Republican News Item. VOL. XIY. NO 22 "t524,000—544,000 C Which Do You Prefer • I.O, & Representative. TOWANDA, PA. » HARDWARE - Place For Reliable I STOVES and?RANGES, 1 COAL OB'WOOD HEAVERS; ONE OP WINTER'S j GREAT DELIGHTS. .JH&use Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns t and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of aeoond hand stoves and ranges for sale chaap. 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. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., —* 313 Pine Street, ' j .WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Dress Goods Black is always dignified anil genteel. Welielieve this will be a black goods season. The result of our belief is magnificent in an oversowing stock an abund ance of handsome labrica at prices unprecedented tor cheapness. We show an absolutely new fabrics. PRIESTLEY'S TUSSAH ROYAL A brilliant material of Mohair and Worsted lor #1.50. $1.75 and $2.00 yard. We have a fine assortment ot all wool black fabrics in plain and fancy weaves that range in price trom 50<: to $2.00 New Autumn Tailored Suits Are being shown in a large variety of models. The trend of the new styhs is le tlected in these fall garments. The materials are the newest and the colors the most tavored. Every woman will be interested not only in their styles but in their very low prices. HOSE FOR SCHOOL WEAR, Fast black ribbed llose in all sizes for Hoys and girls heavy black ribbed hose 10 and 12$ cents. splendid values tor 15 cents. We have a full line of the celebrated Black Cat and |>onv ribbed Stockings tor iMjys and girls. They are the very best wearing hose made for 25c. ART DRAPERIES AND SILKOLINES The new fall designs have come in. Never have shown before such a hand some lot of patterns. SILKOLINES in plain colors and ART TICKING in fancy stripes and lancj designs for 10 cents. 112i S u,eß < B P ecml qualities lor 25. CRETONNE in a new lot floral effect GENEVA CLOTH, a new Persian patterns for 121 an.. cents. effect material tor draperies tor IS cts. Subscribe for the News Item LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY OCTOBER 14-.19Q9. MUST KEEP BENCH FREE OF POLITICS Muns<"», Democratic Homines For Supreme Court, Criticised. KIS TACTICS CONDEMNED Touching Elbows With AH Kindi of Politicians In Tour ol the State ano With a Pathetic Appeal For "Com plimentary" Votes From Republi cans. I Special Correspondence.) Harrlsburg, Oct. 12. Members of the Judiciary and law Vers generally throughout Pennsylva nia are commenting adversely upon the remarkable campaign that is f>e- Ing conducted by C. Muuson. Ihe Democratic nominee for ussociate justice of the supreme court, in his own behalf. This ambitious gentleman has cast uside all regard for precedent aud has Ignored traditions of the legal profes sion in making a political canvass lor election to tho highest Judicial tri bunal In the commonwealth. It has apparently not occurred to Mr. Munson that the proprieties of the situation should prompt an aspirant for an office of this exalted character to respect the sentiment of the people which lias been manifested upon many an occasion in absolute hostility to anything calculated to hring the Jiidi clary into the game of politics or to besmirch the Judicial ermine with the contaminating Influence of a per sonal political campaign. Pronounced Public Sentiment. In Pennsylvania, probably more than in any other state, has it been agreed that candidates for the supreme bench should refrain from any act that might be construed as appealing for or RO lic-iting votes or to Influence a political campaign in any particular. That an aspirant for the greatest of fice of a Judicial nature In the gift 1 -uf the people of the state should be found going from county to county, from bor ough to borough, from ward to ward, in a mad hunt for votes, touching el bows with all sorts and manner of men. good, bad and Indifferent, with no evidence of a realization of the un dignified, unwholesome and dangerous character of the canvass, has call ed forth a storm of protests such as would startle a man of ordinary sen sibilities. A Judge's High Ideals. Judge Robert von MoschzisUer, ever sinse be was honored with a unani rnous nomination for the supreme bench, has refrained from taking any part whatever in the political cam- I paign. He spent the summer in Nova Scotia, and since his return has been industriously engaged in the perform ance of his judicial duties in the court of common pleas of Philadelphia. He has declined every invitation to ad dress meetings, to attend receptions of a political character or to participate in public dinners where any reference might be made to his candidacy. In bis speech of ace; ptance of Hie nomination. Judge von MoschzisUer showed how much he respected public sentiment. Among other things lie said: The candi !«te for Judicial oT.ce occupies a d'ffen nt ; ■ isil l< • i from other candi in'es. I'-ider our cus toms be is; nominat-. 1 b; t.» convention and may r-'.s nably look for the usual psrty support, but he is not in a posi ion to dis cuss politics or the policies of his party, for the reason thi't when elected to the bunch lie has noth ing whatever to do with -oiltics or the carrying out of pa ty policies. In fact, it becomes his duty, when elected, to forget that he was a candidate of any particular party and to proceed to adml-iister the law for the whole people without regard to any principles or poli cies, save the principles of the law as he is given the power to under stand them. Fortunately, these ideas have become .fixed in Penn svlvanla, and It Is not my desire to make any departure therefiom. Not a single word or a single act of Judge von Moschzlsker since that day can be pointed to that might be even twisted into a suggestion of an appeal for a solitary vote. Policy of a Politician. How different with his opponent Mr. Munson. Mr. Munson Is now on a tour of the state, shaking hands with all who will honor him with an oppor tunity to do so. A complete political machine, entirely independent of the regular Democratic state committee has been running in his special Inter est ever since he entered the race Canvassers are out in the state, letters are being written to Republicans so liciting their support ior his cardi dacy. aud individual appeals are beln;; made for "complimentary" vote? re- Mr. Munson from men of the majority Dartv. I Every precinct politician under stands the old "complimentary vote game." It has been worked time and again to fool the unsophisticated, and it fca time and again been successful. What is a complimentary vote? It is just the same as any rote, only that it is usually a vote got ten under false representation. The theory qf the man who goes after votes of this characjcr is that the man from whom he asks a complimentary vot? is so ignorant that he does not know that he is voting against hi* party, his party nomine* and hi» party's princi ples, just as positively and Just as ef fectually as the man who has always been out in the open as ail avowed political enemy of the party from whom the complimentary vote Is so licited. C I.aßue Munson. the Democratic nominee for associate jnstice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, nomi nated in ii Hourbon Democratic con vention and placed upon a Bourbon Democratic platform, in which every principle ol liepubllcanism Is attacked, und particularly the fundamental prin ciple ol protection, which Is a vital issue in the present campaign, pre sents a unique spectacle In the present contest In appealing for votes, com plimentary or otherwise, from Repub licans of the Keystone State. As the personal director of his own i anvass. Mr. Munson should take him self into council and decide to aban don his present political campaign out of deference to the unquestionable and unquestioned public sentiment. If he shall do this, his standing with the bar of Pennsylvania after bis over whelming defeat on Nov. 2, will at least not ou as low as It otherwise would A great deal is said nowadays about America's heavy debt to Eu rope. Bankers estimate that tl.is country's unpaid obligations at pres ent amount to $400,000,000. There is nothing either new or sin ister about this apparently iiumen-e sum which the people of the United States now owe. To pay the interest nd dividends upon our securities owned abroad and to meet the for eign insurance polices requires several hundred millions annually. Add to this at least $100,000,000 of good American dollars which are carried out of the country every year by tourists and it will be found that the United States must sell co n modities to foreigners worth from >.'>1)0,000,000 to $400,000,000 more than it purchases from them in order to square the balance sheet. By the great excess of our exports wo pay off the debt which is piled up every year ng tinst this country. For months past the United States has been busier than usual in importing all manner of supplies—necessities as well as luxuries—an inevitable ■i quel to the trade expansion at home. Hit Europe must and will buy hugdy from the United States. It will be obliged to pay a very big price for cotton, corn, and wheat, and it will take all of each of these great staples that our (people can spare. Our exports of these products will be limited only by our supplies, us there is ever ready a world mar ket for them. The United States mines just abovt the amount of gold which the i-ountry annually requires and it is the only great nation which can do this. We have silver to sell, so that in the precious or money metals we have a little surplus every year In making the grand international settlement the fact that the I nited States need not first buy gold in or :ler to pay its debts with that metal is of much consequence. But most ufall are we indebted to the farmer for the ease with which this country ranee,ls its great obligations to the outside world and build* up a trade iudcash balance lor itself. Arrested lor Stealing. (unstable Frank Kellogg arrested Solon Varguson at the Forksville fair on Thursday, on charge of steal ing various articles from L. I*. Marey and others. A bicycle belonging to Burton Bennet came into possession of Varguson without the forma'ities of a deal, and this ambiguous trans action will limine in the trial which will be held injustice court at Mon roetou Saturday. Vargason secured hail for appearance at the hearing. No-1 for Fifty Cent*. Gusranuou lobftcco Lai>it cure, makes weak qjcu stroii«» bloo rl . pure. Wo, sl. All druggist* Horrible Death Lay in Wait for Woman Extinguish Flam ing Brush. Dushore, Oct. B.—With her cloth ing all hurtled from her body and tier flesh so badly rousted that it crumbled to dust when touched, Mrs- William Fairchilds, who lived about a mile from this place, was found by neighbors yesterday about noon. .She lived for two hours, suttering the most intense agony, before death re lieved her. Iler clothing had caught Itre while she was fighting a brush blaze. Mrs. Fairchilds was alone at her home yesterday about noon when she noticed that a passing engine had set tire to a pile of bru.di near the barn. Fearing that the blaze would get beyond control and reach that structure she attempted to beat it out. The wind blew her dress into the Hames and in almost a second -LIE WHS all ablaze. Maddened by tiie pain she started to run to the house, her every movement only serving to make her rescue mo;e im possible. After running about 100 yards she fellto the ground, a„writb nig mass of charred flesh, from whichevery liit of clothing had been burned. Neighbors who live across the fields were attracted by the wo mans screams, and saw her just be fore she fell. They said that when t ley first saw her she was one big ball of tire. As quickly as possible thev ran to her assistance, but she was beyond human aid, though con scious. In addition to her terrible burns which were over her entire body, she had inhaled tire and though a physician was summoned, it was impossible to do anything ex cept alleviate, to a certain extent, the pain she suffered. She was con scious to the last. Deceased was iged about tifty years and is surviv ed by her husband and five children, two sons and three daughters. Dangers at School. Physicians, parents, and school teachers are aware of tiie fact that the dangers which eonfr >nt the child who attends the public schools. Some •>f these dangers are: Too violent ex ercise, liability to accident while at play; injuries to eyesbht through tegket to have their eyes examined, ind the menace of fast driving of ve hicles on the streets over which children must pass on their way to school. With proper care these dangers may be avoided or minimiz ed, but there is another and a graver danger which it seems cannot be guarded against successfully—that of c niing into contact with and con tracting contagious or infectious dis cuses, a danger which is almost con stantly present. Parents are sometimes accused of carelessness in sending their child ten to school when they are afilicted with contagious disease, but the par ents are not always to blame. Jt is souiotiuies impossible for a phycian to correctly diagnose a case of sick r.ess until after it is too late to pre vent the sick child from mingling with her school mates, hence it is not surprising that parents cannot always know what is wrong with their children when they are imlis i'osed. Because of this uncertainty during the first stages of sickness cases of contagious disea es are found among children who have been at tending school regularly. Many children have contracted contagious diseases while at school arid the only preventive which can oe suggested is that parents, when ttiey discover that their child is ill, keep her at home until a physician h is thoroughly examined her and ascertained the nature of her illness. I'his might be regarded as a foolish proposition, but as no parent desires that other children may be made seriously ill through her neglect to t ike every precaution against the spread of contagious dis» ase it would be displaying wisdom on the part of patents to be sure their child is not afflicted with such disease rather than lo be too anxious to have their child attend school while ill. To Cure CuQitlpatlon Fore»or. Talto Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 86a If O. C. C. lail to cure, Uruggibis refund money 75C PLR YEAP Union County Family Poisoned. Charged with attempting to poison 11is inother-iu-)aw, Mrs. Anna Stet •/.er, of Laurelton, near Lewisburg and her entire family, by placing arsenic in medicine and flour which they used,- Jocob Biughman, :(•"> years old, of Cass, West Virginia, is under arrest here. Baughman and his wife had a disagreement and she returned to her mother's home in Laurelton. lie followed and made an effort to effect reconciliation in this he was unsuccessful, and after another disagreement left the house. Shortly after his departure members of the family who partook of some of the medicine became violently sick. Others of the family and and some neighbors who ate some bread baked with flour that was in the house during baughmans visit, also became ill with symptoms which indicated arsenical poisoning. An analysis of the bread, flour, and medicine disclosed arsenic. C. Is. Booth of troop B, state con stabulary, was detailod to make an investigation. lie arrested Baugh man in a lumber camp near Phillips burg, Centoi County. lie was brougt to Lewisburg and given a hearing and held for the January term of court.—Ex. Tail an Optimist. President Tuft is an optimist, lie is one of the many millions of Amer ican citizens who believe that the world is much better and brighter to day than it was 50 years ago; "that each man has a greater in terest in his fellowmen than was the case fifty years ago." There is a whole lot of truth in that latter statement. Men of wealth today | are doing more for those who need j help than the rich did a half century ago. This help is given in many ways—in endowing colleges and schools of learning; in affording op portunities to the worthy man to in crease his ability of earning a living; hi giving him a chance to rise in the world and become one of its great and influencial powers. Men and women on every side are striving to uplift those who show a disposition to get out of the rut. A helping hand is extended and men I who are possessed of ability are lift ed into position of prominence and responsibility, no matter whether they be rich or poor. The peo ple take an optimistic view of things aud in their mind's eye see the great possibilities which loom up largely in front of them. Th»* world is becoming more a place of peas ant living than a temporary abiding place for those who are hopeless. President Taft is an optimist because he has mingled with the people and nas read in their faces that happiness which comes only to a contented people. The Gvn May Be Used Alter October IS. The woodcock season opened Fri day, Oct. Ist. Bear came in at the same date. Under the rules relating to wood cock but ten may be killed in a day, twenty in a week and fifty during the season by one person. The num ber of bear is unlimited. On October loth, the season opens for pheasant, quail wild turkey and •squirrel (fox black or gray.) The new game law as interpreted in the "Digest" published by the secretary of the game commission, provides that of English Mongolian or Chinese pheasant ten may be kill ed iu a day, twenty ina week and lifty during the season by one per son Of ruffed grouse, commonly called pheasant, five may be killed iu a day, twenty in a week and lifty dur ing the season by one person. Of quail or Virginia partridge ten may be killed in a day, forty in a week and seventy-five during the season by one person. Of wild turkey one may be killed in a day, two during the season by one person. Of squirrels six of combined kinds may be killed in a day by one per son The season for rabbits opens on Nov. Ist. Ten may be taken in a day by one person. Itabbits are said to l>e very plenti ful this season.