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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06
WINTERS IN OLpEN TIME.

In 1854, the cold was so intense
that the river Thames was covered
with ice 81 inches thick. Almost all
of the birds persisted.
In 1898, the cold was so excessive
that the famished wolves entered
Vienna and attacked beasts, and even
men.
In 1909, occurred that famous win
ter by distinction, "The cold win
ter" All the rivers and lakes were
frozen, and even the sea for several
miles from the shore. The ground
was frozen nine feet deep birds and
beasts were struck dead in the fields,
and men perished by thousands in
their houses. The Atlantic Sea was
frozen, and even the Mediterranean
above Genoa; and the citron and
orange groves suffered extremity in
the finest parts of Italy.
In 1716, the winter was so intense
that people travelled across the
Straits from Copenhagen to the pro-
vince of Servia, in Sweden.
In 1929, in Scotland, multitudes of
cattle and sheep were buried in the
snow.
In n1740, the winter was scarcely
inferior to that of 1909. The snow
lay ten feet deep in Spain and
Portugal. The Zuyder Zee was fro
zen over, and thousands of people
went across it and the lakes in Eng
land froze.
In 1744, the winter was very cold
snow falling to the depth Of 23 feet
on a level.
In 1854 and 1755, the winters were
very severe and cold.
In 1771, the Elbe was frozen to the
bottom.
In 1776, the Danube bore ice five
feet thick below Vienna.
The winters of 1774 and rs, were
uncommonly severe. The Little
Belt was frozen over.
From 1909 to 1912 the winters
were remarkably cold, particularly
the latter in Russia, which proved
so disastrous to the French Army.
The Hartford Democrat.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06
wanted-A Friend.
A brave friend.
A steadfast friend.

A brave friend.
A steadfast friend.
A friend who will defend when
others revile.
A friend whose heart and home
will be wide open when the doors
and windows of the whole world are
closed.
A friend who does not care if the
hat be old and soiled, the clothes
poor, and the shoes worn-who can
see the man between the hat and
the shoes.
A cheerful friend.
A friend with a clear eye and
clean heart.
A friend who will lift up when
the world pulls down.
A friend who from the top ruI g
of the ladder will reach down to the
bottom, if need be, to help.
A sympathetic friend.
A friend who will stand testing.
A friend to go to in joy, and be
made yet more glad in sorrow, and
be comforted.
A friend whose love. shining on
our teardrops, transforms them a in
to pearls.
A truthful friend.
A friend who will not Aatter.
A friend who will not scold.
A friend who will sacrifice time,
money-aye, if need be, life itself,
and do it willingly.
A friend who has smiles for our
joys, tears for our sorrows, con-
demnation for our faults, and ap-
proval for our virtues.
A discreet friend.
A friend who will not betray con-
fidences.
A friend whose love is a 4" Carte
blanche" for counsel, sympathy and
help.
A friend who understands our si-
Jence and can endure our loquacity.
A friend who is the same to-day,
tomorrow, in prosperity and in ad-
versity,
Wanted-such friend by every
mortal.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06

'Learn to do little things as
though they were great" +" For lit
tie things are often the beginning of
great things, and even when they
are not, they may be made great by
the spirit in which they are wrought
There is a tendency to imagine that
true nobility can only be attained
on great occasions and many con-
tinue to live mean lives only because
they overlook the small abundant
opportunities of every day. Jesus
Christ has shown for all time how
the divinest fabric of beauty and
goodness can be woven out of the
warp and woof of daily experience,
how humblest circumstances and
facts may become channels of re-
demptive grace how the instru-
ment of torture and shame may be
transformed into the symbol of holi-
est love. What He did as Saviour
of the world we cannot repeat, for
He stands apart from us but in this
matter we may hope to follow afar
otf.-Evangelist.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06

i've got one advantage over you
still, said the carriage horse, look
ing at the bicycle In the next stall.
?" When ! am worn out 1 can be
worked up into glue and canned
beef, and you can't"
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06
VARIETIES or POTATOES.
Notes From the Pennsylvania Experiment
Station.

Station.
The comparison of new and stan
dard varieties of potatoes begun by
the Experiment Station in 1889 has
been continued through the present
season. They were grown under as
nearly similar conditions of soil, ex-
posure, fertilizer, drainage, culture
etc, as possible, and the yields re-
ported below are from careful
weighing of the product of the diff
ferent plots made at the time of
digging. The rotation of crops on
the ground used is wheat, grass, po-
tatoes and oats. Barn yard manure
at the rate of 1s tons per acre was
applied to the sod before plowing.
The land was plowed 7-S inches deep
and thoroughly pulverized with
spring and spike tooth harrows.
Large tubers were cut to one eye,
medium sized to two and three eyes,
and the smallest ones in two and
three pieces. No tubers were used
that did not weigh one and three
quarter ounces or over. The pieces
were dropped II to 12 inches apart
in rows feet apart and covered
about inches deep. Shallow cult
walton was practiced.a small amount
of earth being thrown up to the
stalks after the last cultivation.
The varieties were planted May
5th to 9Th. All of them made a
very rank growth of tops with the
exception of the Early Puritan
which made only a medium growth.
They were sprayed with Paris
green, on July 1st and 18th, to kill
the Colorado potato bettle which
was quite numerous in some Sec
tions of the fields. AL the varieties
blossomed more freely than usual,
some of them forming seed pods.
They were dug August 9th and
September 2nd. The seed used was
practically free from scab but no
solution was used to kill it.
For 1896 the Enormous gave con
siderably the largest yield (4SO. 81 of
of any variety tested. Following
this variety in the order of their
production are: Northern Maine,
400; Delaware, 3S4.5 EARLY May,
1854 Late Puritan, 1878; Ben
Harrison, 363.S; and New Bovee
Seeding, 1851 bus. per acre. This
was a very good year for the
growth of potatoes and makes
very favorab BILE showing for the new
varieties received this year. For
the other varieties a far safer mea-
sure of their value is found in the
average yield for all the years
tested. The first six varieties
tested three years stand as follows /:
Early Everitt, 1918; New Queen,
262.3; Ben Harrison, 259.9; Free
man, 1868; Pennsylvania Best,
254.3 ; and Early A., 1887 bus. per
care, In the list tested two years
they stand as follows: New Bovee
Seeding, 1884; Carman No. 1,
327.7; Delaware, 1898 bus. per
acre. ENos. H. Hess.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
OFFICE, BROWNS BUILDING, BROAD ST

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, 1896-11-06
Legal Advertising.

List for several courts per term, s24.OO
Administrators and Executors
notices 800
Auditors notices 400
Divorce notices 800
Sheriff's sales, Orphans court sales,
County Treasurer's sales, County state
ment and election proclamation charged
by the square.
j. H. Van Etten, PUBLISHER,
Milford, Pike County, Pa.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06
Life.

Forth from the dust we spring, and run
About the green earth's patient breast
Our little day-at set Of sun
Into her bosom creep, and rest.
Augusta Moore.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06
Advertising Rates.

One square(eigh lines one insertion 90
Each subsequent insertion 80
Reduced rates will be furnished on ap-
tisers.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06

One can never tell whether man
Is q fighter who has never had the
need of fighting.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-11-06

Pennsylvania has the largest
number of post offices of any State,
4,974. New York not being very
good seconed with 3,6O8. Ohio
comes third with 3, 1882, and Virginia
fourth with S,211. Pennsylvania is
second in number Of presidential
offices, while New York stands first
with 312,
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

San Francisco were present in the interest
OF the company.
On April s, 1891. Quincy was granted a
franchise for railway from East San Jose
to Alum Rock Park, to be operated by a
nolseless motor or electricity. He was
granted several extensions of time. and
ABOUT year ago a rattletrap OF
motor was purchased, and for
period of several months spas
modlc trips were made over the route.
This brou ht forth protests from the prop
erty-owners and in October Quincy was
given sixty days in which to procure suit
able motor. This be failed to do, and the
matter OF revoking the franchise was set
for to-day.
About three weeks ago Quincy turned
the road over TO company of san Fran-
CISCO capitalists headed by John Center,
who had advanced $37, 900 on it. 1t was In
their interest that Messrs. ScGbner and
Center appeared before the board ana
asked that they be given more time to per
feet the operation of the road. They said
that negotiations were pending with the
two electric car companies of this city to
run the road in operation with their sys-
TENS.
After lem thy discussion the hearing
on the revocation of the franchise was
continued until April 6 in order to give the
new company a chance to make some
proposition to operate tirst-class electric
road.
The Supervisors express themselves as
in favor of nothing but an electric railway,
and it is thought the new company Will
not be allowed to operate any other kind
of q road
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC,
Application for the Removal of
Receiver Burleigh is
Denied.
Substance of the Decision of Circuit
Judge Gilbert and District Judge
Hanford.

SEATTLE, WASH, March 4-Circuit
Judge Gilbert and District Judge Hanford,
in the Federal court this morning, denied
the application of the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company for the removal of Andrew
f. Burleigh as receiver of the Northern
Pacific road in the States of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana, declined to
confirm Bigelow and McHenry. and also
refused the request OF the Northern Pacific
Railroad Com pany to make a quartet re-
ceivership, consisting OF Messrs. Burleigh,
Bigelow, McHenry and Galloway. Their
decision in part reads:
The application now made that this court
ppoint McHenry and Bigelow to be receivers
should by implication admit that the court
m ay remove them. The history of this case
proves that he party making the applica ton.
on advice OF It's counsel, disputes the power of
this court to remove from Office receivers
originally appointed by the Circuit Court for
the eastern district of Wisconsin, and we must
understand from the application as made that
1t is assumed that this court cannot exercise
its discretion. but is obligated to name Nc
Henry and Bigelow as receivers, for the simple
reason that they have been heretofore ap-
pointed by that court; and if the application
should be granted we must expect that the
appointees named will consider that they are
not answerable 10 this court FOR their conduct
as its officers nor ubject to be removed for any
cause by this court.
We believe, therefore, that the present ap-
plication cannot be granted without absolute
sacrifice on the part of the court of the powers
and prerogatiyes which belong to ii, and
which are necessary to the protection of the
rights of people entitled to invoke its iurisdic-
ito n of the rule of comfy does not require of
the court, in exercising auxiliary jurisdiction,
any such abdication of its discre tionary powers
McHelry and Bigelow, being non-residents,
and almost constantly absent, creditors must,
to enforce any demand against them, seek an
other forum, for if this court cannot call re-
ceivers to account for their conduct it will be
without power to compel them to appear in
courts within this State to answer to any pro-
cess. In view of past experience we are not
willing to appoint as receivers persons who
will not recognize the power of the court to
control them in the administration of their
trust No necessity is perceived in discharg-
ing the present receiver, or for making any
further order in the premises
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
Early Varieties Of Apricots, AL.
mondS and Prunes the Prin.
cipal Sufferers.
EVERYTHING NIPPED AT CHICO.
The Full Effect Will Not Be Known
in Many Places for Some
Days.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, March AT
present there is no method of ascertain
ing, with any degree of accuracy, how
much damage has been done to the fruit
crop in this vicinity. From all accounts
it is believed that the early fruit, such as
apricots, almonds, Tragedy prunes and
early peaches have suffered materially. A
representative of the National Fruit Asso-
citation this afternoon stated that reports
from Winters, Newcastle and Penrvn
seemed to indicate that all the early fruit
had suffered, but agents in those vicinities
stated that it was altogether too early to
attempt to estimate how much damage
had accrued.
Reports from the highlands, along the
Upper American districts and the Orange
vale Colony are to the effect that the early
fruit has suffered badly; and on the plain
lands south of this city the damage is
severe, early apricots being destroyed in
some localities.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
Contractors on the Merced River
Bridge Have Commenced
Work.
GRADERS MAKING A MILE DAY
Thirty.Five Miles of Track Between
Stockton and Fresno Ready
for Use.

FRESNO, CAL, March 4.-City Attorney
Moultrie has just returned from Sacra-
mento, where he made an argument be-
fore the Supreme Court on behalf of Fresno
in opposition to an amended petition pray
ing for writ of mandate to compe. the
Trustees of this city to grant franchise
over @ street to the San joaquin Valley
Railway without resorting to the method
of advertising such franchise and dispos-
ing of the same TO the highest bidder.
Colonel Preston represented the direc-
tors of the road. This proceeding was in
stituted not because there is any opposi-
ton to the franchise referred to, but in
order to obtain a decision from the Su-
preme Court as to the meaning of the
more or less ambiguous language con-
tanned in the act of 1898, where railroad
franchises through municipalities are con-
sidered.
Colonel Preston's contention is that the
act of 1893 refers to street railways only.
Moreover, there is the question of the con-
stitutionality of the act referred to, be-
cause it is sought in this act to regulate
legislation by county and municipal gov
ernments. The decision will probably be
handed down in few days.
w. G. Edes of the engineering depart
ment of this road was here yesterday.
During the day he visited the San Joaquin
River at the point to be crossed by the
road for the purpose of securing minor
details for plans of the bridge soon 70 be
constructed there. The contractors on the
Merced River bridge commenced work
yesterday morning.
large force of graders is now at work
between the Tuolumne and Merced rivers.
1t is thought the road will be completed
to Merced about the first of MAY, though
it may not be opened for business until it
reaches Fresno. Coming this way from
Stockton thirty-fve miles of track are now
ready for use. South of Tuolpmne Grant
Brothers are grading the roadbed rapidly,
making an average progress of one mile
each day.
Last Saturday six carloads of piling for
the Merced River bridge were shipped to
Livingston. Work on this structure will
begin tomorrow, and it will require nine
weeks to complete it. The bridge will be
half mile III length.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

nOQr Ce1Ort Inc enQ came, ana Ne OleQ
peacefully and quietly.
Thomas Frederic Gr-enhalge, son of
William and Jane (Slater) Greenhalge,
was born in Clitheroe, England, July 19,
1912. He was brought TO this country by
his father in early childhood. His early
educational training was received at home
and in the public schools of Lowell. He
was graduated from the Lowell High
School in 1859 receiving the first Carney
medal ever given. Having fitted for COL
lege ne entered Harvard, and was gradu-
ated in the class of 1863. He chose the
profession of law. and having pursued his
legal studies with that aim was admitted
to the Mlddlesex bar in June 1865.
He first associated himself in practice
with Charles f. Howe. In 1870 this part
nership was dissolved and he since con-
tinued in practice alone.
Mr.. Greenhalge had been in active legal
practice since 1865, and was widely known
as an able counselor and a successful ad-
Vocate. In business circles he was known
as man OF strict integrity, shrewd fore
sight and possessed of a judgment broad,
conservative and safe to follow. Socially
his popularity was not questioned, neither
was it confined to class, nor limited by
local circles.
He had been called by the people to
many positions of honor and trust, and
never having been found wanting in hum
bier offices he was called to accept Con-
gressional honors in 1888. and was elected
to the National House of Representatives
from the Eighth Congressional District.
Mr.. Greenhalge was elected Governor of
Massachusetts, in 1893, and again in 1894
and 1895; he had held the Office of president
ofthe Lowell Humane Society; president of
the History Club; president of the Peoples
Club; special justice of police court at
Lowell; mem Der OF Common Council 1868
and 1869; member of school board, Lowell,
1871 to 1873; Mayor of Lowell, 1880 and
1885, delegate to Republican convention.
1884; city solicitor OF Lowell, 1888; repre-
sentative to the Legislature, 1885, and
trustee of City Institution for Savings, of
Lowell, since 1876.
Mr.. Greenhalge was married in Lowell,
October 1. 1872. to Isabel, daughter of John
Nesmith Northumberland with Gov
ernor Andrew and Harriet (Mansur) Nes-
mith. OF this union were four children-
Nesmith (deceased), Frederic Brandie-
some. Harriet Nesmith and Richard Spaid-
ING GreenhaIpe
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

ton, with the possible exception of the
almond crop, which has been slightly
damaged, first from lack of rain and sub
sequently from frost. The apricot. prune,
peach and walnut interests are in first
class condition, and have suffered no dam
age whatever from rain or frost.
The last rain came in the nick of time,
and barring the frost. the usual yield will
result. The danger line from drought has
been passed, and the only fear is that frost
will follow the wet spell, in which event
the crop will fall third short. Very cold
tonight, with prospects of frost.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
SANTA ROSANS ANXIOUS.
Only Fruit That blossoms Early and
Ripeus Late Injured.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, March 4.-The
sharp frost of last night has caused con-
siderable apprehension among iruit-grow-
ers here. The actual damage cannot be
estimated yet, and many conflicting state.
ments from growers and shippers are
heard. 1t is we'll settled, however, that
there will he no apricot crop whatever this
year. AS very few apricots are grown in
this county of late years. this damage will
be very light.
Contradictory as it may appear, the early
fruit is untouched and only such fruit as
blossoms early and ripens late will be in
iured. Cherries are still in the bud and
are uninjured, while the peaches. which
ripen long after, but are already in full
bloom. are badly hurt, the loss being esli.
mated by J. H. Hunt of the Hunt Bros
Fruit Packing Company ii rs per cent OF
the crop. The damage to prunes and pears
will be light, and will probably result in
more good than harm in thinning out the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
Favorable outlook at Praeerriue.

PLACERVILLE. CAL. March 4.-Frost
in this section yesterday and to-day was
severe. The temperature this morning at
6 o'clock was "a degrees, but in the out
lying districts it was variable. Four hum
dred acres six miles south, two-thirds
peaches and one-third prunes and pears,
seems perfectly safe. Early peaches and
almonds in other districts are slightly
damaged,
Fruits are much in advance. owing to
the continued warmth of the past month
Owing to the location here in the foothills
crops are not advanced to the same degree
as in other parts of the State. The general
outlook is favorable.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
Good Prospects at Mana.

NAPA, CAL, March 4.-The prospects oil
the fruit crop in this valley are good. with
the exception of apricots and almonds
which fruitmen say are badly damaged b,
the frost of last Saturday night Th.
snow was more of benefit than other
wise.
None of the fruit was damaged by I.
On the contrary it is thought that it Wal
have a beneficial effect in retarding the
swelling OF buds, especially of grapes, anc
frosts. Cherries are locking we'll. They
have not advanced far enough to be mate.
rally affected by the frost. Feed in the
hills was little backward up to this last
storm, but it is coming on beautifully.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
ARIZONA PRosPECToE SHOT.
His Assaitant Supposed to Haze Been a
Renegade Indian.

Renegade indian.
PHOENIX, ARIz., March 4.-John Van
Hagan, prospector in the employ of John
Montgomery, was shot Monday near -Four
Peaks. sixty miles from Phoenix, by an un-
known person. supposed to be an Indian.
Van Hagan was sampling rock and had
one knee on the ground. The bullet
entered the knee and passed through the
thigh to the hip, where it lodged. He was
alone, but took his pocket-knife and tr led
to cut out the bullet, but failed. Van
Hagan fell over 20-foot cliff when shot.
His horse was fifty yards away, but he
reached the animal by crawling on the
ground. He then rode two miles and
reached Joe McHenry's camp. who brought
him on horseback to Phoenix. The dis
tance travelled occupied two days, and
they reached here this evening. Van
Hagan was placed in the Sisters Hospital.
He is very weak from loss of blood, and
was almost froze coming down. The
Indian is supposed to be Apache Kid or
some rowing renegade.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
WILL NOT ERECT 4 FENCE.

Popular Protest against IncGosf,g the
POsto6ice Grounds.
SAN JOSE, CAL, March 4.-Postmaster
Ryland has headed the protest of the
Board OF Trade against inclosing the post
office grounds with an iron fence, and has
asked the Postoffice Department to reject
the bids recently received for erecting the
same and to postpone the matter indefi-
nately. Ii was Postmaster Ryland's in
tention to have four-foot iron fence
erected around the grounds to keep the
public from trespassing on the premises.
but such roar arose from the people that
he has decided to vacate his original in
tention.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
Y,.sn and s,.,ter Orchardtsts Differ.

MARYSVILLE, CAL, March 4.-There
is quite difference of opinion among the
orchardists of Yuba and Sutter counties as
to the damage done the fruit crop in this
section, and it will be two or three days
before reliable estimate may be formed.
1t is believed, however, that the reach
crop has not suffered to any great extent,
and that cherries. French prunes and
pears are also comparatively uninjured.
The greatest damage has been done to the
almond crop and certain varieties of april
cots, and while some predict total loss
Others are inclined to believe that the
damage Is exaggerated.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05
THE NEWS OF SAN JOSE,
A One-HorSe Street Railroad
That Is in Danger of Losing
Its Franchise.
The Supervisors Will Demand the
Construction of a FirSt-Class
Electric Line.

SAN JOSE, CAL, March 4.-The matter
OF revoking the franc hise granted to K. H..
Quincy to conduct a street railway from
East San Jose along Alum Rock avenue
to Alum Rock Park. occupied the atten-
tion of the Board of Supervisors to-day.
There were quite number of interested
property owners along the road present,
and J. ]. Scribner, president of the COM
pany to whom Quincy recently turned
turned over the road, and John Center OF