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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04

Gassett. Mrs. Geo. II. Walker read DO
EN- appropriate to the occasion. Among
the numerous presents were a handsome
easy chair from their children, a silver
cake basket from the ladies of the Baptist
society, a set of solid silver teaspoons from
Mrs. Gales Sunday school class, a sum of
money from members of the G.. 4. II. post,
water set from near neighbors, and 9TH
er articles which testified the good wishes
of the many friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Gale.
The Kendrick Hotel has been rented by
W. Ballard and a friend from Nergennes
for one year, possession to be given at once.
School in district No. is taught by Mr..
Haylner of Schaghticoke, y. Y.
Miss Cassie Pember teaches the school
at East Putney.
DR.. Hattie Parker sails next week for
Paris, where she will continue her medical
studies for one year.
The mercury registered 4 below zero
last Monday morning.
Miss Helen Robertson came home from
Boston to spend Thanksgiving with her
parents.
School in district No is taught by Miss
Josephine Steele. This is her third con
secutiye term in this district.
Thursday and Friday, Dec. 10 and II.
there will be fellowship meeting at the
congregational church in the afternoon
and evening Of each day. Among other
speakers Rev. j. II. Babbitt of West Brat
tleboro will be present Thursday. and Mr.
Fuller of the Brattlcboro Y. NJ. G.. \. will
come Friday. The meeting Friday even
ing will be especially interesting to young
men, Every one is cordially invited to all
these meetings.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Perry were very
pleasantly surprised Oh the evening of
Nov. "a, when few Of the near relatives
walked in leaving congratulations and a
very handsome dinner set, it being the
sixth anniversary of their marriage.
John Walkers family have been heard
from as very pleasantly located at Mar
shall, MINI.
Mr.. Haynes, the popular teacher in dis
trict No. last winter, is now teaching in
No. ,.
Rev. y. ID. Parsons has been in town
since Thanksgiving. He preached last
Sunday morning to full house in East
Putney.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
WARDSBORO.

Phineas Chamberlain found his horse
stable vacant last Tuesday morning. Some
body has stolen his colt or it got loose and
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
Auction Sale.

hND Dec 10, 1891, at 1890 A. NJ, the late home OF
~ Mrs Hannah r. Tolles, comprising good
Central streets, Bratteboro.
A. STARKEY, Auctioneer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
Children Cry for Pitchers Castorla.

When Baby was sick, we gave her CastoriA.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
JACKSONVILLE.

G. NJ. Russelrs lecture upon Columbus
and his times and voyage was well appre-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
Lumber and Wood of ali Kinds

ENOR sale at the Steam Mill on Howe place.
~ Vernon, Vt. For prices apply 10 LEWIS nj
SWAIN at the mill. Connected by telephone.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
SOUTH NEWFANE.
4 Sudden Death.

Mr.. Horace Ball, who has been working
for +. F. Bruce for the last year. died very
suddenly last Tuesday. Mr. Ball had been
at work with two other men cutting and
peeling wood in the woodlot, and about 10
or - minutes before noon he complained
of faintness and started for the house
some 80 rods away, He lived only Is or
20 minutes after reaching the house. The
cause of death is unknown. Mr.. Ball was
G3 years old. His funeral was held at the
church today at o'clock =. NJ.
j. W, Dexter left Wednesday for his
home in Philadelphia, where he will re
main until about the first of next May
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REMOVAL.

hR; d. w JONES has removed TO 236 Claren
- don street, near Copely square, where he
VIII continue the special treatment of Piles Fis-
tula ana all diseases of the rectum after methods
Pracuced by him for the past 10 years Office
hours, A, NJ, TO pm Boston Sent I 1891
The morning call., 1891-07-15
BLOODY ENCOUNTER.
Fatal Fight Between Sailors and
Deputy MarShals.
One Of the ChaFleStOn'S Crew Killed and
Others Seriously Wounded.
Pistols and Clubs Freely sed-The Action
Of The Officers Condemned by the
Citizens Of San Diego.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

SAN DIEGO July 14.-About o'clock
this afternoon bloody fight took place be-
tween number Of sailors from the cruiser
Charleston and six Deputy United States
Marshals, in which a sailor named James
Brown was killed and three others seriously
injured. The sailors had been ashore over
the time allowed by the ships officers, and
were set upon by the Deputy Marshals to
secure the $40 allowed for the return of the
men to the ship. The deputies to bring the
men into submission resorted to their clubs,
reyolvers, ETC., which they used without re-
serve.
Brown, the man killed, was a fireman and
was fror: Vallejo, having been member of
the Charles:on's crew since she went into
commission. He was struck over the
head with club, fracturing his skull and
resulting in his death an hour later.
Owens, another sailor, was struck over
the eye with either a slungshot or a blunt
instrument which made serious wound
three inches In diameter. Another sailor
had his jaw broken and suffered bruises on
his head and face.
The attack was an outrage of the grossest
kind, and entirely unwarranted. and much
Indignation is expressed by the citizens in
general as to the actions of the Deputy
Marshals, who are men who value the re-
ward offered more than human life. Threats
of all kinds are being INDUCED in tonight
against Breedlove and Coates, who were the
leaders of the deputies. The murder ed
man Brown will be buried in the Catholic
Cemetery ht this place tomorrow.
a banquet 10 be given by the officers OF
the Charleston tomorrow has been post
poned until Monday on account of the sad
affair. Marshal Gard is in Los Angeles,
ana is represented here by his son.
The morning call., 1891-07-15
IN A DIAMOND MINE.

Hard Life for Workers in the Earth.
Every Miner Treated a Thief.
Did l go down diamond mine? Well,
not exactly. You can take horse to the
water, but you cannot make him drink. /
was taken to the mouth Of the pit, but they
could not get me down. In the first place /
was tod by every one that diamond pit
was just like coal pit-as dark and dirty
and repulsive-and not the hall of dazzling
light which it often appears TO be to the
popular imagination.
have been down coal pit, and no one
who has done so ever cares to go down
again, and here the descent was decidedly
unattraciive.
At the top of the Incline there was dolo-
rous wooden structure of the shape of
coffin. You step into that coffin aud YOU
are launched into the darkness with awful
speed till, after you have dropped some 600
feet, you come to full stop. The sensation
is more startling than agreeable.
did not care about it, and | watched the
black, coal-llke substance ever brought to
the pits mouth and ever being carried
away on iron wagons on primitive tram
way to the mill, where the diamonds are
washed out. l was most interested in the
Compound.
| was taken over 1t by a guide, who
seemed determined that 1 should learn as
little as possible from anything he might
have to say. The Compound, / may as
well inform the reader, is the space where
the works are carried on and the miners
dwell
No one can leave it until his time Is ND,
which is generally period of three mon this.
No one can enter the place without an order.
Communication with the outer world is as
scanty as possible.
If the men have wives they are permitted
to come to gate, where the men give them
money when they require it, but nothing is
permitted by means OF which diamond can
be taken outside.
Each man as he comes up from the pit
which is worked night and day, is searched.
'Of course they are thieves" said my guide;
'they are brought up to ii" and fear he
spoke truly. But the men looked happy;
they are of all races, Kaffirs being held to
be the best if only they would work, and
some of them, indeed, the majority, were
wonderfully fine men.
There were also large number of Basu-
tos. They ali live by themselves, and when
not at work lounge and chat outside their
sleeping sheds.
The company has established good hos
pital, and the men are well locked over. At
the company's stores the men are provided
with everything they require except the
drink, which Is vigorously forbidden. OF
course this is the truck system which the
British Parliament has times without num-
Der condemned
At Kimberly it flourishes, and apparently
answers well. But at Kimberly, as we'll as
over South Africa, political economy as we
understand it at home is unknown
Christian World.
The morning call., 1891-07-15
HE COULD NOT ACCEPT.
Gladys FOo1ishly Fell in Love With ;
Actor Who Was Married.

Gladys Foolishly Fell in Love With an
Actor Who Was Married.
She had starry eyes, and had not made up
her mind. She was 16, and had the soul OF
woman. She was dainty, piquante, chic.
To say something that individuaizes: She
had light, yellow fluffy hair; n skin thin ard
rosy, as though painted by Aurora; nose
waxen, tip-tilted; lips too thick to be classic,
but pOuting so rs to persuade.
Her head was pretty; her heart throbbing.
The world was to her an open book-and
she was turning its pages. Lie? She en-
joyed it all. as a butterfly enjoys blue sky,
as bee enjoys blush rose.
And so she put on her fur ca pc that chung
close to her ears. that hung so as to make
her waist look small, and went to the matt
nee at the Avenue Theater
In the melodrama she saw man with
gray hair that curled on his neck-a man in
his shirt sleeves, defying villainy and the
perpetrators thereof; man with a straight.
sensitive nose, a face sm0oth-shayen, eyes
luminous and sad.
He was Hillary Harcourt, the leading
man. He walked with a stride. He made
love with ardor. and his voice trembled
Till it set all the strings of her heart yibrat-
| ing.
She came az ain and again to see him act.
In the afternoons, without telling any one,
| She came alone; in the evening she came
| with box party or by pressing an older
| friend to take charge of her.
She fancied he saw her and glanced at her
instead of the leading lady. AS tor that.
| every other girl in the house had a similar
| impression.
Her one wish was to see him, to hear him,
| to think OF him. She bought twenty-five
of his photographs, taken in as many differ
| ent attitudes, costumes, lights.
She felt she must know him-Of him. So
| she went to :he silversmith and ordered a
| case filled with implements of the toilet;
| comb, brush, glove and shoe buttoner, and
| the like. As they were of silver, they were
expensive; it took her pin-money for a
| month to pay for them.
She had them marked with his initials,
II. H.
| She was nervous, but she wrote little
note in great, perpendicular letters. in
which she begged him to accept the case
and to believe her to be-his constant and
devoted admirer, Gladys Van Cordtlant.
Fer two days she heard nothing IL it
mad not been for Lord Byron and Lamar
| tine, how would she have got through it all
On the third day, in the afternoon, as she
was alone in the house. came ring at the
belt
She knew what it must mean, So she
rushed to the door herself. A messenger
| stood there with a package under his arm
and receipt-book in his hand. The book
she signed; the package she carried to her
own pink room, aud set 1t down on a chair
curously.
There was letter fastened to the wrapper.
| She took it in her fingers. 1t was addressed
| TO her.
She read It:
Ireturn package which my husband Is I'M.
| able to accept. lille HARCoURT.
Gladys tore the letter into several pieces.
| She rang for a messenger, and counter
manded an order which she had left that
morning at the box-office of the Avenue
Theater.
She had another use for her evening-de-
stroying twenty-five photographs.-Ka
Fields Washington
The morning call., 1891-07-15
MAIL SUBSIDY.
Efforts to Further the S6rViCs With Aus
tralian Colonies.

WASHINGTON. July 14.-Hon. Robert ].
Creighton of San Francisco is at Chamber
aims. His business here is in relation to
the Australian mail service, with which he
has been prominently identified for many
years. up to the close of 1885," said Mr..
Creighton, 1.-The Australian mail line was
supported by the colonies of New Zealand
and New South Wales. Last year the latter
Government withdrew absolutely. but New
Zealand continued it for another year, hop
ing the United States Government would
step in and contribute an adequate share
to its support. as this country was the pr:n-
cipal gamer by the service. The Shipping
Act of last session." he continued, may be
regarded as beginning in that direction,
but it is by no means suffi Gent nor does 1t
appropriate nearly as much money for con-
veying our bulky Australian mail as the
small colony of New Zealand paid American
steamship companies for many years for
carrying its English mail to and from San
Francisco. Doubtless Congress will see
the wisdom of extending this policy aud
building up American commerce with the
British-Austraian settlements. which are
among the richest communities in the
world"
The morning call., 1891-07-15
A SINGULAR PET
That Has Been Adopted by Hornaby, the
Naturalist.

That Has Been Adopted by Hornaby, the
Naturalist.
Borneo is the homo Of the orang-outang
which, leaving out the genus man, occupies
the third place from the highest in the ami.
NAL Kingdom. The gorilla has the highest
place. the cbimpanZee comes next In order.
then the orang. The males are as fond OF
fighting as are human roughs, aud, like
them, bite off each others fingers and lips.
They all show, in humanlike way, the
emotions OF pain, rage, satisfaction and
affection. Baby orangs range, as human in
fants do, from good 10 bad. Some, when
they are good, are Every good, indeed" and
others, when they are bad, "are hOrrid."
Mr.. Hornaby, the naturalist, took o baby
orang from its dead mother, shot in the
cause of science, which had the temper of q
tiger.
An orang's instinct is to seize and bring nm
offending hand to its mouth, that it NAV
bite the member. This baby oraug, though
only 6 months old, made so many attempts
to put the naturalists hands up to its mouth
that he was obliged to tie its elbows together
behind its back.
Even then, when he was not watching it,
the orang rolled over and seized the calf oil
his leg between its teeth. But for the hunt
ing trousers and wooden stockings, the
naturalist would have lost piece Of his
leg. At last it relieved the naturalist Of
anxiety by dying. A baby orang of more
gentle disposition was brought to Mr.
Hornaby, With its hands and feet bound.
When he approached it, instead of at
tempting 10 bite, it whined softly. and rolled
up its big brown eyes SO appealngly that
the naturalist cut its bands and placed 1t OH
The morning call., 1891-07-15
LANGTRY'S MIRROR.
1t Magnifies and Shows All the Defects
I'm Her Face.

1t Magnifies and Shows All the Defects
I'm Her Face.
A "complexion artist with an over.
towering curiosity as to the methods which
Langtry adopted In her marvellous getup.
bribed her maid to admit him into the lady's
dressing-roOm one night when she had gone
to the theater. He saw long, low dressing
table Uttered with all the parapbernalia
which beauty employs to enhance her
charms, but what struck him most was a
large oval magnifying mirror, which was
hung in the most searching light. The
treacaerous maid informed the pushing Paul
Pry that her mistress, after making IN her
face before an ordinary mirror, went all
over 1t again in front OF the unflatterng
magnifier, carefully blending her powder
and rouge, softening the too trenchant lines
of pencled eyebrow. and plucking out
vagrant silver hair which would assert it.
self too boldly.
Incipient crows feet, almost impercepti
ole lines at the corners of the mouth and
across the forehead, the foreruuners of age.
are by this means revealed 10 their horrible
reality, and indicated to the masseuse ON
the next visit. The magnifying mirror is
more truthful than ones deadllest rival. but
the woman who must make art do duty for
nature Will find it her best and truest friend
The morning call., 1891-07-15
TRICKS IN ALL TRADES.
And This Drummer Has One That En-
bles Him to Keep Sober.

And This Drummer Has One That Ena-
bles Him to Keep Sober.
There is nice. quiet little place in the
heart of the dry-goods district where | oc-
casionaly drop in to get glass of beer and
now and them do not mind owning up to
it-a cocktail. l had often noticed that the
heaviest drnker in this place was certain
drummer who was in the habit of taking
his out-of-iOwn customers there to treat
them in the hope of getting treated to soma
substantial orders in return. 1t is way
drummers have.
The other day, when he had given re-
markable evidence of his ability TO resist
the seductive influences of alcoholic stimu-
lants by swallowing ten whisky "Straights''
ID tue course OF MALI an hour without, as
the phrase COOS, turning hair" / con-
fided to John my opinion that the drummer
was the most wonderful man / had ever
seen. not excepting ''the man with the iron
skull"
why" replied the imperturbable John.
II haven noticed anything wonderful about
that's all.
DO you mean to tell me-" said ], some
what nettled, ''thatSyou haven't often WON
dered over the capacity OF his 'tankI''
John chuckled.
why. he hasn't got any tank at all. He
couldn't carry two glasses of whisky and
keep sober to save his soul"
:" But have just seen him take ten inside
OF hall an hour. I'd back his tank against
any mans / ever met
John laughed outright this time.
you did and 1t was dead square
match you'd lose your money sure. Now
Just to show you that it wont always do to
believe your own eyes lll tell you some.
thing You and he amt in the same line
so it wont do any harm. That drummer
doesn't drink drop of whisky here. He
pays for whisky, but he doesn't get it.
What he gets Is colored water with a little
sugar in It, When he first came here he
took me aside and said he: See here, I'm
drummer; It's my business to sell goods,
and to sell goods I've got to go with a crowd
that drinks and keep up myiend.
But my tank amt worth a continental
for that sort of thing. 1t won't hold any
thing without letting it get into my head.
and then II try to do any business my ems
toners are sure to get the best of me. Now
| want you to fix NE up something that looks
Ike WHISKY and give it to me whenever /
call for whisky. You can charge me for il
just the same as il it was whisky, but is
mustn't have anything in it that will make o
fellow drunk. 1t will be money in your
pocket to do 1t, because IN bring all my
customers here. and the fuller they get on
whisky the better I'll like it.
THAT was two years ago, and that drum
mer is the best customer that we've got, for
all that he pays is clear profit, and he brings
In heap of business too. He's got the rep
utatlon OF being a good urinker and having a
tr mend0usi'tank,' when the fact is he never
puts anything stronger than water into it,
at least In this place. But as he sells no end
OF goods aud makes a lot of money out OF
the commissions, suppose lie don't mind
lit lie thing like being thought hard drink.
er,p-PhiIadelDh mia item
The morning call., 1891-07-15
CONSIDERED HIS CASE GOOD.

The Office-Boy Made Strong Presenta-
tion of 1t to the Old Lawyer.
When the office-boy walked into the law
yeTs office and quietly took a seat the man
who was in the habit of charging one dollar
minute for his time looked up surprised.
Oats all right" said the boy. 81
wanter talk business"
You haven't got a case, have you, JIM
ME ?" asked the lawyer with an amused
SMILE
Oats what" was prompt response.
Now, if Teller beats another Teller out of
some money reckon the first Teller ken he
made to paw"
If he has anything to pay with"
Right you are. This feller's got slathers
of the stuff. Now, If feller's got it all fixed
so he knows jest how he kin get the money
and the other Teller stops him gettin' it, he's
beat him out of it, hasn't hep"
Well, that depends on the circumstan-
ces. What are these. Jimmie?''
Why, you see this Teller I'm talkin'
about had Job as would have made him
some money-had it all fixed, mind-and
the other Teller he fixed him so he couldn't
do it,
Disabled himp"
"Yes. sir; plumb disabled him, SOS he
couldn't make it,"
"Well. he ought to have a pretty good
case. Tell me about it, Jimmie, and if it's a
Iflefu Oh yours L III turn the matter over to
one of the boys in the office and have him
sue it."
Yes, sir. You see it was this way;
This Teller had a Job addressin lot of en-
veiopes-had it all right and proper and was
goin' to do it one night after office hours.
Well, he comes into the office minute lust
before goin' to do the job for another Teller,
and the boss ketches him an roasts him for
somethin' else. Oh. he roasts him wicked
an Jest makes things fly. Course, this rat
ties the Teller an breaks him ali up, an
when he gets away-it's after office hours.
lnind-this here feller's 50 ratified and nery-
Gus like lie can't write an he takes two
beers instead and loses the job. Now, this
here boss as roasted the boy for losin' some
papers so hard he loses the extra Job, amt
he beat the Teller"
Jimmie" interrupted the lawyer, look
Ing at the boy over his spectacles, "Pd
rather compromise that case than sue it.
How much did you lOse?"
''Sixty-fve cents"
Here's dollar. You keep on and you'll
become q CONFIDENCE man or mighty good
laWyer."-N, Y. Mercury
The morning call., 1891-07-15
BRAVE POLICEMAN CLARK.
He Rescues Two Children From a Burn.
ing Tenement.

He Rescues Two Children From n Rurp
ing Tenement.
Policeman Bernard Clark proved himself
to be hero when he dashed boldly into a
blazing building at 271 Columbia street.
Brooklyn, and brought out two Young
children, who would undoubtedly have been
roasted to death had the intrepid officer been
few moments later.
1t was about o'clock in the morning
when smoke was seen issuing from the
building. and the officers attention was
called to 1t. Realizing at once that every
moment was worth human life he did not
send out an alarm, but directed all his
energies 10 awakening the occupants of the
burning building.
Forcing his way through the front door.
which was locked, he ran upstairs through
the dense volume of sitting smoke and ham
mered with his club on the doors of tae
rooms. by this time he was almost over
come by the smoke and got back to the
street with difficulty. He waited for a time
while the occupants of the burning
building came rushing out In their night
robes. he inquired if all were out and re.
eeived an affirmative answer BY this time
the names were getting at the lower stair
case and climbing up the walls. Suddenly
Mrs. Nelson shrleked. crying that her baby
was upstairs and fell over in dead faint.
without moments delay the officer
placed his arms over his face and again
dashed into the burning dwelling. The
stairs were crumDling under his feet and the
heat was intense. He fought his way to the
upper floor, where he found a three vear~
old child of the Nelson's leaning out of a
rear window and gasping for air. He picked
the little one up under his arm and started
for.the street. but had only proceeded half.
way down when he stumbled across what he
supposed must be another b9dy. He picked
u up uhuer MS other arm aud staggered into
the street almost sntfocated. The other child
proved to be little daughter of the Lanrs
family. She was unconscious, but soon re-
vlved IN the Open air.-The World