VOL. XIV. NO, 13 <524,000 $44,000 > < Which Do You Prefer • r x The average man earns about si, 100 a year. HeP V works 40 years and earns a total 0f544,000 in a lifeV \ time. The average dav !a borer gets $2.00 a day or 112 J S6OO for a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a £ X life time. The diiference between $44,000 and $24- r JOOO is $20,000. ! his is "the minimum value of a ? V practical education in cfollars and cents. The in-C C\ifu se^"res P ec t cannot be measured in money. \ Why not stop plugging, raway at a small salary when ? S 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\ J work you care to follow, this great educational x stitution can prepare you in your spare time and Q a small cost to secure a good-paying position. local Representative will show you how you canV* triple your earning capacity. Look him ud today, 112 V He is 1 / C. "F. A 3ST, Sy I.C. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. C ' HARDWAR I No Placi^jkb!lh ; i)s\ipiace ' 112 For Reliable I STOVE/s| and RANGES, OOYaLIjiOIR, WOOD.I HIE A T 4 ONE OFj GREAT DELIOVHTS. House furnistog VGoods, Tools of /Every Description,! Guns and Ammunition] Bargains <that|bring the buyer back. Come of our talk. A lot of second hand stovea and; ranges for sale chert p. We can sell you in stoves, any thing from a fine el Base Burner to a low priced biit satisfactory cook stov< 1. Hot Air, Steam, and 'HotWater Heat in -g and General Repairing,!, Roofing and Spotting. Sam 11c 112 • QSo ■ ,jpa. The Shopbell <Dry Good Co., !'■ 313 Pine Street < 1 . WILLIAMSF'ORT, PA. > „ i TabteLinens Lancl)C(c -' table cloths in "pattern'' designs, or natty fabrics to be cut to the le "fitho v wish. Linens that are silk like. they're so beautifully woven—other " tiiat ° essentially strong, able 10 stand the roughest of wear. ' TABLE LINEN, neat designs i.nd viDnwa , extra good values lor "ArJviaS that match all ( ' r . • 50c, 75c, #I.OO Table Linen, either 5-8 or 31 c j zeß . White Bed Spreads. White Crochet Bed Spreads, hemmed ready tor use. Here are son. good values tor SI.OO, $1.25 $1.50. ! peciaU Fine Satin and Marseilles White Spreads in new neat designs ,1, cheap and range in price from $2.00 to $6,00 C are vor ' Summer Knit Underwec . r ) ou have ''S l ' l summer underwear to buy. \V e are showinsr sm fire cheap. ® ae 1 alues tha Ladies' low neck, short sleeves and Men's Halbriggan shirts sleeveless ribbed vests lor 10c, 12Jc 25c. shirts have either Ion fi or drßWerS Ladies fine swiss ril.bon gauze vests, 'or 25c, 3<lc and 50c. ' s " ort slet ' veß extra value for 50c to #I.OO. Children's summer kn GALATEA. " ilii Mualities at the rignt '* " nderwear ii In fancy checks, stripes and figures, FINE SILK MULLS, an excellent fabric lor dresses and hovs' This is a very silky ~ . waistaand children's wear 15 a van £ e . ~in, « Wenr " MT "TT'T' en a wear, jDC a jard. 27 inches wide for 33c ,ul ,eof B,ladcl _ a vnri I, Ladies' Hosiery, We are showing some specially good numbers in ladies' r also tans and brown shades to match all colors oi low shoes-, 10t l,laC k ~oß,er >— lightest gauze weights at low prices. ither me liums or the Subscribe for theNt iwsl tern Republican i\ews ueiii. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 1909. Death o! C. M. Osier. I Mr. C. M. Osier died at his horn*' lin Forksville, Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, of heart disease which he was 111 ill health for the past . from two years. Deceased was in his 64th year, I and leaves a widow and one daugh ! ter, Mrs. Walter Webster, to ! mourn their loss. Funeral services were held on. Tuesday ? from the Forksville M. E. Church. From Alaska comes another news; item indicating th*> enormous posai i bilities of that once greatly derided country A ditch has been com pleted in the Klondike region which j is expected to supply water for tihe largest hydiaulic gold-mining ojmr utions in the world. It is believed at Dawson that, within the next decade, the companies included In this enterprise will extract SI,OOO - to $:i,000,000,000 from the gravel of the region through the new facilities thus afforded. Vet si few years ago the Klondike was un known and the whole of Alaska waf regarded as of little or no account. On the steam railroads of the Stat* during June, according to a compar ative statement issued by the State Railroad Commission, seventy-nine people were kilted and 635 were in jured. In June 1908 th« number of killed was ninety t:nd the injured 661. There were m» passengers killed during June 100U, the fatali- I ties embracing twenty-six employes, | forty-eight tresspassers and five others. Elsewhere ir< this issue will be found advertisements for for the erectioin of the new Laporte Hank building . Bids ot contractors must h- in tin • hands of the build ing committet • by August 23, when the contract v . ill be let. The build ing will be of brick, two stories high, the upj >er story to be finished nit" livinp H Mnrt-ments for the cash ier and the t >uilding to be tireproo j through out. Dr. "»I. li. Warburton, of Ed war -d Warburton of Forks T a p. T ,vho r ecentAy graduated front; the lentr »l department of the Tjniver ity of Pennsylvania, has decided o 1 jcate in New Albany to prac ice ( his profession. The annual supper r ; iven by the Adies' Guild of St. juiui's church fill be held on the lawn at the res ulcnce of F. \V. V yyjei t, on Wed nesday evening August A tine .upper will be vtMl from six o'clock until all are serv ed. If stormy, sup per will 1)( , serV ed on veranda. \ hoice \> „j ne . mH (ie candy and prisct will also be sold. Price ol usl 1 -er 25 cents. Icecream. 10 cents '*,ra. I Cattawissa is without an act« n .Justice of the Peace One of tic I magistrates is on an extended visit j in the West and the other is serious. !ly ill and cannot attend to business j It is likly that such a condition ha ; never before existed in that section lof the state, in fact no one has evei (heard of it. Vhat cau be done in I the matter is a question that is puz zling the wisest, and it is likely that an opinion will be asked of tin District Attorney as to what should be done should occasion require it. Owing to a recent ruling of the auditor general, the local poor dis trict will hereafter be compelled to pay $-1.15 per week for its criminal insane that are being cared for in state institutions, the rate heretofore was $1.75 per week. The auditoi general bases his claim on a new in terpretation of the Act ot 1885, which he declares should be construed as charging full rates-for low rates al lowed. IJy sending to State Treasurer Shcatz a check for $23,025.15 Lan caster county has gotten out of debt entirely in the matter of its State roads. The check is one of the larg est that has been received at thf treasury for the payment of debts owed to the State highway depart ment. Locomotive OK Track. With tin* front truck of the loco motive ofl (lie truck oil the edge of a high embankment, the prompt ap plication of the air brakes was all that stopped the train loaded with summer visitors from plunging dowr. into a deep gully along the narrow guage line of the Eagles Mere rail road Sunday night. The accident happened a short dis tance below Castle rock, a mile be low Eagles Mere, when the front axle of the engine on the train which leaves Eagles Mere at 7:30 JJp. m. snapped in two and threw the engine 'from the rails. On the train were a ! number of Williamsport people who had spent the day in'the mountains. The members of the Picture ltocks base ball team were also passengers, returning from Eagles *Mert where | they had played a game in the after-> noon. When it was found that it would be a question of hours before the train would be able to finish it route, some of the passengers walked back to E igles Mere. < )thers were tiualty taken to Sonestown, where through the kindness of the Will iamsport and North Brunch railroad in providing a special train, they were taken to Halls. Th«' Constitution was all right when, it was made but times have changed, is the substance of a recent argument put forth by an unsatisfied mind., mean ing that the organic law of the land should be revised to suit the passing whim of each new gen eration. Vet ho great a student of gov< 'rnmej it as Gladstone said of the Constitution of the I'nited State "ll 5s the most wonderful instru-' meat ever struck off at a given time by the bra in and purpose of man. It has l»een forty years since the la.st amendment, the fifteenth, was attopted. During the early career of.the Uo ion, a dozen amendment? \yere foitnd necessary, the twelfth being nut i fled in 1804. For sixty years no -other amendment was ad- | opted. | The Civil War brought ilied in 'OK and '7O re^pe'elis?> ly. It is a graud old constitution. Something it is abused and judges] are themselves to blame for much; 1 occasional discontent when a decis-1 ion plainly defeats the end of jus- j tice under the guise of a law's im- j constitutionality. Courts are made up of human beings, prone to err. I The Supreme t ourt, composed of great jurists, half a century ago held | a law constitutional which forty j years later wasdelared, by a court! divided live to four, unconstitution-j al. Is it necessary to amend the! Constitution where that court, if the j question were brought before it. j might again reverse itself. it i> j really necessary to amend the Con- J stilution to enforce an income tax hiw . It only goes to be proved that the Constitution ought not to be j changed unless that change is im-j peratively necessary to carry into, effect the sober judgement of tin people, which many able lawers and jurists hold is not the case so far as the income tax is conceived. It would be difficult to find any where else in the state as fine a group of buildings as adorn tilt campus of the Lock Haven Normal School. They are on a commanding elevation facing the beautiful West Branch, are surrounded by the pic turesque rolling hills of the Alle gheny system, anil, most important of all, the drainage is perfect. The school is most fortunate in bavin;, plenty of pure mountain water. I School opens September oth. Ad dress the Principal lor a catalog. | Claiming $1,860 damages for lo*s j to grass ami trees, #IOO of which is j for a single cherry tree, Howard j Lyons of Ilughesvllle, has begun j proceedings in trespass against the j Sullivan and Muney Creek Tele phone Company. According to the plaintiff's state ment, the defendant company erect ed poles, strung wires and construct ed a telephone line across his farm in Shrewsbury township without his consent. In the process of construct ing this lino, workmen are alleged to have destroyed grass, herbage and valun'»le trees, 112 r which Mr. Lyons demands r j ineut. Forest Fires Under Control * Raging forest fires in the vicinity of Laporte, Eagles Mere and Hills- 1 ■ grove the past week, ■-«> fierce in its' greed that it hurned over the same territory two or three times, did much damage to timber lands and resulted in heavy looses to lumber men. The fire had burned over a large area and fanned by strong gale was sweeping the mountains when the shower, Tuesday afternoon, inter-! cepted and greatly aided the bund- j reds of hands who were battling with the destructive elements. Should the wind happen to change after the timber had already been burned off, the fire rv pt along the ground and over the territory. This caused consider!.ble trouble to i the fire fighters and the utmost care ; was necessary in staring a hack fire. To aid the fighters, the William sport and North t nuieh railroad company kept a trs in in readiness on its tracks near J/.pcrte and the section hands were instructed to lend all possible aid. Tli ■ train was used to carry water along t ie line- and to keep the fire from jumping from one side of the track to the other. Camping parties at Lake Mokoma joined with the fire fighters Sunday and helped to extingu..-h the fire A large quantity of acid wood in various sections was destroyed. It is also estimated that three hundred cords of bark fell prey to the flames at the lumber camp of C. W. Sones at Eagles Mere. On petition of the citizens of La porte and vicinity tin- State Forrest ry Commission appointed F. 11. ! Ingham to take churge of fighting the fire in this section. At present the flames have been subdued, Gieat forest fires have been raging in eastern Bradford county for three or four days, says the Towanda lie view, and no hopes are entertained for the quenching of the blaze until rain falls. So far 100 acres have I been burned over. Hundred of men ! have been working tbr'iting the lire I risburg is coming to take charge of the work of staying the fiaines. A strong wind Sunday swept the flames with great fury and it was hard work to save a number of buildings in the danger zone. J The post Office Department is pre i paring to issue a new postal card Postmaster General Hitchcock has] j called in the expert chemists of the ; Department of Agriculture and has • instructed to work out a formula j that will give a much better paper ' than can he made under the contract ! now in force. He savs the postal cards issued by j this Government are inferior to the product of almost every other country and that it is contemplated to make! improvements in th< general style ol j ' printing and arrangement of the type j ! and designs. It may be decided t< j change also the color of the ink and j the tint of the paper The Government issues 75,000 pos-1 tal cards a month. Tin*present four | year contract expires l>ee. 81 next, and in the meantime the Postmaster j General is giving per.-onal attention to devising a more substantial and ornate card. The feminine head of the family often wishes that lis-' at that mom ent she could get a hit of informa tion on some domestic matter. Often she would give a gr> at deal to have the receipt for some v lothsonie dish, if she had the pattern she would make for herself or sc me other mem ber of the family a bit of feminine | gear in the newest and prettiest fashion. Wise wmni n keep every !copy of The Phila.!- Iphia I'IIESS j and carefully read the Women's I Page. I The Library of the Lock llaven ! Normal School is well selected, ac curately catalogued in accordance ' with the Dewey decimal system, and i the books are easily accessible. The . Library rooms are said to be hand i somer than those of any other school i library in the state. The remark - able success of the school's debating I team in the inter-Noimal debates is 1 due in a large measure to the Library. 3 Write for this school's handsome j catalog. 1 75C PLH YEAP IiILLSGROVE. Mrs. Lucy Green and gravl- I daughter, Lela Laßarr, of Scran t' , i are tlie guests of Mrs. Ed llofimai . | Mrs. George Snyder and child. n lof Lestershire, Is'. V. are the gin s I ul Harry and Oscar Snyder and li, ilie.s and also Mrs. Ed. Schrader. Mrs, Edna Miller and cldldi u who have been visiting the form, s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Augu tus Ln dy, have returned to their home in Johnstown, J'a. Clyde Hart and sister Mildred 112 j Elkland, spent Sunday with tic r aunt, Mrs. John Darby of this pla •. Mrs. Ellen Vanderbilt of Pictn • Rocks, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Susan Moran. Mr. Robert Dewar of Hasten, spent Sunday with his daught. Mrs. Robert Mervine. Mr. Henry Bachle of Proctor, spent Sunday with Hillsgrt o friend*. I he state aid roads so far built in Bradford county have been of macad am, and macadam roads seem to losing favor since automobiles cai . on the scene. The automobile i< hen - to stay and must be taken into account in all future! building ot country roads. The s ranton Timt s has the following concerning a pr >- posed new road in that county: . 112 the proposed new county road is built of macadam, it will mean a I"* expenditure for which nothing u'il remain in a few years, unless enoi mous sums are spent annually in repairs. All reports the two years from macadam roads, no mat tor how well constructed, show rapid deterioration from the tear of auto mobiles. The wealth of I nitcd Slates is o\ r One-Hundred and Ten Billion Dol lars—more than the entire wealth >f of Great Britian and France coin -. - «d. It is increasing at the rale • 112 about Ten Million Hollars per d,w. Last year it increased til Billion I\ !- lars against an increase in France of One Billion Dollars. The annual in- I >ollars— i of Italy. Eight Billion Dollars of this annu al income is derived from the soil, being the value of our crop-, and it is estimated that the lands now iu process of reclamation by drainage, irrigation, and etc., will eventually double this amount, making the total annual value < 112 crops in this country greater th i our present total income from all sources. The population of the United States doubles every lit) years, i's wealth every i! 0 years. The wealth and prosperity of tin Fnited State are not confined to ; few. Out of about Hi million fami lies, carefully computed statist show that there are one million - > hundred Thousand owners of stocV 1,8iW,000 building and loan stoc I holders 8,588,.511 savings bank de positors 8,G00,00t) homes owned, • which nearly five million are nil incumbered; twenty live million lit insurance policies carried for Four , teen Billion Dollars of insurant representing probably twenty mil lion persons Americans are a home-ownir. home-loving, and home-protecliii nation. Since 1880 life insurance has mi than doubled each I<> year peril * Baby carriages and wheelbarrov are Included in an amended spc< ordinance passed by LosAngt' City council recently, which provi ed that vehicles of every sort sha display red lights at tin 1 rear ei and white lights in front. The c 1 prosecutor immediately pointed < the ridiculous feature, making exception to pushcarts, baby ca etc., but the ordinance was n changed. The 1,. V. V. railroad Jhas ma arrangements whereby passeng. going to New York City may he their choice of entering the metn olis via the ferries or the tunnel rou The Lehigh Valley will op.-r | trains through tiie great McAr ! tunnel, making a direct entrance j to New York City.
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