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HUGH McoULLOoH ON MIR, BEEoHER

Mr.. BeecheT was not only the most
popular but the most influential preach
er that this country has produced. Ii,
did more than any other man to liber
al'ze religious sentiment-to lift Ortho,
dox theology out of the ruls in which il
had been running from the days of tn,
Puritans. His sermons were very rarely
dociriDal. He was in no respect thee,
Logan. He cared little for creeds. Be.
lief with him was matter Of secondary
Importance; conduct was everything
He had a decided taste for horticulture,
and one of his most intimate acuuaint.
ances was a man (Aldrich, / think his
name was) who had a fine nursery and
garden near Indianapolis. I'll like him.
said Mr.. Beecher IN me one day, II like
him because he loves flowers as | dc, and
| have a great admiration OF him b E
cause he Is one Of the honestest men |
have ever met, l have made him a
study. He is always what he appears
to be,a perfectly upright man. Nothing
would induce him to swerve from the
truth, and yet be is an infidel, disbc
lever in the Bible aud a future life.
wish | and my church members were
more like him. From Memories Of
Some Contemporaries, by Ex-Secretary
McCulloch, in Scribner's Magazine for
SaDtembar
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at the risk Of his own life. The lady
and her deliverer were both terribly
scalded.
Talking about swindlers," sand old
Deacon Blizz .rd, "about two years ago
book pedlar came along, and, as we
had no Bible in the house, l Eough one
with a pretty red cover, and Holy
Bible in gilt letter on the back and
clasp on to il, and Pm DANCED if we
didn't discover last week that the book
was volume of census reports for 1877,
with bogus back F; and may be we'd
never found out how we'd been cheated
il my wife's sister, who had come to
visit us, hadn't gone rummaging through
the book, looking for a receipt tor .nince
pies. which Amanda said she had mis-
laid somewhere. "-[Troy Times.
A lady who last month investigated
the treatment of women and girls in the
shops of Chicago found at lace factory
girl who had been making mats and
who had been trying to earn $l5 at the
work since January. She received 80
cents a dozen for the mats, and it took
her a week to crochet a dozen. A de-
post of So was required by the firm,
which agreed, however, to refund 81 on
the completion of Sl5 worth of work.
OF five women Intercepted none was
able to earn 20 cents day. No woman
had earned $l5 in less than six months.
At one establishment, where 100 women
work, 81 lunched on dry bread and %
had no lunch. The wages averaged 81
per week, but many women earned only
20 cents day.
1.-The street rowdies Of Chelsea have
invented a new torment for the cyclists
who avail themselves of Battersea Park, :"
says the London Pail Mall Gazette.
They are not content with flckng
them with switches and inserting bits Of
stick in the delicate wires of their wheels,
but they set on little boys to run across
cyclist with view of getting knocked
over. Boy falls PROSTATE bowling,
park keeper hurries up, takes cyclists
address, crowd soon gathers, compen
5ation is of course forthcoming, espec-
tally If the cycllst is lady. The wound
ed child skips merrily off with half a
crown, divides the booty, and tries for
another spill in another part Of the
park
An authority on laughter says IL has
been observed that laughter is indicative
of particular temper and character,
according to the sound of the vowel
that prevails in exclamation. Persons
that laugh in broad Latin "A" are
open-hearted, honest people, fond OF
noisy jOcundlty, but perhaps of vuIuble
mood. Excessive jerking laughter.
however, Is an evidence Of vulgarity.
Those laughing in dry "A" are res
pectable, but little expansive, and
hard lot of people. When the L.tin
"E" prevails there prevails also a phIeg
matte, melancholy temper, Timorous,
unsteady people, also thus imbued with
maligni,y, laugh in Kind of swelling
a." Laughter in 20 Is the utterance
of proud, bold, imperative. somewhat
bantering people. Beware of those that
laugh IN 90" (u) They are traitors.
haters and scorners,-T New York Sun.
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LOAD OF CLOVER.

A load Of clover in the early dawn
fright in the center OF the town. spied,
And straight saw a sweeping breadth of lawn
With fields on either si1e-
Great clover fields, shorn Of their heeces bright,
With misty bits of spider web, dew gommed,
Flung here and there; and daisies, posing light
Snow frilled and supple stemmed.
The sun had cleft In two the foggy lake
OF gathered vapors, hurting them apart,
And wild star roses twinkled, half awake,
Pink as q sea shells heart.
And dappled COWS. with peaceful, placid eyes,
Stood waiting. while the maid came tripping
down,
Bright eyed and rosy, holding, tunic wise,
Her checkered bingham gown,
A slender footpath lost its way among
A weedy labyrinth of restful tint
ofplantain, chlckweed, fCnnel, adder's tongue,
And moneywort and mint.
A home like garden stretched its crisp, greer
lines,
All drenched and dripping with the dew o.
morn;
And flowers were scattered through the sturdy
And stalks of early corn.
Like some fair dame that dreaming sits and mods
SO swayed the stately double hollyhocks;
And vigorous bean vines hung their rounded
pods
Above the four oclocks.
And tawney, spotted lilies shot aloft
Beside the beds of sage and carawayi
And parsley grew among the pansies soft,
In purple rich array.
Tho vision flashed upon me and was gone,
turned and went my way with lettering feet
A load Of clover in the early dawn
Passed up the city street.
-tGood Housekeeping
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plain to me about the tariff, il you

plain to me about the tariff, if you
know" f"s
Tariff is tax on foreign importa.
tions to protect home labor, in other
words, those who work"
"Why don't it protect me, then ?
work."
The growler, yes, but that hasn't
been recognized by any political plat
form as yet"
"Well, | never seen a man who was
your superior in workIn' a free lunch
route. Tell me, are you a protection
list 2"
Most assuredly am, and you would
be if you knew what was for your best
interests"
"How 80 ?"
"The tramp business in America is
threatened with ruin on account of the
pauper labor of Europe. Reduce the
tariff on tramps to forty-three per cent
as is contemplated by the Mills bill, and
our business will be paralyzed. We
might as well shut up shop. Foreign
tramps would be imported by the ship
load, ready to take the bread, cold meat
and pie right out of our very mouths.
See ?"
"Yes, begin to understand. Then
we want protection p
"Of course we do, above almost every
other class. We stand right alongside
of the big manufacturers in that respect.
Tramping is one of our great American
industries and it must be protected.
And the only way to do it is to keep up
the tariff"
How will that affect the surplus ?"
at won't affect ours any,"
mo, s'pose not. Still I'm not will
in to abandon free trade altogether"
why not p
"Well, sposin' early some mornin'
should find clean shirt hangin' on q
convenient clothes line, and my washer
woman being gone to Summer resort.
| should take notion to swap ?"
"Well."
"That's free trade. amt it?"
"Toler'bly free, should say. But
there might be low-brow d bulldog in
the yard and he would represent"
Protection understand. 'StOniIh-
in how fast get on to these peritical
questions talkin' with you"
Then the two Iramps went down
toward the East Rivor t. see il ther,
WAS opportunity to practice little fire.,
trade In beer.-TTexas Siftings.
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MOTHERHOOD.

Among crude nations maternity is
simply an animal function; birth is more
of the body than OF the spirit. II is
inevitably 30. The race first needed
numbers and strength. Ii had to battle
against the winds aud waters, fire fam
inc and cold. Nature must be subdued
aud the soil cultivated. Who cares then
for weak women and pulling babes.
Vikings were needed, swart brutal and
strong. When masculinity ruled a
premium was placed upon boys and with
the birth of a daughter, to the mother
was also born shame and fear. The
feeling OF masculine superiority has not
yet died out, 1t will not until the plow-
share is beaten into the pruning hook {;
until the finest and most exalted human
powers are near their blossomIng and
the world at large recognizes that these
belong TO the feminine side of life,
During the clangor OF war and greed
she was most honored who produced
those types which could best rule their
fellows and dominate nature. Now that
external forms of civilization have
reached high degree of refinement and
beauty, when on the one hand enervat
ing luxury causes the married to shrink
from the care and confinement Of child
reR and on the other poverty renders
them incompetent to give offspring a
decent rearing, they are not wanted
And the sun shines on no more pitiful
sight than on an unwelcomed child. or
such come the revengeful, the criminal,
and the depraved.
Naturally another reaction will take
place and the balance finally be found.
That will not come to pass till the true
relation is established between intellect
and intuition, Love and Wisdom.
AT present there are mothers who are
not mothers. In the true sense they
have never borne the children they real
TO maturity, Such are not to blame,
they have never learned what life means
nor do they know themselves. Walking
AS in dreSm they take the show of
things for the reality, Unwinged but
tertlies, they flourished their feeble day
and leave no impress upon their starved
progeny.
On the other hand the unwedded or
they who have never known a mothers
frultion, often stretch out the arms Of
their spirits to take in all the sad, sick
and weary that desolately walk the earth
| The mother instinct is then not narrow
ed selfishly To one family but grows
broad as the heavens from which came
a love 10 wonderful. 1t takes in who
ever needs "mothering" to shelter on
the great great heart that waits not for
The human tie before accepting that OF
the spirit. l, not this truly the highest
and hul est motherhood to which WON IN
can attaini
The true feeling Of motherhood stl
exists in all its perfection, even though
he usual exhibitions be generally ex-
ternal. Said wise woman lately: Il
never thanked the Great Mystery for
Jesus till knelt by the cradle OF my
first born. What was it huated in aud
ensphtr' my conscousn IS but the
subject revelation of an inexp esslble
and holy love, the conscious throb of an
lnfaniy rooted in human veins. There
IS nothing 50 glorious and so awful
under the sun, the rejected woman
hand patiently lifting through the ages
the supreme humanity to it's throne
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PROTECTION VS.. FREE TRADE.

Two trlmFs were overheard the other
day discussing the political question, on
a bench in the City Hall Park.
Whats all this talk about protection
and free trade Z" asked one; ''bamed If
can get hold of It,"
That's because it amt left out over
night" replied the other. a CLEAN Of
humor struggling through the dirt on
his face.
''Takin' it wouldn't he much protec-
ton against free trader like you, ." re-
turned the other. But come, now, ex-
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NO CANDIDATE.


well, Jerry, who's your candidate p
queried patrOlman the other day OF
one of the whitewash brigade at the
Central Market.
Il dun hasn't got any, sab"
What No candidate ?"
No, sab. You see If had a candi,
date, I'd git into fuss right Off"
How ~
well, OARS Reuben ober dar. He'd
cum ober yere an say: Uncle Jerry,
your candydate ar hoss-thief = Den
I'd say his candydate was pirate. Den
he'd say my caudydate was murderer
Den III say lie was a lyar, an we'd gu
into the awfullest fight you ever heard
Of. Wed be token up an tried, an
r uben would beg an cry an git cl'ar
while de Judge would hit me wild $50 or
80 days"
Aud that's It ?"
Oats it, sab. I'za dun heap o.
thinkin' bout dis yere candydate biz
ness, an IL, jet made up my mind not
10 hav' any TIL arter 'leckshun ~ De
lroil Free Press.
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FOUND DEAD.

Last evening person giving the name
of g, r, Thompson registered al Hunts
Hotel and desired TO be called in season
to take the IL P. NJ. train for Chicago.
Being unable to awaken him, the room
was entered by means Of the ventilator
over the door, when the gentleman was
found to be dead. He was advertising
agent for Sulphur Bitters, which has an
extensive sale. The coroner returned a
verdict of death from heart disease,
His body will be sent east Immediately.
-GCin. Commercial,
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Oh, WhntA CONAN.

VIII you heed the warning, The sig
nal perhaps Of the sure approach Of that
more terrible disease, consumption. Ask
yourselves il you can afford for the sake
OF saving 80 cents, TO run the risk and
do nothing for it. We know from ex-
perience that Shiloh's Cure will Cure
your Cough. 1t never fails. This ex
plains why more than a million bottles
were sold the past year. IL relieves
Group and whooping cough at once
Mothers do not be without it, For lame
back, side or chest, use Shiloh's Porous
Plaster. Sold by j. T. Shurtleff, Main
greet. Benningtnn.
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Answer This OuestIon.

Why do 80 many people we see around
us seem to prefer to suffer and be made
miserable by indigestion, consti pat ion
dizziness, loss Of appetite. coming up of
the food, yellow skin, when for 10 cents
we will sell them Shiloh's System Vital
izrr. guaranteed to cure them. Sold by
j. I. ShurIlelI, Bennington, VI.
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Good authority recommends the FOL
lowing method of scald'ng milk for III,
purpose Of keeping it sweet FIJI thir
glass bottle nearly up To its neck anf
place it in kettle of water, uncorkpd.
and gradually bring the water TO a boil
and boil 3j minutes. Thrn cork tn,
bottle tightly. u.ing rubber cork, ana
It is said the milk will remain sweet f.
month II kept tightly corked and in 4,
cool place.
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RTE,HT,'

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1t i easy for any one 20 make s. and upwards
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or young; capital not needed we starr you.-
Everything new. No special ability required you
reader, can do il as well as any one. Write TO US
az once for full particulars, which VIC mail free,
Address StinsOn q TO-, Portland, Maine. 4eyl
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FITCHBURG r. r.
HooSAC TUNNEL ROUTE.

HOOSAC TUNNEL hOOlb.
On and after July End, 1855, trains will run as
follows
LEAVE BENNISGToS VIA. BESNrNGToS & RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington % m, arrive Troy s IS, a
IN, New York 2 - m, Hoosick Falls 2 ~, North
Adams 10 10, Greenfield II 30 m,Fitehburg | IS,
Boston 3 % y INTERCHANGEABLE l5,Saratoga9 80,
am,
Leave Bennington 12 iOpm. arrive Troy 2l5,
New York 90, noosick Falls %, North Adams
4 81, Greenfield So. Fitchburg IS, Boston As p
IN, Mechauicvile 2 10, Saratoga l5
Leave Bennington IS m, arrive Troy IS,
IN, New York (yia steamer)8 10 am, Hoosick
Fails H. No. Adams I Oh y N, Boston IS m,
Mechanicville s., p. IN.
Leave Bennington y 10 night, arrive Troy IS
New York 0Oam.
LEAVE VIA. LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD.
Leave Bennington GOA IN. arrivc No. Adams
10 Ii, Greenfield IL 80 a. m. Fitchburg IS p. IN.
Boston 90 p. IN.
Leave Bennington 3 90 p IN. arrive Troy IS
HOosick Falls Il, No. Adams % y. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
VIA BENNINGTON q RUTLAND RY:
1sOam, from New York, Albany and Troy.
sam, from New York via. steamer), Al
bauy, Troy, Hoosick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga
and Mcchanicyile.
21pm, from New York Albany ,Troy, IIoosick
Falls, No Adams and Boston.
Bpm, from New York Albany, Troy, HoOsick
Falls North Adams aud Boston,
VIA. LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD.
2l5p. m. from Boston, Greenfield and North
SIS p. m. from Troy, No. Adams aud Boston.
J.wHTTMoRE, J.R. WATSON,
Gent TRAFFIC Mgr Boston. GEM Pass; Ag't
" Geni Western Passenger Agent Troy.
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INVENTION.

progress Is hlethod ana system OF work that can
be performed all over the country without separ-
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old; no special ability required, Capital not need
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to us and we will send you free, something OF
great value and Importance 10 you, that will start
you In business, which will bring you IN more
more money right away, than anything else in
the world. Grand outfit free. Address TRUE &
Co., Augusta, Maine. 4gyl
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"TherO i. No Cure But marriage"

How many pompous old fraud, with
an NJ. d. attached to his name, has
offered this time-dishonored prescrip-
ton to a pale haggard girl, suffering
from the ills of womanhood How
many wretohed hell on earth has thus
been started for no marriage can be
blessed, either to husband or wife, which
is taken as a pill. Out upon such quack
cry There is a cure for suffering wo-
men-a cure which will make marriage
the greatest Of earthly blessings, and
home the sweetest of E1ens. Its name
is DR.. PIerce's Favorire Prescription.
Just try it, and see the black clouds of
life roll away before the glowing sun
shine of returning health and vigor. 1t
IL the only medicine for women, sold by
druggists, under a positive guarantee
from the manufacturers, that it will
give satisfaction in every case or money
refunded. See wrapper around bottle.
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SORE FROM KNEE To ANKLE

Skin entirely gone. Flesh mass Of sease
Leg diminished one.thlrd in size. Condi.
ton hopeless. Cured by the CutIcura
Remedies
For three years was almost crippled with an
awful sore leg from my knee down TO my ankle
the skin was entirely gone, and the flesh was one
mass OF disease. Some physicians pronounced II
incurahle. 1t had diminished about one third the
size of the other, and was in a hopeless cond
ton. After trying all kinds of remedies and
spending hundreds of dollars, from which got
no relief whatever, l was persuaded to try your
CuTlcuRA REMEDIES, and the result was follows
After three days noticed decided change for
the better. and at the end Of two months / was
completely cured, My flesh was purified and the
bone (which had been exposed for over a year
got sound. The flesh began to grow and to day
and for nearly two years past, my leg is as well
as ever II was, sound in every respect and not q
sign Of the disease to be seen.
S. G. AIIERN, Dubois, Dodge Co., Ga.
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Eczema, Itchy. scaly, skin Tortures

The simple application Of "SwAYNE's ONT
ment,' without any internal medicine will cure
any case Of letter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm Piles
Itch, Sores, Iimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy
Skin EruptiOns, no matter how obstinate or long
standing. IL is potent, effective, and costs but
trife, 31yl
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From las Pounds to 17s Pounds.

have taken several bottles Of CUTICURA REsoL.
VENT with all the results | could wish for About
TINS time last year, when commencing Its use,
pounds. GEO. CAMPBELL, Washington. D. c.
.NofE The CUTICURA REsoLvEET is beyond
all doubt the greatest blood purifier ever com
pounded
CuTicuRA, the great Skin Cure, and CuTICuRA
soar, an exquisite Skin Beautificr, externally,
and CuTiCURA REsOLvENT, the new Blood Puri.
ter, internally, are positive cure for every form
OF skin and Blood Disease, from Pimples TO
Scrofula.
Sold everywhere. Price, CUTIcURA. SOC. SOAP,
26c, REsoLvENT, 81. Prepared by the POTTER
DRHd AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
- Send Tor How to Cure Skin Diseases, Ga
pages, 50 illustrations and 100 testimonials.
RhRY'S Skin and scalp preserved and bcautl.
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OLU WtTt Certainty healthy, TOT
our ancestors were rugged and long
lived, and the remedies they used were
simple preparations of roots and herbs.
The best blood purifier is again brought
into general use in Warmers Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla.
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MEDALS OF THE LOG CABIN CAM
PAIEN

This canvass Harrison-Van Buren,,
1910 was one Of the most exciting In
our history. Every expedient was re.
sorted to by politicians of both parties Ia
play upon popular feeling and the whole
courtry was aroused. The Wings con-
Quoted what has come down to us az
1.-The shouting campaign" The Demo
Gratis having sneered at Harrison for liv.
ing in log cabin with nothing but
hard cider to drink, his partisans raised
the cry for the clog cabin and hard
cider candidate" This touched the pop
ular imagination, and people fairly went
wild with enthusiasm-and hard cider 4:
for from the barrel which the candidate
proclaimed he was ready to tap for any
one who entered mis- cabin, cider seemed
to flow all over the country. Log cab
ins and barrels were features at nearly
all Harrison meetings, and were also
borne in the large professions by Har-
rison's supporters-the first political
professions IN our history-on which
Occa'ions the barrels were usually found
to be more persuasive orators than the
speakers. The Harrison medals faith
fully record the popularity of the barrel,
Tor the medalists even suspended their
regard for perspective, and in their
representations of HarrIson's primitive
home made the barrel so conspicuous an
object in the surrounding landscape
that beside II mountains dwindle to
mounds and the trees to bushes. As the
Harrison canvass progressed, it grew
so exciting that in one Massachusetts
town, for instance, church was turned
over to Harrison's partitans. They built
log cabin on wheels and drew it to the
church with eighty yoke of oxen, young
girls on horseback, each representing a
State, riding in advance bearing green
boughs and banners and strewing the
road with flowers, while the whole pro-
cession shouted:
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Ao'i'"io suffering from SKIN Diseases.
i have been terrible sufferer for wears from
diseases of the skin and blood, and have been
obliged to shun public places by reason Of my
di1fguring humOrs. Have had the best phys
clans and spent hundreds of dollars, but got nc
relei until used the CUTIcURA REMEDIES, which
have cured me and left my skin as clear and nv
blood as pare as a child's. IDA MAY BASS,
Olive Branch p. O., Miss
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DIR. Pierco's Pellets, the original and
only genul Little Liver Pills. e5ceuis
vial one dose
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HAY FEVER.
A LOG Cam

A Log CABIN was the
birth place of a number OF
the best presidents we
have had. While without
the modern conveniences
they were not uncOmfort-
able habitations. They
.......s .....a...I I.I
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Mrs0S Proctor G. Gaubr
The sample of Ivory Soap received from you excellent
Laundry Soap of more than average cleansing power The soap
also very well made, greasy fats being left in it, while the
aka is thoroughly combined that will nure the
delicate fabrics Very respectfully yours,
II. B. CORNWALL, Professor Of Chemistry.