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* ^% M The Port Jefferson Echo SATURDAY , OCTOBER 8 , 1892. EATES OF AD V ERTISING. . lHO. 2MO. 3MO. 6110. lYK. l i a ch, - §1-50 2.00 2.50 3.50 6 . 00 2 inch es per inc l i , 125 L75 2. 25 3 . 00 5 . 00 3 \ \ 1 . 25 L75 2 . 25 2.75 4.50 6 \ orm o re , p.in. L10 1.50 2. 00 2 .75 4 . 00 \ F or donble column rates multiply the above bj tiro. • For s g eeial position add 25 per cent Tr ansient advertising : One \Week , 75 cents per in ch ; subsequent inserti on s . £> cents. Notices in reading columns. 10 cts. per line. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. . TRAINS GOING WEST Leave Por t Jefferson , - - 7 . 00 A. IT. . - \ « - - 3.00 P. M. •« \ \ ( Sundays) - - 3. 35 P. 1L TRAINS GOING EAST Leave L.LCi ty, - - 9. 00 A. M. \ \ - - - 4.3 5 P. M. \ \ (Sundays) - 9.10 A.M. STEAMER UO2JOWANTUC Leaves Port Jeffers on for Bridgeport , 8.30 A. 1L \ Bridgeport for Port Jefferson , 3. 00 P. M. PATCHOGUE STAGE Tue s day s , Thursdays and Saturdays arrives at Por t Jefferson at 1L30 A. 3L Leaves Port J effersoa at2P. il. MAIL STAGE For Mt. Sinai , Mill e r ' s Place and Eocty Point leaves Port Jefferson depot at 11.10 A. M . daily (Sundays -flxcepted), returning in time to con- nect with &25 P. 1L train for New Tort. PORT JEFFERSON MAILS Arrive a t 11 .30 A. M. and 7.00 P. M. Close at 6 .30 \ \ 2 .30 \ ECHO MAILS Arrive from New Y ork at 11 .10 A. M., 6 .50 P.M. \ \ Terry r illo 11.15 \ \ \ Port Jeffersii 6.50 \ 2L5fl \ Close f or X eu- York at 6 .55 •' 2 .55 \ , \ \ T e rryville 11 . 15 \ « « P ort Jefferson 11. 10 \ 6.40 \ LODGES , ETC. Port Jefferson Longe So. 627 , I. 0. 0. P., meets on Frid ay evening of each week. D. P . Hait , N. G. ; Charles A. Squires , Sec. L- - — - Suffolk Lodge , X o . 60 . F. & A. JL , meets e ven- Thnrsday ni g ht Chas . Dayt o n , Mas t er; Pr of. W. H. Lynch , Sec ¦ Ro v d Arcanum meets on the first and third Tuesday evening of each month. H. T. Bay les , S egent ; A. H. Griffing, Sec , Good Temp lars meet every Monda y u i s ht Rev. J. F . Shackle toa. Chief Templar ; ' fm . a _ Beale , Sec LOCAL JOT H N G rS/ —The pol itical caldron i a beginning' to s izzle. —Capt. Jessie Aldridi is l y ing very sick with h eart trouble. —Mrs. Daaiel Floyd ia having an addi- ti on btult tolier house. —Banner raising, circus and county fair —entertainment enoug h surel y f o r o ne week. r —Measles are prevalent in this village , Z f ~ ~ and several cases of scarlet fever are also reported. —Presi ding Elder W. H. Wardell will *s- ^ . hold quarterl y confer ence in the M. E. C T r trreir-e a - ^ j anday morning, Oct. 23 d. —Oar well known and artistic painters , - Avery & Wick s . - are treating the residence of Mrs. M. E. Bennett to a coat of paint. —There has been a decided suggestion • - ^i f*AataS3iPmiJie air this week—&ud the coal m an and the stove dealer smile sim- ultan eousl y. —Eev. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry have gone to Plainfi rld , N. J., for a two weeks ' visit Mr. Lowry will return home to fill his pul- p it on Sunday. **Go to B.D . &A. T. N orton ' s for bar- gains. —Walt er Leek was relieved of his pocfc- etbook by a pick pocket while in attend- ance it th e Mineola fair last week. The wallet contained about §100. —Mr-Payne and his two daug hters , Miss- es EvaAldnch , Edna Schryver and Jennie Hayes entered into fall membrsl i i p of the Baptist Church last Sunday morning. —In the 2:50 class at Mineola last week , D r. Robert C Jones ' George , driven by R. L. Davis , trotted tliree heats in 2:33 , 2 : 33 a nd 2:34 , and was the winner in that race. —Adrian Wilson and wife , of Boston , who have been visiting friends in this vil 2age during the past week , went t o Isli p on W e dnesday, accompanied b y Mr. and Mrs, Platt Mr. and Mrs. Wilson intend spending a. week at Patchogae before re- turning to their home. —Scr ibner & Smith' s circus performed to good audiences here on Tuesday after- E6on and evening There were some fea- tures of the performance which were ex- ' eeptionall y good . Altogether the general opinion seemed to be that it was well worth, a quarter , and that ought to go. —A good nei g hbor is , or always should be , appreciated. After the heavy wind of l a st week a p p les were m o re p lentiful on - the ground than on the trees , and H i ram Md ger iaisasa fcrf f'letting them go to waste , gathered them np and gave them to the ne i g h bors who were not so fortunate as to have any. —A calico sociable was held last Friday evening i n the Baptist Church , under the monagement of the Christian Endeavor S ociety. The young l adi es wore beco m in g aprons of calico , and the room was very 7 tastefully decorated with the same mate- rial . After the entertainment supper was served. It was a pleasant event and finan- ciall y a success. —The steamer N onowantuc will not go to Brid gerKH; *» on Tu esday next , having been chartered to go to New York on an excursion to the Columbus celebration. - On th at morning die will leave her wharf , at tw o o ' clock and return from the city after the events of the day are over. She * wi ll land at pier 23 East Eiver. The fare has been fixed at $1.00 for the round tri p. ^ * —Judge Smith has appointed the fol- ^ , lowing Commissioners to certify to the - % jieeessity for opening Main street , th' s vil- lage ; Ex-Surr ogate James H. Tuthill , of Biverhead ; William N icoll and Charles • B. Gi llette , o f Islip. N o date has been - app o inted , lor the * Commissioners to meet ' The proposed op ening of Main street ia to . ' make i t of a uniform w i dth of thre e r o ds J ? = ~ from Hotel Square to Jones street. The u ' k- present width is less than two rods in a ev- ' ^ * eral p laces. An eff ort was made hi this d irection four years ago but failed. - **Jackets and cloaks—a new ana com- plete l ine of ladies ' and misses ' , at Bitch' s . V - . . * ¦ ¦¦ ¦ - ¦*' : . - ¦ ¦ . ' —Mrs. M inor Tuthill is visiting her daug hter in Bell p ort. •—Sl oop Tormentor is undergoing re- pairs at Bayles * ways. —Mrs. L. B. H onian has been seriously i l l d ur i ng the p a st week , —Capt. David G. Fullwood is with us again , having laid up h is steamer. —Elb ert Hul s e - injured himself quite severel y by running a nail in his foot. —Mrs. S. S. C oles , of Brooklyn , is here visiting her daug hter , Mrs. Tho s . Floyd. —Capt. Benson , wife and two sons went to New York this week on a p leasure trip. —George Rogers , of Boston , is hi town vis iting his many friends and acquaint- ances. —Dr . Edna Terry has resumed her stud i es in Br oo kl yn. Sh e is taking special c ourses of the eye and ears. —The Republican G lee Club meets nex t Tuesday evening at 7:30 in Good Templars ' Hall. A full attendance is desired . —Capt. G eorge Woodhull s famil y have moved in the new cottage on M yrtle ave- nue , owned by Capt. H. M. Randall. —Miss Fannie Dewick has returned home f rom New Haven , Conn., accom- panied by her ne p h e w , Bert ie Brown. —Mr s. Dayton , of Baiting Hollow , has taken her son , O. P. Da yton , who is suffer- ing from an abscess , to a city hospital. —Miss Irene Miller has gone to Brid ge- port , in the millinery establishment of Mrs. George Dunham , 437 M am street. —The oldest daughter of Emmett Burke is ill with typhoid fev \ er. A younger child of Mr. Burke is also sick with pneumonia. —Port Jefferson guouers are expecting to go to Millers Place on a duck shooting expe dition Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. —John Hennesy, of Br oo klyn , and Miss Lizz i e Brush , of Smi t btown , were married on Monday, Octo ber 3. They will reside in Brooklyn . —Mrs. Grant B othwick has gone to New York to meet her husband , who is mate of the Jessie G . Woodhull and arrived from Dubois , Ga. , on Friday last. —The meeting of the Christian Science will be held at the residence of Mrs. Joseph Dickinson , on Sunday afternoon , and Dr. Tovar will give an address. **G et - wea r -Tesisting shoes at B.D. & A.T. Norton ' s . —On Thnrsday of this week two men hired J. W. Brown to take them to Stony Brook. Arriving tbera the driver had oc- casion to go in the hole) , and while in there the men took the blankets and made off , and forgot to pay for the hi re of the team. —Governor Flower told a friend that his recent tour of inspection of the Stale ' s oys- ter lan d s i n L o n g Island Sound was one of the p leasante B t and most instructive tri ps he has taken since being installed in the Chief Executive ' s chair. The Governor was agreeabl y surprised to find that the oyster indnstry along the northern coast of L o ng Island was carried on so extensively and was the means of giving so many men employment. —Never in the history of this country has there been as much reli g ious zeal as there is at the present time. In all the «hurches the game intense feeling exists. What has caused the great awakening 1 New c hurch e s are being bu ilt in all direc- tions and church debts are being paid off. Those who were scoffers can now be seen anxious to hear the word. The dail y and weekl y paper s publish the sermons of the leading divines in full and e v eryth i ng shows the great reli g ious zeal displayed. — The Cleveland and Stevenson club of this village unfurled their banner with fitting ceremonies on Monday evening in Hotel S quare. A parade , music b y the band , fireworks and speaking made up the evening ' s programme. The speaker of the evening was lawyer Rowland Miles , of Northport , who was introduced by Dr. M. L. Chambers. He occupied a position in front of Norton ' s drag store and ^ possibly insp ired by the Prohibition banner in f rout and the Republican bauner to his left , he poured Democratic doctrine across the Square with considerable ardor. —The officers and m a nagpr a of the Port Jefferson Bible Society metin the Metho- dist Church Sunday afternoon last Pres- ident Josep h Brews:er in the chair. Read- ing from the 119th Psalm b y the Rev.Wm. H. Roberts ; prayer by R ev. T. J . Shackel- ton . The follow ing solicitors were ap- pointed : 1. Miss Sadie Edwards , f or E a st Broadway, Beekman , Dewick and Water stre ets ; 2. Howard Nonon , Thompson , Main and Hi gh streets ; 3. Miss Jessie Al- drich , Prospect an d Gr eat J o nes str e ets ; 4 M iss Nellie Leek , South , Spring, Tnt- h ill and John streets ; 5. Byron W. Leek , Jones , Bobbins , William and Division streets , Cemetery ave: , M yrtle ave. ; 6. M i ss Lizzie Davis , West Port J efferson and Diamond Hill ; 7 . Miss Edith Purick . South Port Jefferson and Echo ; 8. Miss Nina Hawkins , T erryville. The annual meeting is to be held in the Presbyterian Church S un da y even i ng, N ov. 6th next Sermon by Rev. Mr. Shackelton. Josep h Br e ws ter , Prest ; Smith E. Leek , Sec —The election of the Port Jefferson Fire District was held on Wednesday evening. John E. Overton was re-elected Chief ; Lonis Koegel , Assistant Chief , and Chas. Scbryve r and John F. Hawkins Directors. All of the appropriations as advertised were voted for , save that for securing a water supp ly, which wa s voted down. —T. A, Maynard , of Stanford , N. T. and Miss Sadie Darling, of Port Jeffer ' son , were married on Thursday evening of this week , at the residence of the bride ' s parents on Main street. The par- lors were trimmed with -woodbine and golden-rod. The bride and groom stood under a double wreath of golden-rod dur- ing fiie ceremony, which was performed b y Eev. J. F. Shackleton. The bride was attired in -white albatross , trimmed -with ferns and carnation pinks and carried an elegant bunch of roses. Among the guests were : Mrs. Maynard , Stanford , N. Y. ; Mrs. Ainsworth , of North Union , Q o incy; Mi: G. G. Jones , of Belville , N. J.; Miss Ada Kingsley, of West Balti- more , N. J., and the immediate friends and relatives of the bride of Port Jeffer- son. The bride and groom -will visit Shelter Island and different parts of Long Island and then go to Stanford , N. Y - , where they will reside. —Dr. B. O. Jones ' bay gelding, George ,, has trotted in seven races within the past three weeks , being a winner in five. At Exu r ing ton he started in the 3.00 and 2:45 class , getting 3rd , 4th , and 5th p lace in the former and 2nd' place in the latter. At Mineola lie trotted in the 3:00 and 2:50 class , getting three strai g ht h eats i n the former and taking 3rd , 4th , and-5th heats in the later , distancing the horse that won the first heats. Time 2 :32. At Biverhead he took first money in 3:00 class , 2:50 class and 2:4o class. This horse , \ an old cripp le \ without a record, has been a great surp rise to his owner , trainer , and the sporting public , getting no place in his first race , second place in the second race , and winning the last five races. Dr. Jones has been the re- ci p ient of congratulations from all parts of the count y, while E. L. Davis , throu gh whose effo r ts the horse has been so suc- cessful , justl y merits the name of \the \ trainer of the count y. ¦« « » Movements of Vessels. —Sloop yachts Dan , Capt. Chas . Barto , Wayward , Cap t . Chas. Satterl y; Dap hne , Capt . Charles West ; Stella , and Fannie h ave come in the harbor to lay up. —Steam yacht Doctor , F. C. L yman own- er , has lai d up at H a rr i s ' yard. —Steam yacht Diana is in the harbor. —S team yacht Restless called in the har- bor during the week to have som e slig ht repairs made. 4»« THE L ATEST. M rs. Mary Funnel! of Huntington died on Sund ay at the f.ge of ninety years aud one mouth . Wint er train s to East Rockaway is an innovation very gratifying to the residents of that place. Bur g lars attempted to invade the store of FiMuk P. Seaman at Mineola on Sunday ni g ht , but were heard and fri g htened aw ay. George W , Pearsall received his com- n rasion Tuesday as the Postmaster of Sea C liff. He succeeds Samuel O . Ransom , who was a ppointed May 20 , 1889. The attendance at the Mineola fair last week was : Tiif - sd i iy, 2 . 205? Wednesday, 8.181: Thursday, 14. 194 and Friday 11.031. This compared favorabl y with any previ- ous yea r . Richard Col y er , a we althy fanner of \v * o odl - ury, jet a ht avy axle fall on his foot while a * , the Mineok fair last week , and is now lying at death' s - door witli the lock jaw , c aused from the injury. M rs. S n rah R. Hicks , a venera ble l ady, who was 102 years old last month , is con- fine d to her fa omt - in W eslbury suffering from a fractured hip bone , the result of a fall . It is fea red she cannot survuve. The crack Hiftk sville Republican club hav e a grand r;' .l! y ami banner raising this (Saturd a y) evening. Excellent speakers have been seei i red , and brass band and fireworks will add to the g lory of the oc- casion. A body, probably tl at of the sailor lost from the yaclit Una on the ni ght of Sept. 25 in the collision with the steamer R o s> - d;de was founed last Monday afternoi>n on 'he . ' bore a short distance east of Matine- coek Point , by Mr. J ames Southard , of Lattingtown. Nathanie l C - - nkHu died at his home in Hu ntington T - . i esd ay morning, fr om con- sumption . .Mr . Conklin , for some years before the building of the horse railroad , drove a sUig c between the village and rail- road depot. He whs apartner in the busi- ness w i th U n cl e J e ss e Conklin , who is yet carryin g mails over the old route SEJAUKET. The public library donated by Thomas G. Hodgkins , a wealth y farmer , to t his vi ilage , was formall y opened on Monday ni ght. The gift was accepted in tbe name of the village by John E J rierkin. Else- where we pu blish his address. The libra- ry wi ll be known as the Emma 8. Clar k Memorial Library, i n honor of a niece of Mr. Hod g kin s . The Trustees are: Thomas G. Hod g kins , Israel \i . Tyler , Dr. Vf. L . Clumbers , Win . H. E d wards and John E lderkin. The library consists of h istorical works of ^ Am e rica , Eng land and Fr a nce , useful books of ^ eference , and the best works of noted novelists and poets. TERRYVILLE. M iss Lou Terry is visiting friends in New York. John B a rr and wife have gone to New Yor k. Mr. Barr is to take part , in the parade on the 12ih Inst., h e being a mem- ber of the Old Volunteer Firemen ' s Asso- ciation. ' Miss Mamie Home has returned to her home in the city. The Sunday school will miss her very muc h . A lar ge number have been in attendance at the county f air . Among them , E. F. Smith and son , M onroe H ulse and wife , P. E. Terry and wife , Miss Anita a n d Nina Hawkins , Mrs. and Miss Purick , and Miss Jessie and Nellie Terry. Mi ss Ad die Terry has returned to her home hi S outhampton after a visit with her parents here. ' Quite a number in the place are sick wit h colds and sore throats . Our school , presided over by Mrs. Rose , is g ivi ng general satisfaction. -Pupils are taking a new interest in their studies , to the gre at pleasure of their parents . Husking corn is the OTder of the day and a good crop is being gathered in. Capt. I. B. Hawkins has a fine lot of pop corn of the rice or rat-tooth variety. * * B.D. & A.T. N orton ' s clothing is per- fect in all respects. , v —The Re pub h cans of Port Jefferson , under t he a us p icies of the P. ^ rt J efferson Repu blican Club , will huld a grand mass meetin g and political demonstration at Athena Hall , Thursday evening, Oct. 13. It b expected th.it this meeting will ecli pse any political event ever held in the place. Hon. F. X. Schoonmaker , one of the finest orators in the country, will address the meeting. Rev. Wm. B. Fordham , of Bay Shore , a most talented tariff talker , -will give his views on the question. Hon. Wilmot S mjth , of Pat- chogue , will also be present and assist our former friends in tariff matters. As a pre- lude to the speaking- a noted minstrel troupe has been 7 engaged and will please the audience with stray bite of wit and humor. T he Port Jefferson Brass Band and Drum Corps , assisted by the [Port Jefferson Republican Glee Club will fur- nish music. Fireworks before and after the meeting will be one of the J t ature s of the evening. It is needless to say that a cordial invitation ! b extended to all and t hat the ladies are especiall y welcome. ADDRESS BY .TOH tf m ,BEBKBf MADE OCT OBEB 3 , 1892 , AT THE OPKNIHG OF THE EMM A S. CLAEK MEM OKIAIi LIBRARY , FOUNDED B I TH OMAS G. HODfiKIN S , ESQ. , AT BETAUKET. Our nei gh bor and friend , Mr. Thom as 6. Hod gkins , has erected this building and dedicated it to the purposes of a library as a memori al of his lamented niece , the kte Mi ss Emma S. Clark. In doing this it has been his pur pose to perpetuate the mem o ry of a good woman , among the p eo p le w ith whom she dwel t in kindly and help- ful relations for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, by an institution of a u seful , benevo- lent and elevating character , which shall be a mean s of pleasure and culture for all time t o come. I t is unnecessary to say anything of the beauty of the location which has been se- lected , in the immediate neighborhood of the schools and churches , on e levaied groun d , iu about the center of the village of Setauk e t , for the pe ople of which vil- lage an d vicinity the use of the library is intended. The building itself , especially de s i gned for Mr. Hodgkins by well known N W Y ork architects , is a substantial brick st r ucture , well adapted for all the pur- poses of a library, properly constructed for li g hting, heating and ventilating, and form- ing a beautiful and picturesque object on the village green . A mem or ial window serves the double purpose of a monument to Miss Clark and ad di ng grace and di gnity to the interior. It is Ai r, Hodgkins ' desire that the libra- ry shall b e generally used with only such restrictions as shall preserve its contents from unnecessary mutilation and loss , and the buildin g itsel f to the useful and bene- ficent pur pose for which it is desi gned , free from all disagreeable and con taminat- ing influances. T he regulations will be such as recomme nd themselves to the peo- p le of the vi llage; who will be consulted by the trustees whom Mr. Hodgkins has associated with himself aud to whose hands the trust is confided . It is hoped that in this way a generous interest will be taken in all that concerns the usefulness of the library. As the principal readers of books in our day are wom e n , the l i brary especially appeals to the ladies of the vil- l age , an d it is hoped that they will take a lively inter est in its proper management. The sensations one experiences in enter- ing a n ew library are somewhat different to those one has in entering an ancient li b rary, as. for instance , the library of the Vatic an of Rome. Here the great collec- tions of the popes are housed . Many of the ori ginals of the Greek and Latin auth- ors , the disco v eries of the fourteenth , fi f- teenth and sixteenth centuries are among its fifteen thousand manuscript treasures. T he tremendous power of literature seems more vi sible in the presence of such vast s paces filkd with the rarest productions of the human miud. But in a new library, with its fresh volumes unopened and un re a d , yet all marked with familiar names , we feel the same sensation as when moving into a new modern house fi lled wi ' h old furniture ia new cov ers. For while the volumes m ay be new , (he works themselves date from the time of Moses and the Pro- p hets , Plato and Xenophon , Virgil and Horace , Dante and Shakespeare , Goethe and Schiller. Hence a li brary is nevei lacking in impres s i veness. There is some- thing in the very nature of books at once so unobtru s ive and of such f.ir-reaching an d wonderful influence , t hat they com- m and our respect as do no other o b ject of man ' s handiwork. . ' T he ori g in of modern culture u nd civilization dates from the dis- covery th e remains of Greek and Roman l iterature. It was the stud y o f old Greek manuscr i pts which le< l to tbe unearthing o f the immorlal remains of Grecian sculp- ture , aud cla s sic literatu re and classic art gave the impulse and stimulated that great out burst of the human mind which is known as tbe Renaissance. Literature is the best thought of the worl d , presented iu the bes t form ; and it is by familiarity with literature that the stan da i dof thinking, speakin g and writ- ing in every land is rai t ed. The poets Longfellow and Lowell recommended all youug people who Boug ht their advice as to com ses of Teadiug to read the great b ooks , and in li t erature all the grpatest books , suck as the Bible , Homer , D a nte and Shakespeare , are old books. But it is too much to expect that old books will form a staple of reading in a lime wh en there is such a strong in terest in everything c ontemporaneous. We ave all too much a bsorbed in the afturs and productions of our \ own day to go deepl y int o the monu- m ental works of the past. Of course , Shak es peare, by virtue of his \ p iercing vision and dramatic statement , is mod ern a s well as ancient—not for a day, but for all time. B x>ks are read much more for momentary ple a sure and amusement thaw for instruction a t d edification , aud it is na i ura i lh; i t it should be so. They are among the chief consolations of existence. Iu books we find oblivion from petty an- noyances and vexations , and even the se- verer trials ot life ure mi' .igaled hy sympa- th y -with imaginary heroes aud heroiuts in adv ersity. It is because the ttible is such a complete record and history of all that man h as suff e r e d , presented in a form of matchless beauty and eloquence , that we never cease to ileli ght in it. Iu collec ting the books which are al- ready pl a c e d i u t h is library aud which form only a first in stallment of its contents , the o bj e ct which has been kept in view has been to present books which this commu- ni ty will be likely to read. Useful books of reference , lift princi p al historians of Eu<diutd , France and America , th e works o f the best novelists and poets have been chiefly dr awn upon. The bulk of the books , like the bulk of every p opular lib- rary, is fiction. The novel is the only pop- ular rea di n g , except the newspaper , and the only rival that the newspaper has in the field o f literature. If for no other rea- son , the novel is most welcome and d esira- ble as a diversion from the perpetual record of dail y doings which form tbe necessary an d u s eful coutents of the dai l y newspaper . The newspaper and periodi- cal press will c on tribute to make the read- iug rooms of the libravy attractive , but the main u se and purpose of the library are to cultivate the reading of good books. Even in this d a y of c h ea p r ea di ng matter , books are an expensive luxury in many houses wher e the necessary kno w ledge and curi- osity to read them exist. How many would enjoy S ir W alter Scott , Thackeray, Te n nysou , Charles Dickens , Washington I r ving, F e nim o re ' Uooper , Hawthorne and many o.lier less famous and significant writers , but the circumstances of whose lives have placed th e a e works beyond their reach. Al l who have read them know the immense resources of pleasure and ha ppi- ness which they contain. Th s e grea ' nov- elists are pa s l-ma s tm in teachin g the arts of life ; and life , after all , is t he grea t edu- c ator and novels interpret aud reconcile us to life. Th ey enlarge our s pmpathies by making us acqu ainted with the feelings and strugg les of a multitude of- characters who are m ure real to us who are acquaint- ed w ith them than most of t he men and women that we mee t in our daily walks. They furn ish us with agreeable subjects of reflection and charm many an hour with their genial humor . any basis except the barren belief of the utterer , and sup erfici a l and dangerous i n proportion as t he subjects are profound , and important' . It is by exact knowled ge alone that this can be corrected , and exact k nowledge is obtained onl y by study and refle ction, and to encourage these is the main purpose of books and libraries. I cannot close this brief address without a word of thanks to the generous founder of this institution. He has laid this com- munity under an obli gation which is he art- il y acknowled ged. The good work is not so much for us as for posterity. Few of us can hope to enjoy the ripe age which our friend lias attained. . During a life— he is now nearl y ninety—he has niadu the atm o sp h ere a stu d y; and it is his belief that only by breathing pure air we are led to hi g her conditions of life and morality. It will be the study of the trustees to make Mr. Ho dgkins ' views effective by the intro- duction of works containing information on this important subject . His great do- nation to the Smiths o n ia n I n st i tut e , a large portion of which is to be devoted to inves- ti gating the effect of the atmosp here on human life , will doubtless res n lt in much that is n » w and valuable , which will find a p l ace here. Those of us who have passed our fiftieth year cannot now hope to make np for defi- ciences of earl y training and early oppor- tunities. Book s were rare in this village when I was a child. There was a smal l public school library kept at my fath er ' s house , to which I owe much of my taste for reading and stock of general knowl- ed ge ; b at I remem b er w ell h o w few w e r e the books and small was the circulation of that library. Here we have already the essentials of a liberal education. Any young man or woman who reads the books •which are now contained in this building can never be rated otherwise than as an educated p ersou. What.that stands for in the world we are all of us sufficiently wel l aware. It is impossible t i estimate the effects of kn o wle d ge and education. The rou -ing influence upon a sing le mind may result in an intelli gence which will change the course of history by directin g in new and larger channel s the industrial and moral en e rg i es of t he peop le. We c annot fore- tell what may be the beneficent influence of the institution which is this day inau- gurat ed. We know that it is a reinforce- ment of the powers of li g h t and truth , and that it must contribute to the sprea d of humanity, justice and freedom. The work of the foundation is completed , and , like all the wor k s o f m a n , its future is confided to the moods of time and circumstance. May these ever prove favorable , an d may it long survive to do its appoint e d work and keep f resh an d g r ee n t h e mem o ry of the gentle lady for whom it in name ' . Suffolk County Fair. Thurs da y broug ht to a close our count y fair and also the Island fairs for 1892. On Tuesday the attendance -was small. Wednesday, on account of the storm in the early part of the day, the attendance was not as large as in previous years. Friday brought out a large number. The ' exhibits taken as a whole were not equal to those of former years , hut an ex- cellent showing was made . The trotting was very fine and w ll contested in all classes. Below we g ive a summary of the different events & 8 reported by our special correspondent . TUESDAY ' S RACES. Colts , 2 y ea rs o ld and un d er , half-mile h e ats , pur sH of $50. Breeze Hill Stock Farm, M a u d Hill 1 2 1 John D. Whitney, Alto , - - 2 1 2 Alfred Hulse , Flora , - - 3 3 3 T i me , 1:401, 1:41 , 1:44a . Colts , 3 years old or under , purse $50. Breeze Hill Stock Farm , Josie • 1 1 Johu Th o m p s o n , Fr ed W., - 2 2 Alfred Hulse , Morning Li g ht , - 3 d J. W. H ed g es. Red Cross , Jr., • 4 d 3.00 cl ass , purs e $100. , R. L. Da vis , G eorge - - - 111 Challas Walker , Jennie C - 2 2 3 H. T. Sm ith , Gay, • - - 5 5 2 H. C, Brown , Al e ck , - - - 3 3 5 John Thompson , F '- arle s s , - - 4 4 4 G . H alsey , Bessie H., . ' - 6 6 d Time , 2:45; 2:44 i , 3:4 0. WKDXESDA.Y. . Nursery Stakes , foals of 1889 , stan d ar d , hal f-mile he ats , purse of $300. John A Potter, L i i dy M ay, - 111 G. C. Cooper , Jim El aine , - - 2 2 2 J. L yon Gar In e r , Cord elia , - 3 3 3 Time , 1:27 , 1:31 , 1:28$. Colts 4 years old or under , purse ' $50. R. L. Davia , Li da Simmons - 111 E. E. B ackett , Newport , - - 2 2 3 Time , 2:89}. 2 :40 , 8 :88$. 2:50 class , p urse $ 125. R. L. Davis , George , - - - 1 1 1 ff. T. Smith , G ay - - - 2 2 2 R. F. Mills , Jr , E. F . M. - - - 3 3 3 Chalias Walker , Jennie C . - - 444 Time , 2:40 , %:\ U , 2:40$. 2:32 class , purse $250. ¦ e ' ChaVaB Walker , L arry , - - 1 1 1 Oak wood Park Fa n u , Blue Boy 3 3 .2 Jes s ie L. Smith , Sunrise • - 2 4 3 R. L. Davis , Denver - - 4 2 4 T i me , 2 : 31 , 2:0 fc j- , 2$ 9± . Bay mare Aran z a was trotted for a rec- ord b y Challas W u lkwr in 2:54 £ and 2:43. THUR SDAY. Suffolk Co. Nursery Stakes , foals of 1889 , purse $1 32.50 , best 3 in 5. N. C. Gr iffing, Montank - - 1 1 1 Wm. Litcl i arrl , Sigal Wjlkes , - 22 2 0. P. \ Sm i th , Wilton M n pes - - 333 T i me , 2:48$, 2 :49 ^ , 2 :51 ^ . Team r a ce , purse $100. N. Han d , Ansonia & Wauita , - 12 11 Jed Williamson , G ay and Jennie S. 2 12 2 Time , 3:12 , 2:o6 £ , 3:01 £ . 2 :45 class , purse $150 . R. L. Dav is , G norge • - - 111 Austin Downs , Sh adow - . . . 222 R. F. Mills , Jr ., E. F. M - 3 3 3 H. C Brown , Aleck - - 4 44 S. L. Thompson , May berry d • Time , 2:42 , 2:391, 2:41 $ . : - , • 2:38 das* , purse $200. R. L. Davis , Denver , - - - 1 1 1 John Thompson , Dandy • - 3 2 2 Oakwood Park Farm , Thorn R o se , 2 5 3 H. C. Losea , Prince , - . 4 3 6 F. Bown e , Hi g hland Lass , - 5 4 4 John A. Potter , S ilver B.>y, - 6 0 5 C. W. Edwards , Rambler , - - 7 d Time , 2. 33, | 2. 38 ^ , 2. 33 £ . Free-for-nll , purse $400. Challa s- W alker , J i m Fuller , - , 1 1 1 R. L. Davis , Chub - - - . - 2 2 2 Time, 2. 30 i , 2.27f, 2 . 25i. The fastest time ever mad e on ' the track. Capt Al. Hulse met wi l h an accident , which nearly caus ed his death , while driv- ing his colt , Mornin g Light , on the track at the Biverhead Fair , Tu esday afternoon. The horse became fri ghtened and t hr e w the captain. He is in a very critic al con- dition. FORT JEFFERSO N HOTEL A. WALKER , Proprietor. . Permanent or Transient Guests. YACHTSMEN'S HEADQ T JAKTERS . Pleasant Kooms and Good Table. MVERY IN CONNECTION. K. W. WHEELER, JR., Near the Port Jefferson Railroad Depot , ' -ECHO , 1. 1. ¦ • . ' Horses , C o ws , Calves , &c , BOUGHT; &3 LD AND EXCHANGED . NEW MILCH COWS A SPECIALTY. . When wanting Live Stock , - g ive me a call and secure a bar gain. . : ; ' ¦; • :¦ ¦ ¦ . . : • ; - ;. , Reading, when it becomes a habit , is the greatest resource against idlenes3 and ennui that the world offers to an intelli- gent being, as well as furnishing the only anti do te o f i gnorance. It creates a thirst for knowledge , the lack of which is one.of the most mel a nch o ly facts of daily life. It 18 the deficiency most marked in the ri sing generation. No one can fail to be struck with the wonderful assurance of Young Am erica. He has an opinion oh every Bub- ject. But Young: America knows little of history, less of science , and nothing of philosop h y, natural or moral. As a con- sequence , we are overwhelmed with' opin- ions , asserted with vehemence, -w ithout A WELL OF ICE WATER GLAC1E U S IN IDAHO MOURNING CLOTHES IN- RUSSIA One of Dakota ' s Convenient and Natur a ! .Luxuries. A well-known Hartford lawyer , w ho has been traveling in the northwest , has come back with a story of an ex- ceptionally natural convenience , the contemplation of which , in this troT> ical Beason , Bays the Hartford Courant , refreshes one ' s soul , unless it breeds uneasy envy. ^ . He was stopping with a family In North Dakota. It was in July, and cle ar , co ld water—a luxury he did not frequently find— was most acceptable. The water on- the table was so very sweet and so very cold that he was led to remark on its excellence. \Ye s , our weHhas always satisfied us , and we think we have a good thing when we can draw ice water in mid* summer. \ \It certainly is as cold as ice water , \ said the visitor , not believing the re- mark was meant exactly literally. \No , but it' s actually ice waiter; we 'll show it to you after dinner. \ And after dinner out they went , and the New England man was asked to look do wn. It was a round small brick shaft ,, much like the old wells seen here- abouts , and went down to an extraor- dinary, depth. But there was a beauti- ful si g ht at the bottom. It was , sure enoug h , a natural ice water tank. Pieces of clear ice floated in the water, and a close look showed a thick coating of ice all around the sides for quite a distance above the water. The melting was Burel y slow enough down there , and the prospect was good for plenty of ice wat er , at least till the hot weather was over. The exp lanation was simp le enoug h. When the bucket is drawn a little of the water always spills or drips , and often strikes the sides of the well as it falls. In the winter—and Dakota win- ters are cold—this water at once freezes , and soon the entire length of the shaft is lined with ice. This thickens at an increasing rate , and it is frequently necessary to cut it a - way with an ax to make room in which the bucket can slide up and down. In the spring this begins to melt , and the ice falls to the bottom. The farther down , the slower is the process of melting. An Immense Field Discovered Among Mountain Peaks. A n i m m ense g lacial field has been dis- covered In the unexplored reg ion of central Idaho by F. B. Schermerhorn , geologist and mineralogist , who was working in the interest of Idaho ' B ex- hibi t at the world' s fair , says the San Francisco Chronicle. Under the date of August 8 he writes Commissioner Weel a as follows: \As I came over the divide into Bi g Creek I saw away to the west , among the high mountains , what appeared to be a glacier. Inquiry at Big Creek de- veloped the fact that though two of the men in camp had lived there several years they had nev er been able to get up to that snow. They also told me many had tried it and failed. All had tried to take horses with them. I deter- mined to go on foot. \As I advanced the signs of the white m a n decrease d 1 until they disappeared altogether. The country through which I made my way was the wildest and roughest of any through which I ever traveled in point of grandeur and picturesque beauty. The view from the peaks rivals anything in mountain scenery in the United States. \Beneath the glacial field I found a series of g l acial lakes. The g lacial fields are quite extensive. They probabl y cover nearl y as great an area , though not so thick as the great glacial fields of t he A l p s. I examined sixteen terminal moraines. Of this number eleven were recedi ng, four stationary, and only one advancing. None that I saw extended more than two thousand leet below the snow line. \ The writer says that the glaciers are located about thirt y-five miles south- west of Shoup , amid a number of very high . peaks that are not down on the maps. White Worn Instead of tbe Depressing lilr. ck, Russia is far ahead of every othei country of E ii rope , except Denmark , in one thing, at least; that is in the matter of mourning clothes. Beautiful and rich a s is the mourning- of to-day, there is something fearfully depressing aboul the costume of unmitigated woe whicJ ca s ts a g loom over everybody. Ho m muc h more becoming white would be— w hite crape and white henrietta! How f etching a pretty young widow woul i - be in white weeds , exclaims the Com mercial Gazette , wit h a long cream-col- ored crape veil hanging down her baci an d a bunch of deep purple violets nest ling on her bodice. White mourning has been introduced into Denmark by th< czarina and has alread y been adopted by the Eng lish princess , who , it i ( hoped ,, will transplant the custom on Eng lish soil. The czarina recentl j wore a \ gown of cream-colored silt wa rp henrietta. A fold of white crept half a yard wide trims the Russia n skirt around the bottom , and bands oi it ornament the bodice and form the collar and cuffs. Her small bonnet is of dull-finished white silk , e ntire l y con- cealed by her long white crape veil , which falls down her back. White > un ; dressed mousquetaire gloves , heavily stiched , wer e worn with it and hex majesty carried a translucen t paraso 1 entirel y ma de of sheer white crape. White-Hot Iron In Bare Hands. An interesting si ght is af forded the \belate d pedestrian who passes the Bald- win locomotive works about midni ght , s ays the Philadel phia Press. Dozens of men wit h bare arms a,re dexterousl y hand ling countless bars of red-hot iron. They will throw a b a r white with he a t from one to anot her and catch it with m etal tongs. Others p ick up the glow- in g i' - n and hold it full y tw o seconds. This is accomplished by dipp ing the hand after each clutch. Huge sparks fly all about , but never seem to damage the human &esh so freel y exposed. 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