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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
SHE POSED AS A IMAM"

Lebanon, Ore-Only after sne had
been ordered committed to the state
insane asylum by the Linn county
court was the discovery made that
Ray Leonard, sixty-two years old, an
old resident Of Lebanon, has for forty.
nine years been masQuerading as
man. During this time it had never
been suspected by the woman's friends
that she was not a man,
Leonard went to Lebanon in 1889
with his or her father, saying that
they were fro mMaine. Both worked
as shoemakers, and when the father
died eight years ago Ray continued,
the shop alone.
Several eccentricities were noted in
Ray Leonard. One of these was that
he never went out of the shop. day
or night. except for meals, and "he"
always refused to vote at elections.
Ray Leonard talked and walked like
a man, smoked a pipe and chewed to-
bacco.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

w. II. Kast of Dushore was a
business man in town Monday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

Wanted-All kinds of hides, from
bear to muskrat. Cash or trade
Wolf Socks Laporte Pa.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

Sheriff Brown made trip to
Muncy Valley Sunday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
pGCEENG
1lll VIII ASI

m iron ylfl 11rartoc of service
acro'' ,p..... d, s.t.g tJJt of rootiul.
We sci q. Iog < n ioIJ'Ct you have 4
roof y we supply il. Road about our
new . l1rntccd service" rilan Of
selling ruoiiHg in our book No, r.
tho book that tells all about roofing.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
Iury 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.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

Henry Cummings of Eagles
Mere transacted business in Laporte
Wednesday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
STOVES ANN RANGES

Guaranteed stoves AMI rnngos arc
the only Kind we sell. OUR guaran-
tee to you means that you MUST be
pleased. Containing bargains on
cycry page, our stoye book will be a
revelation TO Won. II is hnpksko og
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
CARPETS and RUGS
AT MANUFACTURING COST

Placing our orders with
mills SO carly that they can
Gll them durins the duh
as0n enables us TO quote
you prices that no more than
cover tho cost Of making in
Llany instances.
Send for our carpet and
rnr cntnlnrmn. 10. IL.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
UNDERWEAR
EnR EdII ANN SulNTcR

Actual samples of the materials
offered are shown on the pagcs of
our underwear book.
We do this so you may fully ap-
aifrr for prices that might seem
- too good to be true" were the
samples not before your eyes. Your
copy of the book is here-book No.
-. It's for men, women and chill
dren-a bargain for everybody is in
cludcd in this book.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

VIM. Moran of Muncy Valley
visited his parents here Sunday.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

Advertise in the News Item.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01

FARMERS AND MERCHANTS
Will pay market price for wool.
Adress j. l.. Wineman, Lewisburg,
Pa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23

manity revolts at capital punishment
The tendency in the several states of
late years has been to break away from
it. The thought of a possibly innocent
man going to the gallows or the cleo
trio chair is the real reason in addi-
ton to the irhumanity OF the prac-
tice But it is also true that in sew
eral states where the severest penalty
for murder is life Imprisonment, it is
not unusual for persons who have been
convicted of murder, and who have
been guilty of the crime beyond any
doubt, to get a parole or a pardon af-
ter a lapse of a few years This is
particularly true of youthful murder
ers. Time softens the memory Of their
outrages. A kind-hearted governor
must be adamant to Withstand the
pleas of parents, relatives and even
society in general, that such a prisoner
be given another chance. The instances
are rare where such a pardoned muir
derer commits the same kind of d crirr.s
or any other crime again. That's not
the objection to pardons in such cases.
1t is that they may give encourage
ment to the murderously inclined that
there is always chance where sueh
conditions prevail of eventual free
is a difficult, a hard, an almost cruel
question to have to declue as to wheta-
er the fit punishment for absolutely
proven murder is life imprisonment or
death.
AS Judge De Courcy says. though, the
controlling reason for the terrible IL :
crease in crime in this land is that 50
many criminals go unpublished entlrr
". Every man charged with a crime
is entitled to ample protection from
the law But so many safeguards Cor
criminals have been permitted to creep
into the statutes and the practice Of
administering the criminal law, that
one of the most difficult of tasks now
adays is to obtain the conviction OIL
any man no matter what the crime
may L. IF which he is accused or how
irrefutahle may be the evidence against
him THE defense Of insanity, the
limitation of the power Of judges AMI
the character of the testimony allow
ed to be introduced in behalf of the
defendant are some of the evils we'll
said Judge De Courcy, which ought
to be rectified." And isn't it about time
that the legislatures and bar associe-
tions-for lawyers take an oath on
their admission to the bar that they
will assist in the honest administra-
ton of all the laws-were giving those
matters the attention they deserve.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Practical jokers are anything but joy
makers.
Judge not your neighbor until you
stand in his shoes
Broken heads, loosened Stats; partly
football. partly ''frats-
A soft answer will not turn away an
agent with something to sell.
A woman's ideasof making fifteen min
ute call is to stay two hours.
A girl likes to be secretly engaged so
that she can tell all her girl friends
We can't all get rich quickly. In fact,
most of US can't even get rich slowly
Only a man who is known to be truth
full can tell lie big enough to attract at
tention-
1t is easy for a girl to believe that a
certain young man is her affinity-until
after they are married.
Nothing IS more disappointing than the
actions of a pretty girl who thinks her
good looks an excuse for impoliteness.
Happy is the calm, unruffled man who
takes life phi1osophicaliy and grows old
gracefully-even IL he doesn't amount to
much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
FVENLNG CHAT

..r .s snrnrised the other day 70 e how
-, ~, Who = always know 80, So ,,,ef on,
speak siightingly OF a Ger of our ours.
ny 49, o1eo noticed the unaeSu-' tbat
tome in the lady's remarks, she com
isn't like you, big sister,
lady vgho-always-lSno" l,,o,,ld
flushed No a distressed PINK. a.raned
hope il wasn't" she salo' .-io,, TO make.
of myself 1 have a confessloll -, - n 1
u ~ t,sts e. a good chance to make -,
don't like that woman ana - g. Kind
to be just TO her, ! slVe well edu-
ca4ad agreeable, and everything Sora
ohfes VET / see everything she ~,
through blue glasses. l know n.t 4 frv to
controI nv Feelings and hide them, a.,
every once in while they break 1 yvor ~
something Ike , %nai Il iu1Ssaidg''
7 wonder how many people co1 ~. 90
in all honesty that they neNs. ,e,o-,,i-
wards anyone Just as .o we ed she felt
ways kno somehow coilAe79oo
towards this person.
Not many, 1 fancy. ,,ofrt-
'Fress up. now. In all your acqual my,
arres tent there some excellent anu
worthy persons to whom you 1eel =" -,
accountable dislike and to wno.n, ,nef
know in the bottom OF your H19
you do not do 5ustceT - ~. ,,a
you catch yourself looking Tor an u'-
u aen some one expresses a liking n
an adrniration for this person. you teel a
ouiclx pang OF hurt as II the egloel4s1,
had said something unlind or detrliieii'-''
You hear of some mistake made oy
somebody with which this person Is coh
nected, and you Immediately assume tii"'
all the blame belongs TO him. .,..
You are told of some good fortune 1. -.
has fallen to his lot and at once you Wy
to find a chance to suspect that ne ~
tanned it bv undesirable means or
YOU hunt diligently for fly in ms ON.
ment, are not content until you Aiiiu 80
and point il out TO others . 49,
And vet none of these things IS tLo
least bit like you. You desplse sucn tSS.
ings on principle and you never DO leei
that way towards any one else. e.,
What is it, then. that makes you feel
this way?
/ wonder.
If the lady-who -aiways-k nows-somehow
will pardon me. I'm going to make sus-
gestion. I'll frankly confess l found IL ny
searching out the blackness OF my own
heart, so perhaps she will forgive me ipi
asking her to share the stigma OF the eN-
PLANTATION.
admitted that her scape-goat was a most
estimable and much praised person.
think. If YOU will examine. you VIII lluu
that yours is OF the same nature ana
discredited and worthless person
How does that happen1
Would il make II any easier Tor you 10
conquer and crush out this unreasoninS
dislike if YOU admitted to yourself that =
had its deep. unacknowledged roots, not
in the unavoidable queerness or human
nature and your own particular ecceI-
tricity as you may have been flattering
yourself-but right in two OF the meanest'
most hateful and most shametul OF hh-
man paSsions-envy and jealousy
II it would. I am pretty certain you
may give yourself that help.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

1t is always easier to do better tomor-
row.
While it is easy to start quarrel. it is
easier to avoid it.
How grateful very sick man is for a
slight Improvement
1t is the half sick patients that gives
a physician the most trouble.
So many rudy compilations are in
clined to settle in the end of the nose.
When you think you need a little as
sistance, try harder to help yourself.
Making it more difficult to secure di-
vorces won't add much to human happi-
ness.
Popular prices are not always as low
as that apt ALTERATION attempts to in
dictate.
A sixteen-year-old girls seems to have
enough enthusiasm for everything but
work.
When a political machine breaks down.
it is a sign it has been replaced by new
model
No man can serve the Lord properly II
his horse is standing out in the cold with
out a blanket.
Much of the enthusiasm in this world
is given to applause and other cheap and
easy outlets.
Men who have been overtaken by True
Love will admit that it runs pretty fast,
If not smooth
A farmer can't understand how any
one who doesn't get up till o'clock can
be overworked-
Doubtless you think lectures are long
enough; what. then, do you think of the
average trial?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
CRIMES BIG INCREASE.

In the course of an argument before
the American Prison association to tn =
effect that the startling increase of
crime in these United States is due to
the facility with which criminals so
unpublished, Judge c. A. De Courcy,
Of the superior court of Massachusetts
presented some statistics that are little
less than alarming. They show as -4e
quoted President Taft as having 50
pointedly said that the administration
of criminal law in this country is 4
disgrace to civilization
During the year 1910 the homicides
here increased nearly 900 over the ore
vious year, reaching the staggering to-
tai of S.975, and yet but one in Sc of
this large number were capitally pun
isned. For each million of the poou-
latiQn of this country there were lis
homicides, while in Italy there were
less than Is: in Canada less than IS,
in Great Britain less than 3; in Ger
many less than 5. Surely these are
some comparisons to ponder over
= sympathetic and a sensitive hu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
..No1 A THING TO WEAR"

Few college girls of today have best
clothes. No, nothing is wrong with the
crops. Bank accounts are doing very
we'll, too, thank you. And girls wear
prettier things now than ever, but full
~ one-half of the girls in any large
college make little distinction in their
dress for class rooms and for Sunday
or dress-up occasions, says a girl who
is a student in the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college, according to the Kan
sas Industrialist.
Too many girls, these days, lack a
saving sense of the eternal fitness of
things. Silk dresses. elaborate blouses
made with low neck and short sleeves,
picture hats with sweeping willow
plumes, and velvet shoes are as out of
place in the class room as in the kitch-
en-. But some girls wear them, and
their classmates with smaller means
suffer envious heartburnings or wear
cheap limitations of finery.
Where cheap finery begins, neatness
stops. Too often the velvet shoes are
run down at the heels the silk waists
are soiled and spotted, and the lace
ruffles are torn in several places. But
the girl who wears them doesn't care
She has permitted her standards of
dress to become as cheap and drag
gled as her finery-
No woman is really educated until
she has learned the secret of good
dressing. Simplicity of cut and trim
ming, quiet, harmonizing colors, and
absolute neatness in all details are the
marks of dress by which real gentle
women are known. The college where
girls do not learn these things has fail
ed in one purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
WALKING IN THE WOODS.

I walk beneath mysterious autumn trees,
An autumn twilight hour
But when walked in summer field and
bower
These, too, were mysteries;
Always there is a spirit and a breath
Beyond my spirits call,
Almost the living trees confess the faith,
And yet 1 know not what creation
saith
But He who walks here with me knows
it all.
There was an hour, 0 friend of mine.
when we
To each grew very near,
When hand in hand we both grew
silent, dear,
Because love could not see.
Always there is a secret yet untold
The barriers do not fall
Almost find your life whose hands
hold,
And yet I know not what my hands
enfold-
But love Himself is with us, knowing all.
Saturday Review
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
ADVERTESLNG Talks
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

The merchant Of today realizes that the
majority Of advertising representatives Of
publications are earnest business men
who are in close touch with conditions.
and who study the needs Of merchants in
order to help them make a success OF
their business.
To illustrate this point. recite here an
experience Of one OF my boys who re-
Gently called on a speciality house and
suggested TO the head Of that house the
advisability Of conducting a vigorous
campaign TO stimulate his Holiday trade.
After the young man and the merchant
had talked together for some time, and
after the merchant had explained that he
was heartily in favor Of advertising and
appreciated the need OF telling the public
facts about his business. he took the
young man into his office and showed him
his order book and the condition OF the
factory that supplied him with the spc-
cialty article he sold
He did not try to sidetrack the young
mamie was very much IN earnest about
il and tried to convince him that he was
telling him the truth about why he could
not do any advertising between now and
the holidays.
As matter OF fact. his factory cannot
give him one-third OF the merchandise he
actually needs for his normal Christmas
trade, and he isn't IN a position TO adver-
tise for more business because he could
not fill orders If he cot them
Just by way Of contrast to this expert
ence, those Of us who are older in the
chant instead OF bothering to give reasons
why he did not want to advertise would
simply dismiss us In "A few curt words
and let Il go at that.
There Is genuine affinity between
business men and advertising men now
adays which works to the advantage OF
both.
Cro be conunued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
FROM OTHER PENS
READING THE NEWSPAPER.

READING THE NEWSPAPER
Some men complain that they nave not
time to read the newspapers They make
a great mistake. The days news Is the
most marvellous stimulant that can De
found. A.
Some women rarely read the papers. AS
girls they never formed the habit AS
grown housewives they value broom
more than page of human history so
ciety gossip or glazing accounts OF ca
lamity they manage to read, If their next
door neighbor does not gossip too long
over the telephone.
All bright-minded children can be IN
duced to pick up the newspaper habit
They need a bit of guidance as to scan
dals as they need to be told not to pad
bic in the mud after a shower. Point out
to the lad the seat of war in Tripol- Ihat
makes live geography II he VIII READ
the current reconstruction in turkey ne
will know, without consulting public Il
braries later on, how the history OF his
times was constructed
The free press is, take it all in all, the
highest prize of a free state We do not
stop long enough to confess it We ought
to weigh it, ought oftener than we do to
rightly value this costly machine, the
daily press. 1t is not too much to say
that nothing ever did or ever will come
into the poor mans home that stands for
so much expended energy as the newspa-
per which he may lightly, perhaps, toss
upon the f1oor--New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
JAYHAWKER JOTS

A Washington mans wife has new
diamond ring, new set of furS, new
Flanders rune bout, new silk dress
and new silver chocolate pot, reports
the Washington Republican-Re g1sle r
and then it explains. Lucky? Oh. no.
she merely has them on her list or
things wanted fer Christmas"
A young business man of this CITY,
relates the Smith County Pioneer, mas
hit upon a happy idea to make slow
paving customers dig up. For a long
time he sent out monthly "duns urg-
ing prompt settlement, but little II any
attention was paid to them. Getting
pretty warm, he sent an enlarged plll
to an old lady who had been owing
him three or four months, and the Ell
feet was almost magical. She came IN
snorting mad the next day with the
bill in her hand and the way she went
after the young man for trying to swim
die her brought the bushes to ms
cheeks He finally made her belleVe
the error was unintentionai, ana she
settled on the spot for what she owed.
Since then the young man SENDS out
hills of about twice their proper size
to slow creditors, and he says 1t brlnsS
them in. every time and invariably mao
all over at his attempt to cheat. them;
He saws you can even make a dead
heat hot by cunning him for larger
amount than he owes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
hUNOR or THE DIP

Arr, Art IN the Home.-"Don't you think
there Is a great likeness between me ard
Mona Lisa, my dcar?'' Yes. Won can
follow her example and get stolen too. IL
you hke-'-Lustige Blaetter.
No Monopolist.-''Thatg girl I'm the breai.-
ers Is evidently in distress. Why DONE
you swim to her rescue2' 1T would he
very bad FORM rescued her yesterda,, -
Kansas city journal.
Unpleasant Ambi guity.-TIe-Thev asked
me to their reception but Il WASN'T -
cause they like me; II was only becans.
can sing. She-Oh, I'm sure vot,'re rets
MISUNDERSTANDING mas
Not Up to Date.-The Schoolr,.gt,-
Now how was IL that this great tIiece,,,o-,,
made by Columbus was not fully anpr,ri
ated until many years after his death p
The Up-to- Date Scholar-Beca,iee -
didn't advertise, sir.-The Sketch.
HIS ism.-GWendoline-If II ,.,.-
out possible, In these prosaic DAYS -
you TO do something heroic, sonetbin1-
brave and knightlike, Ia order 10 nroe1s
your love. George-WeIl, amt / Eoine
70 marry you next month on a salaTv -
e week2-London Opinion. ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many vindications come too late
to be of any service.
x * X
You can't convince schoolboy thar
he's enjoying the happiest period OF
life.
The successes in politics are not
nearly as numerous as the derelicts
left along its way
Women like to have an odd ring or
something else around on which to
blame their dad luck
y X
There must be something out Of
gear with the people who like the WIN
fer time better than the summer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23


ing to press agents, kidnapped youln
of 20. Here is chance for some IN
teresting arithmetic If you care TO ns-
Ure i out.
OF course it was Chicago gent who
found fault with the Topeka hre pro-
lection. Chicago, as you may remern-
Der, is the village on Lake Michigan
that was once smoked off the map, anu
later furnished the Iroquois disaster
If a ran could get what he wanted
by praying for it, prayer would peco.le
a popular fad, instead of q duty winch
entails the greatest efforts OF evasion
And, furthermore, men would get SO 50
blamed lazy that they could not get
out of each others way.
On rare occasions men become can
didates for Office because they can
help it, but as a rule. it is because the
public can't help it.
When a widower asks a girl to share
his lot she should, before closing the
deal, go out to the cemetery ana LOOK
three
It is said, in the official organ, that
Joe Dolley made a deep impression IN
New Orleans. It is evident that ne
found things pretty soft down there.
Or, maybe, that WAS a polite way
of sayin~ that he put his foot in it.
Congratulations upon her speedy ac-
ouittal are hereby rendered Mrs. Pat
terson. who is on trial in Denver for
rem owing an undesirable husband. Nay,
Evangeline, the congrats are not pre-
mature Mrs. Patterson is young and
go0d looking, and the jury is conlpos-
ed of young married men.
Mr.. Billiard says he wants to conduct
his own campaign, but the organized
opposition seems bent upon taking the
lob off his hands. on the popular theory
that every knock is a boost Mr. Bill
lard's campaign is being conducted as
we'll as anyone could ask.
The Canadian woman who cured her
brother-in-law of smoking by putting
strychnine IN his coffee. get i've years;
but she can console herself with the
thought that the cure was effective.
He will stay cured a dangsigat longer
than that.
Perhaps you are somewhat to blame
Or didn't show a lick of sense,
But YOU refuse to take that shame
"Constributory negligence.
In accident or cen assault
The other fellow is at fault
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHF1,oR

lFrom the New York Prese.1
One strap can put moro ,,oos 49,.
INTO boy than hundred lectures.
A man gets very little knowledge f-o...
experience girl lot from lack OF II
You can tell when woman is GOING 20
deserve it, "o ooesn'
- l ne reason a girl can dance miles ,,,tt,,
9ut gettng tired IS il would breot, ~ III
down to walk few yards. e@A her
The Lord made 1890
Worid, but man is so smart r. . ~ tIe
W. w., oI nus time proving It is wronr -''o9
Mnen girl realizes that abe q
to be iooked pit1u se she naturally wants
You can flatter a young n,otLo.
l lll her boy is large for his age ny ~ say
a., S,n az satter her more by savin,- you