Republican News Item F. L. TAYLOR, LESSEE. B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR. PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co AttheCoumy Beat of Sullivan County. I. A PORTE. PA. TltOS. J. INGHAM, See'y & Treaa. iCnlered at the Post Office at Laj orte, as second-clans mail matter. r"IU9T NATION BANK ' OF DUSHORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000 ITRPIiUS - - $40,000 Doph a General Ranking Business, •i. I>. STKUIGKRE. M. I). SWARTB. President. Cashiei :: per eent interest allowed on certificates. | RANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. office in Keeler's Block. (.ArOKTV, Sullivan County, PA. J. & F. H. INGHAM, AT TO UN ICY S-AT- LA W, Legal business .itten«la»l to in '\\\» and adjoining counties \ t'ORTK, '" A [. J. MULLEN, Attorney-»t- Law. I. A PORTE, PA orriCF m county DntniM IRAR rocuT houbk. i H. CRONIN, ATTORHKY-AT LAW, ' WOTAI'Y rUBMC. orric* 0* MAIN iTIHICT. MS HOUR. PA First National Bank OF LAPORTE. PA. <'<!>,ital - - - ,p5,000.00 ■f ran nets a i;enoial banking business. TillH. .1. I.N'OHAM, KDW. UDLKV President. Cashier. :! y.jr «ont interest pni'l on time deposits, AC( OI"NTS SOLICITED. fCovnty Indices^ ! Brief Newsy Stems &ther-1 by Correspondence* / SHUNK. .Mrs. Claude sinith is slowly re cov«ring from her illness. The coasting is line here and no accidents have happened yet. We are glad to report that Isa- Ih !1i! Potter is again able to he out after having heen confined to the house for some time owing to a Iraeture received hy it fall on the ice. I lie four and a half months' old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wil liams, died at their home near here on Friday evening, Jan. 14. They have the sympathy of the whole community in their sad bereave ment. Mrs. N. E. Porter is recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. O. J. Williams has purchased a line new cutter. Murray Brown is very ill of con gestion of the lungs. Eugene Biddle, the eldest son ol Mi. and Mrs. Richard Biddle, was operated on for appendicitis at tlc ir home near here, Thursday of last week. Lester Brown's new cutter seems to travel South street quite fre quently—wonder why. Mrs. Chas. Foster and children vi-ited Mrs. W. 11. Fanning ovei Sunday. MILDRED. Miss Roland of the Grammar s hot,l took her pupils for a sleigh i i'ie to Cherry Mills Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Deiffenbaeh were Wilmot visitors Sunday. C. E. Jackson of Williamsport, was greeting old friends here Fri • 1 ly and Saturday. Messs. Harry Kellor and Adam Morey Mehoopany visitors on l'huisday and Friday. Miss Janet Watson returned fom Fox Monday after a three .voeks' visit with her parents there. * Mesdaiues Walter Wheatley and Edward Baumgarlncr spent last week in Wilkes-Banc NORDMONT ITEMS, The following people enjoyed a sleigh ride to Laporte Wednesday evening, Jan. 12, where they were served an elaborate supper at llotel Bernard: Hush Botnlbrd, wile and daughter Marllm, Monroe. Phillips, wife and son Jason, Harry Williams wife and son Larue, Howard 11-. s«, wife and daughter Josephine, Unity Speary and wife, Fred •Hunter and wifS, Harry Smyth and wife, Na thaniel Peters and v iff, Samuel Hunter and wife, Misses Mabel Hunter, Lena and Laura I'iestcr and Roxanna Harvey, Messrs. Harrony Horn, Krne-t Botsford, Thomas Speary, Lloyd Fair man and Frank Speary. The home o#Mr. and Mrs. It. K. liotsford was the scene of a very pleasant surprise party Monday ev ening, in honor of the former's broth er Ernest. A delightful evening was spent by about guests. Re freshments were served and ail it - port a tine time. Miss Katheritie Peters has returned to Palmyra, N. V., after spending several weeks with lit r parents here. Jacob Young of Emmons was a caller in town Monday. W. B. Snyder and family spent Sunday with friends in Columbia county. A Holcombe, general manager for the Chemical Co., is spending a week here. ltussel Laird and family spent Sunday with Win. Robbins near Sonestown. R. E. Botsford, 11. I). Williams and Harry Smyth spent Sunday in Laporte as the gvests of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Speary. Miss Roxanna Harvey has re turned to her home near Sonestown. Freas Amies had the misfortune to fall and break his arm recently. Wm, Stanley has gone to San Benito, Texas, to join A. I']. Botsford and Sons, Contractors. Harvey Hess has been ill but is improving. (iearhart ll'ss has been on the sick list. 11. B. Hiixen and wife attended the Odd Fellows' banquet at Sones town Friday night. Gertrude Krouse spent Sunday with her parents. Mrs. Martha Botsford, an aged la dy, fell on the ice recently and sus tained severe injuries. Fred Keeler has moved his family into the Anders house. Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter ol Red Rock, have been visiting rela tive s here. Minar Peters and family are vis iting at Nathaniel Peters'. W. Scott Wieland of Belhfonte \vas in town this week. Jacob Young of Emmons, who succeeds It. 10. Botsford as factors foreman, is in town. R. E. Botsford expects to jnove his family to Palmyra. N. Y , in the near future. HILLSGROVE. A surprise party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Koberl Brong on Jan. 11, in honor of Miss Amy Jackson. About 20 guests were present and all reported a good time. Prof. Molyneau.v Sunday school class of the Union church enjoyed a sleigh ride to Estella on Monday night of last wepk and on the f<>i lowing Saturday flight they drovt to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Rachel at Proctor where a fine sup per was served. The wife of Jacob Orliell, w'.o died at this place last week, was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Overton, on Thursday. Messrs. Harry and Oscar Snydei were called to Lestershire, N. Y.. by the sudden illness of their hi oth er George, who is improving at this writing. Praises American Women. Alfred East says that American women, like American machines, need but little man power. The American woman, he says, Is the most chum mable woman in the world, therefore she is the most charming. Our excel lent educational system, he thinks, is responsible for the fact that American women are such "good fellows." ralim Will Control Sufficient Votes in New City Council to Control Municipal Government WO NEWSPAPER WAS WITH HIM Fitzgerald Elected with 47,172 Votes and a Plurality of 1,414 Over His Nearest Opponent, James J. Stor row. Boston, Jan. 18. Boston, in the first partless election held under her new charter, elected former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald to fill again the Mayor's chair, this time for a four year term, giving him 17,172 votes and a plurality of 1,411 over liis nearest opponont, James J. Storrow, hanker, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and former chairman of the School Board, who received 45,757. The most remarkable feature of the election to many was tiie small vote of 1,816 given the present Mayor, George A. Hibbard, who received 38,- 000 votes two years ago, being elected on a "reform" ticket, over Fitzgerald. The fourth Mayorty aspirant, Nathan iel H. Taylor, found only C1 it support ers. Total, 95,358. While the figures above were those announced in City Hall, Mr. Storrow's campaign manager had other returns, and on these based a statement given out early in the evening that while he acknowledged the election of 'Fitzger ald by an apparent plurality of 291 votes he would ask for a recount. The campaign, noteworthy in many ways, was easily Boston's greatest. A record total vote, 95,125, more than 84 per cent, of the total registration, was cast. The largest previous vote was cast In 1905, when Fitzgerald was first elected Mayor, the total vote then being 92,994, of which Fitzgerald re ceived 44,171. Fitzgerald won his victory to-day in spite of the fact that not one of the daily newspapers of the city advocat ed his election. MRS. CLEVELAND'S PENSION Senator Root's Proposed $5.000-a-Year Grant Will Be Voted Quickly. Washington, Jan. 17.--Provision is made in a bill introduced in the Sen ate by Senator Root for a $5,000 pen sion for Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleve land, widow of President Cleveland. There will be no objection to the measure, and it will become law at the earliest practicable moment. This measure is in line with pre cedents. Mrs. Lincoln in 1870 was voted $3,000, which was increased to $5,000 in 1882. At the same time Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler were granted pensions of $5,000 a year. Mrs. McKinley was given a like pension in 1902. Mrs. Cleveland was granted the free use of the mails in 1909. PITTSBURG HAS "PCCONIP" Hang an Apron of Cheesecloth Over Your Mouth, or You'll Get It. Pittsburg, Jan. 17. -Henry Penny witt, weather forecaster here, an nounced that Pittsburg air is super-' charged with "pogonip," and he urged that people outdoors should hang over their mouths and nostrils a little apron of cheesecloth. "Pogonip," he explained, Is Indian for "white death" and is caused by inhaling fog which has congealed into spicula of ice. lie first learned of the disease when stationed on the IHah and Nevada plateaus where the In dians dread it fearfully. It develops a form of pneumonia which is usually fatal. GREAT PRIZES FORIIRSHIPS Possibly $120,000 at European Con tests and $200,000 at "American. Paris, Jan. 17. —The International Aeronautical Federation announces that the prizes for the Carnivals of 1910 will range from $40,000 to $120,- 000 at the European contests, .while $200,000 will be offered for the Ameri can events. The revised dates for the meet in the United States provide for con tests from Oct. 18 to Nov. 2. The first week will be given over to competition for the International Balloon Cup, and the second week will be aviation week proper. Governor Feeds the Birds. Topeka, Jan. 13. —Kansas quail and other birds are dying in large num bers from starvation. The ground ha 9 been covered with snow and ice for forty-two days and the birds are un able to find grains or ground seeds to t>at. Governor Sttibbs issued a procla mation yesterday calling on the peo ple to scatter grain for the birds to eat. Half Million Loss. Evansville, Ind. Jan. 13. Damage conservatively estimated in excess of $500,000 has already resulted from the rapid ice movement out of the lower Ohio Itiver. The most impor tant single loss reported is from Bran denburg, Ky., where the towboat Lead er an SO-ton vessel owned in Cincin nati, was destroyed by heavy lea a oooooooooooooocoocoooooc^ § SATURDAY jj § NIGHT TALKS § o By REV. F. E. DAVISON o g Rutland, Vl. SOOCOOOOOOCCCCOOOOCOCOCOCLS THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM. International Bible Lessen for Jan. 23, 1910—(Matt. 5:1-16). Tho Sermon on the Mount is a magnificent I | temple of truth SSfe isi<, I the portico to si? which is an eight *'• columned arcade, ijgsip-* r' Let us examine MT tek, these-stupendous pillars. Th e first thin S arresting our at . u.'j unique and unpa ralleled construe " tion. They are the direct opposites of the popular con ception of what constitues blessedness. The world says, "Blessed are the rich, blessed are the powerful, blessed are the proud, blessed are the beautiful, blessed are those who havo every thing their own way." But these giant columns read, Blessed are tho poor in spirit, blessed are they that mourn, blessed are the meek, blessed are the hungry for righteousness, blessed are the merciful, blessed are the pure, blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are the persecuted. This Is altogether a new voice on the earth, and they sounded just as strangely in Jewish and Roman cir cles when they were enunciated as they do to-day. What a contrast they present to our modern hero worship and our glorification of "muscular Christianity!" Things are topsytur vy in the moral world when physical courage and brute force elicits admira tion at the expense of milder virtue. A dog has boldness, a cock can crow, a peacock can strut, a tiger can fight, and many qualities of martial prowess such as the unthinking admire are the marks of low grade. On the con trary these beatitudes, like the flashing facets of a diamond, are the characteristics of a religious gentlo man. It must not be overlooked that this portico is Interconnected. It -is not eight separate and distinct pillars; it is an eight-fold structure, no part of which can be eliminated, all of which is necessary to make up the structure. On the fourth hinges the three preced ing, and the following are logical se quences of all that have gone before. The spirit of the first note of this oc-. tave runs through the whole, culmin ating in the last. Or to change the figure yet again, we are enthroned in humility, and diademed in persecu tion. These beatitudes ought to cheer every poor man's heart and sanctify every rich man's palace. For there are proud poor nsen and humble rich men. It is possible to be proud even of our humility and make a god of our lowliness. We are not to make Uriah Heeps of ourselves, stooping and cringing and apologizing for ex istence, making a show of humility. Diogenes jumped "upon Pinto's bed saying, "Thus I stamp on Plato's pride," but he did it with still greater pride. True humility is a b.. mtiful trait, it is the first pillar in the por tico. The same is true of those that mourn, who are not ashair-ed of tears, and who do not brazenly go through life confessing no fault. If to err is human, it is certainly manly to re pent. The tears that fall from eyes of sincere mourners, like summer showers, fertilize the soil of the heart so that it blooms and blossoms in flowers. There are some who think the ele ment of meekness is only another name for weakness. But the meek are tho lords of the earth. Real do minion is only given to the meek. Meekness delivers from superscn sittveness. You will not be thin skinned enough to get hurt at every slight. You will not have to be al ways running around looking after your reputation. Your dignity will not suffer so much. The Apostlo Paul tells us to"put off the old man" but he does not tell us when we have done that, to put on the old woman. Meekness is not weakness. So also it Is with the merciful. The merciful man will be merciful to everybody and everything and will be merciful all tho tlmo. Merciful to his employees, merciful to his wife and children, merciful to his dog and hin horse and his cat. "The quality of mercy Is not strained." "For the dear God who loveth us, lie made and loveth all." Purity of heart is also demanded, materialism says,"The circumstances are wrong." Christ says the trouble is in the heart. The heart pure, every activity of the life will he pure. If the splderweb troubles you kill the spiders. You will not have to spend so much time on their work. These beatitudes teach us that the animal will not always rule over the ethereal. Guns and swords will be dropped in tho good time coming, and men will learn that sunshine is more potent than lightning, though it is not heralded by salvos of thunder. Not Napoleon with his artillery, but Christ with his beatitudes is the real ruler of the world. Surely tho Mount of Beatitudes is a great advance on Mount Sinai. A Thoughtful Girl. Probably the most thoughtful daughter In the world liver. In Atchi son. Although 25 years of age, she still wears her hair down her baek to keop her mother looking young. At chtson Globe. As She is Spoken. "English is a funny language, after all, Isn't it?" "Why so?" "I 'heard a man talking of a political candidate the other day, say: 'lf he only takes this stand when he runs he'll have a walk-over.'" M~BRTNK.'S PR I 1 S For Th is Week. 100 His. Oil Meal 81.90 Gluten i.(» 5 Corn Meal 1.45 Cracken Corn 1.45 Corn 1.45 Ilest Muncv Midds. 1.(50 Hrown Midds. 1 45 Buckwheat Midds. 1,15 Oyster Shells (5(1 \\ heat Bran 1. 10 Schumacher Chop 1.50 140 Hi bag Halt (50 5(5 Hi hag Salt 30 5(5 Hi hag Packing Hock Sail 40 Lumps 75 Beef Scrap .'s.oo Meat Meal 2.50 We are paying 7e. 1U for the best veal calves, and Kl'.e 11> for light dressed pork. Slliumaeher Flour sack 1.05 Marvel " " 1.(55 Muncy '• " 1.50 '24 Hi sack Se.hu. Table Meal 60 10 1b " " " " 25 100 Hi Buckwheat Flour 2 25 24 Hi " " (55 11. BRINK, New Albany, I'a. 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