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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.
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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-