Republican News Item. VOL. IX. NO. 14. } This Is the Place \ T o Buy Your Jewelry " \ X Nothing in Town to Compare WitliN ( the Quality chat We are Giving / ) 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 3 S with a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment commensurate with its ! \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ / our store a sale place to invest. 112 r Repair work done on short notvce and guaran-r \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X > RETTENBURY, > DUSHORE, PA. The Je\wler^^ COLE' HARDWARE^ Nq Place Like this Place Foir Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF 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. 55* js tn t1 £IG o! The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. Special Stocking Sale. We'll crowd the stocking section this week with such values as these. One case of Ladies' Fast Black full-fashioned Hose. Those are l.ot the shapeless kind, but are knit to lit and the best quality you ever bought for Icents. Unerase of Ch'Mrtuis' Fast I>laek Ribbed Ilose of extra value. We can lit out (lie boys and "iris with better stockings than you have been in the habit of buying for 12.', cents. NHW FLANNEI.FTTF I n handsome Persian designs and fancy stripes and "igures, either light or dark colors, specially suitable for dressing sacqnes or waists, at 11, 12 i-2, and is cents. OUTING FLANNELS We are showing sonic new styles and extra good qualities in out ing flannels at 8, it, 10 and 11 cents. TABLE LINEN We have several pi ees ol two yanl wide lull I>l euclie. WHITE BHD SPREAD^. We oiler two special numbers in white ('rochet Spreads that are very cheap. 'J'hev are eMi.i large sizes and neat Marseilles patterns that are neatly hemmed and ready for use. Price sI.OO and 1.25 We have a line line ol' better qualities) at reasonable prices. WASH GOODS We have just received another ease ol'"Mandarin Silk." The first lot only lust ed a lew days. This fabric is thirty inches wide and soil Ibiisli, at 8c a yard. WOOL PIiKSS (iOODS. We are closing out a small lot ol' colored Wool Press Goods that have been selling at 50c and 75c. They are 40 to 50 inches wide. While the lot lasts the price will be .'JO cents. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1904. "i v . TALKING THROUGH HIS HAT. OFFICIAL FACTS AS TO WAGES AND COST OF LIVING. Labor Caunilulont>r Wrlirht'a Ke porta Show Tltut, While Prlcea of Neeeaaarlea Have Advanced, Wagea Have Inereaaed In (ireater Propor tion. It is the boust of the Republican par ty that the success of its principles and its policies is registered in the welfare of the people and in the solidity and soundness of the government 11 nances. Evidences of the success of Republic an principles us embodied in econom ic laws placed upon the statute books by the party are everywhere to be found. Protection has brought pros perity because It has quickened the pulse of industry, given employment to labor and brought new life to indus trial conditions, which under Demo cratic policies had reached the lowest stage of stagnation and decay during the period of failure aiid ruin which followed Democratic administration aud laws from 1893 to 18it7. The convincing proof that the pro tective policy re-established by the He publican party In the enactment of the Diugley tariff law has brought ma terial betterment to the Industries and labor of the country is manifest to every observing man. Increased pro duction iu all lines, better prices, more employment for labor at better wages —all these things are the natural and sure at' -iit'-iutM upon the prosperity which protection to the Industrie** of the United States has brought to the country. Facts In support of this contention of the friends of the protective policy have been produced by the investiga tion into the trend of wages aud prices in the country during the past ten years. Tills Investigation was conduct ed by the lion. Carroll D. Wright, com missioner of labor In the United States department of commerce and labor. It Is perfectly natural also that these nonpartisan scientifically deduced facts regarding wages and prices should be denounced by the free trade element in ihe Democratic party and that from the campaign managers of that party there should at once go up shouts of derision and criticism of Colonel Wright's facts aud iigures. The free traders wince under the showing made for the cause of protection, and they exhibit the rage they feel and which causes them to rush in blindly with Senseless criticism of these government statistics. In the llrst place, let us look for a moment at Just what the investigation by the labor bureau demonstrates aud see if it is not squarely in accord with the facts known of all men. The Investigation covered the actual expenditures iu more than three thou Bund families widely scattered through out the country for food alone. It is well known that amid the general rise in prices which followed the return of good times and confidence accompany ing the restoration of the protective policy by the passage of the Dlngley tiiriff act in 1897 food prices rose more rapidly and higher than other prices. The government investigation showed that the rise Iu food prices averaged 15.5 per cent-that is to say, they were approximately so much higher In 1903 compared with 1890. This covers more tlian twenty different articles of food. During the same time, as Is shown by the investigation into the changes In wages, as Illustrated by the cases of more than 170,000 wuge earners In all kinds of Industries, chiefly the so called protected Industries, the rise In wages registered 10.3 per cent higher than they were ten years previously. Thus it Is officially recorded that the sound economic principles recognized by all students of industrial conditions, better prices In a good aud protected home market, Increasing wages, short er hours, more employment, greater distribution of money wages among the workers of the country—all these huve been the features of the Improved industrial conditions since 1897, when the Diugley tariff act, restoring pro tection and confidence Hmoug the peo ple, became a law aud a blessing to the people of the United States. The Wright report hits the cause of free trade a telling blow. It Is a dem onstration of the practical utility, soundness and efficiency of the protec tive tariff law of the United States. THE GRANGE Conducted by i. W. DARROW, Chatham, N. Y.. Prett Correspondent New fork State Orange GRANGE MEMBERSHIP, Who Should Be Admitted to Menber ahlp In the Order. H. E. Cook, a well known member of the Order and a fanners' institute lecturer, has a very timely article in the Tribune Former of recent date on the influence of the grange aud who should constitute Its membership: We are frequently met by the propo sition, To what extent may other occupations and professions be ad mitted V I took occasion recently to say at our grange meeting in the pres ence of so called professional men that the primary function of the Order was social, ethical mid civic uplift; that so long as one-third of our population was agricultural there rested upon this Order more tliau the burden of purely agricultural matters, anil (hat its influence should reuch out and im pregnate the life of our small country towns—aye, even the interior rural cities of the land, that are largely dependent upon country blood for municipal de velopment-and that we welcomed these men and women from other walks of life who came with thought, culture and a proper conception of home "iid civic duty to our ranks, so long as the leadership. Inspiration in fluence and guiding light came from the fanner aud the farm home. Such assimilation with the farmer—the host —is sure to lead the town man to great er charity for others and blessing to himself. The grange passed through a period of sloughing off this professional and mercantile acquisition twenty-five years ago, because those men sought to make the Order subservient to their own seltlsh Interests. The farmers had not at that time, however, developed that ability for leadership manifest now. If the farm Influence is again permitted to give way to foreign ma nipulation then Is our fate sealed and a period of decay must again prevail. The moment this outside influence ap pears as a speck upon the horizon unit ed effort from the farmers must raze It to the earth, never to rise again. 1 huve seen the powerful influence of the grange during the legislative sea son Just closed as never before. Are we strong enough to maintain this ef fective ascendency and continue our present growth? Only astute anil discerning leader ship will enable us to answer In the affirmative. State and national grange meetings will have to lie engineered away from the purely social and good fellowship side of the proposition and come to deal with problems from the cold business point of view. There must be strong men at the helm, ca pable of good Judgment first and then the character and stamina to hold fast, not swerving from the course. A California Orange of OUO Member*. An exchange says Orchard City grunge, Campbell, Cul.. has been or ganized little more than a year, has 000 members, meets twice each month and has good programmes. The mem bers are mostly orchurdlstß (hence the numei living in the vicinity of Camp bell, loeuted in one of the finest sec tions of Santa Clura valley, near the Santa Cruz mountains, which are beau tiful the entire year. At one of the Installation services of the grange for refreshments they hail what they call ed a prune demonstration, everything but the bread being made of prunes. We almost fear that our contemporary has made a miscount. The member ship Is very large for a small village? and for a "yearling" grange. What the Old I,ady l.ont. The grange Is the great home insti tution of the land. In one Massachu setts subordinate grunge not long ago l a class of candidates contained a young man. his father and the father's mother, the latter almost eighty years old. But think of all the good things the old lady has lost by not Joining be fore! Henrietta (N. Y.i grnnj e will erect a grange hull to cost o\or $6,000. Six weeks ago while Christian Heinze, 72 years old, of Khunk, was driving from that place to Forks ville, the holdback snap broke and tne horse shied, throwing Mr. Heinz against a tree, which lie struck with his back. The injury not yielding to treatment, he was taken to the Williamsport hospital last week. Turkey promises to be abundant and cheap for Thanksgiving this year. Last year the wet weather at the time when the broods were at their most critical period of develop ment practically killed them all off. This summer, however the weather was cool and dry just at that period vhen it proved of thfgreatest benefit to the broods. The post office department has made a broad and sweeping ruling requiring every railway mail clerk to give a *I,OOO bond to the Cnited States government for the faithful discharge of his duties, and each clerk is required to personally pay the premium of each bond. The order affects 10,0 mail clerks. Same Old IlaeUa. The Democratic campaign is in the bauds of the old gang of political hacks for the most part, und where the uew leaders are not of that stripe they are fine examples of Insiders of trust in terests. It Is a highly Impressive cam paign that Is opened on our vision.— Buffalo News. Two Men Compared. Speaker Cannon neatly discriminates the issues when he says that Koose velt has stood by the policy of the He publican party from first to lust, while Parker has been against the system of protection and has voted for Bryantsm, with Its dangerous views regarding the currency.—Troy Times. Mor<* Than I'liNiiff, The chief objection urged against Theodore ltoosevelt Is that he Is un safe. lie is more than that; he Is pos itively dangerous to the success of the Democratic ticket. Xorwalk (O.t He ll eetor. Over the Left. When Mr. Bryan advises Democrats to vote the Parker-Davis ticket he is believed to slyly wink the other eye.— Taeoum l.edger. A Prominent Granger Dead. Henry H. Goff, for twenty years sec retary of the New York state grange, died recently. He was elected secre tary In 18711 and was also secretary of the Monroe County Fire Insurance as sociation for some time. He would have been eighty-three years of age Sept. 30. The New England state fair offered, as an Inducement to increase the at tendance of members of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, to give to the three granges outside of the city of Worcester that registered the greatest percentage of membership In the regis ter at grange headquarters three pre miums, value S3O, S2O and $lO. The Patrons' Fire Belief association of Cortland, N. Y„ has taken under Its Jurisdiction thirteen towns and a part of the city of Auburn. This company has outstanding policies to the amount of $2,000,000 at the present time. Their last year's assessment amounted to $1 on each thousand of insurance. Genesee County (N. Y.) I'oinona grange was organized recently with s*lo members. This was one of the counties In which the old grange coun cils were for a long time established. No. 20e a friend of Uncle Hussell. -Washington Post. 75 TS. PER YEAR A Popular Candidate. Dr. K. \V. Samuels, of Mt. Car mel, the Republican nominee for Congress started his career in the struggle for livelihood when H l»oy eight years oid as a slate picker in the breaker, llis education among men, through public schools and at last through a medical college has been a most excellent one. In his early days he was a warm friend and was befriended by the laboring classes and up to the present he has always held that warm greeting and interest for those who were his asso ciates in his boyhood days. He was born in I«r»7, educated in the public schools of Ashland, Schuylkil county, when after .serv ing three years in the drug business his ambition became greater for a higher training aloug similar lines and he therefore entered the Jeffer son Medical college, graduating with high honors in 18H0. He began the practice of medicine the same year in Mt. Carmel and has continued the practice ever since up to the present time. The Jewish New Year Day which in the Hebrew calender is the begin ning of the year olitio, tell this year on Saturday, Sept. 10, and as is cus tomary the world over, was celebra ted by the Jewish people, both in their homes and in synagogues. New Year, or liosh Hashona, as it is called in Hebrew, marks the be ginning of the penitential {season and is therefore regarded as an im portant period in the Jewish year. The Dushore Gazette says: "Colo nel Uicketts is making arrangmeuts to build an immense electric light plant in Luzerne, county. On his lands in the vicinity of Long Fond there are a number of large swamps and he is now building (iams to flood these swamps and the water will be led from these ponds .to the foot of the mountain in Luzerne county in pipes, giving a fall of eight hundred feet, and furnishing power for an electric light plant from which he proposes to furnish light for the near-by towns in Lu zerne and Columbia counties. Another Conference to Name Candidate. The conferees of the Sullivan Wy oming judicial conference, will meet at Tun khan nock Thursday, when it is expected that the business of the conference will be brought to a close, lndictations point to the nomination of Charles Terry, of Tunkhannock. The !Mth annual fair at Hughes ville, under the auspices of the Muncy Valley Farmers' Club, will be held September 20, 21, 22, and 23. The Hughesville fair has alway been the finest held in Lycoming county, ami the efforts being put forth to make that of 1904 excel, in every way, all former ones leaves no question about how good the coming one is to be. Special attractions of a first class order have been secured and there will be something doing from early morn until dewy evening. The performances in front of the jjrand stand taking place in the morning as well as afternoon. The Bradford county Democratic convention in session at Towanda last week placed the following tit ket in the field: For state senator, (Jeo. W. Kipp of Towanda; members of the legislature, J. A. Morley of Athens, J. C. Burke of Canton and Ira Finch of Windham; district attorney, S. H. Smith of Towanda; county surveyor, N. F. Welker of Athens. T. F. Carroll of Towanda was re-elected county chairman. Mr. Hush (J. Rogers of Millview, and Miss Jennie Miller of Forks vilie, were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents, Wednesday, September 7th in the presence of a large number of Iriends and relatives. The bride and groom are among the most prominent of the young people of western Sullivan. The news Item extends congratulations. Clarence, the five-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. I'. Miller of Muncy Valley, died Friday, Septem ber 9th. The funeral was held on I Sunday.