Republican 'Mews Item. VOL. XIII. NO 38 <524,000—544,000 O > v Which Do You Prefer ° ? \ The average man earns about si, ico a year. He/* / works 40 years and earns a total ot $44. 00 in a life V \ time The average day laborer gets $2,000 a day or t J s6oo' for a year of }oo days. He earns $24,000 in a I S life time. The difference between $44,000 and $24- £ J 000 is $20,000. This is the minimum value of a ? \ practical education in dollars and cents The in- J creased self-respect cannot be measured in money. > V Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when j / the International Correspondence Schools, of Scran- V \ ton Pa., can give you an education that will make / t high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of \ / work you care to follow, this great educational In-r V 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 /^tripleyour earning capacity. Look him up today, r V He is > ? C. IF 1 . J3JE&J±J3STJ->J~ A IsT. 3 O. I. S. Representative. TO WAND A, PA. COL HARDWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OIR, WOOD. HEATERS; ONB OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHT 3. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the'truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for salo 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. damuef The Sliopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAM3PORT, PA. r?ev (tfcrsf) Goods You might be surprised if vou knew how many women are buying Spring and Summer wash fabrics now. An inspection of these pretty colored wash materials will prove BO fascinating that buying become? an irriesistable impulse. 3f>eets and Pillov Cases Sheets—here are sheet values that are Pillow Cartes for leas than you ran worth looking at. buy the muslin and make them. I'lain llem Sheets. Flaia wide hem o«es, 55c. to 75c. 10c. to 20c. Hemstitched Sheets Hemstitched Sheets. 85c. and 95c. 20c. to 25c. White Bed Spreads We have a new lot of ("rochet Spreads that are specially cheap today. Marseilles Quilts We show an excelliiit line of fine Marseilles Quilts —new patterns and better val ues for the price than you have had for a long time. Either p'ain hems, fringed or cut corners, for $1.89 to $6.50. Muslin Underwear We have just received some new Muslin Underwear. The line is now as com plete as it has been at anytime this season. Either in the medium or the liner grades. English Long Cloth * We have two special qualities in *lo—inch wide fine English Longcloths. These are the best values we ever ottered, lly the price of 12 yards for #1.50 and $1.85. New White Cotton Waistings Another big lot came in today. Some very handsome lew designs in fanry check stripes a«d other odd gtyles that are new. Prices vary Irom l()c\ to 35c. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11,1909. Farmers Have Taken Up Motor Cars and Improved Roads In Order to Use Them—Remaking Sand Highways With Clay. The farmer's motor car has worked a transformation on the country roads of central Kansas. For many years there was indifference regarding the roads. The old fashioned id.in of working tin; road in theory and doing nothing In practice was carried out. N'ow there is levied a road tax in cash, and I lie money Is used to hire competent men to do definite work in keeping the roads in good condition. A striking example is the road from Abilene to Enterprise, six miles along the bottoms where gumbo soil L* fre quent. For two decades it had been almost impassable for heavy wagons in wet weather owing to the great ruts cut in it. Little more than a year ago the township entered on the new plan. It is now dragged after every rain, and the transformation is notable, says an Abilene (Kan.) cor respondent of the Kansas City Star. It is smooth, even and has become one of the favorite runs for the mo torics of Abilene owing to its fine condition. As a matter of fact, it is kept smoother than are the city streets that lead to it. The same is true of a road to Detroit, in the line of the Kansas City-Denver run for tourists, it, too, is dragged after rains aiul lias become a very attractive highway. Those who have not been over the roads cannot comprehend the cliauge that has taken place in them. Up in llnyes township, eight miles from Abilene, are two brothers, Jo seph and Isaac Page, who own motor cars. They are enthusiastic drivers of their touring machines and have learned to appreciate good roads. They have taken up the road drag in their own communities and are giving the residents of their locality practical examples of what can be done in mak ing good roads. Joseph Page says lie lias the best half mile of road iti the county, and he feels offended if mo torists pass along its smooth course at less than thirty miles an hour. As a result, largely of their efforts, there are a dozen drags In constant use in the township when the farmers can get time to use them. In the summer, with so much rain and such a rush of work on the farm, It has been neg lected, but now they are at it once more. The tendency of the farmers in that part of the county toward proper road work has greatly increased, ami the road tax is being used with bet ter effect than ever before. Ona of the farmer motorists of the county, P. 11. Gfeller of the northeast part of the county, was asked by the city officers of Junction City recently to show them how to make good road drags that would keep the roads lead ing t.» the city in good condition. They intended to make a bid for trade by dragging the roads in all directions from the city and are asking the farm ers to come "there to trade because of the excellent highways leading into town. Mr. Gfeller recently returned from a 200 mile trip to western Kan as In which he was accompanied by his fam ily. They w ere gone a week and had a successful journey. Their car lias prov ed a great satisfaction to the family, living, as they do, twelve miles from town. Now the members are seen in Junction City and Abileii " frequently, and there is nothing going on of con sequence in the county that they do not attend. The sandy loam of the uplands gives a fine basis for the dragged roads, and Mr. Gfeller has 1 o eome an enthusiast on the subject. He advocates this as the solution of the road question at all times. Another interesting experiment that has been made by the farmers of the county who have become interested in good roads is the remaking of the sand roads by paving them with clay. For instance, the main street of Detroit, a little town live mi es east of Abilene, was for years a waste of dep sand. The road is much traveled, and all fie motor car parties from Kansas City to Demer go through tins street. The town trustees tried to grade It up, but were unsuccessful, so they finally de termined to pave. They hauled from the clay beds along the Smoky Ilill river enough clay to make a covering for the roadbed, and (his was smoothed down until U became a fine, hard road, one of the best In the county, while the sand be neath takes up the moisture, and the road is always dry. This proved so satisfactory that other sand roads in that vicinity have been similarly treat ed and are passable for every sort of vehicle. The hills that formerly could only be traversed by the well equipped teams and where motor cars could not fro now ure excellent highways, and the cars are frequently run over them. Roadmaklng lias received a decided impetus since the Introduction of the motor car to the rural districts of the county. There are more than a hun dred cars in tills county, and the num ber Is increasing every week. Many of these are owned by the farmers, and these are the ones who bring to the movement for good roads the best of effort. Next year's road money will be used more than ever for the dragging iif the roads, and the coumy will even tually have line highways in every prin rinal direction connecting the towns Proud ot His Jvrics. Although there has beeb 181 kill ings in Northumberland county and three hangings, in discharging jury men who served during criminal court Feb. 4th., Judge Voris Auten said the people of the county are to be, congratulated on the character of the jurors summoned for the trial of eases, as it shows the jury commis sioners are attending to their duty, lie said that jurors make mistakes and courts make mistakes, the jurors of verdicts injthe county as a rule, have been very satisfactory. T Pay Pensions Monthly. Many thousand of pensioners throughout the country are interest ed in a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Penrose. It i3 entitled a bill "for the payment of pensions." ft provides that all pensioners with permanant disabilities and the wid ows of soldiers or sailors and sailors who are receiving pensions for, life shall be paid their pensions month ly and by checks mailed on the last day of the month covering the amount of pension due them for that month with restrictions more oner ous than are made by the Treasury Department in paying interest on (Government bonds# Under this system it would be necessary for the pensioner to file with the pension •igent an affidavit stating his resi lience and postoffice address. Under the present system pensions are paid every three months and at each payment the pensioner must make tn affidavit before a notary. Under the p'an proposed by Segator Pen rose the pensioners included in the provisions of this bill will save the notary's fee and receive their pen sion at more frequent intervals. Local-Option Has "Snakes." A news dispatch irom Ilarrisburg says: Men and women interested in local option at the capitol claim there is a snake in a bill introduced in the Legislature Thursday by John B. Holland ©C Washington county and it will be fought by the Anti- Saloon League. It provides that the question „Shall license to sell liquor be granted?" to electors of each separate ward in cities and Itoroughs divided into wards in boroughs not divided and in town ships. The bill directs that at the Novem ber election of the present year and every three years thereafter it shall be the duty of the authorities to sub mit to the electors of each ward of city or borough or to those of un divided boroughs the question, and to receive count aud certify and re turn the votes of those who vote '•yes" or "No" upon the question. Count of the votes is to be made by the court on the second day after the election, and recorded by tha prothonotary of the court. After the result has been so recorded, it shall bo unlawful for any court to grant licence for the selling of liquors in any ward or township that at the election has cast a major ity of its votes in the negative on the question. If the majority of the electors vot ed "yes'' the bill provides that it shall be unlawful for the court to refuse a license in the ward on the grounds that no license is necessary for the accommodation of the public md for the entertainment of strang ers and travelers. This action says: The vote at the last election on saitl question shall be taken by said court as conclusive upon the quest ion of necessity." An election held under the pro visions of the net, it provides, if it results in a vote against the grant ftig of licenses, shall not effect licens es in force at the time of the election, but such licenses shall remain in force till the time for which they were granted has expired. Tht local option people are also fighting to have their bill sent to the judiciary general instead of the law and order committee, to which the Holland bill was assigned Thursday. Rev. Nicholson fears now that Speaker Cos will send all such bills to th" law and order committee not withstanding an alleged promise that it would goto judiciary general. Judge Hall on Licenses. Judge Harry Alvin Hall in a plain talk to the constables of Elk County, in open court said: "The man who holds a valuable franchise like a liquor license and has not the sense to preserve it by observing the law is not fit to huve a license and shall not have one in my district. I want it distinctly understood that I will permit no violations of the liquor law in thisjeounty, neither will I permit the constable to toler ate them." , Judge Hall further told the con stables that if they persisted in per mittng violations of the liquor laws without returning the same to}'the court,|he would prosecute thejofticers themselves. The Western Penitentiary of this statejhas a record that no 4 other pen al institution in (the country can oqual. It now has 18 bankers .imong its inmates, paying the penal ty for having gone wrong in the 'nanagement of the financial insti tutions with which they were con nected. The fact need not however, lead to the conclusion that the world is growing worse. It means rather better safe guards and closer security as to the managemnt of b inking in stitutions and that there has been <uth a growth of moral sentiment that wealth is not always potent in saving officials from penalty of their wrong doing. Fatal Accident. Mack H. Bowman, a native of Towanda, and a brother,"of Mrs. C. 11. Jennings, formerly of Lopez, was instantly killed hya'log train on the Jennings Bros, railroad at Jennings ton, W. Va., on Friday afternoon. The body was taken to Towanda Sunday and the funeral was held on Monday afternoon at 2:.'10 o'clock from the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Jennings. i Mr. Bowman was employed as \ conductor on a log train operated on the Jennings Brothers private rail : road at Jenuingston. Friday after ! noon he was riding on the first log I truck of the train of empty trucks | which was being pushed by the loco | notive. He was getting ready to drop oil the truck to run on ahead to throw, t switch when the speed of the en gine was diminished. As the slack was taken from the train, the front car being the last effected, the sud den jerk took Bowman unawares, and he was throwh from the truck, | I falling on the rails. Three cars passed over him before :he train could be stopped. When taken from under the train, he was dead, death having been instantan eous. Utica N. Y.. Feb., 4.—While playing In the barnyard of her home, near Governeur, the o-year-olti [ •laughter of Joshua Olmtree, was picked up and carried skyward by a l add headed eagle. The outcries of both parents and child frightened the bird and it drop- I pet! the chdd on the roof of a barn < Quickly getting his gun out, Olm ree took a chance shot, hut outside <;f the loss of n few feathers the eagle was unhurt. The Harrisburg Telegraph finds i hat there is practically no serious opposition to the proposed Constitu tional amendment abolishing the February election. The people are •satisfied that our system of govern ment, local, rtate and national, has been burdened for several years with i frequent and unnecessary elections. | It is believed now that under the uniform primary, which is in effect jan election, there is no occasion for I two elections every year. The ! Legis'ature having once adopted the i proposed amendments to the consti tution, their passage again this win ter and adoption by the people next fall would mean a change from two elections a year to one election in November. ; Business interests as well M poiitl | cal influence favor abolishing the j February election. The Telegraph 1 says that as suggested by It the other | day, tha frequence of elections and I the constant turmoil resulting there | from have crystaliaed public senti | ment in favor of the pending eharg t es. 75C PLR YEAR Rats Arc of Great Value, Rat fur is being largely used by the fur fakir this season. It masque rades under~the name of Hudson seal, and dainty ladies who would shudder at the mere thought of the rodent are enveloping themselves in elegant wraps and directory scarfs of rat skins, unconscious of their origin. For many seasons sealskin has been becoming more and more rare and the price is bounded up in conse quence. It was a French furrier, confronted by the famine in seal skin, who experimented in rat'skins. Carefully treated ho found that the skin of the French rat could be work ed up into an excellent imitation of sealskin. The huge muffs are being made of ratskin, and so are the fashion able toques which so closely re semble the busby. Big Stick Wins Census Spoils Fight. Washington, D. C., February !). President Roosevelt will have the satisfaction of scoring one moie vie-, tory over Congress before the end of his administration in the matter of placing employes of the new census under the new civil service laws. The house at least is getting ready to surrender to the president, much as members like to give up the spoils tidbits for which they had prepared themselves, and which have become so extremely rare in these later years of civil service reform. The President is so evidently in the rightand is so strongly backed by public opinion that members io dize it is the part of prudence to -,'ive way. The leaders are now said 10 be preparing a new census bill, which will include the provision the President asked for, placing the se lection of the clerical employes in the hands of the Civil Service Com mission. The bill will it is said, al so include a provision whereby the emyloyes of the census will have to be dropped when their work is completed instead of being permitt ed to take positions in the perman ent classified service by transfer, as was done after the work of the last census was completed. Whether the Senate will accept the situation and follow the example of the House is uncertain, but it is believed it will. The friends ot Judge Taft in the Upper House, in cluding such men as Senator Knox and Senator Lodge, will be strong lor the civil service idea. Safeguarding Marriage. Safeguarding marriage is wise. F"ive states already have statues en deavoring to prevent marriage be tween those whose condition renders i union unwise. Some of these laws forbid a marriage licence without a doctor's certificate of sound health- The bill introduced by Representa tive H. A. McClung of Harrisburg prohibiting marriage to those with tuberculosis, epilepsy and other her editary diseases has precedent. It moves in the right direction. The State and the family, the public and the individual, art! alike interested in safe marriage between sound men and women. Rut the appropriate restriction is not with reference to "hereditary" diseases, but "transmissible" either by decent or by contact, tuberculosis, itisalmost certain, is not hered itary; but it is now certain that it is infectious by contact. Epilepsy is probibly hereditary, but is not communicable by contact. Transmissible" covers both the-e cases. It applies both maladies which are contagious or-infectious and to those which are hereditary. The law should recognize this peril, and no license to marry .should issue to those known to have "transmissi ble" diseases. It is announced that within a few months the organization of a new Eagles Mere company, t<> take over the property of the land and boat company, will have been formed. The new company is expected to carry on extensive improvements at tlje famous resort. Hon. Edgar R. Kiess and Captain E.S. Chase will be interested in the new company, which will include some Harrisburg capitalists.
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