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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
The Hanging of Sellers.

near Cody, Neb., created a sensation
for a time, but when four men charg
ed with the crime were put in Jail and
bound over to the district court the
excitement subsided. Now it is
charged by John NJ. Tucker, county
attorney, that Miss Murphy melted
ana procured the murder of Sellers,
her alleged motive being to get pos
session of $1,000 of insurance policies
and considerable personal property
which she is said to have believed
would be beQueathed to her upon the
death of Sellers.
At the time of the killing of Sellers,
it was rumored that one man in the
party that hanged him to a telegraph
pole was inspired by jealousy, he be
ing a suitor of the girl.
Hutch Jack and sellers, who lived
together, were awakened one night by
knock on the door by George Il.
Weed Jack knew Weed and invited
him into the house Weed had said
he was making social call. Weed
asked Sellers, who was in bed in an
adjoining ROOM to get up and come
into the room where Jack and Weed
were. but Sellers excused himself by
saying he was not feeling well. Fif-
teen minutes later, Jack says, party
of men, composed of Kenneth Murphy,
Harry Heath and Alma Weed came to
the Jack home. They were armed
and they covered Jack and command
ed him to remain in the room where
he was George Weed told Sellers to
get up.
I'VE are after you,' he said, ac-
cording to the affidavit of the county
attorney. Sellers arose and Harry
Heath is alleged to have thrown
rope around his neck and pulled it
tight, and George Weed, Heath, Mar
ply and Alma Weed are charged with
having dragged Sellers out of the
house to a nearby telephone pole and
hanged him.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
A Cow For a Life.

The Ober Gabelhorn is a peak No.
torious for the dangerous cornices
which decorate its upper ridges. OF
many accidents reported in connection
with it perhaps the most remarkable,
says G. ID. Abraham in "Swiss Noun
tain Climbs was the adventure which
befell an amateur and his young guide.
In passing along the dangerous final
cornice 1t suddenly gave way under
the amateur. and he went flying
through space to apparent destruction.
The guide at the other end of the rope
seemed in hopeless plight, but with
astounding presence of mind he flung
himself down the opposite side of the
ridge thus saving two lives. The rope
cut deep into the snow above, but held
firm. The young guides name was
Ulrich Almer. His reward was II COW.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
iRONCLAD RULE IN TRADE.
Best One Is, Have No Such Rule-A
Case In Point.

OF all ironclad rules in business only
one is fit to tie up to, and that Is to
have no such rules.
t1ftecn years ago man wishing to
order suit of clothes entered a GER
tain tailoring establishment and be.
came interested in what today we call
a pinhead check.
Il admire that" he said, but l new
er wore anything like it before and
want my wife to see it. Cut me sam
ple-just an inch square will do"
"I'm sorry. but it is against the rules
of the house to cut samples" said the
salesman.
"What-not even an inch squareP'
The man walked into another tailor
shop on the same block. and for fifteen
years he has been getting his clothes
there-forty- suits in all
How many samples would Tailor No.
l have given to get an order on forty
five suits of clothes?
AS it is he'll never get the chance to
hand over samples. If he were the
last tailor in Christendom probably
this customer would prefer the latest
styles in fig leaves and shoestrings to
the original pinhead check
In business the only rules that count
are made by the customer.-Philadel
phia North American.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Crossed by the Corpse.

Most of Walthamstow is too modern
to have much mystery about it, but
the Walthamstow strip of Leyton
preserves the memory of curious old
rule. Barely hundred yards broad.
this strip of land. belonging to Wal
thamstow parish, ran right across Ley
ton from the lea to Snaresbrook, par
allel with the southern border of Wal
thamstow. How came Leyton to be
crossed by this alien strip? Leyton,
it was said, had once refused to bury
q body found in the lea; Walthamstow
came for ard to do It, And in such
cases IS the rule that the volun.
teerins parish might take from the
other as much land right through to
the other side as the men who carried
the corpse could cover walking In line
hand in hand arms extended. The
inconvenient result worried both par
ishes until the growth of population
made new parishes necessary.-London
Chronicle
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Help the Children.

There is nothing in all the world
so important as children. nothing so
interesting If you ever wish to go in
for some philanthropy. If you ever
wish to be of any real use In the world.
do something for children. If you
ever yearn to be truly wise. study chill
dren. We can dress the sore, bandage
the wounded. imprison the criminal,
heal the sick and bury the dead, but
there is always chance that we can
save child. If the great army of
philanthropists ever eXterminate sin
and pestllence. ever work out our
races salvation, 1t will be because a
n.ue child has led them."-David Starr
ordan,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17

ITS no USE" sighs the nature wiz
ard. Il may as well give up"
"What is bothering you" we ask
sympathetically
IL got started few years ago on a
whim of mine. | took head of cab
bage and crossed it with a white pota
to and grew eyes on it; then l crossed
that with Il cornstalk and grew ears OF
it; then 1 crossed that with squash
and grew neck on it; then I crossed
that with cocoanut and grew hair on
it, but hanged If can figure out what
to do for nose and mouthw-St
Louis Republic.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17

time the sun will shine some time
right must conquer might.
Despair dulls the mind stops the
| 6ow of pul"ing blood in your veins,
makes an invalid of you. Hope feeds
the spirits and quickens the body. In
the garden of hope grow flowers for
every hand. Hope is an enchanter,
tonic, a panacea for all Ills.
All about me in the city / see men
who have given up the battle in the
turmoil Of trade. see men broken
and dispirited, men who have aban-
doned hope and embraced despair.
Henceforth for them there will be no
sun shining through their cypress
trees. All ahead is blackness and OBJ
hvion.
They are the wreckage that floats up
from the great sea Of endeavor, the de-
bris Of commercialism. Upon the
shore of failure there lie thousands Of
these wrecked hopes that now are
symbols of despair, but upon that long
shore line cannot be found one man
with hope in his heart
Hope is an old friend. 1t comes to
US at cradle time and will be constant
and true. even beyond the grave, If we
will but make a confldant and COM
panfon of IT. Despair is stranger
that comes to us later in life to give
tears to our eyes and aching pains to
our hearts.
Despair usurps the place Of happi-
ness and, rude beyond measure, drives
from the citadel Of our being all those
things that make life glad and happy
and worth living. And when all the
dear things Of our being have been
beaten c,it of us by this monster It
gives nothing In return but sorrow and
bitterness and woe.
Be ON your guard, madam. When
despair leaves its visiting card at your
front door take warning lest It come
again and again and ruin your life.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
The Disenchantina Phonograph

The best story l have heard re-
Gently is that told of a we'll known
Oxford don who was asked to speak
into phonograph A little later
the machine was turned on again,
and he was requested to listen to
his own voice. The don then turned
to the assembled company and said,
"It is strange that through this ma
chine | am made to speak in pc
culiarly bumptious and affected
manuer."---London Taller.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17

revealed the truth knows what
a mistake it is to give oneself
despair Then everything is
lost. History teens with stories of
men and women who but for despair
might have won. Literature is loaded
with instances OF individuals who by
holding out little longer might have
"lived happily ever after"
Sir Tannhauser, the legendary hero
of Germany, escaping from the thral-
dom of sensual passion, sought abso-
luton at Rome from the pope, who
said, "You can no more hope for par
don than this dry wand can bud and
bear leaves"
Tannhauser, giving up to despair,
went his way, and, behold, the pope's
staff mlraculously sprouted! Messen-
gers were sent to find Tannhasser, but
he was gone. Instead of hoping he
had abandoned himself to the awful
blackness of sorrow and had disap-
peared.
Woman, Tannhauser would have
been absolved, he would have been
restored to happiness and to love, ii
he had stood out against despair.
Consider the case of the Babylonian
lovers Pyramus and Thisbe To the
tryst at Minus tomb came Thlsbe.
Driven away by a lion, she fled to
place of safety. Pyramus, arriving at
the tomb and believing his beloved
Thisbe was dend, gave himself up to
despair and killed himself. Thisbe, re-
turning found her lover cold in death
and took her own life.
Had Pyramus embraced hope in
stead of despair the story would have
had most delightful ending, or might
not have been written at all.
In Matthew Arnod's poem, Iris
tram and lseult," Tristram, lying
wounded, awaits the coming of Isolde.
If the white flag were hoisted it was
she that approached, When told the
sail was black Tristram gave up and,
rourting death, died before Isolde, un-
der the white sail, arrived.
Just little more hope just little
more faith, and all would have been
well.
How many defeats have been turned
into victories by some brave heart that
refused to be conquered! How many
armies have gone down to defeat be
,ause they acked leader possessing
the characteristic that makes Il man
fight on and on against great odds, de-
flying defeat. knowing no conqueror,
acknowledging no subjugator
And you, woman, no matter what
your fight is, no matter what the load
you are carrying, do not enter the
slough Of despond, do not despair.
Some time there will come relief, some
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Trial List, December Term, IoII.
Return Day, December IL, 1911.

l.-G. w. Bigger VS.. John Manuel,
No. 40 Nay Term 1911. Framed Issue.
Plea-"Non Assumpsit" &c.
Scouton. Mullen.
2.-J. G. Colt VS.. Lee Rosencrans and
John Rosencrants. Defendants, and the
Nordmont Chemical Company, Garnishee.
No. Sc December Term, 1909. Attach
ment Execution. Plea-"Nulla Bona"
Mullen. Scouton.
Meylert.
Sc. ID. Hood by his next friend, En-
ma C.. Hood VS.. Connell Anthracite
Mining Company. No. 9 May Term,
1911. Plea-"Not Guilty.
Scouton. Mccormick.
Mullen.
4.-Wiliam T. Fairchild VS.. Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company. No 6S May
Term, 1910. Irespass. rlea-"Not
Guilty"
Scouton. Thomson.
kaufman.
Mercur,
Sd. +. Diefenbach VS. Cora Glover
and Fred j. Glover. No. | February
Term, 1911. Defendants Appeal. Plea
mot Guilty"
Scouton, Mullen.
CA. II. Mulnix VS.. Seth p. Shoe
maker and VIM. +. More. No. lG Feb
ruary Term, 1911. Framed Issue. Plea
-"Payment.n
Mullen. Scouton.
7.-Alice M. Putnam, a. d. b. H. C. t. a.
of Luman Putnam. Deceased, Assignee
of n. n. Belts, Executor and Trustee of
Mrs. ii. Charlotte Ward, VS.. G.. f, Hun
singer and Lizzie (or Elizabeth) Allen
and James p. Allen, her husband. No.
81 February Term, 1911. Scire Facias
Sur Mortgage. Plea-Thai Mortgage is
not lien upon land &c.
Thomson. Scouton.
S.-Laussat IIeyelin VS.. VIM. J. Law
renee, Charles II. Lawrence and o. II.
Lawrence. No. May Term, 1911.
Framed issue.
Meylert. Mullen.
9.-The Township of Cherry, to the
use of the Treasurer of Sullivan County,
tor Cherry Township School District VS..
Fred Freder. No. % May Term. 1911.
Defendants Appeal.
Walsh. Mullen.
l0.-H. j. Schaad, a Taxpayer OF the
Township OF Cherry VS.. Thomas w. Ga
han, Frank IutlNaster and Henry
Touschner. Supervisors of the Township
OF Cherry. No. &c May Term, 1911.
Appeal from township Audit.
Scouton. Mullen.
Prothonotary s Office,
Laporte Penn'a.,
October so, 1911.
ALBERT F. HEESS, Prot'y.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
PREMIUM CLUBS
WORST MENACE
Their Inferior Goods Hurt Mer-
chant and Customer.
DODGE PURE FOOD Law.
ingenious Canvasser Got Merchants
Wife to Take $50 In Cheap Stuff In
Order to Get "FaIl to Pieces" Rock
ing Chair.

While the straight out and out mail
order houses are receiving the atten-
ton of merchants throughout the land,
there are dozens of concerns, also mail
order houses, whose operations collec-
lively are perhaps more harmful to the
people and the merchants than are the
sell direct catalogue houses. These con-
Germs are the premium givers which en-
ploy canvassers to organize clubs for
teas and coffees. spices. extracts and
dozens of other articles, paying either
a cash commission or giving some pre-
MUM, such as sets of dishes, house
hold furniture. jewelry and the like.
There is scarcely city in the land
of any size but has one or more of
these establishments, each doing CON
siderable business. Some of these
houses pay hundreds of thousands of
dollars a year for advertising space in
the women's papers. The annual vol
ume of business of some of these CON
Germs exceed that of Chicago's biggest
catalogue house. Others do business
exceeding a million dollars annually.
The catalogues published only 90 into
the hands of agents along with sam
pies to be used in canvassing. There
is not city or hamlet where these
concerns do not transact business
They generally work on the premium
plan-a premium to the purchaser Of
their goods and premium to the can
vasser. The goods handled are of an
inferior class. They escape the inves-
tigation of the pure food officials be-
cause shipments are made direct to
the consumer or to the agent who does
the distributing. and no inspector has
the audacity to take goods for analysis
that 30 in this manner to consumer.
Various plans have been devised to
head off the operations of these con
Germs. So far no adequate plan has
been discovered that will stand the
tests of the higher courts. Strange
to say, frequently wives of merchants
are found among the patrons of these
concerns. Not long ago the wife of a
storekeeper purchased through one
club more than $50 worth of stuff, a
better quality of which her husband
carried in stock, just 20 get cheap
rocking chair, and then gave to her
neighbors lot of soaps, extracts and
other goods she received in order to
keep it out of her husbands sight.
Funny game. is it not? But what can
be done about it?-Agricultural South
west.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
PNEUMONIA.
It's Best Friend Is Bad Cold That II
Been Neglected.


Pneumonia is not dreaded mer
ly for its power to seize and k
quickly, but also for its apparel
power to select the most unlike
victims. Most persons have live
through the shock of hearing th;
some friend had suddenly died
pneumonia friend from whol
they had parted but a few days
even hours before, leaving him
what seemed the highest notch
physical well being and perhar
protesting that he did not kno1
what illness meant.
This disease is most dangerous t.
the apparently strong, robust peo
pie of heavy weight and hearty ap
petite, although it may attack an,
one, for its germs are omnipresent
The strong and full blooded indi
vidual who is at the same time
something overweight is especially
in danger of pneumonia and should
take particular care to avoid it. II
his diet is too heavy-and that may
safely be assumed-it should be
ruthlessly cut down, especially as to
meat and the elimination of alcohol.
The weighing scale is a good
friend to such a person and should
be consulted regularly. The scale
does not argue about that extra
pound or two-it proves it-and aft
er "A weight in accordance with age
and height has been determined it
can bc maintained in most cases by
the exercise of little self control.
There are hosts of people who in
dolently permit themselves to get
heavy and even fat in the winter
months. They are the people who
should be constantly reminded,
"The pneumonia germ II git yer if
yer don't watch outp'
The condition of the man must
be recognized as more important
than the presence of the germ, as
proved by the fact that there is less
mortality among the thin and ap-
parently delicate than among the
stout and full blooded.
Some of the phrases used by the
laity on this subject have, after all,
more sense than nonsense in them.
1t is said that some one is threat
cned with pneumonia" or that a
"bad cold ran into pneumonia" and
in sense it is true, for every one is
threatened" with pneumonia; That
is to say, the germ is always present
and ready and willing to begin its
work if one only gives it chance,
The most successful way to give
ii f. chance is to neglect bad col,
and thus break down the natura
defenses of the system. If ever,
bad cold were met with starvation
physic and fresh air it would de-
part in disgust, and the lurking
pneumonia with it, for the large
burglar cannot get in through a
hole which has refused to admit the
smaller one.-Y Youth's Companion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Horses in NaiI-studded Car.

Savannah, Ga.-For transporting
horses and mules for so hours in a
car studded, sides and bottom, with
heavy nails, which maimed or killed
all the animals. a Georgia railway has
ben made defendant in suit for dam
ages. The animals had been trans
ferred from their original car and
were in another which had nails stick
ing out all around.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Three Inscriptions.

On the doorways of Milan cathedral
are three inscriptions. The first, placed
under carved rose wreath, runs. "All
that which pleases is only for mo-
ment." The second, under cross,
reads, "All that which troubles is but
for moment" and under the central
arch is the inscription, "That only Is
which Is eternal"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17

MANY games originated from an
cient forms of worship. human sacri
fee marriage, burial and other cere-
monies," DIR. A. .. Haddon remarke ed
in an address at the Royal Sanitary
institute. ''Leapfrog is game com
mon TO almost every country. includ.
ing New Guinea and Japan. London
standard
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
urand Forks to Have Water Filtered.

The new rapid sand filter which
has been in the course Of construction
since early last fall for the city of
Grand Forks, N. D.. has been COM
pleted. and official tests are now in op-
Grafton. 1t is expected that the city
will accept the plant. and the citizens
will again have pure drinking water
after being without 1t for more than
four months.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Not Jealous.

Mrs. Jawback - John. ! do believe
you are jealous of my first husband.
Mr.. Jawback-Well. no; don't believe
I'd call it jealousy. Envy is the word.
Cleveland Leader.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
Jury List For December Court.

List of persons with their occupation and
Place OF residence drawn as Traverse and Petit
Jurors for December Term and Sessions begin
ming Monday, December IL, 1911.
TRAVERSE AND PETIT lURops
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17

Yet.
He-ls Maud thirty yet? She-Yes.
yet.-Boston Transcript
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
oIhL Is HELD FOR
INC|T|NC A MOB
Nebraska Young Woman Charg-
ed With a Cruel and Most
UnuSuaI Crime.
PLOTTED A LYNCHNG

Four Ranchmen Hanged Her Sweet
heart, and 1t is Said the Girl, Be-
lieving She Would Get $1,000 tnsur-
ance, Planned 1t.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
M. Drinks
PRICES For This Week

ton 100 Id
Corn Meal $500 1.7O
Cracked Corn $500 10
Corn $500 10
sSacks each &c with privilege of
returning without expense to me.
Schumacher Chop 31.OO l.6O
Wheat Bran $500 l .45
Fancy White Midds. 31.OO 1.6O
Oil Meal 44.5O 2.25
Gluten 31.O0 1.G0
Alfalfa Meal $500 1.3O
Oyster Shells 1000 60
Brewers Grain 27.OO lao
Choice Cottonseed Meal
Luxury Flour sack 1.2O
" " per bbl. 4.65
Beef Scrap 800
Oats per bu. go
Charcoal 80 lb sack 60
Oyster Shells 80
40 lb bag Salt coarse or fine so
56 lb bag Salt .25
Buckwheat Flour
Schumacher Flour sack | 80
Muncy 100
" per bbl 4.66
Spring Wheat ;. Marvel) 4" 1.7O.
Veal Calves wanted on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Live
fowls and chickens on Wednesday.
N. BRINK, New Albany, Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-17
THE MERE MANS
VIEWPOINT
THE STOUT HEART WINS
By BYRON WILLIAMS

.HE woman to whom has been
8 revealed the truth knows what
a mistake it is to give oneself
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-01
OBITUARY
Lewis BarttrO.

Lewis Barttro died Saturday afternoon
at four o'clock at his home, 134 North
Willard street. aged So years. He had
been in failing health for some time. He
was formerly Of Richmond, where he had
lived for 40 years. moving to this city
eight years ago, He was a veteran of
the Civil War. enlisting In September,
1862, in Company D, 18th regiment of Yer
mont volunteers, and was honorably dis
charged in July, 1868. He was in the bat
tie of Gettysburg. He is survived by a
wife. 10 daughters and two sons Sister
Marta of st. Vincents Charitable Insti-
tuition on the Hudson, n. Y, Mrs. George
Dumas of Randolph, Mrs. Samuel Des-
sany of Essex Junction, Mrs. Louis
Christmas of Wiliston, Mrs John Root
of Richmond, Mrs. Luther Rock well, Mrs.
Elery Zeno and the Misses Agnes Odclla
and Demaris of this city, Gene of Spring
field and George of Ellenburg, Washing
ton, and one sister, Mrs. Felix Norway of
Worcester. Mass. The son, George, ar
rived in the city two hours after his ia
Their died, September %, 1909. Mr. and
Mrs. Barttro celebrated the Goth anniver-
sary of their marriage, and at that cele-
tration all but George and Sister Marta
Of their children We're present. Mr. Bart
tro was an honorary member of the
James A. Garfield Circle No, 4, and of
Stannard Post. He was n man of exem-
pary character. a kind husband and ia
Tier and he died as he had always lived
peacefully. The funeral was held
Tuesday morning at eight o'clock at St
Joseph's Church, with interment in Mount
Calvary cemetery.