Republican News Item
JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor.
LAPORTE PA.
PITH OF THE
WEEI« NEWS
Latest Telegraphic and Cable
Intelligence Epitomized.
OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
Fast Passenger, Bearing G. A. R. Vet
erans from Encampment, Making
Up Lost Time, Strikes Spreading
Rails and Falls Into Outlet.
Washington
The English system of navy yard
management will be tried at Norfolk
by Secretary Meyers' order, a \\ ash
lngton dispatch says.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer re
turned to Washington. He said he in
spected the New York navy yard and
found it in a satisfactory condition.
Jasper Wilson has resigned as 'pri
vate secretary to the Secretary of Ag
riculture, his father, to accept an
offer togo into business in the West.
H. M. Reece succeeds him.
The State Department was officially
Informed by the American Embassy
at St. Petersburg of the appointment
of M. rakmetieff as Russian Ambas
sador to the United States, to succeed
aßron Rosen.
Arthur M. Beaupre, American min
ister to The Netherlands, presented
his letters of recall. Mr. Beaupre ad
vised the State Department that he
will shortly leave for Havana to be
come Minister to Cuba.
Personal
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of
Charles Dickens, the novelist, arrived
in America for a lecture tour.
Theodore Roosevelt, in an article
In The Outlook, defended his acts in
connection with the Panama Canal,
saying that he had only done his duty
to the people of the United States.
Senator Hepburn, in the investiga
tion of Senator Stephenson's election,
announced at the sitting of the com
mittee at Milwaukee, that the ab
sence of detailed accounts warranted
the presumption that money was un
lawfully urged, and that the burden
of proof was on the accused.
Sporting
Eight balloons sailed from Kansas
City in the international race for the
Bennett trophy and Lahm cup.
.Toe Jeannette, the negro heavy
weight of Union Hill, N. J.. and Sam
Lnngford, th(? dreaded "Boston Tar
Baby," will meet in a twenty-round
bout in Los Angeles some time in No
vember.
General
It became known that the reputed
$50,000,000 estate of Alexander Mc-
Doi.ald, inherited by. the Stalio girls,
bad dwindled to about $500,000.
President Taft travelled sixty miles
through virgin forest to the base of
Mount Rainier and spoke briefly on
peace at Puyallup.
Fire thousand persons watched Cal
braith P. Rodgers, the aviator, arrive
>n Chicago. He left New York three
>veeks ago.
General Bernardo Reyes arrived in
New Orleans. He scouts the theory
that be is to head another revolution
In Mexico and says lie is going to San
Antorio, Tex., to edit a paper.
President Taft addressed the elder
Mormons in their great temple at Salt
Lake City. His utterances 011 peace
and arbitration were heartily ap
plauded.
Henry M. Whitney, who was de
feated for the governorship of Massa
chusetts on the Democratic ticket sev
eral years ago, issued a statement in
dorsing Louis A; Frothingham, the
Republican nominee this year.
The convention of the Christian
and Missionary Alliance, New York,
contributed $43,000 for missions, as
against $113,000 given in 1808. The
Rev. A. B. Simpson, a noted exhorter.
made the appeal at both meetings.
Fredeilck Allen, 18 years old, of
Conques'., N. Y., was mistaken for a
deer by James Deavy, 62 years old.
and shot to death in the Adirondacks.
Dr. Brocks, of New York City, shot
his guide dead near Lake Moxie, Me.,
through a like error.
Solicitor McCabe, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and Dr. F. L.
Dunlap, associate chemist, both bit
ter opponents of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley,
were relieved by Secretary Wilson
from duty on the Pure Food and Drug
Board.
P. C. R >sel, president of the Ital
ian-Swiss Colony, who was knighted
by th 1 ; Italian King for his services
to Italian people of the West, was
killed in £.. runaway near San Fran
cisco.
The Repablican N: tional Commit
tee will meet in Washington, Decem
ber 12, to rfx the time and place for
the next national convention.
Frank J. ijould was defeated In his
efforts to e'.ect an independent direc
tor to the board of the St. Louis
Southwestei a Railway; the old di
rectorate ws. 1 re-elected.
The torpedo boat Mayrant made
32 1-2 knots an hour for four hours
In a gale off Newport.
It was discovered that the new
SIOO,OOO residence of Justice Hughes
will face a street otherwise tenanted
entirely by negroes.
President Taft, in a speech at Den
ver, declared himself in favor of leas
ing public lands containing coal and
phosphate, taking direct issue with
resolutions adopted by the Public
Lands Convention.
Peter C. Hains, Jr., former captain
U. S. A., pardoned by Governor Dix,
left Sing Sing accompanied by his
father, and went to Washington,
where he was greeted by his mother
and his three children.
Governor Tener ordered the State
Attorney General to have the Austin.
(Pa.), dam disaster thoroughly in
vestigated. Thirty-eight bodies have
been recovered.
It war said that the Tobacco Trust's
plan of dissolution was really a plan
to avoid dissolution and its purpose
to keep in the insiders' hands over
SIOO,OOO.
The first New Jersey Democratic
and Republican State Conventions
under the Geran law. were held in
Trenton. Business was conducted
smoothly and quickly disposed of.
With the announcement by J. F.
Welters at Houston, Tex., as candi
date to succeed United States Sena
tor Bailey, there are now four in the
field.
Father Vaughan, who arrived at
New York on the Minnetonka. stirred
up a suffragist meeting on shinboard
by expressing his opinion of"the new
woman."
Archbishop Farley, in on unexpect
ed speech at the unveiling of a tab
let to Governor Dongan, in New York,
while disclaiming any nolitical intent,
favored the election of a Catholic as
Governor.
Winfield A. Huppuoh, Democratic
State chairman, and seven other men
engaged in the wall paper industry,
were indicted ir. the Federal Court at
Cleveland on a charge of violating
the anti-trust law.
The Republicans of the Fourth Ju
dicial District, who had been dead
locked at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. for
two days, nominated Edward C. Whit
meyer, of Schenectady, for justice of
the Supreme Court, on th? thirty
fourth ballot.
An inmate of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Middletown, N. Y., was
identified as Mrs. E. L. Davis, or
Dore, from a picture printed ir. the
World, April 4. Mrs. Davis, or Dore,
pretended to be the widow of General
Thomas T. Ecklmrt. head of tho
Western Telegraph Company.
Platinum is quoted > Maiden Lane.
New York, at $47.50 an ounce for
hard platinum and $45 an ounce for
the soft metal. These are the high
est prices on record and indicate an
advance of $5 ail ounce since the first
of the year.
Foreign
Charles M. Schwab arrived in Pek
ing in connection with the develop
ment of the Chinese navy.
Leading citizens ot Nicaragua ap
prove the government's negotiations
for a loan with American bankers.
The last meeting of the Laurier
Cabinet was held in Ottawa; resig
nations by the variyus members were
tendered.
Successful experiments with the
wireless control of submarine boats
are being made at Portsmouth, Eng.,
but the details are kept secret.
Four bullets were fired at the Min
nster of Justice in the eHichsrath, at
Vienna, by a workman, who was ar
rested; the shots failed to take effect.
Thirteen hundred Maltese refugees,
who fled from Tripoli on an English
vessel, were rendered most frantic
for lack of food and water; seven of
them became violently insane.
An Italian squadron captured a
town 011 Bomba Bay, making prison
ers of the few Turkish soldiers who
refused to evacute the fort.
The American Ambassador in Con
stantinople was reported about to
have an interview with the Grand
Vizier to discuss the possibility of
stopping the Turco-Italian war.
The fleet before Tripolio raised the
Italian flag over a captured Turkish
fort. Ancther Italian fleet Is cruis
ing in the Aegean Sea and heavy fir
ing was heard thirty miles north of
the Dardenelles.
The Suez Canal Company lodged a
complaint against one of its Paris em
ployes of stealing 2,000.000 francs
worth of its The shares of the
company are quoted at 5,500 francs.
Spanish newspapers jay oditoriHl
tribute to the memory of Admiral
Schley for his courageous care of the
vanquished Spaniards after the bat
tle of Santiago.
One hundred and sixty-eight of the
ident'fled dead from the wreck of the
French battleship Lii-erte were bur
ied, the President of the French Re
public and the Cabinet ministers
being amoung the nioumrs.
Further examination of the hulk of
the Maine in Havana harbor, show
ed that it will be feasible to float her,
and It was thought that she might be
able finally to proceed under her own
steam.
One hundred und forty-five fishing
vessels and other craft were wrecked,
with a large loss of life, In a storm
off the coast of Holland.
Alfonso, King cf Spain, is again an
uncle, a ('aughter being born to his
=lster, the infanta ! aria Therese.
wlte of I'rinoe Louis Ferdinand of
r.avaria.
A fierce engagement took place be
tween troops and nonarchist con
spirators in the streets of Oporto,
Portugal, in which a large number of
the latter were killed, wounded or
taken prisoners.
$3,000,000 OUT
OF NAVY BOOKS
Secretary Mayer Shows Ma
terial Worth that Missing.
REVELATIONS CAUSE STIR
First Inventory Since 1886—Discre
pancy Due to Lax Bookkeeping,
He Says, and He Has No Sus
picion of Wrongdoing.
Washington.—The investigation be
gun two years ago of the accounting
systems at the various navy yards lias
at last borne fruit. This investiga
tion was made by Secretary Meyer in
the effort to bolster up his tight with
the House Naval Committee. The
tirst navy yard in which accountants
were placed was Boston, in July,
1509; then at the other yards in the
following order: New York, Philadel
phia, Norfolk, Portsmouth, N. H. t
i'uget Sound, Mare Island, Charles
ton, Cavite and Olongapo. At none
of these yards were any very glaring
discoveries of loss by accounting
made. Now, however, the Secretary
has announced that at the Washing
ton yard, according to the inventory
just completed, which he ordered to
be made of all material on hand, a
difference was found of $3,288,270 be
tween the material actually on hand
and that called for by the books.
There is no record of a complete in
ventory having been taken within the
last twenty-five years at this yard.
It was on account of the antiquated
methods of bookkeeping and account
ing that Secretary Meyer employed
accountants in July, 1909, not only
in the department, but in the navy
yards.
It was said that combined with the
loose methods of bookkeeping was
the fact that much ordnance material
had been sent to other navy yards
without proper invoices; that great
quantities of material had been for
warded to the ships during the Span
ish-American war without any record
of the amount being kept, and that
much valuable material was even
now being used in construction which
might be deducted from the total dis
crepancy at the yard.
All this was said to hear out the
department's view that no actual
stealing of material has taken place,
and that no criminal practices are
suspected.
The fact that no inventory of the
material on hand at the Washington
Navy Yard had been made for twenty
five years was a startling revelation
to the Secretary himself.
ENDS LIFE AFTER HIS WEDDING.
Cavalry Lieutenant Who Married at
1 A. M. Shoots Himself.
San Antonio, Tex.—Six hours after
marrying Gladys Caruthers of this
city at 1 o'clock in the morning, Lieu
tenant John R. Lynch of the Third
cavalry in Fort Sam Houston, shot
and killed himself in his quarters in
the fort. His bride refuses to dis
cuss the affair. She was not with
him when he committed suicide.
The officer and his wife of a few
hours had known each other for a
long time. The girl is handsome and
of a family well known here. She has
given no explanation why they mar
ried at 1 o'clock in the morning.
Lynch was 25 years old. and his par
ents live in Los Angeles.
The young man was born in Mis
souri and rose from the ranks.
CORNELIUS N. BLISS DEAD.
He Was Long Treasurer of the Repub
lican National Committee.
New York. —Cornelius N. Bliss,
merchant, Secretary of the Interior
in President McKiuley's administra
tion, and treasurer of the Republican
National Committee in four successive
campaigns, died at his residence, 29
East Thirty-seventh street. The cause
of death was heart disease, due in
great measure to extreme age. He
was 78 years old.
Mr. Bliss's health betan to fail
about a year ago.
PICK COTTON BY MOONLIGHT.
Georgia Fields Full of Night Workers
in the Effort to Gather the Crop.
Savannah, Ga.—Cotton picking by
moonlight has begun In Georgia. Sep
tember has developed the cotton plant
in all its fulness. The State is liter
ally creamed over with the yield and
the men who planted it have not the
force to gather it. Lightened by the
moon the furrows are full of workers
until the moon sinks low.
Time was when cotton pickers
wanted 40 to 50 cents a hundred
pounds; now they demand as much
us $1 and $1.25 a hundred.
GOV. DIX TO HUNT DEER.
To Wear a Red Sweater So as to
Avoid Being Shot.
Albany, N. Y.—Governor Dix ex
pects togo deer hunting during his
month's stay in his Adirondack camp
at McKeever. His attention was
called to the numerous accidents in
the woods due to careless hunters,
and he was admonished by friends to
be careful.
"I always wear a red sweater," re
plied the Governor with a smile.
SPLENDID CANADIAN
CROPS
Wheat, Oats and Barley Uni
versally Good Throughout
Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta.
The reports that come to hand from
the wheat fields of the western Cana
dian provinces show remarkably good
yields in all parts. Yields are record
ed of wheat going 35 and 40
in many places, and oats from 60 to
100 bushels per acre. Barley and flax
are splendid. The thousands of Amer
icans throughout the United States
who have friends in Manitoba. Sas
katchewan or Alberta will be pleased
to learn of the great success that
has followed their efTorts. Many of
these have not confined themselves to
the growing of grain, but have also
gone into the cattle industry. On the
luxurious grasses that are so abun
dant there, in almost all districts,
make this industry safe and prcfitable.
The land sales reported by the rail
way companies and by the different
land companies show the great in
crease that will likely take place
during the next year in farming oper
ations. What has been said time and
time again may now be well repeated,
that there is no place on the Ameri
can continent where the same oppor
tunities are afforded the man looking
for a home, for the yaung man start
ing out in life, the man with a grow
ing up family, who desires wider
scope for his ambition. The Cana
dian government agents located at
different points in the states will be
glad to advise the reader of the condi
tions, and relate to him instances of
the great success that has followed
farming in Western Canada.
Some Msoquitoes.
"Yes," said the traveler who had
just returned from South Africa. "I
was one day so annoyed by mosquitoes
that I was compelled to take refuge in
an old iron safe which lay discarded
on the veldt.
"My first emotions of -joy at my
happy deliverance were barely over
when the mosquitoes, seenting me, be
gan to drive their stingers through
the safe. Fortunately, 1 had a ham
mer in my pocket, and aB fast as their
stingers came through the iron 1
clinched them, until at length such
a host of them was fastened down in
this way that, when they started to
fly away, they carried me and that
safe miles.
"Then, one by one, they died with
the exertion, and I was able to come
out with safety. Yes, wonderful
things happen in foreign parts."—
Ideas.
THEN HE GOT WORSE.
I
The Angry Man —I see the scoundrel
In your face.
The Calm Man —That's a personal
reflection.
A FINE NIGHT-CAP
The Best Thing in the World to Go to
Bed and Sleep On.
"My wife and I find that 4 teaspooi*
fuls of Grape-Nuts and a cup of hot
milk, or some cream, with it, makes
the finest night-cap in the world," says
an Alleghany, Pa., man.
"We goto sleep as soon as we strike
the bed, and Blumber like babies till
rising time in the morning.
"It is about 3 years now since we be
gan to use Grape-Nuts food, and we
always have it for breakfast and be
fore retiring and sometimes for lunch.
I was so sick from what the doctors
called acute indigestion and brain fag
before I began to use Grape-Nuts that I
could neither eat, sleep nor work with
any comfort.
"I was afflicted at the same time
with the most intense pains, accompan
ied by a racking headache and back
ache, every time I tried to eat any
thing. Notwithstanding an unusual
pressure from my professional duties,
I was compelled for a time to give up
my work altogether.
"Then I put myself on a diet of
Grape-Nuts and cream alone, with an
occasional cup of Postum as a runner
up, and sometimes a little dry toast. I
assure you that in less than a week I
felt like a new man; I had gained six
pounds in weight, could sleep well
and think well.
"The good work went on, and I was
soon ready to return to business, and
have been hard at it, and enjoying it
ever since.
"Command me at any time any one
enquires as to the merits of Grape-
Nuts. You will find me always ready
to testify." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appear* from time to time. The;
are renolse, true, aad tall of kiau
latere* t.
Escaped
in Time
James had paid Gertrude marked at
tention while she was visiting her
aunt. Though, others knew to a cer
tainty that he intended proposing to
the charming stranger, James himself
was undecided.
"Meeting a girl at dances, only see
ing her with her company manners
on, isn't conducive to really knowing
her," soliliquized James. "How can
I tell that like the girl who when she
was good, was very very good and
when she was bad she was horrid.
I'll solve the enigma. Accept her in
vitation to spend a few days at her
country home. The rest will do me
good. Then after that if we prove
congenial, me for a benedict."
Gertrude was a vision of loveliness
when she greeted her admirer at the
station.
"So delighted you came," she said
welcoming him with a joyful face.
"We needed another for our tennis
match."
"I'm too tired to play," commenced
James.
"Don't be disagreeable but hurry:
they're waiting for us," returned Ger
trude.
After the game, at which the new
comer was badly beaten, Gertrude sug
gested a swimming contest.
"I'd rather not," complained James.
"Let's sit in that inviting hammock."
"Your no sport, don't be a ditcher,"
said one of the party.
"If you insist, all right," answered
James.
So in swimming they went. Every
one except James enjoyed the cool
refreshing waves. But, he never did
enjov anything he didn't want to do.
At dinner Gertrude commented upon
the fact that her guest did not ap
pear in a white suit.
"I thought I suited you all right,"
he replied.
"No, you seem to dislike all the
things I find pleasure in. For in
stance. would you like to take a tramp
through the wood?"
"Surely, let's start early in the
morning," agreed James, glad for an
opportunity to be alone with Ger
trude.
After being abused for three hours
because he insisted upon trumping
his partner's ace, James retired, to be
awakened at dawn by a gentle knock
at his door.
"Hurry, I'm all ready," called Ger
trude.
James Jumped helter-skelter into
his clothes and found Gertrude wait
ing for him, looking not quite as
pretty as she had in the favorable
gaslight.
After walking a couple of miles
James protested that he felt weary
and hungry.
"There's an apple orchard about a
half-mile from here. We'll get some
apples." said Gertrude, for nothing
could deter her from continuing her
walk.
A very sober couple appeared on
the porch a few hours later. After
a hearty breakfast Gertrude begged
James togo fishing. He had to row
around the lake for the rest of the
morning in the broiling sun and all
they caught were two small perch.
"Some strenuous life," he com
mented as the boat neared the land
ing and he was becoming bored by
Gertrude's incessant talking of topics
which did not interest him.
"These stunts are an everday oc
curence. Wouldn't you like to live
this simple life?" questioned Gertrude.
"Not to my taste."
"The boys expect you to play in
their baseball game," Gertrude called
after James as he left her.
The baseball over Gertrude ap
peared with her golf bag requesting
James to play with her. They chased
the ball around the links until it
started to pour rain in torrents.
"Its pouring," cried .Tames.
"Oh, we always play in the rain,"
answered Gertrude.
Drenched to the skin they started
home.
"What's the trouble with your face?"
asked Gertrude.
"I don't know, it feels all face."
"Its swollen and has red patches
all over it. Maybe its poison ivy."
After consulting the village doctor,
who informed him that he had most
likely touched some ivy in the woods
and had a bad case of poisoning,
Jaines returned home on the next
train to remain in the house for a
week suffering intensely.
When James read of Gertrude's en
gagement to Harold I.ifton, champion
of the football players, he heaved a
sigh of relief.
"Thanks to that poison ivy I es
caped in time. If I was so tired out
in a couple of days how could I hav«
stood it for a life time?"
Petrified Forest Giants.
Three petrified redwood trees that
have been pronounced the very larg
est in the world that have thi'j far
been discovered have just been uncov
ered from the debris of the mountain
side, only a short distance from the
famous Bohemian Club Grove in
Sonoma county, California. This
point is near the little town of Occi
dent.
One of these prehistoric monsters,
that make the pyramids of Egypt
modern by comparison in their ages,
measures 23 feet'iu diameter and is
350 feet In ldligth. Tlw two other
petrified treqp are 13 and 12 feet
in diameter,, respectively.—Scientific
MUNYDN PREACHES
HOPEJILOSOPI*
New Association Gaining Many
Members.
FAITH'S CURATIVE POWER
NOTED HEALTH EXPERT
GIVES REASON FOR BIG
SUCCESS IN MEDICINE
Tremendous success has attended the
organization of the new Munyon "Hops
Cult." Professor Munyon claims that ha
has secured more converts than he even
anticipated, and says that his "Hope
Cult" is growing in leaps and bounds. It
is said that the totc.l membership of the
association throughout the United States
is now well over the half million murk.
In a statement for publication Prof.
Munyon said:
"I want to talk to every sick, ailing and
despondent person In this city. I want
to preach my new creed to them. I
want to tell them about my new philoso
phy of health, which is the fruit of a
lifetime of study and experience In deal
ing with sick folk.
"I want to expound the Great Truth
that I have learned that there Is more
curative power in an ounce of Hope than
In pounds of Dope. That sick people
should not take medicine except as a
medium through which the great cura
tive power of Hope may be made effec
tive. Medicines are necessary in the
present state of the world's progress be
cause they give a patient physical sup
port and strength and renewed vigor
with which to brace up the will power.
One knows, from the action of the proper
medicines, that he or she is feeling bet
ter by this Inspired hope and faith,
which complete the cure.
"I think that probably a million per
sons at least in the United States have
declared themselves cured by my medi
cines, and I know that these people have
had the best remedies medical sclenea
had to offer. I have always contended
that If there Is any virtue In medicine
my followers should have the best, but
I verily believe that more than one-half
of those who have been lifted to health
from the bondage of chronic Illness,
through taking my medicines, have been
really cured by the knowledge that they
had the utmost In medical lore at their
command, and the Hope this Inspired.
"I am not In any sense a practicing
fihysiclan. I employ at my laboratories
n Philadelphia a large staff of expert
physicians and chemists, and I have
many other physicians In various cities
of the United States detailed to give free
advice to the sick and afflicted. My
headquarters are at Munyon's labora
tories. 53d and Jefferson Sts., Phlla., Pa.,
and I have there a staff of duly register
ed physicians and consulting experts,
and to all who desire It I offer the best
of medical advice absolutely free of
charge."
Write today, addressing Prof. J. M.
Munyon personally and your letter will
have a special care.
Too Much for Bill.
"I dunno how Bill's a-goin' to vote
in this election," said the campaign
worker. "I've hearn tell he's on the
fence."
"He wuz thar," replied the neighbor,
"but one o' the canderdates let tall a
dollar on the off side of the fence,
and Bill got dizzy an' fell over." —
Christian Register.
Hopeless.
First Motorist — 1 have driven a car
for two years and I've never yet run
down anybody.
Second Motorist (disgustedly)
Why don't you quit trying and hire &
chauffeur ? —Puck.
Men have more temptations then
women because they know where to
look for them.
Mrs. Wtnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the jrums, reduce* inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle.
Charity organizations uncover a
multitude of sinners.
IToxsle'* Croup Reinody Is a certain cure nnfl
preventive of Colds, Couch's and Croup. Nuupiuui
—uo nausea. Sold by Druggists. 60 cents.
He Is a wise man who laughs at
the antediluvian jokes of his tailor.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Will purify your blood, clear
your complexion, restore your
appetite, relieve your tired feel
ing, build you up. It leads al
other medicines in merit.
Get it today in usual liquid form 01
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief —Permanent Cure
CARTER'S LITTLE JBk*
LIVER PILLS never
fail. Purely vegeta-
ble act surely
but gently on
the liver. \/PR
Stop after 1 I LY. i «
dinner dis
tress—cure
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
n m VPIIVO Wntaon K. Coleman, Wa-"
DlTp M I ington. D.C. liooknfree. Hi
| ft IbH IVtM references. Best mu
Thompson's Eyo W«»
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I Best for
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