Republican News Item. VOL. XIII. NO 18 <524,000 $44,000 > V Which Do You Prefer • r \ The average man earns about si t 100 a year. He/* / works 40 years and earns a total of $44, 00 in a life V \ time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or 112 J S6OO for a year of }oo days. He earns $24,000 in a I \ life time. 'The difference between $44,000 and $24- £ J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a ? X practical education in dollars and cents. The in-C vcreased self-respect cannot be measured in money. J x Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when ? / the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton, Pa., can give you an education that will make / I 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 A r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r \ local Representative will show you how you can X /* triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 He is 1 / C. IF 1 . A IST, 3 C. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. COLE'S^^J^/ w 112 ' HARDWARE No Place Lifce this Place For Reliable STOVES "and RANGES, COAL OK/ WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF 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. 1 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 General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuef | The ShopbelT Dry Good Co., 1 'Jf 313 Pine Street, "?, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Nev Pall Siits The variety is very txtensive, including a wide range of styles in all the new materials and colors so that every one can be sure ol finding something that is lie" coining at just the price you wish to pay. SILK WAISTS LACE WAISTS We show a new line ol Ladies' Black Ladies' Black Net Waists, in black, and plain Colored and Plaid Colored Silk white and ecru. New styles to choose Waists. from. Black and Colored Silk Petticoats Thwe Petticoats come from one of the best manufacturers in the trade. This purchase enables us to otter the tineet values in high grade Silk Petticoats we have ever shown . Childrens' Jackets Ladies' Coats in Fall weights made of plain colors and For eariy fall wear plain black or fancy mixed material some splendid colors and stylish covert Jackets. You values for $12.00 to $3.75 find these moderately priced. New Wool We have just opened a new line of ladies' and Misses' Wool Knit Sweaters, Coats and Blouse etlects in gray, brown, tan and white. Frices vary from #1.25 up. New Wool Suitings We are showing some vary stylish new wool fabrics tor Coat Suits in worsted mixed eflects plain broadcloths etc. Let us show you these new Suitings—We know we can please you. Subscrihefor the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1908. The Sonestown base ball team defeated the Dushore team at this place on Saturday by a score of 10 to 1, this making these teams tie, each winning two games. These teams will meet in a short time to play off the tie. which should draw a large crowd. Sonestown. RHO A E Bird I st,. 2 2 0 2 1 Armstrong ss. 2 2 5 1 2 Boatman 2 ltd. 0 0 1 15 0 Lorah c. 0 0 0 0 1 Swank ef. 0 12 0 0 Starr p. 2 2 3 11 llazen 3rd. 112 11 Lockwood If. 2 12 10 Crist rf. 110 0 0 10 10 27 9 5 Dushore. RHO A E Thayer ss. 0 0 0 3 2 Miner Ist. 0 2 10 0 0 Murray p. 0 2 0 4 2 Kisliinka c. 0 0 7 0 0 Lovelace 3rd. 0 0 0 0 1 Camp If. 0 110 0 McCarty 2nd. 10 0 5 0 Ritter cf. 0 10 0 1 Hunter rf, 0 0 0 0 1 Total 1 0 24 12 7 Professor J. M. Peoples of the First National Bank,'at Lock Haven, although between 71 and 72 years of I age, is quite a pedes train and a tramp of 30 miles iu 10 hours would be a pretty good feat for a man half that age, yet that is the record made by the professor on Labor Day Be tween Lock Haven and William sport, and he was on duty at the bank on Tuesday none the worse for j his long walk, except feeling a little stiff in the knees. Farm-is are seldom dead slow, and that one who let a cross bull ; loose in a field of his occupied by ball players who refused to leave when he told them they must not break the Sabbath calm by playing, was not behind his class. The play ers wore red uniforms and the bull did the rest. It happened in New Jersey, where the "Jerseyinan" of song and story resides. The Franklin News says: This is the time when the fortunate farmer can come in from his work, eat a good supper and then go out on the steps and sit beside his wife and watch the chickens getting ready to goto rest, or the sunlight fading be hind the hills, while the crickets fiddle shrilly and the late chimney swal'ows shoot through the air, homeward bound. It is at such times that a man realizes the value of quiet, honest and industrious liv ing and knows what heavenly rest may mean. The New York world says that no voter will have excuse for ignor ance of the voice appearance and daily life of the candidates. Thous ands of roll have been prepared from the origonal cylinders into which Mr. Bryan and Mr. taft talked. Moving picture films will be furnish ed of the notifications and conven tions. Post cards showing Mr. Bryan in his alfalfa field, and Mr. Taft on a Panama steam shovel, have btten printed by the million. The Nickelodeons will take part in a Presidential campaign for the first time, and the mails Jwill Jbe used more than ever. In one sense, poli tics is progressing. Sound Doctrine Now and Then. The grange declaration of purposes was drawn up, forty years ago, but these words which appear In It might have been written yesterday: "We arc 1 opposed to such spirit and manage ment of any corporation or enterprise as tends to oppress the people and rob them of their just profits. We are not enemies of capital, but we oppose the tyranny of monopolies." That's sound I doctrine for present day statesmen to , consider. State Master Derthick of Ohio says no subordinate grange can become dor mant in a county having an active Po mona grange. [ If you own or expect to own your grange hall, better Incorporate! I Spelling Matches. In Home of the counties of this ■stat*; an effort is being made to re vive the old time country spelling matches, so popular fifty years ago. A half century ago a good speller was looked up to with as much i veneration and respect as is the i young man who nowadays wins j honors on the baseball diamond. ] these old fashioned spelling schools i were beneficial, also, because they < taught the school pupils how to pro- i nounce words something which is < lost sight of in many educational institutions iu this country at pres ent. Then the spelling matches of long ago were sources of pleasure to the boys and girls who attended them and enjoyed a social hour. Americans have degenerated into very poor spellers. The business man who had men in his employ who cannot spell correctly is serious ly handicapped. Nothing effects a business man's credit and standing in the commercial world so much as the appearance of the letter he sends to wholesalers, ordering goods. If the spelling in these letters is wretch ed the merchant suffers by compari son and is looked upon as a sloveu ly business man. It is therefoie es sential that the young man who in tends to enter business life should give considerable attention to spell ing, and the spelling match is an ex cellent school iu which to become proficient in this accomplishment. Have the Child's Eyes Examined. No advice could be more pertinent than that given byDr. Neff, Direc tor of the Department of Public Health and Charities, to have the eyes of school children examined. Many a child fails in studies and breaks down because the eyes need glasses. Some such children cannot see words and figures on the black board. Home have nausea and di gestive disturbances from astigma tism, unequal focus or other defects of the lenses of the eye. A very large share of failures in the grammar grades and in our high schools are solely due to this cause. No child can be harmed by the ex amination of his or her eyes by a trained physician. Many a boy or girl is saved from life long overstrain by having the eyes properly fitted with glasses, If your child does not do well at school, is nervous or too often ill, j look up the eyes.—The Phila. Press. The efficiency of a people is in a ! large sense measured by their de-; gree of skill in using waste products. ; It U claimed that much of the amaz-1 ing prosperity of the standajd oil j company was due to its geniu* in , not letting anything goto the dump heap. A curious and important con- j tribution to this theory, that pre-1 ventable waste is inexcusable loss, | comes from an anonymous inventor | in the island of Trinadad, who is re-1 ported in a recent bulletin from i Council-General Ouenther at Frank fort to have perfected a process of making paper pulp of the stalks of sugar cane from which all the avail able sugar has already been ob tained. The commercial importance of this discovery, if authenticated, can scarcely be overstated. The invent or says that hereafter cane will be grown for the paper to be obtained and that the sugar to be got from the same stalks will be clear profit. The scarcity of spruce trees, from which most of the news paper is now obtained in this country ami Canada, has been often discussed, and there has been much concern felt for the future of the industry. It the Trinidad man has discovered what he claims to have perfected his gift to the world should bring him fame and fortune. At any rate he himself has confidence enough in his discovery to spend 185,000 in equipping a mill in connection with his sugar plant, to use the waste pro duct of the latter.—Clevland Plain- Dealer. tiuckncll will enter upon her sixty - third year on the 17th. of September, and expects the enrollment to be the largest in the history of the school. The third story of the new Kast Col lege has been completed and this ' will enable the institution to receive 28 more men than last year. Modern Democracy Analyzed. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, who is chairman of the National Committee of the Independence Par ty, was asked to resign from the Iriquois Club of San Francisco the other day on the ground that he is no longer a Democrat. The Club be ing a Democratic organization. In Rendering his resignation Mr. Harst the modern Democrat in a decidedly delicious manner. He asked his fellow members what kind of Demo crats they are. He wanted to know if they were 1892 Democrats or 1890 Democrats or 1900 or 1901 Democrats or Democrats of the variety of 1908, "Dear friends and brothers" he said "you all remember how the Democracy of free silver was taught you and how you got intensely ex cited over it, and cheered for it and marched lor it and then were in formed that free silver was not true Democracy after all, but that public ownership was. Then you re member how you threw your hats in the air over public ownership and worked up an almost hysterical enthusiasm for it, and then were in formed that it wasn't true De mocracy either, but that the initi ative referendum were. Then you came nobly to the front again and affirmed undying devotion to the everlasting principals of the initi ative and referendum; but now you have a platform in which there is no free silver, in which there is no public ownership, in which there is no initiative or referendum, and still you are informed by the old Dr. Oringle of Democracy that only that platform with thej owner's trade mark pasted on the front anil the owners name blown in the bottle is genuine Democracy; and if you don't subscribe to that you will be read out of the Democratic party. Friends and ex-brothers of the Iroquois Club, there is no Democratic party. There is only a Bryau party, and the fol lowers of that party don't know when they goto bed at night what they will upon to believe when they wake up in the morn ing." Mr Hearst tells of the mail who had a carving knife handed down to him from his grandfather. A friend said to him, "It looks rather new. Haven't you ever done anything to it?" And the man said, "Oh, I've had the blade changed once or twice, I and the handle renewed a couple of | times, but otherwise it is just the ! same knife my grandfather had. Mr. Hearst likens Democracy to ; that knife handle. There is no re. | cognition of the original principals. ! "Once again" he says, "there was a , farmer whojhad ajbalky mule and he couldn't make it go. A stranger came I along and offeree! to help, and the j farmer told him togo right ahead. ! The stranger had a bottle of turpen ! tine, and he opened the mules mcuth [ and pushed back his head and pour ied about half ol the bottle into the mules stomach. The mule gave one startled gasp and struck out across the praire, and was lost to sight. The surprised farmer stood for a while immersed in deep thought and then he said, stranger please give me the rest of tlmt turpentine; I've got to catch my mule." "I am not in the race to catch that donkey and if you are you will have to keep him plumb full of a ! different kind of turpeutine every campaign." Not so bad, is it? Kane was shaken up on Monday by an explosion of nitro-glycerine which destroyed a storage ware house, a team, wagon, and a driver by the name of Thomson. All the remaius of Thomson were gathered up and placed in a small dinner pail, and as little could be found of the horses. The wagon was reduced to splinters which were scattered all over. The town of Kane was badly shaken, and lots of win dow glass was broken. It is a fact not generally known that the present State good roads legislation makes no proviston for state aid after May 31 1909, and that ; ' the coming legislature must enact ■ | additional legislation to enable the I work togo on. 75C PLR YEAR For the Good of Ihe Farmer. No other president has !>een quite so ready to take the initiative as our present Chief Executive. The ordinary duties of the office are heavy enough for most presidents, hut Mr. Roosevelt is always reaching out for others. The farming class a few years ago was very much dis satisfied with prevailing conditions. Recently things have been going more their way, and there is less complaint heard from them. The President, however, remembered their former dissatisfaction and ap pointed a comission to inquire into farming conditions. That cominis ion is about to start upon its work of gaining the information that.will en able it to make suggestions fur the betterment of living conditions among farmers. The first meeting of the commis sion will be held in Washington on September 14. Already many let ters have been received from farm ers suggesting some of the dis advantages under which they labor that might be removed. Bad roads is a common complaint, and the farmers of the country have 110 greater handicap than this. Some ask for better educational facilities, and with justice, for in some States education in the rural districts is grievously neglected. Others com plain of middlemen securing the profits of farming, an old grievance, but another old one—the extortion of railroads in overcharging—is not mentioned so far as the contents of the letters are reported, it is som«- thing if the farmers are finding that the charges of railroads for moving farm products are "reasonable". The inquiry is a good idea. It will gather and spread information beneficial to farmers. I)oubtless they will learn that some of their "griev ances" ,bave their source in the nature of things and cannot be cured by legislation. The knowledge will at least tend to greater contentment with their lot, which, in the nature of things, should improve steadily as the country gro .vs in wealth and population. A variety of wheat under the name of "Alaska" is being widely advertised as capable of yielding at the rate of 200 bushels to tin acre "under ordinary soil con ditions "and even better "under extra conditions." It is stat ed that this variety was found grow ing wild on the eastern coast of Alaska, and claims of the most ex travagant nature are made for it. In consequence of this notoriety th.» the Department is receiving many requests for seeds. This type of wheat has been known for many years both in tf li country and in Europe, it has been tried at several state experiment, stations in the Western United States during the past 15 years, but no where have the yields been high enough to merit attention. The wheat has been grown to a very limited extent on certain heavy un drained soils in France for many years- In such locations it is said to yield rather better than ordinary wheat, but as it is one of the poorest wheats known for making flour, it is never grown where the ordinary varieties of wheat will thrive. Very respectively, (i. T. Galloway, Chief of Bureau, of plant industry. New Orleans, Sept. ti.—An oper ation in which many local surgeons are interested will be performed within the next few days on a New Orleans child which was born recent ly with two heads. The second head is not perfectly formed, but the top of it is well covered with a healthy growth of hair. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Murray, the parents of the child, consented to the operation when their physician informed them that this was all that would save tlw baby's life, and the second head will be removed. Surgeons at the Children's Annei to the ( harity Hospital say that tin birth of a two-headed child is 110 uncommon, but the fact that tli« Murry child has already lived elevei ! dayswith its two heads is they be lieve, an incident never reconh u In , fore, a double headed child usuall. , dying soon after birth.
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