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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29

A parhelion is an attendant image,
more or less distinct, of the suns disk,
which may appear with any halo al
| one, two or more points near the sun,
| but which is more frequently formed
| in the course of the horizontal or verti-
| Gle white bands, or in both, at or slight
| ly without the intersection of these with
the ordinary halos. They seldom ap-
| pear at once at more than three or four
of the intersection, and sometimes pre-
sent a sort of tail in the direction oppo-
site the luminary. They are popularity
known as sun dogs or mock suns.
In England, the hairpin has been
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. A woman lay down upon her bed
to sleep, and presently awoke corpse
to all intents and purposes, for she liv-
ed only few moments. An examina-
tion showed that hairpin had been
driven into her brain.
The longest span of wire in the world
is used for a telegraph in Inlia, over
the River Kistnah, between Bezorah and
Sectanagrum. 1t is more than 5000 feet
long, and is stretched between two hills,
each of which is 200 feet high.
The body of Stephen Girard lies in n
sarcophagus in the vestibule of the main
college building, which is built after the
model of a Greclan temple, its thirty
four Corinthian columns measuring six
feet in diameter, and are fifty-five feet
high, and cost $4,000 each. Tie college
opened with ninety-five pupils in ls4S,
and the running expenses were but S47,
900 a year. The will of Girad cJntem-
plated only three hundred pupils; there
are at present eleven hundred boys in
the institution, and il requires sS65,0O a
year to maintain Il, or $1,000 a day,
This pays all salaries Of teachers and
officials, and provides heat, light, food
and clothing for the inmaies-in fact
every expense. The first year there
were five teachers, now there are thirty
nine
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29

A Legend of the Alpine Horn.

The Alpine horn, which is SO continu-
ally heard in Switzerland. has many le-
gends attached to it. The following is
one story of its origin A young herds
man, sleeping in his loft, was one night
aroused by wonderful music which made
him weep for pleasure. Peering down,
he saw three men in the kitchen appar-
emily engaged in making cheese. when
they had separated the curd from the
whey, they poured the whey into three
buckets. In one it appeared red, in one
green, and in one white as snow. Then
they called to the herdsman to come
down and the man standing by the red
bucket, who was of gigantic proportions
and had voice like thunder, invited
him to choose and drink the bloody liq-
uid which should give him strength and
energy above all his companions. The
stranger who held the green bucket, who
was ofa milder aspect, bade him drink
and inherit the finest herbs and richest
pastures of the Alps. The third offered
only the instrument to make such music
ashe had listened to. The herdsman, still
under the influence of the enchanting
strains, chose and drank the white liq-
uor. Immediately the three men van
ished, the fire which they had kindled
went out, but from its expiring spark |
sprang a horn, which the herdsman
seized and played upon till morning. |
He took it to the mountains with his |
flock, and with it saluted beautiful |
whom he had loved from |
his childhood, and who returned his
affection. AT length he learned one day |
that her father had promised her in
to rich citiz.n of Berne, and
in fit of desperation he resolved to quit
his native mountains He hid his
precious horn among the rocks, and be-
came soldier in foreign country. AT.
,er many years had passed great home
sickness fell upon HIM, and he returned
% his native valley. He wandered
forth on the mountains and was met by
IN old shepherd, who gave him letter.
1t was from his beloved, whom he had
thought false TO him. 81 leave this let
,er to tell thee died faithful to thee. l
know thou wilt some day return to thy
lome." Wild with grief, he wandered
IN, not knowing where he went, till he
espied his horn in the crevice where he
lad hidden it. He mechanically put it
% his lips, and as the mountain echoes
'eplied to him, he fancied that it was
he voice of his lost love. He blew
igain, blast SO tremendous that ali the
valley heard and wondered, but in the
Effort his heart broke and his spirit
passed away.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29
Mary Anderson.


HOW THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN Ao-
TREss LIVES.
Seven years ago, in the little theater
at Louisville, a tall, slim, young girl
made her debut as Juliet. 81 ranted,
raved and shrieked through the whole
five acts" she now says, "and when they
were over | felt just like ranting, raving
and shrieking all through them again"
She was the fatherless daughter of an
officer in tho Confederate service during
the civil war. Her mother had married
again, and fer step-father was DIR. Grif-
fin, also ofthe Confederate army. As a
child she was fond of reciting speeches
from standard plays, and had even at
tempted Richard the Third" iu her
mothers humble parlor. Prominent
citizens of Louisville had been asked to
hear her recite, and the editors of the
local papers had written columns in praise
other intelligence, her beauty and her
voice. The demand for her debut on
the professional stage had been so gem
eral that her mother and her step-father
had resolved to devote themselves to
her service and allow free scope to what
they believed to be her talents as an
actress.
A few weeks ago the papers recorded
the launching of a yacht, belonging to
this Louisville girl. She has villa at
Long Branch, winter residence at
Brooklyn, horses, carriages, and all the |
trappings and the suite of wealth. With |
IN seven years she has become woman |
md a rich woman. Her income |
rom her profession as an actress is GER
ainly not less than 100000 year
ay 81, 800 week for season of forty
weeks. With no apparent effort, she
,clipses the profits of the oldest and
most popular stars. She has of course
many imitators, but as yet no rivals.
every other day some paragraph in the
'apers refer to her matrimonial engage
nents. But still she is heart whole and
ancy free. She is of age, but still she is
girl. She does nothing goes, nowhere,
ees nobody, without her mother Her
lays are cut her engagements arrang-
d, her business transacted by her step
lther. Her younger brother who very
luch resembles her, has become an ac-
'r, so as always to be with her on the
age, as her mother is in the dressing
pom. A devout Roman Catholic, she
tends mass regularly, no matter what
lay be the exegences of her profession,
1d always suspends her performances
lring Holy Week.
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,,on, other retprned tourists ;

Among other returned tourists is the
name ofMiss Emily Thursby, who has
been absent two years. When she left
this country she had won distinction as
its finest female vocalist, and during
this interval she has sung in all The Eu-
ropean capitals with great eclat, aud
hence she returns with increased fame.
She is now the Jenny Lind of America,
and yet few years ago she was glad to
sing in a Brooklyn choir for $40 per
week. Her reputation, however. contin-
ued to increase until she had an engage
ment at the Broadway tabernacle at 5000
a wear, this being the largest salary ever
paid to a church singer in America.
How strange il seems that she could
afford to abandon 50 rich an engagement
and vet such is the case, and having won
fame she has at the same time mastered
the road to wealth. What a fortunate
vocalist. and how many would be glad
to obtain the positions which she has
resi gned
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29
OF THE JEANETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION

OF THE JEANETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION
The subject of our portrait, Past As
sistant Engineer George W. Melville,
was born in New York City in January,
1S41. Prior to his engagement on the
Jeanette, he had experience in Arctic
exploration, having been engineer on
the Tigress during her cruise after Bud
dington and his party from the Poaris.
He served on the Chattanooga during
the war, and when he left ON the Jean
nette had been twelve years at sea.
1t will be remembered that the jean
nette was crushed by the ice on June 23,
1881 in latitude II degrees north and 157
degrees east. Her crew put off in three
boats, two of which were safely landed
at the mouth of the River Lena. Weary
months elapsed before the fate of the
men in the third, that contained Captain
De Long and his party was ascertained,
and we are indebted to Melville for the
knowledge. 1t appears from the docu-
ments which the poor fellows left at va
rious places and which Melville st cured,
that De Long and thirteen companions
succeeded in landing at one of the
mouths of the Lena on or about Snptem-
Der II. They abandoned their oat +, and
built cairn, where they rested few
days. They afterwards crossed the Lena
on the ice at a point considerably to the |
south of where they had landed, and
southwards on the western |
side of the river, until they dropped |
down and died from hunger and exhaus-
ton, excepting two men whom De Long
had sent ahead, and who gave Engineer
Melville such information as led to the
discovery of the bodies. The pity of it
IS that the explorers had passed near to
where there were abundant supplies of
food and comfortable shelter within a
'ew days after landing from their boat
Engineer Melville has been treated with
he greatest courtsey AMI consideration
~ the Russian authorities.
He has been sharply and perhaps un-
ustly assailed for not doing more to-
wards rescuing DeLong; but the difficult
les were verv great, and he was several
lines compelled to give up and go back
N account of the refusal of the native
uides to proceed further. At any rate
{ is not fair to judge him until we know
lis whole story, which he has gone to
Washington to render in an official re-
ort this week. He and Lieut. DOMAIN
over, despite the reports of a quarrel
etween them, seem to be on excellent !
srms; they have been riding about the
ty together and visited Cole, the poor
,aman who was made iunatic by \
desertion of his wife has dam
yed him in public estimation but as
le seems to be insane, perhaps the !
lings that have been given to the pub
c are only her crazy imaginings
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29
NO. T..


II the dance Is most terribly hot,
And the stairs have not one vacant spot,
II we happen to go
Where the cool breezes blow,
Who will knowG
II the moon most discreetly doth hide,
And the path 1t is not very wide,
What II we closely walk
The better to talk,
Who will know?
II the light Ia SO very obscure,
And the rose Is so hard to procure,
II one gently doth bend,
Assistance to lend,
Who will know?
II young toads gambol wild In the shade,
Then what marvel that one grows afraid,
II for safety from harm,
One leans on an arm,
Who will know?
II "bangs" are little bit crushed
And cheeks are tribe more flushed,
Well-and If 1t is false
The cause is the waltz.
Who will known
w. @. TwIsToN.
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And so she did not find Massa Linkum

HIUtT al
All who would have guessed it? To
that beautiful place where June had gone,
where there are no masters and no
slaves, ne had gone before her.
And don't suppose his was the first
face she saw, as she passed through the
storm and the night to that waiting,
beautiful place? And don't 1 suppose
he smiled as he had smiled BEFORE and
led her gently to that other Face, that
thorn-crowned Face, of which poor little
June had known nothing in all lIer life
OF course / do.-E. .SteWart Phelps
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FARM FOR SALE at AUCTION

AFARN or ABOUT 900 ACRES, Of which $50
"a acres are under good cultivation, the balance
belug well timbered with hefnlock and hard
woods. II Is situated IN Forest Lake Township,
Susquehanna county. Penusy ylvanla, IN one of the
hest grazing districts Of the Middle states; IL Is
about six miles from a railroad station and about
half mile Of a creamery In successful operation,
as also Of store. posi-Ofilce, blacksmith and car
rage shop, grisl. cider, Jaw ana pianing mills,
wooden factory. schools and church The farm
has a good dwelling house. with barns. stables
and other ouibuIldIIgs suitable for . dairy Of
from 20 20 IS cows, Il having been used for that
purpose for the last 2s years II is abundantly
uaiered with springs and wells II will be Offer
ed At public auction ON the ssfh day of Decemher.
Issz. Al IL ociock NJ. al the tenrt heHse iu Mont
roe, IN the stove county. The property VII be
shOun and all local information gwen BY Mr.. W.
A. soufhveli of Foreri Lake. for information By
letter address W. II. CARMALT, New Haven, CT
s~1s
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29

Loves height is easy scaling; skies allure;
Who feels the day-warmth needs must find
fair;
Strong eagles ride the lofty sunlit air,
Riskng no rivals while their wings endure,
Yet is thy noblest still thy least secure,
And falling thee-shall then thy love despair?
Shall not thy heart more holly prepare
Some depth unfathomable-perfect-p
Say tnat to thee there come loves dreadful call
The downward swiftness of thy rest to see;
Say that he sin or sicken, what OF thee2
Are thine arms deeper yet to stay his fall?
Scarcely loves utmost may in heaven be
To hell it reacheth so tits love at all.
Miss BEvINGTON.
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Sunrise.

The colors of the morning spread
Ger all the eastern sky,
Pale green, and goo and tea-rose red,
And purple of porphyry;
The wet grass glstens like silver thread,
And the still stars fade and die.
+ The aaJn.sgips her wistful chase
For the neelng nigH1p0 seek,
And the oriole sings his song Of grace
But my heart is weary and weak,
For the thought of one dear absent face,
And longing cannot speak.
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Auction /!

vur ps Said st Public Anction. in West Brsfile'
80 On THURSDAY, sept Is, the farm known a.
the he Alexander place and ls,ely occupied ey 70,
sish Powers Said isrm wneh Is sIasled ~ t~o
,.,.s n acres Of meadow and pasture land also
.sn .sMoes,ot one mile north Of farm Never falling
running water at house and barn 40 @ =, ssis ,s p
~ -. h.s 4 ousnfy n corn, oats potatoes and
,ss- farm prodncts, culiiysior, eross-cui saw,
s.cod ssus tool chest and tools, s cor1s stove
49,. .o,o eousebold furniture, aud many other srfl-
ci0 ~" MRS. c. X POWERS
e'sl0e- -BERRIcK. A1ctOnssr.-svi
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Human HIoosi.

on the purity and vitality OF the blood depend
the vigor and health of the whole system. DIS
es-e q various siuds j. 0ffen only the sirn thai
nature s trying 20 remove the disturbing cause.
remedy thar gives life and rigur % the blood.
erslicsfes scrcfuia and 0fher Impurities from II,
a. Heois SsrsaparillA undoubtedly dres, mu-f be
the means Of preventing many diseases thai would
occur without its. sold hy dealers
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aTinaha,u On. 8efoln,er.
@. n. DAVENPORT q CO.,
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS.

The Retormer's circulation larger than
other t,oo papers published in Wtndhdm
County. It's local circulation, Withsn the
County and in the tos0ns Immediately ad
oixing on the east, south and west, erceeds
he combined circulation of all the other
papers in the county. advertising rates
loo, considering the large number Of
eadsrs furnished. Send for printed
ates, or call at the o6sce-No. l Market
Block. Nliot-st.
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esNe Plus Ultra"
.!.:Is!.:. x.!s.s:sIS$s:!!.::.EaAC L: CHURN.

Secured by Letters Patent, dated April Is, 1882.
Pronounced the BEST CHURN ever used, by
practical buier-makers in one of the best
districts of best grazing State. Its strong points
are simplicity and Cheapness 81 Construction, Ease OF
Motion (by any kind of wer). Quckness IN Bringing
Butter, and Means for Clearing n the Buttermk ahoye
Butter leaving the mess absolutely free from speck
WORDS OF COMMENDATION.
ss Superior to any of the great variety Of churns
bave seen in use note part -uary C) the ease with
which IL is worked the force required being very small
f2 the short space Of time ren ed for separat OF
the butter from the 3) the separation OF the
white srecks from the butter which Is done perfectly IN
the churn (4 owing TO its peculiar cunstrucnn IL s
perfect sefceansing curn- Thee. with several other
advantages might mention, make II very suprJr aye,
perfect chu-n- 3. ID. GMSWOlD,
nRwrlI VT, july 10. ls32. sylvan Shade Farm"
HoRroSvIIIE. W.. Jay 9, lsae-
Having used your ehurn about year I an SATISFIED
that II the best Chu-n in use. make tFiter lualiT
Of butter than have been ahe % make win ether
churn and IL gives very great pleasure O reCnmend
N Yours truly, n. WALKER.
Exclusive Territorial Rights for Sale.
ADpkHsss THr oTERuTsrR PERFEcruS CHuKs Go.
u Winter Street Boston, Mass
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29

is the only Iron preparation that
does not color the teeth, and will not
cause headache or constipation, as
other Iron preparations will.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29

enriches the blood and purifes the
system; cures weakness, lack of
energy, etc. Try bottle.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29
1ssSiseSS CARDS.

HENRY TUCKER. M. D., Physi.
III clan and Surgeon. Office and Resld ehce
No. Green Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-09

will deepen from this time forward Gal
ifornia needs Chinese labor, in fact is not
able to get enough of it to supply the demand ;
yet California cries aloud for the exclusion OF
all Chinese from the United States. 1t may be
that the California statesmen who are respon-
sible for the restriction bill arc able to explain
this curious situation to their own satisfaction
and that of their constituents. 1t may be that
they have discovered new system of economic
laws. But whatever their reasoning may be,
their course is inexplicable to students OF the
problem in other parts of the country. There
have always been doubts about the wisdom OF
biting of ones own nose, and California
seems to be disposed to settle the question by
making the experiment. There is pretty gen
era belief that she will regret it, and that after
the restriction bill goes into effect, the first re-
quest for its repeal will come from California.
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR IRISH DISORDER


1t is the lack of proper perspective that i'm
pairs human judgments on contempOraneOus
events. The phases and episodes of the pro-
tracted struggle between English Legislators
and Irish agitators from the formation Of the
Land League to the eXecrabe murders Ill
Phoenix Park cannot be accurately viewed close
at hand The sense of true proportion is want
ing. The relations of cause and effect, the
development of dangerous tendencies and the
limitations of individual responsibility cannot
be discerned with unerring judgment. The
historical significance of the facts will not be
sharply outlined until time supplies rigid
conditions of perspective. Perhaps it is this
thought that leads Mr.. Matthew Arnold in re-
publishing his Irish Essays" to explain that
he does not expect anyone to agree with him
now. but he is curious to know how they will
look ten years hence, if anybody happens to
turn TO Them While it wOnld be pTesumptuous
to anticipate the Judgment of another genera
ton upon the present crisis in the relations Of
England and Ireland, we may be certain that
its aspects will he changed and its real signifi-
canoe be determined as time lends distance to
the view.
Take, for example, the manifesto of the three
political prisoners who have recently been re-
leased. Mark the adherence which is ex-
pressed of the cOwardly and unprOvoked
assassination of friendly stranger j; the con-
seriousness of humiliation and disgrace on the
part of these chosen representatives OF the Irish
people; the adequate sense of the disastrous
consequences of so atrocious an outrage. Read
the tardy confession from Nh. Parnell and his
associates that it is lawlcssness that wellnigh
leads them to despair of the future of their
country. Then pause and reflect that these
agitato1s are themselves largely responsible for
the dernOraizng tendencies of systematic
lawbreaKing. These assassnatlons, which are
ascrbed 10y them to irresponsible fanatics and
hot-headed Fenians, are mere conspicuous but
not any more atrOciOus than many other crimes
which agrarian agitation has directly insti-
gated. Take, for example, the cOwaruly muI-
der of Mrs Smythe on the high road as she was
driving home from church with two friends on
a quiet Sunday afternoon. The assassins
crouched in ditch, and firing at random into
the carriage on the chance of killing Mr..
Smythe, butchercd an innocent lady in cold
blood. That was not il Fenian plot 1t was
an agraran Outrage-one of a long series which
has followed the issue of the No Rent mani
festo and the rejection of the Land bill by the
Parnelites Were not those red-handed muir
derers every whit AS bloodthirsty and desDic-
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portion of its local traffic as any other. But
what are the resultsq

portion of its local traffic as any other. But
what are the results2
The official report shows that the charges for
local traffic average but very little more than
the charges for through traffic, which the road
has to get, if at ALL in competition with vessels
on the lakes and railroads through Canada
1t shows that the company has increased lts
freight business since 1870 more than three
fold in number OF tons carried, and In sui
larger ratio in tons carried one mile, and yet
has added less than one-thrd in eleven years
to its net earnings. Its expenses have IN
creased very much moro than it's receipts. In
1870 its net earnings were So, O,415, ont or
which it had to pay interest and rentals
amounting to 81 1923, S97, leaving 1891, 5l8
for the stockholders. In 1881, though 1t did
more than three times as much work-rendered
to the public services more than three times as
great-its net earnings were So, 692 1862, out of
which it had to pay for rentals and interest on
capital borrowed for improvements 50, 725,375,
leaving for stockholders only $3,967 ST.
little more than it made eleven years before.
Moreover, the analysis of the report which was
published in the money article last week
showed that there was not actually earned so
pany created floating debt of S411 900 during
the year 1881, and moreover added $S5O,OOO
to its receipts by the sale of part of its assets
In reality it earned for stockholders in any case
not more than 81, 701, 5S7 in the year 1881, or
about $4,000 less than it earned eleven years
before on one-thrd of the work.
Is there any other branch of industry or bust
ness in which the returns for labor done, risk
borne and capital invested, have decreased as
much as this within the past eleven years
The traffic Of the company IN 1870 amounted
to 2,978, 72j tons, transported an equivalent or
574,O35, 81 tons one mle at an average rate
of $50 OF for every thousand miles, and the
net profits to the company were at the rate OF
50 II for every thousand miles. But in 1851
the traffic amounted to 9,1G4, 50S tons, trans
ported an equivalent of 2,021, 775,46S tons
one mile, at an average rate of So II for every
thousand miles, and the profit to the company
was only So O3 per thousand miles. Which
one of the Anti MOnopOlists would like to I'M
dertate the business Of carrying a ton of
freight one thousand miles for $6 III Which
of them wishes to share in the "grindlng
monopoly" which gets for that service, above
mere expenses only 50 03 for interest on all
tho capital borrowed and invested, and for all
risk labor and care 7 In what other business
have charges decreased nearly go per cent in
eleven years.