..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,
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ltKHjl'Bi.F.S.
hi ias and <Jlacoont» *t,03010 7a
in or drafts '
1' IVnids in - 1 -ui',- < 10-uHUiim O.OiOim
1' Ilium oa I. ■ . BoiuU l.aOOilO
. M-en::ii< - J3of 02.
I lirnlturc . -SHJO HI
I ironi H.oiU> 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
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§ 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 "
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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<w f # hit \
parb of words, and they will fiml readers, ftJtstmi."
even though they be in a "mere advertisement." Let the merchant come
down off his pedestal and talk in his ;
He needn't be flippant—far from it,
I P»i ' )U '- ' ct ''im not write as if he were ad*
"T~ ISw dressing somebody afar off, and telling
|f/# him about something at even a greater
j s-5 jfe The newspaper goes right into its
j fffip reader's house—goes in and sits down
is on the table when he cats, and
■" £'afcj " ' n ' IIS while he is smoking after
; |ij an approachable condition.
J ' i - - That's the time to tell him about
1 1!l i w/fi'" ' y°*w business—clearly, plainly, con viae,
j ' ingly—as one man talks to another.
u 7\i nntsinjtr /■«•« t vA/ into its • ijjr't
kjuif and tit j iVua un'M ,Sjh.," CM.trlf Amtim Baits, A'rw YtrK
Williarnsport & Hoi :h Branch Railroad
TIME r ?ABLE.
In effect Monday. S 25, 1900.
_ Read down : Read up
Flag stations w hero time • marked ' 1"
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IS. D. TOWNSEND, • D. K. TOY NSEND,
Gen. Mnnager.Hughesvillo Fossrnger A^ent.
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| Try Tht r.• Onto,
F^ine
i i NKAT WOI.K ,
U MODEKX F A<' If. • " ; 112
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linn iiniwiMiiw ii <ill im in~tti" i i urin— ' — 1 -
Redaction C'tole of
(i rent IVircjains
Groceries and Provisions.
We have the best goods at the lowest prices. II you
I want a good sack of Hour, ti tile I aural Brand < 112 winter
I wheat and you will use no other. Special pii e.s on large
! quantities. Our n otto is: '"Bjsl Goods at Lowest I'iLes."
DUSHROE, PA.
V A I R F> A N ¥) 5
GAS or GASOLINE
E N G I N E S.
"
There are many Gas and Gasoline Lrgines and
! "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