uSPVELIC&H HEWS ITE/i.
CHAPEL WING, Fditor.
Faotinual M/ory 'PttarScUy Aftornoo
By The Sullivao Publishing Co
At tho County Seal, of balUvau County.
LAI'OHTE, PA.
W 0. MASON, I'ri'sideii.
XHOS. J. IN(. HAM, Sec'y & Treas.
entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as
second-class mail matter.
'I heir Purpose Is Purely Educational.
Practical Ideas Advanced.
[Special Correspondence. ]
In considering tlie methods which
t\ ill bring success to any organization
ivb should first consider the purpose
of that organization. The purpose of
the juvenile grange is purely educa
tional. and the training it gives is dif
ferent from any that may be obtained
elsewhere. No order in the world cov
er:) so broad a field as the Order of
Patrons of Husbandry, and the juve
nile work trains and prepares each
member for the work $t liper years.
The first element of success in the
juvenile grange is a good mftt.'on. She
need not have had experience with
children nor as a teacher. She can de
velop her peculiar needs as the work
goo ; on if she Is fitted to her work.
The first thing to be taught is to be
a good Patron of Husbandry. The
beautiful words of instruction in our
ritual should be often used, and in the
iinpv essionable iniud of the child they
will take deeper root than they do
with the careless adult. The next thing
Is the careful training in the rules of
the Order. The children should have
regular drill work in the proper open
ing and closing of the grange, each
child receiving personal attention and
Instruction in carrying out his or her
part with dignity. Children naturally
love anything of a military nature and
will fall gracefully into doing their
regular work with precision, prompt
ness and dignity. The degree work is
a deilght to them, and the lessons
learned in their order'will be carried
out in the' future when they have be
come members of the larger Order
which they closely resemble.
After all parliamentary rules are
thoroughly learned the regular routine
business must be managed by them
selves. The matron can easily hold
theui to this by judicious praise and eu
courairemeut. Not often will they need
this, but her watchful care will pre
vent « areli habits, and this training
v. ill be of the greatest benefit to them.
Never in after life will they lose the j
Kelt' confidence and business ability i
thus gained.
After tho business is thoroughly
learned the most delightful studies
can Ie opt. dup to them through the
study of nature and agriculture. The
leaflets of the Cornell Junior Naturalist
Series will be sent to them on applica
tion, and from them can be developed
the most delightful object lessons, (he
illustrations showing them just how
each part of the work must be done.
The planting of seeds and bulbs, the
distribution of moisture, the habits of
plants, birds or animals, the sprouting
of Me Is, the test for starch in plants,
the competition between weeds and
plants, the mother instinct in plants
and animals, the diseases aud enemies
of plants and flowers and many, many
other valuable lessons may be fastened
upon the child's mind by the simple ob
ject lessons which they may them
selves conduct. The recitations, se
lections and other work of rnis nature
in the lecturer's hour will give confi
dence for work of the saute nature in
the regular grange in the future.
Experience shows me that the ju
venile grange is the surest method by
which we an build tip the Order. In
our juvenile grauge at North Hannibal
the children count the days until they
can l;e admitted to the larger grange.
No question ever arises its to whether
or not they will join. It is a foregone
conclusion they could not be kept out.
In : ome granges where 1 have been
sent lo talk this subject I find that a
fear of unforeseen difficulties or ardu
ous labor is standiug in the way of the
organizing of juvenile granges. To
such I would say: Do not fear for the
children. They will put into the work
the enthusiasm of childhood, they will
Imbibe the grange spirit, and before
.sou know it they will have infused
new life into the parent organization.
<':irei'ul study, observation aud actual
experience teach me that the best
thin;.; for the Order of tlje future is
the juvenile grange of today.
ELIZABETH P. FARNHAM.
National Grange Officers.
The following officers were elected
by tlse national grange on Nov. 'JO:
.Master—N. J. Bachelder, Concord,
N. It.
Overseer—T. C. Atkeson, Morgan
-1 own, W. Va.
Lecturer—W. F. Oaunt, Mulliea Hill,
N. J.
S.eward—J. A. Newcoiub, Golden,
Assistant steward—O. D. Richard
son, West Brookfleld, Mass.
Chaplain—O. S. Wood, Ellington,
Conn.
Treasurer— Mrs. E. S. McDowell,
Home, N. V.
Secretary—C. XI. Freeman, Tippe
canoe City, O.
Gatekeeper- A C. Powers, Beloit,
Wis.
Ceres Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson,
fill lege Park. Md.
Flora Mis. Ida 3udson, Balfour. la.
Pomona Mrs. S. G. Bairil, I'dina
Mills, Minn.
Lady assistant steward— Mrs. Joanna
Walker, Marshalltou, Del.
Member executive committee—Frank
. Godfrey, clean, X. V., master New
Y'irk state grange, succeeding E. B.
\orris, whose term expired at this sea
ls ion of the grange.
PAPA'S STORY.
i His AtUmpt to Tall It Whilo Trying to
Put Robert Asleep.
''Papa!"
"Well?"
"Tell me a story."
' I'll tell you just one If you will
promise togo to sleep."
"My pajamas don't feel good."
"Don't think about them. I'll tell
you a story, but one will be all."
Mr. Todd sat beside the bed aud be
gan:
"Once there was a little uoy"—
"What's his name?"
"1 forget."
"Didn't ho have any name?"
"Yes. to be sure he had! Don't inter
rupt me, Robert."
"Then what was it?"
"Why, his name was—his name was
Julius."
"Julia's a girl's name."
"This boy's name was Julius, not
Julia. He was named for Julius Cae
sar."
"1 know something übout Julius
Caesar," Robert exclaimed, sitting up
suddenly and quoting:
"Julius Caesar "~
Was u wise old geezer.
But lie froze off Ids feet
In a Ice cream freezer "
"Where did you ever hear such a
thing as that?"
"Alfred Potts told it to me."
"Well, don't you ever let me hear
you use Unit word 'geezer" again. Now
I goto sleep."
"But you didn't tell me the story."
"All right. This isn't about Julius
Caesar at ail. Julius Caesar was a
king, and he died a long time ago."
"When he froze his feet off. papa?"
"He didn't freeze his feet. That is
I a piece of silliness Alfred Potts told
j you."
| "What is a piece of silliness, papa?"
j "Don't ask me such foolish questions,
j Settle down aud goto sleep or I'll go
I back downstairs and leave you alone."
"Papa, my pajamas don't feel good."
i"I told you not to think about them.
I Now, listen and I'll tell you about this
little boy. He went out one day and
saw"
"Was his name Julius?"
"Yes, yes!" Mr. Todd answered. "His
name was Julius, aud he"*—
"Did he die a long time ago?"
"No. Julius Caesar died a long time
ago. This t>oy didn't."
"Where does he live now?"
"I don't know. Be still."
"Ilow'd yon know what's his name,
then?"
"Well, he lives—he lives in a town
somewhere. And one day he went out
and saw a tree that was simply full of
birds. The birds"—
"What did the birds do?"
"The birds sang, of course."
"What did they sing?"
"They sang songs. Now, if you want
me to tell you this story you will have
to be quiet. So this boy looked up at
j the birds and"—
"My pajamas don't feel good."
"They never will feel good if you
don't stop thinking about them. So
this boy looked up at the birds, aud
he was a bad boy—and lie thought it
would be smart to throw a stone at
them."
"Did he?"
"Yes, he threw a stoue at the poor
little birds."
. "And what did the stone do?"
"It made the birds fly. And then"— !
"Papa."
"Well?"
"What did the fly do?"
"What fly?"
"The fly it made the birds into."
"Robert Gallahue Todd, 1 am going i
downstairs, aud if you are not asleep I
in two minutes I shall punish you!"
Mr. Todd strode from the room, and j
at the stairs he halted at the sight of j
a woman sitting on the top step with |
her face in her hands and her shoul- j
ders aud sides shaking, it was his i
wife. Wilbur Nesbit in Success Mag
azine.
Some Famous "Dunces."
Nathaniel Hawthorne was the dunce
of his class. Walter Scott was told by
his professor that he was a dunce. Both
Napoleon and Wellington were dull j
boys at school, and when ('live won ;
Plassy his father said he did not think
the booby had so much sense. Chal
mers. the leader of the disruption, was
expelled from his school as an incorri
gible dunce. Chatterton was sent home
as a fool, and I.eigh Hunt was con
sidered beyond all hope. Isaac New
ton. the great oriental scholar; Sir Wil
liam Jones and Robert Morrison, who
compiled the immortal Chinese Bible i
anil dictionary, were all regarded as
extremely dull boys. Minneapolis
Journal.
Two Duels.
Salnte-Beuve got an excellent adver- !
tisemeut out of a duel fought on a j
wet day by insisting upon holding his j
umbrella up with one hand while he \
fired his pistol with the other. He was j
willing, he courageously said, to take j
the risk of being shot, but he must be j
excused from taking the greater risk
of catching cold.
The duel which Benjamin Constant, j
who suffered from gout, fought sitting |
in a Bath chair may have been of
somewhat similar character. Honor in
i that case was declared to be satisfied
when the Bath chair was hit.—Straud
Magazine.
Dangerous.
Father—What are you doing, Emma?
Daughter—Oh, Arthur is coming to
night, aud I'm cooking something for
j him. Father—Emma, Emma, you'd
j better be careful. You'll keep on cook
ing for him till he breaks the engage
ment Ileitere Welt.
It takes a lot of courage on the part |
of a youug man to tell a girl how pret
ty some other girl Is.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
p . Snort Talks on " |
AdVertisihd > : l
——
People generally read advertisements more than they did a fewyears ago.
The reason is to be found in the advertisements themselves.
Advertisers are more careful than they used to be. They make
m exits more readable. Some of them even become, in a
•way, a department of the paper, and people look for them il>(
every day with as much xest and pleasure as they turn to
any other feature.
This is trua of many department stores oil over
In many cities there is just one man who appre- T/ \ ACT; /
ciates the value of such interest. flYv ■
He breaks away from the old set style. He teils j 112
something interesting in his space every 1
There are lots of interesting things in
business. Look over the miscellany page of
any paper—look at its local news columns, J ' —■
and its telegraph news, for that matter, K I ■
and you'll see that the majority of the
items are more or less closely related to Jg?
some business fact. y/'v-l
Dress these facts up in a becoming .. u , tkt „,^ hnHt cam , dm £ hi ,
garb of words, and they will find readers, ftdrstml."
even though they be in a "mere advertisement." Let the merchant come
down oif his pedestal and talk in his
file needn't bo flippant—far from it,
but let him not write as if he were ad- 1
dressing somebody afar off, and telling
him about something at even a grep-ter ,
The newspaper goes right into its ;
It is on the table when he eats, and
in bis hands while he is smoking after
the meal. It reaches him when he is in
an approachable condition.
That's the time to tell *him about
your business—clearly, plainly, convinc
ingly—as one man talks to another.
I **TJtt nr,utf»p<T ft,, rit+t mt* iU «■ <■ *■ „ „ .
Juust tUt MM MM JUm." <&*****> Ckmrlm Mutom B*U., Ntm Ym-K
MUNCY VA PA.
Never Before Have";We Received
|5O and 75 so many praises and Vll
;Boys' Knee many'llattering remarks B aslwe
Pants " eay y v ; ei .s 1 l lt have had this Season.
\r'K&£- *■ Assorted style ntf
i Q'nppia 1 Were you one ol the vast that IpK-4*
| " crowded our store during the past w etk? BMHISm
Did y your share of the ; 1 1u Its
advertised? II not you should
ConrTiiEß E now 'mm
\Ve are making new friends fast: selling' more
!goods than ever before HV
! But we si ill want more friends, want to sell our stock taster, ye
twe are'spurred onto deeper price cutting. People wonder how _ , .-s
jwe can do it. To this we can answer, tiiat no other store in thi
! section? has the wholesale buying facilities enjoyed by thi> es ta 1 , avQm^. D
lishment. We can buy lower, we can sell lower,
I Sweater Coats
Men's or'J'oye' Sweater Coats ..is
Mens'sweater coats
Mens sweater coats 125
Men* sweeter coats 1.50
Metis sweater coats 2.00
i-riV' vTiiM'k sweaters 25 anil 4tic
Mens cariligan'jaeki'ts l-- :>
Underwear
V , I„ r t,
Hoys Shirts or Drawers, m
' ribbed or tleeced 20 ami tl'<v
Men's ribbcd'underwenr
■ill colors '^' ,c
Men's fleeced lined underwear
all colors 39c
! Boys Corduroy
Pants. "
I ]»ovs ? coniuroy.knee pants,
throughout, flue ribbed quality
worth regular 75c Special 3'Jc
Men's Suits
Men's Suits 4.05
Men's Suits 6,75
Mem a Suits 8. 50
Mens,Suits y.f.5 10.50
; Men" Suits 11.75 14.50
L ; 15 50 Ifi 25
So Corne to J. M. Wighton's to satisfy your wants. Remember
' sale only lasts this month. Railroad fare from Laporte and
I Nordmont for purchase of slo'oo or over.
Specials Men's Corduroy Pants
From 1.19 to 2.50
> CHILDREN'S' SUITS
From 99c to and 5 50
! MEN'S TROUSERS
From 69c to $4 75.
MEN S OVERALLS.
From 39c to 75c
MEN'S ODD COATS
All Prices All Prices
Duch and Corduroy to 2 2^
I
SHOES
Also big line of Shoes at sav
1, ing prices SI. for 2.u) Dress
Shoe. Ladies' 1.6s shoes for 1.09
Men's Working Shoes i.fc 1 )
W. L. Douglas Shoes at reduced
prices.
Big Line of Men's and
I Children's Overcoats at re
; duced prices.
THE THE ]
TRIWEEKLY 3 LAPOBTE
GAZETTE and BULLETIN REPUBLICAN NEWSITEM
Tells ali the general news of the, Best dressed and most respected
world, particularly that of our newspaper in Sullivan county.
State, ail the time and tells it Pre-eminently a home newspaper
impartially. Comes to subscrib- * The only Republican paper in
ers every other day. It is in fact county and conies from the seat
almost a d«iily newspaper, and of justice with new news from
you cannot aflord to lie without I the county offices, clean news
it. We oiler this unequaled from all sections of the county
paper and the KLWS ITEM and political news you want to
together uue year tor read. This with Tri-w#eklys at
$ I -501 dt 131.50
The REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM
1 and Tri-Weckly
j GAZETTE AND BULLETIN.
nri
Tu city there is one best If you want to keep in touch
peper, and in Williauisport with the Republican party
it is the (inzette and Bulletin. organization and be informed
It is the most important, pro- °" tt " mi ' estate transfers or
gressive and widely circulated legal matters in general that
paper in that city. The first transpires at the county seat
to hold the fort journalistically. you must necessarily take the
Order ot the News Item. NEV.'S ITEM.
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flflv "NEW RIVAL"
m FACTORY LEADED SHOTGUN SHELLS
No black powder shells on the murke.* compar" with the "NEW RIVAL" in tifli*
lormity and strong shouting qualities, t ire lire and waterproof. Ciet the genuine.
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. .... New Haien, Conn,
—MW—BH—g—lftWi' I. ■ OBIIIVWMMWWBWMMMMaMSHMWa—WW—K
Men's Shirts
Men's Negligee' Shirts :>9c
Men's Work Shirts ;i9e
Men's Flannel Shirts 85c
liicby Flannel oven-hirts 1.39
Men's extra heavy cotton
mixed socks OSc
Men's, all wool'socks 1 '.is
Boys and 'lirls Stockings 09c
Ladies' Hose 09c
Ladies' Facinatprs 19c
Also big line men's lumberinen
rulibers—Lambertville arid? Ball
Band. A Idg saving lor vou-
Men's Caps 19c
Boys' Caps 19c
Ladies' FUIiS at great reduction.
BED BLANKETS from Tsc2up.
TKI'NKS all sizes from 1.50 up.
Ladies' Sweaters |
Ladies' Sweaters all colors '99 c
Ladles' Waists, blue, black. .'i9c
Ladies' Coats
Ladiet-' Coats from .'5.50 to 1:2.00
I""
"The Jewel
Shop."
Where your repair work
receives special attention
ind you are sure to be pleas
ed.
Wh.re you can get "glass
es correctly fitted, that make
voir tves see like young
eyes.
Where jou can get high
grade Watches, Clocks and
all kinds t-t'Jewelery at the
bargain prices you have long
ooked lor.
LJ.Voorhees,
SONESTOWN .
| Administrators' Notice.
Notice is hereby given that Letters of
Administration upon the estate of Fran
••i.- \\ . (ialla;iher, late ol La porte Boro.,
Sullivan Couutv, Penna.. deceased, have
been granted to the undersigned. All
persons indebted 10 said estate are re
• I'tcstcd to make payment, and those
having claims or demands against tb
Vatne will make them known without' (V
• lay to
MRS. THERESA tiALLAGHEJI,
La porte, Penna., Administratrix.
I January 4. 1909.
QOI'RT t'ROCLAMATION.
WHKREAS, HON. ('HAS. K TKKIIV President
.• j fudge. Honorable* llcnry Richlin and H. R.
- Kakinka Assoc. Judgesoljthe Courts of oyer and
- ! Terminer and in'iieral Jail Delivery, Quarter
. se.-sions of the l'eace. Orphans' Court and com
mon I'll :I- tortile ' ounty of Sullivan, have issued
. their precepl, bearing dale the U day of Mar.
ISOU. to me direetea, tor holding the gevera
•• courts in the Ho rough of La porte, on Monday thu
IT day of .May 1009, at 2o'clock p. m.
There lore.notice is hereby given to the Coroner
i | Justices of the l'eace and Constables within the
I ; county, that they lie then and there in their prop
-1 er person at J o'clock p. m.of said dav, with their
rolls, records, inquisitions examinations and
other rememberauces to those things to which
their offices appertain to be done. And to those
who are hound by their recognizance to prosecute
against prisoners w ho are or shall he in the jail of
• the said county of Sullivan, are hereby notified to
be then and there to prosecute against them as
will be just.
JCDSON BROWN Sheriff,
j Sheriff sOffice,Laporte fa.,. », JLU IMS'
S > We promptly obtain C. S. uiicTTorcigiT'^^
iEZSIkES
{Send model,sketch or photo ofinventionlort
c r free report oil patentability, for free book C
TRADE-MARKS
• j Opposite U. S. Patent Office?
L.. -WASJ4 WGTON D. 0. |
Educate Tour Bowel* With I'tlctratt.
Candy Cathurtic, cure constipation fore™*
»oc.i3e- If C. C C. fait, druggists refund moaa»
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