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8TI)t P^nn $)an (Srprces PENN YAN, YATES CO., N. Y. REUBEN A. SCOFIELD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. *I .*5 t e r m s : P er Y ear in advance . #1.50 ip N ot P aid in A dvance . Express and N Y. Tribune Farmer, i y r . . . .$ i 60 Express and N . Y Tribune,thrice w e e k ly.... 185 Express and Thrice-a-Week W orld, 1 y r ......... 1 65 Express and^♦Rochester Weekly Dem., iy r .... 1 50 ***Prcss and Rural New Yoiker, i y r ....... . 175 E*P tm s and Albany Semi W eekly Journal,.. 1 60 Business <£arhs. J ARIES H. BRIGGS, ATTORNEY AND PENSION AGENT. All kinds of claims promptly attended to. Office, new No. 415 , old No. <7, Liberty Street, Peuu Yan, N. Y. Past Commander Sloan Post, No. 98 , G. A. 1 L M ac NAUGHTON, DENTIST. Penn Ian, N. Y Office over Wheeler’s Jewelry Store, Main St. W . w . SMITH, DENTIST 68 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y S ECUKITIE8 BOUGHT AND Si MONEY LOANED ON BOND AND MORTGAGE. CARE OF ESTATES A SPECIALTY. FARMS FOR SALE. 99yi JOHN T. ANDREWS A SON N OT 1 CE.—At the office of DRS. H. B. PHILLIPS <1 WREAN From May 1 , 1900 , you can get A Set of Teeth, on Rubber Plate, For $10.00, Aud Dentistry; of the best at the Cheapest living prices. Consultation Free. C, ELMENDORF, BOFESSIONAL D E N T I S T 42 Main Street. Opposite Baldwin Bank, Penn Yan. N. Y. c. H. K N A P P , U N D E R T A K E R , (Next Door to Benham House.) Residence, 108 Bonham St. telephone, store, 66 W. telephone, residence, 66 F. 1853. H O M E 1903 .Co. of lev York, The Largest Fire Ins. Co. in America. ASSETS, - - $17,108,635.12 SURPLUS, $6,436,038.69 Goodspeed & Miller, Agts. F E N N T A N , N . T Go-Carts, 1903 Styles, Automobile Wheels, Handsome, Easily Adjusted, Reclining or Stationary, With all the latest improve ments. PRICES LOWER than any bouse in tlie trade. See them now at 14-5 M A IN ST,, NEXT T O BENHAM H O U S E DISTANCE R eading 1- NEAR SIGHT and FAR SIGHT Ir fitted. Only the bent glasses used. HOPKINS, Jeweler and Optician, >‘<r, ■ n '■ J ’AIN* •r.t < 1 . • * .1 ,' ^ a l l p a p e r swellest things you have ^en you will find at our re* which wc are receiving every day. E' VAN GELDER, !16 MAIN 8 T .t and d e c o r a t o r . 8'Ve the 5 per cent Draft, ftjPHE r e s s THE OLD RELIABLE The Only Continuously Republican Paper in Yates County PENN YA N .N .Y., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11,1903. Vol. XXXVII.--N0. 49.—Whole No. 1927. The real heroines of every day are in our homes. In Frequently, how ever, it is a mistaken and useless heroism. Women seem to listen to every call of duty except the supreme one that tells them to guard their health. IIow much harder the daily tasks become when some derangement of the female organs makes every movement painful and keeps the nervous system unstrung? Irritability takes the place of happiness and amiability: and weakness and suffering takes the place of nealtli and strength. 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My husband spent hundreds of dollars to get me well, and all the medicine that the doctors prescribed failed to do me any good ; I resorted to an operation which the physician said was necessary to restore me to health, but I suffered more after it than I did before; I had hemorrhages of the womb that nothing could seem to stop. “ I noticed one of your advertisements and wrote you for advice, I rev ceived your reply and carefully followed all instructions. I immediately began to get stronger, and in two weeks was about the house. I took eight bottles of L y d i a E . P i n k h a m 's V e g e t a b le C o m p o u n d and continued following your advice, and to-day I am a well woman. Your remedies and help are a Godsend to suffering women, and I cannot find words to thank you for what you have done for me.” — M rs . L ottie V. N aylor , 1328 N. J. Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. “ D ear M rs . F inkham : — I write to tell you what L y d i a E . 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BIRKETT, SO L E M A N U F A C T U R E R , The Novannovo tocoecus «OJi al* •toll e © 01 ® @ © -e @ B y -P. J . T A JV S 'E © ---------------- @ Copyright, 1001 , by P . J . Tam cy HERE’S a fellow’at can’t swear off. lie ain’t got nothin* to swear off on—don’t drink nor smoko nor swear nor tight nor nothin*. lie must bo a lonesome one today.\ So Bill Evans commented to the rest of the gang at Johnson’s corner grocery in Jar’iiesvillc, and in no low and guard ed tone either, ns Percy Decry passed. The young man spoken of could not holpjioaring the remark, and he blush ed deeply us he kindly bade his play mates of past years good morning and a happy new year. lie was medium sized, blond anil boyish, with a budding mustache. lie was attired in the height of fashion. “Goin' callin’ ?\ asked Ike Maddox, with a grin. The young man stopped politely to answer that he was. \Mam know it?\ asked another of the gang. Conscious of the intention to offend, young Mr. Decry blushed again to the roots of his hair before he answered: “I have no secrets from my mother, of course.\ The corner gang roared, and Jim Smith, the tirst to recover from the general spasm of merriment, asked the greatly embarrassed Mr. Deery, honor bright now, if he was not going over to Oliver street to call on the Misses Wilson. The questioned one felt as keenly as any honor jealous knight of old could have felt it that this was an outra geous trespass on forbidden ground, but he remembered his mother’s pre cepts, ami he replied, scorning alike evasion and resentment: \I am going to call on Miss Mary Wilson.\ The laughter had hardly had time to begin again when Bill Evans raised bis hand to check it. His face was very grave. \Look n-here, Percy,** lie said. \We’re friends of yours if we do guy you once in awhile. Now, don’t go to Wilson’s today on any such business. Your boss has just gone up there in his buggy, an* everybody but you knows be's sweet on Miss Mary. You know Dick Holloway. Y'ou ain’t been in his dr)' goods shop a year without knowln* that when he’s drinkin* lie’s a terror for swearin’ an’ fightiiV. An* of course old man Wilson will till him up. Dick’s after Miss Mary, an* lie’s been drinkin* a little today already, it bein’ New Y'ear’s. So if lie meets you up there he might hurt you, an* he’d surely give you the bounce tomorrow. So don’t you go while Dick’s there anyhow. See?\ The gang all nodded serious ap proval. \William replied Percy after a mo ment’s hesitation and with tears start- u I AM GOING TO CALL ON MISS MARY WILSON. i. lng in his eyes, \your intentions may be of the best, and I thank you, but I’m going to Mr. Wilson's.” And, with a little bow and a little smile, lie left them and continued his walk to Oliver street, the tears now on his cheeks. \Oil why did I say his intentions •might’ be of the best? Why did I not credit them with being surely the best?\ was the burden of his thoughts. The gang discussed him. \That Is what comes of havin’ a fellow’s father die when a fellow’s young,” said one. \It’s a wonder that the cows don’t bite him,\ remarked another. \It was the name lie got that made a milksop of him,\ thought a third. \IIow could At All Times Go to Olympian Fruit and Candy Co.’s F=r €>ax\Ave.%, Y v vvv\, \XXcxVvaw C i V v e r t f t v i l * , anybody amount to anything with such a Willie boy name as Percy Decry?\ \Never yousc mind,\ remarked Bill Evans. \There’s somethin' in that duck if it could he only got out. I say ! any chap that ain’t n-senred to let on that inommer bosses him is all right. If that feller could only get a few bad habits now, he'd be all right. He'd come out strong. Better get under the fiwnin’, fellvrM Here comes the snow.\ Down came the snow, causing Percy Pcery to turn up the collar of his new overcoat aud turn his steps Into a path across lots to make the way shorter to Oliver street. lie rang the bell of Mr. Wilson's door, entered and paid Ills respects and the season’s compliments to mother, father, the two daughters and to Mr. Hollo way. They were all glad to see him except Iloiloway. 1*001* Mary! She liked Percy, almost loved him, but slic dreaded to compare him with the bluff ami rough and ready Holloway, much as she disliked the latter. He, being Percy's employ er, was licr father’s choice for her also on the score of wealth. Holloway had been calling elsewhere, and he was plainly a little the worse for liquor. He was about thirty years old, brawny, red haired, red mustnehed and well dressed. \Did you look in at the store coming up to see if everything was all right, old man?\ asked Pick of him as soon as there was a lull in tlie conversation. “I did not, sir,\ replied Percy, glow ing red in his consciousness of the vul- 11 VERY riUJl’ER, LEMONADE FOR BOYS. t* gar display of authority in the ques tion. \Well if you're passing that way in half an hour you might see if the fire’s nil right. Come, Mary; play me some thing on the piano.\ The younger man turned white. He begiui to tremble. \Let mo tirst offer Mr. Deery a glass of lemonade.\ she said, advancing with it and trembling also and as white as was he. \Very proper; lemonade for boys. Hard stuff for you and me, eh?\ chuc kled Holloway, mulging Mr. Wilson, who was poor enough to stand the fel low's insolence just because of occa sional addiction to the cup. Mr. Wilson laughed a little uneasy laugh, and Holloway roared. Mary felt herself shrink under the insult. Percy took the glass and, turn ing full to his employer, said, glaring at him: \Yes lemonade is for boys—and men!\ What was the matter with that New Year's microbe? Even politeness could not prevent the pause and the silence. Could it be pos sible? \Perhaps he’ll take a smoke, though,\ sneered Dick, bent on making Percy ridiculous. \Offer him the box, Mr. Wilson.\ Percy took a cigar. He held it in his left hand while he sipped his lemonade and chatted with courteous Mrs. Wil son. He began to grow brilliant and bold. Mary’s eyes brightened. She was getting proud of him. Presently Mr. Wilson said something about politics to Holloway, and they differed. Hollo way grew loud in his disputation. Turn ing suddenly to him, Percy said: “Mr. Holloway, stop! You are quite mistaken.” Even Dick was silent in his astonish ment. Mary grew fairly radiant. \Will you have just a little wine, Mr. Deery?\ asked Mr. Wilson, rising with a new and joyous inspiration. There might be good stuff in this chap, after all, according to his views of good stuff. “From Mary’s father I will not re fuse to take it,\ was the astounding reply. Tears stood in Mary’s eyes. She had 66 To say a pleasant word to anyone was almost impossible.” nI was troubled with female weakness for eight y e a rs; and suffered more than I can tell,\ writes Mrs. Gust. Moser o f Ovando, Deerlodgc Co., Mont. « My disposition was affected to such an extent that to say a pleasant word to anyone was almost impossible. had two ope ra pe: oneof the most skilled tious performed by surgeons o f the West, but did not get relief, T h e n , against my doctor's strict orders, I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite P r e s c r i p t i o n and ‘ Golden Medical Dis covery,' and also fol lowed th e a d v i c e given in the Common S e n s e Medical Ad viser. ” 1 continued this treatment for three mouths, and to-day am as healthy and well as a woman can be. I cannot thank Doctor Pierce enough for liis kind letters to me.\ Womanly d i s eases, as a rule, spoil the” disposi tion,” because of the extreme nerv ousness and suffering they cause. Hap piness as well as health is restored to the woman whose diseased condition is cured by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Alter eight years of suffering and two fruitless operations, three months’ use of ” Favorite Prescription” restored Mrs. Moser to perfect health. This great remedy for woman's ills, establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. The Common Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 large pages, in paper covers, is sent i«n been so proud of his sudden show of spirit, but now he was going too far. She shook her head at him secretly. It was enough. As Mr. Wilson poured out the wine for him lie arose, took her hand and, raising the glass, de clared that he was about to propose a toast. To the girl I love, Miss Mary!\ he cried, and, putting down, the wine un der the reminder conveyed with pres sure of her hand, he took up his lem onade and quickly gulped it down. Mary pressed Ills hand again in warm approval. The younger Miss Wilson made a face to her mother which expressed the opinion that Mr. Decry was making a ninny of himself. The younger Miss Wilson, by the way, had no sweet heart. \That’s what I call a down—hie— right insult to Mr. Wilson!\ hiccough ed Holloway. “Come, young fellow. I’ll drive you downtown. I guess I’d better take you home before you make any more bad breaks.\ lie lighted his cigar as he stood up. Percy dropped Mary’s hand and looked grimly at him. The whole fam ily protested that nothing wrong had occurred, but goodbys and renewed gooo wishes were said, aud Mr. Wilson and his guests went out to the shed where the horse was standing attached j to the buggy. \Mr. Wilson,\ said Percy, \give me a match, please. I’m going to smoke my first cfgar. I’m going to be just a little bit devilish. I’m going to be a man’’— \Pretty near time,” sulkily broke in Holloway. —\a man fit for your daughter, sir, and so I feel called upon to apologize for the rudeness”— \That’s more like it,\ broke in Dick again. —\of this fellow’s smoking in pres ence of your wife and daughters, sir,\ continued Percy, not noticing the inter ruption. \If it were not for the place you stand in, Holloway,” cried he hot ly, \I’d punch your facei\ \Why you white livered little\— Crack! The fist of the younger man caught Holloway on the jaw, and down he went in a heap. And down beside him, purple faced, fell Percy, roaring out as he fell: \Darn you, anyway!\ Both lay unconscious in the light snow. \Well this is nothing serious,\ said old Dr. Morris, examining througli a microscope a drop of his patient’s blood; \a mild rush of blood to the head, that’s all—the effect of novanno- votococci in the blood.\ \Novan—what is that, doctor?” tim idly asked weeping Mary, who stood by the lounge on which Percy still lay unconscious. Dick, with his broken jaw bound in white swathing, was be ing assisted into his buggy by Mr. W il son just outside the window, but slie had no eyes for him. \The novannovotoeoceus,\ replied the doctor, smiling, \is the bacillus of New Year’s vows, as the name implies. Look througli the glass. See those squirming creatures? One got into this young man’s system somehow this morning, and he made a vow to re form\— \Oh doctor, he could not. He had no vices. He was an angel until he came to our house today, and then—and then he began to (sob)—began to improve. Oh, oh, oh!\ \Ah I see,\ said the wise doctor. “Now we force this drop of medicine into his mouth, so, and he begins to revive. Good. Now, miss, the peculiar ity of the novannovotoeoceus is that at first and while it is not numerous in the system it inspires to good, but sud denly changes the bent of the person toward the old Adam when its progeny has multiplied sufficiently. You must have seen again and again how good resolutions made on New Year's day lead straight to mischief. So this young man drank a little wine per haps?\ \No doctor, though he was just about to do it, but in all other ways he grew all of a sudden so bold and manly and grand! Now, will this last—this tend ency to be a little wicked?\ \Oh yes; the bad effect always lasts; becomes constitutional, as we say. But it will never turn him to drinking if he has the same antidote constantly with him.” And the old doctor’s eye twinkled. \Thank God!\ She raised her clasp ed hands and looked upward devoutly. Glancing fondly down on Percy Deery, she was abashed to find him looking and smiling up at her. \I heard you,\ he said, stretching his arms to her. She knelt beside the lounge. They whispered, and there was the sound of a kiss. The doctor turned away, with a little cough, and began packing up his medicines and bandages. \A happy new year, doctor!\ cried Mr. Wilson, coming in. \I had not time to say it before. And how’s the young man?\ \As you sec, father,” said Percy, sit- S o n ie R e m a r k a b l e G a n n , At the siege of Rhodes the Turks constructed mortars by hollowing out cavities in the solid rock at the proper angle, and in the arsenal at Malta is a trophy of the long and glorious defense of Valetta, in a Turkish gun, about a six pounder, composed of a copper tube coiled over with strong rope and “Jack eted\ with rawhide. In the same col lection ave some antique \quick fivers,\ breechloaders, with small bores and immensely long barrels, like punt guns. The Malay pirates put great trust in the long brass swivel guns called “lela,\ and in Borneo these Idas were used ns a kind of currency, large sums being estimated in guns. The Chinese cast excellent bronze guns (there is a fine specimen of them in Dcvonport dockyard), but so little did they understand gunnery that in the so called “opium war\ the forts of the Bocca Tigris, defending the Canton river, had the guns built immovably into the walls. The Sikh gunners op posed to us in the two Punjab wars, though they loaded with amazing reck lessness, shoveling in the powder from open boxes, stuck to their guns to the last. The blood of the first man killed was smeared on the gnu, and the whole detachment died beside it sooner than retreat.—Chambers’ Journal. E a r ly H istory of Penn Yan ♦ free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to « . . pay expense of mailing only . Ador J S j y XhxCe Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. THE FIST OF THE YOUNGER MAN CAUGHT HOLLOWAY ON THE JAW. ting up and reaching out his hand, which Mr. Wilson shook heartily. \I’m proud of you, my son. Come, let's fill up, doctor—on lemonade—mid drink a happy new year to the young couple and to us all. Lemonade for me hereafter!\ \And to the liovanno — wbat’s his name?\ added Mary, with n sly glance at Percy. \I do believe father has got one too.\ \The novannovotoeoceus,\ said the doctor, raising Ills glass. H i* P e t S i i y c r w t i t i o n . \Superstition seems to be connected in the minds of most people with wo men, ladders, rabbits’ feet and horse shoes,\ said the young girl at the piano. \As a matter of fact, however, I know that men are fully as superstitious as the women of my acquaintance, and sometimes more so. One young man of my acquaintance, for instance, who has literary yearnings and who feels sure he could astonish the public with his brilliant stories if he could only get some editor to accept them, spends his summers in the country gathering in spiration, local color and—four leaf clovers. WThen winter comes he returns to his ballroom in the city, writes sto ries by the wholesale and dispatches with each consignment to the editors a four leaf clover. Sometimes the arti cles are accepted, and then the writer ascribes his success to the talisman. More often, however, they are re turned, with the mascot in a more or less crumpled condition, and he spends what leisure hours he has in trying to figure out why it is those clovers don’t work every time. Never for a moment does he ascribe failure to any faults in his manuscripts. Isn't that the limit in the way of superstition?\—Philadel phia Ledger. A B a t c h o£ A n e c d o t e s . Some interesting anecdotes and gos sip, new and old, of the law courts are given in the English Illustrated Maga zine. The writer of the article, Mr. A. J. Hughes, was once present in court when a juror who opened the ball by saying, \This case, my lord, really lies in a nutshell,\ received the reply, \You crack it then.*' There have been times when clever witnesses have got the better of coun sel in a skirmish of words. When the farrier was asked where he got his knowledge of the mare’s age from, he said, “From the mare’s own mouth, George W. Pratt, the veteran editor of the Corning Journal t resided in Dresden when a boy and knows not a little con cerning the early history and the pioneeis of Yates County. A recent article in his paper concerning Penn Van’s early set tlers and its moral status includes the fol lowing: “ A son of Amos Babcock, the New Hampshire pioneer, was named William. He was born in Westmoreland, Cheshire county, N. H , Sept, io, 1785, and remov ed to Penn Yan, N. Y., about the year 1810. He was enterprising and eagacious, and of popular manners. Penn Yan then was a mere hamlet, and many of the peo ple were Immoral and intemperate. Sun day was treated as a holiday, and in the season, horse-racing was a favorite sport. William Babcock, of Penn Van, told my mother, (his niece, then residing at what is now May’s Mills, Yates county, N. Y,,) that he was determined to have a better element, a different class of people, in Penn Yan. He said that in pursuance of that determination he rode three days to get a man to pray at a Sunday meeting in Penn Yan, and he himself would read the sermon. William had been brought up by Christian parents, and he said he knew that if a church were formed in Penn Yan he could sell more and better goods, and that people who were moral or religions would come to Penn Yan to live. His prediction proved true. Main ly through his efforts a Sunday meeting was established in Penn Yan, and sustain ed. The village prospered. A church was organized, and other churches later, as occasion required. William Babcock created business, and was an inspiring moral force in the village of Penn Yan. I remember in my boyhood seeing an ad vertisement In a Penn Yan newspaper, signed by William Babcock, offering for side a distillery that won'd produce in one day 'whiskey enough to kill fifty men.’ William Babcock did a large business as a general merchant, and became wealthy. He was a member of Congress for one term. He died in 1838, much lamented, leaving a wiie, two sons and one daugh ter. The sons were William and Amos, who subsequently removed to Canton, Illirois, where they were very successful in varied business operations. Amos was for many years a Republican leader in his Congressional district, but ever refused any nomination for office. He died in February, 1899. The older son, William, yet resides in Canton, in fair health. He is the father-in-law of Reuben E. Robie, a prominent lawyer of Bath, N. Y., whose father, Hon. Reuben Robie, wasformany years a leading merchant in Bath, and a Democratic Member cf Congress from this district in the 'fifties.* The Babcocks whom I have seen were all fine-looking men, broad-chested and of genial man* mere. In a recent letter from William Babcock, he wrote: 'I am still here en joying my religion in my own way.' “ Several of the Babcocks from New Hampshire came to this region to reside. One was Ralph Babcock, a bachelor, a farmer In Campbell, N. Y., and then a partner of William J. Arnold in one of the first general stores in the village of Corn ing. Two Babcocks settled in Penn Yan, viz: Charles B. and John C. Babcock. Charles removed to Grand Rapids, Mich igan, and was United States Indian Agent for a term. John was in business in Penn Yan, till his death, a few years ago.” BAKlN 6 Absolutely Pure THERE I S NO SUBSTITUTE Basket Ball. Y. M. C. A. SERIES. Two “ hot” games were looked for last Friday evening, and the game between I. Yetter and G. Taylor met the expecta tions of the andience. The game was a fatt one from start to finith and was for “ blood,” as was manifested by the excit ed playing on the pert of bothtcamr, Yetter won. The scores and line-ups follow: TA Y L O R . Foul. Goal. Point, Bochetah'er, forward ............... o Hr rgrave, forw a r d ....................o Taylor, guard ............................. o Martin, guard ............................. o Newman, center ........................ o 2 1 o o o 4 2 o o o Total .................................. o Y E T T E R . Foul. Goal. Point. Yetter, center ............................... o Stark, forward..............................o Htmler, forward .......................... o Bartlett, g u a rd. ............................ o Andrews, guard ........................ o 3 i 3 o o 4 * a 6 o o 12 Total .................................. o 6 The contest scheduled for Friday even ing between Quick and C. Taylor having been forfeited to the latter, an exhibition game for the benefit of the spectators was played between the two teams with the following result: TA Y L O R . Foul. Goal. Point, Wood, forward............................o Tracey, forward .......................... o Holloway, guard..........................o Harrison, guard ....... .................. o Taylor, center ........................... 1 3 t o o 2 Totals 4 a o o _4 10 QUICK. Armstrong, forward ................... o Gould, forward..........................o Lament, guard ............................. o Tutbill, g u a rd ............................. o Tillinghast; center ...................... o Foul. Goal. Point. o o o o o o o o 5 Total ................ o 3 5 •One goal on foul. As the close of the series is near at hand and the standing of the teams are so nearly even, some good games may be looked for. STANDING OF TEAM S . Piayed.Won. List. G. Taylor....................................6 3 3 C. Andrews. ................ 5 3 a I. Yetter.........................................6 4 a C. Taylor......................................5 3 3 Friday evening of this week Yetter and Andrews, and G. Taylor and C. Taylor will contest. When Leghorns want to sit, they are too fat. Change the diet. Dr. Agnew’s Ointment Cures Piles —Lching, Bleeding and Blind Piles, Comfort in one application. It cures in three to six nights. It cures all skin diseases in young and old. A remedy be- yound compare, and it never fails. 35 cents. Sold by H. O. Bennett, T. F. Wheeler.—32. ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Mote deaths from snake bites cccnr in India in houses than in the fields or in the jungle. Village Treasurers’ Report. sir. m Irish lawyers are generally endowed by Dame Nature with quick wits. Among them all, perhaps, Curran held the palm for lightness and vivacity. When some one told him that no stu dent should be called to the bar who did not possess a landed estate of his own, he retorted, “How many acres make a wiseacre?** But it was a Scotsman, appropriately enough Lord Brougham, who, seeing j his horses take fright, yelled to the coachman, “ Drive into something cheap!\ A M e a n D ie;. Maude—Mr. Wilting asked me to ac company him to the opera tomorrow evening. Clara—And you accepted the invita tion? “Certainly.\ \Strange! He asked me also.'* \There’s nothing strange about it at all. I told him I wouldn’t go unless he provided a chaperon.\ H I * O w n C r a f t y W a y . Fusilby—Human nature is a funny thing. ,It was said I had quit drinking, and everybody I met asked me to take something. Glassby—And you couldn’t accept? Poor fellow! Fusilby—Oh, yes, I a ’cepted every time. It was I who st: ted the refor mation story, you ku-v .—Boston Tran script. She “ H o p e d ” Fop T lieir H a p p iness, The Newly Wed—Edith did the hate- fulcst thing at our reception, and I’ll never forgive her. Cousin Jane—Why, what could it bel The Ne*ly Wed—She addressed Charles in the most pitying manuci and said, “ I hope you’ll be happy.’’ The way she uttered that word \hope\ was positively unbearable. Fred C. Whitaker, in account with the Village of Penn Yan, as treasurer. March 2, 1903. 7 b the Honorable , the President and Board o f Trustees o j the Village o f Penn Yan, N . Y.: R E C E IPTS. March 1,1902, Balance in bank .... J. E. Creary, clerk, contingent fund . . J. E. Creary, clerk, taxes ................. J. E. Creary. highway fu n d .................. A. Lockyer. collector ........................ ... . Water Fund order, contingent fund . . Water fund order, highway fund . . . From Citizens Bank, highway fund . . From Citizens Bank, road roller fund . G. H. Baker, police justice, contin fuud J. W. McCracken, clerk, coniing’t fund J. A. Underwood, Pres’t, do do J. A. Underwood. Pres’t. highway fund W. W. Eastman, chief o f police, con tingent fu n d .......................................... S. S. Baker, collector, special tax (1901) S. S. Baker, collector, special tax (1902) S. S. Baker, collector, hack tax .... S S. Baker, collector, poll t a x .............. S. S. Baker, collector, on 1902 appro- pi iation ..................................................1679586 J. M. Lown. county treasurer, bank tax 681 43 O. G. Shearman, treasurer, contin. fund 200 7s Tax collected by treasurer ..................... 8 79 Transfer from stone fu n d ..................... 1,593 99 O R D E R S PA ID . Police f l | p d ............................... St .532 3 2 Stone f u n d ............................ 2,504 09 Public lighting fund .... 4.248 72 Highway f u n d ......................... 8,157 07 Contingent fu n d ...................... 4,714 42 Road roller f u n d ................. 1,250 00 Fire departm e n t ................. 500 00 Hose fund ............................... 500 00 Cemetery fu n d ..................... 825 89 Balance in Baldwin's Bank of Penn Yan, March 2,1903, 2,312 59 Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot Ease. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Ingrjw ing Nails, Swollen and Sweat ing feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Ask tc-day. $ 3 .i 4 t t 9 4653 83 30 ts 78 66 00 300 00 700 00 375 00 625 00 381 40 271 61 124 82 20 48 4368 156 78 236 97 161 74 5U 00 Young stock thrives best on crushed oats, linseed meal and wheat bran, with blight, early cut hay, silage or a few roots. $2 lor $z. 2 $. For a short time we will send the T ri bune F a rm er and T he E xrress one year for St.25, cash in advance. $26,545 io -$26,545 io CONTINGENT FUND. March 1, 1902, balance ........................ $556 2t Received J. E. Creary, c le r k ................. 46 53 J. B. Creary, t a x e s ...................... S3 30 A. Lockyer, collector. . . . 66 00 order, water fund ................. 300 00 Appropriation ........................ 3,000 00 A twentieth of Scotland’s area is forest land, sever-tentbs is mountain, heath and lake and cnly one-quazter cultivated land This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Dis orders, Break up Colds, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. T h e y never f a i l . At all druggists, 25c. Sample matlea F k EE. Ad dress, Alien S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Two-thirds of that of the sweet potato is the food value of the Irish potato. DR. E. F. BUTTERFIELD, of SYRACUSE, N. Y The Famous Clairvoyant Physician Talks oithe Progress that Has Been Made in the Treatment 01 Chronic Diseases in the Last Forty Years. «« ,i «« u «« «« «i i« H l« G. H. Baker, policejustice . J. W. McCracken, clerk . . . S. S. Baker, collector, special tax ( 1901 ) ............................... S. S. Baker, collector, back tax S. S. Baker, collector, special tax (1902) .................................. J .A . Underwood, president. W. W. Eastman, chief police tax collected by treasurer . . 381 40 271 6r 156 78 161 74 236 124 43 68 8 79 $ 5,437 83 Orders p a id ............................... $ 4 . 7 t 4 4 2 Uncollected t a x ......................... 304 36—5,018 78 $419 05 S h e W a n t e d O n e S a v e d F o r H e r . Young Miss XVilgus—Where are you going, papa? The Rev. Mr. Wilgus—To the tem perance meeting. We intend to inau gurate a movement to save the young men of the country. Young Miss Wilgus—Try and save a nice one for me, will you, papa dear?— Portsmouth News. Balance March 2,1903 ............. H IG H W A Y FUN D.! Balance March t, 1902 ........................... Received J. B. Creary, clerk ................ “ order water fund ...................... “ cert, deposit on Citizens Bank Appropriation ............. Received order stone fund.................... 1,533 57 S. S. Baker, collector, poll tax 514 00 order stone fund ................... 60 42 j . A. Underwood, President. 20 48 $ 37 os *5 78 700 00 375 00 4.500 00 «. M Orders $ 7,756 30 8.157 77 Overdraft March 2, 1903 ........................ $400 77 POLICE FON D. Balance March 1, 1902............................ $359 35 A p p ropriation ......................................... i, 55 ° 00 Orders paid $1,909 35 1.532 32 C o m i u c r v l n l l y E x p r e s s e d . The father of ten daughters listened silently to the solemn words that united his eldest to n millionaire. \There!\ lie murmured as the tying of the knot was successfully concluded. \That’s 10 per cent off for cash!\ Asthma Balance March 2, 1903............................ $377 03 STONE FUND. Balance March 1, 1 9 0 2 ............................$ 4°9 A p p r o p r iation ......................................... 2500 00 $2504 09 Orders p a id ...................................................$2504 09 PUBLIC LIGH T ING FU N D . Balance March 1, 19 0 2 .............................. $1863 71 A p p r o p r iation ......................................... 4410 00 $6273 7 t Orders p a id ................................................ 4248 72 Balance March 2, 1 9 0 3 .............................. $2024 99 ROAD RO L L E R FUND. Certificate Deposit, Citizens Bank . . . $ 625 00 A p p r o p r iation ......................................... 625 00 my daughters had a or asthma. We tried “ One of m terrible case almost everything, but without re lief. We then tried Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and three and one-half bottles cured her.” — Emma Jane Entsminger, Langsville. O. F I R E D E P A R T M EN T FOND. Appropriation ................................$500 Orders p a id ................................................ 500 00 HOSE FUND. OO Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral certainly curesmany cases of asthma. And it cures bronchitis, hoarseness, weak lungs, whooping-cough, winter coughs, coughs, and hard Three slics: 25 c., 50 c., $ 1 . All druggists. Consult your doctor. If he say* take It, then do as ho aays. If he tells you not to take It, then don't take It. He knows. Leave It with him. We are witling. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. A p p r o p r iation ......................................... $ 500 Orders p a id ................................................ 500 00 C E M E T E R Y FON D. Balance March 1. 19 0 2 ........................... $ 625 14 Received, O. G. Shearman, Treas . . . 200 75 $ 825 89 Orders p a id ................................................ 825 89 The above Is respectfully submitted. FRED C. WHITAKER, Village Treasurer. Very few Doctors, who began their prac tice forty years ago are left to tell the story of the wayf. And methods of those earlier times. The old saddle-bags contained Dover’s powder, Calomel, Pink and tienna, the last given to the young to cure worms, and also to give proper religious bent. leeding, even to the point of prostration, was an adjunct to the drug remedies. The Allopathic tichool held the fort for many years; it was finally changed and modified by the Homeopathic and Eclectic Schools, and the Galvanic Incubator. Taking all the different schools of med icine, including those called irregulars, the Christian Scientists, Magnetic Healers, Os teopaths have tailed to give us any surety of pertect diagnosis and treatment of disease. They make lamentable failures as yet, showing their knowledge very imper fect and not to be relied upon. We still have heart disease, sugar diabetes, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, rheumatism, paralysis and all other various ills that seem to baffle the skill of the phys ician to rightly name the disease or perform a cure. First, we are aware that wisdom and knowledge are the result of long years of toil and research, and that deep down in human life the loftiest truths are born. Dr. Butterfield starts out from a different standpoint, basing his knowledge upont spiritual insight into the causes of you condition anu the reasons for your suffer ing. This spiritual insight is the incentive to all progress and Is the one method by which the right remedies can be used to suit the case. The Doctor has been coming to Penn Yan foreight years, and has cured hundreds of cases that have come to him as a last re sort, and he has cured where all others had failed and hope had gone. He uses vegetable remedies entirely, which are as natural as fruit, in the system. They can be taken by any one, no matter how delicate the stomach. The Doctor cures some of the worst cases of kidney and bladder trouble, enlarged liver ana heart disease, dyspepsia, rheumatism and all other forms of chronic diseases. All are welcome to a free examination. His long experience is worth everything to the chronic invalid. Dr. Butterfield will be at the Knapp House, Penn Yan, N. Y. on Wednesday March 18 , 1903 . _____ Alfalfa is not well suited to overflow land. When young, it drowns very easily. When several years old; it is less easily killed in this way. “ D o n ' t send yer paper to me enny more,” wrote an old timer to an editor, “ fur in last week’s paper you had a whole collum about a man named Rosevelt hav ing a sore on hie leg. Now you know doggone well that for the pas 2 weeks Ive had a bile on both my lege and acarbunk- le on the back of the neck and you never eaid a word about it.” F o s s il P ills. — The demand ia proof of tbeir worth. Dr. Agnew'a Liver Pills are beating out many fossil formulas at a quarter a box, They’re better medicine, easier doses,and tocenta a vial, A thousand ailments may arise from a disordered liver. Keep the liver right and you'll not have Sick Headache, Biliousness. Nausea, Constipation and Sallow Skin. Sold by H. O. Bennett, T . F. Wheeler.—31. Boston dressed ducks are stabbed in the mouth and dry picked. We have the best assortment of harness in town. At prices to suit you. w . H. W h itfield ,