, of 11 1 Coat HI CU) iLli lL il 1 11 dUo t: VOL. VIII. MILFOM), PIKE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1903. NO. 40. y THE WASHINGTON LETTER. Deeply fls they regret the discov ery thnt corruption exists in the excutive department in Washington, republicans here, and probably throughout the country, are rejoiced that President Roosovelt litis had the courage to probe to the bottom one government department and row contemplates the thorough in vestigation of another. There is in some quarters an impression thnt the control of the reins of govern ment by one of the great parties, beyond a limited time, inevitably results in dishonest administration nnd the time is not remote when the domocrats gained a national victory with the slogan "Turn the rascals out." That thoy might have done so again had there been any lack of earnestness on the part of the pres ident in investigating the postofllco department is admitted by the wiser republican politicians, but it is ap preciated now, even by the demo crats, that Mr. Roosovelthas effect ually spiked any democratic guns which may have been loaded with charges of corruption by inangu rating a thorough investigation of the postofQce department and by preparing for. a top to bottom inspec tion of the Government Printing Office. It was not with the expectation of finding dishonest methods that President Roosevelt determined to institute an investigation of tho methods in vogue in the Printing Office, but with a view to ascertain ing why it was that the cost of printing and binding performed by the publio printer should so greatly exceeed the cost of the same work performed by private institutions. Since, however, an investigation has been determined upon, there have been a number of charges that there are serious leaks in the administra tive methods. A rule of the book binders' union which limited the daily task of all its members first called the attention of the. president to the extravagant conduct of the government printing establishment and it is probable that to that rule he charged much of the increased cost of the federal printing and binding but, to the surprise of many the officers of the bookbinders' union announce that they will weloome an investigation as it will-reveal the real leak and relieve their union from the odium of an unjust sus picion. While there will doubtless be many unfounded rumors of cor ruption in the printing office from now on, no one who has witnessed the thorough methods and the courageous spirit which have char acterized the Investigation of the postoffioo department will for a moment believe that the president will be satisfied with any "superfic ial investigation" and the general publio will rest assured that, whon Secretary Cortolyou, who by his high probity and businesslike meth ods has already won the respect of the publio and to whom the conduct of the investigation will be confided, has complete! his examination of the government printing office, he will have loft unturned no stone nor permitted to escape his attention his attention any improper trans action. In the words of a prominent aemooratio member of congress, now in Washington, "President Roosevelt is stealing our thunder He is turning his own rascals out." What is regarded as the most im portant and wide - sweeping dis closure in connection with the post- office investigation has just occurred The grand jury of the District of Columbia bus just returned indict tnents ngainst eight persons, chief of whom is August W. Mnchen, the other seven being Macheu's confed erates iu various genomes to defraud the government and as a result of which it to estimated that Mnchen and his pals have divided profits amounting to upwards of 175,000 the cases just disclosed being differ etit from the previous indictments of Machen which have boen related in these letters. In addition to those heretofore indicted and now indict aaiu, the grand jury has returned true bills against William C. Lou of Xeiiiu, Ohio, but more recently of Wushitigtou, Maurice fluukle uf New Yoik, Juho T. Cupper, mayor of Lock haven. Pa., William Gordon Crawford, manager of the IVstul Lock & Device eomyany of Xew V oik and one time deputy auditor for the pciitulhce di piu tim-nt. There, are i.nr contracts HwaiJcd I I M.,t hen iu his i.cu:lty of gutieral -i ii,;. n,i. nt of ti- delivery uu V-t o tew txwttuviits hro based. In two cases Mnchen award d contracts for carrier's bags or satchels, to be provided with should er straps. Ho then awarded other contract for straps. Having bought and paid for the straps with govern ment funds ho delivered them to the manufacturers of the satchels whom he induced to pay him the amount thus saved to then). He moreover made the contractor who furnished the straps pay him a commission. In tho third instance Mnchen pur chased, without calling for bids, certain leather cases used by carriers. For those he paid 90 cents each, a fair price being 30 cents, and com pelled the maufacturers to divide between himself and his confeder ates tho remaining 60 cents. In the fourth instance, Machen awarded to Mayor Capper a contaact for paint ing letter boxes which tho manu facturers wore required by contract to paint, and under this contract divided with his pals the sum of $18,000. So closoly identified with Machen nnd lit "forty thieves" was II. II. Hand, confidential clerk to the postofflce general that, it is un derstood, the president requested Postmaster General Payne to dis pense with Rand's services when Mr. Payne called recently at Oyster Bay. The President nnd Secretary Root have received another appeal from the Manilla chambor of commerce for free trade between the Philip pines and the United States. So insistent are tho Filipinos becoming in their demands for free trade and so logical is their argument, based on the example of Porto Ii'co which has prospered so extensively since free trade was granted the island, that it is deemed likely that the effort to suspend the tariff on Phil- ppine imports will be renewed dur ing the coming session of congress. Senator Lodge and Senator Foraker are both enthusiastic in favor, of such a move and, in fact, it was only the opposition of tho democrat senators from Colorado which pre vented a far greater reduction of the tariff on Philippine goods at the last session. Prof. Jordan on Woman Suffrage President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University writes: The purpose of manhood suffrage is not primarily to give good govern ment, but to make men strong. Without responsibility for national affairs, men will lose interest in them. Without interest, they will fail in intelligent comprehension of them. The tendency of manhood suffrage is, to give broader views, wiser methods of action, and higher patriotism. While democratic forms often yield bad government, it is through their operation that w have the best guarantee of good government in the future. If voting has this effect on man, we have a right to expect similar results from the extension ot the suffrage to woman. It has been made a reproach to women that they are short-sighted, devoted to the near and the immediate, careless of ultimate results. This tendency exists in the nature of things for woman's sphere is the home, rather than the nation. Hut, if it be a reproach, the extension of responsi bility would correct it. 11 is moreover true that the average man is prone to teel a greater interest in far-away affairs, which lie cannot control, than in near matters which effect him vitally, lie neglects the home and its needs, in his interest in the nation. The sanitation of our own streets, the extinction of the slums in our own city, the purification of centres of corrosion which destroy our own children, is fur more vital to us, as individuals, than the problems ol imperialism, of commercialism, or even of national finance. In great affairs our republie is the most stable of nations. Her failure is in local and municipal admiuistrvtioii. It is the rellex of the weakness of the average man. This the shorter but clearer silit of the average woman would tend to counteract. "KijUi'l suffrage would tend to broaden the minds of women, and to increase their sense of personal re sponsibility. It may help to solve the problem of honest and clean local government. It may tend to make our cities centres of sweetness ami lihi, as well as of activity anil sireiiji th. To Cure a Culd iu One Day Take I-Hxmive Promo Quinine Tab Ids. All urufj'ists i-L-fiiiid the money it it fails to cure. ,. . Grovti fc'''!:iiUH 0 is Oil taiUtuX. i'-u. LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES Cardinal Sarto has been elected Pope. He took tho name Pius X. Rev. EUiston J. Perot nnd wife were nbsent a few days this week. Melvin M. Depne and wife of Philadelphia nre visiting relatives in Delaware. Mrs. Percy Lyman nnd children of Rosevillo, N. J., are visiting nt the Faurhere Hotel. Chris. Hermann, wife and gr.ind laughter went with the excursion to Niagara Falls last Saturday. II. II. Sanderson, of Walpole, Mass., visited Delaware, where lie Is interested in several lumber tracts, the past week. John, ft brother, nnd Robert, a cousin of Port Oram, New Jersey, have been spending the week with Dr. Robert U. llarckley. Hon. Jacob Cantor and wife left yesterday for a week's sojourn nt Saratoga, nfter which they will return here for the remuiudor of the season. Rev. W. R. Neff, of Jersey City, forme rly pastor of the M. E. church here, has been visiting former parishioners and friends for several days past. Mrs. Martha C. Nyce expects to remove to Matamoras next week and in future reside with her laughter, Mrs. Heath. She there fore offers her house on Broad street, i very desirable residonco, for rent. OBITUARY nil A N Kit WOOD One of the oldest residents of the county, and one whose name was familiarly known throughout its entire confines, passed away last Saturday morning, August 1. Mr. Wood was born in Orange county, New York, February 2, 1816, and was a son of Charles and Phebe Wood. While young his parents brought him to this county nnd settled in what subsequently became Shoholit township. His lather pur chased the land in 1H30 on part of which Mr. Wood lived and on which he died. When a young man lie made a trip to New Orleans and for a time was employed as overseer on a southern plantation. Returning by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers he came to this county and engaged in farming, which pursuit he successfully followed until declin ing years compelled him to retire. He was a man of sound judgment, strict integrity and unbending will, known and respected far and wide for his upright character and indus trious and prudent habits. He married Elizabeth Middaugh, a daughter of one of the oldest settlers in that vicinity, who survives hint. He Is alsostirvived by two daughters, Jerusha, wife of W. C. Curtright of Lackawaxen: Rebecca J., wife of Thomas Bradford of Shohola; John F., an attorney and editor of the Ouray Times, Colorado, and Samuel whose residence is unknown. The funeral services were held Monday and interment in the Woodtown cemetery. . ROOF.lt ASHHUnsT Roger Ashhurst, one of the best known young men practicing at the Philadelphia bar and the scion of an old family, died Monday night at the Bluff House. Mr. Ashhurst'seyes became af fected about a mouth ago and at the suggestion of medical advisers, he decided to visit Miiford, in the hope that the change might benefit. On tho way ho was taken suddenly ill and grew rapidly worse. Mr. Ashhurst was 28 years old He was the son of Richard Lewis and Sarah Frazer Ashhurst and was well known in society circles. He was a gradua'e of tho University of Pennsylvania law department, where he distinguished himself among the members of bis clans, and was practicing law at the time ho became ill. Lie was a leading member cf the State Bar Association and popular among the members of theUnivers lty Club. His brother, Frazer Ash hurst, died about teu years ago. Tn Death Penalty A little thing sometimos results in death. Thus a mere scratch, uisig niflcHiit cuts or puny boils have paid the death penalty. It is wise to have lhickleu's Arnica Salve ever handy. It's tho bc.it Halve on earth and will prevent fatality, .when Burns, Sores Ulcers and 1'ilca threaten. Only 25v. at all di ucists. PIKE'S COUNTY BEAT Effort Being Made to Change Place From Miiford to Matamoras "Thore is a prospect of removing Pike's county Boat from Miiford to Matnmoras. "Milfordites are fighting the scheme bittorly and say there is no chance for the Matamoras people to succeed. "'Miiford has always been the county seat nnd always will be,' Bay leading residents of that villiage. . "The movement began among tho citizens of Matamoras and other towns ir. the northern and western portions of Pike county. 'It is clnimed by those who favor the change that publio convenience would be promoted by such a change nnd the public expenses reduced. It is said that a enreful cnnvnss of the towns lying west of Matamoras on the Erie and along tho Lackawaxen branch roveals a strong sentiment in favor of such a change. "It is said that a large land owuor in Matamoras has offered to give the county buildings iu case the change is made." The above, clipped from the Northampton Democrat, we don't know from whore it clipped it, is just the kind of stuff dreams nre made of. Do people up there sup pose that a county seat enn bo changed as easily as a Matamoras lady tints hor oomplexion? If this emeuates from Matamoras people it would look as though their suc cess in defeating a Port' Jervis water crowd nnd substituting for it a hot air concern of their own had turned their heads. There is just about as much probability of a change of the county seat to Matamoras as there thnt Matamoras will become a strictly prohibition village within the next five years. Johnson Rises to Remark To the Editor of Pike County Press : Apropos of my sigiv-on elevation rear of Old Half-Way House, which now reads "Bust Johnson's Face," would say that I most heartily decline as party of the Second Part, to hnve my face subject to any such strenuous treatment for two good and sufficient reasons. First, I have only one face, and then again, it would hurt. However, if the young gentlemen will come to the conclusion the joke has been in operation long enough and is getting whiskers upon it, and will replace my sign as it originally stood, all will be forgiven. It ia no small task to drag heavy rocks to their proper place to form these letters and I would ask in fair ness to myself that I may not be obliged to do it unaided and aloue If the young gentlemen, who are authors of this practical joke, and who are all friends of mine, will designate some convenient time, will meet them and together we will wend our way to the spot where The Fitter of Feet" has been trans formed into the subject of "facial massnge" and thore, together, right the wrong and proclaim to the world once moro that I am the only and original "Fitter of Feet." Yours very truly, Joseph Johnson. Two Men Injured As Joe CarhufT, presidont of the Dolaware township schoolboard, who lives ou the former Kilsby farm back ol (.onasliaiigli, was returning home from the- primary at Dingmana last Saturday, he met near the residence of A. S. Dingman on the river road a man on a bicycle and becoming, for some unexplained reason, angry with him, turned his team, a pair of colts, and started in pursuit. At the little rise just beyond Adams brook and nearly opposite the house of Laf Quick he overtook the wheelman, and, it is said, drove directly over him. The wagon tongue struck the man in the back, threw him off the wheel which was smashed, and hurt him quite badly. Cnrhuff fell out of the wagon, the team ran on to Dingmans and ou the porch of the High Fall Hotel where it was caught. CarhufT is now under the hands of Dr. Chapin and tho school board will be without a head until he recovers. Puts an End to it All A grievous wail oftiinos comes as a result of unbearable pain from over taxed organs. Dizziness, Back ache, Liver complaint and constipa tion. Hut thanks to Dr. King's I New Life Pills they put au end to it !all. Ttiev are trontio but thorough. Try mem. Only 2io. Guaranteed ' by all druggist. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS The opon gonson for trout closed Friday, July 31st. Mnnson Lambert lost one of his team horses a few days ago. Mrs. Josephine Wood was the successful biddor for the Dingman township bonds. Dingman township supervisors have purchnsed metal guide boards to put up at all necessary points. It is estimated that the Jersey peach crop will be only about one fifth or one-sixth the usual yield. Cards of Invitation have been is sued by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Arm strong for a photograph party to morrow evening. Every farmer and gnrdoner should have a copy of the August bulletin of the Pennsylvania division of zoology. It tells all about the insect and plant diseases for the month and the remedies. Some people hint that the expense account for carrying Greene and Blooming Grove for the young man who "would fulfill the duties of the position as the law directs" might be interesting reading. It will not n all probability be on exhibition. Tho Doylostown National Bank was closed last week be the oomp trollor because its surplus and capital had been entirely swept away in speculations by the president, Henry Lear and Cashior Brock. It is an other case of directors not directing. W. E. Meohan, commissioner of fisheries from Pennsylvania has decided to locate a fish hatchery at Pleasant Mount in Wayne county. Several fine springs have been secured and sufficient land was donated for the purpose. Hon. George 8. Purdy has been renominated forjudge by the demo crats up In Wayne. As the republi cans will not likely have a candidate his election Is n foregone conclusion. Judge Purdy has made a most excellent nnd in every way satisfac tory record. Erie Railway officials contemplate, it is said, abandoning Port Jervis as terminal station for through passage engineers and that in future engines with their drivers will be run from Jersey City to Susque hanna, a distanoe of 193 miles. This change will probably necessitate the removal of Beveral families from Port Jervis and will also curtail the number of mon employed. Roger Ashurst of Philadelphia, a guest of the Bluff House, died Mon day, August first, of Acute Bright's disense and heart failure. He was in ill health when he arrived some days ago and which was probably aggre- vated by the Journey and he sank rapidly. Deceased was about 27 years old and was a. nephew of Dr. Persifor Frazer. These Things in Beer A man who was formerly a brewer recently Baid that beer brewed in this country nowadays oontains : Citrio acid, as a "flavor." Gluoose, as a "sweetner." Tannic acid, as a "bleaoher." Sulphites of lime, as a "oleanser." Tartaric aoid, as a "preservative Benzoic acid, as an "antiseptic" Salicylio aoid, as a "preservative." Kalrutn tnedda sulphite, as a "preservative." Juniper berries, as an antidote for the salicylio acid. The brewer declared that there had been little or no pure lager boor made in this oonntry for ten years. The above ought to be a fairly good temperance sermon. Cheaper Sugar Maybe The Sugar trust la likely to have competition. A number of Indepen dent refiners are about to enter the field and having no antiquated machinery or watered stock on which to pay dividends they cm produce sugar at less cost. This country consumed last year nearly six billion pounds cf sugar, only one-tenth of which was produced here. The balance comes from so many sources that it is impossible lor the trust to control, the supply of raw sugar. End ol Bitter Fight "Two physicians had a long and stubboru tight with an abcess on my right lung" wrttus J. F. Hughes of Dul'ont, Pa. "and gave me np Everybody thought my time had come. As a last resort I tried Dr. King's New Discovery forcousump tion. The benefit I rooeived was striking and I was on my feet in a few days. Now I've entirely regain ed my health." It conquers all Coughs, Colds and Throat and Lnug Troubles. Guaranteed by all drug gists. Price 00o, and f 1.U0. Trial bottles free. TEN DOLLARS A DAY Something for Boys and Girls to Think About During Vacation How much is a dny at school worth to a boy? Porhips the boy himself has never figured it up. Cften, indeed, he thinks it would pay him better if he could quit school and go to work. But lately a West Virginia man has worked out the matter on a cash basis and given ns this result, which every boy in the United States ought to know Bnd think over if he wants to be the most valunble mnn possible. The West Virginia man begins by this fundamental axiom : You find the value of a boy's time at school by subtracting the earnings of a life of uneducated labor from the earn ings of a life of educated labor." That's entirely cloar and obviously trus, isn't it, boys? Then he goes on to calculate the earning of nn- educated labor at one dollar and fifty cents a day for three hundred days in the yenr ; a llboral estimate, of course, because many laborers only earn a dollar a day. But at his high estimate, and supposing that the uneducated worker has steady employment for forty years, he will earn in that time one dollar and a half multiplied by three hundred multiplied by forty, or eighteen thousand dollars. So much for uneducated labor. The educated man is usually paid, not by the dny, but by the month or tho year ; and, ns the West Virginia man reminds us, all the large salaries and earnings belong in this class, from the President of the United States, with his fifty thousand a year to tho presidents of the insurance companies and the managers of the great railroads. For this reason, in striking nn average, one thousand dollars n year is a very low estimate, indeed, of the earnings of educated labor. Forty years of educated work represent, therefore, forty thousand dollars as a low average, while eigh teen thousand dollars for uneducated work is a high average. The differ ence between them is a very fair representation of the value of an education to the worker, and that difference is just twenty-two thous and dollars. "The average sohool life of every boy and girl in Massachusetts," the calculation goes on, "is seven years of two hundred days eaoh ; let ns say that it takes four years more to get a good education. Eleven years of two hundred days each amount to twenty-two hundred days. A simple division on the blackboard will bring it home to the comprehension of every boy that, if the whole value of these twenty-two thousand dollars, every day at sohool, properly spent, must be worth ten dollars." One of the sohool commissioners of Pennsylvania says he would like to have this simple calculation "carried into every schoolroom and put on every blackboard, se that pupils may learn it and carry it home and discuss it with parents." Go ovsr it as much as yon please, boys ; test it and try it by your own calculations ; think about it. Yon will find it a fair calculation, and it ought to be an inspiring one to every lad who intends to be an educated worker in this land of education and opportunity. Ten dollars a day ! The boy or girl who realizes that will not want to play truant. Shirking one's lesson will be seen in its true light not as cheating the teacher, but as cheating one's self out of actual value. To make eaoh dav worth its full amount, each scholar must be fully in earnest. Selected by V. A. Wood. Unclaimed Letters. List of unclaimed letters remain ing in the post office at Miiford for the week ending August 8, 1903 : Mrs. E. Q. Dean, Arthur Gahring, T. M. Pierson. Persons claiming the above will please say "Advertised" and give date of this list. Charles Lattimorb, P. M. TOR SALE Good work horso, ' sound and kind. Apply to John Gourlay, Miiford Hand Laundry. RESULT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY HELD SATURDAY, AUGUST i, 1903. NAMES OB" CANDIDATES. I'retlileut Judge Ij Char lea M. Staple 8 Jury Coui iniMiouer c I. u. lull b Hloniu ;j 8 J"iiil II. Wuru ..... 1 1 Jositth E. 'lvrw!liigcr..ij 4 t'orout-r 1 1 Pr.Jubuh.uily 9 19 THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS This has been a dull week for haying and liveryman. The democratic primary last Sat urday past off very quietly. As usual somebody was disappointed in the result. Tho base ball cranks are in tholr glory now all over the country. Don't mention it, but tho Mott street bridge will soon bo flnlshod. Dancos, entertainments, a church fair and ouchre all in one week. So there is no lack of diversion I A new pope has boon elocted. Ho goes by the name of Pius X. Brother Warren, dont you worry, we never stake any gold on Miiford horsesP If you want to win, stake your coin on something which will keep down on the ground. Bon Kvto is never satisfied unless engaged in some deal. He has stop ped dealing in dogs, hut has a young calf from which he intends to raise a cow. He has traded his black, trotter to Wm. Shaffer of Sandys ton for a roan, which is warranted to be kind in all kinds of harness. The Robekahs of this town en joyed a pionio at Cuddobackville yesterday. This place is so full of business that some business houses are com pelled to keep open early and late. It is no disgrace to be poor, but sometimes very unhandy. Paying a license of one dollar to sell ten cents worth of shoestrings is not making money very fast. Some interested persons would like the eel rack question decided one way or the Other. Is it legal to place an eel weir in the Dolaware river or not? TRIALS Somehow, I'm never satisfied, I'm sick and tired and mad. If tlilngi would only make a obange, I'd be most awful glad. The things I want I never get. And those thnt I possoss. Are things that I don't want at all Care nothing for, or loss. Tho only good straw hnt I've got, Is eight years old, I guess. And my very only summer gown, Is Ma's old percale dress. My winter wrap is not quite new 'Til old enough to vote. I don't mind letting on right here, It's Dnd's old Sunday coat. For all my olothos I twist and turn, And make them wrong side out. But whon they're on, I look as good As other folks, no doubt. The pnrson says we ought to be, Content with what we've got. I wonder if he e'er sat down, To an empty dlnner-potf 'Tls not the things I've got that hurt, There's not enough of them. A nice new frock with ruffles on, And Ince around the hem. With ribbons hore and there and o'er, And sloeves like a balloon But when I count my monoyup It never fits the tune. One pair of nice kid gloves I have. I koap them very eholoe. I've had them only about four years, In them I still rojoloe. With mucilage I mend the hole That has come in the handle, But when I'm dressed, there is no one, To me can ho.'d a candle. And thus I worry on thro' life. Sny I don't care for dress. Because I've got so little ot It, Is the reason, none shall guess. And though you see I'm not content I never will let on, But travel on the same old way Till all my clothes are gone. Real Estate Transfers David D. Wlckham to John L. Bisland, lots 150, 151, Matamoras, tiooo. Octavia B. Van Wyck to George B. Van Wyck, lot 320, Ann street, Miiford borough, $2500, John Van Brown to George E. Ixaidon, lot 717, Matamoras, $1500. Eleanor Quinn and others to Poldore B. Quinn, interest in 4 lots, 569, DSS, 660, 697, Catharine street, Miiford borough. Advertise in the Press. 83 4 2651 01 its 1 -a
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