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The Meeker herald., 1905-11-25
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I Old WindmillS Rare
Especial Correspondence

While there are undoubtedly more
windmills in the United States than
In any country in the world, they are.
all Of them, very prosaic, very practi-
cal and essentially businesslike. For
the picturesque windmill we still have
to go to Europe.
But II one would see the windmill
that delights the eye of the painter,
who appreciates this accessory to a
landscape, which breaks the monotony
of the skyline, and seems like the
great almost human) giant Don
Quixote thought tiff one would see
these. he must not only to go Europe,
but he must go in haste.
In England. for instance, the wind
mill of ancient times is becoming rare.
Like the great saurians of prehistoric
times. it is approaching extinction.
Where there were formerly dozens of
windmills fluttering their sails in the
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Of their introduction does not satisfy
the appetite for success. The Oldest
mills, 1t is known. have not altered one
bit In shape for hundreds of years. as
is shown by an old wood cut dating
from the fourteenth century. 1.-The 'Ro-
nance of Alexander" from which
Strut derived much of his information
OF the ancient customs and games of
the olden times.
The old mills stand as they have
stood for countless years. and as othe:
mills did. now decayed into dust. ages
and ages ago. on mighty pivot of
wood. called now and called in the
fourteenth century the millpost. The
body of the mill is made of light
matchboards, each overlapping the
other, and the mill is turned on it,
pivot to suit the wind by lever
worked by hand, and often running at
the bottom end on a small wheel,
which makes track all around the
mill, the latter being turned much in
the same way as an old-fashioned ca
nal lock is opened and shut.
Like to an early English arch, only
fiatter, is the top of the mill in sec
tons. The horizontal twirl of the sails
is transferred into the vertical spin of
the axis, on which the stones are
fixed, by simple mechanical process.
and there are a pair of stones in each
story of the mill. The higher the mill
the more stones there is room for, and
the largest windmills in England are
in Norfolk, where the height of the
sails is in some cases 100 feet.
Back to Conqueror's Time.
So far back as the eleventh century,
the century in which William the Nor
man conquered England, there were
windmills in Britain. This is estat-
lished by records about disputed titles
to mills, and in the history of the bat
tie of Lewes, in old Sussex. in the
time of Henry III, it is shown that
there stood windmill on hill in the
it is recorded that the Kings brother,
Richard, Earl of Cornwall. took refuge
in windmill with some German mer-
cenaries, and defended himself there
against Simon de Montford, who on
that occasion beat Henry III.
Before the windmill was invented
the duty Of grinding the corn was de-
volved upon the women of a house.
hold. 1t was woman's duty from i'm
memorial times. not only in the east,
where it still holds, but in early Brit.
ain. For hours every day they were.
like slaves, compelled by custom to
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Influenced by Weather,

Southern Italians become morose.
and almost murderous. in long con-
tinued rain. 1t seems to bring all the
sonable as children. they are apt to
behave as if they thought it your
fault when you have much to do with
them Do not try to cheer them up.
1t will be useless till the heavens
clear and will only add to their re.
Observation-Disclosures
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Benefit Of ReIloIon,

II there is anything history teaches
It is this: That when a race or a civ
ilization becomes divorced from its re-
ligion, when skepticism succeeds faith
and paganism displaces a living belief.
then is the decline and fall of all the
works of progress impending. Neither
individual nor race has any more en-
during anchor than an impelling belief
In things hoped for. but not SEEM
Omaha World-Herald.
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Want to Help in the Making.

II guess" explained the young suI,
when expostulated with on her choos-
ing a struggling sutton. that marrying
a man who has got everything already
is something like buying ready made
dress. One loses all the fun of the
making"
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The Art Of Doing Nothing.

There is side of life for which
no preparation at all is made. No life
is or can be of unremitting work;
sooner or later every one has a day
of. and in nine cases out Of ten has
never been taught how to use 1t. In
the schools of our Utopia there will
be professors of the great art OF do
ing nothing. of Sitting on GATE
London Saturday Review.
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Although skins were never used for
wine in England. even when grape
Juice was fermented there, the leather
bottle or blackjack was one of the
earliest drinking vessels. 1t is cele-
brated in many old English ballads
and is rot an uncommon alehouse en-
blem at the present day.
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For Eternal Youth.

To remain ever young Danish from
your mind all thoughts of trouble and
sorrow. all ugly thoughts. Do not har-
Dor envy. Jealousy. revenge or malice.
In fact, try to love your neighbor as
yourself. You will find in holding
happy. healthful and helpful thoughts
that the lines and wrinkles will dis
appear and beauty will reign instead.
Exchange.
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London's Busy Streets.

patient observer on one of the
main roads near London counted the
vehicles passing to and from the me-
tropoiis between O'Clock in the morn
ing and at night. The results We're:
bicycles. 4,577; motor cars. 557; elnc-
trio street cars. 400: horse vehicles,
2o9; total, $3.50. According to these
figures the horse is rapidly being out
numbered
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breeze around London, there is now
only one-that on Wimbledon Com
mon. Formerly the English fens were
full of them for pumping purposes.
while Suffolk and Norfolk, once great
wheat-growing counties in Britain.
were studded with their familiar out
lines on every hilltop. They are con-
stantly to be met with in the find old
landscapes of Constable. Gainsborough
and Grove. And very stimulating feat
ures in the landscapes they were, not
only because of their size and the
pretty, jaunty little fiier-vanes. with
their floats painted blue and scarlet,
that turned the tops of the big tower
built brick mills automatically to trim
the sails to the wind as 1t shifted. but
because. too. Of the force and swift
motion and sense of power inspired by
Fearful Joy to Children.
When high, steady wind was blow.
ing the rush of the great arms. the
rattle of the louvres, the creaking of
the great pin that held on the sails.
the roar and crush and shake Of the
millstones inside, were exciting to the
ears even of grown-ups and source
of fearful joy to all children.
There were awful tales of bad boys
and girls-they called them bad,
though they were but mischievous-
who tried to touch the sails as they
swept by on their downward track.
and were whirled aloft by them; while
lit, 1oI ut
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Make Money Earn Profit.

Never hesitate to give up small
change for greater coin. Life, honor,
and riches in moderation: these are
the greater coin and are worth many
pennies. Keep this thought in readi-
ness. says an old philosopher, when
you lose anything external: what you
acquire in the place of it. If 1t be
worth more, never say. 4 have had q
loss"
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Peacock's feathers are said to bring
Ill luck The origin of this tradition is
interesting 1t is found in Palgrave's
work on central and east Arabia.
where the traveller says that. accord
ing to Mohammed tradition. the pea
cock opened the wicket of paradise to
admit the devil and received very
ample share of the devils own punish
ment,
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Another Millionaire. Chance.

We are told in a medical journal
that dress and diet have a great deal
to do with each other. THE less we
wear" is the startling advice given,
"the more we eat" Perhaps some
thing in the bathing costume style
would be best adapted to the purpose.
There is an opportunity for another
millionaire to give dinner to intro
6uce the idea.-The World.
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Peculiar Double Eua.

An egg with perfect yolk and con
tanning another egg about the size OF
a linnets egg. which also had good
shell and was perfect, has been laid
by hen belonging to Swindon
tradesman named Morse.-London
Chronicle.
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Fish In Chinese Canals.

The canals which form network
throughout great part of China
abound in fish. The ricefields. which
are irrigated with the water from
these canals, make ideal Matching
places for them.
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Hydraulics.

Its wonderful said Uncle Allen
Sparks. TO see what can be done with
water power these days. I know a
man over in the next county, the
stingiest man that ever lived, but his
wife can get anything she wants from
him by doing a little judicious weep.
ing"
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Between Man and Wife.

In married life sacrifices must be
forever going on II one would be hap
by. Strife and unrest are the chief
foes to ideal happiness. and. after
ALL there are few things, not matters
of conscience, which are worth dis.
putting between man and wife.
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Tradition About sneezlna.

According to tradition, sneezing was
the first sign of life in man. and to this
day people in cataleptic frances and
apparently dead usually indicate their
return to consciousness In the form
of sneeze.
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To Raise sunken Vessels.

An Italian engineer has invented
successful elevator for raising sunken
vessels. 1t consists of compressed air
chambers of canvas and wire. each
equal TO lifting capacity of sixty
tons. and it is possible to attach as
many of these as may be necessary.
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Giant Of Spider Family.

The giant Of the whole spider family
is the "hund" or dog" spider of NADIA
gascar. Its body weighs almost
pound and each OF its eight legs is
longer and larger in diameter than
the common cedar pencil.
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sneexino Affect. Prayers.

II Hindoo should chance to sneeze
while praying or making his additions
in the sacred river Gauges, he has to
begin again from the beginning. and
Is compelled to do 80 as often as a
sneeze may happen to interrupt again
his religious observances.
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Firm Has Strict Monopoly

The red cloth worn by the cardinals
of the Roman Catholic church has
for several centuries been made by a
German firm at Aix-la-Chapelle. The
manufacture of this material is said
to be carried out in peculiar and
secret way, known only to the firm.
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Good for tn. slesp..

The best exercise for the biceps is
to lie face downwards with the hands
spread on either side Of the head.
Keep the body rigid and force the
body upwards with the arms until the
arms are rigid.
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The gloomy predictions of the old
physicists that the sun must run out
of fuel in three million years is dis
credited. The modern physicists grant
it fifty million years.
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Plano Make. Girl. Nervous.

A Berlin doctor lays it down that
the piano should never be used by a
child under sixteen years of age. Out
Of 1000 girls who played before the
age of twelve he found 600 cases of
nervous diseases.
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Much benefit is to be derived from
simply contracting and relaxing the
muscles when either walking or sit.
ting down. The grip can be greatly
improved in this way.
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Double Vision,

Magistrate-Have l not seen yo1
twice under the influence of liquor?
Prisoner--Well. Judge. If you ~as
under its influence mebbe you did $40
me twice.
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Origin Of Beauty Phrase.

The first known, II not the original,
use of the phrase. Beauty is only
skin deep" occurs in Ralph Vennine's
"Orthodoxe Paradoxes." "All the
beauty of the world is but skin deep;
a sunne blast defaceth it."
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In 1909 SO fearfully hot was 1t In
Spain that the streets of Madrid and
other cities were deserted. while la
borers expired in the fields and the
vines were scorched and spoiled.
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Sea turtles are caught in very large
numbers on Ascension island. They
each weigh between 500 and 500
pounds, and so shillings is their av.
erage price.
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Note, In Insects, EIlaht.

The common housefy sounds the
note F in flying. This means that its
wings vibrate 1876 times in a second
The honey-bee sounds A, indicating
44O vibrations to the second.
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We owe the art of music printing
to Italy, musical notes having first
been impressed with movable metal
types in 1902 ny O.tavio Petrucci.
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Prefer STRUGGLING Man,

Nine.tenths of women would sooner
marry a man who IL bravely strug-
Cling to succeed than have a ready
made successful man.-Exchange.
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Holland is the one European coun-
try where coffee can be imported free
of duty.
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Only 66 per cent of the Russian
peasants who till the soil in the de-
partment of Moscow are able to keep
horses.
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Explorer Accorded Honor.

The first white man to set foo,
upon New Zealand was Capt. Cook
The country's first governor was Capt
Hobson.
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Greatest Bay in the World.

The Bay Of Bengal is the greatest
bay in the world. Measured in
straight line from the inclosing PENN.
sulas. its area is about 100000 square
miles.
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Powdered Goldfish for Flour.
Powdered Goldfish is sometimes used
in Iceland to make bread. in place OF
-four.
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Women and girls should never use
over two pounds in weight.
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mills, which are so well built that they
are likely to survive later than any
other. Next in age are the wooden
tower mills. In both Of these the
body of the mill Is fixture. and only
the cap with sail-pin and the sail re-
wolves, the turning being worked by
the guiding sails. a separate set, called
f1iers.
Inquiry into the origin Of windmiils
with any idea of arriving at the cate
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The Atlantic ocean contains an
area of about 100000 se,lare miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
sPALDING COUNCIL ELECTION.
Second Degree Administered to Glass
of Sixteen Candidates.

A largely attended meeting Of Spalding
Council, No. AT. knights of Columbus. was
held last evening in the temple on e street
northwest, when class of sixteen candi-
dates received the second degree. Grand
Knight Ralph was in the char, and the In
Quisitor for the occasion was Edward p.
Harrington. The latter IS tne Of the most
prominent members of The order in Tie Dis
trict of Columbia, and his SUCCESS in the
role Of inquisltor has been such that his
services have been demanded by q large
number of the councils.
At recent regular meeting Of the coun-
Gil the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
Grand knight, Joseph E. Ralph (re-elect-
ed); deputy knight, William s. Mccarthy
(re-elected); financial secretary Thomas x.
Gallaher recorder, Vincent A. Sheehy
chancellor George F. McAvoy; warden,
Joseph f. Marsden (re-elected); treasurer,
George T. Cox (re-elected); inside guard
William Davern (re-elected); outside guard
Sebastian L.. Philips (re-elected); lecturer
William p. Normoyle; trustees. James A.
McDevitt, John M. Henderson and Arthur
I. Clark; delegates to state council, Joseph
e. Ralph, w. A, johnson. William s. Nc
Carthy (alternate), and William Pl Nor
moyle (alternate); delegates to Washing
ton Chapter, X. OF c., Felix Mcclure and
Peter Paul Ffnnigan: trustees to X. of c.
Building Company, Thomas X. Gallaher
and James +. Michigan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
PREPARING FOR XMAS
Evergreens Of All Kinds to Be
Had in the Markets
BUYERS COME SLOWLY
LITTLE CHANGE IN THE PRICE OF
TURKEYS.
Plenty of Holiday Trimmings to Be
Had at Reasonable Cost-Butter,
Eggs and Fruit.

There were pine and cedar trees enough
ket this morning to give the place the ap-
pearance of a forest. All tina: was needed
to give the finishing touches was the APP
pearance of Santa Claus with his pack OF
toys. The red holly and other berries were
used with good effect to offset this. end
trees more than attractive. Holly Was
much more plentiful about he market this
morning than had been expected, large
shipments Of the Christmas decorations
having been received from distant points
In Virginia and North Carolina. There
were some big holly and cultivated pine
trees to be had but the prices asked for
them were beyond the rea ch OF most Of the
buyers. Some of the cultivated trees sold
for as high So, the choicest of the holly
trees brought twice this sum. Punches OF
holly were in greater demand than were
the trees, however, and the lunches that
were covered with berries founl ready sale
They were to be had at prices ranging from
8 to 90 cents, and .wrea.hs, :rosses and
other pieces constructed Of evergreens
found buyers. All day today additional
supplies came to the several markets and
stores, and it is thought, the supply Will
be so great that thousands of trees will!
remain unsold when the stores and mar
kets close tomorrow night. Seated among
the pine and cedar trees, the scores of old
colored women. making up their Christ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
Army Orders.

Second Lieuts Walter Fl. Smith, 18th
Cavalry; John B. Barnes. 18th Infantry. and
Edward G. McCleave, 10th Infantry. have
been ordered to examination for promotion
Contract Surgeon Joseph Pinquard has
been ordered to Fort Leavenworth. Kan,
for duty, relieving Contract Surgeon James
B. Hallwood, who has been ordered to his
home. in this city. to report to the surgeon
general of the army for the annulment OF
his contract
First Lieut. Louis Mel. Hamilton. 14th
Infantry, has been granted one months
extension Of leave Of absence.
The following named artillery omcers,
comprising the examining board at Fort
Monroe, Va, have been ordered from that
post to Fort Myer, Va, for the purpose OF
conducting the examination OF Second
Lieut.. James Prentice Artillery Corps, IN
such field artillery subjects as cannot Do
conducted at Fort Monroe, Va; MAJ.
Charles ]. Bailey, Capts. Harry F. Jackson
and Joseph P. Tracy, First Lieut.. William
H. Wilson and Second Lieut.. James Prem
tice.
Contract Surgeon George II. Jones has
been relieved from duty at Fort Fremont
s. c., and ordered to Fort Moultrie, 3. C.'
for duty.
Second Lieut.. Francis w. Honeycutt. Ar
tillery Corps, has been ordered to tempo.
rary duty at the United States Military
Academy, West Point, N. Y.
Capt Frank C. Jewell. Artillery Corps.
vacancy in the quartermasters department.
Capt William II. Monroe, Artillery Corps.
has been relieved from treatment at the
general hospital, Washington barracks, this
city, and ordered to return to his station
Capt Charles II. McKinstry, Corps OF En-
gineers has been ordered to examination
for promotion.
Capt George H Cameron 4tA Cavalry.
has been relieved from duty as secretary
of the School of Application for Cavalry
and Field Artillery and ordered to JOIN MS
regiment in the Philippines.
Second Lieut. William NJ. Graham, jr-,
18th Cavalry, has been ordered to the gen.
eral hospital at Washington barracks. in
this city, for observation and treatment.
BY direction OF the President, First Lieut..
Edward K. Massee, Ith Infantry, has been
detailed as a professor of military science
and tactics at the College of ST. Thomas,
ST. Paul. MINI.
Capt Basil II. butcher, assistant sur
geon, has been granted an extension OF
leave of absence to Include April II, 1906,
with permission to go abroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
LOCAL BANK CLERKS
ADDRESSES BY CHIEF WILKIE
AND COL. SAMPLE.

The Washington chapter of the American
Institute of Bank Clerks entertained Its
members and friends last evening at its
club rooms, 1914 f street northwest Nearly
one hundred were present, including many
prominent directors and bank officials or
local institutions.
Mr.. John r. Poole, president of the Wash
iigton chapter, presided, and addresses
were made by Chief John e. Wilkie of the
United States secret service bureau, and
by Col. James Sample of the currency. d.
vision, Treasury Department.
AMr. NWilkie prefaced his address-by dub
shop, and during the course of his remarks
he delighted his hearers with many STIR
ring incidents within his recolectionc In
the detection and prosecution of noted
criminals in counterfeit cases.
Mr.. Wilkie prefased his address by dub
hing the bank clerks as 1.-THE eyes of the
secret service in the detection of counter
feits." and expressed his delight at being
able to meet collectively so many members
OF the chapter The public, he declared
had the impression that the secret service
alone was responsible for the detection OF
these criminals. though the fact of the
matter was that the keen-eyed and quick
witted counters of the cash. in thousands
of banking houses throughout the country
ury Department relied for the detection OF
new specimens in spurious money.
Need of Cooperation.
He portrayed the need for cooperation
between the two branches of the service
the detectors of counterfeits and the de-
tectors of counterfeiters. The speaker re-
ferred to the salutary effect in this line
of the service of the agreement made some
fu1a on VA fsan
in the United States that all counterfens
discovered in deposits, or presented for in
spection. should be classed as worthless
Mr. Wilkie then spoke of the change In
methods of scounterfeiters. The expert. he
said with whom the bureau had to deal
two decades ago was master of the en-
craving tool, and certain individuality
was Impressed indeIibly upon the niate he
manipulated And 1t was further possible
to tell that a particular plate was engraved
by a particular individual. The speaker
said that while there were thousands Of
engraving establishments provided with the
necessary appliances. the members of the
photo-engraving craft were generally found
to be honest and above suspicion. One or
two cases, however, were referred to when
engravers used these facilities for criminal
purposes.
Col. James Sample was introduced. ana
spoke on United States Currency IT'S
Forms and Uses" Col Sample gave a most
legations into the different issues of cur
.rency in America. He urged the bank en-
spIoyes to avail themselves of the various
magazines and other literature relating to
partment-
Following the two addresses a brief
graphophone concert was given while the
members mingled together in good fellow
smoker win be given By the local chapter
The night q January & 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-22
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

THIRTEENTH AND B STREET SOUTH
EAST-Wa1ter e. Wright ct ux to
James w. French. lot 45. square 1887;
$40.
DOBBINS' ADDITION-Harry A. wag-
staff to Louis c. Miller. lot q. block u;
$40.
SECOND STREET NORTHEAST between
East Capitol and A streets-Edwin s..
Arnold ct ux. to Mary A. Arnold, lot
81. square 72s; $40.
NINTH STREET NORTHWEST between
and @ streets-Joseph r. Edison ct
al, trustees, to Washington Loan and
Trust Company, trustee for Equitable
Cooperative Building Association; part
lot s. square SN: 81. $50.
TWENTY-EECOND STREET AND NEW
PORT PLACE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
to same, lot 20 and part lot 10. square
60; $3.50.
Sixth STREET SOUTHWEST between I
and K streets Charles H. Parker ct ux.
TO Frederick G. Huth. part original lots
&c and ~; square 40 40.
cHICHNBTER hkhefine A. Talburtt to