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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The Pacific elevator,
at Hines street and the north branch of
the Chicago river, has been burned. A
large amount of grain was stored In it
The flames threatened the large mating
house of Hates e. Curtis adjoining, and
ten extra fire engines were called. Both
elevator A and elevator B Of the Pacific
Elevator company were also destroyed,
with other small buildings. The loss will
approximate 81, 800, 900. The wheat, it
is said, was insured for S750,000
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

NEW HAvEE, OCT. eS.-Dr. J. Edward
Lee, who has been before the courts on
three different occasions, was found guilty
OF malpractice by the superior court and
sentenced to five years in prison. The
jury was out but 10 minutes. The only
witness presented by the state was Miss
Bird NJ Palmer, the alleged victim, and
the story told by her was the most revolt
ing In the history of Connecticut courts.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

A gentleman, who is highly intel.
ligent, stated publicly this week
in Milford that he was reliably in
formed that Bryan made at least $50
Mckinley votes by a recent speech
in which he advocated Government
ownership of railroads. The men
argued that if this come to pass,
their jobs would be mere political
situations, and they would be liable
to be turned out with every change
of administration. The public would
also be interested in riding ON roads
manned by inexperienced, and care
less employees who could retain
their places with a political pull. Do
the people want this i? The railroad
men certainly do not.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

Any workingman who found his
market basket too heavy ON Saturday
night can vote to tighten it hereafter by
supporting the presidential candidate
who is telling the people of the south
and west that the purchasing power of
the dollar is too great
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

While Bryan is telegraphing the New
York Journal that ''the gold standard
makes dearer dollar, a dearer dollar
means falling prices, and falling prices
mean hard times" the prices of wheat,
corn and cotton are going up, and the
price of silver, the supposed barometer
of prices Of farm products, is going
down
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

LISBON, Oct 2S. "A telegram received
here from St. Paul de Loanda, Portuguese
West Africa, says that the Portuguese ex-
pedition has just punished the rebellious
Bendo natives, burning "a Of their vii
lagos and killing 100 of the rebels.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

LONDON, Oot 26.--The Observer an
nounoes the engagement Of Coleand de
St Maurice and Grace Corneau, daughter
of William Corneau of Springfield, Ills.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

There has been no time since the re-
sumption of specie payments in 1879
when the depositors in savings banks
could not get back as good money as
they earned and put in Do they want
even to ''ohanoe it, on getting 81 cent
on even 70 cent silver dollarsf
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

Entered at the post office of
Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania,
as second-class matter, November
twenty first, 1895.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

The farmers complain because they
cannot find markets for all their prod
ucts. How would the doubling Of prices
under free silver enable the working
men Of the cities and factory towns 10
buy more than they do noWG
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
Legal Advertising.

Court Proclamation, Jury and Trial
List for several courts per term, S24.00
Administrator and Executors
notices BOO
Auditors notices 400
Divorce notices BOO
Sheriff's sales, Orphans court sales,
County Treasurer's sales, County state.
ment and election proclamation charged
by the square.
j. II. Van Etten, PUBLISHER,
Milford, Pike County, Pa.
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One square(eight lines one insertion si00
Each subsequent insertion 80
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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

Bryan must demodify his farm prod
uot speeches or he will have to face
such hard questions as; "What about
wheat and cotton? Are their prices 60
ing mp in sympathy with silver or be-
cause of shortage of foreign cropsp
What connection is there, anyway, be-
tween the prices Of farm products and
of silver?"
OF course Bryan can answer all such
questions. In fact, they are "dead easy"
for a powerful man who can lift the
price Of all the silver in the world to
twice its present height, but it is just
as well to avoid all unnecessary embar-
ragamaDt
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

With this issue the PRESS enters
ON its second year. We have been
both fiattered and gratified with the
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

to be voted for at the General Election to
be held Nov. 3, 1896, under the title or po-
licy of Peoples Party, as regulated by the
act of June 10, 1893; providing for nomina-
tion by nomination papers, and respect
fully ask the support of all who favor fair
and just methods in politics. If elected l
pledge myself to administer my official
duties in such manner as to guard the in
terests Of the people, and promote the gen
eral welfare Of the taxpayers.
GEORGE H. BORTREE,
Greentown, Sept. 22, 1895.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.

OFFICE, BRowN's BUILDING, BROAD ST.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

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, lS93,providing for nominations by nom
ination papers, and solicit your votes at
the general election Nov. 3, 1896
JOHN A. KIPP.
August 5, 1895.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

at the hands of the Republican Conven-
tion hereby respectfully ask the sup
port of my fellow-citizens. If elected 1t
will be my aim to faithfully and imparti-
ally aid in the administration Of the duties
pertaining to the Office, to the best of my
ability. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
Milford, Sept. 80, 1896
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30

Having been solicited by many friends
who believe that the will Of the people was
not allowed to be fairly expressed at the
recent Republican primaries, hereby an.
nOunce myself n candidate for tho offica of
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
Representative,

to be voted for at the General Election. I
hereby respectfully solicit the support of
the people Of the county and II elected
pledge myself to further the welfare of my
constituents and conserve their interests
faithfully to the best Of my ability,
AARON CORTRIGHT.
Westfall Township, Sept 30, 1895.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
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 TEN.
Attest, d. H. HORNBECK, Sec'y.
Milford, May 8, 1896.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-30
CANDIDATES. CARDS.

Having been nominated by the Repub-
lican Convention as a candidate for the
office Of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21

attempted to explain TINS oinerence
sby saying: MY father was born in
a poetic age, and he is an idealist; L
was born in a materialistic age, and L
am realist. My father takes his sub
jects from dreamland; take mine
from life. He works with his eyes shut,
with mine open. He starts from a
fact; | from an idea" The father,
however, was nearer the truth, and ep-
igrammatically neater when he
summed up with the words: HE is
a photographer; am painter" The
father owed the larger part of his sue
cess to his power as story-teller-
Astounding in action. splendid in color,
full of life, gayety and charm, always
goodly and glad; never sick and sorry.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21

ing lines, and the motif is evidently |
sincere in its naivete; it is of youth |
youthful. After having accompanied
his father on journey to Spain and
Africa he wrote a fantastic book called |
Adventures de Quatre Femmes ct dun
Perroquet." In 1s4s he wrote and
published ia Dame aux Camellias.'
Between the years 1855 and 1870 more
than so curtain-raisers and plays from
the young Dumas pen were produced
in the Paris theaters. After the first
disasters in 1870 NJ. Dumas retired to his
estate in Puys, near Dieppe. The day
after the commune he sent to a news
paper in Rouen la Lettre sur les
Chooses du Jour-" full of patriotism and
invectives against the revolutionists.
Returning to Paris in 1872, he had a
series of plays produced at the Gym
nase. The first two pieces were "Une
Visite de Noces" and la Princess
Georges" The great success of the play
was in a measure due to Mdlle. Aimee
Desclee, who played the principal roles.
Besides la Dame aux Camellias," his
greatest dramatic triumphs have been
LES Idees de Nine. Aubray," a comedy;
''Une Viste de Noces," la Princesse
Georges" Monsieur Alphonse" and
'L'Etrangere." In 1872 he published
"L'Homme Femme" which repeated
the thesis of his novel, "L'Affaire Glenn
enceau. and dramatic version ofitwas
produced at the Gymnase in 1873 under
the title la Femme de Claude" a
play which was revived at the Renais-
sance theater by Sarah Bernhard in
1894.
NJ. Dumas was installed member OF
the French academy on February IL,
| 1875. and was promoted to the rank OF
commander of the Legion of Honor.
His drama. Joseph Balsamo," based
on his fathers romance, 'Cagliostro,
was performed for the first time at the
Odeon, March IS, 1878. He published
in 1880 lies Femmes qui Tuent ct les
Femmes qui votent," in 1881 la Prin.
cesse de Bagdad," in 1885 'Denise" and
in 1887 "Francillon."
NJ. Dumas was remarkable exam
pie of inheritance of talent. Yet be-
tween the author of Ia Dame aux Ca
mellias," and the author of "Les Trois
Mosquetaires" there is as great n diff
ference as between the Armand Du
val" of the former and the DAT
tagnan" of the latter. The son onc'
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21
Common Case,

The Scotchman's disposition to regard
his own Judgment as the best that can
be found is well illustrated in a story
once told of the moderator of a Scotch
presbytery. This mans opinion diff
fered widely ON a certain question re-
lating to church discipline from that
of the associates with whom he was
ostensibly consulting. At last he said
that he would lay the matter before
the Lord in prayer and then wait for
His guidance. 20 Lord" said the mod
orator, fervently and with perfect sim
certify of purpose, 80 Lord, grant that
we may be right in this matter, for
Thou knowest we are very decided'-
Youths Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21
The Whole Community Related.

1t is stated as an actual fact that
all the people residing in Letchter coun-
ty, KY, are related to one another, di-
rectly or indirectly. The reason of this
is found in the remarkable Webb fam
lily. There are three brothers and three
sisters of the original family, all living
near Sargent, and they have no fewer
than 74s descendants living in the
neighborhood. The eldest member of
the family, Lettie, is 50 years old, and has
20 children, 95 grandchildren, and so
great-grandchildren. Polly. aged 80,
has 16 children and almost as many
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
as Lettie. The youngest, Wiley, has
the fewest descendants. He is 20 years
old and has II children, 81 grandchil'
dren and IS great-grandchildren.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21
Sure Proof.

1t is said that Hon. Samuel Galloway,
of Columbus, o., was one of the plainest
men ever known in the state. He told
many stories relative to his own per-
sonal ugliness of face with great good
humor. One which he often related
with much relish was that of the re-
mark made by the little daughter of a
friend in another city with whom he
was dining. Mamma" he heard the
child say, in an awe-strucl1 whisper,
after a prolonged survey of the pc
culiar features of the guest, "that gem
tleman's mamma must have loved chill
dren mighty WELL" why so, my
dear?" inquired the unsuspecting pa
rent. "0h," returned the child, in the
same audible whisper, "'cause she
raised him!"-Youth's Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21

convenience. When it is desired to COM
municate with persons in any specified
locality the mirror is set SO. as to throw
a reflection of the sun in that direction.
The opening and closing of the shutter
in front of the mirror gives the effect of
the dots and dashes of the Morse tele-
graphing code, and the message can
thus be read. At ordinary distances the
telescope is unnecessary. The worlds
record in long-distance signaling is
held by the Colorado department of the
army signal service corps.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21
What Are We to Do About TIP
To the Daily LIGHT:

To the Daily LIGHT:
II, as has been frequently
charged and never denied, and as
Engineer Gray reluctantly admits,
faulty work has been done on the
sewers and defective material has
been used in their construction,
what recourse has the city, or
what steps do the authori-
ties propose to take to Sc
cure indemnity? The work hav-
ing been accepted by the city
through its agent, the city engin-
eer, could recourse lie against the
contractors? II answered in the
affirmative, against whom would
the city enforce judgment? 1t is a
notorious fact that the original
bondsmen OF the contractors would
not in law or equity, be held par
ties to the suit, for they have, by
written notice to the mayor and
council, purged themselves OF any
responsibility by formally with
drawing as sureties; and the
rather unusual spectacle is pre-.
sented OF public enter.
prise, involving the expendi'
tire OF some $350,0O0 OF the peoples
money, being pushed through by
private contractors who are under
no legal or valid bond for the faith
full compliance OF the terms Of theil
contract. This is a condition which
the meeting Of taxpayers should
inquire into. Has the city any re
course for the alleged defective
work thus far done on the sewers
and for which the contractors hav,
received full pay?
WEST END SOVEREIGN.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21
DUMAS THE YOUNGER.
In Many Respects He Was Truly
Remarkable Man.
His Childhood Was Not Happy One
Some OF the Products of His Pen Which
Brought Him Fame Father and
Son Compared.

Alexandra Dumas, fills. who died on
November 27, was born in Paris on July
IS, 1924. He was a natural child. In
the preface to n volume of his plays,
published in 1877. is found this frag-
ment of autobiography. which is
charming picture Of the generosity of
nature, the moral courage. the high
mindedness of the average French
schoolboy:
My mother was a good. courageous
woman who worked to rear me: my father
a government employe, with salary of
100 francs a year ($24a). having his mother
to support BY lucky chance it so hap
pened that my father. though impulsive,
was kind-hearted When, after his first
successes as a dramatist. he thought he
could rely upon the future, he recognized
me and gave me his name. That was
much; the law did not force him to do So
and l have been so grateful that ! have
borne that name as well as / could. Yet
II appeared that his name was not enough
in the eyes of the children whose position
was perfectly regular before the law, and
In the midst of whom | was placed very
early in a great boarding school kept by
one of the best of men, NJ. Prosper Goubaux.
These children insulted me from morning
me the celebrated name of my father be-
cause my mother had the misfortune not
to bear it. There was not day that l
did not have a fight with one or another
of my comrades, and sometimes with sew
eral together. for their cowardice was not
solely moral. Those who were not thus
said nothing and looked on. Ny suffering,
which / have described in L Affaire Glenn
enceau. and of which never spoke to my
mother so as not TO distress her, lasted five
or six years.
at an early age the young Dumas was
placed in the GoubauX institution,
where land also at the Bourbon college)
he made brilliant progress. Accus-
toned from his earliest youth to liter
airy surroundings, he soon evinced
strong and positive likes and dislikes on
the subjects that were discussed be-
fore him by his father and his friends.
At the age of II be wrote number of
poems. which were published in a vol
ume in 1S47, entitled LES Peches de
Jannesse." This work has almost been
lost sight f,and possesses littleliterary
merit, although there are some pleas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21

spect the magnificent
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21
HELIoeRAPH SIGNALS.
Can BE Read Easily at a Distance of Fully
Seventy Miles.

Can BE Read Easily at a Distance of Fully
Seventy Miles.
Instantaneous communication be-
tween two persons 20 miles apart with
out the use either of the telegraph or
the telephone seems to those who do
not know of the process to be impos-
sible, yet recently it was easily accom-
plished bymembers of the United States
signal corps stationed in Denver, Col,
and upon Longs Peak, which is three
score and a half miles from the city;
and, moreover, it is not an unusual
achievement. An instrument called
the Telegraph was the means where
by the apparently impossible feat was
performed. The heliographing outfit
consists of a mirror, a shutter, tele-
scope and a field-glass. The mirror
and shutter are mounted on tripods, for
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Blank books, blank books!

-BIanK UOOkS, Dirk UUUks!
2193t NC TENGG.
Post ID, T. P. A., will have an
entertainment tonight for the bene-
fit of the relief fund.
White sewing machines are
the best In the world. L. NJ. Mich.
ael, sole agent, 1923 West Commerce.
Repairing q speciality. Machines
from So up. Oil, needles, etc.
2-l I'm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-21

The celebrated McAlester In
dian Territory coal, 1915 per ton.
Dry four feet We cd 1915 per cord ;
stove wood $3.50 per cord. Sunset
Wood Co. III IL Il
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-07

All that a man hath will be give for
his life, and all that woman hath will
she give to improve her figure. Those
women who have not yet given all they
have fer the Improvement of their fig
ures will do well to notice what is 60
ing on in Chicago, where a Swedish
woman is offering sure thing to wo-
men who will pay her to make them
more shapely. Her method is called
''the somersault cure" and we do not
mind giving it fine free advertise
ment, for IL 1t will do what the Swedish
woman says it will it will fill the earth
with lovely female forms and thus add
much to the beauty and the grace of
life. And anything that will so add is
desirable, for, to tell the honest and
the painful truth, many women have
shapes which are sadly in need of more
improvement than they have had. We
would not be mean enough to say any,
thing like this If we could not at the
same time offer large erumb of COM
fort and shining ray of hope to such
women. We can do more. The Swed-
ish woman enables US to hold out a
whole loaf of comfort and whole sun
burst Of hope rays. And they are not
exclusively for the young women, who
have at least some shape. 1t appears
that women of any age and any shape
can turn over new leaf in the matter
of shape by ''the somersault cure
Sometimes, says the Swedish woman,
''it takes logic and patience to persuade
a stout, tlignified lady to turn a somer-
sault, and in the preliminary trials a
difficult object has to be helped over.
At forty-five. you know, such an action
seems an awful and awkward enter
prise, but once you learn how to turn
somersaults, even at fifty, the exhilara-
| ton of it grows on you, and its effects
on ones girdle measure are simply as
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-07
snARP.


How often do you cut your grass ~
Every time my neighbor has his lawn
mower sharpened."- Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Hard Times. Where are you going
to take your family this summer,
Hicks?'' ITO Coney Island" What!
for the summer" mo; for a day
Harper's Bazaar.
Joe Cose-What has become of that
stale messenger boy joke? 1t seems to
have disappeared Scribbins-Some
one must have given it to a messenger
boy to deliver to the paper,--Philadel-
phia North American.
ooh, mamma" cried little Frances,
there are two new dear little kittens
in box down in the laundry with the
old cat" care there, dear?" Yves,
mamma; and this years style of kit
tens is black trimmed with white. -
Harper's Bazaar.
Bridges Ito old schoolmate just met
after long separation)-And so, old
man, you did finally marry for money
after all? Brooks-Yes, I've always
been one of the unlucky poor devils
who have to earn every dollar in the
hardest way.-Vogue
Your son, believe. made some ex-
periments while at co11ege?' Eyes, he
discovered what he calls his scientific
paradox. what is the nature of il %
He succeeded in demonstrating that
debts are expanded by contracting
them. Washington Times.
you are charged" said the Judge,
with riding your bicycle through the
streets at rate exceeding ten miles an
hour" "Ten miles?" said the man.
whose new wheel had run away with
him, "ten miles? Til bet was going
three hundred. "-Indianapolis Journal
Justification.-"Why," Numbered the
magistrate, did you beat your wife
with a rocking chair, breaking three OF
her ribs?" ITO amuse the baby" fall
tered the culprit. However, he was not
able to prove beyond a reasonable
doubt that such was his purpose, and
sentence was accordingly pronounced
-De3roit Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-07
NOR A LEGA1 ooNrRAoT.

The opinion of the Corporation Coun-
sci in the celebrated case OF New Ha-
ven VS.. the Board OF Public Works and
the Boston Asphalt company has been
made public. 1t Is, in brief, that the
Board of Public Works exceeded its
authority in making the contract, and
that the Court Of Common Council has
a right to revoke it. Acting on this
opinion the Board OF Aldermen last
evening unanimously voted to revoke
the contract. If the Board of Coun-
cilmen takes similar action, as it prob
ably will, the contract will be revoked
unless the Supreme court Of Connecti-
cut says nay.
Meanwhile, the great cause OF street
paving in New Haven is not making
much progress. Perhaps If molasses,
grass or pins had received the consid-
Grafton as paving material to which
We thought they were entitled all this
trouble would have been avoided, But
asphalt seemed to be the word, and
here we all are stuck fast in the sticky
stlIff