Bridgeton pioneer., 1901-04-11
He Has Had a Splendid Dose and
He Talks Over the Expert
ences of the Trouble.
THEN GIVES THE NEWS.
Big Lot of the Many Interesting Mat
ters That are Happening Over in
MilIville just Now-Some Of the
Things in Prospect.
. From Our Regular Correspondent.

MllVllIe, IN. D., April, 8, 1901.
Dear Pioneer :''-Cyrus has been
a victim of the grippe. l was loath to
succumb. 1 was willing to be laid by
the heels by anything but the grippe.
1t is such sneaking, treacherous dis
ease. 1t does not come boldly out and
straightway kill it's victims, but lets
them apparently recover and become
jubilant in convalescence and then
Deputies heart failure or Bright's
disease to come in and finish the
work. But when the physician stood
before me, looked me squarely in the
face and said, my dear Cyrus, you
have the grippe 70 What could I do but
believe. So I remarked, ''Well, doc
tor, you have wrestled with this mon
ster in all his varied phases, and from
the great volume of your experience
evolve me the simplest and least
nauseous remedy your skill has de-
vised. Quoth the doctor, "Cyrus,
you will take two grain quinine pill
and one ounce of the best whiskey you
can procure, three times daily, and
stay in the house. Now be it known
that Cyrus hates whiskey as he hates
Satan, and he bucked like a broncho
at the prescription. Then the dis
ciple of Esculapius bucked also, and
quoth he 80 Confound you, if 1 had
prescribed strychnia you would not
demur. If I wrote morphia, you
would be as meek as lamb. Why
cavort when l prescribe what will
reach you quicker than anything else
at my commando" So Cyrus blandly
apoligized, and sat calmly in the
shadow of his own vine and figtree,
and swallowed two grains of quinine
and one ounce of whiskey per diem,
thus lodging two doses. Now sin
gular to say the remedy proved effec-
tive. The grip retired. Whether Of
Tended at the fumes of the whiskey,
or disgusted with the bitterness of the
quinine I cannot say, but sure it is
that gradually the ache of bones and
chills of the spinal column relaxed,
and as I confined myself to the house,
was soon convalescent from the tenth
seizure of the grip my first attack
having been in 1891. Well, if there
was the least particle of virtue in the
whiskey, I was glad to have had
personal demonstration of the fact,
and am content to confine it's use to
extinguish the grippe. Fortunately
am too we'll along in years for it to
secure grip on me, which would be
worse than the disease for which it is
prescribed. Here endeth the essay of
Cyrus on the grip
There seems to be growing dis
position to throw water ON Col.
Pfeiffer, whose new water supply does
not seem to materialize with that
rapidity which was intimated at the
start to necessitate lively hustling. 1t
is evident that the main question now
is, does ex-senator Pfeiffer intend to
pipe to the music he set for the pro-
ject, or has he some other purpose in
the reservoir. Threats are made that
if he does not soon plug the exposed
districts, he will be plugged in Council.
If dared quote Sir Lucius O'Trigger,
I should say 1T is very pretty
quarrel as it stands. y
The churches of this city, especially
the First M. E., did themselves proud
with their musical programmes last
Sunday, and naturally the congrega-
tions were immense. am sorely
afraid that the great memories of the
day were somewhat obscured by the
dazzling music which saluted the ears
of the worshippers.
: The great event, to which the Ma
sonic fraternity of this city now looks
forward, is the banquet and enter
tainment, to be given by Richmond
chapter, No. %, r. A. M, ON Thurs
day evening, April 25th, in the hall of
the W. @. T. u. building. It will be
one of the most elaborate affairs ever
given in this city. The committee in
charge of the affair is companions J.
J. Dunham, George Reeves and
Charles Heintz, and that means big
time. Chairman Dunham has free
hand in the matter and no one knows
better how to use it, than this devoted
and energetic Mason.
The absorption of the Window Light
Works by the new corporation leads
to very desirable result. Some of
our skilled workmen and best citizens,
who have been working away from
Millville for several years, we under
stand will return to work here next
fire. Among them R. P. Chew and
J. H. Marshall. They are tip-top men