to-tr Offle U 1 us 2. J ' f 7 ! i i i i I A A. J- w .. 1 o Cm. VOL IX. MILFOIU), PIKE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1904. NO. 14. ) i THE WASHINGTON LETTER. President Roosevelt should be sat isfied with the rapidity which whicii tha sentiment of the country is crystalizine; in his favor. Congress man Stevans of Minnesota say that within thirty or sixty days all anti Roosevelt talk will disappear By that time it will be plain that a great majority of the delegates to Chicago have been instructed to vote for the nomination of the president. Senator Piatt of New York says the delegates from his state will he so instructed. Even Governor Dutbtn of Indiana, while admitting the pop ularity of Senator Manna in that state, announces that, if President Roosevelt is nominated at Chicago, he will get the party vote of the state. Congressman Landis, of Indiana, who in his paper has often called President Roosevelt a "sham reformer," now says he hits changed his mind, and that he will be nom inated "with the record of his ad ministration for his platform " On the 27th inst. Senator Hevhurn called at the White House and in formed the president that Idah indorses his administration. Sena tor Cullom aays there is nothing but Roosevelt sentiment in Illinois among the republicans. The first speech from the demo cratic side of the senate in favor of ratifying the Panama treaty was made on the 2?th inst. bv Senator Simmohs of North Carolina. He said it is hard to argon against a Success ; impossible to do so against a fact. He accepted the situation as it exists, and would vote for the treaty as bis people are very anxions to have the canal built. In sod' inn he wonld not condone any wrong that might have been done to Colom bia, or the violation of any interna tional law. Senators on both sides of tb chamber listened with nndi Tided attention. What was called "a great consti tutional question" was sprung upon the senate of the 28th inst., during a debate opon Senator Culberson's resolution wbioh asks the president to inform the senate whether all documents concerning the negotia tion of the Panama treaty have been laid before the senate. Senators Cudom, Gorman, Lodge, Spooner and Bacon engaued in the debate. The republicans contended that the senate has no right to dema nd papers from the president, and that he is to be sole judge whether informa tion may be given to the senate. The dcmoorats contended it is the high prerogative of the senate to call for all or any information on file in the executive departments at its pleasure, and that the sole judge whether the information shall be forthcoming is the senate in all cases where it has jurisdiction. Governor Taft, of the Philippines, the new Secretary of War, arrived in Washington on the afternoon of 27 and was met by an immense crowd of cheering citizens and a troop of calvary which escorted him to bis hotel. He had a pleasant journey ; he is in the best ot health and in high spirits. A large man, of the forty-five, active, stout, at tractive, maguetic, with a sparkling eye and a hearty grasp of the hand, he is admired by all who see him and loved by all who know him. He at once called upon Secretary Root and the president and was warnily welcomed. In the evening he attended a large reception given by Senator Aler and is this week the popular toust at ofHoiul gather ings. lie laughs and Bays it is irn. possible for hitn to be a onndidute for the presidency.- i1 General John C. Black, the new Civil Service Commissioner, ntid Commander of the Grand Army of the public, is credited with being the hoiid and front ot the new service pelialoU bt'itllliuU. ColiuretiKlIJKU Bulloway of New Hampshire, has introduced a bill to give a pension to every soldier who st-rvtul ninety days and it i aliened to have the support of the adminiitratiou. It will cost- some t'SO.OOO.OuO a year. Guuerul Dm. ltd L. Sickl.-s. now in his eightieth year, is moving i.bout tho congressional lubbn a un his crutch- and taking up IV.m k foe the d.!:i..,CIniO tiomiijuo. If he til n't luive iiuu k, Wiles will answer. The more the p.troels pi.;,t propo wtiou is con siii, as recommended !.iy tin? ;,ij-.iil 1, .aid of Tiiniu Li'fn, t!..i i..;no wni'snly it i:.ei(s V'!;i poh'ie. pr;Ufii. It 18 K : . . r v:.; !i t :. r.- y u, and we are far behind Europe. It oogts sixty times as much to send merchandise by mail in this country as it costs in Germany. Germany has etr-nd"1 the limit of mailed package to 110 pounds, while we can send but four pounds. Great Britain carries a packiae from Edin bnrgh thronah England to Egypt, to India, and to China, and delivers it there tor twelve cents a pound or shoot half what it costs from New York to Philadelphia. John Wan amnker says that parcels could be carred thronah onr mail at one twelfth of their present cost easily, 'but there are four insierable ob stacles the four great express com panies," Congressional : The house com mittee on labor is hearing argu ments on the Sibley bill to prohibit he purchase by the government of convict-made goods.- There will be no more hearings concerning a gov ernment eight hour law. The Washington District Commissioners ask congress for $12,000,000 with which to run the city government another year. The senate commit tee on Foreign Relations has with drawn the proposed amendments to the Panama treaty. This will ex pedite matters. Congressman Henienway, chairman of appropri ations, warns the house that the treasury is facing a defiicif. of t!2,- 000,000 The nsit mates for disburse ments for the next fiscal year will probably be 46.00O,000. Georgia will file a bill in ti e Supreme Court against Tennessee. seeking damages for injury done by gasses escaping from sulphur, copper and iron works just over the boarder from Georgia in Ducktown, The vegetation in Goorcia baa been killed within a radius of thirty miles, and that state brings suit as the original and ulitmate owner of all lands. Searching fo Ancient Wrecks As a result of the great success achieved in recovering antique treas ures from wreckage, researches have recently been instituted for the lost fleet of Xerxes, which went down about twenty-three hundred years ago. The bed of the sea is to be searched with the bydroscope, the newly invented marine instru ment, of great power. Search is later to be made for the ship chart ered by Pompey to carry the art treasures he had seized at Athens back to Rome, and which was wrecked in the archipelago some thing like 1,950 years ago. The invention consists of a long tnbe in which are placed reflectors. This tube is attached perpendicular ly to a vessel and it is claimed that the bottom of the sea may be exam ined to a great depth. Of More Consequence A wise old negro lately listened in silence to a discussion of the divers social claims to distinction of severttl educated men and women of his race. The members of one family boasted of decent from wealthy merchants in the West Indies; others claimed kinship with a well known negro politician ; still others asserted that their ancestors never had been slaves, but always were free. Aj last the old man spoke : "Chillun," said he, with a rap of his cane," "I don' know nothin' 'bout your ancestry, as yoh call it, but I do know that when I out to spend weeks in de maple woods a-b'ilin' down de serrup, when mas ter he come an' 'speot de row ob kettles, he uober say, 'Uncle Garge, how hlph was do tree dat dis come come out ob?' or eben, -Wlmr is de tree dat dis come out ob?' but just, 'What kineob sugar is it?' "-Chums. He ill Estate Transfers Charles Woods to John C. West brook, Jr., acre, l'.iooming Giove, p.irt of Henry Haiti, 15. Wllhclm Vt.fel to Marie E. Jager, 92 acres, ltcka waxen, Hemingway property, S00. K.-aiel m.a Awful Fate Mr. H. Hoggins of Melbourne, Fht., writes, "My doctor to 1 me 1 hud consumption and nothing could bo done for me. I was given up to di The oiTer of tt free triul bottle of Dr. iCir.t's Now Discovery f ir consumption, indinvd me to try it. Kiwults were startling I am now ou the road to recovery and owe all to Ir. Kind's New i)ioovery. It sui-wly wivod my 1 to." This preat t un! is iiu,.nwii. i.-.l f.,r nil throat and lnit ih.-viiM-rt I y !:! 1 1 1 : : . ;. i t :s . 1 i ice Ivf .u A il. 'J ... ; I t ...... fcEALINO FOR THE JUDGESHIP A Revelation Which Shames the People of this State and Dis credit the Governor The Philadelphia Press last week published n letter, which It endorsed editorially after investigation as to the facts, in which was set forth the details of an attempted deal by which Governor Pennypacker was to secure a sent on the Supreme court bench. The method was Ibis. The governor was to appoint Hon. layman f. Gilbert to serve for one year anil he was to egrce not to be a candidate. Then the governor would be nomi nated and elected and would lie succeeded as governor by Lieutenairt Governor Brown who would in re organizing his cabinet turn down Attorney General Carson and appoint Mr. Gilbert attorney general. To this arrangement Mr. Gilbert did not accede hence the governor appointed Samuel G. Thompnon, a democrat, to the Supreme court bench knowing that he would not be nominated by the republicans which would leave the way open for the convention to nominate the governor for the place. The attempted deal with Mir Gil bert having failed and now being exposed Governor Pennypacker Is convicted of indulging In a most unseemly and undignified effort to advance his ambition. The papers throughout the state are condemning his course and calling on him to abandon his quest for the seat. One of the Supreme court judges, Justice J. Hay Brown, who probably voices the sentiments of his associates, is outspoken in condemnation of this effort of the governor to foist him self in the coveted place. Whether the governor Is sufficiently sensitive to abandon his desire, after the general voice of disapproval of his methods, remains to be seen. PERSONALS E. C. Emery has rented the farm of J. C. Tittnan in Delaware and will tike possession April first. Mrs. J. H. Ludwig was taken quite ill Tuesday evening, but is progress ing to recovery Presiding Elder C. S Ryman, D, D., of the Newark Conference visit ed relatives in town this week, A.. Unsworth left Sunday with his family and they will pass the remainder of the winter at Atlanta, Georgia. It is reported that A. Q. Wallace will remove iu the spring to the farm of Hon. Jacob Klaer at Rose town in Westfall township. Congressman Sbull in an inter view denies that any deal exists between himself and Hon. Howard Mutchler regarding the next nomi nation and declares himself in favor of some agreement for rotation among all the counties representing the 2Cth district. The ice gorge in the Susquehanna river at Wiltesbarre is now fortv- flve miles long and growing at the rate of four miles a day. Dynamite has no effoct and it Is now suggested to string wires on the ice and charge them with electricity. District Attorney Edwin J. Lich- tenwalner of Lehigh county against whom charges of drunkenness, dis orderly conduct and perversion of justice have been preferred, in con nection with the Bechte! murder trial, has been given until March 11 to file an answer. There are 03,221 itiiles of road in this state and of the 1500,000 appro priated for this year $50,000 is for maintenance and the balance for road construction. The apportionment therefore would be a trifle over f 1 a uiiiu to exhaust the sum available. THE LOST ART She welit to CwWIiik .-inxl because It chtirifi to be the tmi; Shn 1,-ariKd to nuiLe a huudrud things To luttke the pupile glad. Her pte-a were fiiiK:rfine, her cakofi Were lit fur j?uds to eat And when it cume to bn.illng bleukd Hur bklll was liai'd to Ixut. Aias! the geutle loiwiteur Gut married ; now hht bits Dt-i larinij that hhc'u hci pleats wheu The cuuk get mud aud quka. t I'hilatlt-li-'hia Pretta. Mynteriuu Clrrtliiintauct-a One was pIo and sallow and the other fre.iU and rosy. Whence the dtfl'i-reitcef She who is Mutdiiutr with health unes Dr. Kind's New J Life Pills to maintain it. By gently .arousing tha luy organs they com ! pel good O''estiou and head ot c.ti!ptim. Try the.ii. Ojily 23 (U all drte r!5!a. INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS The ground bog saw his shadow Tuesday, that Is if he could get out of his hole, and now according l the sln we may expect 8lxveeks more of winter. It was "cooler" here Tuesday morning, the thermometer being only a few degrees below zero. The weather bureau snld it would be so and it was. William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy nndor Cleveland, died at his New York home eftrly Tues day morning of peritonitis following an operation for appendicitis. The ferry boats at Matamoras have not gone Into commission since the Ice went out hence all carting from Port Jervis here has been by way of Jersey. Teams from Dingmans and below cross at that place and go up on the other side. Letters of administration have been grunted on the estate of Ruth A. Quick, late of Matamoras, deceased, to Nena Gunsaiiles, and letters testa mentary on the estate of Charles Higgins, late of Inckawaxen, dee'd, to Martin A. Barrett, executor. A number of subptenas have been served on persons over here in the George Jagger case, whose trial will liegin at Newton next Monday. Witnesses in thnl state we understand are paid a per diem of 50 cents so the boys will not have much margin for fun. The morality, or rather Immorality, of county fair in admitting all kinds of shows and fakirs Is now being conimented on by various ministers and newspapers. It is high time attention was called to this branch ot the agricultural development of the state. Five townships in the county will not be represented by republican nominees on the ticket at the next election. ' Lackawaxen failed to file the certificate In time. Blooming Grove was defective, and lhman, Porter and Shohola republicans did not file any nominations. "Teal" Tittnan was arrested last Saturday on a warrant, issued at the Instance of W. T. Struble, charging hiin with becoming too familiar with the chickens of- the complainant. Two were found and identified and now Teal failing to secure bondsmen In the sum of $50 is a county boarder. Thk Prkss will have a competent reporter at Newton next week to give details of the Jagger case to be tried there, and wo expect to present to our readers suoh comprehensive summary of the proceedings and evidence as will give them ample information of the more important details and facts. Because of a tie vote in Delaware between Frank Stewart and John Schreiber, candidates for supervisor, neither having been nominated their names will not appear on the ticket. This leaves three democratic arid one republican candidate on the ballot. Voters, however, can write In the names of others if those nominated are not patisfuclory to them. Tuesday, Candlemas, ground hog or hear day, tha sun shone bright and clear in the morning and it fact all day. We do not know at what hour his hogahip comes out to fix up the weather, but the sun was was ready for hitn any time. Now it is in order to note tho facts and dotermine whether thore is anything in the sign. If it should prove true we can only advis6 to kill off all the groundhogs and so change the climate. Harrison & Dalley, of Port Jervis, in a new advertisement, fotind else where in Tub Prkss call attention of our readers to their stock of goods and invite inspection This firm Is progressive in method, ex perienced in business and intelligent iu adapting their goods to the want of their various customers. Their styles are up to the lutat require ments, their prices comport with the quality and we confidentially com mend them to those desiring any articles in their lines. Nr!y Forfrila Hl Life A runaway almost ended fatally, started a horrible ulcer on the leg of J. B. Oruer, Franklin Grove, 111. For four years it defied all doctors and all remedies. Dot Butklon's Arnica Salve had no trouble to cure him. Equally good for Barns, bruises, skin eruptions and Piles. 'Ji at all druggists. "If Candlemas is fair and clear Theiu'il b: two winters in the year." Old S.jjtch Proverb. WOMENS CAUSE ADVANCES It has Grown to Large Proportions in the Laet Fifty Tears The first organization of women in the United States was thst formed by woman suffragists. The first college graduates, the first women ppenkers, the first petitioners to legislatures for better law for wo men, were woman sirffragists. When Ernestine L. Rose, in 1838, wished to petition the New York legislature to give married women the right to control their own proper ty, she could find Id tho whole Btate hut five women to join with her. A half century has rolled by and the results of this movement are so complete, thatmany a woman grasps the privileges and liberties of today without the slightest thought that other women bore the brunt of a cruel worla'a bitterest condemna tion, that she might possess them. She takes her college degree, forget ful that When this movement began the world honestly believed that women did not possess physical1 health or mental strength sufficient to master a college course. She freely speaks in public, forgetful that other women were mobbed and "rotten egged" before the public would tolerate such liberty. She enters business and professions col lects ber wages, manages fortunes, buys and sells, forgetful that none of these' privileges would be hers, had not other women plead her cause. She attends her club, for getful that the first organizations were compelled to live down the public conviction, that organized women only sought "notoriety by making themselves conspicinus be fore men." Happily the. old common law has been largely replaced by rational statutes and few of the old humili ating and oppressive conditions remain thanks to the courage, the persistency, and the logio of that band of early woman suffragists, most of whom have passed on to their reward. Carrie Chapman Catt, President National Woman Suffrage Association. LITTLE ODDITIES Since the campaign entered npnn by the health authorities against the hordes of rats at the London docks, 955,372 have been destroyed. A ingenious Vienna bridegroom has invented an elect rio halo which will play round his bride's head dur. ing the wedding ceremony. A walking match at Heywood, England, lor 1100 between one-legged man with a orutch and another with a cork leg, was won easily by the latter. A German physician recommends soap as a cure for sleeplessness. The soap lather muet be allowed to dry on the skin before the patient goes to bed. Doctors in Vienna have certified tnat a six-year-old girl, who has just died, was born witbont a brain. She has never learnt to eat or to move without assistance. The old cegressrts of San Juan, Porto Rico, who sell vegetables in the martets, smoke long, black cigars, and they smoke them with the lighted ends in their mouths. Bergen, Norway, boasts a paper church large enough to seat 1000 persons. The building is rendered waterproof by a solution of quick lime, curdled milk and white of eggs. The rocking chair habit, which is said to be responsible for the shape ly legs of American girls, baa re cently become prevalent in Ger many, so that every furniture store keeps American rockers. Goldfish are of Chinese origin. They were originally found la a large lake Hoar Mount Tbientaiug, and were first brought to Europe in the seventeenth century. The first iu France came as a present to Mine, de Pompadour. The Australia spiders of the genus Dosis liie in the crevices of rooks between tido marks on tha shores, and by spilling a closely-woven sheet of tsiik over the entrance imprison a mass of air in which they are able to live during flood time. Philadel phia Press. Get a free sample of Chamber. Iain's Stomach aud Liver Tablets at Balch & Son, Matamoras, all general stores in Pike county. They are easier to take and more pleasant in effect than pills. Thou their use is not followed by constipation as in often l ha case with pills. Regular bi:), 25 per box. BRIEF SKETCHES OF LINCOLN From Humble Origin to the High est Station in the Land In 1818, the Lincoln family moved to Sponoor County, Ind., and in 18.10 to Deoatnr, III. On this last occasion he walked the entire distanoe of two hundred miles through mud and water, driving a fonr-ox team. He said this journey took him fifteen days. On his arrival, he helped his father build a log cabin and he split tho rails to fence In the ten acre farm. At twenty-two, Lincoln stood six feet, three and one-half inches, bare foot. He was In perfect health, and it Is said that he could out run, out jump, out wrestle and, if necessary, out fight anyone of his age in the country. He had a grip like Her oules; without this strength he could never have endured the strain pnt on him by his country fn later years. Linooln learned to read from a spelling book and the Bible, aud later, ho read "Pilgrims Progress," and it is said that he stayed up half the night reading with the aid of light from tho fire place fed by the logs he had split. He was born In Hardin County, Ky., in 1809, and his early life was one of poverty and toil. Another Interesting fact about Abraham Linooln is that he develop ed into a great military man j that is to say, n man of supreme military judgment. I do not risk anything in saying that if one will study the records of the war and study the writings relating to it, he will agree with md that the greatest general we had, greater than Grant or Thomas, was Abraham Linooln. It was not so at the beginning ; bnt after three or four years of constant practice in tha science and art of war, he arrived at this extraordinary knowledge'of It, so that Von Moltke was not a better general, or an abler planner or expounder of a oampaign, than was President Linooln. To sum it np ha was a born leader of men. In 1834, Lincoln resolved to begin the study ot law. A friend in Springfield promised to lend him some books. He walked there, whioh was a distance of twenty-two miles from New Salem, where he then lived, and it is said, brought back with him, four heavy volumes Blackstone at the end of the same day. A few years later he opened a law office in Springfield. THE SHOVEL ON THE WALK What Joy tome winter morning, When 1 luddenly awake. And Jut the thought of getting Up will make the cover shake, When chilly draft! Inform me That the furnace fire Is low, And looking out the window I can see the fulllug auow What Jo It It to Hi ten To mjr neighbor' cheerful talk And the merry, merry clutter Of the Bbovel on the walk. I make a mental picture Of the snowdrift on the street And sleep at onoe becomes a Blessing more than twice a sweet. Oh, how I bug the pillow E'en more tightly than before, And make all kinds of wishes That relate to steeping more. I know that "duty calls" nio. But I'm much Inclined to balk When I heir the merry clatter Of the shovel on the walk. Glto me the good old summer, When the snow is at the pole, And I don't have to shovel Any agues, snow or cool. Let any man that wishes Hpend his morning pushing snow, But not for me the labor When the biting blizzaids blow. The stuff about the pleasure Of the work la dippy talk Aud I don't like to hear the olatter Of the shovel on the walk. ' (Albany Times-Union. Governor Pennypacker in his speech the other evening at the banquet tendered Senator Penrose said "Pennsylvania, of all American Commonwealths, was the first to recognize the degeneracy of the press, and she alone has provided a law for the correction of that evil." Should ha undertake to prosecute all the papers which have held him up to ridicule since the new libel law was paused he would be in more legal business than all the rest of the men In the state put together. t ree Curs (or 81 k Ueailaih Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are certain cure for sick headache. If taken as soon as the Hist indication of the dibease ap pears they will prevent the attack Got a free sample at Bulch & Son, Matumoras, all gen'l stores in Pike County and ive ttii h trial. THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS Several of our residents have re ceived snbp.r.nns to attend the Jagijer trial at Newton next week. Sheriff Clark Andreas of Newton was In town Tuesday. The groundhog saw his shadow. Well, we can have no worse weather than we have had. Miss Clara Van Campen is home from the oity. William Hu bbard is happy. It Is a girl. Tho recital of the Choral Society Tuesday evening was well attended. Those who were preseot came away pleased. Rey. E. M. Smead has returnod to town. Are you going to attend the Jag ger trial? is a question you hoar on our Btreets now. The Port Jervis trolley road has suspended operation for the present. The receipts were not enough to keep the tracks dear of snow. How about the Milford and Matamoras trolley. The political pot seems to be on the simmer, it has not yet reached tho boiling point. Distemper has attacked the dogs in this town, and several of tho canines are pretty sick. The New York papers are giving the Erie railroad management a pretty Bevereoverhaulingon account of the poor train service. Small game is having a hard time this winter. Now there is chance for farmers to throw out some grain at convenient spots and have the pleasure of seeing the hungry quail feed. Tha Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo. Will open April 80th and close Dec. 1st, seven months, which is a month longer than the period of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, owing to the fact that the weather at St. Louis duriuir October and November being pecu liarly pleasant, It being the Indian Summer of the Middle States. In order to appreciate the Immensity of the Loulsiuna Purchase Exposition it should be noted that tne area of th e exposition grounds Is 1,210 acres as against the World's Fair at Chicago 633-acresj the Buffalo Pan-American 300 acres and the last Paris Exposi tion 33G acres. In other words the area of the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Is nearly equal to the combined area of the Chicago, Buffalo and Paris expositions. The approximate cost of the exposition la fifty million dollars. Ail the nations of the world will have elaborate exhibits. The "Midway" will be a mile long and cost over 5, 000,000. Arrangements are being perfected for a through car linj to and from St. Louis via Erie Railroad to Marlon. O., and th.e Big Four route to St. Ixiuis during the continuance of the world's fair at rates 83 low. if not lower, than any other first-class Uni. In Monroe county the bills of Sheriff Mervlne for board, watchers. requisition papers and exeoution of Charles Grother, convicted of the murder of Adam Strank, aggregate $835.9. . Mrs. Julia A. Carney, who-wrote the poem beginning "Little drops of water," is now living at Galesburg, 111. She wrote the lines in 18r while teaching in Boston as an exercise In shorthand The Milford Choral Society gave its first public rehearsal Tuesday evening to an excellent audience. The selections were In good taste and well rendered, evidencing the progress made in musical acquisition by the members. Rev. R. A. Elwood of Wilmington, Del., who was tried this week by the New Castle Presbytery for preaching an incendiary sermou the day before George White was lynched for the murder of Miss Helen Bishop, has been found guilty of delivering an address tending to txoite citizons to violence. He will likely be suspended from the minis for a year. Buy It -Sow Do not wait until you or some of your family are sick nigh unto death, and then send for Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bomedy, but buy it now and be piepared for an emergency. It is the one remedy that can always be depended upon in the most severe and daniferous oases. Vor i!a by Bulch & S;m, Matamoras, al! gouJ, store lu Pike comity.
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