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A Noble Reply.

The best temperance speech | ever
heard fell from woman's lips. 1t hap
pened Oh this wise Il was calling upon
the family with whom she passed a part
of each summer, and the conversation
Glanced to turn upon the practice, SO
common in fashionable circles, of offer
ing wine to callers; she remarked: at
is passed to me. but | always refuse it,
and tell them the mother of four boys
mustn't touch it,-mustn't even touch
it," She was winning, graceful, beau
tiful woman, but | had thought her n
woman of the world, and myself much
her superior in the sterner qualities of
womanhood; hut | now stood before
her with downcast eyes and burning
checks, for | remembered when wine
had been offered me and | had not
refused it. From the depths of my
heart honored her, and thanked God
that he had given her four boys. A
fresh tide of intemperance seems sweep
ing over the land, and no mother can
say that she is guiltless when her sons
fall prey to the tempter, if she has
even looked upon the wine sparkling in
itscup,-event touched even touched
it. | recall pleasant little story of one
of these -four boys" He is in the en-
ploy of one of Boston's merchant prin-
ces. and is perhaps best known for his
passionate love of flowers. He is never
during their season, without boquet
of choice flowers in his buttonhole. His
employer noticed this and chided him
one day for his extravaganza. Jamie
looked him in the face and said, point
ing to his bunch of flowers, ''This sir is
my tobacco" The merchant turning
upon his heel, with vision of the
greenhacks turned to ashes on his own
lips, and | doubt not with sudden
thought of longer draughts and deeper
potations, remarked, james, you are
Il wise boy" AS we contrast the filthy
weed which God never made SO, with
the fragrant flowers, the expression of
His own love of the beautiful, we can
but feel that the son was worthy of the
mother. His breath had never been
poisoned by tobacco, nor his brain fired
with alcohol, but instead, he had,
though only il clerk, a bank account of
which any young man might he proud.
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An Infuriated Swarm of Bees after
Child.

Mr.. Tyler Brand, who lives near Lo-
gansville, has a large number of ''bee
stands" in his orchard, near his resi-
dcnce. One day last week his children
were playing near the hives. 1t is sup
posed that they commenced fighting the
bees and the bees commenced stinging
the children. They Immediately ran
off, leaving the youngest, Il child about
attracted the attention of its mother,
who was at the house sick, and she i'm
mediately ran to its relief. BY the time
she got there the bees were thoroughly
infuriated, and the whole swarm was
pouring out of the gum, until nearly
every bee had left it. She seized the
child and ran to the house, the bees fol-
lowing, stinging the child. When she
arrived at the house, being very feeble,
she tainted, and neighbor lady, who
happened to he on visit there, fearing
that the child would be stung to death,
picked it up and started toward the
woods.
The bees seemed determined not to
let the child escape, and followed her,
singing her so severely that she had to
drop the child, when the bees covered
it, continuing to sting. BY this time
Mr. Brand, who was working in Il field
near by, heard the cries of the children,
and came to their relief. He found the
bees still lowering about the child and,
our informant states, had to rub them
off with his hands. He then took the
child to the house and went to work to
relieve its intense suffering. He pulled
out a large number of the stings, and
washed it with brandy. 1t had been
stung all over the face and head, and
even in its mouth and underits tongue.
With the kindly assistance of some
of the ncighhois, who came over as soon
rs they heard of it, the sutfcrings of the
child al its mother were on>iderably
relieved, and both of them will get over
it without any serious consequences.
GUinneH Herald.
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is skeleton there, though there are but
few who suspect it.
She came over the other day and told
me all about it, for her heart was break
ing for sympathy, and she had no rela-
tive near to cOntide in. 1t seems there
Is some one else who shares the stately
Judges wealth and regard, woman
falrer and younger than the wife he
promised to love and cherish until death
parted them--a woman whose sole aim
Ill life is to attract and dazzle men, and
who Is, therefore, an expert III the
business.
SO when | come to consider these ex-
amples of the happiness of married life,
| am glad | am still lonely old maid.
| am not tied down to lot of crying
children who come faster than l can
support them. / don't tremble and
quake when hear step in the hall,
thinking "A tipsy husband is going to
stumble in and disgrace me. | am not
bound for life to a meek, spiritless
creature, as insignificant as a caterpil-
ler, nor CRYING my eyes out because my
husband is uneasy in my society, and
only happy when basking in the smiles
he has paid good round price for. No,
indeed, | am free and Independent, and
happy, and would not he married for
the universe.
All, there is the pOstman with letter
for me. I'll just run down and get it.
Postmarked Illinois. | wonder who it
can he from '.lours, till death. Ben
iamin Whitney" Well, | never my
hand trembles so | can hardly hold the
paper. lie has lost his wife, and, hear
ing that was still single. he has writ
ten to me to know if | will come and
take charge OF things; housekeepers
are hard to get and are very expensive,
and he isn't very well off in this worlds
goods, and wants me to be mother to
| the six little children. There it is in
black and white, my first offer now,
let no one ever say again | couldn't have
a married life if wanted to. Ofcourse
I'll go; my own feelings shan't he con-
sidcred at all it is my duty to go to
those poor motherless children. Where
is that newspaper | was reading! |
want to see what time the western train
starts
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Alone with the Dead.
ALFRED J. HOUeH.

Here lies the problem that puzzles the ages,
Book with a dead language writ on its pages,
Science and art with their wisdom far seeing
Have failed to decipher this language Of being.
Man living scarce grasps Gods simplest suggestion
But, dying propounds his most subtle question.
The language of life is but beggarly cleaning.
The silence of death a marvel of meaning.
Only an hour since that heart was in motion.
Heaving the blood waves of life's mystic ocean,
An hour, and that brain busy thought moulding,
Now, only clay in n little white folding.
Where is the light of the eye that was beaming,
Now fixed with the stare of passioness dreaming
Where is the voice that thrilled with emotion,
Lips that are set in a motonless motion
Where is ambition, hope, fear what treason
Has shattered their throne i'll the temple of reason
Whence came the power which conquered resistance
Making wonder of wondrous existencel
Speak lips one whisper, say darkness, say glory
Anything that will unrave the story
OF dying, yet living; blind and yet seeing
The bright side of all that shadows our being
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VOLUME 36---NUMBER 1878.

what's called, in the iargOn of the street.
''water :" and that if there had been no
water mixed with the good old Central
wine, the road could have carried pas
sengers at one cent mile in clean,
well-ventilated car, and have paid the
same dividends that it does now.
In truth, however, it is a small mat
ter to prosperous people like our
selves whether we pay one or three
cents mile to go to Albany, or wheth-
er dust and discomfort do or do not
drive us into drawing-rOom cars. A
much graver matter is the inevitable
tendency of these grasping monopo-
lies that are springing up around lis,
and the ineXorable law which Furnishes
corporate greed with cOnfiscation. No
student of history, especially of the
history of the great corporations of the
last century-we mean, of course, the
ecclesiastical bOdies-cau fail to discern
the fate of many of our great railway
companies. One set of men after an
other grOwls and submits. One Legis-
lature after another threatens, and is
cajoled or bought off. But the intoler-
able oppression continues, and year by
year the instinct of rebellion grows
stronger and stronger, until it has CO.
herence enough for demagogues to
make it a plank il their platforms.
Then no man can stem the tide or set
limit to party fury or popular injus-
tice. You can hear the first mutterings
of the storm i'll the queer proceedings
of the oranges" at the West. Already,
monstrous as it may seem, judiciary
elections turn on railway against anti
railway. Even Congress the other day,
in its fury over the Credit Moblier.
stopped but little short of cOnfiscation
in its proceedings against the Union
Pacific. How long will it he before
some party in this State seriously pro-
poses to tax the Central all it makes on
its watered stock IL there no Ben
Butler in the Western counties to ride
this magnificent hobby horse into AL
bany and Washington When the
Central was borrowing money to pay
three per cent. half yearly it seemed
mean to tax it. But now. with a reve-
nue. of twenty-five millions, Aristides
himself might vote to contiscate. Idle
to talk about measures being uncOnsti-
tutional. Constitutions can he chang
ed as well as laws. and when the day
comes for the spoliation of the railways.
neither vested rights nor common hon
estv are likely to obtain hearing
Harp0'S Weekly.
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VT, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1873.

tent in New Hampshire, but the Port
land and Ogdensburg road is located
for about a dozen miles west of the
Notch, and along the Ammonoosuc
river from its source downward for that
distance. The other dozen or thirteen
miles through Carroll, Whitefeld and
Dalton, to the Connecticut river, will
he located by the first of September,
and, though the terminus in Dalton is
not quite decided, it is certain the road
will not 60 roundabout through Little
ton. 1t crosses the AmmOnOosuc Just
in front of the new Fabvan house-the
largest and likely to 6e the finest hotel
in all the White mountain region.
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felt one of them approaching he was
obliged to lie down wherever he might
be in order to avoid falling. In the
country, where he had plenty of ex-
ercise, they were less frequent than in
the town where his occupation was
sedentary. Cessation from tobacco and
a tonic regimen quickly restored him.
A physician of tifty-two WAS afflicted
with similar disagreeable symptoms,
and was also cured by abstinence.
Habit had become so strong that he
could not resist at times the slight in
dulgence. Finding that these returns
to tobacco were Immediately followed
by his old painful attacks, he renounced
it forever.-Populu Science Monthly.
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business DIRECTORY.

n gnc. business and Location Of the ledd-
ma Business Houses IN 81. JOhnsbury.
Agricultural Tools and Hardware.
sAEvEY & HASKELL, Hoyt's Block, L. X. st.
ApntIecaries.
d A.. BINGHAM, No. :, Bank Block, Main st.
4 rlNpALI. & son, Randalls Block, L. X. st.
Attorneys at Law.
i rnFN ( MAY. No. = 2Caledonian Blk. up stairs.
4 1 WILLARD Main St. over Hall & Fletchers $,
.-l Real Estate Broker.
hooks and Stationery.
BINlRu y ROwELL, Caledonian Blk, Main st.
bakers and Confectioners.
q u~S \ MATHEWS Main Street.
Ifarbers.
n q BLACKSTONE Union Block, Main Street.
Boots and shoes.
rEANrIS GALLAGHER, Wards Blk, r. X. st.
Clothing, Hats and Caps.
JDlX MOORE. I Bank Block. opposite St Johns.
bur, House dealer in Ready Made Clothing, Hats
aud caps cents Furnishing Goods, etc, etc.
Clothing for Men and Boys.
I T. FAIEBANKS & co, Fairbanks Village.
Crncksry. GIass and stone Ware.
I $ T. FAIRBANKS & co. Fairbanks Village.
Carpeliug. Paper Hangings, Window shades.
] \ I. FAIRBANKS & co, Fairbanks Village.
Dentists.
d PERKINS Caledonan Block, Main Street.
} WARNER, Union Block, Main Street
Dining Rooms.
d lArHEWS & rETTENGILL, Eastern Avenue.
Dry Goods, and Ladies' Fancy Goods.
d n HALE Avenue Block, r. Il. Street
! T. FAIRBANKS & co, Fairbanks Village.
Dry Goods, housekeeping Goods, etc,
ALL 4 FLETCHER, Main Street.
Flour and Feed
6 To- ALDRICH & Co. Eastern Avenue
Furniture and Caskets.
/. HALL & BROTHER Main Street.
TISDALE, Flanders Block, NJ stairs.
Family Groceries and Fruits.
d COOK & Co, Eastern Avenue.
b. HARVEY, Union Block, Main Street
File Manufacturer.
4 Johnsbury File Works opp. Passenger Depot
Groceries and House. Keeping Goods.
Z \ 7. FAIRBANKS & Co. Fairbanks Village.
Harness, Robes and Blankets.
6 ". COOK, Eastern Avenue.
Hotels.
AVENUE HOUSE, X. X. St, o. &. Hale, Propr.
Insurance, Uife.)
7 r SARGENT, (lFtnal Railroad Street.
Iron Founder and Machinist.
LIKE BUZZELL, North end, X. X. Street.
Millinery and Fancy Goods.
>ESrER, Main Street.
& I. WARD, Wards Block, Il. r. Street.
Merchant Tailors.
! rNpERWOOD, Danville Block, Il. r. Street.
Music Rooms.
1 70 HARRINGTON, SONS & co, r. II. Street.
Physicians and Surgeons.
D. y ST GERMAN north door of II. LaCourse
rro,.r Main Street St Johnsbury Vt. 65-sO-
photographs.
% ALNECH. Burnham's Building, Main st.
y s. CLIFFORD CaledOnian Block, Main Street.
Printers and Publishers.
STONE & 60. CnledOnian Block, Main st.
Stoves and Tin Ware.
d : FLETCHER, Eastern Avenue.
& y. q WOODRUFF, Railroad Street.
nWnERN. Eastern Avenue.
Watches, JewcIry and Toys.
hnNlED 4 ROWELL, Caledonian Blk, Main ST
BRIGHTON Il CARPENTER, Railroad Street.
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u Senator Matt. Carpenter of WiscOn-
sin, who is :: sort of Nermonter by mar
liage, delivered set speech at James
vile on The evening of the Goth of June
in defence of the ''back pay grab" He
considers it great invitation for "the
poor man" as it enables him to sit in
Congress and make laws alongside of
"the rich man." Our opinion is that if
''the poor man. can't manage to worry
along on $4,000 year with no end of
perquisites he had better keep out of
Congress altOgether.-W Woodstock Post.
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VIOLENT TREMoRs CAUSED BY To-
BACCo.-The trembling, which is one of
the usual symptom of acute, is also a
common result of chronic nicOtism. A
very distinguished Partisan physician
had hands which shook so much that
he could not write. Whenever he re-
manned without tobacco for any length
of time, these tremblings disappeared. d.
Another case mentioned by Blatin is
noteworthy. A man of forty five years
consulted him respecting violent and
numerous attacks of vertigo. When he
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BULLARD & FOLSON

BtLLARD FOLSOM,
PHrsICIASs AND SURGEONS,
St Johnsbury.
#.. RonL Rrock Main Street
.N l'nUards residence, DR. Folsoms residence
ltsI-ru Avenue. Cherry Street.
'i.r- hours from 9 To 10 A. NJ, l to , =. NJ.
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H'ruAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
,.,, OF NEW YORK
'>H ASSETS OVER, s55.OOO, 900.
'' fl"hGRrT, Special Agent, ST. Johnsbury, VT.
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'' Ia blk. Main st. Res1st door 5. Of y. Church
y. VI. JOHNSON,
DEALER IN GENERAL DRY GOODS,
b. JOHNsONs BLOCK,
'''''ai Street ST. JOhnsbury, VT.
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ar,,,r., sASUPACTURER AND DEALER IN
ShoES and RUBBERS. also LEATHER,
IA r,a., FINDINGS, ETC.
au street, St JOhnsbury, VT.
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A judicial decision interesting to the holders
oflife insurance policies has just been rendered in
New York. IL seems that Mr.. Dean obtained
two policies Of life insurance-one for SO 900 and
the other for o, 00o-from the IEtna Lie Insur-
ance Company. The policies were what are
known as participating policies" and the pre-
niunns, falling due on September 20, were to be
paid one-half in notes and the balance In cash.
Incorporated I'm the policies were the usual
clauses of forfeiture in case Of failure TO pay the
premiums. After Mr.. Deans death the COM
psny refused to pay the widow the amount Of
policies, on account Of the nom payment of pre-
miums, but il was shown by the plaintiff that
before the last premium was paid, an extension
of the time of payment to the November follow
ing was granted by the general agent of the
company; that then only one-fourth cash was to
be paid, and the balance in notes at thirty and
ninety days The company denied any such
agreement, and contended that IL made the
company was not bound by it. The legal point
involved was whether the company was bound
by the action of its general agent. The court
held that the general agent could not revive a
policy which had lapsed, but if the agreement was
made before the date of payment, as was claimed
BY plaintiff, it was binding ON the company and
kept the policy alive. On the questions Of fact
as to whether the agreement was made, and. if
made, was it made before the policy lapsed the
jury found in favor of plaintiff, giving her a
verdict for S1T 1928
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BALTIMoRE, Feb. s.-yirsinia SIS, consolidated
20. do. registered, 50. West virginias, Il bid to-
BALrIMoRE, Feb. s.-Cotton dull: Low middlings,
IEa Flour firm and unchanged. Wheat steady aud
unchanged. Corn dull and nominal for southern;
White southern, 6S1s4; yellow southern, 60; mixed
western steady, g. Oats hrmer: for western mixed,
dub: western, Sx@ ga; Pennsy yania, $s2@ S3S.
Provisions quiet and steady: prices nominally I'm
Whisky steady, g..
NV YoRK, FEB. s.-stochs dull. Money firm,
81 per cent. Gold firm, u. Exchange long, 9l<
short, 10y. 0overnments dun and firm.
NEW Y9Rk, FEB. s.-Flour quiet. Corn dull.
LeNpoN, Feb. 8, II .. m.-Conscls opened at
ISs@ks for money, and 81 9s1s. for account.
Bonds q lg6, Old @S; lS7, sas; 10 aGs, sEs; new
PaH., Feb. s.-Rentes opened at IS francs s
Confines.
LONDON. Feb. s, 2 p. m-The rate for money ct the
STOCK exchange on government SECURITIES Is lower
soils and American securities closed unchanged
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Reading Matter on Every Page.
WASHINGTON CITY: :
sATTRDAY........... Rebeuary Q, 1873.
shall Loeemoeixes C.es. the ASenae.

Snail LOcOmOttveS CR0S8 the Ave0Oe?
An effort is now being made in Congress by
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to get permis-
sion to replace their tracks on LIST street. in front
of the Capitol, under plea of temporary use
We trust that Congress will promptly reject the
proposition Everybody here understands that
the pretext that the privilege is wanted only tenn
porarily is shrewd device TO disarm opposition,
and that II they once get their tracks replaced
they will keep them there. 1t is idle for them
street for a short time, until they can tunnel
their way through the city. OF find another pas
sage. What that means We know by the length
of time they have been at work on the Metropoli-
tan road, which has been "going to be built, ;
since the memory Of the oldest inhabitants.
Ii members Of Congress viii reflect for q mo-
ment, on the DANGEROUS nature of the nuisance
inflicted upon the Avenue by allowinst locomo-
uyes TO cross it at one of its mostcrowded points
at the junction of half dozen streets, and di-
reetly at the foot of the Capitol grounds, they
will not for a moment tolerate the idea Of re-
storing evil from which that locality is now
happily relieved Those Who remember the al
most daily accidents occurring while that nuis-
ance existed, from horses taking fright at sight
of the locomotives with long trains of cars, will
join us in denouncing the scheme for relaying
these tracks as an outrage upon the public. We
cannot suppose that Congress will be unmindful,
either. of the undesirability Of having the loco
motives, with their shrieking whistles and infer
nal bells, crossing and recrossing Pennsylvania
Avenue every hour Of the day within q stones
throw of the Capitol itself. --
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The trial of United States Senator-elect Pat
terson, Of South Carolina, on the charge OF
bribery, cannot now be reached until 1874. AT
Columbia, on Saturday morning, Judge Car
penter gave decision on motion to quash the
panel OF grand jurors for the general sessions of
that county for this year. He decided that the
jury was Illegally drawn, and then adjourned
the court ssHe die. The effect of this will be,
unless there should be some legislative inter
ference, which Is In the highest degree improb-
able, to prevent the holding Of any court OF
general sessions until February, 1874. The
Senator-elect is thus safe from prosecution bv
the state for year to come.
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10 ne Editor IF Tie Erenisg Star. g.
Thank, many thanks, for your kind and Just
Itmark X I'M your paper Of yesterday in the mat
inc hIst eitlzen CT the republic, WILLIAM CUL-
iES bkfASr, without his consent, or even
kno~ledge, 10 the "circular for the Greeley
monument" IL such a thing is not worth ask
ing for By committee, tt is not worth HAVING
A man name should never be used 20 any such
E'eiscrssr without his consent As well si0n
II TO bonn: contract, or propissory note, It e
fraud, a forgery, az inibertinenTe. and The re-
-h2ke OF Nh. BRYAHF Wa wen de.erved- ana
one that viii be or ought 10 be long remembered
by thase who use other mems names without
asking sby your leave, sr." ME-. BRYAxr
needs no defence; his name, his reputation, his
bong life Of spOtless integrity are Ancient
February 8, 1873. A NEW YoRKER
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4. The difficulty between four shoe manufac-
turing firms in Baltimore and the Crispin So
ciety is still unadjusted. In those factories
where the Crispins refused to work on account
OF the "unpleasantness'' with the manufac-
tuners, the girls and women belonging to the
Daughters OF St Crispin also quit work. At a
meeting of the organization with closed doors,
on Thursday evening, it was resolved to tax
each girl and woman of the society at work in
the other shoe factories Of the city twenty-fv
Per cent. Of her earnings in order to aid in sup
porting the men aud women out of employment
by the strike. The Baltimore American saws
that some young women who earn ten or twelve
dollars week, and who would in this manner
be compelled to contribute 20 or - a week,
expressed great dissatisfaction at the arrange
ment thus perfected, and did not seem quite
willing to comply. No wonder.