LITERARY XOTES.
wKiin unurv at nit It this Walch It i
iuun nunc i dhuk .5 r,Prnti.
111 1 1 1 illicit Every Thursday Morning
GEO W WAGENHKIiER A M BDITOR AND OWNER
RKVIEW OK KKYIKWS
The late Marcus Daly, the Montana copper king,
is the Hlhjwit of a brit-f character sketch in the De
eerulKT Review of Reviews, by Samuel E. Motlett.
The picturesque side of this Western "empire build
er's strenuous career is aptly set forth. Mr. Taleott
" iM'r yi'r " ix'i'1 1 iwivinu'e- B14M irr yr it not Williams contributes some pertinent observations on
in .iilviinco. ...: pie. Five Ceiita. , . , , ... , , . .
! the making of the novels of the day, and the inaten-
AtfvMPtlatag Kiii-. M cental per line, nnnnnrrii MMMra- al rewards to author and publisher.
lie 1 1 1 fer lirwt liumrtjofc and 111 ti'iitft Jer line for ea'h muI,-. -
qiMnt i tirrtioti . tlOPPICE.- Near the County Court House, 1
beiwr-en the First Nntionp.1 llnnk ami the Oiimty Jail. SCKIHNFIl's
SUBSCRIPTION H ATKS.
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fur 1H1
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Pent ii P7 IP We tell
Irurcd jeweled Brvs or H'ait-
Voi XXXVII.
Pjsc. in, 1900.
NOMBEB 48.
CURRENT CUM M EXT.
Catherine Anderson, ofLvons, N. Y., is the la-
Tiik Christmas XumU-r of Scribner's Magazine
shows three iliHcrtiit kinds of color-printing. The
cover is an elaborate design by Maxtield l'arrish,
which it has taken nine printings to reproduce. The
frontispiece is a delicate reproduction in color of a
painting ot a mother ami clulil hy Jessie illcox
test party to become distinguished by uokinir holes smith, and, in the body of the nuunudne. In a verv
through the window of a railroad coach in order UlumlnaUng article by the distinguished art critic,
t ... I wi ' .It in ii I.a Fargo, on " I'UVU do ( liavamies," are six
to get rresn air. one was arrested. full-page picturt of some famous decorative paint
ings I iv I uvis. Ilieseliave heen most taithfully re-
Corporat.oiis sometitnes rummage about and
liml a soul, for some particular occasion. Rail
roads did a million dollars worth of free trans
portation for the Galveston sufferers.
Six thousand dogs at the show of the London
Ladies' Kennel Association were considered worth
gh icg $50,1 II l in prizes. This shows that poor
Tray was in pretty good company thai week.
Photographs have been made with light from
the plane! Venus, instead of from the sun : show
ing that planet-rays, although weaker, are of the
same nature as are those of the great luminary.
It is announced that the regular armv will
probably be increased to 100,000 men, and the
mere suggestion has thrown the Bryan organs in
to spasms flip, ci v 0f "imoerialism" will be
heard louder than ever.
Experiments in forestry are being carried on
in California, the idea being to determine as Dear
as possible the value ot' timber to a watershed.
The rainfall in the lands which have been set a
part f r the experiments is accurately measured,
and the relative amount of run-off is carefully es
timated, The experiments tire being conducted on
a very extensive scale, so they will undoubtedly
prove of great value.
A CHINESE banknote, issued during the Ming
Dynasty, about A. I). 1390, has been placed in
the British Museum, among the specimens of early
printing (nun Inn
UP-TO-DATE JOURNALISM
f I "HE Snyder County AVir in its last issue car.
is blind enough to Ixwst of its up-to-date
ideas in everything from (rod to the devil.
newsiaper ever ottered a worse insult to the in
telligence of its readers. If the .Virx readers
can swallow that and enjoy good digeston, the
Aetna has rightly judged in presuming that they
don't know what is modern. We are positive,
however, that the Snyder county people can read-
ilv detect tnedinerence. In the issue ot the .cw. mane, couches. DoOa Easy chairs. Fountain
t i , n .i ....... . Pens Games, Graphuphones, Orcwerles. Hand.
JUiy it. I i'uu. me .unitllctiurir .Markets were itercniers, anives. Lamps. m timers, musioiu in-
sTrmn.nm. Pl'rif-S"
published as follows :
Batter 14
Eggs is
Lard 7
Tallow ;
SALE REGISTER
Notices of tales will l e Inserted Ire under
till, heading when ihe bills are printed at it,,,
on ... Whan tbe bills are not printed at t
ofliee 51'CenU will becanre.1. Pro..
Mull, ham Movement, In m. ' K to have Mile should select a date ai d iia.-
genuine uoianueaoaaB. inseriei in inn column.
K,N.-:;?1? nw VtvK ! Tl KS,DY- . Aline. J. P. We will
est things In reUable ' Z.
vwetj, are HH by us , TUESDAY, March S. 1000. one-lialf ml?e west of
wv.wn avwM - ... vnurcu 111 1 CllirC lowMliln I vrn.
Marks will sell 6 horses, 2 cows and fairiiu.c
Impleiuents.
price.
HOLIDAY SUGatSTlOHS.
Artlsui Materials, Bi
cycles, llookcases. Buf
fets, Cabinets, Candy,
Cblna. China Closets.
VnH rinse, wt.vs cigars, iioczs, com
Pedestals, Pictures. Pipes, Purses,
rs, sewinn Machines, snortlnir 'ooas.
Table Sllverw.irp, Toys, Umbrellas, WrttlDg
Ham
Shoulder.
moon . . . .
( talons. . .
produced in the colors of the originals.
Rare and Fine
GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS
The largest collection of Precious Gems,
Jewelry, Sterling Silver, Leather Goods,
Cut Glass, Clocks, Umbrellas, Art Vases,
Et cetera, in Central Pennsylvania. . .
GRAIN MA ItKKTS.
New Wheat 70
Old Wheat 7"
Rye fid
Corn 40
iOata 28
Special Watch Prices we will Offer During the
Month of December :
Ladjes' Silver Watdh at $5.00
Ladies' Gold Filled Walch al . . . . 7.50
flic stiriace ot the note is With American Movements. All Warranted.
black with age, though the characters upon the Ladies' Gold Filled Watches, with Elgin
face of it are quite d isceriiahle. rI his is supposed r Waltham Movements, at . . $10 to $18
to Ik- the earliest gpeuimen extant of a hank note Ladies' Solid I4K $15 to $85
issued from any country, and is about 300 years Cents' Gold Filled 91 $10 to $45
anterior to the issue of the first note in Europe, ! With E1&in or Waltham Movements
i1 . -. ill
irom orocKiioiin.
A dispatch says Jerry Simpson has moved in
to Missouri. Now bleeding Kansas bleeds as she
never bled before and the folks are wearing weeds
on the wild Neosho shore. They wail in ( )sawat
oniic, they weep in Pottawatomie, the sighing and
the sobbing drown the Crooked's awful roar.
There is rending ojUpcka, for Ijje Sockless packs
his sivcs and will 'nve in poor old Kansas no
more, alas, no more! We shall nevermore be merry,
for we have lost our Jerry, and thrice fortunate
Missouri will never restore our Sock less Socrates
wherefore with tears and these poor sorrow songs
our Jerry we ever shall deplore.
In a recent issue the Pot deplored the fact
that Snyher County was decreasing in population.
This decrease was shown to be due to emigration
and emigration is forced upon those who can not
obtain employment here. There must be more in
dustrial development, more manufacturing plants'
and knitting establishments. Selinsgrove started a
shoe factory, and hosiery mill, Middlehurg, a shoe,
factory, Beavertown, a shirt factory, and the Ad
amsbnrg Soap Company should manufacture their
soap at home, then Adamsburg would come in
line with a soap factor) . Now what do the other
towns of the county have to say for themselves?
There arc Met 'lure, Troxelville, Centerville, I
Krcamer, Frecburg, Port Treverton, Mt Pleasant
Mills, Shamokin Dam, Paxtonville and other
towns in the county. Why don't they have sonic
Gent's Solid 14K at $27 to $125
Boys' Watches at $2, In Niekel ; $5.50,
In Solid Silver; $3 jn Gold Filled. . . .
t
All
We would be pleased to see you
goods as repressnted.
A specialty of fine Umbrellas for little
mojiey. ,
FISHER
THE JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
SUNBURY
ur Unccs Commanb
Rbmiratfon mb m nooMft at 4rc
mute H0toni0bmetst
; Look here. Are you in need of
DRY GOODS
Clotb.no
DRESS GOODS
Ulnbcrwcar
NOTIONS, HATS AND CAPS
BOOTS, SHOES, m 4
Flour per lb.. -4.00 jjj
For 22 successive weeks the News (?) gave its
up-to-date market reports and even last week
yet had not changed a type. Kvery week since
last July, that up-to-date journal has liecn
telling its readers that eggs were worth is. The
Post is unable to decipher the meaning of is, l
but the presumption is that it is one shilling, re
ferring (utile up-to-date designation of money us
ed by the pioneers when they settled the forests of
Pennsylvania. The readers of the Post know
that this occuired between two and three een
tunes ago, but who could stomach the presump
tion that an up-to-date newspaper will publish
the same market quotations for six months. This
is not all. There is no telling how many more
weeks the News (?) would have published the
same market reports. They can look this week
for a change and give the Post credit for help
ing them to get the correct markets.
Is this the only time they have U'cn dilatory ?
Let us see Only one change was made in the
Ncicm (?) market rexrts from March 29th to
July 12th. Right in the face of this, our would- 1
lie (ireeleyite is either trying to throw sand into
the eyes of his readers, to stultify their observa
tion or else is exhibiting unpardonable and culp
able stupidity right in his own office and at his
own desk. "May the Holy Saints protect us."
. o feiks, are a few of ilia thousands of suiublo
. . 1- nrtlclos we soil for Christmas presents. In addl
u t Ion, we are Iiead-to-f not outtlttrs for Men, Wo-
O inon and Children, sell Everything- to Eat, and
7 i to t'se. All Information Is contained In our No.
' W Illustrated i-atal(igim,eacli copj weighing Ik
"0 lbs. as an evidence of Interest, send usioc. to
' help pay postage. Theso 10a, top Dinrct from
yocr riBSToamts of $1. It quotes wholesale
prices to consumers.
rulLOVIIGClTiU)CCI!i P.". Dmt OoeUt stetMaM
tmmolto from 15c. to SJ 50 M pay transportation,
ii . Madi-tordir Man's Clothtnq Cataloqvowlth samplts
" ivepav f xpmsigt and guurantct to fit. Uthoqraphtd
HI I cataloguo of Carotts, fiugn, Drapnrlns, ate, jfcourng
' aaadxln (saw real aalaM. HMl Ban trjLiht and sum Cat-
Cllol) 95 MtfJVsf
' Whv nav refill nrlrrqf Which Cfttnlntmo da
ou wani7 auress mis war :
LIUS HIKES & SON. BALTIMORE. MD.. Of Dt. 909
Potatoes
Bran per LOO.
Middlings ,
First National Bark E'ectienlNotice.
Tha annual meeting of Um lmk lo'd. rn , I
the Klrst National I'link t.f M :.!' l.i.tKl, fur h
lection ot aevrn tlireclors for the enduing fx ar
will be held In the banklnK house Hit Blrj
Tuesday of Jainisry, ben k.'bi uaiy 1Mb, .,
between the hours of r'AT'lM- and 12 M.V-V
ss fmrm- r- J, Jf, TWoUfOS, Cashier M
MMdlebiirg.ira.. 1'e. . io, )ion. s- , .
1MI; I'lM I 1. AM I K
Apiece of flamel daxnpfned with
Ghamwrlain'a l'aiti Balm and booed
to the offteied psriB is riiperior to
utiy rlat-ter. When tnubled with
lauic back or pmns in tie side or
cLesl. give it a triid and vou are eer
tain to te nioietliHii ph ased with the
prompt relief which it a fiords. Pain
BhIui also com rheumatism. Oiie
application gives relief. For sale at
the Middlehurg Drug Store.
...
i
t
THAT
Christmas Turkey
i
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Till: COMMERCIAL DITCH
AND-
manufacturing plant in their town? Population
will continue to decrease until employment is pro- And KmMJCT 0000,
vided. All tvhowant work around Middlehurg can j As weu as
get it. What is most needed is houses so that ad-!
ditional families can move into town. The shoe, HARDWARK
lactory is over run witii orders and skilled labor
can readily get employment If the Selinsgrove
and Middlehurg shoe factories had not been cstah
lisded, the falling oil in population would have
been greater than it has been. The Post has named
nine towns in this county who should have some
industry. Which of the nine will lie the first to
act? It remains to be seen which town has the
most enterprising citizens.
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GROCERIES
You want the best goods for the money. We
are prepared to furnish them to you on short notice.
COME and investigate for yourselves.
Thanking you for past patronage, you can rest
assured that we will appreciate a continuance of the
same, no matter how small your purchase. Coun
try Droduce a SDecialtv. Our mnttn HnnpQt OinHc
T looks very much as if tbe Nicaragua Ca- Moderate Prices, Honorable Competition. Square
Dai will tie a nxea tact betore many years. J he 1 Dealing. Yours for business,
negotiations giving the United States the rights
and privileges have been signed by Secretary Hay
and the representative of Nicaragua, in Washing
ton, and Congress will now have an oportunity
to carry out the good work. The fact that the
Panama Canal people have been in Washington
trying to sell out to the government is of no con
sequence whatever. The Panama Canal route has
been rejected time and time again by the best en
gineers in the United States, and we do not want
it. Another and more potent reason why this coun
try does not want the Panama Canal is that what
has been accomplished on that ditch was through
the money of the French people, and it is quite
likely that in purchasing we would buy into a
law suit, and that is not pleasant. The great mass
of intelligent, thinking people of the United States
Want the Xiearaguan route, and that means that
We will control it absolutely from the outset.
S. C. DUND0RE,
PENNS CREEK, PA,
J3T'We have a large assortment of
SUcrwarc 3ewclr
Wlatcbcd Cloche
ant)
ilMislcal Instruments
5yThe best way to convince you of our
bargains Is for you to call and Inspect
lb. HeUinni 8 Sunburg
HE LEARNED DOCTOR and botanist Rudolf,
Jacob Cartierarius, professor at Tubingen, was
the first to discover the sexuality in plants. He
had succeeded in separating two feminine types
of the nuptial mercury from a group of plants of the
annual mercury from a group of plants of the same
kind, and remarked that they bad hollow seeds.
His report on this subject, published in the "Kpb
emertdes" of the Leopoldine Academy, is dated De
cember 28, 1(881. Camerarlua demonstrated that
plants arc reproduced, like animals, by means of
sexual organs, ami published tbe fact in bis memoir,
"De Sexu I'lantaruni Kpistola." The thought, like
many Other great discoveries that arc not appreciated
i at the time, was too remote from current ideas to be
accepted, and was completely overlooked. Again,
'in IW&, a school-master, the regent Christian Don
rad sprcnuel, of Bpandau, published a book on the
(question Of the sexuality of plants, showing with
rare penetration what were the functions of the or-
I gans of the flower, and chiefly of the colored petals.
The facts he disclosed, and whieh are now part of
the incontestable patrimony of science, appearing so
surprising that he entitled his book "The Mystery
I of Nature Unveiled in the Structure and Fecunda
tion of Plants." He also advised the botanist of ills
time to study plants in vivo, in nature, instead of
contenting themselves with the examination in
' their studies of dried and withered specimens in an
herbarium. Incredible as it may appear, it is never
theless true that his Ingenious work, so important
to the scientific explanation of the different floral or
gans, remained unknown till 1802, when Charles
Darwin, being occupied witu the same question,
found it and made it known.
GREAT
REDUCTION
We have reduced our stock of Men's, Boys,
Children's Suits and Overcoats from one-fourth to
one-third off in price.
If you 9eed ai)y elorjljir, iov
is vour biii)e to buy.
All our $5 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $3.50
All our $7.50 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $5.00
All our $10 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $7.50
Men's $3 good all lined corduroy Pants reduced to $2
Boys' $3 Overoats reduced to $2.50
Boys' $2 Overcoats reduced to $1.50
We have a large line of
GENTS'
on hand for the
HOLIDAYS
which every one should see
A large assortment of
LADIES'
HANDKERCHIEFS
at 5 cents each
H. KATZ,
CLOTHIER,
MIDDLEBURG. PENNA.
Will be much nicer if you
carve it. with a Nice Nuw
Carving Knife and folk,
I can furnifh you with
Imitation Bone .uiiidle at
!"e per set to genuine Stag
at 1 4.00 per set. f have
them m all styles and fin
ishes. My stock of Enterprise
Rusage Sniffers und Uriud
ers is not yet entirely
cleared out. Fifty Pound Lard Cans, very heavy Tin, 30c each.
W. H. Helm, Hardware
r 415 E. Market St. SUNBURY, PA.
CHRISTMAS
It's not too early to consider the Christinas question.
You ouht to know by this time what the children want.
We are reasonably confident we can supply it, but to
make sure you had better call and see.
We have lots of things for older people, too.
C. S. BIG0NY & CO.
323 Market St. SUNBURY, PA.
M.I..n..M.M-t-l"l"l"l"M"l"l"I'l"M-l"H"l'll"l"l"l
Useful Christmas Gifts
Never so large a line to select from. Suitable tor
everybody. Useful gifts arc the most appreciated
SLEDS, SKATES, CHILDREN'S BANKS,
1TKSKS for all; Ladies' and Gentlemen's Pock
et Books, (inns and Target Rifles, Tool Chests for
Boys, Carpenter's Chests and Tools for Men. A
large assortment of Pocket Knives from 5 cents to
2.00 each.
Talbe Knives and Forks, Carvers. Tea and Table
Spoons ; Scissors, and Shears. Carpet Sweepers
and Toy Sweepers, Clothes Washers, Clothes
wringers, Tea and Coffee Pots, Tea Kettles, and
numerous other articles in Granite, Deft, and Nick-el-copper
Wares J Crumb Trays, Nut Picks and
Cracks, Baskets, Razor Straps and Razors.
HFO W HACKETT 325 Market Street
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A RARE CHANCE
?.? T ?' '.TT T M
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I
TO BUY A
GOOD GUN CHEAP
AT ACTUAL COST
Will close my entire stock of GUNS out at ACTUAL
COST. Must have
the room for my
IMMENSE
HOLIDAY
STOCK.
A Lot of Good Guns at Sacrifice Prices
7.00 Guns now at $5.00 $ 8.00 Guns now at $ 6.00
12.00 " " 9.00 14.00 " 15.00;
$25.00 Guns now at $21.
It will pay you to come many miles to get these Guns at;
prices that I now otler.
r3v:V Furman's Cash Fair
sit market bt. auHaiCBT, ran -
m in 1 1 1 1 1 1 mm m i n i mini i iinimiiiiniiH