Republican News Item F. L. TAYLOR, LESSEE. B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR. PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co Al tlio County Scat of Sullivan County. IiAPOHTE, PA. TIIOS. J. INGHAM, Sec'y & Treas. Entered at the Tost Office at Laporte, ae> eecoiu'.-clase mail matter. IJIRRIT NATIONAL BANK 1 OF DU3HORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000 c'UBPIiUS - - $40,000 Does a General Banking Business. FISHER WELLES, M. D. SWARTD. President. Cashier per cent interest allowed on certificates. FRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. „(lice in Keeler's Block. LAPORTF, Sullivan County; PA. [ # J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOI:REVS-AT-law, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties ,APORTE, PA £_ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA OrriCß 1H COOBTY BUILDUS HBARCOUKT DOBSB. H. CRONIN, ATTORNEY'AT LAW, BOTAliy PUBLIC, orrica on MAIH STUBBT. OUSIIORK, PA First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. Capita/ - - - p0,000.00 Trail acts a general banking business. TIIOS. .1 INTMIAM, Kl>W r I.AITLKV President. Cashier. 3 per cent interest paid on time deposits, ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. J P. BAHL, TONSORIAL ARTIST Pool Room, Confectionery, Tobacco and Cigars. Opposite Hotel Bernard LAPORTE, PA- Vaishing Woods Accounts For High Price of Lumber. In regard to the stupendous rise in the price of lumber the residents of Sullivan county need no inform ation. They know the cause. They have seen their hills and val leys which were once covered with beautiful evergreen pines and hem locks, waving in the wind, a de lightful landscape to look upon, devastated by the lumbermen and forest fires, and the remnant trees si ill standing are falling before the lumberman's axe. In all the forest regions from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the same destruction has been going on, and it is to be feared will continue togo on until the last tree has ben felled to the ground. The writer can well remember when the hills of Bradford county and the forests along both branches of the Susquehanna to their source, contained plentiful groves of state ly, long bodied white pine trees, and in the spring of the year a con tinuous string of board rafts loaded with shingles, could be seen for days floating down to the markets in the southern part of the state and into Maryland. The writer once sold a raft of excellent white pine boards at Middletown —ten miles below Harriaburg, for SlO per thousand feet and got the top of the market. Now we would have to pay $25 per thousand feet for lumber of the same kind and quality. The Hon. James Wilson, Secre tary of Agriculture, says: "That (lie United States is even now Hear ing a time of severe scarcity of lumber, is no longer a matter of doubt. Each year makes a heavy further inroad upon the remnant <>f our virgin forests, and the growth of our abused and depleted lorest lands for three years, would not meet our needs for one." CAST KI.A 11. Every farmer should take advan tage of our bargain clubbing offer. ESTELLA. Mrs. Clayton tligley of Shunk is visiting at l'orter Higley's. The spelling contest held in the M. F. church on Wednesday eve ning was well attended. The hon ors were accorded to Miss Margu rile Hartung of Lincoln Falls. Ira Pardo and Rev. G. P. Morse made a trip to West Leroy with tlie remainder of the minister's household goods, Wednesday. The L. S. C. met at George Brown's Thursday. Mamie Little of Forksville is working for J. (J. Plotts. Fred Rosbach is on the sick list. Mi's. U. G. Little visited her parents at Lincoln Falls Sunday. Mrs. Wm. 11. Brown and two children spent part of last week with relatives in Sonestown. Mrs. George Rosbach visited her son L. L. Rosbach Monday. Lee Rosbach is spending some time in Virginia. J. W. Mulnix and wife have gone to Missouri for a months vis it. Paul Rogers, who was seriously hurt in a coasting accident some time ago, is again able to be out. HILLSGROVE. Homer Peck, who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. l)r. Christian, at Lopez, has returned home. Mrs. John Speaker and daughter Edyfhe were Willianisport shoppers part of last week. Lyman Norton and wife drove to Willianisport Sunday, where they w ill spend a lew days with friends. Mrs. Warburton of Canton is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frnest Norton at this place. Mrs. Boinan Barrett is confined to her home with rheumatism. Mrs. William King and children have returned to their home in Muncy Valley after spending tin; winter with her parents here. Prof. Port/ and Adam Prong were Willianisport visitors last Wednesday. The schools have opened again after having been closed for two weeks on account of scarlet fever. Alice Bahr of Onshore is visiting her sister, Mrs. Oscar Snyder. Edson Snell, who tlied at the home of his son Samuel al Proctor, on Tuesday of last week, was brought to this place Friday for burial. SHUNK. Harold Fanning, who has been sick for some time, is able to be out again. Mr. Grippe is making several visits to this place. Aliss Cora Campbell is ill at this writing. Murry Brown visited his brother William part of last week. Messrs. Edgar Campbell and Richard Swingle spent Sunday with friends in Canton. Mrs. Charles Brown and I/.ola Ma son were called to Troy recently, on account of tln* sudden illness of their grandfather. C.C. Makinster is ill at the home of his sister, Mrs. Jennie Battin. The final spelling test to decide the best speller in Fox township was held in the church Friday eve ning, and Edgar Campbell, a stu dent of tin; high school won the medal. Messrs. Ford Mauley and Ray Shadduek spent part of the week in Canton. MVKCY VALLEY. Martha Remensnyder spent a few days recently with her sister in llnghcsvillo. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Min nier, on Tuesday, March S, P.UO, a daughter. Master Mortie llousekneeht spent pari of last week with his grand lar.Mits at Eaglesmere. Mrs. E. C. Potter spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. T. F. Jillson. Adam Br.'idley has returned from the Williamsport hospital. The little (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Minnier is recovering slowly from her serious illness. Mrs. Wm. Palmaticr and son and Kathryn Bradley, visited the former's sistj'r, Mrs. Brady ltouse kneelit, Thursday. Miss. Abbie King is spending a few days with her parents here. Etta Bradley is visitsng her sis ter Kathryn at Eaglesmerc. NORDMONT. Benj. Byron of Hillsgrove was the guest of his sister ovor Sunday. Jas. Moran and Torrence Ben der of Muncy Valley were callers in town Tuesday evening. W. B. liazen, wife and son have returned from a few days' visit with friends in Sonestown. W. B. Snider and family were guests of J. 11. Krouse Sunday. Marcus Horn was a caller in Ilughesvillo Monday. Cleon Starr of Sonestown visited his sister here Tuesday evening. WORLD NEWS OF THE WEEK. Ccoring Minor Happenings From Ail Over the Globe DOMESTIC. James T. Harahan denies he is to retire from the presidency of the Illi nois Central Railroad Company. Mrs. Charles W. Morse, back from a visit it- her husband in the Federal Prison at Atlanta, told of the progress of the petition for his pardon and ex pressed appreciation of the plea signed by all the pupils in the high school he gave his boyhood homo. Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler at tributes hlgli prices here to too many intermediaries between the wholesaler and the consumer. The Van Norden Magazine has sus pended publication. It was owned by Warner M. Van Norden, recently rob bed of $28,000 by two women near th<* Waldorf, New York City. The Federal Grand Jury investigat ing the Beef Trust in Chicago com pleted its labors. Mr. & Mrs. David Scherer announce the engagement of their daughter Rose, to Samuel P. Moses, prominent in the New York newspaper circles. Reception to be at'2o96 Third Ave. on April 10, 1910. Great floods in the Mohawk valley caused much damage to property. Governor Hughes at Albany enter tained Governor Fred. M. Warner, of Michigan. Chancellor MacCracken of the New York University announced that ho would resign on Sept. 26. Assembly Toombs introduced a resolution calling for a special investi gation by a legislative committee of all stock and produce exchanges in New York State and their methods. WASHINGTON. Gifford Pinchot s:iid that the con servation fight was one between spe cial privilege and equal opportunity. In the House the bill appropriating $500,000 to purchase embassy build ing.-! abroad, was defeated. Plans were laid at a White House conference to curb any attempt by in surgents to obstruct President Taft's legislative programme. Secretary Wilton and Gifford Pin chot clashed on the stand over wheth er Pinchot had permission from his then superior to send the letter to Senator Dolliver criticising President Taft. Secretary Meyer plans to make his request for a 32,000 ton battle ship in next year's recommendations. President Taft talked to 350 editors of foreign newspapers in the United Slates on immigration. Senator Brown delivered a speech on the income tax and Senator Bev eridge discussed the mineral wealth erf Alaska. FOREIGN. Hundreds of Socialists were wound ed in Berlin by provincial gendarmes and city police. Edward W. Mix, in Paris, announces that he cannot enter the international balloon race this year on account of business engagements. The Empress of Russia suffered an other nervous breakdown, and her condition is regarded as serious. African fever is following the Roosevelt party; a medical missionary who lunched with its members on Monday is dying. Suspicion that three Powers are contemplating unfriendly action against China over Thibet causes anxiety at Pekin. Col. Roosevelt practically ended his African hunt, having bagged «bout 500 of the larger mammals. Premier A'-quith announced in tho British Commons that the Lords' veto question will take precedence of all other business except pressing finan cial matters, Hie general budget being laid aside. Saturday Qight <? °y Rev. F. E. DAVISON Rutland, Vt. THE KING OF THE NATURAL WORLD. International Bible Lesson for Mar. 13, 'lo.—(Matt. 8:23-34). He who bears kingly credentials must not only have power to conquer the hearts and the bodies of men. He must be the master of life's environ ment as well. Christ must prove His divinity by His power over the .orces of nature. And this He did in the marvellous story of this lesson. The stilling of a tempest on the Sea of Galilee. Tempest on the Sea. Crossing that land-locked, moun tain-guarded body of water with His disciples in an open boat, one of the sudden storms for which that sea is famous swept down through the moun tain gorges upon thom, ar.d the liHle boat was almost covered with the waves. - The disciples were old fisher men, brought up on the shore:- of that sea, getting their living for years out of its crystal depths, rocked on its bosom often by tempestuous winds, not easily frightened at the howling of a gale. But this time they struck a tempest such as they had never en countered and they were afraid the boat would goto pieces in the squall. They did their utmost to keep her afloat, but when they became con vinced that they could not weather the gale they suddenly remembered that they carried the ijirtng, and they cried out to Him for help. Master of Neptune. Worn out with the day's labors Christ was fast asleep, His human nature no nrore disturbed than a child by the rocking of a cradle. But at the first cry of alarm, the Master arose. First, lie quiets thf tempest in the disciples hearts, rebuking their in belief and calming their fears, then He stills the storm without, rebuking the winds and the sea, "and there was a great calm." It was all done with out effort, naturally, calmly, as a God. It reads like the sto:y of creation. Here is one among men who wears the crown of kingly au.hority over the forces of nature. No wonder the as tonished disciples exclaimed, "What manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obay Ilim?" No wonder that John writing long after of this wondering being, said. "In the beginning was the word, and the w > 1 was with God, and the word was God. All things were made by Him arid without Him was not anything made that was made." He who in the be ginning had let slip the winds of heav en out of His fingers could easily drive them back into their caverns. He, out of whose palm had dropped all the fib ers, and all the seas, and all the oceans had only to speak the word of command and the boisterous waves crouched at His feet in humble sub mission. This was not the only time in the career of the King that lie pro"ed Himself master of the natural world. While there was never any outgoing of His power to meet His own per sonal needs there was never any diminution of His power to help those who were in peril from the elements. He was in His world, the Master and King of it, always, and everywhere. Ruler of the Invisible. But visible nature is not man's only environment. There is an unseen uni verse besides to which man is more or less subject. We are all conscious of an invisible world, surrounding us on all sides, mysterious, im o-aprehen sible, yet exerting an influence over us which we cannot escape. We are just as much moved upon by that world as we are by this. This world affects our physical nature, that world affects our moral nature and we <..n not escape it. Whatever may bo meant by demoniac possession, the old-fashioned statement that so: :e people are possessed of the devil em bodies a great truth. There are storms in the spiritual world, more to be dreaded than electrical storms in the material world, more terrible by far than any cyclone that ever raged over a western prairie town. Bat the j King of men is Master even here. Demons Own His Power. The disciples had no sooner es caped the peril of one storm than they came up against another in the person of two demoniacs- -men who were under the power of an awful j brain storm. These men were set free from their peril and suffering by a word of power, the demons which possessed then being hurled into the deep by the flat of the King. Mysteri ous? Yes. Incomprehensible? Pos sibly. But the fact remains that wh a men ask for the credentials of Him who comes claiming to be the King of all Kingdoms, this Christ of the New Testament can produce them. His word is power. His look is authority. His attraction is universal. He is in world, but not of it. Great nati re, which is the master of ordinary men, recognizes His authority, "the wind and the sea obey Him," and"the Prince of the Power of the Air," and all his legions, ground the weapons of their rebellion at His feet, and retreat in abject terror to their subterranean abodes. Therefore, whenever tlie King of the invisible world came in contact j with the powers of darkness, one look, ! one word of command from Him wis ; all that was accessary to evict tho j demon that had camped upon the ter- j ritory of the human body. The pow- j ers of darkness recognized His author ity and retreated before His Kingly presence. " THE LEADING RETAIL STORE OF N. E. PENN'A. 7y I'owler,Dick & = rj that their of fn] --j Fashionable Garments for Spring |j n and Summer of 1910 is now rj H ready. A copy of this Style U n Book will be mailed Free upon n application. FOWLER, DICK & WALKER, BOSTON STORE. South St., Willtes-Barre, Pa. Administrator's Notice. Letters of administration on the estate of Albeit S. White, late of Davidson township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, having been granted to the undersigned, all persons in debted to the said estate are request ed to make payment, and those hav ing claims, to present the same with out delay, to Mrs. Sibyl Ilallstead, 11. I). 1, Sonestown, Pa. Administratrix of Albert S. White, deceased. Feb. 2:5, 1910. 40t(> Administrator's Notice. in the Estate of Thomas Morris,' late of Lnporte Township, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of administration upon the above es- j late have been granted to the under-' signed. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to present the same for allowance, and I all persons indebted to said estate art- requested to make payment without delay to the undersigned. Jan. 2"), li) 10, Ernest Morris, Administrator, j F. W. Meylert, Att'y. ;i7t(i | I! 3 CENTS A LINE ADS. j t 1 j FOlt SALE—A team weighing about 2,000 lbs. Tlroko single or double. Sell separate or together. Inquire ol (i. S. Eddy, Lnporte, Pa. F()H SA LE —Yoke of mated | steers: .'! years old; partly broken. Ala >3 cows coining fresh. This ad. will discontinue when sold W. I>. Snider, Nordinont, Pa. 38tf ("il:T~ YQUL> WISII Of course yon get y ur wish if you come to our big store for yt ur goods We have about everything in the Gcnml Merchandise !tne that you could wish for and our stock is neat, clean and up-to-date in quality. jliuschhciuseiVs. LAPORTb", PA ■WJLIfcTTIEID I Poultry, Butter, Eggs and Country Produce. Dressed Calves and Ilogs. 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