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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Something Like a Search.

A Welshman who was in London
when extensive sewering operations
were in progress lost his watch. He
reported the matter to Scotland Yard,
and the officials said they would leave
no stone unturned to find the missing
eimekeeper Shortly afterward Taffy
again visited the metropolis and saw
street after street turned up. He waS
told that in all thirty-six miles of road
were in the same condition. He rushed
down to Scotland Yard and exclaimed
to the wondering inspector:
81 didn't think I was giving you all
that trouble. II you don't find the
watch by Sunday. l wouldn't break up
any more streets"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
FOR SALE.

| offer the following properties &c
acres, hemlock timber, near Ringdale'
373 acres, virgin timber, Elk Run, North
Mountain. close to railroad; 326 acres
coal lands. at Bernice, adjoining present
workings; s lots tone entire section) at
Eagles Mere, each lot 75 feet front on
Pennsylvania Ave-, with bradford
privileges and title lot IS it, front OIL
LaPorte Ave; several choice lots in La
Porte Boro.; also several warrants Of
stripped lands in LaPorte, Colley and
Eox townships suitable for farming oil
grazing purposes.
III. r. DowNs, Atty-at-Law.
LaPorte. Pa
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
. Ayers
OarsapaP1IId." !"
ISAAC ACKER, Cowans. Va
A Horrible Railroad Accident

is daily chronicle in our papers; also
the death Of some dear friend, who had
died with Consumption, whereas, if he or
she had taken Otto's Cure for Throat and
Lung diseases in time, life would have
been rendered happier and perhaps saved.
Heed the warning Ifyou have a cough
or any affection of the Throat and Lungs
Call on 7. J. Keeler, Laporte; w. l..
Hoffman, Hillsgrove; b. s. Lancaster,
Forksville; G. Jennings, Agt. Estella;
Jno. w. Buck, Sonestown, and get a
tral:package free. Large size SOC and 25c.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01

Gen. Banks was besiegng Port Hud.
son, louisiana the Southern gateway
to the control of the Mississippi river
A body of troops had marched into the
back country to look for lowering Con.
federate cavalry, and were sleeping one
moonless night behind stacked rifles
in readiness for a night attack. Ihe
attack came in an unexpected form
Some six or eight army mules, getting
somehow detached from the wagon
wheels to which they were tied at
night, were seized with a panic, and
came charging down almost the entire
line of the Fifty-second Massachusetts
Volunteers. Every man lay covered
with shelter tent" a piece OF white
cotton cloth about five feet square. AS
the mules rushed over each one of us
he woke suddenly with cry, and
sprang up, raising his shelter tent in
one hand or upon his front. so that he
seemed like a sheeted and gibbering
ghost This successive rising of over
four hundred apparitions added wild
ness to the panic of the mules, and
they fairly few down the line.
Now. the remarkable thing is that,
while many a man had his side rubbed
hard or his scalp abraded by the hoof
or the leg of a mule, not a man was
really stepped on or really hurt. 1t
was for months a subject of comment
with us that the mules, in their in
tensified panic, should nevertheless
have been able to see where to step,
should have cared where they stepped
and in their speed should have been
able always to step on the ground. The
men presently lay down again, but for
half an hour aiterward a laugh at the
righteousness OF the experience would
start somewhere among the recumbent
forms and go pealing up and down the
line
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Political Card.

hereby announce myself as an indie
pendent candidate for representative Tor
Sullivan county, Pa, to make my botany
hill, my jury reform bill and my free
speech billlaws for the welfare of the peo-
pie of the State. Fellow citizens, write
my name on your tickets in the right
column or place and you will thereby
elect me when you vote. solicit your
votes and ask for your suflrages.
DR. JOHN CORR, Herbalist.
Dushore, Pa, July Is, 1898.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, JouN
Howard HARRIS, President. College
leading to degrees in Art, Philosophy and
Science. Academy, preparatory school
for young.m and boys. Institute, a re-
fined boarding school for young ladies'
School of Music, with graduating courses
For catalogue, address the Register,
w. c. GRETzINGER, Lewisburg, Pa
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Stone Boot sole..

An inventor has hit upon method
of putting stone soles on boots and
shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue
With a suitable quantity OF clean
quartz sand and spreads it over the
leather sole used as foundation.
These quartz soles are said to be very
fexible and practically indestructible.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Administrators Notice.

Administrators Notice.
Estate Of Mary McCMty, late Of Eyk.
ldnd tounship, deceased.
Letters of Administration having been
granted to The undersigned, Administra
tor in the estate of Mary McCarty late oI
Elkland township. deceased, notice is
hereby given that all persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make immed-
late payment. and all persons having
claims against it must present them duly
authenticated for settlement.
DowNs, Atty. JOSEPH PARDOE, Admire
THOS. MCCARTHY ! aim
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Everybody Saws So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most Won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitIal constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try q box
of g. G. G. to-day; 10, 20, 50 cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01

State OF Pennsylvania, County of sullivan IS:
|, NJ. ID. Swarts Cashier OF the above named
bank do soemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best OF my knowledge and be
lief.
NJ. ID. SWARTS, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day OF July 1898.
JOHN II. CRONIN, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
AHPHSISES ~ B; SEEsEA, MRlsH' Director,
+. b. POMEROY.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Retter Than Cats.

A savant has discovered how to slay
mice and rats by means Of a bacillus.
which he has named after himself, and
which is supposed to be far more fatal
than the cat.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Political Announcement.

| hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for the Office of Sheriff, subject to
the will and regulations of the ensuing
Republican County Convention
j. H. BOHN, Dushore Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
FOUR-LEAvED CLOvERS.
Queen Hortenses Pastime Spoiled by ~
Abundance of Them.

Queen Hortense's Pastime Spoiled by ~
Abundance of Them.
An amusing story of Queen Hortense
daughter of the Empress Josephine ant
wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Hol
land, has lately been told. After hel
exile from Holland the eX-Queen so
journed for time in a modest habita
tiOn near Constance, in Switzerland.
AS her health was broken down BY
her troubles, her physician prescribed
visit to the mountains of Appenzell
and the ex-Queen, accompanied only BY
reader or female companion and two
or three servants, went to rustic
neighborhood in the hills. There SHE
and her companion found nothing bet
ter to do than hunt for four-leavee
clover, and became quite excited in tn,
search
ITO lend the matter interest" the
Queen wrote in letter which has beer
brought to light, I'VE would assume
that each discovery of a four-leavec
clover had some prophetic significance
The next one, if found so and so, mean
lHdt we WOulQ fclulH W II dh
other meant that | was to receive let
ter the next day from my son Louis
and so on. In this innocent pastime
we found positively the only excite
ment that was open to us in the place
But soon it was nOised abroad
among the children of the neighbor
hood that we were continually hunting
four-leaved clover and consequently
these children argued, we must wan
it very much. Then all the children
and some of the grown people were oul
hunting fourleaved clover, and soor
great lunches of it were brought to us
for which We mad to show ourselves
very grateful.
I'm another day our only resource
for amusement was gone, for these
kind but superserviceable people hac
stripped the neighborhood for a mile
around of all its four-leaved clover!
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
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In the Mexican Household

Inc arrangement of furniture Is
much more formal than in the United
States. 1t is very common sight to
see splendidly furnished parlor with
row of straight-b backed chairs all
alike with their backs against the wall
and as close together as they can be
placed clear around the room.
Heavy single doors, such as are
used in the United States, are practi-
cally unknown in Mexican houses
either at entrances or between in
terror rooms All doors open in the
middle and are fastened with bolts
top and bottom. Exterior doors are
always fitted with glass panels, for
they also serve as windows. All such
doors opening ON the street or open
court are fitted with solid shutters
that are folded at the sides out of
sioht when not in use.
A good Mexican cook relieves the
mistress of the house of worry and
responsibility in a manner that is al
most unknown in the United States.
The cook is given so much day, and
with this amount she will purchase
the day, including even the staples
that are usually bought in large guam
titles in other countries. On n dollar
a day cook will provide a very good
table for family of three or four,
and get enough beans and tortillas
and chile to set the servants table be-
sides. They can really do better than
In, ,nictraccaS haaalISa thav pnn IIS-
ually drive sharper bargains with the
marketmen of their own class, and
they have more patience to haggle
over the last penny.
Mount Vernon's Guard.
Edward Parker, the little old color
ed man who occupies the sentry-box at
the tomb Of Washington at Mount Ver-
non, lives In Washington That is, hia
family live here, and he comes over by
special permit Of the organization
which has control OF the old home OF
the first President of the United States.
For years the tomb of Washington
has been constantly before this old
colored mans vision. He has never
missed a day from that dingy sentry
box since Mount Vernon passed into
the charge of the ladies, and before
that, dating from 1871, he had lived
on the place. He was a slave of John
Washington, and IS the last OF the
old servants now living.
Every other Saturday Parker comes
over to Washington, always carrying
with him an old-fashioned carpet t-bag,
SO common in the days of reconstruc-
ton. The following Monday morning
he may always be seen half-hour at
least before the first train starts fot
Mount Vernon, waiting around the cor
ner of Pennsylvania and Thir-
teenth-st. He has never missed the
first train since the electric cars began
running to Mount Vernon. Before
that the first boat to Mount Vernon,
on alternating Monday mornings, al
ways found him passenger.
Parker is, indeed, character. He
assisted in burying the last person
consigned to the vault in Washingtons
tomb. After that the key to the vault
was thrown into the Potomac. This
was in the early fifties.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Farm for Sale

The undersigned : on account OF fail
ing health will sell his yaluacle farm
situated on Muncy Creek about nine
miles north of Hughesville, Pa. part OF
the purchase money can remain in prop
erty.
JACOB Bucks, Strawbridge, Lycoming Co.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Notice of Dissolution.

The partnership heretofore existing between
NJ f. Reetier and i. f. Ives, doing business under
the firm name OF Reeder Il Ives, has been dissolv-
ed this Nth day OF July, by mutual consent, ALI
debts of said firm TO be presented To NJ T. Reeder
for payment and all parties owing said firm to
make payment to same
NJ E. REEDER.
VkTIr
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01
Sores.

Running sores appeared on my
leg and spread over the entire
lower portion of the limb. got
no help from medicine till ! tried
yours. was cured by one bottle OF
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. II c. c. c. fail, druggists refund money.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01

Notice!
$4,000 worth of
Clothing,

Will close out the entire stock at near
ly SOC, on the.dollar. This will be the
greatest sale Laporte ever heard OF. Every
body should take advantage OF the bar
gains | will offer. We will surely give
you prices that you will surely be astonish'
ed. It will pay you TO buy not only ior
present but for future use. will be glad
to give the Lowest Price to every body
1t will be special favor that every body
should come and examine my stock even
if you don't expect to buy.
Highest price paid for Ginseng.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01

CONDENSED REPORT of the condition of the
L. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Dushore, Pa,
- At close of business, July II, lS9S
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07
SURGEONS AND SOLDIERS.

A veteran of the civil war tells
in the Kansas City Journal how a
Dutch surgeon treated the sick OF
his command. When they would
line up for sick call he would
say: "Vell, now, watts dc matter
wit you? You dondt look sick; |
givf you some castor oil in dis
spoon, for if | dondt givff it to
you meinself you will trow it
away. Ven givff it to you mein-
self you gets veil right away
quick, already"
This reminds us of a French
surgeon of the 9Th Minnesota In
fantry who would always ask to
sec the soldiers tongue and was
generally little suspicious that
the soldier might be playing off
to avoid going on duty. Occa-
sionally he would find one with
tobacco in his mouth and would
then say: ''What for you chew to-
bacco! You chew tobacco you TIT
for duty, d--n heavy duty.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07
OUR ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT.

A recent visitor from the North
writes as follows of the exhibit of
products made in Mena on Au-
gust 10:
The fruit, vegetable and farm
product display shown In your
city park on the occasion of your
second annual celebration of the
founding of Mena was a revcla-
ton to visitors from the North,
who could scarce believe that such
crops could be grown in country
apparently SO rough and broken.
In every department Of the dis
play the exhibits were of a very
high class, though in some instan-
ces q lack of care iii the prepare
ton for exhibition was apparent.
"Such an exhibition can but be
of great good to Polk county and
your town, not only in attracting
the attention of the people from
other localities and states, but in
creating a rivalry among your
own people and thus learning to
get the best results from their eff
forts through the lessons taught
by observation.
ut is to be hoped, for the sake
of the advertisement to the world
of your productive new country
that these exhibits will be contin-
ued. And the question arises
why not an annual fair!o
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07
ROCKY FORD rlELoNs.

Two solid trains of seventeen
cars each arrived in St. Louis re-
Gently loaded with Colorado mel
ons bound for eastern cities. All
the cars were heavily iced for a
long trip and the melons were in
good condition. We see it
stated that these cars con-
tanned about 400 crates each, and
each crate contains about forty
five melons. There were 612, 900
melons in all. The melons will
average about FIVE inches in
diameter, and if placed in line
would make a string 240 miles
long.
These melons grow here nicely
and ripen fully two weeks ahead
of the Colorado product. Could
we arrange to grow them in large
enough quantity to ship by the
car load we might find it very
profitable.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07

devolved upon his daughter. Wilhel-
nina The young lady is excellently
educated and is credited with many
winning personal qualities In the
matter of finances size will receive a
very liberal salary, and her family has
large private fortune, accumulated
by William l. who was a boomer and
promoter of the commercial interests
of the Netherlands. Young Wilhel-
nina must look for glorious traditions
some time back in the history of the
House of Orange, but there is heroism
enough recorded there to cover several
centuries The government of the
Netherlands is liberal and limited
monarchy. The right to vote is based
on property qualification, it being
estimated that only one male person
over % years of age in fifteen is a le-
gal voter Queen Wilhelmina has the
opportunity to rear a monument for
herself as wise ruler and in the mean
time her memory will be preserved by
the town of Mena, on the Pitts burg e.
Gulf railroad which runs out of Kan
sas City.-Kansas City Star
Without wishing to detract one
iota from the honors due the beau
tiful and accomplished young
Queen of the Netherlands, whom
all the world loves and delights
to honor, yet in the interest of
truth and justice we are compelled
to correct our Kansas City name
sake by stating that the town of
Mena was not named after Queen
Wilhelmina and cannot have any
connection with the preservation
of her memory.
Another queenly woman. the
mother of three bright little chill
dren and equally happy wife of
Mr.. j. de Goeiien, .Jr, called De
Queen herc) Of Amsterdam, Hol-
land, is entitled to this honor.
Her name is Mena de Goeiien and
her husband is a heavy stock
holder III the Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad and the foreign agent of
the NJ. K. & T. Trust Company,
and the town of Mena, also Mt.
Mena, were named after his
charming wife, Mena, and not for
Queen WiIhelmina.
Mr.. and Mrs. de Goeijen have
visited Mena and have always
taken a lively interest in its
growth and progress, contribut-
ing literally to several of its pub
lie enterprises. They are very
pleasing and refined in their man
ners, their affable ways making
them many friends wherever they
90. and the town of Mena is al
ways proud to acknowledge and
honor its namesake.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07
THE INFLUENCES OF PEACE.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Increases of nearly 30 per cent
in the total of bank clearings for
the week just closed over that of
the same week last year, and 26.S
per cent over that of the CORE
spending week of 1892, are pretty
conclusive arguments that the
forecasts for an unprecedentedly
prosperous period in the CONNER
ciai affairs OF this country are we'll
founded.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used excent
on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure manufactured by f. j Cheney &
Co., Toledo, o., contains no mercury
and is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine. 1t
is taken internally and made in Tole-
do, o., by +. j. Cheney & Co. Testi-
monials free.
Sold by druggists, price rs cents per
bottle.
Halls Family pills are the best.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07

The express companies have
Hiiuiiy agfccu 10 pay Tor tnclr own
war tax stamps instead of com
polling their customers to pay for
them and possibly by the time the
war tax law is repealed the West
ern Union Telegraph Go. will dc
eide to do the same. The tele-
graph and express business of this
country should be conducted by
the people for the people the
same as the postal service Is.
The Mena star. (Mena, Ark.) 1898-1904, 1898-09-07
THE LARGEST ON RECORD.
G. Fl. Hau.enbeck Advertising Agency
Puts the Star on the List.

The American Tobacco Co. believes
in newspaper advertising.
The American Tobacco Co. is a vast
commercial concern, and it's recent APP
preparations OF $3.50, 900, to be spent in
newspapers in the advertising of one
of it's brands-"B Battle AK plug tobac-
co.'s worthy of more than passing
comment
To expend this amount of money
judiciously is a problem. This will be
obvious to any advertiser. The G. II.
Haulenbeek Advertising Agency of
New York City was therefore selected
and estimates prepared to cover the
entire country for such mediums as
were thought to be desirable to bring
quick an sure returns
In this connection it is certainly
pardonable for the Star to call atten.
ton to the fact that the Star was in
cluded in the list
There is point to be made just here
and that is that if the foreign" ad
tiser, having practically unlimited
means and exercising a judgement
born ct years OF experience, decides
upon given medium, it is because of
the excellence of that particular me-
dunn for the field that it covers.
Local advertisers will do we'll to re-
feet on this point. 1t is pregnant
with meaning to every one of them.
The American Tobacco Co. has taken
the dull season, which was made
duller by the timid who feared the war
as factor IN business, and it has given
a colossal order as an indication that
if times are dull, the thing to do is to
make them brighter and the right
way to make them brighter is through
judicious advertising.