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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16
The American Board, ,

The American Board of foreign missions
has held its SD annual meeting at Pitts
field, Mass, this week. The financial re-
ports showed a large increase of contribu-
tions during the year, indicating that
the differences and bitter contentious of
other years are being forgotten and that
there is readiness to work in union and
harmony upon the basis agreed upon at
Minneapolis. The donations for the year
reached $4S4, 463, gain of more than $780,
600 over the annual average of the last five
years. Added to this were legaces making
available funds for the year of nearly
100000. The missionary field is con-
stantly growing, however, and the pruden-
tial committee estimate that 100000 will
be required for the coming years work.
The old board of officers was unanimously
reelected at yesterdays session, Rev. DR.
Storrs having been persuaded to retain the
presidency for another year, in which pO-
sition he has done a noble work in the uni
fication of the body and in harmonizins
| its differences.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16

A sensation was created in New York on
Monday by the action of the board of di-
rectors of the Adams express company in
discharging from office by a unanimous
vote President John HOey, who had been
identified with the company for 40 years.
Hoey's discharge was followed by the resig-
nation of Clapp Spooner, the vice presi-
dent of the company, who had also been
prominent in its affairs for many years.
The charges against the two are that last
year they bought out some smaller express
concerns at a cost to the company of $780,
600, while out of the operation they divid-
ed between themselves swag amounting to
more than S250,0O0. At another meeting
of the directors held on Tuesday a new
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16

president and vice president were elected.
Proceedings have been begun against
IIoey and Spooner to recover from them
the sums which they pocketed in the ex-
press deal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16

The funeral of Mr.. Parnell, which took
place in Dublin last Sunday, was the occa-
sion of demonstration of imposing mag
nitude and solennity. The body of the
dead leader lay in state in the city hall for
four hours, and 10000 people passed
through to take last look at his face. A
vast crowd joined the procession to the
cemetery, but, though good deal of con-
fusion resulted from the absence of def
mite arrangements and marshalling, there
was no real disorder, and not suggestion
of rioting. The nationalsts who have been
compelled to differ with Mr. Parnell wisely
remained away, lest their presence should
be resented. Contrary to expectation the
followers of Mr.. Parnell will keep up their
factional fight against the Mccarthy wing
of the home-rule party. On Monday Mr..
Parnelrs parliamentary colleagues issued a
manifesto calling on the Irish people to
rally around the standard which he reared,
and declaring that they could have no fel-
lowShip with men who are Immediately
responsible for the disruption of the Ma
tional party and who, in obedience to for
eign dictation, bounded to death the fore
most man of our race
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nnea This Mean Yoni

This is the time of year for the payment OF sub
scription dues to The Phoenix, and those who arr
in arrears are requested to make early remittance
without further notice Does this mean you,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16
Gbe Uermunt 9b@nif.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1891.

The Vermont Ph@nix has a larger
paid circulation in Windham county
than any other paper.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16

Ever since the Massachusetts, campaign
opened there have been intimations that
the victims of the benefit endowment con-
Germs would take some political action to
avenge themselves for the course of Insur-
ance Commissioner Merrill in exposing the
insecure and fraudulent basis on which
those concerns were established. The first
step in this movement materialized at Cam
bridge Tuesday evening, when the supreme
justice of the order of the Iron Hall, from
indianapolis. addressed local branch of
that orler, denouncing Mr.. Merrill, saying
that a crisis had come to the order in Mas
sachusettS. and that measures must be taken
for its protection and advancement through
political means. A committee was appoint
ed with full power to act in the matter,
and the expectation is that mass meeting
will be held i'm fremont temple the last
week in October The Iron Hall has
about 5000 members in Massachusetts, and
there are in the state 1000 members of
kindred organizations. The leaders in this
movement propose to sink all political af-
filiations and to wage a warfare on any
candidate who does not promise to defer
to their views and interests.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-16

The Best, Most widely Circulated, Most
Influential.
George p. Rowe & Co., Of New York, in their
new book for advertisers name the best, most
widely circulated, most influential papers at each
important centre of population trade through
out the whole country For Brattlehoro the paper
accorded this distinction is The Phoenix
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THE VERMONT PHOENIX,
and VERMONT RECORD AND FARMER,
united May I, 1SS0)
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT BRATTLEBoRo, VT, BY
o. l.. FREN CHI.

TERMS: 81. so per year in advance; II not paid
within the year, $500.
RATES OF ADVERTISING furnished on application
Brtbs Deaths ami Marriages published free
Obituary Notices. Cards of Thanks, etc. IS cents
per inch of l2 lines or less.
Entered at the BrattlcbOro Post Office as second
class mail matter.
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DONNELL & DAVIS.

We have been trimming Hats
and Bonnets for a few days past
and can now show those who
favor us with a call, all the
latest styles both in shape and
manner of trimming.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
Women as Printers.

The New York San says that print
ing is not a trade in which woman
can hold her own with man on equal
terms, that the trade is too wearisome,
too unhealthy and in other ways un-
suited for women and that the number
of women compositors is on the lie
crease.
The WoMAN'S TRIBUNE will he
glad to have communications on tins
point and see if there is any founda-
ton for these statements. They 90
not at all concide with the experience
of this paper, which has mostly en-
ployed women compOsitors and has
found them in every way adapted TO
the business. The only persons who
have ever left the case from sickness
or even headache have been men:
The young woman who is foreman OF
the Office has worked at the trade sew
Ell wears and has never lost an hour
from sickness. In general 1t Will he
found that i'm offices controlled 10y wo-
men. where tobacco smoking is not al
lowed and ventilation is permitted,
young women keep not Onl ly we'll but
retain the beauty and spark le of vigor-
Gus health; while women who have to
work in the foul air usually found IN
printing offices doubtless are not able
10 stand it as we'll a. men do: The
fault is not in the trade but in the con-
ditions under which it is practlced.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21

FOREIGN BODIES IN THE EYE.-A
curious popular delusion it is which
teaches that q particle Of dust or Gin.
der blown into an eye by the wind
may best be removed by rubbing the
uninjured eye. Many have found by
experience that rubbing the unaffected
eve is quickly followed by relief OF
pain in, and rapid recovery of, the
other eye; while rubbing the organ
into which the sharp particle has
blown usually results in increased
pain and discomfort. This apparent
proof by experience is negatived by
the experience Of those who rub nei-
ther eye, but simply wait, with thein-
jured eye quietly closed, until the
tears wash out the offending mote.
This is the philosophy of the cure. II
the eye is rubbed, the sharp-edged
particle is embedded by pressure III
the cOnjunctiva or cornea and cannot
be removed by The flow of tears due to
the irritation of its contact. If the pa
tient, however, Will content himsel:
with simply closing his eyelids with
the eyes rolled downward, the flow OF
tears will in 4 few moments carry the
little particles of dust outside of the
conjunctival sac. Hence it is that
while he occupies his meddlesome fin
gers with rubbing the we'll eye, he al
lows the painful eye to cure itself by
physiological therapeusls.-Dr. J b.
Roberts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
From WOman's Tribune.
EXTRACT.

I have been teaching in the public
schools ten wears under a very poor
school system. In 1888 and 1889 | was
u candidat: for the office of County
School Commissioner in this county
and was defeated both times by the
managers of elections and few other
individuals against the will of the ma
iority of the people. Surely in no civ
ilized land the children are in a more
deplorable state of ignorance than the
Door white children of the South.
The public schools are only three
months long during the year out OF
town and a few individuals who are
able to extend the school term few
months by subscription induce the
majority of teachers to neglect most of
the children that are in the greatest
need of the public schools and devote
their time to the few. Our govern
ment is giving large sums of money
for the civilization and education of
many inferior races while the children
of their own race ana government are
entirely ignored and most miserably
negle tied. Even the colored race here
at the South are receiving far more at
tention, as to education, than the
white race, for they are gaining the
most benefit from the public schools,
besides the large donations by North
erners for their benefit alone. 1t
seems but just and reasonable for the
colored race to be educated, yet at the
same time it seems that n proper re-
gard should be had for the many poor
white children of the South whose
parents are not able to help them. |
merely make these statements to call
the attention of the many loyal liberal
persons to the most needful duty of
our government, the proper education
of the masses. 1t is true most liber-
al appropriation has been made in the
way of the public schools but it has
failed in its purpose here at the South
by the improper management of
school officers.-Eiiza A. Garner,
Mount Foy, Union County, South Car
olina.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
A Victim Of the Cigarette.

Wnrishoffer, the dead speculator,
will live in history as one of the most
brilliant and daring of the Wall Street
millionaires. Like Gould, he began
life in poverty. He started as an Of
flee boy, developed into clerk, and fl
nally blossomed out as a speculator.
For twenty years this man has been
engaged in the heaviest financial bat
ties of modern times. The capitalists
of the metropolis recognized his gener-
alship and looked up to him as a lead
er. lie was hard fighter, and was
generally successful. 1t is passing
Strange that such man, gifted with a
superb will-power, should have been
slain in the most inglorious Of con-
fiicts and vanquished by the puniest
of antagonists. The Colossus met his
fate when he tackled the cigarette. A
brief history of the struggle may serve
to point q moral and convey warm
ing. Wnrishofler gradually drifted
into the habit Of inveterate smoking.
He smoked fifty cigarettes O day, In.
haIing the smoke all the time. Years
ago Wnrishofier saw danger ahead.
His head, heart, stomach and nerves
demonstrated, protested, and begged
him to change his course. In their
agony they cried out against the fiend-
ish cigarette and denounced ii. COlos.
sus grinncd sardonically. When he
got ready he would down the cigarette
and not before. Slowly but surely the
coils of smoke twined around their
victim, tightening their grip each day.
The mans heart turned into big
sponge saturated with nicotine. Still
the smoker continued the fight. He
would lie down when too feeble TO
stand and smoke, while his heart beat
at the rate Of one hundred and twenty
u minute. He said 81 have Il Ger
man stomach, an American head;
am equal TO oanything." At last he be-
came alarmed. To his horror and
umazement he found that he could not
give up the cigarette. He tried time
and again. He went to a famous meA-
ical man and said: "Iou shall have
fifty thousand dollars in gold if you
will emancipate NE from the cigar
ette." The physician worked hard.
but it was no go. The big, strong
man the giant who tossed money
kings around like babies. lay hopeless
'ly crushed under a little rice-paper
pigmy. "a remarkable case" the
medical men say. Very; but there
will be others like it.-At!anta C'nsti-
tuition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
On Associate With the Rich.

To associate with the rich seems
pleasant and profitable. They are apt
to be agreeable and well informed, and
il is good to play with them and enjoy
the usufruct of all their pleasant appa-
ratus: but, of course, you can neither
hope nor wish to get anything for
nothing. Of the cost of the practice
the expenditure of time still seems to
be the item that is most serious. 1t
takes a great deal Of time to cultivate
the rich successfully. If they are
working people their time is so much
more valuable than yours that when
you visit with them it Is apt to be your
time that is sacrificed. IF they
are not working people it is worse yet.
Their special outings when they want
your company, always come when you
cannot get away from work except at
some great sacrifice, which under the
stress of temptati n, you are too apt to
make. Their pleasuring is on so large
Il scale that you cannot make it fit your
times or necessities. You can't go
Watching for half day. nor will fifty
dollars take you far on the way,,tO shoot
big game in Manitoba. You simply
cannot play with them when they
play, because you cannot reach: and
when they work you cannot play with
them because their time then is worth
so much a miuute that you cannot bear
to waste it. And you cannot play
with them when you are working
yourself and they are inactively at
lrasure, because, cheap as your time
is, you cont spare it.-From "The
Point of View i'm October .Scri1ncr
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
Cold Air Application.

Ordinary catarrh disorders may be
relieved in the majority of cases by
breathing cold air. This reduces the
congestion and consequent "stutfi-
ness" of the head in TWO ways-hy re-
ducing the capacity of the capillary
vessels and suppressing the develop
ment, if there be q tendency OF any
germs or parasites in the mucous
membrane. The cold air operates as a
purifier and antipyretic. An enthusi-
astic admirer of cold air as 4 remedy
says:
"The hospitals of the future will be
ice-houscs. Dyspepsia, catarrh and
feveIs of all kinds can be frozen out OF
the system, not by letting the patient
shiver in The snow bank, but by CIV
ing extra allowance of warm bedcloth-
ing, with the additional luxury OF
breathing ice-c0ld air, which under
such circu Instances becomes as prafer-
able to hot miasma as cold spring wa
ter to warm ditch water. | have also
found that tke best brain work can be
done in cold room, and that stove
heat has Il tendency to stultify like a
narcotic beverage. Warm wraps
make fires tolerably dispensable."
An old physician, who advocates
breathing ice-cooled air as a most val
liable curative agent for rheumatism,
tod US u while since how he disposed
of 4 long-eXisting tendency to rheu-
matte attacks whenever he was en-
posed to dampness or chilliness. re
procured piece of rubber tubing OF
small diameter, coiled it closely at the
bottom of 4 large teapot, with one end
projecting through the spout. The
teapot was filled with cracked ice.
Then by placing the projecting eX-
tremity of the tube into the mouth
and breathing through it, he obtained
the supply of cold air that was needed
for his ailment.
Modifying this apparatus so that the
breathing could be done through the
nostrils, and the water from the melt
ing ice not he permitted to interfere
with the passage of cold air, it would
prove serviceable, not only to the vic
tim of catarrh, but also, we are quite
satisfied, to those troubled with bron-
chial and pulmonary maladies.
H. S. D.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
.Preventing Good"

1t is said of Lord Eldon that he s'pre-
vented more good than he ever did,
Lazy Christians prevent good. Cranky
Christians prevent good. Criticai
Christians prevent good. Inconsis-
tent Christians prevent good. The
best way not to hinder good is to do
good. Take hold and help. Do the
next thing. Why stand We here all
the day idle? DR.. Pierson says that
1.-The bulk of protesting disciples prac-
ling others.n Canon Wilberforce says
that a Christians duty is to admit,
submit, commit, and transmit. You
admit the truth of Christ, you submit
your will to Christ, you commit your
soul to Christ, but what do you trans
NIT to Others? Begin now to do some
personal work for Christ and souls.
The Lord is watching to see you work,
"Let every hearer become herald. ~
New York Evangelist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
Fairs.

agricultural fairs are what the
farmers make them," says an eX-
change ; but adds, "or permit them to
be-" Without their consent and sup
port, agricultural fairs would be an
impossibility. They not only must
furnish the objects of exhibit, but can
dictate the terms under which they
will furnish them. They can say
what other attractions besides those
of all agricultural nature may lie per.
mitted On the grounds. They have Il
deciding vote as to what side shows,
if any, Shall be admitted, and on what
terms the whole thing should be run
for if there is no farmer patronage,
there can be no agricultural fair. In
short, the farmers have the whole
mOraie-the whole moral character
of the fair in their keeping. This is
that every farmer should
think of before contributing to fair,
and bring all his influence TO bear to
make it what he wishes it to be-a
clean thing and u credit to the COM
munity.-Mirror and Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
AUG. W. SMITH.
). Intendant.
THOMASP. COTHRAN.
SC. CAS0N.
THOMAS G. SEAL.
JONES F. MILLER, Secretary.
Dec. 3Oth, 1890.
How TO Deal with Children,
Dec. 30th, 1890.

1t is a great loss for children to out
grow too soon their childish feelings.
Keep them at their simple playthings
as long as you can. Their enjoyment
of these has relish which nothing
else can supply. 1t is like the Keen
ness of their appetites for winter ap-
pie, skin and all. Never laugh at
them for amusing themselves an hour
and a-half a day with string, or pa
per doll, but laugh with them. If
your boy jumps even into snow-drift
up to his chin, the glow of bis cheek is
ONLY faint flush to that of his rollick-
ing spirit and the blood tingling to
his finger-tips will keep the chill out
of his bones and soul alike.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21
Boil It Down.

Whatever you have to say, my friend,
Whether witty, or grave. or gay,
COndense rs much a. ever you can,
And say IL In the readiest way;
And whether you write of rural affairs,
Or matter and things In town,
Just take Il word OF friendly advice,
Boil II down.
If you 90 splutterlng over pnge,
When couple of lines would do,
Your butter Is spread so much, yon see,
That the bread looks plainly through;
So, when you have story TO tell.
And would like little renOwn,
To nuke quite sure of your wish, my friend
Boil IL down.
When writing an article for the press,
Whether prose or verse, Just try
TO settle your thoughts In tho fewest words
And let them he crisp and dry.
And when IT. Is finished, and you suppose
II Is done exactly brown.
Just look 1t over again. and then
Boil IL down.
For editors do not like to print
An article laZily long,
And the general reader does not care
For n couple Of yards OF song;
So gather your wits In the smallest space,
II sou want q little renown,
And every time you write, my friend,
Boil II down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21

President Harrison has appointed
Judge Henry Billings Brown, of
Michigan, Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Justice Miller.
3 Inthe murder market this is given :
Noah James, colored, was shot and
it is supposed was fatally wounded at a
campmeeting near the Lexington line
i'm this county on last Saturday by
Fred Adams, cOlored.
Is there no way in which decent peo-
pie travelling on railroad cars can be
protected from the foul language of
the blackguards who occupy adjacent
seats? We have lately had special oc-
casion to raise this question. and we
commend it to the managers Of our
railway systems.-EXchange.
At the recent session of the White
River Conference, Rev. n. b. Fizer
and G.. H. Ford were suspended from
the functions of the ministry, the one
for five months and the other for six,
for leaving their pastoral charges, and
bee )ming candidates for political Of
tices.-Nashville Advocate.
The tendency to lop the ear varies
much in different animals. Rabbits
lop their ears after a comparatively
short period of domestication, and
with the exception Of dogs are almost
the only lop cared animals in Europe
and America, but in oriental countries
all the domestic animals are more or
lo,> noro2 fon uhinI, r.
that they have been much longer UNI
der domestication than their congen-
ers in Christendom.
That was wise advice which the poet
Whittier once gave to a boy: "Attach
yourself early in life to some righteous
but unpopular cause" All who have
been called to the advocacy Of reform
measures have felt the uplifting power
of such vocation, as it wideDs the
range Of the sympathies, strengthens
the Judgment, informs the mind, and
ennobles the impulses from which
men act.-Chin Statesman.
Six new States have been admitted
TO the Union within year: North
and South Dakota, Montana, Wash
inpton, Idaho, and Wyoming. Wyo-
ming is the forty-fourth State, and the
number will be easy to remember.
These new States add twelve senators
to the Senate.
The difference between the man who
drinks and the man who does not is
seen the plainest in case of q wound.
It has been proved over and over
AGAIN i'm the hospital of Philadelphia
i'm the case of cuts, that there is rom
to forty days, difference III
the healing in favor OF the cold-water
patient. In eight cases out OF ten,
where beer-drinker is cut or shot, lie
has a tussel with erysipelas or gam
creme.
CUPS and saucers stained with tea,
NAV be made bright again by rubbing
Them with damp salt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21

EFFECTS OF QUININE.-Dr. Barton,
of Mississippi. in the Memphis Jour-
nul Of tie Medical Science last March,
charged that malarial hematuria, a
disease prevalent in the low river
country of the South, was really moth
ing but cinchonism, due to the tab
surd and criminal quantity" of qui-
nine used. He stated that he is fresh
from the teachings of late authorities
in medicine, but has had to unlearn
much about the use of quinine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-21

There are but two words in the
whole range of the English language
containing all of the yOwels in their
regular order. They are abstemiOus
and fdcctious. The following words
have them in irregular order Author
itative, disadyantageous, encouraging,
ellicacious, instantaneous, importu-
nate, mendacious, nefarious, precari-
Gus, pertinacious, sacrilegious, stimuli
tancOus, tenacious, unintentional, OBJ
jectionable, unequivocal, undiscovera:
ble and ve&atlous: