VO L, XIII. NO. 6 < $24,000 —$44,000 I v Which Do You Prefer * r The average man earns about si,ioo a year. works 40 years and earns a total of $44 ,00 in a \ time. The average day laborer gets §2. 300 a day or 112 / S6OO (or a year of 100 days. He earns $24,000 in a I S, life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24-q J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a> V practical education in dollars and cents. The in-C J creased self-respect cannot be measured in money, s x Why not stop plugging away at a small, salary when ? ✓ the International. Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V 1 ton, Pa., can give you an education that will makeX 1 high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of \ J work you care to follow, this great educational \ stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at \ r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. \ local Representative will show you how you can V /'tripleyour earning capacity. Look him up today. ( He is > / C. IF 1 . A IST, > C. I. S. Representative. TOWAND A, PA. 1 : No Pl£tce Lik#this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, ■ „ ■ COAL OB "WOOD ./ HEATERS;• ' ! ;. ONJI OF 1 WINTER'S 1 OREAT DELIGHTS. House Furmishi? ig Goods, Tools of Every Description,, Gur Ammunitiui, Bargains th at bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. \ A lot of second hand jutoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in 5 .toves anything from a tine Jewel Base Burner to a low prii d but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repair.) ng, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel The Shop bell Dry Good Co., jr 313; Pine Street, r "in WILLI AMSPORT, PA. Sniß T(DAISTS Dainty 3 and Lov Prices. What will you have ? What will you pay? Tell us that and we will surprise y< >u with just the Waist you want — only prettier, and at a | )rice that will surprise you. Fine Hose : For Low Shoes Nothing like a silk stocking lor drese wear. We have a niee quality in las black lor SI.OO a pair—l>etter<iui ilities ii|> to 81.85. Beautilu! qualities in last bl: ick silk Gauze and cotton lisle hose in a variety of prices. Ladies' and children's ■ plain colored tan hose to match all shades ol lan >lioes. Ladies' Muslin Underwear We can but mildly «k>justie«t; to the goodness ol our undermuslins. They are •as pretty and as dainty as Undemai islins can he—they are stylish and perfect lilting, they are skillfully made of line- & ttnbric, muslin and nainsook. They are a s good as can be sold for their re.+pmrt ivc prices or they wouldn't be here. Wash Cottc »n Dress Fabrics Whether you consider wj-ality o " price or both you «ill find it to your profit to visit our wash good-section. Yon. -nay rind here many helps and suggestions lor he proper summer dress andcheap-« j nough to appeal lo your saving instincts. llm hfol lac " u> ,-C0l "' n " Wireless Umbrellas in all qualities lor 111 UI CI 1 ClO ladles asi I gentlemen. Hu van umbrella mad* near your home town and have the best'irna de for the price y*u want to pay. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY JUNE 11, 1908. A process of sterilizing milk, that unlike most methods, introduces no substance having injurious or dis agreeable effects, is that of adding one-twenty-fifth of one per cent of hydrogen peroxide. The milk is preserved many nays almost abso lutely freed troin micro-organism In tests reported form Hudapest,dis ease germs—like enteric fever, chol era, dysentery and tuberculosis were added, but quickly disappeared and left no trace. Neither the taste of the milk nor its digestibility were in the least perceptible degree altered. .So let the milk drinker cheer up. The time may come when he can in dulge in his favorite healthful bever age with nothing to cause him alarm. Many of the Early Prospectors Select ed the Names of Wives or Sweet hearts, Which Stand Now as Remind ers of Romances of Bygone Days. Behind the names of many of the mining claims und mines of every mill ing district in the west there lies a wealth of romance and history, botli pathetic and ludicrous. The Black Hills furnish as many and as good ex amples of the peculiar einniustances under which many claims are named as any locality in the country. One of the best known mines in the southern hills is the Holy Terror. Back in the early days this claim was lo cated by an old miner who had work ed some years without success. The claim was a hard one to work. When tlie man went home in the evening after locating his claim his wife asked him what he named it. lie smiled aud told her, "For you, my dear," aud her further inquiry drew forth the fact that he had called it lloly Terror. An other man once named his claim Gen tle Annie for his wife, while still a third perpetuated the memory of his wife, who was a noted clubwoman, by naming Ids claim Silent Julia. The hills are dotted with the names of claims recalling romances of bygone ilili. Many a young, ambitious man c .e here when the mining boom of tiie eighties was at Its height, lured with hope of a fortune, and all that re mains to tell the tale is the name of Katie W. or Mabel E. or Lulu J. Many a sweetheart or wife in the faraway east was honored in the naming of a claim that its owner hoped would prove a bonanza. Home few made good. W lt ness the Annie Fraction and the Josie, both of which were named for the eastern wives of their owners. They are in the Bald mountain district and have produced thousands of dollars for the locators. In the Galena district there is a small abandoned claim known as the Widow, with which there goes a story. Years ago a youth named Ilanley ap peared from somewhere with a few thousand and with zeal commenced to sink his money in a hole in the ground in the hope of a vast fortune. Back in the old home a little widow waited in vain for the golden wealth he said was sure to come and the wedding day that would celebrate it. It took but a short time for the youth's small savings to dwindle away with his in experience, and, chagrined and dis heartened, he put a bullet through his I brain on tlie site of his blasted hopes. C)ue prospector who worked diligent ly on a claim which was staked by an outsider and had difficulty iu even get ting his living expenses secured his re venge by naming his claim Old Per simmon. Men of patriotic turn of mind have chosen names of those famous in his tory, as Washington, l.incoln, etc. Kach of the presidents has been re membered, famous generals, all of the states, seafaring heroes aud heroes of the Philippines, as Dewey aud Fun ston. Indian names by the score are found, as Hiawatha, Miunekahta and Xauouia. Those of sporting proclivi ties chose race horses, as Nancy Hanks, Salvator, Maud S., Red Wilkes, Joe Patcheu. Favorite authors have been remembered, as Longfellow, Burns aud Dickens. One student named his group Miltiades, Mark Anthony, Attila and Cleopatra. One mun of a pessimistic velu chose What's Left and Some Left. The aver age business man In naming claims will choose a simple name and use a series of numbers, as, for instance, Thomas No. 1, Thomas No. 2, etc. One man favored his wife by calling his claim Bed Headed Woman. Two ad joiulng claims are known as Ou Time and Late. A:i i dd case was known in the name of llie Doodlebug claim, which was lo cated hv a German and an Irishinau and Intended by the former to lie called Heidelberg. When the Irishman reach ed town to record the location bj had forgotten his partner's selecti a of a name and said it was something like lloodlebug. which, for convenience, was the name recorded. The Prodigal. Son lived up to Its name by bankrupting Its locator, who returned to lowa at the behest of the father who had put up the funds for the venture. Among the names that doubtless conceal stories never known are Old Whiskers, She Devil, Crack Brain aud Crank. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show will Exhibit at Williamsport Tuesday, June 23. The event of the out-of-door a musement season in this vicinity will lie the appearance of Buffalo Bill's Wild Westand and Congress of Rough Riders of the World as re ferred to above. The exhibition has been away from America for four years, during which time it appeared in eighteen different European coun tries and held up pictures of Ameri can history>bef(,re the gaze of delight ed thousands, who then for the first time gained their first intimate idea of early life in far west. Buffalo Bill travels with the exhibition, person ally directs the performances and participates in some of the big Indian battles, enacting in one instance the role originately created, in 1 StJW, at the battle of Summit Spriugs. In this scene one hundred Indians par ticipate. and the real red-men of the plains also appear in a Holiday »• 'T-E' Ranch aud An Attack on an Emigrant train. These big scenes of 1 ndian depredations are the princi pal historic features of the show, but th,) Rough Riders comprise another part of the entertainment equally instructive. There will be riders from all nations, Cossacks,Arabiaus, South Americans, Japanese, Ger mans, English and our own Ameri can cow-boy, best type of dauntless horsemen. Bucking ponies, trained horses and any number of acrobatic displays and feats of of horseman ship. And at every performance, rain or shine, the original and only Buffalo Hill will be in the saddle, leading his care-conquering hosts. Thoughtless Americans, riding in noiseless horseless carriages and eat ing germ less meals from tireless cook ers, may hav new joy this summer in drinking heatless beverages at ice less soda fountains. Soulless corpor ations, therefore, which have been drawing $lO, 000,000 a year from the pockets of soda water dispensers for providing ice to 75,000 fountains in the United States face loss and are worrying. It has taken two years of constant work by the most efficient experts in refrigeration iu the country to pro duce the iceless soda fountain and open a way for a monopoly to gain control of the beverage that made the chocolate-ice-cream-soda girl fa mous. The scientific marvel which cools soda water without ice is said lo be a product of the concentered energies of thirteen inventors. Though a demonstrated success, the iceless fountain is a commercial mystery jealously guarded. The rest of the country—that is those who have not visited New York and sqyi something of the seamy life in that city—are of the o pinion that there is nothing but hap pyriess in that city, or the counter feit of happiness which people buy with money. The best part of New York life is exhibited to the country at large, but the poverty pain and suffering which attend ex istence in a large city arc generally hidden from the world at large. The slogan is "Little Old New York", and the outlander is made to believe that then; are only two streets in Gotham—Broadway and Fifth ave nue, Of course everybody knows that there is crime in New York and that it is not all confined to Wall street or the Bowery. But it remained for somebody to discover that there are four hundred school children in New York city who are starving to death. Now that the city has made this dis covery efforts will be made to relieve the distress of the poor foreign ele ment which crowds into the city, lured there by the hope of improv ing its condition, only to find that besides being a city in which wealth abounds it is a city in which poverty prevails. Negotiations between the United States and Japan relative to conven tions securing protection for Ameri can commercial interests in Japan and Core a, including patents, copy rights and trade marks, have been brought to what is believed a satis factory conclusion. The question of American rights has been under dis. cussion for three years. A Liberal Reward for Planting Trees Below we give extracts covering the important points of a law now in effect in this State, providing a re ward for planting trees along the highway by persons who are obliged to pay road taxes. Sec. 1. Any person liable to roail tax who shall transplant to side of road on his own premises any fruit shade or forest trees of suitable size shall be allowed on road tax one dollar for every two trees set out No row of elms to be placed nearer apart than seventy feet; and no row of ma ples or other forest trees nearer than fifty feet, except locust and Carolina, which may be thirty feet, and except fruit trees may be set forty feet, and all must bejlivingand protected from animals. Sec. 2. Any tree growing natural ly by side of highways through culti vated laud shall be allowed in same manner. Sec. :i. Trees planted on highway in place of trees that have died shall be allowed for as provided in first section. Sec. 4. No person to be allowed more than quarter of his annual road tax. Sec. 5. Any person who cuts or injures any live tree planted or grow ing naturally as aforesaid, or suffers an animal of his to injure such a tree, shall pay a penalty of from one doll ar to five dollars, or he may plant and maintain another tree in place of the one cut or injured. J. A. Patton of Chicago, under took to make a corner in May corn and oats, and so far as sustaining the price was concerned he succeeded. It is stated that 4,780,000 bushels of corn and 8,8000,000 bushels of oats were delivered to him. The ave rage price he paid for all is hard to determine, but May corn closed at at or above 80 cents and oats in the neighliorhood of (it). At the same time J. Ogdeu Armour was monopo lizing the wheat and ran the price up to $1,12 and thereabouts. The coun try was ransacked for cereals, and and every pound of wheat, corn and oats that could be scraped up was shoveled at these men like a hail storm. When a man undertakes to corner anything he must buy all that is of fered and at the highest market price. The difficulty is not in buy ing, if one has the money to pay, but in getting rid of it without loss. That is what the Chicago men cal| "burying the corpse" and it is that difficult proposition that confronts Armour and Patton at present. Ex clusively high price causes a great falling off in the article and as necessary as wheat, corn and oats '.r'l there is no doubt but that thous iruls of people will curtail the a irionnt used, thus lessening the de mand. Whether these men have made or unmade fortunes is of little concern to the public. The manipulation of th,) market creates fictitious values, upsets the calculations of small deal ers and creates hardship for the poor who find it hard to put bread in the mouths of their children. The law undertakes to correct other abuses; why not this one. State Treasurer Sheats says that he will be ready to distribute the school appropriations given by the State as soon as the warrants are given out by the department of public instruc: tion. This year's appropriation will be the largest ever made, as §7, ">OO, 000 becomes available June 1. This money is to reimburse school districts in part for what they have paid out in the school year which be gan last fall. The allotments made on a basis oS one-third citizens, one third teachers and one third children warrants arc issued upon filing of re ports by district officers that moneys have been expended for certain pur poses and indicating in what manner the appropriation was disbursed. At an early hour Sunday morn ing, a large barn on the farm of Valentine Rolie, between Dusliore and Cherry Mills, was totally de stroyed by lire, together witn most of tne contents, consisting of farm maclnmry etc. The origin of the lire is unknown. There was about 81700 insurance on the building. 75C PLR YEAR LaPortc will Celebrate the 4th o! July in Old Style Fashion. The grounds of the Laporto Ath letic Association are rapidly Hear ing completion. Mr. Dunham of Eagles Mere, who has the contract, has done a splendid job. The whole field has been graded, lev elled and will hereafter be a sod field and kept trimmed with lawn mowers once each week. A better and more beautiful field for base, ball tennis or other sports will be hard trt find. The Athletic Association is plan ing for a big day here on the 4th of July, when the grounds will be used for the first. There will be ball games and a general picnic at Lake Mokoma where refreshments will be served. Dancing and other forms of amusement and entertain ment will be provided. Special excursion rates on the W. it N. B. R. R. are being arranged asd full announcement will be made in the county papers and by posters next week. Plan to come to Laporto for the 4th of July celebration. Cheap European Postage. No possible reason exists why 2 cent postage should not be establish ed at once by the United States with evfery European country that will accept this reduction. The present international 5-cent rate was established a little over orty years ago. It succeeded pro hibitive rates of twice to five times as high. These were Asiatic coun tries to which the postage on a single letter was 7") cents to sl, and some distant lands to which the foreign rate to this country was $1,50. To tne present generation such international postal rates seem in conceivable; but the 5-cent rate to all parts of the world seemed a prodigy when it began. On the North At lantic, between this country and England, the 5 cent rate was profit able from the start. There is a pro tit today on it with all Europe. The post office should not be a source of revenue. The present rate is a grievious tax on the immigrant when he is at his poorest. It adds to the cost of trade. It serves no use ful purpose. Some European countries will re fuse to surrender the revenue they receive from the 5-cent rate, but with England possessing the ad vantage of the 2 cent rate to the United States, France, Germany, and Italy cannot deny it to their people. The United States has always led in cheap postage. Our Post Office Department having secured accent rate with England, should extend it to all Europe as far as is feasible. If you possess a mere matter of SSOO, 000,000 or so in surplus money, what would you do with it? Uncle Sam soon will have about that much pa per currency on hand, but he doesn't know exactly what to do with it; he will not be able to spend it—at least not until there is another fi nancial panic—and in the meantime he is worried as to just where and how he can keep it safe, where thieves break through and steal. The new emergency bill, of which the 5, 10 and 20 dollar denominations will be ready for circulation by July 1, will make an awful big pile, and treasury officials are non plussed as to what to do with the money when it is printed. The law provides that it shall be kept in reserve at the various sub-treasuries to allow of quick distribution in time of panic' but none of the sub-treasuries can find space to accommodate its quota, Therefore the authorities see no way out of the difficulty but to construct additional vaults at Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. New Orleans, San Fran sisco and Washington. Settlers are flocking to the lands vacated by the Michigan lumbermen. The soil is very prolific and thous ands of sheep, goats and cattle ar« be ing fed on the "cut-over" lands— that is, land from which the pine trees have been taken. Potatoes are a big crop here, yielding as high as four hundred bushels per acre. In northern Wisconsin onions, potatoes, and sugar beets are offering big re turns.
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