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.
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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.
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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.