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ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS.
House runiishiug Goods, Tools of Every
Description, Guns and Ammunition.
Bargains that bring the buyer back.
Come and test the truth of our talk.
A lob 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.
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• J WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
Tl)e Nev Fall Suits
Are arriving every day, the line will soon he complete. Season alter season
we are selling more suits. We have every reason to believe that our efforts have
been repaid and that your confidence in us to secure the best styles will be sustained
w hen you sue what a fine showing we w ill have ready in a lew days.
New Walking Skirts.
We have scoured .the whole market until we found the in . I \ii -h,
serviceable walking skirls that would lie shown anywhere. They are both plain
oolors and the new plaids and the new English mixed eflects.
THE NEW WOOL DRESS GOODS FOR FALL
Are on the counters. Everybody who wishes quiet. rich, tasteful things in
dress fabrics will find them here. Not a desirable cloth or color missing. There
are two fashionable cloths this season. Broadcloths and Panamas. We have an
excellent assortment of both.
Plaids Are Stylish
Plaids are once more in favor and are made in some lovely color combinations.
They are the quiet and com lire tone plaids, not loud as the few years hack.
Corsets of the Best
Before the new gown a new corset of course. Let us help you to select the
right one. We cannot athird to have anything but the best at the various prices.
Critically sebcted models make tip the fall assortments. Every corset shows the
new lines demanded by late styhs. V\ hether you buy one tor 5o cents or the very
finest we can suit you.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1906.
BRYAN AND THE TARIFF.
| Tlie IVcrlrsN in n;lt«lte (luullfletl to
Fret* Cohort*.
The enthusiasm with will eh the Dem
ocrat !c leaders are hailing the coming
of Mr. liryan from his lour through
foreign parts ami the fact that a num
ber <i!' state delegations in various
parts tit' the country have given In
dorsement ti) the proposition l'oi mak
ing Mr. liryan the nominee of the Dem
ocratic party in 190S convince most of
the political observers here that unless
something unforeseen happens Mr.
liryan will lie the Democratic nominee
for the presidency, practically without
j opposition. It also seems to he the
| opinion that Mr. liryan hopes to unite
| tiie various wings ul the Democratic
party on a middle ground of compara
tive conservatism, abandoning all refer
ences to the money question and mak
ing the campaign solely upon the issue
of the tariff and opposition to corpora
tions.
Whatever may lie said about the un
soundness of Mr. liryan's economic
opinions generally and regardless of
the views now entertained by many
pe i])!e throughout the country respect
ing the conservatism of Mr. liryan
coiiip ired with the striking illustrations
the countrj has had within the past
two or three years of want of con
servatism in high places, the country
will not forget that William J. liryan
is and always has been a radical op
ponent of the protective tariff and pcr-
I sistcnf in his demands for free trade.
! if will not be forgotten that Mr. liryan
was a member of the committee 011
ways and means of the house of rep
resentatives in IS'. 14 and had a con
spicuous part in the work of that com- J
mittee in framing the iniquitous Wilson
tariff law. It will not be forgotten i
that so radical was the Wilson bill !
when it left the committee of which j
Mr. liryan was a conspicuous member j
that it required tile efforts of Senator •
(ion mi and other Democrats in the I
! senate to save it from being the most j
I obnoxious free trade bill ever present- j
ed in congiess. Kvcn after the senate j
Democrats had materially modified the
hill the measure when it became a law
was so destructive of American inter
•sts and so liberal in its encourage
ment of foreign competition that im
ported commodities llcjded the markets j
of the i'nite.l Slates, while the mills i
and factories throughout this country j
stood idle and American workingmen j
dined at soup houses in the leading in- !
dnstrtai centers of the country.
Mr. Bryan has a record 011 the tariff I
I question that qualifies him to be the !
loader of the Democratic party in a '
1 residential campaign on that issue. |
He may no; be radical at this time on I
the subject of free silver, but 1110 most |
anient free trader in the country would i
not be disappointed on account of want S
of radicalism on the part of Mr. liryan j
in his denunciation of the protective
system.
BRYAN A FREE TRADER. I
lie SI ill I'riM <M't ion iim u.
Great \ntfuunl Kv 11.
Mr. liryan has not recanted the po- j
litical doctrines he preached in 181)11 >
and 1900. He stands today where he :
stool then, and his two cardinal priii- j
elides then were free silver and free ;
trade.
There Is one great virtue of Mr. liry
au's character. He is consistent and
unwavering in his principles, lie is j
not a trimmer or an opportunist, j
When the Democratic party nominates i
him for president in 1008, as there is i
now every indication that it will do. he !
will dictate the platform and make the I
campaign i-sites.
Mr. Bryan believes that tariff protec- j
Hon is a great national evil that shel- j
tors a whole brood of evils. He would |
apply til* ax to the roots of the tariff
system. His doctrine i; the time hon
ored Democratic doctrine that a tariff
should be made for revenue only, with
out any regard to manufacture; that i
the government has no right to impose '
taxes for any other purpose save the j
expense of the government.
The financial doctrine of Mr. Bryan
has been so well discredited by experi
ence in the last ten years that it will
be held in the background. In matters
of real reform President Itoosevelt and
congress have cut away the ground
from Mr. Bryan and his party. There
will therefore be 110 issue to come up
in the next two years to have equal ini
ooii.iuce Willi the tariff question, and
that wiil be tin> great issue of the can
didacy of Mr. Bryan.
Meanwhile the country will have oc
casion in the congressional elections
this year to pas,: preliminary Judgment
011 the tariff question. The voters will
say in the elections 111 the various
states whether they are prepared to
carry out the theories of Mr. Bryan.
New Jersey will goon record with the
rest of the country. The first five
years since the last federal census j
sho-.v a phenomenal increase in the in- '
dustri.nl prosperity of this state. What j
the federal census of 1!)10 will show
depends wholly upon the results of the
elections for congressmen and presl- j
dent in the state and national elections
in 100(1 and 1 DOS. Newark Advertiser. |
I'ioneer grange of t'ranliury, N. J., is
doing well In the line of co-operative .
buying. It has purchased i? 2,000 worth I
of clover seed in connection with tlw 1
grange at lligbtstown, also $5,000 i
worth of fertilizers and three carloi.da
of seed notatoes
Another Victim.
The Osier theory is responsible for
the termination of the life of Henry
, Sundo, at Lebanon, who believed in
| the doctrine that man had outlived
| his usefulness when he reached the
I age that incapacitated him for work,
J and he accordingly went to the gar
ret of his home and hanged himself,
last Saturday. Sando, who was (!3
years old, and a retired blacksmith
i in good circumstances, raised a fami
ly of five children, all of whom
turned out well and one of whom
is about to be ordained a Reformed
minister and is attending the Ursin
us Theological Seminary at College
ville. He worked hard all his life
and accumulated several valuable
properties and his family connec
tions were of the best. He contend
ed, however, that Osier is right, and
that when a man is without any ca
pacity for work he should be put out
! of the way.
I -
The recorder of deeds of Clinton
eonll fry received for record an agree
ment of sale whereby the State
conies into possession of 9545 acres
jof laud in Noyes and IJeech Creek
| townships that county. A similar
instrument was tiled with the re
corder of Centre county for 0000
acres, making an addition of more
i than 10,00(1 acres to the forest re
serve in that section. The land is
being sold by the Lycoming Land «£■
Lumber Company of Williatnsport.
| for 51.00 an acre. The State now
| owns 00,000 acres in Clinton county,
known as the Hopkins reservation,
| which will grow in value. It is un- j
ider the supervision of John I.iggetl i
of Beech Creek.
A romance which had its begin
ning in the Schuylkill county pris
on during the incarceration of Miss
Emma Steplniny, recently acquitted
lof the murder of James W. Frizzle
| at I'ottsville is about to culminate in
iter wedding with William ijttinton
'of Bockville now serving a term for
j a trivial offense.
Ouintou has always believed in j
.Miss Stephany's innocence of the j
; crime with which she was charged, j
. During the last days of her incarcer- j
; itio.n he was trying to place food and >
little luxuries in her her hands. '
They are to be married as soon as !
| Quinton is discharged from prison, |
A Ilarrisburg dispatch says the !
judicial ballot for the November elec- I
tion will contain 12 party squares i
for state tickets. Every new party!
I Jmt took out nomination papers and I
1 secured a sutticient number of sign- ;
j ers is entitled to a place on the tick- \
ot and to have a separate square.
The parties entitled to squares on !
i the lut I Lot this year are as sollows : |
Republican, Democratic, Prohibi- !
j tion, Socialist, Socialist-Labor, Citi- j
!/.en, City, Commonwealth, Jefferson, '
Lincoln, Referendum and Union La
bor.
There tire many other parties that j
: have tiled papers in the state de- ;
partment claiming certain party j
names for judgeships, legislative and I
congressional nominations, and in
some counties there will lie as many ;
l us 1-1 squares on the ticket. Among :
j the names pre-empted are Mitchell, j
I Pennsylvania, Blacksmith, Roose
velt, Squale Deal, Senatorial, Judi
cial, Reform, Butler Republican and
Federation.
Mr. J. H. Cox of Benton, has two
turkev hens that are prize layers,
their record this summer being 115 j
eggs layed gnd then hatched out a
little turk to each egg.
Farms in the vicinity of Muncy
are beginning to be enclosed by val
uable young hickory, walnut, and
butternut trees. The farmers realiz
ing the dearth ami scarcity of these
sort of trees, are overcoming the sit
-1 nation by this means.
In former years the fields have
; been surrounded with fences, but
now that the line fences have be
come a thing of the past the tree!
: planting idea has become quite gen- '
• eral. Scarcely ever does one see a
heavy line fence surrounding the
Ileitis of the farms that stretch
I throughout that valley, and oftener
does one see the edges of the Helds
: dotted with a thrifty growth of
young fruit and nut trees.
Farmers to Protect Quail.
Farmers are tins year t<> tleter
mi.icd to prevent the quail from be
ing shot uu their properties.
The quail, by its tameness has
won the friendship of the farmers
and it has been made plain to the
• hunters—or will if they attempt to
hunt quail—that everything in the
power of the rural residents will be
| done to prevent the extinction of
these little game birds.
The quail have been becoming
j scarcer and scarcer every year and
i the farmers want to stop the slaugh
j ter.
Judge Lynch of Wilkes-Barre has
! taken occasion to rebuke from the
| bench persons who privately ap
j proach their honors of the Luztrne
j bench, in an effort to secure leui-
I ency for some person on trial. The
| next time such an offense is commit
ted the Judge promises that the of
fender shall appear before him for
contempt of court.
Now that the returns have been
collected by the Journal of the Am
erican Medical Association it ap
pears that 158 deaths resulted
from the celebration of the Fourth
of July. This is a decrease of 24 as
compared with last year. Twenty
two persons were blinded and 72 lost
each one eye. but as a result of the
j protest against giant crackers and
j other very violent explosives the
j very numerous minor casualties
! were generally less severe than in
the past.
Grant Herring, independent can
; didate for president judge in the
! Montour-Columbia district, has filed
his expense account with the Colum
bia county courts. Mr. Herring, in
his account,swears that he spent #4,-
734.01 in his endeavor to secure the
Democratic nomination for president
judge.
"Sam "Jones, the evangelist
of Cartersvllle, Ga., died of heart
failure Oct. 15, on an eastbound
j Rock Island train at Perry, Ark.
j Mr. Jones' family was with him.
Samuel Porter Jones, familiarly
: kuown as "Sam Jones," was a world
! renowned evangelist. He was born
in Chambers county, Ala., October
16, 1847, and removed to Carters
ville Ga., in 1859. He studied under
private tutors and at boarding school
and was admitted to the Georgia
bar in 1869. He began his profes
sional lite under bright prospects,
but broke down in health from ner
vous dyspepsia.
He then began to drink and this
soon ended his professional career as
a lawyer. He professed religion and
in 1872 became a clergyman of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south.
He was pastor of various charges of
the North Georgia conference for
eight years and for 12 years he acted
as agent of the North Georgia or
phanage.
A most unfortunate and fatal ac
cident occurred last week on the
Bloomsburg fair grounds in which
an old man lost his life. ,
David Winner was 011 top of a load
of straw that was about to be uu- ,
loaded into the fair stables when he .
in some manner lost his balance and
fell from the wagon, striking lii
heatl on the stable. He breathed
only a few times after the fall. A :
doctor wits summoned and said the 1
man's neck had been broken.
Another man nearby tried to save
Mr. Winner, but his movements
were impeded hy a pituhfork he was 1
holding and before he could lend as
sistance the unfortunate man had
fallen.
Mr. Winner was a native of Hem
lock township, Columbia county,
and lived in Bloomsburg and Cata
wissa nearly all his life. He was 70
years of age.
About three miles out from the 1
village of Kane, Pa., is what is sain (
to be the world's greatest gas well. 1
Its estimated How is 40,000,000 cubic !
feet of natural gas every twenty four «
hours, and the roar is so loud that it ,'
is impossible to carry on a conversa- 1
tion in that vicinity, even by yell | 1
ing. This mighty volume of gas is (
ail going to waste and no plan for 1
stpopgin it can be devised while the '
immense pressure continues. •
75C PER YEAP
RcRKiCE iTEiVsS.
"J Mr.Tind Mrs. !S. A. J> t -u«nl ( ,f
' Mildred. were vi>iiinir ,\lr. iiul Mrs.
E. I>. Sullitf of Bloomingdale,
C. E. Jackson Was a Towanda vis
' itor last week.
( l)r. J. L. Brennan wasa Williams
_ port visitor last week.
, Sheriff Hack of Laporte, was a
• business caller here on Friday.
•I. 11. Thayer of Dushore, was
• calling on friends at this place .Sat
urday.
Frank McMahon of Cherry, was
visiting Constable McMahon and
family on Friday.
Quite a number attended the Dem
ocratic rally at Dushore on Wednes
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Collins of
Cherry, was visiting friends at this
place Sunday.
Arthur Basley of Sonestown, was
visiting Mildred and Bernice friends
this week.
Daniel Schounover and Thomas
Shell were Dushore visitors on Sat
urday.
The new road is nearly completed.
There is only a small piece of grad
ing and about thirty feet of walk to
be built in Sand Hollow and then
we will have one of the best roads
in the State.
Harry McLaughlin and Mrs. Don
ahue, the eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Donahue will be
married on Tuesday.
Harry White has made applica
tion for his marriage license villi
Miss Vandermark of Murraytown.
Thomas Donahue of Vintondale,
is spending a few weeks with his
family at this place.
Misses Lizzie and Hannah Dris
coll of Hinghamton, N". Y., returned
home after spending a week with
their parents on Sugar Hill.
HEMLOCK GROVE.
L. A. Butt antl M. A. Phillips of
Benton, transacted business at this
place Saturday of last week.
Mrs Jacob Doublerof Ilughesville,
is spending some time as the guest
of Mrs. S. A. Masteller and family.
Miss Bessie Fulmer was a Muncy
Valley visitor last week.
Howard and Percy Bay attended
the teachers' meeting at Sonestown
Saturday of last week.
Miss Mary Wilson of North Moun
tain, is spending some time at the
home of Albert Myers and family.
Mrs. S. A. Warburton and Orphic
Arms did shopping at Sonestown
Saturday.
There will be a box social at the
school house Saturday evening, Oct.
2D. Ice cream and cake will be
served and a good time is expected.
All are invited to attend.
Lewis Warburton has moved his
family to this place, his former resi
dence being near Benton, Columbia
county.
Sunday services at the churches as
[follows: Af Methodist Episcopal
church, Sunday school at 9.30;
preaching at 10:50. At Evangelical
church, Sunday school at 2.80. All
are welcome at these services.
School Report.
The following is a report of the
Sheets school for the first month
ending Oct. 2: Whole number en
rolled, males 5; females 5. Total 10.
Those missing no days are Sherman
Fowler, Owen Sheets*Lulney Fow
ler, Phoebe Worthington, Harry
Hichart, Jennie Fowler and Clara
llichart. Those missing two days or
less are, Fay Sheets, Lawrence
Worthington and Samuel llichart.
11. Ottis Bay, Teacher.
The court of Dauphin county, in a
decision handed down yesterday, de
cides that neither Mial Lilley or
George W. Kipp were nominated as
candidates for congress by (lie Lin
coln Republicans of this district.
This decision will act as a bar t >
either name appearing on the official
ballot as nominees of that party.
Both candidates, however, have filed
nomination papers, and the same
court will decide on Saturday next,
which, if either, is entitled to have
a candidate for congress in the Four
teenth dial rid.—Sayre lie cord.