Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-10-01
BRIEF MENTION

Perhaps it would be easier to take
the census out OF politics il they
wouldn't put so many politicians
in it.
Let those who will argue for deep
waterways, bat what the country
needs is roads that are navigabIe all
the year round.
One family in every forty will
have an automobile by next year.
The other thirty-nin families will
have fits getting out OF the way.
Awester1 evangelist boasts that
he never read a novel. This doesn't
prove that he's much Of an evnngeTs
ist. but it does prove that he's the
prize ignoramus OF the day.
Those airship fellows-bless 'em-
they'do not waste any great amount
of time squabbling among themsel
yea. So different from our explor
ers.
And now a scientist assures us
Methuselah was seventY-eight years
of age instead of nine hundred and
sixty nine when be died. Perhaps
Methuselah has only been dead 200
or 300 years, anyway
A Canadian clergyman is reported
to have climbed the highest peak in
Canada. Perhaps the Ananias Club
needs chaplain
Miss Emma Van Campsn left town
last week to spend the winter in
Philadelphia.
William Steele spent the latter
part of last week with friends in
Shohola.
Harry Armstrong spent Monday in
New York.
II the New York Democrats fight
their opponents outside the party
with as much vigor as they do each
OIL ef, the opposition is due for
lively time.
There seems nothing left for Harry
Thaw TO do but TO cultivate the soci-
ETY. Of hls fellow-lunatics.
Railroan trafic, as estimated by
Commissioner Knapp, is to be heav-
Ter this year than ever before. il
would be still greater but for the
scagcity of cans.
= "Bsef prices soon to soar. (" says a
headline in the New York Globe.
Since when haven't they been soar
ing.
1t would be a fairly safe bet, we
fancy, that at least sixteen new bab.
les have been named for DR.. Cook
recently where one has been named
for Mr. Peary.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie n. Shaw, now a Philadelphia
banker, is preaching the gospel Of
contentment under existing indus
trial conditions up and down Penn
sylvania.
Evidently Denmark does not be-
lieve that there's anything rotten in
the Cook narrative. = -
The Baltimore Sur charaeterizes
the discovery that corn pone does
not cause peIlagra as "a victory fol
the corn pone." Be it understood
the corn pone was not in fight will
its maiignsrs. 1t merely stood pal
and calmly awaited certain vindica
ton.
Reviewing the record of the frs
six mouths OF the Taft administra
tion Mr.. Bryan win probably mak'
the reluctant admission that he him
self couIdn't have run things muel
better
Mr. Bryan speaks OF the two wing
OF the hspnDlican party. That's a.
many as the angels have.
COMMANDED Psary may prove hin
slf the Columbus of the Twentietl
Century. but at present be great.
resembles the Admiral Sampson Q
the hour.
The trial Of Henry Brink Of Mon
tagas, for the murder of Jsrom
Cooperman near Tri States, will b
held at Goshen in October.
E. W. johnson Of Mast Hope wa
In town last Monday.
Largely Though the instrumental
ity and generosity Of John Hesdorf,
the Port Jervis road was grayelle
and improved this week. Ii is a
excellent time for such work as III
dressing will work down into The so
mud and make the whole a compa,
mass. Such public spirited rfTor
deserve and viii receive commend
ton from the whole community.
Remember the big sale Of Il
Milford Livery Stable tomorrow ,
Hartford Street opposite the HON
stead Library It will be a fine o
portuuiiy to buy hosss. wagons sI
barnes.