Republican News Item. I THURSDAY, OCT. I», 1898. " # 112 not abound to any great extent J in Sullivan County, W I So that there 4 is But Little $ £ Scepticism £ about the Value of £ jCbc IflcWS \ ITtcm J $ As a Profitable # J | fliebium. J it,Your neighbor does. J # Subscribe, Don't borrow. J| County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. -Several from this place attended the Forksvillelair last week. Miss Phoelia Colemap isv/sitingj her parents in Denton tliis wtek. Kev. Patton is slowl.v recovering j from a severe illness last week. Woodin buttons were at a high j premium at Forksville fair last week Dr. Voorhees of lnstanter, Pa., i was a welcome visitor in town this week. Miss Conn ley of Cleveland, Ohio, is the guest of Atty. and Mrs. A. J. Hradlev. The reason many a man does not marry is that lie is too mueh en ■ ,:sged. —Frank Ring spent a few < lays j with his parents at llughesville last] week. l)r. Murrelleof Athens, is at the* Mountain House this week, engaged ! . in dental practice. —F. (i. Lauer and wife of Dubois, I visited with Mrs. M. C. hatter and family this week. —Most of the business of this country is done by check, and the' balance by cheek. —Mrs. K. V* Ingham and sister) Miss Carrie Colt are visiting Judge j Ingham and family this week. The date of the Admrx. Sale of the personal property of the late Walter Spencer, is Thursday, < >ct. l:>, lSlts. —Coles Hardware of Dushore has j the contract for placing a steam heat j apparatus in Gallagher's new hotel, j -Hon. John S. Line, District Dep-1 uty of 1. O. O. F. Lodge was in town : on Tuesday, en route for Sonestown j where he installed officers. These Indian uprisings because the white man wants the Indians' lands will have to be stopped, and will be when the Indian has no more land worth taking. —News Item subscribers all wear Woodin buttons, that's right, but if the editor doesn't get a wooden inside he'll starve waiting for some to pay up, and that's no joke. John I*. Kennedy has sold his interest in the laundry at ilughes villo, and will embark in the harbor ing business when a satisfactory loca tion is found. —This country is sending about 0,000,000 bushels of wheat weekly to Europe. Here is a case of casting its bread on the waters that will re- j turn ere many days in streams of gold. —The Forksville fair last week was well attended by the citizens of j this county and from a distance. Owing to the inclement weather on Wednesday the fair was continued until Friday. A professional hobo appeared at one of our hotels in town last Friday evening and handed the clerk a slip of paper upon which was written by a prominent citizen of the Second ward, the following: "This is a good Democrat and worthy of your sup port." lie was given his supper and also loaded up with the popular juice. The fortunate Democrat later began terrorizing the residents with his yelling and was taken in custody by officer John Minnier and lodged in jail for the night. Can this be a sample of the appreciation a "worthy Democrat" has of being liberally supported V —H. W. Osier, candidate for Sher iff", was in town on Wednesday, —Augus Ruschhausen is a broad smile over the addition to his family. Sonestown. Miss Jennie Creasy and children of Newberry are visiting her sister Mrs. 11. I'. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Starr, Chas. Ila/.en, and J.C. Deinlnger attended the county fair. J. W. Ruck's horse died Inst week. Geo. Kdwards will start a butcher shop in the store formerly occupied by Then. Mencer. MissCelia Magargel was the guest of out of town relatives for a few days last week. Miss Pearl Keeler is back from Willianisport. She expects to spend the winter here. \V. 11. Trueip is again superin tending the grinding of buckwheat in the grist mill below town. Mi- Mabel Pennington of Nord nic.it will attend school here this winter while residing with her aunt Mrs. John Converse. The men in the washboard factory enjoyed a vacation Tuesday in order to pick chestnuts. .Misses Maude Starr and Ada Hall are spending the week at Rock Run. liev. Mr. Thomas, former K. V. pastor here, came into town Monday Mrs. Renn, a guest of Mrs. P. F. Magargel returned to her home at Lairdsville on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kdgar called on friends at Xordmont 011 Tuesday. M..1. Phillips and Chas. Starr in spected the school house on Monday with a view to making some im provements in the furniture. Rev. K. I!. Dunn organized a teachers' meeting in the church last Friday night. Rev. J. J. Resli preached a very good sermon to old people at the oc casion of harvest home on Sunday evening. Mr. Irvin, the William sport temperance lecturer was ex pected to speak afterwards. He was given the floor shortly afters o'clock but would not talk saying it was too late. The Literary Society -organized last Friday evening. The following ollieers were elected: I'res., \V. li. Ilazen; Vice-I'res., Ada Hall; Secy., Myrtle Edgar; Treas., J. L. Snyder; Janitor, Walter Lorah; Editor of the "Astonisher" Walter Ila/.en. No debate will he given next Friday evening hut a good program has heen prepared hy the committee. This year the society will meet promptly at 7:-">u p. m. Friday evenings. Let every one come and join. IHt BICYCLIST'S HUMP. 'I Ills Po»itloii hi liliml Ohpdienoe (OH I.HW oft ll«* 1.1111 £4. It lias been generally believed that fast bicycle riders lower ilieir heads and bend their bodies to reduce the wind resistance of the body, bui now conies a French scientist who says that this belief is wrong. Dr. Hiter, well known in the medical world of France, has been experiment ing with cycle riders to discover the reason for the hump-backed scorcher. He finds it in a blind obedience to the law that the lungs seek to draw in air with the greatest ertise. In fast riding the air assumes a new relation to the lungs and the human body adopts a new position in the saddle. This posi tion is, considering the new work, the only rational one. Dr. Eifer says a profound savant has declared that "a horse runs with his legs and gallops with his lungs." This propostion«is equally true for runners and cyclists. An inexperienced runner stops not by reason of fatigue but be j cause of being "winded." if breathing S is less rapid 011 the wheel it constitutes ; none i lie less an obstacle. The suc cessful cycle crack must learn to breathe slowly and deeply to oxygenize his blood, and must avoid being sur prised Into quick, jerky breaths, which prevent i lie play of the lungs. This is the primary cause of a "stitch in the side." In the middle-distance race with Starbuck at Manhattan lleach last summer Fred Titus before he reached the lenth mile suddenly clapped his hand to liis side and had to leave the track. Thoughtless persons hissed him. According to Dr. Eifer the fault was not in Titus's spirit, but in his way of j breathing. He dashed off from the | start, and wise people knew that j "Star's" time would come. Titus could be seen "swallowing" the air. No man who does that can get his second wind, j and no man can win a long, well con- Dr. Eifer says he has lived among the j Indians and has never seen one finish ! breathless. The Indian may finish 1 tired, but it will be his muscles, not his lungs, that give out. Dr. Eifer shows that the principal obstacle to respiration is speed, which is greater with the cyclist than with the runner. So. not only is nasal breath ing recommended, but the inclination of the head is best adapted to satis factory breathing. Nose breathing is from the bottom to the top. while mouth breathing is the contrary. So j the roof of the nose acts as a wind break. When the cyclist, as speed In- iowers nis neaa, tne neaa forms a shield against which thp shafts of air beat harmlessly. As speed gels jt:fitter the cyclist lowers his head still move, until at his maximum of effort his nose N jilmost parallel with tlie course. The tendency to Jower the head to influence breath ing is unconsciously shown by any pe destrian who faces a stiff wind. Item* ol" There are 10.000 camels tit work in Australia. The whistling buoy can be heard about fifteen milPs. German school boys study harder and play less than those of any other country. Pious Russians do not eat pigeons because of the sanctity conferred on the dove in the Scriptures. A perfectly formed face is one-third forehead, one-third nose, and one-third upper and lower chili. The entire collection of coins and medals in the Hrltish Museum consists of nearly 250,000 specimens. Ostrich taming is a very profitable industry in Africa; here it is computed !here are over 150,000 tame birds. Xev Zealand has twenty-two estab lishments for freezing meats for lCtt- I'opean markets. They can handle •I .000,000 sheep a year. The title of "Majesty" was first giv en to Lewis XI of Fra.ice, Before that time sovereigns were usually styled "highness." EMPLOYS OVSR ONE MILLION PER SONS IN THE UNITED STATES. Tlie Vurlou. !'«©. lo Wlileli lllnctrlclly In Applied -Telegraph nml Telephone <.lve Work lo Hunilretl. of ThomuiiiU—From » ItnllroHil Cur to it l'';m Nou linn llv It More than 1.000,000 persons in the United .States, it is now computed, get their livelihood through employments dependent upon or connected with the use of electricity, and compared with the United States the number of per sons so employed in other countries is practically insignilicant. The rapid increase of ihe electric business of this country is shown by the fact thr■' at the time of taking the last nr.i'ional census, that 1890, no serious effort was made to give figures showing ihe ex tent of the use of electricity. There are in the United States near ly a million miles of telegraph wire, and there a e ?2,000 telegraph offices, exclusive of those maintained by the railroad companies for the conduct and regulation of their trains. Taking into account telegraph operators, telegraph company employees, and those in tbe telegraph service of the railroad", there are 1.'0.000 persons connected with the transmission of telegraphic messages : in the United States. There are now ; *>oo.ooo miles of telephone wire in the | United States, more than 1,000 ex : changes, anil an equal number of tele phone branch offices, exclusive, of 1 course, of pay stations. The number of employees of the telephone com panies of the I'nited States is 25,006, exclusive of those engaged in construc tion and repair work for i lie compan : ies. The gradual substitution of the elec tric current for horse power on surface railroads has added largely to the num ; ber of employees of electric railroads. I There are now in the I'nited States 14,000 miles of electric or trolley roads, I and these roads give employment, it is computed, to loo.otin persons as motor : men. conductors, clerks, inspectors, and electricians. Then there is the | item of electric lighting which is one I of the most important branches of the development of electric service, but i likewise one the figures of which i.re ! most fragmentary. Nearly every im portant city of the I'nited States, and ' many unimportant* cities, too. are light ed by electricity, as well as private : houses, stores,lyiblic buildings, tunnels, bridges, caves, mines and .parks, ami the use of the electric current in man ufacturing is constantly on the in crease. .Machines arc run by electriei l ty, many manufacturing operations are performed by it, elevators are run by electricity, fans for cooking purposes \ are run by electricity and as these uses are extended the number of persons employed is steadily being increased. There are still to be added to the figures of another branch of the busi ness, one of the most import,.'tiie manufacture of electric appliances, which,.it is computed, gives employ ment to more than ITIO.OOO persons. Taking all the figures togKhcr, it is 'probably not far from the truth to say that there are 1,000,000 persons the I'nited States dependent upon electric ity for a livelihood. MeMHiiriiiy; nil lOurt IMIUHICI'. Some interesting computations and investigations have been made on the earthquake which disturbed Calcutta a year ago. This earthquake wv.s regis , tered at nineteen 6b.-ervatorics in Ivi rope (the most distant of which w is Edinburg. 7,970 kilometres from tue i epicenter. The seismographs and mag netograpbs made records of the distur bance. and the a vet age of the . "vilrs obtained indicates that tiie iv • face velocity of the lirs; vile, ii.,;s was either nine or eleven kiloftie : s per second, according to ihe time ui ken for Calcutta. These first vibra tions, which lasted for twenty-three minutes, were followed by large, long periodic oscillations whose velo '.\.y was either 2.61 or 2.7t; kilome.ns , r second. Crossing Italy tiie com pie.e wave must have been 54 kilometre* in j length, and the height of its crest I about half a metre. Public Notice. Not having received value for JI note, dated Sept. 7, ls'is, given to, David Marks of Mimoy Valley, I>> Win. ('hnmberlin of Kugles More, all parties are notified not to buy or ( speeulate on same as it w ill not lie paid. WM. CiiA.Mnnßi.lN. Ilcnuty IN Illood C'lciin blood means a clean skin. No , l>eauty without it. Caseai'ets, Cundy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, loo oo j Premium on t'nitcd States Bonds... 1.000 (Hi Stock Securities 1 ">.JOO mi Furniture 1.200 00 I Hie from Banks Approved reserve Av t 7:i,7tt!o'.i | Hedemption Fund I , >. Treasurer .">iyr>o Specie and Legal Tender Notes 10.1.V2U1 | ? ukt.l.V.; LUBIUTIKS. Capiuil # ."*I.OOO 00 ! ; Surplus 10,000 00 1 Ulldiviileil l>n,tits 2 (!"- 0i» Hue National hanks ,I*9M I Circulation I 1 ,-'"io (Hi, Hividens Cnpaiil <;«'• 0" j Deposits 1(1:2,7 S 2117,15(1 .'7 I State of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan ss: I, SI. I>. Swarts Cashier of tile above named j liank. do solemnly swear tlmt the above state ment is true to the best of my knowledge and be , M. D. SWARTS, Cashier, j Sultscribed nnd sworn to before niethis I'IUII I «li»v of Sept 1898. JOHN II.CKONIX. Notary I'uMic. j i Comet—A tteM: ALPIiONSI'S WALSH. » .ISO. 1). KEKSEIt. -Directors I W. .1. LAWRKNCK. I flon't Tobacco Sjiit mid Sitiukc Your Lile Ann;. To quit tobacco easily and forever be man : netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, tuUe No in line, the wonder worker, that makes weak men j strong. All druggists, Coe or fl. Cure guaiiiu ! teed llooklet and sample f""c. Address i Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago, York i The committee of Lackawanna I'tes ' byterv appointed 10 superintend the s ile j of the Laporte Presbyterian church piop 1 erlv luts becii authorized by tbe emigre j }»ationitl liiectili" liehl Sept. 111. to extend ' the time tor the reception ot written hi \» ' toilet. 1 .*>. 1 K'.ift. These bids may be i left with Miss llattie ('nu ker. I.apotte. Several bids have already been ptc.-c •> I mid time is asked for presenting olhevs. I'lie ('oiiL r re<:atioii reserves the rinht i" accept or reject any or all bids. A fur the 1.1 of October tbe sitccesslul bidder will be informed hv the Committee which bid they decide to accept. REV. I'. 11. BROOKS. On behalf of the Committee. Kilmnle Vour liiiwel) With Casearets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c. °.V |fc.C. C. fall, druggists refund money. For shoes and rubbers ;ro to J. AV.Huek i To Cure Constipation forever. Take Casearets Catid v Cathartic. 10c or 25c. ! If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money For batter crocks goto .1. \V. Buck's. | No-To-Uar for I'l.'.y Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak , men strong, blood pure. 60c, (1. All druggists. ' (in to .1. W. Ituek, Sonestown, for' | dry floods, hoots, >lioes, caps, under-! ware etc. Excellent wheat flour from sl.lO j sto #l.2"> at A. T. Ariustoug, Soncs-1 i town, I'a. Sc To-Mac for Hfty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit curi iiiakes weak men strong, blood pure. 60c, 11. All druggists. For good ipiality of unUerware at rea ! sonable prices goto J. W. Buck's store. 1 Williamsport & North Branch R.R TIME TABLE. In BfTect Tuesday Sept. 13, 1808. Northward. Southward i pm. a. m. a.m. p m I f> 2f. 10'23 Halls W45 440 fr»3o|flo2S l'ennsdale »41 UllT. j 540 10 10 liiighesville 0.12 4'.':! ■"> 48 1(1 48 Picture Hocks !) 4 1", ;fi 51 fIOW Lyons Mills f'.i'-M (I OS 112 i, r »l fio.Vt cliamounl 9'JO Mini fiiOJ 11 04 .(lien Mawr "fi 11 :: v.i fH 112 fll 14 Straw-bridge ft)o,s f:M7 (i l(i fll 17 Beech Glen 1901 f:MJ (i 'jo 11 21 Muncy Valley #» :i 40 628 11 :so Sonestown 552 :l :i2 0 45 11 4>J Nordmont 8118 3 15 7 01 12 08 LaPorte 821 257 701 12 11 LaPorte Tannery 8111 254 f7 20 fl2 30 Kingdalc ." fxos f'2:tl 7 35 12 45 Sattertleld 7 55 2 20 pm. p. ill. a ni. pm. All trains daily except Sunday; " 112" Hag : stations. Connections with the Philadelphia & Reading at llalls, for all points north ami south, and the | Fall llrook and Beech Creek railroads. At ] Sattertleld for all points on the Lehigh Valley railroad. At Sonestown with the Eagles More railroad. R. K. EAVENSON, (ion, Manager. IlughosvilleP a CIDER MILL IN OPERATION John M. Converse will be i prepared on and after Wed nesday, Sept. 14, to fill or ders on Wednesday, Thurs day and Fridays of each j week until Nov. 11, 898, at I his mill in Sonestown, Pa. Boarders. John, V. Finkle has opened his large and comfortable house for the accomoda j lion of court boaiders. and also tor regu lar hoarders by the day or week, at rea ; sonable rates. I Corner of Maple ami Muncy St»„Laporte. Administratrix Notice, Kstutc of Walter Spencer, late of Lnimrlo BOM. Sullivan county, deceased. Lcttersol' administration upon thealmve named j estate having been granted to the undersigned, alt persons having claims against the same w ill present them for payment, duly authenticated: and those indebted thereto, will please make I Immediate payment to KM MA SPKN( 'Kit. Admix. 1 A. .I.IIKAin.KV. Ally. Uiporte.Pa. L R. oumble, Dealer in and rianufacturer of P . rm CARRIAGES \ND WAGONS. 1 AND Your Patronage Lumber '* on die basis of low prices. l>on"t lei ibis laot eueapa ! Wio-onc V '° AR «' F-'eitiug rid of our large stock of hand made IVHI-OHS. Wagons, We also deal in Inclorv made platfrom Bprina watrons. Blacksmithing and Repairing. West Main Street LAFOI-. TIE. Look out A. E. Campbell's 1% New Advertisement in This Space Next Week. I He will have something important to say. I New York Weekly Tribune. BOTH One Year for $1.25. Send all orders to the News Item, Laporte. I'llF. X. V. TRIIU'XK ALMANAC. :U0 pngee. A National Hook of refer ence for Governmental and political information. Contains the Constitution "112 ihe ! United States, ths Uinglcy Taritl Hill, with a comparison of old and new rales. ] President McKinlev's Cabinet and appointees, anibassaeors. consuls, etc. The standard American almanac. I'rice, cents. Address. Ihe New- Item. Do you Appreciate Values? Il'fso. I can readily «lo' t biisiiu 4 ss with you. Call, and 1 can lill your order to your entire satisfaction. I My Spring and Summer Line is Complete. i ('asintere Suits. 84.."i1l to SN.OO. Wdrslcd Suit>. "ill to 20.00 Sorgo Suits, 5.00 to 10.00. Clay Suits. 4.(M» to ls.oo. I Also an ittiiaotivi' lino of Gents Furnishing Goods. ■ Hats, caps, light wool and gauze undorwaro, uuilirollas, trunks, traveling liagsand valioos. Call and see tlie largest, line of clothing in tlits part of the country. J- W f,°o^ CarroU I' LAPORTE Clothing Store. We ordered carload quantities of Fall and Winter ooods for the opening of our new building. Oct. ist. The goods arrived as everybody knows and the now build ing is stocked and overstocked with goods. Fairly overflowing with new fall and winter stylos- tables and counters actually groaning under the heavy loads of Fashion's fancies. j Relief can only come in one way: ' CLEAR OUT THE GOODS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE by selling at a close margin. . | | .* While other stores are trying to get lid of old stock of many years, wo arc now disposing of now goods at positively LOW Kit I'RICKS. i' i! JOE COOPER, The Clothier.