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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

$50 you don't think it's so bad to
run in debt2".
"No, not so bad as it is to try to sneak
out of t."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

"Do you believe in a college educa-
tionF
swell, it. made young spendit a
country gentleman instead Of a farm
er."--TOwn Topics.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

When Lorena goes away.
Even if for one day only,
Long and dreary seems the day,
All the rooms are dull and lonely.
Then 7 seek her plants 10 dress,
But my touch Is not Lorena'sf
And I only make mess
With her roses and verbenas
But when she comes back at night,
How she'll make the dishes clatter,
Set The table, strike a light.
Charm me with her merry chatter.
Eugene G. Dolson, In Good House
k.lplnl
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Easter Is 10 ne.
The earth awaits los Easter morn.
All barren and unblest;
The dead leaves of dead year cling
Tn Wearying unrest
The winter storms, so pitiless.
Have swept o'er hill and dale.
TIL Nature face is desoiate.
Aud Scared with frozen mail
The Wild streams burst their iron banda.
And clamor toward the sea-
Rests Mother Earth SO patiently.
For Easter Is TO be-
The resurrection OF an lifes
That hidden Is, or lost;
Great heart Of God to bear. 70 watt
This Is the Easter cost.
And human hearts must learn to feel
The coming Easter joy
Mid darkness and mid seeming death.
And an lies vast alloy.
Dear Mother Earth thy children learn
Life's lessons at thy kneef
Patience-to bear an seeming wrongi
For Easter Is TO be.
Emma Miner IN Springfield MASS }
Republican.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

The Wlnd.
The wind is tipping at my indow pane;
OFT he has come and he win come again,
Seeking TO win an entrance, but in vain.
Poor lonely wind
Naught but the frozen earth around he
sees,
He shivers as he passes through the trees,
Not long ago be was o. halmy breeze.
Poor changed winds
IL were now to ope ms window wide
TO let you In. what should ! lose beside7
The very warmth for which you long have
sighed,
Poor frozen wind
So, n seem your pleadings not 20 mind.
And on your sorrow turn a glance that's
blind,
Remember, n ] could, would be kind,
And help you piteous wind
estminister Gazette
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Agitating Abe-lf any guy starts
trampin' widout ioinin' de union wen
follow him up till we find a job an den
make him take it.
Plug-Cut Peters-Da's de way T.
tall1l Dis scae trampin' is just ruinous
to de prevailing rate of graftl-Puck.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

she-Doctor, is squeedunk a good
place to 60 for rheumatism?
Doctor-Sure. That's where I got
nine.-Chieago Jonrnal.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

A lady once asked little girl OF
five If she had any brothers
eyes" said the child, Il have three
brothers"
"And how many sisters, my dear?'
asked the lady.
"Just one sister, and I'm it." replied
the small girl.-Lttle Chronicle.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Dawn on the harhor, wan and very still,
A glimmerlng gray upon the quiet deep,
While the great headlands seem to
crouch, and creep
Closer beneath the shelter Of the hill
Ali The night long we sat and talked cur I'LL
Of boyhood days, the faith we vowed to
keep;
We thrust aside the wooing arms Of
sleep,
And vagrant memory wove our words at
will
One hand-clasp more, a step upon the quay,
And the light boat goes springing through
the foam,
Leaping with JOY to greet the freshenlng
gale
Then, as 1 turn to seek my lonely home,
Athwart the black ships fretted forestry
The sunlight flashes on your far-borne sail.
Walter Thackwell, in Chambers Journal
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

"she calls her cook chef How alb
surdi"
"Oh, I don't knowl Perhaps that's
how she gets her to stay."-Puck.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Patience-And you say The engage
ment is Off
Patrice-O Oh, yes; she was imprudent
enough, one night, TO inform him that
she came from good old fighting stock.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

eyes, and after she refused me she
waved her hand in farewell"
"sort Of cold wave wasn't it2"--
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

"say, those eggs l got yesterday
were nearly all bad"
rs that so? Why, the lady that
brought them in said there weren't
more'n half of 'em bad" - Chicago
American.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26
unErammaticaI,

Dusty Rhodes-Will you please give
me a dime to get somethin' to eat with Z?
Bunker Hill-My good man, you can
not purchase a set of false teeth for
ten eents.-N. y Times
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

The Kildare youse one of them
philanthropists?
The Millionaire-Er--I hope so, my
boy
The Kid-Well, don't waste no libra
ries on dis town. Wot we wants is L
football ground.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

There goes a man with
great mind.
Judge-He don't look it. In what
way2
Gle minds his own business-and
that's a great mind. Boston Journal.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

When winter passes out,
Comes spring with all her gracei
The SNOWFALL has to go,
The mothbau takes Its place.
-punk
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

81 intend" She said "to follow Mrs.
Mookey's plan and give in charity as
much as ] spend on dress. It's such a
grand idea. so enuobhng."
"It's a good PLAN" he admitted. 81
think Won spend too much on dress
anyway"
~Whnts that got to do with it?" she
demanded
"Why, you'll divide your wardrobe
money, won't you?'
Certainly not expect you to
double it."-Brooklyn Life.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

"Biggleston must have a shady
past"
"Why2"
"He says something ought to be
done TO curb the newspapers. Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

II will not ask the world for much"
A sage declared one day,
"For he whose wishes are immense
May never win, they say
'I'll ask the world for little. then
IT may be sooner had,
And while they sigh who ask for much
III have mine, and be glad"
He got his little. yet was not
More happy than before,
For always when his mite he got
He craved "a little more
S. p. Kiser, IN Chicago Record Her
aid
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

The Crnwnsh and others.
devresbo reve 10Y evaH
.yarg .hsifwarc eht tahT
drawrof og OF redro M
?yaw rekto ehaseoG
,yaF .dnA
deyresbo reve uoy evaH
ohw elnoep emoS
yitcaxe crawrof og
Pod schsifwaru eht sA
IN. Y. sun.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Mrs. Benham-Don't you think this
new dress of mine is a creation?
Benham-Well, there's nothing like
it described in the book of Genesis.
IN. Y. Times.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

chamberlain's Pain Balm is an
antiseptic liniment, and when up
piled TO cuts, bruises and burns.
causes them to heal without matu-
ration and much more quickly than
by the usual treatment. For sale By
Balch g. Son. Matamoras, all general
stores in Pike county.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

She tried to be happy by day and by night.
She bought everything that could give her
delight
She went to the places that people called
''gay,"
Yet soon was so bored that she hurried
away;
She strugsled and strove. by land and by
sea,
To make herself happy, yet never could be.
Since cannot be happy myself, l will
try
To brighten some other as the moments
fit by"
She cried in despair; ana then with all
speed
Forgetting herself, she was happy indeed.
Farm Journal
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

I'VE sneer at folks with one idee.
But mebby, In The end
The chap with one idee may git
Where you and me amt clumb to VT.
Nor ever will, my friend.
II knew a chap with one idee
A-rattlin' In his pate:
We laughed IN them old days because
OF thinkin what fool he was,
But now, by goshl he's great.
"It sin't so bad iist one ldee,
Provided that it's good
And stuck to right through thick and thin
Just one idee made each man win
That at the top has stood"
IS. E. Kiser, IN Chicago Record Herald.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

This is the trouble, this day. with the
rhyme:
It's race against Timei
We try for the SUBMITS that few Of US
climb;
It's race against rlmel
This is the trouble-the trouble sublime:
It's race against Tlmoi
And this one has innocence-that one has
Crime
It's race against Tlmel
But Time, that's tyrant, will know that
the gloom
OF the worlds weary winters will drift into
bloom,
And God, for the innocent yet will make
room
In the race against Timei
IF, L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Through all the lonely day l walked in
dread,
The world had lost the charm it once pos
sessed;
thousand dangers seemed TO loom ahead,
A thousand borrowed troubles filed my
breast
Upon the morrow, beautiful and bright,
The sun with newly added splendor rose;
My troubles had departed with the nieht,
And, free, saw them all imagined woes.
l hailed the new, the splendid day, with
glee;
But who may ever figure UP the cost
of that fear-haunted, gloomy day to me,
The day that might have gladdened-
which lost?
5. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-06-26

Or. David Kennedy's Salt Rheum Cream cures
Old Sores, Skin and serofulOus Diseases. oOe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
FRIDAY EVENING. NOV. 20, 1908.

WHILE THERE has recently been a
lnll in the Balkan troubles, affairs In
that mart of the world are still engross-
inc the attention of European nations.
dispatch from Constantinople says
that unless the Turkish reply to the Rus
an-Austrian reform scheme is received
BY today, Baron Won Calico, the Austrian
Hungarian Ambassador, and NJ. Elmo
viea the Russian Ambassador, will de
mand an audience of the Sultan, with
the view of insisting on its acceptance.
The Mussulmans in the district OF Kirk
Kilisseh have burned FIVE Bulgarian
villages in revenge for an attack made
by the Bulgarians on the Mussulman
village of Zarasa. The revolt in the
yiuayet of Yemen, Arabia, is extending
southwark. The Ottoman troops ad-
vancing on Hodaida were determinedly
opposed by the revolted tribes and were
forced to retreat. 1t is confidently as
serted that the Macedonian troubles will
be in evidence again as soon as spring
opens.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
FOREIGN NEWS.

The small American sloop Columbia,
with only Captain Bragg on board, ar
rived at Gibraltar this morning from
Boston after voyage of one hundred
days.
Riots broke out in Berlin today in
connection with the election of deputies
to the Prussian Diet Strong forces Of
police were required in several parts. of
the city to suppress the disorders.
A naturalized American citizen named
Allen, who was formerly Frenchman,
has been arrested in Cherbourg on the
charge of spying and attempting to OBJ
tain secret information on the harbor
defenses. The authorities have decided
to expel Allen from France.
William Jennings Bryan, who is on
a six weeks tour of the continent, spent
this morning seeing London and study
ing the municipal methods under the
guidance of the famous Labor Leader,
John Burns. Tonight Mr.. Bryan will
hear Joseph Chamberlain speak at
Cardiff.
1t is asserted that the Russian torpedo
boats which were sent to the Far East
were so badly shaken by the voyage that
it has been found impracticable to send
any more by the long route. One hun
bred torpedo boats will accordingly be
built at yladivostock, Siberia, for use
in Pacific waters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
Alarm Concerning Kaiser's Health.

Berlin, Nov. 2O.-It is announced to-
day that the physicians of Emperor Will
liam have given the Kaiser permission to
spend Christmas at home, but have or
dered him to go South Immediately after
ward. His majesty will make a long
stay in Italy and the Riviera to recruit
his health. This report has revived all
the alarm caused by the recent operation
to the Kaiser's throat. The COrrespon-
denz recalls that Emperor Frederick,
after similar operation, was sent to San
Reno, only to hear his death sentence
there from cancer specialists. Millions
of Germans are praying that this latest
news regarding the Emperor may not be
of like ominous portent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.


1t is said that the Seaboard Air Line
deal will kill competition between that
and the Southern Railway.
A letter was received by Governor
Chatterton, of Wyoming, yesterday
threatening his life unless he COM
mutes the death sentence Of Tom Horn.
Despite the opposition of many OF
the white people of Florence, D. ",
President Roosevelt will renomlnale
Rev. Joshua E. Wilson (colored) as
postmaster at that place.
Senator Hanna, in reply to letter
urging him to become candidate lot
the republican nomination for president
asks bis friends not to place him IN the
embarrassing position which would re-
suit from such movement.
In the opinion Of Henry Watterson,
editor of the Louisville Courier-Journai,
the action of the President in negotla-
ting a treaty with Panama lays him
liable to impeachment, though he has
no idea that such course will be taken.
Representative Williams, of Missis-
sippi, the democratic floor leader, yes
terday introduced a bill in the House,
providing a twenty per cent reduction
of the tariff on all goods coming from
any country that will admit American
goods free.
IT is learned that within a few weeks,
the entire plant of the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works department Of the United
States Steel Corporation, located at
Braddock. Pa, will be closed indefinite
". during which time extensive repairs
to engines and other machinery will be
made.
1t has been decided that Senator Reed
Smoot, of Utah, will not be made
member of the committee on immlgra-
ton. HIS reported desire to get this
assignment developed opposition from
labor circles where he is charged with
helping the importation OF alien labor
and Mormons.
Emma Gebhardt and Lizzie Schu.
maker, aged II and Is respectively,
were drowned in the Delaware river at
Port Jervis n. Y, Wednesday night. The
girls, accompanied by Frank Altman,
started to cross the ferry but when ball
way across the boat capsized. Altman
was carried down the stream half mile
before ne was rescued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
COURT OF APPEALS.
The following opinions were delivered

The following opinions were delivered
yesterday:
Judge James Keith, President
Newberry VS.. Ruffin ct ais; circuit
court of Bland county. Reversed.
Reed & Mccormick vs.. Thomas ID.
Gold, receiver; circuit court of Clarke
county. Affirmed.
Venable & Bays VS.. G. T. Stamper
circuit court of Lee county. Reversed
Rau VS.. Shaver circuit court Of Rock
ingham county. Reversed.
Big Stone Gap Iron Company VS..
William Ketron; circuit court of Lee
county. Reversed.
Judge R. II. Cardwell:
Sanger VS.. Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way Company; circuit court of Augusta
county. Reversed.
w. o. Adams VS.. city of Roanoke
hastings court Roanoke city. Affirmed.
Maggie White, &C., VS.. Sayers, ct
ais; circuit court of Tazewell county.
Affirmed.
r. S. Schreckhise VS.. Wiseman cir
cult court of Augusta county. Al
frmed.
Stony Creek Lumber Company VS..
Fields & Co.; circuit court Of Scott
county. Reversed.
Judge George NJ. Harrison
Plunkett VS.. Bryant ct ais; circuit
court of Nelson county. Affirmed.
Judge S. G.. white:
Deckert VS.. Chesapeake and Western
Company ct ais. Circuit court of Rock
ingham county. Affirmed.
Zirkle vs. Southern Railway Com
pany. County Court Of Shenandoah
county. Affirmed.
City of Charlottesville VS.. Stratton's
administrator. Circuit court of Abe
marie county. Affirmed.
A number of writs of error were
granted and others referred but none of
general interest to people of this section
Of the State.
Savings Bank of Richmond VS.. Powha-
tan Clay Manufacturing Company, Ar
gued and submitted.
Browns guardian, &C., VS.. Strother's
administrator. Submitted on briefs.
Town of Hampton and Alonzo A.
Patrick VS.. Jesse S Jones, mandamus
proceedings, advanced and submitted.
Preston ct ais, VS.. Davis executors ct
ais. Partly argued by A. R. Long for
appellants and continued.
Next cases to be called:
Slaughter VS.. Danner.
Turner, by &C., VS.. Barraud and
others.
Richmond Passenger and Power Com
pany VS.. Gordon, being cases 10, 16 and
II on argument docket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20

BURNED TO DEATH Mrs. Elizabeth
Mearns, an aged white woman, was
burned to death in the dining-room of
of her home, 81 X street, northwest,
Washington, about 10 o'clock lastnight.
She was alone in the house at the time,
and nobody knows exactly how the acct
dent occurred The woman's body,
charred beyond recognition, and in flames
was found by her son, John Mearns, an
employee of the government printing Of
fee, who arrived home just in time to
prevent the house from being destroyed,
the flames having ignited the curtains
and door frames. He succeeded in
smothering the blaze and the fremen were
not summoned. From the position of
the body, Mrs. Mearns had evidently
been cooking a meal on the stove in the
room when her clothing became ignited.
Mrs. Mearns had been i'll for several
days. Last night her son John left the
house about o'clock. When he re-
turned at 10 o'clock he noticed smell
of smoke in the front hail, and rushed
into the back portion of the house, to
make an investigation. AS he entered
the dining he stumbled across the
body Of his mother, stretched out on
the floor, her arms conyulsiyely grasping
the legs on a sofa. At the woman's feet
the carpet had caught fire, and the wood
work of the door was in flames. John
stamped the fire out with his feet, and
then ran to the front door and called for
assistance. Mrs. Mearns' clothing was
almost entirely consumed, and her body
charred and blackened. In the room
beside the woman's body was red-hot
stove, with one of the lids of, and few
inches from her outstretched hand was
an empty can. She had removed one of
the stove lids, when her dress caught
from the hot Goals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20

CARRIE NATION went to Washington
Yesterday, called at the White House,
insisted upon seeing President Roose-
Welt delivered lecture to a number Of
Congressman, whom she met in Secre-
tary Loeb's Office, was forcibly expelled
from the Executive Mansion, Invaded
the Senate chamber at the Capitol, I'M
dertook to deliver an address from the
women's gallery, was arrested, taken to
the lookup and fined s25. She acted
as her own advance agent and her own
LAWYER and said that it was the TWEEN
tieth time she had been arrested 'tol
irving to save the homes of America
Mrs. Nation has long since ceased to Dc
funny and should be treated as COM
mon nuisance. She is pursuing her
course "for what there is in it," and
has adopted a cheap method OF adver-
Using herself. She passed the limit,
however, when she became disorderly IN
the Capitol building and in the White
House.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
Not. a Sick Day Since.

81 was taken severely sick with kid
ney trouble. / tried all sorts of medi-
cines, none of which relieved me. One
day saw an ad. Of your Electric Bitters
and determined TO try that. After TAX
ing few doses felt relieved, and soon
thereafter was entirely cured, and have
not seen sick day since. Neighbors
of mine have been cured of Rheumatism
Neuralgia, Liver and Kidney troubj 90
and General Debility" This is WIZ r
F. Bass, of Fremont, N. G. writes
Only SOC, at E. S. Leadbeatey g. Sons
Druggists,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20
Preparin q for Invasion.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 20.-The news
paper Kotlin asserts that japanese spies
are distributed all over Korea, work
ing mainly under the guise of merchants.
Along the seabOard the merchants
have arms, and stores and barges ready
for japanese invasion of Korea should
eventualities with Russia occur. A for
mer officer of the japanese army, says
the paper, has established large provi-
sion store at Chemulpo, under cover of
which he keeps on hand large amount
of arms and other war equipment, which
are held in readiness for use by the Jap
anese at moments notice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20

PROF. SPENCER BAssETT, of the
chair of English in Trinity College, Dur
ham, n. c., has rendered his resigna-
ton, but none too soon. This action
results from the criticism of the press on
his recent magazine article on the negro
question, in which he stated that Booker
Washington is the greatest man, except
Gen. Lee, born in the South in 4 hum
dred years. College patrons we're very
properly threatening to withdraw pupils
and Methodist churches were demanding
Bassett's dismissal when the resignation
was rendered. 1t is extremely doubtful
whether Prof. Bassett really believed
what he wrote, but whether he did or
not, his article showed him to be totally
unfit for a chair in any college.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20

DESERTED BY HUSBAND. Mrs. James
H. Curtis, formerly Regina II. Miller,
of Collingwood, Ohio, bride Of two
days, is in Washington, patiently await
ing the return of her husband He has
been missing since Wednesday night
She called at police headquarters yester-
day to ask the aid of the detectives in To-
eating him. According to her story.
Mrs. Miller, as she was then known,
read a matrimonial advertisement in a
Toledo paper. She answered it and
through the Offices of a Mrs. Lee, in
Toledo, was put into correspondence
with Curtis, in New York. She went
to the metropolis to meet him, but be-
fore going mortgaged her property for
81, 500. They were married on Tuesday,
and Mrs. Curtis gave her husband the
81, 500 and other money amounting to
about 81, $50. The money, she thought,
was to go toward the purchase Of ma
chinery to bore for oil in California.
Then they started on their honeymoon,
arriving in Washington Wednesday and
registering at one of the hotels. During
the evening Curtis made an excuse to 90
out and failed TO return. His wife can
not believe that he would abandon her
during the honeymoon, and fears that
he has been foully dealt with Curtis is
described as a large man, forty-seyen
years old, with black hair and mustache.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-20

THE LATEST revolution in Haytl has
reached an acute Stage, The entire
island, save San Domingo, is nowin the
hands of the rebels and on Wednesday
night shells from the guns of the insur-
gents we're falling in the streets of that
city. Marines from the United States
cruiser Baltimore have been landed for
the protection of the American legation
and consulate and the Clyde steamship
agency. The Haytiens have for many
years been restless and are ever chang
ing rulers. The island now adjoins
territory of the United States on the
East and that over which this country
has much to say on the West, and soon
err or later its more powerful neighbo-
may urge some excuse for inaugurating
a more stable government for the Hay
items.