-1 i T ! i. O .Li. . . :v c MILFOKl), PIKE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 190... VOL. VIII. NO. '21. r il AU THE WASHINGTON LETTER. There Is the utmost gratification in republican circles in Washington over the Northern securities Company decision which Is regarded as not only a great victory for the attorney general, but as proving indubitably that the president and his cabinet are correct in the proposition that combi nations of capital, effected either for the restraint of trade or having it within their power to prevent compe tition, can be reached and controlled through the courts rather than by any reduction of the tariff which would Inevitably operate to the advantage of the trusts by removing all domestic competition, that is by destroying the smaller concerns in the same classes of Industry. The haste with which this decision was reached was due to the so-called "hurry up" law which was drafted by Attorney General Knox and enacted by con gress at the request of the attorney general and the president. Moreover, as a result of this law it Is expected that the Supreme court will give precedence to the case at the begin ning of Its fall term, next October, and that a decision will be readied early In the fall. That the Supreme court will confirm the decision of the court Is regarded as a foregone con clusion in view of the fact that the four judges who tried the case in the circuit court of appeals were unani mous In their opinion. (Joining immediately after the an nounced purpose of the administra tion to "stand pat" on the tariff schedules, at least until after election, the Northern Securities decision is regarded as particularly timely and it is predicted by those statesmen in Washington who are in touch with the Iowa situation that this sounds the death knell of the "Iowa Idea." The Iowa situation has been the occasion of no little anxiety recently to the president and his advisors. Governor Cummins' hearty espousal of the Iowa Idea, the Immediate revision of the tariff, has, It has been feared, threatened a rupture In the party In that stronghold of republi canism and the approaching conven ' tion, which will be called for the last of July or the first of August, was ' looked forward to with apprehension Governor Cummins' control of the state was appreciated and it was not known whether he would Insist on a tariff revision plank In the state platform. Now that the correctness of the president's position regarding the trusts has been demonstrated it Is believed that the governor, who Is a staunch republican, and 8 protection ist as well, will appreciate that the time has not arrived when a revision of the tariff is necessary and will seek to avoid rather than to precipitate questions which might occasion a eollison of divergent factions In the convention. The news of the recent disaster on the battleship Iowa has been receiv ed at the navy department with great concern and It Is regarded as probable that the secretary of th navy will, on his return to Washington, order a court to Investigate the causes. There are grave reflections ta.be heard In Inner circles with regard to the ammunition In use by the navy and It is possible that this subject will receive particular attention. There have been too many accidents on naval vessels in the past year and officers in the high service are convinced that there is some underlying cause which requires a prompt and drastic remedy The postoflloe investigations still continue although It is, in view of the reticence of the officials, difficult to obtain the results. The postmaster general is still out of the cily and his sulxjrdinates say they have positive orders not to talk It Is known, how- j ever, that people all over the country are hiking advantage of the Investi gations now going on to present evidence which Uiey have evidently supposed would, in the past, have been unheeded. The latent cominu liicalhm received is anonymous but is so nearly In line with what has Invn suspected that it has received more attention than is oidinarily accorded an anonymous communica tion. It states that there has for some time existed a ring to which it was iitv,-ary for employes to pay tribute in order to s"cnre promotion. t.iie tl.ts ling is auld to have been nil.-1 ail over Ihi country, it was to p.., a 1. ! ,. i , Ni York office that it was luiiy active end the name of York employee, chained to epieM'i:t'il the coi! ru tors is . 1. 1 i-U ffi-ploj ee Is i.ow inv,v.v.:;v I lt Lis name is not likely to appear in the public prints until more definite Information has !ccn secured because editors fear laying themselves open to libel suits. The secretary of agriculture, who has long been recognized as the lead ing exponent of the theory of teaching the elementary principles of agricul ture in the primary schools, particu larly those In the rural districts, has organized a class from the District or Columbia Normal School and has placed at its disposal a small green house fur the piirmse ot experimenta tion. The class now numbers nearly one hundred young men and women and Secretary Wilson ottcn finds time, notwithstanding his active labors, to go out himself and lecture to the class. This is only a small beginning but it is what the secretary hojies to see established in every normal school in the country in the not distant future. Some remarkable figures concern ing the trade of the United States and Canada have jt been compiled by the bureau of statistics, remarkable chiefly because they demonstrate the extraordinary popularity of American goods in that country. During the seven months ending with the first of the year the United States exported to Canada goods to the amount of $(17,000,000 as against $:!2,000,000 worth Imported from the United Kingdom and $21,000,000 Imported from all other countries, and this notwithstanding the fact that the United Kingdom enjoys a tariff differential of 31J per cent over the United States. In the opinion of a prominent treasury official this coun try will soon control the Canadian trade whether a reciprocity treaty is affected or not. TH0TJ3HT3 AND DEEDS As the waters flow onward mid hasten away, So It is every day with each word that we say. We cannot undo what we did yesterday. Then why not endeavor to do our best Ench day, and see If we'll not be blest. And sometime perchance gala eternal rest. As the strenra In the ocean Is finally lost So with p,at opportunities. Then oh, count the cost Ere you lose forever of value the most. A kind word or a deed, you cannot mis place. How many we need, the poor human race! We long for and ornve them In every case. A man may be oven hard-hearted and cruel, Yet every harsh word Is bat adding more fuel, To the fire perhaps he Is striving to cool. Then why not endeavor to help him, Instead Of casting more stones at his poor boned head. Give him a chance He may wish to be led. Just try It and see how much light you can shed, On one, who, perchance, wishes now he were dead. How often for kindness his heart may have bled. But the world turned Its book, with nothing to give, No one to care should he die or live. Ob hard, hard fate 'gainst which to strive I But speak to him kindly and see the glad light, That leaps to the eyes that onee were so bright. Ere sadness decended like gloom of the night. Dont you think it would pay to try It and see The ehmlows lift surely from a soul that would be But for you, porhaps lobt eternally? Then I beg that nil who may read these lines, Will try It and see how warm the sun shines When one with another the soul' inter twines. Milford, April, 1SI03. Pointed Paragraphs Spinsters know what a miss-spent life is. lloix and hustle enable a man to gain his ends. Poverty keeps many a man from making a fool of himself. Happiness is ineasun-d out by the pint misery by the bushel. A dozen wives is enoutrh to bhake any mans belief in polygamy. Consistency in yourself in syiiony mous w ith obstinacy in your neighbor A man who lives beyond his income is apt to live beneath his opportunities. Many a man vialks the floor at night because bis wife doesn't believe in paregoric. Chicago News. "Yon write your first name very well indeed. Miss Pinkie," criticized the writing teacher, "but you make a tuid botch of the 'Johnson' part of it." . What is the difference, Mr. fc'pe li ter?" asked the pretty girl. "I esc- pe, t to vhw-'.o tl.rt J-jbi.soii palt Of it S'mo day." C'l.icao Tnbuno. LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES Miss Mabel Armstrong is a visitor in town. A. D. Crown visited New York a few days recently. Howard Reed of the U. P. spent Enster at The Anchorage. Paul Schanno of Stroudsbnrg was In town a few days this week. James W. Pinchot of New York is expected to arrive today for a few days visit in town. Harry B. Reed Jr., loft this week for Arizona where he will enter the employ of a copper mining company. W. II. Armstrong, Esq , and wife, who havo spent the winter in New York, returned to Milford last week. . Stanton Supplee went to New York the first of thn week and brought up a horse for Miss RatclifTe. E. C Wood and Frank Fuller are spreading colors at Forest Park, and Stacy Fuller Is now doing police duty. Rev. C. E. Scudder returned this week to superintend the removal of his household goods to Busses, his now charge. Mrs. E. S. Wolfe left last week for Saranac, Michigan, to visit ber mother, who was in a very critical condition with dropsy. Nelson G. Palmer and wife have returned to thoir Ann street resi deuce. Mrs. Palmer la not at present enjoying very good health. John Aimer is greatly pleased with his success in his venture in the boot and shoe business which he has ust established on Harford street. Geo. H. Buchanan has severed connection with firm of T. Arm strong & Co. and has accepted a sit uation with Strait Bros., a New York grocery house. He will have Sussex county for his traveling ter ritory, and has the good wishes of many friends for sucoess. Laws of General Interest A bill signed by the governor empowers the board of game com missions to appoint one man in ench county to be known as a deputy game protector who shall have same power as the present game proteotor. Also one providing that Jury com missioners shall have authority to appoint a clerk and fix his salary at not moro than $5 a day. The governor has signed the good roads bill, also a bill requiring non resident hunters and unnaturalized foreigners to procure a lioenBe before hunting jn this state. Also one prohibiting the discharge of Flobert rifles, air guns and spring guns in boroughs. Unclaimed Letters. Liist of unclaimed letters remain ing in the post office at Milford for the week ending April 11, 1903 : Mrs. John Reinhart, Mrs. Clara Dopuy, Mis. B. Strait, Miss Cary K. Livingston ; foreign, Uissonne Leonepidrnate. Persons claiming the above will please say "Advertised" and give date of this list. Charles Lattimoke, P. M Mamie went to Sunday school, and came back with a very serious face. "What's the matter, Mamie? asked mamma. "Did'nt you have a nicfl time at Sunday school?" Then Mamie explained : "The superintendent said that no one oould go to heaven 'less they had pure, clean heart, and I've swallow ed a button and a rock and a peach seed I" November Lipplucott's. Out in California there has lately been erected a concrete chimney 180 feet high for a power station. The ingredients were cement one part, sand two parts and flue broken stone four parts. It is said the most com mon ratio for concrete is 1:3:5, but engineers vary it freqnently to suit special conditions. Rain fulling on the roofs of tall buildings in Now York, as well as alfwuste water, not uusanitary, is conducted into what is known as a sink pit under the structure, the object of which is to keep the piles on which the foundations rest satu rated so that they will not decay. Eighty skeiotons were found re cently in the hull of the warship Ruina Christina, flagship of Admiral Montojo, which was sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manila bay. There were fifteen hi, ell holes iu the hull, one iim.lt) by an 8 inch thell and the oilicis mnuller, STJNDAT SCHOOL CONVENTION To be Held at Dingman's Ferry May 1st Prominent Workers Will Be Present The Pike County Sunday School Convention which Is to be held in the Methodist church at Dingman's Ferry, May lot, promises to be of great interest. The morning session will begin at half past ten and will close at noon. In the morning two addresses have already been arrang. ed for and it is hoped that the third, on "Sunday School Evangelism," may be had. The Rev Victor A. Wood, the new pastor of the Metho dist church of Milford, is the first speaker and his topio is, The Twentioth Century Boy." The second discussion regarding "Onr Outlying Districts" will be present ed by Mr. William Angle of Milford. The purpose of introducing this topio is to open the question of having more schools in the com munities where there are school housos but where they have no gospel privileges. If any one, seeing this notice, will come to the conven tion and help us formulate plans for this kind of work we believe it will add greatly to the success of the convention. The afternoon session will be opened with a devotional service and it is expected that Rev. E. J. Perot, the rector of the Chnrch of the Good Shepherd, Milford, will conduct this service. Tnen Mr. Hugh Cork, the general secretary of the Babbath schools of the state of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Sug gestions to Those who Work with Y'oung Children." Mr. Cork is a most excellent speaker and it would bo a mistake for those interested in Sunday school work to miss hearing him. The second speaker in the afternoon will probably he equally good and his subject must appeal to everyone In the county. The speak er is Rev. F. W. Lange, D. D., who was formerly the state secretary of Delaware, and his topio is "The Best School for Pike County." This discussion will be followed by the question box. At the evening serv- ioe Mr. Hugh Cork will speak the seoond tiineon "Planning and Work. lug for Definite Results." Of course we cannot expect the good people of Dingman's Ferry to entertain everyone that might go, bat. each Sunday school is entitled to two delegates besides the pastor. We hope to see a full representation of our schools there. Others will be well repaid if they have to provide their own entertainment. Think it over and arrange to ootue. Further announcements will be given later in these columns next week, x x x That Libel Law The legislature has passed what is called the Salus-Grady libel law, a measure Intended to prevent news papers from publishing comments on, or criticism of, the acts of politicians or, In fact, any one In any capacity, It Is now up to the governor whether It becomes a law. Should he sign the bill such action would go fur to substantiate the intimations made during hia candidacy that he was simply a pawn of the machine. The bill is called "an organization nieas ure" and Is evidently designed to suppress adverss comment on its devious methods. When It comes to the pass that Information concerning questionable acts of officials cannot be given the public through the medium of the press without subject ing the publisher to a malicious action for libel the people must take heed. Nothing so restrains the pro pensities of men to take advantage of their positions for tiieir own gain or the benefit of their clique as the possibility of exposure and of being held up to public execration. No fair newspaper will exercise its privl lego unduly and tirades without foundation or reason would le In effective to mold public sentiment or to Injure their subjects. We hope the governor will le true to the best interestfi of the state and veto this liiKiuitous attempt to throttle the press. Robbed the Grave A starling incident, is narrated by John Oliver of Philadelphia, as fol lows : "I was in an awful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, paiu contiu. ually ia back and Bides, no appetite, growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Then I was advisnd to use Kleetrio Bitters ; to my great Joy, the first bottle r.iadtt a decided improvement. I know they robbed the grave nf an other vntnu." No one -liould fail to try them. Only 60 couts, guar utit'jy I, at all drug stores, INTERESTING NEWS JTEMS Today has been designated by the govoruor as arbor day. Ovorseors of the poor of Milford borough have levied a 2 mill poor tax. Borough councils have levied a 10 mill borough tax and a 5 mill in debtedness tax. The statement of the First National Bank of Milford appears elsewhere and shows increasing prosperity. General Frank Reedor has re signed as commissioner of banking and is succeeded by Robert McAfee cf Allegheny city. At a special meeting of town council held last Friday evening E. C. Wood was appointed special police at a salary of $150 a year. Reginald' Vanderbilt and Miss Neilson are married. This will probably release whole pages of metropolitan papers for other news. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission is sending ont invita tions to editors to attend the open ing ceremonies at St. Louis. Mnv first. The club house of the Forest Lake association will be under the man agement this season ot Frederick A Dam, who has wide experience in that capacity. Between thirty and forty deer have been found dead in Buck wood Park in Warren county, N. J. The animals have multiplied so rapidly that there was not sufficient food and they starved to death. Mrs. Henrietta Strader, who re covered a verdict of tl7,000 agninst Monroe oonnty for damages sus tained by being thrown from her wheel while riding over Brodhead's creek bridge, died April 9th. In the dam at the foot of Broad street may now be seen stumps standing in excellent preservation Probably the trees were cut a century or more ago and the stumps remaining under water have not decayed. The story, widely published this week, that there had been an ira mense find of ooal noar Wilkesbarre, enough to keep 600 men employed 300 years, is denied. It is up to the public to believe either the story or the denial. Dr. John Kelly hns a large turllo, which was formerly a denizen in Sawkill Pond, on exhibition and which will be served np in soup at his popnlar restaurant tomorrow evening. Epioures consider it great delioaoy. Mrs. Clarence liisuop, a young married woman residing near Tri States, N. Y., committei suicide last Sunday afternoon by jumping from the railroad bridge at that place. Her body was soon after found in the river below The dam bill whioh has been on its passage in the legislature has been amendea until it prevents the dam builders from using the largest streams in the state like the Susque. hanna, Delaware, Ohio and Alle. gheny. It is doubtful, anyway, if it gets through. This is the time of the year when a man goes home tired out, and wants to go for a ride into the open oonntry. It is at such times that the good wife asks him if he does not think the garden needs the spade. He takes the spade, but he feels like taking a club. Rev. V. A. Wood, pastor of the M. E. church, will oontinue the chnrch column which was so ably conducted by his predecessor, Rev. C. E. Scudder. No doubt it will in the future as iu the past afford profit to its readers, and furnish them with much of interest. The U. 8. circuit court deeisiou in the Northern Securities case brought Wall street to a panicky condition Monday. The stock of the company fell from 110 to 9i, the lowest point in its history. Several railroads were affected, and the days losses to the speculators were more than twenty million dollars. The general public was not caught Judge D. W. Searle of Susque hanna has decided that boards of health have power under the acts of assembly to bind muuioipalities for expenses incurred iu protecting them from disease iu cases of neces sity when such board acta in a regu lar way A physician in Montrose fumigated a houss after the inmates had died of smallpox and prevented a bill for $'.'61, which the health board approved and which the council refused to pay. A jury gave a verdict for the amount which tho court sustained. OBITUARY DAVID CHRISTY DOTY This venerable man died at his home at Westtown, Tuesday, April lith, of pneumonia. Ho was born near that place in Sussex county, Fob 28, 1810, and catno to Piko in 1842 locating on a farm in Dingman jownship whore bo resided for about thirty years when he returned to his native place. Ho was twice married, first to Margery Middaugh who died about 1800 and second to Surah Curt right who survives him at the ripe old ago of eighty. eight years. There are no children by this marriage. Of tho two children by his first wife one, Sarah J., wife of ex-County Commissioner Wallace Newman, survives. The funeral will take place today andjnterment in the cemetery near Sussex, N. J Mr. Doty and his wife visited here in August last year and appeared halo for one of his years. The Uneducated Vote In Senator Hnnna's Chautauqua address, which is being widely quoted, he said, in speaking of the discouraging phrases of tho labor question : "The enormous number of for eigners coming to our shores from every country of Europe, uneducated and knowing nothing of the govern ment of a freo people, (believing that liberty is license or something good to ent, feel lli.it their interest is diametrically opposed to tho govern ment and their employer. But thank God, wo have an institution in the United States, the freo school, and every child of a foreigner is educated, so that the second Gen eration will know something about libeity." In what way does that help the situation when the same number of a fl -st generation is poured upon our shores every year? And how can Senator Il.inua justify our constitu tion, which puts a ballot into the hand of every one of these mon "who think that liberty is some thing good to eat and are diametric ally opposed to the government" and refuses it to every American woman? He himself is outspoken in his opposition to woman suffrage, and yet there are states in the union where tho foreign vote is consider ably larger than the American vote, air.uougu more are many more Americans than foreign residents. But the former are composed of men and women, while the latter are nearly all men. The Americans are putting themselves in a position to be entirely outvoted eventually, and yet there are in the United States more native-born women alone than there are foreign men and women together. Ida Hasted Harper in New York Sun. ' Good Roads Bill The Sproul measure received an almost unanimous vote in the house and has gone to the governor. This is probably the most important piece of legislation of the session. The bill carries with it an appropriation of six and a half million dollars for road purposes during the next six years. There are about one hundred thousand miles of road in the state and the $3,250,000 which may be raised from local sources would give nearly $10,000,000 in the next six years or $1,791.66 each year about $10.80 each year for every mile and $64.80 for the six years. If this money is carefully and permanently expended it will vastly improve the highways. MARIE CORELLI Writes for "The Philadelphia Press" on "The Body Snatchers" A savage, unbrluied attack on those who have giveri and propose to eivo memorials at The Home of Shakespeare. Miss Corelli is noth ing if not sensational when she champions a cause, and in this vig orous "appeal" she flays everybody who holds opinions different from hers on the subject and attacks generous Americans, including the late George W. Childs and Andrew Carnegie. Read it in next Sunday's "Philadelphia Press," April 19. Now lay awtiy your ttp!tlkiii ftne;un Ami tuke ihr? linnm-U from your Uu'iie, Ami iln-ii thtf tfiip will luy you low A lei nil your loving frleutlrt will govt licliluii your boily ill u hm-qno. tllutibton Poir. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Brouio Quinine Tub lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature ia on each box. 25o, THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS Eistor is past, the day was plensnntor than expected and Inrga congregations were the rules iu all our village churches. Some twenty five or moro of our town men enjoyed a ride in a now ferry scow from tho eddy here down to Nomanock Island. Uncle Nato Fuller ncted as captain and Britt Thomas and Thus. Steole attended to the steering. One of our barbers got afrnidand had to be taken ashore near RnymondskiH. On the return in the farm wagon of Henry Mnrring a match caroles ly dropped caused Chief of Police Wood to roll out ovor one of the hind wheels, Britton dropped out behind and Councilman ' Quick and tho Editor of the Dispatoh never knew how they got out of the wagon. Eddie Klein is going to raise corn this season. Dr. do Plasse and family and John Ratcliffo of Now York were Sunday visitors in town. Mrs. Augusta Boyd ot Port Jervis was a visitor In town the fore part of the week. A stranger came into town not far from here who parted his hair in tho middle, put ile on it, his collar near ly reached to the top of his ears, lie put on nico clothes and was somebody. The result was he soon knew more than everybody else, which of course did not suit, conse quently thoro was a squabble. What will be the result? For the sixth time E. C. Wood has been appointed speoial police by the town council. A young married woman of Port Jervis took her life beo mse her husband did not buy her a new Easter hat, Milo Gibbons has boon unfortunate again. He lost another horse. A new firm has sprung into exis- tanoe in town. Paul Ryder has left the employ of W. & Q, Mitchell and gone into partnership with Fred Gumblo. Next time we ask the Editor of the Press to take a ride we expeofc him to be on time. Dr. H. E. Emerson, after an absence of five months from town, is again with us. By his looks his trip south has agreed with him. The oolipso on the moon was plain. ly seen here. Tuesdays storm was keenly felt here, too. Rev. V. A. Wood, tho now M E. minister, preached to large congre gations last Sunday and made- a good impression. We hoar only favorable oomment on his first sermons. Why is it some peopla can not let well enough alone? It is not so very long ago when there were any num ber of unemployed laborers and mechanics. Today that is all chang ed. There seems to be work for all. but, as soon as everything goes smoothly some crank finds some thing not to his or her liking and then a strike. How many strikes have been ordered where the strik ers have gained more than they would have gained if their griev ances, if they hud any, had been left to arbitration. Unions are all riht for mutual protection, but it is doubtful if labor will ever be strong enough to dictate to capital. There is quite a demand for infor mation as to who was tho democrat who lot fly in lust weeks Press. Over in Sussex it does not pay to violute the license law. The viola tors are most always sure to strike a snag when their application for license comes up in court. W. T. Struble has been busy again the past week getting more railroad ties to market. It is not good policy to let your temper get the best of you. It may prove to be expensive as well an inconvenient. A Great Sensation There was a big sensation in Lees ville, Ind., when W. H. Brown of that place, who was expected to die, had his life saved bv Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. He writes: "I endured insufferable agonies from asthma, but your Now Discovery gave me immediate relief and soon thereafter effected com plete cure." Similar cures of con sumption, pneumonia, bronchitis and grip are numerous. It's the peerlebs remedy for ail throat and lung troubles. Price BOo, and $1. Guaranteed by all druggist. Tnul bottles free. 1 Advertise iu the PitKa.