Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-14


One day more and the trout armistice
will cease.
Perhaps Spain thinks it is better to
fight and be licked than never to have
fought at all.
The administration might as well
take notice that the free.horn American
will not be restrained longer than until
Friday. Then he will 90 a-flshing, for the
season opens.
The social dance at the Kennedy
Hall Monday night was largely attended
Parties from Muncy Valley, Sonestowu
and Ringdale were participants in the en-.
joyable affair.
Did you participate in the songs Of
praise and exaltatons which marks the
commemoration OF one of the mos,
glorious events in the history of the
human race
-Jethro Batten returned home Tues
day from Instanter, Elk county.
IS. B. Karns, Esq moved from La.
porte to this place last Monday. He will
occupy the building corner of Church and
Second Streets as residence and law
office, and will practice his profession here.
We welcome him as a citizen of Benton
Benton Argus.
In the spring the young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts Of love, the
young woman's to clothes. The former
rarely suffers more than a passing pain
but the latter frequently gets pneumonia
owing TO the missused application of the
adverb that governs her attire.
Each and all account themselves sen.
sitive, but how many are as sensitive for
others as for themselves? In that lies the
secret Of good breeding. To show appre-
citation OF an intended kindnes, or pleasure
in what is meant to give pleasure, TO please
and 10 be pleased, and above all to look
only for what is best in things and people
is an easy task, and soon becomes habit
This is good manners, and springs from
the heart, while mannerisms are from the
head.
In whirlwind of wrath tw', of our
popular young men with unsovernable
tempers irenzied by what they believed
TO have been born Of injustice and perse
cution sough, hard. listed revenge by at.
tempted to cast dark shadows over each
others eyes Monday night. Following
a storm of bad names came a pugilstic
encounter which terminated in com
lete knockout. On their countenances
war clouds are depicted which plainl,
shows that some exterior cause had
mainly transpired.
Before going to war with foreign
nation over little island in the Atlantic
our representatives ought to count moi
only the cost in lives and money the strife
would involve, but should examine care.
fully the situation at home and abroad as
we'll. The Caesars across the sea who are
practically masters Of two-thrds of tn.
civilized word, have long been preparing
tor conques,s. That they are looking
Americaward there can be no doubt. That
the European monarchs, if firmly united
could be masters of the destinies of the
world. commercial and otherwise, no ON.
can deny. They may come upon us with
or without reason, butof cour-e preferably
with provocation. The prospect is not
p easir Well may the question be ask
ed: e'''re fraught with harmon,
or hos e WARP II war is
!se'ar 1i' will not end with
--Eeo 1,de, 1t seems, is essentially the
season a1 flowers, and flowers were to be
seen eo-qywhere Sunday The predom-
inant. fought, life after death, with each
of US at the most beautiful season of the
wear Eas,er,ide, is swee,ly and appro.
priately symbolized in the flowers which
come to adorn the altar and the sanctuary,
lending their pure fragrance and beaut,
20 make the festival truly the echo of the
shout of victory issuing from the tomb as
the triumphant Saviour, after his agony
and suffering, rises 10 sunder the veil
separating man from his Maker, Flowers
have for generations made themselves an
elevating and beautiful feature of the
ceremony Of every great festival, but to
Easter they singularly and fittingly attach
themselves. How can we better show
our rejoicing at the resurrection of our
Redeemer than to ill His altar and His
sacred abode with the most beautiful that
earth gives?
The Benton Argus is authority for
the following precepts which if more gen.
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