.•••.• •. .. Ed Hew J .aB ji id uiv Thursday AUurnoon j By The huliivun Publishing Co | At" tlie Oonnty Seov. ol Sullivan County. LAI'OKTB, iP A. W C. M j . .v.i ros'.J "J I'HOS. J. IJiUHAM, See'y A Tioas. Entered at the Post Office at Laporle, as second-class wail matter. THE DLsrOSAL OF SEWAGE, 1- nitary Engineering Division of the Department of Health !s Teaching i Municipalities Efficient and Economical Methods of Drainage. A lamentable and tremendous amount of needless suffering, sickness, •■:»;:?nse and death aiuiua.lly result 1(lie wanton pollution of tiia t!if;iais of Pennsylvania among those tntiiiduals dependcut upon these retirees of supply l'or drinking water.! Hundreds of communities hang in the balance and at any lime may have an ppi'!'-mic of typhoid fever stalking through their midst and decimating numb "is. Hundreds of the young an.i best lives of the commonwealth iu * annually sacrificed to the unsani trti.v customs of sewage disposal. Poi eon material of human origin from i ; ;L-lic and private institutions, sewers' unci privies arc emptied into streams! p' ;>i ints b:;t short distances above wa- j t«-i works intakes, and in a few hours j tb*i < aftei are delivered through the i 'Xrt'a pipe, of public systems to many i inrto ent and unsuspecting individuals,] who est secure in the belief that tna , public authorities, having in charge j Ui<* nnshitig of drinking water, ami v ..o are responsible tor tbe purity of t>i" atsr tlius supplied, are faithfully! pirri' iming their obligations. Public and private corporations, tiowr i er, even when earnestly inclined, j sse ■'ten limited in their powers to j p;evint sewage contamination of the; sour;rs of water supply. Al'i'-r ysars of affliction, and at ai terrific cost in human life, it. has finally i c.wr. J u; :u the people that a higher | fi.ahf rlt.v than the municipality must! trap, ie with the problem and afford » ; i di'ml.v. It is, therefore, of interest I to tv ry citiaer? of the commonwealth! 1 o know about tho work that Health Commissioner Dixon is doing to pre ( iv: thb purity of the waters of the rt.np Id fulfillment of the duty laid upon dim by the act of April 22, 1905. The enormity of the task is com prehended when one realizes the fact that almost without an exception I c> e;. < ity borough and municipality j tit V nnsylvauia having a sower sys-j lisuiarges its tilth into the roosl con, nieat nearby stream, regardless of consequences to the user of that »trea:u at some point below. Further, where there are no sew ers. privies are almost universally lo cate on or near the banks of natural \\ ittei courses, which thus serve as npnp sowers. By no known mat be mf)f>s is it possible to compute the . of evil, the misery, expense, po- rty, lifelong suffering and death wtitr • this custom entails; but it is a '.l ;t ; ;,tii a large amount of it all would b* i'tvijij from the 6tate if sanitarj met ho 4* of sewage disposal were Utlop: vfl ;• :* the privilege, as well as the duty of the Stat*' Health Commission o! to bring about just this result. No ?!;.)' i sighted, vacillating and radical en t'v ucuid be successful in such a fcr*;.t undertaking. It will necessarily ne m." ti --rk of years to undo tne ens tor. of fecneratlrns and establish uni ve:?.i healthful conditions. Its sue ..• in a measure depends upon the cnii; btenment and co-operation of the people The stupidity and skepticism of preoccupied and seliish populace >* A barrier to Quick results. Where the public conscience is quickened, viii .a'.aiy informs will be inaugurated un'j benefits will be at once secured in o-her cases the law will have to be invoked *ml enforced. The (ill l Kngineer of the Depart itj»-iii, F. Herbert :'uow, anrl his assis tan is ore now travi rsing evory part or t!ii State, inn Mr. examinations o) mvj rage y: *.-n« -nd water suppiiei and collecting dn' with respect to the q'i;.!ity ot . li of tt.e wat»rs in Penn sy 1 van Ja. More than this is being done, .sources i i poiitti ii, and menaces which «it.ii be ab ' mI ."i rmi • rr • i ported tc the commlsslonei and in many eases M -i jv.i l to '. v o'.vnt l^ I.f the ! • I! -. ; es !•; Vliiii to i n:IS( '1 I mo'.al ■ t'|i'- liiri : n ~11 n :■ of i tt- so. encouir.:; , i i m • ■ ;peralit.:i in t'• i;- i.,i il . , r r< rn i • 1 ived by the • i"rn,.i 1 .i.»!. , -;;,t ly illut! 1 - V Ibe w ■: if» <~. t/'-ns < i . " ,!jii in -lu .. , i - i-.i.bi Wat oh t!ic Cat-:v 'i'he grarp! is urowiag !<y 1.-aps tt.. | bounds in many state-. I. ■ • clasr.t-i j lli'liateil. i,et them not lie j 1' or so large n-t to comprise ue members who v. ill be better out | than In the grange. In Kentucky the grange has taken [ ■ new lease of life. Five bundled new a use halls have been or soou will be completed i:» Uiat state. ! GRANGE HISTCHY. 1 Jor.(.then Lewreeco, Orgar.irer of tho First Granoe In that State. ' Almost 100 years ago was born the man who established the llrst grr.nge l in the state of Vermont, lie wan Jon athan Lawrence, born Dec. 7, 1808, at , 6t. Johnsbury. Next year the Order In the Green Mountain State would do | jvoll to celebrate lu appropriate man -1 lier the one hundredth anniversary of I this pioneer's birth. By his Influence ; and effort Oreen Mountain grange No. 1 1 was o-ganized at St. Johns bury on July 4, 1871. lu November of that ! year, or just thlrty-slx years ago, O. H. Kelley, then secretary of the national gr:inge, visited St. Johnsbury and gave : the necessary instructions in the un- j i written work. Precisely one year aft-; er the organization 6f Green Mountain grange Vermont state grange was granted a charter and held its first ser'-sion with Green Mountain grange w.'ib representatives from eight of the, ' th'rteen subordinate granges then In ■ev Mence iu the state, .'it the forth | coming session of the Vermont state ; grange there will be not fur from ITS ; subordinate granges reported with a, membership of perhaps 16,000. The ticbt master of the Vermont st ite grange was Eben P. Colton, who af.erward became lieutenant governor of, the state, and Charles J. Bell was treasurer, who was governor of the sU: to In 1904-00. The present state' m.'Ster Is George SV. Pierce of Brattle-! ' bo: o, who was elected to the state sen ! ate in 1904 and who Is looked upon aa 'a prominent candidate for gubernato- j | ri;J honors in 1908 If he can be pre- j i vsiled upon to accept H. J. PATTERSON. TV.ii New Master" of the Maryland State Grange. One of the new men who will occupy | ft sent In the next national grange! I meeting is H. J, Patterson of College j i Park, Md., master of the Maryland [ state grange. | succeeds the f\ late J. B. Ager! of Ttyattsvllle. | '<> _ \ Md., who was I takon 111 800n | '.fji k \ j after the na | I tional grange i meeting at Deu i J ver, Colo., last y®« r ( ™m A that illness did ! W!) "ot recover. ' ' Tha new mas | V \ \\f/ <or has been a liil B ji '/r member of the ' / Order for flf teen \ years and for 1L J. PATTER»OK. was lecturer of his home grange and for two years its master, lie has been secretary of the executive committee of the Mate i grange for six years. lie is an enthu | elastic worker, and tinder his leader j ship the grange of Maryland will co 1 t-er upon a new epoch of prosperity and usefulness. "SELLING TOGETHER." A Practical Plan Wanted For Co eperative Selling as Woil aa Buying. National Master Bachelder says, ' Tb« co-operative selling of farm proJuets has a legitimate field in grange vorlf and should be given more attention." Who will devise a plan that will be practical'? The fact is there is no more Important problem facing the grange today than this one of success ful}' "selling together." This sort of co-operation Is successfully carried on only'in a few isolated instances in the grange. It may well look for sugges tions from other organizations, as, for instance, the Neosho (Mo.) Fruit Grow ers' association, the Sparta (Wis.) Fruit Growers' association, the Hood Kiver (Ore.) Apple Growers" union, the Coun cil Bluffs (la.) Grape Growers' associa tion. the Feauville (Mich.) Fruit Ship pers' association, the United States Wheat Growers' association, Spokane, XVash., and the various fruit growers' associations iu California. Farmers Urged to Organize. Secretary of State John S. Whalen made a brief address on grange day of tho New York state fair. He ear nerstly urged an organization of the grange in every farming community and believes that the state grange should bear tbe same relation to the farmer that the labor union does to men who work in shop, factory or i mine. Farmers must co-operate for mutual benefit, and ho believes that the farmer should be allowed to set a fair price on products as much as the city man does on his labor. He also believes that the state should provide a rural school educational system for the young people who are interested In agriculture. An Editorial Suggestion. The Boston Transcript, speaking of improved state loads, says that "the granges might accomplish more if they bombarded congress less and gave i greater attention to interesting state j governments." Sometßing iu that SUK- j gestion wiTthy somebody's considera- ; 1 tion. I Never hr.i there been so much grange j news printed or grange miscellany pub- j lished as iiow, and in the front rank ; j stand the newspapers of New York, ; Maine and New Hampshire. The national grange executive com mittee and other prominent grange j officials will attend the national con ference on trusts and) corporations at Oulcago ou Oct. 22-20. / ~ * * short Talks or> • }! _____ People generally read advertisements more than they did * few years a&o. The reason is to be found in the advertisements themselves. Advertisers are more-careful than they used to be. They make the advertise ments rr.ora readable. Some of them even become, in a i way, a department of the paper, and people look for thern every day with as much *est and pleasure as they turn to tny other feature. ! This is true of many department stores all over In many cities there is just one man who appre- \ ciates the value of such interest. / He breaks away from the old set style. He tells j something interesting in his space every There are lots of interesting things in 0-^ business. Look over the miscellany page of | any paper—look at its local news columns, Jj ' ; aud its telegraph news, for that matter, £i i I and you'll see that the majority o£ the items ara more or less closely related to 0: some business fact. X Dress these facts up in a becoming nut tk, mirth** «nn. dJttf hi, j gnrb of words, and they will find readers, /übaml." I evcu though they be in a "mere advertisement." 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DOUGLASS SHOES fro *.so to 5.00 p? rw*r£: ¥ '«»'V*.qj vjf rorboys has no equal. Tracys Shoes for' XT farmes are, we lind, always satisfactory. A GOOD ASSORTMENT IE 7 " % \<S of CHILDRENB' and Ki \o\ LADIES' HeavyShoc 112 \° I|V Fine Goods at correct k JNt*-'-- Kit- prices. J | Jj "';-^on. v , , Clothing Made to Order All have the right appecrai.ee and guaranteed otsd ;n both material and workmanship and price mte. We also manufacture Fo.etl, the Flag Brand. It is not cheap, hnt good. Is correctly made. Ask your dealer for it or write us for prices NORDMOMT SUPPLY Co.' General Merchants, p , p ;°^ I H ORS NORD MONT STEAM MILL a NOT ' m Emy I;? i. sic I at | ; TO 'I'hoEC \. i:o Join Theinselvcr. to St"' I B <er~> "UNCLE SM\l" S .-M v,, Have no Causo for Repentance, %'?; ! I M tec Improved U. S. Separator 1 ® MSi I S:.:ar-.'.tC3 the Cream frcn the Kiik Mfc Mj V \iSr from wwc jj i No J '-.vin ;; from ti.'i \Von:e:i. M l/fsj^r A Ua. 1 SIIOKKIUM, Vt., V:.rcH la, t<«B. n r^'.' 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I' // You Arc Going to Get IVhi sky, 1 laa Get Good Whisky ffl Old Peon Whisky is good, and is distilled from care fully selected grain 75c a Quart $2.75 a Gallon Qli© If you want the finest whisky trade we recommend j jig k, Imperial Cabinet Whisky I $1.25 112 Quart $4.75 a Gallon feiyijafcjyi Champagnes, Sherries, Ports, Catawba, Moselles, * ' ' Rhine tfines, Brandies, Gins, Cordial». feMM MASSBT liCk U °HV are the oldest ivme and liquor house in Phi/a delphia, ive refer to the thousands of Physicians iv ho send here for pure liquors. Goods Shipped to All Parts of the United States Thomas Massey & Co. "iiSsSS?-
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