VOL. XIII. NO 22 <524,000—544,000 q > v Which Do You Prefer • r \ The average man earns about si, ioo a year. H tr S works 40 years and earns a total of $44,00 in a \ time The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or 112 / S6OO for a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I \ life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24- q J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a ? X practical education in dollars and cents. The in-C v creased self-respect cannot be measured in money, s \ Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when j / the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton Pa., can give you an education that will make / I high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of \ y worK you care to follow, this great educational In-Q v stitution can prepare you in vo'ir spare time and at r a small cost to secure a good-- ring position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you can V triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 V He is J ? C. IF 1 . A IST, 5 O. I. S. Representative. TO WAND A, PA. COLE -HARDWARE. No PlaGe Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK/ WOOD. HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition, Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel Pa. The Skopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, - 112 WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Splendid C3l)ovincf of Nev Pall Good*} Now on view in this store are the latest representative ot the fashions in Ready to wear Suits. Skirts and Coats. This offering of the newest ideas, best styles, lest materials, make this absolutely the premier gathering of fall wearables tor you to study and choose from. Ladies' Tailored Suits. Made of all the new fashionable materials that will be used for the coming season, both in plain colors and fancy etlects. Specially good line ol medium priced Suits in the new colorings. Ladies' Separate Skirts. We show a splendid assortment of ladses'separate Skirts in black and plain olors, also in fancy mixed striped materials. All are modestly priced. c The Newest Jacket Suitings <*ne glance at these stylish Suitings and another at their prices will decide any woman that this is the place to buy the materials forlier new Fall Suits if she want a fashionable and durable fabric. We are showing a specially good line of Herringbone Weaves and fancy sell solored stripes in all the new desirable shades. The best of Black Goods. Worthier weaves never found a place oti our counters. All that is new and fashionable are here in the heat of black goods. Lack ol quality means lack o' durability and less satisfaction. We show a fine assortment of fabrics for Coat Suits as well as the lighter weights for house wear and dressy gowns. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 1908. Death of Levi Fulmer. Levi Fuler, of Cherry, died Thurs day, October 1, at the nge of 51 years. Mr. Fuiiner was the son of Henry Fulmer' of Cherry, and a grand-son of of Joseph Fulmer, a native of Frankfort, Oermauy, who came with his family to America, locating first in Lehigh county and in 1825 moved to Cherry township on the farm now owned by James Drugan. Mr. Fulmer is survived by his wife, four sons, Samuel of Rick etts, Allen, Henry and Eugine, at home, and one daughter, Mrs. Cole Wisebrod. The funeral was held Sunday. Interment taking place at Peace Cemetery in Cherry. ..ill ft I'll Un Own ■ . Thirty-nine Distinct Varieties of Work by as Many Men. According to the United States bu reau of labor, the old saw "It takes nine tailors to make a man" Is filled with misinformation, for In reality, the bureau finds. It tnkes thlrty-nino men of different trades just to make n coat under the present system of shop manufacture, for the day when one tailor measured the customer, cut out the cloth and, with his apprentices, shaped It Into a finished and pressed garment has practically passed. To day all one tailor may do through bis entire life is to mark the place where buttons are to be sewed on. Another man never marks places for buttons. Ills specialty Is to mark buttonholes. A third man spends the long day in sewing on buttons, a fourth in mak ing buttonholes. Men who sew sleeves do not make armholes. The armhole men give place to shoulder shapers. and these last do not touch collars which are a distinct specialty. Even the men who manipulate the tailor's goose are divided Into pressers of seams, edges, linings, sleeves and coat pressers. The basters stick to one dis tinct specialty of basting, and a sep arate functionary, the basting puller, undoes their work. Even the coat strap Is a separate proxinee. So that when the coat is finished It represents thirty-nine distinct varieties of work by as many men. And when a man finally puts on the coat he Is wearing the product of 3112 fingers and seventy eight thumbs, not counting the digits of those who sh. -vd the sheep, wove the cloth, dyed It, ished It, shipped it and cut it nor the stained clerical 'lands which kept a record of all the processes. Probably from sheep to wearer the coat was handled by at least 3,000 fingers.—New York Tribune. _______ PREVENTIVE OF DUST. Calcium Chloride Tried on a Road In Washington. Officials of the agricultural depart ment have made experiments with the use of calcium chloride as a dust pre ventive. aud the tests were attended with great success. A stretch of road In the city of Washington was select ed for the trial, and in preparation for the treatment all dust aud dirt were scrajied from the surface of the road way. A solution was prepared by mix ing 1500 pounds of commercial calcium chloride (granular, containing 75 per cent calcium chloride aud -5 per cent moisture) with 1100 gallons of water in an ordinary street sprinkler, care being taken to agitate the liquid thor oughly before applying it to Insure u uniform solution, it was then applied from one sprinkling head, the sprin kler passing slowly back and forth over the road to facilitate the com plete absorption of the solution. Each application consisted of GOO gallons over an area of 1,582 square yards, or 0.38 gallons per square yard. A iniK'ked improvement in the condi tion of the road was noted at once, aud after the second treatment it was necessary to repeat the operation only at isolated spots. The use of the wa ter wagon, which had before made regular trips over the road, was aban doned as unnecessary. The texture of the road surface was completely changed aft"r the application of the calcium chloride. Before treatment raveling was excessive in spots, and the whole surface seemed loosely knit together. After the secoud application this condition changed, and the road surface became smooth, compact and resilient. Oiled Macadam as Rain Defier. During a long continued period of wet weather at Kansas City and vicin ity the merits and disadvantages of different roads were strongly empha sized. The dirt roads, though fairly good in favorable weather, were al most impassable lit many places. Rut the macadam roads that had been oiled were In excellent condition. Aft er the oil has penetrated the macadam no amount of water can affect the firmness of the paving. The rock roads have heretofore been extremely dusty In dry weather and sloppy and rutty in wet spells. Since oil has been ap plied to the surface they remain prac tically the same regardless of tlie state of the weather. How Bryan Would Reward Honesty. The Bryan pet just now is what he is pleased to call "The Bank Guaran ty" idea. He thinks this will cure everything and everybody. He noticed sometime ago that banks were failing— respectable thieves were stealing the peoples money. He heard complaints. It didn't take him a minute to to invent a new pet idea to solve the whole trouble, and out came the Bank Guaranty idea. l)o you know what it aiuouigs to? When any dishonest banker steals money from a depositor, the honest bankers will be compelled to pay it back. Isn't that splendid, magnificent, farseeing statesmanship? Dosn't it settle the whole problem of dis honesty? If a bank president steals, let the honest bankers pay back the money. Honest bankers have plenty of mon ey. What could be simpler? Why not in fact, go farther,, be really logical? If you have a Bank Guaranty in vour political platform, why not a Burglar Guaranty? If a burglar steals anything, why not let the honest citizens in town pay the value of the thing stolen? wouldn't that be simpler than keep ing up an efficient police force? Bryan actually proposes to you that hottest men shall be compelled to repay to depositors any money stolen by dishonest national bankers. Hut does that strike yoi sanity in government? Do you v kit a very brilliant idea to make A lonest bankers a free insurance concern, in suring national bank depositors against* Q « WouldnS, it be better to try to prevent dishonesty in national banks? Wouldn't it be better to advocate earnestly the establish ment everywhere of national sav ings banks, deposits subject to im mediate withdrawal at any time? This would give all the citizens of the nation absolute security for their savings. It would give every one absolute convenience, since each post office would be a national sav ings bank. Is it a brilliant statesmanlike idea to penalize honest men to make up for the sins of the dishonest. Look at it another way. You arc in the habit of paying your bills— grocer's butcher's and other bills. Some men do not pay their bills. They cheat tne dealer, as dishonest bankers cheat the depositor. Suppose Bryan came along with a grocer's or butcher's Guaranty scheme, a benevolent plan which would make you the honest buyer combine with other honest man In make good the bad debts of the dis honest man. And suppose Bryan said to you: "No more trouble in commerce, I (have a grand idea. You honest men that pay your bills shall be compelled to pay the debts of the dishonest that dodge, and all will be happy." Would you not laugh at such a man and say to him: "Plan if you know how to make thieves reform. Don't waste time trying to hold honest men respon sible for thieves." Either honorable bankers are leglti. mate, respectbale men, entitled to decent treatment, or they are not. If they are decent men, they should be treated decently and sane ly. If they are not honest, they should be suppressed. The Republican administration is trying to establish the postal Savings Hank. Vote for Taft and a saue administration. The coming month in the politi cal world is going to be interesting. The great national parties are work ing hard for supremacy and both are confident of victory at the polls in November. The two candidates of their respective parties are touring the country making speeches and discussing their policies. Hvery citizen and voter should know what ingoing on and this you can easily do by reading "The Philadelphia Press," which is printing all the po litical news fairly and accurately. If you cannot secure a c»py of"The Press" from your newsdealer or carrier send your order to"The I Press," Seventh and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. Labor Scarce on the Farm. The productiveness of the United States along agricultural lines is not keeping pace with the growth of our ; population. Meats are dear because meat-bearing animals are falling behind the population in relative numbers. Labor is scam* on the farm,',because the factory, for est, the mine and the railroad are taking away the farmer's workers through wages fixed at rates which the farmer cannot afford to pay. The population of the United States is growing both by reason of the natural increase of the families domiciled in America and by accre tions through immigration from abroad. But the immigrants do not reach to the tarm. The farmers who do not come to us from for eign countries do not find their way to the farms of this country; and the immigration laws prevent Ameri can farmers from going to foreign countries and selecting there pros pective immigrants whose services could aid them, At no period of our history has the American farmer needed help so much as he needs it this year. There are said to be hundreds of thous ands of idle men in the United States. All of them could secure employ ment on the farms—employment affording food, shelter and living wages. Superintendent of Public Instruc tion Schaeffer designated October 23rd. for Arbor Day for the public schools of the state, and all connect ed with the schools are urged "to ob serve the day by the planting of trees and other suitable exercises." The very best exercise for the day of course will be tree planting. It ought to be done by every school in the state where there is opportunity for such a thing. It will be a wise course to instruct the growing gener ation as to the importance of not merely planting trees for ornament but of reforestation and the preserv ation of the trees that now exist. Arbor Day in the school should not be a mere holiday; it should mean business. At a conference of representatives of seven lay Brotherhoods in the United States, held in Chicago, Jan. 22nd. 1{)08, it was voted: "That we recommend to our Brotherhoods and to other organiz ations of men and to missionary boards throughout the world the ob servance of the week beginning with the Sunday following the last Thurs day in November a week of special prayer for the spread of Christs Kingdom among men throughout the world Dear Christian Brethren of all names: I hope I shall not be con sidered officious or impertinent if I ask you all to join in making the First Week in Advent this year (November 29th. to December sth. inclusive) a time of daily prayer in all places of worship and homes. The members of my own church will so observe the week. May I invite your careful atten tion to the following circular, which even if it cannot be fully curried out, may be of use as suggestive of other helpful plans. Yours most sin cerely and affectionately. James Henry Darlington. The arrangement made between Great Britain un<l thin country deal ing with a cheaper rate of pontage, took effect October 1, and it will un doubtedly he the means of consid erably argmvntiug the already large quantity of mail shipped from one country to the other week by week. The order which waw issued reads as followed: "it is hereby ordered that com mencing on the first day of October, 1908, The postage rate applied to letters mailed in the United States, addressed for delivery at any place in the United Kingdom of (Jrert Britain and Ireland shall be two(2) cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce. "Letters unpaid or short jniid shall be dispatched to destination, but double the deficient postage calculat ed at said rate, shall be collected of the addressee upon the delivery of the unpaid or short paid letters. • ~ - 75C PLR YEAP Annval State S. S. Convention. All Sunday-school people who desire to attend the Annual Pen a. State Sunday-school Convention from Sullivan Co. are respectfully requested to send their names ai d addresses to Miss Rachel Rogers County Corresponding Sunday school Secretary who will furnish them with the necessary creden tials. Sullivan county is entitled to about 20 delegates. This conven tion will beheld at Shamokin Pa., Oct. 14th. 15th. and 16th. 1908, and will be a very profitable and enjoyable occasion. I especially desire that the names and addresses of all Cradle Rolls organized in Sullivan County si no a the Annual County Sunday-School Convention in August 1908 be for warded to me at once. Sincerely, Veuon Hull County S. S. Chairman. The District Sunday School con vention for Laporte Township w;is held in the Evangelical church :it Nordmont Friday evening, Sept. 25th. ()win? to the forest tires rac ing within a few miles of the town the attendance was small. Martha Robison, State worker, addressed the Convention, taking as her subject, "Did they all reach homo safely?" Indifference and coldness 011 the part of God's people a reason some will not reach home safely. Greatest responsibility rests upon adult members of the Sunday School. At one time the Sunday School was looked upon as the nursery of the church, but now is not a department of the church, but the rtal church itself because of the Bilble Study in Sunday School statistics show that in the period of youth most people accept Christ but not all is done when the decision is made, the work of salvatiou is just begun. Our future ministers of tho gospel and missionaries come from our Sunday Schools, and not only they, but the very inteHectmd and spiritual life of the nation. Our mission boards arc pleading for money now because the boys and the girls of the Sunday Schools of the past were not educated to give money to missions. Proper care is not taken in select ing teachers in our Sunday Schools. Teachers in our public schools arts selected with the greatest care and are only training our boys and girls f®r a few > ears of earthly life while our Sunday School teachers are train ■ ing our boys and girls for eternity. Attention was called to the fact that some Sunday Schools are clos ed in the winter because of bad weather and our public schools are in session at this period and regular ly attended showing that we placo intellectual training above spiritual training in some communities. Miss liobison also called attention to the State Sunday School Convei.- tioii soon to be held in Shamokin, and urged all to attend. Flora Cook press. Supt. The following is a correct report of the Sugar Kidge school, Laporte township, for the first month end ing, Friday Oct., 2, 1908: Number of pupils enrolled, Males 11 Fei*ales 7. Average attendance; Males 9, Females (5. Percentage of attendance: Males 91, Females 915. Those missing no days are: Phoebe Bogart. Belva llarvev, Freda Gavitt, Kathryn Sliultz, Blake and Lee Gavitt, Howard andJHarry Bogart, Wesley Harvey. Those missing but one day: Mary Shaffer, lieamer Fiester. Patrons invited to visit the school. Charles C. Strait, who lives or Hillside Farm in Marshlands, Tioga county known as the J. I). Strait homestead, will harvest 1000 bushels of choice apples this fall. lie is able to do this because he cared tor his trees ami pruned them as such j work should be done. He is reward ed by quantity and quality of fruit which causes all Who visit hit orchard to marvel.
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