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VOL. XIY. NO 22
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v The average man earns about si, ioo a year. H_er
y woilcs 40 years and earns a total 0f544,000 in a llJeX N
i time. The average dav laborer gets aaayor 112
J s6oo for a year of 300 days. He earns $24,000 in a t
S. lrfc time. The difference between $44,000 and *24- r
J 000 is sao, ooo. This is the minimum value ot -xj
V practical education in dollars and cents. The in- w
J creased self-respect cannot be measured in money. S
\ Why not stop plugging away at a small salary when 1
/ the International Correspondence Schools, ot Scran- v
\ ton Pa. can give you an education that will make /
1 high salaried man of you ? No matter what line of \
y work you care to follow, this great educational ln-r
C stitution can prepare you in your spare time and at \
? a small cost to secure a good-paying position. Uur r
S. local Representative will show you how you can
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I.O, & Representative. TOWANDA, PA.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.