J. M. WIHTON, MUNCY VALLEY, JUST H-BOEIYED Up i (Dale Slock of Goods Men's & Young Mens' Suits. You are all invited to come and examine the goods. | JtenZi I veiytlrng to be seen here is the most stylish. These are the prices which you can get good suits for: Also a big lot of BOYS' SUITS. / 1 i/.es from 3 years to 16 years. Knee pants, assorted col- /I ors from $1.75 up. Also a big lot of Boys' School Knee j IHm lH I 'ants; slrong as you can make them for little money. I I ■■ IK A big lot of MEN'S WORKING PANTS at 75c wor.h \ / V dJmL 1.25. S3.so pants reduced to 2.10 per pair. Also a big lot # flj Sr M OT MHN'S HATS latest styles; they are thoroughly up to : d.i e and acceptable to those who want to wear stylish 1 -pi h ts Also received up to date stock of LADIES' SKIRT S I" AM) COATS, FURS AND SWEATERS. Sole agents for W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES. From 3.00 to 3. 50. Alsi received twenty-five cases of boots and shoes for Ladies' C e nts 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. 1 flat I 1 To the Pacific Coast—to California, Oregon, Washington jy-ipiftisp rouncl-trip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over jSjj The rate is practically on the basis of one fare for the round trip. Of course, if you wish to visit both California and Oregon ■ or Washington, the cost is slightly more. 1 These reduced rates are in effect on certain dates in months I 1 of May to October, inclusive. They apply from all Eastern points /la v ' a Chicago, St. Louis or Memphis gateways. The Rock Island -dr A I System will take you up in either Chicago or St. Louis, or at hundred* /j| of other Middle West points and carry you to the Coast in through yjj Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service. The Rock Island also affords a choice of routes: on the Scenic" | jffi. .■ inK jjlfff route you can stop off in Colorado—see Salt Lake City—visit | Yellowstone National Park; en the "Southern" route you can go ; i : via El Paso, thru New Mexico, then "up coast" to San Francisco |■; '■ | '■: and onto Portland or Seattle if desired. |! J:i|pn r ; PUT In short, these Pacific Coast escursions offer an unusually gooc 112 | ® i chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner. J v ti • If you desire togo only as far as Colorado, there are excursion I 1 ; I'l':rates in effect to that section and return, all summer long, VyftlC specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13, ' (cilvflil'llV v / and August 30 to September 4. Extension trips to Ogden 111 ML u uuSA" 1 / \y® I I or Salt Lake and return at low cost also. lf»A \V\VI iL II ill I V From September 15 to October 31, 190! one-way If* |I) I1) J/j \ tourist or " colonist" tickets will be on sale to California and y 'fckl || W/jj HI H the Pacific Northwest—about half regular fare. r'» fljk If interested, »end name and addresa on thu coupon, dewgnatinfc i vQn %| I \ which booklet wanted and to what point jrou- plan to go. Name probable | °' >tSrt a '"°' *° we can advi»e definitely with reapect to rate*, etc. Addrcis Addr«M . JOHN SEBASTIAN, (g( Pan. Traf. Mgr., Rock laland System, Umdoai V* / CHICAGO. De.tin«tio« NOT A FEEE TRADER THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS A STANCH ' PROTECTIONIST. Democratic Claim l'*on 111m aa the l'atron Saint of That Parly IN Ab •11 rd—Word* of the Third President on Tariff Question. Just why the Democratic party of to day should celebrate so strenuously the j anniversary of the birth of Thomas j Jefferson Is hard to understand. Or- j taluly Jefferson was far from being a j Democrat, measured by the principles and policies of the Democrats of to- j day. fie never himself used the word j "Democrat," but invariably called him self and Hi* followers "Republicans," | and it can hardly be questioned taut if Jefferson were living today he would not be a member of the Democratic j party as it has been constituted dur- | ing tb« last generation. If the Democratic party during its en- ; tire existence has stood for anything it ' has stood, for free trade and for the i buying of goods in the cheapest mar- j ket. it may he well at this time, when we are reading of Democratic tributes | to Jefferson, to quote a few words from our third president to show how absurd must always be any Democratic claim upon him as the patron saint of that party. The first tarii? law, passed in 1781), ; worked well In starting the new re- 1 public upon a career of industrial su premacy and afforded sufficient rev enue for the needs of the government. By 1800 the surplus in the treasury was so considerable as to make it a difficult problem as to how it should be disposed of. Referring to this mat ter, Thomas Jefferson said: Shall we suppress the Imposts (duties) and Rive that advantage to foreign over our domestic manufactures? On a few articles of more general and necessary use the suppression Indue «ea.«on will doubt- Jess be right, but tho great mass of the articles on which Imposts are laid are for eign luxuries purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. • • • Tho general Inquiry now Is. Shall we make our own comforts or go without them at the will of a foreign nation? lie therefore, who Is now against domestlr manufactures must be for reducing us either to a dependent ifpon that nation or to be clothed In skins and live like beasts In caves and dens. I am proud to ray | I am not one of these. Experience has 1 taught me that manufactures are now as nocessury to our Independence as to our ! comforts. The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufactures, which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article whk L can be made within ourselves, without re gard to difference of price, secure against a relapse Into foreign dependency Iu 1809 Jefferson wrote to Humphrey 1 as follows: My own Idea Is that wo should encourage homo manufactures to the extent of our own consumption of everything of which We raise the raw materials. In 1817, upon accepting an e'.ectioD to membership in a society for the en couragement of domestic manufactures Jefferson wrote: Tho history of the last twenty years ha± been a significant lesson for us all to de pend for necessaries on ourselves alone, and I hopo twenty years more will place the American hemisphere under a system of its own. essentially peaceable and in dustrious and not needing to extract its ; comfoits out of the eternal Arcs raging in the old world. It might be well to read some of these quotations from Thomas Jeffer ion at the banquets so much enjoyed by Jeffersonlau Democrats. Labor For the Canal. As the United States has undertaken to build the canal, it should prosecut® the great work in a businesslike mat; ner. This means getting the necessary labor that is best suited to climatic con dltions and best fitted for the unskill ed work of delving in earth and re moving rock. Cooly labor fills tho bill better than any other kind. Thee let the coolies do the digging.—Chicago Siren Lug Post Am It Should Be. An announcement of the forthcoming meetings of the farmers' institutes in Maine reveals the fact that every one in the list referred to is called to meet In grange halls. The grange and the farmers' Institute are working togeth er In many ways for the advancement of the farmers' Interests. The movement for municipal owner ship in this country Is a hunt by the demagogue for a new issue to catch votes.— Melvin O. Adams. A DAY OF RECKONING. You Cannot Fool All of the People All of the Time. The recent condemnation as unfit fot further service of a number of gas and electric light plants and the closing down of some of them at a dead loss to the taxpayers should serve as a warning to other cities, for this is the fate that Is likely to overtake all sucli plants in the long run. For the first year or two, when no expensive re pairs are needed and the plant is thor ouglily up to date, it ought not to be difficult to make a good showing. Foi a few years longer- the bad bookkeep ing and Inadequate reports, that art unfortunately the rule rather than thi exception, may blind the citizens tc the deterioration of tho plant and to its Increasing losses. But the day ol reckoning Inevitably comes when breakdown, had service or demand foi new equipment that cannot masquer ade as "extensions" causes an iuvesti gation. and then It becomes evident that the plant has been a losing prop ositiou almost from the start. No plant should be accepted as evidence of sue cessful municipal management until it has been operated for several years and then examined by expert engineers and accountants. | A BOUNDARY LINE. .EXPERIENCES OF THE COMMISSION ON THE MEXICAN FRON I IER. Difllcull anil I>atigc i-omn Work in the anil Mntintulnn — A Various Saml ■fttorni—The tfTnvtH of Mirage—City Re solve* Into u of ISowlilpm. Although the "boundary line between the United Sratea and Mexico was de j fined over half a centui'y ago by the i Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, after the | Mexican War, there has seldom been a .time since then when the precise loca ' tion of this International' limit has not [given cause for vigorous, disputes and | often bloody border warfare between . the Mexican and American settlers near tho line. | After the treaty of 1553 a survey was .made of the liHe. to effect some neces sity changes. Monuments were put up ! j^p | MIiXIOAN BOUNDARY MONUMENT. j along the arbitrary portion of the ' boundary west of the Rio Grande, but I most of these landmarks were simply i rude piles of stone, and the ease with j | which they could be destroyed or re moved was soon discovered by the nearby settlers, never loath to seize j : an opportunity for a quarrel with their j neighbors on the other side of the in ! ternational fence. Finally, in 1882, owing to continual boundary quarrels, a convention to settle them was ar- , j ranged between the two countries, ! | But on account of various delays it ■ was not until November, 1891, that members of the International Boundary Commission were at last appointed. By the month of June, 18!!!, all work 1 along the entire line, both surveying and monument-erecting, v. s finished. Two hundred and fifty-eight monu ! ments, some of stone, and some of iron had been placed along the seven hun dred miles of boundary west*Uf the Kio Grande. The Intervals between them | were varied to suit the requirements ' of the different religions, but the dis j tances averaged about two and three j quarter miles between each two. j Some of the experiences of the mem bers of the survy are well worth a more : extended description than can be given here. The mountainous region for many miles about Nogales, Ariz., is one of the roughest and most arid on the continent. In this neighborhood was j seen for the first time the strange'and ungainly giant cactus, called the "su | guaro" by the Mexicans. Its fruit, when ripe, is used as food by the IJa pago Indians of the region, who eat it fresh, drietl and preserved, and make from it, besides, a slightly intoxicating drink. In the broad valley called tlie Moreno Flat, west of the Bahoqttivari Mountains and about fifty-live miles west of Nogales, a frightful slandstorm was encountered on July 3, 1893. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a dense, dark-brown cloud was seen ris ing in the south. The brilliant sun was soon overcast, and in a few moments after the cloud was first observed the storm broke in all its fury. In ten or fifteen minutes it was a £ black as mid night; the atmosphere was filled with loose soil of the valley to a height of several hundred feet; respiration be came almost impossible, and it was on - | ly by breathing through a handkerchief | held in front of the mouth that suffo- ; cation was avoided. In half an hour j the wind began to subside, the darkness j diminished, and in a little more than ! two hours the setting sun shone faintly through the dust particles that still , filled the air. Wonderful mirages were seen while crossing the lonely deserts. Just be fore sunrise craggy peaks would ap pear, capped by similar inverted peaks, which would gradually flatten out into strange forms. Once a city, with all its buildings, appeared in a valley to < the northward, but the morning sun ' resolved it into a mass of large howl- I ders near the base of a mountain. At ' another time, on the bare Yuma Desert, ' the reconnoissanee party seemed to be 1 In a level depression, su:Tntti.>d J on ' every side by a vertical wall of rock, < fifty u> one hundred feet high, which > moved with them as they journeyed 1 toward the river, but lessened in height I until It finally vanished. The com-" monest deception was seen in the heat of the day. when beautiful lakes, fring- | ed with trees, lay apparently only a j few hundred yards away. The details were so perfect, even to the reflections in the water, that the party did not wonder that thirsty travelers were of ten lured fronfthe road to procure this water, which never could be reached. | The mirage distortion of the size and form of animals was also remarkable. In one case a herd of wild horses was mistaken for a herd of antelope and followed for several miles before the mistake was discovered. At times a jack-rabbit would loom up on the de sert with the apparent size of a cow, 1 while occasionally the legs of animals i 1 would he so comically lengthened as to i make them appear mounted upon tits. J A ,\eu- M' enee. j ' Glossomancie is a new "science," in- 1 troducod by a Mis, Krbere No of Paris, I consisting of reading the character by the form and size of the tongue. j The guiding principles are as fol lows: If the tongue is long it is an in dication of 'rankne s; if it is short, of I dissimulation; if It, is broad, of ex ' pansiveness; if narrow, of concentra tion. When the tongue is both long and large it implies th.tt the possessor is a great gossip, frank to rlis.igreeabieness, and thoughtless. If the tongue be long and narrow, its owner is ,nly half frank, thinking as much as is uttered but not always uttering all that is thought. If the tongue be short and broad there is promise of plenty of gossip and falsehoods; it talks a great dn.il but says little of v, bat is real!> thought. If short nd nairrrv, i indicates dec] cunning and lying; im : enotrability and prudence. This ton-i.e b- longs to the<se persons always ready to make mis takes, but eager to Inspire confidence. Headaches and "Dizzy Spells, Wea K, Nervous, Wretched, Tired, Until Dr. Miles' Nervine Cured Me. • Are you in a "poor condition?" Are you almost ready to give up from exhaustion, noivouMies-, headaches, backaches, ana dizzy tpells ? No need to mention the de tails of a run down or "p' or condition" to those who arc suffering. Better t.> tell you of Nervine, the r meay sold on a guaranue to help yon, and restore your poor weakened nerves tu !i:e, strength ana health. "Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine has done a preut deal for me. In the fail of 1597 my health was in it very jmur condition. I trime nervousness, dizzy spells an I skk headaches made me most miserable. 1 had been under the care of our local physician for some time, but pot no better. L was on the verge of neivous prostration. Ilad no appetite, and could not sleep. 1 t;rew worse as the dizzy spells continued and lost flesh and strength. Oh! those awful day-. A lady friend who had taken Restorative Ner vine advised me to try it. I bought a bottle at the local drug store and when it was one ha 112 gone I noticed that the medicine was helping me. I continued taking it according to directions until 1 had used three bottles when 1 felt so much better I stopped taking it. I feci that my pits nt l: ready improved health is all due to I* . Mi es' Restorative Nervine. lam grateful for the benefit 1 re ceived and recommend the Nervine wholly on its merits as a nerve tonic and restora tive."— Mrs. P. M. Hocoboom, Dalton, Mass-. All druggists sell utui guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book en Nervous and lleatt Diseases. Address L'r. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, iud. Sew Rotary 112" "S Brand ■■ t I We have now so eaulpped 19 WW our actor > r aa t0 produce an abundant supply to meet the - erC j l £^j ur the highest type sewing ma" o *' e! at any a better stitch and does everything any other sewing ma chine will, and does it better and easier. Shipped ©a 90 day* Trial. Warranted for a term of years. We Are The First to offer the people the new type Rotary Sewtng Machine at less than $65.00 to $75.00. High prices must give way before us. You Must Have our new. elaborate Sewing Machine Book and illustrated catalogue In two colors, about 40 large pages, 11x14 in. The finest sewing machine book ever published. Fully describes the newest Rotary and other standard machines at prices never equaled, it is free to you. Write for it today. 19 Montgomery Ward & Co., Kiohigan Ave., Madison and Washington Eta. 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