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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-15

The basis of calculation between cause
mathematics can figure out a result. upon
data like the following: The rules being
of course, the recognized mathematical
ones that the chance Of the concurrence Of
two independent events is the product Of
their separate probabilities. We know
there is more or less frequency of recur-
renee than fixed average; then, for or
against the probability, there is some
cause at work. The chance Of one Or the
other of two phenomena occurring, when
two cannot occur, is the sum Of their
different probabilities. For instance: In
the fall Of 1880" says Mr.. ]. W. Ames,
Fairmont, Neb, May q, 1887, my wife
suffered intensely with what the doctors
called sciatic rheumatism, and was help
less. Tried everything to no purpose.
She wanted to try St. Jacobs Oil, but the
doctors said no. but got it, tried it, and
it stopped the pain. She improved, and
in a short time she had no use for crutches.
No return OF pain in seven years" Mr..
W. W. Hall, Adams Express Co, Brook
lyn, y. Y, was cured of sciatic rheuma-
tism by st. Jacobs Oil, and writes under
date of May 5, 1887: Il am still of the
same opinion of its curative qualities for
sciatic rheumatism"
The probability of st. Jacobs Oil curing,
every time is reckoned upon known facts
Out of the twenty million bottles sold
not one in ten thousand ever fails 10 re-
lieve all ailments for which it is specific;
the chance against the probability Is so
slight there must he some cause, and the
cause is found to he that it is not properly
spilled or not taken in time The chitnees
ire so overwhelmingly in its favor that the
marvellous cures wrought by it are the
offset to the few eases wherein it falls,
md are proofs that where properly used
will cure, and never fails.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

Ao0Ou ouOJOOUs ACV Au0 SOY budt cV0r
since that night, several hundred years
ago, of Mrs. Wyndham's garden-party,
when you asked me how much I had
saved, l have worn the bank steps
thin. hieing thither with my deposit.
Whenever am inclined to buy suit
OF clothes, l consult the spirit of my
great-grandfather, who was down on
any fellow who had more than one
suit q year; and the restaurants and
billiard rooms that once knew me,
know me no more. I am getting now
to the acute, misery stage, when I ex-
pect to end my days in the poor
house."
''You are the funniest boy in New
York." said Kate, land I'll reward you
for giving me this delicious expo
rience. I'm going to play the organ
at St. - for a avoiding this afternoon
at four. Come up and hear me. -
do you get paid for it?" inquired,
possessed, as men generally are under
such conditions, to say something dis
agreeable.
Certainly" she replied, promptly.
''What?"
why, Jack, your face looks like 3
great fat question mark said my
companion, laughing till the violet eyes
spilled over.
but you playing the organ for
money? What can it mean?n
This" said Kate, SOLDERING all of q
sudden; that I never intend to do any
thing that other people are obliged to
do Tor condensation. without nav
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03
THE FACE IN THE GLASS.

The little Mamie, scarcely three years old,
Dwelt near the prairie, where the winds blow
cold,
In . Log cabin very plain and neat
With kitchen, parior, bedroom, all complete
Within one room. And DER the mantel-shen
Hung the small looking.glass.
And 50 it came to pass
The little maid had never seen herself, 81.
She knew not If her eyes were brown or blue.
Or how her hair along her temples grew,
OR II she looked like mother when she smiled.
Or was, In fact like any other child
NO vanity there was about the lass;
For, oh, how could there be,
I'd like to know, when she
Had never gaxed within looktng-glassf
Her little sister Rene, just her ago
AS pretty as picture, I'll engage
Took sick one day. and could not raise her
head,
And grew 70 white! And mamma, weeping,
said, -..ts- z4..-.
In words that Mamie scarce could understand,
That Rene'd gone away
From their rude home 10 play
With happy angels In the summer-land
One day visitor by love begailed
Took from her trunk toy to please the child
"A small hand-mirror, that in its embrace
would surely frame the little maiden's face;
And Mamie turned the curious trinket DER,
And laughed aloud with glee
To see how merrily
The bright fecks danced on ceiling and on
floor.
Then all at once she turned it so her gaze
Fell on its polished surface. With amaze
She started, then q closer scrutiny gave
AS though one had arisen from the grave
And, Rene! Rene"' screamed with passionate
stir,
Thinking, poor little lass
That from the sea OF glass
Her sister had come back to play with her.
Josephine Pollard, in Harp RS Young Folks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03
TROPICAL PLANT LIFE.
Wonderful Fruits Growing in Great Pr,
fusion in the West Indies

Wonderful Fruits Growing in Great Pro-
fusion in the West Indies.
All through the land round about are
other wonders. There are avenues of
table-trees, whose foliage seems exag-
gerated horizontally; alleys of ma
hogany-trees; lanes of Orinokes, whose
fronds coruscate with crimson blossom
ing. There are amazing shrubs
orange-colored things; there are plants
with glossy leaves speckled in four
different colors; there are various
plants that look like wigs of green
hair, or masses of fliform green sea-
weed, set on short sticks; plants with
enormous broad leaves, so diaphanous
as to seem made of green glass; plants
that do not look like real plants, but
like OSCILLATIONS of plants, like the
fantasticalities of wood-carvers and
stone-cutters animated by witchcraft.
There are grasses that look like dwarf
palms-tiny arborescent grasses with
curving stems and plumed heads.
There are flowers of extravagant
forms and colors-fowers that pos
sess familiar shapes, but have absurd
tints and unfamiliar perfumes, yellow
and indigo and green, orange and black
and crimson plants. And in all the
ponds, covering all the canals, float
the green navies of the monster lily,
the Victoria Regia- Close to shore the
leaves are not extraordinarily large;
but they increase in breadth as they
float further out, as if gaining bulk
proportionately to the depth of water
A few yards of, they are large as soap
plates; further out, they are broad as
dinner trays; in the center of the pond
or canal they have surface large as
tea-tables. And all have an upturned
edge. a perpendicular rim, like bull
wark. Here and there you see the
hower-a nonsensical flower, large as
a hat. Then there are fiddlewood-
trees in multitude, calabash-trees,
mangoes, bread-fruits, sago-palms,
tig-trees, and hundred un-
familiar shapes of which I can not
learn the names. And there is the
snake-nut tree, bearing most CHASTITY
fruit. For this swart nut-shaped
almost like clam shell, and halving in
the same way along its sharp edges
incloses something incredible. There
is q pale envelop about the kernel; re-
move it, and you find between your
fingers little viper, triangular-head-
ed, coiled thrice upon itself, perfect in
every detail Of form from skull to tail.
Was this marvellous mockery evolved
for q protective end? It is no eccen-
tricity: in q hundred nuts the serpent
kernel lies coiled the same.
Yet in spite Of these establishments,
Of these novel impressions. what q
weird delight it is to turn again into
an avenue Of palms, and to know once
more the queer sense of being watched,
without love or hate, by all those si-
lent. gracious, tall, sweet things!-
Lafcadfo Hearss. N Harper's Magazine.
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PITH AND POINT.

Ef
III one is not on ones guard, low
ared fortunes may lead to baseness of
soul.
The days OF December are shorter
than those of August; but you can
never make schoolboy believe or feel
it. @
There are people in this world
who love to suffer for the pleasure
they derive in moaning. Philadelphia
GaN.
Truth is the most powerful thing
in the world, since fiction can only
please by its resemblance to it.-Shaftes-
bury.
He who is capable of making the
incest distinctions in language is in
the greatest danger OF saying what he
does not mean.
The esteem of wise and good men
is the greatest of all temporal encour-
agements to virtue; and it is the mark
of an abandoned spirit to have no re-
gard to it.
What is the cure for gossip
Simply culture. There is a good deal
of gossip that has no malignity in it.
Good people talk about their neigh
bors because they have nothing else to
talk about to pass the social hour.
Anguish of mind has driven thou
sands to suicide; anguish of body,
none. This proves that the health OF
the mind is of far more consequence to
our happiness than the health of the
body, although both are deserving of
much more attention than either of
them receive.-Colto7s.
Unless you are smarter and strong
er than the thieves down Jericho way
and 1guess may be you are not; very
few men are-why, you keep off that
road. You stay in Jerusalem, and
you'll have more money and less head
ache.-Burdette.
Never be ashamed of confessing
your ignorance, for the wisest man
upon earth is ignorant of many things,
insomuch that what he does not know.
There can not be greater folly in the
world than to suppose that we know
every thing.
The average and general influence
of a mans teaching will be more
mighty than any single misconception,
or misrepresentation through miscon.
ception. A man might run around
like kitten after its tail, all his life
if he were going around explaining al
his expressions and all the things he
had written. Let them 60. They viii
correct themselves.
The only way to success on the
road is through the gate of honesty
An answering purpose to succeed, {
steady application to the details, {
clean speech, clear head and kind.
" heart will carry almost any man O.
common intelligence to the front, while
those of far greater natural endow
ments, less careful of conduct, fall
gradually to the rear and sink int
disgrace and oblivion.-Mercha,st Trar
al
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

The richest mine in Australia and
perhaps in the world is the Mt. Nor
gan, in Queensland. It is variously
estimated as worth from ELI, zoo, 900 to
ECO, OO0, 600 An offer Of els, OOO, OOC
Tar il uas rafusad
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

!, 7. cLAUsEN.
ATTORNEY At LAW.
Collections promptly attended to. Austin, MIN.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

Y1AN D. BAIRD,
ATTORNEY 1T LAW
Real Estate, InsuraneS snd Collection Agent
Once. front room, second doo., lover EsN D Vests
store, Austin, Minnesota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

ID B. CRANE,
u.
ATTORNEY At LAN
Real Estate and Collection Agent. Taxes paia
or non-residents. ~ Once, second 6eor e
0unkelmAnn's new bloch, Main street 1877
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

T D. SHELBY,
ATTORNEY IT LAK
j1st5es Of tie Peaee for first ward, city Of A..
nn, and Insurance and Collection Agent 00eo
ever G. ". Taylors store,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-03

duO AduSucu dL Mo dill tuo tlm0S ana
Sunday morning had splendid prac-
tice in church; but this is law, and
some of the words are not familiar.
Commence there, please.
This was a situation! But made
no remark, and did exactly as was
bid. Three times read that ponder
GUS document through, my companion
oblivious to every thing save speed
and correctness.
You are the best reader I have had
yet" she remarked at last, "and I
thank you very much. You see have
worn out every body in the house."
what kind of a craze is this, any
how?" I inquired. '.The last amuse-
ment was practicing On big church.
organ every day. Have you given
that up?"
.'Oh no, I have plenty of time for
that. It is SO pleasant to be occu-
pied"
And right here, for fear of Interrupt
ton, told my companion what I had
called for. 'tAnd don't begin to
laugh" ! besought her, s'and try not
to make me feel, now that we have
been SO friendly and coy, as if were
. sort of gentlemanly tramp who had
sidled in, as it were, on sufferance."
Il INST laugh at that, Jack, because
It is unique. But if you can not under
stand plain English. / don't see what I
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Mrs. John Galloway.

This most excellent lady died at her
home in Cambridge City, Indiana, on
Tuesday, Sept. 4th, aged SO wears.
She was the eldest daughter of the late
Hon. Joseph Sawyer Of Piermont, N.
H.. and wife of John Galloway, ESQ.
Mrs. c., was woman of rare intellect
'ual culture and high moral attainments.
Her early education was acquired un-
der the best teachers and at the best
educational institutions of New Eng
land, and was student of high order
in all the term implies. She came
West in 1855 as professor of Latin and
higher Mathematics at the Ohio Female
College at College Hill near Cincinnati,
and was married to MIR. Galloway.
then merchant at Milton, Indiana, in
Oct. 1856. In her married life she dis
played the highest type of the cultivat-
ed christian wife and mother, meeting
its manifold demands and trials with
patience and fortitude. In her relig-
i0us life she was living christian.
From the spring of 1851 when she
united with the Congregational church
OF her native town there was never a
moment of wavering or hesitating.
With her, life was practical and hope
full. and every cloud had silver lin
ing. She leaves son ana three daugh-
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Plerrnont.

Rev. Mr.. Merrill, secretary OF the
State Temperance Union, spent lasi
sabbath IN town, supplied the pulpit
In both churches, In tho evening he aeye
. very interesting lecture on temper.
ance. He told them to stand ,by the
principles Of prohibition by stand Inc
by the law that outlaws the traffic.
Miss Inez Ford has returned to Phil.
adelphia to spend another term at the
Female Medical College.
Miss Mary Howe Is teaching school
at OrfOrdville.
Miss Ada Cutting Of Lyme has been
visiting friends In town.
George Ames of Lawrence, Mass :, ia
at K. e. Grimes.
Mr.. Blanchard Of Orfordville, is to
exchange with Rev. Mr.. Converse next
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howe of Lebanon, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Howe Of Newbury,
visited at j. H. Howe's this week.
1t is proposed to raise three flags in
town for the three parties.
The Society of Christian Endeavor
will meet Saturday evening at E. E.
Grimes. Topic, Psalm, 100.
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East Orange.

Rev. H. F. Reynolds is absent on hi
vacation, consequently there was M
preaching service at the school house
Mrs. Mary Emerson, wife of JOSEPH
Eastman, died Sept, 3Oth, aged 6t
years. Interment at Methuen, Mass,
the following Wednesday.
D. N. Richardson, of Davenport, la.
made short stop in town Friday OF
last week.
J. F. Hutchinson and wife visited
friends at Woodsville, last week.
The Home Aid Society met with Mrs.
Scott Paine last week Friday evening
There were not many present, but what
lacked in numbers made up in sociabil.
ity and pleasant time enjoyed. It is
to meet with Mrs. Warren Curtis Fri.
day eve, Oct, 18th, a good attendance
desired.
Mrs. Charlie Ward with three chill.
dren of Winter Park, Florida, are the
guests of G. w. Coleman, this week.
George Felch left for Brattleboro,
Wednesday, where he is to be en-
plOyed in the Insane Asylum.
Messrs. Lane and Gates of Barre, re-
sumed their labor on the church, Mon
day of this week.
There are to be a series of meetings
held at Orange Centre, commencing
Oct. 14th, continuing over the 21st,
Rev. James A. Churle, an evangelist of
Boston, Mass, conducting them.
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East Hayerhill,

Ira Wright is loading potatoes at the
station, and paying from 35 to 80 cts
per bushel.
Regular meeting of the Republican
Club at the school house Saturday ev.
ening.
Winthrop Elliott, who is 1st vice
president of the Republican Club, vo.
ted for Harrison in 1910.
The funeral services of Mrs. Rex.
ford Pierce was held at the church last
Friday, conducted by Rev. d. E. Yer.
non, assisted by Rev. w. A. Loyne.
s. H. Baker has been tending store
this week for S. w. Richardson, while
he and his wife are at the Club"
Mrs. Chapman of Manchester, has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. S. Tuttle.
Mrs. Warren Blake has been spend
ing couple of weeks in Bradford and
Corinth, Vt.
A Republican Club has been formed
here with the following officers: Pres,
G. w. Richardson; vice Pres, Win
throp Elliott and N. Daily; Sec., G..
c. Jeffers; Treas, Chas. Brown.
Parties have been in town to esti-
mate the cost of raising the church and
building a vestry underneath, and the
lumber is now being drawn for that
purpose.
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Post Mllls.

Mr.. Merrill, agent Of the Vernon!
Domestic Missionary Society occupied
tho desk At the church last Sunday.
Minnie knight has gone to Boston.
Married, tho let inst, by Rev. Mr.
Morse Of West Fairlee, at tho reei.
dence Of the brides father, Fred
Stetson and Miss Louise Eva.
Mrs. J. Boynton is at Williamstown
on visit.
Geo. M. Moore Of Boston, formerly
Of this place, was In town this week.
The citizens turned out and dug Mr.,
LaGkey's potatoes last Saturday, tor
which he wishes to return thanks and
hopes he may be able to return the
compliment some day, but not under
like circumstances.
Mr.. Utley bought car load Of young
cattle which he shipped to Hartford,
Conn.,, last Monday.
This place furnished her quota OF
people for Tunbridge fair.
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East Corinrh.

Mrs. M. O. Currier is on the sick
list.
j. B. Kemp is in Boston. Mass, this
week purchasing goods.
r. r. Fulton, Republican represent.
hive for this town started Tuesday
For Montpelier, vt.
Farmers are digging their potatoes
md report good yield.
! Mrs. M. E. Dickey and daughter are
n Boston, this week purchasing fall
ind winter millinery.
Mr.. Geo. w. Penniman, Editor of
be Advocate, published at White Riv-
Junction, VT, spoke in the interest
the Prohibition party at School
fouse Hall last Thursday evening to a
Dir audience. He is rapid, forcible
nd very interesting speaker. All par
les agreed that it was an able address,
I'D we would be pleased to hear him
fain.
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Eairlee.

Mr.. Edwin Curtis and mother from
Maine are stopping at w. H. Kibbey's
Edward Houghton from Greeley
Colorado, has been stopping in town
George M. Adams and wife Of
Salem, N. H., with their two nice
babies have been visiting in town fol
the past week.
Mrs. w. H. Kibbey made from IL
pounds of milk 10 1-2 ounces of butter
Let us hear from the Bradford cream
cry.
Charles Hayes is better.
Jennie Piper is at home for a short
time.
Mr.. Moulton Rugg and wife have
taken trip to Lisbon and Bath, N. II,
Rev. Mr.. Elliott gave some very in
teresting bible talk last Sunday.
Two dogs got into 4 flock of 49
lambs and killed and wounded about
twenty Of them.
Mr.. George w. Penniman delivered
a prohibition lecture last Friday even
ing to full house. He spoke nearly
two hours and at the close they gave
him vote of thanks
The summer has passed and the hotels
at the Pond are closed. Mr.. Rogers
and wife have taken trip to Beverly,
Mass. They report good business
through the summer, having had a pic
mic party there nearly every day be-
side many regular boarders. Messrs.
Kenney and Bracy have left the Glen
Falls House. Mr.. Haley, who has taken
charge of the house this summer for
Mrs. Spear will remain for few days
longer. They report very successful
season, and all that have been there
through the summer will return next
season and bring new ones with them.
Mr.. John B. Pickett and son were at
the Pond last week and bought a lot
just south of Mr.. Kenney's. Mr..
Frost will have his house built next
month, in season for next season. Let
us all take hold and bring in all the
business we can another summer.
The taxpayers will bear in mind that
the 80 days on the town tax expires
October 10th, also the school tax in
district No. 4 expires the goth. Pay
cost . u sheriff stiii. Also $50 please cali ali
at H. p. Warren's and pay your Yer
mont Mutual Insurance tax, and at
the same time look at the full line OF
stoves, and three carriages that will be
sold cheap to close them out and make
room for sleighs. Abel Heath bought
a carriage at the fair which makes
twenty-five carriages and thirty har-
nesses Warren has sold this season.
H. P. Warren took trip to Boston
with "Honest Nose" They arrived
at Wilmington at about 8 O'Clock when
a way freight and the stock train both
tried to get on the same track at the
same time. The result was that the
engine of the stock train was badly
and they were delayed until
8 o'clock, but no one was hurt.
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= Granite State Local Itsns :
Lyme

Lyme.
Mrs. Isaac Stark has gone home with
her daughter, Mrs. A. d. Dimick, te
Wakefield Mass.
T. NJ alklin and daughter are Wis
iting mn laoipif, Vt. n
Mrs. o. Ter and daughter of Allegan
Mich, arsyisiting at P. E. FairfeId's
Mrs. Drake, of Boston, is visiting in
town.
Charles Norris, who was injured IN
Philadelphia, has come home.
Henry L. Fitch a respected citizen
of this town was found on Sunday,
Sept, 3Oth, 6 a. M, dead by the side of
the road nearly opposite North Thet-
ford. His neck was broken, his whip
in his hand and his feet wrapped in
his carriage robe. 1t is thought he fell
from his carriage on Saturday evening
as he was returning to his home, and
owing to the absence of his wife, was
not discovered until the next morning.
Rev. Mr.. Graham of Conn.,, preached
at Congregational church last Sunday.
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Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cornell is inter-
ested largely in tin ores dug up at the Black
Hills, and his Broadway Office is Uttered with
samples, rough and refined. He lately ac-
quired a quarry Of stone in the Catskills
which promises to prove more than gold
mine. It is remarkable that, rich as it is. it
never was worked, but lay unknown in the
hands Of some one who evidently did not ap-
preciate its value. There are acres and acres
of it, with sandstone, granite and black
marble in large quantities. There Is also a
fourth stone known to be durable and Curl
ously beautiful, because of shells mixed in
with the body of the stone. It polishes up
handsomely. But the handsome stone of the
quarry is the black marble. Nothing equal
to it has been discovered on the continent.
and it is surpassed only by the black marble
Of italian quarries. It Is susceptible of a
lustrous polish, and its grain is 80 fine that
for the sculptor it affords good opportunity.
New York Sun.
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Copperfield.

Michael Sullivan was badly burned
on breast and arms, at the furnace OF
Tuesday, by the bursting of Stag pot
DR.. Simpson is attending him.
Mr.. Cain is having his house paint
ed with modern colOrs. Mr.. Kinney
is doing some of his fine work.
A large number attended the Fair al
Tunbridge.
Mr.. Bray's carpenters having full
filled their contract for Mr.. Cain, have
returned to Hanover.
A coffee supper will be served at the
church on Friday eve.
"A new engine house has been cree
ted in connection with the furnace.
Pastor, Supt., and delegates were
appointed to attend the S. s. Conven.
ton at Newbury.
Five families have recently moved to
this village.
Clarence Wilmot fell distance OF
thirty-five feet from a staging on the
store and was uninjured.