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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
Air Poison and its Remedy.

The effects of fresh air upon the hu-
man system are we'll known to be renewed
strength, increased vital force, and hight
ened complexion; but the fetid atmos-
phere of close rooms produces pallor,
weakness, and elimination of the mental
capacity. 1t is remarkable that the same
body, air, should havesuch diametrically
opposite effects under but slightly altered
conditions.
After the discovery, in the last century
of the composition of atmospheric air
which is about one fifth oxygen and four
fifths nitrogen-itwas ignorantly believed
to be the absorption of oxygen by breath
ing, and consequent relative increase Of
nitrogen that made the air of crowded
rooms noxious; but analysis abolished this
idea, and proved that the relative proper
tions of the two gases are always the
same. The oxidation of the carbon sup
piled by our food causes the gas exhaled
from the human frame to be largely COM
posed of carbonic acid; but the chief i'm
purities of the air, which cause decay
and putrefaction of organic matter, are
the living vibros, which multiply so
rapidly that ere it not for the eternal
compensation OF natural forces. they
would soon suffocate all other life of the
earth. Their fell enemy is ozone, which
is oxygen in negatively electric state,
and exists in our atmosphere in pro-
portion varying from one-ten-thousancth
to ndred-thousandth. Ozone is
generated by lightning flashes, which
have been truly said, from time i'm
memorial, to clear the air. The evapor-
alton of saline solutions also disengages
ozone, which is always found in increased
proportion on and near the sea. Being
more dense, one and half times more
heavy than oxygen, it descends to the
earth, from which the vibrios ascend.
1t also has strong phosphoric smell,
and has the important property of COM
bining with all bodies, except gold, plat
inum, and water. This property is its
great weapon in destruction of the vib-
rios.
The open air is the space in which
ozone continually rules, while the vibrios
have the supremacy in close and fetid
places where ozone is very seldom or
never recognized. Every breath we
take in such places begins to poison and
and weaken our system, while every
breath in open air neutralizes poisonous
agents and renews strength.-Scientifc
American.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
5nisceIlanu.
Shall we say Begin {?

No observant reader Of the literature
Of the day can have failed to notice that
during the last fifteen or twenty years
begin has been going rapidly out of use,
its place being taken by commence
Where, before, we began almost every
thing, and used commence only in mat
ters of some state and Importance, now
we commence the most trivial matter ;
so that | read the other day that a boy
" commenced to eat his pie" This ten
dency showed itself long while ago,
but it is only within the period that /
have mentioned that commence has
crushed begin almost out of the Ian
guage. Now commence is word whose
very presence in English is the merest
superfuity. Although it came in about
five hundred years ago, it is an intruder,
and might better never have been heard
from English lips. As it is generally
used, it means simply begin" no more
no less; and having begin, which is
home-bred English, why should we so
run after this strange Roman god, com
menceP We gain nothing by it in mean
ing, in sound, or even in variety of ac-
cent. Nor do we in dignity: " In the
beginning God created the heavens
and the earth" :" In the beginning was
the word" The historical writer upon
language, to wit, the etymologist, or he
of wider scope and higher aims, the phil
ologist, goes over his accumulated list of
examples, and records the fact that at
such time begin began to pass out of
common use, and commence commenced
coming in; and there he washes bis
hands. His business is to observe the
phenomena of language, to record and
if possible to connect them. Such, how
ever, is not my calm, scientific attitude
l am interested in this funeral, and claim
the right to weep over it. think that
the departure of begin, no matter how
or by whom it was brought about, is to
be mourned, and that if that good, sim
pie English word can be called back it
would be well-well for us no less than
for our language because it would show
that manly simplicity of taste and love
of kindred speech have not yet quite
died out among us.-Richard Grant
White.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
Wherein the Greatness of Washing
ton Lay.

All true greatness is calm, has large
side of silence, works in harmony with
the still and modest laws of truth, and
shows symmetrical proportions that pre-
vent its majesty from producing its full
impression upon us until we study it
carefully. was talking with man, not
long since, who said he could not see the
remarkable greatness of Washington.
What new thing did he do ," he asked
--as if it were not marvellous instance
of greatness that, with such opportuni-
ties to do new and brilliant things as to
be the founder OF line of kings on a
vast continent, he would not think of it;
as if he did not show the very originality
of his greatness, among the chieftains of
history by lifting up the common vir-
tues of honesty, integrity and regard for
the welfare of others, and showing them,
instead of a royal robe and princely
crown, thus showing that they we're broad
and ample enough to cover him with ma
jesty; as if that letter by which, from
the impulse of honor and devotion to re-
publican truth, he refused the imperial
office and name, and rebuked the officer
who wrote the temptation to him, was
not the most original page in the bloody
annals of revolution and war; as if it
were an every day occurrence for man,
by the business of his motives and the
earness of his sight, to insure liberty
for generations to half hemisphere; as
though it was something lightly to be es
timated when the devil takes great ma
ture, such as he has so often conquered
by his splendid baubles, up to a high
mountain, from which the extent of a
nation is visible, and offers the landscape
as the prize, if he will kneel and wor-
ship,-to hear the answer given that
echoes round the world, "Get thee be-
hind me, SBtan, for | will serve only
truth and my fellows, and the Supreme
God. ."-T. Starr King.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
Temperance in Sweden.

A war against brandy is the peculiar
form the temperance struggle assumes 10
Sweden. The Swede gets drunk on BRAN
dy, if anything, but of late years the in
cessant activity of the temperance soci.
eties and the high excise duty on this
liquor have forbidden the laboring man
the luxury of spree, except at rare in
tervals, so that it had come to be fondly
believed the foe was beaten down for
good. Recently, however, there has
been universal rise in wages through
out the kingdom, and the inebriating
cup has once more come within the easy
reach of the poorest working man. And
now the temperance folks are redou bling
their efforts to bring moral forces into ac-
tion. Societies have been formed among
the working men, which are widely
spreading, the main idea of them being,
not total abstinence, but the restraint of
intemperance. Some of their novel pro-
visions are, that no married man shall
go into public house at all, and the
single man only at meal time, when he
is allowed to partake of liquor along
with his victuals. The married man, al
though shut out from the public bar, is
not debarred from his glass of brandy,
which he may keep stored in the cup
board at home. All public treating is
also forbidden, and the transgression Of
any of these rules subjects the delinquent
to fine. The town of GotheDburg is
the most original in the methods for the
suppression of drunkenness. Here the
whole spirit trade has been conferred
upon company of philanthropists, woo
run the business solely for the benefit Of
the town. 1t contrives that the public
houses to which licenses are dispensed
shall derive no profit from the traffic in
liquors, forcing the hotel keepers to de-
rive their income solely from legiti-
mate hotel business. The result has
been that the low, dirty drinking-shops,
formerly given over to mere guzzling and
carousing have been transformed into
neat and tidy restaurants and hotels,
where wholesome food and uns dulterated
liquor are supplied.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
Newspapers Domestically Consid-
cred.


Too low an estim. te is apt to be set on
the domestic value of newspapers. After
reading them, and putting ourselves,
through their agency, in mental cores
pondence with the world, they are thrown
aside and forgotten. But to suppose
their usefulness bounded by their news
columns and the waste-bag is a thrift
less mistake.
In the first place, there are the house
hold recipes, to be found in stray corners,
often excellent, and deserving a refuge
on the fy-leaf of the family cookbook.
Then come the pretty verses, the strange
and droll stories, the brief biographies
and "reminiscences which, pasted in a
scrap-book, are source of never. ending
pleasure, not only to those who do not
care for richer intellectual food, but to
those who have only odd minutes for
reading.
Notwithstanding the squibs jocular
journalists have penned on the use Of
newspapers for bed-clothing, we know
from experience that these are not to be
despised. They may not be as comfort
able as your blankets, but certainly they
keep out the cold Two thieknesses of
papers are better than pair of blankets,
and in the case of persons who dislike
the weight of many bed-clothes, they are
invaluable. A spread made of double
layer of papers between covering of
calico or chintz, is desirable in every
household, The papers should be tackled
together with thread, and also basted to
the covering to keep them from slipping.
An objection has been made on account
Of the rustling, but if soft papers be
chosen the noise will not be annoying, es-
peeially should the spread be laid be-
tween blanket and the counterpane.
As protection to plants against cold,
both in and out of doors, nothing is bet
ter. If newspapers are pinned up over
night at a window between pots aud glass,
the flowers will not only not be frozen,
but will not even get chilled, as they are
so liable to be at this season. Iu the
same way, if taken to cover garden beds,
on the frosty nights of early autumn,
they will allow the plants to remain safe
ly outdoors some time later than is COM
mon.
One of the oldest services to put our
journals to is the keeping of ice in sum-
mer. An ingenious housekeeper recent
ly discovered that her daily lump of ice
would last nearly twice as long when
wrapped in newspapers and placed in
any kind of covered box, as when trust
en- solely to a refrigerator. This is very
convenient, since il is possible to have
the best and cheapest refrigerator con-
stantly at hand.
To polish all kinds of glass after wash
| ing, except table glass, no cloth or fan
mel is half so good as newspaper; and
for bakers dozen Of other uses, quite
foreign to its primal purpose it is with
out rival.-Scribaer's for March.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

DEATH OF JOHN WEsLEY.-He rose
in the morning the first of his household.
Once, be relates, he was up at halfpast
five, went to the chapel, but found no
one of his assistant preachers there. OF
three or four in the house all were asleep.
al preached myself" writes the old man
of eighty-fou Wbeu be complained,
his assistants urged that they we're up
late the night before. He made it a rule
that every one in the house should retire
at nine, in order TO attend the morning
service at five. AT eighty-six Wesley
admitted the weight of years. His eyes,
he said, were dim, his voice faint he
could no longer keep his accounts or his
Journal He travelled almost to the last,
and wss followed by the throngs who
never deserted him.
In the spring of 1871 he was brought
to his house in City Road, stricken with
fever. On the % of March be died,
surrounded by a group of friends. When
be was dead they broke into psalm of
praise. His funeral. at FIVE in the morn
ing, was attended by vast throng, and
a sermon was preached in memory of his
good deeds in City Road Chapel, when
the church was hung with mourning.
and every member of the great audience,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

A WARNING TO BoYs.-A certain
doctor, struck with the large number OF
boys under fifteen years of age whom he
observed smoking, was led to inquire in
to the effect the habit had upon the gen.
eral health. He took for his purpose
thirty-eight boys, aged from nine to fif-
teen, and carefully examined them. In
twenty.seven of them he discovered in
furious traces of the habit. In twenty
two there were disorders of the circnla-
ton and digestion, palpitation of the
heart. and a more or less marked taste
for strong drink. In twelve there were
frequent bleeding of the nose they had
disturbed sleep; and twelve bad slight
liberation of the mucous membrane of
the mouth, which disappeared on ceasing
from the use of tobacco for some days.
The doctor treated them all for weak
ness, but with little effect until the
smoking was discontinued, when health
and strength we're soon restored. Now,
this is no sold woman's tale" as these
facts are given on the authority of the
British Medical journal.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

except one, who took the blue ribbon
from her bat when she saw her error,
was clothed in black. City Road Chapel
Is Wesley's monument. There are the
buildings and eharita bic labors he plann-
ed; there the room in which he died
his house, his church, his tomb.
lie desired at his funeral, he said, no
pomp, but only the tears of those who
loved him.-Harper's Magazine.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
Poetry.
For the Bellows Falls Times.
A Lullaby Ditty.


Come now to my arms, little one.
'Iis time to jump out of your clothes,
And little white wrapper slip on,
From out which peeps little pink toes.
The rattle. the blocks and the toys
Must be gathered and all laid aside.
And down by the freight Wen sit,
And TO Banbury Cross he shall ride.
He shall hear Of the wonderful shoe.
Where dwelt the old woman of yore,
With children all sizes-sO wild,
They puzzled her wits more and more.
OF the mousie that ran up the clock
The COW that jumped over the moon
vi the market whore went the fat pig,
And pig fourth of roast meat. got none.
He shall hear of the queer little boy.
Who lived all alone by himself.
Who laid up his bread and his cheese
Away from the rats. on the shelf.
OF that idle. that good for naught lad,
That lay meath the hay stack asleep,
And let the cows break down the corn.
While over the wall jumped the sheep.
Mamma'll tell of Dame Hubbard's dog,
Busy Trot-of the soft, cunning kittens,
Whose mother allowed them to walk
Abroad. in their hoods and red mitteus.
Little eyes so YEARLY wink
That Harley will scarcely know
If mamma repeats twinkle. twink,
Lo, beautiful stars all aglow.
Tell papa, dear papa. good night.
And froiicsome little brother
Goodnight to busy bee Grace,
And one more goodnight to mother.
Good night to Miss Tabby and Frisk,
To Dandy, in bright yellow jacket,
He's hoped up alOft TO his perch,
Why, who will there be for racket?
Goodnight to the beautiful sun,
Afar he is rapidly sinking.
And soon his days work will be done,
And done will his winking and blinking.
Goodnight to the light of the day.
The shadow Is onward creeping,
When silvery stars peep out
They 'lleatch little Mischief a-sleeping,
I'll nestle him close in my arms,
And kiss little eyelids together,
And take dimpled hands in my own,
And sing, while m querying whether
Bright morn will uplift him in beauty,
With eyes full of love-glances cleaning,
Little feet performing their duty,
Hands chuck full of labor seeming
Hush, dearie. my song must be lighter.
As gently you settle in slumber;
Kind angels around my boy hover,
And blessings grant him without number.
Asleep, helpless. innocent one,
With dimples all over thy features,
With ringlets in beautiful curl,
SO lovely 'mong Gods little creatures
Adown in his nest goes Harley,
To romp with the witching fairies
In Dreamland's wonderful world.
where hls lnnermost self now tarries;
Boston, Feb. 1874,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

A GIRL PIcKPocKET.-Miss Ellen
Sallies started last Wednesday for the
West. When she got as far as Burlington
she purchased her ticket for the remain
der of her journey and stopped TO kiss her
sister good bye, during which time little
girl picked her pocket, taking her wallet,
ticket, and $50 in money. Notice of it
was Immediately given to the policeman
and the girl was found, and confessed the
crime till she met her mother, when
few words of French changed her story,
wholly. She is in Jail and Miss Sallies
to Stowe Saturday morning to
await the result.-Lamoiiie Neiosdealer.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

The tenderest heart loves best the bold
and courageous one.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

He who laughs at cruelty sells his heel
on the neck of religion.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

Better be upright with poverty than
be wicked with plenty.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
I'EkDS AND PLANTS.

rue Cape Cod Cranberry. best sort
C- Upland, Lowland or Garden by
prepaid, Sl.OO per 100. $500 ner
sntaf 1ree n rsalogue, Of this and ali Fruits Or
tss xe. snd tsfr s Shrubs Bulbs, Roses
Us tns ohoieest collection n sba rpEi ,s
=. ~ a. ee sent gratis to any plain address
o. ES.b sees ta, = Harden. 0 Tree. Fruit, Ever
Z. q Sz.=AtE CATALOGUE IL ~ n Pay 4 y Prepaid
WAIS0N Old Colony $4,000 70 = nhApE;
'smoatn. Mas. Established -iisi ist2' S'e''
-
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
TO CONSUMERS OF
ANTS AND OIL.

T0THE HOUSE PAINTER. THE CARRIAGE
1 Painter. the Artist, the Builder, or Owner in
short all consumers Of paint desire to say that
We Will furnish you with PURE C0L0RS ground in
OH ana Japan at prices not exceeding those often
pald LOT coiors much cheapened by adulteration
N N N AZ uTy s ready made colors, CALLED RAIL
hoAD CobOhS Tor house painting. ground in oil
and superhne colors ground in Japan for carriage
painting, are put up in patented cans and guaran-
teed better than any in the world corresponding
prices
We have ust received a large invoice of these
coors. also of linseed oil and turpentine which we
stock and prices.
JOHNSON L BABBITT.
Bellows Falls, VT. 26
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
Watch-Words of Life.

w "tSh~ w oIsiS vi l<itC-
Hope,
While there's hand to strike;
Dare,
While there's young heart brave;
Toll,
While there's task unwrought;
Trust,
While there's God to save;
Learn,
While there's a work for each
Feel,
That there's strength in God
Know,
That there's a crown reserved
Wait,
Though meath cloud and rod
Love,
When there's foe that wrongs;
Help,
When there's brothers need
Watch,
When there's tempter near;
Pray,
Both in word and deed.
- Woods Hdgazine
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

THE TRAVELLERS MooD.-When once
one has fairly started on journey and
has but to go and go, by the impetus re.
ceived, it is surprising what entertain
ment one finds in very small things.
The travellers humor falls upon us, and
surely it is not the unwisest the heart
knows. | don't envy people, at any rate,
who have outlived OF outworn the simple
satisfaction of the sense of being settled
to go somewhere, with bag and umbrella.
If we are settled on the top of coach,
and the somewhere" contains an ele-
ment of the new and strange, the case is
at its best. In this matter wise people
are content to become children again
We don't turn about on our knees to look
out of the omnibus window, but we in
dulge in very much the same round-eyed
contemplation of accessible objects. Re
sponsibility is left at home, or, at the
worst, packed away in the valise, in quite
another part of the diligence, with the
clean shirts and the writing case Gal
ary for april.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
On Editors.

An editors drawer reminds one os the
pool of Bethesda, for just as an article is
about to drop into it accepted, an ADLER
piece slips in before, and one might weep
over the lost hopes in waste basket.
10 change the metaphor, we wonder
whether any phoenix ever rises from those
ashes; and has no manufacturer discov-
cred use for rejected manuscript
Contributors sometimes feel as if editors
preserved cutting silence, but when we
consider that the proprietors of some
journals must receive we'll nigh ream
of correspondence per day, We are dis
posed to think they need some special oc
cular provision, such as relay of eyes
or a pair in the back as well as in the
front Of their heads to enable them to
read the host of communications forward
ed to them. And if fairy tale is sent
to theological review, or the editor of a
juvenile paper receives manuscript
long enough to fill his entire sheet, can
we wonder that such mismatched pro-
ductions are treated with silent con-
tempt? With as much reason might we
inquire fora gentleman outfit at crock
cry store, and grumble at not finding it.
If any one is disposed to think the stand
ard too high, he ought to know the his
tory of literary society in Germany
whose records were kept over hundred
years. To be enrolled among the cele-
brated Minnesingers the production of
a candidate for admission was required
to belong to a certain class, to consist OF
a given number of syllables, and if it
contained one too many or too few, the
candidate was not only rejected, bat sen.
fenced to pay fine beside. Think OF
that, 0 ye disappointed contributors Ii
seems sometimes hard to be sure, when
an inferior piece from popular writer
is preferred to better from an unknown
source. But after all this is only the
well-earned reward of past toll or super
ior talent, and it is not so often the case
as the sighted ones think. For the plain
truth that an article is not good enough
to print is too little relished to be taken
and so the writer turns and throws the
blame of his own shortcomings on the
editors. Hearth and Home.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03

A great hardship-An iron steamer.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-03
G. E. HORSFORD

Has leased the Brick Store opposite Towns Hotel
and fitted the same up in first class STYLE for the
purpose of carrying on the
The New York herald., 1874-10-31

PORT OF NEW YORK. OCT. 30, 1874.
CLEARED,

Steamship Celtic cBr) Kddle, Liverpool via Queens.
town-RJ Cortis.
steamship Calabria Br), McMickan, Liverpool via
Queen nstown-C q Francklvn
steamship Spain (Br), Grace Liverpoo via Queenstown
-FW Hurst
Steamship City Of Antwerp CBr, Lavar Liverpool-J
Dale
Steamship Beluic CBr), Metcalf London-R Cortis
Steamship Bolivia (Br) small, Glasgow Henderson
Bros
Steamship India (Br), Harris, Gasgow-Henderson
Bros
steamship vile de Paris (Fp, Daure, Havre-George
Mackenzie.
Steamship Achilles Tutte, Wilmington, Nc-wm P
Clyde a Co.
Steamship Gen wh,tnsv Halier Bosnp-B v Dimock.
Ship scindia, Harrison, London-Geo Bulley
snip Magdalena GER, Hcnke, Bremen-Chas Luling
A Co.
Bark Thor Nor). 1horwaldscn, Dubhn--Tetens 4
B0ckmann
Bark Giulio D dtaD, Massoni Newry-slocovicn 4 Co.
BARK COrtese (Aus, Chiesa, DundalK-siocoyich Co.
. Bark Thomas Pope, fossett Monrova ana market
BARK Msynower. Lanfare Barbados-H Trowbridge's
Sons.
Bark Teresa dBrD Kane Cicnfuegos-J O Fowler
Bark Johannes GER, Ihlder, DoDoy-Herman Koop
Co.
Bark Florence, smith, Richmond-ve II Brown 4
Co.
schr Dsytreak, Blake. cienfuegos-Jas Ward Co.
schr kNB BI), CleaveIsnd, Londonderry, NS-D
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