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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
ARouT GREEN CORN

Corn is one of our few national
dishes for in spite of it's delicacy and
its digestibility is eaten nowhere
else as here. But, even for us, corn
loses it's fitness for food if it has lain
in the provision store or market for
several days. Therefore an effort
must be made to deal with coun-
tryman who will honestly bring
none but freshly picked corn.
Since corn is so plentiful at this
season and will continue in good
condition for month or more, the
country housekeeper ought to find
it possible to preserve it either by
canning or drying for use in the
winter. 1t suffers less perhaps than
any other vegetable by these pro-
cesses. For drying the kernels fol-
low Mrs. Lincoln g recipe, which di-
rects that the corn be boiled ON the
cob from five to ten minutes then
cut and scraped from the cob, and
dried carefully in the sun. Keep in
dry place where it will be secure
from mice. Some cold night, when
you want tempting relish that can
be quickly prepared, grind a cupful
of the corn in coffee mill, put it in
a spider with a pint of cold water,
let it heat slowly until swollen, and
the water is absorbed; then add
milk enough to make it like thin
puree. Boil about five minutes add
tablespoonful of butter, and salt
and pepper to taste. A scant tea
spoon of sugar is an Improvement.
If you have never tried it you
will be surprised to find how much
better it is to boil corn in the husls.
Remove the outer husks and strip
down the inner husks to take off the
silk, then turn the husks back and tie
them at the top with a thread.
Plunge into boiling water, which has
been salted, and boil from twenty
minutes to half an hour. When done
cut off the stalk end, which thus
frees the husks and serve the corn
in a napkin.
Many persons find that green corn
has an unpleasant effect upon their
digestion. For such, and indeed for
others, it is good plan to split the
kernels with sharp knife before
eating from the cob in this way
the hulls of corn are left with the
cob and only the nutritive portions
are eaten.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

into the American people to make it
seem possible that they could do a thing
of that kind7 Applause.
We can live ON a silver basis after
we get there. Our great rivers will fol
low their courses to the sea Gods sun
will kiss the earth. The crops will
spring forth Children will be born and
grow up. Enterprises will go forward
But are we going to take the leap in the
dark and try an experiment fraught
with such risk and panicH A great
French economist once said that when
he was 40, he thought he understood
something about finance. When he was
90, he felt he did not know as much
about it as he did at 40, and at 20 he
began to doubt whether he knew any
thing about it at all, and scarcely dared
to open his mouth. Mr.. Gladstone pom
dered over the question till he said that
1t seemed almost to defy human intel
leot, but Ben Tillman, from South Car
olina, knows that the goldbugs Of Wall
street and vampires Of Lombard street
are "agin the farmer" and the way the
farmer can get even is to cut his dollar
in two. Applause
We are living in grand and awful
time. But the newspapers are printed
every day, and the Americans are not
asleep. The brain of the American peo-
pie is not dull Their hearts are not dis
honest. These heresies come and go as
the tide flows, and sometimes in the
thiokest of the night we may not appear
to see the stars that are shining. But
you remember ON one historic occasion,
when the sky was all covered with fog,
some one asked, "Oh, say, can you see
by the dawn's early light the star span
gled banner yet wavingP" And it was
therel Enthusiastic cheers.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
AUDITORS NOTICE.

In the Orphans Court of Pike County
estate of Conrad Grob, decd.
In the matter of the account of George
K. Horton, administrator.
The auditor appointed I" to make distri-
button of the balance of funds in hands of
George K. Horton, administrator, as shown
by his account" will meet the parties inter
ested for the purposes of his appointment
ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 90, 1896,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. at his office, corner 3rd
and Ann streets, Milford, Pa, when and
where all parties interested are required to
make and prove their claims, or be de
barred forever from coming in upon said
funds. HY. L. BAKER,
Milford, Pa, Auditor.
July 20 1895. 3t
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
1He sILvsRI1n oArnoAIsM.


In which Free Coinage Theories Are
Plainly Stated.
What il money! Somethinq--aade out
of nothing by government
Is there any limit to the amount of
money which government can maker
Only the capacity of the printing presses
of the country.
What kind Of money is the best?
That which has the least value.
What does "cheap money" mean?
Money that will buy very little wealth.
Why are some people poorY Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy q
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made rich? (?
By stamping 90 cents worth of silver
lone dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power Of money.
What is a capitalist7 A wicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved up a
little property.
What is patriot2 A man who covets
his neighbor's property and wants to
get hold Of it by law.
What does "repudiation" mean7 It is
simple scheme for readjusting the in
equalities between the men who worked
and the men who have not.
What is the golden rule Of the silver
itesH Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by "hon-
esty" and good faith between menY"
That creditors are to be cheated out Of
one-hah Of their property whenever the
debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating all the claims of creditors2
That will come later. The public must
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is a oreditor9 A fiend in human
shape who loaned 100 cent dollars and
doesn't want to be paid In dollars worth
90 cents.
How will free silver help the farm
ers? By causing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis Of industry, stagnation
of commerce and idleness Of millions of
workers who now buy farm products.
How will the 10 to 1 scheme benefit
the working classesp By making them
pay twice as much for everything they
buy, while giving them little or no in
crease in wages. 1t will also conflscate
half Of their savings bank deposits.
What is silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish citizen, who doesn' Z
want higher prices of silver SO that he
will get rich, but simply because he
loves his fellow man.
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his laborP Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things Be-
sides he doesn't have to.
What is a sound currencyp Dollars
with 90 cents worth Of silver and so
cents worth of fat or paper dollars all
fiat
What is the chief duty of good citi-
zenF To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meekly swal-
low all the nostrums Of the cheap money
Office seekers
How can the people be made prosper
Gus? By setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital /;
contracting the currency by running en-
ployers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system. =
Whidden Graham.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
rhe Grand Army Of Creditors.

The gentlemen who think that they
have made an attractive bid for votes
by proposing a so cent dollar for debtors
to pay their debts with are reckoning
without their host. Every state of the
Union is full of creditors, and they will
never consent to defraud and cheat
themselves
Among these creditors are:
All persons who work for wages, sal
ary or by the piece.
All members of building and loan
associations
All depositors in savings, national,
state or private banks.
All holders Of life, fire and accident
insurance policies
All members of benevolent and fra
ternal insurance orders.
All holders Of industrial insurance.
All widows, orphans or wards de-
pendent wholly or partially upon the
income from Investments.
All educational and charitable insti-
tutions dependent wholly or in part up
ON the income Of their endowments.
In fact, the 80 cent silver dollar
would be Of advantage to few persons
In the long run save the spectators,
who would gamble on the inevitable
fluctuations in its purchasing power and
in the price of commodities. .-ExchanRe.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
MEN VS.. MONEY.

Under the above caption in last
weeks Dispatch, an editorial ap-
peared which seemed to have a two
fold object. First to show that the
Republican party is owned by men
who represent 1928, ,OOO,O OF
wealth, and second as a basis for
some cursory remarks on /" an edi-
torial weathercock in our midst. u
In reply to the former part of this
brilliant effusion we reproduce from
the Philadelphia Press the follow
ing;
Chairman Faulkner, of the Demo-
cratic Congressional committee, says
that this campaign is one of the
masses against the classes. To
prove his assertion he calls atten-
tion to the published list in the free
coinage papers of a score or more
New York millionaires, whom, he
maintains, are contributing heavily
to the Republican cause.
UO VI lAAO ANDBhBlAItAn
Congressional Committee have FIRE.
quently called attention to the fact
that the free silver propaganda is
sustained by the silver mine owners.
They have prepared a partial list of
these silver kings, to whom the free
coinage of silver means a yearly
bonus of $40, 900, 900 to $50, 600, OOC
upon their product This list offset
that which Chairman Faulkner and
his colleagues have caused to be
published and shows that the inter-
est to be served is much more sell
fish than that which would prompt
contributions to the sound money
cause.
AS Senator Elkins, of West Vir.
ginia, has said, free coinage of silver
means a benefit alone to the silver
producers, and paying these pro-
ducers $1.20 an ounce for their pro-
duct, when it is selling in the open
market at less than 20 cents, means
a heavy bonus that must be taken
out of the pockets of the American
people.
The following is the wealth re-
presented by those whose names are
opposite, either as individuals OF
agents -
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Voters should in this contention
for the preservation of national fin
ancial honor and prosperity be first
of all Americans, and cease to be
blind, bgoted, sub ubservient partisans,
at least, until they have through
the ballot box settled, and forever
settled right, this question of popu-
lar intelligence and morality.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
THE LADIES' COLUMN.

We wish to suggest TO the ladies that
this column is always open to any and all
who wish to suggest domestic subjects OF
any nature whatever either to ask advice
or furnish Information to others, and we
earnestly hope all readers of the Press and
who desire will avail tbemgelves Of the OPP
pOrtunity, and thus rece v we'll rs con
fer benefits
All communications relative to this col
umn intend for publication will be laid
over until next week IL they reach this
office later than Tuesday.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

the devil who persuaded her into
the apple business, and her descend
ants have been suffering the results
of her experiment ever since.
Don't get out of the frying pan into
the fire.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

snoots in every time the free beer
was passed among his friends.
These proximate contingencies, and
great waste of free beer proved con
elusive reasons, the Constable re-
moved the seats from the lawn and
the mournful notice was given in
the Dispatch that the club adjourned
sine die. ."Sic transit gloria mundi.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Low interest rates ON farm mortgages
under free silver is the bait which has
caught a good many honest farmers
They will go back to sound money prin-
ciples when they understand that inter
est rates are far lower in gold standard
nations than in silver basis countries.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Why don't our silver friends stop tell
ing what h going to happen if they
have their way and content themselves
by learning what did happen when other
nations had a similar epidemic Of silver
lunacy such as now menaces usf Their
prophecies won't accomplish anything,
because they wish it, but stern reality
will repeat the disasters with ns that it
inflicted ON others If we persist in our
willful blindness. George Cans.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Congressman Joseph j. Hart, of
Milford, Pike county, Pa, was in
Stroudsburg, several days last week
looking over the political field for
the purpose of seeing how his chan
ces stand for his return to Congress
next fall, at the hands of the voter.
Hart, of course. is now a free silver
adherent and if things continue in
the run, as we are told they are pro-
crossing, he will be given chance
to take back seat and return to his
profession as a chicken raiser. This
district is not free silver inclined,
we believe.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
NOTICE.

All persons are hereby notified that
throwing or burning papers or refuse of
any kind in the streets Of the Borough is
prohibited.
By order of the town council,
j. @. CHAMBERLAIN,
President, pro tenn.
Attest, d. Fl. HORNBECK, Seo'y.
Milford, May 8, 1896.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Last weeks Dispatch makes this
announcement. "The Club then adj
journed "sine die" members will
be duly notified of the time and
place of the next meeting. Theo-
dore Bosler will then speak on the
subject. "An Examination of
Heads"
1t is a well known geological fact
that the pediculus capitis is a proli-
fic insect, but it could hardly have
been supposed that it would be neces-
sary so soon after a series of Demo-
cratic meetings to open a summer
school of philosophy with an emin-
ent and learned professor to advise
on the best methods to exterminate
them. We hope these meetings will
be largely attended by the suffering
ones, and that "Dory" in his forth
coming lecture will dwell particular.
ly on the sizes of mesh in fine tooth
combs best adapted to secure the
most effective results. He might
also enliven the talk with a magic
lantern exhibition to more fully illus
trate the habits and peculiarities of
the frisky animal. We suggest also
that our neighbor send its ablest re-
porter, in order that it may be fully
qualified to enlighten its readers on
this delicate subject. It will then
have material for an exceedingly in
teresting article. If some of the
heads of those present at the last
meeting had been critically examined
the next morning, they would no
doubt have been found several sizes
larger than normal, besides possesses
sing bumps which would have puz-
zled an expect in phrenology.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

SOFT GINGERBREAD-One cup but
ter, one egg, one cup molasses, one
cup granulated sugar, one cup sour
milk, one teaspoonful saleratus dis
solved in little hot water. Flour
enough to make little sitter than
cake made with more eggs. Beat
hard two or three minutes before
putting in the oven.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Entered at the post Office of
Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania,
as second-class matter, November
twenty-frst, 1895
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
CANDIDATES. CARDS.
J0untY Treasurer

To THE VOTERS OF PIKE COUNTY: There
by announce myself a candidate for
County Treasurer
under the title or policy Of "PeOple's
Party" as regulated by the Act of June
10, 1898, providing for nominations by NOM
the general election Nov. 8, 1895. ,.i.,. 4
JOHN A. KIPP.
August 8, 1895. '...
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

cations of &545, 900, 900 are payable in
ooin--not gold. Under a free coinage
law these corporations could pay the
thousands Of persons who hold their
bonds, many of them held by savings
banks, insurance companies, people of
small means, ETC., in $272, 500, 900
worth of silver. And this is called re-
form in the interest Of the masses.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

An interesting straw comes from In
dianapolis. A few days ago the en-
ployees Of large manufacturing estab-
hshment in that city were asked whether
or not they favored the gold standard.
OF nearly !, 300 worl5ingmen who were
interviewed $50 We're outspoken for the
maintenance Of the present money
standard. Only S69 declared against 1t.
and 1853 said they We're undecided.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

PIE CRUsT-A very good pie crust
may be made from the following re-
ceipts; One pound lard, one quart
flour, well sifted one small teacup-
full of ice water, one teaspooniul
salt Mix the flour and lard well
with knife before adding the water,
then add water and salt. Mix this
well and roll for tins.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Cheap and trashy money in which to
pay wages. high prices for every kind
Of goods which labor buys-these are
the blessings OF free silver for the
American workingmen.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

o, the gingerbread boy and the piocrust
They had quarrel one day;
Together they sat on the oven shelf.
The piecrust fay and the gingerbread elf,
And the quarrel commenced this
Said the gingerbread boy to the piecrust
IN wager my new brown hat,
tanned,
Though you're filled with pride till YOU
cannot stand
But what is the good Of that 2"
Then the piecrusty girl turned her little
nose up
In a most provoking way,
80, maybe you're brown, but you're poor
as can be.
You do not know lard from round green
Is there aught that you do know,
pray ~
o, the gingerbread boy, he laughed loudly
with scorn
As he looked as the flaky piecrust
just watch how I'll rise in the worldr'
"Just see how I'm bound to grow lightr"
cried she.
"While you stay the color Of rust"
So the gingerbread boy and the piecrust
girl
They each Of them swelled with pride,
Till noise was heard in the room with
out
A cry of delight, then a very glad
shout;
And the oven was opened Wide.
Then the gingerbread boy and piecrust
girl
Could have screamed and wept with
pain,
For a rosy-cheeked lass and small bright
eyed lad
Took a big bite of each-yes, this tales
very sad
So they'll now never quarrel again.
Katharine Newbold Birdsall, in the
August Home Queen"
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
SOME POOR DEBTORS.

Great Corporations Which Free Silver
Would Enable to Cheat Their Creditors
Out of Half of the Money Borrowed.
The free silver agitators claim to be
working in the interest of the debtors
of the country, whom they represent as
being large number of poor persons
The creditor class is denounced as
small number of greedy bankers and
monopolists, banded together for the
purpose of expressing the masses of the
people. Reputation of debts is openly
advocated by the silverite and Populist
press on the ground that the men who
borrow money are more numerous than
the men who lend. The belief that in
some way free coinage will benefit poor
debtors by injuring rich creditors is at
the bottom of nine-tenths of all the de-
mands for cheap money.
The falsity of assertions that a scheme
to pay debts in 80 cent dollars would
help the poor and hurt only the rich
can be easily seen by looking at few
of the prominent debtors of the country.
Among the great corporations which
would be able to pay off their bonded
indebtedness in dollars worth 90 cents
are the following;
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

Hearst estate, California. ...... $75,OO0,OO
Fair estate, California ......... 50OO0,0O0
John w. Mackay ay............. 40,OO0,000
Hagan Observation-Disclosures. 100000
w. A. Clark k................ 100000
William M. Stewart, Nevada e. 100000
estate) ..........'.,........ s5,OOO,OO
David Moffat, Denver. ...,.... 8OOOO,OOO
Senator John p. Jones, (Com-
stock Lode) ................ 25,oO0,0O0
Flood estate e....,............ 25,OOO,0O0
Denver Silver Smelling Works 25,0O0,0OO
Mine. ....................... 2O,OOO,O 900
Charles E. Lane, California +. 100000
Mine ........,........s.'i.. 15,OOc,OOO
Mark DAILY, Anaconda, Mont 100000
Butte Silver Smelling Works. 14,5O0,00O
s. T. Hauser, Granite Noun
tain Silver Mines -. 100000
graph Mine, Utah -. 100000
Works ...,...........,.,.', $500, 600
Broadway estate, Helena, Mont. 5,OOO,OOO
Senator Henry M. Teller, Colo
Senator Lee Mantle, Mont 49,. 100000
Total l...................... $547, 900, 900
A little learning is a dangerous
thing, and, in the hands of news
paper man whose object should be
TO broaden and raise to a higher
plane the intelligence of his readers
it becomes a boomerang. Search
the dictionary for in it you will find
much to contemplate.
AS to the " stale scurrility " with
which the "vituperative vender
jeers at and derides our local Demo-
cratic clubs because their members
are not men of wealth, we admit
that this display of adjectives cou-
pied with their warmth of utterance
was whitening in the weather we
then had, but, perhaps truthful re-
port of the proceedings of Demo-
cratic meeting merits such a caustic
reprimand
We feel it our duty to our readers
to give them the news, and while it
may be difficult to SO modify and
soften the expressions in common
use by Democratic orators, or to
throw a sufficiently thick mantle of
charity over the after performances
so as to hide their deformities, and
render them passably decent to pub
lish, yet if in fact such reproduction
whitewashed and perfumed like an
Adonis, is still offensive to the deli
cate literary olfactories of our con
temporary we suppose as humanit-
arians we should desist, and our
readers be deprived of the reports
of these delectable vote procuring
schemes. The Press kindly suggests
to the associate editor that if his
pains are still severe he might re-
lieve the turgidity by either writing
up another ball game, or giving a
truthful account of the next Demo-
cratic club meeting, if they dare
have another.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
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Milford Pike County, Pa.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.

OFFICE, BRowN's BUILDING, BROAD ST
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

hereby announce myself candidate for
tine nomination at the Republican ConVen-
ton. Should / receive 1t, and be elected.
shall endeavor TO perform the duties Ok
the Office ilnpartially and TO the best Of
my ability.
July 2, 1886.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
Associate JUDGE.

in the Office of
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-03-11

chimney corner and scold. Meanwhile
the great, loyal American people are
hustling this way and that TO find the
light. They are building good roads;
they are passing compulsory education
laws; they are purifying their city gov
ernments; they are cleaning out tho
slums; they are trying in all ways to
make themselves healthy. beautiful and
good. They are spending SO, 900, 900
every year in Europe in order to see and
learn from that tremendous culture Mr..
Norton thinks SO much of. And if war
should ever come to this beloved
try, which heaven forbid, then the very
first to 60 cut and shed their blood in its
defense would be the editors of the COM
mon American newspapers. And the
college professor croaks il.