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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
MoNrAGuE.

Especial Correspondence to the PREss)
MONTAGUE, April 25.-We had a thun-
der shower last Tuesday evening, also a
little hail
The Reformed church Sunday school
was reorganized last Sunday with the fol-
lowing officers: Superintendent Lewis
Marthias; Assistant Supt Miss Nettie
Brink; Secretary Miss Lottie Lane, Librar-
ian, Chas. Cortright, Assistant Libr. Es-
ton Cole, Treasurer, Nettie Brink; Or
ganist, Miss Maggie Westbrook. The
school will meet every Sabbath morning
at $50. Everybody is invited.
The Leap year social at the Reformed
church was well attended the young girls
took good care of the boys, and everyone
had good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wilson, of Arling-
ton are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Godfried
Wieland Miss Lizzie A. Wilson, of Bay
one, N. j., is also visitor at the same
place.
Mrs. S. Merrill is on the sicklist.
The appointment of Henry Huston as
Judge of this county gives entire satisfac-
tion to Democrats and Republicans alike.
Shake
John Vanoy the boss fisherman Of the
Millville brook caught a three pound suck
or the other day.
Arbor day as far as know was duly OBJ
served by the schools In this town.
The holes on the grounds of School houst
No. have been filed up. Now for th'
holes ON the Stone bridge, and the slal
bridge next.
THIS town has case or two of chicken
pox.
Geo. Relnhardt has worked the uppel
end of the Riverroad with the road ma
chine. Now George bring on your gravel
Dick
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01

Ladies Waists and Wrappers at
w. & G.. Mitchells
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
LEDSEDALE.

Especial Correspondence to the PREss.)
LEDGEDALE, April "a. County Supt.
Sawyer of Pike connty, and John Ball of
Honesdale were guests Of ]. f. Slmons last
TUESDAY night.
Ira Kellam is afflicted with pink eye,
also VIM. Kruger and his mother, and a
great many others.
Mrs. Ed. Maines, of Lake Ariel was a
caller here last Wednesday.
Mrs. J. f. Simons spent Thursday and
Friday with Mrs. Ira Kellam.
Horton Gross, of Honesdale is visiting his
parents in Greentown. A. J. Kimble, of
Paupac and Horton Kimble Of the Mar
rows, came TO Ledgedale Saturday night
to fish for suckers. We heard that they had
fish for breakfast, but they did not get them
In Ledgedale Just the same. WAYNE Co.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
Try II.

Those who live in the country can
try next summer writing your name
ON an apple. 1t is the sun which
gives the apple what we call its
rosy cheek, and this fact makes it
possible to attempt the little expert
ment. Cut your name Mary, or
" Harry on a piece of stiff paper
and wrap it around an apple that
hangs in the sunshine. The rays
will go through the name spaces
only, and VIII print the name out
line ON the paper. 1t will be curl
Gus to pick the fruit in the late sum-
mer with ones own name cOlOred in
by so noble a painter as old Sol him
self.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01

Princeton College will observe its
sesquicentennial with elaborate ex-
ercises. The institution has many
wealthy friends and it is announced
that another princely donation has
been promised by John 1. Blair, who
will bear the expense of the erection
of a new dormitory to cost in the
neighborhood of 5000, 900. Such
donation to less wealthy institutions
might be of greater benefit, for it is
not the poor student seeking educa-
ton that is benefited thereby.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
WOMEN AS TROLLEY CONDUCTORS.

A Days Receipts Under Such Auspices TO
Aid Hospital.
A novel proposition has been
made by the Middletown Goshen
Traction Company to assist Thrall
Hospital, in that city. The COM
pany proposes to donate one days
receipts of the electric road to the
hospital providing the man ayers of
the institution will select young lady
conductors to collect fares on all
cars during the day and evening.
Young society women will accept
the proposition and hope to give
the hospital great benefit at an
early date
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
Correspondence.

Correspondents are particularly
requested to send in all news in
tended for publication not later
than Wednesday in each week to in
sure insertion.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
ROSES AND cLEMATIS.

ROSES AND CLEMATIS.
And a chanee for Twenty Dollars
for Twenty-Five Cents.
To any householder in the viii
Iage the following can be had of
J. Leahy at Gray Towers for
twenty-five cents the lot.
CIematis PanicuIata.
Empress of China Climb
ing Rose.
SEverbIoonnIng TeaRoses
Crimson Rambler Climb
ing Rose.
They are the very best roses and clematis
in cultivation and would cost at the nurs
cries about two dollars. They will be sent
here to be sold at this price to encourage
their cultivation. Ten sets of flower seeds
will also be given for twenty-five cents, to
the first ten applicants for the plants. They
will be here about the fifth of May and can
be delivered and paid for in the morning
before nine O'clock. After that hour no
more can be had for that day.
Catalogues with descriptions, and the
March Number of Success with Flowers" 4"
free at Armstrong; Drug Store to intend
ing purchasers.
The magazine, "Success with Flowers" I"
will be sent for one year free to the twenty
most successful growers--To be decided
June 1st, 1897, and at the end of three
years. Twenty dollars will be paid to the
person showing the best results with the
roses and clematis. The first three are
from the nurseries of the Dingee & Con-
ard Co., West Grove, Pa. The Crimson
Rambler from Messrs. Elwanger e. Barry,
Rochester, N. Y: See catalogues for full
description.
1t is requested that the roses and clema-
tbs be. planted where they can be plainly
seen from the street.
One hundred lots will be for sale. At
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-07
OF STERLING WORTH

The members of the Los Angeles Re-
publican Free Silver club have laid the
foundation deep and wide for ultimate
victory for silver coinage. Its influence
will grow and spread until what 1t was
organized for is fully accomplished. If
1t did not reap as full a harvest from its
sowing as it hoped for, the fault was
not because of inactivity or lack of en-
thusiasm.
1t was a gigantic undertaking to revo-
lutionize public sentiment to the ex-
tent that men would sever party ties
that had been growing in strength, some
of them for a third of a century, but the
moral influence the club will exert all
over the state in after years in the d.
rection Of teaching men that indepen-
dence of thought and action is the es-
sence of Americanism will be mighty
for good.
The county that has such material to
watch and guard its interests is al
ways safe. This club has given an OBJ
ject lesson in citizenship. too. 1t has
shown what 1t is to be manly man on
principle. 1t is to be hoped that the
club will maintain its organization, for
it's work and influence will be needed
hereafter in local as well as in national
affairs. The club possesses sterling
worth
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GETTING READY

A scheme is already on foot for an extra
session of congress Immediately after
Mckinley is inaugurated to tinker with
the tariff. The bosses are so impatient
to get hold of the machinery of govern
ment to resume grinding out jobs for
their plutocratic friends that they are
sure to drive Mckinley into converting
the boys In extra session. The people
may object with so much emphasis, how
ever that the more conservative of the
leaders will discourage an extra session.
1t is claimed that with the announce
ment of McKinley's election orders went
forth to start UP. the industries, and it is
represented that the country is now
entering upon a degree of prosperity
rarely ever before equaled. But while
all that may be true, the people know
very well that the Wilson German bill
il still operative. and naturally enough
they will think that II all the prosperity
which is promised Immediately comes
according to program 1t should not be
hindered by tinkering with the present
tariff law.
The fact is, the McKinleyites are in
an awkward position. All shops. fac
tories and mills. they say. are rushing
things" and that very soon every work.
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CLING TO THE OLD CUSTOMS.
Block Island Natives Spin All Their
Wool Fabrics by Hand.

The hum of the spinning wheel Is stu
a familiar sound in Block island, a
quaint and interesting resort in summer
and a miniature world in winter, in
which the habits and customs are those
of 150 years ago. The island is fifteen
miles off the Rhode Island shore and al
most directly south of stormy Point
Judith.
The heads of thirty Block island fam
lilies set sail in fishing boats the other
day and pushed up the Thames river 20
Oakdale, where they left heaps Of wool
to be carded into rolls for hand spinning
The rolls will be spun and knitted into
stockings and mittens for the protec-
ton of the hardy islanders against the
bleak winter winds Of the Atlantic.
There are times during the winter
when the wind sweeps across the treeless
land at a velocity of eightyfour miles
an hour, and women take their lives
in their hands when they venture out
Of doors. The isolation of the island Is
almost complete.
John Schofield established the first
wooden mill in Connecticut near Oak
dale, where the carding was done by
power cards. In 1898 the Block islanders
began to send wool to the mill to be card
ed into rolls, and generation after gen.
Grafton have kept up the practice. For
merly many bags of grain accompanied
the wool. and grist and wooden mills
were kept running day and night, while
the fishermen and farmers enjoyed
themselves in the quiet Connecticut vii L.
lage until the work was done-New
York Herald.
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MERITED MAJoR1TIES

Hon. James G. Mcguire of San Fran
cisco, the able and popular congressman
from the Fourth district, has again de-
monstrated his ability as a winner This
is the third time he has been elected to
represent that district and each time
he has received an increased majority.
Two years ago his majority was 1853;
at this writing he is reported to have re =.
ceived 6s43 more votes than O'Brien, his
Republican opponents and 1880 more than
his majority in 1894.
There are several reasons why Judge
Mcguire has been thus honored by the
voters of the district in which he lives
and is well known. He is man of great
ability, strict integrity, untiring energy
and dauntless courage. Added to these
noble qualities are a genial disposition
a sympathetic heart and pleasing per-
sonaIity. His course, in congress has
been marked by a firm devotion to such
principles and measures as he believed
to be right. On the other hand he has
invariably been found arrayed against
everything in congress that savored of
fraud. corruption or jcbbery of any kind,
no matter how powerful might be the
interests behind 1t.
AS an opponent Of the Pacific rail-
road funding bill he stood as firm as a
rock between the people and the wick
ed demands Of corporate greed, and at
the proper time his voice was raised ef-
fectively In deuuuciation Of that cum
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THE VALLEY ROAD.

The most important thing before the
people of Tulare county today is clos
ing up the gaps that are still open in
the matter of rights of way for the
Valley railroad. For the past two
months nothing has been done, for the
reason that every voter was busy "sav-
ing the country" Now that the election
is over. we must be ready with the rights
of way. just as soon as they are de-
mahded.
The situation is encouraging, and II
Fresno county secures the rights of way
from Reedley to Fresno there will be
no doubt but what we can do all that we
promised In Tulare county. Visalia can
easily furnish the right of way from the
Fresno county line to a point five miles
south Of this city, where Tulare city will
assume the task of getting the rights OF
way to the Kern county line There are
no private interests to subserve in work.
ing for the Valley road, and the men who
are taking the lead in the matter de-
serve the hearty support and assistance
OF every one who wants to build up and
develop the resources Of this county. 1t
is everybody's business and everybody
should work.-Visalia Daily Times.
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FACTS ABOUT JAPAN.

Nearly everything in Japan strikes the
western eye as being impermanent.
Nothing seems to be contrived or con-
structed for durability. The straw san
dals worn out and thrown away at each
stage of journey. the robes consisting
of few simple widths loosely stitched
together flor wearing and unstitched
again for washing, the fresh chopsticks
served to each new guest at hotel, and
then thrown away, the light shoji
for windows and walls, and repapered
twice year. and the mattings renewed
every season, are random examples of
the national contentment with imper-
manency.
When a Japanese lady is about to mar
~ all her teeth are blackened by means
of corrosive preparation. The teeth
retain their dark color during the whole
lifetime of their owner, who, whenever
she smiles, betrays to all and sundry
that she is married, or at least widow.
AT the birth of every child tree is plant
ed, which attains its full growth by the
time the child has reached the marriage
able age. When a child is about to be
married, the tree is cut down, and the
wood made into furniture, which hus-
band and wife take into their new home
until fresh green twigs" Gas children
are called in JAPAN begin to put in an
appearance.
The police force OF japan is large ana
well organized department, constructed
on a French model. For slender re-
Enumeration large amount of service
is expected. The ordinary city police
man is on duty every other day for
twenty -four hours. Eight of these hours
he must stand in front of one of the little
boxes, or kobancho. of which there are
1913 in the city of Toxic. For eight hours
he must patrol a certain district. re-
turning to his kobancho. and during the
remaining eight he may sit or lie on
bench within the inner room of the ko-
bancho. ready to be called upon at any
moment If required. Six policemen are
attached to each box, three by day and
three by night, so that while one is rest
ing a second is on fixed point duty in
front of the box, and a third is patroll-
ing
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Wilson Drury. aged "A years, living
at Wildwood, N. H., has captured four
bears this season.
Sir Walter Besant has promised to give
a lecture on London" early in December
under the auspices Of the London Re
form union. Lord Rosebery is to pre-
side.
In Egypt Lord Cromer is known as
1.-The man with the white hat" He al
ways appears in public wearing a white
topper" In private life he affects blue
g,asses-not because his eyesight is
weak, but because 1t Is difficult to read
a man through colored glasses.
Rev. S. H. Winkley. Unitarian. cele-
brated few days ago his 50th annive r.
sary as pastor Of the Bullfinch Place
emeritus. Rev. Christopher r. Eliot be-
ing installed in the active duties of the
pastorate Of this historic religious soci-
ETY..
Max Nordeau Is described by a traveller
as the very quintessential figure of gall
and bitterness. He Is small and mali
cious and as hairy as a monkey. His eyes
are large, fine and rather sad in express
sion. Nordeau is a remarkable linguist
and has an excellent practice as a ply
sician.
DR.. H. Dharmapala of Ceylon, who has
just come on a second visit to this coun-
try to lecture on Buddhism, Is to give
course of lectures in the University of
Chicago He belongs to the Homeless
Brotherhood" which knows no creed ex-
cept that of brotherly love. which in
cludes al nations.
Mr.. Edward Whymper's first book on
the Alps was published a quarter OF q
century ago. His recent work on Mont
Blanc is to be followed by monograph
on Zermatt and the Matterhorn. Nansen
was small boy when Whymper was first
making his way through northern Green
land thirty years ago.
The Empress Frederick spends much
time at Friedrichshof in the grounds.
She is very fond of roses for decorative
purposes, and has a large nursery gar
den, where choice fruit is cultivated for
her table. The dining room has music
gallery at one end, while the only orna-
ment of the splendid mantelpiece Is q
bust Of the late emperor.
The appointment Of Professor Dowden
to q commissionership Of the board of
national education in Ireland has stirred
up some of the Irish papers, who re-
gard him as tainted with 'agnosticism."
although his brother Is a prelate Of the
Scotch Episcopal church and the pro-
lessor IL married to q daughter Of for
naer dean Of st. Patrick'A
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ningly devised scheme to rob the public
for the enrichment of consolidated av-
arice.
A few weeks ago Judge Mcguire, at
the request of Mr.. Hearst, whote COM
munication for the Examiner exposing
the betrayal of the peoples confidence
by Congressman Grove johnson, of the
Second district, in his unholy alliance
with c. P. Huntington in the funding
bill contest. Maguire's damaging state
ments were printed in large type and
widely read. Neither johnson nor his
friends could substantially rebut the
charges made and no doubt the publ
cation of them over Judge Maguire's
signature had much to do with John
sons deserved defeat last Tuesday.
During the campaign now closed, the
judge, feeling quite sure that his own
district was safe, did a great deal %
speaking in other districts, and always
to large and enthusiastic audiences. He
is more radical. in some respects, than
are most prominent Democrats, either
in or out of congress. This is notably
the case concerning his opinion on the
tdilIL QueStlOH lie pelHS d cledH cut
free trader, with the courage of his
convictions. A vast majority of the
people, whether agreeing with a public
official or not, are always inclined to ad
mire man who, with no attempts at
disguise, says just what he means and
means exactly what he says on all pub
lie questions.
Such man is the growing statesman
of the Fourth district of California.
The name of James G. Mcguire has
become a household word in the Pacific
Coast region, and it is also familiar to
many thousands of persons east of the
mountains. We congratulate Judge Ma
guire on his latest reelection by splen-
did majority. We also heartily congrat-
ulate the people of California on the fact
tina tthe state will have the benefit of his
valuable services in the nations coun-
sells for at least two years longer.
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KNOCKED OUT BY AN ORATOR.
Schultze Has Only Artificial Arms, But
knows How to Use Them.

General Powell Clayton, chief Of the
Republican oratorical bureau, received
yesterday tale of woe from F. a.
sschultze, one of the old soldier spell
binders he had sent into the unrecon-
structed section Of Virginia. Mr..
Schultze lost both arms in the war, but
manages to get along well with arti-
fetal ones.
A meeting had been arranged in the
railroad round house at Gladstone. Va,
and a large crowd gathered. The New
York orator had fairly good attention
while he talked on finance, but when he
started in on war time issues there was
trouble. F. C. Payne, the town justice
of the peace, pulled the speaker from
the platform.
Despite his infirmities Mr.. Schultze
was game, and knocked out the justice
with one punch of his wooden arm.
When the Virginian recovered, his right
eye was black and blue and the crowd
threw him out. Then the spellbinder
was given three cheers for his pugilistic
ability and allowed to finish his speech
New York World.
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USEFUL AFTER THANKSGIVING.

Dreamed turkey Is a delicious dish
either for a wedding breakfast or a
course at company lunch. The turkey
should be boiled day or two before
using, chopped fine, and measured.
Measure pint of breadcrumbs, that
should be fresh. and of the part of the
loaf inside the crust; add to 1t a half
pint of milk, and cook over the fire un-
I'll 1t is hot. stirring all the time so that
it will not scorch. Add to the mixture
quart of the chopped turkey meat,
mix we'll and season with two teaspoon
fuls of salt. half-teasponful of white
pepper. Beat the yolks of four eggs
until light and add; then stir in the
whites Of the eggs, beaten just enough
to break them up well. but no more.
Butter good sized mold turn the
turkey into it. and steam for an hour.
If more convenient, put the mould in
pan Of boiling water and cook in a mod
crate oven. Serve warm or cold on a
large fiat dish, and garnish with a
cream of sauce seasoned with plenty
of mushrooms, salt, pepper and celery
salt. Boiled peas are often served with
this course.-New York Evening Post
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CARING FOR THE CRIPPLEs.

A band Of young women Of leisure
who are doing a beautiful work devote
themselves to caring for crippled chill
dren. They learn of the little unfortu-
mates through the different hospitals,
and then, when they are no longer under
the PHYSICIANS care and go home, per-
haps invalids for life, each member of
the society takes one of the children
under her wing, to teach, to amuse, to
help, In whatever way she can. Ger
tain days are given to the visits to ones
protege and the work carried on is
systematic If the child is we'll. If feeble
or Ill, music and games and little talks
take the place of course of instruc-
ton. Self-help and development are
however always kept in mind.-New
York Evening Post
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pertinently disturb ones morning nap.
The next requisite Of the ideal bedroom
is a Sleepy Hollow chair, with a high
back and broad arms, where one may sit
in dreamful ease and court slumber
Near 1t there should be a softly shaded
but good light, a small table that Is firm
on its legs. and a shelf or case for few
favorite books A desk where one may
indite an epistle, a chest of drawers,
and q long and truthful mirror add to
ones comfort, as does a fireplace for
ventilation always, and for a cheering
blaze occasionally. Many bedrooms con-
tain couches too, and dressing tables,
and countless other things that clutter
them and make them stuffy. This over
abundance of comforts and many orna-
ments is more in place in a boudoir
that connects with sleeping ROOM
New York Evening Post.
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VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

A bedroom that must serve as sitting
room, sleeping room, and in some cases
even be used for sewing room or nurs-
cry, can never be as restful as room
used and kept only for sleeping room.
Of the marks of the days occupation.
Even when 1t is not necessary, bedrooms
are so crowded nowadays with collec-
tons of every object to be dreamed Of
that they are neither restful or healthfu!.
Now the first requisite OF the ideal bed
room is, of course. q good bed, with lux
urious springs and good hair mattress,
small, too soft nor too hard. The sheets
must be broad enough to stay well un-
der the mattress at head and foot, and
on each side, and the bed must be so
placed that the rising sun does not Inn
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The Herald, throughout the exciting
canvass from which the country has just
emerged. was the only paper in Los An
geies that published full and fair reports,
whether favorable or unfavorable, to the
cause 1t advocated. 1t made concession
of defeat thesnlornent Information of
Chairman Jones' surrender came to the
paper, and 1t issued no bulletins which
were NOT confermable to public and pri-
vate advfces believed to be authentic
and trustworthy.