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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-08-30
HERNICE ITEMS.

visiting at this place Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Daniel Schoonover of Mil
dred who has been nursing her
daughter, Mrs. w. B. Brown, Of
Wilkes Barre, returned home last
week accompanied by Mrs. Brown,
who is now in DR.. Brennan's care.
Messrs James j. Ramsey and
James Bowles We're business men at
Sayre last week.
The new bridge. is completed and
the public is taking advantage of it
John White and son, Edward.
spent Sundry with Dushore friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doughcry, Harry
White and Miss Vandermark drove
to Eagles Mere Sunday.
There was mistake of the date of
the Red Skins Picnic, it should read
Monday October 1st.
Miss Maggie Watson who has been
at Scranton, the past two months has
returned home accompanied by her
sister, Sarah.
John Boland of Wyoming spent
several days here with his mother
last woek.
Miss Katie Finn, Of Philadelphia
Is visiting friends at this place and
Mildred.
James Ramsey, Sr, transacted
business at Wilkes Barre Tuesday.
The town of Canton was the
scene OF a most remarkable act of
heroism and self sacrifice on
Wednesday of last week. With his
bare hand Robert E. Godsey a citi-
zen OF that place held mad dog to
keep the animal from attacking a
party of children. He was bitten
ID times and as a result is in
serious condition, Godsey was
passing along the street when he
noticed number of girls and boys
running toward him screaming,
and a short distance behind them
large Newfoundland dog, whose
breast was covered with foam.
Running at top speed he passed the
children, met the dog, which sprang
upon them. Selling the amin al be-
hind the fore legs Godsey succeeded
in holding on while the children
gave the alarm. Men ran from
nearby houses and finally killed the
dog, but not until Godscy was
frightful|y lacerated about the arms
and legs.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-08-30

Tuesday evening a peculiar phen-
omenon attracted the people of
Skunk. Small winged ants, or that
is what the insects appeared to be,
passed over the place in swarms or
clouds. The swarms We're so thick
or dense that they could be easily
seen a quarter of ii mile away and at
that distance looked like black smoke
The air was literally filled with them
and "Wednesday morning the ground
was alive with them. Like the lice
of Egypt they got into the houses
and into everything. What are they?
Where did they come from and
where did they go?- Sullivan Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-08-30

Top buggy for sale. In good
running order, for SIC cash. In
quire Of DR.. w. III. Randall,
Laporte, Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-08-30
Summer Weight
Corsets.

Its not enough that a Corset be merely
light weight, but must be perfectly shap.
ed and good fitting as well as light You
won't find better models or better range
OF styles or better value than several
makes we are selling for Sl.00. Less ex-
pensive ones are here as well in ample
variety.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-08-30

The time is close at hand when
the great Sullivan county Fair will
be held at Forksville early in Oct
ober and the base ball fans all over
the county are asking "who are the
teams that will play this year for
the championships AS we under
stand the Agriculture Association
aims to try to have the products of
the county on exhibition and why
not the base ball products of the
county? We have several good
teams in the county, why not let
them enter the contest with other
players from outside counties such
as was used last year when Dushore
and Hillsgrove played 1t costs a
lot OF money to get professionals
and the team that wins the small
prize money has to pay it to those
hired men and more with it while
the team that is defeated has to dig
down and pay a lot of good Sullivan
county money out of their small
savings to a lot of high priced pro-
fessionals who would sell the game
Tor IA small price and make the
people feel foolish. Now we are
sure that the people of Sullivan
county would rather come to the
Fair and watch our own county
players than lot of professionals
trying to represent Sullivan county
for money. Give the county boys
chance and the attendance at the
Fair will be larger and more excite
ment will be added to the game.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
THE MAGNETIC COMPASS.
First Used on European Vessels In
the Twelfth Century.

First Used ON European Vessels In
the Twelfth Century.
Some Asian people, perhaps the Chi
uese, discovered many centuries ago
that kind of iron ore possessed a very
peculiar quality. We call this ore mag
uetic ore, or, in more common Ian
guage. lodcStone, and it is very widely
distributed, especially in the Older
crystalline rocks. 1t was found that If
n bit of lodestone were placed in water
upon a piece of cork or straw braid il
would turn till the axis of the stone as
sumed north and south position. \
phenomenon of magnetism had beer
discovered by means of an ore that is
peculiarly susceptible to magnetic in
duence.
1t is an open question whether tht
Chinese utilized the directive power OF
the loGestone. but it is certain that the
first rude compass was not used Oh
European vessels before the twelfth
century of our era. By that time the
true magnetic compass had been evolv
ed through the discovery that if al
iron or steel needle were stroked on a
lodestone it would receive the attrac
tive and directive power of this ore
With this appliance placed ut the
service of navigation the vessels that
had Rugged the coasts soon dared to
venture even out of sight of land. A
new impetus was gradually given to
c1rtOpronhv for now thp true dirpc-
tons of the coast lines might be chart
ed with some approach to accuracy. 1t
was the happy fortune of Italian sail
ors to make the surprisingly excellent
surveys of the directions and lengths of
the Black sea and Mediterranean
coasts and along the Atlantic to British
waters that have come down to us in
the so called Portulan maps.-Cyrus G..
Adams in Harper's.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
F0dS and
Philanthropy
au INA WRIGHT HANSON


u,,or Wildng. looking steadily out
,indow of the city library, was see
t., visions. all Of which concerned a
aIlow haired young man. Each vision
rose color at the beginning and
.,hor GRAY at the ending. That she
,,.,olf was reasonable for the tinting
IA nat alter the fact that Honor's eyes
,.,ro vistrul and her lips very near to
..,mbIing She turned from the win,
,,r n the readers, wondering almless-
= If any Of them had had ideals and
were sorry
Finally her eyes Travelled to the far.
thor corner, where were the newspa,
.or fles There stood a man, his back
n her lie was very shabby, but he
mad yellow hair, and he was about the
boioht Just then he turned little and
hocan tightening his belt. Honor
hoard the noon bells ringing. She had
hoard that if one were very, very hun.
grr it helped little to grid ones waist
parv tightly. Poor fellow! Then he
tnrned entirely around and took up his
r,ooed hat. Honor dropped her mag.
ozipe her gloves, her purse, her hand.
torcbief and her parasol and sprang
toward him.
"Whv. Mervin Fairbanks, how glad
am to see you!
well. well, how my fame as
prophet scars, | said that you should
NOT see me again till you would be
clad of the sight. And how goes the
cav world with you, Miss Honor Wild
ing?'
Honor expected him to shrink from
her ashamed of his apparent poverty
hut she remembered he usually had
done the unexpected. He picked up
her belongings, and they went out
Standing in the shadow of the gray
stone building, she lifted hesitating
eyes to his.
will you come home with me, Mer-
vim? want so much to know Of your
wanderings these past two years"
She was surprised again at his quick
consent. She remembered Mervin Fair
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
Jouctt and the Ffghting Cndet.

Admiral JOuott, Familiarity known as
Fighting Jimmy" was acting secre-
tary OF the navy once when the COM
mandant Of the academy at Annapolis
came over and reported that he had
been compelled to discipline a cadet
who had behaved in a most unaccount-
able manner and had disgraced the
academy. the department, the govern
ment and all civilization. He then pro-
ceeded to relate how this cadet when
passing through the lower regions of
the town Of Annapolis had somehow or
another become involved in hostilities
with a tough citizen and proceeded to
polish him off The friends of the
tough came to his rescue The cadet
backed up against a wall and whipped
five of them in succession and then
nearly hammered the life out of two
policemen who attempted to arrest
him. He was in the custody of the
civil authorities. and the superintend-
ent Of the academy was seeking the
aid of the secretary Of the navy in hav-
ing him transferred to the naval au-
thoritias in order that he might be
court martiaied and punished.
Court martial that fellow" roared
Jouett. Licked five toughs and two
policemen. Not while old Jim Jouett Is
living! The boy ought to have medal.
What are you doing down there any
how? Do you suppose the government
of the United States hired you to raise
q lot of boys to play checkers?"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
BLAZING METEORS.
sho:: Lived s3-endor of n shoots
ing S.ur.


ing S.lr.
\ smGl body rs large as a paving
So OF n1t as LIS X as a marble is
Aov..g roCn3 ti:c sun. Just as 4
mighty planet .cy5!,e5 in an ellipse. 50
THIS small object VIII move round and
round in an eliipse, with the sun in the
focus. There a"e at the present mo-
ment r~co4ceiyable myriads of such
Meteors moving in this manner. They
are roo small ana too distant for our
telescopes. and we can never see them
except under extraordinary circum-
stances.
AT the time we see the meteor it
traverses 4 distance of more than
twenty miles a second. Such velocity
Is almost impossible near the earth's
surface. The resistance of the air would
prevent it, Aloet liz the emptiness of
space there is no air to resist it.
In the course Of its Wanderings the
body may come near the earth and
within a few hundred miles of its sur
lace, of course, begins to encounter the
upper surface Of the atmosphere with
which the earth is inclosed To body
moving with the appalling velocity of
meteor, Il plunge into the atmosphere
is usually fatal. Even though the up
per layers of air are excessively at
tenuated, yet they suddenly check the
velocity, almost as Il ride bullet would
be checked when fired into water. AS
a meteor PUSHES through the atmos-
phere the friction of the air warns its
surface; gradually it becomes red hot,
then white hot and is finally driven off
into the vapor with a brilliant light,
while we on the earth, one or two hun
dred miles below. eXclaim:
"Oh, look There is Il shooting star"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09

The Modern Way and the Crude
Methods of Early DAYS.

The sugar season OPENS a DSsy in
LUStry in MJiIS. New Hampshire and
Vermont Buckets are l0aGc4 on TO
the OK SieIS. boxes Of SYileS and axes.
ma away to the sugar o.chlrd.
Sugar inaNin., ucvrJaEs is Il science
only in the cXtrelae rural sections still
remain the wooden buckets and cedar
spies. but there is st.ll Il sugar
warmth, a bursting Of Healthy JOY that
breaks forth just as the swelling buds
ON the naples.
No longer are there the Sude meth
DDS of an open fire, of the kettles
strung ON green forked poles. Pos
sibly SUGAR making has lost some OF
its genuine SAVIOR in the modern evapo-
rators, but the product-and its com
mercial feature is of all Importance
is finer grained, of purer color, freer
from bits of bark and other foreign
refuse.
Important changes in the sugar in
duStry have lessened the work of the
farmer. In the early days wooden
buckets and handmade cedar spiles
were used. That made bother in the
orchard. for the bucket had to be
placed on the ground, and the Spite
could not be far above it else the wind
would blow the sap to one side and
thus waste it,
AS the snow melted the sples had to
De drawn, new holes nearer the ground
made and tie bucket replaced.
Nowadays the spiles are of metal and
The pals are hung on them. The evap-
orator is Il sample of the rapid strides
In sugar making facilities. The mod
ern orchard has tin or galvanized pals
and metal spiles.
Occasionally Il tree runs a bucket
full every fair day during the season.
an AVERAGE of ten quarts. although the
general run is about half that amount.
unless the weather holds so the trees
run during the night.
Good. honest sirup weighs eleven
pounds TO the gallon. and it takes
barrel of thrty-two gallons of sap to
make gallon of sirup.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
You certainly did" answered Honor

ulu, answered Honor
smiling family.
The third and last time vos two
years ago, when the farm had lost i+s
glory and its cats You We, Honor
Nilding. philant' st IT,, yo,,
toId me if woG;l Join force; and
fortunes with rou in your life's work
'-'E va WI be pleased TO wall,
NIT Ne as yoCr friend, the scrublodv
sac. couldn't see it that wav and
you r h'rled tat l loved myself bet.
ter than You. and 50 we parted"
l was unjust" murmured Honor
i have been sorry many times"
resolved to go away and FORGOT
you did the one, but not the other
want You this minute more than
ever desired you in my life, and nv
eyes tell me that you are not indiffer.
ent. Honor, my little girl. will Won
wait for me till can come to Won ne
man ought
But she was leaning forward eager.
~ her eyes suffused with tears. her
sweet lips trembling.
why must You go away?o she plead.
ed. Don't let wretched matter of
money part us now We have lost five
years Mervin, and have dollars
a-plenty for both Don't let your pride
stand between us now. Mervfn."
For moment he looked at her curl.
orSly; then he smiled, albeit his eyes
were gravely tender, and he put his
arms around her.
Dear" he said fervently, Pm richer
than you are twice over. I've kept on
making money these two years. lust So
| shouldn't think so hard. | was going
to ask you to wait till went to the
hotel and arrayed myself in decent
clothes before we pIighted out troth. +
didn't want YOU to feel as If a beggar
were making love to you. I spoke Of
waiting, for though the tailor said he
would have them there by noon I knew
by sad experience that there might be
a delay"
But Mervin, your clotheS-I don't
understand she gasped when she had
recovered her breath.
"Wel, You see" he began hesitating-
" and shamefacedly. Jack Bronson
was on my train yesterday He is
really trying to reform and he wanted
a certain position, but thought he was
too shabby to make any showing. The
man he wanted TO meet was to be at
the station, 50 there wasn't anything to
do hut 90 to the dressing room and
change clothes with him. Fortunately
these, though ragged, are quite clean.
! thought would wear these a day or
two, just to imagine what the fellows
felt like when they were down on their
luck. When you came to me | was so
hungry to see you that simply had to
come, rags and all. May go now,
HONOR"
You are Mervin Fairbanks, philan-
thropist, and diln't know it, laughed
Honor gleefully. no, don't go just
yet"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09


banks as furiously proud of his pedi-
gree, his good name and his appear
ance. What could have happened to
reduce him to poverty and to change
his nature?
You expect TO hear of Paris and
London and maybe Egypt and Indian
he asked after luncheon was over. To
Honors third surprise he had eaten
very little. ~ haven't been outside
San Francisco until yesterday"
Honor regarded him with reproach.
You never let me hear from you" she
said.
all off between us. couldn't be as
philanthropc as you desired, and
dldn't like to pretend that | might
grow to it, because | knew l shouldn't
How are your proteges?"
Honor colored. II don't know"
Mervtn smiled at her quizzically.
Did Bacagalupi rob your house, or
Moriarity take to the black bottle
again."
Not exactly. but what did for
them didn't seem to last. They were
constantly expecting more. | simply
got tired of it all and stopped. Then
realized that it was only fad any
way like my cat farm and other
thlngs. woke up one day to the real
Eatlon that Honor Wilding was deceiv-
ing herself; that she was only egotis-
tcal when she thought she was char
naole | haven't had any fads since.
nave been humble and miserable"
sue added under her breath.
lie smiled tenderly at her. "You
were only trying your wings little
girl"
Sne looked at him gratefully But,
MerVln, tell me of yourself, your-your
the past two years" She wanted to
ask MN why he came to be reduced to
% ulsmal an appearance, but she hes
itated."
Let me see," he unused. 81 asked
you to marry me when you were
eighteen. That was five years ago,
wash ltY'
Yes" acknowledged Honor, her
neart beating furiously.
ana you refused because you were
onucpating career. 1t Was to be
"olhan's rights, believe"
Honor her eyes downcast, was twist
Jug her bracelet nervously.
Then when you forgot your speeches
and had several unpleasant encounters
with unpleasant people you decided
ing"
les" said Honor again.
When you were twenty-one l asked
you to marry me. Then it was the cat
arm think possibly you might have
e' me be partner that time, only OBJ
!ected to the cats. didn't mind one
'elihe pet, but | believe l used some
Emphatic language in regard to the
farm"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
Fort Saratoga.

With the history Of Old Saratoga the
names of Schuyler and Livingston are
closely associated. Fort Saratoga was
built in 1850 by Major Peter Philip
Schuyler, and around it grew up a
small settlement which suffered many
vicissitudes during the troublous times
of the next hundred years. Lying on
the thoroughfare from Canada to New
York. this northern valley Of the Hud-
son was always in dispute in the
French and Indian war. and in the
Revolution until the great battle Of
Saratoga-the first victory over which
the American flag waved, and one of
the fifteen decisive battles of the
world. The actual battle-ground is sew
eral miles away from the settlement
and is marked today by many stones
recording the brave deeds of our Amer
lean soldiers. The house still stands in
which Arnold was confined as prisoner
and from which he escaped in time to
help turn the tide of battle toward vic
tory.-Four Track News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
II Tom Had Been There.

The great Nelson's sovereignty was
confined to the seas. On shore his val
ct. old Tom. ruled him completely. He
was no hero to Tom, but a boy to be
governed kindly, but firmly. To the
end of his days the faithful old servant
ascribed his masters fate to the fact
that he was not aboard Nelson's ship
at Trafalgar Tom had been every
where with Nelson until the time OF
Trafalgar. says a contributor to st.
James Budget. On that occasion he
was detained in London too late to go
TO sea with Nelson, and ever afterward
be used to say:
IF | had only been there Lord Mel.
son would moi have been killed, for he
should not have put on that coat!
"TIe would mind me like child" the
old fellow would go on, 'and when
found him bent on wearing his finery
before battle always prevented him
atom, he would say, III fight this
battle in my best coat
"'Oh. no. my lord, you shaun't,' I'd
say.
"'But why, TomT he'd say.
"Why. my lord? You just ask no
questions. but fight the battle first I'd
say. and then I'll dress you up in all
your stars and garters, and you'll look
something like. But after the battle.
not before, my lord He got on his
best coat at Trafalgar because wasn't
there to prevent him. and 1t was the
end of himr'
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
Earth Curvature and Vision.

One of the ''seven wonders of the an.
cient world" was the Pharos, or light
tower at Alexandria. If you have Il
popular account of that great structure
handy. read it carefully and note that
you are informed that the tower could
be seen at a distance of from 100 to
$50 miles. Let us see if this could pos
sibly be true. The curvature of the
globe is 600 inches to the mile. This
being true, we find that an object 100
feet high can only be seen at frac
ton over thirteen miles. Figuring on
the basis of an earth curvature of even
seven inches to the mile. we find that
the light tower in question must have
been over mile in height If visible
even at distance of 100 miles.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
Queer Drumm, rs,

There's a story" said drummer,
"ab0ut commercial traveller whose
line was tunnels and post holes for
fences. Him | never met. did meet
once, though, drummer selling iron
churches and suspension bridges. An
other time | met drummer who said
his line was pupils. What did he mean
by pupils? He meant, | found glass
eyes for stuffed animals, for dolls and
for human beings. One of this mans
favorite amusements was to open his
sample case and ask the people present
to pick out the eye that best matched
their own. The people made awful
mistakes in this. for nobody, it seems,
knows the color of his own eyes,
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
BLOOD Shower. In oIden Times.

In the annals of Remarkable Hap
penings In Rome" mention is made OF
fourteen different showers Of blood or
blood and other substances mixed.
which occurred between the years 81
A. d. and ITO. In 1902 we find rec
ord Of a shower of blood and dust
which covered the larger part of Italy
In 1926 "snow" fell in Syria (which
presently turned into large brooks and
pools of blood" monk who wrote In
the year 1851 and whose manuscript Is
now preserved In the British museum.
tells of a three days shower of blood
call over southern Europe" Burgundy
had a blood shower in 1861, and Ded-
fordshire. England. witnessed a sim
liar phenomenon in the year 1850. In
1856 hailstones fell in Wurttemberg
which contained cavities filled with
blood or blood red liquid. The last
"blood shower on record occurred IN
Slam In the year 1872
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
What Father Does.

Mothers may talk. work, struggle to
make their sons models by which to
shape a new heaven and a new earth.
But the boys world is in the man
who is his father, and the boy believes
that whatever may be right on Sun
days or at prayer times the things that
are really good, that really count in
life, are what father does. Moreover,
it is what father does which defines
the means with which the boy shall
work, the sphere wherein his efforts
shall be shaped. In word, what IA
Their does is the beginning as it is the
end of the boys achievements.-Har-
per's Bazaar
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
RiIIs of Different birds.

The bill Of the canary is built for
crushing seeds-has strength, but in
many Of the doves the bill is slender
and weak Many of the pigeons and
doves that feed on seeds have gizzards
that are large and crushing
and grinding being accomplished in
that way.
1t is difficult to say how much birds
experience taste, probably in small
degree Ducks and parrots have soft,
feshy tongues, but in most birds much
of the tongue is sheathed in horn.
Food may be selected by intuition as
to what is wholesome. more than by
taste-St. Nicholas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-09
Old WOrkmen,

An Englishman who is large err
ployer of labor has been investigating
the arguments of those who say that a
workingman under modern conditions
becomes at an early age valueless. He
has kept a record of all accidents that
have incapacitated his men for three
days and upward. The people engaged
in his employment are from fifteen to
sixty-five years of age, and he asserts
that more accidents occur to men I'M
der thirty than to those over fifty. He
says, Il would much rather intrust an
exceptionally dangerous job TO a man
over fifty than to one of thirty years
of ape''