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HEAD OF ISTHMIAN COMMISSION
RESIGNS POSITION.
Goes fo Take More Lucrative Job as
Chief of Gotham’s Traction Sys
tem —Stevens in Full
Control of Work.
Washington Theodore P. Shonta,
chairman of the Isthmian canal com
! mission. has resigned. to take effect
off March 4, and his resignation has
been accepted by President Roosevell
Mr Shonts leaves the government em
ploy to go iuto that of the Ryan Bel
ah combination io the management
the Interborough Street railway
100 he in New York
He will have no successor In the
government The entire of
the building of the Panama cana! will
be concentrated In the hands of John
F. Stevens, the present chief engin-
eer. He will be made chairman of
the commission as long as that body
lasts. but the commission itself Is W
he abolished If congress follows the
view nf the seuate committee, wh
ts soon to make a report on the
ect. with the complete approval
ihe president
control
of |
responsible head of
sent of the canal,
Stevens will have
the technical detalls
Mr. Shonts leaves his place without
any trace of ill feeling on either side
Om the contrary, by a pecullar com-
hinatien of circumstances Chairman
shonts wanted to go, President Roose
it was willing he should go, and!
the biz company lo New York desired |
Mr. Shonts’ services, and was willing
to pay fcr them
Pan] Morton, president of the Equit-
tle Assurance society,
the civil govern
and Chief Engineer
entire control of
came over
3
THEODORE P. SHONTS.
{He Has Resigned Chairmanship of
+4444 440400444 the Panama Canal Commission.)
The Rev. H W. Crydenwise is in
New York city today
Miss Mabe!
home from
Wodburn
Ithaca tomorrow
THE NATIONAL BANK
OF SAYRE.
$50,000.00
is
Miss Lena Whitley of Binghamton,
is the guest of Mrs. Frank Shaw
CAPITAL
Holy City wil
The
Miss Adelaide Hemstreel
ard and Sebring's office
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of How-
is seriously
A daughter WAS Sors on
last to Mr. and Mrs
Clark street
Thursday
Johu Scaniin of
Mrs. George Griswold of Owego Is
“he department of savings
js a special feature of this
Dank, and sil deposits, wheth-
or large or small, draw the
seme rate of interest
Jisiting her son,
in this place
Mrs. F. I. Glazier of Medford, Mass
| is visting her parents Mr and Mrs
William Cardwell Clinton
ue
M. H. SAWTELLE,
on aven-
A .R Bunun is visiting his daugh-
ter in Philadeiphia During his ab-
sence his shoe store is being run by
W. A. Page
The Ladies’ Aid of the Baptist
church served a supper in the church
pariors last evening, and cleared the
sun of $2000
J. H. MURRELLE, Proprietor.
W. T. CAREY, Editor.
Published every afternoon except
Sunday at 203 West Lockhart Street,
Pa.
~ Bubscription, $3.00 per 26¢
per mouth.
Advertising rates reasonable, and
made known oo application.
ture departments
ain bargains worth
or
year,
The Rev. C. M. Surdam, the recently
appointed presiding elder of the Owego
district of the Wymoling conference
of the M. E church will reside in
Waverly at 471 Park avenue
. Entered as second-class matter May
30, 1905, at the postoffice at Sayre.
; under the Act of Cougress of
‘March 3, 1879,
Miss Soverhitl, who has been teach- |
the commercial
High School for the past
resigned, and will
to her home at Newark, N. J
SATURDAY, APRIL 13,
WAVERLY
FRANK E WOOD, Representative.
News and advertising matter may be
left at Gregz's Racket Store, corner
Broad Street and Park Avenue
Shiite 13 aClock noon call the main
So Sayre. Both phones.
Curtis Morgan went to Binghamton
1807
mn
the
pOArs
four
has return |
A new ection wick blue
van a working
moment of lighting
¢r's Department
With
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wirated at
pCO
mets i
This Is the Place,
get your r cut, 16; sha
ihe; mpoo, 15 hair singed. :
% hiskers mmed§ 10c; sea fogfi, bc;
Mosassage, 15% mus d, 20ec;
halr dyed, $1.00 swite lies,
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Waverly—Sheriff Griffin of Bradford hieh
Pa. aud Chtef of Police Walsh th
of Savre, were in Waverly
ing looking for Andrew
stole his brother's horse at North To-
wanda, and sold it to a man at Milan
for $75. The brother was weak mind.
ed, and not resposible for his acts, and
it was sought to find him in order that
the might He
was in Waverly yesterday, but had left
This morn- |
e to make a formal
the head of the New
gvstem, we
has become so anulleg
Lecame
man who wonld command
of the President
padevelt was sounded find ont
hether he would feel that Mr. Shon!
“ad deserted n th
wee of the enemy If be Ne
York to take
the
siarfirtse of thie
Stole Horse and Sold IL.
ably ba
county it
thik
nliarnce
it LECEESArY fo
last even-
Brady,
who people
10
the government
vont to
a larger salary To
Mr
replied
considered
had nearly outlived its usefuly
{ that Mr sShonts’ services
I% necessary After the
the winter season bere
The chairman of the Isthmian canal
wommission has retained his place all
along as president of the Clover Leaf
railroad He sted that the
of $20,000 a year allowed by the
ernment was pot suficlent fo
and he held on to his railroad position
with the distinct understanding that
it would not be permitted to interfer:
with his labor for the canal
This decision consid
dissatisfaction In certain government
circles as all cabinet officers and oth
{er servantz of the government usually
have cut from private
Shouts” frivnd
money be recovered noes! ont
withou
the
that he con fu
officers arived
located in Jersey City
when the
ing he was would
conclusion of
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Things Soldiers Don't Use.
A writer In the Philadelphia Rulle
tin Informs an amazed public that
soldlers never use umbrellas during
wars Another pecullarity of the war
rior is that he never uses a lorgnette,
a bottle of smelling salts or a fan In
a bayonet charge —Loulsville Courier.
Journal
ina
FOV
him
Boy Saves a Morse.
A little fellow of four years went
to a blacksmith to see his father's
created rable
shoeing. The black
smith began to pare the horse's hoof, |
and, thinking this wrong, the little |, .. iments or
boy sald: “My pa don’t want Bis, geqve commercial life
horse made any smaller | Like Mr. Wallace, the
= | gineer, who was so severely score 4
{ by Secretary Taft for leaviog the gov
ernment service to accept a high
salary outside, Mr Shouts will
money by leaving Washington
understood his salary will he not loss
ithan $50000 a year and it may
| considerably more. Actual service on
{the traction lines of Néw York and
| Brooklyn surface, elevated. aud sub
Good In Eight-Hour Day. way. has been of the
Among the cigar makers 51 per description and the owners al
cent. dled of tuberculosis prior to the | have realized that they could escape
inauguration of the eight-hour work: {unfriendly logislation only by
day. Seventeen years after the eight | in charge 8 man of re
hour day took effect this percentage |tive ability They sought Chatrman
; had been reduced to 23 per cent Shonts because he had been appointed
iby President Roogevelt 1d they !?
Heved the people would accept Lb
! choice as a guarantee of an honest In
{ tention to better the service
loose
Advance In Price of Platinum.
Most of the world’s supply of plat
pum comes from the southern part
of the Ural mountains In Russia. Ac
cording to the report of the Russian |
ministry of finance, the Increased de
mand for the metal of late years has
rafsed its price to nearly $500 a pound.
in
most
"
Money In Frog Skins.
Quite a lucrative business, it seems. |
is done in Japan in the exportation of |
frog skins for purses. The works |
controlled by a Tokio merchant have
exported as many as 130,000 skins in |
less than 8 year.
{ Fisherman at 87,
On January 16 Capt. Theophiing W
|B rackett, of Swalupscitt's oldest
{citizens and its oldest fisherman, wil
New York City “Kills.” | ve 87 years of age, says the Hoston
Ia old Dutch times all of the rivers | { Globe
about New York city were known as | Capt
“kills,” meaning channel or bed of a {ing business just as he did when
river. but sow all save one have lost | younger. [t matters not to him what
thelr original name, and that one is | the weather 18. Hot or cold, he can x
Kill vou Kull | seen every morning pushing off from
the beach in his dory, to pull his
trawls. He always goes
one
Brackett carries on his fish
No Liquor in the Kitchen,
Advertisement in the
Chronicle: “Scullery mald;
£16, annual rise; gold watch end of | ‘else.
| five years; teetotaler preferred. Ad- |
One-Sided,
“No,
tle's the fellow who Induced me
buy that mining stock.”
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‘Wye. 8 LEMMON.
The man's eyes were open. but he
could not see The room was dark
It was nighttime and he had been
dreaming.
The Ghost stood close beside his
bed and gazed at him steadily.
“Well, | am here” sald the Ghost,
The manu aroused himsell Prop
ping his bead on one hand he gazed
hard through the blackness He could
see nothing so he laughed
And. who are you? It is custom
ary for strangers to have introduc
tions before they converse” And he
laughed again
“You have seen me before” sald
the Ghost “You need pot pretend
ihat we are strangers”
“Hut 1 do not know you” said the
man We must obsarve the conven
tonalities, whatever we do” and he
auehed agaln, rather ldictically as he
sfterwards admitted to himself
‘When you are as old and as tired
as 1 am you will not worry aboul com
ventionalitles” sald the Ghost
“1 want to know how long You are
golag to keep me tolling Don’t you
think | have earned my release? Don’t
served my time?
The man sat upright in bed. He
was wideawake now and the puplls
of his eves were dilated. A feeling of
horror and terror—almost of panlc—
was sfealilng over hm
“What do you mean
“Who are vou’
sou’
“You know, you must know who |
am sald the Ghost “You cannot
pretend that vou have never seen or
heard of me before’
But 1 do not pretend.”
** he gasped
From whence came
said the
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“Tell me, for God's sake,
you and whence you came”
“Very well. Listen, then, poor fool
Out of the ndthermont
the
me again
forever
I might have known
I might
all hope, all
maudlin, wan
all
But you,
joy
you,
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drunken with your excesses, have oon
demned me to eternal darkness, eter
nal oblivion”
The man's breathing could now be
heard across the room
But who, who are you?" he almost
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“Very well, Since you cannot hear |
or see, or understand, 1 will tell you
1 am the Spirit of your Youth. 1 am |
the Ghost of Your Ideals And | de
have been falth
foving. | have
an instant. But
Why then
ful, loyal,
never deserted you for
ahandoned
keep me In captivity? Let me go
thee! Release me! 1 have
ge rved my time, | have a right to free-
ave, even
you have me
The Ghost's volee broke. The
upright in bed
What do you mean”
You speak In riddles
Man
he gasped
1 do not under
Ah
Naw
have released we!
| am free. Farewell”
The Ghost's voice sounded faint and
distant. The man's panic returned
Lim sevenfold Increased
You are leaving™' he cried
Yes, | am going, never to return
Your confession that you no longer
understand any reference to the spirit
of your youth, the ghost of your ideals
me from all responsibility
Go your way, | shall go mine”
But stay' Please stay' [| did not
understand. Now 1 know. Come back,
come back!”
The man
stretched out
“1 cannot
come back!
1 cannot lve
now vou
fa
absolves
rose from his bed aud}
his arms lmploringly
vou go. Please,
ear Ghost
without you"
let
come back
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See our new line
of China.
When cleaning
house be sure to
remember that we
sell house-cleaning
supplies.
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GREGG'S
3S RACKET STORE
Cos. Broad St. and Park Ave., Waverly
Maes, 5 a8 ROE
Everythingin Furnitu
The moving a
housecleaning S¢
son is here,---
very time of ye
when housekeepe
needs are most
parent. The lal
est and most comprehensive line
Furniture in this valley offers unpar
leled opportunities for satisfying
most exacting demands. You arc cal
dially invited to visit our mammo
showrooms and see
for yourself the
beauty and magni-
tude of our lines.
Uniform low prices
rule here.
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~ Rogers & 5s & Miller,
Both Phones.
227, 229, 231 ‘Main St. Athens.
nothing except the
to hie daliy vision. And he threw him
self sobbing, face downward upon the
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Anti-Foot * Binding Society.
“Direction of the antifoot-binding
to the Shanghal ladies’ commit
to Chinese
tablished many antl-foot-binding
cleties throughout this great empire”
writes a Shanghal contributor to a
Great was the sur
detight at
of the
over
sO
yet greater the
the Jecent annual meeting
when it was
v Chinese committee had been formed
it #lso an executive committee with
o Chines
for forelgu
for Chinese
ne correspondence
we and that several of |
he gentlemen would attend the meet-
A Story from Germany.
to drink alcoholic Leverages
tient replied: “But, doctor, you your
self drink alcohol’ Yes, my good
friend. but not as a doctor,” replied
the man of medicine. “when 1 drink |
¢o so only as an ordinary man.”
The pa
WANTED.
Woman wants work by
aated—A small farm within Bille
MERELY «
FOR BALE,
{like to r tool chest and
[tools to sell oi
I< 2 : ioe >
eet ar RsaeeTNirs LM. Morton. #1}
as i; madge block. 269-6* | lo—On ¢asy torg a)
i . BE —]
‘lot 618 Clarkes
| A. goad gin ffizer or at premises.
Por Sale—A No. 1 rubber-ti
abobl [REON 0 c
Bargain for AQ
quire gf 0
; . Sayre.
For Sale ~Fine driving
gaurd. kind and fear!
objects: Also, TOY
gy, surrey, pori
nesses,
to qui
‘orblp, Athens, Pa.
housekeeping.
Peli] BL
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{women 3 r
leu all, Mrs
E Maynard, M.
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Child's &
|: At Waverly, N. Y., buliding Jolye
{ Four r uire of Ike | veniep ne. large €nou he
{Samuels, Lo ler.-272 | double house or
| particulps Pply at
Waverly, N. Y.
Two brick houses One on Maple
n Wi :
Sale—A fine residence
owanda, splendid Joes
minutesNgalk from Court
minutes {rogg p ;
A very de
walnut, with al
Splendid barn
with poultry hou
six hund
sists of six
ting one acgs
Vill be d very cheap
once oO ill trade for
ty. erms to sult pur
dp or call ¥, C. Bull
ue. 7 rooms and
| possession n
VanSog
Inquire of G. L.
Valley phone
M4
flected TONG,
Owner lea
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reat—A good how