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THE LONG ISLAND FARMER. JAMAICA, JANUARY 8, 1901, GROCERIES. DRUGS AND MEDICINES. DRUGS AND MEDICINES. DR CCS 4KI1 UEOICIISEV J. 1. BRINGKERHOFF, « —S U I U IK— GR00EBIE8> FLOUB AND PROVISIONS. Tta* »o,bsoribar t iu alwsy* on band, and tor »ale THX LOWEST OASa PBIOES, ••**ar, B nttar, Lard, Pork, Hama, Shonldar, Smoked Bf*f, Keroeane Oil, Oodflah, Herring.Caiui*a Freit.Tea, Coffee, Selt, Spioee. Dried Fruit*. Rioe Starch, Blueing, Bruahea, Broom*. Ippiea, Molaaaea, Syrtipa, Potato**, Tar&lpi, Onions, Flour, Meal, Soap. 8toseware, Kails, 01- dar,Etc.,Etc.,Etc., Etc. JftGood* dflttarad to any P « t of the vUlage.-** 3 . H. BBIN 0 XEBH 0 1 T. J O H N a V A L E N T I N E , Snot), VI oik auL Fd Sion, Junction Smith, South and Canal Sts., JA M A I C A , L- I . Groceries, Flour, Feed, Oats, Corn, Baled Hay, Straw, etc., constantly on hand. L O W PR IC E S FO R CASH. Agricultural Implements, Whips, Blankets and Bobes. HELD PIANOS glre you better value for your money than your money will buy elsewhere. Made specially for tbe home. PRIC1S-THE LOWEST. Terms, $1,50 weekly and upwards. B K S H & B A C H pro’\ •e '{—^highest grade pianos the world reduces. See us before buying, WE WILL SAVE OU MONEY. We are sole agents for Long ~ Island for these well known | pianos. Send ror catalogue and our easy } payment system. O L D P IA N O S T A K E N IN EX C H A N G E . / helo & go 313 Fulton St.. Block below City Hall. BROOKLYN, N.Y. Open every evening. I'E llE T E K t . MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY Hoffman Boulevard* near Jamaica* t j p f * and a t f A p l e g r o v e s t a t i o n o f THE L. I. R. B f W For descriptive p am p h let a n d other Informa- tY*' apply a t the Superintendent’s office on the grouSds, or address MAPLE GROVE CEME- TRBV; KIchmond Hill, Borough of Queens,New York. Telephones—Superintendent’s office (at the cemetery) No. 8 A, Richmond H ill; M anhattan •fflce 1365 Broadway), No. 47 38th street. RBAIi ESTATE. M O N E Y T O L O A N v ou to n d a n d mortgage. We have $50,000 to loan , on bond and mortgage in sums to s u it appli ■* aanta. MONFORT & FABER, Savings Bank Building, Jam aica, N. Y. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. f. THOMAS DALY, ,Oyster and Chop House. CORNZK FULTON AND WASHINGTON STREETS, JAMAICA, L. I. Oysters in every style- Meals at all hours. Regular d inner from 11 to 2 . M E D I C I N E S . S PECK’S ELIXIR -O F — PERUVIAN 6MK The Great Remedy for F4LABIA and SERVE Tonic. They Like Our Store. Our customers of tbe fairer •ex never dread a visit to our grocery— they meet no disagreeable odors, no greasiness, no dirty floors, no stuck-up eounters. Store alt spick and spao; goods ail the nicest; prices all the Tightest, BEERS & CORNELL Wl * attaet. Jamaica. J % » P E C K ’S Hall of Pharmacy, J A M A I C A . L . . I . Everything in the Drug, Patent Medicine and Druggist Sundry Line. A complete assortment of Surgical Appliances. Prescriptions prepared at any time, Day or Night. Prices for best articles below competition. BANKING. BADE OF JAMAICA BO R O U G H OF Q U E E N S , CITY OF NEW YORK. C a p i t a l S u r p lu s # 5 0 ,0 0 0 50*000 JOHN H .SU T P H IN , P resident. JOHN ALVIN YOUNG, Vice-President. WILLIAM T>. LLEWELLYN. Acting Cashier. DIRECTORS! W m . W . G il l e n , C ord M e y e r , G eo . W . Y oung , F. L. E ld r id g e , G eo . D. I r a t t , W. H. B a l d w in , J r . J ohn L ew is C hilds , J ohn H . S d t p h in , A . C. B ed f o r d , ,T. A l v i n Y o u n g , A lrick H . M a n , A . S. W h i t e , J o h n A d ik e s , W a l t e r G e f r , A. C. V aughan . Accounts of Merchants, Individuals and Corporations solicited. Banking hours, 9 A. M. to 3 P . M.; Saturdays, 9 A.M . to 12 M. J A M A I C A S A M S B A N K . BANKING HOUSE, NO. 363 FULTON ST., Incorporated by Act of Legislature, April.30. 1855 JOHN H. SUTPHIN, President. G korgk L. P kcx , 1st Vice President. J. T yube W atts , 2nd Vice P resident. J ohn II. B binckkrhofp , T reasurer. M artin S. R apblyi , Secretary TRU 8 TU 8 . John H. Brlnckerhoff, George L. Peck, John H. Sutphin, Stephen Ryder, John E. Backus, J . Tyler Watts, vVm. A. W ar nock. Charles Downing, Leander B. Faber, William W. Gillen, George K. Meynen, Willet C. Durland, M artin S. Rapelye, Henry A. Monfort, William L. Wood. Bank open every business day, except S atur day, from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M ., and on Saturday from 9 A. M. to 12, noon VONTRflCTORS, JOHN H. VALENTINE, GENERAL CONTRACTOR, taction ot Snli ani Canal Streets, J A M A i r ! A . HORSE GOODS. DELIVERY WAGONS L ig h t a n d S tro n g Also Carriages, All Descriptions Cone io aid see tie Bargains we are offer* tag just now in wagons that will give you double service, in actual wear. Mads from selected stock, by builders of estab lished reputation. Can be used for the hardest work, over the roughest roads. Tie I.S.Rn«M9nitfactragCo„ 740-750 GRAND STREET, BROOKLYN. CIVIL ENGINEERS. j o h n j . M c L a u g h l i n , Cim ENGINEER ani CITY SURYEYOB Herriman Building, FULTON STREET, - - JAMAICA Special attention paid to Long Island work. CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS. TH O M A S ST Y L E S , MASOK AND BUILDER. Dealer in ; FLAGGING AND ALL KINDS OF BLUX 8TONX. Fluahlng Avenue, Jam aica. Box 989. ED W A R D H . BOU R S E . M a son a n d B u ild e r an d R e a l E s tate Agent. m i b h s M ia v i QUEENS COUNTY BANK. BRANCH OF THE CORN EXCHANGE BANK* Oor. B o rden Ave. an d F r o n t St., Long Islan d Oity, N Y, Capital, $1,400,000. Surplus and Profits (Earned), $1,600,000. WALTER E. FREW, President. WILLIAM F. HAVBMEYBR, Vice Preaident. JAMES P. BSSBMRR, Cashier. Transacts general banking business. CoUectlons on all points in the United States and Canada. Letters of Credit Issued available ln all parts of the world. Drafts on England, Ireland and Scotland. Every effort will be made to me** all Just a n d proper requirements of its customers ADVISORY BOARD. WALTER E. FREW. President. EMIL OALMAN, Emil Caiman & Co., L. I, WILLIAM A. NASH, Pres. Corn Exch. Bank, WM. P. HAVEMEYER, Vice Pres’t. Nat. Bank of North America, N. Y. MARTIN A. METZNER, of Young & Metzner, L. I. City. EMANUEL LEHMAN, „ „ „ Lehman Bros., 22 William St., N. Y. City, N. Y. WM. H. NICHOLS, Pres, of the General Chemical Co., N Y. City , N. Y. JOHN B. WOODRUFF, L. I. City, N. Y. JOSEPH S AUERBACH, Cedarhurst, L.l. G. J . GARKETSON, Newtonn, L. I. JAMES R. WILLETS, Rcslyn L. I. THOS. T. BARR, Pres, of the Nassau National Bank, Brooklyn. CHECKS DRAWN ON THIS BANK ARE PAYABLE THROUGH TBE NEW’ YORK CLEARING HOUSE WITHOUT CHARGE. Banking Hours, 8.80 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 8.30 A. SI. to 12 M. INSURANCE. IN S U R A N C E . NOTICE. Insure your prop erty a t the Jam ai ca Insurance Agency, which repre sents none J y v | e r W a t t S , but the b e s t --------------------------------- - » companies. Manager, F u lton street, opposite New York avenue, Jamaica. GROCERS GROCERS. A L L V A R I E T I E S O E FARM AND GARDEN SEEDS AT THE STORES OF J T . & T . A D I K E S , ALSO A FULL LIN E OF FARMERS’ SUPPLIES. J. J. FRIEL, LOAN BROKER, ” MONEY LOANED'ON r PERSONAL PROPERTY, * DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, ETC. 1473 and 1475 Broadway, 937 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y HARDWARE. I HARDW A R E. PERCY G. JAMES, P a i n t s , B l a c k s m i t h s ’ S u p p l i e s , L a m p s , G l a s s , E t c . Now C o r . F u lt o n a n d W a s h in g t o n S t r e e t s , J a m a ic a , N . Y . * Will be in my new building across the street by tbe first of .lbs year. WINDOW SHADES, 40 GTS. I CAN MAKE AND PUT UP COMPLETE for you a good Shade, 3x6 feet, as low as 40 oents a window. Any color. L I N E N S H A D E S , H A R T S H O R N R O U E H S , 7 9 i t s If you have any Shades that need Fixing or new Boiler*, drop me a postal. SHADES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER. If you will send postal, I will call or midi samples and give estimate; any part of Lons Island. W M B D C H O L T , 7 5 J e f f r e y A v e . , J a m a i c a . BBAMQK # r FULTON «T>UKT, WM**. D r . H u m p h r e y s ’ Specifics cure by acting directly upon the disease, without exciting disorder in any other part of the system, no. cuius. raicx*. 1—Fever*. Congestion?, Inflammations. .25 2—Worm*. Worm Fover, Worm Colic... .35 3—Teething, Colic, Crying,Wakefuinei# .2 5 4 —D iarrhea, of Children or Adults .2 5 7—Couch*, Colds, Bronchitis.. ...... .25 8 —Neuralgia, Toothache, Faceache .25 9—Headache, Sick Headache, Vertigo.. .2.1 10—Dy*pep»Ia, Indigestion WeakSt<viach.25 11—Suppressed o r P a inful Periods.... .2 5 12—White*. Too Profuso Periods ................ 25 13—Croup, Laryngitis, Hoarseness .25 14—Salt Rheum , Erysipelas,Eruptions.. .25 15—Rheumatism, Rheumatic Pain* .25 16—M a laria, Chills, Fever and Ague 2 5 1 9 - C a ta r r h . Influenza. Cold in the Head .25 2 0 —Whooping-Coug h ............ .25 27—K ldaey D iaeases ............................. .25 28—Nervou* D ebility .............................. 1.00 30—Urinary W eakness, Wetting Bed 25 77—Grip. Hay Fever................................... .25 Dr. Humphreys’ Manual of all Diseases a t your Druggists or Mailed Free. Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt of prroe. Humphreys’ Med. Co Cor. William ft John Sts., Why Not Purchase A Piano With a Reputation? have stood the test o f a critical public for the past FORTY YEARS. More then 8,ooo actual purchasers in Brooklyn use and recommend them. 128,000 Sterling Instruments have been made and sold. We have three separate factories and make STERLING, HUNTINGTON, and MENDELSSOHN Pianos, which we sell direct from our factory-warerooms at a substantial saving from dealers or agents’ prices. «• STERLING PIANO CO. Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retail Warerooms, (Entire building, four floors) 536 Fulton Street, Brooklyn Open Monday and Saturday- Evenings, f t Look for the name STERLING. * 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE T ra d e M a r k s D e s i g n s C o p y r i g h t s A c . Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention la prob ably patent ible. Communica tion* strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency-.or securing patents. _ . Pat ant.. UUtan . . . Zt-Co-r— tpeciai notice, without charge, ln the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest d r- Terms, $3 a eolation of any scientlQo Journal, year; four month*, Sold by all newsdealer*. MUNN & Co «•«»— * flew York Branch Offioe, 636 F St* Washington. D. C. G e t y o u r J o b ! P r in t in g DONE AT T h e F a r m e r O f f ic e . Superior Workmanship. Quality—The Best. Terms—Liberal. HARDWARE. T. DEALER IN AND Carpenter’s Tools. Ja m a ic a * L-. I. Lock*. Knobs, Hinge*. Screws. Nails, Poetat and Table Cutlery, Plated Ware. Brit* >r ’% Plain Tin ware, Enameled were, Kerosene- temps. Wood and Wlllowwsre, Farmer's. Olothesaad Market-baskets. BRUSHES. Kalsomining. Paint and Whitewash Fruahes. T nl Line. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS Plows. Plow Pasting*. Shovel*. Spades, Hoe* Bakes, Cultivator*, Wheelbarrow*, Bope, Chain, Weil Bucket*, Ci*tern and Well Pump*. . Stores, Ranees and Heaters, KaratsdOvan Baagaa and Paraaoas. P wmow set 14 * prsottosl manner. Plumbing and Gas VtMag, Tin BttoCag «at JakHug Bn a a* stoat MUSfC IN THE WORKSHdP. N o v e l E x p e r i m e n t o f a N e w J e r s e y F i r s t . A concern in Trenton which employs some 200 yaung women making cigars has adopted the novel experiment of furnishing music for them to work by, says Gunton’s Magazine for January. A grand piano is placed in the work room, a competent pianist employed to furnish music two hours each day, and a music teacher is hired by the firm to furnish singing lessons free to the op eratives dining the noon hour. The hope of tlie management is that this will render the labor of tlie women less monotonous and help to stimulate good feeling for their employers and some thing of refined taste which shall show itself in their domestic lives. It is a little on the plan of the National Cash Register company in Dayton, O., which provides facilities for the operatives to take vecreation. baths, etc.. in the com pany's time. Whatever the practical outcome of such departures, they show that the tendency hns actually set in among employers to *do something for their workpeople besides exacting the maxi mum work for the minimum pay. Ev ery experiment of this kind is a r indi cation of a better spirit toward labor ers, which will ultimately bring better economic relations between labor and capital. When employers of their own volition begin to furnish recreation and music, we may reasonably hope that the opposition of the em*ioying class to shortening the working day, secur ing ample opportunities for education for working children and protection against accidents will soon disappear, and a general system of old age and ac cident insurance for laborers will re ceive tlieir active encouragement. TRAITS OF SERI INDIANS Professor Magee’s Carious Dis coveries of a Mexican Tribe. WITHOUT THE \KNIFE INSTINCT/' PASSING OF PRAIRIE DOGS. A g r i c u l t u r a l D e p a r t m e n t W i l l W i p e O u t t h e P e a t In th e W e a t. Passengers on the “Q” system who have ridden the better part of a day through western Nebraska and eastern Colorado will remember the prairie dog, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. He is numerous in that section of the coun try. -He lives in villages as close to gether as the villages of certain parts of Europe. But the prairie dog has had his day. The agricultural department says he must go. Mr. Wilson has decided that the dogs kill tlie grass and ruin good grazing land. ‘‘Tama Jim” has little of the love of picturesqueness In his make up. He is eminently practical, and his philanthropy is of the type which seeks to make two blades of grass grow instead of one. Therefore he prop-ses to relegate the prairie dog to the picture books and to the stuffed specimens of the museum along with the-bttffAW- _____ _________ Mr. Wilson’s chemists have discover ed a m i x t u r e which will m a k e the whole villages fight for the first bite, but which at the last stingeth like a serpent and biteth like an adder. Un der its influence the hole that knows the prairie dog will know it no more forever. The frisky, nervous, barking little beast will join tbe innumerable caravan of prairie dogs who have gone before. There will be more grass when the prairie dog is gone and therefore more cattle. There will be less breaking of the legs of the cowboys’ ponies, and the rattlesnake will live alone in the hole until the summons comes to him also. As nature abhors a vacuum, so does civilization despise a “varmint” save in the shape of the human form divine. L o n d o n to H a v e M o r e T a b e s . The success of the electric railways has generated a heavy crop of promot ers who are threatening to riddle Lon don with tubes In every direction, says a London correspondent of tbe Pitts burg Dispatch. Already there are some 81 miles of electric underground rail ways either in course of construction or authorized, to which must be added 12 miles complete and at work. Then we have 97% miles of other lines au thorized, but not yet commenced, and powers are to be sought this year for eight entirely new schemes. It Is com puted that the cost of constructing the railways already sanctioned by the leg islature will reach the neat little total of £58,540,000, which, with the further million needed to convert the«old inner circle into an electric track, will bring the sum proposed to be sunk in railway enterprise beneath the streets of Lon don up to £59,540,000. W a w f e in g to a ’s Cam e B u r n e d . The work of clearing up the ruins left by the fire at Dr. William Ever ett’s house a t Quincy, near Boston, has brought to light a few facts concerning the valuable property destroyed and saved, says the New York Bun. Of the gold headed cane which formerly was owned by George Washington and which Mr. Everett prized most highly nothing but the ferrule has been found. Dr. John Eliot’s Indian Bible, a rare book valued a t $2,000, was saved and sustained no injury. A valuable collec tion of autographs of distinguished men all over the world was destroyed. C a u g h t a S l i v e r G r a r F o x . George Greig of Canandaigua, N. Y., a trapper, has captured a silver gray fox, an animal whieh was supposed to be extinct to that p a rt of the world. So rare Is the silver gray fox that a per fect pelt is taken readily by furriers a t $225. The fox was snared by Mr. Greig in a remote p a rt of the town of Bristol, •ays the New York World. It Is a su perior hide. Tofeoargumiatjr I n g w i t s e r l n n f t . At moat of t£<i Swiss mountain re sorts tobogganing is now in full swing. At Leysin, Davos and St. Moritz the hotels aw crowded with visitor* intent upon this sport. C o m m o n Uses o f K n i v e s U n k n o w n to tb e S e r i# — T h e i r B e n t m r k a b le B l o o d t h i r s t i n e s s —-T r e a c h e r o u s a m i W ith. No S e n s e o f H o n o r T o w a r d T h e i r G u e s ts. “The Seri Indians,” said Professor W. J. Magee, who has recently return ed from an ethnological expedition into Mexico, to tlie Washington correspond ent of the New York Post, “are in the scale of civilization a few degrees above the Cocopah Indians, whom we set out to visit; they do make their own. bows and arrows and boats and show some cleverness in primitive navigat ing, but they still lack the knife in stinct.” This commentary called forth a question as ^to the meaning of the “knife instinct.” The ordinary man in a civilized community, the professor1 explained, is so familiar with the knife and its purposes that its use has be come practically automatic. At the table he cuts his food with his knife without going through any conscious! mental process. It is as natural foil’ him to do this as it is to take his drink, from a cup or other vessel for holding: liquor. If he wishes to open a pack age tied with twine in a hard knot, or to whittle a bit of stick, or to split an, apple into two parts, down goes hto hand instinctively into his pocket for his knife, and he can be talking-or thinking about other things while he uses the knife for cutting. - - ~ Not so the Seri Indian. I f he obtalmi, a knife in barter he thrusts i t into his belt as he has seen the Mexican fron tiersman do, but in a meaningless way. It is a matter of imitation and not rea soning with him, for he has no idea of the common uses to which the Mexican puts the knife. If a deer crossed his path while his knife was in his girdle,, and with the aid of his dogs he were able to capture and kill it, it would never occur to him to use his knife for cutting up the carcass. He would tear it like a wild beast If he kills ii, pony for food and hangs a quarter near bis door, to be eaten as needed, he willl bite into the meat and pull it apart with his teeth and nails, stripping the sinews and tendons gradually till noth ing but the bones are left. To cut the flesh away would be the last thing to occur to *if mind and the most diffi cult thing for him to accomplish. Civ ilized man, with whom the knife habit, pursued from early childhood, present ly m e r g e s into instinct, can have no idea of what it means to be without this rudimentary training. It is as hard for him to understand as it is for a person who has never been with out the normal complement of faculties to understand the feeling of one boriii ■ deaf and dumb and blind. The knife 4 instinct is a sort of milestone on the road to civilization—one of the means by which we may measure the progress of any primitive people. Speaking of the condition of the Se- ris as regards bloodthirst, Professor Ma gee says that it still remains very de plorable, and the, visitor must be not only prepared, but visibly prepared, for trouble a t any hour of the day or night. The one question on which the Serifi’ treatment of him hangs is that of op portunity. It makes no difference whether he be a Caucasian, or a mixed blood, a Yankee or a Mexican, or even a member of another tribe of Indians. The sole consideration is that he is ai;i alien wherever or whenever found. Iff the alien is well equipped with means of protection, so that it is plainly inex pedient to attack him boldly, he will escape trouble as long as his vigilance remains acute. Tbe night, which would naturally be considered the most dan gerous time for the stranger, is really his safest time, for by doing careftil watch duty by turns a party of visitors can a vert, attack, but in the daylight .there is a p t to be a perilous sense of se curity, and it is then that i t behooves every alien to be individually on his guard. The Seris seem to h a y q^BCfib of the sense of hospiftflltp or honor which marks many Indians of & higher type. They have some notion of loyall- ty to each other, but the rest of thife world is always fair game. Another tiling dlfterentiates the Beriis from the Indian tribes conventionally familiar to newspaper readers—name ly, their treatment of their dead. As far as is known, they have no respect for the bodies of their warriors, leaving these unbni'ied wherever *hey happen to fall, but the funeral of a woman is an occasion for great pomp and cere mony. -There may be some relation between this and the fact that the Se ris, like most other Indians, trace de scent through the maternal line. In deed, in the Seri tongue the women have no word signifying “father,;” though they have one for “mother,” Men only can speak of their Xathen. The reason for this distinction Is ttdfc manifest. Rnuitams I n n i i i t V isllah, “The edict of the czar called eepeoinl attention to tbe growing Importance o f the United States as a world powe r, and to the marvelous commercial actiy- .. lty of the American people,” says to* captain o f the Russian cruiser Yariay, r in the Philadelphia Record, “A t toll#- time every man holding a cottEedMdej in any branch of the imperial serv#: is' a student of the English language and American institutions, so that, «(!je many months, the Americas teorif t. traveling in Russia, can hear his aatlii# tongue at any and every mHwafro*t^ . _ ^ tlon or pori!Wa«.” t-m n V S i ^IttM T T i-nr iffltftlriif
