Republican News Item. VOL. XIII. INO 43 "s $24,000 — $44,000 > < Which Do You Prefer • r \ The average man earns about si, 100 a year. He/* / works 40 years and earns a total of $44, go in a life V | \ time. The averaue day laborer gets $2,000 a day or 112 \ / S6OO tor a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I ; life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24- J 000 is $20,000. I his is the minimum value o( a ? i X practical education in dollars and cents The in- C ! vcreased self-respect cannot be measured in money. V i C 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 / V high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of \ \ y work you care to follow, this great educational v stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at ' 112 a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you can V triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, r ; \ He is \ ) C. IF\BIiZEHsTU" A IN", S C. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. ° OL HARDWARE. | No Place Like this Piace For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB 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 flue Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuet Sole^ttsfiore^fa. The Sliopbell Dry Good Co., " v 313 Pine Street, / WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Dress Cioobs The new weaves Colors and designs are the hand-; somest we have shown for years. We will be pleased] to; show them to you whether you are reads' to purchase or j not. We show a beautiful line'*of the new There in a fine assortment ot pla'ii an Satin Cloth and self colored stripe—just mixed suitings—All wool batii-te in tiiej what you want lor coat suits. new shades: also 42 inch all wool serge in 75c to sl.so|ti yard. all colors, for 50 cents. Today We Call Yonr Attention to a Splendid Line of Dress Silks and Foulards. It's the best collection we have ever shown, many of them are exclusive and n number of the designs here are only a dress pattern of a kii d. Every new shn.le I is represented in stripes or figures. Come and see them while tlie assortment is j complete. Foulards'are 23 inches to 27 inches wide. 75c to 1.00 a Yard. We show a handsome lot of 19 inch. We have most anything you could the newest shades that are wanted this want in the better qualities of tancy reason, tor tafleta for waistsjor dresses, prices from 50 cents. 750 to $1.35. Silk and Cotton Wash Goods. The range of this class of wash fabrics has never been equalled in" st\ le. color or quality, in tact many of them look like all silk. Plain colored silk inulls'in all the)new Fancy figured wash foular.' in nil the dark and evening shades, just the tabric new designs. They look a> dressy as the tor an expensive evening dress. Price all silk loulards and cost only 33c a yard, 39c a yard. Lace Nets. For waists in white cream, ecru an 1 colors to match many shades 01 the ne.v dress goods: also all kinds bf staple and fancy dress trimmings. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY MARCH 18,1909. I SLAG-ASPHALT RQftQ, | i Government's Tests to Provide a Dusticss Highway. _ ! NOVEL USE FOR MOLASSES. i j Waste Product of Sugar Refineries Utilized as Binder For a "Candy" Highway Near Newtcn, Macs. —Oil Tried In Kansas. Chicago is to have a dustloss road. ' t a;j(l Superintendent M..1. Doherty of | the department of streets and the su- ' I perintendents of all the park systems i are awaiting the result of the expert : j ment with interest. The road will be constructed of blast | j furnace slag combined with asphalt or j tar by the office of public roads of the i I United States department of ngrlcul | ture. It will be one of a number of ■ i experiments conducted by the depart- j | ment in the effort to give the nation ! j dust proof thoroughfares. Possibly the j 1 road will be constructed in one of the j j south side parks. If the results are as satisfactory as the preliminary conditions indicate, the Blag-asphalt <>r slag-tar roads will real- i lze the hope of the scientists for both the utilization of byproducts and the attainment of a dusticss road. The road to be constructed in Chi cago under the supervision of Chief j Engineer Vernon M. Peirce will lie of j Blag and asphalt. It will be carefully observed during the trying months of j whiter. If in the spring it has been j established that this class of road re- j mains firm, does not rut, sheds water i and makes but little dust, a vast step j forward will have been taken in road ; buiiding. More novel than this, however, the I office of public roads has been prepar ing in the east to lay n stretch of . what facetious writers are almost cer tain to label a "candy" road, in all flights of fancy it is probable that no- '[ body except a scientist would go so j far afield in research as to adopt mo- j lasses as a road building material, but that is exactly what has been done j i F~T7i < 5 - I V -i i C ( .* ICO AD WITH 81. Ail FOUNDATION. i Assistant Ciicmist Prevost Hubbard of , | Director Page's scientific corps has ; ! been leveling a half mile stretch of \ roud near Newton, Mass., for the lay- , | ing of the first molasses road. | This molasses is the almost useless I j byproduct of the great cane sugar re j fineries of the south and the beet I i sugar refineries of the west and south- ; i west. It is slekishly sweet, nearly as ' j black and as thick as tar and almost j as powerful as a binder. Having al- | ) ways been a waste product, it can be ! | bought at a lower price than coal tar < | and in greater quantities. In labora- ! | tory experiments it behaved so well j | and held out such promises for ideal I ! roads that the practical test of a real j j road was decided upon. "Slag as the useless byproduct of j i the blast furnaces and molasses as the j I useless byproduct of the sugar re- ! ! fineries," a circular issued by the office j of public roads says, "may in a few I I years revolutionize country road build- j i ing, create a demand for more extend- j j ed roads in the United States, where I those products are most easily to be I had, and add millions to the wealth [ of the country by putting a cash ■ | value on hitherto waste material. "While experts are laboring with j these experiments in the east, south and middle west, another scientist, also from the office of public roads, is engaged at Independence, Kan., In try | ing to devise a method of constructing i j oiled roads analogous to the methods | ! which have produced the famous oiled j roads of southern California. He is j 1 mixing heavy oils, possessing pro- j 1 nounced asphaltie bases, with natural 1 soil and sand and compacting the i preparation so formed with a tfimplng i I roller. I "Thn oiled roads of Callfornti have | | saved millions of dollars to tht farm- j ers and fruit growers of that fertile ■ state In the last few years ty sup- i pressing the dust that formerly arose j ! in blinding clouds with the pulsing of j every vehicle. Those dust clouds, j floating to adjacent fields And or- ! chords, depreciated the price i>f farm I produce and lowered the vtilues of j real estate to a startling degree. The sprinkling of oil was tried, ind (lie i dust was held in check. Thm some of the roads were plowed anc the oil j mixed with the earth and tie mass firmly rolled to a properly ••■•owned surface. Splendid results foibwe 1 in ' i aiost instances." The anthracite miners have been | ' working for six years past under the j I agreement between operators and | miners, drawn and imposed by the j 1 Anthracite Strike Commission. | These have been years of peace, prosperity, and employment to the | miner. The panic of 1907 has affect led his work, wages or days employ ed, as it has the work and wages of i others. I n ten years the anthracite miners wages have been raised three times. They have never been re j duced. The wage scale is one-third higher than it was when this period opened. The miners have worked : fuller time. From 1890 to 1903 there was only one year when the miner worked 200 days. Since 1903 the i i working days have been above that ! period. In 1906 there was not full j work but that was because the min ers representatives closed the mines ; six weeks seeking a new settlement. There were in 1903, 150,483 men : employed. In 1907 there were 167, 2:H. More coal has been mined ; each years and there has been more per man. Wages have been higher, more continuous, larger in total anil earned by mining less coal a day. When other workmen have been idle the anthracite miner has beon iat work. Why not let well alone? Why upset a good, fair and just agreement ; reached by an impartial tribune? A bill has been introduced in the State legislature providing for the division of the state into four dis tricts and holding of fairs in each district under state supervision. ; The measure declares its purpose to be to "foster the improvement of agriculture and the breeding of live ; stock" in Pennsylvania. According to this arrangement the fourth dis trict would be composed of the coun ! ties of Lycoming, Tioga, Potter, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Cen ter, I'nion, Snyder and Northumber land and Montour, and be known as the North Central district. The j state would be asked to cartrlbttte I six thousand dollars annually to the tiuancing of the fairs in each dis -1 . 1 tricl. ' Two of the proposed constitution al! amendments acteu upon by the Legislature of 1907 and which will I have to tie approved by the present 'session before they can be submitted to the people have passed the houes. The third has not yet been reintro duced anil it is said to be likely that it will be held lor the present. ! There is a desire to see if the code which provides a debt will pas-. One of the amendments provides for the abolition of spring elections, making all elections 111 the fall and while there is a desire to amend it so that State and local officers will i not be elected the same year, yet it will hardly prevail, as to amend the ■ resolution would throw it back two ! years. The other amendment provides ; for the consolidation of the courts of Philadelphia and Allegheny coun ! ties. Both of these bils are in Senate committees. The third amendment provides j that the debt limit of any county, municipality, borough, township, j school district or other division shall not exceed 10 per cent. It is 7 per cent at present. To call a man a liar in Georgia is breach of peace and means a fight, 1 according to the State Court of ap peals The lower court, which re fused damages to W. M. Ituirisey, who sued W. A. Bullard for SIOO damages for breach of the peace, for calling him a liar, is reversed, the ' opinion by Judge Powell conclud ! i"K "Being to the manner born, the judges of this court take judicial cog ; nlzance of the fact that in Georgia to ; call a man a liar eveu without | threatening him with a weapon, ; most generally means a fight. There ■ may be exceptions to this rule, but they are exotic and find little nourishment on Georgia soil and un der southern skies. The Brown villa incident is harder to keep closed than a storm door in midwinter. | Congress is in special session to j fulfill the promise of the last lie publican national platform for theji j revision of the tariff immediately on 11 the inauguration of a new President. • > That revision will be along pro tection lines. The platform on which the President and the present * congress were elected declared:— i The aim and purpose of the Ret publican policy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that securitiy against foreign tition to which American manu- i facturers, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage earner of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the pro tective system. In this letter of acceptance Mr. ' Taft laid stress upon "the Republic- i doctrine of protection as definitely announced by the Republican con- ! vention of this year (190#) and by previous conventions." lie set forth that a tariff should be imposed that will cover the difference in the cost of production profit to the Ameri can producer. These are the promises of the platform and the candidate, and the pledges on which a majority of Congress was elected. They have unusual significance for the country at this time. Busi ness will halt and wait for final action on the fat iff. That is un avoidable, no matter how brief the period may be, but business need not be apprehensive; it is assured , the revision will be along protection lines, and that the Republican doc trine of protection will be upheld. What is needed along the line of 1 1 improvement work, a phase too of j ten overlooked, is to educate aud de- Ivelop taste in the child regarding civic beautifying. When the grovv ! in K generation is interested in civic - improvement the results need not |be feared. The present weakness I !it;s in the fact that but few are in ': teres ted, and the vast majority are ; indifferent through ignorance. Conld | the first principles of this gram! I work be taught to ixiiool children i its a body the work of beautifying i the features would prove a simple i and easy task. Had the children I of the past generation been educated ■in improvement work there would |be no need now of maintaining a constant never ending fight for 1 street trees and other features of the i work without which beautiful towns i cannot be had. In dealing with the ' subject at school it is not necessary jto delve into detail, but the pupil | should be instructed in the funda mentals. I Peter Deitrich, the Danville hotel j man who on February 18 1900, shot j and killed James Jones as the result 'of a drunken argument in which | Dietrich's ability as a marksman i was questioned, was sentenced by | Judge Lynch in the Luzerne county 1 court at Wilkesbarre to u year's ini ; prisoument in the county jail and ; the cost of prosecution. The sen tence was on a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. This was Dietrich's I fouith trial, the case finally having ' been taken iuto the Luzorne court On a charge of venue. The case has cost Montour county upwards of $12,000. The first Intermediate High School ! debate in Sullivan county was held '! at Sonestown on Friday afternoon, March 12,1909, between the Laporte borough and Davidson Township High Schools. Question: — Resolved that the United States Navy should be in creased more than two battle ships a year. The Sonestown debaters upheld the affirmative side. They were Miss Alice Converse, Messrs ; Cleon O. Starr, Herman Ilazen, and ! Dunning Lockwood, the last debater ' not being present. The negative side was debated by Misses Eunice Ingham and Cecil Botsford, Messrs George Geiger and Frank Botsford from Laporte. After an interesting and spirited debate in which both sides showed ; much thought and -careful prepar ation. The Judges, who were Miss E. Jessie Wrede, Prof. A. R. Moly- j neux and Mr. Lloyd Lorah decided j unanimously in favor of the uega ' tive. The visiting school were de- ; i lighted with the friendly feeling ex- \ ended to them by the students of Sonestown. 75C PL R YEAR The report of the 1". S. Depart ment of Agriculture and of the vari ous journals devoting special at! ■ tion to the potato trade, indicate a short potato supply, and it is pre'- - hie that prices will In- very high h - fore the southern crop conies >i eraliy Into the market. And at U t the southerii crop fills but a vet small part of the great general - mand of the North. It is the r« i lar stock of "old potatoes" on whi i the millions depend until the n-wt northern crop begins to come In'.o market in July and August. The crop of 1908 was about ti 11 per cent, short of normal. On Jan uary i;but 11 per cent, of the crop >•> - mained in the country, or about P.M millionbushels. Of this mili< us must bo had for seed for that next crop and that leaves but SK milln»r s to eat. As for the first part of the season 150 million buhsels had bei :i consumed or exported. This leaves us with scarcely half as much for the latter part of the potato year, or from January 1 on until the n< :<t crop is ready, and this is the gre L .< . r half of the season. Countesss Beryl C'othiide I>. K i 2, a Holstein heifer two years two months and twenty-threo ilays of age under official test, gave ;>s I Us. of milk and 18.!) pounds of butter in seven days. This is the largest .> - cord ever made in the State of Pen:;-, sylvania by a heifer of her age. The test was conducted by P. .M. Twin ing, Wycombe, Pa., he being sent from the State College to do the te - ing. D. P. Honeywell, Dallas I'M., is the breeder andjowner of this he er. Mr. Honeywell also owns Iliil side lady l.angtield. She has a n cord of 31") pounds of milk in 7 «P:, s at the age of one year, ten months and three days. This also is 1 i> largest ol any heifer in the State of Pennsylvania for a heifer in her form. Last but not least, Mr. Honeywell owns that great co,.' Aggie Wayne. She has a tilt' - day record of 1,298 pounds of m : and 49.7 pounds of butter, a rec< i I not »H>U • BIT '>J my cow of any brct i in the State of Pennsylvania—Dal;, s Post. Give business a lift! Congress c , i do,nothing more important and 1 only way to give business a lift i ) "Pass the tariff First!" This is more important than i Sperker, House rules or House ('.< mittees. Business waifs. The t.i!i i' blocks the way. Wages wait. Pro fits wait. Mills are closed. Orders are held up. Every day of dc.: y means loss. Give business a lift! Let tin* II v tariff bill come out of committee t once. Let the eon try know its g ial lines, rates and principles wtth out delay. Once out, trade will ad just itself. Changes will be made, I• iit the general lines will be maintained, let the House and Senate take if up together. In a fortnight it will he clear where both stand. Orders I.r goods will begin. Shipments of raw material will commence. The factory doors will open. Employ ment and wages will appear. Give business a lift! Every day'sdebate on anything but the tariff defers by a day full wages for millions of operatives in facto, ries. Work makes men, luck usually fails, Pluck nearly always win . To succeed in anything one nn;t overcome obstacles. Force and fi ber are built by hardships. Grit is as necessary in the making of a m.i as gumption. Hardships are not a lways handicaps. Often tie y are helps. You will understand this better in twenty years, meanwhile permit one who has lived th< -o twenty years and more to advice you in this. Hang onto your job until you are sure of a better one. Dependable boys are in demand. Ami no boy can be depended upon who does not finish the task lie sets his hand to do. However disagrr - able your work, do it thoroughly. |Do it better than the average boy ! will do it. Having been denied the boon 112 statehood, Arizona and New Mexico j will have to take a firmer grip on i the plow handle and show what tn y ' can do as territories.
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