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Tie Leisure Hour.
SU.V'DRIRS.
ny II. T.. HUNT.

have been reading lately, some words
of wise woman about living on small in
comes. She says that one must save in
tie things; that little savings may pinch
and demean a family, but they won't effect
much in the long run. Now our leak has
always been through the small things,
though we did not know it for long time.
thousand dollars is not much you'll say,
to feed, clothe and house five people but
then, Simpson only has as much, with his
wifes sick mother in addition to his three
children; and only last year he bought a
new carpet for his parlor, and his wife had
iorty-dollar shawl. Why, they look
twice as well off as my family; and /
know they talk about owning house.
pect, for Simpson is no brag, and he would
die in Il hovel before he'd run in debt.
whore he didn't see the means to pay conf
ing.
Jane and | talked it over about two years
ago, and we determined to find out WHY
we couldn't do as well, with the same mon
ey, as the Simpsons.
vt can't be that people cheat us, and
make us pay more for our gools can il ?''
asked Jane. ! showed her the absurdity
of that notion.
ave don't buy useless things for the
children, | suppose?"
That was my question. Whereupon Jane
demonstrated its folly by, shall I say
"trouing OUT the three little Simpsons
first in their school, and next in their GO
to-meeting garb. ! was obliged to sub
nit that my friends offspring shone In
| princely raiment, while mine were Just de
Gently attired, even for church.
"Well," said /, ''let us try keeping {
strict account Of all expenditures for on,
and then we can make an estimate of wha
we must have In each department. House
rent so much, we will put down; grocer
les so much; butchers bill, fuel, &C., dc.
we will apportion so much to each, and
keep within it. Perhaps that will show us
how to retrench. will make 1t matter
of conscience to put down ,he smalles
item. If we can't have any more out o
one thousand dollars, we shall at least know
| what IL buys.
Jane agreed, after little hesitation. Ii
the first place, she had always Iancied ther
was ill-luck in keeping strict accounts o
family expenses; and then she didn't SCI
how one could make an estimate of eacl
expense and keep within it; no two month
would he alike; there might be sickness
and certainly there would be company be
fore the three months were over.
| said we would make a rough estimate
leaving a little balance for contingencies.
"But them" she urged, show can every
thing come into or under a certain head
for instance, a spool of cotton, a paper @
needles, or some little present l might ever
feel it necessary TO make; or your extr
newspaper and ride down town; what elias
will those come under?"
"Why, that's easy enough put all sucl
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Indeed, / fancy. that the. truest maxim
must be applied with caution, and the con-
sideratlon of circumstances. And that all
proverbs are framed for general, rather
than particular direction.
Jane had been taught by precept and ex-
ample kind of thoroughness which is ex /.
cellent in its way, but fatal to the peace and
comfort of woman in ordinary circum-
stances, If she rigidly adheres TO it. My
wife and her sisters worked with the best
materials; they must have just the shade
of cotton, silk, thread, and these must be
just so fine or so coarse. Buttons must be
of just the right shade and of the most ap-
proved style. Braids must match the col
or of the material TO hair. 1t was the
poorest economy to use any save the best
trimmings In garment, and false judg-
ment TO buy anything but the best fabrics.
So Jane, in obedience to these maxims, had
worried and fretted herself over the work ;
ltspepdlng time and strength in matching
and hunting over stores in attempts to
match silk, buttons and braid, then work.
ing herself nearly to death, making up lost
time. BY the same means, also, stock of
sewing materials accumulated upon her
hands. Sometimes a certain shade of sew
ing silk was wanted for bit of trimming,
and dozen yards would be used, out of
one hundred; a similar call might not
come in lifetime. So spools of cotton
would be purchased to hem baby's apron,
and no further use for them, &C., &c. And
all the time the remains were gathering
buttons by scores of dozens, their use gone
by with the garments for which they were
designed, lay idle upon strings in out OF
the way boxes, in company with braids,
gimps, fringes and the like.
But the economical experiment must
have come from something in the air, since
my foolish pride in horsefesh and my in
dolence in the matter of walking, with my
wiie's adherence to vain traditions, receiv-
ed a shock so nearly together.
Be that as it may, we went on, not with
out demonstrating the truth of that other
proverb-about the first step being the one
which costs.
In year we had together gained mighty
victory over "sundries" and, as we said to
each other, were laying the foundations oil
our house in earnest. With all our self-de-
NAL and economy, we were never so little
pinched as now there had never been q
time since the babies came, when an extra
expense was so easy and cheerfully met
We could better afford some little excur.
sion, easier help some unusual distress
please and surprise each other, even though
we were saving for great object.
We had learned, though it took a long
lesson, what is true in so many directions
that freedom comes through victories gain
ed over self-indulgence. That the conques
of weakness and folly is the price of lber
ty.
And so, as I said at the beginning, my
idea is that, with small incomes, ones on
ly reliance must be on saving in small
things. And but for my wholesome dreat
of proverbs, 1 should adopt for strug
Cling families, take care of the cents ant
the dollars will take care of themselves -
The Ladies' Repository.
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CoAL NINE DISASTER IN ENGLANp.-

COAL MINE DISASTER IN ENGLAND
Though England is subject to collery dis
asters, none perhaps has been more terri
BILE than the one which recently occurred al
Pelsall Hall Colliery. In this pit forty
miners were working, when an adjacent
and disused mine, full of water, which had
not been operated since forgotten times,
and whose existence was unknown, burst
its partition and swept through in resist
less flood into this busy hive. Several saw
ed their lives by swimming, and one man
had remarkable escape, being carried for
quarter of a mile underground clnging
to ladder. When taken out he was in
sensible Seventeen others escaped, but
there was no help for the other twenty-five.
The efforts to pump out the water contin-
ned for days, while around the edge of the
pit the wives and children Of the doomed
men gathered, rending the air with their
cries. The appearance of fire. damp left no
hope, but the women hoped against 1t.
There being Il superstition in the mines
that as long as the wife refrans from eat
ing the husband will remain alive, for days
tears were the only meat these poor women
fed upon, until in imminent danger oftheir
lives they consented to take bread, and
then all hope departed from the village.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-03

WEIGHTY WoRDs.-When Horace Gree
ley had brought to an end the revelations
he chose to make of his recollectons of his
busy life, he wrote these well weighed
words, which could hardly have been pen
ned by a man not conscious of having striv-
en- to serve his Master and his neiehbor
with singleness of heart:
"My life has been busy and anxious, but
not joyless. Whether it shall be prolong
ed few or more years, l am grateful 1t has
endured so long, and that it has abounded
in opportunities for good not wholly unlm-
proved, and in experiences of the nobler
as we'll as the baser impulses of human
nature. l have been spared to see the end
of great wrongs which once deemed in
vincible in this century, and to note the
silent upspringing and growth of princl-
pies and influences which hail as destin-
ed TO root ont some of the most fragrant
and pervadin evils that yet remain. re-
alize that each generation is destined TO
confront new and peculiar perils, to wres-
lie with temptations and seductions un-
known to its predecessors yet ] trust that
progress is the general law of our being,
and that the ills and woes of the future
shall be less crushing than those of the
bloody and hateful past So, looking calm
ly, yet humbly, for that close in my NOR
tai career which cannot be far distant, l
reverently thank God for the blessings
vouchsafed me in the past and with awe
that is not fear, and consciousness of de-
merit which does not exclude hope, await
the opening before my steps of the gates o.
the eternal world
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-03

THE FLEA.-When a flea, under II micro
scope, is made to appear as large as an ele-
phant, we can see all the wonderful parts
of its formation, and are astonished to find
that il has a coat of armor much more COM
plete than ever warrior wore, and compos-
ed of strong, polished plates, fitted over
each other, each plate covered like tor
toise-shell and where they meet, hun
dreds of small quilts project, like those on
the back of porcupinc or hedgehog.
There are the arched neck, the bright eyes,
the transparent cases, piercers to puncture
the skin, a sucker to draw away the blood,
six long ,jointed legs, four of which are
folded on the breast, all ready at any mo-
ment to be thrown out with tremendous
force for that jump which bothers one
when he wants TO catch him and at the
end of each leg hooked claws, to enable
him to cling to whatever he lights upon. A
flea can jump hundred times its own
length, which is the same as If Il man
jumped five hundred feet and he can
draw load Two hundred times his own
weight.
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DEATH OF GEORGE CATLIN.-George
Catlin, artist and traveller, died at Jersey
City Monday morning, Dec. %, at the age
of seventy eight years. He passed eight
years among the Indians in 1929, during
which time he visited forty eight different
tribes and painted the portraits OF two hun
dred chiefs and famous warriors. His let
ters, containing the valuable results of his
observations among the aborlgines, were
published in 1871, and he wrote also the
"North American Portfolio OF Hunting
Scenes" "Notes of Eight Years Travel
and Residence in Europe" Life Among
the Indians" and "Okeopah." His first
work was entitled illustrations of the
Manners, Customs and Condition of the
North American Indians, Written during
Eight Years of Travel and Adventure
Among the Widest and Most Remarkable
Tribes now Existing" 1t was illustrated
with over three hundred steel-plate engrav
ings from the Indian museum gallery. In
Mr.. Catlin the Indians had friendly, even
an enthusiastic, historian, and his "illus-
trations'' remain to this day the most in
teresting and authentic of existing mem-
orials of the race now so nearly blotted
| from the face of the earth.
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Poetry.
SO.ERRODI.S H.s.V'D.


There's soft little hand, with just one or two rings
There's a dozen of dimpes and some other things;
And the hand is as white, and as pretty, know,
As the prints Of the birds on the new fallen snow.
II is soft, 1t is warm, and its pressure is sweet
When by chance or design fingers happen to meet.
And the lady who owns 1t is pretty and free
Except in the promise she's just made to me.
'Tis hand to be fonded, and petted, and kissed,
when encased in white kid, on socety's list;
Tis hand to be held and to be loved with the rest
When the gloves thrown aside and Somebody's at rest
'Tis hand in adversely, sorrow care
When this brain burns with fever chils in the air
'Tis hand to smooth wrinkles and Danish the pain,
When lights are burned low, and lifes breath the
wanc.
Tis hand for the death bed ITO take the last pledge
When the grave yawns In waiting, with death at it's
edge
With future unknown, and the hungriest sod
Is waiting to hide all that S notgone to God.
'Tis hand for the bridal, to give all the trust
That life has been given, some time II must
with the heart and the life, and the faith, and the
name,
And all tIc.fcnd tribute its owner can claim.
Commercial AdUertiser.
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.Y.ITURE'S u.fRIOUS L.s.yaU.sGR

love TO breathe the morning air,
With balmy odors. .freighted,
when everything seems fresh ard fair,
As if but Just created.
Its hcalthful draughts inspire my soul
With sweetly solemn feeling
Ho! John! git up and feed them pigs
And stop their condemned squealing,
Above, the rising sun and clouds
Float just like golden leeces--
The way wool lately has gone up
Beats natur' all to pie .es;
Ten cents pound, and how much higher
Twill go there is no telling;
1t makes Inc shver when think
How near l was to selling!
The diamond dew. drops gem the grass--
I'm under mistake, or
That grass will cut at least as much
As two tons to the acre.
The clover wooed by droning bees,
Is flush with lucent honey
There is no sweetcr scent to me.
Except the cent of money.
Along the tinkling meadow brook
The flmy mist is creeping;
While whispering winds through yondrr wood,
Unseen are softly sweeping.
pitied widow Browns hard lot
She suffered many woes, sure;
But her wood lot was mighty cheap;
got it by foreclosure!
The happy birds, in tuneful notes.
Discourse meodious praises:-
Speaking of notes, wonder why
Jake Thompson never pays his.
If Jacob beats me out of that,
Twill shake my faith in Heaven!
Just think of twenty-five per cent.
Reduced to paltry seven.
The lowing cows the mixers call,
The milk white lambs are jumping
I'll bring the milk-cans round behind
The barn, and 60 to pumping!
For stolen waters are most sweet
Made into factory cheeses-
As cows decline, my short-hoin pump
Its daily yield increases
The soul must be quite lost and dead,
That cannot find in natur'
Sufficient cause to glorify
The bounteous Creator!
The Clouds the sky, the dew-spread grass,
The singing-birds, the zephyr
Hallo what beast has broke in there?
'Tis Joncs's pesky heifer.
Coniound that tarnal heifer's hide!
I've good mind to stone her.
Bat that won't pay. I'll shut her up
And sue her condemned owner!
No answer soft shall turn my wrath,
Nor cause me to forbear.
Ho! John and Jane! come hurry in;
'Tis time for morning prayer
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-Beecher says he never told his father
that he loved him, "yet did for all that,
and know he loved me, for he told me so
every time he whipped me-"
A lady at Glouscester hsiel, who had
learned to appreciate the great variety and
excellence of the Ash caught off the coast,
inquired at the table, 81 want to know II
you catch tripe In this harbor?"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-03

SECOND ATTACKS OF SMALLPOX IN THE
SAME PERsoN.-Dr. Bakewell, health OFF,
Ger of Trinidad, says; "Many persons who
had had smallpox before, had a second at
tack; many re-vaccinated persons the
writer among the number) were attacked /;
and in two cases that were under my own
care, and in one of which l had the partic-
ulars from medical man, patients had the
disease twice in six months. Med. Times
and Gazette
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REAL ESTATE AGENCY.

TENEMENTs TO LET.
Dnicp In Thompson & Rangers Block. noXt-d 10
PhGnix ONCE,
BRATTLEBORO VT.
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JN w. ARD.
II. ATTORNEY a COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Brattlehoro, VI
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BUSINESS CARDS.

DEN.J. II. JENNIE
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE AGENT.
Representing Companies whose Assets are over
SEPENTY-THRE MILLION DOLLARS,
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VOL. XL.
THE VERMONT PHUNIX.
Published every Friday Eveningby
PROUTY q STEDMAN,

,n,cxo. . a.unite Row, Main St, prattlcDoro, Vt.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-02-27
OUR BOOZE TABLE.
\ Very Beantifnl Paper

A Very Beautiful Paper
we arejust in receipt of The February number of
the "Peoples Monthly of Ptttsber=h, which, now
that it is printed in it+aes tyre, ard on tinted pa
per, boldly claims TO be the most Beautiful .%iilustra-
ted paper for the nome published in this, or any
other country. This number certainly seems 10
bear out the claim. 1t has no less than eight en-
cravings. some of then-and especially the from
tispiece-being very beautiful. The two famed
poems, the Wonderful one-hocse shay" o. ".
Holmes, and .'the Barefoot Boy" hitter, are
both illustrated in this attractive number. The
"IrousehoId' and "Bcys and Girls departments
are as full and valuable as ever, and the whole ia
BILE of contents is varied and entertaining In brief
we can say that the Peoples N0uihly' is a pure
wholesome, and attractive home paper, and well
deserving a he lrty and generous western support
We are not surprised to learn that its circulation
is now Increasing at the rate of one hundred per
| day. Agents on big commission are wanted in ey-
cry section. Send five cents for sample and agents
circular, postage free.
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On Sntnl.9nn Mnrch Isl. 1873.
gAey-sgss sale.
mo. 300.

mo. $3.50.
VIM. D. Larue, PrebIe Common
VS.. Pleas Order OF
George Kepler,and sale on Mortgage.
Elizabeth Kepler.
BY virtue of an order of sale issued by
the Court OF Common Pleas within and
for the County OF Preble and state of
Ohio in the above case, and to the Sher-
if Of said county directed, win offer
for sale at public auction aC the door OF
the Court House, in Eaton, in said
county,
On Saturday e8arch 3, 1873
between the hours OF l and O'Clock, p.
N. of said day the following described
lands and tenenents situated IN the
county of Preble and State OF Ohio, and
described as follows, to-wit: Lot mum
ber seventeen 90 as known and desig-
mated on the town plat of the town of
! Winchester in Said county. Appraised
JOHN TOWNSEND, Sheriff.
CAMPBELL & GILIoRE, Attorneys.
Jan. 80, 1S73.-tds. lprf. 30.
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Farmers Club.

mere VIII be q meeting OF FARMER
at Campbellstown, SATURDAY ~evepins
March, s, 1873, for The purpose OF or
g&niZing a Club of She Patrons o,
Husbandry, for jackson township
Prebla County, Ohio, for the protec-
ton of home industry.
The above was handed us for pub
LEGATION and we give it q place in ou1
columns cheerfully. Almost every
pursuit, Mercantile, Mechanical OF
Political, has associations and combi-
nations for its protection, and we see
no reason why the Farmers of our
county should not form organizations
for their protection againstthe opera
tons of pIundering rings of specula-
tors, who grow rich OF the toll, and
labor, and productive wealth Of the
honest yeomanfy of the nation. In
Iowa, Illinois and other States east
and west Of US, the Farmers have or
gained themselves into protection
societies, and a beginning to this
much needed reform must be made
somewhere, and we can see no good
reason why the movement may not as
well start in this coGnty as any where
else. When once 1he ball is set in
notion it win gather strength, and.
force, and impetus with each succeed
ing day, until it will extend its iniu-
ence and power into every section of
country and among all classes of
producers. 1t is noboay's business
bnttheir OWN, and unless they look
to their own interests, they may be
assured no other class of persons or
business men win consider and devise
plans or means for their benefit. 80.
Now is. the time for actionl Such
steps may be taken as will be pro-
ductive of great benefit to The Farming
andLaboring interests of our country,
if prompt artion isshad. They are
men Of intelligence, who know what
they want and should have 1t, and
they ought to lose no time in consid-
ering a matter of such grave impor-
lance to them. Consultation is the
first step-if satisfactory results are
not obtained at a preliminary meet
ing, try again. 1t viii require con-
centrated, persistent and harmonious
action, and when the object is accom-
plished, the result will compensate
for all trouble.
We may refer to this matter again.
Our farmers however, have views,
if they forms nucleus for action, our
object will be secured, If they do not,
the responsibility viii be with those
most deeply Interested.
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RaraainsI RareaIns!

Great Bankrupt Sale of Dry Goods,
Boots s. Shoes, to be sold at private sale
in the room adjoining tie Dety House,
in Eaton, commencing Monday, March
2ud, 1878.
$4,000 worth Of Poplfns. Black
and Fancy silks, Dress Gods in every
variety. Alpacas Of every color and
shade Cassimeres Jeans, Flannels,
Blankets, Shawls, Bhached and Brown
Muslins, Ca1icos, tIiehens, Boots &
Shoes, that win be sold for one half OF
actual cost. We are forced to sell Il
raise money.
This is a rare chance of securing first
class goods 25 per cent. less than can pf
purchased elsewhere.
Feb. 9th, lS73-W2.
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The New Illustrated Annual of

PhrenoIegy and Phpsicsonomy for 1873, contains
portraits and sketches of more than fifty distin-
euisned subjects; including Seward. Livingstone,
Fred. Douglass, Arnold; with Indians, Negroes,
Malays, MongoIiOns, Arabs Caucnsiars; Views OF
the Human Grain; Language ofthe Lips; Gharac-
ter in Expression: Physiogrony; with portraits
and sketches or al the Presidents OF tie U. s.,
frem Washington TO Grant. y capital Handbook
Of IS pages, Emo. Prizes = cents. :. Z Wcl.s,
puh!isnsr. 50 EroadMay. y. Y.
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DIED-Silas S. DoOley departed this
life aged IS years-at his residence, in
Washington township, Parke Co., Ind.
His disease was pneumonia severe
attack from the first, it o did its
fatal work. Having set his house in
order and commended his wife and chill
dren 70 the care OF : faithful Creator, he
contemplated the end with great calm
ness.
In indianapolis, ON Friday the Zlst
inst, of Ear and Head disease, Mrs.
Nary Brown wife OF John ri. Brown,
formerly OF this place, aged2S years and
4 months. She was buried at indianap-
oils, at 8 O7eiock, Saturdav a~fIerOOOr.
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PETIT JURY.

solomon Chrisman, WASHINGTON, Tp.;
VIM. Barnett, Somers, T'D. John Craig,
Washington Up; John 2. Deem, TwIn
Tp.:J. r. Eliason. Jefferson, Up; Cor
sneliis NcDiyitt, Dixon Pp.: John II.
Poptius, Twin TIP, WA D Borrofaiie
IsraelTp, JosD Ecott tsraei Yp., Jacob
Smith Harrison IN JOAN Taylor Gratis.
Up, Tkos j King Monroe Up. i s'ss
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Young men in society sometimes
seem to try and see how stupid they
can appear. When one visits an idi-
OF asylum they know what to expect,
but to see young fellows with capaci-
ties of energy and strength taking
absolute pains to appear as though
born fools, is aggravating to the most
intense degree.
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Dramatic,

v Go andasee BRAYER's Dramatic
performers at the City Hall. They
are the best Troupe that has ever been
III Eaton, and all who patrohize the
exhibition come away satisfied. They
all pIerformtheir parts well, and there
is nothing in their plays to offend the
most fastidious.