. XIV. NO 25 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGKESTILLE IF-Au,. CAPITAL STOCK j $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75,000, DIRECTORS: Trsnsocts a General in. Froutx, John 0. Lmnl, \V. Sones, . n • W C Frontz. Frank . A .Rced?»\ Jacob Per, Banking Business. r •> l , : , „ ' Lyman Myers, \V. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oillldivid- J. A. S. Bull, John Ball. , wfls and Firms 4' 112 solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. COLE 'Saaa^-ww No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OK/ WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. 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 haDd stove 3 and ranges for sale 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. Sauuiet C£o!e,l2i!sfiore,jPa. The Sliopbell Dry Good Co., v 313 Pine Street, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. P Zh Dress Goods always dignified and genteel. We believe this will lie a lilack goods season. The result of our beliel is magnificent in an oversowing stock—an abund ance of handsome fabrics at priees unprecedented lor cheapness. We show an absolutely new fabvies. PRIESTLEY'S TUSSAH ROYAL A brilliant material of Mohair and Worsted lor §1.50. $1.75 and $2.00 vard. We have u fine assortment o! all wool black fabrics in plain at d fancy weaves that range in price from s()e t* $2.00 New Autumn Tailored Suits Are being shown in a large variety of models. The trend of the new styles is re fleeted in these fall garments. The materials are the newest and the colors the most favored. Every woman will be interested not only in iheii styles but in their very low prices. HOSE FOR SCHOOL WEAR, Fast black rbbed Hose in all sizes for Boys and girls heavy blaek ribbed hose 10 and 12J cents. splendid values for 15 cents. We have a full line of the celebrated Black < at and pony ribbed Stockings for boys 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. 81LKOI,] XRS in plain colors and ART TICKING infancy stripes and lancy designs for 10 cenis. figu-es, special i|ualities for 25. CREi'ONNK in a new lot floral effect UENKN A CLOT 11, a new Persian patterns for 12J and 14 cents. effect material for draperies for 18 cfs. I I Try The News I m Job Office Once. iPine Printing 'ilowStN 1, fac'i'l! i i"i vVe Print To Pi ease. Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4,1909. I ! "HOT NOVELS." j Sir James Crichton-Browne, called | upon to address a congress of Sail- I ltary Inspector*, spoke of books among other things as possible veh icles of Infection. He was not aware, he said, that any book had ever been caught In the very act, "but a boob circulated from a public llbrarj might have been repeatedly coughed over by a consumptive reader, and so •arry a fatal dose of bacilli." In other ways, however, books might be very dangerous, and B6 nomethlng not too remote from the subject in hand the influence of literature it self was touched upon by Sir James as fallows: Worse still was the mental poison of "hot novels" and scurrilous Jour nalistic rags that ought to be touch ed only with the tongs and dropped In the purifying flames. It was noi some literature of the kind which' caused so many boys togo astray at an age of peculiar susceptibility. A PHRASE MAKKR. The late Sir Henry Parkes, who was known as Australia's Qrand Old Man, was a coiner of picturesque and impressive phrases, his was"The crimson thread of which Mr. Deakin used in a message of welcome to Admiral Sperry. An other of those felicitous oratorical Inspirations was "One people, one destiny," in which Sir Henry, advo cating Australian Federation, crys tallized the movement into a capti vating phrase of four words that traveled through the length and breadth of the island-continent, and became a really potent factor In the creation of the commonwealth. The Earl of Jersey was governor at the time, and Jersey contributed a poem to a Sydney magazine under the title of "One People, One Des tiny." A CONTRAST IN GAMES. Golf is a go-it-alone sort of game; Indeed no other opponent Is neces sary than Col. Bogy or your own best previous score. Moreover, nobody can. bo too yeung or too old, too rich or too poor to make a round of the links, whereas the grand old men of baseball hardly come to "for ty-year" before they retire. Never theless, If a man can be too old to quarter over the diamond he can never be too old to sit In grandstand or bleacher and feel the sap of youth stir reminiscently in him as he wit nesses the prowess of his youthful successors, for the next best thing to playing baseball is to see it played. The fun of golf is all In playing It. Baseball Is good to watch as well. They are great games, both. LIMIT TO COI,I> STORAGE. Cold storage is a scientific process by means of which perishable com modities may be kept in fairly good order for considerable periods. It is a conservator of supplies, a regula tor of prices and an Insurance against scarcity and waste. To be fair to the consumer and profitable to the warehouseman, however, there should be a limit to the stor age, and we should say that freah fish sixteen months old had gone about as far as it could. SYMPATHY TEMPERED. Sympathy for the motorists who ard caught by a railroad train at a crossing Is always somewhat temper ed by the reflection that automobiles are being driven at such reckless paces that tliey are making danger ous grado crossings of all the city streets. It 1r none the less the obli gation of the railroad companies to eliminate their own death traps, so that all road users, whether they drive horses or propel small locomo tives, may be safe. THHE RASIS OP LIFE. Constant oxidation is the basis of life, and the biologist argues that even should the meagre atmosphere of Mars be comp.osed entirely of oxygen, it would simply burn up the animals that breathed it. The at mosphere there seems to him a trou blous thing to cope with, and he sees little chance for birds unless they are so gauze-like In structure as to float on the exceedingly thin air. THERE IS HOPE. Tuberculosis, which in its more fa miliar form hereabouts is known as consumption, is the Insidious disease claiming the the greatest number of victims In our mortuary list. It is the infection against which our sani tary authorities have issued precau tionary decrees. And yet, In its pre vention it offers the readiest means of aid. If a man didn't waste his money on his own favorite foolishness ha would on some other fellow's. ' PARK NTS ARB I PRIGS. j The (act la that moat parents, adu« • cated or uneducated, are hopelessly | " jmpetent to minister to the liter recreation of their children. In first place, they do not give the aject serious thought, and they .11 to kep In touch with the "move jent" In the world of juvenile let ters. With all the talk among eld ers of the Augustan, Romantic, and Realistic Ages, no one has appeared to recognize any coreapondlng de velopment of taste in boys and girls. Otherwise why should Johnnie have to read "Pilgrim's Progress," when the governor is reading "The Jun-. gle"; or Mary, "Little Susy's Six Birthdays," when the mother is gust ing "The Fruit of the Tree"? Part ly because Mary's mother and John'a father would be stumped to name half a dozen good children's books written within the last ten years. - Partly also, because the average parents, especially fathers, are, in relation to their offspring, prigs. THE THHIXO THAT ENNOBLES. The scriptural injunction la: "Seekest thou great things for thy self? Seek them not." Men are not appraised among their felows by the thing that they seek to do and their successes or failure to achieve it. However shining the goal of their pilgrimage, the world will want to know what happened along the way —whether the pilgrim had a cherry word for, his fellow travelers, whe ther he lent a helping hand even though It stayed his progress, whe ther there was a good report of him In the Inns along the way. The thing that ennobles a concrete ambition is the wish to do the service for which honors and responsibilities may pro vide the opportunity. If those dis tinctions are sought at the sacrifice of postponement of service they are unworthily sought. THHE READING OF CHILDREN. Considering the number of chil dren who have been In the. world at one time or another It Is surprising how little organized attention till quite recent years has been given to their reading. A collection of bullet- Ins from the public libraries of sev eral cities reveals the aatonlshing fact that juvenile readera first gained official recognition a little over a decade ago. Previous to that time boys and girls under twelve or four teen years of age were frequently barred from the people's books aa Ir responsible nuisances. Of course, they always have access to the dull and pious slush of the Sunday School library; but excepting that treacle ! diet their Intellectual fare was much ! neglected. TRIUMPH OF SANITATION. It Is highly Improbable that such cities as Paris, London, Berlin, or ! New York will ever again suffer from serious epidemics of cholera. Their sanitation Is so good and their pro phylactic machinery so effective that the possibility of general Infect*on la extremely remote. Single caaes or even groups of cases are, however, j likely to creep In despite the great- j eat care, and such occurrences al- ! ways create more or leaa public ap prehension and derangement to com merce. FARMS THE BASIS. The farm is the basis of our per manent wealth. To lessen the value of farm products Is to strike* at the heart of our national prosperity, and to neglect the fullest advantagea of the farm Is to waste Irrecoverable op- | portunltles. Modern and progressive farming la what this country needs, j The loss of every bushel of wheat or | corn that could have been produced by the same labor Is a preventable | diminution of the wealth of the whole country. CIVIC ENCUMBRANCES. The kickers on the farm are not so hard to get along with as the , kickers In town. On the farm there I is the kicking cow and our long j eared mule while in town there ia the old mossback who wanta all the municipal Improvements without paying for them. The cow may be ! sold for beef, the mule traded for a shotgun, but nothing but a funeral will get rid of the town kicker. BAD ROADS MEAN POVERTY. A poor county can be more surely I kept poor by bad roads than by any other medium, for poverty is not so much a cause as aa effect of dis reputable roads. By the aame token, the rich county may become poor by neglect of its highways or bo pre served in its wealth by Jealous care of them. The Only Way. The Woman—lf I asked you how •Id you thought I was what would you toll me? The Man—A darned Ua, ol MKU-M. -* I TEN GREAT CHINESE WALLS. Dr. Geil Makes Interesting Dlseoveriei of Pigmies North of Tibet. Dr. William Geil of Doylestown, Pa, has arrived in London after an expedi tion in China, the main feature cf which was tracing the Great Wall fcr 1,800 miles from the coast of Shar.* halkwan to Klayukun, on the north ern border of Tibet. He discovered about 200 miles of the wall that has not hitherto been mapped. There wrs little of the masonry remaining. Dr. Geil's investigations convince I him that there were at least ten greet walls apart from the famous ODO. Among other things he was able lo confirm reports of the existence of a race of Chinese pigmies, wild crea tures covered with hair, whose ances tors, according to tradition, were driv en or fled to the mountains in ti e north when the wall was built. Ti e descendants have dwelt in the sarre mountains for twenty centuries. Fancies of a Fashion Leader. Particularly In hats was only one if the niceties of the Earl of Harrington, who, as Lord Petersham, before h!a father's death, was a leader and in ventor of fashions. The "Petersham" greatcoat was his own design and eve 1 more than that, for he used to cut out his own clothes and made a boot pol ish which he declared would super sede all others. He composed his ow 1 mixture of snuff, and devoted on a room entirely to storing jars upoi jars of snuff and canisters of ever/ kind of tea. His snuff boxes wera numbered by hundreds, and his meti culous choice led him to reply, whei a beautiful Servres box was being ad mired, that "it was all right for sum mer, but too cold for winter wear."-- London Chronicle. Approximating European Conditieni. The sight of a woman performing the heavier kinds of labor once deem ed fit only for men is still sufficient!/ novel. Yet the census returns sho v that nearly 25,000 women are employ ed as workers in iron and steel. W > men find employment as blacksmith?, wood choppers, stovemakers and per ters. Sentiment may depreciate their l.i* crease of nambers in industries re quiring strength and endurance. But where they possess the requisite ph/- slque and are under no illusions as to degrees of respectability in labor :t '• not apparent why they should not e i gage in masculine occupations as fres ly as they like. —New York Herald. Where His Luck Came in. Whenever physicians' fees 6eem et tortionate it is comforting to recall a certain famous eye specialist, one of ! whose patients coming to pay his bill ! growled: 'Doctor, it seems to me that SSOO Is a big charge for that operation of mine. It didn't take you over hr.lf a minute." "My doar sir," the other answerei, "in learning to perform that operation i In half a minute 1 have spoiled over eleven pecks of such eyes as yours."--" From Lipplncott's. A Historic Schoolhouse. On the Isle of Wight stands the o?d Jacobean grammar school where Charles I. held his court during tie j abortive negotiations with the parlia mentary commissioners who sat at the old town hall. The schoolhouse stands on tbe road to Garisbreoke castle, where the king was a prisoner. The royal apartments were in tlie gabled front faelng the street leading to Cowes, and the school room w;r used as the king's presence chambci River of Natural Ink. The River of Natural Ink is a curi osity said to exist in Algeria. It la j caused by the junction of two streams, ! one of which drains a region strongly j Impregnated with iron, while the othor ; | flows from a peat-bog and holds a large quantity of gallic acid in soli tion. The union of these two streams ' causes the iron and gallic acid <o combine, and thus produces a geuuire Ink. Muzzling a Wolf. The fighting wolf, that a gash in hit j throat might be cauterized, was muc | lied. "It's easy to muzzle a wolf If yc-u : know how," the keeper said. "Ycu Just take a good whip, and push the stock at him. He grabs it between his teeth. Then like a flash you make a ! ' noose with the lash around upper ard i lower Jaw. And there he Is, muzzle 1. j It's a dodge I learned out west when I was cowboyln'." j The hedgehog bounty law in j I Maine, recently, repealed,.had an in- ■ i direct benefit not anticipated. The hedgehog Is very fond of partridge eggs, and as a result of the reduc tion of the numbers of the beast par tridges are more abundant now than they have been in many years before. When the muckraker gets hi* proper niche In the Valhalla of evo lutloo it will perhaps be possible to say that he found everybody's busi ness nobody's business and left no body's bualneaa everybody's business. 75C PLR YEAR PAPER FROM BAGASSE. Great Results Claimed for a TrinldJd Invention. Consul-General Richard Guenther, of Frankfort, furnishes the following in formation, published in a .German Journal, concerning the invention o" a Trinidad planter lor the manufacture of paper from sugar-cane bagasse: For a long time the bagasse had been experimented with in order to make cellulose out of it for pap n* manufacturing, but without succots. It Is now reported that a Trinidad augar planter has, aft«r several'ycara of experiments, arrived at the con clusion that a superior article of pap ;r can be made from the bagasse of sugar-cane, as also of the bagasse of other plants of that district. It i3 stated that he has erected paper works in connection with his sugs.r factory at an expense of? 85,000. The bagasse, after having three times ground and pressed in sugar presses, is carried, automatical ly, to the paper mill and is thera treated by a process of the inventor. It is then boiled for several hours, passed through rotating millstones, put into the usual machines for manu facturing paper pulp, and afterwards cut up under hydraulic pressure. t Coronation Lunches. The most unceremonious coronation anaclc upon record is undoubtedly that piece of cold chicken which wa3 thrown to and devoured by the lata Lord Gwydyr in the gallery of West minster Hall 89 years r,go. But even the authorized refreshment of th.3 highest personages is apt to be rather unconventionally served on these oc casions. Queen Victoria tells in her Journal how, alter she had bee i crowned, she "repaired with ail tho peers bearing the regalia, my ladiet and trainbearers, to St. Edward's chapel, as it is called; but which, an Lord Melbourne said, was more un like a chapel than anything he had over seen; for what was called an al tar was covered with sandwiches, bot tles of wine," etc., etc. Lord Mel bourne took a glass of wine, but th > queen does not say whether she tool: any refreshment herself. Londo i Chronicle. The Wisdom of Saadi. Two persons took trouble in val 1 and used fruitless endeavors —he win acquired wealth without enjoying it, and he who taught wisdom without practicing it. How much so ever yo 1 may study science, when you do not act wisely you are ignorant. Th a beast whom they load with books i3 not profoundly learned; what knowet i his empty skull whether he carriet>i firewood or books. —From the Culistai of Musle-Huddeen Slieik Saad', Twelfth Century. To Be Looked At. "Of course, madam, I would not b i expected to light the fire?" "Certainly not." "Nor sweep the floors?" "Certainly not." "Nor attend to the door?" "Of course not." "Nor to wait on table?" "No; I want none of these things." ■aid the lady with !ier sweetest smile. "The only thing I require a servant for is to look r.t her and for this you are too plain."—Royal Magazine. Wears a Bonnet of Her Own. Adelberg is a town in Suffolk, Eng land. that is not worth much, the men 1 ' ~ g fishermen and the women kecp -3 lodging houses for those who come .rom the cities for the change of cli mate. The men are, possibly, too busy to attend to civic affairs, at any rate, they elected a lady mayor, Mrs. Gar rett Anderson, M. D. She is a woman In every sense of the word, and would not wear the cocked hat that mayor 3 are expected to wear, but purchased In London a black bonnet instead. Advantage of the Lower Berth. "I see that the Pullman Company is foing to make a difference in rates be tween the upper and lower berths." "Yes, and I suppose the lower berth will be th§ higher priced one." "No doubt." "So that the man who sleeps in the | lower berth will have to pay some ' thing additional for the chance of get i ting his face stepped on by the man In the berth above." New England Society. There is a National Society of New j England Women that has branches in many of the state, co-operating often with the men's New England societies, but making pleasant opportunities for women to take up the thread of re membrances with one another. Miss ' Lizzie Woodbury Law is the president, 1 residing In New York. A King's Bank. The practice of hiding money away In all manner of out-of-the-way cor ners is by no means modern. In the 1 old days, according to "Gleanings ' After Time," secret receptacle? were often made in the bedsteads, and con -1 tributed both to safety and romance. The wise man deaplseth not ap plause, but ho knows how to live comfortably without It.
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