{ title: 'Hartwick review and visitor. volume (Hartwick, Otsego Co., N.Y.) 1902-19??, August 14, 1902, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn91066276/1902-08-14/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn91066276/1902-08-14/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn91066276/1902-08-14/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn91066276/1902-08-14/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Fenimore Art Museum
TEU RSDAY, AUG. 14, 1902. \ e> __ wo l NO. 16. ARTWICK OTSEG—O GO... 0.0.&R.S 3.3. , - Time Card. GOING NORTH. Oneonta......... ese ve velersedus sere s es West Oneonta....... ca cee creek} *Mt. VisiOn i% ss ...-..a....’,-...g..i.---q South Hartwick... «+. cecenscrecres 7:50 a m. Cook summit CRASO, ...... i..... ... Hope: Factory booperstown GONG SOUTH. . CONDPOTSEOWAML. ¢ veces e cases ecs essense Hope Exctory. Cha=e nok Summi e HaAFtWICK sxevescersscienone South Hartwicl. ...................... 7:20 a m- Mt. Viston..... 7:30 a m L@UPGNS ... ...l 22. .us ges 745 a m. West Onsonta....... ces ies cesiee ».. ue ce $e via cons sees sews And : every hour thereafter. Last car; sesiceqrsisecess seca racass ins nae ret a ae sie seis oe seee casers 8:15 a m. '6~:301a3:m - 6:4ha3 m-: 6 :50 a. m: 7:00 a m- sa esse a an is oe rences leaves Oneonta: at 10:30 p. m., and onlr cuns oto Hartwiek. Last car laaves Cooperstown at it 20g) m., and only runs 'to Hattwiok As 1 Infants“! tum Rplnu Al .‘ z Manning June rs, +02. | r ”Trains arrive and Teave' Gumt- «86 follows: FoR TB] EAST. No. 10 Oneonit® No. 2 Saratoga Express.. 8. No. 8 Roston Expre No. 19 Milk.... ARRIVE LEAVE iew 5.10 am . 8 i‘i‘fpin. 2 x A No. 14 Pissenger....... ..- «ers 12] 20 am. FOR THE WEST. No. 15 BinghamtonjLocal ka _ 20 No. 1 Passenger ...... «« 10:00 am.. 1005 am- No. 7 Chicago Express .. 12.30 pm. 12: Au pm \ , 17 Milk... ... .... 1.20 pm. 1.80pm - No. 13 Passenger. 6.45pm . No. 5 Chicago Expiess....... 6.53 pm. 7.03 pm. §o. 3 Chicago Express..:..... 2.06am o Trains 8. 18, 6, tTTand 5 ram on Sunday. Time tables showing local and through {rain. -service between stations on all divisions:-of D. & | Eggsystenrmay be obtained 't all D. & H. ticket. offices. w“ ”0 OMPIBSIOWI & 0. v. n. n. - in ‘Efl'ect June lie. 1902. ~ TRAINS§0OU0TH. No.1 No 5 No.7 No.9 NoJl Ly Cooperstown ««« »«8) 00 8.3)‘5 . ll 35 - 251 5 45 \© Phoitix Milieu-Al 12] 9: 00) 11 411.3 81} 5 bid Hartwmk Sem.. .*6 17|*9:04(*11 45(*3 36)*5 ) 6 34 9’10‘ 11 53| 3 44] «<7 10] 9-65) ++ W. Dav. (U&D) «T. 2010,“ I «© West Davenport“ *~*. f10 15< Ar Davenport Ctr... TRAIN 8. NORTH &+ No.4Noas‘No SN » AML. . PM. Ar Cooperstown Peancs \*- Phoenix Mills ..10 23 © Hartwick Sem *10 23 «* Milford ..... ....10 15} 11 53 advill 10-04 * W. Dav. (U &. D)» T ** West Davenp’t.. * Davenport C't'r . * Stop.on signal. - Trains leave cooperstown for Phoenix Mills | at 6:44 a. m. and 5.46 7 - Returning. leave Phoenix Mills at 7 \7 sun and 6:07. p. m« Trains 1, 7. 4 and 8 connect. at West Daven- portWith U. & D. trains. - FROM Bmeaurroa wns'r, 1 30 a. m.,; Daily—Buflalo and Chicago sleapers. 3 00 a a a Daily—Limited. arrives at Buffalo | 45 a 8 00 a m Daily-Fast mail arrives at Baffilo: 1:00 p. m., Chicago- sleeper, (also Ithaca con-} nection). © x except Sunday-Local stations to * al 3:25 p. Mm., Dali -Observation parlor car, diner, } C. lncago and Sf. Louis. sleepers, also Ithaca connection. 3 42 Daily—Throw: gh coach and sleepers for Bull'slo, 'Cleveland and Chicago. EAST. 1 25a in., Daily-Sleepers. for New Yorkz also { aches flea. .Daily—Sleepers for New York, also coaches. 7:55 a. m., Daily-Scranton, New York, Philadel- aud south diner, yest'bnled drawing», room service and regiilar-coaches. _ - 11:00 a. m , except Sun ay-Vestibuled conches |. and parlor cars for New, York, Philadelphia « and the south. 11:50 4. m.. Daily-Local passenger. 2:08p. m., Daily--Limited, diner, observation parlor car and vestibuled coaches. deran 5 slazily from 'his: deck chair. ton, New York and. Philadelphia. |_ 5:54 p. m. ,except Sunday-Locat passenger. 11 45 p. m., Daily'-Coaches and sleepers for| New Yor Trains for Utica and intermediate stationg.. 4:50 a. m.,. and 4:00 p.m. dally-8:05 a. Mes. and! 3:55 p, m., except Sunday. - For Syracuse, Owego: and\ intermediate ata]. tions, 5:00 a.m., 2:20 and 3 :35 p. in. daily—$15 a. m., and-6 '10 p. m. except Sunday. > For information regarding rates,. routes, reset vations, ete , a}? ply to 7. Bmith, Lackawanna} Ticket agent. mgha GET EST [MATES FOR YOUR . W. I The latest style of New Type, expat-E ienced workmen, good stock, the lowest prices consistent with good work, and the job completed on time. As we pay cash for etc > and Tabor, work must be: paid: Stranger for when taken. Will 'be required to make deposit When leaving order. 6:30 a m |\ 7:00 a mi. 7:15 a m | 7:30 a m |} Minimum s’ 8:00 a m (§ .. 8:10 a mf 8 30am.‘ 7:10am | smam‘ 8:30 a mt .. 12.35 pm. 13’30pm 1 10 Pasgs'gr, Suadays only: 11.00 am. ll .0. am | a hertz,” | when the two men came over the rail. I Breath of _- Scandal - Ey ELIAS LISLE Copyright; 380 . by A. S. Richardson Young Mrs. Verrell leaned. on the hid dingey. in in the boat,\ she announced to her guest. \Afr. Cuthbert isn't there. 80 sorry Her Infonation implied that the sor- row was sympathetic rather than per- sonal. Bibyl Begich resented it, | \You needn't be, Helen,\ she said, the curve of her lips straightening [invited him to. come, partic- ularly on. your- account.\ - | “And wanted Him not to, particu- I $ s r aecount,\ said the girl © “Whyl. Sibyl, dear, I thought you- | were such great friends or even more,\ \__ \So 'did I.\ ©There was a suspicion - {of tears In the bright eyes the girl | ~ | turned to her friend. Tuntil he disgraced himself. Oh, you'll |- {way. I may as well show you no Aly publication which makes a business ® ‘1 of purveying social sewage to its J erg. A: \It came to me in the mail—anony- an mous, of course,\ she said. sion of distaste. wretched paper says, I hope,\ she ob served. \Whenever I read it F feel 88, Af L needed a bath to get clean again.\ \The Fra had. adittle notice, too, gAy- . -| ing that Bid-Mr. Cuthbert-was there, | - 'and: that is reliable enough., I-onuly {3 '_wish weren't.\ With pressed lips and frowning brow | Mrs. Verrell ran over the clippings. It { was a comment, less velled than is- | common. with that paper, upon the presence of Sidney Cuthbert at the fu- | [neral of a woman who had once been | 'well known in that dim border of the I theatrical profession where people of: a | - | more dubious world claim habitation. \It. wil strengthen Mr.. Cuthbert's deputation for generosity among 'his | club and society friends,\: commented ie paragraph, 'that he. should have png \the expense of the: funeral from is own pocket, 'The woman who was | once known as: Viola Trevannion was. 42} buried. beside her son, whose death two years ago was also the occasion . fof a 'burst of mortuary generosity on - | the part of young Cuthbert.\ \Isn't that a nice thing to- read about © 'a man you had thought you. could-, could at least respect?\ said the: girl | bitterly. \L don't believe it about Mr. Guth- began. the other; indignantly After Verrell and young Dr, Dent : | had _grected the two women the litter | ] Cuthbert say. turned to his cousin and said: \Did 1 hear you speaking about Sid- ney Cuthbert,; Beauty?” lug,” said the girl. \And I do wish, T Harvey, that you would ; drop that ; childish nicEname. I've outgrown it.\ \Well I don't know about your out- :< growing it,\ said Bent, looking at her : I flushed cheeks and shining eyes, \but . you certainly - haven't \outgrown 'your - childish—beg pardon—your © éhildhood | 'temper. 'But of' course I'll 'drop it, . Sib, If you don’t like it,\ 'he added good naturediy.: \But I was interested 'In Sidney Cuthbert because 'I used to | know hint when he was; Typh 7 and IV was housed “Sawgums ,\ \What's Sawgums?* . asked Verrell - \Lunatic ' asylum?\ \And was Cuthbert one of the | { nuinbered patients and you 'another? . I understood 'you. to Hay you were a house; . Singular delusion.\ % “Sawgums, is short for St. Augus- | tine's hospital where I disported my- self. as house physician when Cuth- {bert became typhoid case No. T,\ ex- ,3plained the. young physician = z 'the private rooms were full he had to \Ag gll | go Into the 'public ward and, live at $1 | 1 matic car driver and a charity con- ~\ o> ~ L \Very good lesson in economy,\ ob- | ' served Verrell virtnously. \*He couldn't give- many dinner par-. ties and send the kind of flowers he | ased to favor Sibyl with on that basis. . Helen, 4f my feet gre in your way PH |} Jered,\ he concluded bliss- J fully unconscious of hls wite's savage | mured Verrell. [ him to call, Sibyl? rail of the yacht and looked with dis-; appointed surprise at the approaching g \There gre only Hugh and your coug- ' I'm | | Cuthbert. evenln street until one ( } fll -the-news . Abol got from. hinfriends' { him.> It meant: ; know allt 'about iit soon enough any- ' craps 'on Cuthbe | made. dice out of lump sugar, and She held out a clipping fFom a. week- : € ‘Barber raided the game. zthe two pals were ° Mrs. 'Verréll took It with an expres . Z c \Your wouldn't believe anything that f were. safely out , 'the night nurse by the neek and yelled: | * \Where's my pf 1? Where's \iin the inner passage\ said the' I nurse, turning whi e. 'They must have |f \from me and Yan! ' entrance; and as: I \You may Rave if you were listen-~ . Tommy's diagnos { bert climbed out of his chair-against | per day between a profane and asth-- . there s nothing { bert, his voice breaking. .+ any relations or [ wearily. i An AF called herself Trevannion, I believe, | _|. on the stage.\ || sel interrupted - Sibyl: 1 that it consists of only one sir tremulously [ | message. I commonly well.\. [ tumors;. Arnica Salve soon cured him, {Inflammation, conquers Aches; kills the: l glances. got: He got up quite |a friendship with another patient | known as Tommy, the Cod, presumably f because he lived in an empty fish box | | down Fulton marlket way.\ | \Don't temember having heard Cuth- f bert speak of the gentleman,\ mur- } ‘Did he ever bring | Helen, if you. kick | - 'the only husband1 you're ever likely to have on the shind he'll rise up and de- sert you.\ ° | \The Cod's real name, as near as fie. ||: 'could tell, was! Hannigan,\ continued the physician. : gequaintances with {Cuthbert's previous, him was purely a. Tommy used to sell papers op business one: so we kept him. Well, the; Cod: : ‘he ptreet «that he er back from Newport and consequent- ity didn't Have any callers of his own. . Tommy generousl', loaned him his vis- - and - one da the sa rintendent, \So did I untll- |g\ *s a Some After that ore cahtious. 'One At any rate, | 'up ag'in It? - | \In those. days dur ward who ison, but someht hustled to save our cases. Just as we were congratulati g ourselves that all mmy the Cod seized : taken Him out the other way. him, sits, the little but he broke away - back into the ward. | : He thinks Typh 7 is in there.\. \I thought so, too, 'and ran. for the : I|reached it a wall of ° out upon me, some- a tried, to stop heart case No. 15, : black smoke rolléd . where back. of which rose the voice of - Tommy the Cod,, who was exhortlng ** 'Keep yer hen down, buddy. Air’s . $ d ~ | fresher near deifibor; Deréa de door: roadbed. has been rounded with thé . grader, if At has been drawn by tea At should be rolled with as heavy &a ro er as is available. ' drawn by a traction engine, the large | ' wheels will: compact the éarth bett | ghead! Blast de-chair! - It's stuck\ * «Never-mind: me, 'old man,\ T heard 'My jke arun for it. You can send back after me, -~ -\ 'Not on yer life,' began Tommy, but the brave words ended in A pitiful. | strangling cough. | \Groping blindly, L stumbled upon two patients out into the ball. Tom-| my keeled over, and we got him to- open air unconsel ug. ''When 'he came . to, his first words-\were: *'Did yer get my pal? here, Tommy,' said Cuth- | ' bert, catching the boy's hand in this own. ~ | \ \Dat's all right, den,' said the Cod contentedly. 'But F giiess E'm done. [ Dey always told |me dnhalin' wasn't: : good: fer kids.’ he added with a faint grin.. 'to shake my head.\ # was correct. Angly, but I had my: ordéers-and-bent over Tommy.. \ 'Little pal,\ he faid, 'you saved my ' life.? j - * \Tommy warred the matter away air- | ily. 'Dat's all right. It was up to me. ; Between pals, yer know, yer'd have done de game trick fer me.' - «* «God knows,PFd havetried. And now. ITcan do,\ said 'Cuth- anything, Tommy? Haven't you got: riends I could help? : I'm rich, you know.' ' \'@ wan! said) Tommy faintly. 'Is: . pattenit,.'\ He po ne. You might kinder ‘She w \'Tomn y said. no: more. Tommy in style; I 1 went to the fu oral—professional in- |: _- | terest, you know, Well, Cuthbert has | | been paying his debt to Tommy ever fter the 'fiuffy haired | Bhe | since. looking al as Tommy. called her. \Trevannion - Beach-\Viola Treyannion?\ - |_ \Why do you know her?\ asked heril I; cousin in surprisg. | \Yes-no; never mind,\ said Sibyll¢ Harvey, I want you toi | [ stories high. | only a ledge on which to build must be- | the explanation. What is mos curious 64 | that we-that I din | sign my name. Yo t she added indign ntly. Then she turned; | | | and hurried below. \Well upon =- '——fl_— pom d Knoug ' to Settle It. |- A wag after h; ving witnesged an un- 4 [- usually villain -| \Hamlet\ remarke us performance of, ' troversy,. Let the graves of, both be { | dug-up and see Which 'of the two turne . [ | over.\ Shutters All Records vast sum to doctors to Pains. ~Best salve inthe world. I \Did Cuthbert like it, Dentl’lli ROAD CONSTRUCTI ' Seemed to enjoy it tolerably after i SOME: su GGESTlONS BY A MICHIGAN to give Cuthberti ho used to visit | -good'.deal to Cuth- . 'bert, for be was - “leaping his illness a |. score/pr fear it would bring his. moth» | 0d had has a wom- | of the road, but if the foundation Gertain ac- | had told FTommy | ] © m’hitezuhem-j me, on” BC verai occasions 'and | had \staked' him' to a much needed - f GAollar more than once when. he was T-always meant to [. | po w I never got time. | . He wound up a career of: blunders one | night by droppin F night lamp into a | 'gereen, and two minutes later he drop- 'ped the job of fighting the fire and VJ;bad.a night orderly | *The first I hearfl of it was when the . t nurse came crying to me. ing out The road Should be scrap his pal, and the rattle of a wheeled | chair ' .> d, |. other. road encourage grass to occupy all \Isn't there | . dat right? I tought yer was a 'charity | idered for a moment.] ' 'Phere'sg dat fluffy haired. loidy dat « | came to see me last wéek. She was \I pretty white to { look out fer her ja bit. Dey said she | + was me.old woman, but L-dunno. Wot's . de difference? said Tommy the Coa | s white to: me any- |: improved by planting trees go al 'ghide the traveled way. They 8 | prevent in part the drying effect of _ my soul!\ mused Dentf | as he went over the side to send the **I must have done that un- . : € ed: \Now is the time | ( ”to settle .the Shakespeare~Bacon con: ; Twice in hosp al, F. A Gulledge, Ver» | , ' | bena, Ala., paid. leure a severe. case of piles, causing 24: When, all failed, Bucklen' sfz Subdues ‘HlGHWAY SUPERVlSOR. The Importance of Drainage—Points on -Building . Earth ~- Roads-I and How to Grade—How to Imp Sand Highways. - . At certain seasons of the year ea r at'other seasons they are. almos I passable, writes A. J. Sager, Vicksburg (Mich) Herald. Ca | thing reasonable be done 'to: I the average earth road either\ ] most favorable or its worst conditionz Wdll‘i The obJéct of this article to y a truck ran over - hig ankle, and when we got him here | 'we found; he had a very interésting | case ofheart «liaise ‘jeet to be cons tion of earth without drainage. Drainage alon y often change A: 'bad earth road to good offe, and the best road may be de: stroyed by the absence of proper drain- age. Many if not most country“ high- ways could be considerably impro ' by thorough subdrainage. Most appear to think that the sole object of | drainage is to remove the surface wa- ' ter, but this is only a small part of- tn 6C : object of underdrainage of roads. The most important object. .of under- \the goil. The action of the sun .a the breeze will finally dry. the surface soft- and. spongy the road, 'becoms worn full of uneven places. The showers fill these depressions wigr ter, and the road is: goon a mass: -of mud. A good road caunot be main- tained unless it has a good foundation, ' and an undrained soll is a poor foun- | almost any load. dramage, but I would not advise~-ti béing used except where underdrai) . age is required. Gravel or broken stone layer upon an undérdrained roadbed tiles without gravel are 'better than. . roads graveled without tile. - grade with early in the spring 4s a. light drag, used while 'the frost is -com: lightly with the road machine as: Boon as it is settled, and \heavy. grading | while e ground is soft. The 'should not be rounded up or scraped heavily late in the summer or in the [-fall, for then' the earth thrown upin the center will not unite. with -the . foundation, even after being rolled, \unless the fall is an unusually wet on e. The proper {crown can be dasily@an . cheaply obtained by the use of th road machine or grader.\ After 'th than any roller obtainable in the coun: | try, 'and the efgine will save the Q the chaip and with a rush brought my | 'strength of the horses., Roads on pure sand or nearly purée sand require very diderent : from rogds on clay or loam. The pre ceding rules for the drainage. of Toam and clay roads must be reversed fo sand roads. Wet sand makes a. 'road than dry sand, and therefore draining a sand road is useless an . possibly a damage. Of course this 18 ; not true of quicksand, as deseribed in. | the first of the article, but there is very € little if any of that found in sand treads Roads on quicksand are im- c ' proved by draint \Cuthbert looked up at me appeal- iproy y draining. and need little if any guiding. with which the grains move one on the Therefore to improve a san space possible. The roots will- the movement of the gand ynder th tread of the hoofs and wheels. . It is an advantage If vegetation cuptes the surface clear up to 'the harms a loam or clay road, but i: proves a road of sand or broken stone since it prevents the evaporati n 0 the moisture from the rogdbed.- Ther fore a sand road can be permai winds as weil as intercept the rays. the sun, anm, dom Roquefort and Its Chooser «of Roquefort, has destroyed its ~pic turesqueness It has brought specu- whiteness in harsh contrast with th © character and somber tone of the houses. Although the place 13 80 : smal a few alleys, the more ancient dwell I ings are remarkable for their height It is surprising to see in a village 1 among the sterile hills houses three The fact that there Is in the place is the cellars. formation, but now they are really ca geen in- -as many as five stages, where lars from the cheesemaking point of | view is their dryness and their scarce- : 1 1y varying temperaturd of about 8 de- * | grees centigrade summer and winter., + Temple Bar. more and more in the structure 6f;| towns and cities. most of them the way is being oper _ I 25¢, at- _ R. P. Ismael] J Wick “116.311“!!!quis Mothersuptotnem. ved | dation, while & dry soil; will support ' | shiftless substitutes for solid, perma- . All roadsexcept those on pure: sand :| can be materially improved by. tile { :| which abound in so many regions not | only illustrate the existence but als demonstrate the folly of < this semi- | | placed upon an undrained foundation~ As almost gure to sink gradually, what- - | ever dts thickness, whereas & thinner will: give much better service.\ Road -[ The best tool to smooth the roadL o in the end If the grader. is. Sand roads are usually nearly level , They - Should not be crowned, since they do\ ' not need surface drainage. The tray=: ] eled portion should be simply leveled ofl The great disadvantage of purée sand as a road material is the freedom éled way-both for the shade and: for |- : the binding effect of¢the roots, Shade lators there who have raised great, | ugly, square buildings of dazzling. eet and Before the cheese became an impor- A's) tant article of commerce these were }, natural caverns, such as are every-: where to be found in this calcareous: | Targ that have been excavated to such ; 4 m depth in the rock that they are to be long rows of chéepses are stacked oné |Z - over the other. The virtue of these celi | 'The elenient of beauty 1s entering. | In some localities this is coming about through the eort!| t=st of the authoritiés themselves, but ring pigk -by the women and men who are above 9 : the plane of politics and are trying til . Amati can streets Dirty, Sidewalks 3.4110th and Parks IIL Kept. bral self satisfaction is bound to from insularity to world power' ere is one proposition which may ; came as. a surprise, even to well edit- ‘ed Americans, although 'its cause imericans who have traveled abroad, | i: Professor A. D. F. Hamlin in . storum 'We are slowly learning that we are the most untidy among all fally' awakening to the humilia- . mbarrassment of one who, en-. ig a company of his fellow men, ve rs that he alone among them is | lobby and tinkempt and that he has | rel; failed to apprehend the ideas se-and-the standards of, personal ppearance that prevail among those | whose company he is to frequent; The discovery that there is more of Ith, squalor general slovenliness public places and works, in streets, 1d bridges in the United States than any other country of the first or yen gecond rank is a humbling but | Alutary. experience. In what may be- alled our. public housekeeping, in the- outward Appearance and maintenance lof places and. works administered by , T draining isto lower the water level in | ublic or semipublic enterprise, we rank with Turkey rather than with ngland or Germany. Oriental Japan, oy , Switzerland and slow going Hol- nd stand far gshead of the United: , States in. this respect. Our national | slovenliness 1s seen in dirty streets and | 'ansightly water fronts, in ill kept | squares, ragged sidewalks and abom- | ble pavements, in shabby railway atzlons and embankment walls bu» 'up of rotten sleepers and in a thousand | gent works. |. & The \unspeakable country roads barbarous glackness of administration, 'meéans of transportation possible, im- 'pose a heavy tax on every farmer and. other resident and are a clog upon the general progperity of the regions they \traverse. .s Tidiness And the efficient maintenance of public works cost more they save this excess many times over BUILDING UP THE TOWN. he Wort; -of a Progressive Villiage ha Improvement Society. f Several years ago a: village improve- ent gociety in a New England town ;. entertainment the members an- nounced that they were about to organ-: tse'an improvement society fnd would. o‘tlieir utmost to make the town one the cleanest and prettiest in. the While congratulations were going the: rounds one young woman, whose: hus- band, is a prominent merchant in the village, glided. gracefully up to a citi- \| zen of the town and, 'with a smile, asked if he would contribute $5 to the ety if, nineteen of his friends could - duced to follow his example. He newered promptly in, the affirmative, | when 'the conditions «of his contri-; ution . were announced nineteen men t once arose, walked proudly forward nd placed $95 in the young woman's . ands. . This, with the proceeds of the | tertainment gave the gociety a start, nd it is now a popular and indispensa- © ble village institution. The women never seem to grow eary in working to improve the vil- Jage. > They hold receptions and enter- inments, which make much work for . tax on every member. However, 'the | men are very anxious to accomplish | work they have undertaken and | djtime to hold cake sales twice a ionth.: This year $1,300 was raised by var- iis entertainments and expendéd in. [ urchasing and laying 3,100 feet of Iuestone curbing on the main street. ZTTHE' TOWN \S STREETS. lean Pavements Force Many Other Improvements. § effect in beautifying towns as- J treet , paving material,, whether it: \block \brick or asphalt, says the | yton Herald. When gravel or cob: lee 'or bowlders are done away with . gand brick .or Asphalt substituted for to : the improyement and building of sets, the first foundation of clean . \8 tr andhandsome towns is laid. .._These materials not ofily enable the ng of cleafrii 'and noiseless streets;. ey foree other improvements- Qbe' raidewalks graceful curbing and - Cheese, which has been the fortune |; neral fixing up of residence front- #-no matter in what part of the ° jthey are put. Asphalt and ce- : ment have worked wonders, have be- here neverehas been. such a. senti- pnt for beautifying towns as there is . and in many places persons are : evotiug all their energies to the work, : for profit, but for the general good. | M generations will rise up and | them blessed. a Good Roads Benefit All. at good roads pay there can be no. /. Alt classes in a community are | rs in the benefit, and the market | ot real: estate is increased from '20 per cent as against bad roads. 'ntructive agencies of good roads | d for this reason perfect drain- All Were Saved. “For yea : I suffered such untold mis- | , ash unable to work. 'Then, when} : will convince you it's unrivaled for and Lung diseasfw « eivJe in the process of our gradua-l Jong been a matter of painful con- | usniess to individuals, especially to | reat nations of the world. We are |P otits start in a rather novel way. . At | ~of scie Very from. Bronchitls \ writes J. H. {Johnston, of Broughton. Ga., \that often hing else fa'led, I_ was wholly | 'by Dr. ngs New Biscovery for 1 My w'fe suffer d int ne- | 1 “Asthma, till it cured: her, and all | *per.ence gcts t> .show it is the} ro pmedlcme in the world.\ A| bottles 50¢ and $1 00. Trial bottles free| P Luce's, Hartwmk and all PUBLIC UNTIDINESS. mid the varfed shocks which our | for they constitute the most costly | lathe first outlay than negligence, but | | on the scale; | good weather pmgnosticatOrs + nly, water and narrow wagon | Guaranteed | - .mostly in preachers. 'career envy 48 quiescent in time 'of | . peace, 'but can-become acute in time | Envy makes men of science : 'and literature lead solitary lives, difli I - of war.. OILING HIGHWAYS. *~ A Process That Gives Them a Hard Surface. Santa Barbara, Cal., has just com- pleted some careful and industrious | experiments in the line of oiling: of eated in various parts of the city, and private individuals are engaged in oil mg streets in front of their properties. 'The process used has been carefully followed, says the Los Angeles Her-. 'ald. There are several stages, and dare.| at cach is the secret of the sucees$ at- | tained. The streets gare first of all row being used. This implement very | uch resembles a gang of cutters with deep notches cut from each cutting cir- | This grading does away with Cle. ~chuekholes and makes the street as ' even 'as possible before the oil is . placed. 8prinkling.with water follows 'the grading. 'On Several blocks sprin- | kling was. omitted to see what the ef- fect would be. 'The best blocks laid are those where the sprinkling was The oil was heated in its car to make : it run easily and was then hauled to | the streets In a sprinkling cart. 'The cart Ig driven slowly over the street and the oil rungs upon the surface.: Then comes a second treatment with : the harrow and then a second coating . of oll. Harrowing for the third time . mixes the oil well with the earth, but gives the street & very nasty appear: | ance. * Next comes the chief feature of the' process used by the contractors. They. have rights to. the use of a patented ; tamping machine with which the oil is on the ends of these spikes and meshes, \the oil almost out of sight into the? street: The treatment with this. roller, hardens the surface and permits the | -use of & heavy steam roller for the pur- pose of further packing and leveling: . the street. , The amount of oil may be. varied. About a hundred barrels were used to. 'a 450 foot block of fixty foot street.. Travel on these streets has hardened 'them into almost an asphalt surface as the volatile parts of the oll have evapo-. rated. “Professional Envy.’ An Italian philosopher bas amused | himself by. constructing & Scale 6 J y cons ng & Scale of de- 'ceal the wire. | sional envy. The bighest point in this . grees for the measurement of profes- © - envy measurer {# ten. _- Architects. are happily placed lowest 'They register only advocates and (priests and mil tary men aré ranged at 3, and in the as:- centiingm scale he gives us professors | ce and litérature, 4; journal- ists, 5; authors, 8; physicians, 9; ac. ~tors and actresses, 10, The small | amount of envy among architects is held to be due to their precise, severe, ~ \F and ri studies. > The sameé thing ap- : plies to advocates.© - Amofg the clergy envy is found In the military dent of each other. Among physicians envy is still more prevalent, and they 'do, not sparo their colleagties, often | terming them charlatans. In the, the- _atrical world envy reaches its geute form, vanity playing a great part in- _ its production. Crows as Weather Prophets. The belief that two crows are a hap- ' one of which perched on the prow and . very much alike.. It is gaid that when . ~rooks desert a rookery it forebodes the - | downfall of the family on whose prop- | | erty it is. | They are also credited with being When - the weather is about to be very bad, they stay as near home as possible, 1 'but when they foreknow that it will | here is no one agent so farreaching I be set fair they start off in the morn- ing right - away to a distance where | 'they have an. instinct that the food ; they need is plentiful Again, if the rooks are seen venturing into the streets of a town or village it is a sure | : Sign of _an, approaching snowstorm”; Cleane-t Town In the World. Brock, in Holland, is said to 'be the | cleanest town in the world. It is only : :a few miles mfrom the capital and 'has | : been famous fof its cleanliness from | : time immemorial. It is also notable on - mrccount of the fanciful style of its? houses and yards and gardens and ' streets, The people, though only peas. ants, are well to do, and all feel a pride | 'in their town. It seems to be the first 'business of the lives to keep their. houses freshly painted their gardens in perfect order and their yards and streets as clean as a parlor No carts ' are allowed in the streets and no-eat- tle, though the raising of stock and the : : making of butter andcheese gre their T occupations. Practice and Preaching. When the late Bishop Hare was pre- siding over a Methodist Episcopal | church in New York city, a large re- | ception was given. in his - honor, to [ 'which a brother of his, a lawyer, who ' . closely resembled the bishop, was in- vited, During the evening a member of the | 'conference who had never met the { bishop's brother approached him and shaking him warily: by the hand, said: | 1 | | greatly enjoyed the germon you gavejE . \Good. evening, Bishop Hare.. us today. If is just what this: church | needs.\ | \You are mistaken in the person,\ said the brother, smiling, as: 'he pointed 'to the bishop on the: opposite gide of | the room, \that is the man who preach- | -es; I practice.” Scunt Consolation. the world the worke It seems to get. ' Atttle thing like that worry you. haps It will be better otter you get out of it. -Chileggo News. ess The Pessimist-The longer I live in. 'The Optimist—0h well, don't let a | Per- STONES. ON HIGHWAYS. | Law Makes “Their“ Removal Obliga- © tory In New York. The road law as amended by the»: ; last legislature of the state of New { York makes certain highway work ob- . public highways. Work has been. fin- | a M . ished on eleven blocks of streets 10 ligatory. The loose stones in 'the road | | are always a cause of great annoyance . and make more work for horses, and | | their removal is fan improvement no | 1 one can dispute. The new law directs that the over- | seer shall \cause all loose stoné lying in the beaten track of every highway - within his district to be removed once: 'in every month from the Ist of April. ; until the ist day of December éach, brought to a clean round grade. The: year. Stones so removed shall not be | ~dirt Is made fairly fine, a spading bar- nap 5 thrown back into the gutter nor into the grass adjoining such highway, but they shall be conveyed to some place | from which they cannot work back «or be brought back into the track by the or throw loose stones in the gutter or grass adjoining aA highway or shall . deposit or throw upon a highwayash- | es, paper, stones, sticks or other rub-| . bish shall be liable to a penalty of $10, | | to be sued for and recovered by the { commisstoner of highways or, \in : of his refusal or neglect to act, by any | . taxpayer of the town in which the of: case fenge shall be committed, and when re: : covered one half of the. amount shall { be applied by them in improving the |; highways and bridges in such town. | The other half shall be paid to the per- | son upon. whose written information : the action was brought.” : master is thus gullty of a misdemean- | : or If he neglects to prosecute to recov- - er such penalties. worked into the street. 'This machine . j : consists of a roller of wood into which , are get rows of fron spikes each a foot j long by two inches thick and each hav- Window Gardens. An éasy and effective window treat- ment that many prefer to fitted win- § | dow boxes is to utilize the window sill for potted plants. This is done by having a low wire railing fastened to 'the house wall at cither side of the | window, curving out slightly to gllow { for the growth of the plants; The' plants in pots of uniform size are then :'safely placed behind It, their bloom | { and follfige soon almost concealing the : ' wire. By this means the care of the ' \window gardens is easy, as pots can- 'be turned about or a single one re- moved to be replaced 'by a thrifticr plant without disturbing others. | this plan is followed, geveral of the . pots should hold, vines or plants of. drooping growth to- produce the 'net If\ work of gréen that is needed to con-: mamaias Good Roads Must Be Faid For. The only way we can ever expect to. [ build gand have good roads in this- state is by contract 3(and by- taxation, and we have advocated this :course for | I some time, says the Newberry (N. C.) | ; Herald. In fact, we feel sure that even 'those of our citizens who: are most j «afraid of taxation and hold ap their: ' hands in holy horror at the: suggestion of an increase in taxation would cease {all opposition after using some good roads and would become the. most ar- : dent and enthusiastic advocates of [ ' taxation for roadbuilding. | h Guiltylbut Fair Minded. \Gentlemen said the man whose bulk just comfortably filled a seat in the parlor car, \I passed through one 1 earthquake and never want to «experi-; ence another.” \Where was it?' was asked. \In Pittsburg.\ \But °F never heard they had an - earthquake there.\ - \Yes they did. It was fifteen years. ago. I was there. I went to the rolier' 1 skating rink. I put.on a pair of skates. f py. omen and that they appear to warn | I started out to cavor men from disaster is very;1 ancient. | Alexander the Great was thus s§ved | } that | in Heypt by two crows, and King ' want to say right 'here and now : ' Alonzo would asstiredly have perished - in 1147 had it not been for two crows, | erty 1 am willing to make a fair get- . t d ®» .the other on the -stern of his ship,, so | tlement o amages “pointing the prow: of the royal barge | | safely intoport. Crows and rooks are | \Tm! said four men in @horus. =. \And the earthquake followed, and I- | if any of you are from Pittsburg and : can prove the loss of friends or prop-. One Way to Do It. \I wish,\ she sighed, \I could break little: Willie of the habit of calling names.\ «You can,\ responded the gruff neigh- bor promptly. \ *How?\ \Discharge the nurse and send him t out to play with a few rough boys. ' some afternoon ”-—0hicago Post. Never Got Thirsty Again. \Ig it because of} the nature of his wit, or what?\ ° \Wit nothin't\ answered the west- | | gan: The path- | Tried Them on the Indians. \When I was out in Oregon, fifty-. three years ago,\ said a pleasant look- ing farmer, who has. been 'in the red raspberry business for twenty-five years, \I first saw red raspberries growing wild in the thickets and. along the edges of the wild Oregon roads. . ''They were saucer shaped and not so deep as 'the modern berry, just Hke 'those which still grow wild in Michi- As the Oregon berries looked tempting. I picked alot in my hat, but know whether they, were poisonous op hot. \On my way back to camp I met a number of Indians whom IL had geen before and knew to be friendly; in fact, they had taken such a fancy to | me that they once offered to adopt me into the tribe. To these genial Indians I presented my hatful of fresh red raspberries, and my joy was great use of road machines or other imple.| WNCB they ate them all with relish, : ments.. P> \Any person who shall violate the] |. provisions hereof or who shall deposit. After that I ate all I wanted. \'In old New England, I understand, they used: to call the raspberry 'the thimbleberty' on account of its resem- | blance,.to <a woman's thimble.\-De- troit‘ Free PreSs - An Optimistic Cripple. A one legged newsboy had been hop- 'ping about on his crutch selling after- noon \extras and when there was a luil in the business, owing to a falling ~off in the crowds, he sat down for a ' brief rest. . \How did you lose your leg?\ asked. \Cable car,\ he said, with the street urchin's characteristic economy of words. \Too bad!\ I remarked. \Ob but it might 'a' been worse, gir,\ the boy replied. \The company paid the doctor and gave mother $800. That paid all our debts and left us $500 in bank, and it's all there 'cept $40 we had to take out when mother was sick, Fand I sell more papers than most of 'the boys, just 'cause I've a crutch. a I ''There's one of my customers now.\- Bo. New York Times | Her One Success. | + In the civil war time a western wo- Iman who had lost her husband in the field and who hoped to win a livelihood | for herself gand her little ones by writ- big sent to Harper's Magazine a : story which had no special «distinction and : was returned. In the desperate mood -that followed this rejection she sat | down with pen aflame and told \why I zwifote'i '\ and her story under that ti- I tle was: ficcepted and published, win- ning a Sympathetic response from all its readers. But this production, the [| echo of a vital moment, was her, one Story in the magazine. Oliver Wendell. | Holmes said that anybody could write one interesting novel if he could truly ;tell the story of his own life: ~—Harper’s Magazine. Obeyed Orders. | \What was the. cause of that awful racket and disturbance in your office . the tenants on the third floor. | ~~ \You know that young cowboy that f 'came yesterday to begin the study 'of law with me?' said the other. tlYes LH \Well I thought he might as well be- [gin at the bottom, and I told him that when he came down this morning the first thing for him to do would be to clean out the office. He found half a 'dozen fellows there waiting for me, 'but he did it, all right. »-CGhicago Trib- I une, o | 2. A Clear Cut Warning. \Young ladies,\ said an absentmind— red teacher of Latin to his class in Vir- ] gil, \IL understand that you count upon .my calling on you in alphabetical order and prepare your lessons accordingly. I am surprised -and disappointed at 'A such conduct: Hereafter I warn you I shall begin at the other end of the al- phabet!\ Corrected. V1s1tor—Go to the proprietor and tell him to make my bill out properly and I write, omelette with two 't's' and not one. _. Waiter (a few minutes later)-It'$ all right now, sir-omelet, 1 shilling; two teas, 2 shillings.-London Tit-Bits. Tests of Friendship. When a woman gives notice that she . has moved to the top floor and there is 'no. elevator, she begins to find who her [true friends are, and when she makes it known that she is boarding out and 'has no meals served at home she gets ' still nearer the root of the matter. \Why do you call your friend 'Dry | Davy?\ was asked of the wild and: . woolly westérner. The foot, of a horse is one of the most fingemous and unésampled picces of ] mechanism in the whole range of ani-; . ma] strneture..__._____. . erner. \Davy got a dose o' the water | =-- ' cure in the Philippines two. years agos'l '-Bal- | ** an\ he hasn't been thirsty since.\ timore Amerifan. - ‘Not as lied as It Blight Be. , \Poor man,\ said the lady visitor, addressing one of the inmates of the' Insane asylum, \don't you often' feel. : very sad to be. Shut up here?\ . [ \Oh no,\ the patient answered. \Thei lunatics who come to look at us are | generally very amusing.\ - Chicago | _ ' Record-Herald. [ Logical. Pat-Pfwat's th rayson Clancy do ) Oi‘ ser be afther havin' a tin weddm’ wonder? Mike-Faith, an' it's because he's |- been married to his ould woman tin |- | years, Om thinkin’ ——Ghicago News. Rea-surfing. She-OB, Jack, are you perfectly cer- | tain that you love me? He-My darling, you don't suppose | that I have lHved for thirty years} | without knowinglove when I feel it. - Brooklyn Life. Well Qualified. Judge-Do you understand the na-gz © ture of an oath? Witness-Yes, gir. We keep a par-y: | rot, and my husband used to be a sea | Co., Mi captain. -—New York Evening World. ou . Right In It. \I understand your wife has gone ° out of town on her vacation. When do f ' you take: yours?\ having mine now!\-Town Top- | cs. e now He Figured It. \Much politics in your neighborhood, | _ Much politics in y eig axooSlerge Unclé Jim?\ \No sub-des 'bout $10 wuth. ray | # ianta Constitution. ce as oa untie ain dine AC «4 iion” [ Both the Gaby an | got along:splendid for ou to enjoy ieppiness of : e doctor. Some- he\. quali hid ble without an' Yet both these “naposm les\ . have been made possibles by the use of Pr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- scription. - Many times the <4 'hin rances to mother- hoodaretobefounflin *> n strong and sick dd my testimony ds. atot hers as to the Pierce's: mediciges n at bbard patent medicines without z Dr. 'Plerce's Favorite Pre- rward. I gave R siczans hf: if were strong, J hanks to your . medicine. The Common Sense Medical Advise es, in covers, 1s sen frze on receipt of 271 éne-cent eta use 0 ng only. A 0; N. Yfip’” 6. F . av ex mee 9 did not dare to eat them, as I did not ' 'just before you came?\ asked one f | <
