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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

DECEIvING CHILDREN.-Is it any
wonder that so many children grow up
to be liars, when the example is set them
daily in the receptions practiced on them
by parents A doctor, who has been
called on to visit sick boy some twelve
years old, was told by the mother, as he
entered the house, that she could not get
her boy to take any medicine unless she
deceived him; to which the doctor re-
piled that he should reason with him.
Going to the boy, he told him he was very
sick, and must take some medicine, which
would taste badly and make him feel
badly for a little while, and then it
would make him feel better. He pre-
pared the medicine, aud the boy took it
like man, without any resistance and
be would take from his mother anything
that the physician had prescribed, but
would take nothing else from her She
had SO often deceived him, and told him
it was good when she gave him medicine
that he would not trust to anything that
she said. Honesty with children, as
well as with others, and in all circum-
stances, is the best policy. A mothers
feelings under such circumstances must
be anything but enviable, and this incl
dent should teach them to never lie to
their children.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

How TO Cur GLAss.-Any hard tool
will cut glass with great facility when
kept freely wet with camphor dissolved
in turpentine. A drill bow may be used
or even the hand alone. A hole NAV be
readily enlarged by a round file. The
ragged edge of glasses may also be
smoothed with fat file. Flat window
glass can readily be sawed by watch
spring saw by the aid of this solution
In short, the most brittle glass can be
wrought almost as easily as wood, by
the use of cutting tools kept constantly
moist with camphorized oil of turpen.
tine.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

The lRREvERENT IN LITERATURE
Salt is very good condiment, but very
bad food. Never do l feel more refresh
ed by serious passages than when they
occur amidst comic ones; as the green
spots amid the rocks and glaciers of
Switzerland soothe the eye amid the
glare and glitter ofspow and ice. Hence
it is that the humor of the English,
which is engrafted on the stem of lofty
seriousness, has grown so luXuriantly and
overtopped that of all other nations. A
satire on everything is satire on moth
ing it is mere absurdity. Allcontempt
all disrespect, implies something res
pected as standard to which it is re-
ferred just as every valley implies a
hill. The persiaage of the French and
of fashionable workings, which turns in
to ridicule the exceptions and yet alb
jures the rules, is like Trinculo's govern
ment,-its latter end forgets its begin
ming. Can there be more mortal, pois-
onous consumption aud asphyxia of the
mind than this decline and extinction of
all reverence Jean Paul.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

Our Episcopal brethren will appreciate
this, from a late English book. The
Bishop Of Oxford having sent round to
the church-wardens in his diocese a cir
cular of inquiries, among which was,
Does your officiating clergyman preach
the Gospel, and is his conversation and
carriage consistent Herewith 2" the
church-warden of WalliDgford replied.
" He breaches the Gospel, but does not
keep carriage"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

To Boil HAM,-Soak it over night
in warm water, scrape and clean well =
add pint of cider vinegar to the boil
ing water and put in the ham. Simmer
slowly for four hours; then take it out,
skin it, and cover the whole top with
grated bread, and bake in the oven for
half an hour. Garnish with a cut pa
per frill about the bone, and cover with
bits of current jelly and parsley.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

BE CHEERFUL.-Don't keep a solitary
parlor, into which you go but once a
month, with your parson, special guests
or sewing society. Make your living
room the house. Let the place be such
that when your boy has gone to the dis.
tant lands, or even when, perhaps, he
clings to single plank in the waters Of
the wide ocean, the thought of the home
stead shall come to him in his desolation,
bringing always light, hope and love
Have no dungeon about your house; nc
room you never open, nor any blind:
that are always shut.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

Picked OYsTERs.-Take the largest
oysters you can fnd-what are called
counts"-and two hundred of them
will make fine dish. Rinse from the
liquor with boiling water, and put in a
stew pan, boil and skim it; then add a
quart of pure cider vinegar, a tablespoon
full each of whole cloves, peppercorns
and mace, and salt to taste. Boil ten
minutes, add the oysters, boil until they
plump. When served, ado few raw
cranberries, and some slices of lemon as
garnish.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

The causes for which Mahometan
woman may demand divorce are clear
ly and broadly laid down in the Koran,
aud her evidence is sufficient, because the
Mahometan law suppose that woman
must be violently aggrieved before the
modesty of her sex will allow her to APP
pear in public with such application
So careful is this law to spare her feel,
ings, that she is not even required to re-
count her injuries, unless of her own
free will, all she has to do is to place her
slipper reversed-that is-with the sole
upward before the cadi, and the case
is done-the divorce is granted without
further inquiry.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

SANDwGcHEs,-Pound up tender ham
and boiled tongues, equal parts; season
with salad dressing, and spread be-
tween slices of bread cut thin as possible.
Made in this way they are very delicious
and there is no fear of the slice of meat
falling out. Pounding toe meat with
pestle, instead, of chopping it with a
knife, renders it more tender.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

ROMANTIC HIsToRY.-The story of
the Countess Benedict, wife of the
French Minister to Prussia, is worth re-
cording. She was once Greek slav e,
landed at Alexandria by Jocosi, the eel.
ebrated merchant of Constantinople.-
She had been educated for sale and was
consequently full of accomplishments.
One of the wealthiest of the Arab mer-
chants in Alexandria purchased the girl
to wait upon his wife, to whom he was
much attached. The Greek girl, lively
and amusing, diverted the ennui of the
harem, and soon became the ruling spir.
it there. In the course of time the wife
died, and the aged husband regretting
that he could not marry her, adopted
her as his child and the heir to his enor-
nous fortune. At his death the former
slave inherited his wealth, and Benedetti
at that time young attache belonging
to the French Consulate at Alexandria,
happened to present himself to the herr
ess, won her affections, and they were
married. The old merchants money
enabled Benedict to cut his way to a
conspicuous position in diplomacy, and
his wife, lovely and accomplished, reign
ed for long time over theworld of fash
ion in Paris.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

" Tell that man to take off his hat in
court, said a Judge the other morning
to an officer. The offender, who turned
out to be lady, wearing the fashionable
sailor bat, Indignantly exclaimed, 81 am
no man, sirl" "Then," said his honor,
" | am no Judge"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

A shrewd conf ctioner has taught his
parrot to say pretty creature" to every
lady who enters the shop aud his bust
ness is rapidly increasing.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

A young musician, remarkable for his
mooesty and sincerity, on his first APP
pearance before the public, finding that
be could not give the trills effectively, as.
sured the audience, by way OF apology,
:" that he trembled so that he could not
shake"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

"Ah p unused Smith, as he contem.
plated his extensive New Years bills,
how true it is that in the midst of life
we are in debt.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

Man is thinking being, whether he
will or no all he can do is to turn his
thoughts the best way.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16
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Inc remarkable cures effected by VEGETINE
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In fact, VEGETINE is the best remedy vet dis
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

When young man is about to settle
down as the husband of one wife" he
should resolve never to make her ieal-
GUS with his wild Sallies and his gay
Ann Ticks.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

1t is at the approach of dinner time
that we feel most sensibly the !" empti-
ness Of things below"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16
The American Sewing Machines
STITCH, HEN. FELL, TUCK. CORD.
BRAID, QUILT, FRINGE GATHER
AND SEW ON, 0YERSEAM AND
WORK BEAUTIFUL BUTTON AND
E1ELET HOLES, SURPRISING IN
WORK.

1t is nearly No1sELEss, it is the most SIMPLE and
DURABLE Machine in use. Experience has taught
THAT the AMERICAN MACHINES have all the good points
and do away with many objections for instance
/ Ihey use a straight needle, and iJqDrOpea
shuttle never Oiing the thread.
| The shuttle has rocking notion instead of the
sliding as IN old style machines, hence does not
wear.
The Tension is more easily adjusted simply bv
turning a screw through which the thread runs
which gives it an even tension, while in other ma.
chimes you put the thread through more or less holes
in the shuttle. The Machine has less working parts
than any other; 1t turns back on hinges, you can
easily oil and clean it.
The Foot Piece (presser foot) turns back. So the
cloth Is more easily taken from the machine after
the work Is done II accidental y turned backwards
in other machines.
ThE AMERICAN BUTroN HOLE and complete SEW
with Covert has riUai 1t is the cheapea as well
as toe BEsT-sinee it is really TWO MACHINES com
blned IN oNE-tby simple mechanical arrangement
never before accomplishment making either the LoCK
STITCH or BUTTON HOLE STITCH. occasion NAV re-
gu5re, ~ hhsE MING, EMBR0IDtRING ON TIE EDGE.
HOLES, in addition every kind of sewing done on
any other Sewing Machine
As evidence OF the superiority Of the maehine the
report Of the judges at the great Industrial EXPOSE
ton in Cincinnati. where the machine as a sue
will speak for itself
The Judges 90 hereby declare that the Sewing
Machine that exhibits the greatest noyeItv advance
ment and improvement. does the greatest variety
OF useful work equal in construction workman shin
and design to any and all others d the Amerjcap
Button Hole, over scanning and Sewing Machine .
me leading machines were ably handled in com
petition. and the Exposition was the seyerest test
ever given sewing machines in Ohio.
The gales of the AMERICAN during the last year
nave gained over 100 per cent, and the factory is
demand for the machine is an evidence of their non
ularity and usefulness and those who use them IN
yarla6ly give them the preference.
ss send or call for circulars and SAMPLES of work
Agents wanted in unOccupied Territory
E.DEWEN, General gent for New Eng
land, $50 Washington st., Boston
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

anybody--to cut out, And don ! De-
lieve anybody can. How DO know
what / shall be ten years from now :
Or Horace Vanzandt eitherl 1t is an
a,etai long measuring! Now / think OF
it, that was the way mother used to do
with my gowns when she first came. She
made them down to my heels for fear |
should outgrow them. And l hated
them they were never right. | won't
begin life so, all of draggle, because |
shall be up higher by and by +; neither
do l want to be left anyways unprovided
for or out in the cold, when i do get big
ger. 1t isn't fair. We ought to be made
so as to keep pretty longer, and Nettie
ended as usual, with look in the glass.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16
FURNITURE | FURNITURE

PARLOR SUITS IN HAIR
CLOTH AND TERRY. SOFAS. TETE-A-TF'
EASY CHAIRS. PARLOR CHAD
LOUNGES. CENTER TABLES
DINING TABLES. EXTENSION TS1
HAT TREES. BRACKETS. BUREAe'
BEDsTEADs. CHAIRS ~
WILLOW CHAIRS, AND WoRKBAsA'
CHAMBER SUITS. BLACK WALNV
Chestnut AND PINE, HAIR,
HUSK. WOOL AND EXCELSla
MATTRESSES. AND PILLOWS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
Winter Management Of Bees.

About the first of November bees should
all be examined. and brought into winter
quarters. Those that have not enough
honey should receive especial care by the
apiarian, as he is prepared to know their
exact condition, both as to quality as well
as to quantity. If you are going TO leave
them standing out of doors, they should
be placed on stands one foot high, and
place them within one foot of each other.
They should be covered with good tight
roof, a tight wall on the north. east and
west, ventilate well, place boards in front
of hives. down so far that the sun will not
strike them during the winter. Place
straw between the hives, as this will serve
to keep them from being affected by the
changes of the weather. They being well
ventilated, will need no further care dri-
ring the winter. except to occasionally
look and see if they are affected with
dysentery If so, they will show it by
their dark colored fGces around the en-
trance to the hive. Numbers of them also
fly out and leave their mark, and many OF
them. if they be all right, and being in
the shade, will not, and have no occasion
to, come out at all. If they do they are
warm enough to return without much
loss. Better leave them in this position
until spring-NOvember, December. JAN
uary, February, and frequently March.
In the Northern climates bees will keep
quiet. and begin to increase about the first
of March,-Prairle Farmer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
=" Businesso People.

Brokers and Bankers, Syndicates, Rail
road Monopolists and all sorts of Jobbers,
have combined to create the impression
that the Democratic candidate is not a
safe business man. The same captious-
ness always distinguishes merely selfish
Capita. which has no heart, no soul, no
blood, no sympathy outside of its gold.
its stocks, and its bonds. So it was in
France after Napoleon's seizure of the
throne. Then Capital said, SONY don't
disturb. Don't annoy! Don't let us be
worried with popular connection, and we
don't care about the Empire ~
We see what similar carpino did for
Capital and for poor France in the end
We behold her young Republic strug-
Cling to pay off the Prussian indemnify
and the debt of a war, her streets stained
with blood, her commerce crippled, her
public buildings defaced and DESTROYED.
Communists executed and exiled in fact,
all her present prosperity not unlike to
the foliage that clings' around the breast
of Vesuvius.
Bencath our feet yawns sectional abyss.
which should have been bridged over ere
this, and which surely should be bridgcd
over now. The business interests of the
South are those of the North, yet the for
mer are almost PROSTATE in the dust.
The agriculture of the South is DESTROYED
by taxes. Carpetbaggcrs suck out her
blood like lccchcs, until now but little
more remains to feed their rapacity.
Worse. A war of races is made inlmi-
nent by the appeals and policy of the Adj
ministration, which have banded the Ne
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
ssFair Is FOul.o

The dozen of laundering boobies who
disgraced the name of iurymen in San
Francisco the other dav by iiberating that
maudlin and murderous hag, Mrs. Fair,
are likely, if they be not absolutely lost to
all sense of shame and of remOrse ere long
to go and hang themselves in her stead.
Their outrage upon law and decency is al
ready breeding the cOunter-Outrages it
could not fail to breed. A son of the man
whom this creature killed because he re-
fused to divert to her profit the whole
subsistence of the family he had for her
sake dishonored, yesterday attempted to
Stay the slayer of his father, first in pub
lie courtroom and then in the public
streets. The attempt was openly made !;
and though it was foiled by the watcIiful-
ness of the woman's legal enploye and
attendant, it would seem that it is likely
to be at any moment renewed. 1t is
hardly surprising that little Indignation
should be manifested at such an attempt
on the part of a son who has seen his
father murdered, his mother insulted and
the laws of the land lie lives in made a
mOckery by woman whose Grass and
cowardiy selfishness would disgrace the
lowest of mankind. The frightful re-
sponsibility Of this scandalou, Sequel of
one of the most disgraceful incidents of
co1temporancous American history rests
directly on the worthless and witless per-
sons who mistOek the jury-box for the pit
OF cheap theater, when they were sum
moned into into it to hear the story of this
vile wOman's atrocious deed and Indirect
1y upon the torpid or perverse public
opinion of Californian society. The best
thing, we repeat. that the jurymen can do.
IS to go out and hang themselves prompt
~. As for Californian society, we are
bound to suppose that it looks back with
rapture upon the story of the Vigilance
Committee of 1856, since it is supinely in
wiling the return of all the excuses and
lawlessness which made that story pos
sible.-N. Y. World, Oct. II.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
Soup and SavantS.

The old familiar proverb g Too many
cooks spoil the broth" will have to be
amended by substituting for the word
$ cooks the word doctors - at least.
so it would seem from the accounts which
come to us through some of our transat-
lantic exchanges. All our readers of
course know of Liebig's world renowned
process of procuring the extract of meat.
This extract has become an article of
great and constantly growing Importance.
By means of this process, it has been
made possible to bring ito countries
where, owing to dense population and
other causes. meats are scarce and dear) a
large portion of the most nutritious quail
tiles, in a concentrated form, of the meat
of cattle slaughtered in countries where
there is such abundance of it that it has
not heretofore been worth saving, the cat
tie being destroyed for their hides and tai
low alone. An engineer named Gilbert,
under the advice and counsel of Liebig.
prepared this extract in South America,
whence it was imported to Munich, where
it was not allowed to go into the market
until subjected TO the scrutiny of the emf
nent chemist who was the inventor of it.
Under this careful management. it ac-
quired great celebrity, was much recon-
mended by the highest authorities, and it
was liked and believed in by the people
who used it. The soup or broth prepared
frem this extract was found to be not only
harmless. but nutritious and palatable
both for the sick and the well.
But among other enterprising savants.
one DIR. Muller, perhaps actuated by mo-
tives such as occasionally influence some
of our savants on this side of the water,
has been drawing certain differences from
certain experiments which he has been
making, which, if he is to be believed,
ought to lead every person who has due
regard for his inner man to utterly discard
broth, now. henceforth, and for ever. 1t
has no nutritive qualities, says he. 1t is
only an excitant, and its eXcitant quail
ties are due to certain salts of potash to
be found i'm it. One of the experiments
given, performed by NJ. Kemmerich,
seems to be conclusive that horse beef
broth in large quantities is not good for
rabbits. The extract from Il pound OF
horse beef, injected into Il rabbits stom-
ach, killed the creature.
But without going into these expert
ments, or commenting further upon the
subject, we hold, as an ''opiniOn as is an
opinion" that the people will continue to
eat broth, no matter how many doctors
try to spoil it.-.Scieatifc american.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
Undeserved Praise.

Mr.. Robert Lowe, the British Chancel-
lOr of the Exchequer, discussing at Glas-
gov the aspects of the Geneva award,
said of this country: g In her case no
statutes CLEAN the refuse of the sword :
no executioner was called in to finish the
work the soldier left undone. Whatever
blood was shed was shed in the height OF
violent conflict. No blood, no mockery
of judicial proceeding, no semblance OF
impartiality where the sentence was pre-
determined on and the eXecutioner was
ready, clOuded the triumph OF that civil
war, and for that America deserves i'm
mortal honor" How much more COM
Portable we might feel under the weight
of this golden eulogy, how much more
proudly conscious of this crown OF 8 in
mortal HONOR could we but dismiss from
our memories the names of Mary Surratt
and John Y. Beall! These give us
pause" and history will ;lways be impa-
tent to think that but for men like Stan-
ton and Bingham and John A. Dix our
record would be one entirely unique, and
our terrible trial go down to posterity as
one 81 maiden assiZe'' that the world has
ev, seen. But murdered blood will not
out, nor can any hyssop cleanse our lin
tells of the dark stains put there in reck'
less inhumanity or cold seltishness by
these men of unenviable reputation.-N.
Y. Paper.