Republican News Item. VOL. XII. NO 7. T524,000—544,000 > £ Which Do You Prefer • r P The average man earns about SI,ICO a year. Hf/ L works ■> years and earns a total of $44,00 in a / time. I lie average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or / 1 SOOO tor a year of 100 days. He earns $24,000 in a J J life time. The dillerence between SJ4. ( 00 and C 000 is $20,000. 1 his is ihe minimum value of av r practical education in dollars and cents Ihe in-V \ creased self respect cannot be measured in money. J P Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when x V the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran / /ton, Pa., can give you an educat on that will make \ I hi<:h sa'aried man of you ? No matter what line of V y worK you care to follow. Hiis great educational In- S \ stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at x r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. * Ourr \ local Representative will show you how you canX /•* triple yur earning capacity. Look him up today. S /' 11 G. IT 1 . A 2sT, / CC.I. S Reprenentative. TOWANDA, PA. C COL E HARDWARE^ No Place ITike this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Toois 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 ranges 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. S j f-i ucl The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, VVILLIAMSPORT, PA. Ladies' Cl>bite LovnWuist lito k is at it* best just now, and any ideas you have may be readily satisfied here, as we have all ihe newest sty 1 s lhat have been shown 1 his season, and above all a larg assortment to cln o,e from The_> are 'y mik'e and arc rea: unable in price. Ladies' and Children's Embroidery for Corset 1 n Hoje Covers l.i'li ■ |.l tin Mini 1 <(T I :tti lloi-f. fx . \\ I' HIP Mn<win" some verv Ll ft 11 <l.-11 •M» tin I .111:1111ies ;< •!" i f, i Cto .>"C a Pair !l " ' " ew *'• of 1S incli Corset Covei 'll ■' 1,. 1 ■'- 'l'n 11 II HO in u'l si/es lor Kuilirni.lery: llio prices range from 15 and 2">c 2."> c to7~>c a Yard Infants' Dresses and Wearables for Babies. Wc IIIIM jn-1 o|.cM('il some Infants' Inliiiits' ami Children's llainl Crochet I.l'i ts i- with lot- nl i.i.-teaiHl Imhy nl Suciiuey, in plain or while or pink anil like I. c.Mii vin them. S.me ['lain, others hlne trimmings. "Jsc to I 50. Ml< 11 .111( i 111 rl\ - It'C't'ssltirlat J' H' |, 11 j.i"ii * Xl'l't kJ 11 I»ahv s 1111.1 I iiihiren h White Mul ami 1111 to •••cj.75 .~r ~ < M 1 is, at _'■>(• Id . sc. Nlior' i for ohler Imt'ies. All . . , , , 1 IntaiitH* Cashmere Italian. 2 ic ami » 1 . 1 .1 1 1 \ .ti.-i \\ rll 1 11 HI 11 1 rui it line 4. .MIII line ur NainsiioK, 111 -'■ mul ii|'. Infants' Wool ami Cotton llose ir Inf.r 1 .11 nl t liililron's lunj; or short while, |'ink. bine, lan ami las; Mack *Sliir 1 - ..11 waists ;11 50c to si.mi extra qualities, t..r 15c ami -sc. Ladies' White Dresses. I. iil'i Whin* I.awn mul Swiss I'reHses in the newest styles. Niatlv mail* 1• ■■ 11 , ii'D ■■lc;-v or Inc. I: iloeMi't pay to make them when *OH tic tin' iiici ilti ssc- here lor s'!.oo to 17». Subscribe for the Newsltem LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1907. It has been said that no miser j guards his treasure more religiously i than Unele Ham watches the prec ious metal that passes through his mints. Moreover peeautions against waist are almost iunumer hle. Every evening in each ofthese mints of this country the floors of the melting rooms are swept cleaner than a housewife's kitchen. The dust is put carefully aside, and about once in two months the soot scraped from every flue is transfered to the same precious dust heap. This is then burned, and from its ashes the government derives no in considerable income. The earthen ware crucibles used in melting are employed no more than three times. | Then they are crushed between I heavy rollers' and in their porous : sides uie found flakes of the precious metal. In (lie melting room when the casters raise their ladles from the melting pots a shower of sparks fly from them ilten suif.iceof the metal j Lest these particles should escape, j the ashes and clinkers below the fur- I nace are gathered up at night. This j debris is ground into powder by i means of a steam crusher and then is j sold to a smelter, like ordinary ore at a price warrented by the assayer. \ The ladles that stir the precious j metal' the big iron rods, the strain- j . ers and the dippers are all tested in ' a most curious fashion. After con- j siderable use they become covered t w ilh a thin layer of oxidized silver } •losely resembling a brown rust, j' The impliments a'fe then laid in | " i>aths of a solution of sulphuric add which eats away the iron and steel ' md leaves the silver untouched. | ( (iraduilly the ladle or whatever j [lie implim 'lit is will disappear and nils place remains a hollow silver •ounterpart of the original, delicate ' spu i a lass. The fragil casts re produce the ladle with perfect uccur - iicy in all its details, although their -•< if.tees are perforated with innum- |' eralde little hob's. Scarcely have ; they been molded however defore i 1 they are cast into a crucible, to be- ; 1 come dollars quarters, and dimes. In one corner at the melting room j there is a large tank, into which ' newly cast silver bars are dropped j' mid left to cool. Infinitesimal flakes 1 i>f silver scale off and raise to the ; -urface of the water, which acquires j the metalic luster of a stagnant pool, i Here is silver that must not be lost j So beneath the pipe through which the tank is emptied is banked a 1 thick layer of mud. As (lie water | filters through it the mud retains the precious residium. Four times a year this mud is removed, and each experiment discloses the fact that some s."io has been saved. To sleep out of doors for a month is better than a trip to Europe. In this climate one must have a roof, of course; but any piazza that is open to three-quarterts of the heavens will serve as a bedroom; and the gain in li ippin '3-t is unbelievable. Wilh an abundant suply of good air the sleep grows normal, deep and untroubled and refreshing, so that we open our eyes upon the world as gladly as a hunter or any pagan shepliard in the morning of the j world. While cutting up logs at the sa> mill of Wei liver Bros, at Kiiunons, on Tuesday workmen HI id' 1 a strange find. One of the biggest sticks hud a small hole in the center, and it was decided to cut it in two in the center in order to find a solid place. This was done and imagine tli" work- surprise when they siw two big black snakes crawl from the the bole after the log was cut an«l rolled off U) the side of the saw. They were killed at once, and measure I seven and one half and seven feet. The three year old son of Cyrus i Mogul's of Say re, sivecl his life by ; taking an antidote before the poison. . After eatingjice cream the youngster | found a bottle of ammonia and swal | lowed some. 11 is throat and mouth were badly burned, but the butter fat in the milk of the ice cream coat j oil his stom icli and prevented the I uiii'inoiiia from eating the walls of it. State Health Commissioner Dixon I lias begun his elaborate plans for the fight against tuberculosis, which is annually responsible for the death of thousands of people in this state. ■ The Commissioner who has made tuberculosis a study for years, had outlined what will he one of the most notable efforts to stamp out the bisease ever kuown in America, if not in the world. The governor signed tlx; bills by which the Legislature put at dis posal of the commissioner over a million dollars the largest sum ever voted in the United States to fight tuberculosis, and has given hi hearty support to the measures pro posed by the Commissioner. The appropriations as made carry SOOO,OOO for the treatment of con sumptives in camps, including Mont Alto Reservation, and witli this sum Dr. Dixon txpects to establish two camps upon the most modern lines in different parts of the state. Sur veys to determine water supply and drainage are now being made. There is also SIOO,OOO appropriated to fight tuberculosis in the homes of those afflicted with it. In undertaking the most ex tensive private forest planting on record the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has recently begun setting out some r»50,0(i(( trees. The purpose is to pro vide economically in future years for the company's requirements for ties. Work upon a large basis is pro greasing at Mt. Union, where alnnit 224'000 trees are to be planted. At Altoona 200,000 or more red oak trees are to be set out this spring. At Hollidaysburg a "forest nursery" i.- being created, about I'i't pounds of seed being pi nted this year iu nur sery beds, and many trees being set in nursery rooms for use next year. When this spring's planting in complete the company will have about 1,000 acres under cultivation Some 2,250,000 trees will have been set out in addition to the seeds plant ed. The planting is all clone with great attention to scientific detail, under the direct supervision >f tie company's recently appointed forest er A. Sterling, formerly of the Unit ed States bureau of Forestry. If the reports of wardens to the s'ate department of fisheries be tint very greatly exaggerated, the streams in Pennsylvania not inhabit ed by trout are in grave danger ot j having their supply of tisli greatly diminished or entirely wiped out in a short time through the operation of the new gigging law. From the reports it appears that thousands of people in all parts oi Pennsylvania are seeking fish with a gig. Complaints are pouring in from all sections that numerous gig gers are paying little or no attention to the provisions of the law, which con tines gigiug to carp, mullets anil eels. According to Commissioner, Median, un army of warden canin t keep the unlawful giggers under* on trol. One warden reported that a few nights ago he visited u stream iu Ad ams county aud found iu one place -ix men wailing Hie stream shoulder to shoulder, each with bis -;ig and his light. He found they had only a few fish and those of the kind that might legally be taken. Surprised at this he began an examination of the streams the next day and found it almost destitute of ttsh. Thesame j -tream last year contained not only ! carp, suckers, and eels in some ; abundance, but other ttsh as well. In response to many queries in r<- j gard to the half inch space between ; the prongs mentioned in the gigging j act, Commissioner Meehan hassecur : ed an opinion from the attorneyjgen l eral's department to the effect that ' the half inch measurement shall be ' between the projecting beards or | barbs and not between the tiius j themselves. ' | According to the statement of the ten banks of Columbia county, tak | en from the published comptrollers * notices, there is $.1,000,000 on depos jit in that county. As the 1900 cen i ! sus gives the population of the coun * ty at a few less than 40,000 this -] puts Ju>t $"•» on deposit for every * i man, woman aud child in the . county, i ' Whether you call it inspiration, good judgement, hor.se sence, or what not, the nomination of John O. Sheatz hy the Republican State convention for the office of State Treasurer was the most sensible thing that could have been done for it silenced the guns in all quarters. It is seldom of lute that a candidate for a State office has been named that did not stir the critical spirit of some wing or faction of the party but the nomination of Sheatz seems to be the exception to the rule, and if anybody Is not pleased with his selection the fait is not made known. Mr. Sheatz is a native Lacaster county Pennsylvania German, now a resident of Philadelphia He is a square-toed reformer, and «ven his opponents have given him credit for honesty in his tights for cleau public politics. He is now serving his third term in Legislature where he has made his influente felt in promoting laws that were intended to check some of the abuses that existed. His nomination is another indication of the changed conditions that donate public affairs.—New Age. Xcitizen of Scjantou, iu writing to the Philadelphia Press in regard to Governor Stuart vetoing the Pension bill says: "Your editorial of June Pith of Governor Stuart's vetoing of the soldiers pension bill saying "he manfully faced what the Legislature timidly shirked" is not ed. The Press adds: "The bill was crude, raw und impossible," and that the Legislature would not have pass ed it in its ill-considered form if it had not ex|»ected the Governor to veto it. It voted the pensions with out voting the money to pay them. If such were true, why, then, did not the Governor veto the bill im mediately upon its coming into his hands, throwing it baok upon the legislature and thereby giving the opportunity to pass it over his veto or acknowledge it was only intended for "buncombe" and no expeeta tion of its becoming law'.' Again, if all were true ot this bill, what reason have we to expect or think that many other bills carrying appropriations of money were not passed for the same purpose, viz., the Governor's veto? Is there any reason to believe the soidiers pension bill was not passed (as it was almost unanimously) in just as good niith as any other legis lation enacted into law and was there not just as much money in sight to pay the pensions as to pay any other appropriations asked for from the State? The Governor had a perfect right and it was within his province an the executive of the State, to sign or veto the bill. That no one ques tions. Put why not have shown bis good faith and consistency for the soldier by his immediate veto, there by testing the Legislature whether it ever intended it to become a law or not? The soldier is not complaining, nor is he in any manner threatening because it did not become a law. that he is disappointed goes without saying. He is not a mendicant ask ing for charity from the State, llv does feel, however, that this great, rich commonweath, the great State of Pennsylvania, drawing its wealth from all over the world, has money enough to pay the small pension call ed for in the bill, and the Legisla ture passed it and made the appro priation in just as good faith as in any other bill. And had he not by his faithful service for the Common wealth and nation in days of great trial and necessity fairly earned all i that was proposed to give lie would 'still suffer iu silence, believing the State had done the best she could." ! The modern wife is beginning to astonish the modern husband. A ! man came home at •$ a. in. He took i off'his shoes on the front doorstep. 1 Then he unlocked the door and went ' cautiously upstairs on tiptoe, holding his breath. Hut light was stream ' ing through the keyhole of the bed room door. With a sigh he paused. Then he opened the door and enter ed. His wife stood by the huieau 1 fully dressed. "I didn't expect you would be sitting up for me, my ' dear," he said. "I haven! been," she said, "I just came in myself 75C PER YEAR BERNICE ITEMS. Thomas V. McLaughlin was a Philadelphia visitor last wttk. John Regan was a Pittston visitor last week. Miss Josie Connor ol Mildred, who has been visiting PitUton friends returned home Saturday. Mrs. Daniel Schoonover of Mil dred who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. W. B. Brown of Wilkes Barre returned home Su tur day. Flody Stautters of Mehoopany is calling on lady friends at Mildred. The following out of town visitors were at this place last week A. J. Bradley and F. W. Gallagher of La- I>orte, John Scouten, A. Walsh, and I>. Carrol of Dushore, J. G.Cott of Elkland. Mr. M. Rnhey and Miss Winifred j Younkin of Cherry Mills were Mil dred visitors Sunday. Graduating exercises of Berniee High School will he held in the school auditorium on Tuesday June 2r», the following are members of the class, Misses Lucy Hanuon, Mar-' gurete Watson, Elizabeth Gallagher, and Allies Devlin. The Baccilureate Serman Sunday evening June 23 at , Hp. m.in St, Frances Church by Rev. J. A. En right Mr. and Mrs. C. Plane of Mildred wereTowanda visitors Saturday. It is no wonder L. Lowery mana ger of the Mildred base ball team, cannot meet you with a smile, his pets who have been chitllanging any •thing that could wear a base ball suit, met their second defeat on Sat urday at the hands of the Ulster nine the score lit; in favor of Ulster Do not forget the Red Men's Picnic July 4th. NORDMONT. > Mrs. llattic Hess of Sonestown called on Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hess Monday. Miss Pearl Hunter of Laporte spent Monday and Tuesday with relatives of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton JSpeary, Mrs. William Little and Mrs. Harry Speary did shopping in Dushore one day last week. IJorn to Mr. and Mrs. (Hen Peter mail a sou. Mr. and Mrs Ritter and daughter of Laporte spent Sunday with Nate Peters. The Childrens Day services at the E. V. church was largely attended and enjoyed by all. Harry M. Botsforr has accepted ' the position as book keeper for the Xordmont Supply company. Claud Speary was a Dushore caller one day last week. Mr. Monroe Phillips was in Sones town last Tuesday. Mrs. Rush Botsfurd and son Wilbur did shopping at Hughesville Saturday. Mr. Justin Hunter and Miss Ida Lovelaie of Laporte were in town Sunday. Mr. Charles Foust of this place attended a festival at Sonestown Sat urday June 22. Miss Hazel Diltz spent a few days of last week with friends at Picture Bocks and Hughesville. Miss Etfie Gansel of Laporte, vis ited Mrs, Clayton Speary Monday. Mr. anil Mrs. G. W. Ilea spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Speary. Mr. Phillip Peterman has taken eharge of the Xordmont station. Mrs. (i. M. Fiester and daughter F.dith, and Miss Dollie Snyder were in Dushore last week. Misses Etta and Flora Hunter'of Laporte spent Sunday with Mrs. Harvey Arms. Leo Fiester "pent Sunday at I ni tyville. Carl Stack house of Laporte called ou friends Sunday. The largest trout that has been caught iu the Fishing creek in many years was caught last Friday by Ellis McHenry of Benton. It meas ured twenty-four inches in length and five inches across and weighed four pounds.
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