Comrs Of fict 11 1 02 o 1 "1 a: U ' I! I M I! 7 c f E vol. vn. MILFOIM), PIKE COUNTY, PA., I KID AY, MAY 9, 1902. NO. 28. THE WASHINGTON LETTER. The long period of waiting In the senate Is approaching an pint and the strain under which republican wn Blurs mul (lie correspondent if the republican press have labored Is to tie remitted. The orders of Senator Ixlge In his rapacity of manager on the floor of the senate of the I'hillp pine civil hill have been "hold your fire until you nee the whites of their ryes," hut the whites of a good many democratic eyeballs are now In view find the first skirmish of the republi can forces wns mode on Friday hy Senator rritchurd of North Carolina. Behind the smoke of Senator Prit chard's skirmish line Mr. fridge has been getting his tlg guns into line and today at two o'clock they will go into action with telling effect. The senator from Mussachussetls has prepared his sieech very carefully and it Is calculated to piny hnvoc In the democratic ranks. Mr. Lodge will admit the cruelti) which have leen practiced in the Philppines hy American soldiers but he will point out Unit they all occurred one-and-a-half to two years ago. Then he will cite the atrocities practiced on Amer ican soldiers by the Filipinos, out rages and barbarities which, to use the senator's own words, "would make a marble sulnt thirst for ven geance." Kpnre will not permit an enumeration of the frightful atroci ties which have been perpetrated on the American boys and which have made their comrades, crazed with the sight of their brothers' suffering, overstep in a very few instances the hounds of civilized warfare. I have seen the senator's speech and when the American people have read it their horror at the pictures which have been drawn for their Imagina tion by democratic partisans will be turned to pity and to gratification that the American focres have shown themselves so tolerant, so merciful and so well-disciplind In the face of such frightful provocation. What the democrats have been exultingly contemplating material for the cam paign will be shorn of Its oratorical flowers and made to Btand out as partisan vilification of American soldiers under the furious batteries of the Junior senator from Massachu setts. The testimony of Messrs. Ilave ineyer and Donner, respectively pres ident and treasurer of the sugar trust, before the committeo on rela tions with Cuba, havf fulled to dis cover the . sensational facts which have been so confidently counted on by the opponents of Cuba reciprocity. The statements of both of these gen tlemen, made under oath, has reveal ed the fact that the trust has no hold ings of Cuba sugar and that reciproc ity will operate to the disadvantage rather than to the advantage of the trust. Further delay will obviously operate to the advantage of the trust, but Cuban reciprocity, according to their statements, will not. Mr. Molt, purchaser of raw sugar for the company, cited with effect the results of admitting free Porto Klciui sugar as ample evidence of the benefit to the planters of a reduction of the tariff. The refusal of the attorney general to meet in conference the representa tives of the beef trust Is In entire ac cordance with the views of the presi dent and with the action already taken by the department of justice. Mr. Knox has begun this suit In the le!ief that the men who compose the trust have violated the law and have conspired to raise the price of a com modity which is Important to every consumer. There is nothing about which he wishes to confer. lie has brought suit in the courts and the results will stand on the facts there demonstrated. It is not the position of the government to compromise with law breakers and It now remains to the courts to determine If the attorney general is correct in his assumption that the law has been violated. Having demonstrated the correctness of position Mr. Knox will leave it to the courts to enforce the law and fix the penalty. Two more appropriation bills have ! been di-po.-'d of the houe of rejirtr sentatives during the past week, the ujjrk-ulturul iiiid the district of i Columbia bills having been sent up; to the senate. Th 1 till providing for diplomatic relations with Cuba is now under con.sidcniiinii and will be followed tomorrow with the omnibus territorial bill. lMeyitu Dennis I lymi of ( ;!.!.. in. iiri lol.l me yesterday that he Vuts eel tail! hU bill would 1 : ;s the l.oti-e tm 1 he bel:eve. Hi chances In the senate were excellent. There will then remain but two more appropriation bills to be considered, the naval bill and the general defic iency bill, the formernlready reported and the Inffor still to come. Prom inent on the house calendar are the Philippine government bill, the anti anarchist bill, the Pacific cable bill and a host of others which should be acted iimiii before adjournment. Saturday was devoted to the private calendar and todny in the house has lieen set aside for the consideration of hills emanating from the committee on the District of Columbia. Ihursday witnessed the exit of Secretary liong from the cabinent and his succession by Mr. Moody of Massachusetts as the new secretary of the navy. It was with manifest and freely expressed relief that Mr Long vacated the ofllce, which the Spanish war had made particularly onerous. In fact, had it not been for his disinclination to "retire under fire," Mr. Long would have long be fore resigned from the cabinet. Mr. and Mrs. Umg left Washington immediately for their Massachusetts home. On Friday the president went to Annapolis and presented to the graduating cadets their diplomas. The presentation was preceded by a characteristic speech In which Mr. Hooseveltr charged the young men with the responsibilities of their future positions and emphasized the fact that the slightest inattention to duty on their part might result dis astrously to the country which they had sworn to serve. The advent of Mine. Cambon, wife of the French Ambassador, to Wash ington society on Thursday was the occasion of an unusually brilliant reception at the embassy. Mine. Cam I Kin has not been in this city for a number of years and It is under stood that her residence here will be marked by a number of elaborate entertainments In the not distant future. A large number of people In diplomatic a. id official circles extend ed a cordial welcome on the evening of her reception. Bound to Marry. Last Sunday a young couple from Port Jervis on matrimony beut ap peared in town but as the clerk's ofllce was closed and they had no license were in a dilemma. This was happily solved bv the sugges tion that they go to New Jersey where such barriers to the fulfill nient of love's dre im are not known. Accordingly accompanied by Rev. C. E. Scaddor of the M E. church they hied to the bridi.e and across and there nuder the friendly roof of the toll house, Miss Gertrude Doty anl Maurioe Bally were soon made one. The ceremony was performed with a ring and the happy couple went their way rejoicing. A Distinguished Visitor. Recorder John W. GofT of Now York was a guest at the Crissman House a day last week. Ho was charmed with the beauties of Mil- ford and so thoroughly enjoyed the roads and scenery that he walked to Port Jervis for the exercise. Ha stated that he expeoted soon to re visit our town for a more extended stay. Thus it is ever with stran gers who come hore. They are en tranced with the country and say they seldom find a place which of fers so many attractions to a so journer. The central railroad of New Jersey has ordered a high fence to be built along Its tracks in Plainfleld to pro vent trainmen flirting with women reuidents because U ititerferi 8 Willi dleipline and the proper discharge of duty. Keep th Baianca Up. It has been truthfully said that any disturbance of the even balance of health causes serious trouble. Nobody can be too careful to keep tills balance up. When people bo gin to lose appetite, or get tired easily, the least imprudence bringir on sickness, weakness, or debility. The system needs a tonic, craves it, and should not be duuied it: and the best tenia of which we have any knowledge is Hood's Barsaparilla. What this medicine has done in keeping healthy people healthy, in keeping up the even balance of beallh, jtives it the same distinction as a preventive that it enjoys as a cure. Its early use has illustrated tin wUdom of the old baying that a stitch in time saves nine. Take llood'tt for u pc.:t, strength, and euJam:oe, PERSONALS Mrs. W. K. Peters of New York Is visiting In town. Hon. John A. Kippof New York was in town a couple of days this week. C A. Pellett. of Palmyra was at the county seat Tuesday on busi ness matters. C. W. Bull, Esq., and Frank W. Cross went to New York yesterday on business affairs. Mrs. Emily Henry of Bridgeport, Conn., visited her nunt, Mrs. Wil liam McCown. a few days recently. County Superintendent George Sawyer of Westfall attended the con vention Tuesday as an interested spectator. F. F. While's mother, Mrs. S. E. White, and his aunt, Mrs. C. A. Colo, both of Summit, N. J., are guests with his family on Fourth street. Mrs. Lena A. (Juick of New York is visiting here a few days arranging the business matters of her father, the lute P. A. L. Quick, of Delaware township Mrs. Jane Fieot. a former resi dent of Delaware township, but who for some time has been Jiving in Newark, New Jersey, after a visit here returned home a few days ago. William Metz, proprietor of the Grand View Hotel in Dingmon township, who 1ms been spending the winter in New York, was mar ried recently and last Friday accom panied by his wife returned home. Miss Nellie Bosler of Delaware and John Doty of Stroudsburg were married at the M. E. parsonage in Port Jervis Tuesday by the pastor, Rev. W. A. Chad wick. Au- drew Albright an I Miss Edith Crone, both of Delaware, were pres ent when the knot vas tied. Bret Harte'i Poem. Perhaps the most popular poem of Bret Harte, who died recently in England, is the one given below. It made him famous and has been widely read : PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTH TVIj JAMES-1870. Which I wish to remark, And 1117 language Is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chlnei Is peculiar. Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name, And I shall Dot deny In regard to the same . What thnt namo might imply. But his smile It wns pensive and childlike, As I frequent remarked to Dill Nye. It wns August the third. And quite soft wns the skies, Which It inigh'. be Inferred Thnt Ah Sin wns likewise; Yet he played It that, day upon William And me in a way I despise. Which we hnd a smnll game Acd Ah .Sin took a hand; It wns euchre. The same He did not understand ; But he smiled ns he sat by the table, With the smile thnt was childlike and bland. Yet the cards they were stnckrd In a way that I grieve, And my feelings were shocked At the state of Nye's sleeve. Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, And the same with Intent to deceive. But the hands that were played Hy that heathen Chinee, And the points that he mnde Were quite frightful to see; Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye hod uenlt unto ine. Then I looked up nt Nye, And he gazed upon me, And he rose with a sigh And said: "Can this be? We ere ruined by chenp Chinese labor " And he went for that heathen Chinee. In the scene that tnsued I did not take a band, But the floor It vras strewed Like the leaves ou the strand With, the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding lu the game "he did not understand." In hU sleeves, which were long, He had twenty-four packs, Which was coming It strong, Yet I slate but the facts; And we found on his nails, which were taper, What is freiment.ln tapers that's wax. Which is why I reniaik. And my language is plain, TI11H for ways that are dark And for tricks that are valu The healhuu Chinee is peculiar. Which the same 1 am fre to maintain. Old Soldier's Experience. M M. Austin, a civil war veteran of Winchester, Ind., writes: "My wifo wns suk long time in spite of good doctois' treatment, but was wholly cured by Dr. King's New Life Fills, which worked wonders br her health. " They always do. Try tUeoi. Only Bio at all drug-gists. DIRECTORS' CONVENTION. A Close and Exciting Contest foi County Superintendent, The triennial convention of direc. tors for the election of a county su perintendent convened at the conrt house Tnesdsy and was largely at tended, all the directors but two be ing present Superintendent Raw yer called the body to order and read a direction to the boards that they retain the reports of high schools until the new boards organ ize. There are but two m the coun ty, nt Milford and Maramorss. Nominations for chairman of the convention were then made and Hon. B. E. Brown of Milford and Hon. John F. Englehart of Mata moras wore r.amed. Goo. C. Knoal ing was appointed to receive and read the ballots and Dr. H. E. Em erson and W. Vettnrlein to record them. The count showed Brown 28 and Englehart 34. On assuming the chair, Judge Englehart in a neat, speech thanked the convention. The roll called showed fil directors present, four not havtng votod. For secrotarys, P. B. Clnrk, Esq., of Porter, Dr. H. E. Emerson of Milford II. F. Briseo of Delaware nndE. B. Labar of Matamoras were nominated. On balloting Labar and Emerson were declared elected by the tollers appointed to count the ballots, Geo. A. Knealing and Wal ter Votterlein. The salary of the superintendent to be elected was then agreed by the convention to be left to be fixed by the act of assembly. Nominations for county superintendent were then made and L. B. Westbrook and John C. Watson named. Tho di rectors were then called and voted viva voce and the tellers announced the result to bo Westbrook 33J Wat son 81. Mr. Westbrook was then called and in a brief speech thanked the convention for the honor conferred. Mr. Watson was also called for and in a few graceful words accepted the result as declared. The reti ri ng county superi ntendent, Geo. Sawyer, at the request of many I directors addressed the convention with a few fitting remarks, after which on motion It adjourned. Lucia 11 B. Westbrook, the success ful candidate, Is a native of Delaware township and a graduate of the East Stroudsburg state normal school. After teaching in his native town ship several terms he was elected teacher of the Intermediate depart ment here where he has been success ful In the position. Prof. John C. Watson, who was defeated by a narrow margin, is the present principal of the Milford high school. He is a graduate of the Shippensburg state normal school and has taught In the Milford schools for several years with market! ability. The High Falls Hotel. The High Falls Hotel at Ding man's Ferry will be open for the season under the management of Philip F. Fulmer, Jr The young man, though without extensive experience in the business, is pleasant, conrteons and has the tact to maintain the popularity which it enjoyed under the care ot his lamented father. It will be gratifying to the interests of that section to know that the byuse will not be closed and that it will still continue to be a centre of prosperity which will radiate its benefits in the community. Mrs. Bessie Loesch of New York visited n few days recently with the family of Hy. T. Baker, Esq., and will be the guest of Mrs. Dr. J. C. Price in Branchville for a time be fore returning home. Paul Kchauno and family of Stroudsbvng were guests at Hotel Schanno over last Sunday. Whooptng Cough. A womnn who has had experience with this disease tells how to pre vent any dangerous consequences from it. fShe says : Our three chil dren took whooping cough Inst sum mer, our baby boy being only three months old, and owing to our giv ing them Chumbt-rlaiu'a 'Cough Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness and camo out in much la tter health thau other children whoso parents did not use thia rem edy. Our oldest little girl would call lustily for couyh syrup between whoops. Jessie Pm key Hall, Spritigville, Ala TLU remedy ia !for sale by A. W. lUk-h & Hon, jMatttUioias, all drug aud general btorea ia Pike county. BRIEF MENTION. The Hotel Fmuihore opened for tho summer Wednesday. Hear Admiral W. T. Harripon died at his home in Washington May fi. Bret Harte, the novelist and au thor, died In England last Snnday after a long i'lness of throat trouble. At a meeting of stockholders of the Milford water company held Monday the former board was re elected. Over seventy fine shad were taken at the flshory near Milford Wednes day night. Borne of the fish weighed 7 and 8 pounds. Dr. W. B. Kouworthey is laying a flagstone walk in front of his promises on Broad street with Lint West supervising the job. Superintendent Luthar Hill roo commondod last week that the Fish er school in Sandyston, N, J., be closed for lack of scholars. Congressman Amos J. Cummings died at Baltimore May 2 after a pro tracted illness. He was a printer, editor, soldier and congressman. Robert Findlay has commenced the erection of a cage on Harford street and when completed it is said he will have the bird for occu pancy. Mrs. J. A. Revnyre is having her shop and house on Broad street adorned with fresh paint. E. C. Wood and his assistants handle the brushes The county commissioners have contracted the building of the abut ments, wing walls, etc., for the bridge near Hotel Beltz to Dunham Gregory for $3.15. Marriage lioenses have been grant ed to Nellie Staples of Bushkill and James Hazen of Delaware and to Ida J. Shafer and William Morrison, both of Blooming Grove. Hon. Joshua 8. Salmon, repre. sentative of the fourth New Jersey congressional distriot, died sudden ly of apoplexy at his home in Boonton Tuesday. His age was 68 years. S. J. McEwen, a son-in-law of our townsman, Arthur B. MoCarty, has gone into the hotel business in Chicago at 4700 State street. He was with Captain Clark on the Oregon at the Santiago fight. At a meeting of stockholders of the Milford Delaware bridge com pany held Monday a majority of stockholders not being present no election was held and the former president, managers and treasurer retain office for another year. According to some Carbon oonnty papers the sentiment among demo crats tbere is strongly favorable to Judge Craig for renomination and against the aspirations of Ex-Congressman Barber for the position. Judge Cralg'ia certainly a most ex. I cellent official. Announcement is made of the en gagement of Miss Grace Hard Rioh ard3 of New York, who has been a summer guest at the Sawkill House and is well known by the young people here, to Charles A. Skidmore of the same city. The wedding will occur June 3rd. The will of J. B. Westbrook, pro bated last week, devises all his property, real, personal and mixed to bis wife for life in trust for his children unless in case of her re- murriago when she haU have the use of one-fourth, the income and names her sole executrix and guar dian of his minor son. To prevent turkeys indulging in their propensity to all sit on one nest when becoming broody it is suggested that barrels bo provided and when one begins setting to place a board loosely in front so that the others cannot enter but so that the Inmate can easily push it over and emerge when she desires. " By watching for a few days aud th&s keeping the others out the matter can be adjusted so that one will have her'nest undisturbed. Shudders at Hit Past "I recall now with horror," says Mail Carrier Burnett Maun of Le- vanna, O., "my three years of snf fering from kidney trouble. I was hardly ever free from dull aches or acute pains in my back. To stoop or lift mail sack: made me groan. I felt tired, worn out, about ready to give up, when I began to nse Elec tric Bitters, but six bottles com pletely cured ine and made me fuel like a new man." They're unrival ed to regulate stomach, liver, kid neys and bowels. Perfection satis faction guaranteed by ell druggists. Ouly til'o, IH1 PARK GAME CASE. Soma Unwarranted Strictures and Herogatory Insinuation Noted. The Dispatch last week contained a letter over the signature, "Jus tice," censuring the United States court for its ruling in the indict ments against .several members of the Blooming Grove park for an in tent to viola te the Laoey act by re moving game out of the state Tho reasoning of the letter reminds ono of the old poetic logio : If A man who turnips ories. Cries not when his father dies, 'Tis a sign that he would rather Have tho tnrnips than his father Suppose a man forms in his mind the intent to commit an assault and battery on another and at a distance of a few hundred feet expresses such determination and accompanies it by A pugilistic attitude but is cheok- ed before starting on his errand, could he be convicted of the crime of assault and battery? Jndge Archbald simply decided that an intent not carried into effect does not constitute a orime when the act of congress says the intent must be fully consummated. Penal statutes are always strictly con strued. A court does not make the laws, it construes them, and if no iffense as defined by an aot had been committed "Justice" would be probably the londest squealer in the bunoh if he was apprehended for an alleged offense and the conrt should direct his oonviotion, not for its commission but for his presumed intent. "Justice" says "the court finds that Mr. Smith did violate the law but not far enongb to oommit a orime," yet "Justice" would have Mr. Smith oonvioted of the crime which he did not oorumit because sooh is "Justioe's" idea of iustioe. "Justice" indulges in Innuendoes and insinuations that in some way by "invitations to offioials of the oourt to visit the olnb house" the oourt was bribed or influenced in its decision of the oase. A fair oriti olsm of the deoision of a oourt is perhaps permissible but an attempt to traduoe the oharaoter of a judge by intimating that because some member of his oourt has aooepted hospitalities he has been corrupted is muoh nearer malicious libel than is an attempt to oommit a misde meanor an actual crime. Dr. Kalbfus deserves commenda tion for his attempts to enforoe the laws and should hare the assistance and open sympathy of all law-abiding citizens in such efforts but if he allows his zeal to outstrip the law or is mistaken in his judgment as to what is an offence against it, he cannot nor would he expect courts to vindicate his errors by punishing men innocent of any statutory crime. Were the defendants ocher than members of. the Blooming Grove park association would "Jus tice" be wielding his defamatory pen with such vehemence in con demnation? Real EstaU Transfers. John Wohlfarth to George P. Haas and wife, 30 acres, Shohola, 12. Commissions as justice of the peaoe to John A. Fisher, Dingman, Frank Keller. Bhohola, and Edwin Howell, Blooming Grove. Nathan Houck to Amanda C. Gil pin, yt acres, Greene, tl. Warren Brink to John M. Smitb, 8 acres, Greene, $25. Commissions to William H. Stoddard, Lehman, and Henry De witt, lAckawaxen, as justices of the peace. Daniel V. BrodheaJ to Savannah V. Ford, 8 acres in trust for use of Matthew and Lewis Campbell, Leh man, $350. William D. Cole and others to Ad die, wife of John C. Watson, part of lot No, 659, Milford borough. $1. Ail Eyes On Taxu. Great Is Texas. Her vaat cotton crops and marvelous oil discoveries amaze the world. Now follows the startling statement ot the wonder ful work at Cisco, Tex., of Dr. King's New Discovery for consump tion. "My wife contracted a severe I lung trouble," writes Editor J.J ' Eager, "which caused a most obsti nate cough and finally resulted in profuse hemorrhages but she has been completely cured by Dr. Kiog'tf New Discovery." It's posi tively guaranteed for coughs, oolda, and all throat and lung troubles. COc aud $1. Trial bottles free at all druggists. Advertise la the PttK8. THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS. Ed" McWade of tho Port Jervis Cnion was In town Sunday. Fred Kcwlcr of Matamoras was down Sunday looking for camp meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seitz have returned from New York. Thomas Armstrong has legun work on the abutment of the Sawkill bridge near Struble's mill. Win. St ruble ran another raft of railroad ties down the river Saturday. The O rand View House Is now open. The proprietor and his bride arrived Friday and they were treated to a first class tin pan serenade. Sherriff Geo. Gregory now owns the finest turnout in town, the white rambler and gray team. Where is the son of Sunny Italy? Everything else points toward spring, even thunder showers are here, but he has not arrived. No doubt some of our population will go to Port Jervis Tuesday and attend the circus. It sometimes pays to hold an office when the holder and his wife can take an occasional three days' outing at the expense of the tax payers. This town has an establishment where home made bread, pie and cake can be purchased. Pretty rough when a man Is de clared elected to an office and then counted out. A little yellow dog raised Cain around a laundry in this town. He destroyed more than the hides from a dozen dogs like him would he worth. Someone proposed buying count ing blocks to keep tally with. How about it ? The Sussex Register, always noted for its original sayings, some time ago contained some thing like this: "Lie, steal, drink, and swear. When you lie, let it be down to pleasant dreams. When you steal, let it be away from immoral associates. When you drink, let it be pure water. When you swear, let it be that you will patronize your home paper, pay your subscription, and not send your Job work away from home." Louis de Berlhe is busy repairing trotting sulkies. It wont be long be fore we will see some of the speedy horses of this vicinity on the driving park. " OBITUARY! CHARLES OTT. After an illness of some months of kidney troubles Mr. Ott passed away Monday afternoon, May 6, at his homo in Delaware township. He was born at Wittenburg, Ger many, April 23, 1838, and was a son of Christian and Rosina Gebhardt Ott. His parents immigrated to this country in 1847 and alter living in New York for a couple of years in 1849 came to Piko county to re side, where they purchased a farm and spent their days. Charles, while yet young, went to New York and secured employment In a hotel, which business he followed for many years, becoming the propri etor of ,a German hotel at No. 6, Greenwich St., and where he amassed A considerable fortune. He was a man of quiet habits, olose business application, of strict prob ity and with warm friendships, a most excellent neighbor and citizen. In 1897 he relinquished business and came to this oouuty to live ou the old homestead farm, which he pur chased. He first married in 18CS MUs Anna L. Elsassaer, who died in 1S84. Three children. Christian T., David and Louisa, all of New York, sur vive by th! union. In 1898 he mar ried, second. Miss Margaret Blum, who with one child, Nicholas, sur vives him. Living brothers and sisters are Frederick of Delaware, Mrs. Frederika Boock and Annie, wife of J. A. Blatt, of New York, Pauline, wife of G. J. Gebhardt of Dingman township, and Emil of Newark, N. J. It Saved Kit Lsg. P. A. Danforth of LaOrange, Ga., suffered for six months with a frightful running sore on his leg ; but writes that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured it in five days. For ulcers, wounds, piles, it's the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25o. Sold by all druggists. Hon. Henry 8. Harris, ex-congressman, died suddenly at his home in Bolvidere, N. J., May 2 U anopleiy.
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