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MILFOKI). PIKE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1001.
NO. 2G.
THE WASHINGTON LETTER
TIip present session of Congress has
been B business session. A sum
amounting to a!mot f 7110,00(1,001 hni
been appropriated for carrying on the
government, . and forwarding those
grout enterprises to which it is com
mitted. Mr. Joliu Sharp Williams,
the minority Democratic House
lender from Mississippi, complain
Unit many abstract and purely politi
cal questions have been ignored or
piMinittc.il to rest until next December
on the plea of want of time. Hi
Would have the trusts prosecuted, the
reciprocity treaties ralilieil, the Fili
pinos granted more rights, a nearer
approach to free trade w ith Canada,
and a general reduction of the tariff.
Mr. Hamilton, member from Michi
gan, "threw down the gauntlet" a
few days ngo, in which he vindicated
the present policy of the republican
party, upheld its present tariff policy
not only as a necessity tor giving the
government its needed revenue, but
as the chief factor in the prosperity of
the times. Me said Unit if there is
any widespread dissatisfaction with
the tariff the people will have an
opportunity to give nn expression of
their feelings at the polls next Nov
ember. The Pension bill carrying
$137,000,0(10 has passed. Senator
Scott of V. Va., said that if he could
have Ids way he would give a pension
of f'25 per month to every Union
man, rich or poor, who took up arms
in the Civil War. There was some
speech making in the House against
giving the President control of the
Panama canal zone, but when the
bill came to a vote it passed unani
mously. The only appropriation
bills still before Congress are the
General Deficiency and the Military
Academy.
A good many odds and ends of
legislation remain to be looked after
before the final adjournment. There
Is a proposition to buy the 1st and
2nd Hull Ruu battle fields, and erect
monuments thereon. The James
town, Va., exposition now asks for
$1,000,000, one million of which is to
be used for a naval parade. The
Department of Commerce and Labor
has prepared twenty-eight bills for
the establishment of fish hatcheries
and stations. A government sub
vention scheme for the promotion of
the construction of railroads in the
Philippines is before Congress. It
proposes to empower the Philippine
Commission to arrange the details of
the subsidy, the time for re-payment
and the manner of securing the
government against loss. Secretary
Tuft is in favor of the plan and
wishes it to cover a period of thirty
years by the expiration of which
time lie thinks the roads will be self
supporting, and that the natives will
have made great progress in com
merce and civilization.
There is a bill before Congress
which declares that after Jme 29,
1007, when a clerk in the civil service
reaches the age of 70 years, his post
tion shall be vacant. There are some
two hundred or more clerks of this
age employed in Washington, and
there are a number of senators who
are over seventy. Congress Is con
siderate in giving the aged clerks
three years' notice.
The question of Mormonism and
plural wives is aalu bifore the pub
lic, owing to the frank confessions
and admissions of Agnus Cannon and
e.x-(uigrcssnian Brigham 1 1. Roberta.
Three of Mr. Huberts wives have
been accounted for and Mr. Cannon
has made the astonishing statement
that he married two of his six wives
at the same hour. This is quite as
bad as progressive divorce, which
only permits a man to marry several
wives in succession. Senator Beve
ridge is strongly in favor of Senator
Sutoot retaining, his .sc:tt. According
to a Mr. C'.hb, of Boise City, Idaho,
the Mormons bold the. balance of
power i.i that state. Senator Dubois
wishes to knu if any post masters
in Liahujire living in polygamy. If
there are any such they should be
excluded from the mails.
The President lias had a very busy
week of it. Social matters have
iii i.i. i his attention w iili moresolwr
liati'S. He attended and enjoyed
immi I'sely the play at the J .af.iyciie
ipeiu hou.-e ivtn for Hie U-neiil of
the kii.so.eti of those who lost their
iiMs on the Missouri. Mrs. John V.
1 i 1 1 1 1 .1 . t H" the leadin;; holy. A
I'evv iIjjmiu the l'i'e-el nt r. ciiv.J
a ! ;. ..'..tiou of tifiy-six ioom-I men
I: !..e i; !:; I fnoio- of the
A'.-, mi M. i:. i i.e., n. - The Ku!!,-
I '! V..: A ii.VU l-cVocati oil
have transacted a vast amount of
business provided for a 'Washington
palace and paid their respects to the
President. (Jen. F. D. Grant and
(len. J. Wheeler have been In town
this week and called to Roe the Presi
dent. (Jen. Wheeler smiled at the
rumor that be contemplates matri
mony and said he is too young for
that sort of thing.
The statue of Frederick the Great
will arrive in Washington early in
September. Congress is willing to
appropriate (50,000 for a statue of
Thomas Jefferson. There Is much
local excitement in the city over the
proposition to run a street railway
east and west across town. Every
body wants it to traverse "some
other street." Cardinal Satolll Is to
arrive In town In June. There is a
movement on foot to prevent Sunday
evening concerts. The Commission
ers are drafting a bill for compulsory
education for all children between
eight and fourteen years of age.
While visiting In this city the
Daughters of the American Devolu
tion made a pilgrimage to James
town, Va. The Foundary M. E.
church of this city has a base ball
Sunday school class. There is also a
banquet hall In the great new church.
The Washington Sanitary Housing
Company Is the name of a new society
which has for Its object the acquiring
of land and the building of sanitary
houses lor the poor. The rent Is to be
low.- The Intent is to do away with
the unsanitary houses which now
crowd the alleys of the city, and are
a menace to both health and morals.
Jacob Dais, the biographer of the
President, recently called public at
tention to the deplorable conditions
which prevail in Washington.
Senator Foraker has been to Bur
lington, Vt., and made a sjieech to
the republicans of that city. Post
master Gen Payne did not cotne back
refreshed In mind and body. Just
as lie embarked for the north he had
a relapse. Miss Roosevelt will visit
St. Louis the latter part of May.
secy, la ft declines a cavalry escort
upon bis arrival In St. Louis. It
would be too bad to put the robust
secretary on horseback. Oliver, the
Asst. Secy, of War, approves of the
proposed bill for the establishment
of "a distinguished service list" in
the army. He says It would settle
the vexed question of promotions In
the army.
Some Old Jokes
That things were pretty much
years ago as now Is evidenced by
some sayings copied from the Sussex
Register of 1843. It says an exchange
tells the follow lug story of a mission
ary lady who got permission through
an interpreter to preach to the Osage
Indians: The chiefs and assembled
multitude during the woman's talk
of three hours were all attention; but
at the conclusion of the sermon the
principle man of the tribe rising
from his seat with the red man's
dignity said: Squaw very good
preach, better go home and mi'd
papoose. Ugh.
A stage driver' was remarking the
other day that fifteen years ago he
drove a stage coach on a route of
about 60 miles, upon which resided
five tavern keepers. Four of them
have, died of drunkenness and the
fifth is in the almshouse.
An Alabama editor apologizes for
a lack of editorials, because Sal, his
better hulf, has the scissors. The
babies he says must have shirts, and
Sal won't cut out shirts with a band
saw, no bow it can be fixed.
Traveling through the air by
steam is one of the latest inventions
ou the other side of the water. We
hall w ait to have it tried.
A clergyman recently, after ex
hausting all bis zeal and eloquence on
his auditory and finding thsm still
obdurate, concluded his prayer s
follows: "And, Oh Lird make the
hearts of these tinners as soft as their
beuds.
Odd advertisements are: "Two
sisters want washing," and another,
"A spinster, particularly fond of
children, wishes for two or three,
j having none of her ow n, nor any
oilo-r employment."
Stockholders of thti Matamoras
Citizens Water Company Tuesday
evening elected officers for the en-suin.-
year as fuilovrs: President,
'.V. is. Lawrence; t tea surer, B. C.
Tott-n; secretary, W. li Clune.
Ti:M ihivctois arri Fred Drejer, W.
N. Lnwron:, (leer e Peiifi.'i r, W.
11 Ciuue-, ahclim l l.h, K !. lnhar
find 15 C. T-.i'ten. The eoiopauy
will low iuut for a proper . j o'y.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES
AVI II Armstrong of New York was
here over lust Sunday.
George F. Beck of Ropcvillc, N. J.,
is in town for a few days vacation.
Clayton J. Ptilz, representing The
Glolie of New York, was In tow n this
week looking over the advertising
field for bis iper.
Madame Tissot returned home Inst
Sunday from Roseville where she has
been ill for several weeks. Her
health is much Improved.
Bennetts. Bundle of Mont'iguo, N.
J., a student nt Harvard University
was home for a few days last week
and visited friends in town.
Paul B. Ounkling of New York,
son of Rev. N. W. Conkling, ami
whose mother, formerly Burley, was
well known here, was In town the first
of the week.
Mrs. C. W. Bull Is making sub
stantial gains toward health and her
improved condition warrants the
belief that she will soon be fully
restored.
G. E. Griswold of Cripple (Yeek,
Colorado, where he has resided for the
past ten years, visited the family of
Mrs. Griswold for several day recently.
He returned home this week leaving
his young son, Edwin, here for a visit
Mrs. B. E. Brown entertained a
mmilier of friemls last Saturday even
ing, -the occasion lieiug a farewell to
Mrs. Jennie Shearer, who this week
left for an extended trip In the west,
and also in honor of her guest, Mrs.
Crane of Biiyonne, N. J., who lias
been visiting with her for several days.
A number of musically Inclined
people from here enjoyed the ride
to Port Jervis Monday evening to
hear the production of "The Crea
tion" by the Choral Society In the
Reformed church. The singing wan
excellent and the rendition of this
masterpiece afforded great gratifica
tion to the large audience present.
THE BUSY SEASON
Soma Festa Which Annoy Farmer
and How to Subdue Them
This is the time when the diligent
husliandman begins to scratch the soil
and a little later when he sees the
depredations of the various Insects
which make war on his vegetables and
fruits he will scratch bis head for
remedies and preventatives. Potato
planting is In order and potatoes free
from scab sell bettor than those affect
ed. To prevent scab do not use In
fected ground In planting and treat the
tubers w ilh a solution made by pour
ing one pint of formaldehevda In n.
cask into which has been put 25 gt lions
of water, then distribute the liquid
into several casks, and Into these casks
put the uncut seed potatoes. The
potatoes should be put in gunny sacks
and completely submerged In the
liquid and left for two hours. This
will .kill tho scab fungus on the seed
potatoes, and If planted on lund that
has not In previous years grown scabby
potatoes the crop will be nractieallv
free from scab.
Plow the garden early and deenlv
and cultivate deeply and more than
twice as much as for the best field
crop.
Examine the larger limbs and trunks
of trees for bark beetles, shot hole or
pin hole borers and cut down and burn
Uio Infested trees. They are doomed.
nothing can save them.
Smut in oats is due to a disease of
Uie plant and comes from a germ or
spore which passes" the winter In the
grains of oats and germinate and
develop like a seed. The Ions in pro
duction In this state by this disease Is
probably 25 million bushels oats a
year. If you wish to sow 40 bushels
of seed or less buy one pint of formal
liebeyde or formalin and put it Into a
barrel or tank containing ytj gallons
water, stir thoroughly, fill a gunny
sack with outs and submerge for ten
minute, then lift the sck and allow
t to drain to save the solution. Enmtv
the outs on the bam floor or some place
to dry and so proceed with all theseed
ouus. Shovel them over at intervals
until dry or nearly ao ltefore sow-bur.
Curculis on plum tretw, beetles that
bore iu fruit trees, the aphids on apple
trees, cut worms in corn fields, ants
and olalit lice and canker uv.rois u l!l
all be busy now and the better way Is
to prevent their upieuntnce.
The Gazi'ttu snys t lie first locomo.
tive enme to Port Jeris on tha Erie
railroad December 31, 1SJ7, arriving
17 minutes af tor midnight, aud Jau
uary 7, eio, the road ws
gmiJ to Port Jervis. Over 100
years is a lung wait, twice as long as
we have been on tenter- books, but
may bo ours wi!l Couiu within the
Dct fifty.
YALE F0BE8T SCHOOL SENIORS
A Larfre Class, representing Several
States and Colleges
The Senior Class uf the Yale School
of Forestry has arrived in town and
will engage for the next two months
In field work, thus putting In actual
practice In the woods the theories
which they have been studying. The
young men are a very- welcome
accession and their presence will add
much to the life and interest of the
place. They represent a number of
states aud In all twenty-eight different
colleges. Some of tha campus habits,
such as enlivening with college songs,
and there are some excellent voices,
will be grateful to many people here
who Nldom, If ever, have bad tlie
opportunity of listening to these
rollicking melodies, rendered only as
they can lie by a band of students.
The roster of professors and students
is as follows:
Prof. II. 8. Graves.
Trof. Roy Marston.
Prof. Austin Carey.
' H. B Eastman, Portland, Maine.
E, EfCarter, Bath, Maine.
B. 8. Viles, Skowhegan, Maine.
Harold R. Bristol, Meridan, Ct.
Avery T. Searle, Claremont, Cal.
John H. Bridges, Bartow, Fla.
II. J. Brown, Schenectady, N. Y.
Clinton G. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
P. G. Redhigton, Evanston, 111.
R, W. Ayers, Cincinnati, Ohio.
John Appleton, Bangor, Maine.
Win. II. Kobbe, St. Paul, Minn.
R. B. Wilson, Washington
A. B. Patterson, Concord, N. II.
A. R. Powers, San Francisco, Cal.
II. W.Chittenden, Washington, D.C.
II. D. Foster, Boston, Mass.
P. D. Kelleter, 8t. Louis Mo.
C. W. Woodward, New York.
Chas. A. Lyford, Waverly, N. Y.
S. J. Flintham, Albion, N. Y.
W. R. Mattoon, Tyrone, N. Y.
II. P. Baker, St. Croix Falls, Wis.
R. C. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.
F. W. Besley, Ashgrove, Va.
W. B. Hadley, Dayton, Oregon.
II. G. Merrill, Amherst, Mass.
T. J. Taylor, New Haven, Ct.
W. B. Greeley, Oakland, Cat. '
Win. II. von Bayer, Ithaca, N. Y.
W. G. Weigle, Bendersvllle, Pa.
II. II. Chapman, St. Paul, Minn.
Masenath Smith, Jr., Portland,Me.
PKESKEVINO QUAIL
Eaaier and Cheaper to Protect and
Prerve than to import
The late bulletin of the division ot
zoology of the state department of
agriculture contains several suggestions
as to the propagating, care and im
portation of quail. In every part of
the state rejiorts eay the winter has
been severe for the birds and many
have perished. It seems that the only
way to overcome this low is to restock
and then in future those interested, If
they desire to maintain the number,
must preserve them. Most states have
passed laws prohibiting the exportation
of live quail except to organized clubs,
hence the point Is about reached in
this stute where it Is necessary to
produce all the quail rather than to
attempt to Import Uiem and in fact the
method of saving Uie birds here,
though somewhat expensive, requires
loss money and gives better results,
than to attempt to import the birds
from other regions. They may be
IxHigbt iu Kansas by gun clubs for ten
dollars a dozen. There is a provision
in our game laws prohibiting the
trapping of birds and their sale when
so taken, but an exception to the act
permits individuals or associations to
gather them wiUi consent of the owner
of lands at a certain season for the sole
pui-pose of preserving Uiem alive over
the whiter. This might be taken
advantage of by unprincipled persons
who would trap and then sell them.
The birds so taken must be liberated
in Uie region where captured. To
propagate and maintain quail in num
ber sufficient to afTi.nl legitimate sjiort
would require concerted action by those
interested. No quail should be killed
here this season or jHThups next
After Dec. 20 next and up to Feb.
1st the binls might be trapped and
preserved for lilieration in the spring.
Shelters could also be built for them
and food provided. This no doubt
would save many, and If a few dozen
were taken and liberated in the spring
the number would soon lncnn.se. Hut
any ineuns to be effective must have
Of o'ru!ion for a strict enforcement of
the luw. It w ill be no uno for a few to
combine to protect the birds and to
allow others to shoot and trap for gain
or grt.l.
Jutt Good
"We are out of concentrated lye,"
said the mloon porter.
"Vnti some of th forty-rod whis
key," (.aid the barLecp. Cleveland
Leader.
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
The Mi I ford Water Company is
extending Its main up Catharine to
Sixth stroot,
Shiffer Bros, have the contract to
build a new Episcopal church in
Strotidsburg, the first of the kind to
be erected there.
A marriage license was Issued this
week by the Clerk to William J.
McCarthy of Port Jervis and Mary
Altman of Matamoras.
Stockholders of the Milford Water
Company will hold the annual elec
tion for officers at the offce of C. W.
Bull, Esq., Monday evening May 2d.
It is reported that Robert W. Reid
will Improve bis Into, recently purchas
ed, by building a dwelling and that
he intends making the poultry busi
ness a specialty.
Senator Quay has returned to
Washington from Atlantic City with
health not Improved. The salt air
did not effect any benefit to his
enfeebled condition.
The Erie made no charge for time
or tools of their expert dynamiters or
for transporting the material to blast
out a channel in the ice gorge at Port
Jervis. Ibis liberality is character
istic and opsjrtune.
Auditor General Ilardenbergh,
whose term of ofllue will expire next
Monday, was presented by the em
ployees of his ofllcn with a case ot
table silver and a handsome ma
hogany grandfathers clock.
The annual meeting. of the stock
holders of the company lor erecting h
bridge over the rivi r Delaware near
the town of Milford will be held
Monday, May 2nd, at the olllce of J.
H. Van Etten, secretary, at 2 p. m.
Directors of the Chester.Pa.. Rural
cemetery have decided to remove all
mounds of graves In the nt cancers
section and will ask lot holdecs also
to have the mounds removed as thev
believe the graveyard would be made
more beautiful if all graves were
leveled.
George Lessels of Brooklyn, who
was at one time pronrietor of the
Delaware House a t Lackawaxen, was
found dead in bed at the Carlton
House, Williamsburg. N. Y.. last
Friday, Doctors attribute his death
to cyanide of potassium, but members
of his family say it was caused by
heart trouble.
The will of James Bosler, lute of
this borough, has been admitted to
probate. After giving (75 to his
daughter, Sarah A. Brink, for her
care while ill, he devises all the rest
of his estate to his two daughters,
Sarah A. Brink and Anna Bell
Lynch, share and share alike, and
appoints William Mitchell, executor.
Clerk Westbrook was astounded
this week when called on to grant a
marriage license, the first since Jan.
7th. With leap year one quarter
gone and only one license it seems as
if the young ladles of Pike looked on
marriage as a failure. A man who
regarded his Judgment as quite In
fallible was asked If he never made a
mistake and promptly owned ud to
two, one before and one after marri
age, and the girls here appear even
wiser than the man.
The Borough Ikwrd of Health at itw
regular meeting Monday evening
resolved to make a tour of insectlon,
Wedneodiiy, May -1th, to examine the
sanitary condition of the town. It Is
of public interest and welfare that
anything which might be unwhole
some or obnoxious to health be remov
ed and every inhabitant should, not
only for individual but for general
protection from di.-ea.se, aid In keeping
our town as cleanly as jKtbible. This
ought to be a public pride.
The Bonk lovers Magazine for May
contains an excellent character sketch
of Senator M. S. Quay by Jas. M.
Rogers. He dencribes the Senator as
"a crot-s between the Egyptian Sphinx
and a stroke of greased lightning,"
and says the reason why he has so long
maintained bis potation is due to the
fact that "be has lixiked after bis state
and has given Uie ieop!e what they
want, though not what some estimable
and ultra reformers think they ought
to want."
Albert Koepping, who shot and
killed Joba Martina at Port Jervis
Feb. 19, 1903, uvus tried and con
victed of the crime aud sentenced
to be eliietrocuted, appealed from
the verdict to the Court of Appeal
aud that court this week rendered a
decision aftlrming the Judgement of
tho court below. Executive clem
ei.cy, of which there is little proba
bility, Is tho only thing now which
will save him from tho fatal clinic.
FUNCTIONS OF LIBRARIES
Should Improve and Elevate the
Literary Taste of Render
A library is an educational Institu
tion. Its chief function should be to
elevate public taste in rending and to
afford a means of gratifying a desire
for a high standard of literature. It Is
one thing to read voraciously and quite
another to read beneficially. A novel
mnyiossessall the elementsof romance,
combined with elegant style and
literary finish, but if read simply with
the object of following the love bile
without being impressed with the
different characters portrayed the read
ing is not in any sense of an education
al nature. Of the making of books
there Is no end, and the young readers
particularly devour many of them, if
accessible, which have no priwent or
lasting merit
The following touches on the question
and treats the subject of the kind of
reading which a public library should
primarily furnish with Judgment and
Intelligence:
Boston's Public Library has adopted
a policy regarding the purchase of
new books that differs widely from
that of many other public libraries of
the country. The tendency is to rele
gate fiction to a secondary place when
making additions to the library's
shelves. Chief Librarian Horace G.
Wadlin, in speaking of the relative
importance that fiction should have on
the shelves of a great free library, stud
recentlv:
"Out of one thousand volumes in
lust year's list of fiction, how many
can be found that rise above the level
of what some one has called 'promis
cuous mediocrity'? Radicalism in the
restriction of new books means conser
vatism in selection, and a public
libfary ought to be conservative be
cause it Is public. A public library
should be a necessary and vital part of
the social organism, not a vermiform
appendix.
"I ivsk that the novel you want me
to buy shall possess at least some
element of novelty; that the - romance
you demand shall lie at least mildly
romantic; that an author shall at least
have had twelve months' reputation.
or his books at least twelve months'
vogue and this, under present con
ditions, means radical restrictions in
the purchases of current fiction."
This is the keynote of the Boston
library's policy. No matter bow great
a demand there is for a book, no
matter how widely advertised or dis
cussed, until it has been examined and
approved it is not allowed on the
shelves. This does not mean, how
ever, that the public must wait a year
oerore it can get a book from the
library that Is being widely read. But
no ephemeral works that are likely to
be forgotten in a few weeks when
another book is pushed to the front can
be found there. All hooks are sub
mitted on approval by publishers, as is
customary with other great libraries,
but unless the author has something
more than mere temporary vogue to
recommend his works they are not
purchased.
That very manv librarians differ
from the Boston Library authorities Is
a fact. At several meetings recently
there seemed to be a tendency among
the librarians present to buy more
fiction in other words, to give the
people just what Uiey want, within
well defined moral limits.
"But," a.sks Mr. Waldin, "do the
people want all this lighter fiction?
Are there not more poople'who want
serious works, who want to educate
themselves and to improve their
mental condition? These people must
be regarded and their needs looked
after. The public library is, after all
a liart of the educational system of a
community and should not descend to
Uie level of a penny newsstand.
Real Estate Transfer
Elijah Vandernmrk to Andrew C.
Snyder and wife, 25 acres, IMuware,
part of Jane Brodbead, warrantee,
-175.
Charles A. Iitgon to Charles II.
Hajjert, lots In Delaware, along public
road, near hauls of A. S. Dinginan,$l.
Commonwealth to Augustus W.
Batch, commission as notary public.
Martha B. Helms to Alice Brink,
part of 2 lots, corner High street and
Currant alley, Milford Boro, MOO.
Allx-r E. Simoiison to Ernst Tipier
w eiu, 24 acres, Blooming Grove, J700.
George W. Warner and others to
Robert Warner Reid, lots 65(1, .057,
Co8 and 9 acres 141 per., Milford Boro,
on High and George streets, $5.
Since Mr. Rryau is supfmrting
Hearst's candidacy the former's state
ment Uiat "money stupitles the eon
KiciaV may well be believed.
THE RAMBLER'S PICKINGS
Charles Zimmerman and daughter
of New York viaited up here over
Sunday the guests of Dr. II. E.
Emerson.
My: How can any one who don't
believe In churches or go to one talk
about religion?
A maple tree In front of the Ilorton
house on Harford street stopped Jack
Bolllotat's team from going home
alone.
Jake Schorr, Jr., will have to keep
his eye a little more on his horse.
Tha horse has given him the bIId too
often already.
Win. Aimer Is out at Log Tavern
pond renovating the buildings of
Mr. Hilllard.
The Choral Society has finished.
The Y. M. C. A. can't get started.
There is a kick about bad usage the
books belonging to the Free Library
are receiving, (suppose the Library
was closed) what will our young
pecfple have now to amuse them
selves. Standing on the P.O. corner.
Randolph Travis is on the sick
list.
Either some two or four footed
animal stole "Si" Terwilliger's Sun
day dinner meat.
So far (he trout catches have been
light. As the weather gets warmer,
fishermen are likely to meet with
better success.
A number of our residents went to
Port Jervis Monday evening to at
tend the Choral Society recital In the
Reformed church.
Last Sunday was a lovely day, but
our streets and the roads were more
than dusty, if any one wishes to
strike good? piece of road let him
arive the river road below the Brick
house to the Montague line. Gutter
dirt Is what Is used over there.
Elijah Vandermark sold two
thousand railroad ties to Andrew
Yetter last Monday.
Miss Katie Beck has returned from
New York.
George Beck of New York visited
up here last week.
Rev. E. M. 8mead tried his luck
catching trout. lie failed to show
his catch.
A man may be able to caary fifteen
hundred pounds of steam, when he
puts on more, something, more likely
his legs are liable to give out.
Lon Kline is acting as clerk at the
Dimmlck House.
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The Russian bear is said to be suffer
ing from sea sickness.
Judge Parker Is apparently willing
to forego his little salary of $14,000 for
the pleasure of being bowded over.
It will be Interesting to observe
whether the Hearst expenditures con
tinue providing some other candidate
is put up.
The Chicago University which
recenUy bought a collection of fossils is
understood to have negotiated in vain
for Jerry Simpson.
General Miles seems to have lost
some of his war ardor. He expresses
his opinion Uiat Uie position of the
United States as a world power does
not depend upon its military strength.
The esteemed Chicago Chronicle
which has variously supported Bryan
and anti-Bryanites announces that
Parker won't do and that Clevelond is
the only man In sight who has any
show of finishing.
The hopeful if somewhat misguided
democrats of the great state of Nevada
have endorsed the Bryan idea of 18'Jli
and 1900. When they awake next
fall they will, of course, be sadder but
we doubt if wiser.
The New York publishing house
which declares that no first class fiction
Is being produced Uiese days should
devote itself during the coming months
to au examination of Uie platforms and
resolutions of the political conventions.
Col. Bryan Is quite willing to com
promise party differences and eliminate
all factional fighting iu Uie democracy.
He proposes simply a blanket endorse
ment of the Kansas City platform and
Uie privilege of nambig Uie candidate.
If Judge Parker having reeuived '
Mr. Cleveland's endorsement, could
now by a little strategetieal work only
secure one from Mr. Bryan and then
be assured of getting a few score of
Roosevelt electoral volts, he would be
a happy man.
A wireless telegram was Intercepted
by the Japs, supposed to tie a Ru.-iun
dispatch. The word "a.-kold" gave
thu clue to the source of the nieswitje.
It was biter diwovered Unit the word
was "askance," butUiisdidnotcbuiit'iJ
the conclusions as to Its source,