Republican News Item
JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor.
LAPORTE ..777. PA.
WEEK'S NEWS ~
STORIES RETOLD
Events That Made a Stir Con
densed to a Paragraph.
WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING
News of Interest That Trickles From
the White Hot-ee and the Various
Departments Catalogue of
Crimes er.d Casualties.
Washington
The National Monetary Commission
was ordered dissolved by January S
next.
President Taft found it difficult to
worship in Washington, most of the
churches being closed.
President Taft completed plans for
n forty-day trip through the West and
to the Pacific Coast, mainly through
Insurgent territory.
It cost Uncle Sam $50,000 to keep
the White House presentable and cozy
last year, Colonel Spencer Crosby, in
charge of the building and grounds,
eays in his annual report.
Because of the provision for the
recall of judges cantained in the Ari
zona Constitution, President Taft
vetoed the joint resolution of Congress
for the admission of Arizona and New
Mexico to Statehood.
The Senate, 38 to 28, adopted the
conference report, and the Wool Re
vision bill was sent on its way to the
expected veto by the President.
Personal
Admiral Togo arrived in Canada
after a seventeen day sojourn in the
United States, and visited Niagara.
Miss Gertrude Haile Lanman, for
merly a society leader of Norwich,
Conn., went to New York to enter a
convent.
Edison was held up in the Bois de
Boulognee in Paris by a moving-pic
ture taker and there for the first time
posed before an invention of his own.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Drexel were
reported as reconciled in London after
the birth of a son to their daughter,
Lady Maidstone.
"Jack" Geraghty and the former
Miss Julia French were remarried by
a Catholic priest, ending any possible
chance of annulment proceedings.
Henry C. Godwin, president and
general manager of the Godwin Cloth
ing Co., of Knoxville, died suddenly,
presumably from a dose of headache
powder.
John Hays Hammand, returning to
Boston from the coronation, reported
American securities as being regarded
as "good" in London.
Chief Chemist Wiley testified that
the charges made against him are
false and that as a result of the con
ditions obtaining in the Department
of Agriculture the Pure Food Bureau
has been deprived of its efficiency.
Sporting
It looks as if Fred Clarke were try
ing to make a regular first baseman
of Bill McKethnie, his utility iutield
er.
Miss Alsic Aykroyd, seventeen years
old, swam from Charlestown to Bos
ton Li?ht; three men who started with
her gave up.
K. O. Brown and Champion Wolgast
have agreed to box ten rounds in New
York on October 19 at 133 ringside.
Denton T. Young, the veteran pitch
er of the major leagues, was released
by the Cleveland team of the Ameri
can League.
Sam Langford knocked out Jack
O'Brien of Philadelphia in the fifth
round of their scheduled ten-session
battle at the Twentieth Century A. C.,
New York, with a left hook to the
body. O'Brien took an awful beating
up to that time.
Fully 5,000 persons gathered to see
four women attempt to swim the Gold
en Gate, California. Three women
succeeded, Nellie Schmidt, of Alameda
swam across in 42 minutes, while Ly
ba and Nita Sheffield, sisters, of Los
Angeles, made it in 43 and 40 min
utes respectively.
General
A wall of New Jersey's "graft" capi
tol, built in 1886, was found to be
tilled with loose brick.
Lieutenant Whittier, beaten by
thugs in Boston, died from his in
juries.
A petition was circulated among
Newport cottagers against the pro
posed establishment of a resort re
sembling Coney Island at Easton's
Beach.
Confronted with charges of conduct
unbecoming an officer, due to drunk
enness, Captain Frank T. Thornton,
of the 63d company United States
coast artillery, committed suicide at
Fort Worden, near Port Townsend.
Thee New York State Department
of Health reported at Albany that
there were many flagrant violations
of the Brennan cold storage law, and
District Attorneys in many counties
had been directed to begin prosecu
tions immediately against the offend
ers.
The price ot Deef again advanced,
No 1 cuts and loins being li per cent,
higher than on December 1.
Because she had taken back the
child she had let him adopt, Giuseppe
Rlgis murdered his sister and her hus
band in New York.
Julia Jane Wright, a cook at Bethel,
Del., died suddenly front acute indi
gestion brought on by eating a dozen
cantoloupes.
President Taft, in a speech at
Ocean Grove, N. J., made an appeal to
the people in behalf ot the British
and French arbitration treaties.
Chief of Police W. R. White of Wil
liamston, N. C., while within a tew
steps of his home, was shot in the
back by a negro ex-convict.
The bodies of two babies tied to
gether, were found near the West Jer
sey railroad at Sewell, N. J. It is sup
posed they were thrown from a train
in the night.
Thirteen members of the Poultry
Trust were sentenced in New York
by Judge Rosalsky to serve three
months in jail and pay fines of SSOO
each.
Rev. Samuel L. Gracey, United
States Consul at Foo Chow, China, for
20 years, committed suicide in a Mas
sachusetts sanitarium.
The New York Fire Department
will order the owners of more than
two hundred loft buildings to install
automatic fire sprinklers.
The wreck of the Federal Express
at Bridgeport, Conn., on July 11, in
which 13 persons were killed, was due
to a disregard of the signals and rules
of the railroad company by the engi
neer, according to report submitted to
Washington.
George Wait of Middletown, N. Y.,
and his wife were instantly killed and
their two children injured when a pas
senger train ran down their automo
bile at Emblers Crossing.
Thirty butchers of Jersey City, Ho
boken and North Hudson have been
subpoenaed to appear in Chicago on
November 20 to testify in the suits
brought against Swift & Co., in the
United States District Court.
Foreign
The reciprocity campaign opened in
earnest in Canada with addresses by
Sir Wilfrid Laurier in lavor of the
treaty and by K. L. Borden in opposi
tion.
Mrs. John W. Gates and her son.
Charles G. Gates, with the body of
John W. Gates, left for Cherbourg,
where they will embark on the Kaiser
Wilheim der Crosse.
Pierre Prier, the French aviator,
who was shot by his pupil, M. Hanot,
at the Hendon aerodrome, London,
died. Hanot, who shot himself, is also
dead.
Dispatches received from Astrabad,
Persia, say there has been a fight be
tween government troops and follow
ers of Mohammed Ali, the deposed
shah. Both sides claim a victory.
President Leconte took the oath of
office as President of Haiti.
vV. B. Bourn ot Suu i-raucisco, has
bought Baron Ardilaun's Muckross
(Ireland estate, including a part of
the Lakes of Killarney.
Rioting was renewed at Liverpool
and the police broke heads, but the
troops, which were out with fixed
bayonets, did no shooting. The Eng
lish Government has ordered every
available man at the military stations
ready for instant service.
William E. Corey declared ridicu
lous a story from abroad to the effect
that he would divorce Mabelle Gilman
Corey and seek a reconciliation with
his first wife.
The Constituent Assembly of Portu
gal completed its work and passed
the bill providing a constitution for
the republic.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by a Lisbon mob to rescue four hun
dred men imprisoned on political
charges.
Railway men in Great Britain be
gan to return to work and the settle
ment of their strike greatly improved
the prospect of ending the dock trou
bles iu Liverpool.
Mr, Borden leader of the opposition,
accepted reciprocity as the issue in
Canada's election and will not attack
the Government on its fifteen-year
record.
Chestnuts will be few in northern
New Jersey this year because of the
rapid extinction of the trees by a
blight. Every effort to destroy tho
pest has been without success.
Appeal for business protection will
be made to Provisional President
Madero of Mexico by Lord Cowdray,
head of the British group of financiers
that owns the Tehuantepec railroad
and has a large voice in the manage
ment of the National Railways of Mex
ico.
John Brady of Baltimore, accom
plished a remarkable climbing feat.
He ascended the Greueusokhorn, the
Jungfrau, the Fiescherhorn, the
Moench and the Eiger peaks in Switz
erland consecutively in 72 hours.
Edmond Rostand, author of "Chan
tecler." was badly hurt in an automo
bile accident near Cambo. His ma
chine was overturned.
The Czar received Curtis Guild, Jr.,
the American ambassador, and the
members of the embassy staff, on
board the imperial yacht Standart.
Premier Asquith and other mem
bers of the government held confer
eLces with representatives of the
large inteiests and the trade unions,
with a view to a settlement of the
questions pending.
ADJOURNMENT
OF CONGRESS
Cotton Bill Last Big Measure
Acted Upon
LAWMAKERS HASTEN HOME
The Cotton Bill, the Last of the Big
Measure Before the House, is
Passed After a Dreary Debate—
Veto by Taft, Message Ready.
Washington.—At a caucus of the
House Democrats it was agreed to
concur in the Senate resolution pro
viding for an adjournmnet of Con
gress and adjournment came at the
hour named with the usual cere
monies. Most of the members of Con
gress left at once for their homes.
After a dreary debate of four hours
the House passed the cotton revision
bill, with its amendments revising the
steel, iron and chemical schedules, by
a vote of ISO to 107. It was the last
big measure before the House. It
was known in advance that the meas
ure would be disapproved by the Pres
ident or permitted to die through a
"pocket veto," and for that reason
only perfunctory interest was shown
in the proceedings. Eight Republicans
voted for the cotton bill —Representa-
tives Hanna and Helgesen of North
Dakota, Davis, Lindbergh, Volstead
and Steenerson of Minnesota, Laffer
ty of Oregon and Norris of Nebraska.
Many senators have left Washing
ton and a majority of those who re
main are impatiently waiting to get
away. Vice-President. Sherman has
gone to Utica. Senator Crane left
for Dalton, Mass., and expects togo
from there to Manchester-by-the-Sea.
Senator Bacon left for New York and
is to sail for Europe. Senator Burton
of Ohio expects to sail in a few days
for Europe and will be abroad until
within a short time of the meeting of
the regular session of Congress, lie
will attend the peace conference in
Pome in October.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio, will go
to Canton to try a few lawsuits and
then goto Milwauee to be present on
October L', when the Stephenson inves
tigation begins under the direction of
a sub-committee of the Senate com
mittee on privileges and elections.
Senator Stephenson, looking very
sprightly under his weight of 82 sum
mers, said that he was going to his
homo in Marinette, Wis., leaving in
order that he might be investigated.
His colleague, Senator La Follette, has
not had enough of Washington sum
mer weather and will remain here
right through until the regular session
of Congress. He has signed a con
tract to write a series of articles for
a magazine, under the title "Thirty
Years of Public Life."
| Senator Clapp of Minnesota, insur
| gent, has gone on a speech-making
j trip to advance the cause of the Na
! tionai Republican Progressive League.
Only those senators who are mem
j hers of important investigating com
| mittees will remain in Washington
| and they are few in number. It is ex
| pected that in a week there will not
j be a half dozen members of the Sen
| ate in the city.
AUTO KILLS RALPH IRELAND.
Racer Crushed Under Car That Over
turns After Tire Bursts.
Chicago.—Ralph H. Ireland was
i killed in the preliminaries to the El
j gin, 111., automobile road races, which
j are to be held next Friday and Satur
day.
Ireland was going seventy miles an
hour when he turned his machine to
allow Hugh Hughes, another driver,
to pass. A rear tire burst and the
caj - after bumping 300 feet somer
j saulted. Ireland was crushed under
! it when it fell. His mechanic, Frank
j O'Brien, was thrown to one side and
: seriously cut and bruised. It is
j thought that he will recover.
Three hours after the accident Ire
j land died in St. Joseph's hospital in
| Elgin.
STATEHOOD MEASURE SIGNED.
President Taft Approves Resolution
Admitting Arizona and New Mexico.
Washington.—State hood for Ari
zona and New Mexico is now assured.
The President signed the joint resolu
tion of Congress, authorizing their ad
mission to the union.
The new statehood resolution elimi
nates the recall of judiciary provisions
from the Arizona constitution, which
is the feature that caused President
Taft to veto the previous resolution.
Elections will be held by both states
this fall and they will be admitted to
statehood by March 4 next.
Water Famine Threatened.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. —A water fam
ine is threatening many Hudson River
villages. The drought, with only a
little occasional rain, has dried the
rivulets on the watersheds, so that
the sources of the supply for many
towns have become depleted.
Flight Too Dangerous.
London. —The Royal Aero Club has
refused to sanction the proposed avia
tion race from Shoreham to Dieppe
on the ground that it would be too
dangerous.
For the Hostess I
Below Zero Luncheon.
The hostess issued her invitations
sn blue-white cards, the letters out
lined with diamond dust. She did
this by writing with a heavy pen in
gilt ink, then went over the letters
ivith liquid glue, then dipped the card
in the diamond dust and the sparkles
adhered to the glue. A polar bear
clasping a thermometer which regis
tered "10 below" was in the corner of
the card. "Please wear a white frock'"
was in the lower left-hand corner.
On arriving iced grape juice with a
flash of lemon was served. In a few
moments the dining room doors were
opened, revealing the coolest place
Imaginable. The chairs were covered
with white cotton cloth, the curtains
were white and the floor had been
covered with sheets tightly stretched
and fastened down with large tacks.
A huge cake of ice was the center
piece, surmounted by a group of toy
polar bears. Ferns and vines were
massed about the base. Two small
globes of goldfish were on either side.
The candles were white, also the
shades. Diamond dust glistened on
the tablecloth and glass icicles hung
from the chandeliers, while the dear
est of tiny dolls drew sleds inscribed
with the name of each guest, forming
the place cards.
Then a delicious white menu was
served—first iced bouillon in glasses,
cold breast of chicken, Saratoga
chips, baking powder biscuit, pear
and pineapple salad with whipped
crenm dressing, iced tea and canta
loupe, filled with vanilla cream com
pleted this feast, with the usual ac
cessories of nuts, white French bon
bons and individual cases, and the
most delicious watermelon preserves.
The guests were asked to relate the
coldest experience, they had ever had.
There were large thermometers
around the room with the mercury
flown below zero.
Novel Potato Party.
The hostess passed to each lady a
well-washed potato of rather long
slender shape. Then each one was
given four small wire hairpins, four
small black tacks, two fancy paper
napkins with gayly colored borders,
and a supply of pins. There were
scissors and tubes of library paste.
The order was to construct a doll.
With prizes to be awarded for the
best and poorest specimens the ladies
worked with amazing zeal. This going
back to childhood days was thorough
ly enjoyed, and while none had manu
factured "potato" dolls before, nearly
everyone confessed to the "clothes
pin" variety, and it was surprising the
array of attractive little figures that
emerged from the hands of these erst
while creative artists.
The hairpins were used for arms
and legs, the tacks made eyes, nose
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HERE is an idea for a delightfully
pretty cosy, which would sell
well at a bazaar, or would
make a charming present for
a friend.
The materials necessary for it are:
(1) Half a yard of sateen. (2) Three
quarters of a yard of thin silk in any
pretty light color. (3) Half a yard of
narrow ribbon. (4) A small china doll.
(5) About a quarter of a yard of white
cotton-wool.
Cut out from the sateen ten triangu
iar-shaped pieces, each about six
«nches from point to base, and about
three inches across the base. Take
five for the cover and five for the lin
ing of the padded part. Seam up both
cover and lining on their wrong sides.
Slip cotton-wool in between them,
seam them together round the base,
thus getting a padded cone, as shown
in the illustration.
Now cut off the little doll at her
waist, and fix her into a hole made at
the point of the so that her
shoulders, head and arms stick out at
arid mouth, and it was astonishing
the variety of facial expressions
achieved. All sorts of garments were
made from the napkins, which were
pinned and pasted into shape. There
were babies, children, Japs in ki
monos, sun bonnet toddlers, ladies of
high and low degree, all acknowledg
ing a common potato for their origin.
The prizes were in keeping with
the novelty of the pastime. The first
one was a large sweet potato pi®
piled high with fluffy meringue; the
consolation offering was several
quarts of new potatoes in a most
charming green basket.
For the Bride.
Many years ago this sentiment ap
peared in a household magazine and
a woman confesses that from reading
it she formulated a rule she adopted
early in her married life. It is such
excellent advice, I put it here for all
our department brides and for those
of us who are old housekeepers, too,
I think the little quotation is by N. P.
Willis. Be that as it may, the senti
ment is one we should all adopt. Let
us all try to give not only our hus
bands, but our children and friends
"an unclouded welcome."
"The world well tried, the sweetest thing
In life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife."
MADAME MERRI.
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|§JSOTES
In spite of its simple effectiveness,
not one woman wears a sailor hat to
day where five wore them a few years
ago.
Sleeves Just now are half and three
quarter length, but there is a rumor
afloat that they are to again be long
and close.
With the incoming of thin summer
i clothes one sees a good deal of the
now established French idea of using
pink ribbon in one's lingerie instead
of any other color.
Skirts of the liiur are close, narrow,
quite short as a rule, but recently
made suits show skirts some wider at
the foot, although the straight effect
still obtains.
Saxe gloves, perfumed and pale of
tint, long and loose, are one of the
crazes of the hour. To be sure they
are extravagant, for they soil at once
but they are liked well and are worn
universally; they are chic.
the top, as the Illustration shows.
Sew little hemmed frills of silk
round and round the cone, to repre
sent one of the flounced skirts which
our great-grandmothers used to wear
over crinolines. Fold a bit of silk to
match across the doll's shoulders, to
stimulate a low-cut evening dress, and
tie the ribbon round to look like a
high-waisted sash.
When the cosy is on the pot, it
seems as though the little doll were
keeping the tea warm under her bil
lowy skirts.
The Idea may be carried out in any
color and almost any light fabric. A
cosy of (lowered nuislin would, for in
stance, look exceedingly dainty with a
white tea-set having small (lowers up
on the cups.
If the cosy is intended for use in
the nursery or school room, you cau
make it far more serviceable by dress
ing the doll in a bonnet and a long
dark cloak; or this cloak and bonnet
may be added when tlie cosy gro%# •
trille soiled.
LAUGHTER PLEASING TO GOD
Nowhere In Biblical Lore Can There
Be Found Intimation of Any
Other Idea.
We misjudge and distort the nor
mally human nature of the Saviour
when we picture him going through
life, as Dante did after he had writ
ten his "Inferno," with the shadows
of perdition on his brow. We may
gravely question when it was that the
cross began to darken our Lord's
pathway; there is no hint of such
a foreboding until we reach the mid
dle of his ministry. From that on
there are occasional tokens that he
saw Calvary ahead of him, and was
at times pressed down with a dread
ful sense of the inevitable agony
which awaited him at the end. But
all this is very far from affording any
reasonable ground for the conclusion
that he smiled sometimes, but never
laughed.
If God did not intend us to laugh,
on occasion, why did he endow us
with the capacity to laugh, with a
sense of the humorous, with the fac
ulty to see and enjoy wit, fun and
the absurd side of life; and. further
more, why did he produce so many
things and people to laugh at?—
Zion's Herald.
PAINFUL FINGER NAILS CURED
"I have suffered from the same
trouble (painful finger nails) at differ
ent periods of my life. The first time
of Its occurrence, perhaps twenty-five
years ago, after trying home remedies
without getting helped, I asked my
doctor to prescribe for me, but It was
not for a year or more that my nails
and fingers were well. The inflamma
tion and suppuration began at the base
of the finger nail. Sometimes It was
so painful that I had to use a poultlco
to induce suppuration. After the pus
was discharged the swelling go
down until the next period of inflam
mation, possibly not more than a week
or two afterwards. These frequent in
flammations resulted in the loss of the
nail.
"Perhaps ten years later, I began
again to suffer from the same trouble.
Again I tried various remedies, among
them a prescription from a doctor of
a friend of mine, who had suffered
from a like trouble. This seemed to
help somewhat for a time, but it was
not a permanent cure; next, tried a
prescription from my own doctor, but
this was so irritating to the sensitive,
diseased skin that I could not use it.
I began to use Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. I had used the Cuticura
Ointment previously on my children's
scalps with good effect. I did not use
the Soap exclusively, but I rubbed the
Cuticura Ointment into the base of the
nail every night' thoroughly, and as
often beside as I could. I had not used
it but a few weeks before my nails
were better, and in a short time they
were apparently well. There was
no more suppuration, nor inflamma
tion, the nails grew out clean again.
One box of Cuticura Ointment was all
that I used in effecting a cure.
(Signed) Mr?. I. J. Horton, Katonah,
N. Y„ Apr. 13, 1910. On Sept. 21, Mrs.
Horton wrote: "I have had no further
return of the trouble with niy finger
nails." Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold everywhere, a sam
ple of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cuti
cura," Dept. 15 L, Hoston.
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Mrs. Jinks —My husband is making
a collection of steins.
Mrs. Booze A. Lott —My husband is
making a collection of the contents of
steins.
Prepared.
"Gracious, what is all that crepe
for?"
"1 had a chance to get it at a bar
gain, and, you know, my husband goes
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