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THE LESSON OF THE YOUNGSTOWN
HORROR.

In these days of multiplied disasters
and calamities, when fire and flood,
earthquake and pestIlence, storm and
sword, in various parts of the world, are
rushing thousands into eternity with
hardly moments warning, one truth
is brought home to us with renewed
| force-the paramount importance of be-
ing good to one another while we have
the opportunity. 1t is not of 80 much
consequence whether the skirts have an
extra ruffle, or the children's frocks are
| deliberately trimmed, or that you have
the reputation of being the best house
keeper in the neighborhood Ito be true
homekeeper IS far better), or even that
you Guido all others in church work and
ministrations to the heather, as that
your OtCn have reason to love you and
find in you that tenderest sympathy
which to man, woman and child more is
comforting than food or raiment. Life is
short at best-full OF tears and tragedies,
and for every one of us grave is wait
ing-we know not how near or far.
How many hearts have been inexpres-
sibly saddened by doubts of another's
love, which the lips that should have
spoken are dumb forever how many,
full of the tenderness to which they
never gave utterance, when daily oppor.
tunities presented, would give their lives
for one moment in which to make the
dead ears hear, the dead heart under
stand Is there a mourner in the land
who does not remember with bitter self
reproach every unkind word uttered to
that CHASTITY thing to day called IL
every little discourtesy and neglected
opportunity for making their mutual
life happier Is there mother sitting
IN her lonely home from whence the
children have all gone out-either to
take their places in the busy world, or
to the securer shelter of the tomb-who
does not look back with satisfaction
upon every sacrifice she made to en-
nance their childish pleasures, and with
regret upon every undue severity -? Oh
friends Let us watch the "lttle foxes"
that spoil the vines Of llfe-il temper,
uncharitableness. proneness to gossip
neglect of little acts of kindness toward
those we love-and above all let us not
fail in letting the loved ones know thai
we love them. Sooner or later the fam
lily circle must he broken let US 80 live.
every day, that when the inevitable di.
vision comes there will be less of heart
break in it.
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ders. Children like it, Every one prais-
es il. Llrgr z package, 80 cents. AT
I'll druggists.
Hay Fever and Rose Cold
Are attended by an infamed condl-
ton of the lining membrane of the os-
trils, tear-ducts and hroat, affecting the
lungs. An acrid mucus is secretion, the
discharge is accompan ed with a burn
ing sensation. There are severe spasms
OF >neezing, frequent attacks of head
ache, watery and intlamed eyes. Ely's
Cream Balm is a remedy hat can be de-
pended upon Fifty cents at druggists
by mail, registered, 60 cents. Ely Broth.
ers, Druggists, Sc Warren Street, New
York. 2t
George you got engaged last
night Gus, my old, my dear friend
tell me how you did lit" Gus REALLY
l hardly know myself. Couldn't hell
it just like falling down stars. was
on the edge of proposal, she gave me {
push, and there was-engaged.
George well, l haven't any such eX
perience. Every time try to start, m!
knees knock together and my teetl
| chatter and my tongue cleaVes to thu
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of Maine, and, honor to him, he turned
his wine glass. To rule the spirit is
something to be learned.
A CUCUMBER TALE.
The Georgia Liar OutdOne by one from
Kentucky-He Deserves n Medal.

Kentucky-He Deserves n Medal.
Hanging in a barn in Old P,neville,
three miles from here, says Pineville,
(Ky.,) special, is the most marvellous
freak of nature ever heard of or seen.
Its existence, however, is vouched for
by James p. Whallen and Joseph Leahy
of Louisville.
II is well known that when cucumbers
are first cut from the vine there is a
piece of the stem which exudes or bleeds.
A prominent citizen of Old Pineville
some time ago, named Jared Gibson, cut
his hand, and this juice got into this cut
and his hand commenced to inflame, and
an eruption similar 10 erysipelas made its
appearance and extended up his arm,
and finally spread over his whole body
Strange to say, there was no pain attend
ing these eruptions of erysipelas, and he
continued TO gather and pack the Gu
cumbers and prepare them for picking.
To the great surprise of everybody
these little pimples assumed the appear
ance and form of small cucumbers, and
continued to grow. Although Gibson
kept we'll and hearty, he was compelled
to stop work and take to his bed. The
doctors and quack from around here Wis
tied him. One prescribed one thing and
one another. One wished to bleed him
one wanted to cut the cucmbers off an
other said not to let him have any water
and they would dry up; another said
stick hole in each cucumber and they
would die and new skin form another
wished to wrap him up in mammoth
poultice of barnyard manure and draw
them all to one head another said they
ought to be scattered. All the doctors
had different remedy but all disagreed
30 there was some hope that the patient
would get we'll. But the small cucum.
bers grew into big ones, and his whole
body was covered with them from head
to foot, and they commenced to rlper
and turn yellow and hang down, anG
the man looked like a huge bunch oil
bananas.
When they got ripe they began tt
shrivel up and dry, and so did the man
His sap wac all gone, and he died. The
doctors procured the consent of Iht
widow to permit an autopsy to be made
for The benefit of science, and they Gu
him open, and to their amszement fouuC
no blood, no muscles, no sinews, no ar
teries, but found only one solid mass o.
cucumber seeds. 1t was so remarkable
it would be uaeless 10 have his remain
inferred, and foolish to have them ere
mated, and the widow concluded tC
keep them in the house. She had the
corpse hung up by the hair in the barn
where it now swings, an inanimate evl
dence of what nature can do when she
takes notion,
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TIE HISTORY oFA RURAL WELL.

Let us examine one Cor a thousand)
of our grand old farm establishments
of a hundred years standing. Clus-
tered on a few square rods of land are
the farm buildings, the dwelling, wood
shed, wash-house, horse-stable, cow
barn, sheppard, swine-hOuse, hen
house, courthouse, compost-heap, cess
pool and privy. All these are arranged
in hollow square, and in their midst
is the farmers well with its curb sweep
and bucket, or with its cover, pipe, and
pump. Around this center are concen-
trated all the activities of life upon
New England farm. Birth, life aud
death; bloom, fruit and decay; of men
and animals, of shrubs and trees, have
transpired here for a century. All the
waste has been dropped upon the sur
face, there to accumulate, decay and
putrefy.
Then, again, the bottom of the well.
the very center of all these activities,
must be at or below the level of the
natural water basin of the immediate
vicinity, and must rest upon or in clay,
mari or rock impervious to water. The
Wcll 10 tACdNdNGu JHlOuSu Sttuu, SldNOl,
drift or some rock pervious to water.
All these conditions must exist or there
can be no well.
Now let us picture the life upon these
few square rods for one hundred years.
In and about these buildings live three
hundred creatures-men, beasts and
birds. They are stabbed here during
winter and yarded here during summer (;
here they take their daily food and
drink. and discharge their daily waste.
During one hundred years there have
been nearly eleven million days of ami
NAL existence, all within draining and
teaching distance of the whole estab-
lishment. The amount of waste that
cannot be removed by evaporation,
drainage or absorption or drainage is
enormous. The fact must be apparent
to theimost skeptica that the earth be-
meath farm dwellings, stables. cess
pools and privy-vaults, and about wells
near :the same is surcharged with ami
NAL and vegetable waste. This point
must be conceded by all. II needs but
moments attention to convince even
the dullest mind that every establish
ment with only the usual sanitary pre-
cautions is resting upon and above a
pie of most dangerous fl tn, and this
ii tn is being constantly cached into the
bottom of the well.-NelU York BOdrd
of Health.
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This is beyond question the most sue
cessful Cough Medicine we have ever
sold, few doses invariably cures the
worst cases of Cough, Group and Bron
chitls, while its wonderful success in the
cure of Consumption is without a paral'
lei in the history of medicine. Since it,
first discovery it has been sold on a
guarantee, test which no other m edi-
cine can stand. If you have a cough
we earnestly ask you to try it. Price 10
cents, 80 cents and 81. If your lungs
are sore chest or back lame, use Shiloh'a
Porous Plaster. Sold by j. 7. Shurtlef,
Bennington.
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NINE MILLION WITCHES BURNED,

Sprenger computes that during the
Christian era no fewer than nine million
witches were inundated. Ia England
the last execution for witchcraft took
place in 17l6, but in Illinois as late 81
1880 to 1890, several unforlunates were
put to death. This a terrible reflection
on the boosted enlightenment OF the age
but we must not be over ceI 8 lrious
while we daily see friends going down
to death, ignorance or prejudice prevent
ing the use of remedies wLi,h might
save them. Many a cold runs into con
sumption, while indigestion and impure
blood debiitates the system, inviting
fatal attacks. when the use of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery would have
ensured health and happiness,
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LUCAS COUNTY, 3. \.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm OF f. ]. CHENEY & Co
doing business III the City of Toledo County and
State aforesaid. and that said firm will pay thu
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each ant
every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by
the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres
ence, this 9Th day of December, A. d. 1886.
A W, GLEASON,
}sEAL.
'~~' Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and act
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of tn
system. Send for testim onials, free.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
tK-Sold by Druggists. rs cents,
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FTTCHBURG r. r.
HoosAC TUNNEL ROUTE.

HOOSAC TUNNEL ROUTE.
On and after July LIST, 1889, trains will run al
follows
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA. BENNINGTON & RuTLANI
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington 20 a m, arrive Troy o 05, 4
IN, New York 2 10 p m, HoOsick Falls 9 80, North
Adams 10 10, Greenfield II IS a m, Fitchburg IS
am.
New York 90, HOosick Falls 9 SO, North Adams
so l, Greenfield IS. Fitchburg q, Boston s. p
m, Mechanicville 2 40.
Leave Bennington % p. M, arrive at Hoosick
Falls All, North Adams l:52 Boston 8 :55 p. m.
Leave Bennington Is p m, arrive Troy 6 S.
p m, New York (via steamer)6 90 a m, HoOsick
Falls II, No. Adams 90 p m. Greenfield IS p,
m, Boston Is m, INTERCHANGEABLE 8 So, p. M,
Saratoga Bpm.
Leave Bennington IL 10 night arrive Troy Is
New York OOam.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
VIA BENNINGTON & RUTLAND ny:
20 m, from New York, Albany and Troy.
bauy, Troy, Hoosick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga
and Mechanicville.
100 p IN, from New York. Albany Troy ,lIoosics
Falls, No Adams ard Boston.
4:3s p. M. from Troy. Saratoga and Mechanics
Vile
64Opm, from New York. Albany Troy, Hooslck
Falls North Adams and Boston,
JwHITMoRE, J.R WATSON,
Gen'llrafie Mgr, Boston. Genl Pass; Agt.
C. A. NIMMO, Boston.
GenT Western Passenger Agent, Troy.
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A GREAT BATTLE

Is continually going on in the human
system. The demon of impure blood
strives to gain victory over the constitu-
ton, to ruin health, to drag victims to
the grave. A good rel able medicine
like Hoods Sarssparilla is the weapon
with which to defend ones self, drive
the desperate enemy from the field, and
restore peace and bodily health fer many
wears.
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Is a very common expression, but we think that
armed to embellish and preserve them to a ripe
old age is decidedly more appropriate This can
be done by keeping yourself supplied with bot.
DON'T which will beautify the teeth and preserve
them from the ravages of decay, SOZODONT
contains no acids or gritty substances which in
jure the enamel, but is composed Of rare and an
tiseptic herbs which have u beneficial effect on
the whole economy OF the mouth. Sold by drug
gists.
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l believe that nothing would help
American political life 80 much as to
have this (the civil service) law not only
rigidly enforced but extended so as to
take in as far as possible the entire body
of public servants of the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt.
These are level headed words. The
time will come when the entire country
will recognize their wisdom.-1he BOs-
ton Journal.
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LEBANON SPRINGS RAILROAD.
New Time Table, Commencing June
9th 1854

Leave Bennington q. M, arrive In North Ad
ans 10 10 q. M, Troy 10 80. Chatham 1850, New
York 3 20. Leave bennington 2:lO p m, arrive
in North Adams $40 p, m, Chatham 4:35, New
York ;55. Leave Bennington 3:l5 p. M, arrive
in North Adams 4:55 p. M. Chatham $ :l5.
Leave North Adams 9:05 a. M. arrive in Ben.
nington 1915. Leave North Adams 1875 p. m.
arrive in Bennington 80. Leave North Adams
p. IN arrive in Bennington sos
Leave New York 20 a. ~, arrive in Benning.
ton 80 p. M Leave New YORK 10 IS n. arrive
in Bennington O5 p, IN.
Leave Chatham rs a. m, arrive in Benning-
ton 10 rs u. m. Leave Chatham 1855 A. M. arrive
in Bennington 80 y. IN. Leave Chatham 80 p
M. arrive in Bennington Oj p, m.
Leave Troy S 80 M, arrive In Bennington
1915 a. IN. Leave Troy II a. IN arrive In Ben
ningtoh 80 p. m. Leave Troy 3 is p. m, arrive
in Bennington sos p, m.
Z. n. BENNETT. Supt.
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A sharp fakir is making good income
by advertising cure method of killing
all insects. Wnen ycu send him fifty
cents you will receive II printed card on
which are these words Get your in
sects to smoke cigarettes, and they will
die within an hour. 81 long"
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Mas. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP, for children
teething is the prescription Of one 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 OF teething its value
cures dysentery and diarrhpa, gripping in the
bowels, and wind-colc, BY giving health to the
HID it rests the mother. Price 25c, a
iot.le. 22yl
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BuclxIen,s Arnjca Sale

The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises,
Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, letter,
Chapped Hands, Chilblans, Corns, and all Skin
EnIDtions, and positively cures Piles, or no paw
| require. l. "a guaranteed To give perfect salts
faction or money refunded. Price ~ c-nts per
oox. For sale UJ j. r >HUErLEFF.
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TO THE UEA ~ BeFs6R cured Of Deafness
aid noises In III y III ~ q rars Standing by
simple remedy, vii ,,ll iesutipion 0t 1t FREG
TO any person who will apply 70 NICHOLSON, III
MacDougall Street. New York. Papers required
10 prove assertions. By1
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The Best
Spring Medicine.

"In the spring Of 1887 was all run down.
would get up in the morning with so tired ;
feeling, and was so weak that Icould hardly g.
around. Iboughta bottle Of Paine's Celery Con
pound, and before had taken 1t week fe!
very much better. can cheefuny recommen'
It to all who need a building up and strengthen
ing medicine" Mrs. B. A. DOW, Burlington. Vt
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Spring medicine meansmore nowadays thanit
did ten years ago The winter i1Sss-s9 hasleft
the nerves all Jdgged out The nerves must be
strengthened, the blood pur ded, liver ana
bowels regulated. Paine's Celery Compound
the Spring medicine oftO-ddy-does all this
as nothing else can. Prescribed by Physicians,
Recommended by DTuggists, Endorsed by Minister'S
Guaranteed by the Manufacturers 10 Be
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1t Makes
You Hungry
~ have used Palnes Celery Compound al

'Y compound ana u
has had a salutary
effect. Itinvigorat
ed the system and |
feel like a new
man. 1t improves
the appetite and
facilitates dlges-
\tion." j. T. COPE
LAND, PrimuS, S. C.
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Paine's
Celery Compound

IS q unique tonic and appetizer Pleasant TO
the taste, quick in Its action, and without any
Injurious effect, II gives that rugged healIh
which makes everything taste good. II cures
dyspepsia and kindred disorders. Physicians
prescribe 1t. $1.OO Six for $500. Druggists
WELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington. Vt
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One II ndred Ladles wanted,
Ami 100 men 10 call on any druggist for
free trial package OF Lanes Family
Medicine, the great root and herb rem
edy, discovered by Dr. Silas Lane while
in the Rocky Mountains. For diseases
Of the blood, liver and kidneys IL is q
positive cure. For constipation and
clearing up the complexion it does won
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KENDALL'S SPAWN CURE.
EEEDALL'S SPAWN CURE.

Price 81 por bottle, or six BOTTLES for g. All Drug
gists have Il get IL for you, or II VIII be sent
To any address on rerrit OF prize ny the pfoprle
tors. Dh Is. ]. kESDAl. e.. En"sourgh Falls. VI
SOLD by MI DRUGGISTS
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Pupil-"Teacher, kin me an Bill go
an git a pail o. wafer Pr Arkansas
schoolmaster-"There you 90 again.
How many times have | got to tell you
that it amt good grammar to say me
and Bill ?" Pupil -"What ort to sayP"
Teacher-"Bill and me. Can't | never
learn you nothing ?"-Hdrpers Maya
zine.
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Honest barber-"Mr. jerks, you know
! never tother my customers about buy
ingmy hair restoratives and such things,
but | must say to you. in all candor, that
your hair is disappearing dreadful fast.
Now my Elixir of Life, if applied in
time" Mr.. jerks (sadly)-'No u e,
my friend. Nothing can stop my hair
from coming out but death or divorce y
-heU York Weekly.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-10
Proposals for Horses. Brood
Mares, Work Oxen and Stall
lions.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,


WASHINGTON, d. G., Dec 81, 1883.
SEALED PROPOSALS. INDORSED PRO
~ posals for Horses, Brood Mares, Work
Oxen, Stations" as the case may be. and ad-
dressed to the Commissioner of Indian AT
fairs, Washington, D. c., will be received
until l o'clock p. M, Thursday, Jan. 81,
1889, for furnishing the following animals
for the Indian service, viz: One pair of
driving horses and ten Q0) young and
seryIceable work horses: one hundred (1OD)
brood d-mares, ten (10) stations and fifty (50)
yoke of work oxen, with yokes and chains.
SPECIFICATIONS.
The horses must be young and servlceable,
from four to seven years old. sound, without
blemish, and well broken to harness, not less
than 1914 hands high, and to weigh not less
than one thousand Il 600 pounds.
The brood-mares must be of American
stock. from four to seven years old, sound,
we'll broken, without blemishes, not less
than Is hands high, and to weigh not less
Stations must be of Percherou stock, large,
well-bred not under four nor over seven
years DID, and to weigh between thirteen
hundred Q.3OO) and fourteen hundred
(1.4OO) pounds.
The work oxen must be sound, gentle and
well broken to work. from four to six years
old, half grades. graded UP from Durham or
stock equally as good, and to weigh from two
thousand four hundred (2,4O0) to three
thousand 5000 pounds per yoke. Ok
painted. and such as are known as Freight
ers Yokes.' with staples and ring instead of
clasp, and chains to be ss-inch cable, thirteen
Q3) feet long, with hook on each end, and
must be furnished with each yoke OF oxen.
The fifty yoke of oxen, with yokes and
chains, must be delivered at the Fort Peck
Agency, Montana, and the other animals at
the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, not later
than April Is. 1889; and all animals thus
offered for delivery will be subject to rigid
inspection by some competent person to be
designated by the respective Indian agents.
CERTIFIED CHECKS.
Each bid must be accompanied by certi-
fed check or draft on some United States
depository payable to the order of the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, for at least
per cent of the amount Of the proposal,
which check or draft shall be forfeited to the
United States in case any bidder or bidders
receiving an award shall fail to execute
promptly a contract with good and sufficient
sureties, according to the terms Of his bid;
otherwise to be returned to the bidder.
The right is reserved to reject any and all
bids or any part Of any bid If deemed for the
BEST interests of the service.
JOHN H. OBERLY,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-10
1.-The Burlinqtun'

Union Depots Minneapolis, st. Paul. Chi
cago and St Louis.
Ticket Ofhces--St. Paul, corner Third and
Robert sts.; Chicago. corner Clark and Ad
ans sts.; St. Louis 112 North Fourth 81.
Leave Arrive
st. Paul. st. Paul.
Chicago, ST. Louis and
Peoria, daily, -. ..7:30p. m. 7:55a. N.
Chicago, La Crosse.
Dubuque, and Galena
Ex. Sunday. -. 80. .7:3O q. m. 800 o. m
Suburban trains leave union depot, ST.
Paul. for Dayton's bluff, Oakland. Highwood.
Newport. st. Paul Park and Pullman avenue
daily at z and 10 a. m, 12:I5. 2:30, 5:1o.
Saturdays only at 11:2) p. m. Returning,
arrive daily, at 6 80. $40 and IL ;I5 a. M,
2, S, 6:10 and and 7:3O p. m, and Wed.
nesdays and Saturdays only at IL :05 D. m.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-10
PROPOSALS FOR HAULING.
OFFICE BOARD OF WATER COMMIs-
SIONERS,
ST. PAUL, January G, 1889.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the Office of the Board Of Water Com
misSioners of the City of st. Paul, until
2 O'Clock p. M, January Is, 1889, for
hauling and delivering all pipe, special
castings, hydrants, gates, gate boxes,
stop boxes, meters, pig lead, lead pipe
and all other drayage that may be re-
quired during the year 1889. according
to specifications on file in the Office of
said Water Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in a sum Of five hundred (50O) dollars,
or a certified check for same amount,
must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Bids must be endorsed proposals for
Hauling" and addressed to the under
signed.
JOHN CAULFIELD,
6-12 Sec'y Board Water COmm'rS.