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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

joined us, waving silver soup-ladle. II was
q splendid burst of speed, and although 1
fancy father and mother called to US, you
could no more have stopped rs than an ava
lanche. just then did hear something and
II was fathers big chestnut hunter, Bryan,
who hearing the commotiQn and the noise of
the hounds, had broken his halter, jumped
the stable bars, and joined us.
"But Bunny's time was near. He doubled
twice around the house, and then there was
not negro on the place, young or old, that
didn't join the chase. Then all the other
dogs-fifty in all-came dashing in, aud pres
emily all Of them were in a confused heap
and Bunny in the middle Of them. l jumped
in, for had outrun Katie. and blew the horn
as loud as l could, making the whole place
ring and was only in time to save Bunnys
white tail.
'Then only remembered il was Sunday.
Father came now with some Of the guests,
and my dear old fathers face bore a severe
| look. Katie and l were marched in under
charge of the servants. The guests all tried
to beg for us, but mother was inexorable. l
was in for whipping, and so was Katie 1
had hoped that father would intercede but
he uttered not word in our behalf. These
children are running wild, he said to my
mother; TO think Of two slips of girls keep
ing up with the hounds-and they the fastest
| BhCh gbu bhA hAh my NuSAb tuAh hluo VI Auu
| Cumberland valley-and to do it on Sunday,
too, of all days in the week And what
makes it worse is that when once you induce
a fox-hound to follow a rabbit it will spoil the
best strain Of blood ever bred in Virginia To
think, now, that children OF mine, when
there are 80 many whifets around the house,
| should put such q noble creature as a fox
hound on the track of a disgraceful rabbit
Katie, Annie, am ashamed of you; and, An
ME, how on earth you managed to blow that
horn so true, aud at your age, 1 cannot un-
derstand. Go out of sight You are very,
very naughty children; and, wife, your duty
is clear did catch it, hot and heavy, and
so did my sister, and 1 fancy we deserved it I;
but whether it was Sabbath breaking or hunt
ing rabbits with fox hounds which the more
incensed my dear father shall never know.
but, my dear grandchildren, L cannot see
how my story can interest you 80 much.
When did it happen? Why, some three
| years or 30 after the battle of Waterloo, in
1918. 1 remember the date, for your grand
father, then lad Of 1G was invited to that
dinner party, and he saw it all, and he pitied
nae so much that he fell in love with me some
! eight years afterward, and AS he was q fox
hunter himself, of the old Virginia style, poor
dear man. never had any reason to regret
my choice. My dears, respect the Sabbath,
and never spoil good fox hound by running
rabbits with him. That's about the moral of
my story. ~ Y Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

We are able to present the following su-
thentic account of the condition of John
Browns family in California The letter is
in answer to a private inquiry, induced by
the movement now making to raise fund for
them:
I'm answer to your inquiries concerning
the family of the old hero and martyr, John
Brown, will say They reside on wild
mountain farm Of 1G0 acres, mostly unim-
proved and unimproyable, located ten miles
west of San Jose. The improvements CON
sist of few acres of clearing, a part of
which is planted to fruit trees and vines; a
little cottage, costing few hundred dollars,
which WAS on the place when they bought it
a year and half ago; and some little fenc-
ing. The place cost them, l believe, about
$1,000. When FIRST met the family, shortly
after the purchase, and started movement
for their relief they were owing $1,000 on the
place. They had no team, farming imple-
ments, or stock of any kind, and were really in
very Strengthened circumstances. The un-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
NO. 81.

married daughter, Sarah, was then teaching
some two or three pupils in music, three
miles distant down the mountain, at the little
village of Saratoga, whittier she went on foot,
going and returning the same day. l raised
about $500 and the Chronicle folks nearly
$1,000, which placed them out of debt and
put them in possession of a team of horses,
wagons, COW, fencing material, etc.
The family consists Of Mrs. Brown, Sarah
(mentioned above), n married daughter (Mrs.
Fablinger), her husband and four children,
the latter from few months TO six or eight
years of age, all girls. Thus the family con-
ssts of eight persons. They are plain, un-
pretentious people, and have been trained in
the hard school Of poverty until they have
learned how to get along with a very little.
Their place-or about one-fourth of it-could
be made productive, but much labor and
money would be required think Il is about
an even pull with them to obtain the COM
monest comforts of life out of it, They are
unable to employ help, and Fablinger, the
only man about the ranch, has been a school
teacherandis not much fitted for hard manual
labor. They are all excellent, most worthy
people. IN. y. EUeniHg Post.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

A fellow New Yorker pointed out to me
this morning citizen of Pittsburg who was
at one time a salesman in a retail grocery
there, at a salary of $500 year. When the
petroleum excitement became rampant, he
went to Titusville without money, and after
a few weeks fell in with prosperous specu-
lRtor and ''struck oil, +" making 800, 900 to
$500, 600 in a year. He increased this sum
to 81 800, 600, and was urged by his friends
to retire from the oil region with the pro-
ceeds of his luck. This he refused to do,
and before another twelvemonth be had lost
it all but q few thousand dollars. Then he
returned to Pittsburg and went to work in q
legitimate way. But the fever of speculation
attacked him once more, and he betook him
self a second time to Oil Creek. After va
rious shifts and adventures fortune revisited
him, and he was able to count his million.
Trying to double this-he had fixed his fig
ure at $4,000, ,000-he was again financially
wrecked. This time he was so poor that be
stayed among the wells, and was forced TO
earn livelihood by becoming day laborer
New opportunities opened to him, and a
third time he got very rich. Reckless spec
ulation once more brought him low, and he
left for California, hoping to improve his
prospects there. The fascination of petro-
leum drew him back. He made 6 fourth for
tune and lost it and finally fifth, with the
same result. Within a few months the fckle
goddess has smiled for the sixth time, and he
has invested all his money in government
bonds-well nigh 81, 700, ,00O-and forsworn
speculation. He sold all his oil before the
recent tumble in prices, and says he has
learned wisdom by experience. Having more
than he will ever spend he ought to be con-
tented financially and run no more risks, but
doubt if he will The $4,000, 900 he had
fixed upon he has not yet reached and he
will be different from most spectators if he
can resist the old greed. His wife, who is
here, with four ohildren-two grown-up
girls and two boys on the eve of manhood
was the counsellor who induced him to buy
governments. He himself is not yet fifty.
In no other country than this could a man
make six fortunes and lose Ave in less than
twenty We years. In America alone is the
tale of Aladdin aud his wonderful lamp dai-
ly, yea hourly, veriaed.-BostOn Ad0ertiser
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

About my life the twilight shades are deep,
And soon, ali, soon must lie down and sleep;
How long know not. Through the darkening
air
OF my soul strange thoughts and fanoies fare.
Some steal like solemn phantoms silent by,
Lifting cold eyes that glitter warningly;
Some with aerial swiftness nit and pass,
Like birds Of night DER dead autumnal grass;
Aud some, scarce gmpsed athwart the twilight glow,
Glance bat-like, with black pinions, to and fro;
While from afar dreary wind, whose breath
Seems sick with odors from some place OF death,
Moans round me, with the low, half-mufied fall
OF music wailing funereal call.
oh, wind of woe, through skies Of ghostly grayl
Oh, mournful closing Of mournfGl dAyl
Would heaven that even now, at this last hour,
Fate could upft me on storm Of power,
Nerve the frail limbs, roll back the ebbinR life,
And wblrl me TO the inmost heart Of strife,
Where, from some halowed field by heroes trod,
My soul might pass on cloud and hre 10 = Godl
Paul Hdyne in August LippineOtfs.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

CALIFORNIA. Although almost an infant in
comparison with the original states of the I'm
ion, California must be accorded the van as an
industrial, money-making state. Beginning
its career by gold-mining, the development of
silver mining, which soon followed, proved
almost as remunerative. Then wheat-rRising
became most fourishing industry, and now
we are told that the yield of the vineyards
and orchards promises to become Of even
more importance than tho cereal harvest
Nearly TO- OOO 600 gallons of wine are produc-
ed in the state annually. No trustworthy sta
tistics can be obtained as TO the total amount
of fruit grown, but the report says that 1000 2
600 pounds of dried, 4,0SG, 430 pounds of
canned, and over 1000, 900 pounds of green
fruit came eastward by rail last year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
Miscellany



Tell me, lump Of Carbon, burning
Lurd In the glowing CRATE,
While thy flames rise twisting turning,
Quench in me this curious yearning,
Ages past elucidate.
Tell me Of the time when, waving
High above the primal world,
Thou, giant palm-tree, lifting
Thy proud head above the shifting
OF the storm-cloud'a lightning hurled,
While the trOpic sea, hot lavlng,
Round thy roots its bilows curled.
Tell me, did the Mammoth, straying
Near that mighty trunk Of yours,
On the verdure stop and Craze
Which thy ample base displays,
or, his weary limbs down laying,
Sleep away the tardy hours7
Perchance some mighty saurian, sliding,
Waddled up the neighboring strand,
Or leaped into its native sea
With something Of agility,
Though all ungainly on the land
While near your roots, in blood-stainod fray,
Maybe two Ichthyc beasts, colliding
Bit and fought their lives away.
Tell me, ancient Palm-corpse, was there,
In that world Of yours primeval,
Aught Of man In perfect shape7
Was there gOOd2 and was there eyil2
Was II man or was It ape7
Tel me, lump Of Carbon, burning
Lurid In the glowing CRATE,
Lies there in each human face
Something Of the monkeys trace7
Stir thy coaly brain and think,
While thy red flames rise and sink,
Ages past elucidate.
--Hdrpsr's Bdzar.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
Vermont Antiquities.


In Swanton, thirty years ago, a workman
discovered a piece of ancient looking lead
which, having something peculiar about its
appearance, he examined closer and,found it
to be hollow, and out of this hollow he pulled
piece of coarse paper, yellow with age, aud
on this was writing in very old English, of
which the following is the reading
Nov. 80, A. D. 1864. This is solemn
day. l must now die. This is the Goth day
since we left the ship all have peyished and
on the banks of this river die, So Fare
well, May future posterity know our end.
JOHN CRAVE.
What ship? left where how many perish
ed 2 whence come whittier bound? These
are some of the questions one would like to
ask to John Graye. Perhaps he is a myth,
after ALL and the whole business a hoax, but
there is the writing, and the account, in the
Vermont State Cabinet at Montpelier. And
here is another curious circumstance. In
1872, a man named Garfield cut a hemlock
tree in Sheffield, VT, which bore a well de-
fined axe mark over which 256 annual rings
had grown. Now the axe must have struck in
to that tree in 1915, four years before the
Mayfiower brought the Pilgrims over and
only seven years after Champain sailed up
the Richelieu. Who swung that axe? Per
haps some of the Jesuit missionaries, the real
pioneers of the new world. And while on
this topic the fact may also be mentioned that
way up on the summit of the old Rutland ~
Burlington railroad, in Mt. Holly, at an ele-
walton of l248 feet above Lake Champlain,
under eleven feet of mari was found by the
railroad laborers, in 1919, the fossil tusk of
an elephant, an enormous one, 80 inches long,
and perhaps larger than has ever been
brought into these parts by any menagerie
elephant since the present race came in and
IL ~
Of Charlotte about the same time, the fossil
skeleton Of a whale was unearthed by railroad
excavation 60 feet above the level of Lake
ChamplAin. These things tell their true tale
of the old, old times when tropical climate
and ocean was hero.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

No one questions Judge Poland's ability to
represent the district and the state in Con
gress, aa he has done before, with high digni-
ty, capacity and influence. If, as we trust
may be the case, the former opponents OF
Judge Poland are now willing AS he declares
himself to be-to let bygones be bygones,
and will cheerfully acquiesoe in the will of
the majority, as indicated in the convention,
it will all be well. Huntington Bree Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
LAKE AUBURN
Mineral Spring Water

Has cured me Of bad breaking out Of pimples on
my hands and face l say this that others may know
of It's blessing LIZZIE HERRICK,
Lyndeboro, N. II.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11

AUJurh Water 1oiU 5oautify your skin,
restore y0uthfR dcti0ity, cure Brfgdts Disease
Of the Kidneys, Diabetes, Constipation, Deaf
ness and Dyspepsia.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
Lake Auburn Mineral Spring Water
HAS SAVED MY LIFE.

had what feared to be Brght's Disease of the Kid
neys. am well now. GEO l. CUSHING,
Alderman Of Lowell, Mass
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-08-11
HAVE BEEN CURED

OF terrible pains In my kidneys and back from using
Auburn water. l cannot live without Il.
+. T. KELLEY, Lowell, Mass.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-25

most of 1t carried and thrown on to
the stable manure, which is under COW
er. This makes the manure In better
order for use in three months than it
otherwise would be in nine months. I
kitchen packed full of the short straw
and dust such as comes from tanning
mill, etc. Into this barrel or box are
thrown small quantities of wash and
dish water. The water drains through
leaving the substance in the straw and
dust When 1t is fully charged [ move
1t away and supply another box. You
will be surprised to see what valuable
feeder you will acquire during the year,
This substance is generally thrown on
the ground, which finds its way into the
well, is drank and followed by sickness
In the family.
ROoTs that are@ to be fed out before
New Years can generally be kept by
leaving the tops on, and hauling them
just as pulled to a position near the
stables. There pile them up and cover
with straw, or they may be kept under
a shed or in the barn. The tops NAV
decay little If rain comes in contact
with them, but this will not harm the
roots, other than making them less
pleasant to handle. The roots that are
to be kept until late in winter should be
buried in narrow pits where there is
dry location. Good drainage, a freedom
from wet. is essential. Make the pits or
trenches two or three feet wide and two
feet deep, and In these place the roots
after being topped, and over them throw
the dirt which was removed. If it is un-
usually cold and freezing weather cover
all with stable manure or other litter.
Beets, turnips, mangels, carrots and the
like, can be kept In good condition thus.
FLOWERS, though beautiful in sum-
mer, are doubly SO in winter, and in
order to have them then, it is necessary
to begin to prepare for the cold season.
Where it is not convenient to have many
hOwer-pOts, a window box can be resort
ed to and with effect. This can be made
neatly, cheaply and well, and, when
nicely planted, is an ornament to the
room. 1t is necessary to give the box
good drainage, or the plants will receive
injury from an over-abundance of water.
Fetunlas, mOney-wort and tradescantias
make good border plants, while gerani-
ums, hellotropes, chrysantbemums, etc.,
may be used within. Window boxes
are good places to bring out byacinthe,
crocuseb and tulips. The bulbs should
be planted In November, and put in the
cellar for q month, when they may De
brought to the window and will soon
bloom. A window full of flowers fur
nlshes much beauty without much cost.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-25
The King and the Wasp.

[From The Funeral Tent of an Egyptian Queen
1t was desirable in the interest of
science to ascertain whether the mummy
bearing the monogram of Thotmes Ill.
was really the remains of that monarch.
1t was, therefore, unrolled. The in
scription on the bandages established be-
yOnd all doubt the fact that it was in
deed that most distinguished of kings of
the brilliant eighteenth dynasty, and
once more, at an interval of thirteen
centuries, human eyes gazed on the fea-
lures OF the man who had conquered
Syria and Cyprus and Ethiopia, and had
raised Egypt to the highest pinnacle of
her power, 80 that it was said that in his
reign she placed her frontiers where she
pleased. The spectacle was of brief dura-
ton; the remains proved to be in so
fragile q state that there was only time
to take a hasty photograph, and then
the features crumbled to pieces and van
ished like an apparition, and so passed
away from human view forever. The di-
rector told me that he felt such remorse
at the result, that he refused to allow
the unrOlling of Rameses the Great, for
fear OF similar catastrophe. Thotmes
LII. was the man who overran Palestine
with his armies 200 years before the birth
of Moses, and has left us a diary of his
adventures, for, like Caesar, he was au-
thor as we'll as soldier. It seems strange
that though the body mouldered to dust
the flowers with which it had been
wreathed were so wonderfully preserved
that even their color could be distin-
g1ished, and they looked as if only re-
Gently dried yet flower is the very type
of ephemeral beauty that passeth away,
and is gone almost as soon as born. A
wasp, which had been attracted by the
floral treasures, and had entered the cot
fin at the moment of closing, was found
dried up but still perfect, having lasted
better than the king, whose emblem of
sovereignty it had once been; now it was
there to mock the embalmer's skill, and
to add point to the sermon on the vanity
of human pride and power preached to us
by the contents of that coffin. Inexor-
able is the decree, "Unto dust thou shalt
return" Running In the same line of
meditation it is difficult to avoid
thought of the fut1lity of human devices
to achieve Immortality. These Egyp-
tian monarchs, the veriest types of earth
ly grandeur and pride, whose rule was
almost limitless, whose magnificent
tombs seem built to outlast the hills.
could find no better method of insuring
that their names should be held in re-
membrance than the embalment of their
frail bodies. These remain, but in what
condition, and how degraded in the
uses to which they are put The spoil
of an ignorant and thieving population,
the pet curiosity of some wealthy Yam
kee, who buys royal mummy as he
would buy the Sphinx if it were remov-
able; to what base uses art thou
come" oh body, SO tenderly nurtured, SO
carefully preserved How far better to
have mingled with friendly earth, and
served the nobler purpose of enrlohlng
other lives in natures wondrous trans
mutations
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-25
An Am using BIunder.
from the New York Sun. |

tFrom the New York Sum-
On the morning that the French
frigate Minerve arrived at this port,
Leon Godon, of 80 West Fourth Street,
received a telegram from friend that
the vessel was at anchor off Fortieth
Street, North River. He at once az
rayed himself in his best clothes and
went to the pier at the foot of West
FOrtieth Street. He saw the launch of
the frigate, containing an officer and q
dozen sailors, near the end of the pier.
The officer was evidently expecting some
one. When he saw Mr.. GodOn he
tipped his hatand asked HIM if he wanted
to go aboard the Minerve. Mr.. Godon
tipped his own hat in return, produced
his telegram from his pocket, and said he
did. As Mr.. Godon stepped into the
launch the sailors peaked their oars.
Then they rowed Mr.. Godon out to the
fr1gate. AS the launch approached the
frigate the marines were seen forming in
line on the deck, and when Mr.. Godon
after being politely assisted up the side
of the Minerve by the officer CT the
launch, put his foot upon the deck, the
marines presented arms, the commander
of the frigate walked forward, grasped
Mr.. GOdOn heartily by the hand, DOTTED
his hat tremendously, and asked him
how he did. Mr.. Godon returned the
friendly pressure of the commanders
hand, bowed as politely, and said he
was very well. Mr.. Godon was some
what at q loss to account for the unex-
pectedly pleasant nature of his recep-
tlon. He finally concluded that it was
perhaps attributable to his being the
captain of the Lafayette Gardes, a
French military organization of this
city. The commander had not as yet
addressed Mr.. Godon by name, and so,
with thoughtful politeness, Mr.. Godon
handed the commander a neat bit of
pasteboard, on which was printed:
"LEON LAUNDRY, Established in
1870, L. GODON, Proprietor The
commander looked at the card a second,
put his hand to his forehead, and started
backward. He could not speak for
moment, but finally stammered: "Then
you are not the French Consul, Albert
LIE Faivre?" Mr.. Godon replied that
he was net. On the contrary, he was,
as his card showed, Leon Godon, the
proprietor of the Leon Laundry, and had
visited the frigatefor the sole purpose of
soliciting the patronage of the estimable
officers while they might remain in this
port. Thereupon the commander and
the officers made vigorous and idiomatic
use of the French language, and then
they laughed. So did Mr.. Godon, but
in feeble and perfunctory manner. At
this interesting iuncture the French
Consul himself came aboard the Mi
nerve, and being acquainted with Mr..
Godon, brought about speedy recon-
Citation between him and the comman-
der. Mr.. Godon's telegram was the
cause of the mistake. The French Con-
sulhad received a telegram from the COM
mander requesting his presence on
board the frigate at noon. Mr.. Godon
came on the pier at this time with his
own telegram, and the officer in the
launch supposed that he was Mr.. LIE
Faivre.