Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-03-15
Rothschild and Waterloo.


Rothschilds greatest achievement in
overreacbing distance and his fellow spec
ulators was in 1915. He was near the
Chateau de Hougoumont on the 18th Of
June, watching, as eagerly as the leaders,
Bonaperte and Wellington themselves, the
progress of the battle of Waterloo. AL
day long he followed the fighting with
strained eyes, knowing that on its issue
depended its welfare as well as Europe's.
At sunset he saw that the victory was
with Wellington and the Allies. Then,
without moments delay, he mounted
horse that had been kept in. readiness for
him, and hurried homeward. Everywhere
on his road fresh horses or carriages were
in waiting to help him, over the ground
Riding or driving all night, he reached
Ostend at daybreak, to- find the sea so
stormy that the boatmen, refused to trust
themselves TO it. At last he prevailed
upon fisherman to make the venture for
reward of $50. In that way he man
aged to reach Dover. At Dover, and at
the intermediate stages on the road TO
London, other horses were i'm waiting, and
he was in London before midnight Next
morning, the morning Of the 20ih Of June,
he was one of The first to enter the Stock
exchangA. In gloomy whisper he told
those who crowded around him for news,
that Blucher and bis Prussians had been
routed by Napoleon before Wellington had
been able to reach the field that by him.
self he could not possibly succeed, and
therefore, the cause Of England and her
allies was lost.
The funds fell, as they were meant to
fall. Every one was anxious to sell, and
Ro hschild and his accredited agents
scoffed at all who brought them scrip for
purchase. But scores of unknown agents
were at work all that day and the next.
Before the Stock Exchange closed on the
afternoon Of the second day, when Nathan
Rothschild's strong boxes were full Of pa
per, he announced, an hour before the
news came through other channels, the
real issue of the contest. Very soon the
funds were higher than they had been
during many previous weeks and Roths-
childs found that he had made something
like million pounds by his travelling ard
clever Misrepresentation. Other millions
were collected, rather more slowly, by
other transactions of like nature.
A Few WORDS TO FATHER.-Take
your son for companion whenever you
conveniently can it will relieve the al
ready overburdened anxious mother of 20
much care. 1t will crafty the boy it will
please the mother; il certainly ought to
be pleasure to you. What mothers eve
would not brighten when her child is
kindly cared for? And when his heart
beats, and his tongue prattles faster and
faster with the idea of going with father"
does she not share her little boys happiness
and is not her love deepened by his hus-
bands consideration, SO just, and yet too
often so extraordinary? 1t will keep him
and you out of places, society and temp
tations into which separately you might
enter. 1t will give you abundant and
very favorable opportunities to impart in
struction, to infuse and cultivate noble
principles, and TO develop and strengthen
true manhood. 1t will enable him to
"see the world" and to enjoy certain lib
erty which may prevent future licentious-
ness which SO often results from a sudden
freedom from long restraint.
A BEAUTIFUL LEGEND.-Jesus and
two or three of his disciples went one day
from Jerusalem to Jericho. Peter-the
ardent and eager Peter-was as usual, by
the Teachers side. On the road 10 Olivet
lay horse shoe, which the teacher desired
Peter to pick up, but which Peter let lie,
as he did not think it worth STOPPING for.
The teacher stopped for it and exchanged
it in the village for measure of cherries.
These cherries he carried-as Eastern
men do carry such things, in the bosom
of his dress.
When they began TO ascend the ridge,
and the road lay between heated rocks
and over Jagged stones, and among glarius
white dust, Peter became tormented with
heat and thirst, and fell behind. Then
the teacher dropped ripe cherry a every
few steps, and Peter eagerly stopped for
them. When they were all gone Jesus
returned to him and said with smile:
. He who is above STOPPING to smaIl
thing will have to bend his back to many
lesser things.