Republican News Item F. L. TAYLOR, LESSEE. B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR. PUBLISHED FRIDAYS 8y The Sullivan Publishing Co At tho County Boat of Sullivan County. LAfOHTE, PA. TilOS. J. INGHAM, Sec'y iV: Trcas. Entered at the Post office at Laporte, as second-clase mail matter. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OK DUSHORE, PENNA. OAt'TTAL - - $50,000 fI'JiPJiUS - - $40.00^ Does a General Banking Business. F1 -11KK WELLES, M. D. SWARTS. President, ctsliie; iHT cent interest allowed on certificates. FRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-Law. office in Keeler's Block. LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA. J t J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties _APOKXE, V/ - £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA OPriCB IS COUNTY BUILDING NEAR COURT DOUBE. J H. CRONIN, ATTORNKY-AT -LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. OPPICB ON MAIN STRBET. DUSIIORK. r ' A First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. Cti/iifa/ - - - ,pr>,ooo.oo Trail acts a general banking business. TilOS. .1. I NCJIIAM, Kttw. LAOI.KY President. Cashier. ■i por cent interest paid on time deposits, A< (XH'NTS SOLICITED. J P. BAHL, TONSORIAL ARTIST Pool Roorn, Confectionery, Tobacco and Cigars. Opposite Hotel Bernard LAPORTE, PA. Xo New Things The drift to the city from the country, which so many deplore, is no new tiling. It lias always been so for history shows that the great cities of old as well as those of modern days were not built up by the natural increase of their own population, but by constant accre tion from the country. In fact the city is an immense maelstrom re morselessly sucking in the brain and brawn of the country. That, on the whom it is a mis fortune, few will question. For every one person who goes from the country to the city and benefits by the change there are probably a dozen who do not benefit, for with most of them the change means a deterioration, physically, finan cially and morally. But this fact docs not check the migration, for it is not the failure of the dozen that is considered but Ihe success of the one. The man who can solve the pro blem of how to keep young men and women on the farm and in the small town will prove one of the greatest benefactors of all time. Many plans have been proposed and county life has more advant ages than in former days, yet the drift continues. Perhaps nothing but tne force of economic circum stance will cause a turn in the tide. Has Organized Labor Had a Share in Raising Prices? That the various trade unions numbering about three millions of workmen in the United States, have been successful in obtaining higher wages, and shorter hours, would seem to show with reason able certainty, that they had con tributed a share of the increased cost of the goods or commodities, made by them in the factories where they worked, or elsewhere. In 11107 the United States De partment of Commerce and Labor investigated the wages of 350,758 workmen including the building trades, marble, and stone cutters, printers, foundry men, machinists etc. Taking the average wages for the ten years from 18110 to li»00. as, a basis for comparison, it was found that the average wages per hour, of: these ."50,758 workmen were 28. 8 per cent higher in 1907 than in the basis period. In the manufacture of nearly everything made in this country, tho cost of labor enters most largely into the cost of the finished product. Is it reasonable to believe that the manufacturers after having counted the cost of material, and labor, and fixed their prices to yield a reasonable profit, would be able, or willing, to pay their workmen j 28.8 per cent higher wages and not make themselves good by raising tho selling price of their products. Indeed we know that in some in stances when manufacturers, and mine owners have been forced to raise the price of their operatives, they have been forced to raise tln> price of their products in proportion to raise in wages. The building trade union have succeeded in obtaining a greater rise in wages than any of the other organizations. According to the report of the department of Com merce and Labor the building trade, comprising 45,537 workmen obtain ed an average rise of 47 per cent an hour higher than in the aytrige basis period of 1890 to 1900. CASTKI.AU. ShvnK. The robins, and several other species of summer birds, have re turned from the south, and we are happily anticipating, "The Good Old Summer Time." Mr. and Mrs, Edward Gleochner, and Mrs. Anthony Heinze and daughter, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Heinze, Satur day. Francis Kilmer spent a few days at Elniira, last week, where his grandmother is very ill. The web social, which was held at the high school, Thursday, was largely attended and the proceeds were quite large. The revival meetings held by Messrs. Misner and Kanulle wer e largely attended. They will con tinue this week. Mrs. \V. 11. Fanning who has been very ill for the past week is better at this writing. The Messrs. L. M. Mcßride, E. C. Campbell, 11. It. Fanning and li. (). Bagley spent Sunday at llillsgrove. The sad death of Mr. Chas. Tiuk ham occured Saturday evening. He has been in poor health for nearly three years and confined to his bed during the past winter. He sides many friends, he leaves to mourn his loss a wife and two sons. Mrs. Chandler Brown spent Sun day with her sister, Mrs. E. M. Letts. Mr. Edwin Frey, who has been attending high school, left last week for York State where he has pro cured work for the summer. Ed. is a diligent boy and he has the best wishes of a host of friends and school-mates for a happy and pros perous future. Mrs. Jennie Battin and daughter, Miss Hazel Yoorhees spent Satur day at the home ol Mr. anh Mrs. Lorenzo Brown. Mrs. Anna Williams a loved and respected resident of this county is hovering between life and death at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Bohn of Eliuira, N. V. SALE. The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. Church will hold a sale at the home of Mrs. John Smyth on Wednesday afternoon and evening, March ISO. There will be for sale, shirtwaists, plan lawn and hand embroidered, also of calico; toilet covers; bags; aprons; curtains; and some fancy articles. Ice cream will be served at the usnl price. Everybody is cordially invited. I OBITUARY. ! 'illilTilTg ■ Mrs. John Reman. Mrs. John Kernan died Friday March IS, at her home in Kingdale. at the age of 70 years. Mrs. lver uan is a native of Sullivan Counte and lias spent her life in these parts, she and her husband having clear ed the farm on which they have lived for a long time. Deceased is survived hy a hus band and five children viz. William. CJarrett and Mary of Kingdale. Thus. K. of Dushore and Elizabeth of Laqiiin. Funeral services were held from St Basil's church in Dushore. Rev. Father Kier officiating. Interment was made in St Hasil's Cemetery. Fred Anderson Fred Anderson an aged resident of Forksville. died at his home in that place. Wednesday morning at -1 o-clock. Dropsy, from which <lc seased he has suffered for a long time, was the cause of death. Deceased was veteran of the civil war, and was a well thought of per sonage by all wlili knew him. He was a brother-in-law of Sheriff' Brown of this phut l . Funeral services will be held Sat urday at 1 o-clock i». M., from his late home. ESTELLA. David (Sleoekler and wife ol Forksville. spent Sundav at the home of her brother. C. B. Wheat ley is at Highland View. Mrs. Elizabeth Boyles, an aged lady of this place, is quit.) ill. About twenty cans of young trout-fry from the state hatchery were putin the streams of this vi cinity recently. Bruce Molyneux is moving his family to Overton where he has a position in the creamery. Ellory Brown is working for Al bert Kaye. Albert Whcatley has gone to Penn Yan. N. Y., to work on a farm. Lots of sugar making now among the farmers, who can feed you lots of taffy nowadays. MUNCY VALLEY. Myrtle Bondman of Sonestown, spent Saturday afternoon with friends here. Mrs. Win. Moran a. children, visited relatives in Hugtit*sville re cently. Vearle Jillson is on the sick list. Mesdamcs Bradley and Ilouse kneclit and children visited friends in Sonestown Thursday. Kathryn Brook was in town Sat urday giviir music lessons. Accident Narrowly Averted. What might have been a disas trous accident was prevented at Sones' saw-mill at Celestia on last week Wednesday, when the safety plug on the boiler blew out keeping it from bursting. The inspirator •■kicked back" keeping the water from entering the boiler. When the plug blew out the men working on the mill, hastened out of danger thinking an explosion imminent. Xo harm was done. Subsoiling with Dynamite. "Strange are some of the farming methods of California," said Benja min Mann, of Germantown, who re cently returned from a visit to the Pacific coast. "One day in the vine country I heard a tremendous bang, bang, banging, and started from my seat, thinking that a dreadful explo sion had occurred. But my host told me, with a laugh, that his men were merely plowing with dynamite. Then he went onto explain that when it was desired to loosen up the soil to a depth of three feet or so dynamite cartridges were set in the earth and tired off. They broke up the ground beautifully. They did the work much better, and much more cheaply, th in any machine or any manual labor could do. And, in addition to this, they destroyed the parasite called the phylloxera, the bane of the vine grow ers. No vineyard whose soil hail been dynamited, my host said, ever suf fered from the phylloxera afterward." MONKEYS POST SENTINELS. Fight Under a Leader and Roll Stonea Down on Their Enenies. Aesop's ape, it will be remembered, ! wept on passing through a human graveyard, overcome with sorrow for its dead ancestors, and that all mon keys are willing enough to be more like us than they are they show by their mimicry. An old authority tells that the easiest way to capture apes is for the hunter to pretend to shave himself, then to wash his face, iill the basin with a sort of bird lime, and leave it for the apes to blind themselves. If the Chinese story is to be believed, the imitative craze is even more fatal in another way, for if you shoot one monkey of a band with a poisoned ar row, its neighbor, jealous of so un usual a decoration, will snatch tho arrow from it and stab itself, only to have it torn away by a third, uni.il in succession the whole troop have committed suicide. In their wild life baboons, as well as the langurs and many other mon keys, undoubtedly submit to the au thority of recognized leaders. There is co-operation betwen them to the extent that when fighting in company one will goto the help of another which is hard pressed. In rocky ground they roll down stones upon their enemies, and when making a raid, as on- an orchard which they believe to be guarded, the attack is conducted 011 an organized plan, sentries being posted and scouts thrown out, which gradually feel their way forward to make sure that the coast is clear, while the main body re mains in concealment behind until told that the road is open. From the fact that the sentries stay posted throughout the raid, get ting for themselves no share of the plunder, it has been assumed that there must be some sort of division of the proceeds afterward. Man, again, has been differentiated from all other creatures as being a fool-using ani mal, but more than one kind of mon key takes a stone in its hand and with it breaks the nuts which are too hard to be cracked with the teeth. How Wars Begin. "Here's a remarkable statement," said Mr. Ribbin, looking irp from his newspaper. "What is it, dear?" his wife asked. "It says there has not been a decade in tiie last five centuries in which war has not been waged somewhere in the world." "Isn't that dreadful? Why cnn't people be reasonable and live in peace?" "Because people are mostly intol erant fools," Mr. Bibbln answered. "I declare it makes a man ashamed of his kind." He crumbled the paper and dashed it to the floor. "There, there, Elias," said his wife, "don't get excited over it." "Who's getting excited? I s'pose I've got a right to express an opinion in my own house." "It's no more your he..(an mine, I'd have you know," said Mis. Bib bin. "I guess I worked and scrimped as hard as you did to get it." "See here, madam!" "Don't you madatn me, lOlias Bib bin. I won't stand it." "Oh, you won't, won't you? Well, if you were a man I'd punch your im pertinent jaw!" "No you wouldn't, you big bully. You wouldn't dare say boo to a man." "I wouldn't, heb?" lie strode to ward her, shaking his list, "for two cents I'll —" "You lay a hand on me," said Mrs. Bibbin, snatching up the rose vase, "and I'll " Just then the door bell rang. The Patron at Fault. "This last lighting bill is five times as big as the one previous and I'll swear we didn't use half the light this month that we did the month be fore!" declared the irate patron, bursting into the Lighting Company's office with the bill in his hand. "That's our certified amount against you, sir," calmly returned the man be hind the desk. "Certified fraud! it's preposterous to assert that my meter sh'owed any such usage. I shan't pay such a bill!" "Then, we'll be compelled to turn off both your gas and electricity, sir. We never dispute our meter reader's figures." "But your meter reader never read any such an amount of my meter!" "Beg pardon, he's a reliable em ployee, he called as usual to read your meter, didn't he?" "Yes, and I called him down for tramping through my parlor with mud dy feet." "Ah! then, you must've made him mad." All 'Certin. Old Susan was working a block away from her home and, being urged to stay to do some extra work, she called to her daughter, who was play ing in front of her house. All in one breath, without pause or stop, she shouted in a high key: "Liza you Liza go down dar to ray house and go in de front do' and go back to the kitchen and shut de do' and thumbbolt it and set a cheer agin it and come out and lock de front do' and hang de key wliar I alius hangs it and tek Mary Jane down dar to Mis' Brown's and tell Mis' Brown ter keep j her tell I comes you hear what I say | you Liza?" I "Yassum, I heerd ev'ry ting you | sade 'ceptin' thumbbolt de kitchen do'." Chigger Has Multiplied. I Since its introduction from Amer ica the ehlgger has spread far and wide along the west coast of Africa and is now a greatly dreaded pest. ARTFUL DILL DROPS IN. Calls to See His Friend Tom About a Small Money Matter. Bystanders saw the derby-hatted, bushy-eyebrowed little man enter th£ office of his friend with the air of one who has something on his mind. "Well, well! If there ain't Old Bill!" exclaimed the man sitting at his desk. "What's on your mind, anyhow?" "Oh, just dropped in, Tom," replied Bill. "Found myself on your door and just thought I'd see how everything was with you." "Glad you did. Well, how're you makin' out?" "First rate. How's things with you?" "Oh, I can't complain at all. How are all the folks?" "Fine. Everything's coming all right with you, is it?" Now, after the conversation had run along in that strain for a little while, the bystanders in the office decided that the caller had dropped into make a touch. Bill shifted from one foot to the other uneasily. He seemed to lack for a word. Evidently it was coining. "Oh, by the way, Tom!" spoke 111 Bill suddenly, with much show of spontaneity, "I was just on my way down to pay my rent and it just struck me that I haven't quite enough 011 me. Could you let me have that ten spot I lent you down at the club last night?" There. He'd said it. The worst was over. And it wasn't a touch after all, but a man trying to collect a debt In an inoffensive way, which is thrice as embarrassing. Tom looked at his visitor. "Didn't I ever give that back to you?" he ask ed. "Huh! Why didn't you speak of it before?" "Oh, I haven't needed it —wouldn't have thought of it now, in fact, if I hadn't been standing here and just happened to think about—not having enough to hand to the landlord." "Sorry you had to ask for it," apolo gized Tom. "Oh, that's all right, I guess I know you well enough to feel free to ask for what I want, hey? No need of formal ity or anything between us. Of course, I wouldn't have mentioned it at that if I hadn't just been here and hap pened to think"-—and so on. And having collected a debt that had been on his mind for months, while he wondered how to get it without giv ing offense. Bill went his way in a high state of inward glee. MIND'S INFLUENCE ON BODY. Dr. Vaughn Says the Dogma is With out a Scientific Suport. Taking for his subject "The Physical Basis of Life," Dr. Vaughn, speaking before the Association of American Physicians, said that much had been heard of late concerning the influence of tho mind over the body. That as sumption was as old as the philosophy of Plato. It always had and re mained to-day a dogma without scien tific fact Every attempt to apply it to the trj'itmeet of disease had led to the deve opirent of conscious or unconscious charlatanism and re sulted in more or less marked ata vism. Medical observation and study had shown that healthy cerebral function was to be found only when ths activ ity of the brain was Influenced prop erly by normal function of all the co related organs. "We know efjrally," said he,"of the iniluence of f he train on the other organs of the body. We are fully aware of the fact that impulses may be started in he brain tincugh any of the five senses that may favorably or unfavorably influence the activities of the corelated organs. And for cen turies the medical profession has em ployed this physiological principle in the treatment of disease." Onionology. After eating onions a girl should immediately sit down and peruse some work of fiction that is calculated to take her breath away.—Chicago Daily News. j 3 CENTS A LINE ADS. j FOR SALE—A team weighing about 2,000 llis. Broke single or double. Sell separate or together. Inquire ot (J. S. Eddy, La porte, Pa. WJLIfcTTIEJID Poultry. Hut ter, Eggs and Country l'n >duee. Dressed Calves and Hogs. Write for prices: I'ARRISH SOLARE MARKET. Ifith & Pan ish Sts., Philadelphia, Penn'a. Anyone ending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whet her an invention is probably patentable, Comniuuica* tlonsstrictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free, oldest agoncy for securing patents. Patents taken through Muim & Co. receive ; special notice t without 2haruo, iu tho Scientific Hmericatt. A handsomely IllustriifPd wpefely. l.nrcest c:r culiiiioti of nity Kulentllic Journal. Terms, t:t n year, fonrimiiiths.fi. Sold liy ail iiewndiuitcrs. MUNN&Co, 36 1 Broadway, YOljii Br&iicli oitlco, <36 K St.. Wnaliiugtou. '».U M. BRINK'S PRICES For This Week. 100 lhs. Oil Meal 82.10 (Linton 1.75 Corn Meal 1.40 Craeken Corn 1.40 Corn i.4() I>est Muney Midds. l.<>o Potatoes per bushel .50 Oyster Shells f>(> Wheat Than 1.50 Schiunachor Chop 1 50 100 II) Buckwheat Flour ti.4o Lump Salt 75 Beef Scrap 8.00 Meat Meal 2 50 140 lh hag Salt (50 50 lh hag Salt .'!() 5(! 11) hag Packing Pock Sail 40 Slhuinacher Flour sack 1.55 Marvel " "1.75 M uncy '• "1 50 -4 lh sack Schu. Tahle Meal GO 10 11) " " " " 25 Veal calves wanted every week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day. Live fowls and chickens wanted every Wednesday. Light pork wanted at highest market price. JI. BRINK. New Albany. Pa. The Best place to buy goods Is olten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages arealways being searched lor l.ose no time in making a thorough examination ofihe New Line of Merchandise. Now on V 111 111 -f- -X' ■At -u nmt jk yt -> >4» T» rf' T 1 'l l ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. Ail answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. RiilsKroTOti Pa. GET YCMII? \VN I 0% ~ Of course you get y ur wish if you come to our big store for y< ur goods We have about everything in the Gener.il Merchandise itne that you could wish for and our stock is neat, clean and up-to-d;ite in quality. y ■ Y |l3usc:hl\cHisen's. LA PORTE, I'A. I dbippewa Xtme Htfltts. Lime furnished in car load lots, delivered at i Right Prices. Your orders solicited. Kilns near Hughesvilla I Tenn'a. M. E. Reeder, MUNCY, |>A. ALL HORSES DIE. Metropolitan Live Stock Insurance Co. I is writing contracts to cover your iiu cM I ments in horses and cattle against death of any cause for a small amount, qtiat tei ly, semi-annually or annually. Agt uts wanted everywhere. Home oilice, 410-n 1 Bastable Block, Syracuse, N. Y. j Try a SMALL AD in 11 us pap r, It will piy you. ) OeWITT'S CARBOLIZEO WITCH HAZEL SALVE For Piles, Burns, Sores.
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