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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-10-26

Advice TO Mothers Rs. WINsIOW's SooTH-
ING SYRUP should always be used when children
are cutting teeth. 1t relieves the little sufferer at
once u produces natural quiet sleep by relieving
the child from pain, and the little cheTub awakes
as bright as a BUTTON II is very pleasant TO
tastr 1t soothes the gums allays all pain, relieves
win . regulates the bowels, and is the best known
rem ,dy for diarrhBa, whether arising from teeth
inl or other causes Twenty five cents bottle
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-10-26

Prolific Poultry Food is said to be compounded
ON scientific principles based an analy isis Of the
egg II certainly is very popular in this vicinity,
Judging from the sale il is having. The biddies,
AT least seem 10 like it when mixed with their
morning feed. Sold everywhere. l. b. Lord,
Proprietor, Burlington, Vt. Sold in Brattleboro
by all dealers in poultry supplies.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-10-26

10 matter whether you are or not.
II suffering from Dizziness or Pressure in Head,
lpots before Eyes, Pain Around Papitation Of
Heart, Pain in Region of Heart with feelings Of
nfocation, Ringing Sound in Ears, Numbness OF
lrickly Sensation Of Limbs, especially the Arm,
Pain between Shoulders and In Side, Dry Cough,
Ilatuence, Sour Stomach, or if suffering from Ce-
neral Debility with Loss Of Appetite,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-10-26
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BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1888.

nothing. Those whose business 1t is
to wait in private on this strange fiction
are vowed to the strictest silence and
secrecy. His death, which often hap
pens early in life, owing to the un-
natural life forced upon him, is pre-
served as secret until new baby
candidate to divinity has been heard
OF. His remains are privately burned
In the great Lha-Bhrang temple. Eis
ashes are preserved in golden urn,
and his clothes as holy relics of great
marketable value, are cut up and sold
to the highest bidders.
For nearly a thousand years the king
dom planted by the Chinese rebel,
Wong Chou, in Thibet, had remained,
it is said, stepped in the grossest super
stitions of spirit and devil-worship. 1t
was In the seventh century of our era,
the Indian King, Srongdsam- Campo,
for some political cause of offense, in
vaded the country, took possession of
the throne, stamped out shamanisen or
spirit-worship, and introduced in its
place his own religion-Buddhism his
wife introduced the arts of reading and
writing, and caused all the new learn
ing and literature of Thibet to be writ
ten in the Sanskrit Or, as it is called,
the Dewanagri alphabet. Ever since
the 'Chibetian language, though of the
Mongolian family, has preserved the
Aryan characters.
The Chinese Government has always
regarded Thibet with an anxious and
Jealous eye. They have an ambassador
with strong force resident at Lhassa
who are literally spies on the Delai
Lama, on the regent, and on the Sema-
Delai Lamas, and all report their doings
at headquarters. But in the spiritual
sense even the Emperor of China is
forced to render homage and alteration
to the great Delai Lama, that dwells in
Thibet. t.-W Vide AUake.
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MODERN BRIGANDAGE.
A Timely and Emphatic Protest Agains
the Tipping System.

A Timely and Emphatic Protest Against
the Tipping System.
The growth OF the tip system in
this country within the past few years
has been very remarkable. Not many
years ago an American was expected
to perform the service for which he
was employed without extra compen-
sation, and it was only the lower
grade of servants and porters that
one ventured to reward with tip.
ALI this has changed very rapidly,
and the traveller now finds that
nobody will refuse a proffered coin,
while very many will do nothing
without it. The man who comes
for your trunk, the man who handles
it at the station, even the man who
checks it; the man who receives it
at your hotel, and of course, the man
who brings it to your room-each one
of these expects his tip. And so it
goes through the whole round of the
summer tourists experience.
The worst feature of all this is that
the system is not only tolerated but
encouraged and even shared in by
those who profess to offer hospitality
to travelers-of course for consider
alton. When a man goes to hotel
and pays an abundant price he expects
to be taken care of and served and de-
Tended from extortion; instead, he is,
in many cases, Systematically robbed.
The hotel islands i'm with the porter,
the barber, the newsdealer and the
other brigands, exacting a high pay
ment from them, and sometimes u per-
centage of their perquisities, so that
the guest is regularly swindled by the
consent and cooperation of the land
lord.
This is gross abuse that ought to
be stopped. 1t is not too much to ask
that hotels, railroad companies, ex-
press companies and other concerns
that deal with the travelling public
should pay their own servants and not
leave them to be paid by their GUS
toners. Every one is glad to re-
ward attentive service and to pay
for any special trouble taken in
his behalf but no one likes to be
made to pay twice for that to which
he is entitled of right and to feel when
he goes to a hotel as though he were
entering a robbers cave. PHILADELPHIA
Times.
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sHERIpAN,s REVENGE.
Why He Had Fort Leavenworth Reduced
to Department Headquarters.

to Department Headquarters.
'sSome of the stories published about
General Sheridan are not exactly ac-
curate, said an old army officer,
though that is not at all unnatural.
These tales travel from one man to
another and get mixed in transit. The
story about his being fined at Leaven-
worth while he was in command of the
fort has variously been told, but the
truth appears to be that he was fined for
contempt of court He was subpmnaed
before Justice Tholen to appear to am
swer the charge of assault and battery
upon fellow who had been ordered
off the reservation, and who, not obey
ing the mandate, was knocked off. He
lodged complaint against General
Sheridan, who paid no attention to tho
summons to appear before Tholen.
That was before the Legislature of
Kansas had ceded jurisdiction over the
reservation to the General Government.
One day when Sheridan was down
town he was caught unawares by a
constable. who read the warrant to
him and there was nothing to do but
obey. The justice, as can be imagined,
was full OF Importance, and his breast
swelled when he thought of what a
great man he was in having brought one
of the big Generals of the war to book.
Sheridan was furious and did not deign
to set up any defense, the consequence
being that he was fined one hundred
dollars
He was SO mad at this that he shortly
afterwards had the headquarters OF
the division removed to Chicago, re-
ducing Fort Leavenwerth to depart
ment headquarters. Had it not been
for this Fort Leavenworth would yet
have been the headquarters of the
division, and even a more important
post than it now is, Detroit Nems.
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THE OLD HEARTHsToNE.

The house Is shabby, and gaunt and brown;
Weather beaten and grim indeed;
It's twisted chimneys are tumbling down,
It's fretted gables fave gone to seed;
It's floors are sunken, its doors are shrunken,
But thro its windows, bleared and old,
Sweet faces looked in the days Sone by;
And mornings glory, and sunsets gold,
On its worn thresholds used to lie.
wild grasses creep round the mighty stone
gaat once was the altar of home and hearth
And the winds, with a shrill, disconsolate
moan,
Sweep thre' the chambers OF death and birth
And the shuddering floors, the crealxing doors
Thrill to the passing of things unseen
When the ghostly curtains of eve are drawn,
Or the moon, with white face, stands be-
tween
The gloom of night and the gray Of dawn.
But under its hearthstone rude and old
The roots OF my heart strike deep and strong
It's walls are hung with the purple and gold
OF dreams, and wreathed with the glory OF
song!
Rough brambles Chamber in hall and chamber;
But light feet echo along the floors,
and garments gleam when the twilights fall,
Fair faces smile from the ruined doors,
And white hands beckon. and voices call
They are the dear lost loves I knewl
Gone from the valley and shadow of tears,
STILL by memory's golden clew,
They follow me through the mist ofyears!
Their soft hands tighten my load, and brighten
The rugged way of my life tread,
Through an alien land to land unknown,
For the hope and promise OF youth lie dead
And buried under yon gray hearthstone.
-EDma Alice Browne. in ~ z Ledger.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Among recent achievements In
photography is a portrait copy taken
by the light of Cuban fre-beetle in
thirty seconds, and a photograph oi
the aurora borealis. To obtain the lat
tsr had been declared an utter imposi-
bility
in England. fashionable fabric
called limitation Indian muslin has
been found to be so highly charged with
arsenic as to render it dangerous to
health and life when used either for
dresses or other attire, or for curtains.
Several seamstresses have been made
very i'll by working upon it.
Milk is altered both in taste and
appearance by the character of the
food supplied to the cows. 1t is colored
by madder and saffron, scented by
plants of the onion tribe, and changed
in taste by such articles as turnips.
Certain food may give it medicinal
properties, and milk thus medicated is
proposed as a method of treating dis
ease.
AS illustrating the part that labor
plays in enhancing the value of raw
materials, it is estimated that from
seventy-fve cents worth of iron ore
may be developed $3.50 worth of bar
iron, $40 worth of horse shoes, $3.50
worth of table knives, $4,000 worth of
fine needles, $29.470 worth of shirt but
tons, 5000, 1000 worth of watch springs,
or So, 100000 worth of pallet arbors
FUSED in watches.)
1t will probably surprise most peo-
pie to learn that both cessation of re-
spiration and of movement of the heart
are rejected Us signs of death by a
French lecturer, in considering the pre-
else moment when life ceases. Heart
beats have been known to continue for
an hour after the body was beheaded,
while, on the other hand, they may
temporarily cease in fainting.
"A new alloy discovered by Herr
Keith, of Brockenheim, can be used
very advantageously in the laboratory
to replace vessels or fittings of ebonite,
vulcanite or porcelain, as it practically
resists the attack of almost all acids
and alkaline solutions. This alloy is
a bronze, with the addition of lead and
and antimony, its composition being
as follows: Fifteen parts copper, 2.34
parts tin, 1872 parts lead. and l part
antimony.
ANY odd pieces of silver may be
utilized, if for plating metallic arti-
cles, by placing them in an ounce of
nitric acid, boiling them for an instant.
The acid having dissolved the silver,
throw in good handful of common
salt to kill the acid, then make into a
paste with common whiting. The paste
is tc be applied with wash leather
dampened in water. The silver sur
face will be maintained for years.
AfsaeYicGas Stationer.
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BUILDING SOCIETIES.
The Most Reliable Savings Institutions
for Salarled Men.

Ine MOSE RelfaDle savings 1ustifHGt0ne
for Salarled Men.
1t is not many years since building as
sociations were looked upon with strong
distrust by workmen. They could not
understand the methods upon which
the associations were based, and be-
cause they could not or rather would
not, they refused to take advantage of
the opportunities they offered. All
this is being changed. The first build
ing association In this country was
organized in New York. but before
1t was in successful operation ten had
been organized in New York, but be-
fore it was in successful operation ten
had been organized in Philadelphia,
and the members we're reaping the
benefits by building homes A paper
published in the interest of building
associations gives the following statis-
tics: In New York there are 1000
associations; in Philadelphia, 2,700;
Boston. $50; Chicago, 800; st. Louis,
10. In st. Louis, in the past five years,
it is estimated that $500 homes have
been built by members of building as
sociations. That these associations
have done a great work in melting
salaried men to build their own homes
there can be no doubt. Manufacturers
ought TO encourage their men to build
homes. Il is safe to say that any work
man who owns his own home will be
more attentive to his work and more
faithful to his employer. In furniah-
ing an employe an opportunity and q
motive to save, the employer would
foster feeling OF mutual interest be-
tween him and his men that would
work to his interest. This has been
doae successfully in Philadelphia. and
there is no reason why 1t can not be
done just as successfully anywhere
else. .--.Stores and HardaoGrs
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INITIATIVE CHILDREN.
They take Pleasure Trip and Retur
Greatly Improved in Health.

| improved IN hea1bHs
Colonel Yerger, accompanied by Mrs.
Yerger, has just returned to Austin,
Texas, from his trip to New York.
They have enjoyed themselves very
much, and their health is vastly inn
proved, although they seem to have
f, contracted rheumatism that has settled
in the back of the neck When Colonel
! Yerger's friends greet him the stiffness
of his neck prevents him from return
ing the salutation with his former cor
diality. Mrs. Yerger is similarly
affected, and is utterly unable to bow
when she meets a friend or neighbor
from whom she, previous to her North
ern trip, was in the habit of borrowing
parched coffee.
In the Yerger family circle nothing
was talked of except the parental trip
to the North, and what small-potato
place Austin was compared with New
York. Colonel Yerger's two children,
Tommy and Molly, listened attentively
to the talk of their parents about the
glories of New York. They are bright,
initiative children, hence it occurred
to them that they, too, ought to take a
trip off. They could not we'll go to
New York-that was out of the ques-
tion-but they could take ride on the
street-cars that ran in front of the Yer
ger mansion.
Il am so worn out with the cares of
business" said Tommy, holding his
hand to his head after the manner of
his father; my poor brain needs a
rest"
.'This keeping house." said Molly,
tanning herself languidly after the
manner of her mother, '.has ruined my
nervous system. The children and
servants worry me SO that / will have
to take a trip North to recuperate."
''Let us play going to New York. We
can go on the street cars. We can ride
to the end of the line and back,n said
Tommy.
The little jokers actually got ON the
next street car.
Travelling is very expensive" said
Tommy, as he dropped d couple of
nickels in the box.
"Yes; but what's the use of money If
you have not got health?" replied Molly,
initiating her mother.
What relief it is to get away from
ones parents, said Tommy.
1T is indeed. / feel like another
woman already replied Molly, de-
murely.
The car reached the terminus of the
line, and the young tourists got out and
bought a nickel's worth of peanuts.
''Since I left Texas / eat twice as
much as / did. have gained twenty
pounds since left home. That's what
ma said to Mrs. Peterby," put in Molly.
AS soon as Tommy and Molly boarded
the car to return home they began to
put on airs. The car halted in front of
the Yerger mansion. The children had
been absent almost an hour.
Where have you been?" screamed
Mrs. Yerger.
''Just been taking little run up to
Europe and Saratoga and them other
places replied Molly. Dear me, this
town hasn't grown bit since 1 left.''
'sAnd the people are so common and
vulgar. remarked Tommy, turning up
his nose.
"Those children talk as if they didn't
have any sense said Colonel Yerger.
Il don't believe they have replied
Mrs. Yerger.
But they had, all the same. Texas
SJtings.
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FOOD IN ENGLAND.
How the Average Briton Lives and Man.
ages to Grow Eat.

How the Average Briton Lives and Man.
ages to Grow Eat.
An American visitor to England
has noticed the absence of great va
riety of vegetables at the meals.
There are plenty of meats, fish,
game, fowls and the animal foods,
but the vegetables are few. The list of
these are about complete with potatoes,
French beans and peas, caulifower,
cucumber, lettuce. radishes and vege-
table marrow. These peas are charac-
terized as havorless little things and the
cucumbers as thin and sometimes about
yard long. The lettuce is called the
sweetest and best in the world, but the
vegetable marrow is insipid, watery
and soft, and tastes about like an over
ripe cucumber.
American peas, beans, cucumbers,
radishes and potatoes are said to be
much better favored and to be larger
than the English vegetables. Beans
and peas come largely from France,
and even the strawberries and aspara-
gus mostly from othercountries. Green
corn is unknown, and turnips, parsnips,
squash, carrots and the like seldom
reach the table. Tomatoes grow in
lighthouses and are costly. Peaches are
great luxury and are worth twenty-five
cents apiece. Waternelons are not
heard of but muskmelons are imported
in small quantities from France.
The English people as a rule eat well
and heartily and without much in the
way of fancy cooking and, very sensi-
bly,, they do not stuff themselves with
a lot of rich and greasy food. Tho
Englishman starts in with brandy and
soda in the morning and habitually
drinks alchoholic beverages with his
meals and more or less at other times.
The English beefsteak is generally
broiled and is tender and juicy, and
the roast beef is uncommonly good,
the roasting piece being, not a rib.
as Americans sometimes have it,
but a very thick porterheuse steak.
The domestic beef, mutton. ham and
bacon can not be beaten for quality,
and are justly entitled to all the praise
that has been given to them. The veni-
son is not well favored, and the birds
are hung up until almost putrid. At
any rate this is what traveller says
about these things. t9ood Housekeep-
ing.
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PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

4
|
| We fear that the philosopher who
said that ladies who wear unusually
rich gowns keep their husbands uausu-
ally poor gave voice to great truth.
-Harper's Baxar
| 1T is not the hand that rocks the
cradle, but the hand that never had an
i opportunity to rock the cradle, that
wants to rule the country. = NdshUille
| american.
"A Michigan man heard that his
grandfather had left him a portion OF
his fortune, and at the appointed time
went to the post-office to get his check.
1t was for seventeen cents.
1t is all well enough to talk about
needle being lost in a haystack, but
1t would not be lost long if you ever
walk on the hay in your bare feet
Puck.
Mr.. Caudle-"Doctor, I want you
to put up a powerful sedative for my
wife; give me the best specific for in
somnia You know off, Doctor
Whats the matterP Can't she sleep?n
Mr.. Caudle--"Yes, / guess so; but
can't "-Burdette.
A woman in Georgia, while smok-
ing pipe, was struck by lightning
and killed. Lightning shows very
poor Judgment, considering the number
of boys that may be seen smoking Gig
arettes. -Norristosoa Herald.
Fashionable Wife-"Did YOU no.
tice, dear, at the party last evening,
how grandly our daughter Clara swept
into the roomp'' Husband with a
grunt)-"0, yes, Clara can sweep into
room grandly enough; but when it
comes to sweeping out a room. she
isn't there
"A Highland custom is that of ush-
ering in the morning by the music of
the bagpipe; the piper plays under the
windows of the castle and thus
arouses the inmates. The American
custom of ushering in the morning by
the hand organ is equally effective.
Look here,' said the railroad
superintendent to the conductor, .'pas-
sengers say you are not civil to them.n
'I'm just as civil as know how to be, -
said the aggrieved conductor. That's
just what they complain of" was the
reply. .n-Boston Transcript
Accept my hand, Augusta?' And
the maiden looked at the hand, which
was something smaller than an average
sized salt fish, hesitated moment and
then said sweetly: .'Isn't there some-
thing off, whore you take so large an
order.P .P'-Bosto,s Transcript
Magistrate (to prisoner arrested
for assault)-''You admit, then, that.
you pulled your landlords noseP''
Prisoner-''Yes. " Don't you know
you had no right to do thatp'' mo,
sir; If had no right to pull his nose
he would have had it down in the
lease. IN Y. Sun.
The manner in which the human
being progresses in intelligence is very
simple and clearly illustrated. Take
child and give it a quarter. He i'm
mediately tries to swallow it just as it
is. Give man a quarter and he pru-
IDENTIFY converts it into liquid before
attempting to swallow it. Merchant
IraUeler
-"Ah." remarked the young law-
yer, with blase air, as he waited for
his case to be called, II am SO unfortu-
nate in being compelled to wait here so
long" ''Not at ALL said the old
lawyer, rising to leave, s.you are SO
fortunate in having the time to wait 30
long" The young lawyer writhed and
the old lawyer went to his Office to
complete his essay on professional
Courtesy in time for the next number
of the Legal Register. - Time.
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a Yankee Doctors Wit.

1t is told that while the late Emperor
Frederick was in London for the
Queens jubilee, Sir Morell Mackenzie
introduced noted American doctor to
him. After a careful examination of
his throat, the imperial patient, in his
usual cheerful manner, inquired: II
suppose an imperial throat is very
much like that of other mortalsa''
swell, sir, came the quick reply, "we
will try and make it so, at any rate. ~
The then Grown Prince thoroughly ap-
preciated the quick Yankee wit, and,
striking his broad chest, said: but
this is all right, is it notpn The Y an
kee gravely looked the splendid pro-
portions of the illustrious patient up
and down, and then deliberately drawled
out: ''As for the rest. sir, you would
make a good American Fritz's mer-
riment was great, but the German doc
tors present were aghast at such levity.
N Y Post.