VOL. XII. NO 39. C The average man earns about si. ko a year. Hf r y works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a \ time. The average dav laborer gets &2.000 a day or 112 J S6OO tor a year of }oo days He earns $24 000 in a I life time. The difference between $14,c0 >andß24-Q J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a 7 \ practical education in dollars and cents The in-C y creased self respect cannot be measured in mon-y. S \ Why not stop plui?g:naf awav at a small salary when 112 / the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran V \ ton. Pa., can give you an cducat on that will make X high salaried man of you ? No matter what line ot \ / work you care to follow, this great educational In Q v stitution can prepare you in your sp ire lime and at X r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. \ local Representative will show you how you can V triple vour earning capacitv Look him up today, r S is " > / C. IF 1 . IBIE?, "E3STXnT A IST, S O. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. CO HA^DWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OE WOO ID HE ATERS; ONE OP 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 Genera! Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, • 112 WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Among tl)e Women's Coals Today we have surely reached the climax of low prices on Long Winter Cloth Coats We have left G Ladies' Long Cloth CHILDREN'S CLOTH Coats that we are closing out at COATS sw».Oo e art> c | o8 j n{ , ou ( what we have left at ahoui one-halt'the former price. 10 Ladies' Long Cloth Coats, made of FURS mi.M'd material. They were $lO to 5 5 112 «,,,•.«» ■ . AH rar .Scarfs and novelty Neck NOW $5 00 Pieces are being closed out at a big re duction. 11 ! idles' Lone < 'loth r-oats of dark CLOTH SUITS mix.-1 material. Former prices were , , , sl2. to $17.00. We have about a dozen Ladies Cloth Qnn Suits, mixed materials. Mostly small NOW o.'»). sizes that we have marked down to $5.00 Another small lot that were reduced from SIB.OO to OUTING FLANNELS SIO.OO One loi ot fancy striped and checked Outing Flannel that were 8 cents. NOW 6 l-°p t 'lie lot of Caracal Cloth Coats,in black grey, navy and brown. These have been Another lot of better quality that were good sellers this season for S2O 00 I ] cents. NOW 12.50 FOR 9c. The best !2-j cent quality shown this • >ne lot ot Ladies' Short Cloth Coats season. of stout figure. Plain materials, ltegu- wad ir>(» lar prices were sl4-00 to £17.(Ml Now, $7, $9, and SIO.OO NVt u . ar , e -ce.ving almost every day ' • new \Y afh Good* an<i Oingnaras. Subscribe for the News Item Republican i\ews uem. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1908. A curious s<»<juol to tlif li-cent-fare I legislation is presented by the fact that almost simultaneously with the 1 decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that our 2-cent-fare act is invalid ill the ease of the lVnn-yl vania Riilroad, be cause it is not fairly remunerative, i the New York "up State" Public l tilities ( 'dim mission, after it full in vestigation, found that such a ratej will not be unremunerative. This illustrates the difference in dealing with such questions, says j the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Governor j Hughes vetoed the New York 2-wilt- I I fare bill because lie believed that I ! such a question should be d-termined | l>y an inquiry into the facts b wring on each ease. The Pennsylvania Legislature passed the late act on the abstract view that such a rate is needed by the people. The Pennsyl vania courts inquired into the mat ter by one method and found the rate unremunerative, and by the law, therefore, invalid. The New York- Public I tilities Commission inquii ed into it by another method and up held the rate. As a result the rate stands in New York, with a prima I'acie endorsement by the authority constituted to investigate such ques tion-; while in Pennsylvania it in invalidated by the only authority which our legislation left to pass up on it. It is true that the New York commission arrived at its conclusion on different grounds than the Penn i -vlvania courts took into consider ation. One of its main reasons is that which underlay the popular judgment and the legislative action, namely, that by the sale of milage j tickets at the 2-eent rate the railroad ; -Jmwcd that rate to lie remunerative. | There will be the usual conflict of; opinion between the opposing ele- j ments as to which conclusion is right, j lsut the question being one of fact I rather than law a large proportion of j the people of Pennsylvania may use j the liberty of placing some faith in , the correctness of the New York ; t 'ommission decision. Following up its declaration that William Jennings Bryan's per. enuial candidacy for nomination for the presidency on the demo" j cratie ticket his practically ruined , the ; arty's chances for victory | in three campaigns and threatens to i do so a fourth time, the New York 'Svorld" prints an interestin gtable j which shows that in the ISOli j race the silver mining interests con- ! trihuted #2sh,ooo fi> the party's fund, i the total of which was $321,000 Commenting on these figures, the "world" says: t >ti another page •of.lan. 2dth. issue of the "World', the names of the pr incipal con. j tributors to the Democratic national campaign fund in ls<ir>. Nearlv lb I per cent, of the money (Mine from silver mine owners. Marcus Daly raised $150,000 and Senator William 'A. Clark, of Mon tana, than whom there has been no more audacious eorruplionist in poli tics, made a personal contribution of $45,000. The contributions made to the Dem ocratic National Commilte repre sented half of the fund raised by the silver mine owners to elect Mr. Bry an. The rest was contributed direct ly to state committees and to Popu lists and Silver Republican committ ees, Thus .Mr. Bryan's campaign lof IsOO was financed almost wholly jby mine owners who wanted the ; I'nited States Governor to double the market value of their silver. This was one of the few instances iu American history in which a great party voluntarily made itself the special agent of a single preda tory interest. The table shows that Marcus Daly W.A.Clark,!). 11. Moffat' W. 8. Stratton 1). M. Hyman and Denuis Sheedy were the principal contri butors, while Charles 1). Lane, the : Utah silver fund, and several others, made small contributions. ,The Bristol Gazette says that ai national convention is a good deal like a horse race. All the candi dates arc fir-t paraded on their way to the post. They line up for the start. There is a jockeying for |HH'I . tion ami an anxiety to get off first. After the start, the game is to get the inside position. W. C. T. V. Institute. The third institute in a series of ' County W. C. T. I', institute* will • be held in the church at East Forks, j Friday, Feb. 21, 1908. There will be an afternoon aud : evening session beginning at 2:30 | and 7:.'jo respectively. Those desiriug to remain for every session will kindly provide them- j selves with lunch. ! An interesting debute will be u • novel feature of the evening session. j These institutes are increasing iii| interest, enthusiasm and educncioual i value, and we invite evfcry one to J attend and share the benefits with i ,,s - An executive, meeting will be helb j | between session*. A full attendance !of members of the executive com mitte is desired, as business of more than ordinary importance will be t runsaeted. Sara A. Htickle, Co. Pres. l.ast year over 500,000 essays were written by the young people of the I nited States on"The vulue of Total 1 Abstinence to life" in essay contests held by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. We are proud to chronicle the fact that the essay written by Miss Jen-' nie Wilcox of Piatt, received "honor able mention" as being third best in the State of Pennsylvania. This year we want Sullivan County to take the first pri/.e (sls <Mi> in the state contest, and we kiud-1 ly invite the cooperation of teachers and all others interested iu edu cational work. The Womans Christian Ten»|»erance Union of Sullivan County offers a cash pri/.e of (2,00) and (1,00) for the second best essay written upon *uy of the following topics. They will also givo one years sub scription to the crusader monthly to all contestants who do not receive cash prizes. All essays must conform to the following rules and regulations, and may be written on any one of the topics mentioned below. tst the value of total abstinence to a lire. 2nd. The relation of alcohol to crime. 3rd. Tiie relation of alcohol to poverty. 4th. The relation of alcohol to in sanity. sth. The relation of total altstin ence to National prosperity. Hules. Ist. Contestants must be between fourteen and twenty-one years of age land must he residents of Sullivan ; ( oiiuty. 2nd. Hssays to be graded as fol ! lows:- One half on subject matter, one fourth on style and grammatical excellence, and one-fourth on ap pearance of paper, which shall in clude spelling and penuians'iip. :trd. Kssays to contain a maxim | noi of 1 -">00 words' and a minimum of moo words. Song quotations to be avoided, and ! clearness, accuracy and originality ' desinled. Ith. Essays to be unsigned, in con testants own hand writing, aud uj» on paper with one-half margin to lift. r>th. If teacher or pupil the name of school should accompany contest ants name,written upon separate pa per so that due credit may be given. i»th. Kssays- must be sent to Miss Sara A. Huekle, Forksville, Pa. be fore April Ist. I9os. By order of committee. Franklin, Jan. 29.—Thirty-five persons, many of them prominent, dropped Jan. 28 from the roll of the first Baptist church, the largest con gregation in the city, "owing to the lack of interest as shown by not con- j ributing to the necessary ti mi rices of, the church or in not sustaining the services by their attendance". One man was dismissed for drunk enness, one for fraud, and one im moral conduct. The pastor, the Rev. Dr. Fikes, said the weeding out of the unfaithful members would con tinue. Foley*s Honey Tar heals lungs mad atopa the tough. BANNER fit VB ' th« moat healing uln Vi tt>« warM* "Wilkes-Barre wa* in gala attire February 11th and 12th in celebra tion of the one hundredth anni versary of the first use of anthracite Lcoal commercially. Cn February tlth, iBOS, Judge Jesse Foil, a pio neer in Wyoming Valley, success fully burned anthracite, or "stone coal," as it was then disdainfully called, in an open grate and thus proved its value for commercial I purpose. Fifty yeur- to-a day after i .lodge Fell's discovery, the Wyom-! lng Historical society was organised ; in Wllke-Barre iu the tavern where j Judge Fell's experiments were tried. The Pennsylvania School of Agri culture will send out H7 young men this year from its winter course in agriculture, which covers twelve weeks of wintej-, and attracts young farmers who have had good experi ence at home before pursuing special studies. Some of these men are fitt iug themselves for work in creamer ies,and others are being prepared for charges ol'farms, orchards and dair ies. Many of them will return to their own farms, but there are some who are available for positions. A young man who has by training been made skillful in the use of his brains, as well as his brawn, in con ducting farming operations of course, can make himself doubly useful. Knowledge in power, lie can get better results out of the ground be cause he has been taught how togo about it. Members of the National Protect ive I.egion, whose policies mature this year, likely felt chills creep up their backs when they heard there cent division of the executive board of that organization. It was deemed necessary to reduce the dividend on class B. policies which mature this year, and meiul>ers holding these will receive only $113.58 in-tead of $250. This is $17.42 less than the amount paid Into the treasury of the Legion. The sick benefit will re main the same. The National otti cers agreed u|*m a ten per cent re duction in their own salaries and also voted that the same reduction be made iu the salaries of the higher paid organizers and office help. A large falling off in membership is anticipated, but the president of the Legion still takes a very optimistic view of the future of the fraternity The exodus of steerage passengers eastward, especially to continental countries, at the present time i* smashing all records. During th» tirst fifteen day* of January 21,021 third chiKS passengers left the United States for Euorpe, as compared with U,470 third class passengers in thi same period iu 1907 and 7,719 in 190t». The widows of Civil War veterans are greatly Interested over a new pension bill which wa* introduced in the House of .Representatives a few weeks ago. If the bill becomes a law every widow of a veteran ol the Mexican, Civil or Spanish- Ameicau w;tr will receive an in crease in her pension from #s to *l2 per month. The bill requirers that the widow of the Civil War veteran must have been married before 1890. The increase iu the pension appro priation to meet the requirements of the bill i«fl2,000,000. The local court f|»ent SSOO or more last week in settling a dis pute between litigants which actual ly involved only about jK4">. Those who are wont to say that justice is a mockery should consider the fact that the commonwealth Is willing to spend many times the amount of one's claim in order fiat justice may be determined.—New Age. From Burlington comes this tale of woe:- "Look out for this man, he calls and shows you a medicine call ed "new life," shows a lot of affida vits aud then guarentees it to cure ,Hiiy disease, selling a 30 days' treat ' nient for SI,OO. He tells you lie will !be back at such a time, and if not !cured he will pay you hack your ,money. He gets your money and never comes back. The medicine is 1 worthless." 7SC PLR YEAR Death of Or. John Corr. Dr. John Our, an eccentric pliy sician, who travels! on Coot over most of the counties in flu* section, Hradford, Susquehanna, Sullivan Wyoming and parts of Columbia counties, and probably other places, died at the Keelcr House in this place on Wednesday night, Feb. 1908. lie walked from Mehoopany here last Monday and was taken to the Keelcr House by Judge Terry, along toward evening, some one lim ing telephoned to the .Judge and ask <*l hint to look after him. The Dr. was suffering from pnenumonia brought on from exposure to the se vere cold weather of the past week. He wa« well known to most of the inhabitants hereabouts, traveling on toot and selling his >alves. liniments and other remedies, claimed to he made from herbs and roots, to all who would buy them. Thursday evening the Dr. had a stroke of par alysis and was unconscious thereafter until the time of his death. His residence was supposed to be Du shore, from papers found in his clothes after his death. I>r 1,. R .Mead took care of him from Tucs day morning until the time of his death. From strtements made by ; the deceased it was learned that lie would have been seventy-one years old if he had lived until next June, lie was never married and stated that he had no near relatives. As near as we could learn he was born in Lime Hill, Wyalusiug towp., Bradford county, and was educated at the Camptown Academy, a well i known school in those days. His father owned a farm and lie had brothers and sisters, but they h tveall passed away. In his younger days I the Dr. was considered to be a very bright fellow, but for some reason or other he became a wanderer and drifted into a nomadic way of living, heiug considered by m.my people as insane. If so he was always harm less, only insisting uqon his rights to practice medicine as an herbalist au'' r >!! >wer of the Tlrotusoniau the ory. ino ttoiy »■.»- i.!•:. h charge of by undertaker Streeter, but burial will not be triade until it is determin ed whether Dushoro borough or Wyoming will have to take charge of the remains. Peace be to his as Il l's after life's troubled dream. - -Tuuk liannock Democrat. Physicians Mvst Make Returns. Physician- who have thust far re fused or neglected to make return of vital statistics to the local registrar will do well to bear in mind the fact that under the law and decisions of the courts physicians must make such return, regardless of the fact • hat no compensation is provided for the work performed or the e.x (jence of forwarding the reports to the registrar. The physieiau is pro tected by the laws of the state, which citable him to regulate his practice, and he is expected to comply with the law which requires him to make proper return of vital statistic*. A number of prosecutions have been brought against physicians in differ ent parts of the state for neglect or refusal to comply with the law re quiring them to make, return of births and deaths coming to their knowledge, and in nearly every case the courts have upheld the law. The registration of the births and the deaths is a matter of importance, not only to the state, but to the fam ilies in which they occur, hence the physician should comply with the law in order that the state may have as accurate statistics of this character as is possible. It Can'! Stop Going UP. News paper lias taken another jump iu price, going up, we ' are infbnued. fiften cents on a hun dred. The Honesdule Independent i gives an apt illustration in the in creased price when it says:"lt will ' require the payment of nearly seven I hundred subscriptions to meet a bill for a carload of paper which has just arrived. Heretofore, al out half the number would pay for the same. ' quantity." AU publi-hcrs have the same trouble to contend with. Its the subscriber who keeps his paper paid in advance that makes It possi , ble for the editor to sleep o'uights.
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