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, 1872-03-07
Macaulay on American lnsti-
tions.

The following Letter belongs to an oc-
casional correspondence, of some years
standing, between Lord Macaulay and
Hon. Henry 8. RAndall, of New York,
author Of the Life Of Jefferson
HooLx LoDoF, Kensington, I
Nay -, 1857.
Henry s. Randall S1R:-You
are surprised to learn taat have not o
high opinion Of Mr.. jefferson, and I am
surprised 1t your surprise. am GER
tain that never wrote line, and that
I newer. in Pa. .tiament, in conversation,
OF even on tle hustings-a place where
It is the fs .shion to court the populace-
stterine word indicating IN opinion
that tb g supreme. authority in State
ouGbs 70 be entrusted to the majority Of
cit .zens told by the head; in other words,
70 the poorest and most ignorant part @
:, society. I have long been CON, ,,nce,
that institutions purely democratic must
sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civil
sation. or both.
In Europe, where the population i,
dense, the effect Of such Institution.
would be almost instantaneous. WIZ,
happened;lately in France is an ex.mnle.
In ls4s a pure Democracy was estab.
..s.. -eo 'nefei curing short time there
was reASon to expecta general spoliation,
a national bankruptcy. new partition
Of the soil. maximum of prices, a ruin
GUS load of taxation laid on the rich for
the purpose Of supporting the poor in
idleness. Surh asystem would in twen-
ty years have made France as poor and
barbarous rs France of the Carioving-
ians. Happily the danger was averted,
and now there is a despotism, silent
tribnne. an enslaved press. Liberty is
goss, bat civilization has been saved.
I have not the smallest doubt that, if
we had a purely democratic government
here, the effect would be the sane.
Either the poor would plumber TIE rich,
and civilization would perish, or crder
and psopesty would be saved hy strong
military government, and liberty would
perish. r.
You may think that ycae country en-
|joys N exemption from these evils. I
, 1872-03-07

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, 1872-03-07
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ms 'the country about the great hills"
Rhode Island-This name was adopt
ep in 1910 from the Island of Rhodes,
in the Mediterranean, because of its re.
semblance to that island.
Connecticut-This Is the English Or
biography of the Indian word Qron-eh-
ta-cut, which signifies 'the long river"
New York-.Named by the Duke of
York, under color of the title given him
by the English crown in 1864.
New Jersey-So called in honor Of Sir
George Carteret, who was Governor Of
the Island of Jersey in the British Chan
mel.
Pennsylvania-From William Penn,
the founder Of tho colony, meaning
"Penn's woods"
Delaware--In homer of Thomas West,
Lord Ware, who visited the bay,
and died there, in 1910.
Maryland-After Henrietta Maria,
Queen of Charles l., of England.
Virginia-So called in honor of Queen
Elizabeth, the virgin Queen in whose
reign Sir Walter Raleigh made the first
attempt to oolonize that region.
North and South Carolina were orig
inally in one tract called ''Carolana."
after Charles *, of France, in 1904
Subsequently, in 1865. the name was al.
tered to Carolina.
Georgia--so called in honor of George
H., of England, who established a colo
ny in that region in 1882.
Florida-Ponce de Leon, who diacov-
cred this portion of North America in
1915, named it Floriday in commemora-
ton of the day he landed there, which
was the Pasquas de Flores of the Spani-
ards, or ''Feast of Flowers" otherwise
known as Easter Sunday.
Alahama-Formerly portion of Mis-
sissippi Territory. admitted into the
Union as State in 1910. The name is
of indian origin. signifying "Here we
rest"
Mississippi-Formerly a portion Of
the province of Louisiana. So named
in 1900 from the great river on the west
ern line. The term is of Indian origin,
meaning ''long river"
Louisiana Louia XIV, Of
France, who for same time prior to 1763
owned the territory.
Arkansas-From Kansas" the In
dian word for ''smoky water. which the
French prefix, faro, bow.
Tennessee-Indian for ''the river Of
the big bend" i. e., the Mississippi,
which is its western boundry.
Kentucky-Indfan for ''at the head
of the river"
Ohio-From the Indian. meaning
"beautiful. Previously applied to the
river which traverses greater part of
its borders.
Michigan Previously applied to tho
lake, the Indian name for a fsh-weir>
So called from the fancied resemblance
of the lake to fish-trap.
Indiana@So called in 1902 from the
American Indians.
Illinois-From the Indian ''illini, ''
men, and the French suffix ''ois. te
lgether signifying "tribe of men,"
Wisconsin-Indian terri
rushing channel" .or a sw;l
Missouri
great named in 1871 from ii
,ranch Of the Mississippi whit
Aows thrrugh it. 1rdian term, meanil
er muddy"
le Iowa--From the Indian, signifyil
H. -:the drowsy ones"
vi Minnesota Indian for nclou
70 water"
California The name given by Cort
tn, discoverer of that region. He D,
vi sbly obtained it from an old Span;
iomance. in which an imaginary s.la
of that name is described as AAoundi
in gold.
. ,. Oregon-According te some, from.
" Indian oregon. ''river of the west
. Others consider it derived from I
Spanish ''oregano." wild marjoral
% which grows abundantly on. the Paci
III coast.
, 1872-03-07

In France the manufacture ofmatchea
sustains $4,000 workmen. and 1900,
600 of frances are invested in the bus>
i.ess.
, 1872-03-07
IRVING BALLARD.
attorney d Counselor at La,c,
SteflacOOm, w. T.
McNAUCHT 4 LEARY.
SEATTLE, w. T.
Real Estate and Tax Agents,
REAL ESTATE bought and sold.
LOANS negotiated.
CLAIMS collected.

FOR SALE.
LOTS IN CITY OF SEATTLE, i'm
proved and unimproved.
Also, LANDS in King. Kitsap, Sno-
homish and Island Counties.
Tracts at HOLMES HARBOR. CA
MAN0 ISLAND, MUKILTEO, PORT
TOWNSEND. PORT DISCOVERY,
NISQUALLY. etc. etc.
Also, several Bottom Land FARMS,
under cultivation, on the White, Black.
Cedar, and Duwamish Rivers.
AGENTS Remington and Osgood.
New York /; Benjamin Flint, San Jose,
California, etc. etc.
NICNAUGHT & LEARY.
JAMES McNAUGHr,
JOHN LEARY,
Seattle, W. T. Aug. %, 1871. 15tf.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

SOCIAL NUIsANCEs.--There are MANY
thoughtless men who have bad trick
of punching their acquaintances in their
sides, slapping them upon the shoulders,
holding them by the hand with a vice
like, (vicious) grip, or staring them
fiercely in the face at SO short distance
that perceptible spray is felt. Over
grown boobies are often seen grasping
their friends by the arm in order to show
their strength, a quality in which Chin
panzee is more than their equal and a
gorilla greatly their superior. Good
tempered men endure these Affections as
patiently as they can, but take good care
to avoid such bores ON all subsequent oc-
casions. All sensible men can under.
stand what is said to them without any
humping or drumming on their chests.
This personal familiarity is extremely
uncomfortable to the victim, and a gross
violation of all the principles Of good
taste. Serious results do not often occur,
yet such excessive familiarity often leads
t. quarrels. A case is reported in a
Western city in which well known con-
tractor was met by friend, who, in a
spirit of pleasantly, took hold of his left
arm above the elbow, and grasped it pow
erfully. The artery was injured, and a
cancer formed. Every effort was made
to remove the parasitic growth, but with
out success, and finally it became neces-
sary to amputate his arm at the shoul-
der. e
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

A GooD JOKE ON REPoRTER.-A
night or two since Officer Corliss went
into the Preble House about midnight
and threw down his overcoaL and his
handouts. Shortly after he came oul
uut forgot the latter. An en- ,erprising
reporter who was anxi Jus to know how
it was himself put his hands inside the
aforesaid handouts, and before ne knew
1t they we're tightly clasped around his
wrists. They went on easily enough, but
it was rather more difficult to get them
off. Thinking that the officer named
would come back in short time, he KEPT
his courage up and was rather jovial
over the affair, but as the night wore on
he became uneasy and auxiously sought
some one who could release him, but all
in vain. About seven o'clock the next
morning he presented himself at the sta
ton looking like an escaped convict,
with his hands securely fastened. There
he found Officer Corliss and was liberat-
ed. He will probably let handcuff.
alone for the future. -Aduertiser.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

HE PRESSURE CURE.-The following
from the Chicago Republican, is not a
medical puff in disguise:
Mr.. Alexander Simpson, of Towanda,
is dead. He was bilious, Mr.. Alexan-
der Simpson was, and he saw the follow
ing paragraph from the pen of DR.. Hall /.
IF bilious man wants to get well, and
is in no special hurry, all he has to do is
to lie down out of doors between two
broad boards, and stay there till he gets
ravenously hungry" Mr.. Simpson fol-
lowed this advice, and calmly fell to
sleep with board on top of him. I'm
der ordinary circumstances there would
have been no trouble but there was a
Fat Mans ball in the lager beer saloon
next door that day, and the two champi
on fat meu got over the fence, and sat
down with a jerk on top of Mr.. Alexan-
der Simpsons upper board without
knowing he was there. 1t Itsquelched the
breath him out of him at the first blow.
And the fat men, you understand they
sat there and sat there, and discuss d
politics, and the Alabama claims, and
the legal tender act, and the weather.
and woman's rights, and the Harrison
boiler, and metaphysics, and kept on
drinking glass after glass of beer, and
getting heavier and heavier, until one of
them happened to look under the board
and there was Alexander Simpson, as
dead as Nebuchadnezzar. and mashed
out so thin that you could pass him un-
der closed door without scra ping his
vest buttons2 He does not suffer from
bile now. But does anybo know
where DIR. Hall lives? Because Mrs.
Simpson is making inquiries, and she is
anxious to snatch few silver hairs from
his brow. and to necessitate the purchase
of patent glass eye.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

How ONE LEAP-YEAR JOKE TURNED
our'-Ihere was nice little party, the
other night, at the residence of one of
the most respectable families in South St.
Joseph, Mo-, and while the festivities
we're progressing, two charming young
ladies, sisters, took a pair of young men
by the arm, remarking that as it was
leap-year, they proposed to insist on their
prerogatives, and desired to be married
at once. A squire was called for, and
one was shortly found in the COMPANY.
IN the person of our worthy conservator
of the peace, Gus Salzman. When this
official presented himself ready for the
delicate business, one o: the couple forth
with backed out" but the other stood
their ground, and the squire proceeded
with the ceremony, asking the high con-
tracing parties several times during its
progress if they were really in earnest, to
which question they gave each time an
affirmative reply. They we're thereupon
pronounced man and wife. After the
party commenced to break up to go
home, the impromptu groom claimed his
bride in all earnestness, and insisted on
taking her home with him, but she de.
INJURED and tried TO treat the whole mat
ter as joke, but as the young lady is of
full age, and the marriage appeared to
be bona fide to all the witnesses, they do
say that this young lady is legally and
irrevocably the young ans wife, and
the best of it is that the parents on both
sides are willing to the match. The
young man belongs to not only good,
but wealthy family, and the young
iady's people, though not so well off in
pecuniary point Of view, are comforta-
bly, so, however, and are of the highest
respectability. How the affair will :. pan
out" remains to be seen.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

How TO PUT CHILDREN TO BED
Not with reproof for any Of that days
omission or commission. Take any 9TH
er time but bedtime for that. Ii you
ever heard little creature sighing or
sobbing in its sleep, you could never do
this. Seal their closing eyelids with
kiss and blessing. The time will come,
all to soon, when they will lay their
heads upon their pillows, lacking bolh.
Let them then at least have this sweet
memory of happy childhood, of which
no future sorrow or trouble can rob them.
Give them their rosy youth. Nor need
this involve wild license. The judicious
parent will not so mistake my meaning.
Ii you have ever met the man or the
woman whose eyes have suddenly filled
when little child has crept trustingly
TO lis mothers breast you may have seen
one in whose childhood's home diguity
and severity stood where love and pity
should have been. Too much indulgence
has ruined thousands of children; too
much love. not one.-Fanny Fern.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15
5fliscellamu.
" Spellin g Down.
AN OLD CUSTOM REVIVED.

AN OLD CUSTOM REVIVED.
We met sleigh load of boys and
girls the other night few miles out of
the city, on their way to spelling
match" in a school house of a neighbor-
ing district, and the jingling bell and the
merry laughter of the young folks made
US forget for a season that we had pass
ed the forenoon of oar life, and we join
ed the happy throng in Imagination, and
we're back among the scenes of years
ago, when cares were few, and the great
est sorrow of our life was to be compell-
ed to start away from spelling or singing
school to get our boots tapped, and know
that Bill Jones would go home with our
girl after the exercises of the evening
we're ended.
Is there an individual living who does
not at times brush the cobwebs away
from bis pictures of the past, and revert
fondly to the scenes of his youth? If so
let him be known. though we do not be-
lieve in the unmanly feeling that prompts
one to look back for all his pleasures and
see only clouds and stormy weather in
in the future.
But we commenced to talk of spelling
schools the old-fashioned kind, held 10
the winter evenings in our own or neigh
boring school houses. The latter, how
ever. were looked forward to with more
pleasure, as the usual monotony of the
occasion was relieved by the excitement
of meeting foreign foe, and the fun of
ride under the buffalo robes, to the
field Of contest.
How big" we used to feel when in
solemn manner the schoolmaster would
step up on the rostrum, and after erasiDg
all traces of the days arithmetical exer-
cises upon the ackhoard, that our
minds might not wander from the even
ing's work, sing out in well-remember-
ed voice, cross between deacon's and
heavy tragedian's, our name, coupled
with some member of the opposite side
as the two upon whom fell the honor OF
choosing sides.
And what terrible suspense intervened
while the two pedagogues drew cuts to
see who should have the first choice pre-
paratory to selecting the chosen TWO doz.
en- who were to try and spell each other
down.
If the leader of the "other side" hap
pened to be rival of ours in the suit of
smiles from the rosy-cheeked girl who ap-
parently had n o thought for anything
save the apple she was eating behind the
stove, the excitement was doubly great,
until it was decided that we (just think
of it y had drawn the longest straw and
were entitled to the first choice among
all the bevy of young folks that we're
scattered around the room.
How high we lifted our cowhide boots
as we stepped off to the corner of the
room, where the line of photographed
battle was to be formed OF course the
first name called was that of our sweet
heart, though (must we say it y she was
the poorest speller in the school, and her
formation of words would frighten the
portrait of old Noah Webster from
the title-page of his first book. But then
she was the handsomest girl in school ;
her cheeks were as red as Baldwin ap-
pie, and her curls which had been elab-
orately twisted around hot poker. were
natural, and besides that, she had agreed
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

A certain bishop repeated in sermon
this text, All flesh is grass" 1t was
Lent, and few days after, he encountered
a parishioner who seemed to have some
thing on his mind. The top of the morn
ing to your reverence, said Terence; did
I understand your riverence to say
All flesh is grass" last Sunday ? To be
sure you did, replied the bishop. and you
are hereto if you doubt it. Oh, divil
a bit do | doubt anything your riverence
says, said the willy Terence but if your
reverence pleases, wish to know whether
in this Lent time, / could not be after
having small piece of bafe, BY way of
. saladf
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

The USE OF SIGNATURE An ex-
change says that there is banker 10
Philadelphia, by the side of whose hand
writing even the penmansbip of Horace
Greeley seems symetrical. Well, this
banker was prosecuted by life insurance
agent, who wanted him to take out a
policy. The victim stood it for while,
but finally kicked the agent out of his
Office. Then the tormenter began TO
send notes to the unhappy wretch, ex-
planning the endowment system, and ask
ing if any one of his aunts ever suffered
from torpidity of the liver. At last the
banker. wrote to the heartless friend as
follows: You diabolical scoundreI, if
you end another line to me will come
around to your office and blow out what
little brains you haveI When the lite
insurance man received this. he turned
it up and down, and held it sideways,
and stood before mirror with it, and
examined it with microscope, and call
ed in six or seven experts; but after all
he couldn't determine with any degree
of certainty, what he meant. To ascer-
tain it, he presented it to the paying tell.
er's desk in the bank, and that worthy,
without a moments hesitation, paid
$4,000 on it, believing it TO be check
for that amount.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

If one portion OF dish of vegeta.
b.es be boiled in pure water. and the 9TH
er in water to which little salt has been
added. decided difference may be OBJ
served in the tenderness, flavor, and, if
potatoes, mealiness Of the two. Onions
are probably more improved by being
cooked in salted water than any other
vegetable. Much of their unpleasant
smell is taken away, and peculiar
sweetness and improved aroma are de-
cidedly apparent Salt hiuders the
evaporation of the soluble and AAvoriug
principles of vegetables.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

ADVICE TO BoYs.-You we're made to
be kind, generous and magnanimous,
says Horace Mann. If there is boy in
school who has club foot, don't let aim
know that you ever saw it. If there is
boy with ragged clothes don't talk
about rags in his hearing. If there is a
lame boy, assign him part in the play
which does not require much running.
If there is dull one, help him to get his
lesson.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15

Gentleness and courtesy in social life
are like the silent influence of light,
which gives color to all nature. Be as
sured they will win far more powerfully
than force or noise 1t needs not the
prestige of money or position to WELD
their power. Like the gentle snowdrop
or crocus of spring, piercing its way
through the late chilling SHOWS and crus-
ty frostiness of soil. they dispel from the
social atmosphere the last vesiige of ici-
mesa Ae i1
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15
Sacredness of Life.

'Tis not for man to trife Life is brief.
And sin is here.
Our age is but the falling of a leaf,
A dropping tear
We have no time to sport away the hours;
All must be earnest in a world like ours.
Not many lives, but only one have we:
Une, only one
How sacred should that one life ever be,
That narrow spanl
Day after day filled up with blessed toll,
Hour atrer hour still bringing in new spoil.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15
Don't Crowd.

Don't crowd. your world is broad enough
For you as ell as me-
The doors OF art are open vide
The realm Of thought is free.
In all earth's places You are right
To chase the best you can
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other man.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart,
BY fostering all that's bad.
But give TO every virtue room
The best hat may be had;
Be each days record such a one
That you may well be proud;
Give each his right--give each his room.
And never try to crowd.
Charles Dickens.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-15
Vermont Central, Vermont & Can
ada Railroads.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.-C Commencing
w on Monday. DECEM BER Is. 1871.
TRAINS GOING SOJTTU
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.


Leave Bellows Falls 327, NJ, 745 A. NJ, 230 p. N.
Mail Train leaves 0gdensburg at 600 P. N. 81. Al
bans at $50 A. NJ, arrive in Bellows Falls, via.
White River junction or Rutland at t2l5 P. NJ, South
Vernon ut 4:U0 NJ CIRCUITS Corner at 4.3J N. New
London at s.5J =. NJ, connecting with steamer tor
Night Express leaves Ogdensburgh at 1900 NJ
Montreal at $3.50 NJ, St. Johns at $50 NJ, st, Al
bans 7.2O P. NJ arriving in Bellows Fails (via w hite
River junction or kutandl at 32O. a. NJ South Yer
non at 4.4l. A. NJ. Grout's Corner 5.l5 A. NJ, New
Mixed Train leaves White River Junction at 4.5O A
n. Rutland At 4So A ". Bellows Falls Passenger
Corner at 940 A. N. Connecting at Bellows Falls
with trains for Boston, Worcester at South Vernon
with train for Springfield and New York. arriving
in New London al $40 P. NJ.
TRAINS GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Bellows Falls at $50 A. NJ ll.5O A. NJ, 535 P.
Mail train leaves Boston. at 7.sO A. NJ Springfield
Fails at II so NJ, (yia W K. JUNCTION Rutland
for Burlington. and st. Albans. Montreal, &c ar
riving in Montreal at 945 P. NJ. and Ogdensburg at
u 45 a. NJ, making connections for the West.
Night Express leaves New FORK at 800 p. NJ,
Springfield az $40 P. NJ. New London at 2.45 P. NJ.
Rutland,) arriving in ST. Adams at $40 a. NJ, Mon
treal at Y.45 A. NJ, ogdensburg at u. 45 P. NJ.
Accommodation leaves n New London at $40 A. NJ.
Grouts Corner $50 p N. South Vernon at 400 p. NJ,
Bellows Falls 5.S5 ?. y; Imixedl arriving in Rut
Mixed trains leave Bellows Falls SO A. NJ. arriv-
ing, at White River Junction az 4 .45A. NJ
Mixed Train leaves Bellows Falls at 4.50 A. NJ, ar
riving in Rutland at go A.
SLEEPING CARS are attached to the Nighl Trains
between st. Aibans and Springfield ar = Burlington
and Boston.
Connections at W. R. Junction witt rains the
Northern NJ H.) and Connecticut and Passum psic
River Railroads at Ogdensburg with trains for the
west. at Rutland with trains over the Harlem Ex
tension Railroad. also with trains the Rensse-
laer and Saratoga and Railroads for Saratoga, Troy
Albany and the west
Through Tickets for Chicago and the West for sale
at the principal stations.
q. MERRILL. Gen. sup't.
StAlbans. VT. Dec. %. 1871.