Republican News Item. VOL. XII. NO 28 1^24^000 $44,000 ) r Which Do You Prefer • P The average man earns about Si, ioo a year. He/* V works 40 years and earns a total of §44,00 in a life / time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or / V S6OO tor a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a J J life time The difference between $44,003 and N C 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a J ? practical education in dollars and cents The in-\ \creased self-respect cannot be measured in money. X Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when \ V the international Correspondence Schools, of Scran - ✓ /ton Pa., can give you an educat on that will make \ V high salaried nun of you ? No matter what line of I y work you care to follow, this great educational In- V \ stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at x r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. UurQ \local Representative will show you how you can > your earning capacity. Look him up today. ✓ > He " C. F.BREUKAIT, COLE. < HARDWARE.7 No PlaceXike this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House furnishiug Goods, Tools of Even 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 frotn a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating am General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel nsfto re, ffa The Shopbell Dry Good Co., " 313 Pine Street, PA. In the VyQst Possible This store is in the best possible shape for autumn and winter business. Every section is completely eqnip ped with carefully chosen merchandise that is being of feredat the lowest possible price. Ladies' Stylish Garments Thi# store is justly proud of its garment showing—Here are Stylish Suite, Jack ets Shirif«. the choice ot the best makers anil you lon't pay a fancy price tor them either. '*¥9l mmmm BIjA <ETS AND OOMFOKTABLEB. WIMTER HOSIERY'. T l '» warmth and worth is here lor you It's time to look alter winter hosiery, rind >•! cannot go wrong in buying You'll not find a better line anywhere to bini U. te and comforters here. White choose from than we are showing. We and gray blankets in all qualities. To ex open the stocking selling with some ex amine will convince of our desire to give tea values in ladies' hose at th • be«t at the lowest price. 12'. 15, -•> and 35c Plain and Mixed Suitings are readv to show you the most complete line ot fancy mixed Suitings and plain fabrics you will find everywhere for 5tV. Outing Flannel We are showing a particular good assortment of dark and light Inncy striped iwd checked outing flannel. Every buyer will save by buying tl.es - now at Bc, 10c, 11c. and liM emits. Plain Waists We ha vejiiFt rere vcf i mpw lot of plaid silk ami worsted %vaiy*t? that are very stylish an<] moderately priced. Subscribe lor the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1907. "TELL HER SHE MUST." | The Doctor's Mistake, Which Was ' Corrected by the Married Man. ■ The family physician puffed aiedtta ti\ely at bis cigar for a few minutes l>efore coming down to business. "I have been to see your wtfe, as you requested." tie said at lust, "and 1 , asked you to come in so that 1 could j tell you what should he done. She's j in a pretty bad way." "Indeed?" "Yes. No regular sickness, you kuow, j hut generally run down and iu bad | shape. With rest aud care she'll come j out all right, but you'll have to look , after her pretty closely." ! "I beg your pardon." j "I say you'll have to look after her pretty closely. You'll have to appoint yourself sort of general overßeer or su pervisor of everything pertaining to her welfare for a time and be very strict with her too. Iu the first place, fell her she must"— "Doctor, are you acquainted with my wife?" interrupted the husband. "Not intimately at all," replied the astonished physician. "I've been call ed upon to treat her ouce or twice, as you know, but that is all." "Possibly that may be urged aa an excuse," said the husband, "but it's not a particularly good one. There are women with whom you are quite well acquainted, are there not?" "Certainly." "Married women?" "Many of them." "And still von advise me to tell my wife diat she must do something or other?"' The physician looked at the busband, and the husband looked at the physi cian "My dear sir," said the physician at last, "it Hatters some men to talk to them thai way, but I see you are a man of judgment and sense who pre fers the truth to all else. Of course what I mean is that you ought to sug gesi to your wife that if it Is in ac cord with her Judgment possibly it might lie a good thiug to follow the advice that I will now give you. Nat urally, being married. I know as well as you that •must' is a word that ought to l>e eliminated from (he English lan guage or at the most confined to the Intercourse of parents with children." —Exchange. JAPANESE STRATEGY. Getting Rationa Into Korea Brfor« In vading That Country. When the celebrated Japanese soldier Hldeyoshl was making preparation? for his invasion of Korea be was ap proached one day by the veteran Asann Xngauiasa. who engaged htui in the following colloquy. It Is recorded in Walter Dealing's "New Life of Toro toiui Hldeyoshl:" Nagamasa—What commlsslariat ar rangements had better be made? Hldeyoshl—Well, you had better get ready 3.000.000 koku of rice. N'.—What Is to lx> done with the rice after it is ready? ll.—Use every transport that is to be had and send it over to Fusan. N.—After luiullng It, how are we te protect it? ll.—Don't protect it; let it fare as it will. X.—lf we do that the Koreans will capture It all. 11.—Well. Isn't that what we want? N.—But if we lose our provisions wt shall be in trouble. ll.—lt is a case of 0,000,000 koku. Sucb a quantity of rice is uot to be carried off In a hurry, nor can it be consumed iu a short time. N.—But the Koreans will carry It In land. ll.—lf they do that, nothing could suit us 1 letter. To get the enemy to.de your transport service for you for the! amount of rice that can be consumed on the road is good enough. By adopt ing this plan our troops will always find provisions waiting for them as they advance. What Hideyoshi predicted actually ■ did take place, and rice that had been carried off by the KQreans was report edly recaptured by tbe Japanese. Why He U a Bachelor. "I've beeu very close to matrimony several times," remarked a confirmed old bachelor al nn uptown club,"and every time ui.v inclination has been sidetracked by the same sort of iuci-, dent—the discovery of a trait which appears to be practically universal among the fair sex." "Drink?" asked tbe eyulc. "No: the confidence gaiue. Every j woman I ever knew intimately wat j sure to relute to ine eventually some | ibiiig in "strictest confidence,' whtcb later it appeared had been told to her I iu 'strictest contidence.' 1 won't tic I; up with a woman who does that." i "Guess you'll die single, all right," said the cynic. "I'm sure of it." said tbe bachelor.— ' New York Globe. ! ' Her Expense Account. I "How is your lady drummer dolng?"- "Prottv fair Hut. say?" "Yes?" I "You o;ight to hear the bookkeepet I swear as lie checks off the face pow der IIIKI fudge."— Courier- I Journal. The news from liarrisburg is to the effect that the StateV attorney are hard at work on the cases against the Capitol looters; that valuable ad ditional evidence has been secured, and that every effort to delay the tri tls will be resisted by the common wealth. This is not fulfilling the prediction of onr Democratic contemporaries all over the State in the recent cam paign. In the attempt to make a partisan issue of the Capitol mattsr they did not hesitate to assert that if Mr. Sheatz were elected State Treasurer there would bo no pros ecution of the indictments. Fortu nately, it was a statement so ex. travagant, ill-advised and medacious that no attention was it by the intelligent voters of the com mon wealth. The ends of injustice will not la* subserved by any attempt to make the Capitol cases a matter of partisan politics. State Treasurer Berry who is better informed than the Democrat news papers, in a thoroughly manly way express his confidence that the prosecution would be carried on in good faith, testifying his belief that the com mission which made the investiga tion was sincere; that the Governor is in earnet. and that the council for commonwealth will do their duty. The people of the State generally have the same, confidence- The cases are in able and trustworthy hands. No weakness has been shown so far. All that could be properly done up to this time has been done. 11 has been necessary to keep the prosecution on a sure footing as re gards all the law ami the facts, and to make no false step. If it had been made a subject of partisan conten tion the condition to-day would l>e very different from what they are. Now that the election is over, even our Democratic contemporaries can afford to treat the prosecutions from a diffrent stand poiut, and to help' promote the ends of justice rather than of party. —Phila. Press. The first of the new coins designed by the late Augustus St. Gaudens, under the general direction of Pres ident Roosevelt, hasj reached the treasury department from the Phil adelphia mint. It is the $lO gold piece, and for the first time since 1873 the words "In God we trust," are omitted from the coin. It i.«. understood that these words will We omitted from the coins of all other denominations, according to the de signs approved by President Roose velt. The Secular League of the Dis trict of Columbia and other organi zations of the name kind have lieen making a campaign for years against the use of the name of the Deity in Thanksgiving proclamations and va rious official documents, and espec ially against the use of the motto "In God we trust" on the coins of the nation. All the old coins above the dime hear this motto. The new gold coin bears on oue side a spread eagle holding a number of arrows iu its talons and on the other side the head ol an Indian in war custuuie. It is only a few days past 47 years when Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United (States for his first term* While those wer« "strenuous" times they constituted a somewhat differnt strenuosity from those we enjoy today. Then it was to throw off the yoke of slavery, while now it is to through off the bondage of, illegally constituted and conducted corporations. President Lincoln seemed able to effectually cope with the problem of his day, and President Roosevelt is making pretty fair progress in his efforts to accomplish the purpose which the | American people have outlined for him. Each of these Presidents ap parently sized up the situation I which confronted them when occu pying the Presidential chair. Pure food agents reeently took fifty samples of the cheaper grades of candy at Altoona. The report of the chemist shows most of them eon j tain sulphuric acid and coal tar dye 1 Vinegar samples sent with the candy never saw apples, says the chemist. The guilty will be pro secuted- After all there is a good deal in talk. Let a man talk tlull times and it is infectious, everybody talks dull times. Instead of rustling around to take c.'ire of what business there is, they all go sit down and mope over dull times, if a customer does happen to drop into one of these dull "times" stores he actually gets frightened out of one-half what lie expects to buy, because things look so blue. He catches the spirit of the store ami resolves to hang onto all his money with a de.ith grip. Kven if his business goes to pieces on ac count" of running short of goods to fill up the empty shelyt s. The bug l»ear of hard times should be sat down.upon. If is doing more to kill business than anything else. Tell a man he Is sick, keep it up and you will eventually hound him to deatii. Method* of high finance as laid bare in the Walsh ease at Chicago, reveals that any dishonest bank president who controls stock com panies may violate the hanking iiws without fear of discovery and loot the Imnk of all its available funds. Assistant I'nited .States At torney Dohyns in his opening state ment in the Wnlsh case told the jury that was done for perhaps 20 years by John 1). Walsh, who be came a millionaire by the practice. According to the government Walsh had more than one half of the funds of his three banks in his possession when the examiners discovered their condition and forced the insti tutions into liquidation. Walsh's banks were examined at regular in tervals by state and national officers. Uy shifting the assets of all three tmnks to the one uinler examination the attorney charged, Walsh avoid ed detection until a simultaneous examination of the banks disclosed the device. Mr. Dohyns charges in substance were as follows: "For years Walsh helped himself to the millions in the banks. He .avoided the law which prohibits the lending of more than 10 per cent to any bor rower by selling to the bank the stocks and bonds of his companies. These supposed securities he voted to himself in unlimited quantities. When the banks were forced into the hands of receivers, Walsh owed theru $21,000,000. lie had just taken $7,500,000 ami already owed them $14,000,000. During the long period he was looting the bank, Walsh was the owner of a party newspaper, gas and electric compan ies, railroads and at least 25 big en terprises. lie was political and fi nancial king of Chicago. He made and unmade a number of high offic ials who are now standing by him with their influence. Uy means of his influence, he obtained use of the state and city funds, without inter est, and received practically as a gift from office holders, Interest amount ing to $5,000,000. With this he laiil the foundation of a fortune that now aggregates at least $20,000,000. Then the banks failed, Walsh gave tin clearing house association notes for (lie money he had abstracted from the vaults. His defalcation then was known to be $7,500,000. Ex amination of the secret books and checks since then disclosed that In had already obtained #11,000,000. The only security for this for this vast sum was a lot of unmarketable bonds and stocks in his companies and Ihousamls of 'dummy' notes. At least 29 subordinatee signed notes, aggregating millions of dol lars. Tlie names of the assistant cashier ami other employes are sign ed to at least $2,9(H),000 of the dum my notes." Thejury selected to try Walsh were nine farmers and three busi ness tueu. Fish Warden Biley, who is serv ing a term of 1300 days in the Lu zerne county jail at Wilkesßarre for failure to pay a fine of SI3OO, will continue to serve the sentence, as the pardon board refused to grant him a pardon. He made a practice of Ashing while patroling trout streams in his official capacity and all sizes of trout looked six inches to him. He sold several lots of fish and was caught after making one sale contnining 130 trout under the legal fize. His penalty was a tine of SI3OO and costs and in default of payment he was sent to jail. 75C PLR YEAP BERNICE ITEMS. M.. Frank Crossley of La Porte was transacting: business in town Friday. Charles Jackson of Berwick wa s visiting his parents Mr. ami .Mrs. C. K. Jackson of this place, last w« <k. Mr. Jauies Mellody ofSeranton, was visiting friends at this place Monday and Tuesday. Mr. ami Mrs Brown and family of of Clinton Springs are visiting Mil dred friends. Mr. Barklay Deegan of Mildred was at Hayre Monday an 1 Tuesday of 1 <st week. Mrs. John McDonald and daughter Millie of Punxsutawney are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Daley of Mildred. Mr. and Mrs John lloffa of Du shore, were calling on friends at this place Sunday. Arthur Herst son of David Hurst was seriously injured in the mines last Wednesday. He was attended by I)r. M. E. Herman of I)n>hore, who though! he should he removed to the Say re hospital for treatment, which was done. Mr. and Mrs. ('. K, Jackson gave another phonogaph entertainment one night last week and will con tinue to have them during the win ter ,whi h will he greatly enjoyed hy those attending the same. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Jackson are intitled to the thank- of the com munity. William Ore and Dougherty of Philadelphia were calling on friends at this place and looking for game but were caught as suckers hy the members of the rabbit-foot club. Gypsies first appeared in Europe about 6(10 years ago. They are sup posed to have come from Egypt, and were called Egyptians, from which fact comes their nam*. It his how ever, been proved conclusive ly from their peculiar language that they actually came from Northern India. They first appeared in Tur key amljfreece, after finding their way into the Balkan States and Hungary. From these latter coun ries they spread throughout Europe Small and dark, nomadic in ill -ir habits, and many of them "prettily theftuous'' to quote Robert Lewis Stephens, they never amalgamated with the people among whom they dwell. Though there are many gyp •ties in England, the United States tnd other nations, it is in Itoumania Hungary and Russia that they are chiefly found, their numbers in that part of europc being placed at 500.000 The French call them "Bohemians." which fact according to some author ities comes the use of that word to discrlbe the care-free life of idlers. Dispensaries fur the examination and treatment of people suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs will lie established in every county of Pennsylvania by State Health Com inissiouer Dixon. These dispensa ries will be located in the must cen tral point of the county and will l>c in charge of the county medical in spector, who will be under the gen eral direction of Dr. T. 11. A. Stiles. The dispensary is intended for the benefit of patients to poor to pay for medical attention, and who may for various reasons, be unwilling or un able togo to a sanitarium. The phy sician in charge v* ill be expected to make an examination, and when necessary prescribe for such patients. It is the intention of Commissioner Dixon to use as few drugs as possi ble, depending mainly upon fresh air and a forced feeding treatment. The ginseng root grows in tliis section' of which there are quite a number all seem to IK- doing well. An acre ol ginseng is roughly esti mated to he worth about s.*>,ooo, ami it is probable that there is about that amount of ground under cultivation in and around Tunkhannock, di vided among the following men: Benjamin Conard, Is. \V. Lewis, Holla Frear, W. Kittredge, Charles A. graham, Benjamin Frey S. S. Hatfield I)r. B. K Bidleman. Har man Ball of East Lemon, has a bed of roots sxlß feet square, which In sold this year to B. F. Connor for #B3. The roots were three years old. William Ba«*on of Xicholis town ship, has nearly a half acre of roots under cultivation, from which he realizes hundreds of dollars every, year. —Tunkhannock Kepuhlieau-
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