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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04
SONESTOWN.

Memorial services passed off very
successfully. The church was filled
with people to witness them. The
saddest fact of all is the fast dwind-
ling number of G. A. r. men to
participate. There ranks are thin
ming fast. Only about one half doz-
en- were present Saturday.
Miss Ogden cf Philadelphia, head
housekeeper of the Crestmont Inn,
spent Sunday with Mrs. VIM. Haz-
en-.
VIM. Sheets an aged and respected
man living above town is seriously
ill, and is not expected to recover.
Mrs. Samuel Smith is sick.
Children's Day service in the M.
e. church will be held on Sunday
at 1O:30a. m.
Mrs. J. Stackhouse attended the
funeral of her sister, Mrs. Montague
at Strawbridge on Monday. Mrs.
j. L. Buck, Misses Mary and Jen.
ME Buck and Mrs. Hannah Buck
also went from here.
Walter Hazen spent Tuesday and
Wednesday at Eagles Mere.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. G. Welch are this
week in Hughesville.
Miss Maud Sones of Beaver Lake
visited friends in town over Sunday
Mrs. Geo. Robbins, Misses Myrtle
Edgar and Ethel Campbell walked
to Hunters Lake and back last Thurs
day, on fishing excursion anC
brought home fine catch.
A number of men went to th'
same place few days before and
brought back considerably over ,
hundred, The party consisted o
H. d. Lockwood, A. HI. Starr, Har
ry Hazen and Geo. Campbell.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04

causes them to use language that
will turn everything blue. Iwould
suggest feeding her plenty of yellow
buttercups, as you say the country
up there is full of water, and butter
cups are Indigenous to swampy
land.
And her cream will turn to gold
When the butter is sold,
And that COW will be your hope and
your pride.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04
SamuefGofe, ,DnsRore,Pa
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
~ 3l3 Pine Street,
~ WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
Summer Comfort at Little Cost.

On the threshold of Summer now and store teemng
with esh crisp merchandise suited to hot weather wear
Summer outftting is not very costly business nova
days The ready ytowear has reached such high state
perfection that one buy all sorts of dainty garments
for less price than you furnish the material and have
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04
Prosecutor to Pay Cost.

The case of Com til VS. Howard
Lyons was tried in Williamsport
Wednesday, in which Jonathan
Miller charged the defendant with
violating the election laws, which
was doubtless brought for malice.
After the evidence for the prosecu-
ton was all in. motion was pre-
sented for the discharge of the de-
fendant upon the ground that as
the prosecution had not presented
any evidence that would warrant d
conviction the defendant had moth
ing to defend himself against.
Judge Hart allowed the motion
and directed the jury to place the
cost wherever they thought the
cost belonged. The cost was plac-
ed on the prosecutor.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04
Don't Tobacco Spit and SA oke Your Life Away.

DOn't TObhccO spit ana sh Oke 1Our IIIIe Away
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic full of life. nerve and yigor, take No'Tc
8ac, the wonaer-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran
ted Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04

Postmaster General Payne may
have erred i'll minimizing the inn
portance of the irregularities and
dishonesty which has prevailed in
the Post Office Department, but the
President will soon be in Washing
ton and the public may rest assured
tempt at whitewashing.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-06-04

them made to your order.
SHIRT WAIST SUITS.
The Shirtwaist Suit is an easy first as
favorite summer costume. They are made
in two parts, stylish waist and an equal
" stylish skirt. The prices are astonish-
ing low on these suits, We have them
from $500 and between prices up to SIS.
SHIRT WAIST TIME NOW.
Here are quantities of cool sheer White
Lawn and Madras waists in stripe and
jacquard figures, fresh from the best
makers. The prices are merely nominal
when you consider the qualities and style.
1t will be to your interest to make your
selections from tlris assortment.
SOME WASH GOODS.
Better try to get first choice from these.
They're cool dainty summer fabrics and
they cost only trifie more than the Or
dnary prints.
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
PONIES AND GOES.
How the Distinctions Between the
 Two Are Defined.

A correspondent writes, says the Badminton Magazine, to ask me what "pony" is-not the pony of the bet ting ring; he refers to the animal. The dictionaries which he has consulted tell him no more than that "a pony" is ''a little horse," and he wants to know where the pony ends and the horse begins. The term is, of course, very loosely used At Newmarket, where one might expect accurate definitions, the trainers seem to call all sorts of animals ponies. 'I will send round your pony at o'clock" is familiar phrase to me, and in two cases 1t has always portended the arrival of an ami nal of quite 14.2. have searched for authorities for some time past ana only accidentally came upon one the other day. A pony. find it stated, ls strictly applicable to an animal under 13 hands. Above 13 and up to 133 the creature should be known as a gallc- way, and over 13.3 it becomes horse. This, however, Is not the modern inter- pretatlon, though when the phraseology was altered do not know. According to the Birmingham rules of polo, ''the height of ponies shall not exceed fl hands 2 inches," and such an animal, according to my old time authority, would be quite full sized horse. One cannot, of course, go against the Hur- lingham nomenclature, but l should be inclined to say that in general par lance anything under 14 hands Is q pony. am glad my correspondent did not ask for an exact definition of Il "cob," for I could do no better than suggest that thickset pony from about 13.3 to 14.2 would come under the head. The term "cobby," at any rate, has significance of its own.
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Woman in an Unconscious COndi-
 ton Found on Sidewalk.
Upon Examination at the Hospital Her BodyWas Discovered to be Covered with Scars, Caused by the Hypodermic Injection of Morphine Facts Published as Warning to Other Women

The abe5e headlines recite the actual experience of poor wreck of a woman ,7ho had once held an hon orable and lucrative position in a large mercantile house in New York. Her health began to fail, and instead of taking rest and proper medical treatment she resorted to stimulants and morphine.
 The hospital physician discovered that her primary trouble was an affection of the womb, which could readily have been cured in the first stages. If when she had first felt those severe pains in the back, the terrible headaches, the constant sense of fullness, soreness and pain in the pelvic region, she had needed the warning that serious troubleCwas in store, and commenced regular treatment with the Pinkham Reme- dies, as did Mrs. Robcr of Chicago, WnOSe IetUcT lOllOWS, tuC poly puo in the womb would have been dis solved and passed away, and to-day she would have been well woman.
 Why will women let themselves drift along into terrible suffering and sickness in this way, when there is monumental proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is daily relieving thousands of women from this very trouble? ? There is no excuse for any woman who suffers to go without help. Mrs. Pinkham is very glad indeed to give her personal advice to cny orc who will write for it, and the following letter simply goes to prove that the Vegetable Compound will positively cure female ills:
 Since the birth of my baby l suff eret ..,.cm womb trouble. backache,
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PlCklNGS FROM FICTION.

People get to like soul, but satis- factory hat makes an impression at first sight.-John Oliver Hobbes in "The Soul Hunters
 Human condolences must be mutual. It is only to God that man can continue telling, telling, telling and never get ting word in return.-Henry Seton Merriman in "The Vultures."
 It is fundamental law of happy and useful life that we must keep sweet, for bitterness perverts the judgment and corrodes the heart.-Charles Fred eric Goss in "The Loom of Life"
 Fortunately, emotions primitively bar. barous are not indicated by external labels or walks in the street would be fraught with strange discoveries.-An- thony Hope in "The Intrusions of Peg gy."
 There is no corrosive like wounded egotism. It eats into the moral nature, cOrrupting it's victim, destroying all sense of proportion and binding him to everything save his own passionate longing for repriSal.-James Creelman in Eagle Blood"
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14

irregular mcnstruation, also intense nervousness.
 After trying different remedies with no relief I was induced to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. To my surprise and delight I found after taking my first bottle very great improvement. 1 continued it's use and it has made me a well woman.
 "I am so grateful to you for my recovery that l wish to thank you, and if this testimonial will be of any use to other suffering women, you have my full permission to publish it."-M MRS. MARY RoBER, 5492 Ellis Ave, Chicago, Ill.-s5O00 forfeit t original of aboue letter prouing genuneneSs cannot bs pro- duced. ..---. ...~,,-
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
HOW TIME IS MADE.
Uncle Sam Regulates His Clocks by
 One of the Fixed Stars.

Strange as it may seem, Uncle Sam does not make use of the sun for reels- oning time, but he turns his attention 10 some of the regular steady going stars, or fixed stars" as they are called. Every clear night m astrono' mer with big telescope looks at cer. tain of these stars and makes his cal. culations, from which he can tell just when the sun would cross the seventy
 fifth meridian. One of the great clocks in the observatory is called the trans. hitter, because it transmits or sends out the signal that keeps standard time. This clock is set and regulated by the star time, and then every day at three minutes and fifteen seconds before F a switch Is turned on, and the beats of the pendulum of this clock are sent by electricity over the wires to the telegraph offices in Washington and New York. When the telegraph oper- ators hear this sound on their instru- ments, they know that the noon signal is about to be sent out, and they at once begin to connect the telegraph wires with other towns and cities until in minute or two the tick, tick" of the clock at Washington is heard in hundreds of telegraph offices. The beats stop at ten seconds before 12, as a notice that the next "tick" will be the noon signal and so as to give the operators time to connect their wires with the standard time balls and clocks. There are time balls in q great many cities-usually on top of some promi- nent building, where they can easily be seen. The one at Washington is on the roof of the state, war and navy depart. Eent building, at the top of q high pole, ready to drop the instant the signal comes over the wire. In the govern. ment offices at Washington and in many places in other cities there are large clocks connected with the ob- servatory by electricity. These are so arranged that when the 12 o'clock sig nal is flashed over the wires the hands of each one of these clocks spring to 12, no matter what time the clock may show. In this way hundreds of clocks are set to the correct time each day.
 We'll, the moment the sun is supposed to cross the seventy-fifth meridian the telegraph instruments give single tick, the time balls drop, the clocks be. gin to strike and everybody in the Dis
 trict knows 1t is 12 o'clock.-St. Nicho-
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
Curiosities of Words.

There are two words in the whole range of the English language contain ing all the vowels in their regular or der. They are abstemious and facetious. The following each have them in irregular order: Authoritative, dis advantageous. encouraging, efficacious, instantaneous. ilnportunate, menda- cious, nefarious, precurious, pertina- cious sacrilegious, simultaneous. tena- cious. unntentional, unobjectionable, uneQuivocal, undiscOverable and vexa- tious. A search through the dictionary might bring several others to light It is usually said that there are but seven nine lettercd monosyllabic words in the English languuge-scrat tched. stretched. scrunched. scranched, screeched, squelched and staunched.
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14

In the palmy days of the Frenc monarchy sumptuous entertainmen, of royalty were not uncommon. T' entertain a queen for week the Cont d'Artois rebuilt, rearranged and refui nished his castle from threshold to tui ret, employing 900 workmen day an'' night. The Marshal de Soubise rc ceived Louis XIV. as his guest for day and night at a cost of fS0,000. "l hear" said his majesty to the marshal who owed millions, "that you are ir, debt" T will inquire of my steward and inform your majesty" replied the host. hiding a yawn behind his hand.
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
The AiINtnke.

In his biography of AleXandre Du- mas Harry A. Spur says that the i'm prevalent French author. who hated avarice, was once waiting fin line for his cloak at soiree, when he saw a millionaire give tip of 50 centimes Q0 cents) to the servant who handed out his paletot. Dumas. getting his cloak, threw down 100 franc note. Pardon, sir, you have made mistake. think" said the man. offering to return the note. No, no. friend" answered Du- mas, casting disdanful glance at the millionaire. ''it is the other gentleman who has made the mistake"
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
Free Medical Advice to Women.

Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and aL- swered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been estab. lished the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks noth- ing in return except your good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. q
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
She Could Use Them.

An old lady on seeing the electric light in the town for the first time was struck with amazement. After gazing at it for space she entered grocer's shop and asked:
 Il say, mister, how do you make that big light O your'n3 I'm tired of burn in paraffin."
 The shopman replied, "Oh, it is caused by series of electric currents"
 "Is 1t, now 2" said the old lady. 'Then weigh me pound. If they won't dc for lighting, I'll use 'em up for pud- d.n's."-DetrOit Free Press.
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
Wasp's Method of Attack,

Belt in his Naturalist In Nicaragua" draws attention to the methods of at- tack used by different species of wasps. One, accustomed to animals and not to man, takes care to crawl down the out standing hairs to the skin before in serting its sting, while others which live in the midst of human dwellings fly straight at mans face. The first species, true to inherited instinct, when it attacks unfamiliar human beings at- taches itself to their hair or their boards. But there must have been q time when the second species discov- cred that the face was the vulnera ble part, and the discovery was the out come of the action of brain.
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14
Good Teeth.

Don't fail to ponder occasionally or these facts: That without good ,teetb there cannot be thorough mastication. Without thorough mastication there cannot be perfect digestion.
 Without perfect digestion there can not be proper assimilation.
 Without proper assimilation there cannot be nutrition.
 Without nutrition there cannot be health.
 Without health what Is life worth! Hence the paramount importance 0t good teeth.
Holbrook argus., 1903-03-14

Well" rctnarked Miss innocence. "the government may not believe in women taking the initiative in matters of love. but this city certainly does."
 q don't see how" replies Miss An. tike, with more interest than might have been expected.
 "lt's plain as print. The city clerk b advertising in the newspapers for sealed proposals.'" replies Miss Inno- eeoce.-C;ncinnati Commercial Tribune
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-10-29

/ To get the full value fos our wool 1t
must be washed. The difference be-
tween the prices Of washed and un-
washed wool is so great that it phys
the grower every time to wash it,
Good delaine wool will not shrink one
third. which prices quoted in the mar
ket seem to indicate. There are many
ways OF washing. however, which do
not prove successful. have seen some
housed breeding ewes washed so that
the discoloration which appeared only
In patches before the operation was
distributed all through the wool, prac-
tcally injurlng its quanty to a con-
siderable extent. BY distributing the
color all through the wool 1t was given
a dingy appearance which Immediate
~ excited the suspicion of the buyers.
Nevertheless, the careful preparation
OF the. wool for market is as essential
to-day as any other feature of the busl-
Ness. Probably what is needed as
much as anything else In every good
Wool-growing section of the country
is a cooperative securing house. This
would solve the problem and save to
the farmers considerable part Of
the profit that now goes to the COM
mission men. 1t would cost little to
send the wool to such house and have
1t secured reAdy for market. Secured
wool sells so much highef that the
profits in some instances would be in
creased from twenty to fifty per cent.
Such n securing house could be con
Quoted in almost any good sheep rails
ing district on the commission plan
1t would pay both the farmers and
the commission men. The two could
agree on fair commission for scour-
ing the wool, and the farmers could
easily keep such house running. In
fact, 1t would draw upon wide neigh
borhood, for 1t would pay the growers
to have their wool secured at home on
a fixed basis, and then ship it to mar
ket in this condition. AS it is now
the unsecured, unwasned wool is al
ways purchased at sucn low prices
that there is a very wide marglN OF
profit left for somebody to mako bc-
fore the wool is finally made up into
cloth. There are too many miCdle-
men who must get their pay, BY dis
posing Of few Of these the grower
would receive more, and the consumer
would actually be charged less for his
manufactured product. A good scour.
ing house would save washing, which
is sometimes an exper.iyo process,
and also save loss in other ways. A
house of this kind located right in the
heart Of wool-growlng country could
easily calculate upon handling from
ten to fifteen million pounds Of wool
annually-W, e, Edwards, in the Pro-
gresslve Farmer.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-10-29
WISE WORDS.

White lies are but the ushers to black
ones,-Marryat.
Nature creates merit and fortune
brings it into -Rochefoucauld.
Patience is power; with time and
patience the mulberry leaf becomes
sllk.-Chinese proverb.
A true man never frots about his
place In the world, but just slides into
1t by the gravitation Of his nature and
swings there as easily as a stare.
II. Chaplin.
As riches and favor forsake n man.
we discover him to be a fool, but mo-
body could find 1t out in his popular
ity.-Bruyere.
Write your name in kindness, love
and mercy on the hearts of those who
come in contact with you, and you
will never be observation-disclosures.
So remarkably perverse is the ma
ture Of man that he despises those,
that court him, and admires whoever
will not bend before him.-Thucydldes.
Let men peer as close as they may
into the secrets of nature, they do not
analyze away the fact that God, the
mysterious, the unnamabe, can yet
delight in man, and man In him.
Henry Wilder Foote.
He that is faithful in the first alter
native that tests him not only acts
more promptly, but also sees further
in the next, Each little grace invites
a larger; and his step being upward,
his view is wlder,-James Martineau.
If my dreams Of doing something
splendid and rising to something great
are dead and gone, will take hold
with a will at what know | can do
still to a good purpose, and then let
the eternal love which is watching for
me take care of the rest-Robert Coll
yer.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-10-29
President Eliot on Judgment.

Said President Eliot, of Harvard, to
a body Of students some years ago;
''If the law requires that four cents
worth of postage be placed on a letter.
comply with it. But do not place one
stamp on top Of the other. Exercise
judgment,
Love is erratic. It's course is not
smooth. A lady requested her hus-
band, who was absent in Europe, to
grow Van Dyke beard as that was
all the style at home, The husband
replied that he would do MS requested.
A few. days later the devoted wife
sent her husband a beautiful scarf
pin, which she desired him to wear on
his return home She was entertaining
house guests and wished her husband
to make good first impression.
when the loving wife saw her hus-
band she rushed to her room and wept
piteously.
Gentlemen, how was that obedient
husband to grow Van Dyke beard
and not hide the scarf pin? say,
exercise judgment"
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-10-29
A shattered Theory.

Edward W. Stark spent $4,000 and
fifteen years in trying to prove that
fruit trees will grow in Colorado with
out irrigation If they are properly
trained to do without water. Now
he wishes very much to obtain water
from a ditch, thereby admitting that
his theory is incorrect, and he Is trying
to save the remainder OF his holdings.
Fifteen years ago he obtained from
the State a lease on eighty acres OF
land near Littleton. He held that
certain kinds Of fruit trees would -four
ish without irrigation IL the soil were
properly stimulated with fertilizer. So
he put the trees and distributed the
fertilizer This failed to work, and
he put in the trees and distributed the
original expenditure and S17,750, which
is the value OF the improvements upon
the property now.--Denver Coli Re-
publican. ---.---- ~
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-10-29
Poultry Houae Floors.

The West Virginia Experiment Sta
ton has made a comparative test ex-
tending over two years, time, of 6oored
and unfoored houses for poultry, and
conclude that fowls remain In as
healthy condition and lay fully as
many. If not more, eggs when kept
in houses without floors, We would
prefer a house without floor If the
ground-level inside the house was
foot to a foot and half above the
outside level, thus lnsuring absolute
dryness inside. Comfort" for the
fowls means eggs in the nest.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1903-10-29
SOUTHERN . FARM 3 NOTES.
DID, 9u--p
TOPICS SrocxSAS TRUCK os0gEs
NOTES.

wheat. No eggs, no fy-and the field
in which none Of the eggs are laid will
not be hurt, for the maggots which
hatch from the eggs cannot 60 from
one field to another. All the fields In a
community may be seriously damaged
year after year If they be sowt in Sep
TENDER or October, while the one far.
mer who does not sow until the middle
Of November will escape injury In nine
years out Of ten. We should say,
therefore, that as a general rule wheat
should be sown not earlier than the
first Of November in order 10 escape
INJURY.
1t may be argued in objection to this
that In some sections November is 100
late. In such cases. we would advise
that the sowing be delayed two or
three weeks later than is usually
done; or, If this would still throw it
too late In the season, then sow Just
as late as can be done safely.
If the Hessian fly does the usual
amount of damage this year II viii not
be upon the farms ofithose who follow
this advice.-Franklln Sherman, Jr.,
Entomologist, Department of Agrlcul.
ture, Raleigh, N. c.