VOL. XII. NO 23. T&MjOOO— $44,000 > > Which Do You Prefer V > S The average man earns about SI,K O a year. Hf V works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a /time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or / 1 S6OO tor a year of }oo days. He earns $24,000 in a J / life time. The difference between sj4,cooands24- V 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a J r practical education in dollars and cents The in-V \ creased self-respect cannot be measured in J 112 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 high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of I J work you care to follow, this great educational In- J x stitution can prepare you in your .'•pare lime and at x r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our£ \ local Representative will show you how you canX triple your earning capacity. Look him up today./' / c. IF. A isr, / COLE ' ' •» HARDWARE No Place Like this Place ! For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOO D. 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 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. Samnel The Shopbell Dry Good Co., >• 313 Pine Street, VJfjWILLIAMSPORT, PA. In tf)e P>est Possible 3t>ape This store is in the best possible shape for autumn and winter business. Eveiy section is completely equip ped with carefully chosen merchandise that is being of fered at the lowest possible price. Ladies' Stylish Garments This store is justly proud of its garment -Lowing—Here are Stylish Suits, .lack et« Shirts. the choice ot the heat makers ami you lout pay a fancy prict lor them either. BLAtCE'PS AND COMFORTABLES. WINTEK HCSIEBY. 1" e warmth ami worth is here lor you It's time to look alter winter hosiery, anil > oti eatiiiot go wrong in buying You'll not find a better line anywhere io bl )• k. tM apd comforters here, White choose from than we are showing. We and grey'blankets in all i|nalitie«. To ex- open the stocking selling with some ex amine will com ince of our desire to give tra values in ladies' hose at the beat at the lowest price, 121, 15, 2"< anil 35c Plain and Mixed Suitings We are ready to show you the most complete line of fancy mixed Suitings and pinin fabrics you will find everywhere tor fiOc. Outing Flannel We are showing a particular good assortment ol dark and light fancy striped anrl checked outing llannel. Kvery buyer will save money by buying these now ai Sc, 10c, 1 lc. and 12J cents. Plain Waists We havejust received a new lot of plaid silk and worsted waists that are very stylish and moderately priced. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 1907. I ■ " * JUDSON BROWN, REPUBLICAN Candidate for Sheriff The Voters of Sullivan County Have in Judson Brown, a Man Worthy ol Sup. port. .Judson Hroys of same environments to commence life's struggles as a woodsman, and secured employment in the forests near his home. Overating his strength and endur ance as many ambitious young men are apt to do, this labor and expos ure soon brought on rheumatism which has at different times since i completely disabled him from hard manual labor. His principal occu pation has been farming. Several years ago he was appointed janitor of tha Court House and grounds at r.aporte. In this capacity, everyone knows, be served with utmost satis ! faction to all concerned and with ' credit to himself. Me has at differ cut times held the township office of! Judge and Inspector of election and j has always been it resident of this! county. Mr. Hrown is absolutely unassail able as a candidate for thin very im ' portant otllee and w hen he says he I will be true to the trusts imposed ! upon him, it is a promise made by lan honcft man who has never be trayed a trust or shirked an obliga tion. As there is no claim that he is not honest in the strictest sense ol the term, capable and well tjualitied in every way to perform the duties that will be imposed upon him if elected, there is little need of saying more in his behalf. He has a life record to stand upon, as before stated, abso lutely unassailable. In brief he is a clean man, every inch, vote for him ami no regrets will ever follow Henceforth every slaughter house or other establishment connected with the preparation or sale of meat or meat products in Pennsylvania must be operated in conformity to modern requirements as to sanita tion etc. The new meat inspection law if carried out by the inspectors recently appointed, will* give the people of Pennsylvania as effective protection against bad meat as is enjoyed by the inhabitants of any state in the I'nion. Agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board are required to make an examination of jail establishments engaged in the I meat business. When meat or meat I products are found upon examina tion to be diseased or unwholesome, | the agent is required tosee that they i are placed in an offal tank and rend j ered into a condition that would prevent their being offered for sale jas human food, or when no offal | tank is immediately available they |s»re to lie slushed with h knife an i saturated with kerosine or coloring I matter. I Farmers of Northern Burks county the great potato growing district of Eastern Pennsylvania, have decided upon an advance in the price of tubers. The rot lias set in and threatened to ruin half the crop. The expected yield in that end of the county was 800,000 bushels, but the farmers will be satisfied if they realize half of this. The crop has been selling the past year at an average of 50 cents a bushel. It is predicted that the price will goto $1 and perhaps $1 ,f>o per bushel. Tne price of wheat has ad vanced 20 cents since the begmnng of the season. When the grain was first harvested the price was 80 cents, but today it is bringing $1 in Berks, in several places the farmers are getting *I.OB at the ware-houses. It is expected that the price, will go still heigher by the middle of Oct tol>er. Hay is selling at S2O a ton an increase of over last year,while corn has reached 80 cents. Washington. D.C. Oct. 15. Bruised and covered with welts, two boys given shelter by the local police, tell a story o r most inhuman treatment in a West Virginia coal mine. They are John Marti and John Phillips, both from Pennsyl vania. Charges of extreme cruelty under a system of practical peonage are embodied in their story. Held prisoners under guard they were lashed and beaten until they made their escape during the night when picked up here they had been with out food for hours. The railroads of the middle west are charged with conspiring to ruin creamery interests in 7 states and territories in a complaint before In terstate Commerce commission. It is held that business aggregating ♦14,000,000 annually besides millions ot dollars worth of equippment will be ruined because of the conspiracy. The New York Worhi remarks.* The standard Oil monopoly was built up by the remarkable ability of a remarkable group of men and. by cheating and chicane. The cheat ing and chicane must stop. The men have grown old and have of late blunderingly misjudged their pbwer and the pubiic temper. No one believes that so vast an oaganizaliou as the standard oil will be or tha it should be driven out of business. But it must play fair"; and a stand ard Oil playing fair will not be the •Standard Oil as we have knotyq it. Tours of the coal mines by visitors are now a thing of the past, and all persons who are not employed "in the underground workings will hereafter be forbidden entrance thereto by the coal companies. Heretofore it has been the custom of persons who have out of town visitors to plan a trip in one of the mines in the vicinity, and the guesto were delighted with the novelty. It was learned last week that the coal companies have issued orders forbidding the issuing of per mits hereaftei due,it is said, to the liability act passed by the recent leg islature. Meeting ol the Sullivan County Med ical Society, Mooting of the Sullivan county Medical Society, at Forksville Pa. October 2nr. Kandall of Laporte. He thinks that appendicitis is a rare disease and that young doctors and surgeons have more cases between their than in the abdomen as he has seen a great many cases operated on for appendicitis that when the abdomen was opened no disease of the organ was found to exist. All physician took part in this discussion and it was generally thought surgical treat ment the safest. Dr. J. L. Christian read a paper on Alkaloidal Medica tion. Dr. Christian thinks that it is time for some new form of medica tion, as the unreliabilty of drug> even fjom our best drug houses. The doctor quoted from New York Health Board "where they purchased from reliable drug stores nux vomi cae, belladonna, aconite, opium, dig itjdlis and had them analy/.ed by a competent chemist and found they varied in strength from *9 to 20 per cent too much or too little of the act ive principals. He further claims that adulteration, substitution, age and all make it hard for a doctor to use the present system of medica tion. lie claims that Alkaloklal the only reliable medication. The euhjeet was further discussed by Dr. Biddle who thinks that we would get belter results by the exclusive use of Alkloidal medication. Drs. Woodhead and Davics aud wives had an especially flue dinner al' ready for the members and their wives which was heartily enjoyed by all. A motion was offered to ex tend to Drs. NVoodhead and Da vies aud wives, for entertainment of the first meeting of the Coun ty Medical Society, thanks and ap preciation. The secretary was or dered to send a short report to the several county papers for publica tion. \V. F. RANDALL, Sec'y. 75C PLR YEAR DERNICE ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jackson and two sons Robert and Dick attended the Bloomsburg Fair last week. Sidney Osier of Carbondale, is vis iting his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Osier. Thomas Walters and Thomas Ramsey are Sayre visitors this week D. D. G. Master Dr. Davies of Forksville, installed the following officers of Bernice Lodge No. 902 I. O. O. F. on Wednesday evening: N. G., 11. Baily; V. G., Wm. Dav if; Treas. J. 8. Line; N. G. Support er, Ira Powers and James Spence, Sr.; Warden, J. Ditch burn; Con., Barclay Kuggan; V. G. Supporters, C. B. Watson and D. Schoonover. Arther Miner is under Dr. .Bren nans care for tousilitis. Mrs. Daniel Schoonover is visiting Bradford county iriends. Jairi£s 11. Gansel the Democratic candidate for Sheriff tidied on the voters of this place last week. I). G. S., C. B. Watson raised up the following chiefs of Kakonka Tribe No. 86. Order of Red Men on Monday Sleep: Sac., D- Dempsey; S. S., Barclay Duggan; J. S., P. H. McGee; Prof., James Cooners; Ist San., F. McMahon; 2nd San.. John Lonie; Trusteef James Connors. Judson Brown, the Republican candidate for Sheriff was shaking hands with the voters at this place, and they all claim that he is quali fied in e vary respect to fill the im portant office of sheriff, A verdict awarding £777 for injur ies at Eagles Mere, was won by Miss Helen dumm in a suit against the W. N. B. railroad beard last week in the Lycoming county court. It was claimed by the plaintiff that in September she and another lady left the Forest Inn and took the train for the lower end of the Lake, getting off at Eagles Mere Alter the train had left the station they started to wnlk over the plat form to the iK>at landing, and in the center of tlr* platform Miss CI mini) stumbled over the stool used to as sist people on and off the trains, throwing her heavily to the plat form, cutting her face and mouth severely. She also sustain**! a bad ly sprained hand and arm, from which it is claimed she will never fully recover. The defense in the case was contributory negligance on the part of Miss Chimin in not look ing where she was walking. The plaintiff is matron of the institute of Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Children in New York City. Montrose has been selected by Dr. Alexander Torrey, the evangel ist and Christian worker, as the most suitable location in the east for the establishment of a bible con ference. For the past two years Dr. Torrey has made a tour of various cities in the east and finally decided upon Montrose as offering the best advantages for suchan institution. Studies similiar fb those in the school at northfieid, Mass. which Dwight L. Moody founded, will l>e pursued. The Rev. John Mclnnis, pa-tor of the Ist. Presbyterian church in montrose, who has been working hard to have pr. Torrey select Montrose, announced Sunday that his efforts had been successful. . Hundreds of people will be brought to Montrose each Sunday by the new institution, and it will also bring many families to that city to live permanently. It costs more to either live or die in Beaver county than it did former ly. Notice of an advance in price of foods and in the price of burying people have been given out by the grocers and endertaking people. The undertakers association of Beav er county informed the county com missioners that it could not afford to bury the county dead for 118, the present rate aad demands S3O. The prices of funerals and necessary ac cessories to all others have also been increased 10 per cent. There is a general howl, but the (teople can take their choice. At the recent term of court in Columbia county, a saloon keeper, charged wiih selling liquor on Sun day, was ordered by the court to close his saloon for three months, taking his license for that period of time.