BKPVRUCAN NEWS ITEM. CHARLES L WING, Editor. Published fajvory Thursday Atternoou Bv The Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Boat of Sullivan Uounty. 1J A. POH'I'E, PA. W (1. MASON, I'lvsiiUn. TIH*. J. ! NUII AM. aee'y & Trc-as. Kntereii at the Post Office at Laporte, an second-class mail matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Judge of tlie Superior Court W. D. POIiTKU, of Allegheney. Electors at Large, MORIJIS 1.. Cl.'} rillEß, I'llilu.de]|»hia. 11. F. .ION KS, Pittsburg. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. County Treasurer, W. A.GI'MBLE. Member of Assembly. 1.. B. Z.VXER. ('oiintv Commissioners, t vy. PEA EE and \V. 11. ROGERS. S; oaking of tlie importance or agri i-i if. tin- national master said that the whole total volume of the crops i: be slightly less than the crops of I . but their cash farm value will be .;.u i\ The farm products lu their <■ i ii.■:ijll form or in the form of cattle, si " ,>• hogs and horses liuve overflowed II,;' -real granaries, clogged transpor tation facilities and brought gold from i 1: u couutrios. These facts warrant the latemeut that agriculture is not • the great industry of the country, l.i' ihe mi.. t important in the nation's li. rial prosperity. Agriculture pros |.< ""i lie use oilier industries pros j . hut other industries prosper be i • agriculture prospers. The pro ic" ! 'ii of agriculture embodies the h "-t type of statesmanship. It is i .i.ineutJy proper to inquire the effect oi ;iil proposed public policies upon a; ulture when under consideration In hi legislative body. on the subject of grauge mutual life in»i.inee the worthy master had this to . "Tln-re has been a demand for s-t vt.rul years for some form of frater nal life insurance within the organiza li i t.i cover the national field as local ..ties cover certain states. Sound, iv,l;. ", full legal reserve life insur :m e t'urni-lied by a society and con- Iroiie 1 by lis own members, operated hi tin' fraternal system,' with the oil! . : -i directly responsible to the mem bers, is the foundation to build upon. What is wanted is the best at the cheapest price- not cheap life insur ance. but good life Insurance cheap." fining the publication of the na tional grange paper the speaker re marked that the executive committee had made arrangements for the pub lican.n of a weekly journal upon te-.is acceptable to the masters of the state •ranges. He emphasized the fact that its publication will not come In competition with agricultural papers. Is editorial policy will be dictated solely by a desire to promote the or ganisation. It is to be the official or gan i j i' the grange. Of the denatured alcohol law, which took effect Jan. 1, 1007, the national ma ' ' said that flie comparatively ; null consumption of denatured alco hol during the past six months had Iri-.i chiefly due to the fact that our ii u. ictmers were not ready to fur ni- li the alcohol using apparatus, such a: ••toves, lamps, etc. None being on sal in this country, there was no de lii ;i' 1 or the alcohol. The question of utilizing alcohol as a fuel for motor v, hi, boats and farm engines is ei '.a ag the attention of lnnuufactur c ...1 it is believed that this alcohol will be made available for use as a nioior fuel in the near future. i in federal aid for the improvement of public highways the speaker said that the grange had inaugurated a (•.■iinii, !gn of education having for its ol.ji ■ the enactment of legislation by ci ■ e-'s providing for a federal appro pi' -n of $50,000,000, to be divided •into live annual appropriations of $lO, (H'ii,(il'o each, to be expended for the improvement of public highways. The lev!•dative committee has given close atli :; iciii to this i\ rk and believes that the time h s arrived when the move IN MI hould lie prosecuted vigorously with the view of securing legislation at the present session of congress. On trusts and the tariff it was re mark 1 that the present tariff rates on articles produced by trusts are much lik her tli.in is necessary to cover the diii'e ence in labor cost as between 1: iii mi 1 foreign manufacturers and that material redtw tions could be made on the duty of such articles and amply prov lie for libera 1 wages compared with the wages abroad. Tf these criti cisms are well founded there would sivm to bp Vod reasons for legislation that will correct the evident defects on the present riff schedules without in juriously affecting our agricultural or niairifactu. ,»•»■ industries. These facts can beet be secured through a non -1 irCsan tarlM' commission whose duty it shall be lo examine carefully into all Iha es of the subject. This commis sion should include tcpre entatives of the agricultural, labor, inant'fiii turing, tr portation and commercial inter ests. tin the parcels pest question the lia tiieail ma.-.ter remarked Unit Ha' postal reform had receive,! a new impetus within the past few months, owing to the fact that it had a "Powerful advo cate in the new postmaster general. Mr. Meyer, who had indorsed what to all fnteii'* and purposes is the grange plan and who is using his influence to an .use public Interest in its support. He ailvised an active campaign in con-, gross on this subject. The address also favored postal sav ings banks, currency reform and pure food legislation. Pennsylvania granges went to the national grange in special cars, start ! g from Harrlsburg. They spent a night in New York on the way. THE TOSS OF II COIN. Mathematics of the Turning of Heads or Tails. i CHANCE AND THEORY CLASH. If Heads Turn Ten Time* In Sequence, ! Theory Says the Odds Are Against ! Another Head, Yet Chance Says the Odds on the Next Toss Are Even. I A famous mathematician, Professor IKarl Pearsou, once spent the greater part of his vacation deliberately toss ing a shilling and making careful uotes jof how it fell. He spun the shilling 1 25,000 times, and a pupil of his, work i lug separately, spun a penny 8,200 times and also tested the drawing of 0,000 tickets from a hag. It may seem strange that a learned professor should put himself to such an amount of trouble to demonstrate 1 what every schoolboy who had ever tossed a coin already knew. Yet, as a matter of fact, few really do grasp the laws which govern such an appar ently straightforward matter as the tossing of a coin. In the words of the arithmetician, the theory of "runs"— that is, heads turning up • repeatedly ! I or tails turning up repeatedly-is pre- ! 1 clsely as follows: I The chance of a head is one-half; of , ; two heads following, is one-half tnulti- ! plied by one-half- that is, one-quarter; j of three heads in succession, one-half ! j multiplied by one-half multiplied by j one-half—that is, one-eighth. Now, } , what do you suppose is the chance of a run of eleven heads? It is safe to i | say that not many persons, however I ! accustomed to tossing coins, have rea- j j soned this out. The fact is (hat one i "run"of eleven heads is on the aver age only to be expected in 2,048 sets : j of coin tossing. Although the man in the street may j I not have reckoned this, he is always ! quite positive that if, say, a coin has j fallen ten times head upward he Is ! safe to start backing tails. He puts j his money on tails turning up be ! cause, he says, it stands to sense that j the run of heads c:.n't continue. But ! does it? At the eleventh toss the head of the coin is Just as big as it ever I was. What mysterious influence can • a past event, tlie tossing of ten heads, ! have on a future one which lias no | ; link with them—namely, the tossing ; ;of the coin the eleventh time? Surely ! I each toss is an event by Itself, as Sir , I Hiram Maxim said of a game at rou-,! j lette at Monte Carlo: J "It is a pure, unadulterated question ' I of chance, and it is not Influenced in ! i the least by anything which has ever I j taken place before or that ever will j | take place in the future." A nasty piece of plain speaking this j for the cranks who had published ! schemes for "breaking the bank" and whose plans depended entirely on the ! theory that if one game ended in a I win for "red" the chances against It ! eliding "red" a second time we're less, j ; a third time less still, aud so on. j This of course would be a sound j ! enough argument provided that you i 1 regard some dozens of games of rou J lette or tosses of a coin all as one con j tiuuous event. It is quite safe, for in ' stance, to offer beforehand big odds against a coin turning up heads teu times running. But in practice the j public house loafer does not do this, j What he does is to bet on each sepa | ! rate toss by itself, thus defeating his j j own alms. The odds against a coin j turning up heads eleven times are as ! ; has beeu shown, something like 2.000 I i to 1. But suppose you only start bet- j I ting at the tenth toss. What are the ! j odds against the eleventh toss again . being a head 'I The odds, so far from being 2.000 to ;1. are actually 1 to 1! To use an , Irishism, the odds are even—-that Is j to say, If you split up the eleven tosses i j Into eleven separate events to be bet I on separately your bets should be | i "even money" all the time, however i often heads turn up running. But if you view the eleven tosses as one com- ' bined event aud you offer a prellml- ! nary bet against the whole eleven re- ' ' suits being heads you will have to j j give gigantic odds. All tills goes to prove the absolute j i uncertainty of gambling. The great- ■ I est mathematicians of tlie day canuot be certain how a coin will fall, so that the man of merely average abilities | who stakes anything important on the toss of a coin is allowing that part of j his fortune to pass entirely outside his \ control.—Pearson's Weekly. South Africa's Locusts. Millions and millions of locusts set- j tie.and millions and millions continue ; flying to settle farther on. They have been settling in myriads for a hundred ; I miles and more, aud yet enough are ( left flying to hide the sun. On the ground nothing can be seen but lo custs. So thickly do they pack that ( not a square Inch of earth or grass is 1 visible. As you walk through them a j narrow wake is left for a few seconds In your track where they have flown ! out of your way, and as they rise lu 1 thousands before your feet the noise of their wings is like an electric power station.—Grand Magazine. Putting It Mildly. The flooding of a Yorkshire mine had . a tragic result, and a miner was de- ' puted to break the news to a poor wo man whose husband had been drown fed. "Does Widow Jones live here?" "No," was the Indignant lady's reply. "You're u liar!" he said.—London Tatler. Never tell your resolution before- I hand.—Selden. 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NbSc 1 : l at Sacrifice Sale > ijSshSSiS j:,«) s.oo»im »aist a f,,r a.wp Men's Furnishings 1 7= Shoes for 1.25 4-oo silk waists for 2.00 01 " , l!.oo waists tor 12;» 1.-25 Shirts for i n i* 9 m ;5c Shirts for gOc Big Lot of Ladies Shoes White Linen Waists '' ot ' shirt ?_ f » r _ $2.00 Shoes for 1 ■2.00 white linen waists for >.oo MEN'S SUITS i .50 Shoes for • j white linen waists for 1.00 1.45 Shoes for • •> ] (j<j white linen waists for 09c IN BLACK. ■ —- " __ " 60e waists for 39c 18.00 Suits for 18.50 ; RlO" I Ot I l?in~ In white and black. 15.00 Suits in brown it 7. r > I D, , T o! - 150 Suits in Blue Serge for 850 ! colored Low Shoes. Ladjes . Night Dresses . |.|S ; $1.50 Shoes for l.Ot) O __ |ln White Low Shoes, all sizes, at Ssc At the reduction oi 40c 011 a dollar. VniinO' IVlpn'c Quite I per pair. Big lot Tan Colored Buckle R. and (i. Corsets at 65c. worth 1.00 I uUllg IVICII o OUIto. Shoes at very low prices. Ladies' Wrappers, the best made in 12.00 brown suits, ,up to date 7.r>o the country, worth 1.25, for 69c. 12.00 black suits for 750 Ladies' Trimmed Hats - UP-TO-DATE STYLES Men's Hatsand Derbys Big Lot of Men's Pants $5 50 for 3 50: 45° for 2 MI o:_ „ , „ , 3so for 2 00; 300 for 150 2.00 Hats for 1.25 Sizes and all colors. 250 for 185; 200 for 125 1.75 Hats for 99c 5.0(1 pants 3.50; 400 pants 275 j ~50 for 1.00 1.25 Hats for 7.4 c 300 pants 105; 150 pants 95c Please come at once. You will get the best goods for your money. Please tell your friends about the BIG REDUCTION SALE. J.M. WIHTON, MUNCY VALLEY, PA. DUPLEX AJK T giv»s you all the aound vi- PRF-PAIO 'OR R ' ,UORW AJI IMPROVEMENTS FREE C* 1 ATA! The Duple* i« equipped with a m »cliin iral feed that re . ~ 41 1 lie* e* the record J all the destructive work of prop«l!ir*r winexpiain rtujy the superiority of The l>ui»lrc. Don't the reproducer across itssurfare. The needle point is held a i.ow any oiio to petsuade F'«u t- buy any other ui-ike with- in continuous contact with tho inner (which isthenure out nrsisenatiij: for »ur c.ialogue. accurate) wall of the found wave groove, thus reproducing SAVE ALL THE D ( .»|«RT' 7HO/U more Perfectly Whatever waf put into the record The Ih,7u, ; t M L . * 70/0 rroflt * when it was made. The Duplex has a de>ice hy which the Actual «l«niif.r< n *»y dea.ers or in stores. W*-sr« wight of the reproducer upon the record may beregulat- d from our rr* jobbers, and sell only dirert to suit the n^dsof the occasion, thus greatly preserving \ ,mfitTTi * .JC eliminating all middlemen's th-llfe and durability of the records. These areexclusive th*l»«ft nhAnMnnl we * re * w « J"J »a«»uf«flore and deliver features of the Duple* and can not be bad upon any other DUPLEX PHONOGRAPH Co., - 31 Ro»eSt.Kalamazoo, Mich. Redaction Sale of 3HOES (ireat bargains Groceries and Provisions. We have the best goods at the lowest prices. 1-t you want a good sack of Hour, try the Laural Brand < 112 winter wheat and you will use no ether. Special prices on large quantities. Our rrotto is: "Best Goods at Lowest Prices. ' J. S. HERRiNGiTON, DUSHORE, PA.
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