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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-11-26
DADS MEERscHAUM PIPE.

Though yCn prize yotr gems of value
And jewels Of much WORTH
hold in my hand irihing thing
That prize most earth.
You may laugh to my foolish tears
AS they freely flow,
But memory and dads chaum pipe
Hand in hand together go.
] see my dad in his easy char
On a crispy wintrs night
BY the kitchen hearth wen swept and clean,
On the kitchen table by the light
OF an old oil lamp my tthcr sits
Knitting Silence unbrokep.
From the burnt brown bowl of dads meerschaum pipe
Wreathe clouds Of curling smoke
Again 1 see him up the lane
With hands clasIed at his back X
For when in eomtempative mood
1t his usual knack
To place them so, and puff, puff, puff,
L the smoke ascend
And know his chum, his meerschaum pipe
Is his solace and his friend.
And again his head bowed down
With gref-poor poor mothers gone
And dad is thinking of the past,
Tears and trckle down
His furrowed cheeks but still he feels
Some comfort for see
His faithful, faithful meeischaum pipe
He smokes ncessaDtly.
Now poor dad-he too has gone
And he's left his pipe me;
! treasure it with jealous care,
Though worthless thing it be;
Whether long short my life,
Tnaciously I'll cling
To my dear dads old meerschaum pipe,
To s priceless thing
CECILIA A. CULLEN.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-11-26

Secretary of State Knox has deter
mined chat in his administration OF
the State Department the CONNER
cial as well as the diplomatic aspects
shall be given careful attention. He
has announced that his chief work,
aside from using the vast influence Of
the United States to preserve peace
and harmony among the nations,
will be the extension of the Amer
icaa trade not only in the Far East
but in South and Central America
and in the Ottoman Empire He
has already insisted that this govern
ment be recognized in China and
that American bankers be allowed to
participate in the loan of $50, 900, 900
which the celestial empire is about
to float. Mr.. Knox is of the opinion
that if American Capital is invested
in China and if public improve
nents are made with the assistance
Of America China will soon become
an open field for American products
and America will soon find that in
China there is an unprecedenenf de-
mand for her commodities. At first
the European bankers who had de-
termined to fioat the loan refused to
allow United States bankers to par.
ticipate but Mr.. Knox insisted and IL
now seems certain that he will be sue
cessful in gaining this new field for
American capital. He has also
made preparations for the invasion Of
Central and South America by
American business men while, an
arrangement is being drawn up be.
tween this country and Turkey by
which the United States will be Civ
en- fair opportunity TO invest money
in the new institutions of the Otto
man Empire. In order that no de-
tail In this campaign for commercial
development may be overlooked q
new bureau of the State Department
has been established. 1t is called
the Division of Far Eastern Attain
and ITS sole duty will be to aid the
commercial advancement of the
United States in the countries
named.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-11-26
NEWS FROM
WASHINGTON


Those members Of Congress who
are laboriug under the haIlucination
that when they completed their con
siderstion Of the atrif question they
had finished all the hard work that
would be required of them for some
years will be surprised TO find that a
difiirult legislative program has been
mapped out and one that will call
for their most profound thought and
best efforts President Taft has
many recommendations in mind,
some Of which he win put before
Congress in his ANIMAL message. He
has outlined them in his recent
speeches and It is not necessary to
enumerate them here.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-11-26

Col Ezra II. RIPPLE postmaster Of
Scranton was buried last Monday.
The funeral was largely attended By
State ofioials. including Governor
Stuart.
II has been figured out that the
{ st Of running an automobile, sup
posing the distance covered 10 be I
60 5000 miles. is about twenty threS
cents 4 mile. II less mikes are GOV,
cred the cost Is prOportlOnAtsly NOR 4
Mira Arthur n Roe Of BranehviIl'
\ visiting iu tOwn,
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-11-26

Timber must be valuable when
the timber on less than 20oO acres
Of Pike County land will sell for
81, goo or over $40 an acre. This is
indicated by a recent sale 70 the
Penna. Coil 20. for corporations are
presumed to be careful buyers.
Two notable writers in New York
recently have passed away, William
NJ. Iafiau for the past twenty years
publisher of the New York Sun. and
Richard Watson Glider editsr Of the
Century Magazine and a poet of
wide reputation.
East Stroudsburg State Normal
students eat potatoes electrically
skinned. They consume five ebushels
day and the peeling is done by q
machine.
Miss Eva Angie of Dingman's
Ferry spent several days recently
with her friend Walter Dingman.
Mrs. Morrow, widow Of the late
David Morrow. died at the home Of
her son c. rus in New ark Monday
aged about 80 years. She was sis
ter Of Mrs. Sarah Crissman Of this
BOrough, and the late Mrs. NJ. C..
Westbrook of Blooming Grove, and
many years ago with her husband
resided in this county, living at one
time on what is known as the stone
house place in Dingman township,
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-11-26
Two Miles A Minute.

Twomilesaminute
Geehowwefiyl
Swiftasameteor
StreakiDgthesky.
Whatisthatblur
Onlythetrees.
Lookatthemwave;
Mywhatabreeze
Ahonkandarush,
Afiashandasmeil -
Whatdidwehit?
Didsomebodyyeii?
Ajarandaseream-
Itlookedlikeahorse.
Notellingnow;
Keeptothecourse.
Outofthsroad
Giveusashowl
Twomilesaminute.
GeehowwegoI
Newark New
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-11

It Just as the English do toward "a common"
and Just as country neighborhood feels to-
ward roadway which has been in constant
Use for generations.
To shut the public out causes row. This is
SO, throughout the world.
Therefore, when the two lawyers, Tay1or and
Rankin, bought the Lake and told the people
OF the regions round about that no one should
fsh 1T, excepting those who paid TAYLOR and
Rankin for the privilege, a temper of violence
was aroused among these ignorant backwoods~
men, similar to that which flames out in Eng
land when nobleman incloses "a common"
We think that the Governor of Tennessee
should give due weight to this underlying
cause of the crime, and that he should commute
the sentence of the six condemned men to life
imprisonment.
Again,-we think that the State of Tennes-
see should cancel that grant and restore Reel
foot Lake to the public. Return to the pur-
chasers every dollar they paid, add to this
whatever sum they have spent legitmately on
the property, allow interest on the sum total, at
the legal rate, and then REVOKE THE
GRANT.
1t was improvdently made, should never
have been made. Great deep-water lakes like
that ought not to be privately owned. They
are public III their nature their uses, and their
benefits.
The State of Tennessee has already been at
tar larger expense on account of this legis1a-
tive mistake than she got for the Lake. If she
wants peace among her people, if she wants to
put an end to violence and crime in the Reel
foot region, let her, first of all, win the conf
dence of those poor, benighted people Of the
backwoods BY MAKING RESTITUTION.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-11
Glorious NeDS from the Fleet.

Our bosoms and breasts are still pulled out
with pride over the around-the- globe voyage of
our big battle-ships. When Admiral Bob Evans
accomplished the astounding feat of crossing
from the Atlantic into the Pacific, without
the loss of single man or tub, we could hardly
contain our joy AS a matter of course, we
pointed with pride Then when the Squadron
warped its weary way up the Western coast,
winning and dining at every STOP we kept on
pointing with pride. Never had we seen one
body of men do so much sailing and speech
making and Wining and dining and dancing
and parading We fell into ecstasies of pa
triotic exultaton That human legs and human
stomachs were capable of such sustained labor
as this, had never entered Our widest dreams.
We could not comprehend how it that
everybody kept sober when nobody could re-
fuse to drink, 1t was mystery. SO much
So indeed, that we began to view it with alarm
When Admiral Bob Evans threw up the
sponge, we knew what it meant Fighting
Bob felt that if he hung on to the fleet, and did
his patriotic part in all the shore-leave enter
tainments which awaited him in the Orient, he
would be goner. Particularly, as the home
coming trip would compel him to eat drink and
dance in Morocco, Spain, France, England and
perhaps Italy itself. To save himself from
being capsized, Fighting Bob showed the white
feather and deserted the carousng voyagers.
Admiral Evans was wise in his generation.
Well had it been for Captain Qualtrough of
the battle-tub Georgia, had he quit with honor
when Evans did But the Captain, mistaking his
capacity to carry wine, went into the fire once
too often, While carousing on shore with his
brother officers, at Tangier, he either reeled or
nodded or failed to give the distinct articula-
ton of the words truly rural"
At all events, his comrades who were drink
ing with him reached the conclusion that he
was drunk. For an officer of the navy to be
drunk in public, is national reproach. Let
him take two glasses of wine,-and he may do
so amid acclamations of an admiring universe
Continued on Page Twelvel
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-11
Good Ebenng, Sweetheart; Am't You
GAvine Ter Kiss We?"

tohn Browns soul is conclusively presumed
to be marching on. Even Pittsburg has its
nigger-quake
One white woman is dying from jur1es re-
ceived from a black rdvisher, and scores of
other assaults and attempts to assault, have at
last fired the Pennsylvanians. White girls on
their way to school, and working girls on their
way to their daily tasks have been attacked
in the broad open daytime, and outraged by
the African brutes who are allowed to infest
certain parts of Pittsburg. So rank is the
growth of insolence and lawlessness that it is a
common occurrence for a negro man to hail a
white girl with
Good evening sweetheart; amt yer gwine
ter kiss me?"
We regret to say that, as yet, none of these
brutes have been before Judge Lynch.
But as we were saying, John Browns rest
less soul is still on the go. Sometimes we
wonder what Cassius Clay and Wendell Phil
lips and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Tuli"
Ward Howe and Lloyd Garrison and owen
Lovejoy and Charles Sumner and William Il.
Seward would think of their work. if they could
revisit this troubled republic.
White women did not live within the fright
full shadow of the Black Peril in slavery days.
White husbands, brothers, and lovers did not
arm their nearest and dearest with revOlvers,
and tell them to shoot. White women were not
afraid of the country road, nor the path through
the woods. How is it now? God help us We
dare not let our women stray out of our sight.
The roads are not safe, the bridle-path is not
to be thought Of; in the back street of the
towns and cities Turk dangers worse than death; ;
the open squares and the parks have heard the
unavailing shrieks of the victims Of the rapist !;
and even in such centres of civilization as Pitts
burg. THE WHITE GIRLS DARE NOT GO
TO SCHOOL WITHOUT POLICE WITS
TIES AND PISTOLS!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-11
Where Is the FOOl-Ki7IeY !?
We clip the following from the N Y World:
TREASON" TO SING DIXIE" ON LIN
COINS BIRTHDAY
Chicago Schools Directed to Take Popular
Melody Off the Programme for Feb. II.
Especial to The WORLDLY

\opCNldl W lie VOIlQJ
Chicago, Feb 4.-President Schneider, of the
School Board, has sent out notice to all teach
ers prohibiting the singing of Dixie" at the
Lincoln centennial celebration in the public
schools. Many of the teachers had the old
melody on their programmes.
It was pointed out to President Schneider
that Dixie" was composed in the North by
Dan Emmett and contained no words rejecting
on any one.
Mr.. Schneider said it would be treason to sing
it. He suggested the singing of Marching
Through Georgia Rally Round the Flag,
Boys, and RED, White and Blue"
Bully for Schneider! He probably came
over with Carl Schurz and ever after re-
NAMED hide-bound South-hater, just as Carl
did
Abraham Lincoln would have been the first
man to point the finger of scorn at such fools
as Schneider. DIXIE" WAS LINCOLNS
FAVORITE. On the night after Appomattox
he called on the bands to play Dixie" He
said Il always did love it, and now it's ours"
But Schneider must be obeyed Lincoln's
preference goes for nothing. 1t often happens
that the living use the name of the mighty
dead to vent their own spleen and to crafty
the meanness of their own small souls.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-11
More AbOnf the Bell Case.

The Jeffersonian is in receipt of the follow
ing letter, which speaks for itself:
Macon, Ca February 4, 1000
Hon. Thomas E. Watson Thomson, Ga
My Dear Sir It had been my intention to
sincerely thank OH for the editorial upon the
Bell case which appeared in the Jeffersonian
of last week. but have been delayed in doing
SO until the present time After reading the
editorial of this week desire to doubly thank
YOU. brought the proceedings which resulted
in the verdict mentioned Mr. McNeips state
ments to you substantially correct. YOU
WILL UNDERSTAND BELL HAS NEVER
HAD A HEARING AS TO HIS SANITY.
He was taken to Aliens Sanitarium and forci-
bly, held there until an apology for trial was
held in Swainsboro and the necessary papers
made out for his commitment to the State
Sanitarium HE HAS NEVER BEEN
FACED BY AN ACCUSER OR JURY, and
the proceedings were brought to show that he
was being illegally held, which fact we proved
by witnesses from SWainsbOro, but the ord1-
nary, at the dictation of Mr.. Pottle, AC-
CEPTED THE COMMITMENT PAPERS
HELD BY THE OFFICIALS AS THE
HIGHEST EVIDENCE THAT EVERY
THING WAS REGULAR, notwithstanding
the fact that BELL WAS MANY MILES
AWAY WHEN THE PAPERS WERE
MADE OUT. Having served a term IN the
Legislature with Bell | am prepared to make
oath that | believe George Bell to be as sane
now as he was when his people elected him
to represent them in the General Assembly, or
even more so, for he is entirely sober at this
time.
Again thanking you for your interest in the
matter am very truly yours,
L. J. Kilburn
In addition to Mr.. Kilburn's letter, we pre-
sent the following
West Point, Ga. Feb. 5, 1909.
Hon. T. E. Watson.
Dear Sir; Reading in the Jeffersonian OF the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-02-11
6be Jefferson,an

case of Geo H. Bell, am moved to write to
you. | know something from experience about
that MURDER hole, known as the State SAM
tarium, as | spent five months there some two
years ago. | wish to state that the cruelties
practiced on the unfortunate inmates surpass
those practiced in the Dark Ages by Spanard
or Turk
| have seen the attendants, or keepers, knock
ing and kicking the poor epileptics downstairs.
Also seen them put two poor idiots to fighting
for their amusement
Could give the names and addresses of sew
eral witnesses, if they are alive today, and have
ever been discharged.
| heard you speak at Lagrange many years
ago at the Cooper murder trial. also the late
VIM. Sanford, later Governor of Alabama
Am selling out to leave this State, as it seems
to me to be dangerous State to live in.
Truly,
Robert c. Harrell
If Governor Smith were not SO busy trying
to make himself solid with influential lawyers
who want pardons for their clients he might
hold up awhile on turning felons out of the
penitentiary, and devote some of his valuable
time to conditions at the State Sanitarium.
The Illegal method adopted to put George
Bell in there, and to keep him in there, cries to
heaven for redress
Who is it that pays the lawyers who are
keeping this man in prison? Who are your
clients, Judge Lawson? If there is no unworthy
motive actuating those who prolong the in
generation Of Bell, why is it that the proceed
ings against him have been so shockinglys law
less?
Why is it that THEY DARE NOT GIVE
BELL A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE AN I'M
PARTIAL JURY?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-15
TO SHOW GREEN RIVER FRUIT.
Exhibit for State Fair Enters Com
petition for Prizes.

The fruit growers and business men
OF Green river valley in eastern Utah
have started movement to bring
big exhibit TO the state fair with the
determination 90 carry home all
prizes in the departments in which
they compete While the crops this
year are not as large as they have
been in previous years. the quality is
considered much better. and IL Is
claimed that the apples. pears. and
plums especially are not excelled by
those grown In any section IN the west
II is understood that the Commercial
club OF Green River city Is behind the
movement and every EFFORT will be
made TO capture large number Of
prizes
From other sections OF the state sim
liar reports are being received and
horticultural hail viii doubtless con
tain the most interesting exhibit ever
seen al a state fair. Inquiries are be-
Ing received by Secretary Ensign from
all over the country relative 10 the
state fair. ana many magazines Of the
east and west have requested fun in
formation together with photographs
OF scenes, In the fair These requests
are all being complied with. and Utah
VIII get a great amount 81 free adver-
Using as result The work OF clear
ing and identifying the grounds IL
progressing In satisfactory manner,
and WOrkmen are now engaged in in
stalling flower beds and fountains
Preparations for the elaborate illumln-
ationa are also being made, and the
general appearance OF tho grounds be
ing improved wherever possible. The
officials are taking this work in hand
ln plenty Of time 10 order 10 insure
everything being In readiness for the
opening day.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-15
MILLER CHARGED
WITH GRAVE ACTS
Wife Makes Serious Charles
Against Him in Her Suit
For Divorce.
BANK ACCOUNT is HELD UP
Upon Allegations Madc In Complaint.
Restraining Order Issucs-isl,s
Custody of Five children.

Mrs Maggie H. Miller brought suit
yesterday against her husband. Charles
III. Miller, secretary and manager OF
the Royal Laundry, for divorce. ga
which she alleges cruelty ana inndel-
ity. In the complaint. she names Mrs.
Meta Edwards as correspondent Mrs.
Miller asks Tor the custody OF their
I'VE children, title TO two lots i'm Capl-
;ol Avenue addition. which are covered
by a mortgage for $1,000. the house.
hold furniture, valued at $500. reason
able alimOny and attorneys fees.
The court granted her a restraining
order prohibiting her husband from
withdrawing $3.50 now on deposit in
McCornick's bank, and from disposing
Of any Of his property. Her husband
own 100 shares in the Royal Laundry,
5000 shares in the Peoples Coal a
Coke company and two life Insurance
policies.
According to the complaint 81.
Miller says that her husband left her
In May. 1905, and did not return up-
tll June. 1903. lie went TO see her
three times while they were living
apart she says. When he returned.
she says that he promised to be good,
but that on sept. 10 he threatened 70
beat her During his absence. Mrs
Miller charges her husband with being
with Mrs Edwards She says that
he has threatened to dispose OF his
property and leave the state.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-15
BOARD AWARDS CONTRACTS.
Three Schools 10 he Improvisation
mated for Scholarships.

Tho board of education awarded three
contracts last night for improvements
at three public school buildings aggre-
eating SS,390.37 David Green was given
the contract for laying cement Side
walks around the Wasatch school
building for si4qS.12 and AT the River
side school for S96.25. Pomeroy
Spencer was given the contract for
installing new heating plant at the
Sumner school At the cost Of $685..
Superintendent ID. IT, Christensen
submitted the list Of nominations for
scholarships 10 the secondary training
school ana the college department Of
the state school Of education. The
board adopted the list which practi-
cally exhausts the list available from
salt Lake They are as follows:
Ca) In the secondary training school
Daphne Coray: Lucille Collier. 4l6
Tenth East; Louise Bauerman, 269
south Eleventh Fast. Mary Louise
Slack. city: Charles r. Felt, 1865 south
Eleventh East; Virginia Duncan, 65s
Duncan avenue.
school Of education-Gleu Thomas. 353
Edith avenue; Eleanor Ship. 5l3 Sec
ond avenue: Ethel Valentine. IS @
street: Alice Glenn, 166 q street Res
sic Wilcox, s2S south Second West;
Irene Miller. 336 south Seventh Fast:
Harriet McCarrlck ago Fifth East;
katherine DriScoh, 32J south Second
East; Nina Folsom, Is Folsom avenue;
1nez Clark. 444 Fourth avenue
Waterloo; CLEO h. Gilsh, 939
Windsor Avenue; Ada Holmes.
as west Fourth North; Gus
sic Bowdridge. 4l5 north Second West;
Mildred Krebs 96S west Third South
Della Carruthers. 251 west Sixth North:
Eleanor crawford. l53 = street; Flor
ence HaVenor 7N7 Third avenue. Dala
Havenor, 737 Third avenue; ATlie john
Fueger. 995 south Eighth East; Laura
NJ. sutton. l75 Q street.
Teachers in the Lake Breeze annex.
Jordan annex. Sherwood annex and
Bonneville schools win receive an adj
diuonal $40 per month because Of the
distance from the schools
Edwin Gcsswcin was formally ap-
pointed rs manual training teacher in
the public schools at a salary Of ss75
year
Teachers will be paid on the following
dates this school year: oct. s. Nov. S.
Dec. 3. Dec. - IAN 2S. Feb 25. March
% April %. May 81 and June 10.
Two pianos will be purchased. one for
the Wasatch and the other for the Riv-
erside school and 800 viii he spent for
equipment for the kindergarten at the
Riverside school
The salary OF Miss Myrtle Reilly. Sec
rotary 70 Superintendent Christie nsen.
was advanced from $40 TO 1925 "a
month, and Mrs. Anna L Viewers
salary "a assistant 20 clerk Judd - the
board WIS raised from 800 10 Sis a
month The salary OF Miss Kate Scrib-
ner. stenogrnpher 10 clerk Judd was
advanced from S45 a month to $50 n
month.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-15
MISS EVANS CONCERT.
Interesting Event set for Friday at
The Thcatcr.

The testimonial 70 be rendered to
Miss Edna Evans in the Salt Lake the
alter next Friday night promises 20 be
an interesting event IN local music
circles. The popularity OF the young
singer II demonstrated by the fact thar
several OF the stalls have been reserved,
and that parties are being made up
among the younger musicians OF the
city. 4 large delegation from the
University Of Utah, where Miss Evans
has been engaged for some years. will
be IN attendance, and the management
say the Indications all point TO
rousing farewell reception.
Miss Evans has been before the Salt
Lake public for some years, and has
forged her way 10 the front ranks Of
local musicians. her voice and charm
ing personality should win for her
high place, and with her talent and am
billions. her friends are confident that
she win be heard from Ia the future.
The program arranged for Friday night
Is an ideal one, containing as IL does
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-15
GIVING MONEY AWAY.
Familyman Pays for Butter lie Does
Not Get, say Onicials.

In a month the residents OF SAT-
Lake city pay for $4,000 worth Of
butter which they do not get on ac-
count of the short weight according
10 figures compiled By city Food In
specfor Walter J. Frazier and willard
Hanson, state food and dairy commits
sioner This amounts 40 $4,000 a
year or about $500 a day The butter
consumption OF salt Lake amounts 10
about 800. 600 pounds ON a monthly
basis the consumers pay FOR 1890
pounds OF butter which they do not
get. on account of the short weight
This riises the price OF butter 10 abOul