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FISHERMEN'S LUCK.
The Not Infrequent Result Comes In
Rather Unusual Way.

Rather Unusual Way.
From the New York Sun.
Two big and hearty Germans bent on
fishing hired skiff at Coney Island creek
near the trolley bridges: Into the skiff
they put their fishing tackle, bait, paper
box OF sandwiches and other eatables,
and a case Of bottled beer.
They drifted down on the outgoing tide
until they were near the Harway avenue
lift bridge. There they met launch COM
ing up from Gravesend bay and hailed it
with:
How Is der fishing outsider
The reply was that the bay was so rough
that no small boat could live there, and
that no fishermen were thinking of going
out.
Maybe we don't better try It," said one
of the Germans to the other. II guess
we tie up here by der bridge. and maybe
we catch some snappers or Something's"
BY this time the boat had drifted on un-
til It was beneath the span Of the lift
bridge and, while one of them made fast
the painter to brace between the bridge
orders the other fisherman got out some
rigging their hand lines and batting.
After dropping their lines overheard they
filed their pipes, half hitched the lines
around the tholepins apd had some more
smoked and talked and drank their beer
until the restfuness Of the situation made
them drOwsy, and they fell into a peaceful
slufnber.
A steam tug that had come up on the
first OF the ebb tide after a Coney Island
garbage scow whistled for the bridge to be
opened. The bridge tender, unaware OF
the presence Of the doing fishermen in the
skiff beneath the lift span, answered the
call and the span began to rise slowly and
noiselessly.
The bow of the fishermen's boat went up
with It, and when the nose of the boat was
about three feet out of the water one of the
fishermen awoke. Seeing the painter taut
and the boat at an angle. he yelled:
"Gott in Himmel, how dot tide is falling!
Wake up, Yawkob, der tide is going owetn'
But before Jacob could wake up the boat
hung nearly perpendicular from the rising
the beer and all the other contents of the
skiff, including his Acknowledgement, slid
over the stern seat into the creek.
Fortunately, both of the men could SWIM
and they caught the bobstay of a brick
schooner lying just below the bridge. From
this point of vantage they saw their skiff
dangling about twenty feet above the
water.
Maybe we don't better wait here. Yaw-
hob, until she comes down. amt it?" said
Jacobs friend, realizing the situation.
lift of the bridge was descending When
the stern of the skin settled into the water
the boat filed. and when the span came to
rest the skin fioated with her gunwales
awash.
The men swan to the boat, unified the
painter and worked her up on a shelving
beach at the north end of the bridge There
they got the water out of her. and. with a
piece of board for paddle. they picked
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OFFICERS REELECTED
ACTION By DIRECTIONS OF Bus1-
NESS MEMS ASSOCIATION.
Municipal Exhibit at Jamestown
Location OF Factory Here State
ment by Maj. Sylvester.

A session of the board Of directors of the
Business Mems Association, held last even
ing at GUIDE Hall. was the first since the an
nual meeting of the association, two weeks
ago.
In addition to electing secretary, treas
urer general counsel and assistant counsel,
resolutions were adopted indorsing the
movement for municipal exhibit on behalf
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statement. to be filed with the COMMITTEES
on police of the board OF directors.
= Desires Removal Of Fence.

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DIR. II. L. E.zJohnson presented a reso-
luton In which 1t was asserted that the
fence inclosing the United States botanic
gardens is an eyesore and deprives citi-
zens Of the free use OF the park by prac-
tically converting the garden into a private
estate.
1t was asked that q Recommendation be
made to the proper authorities that the
fence be removed; that suitable and con-
venient walkways be laid out, and that
the Bartholdi fountain, the gift Of the
French nation in 1876. be restored to its
original condition and kept in operation
during the proper season. The resolution
was referred to the committee on public
improvements.
Election Of officers.
The election of officers resulted in the
unanimous reelection of william F. GUIDE
as secretary, o. g. Staples as treasurer,
Conrad H. Syme as general counsel and
Wilton j. Lambert as associate counsel.
The following members of the associa-
ton were elected: Andrew J. Radey, G. W.
Forsburg, B. F. Anderson, Paul F. Grove,
Ben 7. Webster, J. D. Morrey William B.
McCloskey and P. F. Tippet.
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manufacture columns. Information was re-
quested by the proprietors relative to the
freight rates by water and rail here and
whether $4,000 could be subscribed.
Needs of Police Stations.
Maj. Sylvester, superintendent of police,
spoke of the needs of the different police
stations of the city. He concluded with the
request that the association. if it approved
his suggestion, ask Congress for an appro-
priation sufficient to cover the expense of
the improvements he considers necessary.
It was explained that No. / precinct
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Wet Handbag Reveals Secret.

A water-soaked handbag Is the clue
whereby the battling Ransom mystery is at
last solved. Read the solution in Anna
Katherine Green's masterpiece 1.-THE Chief
Legatee," great serial, which Will appear
In The Star, beginning Saturday, December
1, before book publication. It 10 eighth OF
The Stars famous $15O,0O0 series.
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should have new building. No. 3, he said
should have new but ding. or radical inn
provements should be made on the old one
The noise made by unruIy prisoners in No.
4, the superintendent said, had caused con-
siderable complaint among residents of that
section of the city, and the building is
poorly ventilated and should be remodeled
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up the oars and such of their belongings
as were still floating and then began pull
ing up the creek against the tide.
AS the two damp fishermen disappeared
around the bend of the bulkhead near the
garbage station they were discussing the
probability of their having recovered the
remainder of the case of beer IL they had
dredged for it.
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Want Pay on Friday.

HAZLETON. Pa. November 2S.-The four
hundred mine workers employed by C. NJ
Dodson & Co., operating the Beaver Brook
colliery. went on strike today because the
management declined to pay them Friday,
the regular pay day. Saturday was the
date set by the company.
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One of the Port Arthur floating mines was
recently driven ashore on the Island of
Hondo. the largest of the Japanese group,
and exploded. killing ten and wounding
ffty-two villagers.
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Secretary.

of the District of Columbia at the James,
town exposition. and commencing the Dis
trct Commissioners for their efforts to
cause the various railroads entering the
new terminal station to use electric instead
of steam locomotives while within the city
limits.
Mr.. R. P. Andrews presented letter from
the Colonial column works of Abingdon,
Va. stating that it intended locating fac
tory somewhere in the east where water
transportation facilities are available to
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o. G. Staples,
Treasurer.

No. needs gymnasium and Nos. and 9
need new cells.
Mai Sylvester was asked to prepare
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
HAzINo DEFINED
Naval Court Says Any Kind of Annoy
ance or Maltreatment Is Hazing.

Naval Court Says Any Kind of Annoy
anee or Maltreatment Is Hazing.
Annapolis, Nd, Jan. 10. ~ Several
legal questions of importance arose
during the trial of Midshipman Ste
phen Decatur on charges of hazing
before the court martial in session at
the naval academy. On a motion to
strike out certain specifications as not
constituting hazing, the court was led
to substantially define the term hazing
as it is understood by the members of
the court
In denying the motion to strike out
the first two specifications the court
ruled that maltreatment of a fourth
classman by the infliction of direct
physical cruelty was not the only kind
of hazing, but that any annoyance or
molestation, such as the requirement
of menial services, making ridiculous
and such like were also hazing.
This ruling is expected to lead to
many more convictions.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
RuraI carrIers Max uae Auto..

Washington, Jan. 9. - Postmaster
General Cortelyou approved a recon-
mendation of Fourth Assistant Degraw
for the use by rural carriers of auto
mobiles in serving their routes. The
postmaster general, however, express
ly reserves the right to require rural
carriers to discontinue the use of such
vehicles and assume the service Of
their routes in the ordinary vehicles
prescribed by the regulations, If com
plant is made Of unsatisfactory SER
vice arising from the use of automo-
biIes.
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SCORES WHITE HOUSE ATTACHES
Husband Of Woman Elected Gives out

Husband Of Woman Elected Gives Out
a Statement.
washington. Jan. 9.-Dr. Minor Nor
ris, whose wife was elected from the
White House last Thursday, gave out
a public statement in which he severely
Rrraigns those responsible for her re-
moval, denounces the imposition of a
fine in her case as adding to her hui
initiation, and replies to the statement
of her brother, Representative Hull, Of
Iowa, regarding the will and codicil Of
her father. The statement is addressed
"To whom it may concern" and begins
as follows:
"A woman of the highest culture, OF
The rarest attainments, who has de-
voted her life to her home, her family
End her ideals. whose only thought has
been to do good, and who has always
considered others before herself. a wife
and mother, has been seized from be-
hind, in the waiting room of the White
Horse, and maltreated with brutality
which humanity would revolt at seeing
accorded to its lowest type. The details
of this sickening thing unnamable, are
known to the whole country"
DR.. Morris alleges that an effort was
made to hold Mrs. Norris at the house
of detention until his arrival two days
later, to make 'it appear that she was
friendless and insane" He says that
the physicians sent to examine her
their Indignation, and that
as "it became dangerous to press the
insane charge, she stands today record
ed as the disturber of the peace to the
extent of five dollars"
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
The su1tan,s Fears.

But once a week the sultan, even IL
spite Of his own fears, goes regularly
to the mosque to prayer He goes there
with one mOtiye-to insure his own sal
Walton. 1t is of himself, his eternal safe
ty, that he thinks and not Of the vel
fare Of his people. Can 1t be possible
that any Christian resembles him in
this? Are there Christians whose sole
desire in worship is their own salvation
and who care nothing for others?
The broader conceptions Of the gos-
pei never seem to enter their lives.
That because Christ is their Saviour
they should try to present him to those
who know him not, ah, this indeed has
never been the purpose of their hearts.
Now, all this narrow conception Of
Christianity must stop. We must be
eyes to the blind and ears to the deaf
and crutches to the lame and food for
the hungry. But we must be more
than that-we must be the means,
through the missionaries, Of bringing
Christ to a dying world.
Thus in closing l would point YOU
to Mars hill, the most glorious pulpit
in the world with the exception Of
Calvary. And then l would point out
for your exemplar the mightiest COS
pei preacher Of all times with the ex-
eeption Of Jesus Christ himself. And
would tell you that Paul did not 20
to Athens to preach Christ. He was
worn out with work. He was resting
there for Silas and TimOtheus to come
to him. But while he rested he saw
the Athenians in sin. Then he could
not rest any longer. The Bible says,
Ills spirit was stirred in him when
he saw the city wholly given to idol
airy" Therefore he went forth to tell
the Athenians about his Christ. All,
my friends, in our modern Athens Of
America will your hearts burn within
you as Pauls burned within him when
he saw the weaknesses of mankind?
VIII you here and now promise not to
rest this side Of the grave until you
have told as many people as you can
about the Jesus who alone can save
them from their sins? May every hour
of every day Of the coming year find
you procIaiming the gospel tidings
from some Mars hill until at last you
stand before the throne Of heaven,
aR9ll reveal himself to
es face to fs.1
ALL
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el1se a
ChrIstinn Federntion.

And, mark you, this revelation of
Christ has not been gladly acclaimed
by the churches during the past centu-
ries, but only within the last few years.
You must think of this church fellow
ship as a child of our youth and not
as a blessing Of bygone generations. It
was as late as the life of Patrick Hen
ry, who died in 1899 that the Baptist
ministers Of old Virginia were called
upon to defend themselves in the Grim
inal dock because they were charged
with preaching the gospel of the son
Of God" You who are students Of his
tory recall how the same elOquence
which fired the American colonists for
''liberty or death" reused the hearts Of
his jurors when Patrick Henry pleaded
for the freedom Of the indicted Baptist
ministers. My God,' he cried, "can II
be that any man should be charged as
a criminal for preaching the love Of
Jesus Christi" Then, again and again
he waved the indictment above him as
he said. For preaching the love Of
Jesus Christ" But now, thank God, ali
such criminal trials are past. God has
revealed himself to us theOlogically.
We know, and well know, that foreor-
or Arminianism or belief in
apostolic succession is not essential
for salvation. Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and be saved" was the
slogan Of Paul and is the slogan Of the !
modern Christian pulpits. sectarian in
tolerance is being rapidly demolished. !
We might have elung to our sectarian-
ism in the past as the Athenians clung
to their affairs Of gold and silver and !
marble before Paul appeared. But we
cannot, we dare not do so now. There /
IS but one true altar, and that is the |
lltar of Jesus Christ. "And the times
If this ignorance God winked at, but
low commandeth all men everywhere
o repent" Bepentl Repent Repent in
Jhrist's nssae or ye shall all likewise
jerish.
0n has borne with our moral
veil as our theological in
@s been overlooking for
Of the hesfs F'-s'eh L
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EMBEzZLLD TO
KEEP UP STYLE
]. Frank Challenger Confesses Steal
ing $lO,6OO From Trust Co.
LIVED BEYOND HIS MEANS

Chester Pa, Jan. 81. Frank Chal.
lenger, secretary of the Delaware
, County Trust company, was arrested
on the charge OF embezzling the funds
. of the institution. An examination of
the books of the company showed a
shortage of $1O,6O0.
When charged with the misuse OF
the funds, Challenger confessed. He
said no person was to blame but him
self and that his peculations were due
to the fact that he lived beyond his
income.
Challengers family is prominent in
Chester, and he had risen from the
position of Office boy to one of trust.
The arrest Of Challenger came as
a shock to a great many people in
this county as he had a large circle
of friends and was a more than Ordi-
norily popular man. The discovery Of
the shortage was made at the annual
balancing OF the books at the first OF
the year At that time some of the
other clerks noted discrepancies, and
after satisfying themselves there was
something wrong notified the presi-
dent, James A. G. Campbell.
Mr. Campbell Immediately instituted
a most searching investigation, with
the result that it was shown that
through a system of his own, Chal-
lenger had been abstracting money.
Immediately every account in the bank
was scrutinized and balances taken in
every department and all of the -secur-
tiles of the institution and the collat-
eral deposited were examined, with
the result that it was shown that
every other employees account in the
institution was correct and that Chal-
lenger had operated entirely by him
self.
Confronted with the evidence, Chal-
lenger admitted his wrong-doing, and
gave such assistance as he could in
matters up. He said he had
been a victim of his extravagant hab-
its, but denied that he had speculated
with the stolen money
Challenger had nothing to do with
the savings fund department of the
bank, and his peculations were from
the commercial department, his plan
being to destroy the deposit slips af-
ter the deposits had been properly en-
tered on the depositoFs and the banks
books, and manipulate the accounts to
avoid detection, although he did not
alter figures on the books of the bank. ,
Of course the records showed the I
mount Of customers deposits, and
here would have been no loss to the
lepositors, even had the shortage not J
,een detected, the loss coming out of +
What would otherwise have been the :
,rofits of the bank
Challenger was given a hearing be- ,
ore Magistrate Smith, charged with =
and was held in $4,000 ;.
ail for court. In default of bail he was ;,
AIKEN to jail. He was under bonds for
lore than twice the amount stolen
nd the loss will fall upon his sureties.
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KlIls Hlmself on LIner.

New York, Jan. &C. C. Meir, OF
San Francisco, a prisoner on tho
steamer Carmania, shot and killed
himself in his cabin just as the big
liner was entering New York harbor.
Meir was charged with embezzling
$4,000 from San Francisco wine
merchant, and was returning from
London to answer the charge. He shot
himself at daylight as the outlines Of
the American shores became visible.
Meir was arrested in London at the re-
quest Of the state department at
Washington.
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Neuro and whIte Vic IaIled.

Newburgh. N. Y, Jan. 10.-William
Bruyn, a negro coachman, and Frances
Courier, a white girl returned to
Washingtonville from Newburgh and
announced that they had been mar
ried. The girls father knocked them
both down and the angry villagers at
tackled Bruyn and threatened to lynch
him. He escaped, but later he and the
girl were placed in jail.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
Our BrOthers' Keepers.


But find God bearing with the so
cial sins of our fathers, as well as their
theological and moral faults. l find
that he comes to us, as he did to Cain
Of old, and says, Thou art thy broth
er's keeper" And when God speaks
thus he means even more than when
Christ spake the parable Of the good
Samaritan to the Jews as well as to
the Greeks. You cannot Judge the
Greeks who assembled about Mars
hill to listen to the eloquent words of
Paul by our social laws any more
than you can judge them by our theo-
logical or moral criterions.
In the first place. you must remem-
Der that the Greeks for generations
had been q slaveholding people. You
remember how that matchIess orator
Of Massachusetts, Wendell Phillips.
tried to make the Haitian martyr,
Toussaint rOuverture, the acme Of all
virtues and human perfections. In his
peroration he used these words: 'T
would call him Napoleon. but Napoleon
made his way to the empire over bro
ken oaths and through a sea Of blood.
I would call him Cromwell, but Crom-
well was only a soldier, and the com
monwealth he founded went down
with him into his grave. I would call
him Washington, but the great Yir-
ginian held slaves" Oh, Wendell Phil
lips, is that right? Is that honest? Is
that fair? Had Toussaint TOuverture
grown up on the banks of the Potomac
with a white skin. would he have done
any differently from our Washington
or our Jefferson, both Of whom held
slaves? For centuries the law Of con
quest in olden times meant enslave-
ment. You should judge the Greeks Fy
the standard Of their time. but not BY
ours God has declared that we have
another duty 60 our brothers than
put the yoke f bitterness about r.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
DIED OF I4YDRoPHoBIA
Bite From Pet Dog Caused Terrible
Death of Younu Woman.

Philadelphia, Jan. 1O.-Hydrophobia,
resulting from the bite of a pet dog
six weeks ago, caused the death Of
Miss Julia Curtin at the home of her
parents in this city. Miss Curtin was
21 years old. When all hope was gone
and when she and her family knew
that death could not be far off she
bade them farewell in one of her lucid
moments and was then locked in the
room with four physicians to meet her
terrible end beyond the gaze Of her
relatives, who could not bear to look
upon her suferings.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
NEeREss DEAD an 1876
Mary Mcdonald Remembered WASH
lngton's Camp at Valley Forde.

WARY McDonald Remembered Wash
Ington's Camp at Valley Forge.
Philadelphia, Jan. S.-Mary McDon-
aid, a negress, who claimed to be 1S5
years of age. is dead at the Home for
Aged and Infirm Colored Persons in
this city. According to Mrs. McDon-
aid and her surviving relatives, she
was born November IA, 1870, in a set
tlement known as Frogtown, near Val
ley Forge, Pa. She often told of the
scenes in and about the camp of Wash
ington's soldiers at Valley Forge dur
ing the winter of 1777-7S Mrs. McDon-
laid was Of robust physique and was an
inveterate smoker up to a short time
before her death.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
RusaIa eets s5o.OOo.ooo Loan.

Paris. Jan. 10.-It is stated in well
informed quarters, though it has not
yet been officially announced, that the
negotiations between M. KokovsofR,
the former Russian minister of finance,
and the French bankers have resulted
in the latter agreeing to advance to
the Russian government $50, 100000 at
51k per cent, interest plus 2 per cent.
commission. The state railroads are
offered as a guarantee for the money
advanced, which is to be reimbursed
from the proceeds of the proposed new
loans should the latter be hoated
within a year.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
HUNT FOR sMUeeLED DIAMONDS
Inspectors Cut Open Eatables In the
Search For Precious Stones.


New York, Jan. 10.-In a hunt for
smuggled diamonds on the steamer
Vaderland, customs inspectors cut
open and examined several kinds of
eatables. No diamonds were found.
Charles Roemaet, chancellor of the
Belgian consulate at New York, who
arrived on the steamer was among
those whose effects were searched. A
cake found in his trunk was sliced
into strips, but the inspectors un-
earthed nothing there except raisins.
Several pieces of chocolate candy and
some oranges were then cut open.
Finally the inspectors interested them
selves in a small, compact-Iooking roll
of paper, and at their request Mr..
Roemaet opened It. The contents
proved to be his credentials from the
Belgian government to this country.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
PENNsYLvANIA scHooLs

S1,s19 In Charge Of s2,s52 Teachers,
Who Got $14,142,470 Last Year.
Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 8.-The annual
report of DR.. Nathan c. Schaeffer, SUI
perintendent Of public instruction, for
the fiscal year ending June 5, 1905.
shows that there are 81, ,319 schools in
Pennsylvania. The report shows also
that there are SO2S male and 1924
female teachers in Pennsylvania, and
the average salary of the male teachers
is s51S1 per month and Of the female
teachers S99.14. There was paid in
teachers wages s14,142.4 .47O.S4 during
the year. The total expenditures for
the year were $2S,565, 47515.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
101 Persons surned to Death.

London, Jan "a dispatch from
Toxic to the Daily Telegraph says
that on January q an explosion set
fire to mine at (Akita, on the main
island Of Japan, and that 1O1 persons
we're burned to death.
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
FIve Yeara For Land Eraud.

Salem, Ore, Jan. IA. T. KelIiher.
Of Chicago, convicted last week Of
forgery in connection with land frauds
In this state, was sentenced to fmpris-
onment in the penitsRfiary for a term
Of Of fve years, Ks Iosies of
Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
HENS N COLD WEATHER.

'-'.-.IIa ~ q YaIuabIe Green -.