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expedition to Japan IN 1860 1t was
about this time that the whole business
was exposed as a gigantic swindle, and
then became more widely known the
fact that but little, comparatively speak.
ing, of the genuine old Satsuma was in
existence even in Japan, and further
more that genuine "old Satsuma" was
represented by small pieces, such as
bowls, incense boxes, and the like, and
that the modest makers of these gems
did not deem it of Importance 10 STAMP
or mark their names in any way. With
what dismay we beheld our huge vases
in pairs ! Stamps and marks which in
other pottery were 81 eargerly sought
after were now found to be actual de-
facements in our precious pieces. Alas
our old Satsuma was not old. The dregi
of humiliation were yet to be drained
when we learned that in most cases oul
"old Satsuma" was not even Satsuma
and that all the domiciles in Empire OIL
Japan might be ransacked in vain tC
find the remotest parallel to the speci
mems with which INSCRIPTIONS dealerI
were victimizing their innocent pur-
chasers.-Professor E. S. Morse, in Hdr
per'S Magazine for September.
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cANApA,s RAILWAY CONNECTIONS

The Province of Ontario is a sort of
wedge driven down into and across our
natural lines of communication between
the East and Northwest. IL is exceed
ingly convenient to make use of the
roads which cross this wedge, but we
have excellent roads which run below
its point and which would not only car
ry our freight to and from the North
west easily, but would be able tn carry 1t
just as cheaply. On the other hand the
enormous protuberance Of the State of
Maine, extending into the heart of East
ern Canada, geographically speaking,
makes it exceedingly convenient fer
them to be able to carry their goods
across our territory. They have but one
line of railroad TO which they can have
recourse if they are subjected to AmerI-
can import duties, and that is the Inter
colonial, which makes an immense cir.
cult and uses up great deal of time in
getting either passengers or freight from
ST. John or Halifax to Montreal. The
Canadians talk of shortening this line,
but they could not shorten it enough to
make the difference. The Canadians are
much more dependent upon their trans
American means of communication than
we are upon our trans Canadian lines,
and while there might actually be as
great loss, dollar for dollar, to Ameri-
can corporations and individuals as to
those of Canada. the comparative loss
would be much greater to Canada than
to the United States. There is probab.
~ not a Canadian railroad that would
not suffer by the retaliatory policy, I'M
less it is the Intercolanial, while OF course
the change would never be felt at all by
the great majority Of American roads,
hard as it would fall upon such lines as
the Central Vermont and the Michigan
Central. Canada would be very much
worse crippled than the United States
by such policy and has most reason to
dread it.-Boston Transcript.
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A wOMAN,s VIEW OF THE IsS ItE.

My DEAR Mrs. FosTER.-In my tw
years sojourn abroad, where l Travelled
south as far as Naples and north TO
Russia, Sweden and Norway, l kept
house in several countries and lived in
a measure with the people where l
learned much regarding the condition
(by contrast, toO) of the poor, down
.trodden people OF Europe.
The condition of the poor there made
my heart sick all the time. If the Mills
bill should become law, 1t would be
the first great step since the Rebellion
to bring desolatiOn to our doors instead
of at the doors of those who would en-
gender the strife.
And when our country introduces
Free Trade, the women, too, must come
down on level with the women of
Europe; and their condition there is
truly deplorable.
My heart of hearts is fired, and being
a woman who has comparatively little
power with other women who cannot
vote, would do the next best thing if
/ knew what that could be.
have always been, and am still, a
Prohibitionist, but as know that pro-
hibition cannot win as our people are
uOW pushing IT. Cblllu uOI iOW lOlodhO
my country in this hour of peril no
more than | did when the Democratic
Government had the reins at the firing
of Sumter. Have we Lincoln to lead
us through the ordeal that confronts us
nowP | have known how you, as a
woman, have confronted many battles
for the right, and | still know that you
are as earnest for prohibition as any OF
our women, but you have the discern
ment to decide that the present move
ment is not beginning at the commence
ment, and you probably realize that
there are those who feel that they can
not have their names brought forward
as political candidates in any other way
and for this reason they are willing 10
sacrifice the whole ground of our cause.
would cry: "Oh! consistency, thou
art a jewel"
1t seems to me that England is look
ing to the result of our coming election,
hoping that it will give them our Free
Trade market for their imitation and il
also seems to me that our president and
others are emissaries of foreign pow
err to bring this about ia I..i
cannot speak publicly or | think
should be tempted to 90 on the stump,
so great is my enthusiasm. But pri.
vately will tell the truth and win all
the votes for Protection to my country
that ! can. If you have any suggestions
to make do not fail me. am with you
to prison or to death"
My husband has gone to his home
above and my boy is too young to vote,
but he is getting true, Christian tenn
perance and Protection teaching.
Do not forget that love prohibition,
but know that it must come through
public sentiment and action in the
States.
MARY G. TREADwELL.
Sing Sing on-the-Hudson, Sept. l.
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subsistence to the hardy voyagers; be-
sides, close at hand is the spring of
'gOodly water at which many tourists
now daily refresh them, elves. In the
cold embrace of Coles Hill, Immediate
ly in the rear of Plymouth Rock, were
laid, during that dislressful first year,
the worn-out bodies of nearly one hall
of the May flowers burden. Their skel-
etOns are frequently encountered in lay
ing water-pipes or digging holes for
electric lighting purposes. But the re-
mans, when discovered, are left sacred
in their long homes.
"Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod;
They have left unstained what there tiey
found
Freedom to worship God
OBSERVATIONS BY THE WAY.
Plymouth must be very healthy towr
Its hillside location resembles Belfast
Many streets practically clean themselves
during heavy rains.
Pleasure seeking guests fill the hotels
to OVERLOOKING at this season, The tint
is divided in driving, sailing, fishing and
inspecting the ancient village,
A large business is transacted IN lob
sters. The annual catch is very heavy
The outer harbor is thickly dotted will
lobster flats of varied colors.
Fishing for cod on the Banks hal
ceased as a Plymorth industry.
The inhabitants are very socially in
clined, and this trait is happily reflected
in the transient population.
Com idPrablp manufacturing ia carried
on in the line of boots and shoes, wooleI
mills, CANVASS and cordage, nails AM
tacks, zinc works, etc.
The town continues to make SLOW
gains in business. and population; 500
is the number of citizens now claimed
I NJ, NJ. Reynolds in Belfast Journal.
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A ROMANCE oFTHR REBELLIoN

Mrs Sarah Moore, prepossessing wild
ow, now nearing so years of age and liv.
ing at No. 1928 Atlantic avenue, Brook
Ign, saw a few days ago the termination
of a romance began quarter OF CEN
fury ago. During the early years of the
war, Mrs. Moore, who was then Sarah
Miller, a pretty girl still in her teens,
lived with her parents on the outskirts
of Gettysburg, Penn. Her two brothers
were privates in the Union army, and
both fought in the celebrated three days
struggle. One was killed, and the 9TH
err when wounded, was carried into his
fathers house, which had been convert
ed into hospital, Among the other in
mates was young Confederate named
Henry G. Willett, who had his left arm
shot off. He recovered under Sarah
Miller's care, and impressed old Mr.. Mil
Ter so favorably that he agreed to be re-
sponsible for bis parole. When the war
closed young Wilett found himself iu
love, but Miss Sarah refused him. He
begged a lock of her hair as a memento
and returned to the South. Nothing
more was heard nf him until one day
last week, when Mrs. Moore received a
letter from New Orleans, stating that
she had been made the legatee OF Henry
c.. Willett, who had died a month be
fore. With the letter was a plain gold
locket containing the lock OF hair given
to the young rebel way back in 1863
Mr.. Willetts estate in valued at SIS.
000
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AGRICuLruRAL NOTES.

Cotton-seed meal at the present time
is one of the cheapest sources of organic
nitrogen.
Three things tina. can be made to &c
well together, each increasing the
chances of success with at least one oil
the other two, are fruit-growiDg, bee
keeping and poultry raising.
II wood ashes or commercial fertili-
zers are applied to growing crops, care
must be taken not to throw them upor
the crowns Of the plants, as they would
be liable to injure the foliage.
Common weeds and farm plants con-
tain the same soil constituents, varying
in relative proportion as well as in tota
quantity. A well prepared soil is adapt
ed to numerous kinds of plants.
Cattle fed heavily on grain, particu.
lsTly such highly heterogeneous grain al
bran, pea meal or cotton-seed meal may
be fed more coarse inferior stalks thar
if corn-fodder and good hay were thei
chief diet.
Turnips BE- lied and mixed with du,
proportion of grains are excellent TO
growing pigs after they learn to ca
them. They are not as valuable as DO
tatoes, but both are useful when fet
with other richer food.
There is no quicker or handler WAY {
disposing of refuse-soda, muck, WIZ DIS
etc.-than to rot them down in rom
post heap. Surely dead animals are hes
disposed of in this way. The most rom
mon fermenting agents u. ed in the com
post heap are stable manure and nil hit
soil
All children love fruit. Their appe
tites call for the healthy acid, and the,
ought to have it. Every farmer cal
! grew II; none can afford to neglect il
There If no direction in which SINAI
amount 1T money will provide so mucl
OF comfort, happiness, even luxury. a
in the planting and cultivation Of sma
fruit.
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when we see a man spreading himself

when we see a man spreading himself
out over four seats in a railway car.
A South Hill debating club is wrest.
ling with Can a community exis,
without womenp" We thing it NIGH
exist for a while, but il wouldn't know
what was going on.
"Well, MISTAKES will happen in the
best regulated families" as the old gen.
tlemen remarked upon hearing that the
tall and slender young man had stolen
his child away.
Extraordinarily, | see no improve
ment in your marks"
Charley-"Yes, papa; it is high time
you had serious talk with the teacher
or else he'll keep on that way forever.
Under the laws OF Illinois, what per.
son sees through a keyhole cannot be
accepted as evidence in court; but nc
sewing society in the country would re.
| iect such testimony.
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SORE FROM KNEE TO ANKLE

Skin entirely gone. Flesh n mass of d isease
Leg diminished one.third in size. Condi.
'tlon 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
ncurahe. 1t had diminished about one third the
size of the other, and was in hopeless condi
ton. After trying all kinds of remedies and
spending hundreds of dollars, from which 90
no relief whatever, was persuaded to try you
CuTICURA REMEDIES, and the result WAS follows
After three days noticed decided change fol
the better. and at the end of two months wa
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 wei
as ever it was, sound in every respect, and not
sign Of the disease TO be seen.
S. &. AHERN, Dubois, Dodge Co., Ga.
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THE VILLAGE CHOIR,

Halt bar, half bar,
Half a bar onward !
Into an awful ditch
Choir and precenter hitch
Into a mess Of pitch
They led the "Old Hundred.
Trebles to right Of them,
Tenors to LEFT of them,
Bases in front Of them,
Beloved and Numbered.
Oh, that precentor's look
When the sopranos took
Their own time and hook
From the "Old Hundred
Screeched all the trcbles here,
Boggled the tenors there,
Raising the parsons hair,
While his mind wandered,
Theirs not to reason why
This psalm was pitched too high,
Theirs but to gasp and cry
Out the "Old Hundred.
Trebles to right of them,
Tenors to left of them,
Bases in front Of them,
Beloved and thunderod,
Stormed they with shout and yell,
Not wise they sang, nor well,
Drowning the sexton bell,
While all the church wondered.
Dire the precentor's glare,
Flashed his pitchfork in air,
Sounding fresh keys to bear
Out the "Old Hundred"
Swiftly he turned his back,
Reached he his hat from rack,
Then from the screaming pack
Himself he sundered.
Tenors to right of him,
Trebles TO left of him,
Discords behind him,
Beloved and Numbered,
Oh ! the wild bowls they wrought
Right to the end they fought !
Something they sang, but not
Not the "Old Hundred"
Selected
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Advice to Mothers.

Mas, WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP, for children
teething, is the prescription Of of the best fe
male nurses and physicians in the United States,
and has been used for forty years with never
failing success by millions Of mothers for their
children, During the process ofteething its value
is incalculable. 1t relic res the child from pain
cures dysentery and diarrhea, gripping in the
bowels, and wind-colic, By giving health to the
child it rests the mother. Price 25c, q
| hottie, 22yl
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Last my wife's health was run
down, and she wanted mo to hire gir
to do the work. In little while ]
found one ] thought would suit her
when to my surprise she said need not
hire any one, as she felt much better
and thought another bottle of Sulpht I
Bitters would cure her.
DONALD GREY,
Al Worcestr Square, Boston.
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HEwSPAPER HUM0R.
WRITTEN WITH SIX DOLLAR PAIR OF
~ ,-ssHEARs.1 ~ ~
An impressive mana pressmar

An impressive mana pressman.
The Turkish position-cross legged.
II doesn't hurt business to dispatch
it.
Printers neutrality-suspicious. by
faith.
A boil in the kettle Is worth two on
thenose. lNI -F.s-ufr TtE
job was patient nan even when out
of job.
An egg. like a colt, is not OF of much
Use until broken.
A deaf mute wife eau deliver a very
effective Caudle lecture with pair OF
cold feet, 81 HHE
The harves moon is so called because
young men who utiliEe it for the pur-
pose of going out with the girls are gen
orally harvested,
The average age of a hog is only fif-
teen years. This always consoles us
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nnnn Sea Wonders exist In thousands Of
NuuUforms, hut are surpassed by the marvel
InHI Of invention. Those who are IN need "
0uuk profitable work that cnn be done while
living al home, should at once send their address
nee full information how either sex, Of all ages,
can earn from 50 to s25 per day and upward,
they live You are started free Capital
not required. some have made go in a single day
at thus work. All succeed. lgyl
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HAY FEVER.

have been afflicted with hay fever
from early in August until frost. My
eyes would run a stream OF water and
sneezed continually. l was advised &c
use Ely's Cream Balm. 1t has worked
like charm and can say am entirely
cured Mrs. Emiline Johnson, Chester
Conn.
Ihaye been for several years a sufferer
from hay fever and severe head colds
l have found nothing that can compare
with EIy's Cream Balm, would moi
be without it for any consideration. Il
is simply wonderful in its effect upor
the nasal organs.-TS. A. Burtt, Will
mingtOn, N. G.
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Terrible Suffering from Skin Disenses

l have been a terrible sufferer for years from
diseases of the skin and blood. and have beer
obliged to shun public places by reason of my
diShguring humors. Have had the best physi
clans and spent hundreds Of dollars, but got N,
relief until l used the CUrICURA REMEDIES. which
haYe cured me and left my skin rs clear and m,
blood as pare as a child's. IDA MAY BASS,
Olive Branch p. o., Miss.
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nRnRT VYRewarded are those who read
UHuI N this and then act they win hnd
WLIL honorable employment that will
IA UAA4 not take them from their homes
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every Industrious person, many haVn made and
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Il IL easy for any one TO make IS and upwards
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Everything new. No special ability required; you
reader, can do Il as wen as any one. Write 10 ms
at once for full particulars, which We mail free,
Address Stiuson & Co., POrtlandi Maine. 4gyl
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From l45 Pounds to I7e Pounds,

have taken several bottles of CUTICURA REsoL
VENT with all the results could wish for About
this time last year, when commencing its use,
weighed l45 pounds, and to-day | weigh III
pounds. GEO. CAMPBELL, Washington. DC.
Morn. THE CUTICURA REsolvENT is beyond
ali doubt the greatest blood purifier ever com
pounded.
CuTIcURA, the great Skin Cure, and CUTIcURl
SOAR, an exquisite Skin Beautiher, externally
and CUTICuRA REsoLvEST the new Blood Puri
fer, internally, positive cure for every form
Of Skin and Blood Disease, from Pimples L
Scrofula.
Sold everywhere. Price, CUTfcURA Soc; SOAP
25c. REsoiyENT. 81. Prepared by the PoTTEr
DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
es7- Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases, 6
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RhpV'S Skin and scalp preserved and beauti
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'Plasters,". porous Electrical, Rose
Cream" for Catarrh, They are, like
Warmers "Tippecanoe," the simple,
effective remedies of the old Log Cabin
DAYS.
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FITCHBURG r. r.

HoOSAC TUNNEL ROUTE.
On and after July End, 1855 trains will run as
follows
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA. BENNINGTON 6 RUTLAND
RAILWAY. .I..
Leave Remington 20 m, arrive Troy IS, a
m, New York IL IN, Hoosick Falls 30, North
Adams 10 IS, Greenfield II 20 n m,Fitchburg IS
Boston ~ p m, Mechauicvile II, SautOgA9 80,
am. .....
New York 90, noosick Falls 26, North Adams
4 81, Greenfield IS. Fitchburg 49, Boston IS p
m, Mechanicville ? 40, Saratoga IS.
Leave Bennington IS m, arrive Troy 6 IS,
m, New York via steamer)6 10 m, HOOsick
Falls 6 II, No. Adams on p N, Boston IS a m,
Mechanicvile S., p m.
Leave Bennington u 10 night, arrive Troy IS
New York 90 am.
LEAVE VIA. LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD.
Leave Bennington IA m. arrivr No. Adams
10 l6, Greenfield II 30 a. m. Fitehburg IS p. m.
Boston 3 90 d. m.
Leave Bennington 90 p m. arriye Troy 6@
Hoosek Falls n, No. Adams 90 p. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
VIA BENNINGTON RUTLAND ny:
40 I'm, from New York, Albany and Troy.
IS am, from New York via steamer, AL
bauy, Troy, Hoosick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga
and Mechancyille.
255pm, from New York Albany, Troy ,IIoosick
Falls, No. Adams ard Boston. ...
6Bp from New York Albany, Troy Hoosick
Falls North Adams and Boston, NV
VIA LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD ......
2l5p. m from Boston, Greenfield and North
Adams.
655 p. m. from Troy, No. Adams and Boston.
J.wIIITMORE, J.R WATSON,
GEM lrafiic Mgr, Boston. Gent Pass. Agt
G. A. NIMMO, Boston.
'ien1 wc-''rn Passenger Agent Troy.
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WANTED!

Young men or women 10 solicit Must be OF
good address, cume well recommended, deposit
ten dollars for samples and give security for
goods shipped. Salary Sixty Dollars per month.
Contract FOR not less than four months. Address
THE ROSS PUBLISHING HOUSE,
ALPANYi NEW YQRK, 4
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BENNINGTON FURNITURESTORE
AND
Undertaking ParIors.

Eczema, Itchy. scaly, skin Tortures.
The simple application Of "SwAYSE's ONT
mentn without any internal medicine, will cure
any case Of letter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm. Piles,
| Itch, Sores, Pmpes, Eczema, oil Scaly, Itchy
Skin Eruptions, no matter how obstinate or long
standing. 1t is potent, effective, aud costs hut =
trifie, 5ly1
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Pyle's Pearline.

PEARLINE is harmless as pure CASTLE soap. 1t does
away with most of the rubbing-hence it does away with
those portions of the washing which ruin both your health
and your Clothes and relieves this hardest Of womens
work of most of its drudgcry PEARLINE is the latest
improvement in the way Of soap and, until something
better is discovered it behooves every woman who has
to do with washing cleaning, to supply herself her
servants with this wonderful cleanser which, although
yet in its infancy is used by millions of families.
Sold everywhere Manufactured only by JAMES PYI New York
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WARMERS LOG CABIN
REMEDIES. "Sarsaparil-
la" Cough and Con-
sumption Remedy" -
Hops and Buchu," -
Extract" -"HaIr Ton
ic." Oliver Pills, -
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Coaches elegant Dining cars, magnificent Pull
man Palace sleepcrs. and between Chicago, St.
Joseph. Atchison and Kansas City Reclining
Chair Cars Seats Free. to holdsr9 OF through
arst-class tickets.
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska ny
"Creat Rock island Route"
Extends West and Southwest from Kansas City
and st. Joseph to NELSON HORTON, BELLE
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HUTCHINSON. CALDWELL and all points in
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The Famous Albert Lea Route
To tho fhvorito between Chicago. Rock Island,
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WHEAT AND DAIRY BELT"
Of Northern Iowa, Southwestern Minnesota md
East Central Dakota to Watertown, Spirit Lake,
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The Short Line via Seneca aud Kanknkoc oilers
superior facilities TO travel 10 and from Indian
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For Tickets, Maps, Folders or desired inforne-
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