LEST WE FORGET
The Quaker Seedsmen of
Long Ago,
LEVI SHAW AND DOCTOR JONES
The Waning Shaker Community
How It Is Gradually Dying
Out Necessary Young
Blood not in
Evidence.
With the blue birds and robins, the
the crocuses and tulips, the March
breezes and April sho'wers of yearly re
currence, old Honesdalers will remem
ber the long gray coats and broad-brimmed
hats of Levi Shaw and his brother,
as harbingers ol spring. As regularly ns
the season came and went, these smooth
faced, mild-eyed, gentle-mannered rep
resentatives of the New Lebanon Shaker
Community, appeared on ,our streets,
called from door to door on our mer
chants of from thirty-to forty years ago,
counted the garden seeds left over from
the year's commission sale, took their
pay for such packages as had been dis
posed of, and left fresh boxes for the
ensuing season's trade. Unlike the free
seeds sent from Washington by Con
gressmen and Senators as a reward to
their constituents for support at the polls,
and generally distributed locally by the
county newspapers as special favors to
their subscribers, the Shaker seeds were
always to bo depended on, and, with
due respect to individual beliefs as to
planting in the proper ph'ase of the moon,
if put in the ground in the proper "seed
time," were sure to reward the hus
bandman with satisfactory "harvests,"
in due season.
Levi Shaw, the chief traveling rep
resentative of the Shaker Community,
was wisely selected by his platonic breth
ren and sisters, to make friends in the
world at large. Suave, handsome, com
panionable, he was always welcome in
business houses, even at a time when
"drummers" were as a rule regarded as
nuisances. Just how he became the
warm personal friend of Dr. Joseph
Jones and his first wife, the latter a
daughter of ihe late John A. Gustin, the
Honesdale postmaster when the writer
was a lad, we don't know, but this at
least is sure, that he made their house
his home on his annual visits here.
Dr. Jones was the pioneer among the
homosopathists of Wayne county. He
was a firm believer in and an able ex
ponent of the "infinitessimal dose"
theory, a doctrine which was of course
vigorously combated by the physicians
of the old school. Once in a while these
upholders of the different systems in
dulged in personal controversy, and the
writer well remembers an occasion when
Dr. Jones dropped in at the drug store
of the late Dr. William H. Reed, more
familiarly known as "Doctor Billy."
When these two met, friendly as they
were personally, the professional battle
was on, and when the allopathist laugh
ed to scorn the pretension that there
could be any efficacy in the pin-head
pills prescribed by the new school, Dr.
Jones produced a bottle of strychnine
pellets, one of which was a dose, and
declared that to swallow half a dozen of
them would mean death. Dr. Billy took
a good look at the hundreds of miniature
pills in the phial, and simply saying,
"Well, call the coroner," poured them
all down his throat. Whether the over
dose proved its own antidote, or whether
the doctor was immune against poison
may never be known, but certain it is
that Dr. Billy showed no ill results from
his heroic overdose, and that he lived for
many, many vears afterward.
Notwithstanding such apparently dis
crediting incidents, Dr. Jones acquired
a fine practice, and with it material pros
perity. With the accumulation of the
necessary funds he invested quite largely,
for a professional man, in real estate,
and eventually became the owner of va
rious farms and other landed property
in the vicinity of Honesdale. On the 6th
of November, I860, he bought of Edward
Fowler and Benjamin Gates, trustees of
the United Society of Shakers, town of
New Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y.,
433 acres and 131 perches of land, lying
along the Wangum in Cherry Ridge,
Paupack and Salem townships, with the
privilege accorded in former deeds of
building dams on the streams. This
tract was sold by Edward W. Weston,
agent for the warrantee owners, to the
late Judge James R. Dickson and Win.
II. Cushman of Honesdale in 1855. In
February, 1804, Mr. Dickson assigned
his share to Mr. Cushman, and the same
day, (15th) Mr. Cushman sold the prop
erty to the Shakers.
When, March 21st, 1870, Dr. Jones
contracted the lot to former Sheriff J.
T. Barnes, the consideration was $8,890,
reservation being made of the hemlock
bark, which had been sold to L. A.
Robertson, owner of the tannery at
Middle Valley, and the bass wood which
had been bought by Beers, Reed & Co.,
of Honesdale. Sheriff Barncscommenc
ed lumbering on tho lot, which was one
of tho moBt heavily timbered in this sec
tion, and continued in that business un
til he met his death by accident in his
own sawmill.
In October, 1870, Dr. Jones sold to
Levi Shaw, of the Shaker community,
his remaining interest in the Barnes
contract, receiving $5,800 for it, and a
few years later removed toStockbridge,
Mass., where his wife died, and where
two or three weeks ago he was remarried
at the age of seventy. Last summer he
paid Honesdale a visit and so impressed
his old friends with his youth fulness and
vigor, notwithstanding his honorable
tale of years' as shown by the family
Bible, that no one was surprised to hear
of his second venture on the matrimon
ial sea.
With the settlement of business af
fairs between the Barnes estate and Mr.
Shaw, and the final crowding out of the
latter as a commercial traveller by the
encroachments of Pawr Henderson and
other seedsmen, it is many years since
the quaint and distinguishing garb of
the Shakers has been seen on our thor
oughfares. It mav be remarked here
that the nickname "Shaking Quakers,"
was altogether a misnomer. The sect
originated in England in 1747, under the
leadership of Mother Ann Lee. The
members differ from the Quakers both
in doctrine and practice. They style
themselves the "United Society of Be
lievers in Christ's Second Appearance."
They do not marry, and their commun
al name originates from their move
ments in dancing, which form part of
worship. The sect is now confined to
the United States, and is steadily weaken
ing here.
To what an extent the Shaker settle
ment at NewLebanon to which theShaws
belonged has been reduced is disclosed by
a recent alleged scandal, in which one of
the ciders or head of a family has been
sent forth into the world without (he
benediction of his superiors. Back of
this casting out lies the fact of poverty
of numbers of the Shakers, else he had
not come among them. He is a Swiss
and his advent at Mount Lebanon fif
teen years ago was the result of a Euro
pean proselytizing in order to recruit
the depleted ranks of the brethren and
sisters. Others of foreign birth came
over to join the community, and it was
hoped that the infusion of fresh blood
would revive the waning prestige of a
community doomed to death by dry rot.
It is worthy of note, however, that the
Shakers are rich, and it is therefore
rather strange that cupidity has failed
to attract, where arid righteousness had
palled.
The present families of Shakers are
composed of old or elderly people and
there does not seem to be any reason
able hope that young folks will ever be
induced to ally themselves with a people
holding out so few allurements from a
wordly point of view.
We pause to remark on this condition
of our old friends, the Shakers, because
it marks the decline of almost the last
of that once very popular form of com
munistic experimentation which bore
fruit in the Oiwida Community of John
Humphrey Noyes, the Hopedale Com
munityof HoseaBallou, the Brook Farm
hazard of Charles A. Dana, Horace
Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mar
garet Fuller and others, the New Har
mony settlement in the west, and others
which have made a lesser stir in the
world. Of later years there have been
other ventures of the sort, butthey have
lasted even for a shorter than those en
umerated. In all of them the basic idea
has been community of property and
purpose, an altruistic and generally im
practicable theory obrotherly love, and
also, in most instances, some fantastic
religious schism, as for instance, the
complex marriage of the Oneida Com
munity. In all of them, however, be it
noted, money has been made and the
central idea was beautiful, as a theory.
The conclusion inevitably to be de
duced from these numerous failures is
that the time is not ripe for the com
munistic ideal to be realized. To be
come thus ripe presupposes a vast
amount of unselfishness, industry and
disinterestedness, such as mankind has
not yet had instilled into it, and Bellamy
was well warranted in placing the date
of his famous romance as far in the near
future as he did.
In fact the trend of opinion is dis
tinctly from, Instead of towards, such ex
periments. Fewer and fewer are now
established, and the old ones, have all
passedaway (as strictly"communities"in
the old sense) with the exception of
these worthy old Shakers, who are all
a-flutter over the escapade which ex
poses their diminishing numerical
strength rather than demonstrates any
yielding to carnal impluses on their part.
Young Men Wanted.
Uncle Sam will hold an examination
for Railway Mail Clerks' in this vicinity
and throughout the United States on
MaylSth. Many ambitious young men,
with only a very ordinary school educa
tion, can readily pass. The government
wants young men over 18 with commdn
sense, to take examinations for railway
mail clerks and carriers, and the Govern
ment Positions Bureau, of Rochester.
N. J,, with its peculiar knowledge of
tho requirements of the examination can
fit any young man in a short time to
pass. A government position means
steady work, good pay, and a yearly
vacation. There is time to prepare for
the May 15th examinations, and a read
er of The Citizen can get fnll informa
tion how to proceed, free of charge, by
writing The Government Positions
P.nreau, 842 Power Block, Rochester,
N. Y.
MOTHERS DAY.
What our Mothers have Done for
Us and what wo owe to Our
Mothers' Memory.
We gave in last Friday's Citizen a
pretty full account of the origin and pur
pose of Mothers' Day, which will here
after be observed on tho- second Sunday
in May, the anniversary falling this
year on the 9th.
From the pen of William E. Sheffield,
of St. Augustine, Fin., the Stroudsburg
Record pays the mother a touching tri
bute, from which the following sugges
tions are culled :
Do not forget that she risked her life
for you, and that there was not one
moment in all her years, if the occasion
required it, that she would not have
willingly given it that you might be
spared.
Don't forget that while she is here, it
is not only your privilege, but your duty
to give her in every way imaginable,
loving consideration; utmost respect.
Do not withhold the caress, it is the one
thing you cannot overdo. It will give
her new life. It will keep the pallor and
wrinkles from her face. Can you not
see that day by day the lines are grow
ing deeper, the eye less brilliant and
more sunken, the oft-rising sigh much
longer and deeper ? Her laughter is not
so much in evidence, nor has it the sil
very ring it used to have in days gone
by."
She cannot sweep and scrub as she
could in past days. The rheumatism
has begun to twist her fingers, and she
has to sit down and rest oftener than
she used to. " Are you blind ? Can you
not see she is failing, and that the grass
hopper is beginning to be a burden?
Do you take the broom or scrubbing
brush from her hand and gently lead
her to an easy chair on the porch, and
do the work which she was trying and
willing to do, even though her strength
did not warrant 7 Or doyou thoughtlessly
bring your young friends to the house
and have a nice time, and then, when
they are gone let mother clear away the
disorder, or perchance stand over the
stove, baking good things for you and
yours while the swollen veins in her fail
ing body are bursting under the strain ?
Do you tell others how it worries you
to see her failing day by day, yet sit with
your friends enjoying life ; and by the
piano sweetly singing, "What is Home
without a Mother 7" or that other sweet
song, "Who will care for Mothernow?"
while that same mother is in the kitch
en sweating over the fire to make good
ies for you, and drudging as the strains
of your pathetic voice fill the air 1
O, quit this I Wake up and do some
thing while she yet is here. Don't wait
until she lies with folded hands over a
silent breast, and then smother her
mound in the church yard with flowers.
No, begin now I Make her leave the
kitchen. Show her you are in earnest.
Take her with you into the parlor and
after lovingly tucking her in an easy
chair beside that same piano, play and
sing to her some of those old lullabys
which she used to sing to you as she
snuggled you closely in her arms and
crooned them to you in the long ago.
Or have, you married and gone from
that house and been successful in life
and accumulated riches, and pass her
on tho street while driving in your
carriage with lackeys in livery, and stop
not to pick her up, simply because her
garments are old fashioned 7 Or do you
refrain from going to take her out for a
drive in fear she might expect you to do
so regularly and thus make it onerous
for you 7 Have you forgotten how many
times many years ago she took you out
driving in the little old fashioned car
riage while she acted as the horse 7 These
are live and pertinent questions, and
don't fear to catechise yourself on this
line; it will do you good.
Do you visit asylums, and cater to tho
inmates, but forget that a bunch of
roses for mother dear would bring more
perfume of contentment and pleasure
to you than ministering to hospitals and
asylums, while neglecting her 7
Remember that in the course of events
there will come a time when the win
dows will be darkened and that dear
one will silently lie in tho parlor never
again to sweep, or scrub, or bake.
Friends will gather around to honor the
memory of that same dear mother, the
one whom perhaps you in life thought
lessly, not willfully, neglected, then you
will hear those awful words "Dust to
dust Ashes to ashes."
If you have done your duty to her the
occasion will be less sad, for you can
feel with a measure of certainty that the
time will come when you can meet her
again, and in an endless cycle bestow
upon her a love which, starting here be
low, will blossom into an everlasting
realization.
On the other hand if you neglect it
would be too painful to finish the sen
tence ; let the dash speak volumes to
you and bo the means of awakening in
you renewed efforts to do all you can in
the way of attention and affection to the
one who stands only second in your
love j Tho Master being first.
Missing Opportunities.
"I have no patience with a man
who makes the same mistake twice,"
said Arraes, rather severely.
"Neither have I," agreed his wlfo,
when thoro are so many other mis
takes to make,"
Farmer Makes Them Lay
Eggs Day and Night.
BUT THE HEN FRUIT IS SMALLER
A Jersey lion in Missouri Would
Lay a Different Sort of' an Egg,
an Expert Testifies in
Court What Causes
tho Difference.
NEWARK, N. J. That a New
Jersey hen would lay a different
shaped egg if it were taken to Mis
souri was an assertion made in an
unusual BUlt heard before Judge
Helsley and a Jury in the Circuit
Court at Newark.
Paul Mandevllle of Chicago,
brought suit against the firm of H.
Koch & Co. of Newark to recover
$332, the value of a carload of Mis
souri eggs consigned to that firm.
The verdict was given in favor, of
tho defendant after a deliberation
of two hours. The defence was
that Iowa eggs had been ordered In
stead of the Missouri product.
Testimony was given by experts
as tp the age of eggs and in Just
what State they originated. It was
declared by John W. Bain for the
defense that he handled eggs for
years, that he was able to ascer
tain the thickness of a shell and at
a glanco to tell correctly the num
ber of spots on an egg. He said the
eggs Mandevllle shipped were laid
In April and kept in cold storage
until December. More than three
dozen In each case were "live eggs."
Egg experts don't say that eggs con
tained chickens. Bain testified
that not more than two and a half
dozen should be live in April ship
ments of Missouri eggs.
When asked how he could tell a
Missouri egg from an Iowa one an
expert said the Missouri eggs were
big and brown and the Iowa varie
ty a peculiar white and of an odd
shape not discernible to the ordi
nary mortal.
"Can you tell an egg from cen
tral Missouri?"
"Yes, it Is very dark brown."
"What kind of an egg comes from
southern Missouri?"
"Slightly larger, spotted and
lighter in color. Iowa eggs were
smaller than the hen product of
Missouri, which Koch received.
"Why are the eggs from Iowa
smaller?"
"Well, you see, in that part of
Iowa," the witness explained, "the
farmers have a scheme whereby
hens are made to lay two eggs a
day. They fool the hens that Is,
they turn on electric lights In the
chicken coops about 2 o'clock in
the morning. The hens think the
sun Is up and get busy. After they
lay the lights are turned out. Then,
of course, when daylight does ar
rive they lay another. On this ac
count the eggs are necessarily
smaller in size."
"Now, I have some hens at
home," said Judge Helsley in the
course of Mandevllle's testimony.
"Do you mean to tell me that If I
bring one of my New Jersey hens
to Missouri that hen will lay a dif
ferent egg to what It did here?"
"Exactly," replied the witness.
"The temperature, climate, the ship
ping of the hen would all work
changes in the product both as to
color and quality."
The Trout beoson.
As the Springfield' Republican
says, the true sportsman will not
grleVe because the opening of the
trout season of 1909 was unpropltl
ous; rather will he rejoice that the
brooks are full again, and that
there will be good water when the
cream of the fall fishing comes dur
ing the days of apple blossoms.
Your real flsherma does not get
his pleasure from the dull, dead
fish In his creel, but from the bab
bling of the brook, the sweet
breath of the woods, the budding
flowers and the glad song of the
birds. The trout are after all, a
secondary consideration, an excuse
to get a day in the open and learn
a bit more of the hidden ways of
Nature. When the brooks become
tamer and the rolled water becomes
clear and sparkling, there will be
some excellent fishing. Then will
be the day of the trout hog. The
fish are hungry, and apt to be a
trifle logy, during the first few days,
and those who fish with worms will
find they are easy prey. And the
fish hog uses worms. He should
think of others this year, If he haB
never given others a thought In his
previous existence. No man can
eat a creel full of trout, so why kill
bo many when they can only be
peddled about among one's friends?
If the trout give a man sport and
health he, In return, should give
not only the fish, but his fellows a
little consideration. Turn over a
new leaf this year, If you have been
a fish hog In the seasons gone by
Limit the size of your catch, and
take more time to enjoy the pleas
ures of the fishing, for they are
many and varied.
WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS SANK.
Honesdale, Pa., April 10, 1909.
Notice. Pursuant to Act of Assem
blv. a meetine of the Stockholders of
the Wayne County Savings Bank will be
held at the office of the bank on Thurs
day, July 22, 1009, from one to two
o'clock p. m., to vote for or against the
proposition to again renew and eAend
the charter, corporate rights and fran
chises of said Dank for the term of
twenty years, from February 17, 1010,
By order of the Board of Directors.
H. S. Salmon, Cashier.
32ooii:
WHAT IS UP ?
Unusual Activity in An
thracite Coal Shipments.
WHATTIIE SCRANTON PAPERS SAY
Lackawanna, Delaware and Hudson
and Erie Roads itushihg Coal
Out of the Lackawanna
and Wyoming Valleys.
The Scranton papers say that the
unusual activity In the transporta
tion departments of all the railroads
entering that section 1b attracting
considerable attention, and the
movement Is considered very signi
ficant, as there appears to be an
almost frantic effort to get the
thousands of cars of marketable
coal away and to the at present un
known destination.
A perusal of tho call-boards of the
Lackawanna, Delaware and Hudson
and the Erie railroads will convince
one that business In the coal carry
ing line is extraordinary.
A few days ago the Delaware and
Hudson company secured the use of
between 20 and 30 Pennsylvania
engines and with extra crews start
ed clearing up the congestion on the
long sidings and storage yards.
There are thousands of loaded cars
on this division but they are rapid
ly being moved along the iron way
to the north and south.
The Lackawanna company has
evinced much activity during the
past week, and there has been a
considerable demand for extra men
to work In the capacity of train
men. Powerful engines are con
stantly pulling the long trains of
coal cars up the Pocono mountains
and on to the direction of tidewa
ter. There is a disturbance also In the
supply yards where the coal is piled
mountain high. In the Hampton
yards In the vicinity of Keyser val
ley, one large dump has been mov
ed. It was thought by many that
fire had been found In the dump
and the coal was being moved to
another spot, but It was observed
that once the coal was placed In
cars It was drawn out on the main
line and eastward.
The Erie company also is very ac
tive in the coal carrying line.
Trainmen who had been laid off
have been recalled and find plenty
to keep them busy in moving coal
cars to and from the supply sta
tions. In many instances old en
gines which were- relegated to the
ancients, have been patched up and
used to assist in the hauling. Up
the Bide of the mountains the long
strings of loaded coal cars creep un
til they reach the top of the grade
and are lost to view on the other
side.
The cause for the special activity
at this time Is not made clear to
those not in the confidence of the
railroad companies, but that it is
occasioned by some decision on the
part of the coal operators Is be
lieved. Efforts have been made to as
certain the motive for tho sudden
increase in business, but those In
authority state that there is really
no significance except their desire
to get the coal to market.
Some there are who believe that
the operators have decided that the
danger of a strike or suspension is
past and that the ratification of the
working agreement is near at hand,
while others are of the opinion that
there is another motive which will
be made clear in the near future.
Home Odd Facts in Geography.
New York Is usually thought of
as being directly west from Lon
don. It Is, however, despite Its
far more rigorous climate, nine
hundred miles nearer the equator
than is the British capital. The
bleak coast of Labrador Is directly
west of London. Tho same line
passes tho southern part of Hudson
Bay and Lake Winnipeg; on the
other side of the continent It
touches the southern extremity of
Alaska, and continues through the
centre of the Isthmus of Kamchatka,
and Siberia and Russia, to Ham
burg. It is astonishing, likewise,
to reflect on the fact that Montreal,
with its winters of great severity,
is three hundred and fifty miles
nearer tho equator than is London.
Montreal, indeed, is on the same
degree of latitude as Venice. An
other Illustration of the unexpected
In contrasts Is found In a compari
son of St. John's, Newfoundland,
with Paris. Paris has a winter of
comparative mildness, while St.
John's Is a region of bitter cold
and fogB, with drifting icebergs
along Its coasts. Yet St. John's is
one hundred miles nearer the equa
tor.
How Your Shoes are Made.
I wonder how long it would tako you
to mako a pair of shoes I I don't think
you'd better begin it, especially if you
need them soon. Even a cobbler in the
old days, working with an assistant,
would spend a day and a half making a
pair of shoes. And tho cost would bo
about $4. But now, of course, shoes
are undo by machinery, and it is as
tonishing to heor how quickly they ore
made. It takes just four minutes to
make a pair of shoes I And the labor
cost is 35 cents. Of courso, no one per
son makes the whole shoe nowadays.
There are a hundred different men mak
log different part of it, and each one
docs ihe Bamo thing over and over again,
and of course each man learns to do his
particular work especially well and very
quickly, and you should see the buttons
sewed on I A boy takes the part of tho
shoe where the buttons are to go and fits
it into a machine, throws in a handful
of buttons quite carelessly, turns the
machine, and in no time out comes a
piece of leather with all the buttons ex
actly in the right places. No wonder
some factories turn out 10,000 pairs of
shoes in a dayl
To Fly Across the Ocean.
An attempt to fly across the ocean by
balloon, airship or aeroplane is seriously
proposed. The certificate of incorpora
tion of the Europo American Areo Nav
igation Company was approved last week
by the Supreme Court. Joseph Brucher,
formerly editor of the Illinois Staats
Zcitung of Chicago, and one of the in
corporators of the company, is not only
confident that the attempt will be made
but that it will be successfully accom
plished. The Brooklyn Eagle claims that some
thing like public confidence is given to
the proposed enterprise by the indorse
ment as to its feasibility given to it by
Count Zeppelin. But the world at large
will be incredulous until the feat has
been actually accomplished. It is true
that history shows that the world has
been incredulous in contemplating every
great innovation. We laughed at the
idea of sending messages over a small,
thin wire; of talking over the distance
between Chicago and New York; at the
notion of cable communication under
the ocean, and at the Wright aeroplane.
And we will remain incredulous, doubt
less, as to the plan of this newly made
corporation until the feat has been act
ually performed. There is this differ
ence, however, that we will keep our in
credulity out of sight. In the face of
accomplished wonders we do not crack
incredulous grins. We compose our
faces into solemn expressions, and as
sume the polite air of questioning doubt.
The- route, even, is laid out. It is
proposed that it shall be the one taken
by Columbus. Whether this route is
chosen for sentimental reasons does not
appear. In the fact, however, that sev
eral places for stoppages are possible in
this route it may be assumed thut it is
selected for reasons of practical nature.
Mr. Burcher Bays the start will be made
from Palos, a town in Spain, .with the
first stop at either Maderia or Teneriffe.
From the Canary Islands the balloon
will sail in a south-westerly direction to
the Cape de Verde Islands and thence
directly to the Bahama Islands, In this
route all the favoring influences of the
trade winds are taken advantage of, and
the time of the year as well. The time
of the passage, it is thought, would be
five days.
It is to be supposed that ships that
can give prompt relief in the case of ac
cident will follow the experimental voy
age. That will make the cost great. But
to provide the money for such expenses
is to be the function of the new corpora
tion. Well, try it on. After the tele
graph, tho telephone, the phonograph,
wireless telegraphy, moving pictures
and the Wright aeroplane, we shal
maintain a polite and sympathetic inter
est in the proceeding.
Starting Circulation.
Referring to deep breathing as a
remedy for cold feet, a reader sends
In tho following: "One method is to
inhale three or four deep breaths,
expand the lungs to their full ca
pacity, holding every time tho In
haled air as long as possible, then
slowly expanding it through the
nostrils. In doing this the infla
tion of the lungs sets the heart into
such quick motion that the blood
is driven with unusual force along
Its channels and sent down to the
extremities. This radiates a glow
down to the toes and finger tips,
and sets up a quick reaction against
the chill. The whole effect is to
stir the blood and set It In motion
Just as rapid action does." It will
not do any harm to try this; it
won't cost you anything.
TUC PITI7CM Has ni&de ar
I nil Ul I IlCII rangements for
A FIVE MILE
FOOT
RACE
AFTER THE
MARATHON PLAN
WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE ON
DecoDy MAY 31
5 Handsome Gold and
Silver Medals will be
Awarded the Winners !
ENTRANCE FREE
To nil competitors living In the county,
exclusive ot professionals: entries to be
made at any time prior to May VOtb.
ALL CONTESTANTS, will bo re
(l ill red to submit to a physical examin
ation by competent physicians, to Insure
proper endurance condition for race.