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Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
Ocean City's Lex0vv brings Sur
prieee.

Ocean City's Lexow brings sur
prisee.
The investigation into Ocean City's
affairs is developing some surprises. 1t
is claimed that the friends of the present
administration were practically exempt
from taxation while the members of the
Taxpayer Association were taxed ex-
brilliantly.
The Hotel Strand, which recently sold
for $27, 900, was found to be assessed at
$4, 100. The Hotel Brighton, estimated
to be worth 100000, is assessed at
Sc, 1000. President Chester, of City
Council, pays taxes on an assessed valu-
alton of 81 500, but it is claimed that
his property is worth at least IS, 700
more. Councilman Headley's property
is assessed at 5000 and is said to be
worth four times that amount. The
property of Howard Thorn, reported to
be worth $4,000. is valued in the
assessors books at but $500. A valu-
alton o: but $3.50 is placed on the real
estate of Anderson Bourgeois, although
it is said to be worth $500.
The City Treasurer was examined and
testified that since the last hearing City
Clerk Champion had paid him $500.
The Taxpayers Association at re-
cent session claimed that Mr.. Champion
was depositing city funds in his personal
bank account. Checks were shown him
belonging to the city which bore his per-
sonal Endorsement and he was asked to
explain why he had failed to turn over
to the City Treasurer license money col
lected by him last June. Mr.. Champion
declined to answer the question by advice
of counsel. He was asked during the in
vestigation on Saturday why he had
paid the City Treasurer $500 and again
he declined to answer. Application will
now be made to Judge Ludlow for an
order compelling Mr.. Champion to
testify.
All the other facts in the investigation
will also be laid before Judge Ludlow
and he will be requested to charge the
April Grand Jury of Cape May County to
make an investigation. Ex-Judge Car
row, of Camden, representing the Tax
payers Association, claims that $50, 1000
has been spent by the municipal author
tiles, and that there are but few improve
ments to show where the money went
Taxes have been increased nearly so per
cent. and bills for large amounts have
been ordered paid at sessions of City
Council convened at Z O'Clock in the
morning. Many of the bills, it is also
charged, have not been accompanied by
the affidavits called for by the law.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won.
derful medical discovery Of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
md positively on Kidneys, liver and bowels,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try box
or q. G. G. to-day; 10, 25, 50 cents. Sold and
Gnaranteed ~ clre hy III druegists.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
severe snowstorm IN Colorado.

Topeka, Kan, April 4.-Reports re
ceived at railroad quarters show that
q severe snowstorm is raging in Colo
RADIO and Is coming this way. About
two inches of snow has fallen already.
A high wind is blowing, and snowplows
have been placed on all engines to
fight the drifts. The storm is most Sc
we're from Limon, Colo. westward, the
worst drifts occurring at Flagler and
Arribau. Telegraph wires in western
Kansas are generally prostrated.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06

Chicago. April 5.-John ID. Host. q
clerk in the postof1ice, was arrested
yesterday for stealing letters Host
not support his wife and two children
on his salary of $12 a week. and had
been pilfering the mails for three
months. 1t Is estimated by the de-
partment that Host has stolen at least
5000 letters during the past few
months.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06

The Sunday school classes of Mrs.
Preston Adams and Mr.. Harry johnson
gave the first strawberry festival of the
season on Friday evening. last, at the
home of the latter. 1t proved q great
success financially and otherwise. There
were sixty-five persons present.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
OH PoINT CoMpoRT ONLY.


The Sixth annual Convention of
the Atlantic County Christian En-
deavor Union was held in the Pres
byterian Church, Tuesday, about
forty being present from different
parts of the county. The forenoon
session was mostly devoted to bust
ness which included reports Of secre-
taries, appointment of committees.
etc. The afternoon meeting, hhich
is IN session as we go to press, was
devoted, principally, to addresses
relating to the general work Of the
organization.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06

New York, April 5.-The naval auxil-
iary board today is going over certain
vessels belonging to different lines.
with the object in view Of making Sc
lections for use as cruisers. 1t is ex-
pected that this work will be continued
until all the vessels have been care
fully examined as to their fitness. The
board yesterday purchased the follow
ing for auxiliary cruisers: Caracas
and Venezuela, Of the Red p line;
Kansas City, of the Savannah line;
Yorktown, jamestown and Princess
Ann, of the Old Dominion line; Ell Sol
and three others of the Morgan line.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
killed by Boiler Explosion.

Bellaire, O., April 5.-At the Wheel
ing Iron works. in Benwood, yesterday
a boiler eplosion killed David Garry,
Of Old Hundred, Va, fatally injured
Owen Tates, of Bellaire, O., and badly
scalded four others.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
Im,uaOrtelIes,

Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Risley have the
sympathy of the community in the death
OF their infant child which died on Friday
last and was buried on Monday.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
OLD POINT COMFORT, RICH
MOND, AND WASHINGTON.
Slx-Day Tour via pennsylvania
Railroad.


Railroad.
The last Of the present series of per-
onally-conducted tours to Old Point
Comfort, Richmond, and Washington
via the Pennsylvania Railroad will leave
New York and Philadelphia on Thursday,
April z.
Tickets, including transportation,
meals en- route in both directions, trans
fers of passengers and baggage, hotel ac-
commodations at Washington, Rich
mond, and Old Point Comfort, and car
riage ride about Richmond-in fact,
every necessary expense during entire time
absent-wiIl be sold at rate of $35. 90
from New York, Brooklyn, and Newark,
$34 90 from Trenton, $32 so from Pnila-
delphia, and proportionate rates from
other stations.
OLD POINT COMFORT ONLY.
Tickets to Old Point Comfort only, in
cluding one and three-fourths days
board at that place, and good to return
direct by regular trains within six days,
will be sold iu connection with this tour
at rate of $16 90 from New York; SIS 90
from Trenton; $l4 90 from Philadelphia,
and proportionate- rotes from other
points. At slight additional expense
tourists can extend the trip to Virginia
Beach, with accommodations at the
Princess Anne Hotel.
For itineraries and full information,
apply to ticket agents Tourist Agent,
1196 Broadway, New York or address
Geo. w. Boyd, Assistant General Pas
senger Agent, Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
Arcbbsshop \ Opposes Interventfon.

Rome. April. 5.-Archhishop Ireland
has cahied deprecating q formal Of
fer Of Intervention. and explaining that
the pope could only intervene success
fully by recognizing the Monroe doc
trine, which would be impolitic. A ru-
NOR is current here that Emperor WILL
lam first broached the idea Of papal
mediation. and was warmly seconded
by Austria.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
THE FLORIDA LIMITED.


1t is a magnificent solid vestibuled
train, carrying q club car, sleeper.
dining and observation cars. Its
schedule is the most convenient ever
in effect between Philadelphia and
the resorts Of Florida. Communicate
with John M. Beall, District Passen-
ger Agent, S2S Chestnut Street, Phila-
defphia, for further Information.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06

Master Sherwood Risley was given a
surprise party by a number of his young
friends on Tuesday evening last. The
evening was pleasantly spent playing
games and with music.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06
rowr, Topics

Mrs. G. Harrison Jenness entertained
the Authors Club on Monday. The full
membership was represented. There
were reading from Ben Hur.
Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-04-06

Quebec, April B.-Cardinal Tascher-
eau. who has been III for a long time.
4 much worse today He has receivsd
the last rites Of the church.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24
WORDS OF WISDOM.

There is no education like adversely.
-Disraeli.
The greatest remedy for anger is de-
lay.-Seneca.
Happiness cannot be bought at a
bargain counter.
There is only one real failure in life,
and that is the failure to be true to the
best one knows.
When you think you oughtn't, then
you want to; when you know you can't,
then you've got to.-New York Press.
Evil thoughts swarm only in unoc-
cupied minds. Be busy about noble
things, if you would be saved from the
ignoble.
No matter what his rank or position
may be, the lover of booksis the richest
and happiest OF the children of men.
-Langford.
It's pretty hard for some people to
distinguish between what they think
they know and what they know they
think. Puck.
"God bless you" is the old-fashioned
summing up of sincere affection, with
out the least smirk Of stupid civility.
George Eliot.
The world is full of men with no
other possession than experience, who
would be glad to sell it for less than
they paid for it.-Puck.
Minds of great men may run in the
same channel, but somehow the chan
mel seems never to become over.
crowded.-Philadelphia Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

An indianapolis paper states that
an Investigation in that city has shown
that the prevailing epidemic OF diph-
liberia among school children has been
spread through the distribution Of
pencils and penholders in the schools
Under the system in vogue each child
is required to take its pencils and
pens to the teachers desk in the after
noon. They are placed in a box TO-
gether, and the next morning are re-
distributed. Each child may thus
have a different pencil and penholder
each day, and as children often hold
them in their mouths, the doctors say
the disease is thus communicated.
Hereafter all pencils and penholders
will be disinfected each afternoon. q.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24
A Hear's tending.

"How many volumes can man read
in the course Of a year," was the ques.
ton recently put by Washington
Star reporter to gentleman whose
time is largely employed as book re-
viewer ON one of the leading maga-
zines.
'Well," said the gentleman, point
ing to row of books, ''there is col
lected edition of the English poets.
The work only comes down to Cowper,
who died in 1900, but it comprises
twenty-one volumes royal Svo, double
column, small type. Each volume
averages 700pages. This gives total
of IA, 700 pages, or 30, 400 columns.
Now it takes-I have made the ex-
periment-four minutes to read
column of such matter with fair atten-
ton. Here, then, is a good years
work in reading over, only once, care.
fully, selection from the English
poets.
"The amount of reading, however,
which a student can get through in
given time hardly admits of being
measured. The rate of reading varies
with the interest one takes in the sub.
iect matter of book. In other words,
page of Kant's "Critique of Pure
Reason" requires proportionally more
thorough attention than the latest work
Of fiction. Still, just to have some
thing to go by, it will be found pretty
accurate to make calculation like
this: Suppose man to be able to
read eight hours day. No one can
really give his receptive or critical at
tention to printed matter for eight
hours regularly every day. But take
eight hours as the outside possibility.
Thirty pages, Svo, is an average hours
reading, taking one book with another.
This would make 240 pages per day,
1850 per week, and 1880 pages in
the year. Taking the average thick
ness of an Svo volume as 400 pages
only, the quantity of reading matter
which an intelligent student can get
over in year is no raore than an
amount equal to about 220 volumes
Svo. OF course this is merely me-
chauical computation by which Iwould
not pretend to gauge the reading ca
pacity of the average student. But it
may be interesting to know that the
merely mechanical limit of study is
somo 220 volumes Svo per annum."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

Is the English language destined to
become universal? This question is
suggested by the marvellous growth
which has characterized the language
since the beginning of the present
century. While there were only some
21,O00,000 people who spoke the
English language at the beginning Of
the century, there are now some $50,
100000. These English-speakin2
people are not restricted to Greai
Britain and America, but are scattered
about over the entire globe. AS com.
pared with other languages, the
growth of our mother tongue is all the
more significant At the beginning OF
tfe century the worlds most popular
language was French, which was spol..
en- by 100000 people. AS to tho
others, German was spoken by 80,
1000 people, Russian by 10000, 900,
Spanish by 27OOO,OOO English bJ
100000 900 and italian by 10000, 900,
At the present time English is the
language of 13O, 900, 900 people, Rus.
sian of 75,OO0,O0O German of TO-.
600, 200, French of 45, 900, 900, Spanish
of $4,000, 900 and italian of 30, 900,
900. According to these figures the
English language has mounted during
the present century from the fifth
place to the first, and is to-day spoken
by nearly five times as many people a.
spoke It in 1900. While the various
other languages have made some
progress during this period, they can.
not begin to compare in point o.
~rowth with the English.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

Report comes to the New York Tri.
bune on excellent authority that
there are hundreds of men in the
Klondike region who will not worl;
and earn living when they have a
chance, but persist in remaining idle
and awaiting relief from the Govern
ment. They are the fellows who went
up there with the deliberate expecta-
tion of being relieved and brought
back at the expense of the honest and
Industrious taxpayers of the Nation.
Probably it will be well to fetch them
back in chain-gang, and set them at
work for year after getting here, to
pay for their food and expectation.
They might find breaking stone on
the highways little different from
picking up nuggets on the Yukon"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

Those individuals who take pleasure
in statistics of the elongated kind will
be pleased TO know that Lord Kelvin
calculates that the number of mole
cules in cubic inch of any gas is
100, 600, 900, 900, 900, 900, ,OOO,oO He
also declares that in each of these
molecules there are several atoms
moving among themselves at the rate
Of seventy miles a minute. If any
man ought to know all this it is Lord
Kelvin. But is he quite sure of the
number OF these little molecular fel-
lows to within, say, a million?
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

Persons can usually tell how q
thing will feel by looking at it; the
smell often reveals what the taste will
be like, and sound sometimes suggests
the appearance. Perhaps this all goes
to prove that certain nerves are com
mon to all the senses; perhaps it
doesn't. Possibly the explanation
may be found in prior knowledge and
a skill of comparison coupled with a
little imagination. A German profes-
sor has found out that certain musi-
cal sounds produce on the eyes of the
blind certain ideas of color; high,
soft note producing pink; high, loud
note, violet; o low soft note, red, and
q low, loud note, indigo, etc. Quality
and quantity of tone are always repre-
sented by opposite sides of the pris-
matte disk. This is very wonderful
and may lead to astonishing results.
1t may be found that certain colors
give to the deaf Impressions. of musi.
cal sounds. Then one might sit be.
fore a ribbon of variegated colors run
between two lywheels and enjoy al
the fascinating emotions produced by
the grand opera.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

Mrs. John Strachan has proved that
she can navigate a vessel. In Sydney,
Australia, she is known as "Queen of
the Seas for the skill with which she
brought her husbands vessel into
port when he and all the crew were
laid low with virulent fever. But
despite her honorary title, Mrs.
Strachan may not win the less forid,
more practical one of "Second Officer. %
She has applied for permission to
take the examination for a mate's s
license, but it was refused her, al
though it is acknowledged that she
knows more about seamanship than
three-fourths of the candidates who
are allowed to obtain licenses.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24
Good and Cheap Roads.

The interesting fact was reported by
Abbeville that with road machines and
convict labor the cost of improving the
roads, even in that hilly and clayey
county, was only from So to Sc per
mile. Darlington, which employs like
machines and labor, reported the cost
OF the conYio. force last year at twenty
five cents day per convict, and only
fifteen cents this year. On sthe basis
OF "cost" exhibited in these counties it
ought to be practicable certainly for
any county to make good roads that
wants them. Anderson paid for Its
machines" which are operated by
convict labor, by means of "a mill
levy" with sandy soil; operates ga road
machine" with convict labor and has
found the system satisfactory. The
'old system" still obtains in Chester
County, where ''the soil is red and the
county hilly," but systematic work
with the chain gangs has made the
roads much BETTER" and the value Of
property, it is said, has been sen
HANGED by virtue of these improve
ments." Darlington makes a special
report, which is of great interest. The
sandy roads in that county have been
improved" by the plan of spreading
layer of clay on their surface. A
layer of 'six inches in depth" has
made ''frm, hard roadway" where
there was soft, sandy one before,
which, when properly drained, has
given satisfaction. Charleston News
and Courier.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

A Union Pacific engineer has
fashion of making unique pocket pieces
for his friends. He runs passenger
engine west, and when oiling, previous
to run, he drops nickel fve-cent
piece into the brass oilcup on the
crosshead of the piston rod. His run
is 800 miles. When he reaches his
destination he unscrews the top of the
oilcup and takes the nickel out. 1t
has been metamorphosed into curl.
Gus little button with an evenly turned
rim, within which, on one side, is the
countersunk head of Liberty divested
of her stars, and on the other side the
V and the wreath. The edge of the
crown is as perfect as if it had been
pounded on an anvil by an expert sill
versmith.
The perfection Of this is due to the
even vibration the coin has been sub.
iected to. The motion of the piston
is horizontal, and it travels forty eight
inches, back and forth, with every
revolution of the wheels. The interior
of the oilcup is round, and the edges
Of the nickel as it travels back and
forth and the oil striking the sides Of
the cup, are turned over and pounded
into perfect roundness. Sometime q
nickel is left in the cup during the
round trip, or 600 miles. When taken
out it is a nickel bullet, q perfect
polished sphere. Who discovered this
unique method of turning the edges
of nickel is not known but many en-.
gineers know of it.-Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24
Owl Attacks Two Men.

Tt was an owl that caused the great.
est recent excitement in Waldoboro.
unless the, Opinions correspondent al,
lows himself to exaggerate. The bird
first swooped down on the head of Mr..
Moses Newbert, lacerating his head
and face severely, and making off with
Mr.. Newbert's hat, which was found
few days afterward back of Mr.. Alden
Burnheimer's barn. He afterward at.
tackled Mr.. Elmus Shuman in the same
manner, nearly knocking him over.
Mr.. Shuman in his excitement made a
grab and caught the wise old owl by
The legs. He has him now in close
confinement. In the fracas Mr.. Shu.
mans face was somewhat mangled.
Lewiston (Me.l Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

hsh new enterprises; to increase the
value of every acre of good land; to
set the debtor free by enabling him to
pay his debts: to aid the growth of
moral and religious sentiment in the
rural districts by making smooth the
road to church, and to confer upon
future generations the great boon of
general education by removing the
chief obstacles to attendance at school
bad roads and poverty, are the aims
of the Florida Good Roads Associa-
tiOO
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

Seal hunting in its legitimate form
upon land is brutal beyond other in.
dustries because it depends for suc-
cess upon qualities that we admire in
animals, tractability and tameness.
Attached to the herd there is a contin.
gent of youthful bachelor" seals.
Their celibacy is enforced by the grufi
old dogs that keep all the love. making
to themselves. 1t is the unfortunate
bachelors that are doomed to lose life
as well as love. They are not needed
in the propagation of the species. The
world will not miss them dead, and
women desire their furs. Aleut In
dians, who share the islands with the
seals, separate few bachelors from
the herd and drive them up the hills,
inland. The docile creatures flop
painfully along-no movement is as
awkward as the progress of seal out
of water-proceeding by short rushes
and long pauses at the rate of about
half mile an hour. In six hours they
reach secluded "killing ground. 1.-THE
Indians separate them into groups,
select the finest animals and beat them
to death with clubs-taking care not
to break the furs, lest they be unac-
acceptable upon Fifth avenue. Illus.
trated American.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24

A Russian bacteriologist, who has
made speciality of studying the in.
tiuence of coffee in destroying disease
germs, is reported as having come to
the conclusion that, though coffee is
to some degree disinfectant, the pro-
perty in question really depends not
upon the active principle of coffee, OF
caffein, which it contains, but upon
the substances developed in the roast
ing Of the berry. 1t was found that
the various substitutes for coffee are
also germicides, and, like it, develop
disinfectant properties during the
roasting process. Thus watery in
fusion of either coffee or its substitutes
was found to be capable of killing the
germs of cholera within few hours,
and of typhoid fever within some
what longer time. The conclusion
should not, however, be drawn from
these statements that either coffee or
its substitutes are to be considered of
value on account of their slight an
tiseptic properties, as too long time
is required for the destruction of germs
by them.-New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1898-02-24
THE LAST SUMMONS.

would not die in springtime,
When nature first awakes--
When men get out their wheelbarrows,
And spades, and hoes, and rakes,
And twist their backs, and plant their
seeds,
And wait to hear them sprout,
While yet they stone their neiGhbors' hens
That come to scratch them out.
l would not die in summer,
When everything is ripe,
And fallen man is writhing
In raw cucumber's grippe:
When baseball cranks are talking,
And all the landscape DER
Is sprinkled thick with flowers
And garden sass" galore.