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•ADIRONDACK" MURRAY
o Old Standby
/lew Dress
•—the same dependable remedy
more than
that over • f period
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filtv years haa
has MM Lund n
rellabls in the I treatment ot
catarrh and diseases ot catarrhal
nattire.
The outside of the
only has he*n alterad.
Itate packing and reduce break
age in shipping, the paper wrap
per which has identified the
Ft-ru-r.a bottle for many years
has been displaced by a substan
tial pasteboard carton,
o
Pe-ru-na cannot be made any
better.
Three geurratu<ns of
users testify that re-ru ns is the
best remedy in the world for
catarrh and diseases ot catarrhal
origin.
The remedy our fathers and
grandfathers used with so much
sslisfai ti.-n is still ths standby
for the ills of everyday in
thousands of American home*
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Old Farmtr Fumblegate
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FATHER Of THE
OUTDOOR RECREATION
MOVEMENT
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
1IE KANT baa but one na
tional park and that s
email ooe- Lafayette, on
the Island of Mount Des
ert off tbo coast of Maine
But It baa the Adlron
darks. Of Ila kind there
la bo better In all the
world. Many thousands of
city-weary Americana bare
motored through the
"Great North Woods" this summer;
other thousands are on their way at
tills moment. Many thousands have
had a Joyous summer In Its public and
private ramps and In resorts; other
tlwuaands are theca still. Last winter
thousands of the red blooded who
scorn to follow the summer and believe
that It takes Jack Frost to put the fin
lshtng touch to the mental, moral and
physical make-up of the efficient —
played In Its snow and on It* Ice;
thousands will be there •(■In next
winter
Republics may or may not be un
grateful.
They certainly • re often
forgetful. Read now the story of Rev.
William Henry Harrison Murray and
the Adirondack«
The Adirondack« lie In the northeast
corner of New York In the gTeat tri
angle formed by the Nt Mwrence and
the Canadian line. Lake* (Tiamptsln
and George, the Mohawk river and
Ixike Ontario.
History began early
•U around the Adirondack* Cham
plain ao far as hlatory records—was
the first white man to get eight of Its
mountains In IBM, wbeo lie dtocov
•red lurks Champlain.
Yet the Adirondack« long remained
an "Undiscovered Country." on Gov
ernor Pnmall's map of the British rob
on lea of 1778 this tract la Inscribed:
"This vast Tract of Mnd, which la
the Antlent Ouchaachrage. one of the
four Beaver Hunting Countlea of the
Six Nation* la not yet Surveyed"
After the Revolution most of the In
dlana of Nix Nations fled to Canada
Those who remsined were made harm
less The guard over the Adirondack«
was broken tYvtllxatlon grew rapidly
•II around the "Indian Reaver Hunt
ing Country." Yet for generation after
generation It lay unexplored.
The sjtorlsmen a ere the first to pen
etrats the wlldernesa of the "Crest
North Wood*" For ttiem It was a
'land flowing with milk and honey ”
Among them was Rev. W. II H. Mur
ray of Boston, who flrut went there In
1884 The sportsman la the gentleman
of outdoor« And the Boston minister
was all that and more, explorsr. na
tare-lover, naturalist, woodsman, rifle
man. canoeist, hunter, angler, orator,
author
Mr Murray waa a farmer'« boy and
■hvrrgK ¿MX
was born April 2B. IMO, st Gullford.
Conn
A sketch shows the Murray
homestead.
It still stands
It has
brvn occupied by ten generations of
the Murray* He worked Ida way
through Yale (ltW3) and • theological
seminary. After Alling several New
England pulpits, hla talents carried
him tn 1MN to ths l*ark Street Con
gregational church In Roeton. then one
of the most prominent In the country.
Mr Murray achieved nation wide
fame In hla Boston pulpit. Hla wr
mona were printed ail over the coun
try. Hla popularity waa equal to that
of Henry Ward Beecher Aa an orator
he ranked with Wendell Phillipa and
Numtier and Gough
In the spring of IMO Tick nor A
Fielda published his flrat book. "Ad
venture* In the Wilderness; or. Camp
Life In the Adirondack*" It created
a altuatioa that attracted nation wide
attention. Editors called the book "a
monstrous hoax." Cartoonists handled
the young author without glove*
Noted divines declared that "be bad
disgraced bls high elation by thus
practicing upon the people, especially
the weekly and the sick, a cruel Joke*
Those who believed and started fur
the Adirondack« were ridiculed aa
"Murray's Fool*"
The "Murray Rush" of "Murray's
Fools' for the Adirondack« began In
the early summer. Thousands swamped
•very possible accommodation of the
wlldernesa; thousands had to turn
bsefc. Those who got In returned to
report tbs book
telling only half
the truth. Ths rush continued aeesoa
after season It waa the beginning of
the «mormons attendance of today,
If success like Murray's can be
reckoned In dollars, here are the fig
tires
lle waa receiving a salary and
perquisites of almost 92D.00D. He was
earning an additional 110,000 on the
lecture platform.
Ills royalties on
"Adventures In the Wlldemees' up to
the time of hla death (1904) amounted
to mooo.
Hocially Mr. Murray waa l)ua.
faed. Emerson. Longfellow. Whittier.
Ilolmee. Hnwtborne. Halleck. Agaaal*
J’rescott. Beecher. Phillipa and Fields
were hla person*! friends and Inti
mate* Phillipa said of his book
'It
has kindled a thousand campfires sod
taught a thousand pens how to write
of nature" At a public dinner given
In hla honor Emerson challenged him
to writ« a truly great book. which
should net contain a female character
Murray'« answer to the challenge waa
'Adirondack Ta lee"—Including "Tl»e
Ntory the Keg Told Me" and "The Man
Who Didn’t Know Much"
At thirty four Murray retired from
the pulpit (1874) and for seven years
traveled all over the world. He then
resumed lecturing and reading from
hla published wort*
He was tre
mendously popular. Hs read. "Ilow
John Norton the Trapper Kept Christ
mas" before more than 300 audience*
Murray spent bls isst twelve years
on the Gullford homestead, cultivating
Ida farm land* privately educating bls
four daughters, writing and revising
bls many published works
March 3.
IBM. he died in th* very room In
which he had been born <M year* tie
fore Much of the old homestead has
been kept just as he left It—open
fireplace, book* writing table, guns
over the open fireplace Under a glam
buttonball tree close by tbs house rest
the remains of "Adirondack" Murray
"Father of the Out of I more Ides In
the United State«.’
The "Empire Stale" awakened In
time te the Importance of the Adlron
dark* In 1M*2 It established Adlron
dark park, which Includes all of Ham
llton county and adjacent parts of
Eases. Franklin. Nt. Mwrrnee, War
ran and Herkimer counties. It eon
tains about fl.RI3.iMM) acre* of which
the stats own* about 1.412.000 acre*
Then there I* ths Adirondack Preserve
Tills Is th* general title of land* owned
by the state for the purpose of con
■erring the foreata and water supply.
The Adirondack« contain virgin hard
wood foreets. more than 1.000 lake*,
kept well stocked with game fish and
* network of streams
Ths moon
talnoua aertlon culminates tn Essex
county- Mt Marcy's (A844 feet) Is
the highest elevation In the state. In
thia mountain region are Lake Placid,
the Upper and Ixiwer Naranar lake*
•nd other popular resort*. To the
south and west la a plateau of from
l.fiOO te 1.NU0 feet, dotted with many
lake*
It does not seem possible that this
man could have been forgotten, Yet
so It I* Only the few know of him
either • • preacher, lecturer or sport«-
tnan
Even hla books— though first
edition* of aewral are mid to be worth
their weight In gold are out of print.
Ask for yourself and see how many
know ths character "John Norton, the
Trapper" whom he create-1 Yet there
are people who think that In compari
son Cooper's "Natty Bumpo" la ■
clothlng-atore dummy. It la apparent
• y only In the Adirondack! that the
memory of Rev. W. H. H. Murray
Ilves In his feats sf Woodcraft and
•portamanahip.
“I’ve been reading In the paper
•bout a good deal of regret being fell
for the passing of Mbsnley'a restaurant
In New York." said Panner Funter
"What do you s'pose there was about
It that would make people ao sorry
that It was going to be toru diiwnf
"Wail, I’ll tell you. Adrian. If you
won't let It go any farther." replied
Farmer Fumblegate. "I guess II was
something like a restaurant I used to
drop Into when I was up In Kay Nee
They had a plump little red beaded
waitress that would come ■ im ! eet on
tbs corner of your table, •nd—"
"After ahe had got well acquainted
with you, o' courseF
"Yes. or before! and awing her feet
•nd J>>sh you till you gsve her a go«»!
deal bigger tip than you bad Intended
to" hausss (Uy Star
Champion NotH-Maktr
’Your eon haa a fine voice!’
Yea
Ile arila new »;•«;>» r» ou!aide
the of>era house."
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HOSTETTER’S
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ERUPTIONS
unMfhtly
annoying
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proved by < mm appfeatMm
Hi» Buiintu Six«
Two of hla friends were discussing
nick, as friends will, “I beer.’ re-
marked one, "that Dirt la doing a big
business."
There was a alienee, ■■
there often la under auch circum-
stances "Well, Isn't he?" persisted the W. N. U.. San Francisco. No 19-19.'».
first friend. There was another alienee
•nd then the *ec«ud friend replied:
The Reaeon Why
"A big business? I'd hardly say tint,
Mrs O'Nsgg What are you driving
but he's doing a near mahogany d<-*k the ear ao fast fori
also business"
Mr O'Nsgg—You want to go to
Bluffport, don't y<»u?
/n th» Fathion
Mra. O'Nsgg Yes. of course.
“They any abe'a a alive to fashion"
Mr O'Nsgg Well, I ■ ti> trying to
"Well, her burden la light enough, get there before you change your
goodness kunwa
mind.
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