Republican News Item. VOL. X. NO. 21. ) This Is the Place < C To Buy Your Jewelry \ C Nothing ill Town to Compare Willi the Quality that We are Giving J X You for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ draws into our store the best patronage r I of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 N with a full line of tjoods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment commensurate with its « \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes 1 / our store a sale place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and \ teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. RETTENBURY, > er a.;>j> >icommissioner to take testimony., Alvoretta Kshinka. v.s llvsses Kshinka divore,e decreed. Ella J. Wheeler vs Lewis Wheel er, subpoena. in divorce awarded. (Jeorge E. prowi. and.l. (J. Cott! vs 11. W. 0.-le.f Plaintiffs having j rested the case, Ihe defendant inov-1 ed l'or a. compulsory non suit to he! entered by the court. Coin'th. vs ('has. Watts, verdict guilty, sentenced to pay a line of S'J") to the overseer of Davidson Twp. and pay to EfTie Deckard the mother of the child, the sum ot ■?•'{() and 81 per month until the child arrives at the age of seven years. Isaac Drum iieorge Corson, verdict lor the delcndant- Lee A. Fritz, (Jeorge Hopper and Claude Fritz discharged as an in solvent debtor. The Commissioner of Internal Rev enue has re ed a decision that the manufactui« .of patent medicine which contains a large percen tage of alcohol must take out licenses as ractiliei and liq tders, and that ' . handlin the stuff must liquor license. It is-.tat' many of the med ic,tl co- mtain 2't per cent, ofalcohoi, rliat quite a number [•ontain as much as4s percent. The balance of the liquid i-> water, with just enough of drugs to disguise the taste, and such a preparation is much more intoxicating tlnn beer. A lot >f it i- said to be sold in prohibition •om mu id ties. The nani".s of the proprietary compounds coming under the ban are not made public, but ■some of them are those widely adver tised. .Judge Scott in his remarks to the t J rand Jury at Easton laid great stress upon the necessity of the en forcement of the law to destroy Ca nada thistles, which grow extensive ly iu Northampton County. II" said he had received numerous com plaints from different sections of the county and then quoted the law of isttt), showing that it was a direct violation of the law to allow the growth of this obnoxious weed. The Judge further quoted the penal ty and tine, remedy for persons ag grieved, duties ot constables and su pervisors, and Mated that supervis ors are to destroy all such growing on the public roads and notify own ers of unseated land. While unloudiui; a car coal :tt his i coal dock in Catawissa, Marvin Grimes of that town, underwent a most unpleasant experience as the result of a very peculiar accident, which fortunately had no serious consequences. The hopper in the bottom of the car had been opened to allow the coal to run out. Grimes was stand ing on top of the coal in the car and approached too close to the spot uu di r which was the open hopper. Be fore discovering his predicament he was sucked down with the coal into the hopper, and when Ids body stopped the outflow of coal the hop per closed on him and held him fast with his legs resting on the track and hisheadon the inside of the car. in this position, surrounded by coal, he remained for over an hour until dis covered by some linemen who dug him out and released him from hi s j. situation. He was at lii>t to weak ito stand, but later fully recovered ! from the experience. | A fanner living not far from Du -1 shore recently went to the pastor of : his congregation and asked that his • name be taken oil the church list. ••What is the trouble, Brother j Jones?" asked the surprised pastor. "1 supposed you was a faithful follower of the Lamb." Well, I sorter believed that myself, but there is no use talking, a man can't ' serve the Lord when he has to nulk ' four cows in fly time. After the ' first heavy frost I'll try this church ' busine-: just IKIA 1 either ' hitue to sell the cows, gille Up the church, or lie a durue I hypocrit. The Hebrew New Voir will begin ;it sunset Friday, tin- i'.uh. inst., ami will be celebrated the whole day Sat urday following. From the four cor ners of the earth during this time the prayers of the Hebrews will ascend, to the Throne of Mercy, thanking the <;iverof All for the blessings of life, health, peace and prosperity enjoyed during the past year and imploring a continuance of the same blessings during the year to come. The New Year, called "Kosli llashonon", is celebrated according to the Bible on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, and the lli.irtws are com manded to congregate in a holy con versation. Yom-Kippur, the Day of Atone ment, occurs on the tenth day of Tishiri, and will be celebrated by the 1 lebrews on the !Uh. of October. As in the case of all llebicw holidays, Yom-Kippur begins with sunset on Sunday evening, October the eighth, us according to the Scriptures the day begins with the evening. Yon Kippur with the Hebrew is the ho liest of all holidays, and is kept as a Sabbath of the Sabbaths, a day of -trict abstinence from all work and earthly pleasures, a day of repentance n)' public and strict lonfession, a day of forgiveness and good resolution for the tuKire. The strict followers of the I'.iiVle deny that their physical body all food for twenty.four hours. A part of the ' in Kippur morning service is ihe "memorial service", w here for departed ones, special prayvrs are said * ud their names mentioned. An exchange saj . A* ride over the Wyoming Valley at the present time would convince you that the next l>ig coal strike will develop conditions bordering on civil war. All tin 1 col li res arc surrounded by stockades of heavy planks, about a dozen feet high. In almost every instance these stockades are so built as to include high ground, from which ob'crva tions can be made of the surrounding country. In fact the stockades look like the inelosures we see in old prints, where our fore fathers defend ed themselves against the Indians, and it is plain even to the person not a soldier that theeolliries have been putin good conditon for defense. Non union men can be taken inside the stockadi, live there in barracks, and operate the mines, regardless of an army of strikers outside. The new trespass law affords the coal companies ample protection, and any assault on the stockades will lead to a battle. If another general strike is declared next April, we look for trouble in the Wyoming Valley. The board of health of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., has passed an ordinance, vviiich went into effect on Saturday I • -it, forbidding roosters to crow, dogs to bark, bells to toll, and engines to tool their whistles between 10 o'clock at night and C> o'clock in the morn ing. Fines ranging from five to fifty dollars arc the penalties for in fractions of the ordinance. The housewives are busy instructing the ha. . aid folk ill the new ordinance. The Lehigh coal company lias given notice to Ino families at Cen tralia, Columbia county, that they intend to mine coal in the Primrose workings of ihe Centralia colliery, which are directly under the houses and near the surface. The coal com pany officials fear that the houses may be swallowed up by the earth, hut the families notified refuse to move for the reason that they don't j know where to go. If the company continues working the veins a dis- I aster may happen any day. | Thousands of dollars have been lost by peach growers in Snyder 'county- within the week, yet the crop was the finest ever marketed. A host of unknown commission buyers were attracted to the dis trict and train loads of peaches w ere shipped by t he obliging agents. When a remittance for the peaches •\as received, instead of getting the coveted dollar or a dollar and a half pi-r basket, as expected, their pay it is said averaged only I s cents. 75C PER YEAR The September 1 >ii 111'ti11 of tln* State Agricultural Department con tains tlic follow ing practical hints for the farmer: Apple, pear and quince trees yet have fruit from which the codling moth is escaping and hands ot cloth -hould he kept around tl.em in order to trap and destroy these pests. The apple maggot or railroad maggot is a fly larva which hores winding tunnels through the pulp of the fruit. The best possible treat ment is to destroy the infected fruit as soon as possible l>v feeding to stock before the fly larva hayo lime to escape to the ground. Asparagus should he sprayed with Bordeaux mixture during this mouth or cut and burned. Uean vines and pea vines should be turned by throwing them into a brush tire as soon as their crops are picked. This will destroy both the plant diseases and insects which they carry, and if done early enough is a good means of destroying the very troublesome pea louse and prevent ing its occurance next year. Berry plants of all kinds are best preserved by cutting and burning the old canes now, if this has not been done sooner. The vines of blackberries, raspberries and dew berries bev 'iut one crop on each cane or vinv 1 should consequently be burned no\y will not only destroy the pea hey may contain but will also give oppurtnnity for development of the new canes. It is not to late to mow and burn the old leaves of strawberry plants, but this -hould be no longer delayed. Black berries with rust should be taken out and burned root and branch. Cabbage and cauliflower may bo attacked by black rot, and as there is no remedy for tbis desease the infect ed plants should be pulled and burned or used as soon as the first evidences of it appear. It does not injure the plants for food for either mankind or live stock, but every article of plants with hi.-. • rot should be destroyed by tire in let to destroy the cause of the disea- . The corn crop in the southern counties of the state is meeting lin early expressed expectations that it will break the record and the farmers are cutting what they call "a bump ier crop." The yeild for some acres is the largest known by farm ' >nd all over the counties mention) d ihere are bi<; fields being harvested. Near ly all the corn is cut and escape)l injury by frost. Some fanners are already talking of putting out big crops next year because there are indications that this will be a good one to sell. The potato crop will not be as large as last year, when one of the best paying crops known I was gathered. The apple crop is small, much fruit having fallen when very small, and little cider will be made. The pear crop is very good. The Carnegie Steel company at Pittsburg will 011 Siitunlay have the largest semi -monthly pay-roll in the history of the Pittsburg district, when $2,000,00(1 will lie paid its work men. This will be a three weeks' pay, which occurs once each ipiarter. The usual two weeks' pay amounts to $1,000,000, but this time double and sometimes triple time has been made by the workmen. Now that the school term is opened for the current year, be sure, that when one of your youngsters conn s home complaining, that you know both sides of the case. Your good boy (pretending I'ereie) or girl at home, may be just the reverse away from home. When he or she hap pens to be the "boss" at home it is quite likely that the same tactics will not work in school and there i» apt to be friction. Ueniember that teach ers are human and they make mis takes as well a* anyone. .. >ove all . if the teacher is doing his IK st, though it may not be up to the standard, ! have sense enough to let him alone, particularly if you must admit that i you know nothing of the business yourself, (iive the teacher half a chance and if lie i- worthy of the name In*will work out hi- own »al vation, and the coiiimunil > will be (he better for the support jou give 1 him. Kxchange.