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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
white Bunting Dresses and BustIss,

Among the prettiest day dresses worn
at Saratoga and olher resorts are those
of the thin tOile religieuse. They are
WON by ladies of all ages. One lady
with gray hair worn in puffs, with a
white silk turbap, has her white bunting
dresses trimmed with black velvet bows;
a younger lady uses plaitings of Breton
lace on the knife-plaited 1ounces, and
white satin ribbon for belt and sash.
Still younger ladies choose contrasting
colors of silk, especially the pale blue.
The short white skirt has shell flounce
of pale blue at the foot The front and
side cores are covered with pale blue
brocaded silk set on in box plaits placed
at wide intervals, and ending in a series
of blue ribbon loops. The long white
coat is of the Lafayette shape, with a
shirred panier vest of blue brocade drawn
back to disclose a deeper vest of plain
blue silk.
Bustles are again considered neces-
sary to produce the bouffant effect now
in vogue. When these elaborate drape-
ries were revived it was hoped the dress
material would be sufficient without
support; but when the short skirt is
worn, the overdress seems incongruous
if too many breadths are put in it. The
present styles, however, are not objec-
tionable; it is only their exaggeration
that is to be dreaded. Many ladies have
never left off wearing a small crinoline
tournure, even during the reign of prin-
cesse dresses, and it is this hustle that is
now generally adopted for short dresses.
The furnishing houses commend those
with plaits, puffs, and flounees of the
wiry crinoline. or else those of muslin
furnished with half circular springs of
fine French steel, so light and flexible
that it is difficult to break them or to
get them out Of shape. These are 49,.
Other bustles are quite long, measuring
about thirty inches, yet are meant to
wear with short skirts. They have bias
hounces of French corded crinoline
mounted on muslin, in which springs
are run; these springs can be easily re-
moved when the garment 'Slaundried.
These cost $3.50 upwsyd. Some have
an extra rufile to extend over the hips
and enlarge them. Longer bustles for
trained dresses are similarly made, with
stiffer founces to support the flowing
train without obtruding itself; these
cost So. so upward.-Harper'S Bazar.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

that suit; with powerful effort l sprang
up and howled. Priscilla dropped my
clothes, her mother the duster, and beth
bounded out OF the room squealing like
shot rabbits With difficulty managed
to get my clothes, and had just got in
side of my pants when Mrs. Mullins and
her daughter, headed by the undertaken,
peered in at the door; a motley company
of women and smutty-faeed children
stood in their rear. Such scared-look-
ing owls; enough to amuse dead man.
So laughed. 1t was not very becom-
ing; but l laughed peal after peal till my
sides began to ache. Then the under
taker ventured near me, saying, rather
obviously:
$50 you are not dead yet, Mr..
SmithP"
"Well, no, not exactly; sorry to dis
appoint my friends about the funeral,
however,
YES" he assented, absently; "bad,
rather-that is-ahemw
Fooled out of the dimes, carriage and
greys. my gal, thought I, as l looked at
Priscilla.
"Go speak with him" said her father,
in an undertone; act your part well"
They now began to gather around me
and to congratulate ns on my narrow
escape. / noticed they cried great deal
more than when l was dead. Priscilla
came and hung on my neck, sniveling
desperately. / gave her not over gentle
push from me, and told her to wait next
time till was safely buried before she
meddled with my clothes.
"Oh! I'm so glad I" she said, sweetly,
without appearing to notice what said
about my clothes, "that you are not
dead, dear. My heart seemed withered
and broken to see you lying so cold
and white. l wept bitterly over your
poor, angelic face, my darling"
"Oh! yes, so you did. heard you
and Howard take on at a furious rate.
1t was lucky die for me, my ducky."
Gould you hearP" she gasped.
Il rather think l could" l replied.
$50 goodbye, my noble girl: you can
have the pleasure of calling Howard all
the pet names you can lay your tongue
to-" She made bee-line for the open
door, and her pull-back was the last I
ever saw of her. Howard never mar
ried her, and hear she still lives a life
of single blessedness. AS l am writing
this piece quiet little figure steals to
my side, and soft, white hand, which
sends a thrill of pleasure to my heart,
is laid lovingly on my shoulder; yes,
the hand of Minnie Rivers, now Minnie
Smith, my wife.-Detr0H MeqoS.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

Whenever we have to establish new
relations with any one, let us make an
ample provision of pardon, of indulgence
and of kindness.
1t is wonderful how silent man can
be when he knows his cause is just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
No man while unhappy can show forth
true, noble manhood. Everything
short of cheer is medicinal, and medicine
was not made for daily use.
Being sometimes asunder heightens
friendship. The greater cause of the
frequent quarrels between relatives is
their being so much together.
No one is so greatly to be feared as the
man who is willing to tell you all he
knows, because the chances are that he
will tell you great deal more.
Hewho brings ridicule to bear against
truth finds in his hand a blade without
hilt. The most sparkling and pointed
fame of wit fiickers and expires against
the combustible walls of her sanctuary.
1t is easy to say, 1--WE will forget, but
perhaps the hardest task given us is to
lock up natural yearning of the heart
and turn deaf ear to the plaint, for
captive and jailer must inhabit the same
small cell.
The history of the world teaches us no
lesson with more impressive solemnity
than this-that the only safeguard of a
great intellect is q pure heart; that evil
no sooner takes possession of the heart
than folly commences the conquest of the
mind.
Very few men acquire wealth in such
a manner as to receive substantial plea
sure from it. Just as long as there is
the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy
it; but when they begin to look around
and think of settling down, they find
that that part by which joy enters is
dead within them.
In the struggle of life the hero and the
coward, the conqueror and conquered,
need sympathy equally. Often the mind
which uphoIds others needs itself to be
upheld; the honest heart that seems SC
bold and true is fainting from secret
sorrow, dying from some little wound
which sympathy could staunch.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
A LUCKY DIE.

"What the deuce ails mep Where
am |, anyhow Wherever am, springs
and mattresses must be scarce, for l
know | am laid on some mighty hard
substance. Wonder if it is on dis
secting board? Wonder if I'm dead?
[ feel mighty like it. Maybe l am
stretched out ready for the doctors to
carve me-"
These were my first thoughts, very
cheering, indeed, as l became conscious.
| could neither speak nor move; but |
soon learned that | could hear.
A door opened, footsteps approached,
felt cloth removed from my face. and
Il voice, which recognized as that of my
intended father-in-law, said:
"He hasn't changed much" and his
companion, whose voice I recognized as
Sowerby's, the undertaken, said lightly
"There's just where you are mistaken,
Mr.. Mullins he looks great deal better
dead than alive; but how does Priscilla
feel about itP Take on much, ehp"
"Oh, no just enough to appear welln'
said the father of my affianced, with a
chuckle. "She never cared much for
Smith; twas his stamps that she
fancied. My Priscilla is practical girl
and went in for his dimes, his carriage
and greys, although at the same time
must own she was spooney on bald
pated Howard, the artist; but he's pool
as Jobs turkey, as the saying is"
"Well, she can have him now for al
this poor cuss, can't sheP" said Sow
erby, beating a tattoo with his digits OF
my chest.
II presume so; but she will wait til
the year is up, for fear of gossip, yol
know"
"But who gets his money, seeing tn
moor cuss has no relationsp" queried tn
undertaken.
"Oh, that's all right. You see m
Priscilla is sensible girl. Before sh
promised to marry him she had hir
make his will in her favor. Poor Smit
was rather sappy, you know; had notl
ing against him, however, although b
was decidedly homely, and such barr
door of a mouth, always open"
"Well," said the cheerful voice of til
undertaken, "his mouth is tight enoug
now, reckon; he'll never open it in tn
world again. I reckon his immortal pa
: is now with the angels"
; And my mortal part is also with Il
|, angels, thought Ia fine pair Of angel
/. l felt indignant at their clumsy ridicul
/ tried to shut my fist, but never a sh'
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
Harvest Time.


We sing OF fields when harvest yields
Its bright and golden sheaves,
And sun and rain have filed with grain
The barn from floor to caves,
And new-mown hay, all night and day,
Its scented fragrance leaves.
The early dews, the drowsy ewes,
The call Of chanticleer,
The sleepy stock, the grain in shock,
The thresher and its gear,
The waving corn, all greet the morn,
'Tis harvest of the year.
The breakfast call, TO one and all;
The viands spread with care;
The uttered grace, each in its place
Partakes the housewives fare,
And men and beast, at plentys feast,
Its gathered bounties share.
The bearded men to labor then,
With Drawn and horny hands;
The cradle swings, the reaper sings,
All through the well-tilled lands,
And keeping tune, till sultry noon
They bind the grain with bands.
They seek the shade OF friendly glade,
And swift the moments fly;
Find sweet repose, as stream that flows
Or sailing clouds on high,
And hear the breeze among the trees
Sweep softer than sigh.
Oh, harvest days, we sing thy praise,
From hill to rivers shore!
For field and tree, for bloom and bee,
o And fatness running DER!
For tasseled corn, for night and morn,
And God we bow before!
Joseph G. Waters, in Saturday Might.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
Live and Let Live.
A Farm BALLAD.

Farm BALLAD.
Well! Farmer Smith has lost his wheat, his
shed and mammoth barn;
His little boy, with one small match, burnt up
the whole concern;
I'll tell you, wife, he'll feel It sore; a man on
money bent
Can't stand up under such load when not in
sured a cent.
don't know as pity him; call it great
sin
To hoard the harvests of three years in spacious
barn and bin;
l can't feel pity for man who doubly locks
his door
And stops his ears to all the cries that come up
from the poor.
l like 10 see econorny. 7 like 70 sec men save,
And lay up something tor their kin when they
are in the grave;
But you and know very well, from what we
both have seen,
There is line which, when it's crossed, man
gets to be mean.
When wheat was sixteen shillings-a price
that paid us we'll
Smith said, "Tll wait for twenty, l VOW, be-
fore 1 SELL"
Then. when it reached the figure, he said to
me one noon,
al guess I'll hold it longer, twill be three dol
lars soon."
He held it and he run in debt Tor things to wear
and eat;
When merchants dunned him, he would say,
Wait till l sell my wheat"
Soon that old tune got tiddled out, and men be-
gan to sue,
And he began to borrow to pay accounts long
due.
When Smith goes off to buy thing, he spin
around the town,
And tries with all his might and main theprice
to banter down;
When he has anything to sell, It's priceless in
his eyes,
And he must have the highest price-the low
est when he buys.
L" Live and let live" are golden words; the
other motto, too,
edo unto others as you'd wish that they
would do to you"
If Smith had done as they command he would
not have to-day
The ashes OF three harvests to load and draw
away.
Wife, if you take berry and dry it in the sun,
Twill shrivel up till it takes two to make the
size of one;
So many n man, in grasping gain, so shrivels
up his soul
That twill meter expand again while life's years
DER him roll.
God bless the farmers of our land! They are
not all like him,
Who walks around the smoldering pile now in
the twilight dim;
Living on Gods broad acres, their souls ex-
pand and grow,
Their ears are ever open to tales of want and
woe.
God bless the men where'er they are in coun-
try or in town,
Who do not think it's life's great work to crowd
their neighbors down.
This world would be better, this lite would
pleasure give,
If every man who tolls to live would let his
brother live.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

Father Isidoee, prior Of convent in
Russia, has been exposed as a tyrant Of
the fiercest kind. He began, as soon as
he was put into power. to add to the pains
of the monks by cutting. kicking and
starving them. When they protested
against such treatment, he had them
whipped until they became insensible, or
imprisoned them in a nOisome dungeon
four days without food. One victim
died under the lash, two died of starva-
ton, and five committed suicide to
escape the tortures. He was debauchee,
and the worst punishments that he in
flicted were upon monks who would not
aid him in his orgies. The czar has or
dered trial.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The girl tor warm weather-Fan.
Books are men of higher nature, and
the only men who speak aloud for future
times to hear. t,.
This world is all an " M. ID. show" " to
the medical college graduate on COM
mencement day.
Sleepy Tom, the pacing horse that
made the fastest time on record at Chi
cago, recently, is entirely blind.
The president of the board of emigra-
ton, in New York, states that emf
grants, at the rate of 5000 per week, are
arriving at that port.
What are the ties that bind to men
A trade OF such prodigious size?
The answer to the query's plain
The bonds are simply advertise.
-Steubenutile Herald.
A baby born in Sandusky, Ohio,
weighed only three-quarters of a pound,
and when ten weeks old weighed three
pounds.
When it begins to thunder sweet milk
is soured. When man begins to thuna
der woman's sweet temper is soured.
This is one of the differences between
sit and man. .-NorriStoWa Herald.
Three letters, from Napoleon III, Eu-
genie and the Prince Imperial, sold at
London auction for 800. That from the
prince was an affectionate note, in Eng
Gsh, in which he says: Il love you of
all my heart
Wild animals are rapidly disap-
pearing from Algeria. The French
government pays ten dollars for every
lion or panther that is killed, and about
forty cents for every jackal. Last year
rewards were paid on fifty-three lions,
forty-nine ,lionesses, nine cubs, $50 pam
thers, forty-6ve young panthers, l,O72
hyenas and l4,764 jackals.
The Reno (Nev) Journal says that
railroad trains, in crossing Steamboat
a,,'ey, in that State, make peculiar
rumbling sound, as though going over a
bridge. 1t says that this noise lis ac-
counted for either by supposing that the
ground is of very porous nature OF that
there are subterranean caverns formed
by boiling water. There are numerous
hot springs in the neighborhood and
have very sulphurous odor. 1t is said
that during an earthquake the land of
this valley "rolled like a ribbon in the
| wind"
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

The following sketch of the Swedish
songstress, Christine Nilsson, is said to
be truthful: On a remote estate in
Sweden lived Baron Leheusen, whose
wife was very musical. On these Swed-
ish estates the peasants were, until within
few years, practically serfs, and are
called Bunde and Torpare.
The Bunde have about thirty or forty
acres, and have to perform certain obli-
cations to their landlord, such as tilling
his ground with their horses or oxen, etc.
The Torpare are cottagers with a small
plot of ground, for which they have to
pay a certain amount of dGgSoOerke, or
days work, each week. Their food is
obtained from the vegetables on these
plots and from about two shillings per
week for the labor Of their free days.
Nilsson's father was Torpare of
Baron Leheusen's, and the little Ch-is-
tine used to run about barefooted, with
short petticoat on, full of holes, coming
down to her knees. r
DdIOu6SS lLtuctiotu OiC uby hCbiV iiOl
singing one of the old Swedish ditties
which have been handed down from gen.
Grafton to generation among the Bunde
and Torpare.
The baroness was struck with the
sweetness of her voice, and ordered her
to come up to the chateau; there she
gave her some elementary lessons in
singing, and then sent her to- Paris,
where she was placed under the tuition
of French professor.
After several years of assiduous study
she made her debut before the Parisians
at--if l remember rightly-the Theater
Lyrique. With the first money that she
earned she built up the cottage of her old
/ father, the Torpare, and made him COM
Portable, and he now is q well-to-do
| peasant.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

A certain editor was taking a walk
one evening with his wife, when she,
who was somewhat romantic and an adj
mirer of nature, said; "Oh, Augustus,
just notice the moonP "Cantthink OF
it, my dear, for less than twenty cents a
line. ."--MarshaU (lNIn,,.) Neoos.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

Poor's RAILROAD Manual for 1879"
gives some interesting figures in regard
to the railroads of the United States.
During the year ending Dec. 81, 1878,
1904 miles of new line were opened, the
total mileage in the United States at that
time being 8l,84l miles. In 1880 there
were but twenty-three miles in opera
ton. The total miles operated were 49,
960 last year, against IA, liz in 1877, and
66,237 in 1878; the capital and funded
debt, 81, $50, ,O4S, 1913, against $4,56S, ,597,-
2is in 1877, and SO, 3,7s4, ,543, ,O34 in 1873; !;
the gross earnings, $49O, l03, 1861, against
S472, ,9O9, ,272 in 1877, and 1926, ,4l9, 1886 in
1878; the net earnings, Sl67,5l5, III,
against $40, ,976, ,697 in 1877, and $780,
$40, 95S in 1874 Gn 1873 the figures were
Sls3, $40, ,562); the freight earnings, $685.
466, 6,O71, against $347, ,7O4 ,54s in 1877 and
1885, ,O35, sos in 1873; the passenger earn
ings, 1924, 1881, ,29O, against $l25, ,2G4, 724
in 1877, $40, ,OSl in 1874, and Sl37,
1884, 427 in 1878; the dividends paid, $53,
269, 1866, against S58, ,556,312 in 1877, $7i,-
294, ,2Os in 1875, and $67, l2O,7 100 in 1873.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

In BelgraUia Richard A. Proctor shows
that while it is theoretically possible to
construct a chess-playing automaton, it
is practically impossible because the ma
chine would necessarily be so enormous
and complicated. There would scarcely
be room on the earth for it, and it could
not be operated. The number of differ
ent combinations that can be formed on
chess-board is approximately repre-
sented as 100, 600, 900, ,0OO, 900, 900, ,OOO, ,OOO,
600, 900, 900, and if workman could make
1900 holes an hour it would, to drill the
required number of holes in metal
plate for one automatic chess-board,
require all the present inhabitants of
the earth 100000, ,OOO, 900, ,OO0, 900 years I!
Therefore, Mr.. Proctor thinks there will
never be chess automaton that can play
a game, unless there is Life in Other
Worlds than Ours"
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
HAIR DYE.

BATCHELQR'S CELEBRATED HAIR Di E
best in the world. The inventor has used
this splendid Hair Dye for forty years with
benefit to the hair, and no injury to the healt ;
proof that it is the only true and perfect Dye,
harmless reliable, instantaneous. No disnr-
pointinents, no ridiculous tints; remedies the
effects OF bad Dyes leaves the Hair soft and
beautiful, black or brown. Sold and properly
applied at Bachelors Wig Factory, No l6
Roi1Ll Streni New York.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
Price, 25 Cents a Box.
a, A. NILES,

ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN
m CHANCER9,
MoRRIsvILLE, VT.
Once in Hendee & Fisks Block.
Fire and Lite Insurance solicited. Insurance
placed in good and reliable companies.
Al business entrusted to me will be prompt
y and faithfully attended to-.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

According to the various official re-
ports of the most recent date, the gross
number of sleepers required for the rail-
ways of the world is set down at $50, ,000,-
900. Taking the life of sleeper at an
average of some eight years, and allow
ing for the large increase of mileage every
year, it would appear that above $4,000
600 of sleepers must be the animal re-
quirement-or, making deduction o!
about SO, 1000, 600, on account ofmany rail-
roads being laid with cast and wrought
iron sleepers, the yearly destruction now
going on may, it is thought, be fairly
calculated at 40,0O0,OO0. These contain,
on an average, about two and one-half
cubic feet in each sleeper, or about lO0,-
600, 600 of cubic feet, and even at the
most moderate estimate of their value,
an enormous sum is thus annually ex-
pended and a vast industry represented,
in this single item.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13

This SAW MACHINE is n wonderful in-
9<ntion. The weight of the man who is
s<<ssing does half of the work. 1t saws logs
of any size, and will saw Off a 2 foot log In
Z minutes. Circulars free. Address, Wms
TILES, 6e9 w. 9Th ST.. Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-08-13
2, w, PECK,
HENDEE Il FISK,

}or number Of ycL'S
8 j With a fever. ~
"A little son of VIM. .NIMENT.
!aly scalded on Mondo YEARS
endfick was called -,
'cessary medical aid - 0
Burdsalls Arnica Liniment
With any of the pernicious limitations bearing
the name of Alniea or other Liniments, wi h
which the ma, ket is infested. Sold by al
dr.urgists
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Human Misery.

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