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i "Tfi- OAILV HERALD. WiONESOAY, i903. For Luncheon or Tea. A few small biscuits easily made with Royal Baking Powder. Make them small as small round as a napkin Mix and- bake just before the meal.

Serve hot. Nothing better for a light dessert than these little hot biscuits with butter and marmalade or jam. You must use Royal Baking Powder to get them JUiU, MOVAI. BAKING NEW vow JfllLEl RflCE MK Interests ftmunlcatiofi Wf TBE BEMLB REUTIfE TO THIS The following communication was "Deceived at chis office last evening: To the Editor of The attention has been called to a report of the "Committee of Twelve" published in your paper on Tuesday. From, what I able to gather, it is the outcome of the efforts of cer- tajn well disposed clergymen and other Christian to record their protest against permitting the New England Breeders' Association to hold a race meeting upon their grounds the coming Summer; and the basis of their opposition is that pool selling is intended: that is LOW JBAfES to the Pacific Coast the ONION PACIFIC I US BEEN CQIPIETED BY JDSIAB F.

ADAIS Fw Fij-Cie Tun li. Mm lu Set Ik Wi HNe celved from Berlin. Woodsville and Eiteter, to take tae place of thy disbanded Lebanon company. It was decided to have Col. Tetley detail one of his officers to visit these and ascertain what the prospects are for such a company and the accommodations for an armory and to report as soon as possible.

In ali probability. Lieut. Col. Charles L. Mason be detailed to make the investigation.

say, that auction pools are to be sold on the result of a horse race. For many years trotting meetings have been held at Dover, Rochester, Concord, Manchester and Keene whereat auction pqols have been sold upon the results without let or hindrance. Admitting, as I do, that auction pool selling is the vilest of all forms of betting, -what are the chances of its being done at the meeting of the' New England Breeding Association to be held at Salem this Summer? This Association has been Ijcensed by the Club to conduct a race meeting on their grounds for twenty- one days. The iron clad rules of the Jockey Club prohibit the sale of auction pools upon the grounds of any licensee, and. a violation of that rule means a revocation, qf the license of the offender instanter.

This being the case, and the frozen truth as well, what reason have these well meaning gentlemen, to cry out that the moral sentiment of the state is to be outraged? This recent awakening to the danger that besets the youth the Granite State, in case, they are permitted to see thoroughbred horses contend for purses and stakes, which for the first time in its history take place according to program, appears to be a last day- conversion, that-JJfL years of pumpkin fairs and agricultural "boss trots" have failed to arouse, even the contemptible "leg shows," sweat boards, and wheels of chance when minors staked their nickels and dimes--smutty songs, and worse pictures and innumerable oth- ir on HMC mm UNT CRIKCS Says a dispatch: John B. Lewis, who has rung the church bell of the First Parish (Unitarian) Church at Hingham, every Sunday for fifty years, with seven exceptions, and tolled it for all the departed Presidents during that period, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as of the church, the oldest religious edifice now in use in this country. At the close of the morning's service Mr. Lewis was given a very happy surprise. Aiiter the members of the Sunday school bad' been ushered into the church, the venerable sexton was escorted" to the front pew, and then the Rev.

Louis C. Cornish, the pastor, standing before the ancient pulpit, addressed Mr. Lewis, and said that the congregation had remained for the purpose of commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his service honored sexton of the parish. believe," said Pastor Cornish, "your long service has never been surpassed. So far as we know it has never been equalled.

You have missed being on duty ony seven Sundays in the whole half century. Furthermore, your service has been as remarkable for its quality as it has been exceptional for its duration. Every year of your long service has been marked by absolute devotion to the welfare of this sacred house of worship." Portsmouth can add an almost countepart record. Our esteemed citizen Josiah F. Adams, still active at nearly seventy-six years of age, on From Feb.

isth to Apiil 1906, reduced rates will be in effect from Chicago to Principal points in Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington Nevada and California. PORT OF PORTSMOUTH Arrivals At and From Our Harbor March 20 Arrived Schooner F. and E. Givan, Melvin, Boston for St. John.

X. with a cargo. Tug Tamaqua, Miller. Philadelphia, towing barge Maple Hill, with 1500 tons of coal for Arthur W. Walker.

Cleared Schooner Jennie French Potter, Potter, Newport News. Wind northwest to southwest; heavy sea. Schooner Margaret Haskell was docked at the short side this morning by tugs Piscataqua and M. Mitchell Davis. Barge Idaho was docked in the steamer berth on Monday by the same tugs.

Tugs Boxer with barge Maple Hill it'or Portland, and Catawissa, with barges Corbm for Philadelphia and Beechwood for Newburyport, were obliged to remain in port today on account of the heavy sea. No coasters sailed because of the unsettled weather conditions. The coasters -which were reported off Highland Light Monday afternoon running Boston when the snow shut in, undoubtedly had a perilous time of it, especially as the wind became northeast soon after midnight. The schooner C. C.

Lane, which went ashore near Boston Light, was one of these. She was a frequent visitor to this port. Telegraphic Shipping Notes Boston, March 19--Arrived, tug Mercury, Portsmouth. Chatham, March 19--Passed, tug Concord, from Philadelphia, towing barges Sagua for Portsmouth and Foster for Boston. Newport News, March 19--Sailed, schooner Lucinda Sutton, O'Brien, Portsmouth.

You wouldn't know it Spring if the almanac didn't tell you so It looks so much like Winter that th- ordinary man or woman be deceived if there were no guide booki to the seasons. A month or six weeks ago, boys were playing marbles and spinning tops in the streets and the papers -acre full of dire predictions of the failure of the ice crop. Today, we hear the merry jingle of the sleigh bells and sleds, snowshoes and skis are the impcments of sport favored by the juvenile American. The weather man has shifted the seasons this year i a vengeance. er outrages brought no decency have protest from this 33.OO San Francisco, Chicago to-j Los Angeles, Calif, I Portland, Oregon, and corresponding low rates toother points.

Reductions from tbe East: The New Fast Train, "THE LOS ANGELES Electric lighted Tonrint Sleeper without change, Chicago to Los Auge)MM. UnkHfPaclftc and the "New HALf LAKK ROUTE. Four days from New England. For full iufoimatlon, folders, address, IASSEU I Union Paciffe ftailroad 17C Washington Street. Boston, Mass.

g. 3 I4TM TO APfrfL THC NEW IWPKOVKD TOURIST WITHOUT CHANM. DINING AND CAR CA" WHITE "Committee of a dozen" or any one of them. It is a well known fact, that during six months of the year, more than three and a half million dollars are brought into the state of New Hamp- I shire by persons not resident of the I-state, and the farmer'and other pro- ucing interests are the chief bene- ciors of this vast sum of money. The meeting of the New England Breeders' Association, means forage or SOO or 1000 horses, food for 1000 men for a period of a month or more.

Why should not the farmer have a hance to supply these ants and get is good money for it? Without much effort on their part his "dozen committee" have brought hemselves into the public eye, and the end they will emerge there- rom without any effort at all. The meeting will be held; conducted upon a plane of order and deco- unknown to any "hoss trot" gathering. It will give the best element of the state an opportunity to see that which they never have keen: the sport of kings as it is conducted by gentlemen. "Native, and to the manor born," for one, I welcome the Innovation to old New Hampshire And' her cloud capped Granite hills. NATIVE.

PLEASE NOTICE "bet. -5. 1855, became sexton of the Uiiiversalist Church on Pleasant street, succeeding the late William Ilsley who held the position full forty years. Mr. Adams retired from this, sextonship in 1901, after forty-six years of continuous service, and during all that time never once missed placing the communion service, and only once did he fail to ring the bell of a Sunday and this by reason of illness.

Mr. Adams has continued to have the charge of the communion table up to the present time and thus for fifty-one years has not missed the setting of the Lord's table. In this sextonship covering five decades Mr. Adams witnessed many changes, and. especially notable in the calling undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns," of a concourse of worshippers who were leaders not only in the work of the church, but also conspicuous in municipal, business and social affairs.

Thus to his 'witness an almost entirely new generation came upon the scene to take the places of those who passedt their reward. While sexton Mr. Adams saw eleven ministers installed over this church, these being Revs. Patterson, Ambler, Bicknell. Van Cise, Hebbard, Grant, Gaskin, Fasher, Rose, Dickins and Leighton, Mr.

Adams became a member of" Piscataqua Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. on June 28, 1869, and Ih a past noble grand' therein, having passed the chairs on June 30, 1881.

For nearly fifty consecutive years he has been chaplain of this lodge. Can Mr. Adams' record, church lodge, be equalled by any one in New Hampshire? For Over Sixty Years JHK8.WlS8LOW'8 SOOTHISO STROP has been used for children teething. It sooths the child softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Pianrbcsm live cento ASBESTOS UNIQUE MINERAL When It Was First Mined, the Various Uses to Which It Is Put, and Other Information. The mineral unique Is asbestos.

Different from every other material in its occurrence, mining, and preparation for the market, it forms an entire study in itself. It was first mined about 100 years ago, chiefly interesting to the geologist and min- eralogiST, and of little or no commercial value. About 1868 it was first used commercially in the manufacture of roofing felt and cement. Early attempts to spin this fiber were unsuccessful, but the difficulties have now been overcome so that a single as- bestDS thread, weighing not more than one ounce per hundred yards, which has a pretty fair strength, may be made. In its spun state it is used largely as yarn for packing valves, for which use p( 4t jijap 'many" Care for that cold, if jou one.

which is probable. This is the time of year and the sort of weather when neglected colds are dangerous. It is the opinion of the Idle Observer that tree owners do not realize the importance of energetic action toward the removal of the brown-tail moth nests. The time is drawing very near the insects will have full power to rob the trees of their glory. The Summer visitors will find our gardens looking as if a conflagration had occurred, unless something is done very speedily.

Naturally, reflections will be cast on this community and the impression will go abroad that it is, at least, heedless and careless. There is still time, it is true, but the time is rapidly passing. It is a poor excuse that your neighbor is doing nothing and it is, therefore, of no avail for you to do your duty. The man who cares for his trees will have the satisfaction of shade about his home during the Summer, for the moths will not reach the trees again until late Autumn. notice that the Improvement Society has cleared the trees over which it has supervision and this should be an incentive for others to do all in their power.

It looks as If the Fitz John Porter statue would have to get along without a dedication. It has stood in Haven Park for nearly two years and to "unveil" it now 'would be a good deal like christening a battleship after it had been engaged in three or four sea fights. We may as well consider the statue dedicated and let it go at that. The news of the death of Wallace D. Lovell brings back to mind an interview which I had with him at The Rockingham three or four je'ars ago Mr.

Lovell at that time made the statement that Portsmouth was destined to be an electric railway center and there are indications that his prophecy is to come true Mr Lovell did not live to see the construction of the trolley line which he had planned between this city and Dovefr, but the road may be built some day. He also wished to build a line through the South End district to New Castle, but in this, as we all know, he was also disappointed. Cross are generally sick people, and nine times out of ten it's the stomach that's wrong. If the system is filled with imparities, if the digestion is poor, if the bowels are irregular, easy for disease to get a foothold. Reinforce and build up yoor health by taking DOME'SELlXffi the remedy for over three Restores appetite, digestion.

the blood ami all trora a disor st or tion, malaria, bilsousbe-i, on, of apprt.tr, catarrh of the tntesrnes, piles, etc. Mother's safeguard la the common disorders of c'uMhood. ditti gnfn orcanonalty gwtr'J againtt worms, ami if prfseitl u'tti tfifJA uttfidutS'iii. Dr.J. T.

CO Ao.r STA.Maine. Uw nw of yoor FIITJ- I int a worm -n i-or r.rfb?*^ri 1 had tlocujnnu Kliiey trouble lnl.ireA.on, all of vrben tuai worm was itlaurfaKrod Tree's Kljnr. TUre not medicine before to-day do of yocr Klucir. for did for wt-at roiy and in of relief otlvr fauHl t. very truly.

K. liUAGC. No Soli! by all 350, 500, J.cc. DR. J.

F. A AubUrn. Mo. K.wMu«4 IMJ 'Two In One" From now until tlie snows of another winter a "Cra- vcnctted" OVKRQOAT will be a luxurious necessity. These so-called answer every purpose of the TOP-COAT on sunny days, so no matter what the weather you can be properly and stylishly clad with one of these garments.

The prices? Well, they run from to HENRY PEYSER SON, "Selling the Togs of, the Period." vantages. Asbestos partments are as, bestos, or asbestos 'with, a core ol steel. With the steel wire core a three-quarter-inch rope carried nearly 2,000 pound 8 Without the core the thre3-amrter-inch rope carries ovei 300 pounds, and suffices for firemen's purposes. A gentleman of considerable prominence, has now been located in this city for several yars, asserts that Poitsmouth offers more attractions than any other city of its size he has ever visited. The gentleman has Hvc.i in towns from the Atlantic to the RocKy Mountains and of Portsmouth is, th'ercfpfe, oT'much We may fall'sliort i things, but it is undoubtedly true that our city does provide its people with much that makes life pleasant and interesting.

This fact should make us all the more anxious to better those condi- GRAND Sacrifice Sale OF Musical and Art NOW ON AT Canney's, 67 Congress St. Moral--Always take in Canney's Sales; it saves money. Grand Union Hotel From $1.00 Vf OnLn.4 ftattMi BAGGAGE2-FREE Mr. A. B.

Spinney, who for so many years was employed by Sheldon Brothers, wishes to announce that ho Is ready to do all kinds of upholstering and furniture repairing. Mattresses made over, at very reasonable prices. A fine line of simples for coverings of all kinds work, work. Will call for and deliver your No. 3 Pray St, A fow years ago a Ncwlngton farmer says he and his neighbors had their planted on the tecnth day of March.

There was but ono light enough to Injure the -which grown to the height of about three tncei. ON JUNE 18 The Militiamen Will Gather in Concord for Camp Duty At a meeting, held in Concord on Tuesday in the office of Adjutant General Ayling, Brig. Gon. Jason E. Tolles, Inspector George D.

Waldron ami' Col. William Tetley of the Second decided opening of tho ramp of that tho the Now Hampshire National Guard would take on June 18. The meeting was held principally for the purpose of taking aomo action relative to the applications re- Pleasures of Caracas. Yet Caracas is a charming place tc spend a vacation in. One never tires of watching the pack trains arriving with loads of coffee, cocoa, or marketing produce, or setting out with all manner of queer merchandise for the country estates.

Then there is the market, where one is sure to flnd soms new variety of fruit or vegetable, no matter how often he visits it. Even more interesting to me are the quaint houses, which seem so many centuries behind the times, and yet present sucli delightful vistas as one glances through their forbidding doorways And, of course, there are excursions to be made on every side; tramps across the valley among tho banana and sugar cane plantations, or up tlu hillside to see ft coffeo Nicholas. The colored physician not having been able to locate the malady and check It, a white physician was called. After looking at the patient a short while, the white doetor Inquired: "Did Dr. Jones take your temperature?" And the old colored nun tie tn- "Ah don't know, sah; Ah ain't missed no thin' man Magazine.

tions that aie not exactly should be. as they I would like to hear those friends who read this column more frequently than I do. Communications are welcome and little stories of the street and town, to borrow one of George Ade's old newspaper titles, will bo gladly received If readers would help me more, I might be able to publish tlie Idle Observer column less irregularity. There are many things and it is not always easy to find time to be idle and record the observations of unemployed moments. Those who have been kind enough to say that they enjoy these paragraphs ran help me a great deal, if they will.

Our Line For Spring Includes A Fine Assortment Of IK a Foreign and Domestic Suitings, in Plaiu and Fancy in all the Leading Sliades Clays aud Unfinished Wofe'teds, Cheviots, Vestings in Wool aad Silk Cotton aud Linen Duck MILITARY AND NAVAL TAILORING I CHARLES J. WOOD 5 Pleasant Street. FOR The man with the snowdrift yesterday certainly envied his luckier neighbor. A implc remedy. Neglect of a cold result in chronic throat trouble.

HM taiy HARDWOOD FLOORS Butcher's Wax Polish Johnson's Prepared Wax Jap-A-Lac Crocket's Preservative Dcvoc's Marble Floor Finish RIDER COTTON, 65 Market Street A I.