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A Lesson on Chow to Succeed

A Lesson on elbow to Succeed
The first of the regular winter
course OF free Saturday night lectures
IN the large hall of the Cooper Union
was delivered last evening, the lee
turer being the Rev. DR.. Lyman Alb.
bolt, of Plymouth Church. HIS sub
ject was How to Succeed" A large
audience was present who follow
ed his address with the closest ut
tentlOn. He laid down II number of
fundamental principles which he con-
sldered rs essential TO success in life.
The first was that every one should
know himself, and know also the AGE
in which he lived. Then n should
have a fixed purpose in view in life,
and pursue that purpose with all his
energies. To attain u financial sue
cess, economy both of time and money
IS all-importnnt. He said that when
he was a boy hisI father told him that
1t was always essential to have plenty
OF money, and That in order to do this
there were tw" rules that must b.
followed. "First, spend less thnn
you earn. Second. spend it after You
have earned it :" BY following
these rules, although he had not be-
come rich, he had at least kept fr0m
wrestling with poverty.
These rules" Dr.. Abbott said,
e may seem easy, but they are not.
The more money "a man has, the more
difficult they are TO follow. 1t is
as hard for n rich man to go without
his champagne ms for a poor man to
do Without his lager. A rich rail-
road man is just az anxious to buy
a $4,000, 600 railroad, as an 0rdi-
nary nan to buy a $5-pair OF shoes"
In closing he said that there were
two more essentials &" First, to have
Il good conscience, which can distin-
guish right from wrong, not merely
in their results, or because it is ex-
pedient to do so, but in themselves,
as moral laws; second, TO have a
large vision, a perception Of the
invisible, and a faith in it. All u c
cess consists in turning the unreal
into the real. We must know the
future before we can march toward it.
Long before the results were accom-
plished, Morse saw in his mind the
country covered with a network of
wires Fulton saw the streams plough
ed by countless paddle wheels, and
Washington saw this country free and
independent. 1t was because of this
faith in the future hat they succeed
ed"
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A. Burlington correspondent says:
"The activity of the Republicans in a
State in which their majority is so over.
whelming is unaccountable to the DEM
Ocrats, but the league managers promise
to swell the number of clubs to $50 be-
fore the State election in Sept ember
with an enrolment Of 10000 voters. DE
velopments the past week show that
this activity is well advised, for the
third party managers, in spite of the
services of Vermont Republicans in be-
half of the cause of prohibition, have
called conferences of the Prohibition
workers in every county of the State
for the purpose of organizing for the
coming campaign. George w. PENN.
man of Boston has been appointed State
organizer for Vermont, and he began
operations at Brattleboro Tuesday. Mr.,
Penniman is unusually frank and states
openly that the third party managers
expect to help defeat the Republican
party this fall, which will be prelim-
mary step to the election of the Prohibi.
ton candidate for President in 1892.
The Prohibition club here has at present
Just thirty members. not one of whom
dares to sign complaint to help enforce
the present stringent prOhIbltory law
which the Republican Legislature have
enacted" And just so it is everywhere,
A more i'll starred enterprise on mora
grounds was never devised than this
third party craze. That it is to be or
ganized by meetings which take on the
name of religious associations-whether
called conferences" or 'synods" OF
whatnot-will deceive no one. They
are not more righteous or holy in theiI
methods than any other political party
have been.
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Mre. Homer .. Merchant of this towr
was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, last
Sabbath, from the home of her daughter
Mrs. Towslee IN East Pownal. Mrs
Merchant was well known and widely
associated with nc and her loss take,
from us one who has been as Landmark
among the present generation. Rev
Mr.. Scott officiated at the funeral.
The spring is decidedly backward
though a few have begun planting po-
t4toes.
Quite an interest was awakened in {
band by the boys hereabouts, but we OBJ
serve 1.-THE moaning and the groaning
is not as continuous as last week.
Patrick Barnes has been lucky il
adding a new boy to his list; he is gooC
looking and weighs ten pounds.
John Lackey is building a house OPP
posile his brotheT-in-law's.
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Editor of the Bdnner:-Thert is much
being done in our town to write about !;
it is little hamlet watched over by the
everlasting hills, enjoying a certain
amount of thrift and OFT at peace with
itself, except when disturbed by conflict
and strive.
The religious teachings under such
candid and earnest workers as Messrs
Rodgers and Eaton, have been good and
abiding, but confined mostly to their
own churches. Our respected friend
Eaton has severed his relations with the
Methodist Gnu CHI, alter a three years
ministratiOn, almost Unprecedented IN
its usefulness. A new man has stepped
into the good work. and We hope will
move along as successfully as he who
has just taken his departure.
The Baptist pulpit having been with
out a supply for year is now filled, and
very acceptsbly too, by the Rev. Mr..
Douglass. His mission must necessarily
be an arduous one, r the flock may
have become scattered, some "pranc.
ing and dancing" in unfruitful fields.
The Seventh Day Baptist Church
which by the way, ante dates all others
in town-fcr these many years under
the pacific Passionate OF the Rev. B. F.
Rodgers, has been keeping on Sin the
even tenor of its ways" q happy family,
or if peTchance, differel. cls should ART @,
they are not blown from a ripple to a
wave and then to an angry billow.
From an educational standpoint Rer-
lin has much in store, Uhen she shall
awake from her Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
to real re that the old saying, what was
good enough for the parent is good
enough for the child, has long since be-.
come obsolete. Our school building is
ample in it's proportions for the require
ments of our children, and for the &C
commodati6n OF students from out Of
town, Keeping this in view, then, what
commentary on our school system
when we consider that some OF our
young ladies, are being educated in the
adjoining town Of Stephentown.
But IN music, Berlin is large Of ito
size, as numerous voices can attest.
Then too, two full fledged, brass bands
discourse immense quantities Of music
to appreciativs listeners. Would that
this music had the power to soothe the
anImOsities existing between the respec
tive participants, but on the contrary,
every strain seems to strike another
antagonism, until the social features Of
this village have become strangely con-
torted; and 10, that mischievOus deity,
Ate" known TO ancient my thology as
the Goddess of Mischief" appears to be
holding high carnival, and making
merry with these contortions. To adj.
NIT the sway Of this goddess would be
ito throw the mantle OF charity" over
many an act; IL would cover multitude
of sins, politically and socially. Another
of the strange affairs to be attributed to
this duty, is that certain persons on
whom had been besto wed the best gifts,
within the reach of our electors, should
go over TO the Democrats, even for any
cause. In this and in other matters, the
language recorded in the 23I Chapter
and "a verse OF St. Luke, must be applI.
cable. Father forgive them for they
know not what they do"
A FRIEND TO RIGHT
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prominent citizen OF Vermont and a
member Of Congress from 1862 to 1869,
died at Vergennes Thursday, He was
born in that city Aug. 80, 1918, and was
graduated at the University of Vermont
in 1910. Two years later he was sd-
mitted to the bar, after studying law
with his father, Hon. E. d. Woodbridge.
and very soon began a long and active
Der OF the State House Of Representa-
Auditor in 1850, 1851 and 1852; was
Prosecuting Attorney from 1854 10 1858,
and was many times chosen Mayor OF
the city of Vergennes. In 1860 Mr..
Woodbridge was promoted TO the s ate
Senate, where he remained two years,
serving as President pro tenlpOre of that
body portion of the time, and then he
was elected Representative to the 3Sth
Congress, receiving reflections to the
39th and 10th Congresses. In 1866 he
was a delegate to the Philadelphia
"Loyalists' Convention" MIR. Wood
bridge was for a time engaged in rail-
road management, serving for several
years as Vice President and Active Mana
ger of the Rutland and Washington
Railroad.
In many other ways Mr., Woodbridge
served his State. One of his last polIti
cal efforts was at the State Convention
of the Republican party at Montpelier in
1886, and his reply to the nomination of
one of the Fairbanks fam ly will be
readily recalled. He may also be classed
as not only one of the founders of the
Republican party in Vermont but of the
Order of Odd Fellows, in whose circles
he was prominent for many years. He
was, in all his walks of life, a gentleman
always. His wife, who was the daugh-
ter of Mayor Halsey, died June ~, 1887.
He leaves two sons and daughter, the
latter the wife of Col. Walter Scranton
OF New York. The sons are Frederick
A., proprietor of the Percheron Stock
farm, and Henry B., on the Chicago
News. The funeral took place Monday
the &c. b, ult.
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VERMONT NEWS.

The electric light project at st, Johns
bury languishes. &C.
The average salary OF the Methodist
ministers In the st. Johnsbury district ia
about $500 year. e. 49,. 80.
The two r-old son of A. ]. Howie
son of Stowe took u dose of morphine
Sunday by mistake and died after being
unconscious nine hours.
The Supreme Court of California has
decided in favor of the contestants of
the will of the late Charles W. Carpen-
ter. This leaves the property to the law
full heirs, all Of whom are residents OF
Caledonia county,
A son of Robert Johnston of St. Johns.
bury was killed by the cars at a Boston
& Albany crossing near Boston last sum.
mer and Mr.. Johnston has just recovered
$4,000 damages of the railroad. The cost
of the suit was $500 and consequently
Mr.. Johnston has $1,000 net.
The Connecticut River Lumber Co.,
are making active preparations to start
up their large mill at McIndoes Falls this
week. They have got about 80, 900, 900
feet of lumber to drive down the Con-
necticut this spring. They will start
with about 1000 men and 100 horses, at
an expense of about $4,000 per day.
The Brattleboro musical chorus are re.
hearsing Gounod's "Messe Sollonnelle'
and Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer. >
The following artists have been decided
upon to assist at the festival: Miss Ella
Earle of New York. soprano; Miss Hat
tie McLane of Boston, contralto; Mr..
George j. Parker Of Boston, tenor; Mr..
William l.. Whitney of Boston, bass
also the Lotus Gee Club of Boston,
The Baptist Sunday School State Con,
vention will be held at Fair Haven June
5, 6 and Z.
Mrs, Mary A. Livermore will begin a
series of lectures in Vermont in the early
part of May.
A Middletown Springs firm recently
shipped to Africa a rice threshing ma
chine, to be run by man instead of horse
power.
The trustees of the Home for Aged
Women at Burlington expect to locate
in the Louise Howard house They have
raised about $500.
The soapstone interest at Perkinsville
is soon to begin operations on a larger
scale than ever before. At no time in its
history has there been such demand
for the products of the works there
Joseph c. Leslie of st. Adams has in
vented a device for loading freight from
the cars to steamers and has gone to Og
densburg to set up the device at the
piers of the Central Vermont Railroad
Co.
E. French, presid ent of the Montpelier
& White River railroad, died on Wed.
nesday, April 25th of pneumonia in
Evanston, I'll. He left Barre in Feb
ruary via New Orleans for California
and was on his way home,
The Adjutant. Generals Office of Yer
mont has received notice from the Wal
Department that the charge of absence
without leave, or desertion, made against
Private Simon Dufur, First Vernon
Cavalry, Oct. 10, 1869, has been remov'
ed, as he was absent sick from that date
until July Is, 1868.
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The South End Bank of Columbus,O
suspended payments.
There was heavy snowstorm at Du
luth, Mimi. on Saturday.
Senator Stanford says he has never
been a candidate for Congress.
The war vessels Yorktown and Vesuv
ius were launched at Philadelphia Sat
urday.
Miss Mary Young, of Campobello, S.
c., was fatally shot by some one in am
bush.
Peter Beauchamp of New Hope, Md
found box Of gold concealed in a saw
log.
The funeral of Gen. Merritt at Nyack
was attended by many hundreds Of peo-
pie.
The Chemung County Democratic
Convention repealed the charges against
Gov. Hill,
Three out OF four Congressional con-
ventions of Chicago have declared for
Gresham. &c..
Senator Ingalls, could not control the
Republican convention IN his own Con
gressional district.
A, F. McNeaI, of Rawson, o dreamed
that he would die on April %, and did
die on that day.
Ray Fake, aged II, Of Massilon, o.,
quarrelled with Mamie Roof his sweet
heart, and committed suicide.
A majority report of the Harvard
OverseeIs favors the prohibition oil
intercollegiate athletic contests,
Three notes aggregating $40 200, sent
by registered letter from Chicago Tor
Baltimore, were stolen en- route.
Patsy O'Leary. the pugilist. under
sentence of one years Imprisonment fol
theft committed IN Dayton, o., was ar
rested in st. Louis.
the Republican party have split at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and the latter have held
separate convention.
Thomas Eggleston died in Lincoln
county, West Virginia, aged lla years.
He voted for every Democratic Presi
dent from Jefferson 10 Cleveland.
Wyoming county, N. Y. Republicans
favor Blame f1rst and DepeW second
The same is true OF the Republicans Of
Of the Fourteenth Congressional dis
trict.
A Mail train on the Western New
York and Penney lvaDia Railroad wac
wrecked near Olean, N. Y on Saturday
and four persons were fatally and over
thirty seriously injured.
The Governors OF the original states
met in Philadelphia Saturday and adopt.
ed resolutions calling on the national
government to make appropriations to a
fund to build monument cOmmemora
tive of the adoption Of the eonstitu-
ton,
While walking on the Boston and
Maine Railroad track at Lynn. Macs,
Saturday night, William WEIGH, John
Good win and Michael Attleman, all
shoemakers, were run down by a freight
train. Welch's collar bone was broken
and his foot badly crushe :, Goodw in
was killed and no trace has been found
OF Attleman.
Howell beat Rowe on Saturday in the
mile race at Northampton. Time z
minutes AZ seconds.
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WHY BAKING POWDERS ARE BEST

Baking powders properly compound
ed, and containing pure cream of tartar
are more convenient than yeast; and
bread and pastry made with them are
just as wholesome, and far more palata'
BILE.
We are in entire sympathy with the
manufacturers of the Royal Baking
Powder--who commenced and are vigor'
ously conducting the war against the
use of adulterated baking powders.
Before committing ourselves. how
ever, we made tests of sufficient mum
Der of baking powders to satisfy our
selves that the substitution of alum fol
cream of tartar in their composition has
not been estimated, while a care
full examination of the Royal Baking
Powder confirms our belief that DR.
Mott, the Government Chemist, wheI
he singled out and commended THU
powder for its wholesomeness, did Il
wholly in the interests of the public.
We do not hesitate to say that the
Royal Baking Powder people deserve
the gratitude of the community whom
they are endeavoring to protect.--[Fron
Halls Journal of Health.
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THE NEW CHIEP JUSTICR-

In nominating Hon. Melville Weston
Fuller as Chief Justice of the United
States, Mr.. Cleveland has evidently Sc
lected one of the best men whom his
party affords, That Mr.. Fullers name
is not more Familiarity known In this
section of the country Is no valid argu-
ment against him. It would be extreme
ly ungenerous to condemn the Presi-
dents choice because of the query so
commonly heard in the streets and 9TH
er public places yesterday. who is Mr..
Fuller, anyway 1t would be especially
inappropriate for New Englanders to
look unfaYorably on him for this reason,
since Mr.. Fuller is a native of this re.
gion, graduate of an old New Eng
land college and onelof the many sue
cessful lawyers who have received q
ing at the great law school at Cam
bridge.
That Mr.. Fuller is a New Highlander
by birth and education of course COM
mends him to US, but his long career in
Chicago furnishes additional evidence
that the honor which has come to him
is well deserved. In politics, as far as
has been shown, his record is creditable,
and as lawyer his ability appears to
be unbounded. His age-0nly So IL
another point in his favor, On the
whole. it is plain that the appointment
Of Mr.. Fuller is one of the most judi
cious which the President has made, and
Republican appreciation of it will not
be less prompt and adequate because it
has been 80. often necessary, especially
within the past twelve months, to ex
press unqualified disapproval of the
chaeacter of men whom Mr.. Clevelan d
has inflicted on the public service.
i Boston Journal. .-.,.
Of Mr.. Fuller's legal ability Edward
S. Isham of Chicago, well known to
many of our readers, told Washington
correspondent that, Of his own knowl-
edge, he knew that Mr.. Fuller had with
in year refused a retainer in single
case which would have been fortune
to any man, for the reason that he was
satisfied that the law and justice were
against the person who sought his SER
vie. The value of Mr.. Fuller's law
practice is variously estimated by those
who know him best at from 800, 900 to
$4,000. One popularity about his
practice has been that he has Stunned
criminal cases.
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Frederick K. Woodbridge.

The Mail and Express. editorially pay
this tribute: One Of the strong men Of
Vermont died at his home al Vergsnnes
in that State the other day. 1t was Hon.
f. L Woodbridge. who was Represen.
tative IN Congress from 1859 TO 1869, and
during the early part of his honorable
public career he was very near friend
Of Mr.. Lincoln, and one Of the men upon
whom the President counted. be was
the grandson Of the first Chief Justice Of
the State"
The general press obituary is as fol-
lows: hon, Frederick E. Woodbridge,
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The Methodist General Conference is
in session this week in New York city
1t is attended by about five hundred
men eminent in that communion. One
of the most exciting questions that will
come up for discussion is the status Of
Missionary Bishop William Taylor. He
was created Bishop of Africa, TO succeed
Bishop Harrington, who was killed by
the natives. Bishop Taylor has been re
markably successful in his missionary
work, and is very popular with all
churchmen. The question to be deter
mined is whether he is full-hedged
Bishop. If so he IS to be paid from the
church treasury, and If not, from the
missionary fund. He claims equal rank
and has a host of enthusiastic admirers
who will support him in that claim. An
other live question has been forced on
the conference by the appointment Of
women delegates from several Western
conferences. This subject will present
itself when the roll of delegates is called
The women's names will undoubtedly
be challenged, but they will probably be
extended the privileges of the conference
and a committee appointed to consider
the matter. When the subject comes
up for debate warm time is expecte d
and the women hope to be allow ed t
speak in their own behalf.
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GHERlFF'S SALE.

BY virtue Of an execution TO me ordered and di
rected by the plaintiff have levied up and
will sell at Public Vendue TO the highest bidder,
May 18th, 1883, on the steps Of the Court House
IN the town Of Bennington, at the hour Of 10
O'Clock In the forenoon. five parcels or pieces Of
real estate the same being leased lots and subject
to = mortgage Of three hundred dollars with in
terest, situated on the north side of County
street In tho village Of Bennington, the Eve lots
containing six acres, more or less,
Also. at O'Clock In the afternoon Of the same
day 1t the school house in ID strict No H. in said
Remington, one leased lot situated north Of lands
owned by RhodA and Charlotte Stratton. and on
east side Of highway In said District,-said lot
cont aiming about one-half acre, more or less
Also, all the right, title and interest In and unto
the mineral. clay and oohre beds situated in the
northeast part Of said town Of Bennington. ON
lands occupied by RhodA and Charlotte Stratton.
purchased by Homer A. Lyons from Chas T.
and Elijah Dewey, by quit claim deed, dated July
IS, 1871.
Also, at same time and place the equity of re.
demption in the home farm owned and occupied
by Homer A, Lyons In District No. 70 in the
north part Of the town Of Bennington, Containing
forty acres more or less, together with the equity
OF redemption In ten acres more or less Of Iood
land situated on the Bald Mountain SO called
Also, on the 25th day OF May at III o'clock In
the forenoon, Al the hotel kept by Charles Hast
ngs In South SALISBURY, two.thir,ls interost In
certain wood lot situated in the west part Of the
town Of SALISBURY, known as the "Tinkham
lot."
Bennington, Vt, Nay ID, 1855, laws
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LOCAL POSTSCRIPT,
East Arlington.


Rev. E. L. Walker has gone to Paw
let to assume the duties of his new
charge, and Rev. Mr.. Heath, his sue
cessor, commenced his minlstrations
last Sabbath.
1t is said that Fred L. Stacy is fitting
up Photographic saloon, and that ht
will soon be prepared to make faces.
The maple sugar season has proved
fair, and liquid sweetness of first clast
quality is selling at 70 cents per gal
Ion.
This town is fortunate in having Sc
cured an able corps of teachers for i'll
public schools for the term just com
mencing,
Mr.. and Mrs. Judson, with Master
Percy, are in New York city thii
week.
Mr.. John O'Brien has gone to Louis
vile. KY, on business trip.
Business is booming in this village.
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Tbe s8ruuin0tOugg Ouer
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BENNINGTON VERMONT
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8.

The Indiana papers are booming Ben.
Harrison for the Republican nomination
for President, and the Michigan press
likewise are on the alert to show their
fayorite's good points. their preference
being Gov, Alger of that State Col
Hooker said a good word for the latter
in a New York interview Saturday, and
the Rutland Herald affirms that it 'ls
doubtless good Blaine policy" so to do
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Commenting on the Presidential cleo
ton, the London Economist says: Vast
business, financial and railway schemes
hang upon the result of the election,
Even English business waits. Europe
has hardly realized that the growth of
America had advanced the presidents
position to one of immense power and
responsibility, so that it is now one of
first importance ON earth. American
diplomacy is guided by the presidents
decisions and affects all countries. THE
president is nov resolving the fisheries
question with England, the emigration
question with China, and the Consular
rights Question with Morocco. He may
next week decide whether America shall
produce financial ruin in Paris and shake
the French Republic by its treatment Of
the DeLcSscps panama canal scheme. u