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J i c f b a n W l e VOL. XIII- NO. 85 . MECHANICVILLE. SAEATOGA COUNTY, N Y„ SATUEDAY MOENING, DECEMBEE 29, 1894. WHOLE NO. 659 W located on the upper Hadaon at the mouth of Tenendabo Creek, the outlet of iTlCvllclIllvVlllCBallgtoa Lake and R ound Lake. It is midway between Albany and Saratoga, the political and social capitals of tbe Empire State. It is twelve miles from tide water navigation at Troy and eighteen miles from Schenectady. I t is on the line of the Champlain Canal and has railroads diverging in sev e n d i f f e r e n t d i r e c t io n s A street railroad extends through the main business portion of the village and reaches Stillwater, three miles up the Hudson M echanioville has facilities for passenger and freight transportation that are surpassed by only a few cities. j T h e U n ited States census of 1880 gave M echanicville a population of 1,265. I t now has a population of fully j 5,000. Its grow th has been rapid and substantial. The Saturday Mercury is Printed ^ A L L AT H O M E .^ Advertisers Appreciate a Home Newspaper. The Same Publisher has Issued this Paper ^ N e a r ly Thirteen Years- ^ j This cannot be said by Any Other Newspaper in Saratoga Cc I V l A r f l f l f l l r v n i A po \esfieb two immense water powers on the Hudson River and has one of the V m e largest pulp and paper mills in the world. Its other m anufacturing e n terprises include Fitchburg Railroad car shop, Delaware & H u d son car chops, three large knitting mills, three sash, blind aud door factories, tw o shirt factories, two brick yards, a factory for elec trical supplies, iron and brass foundries, lime kilns and fertilizer works. M echanicville h a s six churches, a new |4 0 ,0 0 0 academy and public school building, a Hoe new opera house, a bank, two telegraph offices and a driving park. T h e Y. M . O. A . maintain a public library, reading rooms, gym n asium and bath rooms. T h e village is lighted by electricity and has unequalled water works, supplying the public with pure spring water by the gravity system . E lectric street oars will soon be in use. Santa Claus has just arrived and will make his headquarters at X P. H e QIRR & C O ’S , Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report j THE NEW AND THE OLD P A K K -A V E ., lilE G H A N I C V i L L l., H e w ill erect his workshop iu one ot our show w indows, and w ill be pleased to see all good boye and girls during the afternoon and evening. 4 B M U I T E I .V P U B E I Holiday Goods in Great Variety. | I DOLLS, I I TOYS, I I GAMES I Oh' EVERY DESCRIPTION. BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! For Old and Young:. PLtl^m , JIETAL ANI> CELLULOID^ NOVELTY BO X E S . Toilet Articles, silver and silvered Bric-a-Brac. Useful and Ornamental. Albums^ Mirrors, Jewelry, Perfumery, and a Thousand Other Articles which we cannot Enumerate as the line is too Great. We invite your attention. Everything New. All at the lowest popular prices. *«rS T O R E OPKN EV E R Y E V E N I N G . J . P . M c G i r r & CO. PRESTO! CHAISTGE! Watch This Space Every Week Park=ave. Shoe Parlor, i ]j A'CAKD OF TIM WE DESIRE TO THANK THE PUBLIC FOR THE GENEROUS PATRONAGE EXTENDED.TO US, IT IS NOT OUR DESIRE TO REST ON OUR WELL EARNED SUCCESS, SATURDAY MORNING WE WILL BEGIN A PINAL SALE OF A LI. LIFT OVER, II HOLIDAY J ^ P P E M i r To be clofced out at L4 value. It 30U are yet look- iut( for Slippers, call on us. Park Avenue Shoe Parlor, JZ>. C. H iilE , JPx*oprietoi*. Watch Our Pine Window Dipl a, 7 . D. S. DOUGLASS, FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE, Notary Public aial Keal K6tate Agent. Losses promptly settled. PoUci-'s written in good represented at ol Glens Fall r than those iladelphii Liverpool, Engl.nd; horth British and Mercantile Ins. Co., oi Londons Office, Main Street. CHEISTMAS GOODS, D o lls, Books, Games and Pictures of All K inds; Everything: tbtt will make a nice Christmas presen', msy be found at Park Place store of Mrs. C. O. Barnes, RICE & HOWLAND, DMLIRl III MACHINE SHOP. General machine work done. All kinds of i cultural implements repaired. Steam fitting i niping. Gnns, locks, sewing machines, bicyt Ac , Ac- Mill work a specialty. J E SMITH Mill Street, Mechanicville, S , T. — N. cuute :,— Practical Horse Shoeing L o n g Experience. Satiafsction Q iiaranteed. Bsnal.at., N e a r D o d d ’s Sbup.M e c lianlcvnie B’ruit Trees & Shrubs. Choicest Variety and True to name, splendid specimens will be furnlstied you by L. E. B A K E R , Mech.anicmlh>.. All Stock LOCAL LINES. The Christmas watch at S. J. Moore’s was taken by Ervin Howland, giipsa was 2 33 p. m . The w a tch stopped at 2.34 1 2 p. M. The watch run 31 hours and 34 1-2 mlnn’es. The east side of Haz'-l-st. between Spring-st. and South-st. has received the addition o f three handsome new houses season, built by VSTm. H. Wood, John 6. Snell and Geo. A. Rice. Another sea son Is likely to see that entire block near ly covered with fine dwellings on both sides of the street. Geo. A. Rice, of the flour ana feed firm of Eice & Howland, has nearly completed a handsome double dwelling on H«zel-st. The structure has some very attractive features, which Inclnde the stairways and pantry. Village water has been pot in the building. Mr. Rice’s residence will be very convenient to his piace of business. He will rent a portion ot the bouse. The compulsory education luw goes In to effect on the first day of January, and a truant officer will then have authority to arrest boys and girls between the ages of eight and sixteen years who are not found In school. It is reported that sev. eral store clerks and a number of shop boys have decided to go to school rather than fight the trnant officer. The school census shows just who are absent from school, and it will be an easy matter send the truant officer to arrest them. The following will be the law after New Year’s : “On *11 notes, drafts, checks of acceptance, bills of exchange, bonds or other evidences of Indebted- ness, made, drawn or accepted by the person or corporation after this act shall take eflect, and in which there is no ex pressed stipulation to the contrary, grace according to the custom of mer- cbanis shall be allowed, but the same .<hall be due and payable, as therein ex- nressed, without grace. This act shall take effect and be In force on the first day of January. 1895.” Front-st. is entitled to some improve ments next season. It has come to be an important street and Isi extensively trav eled. The sash and blind factory o f J. B, Orentt & Son, the door, blind and sash factoiy of Barnes & La Dow, the shirt factory of Miller, Hall & Hartwell, grist mill and feed store o f Rice & How land, together employ a large number of men and women, and it is only fair and reasonable that the chief street leading to this busy section of the village should be improved. The sidewalk on the east side of the street sbonjld be at once ex tended to South-st. and the roadway ought to be made more substantial for heavy loads that must pass over it. An electric lamp is needed in front o f the shirt factory. The manufacturing inter ests connected with that section of the village should unite for the improvements to which they are entitled. Drop him a Postal Card, uaraiiteed. Will b if it does not live. replaced Raw Furs The best imformed and most progres- siye citizens of this village are tliorough- Iv satisfied that the time has come for ac tion upon an extended system for the Im provement o f village highways. It is be- lievtd that our citizens are generally agreed that the highway plans hitherto followed, have involved useless expendi tures o f money. Eevrybody laughs when gravel is draw’n on the street, knowing that it will be drawn ofl' the following xeason after it has been ground into mud Mechanicville has had a village charter since 1870, and during this period some i40,000 have been expended on our streets. Are the.se streets any better to day than common country roads? The changing character of the village board of trustees operates to preclude the carry ing out of any street improvement sys tem covering a period of ten years, for instance. It would seem, though, that a street Improvement plan, prepared after due consultation with residents in all parts of our viilage, and perhaps with the endorsement o f a public meeting of citizens, ought to command general sup port for a term of years. Just now, the question of sewers comes in to obstruct permanent improvements on our streets. If such improvements are delayed until sewers be laid and the village water mains supply every house, improved streets are a long distance In the future. At Massey’s they have 200 boys’ cape overcoats which ho will! sell at twei 10 600 pairs o f boys’ pants, good stock, winter weight, for 50 cents to $1.25 to clear them off. Gentlemen, there Is nothing more suit able for your wife or children for Christ mas than a pair of high button arctics, at 8. J. Moore’s. Oats, Hay and Straw, Hard and Highest Msrket p lee i-aid t.,r an Soft Wood. j AJ.O Agent, r-v tb» EPCKETKMOWK r P. J. BathH c k t Order* m»v b« left at Sweet * L«i)rbtoa*i atore ' I’aik.ave,; Canlral Telephone office, Meinnit, N»l ion Lee’a Hwr*. Ne.rtfc-al.. <»r at t\» tclll, Fro i>t.. McQirr has a quantity ot remnants o f bruisels carpets eultahlB for making rugs, from 25c up. The b e s t Is the b e s t. Rest m a rk e t price paid for rye, at Rice & Howland’s. Thokt albums at tlM Qsn Fharm LOCAL LINKS Schemerhorn’s announcement on page third contains some startling bargains for twenty-five cents. The big empi ium at the corner o f Park-avc. aad Hazel- st. does a large and steadily increasing bnsincss. The Fitchburg freight yards a' this place and also at Rotterdam Junction are blocked with loaded cars, mostly taining grtio and cattle for export, and nil the traia crews have been working overtime. __________________ The week before Christmas was brigli' and beau tifu l in th is secti-.n, and no snow was seen upon the ground. The weather was extremely mild for this season of the year. Merchants depl.jred the Isck off sleighing, but village resick-nts were pleased to do their Christmas shopping without snow. Bargain days have finally reached the barber shops. Over I d Greenwich a her ofters a shave and hair-cut on Mon days for twenty-flye cents. The scheme ought to prove profitable. If barbers could tempt customers to h«ve their work done earlv In the day and early in week by tbe.ofl’ero f lower rites, they would have lime for extra customers on Saturdays and evenings when there is al- ways a rush. There appears to be a grow ing senti ment in favor of the early construction of a system of ei-wera for this vill ige. The neccs.si'v for better drainage comes more apparent each year, although the village stands upon porous soil forty feet above the Hudson river. The Champlain canal and Tenen- daho creek are not proper drains, and sewage will not be permitted to flow into them much longer. Civil Engineer Hicks of Troy a’at’d to ns the other day that the coming pave ment for streets is vitrified bricks, Msnt large cities are now using bricks instead of ar-ani'e blocks or asphalt. ,4sphal* pavement is objectionable because It be comes dangerously icy in fre« zing weather ami is difficult to deal with when ga.«, water and sewer pipes are to be laid. Vitrified bricks can be laid at about $‘J n 'qnareyard, and can easily be removed where pipes are to be laid in the ground. For brick pavement, the earth should bo reraoyed to the depth of a foot or fifteen inches. Gravel mixed with a little loam is then thorongblv rolled a.a a bed for the brick. A thin laver o f sand rece’yes the first layer o t bucks placed fi-tt. An Inch of sand follows and then comes the vit rified bricks laid edgewise, and the work is complete. Heavy rolling must be done throughout the work. When will Me chanicville have brick street pavcmeul ? F r o m Hire to Sou. i a family medicine Bacon’s Celery King for the noryes, passes from sire to «8 a legacy. If you have kidney, liver or blood disorder do not dclav, but get a free sample.package o f this remedy at once. If you haye indigestion, con- s'lpatlnp, headache, rheumatism, etc., grand specific will cure von. G, H. Whitney, the leading druggist, is sole agent, and is distributing samples free, to the sffiictcd. Larg,> packages 50c and 25c. Warren Baker is prepared to tske or ders for nursery stock for delivery next spring. He has been engaged in this business for eight yesr.s or more, and every year hla Hat of customers in creases. Mr. Baker warrants his stock to be first class aud he sells it at astonish ingly low prices. Think o f No. 1 apple trees. 5 to 7 feet high, at 7 1-2 cents, standard pear trees at 10 to 14 cents, cherry trees at 9 to 11 cents, plums at 7 to 11 cents, Fay’s Vrolifle currants 8 1-2 cents, blackberries 1 3-4 cents. Concord es 3 1-2 cents, Niagara grapes C cents other flue stock at similar prices. Send your order, by postal card, to War- Baker, Mechanicville, N. Y. His prices for tnedium .•itid ligh' medium Stock are still lower. 1UNIU3 HENRI BROWNE ON LESSONS OF THE DAY. H* SuggcBta XtirnliiK B a c k O ld Leaves lu s t e a d of Turniuir Over Now—T h e New T e a r F e ttc b —A F i ttin g P r e s e n t—A W e l come Call. The old yeurisdead. Long live the now! Jan. 1 is not materially different from •ny other day of the year, hut It seems the more Important because it appeals to our hope and our imagination. Such hosts of people have a kind of su perstition concerning Jan. 1 that It might bo called, as April 1 is, All Fools’ The greatest “ call” o’ FESTAL DAY IN JAPAN. A ll D e b ts A re P a id New Y ear’ll E r a . D n lqne D e c o rations. Across tlie front of tlio house, for In- stt.noo, Is festooned a gras.s rope with i leep fringe if a thing for a man to have over his door, This is a very pleasant’ sort for no evil spirit dare puss under It. ih entrance hangs a great tassel irlet crawfli western hemisphere w’os not on Jan. 1, but on Oct. 12, 1493, when Columbus dis covered a now world. you are on dwaya be.\ It Is equally true of any other day. Nature would seem to bo opposed to the custom of calllngon New Year’s, since she generally makes the day very unplcas as If to dlscourag:e the practice. The Romans dedicated January to the god Janus, who was represented as two faced. To he two faced is to ho hyi leal. Did they Intend to intimate, leal rogues, that the people who mac its, exchanged presents and good v were Insincere and double dealing? An analytic New Yorker, who Uf make It a duty to pay social visits or hen such visits wore in vogue, arose Now Year’s morning determined to hl8 frlent analytic faculties eluded that ho h staid a t hom e a n d called on hi: The most fitting present perhaps we could make on New Year’s would be to give the devil his due. . The old Homans named the presents exchanged on Now Year’s stronro, whose derivative meaning Is strength. If we could onlygdvo strength on this day to our weak fellow mortals, what a blessing It would be to them and to us and all the trenla was a Roman goddess who, j ling to Augustine, gave cbeerfulm ?orkork andnd alsolso presidedsided overver New Year’s ? a a pre o New lents. If any goddess could giv( ork in this discontentsoontented age, should raise to her ) should Invoke her New Yea 1 g ive cheer less to work I d how m a n y atatucs and how zealously wo influence! This la tho day when many of us who perceive that we have committed various follies and are generally dcreliot to our obligations believe that we ought to turn over a new leaf. Wo do turn it over re peatedly, but If we examine the neW leaves impartially wo will find that they are no Improvement on the old. This is likely to irritate ns and to make us think that we do about as well as wo can anyhow. Wo re all inclined to believe when our will is teak that circumstances have conspired againstdust us.s. Itt Is astonishingstoi how much u I Is a wo help circumstances. Turning over a now 1<af tie else than making prom that we never keep. We forgot at each i Year that it will soon be tho old year, that at Its close most of what we meant to do will still remain undone. New Year’s is a day when most of us hastily review the previous 13 months with an ardent prejudice in our own iccide, on tlie whole, that ’ le Is usually llt- romlses to ourselves ;urrenoe of the Now he tho old year, and frlngemcnta and rostitudo we rose are so satisfied with it such have made of morals lolvo to correct, and we r resolve that we induct at all. [ the old leaves on any day, read them ’ithout bins and take them to heart, ho would become stronger and better. The majority of us make a fetich of New Year's. Wo decorate it with crimson patches of vain regrets and tawdy rags of hollow repentance and declare ourselv reformed. Evcrytlilng new api>oals to tts ns op posed to and different from tho old. And wo naturally, though unwisely, expect from tho New Year what the old has not brought, unconscious that tho new will not bring It either. The fact that every people from tho an cient Egyptians down to tho practical Americans hove either worshiped or ob served Now Year’s is merely added evi dence that tho whole human family lives > hope. Hope l.s a divinity enshrined in try heart, whose very pulsations depend such onshrlnemont. It Is not 81 public hat »d disfavor on gloomiest, most recent history, to welcome Nov of better days, .is and content. It is that 1896 cannot bo t urge that the citizens of tills looked with dls.satisfaotion 1894, one of tho hardest, disastrous years in our Wo have reason this time r T'ear’s ns tho harbinger days, a an earnest of prosperity cnt. It is entirely safe to say than its prede- Kever let a cough run on from dsy to dsy. It Indicates cither iDflammatlon oi irritation, which if allowed to continue, may rcBUlt in serious injury to the lungs. few dosea of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral cures any pulmonary complaint not en tirely beyond the reach of medicine. Kan’s Clover Root, the great Blood Purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the compl-xion aud cures constipation, 35c., 50c. Use Wells’ Laundry Blue, the best blu ing for laundry use. Each package makes two quarts, 15 cents. Sold by S. U. Hall, Don’t fall to Inspect Landou'r Books and Games for children. He has a ranch larger as.sortraent this year than formerly Wailice & Go’s, most excellent choco lates and bon bons at tho Gem Pbannacy. Look at Dickinson’s new stoik ol gloves for all kinds o f wear. A large assortment of Palmei’s per fumes in fancy boxes at th e G ’mPhar- ire, and get acqualni families. If they should get better ac quainted with thernsolves, it might bo well, but St would scarcely add to their gratification. Instead of talking today about turning over a now leaf, whioh must be by this time a pretty old loaf, wo should perform some act of kindness, some deed of hu manity. One such performance is worth a thousand promlsei To begin tlio : and considerat whom wo come In observation of tho ( If wo would all try to do what little good wo can for' those more unfortunate than ourselves, tho New Y'ear would be better than our most sanguine cipeota- tlons deplot It. The old yo.ar i.s always as much disored- Itod and condemned os tho New Year is overrated and Idealized. J r s ir s H esri B rowne . r w ith unifo r m courtesy for every one with intact Is the fittest welcome day. to do what li I’uritant W orked on Now X'car's. Tho solo record of tho observance of the New Y’ear by tho Pilgrims In tho new world named New England was most pro saic, most brief, “ We went to work be times.” Many of tho good Puritan min isters thought tho celebration or oven no tice of the day In any way savored of im proper and un-Cbrlstlan roverenco for the heathen god Janus. Yet these EnglIsh set tlers came from a land where Now Year's eve and Now Year’s day were second in importance and In domestic observance only to Christmas. Throughout every Englilh county New Year’s eve was al ways celebrated; in many it was called by the pretty name of Singing e’en, from the custom which obtained of singing tho kMt of the Christmas carols at that time. Over eaol of grass containing a scarlet crawfish. Its crooked body sjTubolizes the back of tho aged, bent with years. This is surrounded witli tho branchos of a kind of japonioa, whoso young loaves bud before the old ones are shed. This is typical of parents living when their chil dren’s children are born. In the canter are tho leaves of the .Jap anese polypody, whioh symbolize conjugal life because the fronds spring In pairs. Embryo leaves symbolize offspring. Thcro is also a piece of charcoal, which home, and two little pieces of sea- which typify good fortune and re in the middle of all is tho lucky bag, n square of white paper held in by a red and wlilte string, which marks a present. Not only tho Japanese, but tho Euro- penns in Japan also hang this tassel over their front gates. They do it partly as a conipllniont to tho Japanese and partly for luck. The natives have anotlior decoration, consisting of threo green bamboos with sliced tops, reminding one of organ pipes, erected on each side of the portal at a dis tance of six foot, tho right hand one springing out of a tuft of the mematsu, which signifies the female principle, and the left band from tho omatsu, which slg- ntfles the male. In the midst of all these emblems the national flaps generally w a v e from black K lacquered poles headed with gold balls. If Ul the common people fail to display tbes lea Is that of paying all debts (except to foreigners) on the first day of the year. A man who tails to do so without leave of h is creditors is dishonored. Consequently those creditors w h o are In d e b t t r y to sell everything which will fetch money, and in Tokyo a huge fair Is hold in the princi pal Street on New Year’s eve for this piir- Briggs—Well, I suppose you begin the New Year with a lot of new resolutions? Griggs—No; some old ones I had last FAIR FACES Disfigured by Eruptions ARB CURF.D BY AVER’S S arsaparilla \Some yo-u’s ago, I w.as iu a o: terrible condi- OS lion with a Im- nior, or erup- q * t i o 11 , w h ich oi broke out all ®| over my face ol 1 and body. .See- of \i ng the test!- rniony ol others o j 'as to the cm- o: rsnparill.'i iu like give ttiLs meclicii cacy of Ayer’s es, 1 coDcludeil Sarsnparill.'i iu like cases to prive ttiLs meclicino a trial, and the result was a thorough cure, no sign of the eompiuint making its appearance since. I have no hesitation in recoin- Oj *r’s Sarsaparilla for any ° I complaint mending Ayer kind of skin dis( Mo.ss Toinf, Jliss. Ayer’s saparilla for any q | —J . W. D ea n , o l O^ onSSarsaparillai Admitted at the World’s Fair QOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOObi Business Cards- Christmas Candy in great variety aud of the choicest kin Is may be found at OfflDtOB'S Cto Sti, Prnyn Buildings, near post office. Smokers' Supplies, Holiday Toys, Magazines & Newspapers. Books bought, sold and exchanged. g@**Fresh peanuts every day. I t t & LARKIN, Leading Livery, Boarding and SALE STABLE, h up, we c»n. the tonicst rig. Holds the family, little and big; ECoraes well trained and easy to guide, Handsome pbaettns and surreys to ride. Hie to the. country, forest or lake, Here we can suit 'yond no mistake; Hare your team here ted and stalled. Hitch up In a jifly will be when call'd, l i e © & X i a r k i l l ’ f'OV. B roadw a y & O lem ent-ave. N e a r depot, M vchanicviile E X ). tJ. IBX7SXI3 No 34 Hazol-st,, Mechanicville,N. V. Baggage Express. Household Goods Moved and Stoied. Single or Double Rigs FnmiBhod. All Orders promptly filled. Real Estate Choice New Building Lots ON THE MARKET 60 LOTS On Broadway and Chestnut-sis , rr- 1 Southwest of Uulou Depot. Jiigli bround, Delijrhtfu^LocHtion, Choice Keisfh- The MostBaiiiUly Building portion of Mochadc vine. Lois sure to steadily Advance in Value. 46 Lil>TS for Sale In tne lieantifal Grove Ituownas Pleasure Park, Trees already ^ P r i c e s Low and tenus very reasonable. O h U od or address, HOWLAND BAKER, Lots for Sale. Six Desirable Building Lots*^ for Sale, on south side of North-st. Apply to T. L. Pratt, Agt. Building Lots For Sale! Imme- „ _ _ . -------- Depot, Meehanieville, N. Y., is now in the mrket for sale at very reasonable wiees. and -nllage water, and are near the new knitting mill, the door, sash and blind fac tory, and tlie railroad freight yards. The property Is fast rising in value and now is tho time to buy. Inquire of Mrs. F. Jennie Bonteeou, ODDOSITB D S P O X tronomer, resurroots o story apropos of the new d forgotten itory apropos of the n year itudonts were celebrating the end of the year by n dinner. During the course of the dinner reference was made to the old belief tliat ot the end of a cycle of 80,000 years everything is begun over again, and the hope was expressed that at tho end of the cycle they would all find themselves at tho same hotel eating the same dinner. Tho landlord, who presided, expressed his profound conviction that they would thus meet again and proposed the toast, ‘‘ Till Wo Meet Again.” This suggested a bril liant thought to tho student who had been deputed to pay the bill, and addressing tho landloni he proposed that tho bill be al lowed to stand until tho next reunion. Tho landlord was somewhat taken aback, b ho was true to bis convictions and con- ited. But as the coshier was joyfully ttlng tho money back In his pocket a ■'lelandloi'he putting tho mon<_ brilliant tliought occurred to t landlo also, and he said, “ Since wo shall bo today 80,000 years hence, we were there fore as today 80,000 years ago.” “ With out doubt,” exclaimed everybody.■ “ ’Very well, gentlemen,” pursued tho landlord, “then you asked credit cf mo then as you have today. Pay mo for the dinner you had 80,000 years ago, and I will wait 80,- 000 years for tlio amount due for this one.” It was done, and during tho rest of the evening there was nothing more said aliout tlie supposed cycle. Book of Fate. It is said in Scotland that those who de sire to learn what fate or fortune tho new year has in store for them may do so by consulting tho Bible on Now Year’s morn ing before breakfast. The sacred book must be laid upon a table, and those who wish to consult it must open it at random and place a finger upon one or other of the a’lnpters at which It is opened. This chap ter is read and Is believed to describe in somesome wayay thee happinessappiness or miseryisery duringuring w th h or m d the ensuing year of tho persc^n making the figuring morning on my accounts for 1894. Singerly—How much has it cost you? Strawbor—I wasn't figuring that. I as figuring how much it cost my credit- Orlcln of Calling Custom, 'I'he old fn.shioned custom of making New Y'e.’vr's calls comes from the Dutch. They considered the first day of tho year a IV of kindness and reconciliation. N(-tr Tear’s comln, an I ain't afraid. My wood is all In an my bills nil paid. Meal’s III thii I khtb I an hara in tho pan. Come erlong quick, Mr. Now Tear’s man! Wife's got a jospy, on Bill's got a gun. Sal’s got a bran new day ole son! t, Mr. New Year’s man! Ef 1 keeps well an outer de Jail, An debts don’t grow, an craps don’t fall. I’ll be ready nex* ChriB’niH day Pur sraudder ^ * S, ARNOLD, Livery & Boarding Stable Opposite i-.irk-iive. Opera House. Mccliimiovlile, Now York. ELMER E, WOOP, GENERAL TRUCKING, M o v ing t’lann s a iid K u iiiinire a gpccialtv. Stoao aud simd for eiilc and delivered at reasona ble rates Oflicc and rceidfuce, No. 12 Broadway. w. J. STAVES, Contractor and Builder rians and specifications drawn. Estimates fur nished on ail kinds of work. Plumbing and steam fitting a specialty. Address, pnstoffire box 090, Mechanicville OY^ROCKER BROS,, Contractors & Builders, £nsigu Avenue O Y S T E H S Opened FresL, Daily, at Mawbey’s G rand C e n tral B* tel Bloeli. Gystere 'served on the lU lf Shell at Mawbey’s. First clasB stock of Candy for the holiday.^. Flfst-class Ltticli Room. COME AND SEE US. W. P BRYAR. Painter & Paper Hanger Orders may be left at Safford's hardware store. Kalsomining, Whitening. E. A. STARKS. lliflerlater, Uslolsterer, —OPPOSITB— £*ulp Mill, Meohunicville- This property is high ground and is lo cated immediately north of the railroad shops and directly opposite the big mills of the Hudson River Water Power Com pany. 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