PIKE COUNTY PRESS. Fridat, Jult 10, 1896. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAT. office, browh'b building, broad bt. Entored at the post office of Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, as sooond-olass mattor, Novembot twenty-first, 1895. Advertising Rates. One squaroels:ht llnes),one Insertion - II .00 Each subsequent Insertion .60 Koduoed rate will bo furnished on ap plication, will be allowed yearly adver tisers. Legal Advertising. Court Proclamation, Jury and Trial List for several courts per term, 134.00 Administrator' and Executor's notices 8.00 Auditor's nntloes 4.(10 Divorce notices 6.00 Sheriff's Bales, Orphans' court dales, County Treasurer's sales, County stato ment and election proclamation charged by the square. J. H. Tan Etten, PUBLISHER, Mllford, Pike County, Pa. 1896 JULY. 1896 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fr. 8a. T7TT 567 J9 JLO 11 12 1314 JL5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2A 25 26 1 27 28 29 30 "31 MOON'S PHABE8. M Third n I S I I first r. lllM tiQuartar O p. m. I lOusrter II s-m. e' m Full . 1.01 Mooa 10 p.m. CiMooo 24 p.B. Regular Republican Nominations. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM M'KINLEY, OF OHIO, FOR VI0JC-PRE81DEHT, GARRET A. HOBART, OF NEW JERSEY. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET For Congressrnen-at-large, GALUSHA A. GROW, of Susquehanna County. SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT, of Erie County. Editorial. LOCAL POLITICS. The different candidates for county offices are beginning to urge their claims and offer reasons why they should reooive your support at the polls. They will claim consideration on the ground that it Is custom to re-elect ; that by reason of economi cal administration or judicious man agement of affairs they are dosorv Ing ; or that their great executive abilities and natural fitness entitle thorn to your suffrages. They will have abundant evidence of home manufacture to prove that their knowledge of the duties of the office is so complete and comprehensive that it would be a oostly experiment to try to educate others for the posi tion. They will meet you at every mental turn with a plausible sugges tion for their retention in or elec tion to offloe. Voters should care fully listen, candidly weigh and im partially consider these arguments, and with their personal knowledge as to the fitness of the candidate based on his past reoord determine whether he is as well qualified to perform the duties of the station Which he aspires to fill as some other man. It is not a question of tariff, or f roo silver, of gold, or protection, it is one which more nearly and di rectly conocrns your pockets and the prosperity of the county. In national affairs you vote a pol icy which influences the general prosperity of the oountry, in county matters you vote no policy save that which bears directly on the economical management of the money you pay as taxes and the bet terment of the physical condition of local interests. In such matters it were better that the strictly parti Ban eye which sees only a name and the ear which hears only a party slogan, be closed, and that you vote in accordance with the dictates of sound common sense, that is the fit test man for the place to be filled. Should this doctrine be established all parties would exercise more care in selecting candidates and the re sult would inevitably be that a bet ter and more capable class of officials would administer our affairs. Do the voters of Pike desire any such result ? A WORD ON THE TARIFF. Some Democratic newspapers are attempting to demonstrate by figures claimed to be taken from the trea sury report that the receipts under the Wilson tariff bill exceed those undor the MoKiuloy measure. Fig ures may be juggled,and statements calculated to deceive, oonooctod, to catch the unwary. The cry in 1894 was " the tariff is a tax " down with protection, and thousands of voters looking only on the surface roosoned no farther than that if a duty was laid on a certain article which they bought, they paid that duty in ad dition to the cost of the, goods, which is a naked fact. They did not con sider that this duty or tax " was necessary to furnish a revenue for the support of government, nor did they pause to enquire what wages the workmen earned who made the goods, or whether thoy were paid the same as American workmen. Thoy did not reflect that if a foreign meohanio earned but fifty cents por day in a factory, or on a farm, our laborers could not be paid at any higher rate if American products were to compote with foreign wares. They did not reason that in ordor to pay certain fixed and living wages to American workmon the products of our mines, manufactories and farms.mtiBt be protected by Just the difference which it cost to produoe the same artioles in foreign lands. The Canadian farm hand is paid about fifty cents per day, and at that rate labor costs about one-half what it does here. Now can our farmers raise potatoes in oompeti tion with the Canadian farmer f If a duty is laid on potatoes per bushol just the amount of that tax either goes in the pockot of our farmer or his hired help, and by just that amount are we benefitted. It is so with every class of products. This is all there is of protection aside from raising the revenue necessary to carry on the government. Now is this requisite ? Laying aside the figures which our Democratic friends cite every one knows the fact that the Cleveland administra tion has been obliged to borrow im mense sums of money. The Harri son administration did not borrow, it paid large sums on our indebted ness. Those are facts. Now which policy should be endorsed ? Under which state of affairs will our coun try be prosperous, and our work men contented ? Every voter will answer that question as he casts his ballot for or against Democratic mis rule. Essor's candidate for Congress, L. H. Barbor.isn't going to have every thing his own way. The opposite faction have trotted out John E. Lauer, of Longford, who promises to make things exceedingly interest ing for the other fellows. Lehigh ton Press. There are some Democrats who are not sure that McKinley is a sound money man. What a state of mind they must be in I It would appear as if they had been imbibing too freely of their own party doc trine, and ought to be In some gold cure establishment. Four years ago the Democrats told the farmers that if they voted for Cleveland and free trade,they would have good times and lots of money. Now thoy say vote for the ticket and free silver and the good times and cheap money will come. What about the story of the burnt child ? The shrinkage in value of farm crops between 1891 and 1895 was in round numbers eight hundred mil lion dollars. The cost of labor, tax es, insurance, interest and repairs was nearly as great in '95 as in '91. The loss to the Amercian farmer has been at least five hundred mill. ion dollars. Does he want a change? OoM Claw There were two Interviews printed in The News yesterday which ought to sot people thinking. It was shown in one of tbeae interviews that the banks are already beginning to oall in their paper, even paper which at other times they would have been glad to renew. This tendency on the part of lenders of money will grow stronger as the situation grows more uncertain. Men who lend money on a gold basis will take no chances of being repaid In cheap silver. This is shown by the practice of the building associations, as described In the other interview. The secretary of one of these associations said yesterday that there had been hardly a building association mortgage made In the past three years which did not oontain a gold clause. We quote his words : "I do not believe it is generally known that nearly every building and loan as sociation in this city and in the state, I oppose, has pot in every mortgage it has taken for the last three years a clause to the effoot that the loan shall be paid in gold, if demanded by the as sociation. The association of which I am secretary has out $470,000, and that clause is in every mortgage. "Indian apolis News, June 11. I S11 write. "I believe in a man living up to his principles," said Uncle Alien Sparks. ''Now, I have a neighbor who is a howl ing silverlte and is always talking about the crime of 1878, but whenever he finds that somebody has passed a Canadian 10 cent piece on him he saves it to throw in the contribution box at ohuruh." Chicago Tribunal Will Xavar Yets row Chaaa M Tha attemot to oonvinos the of tha people that a depreciated currency would shower blessings upon them can ncres suoueed. Atlanta journal (Uwa. ) THE FREE COINAGE HOLD UP. fc.. This bandit may not intend to shoot but he certainly has dangorous weapons and while they are pointed at our capitalists our industries will make but slow and uncertain progress. But little new capital will bo invested in industries until it is practically oertain that suoh investments are safe and thnt thoy will not suddenly lose half their value by being measured in 60 cent dollars. Re move all doubts as to the standard of value for the next ten years and our own capital will oomo out of its hiding places ; foreign capital will rush to this country ; old factories and mills will become active ; new enterprises will be undertaken; thousands, now idle, will find employment ; farmers will And mar kets for their produots; merchants will have use for their old, and perhaps need new, clerks; in short, "times will be good. " Never was there more capital in Europe ready for investment at very low rates of interest Harvests are promising and all conditions are favorable for prosperity except one the 10 to 1 threat aimed at capitalists. Hi THE CRIME OP '73." IT EXISTS ONLY IN THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE FACTS. Onngr mmm MeClMry Exposes tha Ab surd rabrlostlons About ths Aot of 1870. Bill Was Dlaafuaed For Thrrn Years No One Thought off Bamonetlslne; Silver, Whloh Was Praattaally Demonetised In IMS Bow tha Aet Went Through Con trass "Like tha Silent Tread of a Cat." For the benefit of the thousands of intelligent people who honestly believe that a crime was committed surrepti tiously against silver in 1878, Congress man J. T. MoOlcary of Minnesota de voted considerable time, in his great speech of Feb. 18, to a presentation of the Important facta connected with the passage of the coinage act of 1878. The facts stand out so clearly and tell suoh a straightforward story that it would seem impossible that any fa'r minded man should, after reading them, con tinue to believe that there was any "conspiracy" by anybody that caused the passage of this act. We can give but a few of the more salient points from Mr. McOloary's speech on this point: The original bill was prepared in the treasury department in the winter of 1809-70, by John Jay Knox, then deputy comptroller of the currency, under the dlreotion of George 8. Boutwelh then secretary of the treasury. The laws re lating to the mint had not been revised for more than a generation, and much oonfnsion existed. This bill was largely codification of existing law, with suoh improvements as experience suggested. The first draft of the bill was sub mitted to leading experts on coinage and ourrenoy in this oountry, and to some In Europe. In this way the views of more than 80 men were obtained. Tholr answers were transmitted to the house in June, 1870, as a supplementary report on the bill. The consensus of opinion of these experts, and of those who discussed the bill in congress, was that It was simply to recognise legally what had practically existed, since the aot of 1808 made gold the single stand ard of value and made silver subsidiary and legal tender only for sums not ex ceeding 15. The bill as introduced distinctly dis continued the silver dollar. One of the eight headings to the divisions In the reports accompanying the bill was as follows: "(8) DISCONTINUANCE OF SILVER DOLLAR." This was printed in capitals. The discontinuance of the silver dollar was specifically referred to m four places In this report. Contrary to the suppositions and statements of many leading free silver- ltes, ths old standard dollar of 418 H grains was never In the ooinage bill passed In 1878, and therefore It could not, as they allege, have been omitted surreptitiously. In May, 1808, a silver dollar containing 884 grains was in troduced Into the bilL Like the silver half dollars it did not have "free ooin age" or full tender; This was the dol lar whioh was afterward dropped out of the bill and In place of whioh the trade dollar of 480 grains, with unlimited coin age, but limited tender, was substituted. From the contemporary records it is clear that the bill was before oongress for about three years ; that it was print ed 11 times separately and twioe in re ports of the comptroller of the currency ; that it was considered at length by the finance committee of the senate and by the ooinage oommittee of the house dur ing five different sessions; that it was carefully debated in both houses, the debates in the senate occupying 66 col umns and those in the house occupying 78 columns of The Congressional Globe, and it finally passed substantially as it was originally introduced. Every fea ture of the bill was thoroughly explained in the original report accompanying the bill, and repeatedly afterward In the debates on the bill itself. There doubtless were persons in both houses who did not pay attention to either the report or the discussions, for at that time suoh subjects were regard ed as of interest only to experts, but it certainly cannot be truthfully said that they did not have full opportunity to know all about it So far as oouoerns the ooinage of gold and silver, there were just two impor tant provisions in the act of 1 878 name ly, the unlimited ooinage of gold and ths limited ooinage of silver. Both of these provisions have endured and will endure, because, as I have shown al ready, this is the only way in which we can have the use of both metals as money at the same time. And though some very exoullunt gentlemen in congress in 1878 when the wave, of "free silver" threatened to overwhelm every one op posed to it, may have said some foolish things about the aot of 1878, it is a sig nificant fact that not a single Republican of those quoted as saying those things, unless he lives in a silver producing state, has ever voted to repeal the essen tial provisions of the act of 1878 above cited. Except as to the trade dollar (which was inserted as a special conces sion to the silver producers), the aot of 1878, based upon the experience of oen turios, framed by men pre-eminent far ability and integrity, discussed in all its phases during the three years when it was before oongress, will be recorded in history as one of the wisest and best pieces of legislation ever enacted by ths oongress of the United States. Its de tails may be changed, but its funda mental principles will endure. Occasionally we hoar a man ask, " Why didn't the newspapers say mors about the aot at the time of its passage?" The answer is plain. It was because of their being newspapers, not ancient his tories. Thoro was nothing new in prin ciple or practice In the bill. It was largely a re-enootment of existing law, properly codified. Why did the bill give gold unlimited ooinage and tender? Be cause all mint laws in existence did so. Why did it restrict the ooinage of sub sidiary silver and limit its tender to 1ST Because these were the provisions of ths act 6f Feb. si, 1858. Why did it omit from ooinage the old standard silver dollar? Because that had been the intent of the aot of 1888. In 18B8 the dollar was entirely out of circulation, and no attempt was made to bring It back into circulation. Why did it make the gold dollar the unit of valuof Because it had really been the metallic unit since 1884. And this was the avowed intention of the aot of 1868. The truth was that in 1878 the silver dollar was worth for bullion 8J4 cents more than the gold dollar and that sil ver dollars had not been in circulation for many years. As Congressman Hoop er said on April 0, 1878, when discuss ing the silver dollar : "It does not circu late now in commercial transactions with any oountry, and the convenience of these manufacturers in this respect oan better be met by supplying small stamped bars of the same standard, avoiding the useless expense of oolnlng the dollar for that purpose. " And Mr. Kelloy, who is reported as having said afterward that he "did not know that the bill omitted the standard silver dollar, " said on this same day I "It is Impossible to retain the double standard. Ths values of gold and silver continually fluctuate. You cannot de termine this year what will be the rela tive values of gold and silver next year. They were IS to 1 short time ago. They are 16 to 1 now. "Henoe all experience has shown, that you must have one standard coin whioh shall be a legal tender for all others, and then you may promote your domes tic convenience by having a subsidiary ooinage of silver, whioh shall circulate In all ports of your oountry as legal ten der for a limited amount and be re deemable at its face value by your gov ernment " In another place In the same speech Mr. Kolley said, "Every ooln that is not gold is subsidiary." Even Mr. Stewart, then as now a sen ator from Nevada, said on Feb. 80, 1874 : "By this prooess we shall come to specie baa is, and when the laboring man receives a dollar it will have the purchasing power of a dollar and he will not be called upon to do what is impossible for him or the producing classes to do, figure upon the exchanges, figure upon the fluctuations, figure upon the gambling in New York, But hs will know what his money is worth. Gold is the universal standard of the world. Everybody knows what a dollar in gold is worth. " The remarks of Mr. Eelley in the house in 1878, and those of Senator Stewart in 1874 show that at that time, before the tremendous output of silver turned men's heads, there was practi cally undivided opinion on the subject. The bill bad been before oongress three years, it had been repeatedly discussed, there was toothing new or startling in it, and henoe there was no call for any extended not toe of its passage. But the facts are seen to be that the bill was passed openly and honestly. It embodies the principles of sound mint age, and it undoubtedly saved us from going to a silver basis on the resumption of specie payments. And, therefore, the men who framed it and those who passed it deserve and will reoelve the grateful thanks of ourselves and our posterity. After beooming acquainted with ths facts bow ridiculous seems the following statement from Coin's Financial School: "In ths language of Senator Daniel of yirginia, it (the sot . 1B78 S?lnsto have gone through congress 'like the silent tread of a cat ' " Yet this Is but a sample of the false statements mads by most of the leading silverites. Ths following summary of procedure indi cates how "like the silent tread of cat" the aot of 1878 stole through congress: ifiitifiiiiii ?E'3 iilllrll "JJSbr Et: ' II t flip ! III! PIP if! i ij ! i H M El ! ! I UM : fl: :&::: : : a; :!!! i r: : i l : i iiiii I 6: : ! I I : i : i : i : ! : H : I: E l III if! : : : ; . : ! ! ! i i i ! t : :::::: :t:::::: MM, PrP Mess iir r2 ili " WHICH SIDE AhE YOU ONf Soom Teat QoeeHon Wow Vndeolded Vot er. Are you opposed to a sudden contrac tion in the volume of money now in usof A free ooinage law would immedi ately drive out of circulation over 000, 000,000 In gold. Do you beliovo in a stable measure of values whioh shall be fair to both debtor and creditor? The 16 to 1 scheme would put this country on a fluctuating silver basis. Have you money in the bank or loaned out to any one? Free silver would out the value of your savings in two. Are yon prepared to abandon the monetary standard which is used by all the groat commercial nations of the world and adopt that of India, China and other cheap labor countries? If not, you should protest against free silver. Do you believe that common honesty demands that debts oont rooted in 100 cent dollars should be paid in money worth as much as that which was bor rowed? Free ooinage means the repudia tion of one-half of all obligations. Do you know of any way in whioh men who are now poor can get rioh hon estly, except by hard work? If not, you should condemn the quacks who are promising the people to moke them all rioh by legislation whioh will debase the currency. Would you like to see capital abun dant and interest low? Money is far more plentiful and interest rates are lower in gold standard nations than in the silver using countries. Do you consider it important to the interests of trade and industry that there should be no uncertainty in regard to the basis of the oountry 's finances? Then you must oppose the senseless agitation which is checking the investment of capital and depressing business. Would you like to see the purchasing power of the workingmon's wages cut down one-half by a ourrency law whioh should declare that 00 cents worth of silver was a "dollar?" Under free coin age this oountry would have silver mono metallism, with doubled prices for ev erything the workers buy. Are you willing to bring on a finan cial panio, caused by the calling in of loans through fears of free silver repu diation, merely for the sake of trying cheap money experiments whioh have always resulted in disaster? If not, and if you want an honest dollar and pros perity, you should work and vote against all attempts to debase the currency. Whidden Graham. Silver and tha Foot Man. Every crank who ventures to proselyte for free silver seems to think that the poor man is his most promising game. The doctrine he presents is that more money is needed that the poor man may have plenty. He does not say how the poor man is to get any more money, Whioh is the important thing, nor that a cheap money is the one thing the poor man oan stand loss ably than the rioh man. The poor man, the workingman, or the farmer, are served only when they have the best money obtainable. Suppose for a moment that free silver should drive the gold dollar out of cir culation. The first effect is on the poor man. When be receives his weekly wages it is paid in the cheap money. He is the first loser. He oan buy less with it than with the higher priced money, of oourso. If he happens to be earning $18 a week and the dollars are cut down from a gold basis to a silver basis he will get 18 dollars, worth pos sibly 70 cents each, or 8.40, instead of the value that prevails when the gold standard is accepted. With cheap money prices will go up What he buys he Will have to pay more for. Manufactur ers are not going to produoe their wares and sell them for the same number of dollars when the dollars are worth less money. The poor man will catch it in both directions. Cheap money disarranges all business relations. There is no such a thing as one standard for one class and another for another class. The talk of the debt or's money and the creditor's money is bunko. Every man is debtor and cred itor all the tima The workingman is the oreditor while he is earning his wages, until he is paid. Ho is a debtor for the few things he buys without pay ing for when he gets them. As he pays cash for much of what he buys, and al lows all his wages to stand until the end of the week or month, he is a cred itor more than he is a debtor. The cheap money, which is to benefit the debtor, Would benefit the employer who owes him wages, and who pays the wages in the depreciated coin. There is but one standard desirable. and that is the best dollar that can be made. The standard is now fixed at a trifle more than 88 grains of pure gold. The aim of the oountry is to keep all other dollars, gold, silver or paper, up to that standard and not debase or cheapen any of them. Pittsburg Times. mm ? ll&li aim E : K r n D DISHONESTY NEVER PAYS. Free Colnaaa Would Hnrt Debtor aa Well a Creditors. "He needs a long spoon who would sup with the dovil" is a good old Span ish proverb. It is one Which should be remembered by all the voters who have been deluded into favoring tho free sil ver plan for robbing creditors by cutting the value of tho dollar in two. It is unfortunately true thnt t he clear est proof of the dishonesty of a scheme which would enable men who have bor rowed 100 cent dollars to pay back the loon in 60 cent dollars does not causa the men who fnvor it to abandon their agitation. There was a time when the people had only to be shown that a cer tain policy was dishonest and immoral to secure its prompt condemnation. But through a shortsighted and foolish self ishness, which seems to have blighted their moral sense, a large number of persons now openly declare their will ingness to repudiate debts. "Free silver will cheat creditors?" they say. "Tlron all the more reason why we should have it" Suoh men oan only be reached in one way. This is by showing them thnt stealing from creditors is exactly like stealing from any other property owner, and that if this country once inaugu rates a policy of confiscating one-half of the property of some men, it will not be long before all property rights will bo assailed. How will this suit tho great majority of tho American peoplo, who all have some property and are trying to got more? Are they ready to start in robbing on a wholesale scolo by debasing the ourrency? Even If one-half of tho debts in this country were wiped out it by no means follows that debtors would be benefited. Tho paralysis of industry which would follow the withdrawal of capital would cause suoh suffering and loss to alholnRsoa that debtors as well as creditors would be involved in the common ruin. When the men who paid their debts in cheap silver went to borrow more monoy, thoy would find that no one would lend, un loss at very high interest rates, snfiloient to cover tho risk of another repudiation scheme. Thus in the end the men who had hoped to profit by dishonesty would find thomselves still poorer than thoy are now. The attempt to chont the dovil by robbing people of their property with a 16 to 1 law, instead of stealing it openly, is a miserablo trick. His satanio majesty cannot be fooled in that wny. Row Savings Will Be Lost, There will bo millions of mad farm' era, workingmen, clerks and profefsional men when they go to draw their littlo savings out of bank after wo have gone. or decided to go, to a silver basis, should we foolishly decide to go tJiere vio the 18 to 1 short lino. The 4,875,619 depos itors, who havo 11,810,697, 028 in Rav ings banks, would all suddenly conclude to withdraw their savings and to oon vert them into gold before we should drop to the silver basis. Only a small poroontage oould obtain their deposits before the doors of the banks would close. The great majority of depositors would have to wait until we had actu ally reached a silver basts before they could withdraw thoir doposits, and this picture shows the kind of money they 1 would obtain. It will not be the faolt of the bank officers if the banks are un able to return as good money as tibey received. They have loaned the banks' funds out at Interest and, except incases where officers have suspected the honest Intentions of their oountry und inserted the gold olanse in mortgages, the banks themselves will have to aacept depreci ated dollars in return for the fuQ value dollars loaned. They will, therefore, have only cheap dollars to return to their depositors. These depositors, then, are the real creditor class of this ooun try. Instead of being few and wealthy there are over 10,000,000 of them hav ing deposits in all kinds of banks and in building and loan associations, and their average per capita deposits are only $500, This oountry will not go to a silver basis without the consent of a large portion of these depositors. If they do vote to put it on a sliver basis, sev eral millions of them will be kicking thomselves the next morning after they find out what they have dona. Why Minnesota la Vor Gold. Minnesota Democrats deolurod un equivocally for the gold standard. Thry did so unexpectedly. The big delega tions from Minneapolis andDuluth were pledged for 16 to 1, and it was taken for granted that the country delegations would favor stiver. Why did they vote for gold? Several reasons have been suggested. The one most often met with is that the farmers are composed largely of honest and intelligent Scandinavians and Ger mans who cannot be caught with free silver sophistry. As over 75 por oent of Minnesota's population is foreign born, this answer may be partly true, A mure reasonable explanation, however, if i found in the reported statement that .'a large portion of the form mortgages t a Minnesota are made payable in "goJ .d coin of the United States of the preset at standard of weight and fineness. " J Jo- -1 I b l I I t s . ing oompellod to pay their debts in gold the farmers wish to receive as good money when they sell their product! i. The fact that a fur larger purtio a of mortgages will contain the gold cl ause next November than now aaay spoil many votes for the 16 to 1 scheme, A Good Simile. The disousslon about silver and gold reminds one much of a cuscusaion about the relation of the earth and sun. The gold men maintain that the earth got round the Buttj the silver men that the son goes round the earth, exoept when deflected by the efforts of the bunkers and "goldbuga. " New York Evening Post i ... T .. . THE LADIES' COLUMN. We wish to mie irpfc to i.hn Imllcfl Mint this column Is nlwiiys o)n to nny snd nil woo wisn u supffi'Ht (loiiiostlo siilijeets ol any nature whatever, either to ask sdvlee or furnish Information to others, end we earnestly hone nil rvmlprsnf the I'krhb and Who rtesire will nvnil themselves of tho op portunity, and thus receive as well as con fer benefits. All cTiimtinliint,1ons rolnt.lvn to this col umn Intend for publication will tie lnld over until next wivk If they reach this ofllco later than Tuesday. PLAtJI DltKAKFAflT. Cherry currants on stems with powdered sugar. Whcntcna, Cream. Lamb chops, Browned potatoes Klco nmllins. Coffee Whipped cream. Rice Muffins. 2 cups of boilixl rieo, 1 pint of flour, 1 tenspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of snpnr, 1 tea spoonfuls of good baking powder, Xpint of milk, 3 ets. Dilute rice free from lumps with milk and beat en epgs, sift, together flour, salt, su gar and yeast powder, add to rice preparation, mix smooth rather firm batter ; muffin pans must bo cold and well greased, then fill two-thirds full ami bako in hot oven fifteen minutes. Lkmox Custard I'ik. Grate the rind of one lemon, squeeze the juice into ono and one-half cups of sugar butter the size of an egg, one tablo spoonful of flour, and tho yolks of four eggs ; stir altogether as for cake and pour over it oto pint of boiling milk ; beat tho whites separately' and stir in af tor it has cooled a little then bake in a crust ns you would a custard pie. f. w. L. O. a reader of tho Press, re quests a receipt for lemon shorbot and we give hor the following whioh wo find to le very good. Put two quarts of new milk in a porolain ket tle, and ono pound or two cups of granulated sugar. The rind of four lemons pcolod off taking care not to cut into the sour part. Poald the lemon peel in tho milk and set off to cool, leaving the peel in milk till the milk is cool. Skim out the peel and nvld one pint of rich cream and twotiiblespoonfuls of Cooper's golo tino which has been disolvod in a small bowl of milk, put in tho free zer and freeze till like slush. Have pw.j wired the juioo of eight lemons, to which is added one pound and a 1 in If of sugar and tho whites of five oggs beaten to a froth. When the milk is half frozen add this and freeze till done. This will make a six quart freezer full. . It is sometimes) convenient to re member the following items of cook's measure. One pint of liquid equal a pound. Half a pound of butter will make ome cup. Four cups of flour mako one pound Two cups of granulated sugar make one pound, but in powdered sugar it will take two and a half cups to make a pound. Oh ! woll for him whose will is strong ; Ho suffers, but he will not suffer long : Ho suffors, wrong.- but ho cannot suffer -Tonnyson. CANDIDATE'S CAEI). Havlnpf boon appointed to fill a vacancy I.n the oflloe of Associate Judge. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the nomination at the Republican Conven tion, .should I receive It, and be elected, I shall endeavor to perform the duties of the office impartially and to the best of my ability. WILLIAM MITCHELL. July 8, 1896. r All porsons are hereby notified that throwljigor buruinff papers or refuse of any ki nil In the ktruets ui the Borough Is prohll iltud. By order of the town council, J. C. CHAMMKKLAiJf, President, pro torn. At'iest, D. H. IIORSBKCK, Soc y. Mi Iford, Muy 5, lsyti. SHERIFF'S SALE. 73r vtrtuoof a writ of levari Foofaa 1h eu fed nut of the Court of Common Pit mis of PlJte County, to me ill rooted, I will expose to public wile by vomluu or outcry, at the y Quriirn OUice iu the Borough ui Mil ford, o a SATURDAY, JULY II, A. D. iSiJrt, it 8 o'clock In the aftornoon of unid tiny, t kil that ctrtmn pit) or parcol of laud situ te iu the Towiirhlp of Blooming ( tovh,Iii tho County of Piko aud Mate of Punuttyl vania, hutttxl and bounded aa follows, to wit: BtttiiHiin at a Htoiiu corner, thence south two and a half degrees wet aoventy night rods to a stone coruer, thuueo north cihhty-uino degrees wont threw nxla to a ojroor, thence south two or a half degrees wHt eighty-two perches to a stone, thence' south eighty-nine degrees eat fifty-two tMirrhng to a stone, theut north two and half degrees went forty-nine pcrchtts to the piaee of trvginnhig, containing fifty acres more or lot, it being part of a larger tract of land In the warrant name of James ilarton. IMPROVEMENTS. Of the above lands about 40 acres are lm- piwed aud upou same are erected a good tMMfHtrjory iraiae uweiung noiiNo, barn and oisjbuildingu, with excellent fruit orchard. Baiisvace ot said land well timbered the wboie oomprUing a detdrabie farm and re fcidouoe. .8oied and taken In execution as tho pro- perty of Maggie iii. I'letschcr, executrix of Julia Pie teller, deceased, and Margaret PlHikiT, and will be sold bv me for ca&h. H. I. CUJJlVrKIGHT, Sheriff. 1 Slivariirs Oiflce, Mllford, Pa., ' June 15, l&'Jo.
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