..ufAtf mews item. I L. Y'VXG, Editor, j !'ut»lished Evory Thursday Afternoon 1 £y The Sullivan Publishing Co At tho County Seat of Sullivan County. OAT'OKTE, PA. W MASON. l'residtn. THUS. J. INGHAM, fee's & Trews. ere is the Post Office at Laporte, as eeeoml-clasß mail matter. y Mli'N'i : I. UICI'IKJ . tin- colli . i. ion o: 'llk * l-'lret Nations Bank at Dushqrc. ill the State *i eiin.-ylYuniii at close of business Nov 12th, It'! ". ltKHjl'Bi.F.S. hi ias and aj i-'ovi-it ta> A«l. il.le-ii- R emptlon fluid P. s. Tieusuivr 2,60000 fci ul and i.tsril I'-udcr mile.- 19 HI 7. Total $198,982 88 !.! All! LITIES. '• 11 .ft;il $50.000 00 rnlu* and undivided profits ii-Vot* at 1 a' illation 49,500 00 11: vidends unpaid Pi 00 Pi-poaitt 84:1,5>9.c' total $46P,''52 SS Stab of Pennsylvania county of Bulltvfcn ss. I M 1). .-warts cashier 01' the above named h .>kdosolemnly s« -e tliat thealmvestatement i. u . • to the IK.-t of 11.knowledge mid lic-litf. M. 1). SW A UTS (IL-hier. : 1 -r-iihi'il :ind sworn 10 tiefore nie lhl,-16h da; r Nov. 1909. AtBERT !•'. HKKS.s, My inmlwion expires B'eby27,'o9. Notary Public. 1 li'rtet Attest : D. it rrcsui; 1 !•. 11 s'l'MlifQ-KKK SAMUEL COLE, ) 112 1 [in 'rev pnjrjCD i„i irJitLul uiial lin A Glimpse Into the Future of Mu nicipal Ownership. A T rirr.b Nail Ski '.c!i of a "Practical Politioian"—The Profits of an All Around ''Servant of tho People, Who ! Seen His Opportunities and Took j •-1i aest graft" will reach its highest 1 ■ . I when. as preui"ted by the eu t-ir. c.•.•!:•, the principles of municipal ownership are accepted l)y New York ;.1 t ihe city emi rob the trolley liuey. I electric 1 . lit and e.as works and 1 ;:'l t' •• ferries as well as the water wori. and tiie . dice, the lire and the II ret't departments. TLii i such patriots as, tieoige Wash i•.ll ; I'luuUitt, for many years or ; oi: . lien leader of the 1 iftcenth dis t t .it New % i rU, will reap rewards of 1 e;i 1 r magnitude than they have over j I n able to gather under the present j < !cr of things. l'i:rliitps you have never heard about Mr. riunkltt's "lionest graft" schemes, lie told about them hln self in a book intlillshed last year, which was intro liucid by a indorsing hint as a "veteran leador of tiie organization," : itjned by its greatest chief, rimikitt was sore iiccause tiiere were • ilijef twins to gi-aft l.eing made 0 1 of the city by men like him, and in r. t chrpii of his book he uttered ! u vigorous protest. "Blacktnallin' gain 1.•. saloon keepers, disorderly peo i i. he 1 dii, iMed to be wrong wifs "dislioueet graft." "To he added, "there's an holiest 1 . ft. and I'm an example of how it ■.'! I seen my opportunities and i t-.jk em." Mr. Pl aikitt's explanation of how he : 1 those thlugs will illuminate the ; > ' lllties of future mtinlcipal owncr • lays, if 1' evia' come. After elucidating the ways he was " ~ do,";'! times by mem 1 crs of lis party -the party in power v.iieii new bridges, new parks, new street} were to be opened, so that he might Invest in real estate likely to r-e iu price iYo: : ) the improvements • ipl: ted 1 " c is: -I haven't con M 11 elf to land. Anything that l v, s is iu my lino." Then lie gives a specific Instance: I,i mln?; ti-it the city was about to l'epuve a certain street and so would bave Several hundred thousand old ! \ hi - -vs to sell, he was "on hand t 1 buy," and he "knew jti t what they were worth." liut a newspaper "tried t 1 do him" and sot same outside men jY.iin Ilrooklyn and New Jersey to bid against him. Mr. Plnnkltt's own words toil the story best: ".Was I done? Not much. I went t:i each of the men and said, 'How ay of those UoO.OUO .-tones do you \va 111 V' One said i'm.CMu), and another "s.Tiijl 'd lo.puO, 11 *n 1 anotiier wanted U',- 000. I said, 'All right; let me bid for 1' lot, and I d ui\ ■ each of you all yiu want 1 ir ik tliiu'.' "They agreed, of course. Then tho auctioneer yelled, 'ilow much am I bid for these line pavin' stones?' 44 'Two dollars and fifty cents,' says 1. " 'Two dollars an 1 fifty cents!' screamed the auctioneer. 'Oh, that's a j: i.e. Give me a real bid.' "lie found the ! I w ; real enough My rivals sto 11 sil.-nt. 1 a t the lot for .'•■J ;> and cave tie ~i their ■ hare. That's how the attempt to do piunkitt ended, and that's how all such attempts end." It is hardly necessary, in the light of this authentic statement of "honest graft's" workings, to enlarge upon tho extended opportunities that would come to the men of the l'lunkitt stamp were the dream of municipal owner ship to come true. Piunkitt says "most politicians who are accused of robbin' the city get rich the same way" lie did. They didn't steal a dollar from the city. They just seen their opportunities and took them." While in the legislature Piunkitt in troduce.l the hills that provided for tiie outlying parks of New York, the liar h m river speedway, the"Washington bridge, the One Hundred and Fil'ty l'.Cth stieet viaduct, additions to the 'iiiseum of Natural History and nniny other important public Impro. ements. lie Is now a luilli i:iaire Under the proposed order of thing/, with city con trol of everything, he might become a billionaire. \ ia«r municipal (twoenup of all militias iu NoYork— and in J , otliar cities 1 u fact-politicians ; ii ■ Piunkitt. who ;it different times \ I: ; .;t elected Mate senator, assem- j ■iv :•!!. canity supervisor and alder man by his fellow citizens, besides t serving as police magistrate for one: term, anil who I>oasts of his record in filling four public offices in one year j and drawing aluh.'s from three of j them at the rann* time, would flourish | like a whole grove of green ba.v trees, j Co Slow on City Ownership. Until politics in America is purified far beyond its present condition any large experiment in government own ership ui iy be called a ''thief breeder" with uiueh safety. The more authority there is vested in the hands of poli ticians (with all -due deference to our national administrationi the more cor ruption the will be. Lt Is a short sighted citizen wii > would take more business out of private hands and com mit it to the tender mercies of the poli ticians.—Troy Press. Another Plant Abandoned. After many years' trial of its munici pal electric lighting plant Alexandria. Va., has finally leased the works to a private corporation for a period of thirty years. The lessee paid for the plant, which had cost the city ? 17.000. H. T. Newcomb Gives Facts of Inter est to Wage Earners. From 1890 to litt'l the average refltll cost of the ordinary articles of food used in the tinted States advanced no less than IT per cent (10.00, to lie more exact)—that is. the purchaser of food for a family had to pay SJ.I7 In 1004 I for the same quantity and quality of j food that $1 would purchase in 1800. These are official statistics compiled by the highly skilled experts employed by the fedcra 1 government, and every housewife knows that they do not over state the advance. Other necessities of j life have advanced in cost with ap- j proximately equal rapidity. Unquestionably wages ought, gener ally speaking, to have advanced some what in proportion to the increase in tiie cost of living, in private employ ment this lias apparently taken place, tiie average wages per hour reported by The federal bureau of labor being 1T.:.!0 per cent higher in 1004 than in I j and the average weekly earnings j ii',7o per cent higher. The advances j thus represented are spread all over the c.iuutry; they characterize every pri- ■ vate industrial enterprise and have benefited all (lasses of workmen em ployed in private undertakings. How is it with public employment? A few undertakings conducted under public ownership employ labor like that similarly serving private employ ers iu the same communities, and in these casi ■< the public rate of wages has slowly been advanced somewhat in proportion to the advance in the wages prlvatoij paid. Hut where any American government, municipal, state or uatioual. is the sole or by far tho largest employer of a particular class ilsbor the advances to meet increas i.: c t of living have been so few that the ordinary investigator will be un able to discover a single instance. Th- ii Ji.mt the postal service, among the Le.Mi i clerical employees at Wash ington, in the customs and internal revciiue services there have been no advances in pay to meet the rise in cost of in id, clothing and shelter. Tho p. of letter carriers, for example, re mains precisely where it was fixed twenty years ago by an act approved on Jan. ii, I.VS7. Tiie largest printing office iu the worl.l is that maintained at Washing ton by the government, and there the federal government employs a large force of intelligent and highly skilled workin. liu u. A change in the basis of p'.vuient iu 180!) from the piece work to the per h.uir system prevents cor. po i ;otis with dates prior to the chair.'e, but wages have remained sta tionary since March 1800. although the official statisticians report that the Cost of food h is advanced since the rate of wages was fixed by statute ful ly 12.-,' per cent. During the same years the wages of printers in private book publishing or job printing estab lish., leafs advanced throughout the United States as follows: Compositors, male, 14.07 per cent; compositors, fe male. 2ii..'10 per cent; press feeders, male. 'J2.-11 per cent: press feeders, fe male, 21.27 per cent; pressmen, 11.75 per cent.— IT. T. Newcomb. DO YOU OWN A HORSE? Elsclric Light Plants Arc Like Horses In Some Respects. The subject of depreciation is well worthy of the careful consideration of tlir.se who are prone to ignore that item hi estimating the cost of lights | snppiie.l by municipal plants. But as more people own horses than lighting plants it may be helpful to consider depreciation as applied to horses. You pay $250 for a five-year-old li e e. That's original cost. If you bor row the money you must pay interest on it. If you don't borrow it you lose the interest you would get if you didn't buy the horse. Kit her way it's interest. You feed the horse, and perhaps hire a •man to take care of him. That's oper -1 ating expenses. You get him shod oc casionally and call in the veterinarian wlicu he i; sick. That's renewals and repairs. After a few years, iu spite o( the best of care, the horse is no longer eapibje of doing the required work and is sold for SSO. a loss of S2OO as 1 compared with file original cost. That's depreciation, if you haven't laid that by year by year out of the horse's earnings, you've got to borrow it to buy a new horse, and you may uot lied it easy to do so If you haven't re paid the original loan. That's what happens to municipal plants that don't provide au adequate depreciation find. John D. Reeser's Bfe Store. Bank Block, Dushcre, Penn'a | ~ CASH DEPARTMENT STOKE. I ilSJoi J prv 1 ( A\ o Krrn Ai 11 *' l -' i! & est toc! < the County is now n ady for your in-g I Vlll i lO spiclion. COAIS, LUITS, Mli.i IKERY, BLANK* Sl' OUT* N'G DRESS GOODS, AND UNDERWEAR. | Our Coat and Suit Department, isoverllowin g with the choicest Metropolitan st>let in Plaids, Blacks and Blues. 1 hey must be seen to be appreciated. WOOLEN BL -NKf TS nearly all co'or< and prices. See our Window Display—Outings a.id Flai.neletts, nearly 100 pieces to si'ect from. UNDERWEAR in their department. You will find everything in woolen and cottoi wear tor men women ann children. BED COMFORTABLES Irom $!.oo to $3.50 they are beauties. John D. Reeser's Big j ' 1 ' • r i I "' 1 DTJSIIOEB ■ § § MMMMM>3B«: ■■a-n-jwmiM «i mi mm. "mm——■ MM— »it_ - iria ir ill l|) i —m no Cultivate-the Habit of buying reputable. good from a reputabe concern We are agents foi W. L. DOUGLASS SHOES fro: * -.50 to 5.00 p 2. M t ® corboys has no equal. '' \ ,4/ Tracys Shoes for' farmes are, we lind, , : always satisfa tory. j £\ A ASSORTMENT j fcri \ V\ ojf CHILDREN'S' and I LADIES' Heavy Shoe ! I,«!& / d > Fine Goods at corr ic If JLr/A V/l h. prices. SHOE iN .VVOR. Clothing Made to Order Ali have the right appearance and guaranteed otsd ; in both material and workmanship and|price mte. We also manufacture Feed, the Flag Brand. It is not cheap, I»nt , good. Is correctly made. Ask your dealer for it or write us for prices, i NORDMONT SUPPLY Co. General Merchants, P montl?eam mTIl D " :F.A.. A i rt>»# • A1 Al A ' Al A ' A|l^'l '* 1 iif' A # AW EST E G*J' j HrW FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN I j "MewßSval,""Le^ftr," !>«a"ltßpsaier" ; j 1 Insist upon liaviug tbcra, ta>.o uo others md you will set the best shells that money can buy. i ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM. 112 ! Short Talks on Advertisino JA--By Char les Austin is Nc. 10. People generally read advertisements mora than they did a few years ago. The reason is to bo found in the advertisements themselves. Advertisers are more careful than they used to be. They make the advertise- i ments more readable. Some of them even become, in a way, a department of the paper, and p<. iplo look for them every day with as much zest and pleasure as they turn to \ any other feature. /?it* This is true of many department stores all over - In many cities there is just one man who appre- C\ "1 /*// ciates the value of such interest. |JTJ \TVt JJy j He breaks away from the ohl set style. lie tells / 112 something interesting in his space every There are lots of interesting things in < ! business. Look over the miscellany page of any paper—look at .its local news columns, 1 I ' and its telegraph news, for that matter, S 1 j and you'll see that the majority of the i ' 1 items arc more or less closely related to '"0: some business fact. fitf Dress these, facts up in a becoming „ Lei th , mtrchaHt came rf V 1 13 1 :UI 042 r. «; 10 42 18 00 I'ictui Rorks o i;, id : i «'» - s 1 19 I II ti 10 fBOO ....Chi •on 111 In 45 a «m 1 20 I ">1 (» 51 811 ...(ilci Mawr li» .> i'i 1 '•! fSOO 700 fs2o ..Strfn ■ lidco Hi . 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"FAIRBANKS" Some resemble it ii> construction, others in n.nne BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE | FAIRBANKS ENGINE. • Engines that excell in quality anu modeiate nicest. ! Vertical from one to ten hors' power. . t.iu - liorse power up | THE FAIRBANKS COMPANY, 701 Arch St., Philadelp! CHARLES L. Wi: Q, nt, Laporte