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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-12
My Stock of Gentlemens Furnishing
Goods is Complete.

am daily receiving from New York and Boston.
new and nobby styles of gentlemen's neck wear. in
the snaps of Ties. Bows and Windsor Scarfs. and l
keep constantly on hand large line of Plain white
and Fancy Shirts, also a good line of mems and
boys underwear. / have a splendid line Of Fall
Styles
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-12

KEEP THE GATE SHUT.-An English
farmer was one day at work in his field
when he saw a party of horsemen riding
about his farm. He had one field that
he was especially anxious they should
not ride over, as the crop was in a con-
dition to bebadly injured by the tramp of
horses. So he dispatched one of his
boys to the field, telling him to shut the
gate, and then keep watch over it, and
on no account to suffer it to be opened.
The boy did as he was bidden; but he
was scarcely at his post before the hunt
ers came up, peremptorily ordering. the
gate to be opened. This the boy refus-
ed to do, stating the orders he had re-
ceived, and his determination not to dis
obey them. Threats and brides were
offered alike in vain one after another
came forward as spokesman, but all
with the same result; the boy remained
immovable in the determination not to
open the gate After a while, one of
noble presence advanced, and said, in
commanding tones; my boy, do you
know me !? am the Duke of Yelling
ton, one not accustomed to be disobeyed:
and command you to open the gate,
that and my friends may pass through" ]"
The boy lifted his cap, and stood un-
covered before the man whom all Eng
land delighted to honor, and answered
firmly :" | am sure the Duke of Yelling
ton would not wish me to disobey or
ders. | must keep this gate shut, nor
suffer any one to pass but with my mas
ter's express permission" Greatly pleas.
ed, the sturdy old warrior lifted his own
hat and said | honor the man or
boy that can neither be bribed nor
frightened into doing wrong. With an
army of such soldiers, | could conquer
not only French but the world" And
handing the boy glittering sovereign, the
Duke put spurs to his horse and galloped
away while the boy ran off to his work,
shouting at the top of his voice Hur-
rah hurrah I've done what Napo-
leon couldn't do-Tve kept out the
Duke of Wellington"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-12
A WINDOW oRNAMENT FOR WINTER

A WINDOW ORNAMENT FOR WINTER.
"A pretty window ornament for winter
can be made by gathering few pitch
pine cones, drying them so that they will
open, dipping them in water and sprink-
ling few grass seeds into the opening.
BY setting the stem end in water a few
hours the cone will close up, and the
grass will show itself in few days and
continue to grow as long as the cone is
kept moist. They can be hung by a
string in the window or placed on the
flower stand,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-12
OFFER FOR SALE

The extensive property OF Mrs ii. W. SPAULD.
ING-consisting Of three Houses on Canal St.. and
two on Rockingham ST., with out buildings and va
cant plots connected-the property extending from
Canal to Rockingham St.
This property is put upon the market, at time
when it be put TO several uses. 1t pays large
rental now-and by judicious management and a
little improvement it can be doubled. 1t is aeeess-
BILE from main streets and particularly well To-
Gated with reference TO the depot business, For
Shops. Stores and Hotel 1t possesses advantages.
not found in any other quarter of the town-there
is vacant room upon the site large enough for the
erection of good sized Hotel without disturbing
any Of the dwellings and buildings upon the prem
ises An enterprisng man can easily see the many
profitable uses this property can be put to. The
property is too extensive for the present owner to
manage. and she has authorized me TO sell at a
price that not fail to be considered reasonable
/ should prefer to sell the property entire-but
will sell detached portions If desired upon fair
terms.
The present leases can be taken by the purchaser,
or full possession given at an early day.
An immediate attention to this offer is desired-I
Will show the premises any day, and furnish full in
formation as TO the sale upon request ! will say
however, that large portion of the purchase mon
ey. can lie. for term of years.
q j. ID. BRIDGMAN.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-12

Win do well to call and see my new Silk Railroad
Cap, made expressly for railroad use.
N. b.. L have in connection with my other busi-
ness, first class Custom and Tailoring Department
and in this branch guarantee satisfaction. Each
and every garment is made and trimmed in the lat
est and most fashionable style. All my trimmings
used are of the best quality, cutting first Glass.
and here let saythat this branch of my business
is second to none in the State.
Thanking you for the patronage you have bestow-
ed upon me in the past, hope by Low PRICES
and SQUARE DEALING to merit a continuance Of
the same.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-11-12
A PROCLAMATION
A PRUULAMATIUN
TO The People Of Belloacs Falls and sur
rounding TO'ons
and well selected stock OF
READY MADE CLOTHING
FOR MEMS AND BOYS WEAR
A full line of
GentLemens Furnishing Goods,
and the NoBBIEST line of
anu Iht NUBB EoI Inc OF
HATS AND GAPS

To be found in the county. Ny stock Of READY
MADE CLOTHING consists Of Dress Suits Bust
ness Suits Working Mems Suits and Boys Suits, at
BOTTOM PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES,
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
SealSkins.

The London Telegraph says: "For- tunately or unfortunately, it seems hot at all improbable that @ genuine sealskln
 jacket will before long be almost as inn possible an article of the ordinary femi- nine toilette as a string of brilliants it. self. Some thirty years ago sealskin was common enough. Boxes were covered with it-gloves and driving rugs were made of t-costermongers and cabmen cut their caps from 1t. Then came a time when some cunning furrier dis covered how to dye it a rich dark brown, and to give it that exquisitely soft and downy texture which is it's chief charm.
 At once ladies adopted the luxury. 1t was soon found that for cloaks, jackets, muffs, dainty little hats, collars, cuffs,
 bags, portemonnaies, for thousand other articles of feminine use, it was the most delightful, the most beautiful, the most indispensable of all possible materials. The demand for 1t increased with a rapidity almost marvellous, and the fashion, instead of wearing itself out,
 has, if anything, steadily increased. In- deed, the best Alaska sealskins, like the furs of the sable, the silver fox and the Russian sea otter, command an almost fancy price, and Q handsome jacket of close texture md uniform color, with no white hairs to break the continuity of its tint, will fetch as man guineas as five-and- twenty years ago 1t would have fetched half crowns. The result is that the luckless seals have had waged against them now for several years what practi-
 cally amounts to war of exterminatlon. '"
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
Tale of a Sack.

The London Graphic says: Monto Cristo's escape from the sack in which he was flung into the sea from the Chateau d'If has been initiated by m ingenious Persian. Having incurred the displea- sure of high functionary at Shiraz, Mo hammed Mirza was condemned to be fas- tened up in a sack with viper, a cock and n cat, and after an hours time, when this happy family had improved their acquaintance, the sack and its contents were to be thrown into the river. For tunately for Mohammed Mirza, his exc cutioners forgot to search his pocket, which contained small knife. Directly the mouth of the sack was closed upon him and his companions he cut in half the viper, which was already encircling his leg the cock and the cat were next dispatched, and our Persian occupied the remainder of his hour by stimulating a violent fight of the three animals, and giving forth the most excruciating cries of agony. In due time sack and all were consigned to the water and then Moham- med Mirza speedily freeing himself from the prison, gained the other side of the river, and came post haste to Europe, for the future voluntary exile from his fatherland.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
The Man to Put Out a Fire.

There might have been a disastrous fire on Fourth street, on Saturday, but for the heroism displayed by man named Sweetman. He was passing along when he saw little flames creeping around the chimney, and he dashed into the house. He shouted |" fire until the house rang; while he seized bureau and threw 1t over, he called to one of the family to go and sound the alarm. The bureau was left lying on the floor, and Sweetman gathered up table and ran into the yard. He sent a small boy to sound another alarm, and ran in and began racking bedstead to pieces, at the same time ordering the women to throw everything out of doors. He got the bedstead down and ran out of the house and rushed third boy to fire alarm box, and then went ill and care fully brought out the wood-box and Q foor-mat. The women were meanwhile showing the parlor furniture out doors, and as soon as Sweetman had flung the looking glass through the back window, and tore the baby's crib to pieces, he ran in and helped them, while another messenger was sent to jerk an alarm out of a letter-box on the lamp-post. While Sweetman was thus working horoically, another man climbed up on the roof with pail of water and put out the fire, and three or four came upon the scene just in time to prevent Sweetman from throw ing the piano down the cellar to give himself room to work.-ECehdnge
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
Horrors of a Wreck.

The horrors which the survivors of the ill-fated Cospatrick, burned at sea with a loss of over four hundred lives, endured may be inferred from the plain language of the dispatch. "During the greater portion of this time, it is calmly said, "they sustained their lives by drinking human blood and eating human flesh, taken from the bodies of others, their companions, who had died in the boat. l." It is impossible to realize the extremity of hunger to which these sailors must have been reduced, nor is it advisable to dwell too long upon this part of the horri- ble story. The rest of it Is painful enough. The steerage passengers, num- bering four hundred md twenty-four, were for the most part agricultural labor CTS, accompanied by their families, who were seeking homes in Australia. The agony and the heroism displayed in the voyage of this
 fatal and perfdious bark, Built in tn eclipse and rigged with curses dark, will probably never be known until that awful day when the sea gives up it's dead. The Cospatricl is added to the list of vessels lost at sea, and with this record thousands of bereaved friends and fami- lies must be content. It is only to be hoped that later dispatches will show that other boats, containing some of the passengers and crew, have been picked up by passing vessels.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
SALISBURY, CONN.,. FRIDAY, Is,

lieve her ears. She listened to the end, and heard at last, "To Luane Williams, my faithful nurse, I give mourning ring and the sum of fifty dollars"
 Then she went up stairs to Gerald.
 "The king shall have his own !" she said.
 "Only on one condition" said Gerald; "Tn take your money only on one con dition."
 You'll take my money!" echoed Luane-" poor little fifty dollars p Luane's face shone with @ profound joy. Your aunt left her money where it be- longed, MT. Erism. I have just heard you declared her sole surviving heir"
 Gerald remained stunned and bewilder- ed.
 "Where is the codicil2" he cried to the lawyer, who stood at the door. "My aunt left her money to Miss Williams. She told me so when she was dying !"
 "Oh, that was when you bought that horse I was afraid there would be trouble then, but, bless your soul she got all over that"
 "And the money is mine7" cried Gerald.
 "Of course it's yours;" and the law yer went down the stairs chuckling at his incredulity.
 Then Gerald held out his hands to Luane.
 q was going to be magnanimous enough to marry you despite your money," he said; "now there is no ob- stacle to our happiness. Come, my sweet Luane, and bless the life you have given me '"
 Luane became his wife. Mrs. Grundy said that he married her to spite Emily Thorpe The lawyer chuckled still more, and thought of the codicil. But we know that it was for love, and for love alone.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
How to Cure Intemperance,

The passion of drink must be sup planted by higher passions, higher in- dulgence, says the Rev. Philip Brooks. Those who drink and reform have an emptiness which must be filed. The vacancy must not be left. By supplying the man with higher enjoyments more can be done than by legislation. If by Legislation intemperance could be sud- denly turned away, unhappy lives and homes converted into better and sweeter ones, there is left that passion which drink has supplied. More must be done. Strength of mind must be supplied by arousing the better md higher passions. Life would thus be made better, happier, and richer if every means of social and intellectual culture and pleasure were used to fill the vacancy left by the want of that stimulus which filled it. If I knew any young man who thought wanted to rescue himself from the power of drink would urge him to confess be- fore God, before his own soul and before his fellow men that he will never drink again. But after that is done I should endeavor to fill his life full of other and better interests. I would try and intro dlce him to culture, or in other ways to help him to a better md more earnest life, and finally would bring religion to bear upon him-not the religion which is restraint, but which is satisfaction. In dealing with the drunkards would ad- wise those working with them to not stop with getting them to sign the pledge, but to follow them until they are sure their lives are full. More sympathy should be expressed and shown, in order that the feeling of degradation may be less keen in the unfortunate. They should have influence, social, sympathe- tic and religious, thrown around them. The power of the will must be restored, and it can be brought about by the trans porting of man to a higher life.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
Failure or Success in Life.

Here are useful suggestions from a member of the British Parliament, Lord Derby, who is robust, manly man. He says:
 "Tal1e two men, if they could be found, exactly alike in mental and bodily aptitudes, and let one go on carelessly and idly, indulging his appetites and generally leading life of pleasure, and let the other train himself by early hours, by temperate habits, and by giv- ing to muscles and brain each their fair share of employment, and at the end of two or three years they will be as wide apart ill their capacity for exertion as If they had been born with wholly different constitutions. Without normal healthy condition there can, as rule, be no good work; and though that qualification cannot absolutely be secured or preserved by any rules, little common sense and care will go a long way both in securing and preserving it. On that point I would give you these hints: First, that it is not mental labor that hurts anybody, lln- less the excess be very great, but rather fretting and fidgeting over the prospect of labor to be gone through so that the man who can accustom himself to take things coolly, which is quite as much a matter of discipline as of nature, and who, by keeping well beforehand with what he has to do, avoids undue hurry and nervous excitement, has Q great ad- vantage over one who follows different practice. Next I would warn you that those students who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Third, when an opportunity of choice is given, morning work is generally better than night work; and lastly-a matter which I should not stop to allude to but that I know the dangers of an over-driven ex- istence in a crowded town-if man can not get through his days labor, of what ever kind it may be, without artificial support, 1t should be a serious consider ation for him whether that kind of labor is fit for him at all."
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
A Beautiful Thought.

When the summer of youth is slowly wasting away on the nightfoll of age, and the shadow of the path becomes deeper and life wears to it's close, it is pleasant to look through the vista of time upon the sorrows and felicities of our earlier years. If we have homo to shelter and hearts to rejoice with us, and friends have been gathered around our freside, and the rough places of wayfaring will have been worn and smoothed away in the twilight of life, and many dark spots we have passed through. will grow brighter and more beautiful. Happy, indeed, are those whose intercourse with the world has not changed the tone of their holier feeling or broken those musi- cal chords of the heart whose vibrations are so melodious, so tender and so touch ing in the evening of their life.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
NO. 27.
Pilgrims at LorettO.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes from Loretto: While I stood at the street corner watching the wonderful combina- tion of the grotesque and picturesque in form and color, heard voices chanting hymn, and, turning, met face to face company of pilgrims just entering the town. A man with his head uncovered bore aloft rude crucifix, probably brought from the little chapel in the Alp penines. Then followed the women, three or four abreast. They carried their bundles on their heads, and walked with long stick (the crook of the staff seems to have disappeared entirely. These women were dressed in their best, and certainly nothing could have sur passed them in the same line. Some of them were laced tightly to the waist their corsets looked as if they were made of the bark of a tree, stripped off whole and with short skirts stretched smooth over large, stiff hoops. Their feet were bound with canvas, and green garters were wound around the ankles and car ried over the leg many times. All the men brought up the rear. They, too, wore their brightest garments, scarlet vests, green or purple knee brooches, hats with wreaths on the crowns, and hat strings that were tied under the chin in fancy knots and tassels. They marched slowly up the main street toward the church. The dense crowd parted and left @ little avenue through which they passed, still chanting their mournful chant. At the broad steps of the basilica they prostrated themselves and entered on their knees. It was Q long and painful journey from the threshold, across the stone floor, to the Holy House, under the great dome. Again and again they paused at the side chapels and whispered their prayers; at last they came to the very house itself. It is en- closed in q magnificent marble screen, designed and executed by the most cele- brated masters in the reigns of Leo K, Clement VII, and Paul III. The four sides are adorned with rich sculptures, reliefs, statues of prophets and sibyls and delicate scroll work; the sumptuous and unparalleled structure was mostly the work of masters who refused remuneration. It rests on broad steps of stone, md when the pilgrims finally reach these steps it is their custom to make the exterior circuit before entering the Holy House. There is deep groove worn in the upper step where the kneelers have followed one another, and there is a perpetual adoration in the hearts of the faithful souls who bow their foreheads against the screens and seem wrapped in an ecstasy. The very air is prayerful.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
ADVERTISING RATES:
Exhausted Farms.

In former letter alluded to the de- serted old farms to be seen between Weare and Henniker, New Hampshire. l These old farms are situated back on the hills and away from the socials of life. The soil has been exhausted by constant cropping, and the chances for even a comfortable living are but '" few and far between" The buildings are much too large for the demands of modern fami- lies, and the cost of repairing would be heavy burden. Taxes are nearly treble what they were formerly. The cost of living added to these expenses make 1t impossible for @ man to live decently on farms. There is now and then a hardy, courageous Irishman who dares to face the difficulties of such situations. And he would not, if he possessed the ability and the foresight of the native. It is fact that we can't deny, that many of these old farms are not worth taking the gift of for home, and the sooner we own up to this fact the better it will be for us, and we may then start with consistent record. The only way to bring this hard upland soil back to fer tility again is to let the frees grotU. Con sequently, most of them will pass into the hands of moneyed men or corpora tions, and lie till the growth of wood Is called for. It takes but few years for it to mature for the ax.
 Two crops may be cut in the allotted life of man. We say, then, let the bushes grow. Ay, help them to do so by scattering the seed. Then old fields might be planted with the pine with but little expense. Draw light furrows, into which scatter the seed, and in few years there will be forest again.
 Another discouraging feature to a life on these hill farms is the roads, both summer and winter. Help being scarce md wages high, the highway tax is not worked as it used to be. The old, the lame, the halt, and almost the blind are accepted as laborers. Consequently not so much work is done. The roads are getting narrow and flat and rough, on account of the unremoved stones. In winter, teams are so light it is almost i'm possible to keep good roads. From twelve to twenty yokes of oxen used to turn out at the call of each highway sur veyor in the winter. Now, often whole district will be found with only a single yoke, and now and then one with none at
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15
The LOcket.

Hadst thou equal love to mine,
 No such love there Ger had been Hadst thou hate as I have love,
 No such hate the world had seen ; Take this tiny locket, love,
 Shaped as golden heart, Wear therein this semblance, love, Whose most precious gem thou art. In mine heart thine image rests, Lovely prize, unworthy shrine May the pure gold prison me,
 Or that purer heart of thine. Thou art prlrer, fairer far
 Than pure gold of diadems Lovelier art thou, lovelier,
 Than the loveliest of gems.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15

This is story from California. If told of any other country in the world, we'd doubt it. A fine bay horse was found suspended one morning recently from 8 cherry tree by the neck and dead. He had been left hitched to a branch of the tree, which had grown so rapidly during the night that it raised him off his feet and hung him. And they don't think of fencing in California.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-15

A1AsKA.-As to the boasted agricul- tural possibilities of the Territory, the United States special agent, MT. Elliott, pronounces this judgment There are moro acres of better land now lying Q wilderness and jungle in sight of the car windows of the Pennsylvania rail road, while crossing the Alleghenies, than can be found in all Alaska"