VOL. IX. WO. 7. ? This Is the Place K ( To Buy You J Jewelry. S Nothing" in Town to Compare With > ( the Quality that We are Giving J } You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that \ 3 irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r Cof this section. Many years here in business, always ) Swith a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C \ with a care and judgment commensurate with its « V desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ ( our store a safe place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X RETTENBURY, > 1) US HO RE, PA. The Jeweler. No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOI HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing. Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Wash Goods. White Goods for Dresses. The latest arrival at the wash Hoods We have a beautiful line of .lainty lab counter is < iyde Cloth a new Wash I'ab- r j CB that are the most approved material ric tor Shirt Waist Suits. I hey come in for Summer Dresses. We're confident colored ami black stripes and figures on that we can please you in the matter ot white ground. We will not show a better fabric as well as priee Irom these fabric than these regular materials French lawns, Plain Swiss, tor Persian Lawns, Dotted Swiss. IOC India l.inon, Silk Mull. Infants' Dresses and Wearables for Babies. We have .just opened some Infants long Infant* and Childrens Hand Crocheted Dresses with lots of taste and babylike ' S ac.|ues in plain white or pink and blue beauty in them. Some plain, others with trimmings. 25c to 551.50. lace and tucks. Prices start at 25c and Kabv and Children's White Mull Caps, . go up to #2.75. at 25c to #1.50. > Short dresses for the older babies. All Infants fine W bite Cashmere Skirts, at dainty and well made from the Cambric -»c to or Naineook, at 25c and up. Infants Cashmere Bands, at 25c and Infants' and Children's long or short ,; ' O, Shirts on waist at 50 to Ksc. Infants' Wool or Gotten Hose in white, pink, blue, tan and last black, extra qua lities lor 15c and 25c- Openwork Hose for Summer Knit Women. Underwear. They're much in demand this season. I'you have thin Knit Underwear to Here are two qualities that are special, buy see our line of Ud.ds'low neck and Ladies Fast black I.aee stripe Hose with sleeveless ribbed Vests at 10c I2je, 15c. high spliced heels ami double soles, for Udies ribbed Swiss at 25 to 5<U fine ~ Mercerized and Silk Vest at 50c to #l. ~ Ladies Fast Black Lace Listle Thread Children's Summer Underwere ost Hose of excellent quality, either striped R " <l«alitesyou could ask for. or boot patterns at Msc. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, JUNE,I6 1904. THE DEMOCRATIC FALSTAFF AND THE ROSTER FOR 1904. J TRUSTS AM) TARIFFS COMBINES NOT DEPENDENT UPON PROTECTION. They Are tin* Product* of IVew I'eo nocitie Method* of ( omlnet IU«- IIUNI nesN mid Would Continue to lOxi.nt lleKarilleNN of Tariff. When the professional octopus hunt ers Inveigh against the numerous trusts they never fail to mention the ice trust with others and proceed to exclaim that the cure lor the general evil is free trade or approximate free j trade. Hut the average mortal cannot j understand what the tariff lias to do With the ice business. During the w inter just ended nature was most generous in providing lee, and there was nothing standing in the way of those who wanted any consid- ; erable quantity of ice from putting it ! away for summer use. So far as we know there is no tariff on ice, and we do not believe it would pay to import j ice from the north pole or any other 1 point where it is to be had for the cut ting. If the tariff duties should bo j taken off cheese, for instance, we do nut think it would make any difference in the price of ice, and therefore it ; ought to lie recognized by those who j revel in a long string of trusts in pic- j lures and in words that the Ice trust I might be well eliminated as an object j lesson when the tariff in connection | with trusts ts being considered. Trusts are not bred by protection in fact, they are bred because of the j new economic methods of conduct- j ing business. Several of the trusts j have come to grief in recent years, j The problem of combinations of capi- i tal operated to the disadvantage of I the consumers is to settle itself by the lapse of time and by the enforcement j of laws applied lo such corporations as are operated in violation of the law. There are undoubtedly many trusts, so called, which do work a hardship to ! the consumers at times, but some of | them are of a character not to lie af- j fected by either free trade or protec- i tion. Thus any consideration of sueli j business combinations should be along j lines of common sense. General howls against trusts prove nothing. For instance, the cries against the ice, coal and meat trusts are absurd when it is charged that they are created by the policy of pro tection. They would no doubt exist under free trade just as well as they do now. Then there is the milk trust in New York. The tariff has nothing to do with it. Those who inveigh against trusts ought to be specific, es pecially when they seek to connect combinations of capital with the tariff. If the evil is to be fought it must be along intelligent lines. Of course we realize that many folks are deluded into believing that the ice, milk, coal and beef trusts are made possible through the policy of protection, but anybody who stops long enough to think can soon discover that such com binations of capital would be possibh under any national system.—Wilming ton (Del.; News. Witst( It ClainiM. The free trade Philadelphia Record | sneeringly remarks that "the Republic- . an party is the claimant of all the coun try's prosperity, including the rise in the price of wheat." Oil, no. il is not. It merely claims to lie the earnest sup porter of policies which tend to pro- ! mote and maintain the country's pros perity. And the beauty of the conten tion is that experience lias proved it to be correct. The lean years when the Democratic policy of free trade was in j operation are all that need be cited to j attest the fact.—Troy Times. In the winter the farmer should farm . the mind; In the summer farm the' farm. THE GRANGE Conducted by J. W. DARKOW. Chatham, N. Y.. Pre#* Corrc#)>oudent New Turk State Grange HON. OLIVER WILSON. Mnslrr of Illinois State (•nuiur, 1*«- trouM of n«lry. The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in Relmont county, < t>ut removed Willi liis parents. when two years old, to I'ulnain county. 111., set tllng on an open prairie, starting to school when live years old. \\ lieu old enough to handle a team he went to work on the farm, attending school in winter. I.ater he attended the Normal —school at Normal, 111., tlien for sev •vc>"rs ' arin * I VOi ed in summer I v w and taught n dis \M trlct school in IK J X waiter. I /' V }J> In 1ST;! he be- Y-\ came a charter i member of Mag- V nolla grange, No. / /\ 17i>. being the youngest mem - •'l' l ' l V t I' ■' j served in that '»,r. x capacity for five years; he wan also appointed. 110.N. OLIVFJI WIL6OX. sam(J county deputy. lie attended the state grange as a representative lirst in ISO" and has been a regular attendant since, lie was elected lecturer in 1880 and served in that capacity for eight years and was then, by an almost unanimous ballot, elected master of the state grange and has held the ollice with practically little opposition until the present time. In 1901 Rrother Wilson was unani mously elected annalist of the seventh degree I'. of 11. and received the entire vote for re-election at the session of the national grange, held at Rochester, last November. He has been Meutltied with the farmers' institute work, serv ing 011 the state hoard of that body for eight years, and was elected and serv ed as the lirst state superintendent of institutes. First Qlillrterl} Itoiiort For 1!)t)4. The number of granges organized from Jan. 1, 1904, to March 31, 190-1. both inclusive, is as follows: Colo ratio, 1; Connecticut. 1; Illinois, 1; In diana, lit; Maine, .">: Maryh"tl. 3; Mich igan, 10; New Jersey, 8; Nev> York, 10; Ohio, 11; Oregon, 5; Pennsylvania, 13: Rhode Island, 1; Texas, 1; Vermont, 2; Washington. 12; West Virginia, 3; total, 118. The number reorganized in the same period is as follows: Indiana, 1; lowa, 3; Kansas, 7; Maine, 2; Massachusetts, 3; Michigan, 3; Minnesota, 1; Ohio, 1; Pennsylvania, 4; West Virginia, 15; total, 40. AYluit FNRMITN Are DDIIIK. Secretary Wilson says it is the farm ers who make the country rich. Two years ago our farm exports amounted to $900,000,000, which is $3,000,000 for every working day, $125,000 per hour. $2,000 per minute and $33 per second, as some one has figured it out. This was in 1901, and it ought to be more now. We Mtniiiri Sny Not, One of the articles of the constitu tion and bylaws of the Kansas state grange says that ■'deputies organizing new granges si I admit no person who sells intoxicating Mqßo/s or who is an habitual drunkard." We should say not. i SONES7OWN. Alvin Eddy of Picture Hockß is visiting Harry Anns. Misses Elsie and ISertlia Boat man were Sunday guests of rela j fives at <Jlen Mawr. L. K. Freas made a trip to Will -1 iamsporfc on Saturday, j Dunning Lock wood lias been 'quite sick hut is now much better. Mrs. Lizzie Simmons returned i from Nordinont Thursday. Mrs. (ieorge liunter of Nord mont was down town on Friday, Miss Ada Hall is in Williamsoprt ! visiting relatives. Miss Edna Lock wood was at j Eagles Mere on Sunday the guest I of Mary Van Buskirk. A dance was held on Thursday levelling at the Stackhouse Hotel. Messrs Bert Little and William Laird of Eagles Mere drove to town ! on Wednesday of last week. The Clothe Pin Factory has sus pended work until more logs arrive. At this writing the Washboard l'ac ! Tory also has shut down, Geo-ge llazen has torn down 11is j old kitchen and erected a more , commodious one. Misses \da and Mildred Hall. Rcba lless and Mable lla/.en were !in Magics Mere Saturday evening between trains. Misses Mary, Celia and Kate j Donovan. Frances Moranand C'elia Minni"r were guests of Miss Mable ! lla/.en Sunday afternoon. l>r. Voorliees was in Hughesville Tuesday. Mrs. R. W, Simmons shopped in j Williamsport Saturday. Miss Blanche Stackhouse is visit ing at Picture Rocks. Mrs. Done Corson shopped in 1 11ughsvillc Saturday. Miss I'earl Houscknecht spent | Sunday with relatives in llughes jville. Roy Parker and Jacob Simmons | drove to Nordmont on Sunday. : Serious Charge Brought Against Arthur Currey. A. Currie, proprietor of the Korks | villi' hotel was arrested Tuesday by the Forksville Boro Council charged with attempting to burn the hotel which was dieeovered on tire at an early morning hour, the tire having started in the cellar and showed ev ery indication of having been of in cendiary origin. Mr. Currie found a face mask on Ills porch after the tire had been extinguished, this he claims as evidence that some des perate person had worn for the pur pose of concealing his identity in case they were discovered while in the criminal act of setting tire to the building. It i- claimed by the pros ecutors that Mr. Currie had his trunks packed with clothes and per sonal valuables evidently prepared to leave the building on short no tice. It is stated lhatjthey have oth er convictiveevidence to show that Mr. Currie started the tire with the suppocsd purpose of getting the in surance money. Attorney- A. J. Bradley and K. .J. Mulliu went to Forksville Tues day where a hearing was held lie fore 'Squire Rogers. Mr. Currie was bound over to court and came to Laporte with the authorities who had with them a jail committment to place the accused behind the "bars." At Laporte Mr. Currie sc cured the s.~>oo bail imposed upon 11i111 for his appearand' at court, it having been furnished by Lyle i (Srange of Klkland. A movement has started in Akron, j Ohio, which promises to set the | country wild. A new organization has sprung up called the "Young j Crusaders." The boys belong to a Sunday School, of course, they wear khaki uniforms, tlourish swords, i talk loud and sleep out of doors un der real flapping tents. Two of Sen | ator Dick's offspring belong to the hand. Exactly what the crusade is about does not appear. Possibly it is a crusade against using tobacco I telling lies, being lazy, and showing j disrespect to one's parents, if so, if should prosper. 75 TS. PER* YEAR CANDIDATES WHO ARE SURE TO WIN POPULAR FAVOR. Men of Good Standing and Well Worthy of Strong Support. i j Dr. Martin E. Ilerrman of Du- I shore, the Republican candidate for Representative, is a native of (jcr niany. In the splendid schools and universities of that country he ob tained Ids education. On his arriv al in the I'nited States he first prac ticed medicine in Philadelphia but in l><7l removed to Dushore where lie has since resided. As a man lie ranks high in the community and as a physician he is known far anil wide, not only for his skill but for his willingness to travel through night and storm to attend the poor man and his family as well as the rich. The Doctor has not added to his bank account by this course but lie has laid up a .large account of good will and gratitude in the hearts of many. Dr. Herrman has been re-elected a J member of the School Hoard of Du shore for the seventh time and it is worthy of mention that although a bitter personal ti rht was made against him and his opponent was a man of worth and high standing, the Doctor carried the town by a larger majority than Democratic candidates usually receive in that Borough. Dr. I lernnan is a good speaker, a ! man who is thoughtful and consider ate of the interests of the people and we predict for him i rousing vote froniall parties. I'"rank \V. Huck', our candidate for Sheriff, is a diatutmd in the rough, but a genuine diamond for all lhat. As for his qualifications we venture :to say that there is no man in the county better qualified to be Slier ill' As constable for many years lie has I the reputation of being the best man in the county to serve a writ or a warrant. He fears no man or thing, but goes ahead with his writ, serves it, treats the defendant kindly,keeps him safe, and returns his writ accord ing to law. Mr. Buck unfortunately lost his left hand several years ago and he is unfitted for manual labor. No man ever heard him complain and he has gone along under great disadvan tage and gained a livelihood with his one poor arm. Mr. Buck has a rough way of -peaking, and strangers might think him inclined to be harsh, but the man really has a heart a- big as an ox and as soft as a woman. No man, according to his means, would do more for those in distress than Prank Buck. To his friends lie is faithful, and hi> enemies, if he has any, know he is no snake in the grass. You can always tell where to find him. As for honesty and straight for ward business conduct, he need yield to no one. If elected, as we believe he undoubtedly will be, Sullivan county will have a splendid officer and a deserving man w ill be reward ed. The only thing against him i that he is poor, but we do not believe the time lias yet come in Sulli van county when no poor man can be elected lo oflice. After all that has been done and said a*bout forest trees protecting the land preventing floods, and causing rivers to flow at an average depth, it seems that cloud bursts occur with frequen cy in different parts of the country, regardless of the condition of vegeta tion. In one day conies the news of floods in New York, I'emia., the Black Hills,a ten days rain in Kansas cloud bursts in Texas, in the Indian Territory. I'ven the Kaw river in Kansas is a restless stream, and every little while leaves its bed and goes wandering all over the state. And it is a remarkable fact that old pianos are to be found in the river bottoms of Kaiwas as the result of floods. Something will have to be done besides talking about spots on flu'sun, and appointing yi.ung men to plant trees and draw salaries as forest rangers.
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