MILFOHI). PIKE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMNEtt 5, I0O2.
NO. :.
VOL. VIII.
THE WASHINGTON LETTER.
Congress is again in session With
strong republican m.-ijoril is in both
ulinmliors and with a republica-i
president in the Whitti House there
wilt be no obstacles to theonrictinent
of such legislation in ifc essential to
the nation's welfare and tin-re will
bo time for littlo morn during the
current session. When Speaker
Henderson lifted the pnvel to call
the house tn order at noon today, lip
was treated to an ovation for it wns
realized that it was the last time
that be would open n session of the
house of representatives. Before the
opening, however, n similar ovation
h-id been given to Representative
Cnnnon who is regarded as the as
sured speaker of the next house mid
many hearty congratulations were
extended. The house presented n
brilliant scene for some time before
the hour of noon. Tho galleries
wore filled with brightly dressed
women nnd tho floral tributes sent
to the representatives were many
nnd benutifnl. Tho seene was not
without its somber side, however,
for three desks in the lower chamber
were draped with crepo nnd covered
with flowers They were those
formerly occupied by Representa
tivps Russell of Connecticut, mid
do GrafYcnreid nnd Shcppnrd ot
Texas. Out of respect, to the
memories of these members the
houseadjonrncd before receiving the
president's message which will be
sent to the capitol nt noon Tuesday.
I ivn may hope for, this session, is I
i the ratification of one or two of the i
j least objectionable reciprocity treat- I
lies. There sbonld ho no delay in
'refiohiii'r a proper agreement with
; Cuba, not that wo "owe tuna but
itlmt, we owe our selves much.
joem-ml tariff revision, however, is Howard nnd Hurry Reed have
I nltoeether a different ro tter.' t;on- j been visiting their family for ft few
: .ri ss must hn vn ample time before . "'".
The Prt-si'lent's MeKsnga '
President. Roosevelt's message to j
f..ti(7ra ta n nvortol eli-'ir cut. i
Hon. .Mlliam Mitchell is connneu , (,,if,nm,lt u AU. vin,, ,,,.
to his home by illness. I wUh cll,1rnMS allli force Ratifying
Dr. C. S. Cnstls and wi.e spent. nm(,iritv nnd disaifbointing the
minority jn tlmt it is not sensation-
PERSONALS
, Sunday visiting friends nt Bnshkill. I
BRIEF MENTION.
Even more brilliant, was the scene
in the sonnto when President pro
tem Frye brought down his gavel
nnd ntinonnced tbnt tho second scs
ion of the Fifty-seventh Congress
was now in session. Immediately
Senator Burrows rose to announce
the death of his late colleague, Sen.
Btor McMillnn, nnd to present Gen
eral Alger who hns been appointed
to fill the Into senntor's unexpired
term. Only the sad nature of Sena
tor Burrows first announcement
prevontod the new senator being
greeted with cheers when he had
taken the onth of office, his new col
leagues crowded about him to extend
congratulations on the vindication
which the general predicted would
be his when he departed from
Washington nfter resigning the
portofolio of wnr. Almost, immed
iately the chair recognized Sunnfor
Burrows again who then m;ivpd
that, ns a mark of respect, to bis
late colleague, the senatp adjourn
and adjournment wns taken until
noon Tuesdny. This is the third
successive time that the receipt of
the pnsident message hns been post
poned by death. One year ago,
congress adjourned out of the re
spect to President McKinloy, and
the before year it wns for Vice
President Hobnrt. As this fact
wns remarked, some of the old sen
ators shook their heads and asked
ench other, "Who will be the next?"
it when n tariff law is to he enacted.
It should have a long session, or
better still, nn extra session when
congress can pay particular ntten
tion to the business in hand."
A vigorous effort is to bo made
early in the session to secure the
passage of the ship subsidy bill.
Refening to his measure, Senator
Fry said today, that the organiza
tion ot the Morgan shipping syndi
cate presented a new and urgent
reason for the passage of the bill.
If the shipptng bill became a law nt
this session of congress a sum, con
servatively estimated at 130,000,000,
which would bo expended by the
syndicate for now ships, would be
up 'nt in this country and would go
to American manufacturers and
American workmen. Without in
ducement offered bv the bill, how
ever, that, sum would bo expended
abroad where cheap labor wov.ld
permit the construction of the new
ships nt lower cost. "Congross has
an opportunity to save this sum for
American industries," said the sen
ator, "but it remains to be seen if it
will improve it, Although I sincere
ly hope it will."'
Tho president, has received word
from Havana that progress Is being
made by General Bliss in the nego
tiation of the Cuban treaty nnd is
much encouraged nt tho news. He
hopes that the treaty may be com
pleted so that, it will be ready to
send to the senate even before the
holiday recess, nlthough there is
probability that such expedition
cannot be mnde.
Through the courtesy of the pres
ident, the historic crystal chande
liers which have long hung in the
parlors of the White House, as well
ns a number of marble mantels, old
and valnahlo book cases, etc., are to
be sent to tho capitol and there is a
considerable rivalry between the
chairmen of the various committees,
each of whom desires to secure
some of this historic furniture for
his committee room. The chnnde
liers alone are valued at f 1,500 each
and there are nine of them.
Even this early in the session it
rnny be said with every assurance-thnc
there will be no tariff
revision before the 4th of March
Senator Frye and Representative
Payne have both assured your cor
respondent of this fact and there, is
no one more competent to speak.
Even Senator Hausbrough, who
represents the tariff revision senti
ment of the northwest, says that
theru will be no time for tariff re
vision (luring the short session
Heal Estate Transfers
Jermiali M. Tit man to George
Titmne, 50 acres, Lehman, pirt of
Elizabeth Smith, f95.
Same to same, 03 acres, Lehman,
part of Francis J. Smith, 70.
Alfred Marvin to Cora L. Layton,
lot 504, Matamorns, WOO.
Charles Finkelstein to Henry
Lind, 50 acres, Porter, part of Bar
net Eichelbergor. $1.
C. W. Bull, ndtuistrator o? J. F.
Pinchot, to Samuel Venuie, Jr., 100
acres, Blooming Grove, part of
Patrick Morgan, $7.
Samuel Vennie, Jr., to J. C.
Christian, 18S acres, Blooming
(irove, part of Theodore Bowhanau,
ifl'.iO.
John L. Burcher to Julius Jaeger,
50 acres, Lackawaxen, adjoining
lands of Juinos ILiunura entitle, $100
C. W Bull to Erie Land and im-
C. P. O'Malley, Esq., of Scranton
wns in town Monday on legal bus
iness. Esquire Oscar Lakinof Dingmnn's
Ferry was a visitor here the first of
week.
Wtirren Van Sickle of Layton, N.
J., was in town Tuesday on business
matters.
Miss Jennie Vine, W. U. operator
here, Is sick at her home in Cuddo
backville, N. Y.
George Mitchell is in the city this
week purchasing a supply of new
goods for the holidays.
Dennis McLaughlin and family
have closed their home here and re
turned to Jersey City.
Harry Tooker of Brooklyn,, who
was a, guest last summer at tho
Homestead, is Again in town for hia
health.
Cashier Robert W. Reid has been
confined to his home this' week by
illness and J. Wallace Gordon of
Port Jervis has temporarily tnken
his place.
George Hnlslander, formerly with
the Wells Fargo at Pott Jervis is
now employed by the same company
at Buffalo, N. Y., nnd expects soon
to remove his family there.
F. W. Eilenberger of Monroe
county was in town last Saturday.
He is one of the leading men down
there in politics nnd business and is
especially delighted over the result
of the congressional election,
Hon. E. Hornbck, formerly as
sociate judge of this county, now
residing in Philadelphia where he is
employed in the mint, who has been
((pending a vacation of several days
down in Delaware, returned home
this wook. . -
Rev. Montgomery M. Hooper of
New York supplied the Church of
the Good Shepherd hero last Sunday.
He was its first rector officiating
from 1872 to 74 nnd part of the time
since has been Bti assistant in Trinity
parish, New York.
Miss Bertha Williamson and Miss
Dalrymple of Bnmchville made a
brief visit in town yesterday. Miss
Williamson expects soon to go to
New York where she will take a
course of study preparatory to be
coming a nurse for convalescents.
A. R. Sherman and wife of North
Wilkesboro, N. C, visited in town
for a few days the first of the week,
"Ap," as he is familiarly known, has
not greatly changed in appearance
since he left here 2S years ago and
his disposition is as gunny and ger,inl
as of yore. Ho is superintendent pf
a large tanning concern and is ap
parently prospormg. His many
friends were glad to give him
cordial hand shake.
Senator Frye predicts that there will provement company ot rtnnyivan
ho anti-trust legislation which will ! '". -00 acres, Shohola, No. 14, Chas.
nl and wili not have a tendency to
breed party dissension. Some ot the
declarations of principle made by
him are stated with earnestness and
are literary gems. The most s'rik
tng sentences are :
1 believe that monopolies, unjust
discriminations which prevent, or
cripple competition, fraudulent
overcipit'iliz-ition nnd other evils in
trust organizitions, nnd practices
which injuriously affect interstate
trade, can he prevented under the
power of congress to regulate com
merce with foreign nations and
among the several states.
If it prove impossible to nenomp-
lish the purposes above set forth by
such a law, then assuredly we should
not shrink from amending the con
stitution so ns to secure lieyond per-
ad vent u re the power sought.
The country has acquiesced in the
wisdom of the protective tariff
principle It is exceedingly unde
sirable tbnt this'"syst-'m should be
destroyed or that there should bo
violent or radical clvnges therein.
In mv judgement, the tariff on
anthracite coal should be removed
and nnthraciio put actually, where
it is now nominally, on the free list.
Reciprocity : If it provo impossi
hie to ratify the pjnding treaties
then the same end to so-
enre reciprocity should be met by
lirect legislation.
Labor and Capital : Each must
efrain from arbitrary or tyrannous
interference with the rights of others.
New Cabinet Office : It is earnest
ly hoped that a secretary of com
merce may be created with a sent,
in the cabinet.
Cuban Reciprocity: It is un
worthy of a mighty nnd generous
nation, itself the greatest nnd most
successful republio in history, to
refuse to stretch out a helping baud
to a young and weak sister republic
just en'oriiig upon its career "of
independence.
The Philippines: No policy ever
entered into by the American peo
ple has vindicated itself in more
signal manner than the policy of
holding the Philippines.
The Army : I urgently call your
attention to the need of passing n
bill providing for a general staff.
Ot'ier recommendations include
extension of tho fre) delivery ser
vice, land law for Alaska, sanitary
legislation for Washington, addi
tional safety applinuce laws for pro
lection of railroad employees civil
service principle consular service
and extension of the national
museum.
lie in the nature of nn amendment to
the Sherman law and will conform
to the recommendations of Attorney
General Knox as they were voiced
in his now famous Pittsbnrr speech.
Mr. Frye .said that he cou'.d Bue no
possible objections to such legisla
tion and that he believed congress
stood ready to so amend the law ns
to make it meet those, r quiremenis
winch tbo attorney gcmual had
learned from experience, to he
essential.
!t lovisio!!, bena
ud today : "The
a sacred inst it u
anj i think it
nt an early dale.
Nobody !,.!
protect ion
Referring to tav
tor ! I.msbroiiL'h s,
Dingley hi w is noi
turn. It in :y In:
i-lomhl bo rcvi.soU
lieves that the W.icv i f
!f to 10 i vei t hr.nv u in
this country but it must In; judic
iously up;.-!'." 1 fidin tiiee to time to
meet ciiantiiiitr eon. 1.; ions. Tin-ic
is no ivasuii to fear a panic or any
thing approaching hard times even
if the tan If is mvi.-cl by its friends
The iiiiiLmg of u te.rff bit!, howev r,
v. i'. ii it !' .hi- t In .u.-a or in.'!
t- -. I.-.-, f ! ini !,-! 1, is a (-.--tti.-i.:--i.-.
t.-k. it r..inmt be clm-fi..-
- u (;...: t t- : .i. . Ti.e nio.st
Cooper, il.
Lizzie J. B. Waller to John Carlon,
510 acres, Luckawaxen, flOOO.
G. F. Rowland, treasurer to Com
missioners, 300 acres. Blooming
(irove. No. IKi Peter Wykoff, tax.
Commissioners to Goo. W. Pier
son, name land, J12.
G. W. Piersou to Charles Mount,
lw acres, Peter Wykoff, Blooming
Grove, $10.
Li.aU LeibiiKU) to Geo. W. Pier
sun, 50 acres, part of Patrick Mor
gan, No. 180, l.'.luoming Grove, If oO
Henry L. Wuhlbrandt to Winnie
li mrioque, lot No. 542, Catharine,
street, iUiifoid borough, 1750.
I Foils
'-My wife
i physicians vs .
i w riti-s M. 11 .
A UtaJif AlUck
was tio ill that good
re unable to help her,"
Austin of Vi'im In st ,-r.
Factory Inspector Reports
Tho state factory inspector re
ports that for the year ending Oct.
31, 1902, twenty-six thousand plioes
were inspected nnd in connection
with the statement that the u timber
of deputies is insufficient to visit nil
the places amenable lo ltiw. He says
the trade of a single Pittsburg firm
in iron ore, limestono, luel nml
finished products amounts to a
greater tonnage than the combined
cotton product of tho southern
states. Nineteen hundred and
seventy-seven accidents were re
ported hist year of which one bund
led and fifty-seven were fatal, fitty
four more than last year, but the
total of accidents wns three hundred
and fifty-seven less than lust year.
To Protct Land
Tim Poeono Fire Protective assoc
iation, the firbt of tho kind iu this
state, 1ms been organized in Monroe
county to protect the land of its
numbers from fires. h0,00p acres
of luud are represented by its 35
members. Officers have been
eleted, tire wardens will be anpoiut
e.l, who will be paid for patrolling
the lands, and rewards wil beotVercl
tor arrest nnd conviction of persons
stai tmg tires in woodland.
Two Boys Arrested
Tuesday evening Henry Fallstick
aged 18, a boy who originally came
from the Orphau's Homo at Bothle
ham, nnd who for some time has
been living in town, Alvah Lambert
aged 19, it is alleged, firod a guu
through a window of the kitchen of
the jail in which were Mr. Hissam's
wife and children. The shoe went
over Mrs. Hissains head and tore a
hole in the ceiling. The boys were
arrested and had a bearing before'
Justice Schorr Wednesday. No evi
dence was produced showing that
they wore seen or that they had a
gun iu their possession nud both
strenuously denied the charge, but
the justice ns a matter of precaution
held the n in J00 bail each for
court. It is more than doubtful if
the shot wa9 fined from outside.
Tho appearance of the hole in the
ceiling nnd tb.e location of the shot
iu the roof above indicate thati tho
gnu must have been in a nearly per
pendicular position when it was discharged.
Ind., "nut v as
1 1 ir. King's -'c
! wi -i k wonders
' In. 1. hi. -S. Cf.
I headache. L'5t'
! e pietely cured by i
.- Life Pills." They j
n hbimaeh and liver
' con.-iipatiuii, nek 1
at all orug etoia s.
at J.'
l.g flat
I nu-in
ti.au v
1 '
Hi d inns-
H . T. Mclutyre, St. Paul, Minn ,
who has been trocbh d v. ilh a dis
ordered stuniiich, mys, "Chamber
hiiu's Moinach and Liver Tablets do
me more good than anythii.
ever taken." l'.r -aie bv
A Million Voices
Could hardly express tho thanks
of llonier Hall, of West Point, Iowa.
Listen why: A bovero cold had
settled on his lungs, causing a most
obstinate cough. Sev. ral physicians
said he had consumption, but could
not help him.. When all thought he
was doomed he began to use Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump
tion and writes "it completely cured
me and saved my lite. I now weigh
"' ink" Kimble .if Paup-in has not
yet 1 ist his cunning as a hunter nnd
nml Ui:nau. List week ho killed n
largo deer with fine shot.
Letters received here from Dr. II.
I-'. Knierson locate him ut Jackson
ville, Florida, with bis pirty where
he will likely remain for some time.
The sheriff will sell Monday, Dec.
8, a farm, in Dingman the property
of John Caso and on Saturday, Dee.
I3th, the farm of the late Stephen
Cuddeback In Milford township
Both Hon. John D.il. ill of this
state and Hon. Sort-no E. Payne of
New York, have withdrawn from
"the speakership contest leaving Mr.
Cannon of Illinois without opposi
tion. The receipts for the fiscal year just
ended show that they have been
larger than for any previous year in
the history of this state. They
amount to nearly twenty-three mil
lion dollars.
The mine strike commissioners
reassembled nt Scranton Tuesdny and
resumed taking testimony. It is un
certain bow long the session will con
tinue. It may last three weeks or ns
many months.
Louisa C. lless, administratrix of
John Hess, l.ite of S!i 'io1a, will sell
the real estate of dace lent nt the
c- nrt house Monday, Dec. 8ih.
There are 75 netvs of which '0 are
improved with good buildings.-
Mild weather has possibly led
you to postpone buying underwear.
If so "The Big Store," see the nil, is
stocked with good qualities nt low
prices nnd will be pleased to have
ou cull nud inspect its contents.
By reason of lack of attendance the
sale of Emil Ketnnitz was not con
cluded nnd he now advertises a sale
at the Diniinick ll.iuse in the bor
ough on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at one
o'clock. Posters w ill give nrticles.
A Virginia legislator bus intro
duced a bill making it a misdemeanor
for persons to kiss each other unless
they hold a certificate that they have
no contagious or infectious disense.l
Fine nud imprisonment will result
for violation if the bill becomes a law.
Hon. Joel G. Hill, sanator eloct
from Wayne county and a former
associate judge, gave a banquet last
week to the bench, bar nnd editors
of that county. Speeches were in
dulged in and apparently all had a
good time.
A woman recently recovered a
judgment, of $100,000 against tho
New York Central railroad for the
death of her husband killed in the
tunnel accident last January. It is
the largest ever given in this coun
try or England.
Judge Bittinger of York county
has decided that a tax cannot be
levied by township supervisors under
the act of 1S35 to pay an indebtedness
which the township owed to certain
parties for money borrowed by the
supervisors and auditors at various
times. The opinion Is in line with a
former common ple -.s decision.
Wayne county croamery butter
commands' the highest prices in the
market. It now retails in Hones
dtilo for thirty cents a pou-nd. Why
can't we have one of these prosper
ity producing institutions near this
town, Some livo man could make
money with it and nt tho same time
greatly enconrtige , farmers and
revive our dairy iut rests.
Tho town council is to bo com
mended for putting down tile cul
verts. They are hotter and cheaper
in the end than stone, do not fill up
and streets can bo kept, neater.
Let the good work go on wherever
new culveits are necessary or old
ones are taken up. They will be a
saving to taxpayers i'l tho end.
Township supervisors can nlso take
a hint.
Dr. Mills D 'Rii
Rev. Samuel Wicklnm Mills, D.
!., of Port. Jervis, probably the old-.,
est minister in this vicinity and per
haps of the Reformed eh ireh, to
which d.ei miin-itl in ln belonged,
died at his home Thursday evening,
Nov. 27th. 1 1 was born i-.enr
Scotchtown, Orange cointy, April
5, 1 V0, w is gri lu it-d at Rutgers
college in the diss of '!H, studied
theology in the Seminary of the It i
formed church nt New Brunswick
and graduated in 1 !', was ordained
at Bloomingbnrg, N. Y., in May,
113, and began his work as pastor
of the c!iur;-h there which continued
for fifteen years when he became
pastor of the Reformed church of
Port Jervis nud so remained for
fourteen years when ho resigned,
since which time ho has held no
pastorate but has preached nsn sup
ply nnd there nre probibly few con
gregations In this section which
have not. listened to his sermons.
Ho was largely instrumental in
founding the Minisink Valley His
torical Society in lbf-9 and has ever
sinco been its president. Besides
bis second wife, who wns Miss
Aniira St John, he is survived bv
three children, Esther wife of C. E.
Cuddeback Esq of Port Jervis, Dr.
Theodore D. Mills of M-.ddletown,
and Mary D , wife of J. A. Stitt of
New York. The funeral was held
last Monday.
THE
RAMBLER'S
PICKINGS
For a Tariff Commission
The bill introduced by Hon. Clius.
N. Fowler of .Nt,v Jersey in the 57th
congress aims to establish a commis
sion whose duty shall be to investi
gate nil duties on imports and recom
mend cha.iges therein, negotiate re
ciprocal trade treatici, collect such
information w ith regard to products,
manufactures nnd commerce as will
aid in performing its duties and pro
mote mid provide for the general
welfare. The commission would
derive extensive powers under the
bill nml cou'd adjust the duties in
Imports in such manner as not to
disturb trade conditions or incur hos
tility of other countries. The com
mission would be permanent ami
could work out tariff adjustments
from time to time us the business
of the country demanded. This
would do no violence to established
rates nnd would not unsettle con
ditions in such manner as to cause in
jury to business. It would soem to
be more desirable to treat the tariff
question iu this elastic manner than
to frame any rigiu bill.
Just nsk Tierro Nilis if ho has tho '
correct figures on the deer Incrensn
by this time.
We chine near having n nasty
littlo snow last Sunday, just enough
to keep people from going to church.
Louis Wngner has resigned ns
sexton of the M. E. church. John
McCarty will taku his placo.
A little shooting wns done hero
Tuesday evening. If the congre
gating of n number of boys in one or
two places in this town could bo
stoppod, it would bo better for the
town and for tho boys in tho end.
The firemen of this borough talk
of having a dance about Christmas.
If they do they should have the
full support of our citizens.
When a man attempts to carry
moro than cloven hundred iu one
loud through the mud hn under
takes more than his constitution
stand. A fonco or a friendly shoul
der to lean on comes handy.
Mud nnd slush, next it will be
snow and blow, so prepare your
wood piles and conl bins tor the inclement-weather
which is sure to
come,
There is nn ntnen corner in this
town not far from the post office
where n few of our residents meet
every evening nml talk nbout how
things used to was. 1 believe there
is a possible chance of forming a
genuine liars (dub, elect officers, etc,
If this should bo done somebody's
ears will burn.
The box social nt James Ryder's
up in Chuektown last Tuesday even
ing wns attended by quite, a number
from our borough. Proceeds 123.55
An ounce of prevention is worth
dollars worth of cure.
Six dollars is pretty sf ecp to attend
one show.
A broad smile on the fnce of
Christian Lehde is accounted for by
tho fact that he is the father of a
bouncing boy.
If the law is obeyed the poor deer
can now take a rest. .
Don't mention it. The bridge on
upper Water street is a reality,
Holiday opening nt Ryman &
Wells storo. Tho best of every
thing for Christmas. Come in and
look the goods over it will you
you to see our display this season.
To Get Rid of a Troublesome Cora
First soak it in warm water to
iften it, then pare it dawn as close
ly as possible without drawing the
i blood nnd apply Chamberlain's Pain , line from up east south.
Farmers Bulletins
The United States department of
agriculture is sending out .some bulk
tins of great interest to fanners.
(hie on silos ami silage gives valuable
hints ns to the form, construction,
cost, methods of filling, feeding to
stock nud kinds of crops, with bent
methods of culture. Kveiy otieown
ing or who contemplates building a
silo should read bulletin No. Hi!.
Another is on leguminous plants for
manuring nnd feeding. It shows
how land by green manuring can be
brought from barreness to a state of
fertility where it will produce profit
able crops. One on the propagation
of plants is valuable as showing how
this may be done and lias likewise a
treatise on grafting. All these bulle
tins are ot gnat practical value to
farmers lor they give in easily under
stood terms, illustrated wltii cuts the
ideas which me needed to make the
work easy nud succes.-l'iil. Farmers
could easily increase tbeirinforniation
on many subjects of profit lo thciii by
sending for these bulletins which
may be had for the asking.
A Railroad Sold
The Port Jervis, Monticeilo and
New Yolk railroad was Mild at fore
closure sale nt tho Fowler House,
Port Jervis, Tuesday nnd was
bought by R D. Rkkard for -50,-CCO.
It is ii-suimd that inasmuch
as the purchaser is treasurer of the
Ontario and Western the road was
bought for that company. Tho road
from Ellen ville to Kingston is nearly
completed, trains will be running
over it by the middle of this month,
and that will give n connection from
Port Jervis direct to tho eastern
states. It only needs the Delaware
Valley road now to make o short
Glen Eyre Sold
The former lively little hamlet of
Glen F.yre known in older days as
Millville went under the sheriffs
hammer Monday. The place wns
settletl by Peter Killam many years
ago. He built a cabin and saw mills
and conducted a thriving business,
but his mills burned About 1S35 his
lumber was swept away by floods
and his creditors took the property.
Later John Deining built factories
and dwellings and engaged in the
mnnufacture of chairs nml furniture
but misfortune overtook him and be
sold out nnd moved away. Since
then little has been done there except
to quarry blue stone of which there
is considerable on the land, and the
buildings have fallen into decay.
At the sale Monday the Erie gave
notice that it owned by purchase
from former proprietors certain water
rights nnd privileges nnd also part of
the land on which the buildings are
and a right of way for its trucks.
The Recent Snow Storm
The government weather man says
the past, was the warmest November
on rei'ord, but it ended last Sunday
night by falling into a snow storm to
cool off. Snow began coining down
about dark gently and modestly as if
rather uncertain of its reception. It
soon mantled the trees nnd ground
iu white and kept on until some three
or four inches covered everything.
Monday morning the earth, appeared
like a fairy land iintl when the sun
(nine up he added to her resplen
dence. Our old mother which had
gone to sleep habilitated in sombre
garments rose apparelled like a bride
and as the sun kissed her face she got
muddy and made it disagreeable for
her inhabitants. That is both the
poetry and prose of the business.
lbs.
It's positively gui-mntecd j Balm twice daily ; rubbing vigorous-
for coughs, colds And lung troubles.
Price 5c and 11. Trial bottles free
at ull drug stores.
Merry Christmas to all. Our an-
1 have bortiiient of Christinas goods have
A. W. ' never been so complete as now.
Hal. h ,
li n d t-
ml
Mataiooi us,
.ires In PiVe i
all druy
our.'y,
jG.fin for young and old. 1'rn.vs to
buit nil, liyuiitn & WoUd,
ly for five minutes at eHeli Applica
tion. A corn plaster should he worn
for a few days, to protect it from ! lie
shoe. As a gt-neial limiment for
sprains, bruises, lameness and rheu
matism, Pain Halm is unequiiled.
For sale by A. W. Bale'n and Son,
' Matainoras, nil drug and generul
Stores iu Piko county,
The Pride of Heroes
Many soldiers in the last war
wrote to say that for scratches,
bruises, cuts, wounds, corns, sore
feet and stiff joints, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve is the best in the world. Same
for burns, M-ulds, boils, ulcers, si. in
eruptions nnd piles. It cures or no
pay. Only 2Do at till drujf stores.
Saved at Grave's Brink
"I know I would long ago have
been in my grave," writes Mrs. S.
II. Nowsom, of Decatur, Ala., "if it
had not been fyr Electric Bitters.
For three years I suffered untold
agony from tho worst forms of in
digestion, waterbrasl-, stomach and
bowel dyspepsia. But this excellent;
medicine did me a world of good.
Since using it I can eat heartily and
have gained 33 pounds." For indi
gestion, loss of appetite, stomach,
liver and kidney troubles Kluctrio
Bitters are a positive, guaranteed
euro. 50o at all drug stores.
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