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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

nobleman came to the hotel and, no room
being vacant, the clerk gave him that of the
Montana man, who, being only common
person, could not be supposed to object TO
such proceeding. But that was just what
he did do. When he heard of it, aud before
five minutes had passed, the poor English
man was running wildly out Of the room.
crying "Murdor!' There was no murder,
however, but the Englishmam had to take q
cot in tho hall, the Montana man got his
room, and the clerk was very careful after.
ward not TO try experiments with common
persons" from Montana.
Nellie G. Bailey was held at Wichita,
Kan, last week, for numbering Clement
Bothemly September Z The prisoner, who
is n, a handsome brunette, well educated,
and known in the best society of New York
city and New Jersey, met Bothemly, a rich
Euglishman and member of the British as
socation, at St. Louis aud arranged with him
to go to Texas and start n sheep ranch. Be
fore they started she got a deed Of his lands
in Kansas valued at $50, 600, aud while pass
ing through Indian territory en- route to Tex
as shot Bothemly through the head. She
then took possession of his trunk, containing
diamonds and iewelry worth $1,000, with his
outit, consisting of sheep and stock worth
$40, 900. She buried the body at Skeleton
ranch and started south, but was arrested
about nine miles from where the murder was
committed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

The TALE OF AN ARMY MULE.-Lieut W
A. Kobbe of the Third Artillery, who is sta
toned at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama,
reported recently to the war department that
there was at that post white mule, a. years
of age, named "Mexiqui," which has been for
many years in the service of the United States,
but has now been ordered to be sold. The
officers of the post, Lieutenant Kobbe said,
desired permission to buy the animal and keep
and care for him at their own expense
Major i. l.. Guenther of the Third Artil.
lery, to whom the petition was referred, re-
ported that the mule in question was origi-
nally left at Key West barracks in lslS by a
portion of the army returning from Mexico at
the close of the war During the time, Ma
or Guenther says, that served at Key West
from 1873 to lSSO-the mule did not miss a
days work from any cause. He is very old,
and has been worn out by long service in the
quartermaster's department If there is any
way of providing for him, would be glad to
have it done, as the expense to the govern
ment would be little or nothing"
The petition went through the regular chan
nels until it reached Quartermaster Genera
Holabird, who endorsed it as follows: "Tc
encourage the sentiment of kindness toward
| animals that are so intimately associated with
man, it is recommended in this special case
that this mule be kept in the department and
left to the care of those whose kindly feelings
are so deeply enlisted in its behalf.
Gen. Sherman submitted the case to the
| Secretary of War with the following report
II have seen that mule, and, whether true OF
false, the soldiers believe it was left at Bis
| Spring where Mount Vernon barracks now
are, at the time Gen. Jackson's army campeC
there-about 1919 20. Tradition says it was
once sorrel but now it is white from age. Tn,
! quartermaster's department will be chargeabl
with ingratitude if that mule is sold or it
care or maintenance thrown on the charitabl,
officers of the post l advise that it be KEEP
in the department and fed and maintained til
death. think the mule was at Fort Morgan
Mobile Point, when was there in 1912"
The Secretary of War thereupon made tn
following order Let this mule be kept AM
well cared for as long as he lives"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HoNIEs.-In talk
with Cleveland (Ohio) reporter, Lord Cole
ridge thus compared social life in the United
States and England 81 like American peo-
pile very much, but l like England better.
You do not have half the comfort here we
have in England. 1 know a great many
Americans, and have visited at their homes.
The American home life is nothing compared
to the English. We take more pride in our
homes than you do, and we spend more on
them. Friends mix more among themselves
in England than in America. We have more
dinner parties and social gatherings than you
do. We treat our friends better. We always
have wine to set before them, and we do not
take our business home as a general thing, tc
bother our families. You people seem to live
from hand to mouth, whatever be your means
and you are never content to take time to en-
joy yourselves.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

A young man charged with being lazy,
was asked if he took it from his father. Il
think not" was the reply my father has got
all the laziness he ever had"
Never Judge by appearances; but, in case
of a heavy defalcation, it is generally safe to
judge by disappearanees.
Most people are perfectly willing to become
good when they get too old to be bad any
longer
A young man urged, as one of the reasons
why a girl should marry him, that he had a
collection of over 400 different kinds of wood
She said if it was kindling wood she'd think
of it.
A woman who wants a charitable heart
wants pure mind.
"what must we do before our sins can be
forgiven ?" Boy, after thoughtful pause
Commit en-"
very tall mountain peak has been named
for Mr.. Eyarts. tall mountain is selected
because it is so long in coming to point.
"We've struck asmoother road, haven't we?"
asked passenger of conductor on an Ar
kansas railroad "No," was the reply we've
only run off the track. "-ArbdnSdto IrdUelLer
A st. Louis Judge has officially decided po-
ker to be gambling game" much to the
CONSERVATION of $50 poker rooms in that city
1t is odd that this view of the great American
game has never occurred to a western judge
before. Some of them will be deciding next
that whiskey is intoxicating. .-BoSt0R Herald
People build houses by putting all the
carved freestone and costly embellishments
on the front and all the cheap brick at the
back. Some characters are built in the same
way precisely.
Harry (tired of frocks, who has seen that
his widowed mamma is evidently pleased
with attentions paid her by bashful young
professional man, "Mamma, will Mr.. Smythe
buy me a pair of pants soon H"-Hdrper's Ba-
ear.
An elderly gentleman was one morning
searching for his wig, which had mysterious.
ly disappeared he hunted for it high and
low, until, losing all patience, he adjourned
to his matutinal meal without it. "Have any
of you children seen my wig2" he asked
sternly. Tommy had it this morning, pipe6
one little voice from the far end of the table.
"What did you do with it, Tommy" the gen
tleman inquired. "Gave it to the old hen tC
lay in" quoth the youngster.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

WRITER in the November Atlantic, refer
ring to Mr.. Joseph Jefferson's intention to
drop Rip Van Winkle as his principal piece,
furnishes some very pleasant reading about
the play which nearly the whole civilized
world has seen. While everybody knows
that it is dramatization of Irving's famous
story of the Cstskills, it is perhaps known to
few people that the original version was made
by Charles Burke, an actor who was kins-
man of Jefferson's and who played the lead
ing part himself twenty five years ago. The
leggings now worn by jefferson are the same
Burke wore, Mr.. jefferson having fallen heir
TO them as he did to the play. Boucicault is
the author of the version now given, which
is really an adaptation of the Burke version,
but nearly all the fine touches of humor and
pathos and philosophy with which the play
abound, are the work of Mr.. Jefferson him
self 1t was in 1865 that Jefferson first ap.
peared as Rip Van Wrinkle, and he has now
played the part over $500 times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

A SCENE IN PHILADELPHIA CouRT. many
tears were shed over one small child in Judge
Alisons court to day. II want my child
want him-I want him because he is mine :"
cried Mrs. Bessie Feaster during hearing on
a proceeding to obtain possession of her
4 4.year-old- son, who had been taken away oy
her husband The little one rested upon his
fathers knee and gazed wistfuly up into the
tear-wet eyes of its mother. Mrs Feaster
testified that she and her husband had sepa-
rated five months ago and he had taken her
child to the home of his married sister. Mrs.
Feaster produced several neighbors who tes-
tilted that in their judgment she was fit to
have charge of the child. The judge thought
it best to give a child of so tender an age into
the custody of its mother. The estranged
couple stood side by side before the bar. The
child was given into its mothers arms. The
little one wound one plump arm round the
neck of its mother, leaned over and rested
the other upon the shoulder of its downcast
father. 81 have a word to say to you, said
the Judge. "When you meetdo not keep up
your enmity. Let the past be as if it never
existed and treat each other kindly, 1t may
be that, coming together often before your
child, you will not be so keenly alive to each
others faults, and will more clearly sec each
the others good qualities, Then, perhaps,
peacefully, as l hope it may be your pleasure
and l am sure it is your duty to do" A.
they turned from the bar the tears were run
ming down their cheeks. The husband kissed
the childs upturned face. The little one
clung to his coat, but he put it away gently,
and as he shook its fat little hand he said
Goodbye, goodbye, now" "Why good
bye ?" asked the sobbing mother You may
come to see the child any time, Henry-any
time ut ALL" The mother, with the little on,
in her arms, passed out with half dozen OF
her friends, They were all weeping because
they had won the child. The disoousolat
father and his sister and their friends follow
ed them. They were all weeping becaus
they had lost the little one. Tne dozen o
more mothers waiting in the court room t.
tell their own tales of woe were weeping too
as if Mrs. Feaster's pretty little baby belong
ed to each of them,-FrOm a Philddelphi
deSDdtch.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

OWING TO THE REGULARITY of the Chinese
characters, each of which represents a word,
not a letter, as in our western tongues, the
Danish Telegraph company working the new
Chinese lines has adopted the following de-
vice There are from five to six thousand
characters or words in ordinary Chinese lam
guage ard the company has provided wood
en- block or type for each of these On one
end of this block the character is cut or
stamped out, and on the other end is a num-
ber representing the character. The clerk
receives message in numbers and takes the
block of each number transmitted and stamps
with the opposite end the proper Chinese
character on the message form. Thus Chi
nese message sent in figures is translated into
Chinese characters again and forwarded to its
destination. The sending clerk, of course,
requires to know the numerical equivalent of
the characters or have them found for him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09
Miscellany.
when am Dead.

When am dead
l would not have the rude and gaping crowd
Around me gather, and, mid lameutation loud,
Tell Of my virtues, and with vain regret
BemOln my loss, and, leaving me- forget
But would have the few of kindly heark
Who when misfortune came, 80 nobly did their part
Aud oft by thoughtful deeds their love express
These would have, no more, no less,
When am dead
When am dead
would not have the high and storied stone
Placed o'er my grave, aud then be left alone
But would have some things I once did love,
Ere did leave the Joyous world above
Placed over me. And each succeeding year
Id have my friends renew them and oft linger near
With loving thoughts upon the dear one laid below
Aud talk Of times departed long ago,
When am deadl
when am dead
Forgiye-Oh this pray far more than all
The anguish have caused, the deed beyond recall.
Think kindly on me as | lie so still,
SO poor a subject for an angered Will.
Think Of some generous deed som good word spoken
OF hearts bound up found all sad aud broken
Think gently, when this last long rest is mine,
And gaze upon my form with looks benign,
When ! am dead!
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

A CASE OF PECULIAR AGGBAyATIoN. The
proprietor of large store on Sixth avenue,
New York, received an anonymous letter a
few days ago stating that thefts had been go.
ing on in his ribbon department for four
years. and that the thief was a woman whose
husband had been forced to leave her because
of her bad habits This led to the arrest of
the forewoman of the department, a long
time employe, a hard working, quiet and pa
tient woman who had been greatly trusted.
She confessed, and in the court told the
whole story She married a blacksmith Il
years ago, and had borne him four children
From the day of the wedding the husband
had never done an hours work. The wife
supported the family, and had met all its ex-
penses from the first and had managed some
how to give a little spending money each
week to the husband. This he at once spent
for rum. As years passed and the appetite
increased he worried the struggling woman
for more money, and as she did not have it to
give he began to insist on her stealing from
her employer She weakly consented at last,
and had for four years been stealing ribbons
enough for him to pocket about SIG week
from the sales he made at one or two stores
where he was supposed to be an honest ped
dler. When it was too late his wife rep nted,
and a few weeks ago she told her husband
that she would steal no more and turned him
out of doors The revenge he took was tc
write the letter of warning to the victimized
shop keeper, who estimates his loss at about
$1,000 The drunken sneak who has ruined
this patient wife's fair name and character
has, it is pleasant to see, been arrested, and
stands fair chance of at least sharing hi'
wife's punishment.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

PRESIDENT ARTHUR IS LIVING VERY QUIET
LIFE and having very good time at the Sol
ders' Home Just now, writes a Washington
correspondent. He is in perfect health, his
cottage very comfortable, even elegant in all
its appointments, and his way of living is just
what he likes. He goes to bed late, after an
evening in his library, and, after a good
sleep, has a late breakfast in the pretty din
ing room. Then he thinks over the recon-
mendations of his annual message, while he
smokes a real Havana. If there is to be a
cabinet meeting that day, he comes in little
after noon if not, be comes in late in the
afternoon, or not at ALL Monday he has al
ways reserved to himself, and that day is apt
10 be mot at all" He is in no hurry to move
into town. He doesn't mind the delays in
the preparations of the White House. 1t
will be all the better for them, probably.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

The ANTAGONISTS OF MODERN ADVANCED
EDUcATIoN, if there be any, should have
heard little lecture that a gentleman gave
on the street Wednesday morning. The
question had arisen as to the tendency of
modern advanced education to create dis
gust for manual labor, The gentleman told
an anecdote. A young lady who is very well
known in Lewiston and Auburn, and who has
had liberal education in America, course
of study in the German schools, and who has
since taught in some of the leading schools
of this state and others, came home to her
fathers farm this summer. The hours hung
rather heavily. Father, your Office needs
shingling,' says she one day. The next day
the shingles were on the spot, and the young
lady proposed to have some fun and COM
bine it in legitimate way with solid work.
She built the stagngs geometrically, ran the
lines after Euclid, and shingled the office as
neatly and expeditiously as the village pro-
fessor of shingling himself could have done.
She pulled down the staging and erected ii
again over the ell to the house, and, in spite
of parental injunction, shinged the ell and a
sloping shed attached. She practiced music
for pleasure in the meantime, however, and
read German for a pastime. Nothing,
added the gentleman, "would be further from
her own inclination than notoriety. ."-Le1ois
ton (Me.) Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

The FUNNIEST THING We HAVE HEARD OF
LATELY, and at the same time the most alb
surd, occurred in New Jersey village. 1t
was nothing less-there certainly could be
nothing more-than tarring and feathering
small and Insignificant church organ, for the
reason that the orgauist was unpopular. The
orgauist happened to be lady, and not even
the roughs OF a religious body had the audac-
ity to add to her angelic wings the common
feathers of the barnyard fowl and attach them
to her person with vile tar. II they had tar
red and feathered the organ because it incon-
tnently squeaked and because its reedy lungs
we're always afflicted with asthma on Sun
day morning, and hoarsely aided their noble
voices in the songs of praise, We could have
commended their conduct. for il there is one
thing on earth which We despise and which
seriously interferes with public worship 1t is q
cheap and blatant melodcon, which lifts it.
husky and impotent voice above the general
dscord of congregational singing, and intro
duces a confusion worse confounded into the
confounled confusion tina, already exists
But to digrace even q meodeon for the sins
of lady player who only occasionally strikes
a wrong note is evidence that religion has no
got very firm grip on that little New Jersey
| community. y. Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09
Ne VS. PARAGRAPHS.

REMARKABLE CLOUD BURSTS IN ARIZONA.
The Tucson (Arizona) Citizen of recent date
says On Sunday afternoon one of these Gu.
rious phenomena of nature occurred about 80
miles southwest of Tucson, and from the de-
scription of eye Witnesses it must have been
the largest one ever known here. Judge Il
d. Ferguson says that on Sunday he was re-
turning from a trip to the southern part Of
the county, and at 10 o'clock put up at Brown s
station to get dinner and avoid the heat of the
day. The sky was coudless all day, except "a
thunder storm was observed travelling the
submits of the Santa Catalinas and disappear
ing over the Rincons in the northeast The
sun shone with all his vigor, and as he passed
to the west his strength and glory seemed un-
diminished. At 3 o'clock Judge Ferguson re-
sumed his journey toward Tucson He had
come about five miles toward Tucson when he
heard roaring and cracking in the west, and
looking up saw river as large as Santa Cruz
when it runs through Warmers mill tail race
coming toward him. Telling his driver to
halt, they stopped on top of little knoll and
watched the waters at they violently plowed
the desert, tearing up stones aud underbrush.
They had evidently spent their force. Where
the flood passed, the face of the country was
disfgured and large gutter had been cut
across the valley. The current came down
of a small range af low, rolling hills to the
west. The judge and his companion strained
their eyes in the direction from which the
water came, but not cloud could be seen.
After the water had subsided sufficiently, they
passed on. The had hardly gone half mile
| when, to their amazement there was another
stream as large as the first one Again they
scanned the west, but no cloud was visible
Passing on, they soon came to another river
and in this way five successive raging current,
were crossed. But all their reserve was called
| forth when four miles from where they hat
| struck the first stream, sixth one wa
| discovered, as large as all the others com
bined Its angry waters were waving auC
kissing as If angry at the resistance they me
on the way from the hills down to the desert
This river was unfordable, so they halted oil
knoll and watched it for two or three hour
as it boiled and seethed and cut out bed fo
| itself in some places Il feet deep and Ion
yards wide. 1t was not until after sundowl
that they dared to attempt a crossing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

The DOCTRINE THAT THERE Is NO RIGHTFUL
Property IN LAND, and that the products of
labor form the only natural basis of property
is spreading rapidly among the lower classes
of Europe, and in Austria is taking so strong
a hold upon the peasantry that the govern
ment is contemplating measures to suppress
its effects As in France and in lesser degree
in Canada, the peasantry of Austria are being
reduced to poverty by the constant and eXces-
sive subdivision of their land brought about
by the laws of inheritance. Several of the
provincial Diets have petitioned the imperial
government to repeal these laws; but the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has very en-
tertaiuing paperi in the November Wide Awake,
entitled my Arizona Glass;" in which she
gives an account of her work in the Prescott
school, at the time when General Fremont
was governor of Arizona
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

THERE Is NO LEAD PENCIL and there has
been none for 80 years. There was time
when spirace of lead, cut from the bar or
sheet, sufficed to make marks on white paper
or some rougher abrsdng material, The
name of lead pencil came from the old no.
ton that the products of the Cumberland
mines, England, were lead, instead of being
plumbago or graphite, a carbonate of iron,
capable of leaving lead-colored mark. The
various grades of pencils are made by taking
the original carbonate and grinding it, and
mixing it with fine quality of clay in differ
ing proportions, regard being had to the use
of the pencil The mixture is thorough, the
mass is squeezed through dies to form and
size it, is dried and enoased in its wood en-
velope. Scientific A meIfcdn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09
GOLD and SILVER PAINT.
CHAPTER II.


''Maden, Mass, Feb. l, 1880, Gentlemen@
suffered with attacks Of sick headache,
Neuralgia, female trouble for years in the most ter
rible and excruciatng manner.
No medicine doctor could give me relief or cure
until used Hop Bitters.
"The first bottle
Nearly cured me;n
The second made me as well and strong as when
child,
"And have been so to this day"
My husband was an invalid for 90 years with Sc
rious
Kidney, liver and urinary complaint,
pronounced by Boston's best physicians
"Incuable!"
"seyeu bottles of your bitters cured him, and I
know of the
Olives of eight persons"
In my neighborhood that have been saved by your
bitters,
And many more are using them with great benefit.
"They almost
Mrs h. d. Slack.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-09

Sweet SUMMER went forth to the fields
With roses entWined in her hair;
Her footsteps light
As her glances were bright,
And all that she looked upon fair.
Grave Autumn, beholding the maid,
Grew CHEEKY In chanting her charmsi
They met, but, alas
All her strength seemed to pass,
And she languished to death in his arms
Now sombre grew Autumn and sere,
AS he clung to the maid In his woei
Then Winter passed by,
And, with tear-strioken eye,
Hid them both meath mantle Of snow.
Spectator.