VOL. XII. NO 18. >524,000—544,000 > > Which Do You Prefer • >■ r The average man earns about si, ioo a year. V works 40 years and earns a total of $44,00 in a life V (time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or / I S6OO lor a year of }oo days. He earns $24,000 in a J / life time. The difference between $44,000 and 524- V \ 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of ay r practical education in dollars and cents The in-V \ creased self-respect cannot be measured in money. J P Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when \ V.the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran-✓ 112 ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make 1 I high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of V J work you care to follow, this 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 r triple your earning capacity. Look him up today.^ / >IS c. if. a nsr, / 0. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, No PlaceTJi<6 this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, coal o:r, wood. HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. Wo 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. Samuel The Sliopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, - /; WILLI AM SPORT, PA. Ladies' (i)f)ite Lcivn Waist The stock is at its> best just now, and any ideas you have may be readily satisfied here, as we have all the newest styks that have been shown this season, and above all a larg assortment to choose from. are neatly made and are reasonable in price. Ladies' and Children's Embroidery for Corset Tan Hose Covers La«iies* plain and laoe Tan IFohp. ex- .., . . . 1 ' 1;.• iv.,. u e are showing some very hainiHoine tra good qualities lor 12vC to 50c a Pair aml " ew 'lrsigns of IS inch Corset Cover Clii ! . n's Tan Hose in a'l size* lor Embroidery; the prices range from 15 and 25c 25c to 75c a Yard In.ants' Dresses and Wearables for Babies. We have just opened some Infants' Infants' ami Children's Hand Crochet l.t ti. Mresses with lots of taste and I> a.t> y- eil Nacelles, in plain or white or pink ami like beatiiv in theiii. plain, others hlne trimmings, 25c to 1.50. with laces ami tucks. Prices start at 25c ~ , . . «, ~ . _ l>iii'\ s ami Children s While Mull and up to $2.i5 ~ ' mi. I.ii .n ' a PB, at 25c to 15c. Mioi: Presses tor older balnes. All dainty and well made from line Cambric <■■*»*»«** Bands, 25c and 50c or Nainsook, at 25c ami up. Infants' Wool and Cotton Hose in Infante' and I'hildren's long or short white, pink, blue, tan and fast black Skirls on waists at 50c to SI.OO extra ipialilies, lor 15c and 25c. Ladies' White Dresses. I.mlies' \\ hite Lawn and Swiss Dresses in the newest styles. Neatly ma«\ e ami trimmed with eindroidery or laces. Ii doesn't pay to make them when you an buy nice dresses here for #B.OO to 17.50. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 1907. REPUBLICS FLUE IIP State Headquarters Opened and Campaign Is Under Way. CLUB MEN TO TAKE LEAD An Aggressive Canvas* to Be Inaugu rated With the Gathering of the Leaguers at Their Convention In Harrisburg. [Special Correspondence.] Harrisburg. Sept. 10. While thfc Republican state commit tee headquarters were opened in Phil adelphia this week, the campaign for the election of the Republican nomi nee for state treasurer, John O. Sheatz, it is believed, will not be inaugurated until the meetUig of the state conven tion of the Republican League ot Clubs, which will be held iu this city on Tuesday and Wednesday, Septem ber 24th and 25th, respectively. It is predicted that there will be a large attendance at thla convention, and there is promise of some brilliant oratory from gifted sons of Pennsylva nia. who will tell of the splendid char acter of their standard bearer in the state campaign, and of the enthusiasm with which his nomination has been received by his fellow citizen through out the commonwealth. Reports that come here from th<j various counties of the state all con firm the claims of Colonel Wesley R. Andrews, chairman of the Republican state committee, that the party organ ization was never more harmonious, nor never more loyal to a ticket than it is today. Colonel Andrews, whije he has de layed the opening of the state head quarters until this week, hits been in correspondence with the chairmen of the Republican county committees and others active in tbe organization all summer, and there Is undoubted evi dence that much preliminary work has been done in the way of qualifying the voters in the matter of the pay ment of taxes and in interesting those who are obliged to be personally reg istered under the recently enacted leg islation in this very important feature of the campaign. Alii at Qualify Voters. While voters in first and second class cities still have an opportunity to be personally registered on Tues day, September 17th. ana Saturday, October 6th, the residents of third class cities have also two days more for registration—Tuesday. September 17th, and Saturday, October 19th. Under the election laws of Pennsyl vania, every citizen, to be qualified to vote at next November's election, must have paid a state or county tax within two years. The last day upon which taxes can be paid to qualify voters for the next election will be Saturday, October sth. Citizens in Pennsylvania living out side of cities are not required to be personally registered. It Is expected that there will be thousands of visiting Republicans not connected with the Club League como to this city during the days of the con vention gathering to meet Mr. Sheatz and the others of prominence in the Republican party who will be in at tendance upon the convention. Candidate Sheatz has evidently made a fine impression wherever he lias been, for there Is a great demand to have him to address meetings in differ ent counties, and there is going to be a real old-fashioned spirit in the cam paign when it gets well under way. Many Dauphin county Republicans were present at the recent meeting at the Grangers picnic at Williams drove, when Mr. Sheatz was the principal orator, and they were delighted with the impression he made upon tbe voters and the manifest sincerity of his pledges to conduct the office of state treasurer as he would his own business, and to be upon the alert to check extravagance or any illegal raids upon tfie money of the people. Bheatz's Ideal State Treasurer. When asked to state the- "kind of atate treasurer Pennsylvania should have," John Oscar Sheatz wrote the following: "He must realize that as treasurer of Pennsylvania he is merely acting as trustee of your money and Is not the owner of It. "He must stand ready to pay every Just obligation of the commonwealth, and absolutely refuse to pay any sum when the expenditures are not clearly defined by existing laws, or when fla grant extravagance exists In the lat ter case the sooner the press and pub lic are made aware of the fact the bet ter for our commonwealth. "He must be a man who will ont de take orders from a political boss, or one that cannot be persuaded by pro mises of future political preferment. "He must be a man who will not de posit your money in banks, where the Influence of those bankers and stock holders, In return for this deposit, Is jto be exerted for political parties or i factions. I"He must make careful business prln ciples prevail throughout the depart- ' ment and have every employe holding his position because of capability and not political pull. "The foregoing are my thoughts on the question of state treasurership, and if the "people of Pennsylvania, after carefully looking up my record as a member of the state legislature during the sessions of 1!)03-05-OG-07 (the only office i have held) find it as being consistent with my views here ex pressed. then I hope they will vote for me at the couilng November election " Railroad Passenger Earnings. When dncv is looking from the window of a Lehtgh passenger train ami watching the mile-posts Hit past, one each minute, it is probable they don't think that the Lehigh has probably earned #1.0(1, for that is what the road receives on an av erage for running a passenger train a mile. If the train happens to be carrying mail and express the Valley earns more than £1 .nil for these iig ures only include the fares of pas sengers. This is according to an es timate made for the fiscal year's re port of 1007 which further says that trains carried on an average only 01. .'52 passengers and that the average number of persons in a car on Valley trains during the fiscal year was 17. KH. Hnt in spite of the fact that sl. 00 does not seem much for running a passenger train a mile and about 01,1-2 passengers docs' not seem to be many, still the Lehigh's receipts for the fiscal yearVrom passengers was $ 1,50:'.,452.12. During the year the Lehigh carried A, 1H 1,5:51! pas sengers, so that the average revenu • from each pnssenger by the railroad company was 81.21 cents. The av erage receipts of the Lehigh for car rying one passenger one mile was about a cent and three-quarters. The average distance, traveled by the different passengers was Isj miles. Tun khan nock Democrat. A publication just issued by the department of agriculture, entitled "National Forests and the Lumber Supply," defines the important part uhich the national forests are destin ed to play in the economic develop ment of the country. Abuses have grown up under the laws which pro vide for the disposition of public lands, notably the segregation of large holdings of timber lands for speculative purposes. Timber from the national forests is now purchased by the thousand board feet and pay ment is made upon the actual sole of the logs win n cut. Two dollars and a half per thousand feet is com paratively low as present charges go, but since the cut ranges from 5,000 to 20,000 feet per acre, the govern ment receives from five to twenty times as much for the timber as it ■ lid under the timber and stone act. I'ublic opinion now demftnds, not that the government should dispose of its remaining tiuiberiands as rap idly as possible and leave it to pri vate 1 enterprise to exploit the forest hastily, but that what remains of the national forests should be more con servatively use. The government has been forced into the lumber bus iness solely in order that a supply of forest products may be guaranteetl to future generations. Probably 05 per cent of the total stand of mer chantable timber within the forests is located on the Pacific coast, where for a long time flu; enormous supply of privately owned timber will satis fy most of the demand. This more accessible private timber surrounded the forests as the meat of an apple surrounds the core. It has been en tirely eaten away in many places, while in others it is locked up by speculators. The thing to remem ber, then, is that this immense body of public timber is there as a great reserve against the time when pri vate tiuiberiands will be depleted, and for use as a weapon against mo noply. Announcement of the discovery of an anti-toxin that will kill diph theria germs on the living human organism within the short space of three minutes lias been made at the Ohio State I'niversity by Prof. Blylle, physiologicol chemist, as the result of an exhaustive technical and intricate series of tests. The discov ery is accredited to a German chem ist. The antitoxin is applied by 1 infusion and can be applied in any I quantity to the youngest patient. Assessment o! Coal Lands Raised From : $lB per Acre to slOl in Sullivan County. 1 Court convened last Monday morn ing for the hearing In the appeal brought by the Connel Anthracite Mining company, the heirs of the estate of George I). Jack-ton, the Bernice Store and the O'Boyle-Foy Anthracite Coal company. -These appeals were from the assessments fixed upon coal lands by the County Commissioners. Judges Terry, Kish inka and liichlin heard the cases 'J'Jjfs hearing was proceeded with un til Thursday afternoon when Judge Terry called all the parties interest ("l together and suggested a compro mise settlement. The suggestion was acted upon and a settlement was finally agreed upon Friday and the litigation discontinued. It will be remembered that the County Com missioners raised the valuation «pon coal lands from $lB to SJSSO per acre, whereupon the several owners of coal lands took this appeal to Court. I'pon the hearing last week wit nesses were on hand to swear that other property in Mildred, Cherry township, Lopez and other points in the county has been assessed at far below its true value, in some cases the assessments representing Only one-tenth of the market value lof the property. In view of this condition of affairs the valuation fix ed by the Commissioners upon coal lands could not be sustained to its full amount and after several confer ences between the parties the assess ment was adjusted at #lOl per acre, up MI (lie acreage claimed by the (ounty Commissioners to be coal lands. The coal cases were the last of the appeals from assessments to be dis posed of and the campaign in favor of an equalization of valuations is thus brought to an end. The results are highly pleasing to the Commis sioners and the great body of tax payers throughout the county. Never since the coal and timber lands and other corporate interests in this t mutfy have become so valuable has there been anything like an equali zation of assessments. As a result <>f the action of the present board of Commissioners over half a million of dollars have been added to the assessment rolls and almost every dollar of it lias been placed upon the property of the corporations. It is now belie veil that these properties are assessed at about the same pro portion of value as the, farm, vil lage and other properties throughout the county. The hearing last week brought a large number of gentlemen to town who stand high in Authracite coal interests. Among them were the Hon. William Connell, of Hcrantou, one of the board of arbitrators ap pointed by President Roosevelt to settle the great coal strike in 1902, J.S. McAulty, Sec. of the Connell company, M. J. Murry and Frank 11. Morgan, Sec. and Treas. of the Northern Anthracite Coal company, James 11. llughes, William Griffith, 11. 1). Smith l\ E. Alden, H. L. Harding, J. L. Miles and l». W Tup pan, leading mining engineers from Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, I'itts ton and Elkins, W. Va. The attor neys representing the Coal Com panies were Seth T. MeCormick, of Villiamsport, E. J. Mullen, M. J. Martin, ofScranton and A. Walsh of Dushore. The County Commis ioners were represented by Hon. T, J. Ingham, County Solicitor, F. W. Meylert and Rodney A. Mercer. The llughesvUle Fair which opens on Tuesday, September 17, and con tinuing for four days promises to be the best ever held in the history of the organization. Many improve ments have been and are being made on the grounds, while the premium list has been revised and the amounts given to exhibitors has been largely increased, which will greatly in crease the number of exhibits. The exhibitions in front of the grand sjand will be the best that money can secure, consisting of balloon as censions each day by John Kellcy, one of the most daring aeronauts in the country, Jacoby and Klase, jugglers and performers on the trap ese, Prof. Harry Smyth, slack wire and contortionist, and Smith's cele brated dog -how. There will spec ial excursion rates on all railroads. 75C PLR YEAR BERNICE ITEMS. Dr. J. L. Brennan was a WilMain mort visitor last week. C. E. Jackson was a Bern iff- visi tor last week. The following were at La porte last week attending argument court: T. V. McLaughlin, 11. \V. < >sler, J. A. Hale, John Daley and H. J. Schaad. Mr. ami Mrs. Judson liarney of Factoryville, Pa., are visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Harney Mildred. John <>. Connors and sister, Nora, were Dushore visitors Thursday. J. llelsniau attended a meeting of school directors in Dushore Satur day. Albert Kay of Forksville was vis iting H. W. Osier Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shaffer, Miss Marian Osier and Frank itamsey were Laporte visitors Sunday. How can a man lie qualified to fill an otttee or a&sist in electing a can didate for an office who will not pay his taxes? He is a strong advocate of free schools, good roads and re duced indebtedness, and yet dodges the tax collector. If all the taxpay ers believed in his theory ami prac tice enough money could not be raised to oil the windmill at the county seat. Chas. Mulligan Uninjured by 4S Fool Fall. To fall 45 feet, turning end over end, striking two beams in the downward flight and live to tell the tale, is an experience which but few people have, but that is what Chas. Mulligan, employed on the work of dismantling the old Lehigh bridge at upper Towanda, passed through Saturday. Mulligan was at work on a girder fully 45 feet above the waters of the Susquehanna when losing his balance fell from the dizzy heighth. End over end his body shot through the air. Thus the apparenty lifeless form of Mulligan eddied through spase, ending with a splash as he struck the water head foremost. Fellow workmen hurried doH'il from the bridge to assist their unfortun ate companion, but it was some befps« he came to tin* surface. With a smile 011 his face, Mulligan struck out for shore, and after getting out of the water exclaimed, "I thought I never would come up." Outside nf a few bruises he was uninjured. Hon. Nathan Shaffer, State Super intendent of Public instruction, says that our public school text books, examinations, and instruction iu schools should glorify the arts of peace above the arts of war and his tory should lie taught in such a way that pupils will write the names of the poet, the oiator, the artist, the educator, the jurist, the student, the philanthropist, to a higher place in the temple of fame than that occu pied by the victorious general or the successful admiral. He says that the teaching of history should create the kind of public sentiment that will make it unpopular, if not im possible, for a ruler to commence a war except as a last resort for the maintenance of justice, law and or der among the nations. Perhaps for police purposes, if not for nation al protection, we shall need a small army and navy duing coming centu ries, but as soon as the three and one-half millions of teachers in the schools of the civilized world shall begin in earnest and with skill to in culcate the sentiment of peace and the principles of justice and fair dealing in the treatment of weaker nations we may hope for fc the dawn of an era of peace that is worthy of the Prince of Peace. The Heading railroad has suspend ed thirty of its employes against whom proof was had that they weie victims of the drink habit. In the past tso many disastrous wrecks have been directly caused by some employe of the road being under the influence of liquor, that the com pany is determined to put a stop to the habit. Hailroad men, particu larly, need clear heads and steady nerves in order to properly care for the lives of the traveling public. It is the railroad company's duty to give travelers all possible protection and this cannot be done where those in charge of trains are addietod to drink.
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