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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-02-01

A young physician who had recently hung
out his sign came home one day in high
spirits. do you know. my DEAR" he said
to his wife, Pm really becoming quite well
known here. The Vndertakers bow to me
already. "-French Fun.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-02-01

Mary put on her tobOggan suit,
On the Polo ground slide to "rustlc;"
The tobog from under her did scoot
And she slid a mile on her b-st-e!
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1888-02-01

Subscribe for THE MIRROR.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

Robert Bonner has transferred property
in New York to the value of more than
81 900. 900 to his sons, as an incentive to
work, he SAYS the same reason for which
he gave them his New York Ledger
Commenting on the fact that the returns
show that about every sixth person in Yer
mont has an average deposit of $500 in the
savings banks, the Philadelphia Ledger
says; As socialism and anarchy contend
that property is robbery, it is evident that
neither Of these heresies prevails in Yer
mont, where, allowing five to a household,
nearly fve-sixths of the heads of the fami-
lies are property holders.
Washington Territory's claims for admis-
sion to the Union are hardly less cogent
than those Of Dakota. With a population
Of about 200,0 600, enormous wealth in natu-
raj resources, and several excellent harbors
on its long stretch of sea-coast, the terrific
ry makes its request for statehood well sup
ported. 1t has twice as many inhabitants
as Oregon had when it became a state.
Little Josef Hofmann, the ten-years-old
musical prodigy, was up before Mayor Hew-
itt of New York last week on motion Of
the society for the prevention of cruelty tc
children, and after the doctors had looked
the boy over it was decided to limit him tC
four performances week. He seems in
good physical condition and evidently en-
joys his work, but it was thought best tC
put a limit on his PLAYING in public for the
present. ''Why can't you leave me alone 2
was his plaintive appeal in his own behalf
at the hearing.
Judge Sage of the United States circuit
court, sitting at Cincinnati, has rendered
an opinion in case against director of 1
wrecked bank, in which he holds that a di
rector cannot be held criminally liable for
/ the wrecking of his bank unless it can be
proved that he was in direct completely
with the officer whose wrongful acts caused
the collapse, or that he had good reason t.
suspect that the affairs of the institution
were being dishonesty managed. This it
contrary TO the idea generally held ON thii
subject, but the judge fortifies his opinion
| bv the quotation of "A precedent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
rHE sraAR AND orAER .lRrSrs -


SOME FACTS ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST THREAT
ENING EVILS or OUn DAY.
one of The latest trusts tp ht organized
is the sugar trust, which came into exist
ence only about two months ago aud yet in
this short time it has raised the price Of
sugar one and half cents per pound in
the New York market and similar adj
vance will soon be compelled all over the
country In this trust or combination
to control the market aud raise prices,
there are included II of the largest reiuer-
les in the country, and there are left out
side only three concerns Of any note-one
in Boston AMI two in Philadephil These
are powerful concerns and their repre-
sentatives say that they will fight the
trust to the end but the tru,' has threat
ened to erect IA large refinery in Phil
adelpha to fight the housos iu that city,
and seems determined to obtain the abso-
lutte control Of the sugar refinery business
in the United States Its management is
in the hands of ten directors, no hold Of
flee FOR three years and whose power is alb
| sOute The combination even has u
scheme 20 get control of the entire raw
sugar crop Of the countries from which the
American market is supplied, in order 70
intrench itself the more solidly in its mo-
nopoy. II is stated that Che trust is capt.
allied at four times the value Of the con-
biued plants, and on this watcrcd stock big
dividends are expected.
Few people have an idea of the amount
OF profits forced advance Of one and one
half cents a pound in the price Of sugar
means, but few figures viii illuminate the
subject. The annunl per capita consumption
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
SEMI I-ANNUAL
MARK-D AND
CLOSING OUT SALE
CARPETS,
OIL CLOTHS,
SMYRNA RUGS,
CRUMB CLOTHS,
HASS0CKS,
DOOR MATS, ETC.

Everything in this department
reduced in price 10 TO 25 per ct.
Best D frame Body Brussels
marked down to 81 10. Medium
Grade Brussels down TO $l.00,
worth Sl.l5. Lower grade for
S5c. Also Il very large and
choice stock Of best makes in
Tapestry Brussels at 65c, 75c
and Soc per yard.
Fifty pieces Of KidderminSter
and KenSingtOn Art Carpets, all
very desirable styles, AT 75c,
worth Soc. Also as to 100 rolls
Of best allwOOl Ingram Carpets
from jSc to 65c per yard. Cot
ton and Wool Ingram Carpets
from 25c TO soc.
My stock Of Smyrna Rugs was
never AZ large as now, cOmpriS-
ing every sizes in the best makes
and at prices that will surprise
yOu when you examine the sizes
and qualities.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

The Wisconsin supreme court has lately
given decision adverse TO the woman suf-
fragiats The case was that of a Racine
woman against tha inspectors Of elections
in that city, who refused last spring to re-
ceive her vote for city officers, She brought
suit for 5000 damages, and won her case
in the circuit court; but the inspectors ap-
pealed the case to the supreme court, which
holds that the intent Of the law of 1883 was
not TO extend the same suffrage TO women
which the men enjoy, but only to give the
women the right To vote on school matters,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
PInrkr New unmn.hirn.

The fire losses in New Hampshire last
year We're unusually heavy, aggregating
81 ,620 jl1. and the amount of insurance
paid was S92s j9l This was heavy tax
on the home companies, which have borne
all the burden of insurance since the pas
sage of the valued policy law and the
withdrawal of the foreign stock companies,
but the people pluckily keep their courage
up and are bound to fight the battle out
without asking for "A repeal or modification
Of the new law, which they believe to be
right in principle The Lebanon Free
Press says:
"Not one Of the 200 fires is traceable in
any way to the law, and would have hap
pehed Just the same had the old companies
remained III the state. Rates would have
been greatly increased. and the courts
would have had enough cases on the dock
cts for the next decade Our state com
panies have passed through the worst year
they will ever have, and at the time when
they woIl} suffer the most-the first year
Of their existence They have faithfully
met Il. .r contracts, and only two mutual
companies have gone out of the business,
these ri,h every obligation paid. 1t is a
great ,eru,1. and shows what pluck will dc
in the face Of difficulties. New Hampshire
does not need any pity in this direction.
She is taking care of herself pretty well
for one so young
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record,
one of the hest authorities of its kind i'll
the country, fires hot shot into the free
trade camp by quoting facts and statistics
which show what protection has done foI
the development of the industries of the
South. 1t says that while the number OF
cotton mills south of the Ohio river, and
including Maryland and Virginia, in 1885,
was l79, with 7l3 9s9 spindles and 10, %,
looms, ON January /, 1855 in the same ter
ritory, there were 29l mills, with I ,I9j, IA
spindes and $4,000 looms. The RecorC
also states that the reports from the cottor
mills show that the aggregate value of th'
product of all the southern mills in 1888,
was about $l3, 0Oo, COO against S2l ,O0O, O0l
in 1880
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

A little girl went into a neighbor's house
one day, and some apple parings lay on "a
plate on the table After sitting awhile,
She said, II smell apples" YES the la
dy replied, 81 guess you smell these apple
parmgs on the plate" "No, no, - said she;
faint them smell smell whole apples, ~
A young man, who was examined for am
appointment as a department clerk, came
across this question; "What states and
territories would you cross in going from
New York TO the Pacific Coast = He didn't
know, and so he wrote "None. l would
go around by Cape Horn"
Ladies speak of short dresses as 'just
clearing the floor, " but really the dress that
Just clears the floor is the dress with four
yards Of train. burlington Free Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

THE DIOCESAN SCHOOL rOR YOUNG LADIES
At ROCK POINT, BURLINGTON.

THE DlbtESAN SNHDbls FUR 1ONNb LADIES
AT ROCK POINT, BURLINGTON
From the Woodstock standard
On the 9TH of Aug, 1885, the late John
z. Howard who had always taken much
interest in Bishop Hopkins's work at Rock
Point, bequeathed 100000 as an endow-
ment for young ladies' school at that
place, provided suitable buildings should he
erected therefor by the trustees Of the Yer
mont Episcopal Institute, or the sum Of
$40, 600 be raised within one year after his
death for such buildings Mr. Howard died
Oct. TO- 1885, and before Oct 10, 1885, the
trustees had raised the $40, 600 as required
AT the annual meeting of the trustees June
10, 1887, the executive committee Of the
Institute were directed to proceed at once
with the erection of the buildings. After
communication with several architects the
committee adopted the plan presented by
Mr.. Frederick Z. Camp Of New York, IA
grandson Of Bishop Hopkins and a gradu
ate Of the boys school at Rock Point.
The building is l24 feet long and 60 feet
wide. 1t is built of stone quarried in the
immediate neighborhoOd, of a reddish cast,
resembling Mallett's Bay marble, and will
he four stories in height. The style Of
architecture is collegiate or academicol
gothic The site is most beautiful rocky
promontory near and at the left Of the en-
trance to the extensive property owned by
the diocese at Rock Point A lawn 1000
feet wide stretches in front bounded by u
fringe Of trees on the brow of a descent
which reaches the lake The prospect over
looks the beautiful city and bay Of Burling-
ton and the waters of Lake Champlain for
twenty miles or more In the distance up
on the right may be seen the numerous
ranges Of the Adirondacks, and upon the
left the highest peaks of the Green mount
ain range, Camels Hump and Mount Mans
field, presenting a combination of lake,
valley and mountain scenery unequalled for
beauty and variety.
The trustees have taken great pains to
inform themselves respecting the modern
improvements in school buildings, and in
tend to make the Hopkins Memorial Hall
the most complete and perfect in all its ar
rangements Of any building in this country
for the purposes for which it is intended,
viz, the education of young ladies'.
1t is expected that the building will be
fully completed, furnished and ready for
opening the school in September, 1888.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
Mnr,,. Li.,Ie Lnmb...Revl.ed ver.lon

Mary had little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And built little tariff pen
To keep il safe, you know.
But Roger Mills, he came along,
An ugly boy was he,
Aud smashed the little tariff pen
70 let the lamb go free.
And in the night an English wolf,
As silent as a clam,
Came prowling round the broken pen
Aud killed the little lamb,
Then Mary wept, but hopeful said
I'm have free wool at least"
"And 50 you shall, said Roger Mills;
So s. I'D the ugly beast
But when she went TO get the fleece,
Ii' wolf was sitting ON il;
Com, GU" said he, "and get your wool;
I've fixed my price upon it,"
So ila~y traded with the wolf,
And rnundly did she pay;
For that dear fleece she fed the beast
a tvelvemonth and a day.
--SpriHQteid Union
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

March 4th so often fluids cold, raw wealth
er in Washington that proposition has
been made to have inauguration day come
April 30, A constitutional amendment OK
tending the term of the present administra-
ton to that date has been fayorably report
cd from the senate committee
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
tcncc, it is difficult to say vhut would he

tcnce, it is difficult to say what would he
dishonest"
In conclusion Mr. Brown says that it docs
not develop Il very high grade Of honor
for him to assal my history Of Whitingham
solely on the ground Of few typographical
errors or mistakes whether in the printer
or the writer, that every honest, fair-mnd-
cd reader would at once see was not the
intention Of the author, and he does not
think amy enduring honor eau be gained
by such course
We think "honors are even now be
tween the t@o historians, and here this
part of the controversy must stop SO far as
our columns are concerned u
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

II TVTII IIWT TT-T HtFNIT1T
Miss Clara to Featherly, who is making
an evening call-Poor little Bob by swal-
lowed penny today and we've all been so
much worried about it.
Feathegly somewhat at loss for words
of encouragement)-Oh I-er-wouldn't t
worry Miss Clara, a penny is not much
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

1t is said that at the banquet given to
Gen. Sheridan by the Loyal Legion of
Massachusetts, in Boston last week, the
gathering represented more brains and
more money chan any company ever gath
cred together in Boston. The members of
the Legion Aatter themselves that they
furnished a fair share of the brains, if not
of the money Gen Sheridan underwent
a prolonged handshaking in the City Hall,
and was received as he went through the
streets with cries of Long live Gen. Sher-
idan, our next president"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

From the New York sun
Good mornin' to yez, Missus Brennan.
Good mornin', Missu5 Wrolley"
"An' how did Tommy rest last noight r.
oh de dear choil was dat disturbed wild
de noise av his cryin' he didn'tsape a wink. ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17

Two great enemies Hoods Saraaparla and
impure blood The latter Is utterly defeated by
the peculiar medicine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
Business CARDS.

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General Insurance aud Reai Estate Ageats
Representing Companies whose assets are over
$500 900 900.
TENEMGNTs TO LET.
Agents for BABcocK FIRE E2risaulsHEps.
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w q. GODDARD,
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StutNwcil's Building, Fiat st., Bnttlrhuro, VT
NNDMARD RHRKLAND, N. ~,
II rllA SIClAN AND SURGEON.
Once at residence of Dc d. T.. Dearborn. Hours
50 A. NJ, l3-2 and G:3O g. N.
DRATTLEBORO
ID TELEPHONE ENCHANGE A.
open day and night Crosby Bloch up STAIRS
BrattlrbJru, VT.
Terms for full set of instruments S2.5oper month
VNRS. TUCKER n BOWEN,
- PHYSICIANS AND SUkGEpNS.
Dr fuckers office aud rrsidcuce N1. Green 81
OHirr hours as usual ur. BuW"u'S uttitr amt res
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and FROM T. to and Gto p. ST.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
We Want

Every Dealer & COnSum-
ct in Windham County TO
know that we have now
bought and have 70 car
loads Of
FLOUR,
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Which we offer at the
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The trade can reach
US by telegraph, teIe-
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in Old BrattIebOrO House.
Call upon US before buy
ing and examine our
stock and get prices.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-15

From what have seen Ct well bred, wen
to do Italians at summer resorts | should say
that they take their holidays in ways more
sensible than rich Americans They make
far less display in dress and equipage, they
keep better hours and avoid excess in exer-
else and amuselnents. They show less anxi-
ETY. 10 DO exclusive in their associations and
high toned III their manners. They do not
thrust long pedigrees or long purses down
your throat. They bravely wear comforta-
Die Gil clothes. Their kirtles and their titles,
their coats and their coats Of arms set easily
upon them.
Many q fair conressa, whose home in Flor
enoe. or Rome is all ancient pslazzo, with
lots of blood curdling family traditions about
it, big gallery of family portraits in it and
a family specter OF two, takes With her to
the baths of Lucca or the seaside fir less and
Lee, costly a baggage than many Il New York
belle, with no ancestors to speak Of, and only
q Photographic album of family portraits,
going from specterIess boarding house to
Saratoga or Long Branch.-Glace Green
woods Letter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-15
Unhappy Facility of Expression.

Some people have such an unhappy facility
of expression, combined with slipshod meth
DDS of thought, that they are likely to in
dulge in speech which it would puzzle a
Dutchman" to translate. The History of
Weare, New Hampshire" refers to ioqua-
cious townswoman who reversed the old
maxim, and went ahead" without being
sure she was right
One of her stories was to the effect that
her husband sowed some fax, which came
up and grew, until the frost struck it and
blighted every spear.
Then the worms took it and ate it all up;
then the drought took it and killed it all, and
when they came to pull it they didn't have
half a crop. After that they rotted it, and
her husband done out some of it, and it
want good for nothing.
Then they let it lay year, and it was the
best fax she ever see. She used some of it
to make cloth for her husbands shirts
1T was cotton linen cloth. 1t was tow
warp, and the warp was filling, and the blue
was yaller, and it was dyed in huckleberry,
and it was thick as the table. 1t wore splen-
didly, and my husband liked the shirts so
well that he wore them all out in fort
ght!'-Youth's Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-15
Benefits Of q Merry Mind.

But who gains through any ones grieving
and crying for months over anythingf Is it
pleasant to visit the friend who is always
doing the doeful and pumping from lachry-
NAL fount and treating you to tearsl The
same strength that pumps up tears can pump
up smiles If the boiler bursts and l am
blown up sky high and come down in small
pieces, and you can stick me together again
and put me on a bed, don't stand around it
crying and sobbing and wringing your hands
as if your hearts would break. | don't want
your hearts to break. But call in fiddler
Ed set him to work on the Arkansas Trav-
eler," Yankee Doodle and The Girl Left
Behind Me-" or the girl who left me behind
~ the cold. That'n do me some good.
a merry heart" saith the Scripture,
"doeth good like a medicine" Whyi Be-
cause cheerful, merry MUD sends from it
to you a current of life, health giving ele-
::le:lt-thought as different from 4 thought
current of gloom as champagne differs from
tar. It's a current as real as a current of
water-as real as the current of invis. BILE
water that in warm weather runs just above
the visible water and along with it is drawn
from it by the heat of the sun.-Prentice
Milford in New York Star.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-15

trines Of Jaganath tended to check the 'onte
universal custom Of widow burning Even
before the government put a stop to it our
officials observed its comparative infrequency
at Puri"
MAKING PERSONAL INQUIRY.
Being in India eleven years after the above
was published, conversed with DR.. Hunter
on this subject, and found that the evidences
even for suicide under the car at Puri had
diminished since his work was written The
English commissioner at Orissa had in four
years known but one death by accident, and
two in which the victims had rid themselves
of excruciating complaints This was just
after the province passed under English rule,
which did not interfere with the festival
Professor Balm, of Aberdeen university, says
uS76:
"An Indian civil servant, Mr.. James
Geddes, who had been resident magistrate at
Orissa, where the festival is held, informed
me, from his own knowledge, that no trace
of the practice Of immolation could be found
in the public records Of the district"
According to Wilson, the orientalist, pill
grimages to Juggernaut have been custom
airy for only some $50 years, 50 that the annals
are traceable DR.. Hunter has gone care
fully through them, has conversed with the
oldest inhabitants, and found no explanation
Of the bad reputation Of the cult 1t is sur
missed that some early missionary who wit
messed the car festival did not understand
that the reason why human beings drew it
instead of animals is lest one of these should
get killed and SO pollute the sacred precinct
The man can say if he is i'll or exhausted, but
not the beast, who might be driven to his
death. Shocked by an apparent degradation
of humanity, meant to preserve animal life,
such surmised missionary, if an accident 90
Cured, might suppose it part of the pro-
gramme. His physical and moral nerves un-
settled might initiate the story, and when this
gained currency in missionary meetings and
swelled collections, its imitation would hardly
diminish There is an evolution in stories;
a survival of the 6ttest for raising contribu-
tions might so develop Juggernaut acct
dent or suicide that the original witness
would not recognize his narrative as told in
the tabernacles. Suicide is different from
self immolation. There are more religious
suicides in England than in India. On the
day after the Prince Of Wales attended a
thanksgiving at St. Paul's for his recovery,
read paragraph stating that several per-
sons were at one point crushed to death
The item might float like a thistle seed to
some far land and spring up to belief that
in England human victims are offered on
the recovery of a prince from illness. Mon
cure d. Conway in Boston Herald.