Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-11

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Michal Flynn, attended the st. Ba-
sill School entertainment at Dushore,
on Saturday night of last week.
John 1. Kane, circulating agent
of the Williamsport News, was in
town Wednesday enjoying gratify-
ing results in adding new converts
to his list. The News is a hustling
daily that can't be surpassed. Try
it, if you want good news.
Louisa w. Wright, Il woman of
prominence at Eagles Mere during
the summer seasons, figured as de-
fendant in libel suit in Philadel-
phia on Tuesday in which the jury
returned verdict in favor of Miss
Laura Evans, plaintiff, for the sum
of S12,5OO the full amount of her
claim.
Washington Camp No. 220 z.
O. S. of A. will celebrate their
seventh anniversary Thuriday even
ing, Jan. 25, at their hall in Skunk,
Pa, with free oyster supper for
the members of Camp 22O and their
families. District President, III. w.
Taylor of Bernice,- Pa. will install
the officers of the Camp tor the cur
rent term, in the presence of the
members families. a good time is
anticipated.
The reciprocity treaties which
have been framed under the Mckin-
ly administration and are now be-
fore the Senate will, if ratified by
the foreign governments as well as
our own, increase very greatly the
expectation of farm products, their
principal object having been to OBJ
tain reduced tariff rates on articles
of agricultural production, both
in European countries and in the
West Indian islands with which they
have been negotiating.
AS means of expressing the
sentiment of esteem and loyalty
they feel toward their hOnored chief,
the teachers of Sullivan county pre-
sented Co. Supt. f. w. Meylert
with handsome gold watch, select
ing Christmas to commemorate the
giving event more auspiciously that
their token of esteem might be re-
garded in that golden sunlight of
honor to whom honor is due. Mr..
Meylert has not only won the esteem
of teachers i'm his official capacity,
but the public as well have justly
learned to value him highly. That
harmonious relations exists between
the professor and the directors, who
are never slow to realize etficien
service, is evidenced by the fact that
he is now serving his third term.
He is Enthusiastically the right man
in the right place.
1.-THE Man with the Hoen poem
seems to be taking prominent rank
in literature of late. Seldome has
an author indulged i'm such flights Of
fancy as has the poet of "The Man
with the Hoe" Indeed it would
seem as if he had kindled fancy into
its brightest possible flame by over
doses of eXhilerating hasheesh. The
title itself is largely imagery, for the
oman with the hoe' in these days
is not nearly as common as he ought
to be. But accepting it as the desig-
nation of the tiller of the soil, we
are presented with II description of
this "unfOrtunaten which certainly
stirs the pity which the author ev-
identity intends to arouse. The man
with the hoe seems to be in a state
of dilapidation, ambitionless, pretty
nearly idiotic, hopeless and helpless.
1t is lively imaginative mind that
can hold snch conception. Per-
haps it would be better to say an in
curably disordered mind. The world
, to-day with its brilliant civilization,
high moral and intellectual develop
ment, its accumulated wealth and
all that makes the nineteenth centu-
ry marvellous, is largely the product
of the man with the hoe. He has
left his finger marks upon cvrcy
town and city; wet with the sweat
of his brow every picture that the
artist has painted and every statue
that the sculptor ever chiselcd; laid
, the foundation for every schoolhousC
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