ANNUAL STATEMENT. (Concluded.) INTEREST ACCOUNT. To— Boyd Bennett, int. on $421ti.00 at 4% 108.GO Ida M. Zaner, int. on SSOO at 4 r /o 20.00 Ellen Carroll on $1800....* 00.00 -Mrs E. E. \\ rede, SBOO 82.00 * irace Magargle on $1550 87.50 Chas. W. Schworer, bal. due 1.21 Int. on temporary loan 25.00 I'ercival Wentzel, sHooo 00.00 Int. on temporary loan 25.0H Int. on temporary loan 15.57 Elizabeth Sick, .*<1750 70.00 Kate Sick, SIOOO 40.00 PerclTal Wentzel, S3OOO 60.00 Temporary loan 0.25 Patrick ilnnnon. .<IOOO fio.oo ESllon Carroll, 91800 35.00 Fire Warden. TouiHuhip. J. W. Aumlller, Shrewsbury 21.05 r. M. Zaner, Cherry .i1.20 •tush Huffxnaster, < berry 69.65 C*eo. Gorman, Laporte Twp 44.85 !t. W. Bennett, Shrewsbury 21..'50 W. T. More, Elkland 18.60 Jeo. Gorman, Laporte & Davidson.. 53.00 'V, A. G umbel, Hillsgrove 02.70 Total exp. in Co. by Com'w'lfcb.. $1.23.85 lmt. paid by Co., proportion being 1-5 of total 04.77 .TAIL EXPENSES. litdson Brown, expenses 64.00 >r. itamlall, medical attention .... tf.OO ! fudson Krown, boarding prisoners.. .208.50 j tuison Brown, commitments & exp... <11.85 udsuo Brown, boarding prisoners... '.tl.TO ! Elkland poor di*t. care las. Taylor.. 12.00 ] \ p. Martin, burial unknown man 25.00 I j. U. Morgan, copying duplicates.. 1.00 I j j COUNTY BRIDGES. . W. I.aird, labor ; 5.00 Vm. \v. I.ewis. plank H1.20 nines Meyers, plank 3 2.50 | .oger Bros., plank 42..'!.'! . \V. Moran, plank 2.02 rolm Coleman, shingles 4S.no J nliu A. Rolie, hauling snlngles..... . lO.Oi. Amos Meyers, replauking 10.95 . \V. I.aird, labor 0.00 j v. 1,. Plotta, labor 00.75 I. W. Lewis, plank 101.till togers Bros., plank 50.45 i nines Meyers, plank 51.00 oel MeDermott, labor ami material 40.42 i alph Rohe, plank 4.75 ! olm Taylor, plank 10.00 ! . B. Yaw, repairs ." 00 | .■fi2t.l'> I 'ommonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan. ss We. the undersigned auditors of Sullivan j ountv do hereby certify that in pursuance 112 the various duties imposed upon us by I le several acts of General Assembly, and j i" supplements thereto, did meet at tli« ! fflee of the County Treasurer in the Court ] ouse In the Borough of Laporte on Tues- j ay. the second day of January, A.D. 1012, lil did begin to audit, adjust aud settle, | several accounts of the County Treas .er. County Commissioners and all such i arc required of us by law, for the 11 ; and did continue so to audit, adjust id settle the said accounts ; subject to our journment until this date, when we com- j etsd this our Annual Iteport; and we rther certify that the foregoing are cor to the best of our knowledge and be- I as the same appears audited and set , li in this report. ,ii testimony whereof we linvo hereto set ; hands and seals thia 10th day of Jan y A.D. 1912. T. R. CUMMINS. O. S. BENDER. D. F. MCCARTY, County Auditors. , If You Want R~\7~ O U can get them by ad vertising in this paper. It reaches JL the best class of S people in this community. u L T . Use this paper if Syou want some of their business. Use This Paper STYour Minting - - i If it is worth ; doing at all, it's worth do ing well. □ First classwork at all times is our motto. □ Let us figure with you on your next job. | o r: " wM.A RADFORD,- : .■--•'■i l ■ ♦ - ' • ' \ Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor. Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. The most economical house to build i and to occupy afterward Is nearly | square, of medium size, full two sto ! rles In height, with a good, deep cel | lar and an attic big enough to act as a | buffer against heat in summer ana j cold in winter. Such houses give j more room according to the size of j the foundation and roof than any other i design. I The house here Illustrated Is typical ' of this style. It is 31 feet wide by US I feet from front to rear—proportions | that work to good advantage. There j are certain geometrical combinations ! that work to a disadvantage In a I square house, but are easily overcome i when you add a few feet to the length. , One of the difficulties Is the stalr | way, which interferes with the proper J laying-out of the rooms in every short ] house. Stairways in dwelling-houses have caused more gray hairs, and sent more architects to early graves, than I any other feature in house building, j There was a time when a rough lad i der fashioned with an ax answered | the purpose. It was made with the ! ! trunks of two trees for sides, and sec | tions of smaller trees for rounds. ! There was a hole through the upper floor and usually an effort was made i to place the opening where the roof was high enough so you could miss hitting the knots on the rafters with i your head. From that time to this, stairways have grown In complexity j until we think we have them about I perfect. This plan provides a projection j which holds about half of the stair landings. The projection also offers i an excuse to work In tour windows j for light and for general effect. The ! lighting of a modern stairway is an- i other recent improvement on anything J that former generations were familiar I with. This arrangement Is a combination | affair going up from the kitchen and | from the front hall, and down from I the kitchen to the cellar. On the sec ond floor the going up to the attic and down stairs Is equally good. The stair way looks well, and it is very con venient and satisfactory. A house built In this manner has an other advantage, and that Is in heat ing. It is so compact that from one to i five tons of coal per year may be saved, as compared with the amount Blrl 5 " Krrc/rc.v § ( -«-d I -"sres-li! . fffflb j/J** iter xoai j_L£i rwxcH First Floor Plan. required In some old-fashioned, loose jointed houses that are no more roomy and offer no more accommodation. Under this house Is a splendid cel lar that is as light as some of th« best rooms In houses built a dozen j years ago, when small, narrow wln j dows were In fashion. In a basement i like this you can place a modern heat ing apparatus that will take care ot the temperature In the coldest weather; and the attention required will not worry a person more than a few minutes twice a day. Makers of hot water heating plants | and hot air furnaces are In very close competition. Improvements are being ' added every year, until both systems : seem to be about as near perfect as human Ingenuity can make them. A hot air furnace big enough to heat thlß house comfortably In zero weather can be Installed for about $125. A hot water heating system will cost \ AALCONr ftP 1 i/j ,1 rj* J \ ? .fP I \ i JEEu ; cm Mur.r /vvl 1"1 rHAKSC* / V / ,r<vr \ Second Floor Plan. more, the difference depending largely j on the kind of radiators and tile extra j attachments; probably $250 would be j | the minimum, and SSOO would be | rather extravagant. The hot water j plant will use a little less coal, be- | cause hot water Is a better medium through which to convey heat. While J no accurate estimate can be given i | without figuring the actual amount of j heating surface and cubic air space, ; on general principles It may he said | that, taking five years together, the cost of one system »s about the same ; as the other. There are arguments In favor of ! both systems for houses of this size. | With hot air you can get the fresh, j j pnre air from outside, and send it into j every corner of the house. Aly belief I is that families using hot air furnaces j ! that are properly Installed enjoy bet- j j ter health than those who use hot wa | j ter for heating; but, unfortunately a | great many hot air furnaces are ar- j [ ranged to take the air from inside the I house. This loses the most valuable J I asset that should ordinarily be placed | to the credit of the hot air furnace, j However, either system should em- ! I brace a thorough plan for constantly j i changing the air in the rooms through I ventilating flues. Hut, 1 am sorry to j ] say, this is a subject the American j i people have paid very little attention | to. It is destined to occupy our atten- j tion more as years goon and we learn.; more about the germ theory of dls- | ease. It is not necessary to mention j steam heating for a small dwelling. The economy of steam comes In when we have a larger building to heat. I like to plan houses like this, be- i cause they are so thoroughly complete i when properly built, as they should be, from cellar to attic, with all the essen tials carefully worked out. It is Just as important to balance up all the me chanical features of a house as it is 1 to look to and adjust all the parts of a machine. Mechanics have more to 1 do with our comfort and health than most of us realize. A small lire in the , cellar may be made to supply hot wa ter to the laundry tubs, to the kitchen and to the bathroom, so we can have hot water.to use at any hour of the day or night. 1 often think that we ! accept the many modern Improve- ] ments in our houses without due ap- ; ppeclatlon. 1 want to call attention to the upper ; balcony In the rear of the bathroom. | Since carpets have been abolished, I and all good houses have hardwood ] floors, rugs have become very fashion- | able. It seems necessary to have ruga cleaned once a week or once a month, according to the amount of service re quired of them; and this upper bal cony facilitates the work of cleaning The rugs may be carried out and left »n the sun, and swept on the floor or whipped over the balcony raillug, so much easier than to carry them down to the yard. It Is another contrivance to save work and promote sanitation. CO-OPERATION OF READER NECESSARY ' By WM. C. FREEMAN. Do you read the advertisements In this newspaper? You, as a reader, j one of a big family, owe It to yourself and to other readers to read the ad i vertisements —because If you read j carefully and critically and if some ad i vertisements displease you, you will write to the publisher about them. That Is just what the publisher 1 wishes you to do. 1 The publisher of a newspaper—fur- i nishlng to his family of readers news ; | and advertisements —realizes his re- i sponsibility. He knows he is human i and liable to make mistakes like all other human beings—so nothing spurs ' him onto greater endeavor than frank ' and friendly criticism from his read ers. i If readers will take an interest in I ♦he advertisements —If they will help : to pick out those that don't ring true i (if there be any) they will find the i publisher only too willing to co-oper- I ate to exclude the untrue printed ' i words of advertisers. The publisher of a newspaper—don't ever forget it-—does more for his com- i j munity than any thousand individuals, i jbe they ever so important. As a rule, 1 | he gets less financial return than any i business enterprise in his community | —considering the money Invested and i I the tremendous cost of producing a | satisfactory dally newspaper. < j The need of money is always great, | but even its need will not influence a | publisher to print that which will de i fraud or deceive his readers. Believe me when I say that the av ' erage publisher wishes, llrst of all, to 1 i be square with his readers. The read j ers, after all, own the newspaper. ! They can make It an influence for | good or evil. Read the advertisements. Most of | them will prove to be of direct beneflt jto you. Those that are not, write to j the publishers about. If we are to make our advertising ; columns dependable there must be j genuine Interest and co-operation from I the reader. JAIL FOR LYING ADVERTISER Penalty Proposed for False Repre sentations at Leavenworth Con vention of "Ad" Clubs. A plea for state laws which will j "make lying advertisements a misde meanor" was made by John Irving i Romer, editor of an advertising pub | licatiou in New York city, addressing j the fourth annual convention of the j southwestern division of the Associat : ed Advertising Clubs of America at j Leavenworth, Kan., the other day. "The greatest curse of advertising I for years has been superficiality," Mr. | Romer said. "Advertisements in many | cases are written by persons who j know nothing of the commodity they j would advertise. Besides the enact j aient of state laws against dishonest ! advertising, men in our business all | over the country should organize | grievance committees, or vigilance j committees, to watch out for infrac | tions of these laws." K. St. Elmo Lewis, another one of j the speakers, pleaded for honesty In advertising, j "No sane advertiser," he said, "dis l agrees with the principle that hon j esty is the basis of efficiency. The ! new type of advertising manager is glad that the day when he was con sidered a paid liar is past. He knows it didn't pay him and that it didn't pay the man whose money he took. His gospel is one of efficiency and ( his sole aim Is to make good for bis J house. He considers it a reproach ; upon his tribe If he does not make i good. "The big advertising man can look with calm eyes at the total destruc- J tion of one of his most arduously con structed campaigns and extract a les son. He knows he cannot know too much about anything. Because ad j vertising must touch all kinds of peo ple in all kinds of ways." Because He Had No Phone. If you are not a good traveler and yet long to know how it feels to be ■ j cast away upon a desert island, move Into a new set of offices where there i Is no telephone Installation, and live j without a "wire" for four days. It is a whole lot worse than breaking your i right arm and having to do every ; thing with your untrained left. | "I couldn't have stood It another day," said the wild-eyed man who had this experience recently. "I j missed three business deals, two invi tations to dinner and three chances to ! go to the theater. I let my life insur ance lapse in the excitement, and I ' had to send a messenger out with an 1 Important paper, because I couldn't j get a certain party by telephone. The messenger lost the paper, and as a re sult I'm out a hundred dollars." Advertising, even moderately I <► well managed, is one of the <» ; , > shortest roads to success.—Ar i <► temus Ward. <> <► < ► Conditions Same Today. | It is related that a younger circus proprietor said to the late P. T. Bar num, who was a wizard of advertis ing, that he could not afford to adver tise. "You cannot afford not to ad vertise, you mean," came the terse reply. So It Is today. Few business men can afford not to ndvertise, for it Is only through the means of adver tising that the world Is advised as to what they have to ofTer in a busi ness wav. ADVERTISING—GOOD AND BAD Every Merchant Should Give Careful Attention to This Important Branch of His Business. It Is pretty generally conceded that no business that is growing can be well run without organization and sys tem. No man gets tho full results out of his business organization, or Is ' able to make his business system ; work perfectly, unless he deputizes special duties to his employes special ly qualified to fulfill them, and gives himself freedom to oversee the whole and direct the main policies. But no ] amount of organization or system Is ■ sufficient. The most perfectly equip- ; ped piece of commercial machinery . will lie Idle unless it has business. , The way to get business Is to ad- ■ vertise. There is good advertising and bad ■ advertising— and advertising that is 1 , best. There is no good cause in which a man or a company can waste more money than in bad advertising, while good advertising never falls to get business for any firm, which has some- j thing that people would really want if 1 they knew about It. The practical advertising expert to- i day must not only have an artistic sense of illustration and type display, ! but he must have the newspaper man's I specially developed faculty for seiz ing features of news value and his gift of tense, striking description. That ! is, the best advertising ideas come to day lrom the newspaper office. No man is a great power alone. No ! matter what his strength may be, that strength is doubled when he allies i himself with another man for com mon purpose. When a hundred men combine, the strength is increased a hundredfold. Ideas do not spring epon- j taneously out of nothing. They are j born of suggestion. Ideas are like flint j and steel; they strike sparks from each other. Men combined for a com- I tnon purpose not only increase their strength, but sharpen each other's wits i and generate ideas in each other. Many places of business as a whole, j says the Williamsport (Pa.) Sun, are i not advertising as they should be, as the stores deserve, in order to get the best results. The merchant who does not give as much time and attentiou to the subject of advertising and sales manship In disposing of his goods as I lie does to other departments of his store, is truly lost In his efforts to serve the buying public, as well as in successfully disposing of his merchan dise. NEWSPAPER ADS FOUND BEST E. P. Lampkln Tells Publicity Men Hla Experiences as Country Merchant. Newspaper advertising gets the best i results for the merchant. Is the con- ! viction of E. P. Lampkin, the well- i known advertising man who addressed I the St. Louis Advertising Men's League recently. His subject was "My ! Experience as a Country Merchant and i Advertiser." He said it had been his j experience, covering a period of 25 i years, that sales were larger on Mon- ! day than on any other day excepting Saturday. He said this was because he patronized the advertising columns of the newspapers on Sunday. He strongly upheld honest advertising, which, he said, was nothing more than common-sense advice. ooqqoooqocooqoooq oooc ooooo X The greatest success in any sj © line of business Is gained c> x through legitimate, conscientious x Q advertising. It matters not O X whether this Is poultry raising, X 0 manufacturing, merchandising O X or dairying, it pays in all lines. § CXJOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Enterprising Chauffeur. Few men could tell a story with greater gusto than the late Henry La bouchere. "I got a car while I was in Italy," h« told a party of friends, "and hired an Italian chauffeur, a native of the town i 1 v.as then staying in. I found him 8. ' most dangerous man. The first week we ran over a child: the second week we ran over a child; the third week we ran over a child. As I had to pay j an indemnity In each case my new chauffeur began to be expensive." Mr. Labouchere spoke to a friend about it, and the friend asked for a description of the chauffeur. When Mr. Labouchere had given it his friend I laughed. "Oh, I know that man,"he said. "He sticks his own children In the way." "After that," said Mr. Labouchere, "I told the chauffeur he would have to \ pay the indemnities himself. We had no more accidents." His Salary a Generous One. The Boston Globe records that Hugh Bancroft at thirty-two years of age is j in receipt of $15,000 a year as chair- ' man of Boston's dock board, while the chief justice of the United States Su preme court Is paid $13,000, the asso ciate justices $12,500, the vice-presi dent of the United States and cabinet officers $12,000 each, and United States senators $7,800. Generous Mas sachusetts is to pay the bill for Bos ton. No other official of the state re ceives anything like $15,000. Just What Did She Mean? The operation had been performed ; and the patient prepared for burial, j "I cannot understand," said the fami ly physician, soothingly, "how Ben was able to live with such an affliction as he had." "Oh, we have been years," replied the sorrowing widow, "trying to persuade him to have the operation." MANY COURT DEAIH Hunters Every Year Venture Forth on Niagara River. Nimrods Caught In Running Ice Jairv Observed by Man With Glass, Who Watches Them Plunge Over the Falls. Buffalo, N. Y.—The fascination of hunting must be very great when it, will lure men out onto the Niagara> river in the winter to an almost cer tain death trap. It seems that the. duck hunting is especially good but very dangerous about a mile above tho falls. Every winter adventurous duck hunters put out in small boats and dodge the ice cakes while they hunt their favorite game. As a rule, how ever, most of the hunters perch them selves upon a ledge of ice and hunt from it. They take a terrible risk even by this method, for the ice jam that is constantly moving down stream is at any time liable to dislodge the hunt er's perch and down he goes a victim, to the cataract. Not many years ago two men were observed in a duck boat trying des perately io row out of a running ice jam which had carried them down the Canadian channel from far up the river. Their terrified efforts were closely followed by a man with a spy glass, who had discovered them from the windows of one of the large shore factories on the American side. The unfortunate men had already drifted too near the first roaring cataract to admit of any possible rescue, so the watcher could only helplessly wait for their pitiful death. In describing the incident afterward, he said: "God, what could I do to help them —what could any man do? The Almighty alone seemed to hold them in his power. One man seemed to be wrenching his shoulders from their, sockets with the oars; the other stood in the stern, desperately plying a pike pole. An oar broke, and was replaced by a third. The man didn't lose a sec ond in its replacement. Then, in a mighty stroke, the other oar went, and he fell sprawling back in the boat. He stood up, pulled the good oar from its pin, and began paddling insanely from the side. "They made little progress. Slowly the great field of ice swept tTiem down, down toward those snarling, angry cataracts below. I writhed in agony before the hopeless vision. Into j the rapids swept the fore part of tho ice jam. Then the first great wave j soemed to rise up and hover hungrily On the Ice Field at Niagara. over the little boat. Both men saw it and rushed toward each other. Locked in each other's arms they disappeared into the curling swell. That was the last I saw of them." Niagara also plays the death trap to hunted as well as hunters. Hundreds of wild fowls are swept each year over the falls. During densely foggy nights strange ducks often stop to roost in, the upper waters of the river. Drift ing unconsciously toward the brink, they are suddenly hurled down into the abyss of plunging water. END OF HISTORIC HOUSE Residence of Mme. de Sevigne of Paris to Be Turned Into Homes for Workmen. Paris. —One of the residences of, Madame de Sevigne, whose letters re vealed so much of the inner history of Prance during the days of "le grand monarque," is about to lose its his toric character. It is a country house, near Livry, on the way to Gargan, and it used to be called Madame de Se vigne's "folie." "Folie" was a name given in the days of Louis XIV., and in later years to any country seat over *hicli an owner indulged an uncom mon fancy in the matter of its design. One of the characteristics of Madame de Sevigne's "folie" was a. quaint, little chapel, and near it a cu rious sort of belfry, which long ago fell into ruins. The rest of the cha teau is fairly well preserved. It was in this quaint residence that Madame de Sevigne is believed to have writ ten many of her letters to her daugh ter. It is now sharing the fate of many a similar relic of the past. It is being transformed into a modern resort of utility. An association providing cot tage accommodations for the working classes has obtained possession of the house and grounds. The old hall has already been converted, and, with the additions In progress, it will become a vast caravansary of about 100 rooms, with as many kitchens and offices Most of the old walls will remain standing, but the transformation will be Such that future visitors will hard ly recognize any vestige of Madame da S e'i "folio."
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