"7 VOL. VIII. MILFORD, PIKE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1003. NO. 28. IP 11 lea mmtt 5 i THE WASHINGTON LETTER. The most Important and sensa tion development In the current postofilee investigation Is the remov al, pending the completion or the Investigation, of General Superin tendent of. Free Delivery Machen which step was taken by the post master general at the request of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow who, in a communica tion to Postmaster General Payne, intimates that the completion of the investigation will be mntorially facilitated by Mr. Machen 's absence. Machen has accordingly been granted an indefinite leave of absence pend ing the completion of the investi gation but it is a matter of grave doubt as to whether he will ever again occupy his desk in the post office department. In addition to removing Machen, the postmaster general has transferred the entire division of free delivery to the bureau presided over by Mr. Bristow and has assigned as acting chief M. C. Fosnes, the post office inspector who made so envinble a record cloaring up the tangle into which Rothbone got the Cuban postal service. Fosnes is regarded as one of the most capable detectives in the postoffice department and it is be lieved that hereafter the investiga tion will go on uninterruptedly and that the entire scandal which hangs about the freo delivery division will be probed to the bottom. In view of the strong political backing of Machen, his removal is regarded as an indication that the postoffice scandals are to be thoroughly Bifled regardless of political considerations. Widely circulated reports concern Ing the conduct of Russia in Man chnria, that province of China which adjoins the Russian frontier, have given rise to the wildest speculation and in some instances grave appre hension. Subsequent advices from more reliable sources, however, dis credit tbe reports first sent out and it is even doubtful if Russia has re occupied Nia Chwang as was at first reyorted. While accurate iinforma tion regarding the situation in tbis somewhat remote part of the globe is unattainable, it is the opinion of the state department that gross ex aggerations have gained credence and it is suspected that there is an ulterior motive in the attempt to secure from this country cooperation in a joint protest to be made to Russia by Great Britain and Japan. At all events, no move will be made by this government until authentic information has been reoeived and even if the alleged Intention of Russia Bhould reoeive confirmation it is doubtful if the United States would feel called upon to protest. Regardless of the sensation cable grams which are likely to appear in tbe newspapers from now on, the people of this country have every assurance that the United States will not.be made the cat's paw of the subject of nations interested in commercial exploitation, The state department has just made publio for the first time its version of the kidnapping of Miss Ellen Stone by Bulgarians. Accord ing to the state department officials a grave error was made by the pay ment of the ransom demanded, this government having reoeived the most positive assurances that Miss Stone and her companion were safe from all positive violence, and it is claimed that a prcedent has been set which will constitute a menace to all other foreigners m that section of the country. The report states that despite the protest and better judgement of the department the entreaties of the missionaries, who contributed no part of the f66,000 ransoms, were permitted to prevail. lion. Henry Clay Lie, member of the Philippine couiuiissiju, is in Washington, having come to the United States for a brief rest and a conference with C. A. Conant, the man who is to take part in the con ferences locking to the establish ment in all silver using countries of a currency system trimiliar to that now being inaugurated in the Phil ippines. Speaking of conditions in the Philippines, Mr. Ida said today, "Tho mouthers of the ooiiiiuissiou are more than gratifiod at the prog ress uf ilie KoVrU'iUiieiit and tho rapid tt rules mult) within tha last few tiioi-ths. Every business man in W:,ttula is looking furward to the t;!i!i-h!iit (t of the new monetary y-tf!a and works of improvement, ! t j; ct a isStfiidMUl btcuusii of the i! e-;u;ii.i luo of t:.o cuu-uty, ,V9: '1 .... i" The secretary of the navy stirred up a tempest in a teapot before he left to join the president in Cali fornia by ordering the replacement of the officers now engaged in hydro graphic work in the navy depart ment with civilians and the transfer of the hydrographic bureau to the treasury department. At the pres ent time the officers who fill places in the hyrogrnphio office are on the retired list but are drawing increased pay because of their active employ ment. There is no other work which they can perform and the charge will require them to live on their retired pay. The transfer was made at the personal wish of Secre tary Moody and Speaker-to-be Can non, but there is some question if it will prove legiil as congress once re fused to make eneh a change at the behest of Messrs. Moody and Cannon when both were members of the house. The greatest interest attaches to the meetings now being hold by Senators Aldrir-h, Allison, Spooner and Piatt of Connecticut at Hot Springs, Virginia, these four consti tuting a sub-committee of the sen ate committee on Finance, charge with the duty of preparing, before the next session, a comprehensive financial measure. It is generally assumed that the bill reported will embody most if not all of the pro visions of the Aldrioh bill of last session but, inasmuch as that pro vided only for an expansion of the ourrency while some method of con tracting it when emergencies calling for greater volume have passed, the most difficult part of the problem still remains for solution. The department of agriculture has just Issued a bulletin exposing the methods of certain seedmon. It ap pears that soma seedmen have been advertising pearl millet at prices varying from 12 to 35 cents per pound and "Penciliaria," "Mand's Wonder Plant," etc., at prices vary. ing from 40 cents to tl 50 per pound, the alleged novelties at the higher prices being identical with the pearl millet sold at the lower figures. THE VILLAGE OHOia Since first my Infant years wore past To one thing 1 aspiro. That I may ait in pride at last Within that village choir. Oh bliss untold I IF I might shnre With those fair soprnuos, To aid from honored seat up there -Music's agonizing throes. Oh could I only find tho way Into our village choir, I'd falter not, no, night nor day. My heart Is all on fire. Tbey thrill and quiver, shrink andyjll, One set of notes sing all. For which is which, no ear can tell They come at any call. Tbe water motor puffs and churns The organ roars the higher. Oh I will the wheel of fortune turn To put one In the choir I'll sing a solo, yea Indeed, Morning and nlttht and n ion. I'll never stop. Dot e'en to feed I'll .ing from moon to moon. Throw wide the door and let me in I Haste I To the village choir. I'll sing them all, bass and alto, Soprano aud tenor higher. I'll over-top them all at lust I'll trill aud Tremble mora, If any way I can get pst The choir's sacred door. Mllford, May, 1D03. Real Estate Sals The land and building of the Inde pendent School District of Mllford, comprising throe town lots, with school house thereon erected, situ atea on the southwesterly side of Catharine street in the liorough of Milford, Pa., will be offered for sale at publio vendue on the grounds on Saturday, the 23rd day of May, A D. 1903, sale commencing at 2.30 o'clock p. m. of said day. Terms and CutulitUmt will be made known at the time of sale. By order of tho board of school directors of the Independent School District of Milford. II. E. Emkrson, fcseoretury. Milford, Pa., May 11, 1903. A Startling Test To save a life, Dr. T. G. Murritt of North Mehoopany, Ph., made a startling test reuniting in a wonder ful cure. He writes, "a patient was attacked by violent hemorrhages! caused by ulceration ot stomach. 1 had often fuund Llectno Bitters ex cellent for acute stomach Kiid liver troubles so 1 prescribed them. The patient (!tiiued from the first, aud lias not hud an attack in 11 months." Eluetrio timers are posi tively guaranteed for dyspepsia, liidif-'ei-uon, con tipntion ai.d kidney troubles. Try them. Only W ttt nil iti uu' Mole. LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES Alfred Marvin, Esq., of Matamoras was in town Tuesday. James W. Fiuchot of New York is visiting Grey Towers this week. Miss Bertha Williamson expects soon to go to Washington and Virginia with the two lady patients in her en re. , Mrs. Melius of Bridgeport, Ct., is expected In town in a couple of days and will occupy the cottage next to Sawkill House. Ira B. Jtosenkmns of Greeley was in town Tuesday. Time Is dealing kindly with the Lnckawaxen, veteran ex-County Commissioner. H. F. White and family of New York arrived at their cottage on lower Harford street a few days ago where they will pass the summer. Clyde Kipp, who has been attend ing school the past winter nt Way innrt, returned home last Saturday and has entered the employ of Hotel Fnueliere. Mrs. J. D. Biddis and daughter, Patty, of Washington expect to spend the summer as usual in town, but Miss Helen R. will go to Europe soon for the season. Mrs. Helen E. Heller, who has spent part of the winter in New York returned home last week. Her daughter, Mrs. Justin Lflnchantin, is now visiting with her. County Superintendent of Schools Luciun West brook is visiting In the upper part of the county this week. A notice of teachers examinations to be held by him appears elsewhere. Littlefleld, a member of a family which formerly resided up near Haw kill, returned this week after having resided In New York for many years and will make their home at Sawkill. It. V. R. Stuyvesant of Nw York, who for many years 1ms been a summer visitor here Is domiciled in the cottage of Miss Fannie Dimmlck and while expecting to make only a brief visit will probably be here until next Christmas. A Caustic Editorial Under the captiou "Gov. Fetiny- packer's self-betrayal," the Phila delphia Press says: "We are pro foundly grieved, for Governor Pennypacker's own sake, that he has made the irretrievable mistake of signing the Grady-Salus libel bill and adding to that wrong the still greater folly of an unspeakably shallow, silly and wrong headed message of attempted justification. In one sense his act is not a surprise. His feelings have long been known. He has been weak: enough to expose his wounds openly to all the world. His festering sores have boon all too plain. But we oould not believe that be would permit his personal grievance to blind him to all other oorsidorations so far as to betray him into a grave publio wrong, into opon disregard of solemn constitu tional obligations, not unworthy methods and artifices and into dis- engenuous extenuation which in many parts is so puerile as to be beneath contempt " This vigorous language from a paper which urged him as a candi date because of his ability, sterling sense of uprightness and justice and freedom from bias or prejudice and his unswerving adherance to prin ciples of right. It was said he oould not be swerved from duty by the gang behind behind him and which procured his Domination. Ha was a rara avis. His was a case where the stream was higher than its source and could not be polluted. It now says "this measure, now made law, had u double source and a double import. The governor wanted it in tho hope of escaping from the inescapable cartoons. The Gang wanted it in the hope of muz zling the opposition to jobs. Tho Gang p'uyed on tha governor's weakness for its own purpose, and the governor sanctioned the Gang's methods of passing the bill for his own ends." "The inelfaceable stain which will ever rest on the nam of tho governor is this : That because of a petty personal grievance, he dtulifled his own record, sanctioned these public crimes, and joined in the enactment of a law armed at the liberty of the press." Quick Arrest J. A. Uulledgo of Verbena, Ala,, was twice in the hospital from a severe case of piles causing twenty four tumors. After doctors and all remedies failed, Buck leu's Arnica ; Salve quickly arrested further in. fiamatiuii and cured him. It con quers aches and kills palu. at ttli dnm stores. FENNYPACKEH GEM3 Sayings Which Rival Those of Sml fungus He Inaugurates a New School of Literature Following aro a few extracts from our simple governors approval of the Salus-Grady libel bill : "A mayor of our chief olty has been called a traitor, a senator of the United States has been denouno ed as a yokel with sodden braiu, and within tbe last quarter of a century two Presidents of the United States have been murdered, and in each instance the cause was easily trace able to inflammatory and careless newspaper utterance. "A cartoon in a daily journal of May 2 defines tne question with en tire precision. An ugly little dwarf representing the governor of the commonwealth stands on a crude stool. The stool is subordinate to and placed alongside of a huge printing press with wheels as large as those of an ox team, and all are so arranged as to give the idea that when the press starts the stool and its occupant will be thrown to the ground. Put into words, the cartoon asserts to the world that the press above the law aud greater in strength than the government. "No self-respecting people will permit such an attitude to be long maintained. In England, a century ago, the offender would have been drawn and quartered and his head stuck upon n pole without the gates. In America today this is the kind of arrogance which 'goetb before a fall.' ' Bishops, too, hurry into print without investigation, and with only such information as comes from muddy sources, to express their dis regard for those whom the people have enrusted with authority. "It is sad to reflect that some his- toriau of 500 years hence, misled by what he reads, will probably study the statesman whom he knew to be able and strong, generous and kind ly, keeping his promises and paying his dobts, and depict him with the- features of an owl and the propensi ties of a Nero or Caligula. "For continual, persistent publio violation of the law, the publication so offending may be abated by the courts as a publio nuisance.. "When during the War of the Re bellion a New York journal forged a proclamation with the name of the President attached to it, to the great injury of the nation, then in the midst of a struggle for life, Mr. Lin coln promptly suppressed the publi cation. The liberty of the press to scatter injurious falsehood no more bound him than the withes bound Samson. He established a precedent which no doubt will be followed in the future should ft like occasion demand it. SYMPATHIZES WITH PUSEY "An upright and worthy gentle man, trained to the law, who has worn a sword in the service of his country, and who bears a name hon ored in Pennsylvania for more than two hundred years, because of its connection with an impressive and heroio event, is sent by the people to the Legislature, and in the perform, ance of his duty and upon the re sponstbility of his oath, introduces a proper bill which is not agreeable to the press "It is not shown that the bill would be harmful or nnwise. The policy is not confronted with argument pointing out its error or weakness But some outcast is hired to pervert his name from Pusey into 'Pussy' and to draw contorted cats which are scattered broadcast over the land, in the hope that the vile and vulgar will snicker at his wife and children when they pass. "If it was not so read, then an doubtodly there was a failure upon the part of tbe House to perforin its duty. Whenever, however, the bill is signed by the President of the Senate and the speaker of the House it is an official certainty thut it has been passed iu accordance with the constitutional requirements, and the rule governing the' action of those bodies . "Iu the present case there was more than the usual opportunity given for preliminary discussion by the peo pie Some such legislation was recommended in the inaugural ad dress. "The future is ever uncertain, and the easy way to avoid tha dangers ahead is to staud still." To Cure a Cold in One D&y Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. Ail druggist refund the money if it fails to cure. K. W. Grove's bi-ruuUire U oa each box. 25o. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS Forty years ago tomorrow, May lfl, IKimi, Abraham Lincoln was nomi nated for the presidency. A couple of photographers from New York have been taking pictures this week of residences and inferiors of business places in Milford. The value of shale as a good road "maker where the use is constant mny be seen now on the Port Jervis high way. It is covered with a powder several inches deep. A slight blaze was started Tuesday afternoon in the weather boards of the Dispatch building by the mullller of the kerosene engine becominjj overheated. The fire department got out promptly but was not called Into service. Ann, widow of tha late Ollis B. Gordon at one time sheriff of Mon roe county and who was a brother of Jervis Gordon formerly of Mil ford now of Port Jervis, died at the home of her daughter in Scranton last week aged 90 years. The re mains were interred in the Strouds bnrg cemetery. Defending the Press ' In 1830 Charles X of France signed an ordinance by winch the liberty of the periodical press was suspend ed. The proprietors and editors of the chief opposition papers consulted the most eminent lawyers, who gave their opinion that the ordinance was not legal, and ought not to be sub mitted to. Forty-four conductors "of newspapers signed a protest iu which they declared their intention to resist the ordinanco. The govern ment said : "This protest hath this day lost that character of legality which commands obedience. We resist it." There was occasionally a ory in the streets of "Long live the Charter ! Down with the ministers!" The next day a more omicous cry went forth. "Up with Liberty! Down with the Bourbons!" Senti- nals were placed around the offices of the four prinoipal newspapers to prevent their sale, bat tbey were thrown out of tbe windows, then the presses were broken. Then followed the three terrible days of July the revolution against the family of Bourbons and the uncrowning of Charlos X. Knight's England. At New York in 1734 a newspaper was established to defend the popular cause, its printer, Zenger, was im prisoned on the charge of publishing false and malicious libels. At the trial the publishing was confessed but the aged Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, pleading for Zenger, justified the publication by asserting its truth, "You cannot be admitted," interrupted the chief justice, "to givaihe truth ofalibelinevidence," Then said Hamilton to the jury, "we appeol to you for witnesses of the faots. The jury have the right to determine both tbe law and -the facts and they ought to do so." (He plead for the cause of liberty) "the liberty of opposing arbitrary power by speaking and writing the truth." The jury gave their verdict, "not guilty." The people of the colonies exulted A patriot of the Revolution esteemed this trial to have been the morning star of the American Revo lution. Bancroft's History of.U. 8, Republican Primary There being uo contest a light vote was cast at the republican pri. mary held last Saturday. The re suit by townships, five of which held no election, was as follows : ? 2 i 1 51? i J i is . NAMES OF CANDIDATES 3 !,: COCSTY COMMITTEEMAN j J. (I. Preacotfc ij H. Watts l V li. 'ilirail h W. A. 11. Mitchell i: K (i. Ilitrckloy I K. T Kiviere ! J. W. kiiw.,1 1 1 JLKV COMMISSIONER !j John 8. Dunuit j JUDICIAL COSriKllKS j Alfred Mtirviu I UKLkuATK TO STATE j CONVENTION j J. B. Shoemaker II I 6 I ft 12! 12i 4 in 4 in 4 15 4 l,j I I 41.") 1 ! 13 til 11 lit ttl li ia hi ti 111 1 1 i:i ,-.s 12 6 12 li II i 6 11 I II i ( til 11 l.i iiu 11 ia ijo ! 11,13 m 6 13' 4 i5 n 13 i 8 IS! 4 )5 n t; jtf The Best Liniment "I have derived great benefit from the use of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism aud lumbago," bays Mrs. Anna Hagelgans, of Tuckalioe N. J. "My husband used it for a sprained back and was also quickly relieved, la ract it is tne best fam iiy liniment I have ever used. I have recommended it to many aud they always speak very highly of it and declare its merits wonderful " Fur sale bv Bulch & Son, Matamor. as, all general stores in Pike county SUPPOSING A CASE It Kay Easily Happen and in That Event What Would be Done to Maintain the Road Suppose Matntnoras should con clude for various reasons, among them the aid it would afford the proposed new water company, to become incorporated as a borough. In that event she would work her streets and would not work the road through the township toward Milford say four miles or more, and practi cally the only money to work the road would be from a few farmers along the road. Tho road has been worked for many years in ibout the same way eaoh year and observation does not disclose that it is any wider or that it has improved. Matamoras furnishes considerable tax towards its maintenance, now take that a way and leave only the taxes from tbe farms along it to keep it in repair and its condition can be easily fore seen. The road in Milford township would be perhaps a fair illustration. The Port Jervis road introduces strangers to the valley, over it comes all our supplies, it is our artery to reach the railroad. It should be exoollent in all respects and should be mndo permanently good. Travel on it increases and the additional servitude imposed brings greater necessity for better and more lasting work. This matter should arrest the attention of the citizens of this town and also people down the valley. It may bo a very near prob lem how to maintain this road in suitable condition. If there is any thing in the new road law which may furnish a solution the proper parties should promptly set the machinery in motion to obtain the benefit. If Matamoras incorporates the question o' this road will be one for home consideration, Forest Fires Last Sunday evening about 5.30 a Are started along the road near the house of Theodore Busier In Dingman which swept ovjr all tho woods lying between the two roads and the Pin- chot and Gregory places. A large force of men by backfiring succeeded iu keeping the fire from Boslers buildings. No doubt the fire origi nated in sheer carelessness or perhaps worse. During the past week the whole territory lying on the head waters of the Vandermark, Deep Brook and down nearly to the town burned. Fire also swept over a large scope In Dingman township burning all the woods between the road from Quinns to Sawkill and the turnpike, including lands of W. T. Struble on which there were a number of ties cut, the Quinn lands, Jas. Buist's woods, Sheriff Vandermark's place destroying his fences as also fences of Chas. Stichler, crossing the turnpike and burning over a part of the wood land of John C. Beck. Just at this season the fire is particularly deadly to young timber. Thu bark is loose and a fire is sure death. Thousands of acres in this country will be entire ly denuded of growth. There were many tracts where the young timber was starting nicely which will now be entirely barren. Th Stata Landi The slate now has 42,382 acres of land in this county and 8,282 in Monroe. Tbe total number of acres owned In the commonwealth is 572,- 722. The land in Pike has, of all the large woods owned by the state, the least altitude abovesea-level, probably on an average six hundred feet lower than the Pocono plateau on the east side of which It lies. Real Estate Transfer Asenath V. Langton to Nellie M. Langton, lot 450, Matamoras, II. O. F. Rowland, treasurer, to E. T. P.ivlere, part of Thomas Ruston, No. 219, Lehman, 143 acres, tax. Robert Vennie to Kdward Kelly, 135 acres, Blooming Grove. John C. Beck to Jacob McCarty, undivided interests in lands in Ding man, McCarty estate, C09. 25. Died May 12, 1903, at Milford, Pa., Kdward Herbert Noyes, late of New York city, N. Y. Funeral Thursday afternoon. Private. Made Young Again "One of Dr. King's New Life Pills each night for two weeks has put me iu my "teens' again" writes D. H. Turner of Dempssytown, Pa. They are the best in the world for liver, stomach 8iid bowels. Purely vege abla. Never gripe. Only 25 at all, drug stores. THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS Gypsies have arrived. How often a mountain is made out of a mole hill I Mrs. T V. Coie of Montague was a visitor over here Wednesday. The White oottage on lower Har ford street is open for the season. Some wag has said that Thomas Armstrong gives away the be.it cigars in town. Mrs. Amelia Rosenkrans of New ton visited her sister, Mrs. K. R. Van Auken, this week. If ever a person needed pulling in, the woman who indulged in such fancy driving on our streets Tuesday evening did. After a long rest our fire depart ment has been called out twioe in a week. Fortunately their services were not needed. Forest fires have been worse and done more damage this spring in the nearby townships than ever before. How do they start? One week from Sunday evening Rev. V. A. Wood will preach a patriotic sermon to Col. Nyoe Post, . A. R., in the M. E. church. J. A. Watts and II. Ludwig took a ride over some of the good? roads on the other side of the river last Sunday. The road from Hainesville down to J. B. Fullers is a "peach" and deserves a medal or a coat of gravel. The street sprinkler is kept busy. If it continues dry all summer as it has for the past month one machine won t be enough. The town oounoil has ordered n steel cage to use for a lock-np. Bridge buildiDg, garden making. shad and trout fishing all at once makes help very soaroe. How would it he if W. V. H. should take notion to build his R. R. now? NEW-FANGLED SCHOOLS Thsy taught him to hemstitch and they taught mm how to sing, And how to make a basket oat of varle Bated strincr. And how to fold a paper to he wouldn't hurt his thumb, They taught a I )t to Bertie, but he oould n't do a sum. They taught hi -n how to mould the head of Hercules In clay, And how to tell the diS'ronoe 'twlxt the bluebird and the Jay, And how to sketch a horsie in a little picture frame, But strangly they forgot to teach him how to spell his name. Now, Bortlo's pa was oranky, and he went one dttj to tlDd What 'twas they did that made his son so backward irj the mind. "I don't want Bertie wrecked," he cried, his temperature far from cool, "I want him eduoatedl" so he took him . out of school. Newark News. War Clouds Loom in the Far East Notwithstanding that Russia has assured the world that she has no ulterior designs on Manchuria, she Is now extensively fortifying Niuchuang In Manchuria and Japan is preparing to fight. It Is stated that the state department is only waiting advice from the president before protesting vigorously against Russia's action. Negotiations thus far have been ham pered by the inability of the United States to act jointly with other powers without violating its traditional policy, but it now suggested that some plan of co operation with Japan and England will be followed which will have the effect of convincing Russia that England, Japan and the United States are determined thut Russia shall evacuate Manchuria, as proposed. Colonist Rates to the West The Erie Railroad will sell daily until June 14th, one way colonist tickets from Port Jervis to most all points in Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Idaho, Mexico, Montana, Nevada, New Mexiso, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, at very low rates of fare. A postal to the Erie ticket office, Port Jervis, will bring by return mail any desired information. The college of music at Freeburg, Pa., is in session with the largest attendance of any previous Summer term, and to continue without vacation until the holidays. Pupils admitted any day for a term of six or more weeks, Piano, Organ, Singing, Band and String instruments taught. For Catalogue address, with stamp. 5-2'J llE.NKy B. MoVEH. WANTED YOl'Sli MEN to prepare for (, oYi-rtuneut l'oniLiontt Fine OpuuiiiKb In all Dttiitu-tmeiUH. ItimmJ Huliiritu. liapid fnmujiiitiJB. Kjtamiijutitjiig boun. lJtir-tli-uliim b rue. 7 24-' iuter-cititie Cor. Iuat., Ctdar Rapids, In,
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