VOL. XII. NO 44.
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\ The average mnn earns about si, ico a year.
/ works 40 years and earns a total of $44,00 in a
\ time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or /
J S6OO tor a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I
\ life time. The difference between $44,000 and
J OOO is $20,000. I his is the minimum value of ap
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A lot of second hand stove 3 and ranges for sale cheap.
Vve 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.
Skimuel
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313 Pine Street,
WILLI AMSPORT, PA.
NEW BLACJ^
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The Newest In Lace Waists
W itli hundreds of different styles being introduced by the makers it ii> a com
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REPUBLICAN I\CWS IICIIS.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY. MARCH 19, 1908.
I Everybody likes to see "flush"
\ times—times when work is plenty,
j when money is plenty, and pretty
j nearly everyone except the chronical
ly thriftless money to spend.
But flush times have their draw
hacks. They are not an unmitigated
good. They lead to extravagance,
and later to hard times, and too often
to often actual want. During the
past three or four years a flairs in the
United States were unusually pros
perous. All our industries were
busily at work, and there was a de
mand anil ready sale for everything
they turned out. Along with it
all wages were good, and every man
who cared to work had money in
his pocket. Unfortunately, this de
mand for labor ami the reward it re
ceived iu wages did not incline men
to take a look ahead. .Sufficient for
the day is the evil thereof, and they
looked not to what might come.
Their money came in handfulls and
went in the same way. Very little
was laid aside for the next week or
the next year. That is why there is
so. much want in the cities today,
so many applications for help, it
will not do to say that, although
wages were high, it took every cent
earned to keep the pot boiling, and
that nothing could be put aside for
a rainy day. How is it that thous
ands have to get along today with
far less than they spent one year ago?
They have to do it, and that is why
they can.
Take tne french people, for ev
ample. They earn far less than the
American in the same class, and
yet ninety-nine out of every hundred
contrive to lay by some money for
the future. True they do not live
so luxuriantly as the American
people. They are not like children
who think they must have every
bauble that pleases them, and buy it
whether they can afford it or not.
High wages nearly always lead to ex
travagances. It is far easier to learn
to spend than to learn to save, and ,
once the spending habit has been
contracted it is very difficult to break
away from it.
The man who has contracted the
saving habit hard times never send
to the soup bouse. He is to a certain
extent, prepared for them. How fre
quently we see two men, getting
the same pay, working and living
side by side- One lives comfortably
in a house bought with his savings,
and money besides. The other lives
in a rented house ,und always will.
He has not acquired the saving hab
it.-Ex.
The new law which gives a person
charged with crime the right to
waive the finding of the grand jury
and go before the court and plead
guilty, is proving a blessing in Penn
sylvania. Iu Bradford county alone
criminal court business is falling off
greatly, and the number of quarter
session cases are becoming less and
less. Only this week, three prisoners
took advantage of the new law,
waived the grand jury proceedings, I
went before the court and have now
started into serve their sentences, j
This makes ten persons at least, who
during the past three months have
done likewise, saving the county the
expense of costly trials, and earning
for themselves a slight reduction in
their terms of imprisonment. It is
a good law, and the time is not far
distant when a court trial of petty
cases will bean unusual proceedure.
—Reporters journal, Towanda.
Notice of Transfer.
Notice in hereby jriven that a petition
for the transfer of retail Liquor Licence
lor a Hotel or Tavern heretofore granted
to Mrs. Catherine Cuminiskev of l>ushore
Borough, to P. .1. l-'inan, has this da_v
been filed in my office ami the same will
be presented is the Court of (Quarter
Sessions ot Sullivan Co., on Monday,
March 23, at ten o'clock a. in
ALBERT 1". H EESS. Clerk.
N' tire is hereby given that a Petition
tor i lie irsi nsl'er of a Retail Liquor License
lor :i KeMaurant heretofore granted to
Pairic-k E. Mehonald of Onshore Boro.,
to Patrick Haley, has this day been filed
i» my office, and the same will be preci-nt
ed to the Court of Quarter Sessions of
Sullivan County on Monday, March 2.5,
1908, at ten o'clock, a. in.
ALBERT H. 11 KKSS, Clerk.
Clerk's office, Laporte Ta., Mch. 10, 19GS.
'lo lure I'oiialipattion furovet.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c 0r250
It C. C. C. fall to cure. druggists refund tnuncv
Foley's honey and Tat
[ wires colds, prevents pneumonia.
A New Political Parly.
A new political element will have
to ho reckoned with in the coining
campaign for the presidency. The
Independence League, of whom the
prime mover is W. R. Hurst, have
decided to call a convention to make
nominations after the regular Re
publican and Democratic candidates
have been putin the field next sum
mer. It is also purposed to adopt the
name National party, and a platform
which judiciously combines some of
the chief ideas of both parties has
been drafted. That the prospects of
a third ticket, which may attract
many independent or dissatisfied
voters and hold the balance of power
in close states, is seriously disturb
ing to the interests of certain pros
pective candidates is apparent, and
may have considerable to do with
shaping the nominations. The most
astonishing rumor eonncted with the
new Hearst movement is that after
the other conventions have nominat
ed, the National Independence
League, having nothing to gain by
indorsing their work or putting up
its own candidates, will name Mr.
Roosevelt as his own successor willy
nilly, and keep him before the pub
lic despite auy withdrawal, hoping
to secure an up-rising of the people
for his re-election. Nothing more
surprising could be found in the field
of political developments.
Heavy Financial Losses.
"The wreck of the United .States
Independent Telephone Company"
is the subject of an article by Frank
S Ellsworth in the March number of
Public Service. It gives the high fi
nance history of the inception career
and collapse of w hat is termed "the
most ambitious independent tele
phone project attempted, a trans
continental line that was not built
and losses agregating $7t),o0o,000."
The article illustrates in a most
striking way the evil effects of water
ed stock. It says the collateral tru>t
'five per cent, bonds were of a highly
speculative rather than an invest
ment character, and no doubt in
fluenced by the directorate, snper
anuated clergymen, trustees of es
tates. widows and others, put all of
their funds into them.
The result of the failure is summed
up in this paragraph:
"The annooceinent by the referee
that the properties had been sold to
the recognization committee (for
>250,000) was the closing phase of a
chimera that cost the people of Ro
Chester an actual money loss through
the decline in the price of securities
not far from 410,000,000; that had
been the mother of many mortgages
to secure money with which to take
iip loan.-; th:it had brought panic
conditions upon the city a full yeai
before the before the depression ol
1907; that had caused the severance
of many friendships and a recesion
ill business that resulted in a loss to
the manufacturers of Rochester of
fully $60,000,000."
Northern New York grangers will,
probably have the annual outing at
Thousand Islands In August.
The place for the ne\t isettug of th»'
New York state grange has not j«t'
been selected.
Resolutions.
At a regular moetiiigof Fox grange
No. 310. held March 14th. 11)08, The
following resolutions wereadopted:
"Whereas it hath pleased the great
Architect of the universe to remove
from our midst our late sister Mrs.
James Ilawley and
Whereas; it is but just that a fit
ing recognition of her many virtues
shall be had. Therefore be it
"Resolved that our charter be draped
in mourning for thirty days. .
Resolved, that it is a just tribute
to the memory of the departed to
say that in regretting her removal
from our midst we mourn for one
who was worthy of our respect and
regard.
"Resolved, that these resolutions
be spread upon the records of the
Lodge, anil a copy of these be trans
mitted to the family of our deceased
sister, and to each of the news-papers
of Sullivan County.
Amy McKay )
Zoala Mason : Connuittc.
Hazel Voorhees. J
An Enjoyable Wedding at Shunk.
Mr. Floyd Fuller and Miss Maude
Rumsey were united in bonds of
matrimony at the home of the
bride's mother, Mrs. Cora Rumsey,
in Fox township, Tuesday, March
10, 1908, in the presence of a gather
ing of friends and relatives. Miss
Eudora Salisbury played the wed
ding march as the contracting par.
ties entered the parlor, led hy the
bride's sister, Miss Lena Rumsey
and Mr. Walace Brenchley. When
in the center of the room they sep
arated, the bride and groom step
ping in front, the sisters and broth
ers and their partners forming a
half circle in front of A. B. Kilmer,
J. P., who performed a plasant and
appropriate ceremony, followed hy
congratulation* and music. The
company was then invited into the
dining room where the table was
beautifully decorated and laded
with a large variety of good things
for the appetite, which, after being
satisfied, all returned to the parlor
and enjoyed themselves with music
and social games until 12 p.m. when
they departed for h iiue well pleased.
A. (fuest.
Horse Sticks in the Mud.
While Sullivan county can not lay
claim to having the best roads in
the State it can however boast of
having nothing that will quite
compare with her sister Lycoming
county. The Willismsport News
published an item of news concern
ing Joseph Bubb, a resident of Bas
tress who was on his way to William
sport Saturday, when, at a point near
the Luxenberger farm, on the Mon
toursville road, his horse stuck in
the mud, and in its efforts to free it.
self fell over, making the situation
worse. Mr. Bubb was unable to get
the horse on its feet or aid it in any
way, as he, to, might have become
stalled in the mud. Mathew Boyer, a
neighbor, happened along, and they
proceeded to the nearest farm house
where a large rope used to pull hay
into the mow was borrowed. They
managed to get one end tied around
the horse, and by the use of a block
and tackle succeeded in pulling it to
one side of the road, where it was
able to get on its feet again. The
horse covered from he-id to foot with
mud, was led to a nearby stream and
washed, after which Mr. Bubb cou
tinued his journey to Williamsport.
$6,000,000 to Appcas Thirst.
According to the figures certified
to the clerk of the .courts by the
brewery companies in Luzerne
county and on which the license fee
is based, there was a total of 510,213
barrels of beer brewed by the eleven
breweries during 1907. This is a
big increase over the year previous
.md shows that the temperance wave
is having little effect on the thirsty
in our neighboring county.
Figuring each glass of beer as one
half a piut, there were 257.147,352
glasses brewed in Luzerne county in
twelve months. Even allowing 20,
000 barrels as waste there were still
a quarter billion glasses brewed.
Estimating at 5 cents a glass, this
would amount to $12,500,000, to be 4
expended by the beer drinkers. Pro
bably much of it was sold to thecoiv
sumers in larger quantities than the
glass. But even estimating at one
half it would he more than six mill
ion dollars.
A Peublo Colorada mother has
come to the front with a good ex
ample for many other mothers to
follow. Just as her daughter was
about to be led to the altar last Satur:
day evening by L. W. Stantey, Miss
Callie Fanehier was seized by her
mother taken to the kitchen, anil
forced to work at the wash tub all
night, guarded by two brothers.
The mot Iter declares the girl is un
der age and wants Stanley to keep
away from the house.
Judge Landis, who fined the Stand
ard Oil company twenty-nine mil
lions of dollars, has just sentenced a
working man to i»ay one vent for vio
lating the postal laws. The differ
ence in the two cases- lies in the fact
that the workiug man paid his tine.
Fifty of the latest songs for 20 cents.
Send stamps or silver. R. (J. Wing
& Co., 14 Pine street., Eltnira, N ,Y.
75C PLR YEAP
In the Realm ol Local Politics.
The Delegates to the Republican
National Convention to he held in
Chicago In June will be Hon. Fred
A. Godcharles of Milton, and James
Scarlet of Danville, while petitions
for alternate national delegates have
been filed for Edwin G. Sylvara of
Dushore, and George E. Rohrhaeh,
a merchant of Sunhury, Pa.
At a Democratic Committee meet
ing held in the courthouse at this
place Monday Mr. W. B. Ritter of
Laporte was elected county chair
man and \V. C. Graifley as treas
urer. Editor George Streby was re
tained as secretary of the committee.
A large number of Democratic can
didates were present and all were
hustling for their individual inter
ests. There appeared to be but lit
tle friction in the transaction of such
business that passed the hands of
the committee.
Gur two energetic townsmen, and
democratic candidates for political
honors at the coming primary, Mes
srs. John riassen, Jr., and lv. M.
Crossley are both scratching dirt
with such a vengence that the out
come would seem to indicate a vic
tory for both and give the county
seat the distinction of having two
candidates in the field. Mr. Crossley
is canvassing for the office of coun(/
commissioner and Mr. Hassen for
county treasurer.
Should the oflice seek the man,
or the man seek the oflice ? For
years this has been a subject for
discussion and unless the new
primary law effects a change foreign
to present conditions it will con
tinue to be discussed for years to
come. Arguments for the former
are undeniably strong, but as there
is an exceedingly large number
who believe, or rather, prefer to
practice the latter, the News Item
realizes it to be a delicate subject
to handle. The Republican Com
mitteemen are also well acquainted
with this fact and in endeavoring
to treat with it fairly have been
greatly burdened in their effort to
place capable men into oflice. or
rather, have the oflice seek the
man. Following the established
custom, the Committeemen met
recently and fully discussed all ex
isting conditions and determined
upon the requirements and the
selection of suitable timber with
which to successfully meet the op
posing forces. So long as the He
publican party continues to follow
this precedent, so long will they
continue to reap victory, and better
still, will we continue to have able
and efficient officers, as the Dem
ocrats must have candidates equal
ly, able or be hopeless of success at
the hands of our intelligent voters
who have in the past showed ex
cellent judgment in handling the
ballot. We see in the Democratic
j ranks a hungry army for oflice.
That some are good, bad and in
; different is a self-admitted fact.
As to who will win, no one knows.
To say that the Republican Com
mittee recommended a strong anil
eminently qualified ticket would
be to state an acknowledged fact.
; When the oflice seeks the man it
is filled with honor; when sought
by the man there remains a gambl
ing chance to our way of reason
ing.
Will Not Refuse to Reimburse,
The State authorities at Harris
burg have not as yet refused to re
imburse counties for payment of
bounties on the scalps of foxes,
minks and other noxious animals
covered by the Kieth act, although
fully $15,000 of the $">0,000 appro
priated for two years has been paid
out. The auditor general's depart
! ment is insisting upon proof and
j efforts are being made to have tho
; counties get rid of professional hunt
| ers. Dr. Kalbfus, State game com-
I missioner, approves of the pre
; cautious and the law, except that he
{thinks various kindsof hawks should
jbe included and a larger appri pri
, at ion made.