r :-m$uC&N KEWS ITEM. CUACIiiS L. WING, Editor. PttldllbMl Every Thursday Afternoon j By The Sullivan Publishing Co ! At the Count; Seat of Sullivan County. ; IiAPOBTG, PA. W t\ Mason, I'rosiden. TUGS. J. INGHAM, Sei-'y & Treas. Entered at the Post Office at Laporle, ae | second-class mail matter. HARRISBURG.PA. C'.'sis all Drink ano Dnu& Addictions. j NCWU FUPNISMED NEW MANAOtMtWt i rr. -r 'W | Grange visiting Is very popular j a uong grargas that fire of easy access j one to another. The visiting grange j goes prepared to furnish the literary j programme. while the entertuinlng | grunge furnishes the refreshment fea | Many of the Early Prospectors Select, od the Name* of Wives or Sweet- j hearts, Which Stand Now as Remind er of Romances of Bygone Days. Behind the names of many of the j mining claims ami mines of every lain- . lug I'istrlet In the west, there Ilea a j voaltb of romance and history, both j pathetic and ludicrous. The Black th is furnish us many and as good ex <>.up!es of the peculiar circumstances under which many claims nre named it - any locality ill the country. »Hie of the best known mines In the Koutiitru hills is the Holy Terror. Back in il:o early days this claim was lo tilled by an old miner who had work til r-ocae years without success. The cl:Jm was n hard one to work. When the inau ■».'ll home in the evening ..i'.cr locating Ills claim his wife asked In:ii what he named it. lift smiled and it-id her. "I'or you. my dear," and her t'urlLer inquiry drew forth the fact had railed it Holy Terror. An oliu'i man once named his claim Gen • .\iinie for tils wife, while still t tiil.vi perpetuated the memory of hi* wife, who was a noted clubwoman, by nandig his claim Silent Julia. 1 hllis< are dotted with the names cf ; i;:iius recalling romances of bygone days. Mauy a young, ambitious man can:t> here when the mining boom of tl:.- eighties wns at iis height, lured < i.h hope i'l a fortune, and all that re naiii- to tell the tale is the name of Katie W. or Mabel 12. or Lulu J. Many j a sweetheart or wife in the faraway east v.'ns honored In the naming of a eluii.ii tiiiil iu-i owner hoped would prove bonanza. Some few made good. Wit ness ihe Annie Fraction and the Josle, i:oth of wlii h were named for the eastern wtw;s of their owners. They are in the l'ald mountain district and have produced thousands of dollars for the locators. La the Galena district there i» a small abandoned claim known as the V. uiow, with which there goes a story. Veai: ago a youth named Hanley ap peared 'from somewhere with a few tL 'iisaud irtld with zeal commenced to i-iuk his money in a hole iu the ground in the hope of a vast fortune. Back in the old home a little widow waited hi \uin for the golden wealth he said was sure to come and the wedding day that would celebrate it. It took i.ut a short time for the youth's small savings to dwindle away with his in experience, and. chagrined and dis heartened, he put a bullet through his brain on the site of his blasted hopes. Oue prospector who worked diligent ly on a claim which was staked by an i outsider and had difficulty iu even get > ting Ills living expenses secured his re- : renge by naming his claim Old Per- | f.lnimon. Men of patriotic turn of mind have j choseu names of those famous In his tory, as Washington, Lincoln, etc. i'ucli of the presidents has been re •aembered, famous generals, all of the stares, seafaring heroes and heroes of the Philippines, as I>ewey and Fun j r.ton. Indian names by the score are [ found, as Hiawatha, Minnekahta and { Nanoma. Those of sporting procilvi- j ties chose race horses, as Nancy Hanks,, Salvutor, Maud S., Red Wilkes, Joe I'ati.iien. Favorite authors have been remembered, as Longfellow, Burns and Dickens. One student named his group Mtltlades, Mark Anthony, Attila mid Cleopatra. One man of a pessimistic velu chose l What's Left and Some Left The aver- j age business man in naming claims : will choose a simple name and use a ' series it numlors. as. for Instance, Thoiuas No. 1, Thomas No. 2, etc. One j man favored his wife by calling lit* j clai;:i Red Headed Woman. Two ad- j joining claims are known as On Time; and Late. An odd case was known In the name of.the Hoodlebug claim, which- was lo- j cated he a German and an Irishman j and Intended by the former to lie called : Heidelberg. When the Irishman reach-, ed towu to record the location he bad : forgotten his partner's selection of a ! name and said it was something like 1 Hoodlebug. which, for convenience,; was the name recorded. The Prodigal Son lived up to Us name by I ankruptlng Its locator, who returned t > lowa at the behest of the ! father who had put up the funds for j the \e: -e. Among the names that' doubtle. s conceal stories never known me Old Whiskers, She Devil, Crack Brain and Crank. Some of the guicbes have uames tUat refer to Incidents. Two Bit was i unied because a placer miner de clared his first panful would yield about two bits. Then there are Poor Man's Gulch, Sbeeptall, Blacktall, Whltetail, Crooked Arm, Poverty and i'rosperity.—Deed wood Cor Bt Loula Republic. Kentucky, following the example of her progressive sister state* of the north, has organized a grange with i the charter list composed largely of | the forulty Hnd students of Its eg ; cultural college at Lexington. The ex | perlment station corps of experts is '< also represented In the charter list of ' ceventv-five. I " ! A COMMENT OR TWC\ Oa MetKocta of Work Bm*lsr«4 at National Uraasro Mcctlsfi, in the Importance of questions con sidered the 100«J session of the national grange will rank well with preceding Ones. Measures of much Importance to the Order and to the public as well ! were considered and In most Instances I acted upon wisely. Xt Is expected that : In a body of men representing differ j ent and widely separated sections of | tlie country there will be a diversity | of opinion upon certain pnbUc ques j tlons, and It is characteristic of dele gates to the national grauge. This was particularly noticeable in a : discussion which arose on the resolu | tlon Introduced by the Washington del j egate relative to the Initiative and ref ' ICKS. «T» S. M'DOWE&I., tkiaschxr or MATIOX&I, OHAMCIE erenduni. direct nominations, direct elections, proportional representation and the right, to recall executive offi cers. The resolution was pressed with great vigor by the geutletnen from Washington and Oregon, but was not especially favored by the eastern del egates. and ouly one or two from the middle west seemed inclined tore- j celve tt very cordially. Probably a i resolution favoring the initiative and i referendum alone would bave boon adopted, but this one never. Tba mat ter was finally referred to the several state granges for their action, as the delegates did uot care to take posi tion on it without instructions from various states. Several of them expressed their personal views on the question, but refused to allow them selves to be governed by those views aolely. While questions of this nature may properly come before the national grunge, it seems to the looker on that there Is a tendency to deal with ques tions that are really without the prov ince of the grunge or are at least not particularly apropos. I refer particu larly to the resolutions Introduced by the delegate from West Virginia re stricting the amount of land which any in no may own or ieaae and another ad vocating a progressive tax on all for tunes Above a fixed maximum, either given awuy In life or bequeathed In death, and, strange as It may seem, both of these resolutions prevailed. I am of the opinion that tbe closer | national and state granges confine ! themselves to such legislation as most j dir:»cMy iienra upon the Interests of j the fitriiii I .' Uio better will our Order ful ; till Its mission to tbe farmer. Further- : | more, there is not that general discus sion of resolutions offered in these grange meetings that should be for the highest Interest. As all who are familiar with tbe workings of tbe state and national granges know, resolutions ! are referred at once to the appropriate I committee without discussion. Cotn j ralttees after due consideration present j tlielr report to the body either favor i ably or adversely, as the case may be, uud their rejwrt Is acted upon by the delegates, but scarcely ever with argu ment or discussion. As to the future, the outlook is moat | i encouraging. Something like 100,000 . bave been added to the membership ; throughout the United States the past i ! year. It will grow In numbers as It i grows results shown for tbe farm- I era' benefit —American Agriculturist. JsTtslle Craatn. Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps Parnham, lec- j I turer of Oswego county {N. Y.) Pomo : na grange and who has given much ! attention to juvenile grange work, , says that souis of the best reasons for ' organizing juvenile granges were | based upon tbe plan ot holding them at the same time as the subordinate i grange. | First, many members who would be I helpful to the Order and who would . find it helpful to them cannot attend unless accompanied by their children; : second, tbe children. 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