The Bradford Star from Towanda, Pennsylvania • Page 2

mis mtADiroiuj citah, I. isma. ERRATIC WII-KE9-BARRE SCHOOLS THE BRADFORD STAR. A DESHtfriATE STHUGGLB. There in going on at the present IOD MANAGEMENT VS.

POOIt MANAGEMENT. We have examined with much "IN QUARTERS. We have just moved directly opposite our old stand to the store recently occupied by A. Hyman. Our Spring and Summer Suits Are up-to-date and a little beyond.

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AFTER NOON AT TOWANDA, PA. Come into our new store and look us over. OF IXTKKKST TO V'ONS TAHLKS. Sometlilug About Tijjiin Duties Under On March 22 Governor Stone approved au act of considerable importance to the instables of the various townships aud boroughs of the Commonwealth. The act declares them to be.

ex-officio fire, game and fish wardens. In the exercise of the duties incumbent on Buch officials it will be their duty to enforce all the statutes of the Stato now in force or that shall hereafter be enacted for tho protection of forests aud tiniberlands from fire, and for the proteclion of game birds, game hmmals, song1 aud insectivorous birds and fish, and the constable tshnll have au thority to arrest vjftTioiit warrant any person caught in the act of violating any of tl4 laws for the protection of timltr-lands, game and food fish, and) at once take i them before a jtu-t cc-of-the-peace or other magistrate having juris-! diction. i In carry ing out ti net constables may, without warrant, search any: boat, conveyance, fi-h basket, game-bag or ga nie -co-it, any other receptacle for game br fish, which they may suspect' of containing evidences of the violations of the law, and thty shall feize and take possession o' such evidences. AU Main Street, Towanda, time in this county, a desperate fight in which a well organized band of political bosses are on one side, and the taxpayers aud labor ing men of the county are on the other. This gang of bosses are determined to get their hands in the county treasury again, and Com missioner Decker and Commissioner Pitcher are trying to protect the people from their clutches.

the real question to be decided in this contest is whether the bosses are stronger than the people. These bosses have had control of the county treasury for years, and during that time the people have been robbed of thousands and tens of thousands of dollars. We might truthfully say that they have really been robbed of hundreds of thous ands of dollars. In fact they were robbed of nearly $100,000 on the extra court house contracts alone. And all this money came from the pockets of the hard working people of the county.

During the past two years the people have succeeded in shaking off this gang of bosses, through the assistance of commissioners Decker and Pitcher, but they are deter mined not to stay shaken off. They are now plotting and planning to got their fingers back in the pockets of the taxpayers, and in order to do. this, they are making a war up on Mr. Decker and Mr. Pitcher, thinking that it they can once get them out of office the rest will be easy.

And no doubt it will, if they can only put in their places the men selected by the bosses them selves. But will the people Btand idly by and permit this little band of political bosses to defeat and turn out of office a couple of honest and faithful officers, for the simple reason that they have had the courage to resist tue attempts of the bosses to plunder the peopler If Mr. Decker and Mr. Pitcher had surrendered the commission era' office into the control of Boss Lillev, and permitted htm to dic tate all their official action, if they had given public contracts to the friends of the ring politicians, at two or three prices, if they had stooped to buy tlio support of the ring payers with public patronage if in all things they had beeu the obedient tools ot tue bosses, they would have had the support of these Bame bosses aud ring papers for re-electiou. But because they refused to do this, and because they refused to permit the taxpayers to be plundered, they have been "marked for defeat'' by these same bosses Will the people whom they have befriended and protected stand idly by and see them defeated in this manner? A CRUCIAL POINT ItEACFIED.

The Quay trial holds the interest of the public to the temporary exclusion of most other matters. The crucial point in the trial was reached, Tuesday, on the question of admitting the books, papers and memoranda found in the People Bank, which embody the documentary evidence against Mr. Quay, on which the Commonwealth relies for a conviction. The defense re sists the introduction of this testi mony with all itB strength. The counBel wio nas comemtoine case lrom rittsburg and whom Governor Stone wished to place on the Supreme bench, made an ingenious, forceful argument against the admission of this evidence.

Dis trict Attorney Rothermel will reply Wednesday morning, and on the decision which Judge Biddle will reuder the first line of defense will be loBt or won. The defend ants, if beaten here will only take refuge behind their inner lines but if the Commonwealth is worst ed at this first line of circumvalla-tion its defeat can hardly fail to be fatal, for how can the District At torney make out his case if he cannot get before the jury the evidence on which he relies? The public will await with ex treme interest, therefore, Judge Biddle's decision on tho admission of this evidence. Press. Titr TtiHHI Admitted the bank books in evidence. The delegates to the State convention are men on which much is depending, and we earnestly believe that Messrs.

Baker of Troy, Evans of Towanda, and Eighmey of thiB place, will be the people's men and not the machines or spokesmen for monopolies. The worst thing against labor in this State is the machine politics, and if the break is made now on treasurer the end of bossism will soon fall1 and the working man may then receive some legislation in his behalf. Sayre Times. Right you are, Bro. Francisco.

The above named gentlemen do not wear the Quay collar, and would represent the Republicans of this county fairly and well iu tl.e State convention. On the other baud, if the Republi can electors wish to hand the county over to a man, now on trial under five criminal indictments, they should vote for Fell, Schoonmaker and Waters. TITE TAXPAYERS' APPEAL. For months we have been inter viewed almost every day as to "what has been done with the tax payers' appeal." As the matter was in the hands of the Court J. COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Judge Albright has banded down opinions io thB following cases, which were argued before him: H. J. Hhnylor vs. Etiazenna Finkle. Judgment opened and iesue Burton P.

Uortou vs. Julia M. llorton. Plaintiff was non-suiteit hy the court, aud this action i sustained. Brock A Wi mer ys.

David Oordoo. At tachmeut dissolved. Taylor and Fred King vs. Frank Wor-den aud Arthur Taiboz. Rule tor new trial made absolute.

In re vacatiou and charnre of grade of Lockhart street in tne borough ol tSayre. Exceptions to viewers report dismissed. wui, ate 10 iltf.mlant. In re rotate of J. W.

itesllo. Wid- appiaieemmt stt viile ami another Exception in rt-nnrt KnHlRiiiml. ft ml mutter referred back to him. Iu re e-tate of Swim Ark ley. Exceptions toauditoi's report dismissed.

In re estate of Jurats Kenney. Kxcep- tions to auditor's report uieunssed, ana report con Aimed. In re estate of Daniel Dairy to pie Ex ceptions to auditor's report dismissed aud report confirmed; the court aim finds the estate indebted to Wiener Roy, truntte for children ol Charles Dalrymple, in tit sum ol VMo ul. and orders tnat luuds ot tne es tate- be applied upon this claim, after Ihe expenses ot tne audit are tuiiustea In re estate of G. Kromer.

Ordered tb at the executrix file au account of tteta-tor's personal estate wiihin 20 daya Io re estate of Edmund Lock wood. This whs a cane where a letac? hud been ltff by the deceased, Lociide Wells, anil auttT.irt was making to recover same from executor. Court holds lh) petitinuer tntitled to the relief prayed lor, aud that a (bi of declaration may be preparul "eastTtro Mr. aud Mrs. Lucius Stiles returned home last week.

Ray Ballard and wile of Troy were visiting friends here on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. B. F.

Stone leave for tbeir horn-) in Johnstown this week. O. P. Peters leaves oa Friday for North Rome, where he will work iu a creamtry. nlrs.

H. F. Weigaud of Austin, Pa visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs. Ueuben StiU School closid la3t FriJav, and that t-ve- ning the children gave an entertainment in Baxters bill. Io spite ol the raiu there wb a good attendance and fill were pleaned with the twlendid acting of the young people.

The entertainment will be repented this week Thursdav: prtcecd fur the ben efit of the school. The G. A. R. men held their camp fire in the Baptist church last Saturday.

There was a good turnout to hear ha toanta. Rev. 1. a Hyde gave au interesting talk on "The FIuk," aud was followed by a num ber of otbei speakers This closes ihe series of meetings of the old sohlieis for this winter. April 11.

highlandT THarl Alexander tins returned home. What has become of our poverty social? Mrs. Maggie Rice has moved iato her now boae. Roey Slater has moved into Herman Stropo'a house. Oliver Weldy has bouuht a horse and ex pects to farm it this year.

Mips Lizzie Jenniogs' school at Mount Pleasant will close next Monday. We hear it talked: Tint "artificial incubation1' is a failure: that he could not stav away from home any longer; that she can't go to Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rhodes of Franklin.

John Rhodes of Mouroetoo, aud Mr. and Mrs A. P. Weldy of Burlington, visited relatives here on Sunday. Sunday school is progressing nicely Mrs.

D. Jenuinj has been elected treasurer, Wellts Hotlenbjck, librarian, and class No. 3 formed, with Miss Lizzie JenuinH.teaci- er. ine librarian rtouests tnat all books be returned next Sunday. Apiit 11.

Get your Clam Chowder made fresh every day lunches, clams, fresh fish, at D. H. Cr user's Lunch Room, Cor, Main and Washington next to Kinney Honse. Ladies invited to lunch here. 3-22-tf Flslilnir Under Ice.

When tho rivers ure frost bound In Gor-immy, tlio fishermen aro by no mentis Idle, 'i'hey asricmble mid organize Hailing- expeditions wti eminently tiutisOictory ro-Bults. On tho river Sprue, nenr llerlln, theso fishing expeditions nro frequent. Tho men out holes in tlio leo and lower nets, which limit down stream and are hooked up at one of the holes lower down the river When tho net is hauled up, there- is generally a very good catch. The fish arc put into barrels or tubs on sleighs and carted away to tho surrounding villages, where a ready salo Is obtained. When tho day's lishing is over, tho men draw tho sledges back to tho village, singing as they march along.

Quizzcr What makes you tlunK tnat Shakespeare was a womanish sort of man? Guyer He's spoken of as myriad minded." Kew V-rk Pa. One Cent a Word To accommodate the main reader of Ton HtR who may wish Lo sell, tent, purchase oi exchange property of any k'nd or to procure help or em ploy men we will Insert notice of help wanted, employment wanted, property for sale, rent or exchange. In thin column for only one cent per word tor the ttrst 20 words, and one-liHlf cent for each additional word first insertion. Each additional Insertion cent pei word. No insertion to be less than 10 cents.

WANTED. small farm. Inquire at this ofHee. X. i-4 A FARM HOR9K, than 1000 pound.

West Franklin, P. WEIOHINO NOT LBSS Address, P. Crandail, i HOTJ-EKEEPElt TO KEEP flOl'SK FOR elderly A HI aged or elderly woman. Address this office. QAAA FFET BE9T QUALITY HEMLOCK UUUU ooiras, IO irinhea ire and neHsoned, OmIi i or address, J.

W. 1 In T.i can da. Wlfu WnnU-d. J. B.

Barrett heinfr detdroua of obtaining- ft wire, takes this prlvilefr. ol aovertinii inrouicn the columns of the Hhadvokd Stah. Would like a refined lany betn con Hi and 45 years of fie. Have comforiahle fortune. Let any lady matrimonially inclined please answer.

413-2 Address, B. Baku Err, Troy, Pa. Calves Waniedi High eat cash price paid for veal calves at Wy sox every Monday. jao7 Murphy Tyrrell. FOR BALE.

1I1AMPION GRAIN DRILL WITH attachment. Address, W. P. (Jrand il, West Franklin, Pa. 1-2 ACHE 4 miles from Atlanta 8-room liouie, orcnard or pea cues, apple, pears.

plums and grapes also garden. Price, ItiOO, 8U0 ofwh, 1)h lance in two years. Address, J. W. Hull.

Ft. McPberson, Oa. 41331 finely improved fa contain- ing 40 acres with wood buildings and orch-. well watered. 3 miles from Ton aiuli.

A 'an 0 ucrea in Kmithtield, known as the Earns farm. AddrevB John Uevuie, North Towanda. 413 if oars of Bran and Alidd bigs in quantities i suit. Cash tells the price; call and see. O.

Ayer. -na-ll a. Great liarsaln to Scholars In Kncy-clopedias, Dodds and Head's International. IS niw and latest 1898 edition, at 20 cent under pub-Iti-her's price, for cash. Also, People's, 2 vols sheep, 18BO edition, for $6 only half ol original cost.

Inquire at Staroffloe. 413-Ut A PAIR OF DBIVINO MAKKH, FIVE XI. auf etx years old. own sfoteis, nouui iwj mo cavii or win pmr ior one heavy borne. Chester White pig four weeks old April 12.

U. U. Uillis, Uerrick, Pa. 46.1. OQ HEAD OF CATTLE Good.

freh cows, SiO 40 to (32. Can be seen at farm near Overshot, or John Gab an, Bi' Towanda. TS BURLINGTON EORO, ACRR OF laud wilb house, barn blocksmith shop aud nice lot of fruit trees and grapcH. Add res, D. t.

Brown, box 400, Bi ogham ton, Y. 413 It EGOS FOR HATCHING. Thoroughbred Golden Wyandottea Keller and McKeen strains). Thoroughbred bite Wyandotte, (Hunter and Duston strains). Superior table fowlBaud layers.

Eggs 81.00 per 13. 2 sittings 1.1H, 3 sittings 82.00. JlQtf Airmen Hbsap, Towanda, Pa. yI good business. Address Box 4, Monroe ton i aiin-tr.

or part, James Wood, Towanda, Pa, FINE FA RM 82 acres, in sight of Sayre; all improved; well watered; itood buildings. GOOD STORE BUILDING, occupied for many many years oa a liquor store in First ard or Towanda; reasonable terms. Inquire of W. E. Lane.

3-28-tf ville and Stevensville New house, eood building, running water, good fruit, very pleas-autly situated. Hmall payment down, longdate on balance, rr will rent if not sold soon. Call on or address Miss Debbie Gamble or R. Hillis, Herric'lr, Pa. Wit.

FOB RENT. STOKE ROOM, IN ULSTER, SUITABLE for confectionery store or bakery, with living rooms If desirable. Address, C. W. Alliger, Ulster, Pa.

8-23-tf 2d lloor rooms. In good neighborhood. FOB SALE OB BENT. water nower mill located at Mo rout on. Fa.

on ine line oi tne lveniRii vaiiey anu uarciay Railroads, 20 acres of land, a basement and three floors, fully equipped with modern machinery for manufacture of flour and feed. Good buckwheat producinpf country, good markets easily reached. Water power uned most of the year cheap coal Possession given April 1, 1898. A rore opportunity. For particulars adress N.

N. BETTS, Towanda, Pa. 17tf Don't Spoil Your Sewing Machine. Use oil from M. O.

Wells. Towanda, Pa. n25 Dr. Williams' Indian Pile Will cure Blind, Bleeding aud Itching lus. It ubsorbh the tumors.

ullays the at once, acts las a DoulLice. elves instant re lief. Dr. Williams' Indian Pile Ointment isnrenarcd for Piles and Itch ing of the private parts. Every box is crtpt of prk-c oil cents and WILLIAMS MANUFACTUR1H6 Cleveland.

Ohio. For sale by Dr. H. C. Porter A Son.

Department Men's Sutin Calf in CouKt-ean, pointed or plain too in work in sr or drni nil ps RJH MIL. grit. I i HAVE DISCARDED WORD METHOD OP DIRECTOR McKEE Editob Star: Inasmuch as the city of Wilkea- Barre is so near us, with its 157 teachers, I apprehend the views of us City bu pen tend en jugiilin upon the system of reading commended by Director McKee to the Teachers Institute, will be of interest now. Director McKee spoke on "Read ing and said, "The name methods should be employed alike in prim ary and higher grades. In the primary grade the and sentence should be employed." Unfortunately i for the children in Towanda Mr.

McKee 'e suggestion haB been followed. At Wilkes Barre, howe.ver, after a fair trial of Mr. McKee pet scheme, they discarded it. The annexed corres pondence on subject of reading will show how much they have gained by following what Mr. McKee terms "erratic and unjust ideas:" Towanda, March 27.

1M)D. Jas. M. Coughlitt, Superintendent of tit-hook of Wilkes-Iiarrr: Dear Sir We havo had some controversy here between parents of children on one aide dissatisfied with the reading hlowneffl in our Graded schools, and Ihe defendere or the Word and Sentence" method. 1 have been much Btruck with jour remarks in reports to the State Department in both 1W5 and 181XJ Yon say: "The impression that we are spending entirely too mwh time in menly learning to read, has deepened into a conviction." This is in accord with the conclusions reached by many of ns who find that bright children in school three, four, live, and even eleven year old children, cannot pionoance at sight readily and accurately, or read ordinary matter lluently.

On the other baud, we find children an yonng as seven, wiiu have only been trained in nearby country schools who read intelligently in books and newspapers, and the same in true of children from six to teu trained in onr Catholic parochial school. Inasmuch as our Graded schools are mostly workirjg tin "Word and Sentence" method or fad, and the Parochial school mea the Pollard phonic system, and mo country schools tha and phonic method, we are mnch inclined to believe that one element of the poor progress in reading in our graded schools is the "Word aud Sentence" method. I therefore ask to inquire, if after discarding it in your city, you would'bej willing to go back to it In other words, has your experience since 1890 giveo. you any hbu to think any more favorably of the "word aud sntencb" method of ttachiug primary reading than yon have stated the case in your 1895 and lHiHS reports? Also, if you advise teaching seven and eight year old children, indifferent readers, written work in snch works as Tarbell'Bor Maxwell Language LeeBom-Y ak these advisory questions in view of proposed modification to improve our Graded school course. I would be greatly obliged for many citizens for the result ofl your experience on these points I louistrmy, Citas M.

Uai.l Wilkrs barbe, Pa March 29, '09. My Dtir Mr. Hail: I always distinguish between reading and learning to read. This distinction is not al ways made by those who discuss this question. The mere art of reading involves two things to recognize the word at sight, and to know what words mean.

In the begin ning-lessons in reading, the lessonc translate themselves to tho child as soon as he can pronounce the written words. Occasionally a word occurs outside the child's1 vocabulary tnis must be tangos it its meaning cannot be understood from the context. Tho word method begins nowhere and goes nowhere. When thirty words are learned the child cannot get the thirty-first word bimselt when he has learned lfu lie is no better off nor nearer self-helpfulness. The word method is nothing unless com bined with phonics.

In almost every case tue teacher does not teach phonics in connection with the word method; Bbe does not know how; the has never been taught now. When the child ban learned the xound of the language it van help itxi lf and can strtdy out its own lessons. 1 wish you could come dowu aud see what we are doing in this city. My own little daughter commenced in the first year grade last September, aud reads a little book on mythology, calltd Mvtbland, now. She has studied out and rend fur herself many of Eugene Field's poems In the face of these things I bave no de-Eire to go back to the Word method The old ABC method ii better.

I am enthusiastically in favor ot an orderly, systemat ic application of phonics as a means of learning to read. 1 would nse no other text-book in school but a readt-r nntil the child could read fluently and intelligently reading matter within its comprehension We are revising our Course of Study. I will send it to you when completed. Yours very truly, Jas M. Cuuohlin.

THE LIVE MERCHANT ADVERTISES In a Paper That Has a Lame Clrcula-Hon The Star In That Paper-Read tbe Advertise- lUttUlBi J. Swingle is the proprietor of the New Cash Store in the MeanB block. He has a brau new stock comprising all the latest things in dry notions, etc Bead his announcement in this week's Stae. D. T.

Evans will commence a 2- days' sale of mutdin to-morrow. Ad on first page. Kaufman's store sets the pace. Read ad on second page. St.

John's Catuolic church at Bellefonte was entered by robbers Sunday night, who stole the gold chalice oil the altar, besides gold and silver ornaments valued altogether at $500. They also broke open the poor box and robbed it of its contents. In a riot at Pana. Monday between white aud negro miners, iu which deputy she ills took part, live imn anu one woman were killed aud eight persons wounded, several so severely that they will probably die. WEST BURLINGTON.

The Centre school closes Aptil 20. The new P. O. S. of A.

is doing well. J. L. Rockwell was in Troy on Saturday. Miss Lottie Piatt visit friends in Bar- Lewis ritrrinvtoa is slowly recovering irom a long litness.

Imn Rockwell took two loads of fine calves to Troy on Saturday. Mrs Margaret Kenyon of Troy was tbe guest OT ner daugnter, airs r. tl. rmiley, one day last week. Dick McKean is now filling Lewis Her-lington's position; we hope Lewis will be arle to worn again soon.

Mies Kutie Black well entertained annra ber of her vouns Saturday, lie- freshmen ts were served and a fine time re ported. April 111 HORNBROOK. M. L. Griggs of Allia Hollow, visited friends usro last week Charlei Wickwlre of Wysox Visited his parents here over Sunday.

L. C. Hjrton was elected leader of the Horubrook band, Saturday evening. Misses Nora Sullivan and AgneeLentof! Pond Hill spent over Sunday at o. ti.

cor ner's. A few of oar voting people mH at J. D. Chatlee's last Tuesday evening. A pleasant time was enjoyed.

About thirty of our young people met at the home of L. Horton last Wednesday evening A very pleasant time is reported Rev. Been, pastor of the Horn brook and Ghent charges, preached his farewell sermon here, Sunday morning He wilt be greatly missed by all. April 12. I Our line of soft and stiff hats combine all 1 the points of style.

(lONDKNflED REPORT OF THE CONDITION of tho CUUciiH Naiinnal Bunk of Toivuudn, at the close of buHine, April 0, 18W. UKH 11C EH. Loans and Dlncounto 9 IM2 fill 10 U. H. Bonds and oUur Securities HO.i'iS 83 Real Estate, Furniture anil 4U.090OO Cash 4H Duo from Bunks aud Trews- urerU.

39 114,874 HI Total 07.7241 LIABILITIES. 00 Surplus 30.000 00 Net Undivided Profits 3.nl 82 Circulation fifi.RHO.OO Deposits 657, 183.04 Total 807,724 6ft State of Pennsylvania, Bradford County, ss: J. K. Newell, Cashier of the above tin met. bank, do solemnly swear that tbe above statement is Irue to the best of mv knowledge and belief.

J. K. NEWELL, Caihicr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1 Lib day of April, 1MB. W.

B. LAVTON. Notary Public. Correct Attest: E. OVF.RTON.

MORRIS SHEPARD, BEN J. KUYKEXDALL, JR. Directors. CONDENSED REPOItT OF THE CONDITION of Ihe First National Bank of Towanda, at the close of business April 1899 RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $770,007 3d U.S.

bonds and other securities 98 Real estate, furniture and fixtures 41 016 00 Legal teudcrsuecieaiul bunk notes W8.033 07 Bank checks and other cash items 4,082 80 Due from hanks and treasurer of V.S 158,903 85 82 Total $1,219, 157 45 LIABILITIES. Capital 9 125.000.00 Surplus fund and undivided prollts 111.198 12 National bunk notestoutHtunding 1 11,450.00 Deposits Total 1, 1MB. 157.05. State of Pennsylvania, County of Bradford, ss: N. N.

Bells, cathier of the above named hank, do solenity swear llmt the above slattv merit is true to the bvat of mv knowledge and belief. N. N. HKTTS. Cashier.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this lltb day of April, 1J9. W. II. DODGE. Notary Public.

Correct Attest: CFIAS. TRACV. JOHN W. On DDI NO. HENRY O.

PORTER, Dirertors, LEGAL ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Letters of administration having been granted to the undersigned, E. tiuick, on Ihe estxte of Mrs. Mary C. yuick. late of Wilmot township, deceased, all persons being indebted to the estate, sre requeote.l to make immediate payment, and all peisons having claims auainst the cstHte are rcquenlt'd to present the same for payment, duly authenticated.

E. C. (ctt-K, Administrator. Camptown, March II. ISO'J.

ADMINISTRATOR'S of administration having i cpii gianted the utiderHigncd, Administrator of the estate of A It hea late of Terry, deceased all persons being indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment, and all persons having claims again! the estate are requested to present the same for payment duly authenticated. JoHH J. hi we, Administrator. New Era, Pa March 29, 1899. 4Gut.

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters Ol administration having been granted the undersigned, administrator nflhe etlate of Lewis Burke Bennett, deceased, late of Wysox all per Hons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and all persons having claims aguiiiBt it will please present them duly authenticated for settlement. L. B. BENNETT, Administrator.

Tpwanda. April 18, '99 Ot EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Letters testamentary on the estate of LydiaAnn Furm in, late of 11 mot township, dee'd, having been ranted the undersigned, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and nil persons having claims against it must present them duly autheutieatt for settlement. RICHARD E. FI RMAN, Emecutor. Rodney A.

Mr-merit, Attorney. Sugar Run, March 22, 18US. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Letters lestamen-Ury on the estate of Albertlnirong, deceased, lute of Terry township, having been granted the undt reigned, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to paid estac are requested to inxke immedinlu payment, and all persons hav-. ing claims against ft must present thciu duly, authenticated for settlement.

M. F. WELLS, New Era, April ft, 1899. Chas. M.

Hall, Attorney. 'Not Only Delipvpc- It CURES" Science now knows that Rheumatism, Sciatica and Gout are caused by microbes In the blood-not by uric or lactic acid, as was formerly supposed. The one scientific and Infallible remedy is CORONA RHEUMATISM CURE It kill tho microbes, and cures tho disease by removing Its cause. In tasteless tabic. lirst one gives relief.

IT HAS NEVER FAILED 1 Fnll ten ilvg- Sl.OO. Trial treutmei.t, 3a Cents. Booklet free. At your druggitt'g, or mailed postpaid vpen receipt of pi uc. toroiia LoinpoHntJmQ tJ4AfciiMJjir THE C.

J. Coolbaugh has charge of the Dry Goods. 0 I sole MH( interest tho statements showing the receipts and expenditures of the various counties, with a view of determining any points of excellence and seeing how Bradford county is managed in comparison with others. Our investigation nas proven highly satisfactory, and we must conclude that tue taxpayers of Bradford county have reasons to congratulate themselves upon the present economical and successful management of their flairs through the Commissioners' olhce. Let us make some comparisons.

Bradford oounty, in point of area, is the third largest county in the State and has a population 01 nearly 70,000. Mercer county has only one-half tho area of Bradford and about half as many taxables. For 1898 the expense incurred in conducting the affairs of each ooun ty was as follows Mercer Bradtord 63,085 A difierence of 87 ,523 which it cost more to rim tho busi ness of Mercer county on year than it did Bradford. The ex pen Be of maintaining the poor the two comities ior tne past year was as lollows Mercer $30,121 Bradford 25.G71 Making a difference ot $4 450 in favor of Bradford county. tor services as cotintv commis sioners and overseen of tho poor, the pay of each of the two boards for 1S98 was as follows Mercer 3,990 A difference of.

From the foregoing it will be seen that our county commissioners, do ing twico as much work as the commissioners of Mercer county, have only drawn two-thirds as much pay. The exhibits given are sufficient to show two things that the affairs of Bradford county are carefully and economically nian aged, while those of Mercer county are in bad shape and the people burdened with taxation. Do the people of this county want a con tinuauce of the good management under Meesrs. Decker and Pitcher, or will they favor ring management as Mercer county TRUSTS THE REMEDY, We repeat again, that a good monetary system is the remedy for trusts. A bad monetary system has produced the enormous trusts which are crushing the masses.

It is strange that everybody does not understand that contraction to the gold standard has created these enormous trusts, and that if the gold standard can be maintained the trusts cannot be destroyed. Read the history of any decaying country of which a history is written, and it will be seen that a con-. tracting volume of money in all cases concentrated the wealth of the country in the hands of the few, made serfs of the masses, and finally destroyed the rich and the poor in universal decay. When the energies of the American people are paralyzed and they have ceased their endeavors to ao- i us weal th fur em eel vm all hope for progress and continued prosperity will be dead. While the gold standard is maintained to breed trusts, making war on trusts is like fighting mosquitoes by hand while all the people are engaged in establishing and enlarging stagnant poolflj round the habitations a 11 Met ed by the troublesome insects.

National Watchman. PAY FOR DIRTV WOItK. The Republican papers of Bradford county certainly cannot feel very highly complimented, when the sheriff uses a Democratic journal to advertifig. the land sales in, as is being done this month. There are a number of Republi can papers in the county more deserving of recognition than the Bradford Argus, and Sheriff rell has departed from all precedents in ignoring the papers that aided him in securing his election three years ago.

Review. Hold on there, Bro. McKee. You would be right if the Argus were a Democratic paper, but it only masquerades as such, being in reality a Kepttmican paper iu dis guise. Ash has been doing a large amount of dirty work for the court house ring, and as he always works for a consideration, Sheriff Fell pays mm in the easiest way by giving him a nice piece of public pap, It should be remembered too that when an effort was being made to reduce the price paid for boarding prisoners, Ash took a position against the taxpayers that Sheriff Fell might profit at their expense to the amount of hundreds of dollars.

The difference be tween tho Argun aud reputable Kepubucan papers, is that the Argus is always open fur ditty jobs, while the latter have a higher sense of equity and justice. Ihe court house ring have further use for the Argus, but it will avail them little, as the pap organ has no circulation or standing in either party TOO DEAR AND TOO CriEAl'. News came Monday of the cap ture of Santa Cruz, a city in the rhuippiues, by our forces under Gen. Lawton. Our loss was six wounded.

Of the natives (bought at a head; were billed aud a large number wounded." Is it strange that these victories over poor, benighted heathen fighting for their homes excite no enthusi asm in this country? Men hasten by the bulletin boards with averted looks. A baseball match attract a hundred times the attention, Such "giory" is at once too tar and too cheap. World. Military experts place the minimum cost to the United States of holding the Philippines at a hundred millions per year. Before (he end of a decade it will become necessary to add a hundred millions more per year to the above Bum to pay the Philippine DeWitt C.

DeWitt, Eeq of Towanda, is as we understand, a candidate for Bupreme Judge. Mr. DeWitt is a man of broad views, unquestionable integrity among the ablest lawyers in this section of the State. Sullivan Herald. A.

DECKER, POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myn If a candidate for the office of County Commissioner, in accordance with tbe rules of the Democratic party. Geo. M. Deck kb, Dec 7, '98.

Towanda, Pa I hereby a nou nee myfelf citdate for the nriice ol ountv iwil onci Biibjcot lo (lie rules the Democrat ic onrtv of Hr ad ford omi ty. I nominated and elected, I hereby pledge myself not to be a candidate for a eecond term. Jons Muuuiv, Jr. South Waverly, Jan. 3, 18TO.

I hereby announce mywlf ft candidate for County Auditor, aubjeet to Deiimemtic Itulea. ASA HTKVKNS, Feb. 22. 1899. Frank II ndale.

Pa. I hereby announce mypelf candidate for the ofti-e of Prothonotaiy, Hiil-ject to the rules of tin Be inblicnn party. J. Akulr. Towanda, March 10.

1893. I herebv announce myself candidate for the oflV of County Corami-aioner, subject to K. publican Rules. (I. O.

a. HU3JET- 2d District otVTytnx. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the nflh-f of Kegiwter and Iteeorder, 6tc, lubjeet to tue uuiefl oi tne iteiiuoi.ci.u mny. HI IN KLSBREE. Windham Township.

1 hereby announce niysrlf candidate for the oi uouuiy a uauor, buuj id io nepnoni: rul.M. D. 11. A i BP Utllett, South Creek Twp, April 3, 'ttV. Rostand may have matter for a bright fareo comedy beforo ho gets through with an American lawsuit.

Taconia LedK-'r. IlobHon has kissed bride In Japan The young man simply can't resist the temptation. Philadelphia North American. It is now said that Mr. Roberts of Utah cannot mako a speech.

Having throe wives, ho baa learned to listen. Pittsburg News. Edison Is becoming a very lazy and indolent man. In fact, he himself admits that ho sleeps 5 hours outof trheB-l. Kansas City Times.

Tho effort of tho Hon. Bill Sterrett to Introduce the dress suit at breakfast in Texas has very properly been scalped by tho Indians. Memphis Coinmorcial Appeal. Old savings aro being wrecked duily Queen Victory now finds great difficulty keeping awake notwithstanding the statement that uneasy lies tho head that wears a crown. Philadelphia Times.

Sir Thomas Lipton continues to give evidence that ho has got money to burn. A little thing like tho purchase of a 1.00,- 000 stoam yacht by hiin will havo to be set down us one of the incidental expenses of tho next international yacht race. Bos ton Herald. JEWELRY JOTTINGS. A watch Kuard of sporting character carries out in gold and aluminium a curb chain and snaillo bit design.

Buckles and slides for shoulder straps, ribbon bow centers and throat bands reii-rcsent all shapes, being square, round, oval or oblong, as well as assuming many fanciful variations of these outlines. Tho pendant fad seems to threaten In rings, In which, however, it appears a precarious ami inconvenient Indulgence. In this case tho ring should 1)0 a slender band to which tho pendant gem or gems ure attached. The favor In which rlohly colored stones ore hold extends this season to tho engagement ring. While tho diamond, of course, continues to be the standnrd stone many womon prefer something more Individual In character, and accordingly the now fashionublo emerald, the ruby and tho sap-phiro servo as very chlo emblems of betrothal.

Jewelers' Circular. Clear Case of Self Defense, "Didn't you steal that hog?" asked the rural justice. "Well, suh, Mister Jedge, I mus' admit dat I outrun him!" "And didn't you kill himr" "Well, suh, he did run 'gainst de butt or de ax en got his death!" "And you ato him of courser" "Well, iedgo, hit wua this a-way: Do weather wuz mighty hot, en artcr ho wuz dead hit look lak a pity ter let him ep'ile, bo I des salted him down en smoked him, en de fire wuz so hot dat fo' I could tu'n roun' he wuz cooked done, en soein him In dot fix dar wuz nuttin lef tor do but ter eat him Hit wuz all done in self defense, jedge all in self defense!" Atlanta Constitution. Other Troubles. "Doesn't your broken cnRagemont at Clio beginning of a new year make you unutterably sad, Archibald?" "No; a man can't dlo of a broken heart when he has to hustle for his next meal or go hungry." Detroit Frco Press.

Fat nJ Ig; no ranee. "I notice that a Boston negro was seut to prison for throe months for stealing two umbrellas." "l'oor fellow I don't suppose ho know that one was all that the law allowed." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Accommodating. She (her first season) I havo been shut up In boarding school so long that I feel very awkward and timid In company. I do not know what to do with my hands.

He I'll hold them for you. New York Weekly. Mt To a eh Harder. Yeast Don't you think Dnubson has the touch of the real artist? Crimson beak Well, he touched me today for Is that about the right touch for an artist? Yonkers Statesman. In our Shoe ieuiar $3 51, special $3 00 p-ty SI .5 ior elsewhere.

Onr creat ntoren ure wiih spring goods of he new style, evcrv proper lar dor 1b found here. men, wo en and complete in detail. I I left' Fine Kuitor. Shorn, in ft varitty of urrUSa.o;.u,,,,.i.,.,.K."a: Mile' Kfd Button and patent leather or kid Kntsrud at the po.lofflc a. iocond-olaM matter.

Snlwcrlptlon- 1 pi-r unnnio In ad-vnm'oi SO cents for six month. Sample ooptos sent free. C. F. HEVE11LT, Editor.

Nswsrif'KB oacisioira. 1. Any penon who takes paper regularly from a uoHloGlce, ivhather dtrectoU to hi" nam. or another', or wlietticr lie hne subscribed or not, la resiionniDie lor a. If a person orders his paper discontinued he miW pay arrears or the publisher may continue to send It until payment ts made, whether the paper Is taken from the postofllce or not.

a. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the post-ouice, ot removing and leaving them uncalled for la prima fade evideuoe of Intentional fraud John G. Scouten, Eeq. editor of the Sullivan Herald has been chosen chairman of tho Sullivan county Democratic Dewey would rather bo "a great hero" than President. He's right.

What could add to the glory of a star of the firBt magnitude? The beef and mutton fed to American soldiers in the Philippines is purchased in Australia. How does this help the American farmer? It cost the State for Judges' salaries in Sullivan county for the year 1897, 86,939, Surely, Little Sullivan can beat Bradford iu some things. The Democratic State Committee will meet at Harrieburg next Tues day, to elect a State Chairman and fix the time and place for holding the next State convention. At Galesburg, 111., last week, Mrs. James Mansfield, Democrat ran against her husband on the Re publican ticket for school trustee Airs.

Mansfield was elected by a handsome majority. The Stab's cent-a-word column was first established for the especial benefit of the who had property to rent, sell or exchange But all classes of people are beginning to see its great value, as shown by the increased number and variety of ads therein. 1 1 has not yet been decided whether the Philippines will be in eluded in the twelfth census. If it is true that our new possessions include 30,000 cannibals in active business, there will be no quarreling between civil service reformers and spoilsmen as to who will get the job. While the eflVto an( indifferent Eastern cities are weakly resigning themselves to the evils of munici pal mifgovernment the question of reform has been taken up by the West in a practical manner, and in Beattie, Kansas, the voters have elected a lady mayoress and a council of women.

A bill has been introduced in the State Legislature providing for taxing fishermen and requiring the latter to swear to the weight of the fish caught. This bill iB aimed at the man who exaggerates as to the weight of the fish he catches, but would not a fleet the man whose biggeet fish always escape from his hook. The cry of expansionists that trade follows the Hag is meretwad dl, unsupported by facts. Until within the past year we did not land, and yet during the past 20 years our foreigu commerce increased 63 per cent, while England, owning about one fourth of the aiva of the earth and about one-fourth of the total population, euftcred a loss of 5 per cent of her foreign commerce during the last 8av.ea years. We have the initial number ot the SuUivaa county Herald before us.

It is an 8 column folio tilted with bright and interesting local news. The right ring, demonstrating that the Jlerald is to be edited by men who think aud are fully alive as to the great movements in this progressive age. Original thought and character are the great elements contributing to successful journalism and the Herald has grasped the situation. We congratulate Messrs. Scouten and Hugo in their auspicious beginning.

The last act in the Spanish-American drama was played at the White House, Tuesday afternoon, when peace between the two nations was formally and finally reached. This was accomplished in the exchange by the President and Ambassador Cambon of France representing Spain, of the ratifications of the treaty of peace agreed upon at Paris. Coincident with this President McKinley issued his proclamation, declaring that the war was at an end, and the ap pointment of Bellamy Storer was determined upon as United States Minister to Spam. Ex-Justice of the Supreme Court Stephen J. Field died at his home in Washington on Sunday iu his 83d year.

He is the lat-t of the great judicial figures of tho war and the period which succeeded. He shared in the early organization of California aud laid the foundations of iU procedure, its administrative law and its land system. He was Lincoln's appointee in the Supreme Court. He made secure the results of the war, and he Btayed the progress of reckless attacks on tho muniments of Constitutional rights. In his old age he showed his youthful courage in the discharge of his judicial duty.

His long, able and useful life was crowded with honors and with high public duty, and he desi-rved all he received of the one and discharged all imposed on him of the other, i 13 Otrns, mammals, liqh; and lisu-netS so seized hy any ujuatable shall I ivct beforo lmh olVuse 13 1 tried, and SUL'h watns and con-I Hlilbll-R nhail lint ho fur ilmn- ag.8OnC0onU0fai.y ('XHmilmUOnR. Constant's, upoiT the urn t-t. prtjseeutiou and conviction of any under the act, will, in addition to their usual feee, be paid $10 for their Bervice by the county treasurer on a warrant drawn by the county coram iPBronerH. Con stables BtiouUl have current jurisdiction throughout their own County, and they shall make special returns under oath attach term of Com i all violations of the act that may come or bo brought to their notice. If a constable neglect, -w refuses to make such returns, or to prcsecute any violation of the net of which ho may become informed, he Bhall be guilty of a mSBdemeaiior aud, upon conviction, be eento-ncfd to a 850 fine, or undergo a two-months im-1 prisonmtnt, both or cither, at the discretion of thi Court.

Bpars have been 'stealing pies! and lambs roar Ardentsvilk. I Adams county, ami tho farmers' are trying to hunt them down. Ex-Senator Horace W. Taber of Colorado, postmaster at Dnvr, died on Monday, aged OU years. He was at one time a millionaire but lost his wealth.

George Muneer, formerly a cor poral in the Fourth Michigan Civ-alryand the man who arrested Jetierson DaviB, is reported dying at Mich. Miss Minnit Wood, principal of the Blue Auction School at Hara-mondton, N. J.fc wMlu seated at the piano singing, Monday after noon, suddenly fell across the instrument. The President hyt appointed Hon, Bartiett Tripiwsentlvtive on theSamoan omniihnion, He was minister to A um during the last uieveiana umuipiraimu, is a D.mocrat aid result in Yankton, 1 B. D.

I A despatch from Jtsehurg, Ore- i gon, eays thattttate iisli commissioner H- D. McGure and State Senator A. AV. Ree. of Douglas county, were drownel on Saturday in the Umpqua riverrapids.

PORTERVI7LE. Our school closed April (. Katie Strunk is attendia; school at Lime Hill. T. P.

Biles made a busiiess trip (o Wya-Iusing, Monclny. O. F. Strunk and Walt. St there spent Thursday at Uerrick.

On in Fish of Terrytownvisited at 0. W. Fish's, Sunday eveniDg. P. A.

Biles and C. W. Hbu are potting new rcofs on their houses. Dr J. Biles of Mesboppro.

made a pro-fenmoriBl .11 nfc Rtrnrlt'f Monrtnv A number of our people ittended the rag bee at W. F. Deputed one luat week. The entertainment held at the school-house Thursday evening ttas largely attended. Frank 'Brennan aud sbier, Miss Mary, of New Era visited io thisplace last Sunday evening.

Mrs W. F. Depue and Mbs Lizzie Layman of Lime Hill, visited friends here one day last week. April 10. Are you frequently hoarse? Do you have thai annoying tickling in your throat? Would you feel relieved if you could raise something? Does your cough annoy you at night, and do you raise mora mucus in the morning? Then you should always keep on hand a bottle of If you have a weak throat you cannot be too careful.

You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another, and the last one is always, harder to cure than the one before it. DMgcf'scterrg eclor.l Plaster protects tic Bugs iroa coMS. Help at Hand. If yon have any complaint whatever and desire the best medical advice you can possibly obtain, write the doctot freely.

You will receive a prompt reply. Address, DR. J. C. AYBR, Lowell, Mass.

Easily? Aprs I ciiepri PcciOFij OUR STORES SET THE PACE Spring with its manifold attractions is here and the spring display of Fine Clothing, Shoes and Dry Goods are richer and belter -than ever. Every article of this season's make. It will pay you to inspect our new arrivals of Clothing and learn our price's. Every department in these stores is full to overflowing in the richness of the spring season. The stvle are confined exclusively to us and are absolutely right of course, and the mako the best that can be had.

BEAD A FEW OF OUB STRIKING OFFERINGS: where we could not intorfere, werrUugton lat week. Just received, a new and attractive line of Shirt Waists, ranging in price from 39c to $1. Our $1 Kid Glove is hard to beat every pair guaranteed money refunded if they do not prove satisfactory. You will find our Corset stock up-to-date, comprising the best makes at popular prices. A full line of ladies' and children's Hose, infants' Black and Tans.

Ask to see our children's Lisle Thread Hose at 25c a pair. Sizes from 5 to 9 1-2. The Men's Suits that we are now selling at $7.50 im ouiiiaiuhiy tiie ViilueB woevur i lie red. Tim line includes Hie nwi-t BPtinjr mil colorings in fancy Cheviot tt'id fflpHiinere, nine and black Chevi oIh, blHok t'lnj DiHimal coats in the Approved him-lt anil ilutihk'-brcaletl sacks nd cuiawars, Ilalinn lininp, nome with ttatin piping; it tall-oilutt in ext'eptiinnl. Hulls of equal fit vie.

quali-tv in. mnku would cnt clehire ntbn-tSIO to 12. Very imuiunl iu tho uric at CH Cfl which we m-rk JJ filled to overflowing I shoe well worth from best grades. Every I 81.fi0 to (1.75. 'I hei QHc shape, every pnpu- i surprise you at -w Our deuarrment for children's eh oca are t-ll I Olll" Spaed 19 tot and Lace Kid Skin new ahap.s, with Email to mention $1.90 the other Come and look ua Lace Shoes, with OVAP arid trt nriops ti; several new laj-U ver ana 'S61 Our S3 Line of Men's Trousers is eijnaUtil.

Tim neiv Hiring 81-lea in Worsted, CriH-inierff nnti Cheviot Trou-fnt, fncy stripes, plaid- and mixtures, proper cut and wintli. finely lailottd. exeoilent llninh; some wilb belt aup-Iiiirters. French waUt hands. Such outers price u- Vit gOUUH eutarau teed as represented he bought elsewhere for have bad no information to give the public, more than to assure them that a decision was forthcoming.

We now have soma positive information, TLe cao is not being neglected, but is bsiug carefully gone over by Judge Arcbbald, who in a few weeks will be able to render his decision The people have been patient and must continue a little longer. When the eud is reached we believe they will Lot sorry that the case was thoroughly investigated. ItockIs I Tun tern. Ou Thursday afternoon while Wm. Fargo, a trackman was working near the river below Hummer-field, two huntsmen in quest of ducks came down the river in a boat.

Some ducks flew up opposite Fargo and the excited hunters fired. The shot went wide of thir mark, several penetrating Fargo' a hat. It was a close call, but fortunately Mr. Fargo escaped without injury. Hunters of this reek-It ss cltiss had better engage in some other eport than that employing fire arms.

tSLlSTS I or mouey refunded Oilr I-rict Boys' suits of the handsomest kinds at $3.98. Boys' Knee Pants regular prices 35 and 50c. Iu Men's Shoes we are in the swim both color and quality ranging in CC from Wo to ifD.JJ Our UU -q I rTTU A (STflRr A a a- a- i a- HATS iu Soft, Alpine and Derbys are gnine fast at $2.00. patent or kid. Good- $2.23 Men's Vie! Kid Shoes year welt, regular prti our prlb i our price 19c.

Our New Spring Neckties are aufman's Big Up-to-Date Stores, Powell old stand, 406 and 408 Main Towanda..