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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
The First Step for Six Years!


Many of our readers will remember the injury
to the daughter Of Mr., w. H. Turner Of Berlin,
near Montpelier, some six years ago. The acct.
dent caused deformity Of the spine and total
loss of sensation and power in the lower extremi-
ties. Doctors from far and near had exhausted
their skill and had abandoned the case as utterly
hopeless-a child of "a doomed 10 be cripple for
life, Fortunately her parents became inspired
with the hope that DR.. Gage of ri W. 3lst street
New York, the author of SO many wonderful cures
IN this section, might reach her case At one of
his visits to Montpelier, few months ago, Mrs
Turner consulted him and received encourage
ment. The patient could not be carried 10 Mont
pcer; so, after carefully considering the case, the
doctor decided 10 prescribe without seeing her
His directions have been faithfully followed, and
under the treatment she has steadily gained from
the first The natural feeling soon returned to her
limbs, and she can now walk with but little assist
ance, and her parents are naturally overJoyed at
the prospect OF a complete restoration. Why DR..
Gage should have such a remarkable success, even
without seeing the patient Is mystery, 10 say the
least. We have no theory to advance, but simply
give the plain facts and leave our readers 10 draw
their own nferences.- Montpelier Wdtchmdn.
We published the above several months ago
The case was then exciting much interest, and
many We're the coniectures as to the possibility of
"A cure after the patient had been helpless 50 many
years, We now have the pleasure of publishing
the following from Miss Turner
BERLIN, Vt. Nov 10, 1856
Editor Waterman: The notice In the Waterman
several months ago, In regard to my cure by DR.
Gage, has called out SO many letters of inquiry To
know II still remain well, that desire TO make
brief statement of my former and present cOnd
ton, When eight years of age / was 80 injured
by an accident that became helpless-unahle to
walk for seven years, We had SO many trials that
we had almost given up In despair. was unable
10 be carried To DR. Gage, 50 my mother consulted
him In regard TO my case, and he sent me RENE
dies without seeing me. | began 20 gain at once
and while taking the third course gained SO rapid
ly that fourth was not necessary. | can now
walk mile without difficulty, and II necessary
could work all day Words cannot express my
gratitude to DR.. Gage for rescuing me from lie,
Of misery and helplessness. Very truly yours,
Miss l.. OLA TURNER.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

, merely nominal sum of r,..,,.
s .j' ~. n,llg that no rubbish ~.
,. e9 ON the bank after il haIi shol
=" up Early in June tbn '' . ono
Z t varS were removed AMI acc,
liner mere, which spranr nm gI9i'
tiJv an.I the appearance nf
H. iy ana even attractive ~ "
ban,i ie'Son when the work
,I"l ,,s OF the railroad conn., 4" ny /
"" ,Seliled mexpedient Ia mn, '"Il
mo5 grading ,'I!.g and turing Which,
ra vi', WIN the Village I,nn '',I y
CIinm.'Ie'hplntes; but we ora PROV
Omrk the roadmnstor ' ,i ~ 81
win 'i'.'9 IS are kept off the I'm y HI
tbn ' .,, he will 10 a piece Of ~, !,
IN I"e spring which our non,,I pi LIZ
this go =. Is 70 be hoped that the 4 oil
USE ' d Soo ,, work win be accom- ' ~
,o ,v o. paint and the nokin'.' In,
ba 1 rne'.. 'y several propertv !, M
cnt nm o ". the cast-si1c BULL pre-
hat in ~" ''"raNce equally with
lorks ~ 'he rear Of BrooL .,osbv
T RS on the west side W." -
oval o ,st'a aig up of the bople re-
ar Of ~ ,i the sheds and paintm the
e a., vi the town hall WINS 'i H., .u r,'v
y ' et,,d by COL Austino ' H' ,sctidn
,de n r'' mr Ease leading from mid be
WI nail down to the roilrd III y 's .Iie
g y, great public convenient a I pnon.
on IN the foliage of III" tr"o r'pp J,
g5ffpMI am,i is to be had ofhe most
Will j,ui ou,tlooks upon the ia nom.
be "n nn,ll the village affords Tor !. noun
.or Nv streets opened dn H. year
Williston i"'S village. HChapin
s Sung Asylum and 0oIITs. op nnd
street, rs rplaid in tss '%' ~ uiiu
Graded ' III 1881. yen built
, list of loral i,o,r,. A, 1904
tb ,''' be complete if we A +" men
nsnt successful maugu,s Of the
~ gS,i the town at a COS, fB6o01' ''i tbe
'''in by the village tseIiminorv
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

tltl0llik bhA
lcasion To allude to the rail
ne progress % which had
The Importance of the
peen accomplished or, at
there this year demands
sion 10 the subject above
ented by IA more detailed
has been done.
ison it became evident
ent was so thoroughly
III not be longer with
Village Improvement
e matter, the property
entered into an ar
Vermont Valley rail
G the bank cleaned up
Die condition exacted
md the payment OF a
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

hicra business
ZEN o. prosper
i've apparently
b ever before
,v, been busy
sir help consid
! hours in some
Shipped from
and their pay
'nted to about
Enlarged their
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
West RrnttIeboro.

Rev. c. S. Sherman administered the rite
of baptism to five persons from West Gull
Ford last Sunday afternoon at the Baptist
Church
The morning service at the Congregation
hi church last Sunday was appropriate to
the Christmas season. and in the evening
there was a Sunday school service consist
ing Of music, rectations, and responsive
readings
The town clock is in place, and is expect
ed to ring the old year out and the new
year in.
At the present rate there will soon be "A
demand for an ambulance to carry home
the wounded from the school house hill slid
ing ground
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

HoW's your back Hop Plaster cures weak back,
sideache, rheumatism, and strengthens tired parts
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

For 20 years u pry r Balloon Of Shirley, Mass,
suffered with rncumatism. lie found NO relief tall
he took Hoods SarsapaTilla.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
Vol ToMn.hend.

The Christmas tree Friday evening was
a success the exercises were very interest
ing, the trees were heavily loaded with val
liable presents, and all seem 10 have been
we'll remembered
Saturday T. p Barber gave the four
younger classes in the Sunday school, thr-
ty-seven in number. Christmas sleigh
ride. 4 part went in the forenoon to East
Townshcnd, the rest in the afternoon to
Jamaica. All appeared to have merry
time, although one Of the little ones thought
it would be nicer to have the sleigh ride in
the summer.
Archie Wheeler is confined to his bed
with intlamnatory rheumatism.
The temperance lecture by Rev r. D.
Metcalf was well attended and appeared to
give satisfaction.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
Nrm ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
NOTICE.

4 WOMAN or MIDDLE AGE. competent a. a
~ housekeeper in a small family Gitf
Address. LOCK Bon j,B. Brattleboru
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

The prospects are that the y 1887 will
witness a continuation Of the ding boom
lnaugurated during the past Y, but it is
now too early and plans are efficiently
matured To warrant referenGn detail to
the various schemes on foot he way of
buildings and improvements Neral per
sons, however, have dwelling ases up but
unfinished, while several uthei-including
j. b, Coleman, William Mn, W. +.
COMBS and Michael Bakcr-Ae founda-
ton walls ready to build uponie coming
year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31

Elder j. Hemcnway will preach in the
chapel next Sunday at 1870 a. NJ. and 1880
p. NJ.
Next Thursday at P. NJ Rev. +, W.
Whitney will give a lecture upon "Sinceri-
ty' in the Universalist church All are in
yited
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
Also Dealers in Real Estate

Births.
In Putney, Dec. p, a son TO Mr. and Mrs H. @.
l,yerlf.th
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-31
The EverIn.ling Monument.
Annual d. a. II. Encnmpment.

Commander Childs has issued a general
order announcing the Annual Encampment
Of the Department of Vermont, q. A. r.,
to be- held at st. Adams on Thursday and
Friday, Jan 20 and p next Special hotel
rates and half fares on railroads are pro-
vided for Commander Childs calls special
attention to the law passed at the late SEES
sion Of the legislature which makes it a mis-
demcanor punishable 10y fine and imprison-
nent for any person 10 wear the Grand
Army badge and use it 10 obtain assistance
unless authorized 10 use or wear it under
the rules Of the department
, 1886-06-15

1t is reported from San Francisco that
King Kalakaua wishes to dispose Of the
sovereignty of his island kingdom, cheap
for cash; in fact, that he has already en-
tered upon negotiations with a syndicate
of European capitalists upon the basis of
an offer of Si0,0 00, 900. There are thir
teen islands in all, five being OF considera-
bic size and yielding large crops of sugar.
But the fertility of the islands is a second
airy consideration; it is their advantages of
situation and their harbors whish would
give them a value to Great Britain, Ger
many or France. More than fifty years
ago, only French interference in the very
nick of time saved the Hawaiian kingdom
from a British protectorate, and so great
a naval power must have continuing rea-
Sons for coveting so useful a possession.
Bismarck always keeps an eye open for
opportunities of acquisition, and France,
judging from her course at Tahiti, would
greedily grasp at such Il chance. But the
United States, though it may be hat the
islands are geographically n little beyond
the line of the Monroe doctrine, could not
afford to allow any European power to
become the owner of Hawaii. If the
Sandwich islands are in the market, Uncle
Samuel ought to have the refusal of the
first offer; il he cannot get them himself,
he ought to forbid the sale. If Alaska
could be lawfully purchased, it would
seem foolish to allow so much more profit
able a bargain to eludc the natiaal grasp.
If the United States can own a coaling
station at St. Thomas, there would seem
little difficulty in finding valid reasons for
acquiring this important Pacific group.
Next to Cuba, there could be no %acquisi-
ton half so beneficial to the country. 1t
is manifest destiny that the hybrid gov
eminent established in the kingdom must
sooner or later fail to meet the require
ments OF a community which is gradually
becoming wholly Caucasian as the feeble
natives disappear, expedited by missionary
enterprise. When the end does come,
whether o or ten years hence, it ought
to be regarded equally as manifest destiny
that the islands must become part of the
domain of the United States.
, 1886-06-15

Nor unnaturally, considering the ten
dency Of the human mind to bumbug, it
turns out that the Chicago aldermen who
are deepest in the mire Of corruption-in
the recent municipal grants to street rail
roads-arc precisely those who were
elected in the distinctive character OF re-
form candidates. Reform has grown too
popular not to attract the hypocrites, and
hypocritcs are always louder in profession
than the true believers, and their profess
sions impose on the honest and u%nsuspect-
ing voter, till opportunity comes, with its
uniailing tombstone, and the knave stands
revealed, when it is too late.
, 1886-06-15

The private postal boxes just established
in London will doubtless prove to be a
great convenience. A private postal box
is defined to be a letter box constructed on
private premises at the expense of private
persons, but to the satisfaction as to its
construction of the postmaster general
Such n box is to remain the property OF
the persons constructing it, but access to
1t for clearing purposes is to be had by the
officers of the postofiice alone, who alone
should possess keys. The box is to be &C
cessible for posting (but for no other pur-
poses) to the person providing 1t and his
servants, and to no other persons; and col
~lections are to be made from 1t at the same
hour rs the collections from the town let
ter boxes generally.-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
, 1886-06-15

NEw ENGLAND fishermen had better
60 slow, and think twice before provoking
a collision with the Canadian authorities,
no matter how plausible a pretext may be
afforded them. They have for years suf-
fered injustice through the operation of a
one sided treaty which cannot be abro-
gated by violence, but which the present
administration may be depended on to
bring to as speedy an end as may be. 1t
is evident that Britain is in no mood to
support the inorlinate claims of her bant-
ling, unless driven to it by some such
complication as a collision might bring
nbout
, 1886-06-15

WYoMING's New Orleans exhibit has
arrived and been delivered to the legisla-
tive committee appointed to receive it, but
the neat party job of the last session may
be expected to bear further fruit in the
shape of a warrant on the territorial treas
urer for 81, 500 IN favor of Homer Merrill
ito cover the cost of purchase, transpor-
tation to and delivery at the city of Chey-
enne. No doubt the transportation
amounts to something, but the cost of
purchase must leave a handsome margin,
for the hire of the laborer who is worthy
thereof.
, 1886-06-15

The young Brazilian prince who is at
tracing public attention, for the time
being, is related to half the royal and im
perial houses of Europe, being through
his mother l%ineally descended from the
house Of Savoy, the ablest family known
to historic fame during the last 300 years.
But the emperor's grandson might, if he
would, claim a prouder lineage still than
Bourbon or Braganza, Savoy or Sake, for
in his veins flows the blood Of the great
discoverer, Christopher Columbus.
, 1886-06-15
IT WAS very kind and gracious of her

IT WAS very kind and gracious of her
majesty to give her consent to the dissolu-
ton of parliament, but what if she had
refused? The whole thing was a mere
matter of form and not an act Of free will,
at all. The queen is also supposed to pos
ess the seto power, but it is power she
-.ould not dare to exercise. A constitu-
tional monarchy is a government of empty
forms in nearly every instance of prero-
gative. 1t was sorely against the royal
will that Gladstone succeeded Disraeli,
and the success of home rule is not arden
tly longed for by the crown.
, 1886-06-15

Now rs to health, the life of a consump-
tive of the second stage probably can not
be heightened or made more comfortable
in Florida or any other warm country.
Or If it can, no one has ever given the
physiological reason for it. If the con-
sumptive is in the first stage, and there
fore durable, they are two very material
points to consider. One is that he needs
not warm air, but well-vitalized blood.
The active circulation of good, rich blood
Will occasionally eradicate tuberclcs; but
l can not conceive of anything else that
will. The air and the food that will keep
the blood rich, red, and active are the
elements that are needed, and il these are
found In Florida 1t is not Mt this season of
the year. l conclude, therefore, that
Florida is good only as a sort of brief rest;
that when n man is merely worn down
and made sensitive to cold, but not actu-
ally tuberculous, he may come here in
winter and take IA long vacation where he
can yawn and stretch and be lazy in the
open air without freezing. But when he
gets rested and wants to strengthen his
blood | should advise him to seek higher
plains n drier airs.-"Parke's' FloSida
Letter in Chicago Times.
, 1886-06-15

A CORRESPONDENT of the Inter Ocean
reports that the question of using blood
hounds to pursue the Apachcs has be-
come the subject of earnest dis
cussion in Arizona. 1t is claimed that by
using light flying columns and carrying
several bloo1hounds with each column a
trail could be followed with the certainty
of instinct and the savagcs thus inevitably
brought to bay. This plan receives the
approval of old army officers, but it is
feared it might be rejected by the secre
tary of war from false notion of human
ity. But it is not thought inhuman to
follow the trail of escaped c%onvicts by the
help of hounds, and the Apachcs, worse
than the worst o. oonvicts, are outlaws and
enemies OF mankind.
, 1886-06-15

and what the small sun of twenty. five
cents will do if properly invested. Ask
any person the question, what is the dear
est and most precious thing to you, and
the answer is most universally the same
life and health. Where, then, is twenty.
five cents or any other sum more powerful
or valuable to YOU, than in saving life.
That is the precise cost of a bottle of
Chamberlain Collie. Cholera and Diar
rhea Remedy, the great life saver. 1t is
made for bowel complaints and nothing
else. and is pleasant to take and certain to
cure. Sold by w. n. Hunt.
, 1886-06-15
THE ART OF FORGETTING.


Blesslng-ChIldren's Education.
1t was u wise old fellow, the Roman
emperor, or some other historical pei~on-
age, that told the philosopher who offered
to teach him an infallible art OF remember
ing: "No, | don't want anything of the
kind, l remember too much as it is; but |
will give you untold gold If you will teach
me how to forget" The fact is, the
praises of a tenacious memory as an I'M
mixed blessing ave been fairly run into
the ground. Teachers in the public
schools are forever sounding them. They
think that the only faults of the children
are that they forget too early, forget the
multiplication table, forget their whip
pings, and so require new ones as re-
minders. 1t is a mercy often that they
do, or their little overcrowded minds
would become mere lumber rooms of
miscellaneous odds and ends
Thu simple truth Is that it is OF great
advantage to be able to remember some
things and an ~unspeakable boon to be able
to forget Others. But, who sets seriously
to work to teach himself and to teach
others how to forget2 The grudge hat
rankles in the mind, the modification
that stings and humiliates, the loss that
depresses the whole vitality, or the be
reavement that haunts the brightest sun
shine and turns it into gloom-these are
the acids and caustics that are eating into
the minds of thousands all around, and
the root of their hold is persistent, ever
recurring memory. Very little, compare
lively, is it to the soldier in battle when he
first gets wounded. He bears the thing
with heroism in its early days or months.
No, it is hat the old wound will continue
to ache, that they become a living, organ
lied memory of the flesh, part and parcel
of himself, and that is all he can do to alb
sorb himself enough in work, study, II
thankfulness that he did his duty, to
get times OF relief from thinking about
them.
The very beginning of a true education
of children lies in encouraging them to
turn away quickly and bravely from
dwelling on their little pains, mortifica-
tons and wrongs, and from suffering
these to become magnified by imagination
till they intensity all the sensibilities to a
morbid point. The earlier such n habit is
formed, the better augury for the future
of any one. Nine-tenths of the effective
force of many people are lost through the
depressing influence of their rooted mem
cries of pain and grief, and nothing short
OF vigorous and repeated acts of will to
throw themselves into stimulating rela-
lions with nature, society, books, public
service and religious faith, will effect their
deliverance through the blessed relief OF
forgetfulness. To preserve elasticity Of
mind and power OF enjoying the bright and
good things of the world, through all the
wounds and hurt that assail poor human.
ity, is ut once the hardest and the highest
OF human feats Boston Herald.
, 1886-06-15

BAVARIA is relieved of complications
by the suicide of the king, who is sue
ceeded nominally by his brother Otto, but
really by his uncle, Prince L%uitpold, as
regent, the new king being mentally unfit
to reign. Thus a lunatic has been Sue
coed by an imbecile-both kings by right
divine and centuries of prescription. The
generals and other officers have sworn
allegiance to the new king and to the new
, 1886-06-15

Americans must have a diversity in mu-
sic MS well MS in everything else, and, unlike
the people OF other n~ationalities, do not
contne their appreciation to the perform
ances Of any one nationality. There is
little difference as to the section OF coun-
try now in the matter OF the class OF mu-
sic furnished, IA cultivated ears are not
confined to any locality or section. The
west is an inviting field for any new de-
parture In the musical line. The people
delight In n change, and show their APP
probation In asubstantial .-Theo-
dore Thomas
, 1886-06-15

WITHIN a month the Canadian Pacific
railway will be in regular operation all the
way across the continent, from Montreal
to Vancouver. forming a well-equipped
through line which. indirectly at least,
may have some effect of competition with
the Pacific railroads of the United States,
especially as the establishment of a line
of steamships from Vancouver to China
is now the subject of negotiation between
the two imperial governments.
, 1886-06-15

MICHIGAN lumbermen who are large
owners of pine lands around Georgian.
bay. in Canada, complain of an export
duty on logs, lately laid by the Canadian
govern nent, which prevents them bring
ing their lumber to their own mills, while
if it is sawed in Canada the United tates
will collect an import duty. BY the way,
are not these American land owners aliens
, 1886-06-15

OREGON has been transferred from the
Republican phalanx to the column of
doubtful states, and they say the Prohibi-
%tionists did it by a stubborn support Of
their own ticket. No intelligent man can
deny that this third party is constantly
gaining in influence or that in the cam
paign of 1883 the Prohibition vote is like
ly to determine the result in more than
one of the closer states, if it is polled sol
idly for a candidate OF its own
, 1886-06-15

A meteor which recently passed over
London, travelling eastward, is supposed
to be the same which two hours and
thirty-two minutes later passed over
Bombay, the distance between the two
points being about $500 miles. In inter
stellar space meteors travel at the rate Of
forty to fifty miles per second, but the
speed here recorded was only about thlry-
six miles per minute. This is supposed to
be for by the retardation due to
the passage of the meteor through the
earth's atmosphere.-Chicago Herald.
, 1886-06-15

Testimony of n Professional MesmerIst.
1t is well known fact among physicians
that people are occasionally born with
practically no nervous sensibility. There
is some long, technical name for 1t, but the
plain English is that they can feel pain,
You will most frequently encounter this
condition among colored boys, and such
subjects are at once snapped up by
mesmerists and hired at s. or 81 a week to
travel with the show. They are called
horses in the profession and sent into II
town a day or two ahead, with ~instruc-
tons to loaf around, get acquainted and
mix in the audience. When a call is made
for subjects they come to the front. 1t is
with these horses that all the best work is
done, the thrusting needed under the nails,
sewing tongues and perforating cheeks
with dafning needles. ] would judge that
there are 100 professional "horses" in the
country. There are thirty or forty who
live in Chicago, and the best ones, white
men OF good appearance, get 1rst-rate
wages.-Professor johnson in Globe
Democrat.
, 1886-06-15
WILD CHERRY AMI TAR.

Everybody knows the virtues of Wild
Cherry and Tar as a relief and cure for
any affections of the throat and lungs,
combined with these two ingredients are u
few simple healing remedies in the com
position of Ir. Bosanko's Cough and
Lung Syrup, making 1t just the article
you should always have in the house for
coughs, colds, Group and bronchitis. Price
so cents and $l.00. Samples free. Sold
by w. N. Hunt.