Republican News Item. VOL. XIII. NO. 27 <524,000—544,000 <* v Which Do You Prefer • ? \ The average man earns about si, 100 a year. Hej r works 40 years and earns a total of 1j»44,00 in a lite \ time. The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or ( J S6OO for a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a I life time. The difference between $44. 000 and $ 2 4- £ 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, x x Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when j / the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V l ton Pa., can give you an education that will make / I high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of\ work you care to follow, this great educational In-Q x stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at r a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Our r local Representative will show you how you can V 112 triple your earning capacity. Look him up today, 112 / He,S 0.F.8E/B2sTInT A IN", 4 O. I. S. Representative. TOWANDA, PA. 1 HARDWARE.? No"Place m¥ this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES,!; COAL OK/ WOOD HEATERS; i ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every I Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. ' Come asd test the truth of our talk. 1 * A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. 1 We can sell you in stoves anything from a flue Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. j • Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. Samuel Sols^Msfiore,^. The Sliopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Concerning Fall 3aits Thtre is a great demand and sale this season lor medium priced Tailored Suits. AVe are making a specialty of this'class of Suits and can show more styles than you would expect to see. While we show a good litie of the medium price Suits we have some handsome gowns in the fiuer and more expensive giadei. THE NEW FURS KID GLOVES Are here. Our showing is the, beet '' ol,rf * J'. 0 " , win vvant n,nv Ki(l in yetirs —every piece was carefully «el~ "loves togo with the new suit. We are ected from only the beet of skins. New showing an excellent line of kid Gloves boas and fancy neck pieces with muffs to * n a splendid range ot color.-. We have match in all kinds of furs that will be Cloves to match your new gown, stylish this season. 1 he . v ar ? at the.right price. Wool Dress Goods Wave you given them their share of attention ? Is the Winter dress still tin bought ? Our assortment of plain and lancy mixed fabrics is now at ihe best. Of course you expect to find the prices right, so will say nothing about, them. CHILDREN'S COATS WASH FLANNELS We have just received a new lot of Not the old-fashioned heavy weights, Children s Winter Cbftts. I hey come in [,m medium fine woven fabrics in new the plain red, tan etc. Some are neat designs and fancv colorings for house and plain, others are trimmed. wear and waists for 40c a yard. Good Warm Blankets Either white or colored, or fancy plaids, in all <|ualities. You cannot go wrong in buying your Winter supply here if you want the best inialities your money will buy. Shopbell'Drygood Company. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1908. 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President's Message is a Strong, Readabh One. By the President of the I nited States of America—A Proclamation Once again the season is at hand when, according to the ancient cus tom of our people, it becomes the duty of tlie President to appoint a day of prayer and of thanksgiving to God. Year by year this notion grows in strength and worldly power. Our. ing the century and a quarter that has elapsed since our entry into} the circle of independent people we have grown and prospered in ma terial things to a degree never known before, and not now known in any other country- The thirteen colo nies which ftrugtfled Along- tbv- < r coast of the Atlantic and were hem med in but a few miles west of the tidewater by Indianhaunted wild erness have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen. Its domains stretch across the continent from one to the other of the two greatest oceans, and it exercises dominion alike in the Arctic and tropic realms. The growth in wealth and population has surpassed even the growth in territory. Nowhere else in the world is the average of in pividual comfort and material well- [ i being as high as in our fortunate j land. I For the very reason that in ma- j I tcrial well being we have thus abounded, we owe it to the Almighty j to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. With a nation asj with the individuals wno make . up a nation, material well-being is an indespensahle foundation. Hut the foundation avails nothing by itself. ; That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spent in piling,! heap upon heap, those things which ! minister merely to tiie pleasure ofj the body ahd to the power that j rests only wealth. Upon material well-being as a foundation must be raised the structure of a lofty life of the spirit, if this nation is properly to fulfill its great mission and to ac complish all that we so ardently hope and desire. The things of the body are good; the things of the in tellect better; but best of all are the things of the soul, for in the nation as In the individual, in the long run it is character that counts. Lot us therefore as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good will toward all men, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life. Canton, <>., Nov. s. Tne McKinley home has been opened to the pub* lie as the Mercy Hospital. Mrs. H. C. Klorer, of Canton, purchased the place for *50,000 and presented it to the Sisters of Charity, stipulating | that it be used as a hospital. Her ! wish has been complied with and ! the hospital has been entirely fur nished with donations made dy the I people of Canton. five Black Bears Go On a Spree. "Searching their sou In for sounds :to tell how glad they felt", five | Mack bears, very, very drunk, gave a vaudeville performance in the I Loyalsock woods, near Ringdale, late Tuesday evening, and farmer Donald Gallegher, who watched the performance, says he is reaiy glad he didn't have a gun. John Farrell, another farmer, has a big cider press at a point on thel edge of the forest, and close to the | Ringdale road. Hundred of bushels i of apples have been ground and : pressed during the past few months and the pomace has been dumped in a great heap near the Loyalsock creek. It recently rained on this pomace and it fermented. Farmer Gallegher was diiving home from Ringdfale when, near the j cider press, he heard the sounds of i revelry. His horse refused to pro-! ceed and he went forward to ivesti. gate. Dancingound the pomace j pile were live bears, all wooping and squealing in liachanalin aband- ! on. The farmer avers that while he watched they had a football genie, ' l'iute war dance, a grand opera re-' hear sal and a grand Salome wind-up. i Then the farmer yelled applause i and the bears tried to tear down the ; forest making their get-away.—Ex. j .. | Good Shooting. The American Navy now leads the world iu accuracy and rapidity Jof shooting;; six years ago it was ahead of every first class power. Six years ago an American battleship would ; not hit an enemy's vessel at a batt'e \ range of three miles or more oftener than twice an hour. To-day every ship of an enemy's fleet steaming in to range would be struck by two tons of steel shell every minute by by every modern American ship ! tiring at her. Solid metal spatters ! like mud when these great project ! ilea strike it; when charged ! with their high explosives these' shells are swept through the ship in j fragments of from two hundred | pounds in weight down to the fin est steel dust. In all human proba- j biiity no ship in the world could j stand such a tire fifteen minutes. Fatal Accident. John W. Diggan, aged 10 years, who resided on the farm of his]fathe r. in-law Fay Taylor, at ltock Run, about 12 miles from Hughesville, was killed by being struck on the head by a large timber from a shed that he was tearing down. Diggan, assisted by Mr. Smith a ; neighbor, was demolishing an old ; shed which stood close to the house. - As one of the timbers was loosened it swung around and struck Diggan 011 the head, fracturing his skull. The accident happened about 11 i o'clock Monday and he died in the i afternoon about :$ o'clock wsthout re • gaining consciousness. • | Dr. Wackenhuth, of Picture ! Hoiks, was called, but was unable to do anything. ) Mr. Diggan is survived by a wid ow and three children. Railroads for Christ. Perhaps it Will be startling to many that the railroads of'this country are actively ingaged in Chiistian work. Railroads along with other corpor ations, have been charged with be ing soulless, but a brochure by Wil liam Merkel,|reprinted from the < >ct tober Review of Reviews, if general ly read will go a long way toward correcting this idea and show that many of the leading railroad men of the country are actively encourag ing and aiding Christian work among their employees. Mr. Merkel tells of the many buildings for Y. M. C. A. work erect ed by the aid of railroad authorities and of the magnificent good being •Accomplished by them. Among the illustrations used is a picture of the railroad V. M.C. A. at St. Augustine, which was largely built and equipped by Harry M. Flagler. In the United States and Canada there are now 174 of these railroad V. M. C. A. Associaiions, with a membership of 9!J,000 and buildings have an aggregate value of 200. These figures are constantly 1 increasing. In 1 HOT alone twelve new buildings j were erected at a total cost of over a ; half ntlllian dollars' and about K,l»01» j new members were added. On the; New York Central lines there are! forty associations; on the Penn-j sylvania as m«;ny more, an on the | Boston and Maine, ten. In fact one or more branches of the association can be found on as many as sixty-three different rail roads through out the United State* and Canada. That the effect on the part of the railroads in these various ways in behalf of their employees, have been ' abundantly justified front both the j business and humanitarian stand j i points, the high ottlicals of the roads i ! are firmly convinced, j The work has brought company 1 ■and men into closer relationship.: j It has made employees feel that the company takes a sympathetic in-! | terest in their welfare; That it is; ! not merely seeking to grind out the | best years of their lives with ex ! acting work, long honrs. and small 1 pay, giving them nothing to look ! forward to but retirement without j compensation through disability or old age. , It has tended to stamp out that spirit of discontent that has caused jso much railroad history. it has generally raised the tone and character of the men increasing their loyalty and efficiency, and making them realize that the suc cess of the company means their own success, and that these both de pend on each man doing well his in dividual part. It was shown that the men active- j ly engaged in the operation of tlx- \ great roads of this country are do ing a great work in advancing the Kingdom of Christ. 75C PLR YEAP Wovld Cvt Wardens and Spies Ou( oj Fishing Fines. Important changes in the tisli laws of Pennsylvania are provided in two hills adopted by the conference of representatives of the fish protective associations of thirty-one counties, which concluded its work at I-larris hurg on Friday last. The bills will be submitted to the Legislature. It is proposed to pe-niit violators of the fish laws to, appeal to court, and also do away with the division of tines among wardens and inform ers and turn all the money into the State Treasury. Carp are added to the list of food fish. Among the important changes are these: That the commission of fish eries be allowed to appoint thirty wardens; allowing the Commission ers of fisheries to close trout streams on petition of 200 citizens, making possession of fish or illegal nets pri ma face evidence of guilt; author izing ( the setting aside of small streams for nursery purposes, pro hibiting under penalty of SIOO {fine, sale or offering for sale of illegal fishing devices; allowing two rods, two hand lines or two of each lo each fisherman; reducing the num ber of trout that can be caught in a day to twenry-five; changing ba s season from July I to December 1. In order to extend the scope of the work of the Pennsylvania State College in personally impressing up on farmers the importance of and need for more direct and scientific farming, a special train carrying a number of professors from that insti tution, will be run over the Penn sylvania Railroad, starting on Tues day next, on a three days tour of | the State. Twenty-two stops will be made, on ariving at a station the farmers will take seats in the cars, which . have been fitted up as lecture rooms. ! When these are overcrowded the | talks will be given in the open air. . Descriptive literature, embodying I the principals expounded by the ; professors will be distributed. Amoi>g ! the subjects to which special atten tion will be devoted are the growing of alfalfa, a crop which is almost en tirely neglected in this State, meth ods of preserving and improving the fertility of soil, and demonstrations in testing seed corn. In addition there will be talks on the care of livestock and the improvement of dairy products, Representing the State College on the special will be Profs. Alva Agte, Thomas F. Hunt, 11. E. Van Nor man. F. I). Gardner, C. F. Shaw and M. P. McDowell. It is prob able that the United Slates liureau of Forestry will send some one to talk on the preservation of fence posts and care of trees. Division Freight Agents W. J. Rose and C. E, Kingston will represent the Penn ' sylvania Railroad Campany. C. A. Starr of Sonestown has moved into his cozy new home ; which has just been completed at j that place.
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