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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-04-25

Homer Sarvis. tried in the Or
ange county courts for the murder
of Frank Henderson eight years
ago, was convicted Of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to stats
prison for life.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-04-25
pneumonia IS Robbed Oi lis Torors.

By Foley's Honey and Tar. It
stops the racking cough and heals
and strengthens the lungs. If tax
en- in time it will prevent an attack
Of pneumonia. Refuse substitutes.
Sold at Armstrong; drug store.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-04-25
WlLLARD'S HOTEL.

A famous hotelry, remarkable Tor its
historical associations and long-sustained
popularity, Recently renovated, repainted
and partially refurnished.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-04-25
A Bad Breatl1

A Bad Breath
A bad breath means a bad
stomach, a bad digestion, q
bad liver. Ayers Pills are
liver pills. They cure con-
stipation, biliousness, dys-
pepsia, sick headache.
use. Al druggists
I Want your moustnche OF beard o beautiful
i brown or rich biark7 Thcn use
| BUCKINGHAM'S DYE @bifsAEssrs
90 crs o. osvsest' On q. p "a, Co.. H,,auA, 40.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-04-25

Hackettstown, N. j., which has
been dry" town for one year, last
week at the election changed to
wet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

An lola couple, married last August
have just sent in the returns.
In the Topeka campaign beer seemed to
be a better vote getter than prayer.
Pleasant Hill. Dickinson county. is being
made unpleasant by chicken thieves.
A hardy FL Dorado tomato plant is still
blooming and bearing regardless of Jack
Frost
A Leavenworth man visiting at Spokane
has contracted the appendicitis, pleurisy
and typhoid fever.
There are too many hot things hap
pening at Ell Dorado. The town wants a
cold storage plant
A Columbus colored manufacturing home
from church stopped at a beer party and
had his neck cracked.
Neodesha is getting metropolitan rapidly
Both the Register and Sun have started
creditable daily editions.P
The whisky at Aliceville must be very
confusing when it causes a hunter to kill
steer for a jack rabbit.
A strange child was found on the
Rushes porch at Ell Dorado. The babe
will probably be called Moses.
For the first time in IA years Burton
gave a Republican victory. It's excuse is
not bulletined along with the returns.
Recently a Wellington man with 81 800
married Texas widow. The last nail
brought an appeal to his friends for finan-
cial assistance.
A rich Anthony citizen of 90 summers
advertises for a middle aged widow or
maiden lady as a housekeeper, with
view to matrimony.
An Ottawa man bet his children's burro
on the election and lost. When the win
ner went to collect he was puzzled for a
time which to lead away.
The Abilene Reflector says: Thomas
T. Kelly is indicated" Some people have
such queer ideas of vindication. Mr. Kelly
ran COO behind the ticket in his home
county.
Rain interfered one evening this week
with a Baptist revival at Leavenworth
This viii go far towards washing out the
impression that water has always been
the Baptists long suit.
A Chart able citizen climbed to the pin
naele of the Emporia fountain the other
night and placed a mother hubbard" on
the naked. bronze cupid. It's a pity that
people who worry over little things
haven't something big to trouble them
For seven years a certain Parsons wo-
man has been compelled to sit at the
table. silent as a mouse, while her hus-
band devoured the evening or morning
paper as the case may have been and
grumbled occasionally at the cooking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
STEVES is DOOMED.
Prohibitionists Call Their Edi-
tor a Traitor.

F. M. Stoves. of this city. who some
time ago bolted the Prohibition party
on account of alleged mismanagement
of the campaign on the part OF Chalf-
man Earl r. Delay. of Topeka, was this
afternoon denounced as a traitor to the
cause at meeting of the Prohibition
state central committee, heId in the par
Tors of the Fifth Avenue hotel Further
MIR. Delay was commended for MS good
management of the campaign, and in
substantial evidence of the same the
committee presented him with purse
of SIS.
The resolution in which the members
voice their sentiment regarding the mat.
ter fellows:
We, the undersigned members of the
state central committee of the Prohlbl~
ton party, wish to make the following
statements concerning certain sour
lilcUs at r. ks which have been made by
Mr. F. M. Stoves regarding Mr.. Earl
r: Delay, state chairman and other
matters pertaining to the management
of the party in the late campaign:
After careful consideration we be-
lieye Mr.. Stoves to have been a traitor
to the party and wholly at fault in the
matter We have the fullest confidence
in Mr.. Delay and most sincerely com
mend his management of the campaign.
For testimony of his integrity and good
management we point with pride to our
largely increased vote over that of for
mer years We hereby declare the place
and absolutely repudiate his claim that
the "Fulcrurn" is or ever has been the
official organ of the Prohibition party
in Kansas.
Done at Topeka. Kansas, in regular
committee meeting this 7th day of Mo-
vember, 1902.
(signed) J, T. Merry. secretary, lola;
John Cunningham. Emporia; J. Biddi-
son. Americas: NJ Williams Lansing;
w 3. Hull Wellington; J. D. NJ. Crock
EFT, Kansas City; S. B. Cokanour, Clay
Center, and J. w. Margrave, Hiawatha
1t was stated that there was the utmost
harmony in the. gathering this afternoon.
BY way of continuing the fight for prohi-
bition. it was decided to import S. II.
Bonsib of Vincennes, Ind. to- work a
lecturer and organizer of local alliances
for the party. Mr.. Bonsib is said to be an
excellent organizer, and it is contemplated
to have him stay here a year, commence
ing with the first of January. The com
mittee further decided to continue the
publication of the. Kansas Prohibitio2ist
as its organ at this place. The meeting
of the committee was attended by ten
members and was concluded after a few
hours, in time for all to take the late at
ternoon trains out of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
VIII It Be Reformedp
Washington Post:

Washington Post:
The presidents effort to reduce the
amount of useless public printing has
been commended by the press of the en-
tire country. The abuse which he seeks
to check is chronic. and it has grown
enormously in recent years. The ex-
ample of reckless waste set by the gen
eral government in printing thousands
of tons of useless or supertluous books
and expanding to extravagant proper
tons many other publications has been
followed by state governments to the
enrichment of jobbers. but. to no good
end It is not improbable that millions
of money are annually wasted in this
way by states and municipalities, and
II the amount thus thrown away here
IN Washington could be ascertained and
published, great many easy going
statesmen would be astonished. The
president, as announced in the Post
some time ago directed his secretary to
write to the head of every executive de-
partment that The thinks there is much
useless matter, and a large number of
unnecessary and expensive illustrations
included in many of the reports and
documents published; that many are
issued at great expense which accom-
pnSh no practical good, and that there
is too much public printing generally"
1t was high time for such a notice
from headquarters, and there is ground
Tor hope that it will result in some cur
tailment of the abuse But the author
limited, while that of congress is sub
ject to few if any limitations. The fact
that our government has the greatest
and best equipped printing office in the
world need not furnish an excuse for
wasting vast amounts of labor and ma
teria1 in the manufacture of volumes
that are not read, and the reading of
which would be a waste of time. If
this folly stopped when the printers
and binders had done their work, il
would be bad enough; bui it Goes not
halt there. The worthless works are
hauled to folding rooms to be prepared,
at much cost, for transmission by mail.
Some of them remain in those rooms till
they rot. but most of them are carried
in mail cars to the constituents of con-
gressmen in all the states and terri
tories
Reports of commissions and investiga-
lions by committees have piled up hum
dreds of tons of books that nobody has
read since they left the proof readers.
Some of the commissions were utterly
useless, and all of them padded their
reports. One large and costly report of
commission was suppressed after a few
copies had been printed. Unfortunate
", that happened to be a document
which, had it been promptly printed and
circulated, would have been interesting
and useful The uninteresting and use
less have Jared better. There is need
of a reform of this fragrant abuse. Will
it come?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
TRICKS OF CHINESE.
Signals of the Discharged to Warn
Their Successors.

1t is not an uncommon thing to hear
people in the east say that they are still
in want of a Chinese cook, while others
will have numbers of applications d.
rectly it is known that their cook mas
left. The reason for this is easily dis
covered if the master of the house
walks down to the kitchen after his
cook has been discharged and takes no.
tice how a saucepan which will be found
standing on the ground is placed. Chi
nese servants, particularly those from
Singapore when discharged leave signs
which the newcomer looks for immedi-
ately he enters the kitchen If the place
is considered a good one a saucepan will
be left on the ground with the lid put
on properly. If the lid is placed in the
saucepan upside downfall is to say.
with the handle of the lid inside the
saueepan-it means that the servant has
gone away for short time only and
that as soon as he can he intends to re-
turn as the situation is considered a
good one. If lid of the saucepan is left
out on the ground near the saucepan.
which is standing the right way up, it
means the house is in want of servants.
If the lid is put Ealf way in and half
way out of the saucepan it means that
the place is good one but the master
of the house is stingy. Should the sauce
pan rave still some rice in it and the
lid closed properly it means that the
servant is quite satisfied with every
thing concerning the people of the house
but that he is forced to leave on &C
count of debts or other reasons which
Inconvenience him. If the master is in
the habit of cutting a servants pay for
broken or lost articles or for other
faults a mark is made on the bottom
of the saucepan in chalk which will not
rub out easily. The Chinese boy makes
his mark behind the pantry or bed room
door and the waterman on the bottom
of his tubs. The Hylam Chinese are said
to have adopted these signs from the
ATanan Chinese who in the first
got the idea from the Tamils-Straits
Budget.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
FIRED BONI.
French Chamber Vacates Seat
of Anna GOuld's Husband.


Paris, Nov AFTER an exciting de-
bate the chamber of deputies today by
278 to 235 votes invalidated the election
of Count Boni de Castellane mem
Der of the house. The question came up
when the COMMITTEES on contested cleo
tons presented its report without rec
ommendation, leaving the chamber to
pass on the question. NJ Chauvin made
bitter attack on Count de Castellane,
declaring he had been guilty of irregu-
larities and saving shat the count has
accused his opponent of being of Ger
man descent and a Dreyfusard-
Count de Casteliane replied CHASING the
charges as false. He said he had been ac-
cused of buying the election and practic-
ing charity for election purposes. Nothing
of the kind had ever been proved. he de-
clared. and closed his defense with APP
peal to the chamber to uphold his election
which, he asserted, truly represented the
wishes of the inhabitants of the Bases
Alpes district. The vote was lnen taken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
CAUGHT ODD SEA MONSTER.
Apparently Part Fish, Part Reptile
and Part Beast.

A most remarkable monster of a fish
was caught a few days ago in Bay
Adam an inlet of the gulf on the lower
coast Natives of the vicinity call the
monster a devil fish, but this is only
because no other name more appropriate
could be conceived on short notice. The
fish was caught by William A Wenck.
who owns an electric launch. and had
taken Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Wenck and
their guest, Mr.. Howe of st. Louis, on
a fishing excursion. The fish was hooked
on Mr.. Howes line, which was rugged
for tarpon. but William Wenck finally
landed it.
It is necessary to be singularly plain
and modest in describing this wonderful
creation in order that the scientific world
may have clear-cut idea of it, for, I'M
fortunately, three pictures taken by Mr.
Wenck We're li@htstruck and could not
be developed.
100 pounds. It's head was like that of a
turtle. except that its under lip pro-
truded in a pronounced Dout, like the
lip of an angry rhinoceroS. Its body was
black, and reminded Mr. Wenck of the
body of a bat. Pendant to this body
and used by the monster for fight when
it is pursued by sharks, were black
batty wings, showing faint polka dots
of blush hue. The tail of the fish. OF
bat-beast, was something like that OF
a stingaree.
When caught a number of small fish
were found spitted to this sting or dag
ger, DIS llNcT anu DzCOI are SI)lltHQ Will
a stick It is presumed that TIE mon
ster was keeping them there until he
became hungry enough to eat them, for
he really did not bite on the line. but
was hooked by accident in the top OF
the head. Finally, the tongue of this
NEST extraordinary creature was found
to be three inches long and as hard as
flint. It fitted against a similar hard
substance in the upper part of the
mouth with this he ground fish or
oysters into fine fragments. Shells and
bones could not stand against the grind
ing motion. 1t is said by fishermen that
the noise made by the meeting OF the
upper jaw and tongue causes such terror
to little fish that they aNe deprived Of
motion and easily captured.
Men who have studied fish deeply are
at a loss how to properly classify the
new monster. when cut into -ieces
! the flesh CT the monster was found to
lie ver-T fresh end savorv. and pleasant
to the palate Of man or beast. It's meat
resembled beefstea1< and tasted some
thing like lamb chops.-New Orleans
/ TimeS-D Democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
The Cow and the cumbers.

Il was loafing about a New Hampshire
village one day" said a drummer. when
overheard a man speaking of cueumDers
as cowcumberS. / was fool enough TO cor
rect his pronunciation. and he replied:
g Young man, you may think you know
it all. hut I'll show you that you don't
4 followed him for a couple of blocks.
with six or eight others failing after, and
we stopped at e garden into which some
bodv's COW had Broken her way
:. Look there said the man rs he point
ed to the ccw. IF they amt cowcumbecs,
what's the COW eatin' EN- fur2
..And fhoa1ssh / never heard of a COW
eating them before, and don't believe one
ever did, that old bovine was mursehing
away at the esculents in way TO prove
She enjoyed en- 1 couldn't quote Web
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
FIRST CABINET MEETING
Held in the New Executive Offices al
the White House.

Washington, Nov. THE first cabinet
meeting in the new executive offices was
held today
In view of the fact that the president
is going away Monday night to be gone
for two weeks. each of the cabinet Of
ficers was called upon to lay before him
any matters of business that would
likely arise during his absence requiring
his action. Secretary Hay brought for
ward the Colombian canal negotiations,
which were briefly discussed and he also
referred to the progress making toward
the negotiations of reciprocity treaty
with Cuba.
It is stated, however, that in neither
case did the cabinet indicate any desire to
change the policy which the state depart
ment has been pursuing. When the MEM
bers of the cabinet had concluded the
presentation of their routine business they
spent some time in an examination of the
results of the recent elections and there
were expressions of general satisfaction
over the returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
aLoBE SIGHTS.

TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
When woman has nerve, a man isn't
in it.
The people have way of saying.
excuse their enormous appetites.
Usually when a man gives away half
a dollar. he is willing to create the inn
preston that it was five dollar bill
man may apologize for some things,
but there is one thing to his credit: he
never apologies for his big appetite
The men find too much fault with wo-
men for collecting spoons, teapots, etc,
considering that many of them. collect
bottles.
An Atchison woman had fried chicken
for dinner, chicken croquettes for supper,
and chick IN Pie and chicken soup next
day. all out of one little old hen.
IF you don't go awayand let me alone, =
man said to idle fellow today. Il
will have you arrested for violating the
interstate commerce law.
An Atchison girl who is chasing a man
has received a dozen anonymous letters
warning her of sorrow. 1t is found that
they were all written by a woman who
has had nine children.
In order to simplify social affairs, The
Globe suggests that every hostess have a
printed bill of fare, that her guests
will be prepared when asked when they
get home, what did you have to eat2
We have noticed that social affairs are
divided into three classes, represented by
the following questions when one gets
home: What did the bride have on?''
What did they have to eat?'' Did they
take it hard?
AS soon as Louis Stapper moved to Den
yer. he began writing to Drake Watson,
inviting him to come out a visit. ?
Last week Mr.. Watson wrote Mr.. Stapper
that he was coming out, and hasn't heard
from him since
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
Weekly Rest.



Complete cessation from work on Sun
day is impossible to modern civilization.
This admission might well be made
at the outset by the people to whom
Sunday closing commends itself as
desirable reform. Railways, restaurants
tinue to operate on Sunday in order to
make Sunday a day of rest and pleasure
to people engaged in trades in which
Sunday work is no value to anybody.
This is what might be called Social
reason. The weekly holiday is of no
service to the people who take it unless
they are provided with the facilities by
means of which they can secure amuse-
ment and diversion. An oyster like
holiday, during which every man lies
sluggishIy in his shell, may be rest to
people whose work is characterized by
varied and exhausting intellectual ac-
tivities, but it is not rest al all to peo-
pie whose work is in itself combining and
mOnotonous. Such people must have
an open and active Sunday. In order
that they may have it certain other PEG,
pie must keep at work
Besides this social reas for Sum-
day work there is also, of course, an
economic" reason. There are certain
industrial operations which require con-.
tinuity. Breaks and lapses are expen~
sive. The process of stopping and start
ing up again is often a serious economic
waste. Some trades are like through
trains, that must keep on going if they
mean 10 accomplish anything. A fac
tory that let's itself cool down and then
has to warm up is often in fair way
to lose a great deal more than one-sev-
enth of its efficiency and capacity
Even if we grant though, that both
for social and economic reasons some
people must work on Sunday we are
not affecting the truth of the general
principle that most people ought not to
work on Sunday and that all people
ought if possible. to have some one day
off in every week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07

ness at ALL 1t is equally untitled for all
poetic and ali domestic purposes. Com
PEELED by her dress. every woman now
either shuffies or waddles. The fidget
of silk and crinoline. the creaking of
stays and shoes, viii do patient more
harm than all the medicines in the
world will do him good. Fortunate it is
if her skirts do not catch fire. | wish
the registrar general would tell US the
exact number of deaths by burning oc-
casiened by this absurd and hideous
custom. I wish. too. that people who
wear crinol:ne could see the indecency
of their own dress as others see it,
Imagine cIinoline in sick rooms to-
day,-New York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07

The fusionists appear to have been de-
feated in every state in. the union ex-
cept Nevada. and there they didn't elect
the whole ticket It seems odd that
with the history before them dating back
to the Greenback party and the Granger
movement, parties will continue to at
tempt to win offices by the fusion
method. Temporary Victories have been
won in this way, but what is now left
to show for any fusion movement ever
attempted in politics?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
He Got the Prohibition Vote.

New York, Nov Elliott Danforth
of the Democratic state committee said
today that Cunneen, the Democratic
nominee for attorney general would
have a plurality of $4,000 to 10000. Mr..
Danforth based his estimate on tele-
grams received from the cbairmen Of
Democratic county committees who re-
ported that Mr.. Cunneen had received
virtually the full prohibition vote in ad
dition to the Democratic vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
Failed to Identify Mason.

Boston, Nov. THE pawnbroker failed
to Identify Mason At the Jail Mason
was placed among six other men, and
the nawnbroker scrutinized each one.
He picked out one man as the person
who pavned the watch. but it was not
Mason. The negro who has charge of
the house where the Masons live was
about bis work as usual today, although
the police claimed that he had gone
away. He said today that he was at his
pest yesterday and could have been
found there by the police if they had
looked Cor him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07

The exports of manufactures from the
United States in the nine months end
ing with September, 1902, are larger
than those in the corresponding period
of any other year in the history of the
country. with the single exception of
1900. The total for the nine months is
$31l, AL. against s298. $50, 551 in the
corresponding months of last year, and
sSsS,67S24S in the corresponding months
of 1900. Comparing 1902 with 1892 the
increase is nearly 200 per cent, the fig
ures Of 1892 being s111, 2s0,024; while
comparing 1902 with 1883 the growth in
nine months expectations of manufac-
lures is from s99, S4O,074 to 1911, 500, AL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07

The constitutional amendments voted
upon at the election last Tuesday were
adopted. Their success probably is due
largely to the fact that the propositions
were printed on a separate ballot. When
matters of this sort are placed on the
regular ballot. few people take the trou-
BILE to vote for them except those who
are opposed to the measures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
Sale of D. & H. Is Denied.

New York. Nov THE report circu-
lated today and originating at Scranton
Pa, that the Delaware & Hudson rail-
road properties. including coal mines
had been sold for $50. 100000 was denied
positively by President ELEPHANT. The
rumored purchasers were the Pennsyl-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07

The election last Tuesday afforded the
strongest possible evidence of general
prosperity the existence of which is
occasionally disputed. The voting indi-
Gated that the people are satisfied. or
are willing, as Senator Hanna put it, to
''let we'll enough alone" When matters
commence to go seriously awry, the fact
will be made plain at the polls at the
very first opportunity