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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-03-21

Die for him % be at the place alleg.
ed at the time specined. The case
occupied all Tuesday and was thor
oughiy tried The jury evidently
disbelieved Fink and came to the
conclusion that he did have time
to go from the place where the Of
fence was committed to his work on
the railroad at Handsome Eddy, as
was testified to, and that his wit.
nesses we're mistaken as to the pre-
else time of his arrival there for
they found him guilty Of an assault
on the prosecutrix.
Lafayette Rowland VS.. Paul scha-
lach. Ejectment. Verdict for
plaintiff for land described.
Estate Of Valentine Stang Order
of sale of real estate.
Resignation of Geo. e. Horton
collector Of taxes Of Milford bor-
ough, filed and Dunham Gregory
appointed.
Com. vs. Fred Davis Indictment,
larceny, returned no bill Defend
ant discharged.
Com. vs.. Charles Person. Indict
ment, violation Of election laws,
giving away liquor. No bill,
CountD for caats
Grand jury approve report of
viewers on bridge in Lackawaxen
near Jason Cortright's.
Com. VS.. Maurice Youngs In
dictment, assault and battery, Henry
OFT prosecutor. The affair occurred
at dance in Delaware township
last summer and according to the
evidence was a tussle largely the
result Of too much tired eye. The
jury evidently thought both parties
were in fault for the verdict was
prosecutor to pay a and defendant
% of the cost.
Com. VS.. George Van Why. Eight
indictments, charging Larceny and
burglary A true bill in each case.
Continued to next term.
James Ryder VS.. Thomas Arm
strong & Co. Appeal by defendant
from Judgment of justice Of the
peace. The plaintiff claimed wages
for working over time and on Sun
days. Judgment for plaintiff $t7. 81.
Sheriff Acknowledges deeds to
Alice G. Drake for land in Lacka-
waxen sold as the property of Will
helmina Steinmetz, consideration
$3.50, to NJ B. McCarty for land in
Dingman sold as the property of
Auton Ludwig, consideration $sO5.
c. Herman appointed overseer
of poor of Milford township to fiji
vacancy occasioned by refusal of
Geo. Bosler to qualify.
Com. VS.. Hiram Miller and Jerry
Labar. Nolle prosequi allowed by
leave of court.
Com. VS.. William Fink. Reasons
for 2 new trial filed. Defendant
gave bond in $500 with E, Wander.
mark and William Koch as sureties
for his appearance.
Order releasing w B. Schette
and security from liability on bond
as administrator.
D. V. R. R. Co. VS.. Milford and
Dingman R. R. Co. Continued.
Forest Lake association VS.. super
visors of Lackawaxen. Continued
for case stated to be submitted to
court.
Carhuff VS.. Hornbeck. Rule to
show cause. Papers taken by court,
Estate of Charles Wolf. Geo. r.
Bull appointed auditor.
Estate of Jacob Kleinhans, decd.
Geo. R. Bull appointed auditor.
The frigidity of the court room
was generally commented on during
the session of court this week and
the discomfort was pronounced,
With o thermometer several feel
above the floor registering 50 de.
grees the temperature in the chairs
was Of an overcoat degree.
The grand jury finished its labor
Thursday morning, while most oi
the traverse jurors we're discharged
Wednesday.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-03-21
Cake and Candy sale.

There will be sale Of cake and
candy in the Church of the Good
Shepherd Saturday afternoon, Mar
20, from 2 to 4.S0.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-03-21

Senator Penrose tells me that he
will make an earnest effort to have
the Chinese exclusion bill, which has
been perfected in his committee,
made the regular order Of business,
following the disposal Of the 'anti-
anarchist biIr' otherwise known as
"a bill for the protection Of the presi-
dent" The wishes Of the senator
from Pennsylvania are opposed, how
ever, by Senator Proctor, whose com
mittee is prepared to report the oleo-
margarine bill.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-03-21

The Cuban reciprocity bin is an
other measure which viii occupy
considerable time IN the senate unless
present signs fail. Senator Perkins
assures me that the senate viii defeat
it and Senator Rawiins and other
democratic senators, while unwilling
to positively announee their course
in advance, have given me to under
stand that they DO not regard the
measure with favor Senator Lodge,
on the other hand, Is quite positive
that II win pass as are Senator Pen-
rose and numerous others. "Ths
republican SENATORS viii heartily
soppori ihe administration" said ths
latter when asked him what were
the prospects ~ the hisl III the senate.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-03-21

Senator Cullom has not deviated
from his opinions in regard to recip-
rocity. "I am still Of the opinion
that from a political standpoint as
well as on economic grounds, we
should at least make a beginning in
the way Of reciprocity at this session
of congress" said the senator when
] inquired the status of the treaties
in his committee on Saturday. "My
committee will take up the treaties
next week and all of the items will
receive the most careful considera-
ton. OF course, until such an exam
ination has been made it is impossi-
bic to predict the outcome but feel
confident that we viii be able to re-
port to the senate some treaties
worthy Of support" AS to the like
lihood Of securing senatorial action
of any Of the treaties at this session
Mr.. Cullum was not communicative
but he said the work Of his commit
tee would be none the less careful
and painstaking than if immediate
action by the senate was assured.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-03-21

Senator Hale told the newspaper
men on Thursday that he thought
congress would adjourn about the
tenth Of June and as the senator from
Maine is a member Of both the COM
mittee on appropriations and Of the
steering committee ne probably
knows. Such early Adjournment
would mean, however, that many
important questions would go over
until the short session. With the
anti-anarchy bill, the anti-oleomar-
garine bill, the Chinese exclusion bill
and the various appropriation bills
still to be considered, there will not
be much time left for other business.
Senator Morgan still hopes to secure
action on the Hepburn canal bill and
told me last week that he believed
it would pass. Senator Hanna, how
ever, is opposed to it and still favors
further consideration of the Panama
route but he has abandoned his adj
vocaey of the Darien route. Mr.
Hanna does not hesitate to show his
anger at the attempt Of the senator
from Alabama to rush through his
favorite bin and has announced his
intention of making a vigorous fight
for the Sp0oner amendment which
provides that If the department Of
justice decides that clear title can
be conveyed by the Panama company
and the Colombian government the
president shall be authorized TO pur-
chase the French eompany's proper
ty at the price named, $40, 900, 600.
Senator Allison, as chairman Of the
committee on appropriations, has
shown slight disposition 20 question
the advisabiIity Of appropriating so
mueh money 10 be spent outside OF
the United States and there are those
who say that Mr.. Allison may pre-
sent serious opposition If the question
Ofa route is decided.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

he said, in his kir dly way:
Jack, this is a beautiful spot
Saluting, the weatherbeaten salt replied:
AYE, aye, sir. And it'll be still finer,
your honor, when some more of our good
admirals gets planted here
A young officer at San Francisco had
been ordered to the Philippines. According
to a western paper, he received the follow
ing telegram from the War department at
Washington:
"You can go to New York and sail on
transport that goes by Suez.'
The officer replied: would prefer to
cross Pacific direct"
Then the department telegraphed him
again: Transport will make good time;
has sixty women school teachers on board"
The young lieutenant answered: Save
me a berth on transport"
The late Senator Allen G. Thurman OF
Ohio was by no means an abstemious man.
Like a sailor, he enjoyed his grog, and
though he was regular in his rotations he
seldom passed the line Of perfect sobriety.
Once upon a time his wife, leaving for a
visit to friends, eXaCted from the judge Il
promise that he would be a "teetotaler"
during her absence. On the day of Mrs.
Humans return the judge stopped in the
dining room before going to welcome her
to take a drop of that from which he had
abstained during her absence, While In
the act of pouring whisky into his glass he
heard Mrs. Thurman pattering down the
stairs. Quickly putting his left hand, in
which he held the glass, behind him, with
his right hand extended he said: I'm GLAD
to see you home, my dear"
ALLAN, what have you behind you?" she
asked.
Whisky, my dear"
oh, Allan, don't you remember last year,
when you were stamping the state, you did
not take a drop, and you were never so well
in your life?"
YES, my dear, I remember, but we lost
the state"
The dim and misty past has been re-
lieved of another anecdote concerning
James O'Neill which is worth the space
1t seems O'Neill was playing Romeo t.
Adelaide Nelson's Juliet one time at Nc.
Vicker's in Chicago, 1t was the woman
custom in the final act, when she bend.
over Romeo's body, to kiss the empty al
instead Of Romeo himself. Once Mr.. O'Neil
decided to change this little scene. A
Juliet leaned over for the final situatio
he let his chin sink with a long-draw
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

velopment of adipCse tissue. Everybody
who rode with him liked him. Like many
other conductors on the line, Fatty" had
been greatly annoyed by men who would
get on his car and tender him a $40 note
from which to deduct the fare. OF course,
the conductor could not make the change
and the man got his ride free. At last,
however, Fatty" determined that he would
teach at least one of these a lesson. So
one morning before starting out on his run
he went to the cashier and got from him
so in pennies. A few days later a man
bearded the car and handed FATTY a 80
note. Fatty" spoke not a word, but went
straight to the corner Of the ear, where he
had deposited the bag containing the pens
MES and, abstracting five Of them, banded
the balance to the passenger.
The latter protested that he did net want
that kind of change, but Fatty insisted
that he could not do any better and the
passenger accepted the bulky package with
the best grace he could under the circum>
stances. Fatty felt good al day over
what he had done and after his daJ $ work
he was recounting to some f his col
leagues at the conductors room at the barn
how he had gotten ahead of the obnoxious
passenger.
All of a sudden the cashier called out:
Fatty did you turn in this so note?'
YES" was the reply.
"Well, you will have to make it good, u
said the cashier; its a counterfeit
.
Naval reserves are not popular vi h The
regular sCamcn in the United sta Is navy
PerhaTs the dislike the regulars bear towart
the fresh water sailors" as the reserves
are called, will account for this story thu
is being told on board many naval ships:
During the Spanish war one Of the small
coast patrol beats had aboard a numb r o
the naval militia. One of them was sta
toned as a lookout in the bow of the yes
sci Carefully he had learned port iron
starbcard and to know that as lockout h
must report all lights when seen. The YES
sci was approaching the entrance Ct a har
Dor. The man had been at his post hal
an hour when he saw a light. CAREFUL
noting its position. he bawled out to IN
officer On the bridge:
RCD light On port bow, SIR
A right" came the lieutenant, r
!, spCnse,
A few minutes passed, when ano.t &
Eight appeared. The reserve man was be
oming anxious.
, Another light on the starboard bow. sir
+, All right" answered the officer aim
Suddenly a steamer appeared dead ahca
showing its saloon lights and the red az
5 green side lights. The lookout Was no
10 rushed upon the bridge. Lieutenant"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

sigh and then suddenly threw hack his
head in plain view of the audience. That
once Miss Nelson kissed him, but as the
curtain went down she sprang up. How
could you?' she cried.
How could l WHAT" asked Mr.. O'Neill.
How how -" she hesitated. How
could Romeo throw back his head after he
was dead?"
Miss Nelson the actor said sclemnly,
your Juliet was the cause of it. 1t would
make anyone come back to life"
A story is told of a canny Scot who dealt
in old horses, alternating his spells of
labor with heavy spreos. During the period
of depression which followed each OVerin-
diligence John habitually took to bed and
there diligently studied the family bible,
During one of these fits of attempted refor-
nation his condition prompted his wife to
call in Rev. Mr.. Wallace, the parish min
lister, who at the time happened to be pass
ing.
"Oh, Master Wallace, come in and see
cor John; he's rale bad"
What's wrang wi him?"
Hes feart to meet his Maker, - said
Mrs. John.
Quick as fire came the crushing reply:
"Humph! Tellm he medina be feart for
that; he'll never seem"
Captain Thomas B.xby, under whom Sam
uel L. Clemens MARK Twain served as
pilot and engineer on the old Mississippi
river boat Swallow, has given a New Or
leans paper the following description Of
the engine of Swallow: The craft was a lit
tie, shaky affair, which piled between st.
Louis and Cairo. 1t had a stern wheel, a
place for freight and passengers, a pilot
house and a place on what may be called the
pilot deck for the engine. That engine
vent aboard when ii was needed and only
then. 1t burned no wood or coal, but ate
a powerful sight Of grass. It was a large
gray mule named Jerry, which worked a
treadmill that propelled the boat. m
Clemens was chief engineer and pilot, He
had a system Of signals which was effective
and ingenious. BY pulling a cord he could
raise a head Of cabbage just out Of reach OF
the mule. The engine would start and
begin to walk after it and the boat fOated
majestically up or down the river, as tn
case might be. Without desiring to be per.
sonal, | will say that Jerry was one Of TIT
most intelligent animals l ever met. Hi
voice was more Of the order of a foghorI
than a whistle, being too much Of a bari
tone for the latter, When Samuel wantet
to whistle for a landing he just hit Jerr
with a stick"
One of the former street car conductor
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20
A Painful Suggestion

Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Judge-In
view of the fact that the defendant, a fed
eral official, intends TO make a stubborn
fight for an acquittal and that it seems
quite impossible to secure "A verdict against
him in this court, | have determined to
send him to be tried in the civil courts Of
Cuba.
The Defendants Counsel Cexcitedly)--
Wait, your honor, wait. We plead guilty,
your honor, guilty, without any reserya-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20
A Troublesome Trio

Chicago News: The most troublesome
member of my flock" said the parson. us
"A young woman who wants a husband"
MY most troublesome client" said the
lawyer, lis a middle-agod woman who wants
a divorce"
IN most troublesome patient | have"
said the physician, lis a s~pinster Of I'M
certain age who doesn't know what she
wants"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

The o'd-timc notion hat children are to
be seen and not heard IS doubtless an eX-
cellent theory under some circumstances
especially when applied to discipline, hut
it is none the less responsible for much OF
the so-called hashfu moss Chat exists just
because parents fail to Ir',.l' their chill
dren with prop r intercourse with child en-
Of their own aE' at IN time when II IS
most necessary, instead keeping them
quietly in the company Of their elders 10
avoid their undesirable association with
other children.
The very fact that the "awkwacd age"
exists is proof Of this lack, ard in their cf-
fort to overcome this trying period many
parents have hit upon a truth that has re
founded to the benefit Cf their younger
children, that is, the fact that the begin
ming Of their social education should date
from the beginning of their desire for com
partnership.
To a~cquaint these little people with each
other and familiarize them with each 9th
er's company and the customs and rules
that attend it is now the popular plan and
is commenced at so early an age that It
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

promises to secure to them a familiarity
with such things that must become second
nature to them by the time they are half
grown and relieve them, in a measure AT
least, of the additional awkwardness that
embarra smcnt lends to the rapidly grow
ing body.
Zone at Dancing school.
OF all the institutions employed in the
social education of the child there is prob
ably none as elfectual in overcoming his
timidity and establishing his elf-contdence
as the dancing class and dancing school.
Here, with many others of his own age,
even the most t.mid, while sharing in the
common CXcrCi g, soon tOrgetS himself In
The rhythm Of the music and the various
figures that call the motive powers into the
most harmonious action and extracts from
the exercise and compan. onShlp n most
wholesome pleasure. Associations under
such circumstances can but be refining.
Dancing has been truly called an cduca-
tional pleasure, for owing TO it's unlimited
variety of combination a continued interest
is preserved through which the child for
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

ness of that ~awkwagdness that is fire.
quently the beginning of a sClf-conscious-
ness that, becoming habitual is forever a
detriment to his personality, is one of the
trying problems that all guardians of chill
dren have to consider. To accomplish this
end they begin at a very early age giving
all sorts of advantages alleged to secure
accomplishments generally considered de-
sirable in children, and especially valuable
to young men and women,
Cure for EnshfulneSS
But while all of this is being done there
is another side of the child that, though
considered in a way, frequently never ma
lures for want of proper training to de-
velop it, that is his social side, and many
a parent has suffered the keenest humilia
ton when some small son or daughter, q
paragon of polite accomplishment when
in the family circle, or even in an assem-
bly, of grown people, is thrown into the
most ignominious confusion, literally forget
ting everything he knows, at the very sight
Of some small stranger of his own age who
has been sent for an hours play with him.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

gets himself and attains that grace OF
movement ana manner that only accompa-
MES mental ease. 1t is the embodiment OF
that quality of hilarity and recreation that
the normal child most enjoys, action, sub
ducd with courtesy and gcntlcncss that is
ideal discipline.
1t gives to the boy or girl Il firm walk
and good carriage, sustained by a CORE
spending composuro.
Nor Is this physical culture the only
benefit, for while he is attaining this
grace of bearing from an early beginning
and association with companions of his own
age, under circumstances where genteel de-
pertinent is constantly emphasized, he Is
unooHsciously acquiring an easy, graceful
personality that subsequent association or
circumstances, no matter how adverse, can
never eradicate.
With such preliminary advantages, the
half grown boy and girl and all those VINO
are associated with them are spared much
and to the future men and women are Sc
cured the self-coufdence that will enable
them to hold Their own in society whose
members are otherwise their equals.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

T~1OW to secure their children that
self-possession and self-confden2e
1 so essential to the successful
ISSSA8I member Of society is one of the
- questions to which every parent
gives more or less earnest thought, for
after all there are few that ID not indulge
in an occasional day dream of come future
time when their sons shall be strong, manly
men and their daughters gracious, grace
full women, equipped with the personal
qualifications to fill that exalted position in
life parental ambition sets as the gal Of
its children, and few parents count any
sacrifice too great or anything as a dis
couragemcnt to attain this ambition un Il
they take into account these future men
and women themselves. SO many things
are 10 be considered in the shaping of these
characters, so much to instill, to counter
act and overcome in securing the strong
bodies that the mental and moral qualifca-
lions are to complete.
How to tide the boy or girl over that
awkward age" so trying for all con
cerned, and spare the painful conscious
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

N'AlNbr put N'hl ''A '''
almost ashore; there's a big town right
ahead and we're running in,o a blamed
dTugstore!"
Colonel john +. Finerty was one of the
staff of the Chicago Tribune in the old
days, and was doubtless a participant In
the following incident which he relates:
Way back in the merry old days, when
Joe Medil ran the Tribune as chief, when
his brother, Sam, was managing editor;
Fred Hall, city editor; Todd Cowles, sport
ing editor, Fatty" MeaCham, night edl-
tor; and George Percy English, alas
johnny general ut lity man, the thirsty,
but temperate souls of the force were sup
piled with ice water from a big tank some
where near the roof, 1t was hot summer
time and the call upon the tank was some
thing astonishing.
One day Joe Medill came into Sans
room, armed with an ear trumpet and
shouted in his ear, Say, Sam, where did
you get that sulphur water that's in the
tank?"
Sulphur water!" echoed Sam. THAT
isn't sulphur wateT-it comes from the
lake!"
THE ID it does" remarked Joe. ut
smells as if was drawn out Of Healy's
slough! Eth? Ell? Sam?
"Well, now you speak of it," answered
Sam, at the top Of his voice, II was sick
as the devil last night. All of the force
are sick, more or less, and even Fred Hall
has quit smoking his corn cob and taken
to emetics. What the deuce can it al
mean?"
I'm go and investigate volunteered
Todd Cowles.
Wen form a committee of the whole,
cried George T.. Upton, who looked vel!
unsettled, and so all proceeded to th,
tank.
Fatty" Meacham. assisted by the stall
, wart Ed" Markham, lifted the lid Of tn,
reservoir" and a stencil sufficient to knocl
down a regiment Of cavalry issued there
{ from.
= Bring a light" cried Sam.
, The light was brought and revealed abou
a dozen dead rats floating in the water
Tableaux!
a week was given the sufferers to clea
themselves out.
r Q
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

Of Washington was known as Fatty" be-
cause Of his tendency to an abnormal de-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

Chairman Cooper Of the house committee
On insular affairs is a lawyer. lie is fire.
q%uently called upon by constituents to de-
fcnd them in court when at his home in
Wisconsin, relates the Washington Post. A
voter came to him last summer and asked
him to 90 to court for him in an assault
case. The other man was badly beaten.
The complainant explained that the de-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

DMIRAL SCHLEY was strolling
around the picturesque Naval
cemetery at Annapolis the other
day, reports the New York Times.
Happening to meet an old sailor,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20

yelled, put your helm hard over: w-'re
almost ashore; there's a big town right
ahead and we're running in,o a blamed
dTugstore!'
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1902-11-27
PARTIDO FEDERAL AMERICANA
MANIFESTO DE PRoTEsTA

AL PUEBLO DE PUERTO Rico LA NAcrkN
AMERICANA;
The Iola register., 1902-02-28

WANTED tbushel of sweet corn for
seed j. I'll. ODELL, Box 10, lola.
The Iola register., 1902-02-28
School Fund GETS S2.6g9. 81.

According to the semi-annual appor-
tionment of the state school fund,
which has just been completed by the
clerical force in State superintendent
Nelson's Office, the amount to be ap-
portioned at this time is 30 cents per
capita, one cent more than last Feb
ruary. This one cen: makes a differ
ence of more than $1,000 in the total
amount.
The total school population this
year is 503, 1853, as against sos, ,S54 a
year ago. The amount to be distri-
buted at this apportionment is $780,
545,57, while last year it was over three
thousand dollars less, 1913, 366.S0. The
school population aud amount appor-
toned to the neighborlng counties are
as follows: