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B. M. VANDYKE, Editor-
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XjAPOBTE, PA.
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Resolutions.
One more year has passed into
memory and once m >re the time
has come when we turn over an
other page in our life's history and
write across it a lot of resolutions,
the majority of which perhaps
most of us will succeed in break
sng while the year is yet in its in
fancy. However this does not
necessarily mean failure, neither
should it deter us from making
other similar resolves. We are
not to think we have hopelessly
failed just liecause, after a more
less lengthy trial, we went back
on our vow. If we honestly try to
keep our resolutions that is some
thing gained, even if in a moment
of weakness we ultimately break
them. We should take fresh hope
from the fact that we do manage
to live up to them for some time,
and take up the reins and again
drive oh. We will all make mis
takes this year just as we have in
former years, but the proper thing
to do is to push forward right man
fully and instead of being dishear
tened by occasional relapses, learn
wisdom and determination! from
them that the future may be
marked bv fewer failures.
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"TOGO" J
"■ 31 ■■
Katy fled up the cellar stairs, drop
ping potatoes and carrots at every
misstep. "This Is the last!" she gasp
ed. "I'm tellln' ye wanst fer all,
ma'am, the baste goes or I do!" And
a moment later "the baste" himself
appeared —a small, unprepossessing,
■white-yellow ferret, wrapped In the
arms of "Jlrnpsey" Englehart, the
■on of the house.
Mrs. Englehart stood uncertainly
between them. "Well, Katy, I'm sure
I haven't any fondness for him myself.
He should have been sent back at
once."
"Yes," said Jimpsey, fairly In
tears, "yes, after he's gone and done
his duty and killed all the rats —and
he killed them just in bunches, tool
then nobody has any sympathy for
him any more!"
By this time Mrs. Englehart could
once more hold the scales of Justice
evenly. "Jimpsey," she said, "we're
not denying how valuable he's been.
When I think of the way we were
pestered with rats hardly two weeks
ago— But you ought to think of the
people who are pestered with them
still, and pass him onto them. The
Lisgars and Appletons have Just as
many as we had."
"Well, why can't they go and buy
ferrets of their own, then? But I
guess they'll never get any like To
go!"
"Then you must keep him in the
stable. Why must he be forever go
ing back to the cellar?"
"Why, because that's where he had
the most fun, of course! I keep him
In his box, too, only he chews his way
out again."
"Togo" seemed to blink his little
albino eyes in pleasant corroboration.
Katy could hardly resist making a
pass at him.
Jimpsey retreated vengefully to
ward the outer door. "And now, too,
when he even knows my whistle! I
can send him into that hole away up
In front of the coal bin. and then
whistle through my Angers into the
hole away back near where we keep
the potatoes, and he comes up just
as if it was only the other side of the
partition. He'll do it every time I
give him a meat scrap. I guess there
aren't many ferrets trained like that!"
Again Mrs. Englehart gave up.
Yet it was with a very uneasy mind
that she gave up. Only too clearly
did she feel that if there was another
meeting between Katy and Togo in
the shadowy glimpses of the coal and
vegetable bins, there would no longer
be any chance to choose between
them. And Katy was the one really
good cook she had ever had. She
decided at last that it was something
that Mr. Englehart must settle, al
though in the main it was against her
principles to trouble him with such
domestic problems.
That day Mr. Englehart returned
from the new college buildings with
worry on his face.
"Belle," he said, "I'm about ready
to quit."
"Why, dear," she asked, "what Is
it now?"
"Oh, Orv again. A young architect !
like that —with the brains for it, too
gets a job that gives him his chance
to make a name through the whole
State. He's uplifted that he marries
on it. And then he lets a fat headed
contractor make a fool of himself and !
him about once a week. When that
business of the chimney supports got j
out, the Journal gave him enough bad '
advertising to kill two ordinary repu
tations. And now"—he spread out !
his hands on the table.
"Dear, dear! What is it Malone's
done this time?"
"Oh, it was Malone, all right In a
way it wasn't Orv's fault at all. He's
been giving himself entirely to the in- 1
side and up stairs work for the last
month, and I suppose it never once
entered his head that an ordinary rea
soning man could go wrong in the pipe j
laying. Then Malone simply putin j
and covered up every solitary tube
connection between power house,
main building, library and dormitories
without running the wiring through I" j
"James!"
"Could you believe it? Could yout '
Oh, I need hardly say that Orv insists ;
upon taking all the blame. There's :
miles of piping altogether. And as
soon as the Journal gets hold of
that —"
It was little wonder that Mrs. En
glehart said nothing about Togo. And
the same feeling that sent her across
to the Havilands' with her dessert un
eaten, sent her husband outdoors, 1
where he believed he could think
alone.
As a matter of fact he remained
alone only till Jimpsey could find hLm. I
And then the whole matter of Togo's 1
glltterlngly meritorious past and his
darkly perilous present was set forth
for the consideration of the Engle- '
hart supreme court.
But to an outsider it must have
been evident at once that the supreme
court was not giving the matter its
customary close attention. And by
the time the counsel for the defense
had made his case complete, by tell
ing how Togo would answer to his
whistle, the advocate began to be
conscious of that himself. |
When he waß Just about to enter
a protest. "What? What was that?"
asked Mr. Englehart, suddenly, "What
was that you were saying about his
answering to your whistle?"
Jimpsey went over that part of it
again. And now the supreme court
did give heed to htm.
"But, pa," said Jlmpsey, "I told you
about that once before!"
"Did you, son, did you? Well, I'm
very glad you've told me again." He
walked through to the stable and
peered Into Togo's box. "Has he been
fed yet?"
"Well, not for quite a while —not
for an hour or two. Of course I'll
have to feed him again before I goto
bed."
"Good! But suppose you postpone
that last feeding for another hour or
two. I think I'd like to show him
over at the Havllands'.. And maybe,
If you could put him back Into that
wire basket thing he came In, we
could take him along right now."
To Jimpsey's Increasing puzzle
ment his father seemed as anxious to
put Togo on exhibition as he had
ever been himself,
i At the same time 150 yards away,
In the pine and plastery smelling
basement of the new college library,
there was a second lantern and a
second group. It was made up of a
: very pale young architect named
Havlland, of his young wife and Mrs.
Englehart and another of Mr. Ma
lone's assistants.
The assistant was kneeling In a
■ort of niche. Between his knees, In
the "wire basket thing," wa.i Togo.
In front of them was a hole that
might have been a rat hole upon a
planet where rats are as big as wood
chucks and have learned to line their
burrows with steel tubing. As it was,
Togo was paying no regard to it at
all.
Yet it was that nosing, scratching,
none too clean and none to savory
young ferret which four people were
watching intently. For one minute —
or Ave —or ten—they had been listen
ing for something. And now at last
It had begun to come to them —the
faintest murmur echo of a "finger
whistle." It sounded as if it had
come over a telephone from a thou
sand miles away.
Togo sat up, thrust his nose out
and looked at that pipe end. But
even those who had never seen a fer
ret before could see that he was look
ing at it Incredulously and with con
tempt. As a rat hole, that iron pip
ing was an absurdity, and rats as big
as woodchucks were palpably non
existent.
The whistle came again.
And again Togo twitched about and
eyed that pipe end, possibly, after all,
such things might be true.
A third time he got the whistle.
And now his cage door was snapped
open. For a moment he still persist
ed in his doubt, stubborn as a beaver,
but the whistle was again repeated,
and at last, with a squeaking cluck
that admitted frankly that the thing
was something which it was at least
his duty to investigate, he shot
! through the hole and disappeared.
| He was eating a meat scrap from
I the fingers of Jlmpsey Englehart be«
| fore the man with the wire basket
thing was out of the library cellar.
The matter was really decided al
ready.
But it was necessary to make abeo
lutely 6ure.
When Jinipsey begaji to whistle
again, he in his turn had taken his
1 place in the library basement, and
Togo was being held for his start in
i the power house. This time, too, he
made the trip more slowly. But he
made It. And he was slow only be
cause about his neck was a tiny dog
collar, or rather cat collar. And be
hind it trailed 150 yards of fine bard
Ashing line.
"That'll take through any weight of
Insulated you want," he said,
j "And, boys, it's miles ahead," said
Mr. John Malone, "of the old story of
the lad that got caught up top of the
factory chimney, and raveled down
! the yam from Ills sock heel. You
know I said all along we'd manage
! our crossin' as soon as we'd actually
come to it. Then, too" —he Ingratiate
ingly expanded to young Mr. Havlland
| —"this'll make a fine story in the
paper. It'll make the finest story you
ever read." Meanwhile Togo had be
gun his second run, this time to
North Hall.
And If, at the end of another hour,
he decided that he was not hungry
any more, and could accordingly
leave the remainder of his Job until
j the next morning, no one could do
, any worrying about that. In the pro
' cession that left the new college build
ings with extinguished lanterns, Mr.
. Malone, contractor, and Mr. Havlland,
architect, walked side by side — both
I alike making solemn resolutions
enough for New Year's Day. A few
steps behind them little Mrs. Havl
land and Mrs. Englehart were taking
advantage of the darkness to give
each other a series of half-tearful
hugs. And for his part, with feelings
Inexpressibly triumphant, Jlmpsey
j Englehart was walking far In the van
and all but hugging Togo!
I And the evening that Interview ap
' peared the same Mr. Malone paid a
private and confidential visit to the
Engleharts, particularly to Jlmpsey.
[ He found him and Togo going Into
something together in the stable,
i "You've got to sell him to me!" he
said. "No way to It, you've simply
got to. And I want him less to use
than to admire. I'll give you |2o—
set you up in a whole pigeon
house, tumblers, homers and all."
Jimpsey's eyes almost popped out.
His feelings toward Togo began, de
spite himself, to undergo a change.
| "Twenty dollars, that's what I said.
And nineteen of it'll be for his head.
For, Just between us, boy, Just be
tween us, it's his head I'm needing In
particular." —ARTHUR E. MOFAR
LANE.
Mildred Lad Shoots Self.
A report reached us on Wed
nesday night that Charles Morey,
a son of Adam Morey of Mildred,
had taken his own life by shooting
himself. No particulars could he.
obtained before going to press
except that the shooting was done
with a shot gun, the young man
pulling both triggers at once and
emptying the contents of both
birrels into his head. The reason
for the unwise act is not known.
"Young Morey was an intelligent
and fine looking lad of about twen
ty one years. He was in Laporte
during the Court sessions just past,
where lie met many friends who
are very sorry to hear of his sad
fate.
Stockholders' Meeting.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of Lake Mokoma Company
was held at Laporte on Wednesday
of last week. The following direct
el's and officers were chosen for the.
ensuing year: President, Charles
J. Pennock; Vice-President. Thom
as Rakestraw; Secretary, Edwin S.
Philips; Treasurer Edward Lad ley:
Solicitor, F. W. Meylert. In
addition to the persons mentioned,
J. Bancroft Swayne, of Kennett
Square and E. P. Ingham, of New
York, were elected as directors.
Advisory Committee, S. Jones
Philips, 11. S. Chalfant, Elwood C.
Cox. The outlook for the coming
year is most encouraging. A num
ber of new cottages are to be erect
ed during the spring and summer
and a number of permanent im
provements made at the hike:
Party At Nordmont.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hasten gave
a New Year party on Saturday
evening Dec. .31, at which the
following were present: Misses
Nellie Hunter, Clara and Ilattie
Traugh, Katie Yaung, Dollie
Snider, Mable Hunter, Lanna
Fiestcr, Freda Amies, Amy
Knouse, Edna Jones, Etta Hunter,
Cecil Botsford, Iva and Fay Hess,
Gertrude Knouse, Messrs, J. A.
Traugh, Horace Edgar, /era Cox,
Shredrick Hess Bert Snider, Robert
Cooke, Harry Hunter, Willie
Young, Ralph Hess, Abe Kilmer,
Ray Anders and Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Hazen and son Melross. The
company spent a Delightful even
ing playing games and was also
entertained with music by Mr. and
Mi's, Hazen. Refreshments were
served and the guests left for home
early in 1911.
Killed By L. V. Passenger Train.
Wesley I. Bailey of Brocktowu,
just across the Towanda creek from
Monroeton, was run down and
killed by a Lehigh passenger train
on the Bernice branch Friday eve
ning about 0:30. The fatality
occurred almost In front of the
Bailey home, the railroad bridge
which spans the Towamla creek at
Monroeton. Mr. Bailey had been
working at Fowlertown, about
three-quartes of a mile from his
home, and was walking along the
track, homeward bound, when run
down and killed. The wind was
blowing hard at the time and it is
thought that Bailey did not hear
the onrushing train.
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Trial List, February Term, ion.
Iteturn Day, February 13,1011.
I.—Thomas I>. House vs. Tlio Le
high Valley Railroad Company;
No. 46 December Term, ISMU. Tres
pass. Plea —"Not (Juilly.
Seouten Thomson
2.--William hardback vs. \V. J.
McCartmy; No. 2 May Term,
Defendant's Appeal. Plea "Noli
Assumpsit" ami "Set-Off".
Seouten Mullen
Walsh
:s.—William Landbaek, Jr., by his
next friend, William I/.tndhack vs.
W. J. McCartney; .\'<>. •'! May Term
IJHO. Defendant's Appeal. Plea
"Noil Assumpsit" and "Set-Off".
Seouten Mid I en
Walsh
4.—Patrick Connor vs. Margaret
Connor, Administratrix of John Con
nor, Deed. No. 3K May Term, 1910.
Assumpsit.
Thayer Walsh
u.—faeorge I?. Sellers vs. M. J.
Devanney; No. May Term, 1910.
Defendant's Appeal, Plea—"Non-
Assumpsit.'
Meylert Seouten
(>. —Thomas Knecht vs. The Le
high Valley Railroad Company; No.
8 September Term, 1910. Trespass.
Plea—"Not Guilty,"
Stouten Thomson
7.—George Terry, by nis next
friend, Sylvester Brown, vs. John
N. Walker and Ada Walker. No.
:!") September Term, 1910. Trespass.
Plea—"Not Guilty."
Mullen Walsh
B.—John P. Hunter vs. The Town
ship of Laporte; No. II September
Term, 1910. Trespass. Plea—"Not
Guilty."
Seouten Mullen
Prothonotary's ()Hice.
LaPorte, Penna.
January 2, 1911.
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STOCKHOLDERS MKETINO.
The annual meeting ol' the
stockholders of the First Na
tional Rank of Laporte, for the el
ection of directors and the transac
tion of such other business as may
come before it. will l>e held at the
office of the hank in Laporte, Pa.,
on Tuesday, January It), 1011, be
tween the hours of ten a. in., ami
three p- m.
EDW. LADLEY. Cashier.
Laporte, Pa., Dec. 9, 1910.
NOTICE OF APPEAL.
To the Tax Payers of the sever
al boroughs and townships ot Sulli
van County:
Take notic that the County Com
missioners will hold an Appeal in
their ofliee at LaPorte, Pa., on Feb
ruary 0, 1911, at 10 o'clock, a. m., to
hear such as may feel themselves
aggrieved by the late assessment and
to make such charges as may seem
to them just and proper.
County Commissioners.
Commissioners' Ofliee, Dec. !!0, 1910.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Letters of Administration hav
ing been granted the undersigned on
the estate of Hannah Ruck, deceased
late of Davidson Townhip, notice is
hereby given to all persons owing
said estate to make payment to, and
all persons having claims against the
estate to present the same to
L. 11. Ul T CK, Administrator.
Sonestown, Pa., Jan. 2, 1911.
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Gluten 20.00 1.35
Urewers Grain 25.0 > 1.30
Oyster Shells 10.00 00
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