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THE RTJRAL> NEW-YORKER 
December 9, 
NEWS FROM ALBANY. 
The Socialist Member. —For the first 
time in its history the Assembly will have a 
representative of the Socialist party. He 
is Herbert M. Merrill, of Schenectady, and 
succeeds John C. Myers, a Democratic farm¬ 
er, but who was not a candidate for re-elec¬ 
tion. It is interesting to know that Mr. 
Merrill, now an armature winder in the em¬ 
ploy of the General Electric Co. was raised 
a farmer and is at this moment a member 
of Plymouth (N. II.) Grange. The new 
member is just about as typical an Amer¬ 
ican as can be anywhere found. He was 
born at Compton, N. H., September 13, 1871, 
of Turitan ancestry, his paternal ancestor 
having landed in Newbury, Mass., in 1635, 
and his maternal ancestor reached the 
shores of New England in 1632. Mr. Mer¬ 
rill never voted either a Republican or 
Democratic ticket, his first ballot being 
cast for the Populist candidate for Presi¬ 
dent. Mr. Merrill will be a free-lance in 
the Assembly at the coming session, and 
while he will endeavor to advance the in¬ 
terests of the working classes in every way 
possible, he will be found steadily upon the 
right side of all legislation offered in the 
interest of the agriculturist. When told 
the history of the Collin bills at the last 
session he expressed his indignation at the 
treatment accorded them, stating that he 
was fully cognizant of the wrongs the farm¬ 
ers suffered at the hands of the commission 
men. Mr. Merrill's plurality was 316 votes 
above his Republican and Democratic com¬ 
petitors. 
The New Boxing Law. —There is no 
doubt but that Governor Dix will seek to 
have the Frawley boxing law repeated at 
the forthcoming session. It was a great 
mistake, in the first instance, to place such 
a law upon the statute books, and the Gov¬ 
ernor was evidently grossly misled and de¬ 
ceived to secure his approval of the bill, 
lie believed that the boxing game in this 
State needed regulation and control and 
trusted that the Frawley bill would rem¬ 
edy the abuses to which the sport was sub¬ 
jected. But the law, instead of legalizing 
amateur boxing, seems to actually condone 
prize fighting and has been taken advantage 
of by promoters of the lowest class as a 
means of personal profit. 
State Excise Receipts. —State Commis¬ 
sioner of Excise W. W. Farley has completed 
the returns of receipts from the renewals 
of licenses for the sale of intoxicants. Oc¬ 
tober is the month in which all renewals 
must be made, and Commissioner Farley re¬ 
ports that the vast sum of §17,184.560.64 
came from this source. Compared with the 
receipts of October, 1910, there is a de¬ 
crease of $218,854, or .0128 per cent.—303 
fewer licensed places this year than last. 
The “agriculture” counties—53 in number— 
paid the tidy sum of $3,028,180 for the 
privilege of retailing drinks to the thirsty 
agriculturists (?), while counties of Albany, 
Erie, Kings, Monroe, New York, Onondaga, 
Queens and Westchester, all having large 
urban populations, made up the balance of 
$14,156,380. The State’s share was one-half 
of the gross amount collected, and the 
friends of the liquor traffic are always loudly 
proclaiming that this amount is largely 
spent for educating our children. 
Bee Tree Law. —A resident of Orleans 
County recently addressed the State Con¬ 
servation Commission asking information as 
to the “facts of this so-called bee tree law- 
in regard to cutting trees and taking honey 
on property of other people without their 
consent,” and also stated he could find 
nothing in the game law pamphlet concern¬ 
ing it. The attorney of the Commission 
answered, “You are right, as bees have never 
been considered ‘game’ by the Legislature 
and as no license is required to hunt them, 
tlie game laws are naturally silent on the 
subject. However, if you find a ‘bee tree’ 
upon the lands of your neighbor you must 
be careful to get his consent before cutting 
down the tree and removing either the 
honey or the bees. Otherwise, you might 
get ‘stung’ in an action for trespass. Of 
course, if the bees belong to you and swarm 
from your hives and you can identify them 
in the trees of your neighbor, they do not 
belong to him but to you, who had the 
former possession; but the decisions are 
silent as to how far you could go in damag¬ 
ing his property iu order to reclaim the 
bees.” 
The Next Assembly. —From the returns 
already received, which are nearly complete, 
it appears that the agricultural interests of 
the State will be represented by but 12 
farmers in the Assembly of 1912. as against 
13 in the present body. It is well to note, 
however, that of these 12, two are million¬ 
aires as well as farmers, and that strictly 
agricultural problems do not press so closely 
upon them as upon the average tiller of the 
soil. The farmers elected are Walter A. 
Sbepardson. R., of Chenango; Theodore D. 
Robinson, R. (Col. Roosevelt's nephew), of 
Herkimer; Jared W. Hopkins, R„ of Mon¬ 
roe ; Thomas B. Wilson, R., of Ontario; 
Frank A. Waters, R., of Orleans; Frank L. 
Seaker, R., of St. Lawrence; Samuel C. War¬ 
ing, R., of Second District, Ulster; Henry 
E. H. Brereton, R., of Warren; James S. 
Parker, R., of Washington; Albert Yeo¬ 
mans, R., of Wayne; Edward C. Gillett. R., 
of Yates; Henry E. Machold, R., of Jeffer¬ 
son. Last session there were 58 lawyers 
and one law student in the Assembly; next 
session will see the same number of lawyers 
and two law students in that body—a gain 
of one for the law. One clergyman will 
sit as member, Rev. Julius Lincoln, of Chau¬ 
tauqua ; but he was here last session. There 
will be but two editors this coming Winter 
where there were four in the past. The 
medical fraternity gains one member, but 
the druggists lose a like number. Real 
estate and insurance will have 16 men dur¬ 
ing 1912, where there were 17 in 1911. 
And the same switchman, Jackson, is re¬ 
turned from Erie County; it is getting to 
be a habit with him, for 1912 will be his 
fifth session. There will be a printer, a 
piano maker, a cigar-maker, a dozen mer¬ 
chants, a plumber, several “managers” (of 
what?), a hatter, a coal dealer and a 
butcher; several contractors, but the law¬ 
yers exceed all other trades and profes¬ 
sions. 
Gathering Fish Eggs. —The season for 
gathering fish eggs at the hatcheries of the 
State usually ends with the first week of 
December. The weather conditions during 
November, which is the season for the gath¬ 
ering, were not at all favorable, still the 
results were not so bad and it is estimated 
that a total of 12,000.000 eggs of brook 
trout, whitefish, frost fish and lake trout 
has been secured and that these will insure 
the people of the State a large increase of 
the supply for restocking the public waters 
of New York. 
Election Expenses. —Political organiza¬ 
tions, under the law. must file with the Sec¬ 
retary of State detailed statements of their 
receipts and disbursements, and such state¬ 
ments were received at the capitol up to 
Thanksgiving Day. The total of these re¬ 
ceipts and expenditures is something enor¬ 
mous, and it is very doubtful if all the 
funds used on election day are reported. 
The Republican State Committee reported 
receipts of $116,0S0 and disbursements of 
$110,698, and beside this the committee has 
liabilities of $44,010. The Democratic State 
Committee spent $31,019 and had a bal¬ 
ance over of $4,334. The New York Dem¬ 
ocratic County Committee spent $78,000, 
while the Republican New York County 
Committee used $50,000 less than that sum. 
The Socialist party expended in Schenectady 
County the sum of $1,042, and was suc¬ 
cessful at that. It has been estimated that 
for every one of the votes cast by Demo¬ 
crats and Fusionist in New York City 42 
cents was expended, and this outside of the 
personal disbursements of candidates. 
The Tramp Problem. —Superintendent 
Brace, of the Children’s Aid Society, says 
that poverty has increased in New York 
in the last year. He says: “The older 
boys offer the most serious problem, since 
many of them are on the verge of vagrancy. 
* * * During the year 8,125 homeless 
boys sought shelter in our working boys' 
homes, the largest number in many years.” 
The cities are the places where the forces 
of trampdom are recruited, and New Y'ork 
State has none too soon decided to pay 
more attention to the tramp problem. Coun¬ 
ty jails and village lockups have been proven 
entirely powerless to correct in any measure 
the flowing on and on of the tide of these 
homeless ones, but now it would appear 
that an effort in the right direction is to 
be attempted. Secretary Hibbard, of the 
State Board of Charities, and a few other 
prominent men at the last session of the 
legislature secured the enactment of a law 
organizing a State farm and industrial 
colony for tramps and vagrants, to be lo¬ 
cated upon some of theState’s vacant lands, 
if possible, where may be put in operation 
plans designed to assist the temporarily de¬ 
pendent and discouraged man, and at the 
same time to take vigorous hold of the 
professional tramp and compel him to “earn 
his board and keep,” in place of wandering 
about the country during the sunny months, 
scaring farmers’ wives and daughters, and 
panhandling in the cities during the Win¬ 
ter. Governor Dix has just announced the 
names of the men he has selected as man¬ 
agers of the new institution. They are: 
Samuel Untermyer, Charities Commissioner 
M. J. Drummond. John G. O'Keefe and Or¬ 
lando Lewis of New York City; George F. 
Warren, of Cornell University. Frederick 
Almy of Buffalo and Joseph Beal of Oneida. 
C. 
THERE IS 
Fth 
absolutely 
no word to express 
the efficacy of 
Scott’s 
Emulsion 
in the treatment 
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COUGHS, COLDS 
BRONCHITIS 
CATARRH, GRIPPE 
AND 
RHEUMATISM 
ALL DRUGGISTS 
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HARD 
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yV Ml I ■ of Building Materials or 
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If they can get out even they will be satisfied. 
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Gigantic Manufacturers' Sale—Over $500,000 
Worth of Merchandise at Less Than Half Price 
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and labor. You pay less than one-half the dealer’s price. 
Some of these goods we sell as low as 30c on the dollar. 
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More Than 2,000 Bargains 
Imagine a gigantic sale of over two thousand spe¬ 
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Prices Literally Slaughtered 
Here are a few samples of the 2,000 bargains 
offered at this big sale: Famous Buffalo House Paint, 
$1.06 per gallon; Famous Buffalo Bam Paint, 78c per 
gallon; Rubber Roofing, remnants. 63c per square; 
Complete $1A25 
Bed Outfit III— 
How’s this? A benutiful en- 
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inches, post 11-16 inches in 
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Buffalo Improved Wall BoaVd, $2.32 per 100 feet; Two 
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Iron, $2.98; Roll Top Desk, 36 inches long, 30 inches 
deep, 43 inches high, $11.75; Base Burners, with Nickel 
Plated Trimmings, $24.75; Gas Heaters, will heat 4,500 
cubic feet in zero weather, $4.98; Solid Osk Round Din¬ 
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Dresser, made of Solid Oak, size of base 19x36, with 
French Bevel Mirror 12x20, $5.25; Buffalo Leather 
Turkish Rocker, 41 inches high, beautifully tufted, $7.75; 
Buffalo Roller Bearer Washer, $5_35. Milkaock and 
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House Paint, 
Genuine Buffalo, 
Ready Mixed, Guar, 
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§ er gallon in 5-gailou canal 
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look most at- - 
tractive. " I 
Barn Paint, 78c ^ 
Best Ready- 
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Paint only 78c 
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fast. Write today. 
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