30i>ays Sale of Winter & i A!! (he goods must be sold io mat e room forourSpiing poods As | need both tbe money and the room, you will (ind the biggest bargains now offered in Overcoats We have a big lot of men's overcoats left over th.it must not be kept on hand. $12.00 Men's Overcoats for $6.00 8.00 for 4.25 6.00 for 3.25 R r *\ ' c P}\ 'arr ci t e wor.h $3.50 f.-r $2 75. Few small sizes from 3to LjkJJ v!> VL 1 lO lO selling for Si 87 guaranteed to hold Ihe colo, . : .1 wear well. Big lot of Boys' suits sizes from 15 to 1 9 guaranteed to be all woo!, ' pants arr 39c during ihe 30 days saK AI >o at ig lot of Ladies'Shses: $2 00 for 1 54; also a big lot of Douglas Shoes to : e old lories than cost. Rig lot Ladies' wrappers reduced in price. Men's suits' ■ :th *9. so for 12 so; and suits for b 2s. Mittens and Glovis at low prices. So please don t delay to come to the sale as it is an old saying that a dollar saved! a doll a earned. Piease tell sour friends to come for the big bargains. Sole agents for W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES. :TI ".CO to 3.50. Als > received twenty-live cases ol boots and shoes lor Ladies' i .-jus and Lhildrea from tjsc up;all n, I .v g >o.ls.notrash All sizes and low prices Reliable dealer in Men's Clothing. Jacob M. Wihton • ! MUNCY VALLEY, PA. j f[fT^ A f| To the Pacific Coast—to. California, Oregon, Washington round-trip, long transit and return limits, liberal stop-over Ws&r zM The rate is practically on the basis of one fare for the round i'-'ip. Of course, if you wish to visit both California and Oregon OI Washington, the cost is slightly more. B These reduced rates are in effect on certain dates in months iSffnT L«. ( 1 of May to October, inclusive. They apply from all Eastern points Jft via Chicago, St. Louis or Memphis gateways. The Rock Island I System will take you up in either Chicago or St. Louis, or at hundreds \gffi !11 of other Middle West points and carry you to the Coast in through .A C/LJ Standard or Tourist Sleepers with unexcelled Dining Car service. Ti e Rock Island alsc affords r choice of routes: on the "Scenic" loute you can stop off in Colorado—see Salt Lake City—visit • 'if , ■ f**%-r&hl e il°wsione National Park; on the "Southern" route you can go f■ i :|'/;*:' I via El Paso, thru New Mexico, then "up coast" to San Francisco ; and onto Portland or Seattle if desired. -•' L»" fr ' ; te-ir* hi short, these Pacific Coast excursions offer an unusually good ' ' w • *r, s.£ j-\ chance to see our western country in a comprehensive manner. |{ )t> | ! ' • Fs?s>iL ■: J If you desire togo only as far as Colorado, there are excursion ',l ': I*.' I'- rates in effect to that section r.nd return, all summer long, ■\ ',;':■, V specially reduced June 30 to July 4, August 12 and 13, '«*" 4.•. JfJ.'( 41\\. UMui' ''l/lllk From September 15 to October 31, 190? one-way il ll lli B / ill i | tourist or " colonist" tickets will be on sale to California and I K/JSTVII HI the Pacific Northwest—about half regular fare. ; J slut Q \V \ " interested, send name and address on this coupon, designating li rV which booklet wanted and to what point you plan to go. Name probable I date of start also, so we can advise definitely /With respect to rates, etc. Address Addrcu.— JOHN SEBASTIAN, MSC ' Part. Tra/. Mgr., Rock Inland System, Leave aboet Ufll w ° u j' 6 )nl CH!CAGO - ONE MULE I :>WES AUTO. I _^...,;f;.. _^. ..,;f;.. ::; , \ .CjL V^»- _._ _-■ — • ;•■ | AN HONEST GRAFTER A Glimpse Into the Future of Mu nicipal Ownership. A Thumb Nail Sketch of a "Practical Politician' - —The Profits of an All Around "Servant of the People, Who Seen His Opportunities and Too!; | 'Em." "Ilonest prnft" will reach its highest i level \\ heu, as predicted by the en ! lluisiiists, the principles of municipal owner-hip are accepted by New Vork and the city controls the trolley lines, the electric light and gas works and all the ferries as well as the water works and (ho police, the tire auil tlio street departments. Then such patriots as George Wash ington l'hinkitt, >for many years or ganization leader of the Fifteenth dis trict in New 1 > >rk, will re ip rewards of greater magnitude than they have ever been able to gather under the present order of things. Perhaps you have never heard about Mr. Plunkitt's "honest graft" schemes, lie told about them himself in a book published last year, which was intro duced by a paragraph indorsing him as n "veteran leader of the organization," signed by its greatest chief. Plunkitt was sore because there were some objections to graft being madu out of the city bv men like him, and in the first chapter of his book In- uttered a vigorous protest. "liluckmailin'gam biers, saloon keepers, disorderly pes l>le, etc.." he admitted to lie wrong. That was "dishonest graft." "But,"' he added, "there's an honest graft, and Pin au example of how it works. ! seen my opportunities and I took "em." Mr. Plunkitt's explanation of how bu did these things will illuminate the possibilities of future municipal owner ship days, if they ever come. After elucidating the ways he was "tipped off" at various times by mem bers of his party—the party in power wheu new bridges, new parknow streets were to lie opened, so that I. • might invest in real estate likely t> rise In price from the im]■:•■>. clients contemplated, he adds "I h. < n't con fined myself to land. Anyf'.ing that pays is In my line." Then lie gives a specific instance: Learning that the city was about to repave a certain street ami so would have several hundred thousand ol 1 paving blocks to sell, lie was"on hand to buy," and lie "knew just what they were worth." Hut a newspaper "tried to do him" and got some outside men from P.rooklyn ainl .New Jersey to bid against him. Mr. Plunkitt's own words tell Ihe story best: "Was I done? Not much. ! went to each of the men and said, 'How many of those UnO.ooo stones do you want?' One said 20,000, ami another wanted l">,fioo, and another wanted P 000. I said. 'Ail right; let me bid for the Int. it nil I'll give each of you all MODLI B r r COtn^°r J*!? l e .* B ®* * J l ' you want ror notion .• "Thn.v agreed. of conr. e. Then the auctioneer yelled, 'How much urn I bid for I'i 'so tine pavin' stonesV' " 'Two clolia.'.-s and fifty cents,' says I. " 'Two dollars and fifty cents!' sere!;:::i-d the auctioneer. 'Oh, that's a jc'.e- (!|' c me a rea 1 led.' "He found the bid was real euough My tivals stood silent. 1 g>l the 1 >t for ii'-'.-iO and gave the;:i their .-hare. That's !i.j\v ;?>:> inieaipt to do l'lunkift ended, and tli.; '-i how all such uttempts end." It i; h ivdly necessary, hi the light of this aufiiotiile of "liouest grafi' working.!, to enlarge upon the extended opportunities that would come t > tlx; men of lee I'hv.ikitt stamp were the dream of Municipal owner hip to ciuie true, l'lun itt says "most politicians who are ne< d of rabbin' the cip, get rich (he a,. • way" he did. "Ti: v didn't steal a dollar from the city. Th y .j»: • 112 s.een their opportunities and took t'ae:;!." While in the leg latere Plunkitt in troiluci .1 the bill-: that provided for the outlying parks of New i'oiv. the Har lc.il ri er speedway, the Washington brd; ' the Ottv Il'.-iidr>'d and l'ifty- Hftli stteet viaduct, a-, iitions to the .Museum r,' Natural IP "ory and many other imp >rtant public improvements. He Is no-v a millionaire i'n or the propost d order of thin : with city con trol of e .■'ery tiling, lie might become a billionaire. A» Oilier* Sep !i;m unit «« Stpa to liiuiscli. J. T. Aiiman. secretary of the Petri sylvaniu state grange, remarks that recently at a grangi picnic a gentle man, not a farmer, extolled the farmer to the skies. As he sax.' it.the farmer is the most independent man i: I the land, IP can - .tr .iy know a want that he cannot hinsseil supply. IPs wife enjoys a paradise, and his chil dren are the healthi -st. happi 'si and most conion' .1 to be lettnd a:,.'.where. Ti ere is nothing of which he can justly complain. Soon after a farmer who owos tw > eood 'an.>s and a house in town wa heard to say: "The farmer is not respected by any body. He gets no public reeo"nition. When lie goes a: :on:.' n'iier people he is sneered at as only a farmer. lie is d s criminate 1 against by lea. d: tors and bus!ll .s men. lie | ays the bulk of the taxes, and others !i\ his pi-it: s for him A !?2i'o caeil; will he required op y my !a\es 1. . y >- 1 ::o t : r--d of it My [o ;•• .• 'tie are I:, tl > mai." Th' i'-' is s..nie :. i t whrtl file firs' man said, on nit.c-li i.". th in t' • si-t: nn nt of '. he . »e • ,d. The miss' m of th grange is to real:. t 1 >'. ,;.i as far as possible the il nis of first ami lo correct the evils complained of i>y the second. Mrs. Prigiiam, if- of jt'olouel Jo seph 11. P.; v.ii.ti" 112 .-"ant secretary of agriculture. «. ..l in Washington on Nov. 2:i. She we.-' v ' it-ken with apo plexy on the Wei asilay previous. Colonel P.righam is j. : 112 muster of the national gr:.i go. [vl'WiitoYoiir lUiwi,:« '.Vilh l-inrarrth. . I'oiay i uliiirtic. care c'l a.V/:;<-v -ygm c - '■ Mums.* IcllfiES I Irks™! ILMSBftQO, SCUTIGkI ■NEURALSEA and IKIOfiEY TROUBLE! SB "5 DROPS" taken Internally. rids tlio blood 112, Wk or the poisonous mutter and acids which 5d H are tU.i direct causes of thrse diseases £1 B Applied externally It affords almost in- |M m atant rellel (rompain, while n permanent H yS euro 13 beinn effected by purifying thojj: M blood, dissolving the poisonous sub- £g B| stance and removing it from tbe system, gj CR. S. D. BLAND I H Of Brewton, On., writes: ; ■ "I had been a sufferer for a number of yeare »S HH with Lumbago and If li-umatlPtn In my arn>n s a atirt jeg-.und tried ait -l.ert. u'lles that I could frs MTj gar' er from mr>U ai •• k«. •? o!-.o conmilte I rfc nil with& ~umberof fi. ■ i . ic'v- 9. but found al wW n ; tha* c. • * "htalned from KM 1 ' i c . >. la my practice 4Ka - juiuUsm and LiQure j.teaae#." j & Ef" B£" H 1 112 - ; • ■?; 112 ■■■> lb A m ra cpt. BQ# 160 Lwi»e Street, Chicago. 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