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wood and the general aspect sug-
gests a smaller edition Of the
Peoples Church. Boston.
Below, in The same building is a
reading room, well supplied with
current papers and magazines, and
open to all. on condition Of good or
der. On this floor ara also the kin
dergar,en and industrial rooms. We
were in season for only the closing
exercise by the little ones. About
fifty, from five to eight years old,
stood in a circle, while two Of their
plumber stood in the center acting
as host aud hostess. They bowed
in turn to each one Of the fifty little
ones wEcreupon each advanced from
the circ.e, shook hands with a low
bow, and passed from the room. 1t
is fair to'venture that those children
will not at twenty find it impossible
ito leave a room gracefully.
The industrial school has been in
session for only a few months. The
teachers give their services and on
Saturday morning boys are taught
wood carving and modelling in clay,
while in the afternoon a sewing
class is held for girls. The children
who are helped arc from poor and
often destitute families.
The mission continues to grow in
popularity and has every promise of
success. In order to make i. self
supporting, Mr.. Armour has lnliIt a
lock Of brick apartment houses,
five to seven rooms in a fiat, renting
from twenty to thirty-fye dollars n
month, the proceeds Of which are
for the furthrrance of the mission
work. These 4 is while ranging at
about the price Of tcuements in the
vicinity, are UNNECESSARILY more at
tractive and wholesome. Indeed the
Armour block is an oasis in u desert
Of sooty, weather stained luildings.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-06
THE STATE CONVENTION.
Special Correspondence to the HERALD)

Especial Correspondence to the HERALD)
Montpelier June 81, 1888.
Vermont Republicans completed
to-day the work that for years will
be remembered as one of the best in
her political history. The men who
remained at home equalled, in sound
judgment and appreciation of true
worth, the men who voted first, last
and at all times for the soldier
statesman and gentleman who is to
lead the Republican forces in this
campaign.
Seldom has this town witnessed so
harmonious and enthusiastic
gathering Of political workers. The
wave of enthusiasm from Chicago
seemed just to have reached the
Vermont capital, and staid farmers,
shrewd merchants, sober parsons
and cool headed lawyers alike seem
ed to rise on its crest.
After the roll call of the State
Convention had been completed
Speaker Batchelder was announced
as the chairman selected by the
State Committee. He made a ring
ing speech.
Mr.. Palmer of Waterbury then
rose, and in the most telling speech
of the day, placed in nomination for
candidate for Governor-William
Paul Dillingham; Of Waterbury.
Mr.. Palmer used no empty words
Twenty years of intercourse with
Mr.. Dillingham; as neighbor and asso
Citations at the bar and in public life
had qualified him for the work, and
his sincere admiration of the. man
was expressed in words that betray-
ed both scholarship and thought.
One after another of the delegates
from the different counties FASTENED
TO second the nomination, but tho
time was too short for all to express
their approval, SO the nomination
was made by reclamation.
A mighty shout went up when
The "ayes" were called for, and a
mighty silence reigned in response
to the call for "nays."
Col Woodbury's nomination for
lieutenant Governor was made with
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EAol't

let that cold of yours run on, You
think it is little thing. Bat it may
run into catarrh. Or consumption,
or pneumonia.
Catarh is disgusting. Pneumonia
is dangerous. Consumption is death
itself
The breathing apparatus must be
kept healthy and clear of all obstruc-
tons and offensive matter Other.
wise there is trouble ahead.
All the diseases Of these parts, head.
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and
lungs, can be delightfully."- and entirely
cured by the use OF Boschee's German
Syrup. If you don't know this already
thousands and thousands aud thous-
ands of people can tell YOU. They
have been cured by it, and 'know
how it is themselves" Bottle only
Is cents. Ask any druggist.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-06
ARMOUR MISSION.

Not the least among home mis-
sionary enterprises is the Armour
Mission of Chicago. "Phil Armour"
a name so closely associated with
pork-packing, drops often from lips
in tones of sincere gratitude and adj
miration. A plan projected by his
brother, has been carried out most
cordially and faithfully. Mr.. Ar
mour's personal interest is so genu-
inc that he rarely fails on a Sunday
morning to be present at the mission
service. The story is told that on
one occasion-the audience is largely
composed of children when new
pastor made a long "church prayer"
including the ends of the earth, Mr..
Armour plainly told him his error
and that children wanted short.
pointed prayers. The minister
wisely followed the suggestion with
the usual excellent results. The
mission itself is a substantial brick
building, having an audience room,
semicircular in shape, seating eight
hundred people. Opening into the
auditorium by glass doors are class
rooms which increase the seating
to twelve hundrel A
small, swee. toned piPe organ fur
nishes music, The finish is herd
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creed, says the New York Press, the
Republican platform is something
like this:
WE BELIEVE
In a free ballot and in having
every vote counted.
In protection for projections sake
and we are not ashamed of it.
In abolishing internal taxes Gre
ated for war purposes.
In the direct protection of Amer
lean labor against cheap foreign
labor.
In free internal competition.
In railroad regulation,
In honest cad and good home
stead titles for citizens.
In home rule for big and intelli-
gent Territories.
In double monetary standard,
In the utmost facilities for educa-
tion, as worth all they can cost.
In a big merchant marine and in
American ship yards.
In good navy, good coast de-
fenses and good water routes for
commerce.
In making other nations respect
our rights and pay for all they get
from us.
In protecting American citizens
against foreign interference, not
only at home but in any part of the
world.
In civil service reform more than
ever; and
That nothing is too good for the
soldiers who risked their lives to
save the country and saved it;
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4 y RAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
~ ssiIIHIher Arrangement, 1855.

~ sSiIIHIner AFraHgeHfent, 1855.
On and AFTER June p, and until furth. r
nuticc, trains will be run a. follows:
GOING WEST
Express train for Montreal leaves Island
Pend az C IS m; mixed train for Nominal
and Quebec ~ 20 q IN. Mixed train leaves
GOrhum for Island Pond at 3 45a m FXurrss
trains tor Montreal ana the west will leave
Portland at 9.l5 a, M, and so p m: Gurham
al y % and 300 p. m; Island Pond az 10 and
- p. m the latter connecting at RichnqI.d
tO1 Quebec
GOING EAST
Express trains for Island Pond. Coz ham,
Lewiston, Portland. and Boston will lraSe
Montreal at .. 90 @. M ana 10 - q IN and I7snd
Pond at e a. IN. and J 90 p. m. EXPIRES
Tor Island Pond and intermediate stHtiOus
VIII leave Montreal az 5 Is p. IN. N yet
train for Islam. Pond and intci Cdiat'. -i..
lions will leave Richmond ut 6 a. N. bINcf
train for GOrham leaves island Pond sd lJ
p. M. JOSEPH UICkSCN
General Manaecr.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-06

Until the blood is cleansed of impur-
tiles, it is useless to attempt the cure
of any diseases. Rheumatism, which
is traceable to an acid in the blood,
has been cured, in numerous cases, by
the use Of Ayers Sarsaparilla, external
treatment being of no avail.
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otinr Orooob Tbo oro.,;or wa.
called for and Mr. Grant was NOM
mated NV ,ccIamotion bvunaninous
vote
Whom tbo district oorvortior nd
i,prncd President BateboIdnr AGAIN
took tba oaval and ooIlol for tho
adioprno5 nicotine Of .ho State Con.
vontior and annonpcod ,hattboroxt
Govornor and Tient-Goyor,or wore
in attendance As thoso honorod
.on,Iomor odyorcol 70 ,ho ,Jotfor,,
thov roeoivod cr,rd ovarian. tbo
band nlavod "IJail TO the Chief y
and oioht hundred mon rose "a their
feet and chccrod amid ,ho wavino
Of hats faos umbrellas etc
Mr. DiIIinmbom in woII chosen
words thanked tho convention for
the honor bestowed mon him. lie
tbon rororrad to tho odvorcod stand
t,Lop Inv tbo Ro,nLIican nortv IN
all the oroor movements Of tho last
thirty wears in both moral ond noI-
iticai limos Uo proal an nnoom.
nromisino battle aoainst the saloon.
and called for loois,tion that would
stronotbpn onr nnhIc schools
Col Woodbury. made q GOOD i'm
nrossion Inv THANKING tbo con, ion
in 2 manly ami business like man
pnr for tho rovors which had fallen
TO him
Uoar;no that fho roonIo If Water
bprv vnro 70 coInhrato tbo nomino.
t;on of Mr. DiIinoham unon his ar.
rival from Nontnolior 7 took thc af.
tornoon train fortbat nIaco IN ordnr
70 coo what Ii. foI,ow townsnon
tbouobt Of tba romino Goyornor
There wosno mistakin@ thoir scn,i-
r,onts ,rhon iva orr;rod on ,.o oro,-
inc train An onon carriaoo occn.
MED NV ox.Gov and Mrs PanI Dill
r,ohom Mrs w p and Mostor
pon1 Di1,;rohom. tn yvo,orb,,r,,
Band, and nearly oioht hundred
citizens, incIndinr the Democratic
postmaster and MANY Of his fellow
Democrats wore in waitino at the
dopot. Amid frino Of cannons,
cheers from the crowd and music by
the band the carriaoo was escorted
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-06
THE REPUBLICAN CREED.

Condensed into the form of short
creed, says the New York Press, the
Republican platform is something
like this:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-07-06
GOING uESH

On and sftcr june p, and until furth. r
n.tice. lraims VIII De IIIm ms follows:
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30

the northwestern edge Of the gold district,
which runs southeastofly in a Straight line
about 100 miles, and to the east Of this longi-
tude from fifteen to fifty miles. 4 railroad
runs to Tatuley, large town from whence to
the mines east on good buggy road, the distance
is about thirty miles, over prairie country.
"a peculiar feature of this coast of Sac Paulo
IS that looking from the ocean at the gigantic
mountains piled one upon another a stranger
suppoSes that the interior must be a wild, rug
ged country. On the contrary gentle, rolling
plain slopes from the summit westward for
three or four hundred miles. The eastern slope
and immediate summit of this range arc dense
ly wooded. From this range numerousstreAms
arise and flow westward, except in the south
where the ridges are lower and the streams
flow eastward into the ocean.
The gold region is all south OF Santos. 1t
mas been worked since the seventeenth centu-
ny and the government records show that the
government has received taxes on $50 arrobaS
OF 148, 800 pounds avoirdupois of gold.
Having verified the report of two soldiers
having fonnd gold in crossing the country,
took competent engineers and made expert
mehts which proved satisfactory. kept a
man exploring for several years. The gold is
found In white quartz gravel, scattered over
stretch OF seyenty-five miles in q width vary
ing from one hundred to sixteen hundred
yards, in deposits from six inches to six feet
thick.
"A strange feature was that the gold was
uniformly distributed through the gravel,
only, occurring in greater quantities where two
creeks met. A cubic yard of gold gravel
yielded from sixteen to thirty-six grains
Of fine dust in fat particles.
Even in the primitive method Of putting
down palm trees in the stream so as to make
trough and washing the gold dust off the
gravel, invariably got enough gold to pay
handsomely. With improved machinery, rs
per cent more gold could be saved 1 paid
more attentian to quartz veins which yield
gold sometimes in a thin sheet and sometimes
in nuggets
DR.. Barnesley has had considerable expert
ence in mining, and has spent good deal of
money in it. He has now mining privileges or
permits from the government to work certain
territory, and, though he has spent $4,000,
has not given up the fight, as two or three
English companies are now successfully at
work on mines that have paid handsomely for
the last century. He has partner at Rio
Janeiro, and proposes to interest other capital
lists who will help him develop the mines.
DIR. Barnesley, who is now at the Wood
lawn in Barlow county, thinks of coming to
Atlanta soon to talk with the manufacturers
and merchants about the opportunities for
direct trade with Brazil by way of Savannah
on steamships that will make the trip in
twelve to sixteen days. w. G. G.
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A nEMARKARr.E HlsToRY.

An Old Couple Who Bought Themselves
Twice Over.
From the Hawkinsyille Ga, Dispatch.
Old Aunt jenny Mathis, or Aunt "Ginny"
Buck, Us she was called by everybody, q good
Old colored wossan. we'll known to the eitiZeus
OF HawkinsvillAand vicinity, died at her home
in this place on Wednesday last, aged about
scventy-ive years. Aunt Jenny's history is n
remarkable one. She was born a slave, and
was owned in her young days By q planter in
Wilkinson county. By working in her leisure
moments, and saving every penny she earned,
she accumulated enough to purchased her free
dom about 1887. She kept O restaurant or hotel
here, and was literally patronized by the
white citizens. Many prominent citizens
boarded with her, and hers was the leading
and, in fact, the only hotel in Hawkinsville
fifty years ago. Aunt Jennys husband, known
as old uncle Buck, assisted his master, a Mr..
Mathis, around his store and saved some
money, and with the assistance OF Aunt Jenny,
who sold cakes, ETC., III addition to carrying on
her restaurant they were enabled in a few
years to purchase Uncle Bucks freedom, pay
ing about S 800 i'll gold. About the time they
bought themselves law was enacted by the
Georgia Legislature prohibiting the buying of
slaves by themselves. The former owner of
Aunt Jenny and Uncle Buck turned over hill
of sale TO them to a gentleman named Nc
Combs, who went to Macon and died there
very suddenly. The bill of sale was found
among his effects, with no explanation, and
through some process of law Uncle Buck and
Aunt Jennie were again put into slavery. For
several years they worked as slaves, and at
length secured money enough 2td again
bought their freedom, paying between $1,000
and $1,000 the second time.
In the meantime their SON Sam had born to
them and he was sold off and carried to Louis
lana After buying themselves Size second
time Aunt Jenny and her husband went to
Louisiana and tried to buy Sam, but his owner
refused 10 sell him. They then moved to
Ohio. and lived there several years. but be-
came dissatisfied and returned to Hawkins
vile, saying they preferred TO live in Georgia,
though il was a slave state The war come on
aud their son Sam was freed and came 10
Hawkinsville, where he now lives
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eassafras bushes to scare Thad and Just as Thad
mad squatted behind the roGK pile Linton
gfoaned and flashed sopee powder with a
sulphur match and Thad liked TO have
Killed himself getting away. Jim Baldwin
was coming just then, but he turned tail and
run back with Thed and il was nip and tuck
petWeen them, and the other boys jumped up
out OF the corners of the fence as they passed
ana yelled and laughed 50 loud that old Pat
and all his family came running out to see
what was the matter. And where Is Davy
Jones and old friend Mathews Davy used to
rsTaausesG6 The -sls and play grinning Jake, and
how they Sid wallop him. And don't you re-
member Cannady jarrett and Pete Hoylo and
Bob Henderson"
My friend las good memory and got
warmed up in his talk and our chairs got
closer together, and nothing stopped us but the
dinner bell.
They are good solid unpretending people
in and around Hope. Unlike Macon
there are five times as many white
as negroes, aud they want it to stay so. Blessed
are tho people who are content with their
land, their region and their surroundings.
On my return 1 came through Decatur, that
ill-starred town that has been SO rudely nip
ped in the bud, and all her bright prospects
laid low II looked like q city Of the dead for
the living were not to be seen. Before We
reached the suburbs the car windows were all
closed and the doors locked and we glided
through noiseless and still and solemn as fu-
moral, / saw two negroes and one white man
digging grave in the cemetery saw some
little darkiessitting on the steps OF a cabin. I
saw one man approach the train and throw a
letter ON tho platform and the conductor
shoYed newspaper out of the window and
shut down the sash quickly. What an awfu
thing II Is to be Imprisoned with the plague in
town or city-no where to 60 and lind vel
come no friends TO come and minister to You
and comfort you; no letters with kind words
and tender messages. No nothing, but to be
face to face by day and by night with the pid-
less angel OF death. The conductor told me
that one OF their engineers had lost brother
and sister, and he had passed in sight of
their dwelling almost every day, but was not
allowed to visit them nor shed a tear at thei
graves. This is the dark side of our humanity.
But there is a brighter one, thank the good
Lord for his mereies BILL ARR.
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Weftutlte.

The dinner was a good one, little too elab-
crate and long drawn out TO suit plain man.
There were two kinds Of soup, as / remember,
and both had been baptized in foreign tongue
The reason 1 remember this SO well was
because of the mild CONSERVATION I created
when I asked my friends excellent wife if she
could spare me from the opulence of her menu
bowl of pot liquor and piece of corn bread
There were other guests at the table, real and
genuine society people, too, and observed that
when the pot liquor was called for, they looked
at each other in a knowing way and smiled but
the smiles were not hearty, for every mothers
son and daughter of them knew that 1 was
getting the best of that dinner. They smiled
because it is not good form, don't you know, to
call fol potliquor. But this was what my
coarse and degraded appetite called for, and
made no bones of announcing the fact, and
when the guests smiled, 1 merely cast aa anc-
tious glance on the sign,
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WtItnHle

At that moment never saw a happier or a
more satisfactory advertisement. It's smile was
broader and more hospitable than the we'll
bred smokers and giggles Of the society guests,
and between its unconditional announcement
and the savoy pot-liquor became oblivious to
everything else. Nobody pestered me, and l
have come to the conclusion that the way to
have nice quiet time at fashionable dinner
is to call in loud voice for bowl of hot
pot-liquor and q pone of corn bread.
After dinner, 1 went with my friend into a
little room that he calls his library, and we be-
gan to talk
"Did you notice tho dinner-plates?" said he.
Mot particularly, RI replied, ''but / noticed
that the bowl in whi9tI got my pot-liquor was
OF the most old-fasEDied yellow def variety"
My friend blushed and moved uneasily in his
seat.
"Well, of course, '''he exclaimed; cts that
internal old Niger out there in the kitchen. L
reckon she'd be discharged a thousand times
before she'd put pot-liQuor in one of them new
tangled shebangs that the others
had their soup in. They didn't cost much,
but they look sniptious, don't they? I'm sorry
you didn't notice them plates, though. Sarah
says they were imported. They cost like the
very old Nick, but Sarah VOWS they are the
says"
Il expect they are fne," said I, "but the
incest thing l saw, except the bowl of pot
liquor, was that beautiful sign over the man
tel'
"What was that?' my friend asked, with
some curiosity.
"Why, the welcome business"
He threw himself back in his chair and
laughed heartily.
Gwen" said he after awhile, "Sarah won
that at church rattle. 1t was worked by
some little orphan children, but it don't
amount to much. just stuck it up there, be-
cause it seemed to fit the place."
This piece of information whetted my curl
osty, and so l asked my friend about that
other advertisement ''God Bless our Home"
Its history was pretty much the same. 1t was
employed as al ornament merely, and was
therefore q sham--a horrible sham.
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1t would he difficult to parallel in Rctive
literature Diekenss description Of Pecksmtf
conspiring with himself to surprise his daugh-
ters The villainous wretch while he is yet
mile away from his house, begins to walk on
his tip-toes in order that the dear girls may
not hear him. Thackeray dearly hates
sham, but only Dickens has caught with pho
tographic vividness, a picture of the real
article. How many OF us today are marching
tip-toed on Pedestrian tour?
I learned from my friend that on the
pillow shams in his bedroom were embroidered
the words pleasant Dreams" and that even
the buttons on his night-shirt bore the legend
GOOD Night" This was information enough
for one day, and so, when he had smoked cut
his Havana cigar took my leave androtumed
thankfully to a humble place in the suburbs,
where there are no sham sentiments and no
sham advertisements
We may be very sure that the sham senti-
ments in which these advertisements are
based are fundamental. They belong to hui
man nature, and they are progressive in their
character wherever society is organized Ny
neighbors want me to believe that their homes
are ideally happy ones l want them to be-
lieve the same of mine. Not all of US have
these embroidered advertisements hanging up,
bat We make up for their absence by certain
I mSlnWattonS and lntiulatonS Uhat need not be
describedto readers who know all about them
I We are all Peck shifts Of one sort or another
/ and it makes no difference whether we admit
| il will a griu or dony it with frown.
/ What the south was in the old days we all
know. It's civilization and society were Of tho
+ ideal kind because they were based not on
/ shoddy competition in social matters, but on
the simplicity that belongs 10 everything good
and great in this world of ours. No doubt We
shall have to put up with this modern business,
with its frauds and shans, but IL seems a pity
that we have to give up that which was perfect
in its gentleness. in its culture, in its courage
and its candor. j. g. II.
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Waited TooLong.

For the Constitution.
All! Folsom, friend! read in tears
Your goodbye to John Bareycorn
1t brought to mind the wasted years
And golden chances turned to scorn;
For more than once I've bid adicu
To John and all his sinful ways
But back again, before knew,
His eharmers led me where he stays:
He is SO pleasing and SO sly
You more than once may say goodbye.
Could recall those wasted years,
Wherein ! sinned and soWed SO wild.
Id crave the coward direst fears
To keep me watchful OF his guile;
But Ills too late for me, too late
For there are printed on my mind,
The mile-posts over sixty years
That have sadly left behind
The time is near for me to die
And l'n too WEAK to say goodbye.
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