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MILFOM), PIKE COUNTY, PA., FUIDAY, DECEMBER 20, I0O2.
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LETTER,
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The Cuban treaty is now tn
jj)B I
hands of the senato and will receive
prompt consideration nfter the hol
idays. It grunts to Culm n conces
sion of 2") percent, from tlx; Dtngley
rates and secures for the prodnts of
the United States concessions vary,
ing from 20 to 40 per rent, and
averaging about 33' per cent.
Reversing his intentions an pre.
vionsly announced, Senator Honr
lins given notice to the senate Unit
ho will introduce nil anti-trust,
bill at. this sesson. When seen on
the subject, however, it was evident
that the senator'a'intenttons were
not well defined, and that what his
hill would ho and even whether it
would be framed at nil,, would de
pond entirely on the decision of the
attorney general. If Mr. Knox
decides that with the new ap
propriatiot) ho cur. better test
Sherman law and withdraws
reccommeiidutions made in
Pittsburg speech for the present
the
the
his
the
measnro of the venerabl) senator
from Massachusetts will not prob
ably materialize this season.
Thore is n rapidly growing con
viction in Washington that the
Venezuelan episode when p issed will
have added another laurel to the
reputation of Secretary Hay as a
diplomat and that the course of
stiaight forward diplomacy, as ex
tmplified by President Roosevelt'H
exposition of the Monroe doctrine in
his first message to congress, will
have scored another victory. The
statement that "The powers con
cerned Great Britain and Germany
will deal solely with the United
States in the mutter of arbitration,"
is regarded as the greatest recogni
tion the Monroe doctrine has ever
received. The acceptance by the
allies of the arbitration proposals
forwarded by Secretary Hay, al
though accompanied by some con
ditions which complicate the situa
tion,. is regarded as forHhadowing
the peaceful conclusion of the pres
ent difficulty and theadministration
lias turned its attention to facili
tating that end. While it is ob
viously impossible for the United
States to puarautee. the payment of
such indemnity and damages as may
be allowed by the arbitrators, the
government will make it clear to
such American financiers as may
become interesteJ in 4bo situation,
that it will use its power to protect
them in any loan they may make to
Venezuela.
Secretary Hay, Ambassador Her
bert and Senator Pepew, the latter
representing the Seliginnns, have al
ready had one conference witli a view
to determining what can be done to
enable Venezuela to meet her obllga
tions and it is believed that eventual
ly a satisfactory settlement will be
the outcome of the interest displayed
by the American bankers. Repre
sentative Ilitt, chairman of the com
mittee on foreign affairs, said today,
"Roth parties in the house believe
that the administration has handled
the Venezuelan affair w ith great good
Judgment and the resolution passed
by the house asking for information
should not be construed as arguing a
want of confidence. The Monroe
doctrine has tieen strengthened in
three w ays. The powers, by refrain
ing from landing troops on South
American soil have shown a respect
for the doctrine which will constitute
a precedent, the jealousy with w hich
the American people regard the doc
trine has been demonstrated and
South American countries have again
been taught the lesson that they can
not repudiate their just debts" and
hope to get Is hind the Monroe doc
trine for protection. ,
Taking the Venezuelan situation as
tt te.vt, Secretary Moody delivered a
powerful argument is hue the house
committee on naval affairs recently.
He citiil the president's utatement
that "Our navy must be a mutch for
any," and proceeded to demonstrate
t lie necessity for six new i-hips to bp
iiuthori.cd by congress this year.
The president is earnestly backing up
the wishes of his Secreiary of the
.Navy, lie has said: '! ton in fuvm
of building warships everv year until
the I nit-l Statin navy shall lie as
strong us any in the world." Every
THE WASHINGTON
Hi I' loner W lilctl 1.- lit t he Coin Ilia I nl ol , ,
the U'hoinisl ration w ill he brought to ; i
bear on congress to si-cure li!ilalji
treatment ot the navy but tui-re Is
i- 'i-t it I v a disinclination on the part
-f '.lie lu.val committee, to comum
t'.e c-.ii.tiy t i a j i!h-y l,;i h it har
V ill c.ei.ul ln-i.v v taxation.
Certain navul nlliceisareadvnnclng
the theory that (iermany In no vlgor-
ously prosecuting her claims against
cnezuela' was actuated by a desire
to cor urn a naval base on this conti
nent. Such n theory, while apparently
plausible, is not supported by the
lacts, theGermnn Ambassador having
on two occasions, one as recently as
lVcemher II, protested in writing to
Secretary Hay that his country had
no intention of acquiring or even
occupying American territory. lie
further asserts that he has been in
structed to make this statement by
his soveriegn. Under the circum
stances there Is little ground for the
claims set forth in naval circles and
If the administration traces their
authors there may follow a severe
reprimand.
The house of representatives ha
demoistrated its good Faith on the
trust question by passing an appro
priation bill which provides that
J.rn0,000 shall be placed at the dis
posal of the attorney general for the
prosecution of trusts under the exist
ing law. Although passed as an
amendment to the legislative bill,
this is in accordance with the pro
visions of Representative Hepburn's
measure. It is believed by ninny
that when this bill is passed by the
senate it will constitute till the anti
trust legislation enacted by the present
congress. The supporters ot tins
policy claim that, owing to a lack of
financial resources, it has never been
possible for the attorney general to
properly enforce the Sherman law
tint that he will now be able to do so
and that it would be injudicious to
enact new legislation or amend the
present law until it has been thorough
ly tested in the courts and Its efficiency
or the reverse demonstrated by legal
decisions.
A Qreat Irrigation Dam
And now comes an Egptinn, Helios
Bey, and tells us that the great ir
rigation dam at Assouan, Egypt,
for which we have all been giving
onr British cousins such unmeasured
credit and prnise, was the oononp-
tion of Isthmail Pasha, in 1871,
prior to the English occupation of
Egypt, while the surveys for the
same was conducted by Uol. Biiverly
Kennon, the son of Commodore
Kennon, of the United States navy,
one of the American officers who
was recommended by Gen. Wm. T.
Sherman, general of the army, to go
to Egypt in 18,0 to aid in the over
turning of the unspeakable Turk.
Colonol Kennon, with several other
American officers, was engaged for
some months on this preliminary
survey, and having completed it,
the plans became a part of the
archives of the general staff of the
Egyptian Army. These were ap
propriated by the British when they
occupied Egypt in 1882.
But wherever the credit may be
due, the fact remains that the work
is one of man's great achieve
ments. Egypt's dam constructed
by the British government in a for-
eign land looms up as an incentive
for the American government ta
build similar great works for our
own citizens and in the centre ol
our own domain.
Real Estate Transfers
Cynthia Van Inwegin and others
to Seymour Coykondall, Jr., 2
acres, Westfall, t3'J5.
J B. Westbrook, treasurer, to
Edwin Hazen, 64 acres, part of
Patrick Morgan, No. 118, Blooming
Grove, tax.
Sarah C. Westbrook, executrix, to
O issie Ann Emery l31)a' acres, Del
aware, being the former J. Wilson
Vnu- Gorden farm, also 15 acres,
part of June Broadband, $1100.
Johu Carhn to Thomas Stont,
interest in land iu Ltukitwaxeu, $1
George Gregory, sheriff, to Henry
C. Spackman, 15 acres, Lehman,
sold as property of Albert and W.
U. Gotten!, -'(!.
George Gregory, sheriff, to Len
ard D. Ilorsforrt, 8."7 acres,, Lacku-
waxen, sold as the property of W
P. Austin, 13050.
Saved St Grave's Brink
"I know I would long bl'O have
been in my gruTe," writes Mrs. S.
H. Newsom, of Decatur, Ala., "if it
i ,
mil not been for Electric Hitters
for tbre
agony fn
years r suffered untold
in
the worst forms of in-
;es,iioti, S'.aU'iblioli, Moiiwirll Jilr.l
wet il vspep.-iii. liut this exei Hi et
medu 1 1 a U.l me a woil.t of if.....
Since using it 1 can eat heartily and
h.io (tii. d ;iT potinils " i'or m.li.
Va'stioii, loss of iij'ptuio, sloniach.
liver mai kidney trouble l-.icetrio
l'.;it-is urn a p--:,! ve, I'U.ti untied
cure. ,';c at nil Ui um fc'.oits.
PERSONALS
The Misses Lila and Bessie Van
Etten ate spending the holidays in
town
Edna and Honrv Klnor, students
at Blair Hall, are home for a festive
season.
Judge Allen Craig is reported
seriously ill at his home in Mauch
Cnuiik.
Miss Pamela Reed of Brooklyn
and Howard of the U. P, are guests
with their parents at The Anchorage.
William Andrus and wife of
Perry, N. Y., spent ft few days re
cently with the family of A. D.
Brown.
Frank Keller, Esq., of Parkers
(lien and George Haas, Jr., of Sho
hola were here on business matters
Tuosday.
Governor-elect 8. W PennypaoVer
has appointed as his private secre
tary Henry S. Dotterer of Philadel
phia. County Superintendent Lucian B.
Westbrook, Dr. David Chapin and
Jesse B. Shoemaker of Dingmans
were visitors in town Tuesday.
Miss Bertha Williamson Is naw
living at Ridgewood, N. Y., and goes
to the city daily where she is taking
a course of study in convalescent
nursing.
Dr. Walter L. Angle, a student of
the Jeff at Philadelphia, is enjoying
a vacation here. He was a witness
to the operations of Dr. Lorenz, the
famous surgeon.
Last Thursday evening seventeen
members of the Rebekah Lodge
here, of which Mrs. Edward Blood
of Cuddebackville formerly of this
place is a member, drove up to give
her a little surprise party. In token
of her faithful attendance and as a
reminder of the good wishes and
esteem of her former associates they
presonted her with ft handsome
rocking chair. George Dauman as
spokesman in n few appropriate re
marks bestowed the comfortable gift.
Farmer's Institute
The farmer's institute for this
county will be held at Milford Mon
day, Deo. 29, at 2 p. m. at the Court
House and at Dingman's at 2 p. m.
Tuesday, Doc. 30. Colonel John A.
Woodward of Centre count will be
presort and will talk on topics of
special interest among them dairy,
ing, feeding, roadmaking and fertil
izing. Z. T. Cure of Laokawanna
county will instruct on corn and
potato culture, the handling of sheep
and kindred topios. No farmer who
wishes to make his business profit
able can afford to miss hearing these
practical talks, They are given by
men who have learned by experience
and speak whereof they know. One
good idea received and put in
practice may be worth many dollars
to an enterprising former.
Of course there are some men who
know it all now and perhaps cannot
be taught anything but it is possible
they may have overlooked some
trifling matter the knowledge of
which would be of value to them.
Farm products are bringing good
money now, come out to these insti
tutes and see if the ideas you obtain
are not worth dollars, that Is if yon
want to make the business of farm
ing profitable and learn the best
methods of doing so
Leoiura By Thoinaa Dixon, Jr.
People tn this section may have
the pleasure of hearing Thomas
Dixori? Jr., in Port Jervis Monday-
evening, Deo. 29th. He is an author
of repute, having written the
'Leopard's Spots," and is an elo
quent platform orator. Those who
embrace the opportunity will doubt
less be well repaid.
Notice !
The annual meeting of the ishare
tioldcrs of the Barret Bridge company
will be held at the Toll House of the
company in Port Jervis on Tuesday,
January 0th proximo, for the purpose
of choosing directors for the next
year. The Hills will be 0en from 3
till 4 o'clock p. m.
I'UANl'I.S M AKVIN,
Secretary.
Port Jervis, Deccinlier 15, lilirj.
A. W. Balch and Sou, Matamoras,
all drug and general Btoies iu Pike
I bounty guarantee every bottle of
j - ""' '"' P"'
v.. I r. iunil t!io money to anyone
v ho is not sistit'iied alter using two
tliirddtif the contents. This in the
best remedy in the world fur la
(.'ii, ;o, coiiglis, cohis, croup and
whooping four'il and is plenaant, and
si'Sii to take. It lirevents nv ten.
li.'iii y of a Cold to result In pnau-
insula. 2 i'ti 0:J
Croamarles in Monroe
If Monroe county is not famous,
as is Piko, for her boars and rattle
snakes, she can claim notoriety as
being a healthy place for democrats
and a writer in the Sussex Inde
pendent now gives her distinction
as a land of milk if not honey.
"Denny" Reardnn, evidently a milk
dealer, is the raconteurund this is
the way he tells the story :
Rome one asked him if he was
getting much milk hi Pennsylvania.
He looked disgusjed for a moment,
and finally said he was not getting
a drop. "Now," said he, "I will
tell yon how I came to go over in
Pennsylvania, in the Pocono dis
trict. Soon after the Wilkesbarre
& Eastern rond was built Charlie
McKelvey sal 1 to a few of the milk
men, M want to oon up ft tew niim
country, and I will arrange to run a
special train someday and take yon
people out and show you a good,
new milk country.' Well, the day
arrived and we all went out. Mc
Kelvey had sent word ahead for the
operators to meet us at the differ
ent stations. After going over It
we all shook our heads and guessed
not, but Charlie said he would make
it all right for me, and made an ar
rangement for me to educate the
farmers there to the milk business.
The road built a creamery at Bar-
tonsville and one at Stauffers.
"He thought we ought to got
fifty cans at each point, and when I
got a little time 1 went out, first
agreeing to take the Bartonsville
creamery. Talk about farming
country I I went to see them and
took an interpreter; for I found
that George Ibnken, who can
talk ordinary Germail, when it
oame to Pennsylvania Dutch, was
worse off than I was.
"I went around among 'em. The'
cows were about as big as full grown
goats, and all tails and horns. The
inhabitants never ,'iad any money
until I went there. They wore felt
boots, smoked cornoob pi pea, chewel
tobacco and spit Into the log fire
seven montns in tne year, rue
balance of the year they pitched
quoits, got out mine props and hoop-
poles, and took strre orders for
provisions, wh-t little clothes they
bad and the tobaooo they usod.
Strange to say, they seemed to be
happy. They got four cents apiece
for the mine props and the regular
rate for hooppoles.
"Well, we started the creamery
and gave lessons In dairying that
would do credit to a state agricul
tural college. We started in and bo
did they. They used to bring their
milk in four-quart pails, strainers
and every other way. In the flush
season they would bring it to the
creamery In wneol-barrows. Wo
introduced regulation cans, but it
was unnecessary, as it took four or
five dairies to fill a can.
"McKelvey urged me to be pa
tient. I was. The biggest we ever
received there was twenty cans In
the fall it ran down to fifteen, and
finally in the winter it ran down to
three. Then I pulled out and told
the railroad people to send some
home missionaries and work the
country for Bummer boarders, .as
there was not enough milk In the
whole county around to supply more
than a good boarding bouse. I
guess they are going to take my
advice. Ask John Bedell some time
when you see him if this is not
about right."
Then Denny lit a fresh cigar.
To Summer Boarding House Keepers
The passenger department of the
Erie Railroad intend getting the
"Erie Hummer Homes" book for
1903 out at a very early date, and
invite all summer hoarding house
keepers to have their notice in the
book free of charge, and all w ho wish
to improve this opportunity should
call at or address Erie ticket office,
Port Jervis, N. Y., and get a blank
application, which must be filled out
and returned to H. 1. Siauson,
ticket agent, Port Jervis, on or before
Jan. 15th, PJOIi. There is no reason
why every boarding bouse in this
vicinity should not lie tilled next
summer, and in order to do this get
your notice in the ."Erie Summer
Homes" for 10(13. Blanks will 1
mailed all who had a notice in last
year's Isxik. 3
Foil A Deadly Attack
"My wiftj vhs iso ill that good
physicians weix unable to help her,"
writes M. M. Austin of Winchester,
Ind., "but was completely cured by
Dr. King's New Life PilU." They
wuik wonder in btomuch and liver
I troubles
Cure ooiintiixttion, ick
headache, 25o at all diug storva,
BRIEF MENTION.
A, number one, or prime largo
black fox skin is worth $350, a dark
silver grey f 175. Why don't some
ot our huntors kill a few of these
kinds?
The new line of railroad between
Port Jervis and Kingston was open
ed for traffic last Monday and trains
are now running between those
towns.
The Times says Henry J. Kotz,
Esq., of Stroudsbnrg has announced
himself a candidate for judge of the
Monroe-Pike district. There will
likoly be others.
John D. Ilockefellow has donated
a million dollars to the Chicago
University. He has also raised the
price of oil one cent a gallon, so the
public really pays the subscription.
A Pittsburg judge has recently
ruled that a divorce obtained in
Dakota is not good In this state.
This ruling may compel interested
parties to bbtuin the home made
article.
The sheriff elsewhere advertises
two lots in Matamoras on Barker
street taken in execution as the
property of Daniel and Harriet Cook
and Harriet Smith to be sold Jan.
16, 1903, at 2 o'clock.
The sale of the Charles Wirtz
goods Tuesday attracted a large
crowd and prices realized were fully
up to value. Hon. L. J. Martin,
attorney for Wirtz, was present and
directed the auction.
The town council at its meeting
last Saturday evening passed an
ordinance granting privilnge to the
Van Pike telephone company to
maintain its systom in the borough.
A license fee of 75 cents is placed
on every pole set up.
Rev. E. M. Smead hs9 had printed
a calendar for tne Presbyterian
church for the next three months.
It ahows the time of services, topics
for the week of prayer and topics
and leaders in the Christian Endea v
or society and will be a convenient
mentor for church people.
G. F. Rowland, whose term of
office as oonnty treasurer will expire
Jan. 1st, has made a courteous,
obliging and prompt official and one
with whom it has been a pleasure to
transnot business. He expects to
engage in the lumber business in
Lackawaxen township.
The employees of G. B. Markle &
Co., who live in corporation houses,
found on receiving their wageenve
lopes Tuesday that the rent for the
six months they had been on strike
was deducted from the amount duo
them. The rent was 124, and that
about balanced accounts and left
them minus any cash.
The incessant rain last Sunday
promised a repetition of the floods
of one yearagobutthesnowabsorbed
the water, and, though the river
and streams were quite swollen they
were not dangerously high, The
absence of frost in the ground
probably aided in disposing of the
wet, by enabling it to sink away
The firemen's oyster supper to be
given in the borough building Deo.
31, proceeds to furnish their rooms,
is a very worthy object and doserves
as it no doubt will receive the liberal
patronage of our citizens A dance
will be given the same evening in
Brown's Hall. Go out and encourage
the boys by yonr presence and
support.
The farmer who has a goxl wood
lot uK)n or adjacent to his farm can
be a truly thankful individual this
Christmas season. Every snap of cold
weather means a vast amount of
Intense suffering among the poorest
classes of the cities, w here coal is still
being sold by the bucketful, notwith
standing that considerable of it is
moving out of the mines.
The possible straining of our friend
ly relations with Germany calls at
tention to the extent to which the
country is dependent upon us for food
and manufactured products. During
the fiscal y-i'ar our shipments to Ger
many amounted to 173, 000,000
against our importations from her of
1101,000,000.
The Baltimore American says that
Bjonistjirue lljornson, the Swjedish
njovelist hjus lijad a hjirthdjuy
annivjersary.
The Pride of Heroes
Many soldiers in the last war
wrote to say that for scratches,
bruises, cuts, wounds, corus, gore
fuel and at i IT joints, Iiuck Ion's Arnica
Salve is the best in the world. Same
for burns, scalds, boils, ulcers, ukiu
eruptions and piles. It cures or no
pay. Only Ujc at r!1 druj stores.
Tule-tide
Ever at Yule-tide when the great
bg flamed in chimney place and
laugh and jest went round. The
origin of the feast of mid-winter,
the Yule, is very ancient, and the
wood denoting it is of doubtful
origin. It was sacred to Odhinn,
the chief god of Northern Mythology,
os such a season might be to the god
of storms. It is the old English and
still, to someoxfont, the Scotch and
Northern name for Christmas or the
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord.
Holinshed in his history of Scotland
says sitting at their banket on the
twelft day in Christmas, otherwise
called Yule.
The Yuln candle was a large candle
formerly used to light the festivities
of Cnristmus Eve. It was an ovil
omen for the candle to burn out
before the evening was at an end.
Any remnants were kept to be usod
at the celebrator's funeral obsequies.
1 he 1 ule log was a large log or block
of wood formerly burnt at Christ
mas Eve. It was brought into the
room with much ceremony.
Dickens makes the nephew in his
dialogue with Scrooge say, "There
are many good things from which I
might have derived good by which
have not pre filed, I dare say,
Christmas among the rest. But I
am sure I have always thought of
Christmas time, when it came
round apart from the veneration
due to its sacred origin if anything
belonging to it can be apart from
thatas a good time; a kind, for
giving, charitable, pleasant time,
the only time I know of on the long
calendar of the year, when men and
women seem to open their shut
hearts freely and to think of people
below them as if they really wore
fellow-travelers to the grave and
not another race of creatures bound
on other journeys. And therefore
uncle though it has never put a
scrap of gold or silver in my pocket
I believe that it has done me good,
and will do mo good, and I soy God
bless it."
Abuie of Homestead Laws
Colonel Mushy, whose name struok
terror to the Union troops in north
ern Virgini i in the sixties, is now
a special agent of the interior de
partment in Nebraska, and the old
veteran appears to have gotten into
theienemy's camp as effectively as
he wa9 wont to do forty years ago.
He has discovered that some of the
big livestock outfits have been
fraudulently acquiring title to thous
ands of aores of government land by
inducing widows of old soldiers to
take up homesteads and get tittle to
the land and then for a small bonus
immediately transfer it to the com
panies. Which is but one evidence
to show the necessity for the repeal
of the commutation clause of the
homestead law, which allows such
fraud, also the desert land act, an
other law whereby the government
is steadily losing large acreages of
its best remaining lands through
the fraudlent manipulations of the
big companies. The people of the
east should remember that they are
joint owners witn the rest of the
country in the vast area of public
lands of the United States.
Judge Ahman on Woman Suffrage
"Woman Suffrage is one of the few
questions in morals and politics about
which it has always seemed to me
there was scarcely room for conflict
ing opinions. The axiom that tax
ation without representation is
tyranny, would seem to 9ecure the
franchise to woman as a matter of
indisputable right; and I have met
with no objection on the score of
policy to its exercise by her, which
has not seemed puerile and selfish
The plea that she is mentally Inca
pacitated to exercise a sound judge
ment in civil matters is grotesque
when we consider the mental make
up of thousands of men who throng
the polls and In effect, control the
destinies of a party; and the plea that
her womanly duties are incompatible
with the duties which she owes to
the state, has beeu disproved by ex
perience. Alter all, the convincing
argument with me is that the average
woman is on a higher moral plane
than the average man; that she is a
worse sufferer than he from the mis
chiefs, of misrule; that instinctively
her voice would be. raised for social
order, and that her presence at the
bulUit-box would be, as it now is in
the church, a force upon the side of
enlightened rule."
To Cure a Cold in Oae Cay
Take Laxitive Bromo Qniniue Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to curu. E. W. Grove's
signature is on each box. 2-o.
THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS
What did you find in your stock
ing? The. Sussex Register Is making f tin
because it takes 280 dollars to do a
15 dollar job here iu Pike county.
Mrs. Amelia Rosenkrans of New
ton visited her sister, Mrs. K. R
Van Anken, last week.
Uncle James Mollineaux has left
town for the winter. ,;
William Metis lost his sorrel horse
last week.
The attendance at the different
Sunday Schools has been very largo
of late, but as Santa has made his
visit the rush is over until pionio
time.
Charley Lehde of New York was
a visitor here last week.
Thore is not much danger of a
person getting lost in this town.
The lost usually turn up.
Last Sunday was about as disagree
able day as any one wished to see
ind be out of doors.
Lafe Brink, who recently moved
from here to Port Jervis, has taken
up his residence at Mill Rift. He
will now engage in the chicken 1
raising industry to break the egg
tru9t.
Not many counties have as good a
showing as little Pike. In former
years there used to be three and four
jury court held here in a year' and
now we seem to get along with a
jury once in a year. That fact alono
should keep the expenses of the
oonnty down considerable but yet
some people seem to lose sight of
that fact. How much is the expense
of a panel of grand and petit jurors
to the county for a term Mr. Editor?
The organizing of the Liars' Club
has been postponed to some future
time. Several would be members
having business elsewhere for the
present, and the walking after dark
rather bad for some of the rest.
Walter Angle is home from Phila
delphia to spend his vacation.
Clyde Kipp is also here.
Remember the poor you have
always with you.
It is better to give if you are
able than to receive.
The Lord helps them who help
themselves but not to other peoples
property.
Fritz Pollion ia in town after an
absence of several months.
Cannot be Civilized
The Iatln-Amerlcan comes pain
fully near being an impossible char
acter. Consul General Bragg, though
he was indiscreet in writing to his
wife, was pretty near the mark when
he said that Uncle Sam might as well
expect to make a thistle out of a
pig's tail as a "good citizen" out ot
the Spanish-American.
Here we have Columbia, with an
opportunity to secure the construction
of a great work which will result In
untold benefits to her, haggling over
a few immediate dollars. Alongside
of her is Venezuela trying to get
behind the skirts of the United States
to escape what appears to be her just
ibligations. Then we see Cuba, after
her deliverance from the worst
tyianny imaginable, acting toward
her benefactor like the veriest child
wilful; unreasonable and ungrrteful.
This ail grows out of the idea, in
grained in the Spanish-American
character, that politics is simply a
game to obtain public power with the
avowed Idea of using office for the
purpose of making as much personal
gain as jiossible. Anyone who knows
anything of the character of the peo
ple of our tropics realizes the long
process of evolution necessary belore
our southern neighbors can become
patriots in the sense understood by
citizens of this country.
Election of Managers
The annual election for managers
of the Milford Cemetery Association
will lie held at the offlice of C. W.
Bull in the borough of Milford on
Monday, Jan. 6, l'JOM, between the
hours of '1 and 8 p. ni.
William Mitchell,
Secretary.
Milford, Pa., December 11, 1002.
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