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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

ANECDOTES OF THAD STEVENS Mr..
Stevens was rarely excelled in repartee.
He was always ready, and his satire was
sharper than bayonets. The people Of
Lancaster never tire of repeating his
sayings. He tried case before aJudge,
not celebrated for his great wisdom
The Judge gave ruling that disguised
Mr.. Stevens, as his face clearly indicated.
Does the Court understand the counsel
to express contempt for its ruling ?" said
the Judge. "No, may it please your
Honor, ] was trying to suppress con-
tempt" When the rebels burnt his iron
foundry and property at Gettysburg
which they did with relish-Mr. Stevens
remarked: Had Lee burnt up my liza
biities at the same time, would have
been much obliged to him." When Kite
of South Carolina attacked Mr.. Stevens
and told about pious deacon he had on
his plantation, Mr.. Stevens asked what
the price of deaoons were in his district,
and how much more a negro would
bring for being deacon. A Lutheran
minister left the pulpit and became a
Democratic politician. He met Mr..
Stevens, soon after, and inquiring about
his health, received as an answer: g
am very we'll | take care of my system,
and above all things keep my conscien &c
pure. suppose you have heard that l
have abandoned politics and am study
ing for the ministry" In his last sick
ness the doctor said to him one day
Mr.. Stevens, think yourappearance is
better today" 1t is not my appearance
that troubles me" was the reply, but
my disappearance. Lancaster letter IN
Boston Journal
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

BIOGRAPHY OF MARK TwAIN.-The
Rev. DR.. Mark Twain is a Turk. He
was born in the interior of Ireland. His
father followed the persuits of patriotic
husbandry-he raised string beans.
Notwithstanding the tyranny of Eng
land his beans sold readily, and Mark
was apprenticed at an early age to a
boiler maker to learn the art of photo
graphy. His father, known as Honest
Farmer Twain, says Mark made great
noise in the world while at the boiler
business, and he was sent for by Napo-
leon to accompany him in his campaign
up the Mississippi River. Subsequently,
young Twain did efficient service in the
Crimea, under General Scott. During
the battle of Inkerman he was lost,
causing great grief to his regiment, but
they afterward found him behind an
empty barrel.
He weighs $50 pounds, and his fists
are very hard indeed. Henry Ward
Beecher, in his entertaining work enti-
tied " The Early Days of Mark Twain"
relates that when Mark was four years
old he became vexed at a grind-stone
and battered it to pieces witn his naked
fists. The story that young Twain called
his father an "old kuss" and threw cob
BILE stones at his sick grandmother, Mr..
Beecher says is false.
S nee Mr.. Twain's residence in Amer
lea, he has conducted the lying depart
ment of daily newspaper. He is the
father Of twelve children all his own.
During the late war Mr.. Twain flew to
arms-Mrs Twain's. He fought bravely
on both sides-sometimes with Mellow
ell and sometimes with Beauregard.
| He would be better man if he look
ed at things more seriously; but this, it
is said, he cannot do. They say he made
fun at his grandfather's funeral, and got
the mourners to laughing SO that the
funeral had to be postponed
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
Jefferson,sTen RnIes.

Jetferson's ten rules are good yet, es-
pecially so for those who have the train
ing of the pupils in our public schools.
They are SO short and concise, and en-
body so much of value. that it would be
well if they were clipped and put where
we could see them often. They read as
follows:
l. Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what YOU
can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you
have it.
a. Never buy what you don't want be-
cause it is cheap.
3. Pride cost more than hunger, thirst
and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten
too little.
Z. Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
s. How much pain the evils have cost
us that have never happened.
8. Take things always by the smooth
handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you
speak if very angry, count hundred
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

NITRE-It may not be generally
known to all sugar makers that the dis
agreeable deposition which adheres to
the sides and bottom of the boiling APP
paratus, commonly called entire" but
more correctly mullate of lime, can be
readily removed by the application of a
slight coating of grease Of any kind,
though lard is considered by many best,
after which, evenly heat until the ad-
herring mass is considerably scorched
and smokes quite freely. Then remove
the apparatus from the fire and 90 brisk
ly over the surface with coarse wooden
rag or cloth, and it will easily come of.
Such has been the experience of one
who has repeatedly tried this method
and found it efiectual in every instance.
1t always pays even in the most pressing
times of the sugar season, to cleanse the
pan, or whatever apparatus is used, once
a day at least. both in quality of sugar
made and the increased force which the
heat had on boiling liquid.-Nescsdealer.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

Tho accounts of the famine In Persia,
which continue to arrive in greater de-
tail. bid to treat the world to spectacle
of calamity the like Of which has not
been witnessed, in historic times at least,
the sudden extinction of nation by
want Of food. This has been the fate
of the great states which once filled the
Valley of the Euphrates, and it is fate
which has for centuries been threatening
some modernstates,- Spain, for instance.
Man has stripped the soil of trees; the
absence of trees has brought droughts /;
droughts have slowly diminished the
productive powers Of the ground, and
finally destroyed them, THE population
in the mean time, dwindling in numbers
and vitality. Spain had forty millions
of people in the time of the Romans.
and flowed with milk and honey 1t is
now an arid region, only half of it IN
der cultivation, with only sixteen mill
ions of inhabitants, and if modern sci
ence had not come to Its all, would
probably go the way of Babylon. Per-
STA was one of the most powerful States
of antiquity, and even in the fourteenth
century was able to support the army oil
Tamerlane, who marched without COM
missariat or baggage during bloody
contest. 1t is now almost wilderness,
with population of two Millions
about halt of them nomads, which is
rapidly perishing by famine brought on
by three years drought The worst Of
it is, that owing to the absence of either
common roads or railroads, it seems tc
be impossible for the charity of the rest
of the world to reach the sufferers, sc
that there is really strong prospect Of
the depopulation of the country. The
moral of this horrible story is,-look at
ter your trees.-Me Nation.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
A Rows Adylce to Ola Men.

| cannot pick up a newspaper without
"Advice to Boys stares me in the face
Old men write it, | s'pose. Nobody else
| is capable of giving advice to boys OF
course not They know all aoou. US
thew do. cause they have been there'
Advice is a good thing to have, no doubt,
and no family should be without it, but
a fellow don't want to be crammed with
il all the time, to the exclusion of all
other diet. Now, old men need advice
occasinally, but in looking through the
newspapers | don't see that they get II.
So i Just thought l would write little
advice TO old men myself, if | am
not presuming too much-as Aunt Chloe
says and | presume am. In the first
place you old chaps ought to get over
telling how muchsmarter boys we're when
YOU were boys than boys are now. You
believe it yourself, of course, cause
YOU We told itso many times, but we boys
can't see ii. We have notion that boys
are boys, pretty much except some are
girls-the world over, and one genera
ton of them don't lie over another gen.
Grafton to any alarming extent. Only let
you tell it, and you could outrun out
jump, out anything else of the rising gen.
Grafton of to-day when you were boy.
Grandfather who has got the govt and
half dozen kinds of rheumatism, is al.
ways saying that 81 would | were a boy
again | would he were, too. If
couldn't beat him running and flop him
on his back, side holt, l don't want a
cent. 1 wouldn't go SO far as to say "Pa,
rents, obey your children" but would
suggest to fathers that they give us q
hearing occasionally on matters in which
we are the most interested party. Don't
make us go and slide down hill when We
want to skate, and don't try to make
preachers of us when we much prefer tc
run saw mill. After giving us boys
sage advice about our conduct, and how
to behave, you old men ought to be care
full how you get to relating your boyist
scrapes to each other, and laughing owe
them, before we get out of ear shot
Golden Hours.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

BURNING A CRIMINAL.-The British
authorities in India burnt the body of
Abdoolah, who, it will be rememb ere6,
murdered Chief Justice Norman, lately.
He was, it appears, Mohammedan, and
the reason given by the English Govern
ment for ordering his body to be burned
after the execution is that the Moham-
medans believe that Immediately after
death every corpse is visited by two hid
eous angels, Nakir and Monkir, who ex-
anime it as to its faith--the soul return
ing to the body pending this examination.
But if the body be utterly destroyed,
the soul is unable to find means to speak
to the angels, and is therefore lost
Hence the Government seized upon this
superstition to strike terror into the
hearts of all the subjects. Abdoolah,"
we learn, "faced his sentence of death
with composure, but on learning that his
chance of salvation was to be irretrieva-
bly, destroyed, his courage utterly for
sock him, and he died in despair"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

A SLIGHT MIsTAKE-A wellknown
minister, walking along the street few
days since, met a lady for whom he had
recently performed the marriage service.
Desiring to renew the acquaintance, (for
the lady had interested him greatly at
the time,) he accosted her with the re-
mark:
Madam, did not have the pleasure
of marrying you few days since? p
| was married few days since, sir. .
Eyes, I thought was not mistaken
| married you"
Indeed Well, thought my hus-
band was much younger man than you
are; but have not seen enough of him
to make his acquaintance thoroughly
BY the way, my dear, my chignon is get
ting shabby; please give me some mon
ey to buy waterfall"
Evidently this was more than the
minister bargained for, and with hasty
bow, accompanied by the remark, mo,
you are not the lady-Pm mistaken,
be took his leave.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
NATURES REMEDY
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Fainness at the Stomach and all diseases that
from impure blood Seiatica, Inhammatory and
Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout and spinal
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The remarkable cures effected by VEGETINE
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In fact. VEGErINE is the best remedy yet dis.
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
Rotation of Crops.
BY PROF. s. W. JOHNSON.

BY PROF. s. W. HNsoN.
In agricultural operations on an ex.
tensive scale, rotation has been long
practiced and is indispensable to the best
success, We find in nature tendency
to rotation. The oaks of Charlemagne's
time are now forests of pine. When
the spruces of the Adirondack woods
are destroyed, the white poplar takes
their places. In new countries and in
primitive stages of agriculture, the effect
of rotation is secured by cultivating the
ground for time, and leaving it vacant
for time. As population increases and
agriculture progresses, it becomes neces-
sary to till the same field all the time,
and experience soon shows that it will
not do as a general rule to raise the same
crop on the same spot all the time. Yet
there are exceptions which prove that it
IS not impossible to raise the same crop
on the sa ne soil, aud without manure.
indefinitely. Barley has been thus raised
In Greece on the same fields for 5000
years. Some of the systems of rotation
are very old. The three-course system.
one year of fallow, one of winter grain
and one of summer grain, was in vogue
in the days of Charlemagne. 1t ruled
Europe for 1000 years, and is still prac-
ticed to some extent. An important
change was made by the introduction Of
the cultivation of forage plants. This
is comparatively of modern date. The
clover has been known only $50 years
and the cultivation of this class of plants
only dates back 100 to $50 years. In
England which has been more victim
lied by systems of rotation than any
other country, the Norfolk, four-yea,
system, has ruled in large part of the
country. There is an improved Norfolk
system, and there have been ten and
twelve year system, in use.
In laying down the principles of no.
tation, we must consider the difference:
in plants, which adapt them to succeed
each other. Plants differ in their way
of feeding, as much as animals. They
differ in the structure of their roots.
We divide plants, in a general way
into two classes, those with pronged root
branching from close below the surface
as grass plants; and plants with tap
roots, like the tobacco, apple-tree, &c.
having roots which go straight down fo
some distance and then branch out be
low. Our grains are shallow-rooted
while clover is deep rooted, having root
twice as long as wheat. OF course tn
length of roots varies in different soils
the roots keeping near the surface in ricI
soils, while 10 SAND, roots of Indian corr
have been traced ten feet.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

Ftte(B FiRtshad Machines made.
It is nearly NoIsELEss, it is the most SIMPLE and
DURABLE Machine in Experience has taught
that the AMERICAN MACHINES have all the good points
and do away with many objections. for instance;
They use strGleht needle. nelo and Improved
shuttle never oiling the thread.
The Shuttle has rocking notion instead of the
sliding, as in old style machines, hence. does not
The Tension is more easily adjusted simply by
turning a screw through which the thread runs
which gives it 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, so you can
easily oil and clean it,
The Foot Piece tpresser foot) turns back. so the
cloth is more easily taken from the machine after
the work Il done. II accidentally turned backwards
the thread will not break, or the needle get bent as
in other machines.
ING MACHINE; or COMBINATION MACHINE (pr4ce SIS
with Covert has rUat. 1t is the cheapest as well
as toe BEsT-slnce 1t is really TWO MACHINES com
bined IN oNE-(by simple mechanical arrangement
never before accomp making either the LoCK
STITCH Or BUTTON HOLE STITCH, as occasion may re-
cure. QVERsEA4iNG, EABRoIDkRING ON THE EDGE,
and working BEAUTIFUL BUTTON HOLES and EYKLEr
HOLES; IN addition to every kind of sewing done on
any other Sewing Machine
As evidence OF the superiority Of the machine the
report Of the judges at the great Industra EXPOSE
ton in Cincinnati. where the machine as sue.
eessful competitor for and obtained the GOLD MEpAL
will speak for itself
The Judges do hereby declare that the Sewing
Machine that hibts the greatest novelty advance
ment and improvement does the greatest variety
OF useful work, equal in construction, workmanship
and design TO any and all others. is the Anne rican
Button Hole, Over scanning and Sewing Machine"
The leading machines were ably handled in com
petition. and the Exposition the seyerest test
ever given sewing machines in Ohio.
The sales of the AMERICAN during the last year
have gained over 100 per cent. and the factory is
running day and night TO oil its ORDERS The great
demand for the machine is evidence of their pop-
ularty and usefulness; and those who use them in
variably give them the preference
ss- Send or call for circulars and samples Of work
Agents wanted in unoccupied Territory.
II. DEW Ely. General A gent for New Eng
land. ESQ Washington St., Boston.
COW %
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

How EDGAR A. Poe DIED. The true
story of Poe's death has never been cor
rectly told. 1t is this: In the summer
of 1S49 be left New York for Virginia.
In Richmond he met Miss Elmira Shell
ton, whom he had known in his youth,
renewed his acquaintance, and in a few
weeks they were engaged to be married.
He wrote to his friends in the North that
he should pass the remainder of his life
IN Virginia, where the happiest days of
his youth had been spent Early in Oc-
tober he set out from Richmond to fulfill
a literary engagement in New York, and
to prepare for his marriage, which was
to take place on the 18th of the month.
Arriving in Baltimore, he found that he
had missed the Philadelphia train which
he expected to take, and would have to
wait over three hours for the next train.
He went into restaurant near the de-
pot to get some refreshments. There he
met some of his old West Point friends
who invited him to a champagne supper
that night. He accepted the invitation
and went. At first he refused to drink,
but at last he was induced to take glass
of champagne. That set him off and in
few hours he was madly drunk. In
this state he wandered off from his friend.
was robbed and beaten by rufians and
left iusensible in the stree. all night
The next morning he was picked up and
taken totbe Mary land hospital. He wat
deiirious With brain fever. He was vel
cared for by The physicians Of the bospi
tai, bat lie was beyond the skill of th,
doctors. He fingered two or three davs
aud died on Sunday. October 9Th 1919
in the thirty eighth year OF bis age. Hi
fuaeTai was attended by the Hon. z. Col
lins Lee, Dr.. sn4dgrass, Nelson Poe (hh
cousin and Henry Herring Chis uncle
-APpietOn's Journal.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01

A DUTCHMAN's TEMPERANCE LECr-
URE.-"I sail tell you how it vas !
drunk my lager; den put mine hand
on mine head, and dere vas one pain
Den put mine hand on my body, and
dere vas pain. Den l puts my hand on
my pocket, and dere vas noting. So ]
iine nit de temperance. Now dere is
no pain in my head, and de pain in my
body vas all gone away. put mine
hand on mine pocket, and dere vas Owen
ty dollars. So l say NIT de temperance
beeples."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
Estate Of Nose. :. FmIle,

STATE OF VERMONT The Probate e..
DIST OF WESTMINSTER ami Tor said BIS
10 all persons Interested ID the estate 81 n isl
FULLER, late vi Putney, IN said district da5
dKEt
YOU are hereby notified that II. e. Baker ..
IL Istrat8r OF the estate OF said deceased tH
his petition ia court here, setting i0Tth that 1t
necessary tO sell a part Of the real estate OF 80
ceased IN order TO RAISE funds 10 py the igg.
charges, against said estate. aud Inat a paH O.
can not be sold without injury 10 those IE,s
in the remainder, AId has pra5 ed lUr license
the whole VI said real estate. and the pers4l
tate Ut said deceased, subject 10 tue wsaOss
therein, and that SAID court will decIde ugg,.
application at the session thereof TO ue heal I
Inn Of Nj. A. Wilder IN Rockingham In sAs
on the nrst " EDN EsDAl OF March Isl. 8 {
time and place SUu can be heard IA the pfeEs
you shall see cause.
Feb. I. 1871 Fl
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-03-01
s3elluws falls Jimcs,
Vermont News.

- very interesting revival of relig-
ion is in progress in the first Congrega-
tional church and society in Brook6eld,
One day last week Mrs. Pettee Of
Hartwellyille slipped down the cellar
stairs, breaking her shoulder and other
wise iniuring her.
A resident Of Bennington proposes
that tae authorities let up" little on
the main liquor law until at least. water
becomes litle more plenty. The wells
in that vicinity are entirely dry.
Sylvester earns Of Chelsea while
chopping a few days since caught his
axe n limb, bringing the edge Of the
axe against the backside Of his head,
making a serious wound.
A young lady clerk in one of the
millinery shops in South Royaton, re-
Gently "owned up" that she had pur-
Joined 500 at different times from the
money drawer OF her employer.
"A few days since WIN. Moody Of
Newport found large owl his barn
devouring hen. He called to his wife
who went with her broom (the woman's
weapon and together they succeeded in
Staying him.
- A. j. Russ of Bradford has short
horn Durham heifer three years old that
weighs l, APO pounds. In May last she
averaged 20 quarts Of milk per day.
- About 100000 feet of lumber in
the log is now lying in the mill yard OF
Pickett q Co., waiting to be cut up:-
and still the lumber continues to come
in. This is the best season for lumber.
ing we have had for many years.-Brad
ford Opinion.
- Eliza Guernsey of Montpelier is
having controversy with DIR. Rockwell
of the Brattleboro insane asylum, in re
gard to his management thereof He
refused to allow her to see the apartment
in which her sister harmless lunatlc
was kept, though the sister was allowed
to come out and see her.
j. o. Wilson, of Poultney, employ
ed young colored woman calling her
self Mrs. Francis Danue, to do house
work. She worked two weeks, and ther
taking with her a SIS gold watch, sill
and two other dresses, and other proper
ty. She was traced to Troy, N. Y, fol
lowed and arrested.
They have queer way of conduct
ing arguments at Pleasant Valley. II
the Lyceum at that place during The
discussion Of the Prohibitory Liquor
Law, two drunken men were brough
in BY the opponents of the law to show
that drunkenness is more prevalent now
than before the law was enacted.
Frank Corliss Of Topsham, missed
pair Of nice vol skin sleigh robes
which were aflerward found buried D.
in the snow, done up in an old bed tick
near the house Of A. n. Lander, VIII,
was arrested, and, waving an examina
ton was held in 1925 bail to appear a
the County Court, to answerto the charg,
of theft.
James Moore had an intimate
friend who swore eternal fidelity anC
they both took the up train for Enos
burgh. as they said, TO have a gooc
time" At station above they dranl
freely, when Moore felt like taking
nap, and INDUCED in sound snooze-
When he awoke his friend had adjourn
ed to the P. @, taking with him al
Moore's money, $50, new suit Of cloth
ing from his satche, his coat and ever
the boots from his feet, and he was oblig
ed to finish his journey to Enosburg il
his stockings. He don't go much on
fidelity now.