j. M. WIHTON, MUNCY VALLEY, -XTTST ►V. . _,>* ; ■ • tip to Pat Stock of goods Men's & Young Mens' Suits. . You are all invited to come and examine the goods. .jffrijf Kverything to be seen here is the most stvlish. These are the prices which you can get good suits for: 6.50 TO 12.00 Also a big lot of BOYS' SUITS. / i/es from 3 years to 16 years. Knee pants, assorted col- /I orsfromSi.7s up. Also a big lot of Boys' School Knee I ;||g9||S Pants, strong as you can make them for Lttle money I S A big lot of MEN'S WORKING PANTS at 7SC wc-r.h I / 1.23. $3.50 pants reduced to 2.10 per pair. Also a big lot J/ 1 •' MEN'S HATS latest styles; they are thoroughly up to die and acceptable to those who want to wear stylish rzr, .*• , v liUvnuroKiL hats. Also received up to date stock of LADIES' SKIRT S eA>ifow» MADB OY 9 AND COATS, I URS AND SWEATERS. MrtfflmtALesomaswa Nn»Y»HI - HMmtolpUM Sole agents for W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES. i roin 3.00 to 3.50. Also received twenty-five cases of boots and shoes for Ladies' ( ents and Children from 95c up; all new goods, no trash. All sizes and low prices. Reliable dealer in Men's Clothing. Jacob M. Wihton MUNCY VALLEY, PA. J MRN mi I fl W 11P371 To the Pacific Coast—to California, Oregon, Washington— 1^^ round-trip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over The rate is practically on the basis of one fare for the round trip. Of course, if you wish to visit both California and Oregou or Washington, the cost is slightly more. These reduced rates are in effect on certain dates in months ( 1 of May to October, inclusive. They apply from all Eastern point? i | via Chicago, St. Louis or Memphis gateways. The Rock Island A/§ System will take you up in either Chicago or St. Louis, or at hundreds /|| °f other Middle V/est pcints and carry you to the Coast in througti v.J Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service. The Rock Island also affords a choice of routes: on the Scenic, 112 •M'. ]' <■ route you can step off in Colorado—see Salt Luicc —v:sit 112 Yellowstone National Park; cn the "Southern" route you can go I; ; via El Paso, thru New Mexico, then "up coast" to San Francisco fei ii | '■ a '"d onto Portland or Seattle if desired. f' ry^' in short, these Pacific Coast excursions offer an unusually good i?! ji. chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner. 'B ' I- 1 If you desire togo only as far as Colorado, there are excursion | • p • I';; rates in effect to that section and return, all summer long, %) | -specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13, nl\V V I / IuTA and August 30 to September 4. Extension trips to Ogden j \jj|K |ft\ y\\\V ll ]||j k From September 15 to October 31, 190! one-way > jtlraß »1 I which booklet wanted and to what point you plan to go. Name probable 'fc^iM B 1 date of * Urt a,so > ,0 we «•» advise definitely with respect to rates, etc. | Address Addres. JOHN SEBASTIAN, j Pass. Traf. Mgr., Rock Island System, Lea*o about V / i CHICAGO. Pe»tin»tion HE KNEW THE ROPE 3 A Lawyer Tlmt Was Not Hunting! Litigation Over Land. i It's the canny old bird that cannot! be caught with the bird lime of litiga tion. You've probably heard of Lawyer Hackett of Somerset. A little while ago he purchased somo land over which there had been a lawsuit for years, until the parties had spent halt a dozen times what the land was worth. Hackett knew all about it. Some of, the people wondered why he wanted to | get hold of property with such an incu bus of uncertainty on it. Others thought that perhaps he wanted some; legal knitting work and would pitch inj redhot to fight that line fence question! on his own hook. That's what the owner of the adjoin-, ing land thought, says the Baltimore; llerald. So he braced himself fori trouble when ho saw Hackett coming across the fields one day. Said Hackett: "Where's your claim here, anyway, as to this fence?" "I insist." replied the neighbor, "that' your fence is over my land two feet: at one end and one foot at least at the: other end." "Well," replied Hackett, "you go ahead just, as quick as you can and set your fence over. At the end where you say that 1 encroach on you two f6ot, 6et the fence onto my land four feet. At the other end push it onto my landj two feet.' "But," periled, the neighbor, "that's j twice wnat i claim." "1 don't care about that," said Hack-! ; ett. "There's been fight enough over! : this land. I want you to take enough j so you are perfectly satisfied you have' ; got your rights, and then we can get! I along all pleasantly. Go ahead and! j help yourself." The man paused, abashed. He had been ready to commence the old strug gle tooth and nail. But this move of the new neighbor stunned him. Yet. he wasn't to be outdone in generosity He looked at Hackett. "Squire," said he, "that fence ain't going to be moved an inch. I don't want the blamed old land. There! warn't nothing to the fight but the' principle of the thing." Meteorological ('imsndnpM. At Westtown, Chester County, Pa..! the Friends' big school celebrated its: one hundredth anniversary recently.! They have at the school a kind of diary, or log, which has been kept up continuously for 300 years, and in; which the state of the weather every j day during all that time has been noted down. The log was consulted for au 1 auspicious date in the matter of weath-j er for the anniversary, and it showed| that every June 10 has been clear since j the beginning of the school's career, j Then some said: "Since it hasn't ruined for 100 years on June 10 we had better avoid that date, for it will be! sure to rain then this year." But oth ers said that reason and philosophy in dicated June 10 to be a day devoted,! from some unknown atmospheric caus es, to sunshine and blue skies. The lat ter set of people carried the day, and the school celebrated its anniversary on June 10. But it rained so hard that the guests had to sit around in teats, j Slie Would Have Stopped It. Some time ago the wife of an old inhabitant of a Durham, England, vil lage died, leaving a grown-up family behind her. The father remained a widower about eighteen months; then he entered the matrimonial state again. I The youngest daughter, aged about twenty, on the day of the wedding,! went to the village butcher's. After the usual courtesies, the butcher asked her: "Is it true yor! fether got married agyen?" "Aye, it's owsr true!" said the girl. I "Didn't ye want him te get married! agyen?" ' "No; we wor aall agyen it, but aad fyul wad hev his aan way. But Aa| bark if ma muthor had beeu»living sh'd j had put a stop tiv't!" She Might Relent. HE. You treat me now with cold disdain, I But some duy you'll regret; 1 shall not go away and pine, But I'm going out to get A job somewhere and I shall work And be a magnate yet. SHE. Co, leave my presence, since you say You don't intend to fret; you'll never, never see the day That you'll make ine regret— But still, I wish you'd let me know What kind of job you get. —Chicago News. I'racticliia; Medicine. "Doctor." sighed the fat man,"l guess it's no use. I've tried everything you've prescribed and grown fleshier all the time. Your latest recommen dation was to ride horseback. I've done so faithfully for a month,- but I've taken on eighteen pounds and the liorse has lost 160." "Ah! there's a scientific suggestion," said the elated*doctor. "Try letting the horse ride you for a while." —De- troit Kree Press. Getting Kven. | "Oh. yes," said the stocky man with he square jaw, "my married life is luite a happy one." I "Gl'ad to hear it,"' said the thin man with the thin hair. "Got any particu lar system?" "Well, yes. Whenever my wife gets into a tantrum I go out and find th*i fellow who introduced us and givo him ' another licking."—lndianapolis Jour nal. In the Air. "Where do you live?" asked the po lice magistrate. "I live a block above Stanton street, your honor, corner of Essex." "But the officer says you live at No. 909 Houston street." "That's all light, your honor, I live in the top flat." I "Prisoner discharged on the ground i that ) e's an angel."—-Mail and Ex ! press. .1 nek Wins. "Which suitor i re >ou going to ac cept, Clarissa?" "I can't decide, to save me, ma, which i like best; Harry Is so timid, and Jack is so p?rsistent."—Puck." PRISON AFiT b:X.i HE. SING SING EST AELIoHiNG QUITE A J REPUTATION IN TfrtAT L NE. i Severn! (leuitisen Ah Frltfonor 'A lio lUillt Two I'iM'K® Oi-g:tus—A Vouiiirkablu Krgro \Voo<lpar?«r C ou v Jot • • As an art centre Sing f3ing Prison is establishing a reputation. Already the warden has made .'the school of design and decoration tltpie one of the imost efficient in the United plates. The classes are for thoroughly practi cal work, and the students, all of whom j are "doing time," receive an education | that makes it easy for them to earn a living honestly as skilled workmen af ! ter they have served out th>ir sentences | and are discharged into the world out i side. | The warden has discovered several geniuses already. One of these built j the large reed orgs ns in the Catholic ■and the Protestant chapels. He did jail the work, himself and learned how to use tools after he entered the prison. I His experience in carpentering or any : mechanical work had not gone further •i than driving nails i 1 parking boxes be fore the law took charge of him. He had a good ear foi music, though he could not read a notej and he had played organs "on the road" three sea sons of three montl s eavli for a manu facturing lirni in Canada. In this ! work he had helped at packing and un ; pac king dozens of instrumenifci and had j become familiar with the arrangement of the roods and the jreneral anatomy of the instruments. He had never I worked at organ building nor had he : done any of the practical work of de ! signing or construction. I But the most remarkable fact about j the building of these instruments i3 'that the man who made them thought .out everything to the minutest details before he made even a rough sketch of the work he wished to do. Without if Ipr j I CUAllt MAT'F. AT SIN'C! SING. 1 a model or tools or pencil and paper ! to help him, he brooded over his plan : ! for tv.enty-five months. Then lie had ' conceived every detail clearly in his i mind, had computed the exact propor tions of each of the 14,000 parts, and ; had assembled thee parts mentally. I When his cogitations had evolved tho orga.ii he dropped a noi.e to the warden In one of the various letter boxes the ! warden lias placed about the prison ' grounds. He wrote, he said in this note, to ask for permission to illustrate ! on paper the Uli .she it .id on building an organ for one of tlie chapels. The : warden sent for the would-be builder, | and was so impressed with the man's intelligence and earnestness that he ! told him togo ahead; that he should | have pencil and paper and all the | drawing instrument' he needed. lie ! had never made a sketch in his life, I but he soon made a hundrecf intelligible • illustrations that made it possible for | others to see what before had been j visible to him only. The warden sent these drawings to organ builders in New York, and asked for expert opinions. Both critics re plied that the designs were excellent and practical, with the exception of one point. They doubted if a reed could be made to give the tone produced by the sixteen-foot organ pipe. They be lieved eight feet was the limit for reeds. The genius said that if the warden would let him go ahead he would show the manufacturers how easily it could !be done. The warden said "All right" I and the result is the two splendid or | gans that attract so much attention in the prison chapels. | The one in tho Catholic chapel is the largest reed instrument in tic world, j and has a tone that even an expert I listening at a little distance would be lieve came from a pipe organ. Organ ists have remarked the rich, deep, full pipe tone time and again: This in strument has 7:? 1 notes. All of them are true, from the voix Celeste- the "impossible" sixteen-foot pipe tone to the highest the human ear appreciate*. There are three manuals and four com plete keyboards. The player can co,u --| pie the swell, the choir or the great organ with the pedals, or he can give a pedal solo, not using his hands at ! all. There are 14,000 separate pieces I in this instrument; SOO of these are ! small shutters which open or close by 1 pulling or pushing a balance swell ped al stop. The pressure liece.sary to , put down a key is three ounces, and ! this three-ounce pressure moves GOO pieces of the mechanism. The bellow ; are about eight feet long, and hold an 'air supply of 115 seconds, so the or ganist can play for nearly two minute? ■ with one breath. Another genius whom lhe warden's I art school has discovered would be I driving cabs to-dav if he had behaved j himself. Under the head of previous occupation he is down on the prison , list as "coachman, butler,- colored." ! He is still colored, but it is not probable that he will ever drive or wait on doors or dinner tables again. 1 risn?:: .1 of me it he will carve wood, and his attention to doors and tables will b ■ with a view to ornament. He is Hie chief sr .- in the art school galaxy, and does exquisite work. ( liltiene Me Rlit. i "Catty" is a weight s ill in use Int. , treaty pons of China. When tht i Chinese first sold tea to the Ku.opcant they Inclosed it In lItUU 1 uquer cases which each weighed a "catty" and in due time were called tc-'. catties, and at last tea caddies. I S%k Headaches and Dizzy Spells, Wea K, Nervous, Wretched, Tired, Until Dr. Miles* Nervine Cured Me. Are you in a '"j-otr condition?" Are yea almost ie;idy to up from exhaustion, tiizzy ? nells ? No need to mention the de tails of a run down or "poor condition" lo these who are puttering. B. tt r to tell you of Nervine, i!;e i niedy soM on a guarautee to help \ \ and restore your poor weakened .nerves to i.:;, stre an ; health. "J)r. M.les'K Nervine has done a (i: al for nit*. »n i).»j lull (J 1.X97 j y health wia in a very po ~r condition. 1 - t. ir» * ri.f\rv !u:s, « . y spells and si < tiea lach*: s jr.ade me juosi miserable. 1 had U-cn uiio r the ere of our local Physician for : ome time, bet «;ot no better. 1 was on the verge oi nervo.-s prostration, liad i > appetite, and could not sleep. I grew \vrn>e as the dizzy. spells continued and lo t flesh and strength. <> h! those awful day-. A lady fi.t i. I who had tal en I< storative Ner \. i:.* a!v i. eel me to Ivy it. If ought a bottle nt the local stole ar.d wlun it was one- Jia 112 £oi:e I notice i that the medicine wis T. Ini g me. 1 continut d taking it accotdiiig iodirv " ins until I had used three bottles when il« it. I f>< lio.t my pre nt rreatly improve 1 health is i-.1l due to 1> . Mies' Nei vine. lam fci. U I I for the benefit 1 re ceived and recommend tii~ Nervine wholly fii it ; merits ns a iierve tonic and restora tive.' -Mus. I'. M, liocouooM. Daitun. M r-. Ali sell and irantee first bottle Dr. Mile.-' RcmedieS id (or free book n Ncf . ais and Heart I > ases. Address i'r. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lnd. | Sew Rotary "1 A Brand i ' ' . New Idea V. JJ in Sewing ' } , Machines ' P 5 JpA W» havs now so equipped \ • t.Jf otir factory as to produce an ffKs. a abundant supply to meet th e | 3' 1 Croat demand for our high I 1 * — t - I trade, low priced Rotary — y \ I the highest type sewing ma- TL J chine ever offered at any i I '• prtce or un -9 , dor an y , J /'• \ name. Oar jj <■ J £ Damascus if'' .W " ;>*, PX Grnnd Ro- II \& v Ivvi B ttkry shut ' ■ 'f k' jl® S|ws at ; J v v noise;makes i J stitch and dees everything any other sewing ma ' M chine will, ar.d does it better and easier. 3 Shipped on 90 dnys Trial. Warranted for a i 8 term of years. IWe Are The First | t6 offer the people the new type Rotary Sewing 9 Machine at less than $65.00 to $75.00. 3 High prices must give way before us. You Must Have □ our r.ew, elaborate Sewing Machine Book Wand iilusiiatod catalogue in two colors, about jj 40 largfl pages, 1 Ixl4 in. The finest sewing 9 machine book ever published. Fully describes 8 the newest Rotary and other standard machines B at prices never equaled. It U free to you. Write fl for it today. 19 I Ward -& Co., ; £ .'icliigaii An., Kailiion and Waahington Eta. W ■■ ■■■—— CHICAGO ; .A • 7 I ira X - -.-i K --M- : | Dyspepsia Curs Digests what yoo eat. tfiis pi. iniiaUon contains 11 of-the aitfcstanis and digests a!! kinds of food. It instant rclirl'and never falls to cure. It allows you to eat ail the food you want. The roost sensitive st nria' hs can t-akf it. I'.y its t;so many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured af; e.eryriii.iu e'-o failed, is uneu ;.tl'---l for the st-.u.dch. Child ren v.ii'i - stomachs tluive on it. Firstdi. ie:'. ves. Adiet unnecessary. Cure.-: ~J siomaeh ircuLlos i'vopiirrdonly by F. f\ Co., ( .hicttro • '' 1 • ■ " •I. .«»M> Mta. gtM »■* Ther#*remoreMcf'nll Patternwaold !nfh«tTnlte4 ftates than of any other make of pattern. This U aa account of their style, accuracy and simplicity. WcCnlPn Qufen of Fashion) h«« Wore suhsi:i than any other Ladies' Majjaiine. On# year's subscription (l2 numbers) cost9 t'JO cents. number, !i cenlN. F.very subscriber gets a McCall Pat tern l''rcc. Subscribe today. ViUtlv Amours Wanted. Handsome premiums or liberal cash commission. Pattsm Catalogue( of 600 ua. »i. > 5) and Premium Catalogue (sbovsing 400 piem ums) •cut iieft Address THE McCALL CO., Ksw VwJfc OySPEPTICIOE The croat- J sia to DIGERTION BANNER SALVE the most hsaiing «»lv». *«i the world. WANTED Local Agent to represent a well-known and substantial Life Insurance Company, j with Guaranteed Dividend policy. Liberal contract and renewals to the right man. Address B. H. Payne, Mgr. 1406 Keystone Building Pltt9burc, Pa.
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