.? I' PIKE COUNTY PRESS. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT MILFORD, PA. The PRESS is the best ADVERTISING MEDIUM in the county. J. H. Van Etten, Editor. Terms One dollar anil fifty cents a year in advance. . ji.'-'. r t 91 '. F SlSliLE COPIES, FlVR CENTS. Y0L1 Bl'HINESS CARDS. H. E. Emerson, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE in Drug Store on Broad Street. J. H. Van Etten, Attorney-at-Law, OFFICE, Brown's Building, Milford, Pike Co., Pa. John A. Kipp, Attorney-at-Law, OFFICE, opposite Court House, Milford, Pike Co., Pa. CHUECH DIRECTORY Kibst Prkrbttehian Church, Milford; Piihhutli services nt 10.WI A. M. and 7.:) 1". M. Snhhiith school liunieriliitely lifter the morning m-rrifv. Prayer meet lug Wed nesday Ht 7.80 P. M. A conlliil welcome will lie extended to nil. Those nut at tached to other churches nre especially In vltcd. Hkv. Thomas Nichols, Pastor. Church or thk Hood Shki-hkrii, Mil ford: Services Siindiiv Bt lo.:W A. M. mill 7. I) P. M. Sunday school Ht 8.30 P. M. Wcek-dnr servt-es, Friday at 8.SUP. M. Sat urday Bt 7.H0 A. M. Seats free. All wel come. B. S. IjAhhitkh, Hector. MATAMORAS. Hor-R EvANUF.LICAL ClII'HCH, Mlltll moras. Pa. Services next Sunday us follows: Preaching Bt 10.110 n. in. mid 7 p. in. Sun dny (K'liixil nt 8 p. in. Junior C. K. before nnd U. K. prayer meeting lifter tlio even ing service. Mid-week prayer meeting every Wednesday evening lit 7.JKI. Seats free. A cordial welcome to nil. Come. Hkv. J. A. Wikuanii, Pastor. Secret Societies. Milford Loimir, No. 844, F. & A. M.: Lodge meets Wednesdays on or before Full Moon at tho Siiwkill House, Milford, Pa. N. Kmory, Jr., Secretary, Milford. J. H. Van Ktten, W. M., Milford, Pa. Van Ikr Mark Ixiikie, No. iws. I. O. O. F: Meet every Thursday evening nt 7.80 p. in., Urawn'i Building. (ico. Diiu man, Jr., Soc'y. John Uourley,, N. O. Prudence Rkbekah Loixir, 197, I. O. O. V. Meets every second and fourth Fri days In each month In Odd Fellows' Hall, Brown's building. Miss Minnie Heck, N. U. Katie Klein, Sec'y. Subscribe for the Press. Whether you win wealth or not will depend upon your comprehen sion of the great underlying prin ciples of business and the adjust ment of your affairs in reference thereto. All of our readers are desirous of obtaining his or her share of the world's good things. This can only lxs done by keeping pace with this progressive age. One's own individual efforts will not suffice. What is needed is co operation. You should keep posted on all things that you may need to buy. It is a well established fact that the consumer (those who buy at retail) are paying in those United states from ono to twenty-five per cent, more than is necessary, simply from the fact that they do not keep posted on current prices. How long could a merchant avoid failure were he to use such lax methods in making his purcliases V One would quickly say such a dealer was a failure from the beginning, then why do you use this method in a small way ? It would cost you but the request to keep pace with the times in the way of prices on all staple articles you are apt to use. All that is needed is to notify BROWN & ARMSTRONG, general merchants, Milford, Pa., and you will receive a monthly price sheet. They issue this the first of each month. They are also pleased at all times to furnish samples and to fill promptly all orders received by mail. North British and Mercantile Insurance Co. of London and Edm burg. RYMAN & WELLS, Agents, Milford, Pa. Advertise in the Press. Insure your property in the Fire Association of Philadelphia. RYMAN & WELLS, Agents, Mil ford, Pa, As UMttil Sis. A negro in a religious gathering prayed earnestly that he and his colored brethren inigkt be preserved from what he called their " upset tin sins." "Bruder, "said one of his friends at the close of the meeting' "you ain't got de hang of dat ar word. It's besettin, notupsettin,' " " Brodder," replied the other, " if dat'a so, it's so. But I was a-prayin Providence to save us from de sin of intoxication, an if dat ain't an up gettin sin, I dunno what am I" Exchange. Till; TEACHERS' INSTITUTE The Teachers of T'ke County Con gregated at the Court House. tntrrpMtliiff SrHNluns Held Several Able Leetlirers Prrffent Pretty Nrliool jMtirms largely In Kvldenre Prof. ltlhle'N KtiRKfHtloit on tha 1'Ne of the Hook of Klementary Solenre. The Annual Pike County Teachers' Institute convened nt the Court House in Milford on Monday, Nov. 18 at 2o,doek, and was culled to or der by Count Hupcrintmdont Saw yer. The institute was ojieiiod with a responsive reading and singing. The following were then elected officers ; Miss Minnie Van Akin, vice-president. J. F. Maloney, secretary. Miss Florence Case,nssistant secre tary. John C. Watson, treasurer. Superintendent Sawyer then de livered an address and dwelt on the functions of teachers' institutes, the importance to teachers of attend ing, both in tho line of education nnd also in finances. Prof, C. H. Albeit, of Bloomslmrg State Normal School was then intro duced, taking for his subject, geog raphy. This tho professor declared to bo a most important study, nnd generally most poorly taught. Ho suggested tho idea of substituting for our third and fourth readers other books on elementary science, written and prepared for such grades in schools. Ho illustrated by sriying that a child being able to speak a word is no proof that a child knows it, and spoke of tho importance of a knowledge of relativo positions in geographical instruction. Singing by tho teachers followed. Prof. Bible, of East Stroudsburg State Normal School, then talked on "Oral Language," tho key which unlocks nil thought of the written and printed page. Tho roll was then called nnd 47 teachers responded. Adjourned to 7.!10 p. m. Tuesday forenoon, Prof. C. II. Alliert took up the subject of educn -tion : 1st objin't of education ; 2nd, nature of material to work on : 3rd, how to conduct operations ; Eg. tho carpenter's apprentice should con sider well tho object of his education in tliat especial line, and by several other illustrations showed that bet tor work can bo accomplished by careful consideration of tho object. In particular is this truo of the teachers, whoso aim should be to develop all conscious power. Think ing is seeing relations. Time should lie spent in finding out the kind of material we liave to work on, and so avoid mistakes, and trouble, and doing better work in the school room. The afternoon session was opened with singing, when, I'rof . Bible took up the subject of school govorment : Ho said laws nro not made for those who choose to do right, but for those who choose to do wrong. The teacher's aim should bo develop di rection in tho child, direction in habits of self control, in self govern ment.to secure good order,regularity and application. As means to this end ho cited mechanical devices, the seating of pupils, and tluit pro gress was often retarded by impro per seating. He spoke also of the moral training of pupils, and of the teacher's qualification, confidence, co-operation. The teacher must have a positive moral character. Every act of the soul leaves as an enduring result an increased power to act, and the tendency to act in like manner. This tulk was followed by singing when Prof. Paul began his spelling match, choosing fifty words from among a list of five hundred. The one who misspelled the fewest to re ceive a copy of Barnes' Oeneral History. Wednesday evening, Prof . Uouck spoke to a crowded house, and in beginning remarked that he never talked long, seldom exceeding three hours. This was loudly applauded, which the speaker said pleased him, us he scarcely received itut the clone, MILFORD, TIKE His lecture might be styled a plum pudding, full of luscious juicy froit. It was replete with wit, humor, pathos and solid learning. No pen can do justice to tho inimitable manners of the speaker, and the audience was alternately convulsed with laughter and moved to silent tears. His subject wns filial obedi ence and the duty ia rents owed to their children to give them an education. His stories of the min isters, the twins, the forlorn ap plicants sitting on the root of an oak tree, tho rag carpet, the man who tried to mnke a tapestry carpet and failed until ho hung his sample up to the sunlight, boarding around and teaching for $20 per month will all lie rememliered with pleasure and will cheer many hearts and homes as they are recalled in the school room nnd by tho fire side. If Prof. Houck lives in years ns his memory will in the minds of his hearers he will lie a patriarch indeed. Thursday wns filled with routine work by the several instructors pres ent, and tho reading of pnpors on educational topics by some of j the teachers. In the evening, Rev. Ame Venemn, of Port Jervis, delivered a lecture replete with wisdom and couched in scholarly nnd beautif ul language.Ho said on being introduced by Supt. Sawyer that tho audience had been raised very high during the week and it would now lie his province to let them down easy. He was glad the chandelier had fallen, for now with out seeing the audience he could be leive ho was r peaking to fathers and mothers. There was a time to lie Ikito, a time to die, and a time for all development between the cradle nnd the grave, but of rocent years tho active middlo age of life had received the most applause, but he projxisod to deal with childhood. Paul drew a lesson from childhood, when ho was a child he sjKike as a child. The iieriixl of childhood in these days is made entirely too short. The boy as soon ns he puts on short pants is out on the streets puffing a cigarette. The girl as soon as she can fairly talk is put in society aping her elders and crowded into full woman hood at fifteen. Parents seem anxi ous for their children to mature, and frequently so an order that they may take a place in a shop or store to make pecuniary gains. No period in life is free from trou ble and care as childhood, and no season of tho life is attempted to be so curtailed. The period of childhood of Jesus wns over thirty years during which ho was obedient to hia humble par ents. Teachers should remember that they were once children themselves, and should have sympathy with children, and while there should be sympathy in all their sports and recreations, they should also be taught cheerful obodionco. So long as a child is incapable of supporting itself, so long is it incapable of self government. A child is like steam, uncontrolled, except by the mind of man, its possibilities great but with out control useless. Conitrolled it becomes the power which moves the commerce of the world. Children have a three-fold nature, body, mind, and soul, their spirits are necessary to their happiness. They have a thirst for knowledge, their minds are like sponges, un bounded incapacity and their cease less questionings of who, what and when must be answered with great patience. It is said as a fact that one-sixth of all the voters in this country can not read or write, send the children to the schools. Habits of Vice, and hubits of good are just as easly formed and here the home comes in to keep the child pure. A noted divine says that only three out of twenty homes are happy, be cause they fail in demonstration. The conquering power is love, and that mnst be demonstrative, and it, not fear, must be the power that impels obedience. As soon as a child is old enouth to love then is the time to instil Christian principles. If a child is old enough to love ita par COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1895. ents it is old enough to love Jesus. Tho institute met again tVid.iJ morning when tho committee on re solutions reported, nftor which Prof. Houck nindoa brief farewell address, followed by Supt. Sawyer in remarks of a like character thanking tho teachers for attendance, nnd the in structors and lecturers for their aid, nnd declaring the session adjourned, thus clothing one of the most suc cessfull teachers institutes ever held in this county lxith in point of at tendance by teachers nnd the public in general and the interest mani fested in tho pnxxwdings. Real Estate Transfer!. David D. Newmun, sheriff to Kate B, Vnn Wyck deed poll, dated Oct. 24, 1895. Land in Milford township, 300 acres. Con. 7.600. Ent'd Nov. 14. F. R. Onlpin, et. ux. to Thomns F. Brophy, dated Sept. 18, 1890. Land in Palmyra. (Jon. $225. Ent'd Nov. 15. John C. F. Plota and Catharine Plotz to Wilhelmino Steinmetz.dnted Oct. 29, 1895. Lnnd in Lnckawaxon, 4 acres. Con. $5,000. Ent'd Nov. 16. Jonnio K. Detrick nnd Calvin, her husljand to Rnmoy B. Van Etten, dated Nov. 13, 1895. Town lots and house on Broad street, Milford Bo rough. Con. $1,600. Ent'd Nov. 13. Wilson D. Decker, et. al. to James Milhnm, et. al., dated Sept. 26, 1895. Lnnd in Palmyra, lots on Big Pond. Con. fl. Ent'd Nov. 16. Lot Atkinson and wife to James Milham, et. al., dated Sept. 26, 1895. Land in Palmyra, undivided P"t of tract in warrantee J. C. West brook. Con. $800. Ent'd Nov. 16. James Milhnm, et. al. to Joseph Atkinson, dated Oct. 4, 1895. Land in Palmyra, undivided of lots on Big Pond. Con. Ent'd Nov. 16. tloorgo Daumann, Jr., treas. to J. B. Westbrook, dated 13th of June, 1892. Lnnd in Delaware township, 316 acres. Con. $10. Ent'd Nov. 18- J. B. Wessbrook, et, ux., to Au gust Morcier assignment of above dated March 1893. Con. $40. August Morcier.et. ux. to Eugenie C. Hanna, dated 18th of Nov. 1895. Land in Delaware township, 316 acres. Con $1,500. Ent'd Nov. 18. Joseph M. Back, et. ux. to Frank Miller, dated 29th of Oct., 1895. Lots in Matamorns, 14 and 16. Con. $400. Ent'd Nov. 19, 1895. James D. MacDonadl, et. ux. to David Amolsky, dated Aug. 29, 1885. Land inDingman township, 195 acres. Con. $1. En'td Nov. 20 The American Fire Insurance Company, Philadelphia. RYMAN & WELLS, Agents, Milford, Pa, AN INFAMOUS PICTURE. Published ht Scranton Paper in Regard to the Normal School. Principal Bible and the Trustees of the Normal school are highly indig nant over the publication in a Scran ton weekly illustrated paper or a cut which is not calculated to impress parents and possible students with the standing of the school. The obnoxious picture represents a numbers of girls playing foot-ball in costumes of a scanty nature and in attitudes extremely unbecoming. Underneath are a few words stating that the picture represents an actual occurrence among the young lady students at the school. It is an infamous piece of cheek for the paper publishers to tamper with the good mime of such an institution as the school has got to be and! the men who comprise tho firm should be punished se vorly for so outrageous a cartoon. It is understood that the matter has been placed in the hands of the Hon. J. B. Storm, who will demand some retraction or a libel suit will be brought. The school authorities can rest assured, however, that no one with any degree of common sense would believe such a thing. The school has made too rapid progess for such a piece of work to harm it and those in charge are beyond reproach. Stroudsburg Times. S0.ME PECULIAR RETURNS The Leading Democratio Paper of the State Declares Them as Palpable Frauds. Calls on Chairman Wrljrht of th Demo- eratle State Committee to Make a Thorough Investigation Jmlge P. P. Smith May Not lie Elected AfteraAll. The Times in a long article d issocts tho vote of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties at the recent election arid shows that in Lackawanna, Smith is credited with 2,667 votes which can be accounted for only by false returns, and say the fraud is monstrous, and calls on Chairman Wright to institute prompt nnd through investigation of it in vin dication of the integrity of his party organization. In Luzerne county it says Smith's vote is 935 in excess of the Dem ocratic vote for Myers, but it also says this perfidious method of voting could not advance Smith a single vote beyond Myers, and that there is no known rule of arithmetic that can make the Luzerne and Lackawanna returns honest on their face. It is not possible for these returns, and only an honest return should be accepted by any candidates for ju dicial honors. Will Judge Smith vindicate him self by aiding in the investigation of of what Beom to be indisputable frauds. AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. . Rev. Mr. Nichols Preached on tho Subject, 'Overcoming," Last Sunday Morning. Rev. Thos. Nichols, last Sunday morning.preached an interesting and instructive sermon in the Presby terian church in this place, taking for his text the words found in Rev. 3:12. It was a sermon applicable to any congregation. The principal topic was "Overcoming," and he spoke especially of the promise made to all that overcome, and the necessity that exists among the members of all congregations to overcome their personal prejudices, opinions, likes and dislikes, and to yield a cheerful and Christian acquiescence to the opinions and preferences of others. By the way the population of Mil ford Borough by the census of 1890 was about 800. It is safe to say that less than 100 attend church in Mil ford. Are the rest of the people too busy to go, or are they engaged in better business? or have they no suitable clothes? What is your excuse anyway? And can you not by a little well-directed effort overcome the stay- away disposition and gain a regular habit of fihurch attendance ? The doors of all the churches are wide open to receive and welcome you. HVMENIAL. ' REEDER KCKARD. The marriage of Andrew H. Reeder eldest son of Secretary of the Commonwealth Reeder and Miss Esther L. Eckard, daughter of Rev. Dr. Leighton W. Eckard was cele brated in the Brainard-Union Pres byterain church on Wednesday. A large number of guests were present including Governor and Mrs. Hasting and Count and Countess D. Albi of Paris. The groom is employed as mining engineer with the Carnagie Company at Union town. Duraat's Seateaeo Poatpened. Theodore Durant, who was con victed recently at San Francisco for the murder of Blanche Lament, has been granted a continuance until Nov. 22 at the request of his attor ney who desired more time in which to prepare a motion and procure af fidavits for a new trial. . Big Cans Hereabeut. ' Charles Stanton of Highland, Sul livan county, Monday, killed a cata mount, which attacked him, with a club. Constable Albert Simonson. of Blooming Grove, Pike county, has trapped five black bears this season and several more have been killed. oniri itv. MRS. KIlllMt VAN Kl I I N. Mrs. Emma Lawrence Vim Ellen, wifeof Edgar V:m Ktd ti, irencral su perintendent of the N. V. ( '. ,V- II. K. R. R, died nt her homo. No. !! Ciiii vent avenue, Washington llciIils, N. Y., nt 11 o'clock, Nov. I'i, aged about 50 yea'-s. she ha' been in failing health for some tinieand her condition liefiimc such latterly that it precluded expectation of a recov ery. She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Nellie, wife of Mr. Charles Kiley. of UnlTalo. and Edna J., at home. She was n refined excellent woman and graced wit h dignity her social station The sorrowing husband nnd family have in this greatest of bereavements our sincere sympathy. Tho funeral was held at the house in New York on Tuesday, and the remains then carried to Jwt Jervis, where they Were laid at rest in Laurel drove Cemetery that beautiful city of the dead, where a vc'iuiem is ever sung to their memory by the mur muring waters of the Delaware. llltlKP M l:TIONS, The distribution of State Aid for Normal Schools in Pennsylvania for the year 1WI5 as appropriated at the school department gives the follow ing for East Stroudsburg : Number of graduates, 3,100, and the amount of aid, $4,300.50. This does not apply to Pike county girls. They have plenty of chances without seeking them. Next year, lK'.lii, will he leap year. The girls will do well to make tho most of the opportunity for it will bo eight years before a not her comes. Tho year 1900 will be a leap year. Tho year is Stlrt days and six hours long less eleven minutes. The elovn minuets amount to one day ine 100 years, when leap year is dis pensed with. The year J in Hi will therefore not lie a leap year. It is reported among dealers in sporting g( mils that there has Is -en a tremendous shrinking in the demand for playing cards and gam bling devices. This argues well for tho morals of the country. Tho Republican party is in the test possible shape for ls!)C. Iet the leaders see to it that nothing dis turbs this condition, so that the party may present a solid front when that battle heL'ins. The Standard Oil Company are about to erect a large oil tank near Pen Argyl in whi di to store refined oil. It will lsi conveyed to the tanks by cars, and then distributed by tank wagons through the neighbor ing counties. We expect to have electric lights through this section, and abandon so primitive a method of lighting. We forgot to present this problem at tho recent, teachers' institute, but thoso mathematically inc lined can figureat it : A hoy ten years old has a little sister who weighs Id pounds, and gets tired holding her in five minutes. When he is twenty ye irs old how long will it take him to get tired holding sfune other boy's sister who weighs 110 pounds. More than half of the amount asked from Kingston, as a sul.scrip tion toward the extension i.f the Port Jervis and Mouticello railroad from Summitville to that place has been raised, and the balance, soon will be. Let it come on down the Dela ware Valley. The Chautauqua ( 'irele will meet at the Presby teri.ui jmrsoniige on Friday evening of this week, at eight o'clock. The usual union Thanksgiving service of the Methodist and Presby terian congregations of Mili'nrd, will beheluthis year in the Presbyterian church, Thursday, Nov. '."-th, at 10. 30a.m. Sermon l y the Kcv. Thos. Nichols. All welcome. R. D. Say re recently killed a porker eight months old which weighed 304 pounds. Next better! As the janitor of the Court House wasalxmt t light the chande lier in the court room on Thursday evening, it fell, and was badly broken. We hope the new one to replace it will hu iu all respects an improvement, Apply for rates. No. 4. PKItSONALS. The friilids of E. (4. Loreaux will be pleased no learn that nt the re cent session of the court nt Now- lmrgh, the grand jury failed to in dict him. It will he rememlipred that Iireaux shot a man in Port Jervis while in the discharge of his duty ns policeman.. Mr L. W. Armstrong, although his lx-autiful and attractive country house is closed for tho winter, makes regular trips to Milford from New York every week. Lnst Sun day Nov. 17 he exhibited n bunch of pansies in full bloom gathered from the grounds of his residence. We regret to learn that M?s S.W. Maggcrty, a very a god and r--;cted lady of this Uorough.fell last Sunday and broke her shoulder bono nnd sustained other severe injuries. W. V. Unreher, who is extensively engaged in lumlx-r business, nt Hurcher's Mills, was at tho county scat last week. and made usa pleasant fllll. F. Morcaux, who is ono of tho model farmers of Dingmnn town ship visited our sanctum Saturday. F. Moras, who at present is under some slight constraint at tho Hotel-de-Watson, for undue familiarity with other X'Ople's hens, sent us a long communication last week. It is a literary curiosity hut too personal for publication. " No rogue e'er felt tho halter draw with good opinion of tho law". Jos. A. Buckley, of Delaware town ship, called last week. Mr Buckley is extensively engaged in the chicken buisiness, which ho finds pleasant nnd profrtahle. Wo admonish you "Jo," this chicken buisncss" sometimes is a forerunner to Con gress or the county jail. Miss Susie Nichols recently visited the Misses Van Etten, nt Nyack-on the-IIudson. Sho reports tho Mil ford delegation at school there in fino health and spirit, anticipating Christmas at homo with much pleasure. Mr. (reorge Howell and wife and Mr. Vanderveer, of Chester, N. J., who have been spending some days here visiting A. D. Brown and fam ily, returned homo yesterday. The gentlemen while here took in a little gunning with good success. Mrs. L. F. Hafnor exhibits in her window a magnificent specimen of tho Japanese variety of yellow chry santhemum. Miss Bertha Williamson lias gone to Brunchville, N. J. to remain an indefinite time with her grand mother, Mrs. Henry Williamson, whoso health is seriously impaired. Miss Hattio Horton celebrated her fourteenth birthday on Tuesday by giving a large family dinner party. Tho youthful and ploasnnt face of Deputy State Superintendent Houck of HarriHburg,who by the way has a remarkable memory.tho genial and smiling countenance of Prof. Bible of East Stroudsburg, the energetio and business like peofilo of Prof. C. H. Albert of Bloomsburg, and tho .sanguine and impressive features of Prof. Paul radiated goixl humor, in telligence and instruction at the teachers institute just closed. On Friday hist Harvey Klaer, of tin; senior class of Lafayette College, addressed a convention in Pen Argyl, held in tho interests of foreign mis sions. Mr. Klaer is a grandson of R. C. Bull of this place. Prof. Houck, who has probably visited a teacher's institute in every county in the state, and looked into the face of nearly every teacher in thus great common wealth.during tho years of his active labor as an in structor, in conversation heroiid this deserved and high compliment to our teachers. Ho said " tho teachers of Pike county stand with the teachers of any county in tho state in maimers, divss and looks." Now teachers if he should visit your schixils let him lxi able to broaden the remark by adding "and that they keep just i:s gixxl si-hinds." Analomink Hotel Sold. This popular hotel has changed hands, and lxvome tho property of James B. Ediuger, of East Strouds burg. Consideration said to be $10,. 000. Tho owner will take cliarge in tho spring,