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.
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double. Sell separate or together.
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; special notice t without 2haruo, iu tho
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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
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have about everything in
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itne that you could wish for
and our stock is neat, clean
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Your orders solicited.
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