» country. It is the rule and not the exception. We find a house or apartment or tenement of from four to six or more rooms. K; h room is carpeted, a brussels ear pet in the parlor, an ingrain In the sit ting room or dining room, a rag carpet ia the bedrooms, while the kitchen has : u oilcloth or stained floor. There are a li.iihroom and several closets. There is pretty paper on the walls and shades ,"iid curtains at the windows. The din ing table may be In the kitchen or In the sitting room, or there may be a separate dining room. There are linen , tablecloths and napkins, china and /gl-iss ware and silver or plated knives, forks and spoons. There are three / niu.-ire uieuls a day, good, substantial food, in great variety and plenty of It. In the sitting room will generally be found a sewing machine, a coiuforta l.: • I ninge. a rocking chair and other chairs. In the parlor in many cases will be found a piano or organ. There \v;ll be pictures on the walls and many ornamental things. In the bedrooms will l,e found comfortable beds, with plenty of sheets and blankets and -reads. There will be found plenty of books anil magazines for the elders mid picture books and story books for the children. There will be balls and l-:;ts and marbles and tops anil skates i; ud sleds for the boys and dolls for the »iris. Think of our American girl who t ;ies not own a doll and sometimes a iiox.cn! And the dolls are prettily dress ed 100. '1 bey have their own little beds an.l bureaus and carriages and tea sets mid parasols ami numerous other tilings, in Let. there are millions of American dolls that are better off than the children themselves abroad or were tlie children of free trade times in our own country. !' our boys ">). 17 OlM.OtlO I another mil lion In collects. academies and private schools. These schools and colleges are u part of our American standard, its very foundation. and each generation attains to u higher degree of enlighten ment and culture. This is the reason why we huve over 2.000 daily paper*, over 10.000 weeklies and 3.000 month lies, scores of which have circulation* exceeding 100,000 copies each issue and some as high as half a million. This, too. is the reason why many millions of new books are sold annually. Be sides the enjoyment of literature is the pleasure of music and art, of lectures and the theater. Then there are the millions spent upon recreation and sport. One hundred thousand and more people a day go to Coney Island. More than that number attend the ball games. Millions In the summer goon excursions, and all are well dressed and happy. And when all the neces saries and luxuries are provided there is !ji 1,000,000,000 a year put into the savings banks, loan associations, Insur ance companies and other forms of providing for the future. Besides the Individual And family standard is the public standard of vil lages, towns and municipalities the parks and libraries, the well paved and lighted streets, the sewers and side walks, the cheap water and gas, the Are and police protection. Then there are the great public utilities which are con stantly being Improved and at a less and less price to the public; the post otlice and free delivery, rural as well as city; the railroads, with their cheap freight and passenger rates; the tele graph and telephone; the trolleys, with their transfer systems, and numerous other benefits. One cannot begin to enumerate the list of benefits enjoyed by the American masses, benefits that were not known till protection began to develop our brains and enterprise and industries. More and more em ployment has kept raising the wages, while competition has lowered prices and improved conditions. After our civil war for twenty-eight years a pro tective tariff constantly raised our standard of living. Then came the three or four years of free trade, when we stood still or went back. The same standard existed, the same appetites, the same desires, but the means of at taining them, the purchasing power, was gone. Then came the Pitigley law, under which we nre now living, and with it came the greatest prosperity ever known and a reaching for and en joyment of a still higher standard of living, a still nobler manhood and still happier homes. Our typical home is no exaggeration. There are more bet ter ones than worse ones. A few live in affluence, a few In poverty, but" the great mass of our people enjoy the American standard, which is the high est on earth and a higher standard by far than we have ever known under free trade. Nor have we reached the limit by any means. Protection has accomplish ed much, but if left undisturbed it will accomplish still more. Let us see to it that we push forward. We want no more standing still, no more going back. We have every natural, physical and financial advantage. I.et us con tinue to have opportunity. FARMERS' READING COURSES A Vulaulilr Feutare of Literary Work In tlie Grtmire. Teaching by means of correspondence has now come to be an established method of reaching the people. It Is now recognised that not every one is going to college or to special schools, and yet every one should be taught In the things with which he lives. "Cor respondence schools" are now estab lished in various lines. These schools are in no sense competitors with the ordinary schools, but are supplemen tary to them, extending their influence. A closely related, enterprise Is the leading course, and this Is now adapted to many lines of work. One of its most recent developments is In the line of agriculture, and this work is specially adapted to farmers, since so few of them can goto an agricultural college. The rural mail delivery is making these courses workable. The largest of the farmer's reading course enterprises Is in New York state, where there are two such courses emanating from the col lege of agriculture at Cornell univer sity and maintained by the state—one for farmers and one for farmers' wives. Each of these numbers several thousand readers. It is not the primary purpose of these courses to set the readers at books, for those who are confirmed In the habit of reading books are able to help themselves. Therefore simple be ginners' lessons are prepared and sent free to farmers and their families in the state. With the lessons are sent ques tions for the reader to answer, and cor respondence is then maintained with the reader on the points of difference between reader and Instructor. Farm ers often organize themselves into read ing clubs, and the grange affords one of the most favorable opportunities for pursuing these Courses. In the New- York farmers' reading course are les sons on soil, fertilizing, stock feeding, poultry houses, orcharding. In the farmers' wives' course are lessorts on saving steps, home sanitation, the home garden, practical housekeeping, food for the family, furnishing and reading for the farm home. John D. Reeser s Big Store, I aiik Block, Euthore, Pern a. FLOUR FLOUR As wheat has taken a great Jump, call your attention to FLOUR. The very best Hour we now oiler you for $1.50 a sack, elsewhere for the very same Hour they are charging you $1.60 and SI. 75 a sack. We also have other very good brands of Hour that are selling as low as sl.oo a sack and in trying our brands in Hour you will want the same again. Carry all kinds of feed. The best 'I imothy and Clover Seed we now have in stock and the lowest price. \ As Lent is still with us, we have in stock Mackerel, Ciscoes, Salmon, Codfish, and in fact al! kinds of fish. Specials in canned goods Sardines in oil, imported Sardines, Soused Mackerel, Lobster, Burnham's Clam Chowder 20c. Come in and see the grocery department as it is well stocked with good ihings tor you. SHOES, SHOES, New line just received and the very best ba id you would wish to see including— Radclifte, Barnard, Empress, Etc. Full and complete line i<i Ladies' Men's, Hisses and Children's Shoes. Have good $2 and $3 in odd sizes on the counter, your choice for sl.oo a pair. Rare opportunity. Carr a full and complete line in Dry Goods, Millinery, Shoes, Carpets, Rugs, Oilcloth, Curtains, Wall Paper Crockery, Groceries, Trunks, Suit Cases, Satchels and Telescopes. John D. Reeser's Big Store* Bank block "/. VT» l --T r.HW, t. XDXJSHOIS-E • «- i ■ - --i - —. Grass Seed. rzaaaoe. Jt -wajta raearr. tsmeats-'.sar■•*&- ssasss' We sell E. W. Conklin & Son BINGHAM! ON, N. Y , Recleaned Seeds, Recleaned Seeds, Standard Timothy, 1.90 per bushel. The famous B B recleaned Timothy 2.2s per bushel. * Medium recleaned Clover seed per bushel Don't delay buying Clover, you will see higher prices at seeding time. . Bran, $25 per ton. Old process oil meal 1.6s per 100lbs Every farmer and stock owner should use a bag or two at this season. No. 2 white oats 55c. Look to us for your supply seed oats, we have it bought and will scon be here. Tomatoes SI.OO per [dozen. (i)c C3ell Everting, j A. P. WIELAND CO. General Merchants, PRO n^^°S?T? TEAM LrKlb 1 MILL,, HOE. ZDIMZOHSTT, ZP.A.. « see Mere: ® Can you get anything for the home that will make it more* bright and cheerful than Fine Finished Furniture ? The BIC STORE has always tried to keep the best at prices within the reach of all. Call and examine our 1904 stock of Fine FURNITURE. Sewing machines, Bedroom suits, Couches. Dining chsirs, Morris chairs, Child's rockers, Child's morris chair, Doll beds, Chile's bureaus, Doll carriages. Rocking horses, Baby tenders, High chairs. Pictures and odd frames by the dozen. RUGS, RUGS, RUGS. Holcombe CfLaoer, Furniture Cf Undertaking DUSHORE, PA. TELEPHONE. R* ass ll -. ... 1 _ , j , . THE NEW YORK WORLD THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION. Cn y 1.50; Clubbed with the News Item, 1 year. - SIM II 411 To PATENT Good Idut •nw't Tobacco Spit and Su.oke Tour T.lfp Ana;. 1 1 ,1 may be secured by To quit tobacco easily anil forever, be ma* I I I' J I our aid. Addreaa, netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-'lo J I 1 HI THE PATENT RECORD Bftc . the wonner-woruer, lliat makes weak men Baltlmort Md Btron ß- All druggists, 80c or 11. Cure nuaran. Subscriptions to The Patent Record tI.OU per au'num' te * d Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Cliicaeo or Ntw York Our«B Ooldsi Prevents PiMumoola Mali— Kldiwy and Bladder Bight BANNER 8A LYE ' the moat haallng »-lv» In th« world. Educate Toar Bowele With Curarau. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, S6c. If C. C. C. (all, druggists refund money To Cure a Cold i) i One Day 1 Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tai lets. JB every I S«ven MOBon boxes sold In past 12 months. Thk sigwa tore, v9. DOX. 25c. J I—*ll * | A RE YOU-GOING TO BUILD i A NSW HOUSE j OR LAY NEW FfiDORS IN&THE OLD ONE'? If so, it will&payi you to?get some of our Moobljflooring Kiln dried, mrrtchedfsi'des and 1 ends, hollow backed and bored, MAPLE I -and BEECH. It wilbout-wear two ordinary floors and is very much smoother, nicenand easier to put down than soft All kinds kept in stock by jennings Brothers, Lopez, Penn'a. ALSO ALL SIZES'-IN HEMLOCK WE HAVE IN STOCK NO, 1 AND 2 LUMBER, SIDINGw PINE SHINGLES. CEILING, LATH, ETC. AT LOWEST PRICES. Williamsport h North Branch Railroad TT-UVTIE T.A.HBUL.IE. In effect Monday. Jan. !Bth, 1904. Read down Kenil up Flag stations where 1 line is marked "I" P. M. P. M. AMP MA M A. M. A M BTi TIONS. A M P.M P. >l. PSIPMI' MA XI 111 li 12 50 12115 20 1022 751 I a 115... it 15 100 10 of> 450 1000 T35 10 -II 12 55 f4 2:i 525 flo 2.*. I7«t Pe UlMlale ... <• 40 :: .* JO in 115 7: 0 lo;:;o 105 UlO 432 5 :;5 10 :• 4 SO? . Hur ho*viil<-... •» :!1 :: 45 (■ .'*l 135 I'. 00 !I 45 720 1 111 145 ....' fH 15 .. .Che inoilll! 32K 940 s3O 1 4 507 831 ..XiUin y Valley 307 922 8 <l7 0 09 932 .. ..SatU-Hu-ld 8 17 7 00 P. M. I'M AM. AM A. M. AM 1' M A. M. 1' M I'M PM AM AM I'M 515 845 Sorestown 11 10 7 > f'JOO (iejeliu ll'ark 6;05 935 Katies Mere 10 15 655 £_ .. _..Ki>sles Mere Pnrk| 620 9< 7 "T.1t0h0re..... 842 7(s 7 20 • 10 • 8 ...Towapda... 7 80 6 Ift 12~ 0 uTlkes Harie » Ofr 430 400 1889 10 00 r": .F~VYilTi'"nslnrt 650 10 21 12 41 538 5 3j> 10 31 S. D. TOWNSEND, D. K. TOWNSEND. Gen. Manager,Hur fhesville Passenger Agent. FIRST NATIONAL BANK ■ ZBCTJOgHTIEJiBVILLE, CAPITAL STOCK, SSO 000 DcWITT IBOJIINE, President C. WILLIAM WODDBOP, Vice Pres. W. C. FRONTZ, Cashier. SURPLUS AND NET PROFITS, ■ DIRECTORS: $50,000 112 ' ~ , PtVNViII/ J3oclin p,i C. Wm. Woddrop, Peter Transacts a General \ ' BonKinfl Pi^i nr « iJeremiah Frontz, W. C. Frontz, , ...... i&aineu K.iEouk, > John C. Laird, E.P. Brenlioltz, Accounts ol Indivtd-i ~ ' .„. _ Peter Fn >ntz, John P. Lake, Daniel U.Poust, mis and Firms Solic- ' John Bull. ted. | |The IS 75c a Year. pnlypoc I , t * ADVANCE. I "
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