VOL. X. NO 41. ?This Is the Place <, DUSHORE, PA. The jew^ler^s " No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, GOAL OK/ WOO D HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing 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 range? for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. ninol (Joie^iisftor^Pa The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. AYuslin Mndervecir Department r. - .iters t>» voitr nee.l with a splendid assortment of Ladies' and Misses' Mus >lin and Cambric Underwear. Kvery Garment war made amid the best •sanita: conditions. Styles and model are of the most desirable kinds, and .the prices are wonderful cheap, Take a few minutes to examine these. It •will tell you more than we can describe in a whole page The designs are unsuall\ pretty Whether yon spend one "dollar or this season. We are showing splcn more you ought to get one" that fits! •ind makes you comfortable. Any one | did assortment of all sorts from tile oi }hcsc Corsets in the following list , . , . ~i will do that and thev will give you I plain Cambric to the fines} and elabo sat j s f. K . U)r> sc . v j ce rate Swiss !• mbroideries every width H^al"woro°ter e PitUnK , , C B.A. Ia Hpirile. in thi' inserting and edging. i>' iix Wamts. Armorside. Kubo K. O. REDUCTION N THE CLOAK ROOM Tin-stock has been carefully gone through. The price redncti s are radical there a gieat opportunity to 1»n \ .1 tailored suiter Misses and . .. Id ten's i...its at one third to to more than one half off the regular price. You should be among tin first to take advantage of this sale. Wool Fascinators. Ladies' Knit Blouses. 1..1 ii , w ...1 crochet 1 iscinator* in We have several styles of Ladies' • hit. bin pink, cardinal and Mac/-; Wool Mouses in most all colots. Von , , , , can bin tlieui now at half the regular varum* stvles lot _sc to v. . " prices. I Hack Jersey Children's Sweaters. 1 :,,/h | *nis i'oi |n iii all ' i/.vs and colors can 1>« pun has: I. t '.i .111.1 Mi- w >o| Aaiit I.eg: ed here now 1 bin reduction from in I'm -a to >c. the regular pti-e*. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1906. STATE ANTITOXIN SAVES MANY LIVES Bealth Commissioner Dixon's Free Distribution of Antitoxin Greatly Reduces Death Rate Among Poor In Pennsylvania. EARLY UCE OF SERUM URGED Dr. Dixon Points Cut the Increased Benefit of Using Antitoxin As Soon As Possible After the Onset of the Disease Uce Liberally For Im munizing. The free distribution of Diphtheria Antitoxin inaugurated by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of tlie new State Department of Health, is already showing a splendid saving of precious lives. Out of the total number of cases reported to th« Department of Health in January in which the free Antitoxin was administered there were so few deaf lis as to bring the death rate down to 8.8 per cent. This was a reduction of over B per c ent, from the December figures. This low death rate as shown by the January records means that in stead of about 4 2 lives being lost out of every hundred cases of Diphtheria, at. would be found where Antitoxin is not used, the disease was aisle to claim only about nine victims. It means that instead of 420 deaths out of every 1000 cases of Diphtheria, the death rate is brought down by the free dis tribution of Antitoxin to 88. Health Commissioner Dixon feels confident that as the custom of free distribution of Antitoxin becomes more thoroughly established and the physicians of the State use the serum more promptly after the onset of the disease and in more liberal doses, the death rate will go far lower. From city, town and country village nil over the big State of Pennsylvania the physicians are sending in their re ports that tell the story of little chil dren stricken down by Diphtheria, and then of the arrest of the dread disease by the administering of the wonderful prophylactic— Antitoxin. Dread disease it hardly need be called any longer, for the hand of death that was for merly thought lo have the little child surely in its grasp, the moment that Diphtheria was diagonsed, has now lost its power. At the time that the State Depart ment of Health is supplying Antitoxin for curative purposes, it is also fur nishing the serum for immunizing. When the family physician is called into the humble home and reads upon tho child's throat the signs that to his practiced eye mean Diphtheria, he knows also that the littli> brothers and sisters of the sick child have by this time probably been exposed to the disease and may be stricken down at any mom. nr. No rue.] tor him to wait and see if »ny e.f these other children develop the symptoms of the disease. He may Imnu-chiteh secure from the State's free distributing depots suffi cient Antitoxin to immunize (-very one of the little ones, and tlie older mem bers ol the Nuts -I'l'M, ion. who have been exposed t > tic infection. It is now she t'i'u of i.: ■ Hi alt'i Com missioner to i:«!,ress up-n tie physi cians of the State the groat i:s:po;t ance of administer'!!!.- t'.c Antitoxin ii curative do.<<.. as s. on as pos-ibl> a:' ter the onset of tin- dis ase. and ;h - Immunizing .loses as soon as it Is known that, otls r e'tillrea of ih' l household have be- n in any wav ex posed to the disease. The importance of this enrlv us. is shown very eietrly In the clinical report® that the Stat*' Department of Health receives in cases where the Ire.-' Antitoxin has been used. The January records show lu more than one case that if the Anti toxin had been administered earlier, and in some cases more liberally, a life might have been saved. Dr. Dixon greatly appreciates tile co operation he is getting from his fellow physicians throughout the state In se curing to tie people the full benefits of the free distribution of Diphtheria \ritiioxin. On their part the physicians are daily telling of the benefits experi enced by tin »n in their praetiees. Dr. K. I\ McDonald, of Lawrence county writ ", to the commissioner: "I ain em losing clinical report of the household of diphtheria treated with the department Antitoxin. The results were very gratifying. I feel that the furnishing of such for the poor Is a boon to scientific medicine, a great aid to the physicians of the state, and a very much needed charity to the poor." "It wns n matter of life or death with his patients," writes Distributor Houck. of Shenandoah, in telling of the rush of a physician to his depot for tho purpose of securing a package of State's Antitoxin. "I am .»ur» Ihe Antitoxin has saved the life i,l the patient," writes Dr. N. Zlegenfllf's, nf South Bethlehem, on the bottom of one of his clinical reports received bv Ho* < oiiiiuUsloiier From a -< mi-oflicial source it is learned that tin* committee repre senting tlie United Mine Worker will go before tin* operators in NVw York, today with tlie olive branch lin their bands. At the meeting of I the committee in Wilkes-Burro last week President Mitchell counseled moderation and the admouitiot) met ■a i 111 the approval of the committee. The represenatives of the miners will not make a single demand. They will ask the operators what they have to offer, and will add as a cor i allary to this request that they are | willing ami anxious to briny about j a renewal of a new wage scale with out resorting to violent measures. It ! can be said positively that the min ers' representatives will not insist ! upon an eight hour day* or spccfic re cognition of the union. Changes supposed to portend ! something veiy important are beiny ; made on the Susquehanna and New Vork railroad. When the old liar clay railroad was extended to Laquin Ellenton and Halston, all tno fl 111 of any size were done with piling, and streams were crossed in the same i way. Now to reduce the heavy grades between Kllenton and ('ran | dalltown, a distance of eight miles, an entirely new line is being built lon the opposite side of the creek. I This line will be three miles longer than the old route, but the grade will be brought clow n to one per cent j and all tills and stream crossings | will be of the substantial character. The railroad as a timber road will be of small account in a few years and the permanency of the present work indicates that the road may be come a part of some big cross-country system. Dr. Torry, the world renowned Evangelist had the following to say at '.lis meetings in Philadelphia last ! week in regard to card playing: j " 1 know and you know the deck ot I cards is the gamblers tool. In many j homes, people to keep their sons jand daughters in the house, will J teach them cards. Thus many a | home is the kindergarten to the gambling hell. If preachers, Sun day School teachers and Christian parents would more frequently ex plain to the young the evils that grow out from these so-called kinder gardens, in ten years from now there would be no need of closing up gam bling dens, for they would have to go out of business for want of [cit rons.'' l)r. W. IT. Randall tells us of an interesting conversation that he had with his aunt while on his recent visit to Troy. She related some of theexpericnc.es of her ear ly life in Sullivan county. lie maiden name was Lucy .'.versand when a ehild lived with her parents lat Eagles Mere, where her father ! was employed to cut wood for the { glass factory then in operation at that place, and when he found that he was cheated out of his pay for] the work he had done, he decided to leave for other quarters and I made preparations accordingly. When the morning came for their departure, the family mounted on the household goods in a large wagon started in the direction of Laporte, and over a road that had not been used in twelve years. They were obliged to cut trees and ! brush out of the road as they trav eled, ami at the end of their first dav's journey they had got as far as Laporte and camped on the spot where the Court House now stands but at that time was only a wild erness. At the end of their second day's journey they had reached what is now Dushore, which then iKiattted one country Inn. Their third day's travel took them as far as Monroeton, where they remain ed for some time. T. doctor »a\ s his aunt, who is now V> years of age, vividly recalls e\ery incident of this journey which took place , w heu she eleven vears of age, I 1 The legislature at llarrisburg last week passed finally a bill providing a uniform method of electing cer tain party officers and delegates to state and national conventions and making nominations for certain of fices. The provisions are that after November I, 190<>, two primaries shall be held each year in every election district, one the fourth Sat urday before the February election and the other the first Saturday in June except in presidential election year when it will occur on the sec ond Saturday of April. Delegates to state and national conventions are to be elected at tin; spring prima ry by any party whose candidates at either the general or February elect ion preceding polled two per cent um of the largest entire vote cast in the state for any candidate at the last general eleetion. Candidates to be voted for at the general election are to be nominated at the spring and for offices to be tilled at the Feb ruary election shall be nomiated at the winter primary. Common wealth, state committee and county committee notices are to be sent ' county commissioners in ample time j for them to publish what offices are Ito be tilled. There is a provision for I a primary ballot that will vary in | form only as the names of offices or | candidates may require. The names jof candidates shall be printed upon the official ballot of a designated ; party upon the tiling of petitions by qualified electors of the political district division within which the ' nominations or election is to be j made setting forth that the signers ! thereof are members of the party | designated. Ballots are to be properly furnish ed by the county commissioners and ! the primaries are to be conducted by the regular election heard undtr general electian laws. Expenses ol the primaries are to be paid out of I the state treasury. Candidates tvr 1 offices of the commonwealth to be | voted for by electors of the state at shall be nominated by the state con ' vent ions for which delegates are i elected in accordance with the terms !of this act. The delegates who re ceive a plurality of the votes of the ! party electors at the spring primary | shall be the duly elected delegates to to the respective state and national - conventions. State conventions shall beheld not later than one week 1 after the date of the primary. Any person attempting to vote il -1 legally at a primary shall be guilty I or a misdemeanor and upon convict ion sentenced to pay a fine not ix i feeding one thousand dollars or to | undergo an imprisonment not ex ceeding two years or both. No j police officer in commission shall be i within one hundred feet front a poll , ing place during the conduct of a primary election unless in the exer : cise of his privilege of voting or for i the purpose of the serving of war rants or the preserving of the peace. Penalties are also provided if elect ion officers violate this act. I A report from Ila/.letou makes one wonder as to the nature of the bev erages dispensed at that place. It is to the effect that a citizen of foreign extraction, while passing along the street, and somew hat under the in fluence of stimulants, mistook for a real woman an automaton femal fig ure ad vert ising a catarrh cure in a drug store window. Imagining the pretty female directing her attention to him, the citizen mentioned crcat cd quite an amusing scene by repeat edly bowing and raising his hat in the most Chestertlehlian style. This interesting pantomime continued for s< me time to the great amusement of a crowd of spectators, until finally the man discovered hi* mistake, and ' muttering cuss words, hastily bur ried from the spot. Exploding gasoline at the Peuiisyl-! vatiia round house at llarrisburg, Wednesday night blew up one hun-| divd feet of floor, smashed scores of windows and blew large holes in the roof. The trouble was caused by a "hostler" passing a gasoline tank with a lighted torch. One un known man was injured but not soriou-ly. 75C PER YEAP BERNICE. .! Sheriff' Buck was an unwelcome ,! visitor to some of our boys Tuesday i of last week. Mr. and Mrs. C'ollon were called !to Plymouth by tho death of t!io | hitter's father, James Noble, i Dr. Ott of Sayre was called in con sultation with Dr. Randall of Du- Shore on the case of John Schaud Sr who is quite sick at present. Mr. George Driscoli and Miss May Cook were married on Wed: nesdiy Feb. 21. A birthday party was tendered Miss Maggie Watson of Mildred on Friday evening, and a very pleasant evening was spent in playing games and music. 1 homas Schell was a Dushore vis: ltor Friday. The question before the public is are we going to have that new road as we hope for. It will be a great saving in a few years, and it will be a great advantage to the traveling public and especially to the school children who now travel the railroad- Mrs. George Webb of Sayre, I'a. is visiting friends here and at Mil: <1 red. Mrs. F: F. Schaud is under the doctor's care at the present time. HFMLOCK GROVE. Sunday School next Sunday at 2 o'clock preaching services at oclock every body welcome. Prof. J. Hartly liailentine of Sonestown, called at the home of M. J. Phillips Saturday. W. 11. Bay was a business visitor to Muncy Valley and Sonestown Sat urday. Mrs. G. Swank of Nordiriont spent several days at the ho ;ieof William Bay last week. Geo. Brown of Berwick WHS called home on account the illness of his mother. Quite a number of farmers in this vicinity filled their livers last Week. David Seitzer and Percy Bay at: tended institute at Glen Mawe Sat: urday. Mrs. S. A. Masteller called on triends at Muncy Valley Sunday Miss Anna (Juinn attended the Teachers meeting at Sonestown Sat: urday. Mrs. E. A. Fulmer called at the home ot Kdward Phillips Saturday. Mrs. Alfred Tayler of Beach Glen called at this place Friday evening". Miss \ ergie Bennett of Mt. Vernon spent several days as the guest of Bessie and Anna Fulmer. The North Mountain Telephone Company held a very important business meeting at ii. Swisher & Sons at North Mountain the follow ing stockholders were present, Albert Myers, K. A. Fulmer, Thos. Si-hug, (ieo. Myers, .M.J. Phillips, George Chestnut, W. 11. Lawrensen, 11. 10. Phillips, .). B. Simmons and Wm. Tayler. Jason and Mrs. James Myers of Strawbridge called on Harry Arms and family Sunday. Oscar Bradiey of Muncy Valley was a business visitor to this place Monday. Actions in trespass have been filed in tiie Bradford county court aguinst the Lehigh Valley Railroad com pany by William Ilcman, (ieirge Lafiiy and William Ackley, all of Towanda, to recover damages for in juries alleged to have been received some two months ago. HHCII de mand SS,(MM). The injuries alleged to have been received grew out of tin accident near the Washington street station, Towanda, while the huge granite monument erected in Oak liilleent"- tery by G. 11. Welles, of Wyalusiusr was being unloaded. A number of men were working about the stone when the switch engine entered an open switch and bumped the car up ou which they wire. Mrs. Sarah Jeauette Wright Tink er. wife of llcv. Fzra Tinker, D. !>., fur eight years i pastor of the Meth odist churh at To wan la, committed suicide at Lyons, N. Y., Wednesday morning l>y inha'in; illuminating gas.