Republican News Item B. M. VANDYKE, Editor- PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Seat of Sullivan County. IiAFOBTE. PA. THOS. J. IN(iHAM, Proprietor. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. pAPrr? r.EPSESEKTCD FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE | A; i GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. ] hereby announce myself as candidate lor the nomination lor the ofllcc ol Slier ill of Sullivan County, subject lo the lie publican ruled. W. 11. RIDDLE, Feb. 24, 1911. Elkland Township. 1 hereby announce myself as candi date for the nomination for the office of Sherill of Sullivan County, subject to the Unles ol the Republican Party. FRKD W. SCH ANBACIIKIi, March, 1, 1911. Korksville, I'a. A Card. llillsgrove. Pa., .fan. 2,'1, 1011. To the School Directors of Sullivan Co.: 1 hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of Superintendent i< Schools. Respectfully submitted lor your decision. Election. Tuesday, May 2, 1911. J. Robert Molyneux, llillsgrove, Pa. The Situation. With the primary election ofily a little over two months away, at which time nominations will he made for all State, County, Town ship ami Borough otlices, Sullivan County lias only eighteen candi dates who have declared themselves ready to serve the people. Those of the Democratic persuasion who would like to assume the responsi bility of Associate Judge are: Jos- McDermott of Lopez, Win. 11. Hit ter of Laporte, Dennis Keefe of Dushore, Win. Dcmpsey of Ber niee, Chas. A. Starr of Sonestown, and a "dark horse" who is holding hack his announcement. Those willing to handle the money and dehts of Sullivan coun ty are Frank Magol*gel of Sones town and W<U. Graifly of Cherry. important question of Orfinty Commissioner we lind the Democrats willing to re ceive the responsibilities of the ollice: Michael Philhin of Forks Township, Minard Peternian of Laporte Township, C. A. Dieffen hatigh of Cherry, George Broshart of Du'liore, Michael J Gilligan of Dushore and Willis B. Snider of Nordmmt. It would seem that there are only two Democrats willing to take chances of having to hang the persons who connnited the murder at Bern ice. They are Michael Collins of Laporte and J. Q Cott of Elkland, and only one willing to audit the accounts of Sullivan County, the present auditor, D. F. McCarty, of Elkland. On the Republican side there are so far but two men who are willing to assume the responsi bilities of public office, and un fortunately for one of them they both want the same office, that of Sheriff of Sullivan County. These two men, as will appear by their announcements in this paper are: W. H. Biddle of Elkland and Fred Schanbacher of Forksville. These men have both spent their lives in the county are well and favorably known to the people. Both are well qualified to till the office. The Art of Carpentry. How many common figurative expressions in our language are borrowed from the art of carpentry may l»e seen from the following sentence: "The lawyer who tiled the hill, shaved the note, cut an ac quaintance, split a hair, made an entry got up a case, framed an in dictment, impaneled a jury, put them into a box, nailed a witness, hammered a Judge and bored a whole court, all in one day, hat* since laid down law and turned carpenter. —Ex. ROYAL MOref CARS. ■■ally Recognizable In ifiermany and In England. The cars of the royal family of Eng land do not bear number plates. Those Of the German royal family are recog nized by their warning signals. They alone may use the two and three noted horns. "The cars used by the German Em peror and Empress have their ap proach heralded by three horns and those of the royal princes by two noted horns. No Infringement of this prerogative by ordinary motorists Is tolerated. "The fact that the royal cars, both In England and In Germany, may so easily be distinguished Is an Indica tion of the confidence which exists be tween the monarchs and their respec tive peoples," says the Gentlewoman. "In less happier times It would have been courting danger to have carried auch marks of distinction, and even now In less fortunate lands the rulera dare not traved so openly." Deep Water North of Alaska. The chief object of the arctic ex pedition of Captain Mikelsen, who recently returned to Copenhagen, was to settle the question whether there Is land or a deep sea to the north of Alaska. In March of last year Cap tain Mikelsen, Mr. Lefflingwell and the mate made a sledge expedition over the ice. Fifty miles from the coast they found crevices, through which they sounded to a depth of 2,- 640 feet without reaching bottom. Six ty miles farther on the result was the same. Turning then toward the southeast, they found the edge of the continental shelf. The conclusion is that deep water exists north of Alas ka, at least to a great distance. Gases In Sewers. City people who are occasionally startled by seeing a manhole cover blown from the pavement generally ascribe the blame to leaking gas mains. But there are probably many other sources from which dangerous gases find their way Into sewers, and one of these is indicated by an in vestigation recently reported to the American Chemical Society by Prof. A. A. Brelieinan. He showed that the entrance of a mixture of gasoline and soap into drains and sewers from garages, factories, and other plaies where such materials are employed for washing. Is sufficient to account for the liberation of much combustible vapor, which may play a part in sewer explosions. Fortunately Situated. Mrs. Hammond was willing to pay a fair price for work, but she did not intend to be cheated. "I should like to knew how it happens that your boy Terry charges me fifty cents for mow ing my lawn, when he does Mrs. Por ter's, and there is no reason why he should be twice as long mowing it." "Well, now, as to that, ma'am," said Mr. Halloran, transferring iiis gaze to her gloves, "you see Mrs. Porter s house faces the baseball grounds, and site hires Terry always of a Wednes day or a Saturday to come to her piace at one o'clock, ma'am, and the game begins at half past two, d'ye see? 'Twould be a quare lad that wouldn't hurry a bit wid that chanst to his hand, now wouldn't it?" The Moral Law. The passage indicated Is not from Kant, but may be found in James Martineau's "Study of Religion," and ia full reads as follows. "The rule of right, the symmetries of character, the requirements of perfection, are no provincialisms of this planet; they are known among the stars; they reign beyond Orion and the Southern Cross; they are wherever the Univer sal Spirit is, and no subject mind, though it fly on our track forever, can escape beyond their bounds." Friends No Longer. Mrs. Everston—Mrs. Wripper and the Partely woman no longer speak to each other. Mrs. Hallentrager—What a pity! And they used to be such close friends. Do you know what estranged them? Mrs. Everston —Yes; they met at a sale and both wanted the same rem nant. The Sergeant's Opportunity. "If ye please, sergeant," Punch makes the raw recruit say, "I've got a splinter In me "and." "Wot yer been doin'?" demanded the sergeant. "Strokln" yer 'ead?" "A Mite Too Prying." Bushby had many natural advan tages and beauties, but Mrs. Abner Crane, who was a brief sojourner In the place, having been there only a matter of ten years or so, never ap preciated it. "She was aching to get back to Nashuy the whole enduring time," said one of Mrs. Crane's Bush by neighbors, "and I was glad to see her go, feeling as she did." "What was It she didn't like about Bushby?" asked one of the summer residents, curiously. "She said she 'didn't get the news o' the day quick enough to suit her.'" quoted the neighbor, with as near an Imitation of Mrs. Crane's air as she could manage. "As I said to ray Asy, what on earth she wanted more than we nave In the way o' news-spreaders here, I don't know. "When you consider that there are five telephones In town, a grocery wagon driven by Lucy Grant's boy twice a week, Lucy Grant herself to sew for everybody In town by the day, and all taking milk from Jed Kimball, I don't know how we could be any better fixed. I call anybody that wants more news o' the day than Bushby folks get a mite too prying myself." | George Kiess and C. A. Stair of! Sonestown were business men in' Laporte Thursday. Roy Jennings of Estella was .in Lapjrte Thursday looking after! the telephones that were out of condition. John H. Parthemore, of Eliza- 1 botlitown, has a daily newspaper that is one hundred years old. In it is quoted butter at 0 cents a piund; pigs, 25 cents a piece, ai:d eggs from to 5 cents a dozen. The paper is well preserved and the owner has refused a high price for it. R. F. Crossley, local collector for the Keystone Guards, is to be complimented for his efforts to pro tect policy holders in this section. | Upon advice from the State In surance Commissioner he has held 'the dues awaiting an investigation. I March 1<! is the date set when in j vestigation into the affairs of the G lards will be resumed in Harris b irg.—Dushore Review. mm New Bank Officers. At the regular meeting of the directors of the First National Bank . held Tuesday, J. L. Christian of j Lopez was made president to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Tlios. J. Ingham. T. .1. Keelcr was made vice president, taking Mr. Christian's place and F. 11. Ingham was appointed to lill the vacancy in the Board held by Mr. Keelcr. A committee was ap pointed to draft resolutions on the death of the deceased President. Air-Springs. Mr. Archibald Sharp described at a recent meeting of the Institution of Automobile Engineers in London his system of air-springs for road vehicles. As applied to the saddle pillar of a bicycle, the apparatus consists essen tially of a vertical cylinder with a pis ton or plunger, made to work air-tight by a specially constructed "mitten," and supporting the weight of the rider. The same device has been applied to motor-cycles, and experiments have been made with a light motor-car. On the front fork of a heavy motor-cycle ttie "life" of the "mitten" covered from 2,000 to 5,000 miles, but on a back spring fork it was only equiva-, lent to 1,000 miles. The effect of the air-springs is described as luxuriously comfortable. The Milky Way. The milky way In the heavens is composed of myriads of tlxed stars, but It is not true that they have any Influence that anybodys knows of on the direction of the wind or other ele ment of the weather of the earth. Their apparent changes of position are due only to the changes of position by the earth in its dally and annual revo lutions. The stars in the milky way are so far from the earth that it takes thousands of years for the light from tbem to reach us. Rats at a Dollar a Dozen. The Paris flood drove swarms of rats from sewers, and rat-catchers made big money shipping the live rats at a dollar a dozen to dog pits in Lon don. Open Well Costs $25,000. Violations of an ordinance requiring that wel holes be covered at ni lit will cost Edward Behnert, of Now York city, $25,000. A verdict for (hat amount was obtained against him by Mrs. Charles C. Kruger, whose h is band, a deputy fire chief, was drown ed in the well hole while fighting a tire in Behnart's premises. Son of the Kaiser Has Appendicitis. Prince Adalbert, third son of Km peror William, is ill wit happendl: itis <n Berlin. The attack is described a., a lighi. one. Jurist Found Dead In Bed. Charles Brown Lore, chief jus'.ice of the Delaware courts for fifteen years, was found dead in bed at his home in Wilmington, Del. He was nearly eighty years old. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR weak; winter clear, $3.5u{i3.75; city mills, fancy, $5.25@5.75. KYE I'LOUR firm, at $4@4.15 per barrel. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, new, 90%&91% c. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, 52£r 52 Vic. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 3Gc.; lower grades, 34% c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens. 16 <i 17c.; old roosters, lltiill'/fce. Die .sod firm; choice fowls, 17V£c.; old rco.n ers, 13c. BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 27<\ EGOS firm; selected, 20@23e.; near by, 19c.; western, 19c. POTATOES firm; 58<7i0<ic. bush. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) CATTLE active; choice, St!.S"GG7S; prime, $6.25&i<ti.50. SHEEP active; prime wethers. $1.75 @5; culls and common, $2.503 50; lambs, ss<?i>6.so; veal calves, > 1 10. HOGS higher; prime heavies, $7.4> ©7.45; mediums and heavy Yorkers. $7.75; light Yorkers and pigs, $7.?5@ 7.80; roughs, sti.2s(fi G.tiO. Life. "Man comes into this world without his consent, and leaves it against his will. During his stay on earth his time is spent in one continuous round of contraries and misunderstandings by the balance of the species. In his infancy he is an angel; in his boyhood he is a devil; in his manhood he is everything from a lizard up; in his duties ho is a dum fool if he raises a family he is a chump; if he raises a small cheek he is a thief and the law raises the deuce with him; if he is a poor man he is a poor manager and has no sense; if he is rich lie is dishonest hut considered smart: if he is in polities you can't place; him as he is an undesirable citizen; if lie goes to church, he is a hypocrite; if lie stays a way from church, he is a sinner and damned; if lie donates to foreign missions, he does it for show; if he don't he is stingy and a tight wad. When he first comes into the world everybody wants to kiss him; before he goes out they all want to kick him. If he dies young there is a great future be fore him; if lie lives to a ripe old age lie is simply in the way and living to save funeral expenses. This life is a funny road but we al! like to travel it just the same." —Exchange. Bcrnice Supposed Rendezvous of Black Hand Gang. The capture of Alfreda Cas alenuova, at Rernice Friday, opened the eyes of the officers to the fact that that place is pretty well populated with foreigners wanted in different parts of the Country for various offenses, who came there with the intention of keeping low until a better chance of their getting out of the country is afforded. About a week ago two Italians, David and Charles Rartchma, were arrested and taken . to I'ittston to answer a charge of conspiracy in connection with the murder of ail Italian merchant. The oHicers now have fourteen Italians in custody and it is sup- ; posed that they are members of the Rlack Hand society. The place is being closely watched and more arrests are expected in a short time. Bernice Suspects Held. Charles Rell and Louie Belli, Italians were given a hearing be fore Squire Lowcry at Mildred Wednesday, and after 24 witnesses had testified they were held to court under SSOO bail each to answer to the charge of murder. They are accused of killing Querri, the Italian section boss, whose body was found under a pile of ties near Bernice some weeks ago. Querri disappeared on Nov. 14, and his body was not found until over two months later. Ser geant ITennig of the State Con stabulary, who has been working on the case, arrested Bell and Belli, charging them with the crime. They will be tried at the next term of Sullivan county court. The evi dence against the u is purely cir cumstantial. The men tare out on bail. They have employed counsel who repre. seated them at the hearing Wednes day. The Stingiest Man. Union County has the stingiest man in Pennsylvania, if not in the world, and a premium is offenl for his equal for close fistedncss. ! He got married to a homely girl, j To save expense they walked around the town for a bridal tour. I lie bought her a niekle's worth of 1 stick candy for a wedding present, then suggested that they save the candy for the children, —Ex. Loses Valuable Horse. While skidding logs at Celestia ' last week Contractor John Chap-, man. working on the C. W. Sones i contract, had the misfortune to; lose a horse valued at S3OO. The j horse stumbling in a hole through! the frozen snow, fell breaking on" of its legs and it was necessary to kill the animal. Birthday Party. On Monday evening-of last week a pai'ty was given at tlit* home of; Mrs. < Scnrgc Swarilc at Muncy Val-! ley in honor of lier I»irtlnlay anni versary. Those present were: | Mrs. 'l'eresa Donovan, Win. Moran, ' wife and son Leo, Frank and! Walter Rinisnyder, Mrs. Oscar I Stroup, son Raymond and daugh ter Mary, Rarle Bender, Jane! Smith, Celia Donovan, Martha and Andrew Jankonsky, Milton Fen-, Htermaker, Mrs. (,'has. Hopper, j Kathryn Donovan, Edward Jor dan, Mamie Smith, Edith Gumble, | Zeua Sheets. "The Liver Pills act So Naturally and Easily." Such a statement, coming from the cashier of a bank, shows what confidence responsible people have in these pills. Mr. A. L. Wilson after trying them wrote: "I hnve used Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills and also your Anti-Pain Pills, on mysilf, with good results. The Liver Pills act ho naturally and so easily that I scarcely know that I have taken a pill. Frequently being troubled with headache X take an Anti-Pain Pill and get immediate relief in every ease." A. 1,. Wilson, Sparta, 111. Mr. Wilson was for a number of years cashier of the First National Bank of Sparta. Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills are different from others. Many kinds of liver pills are "impossible" after one trial on account of their harshness. Dr, Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills do not act by sheer force but in an easy, natural way, with out griping or undue irritation. They are not habit forming. If the first bottle fails to benefit, your druggist will return the price. Ask him. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. MOT ICE. I" The Directors of Colley School District, will receive bids for the six room, frame school building, to be built at Lopez I'a. Plans and speci fications can lie seen at the oilice of L. Dunn., J. 1* The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and bids must lie in the hands of the undersigned not latei than 10 A. M. Saturday March, 18th., 1911. FRANK A. HO AO, SECY. Lopez, Pa. 42-: H. Al> MINI ST It AT< )R'S XOTIC K. Notice is hereby given that let ters of adminstration upon the estate of Margaret Taylor, late of Davidson Township, Sullivan Coun ! ty, Pennsylvania, deceased, have been granted to the u.ulcrsigncd. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or demands against the same shall make them known without delay to K. \V. BUCK, Adminstrator. Feb. 27, ISM 1. Muncy Valley, l'a. rxHcrTOiis' NOTICE. L In Re: Estate of WILLIAM V. WARNER, late oi the Borough of Eagles Mere, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, Deceased. Letters Testamentary in the above estate having been this day granted to the undersigned by the Register of Wills of Sullivan County, l'a., all persons knowing themselves indebt ed to said estate are requested to make payment and those having claims against the estate will present the same, duly authenticated, for payment, to ' . WILLIAM WOODS, FREDERIC L. CLARK; Executors, r> 10 Pciin Square Building, Philadelphia, l'a. February 11, 1911. ' Mitt Anronp *on ling a nUot< hand description may quickly asoortntn our opinion free whether an invention la probably patentable. Com muni ea- i tlotis strictly confident ial. HANDBOOK on Patents sent. free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive ipeeUU notice , without charge, iu the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. 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